Hello.
YooHoo!
Merry, nearly Merry Christmas.
Nearly.
There'll be some that are saying it's not the 12th day yet.
No that's after Christmas
They're the ones that say Xmas aren't they're in the Christmas cards.
Yes.
Don't say Xmas, it's like Crimbo isn't it and hump day,
Don't like all that humping in the middle of the week.
[Laughs]
Anyway in a change to our, well nearly advertised vlog,
Yes.
We couldn't show you what we wanted to show you this week because the weather did a little turn for the worse,
so we had to change his plans midweek, if you follow us on social media you'll know that.
What we've done is we've got 12 questions that could be quite embarrassing to answer
and I've put them all on bits of paper like this and folded them all up
and we're going to pick them at random from my helmet.
[Laughing]
My bike helmet. [Laughing]
What were you thinking?
Nothing.
It's a specialised bike helmet.
If it's too embarrassing I'm not answering it.
You can tighten my helmet by twiddling the knob at the back there, did you know that?
Errr so right, 12th question, we got to answer them as quick as we can,
some are for me some are for Shaun and some are for both of us.
Right, if the camera moves it's because Otis is wondering about
Are you ready, give my a helmet a bit of a shake.
Go on, I'll let you pick the first one out then.
Right, so we've got to read it and answer it quite quickly.
I'm on tender hooks or is it tenter hooks?
Does that mean I've got to read it?
Means Shaun yeah, so read who it's from and the question.
It's from
That's to you.
No it says Shaun.
I thought it was me to read it and asking you.
No.
You don't know me then, [Laughs] do they?
Oh hello.
Come on, answer the question.
Errrr, I'm not the sensible one.
He's not the sensible one,
you the daft one.
No, but I'm not sensible. You are!
I am the sensible one, even though I don't come across as the sensible one aren't I?
That's right yes.
Yeah, any kind of serious decisions, I have to make
and then I'll ask Shaun and if he agrees, all good,
if he doesn't then well, I do what I want anyway.
He never takes any notice of me.
[Laughs]
Thank you Lisa, right next one is from,
It's both of us.
The most scared?
I think the one that springs to mind for me is,
do you remember when we were at Aynho on the boat
there was this huge bang about two o'clock in the morning
and we thought somebody was breaking into the boat.
Yes.
So we got our our weapon, I'm not gonna say what weapon it was,
but it was about that big and out of my secret cupboard
[Laughs]
and a torch didn't we?
Yes.
and we were looking around, because we thought someone was on the boat.
It was a huge crash.
It was a huge crash and it turned out
it was one of the patio chairs in the bow
One of the deck chairs
had just fallen down and hit the metal.
Scared the life out of us.
It did.
Can you think of anything scary but silly?
No, scary,
maybe Standedge Tunnel because I was afraid of damaging the boat, but that weren't funny.
Thank you Nigel Mullany, I'm sure there's a dirty Limerick that's got mullany in it.
Really?
Yeah.
There once was a man from...
Is he from Nantucket?
No [Laughs]
the story's about him are exaggerated, I tell you that.
Right, this is another one for us both
Okay.
and it's, Jill Purvis.
Who spends....
[Laughing]
Oh you.
[Laughing]
You have to book, if you come in our house you have to book the toilet if you want it.
Because once he's in there, [Laughing]
literally once he's in there, that's it isn't it? [Laughing]
Yes. [Laughing]
For a morning. [Laughing]
No not a morning, it's because I sit there on my phone.
You're not supposed to be on your phone, you're supposed to be doing your business.
Yeah definitely Shaun
and the smells like more intense from yours as well isn't it.
Oh thank you.
Next one is from,
It's not me.
[Laughs]
No it's not me.
It definitely, Shaun is like his Dad used to be
Yes.
and you can hear him from the other, the other district.
[Laughing]
You really are aren't you?
I'm terrible.
Definitely the loudest and he won't wear these snort strips.
They don't work.
No because you won't use them because you say they make you uncomfortable.
But they don't work anyway
They do work.
Not when I'm snoring from my throat.
No okay.
Thank you, Sarah.
Go on next one.
Next one.
Oh no, it's mine, it's me it's my turn.
No you just picked that one.
Okay then.
It's mine isn't it, Otis.
This is for us both again.
YAYYYY!
Ooooh that's a tough one isn't it?
Most memorable in a good way I think has to be,
the former MP, Edwina Curry.
Oh god yes that was funny.
Because whatever your politics and we don't do politics,
No we don't.
don't bother with the political comments.
She errr, I mean she kind of tipped us off
that she would be doing what she would do.
Yes.
But we arrived at Whaley Bridge,
That's where she lives.
Yeah, well you remember we loved the Peak Forest Canal and we were on there for ages
and she turned up at Whaley Bridge one morning when we arrived to fill it with water and basically
photobombed us while we were filming didn't she,
stood at the back of us with the dogs and was pulling faces
and a really nice lady and spent a good hour chatting to her.
Errr most annoying?
Ooooh I can't think.
I think the most annoying...
I think the most annoying was the guy...
I Leeds?
[Shaun] Errr yes,
that thought he could get on the boat, drunk
and the one that stepped on the boat to say hello to us
while Colin was stood there in the galley with nothing on.
Which is most of the time.
Which is... you just don't do that.
Is it my turn?
It is.
YAYYY! Thank you.
Oooooh!
Jan I think it was.
Another one for both of us.
Errrrr, I think it was me wasn't it?
No.
Was it not?
No it was me, I kind of screamed it at a very climatic moment on his fourth date.
[Laughing]
What the matter with you.
You just want all the attention, nobody is listening to us.
Nobody is listening to a word we're saying while you're here.
It's the Otis show this week isn't it.
[Laughs]
Yeah, you dafty.
It probably was you to be honest.
Yeah, I think it was.
I think I screamed something different.
Something about Jebus, I think.
Come on, lie down.
Your go.
Errr yeah.
Behave now,
you've got to be a good boy.
Shaun.
So you've got to read that for me heven't you?
No it's for you...
Three times.
Ohhhh it's his husband!
[Laughs]
Not a chance!
It's too.... too cold.
I think if you do, he should.
No.
[Laughs]
Well you just offended my husband now.
Well he's a paramedic, so if anything happened.
Yeah, you can come along.
You can come skinny-dipping, but bring your backpack or whatever it is that's got all your medical kit in there.
Yes.
Yeah? Right.
I don't know what I'm mixing them up, because it's totally random anyway isn't it .
It's upside down.
Both of us, from Haley.
Errrrr, I have.
I think we've we lost the GoPro
Yes.
in one of the locks on the Upper Thames.
Yeah it was attached, it was clipped to the side of the boat
and I tried to move along the boat and knocked it off didn't I?
Yeah.
St John's lock that will be eternally remembered for the one he dropped the GoPro in.
So Shaun lost that one in a lock and then we lost another one
at a winding hole on the Peak Forest Canal.
And we lost a drone.
Yeah but that wasn't our fault.
No it wasn't our fault.
The two GoPros were well your fault.
The GoPro was my fault
But the drone, one of the motors, that was on the Thames as well.
Yes it was yes.
One of the motors just failed and it fell into this huge forest,
nowhere where we could get at it, there was no towpath.
[Shaun] It ended up in a tree about 150 foot up.
[Colin] Yeah totally wild we just couldn't get to it,
but we managed to download the log.
We stopped the boat, well we actually put the boat in reverse
because it was tidal, not tidal, but because it was a river, a flowing river,
we put it into reverse and we just hovered
Yes.
and I managed to download the fault data,
send it to the drone company and they acknowledged that it was a fault with the drone
and they sent us a new drone.
Just replaced it, just like that.
Is it your go or mine?
It's yours.
YAYY!
No it's mine.
YAYYY!
My go!
He wants to go in the hat now.
Right this is for me.
Tess Lowe
This is from Tess Lowe.
Tesla?
Tess, no, Tess Lowe.
Tess Lowe.
Oooooh that's a good question.
Errrr.
Basically, you had to lead two different lives,
because back then it was illegal,
I had to keep it very very secret.
Quite difficult.
Were you [Beeeeep] the Admiral?
You can't say that!
But was you?
Noooo [Laughs]
Yeah, back in the 80's yeah it was err, it was illegal so you have to keep it quiet.
I'm quite enjoying this.
Yeah.
Not very embarrassing though are they?
Not really.
Both of us, this is Irene from London.
[Sings] 🎶 Come on Irene 🎶
[Laughs] Oh no, it's Eileen isn't it?
It's Eileen isn't it? That's obscene that you can't say that.
I've got no idea!
It just has.
Patience,
deafness,
Eh?
a certain degree of ignorance
[Laughs]
[Colin] Errrrr, I think,
I think Gladys Knight summed it up in her song.
[Shaun] Yeah I think so, yeah.
[Colin] Midnight Train to Georgia,
with the line that says,
I'd rather live in his world, than live without him in mine.
There you go,
and love!
We've both got our faults.
Nobody's listening to a word we're saying, this is definitely the Otis show this week isn't it.
Are you going to behave.
We've both got our faults, but you kind of live with them
and if you accept them,
Yeah, if you accept each other's faults, you will get along fine.
Your go.
My go.
We're having a moment here.
Oh they're having a moment, another moment, I've got it.
I've got it
and it's for you this, Colin.
Is it? Ahhh right okay.
Go on, over to Shaun then Otis.
Come on, round here.
This is from Gaz Lewis.
Ha ha, you will never know.
Actually,
No, you haven't brought some.
No I haven't borough some [Laughs]
But, I am gonna, I am gonna, I'm gonna,
we're gonna cut to a clip of me opening my secret cupboard.
And you gotta be quick.
There you go.
The mystery is a mystery no more.
[Laughing]
It is my go isn't it?
Both of us...
[Laughs]
We covered this.
I think we covered it a few weeks ago didn't we?
Yeah, somebody asked us this a few weeks ago.
Errr,
We,
we, I don't,
I don't know if we can say anything.
Errr,
we are not doing Gogglebox
No we're not doing Gogglebox
and the reason we're not doing Gogglebox is
because
we kind of like,
we still like doing YouTube,
but we don't like, we didn't like the way it was going,
did we? The familiarity and the recognition and things like that.
Yeah.
It was getting a bit silly on the canals
Yeah, we lost our privacy completely.
and some people say,
oh you can't do YouTube or you can't do TV and expect to have privacy and...
and I disagree with that.
You can.
I think you can have privacy. I think errr...
I mean one one or two people have kind of said it publicly, I think one on YouTube
that oh they expect, they expect privacy
and I think anybody can.
I mean the Royals and anybody, you can expect some privacy can't you?
Absolutely!
So yeah, we're not doing it just for that reason,
just for the privacy, because we're out of the way and we want to
keep what we're doing, but we want to just keep that bit of privacy as well.
We do, yes.
I think that's fair enough don't you?
My turn.
Oh there's not many left.
Three left.
And it's for both of us
YAYY!
And it from
Well no. With tradition.
Definitely not.
That's right yeah.
I don't care how cold it is or how many midges or ticks there are about
Religion? do you mean tradition?
I said tradition didn't I?
I thought you said religion.
I'm sure that's a tradition, they'll tell us if I said, they'll tell us if I said it wrong.
If the Kilt blew up in a strong wind, you'd be able to see your religion.
[Laughing]
Two more.
Two more, hello Otis.
I don't think you have, have you?
No never in however many decades I've been doing this.
No you haven't.
Never.
In my experience, people are generally a lot more
relaxed and accepting about nudity
when it's a one-to-one situation
n a place like a beach or a forest or somewhere that's really quiet.
I think the herd mentality of, ha ha ha ha that man's got no clothes on,
is generally a group thing or a social media thing.
I think it's because they don't know how to react really.
Well I've never ever had a negative reaction
and I must have not literally bumped into,
but been seen by probably dozens.
The only comment I've ever really heard was when Kev was onboard
and he got a glimpse of that artistic drawing of you
and he just went oh my god, that can never be unseen.
[Laughs]
That was a drawing, it was a drawing.
Actually in person no never never a negative reaction always positive.
I mean evening groups, I was once the at the beach where I used to go near where we live
and I was I was walking down that beach
and then from nowhere, well from the dunes, there was this group of about 20 old age pensioners hiking
I remember telling me this.
and they just kind of appeared in frontof me down from the dunes
and I stopped, I mean I'm, nothing on it all
and I kind of just stopped and they stopped and there was this
moment that seemed like I don't know, a minute that might have been like 3 seconds
and then one of them towards the back suddenly shouted out,
Oi Jean, I told you this was a nudist beach
and they all started laughing and then one of the other one says,
oh do we have to take his clothes off now.
[Laughs]
So no never never never.
Never an issue.
One left
One left!
Do you want to read it, Otis.
Come here let me show you it.
Have you read it?
You've read it haven't you, okay.
[Laughs]
Right, this is for Colin.
Oh right, another one for me.
This is from Rachel Sarah Taylor Roberts, blimey!
That's a long name.
Isn't it? Vlogs nearly over.
Well sometimes it doesn't even make the outtakes.
[Laughing]
I think it's either got to be
[BEEEEEP!]
Noooooo you can't say them!
Or that time that
[BEEEEEP!]
I don't believe he did that.
There's gonna be a lot of beeps there.
Or maybe
[BEEEEEP!]
Nooo!
[BEEEEEP!]
[Laughing]
Yeah that one.
Ohhhhh dear!
Awwwww, my helmets empty now!
What again!
[Laughs]
We hope you've enjoyed this,
it wasn't what we meant to do,
No it wasn't.
but like I said, the weather did a turn, you don't want to see outside.
No you don't.
It's a bit snowy.
So hopefully I can get that done and get that show next week.
Yes.
We might have a Santa hats on next week.
[Blows raspberry]
Yes we might do.
Yeah, if not we'll do something else,
but anyway thank you for watching.
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That's because they're weird.
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Ahhhh!
[Laughs]
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It's rubbish, but it's good.
Arrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!
Otis is is taking over again.
We're going for a fight no, we'll see you next week, bye bye.
Ta-ra!
[Music playing]