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From Takeshi's Castle to Guacamole Bombs: TV's Weirdest Contests
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What happens when two podcast hosts decide to explore the strangest game shows on television with absolutely no preparation? Pure comedy gold.
When Hannah spontaneously suggested weird game shows as a topic mid-recording, neither of us expected to dive into such a bizarre world of entertainment. From the cult classic Takeshi's Castle with its absurd obstacle courses and foam boulders, to the ethically questionable Russian show where contestants allegedly steal cars and evade police, our reactions range from "I'd do that!" to "absolutely not."
The Japanese clearly dominate this category, creating concepts that push boundaries in ways Western television wouldn't dare. Would you participate in "Candy or Not Candy" where you bite objects to determine if they're edible? How about "Silent Library" where you perform bizarre stunts without making noise? Or perhaps "Dero" where the floor literally drops beneath you as you solve puzzles?
Our conversation weaves through physical challenges, embarrassment for entertainment, and the cultural differences in what's considered acceptable TV. We debate which shows cross ethical lines and which ones we'd actually be willing to participate in (spoiler: Hannah's fear of spiders would definitely rule out certain Australian adventures).
This completely impromptu episode captures our genuine first reactions to some truly outlandish entertainment concepts. Have a game show we missed? Or want to suggest a topic for us to discuss completely unprepared? Reach out through our social channels – we might just take on your challenge next time!
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. Today we're going to be talking about weird game shows, weird game shows, weird game shows.
Speaker 1:We had this idea as we Mid-podcast, mid-podcast. Hannah mentioned it and was like stop talking, let's do this as an extra podcast episode. So I have very quickly done something, whipped it up Very quickly, whipped it up in the last few moments.
Speaker 2:So let's see, this is the first time we've ever done one on the fly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is completely both of us on the fly. I don't even know what's in here. I've just done a Google and just like copy pasted and whacked it into a, into a document so this could go one of two ways this could go one of two ways, because I even I've not read this and I know you're not normally prepared, but now I'm going and completely unprepared as well.
Speaker 2:So this is welcome to this very, very special episode of bonus dad bonus daughter, where neither one of us are prepared for what's going to happen yeah, this is. This is proper on the fly and we're gonna have the most outrageous reactions, I guess, yeah we should have people write our episodes we should, we should does anyone want to write an episode for us? And we will do it completely on the fly, but it has to be appropriate yes, it has to be this is the problem?
Speaker 2:we? We would need someone to like check it through just to make sure it's not some sort of political agenda.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it can't be on politics, it has to be lighthearted, funny obviously, and something we can react to.
Speaker 1:I've just scrolled through the document. I've just seen one on here. Oh my God, Is that actually a game show?
Speaker 2:Okay. Okay oh my god, really, is that actually a game show? Okay, okay, from the top, then from from the top.
Speaker 1:First game show that you are you. You did have an idea about doing a live stream as well, didn't you?
Speaker 2:I did. I just don't know how to do that. I was thinking instagram and instagram live of some sort complete lives there.
Speaker 1:We would have to because of hannah's filthy. There would have to be a swear warning on that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I also have the ability to not swear. I just want to make that really clear, Although I do have a potty mouth and sometimes I do forget where I am when I know that I'm not allowed to swear. I would never swear at a wedding or a funeral or anything like that I'm pretty good or around children. The only time that I swear around children is if I've hurt myself or at them never at them, never at them unless they deserve it okay, so I've I've got 15 15 15 game shows let's see what they are and see, and let's go through them and a little bit of reaction to see what they're like.
Speaker 1:Have you not got your laptop? No, no, obviously you're going to be. I'm blind, blind, you're blind, blind.
Speaker 2:And oh no, I have got contact lenses.
Speaker 1:I was just about to say I'm not wearing my glasses. Okay, so the first one, triple blind, the first one I have heard of and I have seen it and it proper makes me laugh.
Speaker 2:Okay, Takeshi's Castle.
Speaker 1:Takeshi's Castle. Yes, I'm familiar with this. Yeah, absurd obstacle courses, giant foam boulders and slapstick chaos as contestants storm a castle. It's hilarious.
Speaker 2:It is so funny. The presenters are funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The contestants are funny.
Speaker 1:The things that come up on the screen are funny. It's almost like reminds me of batman, like in the 70s.
Speaker 2:Yeah like pow, yeah, it's very, very funny. Basically, you're watching people's uh, people failing, and I think that you know other than that. I mean, they chose to be on the show, yeah, so their embarrassment is our amusement, but they consented to that, so I feel like embarrassment is our amusement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I feel like they consented to that.
Speaker 2:Their embarrassment is our amusement, yeah, and I feel like they consented to that, so it's all good. It's all lighthearted fun, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll just have a quick scroll.
Speaker 2:We've got something similar in the UK called although I haven't seen it in a while Total Wipeout.
Speaker 1:That's exactly where I was going with it, but it's not on the list?
Speaker 2:Yeah, which is a very similar thing, but a bit more serious, I would say um, and often the people that compete on it were like athletes, weren't they? Generally speaking, it's a bit like ultimate ninja, but that which I think is even more serious than total wipeout, because they did get the odd random non-athletic person on total wipeout as well they had a nice mix of both athletic and balls on total wipeout the balls, I think, are the most famous part of people get completely hammered by them balls.
Speaker 1:I've seen bodies fly all over the show across them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah I think a lot of people think, oh, we'll leap across them. But then the little like frog jumps seem to work for a lot of people yeah yeah, very cool. Um, I would love to do it.
Speaker 1:There's a part of me that's like I love the fact that they actually film it in argentina, because our health and safety laws won't allow it I didn't know that did you not know that?
Speaker 2:no, I remember richard hammond used to yeah, he used to present it with with someone else, like a lady in the in the green room. Yeah, yeah or no. The lady no, no, no. The lady was there in argentina.
Speaker 1:He was in the green room I can't remember what her name was though just sounded like chit then oh really uh-huh yeah, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2:So Takeshi's Castle, sorry, yes, very funny, highly recommend watching it, it's brilliant do they still show it reruns? Yeah, that'd be so good.
Speaker 1:When you're inebriated, it's so funny to me it was always a Sunday morning.
Speaker 2:Just got up you know, just put that on and just like have a laugh yeah, it's very funny, it's really funny. Good show, good show.
Speaker 1:Yeah but it is. It says it is a cult classic. I can 100 confirm that's a cult class, that is a cult classic. That is a cult classic, this one I would like to see okay okay, this is russian Right and it's called the Intercept.
Speaker 2:Ooh, I think this is worth a discussion.
Speaker 1:About ethics on this one as well, okay, because I've only got a one-liner on each of these, so I don't know. I haven't got much into detail, but I think questions are asked about this one. Go on then. So this is called the Intercept. It's from Russia and essentially what the premise is is that a random has to steal a car, get chased by real police and if you evade them for longer than 35 minutes, you keep the car. It's like real life GTA. Nah, that's got to be staged.
Speaker 1:It's got well. The thing is, you can't just go for a second.
Speaker 2:You can't just steal someone a second. You can't just steal someone's car and keep it.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking. I'm thinking that the car isn't actually just someone else's. I'm thinking the car has got to be they have to steal that car.
Speaker 2:They have to steal that car there's got to be that and then maybe, if it's the dramatics of people going no, my car in Russian, oh my car. Why do we always go Transylvanian yeah, Transylvanian Dracula. Where's my car?
Speaker 1:Where's my car? Yeah, I mean okay, so take that car. Out the equation that the car is staged.
Speaker 2:I don't think we can it is a real car.
Speaker 1:It's not someone else's car. It's a staged car, but it's the evasion of 35 minutes that person is going to be driving around like an absolute lunatic, surely?
Speaker 2:also another thing as well. One how the police alert? Two are they real police and we'll be wasting police time, real police, the real police.
Speaker 1:We're wasting police time. Yeah, for a tv show, yeah yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2:I'm not keen on this yeah they got plenty. They've got too much to do.
Speaker 1:I'm just thinking how many accidents road accidents would there have been Exactly? Is it just high speed chases through Russia?
Speaker 2:It's got to be staged, it's got to be.
Speaker 1:There's no way that's real. Do you know what some of these I. This is just literally what Google has told me. I can't be real.
Speaker 2:It's got to be staged like carpool karaoke staged.
Speaker 1:It's got to be, hasn't it? It's got to be? There'll be so many accidents. Yeah, we need to look into this, okay.
Speaker 2:What's the next one?
Speaker 1:We still need to go to look at the Black Shook as well. Oh, I knew you were going to say that, yeah, one that I did put, one that we've we have seen, because we mentioned this hole in the wall.
Speaker 2:Hole in the wall, go on, take the wall on the wall is basically, um I uh some. I guess you could call it an obstacle course, but basically it moves. A a foam wall moves towards you and you've got to get your body into a shape that will fit through the hole in the wall, and the shape could be like an egyptian shape, or it could be a literal shape, like a circle or a square, something like that, and you, you might have to do it solo, you might have to do it in a team and basically, if you don't, oh I know what happens. Now you've got a pool behind you.
Speaker 1:I remember that. How do?
Speaker 2:you get here yeah so if you don't make the shape you fall in fall into water behind you because you're on like a on a thing. As the walls come into water and I think as the game progresses, the speed is quicker as well.
Speaker 1:It's like human Tetris.
Speaker 2:It's human Well the shapes?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, ok, it's a bit like human Tetris, isn't?
Speaker 2:it, but yeah, you got to make a shape.
Speaker 1:And if you don't make shape, you fall into.
Speaker 2:Joe Swash was on it, I'm sure of it really. I'm sure it was Joe Swash. Swash yeah he's married to Stacey Sullivan.
Speaker 1:Stacey Sullivan. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, was that a Saturday night thing? Yeah, something like that Saturday night. So apparently it was originally Japanese yeah, originally Japanese and then the UK adopted it. I think a lot of the weird game shows are Japanese to be fair, they do have their.
Speaker 2:they're known for their weird game shows.
Speaker 1:The one that I looked at, which I'm not even sure we could even read it out, is Japanese. Well, we can read it out we can read it out.
Speaker 2:We'll read it out, and then not comment on it.
Speaker 1:Perhaps there'll be comments, okay. Okay, I think there'll be comments.
Speaker 2:Next one yeah, next one is japanese, again standard oh my god, go on then.
Speaker 1:Oh, this one is called candy or not candy?
Speaker 2:oh, no I. What could the candy possibly be?
Speaker 1:well, arsenic, it says contestants bite objects to determine if they're everyday items or sweets.
Speaker 2:This is like cake or fake.
Speaker 1:It is fake or cake or fake. Yeah, sometimes they'll have like a pair of shoes and they'll have to bite the shoes to determine what do they do. Do they like look at them and say, yes, it is or yes it isn't?
Speaker 2:I assume. So they commit, and then they have to bite, and then they have to bite, and then they have to bite. Yeah, yeah. If I didn't like the look of something, though I probably wouldn't bite it I would not be a good contestant on this game.
Speaker 1:No, I wouldn't want to put any of that in my mouth. Actually, have you seen that video with the girl with the cockroach as? Two girls one on the side of a tube and there's a cockroach in the middle. What are you talking about? And they blow. They have to like and blow the cockroach into the other person's mouth. Have you not seen?
Speaker 2:that, no, that's horrifying.
Speaker 1:That's Japanese as well. I'm not going on that game show either.
Speaker 2:See, I would happily go on. Hole in the Wall as a contestant, that's fine. Takes there. Yeah, see, I would happily go and hole in the wall as a contestant, that's fine to cash his castle again.
Speaker 1:That'd be a right laugh. It would be, wouldn't it? What was the other one? You said, uh, to cash his castle. What was the middle one? Oh, the intercept yeah, no, I'm not doing that yeah, no, not stealing the car and driving around russia. No, lots of it on you yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2:I'm not eating. I'm not eating objects. Any show that contains ian, not for me no, you, you don't fancy that. No, I do not want to. If there's any scouts listening, TV scouts listening right now, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1:Careful.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to be. I'm just making it clear what I don't want to do To no one in particular.
Speaker 1:No one in particular at all um, sorry, that was an inside joke. That was, that was a really inside joke. Yeah so, you so, you so, actually, yeah so let's just go back to the beginning, right, right, definitely takeshi yes, yes, yeah, intercept no, no hole in the wall.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, candy eating no.
Speaker 1:No, okay, next one Okay, this one is a UK one. Ooh.
Speaker 2:But I don't think I've seen this show. If you are about to explain to me Tipping Point, I will absolutely end your life.
Speaker 1:No, no, no no no, no Distraction. Ooh, okay, this immediately intrigued yeah, it says you answer trivia while enduring punishments like getting zapped, slapped or covered in paint sounds like a good show, does, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:zapped and covered in paint is like not that yeah, I know there was.
Speaker 1:I don't want to add 10 cats. Jimmy carr's done a few silly things like carrot in the box, carrot in the box. What a legend yeah, that's brilliant, and the other one where we said how to determine which one was getting the electric shocks oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but so you answered trivia whilst being distracted by getting zapped, slapped or covered in paint. What do you think to that? That, bobby Dazzler?
Speaker 2:I mean, it doesn't seem that bad. Yeah, yeah, I'd do it.
Speaker 1:I'd do it. I suppose I'd have to look at the voltage first.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look at the voltage, Maybe the paint colour might not go with my eyes.
Speaker 1:And what exactly are they zapping?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, part of the body, that is true. Actually, if it was my arms or finger or anything, that's fine, but anything else perhaps not.
Speaker 1:No, maybe not.
Speaker 2:Especially not my heart.
Speaker 1:I'd have to be reading the small print on that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, definitely definitely. Do you have a pacemaker?
Speaker 1:No, I mean to be fair. We could play something like this, because we often play a lot of games, a lot of board games and things.
Speaker 2:I'm not being covered in paint by you. No, no, not covered in paint.
Speaker 1:But we could do like a thing. Actually, is there not a game where it's like a board game, where you can get zapped?
Speaker 2:I don't want to do that. I think there is. I'm not nominating myself for that one, I think it's called Zap or something like that. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1:The next one is called oh, it's Japanese, oh, okay, it's Japanese. It's called Silent Library. Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm already intrigued.
Speaker 1:Players perform weird, often painful, stunts silently in a library. I love the premise of this If you make a noise or laugh, there are penalties.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this sounds funny, but also I wouldn't want to get hurt.
Speaker 1:No, oh, I think that's Mitchell back. It might be. So yeah, do you fancy that? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so. Again, it would depend how extreme they go with the.
Speaker 1:With the stunts, because it does say, yeah, weird stuff would be good, but not so keen on the old painful side of things, I don't mind doing weird stuff.
Speaker 2:If they were like bob, like a chicken, through the library, I'd do that.
Speaker 1:I have no problem, but you have to do it silently.
Speaker 2:I could bob like a chicken through a library silently. You have little faith in me. No, I could all the way through the library, fine okay, hmm, yeah, japanese.
Speaker 1:Japanese again sounds japanese. Do you know? The japanese come up with some great concepts. They do, they really do, they really do. Uh, the seventh one yeah wow, this is. This is a uk one, all right one. This is called man versus fly.
Speaker 2:I thought you were about to say man versus food. I was like I don't know what that is. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Man versus fly. Fly, it's one fly. One person, one room, one minute to kill the fly with an object. What, what? Welcome to man versus fly.
Speaker 2:By the way, my mother-in-law would be so good at this.
Speaker 1:One person, one room.
Speaker 2:I fly, by the way, my mother-in-law. One person, one room. I've never seen, uh, someone take out a fly with a, with a tea towel.
Speaker 1:She's really good at it. Oh, do you know the amount of flies that were in the house yesterday?
Speaker 2:really are. They're driving me nuts yeah, don't have them doors we have a a shield yeah fly shield I was fly net I was sky net sorry, terminator, I was.
Speaker 1:Um, I was so tired yesterday it's like the week had finally caught up on me and I was sitting watching. I was watching the recruit on netflix which is quite good, quite like that, okay and I paused it when I could feel my. I was about two o'clock in the afternoon. I could feel my eyes starting to go. I paused it and I thought you know what? I'm just gonna lay on the sofa and I'm gonna have a doze. I'm gonna have a nana nap. I don't have naps. Right, I am not a nappy person, as we discovered in the dna, but I was like I was so done.
Speaker 1:After the week I laid there on the sofa and the second I closed my eyes. I really really annoying really, and they were everywhere in the room.
Speaker 2:So you're saying you would win this game or wouldn't win this game?
Speaker 1:Oh, I would win it. It would be annoying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would be annoying. Only a minute, though, that's not long, that's not long.
Speaker 1:No, it's not long.
Speaker 2:What do you win?
Speaker 1:Say Doesn't say Also, do you. And I saw one on the wall, on the wall.
Speaker 2:On the wall.
Speaker 1:Gecko, nope, I don't know, we live in England. We don't have geckos. Well, we have newts, but Gary Spider.
Speaker 2:You've never seen a spider in your house before.
Speaker 1:Nope, not, not never seen one. Our house Bullshit. Seriously, I think, lily, I proper shat myself.
Speaker 2:RIP Lily the spider catcher.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, I proper shat myself. I was out that room like a shot. One of them big old, bloody house jalopies.
Speaker 2:How big.
Speaker 1:The size of a fist.
Speaker 2:No, it wasn't how big it was about that big. A two pound coin. Yeah, that's pretty big to me. Yeah, I don't like it I don't like it.
Speaker 1:Um so back to the game shows. Sorry so man versus lie davy would not go on.
Speaker 2:I'm a celebrity absolutely not.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't even go to australia. There's a whole big thing with us at the moment.
Speaker 2:I know, I know there's that your mum wants to I've heard yeah, your mum was a bit of a point of contention in your marriage, to be honest.
Speaker 1:Yeah your mum wants to go to Australia and I ain't going, because everything there wants to kill you everything.
Speaker 2:I don't think in like the main cities. That's the case, this. But have you seen the size of this?
Speaker 1:I have but I mean, the spiders are that hide under the door handles? Why, why, yeah, but it's Australia, man, I know it's where they put all the dangerous animals in the world. They put them on one continent.
Speaker 2:Do you think that's really what they did? Yeah, maybe someone to have a back in time and did that for the rest of humanity. It's a terrifying place and you have to go over the Bermuda Triangle to get there.
Speaker 1:It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful country and I would love to go there, but there's just too many things there that want to kill you. Okay, I mean any sharks in the water or lavia and everything on land. I mean even the kangaroos. Have you seen them?
Speaker 2:they're jacked yeah, they are jacked.
Speaker 1:They are absolutely jacked. Yeah, so, but no, so it looks like your mum's gonna go with anya and I'm gonna to stay in England.
Speaker 2:Genuinely, that's fair enough, that's fair enough, they're basically a couple. Anyway, it's all good yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway, man Vs Fly, would you play?
Speaker 2:I think I'd play, but I don't think I'd do. Well, I'd like to see my mother-in-law in that room.
Speaker 1:She'd do very well, the next one it had to be, is it throwing up? Yeah, no not for me, it is eat a ridiculous amount of food, then spin or bounce until someone throws up and is it the last one standing?
Speaker 2:absolutely disgusting, I would not even watch that there would be.
Speaker 1:No, I couldn't watch that I wouldn't do it or watch it.
Speaker 2:I cannot stand being sick now.
Speaker 1:I think there's almost like a what's it a? Ripple effect there. I think once the first person goes, they're all going to go, aren't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you would smell it. Oh no, I can't even think about it. It genuinely makes me. Let me move on.
Speaker 1:Shall, we move on. Yep, yep, yep yep, yep, whoa, okay. Poor reaction Okay Am.
Speaker 2:I going to have the same reaction.
Speaker 1:Boom, this is an American one as well, boom, okay, cut the wrong wire on a trivia bomb and you're blasted with guacamole or slime thinks jeopardy meets nickelodeon whoa, whoa. Well, I just saw the word bomb. I was like where's this going? I? Was gonna make a school shooting joke.
Speaker 2:And I'm not gonna don't, don't, I'm not gonna do it don't um.
Speaker 1:I I wonder, I wonder with this one. If so, it says cut the wrong wire on a trivia bomb. So do they ask a question?
Speaker 2:I reckon it's a question A, B or C, If you get it right, you cut the wire, yeah you have to cut a wire. Cut a wire and it will then, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think guacamole to the face doesn't sound that bad. No To be honest.
Speaker 1:No, it's the same as slime. It's Nickelodeon, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2:Well, I get the thing. Yeah, I'd do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, although it's not on Nickelodeon, it says think Jeopardy meets.
Speaker 2:Nickelodeon, but I'd still do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you'd do that. Oh god, okay, I'm ready. It's japanese, okay, okay, it is. Oh the. The title is called orgasm wars. I know I can see by your face you're already like what the hell is this right? And this is the premise male, female. Yes to carry on if anybody's listening. Uh, and they might have a child, I would probably say not safe for work, no, this might have a child, I would probably say not safe for work.
Speaker 1:No, this is definitely not safe. I would probably say skip the next couple of minutes on this one minutes minutes or yeah, maybe a couple minutes. A gay adult actor tries to arouse a straight man who tries to resist. I know, hold on.
Speaker 2:That is, that is not. That's not cool.
Speaker 1:That's not why. Where in the world is this Japan?
Speaker 2:What Well? I guess they think about it a bit differently.
Speaker 1:It does say it says extremely not safe for work. And then I like the next bit. It says somehow aired on TV.
Speaker 2:Even wherever you Google that from thinks that's ludicrous. I honestly don't have any words for that.
Speaker 1:No, I've got nothing. That's just wrong on so many levels.
Speaker 2:The concept of it in itself is wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I can't. I have no comment.
Speaker 1:Shall we just move on. Skip that one. We'll skip that one. We'll move that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no comment.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Okay, In the UK they create a game show called Banzai and I have seen this Banzai Banzai and it is a parody of Japanese game shows.
Speaker 2:Right, okay.
Speaker 1:Where viewers bet on bizarre things like which granny will shop will cross the street the fastest.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay. I quite like the sound of this. Yeah, it's all, it's all luck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on how long will the monk meditate for? So you just see something random and you bet, you bet on it.
Speaker 2:I like the sound of this. Yeah, it's just it it's people watching essentially yeah, yeah isn't it?
Speaker 1:hey, hello, mitchell. Hi, how are you cares to say hello? Have a lovely shower. Enjoy your shower, sir. Um. So it does say oh, okay, okay. I just read the next bit, maybe not so good, because when it came out it did seem that it was mocking cultural stereotypes ah so there is there is an issue there yeah, I guess, I guess, I guess, betting on a which granny would cross the road quicker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know who that's hurting. No, no.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:If the grannies had consent to being on the show, then yeah, well, no, I don't think they are.
Speaker 1:They're unaware what would be CCTV. They'd be unaware. Yeah, there's ethical issues there.
Speaker 2:There's maybe a slight ethical. It depends on what they're showing. I think showing I think it does a monk meditating again. Again, if they filmed that monk meditating, they were just betting how long he was going to be. He probably consented to that video being on there.
Speaker 1:It is my thing, yeah you'd have to be, you'd have to get consent yeah, and I think I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think you can go a little bit too snowflakey with that if you wanted to, but I don't think there's too much harm in that, but from, I guess from. If it's taking the piss out of japanese shows, then yeah, I can kind of see the cultural issue there. Oh, depending on the subject of the matter.
Speaker 1:Okay, oh. So what was the show which Bob Mortimer just recently won, the laughing show with comedians Last one laughing yeah. The next one. I can see where they got the idea from there.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there were loads. I can see where they got the idea from, though. Oh yeah, there were loads of people.
Speaker 1:There's a Japanese game show called apologies, gaki no Saki. It's the no laughing batsuit game. Yeah yeah, contestants are placed in a themed scenario and must not laugh for 24 hours or they get smacked with a bat.
Speaker 2:I feel like Japan just takes it to the extreme, like you could just eliminate them from the game, no, smack them with a bat. Like I feel like there's just like they just go that step further, like go hard or go home. Japan, like it literally is that I would be rubbish at this game. I laugh at everything and anything that their show. Richard aoradi is probably one of my favorite comedians. I think he's just so funny, he's so dry. Everything he says makes me laugh without fail and I think I know that's kind of his character and stuff.
Speaker 2:but even when bob mortimer got him yeah, got him twice actually I've got him both times, yeah and it's just funny when he also laughs like it's just yeah yeah I remember when bob mortimer come into the room and richard aardy was like, oh no, I've lost the game. Like he instantly knew that he was just going to try and get as far as he could.
Speaker 1:Um, and he did a crack do you know how I think he would have won that game? No, sean lock oh, sean lock would have I think if sean lock was alive and he was in that room.
Speaker 2:He would have done it as well.
Speaker 1:He would have won.
Speaker 2:I would be surprised if he wasn't there. Yeah.
Speaker 1:He would have won, he would have tranced them all, because even other comedians say he's a comedian's comedian.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I watched on YouTube a couple of weeks ago the bit when, on 8 Out of 10 Cats with the Jimmy Carr's tax returns yes. When that happened, they said what are you talking about this week? And literally they just, and everybody just. Looked at Sean Locke. He didn't have to say or do anything, he just sat there and just just the smallest smile and that was it, and everybody lost it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lost it. Yeah, absolutely lost it. He's just, he was just so unapologetically funny at everything and it just he's such such a sad loss. He really is community because gosh, he was uh what, what legend.
Speaker 1:When he said that, uh, they said oh, you know what? What? What word would best describe you? And he said sean lock said well, it's a four-letter word. There's a c in it, there's a u in it, there's a t in it, and that word is cute. And he goes on. He says, in fact, it probably wouldn't be a word. It wouldn't be a word, a more of an idea, a fragrance. He said, you know, someone would walk past and go. That's Sean Lock.
Speaker 1:He says that smell of hot tarmac and a vet's flannel just off the top of his head.
Speaker 2:He's just yeah, what a legend that guy.
Speaker 1:I miss him so much never knew what was going to come out of his mouth and he was just an absolute genius at comedy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he really was, yeah, sad, sad loss for the cancer that took him uh, I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think it was I think it was yeah, uh, so we are now on, uh, number 13.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, sorry, oh, we we've kind of already had this. Okay, uh, it's human tetris, japan, and it does say the original version of hole in the wall, right, oh, oh, here we go, here we go, but even more surreal, oh gosh. It does just say contestants dress up in costumes and try to fit through ridiculous moving walls. Why is it strange? Even more costume based chaos than the international version. I'm surprised they didn't have like piranhas in the pool or something. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking that?
Speaker 2:why is it strange, even more costume based chaos than the international version? I'm surprised they didn't have like piranhas in the pool or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I was thinking that like oh, they fall into like knives a vat of acid. Yeah, oh, yeah and again, we're still in Japan right, okay for number 14 14, we've got two. We've got two more penultimate ones this is the penultimate one. Let's go, and this is called Dero. Dero and this is Japanese. Okay, contestants solve puzzles in rooms where the floor literally drops beneath them or the walls close in oh shit, like an escape room yeah, it says it's like. Saw, but as a game show with traps and all okay.
Speaker 2:I'm kind of on board for this yeah I would like I've always wanted to do the crystal maze, like anything like that. Just very, very cool any physical activity of that nature, especially if there's some sort of trivia element to it as well. But yeah, oh yeah, I'm all over that shit yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there, that's dear. Oh, and the last one. Oh, I think we should give an honorary mention to one at the very end just Just quickly discuss one other game show. Okay, this is called the Moment of Truth. Oh, and this is American. And contestants answer personal and often humiliating questions while hooked up to a lie detector.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, no, no. I don't like that.
Speaker 1:Wow, it says here for money, so I beat a lie detector. Oh, no, no, no, no, I don't like that. Wow, it says here for money, for money, so I beat the lie detector.
Speaker 2:I guess it's like what are you willing to embarrass yourself? How far are you willing to embarrass yourself for some money? That's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 1:It says here people confess to infidelity, theft or worse while their family watches.
Speaker 2:No, I have nothing of that nature to confess, but I would be shit on the show because I've got nothing like nothing scandalous, yeah, but wow, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1:But the thing is it's. It's what gets me is like, yeah, I mean, I, I haven't got anything like that. I would like there's nothing that in my life that I wouldn't confess to anyway. Um, but how arrogant would some people be who would probably do that and then go on to a game show to try and beat a lie detector?
Speaker 2:and ruin their own lives. Yeah, that's weird idiots.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely so. Let's just, let's just start the back, but go through them all and do a yes or no okay yeah, well, I know we started doing it, but yeah, yeah, this is what happens when you do it on the fly.
Speaker 2:Let's see if I can remember them. Takeshi's Castle was the first one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll do like.
Speaker 2:Yes or no?
Speaker 1:Yes or no? Okay, takeshi's Castle, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Inception the.
Speaker 1:Intercept. Oh the Intercept. Sorry, no, I hole in the wall. Yes, for me, yeah, candy or not candy, no, no, I wouldn't do that. No, no distraction possibly remind me what I was. That is the one where you get zapped yeah, I'm okay with that, yeah you're okay with that um silent library yeah, I'd do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's funny man versus fly yeah, I'll give it a go.
Speaker 1:I won't be any good, but I'll give it a go it was one man, one fly in one room who will win?
Speaker 2:tune in at nine, hurl no no, no no boom was that the one being smacked with a bat?
Speaker 1:uh, no, that is, they cut the wrong wire, oh yeah, trivia, yeah trivia, I don't mind uh, number 10? Definitely not. We'll move on from number 10 oh, yeah, yeah, sorry I just remembered what number 10 was. Banzai ethically questionable, but yeah, would probably go on it as long as it was done correctly. Yeah, gaki or no, saki.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, I would go on that one.
Speaker 1:Human Tetris. Yes, yeah, that's fine, dero, yes is yes.
Speaker 2:Is that the one with the bat?
Speaker 1:Yes, no, it's the one with the floor.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely would do that one.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I can't continue and the moment of truth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, there's no way I'd do that.
Speaker 1:But there is of course one other game show that is Korean, which I hope isn't real Squid Game, squid Game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's some ethical boundaries that I'm not willing to cross, yeah, squid game, yeah, um, yeah, I don't. Yeah, I'm not would?
Speaker 1:would you? Would you play squid game if there wasn't the risk of death?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean there's some elements of it that I would.
Speaker 1:I would be okay to yeah, because essentially they are just childhood games, aren't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, and I could do some childhood games.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for money.
Speaker 1:For money, for money, as long as you don't die at the end of it.
Speaker 2:As long as I don't keel over at the end.
Speaker 1:How well do you think you could do the licky one? You know where they've got the sugar.
Speaker 2:Well, it depends on the shape. I've got a pretty steady hand because I do a lot of sewing.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:I think I'll be all right, because you get a needle, don't?
Speaker 1:you, you get a needle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I might be all right. You might be all right with that. Yeah, I might be all right.
Speaker 1:Have you seen the last series of Squid Game? No, no, you haven't. No, oh, it's very good, is it?
Speaker 2:good, right okay yeah, and. I don't think we've watched since the first season yeah, I don't think, oh, it's brilliant.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, because the second season and the third season pretty much are the same season oh, I see, because it does follow directly on. So it's just, it's not like we've only seen season one. I think it's not like there's three games, there's only the two times. But the second season it ends at a very crucial point and then follows on Dun dun dun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't wait for Stranger Things, the last Stranger Things.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know I'm excited for that.
Speaker 2:I know, I want to know if Eddie survived?
Speaker 1:I don't. The thing is, I think they're going to have to do something with him because he's such a good character.
Speaker 2:I hope he survived. I don't think he did.
Speaker 1:Maybe we get an upside down Eddie version this is what I'm thinking maybe he's the big boss at the end no, I don't think he'll be the big boss, but they've got to do something with Eddie. Have you seen the trailer? No, I'm trying to avoid all trailers and spoilers oh sorry, I sent you something the other day, didn't I? I sent you an image from the trailer, sarah O'Connor oh yeah, but that's fine. Yeah, that's fine, it just shows that she's in it.
Speaker 2:She's not doing it, it's just an image, yeah, that's fine that's okay, so there you go cool. Well, if you enjoyed this episode of Weird Games that we come up on the fly, let us know if you want to write us an episode that we can also do on the fly, because we're uh, we're definitely open to that, but it has to just be.
Speaker 1:We might have to get someone to look over it first before we well, there is also the option if we don't, if we record it, we don't have to wear it that is true, that is true, that is true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that is true um, yeah, if you want to create an episode for us, we're happy to do it, but also, if you enjoyed this episode, we've got plenty more in the bank, unless you have been avidly listening up to date. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1:Also, can I just jump in as well? Just very quickly. Sorry, hannah, but are there any other ideas that anybody would like to see us do as well, like the live streaming version? You know any other things, actually, yeah, drop us a line.
Speaker 2:If that's something you'd be interested in, we would only do it based on interest, I guess.
Speaker 1:And if we could. And if we could yeah, and if we could.
Speaker 2:I know we could definitely live stream on Instagram and that would just be having another phone which we can set up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
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