Have A Word with Adam Rowe & Dan Nightingale - #107 with Steven Oshea - Have A Word w/Adam & Dan
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Do you know the hat
The hoodie under the bomber
I created a monster
The Eminem rap it just doesn't quite match up
With the pipe
Which one
Do you know what I mean
Fuck you
You look like an autistic kid
Who's been
That's not new though is it
That's not just Happened that's been... That's not new, though, is it?
That's not just happened.
That's been going on for a while.
And I've got to wear my fucking driving glasses today,
which is making me feel like the fucking accountant's gone,
well, I've got a bloody rap battler on today.
So I've put a baseball cap on, bloody snap back.
It just looks like a kid who's like,
I want my hoodie and I want my jacket and I want my glasses and my hat and my headphones and my pipe.
I've got everything.
Mate, I am a modern guess who staple.
If we did a fucking have a word guess who.
Yeah.
But you've got everything on.
Is he a nonce?
Click.
Has he got a hat on?
There's too much you
know that old hack line that compares yous when they compare and there's like a bald guy with a
beard in the audience yeah you know fucking hell mate you look like every character from guess who
yeah yeah right you know that line i hate it because it doesn't make sense does it because
if you look like every if you look like every guest from Guess Who, then you'd either, you'd all get them put down,
or none of them get put down.
It only works that you look like so-and-so from Guess Who
if they are, like, completely bald with, like, a ginger beard,
and then they really do look like...
Then they don't look like the women.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, but they don't look like everyone.
It's just a very Guess Who look. anyway well thanks for that you do start by a lot of podcasts
by sort of turning left and then giving me a fucking like fashion run through like what like
it's a very considering we like you play up to that oh yeah of course i do yeah but it's it's a
predominantly heterosexual podcast,
but we do start like, what's going on here, babes?
What's this and what's that?
Oh, I don't know.
Did you go heterosexual because I'm wearing pink?
Is this a homophobic?
No, I mean, we are a heterosexual podcast, aren't we?
But did that come into your head because I'm wearing pink
and you're like straight?
No, I think you're getting a bit defensive about it.
Yeah.
Guess who's gay.
So how you doing, mate?'re all right i'm okay uh i want to start
by talking about uh the potential of us winning an award from a website that we've sort of another
award another second would this be our second yeah i've lost count joe one
one well if we win an award
every year though
I'll take that
now to get me an award
one
one
two
so Chor
was that a fucking reference
that I didn't get
it was
it's a famous Scouse video
alright
get me a coat
now to get me a coat
one
two
do you really want to see
what happens when I say
negative three
is that in the snooker
hall yeah yeah i've seen that one um bloody uh and that's a youtube video that young bloody lads
lids from liverpool and the merseyside area enjoy on the internet carry on uh comedy industry
website chortle are doing their annual awards,
the Chortle Awards.
But they're doing a twist on it because obviously comedy has been
largely non-existent for the best part of a year.
So they're doing their Lockdown Legends, sponsored by Audible as well,
which is Amazon's book thing.
Nice.
I think.
And that was really weird.
You both put headphones on at the exact same time
and you looked like creepy twins in a killer film.
The Thunderbirds were ready to go.
Adam's talking about the industry.
Let's learn.
So they're taking public nominations
for comedians who've put out content
to get them through lockdown.
Now, you know,
I don't want to say that we definitely deserve that award,
but to do an episode every day during lockdown,
one over 150 episodes in total,
amass two and a half thousand patrons
and build the first purpose-built podcast in the UK.
There's many.
Woo!
Yeah!
I'm trying to hype you up.
There's many people.
Many!
Who would say.
Loads!
Would sayads Would say
Would say
Chitter chatter
That we
What they saying Adam
That we
That we might have earned
A nomination from our listeners
You're fucking too right
Woo
That's my dog
That's my dog right there
Don't you ever step up
To a fucking
What are we doing
A podcast Or YouTube channel Motherfucker Can you tell We have a hip hop guest today right there don't you ever step up to a fucking what are we doing a podcast
or YouTube channel
motherfucker
can you tell we have
a hip hop guest
today
yeah so
we would just like
if you went to our
Twitter
or if you're a patron
there's a post on
Patreon as well
you can find the link
and on Instagram as well
the link's on there too
and just vote for us
and listen
it's not just to support us
in fact we'll put it in the bio of this video as well we'll put it in listen, it's not just to support us. In fact, we'll put it in the bio of this video as well.
We'll put it in the bio.
It's not just to support us and to give us that boost for the work we've done.
We already do that.
If you subscribe to this on YouTube, if you download it,
if you go beyond that and you're a patron,
we love your support and we appreciate it.
That's what we do it for.
But we also want this recognition, not just for us,
but to sort of take that recognition
and then stuff it up the arse
of everyone in the industry
that we don't like.
Woo!
This is our house!
I mean, we got a lease,
but this is our house.
How funny would it be
if we rejected the award?
If we got all of our listeners,
patrons, fans, followers to go through this and then industry website Churl, funny would it be if we rejected the award if we got all of our listeners patrons fans followers
to go through this and then industry website chortle which in the past has been accused of
being slightly negatively biased towards northern working class comics i think that's fair to say
i think maybe it would be really funny if they were like we'd like to give you this award because
you know thousands of your listeners got in touch and we were just like, you know what, lad? Shove it up Mother Teresa's cunt!
How are you saying that?
Email?
Voice note?
Yeah.
Video?
Does Mother Teresa write for Chortle?
Is she one of the other reviewers?
No, but that'll make it even better
because then they'll be like,
why are you bringing her into it?
They're like, if you were listening,
you'd know!
I, honestly, I've always got on with Chortle
and I've got on with them a lot better since 2018
when Steve Bennett, who is the creator and editor
and he's the boss at Chortle
and he does a large amount of their reviewing in Edinburgh,
but he also has second and third sort of guys
that he goes to like secondary
reviewers and i can sum up every steve bennett short review i got in four five fringes by doing
this noise this is his review of me like that's basically what he gave me some combination of like never like and never like always like
and then in 2018 when i did my best show he didn't review it and fucking all the gunner
solskjaer came on as the super sub and gave me a four and a half stars early in the fringe and at
one point on total no one had a five
so they do it in a league table style this was like literally got my dick hard that fringe
no one had a five and then me and david o'doherty had four and a half and because
my my name d-a-n is before dA-V. I was top of the fucking league.
I was like Southampton in October.
Fucking shut the league off now.
Fucking brilliant.
No more reviews, egghead.
We're dumping reviews.
Let's go home.
They gave me in my breakout year in Edinburgh,
which was 2018, was it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were my first good review. I got four from them. Wasn't your breakout year 2017? No, They were my first Good review
I got four from them
Wasn't your breakout year
2017?
No that was my best show
So the one in the caves
The big room
When we did all that
Flyering together
That was 2018
Was that your breakout year?
I think so
Oh yeah of course it was
Yeah you got the award
Your breakout year room
Was three times bigger
Than my sixth venue
It's good fun isn't it? was three times bigger than my sixth venue.
It's good fun, isn't it?
Do you ever feel sick?
Nauseous?
When you're talking.
Yeah.
I got a four-star from Steve Bennett.
A chortle.
Do you want to sort the mugs out?
No.
I'm good with caffeine, sarcasm,
and inappropriate thoughts. I'm fine with caffeine, sarcasm and inappropriate thoughts.
I'm fine with I love cock.
That must have been weird for the audio.
Sorry, guys.
We've got some visuals going on.
We're a YouTube channel.
As well as podcast.
Grow up.
Yeah, they kicked off that year for me, to be fair.
I got off.
And Chortle's weird because the general public don't give a flying fuck about it
because they don't know what it is.
But everyone in the
industry especially during the edinburgh festival everyone reads chortle so like when you have a
bad chortle review like i did in 2016 every time you walk into a bar for like a day and a half
everyone looks at you like your mum's just died yeah yeah it's honestly that annoying. It's that annoying.
When you get a good one, you walk in and you're like,
mate!
I know.
Mate!
I didn't get another review the whole fringe.
Chortle, fair fucks to Chortle,
he goes out, he makes a point of,
I'm going to review as many as I can.
Like some more reputable, I mean, all that like, you know,
studentjizzbiscuit.co.uk,
that doesn't count.
They're like,
we reviewed lots of shows.
We got children
from year fives
all over Midlovian.
That doesn't count.
I'm talking about
the Scotsman,
the Herald,
Times,
the Telegraph.
Here's the thing now.
If they gave you four or above,
you'd put it on the poster,
wouldn't you?
You're fucking right.
I got,
we're signing it going, student gist biscuit.
Year five's fucking idiot.
Four and a half stars, you're saying?
If an eight-year-old Scottish kid's like,
I thought it was quite nice,
and he moved around and made funny noises,
I'd be like, good on you, kid.
You're on the fucking poster next year.
Yeah, he gets around to everyone, so he does.
You've got to give him that.
He really does make the effort of reviewing, doesn't he?
I can't remember what my point was,
but I know we all give Steve Bennett shit,
but at least he reviews all of the things.
The problem with it is that it went...
What? Go on.
Go on.
So I've known something for a while.
What?
So a few years ago now.
It must be like six years,
maybe seven years ago.
I think it was when I was in blue.
So how long ago was that then?
Six years?
Seven.
24, 15?
Something like that?
I don't know.
I've really tried to block a lot of baby blue out of my mind
so there was a twitter account
that went like
it went viral amongst the comedy community
and it was
a Steve Bennett parody account
and there was a lot of
very famous people tweeting it
saying it was very funny
like Omar Jalili tweeted it, Jimmy Carr
tweeted it I think at one point.
They're like, this is hilarious.
Whoever runs this account needs to make themselves known.
And until this moment,
the identity of its creator has been anonymous,
and it was Carl.
Oh, my God, is that true?
It's mad, because...
Do you like your formative comedians
like the ones you
watched when you're
growing up
yeah
Amit Jalili was one of
mine I loved Amit Jalili
that's great
and he tweeted me
and said whoever
runs this account
is a genius
I was like Amit Jalili
is just called mate
I was like what
so what did you do
on the on the
parody account
because I'm really
glad that I
just before we
announced who that
parody account was
that Steve Bennett will definitely know about I was like you know what Fairfax to me reviews everyone and that's a really because i'm really glad that i just before we announced who that parody account was that steve
bennett will definitely know about i was like you know what fair fucks to him he reviews everyone
and that's a really positive thing and now let's tell did he follow it yeah yeah but then if i
think he followed it to see what it was saying did he retweet it did he retweet it did you get
a message from steve bengar whoever this is is an absolute genius?
Because that's more than he's ever said about either of us.
Yeah, that's true.
The one time he was nice about me, it was his fucking substitute.
Because he, I don't know if he still does it now,
but there was a thing that he used to always spell people's names wrong.
Yeah.
So I used to, I followed.
Did he? I didn't know that. Yeah, like a common criticism of him is that he doesn't spell check his reviews right
including the names of the comics oh wow i didn't know this he's definitely not winning this award
if we're saying this so i used to like i used to and the winners are adam rao and dan nightingale
he becomes the industry reviewer of a version of that African sports results guy.
I didn't know.
I didn't know.
I didn't know.
Have a wonderful podcast.
I used to reply to tweets and misspell people's names wrong and say,
great tweet, like three out of five, but reads like a four.
Oh, nice.
Just the usual shit.
In jokes.
Funny in joke.
Comics love that sort of shit.
That's not the only
Twitter account you've had
where you've been
a bit of a cunt with it.
Oh, my favourite ever.
The Sky Help desk.
I wish I could do,
I would do this now.
I used to do this
when I was like,
I was a fucking idiot.
I was still over 20.
I made a Twitter handle
called Sky Help UK
and it was,
it was very similar
to the actual Sky Help
and did you use
the logo
oh if you were
on the Twitter
the only thing
was different
they didn't have
a blue tick
you're basically
without being a cunt
you're doing the same
thing that like
those texts like
fishing for details
of banks
Nat West
you've just had
a cancellation
on your card
send us your details
and you're like
well it looks official
and then you go
on a website
and they've made
it look official
you were doing the piss take version of that for so what i'd do is i'd search twitter
for people who were tweeting sky help and i'd go for people who weren't maybe tech savvy i wouldn't
go for like i'd get onto it you get onto it and they'd go sky help my internet's gone off
this is a fucking joke i pay 50 pound50 a month. And then I'd reply quickly
and say,
like,
we're not fucking arsed
that your internet's gone off.
By the looks of your picture,
you're an ugly cunt.
Shit like that.
And they'd go,
well, I'm going to fucking virgin you.
And I'd be like,
well, fair fuck.
We're not going to miss you
and all that.
We're Sky. Yeah. But I'd do ones like um why has my connection gone awful i'd be like where'd you
live and they go like rather than my go because it's a shit hole i'm on the last about rather
than internet you can go and get fucked and then uh twitter shut me down yeah i was doing it for
about a month and it yeah it was the funniest thing ever.
Yeah.
Big multinationals will probably ask
another big multinational to shut that shit down.
God, Carl, that's really fucking good.
Oh, it was so funny
because then you'd see,
like the people he's,
because the people he was tweeting it at
thought this was someone who worked for,
they weren't getting onto it.
So they'd reply and be like,
I've never been spoken to this way
by customer service in my life.
This is disgusting.
I want to speak to your manager.
I am the manager,
you stupid old bitch.
That is fucking brilliant.
Yeah, I loved it.
It was great.
Oh, good on you.
Speaking fake accounts, eh?
Speaking of anonymous Twitter accounts,
have you seen the thing
that's kicking off with, on Twitter with the, that's a white line up account. Have you seen the thing that's kicking off
On Twitter with the
That's a white line up account
Have you seen this?
It's so dull
I'm with the subject's funny
I'm so 24 hours behind
Everything
I just don't enjoy Twitter for that
I'm still getting over baked beans on Weetabix
Go on
Which isn't a thing,. So, someone set up...
Which isn't a thing,
Chilli Bean.
Someone set up
a Twitter account.
What are you doing?
Getting the text on flyer.
Yeah.
Oh, you haven't showed it yet,
have we?
I got this,
I got this in honour of our...
You're holding it the wrong way.
Is it the Lone Star?
Is that what it's called?
The Lone Star, Steve.
Isn't it that?
That makes more sense
Yeah
We've got two patrons
From Texas
Yeah
Texas Chilli Bean
And Zorin
And did one of them
Send us it
Or Zorin
No I just got it
I just saw it
You paid for it
Yeah
That better not be going
On the fucking expenses
I'm not paying for
Your vanity project
Already fucking done
Not paying for
The vanity project
Fucking rap Go on Someone has set up A Twitter account Already fucking done. Not paying for the vanity premium. You fucking rat.
Someone has set up a Twitter account
called
at that's a white line up.
And what they're doing is,
for example,
this week on 8 out of 10 Cats,
there's Countdown.
We've got Jimmy Carr hosting,
team captains John Richardson and Sean Locke,
and the guests are David O'Doherty
and someone else who's white
and then they'll quote tweet it with
that's a white line up
with the intention of pointing out
the under representation of people of colour
in the comedy industry
and they quote tweeted
a poster yesterday
for an online gig
with an entirely white line up
without really considering the fact that that all-white online lineup
was to raise money for a cancer hospice.
Right.
So they're pointing out...
Listen, BAME people get cancer too.
They do.
Yeah.
Here's my question.
So they've obviously got an issue with the fact that this hospice,
these evil bastards who run this cancer hospice, right,
they have booked a comedy line-up and they've neglected,
like to be fair to them, to be fair to the hospice,
got to give credit where it's due, right?
Half of the people booked are women.
Half of the people booked are men.
Oh, come on.
They have 50 50 there what more
can you do oh well more yeah do you know what i mean so they know people of color though so
obviously to be fair to this that's a white line if they are pointing that out i'm just wondering
like love it i love it when he asks me these questions yeah what do you think dan well thanks
for the loaded gun let me point it at my own head adam i'll tell you what i think if you
want i think it's really funny where because this account has had quite a lot of love from the the
the wokey part of the comedy industry or like we need to solve all injustices every time eight out
of ten cats does countdown doesn't have a person of color on that's a problem you can always find
there's plenty of talented people of color in our industry and you should be making sure that they
feel represented in every episode and there's a lot of people who tow that line and that's what
they do and a big part of their job in comedy is making sure everyone is doing things okay and what
i really love is when someone takes that too far so even those people go nah it's a hospice mate
it's a fucking charity gig for a hospice you're on your own i love being woke but i
also don't like criticizing places where people go to be cared for as they die i also want to know
how the person who's like criticizing them for the comedy line or like are they also like gonna
look into you know the staff at the hospice, make sure all of those people,
you know, equal men and women, equal people of colour and white people,
and then are they going to go and check the beds of the patients
and be like, there's just too many white people dying in this hospice?
Sorry, Margaret, you're too white for this hospice.
Get in the car park.
Yeah, fade away outside as we like at what point are they going to start campaigning for more people of color to
be getting cancer and stuff no they're just going to tweet about it and do the classic twitter like
aren't they that's the what's really funny is another comic called darius davis has found out
who is behind the account and has started tweeting them saying, this is you.
And she's going, it isn't.
I'm behind the other one.
And then he replied and said, well, unless you've got the same IP address
or you just sit next to this person at the same internet cafe,
they're both definitely you because I've done some digging.
Good on you, Darius Davis.
Yeah, just, there's nothing wrong with pointing out
the representation stuff
that's absolutely fine
but it also paints
the industry out
to be
just
so like
overtly racist
like we sit
and the racism
is very quiet
in comedy
we keep it to the green room
and whatsapp groups
and our youtube show
but it really
like that's a white line up
and it almost like I get it when you've got your angle on things
and you're like, we need more representation.
But as an industry, that is something that has been worked on
and we are working on.
Like, it's not like, it almost paints us like a whole industry going,
no, it's not a problem.
I just get white lads on all the time.
Like, there are these discussions in the
forums in dressing rooms on bills and and of course if you look at the industry and there is
a majority of white people in the industry on stage promoting but like the hard fact is and i
and this is there's no angle on this politically there is a majority of white people in this country it's just a fucking
numbers game and to just be like that's a white lineup that's a white lineup you're like it almost
suggests without any articulation it suggests that we're all going yeah we're absolutely fine
with that and we couldn't give a fuck and you're like we do people do care we're aware of it we all
work at it it's just not as easy as sitting on a twitter account and going
well i'm a good person and you're obviously not sent it's just like so shitty and i also think
like i i see a lot of sort of white knights and i that i mean white-skinned knights who are like
i agree with this and we need to really solve this but then they're the people getting the
opportunities as well do you know what i mean you know when you see like a tv lineup like
mock the week or something and someone goes oh well they're all white men and then there's people
who've done this series of mock the week going yeah it's really bad actually and you're like
well turn it down yeah say no and suggest someone also just go through the lineups on mock the week
fucking hell it's not just all white men is it it? Like they, more than anything, if you, if you're. All white men from the same school.
If you're funded by fee payers, like the BBC,
they work so much on diversity.
Like sometimes to the point where it's criticised
because you're like, God, you've really just,
you've got, you're ticking boxes.
But yeah, it's just, it's very difficult.
More, more interestingly,
who at the hospice is booking the line-up? I think it's very difficult. More interestingly, who at the hospice is booking the lineup?
I think it's the patients.
Right.
I think they all picked their favorite comedian.
I do not think one of the nurses is like,
honestly, we're losing.
Room four is going.
Hang on.
I'm just trying to book more white comedians.
He's not breathing.
I'm trying to get a comedy night going.
For fuck's sake.
How do you spell spiky mike
that'd be amazing if everyone just now
i think it's spiky if everyone who did a cherry night had to source the comedians themselves like
got any recommendations guys breathe in breathe
out let's try and do it go on any recommendations little timmy i like steve shaniasky oh god we'll
phone him do you know the number well that's that's very good timmy but we've actually already
got four white people on so you can't have your favorite one enjoy heaven struggling to breathe
timmy are you a racist?
I'm dying.
You're a dying racist.
Yeah, what do they do?
If, like, there's a kid with, like, three days left to live
and he just really wants to see Russell Kane,
but the rest of the line-up's already white men,
do you go, no! You cannot have him!
We have got to get Dane Baptiste on!
Stop being selfish, Timmy!
Wipe that blood off!
What's wrong with Dane Baptiste, Timmy?
Nothing!
Nothing!
I like Dane!
I just particularly like Russell!
He'll be gone soon!
Better for it, Tim!
You're one of the dead children,
hypothetical dead children on this podcast. I i know we made that kids hospice
we made that kids for no reason and the only reason we had to was because you call them timmy
and no adults called timmy no no no only no but there's not many like normal kids called timmy
either is there no they're always dying yeah and they're always late
my best best
it goes to dying kids
that's why there's no adults
called Timmy
they all die as children
what a bunch of
silly fucks we are
it's a difficult conversation
to get out of
comedically,
but I think we really did quite well there to be like,
yeah, representation, tricky.
But more importantly, who books hospice gigs?
If you got asked to do a hospice gig
under normal circumstances, non-COVID, right?
Yeah.
Would you do it?
Mate, you didn't even have to finish the sentence.
If a hospice go, we want to raise money for a hospice.
You have to be like,
yeah.
Would you take the fee?
No,
you can't take a hospice fee.
So it's in Manchester.
They're paying 250 for 20 minutes.
I don't know that I haven't taken a fee.
I sometimes don't check the charity.
Like basically if someone emails and goes, we've got a charity gig I sometimes don't check the charity like basically
if someone emails and goes
we've got a charity gig and it's on a
Friday I'm like shut up
upset me
nasty bitch I'm like I'm never doing
a charity gig I love charity Adam
and I love raising kids
raising money is good
I love raising kids
apparently I've got more than one which is possible I love raising money is good I love raising kids apparently I've got more than one which is possible
I love raising money
for you know
Timmy and Dying Children
and all that
and I do do charity gigs
but never on a Thursday
Friday
or Saturday
because you know
let's get real
I love making money
for you know
charities
but only on nights
where I've got no other
possible work
so you don't always
check the charity
and you have taken fees
from charity gigs before
So for all you know
Little Timmy Cudder
We needed a ninth ventilator
But Dan Nightingale just cost that bit more
Do you think I'm getting ventilator money mate?
I'm getting catheter money
There's piss all over the floor
Yes it stinks again.
Well, feet are nice again.
We should have got Steve Chaniasky to be fair.
He's a nice person.
I get asked to do a lot of charity gigs,
and I do like one or two a year for expenses.
You get asked to do too many though, don't we?
Like, it's not our responsibility to make sure everyone survives i've been doing it 19 years it was my 19th birthday as a comedian
two days ago and when i started out i said yes to nearly every gig and every charity gig and it's
just a reality when you're out of the house five, six, seven nights a week doing what you do.
If someone goes, could you come and do this for £54.50?
You're like, nah, because I'm not a big name.
I'm not going to sell you tickets.
So you're asking a favour.
And every year I do a handful of these gigs.
Some I take a fee on.
If I know the person or realistically, if it's somewhere like a like a hospice you would consider just not taking the fee but what i try to do is make sure it's it's affiliated to a comedy
club if we're being serious that's the way to get around it so if someone goes we've got a charity
and we've rented a hotel suite in not the suite like a function room I'm like, nah because it's going to be bad
but if the frog or hot water go
we're raising money for this thing
and it's on a Tuesday or Wednesday
do you want to come down? I'm like
yeah, I'll help out
what I tend to do, and this is the honest truth
if I've got the time
and
if it's someone I know and they've asked me I'll always try and make it work if I've got the time I'll try and make it's someone I know
and they've asked me
I'll always try and make it work.
If I've got the time
I'll try and make it work.
If they offer a fee
on the email
or the text
or whatever
I'll always say
that's great
and then I'll judge
whether I'm going to
take the fee
by how well the gig goes.
Like if I do the gig
and it's lovely
I'm like
put that towards the charity.
And if I die on my arse I'm like
I'm getting some new shoes
yeah
and that's
yeah
that's fine
and now
I think you're
in a different position
but two years ago
three years ago
same for me
up until four
five years ago
I was paying off debt
I was trying to
fucking get a mortgage.
Yeah.
So it was a working night.
Especially if it's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
If you're doing that gig, you're not doing a 200 quid club gig.
However, if you get to a certain level, those boys don't take fees
and they sell tickets.
Now, they will get requests through the fucking nose, won't they?
Like Russell Kane,
Jason Manford,
that that's,
they must say no to so many things.
And,
and then you might have to sort of pick your,
what's your lane.
Is it?
Cause people do this when they get celebrity, don't they?
They basically pick their charity or they almost pick their cause.
What's your charity going to be?
If we get that big,
mine's going to be saved the spot at all. Oh yeah. What's your charity going to be if we get that big?
Mine's going to be Save the Spotted Owl.
Oh, yeah.
That's so weird.
You know, we're so... Because mine's the non-spotted owl.
Yeah.
So why don't we just, as a podcast,
just save all the owls?
Yeah.
Save the owls?
Save the owls.
What type of owl?
White owls?
Yeah, yeah.
White owls.
Really?
You've got to pick a charity that affects you, haven't you?
Or might affect you.
So for me, heart disease.
IBS.
IBS isn't really a charity, is it?
Yeah.
Although, when we discussed on a recent episode
that I nearly pooed myself,
someone has DM'd me a link to the IBS Network's website
where you can get yourself a little card that says,
I might poo on the floor.
Let me use your toilet.
Mama like that? Mama like that.
Mama like that.
Oh, I tell you,
if you're going to slide
into Adam Rowe's DMs,
do it with poo-based info.
You get a poo card?
Hey, Adam.
What?
You get a poo card?
You can get a poo card
which basically says,
I know I'm not a customer.
Please let me use your toilet.
I've got a medical emergency.
Would you use that?
And honestly,
on the back it says,
Flip Brown,
do you also want to
suck my dick
because I'm dead sexy?
I need to poo here.
This is a poo emergency.
Look at my card.
I am a pooer.
And on the back, that's my phone number because you want to fuck me.
When I've used several baby wipes, I'm ready, lady.
You're a sexy fucker, aren't you?
Get a poo card.
Can someone please send us a poo card?
Because Adam won't do it.
He's lazy. Oh, apply for Adam's poo card. Can someone please send us a poo card? Because Adam won't do it. He's lazy.
Oh, apply for Adam's poo card.
Yeah.
Can we have it knocked up?
Come on, guys.
Is it like a blue badge?
It's like a blue badge,
but I get to park my ass on the toilet seat.
Could you imagine if you put it in your car?
Just parked up right in front of like a fucking right where the ambulance
is going
in front of casualty
oh he's got a pool card
don't worry
there's all the smokers
there with the like
the most depressing bit
of any hospital
is next to the main entrance
with all the smokers like
I know I'm dying
but I just need another tab
and then Adam's in a bush like
it's in the window.
But you know,
you do know what I mean though.
You have to pick a charity
that either has affected your life
or could possibly affect you.
So heart disease for me,
because I'm quite fat and always have to.
Is there an ADD charity?
Because I will give money
if they want to do research.
That'd be great.
That affects me.
But like,
there's no point like you
doing,
you know, like breast cancer. You haven't got tits. But like There's no point like you Doing You know
Like
Breast cancer
You haven't got tits
It's been a
It's been a rough winter
Do you know what I mean though
So what would your charity be
Age concern
Age concern
You can't
Help the aged
Can we
Can we make our own charity
And send people free parker pens
When they sign up?
That's not a charity, is it?
You're thinking of the Sun Life Guaranteed over 51?
No, yeah.
What are they called?
The chuggers?
The charity muggers?
Oh, yeah.
Finn, we've got more hours for you.
Run Corner High Street.
Good luck getting a fucking sign over there, kid.
Dan, have you had any of them letters to the post yet?
About what?
What are they called?
Sun Life. Sun Life Sun Life yeah
The Sun Life guarantee
No he's not 50 is he
Oh is he 50
Nearly 40
The Sun Life guaranteed
Over 50 plan
You get a gift pen
Yeah
And an alarm clock
To write your will with
Yeah
To sign away money
No I'm not quite there yet
I'm 40 in a month
Are you going to leave
Any money to charity
In your will Or is it just going to be For your children If I die now I'm not quite there yet. I'm 40 in a month. Are you going to leave any money to charity in your will?
Or is it just going to be for your children?
If I die now, I'm leaving a life insurance policy
and some debt to my wife.
But let's say...
And a Volvo XC70 worth about £4,700.
Let's say you were worth £100 million
and you die of a long drawn out AIDS.
Right.
A long drawn out AIDS.
Thanks for picking that one.
Etta's 21.
Your other kid is 17.
Is that going to be right?
Yeah, that's right.
That's good.
Laura's still married to you.
She's been there by your side through the whole thing.
You got £100 million.
Right.
How are you divvying up 100 million
between uh your family and charity well i have said before on colleagues on this very colleagues
and colleagues nice one there no no no fuck help the ages what about the lids
um help the age i don't think any child needs to inherit more than 30 million
we talked about this
on an ancient podcast
you know
I'm not the most
social
easy
I'm not the most
socialist person ever
but I really
I really
fucking
massive
I really don't think
people should be able
to inherit more than that
which I think it's
fucking ridiculous
so should we just give
30 mil to Laura 30 mil to laura
30 mil to etta 30 mil to uh i think he's gonna be called jack i think um four and a half mil to
me and carl so that's 10 mil in it oh also the kids aren't getting it till they're 30
they can have 30 on 30 30 30 million when they're 30 years old.
What if Etta becomes a crack addict
in her late 20s
and she needs it to get out of crack?
Right.
Just give them a meal every year
until they're 30.
One thing, Adam,
your understanding of drug culture
is phenomenal.
How do you get kids out of,
you know,
if they're in their late 20s
and they've become addicted to crack,
what they need is
millions of pounds
all at once
because i don't know if you know about crack addicts what they really need is a massive cash
influx yeah i'm just struggling on crack dab if you could just give me 20 25 million
invest in property i'll be gone in about a fortnight as every crackhead in Chester's rolling round.
I've seen the crackheads in Chester recently.
All of a sudden they just turned up in pimped out hats.
Fucking hats.
Look at my hat.
Do you mean pimp hats?
Cracked out.
Cracked out.
Every crackhead.
A hat with a spinning rim.
They're spinning, crackhead.
They're spinning cracker they're spinning
what
what would all
the crackheads
in Chester do
if they just got
like
Yvette had turned
up and she was
one of like
the Chester crackheads
they'd probably
sort their lives
out
no Adam
they'd get
more crack
no they wouldn't
they're only
addicted to crack
because of their
socioeconomic
conditions
shut up you
vagina
it'd just be like crackmageddon in the middle of Chester the lanes to crack because of their socio-economic conditions. Shut up, you vagina!
It'd just be like crackmageddon in the middle of
Chester. The lanes and all
these crack and like, oh damn!
The dogs would be on crack. No, because if they've got
30 mil, there's not 30 million pounds worth
of crack flying around Chester at the minute. There would be though,
wouldn't there? I, honestly, I think you
might get some imports from the local
area. I think the drug dealers in Wrexham
would be like, well, we'll make the fucking journey uh 10 million it leaves me with 10 million okay sad
that i had to talk about my daughter being a crackhead down the line but once again my daughter
gets mentioned um you've got 10 million left and you're dead so you don't 10 mil now there is an
irish comedian what's his name?
He was in Father Ted, and he's a fucking brilliant comic.
Arlo Hanlon?
No.
He's got a grey beard.
He lives in Glasgow, and he has a bit.
Michael Redmond.
Michael Redmond.
Oh, he's such a fucking gem of a comic, is Michael Redmond.
Joe Pasquale stole his joke.
Joe Pasquale stole his joke.
If you,
I think you'd only really see him at the stands now.
Yeah.
I don't know if he gigs a lot of places.
I've met him,
he's dead nice.
But he is lovely.
And he's also one of those guys who,
he looks like in,
the big Lebowski,
he looks like the cowboy.
Oh right,
the dude.
And,
he's got that look.
And he's got a bit about,
wouldn't it be great if, you know,
you just, every one of us
left some money to someone completely random.
If we all agreed to do it
and then that person would just keep getting
fucking random bits of inheritance.
Like, if we all just agreed
to leave 10 quid
to Christian Guru Murphy
from the Channel 4 News, it'd just piss him off for fucking ages.
His lawyer getting in touch going,
Kristen, this is weird, but you've got another tenner for no reason.
I absolutely love the idea of just dropping some random,
go and see Michael Redman, just absolutely out of nowhere,
just fucking dropping a random amount of money on someone.
So they'd be like chuffed and also nervous.
Kevin Webster.
Yeah.
Michael Lovell.
Or someone that you know was a bit mental
and then basically get your lawyers to be like,
I'll give you a 20 grand fee for doing this discreetly,
but I want you to inherit,
I want you to leave 80,000 pounds in cash to someone
and just literally write,
listen, this is from your friends in the KGB.
Keep this quiet.
We'll be back for it.
And then just, we'll be back for it.
We'll be back for it.
The KGB, we'll be back for it.
So just give one of my
bellend neighbours
with dogs that poos
on my fucking lawn
just 80 grand
so they can be like
oh god
do you think
Carol do you think
we should spend it
no
wouldn't it be better
to give it
to an enemy
right
and
like
grass them up for like
drugs money
okay
on your deathbed.
Mine was just fucking with them,
playing with them,
as you actually want to see them prosecuted.
Yeah.
I don't,
I think they,
wouldn't they be able to trace that back?
Yeah.
No?
Yeah.
Not if it's in cash.
Have you got any enemies?
Who is your enemy that you want to see imprisoned?
Let's end the section with it.
Anyway,
so Steve Bennett,
Steve Bennett runs a website called Chortle.
Separate conversation.
Now, go and have a little look on the Chortle thing.
That would be really good if you could.
It's in our Instagram bio.
The link is there.
We tweeted about it.
I'll put the link in our Twitter bio as well.
It's in the description of this video.
If you watch it on YouTube, we'll put it in the description on the audio bio as well. It's in the description of this video. If you watch it on YouTube,
we'll put it in the description
on the audio upload as well.
So it's very accessible.
Go and nominate us
and we'll win this award.
And then...
And whatever money we win,
we'll leave to a hospice.
Yeah.
Only one that has equal members
of black and brown dying children
as it does white.
Okay, good.
We're on for this win.
See you after this message.
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are we alright
we're whipping through today
very efficient today
we are yeah
I tell you what mate
buying a kettle
the fact we've gone a
year in this place nearly nine months how long have we been here something like that about nine
months here something like that i don't even think it's that since july in it we haven't had a kettle
and it drives me mad to come 2 p.m every day that fucking cafe shuts and i can't have a cup of tea
or a coffee this is my third coffee of the day. And I'm telling you right now,
I feel fucking good.
Also, how... You can tell he's like on it.
This is what I'm like about eight o'clock in the morning
when I'm finishing my second energy drink.
And Etta's like, why is daddy dancing?
I'm totally addicted to caffeine.
I have to leave today at a certain time because...
You're getting your balls waxed, aren't you, mate?
I'm getting my balls waxed.
Yeah, I've got a balls wax.
I mean, most places are legal, you know, balls waxing.
But I just got it.
I got like a black market ball waxing.
Just because you need it, don't you?
You know, when you're married and you've got a pregnant wife,
you need wax balls.
Laura's gone back to Nottingham this afternoon
because she's got an appointment that she needs to go to with her dad Laura's gone back to Nottingham this afternoon because
she's got an appointment
that she needs to go to
with her dad
because
stuff's happening
and she wants to be there
with her dad
because it's a bit of a
serious appointment
so she was like
so I'll be going
Thursday
and I thought
she was going to be
coming back
Thursday night
and she's coming back
on Saturday morning
so it is me
and my daughter for the first time in a year.
It's been like daddy daughter time because Laura's always been home.
And when she's been away in the summer,
she took Etta with her.
I've had a few weekends,
random weekends where it's just been me in the house and it's been a year.
And like Etta's like,
right.
Like I,
obviously I'm a dad she loves me i love her
but like laura is so much more important in the house and i totally know it like you know
watching etta deal with me if there's a problem it's like you know when you're bitching and
someone goes i want to speak to the manager like i am basically the part-time member of staff
that some karen doesn't want to deal with.
And that's how Etta is.
If there's a problem, I'm like, right, this is what we're doing.
And she looks at me like one of those Karens at customer service going,
I'm not listening to you, you fucking dick.
I want to speak to your higher up.
You've only got two stars on your Mach-E's badge.
Oh, my God.
Laura's literally a regional manager coming in to do quality control
for McDonald's from head office.
I am some bell-end like,
I've got one star.
I've only burnt myself on the fryer three times this month.
Like that's how she treats me.
Until Laura goes away
and then she goes,
all right, dad's in charge.
And this is what I do to deal with that.
I just throw fucking money at it.
So if I'm ever left alone in a parenting situation,
it's never like,
well, we'll just never like well we'll
just um stay in and uh we'll do finger painting tonight we're going to five guys we're going to
do a picnic outside five guys me etta throw money at it honestly i'm gutted that things are closed
tomorrow because i'd just do the same and we'd be at soft play we'd be at the trampoline place
i'm going to be on amazon going just just pick what you want, darling. You can just pick something.
Do you want to borrow mine and Carl's Nerf guns?
Oh my God, yeah.
No, but she's fucking brutal with the Nerf gun.
But you've got glasses on,
so you're not going to lose an eye.
I don't know.
I don't trust her.
She's got a killer instinct.
Yeah.
We've got Nerf guns at Christmas.
We have to take the bullets off her
because she'd just walk up to you
and you're like,
don't do it, don't do it.
And she's like...
Do you know you can hire hamsters?
What?
You could just hire a load of hamsters.
No, I want a brand new hamster.
Yeah, they are brand new.
No, I don't...
They kill them when you're done with them.
Oh, right.
I don't want second-hand hamsters.
You know, with the reputation of hamsters.
Yeah.
What do you mean you can hire hamsters?
You can hire thousands of hamsters.
Yeah.
And... Keep your child entertained for a day. Yeah. What do you mean you can hire hamsters? You can hire thousands of hamsters. Yeah. And?
Keep your child entertained for a day.
Seth.com.
I don't know the website.
Just hire thousands of hamsters.
Why?
Because it'll keep her entertained.
Right.
And then, because all you do is you go, right,
etta, there's 3,743 hamsters here,
and there better be 3,743 when I come back.
You actually can hire hamsters.
Fuck off!
Where have you even heard that?
It's for advertising purposes.
Right.
Or for dads with expendable income that are on their own.
You can hire camels.
Can we hire them for the live show?
That's 100% going to go wrong,
isn't it?
I want to see how much
it costs to hire a camel.
Then you've got to
hire a dead camel.
Who's killing her?
I just feel like
between me and my daughter
there'd be a dead camel.
Would you ride a camel?
Like if you were in
like Camel Land,
you know where they have camels?
Yeah!
Camel Land!
Camel Heads.
Where's that?
It's
Welcome to Cam camel land just outside
would you ride a camel though you mean egypt yeah yeah yeah camel land
let's not call it camel well it turns out this is an all white park
you know would you ride a camel in uh you know camel land yeah do camels go? Yeah, I'd give it a go. I have.
In Egypt.
Yeah.
Have you ridden a camel?
Yeah, like three.
All right.
Soz, Carl.
Yeah.
I fucking grew up with loads of camels
by me nuns.
Yeah.
I fucking grew up
with camels.
Who hasn't ridden a camel?
It's weird, like.
Right.
Is there any animal
you wouldn't ride?
Would you ride
an elephant?
Adam,
do you want to help come and look after Etta?
Because I love how your mind works.
Lad, we need to rent hamsters, maybe a camel, or an elephant.
You know the zoo's closed.
Let's go and rob the zoo.
On last week's Patreon episode, I offered to help look after Etta with you,
and you looked at me like I was saying something wrong.
No, you offered to move in with my wife myself and my child and then in a really annoying way you love doing just went
you're a knob you don't know how to parent i reckon i'd be dead good and i just tried to put
you like our home life within a lockdown is already difficult just adam rowe turning up going
just on his phone going you're doing that fucking wrong get a fucking hamster minimum 10 dan fucking grow up but when laura's not there i'm open i'm open to
any help i'm not even joking i'll break lockdown rules to have you coming out in a bubble well you
could be working from home yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i yeah. I'm inquiring about animals to hire. Okay.
What do they ask for?
What?
Have they got tigers?
I think so.
Tigers.
We should get a tiger for the thank you show.
This is just...
And I'm not messing.
All right, Tony Montana.
How big do you think the Patreon is?
The big bowl of coke
tell me
just imagine this
imagine you'd been
the patron of a podcast
for a year
and post lockdown
happens
and then there's a
thank you show
to say thank you
for all the patrons
and you walk in
thinking it's just
going to be a live record
and there's a fucking
tiger there
and the main event
of the night
is a tiger
trying to fight off
an elephant
and a camel.
So we need an elephant.
Would you rather live Finn fighting a...
Come on, Finn.
You've got tigers, camels, elephants.
You fight a lion.
Dingoes?
Any dingoes?
For the fucking cash.
Hyenas?
Dingoes?
Dingoes or hyenas, we don't need both.
I go with dingoes then.
What about a koala?
What do you need a koala for?
I don't want a fucking fighting animal.
I want a nice...
You're not going to win, are you?
Oh, is it for fighting?
It's going to be like Pokemon.
Oh, I thought it was like...
I get to control one.
I think they want them back.
I thought it was like a petting zoo.
You know, they got there,
but you're actually one that do live lion fighting.
Well, if it is like a petting zoo and they're meant to supervise you're actually wanting to do live lion fighting well if it is like a petting zoo
and they're meant
to supervise it
we're going to need
Finn to distract
the animal woman
so that we can
make them fight
how very
gender positive
that was
animal woman
yeah
well done
yeah
really good
yeah
you've just
you teach me so much
in my head
it was an animal man
why
I don't know.
It's because you picture men in every situation.
Is that a strong coffee?
It says action required.
So I'm guessing that's like what we're using them for.
Huh?
Like what we're using the animals for.
Fighting.
Fight, I've done that.
So we've asked for tigers, camels, elephants, dingoes.
Could you also go on Aviva Insurance
and check what our public liability would be
to have a thank you show with 700 OG patrons
and lions and tigers fighting?
You're not even paying attention, are you?
Tigers, camels, elephants, dingoes, koalas.
How's that hard to remember
that koala's fucked innit
yeah
and I wanted him
I wanted Rhino
get two
times two
someone's asked for some advice
and obviously
from the last five minutes
of podcasting
you can tell we're
very serious adults
that give advice out
this is from Connor.
Afternoon, lads.
Afternoon, lads.
Afternoon, lads.
You need a fucking wipe.
Need your advice on something.
I've been speaking to this girl for a week now
and met her a couple of times,
but there is a big problem
and I don't know how to tell her.
This might sound harsh,
but she has stunk of BO
a few times when we've met. Says it's due
to work and not going home after work and meeting me, but surely a shower is needed anyway. I have
used an excuse. My ex has got back in touch with me to try and sort things out just so I can avoid
it for a few days and think what is the best way to break it off with her. Any advice would be
greatly appreciated as I don't know what
to say and don't want to sound like a prick well connor the best thing is to do is to email us
and we'll do it on a public episode okay adam fix your hood it's doing me then
right what's his question so he's been on a few dates with a girl. And she stinks. She's smelly. There's no excuse for it.
Like, there's no excuse
for BO.
Deodorant's like a quid.
I'll give her the quid.
If she's listening to this,
send me your PayPal
and I'll lend you the quid.
Right guard is a quid.
It's disgusting.
People who stink a bow
without having done
some rigorous physical activity
in the immediacy before it are a joke.
Now, there are some people that suffer hormonal stuff.
No, they're liars who just can't be arsed putting the overtones on.
No, but 99.9%,
and even the people who say it's a hormonal thing,
are the people that aren't washing themselves properly.
Can I also suggest, it's the clothes a lot of the time.
Because if you wear something and sweat into its pits
and don't wash it, you can be clean.
If your clothes stink of BO and people go,
oh my God, I can smell BO.
And you're like, no, I had a shower today.
You're like, yeah, but fucking moron.
Smell your clothes.
You know what smell I think is worse than BO as well?
Do you know when you wash a wash, right?
And then you leave the washing wet for like a day and a half
and then you dry it.
Stale.
Like that musty.
That smell. Moldyy yeah because like you've technically
done everything right you've washed your fucking shelf you've you've dried your stuff but guess
what it's not fucking clean yeah you're not gonna leave it in the fucking drum for two days that's
a weird smell i'd rather a woman be literally covered in shit than wear those clothes i don't
agree with you oh no not slightly musty smell.
I'd rather have shit everywhere.
You smell of human feces, love.
Not poo then, but wee.
Right, okay.
Wee's a bit sexy anyway, isn't it?
Nah, not all of it.
Not usually the smell of wee on clothes.
Not a lot of sexy ladies are like,
I'm into piss and my clothes stink of it.
It's usually old men who are like, I can't aim very well.
Yeah.
I've just remembered a guy I used to deliver the paper to.
Oh, no.
He was a pissy old man.
Oh, no.
And that smell's just hit me in the face again.
Do you know, like, when you get a smell memory, and they're strong.
It's a warm smell.
Ah!
Like, I can feel his piss smell on me face.
Do you know what I mean? Well mean at least it wasn't moldy clothes
adam i can see his pinstripe kegs that he wore every single day with the same stains in the same
place they were never they were never any different they were like pinstripe suit pants
and he had them on at three in the afternoon with a fucking wife piece of vest on. It's long grey hair.
If you work in care homes,
fair fucks to you.
And I know there's been clapping for carers
and all of that stuff.
I'm not really getting into that bullshit,
but it is a job that,
it's not easy that, is it?
I've got a really old grandparent now.
My two other grandparents passed away about four or five years ago
and visiting them at an old people's home is like,
oh Jesus, it's the reality of life.
And it's also that stuff.
And old people's home.
If you can do it and you care for people
and you help out people that have got to that level of life,
good on you.
And old people's home smells like a butcher's
where the fridges have been off for a couple of days.
It's the worst.
Do you know, like, warm pork?
Warm, raw pork.
That's what old men and women smell like together.
Visiting my nana and granddad for that four or five years
when they were in that old people's home was so mental.
My sister can't do it, and she was a fucking amazing girl.
Like, her and nana were so, so close after my mum died.
They were like literally inseparable
and loved each other to bits.
But my sister couldn't go and detach
from what was going on in the room.
She couldn't detach from that smell
that you're talking about.
Like the weird smell of hot pot, musty clothes and death.
Like some people can just go in there and go,
right, it's bad, but I'll click it into gear.
And I could do that.
But my sister walked in and you could see it.
I visited her a few times.
She was like, oh God, oh my God.
It's really hard.
It's horrible.
But you also have to detach from what's going on.
Like the women who have just lost
some of their airs and graces
and probably were like dirty girls
when they're like late teens early 20s and it's sort of in a weird childish way just reverted to
that so they are 90 years old they're at death's door but they're like giving off that sort of like
pre-1950s wanna fuck vibe like hello oh you're a handsome man. You're like, oh my God.
She's trying to slide into my old-fashioned DMs.
I find it mad to look at an old woman
and think she used to want to fuck.
Do you know what I mean?
No.
You know when you see a really frail one of them
and you think at some point,
like she wants a dick and lots of it.
you think at some point like she wanted dick and lots of it like i really struggled to she didn't necessarily but she could have yeah yeah but i mean those like flirty ones
because like when i started visiting my granddad when he was in the home towards the end right
i was definitely feeling some vibes for me off these old women like these old women
wanted the rowie bags D
yeah
also
and I was like
it's the youth as well isn't it
like
young
yeah
because she knows I could go for ages
yeah that's what I mean
not like a fucking deceased husband
I could put my teeth in
he could knock them out
but like
they're looking at you like
but like I find that so far removed from you know
sexiness well on monday's patreon we talked about what i would do it yeah we talked about which
mature older famous ladies you'd if you're not a patron you're missing out adam went into detail
how he would shut up meryl streep but you asked me like
what would you say to a fame and i and i was driving away i was like i didn't really come
up with an answer and it's because i couldn't do it i'd be like no but meryl streep's different
to a woman who smells like piss in an asinine yeah i mean what's not wrong what's your top limit though for like i saw this amazing
thing i don't know what it must have been youtube i don't watch this tv like this where i think it
was a lad from egypt and an old girl had gone over a widower she was like 82 and he was 34
and she brought him back and because she'd married him out there and all the family
are fucking fuming and she he's like no i really love her he's like oh he's lovely oh and he goes
all night and he's you can see that like that a little bit of his soul dies every time she says it
because he's gone i just want to live in the uk and inherit the money and the bungalow. And she's like, oh, I don't care.
I'm only here for another fucking 18 months.
He barely toots me calm, eh?
What?
Fucking hell.
Fucking hell.
How long was that in your head there?
Not long, you know?
That's one of those things you think it, you say it, you know what I mean?
You know, I'm not even slacking those guys off.
Because they're like...
Yeah, they're getting their bread handy.
I don't like my life.
I want a better life.
I want to live in Ellesmere Port.
In a bungalow.
And Maggie is love of my life.
Oh, he's lovely.
He is lovely.
He is lovely.
Yeah.
I think it's mad the way one day you have sex for the last time ever and don't know.
Someone said to me, I think it was Danny McLaughlin said to me,
do you ever think about the fact that when you were a kid,
one day you went out with your mates for the last time to play and none of you knew
that was going to be the last time.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Isn't it really harrowing?
Like,
because you go out with your mates
and you think it's going to last forever.
It's the last time they knock on your door.
You're like,
what,
you'll knock tomorrow?
Yeah.
And they never do.
Because they die.
How has that made me feel sadder
than a 34-year-old Egyptian guy
fucking an 82-year-old nana from Ellesmere Port
Because you're detached from that nana
It's not your nana
This is about you
Imagine the day
Like that's it
I've no longer
That's my last jizz
That is so not like Danny Mac's comedy
Is it?
Danny Mac's comedy is so like
It was in the green room
He said it to me
Oh brutal
Yeah
Like one of the
The last time you went out with your mates None of you knew It was the last time you. He said it to me. Oh, brutal. Yeah. Like one of the, the last time you went out
with your mates,
none of you knew
it was the last time
you were going out.
The smell thing.
Line it up.
That is so poignant
and on point
and I almost can't deal with it.
Yeah.
I told you that there's a comedian
that I,
I nearly sent,
a death threat to. We nearly sent a death threat to overrun again on me you little prick um and he was white part of the problem um this was
one of the lockdown episodes i think this is where me and adam were on zoom before carla got back
before at his studio and we were like staring into each other's laptops going right will time one two three it was fucking mental doing an episode every day for two months
and i think i told you this story but i never and i'm not gonna say who it was but there was a
comedian who smelt so bad of bo oh we both know who it is that i near i came back can i ask you
one question about this yeah is it like a newer act or a headliner headliner we know who it is. That I came back to. Can I ask you one question about this? Yeah.
Is it like a newer act or a headliner?
Headliner.
We know who it is, Lott.
Yeah.
And it was so bad.
Someone I like, someone I respect,
someone who is a well-known good comic.
And I walked, oh, I've really fucking narrowed it down there, Carl.
Oh, what well-respected good comic.
Well, there's only five of them.
And they're white.
Oh, never mind, sorry.
Yeah, and I walked on stage after them on stage in Leeds,
and I could smell, like, we'd passed.
He'd gone. And I was in the general area
Of the microphone
And the front row were like this
And I nearly
I said to Laura
Me and Carl have been on a night out with this comic
And we had to leave
With another
A friend of all of ours
And that comic
And Carl and someone else we were with left and
i text carl i was like where the fuck have you gone and he was like i can't be around him he
stinks like genuine we had to leave like this is not me being like horrible had to leave a night
club because he was spanking the nightclub out like the dance floor st dun everybody in the club we didn't come back he's like come back with it now yeah
now how do you deal with it i was so close to writing an anonymous note putting in some soap
shower gel and some antiperspirant and going mate you have a BO problem and I like you. I think everyone does. I can't deal with how
cringy this conversation is face to face. You need to wash your fucking clothes, keep them washed,
use this antiperspirant, use the soap, and I'm sorry, you will benefit from this. And I didn't
do it because I thought, I just tried to put myself in their head and like
receiving that thing and then you'd be like oh god everyone's thinking this i don't know who this
specific person is is everyone thinking this and then the next time i saw them or the time after
i was like with them i was like noticeably like you know you find yourself good
i was like they don't smell and apparently another comic or we know who that
comic is as well another comic had just gone man i'm gonna tell you this face to face you
fucking stink you smell yeah and you need to sort it out do you know that other comic was yeah
yeah so do i but we just it's just so annoying for listeners to be like who
honestly sign up for patreon.com slash have a weird pod we reveal all
on the behind
the paywall
episodes
but not that
much
oh that's so
funny
yeah
what would you
do would you
tell the girl
is it not your
problem
he's bouncing
anyway
he's bouncing
oh if he's
leaving it anyway
then let her go
and fucking
slang someone
else's life off
or would you
not say
look i could
be don't be fixing a problem for the next person waste of time and effort and cringe all right no
no no no no only fix problems that affect your life if you're gonna keep it around fix the problem
if not let someone else fix it but he needs a reason to break up with her that's why i don't
we need a reason to break up with her yeah no he's why I don't. Oh, he needs a reason to break up with her? Yeah.
No, he doesn't.
He doesn't.
You can just tell her he stinks.
She stinks.
He could, yeah, but he could also.
Connor, mate, you don't have to do anything.
You can, it's the international ghost.
You've seen her twice.
It's not the end of the world if you just jog on.
If you've been seen.
No, don't ghost someone that's nasty.
You got to give her a reason.
You can't ghost.
No. No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Just text her and say,
You fucking stink!
No.
Say something like,
You had a one night stand last year and you found out that she's pregnant.
That's easier.
The only surprise is that it didn't involve
sex workers, that excuse.
I've been killing prostitutes.
You got a prostitute pregnant?
Perfect.
Yeah.
And you forgot to pay,
and now you've got to raise the kid
because that's part of the prostitute contract.
You forgot to pay.
I, honestly, I'm so glad we do this
as an audio agony ant sort of advice thing,
because if it was written down, it would keep on the word count.
And then you would just start adding paragraph after paragraph.
No, lad.
No.
Right.
NASA have been in touch.
Right.
You've got to go to Mars because you've got a pregnant sex worker.
And yeah, go on.
So you're moving to Cornwall?
Well, he said his ex got back in touch.
He's been using that as an excuse.
You know, you can just do...
The question is, would you not, just as a parting shot,
be like, I'm giving her an excuse.
Why don't I just go, here's my excuse.
But before I go, wash your clothes,
get some right guard, you fucking hum.
No, I'll tell you why.
Because I'd
imagine this girl's quite attractive right smell aside otherwise he wouldn't have put up with it
at all so maybe if what if she fixes her smell and then she's like this beautiful woman who doesn't
stink and then she's like with another guy and he's like oh my god I can't believe I let her go
look how gorgeous she is and she doesn't stink anymore at least if he it doesn't matter
if he
if she
if he knows she still stinks
then when she sees
if he sees her out and about
with another lad
he'll be like
yeah but
she still fucking stinks
doesn't she
and if
she doesn't stink anymore
at least someone else fixed her
you don't want to be fixing problems
for other people
it's not
pregnant prostitute
such a fucking nutter
what do you want to do
should we
didn't you say there was a good
would you rather
oh there is
I just didn't know if we wanted
to leave it for O'Shea
should we do it anyway
Mike follows
if he's full
a bit of a
no he's hall of fame bit of a... No.
He's Hall of Fame level in email interaction.
Haven't heard from him for a while,
have we?
No, we've not.
He says,
now then, Lids,
I'm loving the success
you lot are having.
It's been great
to have been in from the start
and now you're doing really well
and you've established yourself.
Haven't sent anything in
for a while,
but I thought of a quick
would you rather today.
So,
would you rather
have the ability to change gender at will?
If you do this, you would instantly switch genders,
but still be the same attractiveness or rating out of 10.
Or, would you rather change your age appearance at will?
So, you'd still be the same age, can't cheat death,
but you can look
however young or old
you want.
So,
that's from Mike.
Gender doesn't exist.
So.
Right, okay.
You've asked the wrong
fucking nonce
that question,
haven't you?
How can I change
that doesn't exist?
Would you rather
be able to be a woman?
So,
basically,
I can become
female and change sex.
Become a woman.
I feel
that is a...
I...
I'm trying to work out in which situation
I would want to be
her female Dan Nightingale.
Maybe if you wanted to earn 30% less.
Mum, mum, mum, mum, mum. her female Dan Nightingale. Maybe if you wanted to earn 30% less.
All white pod.
I'm not saying it's right that women earn less.
I'm saying it happens. Oh yeah, you're highlighting the problem.
I'm saying it happens.
You're on their side.
And that's why you did this.
I'm saying it happens.
The international sound of the male feminist.
This is pretty easy, this question, by the way.
It's the age.
Yeah.
It's the age, isn't it?
Why?
Because I don't want to fucking turn into a woman,
see myself in the mirror and go,
God, you're a fucking ugly old bird.
No, but like, what do you think you are?
It's not just you in a wig.
That'd be horrendous.
Like, if you're a seven, you become a female seven.
Yeah, if.
Yeah.
I'd quite have fun having lesbian sex.
I'd quite like to be a model for a bit.
It'd be quite fun having lesbian sex, is that what it was?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wouldn't you not?
Wouldn't you not?
Like.
Because like, if I become a woman,
I could model for anyone, grattons uh i i mean yeah what would you do as a day what's your lady name what's your
what's your what name i just say it so quick it wasn't even an attempt at a joke sometimes you do things so lightning
quick I'm like I think you've thought that before what would you name me Jennifer my name's Jennifer
yeah yeah yeah I bet you've got big tits Jen yeah big tits and a tight pussy oh god you haven't got
a very tight arse
also
that'd be a turn
of events
wouldn't it
it's because I've
been bummed too much
oh you god
has Jenny got
big tits and IBS
she sounds
hot
see her down
heebie jeebies
for now
the lads
won't say nice
I think
would Adam if he genuinely switched like that
and he was female and was Jennifer Rowe,
I think you'd have big knockers.
Do you want to tell me something about your build?
I reckon you've got some pappage.
Yeah.
What would you do?
What would Jenny Rowe do?
It's very, very hard to not just think about playing with your own vagina,
isn't it?
Yeah, but I mean, you can do that for the morning have a couple of crumpets you want to go and achieve something
i've slapped her about a bit that was fun yeah yeah i wish i wish my brother hadn't walked in
but now i'm off where would you what would you go and do i'd go and use some of the privileges
the females have that men don't dangerous ground here ground here, dickface. Go for it.
You know, I'd go
and flaunt me body. Right.
Where?
Where?
In town.
Are we still in lockdown? No, we could
let's, you know. This is normal situation. Yeah, normal
situation. I'd go and see
how much free stuff I could get for being fit.
That happens to women
how fit
do you think you are
Jennifer
eight and a half
nine
and terms don't exist
sweetheart
I
sweetheart
I've got some bad news
you ain't a fucking nine
you ain't
come on
he's
come on
you're not are you I know i'm not but you're not
right i think you're gonna have to do some work for that free stuff
you're gonna be a prostitute jennifer jennifer's going into town i feel like she's gonna see
i would be a slag yeah like a whore i think i'd be fucking everything everything no fit men oh so jennifer's straight
i assume so i'm straight and then so you
i love it jennifer's going into town she's a nine she's got big old tits and she's sucking all the
dick like one of those old ladies
and the old people.
So in my fantasy,
if I'm a woman for a day,
I'm a lesbian
and I'm going to be like scissoring,
scissoring my timbers.
But what,
because you're into the dick.
You're shagging all the men.
Yeah.
When in Rome, Jen.
When in Rome.
When in Rome.
Sucker dick.
Yeah.
Where would you pick the men up?
Pratt?
Just like, I'd go on a nice out.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
And yeah, I'd just like,
I'm just imagining like,
it's a twist on the question.
Obviously, I'm not a nine i'm like a
seven and a half or whatever right so like if i became a woman i'm imagining being like a fit
woman because i don't want to do it otherwise can you imagine if you click your fingers saw
yourself in the mirror went nope don't i mean jeez in my head i'm becoming a
fucking worldie no but that he specifically said you can't do that but i i but i can do whatever
i want to my podcast so i'll change the question if i want to all right would you go and do stand
up no would you not would you not love to try your set as jennifer roe yeah maybe i mean if i had a gig book that nice yeah i
think you'd fucking it'd be i would love to see you do stand up as a woman yeah i just don't know
you'd have to maybe edit out a few lines but yeah you never thought about this before because i've
thought if i was a woman that i'd be a bit of a slag. Do you know what I mean? But with men?
Yeah.
Like, not in a gay way.
It's so funny.
You're so hetero that if you were a woman, you'd still be hetero.
Yeah.
Like, not because, like, I just, I'm putting myself in the shoes of a straight woman.
I just think I would be a bit of a guzzler.
Well, I'm telling you right now,
if old Danielle Nightingale comes out and she's half fit
and she hasn't got alopecia,
I'm going down Manchester, I'm going down the village
and I'm finding myself some fucking lesbian lady lumps.
The thing is though,
I think I'm more attractive to men than I am most lesbians.
Hang on. Attracted who? is though i think i'm more attractive to men than i am most lesbians hang on attracted who you're attracted to you're attracted to most men more than you are lesbians yeah jennifer or adam me yeah right i find a lot of lesbians unattractive
okay yeah and with men i can appreciate a good looking man
even if I don't
want to suck his dick
like
I feel annoyed
on behalf of
every lesbian
in the world
like
that's so annoying
like
I am not gay
but I would rather
suck a dick
than have sex
with a lesbian
that's on you
that's Adam Rowe
at Adam Rowe Comedy
I'd be with I'd be out I'd be out I'd At Adam Rowe Comedy. I'd be with...
I'd be out in a gay bar.
I'd be in Hebden Bridge before you fucking knew it.
I've met more men who have been like,
he's a good looking lad
than I have met lesbians who I've been attracted to.
I'd look like Robin.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
We used to have a lesbian manager, didn't we?
We did.
We used to have a lesbian manager.
She was attractive.
I'd rather fuck her than fuck you.
You're all over the
fucking road here,
Jen.
All over the road.
The other option,
as we've really got
stuck on that one,
is the,
your age appearance.
I mean,
you're always going to
go with that,
aren't you?
What,
you can just do it
at will?
You can just be like,
I guess I wouldn't know
if I go, do I come back? Yeah, yeah, you just get to change will. You can just be like, I wouldn't know if I go,
do I come back?
Yeah,
yeah.
You just get to change it.
You can be like for the day,
I'm going to be 19 year old,
Adam.
Oh,
well then definitely the woman one.
Yeah.
But the age one,
I see.
What?
It's definitely the age one.
No.
That'd be fucking amazing.
Why?
Just go,
like literally go 98 year old Dan. And you'd be like, and you were 98. And then you couldn't come back. Why? Just go, like, literally go, 98 year old Dan,
and you'd be like,
you'd look,
98,
and then you go,
you go onto a five-a-side pitch,
and be like,
oh,
that's,
can I ever go at five-a-side?
And then fucking,
you know how good you are,
just fucking worldy,
on the right wing.
But if I change my age,
am I not,
I was just a pig?
Affected by my age.
It's just my appearance
look oh well then yeah the age one in it there she comes she's got there jennifer rose got around to
it you just go back to 19 and old adam in pop world oh i don't know i've seen some of them
pictures yeah i've grown into my face he looks better now a lot better now So do you Yeah but Pop World
Was funner back then
Yeah
So you'd go back to them
Wouldn't you
You're not going back in time
You're not going back in time
No but I mean
You are you
I just have the appearance
Of 19 year old Adam
But now
Yeah but I'm saying
The experience
Yeah but you can't go to Pop World
Looking like that
Why
We just look a bit old
Don't we
Nah we
I'm got
The second Pop World opens
I'm going back
Yeah go
Right I'm so sick of fucking world opens I'm going back yeah right
I'm so sick of
fucking hearing about
pop world
when we do a live show
in Liverpool
can we go to pop world
afterwards
really
I just want to see it
yeah
and can we see the
cubicle in heebie jeebies
where she got
where she got touchy
with you
yes
okay great
my name's still on the wall
in your own blood
I'm not gonna get my name's still on the wall in your own blood I love
I'm not gonna get over
the fact
that if you're a woman
you'd be sucking dick
I love it
I'd be dirty
I fuck everything
I don't know whether
I could actually suck a dick
but I'd take one
do you know what I mean
press the button
it's been an absolute pleasure.
I think the age thing would be phenomenal.
Yeah, but I don't want to look 19 in this modern world.
I look so good at 22.
You've seen pictures of me and you.
The fact that any woman went near either of us...
Speak for yourself.
...is astounding.
No, you look like a slug.
He's looked very similar for the last 10 years.
No.
Thank you, Don.
No.
Him without a beard, he looks fucking ridiculous.
Wait, he's looked like that for all the time I've known him?
No, he didn't have a beard until he was like 20.
I've known him since he was about 20.
Yeah.
So at 19, he looked ridiculous.
Do you want to see pictures?
I didn't look ridiculous.
I just didn't have a beard
he looked stupid
the fact that you look
this good
after the pictures
I've seen
of your pop world
heebie-jeebies days
you've definitely
grown into the old
fizzles
but he looks similar
I look
shocking
compared to how
I looked at 23
I look like a young lesbian
can we have a picture of you to slide in here
so the people can reference?
Oh, yeah, if you've got some kitchen roll
to dry yourself up.
Thank you.
Well, I apologise to all my gay female friends
who enjoyed that little last ride
round the fucking block
with old Jenny Rowe,
who's a cum-guzzling whore.
Your own words.
Fucking Mother Teresa over here
and I
swear to God
I want to be taken
to Pop Girl
I know Tony Carroll's
got mates in the industry
we can go to all the
cool places
fuck that
I want to go Pop World
even if it's just for one
cheap nasty drink
we'll get
thinner Blue Wicked
oh that's what you have
to drink there
you don't get
Blue Wicked
you drink Jager
you drink Sambuca you drink Sours you drink S smain off ice any time of the day vodka red bull
yeah love it oh fuck off covid we're bored of you some people say i fight like me dad what are you
serious say love it get the lesbians back outside
with a bewitched
love bewitched
say you do
say you don't
alright well that's a good time
to pie this one off
see you after the break
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i always check myself out in the mirror on the way out to that bathroom.
How are you feeling?
I'm a bit annoyed that none of you told me
how pronounced my nipples are in this hoodie.
You've got fat titties just like Jennifer Rowe.
I can't see your nipples.
Oh, yeah, I can.
So, O'Shea, we reckon that if Adam was a woman,
just got clicked, changed gender now,
was the female 29-year-old Jennifer Rowe,
doesn't Adam look like the female him-year-old Jennifer Rowe.
Doesn't Adam look like the female him has big tits?
Yeah, definitely.
Yes. I see them now.
You know what I mean?
She got them good old titties, Jenny Rowe.
But she loves dick.
Anyway, nice to see you, mate.
And you, man.
Thank you for having me on, love.
That's Stephen O'Shea in the building.
Thank you, fellas.
Thanks for having me on, love.
One of my oldest friends. Yeah. Someone I've always, you know. We've been on the block together. Oh, yeah. Grew up together. Thank you, fellas. Thanks for having me on, lads. One of my oldest friends.
Yeah.
Someone I've always, you know.
Been on the block together.
Grew up together.
Grew up together.
One of our most requested guests, though.
Really?
We put like a feeling out every now and then.
We're just like, who do you want us to get on in the next couple of months?
Because we book our guests sort of on a week-by-week basis early.
Yeah.
One of our most requested guests.
Former Don't Flop champion.
Former champion of UK battle rap. former don't flop champion former champion
of UK battle rap
I don't know why
you're telling me
I know all of us do
I was there with him
yeah man
thanks for coming in
I appreciate you
having me on
my voice is a bit
fucker
screaming at the telly
last night but
yeah it's not good
big Everton fan
yeah yeah
I've got that whole
sore throat at the minute
but it's not Covid
yeah but that
you just put up the toffees for Covid you just put up the toffees
for everything
you put up the toffees and then I check what the Everton result is
and you're like oh it was a draw
up the toffees
you've lost, up the toffees we'll be back
exactly
right
it's just the end of every game
Karl just writes up the toffees
on fucking Twitter
yeah but to be fair to Carl if you could only write that whenever and win
you wouldn't be writing it for any other
why is it more this year
than you cunts did though
have you seen more games
I'm going to say yeah
order
let's not do that
yeah man
people weren't just like asking people were getting to the point where they were like Order, order, order. Let's not do that. Yeah, man.
People weren't just like asking.
People were getting to the point where they were like,
right, what's going on?
Where's O'Shea?
Why have you not asked O'Shea out?
What's the beef?
Surprised they haven't asked for Shuffle on that more than me,
though, to be honest, they have, haven't they?
No, they've asked for you.
You're definitely the most requested rap battler,
and also we get asked a lot to get Shottie and Lunar on as well.
You've never battled Shottie, have you?
Yeah, I have, yeah.
Have you battled Shottie?
Battled Shottie on the Lab Battle event.
Oh, that was his original? His original one, yeah.
He went to battle Flex Digits and he didn't turn up.
So two days before, he asked me to jump in.
And obviously he'd prepared for Flex Digits.
So we just changed the odd word through it.
He was like calling me
a come from yorkshire and then he came from liverpool i didn't even rhyme you know just
fit it in to get it in is that a video does that exist we can watch yeah why have we never watched
that yeah it's probably freestyle wise it's probably my best ever battle because i didn't
know i was battling them till the day like two days before that's boss i'll probably put that
on we so me and carl often drive here together because we both still live over in West Derby
and like
sometimes we just have music on
but a lot of the time
we just put like a battle on
and just listen to it
on the way over
I think probably the reason
we haven't watched that
most of the battles
that me and Carl watch
don't flop
we don't watch a lot
of the American ones
unless it's a British battler
on King of the Dot
because the American ones
as much as I appreciate it
when they're just screaming
about how big the gun is for half an hour I just get a bit bored I'd rather it be a bit funnier and a bit more creative the dot um because the american ones as much as i appreciate it when they're just screaming about
how big the gun is for half an hour i just get a bit bored yeah yeah i'd rather it be a bit funnier
and a bit more it needs to be a mix of everything going to get involved i do like it but you're okay
you can just take the afternoon i'm literally looking at you and you look so much blacker
than you've ever looked in my eyes you're the whitest like i like
bewitched and the music of pop world he's like yeah yeah i don't i don't really like i don't
love like the bars they spit in america you know i mean i'm like who the fuck is this guy
i apart from the blind battle rapper in america blind fury blind fury who's fucking i don't know that guy i don't so
i've gone down a youtube but like you can't help because he comes out he's from like the south he's
from carolina or i'm not too sure he moved to new york to like become bigger and he's not from new
york and he's blind and he looks like someone's brought like the special friend he's proper blind he's not like blind he can't just see
he's blind
and he's fucking funny
is that what happens
you can lose so much sight
you'd have to see him
you'd have to see it
you'll get what I mean
once you see him
no but so
so you know last week
Pete Otway said
he was in the backstage
and there was a lad on
that was blind
and he didn't know
so he introduced him
didn't do anything
with the mics
the blind guy starts walking around,
and Pete's offstage going,
shit, he's blind.
Blind Fury is clearly disabled.
You clock him, and he's like,
instantly you're like, okay.
And then when you obviously know that he's blind,
he's so fucking funny.
And so when the American, like,
battle rappers try and do
what you were talking about
to a disabled-looking blind guy,
it doesn't work.
Yeah.
It's like a superpower.
I fucking watch that all day.
There's another blind one from Canada.
I don't know if you've seen him.
Man is ill, he's called.
No.
He battled Sharon once.
Okay.
And obviously Sharon's a skinny white fella.
And he opens his bars
with like
you black motherfucker
you stupid fat motherfucker
it's fucking brilliant
like
oh nice
see
so a big
a big debate
that like seems
well not debate
but like a big conversation
I think that got referenced
a lot in the Don't Flop Battles
is the
jokes versus bars
yeah
sort of thing which
I think the best example
of the
either side of that
is when you battled
Tony D
yeah
which was your
title defence
because you won
the first ever UK
don't flop title match
against Sensei
which was a rematch
yeah
that was the first
defence
so it's don't flop
like the branding
it's don't flop like
it's the league
it's like the league so there's UFC and't flop like... It's the league.
It's like the league.
So there's UFC and there's like... So that's like Bellator.
And then America have got URL,
which is like they certainly like to think of themselves
as the best league in the world.
The Canadian league is called King of the Dot.
And there's also, there's a lot of like sub-leagues as well.
Some battlers who get pissed off with the leagues that they're in
because they're not getting enough main events,
they end up setting up their own ones,
going, well, I'll just make myself the main event.
Right.
So Don't Flop's one of the UK big boys.
Don't Flop was...
It was huge at one point, but it spiraled down.
There was a lot of shit that went on politics.
The easiest way to look at it is like wrestling.
Yeah.
You've got WWE, ww aw you know
it's different sub genres of it like and people move to stuff that yeah then you've got the east
lancashire wrestling league we're in tricksies every friday night we've had we've had two women
die but that's a good weekend yeah yeah yeah but don't flop at the point because you did the first
ever don't flop battle ever didn't you
the first ever one
that got put on
there was an event
before that
but everything was
that bad
that it was like
fucking hell
we need to at least
write something on this
everyone turned up
and freestyled
and people were like
yo yo
and it was just like
nah sack this off
so there was one event
but that was the
first event
that I went to
and that was the
first battle
that went online
like
don't flop
and then
you went on to battle
sort of everyone in the league
battled Censor before
and then
there was a bit of a
a grudge there
wasn't there
well
to be honest
not a grudge with me
but he said stuff that
at the time when you're battling
you don't realise
what's really going on
you're just focusing on
getting your own stuff out
but a lot of the stuff he said
he was starting to get
death threats and stuff and well he was getting death threats from like people
your fans no yeah well not really my fans just from people who got put onto it yeah so because
he was talking about vish jones and stuff like that yeah the next thing i'd had a message off
someone from one of those fucking gangs yeah saying who the fuck's this lad and what is the
dress and all that i was like I can't give it all that.
Then he got in touch with me
and said,
these have got in touch with me here.
Yeah.
And obviously he was like,
oh,
I'm not taking it serious.
I was like,
you know what,
you probably best
I'd take it serious
because these are...
And where is he from?
Norwich.
That's the thing
about East Anglia.
You don't really want to get
in the beef of Liverpool
do you
that's not a fair
fist fight is it
right
I tell you what
they came round
fucking Norfolk
yeah
it was weird like
because there was
people started really
disliking him and that
and then
I'd like so to defend
him saying oh it's just
a rap battle
and he said it in his
rap battle
but I understand
in the context
why people didn't like it
but then like
I was getting messages
off people who we worked with saying talk about this one time when he was in the canteen and he
stared at this girl too long and this girl went hey who are you looking at you know it got to that
point so people were giving me all information on it was like well fuck this you know what it's like
it's like you know when you're comparing and the the best man of a stag do comes up to you
so that happens a lot to us you know like on a weekend at a comedy club like you'll like they'll be like we'll get told when we get there there's three stag do comes up to you. So that happens a lot to us, you know, like on a weekend at a comedy club.
Like,
they'll be like,
we'll get told when we get there
there's three stag do's
and one will come up to us
and go,
lad,
listen,
right,
he's getting my ears,
right,
and he's only got one ball
and his beard's cheated on him
like five times.
Use that,
lad,
use that,
use that.
They never know where the line is
and they don't even know
where the terminology is.
No,
lad,
heckle him.
You're like,
no, I can't heckle him. Kind of, right heckle him kind of right no no no no no we call him uh we call him gay steve he's not gay
and his nan and his mum died in the same week say that say that watch him cry he'll fucking cry
ruin his month you're like no that's not good that's totally not good
i can't believe you were there that night big shout out to gay steve oh he's crying he's left
oh so we had that happen abroad on like genuine army army gig story we were doing a gig for the
forces and the compere was like taking notes from people like oh say you're you know second paras are
fucking mental and they were like oh yeah give some shit someone passed a note anonymously just like give
some shit to the captain he's a he's a and it was a someone who really didn't like him having a
fucking go and had mentioned something that was really sensitive and it kicked off and at the end
they all had to have a meeting as all these for all his mates and this
captain's like gutted and everyone's having to go and some dickhead compares there with a piece of
paper going i didn't know um i'm sorry i didn't know i just handed a piece of paper you're like
yeah well don't don't fucking say it then the thing with a rap battle is when you sign up to
it you you accept that anything goes don't you because you're you're the one standing in front
of them so you're like one standing in front of them.
So you're like, I'm allowed to say anything about him
so he can say anything about me and my family.
And people do get really fucking personal
and there's battlers who are known
for being more personal than others.
But if you're going to start rapping about kids who get shot,
there's going to be people who are watching it going,
I'm not having that.
The way I look at it is you can say what you want,
but you've got to be prepared for people not to be happy with what you say yeah you can't just say what
you want and expect everyone's my attitude with comedy everyone used to go oh that's sound
if you're willing to take what's coming back to you say what you want but people will kick off
at you and he said even worse stuff than that you know what i mean yeah um but that's it you have
literally almost word for word said that except with a comedian
he's always accountable to how many people laugh and the reaction in the room so when adam's talking
about saying what he wants to say he's talking about things like the victoria's secret bit which
is about which is about basically fat people and and wanting to be a victoria's secrets model it's
more issues based that people on twitter get wound up about. Doing jokes
about news stories
where someone's been killed,
murdered,
kids have been hurt.
Yeah.
Like, comedians
very rarely fuck with that
because the first time
they try it
is at a new material night
and the crowd go,
what the fuck
did you just say?
And they go,
oh, I'm never going to say that again.
I was at a gig,
a comedy gig years ago.
I can't remember
it was
it wasn't
it was
it was on the Albert Dock
Baby Blue
no way
you weren't there for that
with the Rhys Jutton's
and Madeleine McAnjo
that's mad
we spoke about that
were you there
we were there
and there
on like my mate's
fucking night
Dave Longley
is that where we were
I couldn't remember
but I was there
when that happened
and then somebody shouted
something else
I think he shouted what would you do if one of the fucking family members were in here Dave Longley? Is that who he was? I couldn't remember. But I was there when that happened and then somebody shouted something else.
I think he shouted,
what would you do if one of the fucking family members were in here?
And then the fucking atmosphere
just went like fucking sketchy as fuck.
Oh my God.
That's so weird.
That is legendary.
Is it?
See, I didn't know that.
It's legendary amongst comics.
Is it?
Yeah, I didn't know that,
but we were there on that night.
And especially the people in it.
So just to give you a bit of context on that.
So the comic is a mate of ours,
a colleague of ours,
his name's Dave Longley,
and he's known for being a very provocative,
he will say something if it's going to make him laugh.
And he will sort of deal with the consequences and whatever.
Carl worked at Baby Blue
and ran the show at Baby Blue for years.
Dan was one of the regular compers at Baby Blue.
I was at one point banned from performing
at Baby Blue
Dan shared an agent
with the comic in question
no mate
he's a good mate of mine
and you were at that gig
would I know him from
because I've been to
a fair few gigs
would I
he does Hot Water
every now and then
he didn't do Liverpool
for a while
yeah
after that
of course
after that
because it became a story
where's he from
he's from
no he's from the East Midlands
by the way
dave's not a cunt in any way he is his sense of humor is so close to that line he wants people to
go oh and then for some people to go yeah but that line when especially this is 12 years ago
yeah it was it was not far after it had happened
I had an interview
with Radio City
years ago
and they asked me
to come on
under the pretense
of all you know
talking about hip hop
and all stuff
when one of our
Dick Limerick albums
went sort of semi-viral
and he brought us on
the first thing
they fucking asked me
was oh can you
tell me about this
and he talked about
Hillsborough and
Rhys Jones
and what other
battles were in
while I was on the thing
and I just went to pieces went to pieces didn't know what to do
didn't know what to say well they asked you what do you think about battlers mentioned stuff like
this first question didn't ask anything about anything else as soon as i sat down it was the
first thing they asked me it's interesting because we spoke about that not so long ago on this
uh it might have been on a patreon episode actually but like my attitude is very similar
to what you've just said i'll say what my attitude on stage is i'll say anything that i think i can
defend but there's other comics who are like if i think it's funny i'm fucking saying it and i get
that and i will defend their right to have that stance on it but you've also got to expect that
sometimes you're going to say something but i also can't have my attitude and then get upset when a
comedian says something so there's a comic that we know who sat next to me.
There's a show in Edinburgh called Hating Live
where you're meant to do offensive jokes.
And he did a Hillsborough joke.
And I just had to sit there and swallow it.
Because I can't do a joke about Michael Jackson fucking children,
knowing that there's a chance there's someone in the room
who got nonced as a kid.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's an awkward it's a very it's a it's an awkward line isn't it it's
such an awkward line i remember being there when somebody said something about james bulger and
everyone laughed yeah and like i didn't laugh but i couldn't fucking kick off because i've said
stuff about other people that's offense it's a it's a it's a murky waters you've got to either
be offended by everything that's why like when i see comedians moan god i hate these people who are offended by everything
i'm like i've got more respect for them than people who just choose their one thing and go
you can't joke about washing machines because my mum killed herself by putting her head in a
washing machine my least favorite thing of like we even mentioned it i think on monday like oh
you've mentioned the thing that i get upset about
laughing at all the other stuff where we're totally like playing on the line and everything
but in the room when you're pissed off about something you're allowed a crowd is that's the
whole fun of live performance in it if a crowd turn around and go no mate you're like oh that's
my my bad you're not into it you either you either dodge around it or think on your feet but it's
the people who then tweet about it put a trip advisor up or email the echo and then you're like
now it's something totally different now you're fueling that like i can't believe this has been
said because all of the people that kick off when they've once you've read comedian says this at a
gig at the albert dock and it's really offensive of course you're then going to go well I think it's offensive
because you're like
you're not hearing the joke
you're not in the room
because what we were
talking about before
that ended up in the echo
and all stuff like that
yeah yeah yeah
it was news
because of
what what what
and then that journalist
who sat down with you
is just trying to generate
straight away
that story
and that was the same person
who was going back and forth
with me on the emails
you know asking to talk about we're going to talk about this and that was the same person who was going back and forth with me on the emails you know
asking to talk about
we're going to talk about this
and that was the first thing
they asked me
the second they sat down
they turned it on
before we started
I just like to talk about this
and talked about
stuff that censored
and said
and I was just gobsmacked
because I wasn't prepared for it
I didn't have any sort
I know what my views
on it all are
it's wrong
but I didn't say it
I've got such little respect for journalists
that I'd have literally
just told them to fuck off
I'd ended up stopping
straight away
it went on for about
two minutes
and they carried on
with questions
of that nature
is that a tactic
to blindside you
to go
let's not get uncomfortable
let's just hit him
so you say something
that's newsworthy
yeah it must have been
because
like I said
it only went on
for two minutes
before it got stopped
but there was nothing else asked about.
I know two minutes doesn't sound that long,
but when they're firing questions at you
that you haven't really got an answer for,
they must have asked seven or eight questions
about stuff like that.
Yeah.
And I was just fucking frozen.
Everything after that, it's not like after that
they're going to go, so you won this?
Yeah, yeah.
They don't care really about everything else.
It's gone.
Have you said anything that you can remember
that you regret saying?
Yeah, it's a pamphlet.
What, can you say it?
Yeah, his dad had died
and he was saying something about his dad
and I said, you know,
can't remember what the line was,
but it ended with,
your dad's dead.
Good.
You know, that sort of stuff.
And, you know, sort of stuff and you know
the only reason
I'm laughing is
because both of our
mums are dead
right
they died when we were
teenagers
and we have spent
a good part of the year
doing dead
mum jokes
so many
that
it's ridiculous
you just
his dad died
and I went
pfft
naturally it's become
the funniest thing
you can have on,
on Have A Word.
Yeah.
So you regret doing that?
I don't regret doing that,
more than,
more than the fact that he's my mate,
and I don't,
believe in what I said myself,
do you know what I mean?
It was just for shock factor,
and getting a bit of a reaction for it.
Yeah.
I don't,
I haven't said anything that I'd class as offensive.
I've not said anything along the lines of,
any kids getting killed,
or, you know, stabbings, or, I wouldn't mention anything along the lines of any kids getting killed or
you know
stabbings
or I wouldn't mention
anything gang culture wise
yeah
because it's not worth it
is it
no
like it's not worth
the aggro
that is defo
coming your way
yeah
but then I understand
why someone from Plymouth
who doesn't have a clue
what goes on in Manchester
or Birmingham
or Liverpool
will say
oh you know
and talk about these gangs
you're like
what the fuck
I sort of have that,
you know, with the newspaper
that we refuse to name on this,
like we don't buy in them,
right?
Like when I see sort of
scousers having a go at like
people from Plymouth or somewhere
going, why are you doing an article in that?
I'm like, I know why we ate it.
And if any scouser,
if you were in it,
I'd be like,
what the fuck's O'Shea doing?
Because you know better. If you did something, I'd be like what the fuck's O'Shea doing because you know better
if you did something
I'd be like
Dan what the fuck are you doing
but like
we expect everyone to know
that everything we give a shit about
don't we
yeah of course yeah
do you know what I mean
Schultz
Schultz using it
in his Netflix specials
or one of his videos
and someone emailed in
and went
what do you think about
Schultz
using the paper
that shouldn't be mentioned?
You're like, he's in New York.
Yeah, of course.
He doesn't know the story.
Yeah, he hasn't.
I understand when people are pissed off
that like Stephen Graham or fucking Mooney went to them.
They're disappointed.
That's disappointing because they know what goes on.
Who's Stephen Graham?
Stephen Graham is the Scouse actor.
He played Combo in This Is England.
He's in Al Capone
and fucking
Broadbore.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's fucking great.
There's a picture of him
promoting a movie
and he's holding a framed
copy of that newspaper.
And if you go on
any of his tweets,
any of them,
it'll turn up down there.
Look in the replies
and they'll be like,
you're going to address this.
And if you say that to him,
you could do it now.
Go on his latest tweet
and go,
explain this.
You just get blocked.
He's never addressed it.
He's never spoken about it.
It sort of seems to me
with him in particular,
like,
did he just not realise
he was doing it?
Because he must have known.
I hate his face on it
because I think his face
is sort of like,
what am I doing?
Yeah.
Like,
what am I doing here?
Like,
he doesn't look happy
to be promoted at all,
but he blocks everyone. He's never addressed it, what am I doing here? Like, he doesn't look happy to be promoted at all,
but he blocks everyone.
He's never addressed it, ever.
And, like, the video of, do you remember, like, that,
like, sort of, it worked, but it was a little bit cringey,
the video, when Hicks and Gillette,
and it was, like, get out of our club,
and they had Ricky Tomlinson,
and they had Gareth from the Anfield Rap,
and Neil Fitzmaurice, and like they all did like this video to camera
to George Hicks and is it Tom?
No, Tom Hicks and George Gillette.
Tom Hicks, George Gillette.
And they were Liverpool's owners
before Family Sports Group took over.
And it was basically-
The shit Americans.
Yeah, they were like,
you came in and you promised
that you were going to put a spade in the ground
within 90 days.
You were going to get us a new stadium.
None of it's happened. You've just trying to steal money out of our club fucking get
out of our city and he's in that video he's in the video as well steven graham's in that video
and that like i struggle now because genuinely at one point and there's definitely a scouse
parochial he's one of ours about this but he was possibly my favourite actor for a bit. Because Combo,
not in the film
This Is England necessarily
because he's disgusting
and not as good
as he's an actor.
But his story
in the This Is England
TV series,
and I watched
every single bit of that,
it got more and more complex.
He showed such a good range
to play that character in.
I thought he was
fucking brilliant.
He's gone to work
for Martin Scorsese
and played Al Capone
in a massive
US hit,
Broadwalk Empire.
And he was-
He's in The Irishman.
Yeah,
The Irishman.
He's fucking great,
isn't he?
A Scouse lad done good
who should be remembering his roots
because it's fucking drilled into you
as a Scouse.
You're always a Scouse
no matter where you move to.
I know he lives in fucking Derbyshire
or whatever.
And then I seen that.
I think what happened was
I tweeted saying
he's one of my favourite actors,
Stephen Graham.
And it was Rob Thomas
and was like
have you seen this
and I was like
I can't not hate you now
because you're being
a fucking bellend
aren't you
it's just
yeah
it's strange
and it's like
he's got to have
had a moral sort of
view in his head
what's going on here
he kind of just went
oh yes Sand
he's not fucking stupid lad
he knew exactly
he knew exactly
what was coming
and that's why
he doesn't address it
because there's not and he can say he can't say sorry because everyone will go well you've what was coming and that's why he doesn't address it. Because there's nothing he can say.
He can't say sorry.
Because everyone will go,
well, you've fucking done it now, fuck off.
And he can't go,
it was in my contract,
everyone will go,
oh, so you're the sellout.
There's no answer.
Could he not have afterwards come out and gone,
I've fucked up here.
I shouldn't have done it
and I shouldn't have been there.
I think Liverpool's quite an unforgiving city,
to be honest.
Yeah.
I think the reason Rooney got forgiven a bit more
because obviously that story was sold to
a fucking independent thing wasn't it? Yeah
and then it ended up in the sun so it looked
like he'd gone straight to the sun but he hadn't
but with that one he's physically holding
a copy isn't he? Yeah so I
had a bit of trouble with that so when I
when I won that award, Best
Joke of the Fringe thing, every
newspaper in the country reported it very positively.
Apart from them.
And I told them quite publicly to fuck off a couple of times.
They offered me a full two-page spread to promote my tour.
And I had my publicist on the phone going,
you're getting a full two-page spread in that?
And I went, Mel, I'm not doing it.
Fuck off.
And she was like, I know there's these squabbles
with that paper in your city.
She'll never get that.
You need to, because this is really big.
And I was like, it's not happening.
So then I was like, a bit naively, don't get me wrong,
because you're taking on a fucking media giant.
I just went on Twitter and said, I've just been offered this.
I'd rather have empty shows.
They can go fuck themselves.
And you're talking like 100,000 likes.
People retweeted it everywhere.
Good on the lad.
Everyone should buy tickets to his tour
because he's done this.
And it did what it was meant to do.
Yeah, yeah.
But it also pissed them off.
So they reported that I'd stolen that joke.
Really?
Yeah.
Front page.
It was audible.
And they're not known for being vindictive.
So that's a surprise, isn't it?
I went into the shop and went,
I'm going to go and have a look in it
because I didn't want him to see it.
And I looked in the paper.
And it did.
Not like a little fucking corner thing.
On the front page.
And they just made that up?
They just fucking...
The joke was a bit hacky and shit.
They were like, he's stolen it.
It's an old...
The job sensor joke.
It's not a good joke.
And I didn't ever want to win an award for it.
Like, we've covered it on this a thousand times.
There was a reason that joke was in that show
and in that bit and whatever.
I never asked to win an award
that gets national coverage
for the worst joke in my show.
I didn't ask for that.
But they reported it that way.
So then me publicist was like,
we need to address this.
And I was like, I don't want to address it.
They can just fuck off.
And she went, right, well, we need to put a statement out because you've just won an award which you
get a big cash prize for in this exposure we need to put a statement out so I went okay let's put a
statement out and then Chortle full circle for the start of this episode they reported the statement
and because the statement was in response to something
that had been in that newspaper
Chortle reported it as
speaking to
and I rang Mel do you remember
and I was like I don't care what happens
but get that off that fucking website
because I did not talk to them I spoke to you
and we put a public statement out
because I can't be seen as speaking to them
this is London journalists and London PR that will never get it.
They're like, oh.
Like the fact that the term squabble was used.
Now, I know there's, come on.
There's these bloody Merseyside squabbles, you know.
But we need to get over it and get some good PR.
Like, they'll never get it.
Yeah.
Oh.
To be fair to Steve Venator, Chortley did change the article.
He's a good guy. In a public statementator shortly did change the article he's a good guy
he's in a public statement just want to say he's a great guy uh chortle.co.uk if you'd like to
nominate us for an award we'd like to win great guy great journalist oh shay we'll never sell out What would you say
Because my favourite battle of yours
Is with Tony
Because I love both of yours
And I think it's brilliant
I also like the Luna battle as well
But I want to know what your favourite one is
There's a few
Uno, Tony
Uno was great when the lights kept going off
Yeah
Is there a guy called
This guy's called Luna and Uno
and then there's someone
called Tony.
Yeah.
That's how it works.
Fucking hell,
you want to see Tony rap?
He's amazing.
And he does great plastering.
Fucking phenomenal.
So, Tony D.
Fuck off.
Yeah.
Tony D is the guy
who beat
O'Shea
in the title match
and took
O'Shea's title off him
is it like
is it like the heavyweight
heavyweight belt
you've got to beat
oh that's cool
so it's not a championship
every year
it's a
no it's like a number one
consent
that type sort of thing
yeah
that's fucking cool
people who do the best
rise up
in the ranks
and if you're a champion
league is in such do you have to just the venue's just wherever it is't it? People who do the best rise up the ranks. And if you're a champion...
There's no league as in such, you know.
Do you have to just...
The venue's just wherever it is,
or do you get to do a home venue in a way?
Like...
When it was at its prime,
it was going around the country.
It would be in a different city every four weeks
or every two weeks.
There was a time when it was selling out Ministry of Sound
and selling out all the venues all over the country we go to.
Now it's gone way down.
It's still big in Norfolk, though, I hear.
Norwich is still massive.
I think they're one of the only places that's still got their own little scene going on,
to be honest.
They are.
It's mad, isn't it?
East Anglia, I think they call it.
He's not even messing, you know.
No, that's real.
There's a league called Beast Anglia.
Beast Anglia?
Which does sound like
I'm telling you
right now
West Country peanut flour
whoever came out
with that
is a
Finn's fucking flying
look at that Finn
well done lad
I think he managed
to make that worse
no one
no one noticed
a big Welshman
bounding in
Beast Anglia
you can push it down
a little bit
if you need to
that's alright that's perfect Beast Anglia you can push it down a little bit if you need to that's alright
that's perfect
Beast Anglia is
what a fucking name
it does sound like
like a nonce
who roams around
near Ipswich
one of those crime
investigation programs
the Beast from Anglia
I've only been to
two events
weirdly
because I've been a fan
of it for maybe
seven or eight years
Paul Smith was the one
who introduced me
so I was saying that before.
But I was in London for some gigs, and I went on my own.
Yeah, you turned up at one of the London events, didn't you?
Was that a Ministry of Sound one?
Me and Carl went to a Ministry of Sound one.
Seventh birthday, it was.
Seventh birthday.
It was against that kid, Swist.
I don't know whether you were battling on the day we...
You were there.
You were there.
But you weren't battling that day.
You battled the day before.
So it was...
Shossi battled Charlie Clips on the Saturday.
We went on the Sunday because I couldn't go on the Saturday.
We saw Tony battle Chiller Jones.
Yeah, I know which one you're on, but yeah.
I mean, this is all pretty obvious.
I know all this anyway.
Carry on.
But yeah, to answer your question from before
just before
I carry on
having a lovely conversation
while you can
make some tea
I'm just interested
I think it's interesting
so yeah
there's Tony D
so these are
talking battles
there's Tony D
rapping
from London
like the lads in America
Uno Lavos
is from Philadelphia
Uno Lavos
Uno Lavos yeah please fuck. Uno Lavos? Uno Lavos?
Yeah.
Please, fucking.
Cornerback.
Sky Sports News.
What the fuck is that?
Geoffrey Archer ruled out of England's second test against India in Chennai with an elbow injury.
Oh, well, I'm glad, because you're mad on cricket, aren't you?
So you'll really want to know about the second test in Chennai.
Put your notifications on for a reason.
Uno Lavos has just signed for Levente as well.
And Luna C is from...
That's a good name.
Is from Leeds or Bradford?
Bradford, yeah.
He's from Bradford, yeah.
Oh, you've shown me Luna C before.
Yeah.
Well, we put bottles on in here sometimes
when we're cleaning up
or when you're cleaning up
and I'm watching bottles.
Not bad.
Absolutely not bad.
Shorty as well. You like shorty, bad. Absolutely not bad. Shorty as well.
You like shorty,
don't you?
Yeah.
Shorty horror.
So,
just,
I just want to,
I just love watching
in process.
I just want to,
I love finding out about,
there's probably a lot
of similarities between
stand up and the,
how do you come up?
Like,
is there like an under 18s
or a youth league?
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah because you can't
you get picked for England
yeah
you're flown over
to the Slovakian
he's only flown
but he fucking
he's amazing
he's been
he's been rap battling
42 year olds
who's the youngest
rap battler you've seen
knocking about
there's
Blizzard's probably
the youngest one
to get to a level
where he's
on the main cards,
but there's 12, 13-year-olds who do it.
I mean, the way I started,
I started when I was 13, 14, just in school.
As soon as you find out that one other person in your school raps,
it sort of became like that.
You know, oh, you've got to rap battle against him.
I was rap battling when I was in school,
but obviously then when you go,
we started putting videos out when I was like 16 17 of ones in like parties and stuff when you realize
there's three or four rappers and they come together and then it it just escalated from
there and then people started watching all those videos and then league started popping up because
they realized it was popular on youtube yeah and youtube came along if it was a massive explosion
of it because they were getting so many views
like hundreds of thousands of views
on some of these battles
like people
like young rappers
in the same way that now
we're getting comedians going
can I come on
have a word and promote me book
like there's rappers going
if I go on battling Don't Flop
and have a great couple of battles
and I get like a few thousand people
then they'll buy me mixtape or they'll
and it was different like when it started everybody used to battle used to rap so you'd be a rapper
first and then you'd start battling but as as Don Flop got bigger and rap battling got bigger you'd
have like comedians or people who weren't rappers who thought well do you know what I might get a
hundred thousand views off doing a decent one of these so they went into that and they weren't rappers who thought well do you know what i might get a hundred thousand views off doing a decent one of these so they went into that and they went they couldn't they wouldn't have had
a rap song or a rap verse at all but they go into battling because it became bigger but it's
basically just spoken word then and it starts with a bit more flow yeah who's just i can't
having asked who the youngest is who's the oldest person you've seen rap battling i mean what tony on the top so many well cashmore r.i.p but he was he was battling till he was 40 odd yeah
i honestly didn't know how old he was gonna be 40 obviously you're dead at 40 i'm sure
i'm sure a lot of the american ones have been doing it for that long how old's Tony Tony is a couple
of years older than me
so he's got to be
at least 40 I reckon
yeah
I'm 37 so
yeah
I think he's
two years older than me
Joker star
Vib T
yeah
they're all around
that age as well
yeah
Tony gets a lot of
shit in battles
as you did as well
for being one of the
older ones didn't you
but Tony seems to get
that a lot more
than anyone else
I'm so glad you're here
because I get fucking hammered
on this podcast
and we're all doing
fuck
do you ever worry about that
because sometimes
they're giving me shit
about like
not watching
I didn't watch Pokemon
I was poking girls
Kobe
that's a nice little bar
that was good
I made myself cringe
I know former British Battle Rap Champions just told you that was a bar That's a nice little bar there. That was good. I made myself cringe.
I know.
Former British Battle Rap Champion has just told you that was a bar.
Yeah, I know,
but he's an old one, isn't he?
I wouldn't lie nowadays.
But if you had to rap battle someone younger,
would you be like,
I'm not,
is this going to...
I've battled kids.
I've battled younger people
and I've, you know,
I've gone down the hall.
What do you know about late night Channel 5 gone down the hall, what do you know about
late night Channel 5 porn
and all that?
What do you know about WCW?
What do you know about
all that shit?
You know what I mean?
David Duchovny and,
what's it,
Red Shoe Diaries and all that.
Nice.
And they just haven't got a fucking clue
what I'm talking about.
But as long as it's getting
the fucking reaction.
But then they say stuff,
they say stuff that I've watched.
I,
cause,
I'm not,
cause of COVID and that,
it hasn't really been going on this year. So I've watched a a few recently and like I don't know what the fuck I'm talking
about the slang's changed I don't know what they're talking about half the time but I appreciate that
if they're getting a reaction they must be doing something right yeah yeah fair enough is there
anything that's ever been said I mean the answer will be yeah but I suppose what I'm after is an
example of like something that someone's said to you
where you've just
gone ah fuck
do you know what I mean
like they've got me there
like that's
not really
not really no
not as in like
you're pissed off
I just mean like
that's dead good
that's funny
yeah there's loads
of times like
it's hard to explain
like because it won't
it's not personal stuff
that's got me
but there's lines
that people say to you
and they think
that's fucking brilliant
that
yeah
like Dirk Bagdan
when he said like
I'm in the hands
I'm in the club
with me hands up
you're like
in the fucking pub
give me hands up
and all that stuff
but it's
it's hard to explain
like what
there's so many
I've done that many
done nearly 150 odd
rap battles
a lot
recorded rap battles
yeah
that there's that much stuff
that's been said to me
yeah it just flies over my head a lot of it the the one that springs to mind rap battles recorded rap battles yeah that there's that much stuff that's been said to me yeah
it just flies over my
head a lot of it
the
the one that springs
to mind
I'm
I hope I've not got
this wrong
because Danny McLaughlin
another lad we've had
on the couch here
a mate of ours
he loves these battles
as well
and he loves the
funnier ones
and he's a proper
hip hop head Danny
like he loves
more than nearly
anyone I know
but like
he hates
all the like trying to be the most creative bars he wants funny as funny stuff like his favorite
battle as as far as i'm aware is big jay and lefty against matted and peace soldier which is
dead funny when he's just calling him an owl for like five minutes like you look like an owl it's
dead funny but he's just
every now and then
Daniel just walk into
a green room
just saying
I don't flop bar
and the one he says
more than any
is what Pedro said to you
mum joke time
yeah
it's fucking brilliant
he does say that a lot
he does doesn't he
he'll just walk in and go
mum joke time
your mum's got a tattoo
of the ombro sign
that's a classic battle
that's another one
of the battles
that I like you know of myself another one of the battles that I like
you know
of myself
that one back and forth
one was a fucking boss one
you've battled Pedro
about 12 times
yeah yeah
because we've both
been doing it for that long
and we were the ones
that would just
battle a lot
freestyle and stuff
every other fucking event
we'd end up getting
put in a battle
against each other
at some point
of the event
yeah
is that good
or is that dull are you like if you've done it 11 times you're like the 12th is going to be dry
some people can freestyle and some people can't so a lot of so what happened is a lot of them
obviously obviously yeah obviously at the events yo you'd have all set
because it's going to end up in mother theresa's pussy real quick No, please don't. Please don't. Please don't.
Because it's going to end up in Mother Teresa's pussy real quick.
That's what we're after, isn't it?
Do you want to rap battle Mother Teresa?
I've just been thinking, is that a signed photo of Mother Teresa?
Yeah, it is a signed photo.
How the fuck do you get a signed one?
It says up the toffees, so it's definitely legit.
Oh, I can't bear fucking through again.
Is that Kevin Webster?
Yes.
I spotted Macho Man over there.
Yeah, that's signed as well.
Oh, yeah.
Fucking love it.
It's an eclectic collection.
Elizabeth.
Basically, the reason Mother Teresa's on there
is because I was asking Dan whether he'd fuck her,
and then someone paid for it and sent us it in
to our PO box.
There's a Fred Tarbert one there
as well. Also, if anyone wants
to rap battle Mother Teresa, now's the time.
Can't get that one on camera, no.
What did you just say? If anyone wants
to rap battle Mother Teresa, now's
the time. I'll fucking spit you up
in it.
You watch
Pokemon. I was poking girls
oh see i really want you to teach dan and have a little battle i don't know if you're up for it
why me why not rowey because he knows he knows it and he's done some and he's a bit more adept
basically i could have been don't flop champion if it wasn't for me injury you could have been
you could have been a lot of things. You could have been a human helicopter.
Did you do one of those
crap battles
when that was going on?
I've done three comedy battles.
Have you, yeah?
I've lost two
quite heavily
and won one.
Yeah.
Were you at the one
when I fell over
against Sony Carol?
Don't know.
That was in the crime, wasn't it?
It was the second
second crap battle
when I battled Sony
at the first one
and the second one was in the fucking Holidayled Tony at the first one and the second one
was in the fucking
Holiday Inn
and I was bladdered
and he threw
20p on the floor
in pennies
and I went to pick it up
and fucking toppled over
off the fucking stage
now that's where
rap battling
is probably like comedy
you don't want to fall over
yeah no
that's never good
but I
off the stage as well
I sold it well
like you know what I mean
for 10 of those
I was a bit more injured
than I was
who did I
battle when
it was
Eddie Fortune
Eddie Fortune
yeah
I got battled
by him
because I just
didn't write for it
and I was like
he's not going to
write for it
but he fucking
did
and I just
didn't take it
seriously
but then I wrote
you didn't write
for it
I just didn't
you thought you
were going to
win it
he was asking me
for stuff about you
it wasn't Eddie
it was the second
battle
it was Daniel Dixon
no I wouldn't give him any who else second battle. It was Daniel Dixon. No, I wouldn't give him any.
Who else did you battle?
It was Daniel Dixon, Eddie Fortune.
You know, those big names from comedy.
And I battled Freddie Quinn in Edinburgh.
I think it might have been Fred asking me for stuff.
Yeah.
Me and Freddie was close.
It was just fun.
But neither of us really knew what we were doing.
So that was like 2014. I'd only just started so that was like 2014
I'd only just started
watching them now
it's about 7 years
yeah but you know more than Dan
I've done 2
no I know but I mean
in terms of actual
I've done 2
I'm 1 and 1
first one went well
because he got really personal
and started doing
rap battling
against my agent
who wasn't there
it was one of the most
amazing things
to watch someone lose
without even involving me
he was like yeah and your agent's a cunt because he doesn't book me for the frog i'm like mate this
is not my battle and it's making you look like a bellend and then the next one it was justin
moorehouse who's a mate of mine and was doing that shithouse thing of going let's be nice though
let's not be cunts about anything we're not gonna go nasty are we i was like yeah yeah we'll just be
fun they started listing girls i'd banged it was absolutely
fucking brutal
and then ended with
my dad's got Parkinson's
I was like
Jesus Christ Justin
he won
Justin the one who
opened your DVD special
thing in the
no that's Freddie
that's Freddie
I know Justin's
I'm sure I must have
seen him
he's on tellies
yeah yeah
stuff like that
and he also
you'll know him from doing me in 2016.
Would you ever go into it?
Would you ever, like, let's say, you know,
podcast collapses, comedy forgets about you,
and you're just looking for another form of income.
You're one and one.
You're looking at, like, your job prospects.
No one will hire you because you haven't done anything for 20 years why are you trying to make me feel sad your cat's dead
you've been bummed by a homeless guy your wife's left you because you're a cunt would you consider
it would you get into it your daughter's a crackhead we've already talked about you have
to start with an m&m third round eight mile verse and you've got all that stuff yeah I have been bummed
I think me and you
I think me and you
at a live event
at the end
should have a battle
right
I think that'll be fun
right
yeah
looking forward to that one
really looking forward to that one
I'm going to play O'Shea
to write for me
brilliant
yeah
right
great
ten grand
and it's coming out of your
half of the Patreon money
I'm going to get Tony
to write for me
the uncle Tony
IOT
you're alright
you're alright
do you know what's really funny
how far away
the image in your head
of Tony is
from Tony D
yeah
because you're picturing
a 50 year old
fat white guy
with heart problems
yeah
and he's a really small
skinny black guy
yeah
no I don't really
want to rap battle
but
oh why
I'll do it for comedy sake
I'm not doing it
here
today
I'm
you know
I think you should do
a mirror match here today
I reckon you should
freestyle battle yourself
what would you say
about yourself
you are such a twat
such a twat
in podcasting there's like there's a moment
sometimes where you can literally just go i'm not i've not got it but for the next minute here's a
fucking grenade and you're holding it and that's what adam did and he literally maneuvered himself
for it what would you do if you were doing a rap battle in your mirror
i've got a lot of work oh yeah there's a lot. What do you mean in terms of self-deprecation?
I've been doing it for a year.
I've called myself...
Glasses.
I've got a small dick.
I'm a porn addict.
You look like an autistic kid.
Is this a rap battle or are you just having a go?
If you're going to just slam the fuck out of me,
my daughter's a crackhead.
At least make it rhyme, Adam.
Your daughter isn't a crackhead,
but she's got the potential to be one.
Is this an intervention? Could you at least make it rhyme Adam isn't a crackhead but she's got the potential to be one is this an intervention
could you at least
make it rhyme
got no hair
on your
fucking head
your bones
you look like a non
right
we're going to have
to have a break
because I feel
really hurt
emotionally
so let's have a
sponsor
from
one of the
money cunts
you've won me over
don't say that
I know
yeah but I'm a
battle rapper
so I don't give a fuck
see you in Norfolk
bitch
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if you want to get in on the public jonathan yarker's got a would you rather as he and it's
got a uh it's got a little bit of a hip-hop theme so i feel like it's uh very in tune with what
we've been talking about would you rather so okay you just gotta literally you can't be like i do
neither you gotta live or die
by one of these
in this made up world
that we're making a living
I really love that you explain
would you rathers to the guests
as if the concept's
gonna be lost on anyone
you know
you know about a rapping
but we know would you rathers
so this is
you're on our turf now
this is our house
would you rather be forced
to speak with a weird
DMX impression voice
including the
at the end of every sentence.
That's Ja Rule.
That's not Ja Rule.
That's a stag in heat.
What was that?
It's DMX.
It's mating season.
Fucking...
Hey, Rona's done DMX. That's mating season. Fucking, hey, Rona's done DMX.
That's Kevin Webster,
isn't it?
X gone give it to you.
I've had the Rona
and now I'm from fucking Charlotte.
Focus.
Right.
Would you rather be forced
to speak in a weird
DMX impression voice,
including the,
what?
Did he just do what
at the end of everything?
Near enough, yeah. Is it X gone give it to you? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. voice including the did he just do what at the end of everything?
Is it X gone give it to you?
Yeah yeah yeah Alright
It's horrible
I've got the headphones on
Alright
It's no it's my chest infection
Now you see what everyone's thinking
is a black rapper
and what you sound like is my
uncle tony the 50 year old white guy with with underlying health issues we'll go be careful
fucking profit oh every time you see someone in a wheelchair you have to suddenly push them along
20 yards and go at the top of your voice I'd rather do the DMX one
but the wheelchair one
seems a lot more
funny to do
wouldn't it
I think you're going to get arrested
for that one
the problem with the wheelchair one
is what if you're less than 20 yards
from the edge of a cliff
push them the other way
there was a fella that
you're going to live and die
by the would you rather's
Gerard there was a fella that the You're going to live and die by the would you rathers. Gerard!
There was a fella at the train station then in a wheelchair.
Was there?
Yeah, and he was facing the track as well.
He's a goner there. Right, can I just say...
It's not fair to say we as well as I pushed him over.
Can I just say, in the would you rather,
can you pick the 20 yards where death isn't part of it?
You're like, hey, lad, you're facing the cliffs.
I've got four to play with.
You're 16 yards of here
mate you can just turn them and then do the 20 yards it doesn't say that oh it doesn't doesn't so let's just assume it's murderous i'd actually like to just say i'll do both
yeah do while you're pushing them no that's al, that's Al Pacino. That's Al Pacino pushing someone in a wheelchair.
She had a great chair!
And you got your ass all the way in it!
I've laughed a fart out of it.
Oh, God.
I would love to have DMX's voice.
What, Jack?
have DMX's voice would you
I'd love to have
DMX's nose
right now
wherever he is
can I call bullshit
on your fucking arse
it's a bad one
oh Adam
bloody ro
this is happening
all the time
you're boffing on the pod
I think
I've seen a video
when DMX does a
concert
to like an entire continent
yeah yeah
it's fucking insane
you are
he's on stage
and there's about
17 million people
in the crowd
where is he
he's in Africa somewhere
he performs
it's like one of the
biggest crowds ever
oh my god
you can't not see
crowd
you can't see it
have you seen the
start of the Lion King
it's like that
careful
why
I don't know
why
I just feel like the Lion King is set in Africa yeah yeah and it's like that careful why no i don't know why i just feel like king is set in africa yeah
yeah and it's a really good representation of africans so dmx is on stage the giraffes are
there the hippo are there yeah and he's going x gone give it to you yeah yeah but that's what it
looks like he's like why can i only think of one dX song? I can just think of X-Con, give it to you.
Is that the only one he had?
Oh, it's fucking loads, isn't he?
Party up in here.
Is that the only one he had?
You don't know anything about DMX.
Come on, behave.
Rough Riders.
Slip and Rough Riders album.
All right, okay.
Anthem, sorry.
What's the one with Cisco?
What these bitches want.
That's a good one.
I like that song.
In your accent, that was good. We're the hooda.? What These Bitches Want. That's a good one. I like that song. In your accent,
that was much better.
With the hooda.
Yeah,
DMX is great.
That's my stage entrance song,
I want to get a bit aggy.
Right.
It was,
Little Green Bag,
but DMX could be the next one.
Right.
Yeah.
Did you have a walk on song,
O'Shea?
No,
but when they started doing
the wrestling music to walk on
I had the
Bret Hart theme
which I wasn't
too happy about
because I wasn't
a huge Bret Hart
fan to be honest
did you not get
to pick your own
no no
they picked it
for us
so we just
had to accept it
have you got a
walk on song
if you pick
yeah
no
because I'm a
fucking adult
comedian
it's the kind of
thing you do
when you're a kid
and you're like
oh I'm going to
walk on to this
and you're like do you want to write your first joke never oh, I'm going to walk onto this and you're like,
do you want to write
your first joke?
Never mind that.
I'm going to walk onto
the Foo Fighters.
That'll be cool.
What was your walk-on song
at the live show?
Yeah,
if you...
Oh,
yeah,
but that was just...
I don't mean in real life.
I don't mean like
you're walking to Greg's
and they put fucking
wannabe man
as Spice Girls on.
It's what you heard.
It's what you hear it
here comes the money
Shane McMahon
it was
let me clear my throat
wasn't it
I was just doing
a coronavirus joke
it wasn't my real intro
if you went on tour
and you were playing
Preston Arena
what's it called in Preston
it's called the Preston Arena
is it
yeah
really
yeah 28,000 people right next to the KFC in the bus station what you Preston it's called the Preston Arena is it yeah really yeah 28,000 people
right next to the KFC
and the bus station
what you on about
it's no arena
there isn't an arena in Preston
it's fucking Preston
what's the big thing there then
it's closed down
the theatre
the charter theatre
what's the biggest venue in Preston
the Guildhall
it was
I think it's closed down
you're making me feel sad about Preston
can I do my hometown gig somewhere else yeah right great what are you doing I don't know the guild all it was i think it's closed down you're making me feel sad about preston can i
do my hometown gig somewhere else yeah right great what are you doing i don't know manchester
yeah i'll do the men i'll do the wiggin arena go on you're doing the men yeah yeah yeah yeah
12 000 people can't wait right yeah dan nightingale yeah work in progress right right
getting warmed up for your big tour i always love doing 12 000 arena shows for work in progress right right getting warmed up for your big tour i always love doing 12 000 arena shows for work in progress yeah here's another joke i've just thought of let me know what you
think of this but what's your warhunt song gonna be you gotta it's gotta be big it's gotta go big
you know what i mean you gotta go big for a room like that oh yeah yeah yeah step to unsung the
theme tune what's that i wish just once you take this seriously yeah sorry i'll take it seriously while i waft
away the smell of your bum um something hip-hoppy but you know something cool hip i'd like run the
jewels at the moment of like something cool i don't know like some of their stuff or or Logic maybe
I don't know
like you can't
yeah something hip hoppy
but not
can't go DMX
because it's a bit like
2002 innit
what was going to be
my other one
if I didn't
because mine's
Place Your Hands by Reef
that's what I always
come on to
just have it now
and I'm sort of sick of it
what was the other one
going to be
I don't know
$9 billion
what is it?
Oh,
fucking Fat Man's Scoop.
Fat Man's Scoop.
It's a good intro song now.
Yeah.
Big drop,
big drop.
That one.
Can you,
do you,
can you enjoy hip hop?
Because we've said this
with comedy loads.
Like,
we watch comedy now
and you sort of see the joins
and you sort of see the bits
and you try and predict
where it's going.
Are you the same with hip hop, listening to-hop or is it so separate from what you do
that you can i like i don't know if it's just because i'm out of age but i i listen to hip-hop
more than anything else but i still listen to the same hip-hop i used to listen to when i was 17 18
19 so i'm still listening to dmx and method man and red man and mop and people from that generation
and we sang more than...
I couldn't sell you a Future song
or a Logic song.
I couldn't sell you any of them.
Yeah.
But I still listen to it.
I could sell you Jay-Z's old songs,
but I couldn't sell you anything
he's done in the last 10 years.
Oh, it's tragic.
Music could have stopped in 2008
and I'd have been all right.
I'm at that point where I know it's...
Ever since 50 Cent's
Get Rich or die trying album came
out i don't think i've listened so much after it i think that was the pinnacle of where it ended
for me you know what i mean that was the last great great hip-hop album for me it's weird
obviously there has been boss stuff but it's just it just misses you like it's weird how sort of
i've seen a tweet about this from laura lex not so long ago and i don't agree with what she said
but it made it set me off on a train of thought she said something
like
McFly
are a much better band
than the Beatles
and it's just nostalgia
that tells people otherwise
that was what she said
right
now I don't agree
with that
even a little bit
but
sounds like clickbait
it's weird the way
nostalgia plays
that role in music
it is isn't it
because like
the 70s and 80s and and, like, you know,
my dad's like, oh, this is fucking great, this shit.
And some of it's dog shit.
And there's some great music and tunes that come out now.
But, like, you'll never see it that way.
And, like, I'm just wondering, like, in 30 years,
are we going to be saying the same to the next generation?
Yeah, of course.
It's just noise, that.
Yeah.
That's what we're going to be saying.
It's like mumble rap. Obviously, I stand it but people love it don't they so there
must be that generation thing must happen mustn't it yeah you associate it with a part of your youth
don't you i remember being 17 18 listening to the verve and i thought it was the coolest shit
ever and i associate now urban hymns when i hear lucky man or anything i go god yeah being 17 it was 18 was
great i was invincible i was getting laid you're never going to have the same association when
you're like 53 and you've just had a hip replacement oh i heard this song when i was in hospital
convalescing after major surgery it's a bit like it's not universal as well isn't it with bands
like mcfly and that because i can when I was a kid and McFly were out
so not a kid
but I used to
weren't they like
a bit of a joke
yeah
and same even with
Take That
when I was younger
13, 14
when they were out
everyone used to think
fuck it
they're the worst band ever
it's for little girls
but then when you grow up
people seem to have
a lot more respect
for them now
don't you
the opposite way
of what it usually goes
I remember Alex Boardman
said something
to me about
like Take That he said he had like this moment I used to spend a lot of time usually goes. I remember Alex Boardman said something to me about,
like,
take that.
He said he had,
like,
this moment.
I used to spend a lot of time in the car with Alex
because
we used to play footy
on a Monday morning
and he would drive
from Manchester
to play footy
with us in Liverpool
and he would pick me
and Carl up sometimes
on the way to footy
because footy
was like 20 minutes
from where we lived
and neither of us drove and it was on his way from Manchester to the to the pitch he'd drive past
that I was so I spent a lot of time when Carl didn't play it was just me and Alex in the car
I'm talking about like comedy and stuff and he said in his head Tom Stade is the best comic in
the UK working and he's including McIntyre.
He's like, as far as I'm concerned,
Tom Stade is a better comic than Michael McIntyre is,
but for some reason,
I never understood why McIntyre was more successful.
He said, and then on the same night, his missus went to see Take That,
and he went to see his favourite band,
who were a lot smaller,
and he was in the O2 in Liverpool which holds like a thousand
people and take that
we're in like Old Trafford
with like 30,000 people or whatever
and it was like that night he went
oh it's the same, take that
I'm massive but they're nowhere near as good as these
but it's because they're so much
more accessible and it's easier to get
yeah yeah yeah and and when you get to a certain age it's almost like your hard drive's full in it
like unless you're a proper if you're really into music that's how i feel some of these bands that
these young like young lads are into now probably are technically or like talent wise as good as what i was into but i'm 40 and i drive
a volvo and my hard drive of like music i give a shit about is nearly full and they're at the point
where like it's so important to them and like i just yeah i but i don't ever want to turn into
one of those guys who's like what's this shit yeah i don't want to listen to this because i know
stuff that's being listened to now is probably fucking great but i think everyone's got a bit of alex boardman
in them going ah i like that and i love it and that's my sort of thing yeah yeah what would you
go to dream dream gig i could get you a ticket no rona tomorrow night you can watch we've had
this question a few times on the pod mob Mobb Deep. Really? Yeah. They're probably my favourite band.
I've seen M.O.P.
M.O.P.
I've seen Red for Man.
I've seen Red Man.
Mobb Deep,
I don't know,
my favourite.
What's the famous M.O.P.?
What's the one that got remixed?
Antioch.
Oh, Antioch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I swear I went to see them.
Someone got stabbed to death in the toilets.
Went down to London to watch them.
Right.
Probably them Norfolk lads coming down. Yeah, I'm telling you. It was a very, very... Norwich is in the toilet went down to London to watch them probably them probably them Norfolk lads
coming down
yeah I'm telling you
it was a very
Norwich is in the house
it was a very
dodgy atmosphere there
what did they get
stabbed to death
in the toilet for
gang shit
it was
I wasn't involved
in any of it
you know what I mean
we all got dragged out
and everyone got searched
and all that
someone had been
stabbed in the toilet
Adam
I know someone's been stabbed
but do you know what it was about
I think it was toilet roll
so it's got pretty nasty
isn't it
but sometimes it does get a bit
eggy in the toilet
doesn't it
yeah
I remember one time
I was having a wee
and some fella was trying
to look at me dick
and he fucking stabbed that cunt
right
yeah
didn't have a knife though
so
just stab him with your dick
do you hate that though when you're having a wee
i'm trying to have a look what's your dream just piss on them if they look at you
i have thought have you never looked you probably end up getting stabbed there i have but like
do you not hate that i'm gonna ask me i know i love it Adam I love it I'm like everybody I'm here
especially when
they've had the option
to leave a gap
of a urinal
and they come right
fucking next to that
like a fucking
super nonsense
and they're in the
right next one
and then they're having
a little
I'm like leave my
fucking
were you there
at this gig
do you know
something about this
someone clocked
your knob at a
mob deep gig
right we
we need to move on here.
It's getting...
It's getting really funny and interesting.
What was the question?
No, unsurprisingly, it's...
Is this a DMX question?
What?
Are we still on the DMX wheelchair question?
Nah.
That's gone, hasn't it?
What are we talking about?
We've ended up in a toilet...
But we didn't really answer the question, did we?
What would you rather do?
I need closure.
He didn't need closure
until you told him he needed closure.
I'd look at your dick.
I'd be that guy.
I would be the...
I'd kill the disabled people.
That's what I'd do.
Okay, good.
And that's the closure.
I nearly said something really horrible there.
That definitely would have been
Say it and I'll cut it off
Pussy
If I know it's over the line
Considering what we've said and done on this podcast
In the past year then
Oh shit the time
Right let's do a have a word
And then bounce
So this guy has got in touch he wants to be anonymous
um right he said all right lids how are we want to know if it's me you need to have a word with
or this bird that i've been banging so to set the scene i'm 24 and just out of a two and a half year
relationship so i wanted to get back on the t bike, match with this 28 year old bird from Widness.
And we've seen each other a few times
and then we slept together.
I asked if she was the only one of her friends without kids
as there had been no mention of children from her side
and nothing on her social media, et cetera.
And her response was, yeah, quite firm.
She said, yes. fast forward to the day
after the jiggery pokery and she messaged me telling me i need to know something she drops
the bombshell that in fact she has a nine-year-old kid i'm immediately taken aback as this kid was
nowhere to be seen during the two occasions i was at hers no pictures no mention during the month or
so we've been chatting and
then obviously she's flat out lied am i being a cunt for using this as a get out clause or do i
have a valid point to fuck her off on and that's from anonymous okay so first of all there are no
28 year old women in witness who don't have nine year old children so he needs to stop being so
naive doesn't he yeah nine yearyear-olds that age you don't
really need to worry about them anyway do you i wouldn't be bothered if it was nine that's a
that's a really good point it's not like he's gonna have to wipe this kid that's what i mean
if it's one or two and she wants you to get involved with them that's when you need to bounce
but nine-year-old goes with dad's carny yeah that's my view and if his dad's not around
give him a fucking cheese string and tell him to fuck off
for a bit
so he can knob his mind
give him a cheese string
give him like a bus pass
like a daily bus pass
let him fucking
ride around town
for a bit
just let him watch
whatever film he wants
if he's nine
because he'll watch
whatever he wants then
yeah
yeah
the exorcist
annual's just a little dude
isn't it
yeah
you know
if you've got a bit
of expendable income
you can be like
mate
let's just
cards on the table
here's 30
pounds cash i want to bang your mom just buy him 40 boots all the time we'll be mates is that not
prostitution or doesn't that make a nine you know the pimp prostitution
i wish also i'd not looked directly at him while i was imagining talking to a nine-year-old and
talking about banging moms like here adam he's liquid, but wouldn't that make the kid a pimp
if he's taking payments
so his ma can get dicked?
No, it's not.
It's not payment for the sex.
It's just payment to fuck off.
And I doubt he's cutting it in either.
I think O'Shea's got
a good point there, man.
Bit old, innit, nine?
You can get away with that.
If you're 24, though,
are you getting involved with the...
I think what he's saying
is basically...
He's done anyway, innit?
Yeah, he wants out anyway yeah he wants out
he wants out don't he
yeah
after a month
you don't have to be like
you don't have to take
the moral haggle
you lied madam
I would have married you
I would have fathered
your nine year old child
30 pounds everywhere
how long did she hide her for
a month
ah
he does
that's just getting out
close though
I'm gonna ask
if you've got kids
it's like you lied to me it's just a
bit weird.
Yeah.
Bam.
Easy.
He holds all
the cards here
doesn't he?
I think what
he should do.
Here we go.
Buckle up.
Buckle up.
We've had the
responses that we
thought we'd get
but now Adam's
winding up.
Swing
balla balla balla.
I just you know
I think he needs
to respect her.
You can hear it. You can hear it. His voice. Adam. I just you know I think he needs to respect her I think what he should definitely do
is just
stick around for
another month
and lie to her
about something
do you know what I mean
get her back
get her back
make it even
don't just leave
because like if he leaves now, he's lost.
He got lied to and he never got to lie back.
So what he should do is shag one of her mates
and outright deny her for a month and then leave her.
Just so glad there was no more nine-year-olds involved in that one.
And, you know.
Kidnap the kid.
Kidnap the kid.
Use it as a ransom.
Like I want a meal.
All your kids getting pushed in the kidnap the kid
take the kid on holiday so that the kid doesn't even want to go back right
just ghost her do you remember before you were like never go someone i think ghosting might be
the better version of abducting the child and taking it out of the country. Ghosting's really nasty, it makes people have questions
I'm already wrong. Kidnap, Stockholm Syndrome
Yeah, yeah, child abduction is frowned upon
as well. Ghosting, yeah, they're both bad
But if he takes that kid to like fucking West Abbey
or something and finally gets that kid out to witness, the kid'll be
made up
One more and then I've got a bounce
He's put what? Are we finished with that one?
Yeah Why do you, if you've got Do you want to do more? I wanted to go into more he's put what are we finished with that one yeah
right okay
why do you
why have you got
do you want to do more
I wanted to go into more details
about how the kidnap would work
but now we can move on
like really
I'm sorry
Adam can I apologise
for stunting your artistic flow
yeah
what's the next one
okay
oh now you want the next one
you want to talk about
you've ruined it
right cool
could you have a word
with my missus?
I don't mind being a porn star.
Actually, I'd love it for the other half.
I object to it being filmed, though.
So this guy's saying he loves shagging,
but he just doesn't want it filmed, though.
Not saying it wouldn't happen,
but don't want to see myself on social media
somewhere down the line.
Apparently, according to her, that makes me a bore,
and it's causing an issue.
Right, so...
Can you have a word?
Let's just, because that sounds a bit clunky.
He hasn't written that very well.
I don't know what's wrong with our listeners.
A lot of them can't write.
I didn't edit this one.
Sometimes I edit them down.
Yeah.
He did this...
What he's saying is, I like shagging me missus,
and I'm dead good in bed,
but I don't want her to film it in case we
split up and she
posts it online
she's asked if they
can film it
yeah
have you ever had
a filmy
oh yes he has
look at that face
no
have you not
no
why did you
because I smiled
you were like
what is he doing
have you never had
like a tape of you
I don't a tape a gramophone have you doing? Have you never had a tape of you? I don't.
A gramophone.
Have you had any?
I've got a box set, mate.
You've got a box set?
Yeah, full of three DVDs.
Ah, but he's got to use his own phone, hasn't he?
It's obvious.
I will do it.
I'm using this phone, and you're not getting access to it.
Right.
But what's the point?
Doesn't she want it for having a little flack when he's not around? That's how he's got to show it. Oh. So you say, you can do that. Watch it. He's going to me. Right. What's the point? Doesn't she want having a little flack when he's not around?
That's how he's got to show it.
Don't touch it.
Stand there like that.
Don't touch it. Oh, you've wiped off the screen.
Yeah, I think what
he needs to do... Would you film?
Could you see yourself
filming it? Again?
Oh, have you?
Yeah. Really? Yeah. I know you have yeah you told me you didn't film it
i know you guys are close wasn't he was he he directed it i know i know content is king but
lads i've filmed yeah yeah with someone else with someone else of course with someone else? With someone else? Of course, with someone else. He's on his own knob off.
I'm not just fucking wanking in a minute.
Has Carl directed one of your wanks?
Pick up the pace, lad.
Come on.
Girls like it.
Right.
Girls like having a little sort of,
ooh, we did this, didn't we?
Yeah.
They're no longer on my phone
because they're from past...
Past...
Ventures.
Relationships.
Ventures.
Ventures.
We'll say relationships.
We'll say ventures.
O'Shea, is it just me?
I feel like when you're a bit older,
you're like,
I'm glad that I wasn't around
for the era of the dick pic.
It was great.
You couldn't send a dick pic
on a Nokia 3210.
Did you ever take a Polaroid
and just post it?
Did I take a Polaroid? And post it? Did I take a Polaroid?
And post it?
The saddest moment
in your life,
like,
ka-ching!
Oh, it's come out nice,
that,
look at that.
You better not be using a Polaroid,
they bought you for that.
Yeah,
I'll do,
you bought me a Polaroid
for Christmas,
I will take a dick,
I'll take a dick pic with it.
I don't want you to.
Did you never do that, though?
Was dick pics just not a thing before?
Yeah, no.
It's still very strange.
Dick pics, aren't they?
Yeah.
In general.
Moving on, moving on.
I actually asked my mistress the other day,
if I went away,
would she want me to send her pictures of me dick?
And she said very politely that she would not.
In different places around the world.
That'd be amazing.
Little Adam.
Fuck, it's all popped up in town.
I'm here.
Fucking hell.
Here he is, little Adam, in front of the Trevi Fountain.
Fucking hell.
The fucking Carbonara are all over with guns.
They're getting arsed.
I call them Little Vinny, actually.
I know they're not called the fucking Carbonara
it was a joke before anyone fucking tweets at me
yeah I asked her I was like
because you know what I mean
if I'm seeing a girl and she sends me a nude
you like it don't you
it's fucking good
I just don't think
I think
the attraction to me
has to be from beyond the visual.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't think I've necessarily got the worst face in the world,
but, you know, me stood in a mirror with me dick out.
I just don't think anyone's, like, going to be super into that.
Do you like it when you're doing your set with your knob because then it's got
your personality in
no but like
I know what he's saying though
with Adam
with a beautiful woman
a picture in the mirror
like
at the best angle
showing your arse
and all that
that's good for us
isn't it
because we're like
wow look at that
that's all you need
if Adam's sending a dick pic
it's got to come with
like his credit rating
a fucking screenshot
of his bank account
what girls do like
you
from my experience girls do like you
girl from my experience girls do like a video of a lad wanking
like not not like not like unrequested ladies at have a word pod at gmail.com and any of our
gay female listeners that adam ingratiated himself with early could you back up what adam's just
saying because i i know this about my lesbian friends they love a dm of a wanking pic no no no
no no hey this come on no you picked the wrong team here girl you're taking that out of context
i'm not saying that's a way to say hello i'm not saying dropping the dms be like hey love get on
this i'm not saying that at all what i saying is, girls who are getting either in a relationship
or in that flirty stage,
like,
a Snapchat of a little spaff,
they're into that.
But they have to ask for it
or at least okay it in advance.
Yeah.
I,
I don't know.
I couldn't think of anything less.
Have you never sent one?
No,
and I couldn't think of anything
less attractive than yours
in the entire world.
I've got quite a nice looking dick, you know, it's quite handsome.
Honestly.
It's only got one vein.
Yeah, and you should see it in front of the fucking Sphinx
and the Pyramid.
When little Adam's dick was in Egypt, he had a great time,
you know, in camel land.
Here's my dick riding a camel.
He's doing a lot of justice there
O'Shea hasn't talked for about
12 of the minutes of this
because he's just like
you fucking bellends
is this what you do as a job
it is
but
here's the thing
right
go on
I'm not lying
and the women
are many female listeners
will back me up on this
they would rather see a
video of a man wanking than a picture of a still dick um there's just so many opportunities to do
no context have a words with adam today he's been on absolute fire you have been a no context have
a word machine today can we do a poll then on twitter i'd like i really think you need to back this up because I don't think
girls
want to see us
spanking it
I know
my wife does not
I'm at the point in life
where if my wife
sends me a picture
and she's naked
it's to fuck it
it's like
I found a rash
that's where we're at
I'm not even joking
like does that look
is that a stretch mark
have you never
exchanged anything like this?
I've never censored dick pic or a wank video, no.
Yeah, me neither.
They're all weird, you know.
Never, no.
Oh, Finn's got something to say.
Finlay!
I've not taught the whole episode,
but yeah, I'm with Adam on this one.
Girls like it, don't they?
In my experience, yeah.
See?
He's been with one girl for 10 years
and maybe she's
just not into it
you're from the dark ages
and
he's in your age range
I'm 39 years old
you're from the dark ages
you're doing well
to work on phone
never mind
get your dick out
it's
it's attractive to them
because they're like
that's my dick
I could be wanking that off
I have a word pod
we'll be on Twitter later
where
Twitter
can decide this
it's what
Adam's sending
wank videos to Bernie Mac
by the sounds of it
I thought you said Danny Mac
I was like
he's not gonna like that mate
that's my dick
yeah
I'm just saying
you know
obviously
I'm in a relationship
so I can't be sending them
but if
if any girls watching
want one of those videos
I've got a couple of friends
who are single
who
could provide them
for any
women out there
who
are going through a dry patch
what if
I don't think dry patch
was the right
turn of phrase
to use there
vaginally
oh god
what if they're
female £10 patrons
you send a dick pic then
won't you
no
oh come on
I'll have to ask if I'm allowed
okay cool
it'll have to be signed
signed
oh shay I'm sorry
about the end
it's alright
I've really enjoyed it
I feel like we talked
about rap battling
to the point where we're like,
God, it's been so long since we've extensively
talked about penises.
Where can we find you?
Where can we see your stuff?
I think a lot of these people
are going to want to see you do your thing.
YouTube, we've just put O'Shea in,
or Dick Limerick Academy,
all stuff, videos, music videos, songs.
We're on Bandcamp, Twitter, O'Shea FC.
All the usual stuff.
Spotify,
Amazon Music, all that stuff.
And if you are looking, if you've never really watched any rap battles or listened to
any of them and you're looking for sort of a gateway
drug into it, I would tell you to watch
O'Shea battle Tony D.
You see pretty
much everything that Don't Flop has to offer in one
battle. Yeah.
And I love Tony D, and I think he's one of the best ever,
and I still think you won that one.
It's one of them, and it's probably the best to watch if you want to see the full spectrum of streets, jokes, bars, cleverness.
Because on top, like, we will wrap up in a sec
but like
you're known
for being more jokes
and he is known
for being more bars
but because you're
facing each other as well
you both do
each other's thing
in it as well
and you both show
you've got that
source of strength
to your bow as well
I'm not joking
he absolutely
it's not just like
blowing smoke
he fucking loves
rap battles
I know that you've
loved today
because you've been
looking forward to getting o'shea totally i really appreciate it man it's been fascinating
we'd love to have you back go and check his stuff out uh go and check our patreon out
patreon.com slash have a word pod we are going to start filming the the big quiz carl's big
special quiz that's only going to be on patreon it has been a pleasure today i've really enjoyed
it adam any uh anything we need to add?
No, I don't think so.
My stand-up special is edging ever close to 100,000 views.
If you don't mind, go and watch that.
Adam Rowe Club Comic on YouTube.
Merch is at haveawordpod.com.
And as Dan said,
we've got one of the best Patreon memberships in the game.
There's 2,500 people on there now,
and we'd be nice to 3,000 sometime soon.
So, you know, just go and sign up and tell your mate to as well.
Bye, Felicia.
In a bit.