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EXCLUSIVE: BUBBLEGUN LIVE - STAR WARS EPISODE X

Sanja had warned me that the sound was terrible on this, and while it's not perfect... it's fine enough! It does peak at points, but it's good enough to go up as an episode of Bubblegun.

But get his: before that happens, Upper Tiers Gang gets the full unedited video of the whole darn thing. Thanks once again to David Walford for putting on Chunky Fringe, and to everyone who lent their voice to this.

Stop by the new Paul and Sanja video while you're over there, and give it some love.

NEW VIDEO: Can You Have a Hollywood Day… in the UK’s Movie Capital?

Afternooooooon! Right. We're experimenting with different YouTube upload days and according to analytics, Monday's as good a day as any.

So here's our new video. I can’t remember if I told you what it was? Basically, we tried to have a “Hollywood-style” day in “Britain’s Hollywood” – Elstree and Borehamwood. If you know the area, you’ll know that’s a challenge. It’s a lot of big, silly, fun. And very geeky.

Bubblegun’s on its way. Sorry it’s a touch late. Bear with me a tad longer; I’ve been stuck in a script all day, and only just come up for air.

The ep might be our Bubblegun Live – though the audio isn’t brilliant. Sanja’s done her best with it, but I’ll have a listen soon and make a call. You, as our beloved Patrons, will get to hear it one way or another.

And we’ll do Biffo’s Brain this Wednesday at 7.30pm.

I’ve got a few bits and pieces to get out of the way day job-wise this week, but the main focus will be on putting together our Halloween episode. We’ll be filming next week, unless Bad Stuff Happens, and I’m very much looking forward to this one. It’ll be a couple of days away in a suitably spooky part of the country...

I think that’s about it update-wise. Not much else to say other than it should be business as usual with BYAMPOD, Bubblegun Extra and some schweet outtakes though. etc.

Enjoy the vid! Give it a hype, a like and a comment. Love you!

AN ACTOR'S LIFE IS...

Enough of this ridiculous cat talk!

Well, that’s that thing done. Unfortunately, I didn't record a vlog, because in my early morning brain fog I forgot to take the camera and mic. Sorreeee.

I’m really glad I did it though, and they were nice people, but it’s not for me. It’s strange. I like making things too much. I want to be hands-on. This was more like being a prop.

There was no dialogue; I had to was pretend I was having a nightmare and then wake up screaming.

Now, this sounds easy… but I was basically laying horizontal and would then have to sit bolt upright over and over and over. I feel like I’ve been doing crunches all day.

Getting the timing right – I had to sit up and scream as the camera hit its mark – was way trickier than I would’ve thought, which meant a lot of takes. I'm very much of the "That's good enough" school of film-making, so this was anathema to me.

And then I spent ages with the camera right up close to my face from a few different angles so they could also get shots of my eyes twitching under my eyelids. Do you have any idea how to do reaaaaally subtle eye twitching? No, nor me it would seem.

Plus, I had to have all this fake sweat stuff sprayed on me, and it really stings when it gets in your eyes. And they filmed my bare feet too. I'm bloody glad they were presentable, and that I'd trimmed my nose hair.

It was interesting though. I'm weird in that I enjoy being on sets. Always have done. I loved just observing the technical side of it all – the lighting, the camera set-up etc. How big to make the movements when it's a close up. Which is what I went for really. But yeah. Y'know. An actor’s life is not for me I don't think, even though it did look great on the monitor.

And for those of you with concerns that I did this for free, I’m getting a bag of games and stuff apparently.

Also, I made a really good joke as I was leaving, which nobody laughed at. The Director of Photography was marvelling at how easy it was to remove some gaffer tape, and said "It just pulls off", and I said "Talking of which... Paul's off". They all just looked at me and I sort of shuffled out in disgrace.

And look now: here are some pics.

Chunky Fringe Presents: Digipedia with Chris Bell and Mr Biffo!

Happy Freitag everyone! Paul is away today, and while I am extremely tempted to fill this Patreon post with pictures of cats - I mean, he can't stop me, and won't be able to delete it for several hours yet - I am nevertheless exercising some self restraint and sharing the Digipedia video from Chunky Fringe instead. Enjoy!

P.S. The audio might not be perfect, but hopefully it's still listenable!

~ Sanja x

WE'RE ZANY TO THE MAX!

Afternoon, you lot.

Alas, the new video isn’t going to be ready before the weekend. Sanja’s only just finished transferring the footage. And also… probably no BYAMPOD this week. Sorry, gang. Something had to give.

Basically, our daughter got home from holiday late last night, so it was a late one for us, and we overslept this morning. I dreamt that Ed Sheeran said we were the only YouTube channel he watches. I don't know why. I don't ever think about Ed Sheeran, but my subconscious obviously does.

And obviously I’ve now got this advert thing to film (and then more filming next weekend!). I’m going to take our filming gear, and record as much as I'm allowed of the advert shoot. I’ll share a vlog with you once I'm done. Also, we’ll do a Biffo’s Brain at some point next week (not Thursday, Tom).

The new vid should be worth waiting for – not least for the footage we got at the end. No spoilers (ironically, given it’s very spoiler-y footage), but we took the drone up over Leavesden Studios, where they film House of the Dragon and that new Harry Potter series. I don’t watch HotD, and I won’t be watching the Harry Potter show, but it’s still kind of cool seeing the immense scale of the productions they have going on.

I await the cease and desist from Warner Bros.

FILMING PHOTOS!

So, the next vid kind of builds on one we did a few years ago during covid times (which, alas, not many people watched). But this is quite different. And also: one heck of an ending!

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AM I AN ATTENTION-SEEKER NOW?

Thought I’d share this AI mock-up of – allegedly – me, which the marketing company sent over for the R-Type Delta ad thing I’m filming imminently. Let us not use this moment to debate the rights or wrongs of them not hiring a concept artist...

Apparently, I’m also going to be in various stills ads for the game, so you might see my face popping up in unexpected places.

Some years ago, I got asked to be involved in some sort of TV show – I can’t remember what it was now, only that I'd be going around some games fair and talking to the show's presenter about retro games. They offered me a princely $50 for one day of filming, and I turned it down. I didn’t need to be on the telly that bad, so they replaced me with David Quantick.

I was a bit snide about it at the time, thinking “Wow – Quantick must either really need the money, or must really want to be on TV”.

But now here I am, having agreed over the next couple of weeks to be in an advert and as an extra (with Sanja) in a certain crowd-funded movie - that I know some of you have supported – all for no money. I don't have the time, I've had to reschedule - for the second time in a month - seeing my best mate to fit these in (love you, Pedanthony, if you're reading this). And yet I'm still doing them. So what’s changed?

Well, I have I guess. For a start, I’m not as judgemental as I was in my youth.

But really, I just think I’m more aware of the finite nature of time. I’m just keen to try things I’ve never done before while I still can. If someone asks me to be in an advert or a friend wants me to be the background of a film... it's a new experience. It's not something I ever thought I'd end up doing, so... why not? It's a story I can tell the grandkids.

NOT THE FIRST

It's not my first time being in front of a camera on someone else's set. Many years ago, I did appear with two of my kids in the background of episode of Dani's House (The Axolotl Factor, if you can find it on YouTube; though I was young and handsome then, so you might not recognise me). I've done a few on-camera interviews here and there, and when I was 15, I was in some slideshow film that was shown at London Zoo. I also recorded the voice-over for it.

I think it was called Signals, and was all about how animals communicate without language or some guff. I'm not sure, but it might've been a student project at a local university, because an old teacher colleague of my mum had asked me to be in it. It was nerve-wracking, but they also asked if I could get a girl from my school to be in it too. Having to a) Speak to a girl, and b) Risk her thinking this was a pick-up line, was more terrifying than anything else to do with it. I randomly asked Lorraine Seeley, because I was sure she knew I didn't fancy her because, I mean, I barely knew her.

Hard as it might be to believe these days, being in front of the camera - or any spotlight - was never something I gravitated towards. It's why I hid behind Mr Biffo, why I was happy being a writer, and why when I started making stuff for YouTube I initially just wanted to direct.

I've ended up where I am by accident, in part because - as Paul Gannon warned me very early on - if I'm not in the things I make, then the credit will go elsewhere. I'm glad I didn't stay behind the camera for Digitiser The Show, because god knows what sort of issues we'd have on our hands now, but I've reached a point where it doesn't phase me, and I actually enjoy it.

The same way that I found the stream-of-consciousness nature of Teletext-era Digitiser kind of exhilarating, so I've come to find it exciting to create something from the inside, in the moment. Does that make sense?

Nevertheless, it took me a while. Anchoring Digi The Show felt incredibly exposing at first, and I didn't really relax until the end of the filming week, when I was too tired to care. And those are my favourite bits of that series. I still felt a bit rabbit-in-the-headlights when I was doing the early Digi Minis. But at some point that went away, and it has been a long time since I even noticed the camera.

As I say in the new Bubblegun Extra... that kind of worries me, weirdly, that I've become so lacking in nerves or any sort of self-consciousness when performing. The last two Digi Lives I just strolled on stage like it was nothing - and felt I missed the adrenaline. Surely there should be some Rubicon to cross, some marker that you've stepped out in front of hundreds of people who expect you to entertain them? But for me... nothing. It just feels normal now.

It's almost like a betrayal of who I thought I was!

"So - wait - am I an attention seeker now?!? Is that why they asked me to be in the ad - because they think i'm a show-off and desperate for the attention?!?"

Says the man who just received this through the door for tomorrow's filming...

BUBBLEGUN EXTRA: KNACKERED CATCH-UP

So! We tried to record a Bubblegun, and you can find the vestigial remnants of it in the first 20 mins or so of this episode... before we realise I'm probably too exhausted to give it the full oomph it needs. And so, it settles down into a cosy, laid-back chat about what we've been watching, our feelings on Chunky Fringe, and what we're up to next...

CHUNKY FRINGED

Well… yesterday was unexpectedly lovely. I mean, it started with me getting a Facebook friend request from Marillion’s guitarist, which was a bit surreal.  

Before I say anything else… a huge, huge shout-out to lovely David Walford. He paid for the entire Chunky Fringe and even supplied free pizza! Though he had help from the likes of Jamie Nemeth, Chris Bell, and everyone who showed up to showcase their tech stuff, it was David who had the idea for this and pulled everything together. We really appreciate him.

With it being a free event, it was impossible to gauge numbers, and were worried that we might have more people on the panels than in the audience – I mean, that got close during the unwieldy Bubblegun! But in the end it was a healthy turnout, and the perfect number of people. Thank you to everyone who made the effort to come, especially those who travelled so far!

Digi Live was always a lot of moving parts for us, and though we can look back and be proud of them, we rarely get to enjoy it in the moment.

With the pressure off – with nothing to actually have to remember or think about - we actually got to enjoy ourselves. I mean, during the Digipedia panel with our old friend Chris – as I reclined on a blow-up sofa that progressively deflated under me (I was more or less horizontal by the end)  – I was so relaxed that at points I kind of forgot there was even an audience in front of me.

I really hope the audience enjoyed it too, and it was worth the trip. We didn’t remotely put on a “show” – this really was a live podcast recording followed by me laughing at my own jokes for 90 minutes – so I’ve no idea how entertaining any of it was. We hadn’t thought that far ahead!

But for us the main thing was that we got to actually spend time with other attendees, and go to the pub after (literally cannot remember the last time I was even in a pub) – actually have conversations instead of snippets of chats, a quick photo, and move onto the next person. That’s what we appreciated the most. Even at the ghost hunt last month we were too focused on our filming to socialise properly. This was borderline chilled!

Inevitably, there are still people I didn’t get the chance to speak as much as I’d have liked, but I’m sure there’ll be opportunities in the future. It always strikes us how nice our audience is – just decent, lovely people, who we’d be friends with regardless.

When David and Chris first approached me about doing Chunky Fringe, I was still in the midst of what I now realise was some pretty heavy grief, and I said no. I couldn’t envisage being around a crowd, having to summon the energy necessary. But they asked again a few months later, and I was in a different place. Chunky Fringe was as much a marker for me that I’ve moved forwards as it was anything else.

Even so, we’re knackered. Our already depleted social battery has nothing left to give – we desperately need to be able to find a way to recharge and give ourselves a bit of self-care, as we’ve been running at full-pelt for months now; I’m close to hitting the wall. But… we’re so happy to have had a chance to be part of Chunky Fringe.

It’s important to us to try to say thank you for the support we get – especially as we dragged ourselves through the tough times and out the other side. I know I say it a lot, but the fact that so many of you are still here, and stayed as we’ve flailed around trying to find the right formats for our videos, as we paused BYAMPOD, and just… dealt with life… we can’t stress enough how much we appreciate it. Thank you for enriching our life.

We’ll find more ways to get the Digi/Bubblegun/Paul And Sanja/BYAMPOD/Patreon family together - and Chunky Fringe and the ghost hunt have shown us we don’t need a full-on live spectacular to do so. We recorded it, and will share what we can, but first… little bit of rest.

New video next week, mind. And Bubblegun might be a tad late. No idea how I’m going to edit that shitshow together.

CHUNKY FRINGE LIVE STREAM

If you're not coming to Chunky Fringe this afternoon, two things: a) You are foolish, and b) You should be able to watch the live stream at the link below (Bubblegun at 4.30pm with Dan Does, and then me doing Digi stuff at 6pm):

https://m.twitch.tv/jamienemeth/home

You'll also get to hear an edited, slightly less chaotic, version of Bubblegun next week. It's going to be an utter shit-show (hopefully).

SPOILER FOR CHUNKY FRINGE

Just saying... you'll kick yourselves if you can't be there.

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE...

Morning, you lot.

Bong! Tomorrow we hope to see some of you at Chunky Fringe. It’s all much more low-key than a Digi Live, but the weather forecast is looking good, so the carpark will no doubt be employed for socialising! Also: the bar’s open. I’m not driving, so I’m hoping to actually have a drink this time.

Today I’m finishing up our plans for the Bubblegun Live. Even though our episodes are usually completely unstructured and mostly unplanned, we’re not risking that with an audience there, even if it’s a small one. Dan Does is going to be joining us, and you never know who else we might rope in…

I had a nightmare last night that a barber had dyed my eyebrows jet black without me asking, and I was desperate trying to get it off before Chunky Fringe.

Been a funny old week. I broke my brain finishing up a bunch of day job gigs, breathed a sigh of relief that I was done, and then… crashed into a wall with some difficult clients. It has been a lot more work than anticipated (or than I’m being paid for). We’ll record a Writer’s Club where I’ll talk about it a bit more. Been a tad stressful to say the least.

Alongside this, BYAMPOD made a bit of a stir in Marillion circles, with our recent AI experiment being shared by their guitarist, Steve Rothery. As I say in the latest episode, I’ve finally reached a place with AI where I’m firmly on the anti side. What can I say? I’m an oil tanker. Takes me a while to get to places, and, if you tell me not to do something, my inner troll will always want to do it.

Though the potential environmental costs are worryingly high, not to mention what it’s going to do to our freedoms and brains, when it comes to AI being trained on other people’s work, I admit that I am kind of… whatever.

I know that’s probably controversial, but I’ve met too many smug creative people who thought they were somehow better than “normal” people because they were writers or musicians. I get those of us in creative professions fearing for our jobs – heck, I’m one of them – but a lot of the resistance to AI always seemed - to me - to be motivated by those fearing losing their specialness.

I just think we’re all trained on other people’s work; Marillion wouldn’t exist without Genesis, Star Wars wouldn’t exist without Flash Gordon, 2001 and Dune, and Mr Biffo’s Found Footage wouldn’t have been like it was if it wasn’t for Tim and Eric etc. etc.

But… my objection is more about the lack of humanity in AI. I dare say there are artists who could use it in creative ways to produce and say something meaningful, but there’s just too much slop floating around now that it’s smothering the real art. The stuff that DOES matter. If everyone is an “artist”, it’d be like living in a world where everyone has superpowers.

I never thought I’d feel like that, but it’s only in a world like that where those who reject superpowers are going to be able to stand out.

That said, I did scroll through some Sora 2 videos and realised how easy it would be to do a new Mr Biffo’s Found Footage. Unfortunately, the thought of using it now makes me feel a bit queasy. Guess I’ll continue taking the slow road.

See you tomorrow, I hope!

Paul

EARLY(ISH) ACCESS: BYAMPOD EP 149

Even if you're not a Marillion fan, it's worth having a listen to this episode to find out why my opinion on AI has changed, why I think we should all be worried about the next few years, and how the way we consume media and entertainment is going to completely transform.

Also: temporary new theme music. Kind of.

QUIZ-ME-DO

Here you go - for those that missed it, you can now play along at home. Much fun!

REMINDER: QUIZ STARTS AT 7.30pm

And here's the link again in case you missed it: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86982496505?pwd=e3pn592BEdUd4huA3ygbxuy9mj2y15.1

Tonights topics are holes, celebrities and super-heroes...

BUBBLEGUN EXTRA: ALIEN EARTH FINALE & THE BALLAD OF WALLACE ISLAND

We might be slightly late to the party, but - Spoiler Alert! - we're finally talking about the Alien: Earth - the Season 1 finale. We also recently watched The Ballad Of Wallace Island, which was most excellent. While we were recording this episode, we couldn't remember which short film it was based on, but we can now confirm that it's called: The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island. (from 2007).

Teaaaaa??? 🫖☕️

Comment below if you'd like to win one of these four, giant, postcards from Southend, or a box of Essex Tea! We'll let the winners know via Patreon message in a few days time.

p.s. Add #teahater to your comment if you DO NOT want to win the tea.

~ Sanja x

K-K-K-K-K-K-KWIZ LINK!

Yes, it's actually happening this time. Hurrah!

Here's the Zoom link for the quiz, and we'll see you at 7.30pm tonight. As always, no pressure to speak or even put your camera on. It's just a bit of fun innit.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86982496505?pwd=e3pn592BEdUd4huA3ygbxuy9mj2y15.1

And while I have you: Chunky Fringe on Saturday, don't forget. Big ol' Digi panel, and Bubblegun Live. Plus retro games and old tech. It'll be fun, and it's free. You just have to get there.

https://www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/index.html

BREAKING QUIZ NEWS!

GAH! Obviously, we're not doing the quiz tonight, because I got too hyper-focused on finishing all my work instead. Here's some excellent news: I've cleared the decks. Big pressure lifted. I am freeeeee!

So! The quiz will go ahead tomorrow night for definite! Unless one of us dies.

7.30pm. Zoom link will follow tomorrow.

That is all. See you tomorrow night for some hot quezzies (awful).

MONDAY BLOG: YAWN?

Morning all. Happy Monday. Sorry again about taking a raincheck on the quiz. Sanja had a massive headache, while I was in bed at 5.30pm last night, and woke up at half eight this morning. Hard to explain really, but we just hit a wall at the weekend after heading down to Brighton to see my daughter. We had a nightmare journey home, and the driving took it out of me.  Couldn’t unwind.

It’s a challenge having kids in completely different parts of the country – and now that all but one of them has moved out, it is proving to be… a difficult juggling act. And do a job/film videos/make podcasts/do life stuff on top of that. We’re just tiiiiiired…

We'll let you know about the quiz tomorrow, depending on how I get on with work.

Bubblegun is going to be late this week as a result, though – oddly – most of you seem to listen throughout the week rather than on a Monday, so it shouldn’t make a huge difference. We’ve got a Bubblegun Extra on its way, though Sanja’s finishing the accounts and I’ve got a couple of urgent script deadlines - oh, the glamour! - but we’ll get it edited asap.

I actually ran into an old friend while I was in Brighton. Nathan was a fellow kids TV writer, but I've not seen him in about 10 years. We only had a quick catch up - to discuss the perilous state of kids TV - and it sounds like he's had it as bad as me - but we've arranged to meet up for a drink soon to moan and compare complaints. Which will be interesting, because he worked with Danny Robbins on Young Dracula...

The Southend video is doing nicely, so thank you to everyone who hyped it. It does seem to have an impact. Southenders discovered it over the weekend, and just as when the Nottingham locals discovered that video, there was a collective sense of humour failure. Which, you know me, I always find funny.

We’re also preparing for Chunky Fringe this week. I know at least some of you are coming. Chris Bell has been dredging through every single recovered instalment of Digi to present me with lesser-known highlights. You may think you’ve heard every story, but… not yet.

We’re also planning something special for the live edition of Bubblegun. We’re going to be there most of the day, so we’ll have time to hang out and chat. We’re not selling merch, but we do have a merch table that we’ll be sat at – and our daughter and her friend are going to be there selling stickers. She learned how to do teletext graphics just for Chunky Fringe – and she picked it up scarily quickly. See her work on Saturday!

QUIZ: OH NO! PLUS: BONUS VIDEO

Gah! Sorry, gang. We're going to have to postpone tonight's quiz. Both Sanja and I are feeling grotty and having talked it through.. neither of us are exactly up to hosting. We'll provisionally pencil in Tuesday evening, but I'll let you know tomorrow how we're feeling.

So sorry again to mess you about - we were really looking forward to it, but we've had a manic month - and we've literally not had a proper weekend off since May. Plus we have Chunky Fringe next weekend that we need our energy for. We need to find a way to make our life a little less over-stuffed so that our social batteries aren't continuously running on empty.

On the plus side, we've got a very sweet bonus video by way of an apology. It's more or less the full chat we had with the old chap on the pier in Southend. Brace for unexpected Rod Hull information! There's also something special coming for BYAMPOD listeners later...

We'll check in tomorrow and let you know where we're at. Sorreeeeeee....

ATTENTION: NORTHERNERS

Just received this query. Leave a comment if you're coming down for Chunky Fringe next weekend and can help out. Ride shares and the like have helped with people getting to Digi Live in the past.

REMINDER: QUIZ TOMORROW

That's all. That's what this post is about: quiz tomorrow at 7pm. I'll send a link closer to the time.

EARLY ACCESS: BYAMPOD EPISODE 148

We're taking a breather from F.E.A.R. for a week, given all the heavy subject matter in recent episodes. It wasn't the plan, but this BYAMPOD became about the potential impact of AI on music. Brace yourselves for some VERY different versions of your favourite Marillion songs...

IT'S AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME

Morning, y’all.

Not sure if the Wednesday upload experiment worked, given that we moved from Fridays to avoid clashing with Cheapshow… and then Cheapshow uploaded a new video last night. GAH! There’s no escape. It’s a bloody minefield.

Thursdays it is, I think, from now on.

Anyhow, please go leave a comment and a hype if you haven’t already. We’re currently at number 22 in the UK hype leaderboard, and it really helped with the ghost hunting vid. Given we’re mixed in among videos with far higher views, it’s testament to how brilliantly supportive you lot are. Hopefully the new vid will pick up some momentum.

Also… here are a couple of funny bits of, uh, kind of news.

So, I signed up to the Patreon for the newish podcast by Marillion’s keyboard player Mark Kelly… and promptly got a message from him saying he’d been listening to BYAMPOD. Obviously, on one level this is lovely… and on another level both Sanja and I almost cringed ourselves inside out. Still, it does add some weight to the theory that it was no coincidence he changed his podcast’s theme tune the week after we (well.. I...) called the original one boring!

Anyway. While we were in Southend, I got an email from a video games marketing firm which made me laugh out loud.

There’s a new remaster of R-Type: Delta coming out soon – originally released on the PlayStation – and they asked if I’d be up for appearing in a promo for it… playing the role of “middle aged man”. It was so unexpected and ridiculous that I said yes. You only live once and all that. So, I’ll be filming that in a couple of weeks, and I guess I’m an act-or now, daaarling. They even sent me some concept art, which showed me screaming in bed surrounded by old games. Hopefully it’ll make sense on the day.  

Just a reminder that we're doing our quiz night on Sunday. We'll send a link on Sunday during the day. Also, we're recording a bunch of podcasts today, so expect BYAMPOD, Bubblegun Extra and Writer's Club imminently. Speak anon.

NEW VIDEO: 48 HOURS IN SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

Behold: our new video, on our new day of Wednesdays. Go comment, go watch, and - importantly - please give this a hype! We loved putting this chaos together, and - as you'll see - it's full of unscheduled interactions with the locals... much to our eternal shame and pain.

EARLY ACCESS: RANA-RANA-RANA-RANA-RATMAN!

It feels weird having a video ready to go and not sharing it with you all. But... let's stick to our guns with this experiment. It'll be going live Thursday afternoon, so brace yourselves.

Here's another early access clip from it; our attempt to explore the folklore of Southend goes awry...

5 FREE THINGS YOU CAN DO IN SOUTHEND...

Just a little teaser of the new vid...

MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY

Gooden morningen.

New 20th episode of Bubblegun up now, if you missed it last night. I think we’re going to move the upload day to Sundays. Monday is kind of a nothing day, I think.

Also! We're doing the Live Patreon Zoom Quiz on Sunday night at 7pm. Link to follow.

Also! New video this week.

We’re mixing things up, by way of an experiment. It will be going up on Thursday (new day), but instead of sharing the whole thing with you, we’re going to share some sort of preview or highlights reel on here.

As we explained last week, early access wasn’t an issue on Digitiser, where we had a lot of subscribers, but now that we’re starting over… we get penalised if a load of you watch in advance. Yeah, I know. YouTube is stupid.

This will likely only be temporary – it’s just while we’re growing - and we may just go back to how things were if it makes no difference. Also, if you’re able to do the hype thing again… it REALLY helped the ghunting vid. We got to number 4 in the UK in the end! Let’s do this together!

Lastly, it’s less than two weeks until Chunky Fringe – and it’s completely free to attend. There’ll be retro tech displays all day, plus a Digitiser panel, and Sanja and I doing a live edition of Bubblegun that will doubtless descend into chaos.

And then: pub. Do come! It'll be all the fun of a Digi Live without the full actual Digi Live bit. Details here: https://www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/index.html

Beanus vs Mr Nudę: A Special Report

To celebrate our 20th episode, we present a special report from Mr Nude's nudist colony - where he's having some issues with his neighbour... Beanus.

Come see us at Chunky Fringe: https://www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/index.html

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