At last it can be revealed... the full story of our Polish flat tire, and the stupid car we were "upgraded" to. I've been hesitant to share this, because I'm in SUCH a bad mood during it - a combination of a full day of filming, followed by the stress of the tire situation. I mean, I'm very, very...
2025-04-16 10:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Monday, gang.
Don’t worry. This isn’t about Doctor Who. Might write about The Last of Us for the upper tiers this week though…
The past month or so has been reeeeeeeallly useful in terms of developing the channel, in terms of marketing it, in terms of growing it. I m...
2025-04-14 12:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostSorry. More Doctor Who. I've had a chance to reflect on that first episode, and watched it again with Sanja yesterday. Well, almost. The first 10 minutes annoyed her so much that she chose to nap through the rest. Bear in mind, she used to love the show.
So, I was thinking - hypothetically ...
2025-04-13 10:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostMorning, kids.
Skip this if you don’t want to read about Doctor Who. Sorry. It’s just one of those things – like Star Wars – that has been such a big part of my whole life, and I’m always going to have an opinion on it. I’ll never stop wanting it to be great, and a huge success,...
2025-04-12 10:53:01 +0000 UTC View PostQuick update... we had all our ad strikes lifted. Hurrah! That was quick. So... no idea whether that was an automated strike or some idiot reporting us, but either way... all okay, as we knew it would be once a real person looked at them.
However, we're able to see our analytics for the chi...
2025-04-11 13:30:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh the vagaries of YouTube and its damned algorithm!
So, now our most recent videos have been hit with “limited ads” for being unsuitable for “most audiences”. Which means they’re not getting pushed out, which means the latest one – just a mere six minutes! – is our wors...
2025-04-11 09:04:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry I didn't get this to you sooner. I was going to put it out next week, but last week's video did so badly we thought we'd make it live today instead.
This is a bit of an experiment; seeing if we can do shorter, tighter, videos in-between the bigger ones. Obviously, an hour is a lot to ...
2025-04-10 09:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Monday!
Well… we did gardening.
Over the past couple of years where we had Other Stuff going on, we kind of neglected it. It has become a jungle, and needs a lot of work to get it back to where it was. But... we made a good start, cutting it back and repairing the fence. I me...
2025-04-07 07:44:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Saturday, gang.
Latest video is... goiiiiing… sloooooowww. It’s fine. We might’ve put out too many long, heavy-ish, ones too close together. We lost a few subs at first – judging from various comments, probably ones wanting us to be funnier… and probably some who didn’t li...
2025-04-05 09:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We got the above comment on the latest Digi video. There’ll be others.
It’s a complicated thing, Digitiser, with a complicated history. It means something different to me than it probabl...
2025-04-03 19:09:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is out now for all of you. I've no idea how it'll be received - it's as far from Beanus as we've ever gone, but we felt it was important to make. We'd love a comment and a like if you're able to, as it helps push it out to the masses.
We were going to do a Biffo's Brain tonight, but I...
2025-04-03 11:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the nice things about the recent Poland eps is the comments I've had about the music. For somebody who still feels very much an amateur musician, this has been luvverly.
I wrote a ton of music - ...
2025-04-01 16:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
And here we go. What World War 2 can teach us about World War 3. We visit where the war began, take a trip around Gdansk, and head to the Polish border with Russia...
This took a lot of wrestling to get into shape, but... I'm so proud of where it has ended up. The work that went into it wa...
2025-04-01 15:29:40 +0000 UTC View PostI say again: Gyaaaah!
Sorry I didn’t get the video to you yesterday. I was driving back from seeing the grandsons when something suddenly struck me… and I realised that it still wasn’t working – but I realised why and what it needed. I’m in the process of re-editing...
2025-03-31 13:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Faaaaaarkin’ hell. So, the new video is done. I think. That was a headache.
There will be two versions of it – one that’s just for upper tiers. That’ll be an unfinished version that Sanja and I watched… and decided we didn’t like very much. I've mentioned to you that I was stru...
2025-03-29 18:08:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a short teaser for next week's episode. I'm close to done with it.
Sorry I'm behind replying to comments and messages, I've had to hyper-focus on this one to make it work - but we'll get some exclusive stuff up for you next week. Plus Sanja's been doing the accounts this past week, s...
2025-03-28 15:42:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello, you lot. Just checking in.
I’m in the midst of editing the third of the Poland videos. It’s very different to the other two – though has the same cutaway animation style. It’s more serious than some we’ve done – there are some funny bits, but in all honesty... fewer laugh...
2025-03-26 10:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Sunday. New video’s doing well – by our standards anyway – so that’s pleasant. All moving forwards nicely.
First, a warning: skip this if you’d rather just hear me talk about Beanus. Sorry. This is kind of political, but just where I’m at right now.
With these being...
2025-03-23 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Our new video is up for everyone, and it's a good 'un. This week we're taking you INSIDE - literally inside - the bunker where Hitler spent more time than anywhere else in WW2: The Wolf's Lair. We also find out some terrifying stuff about Germany's nuclear weapons projects, and interview the man ...
2025-03-20 16:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostMorning!
So, we had a big planning meeting yesterday. We even had a pin board with cards that we put up on it. We're proper posh.
Included on there was everything we NEED to do – which includes finishing Digi Level 2 as a project (sending out Kickstarter rewards, Drong’...
2025-03-20 09:42:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go, gang. The second of the Poland videos. Follows on from part one, but is also standalone. There's much I could say about it, but for now... let's just say I'm especially proud of this one.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Paul
2025-03-19 06:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey-lo! Righty. New video is done and rendering. Might take a while to finish and slap onto YouTube – for it is a big boi, with lots of fiddly bits – but I’ll try to get it uploaded tonight. If not, it...
Happy Sunday morning, chums.
Biffo’s Brain and Writer’s Club Zoom at 7pm tonight. Link to follow later.
In other news… the new vid is doing good! We – well, I - had a bit of a wobble in the first 24hrs, because it seemed to be going badly. But! I tinkered with the title and th...
2025-03-16 08:29:30 +0000 UTC View PostI've said it before, but I hate SEO and trying to game the system. Or, at least, game people’s brains to get them to watch.
We know from the metrics that the latest video began getting pushed out by the algorithm, due to strong engagement – watch time is up, likes are up, hours was up, ...
2025-03-14 11:37:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all members! The first instalment of our Poland adventure is up on the channel now. If you have time to give it a watch, a comment and a like today - heck, even a share - that would be lovely, as getting engagement in the first 24hrs really helps push it out.
This trip was months in ...
2025-03-13 13:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Boo-yah! Here's the first part of our epic Poland trip. This is technically part one, and has all the usual bickering and nonsense plus a deep dive into probably the biggest mystery of World War 2. For both of us it was a properly head-spinning trip. And it just gets madder and madder in the subs...
2025-03-12 07:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello, g-g-g-gang.
So, Po-po Vid 1 is done… barring the interview clips, which I can’t do until I’d conducted the interview, which is happening tonight. I’m a bit nervous… I love talking to people with a weird story to tell, but I find interviews quite stressful – the whole havi...
2025-03-11 14:01:21 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Monday from the Old Folk's Home.
Getting older isn’t all bad. You – hopefully – become a better version of yourself, closer to who you always wanted to be. You've learned to learn from your formative mistakes. You become more aware of how the world works – for better or worse...
2025-03-10 09:13:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We've started going through the footage we shot for just the FIRST video we intended to make, and it's clear that it'll be more than one video. Anyway - here's a taste of some of what's heading your way.
2025-03-06 16:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, hello. We are home. Now we need to go through a ton of footage that is scattered across a bunch of different devices, hard drives, and SD cards. God knows how many hours of footage we have… it...
2025-03-06 08:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post