- Icy in Exeter and Cardiff (Mike nearly went A over T) but not in London, where rat activity in sewers maintains the temp at semi-Tropical, hence people wearing turd-smeared flip-flops ('or flip-plops').
- Henry is reminded of his time in Glasgow (no jingle featuring irate Scottish people saying 'who was that prick' is forthcoming). Being called 'Big Man' is a lovely feeling. The Barrowlands compared to Mos Eisley (black-market hot and/or bent cigarettes being tasted by elderly couples).
- Ben met the rudest person ever in Glasgow, a bus driver who simply said 'No' to Ben's query (a totally clear answer). The two bus companies with their centuries-long feud must confuse visitors, when a customer has a Big Man voucher but should have had a Wee Man voucher.
- Glasgow Prestwick airport (which Henry says is Glasgow's main airport (it isn't)), where Elvis set foot on UK soil. Henry was once stuck there and everyone told to sort out a solution themselves, by lining up Big Man to Wee Man. An apology is issued to listeners in Scotland.
- Henry lived in a succession of Glasgow flatshares (callback to the 'open bin policy' of interiordesign) in the late 90s, designing Ananova, a digital character intended as a newsreader but who ended up in ATMs and supermarkets. Henry's animation has been repurposed and sold around the world (e.g. to show a woman pulling sausages out of a hat/torpedos out of a submarine (military purposes)/long grass out of a dog's arse (vet school)).
- Ananova was designed in the era of the New Lad, hence she's 'got back' (technology allowed the backside to be enhanced with ease, especially with Chris Evans whispering in Henry's ear and a High Street Honeys poster by his desk (of course, Tony Blair was also Torso of the Week)). Henry was dating the Glasgow Carmen Electra at this time (Bigman Electra). Ananova is doing well for herself: Ben saw her in the self-checkout at the Co-op.
- Henry's vision (and Tim Berners-Lee's) for the internet was a big-buttocked woman pulling information out of a tube. He realised information wasn't being dispersed (suddenly feels like a business podcast: 'Information Dispersal with Henry Paker' presented by Steve Grubenheimer) but perhaps he was working in a Russian troll farm. The CEO (absolute chump) kept changing and so Henry was able to find the information cracks (no one knew what he was doing) and would enhance Ananova's buttocks every time the CEO walked around (25 times a day for 2 years). Ben does not accept that this was 'poor information dispersal'.
- Henry's flatmate in Glasgow liked to bodysurf down the River Clyde (rancid) with friends in wetsuits. Henry came home to the worst smell ever and 'bodies' hanging from the ceiling (it was the wetsuits) and that flatmate left suddenly, perhaps swept into the Faslane nuclear submarine facility and shaved, caged, and destroyed.
- A topic close to York's heart. Is Fawkes famous internationally? Henry has noticed people don't effigy much any more. Mike is panicked at the thought as effigizing is a great stress-buster. Ananova is the opposite of an effigy stuffed with hay. Her booty is from the time of pre-jiggle technology but it does distract people using ATMs and sometimes they will book a Brazilian Butt Lift.
- Mike/Rory Stewart does a Guy Fawkes explainer (bit of fun around 1605 (five past four)) and Henry agrees that King James was both the First (England) and the Sixth (Scotland).
- In Titchfield outside of Portsmouth, where Mike grew up, they had a more specifc beef and burned effigies of the Earl of Southampton (although they still made 'Guys') with his weak, spindly chin-beard. The day would be celebrated with children dressed as phallii, leaving candy phallii at the doors of pensioners.
- Henry explains the relevant-to-today political context of 1605: France, The Netherlands, Derby is ripe, 17-years war, linen, fabric, spice, brass, who will have the hand of young Princess Isabella of Tuscany/Aquitaine/Bulgaria, the shadow of the Holy Roman Empire, Charlemagne and his horse Cabango (6-legged, 4-dicked, winged). History can be looked at through mining (tin, soil, alloys), mills (rumour, dark Satanic) and what Japan thought about it, the growing mercantile classes, King Philip of Spain, weaving. So many pustules, sometimes heraldic, sometimes beauty. The rumblings of revolution were only 150 years away: coincidence? All this context helps because history doesn't happen in a vacuum.
- Henry is distracted by a photo of puppy Pam on Mike's mug ('course it's not a random dog') outside a cricket pavillion (actually a condemned council office).
- Has there been a Hollywood movie of Guy Fawkes (just BBC TV versions). Might Ridley Scott do one? Crowe or Plemons might choose to 'Tom Cruise it' and be actually hung, drawn, and quartered (got to get the Oscar for that), but still the Oscar goes to Chalamet because he quartered himself emotionally for The Neil Kinnock Story. Henry met someone who was writing a film about Guy Fawkes but he hasn't seen him for years; perhaps he has been turned into a guy?
- Has Halloween replaced Guy Fawkes? Henry feels that the pumpkin art is now too good. When going around with his nieces, he started to get annoyed and spread the theory that they're all done by internet stencils. Pumpkin shading is very advanced and not seen in Exeter where the pumpkins have three holes made by a fist and parsnip toffee studded with dead bees (for crunch) is given to children.
- Isobel's nephew enjoyed Henry's 'Barbara' song and demanded it on a long car journey, but now knows the phrase 'I loathe you' (too intense for a 5-year-old, with genius chess-master vibes).
- Sarah from Nashville's niece and nephew were thrilled by Ben's 'Twelve Days of Ratmas' song (audio played of the kids' improv version, including a Diamond Rat). Spotify Unwrapped: Anti-Rat Noise was someone's No.1 track.
- Ben's friend Esyllt's kids sang 'Twelve Days of Ratmas' while perusing the shelves in a shop.
- Henry is inspired to write a Christmas No. 1 (Ben looks weary) as a Royalties Trio. Start in January and they've got all year to write it. Chris de Burgh is doing alright out of his No. 1 – he has a special shoe cupboard and a Ford Mondeo. Use Sarah from Nashville's children as the choir as lots of Christmas No. 1s have them. Mike picks 'baubles' as the element of Christmas that hasn't yet been sung about. Henry chooses the post-sprouts guff, the festive miasma.
- An email from Stu from Albuquerque, apropos of nothing, about some haunting words: 'Leg it, Dave's shat in the kettle'. Zero context given. The faeces was rapidly cooking in a dry kettle ('no, not dry') so no chance of getting the warranty to sort it, or take it back to Dixons. A dry kettle is very stressful, it must boil, it is boil.
- Tori emails about the Ruth Mott TV show (The Victorian Kitchen) from the 80s wherein Ruth's rule for boiling veg was: if it grows under ground, boil with the lid on / if grown above ground, the lid must be off. Hot Victorian bollocks, pre-antibiotics science. A show with a lot of aspic (pie jelly). Henry went to Aspics of Love (pre-theatre meal + Aspects of Love + encased in aspic by Andrew Lloyd Webber + kicked down a sewer), a cool restaurant on a works do (but the Beans weren't there cos this one was for the people behind the scenes) and ordered rabbit rillettes because everyone else was ordering French onion soup (Ben hasn't had it, but likes the sound of the crouton). The rillettes had a transparent fat hat on it (was it aspic?), a cold jelly fez. Henry is often the sacrificial lamb in terms of ordering something random, but at least he got a cast-iron anecdote out of it. Tori's rhyme: lid on cold for dark delight / lid off hot who seek the light.
- Alternative rhymes for veg. cooking from Joe: if it stays above soil, put the water on boil / if it goes under ground, in cold water be drowned. Also from Joe: if in earth it is grown, chill to the bone / if in soil it is not, let the water be hot. More from Joe: if it grows to the sky, boil the water on high / if in earth it is dug, the kettle unplug. Henry's complaint is that none of them sound like something a person might say.
- Bean Machine (19:19)
- Regal Zone (24:29)
- Emails (38:18)
- Barbara (39:20)
- Patreon (55:56)
- These Marlboros are off-world.
- Do you, Big Man, take you, Big Man, to be each other's Big Men.
- Prestwick has its own JFK.
- Imagine a woman with really really big buttocks pulling information out of a tube.
- I'm just going to focus in on the anecdote that we need, not necessarily that we want.
- You're effigizing on a daily basis, aren't you, Mike?
- The human eye will notice incorrect jiggle more than it will notice no jiggle.
- Sales of two large watermelons have gone through the roof.
- No more of this mawkish Bluey nonsense.
- I want a Hamptons in my jacuzzi: a jacuzzi bigger than the Hamptons.
- Baubles. That's our bit. Now Ben, you do the rest.
- I mean, why did they send us THIS?
- Wow, we're not in Pizza Express any more, are we?
- If thine hast shat in a kettle, smell the faeces and metal.
- Creating Miniature Historical Tableaux out of Herbs (46 patrons)
- Graham from the New Forest's Hammer Horror theme.