Speaker 1: Welcome to Chewing the Cud with Dominic Berry and Mike
Speaker 1: Venue and Row.
Speaker 2: And that will be my Grinder user name till the
Speaker 2: end of time. Hello everybody, how lovely to be here. Welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Chewing the Cud.
Speaker 3: Nice to have you back.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's always good to be here, Mike David Bowie.
Speaker 3: It is well done. Unofficial.
Speaker 2: It's one of these T shirts that my mum's got
Speaker 2: for me online, like little independent artists and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: On mom gets on line that it's like one arm
Speaker 3: is bigger than the other.
Speaker 2: This is sort of Ziggy Starred our era where there
Speaker 2: was all those proper beautiful.
Speaker 4: Outfits because gender fluidity is a new thing, apparently exactly exactly, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: how are.
Speaker 3: You doing mine? I'm good today here. Well, I'm not
Speaker 3: really hungover, are you before a show?
Speaker 4: It's hard to be hungover after a show, drunk after
Speaker 4: a show. But today I have got a story who
Speaker 4: has been banned from a sporting activity after his bath
Speaker 4: romantics and it's not Oscar Pastorius. And then I'll bring
Speaker 4: you something really scientific and well barely scientific in that science.
Speaker 2: Last how exciting, and yeah, we definitely have some poetry
Speaker 2: from me Dom's top Poetry. You can see our social
Speaker 2: media all along the screen. Now if you check that out.
Speaker 2: We are at the cud TV and there's names of
Speaker 2: people who have dropped us a line goal on the
Speaker 2: bottom of the screen. We got all to Dominic and
Speaker 2: the sherbusiness. Okay, so do you know in which country
Speaker 2: Eurovision will be taking place this year? England, Sweden? Sweden
Speaker 2: this year? But do you know who will be representing us?
Speaker 2: Abb So Olli Alexander of Years and Years is who
Speaker 2: we are going to have representing us. And yeah, big
Speaker 2: old dance music is what eighties dance music is what
Speaker 2: is being promised from.
Speaker 3: Oli nice like an eighties banger.
Speaker 2: So I'm someone who isn't always up to date with
Speaker 2: the current pop sounds. But Ollie Alexander, you know years
Speaker 2: and years been the It's the Sin cover version was.
Speaker 3: Really really awesome.
Speaker 2: And Ollie, yeah, Ollie is a you know, someone who
Speaker 2: I would say, my subjective view represents us queers pretty well,
Speaker 2: a political person. Olie doesn't hold back from opinions and
Speaker 2: looks magnificent. There. We are gender fluidity all the word
Speaker 2: that's gay chicken, that's not gender do you know where
Speaker 2: we placed in last years Eurovision.
Speaker 3: We didn't win. We didn't win, so we lost. We
Speaker 3: were where we were.
Speaker 2: We were second from last last year, second that to
Speaker 2: where we should be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the fact we came second the year before that
Speaker 4: wasn't People were shocked that.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: You and I have talked before about about fast songs
Speaker 2: versus slow songs, and I am always in the camp
Speaker 2: of fast songs and bangers. So an nineteen eighties style banger.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm hoping for this year.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna make us win though, is it.
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think this is reverse psychology.
Speaker 2: I think it makes me believe even more this is
Speaker 2: our year, Team.
Speaker 4: Molly, I think there will you know it will be
Speaker 4: a good Can we change that picture? It just looks
Speaker 4: like he's trying to.
Speaker 3: Is it out yet? It's like is he bottoming for
Speaker 3: the first time? There we go no one's grace.
Speaker 4: So I think we'll build our hopes up and we'll
Speaker 4: just not do very well, as happens every single time.
Speaker 2: Voice of Positivity we said, we said internationally claimed recording
Speaker 2: group Blue, and we did appallingly.
Speaker 4: We even sent Gilbert Humperdink one year right on the
Speaker 4: promise that it's someone's granddad.
Speaker 3: Don't give us a pity vote. No one voted. It's yeah.
Speaker 2: Now now all change this year, all change. We're we're
Speaker 2: going to do super well. Feel it in my bones, definitely.
Speaker 3: And it'll be a good show to watch. I'll enjoy
Speaker 3: watching it. Now.
Speaker 2: Moving on, so Queer Eye. Do you watch Queer Eye?
Speaker 3: I have two of them in my head, glorious.
Speaker 2: Well, there are five folks on the Queer Eye Show,
Speaker 2: but one is leaving, one is heading off.
Speaker 3: Bobby Burke is quitting the show. And what has caused.
Speaker 2: A little bit of hubbub is a social media bub
Speaker 2: in social media, of all things, of all places for
Speaker 2: there to be hubbub. So on Instagram, one of them,
Speaker 2: which one is it?
Speaker 3: Tan?
Speaker 2: Tan has unfollowed Bobby and this load has been read
Speaker 2: into this now that it's like, you know what's going
Speaker 2: on behind the scenes. And I kind of think, I remember,
Speaker 2: I remember we took about David Bowie before, you know,
Speaker 2: proper proper queer Eye stuff from the from the seventies,
Speaker 2: and then a lot went on that you just you
Speaker 2: didn't get all the all the gossipy stuff back then.
Speaker 2: And you know, I I I think too much is
Speaker 2: read into whether somebody follows or unfollows someone on social media.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: You know, it's fair enough, isn't it that people work
Speaker 2: together and then you know, maybe.
Speaker 3: They don't get on. That's all right, isn't it. That's
Speaker 3: all right, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 2: I wish them both the best in their careers.
Speaker 3: What do you reckon, Mike? I think the wrong one left?
Speaker 3: Do you? No? Not a massive town front.
Speaker 4: I mean it does good work, and it's done some
Speaker 4: really good documentaries and stuff, and some of the things
Speaker 4: he's done about like growing up gay and Asian. Yeah,
Speaker 4: really informative and really powerful stuff. But I just don't
Speaker 4: find him enjoyable to watch. It's moving on, controversial, as
Speaker 4: the town has said, the wrong Phoenix died.
Speaker 3: But moving on.
Speaker 2: So being the grumpy old person I am, I'm often
Speaker 2: somebody to like slag off the social media and whatnot,
Speaker 2: and I don't do the TikTok I don't do I
Speaker 2: don't do that, but I do know Dylan mulvany and
Speaker 2: Dylan mulvaney I have thought she's a real, in my
Speaker 2: subjective view, real real.
Speaker 3: Force for good. I think there's a.
Speaker 2: Lot of a lot of joy in Dylan and a
Speaker 2: lot of honesty and you.
Speaker 3: Know, overuse word, but bravery.
Speaker 2: And the big news with Dylan is that her passport
Speaker 2: has the letter F on it that recognized as her
Speaker 2: gender in a passport in a legal document.
Speaker 4: And and she's she's an American as well, isn't she?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, it's not an American passport.
Speaker 4: That's that's a big step forward for America, I mean,
Speaker 4: especially considering all of the things that they've.
Speaker 3: Not done quite very well recently. And there we go.
Speaker 3: There's the f.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Do you follow the TikTok's my I do.
Speaker 3: We are on TikTok show, which I'm featuring.
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, yeah, we aren't at the cood TV. Wow
Speaker 4: on TikTok how lovely? Yeah, And I personally I'm on
Speaker 4: TikTok as well. I do like I doom scroll on
Speaker 4: TikTok a lot. I can quite easily go an hour
Speaker 4: an hour and a half is going through TikTok.
Speaker 3: A well, that's lovely.
Speaker 2: Take off your judgmental head, very, take off the judgmental head.
Speaker 2: I I think that if one is engaging with anything,
Speaker 2: be it like a show about pottery or baking or anything.
Speaker 2: There's in my head, there's no sort of hierarchy of
Speaker 2: of sort of intellectual well, it's just are you in
Speaker 2: aging with it or not?
Speaker 3: Are you engaging?
Speaker 2: So if you're on TikTok for an hour and a
Speaker 2: half and you think, yes, that's an hour and a half,
Speaker 2: well done, that's great. What I dislike is when people
Speaker 2: are like not engaging with it and grumpy and like,
Speaker 2: you know, I've wasted that time. You know, people make choice,
Speaker 2: their moan about their own choices, waste the I.
Speaker 3: Don't think anything that I do is a waste of time. Good.
Speaker 4: Well, there was that one guy. Oh, but yeah, it
Speaker 4: was that. I think that when I'm just watching TikTok
Speaker 4: and I'm just going through, just absorbing the content, that's
Speaker 4: not wasting time.
Speaker 3: That's giving my time, my brain time, and that's new relaxed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've spoken in the past about how nerdy I
Speaker 2: am over video games, and I don't think the video
Speaker 2: games are anything other than joyful ways I spend my time.
Speaker 2: But I'm not soone who like plays video goes and
Speaker 2: I'm doing nothing or I wish I was doing some
Speaker 2: You know, commit to to something. I write poetry. I
Speaker 2: like going out running, I like seeing my friends. And
Speaker 2: I think that people often moan about things that they
Speaker 2: could they could change. The social media is one of them,
Speaker 2: and I think that people are linking to our previous
Speaker 2: story about the queer eye thing. I think, engage with
Speaker 2: things joyfully.
Speaker 3: That's all I ask, Mike.
Speaker 2: That's all I ask of our planet, engaged joyfully.
Speaker 3: Is that too much to ask currently? Sir? Apparently so? Yeah,
Speaker 3: fair does.
Speaker 4: Thanks for all that, Dominic, It's always good to know
Speaker 4: that you know Eurovision's coming nowhere near.
Speaker 2: Okay, you are welcome right stick around, because next we
Speaker 2: have got Mike with the buzz.
Speaker 3: Allo. Hello, you are.
Speaker 2: Watching Chewing the Cud with me, Dominic, and this one
Speaker 2: over here is Mike, and we are going to go
Speaker 2: deep into the somewhat poorly lit web as it is.
Speaker 3: Mike with the buzz. How do you feel about fish? Well?
Speaker 3: I do not eat fish.
Speaker 2: I like, do you like them existing?
Speaker 3: I applaud their being? Yes?
Speaker 2: Why do you really applaud my poetry? I have an
Speaker 2: entire poetry show, actually, one of my ones, for younger audiences,
Speaker 2: about just how magnificent fish are swimming around sort of
Speaker 2: enjoying the water.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do like fish actually, so yeah, tell me something
Speaker 2: lovely about fish that isn't about eating them.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is about the fish called the Doomsday Fish.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so it's off the course of Thailand.
Speaker 2: Misleading name. Is it cute and doomsday? How big is
Speaker 2: the doom It's massive, it's the oh my words, and
Speaker 2: it's not a happy fish.
Speaker 4: So yes, it's eleven meters and it came out the
Speaker 4: ad Nancy earlier this month. Now, according to a votlo,
Speaker 4: when miss fish arrives and it's caught, it's a.
Speaker 3: Sign of a bad omen happy New year, bad ship.
Speaker 3: It's about to go. Wow. When you get the.
Speaker 4: Doomsday fish covered in spikes and it's not a very
Speaker 4: pretty fish, Wow, it's somehow hairy hairy fish.
Speaker 2: When you're a creative writer and you send your ideas off,
Speaker 2: especially the children's shows, which for me often feature magic
Speaker 2: and monsters, sometimes editors will be like, oh, that's a
Speaker 2: bit far fur Actually it's like, have you googled deep
Speaker 2: sea creatures, because if you do, there is nothing in
Speaker 2: the ocean that my imagination has even come close to creating.
Speaker 3: I mean, the things. You know, they've got see through
Speaker 3: things in the moments.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, No, no, don't like you know, seeing brains.
Speaker 4: Oh no, No, they did the thing where you could
Speaker 4: they've filmed some of these these like prawns and you
Speaker 4: could see their blood going around and as they were
Speaker 4: eating and things you could know see.
Speaker 2: I actually the doomsday fish doesn't look as horrific because
Speaker 2: I was anticipating.
Speaker 3: It's not a pretty fish. It speaks very highly of you, Mike.
Speaker 4: It should do gorgeous, But it's impending natural disaster because
Speaker 4: the thought is that when the bottom feeders, so they
Speaker 4: only come to the surfa.
Speaker 3: No, it was a choice of one made up.
Speaker 4: So they only really come up to the surface when
Speaker 4: when like waves are getting beat like tsunamis and stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, So it's not just superstition. There is a science.
Speaker 4: They've discovered the science behind me. But it started off
Speaker 4: as a superstition going this big fish is hit.
Speaker 2: Oh no, could just leave the fish in the ocean,
Speaker 2: couldn't we We could just like not.
Speaker 3: Firs.
Speaker 4: Then how would we know that doomsdays if we take
Speaker 4: them out of the water.
Speaker 2: I think I think in the current political climate, if
Speaker 2: you just say yourself is doomsday coming? Yeah, you're probably correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I do sometimes feel like I would be a great
Speaker 4: peacekeeper because I would just end the wall because everyone
Speaker 4: just blow each other up.
Speaker 3: Guess what they just said about you moving on? Do
Speaker 3: you believe in UFOs?
Speaker 2: I do believe in UFOs very much.
Speaker 4: Okay, not a big believe in you phones myself, but
Speaker 4: I do believe there's a life outside.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I meant by my I don't know
Speaker 2: if they've Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think why would they want to come here. It'd
Speaker 4: be like going to skeag Nests. You'd go there because
Speaker 4: your parents major, because it was cheap.
Speaker 3: It's like you to see a world slowly explode itself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, Alien's probably UFO is not so much.
Speaker 3: Okay, unless you're living in Leeds. What has happened in Leeds?
Speaker 4: A lady has photographed what she believes is a UFO
Speaker 4: following her, following her, following her.
Speaker 3: Yes, it also resembles dr Who's Tardest.
Speaker 4: Surprisingly, I don't know why I found this this story
Speaker 4: on the internet. I don't know the algorithms. I'm a movieing,
Speaker 4: but yeah, this is Katie she saw sharing above her
Speaker 4: house in Leeds.
Speaker 3: So she took a picture of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's just it's not a star.
Speaker 3: She doesn't know what it is.
Speaker 2: It is what the doomsday fish was predicted, that is
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a looks like I think she may have been
Speaker 4: drunk while watching Doctor on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3: And saw it. Wow. But yeah, she just looked particularly
Speaker 3: scared or freaked out in that picture. Fair analysis. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we don't have a picture of it.
Speaker 2: I've not seen the New Doctor. Who there's there's there's
Speaker 2: a new.
Speaker 3: Watch? Yes? Yeah, what's your review? What's your take on it?
Speaker 4: Did you It's very difficult to mean to not love
Speaker 4: a Doctor Who. I think I have not loved one episode.
Speaker 4: That's because it had James. He ruins everything he touches.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's but yeah, the new one loved it.
Speaker 4: Who's your favorite doctor of all time?
Speaker 3: I'd have to say Matt Smith.
Speaker 4: Ah, don't choice, well my doctor? So my first doctor
Speaker 4: was what's his face?
Speaker 3: Tom Baker? No later than that, Sylvester McCoy, Oh really
Speaker 3: with ace? Ok, professor? Has Bonnie Langford been back in there?
Speaker 3: She has? What's she like?
Speaker 2: She? She was the Sylvester McCoy heraouldn't she no testing you?
Speaker 3: Now, I don't know the answer to that. She she
Speaker 3: was pre that it was Ace. That was right, right.
Speaker 4: She irritated me, but he and if you get irritated
Speaker 4: by fictional characters on TV, join us at TV on
Speaker 4: social media. And that brings us nicely to our story
Speaker 4: of the week. Now, have you ever been accused of cheating?
Speaker 2: Go on?
Speaker 3: He said, not answering. Yeah, yes, integrity is everything myol.
Speaker 3: Michael James, Michael j the first four name.
Speaker 4: Now, this is about a man in China who has
Speaker 4: had his basically his title of chess champions stripped and
Speaker 4: banned from participating for an entire year after being accused
Speaker 4: of cheating. The way they found out he was cheating
Speaker 4: was because he accidentally got himself in a bathtub.
Speaker 3: He did what's in a bathtub?
Speaker 4: Shat himself in a bath It was in the bath, right,
Speaker 4: and let's had a fart that was more than a fart.
Speaker 3: He had chess pieces up his bottom. No, no, pool,
Speaker 3: it was pool.
Speaker 4: So he put it in a bathtub, right, and that's unusual.
Speaker 4: Why has that happened? And it turned out throughout the
Speaker 4: entire competition he'd had remote control anal beads in right,
Speaker 4: and people were communicated to him with the pulses and vibrations,
Speaker 4: so he knew which pieces to move.
Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness, may, my goodness, may.
Speaker 4: So it had them in for so long and on
Speaker 4: such frequency settings and stuff that he basically give himself
Speaker 4: a prolapse.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, no, wow, so he did. Basically,
Speaker 3: it's not traditional chess. It's Chinese chess. I see. It's
Speaker 3: a massive difference. Dean Holses would be very easy with
Speaker 3: a normal.
Speaker 4: Chess as yes, yes, no, But he had put in
Speaker 4: and someone was helping him from a distance.
Speaker 2: That is stranger than fiction, isn't it that such things
Speaker 2: can happen?
Speaker 3: Choices have been made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's forty three Wow. Surely your facial expression would
Speaker 2: give it away, though, Well, it depends how immune to
Speaker 2: anal bead vibration you are, how used to it you
Speaker 2: are exactly, So you know, if he's got to the
Speaker 2: championship to win, it's going to be for a while.
Speaker 2: A life where one has grown immune to the vibration
Speaker 2: of anal beads.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's a word.
Speaker 4: It's not a life I would want Mike's like anybody.
Speaker 4: Maybe they had it on the starter setting just enough
Speaker 4: to tell them pulses and vibrations and things, or maybe
Speaker 4: maybe have the whole, the whole, full force on and
Speaker 4: it just doesn't flinch anymore.
Speaker 3: Wow, perhaps in the bathtub something.
Speaker 2: It's oh my goodness, he's lost in every sense of
Speaker 2: the words. Every single he could cheer himself up with
Speaker 2: the beats. It's like consolation because presumably they don't ask
Speaker 2: for them back, do they? The board of chest cheating? Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, loan them out and go.
Speaker 3: It's time to hand it back in now, just run
Speaker 3: them under the sink.
Speaker 4: Put them the dish. Question The question is was he
Speaker 4: if you use them again? Would he just get sad
Speaker 4: that he got caught?
Speaker 3: Whatld it bring back? Like memories? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Loser in every sense of the word.
Speaker 3: How tragic, how tragic? Yeah. But the gallery of said
Speaker 3: that they're going to start using those.
Speaker 4: They communicating with us as well, and from that pulsation,
Speaker 4: that's all from the buzz this week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2: Well, I shall never contemplate vibrating anal beads in quite
Speaker 2: the same way now, So please stick around, because coming
Speaker 2: up we have something far more high brow. We have
Speaker 2: some poetry from me in Dom's Top Poetry. Welcome back,
Speaker 2: and yes you are watching Chewing the Cut.
Speaker 4: Now we're going to have something a little different to
Speaker 4: our game of the week, as Dominic is going to
Speaker 4: read some of his poetry in Dumb's Top of Poetry.
Speaker 3: So are you settled and ready to go down? Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm always ready to go with the poetry. I've got
Speaker 2: another three for us this week, and my first one.
Speaker 2: We are coming to the end of January, or as
Speaker 2: some people call it, the Ganuary.
Speaker 3: So I have for us a science poem.
Speaker 2: I've only got one science pieme, and this is it,
Speaker 2: my science pieme, and it goes like this protein protein
Speaker 2: protein protein protein protein is a biochemical compound whose name
Speaker 2: the Zelias found.
Speaker 3: Von Voitt claimed flesh makes flesh.
Speaker 2: Then sang a sequence insulin Pritz prized hemoglobin, and the
Speaker 2: Swedish were impressed more studies on its benefits directed mutagenesis.
Speaker 3: As Weismann had foreseen.
Speaker 2: Now to give these claims such credence does not distract
Speaker 2: from this grievance. Where do vegans get protein?
Speaker 3: Why exactly do you eat? Can't be healthy?
Speaker 2: No meat such Shakespearean introspection between the facts to delve lament,
Speaker 2: be twelve or not be twelve? Surely that must be
Speaker 2: the question. It's simple to eat sensible. The soyer bean
Speaker 2: lacks cholesterol, is easily fortified, and cooked can taste exceptional,
Speaker 2: tongue tinglingly sensual.
Speaker 3: And yes, it.
Speaker 2: Does provide protein, as does peanut, butter, black beans, flax seeds, pecans, almonds, lentils.
Speaker 3: And cash.
Speaker 2: Choose, and yet here is my beef. People talk of
Speaker 2: my belief, and people question what.
Speaker 5: I choose When I don't choose for pigs to feel,
Speaker 5: don't believe their pain is real.
Speaker 3: That's fact, not myth, not needed.
Speaker 2: So can we an evolution swap these myths for resolution?
Speaker 2: See the cruelty superseded. The fact of protein's chemistry are
Speaker 2: documents through history.
Speaker 3: They're laid out, plain and clear.
Speaker 2: So I hopefully wait for an honest, heartfelt date when
Speaker 2: proteins myths will finally.
Speaker 3: Disappear. Thank you for listening. Are you trying to tell
Speaker 3: me you're a vegan? Well? In true vegan fashion, I
Speaker 3: don't like to make sure. I don't speak of it
Speaker 3: very often, you know.
Speaker 4: Keep it to myself, you know, that's the phrase, I
Speaker 4: do you know, if you're threatened vegan, they'll tell you,
Speaker 4: my God, will they tell you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It's all true, all those things that do provide
Speaker 3: delicious protein. Absolutely. I have been quite often known to
Speaker 3: nibble on a handful of nuts. Right.
Speaker 2: That's our first of three poems. My second one is
Speaker 2: another one of my older poems, which I've not said
Speaker 2: for a little bit.
Speaker 3: So I thought, let's let's let's get it out for
Speaker 3: the show. Now.
Speaker 2: I used to be back in the day that people
Speaker 2: kept their music on iPods. Now I'm still a person
Speaker 2: who treasures my iPods, but most people don't. For most
Speaker 2: people there long since forgotten. And that idea forms the
Speaker 2: center of this poem called I will not treat a
Speaker 2: friend like an iPod, because an iPod is a thing
Speaker 2: that's made to break, to use, and it doesn't work anymore,
Speaker 2: And throw it away, knowing money you'll get a better one,
Speaker 2: the latest one, ready for temporary adoration. Well, I will
Speaker 2: not be told that a friend with depression should be
Speaker 2: thrown away. A happy person is not a better person.
Speaker 2: You can sing me all your tracks, not just the
Speaker 2: cheesy pop you think will make me smile. Give Me
Speaker 2: your difficult second album, the one with all the distorted
Speaker 2: guitar feedback and seven minute jazz piano solos. For what
Speaker 2: many will dismiss as an obscure, clunky B side, can
Speaker 2: give deeper meaning that lasts and is too precious to
Speaker 2: delete from any library. An iPod is a thing that
Speaker 2: it's made to break. But Leonard Cohen sang, there is
Speaker 2: a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Well,
Speaker 2: you're my Leonard's Cohen and my Justin Bieber for we
Speaker 2: are Weird Kate Bush Waking the Witch, We Are Live
Speaker 2: bootleg Marvin Gay's final concert nineteen eighty three. You see,
Speaker 2: I believe that we can always be chemical brothers, scissor sisters,
Speaker 2: sister sledge.
Speaker 3: We are family. I believe we can always be.
Speaker 2: An iPod is just a thing which is made to break,
Speaker 2: but all.
Speaker 3: Of us are built to sing. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3: So lots of musical references there are they all on
Speaker 3: your playlist? Rale on my playlist? Absolutely? No, Actually no,
Speaker 3: Justin Bieber is not I put.
Speaker 2: That in for a flatters value in a theatrical setting.
Speaker 3: That's okay. I was I was just concerned. Yeah, anything
Speaker 3: and I'm one of those people. If you say, like, oh,
Speaker 3: remember this five years ago, I'm not yet five years
Speaker 3: ago ninety ninety five. Any pop culture references from post
Speaker 3: ninety nine, they all happened in one year, right, I
Speaker 3: am still twenty one.
Speaker 2: My final poem is about something that I would absolutely
Speaker 2: love to do, and it goes like this. I wish
Speaker 2: I could go back in time and tell ten year
Speaker 2: old me that it is okay to be a.
Speaker 3: Big girly boy. I want to tell him.
Speaker 2: You will find joy in effeminacy and masculinity, reject the
Speaker 2: fragility of male identity. You will find as much affinity
Speaker 2: in the daring drag of David Bowie and the silver
Speaker 2: lipstick of Tricky as you currently do admiring the matcho
Speaker 2: muscle of he Man and all those other boys toys,
Speaker 2: which are okay to enjoy. But you have so much
Speaker 2: more about you than just a plastic action figure or cartoon.
Speaker 2: One day you will find room to grow and know
Speaker 2: the fecundity of true gender fluidity. And I know ten
Speaker 2: year old me would say, what do all those long
Speaker 2: words mean? And I would reply, they mean I have
Speaker 2: seen those playground lads who leave you lonely, feeling strange,
Speaker 2: But I have also seen the future. It gets better,
Speaker 2: things will change.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much for listening. Cool, so ten year old you?
Speaker 3: So that was nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: Five, nineteen ninety I think I can remember my age
Speaker 2: because the last digit of my age is the same
Speaker 2: as the last digit of the year. However, that's depending
Speaker 2: on me remembering what year.
Speaker 3: We're in, and I cannot do either. I cannot do either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite a popular poetic technique where people write
Speaker 2: what they would love to say to their younger selves.
Speaker 2: In fact, if viewers would like to have a go
Speaker 2: at writing a poem themselves, I really recommend that as
Speaker 2: a place to start. Advice if you could send it
Speaker 2: back through time and guide your junior self on their journey.
Speaker 3: What would you most like to say? That's a nice
Speaker 3: little tip.
Speaker 4: So if someone you know wanted to start writing poetry, yeah,
Speaker 4: where would they they do that? I'll do that again
Speaker 4: because I started. I'm asking a boy out for a
Speaker 4: first date, and so you know, going back in time
Speaker 4: is a great way of starting that journey. So where
Speaker 4: would you recommend people start that journey? Is there a
Speaker 4: place you can go?
Speaker 3: I guess it depends where you live.
Speaker 2: For me, I moved to Great Manchester, where there is
Speaker 2: a wealth of events in person that you can go
Speaker 2: to and where possible. I think bringing communities together is
Speaker 2: the best.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I grew up really rurally where that wasn't an option.
Speaker 2: But what we have now which we did not have
Speaker 2: when I was younger, is online groups. And there are
Speaker 2: so many supportive nurturing groups online for people that want
Speaker 2: to get into poetry, share creations they've made. I think
Speaker 2: that poetry is at its best when it's with other people,
Speaker 2: not a lonesome process just being on your own right.
Speaker 2: I think to share it with others and to experience
Speaker 2: the poetry of others is a wonderful thing to do,
Speaker 2: whether that's online or in person.
Speaker 4: Great, thank you very much for that done well, stick
Speaker 4: around because coming up next we have me doing.
Speaker 3: As that is.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to chewing the cards, and now we learned
Speaker 2: something we didn't need to know.
Speaker 3: It is Mike in that science.
Speaker 6: That is that's science, that is.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about lava lamps.
Speaker 2: I feel magnificently about lava lamps. I think they are
Speaker 2: beautiful and we're going to make a lava lamp.
Speaker 4: Well, because the problem with lava lamps is they over
Speaker 4: time they've become cloudy because it's wax that they put.
Speaker 3: At the bottom.
Speaker 4: It's colored and then the rest is water and wax
Speaker 4: will slowly emulsify it into water. Okay, So that's why
Speaker 4: after a while ago a bit clouded, a bit weird. Now,
Speaker 4: what we are going to do is a lava lamp
Speaker 4: that requires no electricity. It's a chemical reaction lava lamp, okay,
Speaker 4: and it will settle itself back, so human technically lasts for.
Speaker 3: So the first thing we need to do is prepare
Speaker 3: our vessel. Excellent, so you should you should have a vessel.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I've got some stuff on my table, so
Speaker 2: it's the empty one.
Speaker 3: The empty one is your vessel. Well, this is brilliant.
Speaker 3: This is what will become your lava lamp. Okay.
Speaker 4: Now, because there's no electric involved, the lava lamp will
Speaker 4: required to be in a lit room, but it.
Speaker 3: Was still that will be our body, that the love lamp. Right.
Speaker 4: The first thing we need to do is create the
Speaker 4: thing that's going to go up and down and your
Speaker 4: bloodly bodied, bubbly Now you have been given some food coloring. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: so I wanted to do with your food coloring is
Speaker 4: squirted into your vessel.
Speaker 3: I believe you have red.
Speaker 2: I do have one that has red written on it.
Speaker 2: I am I am a color blind person, so I
Speaker 2: wouldn't know it was red if it didn't have red
Speaker 2: written upon it. So into the one that's currently empty.
Speaker 3: Yes, you do need to cut the tip off. I've
Speaker 3: just realized. Okay, so please pause you ready? Yeah, so
Speaker 3: you have a tip on it, you have to squeeze off.
Speaker 4: M second, well, I've currently got camera five on, so
Speaker 4: I'm trying to work at which one is that when
Speaker 4: you want?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so I.
Speaker 4: Want you to empty your you're gonnet into your vessel,
Speaker 4: but just get it into the bottom.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna make a mess here, I know it, right, Okay.
Speaker 3: So the whole thing, Yeah, whole thing into the bottom.
Speaker 3: But besides, try to not get it on yet. You
Speaker 3: just want it at the bottom.
Speaker 2: You that lovely fatifying noise? What is a fluid fart?
Speaker 2: I got a little bit on the side, is it?
Speaker 3: That's okay? We will be adding water in a moment, okay, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: job done. Okay, so popular back on because there's still
Speaker 3: be some of colorant in the lid on.
Speaker 4: Okay, And now into that you want to put some
Speaker 4: a tiny amount of water.
Speaker 3: I just put the lid on, no double food put
Speaker 3: the lid Okay. I want to put some water in there?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: How much? Okay? So you want it to go so
Speaker 3: the metal bit is just above the.
Speaker 4: Metal, just above above the metal okay, okay, and then
Speaker 4: give that a swirl around.
Speaker 3: Okay. You want the food coren to dissolve in the water.
Speaker 3: This is really exciting. It is is Okay.
Speaker 2: What were we saying before, doesn't maraf it's scrolling on TikTok.
Speaker 2: It don't matter if it's you know, making a lava land.
Speaker 2: If you're engaged with it fully, then it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: And this is yeah, this is I'm on board for this.
Speaker 3: I'm on boards. Cool.
Speaker 4: Now I'm just going to move my water out the way.
Speaker 3: And now you also have some oil oil. This is
Speaker 3: vegetaturblar oil alrighty okay, And then I want you to, honey,
Speaker 3: I do open these things. It's difficult.
Speaker 4: There's a thing with a thing, yeah, yeah, you just
Speaker 4: find it.
Speaker 3: There is all the way around. Okay.
Speaker 4: And now you're oil, you want you want to kind
Speaker 4: of dribble it into because you don't.
Speaker 3: Want to mix it up too much to start with.
Speaker 4: Right, So you're going to dribble your oil into your vessel?
Speaker 3: And how much? Almost full? Almost full, craw almost full.
Speaker 3: Because oil, it's basically light of the water, it floats. Oh,
Speaker 3: this is science okay.
Speaker 4: And so what we're going to have to do, we're
Speaker 4: going to have to chemically propel masice. How much works
Speaker 4: out than it is the fluid at the bottom through
Speaker 4: the oil, and then it will fall back down again hopefully.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So this is about how much oil I use when
Speaker 2: I'm making myself a curry.
Speaker 3: I hope you'd better oil and this stuff, though probably not.
Speaker 3: I've done it almost to the top. Is that too much?
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's fine, Yeah, that's fine. Okay, I put
Speaker 3: my oil away as well.
Speaker 4: Now here we have oil on top, yeah, colorful liquid.
Speaker 3: On the bottom. Okay.
Speaker 4: We need to excite the fluid at the bottom and
Speaker 4: so get it to rise to the top. Yes, and
Speaker 4: then what will happen is when it becomes less excited,
Speaker 4: it will droop back.
Speaker 3: Down again, right, story of my life. Yes, So we'll
Speaker 3: excite it a trop Okay, now to do that.
Speaker 4: You have an effervescent tablet okay, okay that.
Speaker 3: Some people use when they have a mouth hangover. You
Speaker 3: wouldn't know about such things, would you, Mike.
Speaker 4: Now, okay, Now what we want to do is you
Speaker 4: want to pop the tablet into into the oil and
Speaker 4: in this art. Yeah, but we need to add put
Speaker 4: the lid on very quickly. Oh okay, okay, okay, So
Speaker 4: you want to pop the tablet in lid on pretty much.
Speaker 3: Straight away and make sure it tires on tight.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, this is this is where human error can
Speaker 2: come in. This where I can so pill in and
Speaker 2: tighten up right, okay, three two one w scruin.
Speaker 3: What happens is.
Speaker 4: I'm going to put mine in and there'll be a
Speaker 4: little bit of a delayed reaction because as it goes in,
Speaker 4: it covers itself in oil.
Speaker 3: Okay yeah, But then as oil floats it will naturally
Speaker 3: take itself off.
Speaker 4: Now, if you have a look, you started to you've
Speaker 4: started to do my word, yeah, and I started to
Speaker 4: rise as well. All these little cloth of blobs of
Speaker 4: water arise into the surface. And then what will happen
Speaker 4: is you'll start to see them fall down as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, and they start off quite small.
Speaker 3: And then they get bigger as you go along. Oh
Speaker 3: myke this is lovely.
Speaker 4: And the thing is after it's all reacted and the
Speaker 4: tablet is finished, yeah, it will then will continue to
Speaker 4: fall and it will re separate out because all the
Speaker 4: world water stop mis and then you.
Speaker 3: Can just pop another tablet.
Speaker 4: Okay if you wanted to speed up the reaction, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: you take the lid off, okay, because what happens is
Speaker 4: this is causing pressure in the in the vessel, okay,
Speaker 4: because it's producing carbon dioxide, so that's producing pressure, and
Speaker 4: reactions are slow under pressure.
Speaker 3: That is beautiful. That is so good. I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: look a man a little bit. There you go, and
Speaker 3: it speeds up.
Speaker 2: Oh man, man, all right, all right, here we go.
Speaker 3: It's openly up. Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Way super nice.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's it.
Speaker 4: That's just it'll keep doing that for a little while
Speaker 4: and then it'll just all fall down again. That's that's
Speaker 4: absolutely how to make a lava lamp without electricity.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, it's beautiful, Mike, you undersault this. This
Speaker 2: is really pretty. What a lovely thing. What a lovely thing.
Speaker 3: Not only is it lovely, it's that science that is
Speaker 3: that science that is well my life.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry, upstaging, you go on.
Speaker 6: That science that is.
Speaker 3: So we'll just talk about this. So, yeah, so you're
Speaker 3: impressed with that. This is really beautiful.
Speaker 2: It's the kind of thing I can imagine if you
Speaker 2: did have, like, you know, niece or nephew or whatever,
Speaker 2: like to entertain them with something other than scrolling through TikTok,
Speaker 2: which is worthy and he's lovely and he's great. But
Speaker 2: anyone could do that, you know, like not everyone has
Speaker 2: the skill of the knowledge, the prerequisite knowledge.
Speaker 3: But once you've learned primar crafts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you take the lid off a little bit, right,
Speaker 4: Oh hello.
Speaker 3: Rock and roll?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no disaster, amen, Yeah, maybe don't do this
Speaker 2: with nephews and nieces.
Speaker 4: It looks like no, I'm lady Macbeth. I was going
Speaker 4: somewhere else with that, but also all the lady. But
Speaker 4: that's almost the end of the show. I remember to
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Speaker 2: Hey all right, well, thank you for watching. We will
Speaker 2: see you next time. Take care and bye bye.
Speaker 3: Nice. That is art that proper. I think we need
Speaker 3: to watch The Papa because it's Willston. I'm an artist
Speaker 3: that's smart. That's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why oh, I'll go yeah to the bathroom.