Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 72 - Jess Perkins and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall
Episode Date: January 29, 2024Who Knew It with Matt Stewart is a comedy game show podcast hosted by Australian comedian Matt Stewart. This episode features Jess Perkins (Do Go On) and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall (Two In The Think T...ank)!Check out Matt's stand up special FREE on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cWStRpI-BhESupport the show via http://patreon.com/dogoonpod and you can submit questions for the show!See the podcast/Matt live: https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/Check out Matt's podcast network: https://dogoonpod.com/Theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and Logo by @muzdoodles! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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welcome to who knew with matt stewart the show where the guests write the wrong answers.
I'm the titular Matt Stewart.
Our first guest is host of the Do Go On podcast, it's Jess Perkins.
You've been a while gone, Jess.
That's alright.
It's so good to have you back.
You and I have been feuding.
Yeah, I know.
Behind the scenes.
And it's so great to have made peace with you.
Well, you know, baby steps.
I've made peace with you. Yeah, I refuse. That's the baby step. I've met you in the scenes. And it's so great to have made peace with you. Well, you know, baby steps. I've made peace with you.
Yeah, I refuse.
That's the baby step.
I've met you in the middle.
You're the baby.
And you took a step further away.
Our second guest this week is coming in live from Canada.
It's Alistair Tremblay-Birchall.
Hello, it's me from Canada.
Hello, everybody.
Whereabouts in Canada are you?
from Canada. Hello everybody.
Whereabouts in Canada are you?
I am just outside of Montreal in a
area called Longueuil.
Longarry?
Not Longarry.
No, no, no.
Longueuil. Longueuil.
That's awesome.
I mean, no, that's not quite it, but
But Matt is
fluent in French.
Oh, sorry, yeah. yeah No you've got that weird French Canadian accent
I'm doing improper French
Yeah I apologise
Say it one more time
It is long Gary
Long Gary
Yeah
Is that it?
Yeah you got it
You got it actually that time pretty good
Yeah
And you've just moved back home.
Do you think of it as moving back home?
No, I don't think of it like that because I don't remember really anything much about living in Canada.
And so I'm here now and I'm remembering some stuff.
I remember the cold air when you breathe in when it's winter outside.
And then I remember the cold fingers when you walk around in the cold outside.
And I'm remembering the cold face that you get
when you also walk around outside.
It sounds to me like you've never been cold in Australia.
No, I mean, not in the way that you feel.
I've felt cold even in just the last five days
that I've been here.
It's a different cold.
It's much like Australians say,
the sun's different in Australia. Buy some of our sunscreen and you want to bloody put it on because the sun's
different right that's what people say here they said sun's different in australia oh yeah yeah
but i've never heard anyone say that before oh yeah it sounds different here is that why
because there is that stereotype of like English backpackers looking like tomatoes.
Yeah.
And that's because they're using English sunscreen.
Sounds different here, mate.
It's a different sun, mate.
I did not realize that.
It's a different sun.
But it's because we're under the hole in the ozone.
That's right.
It'll burn you.
It is the ozone.
Why is that here?
You're some sort of scientist, aren't you, Al?
Why does Australia have the hole?
I guess God felt like
we deserved it.
Yeah, okay.
You are,
that is very scientific.
I say we though
but I've moved away.
You've left.
You've left us
and I am not,
I haven't forgiven you yet
but I'll get there in time.
Yeah, but you know what?
I haven't forgiven you
for staying.
Fair enough.
Alright. The way the show works is I ask a relatively obscure trivia question Yeah, but you know what? I haven't forgiven you for staying. Yeah. Fair enough. All right.
The way the show works is I ask a relatively obscure trivia question.
Our contestants have to write a convincing fake answer.
I then read their answers as well as the real one,
and I have to guess which one is correct.
The first question comes from listener Rachel Ball from London in the UK.
And Rachel's question is,
what does carcinization mean?
What does carcinization mean? And while they're writing their answers, I'll explain how the
scoring works. So you get one point if your fake answer is guessed by the other contestant and
another point if you correctly guessed the answer. By the way, I'm also playing as the house and I've
put in two of my own fake answers for each question with the help of the question writers and I get a point
for each one of those that our guests choose. So each of us can score up to two points per round
which seems fair but it probably actually favors me the house. That's why in the final round the
guests get triple points to give them a chance to really level things up because the house always
wins otherwise.
That's not really true.
The house is pretty hopeless.
Anyway, our questions come from our great Patreon supporters,
and if you want to submit a question,
sign up on any level via patreon.com slash dogoonpod,
which is linked in the show notes.
All right, the answers are in for question number one.
What does carcinization mean?
A phenomenon in which patients present symptoms of slowly turning into Carson Daly.
What a reference.
Carson Daly.
Just quickly Googling.
He's like a TV guy.
That's saying that so that he doesn't, we don't think it's the house that wrote that.
That's an American TV host.
No, I just, I hadn't looked We don't think it's the house that wrote that. That's an American TV host. No, I just...
I hadn't looked it up, but that's the real answer.
Option two, the lamestream media spreading lies about perfectly healthy habits like smoking or drinking being carcinogenic.
The theory that multiple different animals have evolved into crab-like creatures.
Oh.
Oh.
I'd like to see that.
The process by which lower socioeconomic scholarship recipients at Ivy League schools slowly become more preppy, i.e. becoming like a Carson.
Or finally...
Interesting.
A Bushism.
George W. Bush accidentally coined it, and it means to get into a car.
Jesus.
I mean, I wouldn't put it past him.
He has said some truly batshit stuff.
You know what I love about this is that even if that's not true,
I love the idea of bringing back George W. Bush can't speak well jokes.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Well, you should stay involved in the Do Go On podcast network
because we never let it go.
We love him.
I love that.
He's, you know, he's one of, I mean, that was a,
when you look back now, you think that was a beautiful time.
Yeah.
A guy who just misspeaks.
Constantly.
And he's the leader of the free world.
I see a lot of myself in him in that way.
The only thing is I'm not the leader of a free world.
Or much at all, really.
Not yet.
Our favourite is the one where he's like halfway through the
Fool Me Twice saying.
And he either loses his place or he
realizes he doesn't want to give the sound bite
of saying like
I'm a fool or whatever.
So he stops and he says
fool me once.
He doesn't want to say shame on me
or something. He ends up
going can't get fooled again.
Can't get fooled again. Can't get fooled again.
Can't get fooled again.
And he really leans into it
and pushes his hand forward
just to sell it.
That's so great.
That is very good.
One of my faves
was probably one of Letterman's faves.
So that's where I saw a bunch.
But it was,
I remember we were in Africa recently
and we went to a park in Botswana.
Yeah, Botswana.
Yeah, just the way...
Yeah, they're the best.
Those ones where you just lent into them.
They were real fun.
They were all the other classics,
like putting food on their family instead of on the table.
Yeah.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Now, Watch This Drive's a classic.
Now, Watch This Drive.
Yeah.
Now, Watch This Drive, of course, beautiful.
Just so many good...
Like, yeah, it's just...
It's probably not ideal.
He's in such a powerful position.
But if he was just some guy...
Then you wouldn't know about him because he wouldn't be so famous.
True.
I think the funny...
I think it's worth...
Yeah, the funny things he said were worth having an incompetent leader.
Yeah, I think the comedy is in the fact that that's the president.
Yeah, that's true.
So Bushism is one of the answers, but now I've forgotten what the others were.
Yeah.
Don't worry, all that will be edited out, I'm quite sure.
Because half my
listeners are big bush fans uh oh yeah of course and they don't want they don't yeah i got a lot
of bush heads and they don't necessarily want to hear me saying that he was incompetent i have no
fucking idea if it was incompetent i couldn't run i couldn't run a fucking restaurant i can't
i can't bloody manage my own calendar Running a restaurant I think would be quite difficult
Yeah that's what I'm saying
But it's not the same as running a world
Or a country
Yeah that's true
You're right but then again
You do have a lot more helpers running a country
True is he doing anything
Yeah
And he's managed to I think
Help his image by just
Becoming a painter And he's managed to, I think, help his image by just becoming a painter.
And he's like a decent painter, is he?
Well, I don't know if he's good, but it's very interesting to see a guy.
Like, is he painting houses or is he painting pictures?
Like, he's painting portraits of leaders that he met and war veterans and things like that.
Yeah, I'm googling it.
It's very interesting. You say war veterans and things like that. Yeah, I'm Googling it. It's very interesting.
You say war veterans?
I think so.
That is.
I don't know if that's what it is.
He did one to Johnny Howard.
If that's his Putin, that's pretty funny.
He's done a Putin, which is pretty good.
Oh, yeah.
If that's his self-portraits, that's good.
That is good.
So he's much kinder to himself than to Tony Blair or Putin.
But at least you can tell who they are.
And if I painted them, you wouldn't know who they are.
Remember when we were flying on tour somewhere, Bob,
and I drew a picture of Dave and I showed it to you
and you and me cried.
We couldn't stop laughing.
It was such a funny, I showed it to you, and you and me cried. We couldn't stop laughing. It looked so...
It was such a funny, I don't know why, it was such a funny...
It kind of looked like George Bush's Putin.
Yeah.
Only it was Matt Stewart's Dave.
Anyway, we have got sidetracked.
This is the first question.
Yeah.
Your options are phenomenon in which patients present symptoms of slowly turning into Carson Daly.
You've got lamestream media spreading lies about healthy habits like smoking and drinking being carcinogenic.
That one feels right to me.
You've got multiple animals evolving into crab-like creatures.
Lower socioeconomic scholarship recipients at Ivy League schools slowly becoming more preppy.
Or the bushism about getting in your car?
It's about time I had carcinization
and got out of here.
It isn't bad.
I was thinking it was bad.
Oh, yeah.
But it is a pretty big word for him to say.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry, my impersonation was bad.
I think, obviously.
No, no, that was spot on.
That's a great word.
Al, do you want to guess first?
Yeah.
Look, I don't know.
And it might be dangerous to shift away from ones about guys called Carson.
But I'm going to go with the crab one.
Crab one.
How many of them were about guys called Carson?
Just one.
I think there was three.
Okay.
I thought there was only one as well.
I think there was three.
I think there was three.
I think there was three I think I think there was
there was Carson Daly
there was
yes
there was
Carsonogenic
Carsonogenic
oh there was Carsonogenic
which I was considering
I know I would have considered that
but the Carsonogenic one
is written like
the lamestream media
and I was like
wow it's probably not that then
it's probably
yeah probably not from addiction
I mean you don't know where
on the internet this this definition was found.
That's right.
Fuck, Jess.
It could be a right-wing dictionary.
Oh, yeah, of course.
It could be.
I don't know where Matt gets his information.
Well, that's the preferred dictionary for 50% of my listeners.
I'm going to say the crab one as well.
A couple of crabs?
A couple of crabs.
All right.
Here's who wrote the answers.
The Carson Daly one.
That was Jess Perkins.
And so you're familiar with this guy.
The name vaguely rings a bell.
He must have popped up in a bunch of 2000s movies.
He's like a Ryan Seacrest type person like just a tv
presenter i i think i've always confused him i always pictured troy cassadaly the
that's different the australian country singer yeah he once made an appearance at magpie music
in big uh that morning that i went and stood outside of it because they had a big promotion on.
And if I was the first to be there,
so I got up and was there at 5 a.m.,
stood outside of Magpie Music to get a $500 drum kit.
Whoa.
But Troy Casadelli was making an appearance later on
and going to be playing outside
for maybe the 25th anniversary of Magpie Music in Bega.
So it was a big day. I've never anniversary of Magpie Music and Bega. So it was a big day.
I've never heard of Magpie Music.
It sounds great.
Love a bit of Troy Cassidaly.
He wrote a couple of Chisel songs.
Oh.
Did he?
Yeah.
Wow.
And now his daughter's a musician as well.
Jem Cassidaly.
Jem?
He's one of those guys, you know know you follow those older dudes online sometimes yeah
and they've just got they can you know it could be anything but he's just got this real nice
presence oh that's good that's that's always a relief isn't it uh the lamestream media one
that was the house oh really yeah uh As was the Bushism one.
Oh.
In particular, that was Rachel.
Rachel.
So, we might be right.
The one about lowest socioeconomic scholarship recipients at Ivy League schools,
so they're becoming more preppy, that was Alistair Trumbull-Virtual.
Is that Carson?
Was that Carson related?
That was another Carson name.
At the end, it does say, i.e.
Becoming like a Carson.
What is like?
I didn't question it because I thought it might have been clear to maybe Canadians,
which 50% of my audience is.
It could be my current location in North America,
but Carson, to me, sounds like the name of somebody
who would go to an Ivy League.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Like Carson Daly.
And maybe would dress preppy in a preppy kind of way.
Like Carlton, sort of, from Fresh Prince.
Exactly like Carlton, but I was picturing a white guy.
Yeah.
The same outfit, like a sweater over the shoulders.
Absolutely. Yeah. Yes. That is Like a sweater over the shoulders. Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yes.
That is preppy.
That is all preppy.
You occasionally rock that preppy look.
Or you did one time.
One time.
You just head to toe in Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren Polo.
Have I said this?
The correct answer is evolving into crab-like creatures.
Hooray!
Points, points, points, points.
You both had a hot start.
And Al, you say you did not know that one?
I did not know, but I knew of the phenomenon.
Yeah, because I had the thought that you maybe might have stumbled across that.
Because he's a scientist.
Because, yeah, he's got an interest in the sciences.
I do have an interest.
I mean, it kind of, like, you know, would have made sense, I think.
But I couldn't make the direct transfer between, you know,
the understanding of what the word meant and the thing.
But it sounded like it could mean, like, you know,
your outside gets hard and you kind of get you get around and your fingies get all pinchy
you get round you know when you get hard you get round you get pinchy get hard you get round and
your fingers get a bit pinchy yeah it's the word carcinization do you know about the etymology
that i'm not because i would because i was thinking like can't you know about the etymology of that? I'm not... Because I was thinking like cancer, you know, the cancer and the crab is...
It was carcinization, but carcin...
Anyway, I'm sure there's...
Normally I would explain, but I didn't find that.
I'm going to tell people a little bit more about it there in a second.
While you're writing your answer for question number two,
which comes from Alex from Perth.
And the question is, which of from alex from perth uh and the question is which of
these is a real species of fish oh these are jess's favorite fucking love so i make sure i
include these whenever jess have such stupid names oh it's good isn't it i'm just gonna let
autocorrect do the work here yeah autofill i'm just gonna start with a word and see what autofill
says because it'll probably be a pretty good fish name.
While you're writing those answers or autofilling those answers, here's some more info on all this crab evolution.
A Scientific American writes, A crab-like body plan has evolved at least five separate times among desipod or decapod crustaceans a group a group that includes crabs lobsters and shrimp
carcinization is an example of a phenomenon called convergent evolution which is when different
groups independently evolve the same traits it's the same reason both bats and birds have wings
but intriguingly the crab-like body plan has emerged many times among very closely related animals.
Yeah, so that article suggests that...
It says something like, maybe this is what the perfect body looks like.
Called an evolution anyway.
So, the answer for question number two.
Which of these is a real species of fish?
Gobble guts.
Brigadier catfish.
Oh, love it.
Judgmental mango fish.
Wet-bellied bobler.
Oh, that's good.
Or sparkling Carolyn Marlin.
Oh, give me those again.
Gobble guts.
Fuck, I want it to be gobble guts.
Brigadier catfish.
Judgmental mango fish.
Wet belly bobler.
Or Spartan Carolyn Marlin.
Because one time there was a sarcastic something fish.
Fringe head.
Sarcastic fringe head.
That must have been one of the early ones, yes.
And I was sure it couldn't be that because how could they assign a feeling or a tone to a fish?
Because how could they assign a feeling or a tone to a fish?
So maybe judgmental is, you know, maybe it's got a bit of a side eye.
It looks up and down like, are you aware of that?
And it looks like a mango.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's got that kind of, you know, that blob fish frown.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's looking at you sideways and you're like, oh, my fish is judging me that's got resting blob face i think just because um uh i i want it so badly to be
gobble guts i love that so much that i'm just i'm just going for gobble guts because i want it to be
true yeah it's like you
know how we have like the tony frog mouth so i say yeah i meant you got you guys back over there
and down under um are you now referring to australia as aussie hey you guys down there
in aussie you ask you know us no no it's you arsees. No, Americans will say...
They'll call Australia Aussie.
Not all Americans, but they'll call Australia Aussie.
Aussie.
Oh, right, right, right.
I hate it.
No, it's not good.
Yeah, yeah.
If you want to shorten it, just say Oz, I reckon.
Sure.
But not Aussie.
But they don't want us to be confused.
But they feel like they're participating.
Yeah, but you're not. They don't want to confuse us for Wizard of Oz, the land of Oz.
That's why.
Just say Australia.
Jeez.
You've got a lot of rules, Jess.
Let Americans be.
50% of my audience are Americans.
That support George W. Bush.
Yeah.
Well, if you're overseas and somebody says,
oh, whereabouts are you from?
Do you say, I'm Aussie?
No.
I say, I'm Australian.
I say, I come from Aussie.
I come from Aussie.
I say, I come from a land down under
where women blow and men chunder.
Is that the word?
Something like that.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
I don't think you need to know all the words, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
You just have to know,
he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
That's the one you have to really watch.
Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, I'm going Gobbleguts.
Okay.
Locking in Gobbleguts for Bob, for Jess.
What about you, Alistair?
You know, Gobbleguts does sound good, but...
Yeah.
Let's see.
I mean, I might go the judgmental
because now I know that in the nomenclature,
nomenclature, how does that word go?
No idea.
Nomenclature, that sometimes you can put an emotion in there.
Yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
Now, what I could be stumbling upon
is that's that's something
just that matt discovered when he did an earlier episode you know you know that is a thing uh but
you know what that's a risk i'm willing to take yeah you can't you can't you got to play this
with an open heart yeah be until at least someone uh draws you into their trap, at least until that point,
you've got to have an open mind.
Once you've...
After that, feel very paranoid, I think.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's better than...
You're one from one at the moment,
so you've just got to trust what you're doing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'm happy to be lured into a trap
like a judgmental fish eating a mango.
Yeah, that's right.
All right, here's who wrote the answers.
Sparklin, Carolyn Marlin. That was Alistair Trumbo-Burchill. Good stuff. Can you believe it? God damn it. eating a mango you know yeah that's right all right here's who wrote the answers sparkling
carolyn marlin that was alistair trumbo virtual stuff can you believe it god sounds like a country
rock star sparkling carolyn marlin i'd go see her perform for sure yeah she'd show you you know how
strong she is she'd i don't know what that was supposed to be how strong she is. I don't know what that was supposed to be. How strong she is.
She lifts weights on stage.
It's very cool.
I feel like that's what Marlins do.
You know, they're always having guys target them.
Wet-bellied bubbler.
That was the house.
That's good.
As was the brigandier catfish.
Specifically, Alex wrote that one.
The judgmental mango fish, which Al went for.
That was Jess.
I've made a terrible mistake.
It was...
She just set quite an elaborate trap there.
Explaining...
How did I not miss that?
I love the genius of explaining you're working out,
but not obviously saying, this is my reasoning.
But you may as well have.
Yeah.
And that also means Jess is correct.
It's gobble guts.
Yes.
No, I'm just so happy that.
Sorry, that wasn't a gloating yes, Al.
It's a yes.
I'm so happy that gobble guts exist.
And I want to look them up.
I bet they're really ugly.
Jess, I think it's okay for you to be a little bit happy as well that you got them.
Okay, great.
Because I am.
I fucking got you.
You deserve joy too.
Despite everything you've done.
Oh, it's such a weird nothing fish.
Oh, really?
Is that a gobble guts?
But that's also a gobble guts.
Yeah.
I love them still.
Fish.
Yeah, they're...
Gobble guts, fish.
Oh, it looks like it probably can open its mouth.
Yeah, I don't mind it.
It's got a nice amount of chunk, which is what I really favor in an animal.
It does have a bit of a judgmental look in its face.
I would say it's almost mango shaped.
Yeah.
I know, but have you heard that it's a potential threat to prawn stocks
in Swan and Canning Rivers?
Oh, wow. I did not know that.
So, you know, maybe we can sort of
put a cap on that excitement. Yeah, I take that back.
I take it all back. Alright, that brings us
up to question number three, which comes from
Colin Campbell from
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Is that really the name of a place, Al?
King of Prussia.
You're a North American, Al.
Yes, it is.
Wow, you're not too far from Pennsylvania.
Let me check the phone book.
Hang on.
And Colin's question is,
She-Hulk has an arch nemesis that works a normal job.
What's their villain name, their and their power oh wow okay yeah
so she hulk al you familiar with comic book characters she's the uh she's like the cousin of
uh hulk yep and so was she she's a lawyer yep uh but also can uh is is big in grain. Yeah, I've sort of seen the previews to the TV show.
Now, was she also caught in a nuclear blast?
I think there's different backstories probably.
Most comic book characters have retconned.
So, I mean, i can't be too specific
obviously i have a lot of answers for you and while you're writing those answers i'll let the
audience know a bit more about gobble guts according to alex they are small with large
mouths uh that they used to store their eggs the name gobble guts was given as it sometimes
appears the male is eating its own eggs. Glad it only appears.
The gobble guts has an almost translucent greyish white body with a row of diagnostic black spots along the lateral line
and a diagonal stripe behind the eye.
They are relatively small fish growing to a maximum size of 12cm.
It is the most abundant fish species in shallow seagrass beds around Perth.
That's great.
That was a Perth question.
This episode was initially going to be live in Perth,
so that would have been so handy then.
All right, the answer in for question number three.
She-Hulk and Al.
Probably, in fairness, you should know that that is Jess's favorite comic book character.
I don't think she knows anything more about it than the name, but...
I don't need to know more.
It's perfect.
I did know that.
Yeah.
She-Hulk has an arch nemesis that works a normal job.
What's their villain name, their job, and their superpower?
Handsome Jack.
A bank manager come bank robber.
Oh.
Who uses his handsomeness to talk his way into banks after hours
and complex financial lingo to put the security guards to sleep.
Ooh.
So how does he talk his way in then, I wonder?
Well, he's just so charming and handsome.
He uses his handsomeness.
Oh, yeah.
So he uses his handsomeness to get in.
Yeah.
But then what's he getting in?
Is that to get through the doors, the locked doors?
That's to get through the door, I guess.
And then uses complex financial jargon.
Yeah.
That puts the security guards to sleep.
Yeah.
And then the rest, you know.
Easy.
Well, it all makes sense, though, yeah, from then on.
Stick in a USB, take all the money.
I should, Al, I don't have any more info than what's in front of me, okay?
So.
You know, absolutely.
You know what?
It was just curiosity that led me to this.
Well, I killed the cat, Al.
Do you want to be a dead cat?
Just a question.
Just a question.
It would be interesting for a day.
Jesus Christ. Bloody hell. Not the cat, Al. Do you want to be a dead cat? Just a question. Just a question. I think it would be interesting for a day.
Jesus Christ.
Bloody hell.
You got Dr. Bob Doom, a dentist who inserts mind control fillings into his wealthy clients.
He's a distant relative of the more famous Dr. Doom.
Then you got- Sorry, wasn't he Dr. Doom?
He's Dr. Bob Doom.
Okay, my apologies.
I missed the Bob.
I think there's rumours that maybe Doctor Doom might be a new MCU mega villain.
Right.
If I've gleamed anything from the Weekly Planet podcast.
The guy from the Fantastic Four.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I might be thinking of someone else.
Maybe you're thinking of MF Doom.
MF Doom.
Motherfucking Doom?
The rapper.
Is that him?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He wears a mask as well.
Do you reckon they're related?
Maybe the Doom family is just really big.
I mean, with three members.
That's a big family.
They're a very prestigious family.
Yeah.
A lot of successful people in it.
Maybe, yeah.
Maybe they're not that big, but, you know, the quality.
They're a quality family, not a quantity family.
That's right.
Yeah.
Next option, Gwendolyn, who's a gynecologist whose superpower is X-ray vision.
Oh.
Probably quite handy as a gynecologist.
That would be really handy.
Well, yeah.
You don't want to be too handy as a gynecologist.
Yeah, but I mean-
And you don't need to be when you've got X-ray vision.
A lot of things, you know, a lot of things that a gynecologist would do would require some fairly invasive
tests so it would it would actually be i'd love a gynecologist who has x-ray vision just
has a look and goes oh no you're fine do they because x-ray i always assume that the x-ray
just sees the bones right but do you reckon x-ray vision they can just dial it up and down because
there is an old thing of like being able to see
through clothes with x-ray vision yeah is that kind of what would have to work here because
gynecologists aren't that worried about the bones are they depends but i guess superman can like
it's like it's not just x-ray it's that's just a word that superheroes use for simple people like us.
Yeah, yeah.
So maybe, what's the person's name?
Gwendolyn.
Gwendolyn can choose between x-ray, MRI, CT.
See, that would be good.
I had my first MRI recently for my knee,
and it was a strange thing. I've never had a strange thing it's just a lot of clicking sounds
like quite loud clicking sounds yeah they put headphones on it he put headphones on and played
uh played some tunes is is the mri you were there for quite a while yeah about 15 minutes yeah it
was just uh click track just a metronome yeah yeah they put
like they put on some tunes and then all the doctors couldn't help it,
but get their fingers clicking.
Yeah, snapping along.
It was like they were playing Up Down Girl by Billy Joel.
Up Down Girl.
Up Down Girl.
That's a good song.
Is that not what it is?
Up Down Girl.
She rotted the lift In a building with a lift
Around
Girl
Alright you've got
Gorgeousina
The attractive Supreme Court TV judge
Who
Had the power to make holes
Yep who had the power to make holes. Yep.
Yeah, I mean, it feels good.
That feels right.
I mean, gorgeous Cena would be a great partner for handsome Jack.
Gorgeous Cena.
You know, another attractive one,
but also handy to rob banks with the holes,
the hole-making power of gorgeousina well i mean
holes in a wall holes on the floor yeah yeah that's what he's saying
yeah no yeah you're explaining what matt's getting at yeah yeah you can even put holes
in the money if you wanted to no holes in the cops holes of the cops yes not holes in the money if you wanted to no holes in the cops holes of the cops yes not holes in the
money yes it weird it doesn't say but is that is gorgeousina's real power that she has a gun
got the power to make holes it's just a weird way of saying i've got a gun i've got a gun
yeah or finally healthy helen she's a puppeteer who goes to schools to teach kids about health. Only her puppets are possessed by demons.
This was from one of those PSA comics,
like the one with Spider-Man telling kids not to smoke marijuana
or Daredevil telling you about the dangers of gas vapor.
I'm going to need them again.
I've forgotten them all.
Handsome Jack, Dr. Bob Doom, Gwendolyn, Gorgeousina, Healthy Helen. gotten them all handsome jack dr bob doom gwendoline gorgeous cena healthy helen yeah i mean
healthy helen is she sending you know like those demons are they like do they do her bidding are
they like fly my pretties that kind of thing i guess so yeah yeah puppets what do you think
demon puppets i think i might be leaning towards Dr. Bob Doom.
Yeah.
Because the others all sound crazy.
Sure.
Comics get pretty wacky.
Yeah, true.
I don't know if Gord has seen one.
There was one we had in the past where it was a guy who would weld.
He was called Dog Welder.
And his power was welding dead dogs to his enemy's faces
like none of these are as weird as that that's full-on yeah yeah all right i'm still gonna say
dr bob doom okay great is it also because it sounds like uh australian comedian bob down
yes bob doom it's bob Down in a Scottish accent.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess the fact that he puts fillings in
and it does mind control just feels so right.
Yeah.
And we already know there's a Doom family inside the MCU.
What's just the normal?
Because I don't think...
It's not cinematic.
I don't think it's cinematic.
No, it's not cinematic.
You know, some of their drawings can be almost cinematic.
Very evocative, very provocative.
That's right.
Bit of both, actually.
You're right.
Yeah.
So, I'm also going to go for Bob Doon.
Bob Doon.
Because I know at least that it's not one that Jess has written,
and then I can't go through that shame again.
You don't want to go for Healthy Helen?
Even though I think Beck, yeah, I was about to say,
I keep saying Beck.
What the fuck?
Even though I know, yeah, I was pretty sure Jess had written Healthy Helen.
Well, let's go
through who wrote the answers healthy helen actually written by the house
with the help of colin uh colin um had the the psa stuff that's good initially the way
uh colin wrote the answer was he said the arch nemesis was a dentist. So all of his answers were dentist related.
Yeah, anyways.
So why am I giving you such a dull peek behind the curtain?
I'm not sure.
It was also a combination effort between me and Colin.
Handsome Jack, the bank manager cum bank robber.
Gwendolyn, gynecologist, the x-ray vision.
That was Jess Perkins.
I like that.
And Gorgeousina, who has the power to make holes,
was Alistair Trumbly-Purchill.
You don't say.
Meaning the correct answer was Dr. Bob Doom.
I can't believe it.
Bob Doom.
You two are on fire.
Well, no.
We're on fire
when Al copies me.
Yeah, that's true.
You're three from three.
Yeah.
Al got the first one right
and you copied him.
Just in fairness there, okay?
I'm glad that there's somebody
keeping track, you know?
Keeping Jess in line.
After three rounds,
the house is on zero points. ATB is on two points, but Jess in line. After three rounds, the house is on zero
points. ATB is on two points,
but out in front on four points is Jess Perkins.
Yes. Alright, here's question
four. This comes from Kayla
Hodquits from Lemoyne
in Maine. Again, this is quite
close to you, Al, just south of the border
for you. Oh, is it?
Or maybe it's...
If this goes well, I might head actually i'm if this goes well i might head over if this
if this question goes well yeah if uh if kayla if you've if you know any crabs in the comedy business
yeah or you know crabs that are willing to just have comedy around them yeah yeah yeah that's
right they don't have to already be involved in... In the biz, but they will be.
With a good sense of humour.
Kayla's question is,
how is it thought that Wan Hu,
an ancient Chinese official of legend, died?
How did Wan Hu die?
An ancient Chinese official of legend.
While you're writing your answers,
here's a little more info about Dr. Bob Doom.
According to Comicvine, Robert Doom is a Latverian American distantly related to Victor Von Doom,
who's the more famous one. And while a rather successful dentist, Robert felt envious of his
cousin's wealth and power. I should say he only makes like three appearances and I think this
spoils it all. So if you're about to read some of these comics, maybe skip ahead a minute.
In an attempt to keep up with the Joneses, Doom formed his own supervillain plans.
He studied mechanics, robotics, and weaponry technology.
Then he created his masterpieces, neurotransceivers, miniature devices which would allow him to take over the nervous system of fellow humans.
That's Doctor Doom. that's dr doom he had not counted on a client accidentally damaging his transceiver and turning it into a miniature radio receiver the client filed a legal suit the lawyer assigned to the
case was jennifer walters aka she-hulk who soon discovered the case went further than malpractice
he had little chance in combat against her she even bit through his adamantium lace drill.
That's rough.
According to Colin...
Bit.
Yeah, bit.
So she held not only his big and strong, but she had strong teeth.
And that must have been mixed emotions from the dentist.
You know, he'd be like, glad you glad you got strong healthy teeth but
oh i wish you weren't defeating me with them yeah i wish it hadn't ruined my drill yeah
cordner cullen uh after he did a quick google search he found that there is an actual dr doom
dentist in new jersey that i don't think i'd run with that name as a health practitioner. No. Doom's got a
negative connotation because of the
comics, I think. I know, but you
realize that
there's a lot of
fun to be had, but it's probably just a foreign
name. He's probably from a place where it doesn't mean
something bad. Like Latvia.
Yeah, exactly. Probably
means like, oh, once worked as a dentist or something.
Yeah, that's right.
His name's probably Dr. Doctor or something like that in Latvian.
While you're still writing your answers, let's go for a quick break.
All right, we're back.
And the answer in for question number four. How is it thought that Wan Hu, an ancient Chinese official of legend, died?
He fell off the Great Wall during an inspection for the emperor,
after which the builders, afraid of royal repercussions,
hid the body in the wall itself.
He strapped himself to a chair full of fireworks in an attempt to get to the moon.
He slipped on a banana peel and while trying to hide his embarrassment, stepped backwards
a bit too far and fell off a cliff.
I think it's that one, Al.
Have you ever seen that episode of Rogue, don't you?
He was accidentally eaten by the emperor.
What?
Or he tried to prove that he could ride two horses at once.
But when the horses veered off in different directions, he was torn asunder.
Oh, not asunder.
It would have been like that Jean-Claude Van Damme truck ad where he does the splits.
Oh, does he get torn asunder in that?
Well, I didn't see the end.
It's implied.
Yeah.
Okay, can I have those again?
Asunder?
Yes, you may.
Fell off the Great Wall,
then got buried in the wall.
Strapped himself to a chair full of fireworks
to try to get to the moon.
Slipped on a banana peel, fell off a cliff.
Accidentally eaten by the emperor.
Or he was torn asunder after trying to ride two horses at once.
Two horses at once.
You go first this time, Al.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Torn asunder.
I mean, that's such a good word that it could be, you know,
it almost has the whiff of the Perkins.
Torn asunder.
You think, thank you for thinking I would think,
I've never heard that word in my life.
So thank you for thinking that's me.
Or is that what she wants you to think?
Oh, yeah, she's good.
All right, well, then I'll pick it now.
All right.
I am going to go for, for me, it's either between the, you know,
getting locked in the wall or chair with fireworks.
And now that I think about it it if Asunder isn't Jess, Jess would go what do
I know about China, Great Wall of China, God gets locked in the wall of China.
So I'm going to go fireworks on the chair.
Okay.
I love the workings out
Yeah
What about you Jess?
I'm going to go the one where he fell off the wall
And ended up buried in the wall
The one that you wrote?
I'm going to go for my own one
That's crazy
Alright Jess
Well I've not fallen for that one
You're going a long way to make a point
But whatever
Alright, here's the answers
Tried to prove that he could ride two horses at once
But he was torn asunder
That was the house
That's a real fun phrase
So good
Accidentally eaten by an emperor
That was Al
Accidentally eaten
Can you talk us through that scenario?
You know, i thought we could we could you know we could figure out a way in which that could happen yeah maybe like he fell asleep in a
in a big pot in a pot and then that nobody checked in the contents of the pot when they went to make
soup yeah yeah or it was like you know or were like, they were about to slow cook something and they just, he was near the meat and they, and there was a lot of meat, you know, they just put him in there.
He was really tired and he had a quick nap, but the lights were off.
He didn't realize he was napping on the spit.
Exactly.
And yeah, he's like, I'll just skewer myself with this.
Yes.
I just have a nice old rest.
And a lot of people enjoy sort of a gentle rocking,
like a hammock to fall asleep.
He actually preferred to fully rotate.
Yeah, just do a full 360.
And then he just went to sleep and had nice dreams of being in a warm place.
And yeah, it's not a bad way to go.
Yeah, it's a rotisserie, right?
Is what he was doing rotissing?
I guess so.
He was rotisserating?
Yeah, rotissiesting.
Oh, yeah, rotissiesta.
Fucking hell, that's good stuff, Al.
But, you know, that's the thing is that you'd be on the flame,
and probably every now and then you'd be like,
oh, I'm getting really dry.
But then somebody would probably, like, pour some liquid on you.
Yeah, they'd have that base step.
You'd be like, oh, no, that won't work out.
Oh, that feels good, actually.
Sipped on a banana peel, fell off a cliff.
That was just Perkins. Oh, of course good, actually. Slipped on a banana peel, fell off a cliff. That was Jess Perkins.
Oh, of course.
Of course.
Why did I complicate it so much?
Because he slipped on a banana and then he recovered from that.
It's a bit of a, it's a bit of a, like a, it's a, what's it called?
It's like a rags to riches.
Yes, it's a rags to riches.
He stepped out of the front pan into the fire.
Sort of thing.
Which is where that other guy was sleeping.
Yeah.
Before he got eaten.
But yeah, the one thing Jess knows about China, bananas.
They have cliffs.
Yeah.
Very cliffy place.
A very cliffy place.
Very cliffy.
Yeah.
Almost as cliffy as that Australian runner who wore gumboots Yep
Oh, his name was Cliffy?
Cliffy
I love that guy
Jess went for the Great Wall of China fall
So you weren't too far off, Al
Because Jess did write one about a guy falling
That was Kayla, aka The House.
Oh, you got me, Kayla.
Meaning the correct answer is strapped himself to a chair full of fireworks in an attempt to get to the moon.
So Al gets the point there.
Well done.
Yeah.
And The House is also on the board.
Thank you, Jess.
And thank you, Kayla.
I was saved by Jess's, you know, I know that she loves to pick for things that don't sound too crazy.
And the fact that this one was crazy enough to veer Jess off saved me and has given me one extra point to get closer to Jess.
It veered Jess off and tore her asunder.
Tore me asunder.
Absolutely tore you asunder.
All right, we're up to question number five.
This one comes from Claire Hazard
from Falkirk in Scotland.
Al, I think that's a little bit
north of you. Sorry.
Wait, where is
this? Sorry. Falkirk in Scotland.
Falkirk. Oh, yes.
Well, if this goes well,
I might send a letter there.
Alright, question five.
What was the name of the sixth track on the 1966 I might send a letter there. All right, question five.
What was the name of the sixth track on the 1966 country album The Lovin' Machine by artist Johnny Paycheck?
Johnny Paycheck.
The album is The Lovin' Machine.
The Lovin' Machine.
And we're going for track number six.
Track number six.
It's not the title track then.
That's usually track number one.
Yeah, well, this is a key track.
Track six, maybe track one side two, perhaps.
What kind of genre are we talking?
Did you tell us that?
Country.
Claire makes the note.
Fantastic name, Johnny Paycheck.
Incredible.
And I'm with you all the way on that one, Claire.
While you're writing your answers, here's some more info about Wanhu.
According to NASA, with the help of many assistants,
a lesser-known Chinese official named Wan Hu assembled a rocket-powered flying chair. Attached to the chair were two large kites, and fixed
to the kites were 47 fire arrow rockets. On the day of the flight, Wan Hu sat himself
on the chair and gave the command to light the rockets. 47 rocket assistants, each armed
with torches, rushed forward to light the fuses. In a moment,
there was a tremendous roar accompanied by billowing clouds of smoke. When the smoke cleared,
Wan Hu and his flying chair were gone. No one knows for sure what happened to Wan Hu,
but it is probable that if the event really did take place, Wan Hu and his chair were blown to
pieces. Fire arrows were as apt to explode as to fly.
According to Wiki,
he is described in modern sources as the world's first astronaut
by having been lifted by rockets in outer space.
The crater Wanhu on the far side of the moon
is named after him.
And according to Kaler,
Wanhu probably didn't exist,
but it's fun to imagine.
And the Mythbusters did an episode on it.
Did that show make it to Australia?
Sure did, Kayla.
I watched a couple of episodes of that at some point, but it was quite a popular show here.
And Kayla says, also, my fake answer, the one that Jess picked, is steeped in legend, too.
When workers died building the wall, they would sometimes be buried inside of it.
Yeah, okay.
Kayla got you with some true facts.
Fucking got me.
It was absolutely steeped in legend
in the way that those people
were steeped in Great Wall of China.
That doesn't make any sense.
But, you know,
but they say he was the first astronaut.
To be an astronaut,
you got to make it to
either 80 kilometers up
or 100 kilometers up, depending on whether or not you're American.
What about 100 kilometers down?
That's a reverse astronaut.
The reverse astronaut does sound like an Urban Dictionary
sort of sex position, doesn't it?
It's called an astronaut, but it's got two S's.
Reverse astronaut.
All right, the answer in for question number five.
What was the name of the sixth track on 1966 country album,
The Loving Machine by artist Johnny Paycheck?
Coochie, coochie, cooch.
Rooting, tooting, boots to scooting.
All you need is gloves.
I'm not here for love.
I'm just here for the brackets Johnny, close brackets paycheck.
Or pardon me, open brackets, I've got someone to kill.
Close brackets.
Pardon me.
These are all incredible.
I want them all to be real.
This is an AP ready to go.
Yeah.
Sorry, Coochie Coochie.
Yeah, we need to hear them again.
Coochie Coochie Cooch.
Oh, okay.
Rooting tooting boots to scooting.
All you need is gloves.
I'm not here for love.
I'm just here for the Johnny paycheck.
Or pardon me, I've got someone to kill.
Oh, God, that's good.
I honestly love all of these
oh okay realistically what's it gonna be i'm a big fan of third person talk
i'm just here for the johnny paycheck that's so funny all you need is gloves um
yeah but like i don't know enough about required yeah i don't know enough about
johnny paycheck to know if he's like a parody kind of guy yeah yeah yeah i think if your name's
johnny paycheck maybe you are a little bit parody i'm assuming that that is you know that's a song
about rodeo riding oh they probably wear gloves probably oh i but you also i thought it was i
thought it was about going out With Covering up your cold fingers
Oh yeah
God you and your cold fingers
Do you think this could be
A Canadian country singer
I mean
Probably someone who goes
To the country
Canada is a country stampede
Yeah
Yeah I don't know
I think the chances are high
You know
It speaks English
You know
Canada is a country
You know All the things are lining. You know, all the things
are lining up so far. They both start
with C. Oh, yeah.
Rooting, tooting, boots for scooting.
Coochie, coochie, cooch. Pardon me, I've got someone to kill.
There are your five options.
I mean, you read three just then.
Well, because I've been working my way up through them.
Oh, I see. I'm ready for love and receiver
the Johnny Paycheck. Yes. All you
need is gloves.
I'm going to go with someone to kill.
Yeah, that's so good.
I would quite like that one as well, but I'll choose something different.
I think it might be coochie, coochie, cooch.
Okay.
I want it to be, I want Al to be right, though.
Coochie, coochie, cooch.
I should say there's a hyphen between coochie and coochie,
but none between coochie and cooch.
Yeah, that feels right.
Yeah.
You probably were picturing it that way.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
All you need is gloves.
That's the house.
Okay.
I was intending to put more work into it,
and I thought, you know, maybe a bit of mystery is fun.
You know, the thing is that if it had been Glove, I feel like without the S at the end,
it would have made more sense in a kind of romantic album kind of context.
Right.
All you need is Glove.
You know, because then you're like, you're about to have protected sex, maybe.
Oh, right.
Or maybe it's a michael jackson
one because he he's he only ever wore one sure well but if that was a michael jackson song that
would make more sense then but it might have been johnny paycheck serenading yeah oh that's true
telling him what he already does and that's all he needs yeah i mean he's good mate uh i'm not
here for love i'm not here for love.
I'm just here for the Johnny paycheck.
That was Jess Perkins.
That's very good.
Love third person talk.
That's funny.
Rooting, tooting, boots for scooting.
That was Claire.
Okay, the house.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, so one of us is right.
Jess went for coochie, coochie, cooch,
which was Alistair Trumbly-Birchall,
meaning, Al, you were correct pardon me
i've got someone to kill i'm so happy yeah everyone's a winner thank you jess it was
exactly what you wanted it to be bopper good stuff al coochie coochie cooch because it's terrible
but but you'd be like yeah i can see that i can see that. I can see that. More so than all you need is gloves.
Yeah.
I mean, it turned that guy into somebody that you didn't want to make love to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whereas Coochie Coochie Cooch, I want to make love.
I'm ready.
But the real one is, pardon me, I've got someone to kill.
Yeah.
It's just like he's being very polite.
I'm picturing him like in a soiree.
Yeah.
Oh, pardon me. Pardon me.
I've got someone to kill.
Yeah.
I got a mosey on him.
I picture he's on a date.
He's one-on-one with somebody, you know, possibly a lady lover.
But you know the other context where you might say, pardon me,
like if you burp or fart?
So I imagine he does a big burp and then says pardon me i've got someone to kill
oh and then he shoots his own his own his own rude um sort of stomach yeah yeah he's rude stomach
which also just relieves all the gas how dare you be so rude Like because they do the cowboys
You see like sometimes
After like if a cow's
Eating clover or something
And you know their stomachs have really gassed up
They'll have to like pierce the stomach
To relieve the pressure
So maybe they do that to themselves as well
If they're feeling particularly bloated
Why doesn't the horse just fart
Stupid horses Cows as well if they're feeling strictly bloated why doesn't the horse just fart stupid horses great
cows that's what you're saying not horses i know seagulls can't so i'm not sure if maybe a seagull
is closely related to a cow i think so okay yes is that when they people feed them panadol or
whatever yeah they can't let gas out that's a crazy system of a body yeah but they have cloacas don't they
probably that's right absolutely which you think is a great to go on episode that i think they do
i love that as a system i think it's the the best general all right we're up to question number six
should just say quick score update there's been a bit of movement the house on one point just on
four points but out in front now on five points else to trombeau virtual i mean two i don't think
i've ever been in front this late two questions to go here's question six this comes from steven d
from harlem in the netherlands and steven's question is why would dutch police called
to a typically quiet suburb in the city of eindhoven at 2 a.m on august the 21st 2023 While you're writing those answers, let me tell you more about Johnny Paycheck and his song.
According to Claire, Johnny Paycheck's real name, disappointingly,
was Donald Eugene Little. However, it seems his son, John Paycheck, carried on his stage name
and also became a country star. Claire would recommend falling into the rabbit hole of looking
up his album and song titles. Some potential for future questions, Matt. I did do that last night.
There's a lot of gold in them hills. She also says you've possibly even used him before. He seems too good to have
not been mentioned before, but I don't think I have mentioned him before. The song's pretty
grim to be honest, but the first verse is a bit of fun out of context. And it goes,
I know you'll excuse me if I say goodnight. I've got a promise to fulfill. Thank you for listening to my troubles.
Pardon me, I've got someone to kill.
Bit of fun.
Bit of fun.
Bit of fun.
All right, here's question six.
Why were the Dutch police called to a typically quiet suburb in the city of Eindhoven at 2am on August 21st, 2023?
A resident reported the presence of drug dealers,
only for police to discover it was local youths playing Pokemon Go.
A group of neighbors had started loudly line dancing in the street.
I'd call the cops on that if I wasn't included.
Do-si-do and do-bi-do and ho-ba-do.
Yeah, if all my neighbors are outside on the street
and they're all doing the coochie-coochie-cooch
and I'm like, the fuck was my invite?
Yeah, yeah.
I'd call the cops on them.
And then you'd call 000 and say, I've got an emergency.
Yeah, of course.
And it's called FOMO.
Yes.
I said, I've got an emergency, officer.
I've been bullied.
Yeah, that's brutal.
What about this one?
A truck carrying beavers to the Amsterdam Zoo had overturned just by the antique clog museum.
I imagine that would be dangerous because the clogs are made of wood.
Yes.
And beavers eat wood.
The beavers, yeah.
And they're like, we need these.
That's why it would be an emergency
Quick
These are all growth clogs
They're sort of like mammalian termites
You don't want to get them
In the walls
No
You don't want to get them in the walls of your clogs
On the walls of your clogs
Two more options A man worked to find A herd of cows in his backyard to get them in the walls of your clogs. On the walls of your clogs.
Two more options.
A man worked to find a herd of cows in his backyard.
Yeah.
I mean, I wonder if that's it.
It feels like it's not enough, doesn't it?
I mean, I wouldn't know who to call.
Maybe I would call cops.
Cow cops.
Would you call cow cops?
Who do you call for that?
Bovine police force.
Well.
Bovine 1-1?
Or BPF.
Like 9-1-1.
That's good.
Final option.
A masked vigilante named the Clogged Crusader was waking up the neighborhood as he ran down the road chasing a robber in his wooden shoes.
Clop, clop, clop, clop, clop, clop, I suppose.
Would have gone.
So you got the Pokemon Go drug dealers.
You got the line dancing in the street.
You got the beavers in the antique clog museum.
You got the herd of cows in the backyard.
Or the clogged crusader.
Clippin' and cloppin'. Well, I'm not picking the beavers, because I know that's Jess right there.
That's how funny it was.
Yeah.
Do you think the clogged crusader would have trouble sometimes people confusing him for a constipated vigilante.
Oh, the clogged crusader.
Yeah.
I just think he should have workshopped the name a little further.
I did not get that at first.
Clogged crusader does sound like it could be a good plumber name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know.
And his gimmick is, or hers, is that they go around wearing wooden shoes.
They can't be comfortable.
No, they shouldn't.
Even the softest wood, I would say, is too hard for a shoe.
Splinters, surely.
Oh, yeah.
Now, but don't you think that the fact that they invented wooden shoes,
but then stopped at that and didn't create wooden socks,
wooden pants,
wooden underwear,
wooden shirts,
and wooden hats
makes Holland a country full of cowards.
Yeah, quitters, cowards.
Yeah.
Yep.
Cowards is very close to cowherds,
which was one of the options.
I'm going to choose cowherd.
Yeah?
Yeah.
No way. Yeah, I'm choosing cow cow herd. Yeah? Yeah. No way.
Yeah, I'm choosing cow herd.
You couldn't.
No, Jess, don't do this to yourself.
I'm going cow herd.
Jess, it couldn't possibly be that.
What do you think it is then?
I think it's the Pokemon Go.
In 2023, they were still playing Pokemon Go?
It's still available.
Did they say it was?
Yeah, it's in August 2023. Yeah, it is still available. Yeah, it's in August 2023.
Yeah, I was playing it.
I know, but why is the herd of cows making it to the news?
They don't have cows at home.
In 2023?
Cows.
Cows, that was 2014.
Yeah, I thought Pokemon Go was,
I mean, yeah, people are still playing it,
but it wasn't really in its height. But yeah, maybe. It's probably Pokemon Go was, I mean, yeah, people are still playing it, but it wasn't really in its height.
But, yeah, maybe.
It's probably Pokemon Go.
Whatever.
It's probably not, but maybe that's why it's so surprising.
That means neither of you are going for either of the clog ones.
I'm going to go for the beavers at the clog museum.
You're changing based on Al's bullying.
Yeah. I'm about to call triple zero I want to go
Jess don't pick the beavers
Why? That's my favourite answer
Jess I'm going to need you to lock my hand
Jess don't pick your own answer
I'm going for the beavers at the clog museum
Because that's funny
And whoever wrote that deserves to be rewarded
Jess don't do that That's not what whoever wrote that deserves to be rewarded jess don't do that
that's not what anyone's asking i think clogs is the dutch version of the great wall you know
what's the one thing we know about china great wall it's the one thing we know about dutch
clogs clogs yeah clogs because what else is it like edam cheese or something oh yeah
and i was yeah marijuana uh all right here's who wrote the answers the masked vigilante named the Is it like Edam Cheese or something like that? Oh, yeah. And that was marijuana.
All right.
Here's who wrote the answers.
The masked vigilante named the Clog Crusader.
That was the house.
The house also wrote the Pokemon Go one.
So I'll go point to the house there.
Group of neighbors loudly line dancing in the street.
That was just Perkins.
Were they wearing clogs?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You just didn't have to spell it out.
That's why your writing is better and more efficient.
I'm a very good writer.
A truck carrying beavers to the Amsterdam Zoo.
Jess went for that.
That was Al.
Really?
And the one that Jess initially went for,
a man worked to find a herd of cows in the backyard, was correct.
Oh, my God.
I knew that was Al because, well, it's pretty easy, actually, because every time you start to say one that sounds a bit silly, I look at Al and he gets a little glint in his eye and giggles along with me. And he winks.
Yeah.
He winks at you.
But, fuck, it's funny.
His eyebrows raise a bit.
But, see, like, it was a slow news day If just a herd of cows Were in a man's backyard
I mean
But isn't that weird
In a suburb
Imagine waking up
This guy was like
What is going on
A herd
Like not just one cow
One cow would be confusing
It's 30 cows
That's too many cows
In a suburban backyard
And I don't know
Who I would call
You wake up to that
And you don't think
The newspaper's
Putting that in the odd spot I reckon it is And I don't know who I would call You wake up to that And you don't think the newspapers Putting that in the odd spot
I reckon it is
And I reckon they did
We know that they did
So that's a point to the house there
And a point to the house
I'm actually amazed that that made it
As a question on
Who knew it with Matt Stewart
Like that's a huge journey
That that has travelled
That story of cows.
Well, I think because Stephen who wrote the question lives in the Netherlands,
that's probably less, maybe less surprising.
Although, of course.
Maybe, maybe not.
I don't know.
All right, we're up to the final question.
This one comes from Louis Gemmel from Glasgow.
And we normally finish with a movie synopsis question,
but we're mixing it up this week.
We want a book synopsis.
Oh, yes.
So the question is,
what is the bizarre synopsis of the 1967 novel The Starlight Barking,
which is the sequel to The 101 Dalmatians.
You know, the classic 101 Dalmatians?
Yep.
This is its quite strange sequel.
Sounds like it took a bit of a left-hand turn.
Wasn't the sequel 102 Dalmatians?
The movie one was, but the book one was different.
It's the 1967 novel The Starlight Barking.
While you're writing those.
And, you know, it's normally like two, three, four sentences long.
Short paragraph.
Yeah.
Sure.
Okay.
While your answers are being written.
It was The Starlight Barking is the name of it.
If that helps you.
While the answer is being written, here's some more info about these cows.
Actually, here's the article. straight out of the NL Times.
Residents of several streets in Eindhoven's Stratum district received an unexpected surprise last night.
About 30 cows escaped from their enclosure and meandered towards the city centre.
The Eindhoven's Dagblad reported on Monday.
The police had to intervene to stop their parade.
The cows were probably spooked by music coming from a metal festival in the area.
Late into the night, Eric Van Shankbril, a resident on Angelia Street,
was woken up by an unusual sound saying,
I really did not understand what was going on,
so I stepped outside and suddenly I saw 30 cows in my backyard.
This unexpected turn of events occurred around 2.30am.
For a moment, I thought I was still dreaming, he said laughing.
The police went to the scene and cordoned off the area to ensure the road safety.
They managed to bring the cows into the parking lot of the Basic Fit Gym,
and the wandering cows traveled
from a meadow near jennifer parks roughly kilometer away eric speculated on the cause it seems they
were spooked by the music from the metal festival uh talking about dynamo metal fest which was held
nearby at an ice skating rink the music is very loud there he remarked after a while i realized
they were just fine in the parking lot, so I went back to bed.
But it took a while before I could go back to sleep because of the noise.
The cattle's owner was alerted and retrieved the animals.
By daylight, Eric's photos revealed the parking lot's new state, which was littered with cow dung.
Reflecting on the event, he said,
What a story. I'm not surprised it made it was a crazy night what a story i'm not surprised
it made to this show what a story i don't know what al wants he wants something more than cows
in a backyard no no i actually like it because i feel like it it changes my psychology of what i
think will be you know the answer on a do go on a who knew it question
you gotta keep it mixed up
exactly or else it's always
look for the weirdest but more
most reasonable
sounding one
keep them guessing
okay the final
answers are in for the final question
what is the
bizarre synopsis of the 1967 novel the
starlight barking which is the sequel to the 101 dalmatians so yes this is a book synopsis here we
go after a rare supermoon the town is inflicted with a strange curse of where dalmatians it's up
to pongo and his pups to find out what's causing it and more importantly find a cure and along the Pongo.
Obviously, everyone knows that Pongo is one of the key pups.
Well, yeah, there's the dearly family.
Every answer's got references to...
I'm just surprised that everyone knows specific details about this.
Pongo and his adopted troop of puppies take a trip on maiden voyage of the Hindenburg.
In the air, they discover Cruella de Vil is also aboard.
With a crate of greyhound, she hopes to make into a moo-moo.
The pups convince the pilot to fly downwards
towards some power lines,
saving greyhounds from the fashion industry.
I think she was going to make them, um,
make them be models.
The dearly family and most of the Dalmatians
of the first book still live in Cruella de Vil's old house.
One morning, the dogs find all other living things are unable to be awakened.
Doors, gates and machines operate on command and the dogs can now fly and communicate with each other telepathically.
While the dogs are trying to keep the planet running, a lonely alien arrives and gives them a chance to leave Earth forever.
Oh man, I want that to be their own.
Me too.
The dearly family and their pet Dalmatians are living happily together
until one day they hear distressing sounds from a nearby forest.
Every creature in the forest is making the same strange barking noise.
The family try to figure out the cause of the strange phenomena
and end up discovering a sinister secret.
Well, finally, a travelling circus comes to town
and steals some of the Dalmatians for their show.
The remaining dogs must steal and drive an old steam engine,
the Starlight Barking,
to pursue the circus train and save their family.
Along the way, they realise that train travel
is the best way to see the country
and they go on adventures at each stop, dramatically slowing their pursuit of the way, they realize that train travel is the best way to see the country, and they go on adventures at each stop,
dramatically slowing their pursuit of the circus,
but at the same time significantly increasing their appreciation
of the funny little thing we call life.
All right.
So, a quick summary.
We've got the were-dalmatians.
We've got the maiden voyage of the Hindenburg.
We've got the were-dalmatians.
We've got the maiden voyage of the Hindenburg.
We've got the lonely alien and the dogs can telepathically communicate.
You've got the forest, the strange barking noise coming from the forest with a sinister secret.
We've got the traveling circus coming to town and they get into train travel.
Is this for the win?
This is for the win. This is true points.
This is all on the line.
Still anyone's game.
Wow.
Apart from the house.
God.
Oh, wow.
The house can't win this?
House can't win.
But you two can and will win.
Yeah.
One of us will win.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to pick the aliens.
Damn, I want to pick the aliens too.
You can pick the aliens too.
But she's coming from behind.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
The reverse astronaut.
Astronaut.
Do you want to pick the aliens and I'll pick something else?
No, no, no, no.
No, because then if that's the right
one,
then I'd feel really bad.
You win on points and I win through
generosity. I don't want to win.
But also,
you would be on level scores if
Al didn't talk you out of picking the correct one before
moving to his answer.
There's a lot at play here. I guess if I had used incredible Al didn't talk about picking the correct one before moving to his answer. So, you know. Yeah.
There's a lot at play here.
I guess if I had used incredible psychology on you.
Okay.
Let's not forget the judgmental mango fish, okay?
Oh, that's true.
You both got on each other's heads.
Hey, complimenting me doesn't mean we're insulting you, Jess.
Inventing me doesn't mean we're insulting you, Jess.
I can't remember any of the others now to change.
We're Dalmatians.
Hindenburg.
Lonely Alien.
The Sinister Secret coming from the forest.
Or Travelling Circus. I'm going to choose Hindenburg.
Hindenburg.
All right.
Yeah, Hindenburg.
I think it's the right thing to do.
I mean, the 1960s, you know?
Yeah, it was a crazy time.
All right.
Here's who wrote the answers.
The rare supermoon causing a strange curse of were Dalmatians.
That was Lewis, aka The House.
That's good.
I love the idea of a were Dalmatian.
Then we had also The House.
The traveling circus coming to town.
Selling Dalmatians for the show.
I added the stupid bit at the end that they started loving train travel.
That was really cute, though.
That was very funny.
Yeah, it was really beautiful, and they started enjoying life.
It's just a great way to see the country.
Yeah.
The strange noises coming from the nearby forest, that was Jess Perkins.
I thought that was a very guessable answer.
Yeah, I thought so too.
It wasn't crazy enough.
Everything was barking.
Jess?
It had a good amount of crazy.
Went for the Hindenburg, which was pretty crazy.
It was pretty strange, wasn't it?
It was a bit strange, probably written by a strange person.
It was.
Alistair Trombley-Virtual.
Jess.
And that means that your instincts were both correct. It was that weird alien one. Jess. And that means that your instincts were both correct.
It was that weird alien one.
Amazing.
What a strange sequel.
Yeah.
From like a, you know, somewhat, I was going to say adorable story,
but it's about a woman wanting to skin dogs.
So it's not that cute, is it?
Yeah.
Was there anything weird in the original book that Disney omitted or something?
Maybe.
Or did it just, the first book to the second book was aney omitted or something maybe or did it just
the first book to the second book was a huge left-hand turn i wonder i reckon there's probably
some stuff that they must have left out or something like that but but i mean i wonder if
disney had bought the story before they made the sequel just because then they're like oh
fucking no i got money i can write what I really want to write. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
I don't have to worry about sort of really selling this one.
So I'm going to go crazy.
Yeah.
Or, yeah, this one will sell itself.
Yeah.
So I can just put my heart and soul into it.
Aliens.
Flying dogs.
I'll just take a second to put the scores together.
Before I do that, I can say that this book on Goodreads
has a 3.62 out of 5 star average rating.
That's not bad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I found a review on Chain Interaction,
a book blog,
and it says,
if ever a book could be a party trick,
this is mine.
I will out this story during awkward lulls
and conversations
as it's a surefire crowd pleaser.
Picture the scene.
You're sipping on a glass of
now-lukewarm white wine, and the conversation is dying out. You turn to your nearest and dearest
and remark, did you know there's a sequel to 101 Dalmatians? They will, of course, respond with,
well, yes, I hated that film. Or perhaps, Patch's London adventure is amazing. You can now shake
your head superciliously and tut at how superior your knowledge of mid
20th century children's books is no no dear friend there is a written sequel produced by
dodie smith 11 years after the first one was published what's it about you ask oh it's a
normal tale where the dalmatians and all the other dogs wake to discover that the humans are all
unwakeable and the dogs have some kind of superpowers. Since they're worried about what's going on,
they head to London to consult with the dog parliament to work out what's going on.
Anyway, yeah, and I get to meet her from there.
Who speaks like that at a dinner party?
Yeah.
See if I can find...
I mean, this person's review is weirder than that book.
Let's see.
They've got a...
Oh, yeah.
Judith, a 20-something based in the city of Dreaming Spires,
in brackets, Oxford, UK.
I read far too much for my own good sometimes.
I share my thoughts on what I read on this blog.
Okay, that makes sense.
Okay.
That's probably over-explaining things.
I share my thoughts on what I read on this blog.
Yeah.
Which is my book review blog.
Ah.
All right, so.
Okay.
I like her vibe.
Yeah, she seems fun at parties.
So, I was picturing a 50-something-year-old, I've got to tell you.
Yeah.
20-something-year-old.
Oh, that's sad.
Warm dinner party with the white wine and stuff.
No, yeah, you suck.
If you're listening, you're all, you know, 50% of my audience is that book reviewer.
All right, so here are the final scores.
I have two listeners. On two two points it's the house on four points in second place is jess perkins but way out in front
on 12 points it's alistair trumbull virtual i can't believe it i feel like jess was gifting
me points i think she was those. Those last few questions. Yeah.
At some point, she took pity on you,
didn't she?
I noticed that as well.
It was a real vibe change.
She started thinking,
Al needs this.
I felt bad about the
judgmental mango fish one,
but I was like,
let's let him have it.
What else has he got going for him?
He's moved to Canada.
Yeah.
That's a cry for help, isn't it?
In the middle of an
australian summer like how dumb are you you know what i mean yeah no no i can understand that and
you know what you win some you lose some he's recording this from his brother's basement it's
so embarrassing for him his brother's in the room younger brother yeah yeah it is my younger brother
even your younger brother he's not in the room anymore. Even your younger brother, he's not in the room anymore
because he's moved on with what he was doing.
Yeah.
He's got better things to do, yeah.
But I'm very impressed that your younger brother
has a place with a basement.
Or a basement's normal over there.
It's a very normal thing here.
Houses just have way more levels over there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the people have fewer levels.
I think you've got to put more stuff deeper underground
so that things don't freeze.
So you put it further into the cold ground.
See, this is what I'm talking about.
He needed a win.
These people are crazy.
No, we're down close to the core where it's still warm.
Oh, yeah.
I guess if you put it in the attic.
Close to the lava.
It's closer to the snow. But also close to the core where it's still warm. Oh, yeah. I guess if you put it in the attic. Close to the lava. It's closer to the snow.
But also close to the sun.
Okay.
We've been recording for ages.
I don't want to get bogged down in what's closer to warm and cold.
Hey, Al, where can people find you if they want to book you for a gig or otherwise?
Oh, my goodness.
They can find you if they want to book you for a gig or otherwise.
They can find me at atromblyvirtual on Instagram,
or they can find me at... I think of you as the Trombly Virtual.
Yeah.
I appreciate that.
That's good.
You know, but there's actually two atromblyvirtuals
because my brother is also an atromblyvirtual.
Oh, and he has a basement.
Not this one here.
Oh, okay. No, no, no, that's not this one he but the other one also is a homeowner i'm the only one who doesn't own a home god you're a disappointment to everyone
um but they can find me on the two in the think tank podcast but they can
email me at gmail.com if they need to love that i. I just give up a regular email. I love a self-doxing.
Yeah.
That's your personal email,
the one you use to like...
Yeah.
You sure you want that in there?
All right, let's cut that out.
Look, they can contact me
on our podcast email
tointhethinktank at gmail.com.
Great.
Thanks so much for coming in
via satellite.
Via your brother's basement.
It's been the dream of my life to one day be on
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart with Jess Perkins from Canada.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you might be the second person to Zoom in from overseas.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
I just appreciate not being forgotten already. Maybe the first from the Northern Hemisphere. Wow. Wow. You know what I mean. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. I just appreciate not being forgotten already.
Maybe the first from the Northern Hemisphere.
Wow.
Wow.
You know what I mean?
Wow.
Whoa.
Well, where was somebody else?
Like from New Zealand or something like that?
Asia from New Zealand.
Oh, yeah.
You got anybody from South America yet?
No.
Not yet.
But we have emailed SouthAmerica at gmail.com and said,
is anybody interested?
So I did that from Matt's email account.
This is my podcast now.
All right.
Jess, where can we find you?
Jess Perkins at Instagram.
I'm not doing much at the moment, so.
Jeez, you followers.
What are you up to?
20 mil?
20 mil.
20 mil.
20 mil followers.
20 mil. Follow to see 20 mil followers. 20 mil.
Follow to see what all the fuss is about.
Yeah.
I can't figure it out.
It's the nudes.
Maybe Jess might be getting some exciting new jobs soon.
Starting new jobs.
Yeah, you say that like there's offers.
No.
If anybody listening, nah, I don't want it.
I don't want any jobs
If anybody's listening leave me alone
Leave her alone
If you've got a job you think I'd be good at
Give it to someone else
Leave me alone
If somebody could do it over a distance I'll take it
Oh yeah okay
Give it to Al
I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of
Off cuts from this episode.
So stick around if you want to hear those after the song.
But thanks so much for listening.
Please give us a five star review.
I think in an episode a few weeks ago, maybe I sounded sad about no one reviewing and I got a whole bunch of reviews that were very nice.
Oh, good.
So sound sad again.
So I'm actually, now I need it. Please of reviews that were very nice. Oh, good. So, sound sad again. So, I'm actually... Guys.
Now I need it.
Please.
Now I need another hit.
Please give us another five star review.
Please.
Maybe tell your friends if you know anyone who might enjoy this show.
But cheers for tuning in to Who Knew It with Matt Stewart.
Now that you know it, I've been Matt Stewart.
Goodbye. it goodbye oh it felt like i was right on time i don't know it felt like i did it i mean it will for you
that's the beauty of it i mean you guys could be on australian tour maybe yeah we're ahead
we're we're we can tell you the future. Yeah, mate. I love that bit.
That's well, you know, people come up to me.
It's go Mara time.
I know.
I know.
I'm still checking the edge every day.
Still.
For a second I thought you said I'm checking the edge.
Yeah, yeah.
Edge FM.
Oh, yeah.
Original radio.
You're already losing your already convoluted accent.
No, no, no, no, no.
I am checking in on the edge every day.
I go to the YouTube.com and I click on band members.
I'm checking in on the edge, eh?
Yeah, I feel really good about 2024.
Really?
I got a really good feeling about it.
Because you're retiring yeah and so like quitting is one of the most nice feeling things it's so nice yeah i'm so
yeah and so you have weekends oh yeah like triple j weekends did you get offered that
they often be weekends oh my god that's gonna be so good that's gonna be so great Did you get offered that? They offered me weekends.
Oh, my God.
That's going to be so good.
That's going to be...
That is so great.
Wait, wait, Matt.
Are you going to be using some of my footage as well?
He didn't hear you.
Okay.
Oh, Matt.
No, I don't think...
We won't be using this footage.
That was just so you could...
I just wanted you to be able to see Jess's funny face.
Yeah.
You could see how I'm glowing now
that I have weekends available.
It actually does look like a glow.
Thank you.
Did Al already make the joke,
oh, were you offered weekends?
Yeah.
That's funny.
I said, I've got weekends.
He said, were you offered
weekend to have those?
Oh, that's amazing.
Good stuff.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
Oh, you could do it
with Luca and Jordan.
You've been offered weekend Arvo's to yourself.
That's so good.
Yeah.
Weekend Arvo's back.
Jess, that...
Working weekends.
I work weekends for so long in a supermarket.
Yeah.
The first time that i didn't
have to for a while i was like this is fucking crazy oh man i think like when you're in your 20s
and you know most of your friends are probably doing the same while you're working through uni
and stuff it doesn't matter yeah but i'm old now and all of my friends have monday to friday jobs
and my partner has a Monday to Friday job
and I never got to see any of them.
And now I'm like, wow, we can just potter around the house.
This is so nice.
Yeah, that is really nice.
You, that glow suggests that you might be pregnant with free time
on the weekend.
Yeah.
Ironically, she's got less labor.
Yeah. She's, she's got less labor. Yeah.
She's going out of labor.
That was much better for me.
It couldn't have worked without you.
It couldn't have worked without the setup.
You're just a good team.
Yeah.
Andy Schmandy, I've always said.
That's what I've always said as well. Yeah, fuck that guy. Andy Schmandy, I've always said. That's what I've always said as well.
Yeah, fuck that guy.
Andy Schmandy, Matthews Schmatthews.
I mine the ore and Al then turns it into usable steel.
I don't understand mining.
Is that what happens?
From my understanding of video games, yeah.
I would suggest that Matt also often presents steel
and then I just present that same piece of steel slightly
and I've just turned it slightly
and I'm like holy shit it's got a backside
I'm always showing Matt the backside of objects
so you go look at this this this object's got a butt
and then i remember the cold fingers when you walk around in the cold okay and then and i'm remembering the cold face that you get when you also walk around outside
because you left as a teen right so you'd remember cold fingers in all sorts of ways.
Yes, I was in my first year.
My first year of my teenage years.
You know, just sprouting my first saplings of pubes.
Hey, Connor, edit out that bit of me trying to make a joke about Al fingering in his teen years with cold fingers.
I don't think it landed. I didn't. Yeah't i didn't even hear it i didn't even hear the the cold fingering yeah
no i mean it was it was uh wasn't well uh put together and i was it's kind of like on the edge
of being a bit yuck anyway just like yeah it was fucking shit because you can finger as an adult yeah you should you should
finger i think it's like you know like like certain you know like like you know smoking
you know or drinking has a drinking age and maybe this particular uh
performative action should have a sort of a higher access date.
Do you not want to say fingering because your brother's in the room?
I'm trying to limit the amount of times I say fingering
because my brother's in the room.
How could you tell?
Because I wouldn't want to say fingering in front of my brother.
That particular sexual motion.
I did not want to mention in front of my brother.
But in front of you, he's just hearing you talk about particular sexual motion.
Yeah, and he's like, what the fuck is he talking about?
You don't want to leave too much for your brother's imagination because...
Are you talking about fingering?
He'll fill in all sorts of stuff and it'll be worse stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I think the word motion makes it sound like it's more torso based, you know, more like
sort of like, you know, pelvis based maybe.
And that's better.
Motion in the ocean.
Yeah, yeah.
It's probably worse, actually.
I'm picturing two people lying on top of each other doing that 80s worm dance.
Oh, I love that.
I would love a double layer.
It almost would look like the layers of Earth.
You know how there's the stratosphere
and then there's the other bit, the...
Ozone.
It's fear, but...
The hole in it.
The hole, that's the butt.
That's the butt of the top person.
Matt, you took that one,
you turned that one around
and showed me the butt that time
it was beautiful teamwork
it's funny how they're trying so hard to get you on this show before you left
and then realizing oh you can still be on it from over there yeah well i mean i would have
loved to have made you know one more you know in-person appearance but it just the days were
getting a little bit tighter um and but yeah it, but the days were getting a little bit tighter.
But yeah, it was just everything was falling apart a little bit.
It was great seeing your last stand-up spot in Australia before you left.
You killed it.
Well, thank you.
It was nice.
It was very nice that they had asked me
because that was also one of those rare things
where you do a gig and then somebody asks you right after your gig.
You're like, can you come and do a gig at my room?
Like that.
And you go, oh, I haven't had that happen for so long.
I can't say no.
So you did do another one?
No, no.
That one was that.
Oh, right.
It had happened at Comedy Republic.
Oh, gotcha.
Yeah.
And those were supposed to be my last gigs.
It's a shame that um
after catfish a canadian didn't come up to you and go hey that would have been you come to my room
that would have been montreal i think you just oh why don't you do just for laughs that's over there
yeah that's a good idea oh maybe i'll go i'll go see um flick an email or something hey al if
anyone's in Canada listening
and they run comedy rooms or know someone who does,
should they get in touch?
If they know people who run comedy rooms,
they should tell them to ask them,
especially particularly in Montreal.
They should get them to put me on
and help quickly advance the speed
in which I am entering a new scene.
Yeah.
And help your French comedy evolution,
which of course will make you more round, more hard, and more snippy.
Yes.
And more pinchy.
Pinchy, sorry.
You really want to hit that crab market.
Oh, man.
Of comedy, not like a market where you buy crabs.
Yeah, come on.
That would be correct.
I mean, at this stage, I'd be happy to play a crab market if I could get that.
So if anybody knows any crab market owners.
Yeah, okay, great.
Not just owners.
It could also be just a guy who's just high up in the crab market.
What if anybody listening knows a crab?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I would prefer to perform to a single crab i think that
would be a great way to film a special if they if the crab would let me film it what about so
problem with married crabs uh you know what i would do it to a married crab
have i been too hard on americans today not hard enough in my opinion
you know i was thinking that it's i was i thinking that it's about time you ramp it up a little bit.
Really?
Yeah.
Because I know Americans are pretty sensitive.
Sensitive Americans, yeah.
Yeah.
That's why they need such a strong defense force.
You know?
Because deep down in their hearts, they're actually a sensitive people and so
you got to those defend those those fragile hearts with uh with big guns and bombs yep and they're
gone i was thinking that as well you can't say guns and bombs without without them saying and
their guns and their bums they're bummed they're bummed they and their bums. Their bums? Their bums. Their bums. Lethal bums.
Do you want to know a bit about Al's process?
The last one, Jess, while he's writing his answer.
Please.
So his initial answer was coochie choochie cooch.
And then he said, no. Coochie coochie cooch. And then he said, no.
Coochie coochie cooch.
Okay.
And that's where you got me,
because I wouldn't have chosen coochie choochie cooch.
Yeah.
Well, I want you to know I never meant to spell coochie choochie.
I figured.
It was supposed to be coochie coochie cooch the whole time.
I thought, I really think that was just your process.
You went, no, even better.
Even better.
No, I've worked on it and it's even better.
It was his drop the the from Facebook moment.
Oh, that's right.
It used to be the Facebook.
And then Justin Timberlake told him to drop it.
Yeah.
Are you guys thinking about adding a the to do go on?
The do go on.
No, do go the-the-on.
Oh.
Well, what about do-the-go-on?
Do-the-go-on.
That's like a cool dance move.
Yeah.
Or do-go-on-the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Surely that's so good that it's already been taken.
Sometimes it's worth just Googling it just in case.
Just in case.
Yeah, but aren't you worried that when you do that,
Google then goes, oh, there's someone at Google going,
oh, that is a good answer.
Quick.
That is good.
Lock it down.
Okay.
Pop color.
I did, I was on the summer holidays.
I went on a hike in Tasmania and like a decent hike, quite steep.
I went down south recently for a hike in Tasmania.
And there were people behind me on the trail.
I couldn't see them yet through the path.
And they were like talking so loudly.
One of the girls kept screaming.
I was like, what the fuck are you doing?
We're in this beautiful national park.
Shut up.
And one stage I stopped to like enjoy the view, catch my breath.
And they walk past.
One of the guys is in flip-flops for you, Al.
Thongs for the rest of us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And a collared shirt and board shorts.
The other guy is in boat shoes, like leather boat shoes.
Again, collared shirt and just like random shorts.
And the girl is in head to toe Ralph Lauren polo,
slick back bun, Like tiny little tennis skirt
And a cardigan
And I'm like
You are not dressed
For a hike
What are you doing?
And they just strolled past you
Rubbing salt in the wound
Yeah exactly
They did and it was really hurtful
Because I was there in active
Wearing proper shoes
And they just
Sweating
They just walked straight past
They're gliding above the
Above the dirt
I was like I I hate you.
I never saw them again because they really took off.
What was she screaming about?
I don't know.
Something spooked her and she screamed and then laughed so loudly the whole time.
It was just strange.
It was obnoxious and I hated them.
They were Australian though?
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
Why are you wearing like a business type shirt on a hike?
What are you doing?
What are they scared of in Tasmania?
I don't know, there was a wallaby
You scared of a little wallaby?
It just sounds like that might be a tourist
Might be scared of a wallaby or something
But Tasmania doesn't have any
Any crocodiles or anything
That we know of
That we know of
But also, you know
If they were American
You know, like they american you know like they
could see something like they go oh you know like one of the guys would go oh look there's a uh a
bandicoot and she would go oh that's hilarious like that and that wouldn't be that out of place
for an american you know yeah that's right. But no, they were Australian.
Oh.
And she was quite nice as she went past.
She was like, hi.
And I was like, fuck you.
Oh, no.
In my head.
Out loud I said, hello.
It's funny that, yeah, we forget that Australians can be as obnoxious as anyone.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Wait, do we forget that?
No, I don't forget that.
Never forget. Never forget. Anyway, I, yeah. Wait, do we forget that? No, I don't forget that. Never forget.
Never forget.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
I always remember.
I always remember.
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Ipanepa.
Ipanema?
Al, he said it.
Ipanepa.
I think maybe they have a different version in Canada.
Oh, they have a different version in Canada where you've been for five days.
Look, I'm not who I used to be, guys, so don't expect me to die. Let him go.
I miss the old Al.
I miss him.
I'm dead.
I make cool stuff now and I do cool things.
You have cold fingers.
Cold fingers.
Cold fingers.
Yeah.
No, that's right.
Cold fingers worm heart. Wormingers. Cold Fingers. Yeah. Now, that's how you call Fingers Worm Heart.
Worm Heart.
Cold Fingers Worm Heart.
I've always said that.
That's how you call
Fingers Worm Heart.
Worm Heart.
I don't know.
I don't know why they say it.
They've just always said it.
Curled Fingers Wormheart.