The rideable robot goat - Peculiar Portions Podcast #47

[@SchutzmarkeGMBH]

Welcome back to 'Calculating the average age of Simon's references'. This might be my favourite episode so far, great stuff: 0:25 Whiz Kids - 1983 1:10 LaserDiscs - 1978-2001 1:16 Reef MiniDisc ad - 1995 3:10 Smashing Pumpkins Minidisc album - 2000 5:42 Asimo stage demo - 2000 10:25 Jurassic Park - 1993 11:14 Shrek - 2001 16:33 Taylor Swift - Trouble (Goat Remix) - 2013 39:25 Harry Seacombe - died 2001 The average age of Simon's references today was 25 years. Thanks and tune in next time for more!

[@bushybeardedbear]

Wait a second there, Laser Discs, 2001...? There's no way Laser Discs lasted that long... Is there...? 🤔

[@SchutzmarkeGMBH]

@@bushybeardedbear only in Japan but I took the average of their lifespan to be fair.

[@bushybeardedbear]

@@SchutzmarkeGMBH Damn. Well, I learned something today. Thanks.

[@YraExalgaSkgs]

This is math I never knew I wanted.

[@Zyrdalf]

The average is older then me. :)

[@tenebraebr]

the "that's the diggy hole man" part made me cackle out loud. Gotta love Simon for not taking himself seriously.

[@isaaccboyd8887]

“Don’t look son, that’s the diggy hole man”

[@KyleDB150]

"By this time next year, everyone's gunna be riding a robot goat" - Diggy Hole Man I agree, but not for transport...

[@squishyushi]

The rideable goat that’s also “rideable” 🤔

[@knitterknerd]

"Sorry, which one of us is the voice of reason in this?" I had to pause the video, and I cackled like a maniac for probably a full minute. No other line so perfectly sums up the trajectory of their content over the years.

[@PoisonLaz]

"TECHNOLOGY IS THE FUTURE!" "Oh no..." Perhaps the best way to open a podcast.

[@goxio2]

hahaha the part where lewis asks if the goat can touch his own button and they pan to Simon's reaction 😂

[@Lordodragonss]

Oh gosh that groin part got me laughing so much

[@celestialnova8214]

Simon: how about a robot goat you can ride Lewis: fuck me No lewis not that kind of riding

[@dumplings769]

They played WoW for like 30 years and when the possibility of having mounts IRL shows itself, LEWIS QUESTIONS IT?

[@blargfish]

the camera guy was really having some fun in this episode

[@squeekymouse89]

Wtf is going on, this made me feel sick

[@destinydatasolutions]

You guys are absolutely incredible, every time I see a new simons peculiar portions pop up in my feed my week gets instantly better. Never stop being your amazing selfs and thank you for all you do. “I am dave! Yognaught and I have the balls”

[@FriendlyKat]

“The iBex.” “Was it made by Apple?” Lewis that joke was phenomenal! LOL! 10:52 Simons face of “The fuck is he going on about now?” while also dying inside is just hilarious! Simon shouting at his crotch sent me but the part where Simon drops the, “That’s the Diggy Hole man, son.” sent me into TEARS!! LMAO! Simon and Lewis were just super crazy this episode and I’m here for it!! Hahahaha!

[@Karnave]

Glad to have these back

[@TheLateLordKardok]

The Thylacine Simon mentions is actually the Tasmanian Tiger, which is still extinct, as opposed to the extant Tasmanian Devil.

[@Tachii31]

Not surprising he thought someone had found some though, it's like Tasmanian Bigfoot with how often there are "sightings" of them.

[@MeAuntieNora]

I actually had a split second like "oh god, did someone finally confirm those sightings?"

[@bigbodge]

maybe absence truly does make the heart grow fonder, but I think this might be the best episode yet Just 10 minutes in and we've got - 90s tech podcast - goat 2.0 - robot that apparently says "I am an idiot" - "Dogo...mage it" at 10:00 - Apple made a goat

[@Yasha277]

I would like to establish one rule with these robotics engineers: If it can't move on its legs at least half as fast as an average person, no one gives a fuck. There's all these videos of them showing off their "super advanced state of the art robots" and they're all just slow, clumsy fucks that are impressing no one. Yes, I know getting legs done right is super difficult in robotics, but it's like showing off a rocket to space that can only go 10 feet in the air. I know it's not the easiest to get to space, but we need a bit more than that before I'm impressed, you know?

[@JG-ce3pu]

Mood gorning, mentlegen

[@Scio_]

Well, we sure are mentle over here

[@squaidinkarts]

Simon: "There's lights that flash on it apparently" Lewis: "What's the point of THIS?" Simon: "So people can see it coming in the dark I guess?" lmao that was an underrated joke

[@bandicootsav2270]

This episode’s first 5 minutes was certainly a peculiar portion. Can’t wait for the next!

[@luke769animations]

Who needs technology when you’re busy digging a hole with your fellow dwarves?

[@MrSpannners]

I think Simon was thinking of the Tasmanian Tiger, which went extinct. The Tasmanian devil didn't.

[@Tachii31]

And there's always someone saying they've found evidence of one.

[@spidereye1111]

Watching this after listening on Spotify just to hear the minidisc discussion again lmao

[@WildBluntHickok]

The 2 year period before iPods was when portable CD players that could play mp3CDs were popular. At least in North America where minidisc never caught on. I used to love having 14 hour CDs. And no, portable cd players don't usually skip. 45 second anti-shock took care of that. EDIT: Smashing Pumpkins album with a different track order? It was probably Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and was using the vinyl track order. And yes, that track order had 2 exclusive songs ("Tonight Reprise" and "Infinite Sadness").

[@SmokeyEdits]

I was at a rock festival a few years back and, while SP were playing, there was a beer vendor with two chicks dancing on him. The whole crowd was watching this dude grind on these topless chicks and not the band. To be fair I was too.

[@barteke22]

The cheaper ones could barely play while walking at a faster pace, and obviously he's talking about what was popular in his area, not some place across the ocean. Not trying to argue, it's just that the way you worded it makes it seem like you're correcting him :D

[@desOOOm]

Honestly. One of the funniest episodes

[@insaneyoohoo]

Thanks for the episode lads, you all are legends

[@eaglestdogg]

Minidisc was definitely not magnetic tape. It was a disk.

[@thestonedraider8684]

lol yea becasue otherwise it would have been a Mini Floppy ...

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Yay, new Peculiar Portions episode!! Finally!

[@Snickersnek]

Oh my god when they started watching the robo-goat, and they saw how it moved Perfection

[@Meximagician]

Hey I remember at least one tech show from the 90s! The only part I remember is when they tested out home remedies for removing fingerprints from CRT monitors. One co-host said ranch salad dressing worked surprisingly well in her testing while the other said he'd rather just have a salad with the smudged monitor.

[@MaestroMike]

These guys were my childhood. I hope i get to build a gang of friends and do youtube together like you have done. even tho a few pieces fell apart its still legendary

[@devilvocano420]

Facts Theyre still making vids after like 8 years Respect

[@magiliangaming]

aaaa! i wish this series was more popular! its good ol simon and lewis bullshittery and i love it

[@SaintPablo42]

When Simon started yelling at Lewis' crotch, I thought to my self.... That's the diggy diggy hole man

[@dustygreen9233]

Please.... PLEASE Make a "Wiz Kidz" podcast. Talk about 80-1999 technology. But act like it's indeed that time. So, nothing past 2000 exist. I want Genuine excitement over a no-skip walkman.

[@bmxdude1337]

I’m so glad this didn’t disappear, I was sad last Friday didn’t get an episode. Good ol bois with their random banter. :)

[@saigyl9149]

Challenge: see if you can find a boat

[@ladyadira9541]

According to Shel Silverstein, unicorns didn't make it on the ark. 🦄

[@Evitaschannel]

That's because they're homosexuals lol

[@coldReactive]

Simon literally does the "Hello my fellow" meme.

[@TheKevinPodcast]

This video is why I’ve subbed for so many years and thrown money at these insane boys. Lots of love

[@alexjoeluke]

I had a mini disk player. Combining several albums with edits on to one disk. No skipping. I loved it for snowboarding. I miss those days.

[@lliamdavis6950]

I feel like a decent chunk of Simons PP end with hail Satan. Or I am imagining things.

[@isaaccboyd8887]

14:48 “that’s the diggy hole man son” omg that was hilarious

[@TommmyTucko]

14:52 I love it

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

As an ecologist, I hate to tell you, but... living trees can be _sources_ of methane emissions! Forests in warmer climates are methane sinks, but forests in higher/arctic latitudes are methane emitters. (As are termite colonies.) We don't know why yet, but I suspect it's because forests create their own microclimate. (Mature natural forests with tress of different ages are actually carnon neutral, not sinks.) But before idiots get the idea of felling forests in arctic ecosystems and killing off termites... _DON'T!_ Termites are key species in their ecosystems, while intact forests are incredibly important not just as habitats, but for regulating water circulation, keeping the soil protected from erosion. Forests evaporate more water than farmland, which is actually good because they create clouds and rain... large belts of forests act as "conveyor belts" that transport oceanic water vapor from the coasts inland into the center of continents, by taking up ground water, evaporating it, it drifts along with the wind, forms clouds, then the next trees are soaking up the rain, rinse repeat. The inner parts of large continents are already much drier than the coastal regions (unless there's large lakes or inland seas that provide moisture and balance temperature extremes), which is why Asia, Africa, Australia, and N-America and S-America have large inland steppes/savannahs and/or deserts at the mid-latitudes. But forests help mitigate this. Problem is, humankind has been busy felling and burning forests since the invention of fire and agriculture roughly 9,000 years ago, and really got going once the Bronze Age and Iron Age started (because lots of wood and wood coal is needed for smelting ore and forcing metal). And to think, the forests that covered most of the continents at that time had just regrown after end of the last Ice Age that ended roughly 12,000-11,000 years ago. (The Ice Age was also much drier, but for other reasons, because colder air means less evaporation but also can't carry as much moisture, and a lot of water was bound up in the glaciers and polar ice caps.) Right now, with warming oceans and warmer atmosphere, the atmosphere is going to carry _more_ moisture, but at the same time regional climate on all continents is getting drier - punctuated by sudden heavy rainfalls and floods - as we destroy more and more forests, pump up more groundwater, and forests die from drier climate, air pollution, increasing frequency and severity of droughts and fires... a vicious feedback loop.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Planting trees doesn't automatically create a proper forest, because a) if the trees only get planted to be harvested for wood a short few years or 2-3 decades later), b) often people only plant a monoculture of a single species (worse, trees that don't even belong in that specific ecosystem), c) all the trees will be the same age, which isnt how a healthy forests works But the biggest problem: WHERE do you want to plant all those forests we would need to bring back??? Because the forests that humans have cut down in the past 9,000 years have been replaced with farmland, cities, quarries, depleted grassland (once the farming destroyed the soil) or desert. And once a former forest ecosystem has reached a tipping point and transitioned into a dry grassland or worse, eroded karst (naked rock), there's no coming back.

[@benp6858]

Avocado is actually insanely poisonous to birds, so not unfeasible for fish either, weirdly!

[@KypBluemoon]

Sorry boys, 110/120 is just a minor shock. It just bounces your fingers away immediately so no real danger of death from a small outlet shock...

[@tatetm2809]

It is reef! I found that song a few years back and simon sounds pretty damn close to the singer too

[@KingCobra459]

This must be fucking wild to listen to as a podcast I want to know what my mind wouldve thought of from just their reactions to the goat video

[@griggitz487]

Alexa, give me a challenge. "OK, see if you can find a boat."

[@desOOOm]

Time for another banger

[@Scio_]

"I guess it's a lot of _sex stuff_... You know? A lot of fuckables..." Lewis says looking straight into the camera. No wonder Joe quit.

[@Scio_]

And Lewis wasn't even the one shouting at people's groins!

[@AceJackal253]

this episode has made me laugh the most by far and wide.

[@TH3S3V3R]

Ingestion of avocado (Persea americana) has been associated with development of myocardial necrosis in mammals and birds and with sterile mastitis in lactating mammals. Cattle, goats, horses, mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, sheep, budgerigars, canaries, cockatiels, ostriches, chickens, turkeys, and fish are susceptible to these conditions after avocado ingestion. Caged birds seem more sensitive to the effects of avocado, whereas chickens and turkeys seem more resistant. Although a single case report exists of two dogs developing myocardial damage after avocado ingestion, dogs seem relatively resistant compared with other species.

[@ben_machin]

Lewis’ frog: dogho meiget 10:01

[@SweetSoundP0N3]

How are these still getting wilder and more out there!? I'm all for it, but omfg.

[@whimsicalcorgi]

Play this on 0.5x speed, its even funnier! It is like they are drunk! (Somebody said to do this, and its hilarious!)

[@PirateDrive]

More like Toygoata, AMIRITE?

[@ryankunst668]

A few minutes in and inserting minidiscs into the goat already has me dying. I picked the wrong time to have a hot cup of tea.

[@thewaddlingidiots]

Why do I love the first 3 seconds of this video so much. Should be a clip on its own.

[@alfredhadesworth9253]

31:10 I thought for sure he was going to say "boat"

[@aalissysvlogs4142]

Yesss Peculiar Portions is backkkkk ❤

[@PhattyBolger]

Do Simons dream of Electric Goats?

[@111cvb111]

That goat has potential. Imagine going car form and then hitting some other terrain it can switch to its legs and run around.

[@thelettucelord]

Oh hey it's the Wiz-Kids

[@SKULLMAN9647]

Great episode, keep it up lads

[@SarahWeisters]

You had me at iBex.

[@Ash-54322]

I love these podcast please keep them up 😂

[@bradbignell9361]

10:42 this is why I love Peculiar Portions

[@bushybeardedbear]

I'm going to say the Robo-Goat is good for steel wool.

[@LowryYT]

this is going into the classics playlist

[@KyleDB150]

5:24 is low-poly gunna be a style for things in real life now? I mean cybertruck already is, maybe low-poly is the future

[@LpGamingLegend]

god dam you Simon what am I meant to do with all this lubricant >:)

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Who needs a "ridable" damn robotic goat in modern cities, when _bicycles exists since the late 19th century???_ Not to mention Segways and all the other ways to get around if you don't want to use your feet. You might as well just get a scooter or moped, instead of that goat... the goat in fact takes up "more" space vertically and the same horizontally as a Vespa, and where are you going to park that goat without it getting stolen instantly? Not to mention the goat's "feet balls" look like they'll slip on any iced-over surface. The only sensible use for that "walker robot" technology would be making four-legged wheelchairs (walker chairs?) that can climb stairs, for paralysed or otherwise disabled people. But a physically disabled person who has trouble walking also can't get their leg over the back of that robot goat.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Not to mention bicycles, scooters etc, they all have lights on front and back, to see with in the dark and be seen by the rest of traffic. And if this goat allowed on the sidewalk among pedestrians, or does it have to go into the bicycle lane on roads?? So many questions.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

There's reasons we're no longer riding around on horses or in horse-drawn carriages. Cars have their advantages... and disadvantages. But replacing no-longer-in-use-in-cities horses with an electric robot goat, yet another dumb thing that needs electricity and batteries (which means Lithium and acids, which is a whole other topic, don't get me started on the ecological destruction happening in the Lithium Triangle because the whole world wants "clean eco-friendly energy").

[@bradleycollins3976]

“A goat the size of a horse” - Simon 2022 Is that not a deer then? 😂

[@YraExalgaSkgs]

It's totally a deer. I mean look at it. The thing is a deer. Why do they call it goat?

[@TheStarchamber]

"help me step goat, help me mount you"

[@LaMainy]

Oh my God, yes. The future mechanical goats need a portable disc player. :D

[@Jash0192]

Another strong start

[@ivantumanov1015]

"Farts have to make a sound!" What about "silent but deadly?"

[@christinaMattsson]

I love listening to the podcast and then watch the video to see wtf what they are doing. Example 11:40.

[@JasonAguirre]

This was a good one!

[@PotentiallyAndy]

I literally have an electric bicycle being delivered today… now I’ve got goat envy

[@PotentiallyAndy]

Also, for the record, the mini disc was CD based (re-recordable) I had one and it was good

[@PotentiallyAndy]

Also, did anyone else pause and get Alexa to whisper?

[@xMaugrex]

Somehow I was super into the tech podcast portion of the episode

[@SaintPablo42]

I used to religiously listen to YogPods on my iPod Touch everynight before bed lol

[@TheIconsofsin]

Simon shouting at lewis' crotch killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MindlessFruit]

Just a piece of random trivia: it's not called gangplank anymore, for current ships, but rather gangway.

[@willdazey7368]

5:39 "I am an idiot" - Lewis Brindleberry

[@DjDolHaus86]

Trees are unfortunately only a temporary carbon store, it'll suck up and store plenty of carbon dioxide from the environment during its 50 year lifespan but one day it'll die and all of that carbon will be released in one way or another back into the environment. Carbon offsets for companies by planting trees seem like an easy solution to climate change but like most easy solutions they don't actually solve the problem and may actually be making things a bit worse in the future

[@netyr4554]

Planting trees is the easy part of the proccess, it's what comes after that I think mankind will fail to do.

[@lewisdean3981]

The alexa part had me worrying mine would go off every time Simon said it lmao

[@MillerMadness98]

I passed out with this episode on…..woke up to some interesting stuff in my basket 😂

[@CurtyBull]

4 months til we're all riding robot goats

[@TrinityCodex]

Plz actually make a podcast where you talk about old tech

[@user-vj3rg2jo9b]

Simon's rendition of Reef's minidisc advert led me to go listen to the original as I had never seen it. Simon is actually a more compelling singer of that line, in my opinion. I was disappointed by how Reef performed it compared to Simon, much less passion and gusto

[@amandad8922]

These make me laugh so hard!

[@LukaSauperl]

I love tech news!

[@carolinekim405]

14:47 absolutely losing it

[@zxshadowxz]

“God did have a chance” - Simon 2022

[@doomed_fireman]

Talks about the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) not being extinct (it definitely is...), shows photo of Tasmanian Devil (different, definitely NOT extinct animal). Classic yogscast ;)

[@waxyeye]

OMG, the Goat part kills me RIP me. lol !!

[@MrStephen254]

Simon said the robotic goat has Goat AI...so it has GAI technology

[@craniumbear]

I'm pretty sure minidisc had small disks inside them. wait. was it a magnetic disk? like a hard drive ?

[@Thromash]

11:55 I hope Gee watches this one day. Great Shrek impression.

[@carthius]

My favorite part is that they keep calling it a Goat