Hello!!! Here it is! Sorry it's late Sir/Miss.
(Do kids still call their teachers "Sir" and "Miss"? Seems like the sort of thing they should have changed by now, but I don't think they have. What would they replace it with? First names don't seem right. One of my teachers was called Steve. Maybe they should go with "Teach" like the kids in the Beano.)
I'm getting side-tracked. The...
Eeek! Oh gawd!!! So so sorry!! First it was meant to already be here when the video was up. Then it turned out it was gonna be about 2 hours away. And NOW it turns out it won't be ready tonight and it's not going to be ready until tomorrow morning at the very earliest. (Really long and dull story about a file I need to download that's taking FOREVER for no understandable reason). But the point ...
2024-10-13 19:43:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon,
So, you know Geoguesssr? The online game where you’re placed somewhere on Google Street View, and you have to look around for clues and guess where you are by clicking as close as possible on the world map?
Mark and I have made an extra special, bonus, improvised, slightly last minute, sub-episode of Map Men where we play each other at Geoguessr. For the very fir...
….. this series.
Aaaaah, had you going for a bit, didn’t I?
Don’t worry. Map Men isn’t finishing any time soon. We’ll keep making Map Men forever until one of us dies. (At least, I think that’s the plan. If I die, Mark might find someone else and replace me? I don’t know - we’ve never discussed it.)
Anyway, in the meantime, here is the final instalment...
I mean, you don’t have to. It’s not a command, just a suggestion. I can’t tell you what to do, I’m not your boss. Technically you’re MY boss. That’s how this Patreon arrangement works. Hello boss! Sorry I’m late, boss. You’re looking sharp today, boss.
The point is, boss, if you DID to watch the new episode of Map Men right now, you CAN, unlike the res...
2024-06-19 11:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
Well, I suppose I should start with an apology.
Sorry we’ve not seen each other in such a long time. Normally, when there’s a Map Men series on the go, we get through about one episode per month. But this latest one went five times slower than usual, because it turns out, looking after a baby AND a toddler simultaneously is even harder than looking after a baby!
Hello one and all… especially all…
I am here to announce the uploading of a brand new episode of Map Men. As per tradition, you guys - my very favourite people of all - get to see it before anyone else. And as per also tradition, you are welcome and encouraged to see if you can spot any errors, omissions, glitches or punctuation mistakes etc before I unleash it on the riffraff tomorro...
2023-11-29 12:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Five! BAAAAAAAM!
Four! BAAAAAAAAAM!
Three! BWAAAAAAAM!!
Two! BDAAAAAAAM!!!
One! PCHCHCHCHWWWWWRRRRRR!!!!
New episode of Map Men is go!
Dam dappa daaaaaam.… dappa dam dam dap dappa dap dap daaaam…. (etc)
This episode is all about the Internet! Did you know that the Internet is held together by a network of undersea cables? And that there’s a lovely...
2023-09-28 13:20:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for shouting in the message heading just now. It’s a bit early in the morning for shouting. I just wanted to grab your attention and let you know that the new episode of Map Men is now finished and you should watch it right now.
Well, I *SAY* “right now”... you can watch it whenever you like. No pressure. Have your breakfast first. But before Monday afternoon, otherwise you’...
2023-08-26 07:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
What would you rather? A remote control that when you point it at someone and press it, it makes them compliment you and make you a sandwich? Or a brand new episode of Map Men two whole days before everyone else?
The remote control, obviously. Can you imagine it? “BZZZZZT!!!! Ow! Your nose is looking good today. Here, I’ve made you a sandwich.”
Unfortunately, the remote cont...
FINIIIIIIIIISHED!!!!!
You awesome awesome people are the reason I’m able to do what I do, and I’m so so SO grateful! As a way of saying thank you, here’s the new episode, two whole days before anybody else gets to watch it! This has taken a lot longer than expected and I’m very grateful indeed for your patience. There is rather a lot packed into this one and I hope you’ll think ...
2022-11-26 22:56:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Evening all!
It is my pleasure and my duty to reveal for you all... THIS… the latest episode of Unfinished London - all about the Tube Map!
By the way, this was nearly an episode of Map Men, since it was all about a map, but when I finished writing it, and realised that I’d waffled on for about 25 minutes, and it was going to have to be split into two episodes, ...
Here it is! The third and final instalment in the trilogy about crossings over (and under) the river Thames. Hope you like it!
Sorry it’s a bit (a lot) late! I promise you I’ve got a really brilliant excuse… I’ll tell you all about it in a couple of months.
Incidentally, this trilogy was originally going to be one enormous video, but I think chopping it into three parts like...
2022-05-21 15:30:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello.
Well, I’ve rattled on long enough, but before I go, here it is… fresh out of the oven, part 2 of the Bridges trilogy in the latest batch of Unfinished Londons. And this one’s all about everyone’s favourite most frequently misnamed bridge in London - Tower Bridge!
We’ve gone properly overboard with the cameos this time, and squeezed in probably a bit too many. But ev...
2022-02-27 14:39:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning!
Or, if it’s the afternoon where you are, still good morning! (It’s morning here, I ain’t changing my greeting for you.)
I’ll cut to the quick. There’s a new episode of Unfinished London coming on Monday, and it’s very nearly finished, but I need your help and advice before I can release it into the wild.
Remember last month, when I knew the title b...
Sing the following to the tune of the Super Mario Brothers Music…
Hello everyone and welcome to this Patreon post in which I invite you to watch the brand new episode of Unfinished London two whole days before everyone else! By the way, I’ve made no effort to get this paragraph to scan at all with the Mario music, I just thought that might zhuzh it up a bit. Is that how you spell zhuz...
2022-01-29 19:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Morning all!
It’s been a heck of a month and a half! And I’ve got no fewer than FOUR things to tell you about. So sit tight, and shut up.
1 - AWARD!
Map Men has been nominated for a Streamy award!!!
If, like me last month, you don’t know what the Streamys are, imagine the Baftas, but it’s in America, and instead of TV it’s for YouTube videos. If you don’t kno...
2021-11-18 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here it is folks. This most recent series of Map Men has been our longest ever, but all long things must come to an end, and it's high time Mark and I changed our clothes.
We've saved a really good one til last... all about the surprisingly contentious topic of English counties. This was quite tricky to research, so thank you so much to everyone on twitter who helped us out and sen...
Sorry I'm late, boss!
Usually, new Map Mens go out on a Monday, with Patreon Patrons (you absolutely wonderful lot) getting a sneak peak a day or two or three before.
Well, this time, sorry to say, there's been a bit of a delay. A couple of bits got held up, so I won't be making the video fully public on YouTube until Tuesday, or possibly even Wednesday.
That's the bad news...
Can you believe it? 20 episodes of Map Men! If you stretched them end to end on floppy disks, it would go five times round the world... if they were spaced out really far.
So, this 20th one is all about continents and how many of them there are.
As usual, if you spot any massive terrible mistakes that could be easily fixed in the next 28 hours, please do let us know. Nearly ever...
Which thumbnail do you, personally, think is the better one, that, if you saw it pop up in your suggested videos on YouTube, you'd be more likely to go "ooh, that looks like a video worth about 8 minutes of my time."
A. Pinkish Britain
B. Orangeish Britain
Vote now on your phones.
Also, here's the episode!
2021-05-28 15:34:05 +0000 UTC
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SURPRISE!!! Episode 18 of Map Men is already here!
Normally we do one episode per month, but... medium sized story short... just for April, we're doing TWO episodes per month. Normal monthly service resumes next month.
This episode is all about a country in North America called the USA. We've got rather a lot of viewers from that country, so I hope we pronounced all the words rig...
You lot are the best!!! Thanks to your feedback... (not just on the specific question we asked you, but all the other little bits of good advice), we now have a much improved much better official final FINISHED version of the video! Here is is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zV47iW8dc
See if you...
Because I like you so so SO much, I've decided to give you a sneak peek at episode 17 of Map Men a full TWO days earlier than everybody else!
Well, actually, I do have a sort of ulterior motive for sending it to you this early. This version I'm showing you is a bit rough around the edges and still needs a little bit of finishing touches. As has become the tradition here on Patreon, you ...
BOO!!
(As in the surprise boo, not the noise you make in the theatre when you're unhappy.)
The surprise is, episode 16 of Map Men is here for your delectation (just looked it up and that is the right word) a full TWO days earlier than the rest of the internet.
I really hope you like this episode! It's all about Antarctica. We have VERY few viewers in that part of the world,...
A whole day before the rest of the internet, yous get the see this brand absolutely new episode of Map Men! I hope you like it - it’s got dinosaurs in it! Who doesn’t like dinosaurs? Boring grownups, mostly. Anyway….
One of my favourite things about sharing videos with you lovely brilliant people before everyone else, is the odd occasion (actually, so far it’s happened every time)...
2021-02-14 15:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostJust one more thing....
Yesterday, when I sent the post letting you know there was a new Map Men, a few of you got in touch to let me know about little errors that needed correcting, including a misspelling in the subtitles, a wrongly named leader of the USSR, and an arrow pointing to the wrong building. As a result, there's now a NEW version of the video with all the mistakes corrected,...
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
A new epis.
A new epis who?
A new epis…whood of Map Men!
That was terrible.
I know. Sorry.
That’s not even how knock-knock jokes work. The “who” doesn’t form part of the punchline!
I’m sorry, I didn’t really think it th...
2021-01-10 15:54:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is - the very newest episode of Map Men, 24 hours before everyone else!
This one combines three of our favourite passions - maps, history, AND linguistics! So there’s bound to be something in here to tickle your onion, even if you’re only interested in one out of those three topics.
Thanks by the way to everyone who’s bought something from our merch store! We're overwh...
2020-12-13 17:12:05 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning/afternoon depending on your persuasion.
I've got something very exciting to show you... after a lot of delay and faff, (sorry for the delay and faff), this week sees the launch of MapMenMerch.com!
Yes, Mark and I have opened our very own shop where you can buy T-shirts, posters, mugs, stickers, face masks, phone covers and so on that all bear logos, phrases and maps f...