Right, I've got these bad boys to ...
swap with somebody.
(bright upbeat music)
This is fellow YouTuber, Max Fosh.
And back earlier this summer
when I bumped into him at the Edinburgh Festival,
I asked him if he'd like to come
and be in a video on my channel
for some train-based fun.
Vicky.
He agreed saying yes,
although maybe he thought I'd forgotten about it.
Except that a few months later,
I came up with a splendid idea.
Some challenges for him
that involved tube seat moquette patterns.
(keyboard keys clacking)
Even though the moquette is not a perfect max,
I mean match.
Very good.
So we met up at the London Transport Museum
where I allowed him
some familiarisation time inside their shop,
where they have different seat moquette patterns,
before I then set three challenges upon him.
Pillows. Pillows, galore.
So we've got, I'm gonna try...
I guess it's my kind of job to try
and guess what lines they associate with.
I mean, you get into...
I have seen.
Do you know what that is?
I've seen this.
District and Circle line.
What about this one?
So this one is,
I think that's the overground.
Okay. Do you know what this one is?
I wanna say that's either the Piccadilly
or the Victoria line.
I mean, I didn't know you could get an entire sofa,
that's quite special.
This is the Central.
I've ridden the Central line every day, almost every day.
Well, not every day of my life,
but a lot of days of my life are spent
on the Central line,
and I can't tell if this is Central line.
You never really look down.
I think this is the Central line.
Are you gonna gimme any clues?
No.
I don't think he's gonna do very well to be honest.
I'd hoped he'd recognise some of the moquettes already
that he has failed to get.
So, I'm not holding out much hope, but we'll see.
We'll see.
You gonna buy it?
What have you found?
A wrist. Oh, these are...
Would you like me to buy you one?
Yes, please.
We could be like bracelet buddies.
Yes, absolutely.
But could you buy me,
is there a Central line one?
There is a Central line one here.
The Central line is my favourite.
All right. Well I love the Victoria line.
Okay. Okay. We'll buy these.
Thanks, Daddy Geoff.
Daddy Geoff, right.
With Max's familiarisation complete,
it was time to play the first
of three rounds of moquette based challenges.
A couple of years ago on YouTube,
I hilariously took the theme tune of Blankety Blank
and did an online quiz with friends
where I got moquette
and we called it Match the Moquette
to the theme of Blankety Blank, like match the moquette.
Yeah. So it only seems appropriate
that today we renamed it to, Max the Moquette.
Good.
It's word play.
(upbeat instrumental music)
I'm gonna show you five moquettes.
God, I'm gonna get so many wrong.
Can you tell me what they are?
Can I just say already, no.
(both laughing)
I won't be able to.
Well are you ready for Max the Moquette, number one?
I think if, can I just say,
if I get over 40% here, I'll be happy.
What is that one?
Max the Moquette number one.
Because it's got black in it,
I'm gonna say the Northern line.
It is not the Northern line. That is the old Central line.
Are you ready for Max the Moquette?
Yeah.
Number two.
That's current.
That is current.
I've seen that.
You have seen that.
That's the Elizabeth line.
He's got one right!
Yeah, okay.
That's the Elizabeth line. I dunno whether to give you,
I'll give you two points.
No, just give me, no, don't pander to me, Geoff.
(Geoff laughs)
This one is not current.
Oh, that's hard.
That is hard.
I think it's the hardest one out of the five.
I'm just gonna name a line.
You can't just name all the lines until-
No, no. I'm just, I'll just take a guess
and say that's the Metropolitan line.
It is not the Metropolitan line.
That is the, the old Bakerloo line.
I mean, I should just actually just go
on what colours are there and just make an informed guess.
Well maybe do that for the next one,
which will probably see you wrong.
Can you Max the Moquette, number four?
I mean, the only green line I can think of
is the District line.
And that is the trap that you've fallen into
'cause there is another green line on the tube map, Max.
Was there, or there still is?
There still is.
Think green.
Think green...
Have you ever been to South London?
(Geoff laughs)
Yeah, but that's kinda your Victoria line
to serving South London.
What else is down in South London?
Oh, the tram, is that the Tramlink?
Tram line. I kinda had to feed you.
You did, you did. So I'll give you one point.
That is the Tram. That is the Trams.
You've never been on the Trams?
I've never been on the Trams.
Oh, Max has never been on the Trams.
I've never been on the Trams.
And finally-
It's not part of the London underground though, is it?
It's part of TFL.
I mean it's on the Tube map, but it's not a tube, no.
Yeah, but everything's on the Tube map now, Geoff.
And this one you saw in the shop just now,
so I'd like to think you could get this.
Could I get this wrong?
But if you get this wrong,
then you won't be able to remember
what you did five minutes ago.
Can you Max the Moquette, number-
Oh, actually Number five.
The thing is, I did see this,
but you didn't tell me the answer
so I don't know whether it's right.
But you've got it right
in the shop. Okay, fine.
That's the Circle, District,
and Hammersmith and City design.
And it's the four colours that are in the maquette.
That's it.
That's good. Okay, so I've got two.
I've got 40%. So, okay.
Well two and a help for one. Ana a help for one.
So you got half, 50%. 50%.
Well done. Thank you very much, Geoff.
Are you ready for round two?
Yes.
Which requires a short walk.
Okay. Where are we going?
To the Elizabeth line.
Yeah, we took a wander through the streets of London.
Got some coffee on the way.
Went to the Dean Street entrance
of Tottenham Court Road, Elizabeth line station.
And with Max correctly standing
on the right side of the escalator,
he started to try and work out
what it was we're about to do.
What have you hidden, Geoff?
What'd you think the next game is?
Well, I mean guessing the moquette on the different lines.
It's not that.
And I was just about to judge him,
and then he redeemed himself by unprompted and spontaneously
started singing the Elizabeth line theme tune.
♪ Purple train ♪
We've made it to Tottenham Court Road.
Are you excited? This is so exciting.
This is exciting.
If you thought Max the Moquette was good,
what do you say to round two,
when we play Super Moquette Sweep?
(upbeat instrumental music)
Good, good, good.
Where is Dale?
Where is he?
I'm gonna give you these.
Yeah, really?
Yeah, you can have a pair of Elizabeth Line socks, right?
If, if.
No, if. Now what's gonna happen is that the next train
is pulling in in three minutes.
On this train, there will be six people
that are wearing Elizabeth Line socks.
Somewhere between here and the back of the train.
Among the passengers are six people.
No way. Wearing
Elizabeth Line socks.
Can you find all six people?
That is excellent.
If you've done that, that is really, really well done.
Can you find all six?
Are you up for it?
Yeah, absolutely.
In the round that we like to call Super Moquette Sweep.
Oh my God!
(upbeat instrumental music)
I'm now just thinking of my technique
as to how I'm going to look at people's socks.
Either I just go along and just try and look.
Or I try and find people
that look like they would help you out.
There is that, yeah, yeah.
I've asked six of my friends to be on this next train.
Unleashed them to the train.
Just started asking passengers
what socks they were wearing.
Are you wearing these socks? Are you looking
at people's socks?
I need to find someone who's wearing these socks.
Are you wearing these socks, sir?
No. No, you're not.
Are you sir? No?
Are you wearing these socks?
Yeah!
He's got one.
One out of six.
Hello, madam.
Are you wearing these socks?
Oh, maybe.
Yeah!
That's two!
Two out of six. Two outta six.
Thank you very much.
They're lovely socks.
They look beautiful. Thanks.
What have you found?
Is it a match?
That's a match.
It's a match.
It's a blooming match.
It's a super moquette match.
Is anyone wearing these socks?
Are you wearing these socks, madam?
No. No, you're not.
Are you wearing these socks? Hello.
Yeah!
Wearing these socks.
How did you know?
(indistinct)
Dude, I will wait for people to get off here
because then I know that whoever's remaining
will be wearing-
Strategy.
Man who's wearing a bow tie-
Is that a clue? Are you wearing these socks?
He's wearing the socks. He's wearing the socks.
(all laughing)
That is six.
That's six. Five out of six.
Here we go. Are you wearing these socks?
I'm trying to find people who are wearing these socks.
One more. You've got one more.
But at this point, we got to the end of the train
and even I hadn't spotted my sixth friend.
Did only five people show up?
He's missed on.
I missed one. We've got five.
I can't remember who my sixth friend is that I invited.
There's one person left.
This is degrading.
Are you wearing these socks?
You're not wearing these socks.
Oh, is anyone wearing these socks?
Max.
Pulling into Paddington.
I have to tell you,
I have seen my sixth friend.
Where this train terminates...
Sir, can I see your socks, please?
Yeah!
How did you miss Ben on the way down?
Well, I don't know,
but I guess I didn't get a yes, so I guess I thought,
but I've done it.
Thank you very much.
(indistinct)
Oh, thank you very much for being a sixth person.
And I've got it with time to spare.
That's 100% on round two, six out of six.
As Max says hello to my super moquette sock friends.
And then it's time to introduce round three.
In round one, where you scored 50%,
that was identifying the line, the moquette.
I didn't do very well there.
Round two, was to introduce you to the concept
of talking to random people.
Yes.
About their socks on the train.
Yeah.
Round three, combines both those elements
in a round that we like to call Sock Swap.
(upbeat instrumental music)
What do I have to do now?
Here we have a box of socks,
which you probably looked at
in the Transport Museum earlier.
I did.
Phase one, identify which lines these socks are.
Can I have help?
Travel to the right line,
and then you have to convince a person on the line
to exchange their pair of socks.
No.
For this pair of socks.
Bonus points, I mean you could just give it them to them.
But bonus points if you can get them wearing them.
Even more bonus points if you can get a picture
of them with their feet on the seated moquette
wearing the socks.
My friends that I got to wear the socks, is now...
And he's cheating a little bit, but...
So, we're at Paddington.
So I need to go Bakerloo line.
I lead Max down to the Bakerloo line.
The first person he asks, isn't so keen,
but is overheard by someone that is quite keen.
Put one of the socks on.
I'll take my socks off.
Well, I mean we- Up to you.
Either, we swap socks and I take your socks.
I'll swap socks. We'll swap socks, okay.
Keeping Guy's socks.
You've got an old pair of, wow!
This is Guy.
Guy, could you put your feet on the seat?
Yeah.
And, number one. We've done it.
Ask your helpers, which-
Where am I going? Which line is he doing next?
A quick consult with my friends
who'd now become his team of helpers
and they directed him towards Edgware Road
to get a Metropolitan or Circle line tube train.
So, would you be willing to have these socks,
put them on, and get a photo on the seat
just by putting them on?
That's the challenge I need to do today.
Yeah, sure. Our second contestant
was very happy to wear a pair of the S stock moquette socks.
Unfortunately, he wouldn't give up
the current pair of socks he was wearing, so he kept those.
Still, score please, Max.
Two from two. You've done two.
And at this point, I revealed to Max
that only four out of the six pairs of socks he had
were actually doable.
Two of them were red herrings.
So, this one is what the District line used to have
in about the 1970s.
And that is no longer a thing.
And this one, Chad, is what the?
The 2024 star, so yeah-
Is the new trains
that aren't on the network until two years from now.
Is that the one that you did with Sadiq Khan?
That video up in- Yes.
Up in Darlington, wherever it was.
So that will be the new one.
So we hopped out at Euston Square,
heading for Euston to catch an overground moquette.
Let us.
Gets to a platform.
So there's an overground train in on Platform 9.
It leaves at three o'clock, which it's 2:49 now.
Got 11 minutes.
I can do it in 11 minutes.
So Max has got 11 minutes to get onto the train,
find someone, get off again.
Hello, mate.
I'm filming something today
in which I've got various different socks
from the moquettes of the tube lines in the overground.
And I need to basically give some of the socks,
pairs of socks to someone.
But what I need you to do is put them on
and put your foot on the seat
to showcase that we've got a match.
Max? Yes, that's the one.
My sister knows you.
Oh, amazing. Good.
It does help that people know who you are.
Yeah. Could I get a close up of that?
Yeah. Hang on.
It's not that much of a match, but-
No, no, but I'm letting you have it, Max.
We're letting him have it.
Josh, thank you very much.
Cheers mate. Could I have a quick pic?
Absolutely.
And for pair of socks number four,
my team of helpers directed him to the Victoria line.
One more line. Do you guys see-
I think he's gonna do it.
Victoria line is left.
(train tracks rumbling)
The first person he asked, said yes.
And remember, here's no catch. You've got to do it,
there's no catch at all. You'll get it off at the next stop.
I love it. I think we can do it.
You don't have to get barefoot,
you can put it over an existing sock.
That's fine.
Okay, amazing.
We've done it. He's done it.
We've done it. There you go. There is the other sock.
You're more than welcome.
George, thank you so much for your time.
At this point, something brilliant happened.
People just wanted to get in on the sock love,
so the future moquette, which you can't find yet,
we were able to give away,
along with another pair of Elizabeth Line socks.
There you go, there's one.
Oh, thank you. They feel nice.
And what was your name, sir?
Carlwen. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much. Yeah, sure.
Thank you.
And what's your name sir?
Lee.
Thank you so much. Are you a fan of socks?
Are you giving him the socks?
Or are you keeping your socks?
You've got to gimme the socks.
Fine. Yes.
Yay! That is a proper sock swap.
(crowd applauding)
This is humiliating.
No, I would've have gone with sock-successful.
We went back to the Transport Museum
to match up the other old moquette
that's no longer in use.
But there is a cushion that you can buy.
And then I had a special reward to give to Max
for managing to complete all the tasks.
I wanted you to remember this fondly
for the rest of your life.
So what-
I'm definitely gonna remember this
for the rest of my life.
So what I've done Max,
is that I've designed you your own Max Fosh moquette.
Oh, that's great.
With your initials, the glasses, and the silly,
imagine this as a woven fabric
and I'll send it to you as a JPEG.
Oh, that'd be great.
Max Fosh Maquette.
It's not very good. It's really good.
But I like to think it's more,
I made the effort as opposed- Absolutely.
Oh, that's yours.
Thank you very much. That's it.
Mate, I'd love the JPEG. This is all I need.
It's been Max.
It felt good to give away some free pairs of socks
and spread the moquette love, amongst London.
I just don't know what Max did
with the three pairs of sweaty socks that he inherited.
(futuristic tune)