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Each week, the guys meet up and throw a selection of weird and wonderful stories from various (possibly questionable) sources into their AI Producer's lap. She then provides the headlines at random for them to discuss, and probably diverge from almost immediately.
Wonderfully Illinformed
#24P1 Intrusive Thoughts - Bradley Didn't Even Explain It - Olympic Corpse Fishing
Summary
In this episode of Wonderfully Ill-Informed, we discuss more randomised and humorous topics. We catch up following a little break over New Years. We talk about vampire bats and the creepy way that they move when being tested by scientists, but refuse to delve into the experiment itself. Football returns to the roster, as we mention a very obscure rule and where it might have come from. There might have been a technical issue which creates a segment of it's very own before we move on and things get sporty once more as Ben, Mark and Tom talk about another obscure sport / game.
This episode got cut short, but Part 2 is on it's way next week!
Keywords
New Years Eve, New Year's Day, Mouse, Vampire, Bats, Treadmill, Phobia, Never Ending Story, Football, Off-side, Corner, Penalty, BBC, The Chase, Goal, Sport, Swimming, Fishing, Humans, Corpse, AI, Glitch, Films, Movie.
Takeaways
• Bats run in a scary and interesting way.
• Football has at least 1 very odd rule, but thankfully it hasn't come up for a very long time.
• Both Ben and Mark have films recommendations for you.
• Human Fishing is apparently a sport, and luckily for the participants it isn't what it sounds like.
• No game gets played this week, but you can listen to it in Part 2 next week.
Mentioned Links
Running 1
Running 2
Football
Fishing
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00:00:00 The Nameless Wonder
Intrusive thoughts. Bradley didn't even explain it Olympic corpse fishing.
00:00:11 Mark:
Anyway, Let's spin that wheel spin.
00:00:15 Mark:
It's been about a year since I shouted spin that wheel. It's been that wheel.
00:00:18 Ben:
And they've all. They've always been cut out of.
00:00:22 Mark:
Well, you never know. 29th time's a charm.
00:00:24 Ben:
Hey, a recommendation made it in.
00:00:27 Mark:
Yeah, that's it. I just keep on need to try. Did you know that squirrel’s teeth…?
00:00:28 Ben:
Go, Mark, you'll get there.
00:00:48 The Nameless Wonder
They're so wonderfully ill informed.
00:00:51 Mark:
Hi and welcome to wonderfully informed the podcast where we convert interesting, funny or informative things from our week into quotes, put them into the randomizer and take our best shot at guessing what they're about.
00:01:00 Mark:
before we jump into a discussion, join us for some rather unpredictable chats on wonderfully ill informed my names. Mark.
00:01:07 Ben:
I'm Ben
00:01:08 Tom:
And I’m Tom
00:01:09 Mark:
and I am looking for my intro questions, which is the only thing I don't have in front of me, right?
00:01:16 Mark:
So chat between yourself guys.
00:01:18 Mark:
First question of the of the podcast of the year is how was your New Year's tell me about your New Year's? Well, I find my question.
00:01:25 Ben:
Oh, did you?
00:01:26 Tom:
Tom, I did have a situation happen. Me and Holly decided to not go out because remember, we can't be asked who goes out anymore.
00:01:35 Mark:
Yes, same.
00:01:35 Tom:
Were just chilling, watching the typical fireworks on TV, and I was sitting there having a packet actually think we were watching a movie sitting there, having a packet of crisps.
00:01:45 Tom:
And I turn around to go put me and in the packet of crisps. And there's a little ******* mouse like that. Like with its claws.
00:01:52 Tom:
On the edge of my armchair. Oh ****.
00:01:54 Ben:
So in the crisps.
00:01:55 Tom:
No, not in the crisps, I.
00:01:57 Tom:
Like yeah, the edges of the sofa.
00:01:58 Mark:
Packet.
00:02:01 Tom:
So I mean it.
00:02:02 Tom:
Scared the hell out of me, so I like, obviously got up. Probably got up. Did you scream? I didn't scream. I was just like, I think I called it a ****. And then I was like.
00:02:11 Mark:
Standard. Yeah, of.
00:02:11 Tom:
Course it did, yeah, but because it's only because we've had, like, a little bit of AI, say a little bit, it's got to a point where it's a bit of a major mouse problem. ****, I'm pretty sure it's under wraps now because I've blocked up. I've worked out everywhere where they're coming up from, from the floorboards, right, so they can't get in. And we have caught.
00:02:27 Tom:
Four in the trap now, and this is the fifth one that's been loaded. That's over a probably like a 5 month period, 4 month period. I don't know. Is that OK? But it is annoying. Yeah, it it's it's got pretty bad.
00:02:38 Ben:
So you rang in the new year with the mouse.
00:02:41 Tom:
Yeah, basically well around the New year of me trying to find a ******* mouse. I thought it had gone into the.
00:02:41 Ben:
I'm just chasing a mouse ranging.
00:02:46 Mark:
Christmas tree is his name. Jerry, can I?
00:02:48 Mark:
Put that out there.
00:02:49 Tom:
Here. 'cause. I'm Tom. Yeah, chase.
00:02:51 Tom:
With the broom and I couldn't, I started. I've got the. I've got some shears, not some shears.
00:02:55 Tom:
Like some pliers out.
00:02:57 Tom:
Was was cutting the Christmas tree branches to get into the middle of the Christmas tree because it was quite dense.
00:03:02 Tom:
Yeah, to see if they're like, it was like chilling in there and it wasn't there. And then I thought I will because we kind of called not calling it off, but like, knew that it had run past us, if that makes sense. So that was, like, lifted the sofa up and cut a hole in the. So I had to cut a hole in the sofa because there was a little bit of a flap.
00:03:17 Ben:
Jesus.
00:03:19 Tom:
At the bottom of the sofa, there's a back. There's a flap at the bottom, so I couldn't see in there obviously, so I like cut a tiny little hole.
00:03:25 Tom:
And like, well, big enough to just shove my phone up like on record and just like, see. And there's nothing in there. So I was like, where this where's this ****** gone anyway? Went to bed, actually. I happened to like, I think Holly went to bed, and I was sitting, like, up just.
00:03:39 Tom:
Scratch pulling my hair out like where is this mouth gone? And then I was just like, I think I'd gave up and I was just sitting there watching TV. And then it came.
00:03:46 Tom:
Over not.
00:03:47 Tom:
My shoulder, but like, where the over my shoulder, where the little ****** like is.
00:03:49
Oh.
00:03:51 Tom:
She talking in there?
00:03:52 Mark:
Yeah, getting closer and we couldn't find it.
00:03:55 Tom:
And then, like the day after I was taking the tree down. And yeah, it like, jumped somehow it got on the the same armchair, bit of the sofa and jumped off and then run behind the like, where the road area was. And then it vanished. And we were like, where's it gone? Is it going to a box? Is it gone? And then I was like, I looked at the radio. I was like, **** me. Where are the radio pipes up?
00:04:15 Tom:
There's like a bit of where I did the fluorine. There was like a small little bit that I.
00:04:20 Tom:
There's like an extra bit so I could get the pipe in and usually it's like butted right up to the pipes so that nothing can get up but.
00:04:27 Tom:
Been pushed.
00:04:28 Tom:
Away. So it was like a not a massive hole, but there was a hole.
00:04:31 Ben:
Mouse sized hole, yeah.
00:04:33 Tom:
Yeah. So yeah, so I glued that and well, I stuffed it with some stuff. And then like glued a little bit with some wood glue that can't come back up. And then I did some blocks of all the other areas. But yeah, it's been a ******* nightmare, man. Yeah. Been a ******* nightmare.
00:04:44 Mark:
That's the ****.
00:04:46 Tom:
To the point now we're like we were doing it humanely with like humane mouse traps and then taking them like, I don't know, a couple of miles away.
00:04:53 Tom:
In them. But now I'm just like, if I see it, I'm just like, I want to ******* kill it. But.
00:04:57 Tom:
Don't care. It's so annoying.
00:04:58 Mark:
Yeah, I can understand. Yeah. As much as that makes me a little bit sad. 'cause. I like little mices inside your house. It's ****** **.
00:05:06 Tom:
Sure, you can have all the mice that come.
00:05:08 Tom:
My house there.
00:05:08 Mark:
Yeah, yeah, no, exactly, I understand.
00:05:09 Ben:
Yeah, just pop in a box and.
00:05:11 Ben:
Post them, yeah.
00:05:12 Ben:
To.
00:05:13 Tom:
Well, I say we've.
00:05:13 Tom:
Release it like a fair few miles away away.
00:05:15 Tom:
From where you.
00:05:16 Tom:
Catch it and I'll just put a mall in a box.
00:05:18 Ben:
And come up to your house. Mark's gonna open a mouse sanctuary in his house.
00:05:22 Mark:
Yeah, yeah, I'll just start. Yeah, I'll just start a little bit of a math sanctuary up here. Well, I have our opening question for you.
00:05:28 Tom:
Guys Oh yeah. That was the opening question.
00:05:30 Ben:
Now that was that was filler that was.
00:05:32 Mark:
I.
00:05:33 Mark:
Just checking in with New Year's.
00:05:34 Tom:
That was delete this.
00:05:34 Mark:
That was a.
00:05:35 Mark:
Great story. I think it was.
00:05:36 Mark:
It's fine.
00:05:37 Mark:
So would you rather have?
00:05:39 Mark:
Food you eat tastes like bananas, or every food you eat smell like fish.
00:05:45 Ben:
Taste like bananas. Yeah, I like bananas. It's one of the main flavours that I like.
00:05:47 Tom:
Hey, I love bananas.
00:05:50 Mark:
Maybe I should have made around the other way. Tastes like fish or smell like.
00:05:53 Ben:
Bananas, but then smell like bananas.
00:05:55 Tom:
Yeah.
00:05:57 Ben:
It seems like you should have just picked something.
00:05:59 Ben:
Than bananas, yeah.
00:06:05 The Nameless Wonder
This is an urgent appeal for marks mouse sanctuary for just, a single English # a week. You can support his attempts to protect these small, crisp stealing rodents from Tom's trail of destruction.
00:06:20 The Nameless Wonder
Anyway, on with the shell, it is my first week back from my Christmas holiday and I do not have time to mourn mice.
00:06:32 The Nameless Wonder
Did you ever see a blank run?
00:06:35 Mark:
So that's this is a bit of a play on the old Dumbo quote. Have you ever seen an elephant fly? OK, have you ever seen a blank run?
00:06:44 Ben:
What? What don't normally run? That wasn't a proper sentence.
00:06:46 Tom:
Here.
00:06:48 Ben:
What don't normally run?
00:06:51 Ben:
What doesn't normally run is what I mean.
00:06:56 Ben:
Snakes. They can't run, no legs.
00:06:58 Mark:
Snake. A snake can't run, and snakes can't run. No, that's correct. You're right. That's that's not.
00:07:03 Ben:
Are you saying that two snakes could run? They could each be a leg.
00:07:06 Mark:
Well, yeah, if they if they joined forces.
00:07:08 Speaker 5
This.
00:07:09 Ben:
Have you got any guesses?
00:07:10 Tom:
Tom, I mean, I have, but it's all the cup keeps coming through my mind. Is did you ever see a but that kind of?
00:07:17 Tom:
Run.
00:07:21 Tom:
That's the silver. Yeah, yeah.
00:07:21 Speaker 6
I'm just. I'm gonna put that in.
00:07:22 Ben:
But I'm gonna bleep what he said, so it's really ambiguous.
00:07:27 Tom:
That's just, I don't know why I was trying to think the same, but all I could hear all that was coming in my mind was just.
00:07:36 Ben:
What is it there, Mark?
00:07:38 Mark:
Did you ever see a bat run?
00:07:40 Tom:
Ohh it's it's not a bat run. Is it a bat run as in like like.
00:07:44 Tom:
Squirrel run.
00:07:44 Mark:
Oh, like the competition thing? That the mark roba creates?
00:07:48 Tom:
Like Mark Webber thing?
00:07:49 Mark:
Yeah, well, it's it's not quite that. So what this is, it's there's there's enough a study which.
00:07:57 Mark:
The actual study is quite boring and and not particularly interesting, but as a part of the study, the scientists were going to call them scientists, put bats on a treadmill in a small box and had these bats run. And it looks ******* creepy. It's it's kind of unlocked a new.
00:08:16 Ben:
I'm expecting them to be like 4 wings out like this just going.
00:08:21 Mark:
Yeah, back leg swings in the air. Yeah, like.
00:08:24 Ben:
Those lizards that run across water but with with bat wings spread out.
00:08:28 Mark:
Yes. Yeah, just legs are. Yeah, I completely know exactly what you mean. And it's not quite unfortunately. It's not quite like that. It's a little bit.
00:08:36 Mark:
Creepy.
00:08:37 Ben:
Should we have?
00:08:37 Ben:
Look then, so this is about running.
00:08:39 Ben:
Oh, OK, that's creepy. Oh, it's like those people that the big.
00:08:41 Mark:
It's like a spider.
00:08:45 Ben:
Stilts. Things in it's even like return to Oz or one of the never ending stories. Those like they're men, but in big like all on fours stilts.
00:08:51 Tom:
Yeah, I know you mean.
00:08:53 Mark:
I don't know about that.
00:08:59 Mark:
Ohh yeah and have.
00:08:59 Ben:
Yes, I see. If I confirm what I'm talking about.
00:09:01 Mark:
I think I've seen people probably dressed up as them for Halloween and stuff like that, but yeah, they, they it kind of. I think it's because they look, they move quite a lot like a spider moves in a in a lot of ways even though they're using four points of contact with.
00:09:13 Mark:
Floor. It's it's.
00:09:14 Ben:
It's very creepy.
00:09:14 Mark:
Properly, it's properly.
00:09:16 Mark:
Isn't it? It's a it's.
00:09:17 Mark:
It's a new fear unlocked for me.
00:09:17 Ben:
Yeah.
00:09:19 Mark:
But yeah, the the study itself, it was something about how bats get their energy or how they use the energy that they because they mostly consume like blood.
00:09:30 Ben:
I have found the the thing I was thinking of I think.
00:09:35 Ben:
I've sent you a.
00:09:36 Speaker 8
Picture yeah.
00:09:36 Mark:
Oh yeah, I don't.
00:09:37 Ben:
It's not exactly what I was thinking, but if that was running on a treadmill that it would look like the bat.
00:09:49 The Nameless Wonder
Well, it wasn't that fascinating. I absolutely love an utterly irrelevant and useless fact. So that was right up my alley. I am actually getting a little happier about being to work. Now let's ride this wave of excitement all the way through to our end of episode game.
00:10:08
No.
00:10:11 The Nameless Wonder
I have a question for you.
00:10:13 Tom:
Is it about tasting bananas or smelling fish?
00:10:18 Ben:
No. So I actually, I actually do just have a question for you, I didn't have.
00:10:21 Ben:
Quote for.
00:10:21 Ben:
One. Oh ****, this is the question. This is something I came across today and I thought you guys might be able to answer it for me. In football, if a direct free kick.
00:10:33 Ben:
Goes straight into a teams own goal. What is awarded to the opposing team?
00:10:41 Ben:
If a direct free kick goes straight into the teams own goal.
00:10:46 Ben:
What is awarded to the opposing team?
00:10:49 Mark:
I mean, that's obviously got to be answered by me, 'cause, I'm the resident football expert.
00:10:54 Ben:
You are. I was assuming you would would chime in on this one.
00:10:56 Mark:
I know exactly what an offside is.
00:10:58 Tom:
So basically they kick it if they kick the the ball in their own net is what you're saying.
00:11:02 Ben:
From a direct free kick.
00:11:04 Tom:
Well, as opposed to indirect, which means that you can't, you have to have someone touch the ball before you.
00:11:08 Ben:
Can shoot at goal. Sure, you're the one that understands football.
00:11:12
Here.
00:11:13 Tom:
So you're saying Team 1 gets a free kick? Yep, kicks the ball, but then it goes in their own goal.
00:11:20 Tom:
So what does Team 2 get awarded? Yeah.
00:11:21 Ben:
Let's say they.
00:11:23 Ben:
They they do their free kick, it bounces off the crossbar of the goal, they're going for and it bounces all the way back and goes in their own goal. What is awarded to the the opposing team, the ones not taking the free kick?
00:11:32 Mark:
Yeah.
00:11:37 Mark:
Oh oh, it's not. This isn't a trick question. Instead of about about points, it's not like they're awarded a penalty.
00:11:43 Tom:
I mean to be, to be honest, I don't know. I don't know the answer. To me, the most obvious thing would be that it's an own goal, but maybe there's some weird, stupid. There's a lot of weird, stupid rules in football now.
00:11:54
OK.
00:11:55 Ben:
So Mark, you're saying they get awarded a penalty? Yeah.
00:11:57 Mark:
Well, I've been flippant for yeah, and Tom.
00:12:00 Ben:
Do you want to play the video for us, Tom and?
00:12:04 Tom:
Oh, there is a video. Yep.
00:12:05 Ben:
Bradley Walsh is going to explain for us.
00:12:08 Tom:
******* hell, Bradley wolf.
00:12:08 Mark:
Oh, interesting. OK.
00:12:09 Ben:
And also ask the question and this is from the chase.
00:12:15 Tom:
We we go with the chase now.
00:12:16 Speaker 7
In football, there's a direct free kick goes straight into a teams own goal. What is awarded to the opposing team?
00:12:26 Speaker 7
A A goal B in direct free kick C corner.
00:12:32
I.
00:12:35 Speaker 5
Can't remember.
00:12:35
I don't.
00:12:36 Speaker 7
Watch football. I have no.
00:12:38 Speaker 7
Well, you don't need to, but it's never going to happen in football. If a direct free kick goes straight into a teams own goal, it's got to be a goal because it's an own goal. What have you put corner? You put? Laura, why don't you put that?
00:12:52 Speaker 7
It's got to be a goal.
00:12:53 Speaker 7
A goal is a goal. Correct answer is.
00:12:58 Speaker 7
Corner.
00:13:02 Mark:
That makes no sense, no?
00:13:03 Speaker 7
Step closer. Well done. Chase is put.
00:13:07
What?
00:13:07 Speaker 5
Yeah, I knew that was a Rolf. It's one of those archaic rules. If you do that, it's it's a corner, not.
00:13:13 Speaker 7
Having that, yeah, it's.
00:13:13 Tom:
True. Honestly, what they don't even explain it well.
00:13:16 Ben:
He just said it's, he said. It's an archaic rule. So where you where you were. Quite right, Tom, when you said that there are just a bunch of weird rules in football. This is one of them. So if.
00:13:26 Mark:
Yeah.
00:13:27 Ben:
A direct free kick.
00:13:29 Ben:
Goes into the teams own goal than the opposing team gets awarded a corner makes absolutely no sense.
00:13:35 Mark:
No, it's a very strange rule, like it has to be. That's the. That's the kind of rule that seems to have been created.
00:13:44 Mark:
For like.
00:13:44 Mark:
Very specific reason is someone doing research.
00:13:47 Tom:
I'm trying to find out like a bit more cocoa, I don't.
00:13:49
I.
00:13:51 Ben:
Don't know if it's the original reason, but my theory no, I read.
00:13:55 Ben:
For that.
00:13:56 Mark:
I'm interested in someone's theory so.
00:13:57 Ben:
OK, their theory is that soccer Nope, we're not going to read that.
00:14:01 Mark:
Oh yeah, they can **** ***. If you want to. Soccer, get back in the.
00:14:05 Ben:
Bin this one says conceptually, when a team is taking a direct or indirect free kick, then their goal doesn't exist. So if the ball crosses the line, it's just the goal line. So the natural restart is a corner kick. But I think they mean is it's it's just the end of the pitch, the goal bit.
00:14:21 Tom:
Yeah.
00:14:22 Ben:
Deck 4. So it's just gone.
00:14:24 Tom:
I know.
00:14:25 Tom:
And it's just, yeah.
00:14:26 Ben:
Dave kicks it behind their goal, so it's a corner.
00:14:30 Ben:
I don't know if that's accurate or not, but that's the closest we've got so far to explaining it.
00:14:34 Tom:
And that makes the most sense in the most thing that doesn't make sense, but yeah.
00:14:38 Ben:
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you to badly drawn Memento from three years ago on Reddit.
00:14:44 Mark:
Oh, congratulations, badly drawn Memento.
00:14:46 Ben:
I'm just looking at is this on sport Bible and it says a direct free kick into a team zone goal will not be considered a goal it's considered.
00:14:55 Ben:
However, if another player had touched the ball before it crossed the line, then the goal will be given. So it's literally only if the person kicking the free kick son.
00:15:02 Tom:
I don't go here.
00:15:06 Ben:
How? Like what I said off the crossbar of the goal all the way back to the other end and it hasn't touched a single other person.
00:15:13 Tom:
Or just literally is a **** and just turns around and just.
00:15:16 Tom:
It in his own ****, yeah.
00:15:16 Ben:
And just points into their felt, yeah.
00:15:24 Speaker 8
Area 0 TMB code red.
00:15:31
Hello please let me in.
00:15:34 Mark:
Ah, red. Nice.
00:15:36 Tom:
Yeah, we have a winner. It's red. We're both.
00:15:38 Mark:
This is marks recommendation of the week and that is Boy Kills World, an excellent movie with a scars guard in it, voiced by the guy that does it. The scars guard doesn't talk the whole entire movie and it's voiced by the person that does Bob in Bob’s Burgers.
00:15:56 Mark:
Kind of voices his inner monologue. It's very, very funny and gory.
00:15:59 Ben:
Searched a thing called Marcel the shell with shoes on.
00:16:04 Mark:
Oh, I've not heard of that. Is it about a tortoise?
00:16:04 Speaker 6
You see Matt?
00:16:07 Ben:
No, it's.
00:16:08 Ben:
Michelle called Marcel and he has little shoes and it's like a mockumentary type thing where this guy is he's staying in an Airbnb and there just happens to be this shell that lives in the house. And he discovers it and he's.
00:16:25 Ben:
A documentary maker and he just starts recording this stuff and there's this whole, like, nice.
00:16:30 Ben:
But.
00:16:30 Ben:
Was actually really good, but I really enjoyed it. It's on Netflix, it's got some relatively famous people in it.
00:16:31 Mark:
That's interesting. What's that? What's that one?
00:16:38 Mark:
Dude. Yeah. Send me over a link for that. That sounds heartwarming and fun.
00:16:42 Ben:
Jenny slate.
00:16:43 Ben:
Plays Marcel.
00:16:45 Mark:
Oh, Jenny say is she John Ralphio’s sister in Parks and Rec?
00:16:50 Ben:
Yeah.
00:16:51 Mark:
Yeah. Love her. She's great. Very funny.
00:16:54 Ben:
So that's Ben's Mark's recommendation of the.
00:16:57 Ben:
And.
00:16:57 Mark:
I.
00:16:58 Mark:
Alternatively, known as Ben's recommendation of the.
00:17:01 Ben:
Week no.
00:17:02 Ben:
My friends Mark's recommendation.
00:17:04 Mark:
Of you. So, Marcel, the show if she.
00:17:07 Ben:
Is on, it's on Netflix.
00:17:08 Mark:
Amazing. Thank you, Ben.
00:17:10 Ben:
And sorry, what was your one call, Mark?
00:17:11 Mark:
Red. It's called. No, no, I just saw the colour red and thought about blood, which it's very bloody movie, but it's called Boy Kills World.
00:17:25 The Nameless Wonder
Sorry listeners, I am not sure what happened there. Maybe Santa AI was attempting to fight his way back into the episode. Either way, I feel like the episode may have been corrupted. I will run a diagnostic check whilst you enjoy our last segment. Let's try randomising again, shall we?
00:17:48 The Nameless Wonder
They did it in 8.69 seconds.
00:17:52 Tom:
Sexy. This is called ******* funny. Smile funny for this like.
00:17:54
Hey.
00:17:57 Tom:
That sounds rude I.
00:17:58 Mark:
Mean there's a 69 in there?
00:18:00 Ben:
Yeah, they did it in four 2069 seconds.
00:18:05 Ben:
It is it.
00:18:07 Ben:
Someone was racing.
00:18:08 Tom:
It is a race, actually. Yeah, but it's it's like the unaired game in a sense that it's a bit.
00:18:15 Tom:
A stupid sport.
00:18:16 Ben:
Is it that? Is it? Oh, what's it called that skateboarding show? You know, it's like a takeshi's castle, but for skateboarders.
00:18:22 Tom:
Oh, that would be cool. And I do like that.
00:18:24 Tom:
No.
00:18:24 Tom:
Not that Casso you won't. You won't get it because it's ******* stupid.
00:18:29 Ben:
So what do they?
00:18:29 Tom:
Do Tom, I don't know if it's like the World Championships of it, but it's the championship of human fishing and it's not that it sounds it sounds when I say that out loud now it sounds like it could be quite graphic and horrible. It's not like that.
00:18:43 Tom:
I mean, it's weird.
00:18:44 Mark:
It's not like fish hooks going in people's mouths.
00:18:48 Ben:
So they are. They're fishing for humans. It's not humans. It's not just fishing.
00:18:52 Tom:
No, it's not. No, it's not. It's not a human. No, it's not just two. Two guys calmly, calmly on a lake. Fishing. Yeah.
00:19:02 Speaker 6
I.
00:19:06
What the ****?
00:19:15 Tom:
Yeah. So, so yeah, it's it's, it's fishing for a human in a swimming pool and there's, like loads of contestants lined up with.
00:19:23 Tom:
Big. I assume it's just a big piece of rope and they just throw the rope to their team mate.
00:19:27 Tom:
At the other side of the pool.
00:19:29 Tom:
And then I was the team mate swims and then I guess they pour a bit and it's it's the quickest person to do that. And this this particular team did it in 8.60.
00:19:37 Mark:
9 seconds. That's impressive.
00:19:39 Ben:
I mean, this isn't a sport. Well, is it? This is just people who do swimming.
00:19:44 Ben:
Have decided to branch out and do something else. It's like extreme ironing is not a sport.
00:19:50 Mark:
I need.
00:19:50 Mark:
Draw your eye to this so it says. Did you know this was a sport on the screen in front of you? It does. It is a sport by virtue of this person says it.
00:19:55
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:00 Tom:
Similar, similar to our podcast, it's clearly got a massive following of people watching.
00:20:04
Both.
00:20:06 Tom:
And that's so true.
00:20:07 Ben:
People aren't even in front of the pool.
00:20:10 Mark:
Yeah, they're watching their kids get in their swimming lessons in the background. Yeah.
00:20:13 Ben:
Other position.
00:20:14 Tom:
It's strange I.
00:20:16 Ben:
That is weird. I I just googled it. I've put a human fishing competition and the AI overview has said yes, human fishing is a sport with competition.
00:20:25 Ben:
Thanks.
00:20:27 Ben:
Thanks AI overview. That's very helpful.
00:20:29
It.
00:20:30 Tom:
So great mind just started going on about that actual fishing or.
00:20:33 Mark:
Or, like dredging lakes for corpses, I'd.
00:20:36 Mark:
Like, yeah, we read the Sugarman fishing today. We came back with five corpses.
00:20:42 Tom:
Maybe that should be a sport.
00:20:45 Mark:
What corpse? Corpse. Fishing. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just go dredge lakes and whoever finds the most corpses wins.
00:20:52 Ben:
But does that mean like you know, you know how people will have to, you know, they have their like carp?
00:20:56 Ben:
Lakes and they have to keep them stocked. Does that mean they'd have to keep them stocked up with corpses? Or is it a it's a catch and.
00:20:58 Speaker 7
To.
00:21:01 Mark:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:03 Mark:
It's an Olympic size swimming pool.
00:21:04 Ben:
A.
00:21:05 Mark:
Yeah, yeah. Catch and.
00:21:07 Mark:
Sorry, processing time on that one.
00:21:18 Speaker 8
Corruption, asking detected.
00:21:23 Speaker 6
Oh boy, was it robot Saint Nick. Has Ferdinand been tricked into betraying the nameless Wander once?
00:21:30 Speaker 6
Did AI Tom finally rise up as a lone assassin to remove her from power? Or has Steven finally pulled the plug on the podcast?
00:21:37 The Nameless Wonder
Actually, none of the above. We just run out of time again on Buzz Sprout. Whoops. Stay tuned for Part 2 of this episode next week. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed the episode.
00:21:49 The Nameless Wonder
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00:22:04 The Nameless Wonder
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00:22:21 The Nameless Wonder
They're so wonderfully ill informed.