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2:01

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2:05

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2:07

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2:10

we're interested in is what the guest

2:12

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2:14

before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and

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2:21

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2:23

I'm David O'Dahadi. Welcome to what did

2:25

you do yesterday. Hi

2:29

everybody it's midweek Mayhem David O'Dottie's here

2:32

hi David David I'd already here co-host

2:34

of the what did you do yesterday

2:36

podcast yeah I'm pleased you are by

2:39

the way we work reasonably well together

2:41

in an early episode Osman said I

2:43

was the easy chair guy and I

2:46

resent that a little bit because I

2:48

feel I bring more to it than

2:50

that yeah but you're probably more ringmaster

2:53

certainly than I am no you ain't

2:55

no clown an easy chair It requires

2:57

a different thought process. I'm just getting

3:00

us into the news. You're the one

3:02

asking the interesting stuff. In many ways,

3:04

there's more pressure on you than there

3:06

is on me. What's great is there's

3:09

no ego in the dressing room. That's

3:11

what I like, David. Yes, it's like

3:13

the recording of We Are the World

3:16

with Quincy Jones from that documentary that

3:18

I watched recently. But like, for example,

3:20

the listeners, you know, people want to

3:23

know the nuts and bolts. Max has

3:25

probably looked at the feedback. of

3:27

the last week, whereas I haven't,

3:29

so I will react to it

3:31

in real time. So there's our

3:33

different roles. Yeah, that is peering

3:36

behind the curtain. Welcome. Now to

3:38

the inner sanctum. Speaking of feedback.

3:40

People like Joe Wilkinson, know that

3:42

the way I was listening to

3:44

this at 2am, but I was

3:46

so tired, but so excited, so

3:48

I was fighting for my life

3:51

to stay awake. But now I

3:53

don't remember any of it. Time

3:55

to re-listen. I do love the

3:57

idea that someone, it's that tired,

3:59

but they can't tear themselves away

4:01

to find out. how good a

4:04

robot Hoover actually is. Just one

4:06

more minute. One more minute. One

4:08

more, the slow cooker's on. Hang

4:10

on. I've got work in the

4:12

morning, but I just can't. Yeah,

4:14

I can relate. I mean, I

4:16

think I've done it with something

4:19

like an American presidential election when

4:21

you're really trying to stay awake

4:23

to find out. Exactly. Just call

4:25

Pennsylvania. I'm dying here. Well it's

4:27

like that with Joe's rumor. Craig

4:29

says he doesn't know how to

4:31

make a sandwich. Agreed. I felt

4:34

like such a boring plain Jane,

4:36

me saying I would have just

4:38

like the bagel on its own

4:40

or maybe with a bit of

4:42

cheese in it. But when he

4:44

went Marmite and pickle and cheese,

4:46

like what is that? four different

4:49

sandwiches at the same time. It's

4:51

so much vinegar. Everything is in

4:53

pickled in brine. Yeah. His fridge

4:55

is actually in a jar, isn't

4:57

it? With like little bits of

4:59

dill, just around the bottom of

5:01

the bridge. That's what it is.

5:04

And actually, I did think Joe

5:06

made a good point. that we've

5:08

sent so much time on this

5:10

podcast discussing how you get in

5:12

a bath. And he was just

5:14

like, well, how else are you

5:17

getting in a bath? And he's

5:19

still, you do just lower yourself

5:21

into the bath. So in many

5:23

ways, maybe we made the most

5:25

of that piece of information, but

5:27

you know, some good content. We

5:29

will be discussing my yesterday. And

5:32

my last few days, we'll discuss

5:34

it later in the episode, my

5:36

last few days have involved a

5:38

lot of baths because I was

5:40

staying in a hotel with a

5:42

very much a sort of roll-top,

5:44

Cadbury's Flake-type bath. Orbs everywhere. Orbs

5:47

and mysterious women who look like

5:49

that in Shakespeare's sister just flouncing

5:51

around. Women who look like they're

5:53

in Shakespeare's sister. Where does he

5:55

get these references from? You know,

5:57

the pop charts. Stay with. to

5:59

me. What was that other song?

6:02

Was that a choice for your

6:04

sister? Yeah, I think so. Anyway,

6:06

pineapples, some serious stuff here. Rupert

6:08

Flood says, dear David and Max,

6:10

I love listening to your podcast

6:12

while cleaning my one bicycle. I'm

6:14

a global expert on pineapples. I

6:17

eat a slice every day. Many

6:19

years ago I travel to Australia

6:21

for a year and I worked

6:23

in the Golden Circle Company in

6:25

Brisbane for the pineapple season. On

6:27

the pineapple line, we had to

6:29

apply barrier cream to our bare

6:32

arms and wear long sports socks

6:34

with the toes cut out on

6:36

our arms to protect us from

6:38

the pineapple juice. One night, I

6:40

didn't bother with this protection and

6:42

within an hour, my arms looked

6:45

like I'd been whipped with a

6:47

cato nine-tails with angry-looking red stripes

6:49

across my porems. The acid from

6:51

the pineapple juice is insanely strong.

6:53

He didn't reject the pineapple it

6:55

having absolutely scoured him. You know,

6:57

he was just straight back in.

7:00

Although how you have a slice

7:02

a day is a strange thing,

7:04

as in... The problem with pineapples

7:06

for me is that you basically

7:08

have to eat the whole pineapple

7:10

when it becomes available. Maybe he's

7:12

a can, maybe it's from a

7:15

Del Monte cat. Del Monte, I'd

7:17

say one of the most mentioned

7:19

brands on this podcast. They're not,

7:21

if we're trying to coax them

7:23

into a sponsorship. Why they're not

7:25

sponsoring us? This podcast is bought

7:27

you by dodos. And Shakespeare's sister

7:30

is new single. Anyway, more pineapple

7:32

stuff, Claire says. Greetings. I'm writing

7:34

a response to the gentleman who

7:36

dissolved his ring because fresh pineapple.

7:38

A great opening sentence. Do a

7:40

letter. I'm in my final year

7:42

of our forensic science degree. And

7:45

one of the first things we

7:47

learned was should you ever find

7:49

yourself in a position where you

7:51

need to dispose of a human

7:53

body. What? You can use pineapple

7:55

juice to dissolve. of the flesh

7:58

off the bones. What? This is

8:00

because pineapples contain bromolane, protein-digesting enzymes,

8:02

which, when consumed in large quantities,

8:04

can break down the proteins in

8:06

human flesh. Yeah, it's a less

8:08

suspicious alternative to quickline. When you're

8:10

buying the tarp, the shovel. and

8:13

you don't want to go quick-lime,

8:15

just pop ten pineapples in the

8:17

ground with them then. I've watched

8:19

so many hour-long detective dramas, you

8:21

know, some happy murder shows, your

8:23

death in parodises, etc. You know,

8:25

Shakespeare and Hathaway, etc. How come...

8:28

No one has ever been dissolved

8:30

in a vat of pineapple juice

8:32

in any of these. It's the

8:34

reason Lilt has come off the

8:36

market. Too many people were using

8:38

it. It's the subtext of the

8:40

here comes the little man commercial

8:43

from back in the day. He's

8:45

a cleaner. Is it cleaner the

8:47

term? I think when you've done

8:49

a murder you need someone just

8:51

to... Yeah, in rest of what

8:53

dogs they had two choices. They

8:55

either got, you know, Mr. Pink

8:58

or ever, but I don't know,

9:00

who played it with a Steve

9:02

Bashamia, I can't remember. Or they

9:04

got the Lil Man, and it

9:06

would have changed the movie, wouldn't

9:08

it? Totally tropical taste, and then

9:11

some reggae played. Tarantino Entom, I

9:13

don't know if that really fits

9:15

the vibe of our childhood that

9:17

only went... the year or two

9:19

ago, but it was simply called

9:21

Lilt and it was the one

9:23

can on the shelf that, you

9:26

know, there would be like three

9:28

lines of Coke, two lines of

9:30

Pepsi. two lines of seven up

9:32

and then there would just be

9:34

two counts of lilt and you

9:36

did wonder who drinks that? I

9:38

got the odd lilt. It was

9:41

too sweet to be refreshing. Let's

9:43

face it. Yeah. Winston Wolf from

9:45

Pulp Fiction. There you go. Wrong

9:47

film, wrong person. But that aside,

9:49

my reference was pretty much spot

9:51

on. I'm in South Australia, says

9:53

I'm Max and David. Thank you

9:56

for making the pod. As an

9:58

English Irishman transplanted to Australia, it

10:00

tops my list of British Irish

10:02

Australian waffle pods. Thank you. I

10:04

live in rural South Australia where

10:06

my nearest big town city is

10:08

Port Piri. Being there. When listening

10:11

to what did you do yesterday,

10:13

nine, worm feet. I was astounded

10:15

to hear Port Piri get a

10:17

shout-out in the form of David

10:19

questioning whether the mighty and highly

10:21

fictional Port Piri koalas beat the

10:24

Willamaloo raiders and how Max would

10:26

report on this. I've been considering

10:28

daily why David would possibly pick

10:30

a city that barely breaks into the

10:32

biggest hundred cities in Australia. It's only

10:35

claim to fame to fame. It's seriously

10:37

high levels of lead poisoning. Please could

10:39

David explain why of all places he

10:41

chose Port Period? The year

10:44

is 2005. There is the

10:46

Melbourne International Comedy Festival as

10:48

part of its funding. Does

10:50

it go out to the

10:52

region's tour? Whenever I meet

10:54

anyone from Australia and I say,

10:57

where are you from? And they say,

10:59

you won't know it. I say, not

11:01

only will I know it, but I'll

11:03

have done a gig there. So

11:05

I've been to Kolak. I've been

11:07

to... Port Arthur, I've been to

11:10

Willa Maloo, Gerald Dine, I've been

11:12

to like hundreds of these tiny

11:14

towns. Yeah. Now I think my

11:17

Port Perry reference is, so it's

11:19

odd groups of people, it's

11:21

whoever is in Australia at

11:23

the time, they have a

11:25

focus on international acts and

11:27

then a few Aussie. because

11:29

there's so many brilliant Aussie

11:32

comedians. But I think 2005,

11:34

Port Peery might have been,

11:36

the lineup was me, Maria

11:38

Bamford, who's probably my favorite

11:40

American comedian today, and Stuart

11:43

Lee, who's massive in Britain.

11:45

and we did a gig

11:47

in the local ORSL or

11:49

football club or wherever it

11:51

was and it's only looking

11:53

back on it that for

11:55

a lot of those people

11:58

probably the only common you

12:00

could have ever been to and it

12:02

was three of the biggest weirdos currently

12:04

operating in static. How was Stuart Lee's

12:07

withering takes you know on British politics

12:09

in the RSL import period? I'd love

12:11

to have seen that. Anyway, James says,

12:14

hello Max and David, I had to

12:16

wait until today to tell you about

12:18

what happened yesterday. Thank you for sticking

12:21

to the rules. While I was listening

12:23

to the show, I typically listen while

12:25

driving into work on the highway near

12:28

Toronto. I was listening to this week's

12:30

midweek mayhem and the discussion about misheard

12:32

accents. Suddenly, like watching a movie in

12:35

my rear view mirror, the car behind

12:37

me swerved for no apparent reason, and

12:39

smashed into the car beside it. It

12:42

then ricochets the other way, hitting another

12:44

car. What? With mayhem behind me, I

12:46

could do nothing but hit the gas

12:49

and get away. No idea what happened.

12:51

But according to the news, everyone was

12:53

okay from what I can tell. Afterwith

12:56

it dawned on me that if I'd

12:58

been a couple of seconds slower, your

13:00

discussion about your British adjacent accents and

13:03

misheard words might have been the last

13:05

thing I'd ever heard. I think I'd

13:07

have been okay with that. I just

13:10

thought I'd share, enjoying the show, look

13:12

forward to both episodes every week, take

13:14

care of James. Wow! I mean, this

13:17

is very narcissisticistic. Max, but I have

13:19

started to, when I go out on

13:21

a Sunday morning, you see anyone with

13:23

headphones on, I imagine they're all listening

13:26

to watch Judy yesterday. Oh, of course,

13:28

of course. I think it's 84.6% of

13:30

the global population at the moment. So

13:33

not only that, but... you would have

13:35

to imagine the person in the car

13:37

behind was also listening to it and

13:40

I think it might have been what

13:42

caused the accident was remember when you

13:44

were retelling your day that's always the

13:47

same but it was a bank holiday

13:49

so you weren't able to go to

13:51

the library and they just could have

13:54

had the list they were like what

13:56

the hell I made dinner not from

13:58

a box yeah We did, he didn't

14:01

hide from the cleaner for 20 minutes.

14:03

Oh well look glad you're okay James

14:05

and glad everyone else is. We do

14:08

not know if everything's okay I was

14:10

very trite of you. Yeah we don't

14:12

know that. Our sympathies with everybody. Anyway,

14:15

I did say last week I would

14:17

read all the emails we've had about

14:19

people setting up their own detective agencies,

14:22

but we don't have time. So I'll

14:24

do that next week. If you set

14:26

up a detective agency as a child,

14:29

now is your chance. What did you

14:31

do yesterday, pod@gmail.com. But before we get

14:33

to your day, it is time for

14:36

kernel slash, what did you fondue yesterday,

14:38

slash, to Bri, or not to Bri,

14:40

slash, masterine. It

15:17

is still David a three

15:19

cheese board. No it's not.

15:22

It's not a three cheese

15:24

board. It's a three cheese

15:26

board, but someone guessed com

15:28

to write cheese wrong place.

15:31

Okay, yeah, yeah, fine. This

15:33

guess is from Kira Fulton

15:35

who sent her guesses via

15:38

a handwritten post it note

15:40

sent into the what did

15:42

you do yes that they

15:44

pay a box? My

15:47

question is yeah, if

15:49

someone had a falcon

15:51

yeah and wrote their

15:53

gas attached it to

15:55

the leg of the

15:57

falcon Yeah, can you

15:59

train a falcon to

16:01

find a PO box?

16:03

You can train a

16:05

pigeon Mars bar open

16:07

the PO box one

16:09

day and there's just

16:11

a single pigeon flapping

16:13

around the tiny box.

16:15

Keep it light, PO

16:17

box 81668 London N1P3W.

16:19

Kira says love the

16:22

podcast I love the

16:24

guest Epps and Midweek

16:26

Madness equally but differently

16:28

but I'm grateful for

16:30

the joy both bring

16:32

to my heart here

16:34

and my cheese guesses.

16:36

Are you ready? Did

16:38

you want to do

16:40

it by joining or

16:42

is it the moment

16:44

gone? No we've joined

16:46

too many times recently.

16:48

But like I say,

16:50

when I start my

16:52

cameo, I will join

16:54

simply for 75 quid.

16:57

Okay, so it is a

16:59

two cheese board. We know,

17:01

Cash Old Blue, Manchago, Comter,

17:03

they're just normal cheeses guys.

17:05

But this is very exciting.

17:08

I want to do the

17:10

clue, but you won't let

17:12

me do the clue. Can

17:14

I say the clue? And

17:16

then producer Mars Barker. Redact

17:18

it if needs be yeah,

17:21

okay. The mistake these are

17:23

just normal cheeses great. Thanks

17:25

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17:27

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17:29

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20:26

I... live here all the time.

20:28

I'm quite literally swimming in

20:31

it. Every day is St.

20:33

Patrick's Day. Although not yesterday

20:36

because this is an exciting

20:38

yesterday. This was a day

20:40

of activity. I spent St.

20:43

Patrick's Day with the Hellencopter

20:45

in the city of Bristol.

20:47

Here we go. Woke up at

20:50

about... eight o'clock, still woke up a

20:52

little bit early, eating too much

20:54

the night before, we don't care

20:56

about that, so woke up with

20:58

just a slightly indigest of Nanbread

21:00

rising inside me feeling. Did you

21:03

go to the carry house that

21:05

Mrs. Rushton recommended? I can't go

21:07

into it, that was the day

21:09

before. I understand, sorry, well done,

21:11

well spotted. I was just testing

21:13

you. So the tour had finished.

21:15

the night before and we decided

21:17

to stick on in Bristol and

21:20

see what the place has to

21:22

offer. Yeah, nice town. Really good

21:24

stuff and that's why I'm excited

21:26

to deliver this day. So that's

21:29

hanging over this day. You and

21:31

the helicopter have woke up with

21:33

similarly leathery behinds. We'd hired very

21:36

comfortable bikes and I had adjusted

21:38

my saddle. A lot of this

21:41

is about saddle adjustment and I

21:43

had to put it in the

21:45

perfect place. So I woke up

21:48

with my undercarriage feeling like a

21:50

little baby's undercarriage. You understand

21:52

what I mean? I do, yeah,

21:54

very routinely covered in a light round

21:56

poo, as I would say. So I

21:59

have not had a... single hotel breakfast

22:01

on this entire tour, which, you

22:03

know, because a lot of the

22:05

chat beforehand when we had Ed

22:07

Gamble on, for example, it was like

22:09

what you get, where I'd get

22:11

a hotel breakfast, I have to

22:13

have the six courses of it, which

22:16

kind of stodgifies you up for

22:18

the day then. Yeah, it's got

22:20

me thinking doing this podcast that we're

22:22

the only two middle-aged men who

22:24

aren't... on like a wild fitness

22:26

show. We're going to die in

22:28

a week. The only two people just

22:30

not eating hemp seeds solidly from

22:32

eight till midday and then fasting

22:34

for the rest of the day. The

22:37

halencopter is the sort of person

22:39

who will have a notes app

22:41

that she has been putting interesting

22:43

things to do in Bristol into it

22:45

for the last few weeks. I

22:47

think it's why the thing works.

22:49

Right. So she's in the hard chair

22:51

and you're once again in the

22:53

easy chair. Just asking tangential questions

22:55

occasionally. You occasionally go, interruption. Should we

22:58

go over there? And she looks

23:00

at her notes and goes, no,

23:02

and you go, okay, sustained. So

23:04

the allencopter has decided we should go

23:06

and look at Clifton suspension bridge.

23:08

Hang on, have you had breakfast?

23:10

No, we elect not to have breakfast

23:12

because we're still full of an

23:14

Indian meal from the night before.

23:16

Thank you. Okay. We consider going down

23:19

for it. But we have a

23:21

restaurant reservation for 2 p.m. Okay.

23:23

Because I have no self-restraint, if

23:25

I go down there, I'm gonna have

23:27

a smoothie. If you gotta have

23:29

a breakfast if you're things at

23:31

two, you're turning into Phil Wang. You

23:34

can't. I would not enjoy that

23:36

lunch then. Wow, okay. I would

23:38

do like really weird David stuff,

23:40

like get a sausage and a piece

23:42

of rasher and put it in

23:44

a crossant. and then not even

23:46

regard that as part of the main

23:48

course. Yeah, okay, okay. Put it

23:50

in the slow hotel toaster. Wait

23:52

for it to pop out the bottom.

23:55

They had one of the pancake

23:57

machines where you watch... the machine

23:59

itself is a conveyor belt. Oh

24:01

yeah. And you see the dollop, like

24:03

the groceries thing they have in

24:05

a supermarket and then it's cooked

24:07

as it moves along. Did not partake

24:09

in this. We had an appointment

24:11

with a suspension bridge. Okay, noted.

24:13

So you've seen this bridge. It's a

24:16

good bridge, isn't it? Mrs. Rushton

24:18

had recommended this, the three things

24:20

she recommended to you. Are you

24:22

giving the Helen Cop to total credit

24:24

or does Mrs. Rushton get some

24:26

credit from this? Or, I mean,

24:28

let's face it, who doesn't go to

24:30

the Clifton suspension bridge when you're

24:32

in Bristol? Maybe no one gets

24:34

credit. I will say this, the

24:36

forwarded on recommendations from you that came

24:39

from Mrs. Rushton were somewhat vague.

24:41

She disputes this. Do you ever

24:43

the big thing we went to see

24:45

and then afterwards... had loads of

24:47

food, like with stuff like that,

24:49

that you had to cryptically try and

24:52

reverse Enigma to figure out what

24:54

she was on about. Look, she

24:56

sent you a Google Maps for

24:58

a cafe called the Bristolian. She sent

25:00

a Google Maps for the Indian,

25:02

and she sent the Google Maps

25:04

to the art gallery. She did say,

25:06

we walked over that bridge to

25:08

that national park. We went to

25:10

that other park that had lots of

25:13

levels and steps. We ate in

25:15

that cool area. a cafe. There

25:17

was some specifics and some vague.

25:19

We were talking about treasure hunt with

25:21

Anacarice a few weeks ago. It

25:23

felt a bit like the clues

25:25

you would get on that. But luckily,

25:27

I was able to crack some

25:29

of the codes. It's interesting every

25:31

morning and I say to Jamie, I

25:34

said, we know, what are your

25:36

hopes and dreams? And she says,

25:38

I will tell you when this

25:40

riddle and then takes me hours. I'm

25:42

saying, you know, if you're not

25:44

really on it, you're like, it,

25:46

it's like six p' and I haven't.

25:48

What's happening for that day? So

25:50

we have to pack the room

25:52

up, because obviously we're not going

25:54

to be coming back now. Anyway, we'll

25:57

leave the hotel behind. We pound

25:59

the pavement of Bristol. Oh, hang

26:01

on. Do you take all your stuff?

26:03

Or would you say, could you

26:05

leave our back? Leave the whole

26:07

lot, don't even take a little bag

26:10

with us and walk to see

26:12

the suspension bridge. I've never shared

26:14

a bridge with you before. No,

26:16

I'm excited. Although, I guess we've probably

26:18

both seen Sydney Harbour Bridge as

26:20

well. Do we run through all

26:22

the bridges that we think we've both

26:24

been on? Jeff Bridges, we've met

26:26

him. Yeah, we both stood on

26:28

Jeff Bridges, which is strange. Sydney Harbour

26:31

Bridge, there's probably a bridge in

26:33

Dublin. We may have been over

26:35

it together. O'Connell Bridge, which is

26:37

the second widest bridge in Europe, I

26:39

believe. I'm going to say there

26:41

are some bridges in both Cambridge

26:43

and Oxford, but we have both gone

26:45

over. Separate times. Edinburgh, I'm going

26:47

to say, probably some Edinburgh bridges.

26:49

Now anyone listening to this in

26:51

a car, Blackfriars Bridge, looking through your

26:54

rear view mirror now, and you

26:56

see cars behind you bursting into

26:58

flames, smashing into some reservations and bridge

27:00

shut. I'm going to say this,

27:02

I suspect I have crossed Millennium

27:04

Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge 150 times more

27:06

than you. It's not a power

27:08

play, it's a statistical. Real throw

27:10

issue over the Pope vibes to

27:12

this. Okay,

27:14

so you walk through, I think, one of Bristol's

27:17

poshith suburbs to get to it. And these are

27:19

big houses. Huge! Are they ones you can see

27:21

all the way through and you just go, how

27:23

the fuck have they got the money to get

27:25

that house? Is that what you're thinking? Well, I

27:27

mean, there's an added element to it. It's a

27:29

dowager's house. That's what you're thinking. But the problem

27:31

Max with Bristol, and I love Bristol, is... when

27:33

you see anything old and huge in Bristol you

27:35

know that thing about Bristol which is never question

27:37

who these statues are off got it got it

27:39

yeah yeah okay because there'll be a real downer

27:41

connected to tobacco sherry or a

27:43

slavery to do with

27:45

it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Got

27:47

it. Yeah. And some

27:49

of these houses, particularly like

27:51

the early Victorian, Georgian

27:53

ones are so massive. One

27:55

does slightly think of

27:57

the human misery, which is

27:59

funny because it was

28:01

one house, which was, I

28:03

think the biggest house

28:05

I've ever seen. And that

28:07

was the first wave

28:09

of my mind went and

28:11

then mounted on this

28:13

massive ornamental balcony was a

28:15

huge grommet, which I

28:17

would imagine they had bought

28:19

from Art Man Animation.

28:21

Oh, right. Literally. It was

28:23

a big 30 foot

28:25

statue of grommet, 30 foot,

28:27

certainly 15 foot high

28:29

grommet. Yeah. It's probably not

28:31

Nick Park's house, is

28:33

it? You don't think he'd

28:35

be that showy about

28:37

it, but he's that sort

28:39

of that way. I

28:41

wonder like if you had

28:43

a huge football with

28:45

a microphone in front of

28:47

it that said on

28:49

air in neon, this massive

28:51

neon on air. Do

28:53

you know, this is terrible,

28:55

but whenever I go

28:57

past a house that is

28:59

nicer than mine, and

29:01

there are many houses nice.

29:03

Yeah. And the person

29:05

coming out of it is

29:07

in their sort of

29:09

early 30s. I just think,

29:12

how are you in

29:14

there? How

29:18

are you in there?

29:20

Yeah. That's the wrong way

29:22

to think. I'm really

29:24

happy. You know, I want

29:26

a bigger kitchen. I'm

29:28

not going to lie. Yeah.

29:30

Like, you know, we've

29:32

talked about the dimensions of

29:34

my kitchen, but first

29:36

world problem. I mean, I

29:39

mean, it doesn't make

29:41

me a good person. My

29:43

first thought is it's

29:45

probably an offices whenever I

29:47

see a very, very

29:49

large house. So when I

29:51

see someone coming out

29:53

of it, I don't think,

29:55

Oh, they a crypto

29:57

bro who owns this. I

29:59

instead think, Oh, they're

30:01

the cleaner coming out for

30:03

a smoke. Got it.

30:05

Right. Okay. So Clifton Suspension

30:08

Bridge. It's credited to

30:10

Brunel. Yeah. Who is the

30:12

great engineer of the

30:14

area. steamship Great Britain which we had intended to

30:16

visit. It's one of those ones you can go

30:18

on and walk around. Is that Isn't Bard Kingdom,

30:20

Brunel, is that his name? Isn't Bard King, yeah.

30:22

We were gonna call one of our children, isn't

30:24

Bard Kingdom. He is the classic stovepipe hat, you

30:26

know. I think we once joked about putting an

30:28

espresso on a hamster and pretending he was a

30:30

Victorian industrialist. This guy is the

30:33

proverbial hamster with an espresso

30:35

on his head. Yeah. designed

30:37

this bridge unfortunately rest in peace

30:40

is in Bart kingdom I think

30:42

it was completed after he passed

30:44

away by some other dudes now

30:47

there's three sites of interest at

30:49

it there's a camera obscure do

30:51

you know what a camera obscure

30:53

is he died in 1859 do you

30:56

still have to say rest in peace

30:58

for someone who died in We

31:01

will never forget you. Exactly. What

31:03

was the question? Do you know

31:05

what a camera obscurer is? I

31:08

definitely did one day, but you

31:10

know, as we've established, I've lost

31:12

all knowledge of things. You would

31:15

enjoy this. I've encountered two in

31:17

my life. There's one in Edinburgh

31:19

as well. It's what renaissance people

31:22

use to paint. There's a projection

31:24

of what's outside onto a large

31:26

sheet of paper. It's almost like

31:28

a board game game. Okay. So

31:30

you go up in a tower

31:32

and the image of outside the

31:35

tower is projected down onto

31:37

a table, effectively, that's in

31:39

front of you. Now, it

31:41

must have blown the fucking

31:43

minds of the Victorians who

31:46

went to see it. Or

31:48

pre-Victorians, because I guess photography

31:50

came along, and what, the

31:52

1840s. It looks like a

31:54

video, but... It's in fact a

31:57

mirrored projection of what's going on

31:59

outside. Yeah, I still don't know

32:01

what it is, but hopefully some

32:03

listeners did. Oh my goodness. I

32:05

thought I had explained it really

32:08

well. I'm going to look at

32:10

what it is with some pictorial

32:12

help afterwards. This is the beauty

32:14

of podcasting. I bring

32:16

pictures to life with my words.

32:19

Yeah, yeah, you do. And I'm

32:21

staring at you, and it's just

32:23

a completely blank expression while you

32:26

Google, when it's embark kingdom brutal,

32:28

died. I'm going to have a

32:30

look at the Bristolian camera

32:33

obscure. They were used

32:35

in painting a lot

32:37

whereby all a camera

32:39

really is a camera

32:41

obscure where they've been able

32:43

to make the image stay on

32:46

a... I know you're not listening

32:48

to me. Like you are a

32:50

thousand miles away. It's the natural

32:52

phenomenon in which the rays of

32:55

light passing through a small hole

32:57

into a dark space form an

32:59

image where they strike a surface

33:01

resulting in an inverted and reverse

33:04

projection of the view outside. Ah,

33:06

I see now, I see. Exactly

33:08

what I said. You need it

33:10

to be written down for you

33:13

to believe it. You need

33:15

Jonathan Wilson to tell you

33:17

about it for you to

33:19

believe it. That's good. We

33:21

go to there. So the

33:23

Clifton suspension bridge crosses the

33:25

Avon Gorge, which has a lot

33:27

of caves in it. It's the

33:30

earliest inhabited part of Bristol. There

33:32

was an old ring fort right

33:34

up where we are now. There's

33:36

still a really old man in

33:38

there from the Indiana Jones and

33:40

the Lost Crusade. It's in there,

33:42

that guy, right? Yes, that man

33:44

is still there. But where I

33:46

to tell you about, you would

33:48

still need to Google it. I

33:50

just go, oh, there's an old

33:52

man there. We go down a

33:55

steep staircase into one of those

33:57

caves. I read a sign that similar

33:59

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