Episode 56 · 40:24
This is how I almost broke my foot
Filming in the Welsh countryside prompts a conversation about anticipation, personality-led marketing and the odd details that make content memorable. Dan and Tom then workshop product ideas ranging from debating language models to on-demand hats and paint samples.
The promised foot injury arrives as a reminder that even a cautionary story works better when the audience knows there is a reason to keep watching.
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What to take with you
- Give people a clear unanswered question early so they have a reason to stay.
- A founder’s personality can be a useful part of a brand when it supports the customer experience.
- Novel ideas become testable when reduced to one behaviour and one audience.
- A memorable story needs payoff, not just an intriguing opening.
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And that's how I nearly broke my for and we got some feedback from the from the barber Sam Sam right Sam yeah yeah we are here out in a field in Wales reporting live and I just hope it's not going to make too much noise on the uh on the recording hopefully the AI will be able to like get rid of all of it and stuff but I've just got to hold it very very still and hope that it all worked.
Perfectly well so you didn't pass record for our Preamble so Dan's actually holding the mic yeah yeah I'm holding holding the mic yeah as like a news just in and I also I have in ear right so I even look like a news presented now um when the studio is talking to me so um yeah I'm trying to make it a little bit Slicker because you usually have audio bleeds don't you so it's a bit easier when you have in ears.
It doesn't um doesn't bleed so much but I want to kick in straight away to the main show but before I kick into the main show I've been thinking about I'll probably say this in the main show as well been thinking about anticipation and how building anticipation is key for YouTube videos so how do you build anticipation so if I say something now which will build anticipation so you actually follow through to watch till the end and I'll just cut this bit and put this at.
The start so essentially this is how I almost broke my foot and then I'll cut that bit put it at the start and then I'll use that to build anticipation for a story then I'm going to tell you at the end or maybe as is just using the word so I've been thinking about anticipation D just cut the whole thing out so no one even knows what way you're going with that word yeah because I've I've re I've.
Uh redone the thumbnails on my YouTube videos to add in more anticipation into the YouTube thumbnail and into the title as well in hope that that would help kind of just bump up numbers and especially when if you're unknown for example you don't have people searching for you or looking for you like generically like stand like by standard then you want to build that like anticipation um and and not too not worry too much about the keywords and.
Stuff like that right so um so yeah I've redone a bunch of it to be like um dropping out words or like blurring out words in the thumbnail so it's like uh winners don't and it's like blurred and then you're like oh I wonder what that is and then you'll go along and watch it hopefully so you just stat yeah it's um it's also bizarre because usually like in blogs and stuff you front load the conclusion right so.
You say like I'm going to talk about this this this or the conclusion is this this this and then you like back up .1 Point 2.3 and I think that works for written form but for video form kind of works better not saying it straight away so some of my videos I'll say like the point straight away and then you'll be like interested to watch it or not but I think I should change it and just do anticipation um rather than actually.
Doing it the um front loading which you do in a written format so let's see if we cut in that um if we cut in that anticipation kind of story and then I don't tell the story till later then hopefully the people won't drop off this yeah I'm probably going to forget to say it and then it be like in the next video I'll tell you what what the story was for this video if you watch the next one.
Anticipation so nice all right let's kick into the episode and then um yeah I've got a couple of topics that we'll probably end up speak through and we'll um see what's what see where the waves take us I've got some feedback as well oh yes so and that's how I near broke my foot and we got some feedback from the from the barber Sam Sam right Sam Sam Sam yeah yeah don't be a be a stop be a door stop.
Welcome to another episode of doorstop uh thanks again for giving us some of your time today I am out in the field as a reporter because I'm holding my mic or at least it feels like that at least there's no like fish that's going to slap me in the face cuz it's windy here that's what I'm glad that it's not happening however we may be interrupted at some point just text Kim to throw fish she's actually out it's okay I may.
Be interrupted not by fish but by delivery that I have to go and get cuz it'll be a toilet and um the toilet fits into really good story yeah that's the anticipation when is the delivery going to come so what you bet in Now is it going to come in 5 minutes 10 minutes 20 minutes 15 minutes so 20 minutes anyway I wanted to before we jump into the feedback have you seen that Craig Bellamy is the new manager for Wales oh.
I heard the rumor that he's probably going to take it so that's that's very interesting I think I was listening Craig B is now the manager of Wales I think that's actually it actually I'm doing wrong ear cuz I've got nothing in I've got nothing in this year so I have to do this so yeah he's the new manager I think that's be very exciting I did wonder because it was at Burnley yeah and then as Burnley got um relegated.
Their main manager actually went over to Bayern Munich and he didn't follow and everyone was like that's a bit weird why didn't you follow for a really good job over in Bayern Munich maybe because of his family but then a couple of I was listening to um uh what's that Welsh football podcast um any W football podcast with um um and he was basically talking about ah he might be a manager for for Wales and I wonder if that was on the cards.
And that's why I didn't go but that's quite cool I would like to see oer Jones be the manager I I really rate him I really like him as a guy and a commentator tag him in this yeah Jones be the manager or be assistant manager and then take over at some point I think that' be cool step up from the what is it what dides he do again henah or whatever henah straight to the manager yeah too.
Right he's built his uh old Welsh fans now he should build his young Welsh fans with doing more of his football stuff so anyway let's jump over to the um to the studio where we've got Tom Ryland with some feedback from Sam over to you Tom he's listened to the Pod or watched it I can't remember what I sent him um he really enjoyed it he thought it was funny um he said the main thing that stood out for him oh okay here we gos no.
No no loads of great um ideas but he's like the main thing that stood out for him is his he needs to get his personality over that he's not done that from a barber and that's he's basically saying actually my I guess if you put he didn't say USP but I guess his USP his unique selling point in that regards is himself and his interaction with the client that his Barber um social media sites don't really show that at all so he's like that's the.
Thing that keeps on ringing in my ears to some extent um and then he was asking me should I put my personal stuff on my barber stuff and my barber stuff on the personal so I just said let me have a look at your personal to know what that is and how can we weave them both together because if that is you're really promoting yourself and you get a haircut on the side like you can have a mate and a chat or a laugh or whatever.
And then you can have the haircut as the bonus rather than know you're going for the perfect haircut or the quickest haircut or that is the main thing is actually you're going for a good chat or a good laugh or offload whatever is going on in life and then you get the haircut so it's like how can we weave that but then I gave a little challenge at the end as well with my feedback is how can you bottle that up for then if.
You do want to build your business and have more people working for you how do you get them to buy into that idea do you can you train it in people or do you have to recruit the right people mhm yeah that's really interesting I hope that the way that we executed the brainstorming session was as showing our personalities as well so if he's just seen a video where he's C he's like caught some personality of how we've.
Like laughed and joked together then maybe that's something to like oh actually the it's not the ideas it's the way that these guys are are laughing joking with each other that's like admirable or something like oh I don't mind watching this again you know reminds me of those other two YouTubers that like always like do their like their behind the scenes or like their intros with a bunch of laughing like laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh and then like play the thing so um yeah he.
Also said he was like it's quite weird in a good way that someone's talking about my business on a podcast so he's like I think you talk it it's like it's really weird I guess him knowing that type of thing um oh so news you should take your mic and you we're going to interview we're going to intervie you should interview the delivery driver get him on and see what he says that would be hilarious um yeah so he was really.
Interested the fact that someone is actually talking about his business and I guess talking directly to him I guess it's that personal feeling but I guess a podcast is more of a discussion of oh I could take away a little bit of that or I could take bit a little bit of that but actually when you talking about a specific business the podcast is entirely for um yourself taking it in soaking in the ideas seeing what stands out for him it's his personality um and.
It's interesting to see how do we portray that in his bra video work um let me plug back in that's we're plugging back in news just in done is back in the room so he he has just interviewed the uh deliv delivery guy and he was a he was a man of little words a few words I should say he was like name d walks off okay so deliver on podcast content then no no I think the second thing we should do is not uh the.
Is not the when the delivery arrives there number of deliveries CU this delivery was an unexpected one so there's going to be another one again you beted on the last delivery that's still incorrect cuz it wasn't the right one yeah so if you 15 minutes you might be right yeah yeah so yeah you were saying about personality and how he's kind of like wanting to include Personality yeah within his social media content maybe a website and that type of.
Thing so that's cool I think it is definitely it's one of those things it's how do you stand out from the crowd but also what do you double down in what do you like or what do you enjoy about your job and how do you make that the main keep the main thing the main thing I guess rather than like trying to compete let's say you want the quickest haircut well there might be someone around the corner that.
Does that so it's very linear in the sense of you know who's the quickest haircut because you could just measure it with a timer and then you always go to the quickest one I I think we we captured the whole like what's his USP really well like how do we bring a USP thing you either go down the entertainment route or you go down the character and personality rout and sometimes those are both the same thing um what were you saying about um.
He thought it was funny like somebody else talking about his business on a podcast what was what were your additional thoughts around there or or or was it just funny to him I think it just funny to him because I guess you go on a podcast and you might take something away but it's not like someone's talking specifically about you that he knows more of the business than we do but we're just chipping in on the bits that we know so it's probably a bit.
Of like oh what would that look like or what would that look like CU he will be thinking about the space the location what resources that he has and I'm only assuming that that's the sort of the funny bit and also if there's anybody else that's watching that has a business or a side hustle and you want ideas submit them to us and we'll basically brainstorm ideas for your business I thought it was a lot of add to an extra.
Point I think if you've got a business that you want us to rate or roast tell us which one and we'll rate it and encourage it and challenge you to move forward or we'll roast you we'll do it that way but it's whatever you want or if you want both a roasting of a rating yeah roast rate or ideas comment below it needs to be an R Done roast rate or regulations no review no Ras ride the Ryland ideas there we go.
Roast r or riid ideas yes I I think that's a good idea yeah definitely I I thought it was a great episode because again it shows our character when we're laughing and joking anding stuff on the fly yeah literally like um off the Dome as they say so yeah which is good I I think it brought our personality I felt like it was more it was the closest to us out of all the podcasts I'd say which is good because I.
Guess it's like the guys that you watch you're like I can't wait to be like them on it should be dead easy but it wasn't until what their thousand episode or whatever they can fully be themselves and have that um the like the skills of their communication on basically like a zoom call to make it feel Lively and be themselves AB absolutely I think the my first million guys have done like 300 episodes so what it's is the whole like.
When you watch somebody you're watching essentially a finished form of something so you should never try and compare against their finished form or their like iterative like 300th iteration because it's always going to feel weird however I think we've done well even in our 50 50 plus to get some of the basic principles like iterated quite quickly so for example we're not doing like crazy fancy rooms with like backlighting and stuff we're focusing more on just like flow and and execution and just.
Like a little bit of editing FY rooms I don't this this is a bed that we got back so I checked it up against the wall and I've moved rooms well yeah you I've had my mattress up against my wall as well for a while but yeah and I'm downstairs today cuz um cuz I needed to move out the room cuz we' got uh Nami staying over so but yeah it's one of those things isn't it I I I think I want.
To carry on iterating on quality of content and that's the next thing to to work on and I think the anticipation thing works really well into that of like do we build more anticipation into our podcast episodes or do we not worry and kind of do it more like a documentary kind of conversation and just find some small bit where there's a small aspect of anticipation and we we build that into like when we introduce an idea or something right when we.
Introduce a new topic we build in anticipation um and another thing I've spotted this week so um there's something called nights and weekends ah you know what there's another van here so if you beted on what what 15 minutes if you beted on 15 minutes if this guy knocks on the door it probably is going to be another one and I unfortunately can't take the equipment with me next time like live interview the door people that come to.
The door yeah we'll give you one of those mik dgis at least I can carry on yeah nights and weekends is the idea though so the concept was called nights and weekends I want you to brainstorm what you think nights and weekends is while I again unplug myself and come back short weend I have no idea what nights and weekends is is it catching up with friends is it an app to be a to catch up with people nights and weekends.
Or building up a side hustle with people that are in businesses um I guess a dating app but I guess there's loads of different options on that one um it must be something to do with Hobbies or hustles those are the two that I'm leaning towards and hopefully we'll get to find out with this anticipation for those that are on those that are listening Dan is offline he has wandered off to get his delivery if you just signed in now um he has just gone.
To the door I've told him to interview the person but he's unable to take his gear so I'm sure he'll be back shortly I feel like I'm speaking at the tennis once it's rained off and I'm just trying to do filler I guess this is way more difficult than I realized but it's good fun as you always just need to keep on talking because this will help the AI be able to focus on my camera rather than Dan's camera so then when we get.
The AI to do all the cutting for us that I think that's what Dan does it will keep on to me because I'll be talking throughout this this pause of time but yeah day and nights what do you think that occurs so my guess is Hobbies or hustles unless it's something to do with entertainment I'm not sure we'll have to see we'll have to wait and see I could hear Dan in the background it's impressive the fact that.
The mic can pick him up from his front door he has actually moved into his dining room so it's a different background it sounds like a big delivery as if he's helping someone out a lot of sliding along yeah so I guess if you want to comment on this video what do you think day and nights are without skipping ahead so you can comment as you hear this your thoughts as it' be quite good to just to build a bit of community of.
Whoever's listening to us that they can comment throughout the video and I think you can tag it with a time so then we can guess if you've guessed it right or wrong um and that is the fun of it give me two seconds with the reporter um and now we've got done with the uh weather you won't be a to hear me we got done with the weather of London thanks Tom um it's windy out there it's still raining and as I was.
Dragging in the toilet that I had delivered I bashed my back on the wooden frame of the skylights so but uh all good here back you to the back to you in the studio so my guesses were either side hustles how to network with people or or work with people or Hobbies it must be something some sort of hobbies or dating those the sort of three areas that I was leaning towards day and night nights and weekends that was great suggestions so.
It's closer to the first one so nights and weekends is I've mentioned it before in San Francisco there is a kind of like a group of people running like a startup community where they you apply to be a part of it with your idea or your side hustle and so forth and they call it nights and weekends because you'll essentially got this as a side hustle so you're working on this idea they do it for six weeks or something like that and.
They publicize you publici they force you to publicize it or they encourage you to um to publicize the idea the prototype in which case for for them they call it a toy um and then they prototype uh like getting feedback on that and trying to build an idea where you can get quick feedback and all that stuff and iteration um they do it through like live streams so they live stream their like seminars um they have a bunch of social media.
Content from those creators that are now submitting updates and then if you've done three weeks worth of updates they allow you to apply to come in person to San Francisco to do some other kind of like uh incubator type thing I'm not sure if it's similar or or different but you would then work on the idea at their San Francisco base uh for X weeks um so yeah the nights and weekends is very interesting because there are a bunch of.
People out there with ideas that are sharing publicly um and some of them are really really interesting so there's two ideas that have jumped out to me the first one is llm fight. Club so um lemon lemon melon llm um I was trying to think of the you know the police alphabet is is it no it's lima lima lima what's m melon I I don't know don't know what Alpha Beta Delta yeah I know hotel and all that stuff but anyway.
Um llm fight. Club it's basically two essentially like chat gbts fighting against each other for and against an argument and they do it for a little bit and then an llm a third chpt type character or agent then votes on which argument was the best argument so you all you have to give it is like give it some sort of argument or sort of thing to deliberate it uses A and B to deliberate and then it will also review.
The deliberation between A and B to say hey I think a won because it gave these better arguments U or these better counter arguments so I thought that was really cool and then the second idea which is way more fun dropping a hat from an apartment building so if you've ordered a hat it will drop a hat from an apartment building cuz he was like the future is going to be people in apartment running businesses from their Apartments.
So how could they deliver stuff to people that are passing on the street so he built like a a camera system that would detect a head and then if you ordered I think you had like a website where you could order a hat and then it detects the head and it basically works out where to drop the hat and it's one of those hats you know there's like rainbow color hats with like a red spinny like FR on the top so he then.
Like drops the hat to try and land on the person's head obviously if it's windy and stuff it doesn't drop but I was like what businesses and I guess this is an idea it's blown onto someone else's property yeah it keeps on going on to somebody else's ring for whatever but what businesses could you run in a block of flats that you would drop that item that they purchase so you would go to that place you'd be walking around and.
You buy and then it would drop it I mean even if you had a QR code on the like the ground floor right you scan it and then you'd be able to like link up to where you purchase it from so so that site is called dropof a hat dozone and I Feel Again these so these two ideas have come from the nights and weekends and I just think these ideas are so like like quite easy and funny to to do and quite.
Quirky right um they're quite varied so if you want ideas or creative ideas um search for nights and weekends and just go through Twitter to see what people have been posting about because they post updates uh and you can take that as inspiration but what else could we um drop from an apartment building um to make it as a as a business I was just in my brain I was just imagining different like flumes are they called or whatever like different.
Slides basically you know like when people throw bricks out of that whatever that's called tunnel thing it's like imagine if you are on the top and you got all these different pipes to every different room there and someone like orders a can and you drop it down and it just launches it into their kit or whatever probably wouldn't really go down well but that's the thing that my within within the actual apartment so if like floor I was thinking outside window.
And then back into the house so if you open the door it can fly a Coke straight into into your room that smash chaos yeah smashing records since 2024 as in like smashing windows or something yeah I'm like the Hat stuff makes sense because I'm like why would you be outside and require an item so if let's say yeah umbrella couple people by accident but but if you had it like also open if you could have a trigger point.
Where you could drop the umbrella and it auto opens just before and then it goes like lands into the road and causes a car crash or whatever yeah some some sort of like linear drop because the Hat makes sense because it's open right so you hope that it kind of like floats a little bit and it's not too heavy um because you can't be like hey are you looking for a bowling ball delivery well stand outside this block and we'll Lo a.
Bowl customized bowling ball for you very like loyes yeah yeah exactly like Tom and Jerry's Looney teams but I thought that was a great idea so I'm looking forward to following those two um ideas which will be thought of an idea I don't know think it would work but I'm trying to think of a funny name like fresh air and someone drops one mint so if you're going towards like a business meeting that you forgot to clean your teeth or.
You forgot that you call it fresh share and it's someone dropping like a chewing gum just a singular one so it's cheaper yeah a and then I was thinking definitely someone would choke if it's from far if you're like on your hand and then you Chuck it in but I guess you don't if you had like amazing accuracy and you knew there was no wind and you could drop it straight into somebody's hand and you'd be like I think that's pretty cool yeah.
Yeah yeah so yeah you drop mints of some sorts it as soon as you said mint it reminded me of like other things that you would want in a moment so for example you know those machines and toilets like it does machine it does mints and condoms basically so I was like you could also do that side of it as well but maybe maybe not like not want to land on that area straight away it be like you probably don't want.
To be meeting up with those individuals that are ordering from that point but I mean maybe that's safer than not having those items but you know who knows safety from Skies safety from the sky yeah Sky safety or Sky Net as it were but I've got a a final idea a final other thing that I've experienced this week which I basically this this episode's about good ideas and funny ideas that we've seen um but in anticipation of this last idea I wonder.
If you've got anything else to say before I say this last last one no I don't think I've got anything else short as anticipation yeah so we've been um doing a LOF conversion and one of the things around lost conversions is painting So if you wanted to paint a house or paint a wall or whatever how would you typically go by a Tom what what would you do get you don't know what color you want yeah you could use a.
Paintball C hey maybe that's what we should be dropping paintballs so guns shoot everything and then hope water pistol and paintball guns um colors that you don't know technically I think you can get a deluxe app scan the room and then tap it but I've noticed when I think we did it the color actually looks different than the when you bought the paint so actually you have to buy samples go to your house try all the three or four different.
Samples because depending on the light and the texture and yada yada yada it might change the color um or equally you might only want one layer or two layers or three layers and then that might change your mind it's normally get a couple of samples paint the section and then go back and hope that it's not too dark because then you have to reset it again that is true so yeah you're right I forgot about the 3D AR um kind of like.
Mapping the walls in a particular color which is cool you're right it's difficult to know because of lighting and all rest of it samples is yes the right one now some samples as you know is in the plastic those like plastic rollers like plastic kind of like computer cartridges like printer cartridges looking things some samples come in like actual tins right you buy them very very small tins especially the more kind of high-end paint but ultimately you wasting a bunch of paint.
You sometimes people might be able to get away with just the sample right as then they've just bought the sample to be able to do a small patch so they're like always trying to decrease the sample to make sure that you don't just buy samples and never buy the real thing so there's a new company called I'm not sure if they're new actually but a company that I've come across because Kim has bought some stuff from them is.
Called lick which is a great name for a paint brand they send out uh like these squares I actually have some of them here they they they send out squares with the um with like a sticky back plastic and you stick them on the wall so then you don't have to paint it you don't have to wait for it to dry you don't have to do multiple layers you can just stick them and then you can see straight away and they have the labels.
On them they have QR codes on the back so if you're happy with that that color that you've decided you scan it and it goes straight to the like the Shopify page Vibes to be able to buy the paint and I'm like the ex this experience is so much easier so much better rather than like cool you buy a little sample cool we're going to have to put some stuff down on the floor make sure it doesn't spash anywhere and all the rest.
Of it and yeah you have to paint it and you know we like paint Strokes it's always a bit difficult right even though I know they've got built-in rollers I was like this makes a lot of sense they don't then waste paint that they could actually be selling they've just got them as like sticky plates that they stick on the back uh of of the wall so I'm like what a great idea I didn't realize this was a thing people were.
Doing but far better than send I was hoping because you said Lick I was expecting like a little tongue that you can like stroll you can just push it up and down the wall and it's like a smaller sample than a paintbrush one that more fun that's that's almost like what are those you know those red strips that they like roll up and they're like sweets and they like chewy what are they called can't remember now don't anyway yeah it's like that you stick it.
On the wall and you like roll it down and it would be like a strip of it but I thought this lick stuff is very good and because you can peel it off and move it it would be like you could try it in one area with one particular lighting and then also move it to another area with another bit of um lighting as well so I thought yeah again we're not sponsored by lick but as soon as we bought them.
While I mentioned them they were turning up in my Instagram feed real hard so I'm like they obviously are listening in real well um because they've got very good retargeting stuff but I thought yeah lick wasting very cool experience a good experience what is it from my cost perspective is it cheaper than a sample I guess or is it just I have no idea but I assume it would be cheaper because they're just sending it out in a letter.
They're all flat right so they it would be able to go through your door with no problem you know when you get like fancy paint samples order like 5,000 then right yeah just stick them and then you'd be like I'm not going to buy the paint I'm just going to use these sticker things and just stick them all in a weird pattern um maybe they won't allow you to buy the same color cuz otherwise and also they have the the.
Brand name lick otherwise you don't W full of the words lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick and cover you w stick to be fair that would probably be quite popular with um oh what's it called what's that game called I've literally forgotten with all the boxes and you you build stuff Minecraft Minecraft yeah it would look like that if you just had loads of different colors using the squares and stuff it probably it would yeah and then my final final.
Thing that I've seen recently is Amazon doing ond demand merch which I think is beautifully clever so they're doing it for like celebrities music artists of merch through Amazon and then you can apply to uh create your own shop I didn't I applied and I didn't get approval so they must be doing it for a very very small amount of people so jula's pushing her stuff recently is that to push this new maybe maybe um but yeah the whole.
Like uh Amazon merch on demand is a very clever service it's the whole like you know when you spin off like secondary Brands because you've already got the logistics sorted right so they'll be able to print stuff because they know everybody that's probably producing the stuff within their ecosystem anyway to like build it out um so I thought it was a very cool idea I was trying to sign up to see if I could get on board but.
They've declined it I I mustn't be like important enough yet um cuz I just wanted to try it and see but they do like pillows and t-shirts and hoodies and stuff so I wonder if and when the doctor surgeries will go through Amazon because they deliver to probably every household and then you don't need to go and collect it it's just a random thought yeah phy doing deliveries is is by far one of the best things because you can do it like you know you're going.
To need this in a subscription basis right so you know you're going to need it every month because there like 30 days or whatever or on average right so yeah it makes sense to to deliver but usually people if you spend 50 Quid trouble is is like do this person still need this medication or are they better and you're just still sending it out because it's the subscriptions you still need to check in on them every now and.
Again well but that's interesting because I he that about I think Coca-Cola did that that because their brand was so big and popular and because they delivered to random locations that at one point they were delivering medication because they had a better transport process than I think um the public use I guess I just thought yeah the private private infrastructure for deliveries I think it makes a a lot of sense a lot of sense so yeah Amazon moving into merch makes sense and that's.
Quite clever um so yeah feel like that's where you should be like and now we've launched our merch store but well if they' proved me I would have been like and here's my merch store but sadly they haven't so I still have to wait a little bit until until that happens so yeah so now you've waited this long for the actual conclusion of the anticipation so um Kim had a couple of gigs uh this weekend we stayed over in this nice.
Place which has a notice above the above the um bath to say this bath has been coated with anti-slip pain now I think that's the stupidest thing ever because it still was slippy because lo and behold one of my one of my worst nightmares is like slipping in a bath knocking yourself out being naked and and somebody has to like rescue you isn't there some like film where that happens right where you just like KO naked You Can't Hide yourself and it's.
Like maybe sounds like oh is it something like that and it was the um the oh wow that guy oh what's he called blond haad guy and is he naked or is he like knock out no he's not naked but he's in a sauner but then the two guys that pick him out of the sauna is naked oh yeah they're like naked right yeah because he basically he's I remember the scene he's in a hot tub he he sleeps in the hot tub so much so that.
He literally has no muscle capability to like get himself out of the sauna and then he's like help help so he is kind of still conscious right and then two naked guys come over and like help him out of the out of the hot tub right well thankfully it didn't require the latter part for me but I was in the shower on this anti- slip bit of the shower which is stupid got out of the shower because I realized my face wash was left on the.
Side as you do very carefully and I didn't lower myself low enough to like lower my center of gravity I then stepped back in and as I stepped back in my feet like literally left from underneath me I kick the the toilet so my toe is like poop poople purple and purple it's poo and purple cuz I kicked the toilet so much that it cracked and poo no I didn't so my my toe is purple and my inner leg so pretend.
You've sat in the bath with your leg still out the bath so my inner thigh is bruised and my shoulder blades are all bruised and um and I'm like thankfully I didn't hit my head and KO myself because I was like I don't want to be like wake up to be like some um Hotel staff trying to like cover me up you know like while clean around yeah it's the worst thing like it reminds me when I um when I went.
To hospital for like cutting my like Action Man part right the upside down Action Man part um the nurse was like oh I didn't realize the left is lower than the right and I'm like what what kind of a thing you're gonna say to a kid right yeah you're like a 12-year-old kid and some like male nurse comes in and comments on your junk which is uh never helpful never never warranted at all so I was like flashbacks to be like is.
Somebody going to come in and I'll be knocked out but I'll actually still be able to hear them commenting on my junk be like oh no wonder he slept or whatever you know like this stupid stuff but yeah thankfully I was able to like get myself up and unlock the door because Kim was like what was that massive bang I was like yeah it was me falling I did knock my head but um yeah my uh worst nightmare didn't come to.
Were you able to move okay or is it just bruising yeah it was just bruising I I basically then had to The Show Must Go On so I had to drive to another gig and do the the do the second gig I wasn't playing thankfully if I was drum and I probably would have like skipped out on it um but yeah walking is a bit sore on my left foot because of it it being my to it's not broken so I'm like cool it's.
Just character building right so um if it's not broken it's character building um so yeah that was my was it druming drumming in the first gig no I thankfully wasn't drumming in either of the gigs um it was the Roadie yeah the the driver the Roadie the sound guy the muscle guy um stopping those fans from uh jumping so so yeah so um that was my story of slipping in a bath so I hope it was worth the anticipation worth the.
Wait find out message find out comment like yeah even holding this microphone is making my arms hurt probably because I'm still sore it's just as if I pulled my muscles across all of my like back essentially yeah I'm glad I didn't pull my neck too much even though it hurts to do this still um but it's like the classic thing like doctor it hurts when I do this and he's like well don't do it don't do it yeah don't do it like Nik.
Say do it but we're gonna say don't do it so so if you're out there today in a hotel be careful of those baths that have been have been labeled as we've been painting this with anti- slip it's probably lying to you um was it someone that just changed it when really it's like we painted it with slip paint rather than just someone's like I'm going to put atie in front of it I I I don't know I don't know but it reminds.
Me of like you know when sure it wasn't a lick sign that someone just yeah they were just testing out the paint to be like oh it does work some left it there yeah it reminds me of you know when Homer Simpson is like in the bath and Bart Simpson comes in and breaks a chair over his back and H's like ah what did you do that for and he was like oh it's cuz his his friend's dad like took a.
Chair to the back and was fine kind of thing broke a chair over his back and he's like the strong guy right and he's fine so he wanted to do it over Homer and's like H like why did you do that and it's like that's literally how I felt in the shower like slipped smashed myself like H why did you do that so I just have my to blame in gravity CU I didn't lower myself enough so don't slip.
In showers yeah so on that point stay safe and until next time keep hammering those Nails bye for now [Music].