Have A Word with Adam Rowe & Dan Nightingale - #159 Have A Word Podcast x Two Pints w/Will & Ralph
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Have a word.
Go, Ed. Get on me. The other day, I was quite worried my little brother was a paedophile.
Like an actual paedophile for a bit.
How long were you worried for?
A few days.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
Got a phone call on Sunday that if the details of it were correct
would mean my little brother Jack is a raging nonce.
Raging?
Yeah.
Not even first-time offender, like raging.
And it took a few days for me to sort of remember
that I needed to deal with it, and then I did.
Right.
Yeah, let's track this back.
Four weeks earlier.
I think Jack and a lot of his friends
will be listening and watching right now.
And we need some clarity on this.
So you know the day we did the roast?
Yeah.
By the way, that will be going on Patreon
in early March.
It was fantastic.
Enjoy.
So good.
I got a phone call in the day.
I was in Arquette
buying myself a fresh new tea.
Lovely. For the show. And my dad rangquette buying myself a fresh new tea. Lovely.
For the show.
And my dad rang me and he said,
Adam, I've got something to tell you
and you need to come and see me now.
Drop whatever you're doing.
Come and see me now.
You get two of those phone calls a day though,
so that wasn't the big show.
Yeah, it wasn't.
Yeah.
My dad is old and losing his mind.
And that's one of the things that made me calm
because I was like,
oh, maybe he's just made this up.
Right. So he goes, I've got something to tell you and you need to come and see me calm, because I was like, oh, maybe he's just made this up.
So he goes, I've got something to say,
and you need to come and see me now.
And I was like, well, I can't.
I'm at work.
I've got to go to work.
Big night.
Can't do it.
He's like, you're going to have to drop it and come.
It's so important.
I was like, what is it? He goes, I can't tell you over the phone.
I was like, why?
He goes, well, who are you with?
I said, I'm on my own.
I wasn't.
I was with Alfie.
And he goes, I've had a letter saying Jack's a paedophile.
A letter? Oh, no. Handwritten? wasn't i was with alfie and he goes i've had a letter saying jack's a pedophile a letter handwritten oh from the the department of pedos it is a fine isn't it the first offense is a fine that peter's awareness well her majesty's hmdp her majesty's department of pedos you're
gonna step on the story because this is incredible right so don't step on the story. I said pedo awareness course.
Carl!
Your first offence is a pedo awareness course?
Hey, this is serious, you big boots.
So he goes, yeah, I read a letter saying Jack's a pedophile.
And I was like, who's the letter from, Dad?
And he said, the Department of Justice, right?
Right.
So I went, right, okay.
I went, what's it say?
It says he's been accessing
many pictures since October
and videos of children getting...
Bummed.
Sure.
What did your dad say?
He didn't say bummed.
I'm paraphrasing.
What's...
Long nose line.
Elicit indecent images.
Oh.
Maybe.
Oh, yeah.
That's the exact turn of phrase yeah so i was
like right that okay and in my head i was like that can't be real he's obviously just having
he might be a bit drunk he's tired he's not being well i'll figure it out in a couple of days it's
a weird i'll figure out tomorrow because i thought it was going home yeah usually they're like oh
someone's stealing from me not like oh i've got a letter from the Department of Justice you know it's quite an
elaborate thing
isn't it
yeah so I thought
genuinely he'd made it up
I thought he just
was having a
senior moment
I suppose
and I was like
right
so I was like
right I'll go and
see him tomorrow
which was Monday
but I didn't end up
going home on Monday
I stayed an extra
night in the hotel
I had another
little night out
with Alfie and
Binti and
stuff from Hot Water
so then on Tuesday I went home
Seeing our Jack and I was like oh
For God my dad said
He might be a paedophile
So I was talking to him
Is it fair to say you have quite a lot going on
At the moment that you were like
Oh yeah
My dad said my brother was a paedophile
It slipped my mind
And then you wonder why I bitch about the admin.
Because imagine how far down the list it is.
Can you answer that email, Adam?
Your brother's a paedo.
Oh, I'll get to it.
I'm buying fucking webs.
So I went, oh, Jack, I'm going to...
Because I didn't tell Jack.
On the off chance it was a real thing,
I didn't want to be like, oh, by the way,
my dad's had a letter about this
so I said
oh I'm just going to go
and see my dad
make sure he's alright
so I went round
and I was like
you alright dad
he's like yeah I went
show me this letter
and I thought
because he was
of sound mind
when I seen him
I thought he was going to go
what letter
and he was going to go
oh I don't know
what you're on about
I must have been
drunk or dreaming
or whatever
so he goes into his
he put it in his coat pocket
in case Jack had gone round he didn't want Jack to see it and he'd put it in his coat pocket in case jack had gone around
he didn't want jack to see it and he gave me it's a full letter like you have violated section thing
this this this and this you can access some pictures of and videos of child pornography
children getting bummed in the head all that nice big long thing verbatim but it's a scam
and you can tell as soon as like you've got like a young person's eyes on it
and not the father of someone who's been,
like my dad's,
I didn't realize,
my dad was basically having a full blown
mental breakdown for a couple of days
because he's like,
whatever done,
I've raised a pedophile, right?
Yeah.
So he didn't see it,
but it's like,
go to this website now
and it's like doj.info
and then below it,
it says,
or use this one if that doesn't work
right
it's such a bad
bad bad fake
but
where do you think it's from
it says the
Department of Justice
but that actually
doesn't exist
right
there's no UK
Department of Justice
there's the Ministry of Justice
alright
there's no Department of Justice
this is from abroad innit
and the letter starts
eh eh
and that's the giveaway
as well innit
eh eh I seem to be just There's no department of justice. This is from abroad, isn't it? And the letter starts, eh-eh. And that's the giveaway as well, isn't it?
Eh!
Eh-eh!
Eh, my mate.
This is from the Department of the England of Justice.
And this is from the Queen,
who has instructed me to say,
your jacket is a beedle.
Which is not, by the way.
Here's the thing, right?
Lads.
So I said to my dad, look, what it's saying, Dad, is he's got to pay a 580 pound fine i mean that was like i know i was like well think about
that if jack was accessing videos of children getting assaulted they don't go hey 500 quid
and we'll call it quits they turn up and see the stuff he was like right and i went and also this
is the perfect scam isn't it because if you get that letter and you're like i wonder if this is a scam you can't google child pornography scam so the amount of people they must
get with this who go oh fuck me i mean i haven't but fuck that and they just pay the money yeah
it's i'll bring the letter i meant to bring the letter in with me today it's so funny how bad it
is it's fishing blackmail yeah it's like a fishing
blackmail like it's in the post though that's mad isn't it yeah that's old school huh yeah but it's
also but they had jack's name yeah and his address yeah but you can buy that off companies can't you
that's not the hardest thing to access yeah that's yeah that's mad enough it's either a scam
it's either a scam or a prank.
Like I said to him,
it might be one of your mates playing a prank.
I thought it was that at first,
like the panties in the post-prank.
Yeah, there's no payoff on that prank though, is there?
There's no...
You know what I mean?
I get it.
It's the kind of shit you would do as a prank,
except as it plays out, you're like,
lads, I've just paid 580 quid.
You're like, yeah.
Got your repeat, though.
And I'm going on a fucking nice weekend
with me missus
yeah I love it how
your dad was like
he's going to pay
580
where's he getting
the money
and he's a pedo
that's a worry isn't
it
my dad was worried
he was going to go
to prison for 10
years that's what he
said
I thought he was
going to do 10
years
I love it how your
dad was like there's no way he's paying 580 fucking hell he's going to for 10 years. That's what he said. I thought he was going to do 10 years. I love how your dad was like,
well, there's no way he's paying 580.
Fucking hell, he's going to do 10 years here.
I love the Department of Justice.
They're like, listen,
you've been looking at kiddie porn.
We need 580 pounds.
That's cheap.
Otherwise, you're in trouble.
Right, you've paid the money.
Don't do it again.
The pedo
porn tax
basically it's a pedophile
isn't it
yeah
for your cock
yeah
you've got three points
on your pedo
on
license
pedo license
for your insurance
so just to clear up
Jack Rowe
not a pedophile
I don't think so
not proven
oh no
there's no evidence of it
because all his mates
will watch this
he's gonna fucking murder
maybe you and me
come on
it's come on
there's no evidence
to support such a claim
at this time
wow
well I bet you've enjoyed
the start of this podcast Jack
what did Jack say
when you confronted him with it
he couldn't breathe
for laughing
yeah it's incredible.
So for a couple of days, you were like,
oh shit, I've got to deal with Jack being a mess.
No, I genuinely just put it away.
I was like, I can't deal with that tonight.
And then the Monday I was hungover, I was like, that doesn't exist.
If you want to do a prank, you should get
Adam's dad's address
and just start sending letters about what
Jack's been doing. This is from the Department of Pandas.
Jack Rose fingered a panda,
and we're going to need £47.82.
Otherwise, he's going to be prosecuted for fingering pandas.
I don't even know how he got in Edinburgh Zoo.
And they're famously frigid animals,
so it wasn't even consent.
No, they love getting fingered.
Oh, that's the problem.
Pandas don't love full sex.
I actually think it's because they don't fancy other pandas.
I think they want to fuck other animals.
Yeah.
Like giraffes can fuck pandas pretty much whenever they want.
Can they?
Can they?
Carl!
Did you give it a blow?
Carl, I love it when Carl just goes,
I'm going to play this one straight.
Can they?
I don't even think they're in the same enclosure, Adam.
No, in the wild, I mean.
Oh, in the wild.
Oh, those Indo-Chinese giraffes. Do they share the same habitat?
No, continent.
No, they don't.
No, but giraffes will travel for that.
Giraffes!
Yeah, have you ever heard of the Silk Road?
Well, if you follow it, there's also horny giraffes.
It's the Silk Road to humans.
It's the panda pussy road for giraffes.
I prefer panda pops.
You can see all the way to China.
Oh, fucking hell, look at that panda pussy over there.
Where are you from, Mr Giraffe?
Duffcott.
Get on me.
I used to be Adam Rose Motorbike.
From before.
From before.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Why don't pandas bonk?
What is it about?
They're just a bit slow and lazy.
It's like they're all just deep into marriage, innit?
I know, but even like,
everyone likes to bang, don't they?
Like, even the, you know when you see a couple and they're just, you're like,
oh, oh, it's a lot.
Like, just the size and just the general fucking mess of them. Maybe they don't feel attractive.
That's a big thing for some people.
Some people don't like having sex because they don't feel attractive themselves.
And maybe pandas are looking at zebras thinking they should look like that do you know what i mean they're like i'm just a fat zebra
no one loves me pandas have got body dysmorphia yeah like oh god i wish it was one of those
tall gay horses you need gokwan to get in the fucking enclosure and box them off
gokwan it's all about confidence we went gokwan with chinese pandas ok Okie dokie. It's all about the confidence.
Yeah.
They just need to... All about the confidence.
Got Guan.
Stripping pandas for summer.
You did TV warm-up for him, didn't you?
Yes, I did.
Did you meet him?
I kissed him on the face.
I love that his name is so close to Cock Wank.
Yeah.
What?
I love that his name is very close to Cock Wank.
Makes me laugh every time I think
about it
he gets paid a lot
he gets paid a lot
this cock
yeah he kissed me
because I'd just been
I was doing the TV
warm up and it was
I was just sort of
like
I don't know
is he dead tall
he's really really nice is he tall
though because he looks like an absolute sense and a half yeah uh yeah he's not it's not a short
person he's good it was good fun he looks like uh do you know our comedian friend jonathan mayer
has sort of like cleaned his life up lost a bit of weight and he's got that international sort of
can't work out exactly where he's from i think he is he part chinese and i don't know i don't you probably don't like him as a celebrity he's he's very likable as a person
like i've done tv warm-up for different bits and he he was dead nice it was a ropey fucking gig
yeah it was a really ropey gig um but yeah he seems seems dead nice. His full name's Cochran Wang.
His name is literally
nearly Cochwang.
It's one letter away.
Cochran Wang.
He's Chinese, yeah.
All right.
Well,
yeah.
Have you done any weird,
like,
like warm-up gigs
that aren't comedy?
Have you done,
have you been asked
to do that,
like,
real away day
sort of, because i did the
john bishop warm-up that was so easy after three i got on the telly i got on the tv show they're
like this has been great because obviously when you do the tv warm-up the cameras are rolling
because like the cameramen are getting the light in everything so everything's rolling so the tv
producers are all sat there it's the 15 minute it was so good
i love guys like john bishop who are like right stand-up show people are coming on to do sets and
what they did with john bishop's only joking in the edit they cut it all up so it was like it was
almost like they played tag on the subject matter so if one person had a joke about like shopping
the next person had a thing about like going to the shops it like moved on
like that but on the night it was just people doing 10 15 minute sets they they said to me like
just do 10 literally so chilled out like almost like a comedian running their own comedy like
do 10 15 yeah yeah so i was like 15 all right and they were like and what none none of that like
get off now or keep going it was just like like, yeah, do 15 and get John.
John's ready when you are.
Just get them where you think they need to be.
It was fucking brilliant.
And on the, we did Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and something else was being filmed on the Thursday.
And the last night of the filming was Friday.
And my agent got a phone call on the Thursday
and they were like, they want Dan on the show
because John Bishop had made my life so easy
with the way he'd set it up.
I got to look good. And I'll say this about John Bishop's fans they're dead nice they're like I like John
and I like comedy I would imagine that some comedians fans can be a bit snobby yeah like I
don't I've never done a warm-up for Stuart Lee and I love Stuart Lee's comedy I don't know if I
would love doing warm for his fans they're like real comedy they I don't know if I would love doing warm for his fans. They're like real comedy.
I think they rate themselves as comedy
aficionados. Yeah, they think they're like, oh,
did he just do a punchline?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no. No, no, no.
A little bit obvious. Saw that one coming.
And then there's other warm-ups like
Gok Wan where, like, oh, you do that thing for John Bishop?
You can do Gok Wan? And you're like, it's not.
I did like
a thing after the news
so they did the news
and then I went on
to the audience
and did stand up
about the news
the Tez's thing
no
what's this
the ITV news at 10
Trev MacDonald
it was
it wasn't
it was after
I know it was ages ago
what were you
I don't
go on I thought it was Trev MacDonald know it was ages ago What were you I don't Go on
I thought it was
Trevor McDonald
But that was ages ago
Go on
No
You make
It was now
You make it hard
To call bullshit sometimes
Because you like
I can't decide what
I can't
I don't believe you
They were like
So you know the news
At 10 on ITV
They have an audience
Is it
I can't remember his name
I didn't meet the news guy go yourself
i'm not messing i did five before the weather no they do the whole news show hey adam have you got
any stuff about the weather because don't do it because it really pisses off the weather people
so i have to go on after the show and be like and do topical stuff about the news to the news
audience i only did it once i don't know whether they ever had done it before or after.
I think it was like a new thing they were trying.
It was when I first signed with CKP, which is now Blue Book.
It was one of the first things they got me.
That's it.
There's no big story to it.
But I don't know if you're being honest.
They did the news.
Not the actual 10 o'clock news the 10 o'clock
good evening pedophiles yeah good evening pedophiles jack's like what
this one's for you you're not a pedo yeah um yeah it was it was a concept show was it that they were gonna know it
was the news the news doesn't have a studio audience adam the itv news attenders what the
itv news attend has an audience what kind of bad gimp do you have to be to be on the waiting list
of the itn news you got tickets yeah yeah got tickets yeah yeah yeah there's about 120 of them
like four little bits of 30 like on a right and they literally just sit and they're like there's
no sort of it was a weird gig i did all right it's a weird gig well i don't think they were expecting
me but the thing is though the news ends late
oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
oh thousands died in a terror attack today
in Syria
oh and by the way everyone's got AIDS again
oh and cancer's worse than it used to be
and oh by the way someone found a lovely plant pot
in Tunbridge Wells
it's Adam Roe
it's in that it's that quick as well I think what we've learned there is that Oh, by the way, someone found a lovely plant pot in Tunbridge Wells. It's Adam, though.
It's that quick as well.
I think what we've learned there is that Adam doesn't concentrate to the news a whole lot.
Lowe's dead in Syria.
AIDS is back.
Cancer's worse.
But AIDS is not as bad.
Plant pot in Tunbridge Wells.
That'll make you feel better about Syria, cancer and AIDS.
Maureen's found a plant pot.
I'd fucking lost this.
Ladies and gents,
welcome on stage with his plant pot anecdotes,
Mr. Adam Rowe.
You're being silly.
I'm not.
What did you get paid?
500 quid.
Oh, nice.
Something like that.
Extra 80.
The producer went on after the thing and was like,
ladies and gentlemen, that would normally be the end of the show and stuff,
but we've got a comedian called Adam Rowe
who's written some topical jokes about today's headlines.
I love how much he doesn't believe it.
Can you remember any of the topical jokes?
I don't.
When was this?
Like four years ago?
2016.
2016.
Late 2016.
Oh,
five and a half years ago.
No,
early 2017.
It was early 2017.
Five years ago.
Five years ago.
So what was in the news five years ago?
Steve Bruce?
Steve Bruce.
He was attacked,
didn't he?
No,
well,
definitely wasn't that.
I can't remember.
Syria.
AIDS.
Cancer.
Steve Bruce.
It might have been the Syrian AIDS,
cancer, pandemic.
Steve Bruce pandemic?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Steve Bruce was sent there.
Cancer's worse.
To try and sort it out, wasn't he?
How weird!
He just edited everything.
God.
He was editing nukes away.
Fuck off.
Clear that. Send that right back to fucking
wherever it's from i don't want to be politically insensitive fuck off back to iran they fighting
that was right steve bruise heading a nuclear warhead back to iran it's on point well i still don't believe you but it yeah did he kiss got
gwan that's the question sucked off damn it man yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and what's christian
guru murphy yeah murphy but not murphy murphy christian guru murphy like it's funny murphy and what's Christian Guru Murphy yeah Murphy not Murphy Murphy
Christian Guru Murphy
like it's funny
Murphy
jokes
you've stumped me for bullshit
don't know what to say
it's impressive
I enjoy when something's real
and you don't believe it
because it means I've bullshitted so much in the past
oh so much
successfully
so much have i tv
made anything that's funny ever like i mean i'm their comment their attempts at comedy
do they ever work have they got one person involved in making comedy on channel three
harry hill cv burp yeah yeah yeah well no all they did with you be framed no but all they did with you'd be
framed is go oh it's gone shit harry can you save it and he's like yeah cool harry hill's tv
used to be fucking unbelievable yeah but that's yeah that's they basically backed harry hill
didn't they yeah do you know for that he just got all his mates from when he started out in stand-up
and they just got sent hours and hours of videos and they were like we just watch this and write some bits about it sick i'd love i love hearing stories like that so there
was just a team and he just went back to his mates it would be like the equivalent of adam getting
tony carroll and lewis calver to do the writing for something he's like could you send these in
when you've got when you see anything that's like remotely funny and they had to watch hours of like
emmerdale and then that's
how he put the show together so fucking funny yeah that's sick that i really like it when people sort
of get opportunities and they give them to their mates their day ones do you know what i mean yeah
because there's two types of mates in comedy isn't there there's the mates who you make as you work
your way up and it's it's born out of yeah you get on but it's also like a mutual respect and a lot like look at you and alfie like
best mates and it's you know you're obviously both liverpool fans and you get on but it's also
because you both like respect each other stand up and then there's the then there's the back in the
day boys like brennan and peter way are the non-scouts OGs for me
because I started with them.
But like this podcast,
I was doing loads for that.
Like there's so many people
I feel really good mates with
because of this.
Like I feel quite good mates
with Finn Taylor now
after the other night.
Mark Nelson's the same.
Vittorio,
didn't even know him
before we started this.
Me and Dean Coghlan
are becoming like really good mates.
Dean drove me to Oxford last night. I had a work in progress in Oxford. Went down with Dean. even know him before me and dean coglan are becoming like really good mates oxford last
night i had a work in progress in oxford went down with dean he's running that new comedy night
with me uh first tuesday first tuesday of the month phase one i'm just i asked dean if he wanted
to be involved and he's helping run the door he's gonna come do some tour supports with me he's
getting strong you know he's so good because i went i've been going on at these work in progress
and going hi guys just so you know i'm gonna do an hour in a bit uh but for now i've got a mate
with me and he's going to do and look that's all i do i don't compare it i just go on and go i'm
here be back in a bit dean's great watch dean and he's going on cold as fuck to do 20 and
but also there's loads of good acts knocking about but there's also i mean yeah he's getting
better and better that's great but i know loads of good but knocking about, but there's also, I mean, yeah, he's getting better and better.
That's great.
But I know loads of good, but then who do you want to hang out with?
Who do you want to back?
Yeah, yeah.
Like, it's not just because the Mild High Club work with us.
I really love Amy and Dean.
I think they're good fucking people.
Yeah.
And he's a grafter.
Like, he put something online the other day about all the dates he was doing.
So not only do I like him, he's dead sound and he wants to be involved,
but he's working his fucking nuts off and he lives near me and he drives and oh well ishan ishan i
had never met ishan when we started this podcast and now like we speak on the phone we message all
the time we've become like really good mates he's doing about eight of my tour supports which is
actually him doing me a bit of a favor really because he's doing about eight of my tour supports which is actually
him doing me
a bit of a favour really
because he's got
a bit of a following himself
but he's not
he's just dead sound
and he wanted to come
and hang out
and yeah
we've made some amazing
friends from the pod
like the same
like I didn't really
know Alfie
that well
worked with him a few times
done a couple of weekends
with him
but now because of
hanging out with you.
And also us.
You two are best mates,
but I mean, now this feels like band of brothers shit,
doesn't it?
Absolutely.
Feels like we've been each other's lives for ages.
We've gone from sort of colleagues that like each other
to like groomsmen at wedding level shit.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Like in the space of two years.
No, it's sort of the unspoken thing with this pod.
I just wasn't getting a lot of fucking time with the boys.
I've got mates.
They're all over the shop.
They're doing their own thing.
When you get to 40, people are having kids.
I've seen my mate Matthew twice in two years.
But since we've been in the studio last year and a half,
fuck me,
am I getting my quota
of hanging out with the boys
and like the piss take?
And like,
I don't know Steve that well,
but now we've worked together
for six months.
We're mates.
Like I fucking,
I know I give Finn loads of stick,
but I love him.
Like taking a boy to mass tonight
and the same with Steve.
Like me and Steve were both Carl's mates
and sort of knew of each other and that,
but it's just like the other nights in pop world,
usually it all got off
and it was just fucking me and him
for about an hour and a half.
It's one of those things
where you've got to watch
where you have a family
and it's important to be there and whatever.
And I love doing it,
but you hanging out with the boys
is good for you.
It's really good for you to have that valve.
Like you think there's people who watch this podcast who probably don't like,
oh, it's a bit much.
Oh, I've watched it a couple of times and I like the stand up.
Oh, the voices.
The shit that is said when these mics aren't on.
Holy fuck.
You honestly like, oh, have a word have a word a little bit raucous
for me you have no fucking idea like carl particularly since the start of the year yeah
it's great fun fucking love it well i always think whenever a comedian gets in trouble i'm always like
imagine the person complaining had access to footage from the green room from before they went on stage yeah you're not like a comedy club yeah yeah you're all trying to top each other but
there's not all dressing rooms are like that are they no no sometimes you're like i don't know you
you see my eye you're on the bill that's good but you're not in the circle of trust you're
like robert de niro with. See what this is, Greg?
Yeah,
it's something I didn't realise
was important.
Do you know what that
should be called
for comedians?
The slayacle of trust.
Who will you say
a slayer in front of?
Mine's quiet.
A bit of a tight hole.
It cars my ass
all that.
Oh.
I won't do that anymore.
Oh dear.
She gets fucked a lot. Oh. Oh. I won't do that anymore. Oh, dear. She gets fucked a lot.
Oh.
Oh, it's like the cameras are off.
Now's a house call.
I'm quite successful now.
My mum's going to go,
she doesn't really know what we do,
but she's like, yeah.
I'm going to check in one time.
One day she's going to watch.
She's not getting 26 minutes in, is she?
No.
Mate, if your mum got past Panda Pussy...
Yeah, come on.
Just turn it off, Mum.
Old Margaret...
Why are you watching this?
Margaret Regler.
Come on, old Maggie Regler.
That's her name.
Babs.
Barbara Regler.
The house is superb.
Carl's got a house, ladies and gents.
He got it.
He's done it.
He's moved in.
Have you had a shout wank yet?
No.
These don't exist.
I know.
Nobody means.
They're solely for hotels.
I've still got neighbours.
No one shout wanks.
You might turn the volume up on the porn.
I've shared rooms next to him and I've heard them like,
Yes! Yes!
I own this house!
Free hold!
I haven't done that yet, no.
That is...
I just twinged my back doing an imaginary wank.
What's your...
Where'd you go to with your shot wanks?
What do you mean?
It's not exist!
No, it's not exist!
It's just silly!
You mean silly!
No.
Now I think he gets all sexy and gets into it.
Oh, yeah.
I'm loving it.
Oh, I like that donut! Yeah, it. Oh, I like that donut.
Yeah, I like that.
I like that donut.
Dirty bitch.
I like that.
I like that.
Ooh.
He does a racist shout, wank.
Al Pacino wank.
Oh, my God.
I got a great ass.
Oh, no.
Oh, here we go.
One comes on ass in a minute.
There you go.
Oh, that's disgusting. minute. Hey, go. Ah, that's disgusting.
Oh, oh God.
But yet the house is lovely.
You just, be honest.
Yeah.
Don't look at him, look at me.
Okay.
You have never had a shout wank.
No.
No.
But I know what he meant, like when you're all like-
No you don't, this is silly.
No, it's not.
And it's funny, but he's being a silly.
No, it's high.
Ha!
Yes!
No, I think it's at the point of ejaculation, maybe.
Like, oh, yeah.
That is actually what I mean.
Yeah.
Ah!
Do you know like when you've had really good sex?
Shut up!
No!
You've only had really good sex.
Different.
Different. No, it isn't. It's only different because of where you are. No You only have really good sex Different Different
No it isn't
It's only different
Because of where you are
Listen
Right
When you have really good sex
And you've been going for ages
You know when you finish
And you're like
Right
Sometimes
If I'm alone
I've got the house to myself
Or a hotel room
And I treat myself really nice
And I'm tickling me balls
As I'm going and all that stuff
Right
And I've really edged it Where's the porn What's the porn? I'll just lean it on the thing
or my laptop yeah. Or get on the desk yeah yeah yeah or the projector you know. Projector?
Because you're in the conference suite. 12 30 till 1 30 it's been booked by Mr Asim Rao.
Oh god I don't know.
He must be having a business meeting.
God, there's just him in his dressing gown.
Ah!
Ah!
She got a great ass!
I don't know why he needed PowerPoint setting up.
Oh, my God.
PowerPoint would be great.
Next slide.
With a pointer
yeah
if I've treated
myself right
and I've edged it
long enough
and it's a release
then
if I'm in a hotel room
then I'll shout
as I cum
it's not like a
it's not a word
it's just a release
isn't it
it's a cum
it's a cum noise
get out
get off me
oh hey
whoa
are they are they it starts as a oh and it becomes a ow Get off me. Oh, hey. Whoa. Are they?
Are they?
It starts as a, oh, and it becomes a, ow.
Oh, man.
Oh, fucking hell.
Oh, God.
Get out.
Fucking hell.
Is that a coronation speech?
That's definitely best passes me getting a massage from a fucking sports therapist.
Shame.
Shame.
Shame.
I've got a little bell Shame
The only time
I've ever made noise
Is when I've accidentally
Jizzed on like my breast
Or something
And you're like
Ow
You've never done that
That's daily for me
You know when you're like
What's your average
What's your long jump height
Like what's your
What's your PB
Right
What's your PB
Imagine a pensioner
Falling over onto some padding
That's what
That's what my jizz does
have you never gone past
your own head
but there's been
there's been a circumstance
I've come in my own hair
this week
I can see
I wonder why that fringe
was looking so strong
how the fuck did you
come in your hair
you have to bend it
over your feet
and I was like
oh and I caught myself
off guard
and it just went
you caught yourself
off guard
well I didn't expect that
I thought it was going to be another 30 seconds so I didn't expect that.
I thought it was going to be another 30 seconds,
so I didn't have time to aim it at the towel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Towel.
Oh, God.
What's wrong with that?
I just got out of the shower.
I was putting the towel in the wash straight afterwards.
Yeah.
He was in a hotel as well.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It's on the beach.
On the beach. the beach nice breeze just
there it goes sorry mate off to tunisia
the jet stream just takes it
oh the house is great yeah i love it nice house is it yeah great great great well very happy
builders uh builders up if you could let me know if you've ever shout wanked The house is great Yeah I love it Nice house is it Yeah great Great great Well Very happy Builders
Builders
If you could let me know
If you've ever shout wanked
I don't want to see evidence
It's not throughout the wank
It's allowed
I get it
You just let yourself
Make the noise you would make
If you were with a woman
There you go
Yeah
Oh there you go
Just imagine your hand
Is a wet ass pussy
Pussy
You ever slapped your own ass
Showing a wank
Yeah
Oh Barbara Regler
I hope you're still not watching
Fucking Tunisia
You've slapped your ass
You've slapped your own ass
Showing a wank
Yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Naughty jockey
Yeah
Oh
Yeah
I'm like
Racing to the finish line
Nearly there
Nearly all the vowels
disabled countdown
um yeah yeah what you're about to say what i saw I saw you clock it. Yeah. Because I think when you've done disabled count,
you're done.
I didn't do warm down for the news.
Of course you never.
Dammit, man.
I did suck off, dammit, man.
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barbara ah you know wanted to do barb Barbara Regler and said her name wrong. I keep calling her Barbara.
That's not her name.
Her name is...
Barbara.
Barbara Regler.
It doesn't matter what she's called.
It matters how much she loves cock.
And with that in mind,
we're doing a big blind date show
at the Auditorium Theatre at the Arena.
Is your mum going to apply?
No.
Barbara Regler.
Barbara Regler. She loves the dick and she loves the auditorium. arena. Is your mum going to apply? No. Bobba LaRiegla. Bobba LaRiegla.
She loves the dick and she loves
the auditorium.
That's what she calls a fanny.
Because the queue, they need
some seats. And the queue
is quite long.
She
stands upon the stage. What's going on here?
And takes all of that schlong.
It's not the fact your mum's fanny is known as the Echo Arena.
It's the Marks and Spencers.
It's the M&S Bank Arena, thank you very much.
The M&S Bank Fanny.
That's what the arena is called.
Your mum's is called the Echo Arena because inside it's quite cavernous.
And it echoes.
Your mum's is called the MEN Arena because that's what it's full of.
Men.
No, she's dead.
Well, it was full of her.
Okay.
Full of men.
No, she's dead.
Well, it was full of her.
Okay.
We've had all the Anne Rowe jokes we can handle for this year.
No more.
That roast was brutal.
So we're doing Half Blind Date because old Rowe Baggs is single again.
He's putting himself back together.
And what we'd like to do is monetise his loneliness.
So we are doing Blind Date. i am cilla blacking up
and by that i mean i'm dressing as cilla black i'm not trying to end my career um finn is also
going to be one of the contestants and young stee in the corner i'm good lauren patterson too we're
going to get three men for her lauren patterson 2. The sequel. Yeah, she's coming.
Three men for her. I think she'll interview
them. And knowing Lauren and how she is,
she might go, how we are. Take the foot and lawyers.
How we are.
How we are.
Say it better than that.
So we're going to do stand-up in the first half
and then
we're going to come back and do
blind date. I can't believe I'm saying this out loud. We've sold and then we're going to come back and do Blind Date.
I can't believe I'm saying this out loud.
We've sold so many fucking tickets already.
I reckon this will be the busiest ever blind date.
I don't think this many people were at the recording of Blind Date.
I also think the roast we've just done
might be the most well-attended roast in history. I also think the roast we've just done might be the most well attended roast in history.
I genuinely think
also.
There was 750 odd people
at the roast.
There's going to be
well over 1200 at this.
Can we start doing
ITV game shows now?
Yeah.
Gladiators?
Lidiators?
Oh my god.
We just get like
Is this the future?
Can we get athletes
We're just coming up
With random shit to do
90s TV shows
Like Lidiators
Yes please
And we do it in like
Like a Ninja Warrior course
The price is right
But we can
The Showcase Showdown
We can get all our own stuff
I want a boat
Let's get blind dates
Out the way first
Can we give Bruce
Fawcett up
Yeah
Absolutely
We don't even need any makeup.
Can we...
Thanks, man.
Sorry.
He's dead.
He's dead.
Can we sell this one first, though?
No, but...
Can we sell blind date first?
So what can we do?
We can do Place is Right, Gladiators.
No, we can't sell this one.
No, I asked about selling this one.
We're already bored of this show.
Strike it, Lucky.
It's only been on sale three days.
We'll ask Michael Barrymore.
He's always getting mentioned on this. Yeah, it's a nice callback three days we lost Michael Barrymore he's always getting
mentioned on this
yeah it's a nice
callback he might
actually
golden balls
he might be
bookable
he might be
oh my god he
would be as well
he'd do it
but blind days
anyway doing blind
days we sold
well over seven
tickets
well
well over seven
if you were thinking
we only sold seven
well over seven
we sold 750
in about
10 minutes
and then we've put
the rest of the room
on sale
it holds 1200
by the time this goes out
publicly
they might
they will probably
all be gone
but have a look
the tickets
will be in
our pinned tweet
will be the
blind date ticket link
so go to
at have a weird pod
on twitter
and check it out there everything's in the description the ticket link will be the blind date ticket link. So go to at Have A Weird Pod on Twitter and check it out there.
Everything's in the description.
The ticket link will be in the description.
On the audio, it will be in the description.
On the YouTube, it will be in the description.
If you tried for tickets, if you're a patron
who tried for tickets and thought they were sold out,
the company that we're working with to promote this show
didn't realise how many tickets we were going to sell
in the first half an hour.
So they were like, oh, they've all sold out sold out and then we went have they all sold out and they were like
no we didn't put them all on sale we did a pre-sale and we were like well don't do a pre-sale
release all the tickets so i think some of the patrons thought they'd missed out on like minute
eight i got one email going it's 16 minutes past one and it's sold out so you can still get tickets
if you're watching this on the early release,
there's a chance there's some still available.
Pubes, if you're watching on Monday,
hopefully they'll all be gone, but give it a try.
If you're looking at the auditorium and going,
oh, that's near the back.
If you've never been in that room before, there's no bad seats.
It's a very, very intimate space for helping you.
They're all very good seats.
There's no bad seats.
Oh, I'm at the very back. You're not. You're know you're still so involved yeah they're really good the drum seats actually right
at the back are actually some of the best seats in the house it's the room that i supported a
young comedian from liverpool in just a few years ago called adam rowe and i remember walking out
in front of 1200 people thinking what the fuck has this cunt been doing i should start a podcast
with him um it's an amazing room it is a fantastic room
so if there are any young ladies
watching who are fit as fuck
and has got a pussy
or men who are fit as fuck and you've got a big
fat cock
Adam's really trying some different
things isn't he
2022 apparently
bit of an open book
I like it so me finn stay lauren patterson there might be
another couple of guests confirmed if you want to apply to be one of the contestants if you can't
remember blind dates got a lot of young listeners as well if you can't remember blind date what
happens is one of us so the the the person you know me finn stay lauren and maybe a couple of others
one at a time will be sat on one side of a screen we won't be able to see around it on the other
side is three people and we will essentially interview those three people we will say like
if you were a cocktail what would you be and why and all three have to answer and as the it goes
on we we pick one of the three to go on a date with that's blind date go and watch old episodes
it's a proper classic 90s show it was massive um we need the people who are going to go on a date with. That's Blind Date. Go and watch all the episodes. It's a proper classic 90s show. It was massive. We need the people who are going to be on the other side of
the screen. So if you fancy a date with me or Finn or Stee or Lauren or anyone else we put on,
get in touch. The email is hawblinddate at gmail.com. So it's H-A-W from Havowood-a-w-b-l-i-n-d d-a-t-e
at gmail dot com get in touch
as soon as possible Carl and Dan are going to
vet them and fuck me
are we putting a lot in their hands
fuck them
yeah you'll also be part of the live
show we'll sort out some travel expenses
you can have a plus one you're going to
be a VIP for the night
you'll watch the show basically from the side.
We'll get you loads of drinks,
bit of food and all that sort of stuff.
Also, also, also, also.
And you get a chance to get fingered by Finn.
Sorry, go on.
If you're the lad who's like,
I'm going to play a fucking joke one.
We're going to need to like do a little bit of vetting.
So don't waste your time.
Yeah, you'll be sort of interviewed by Carl and Dan.
Only send genuine things in, please.
We get it's funny, but. It's just not funny. It's going to be a lot of way. Are we allowed in June. Only send genuine things in, please. We get it's funny.
It's just not funny.
It's going to be a lot of wear.
Are we allowed to ask for a picture?
We need pictures.
We need videos.
We're going to have to Zoom call them.
Videos?
You're probably going to have to Zoom call them.
Yeah, videos as well.
All right, cool.
Send a picture.
You're more likely to do that.
Send the picture and then we will video call you.
Send us a link to your Instagram.
That's the best way to do it.
One of the
team will follow you and you just have to accept it if you're on private yeah no random tit pics
no yeah but yeah don't be like i'm a lad this is funny no one's asked your ma yeah apart from the
lads that are replying to for lauren oh yeah apart from the lads yeah yeah don't don't apply for your
apart from if you are yeah then do yeah yeah yeah yeah. Don't be like, I'm Sally with big tits.
At the minute,
we need nine girls,
three for me,
three for Finn,
three for Stay,
and we need three lads,
but we're hoping to get...
And a couple of backups,
I think.
We need backups for the night as well,
in case one of them...
You've got a chance.
Yeah.
Very exciting.
And we're not going to take the piss.
No.
We'll help, like...
And if you're like,
I can't write the bits,
we're going to make sure
you know what you're doing
and you're happy and it's going to be fun. It's going to make sure you know what you're doing and you're happy
and it's going to be fun.
It's going to be great
for people to be involved in.
And I'm hosting.
It's not like,
we're not,
it's just going to be a laugh.
There'll be writers involved.
Don't feel pressure.
Yeah.
Just be comfortable.
I'm very excited about it.
It's just going to be,
like all of our live shows,
it's a celebration
of all the jokes of the pod.
It's going to be the biggest
live show we've ever done.
Yeah.
Like numbers wise.
And you can be a part of it.
Yeah.
And then.
Preferably be single as well.
Because I don't want to be like.
Dealing with someone's angry husband.
Outside the fucking arena.
Then we'll do Don't Try This At Home.
And if the women who are applying with me.
If you want to bring your plus one.
And you want to make it a threesome.
I am open to that.
Right.
That'd be nice.
Yeah.
Or,
four of your friends
and we'll have a gangbang
and you can all fuck me at once.
I am looking forward
to vetting these.
If you're a twin,
please apply.
Why?
Because I can get twins
and you won't know they're twins
and you'll be made up
when they're twins.
I don't think twins like
fucking the same guy.
You know,
they're sister and sister.
Different things.
I assume.
Oh,
different days,
that makes it
all right yeah so yeah i am open to gangbangs is all i'm saying as long as it's 12 women and me
i'm a selfish guy i mean have a way of blinding there's enough room to go around at what point
to go around nailed it i wonder what point of that line of 12 women Would you just be like Sorry girls
I think I'd need a snack
What
I think I'd
So the line for your dick
Right
Rose
First girl
She's having a great time
Second girl
Probably maybe even
Gonna have a better time
You know once you've got
That excitement one out
Do I have to
And then on the third one
Do you need a snack
Before the third one or not Do I have to do i have to finish each time yeah oh that's different oh yeah yeah
so does it go first girl second girl third girl shoo my fourth girl is that the fourth girl's name
and we don't discriminate what we don't discriminate well you do this year
um
yeah
I don't
I don't think
you could get past
girl four
Nutri-Grain Bardo
unless it was just all
like wow
just grabbing things
yeah
that's what in my head
it is
but that's just you
lying down and getting
molested by loads of women
isn't it
what's in it for them
cancel it
cancel the whole thing.
Well, I was at the Adam Rowe gangbang
and I didn't even get a tit squeeze.
I was waiting behind the girl
that was just getting her tit squeezed.
I was like, love, are you just going to hog that hand all day?
No, look, if it does happen,
I guarantee everyone gets at least a squeeze.
You can only get like three or four girls around you.
Imagine if you lose your temper with squeezing tits
like you did at Pop World after the roast.
Oh, that's enough.
I've squeezed enough tits now.
Let me have me night.
Just want to listen to Bewitched on my own.
All right.
Fuck off.
Get on me.
Just to make it clear,
if you're applying for Blind Date,
you don't have to gangbang Adam.
Just want to underline that.
Oh, and also, the dates will be recorded afterwards.
Yes.
We're going to set it up, so it's going to be...
Yeah.
It's going to be in a restaurant or bar,
and it will be in a control room.
Fernandes!
No, it's not.
What?
What a boring date is that?
No.
They're going hovercrafted.
I was just going to say we were going to set Passage a la Chateau
and have a date. Bore off. that's not what they did on blind date they set them off on fuck
fucked up date i think we should do you're going hovercrafting we should do near ronco gender
neutral rugby trials okay that's the date we're doing right the budget's getting bigger we need
yeah we need more applicants we need gender neutral rugby trialists.
No, they don't need to be gender neutral.
No, no, no, no.
They don't need to be gender neutral.
So it's not non-binding rugby?
No.
It's trials for a team that do not...
Pass the ball to them.
Judge on gender.
Right.
Oh, great, great.
That'd be awful, wouldn't it?
That'd be hard.
Them on.
Them on, them on, damn on!
You don't know if it's more than one person Pass it to Zay!
Pass it to Zim!
Ooh, pronoun fun
Are you looking...
Can Finn have the mic, please?
Can you?
Are you looking forward to it finn yeah it's going
to be interesting isn't it obviously adam stated his preference for you know slags for a gangbang
but what are you looking for ideally knowing that uh carl and i are going to take vetting these
ladies remarkably similar um no just i'm a i'm a brunette man, I won't lie. Oh, right. Oh, you're a brunette man.
I don't care what hair colour you've got,
as long as you've got hair.
Where?
Not on the head.
I wonder how much it would cost to book Gail Porter.
Or Ross Kemp.
It's going to be weird.
It is going to be weird because of how many people are there.
But as long as I don't make a tear out
myself i think it'll be all right and even if you do i'll give you the squeeze thank you from before
and i won't ask what steve's type is because he fucks anything you know international steve
oh my god Oh my God. Oh, come on.
He knows it.
You know.
Absolute player, lad.
International Steve.
That'd be a fucking great nickname if that stopped.
International Mr.
Oh, he's got, you need a new dresser.
I'm not Mr. Worldwide.
You need some merch with different flags from around the world coming out. Steve.
Mr. Worldwide.
International Steve.
You're a fucking man.
Let's do some.
Bloody hell, Carl.
Let's do.
Let's do some of them.
Do you have advice?
You feeling?
I can have them for you. I love the night? I got the album here.
I love the 90s hip-hop, really.
A little bit of G-Funk.
Oh, listen to the funk of the G-Funk era.
Every day of a malefic look in the mirror.
And I see motherfuckers trying to be like me.
I tried to take a minute to sit right there and tell you how to get into the town club, LA.
Blahblah. Advice. Alright, lads, anonymous please. Been meaning to send this for a while. to take a minute to sit right there and tell you how to get into the town club blah blah advice
alright lads
anonymous please
been meaning to send this
for a while
don't know if it's an agony
or a confession
it's an agony
I'll let you decide
I've decided
so basically
so basically
look at me
so basically
I've got two kids
with an ex
basically basically I've got two kids with an ex. Basically, I've got two kids with an ex.
After the second child, I decided I didn't want any more.
So I had the snip.
Myself and baby mama then broke up and I was single again.
I met a girl and we're pretty serious.
Living together and now we're engaged.
But I've never told her that I've had the snip.
Now she wants to try for kids.
At first I was like sound. Try all
I want. Sex on tap. But now
I feel guilty because she thinks she has an issue
and that's why she isn't getting prego.
She wants to go to a
fertility specialist. I could try
and get a reversal but that would mean telling
her in the first place. Or do I just carry
on? Need some help here.
Lids.
What is the snip? They cut your bell end off.
They cut your pipe so that your cum just leaks into your balls
instead of coming out your dick.
I thought they cut your bell end off. They just cut your bell end off.
They just chop your dick off.
She hasn't noticed it.
Rub your
mouth on me, babe. That's why I call him Joe. Ge g hi joe do you think you'll get the snippy
at any point no laura's got the snip oh of course yeah there's so many reasons to love my
fucking wife but we were in there baby came out and then they were like no we'll do this snip
snip syringe not syringe quarter got the fag
proper knotting
I'm like
fucking hell
do you want any more
little ones
no
hang on
they're done
in you go
where's my fag
she's done now
she's out
of the game
she's
neutralised
and you're always
fertile as well
yeah
to like the age of 90 odd.
Oh.
Yeah.
You are.
You can have a baby at any age.
You don't want to though do you?
No I don't.
Two lovely babies.
That is all.
End of babies.
I would.
If we got pregnant again.
I would get on to Joe Hughes.
Oh, Joey Hughes!
You need legal representation.
Oh, your lady got the snip and you fucking left one in her,
and now she's having a baby.
Sue the NHS with Joey Hughes and Vinnie Solicitors.
You fuck!
I think it's gone past what we asked for now.
I'm just becoming, like, counterproductive.
Vinnie Solicitors, where do you want to get off with? I think it's gone past what we asked for now. It's becoming, like, counterproductive. I don't give a...
Many solicitors, whether you want to get off with murder
or you want to kill your ex-wife and get away with it,
most people say they're the same thing, but not here.
Not here.
One's a murder, one's a conspiracy to commit murder,
but we'll treat you exactly the same,
and it's just £200 or £100
if you give us a shout out on your podcast.
200 pounds to get you off of murder?
It's a fucking belt, a solicitor.
And we also represent Dedicated Metairie.
Never come into the club.
I would sue the NHS.
I'd go, and I love the NHS,
but I would want reparations.
Of what?
If Laura got pregnant
oh right
you'd want what it costs
to have a kid
isn't it 18 grand a year
or something?
yeah but then
that's about the emotion
I would be
a very different
father for justice
I'd be like
I need
you're paying for this
isn't it a Peugeot a year?
that's what they say
it costs a Peugeot
every year to have a baby
yeah that's what they say
I'm sick of hearing it
I wish they would stop saying babies cost a Peugeot every year to have a baby. Yeah, that's what they say. I'm sick of hearing it. I wish they would stop saying,
babies cost a Peugeot a year.
Is that the guy who plays rugby?
Paul, are you...
Is that who says it?
Have you got like a...
Is everything all right?
I'm excited.
Are you going mental?
You know I'm excited.
Oh, today.
Come on.
Oh, it's the day, innit?
The absolute boys in him today.
He's just got to...
He's got to tell her.
No, I think he's got to die with the lie.
And when he goes to the fertile clinic and they're like,
he's had the snip, he's like, oh, I don't remember.
Must have done it in my sleep or something.
Heavy sleeper.
If he likes this woman and he wants to keep her,
there's no way he can be honest and keep her,
so he needs the lie.
Right.
Can we work on the lie, though?
I think I must have got the snip in my sleep.
I had a really vivid dream about driving to a fertility clinic and like waiting for an appointment i was in a waiting room um say you forgot say you forgot you had
the snip apparently it's i don't know they go in where did they go in? Where do they go in? Up your arse. What? They don't. Do they?
Of course they do.
It's shears.
No.
It's shears.
Garden shears.
Yeah, fella.
What's the snip?
What is it?
How do they do the snip?
Oh, the vasectomy.
It's a procedure for male sterilisation.
They tie the urethra.
Oh.
They don't actually snip.
They just tie it.
That's why they're reversible
because it's just a knot.
Like tying your laces oh you
learned you learned knots as well in the fucking girl guards what did you go to yeah i went to
girl guys they get a scout to do it they go come on little timmy come in i went to tie this fella's
cock gender i went to gender neutral brownies tie his cock tie his cock Oh, you've got the cock tying badge. Well done. Sew that on.
Being unusual beavers where you were getting fucking badges for that.
Euthanising nanny.
There you go.
There's another badge for that.
Changing a carburettor.
Hate crime.
All the different badges.
Fingering a pigeon.
There's a weird one.
Has to leave the senator for that one.
You stop the sperm, get into the man's semen,
the fluid at the edge.
So you can still jizz.
Yeah.
But it's an inactive jizz.
Been deactivated. Yeah. They yeah they're just yeah i'm not
doing it well i don't want more babies though apparently it has absolutely no effect but i just
if you can avoid having someone yeah tie knots in your dick do you know what i mean yeah i don't
want to not in my day yeah i get it fair point i just don't would you take a man pill
yeah
but I have the same side effects as women have like bloatedness
and emotions and shit
well I don't feel enough and I'm always bloated
so that's
sorry for being flippant about being a woman there
emotions and shit
cry ass twats
here she is all bloaty
with her emotions
fucking moody
zeppelin
I was just
trying to be
concise
not flippant
I apologise
we're trying to be
precise
we're apologising
about that
wow
alright
trying to be
really specific
bloaty twats
would you take a pill
that stopped you
being able to conceive
yeah I suppose
if
if in what circumstances would you instead of the woman I mean Would you take a pill that stopped you being able to conceive? Yeah, I suppose.
In what circumstances would you?
Instead of the woman, I mean.
Basically, he's saying it's about time that the burden of contraceptive is taken away from the female body and given to the man.
It's about time that we change the way the world is
because a lot of pressure put on women, Dan,
especially in this day and age.
And they have to bear the burden
of making sure that people aren't getting pregnant.
Yeah, well, they aren't getting pregnant.
That's why there's a burden,
because it's them that gets pregnant.
You both get pregnant, don't you?
Well, okay, yeah.
It's hard off the man.
I know what you mean.
I just... I know what you mean That's just Yeah That's a side effect
The pill
The pill's really bad
For women
Yeah it's awful
Like long term
Yeah
It's linked to all sorts of
Shit innit
That's what I mean
It's not ideal
Just come on
That's it
That's a good comment
I just have to
I
That whole thing about
I just can't pull out
I don't
it just feels better
to leave
of course
it does
but I mean
how many Peugeots
could I afford
even as a young man
I was like
I ain't paying for a Peugeot
you could have
two Peugeots
how old's that
five
you could have
six Peugeots
yeah
I'd rather have six Peugeots than your daughter
and Jack as well
and there's another one
7 Peugeots
because he's one isn't he
you could have 7 206's just
clogging up your street
not even good Peugeots
Peugeot 106 Mardi Gras my first car
could have been a kid
what do you want you a kid what do you want
you're 17
what do you want
a sun or a Peugeot 6
1 or 6 Mardi Gras
fucking love that car
it's brilliant
it's really disturbing
when it exploded
on the motorway
because I didn't realise
you had to service cars
in any way
just thought you could
keep driving them
my service light's been on for a while now.
No, yours is a new car.
It's new but it still needs service.
It's lazy.
What's he going to do here?
He needs to lie.
But she's going to end up in
IVF and he's going to be like,
you're probably all fucking messed up down there.
But then also, if she gets pregnant while
this is happening, he knows she's cheating.
So that's worth the investment.
There you go.
There you go.
Let's turn the suspicion
on the woman in this.
There you go.
You know what, lad?
You're doing nothing
fucking wrong.
Apart from being
horrible and deceitful,
really.
But she could cheat on you
even though I've never met her
and I haven't heard
anything about her
and she essentially
sounds like a victim
in this situation.
Fuck her.
Yeah.
Knowing how much Laura loves being a mum,
it's the most important thing in her life
and she would boot me in a fucking canal
to have in front of the kids any day of the week. Of course she would boot me in a fucking canal just to have in front of the kids any any day of
the week of course she would i think he's got to be like right babe i back myself in a bit of a
situation and here it is yeah and then they just rectifies it like if they don't want to be together
he's already lied now the trust's already broken guy with no get the secret reversal that this is
where the right thing. This is where,
the right thing to do is get it reversed.
But then your dick's going to be out of,
you're going to be like three weeks out of the game.
So the lie.
Book a holiday.
Going all day, yeah.
Yeah.
Or say, oh, I got kicked in the balls at work.
Or say I got kicked in the head at work.
And then when she's like, hang on,
you've had a fucking vasectomy.
You never told me.
You'd be like, oh, Joe,
when I got kicked in the head,
I forgot loads of stuff.
How?
Fecal amnesia.
I love you.
You're like, I just like a slight bit of, yeah.
I've got a head trauma and a vasectomy.
Oh, I was a heavy sleeper as well.
I've got a vasectomy in my sleep.
Sleep vasectomy.
Get the reversal.
What could put your dick out of, for three weeks?
For three weeks of like,
you can't go anywhere near me,
I've got really.
AIDS.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You might have overshot the lie.
Accidentally cut it with a knife while you're busting your toes.
We don't need to.
So you come down in the morning.
Come down in the morning.
Say I was just,
I woke up starving. Didn't have time to put any und come down in the morning say I was just I woke up starving
didn't have time
to put any undies on
come down
I was just putting
oh fuck
yeah
I've cut my dick
that's gonna be
one of the lowest points
in your life
when you are
you can hear it
on the landing
and you're downstairs
you get the lure pack
and like sort of
put some on the side
and then
and then you've got to
like spoon in the toast
and then lie next to it
and go
oh babe oh it's got to spoon and the toast and then lie next to it and go,
oh, babe!
Oh, it's vigorously buttering the toast!
You don't need to do it
while she's there.
You can do that
while she's at work
and just say you've done it.
And don't look at me
and say I'm embarrassed.
I'd want the scene.
I'd want the scene.
Just play 14
and say you got kicked
in the end of the day
and the doctor says
it's a mum fault.
Pulled dick.
I think the holidays
are a good one. Classic, dick. I think the holidays...
Classic, innit?
When they're going through the team sheet
for the match on Saturday.
Oh, the left back, he's out,
got kicked in the dick on Wednesday.
Nightmare.
Two weeks out, dick strain.
You can actually look like a really good boyfriend, yeah?
A really good one.
Book a three-week holiday with your mum.
Yeah, babe.
Fuck off.
Off you go, Benidorm.
Three weeks in Benidorm! Chef am I three weeks in Benidorm
chef holidays
three weeks in Benidorm
you only pay for two
wow
yeah
it's expensive
it's not
three weeks in Benidorm
is like four quid
three weeks in Benidorm
sounds so not good
that she might refuse
the holiday
bought your holiday
with your mum
three weeks in Benidorm
go fuck yourself
yeah
okay then we'll send her to the outback or Thailand or with your mum, three weeks in Benidorm, go fuck yourself. Yeah. Okay, then we'll send her
to the outback
or Thailand or something.
The outback.
Three weeks in,
she'd be dead.
Which outback?
The Merseyside outback?
Warrington.
Australian outback.
The Australian outback.
Yeah.
It's a lot to explore.
With your mum.
Yeah,
I love,
I love you.
Go and fucking get lost
in the outback
while I fix me cock. Reversal. yeah I love I love you go and fucking get lost in your back yeah
while I fix me cock
reversal
if he's not doing the reverse
he needs to go listen
because undoing a knock
I felt like a shit
I felt shit lying
but er
fucking
I'm sorry
I've had a vasectomy
I'm gonna get reversed
try again
do you reckon they just tie it once
do you reckon it's just one knot
the other day
or do you reckon it's like
trying to get your Christmas lights out
from the loft
and pop them off
what took us three hours once
yeah do you reckon it's just like a load of doctors there just all in a line just like trying to get your Christmas lights out from the loft and put them on. What took us three hours once?
Yeah, do you reckon it's just like a load of doctors there,
just all in a line?
I pull that through there.
Go on, put that over.
Yeah.
Over.
Because surely one knot's not secure enough.
We've all had a shoelace come undone and make us look a fool in public.
No, but a kink in a hose fucks it up, doesn't it?
What?
If you get a kink in your hose,
do you mind just kinking?
All my hoes are kinky, actually.
I didn't know how it was going to come back,
but it was clearly coming back.
A kink in a hose.
It was a good cross.
Kinks and hoes.
Kinks and hoes.
Open goal.
Yeah.
Well, good luck, Lyd.
Will you tell us what you do genuinely
I'd love to hear
if you want some more
horrific advice
haveawordpod
at gmail.com
we all certainly
have a words
should we do a quick
have a word
before the break
have we got time
not really got time
have we
no the boys are nearly here
oh fucking hell
leave that to the end lad
very exciting
I'm so glad for you
it's like you fucking
it's genuinely like fucking it's genuinely
like fucking
Christmas
like we grew up
watching these two lads
and well our friendship
is based on
under the bus
based on friends
try and get David Schwimmer
I used to think
this was insane bullshit
when he said stuff like that
now I'm like
yeah
probably happened
there's a gap in March
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Have a pint.
Have a pint.
Or two.
Have a pint or two with the lids and the lads.
You're suffering.
Yeah, I'm not drinking today.
At the start of every podcast, I give him shit for not drinking.
Listen, I'll tell you the truth.
He said to me the other day off air, he was like,
stop doing that, it's really boring. I was like, have a beer then, you miserable shit. No, I'll tell you the truth. He said to me the other day off air, he was like, stop doing that. It's really boring.
I was like, have a beer then, you miserable shit.
No, I do have a beer.
Listen, I found out that he's been putting water
in bottles of beer and pretending it's beer
for fucking years.
All he wants to do.
What?
Yeah, exactly.
He was going, cheers.
All over Zoom in Death Empire.
Cheers, cheers.
What are you drinking?
It was 7.30 in the AM.
I've got to tell you, I've been putting water in it it's been 10 minutes
fucking
are you going to sell me out
for having a can of coke
it was 7.30 in the morning
give me a break
two heavy hands
not as good is it
no
I'll tell you the truth
the truth is
I had a few last night
and I'm a bit
and I've got this
head cut
yeah I went to
Wayne Rooney's premiere
last night
of his documentary
was it good
what's his documentary about
about him
about Wayne Rooney yeah about last night of his documentary. Was it good? What's his documentary about? About him.
About Wayne Rooney.
Yeah.
About his football career or his... Everything.
No, honestly.
What?
He goes to Amsterdam.
He's proper honest with it.
He really goes in.
Yeah, man.
No, it's really good.
It comes out on Friday, I think, on Amazon Prime.
But it was a free bar and I had to indulge.
Of course.
And then today I just thought,
I can't face a beer today.
I'm trying to do one
day on one day off that's how you know one day on one day off there's people who do that with
the gym you know yeah well do you know what it's just so easy isn't it just to get into the rhythm
of going what time is it why are you trying to do one day one day off like what's the thinking
just because i'm getting old and once you get a bit older The guy who's had water in a fucking bottle of beer. Once at 7.30 in the morning.
Give me a break.
You're not sitting here with the lads having a podcast going,
give me a can of Coke, will you?
It's just, I'm trying to get my blood sugar levels up with my Coke.
And I just thought, today I just don't fancy it.
All right, all right, all right.
That's all it is.
I feel like we're bullying you a little bit now at this point.
It's a pleasure to have you in our studio,
but this is our first ever crossover episode.
I was too, isn't it?
First ever.
Like X in the middle.
Yeah, yeah.
We're delighted to be.
Oh, yeah.
So it's H-A-W-X-T-P-T-P.
I lost trail
of what you were talking about.
Are you okay?
I just went off
into a thought.
You're just hungover, aren't you?
No, I'm not just hungover.
I've got a head cold,
thank you very much.
Oh, my God. This guy needs superfet. Possibly got COVID, so you're all riddled now hungover. No, I'm not just hungover. I've got a head cold, thank you very much. Oh my God.
This guy needs-
Possibly got COVID, so you're all riddled now.
What?
No, I haven't, I haven't, I haven't.
To be honest with you-
Breathe on me.
I'd love five days at home.
Do you want COVID?
It'd be great.
Why?
Oh, it's just-
Have you had it yet?
No.
You've not had it?
Three jabs and no COVID,
but it looks like today's the day.
Thanks, Mello.
Yeah, yeah.
I did find out my wife had COVID last night.
What?
No, shit, you know.
What the fuck?
I said, listen, we've been-
And you're the Wayne Rooney Premier.
I've got COVID.
It's Wayne Rooney, love.
Come on.
No, I think that's real.
It's very real.
I didn't find out.
It's a lot of Derby stuff.
I had to put my daughter to go to school in an Uber this morning
because my wife couldn't take it.
That is the most first world problem I've ever heard anybody say. I had to say, go to school in an Uber this morning because my wife couldn't take it. That is the most first-world problem I've ever heard anybody say.
I had to say, I don't have an Uber.
She's not four.
She's 13.
But the fact is, I didn't find out until last night.
My wife sent me, she went, oh, by the way, and I was like,
I'd come home, but I'm here with you lads.
See, I could have cancelled, but I didn't.
I'm here.
You couldn't spring for, like, a limo or anything,
like it was a prom. No. Send her in an Uber. She's got an Uber X, that I didn't. I'm here. Ah, come on. You couldn't swing for like a limo or anything. Like it was a prom.
Send her in an Uber.
She got an UberX, that's it.
Do you reckon Uber will sponsor us?
Oh yeah, sponsor.
Yeah, Uber.
Uber.
It's always been a fan.
Always been a fan.
If you have a daughter that you need to get to school.
And you can't be asked.
Uber.
And you were busy at the Wayne Rooney premiere.
And you can map them on the way
and make sure your child is not being stolen.
Yeah, exactly.
Or goes to school.
The fuck is she doing in Poland?
You're paying for that as well.
That's still on the map.
You've let him get that far.
He's not checked in.
He's in the fucking channel tunnel.
What's the wrong way?
That kid's seven hours late.
This is the first time I'm checking.
That's like a 13-hour drive or something.
I probably should have checked in earlier.
She should have been home five hours ago.
She should be doing double maths right now.
Callie.
Lads, pleasure.
Been sort of talking.
These are so excited.
These are so excited to see you so we've never met before
will no but we me and carl met ralph a few years ago on a story that we've told on this podcast
before and we told you that night like there's two shows that yeah me and carl went to school
together but we really became mates when i moved near him in like six form and we sort of bonded
over a love of two pints and friends there's a
better word there's a better phrase for that isn't there your your friendship was forged in the fires
it was absolutely i saw that i was sent the viral clip of you telling this story because everyone
was like you got a name check and have a word pod and you like a kind of a douche when our
friendship was forged in the fires and everybody went,
yeah.
And everyone went,
is that the first time you've been called a douche?
And everyone went,
exactly.
It was like forged in the fires of two pints.
Everyone's like,
what a prick.
That was like,
I'm not,
don't want to do this podcast anymore.
I was cooled in the pond of Midsomer.
Anyway,
so your friendship was forged in the pond of Midsummer Murders. Forged in the fire.
So your friendship was forged in the fires.
Of two planes.
In the furnace.
And then, so we'd always watch it together
and close it with each other all the time
and still do now.
And they do.
They do a lot.
Whenever there's a sentence and everyone's laughing,
I'm like, what the fuck is going on?
We've got listeners,
because we've spoke about this on this show before,
on Have A Word.
We've got listeners who've written going, oh, I love it as well so what me and carl do now every night
we'll just drop a quote in from the show no and he's got no fucking idea what's going on and then
we get messages going ah you got that again didn't see that one i was doing a lot of clubbing in the
early noise i was about to say the unspoken part of this is that you never clearly never watched it it is a pleasure to see you guys
my name is ralph this is how you avoided it it was repeated that was about eight times a day
but i am it's like it's i'm just brilliant this is what this is like a make a wish for these two
knobheads i am dying as well so it's good to finally have you you are the dolphins that they
are swimming with it's really nice to see. I'm like, aw.
So we met Ralph
at the Comedy Store in Manchester
in maybe 2012, 13?
Something like that.
Something like that.
Seven or eight years ago.
It was my very first open spot.
You're not getting paid.
It's just you're doing 10 minutes
to see if you're good enough there.
And you were there with Adam Bloom.
Tom Stade was also on the bill.
Ian Coppinger was also on the bill.
And I can't remember
the other guys
so I was filming in Manchester
and like for some reason
Adam Bloom
who's an old old old
mate of mine
from back
because I did
I did a show called
Edinburgh Nights in 2002
where I interviewed
all the comedians
so that's how I know
like all that generation
of comedians
I kind of know them all
that was a fucking
great show
just getting into comedy
and I was so geeky and Adam Bloom was like the cool little one exactly the first person i interviewed like
when he had peroxide blonde hair i was like 22 and it was like hey man they're all i love the
whole family and everything and it was just what an amazing gig for a 22 year old just to swan
around edinburgh and meet all the comedians and it was absolutely class so because i was mates
with adam bloom years later he's gone i'm in manchester are you about i went i actually am
he's like i'm doing a comedy store gig.
So I come down to the comedy store
and this little Scouse lad wearing a jacket
that's very much too small for him
and doesn't quite fit around his tongue.
Do you remember that?
A blazer, when you say jacket.
A blazer.
It was a blazer.
A little blazer.
Like a logo t-shirt.
You know like when a young comic is like,
I'm a t-shirt comic, I'm young.
What, it's the comedy store.
Gotta dress up a little bit.
And he had more,
he clearly not worn a blazer for quite some time.
It was brand new.
No, then he clearly not measured himself for quite some time
or was in denial about his sizings.
You've got to go small on the blazer.
Otherwise it looks like you're wearing your dad's blazer though,
doesn't it?
Well, it looked like he was wearing his son's blazer.
Right, okay.
That was the issue.
Anyway, so we meet and he's like oh hey nice to meet you backstage like backstage before
the backstage which is downstairs at the comedy store manchester and i'd brought carl and a a
mate of ours and at the time your colleague sean was with us and they just got tickets because i
was like oh tom stayed on the bill my first gig we'll have a little night out in manchester
afterwards and you've got to understand,
like I'm 12 years into comedy now
and meeting people that I've watched on the telly
and always respected their work,
that gets more and more common
as you do more TV work yourself
and you're mixing certain circles that happens.
This was two years in
and I literally say it was forged in the fires, boys.
Forged in the fires, yeah.
So to walk in that green room
and for you to be sat there
knowing he was upstairs
Was just fucking
So I go up and I went to him
Lads you're not going to believe
Who is downstairs in the green room
And he went who
And I said
Johnny
And he went
Schumacher
Who's a friend of ours
I was made up
I love Johnny
So I was like
You're asked to see Johnny again
Like Ralph Little
Like Johnny
And he went no he's not
and i went no he is and i'm not proud of this ralph but when i come back down i have to take
a very sly picture of you from the couch and send to him be like no he is actually yeah that's
amazing yeah but the story of this night so first of all you by the way i could you could have a
hundred years to guess where this story is going.
And I guarantee you would never fucking get it because I'm still not entirely sure it's true,
but do carry on.
And then we'll discuss that afterwards.
Okay.
I wasn't sure it was true at the time,
but go on.
So the first bit,
which on a message to me,
once you found out and you've been tagged in it,
that you denied,
which I know it's a little embarrassing for you.
It is a hundred percent true.
The shoelace thing.
Oh yeah. I thought he playedelace thing. Oh, yeah.
I thought he played it off, though.
No, he did.
But it is true.
Right.
It did happen.
I just remember the playing it off bit.
So here's what happened.
Thank you, Carl.
So we go upstairs to the comedy store bar afterwards.
And obviously, Ralph Little's in in Manchester.
So as well as all the comics being there you've just been on
no one's got a fucking interest in any of us they all want to come and see ralph
and then this woman comes over and she's like hi yeah you're okay and ralph went yeah yeah do you
want a picture and she went yeah but not with you and she come to me and was like you were really
good and he just pretended to tie his shoelaces so what happened was i wouldn't have gone yeah
do you want a picture because like you never mug yourself off that much.
But I did the gesture of going, hell,
I actually went, excuse me.
And then I had to go, oh, shoelaces.
These have been here tying for a couple of hours.
I finally got these, so that was mortifying.
Anyway, it gets a lot worse.
Oh, there's more?
Oh, there's a lot more.
Oh, we're getting there.
We haven't started yet.
That was just a little appetizer. So this family come over, it's a lot worse. Oh, there's more? Oh, there's a lot more. Oh, there's quite a lot. Yeah, that was just a little appetizer.
So this family come over.
It's a man and wife and their maybe 18, 19-year-old daughter, right?
So they start talking to us.
They're like, oh, where are you guys going?
We're like, oh, we don't know.
But at this point, the bar's starting to empty,
and it's mainly just the comics left and a couple of stragglers.
But these are sort of clinging to us.
So we only went next door or sort of a couple of doors down on low low yeah yeah somewhere like that like revolution or something revs you know yeah we did didn't we one of our
big stories from our early podcast was a big story that's where my look-alike was kicking
about he's looking like the ugliest man he's ever met in his life there's a guy that looks just like
you who the fuck he was the ugliest you look like you met in his life. There's a guy that looks just like you. It was so hilarious after my win.
Who the fuck, he was the ugliest,
he looked like, what did I say?
Do you know how many times I've been tagged
in the Australian waiting for a mate video?
What's that?
You've never, I'll show you it in the break.
All right, you gotta show me the break.
I get tagged in it all the,
it's a hammered guy who's crashed his car.
The police come over and go,
you all right mate, have you crashed?
He goes, nah, I'm just waiting for a mate.
And he's just fucked, but it looks like me
and his eyes are everywhere, which obviously with me helps um his eyes are everywhere
so we're this family who are with us they're just sort of i was trying to flirt with the daughter
you know i was like 21 maybe at the time i'm trying to flirt with this girl who's
out with her mom and dad and it seemed a bit weird they're from sheffield i remember that
they were staying in a hotel.
So we go into Revs, and they follow us,
and they come with us, right?
And then the daughter seems a bit aloof,
and I'm like, oh, well, this isn't going to happen.
How unfortunate for me.
Got me blazer on and everything.
Didn't quite work out.
But then the wife, the mother, starts flirting with me, right?
And I'm like, okay, wow.
And her husband is literally just stood at the bar watching us,
and he's sort of like smiling.
It seems odd, and I was like,
your husband's sort of watching us here, you know, love?
And she's like, yeah, yeah, I know.
Just don't worry about it.
And then she leans in and kisses me,
and I remember this happening because you swung your head around like a crane
and put it right in.
Like, you were here.
Like, I come away
from kissing this woman
I remember it so
he's literally like
say what
I remember going
he is Johnny
yeah
I remember
go on
and then
she
she asked me to go back
to the hotel
with her and her husband
oh no
and I I was like I don't know how to the hotel with her and her husband. Oh, no.
And I was like,
I don't know how comfortable I am with that.
And she was like,
would you like a preview of what could happen?
And she took me to the toilet and sucked me off.
How is that a preview?
I'd be happy with that.
Well, you don't need anything.
I'd be like, thanks for the preview.
No, I don't want to come back to you.
I'm done, thank you. You've put all the good bits of the film in the trailer. Yeah, exactly. To be fair, thanks for the preview. No, I don't want to come back to you. I'm done, thank you.
You've put all the good bits of the film in the trailer.
Yeah, exactly.
To be fair, he was 21.
You're 45 now.
You'd be like, oh, that'll do.
There's a lot of effort involved in the rest of it.
I can't just go to sleep.
At 21, you're thinking, I could do this again.
Yeah, but you've got some fucking weird bloke wanking in the car watching you.
You forgot about that?
He'd have walked to Sheffield.
How old you are,
you don't want to see some middle-aged man
wanking while you're fucking his wife.
Well, I remember for the rest of...
It's a well-known fact.
That's a well-known fact.
I live by that mantra.
I read it.
I gave you a load of shit for the rest of the evening
going, I cannot believe you didn't go back
to the hotel and do it.
Do you regret that now?
Come on.
Do I regret it?
Not going back.
No, because to be totally honest with
you i'm with will like i don't want fucking jeff in the corner going can we just say we just got a
comment on one of the videos last week when adam makes up a name of a character the likelihood of
it being a just sound at the start jeff janice john it's like yeah it's always quickly i need a name yeah yeah
as long as it starts with a j janice amazing jeffro you know what was great about that he
was in the toilet doing his thing and we were just stood there with a pipe like
and you went does this happen often And I went Nah It was so It was so weird
And also I guess
I'm thinking about it
My ego's
Fucking taking a burial
At this point
I've lost
Any kind of mojo
I ever want
This is terrible
But yeah
You come out
And Ralph's snogging the husband
I just wanted to get involved
I was like
I believe your name's Jeff
Can I
I suppose it's me and you now, Jeff.
Come on, Jeffrey.
Let's go.
Oh, my God.
That daughter's in therapy now, isn't she?
Fucking hell.
But she must know who she is.
Because also the thing is, Adam, like then,
was a baby comedian just starting out.
Like, no one knew him.
But he's pretty well known now.
So she will know.
They'll know.
They must like.
Oh, yeah.
Mum and dad talk about the one that got away.
Yeah, tell me that.
I really want them to message you and go,
actually, I'm called Jeff.
And Janice here still remembers Adam Fonda.
Office still open if you're ever in South Yorkshire.
Come on, a snake pass.
Oh, that is not what you want to hear.
A South Yorkshire action in the corner of the room
as you fucking give your best effort on his wife,
like, melt in.
Not only did Adam say-
Ah, that's doing a good job there, lad.
Yeah, exactly.
Not only did Adam say Jeff, and he was like a good job there, lad. Yeah, exactly. Not only did Adam say Jeff, like,
and he was like, that was the J name that he went for,
but we've all moved on from the fact that he said,
you don't want Jeff in the corner going,
.
And I'm like, is that the noise you make when you shout?
Like, where'd that noise come from?
No, no, no, that's the noise I imagine Jeff would make.
Thank you, because no one wanks noisily.
No, no one has a shout wank.
You don't go.
Right.
No, no, no, no, no, no. No.
Right.
Right.
Strapping, strapping.
When you are having some alone time in a hotel or whatever.
Yeah.
Are you ever a bit louder than when you are surrounded by your family?
So Carl's just moved out of his family home and he's bought a house.
Right.
Really big thing.
I bet they're delighted.
If that's what you're going to do. Go on. family home and he's bought a house right really big thing i bet they're delighted go on and i asked has he had a shout wank yet in the new house because he's finally away from his
mom absolutely not no no one no one makes it apparently it's only you that makes noise when
you're on your own yeah jeff and jeff you and jeff no no one does it look no you hear us don't do it
look that's fine don't you just sort of i'm quite happy to be one of a kind don't you just do it
silently and in shame?
You're a maverick.
Like if I'm in me house,
because I don't want me neighbors to know what I'm up to.
Are you a sock?
Are you a gym sock, man?
For fuck's sake, a gym sock?
I'm not a gym sock, man.
What's a gym sock?
Well, you know, Jeff.
You're wanking to a sock.
It's a Jeff sock.
He wanks into Jeff's gym socks.
No, it's like a...
It's a Jeff gym sock.
It's a Trump, isn't it?
Like in American Pie and everything. It's like they do it into a gym sock. No, he's like a... Chef Jim socks. It's a trope, isn't it? In like American Pie and everything,
it's like they do it into a gym sock.
No, he's an animal.
He's got towels.
He's a sports sock.
He cheers us in his own head, apparently.
Oh my God.
No, no, no.
You must have heard of a posh wank.
There's a lot of context to this.
You've heard of a posh wank?
Yeah, yeah.
With a condom.
You went with a Johnny on?
Yeah.
And it catches it for you?
Well, because he's not clean up.
It's called a posh wank.
Guys, get some wet wipes in your life.
Have you never heard of that?
It helps with the clean-up.
Fair enough.
I don't know.
I'm not talking through experience.
I'm far from posh.
So that's what we were talking about before.
I'm so glad that this podcast is very similar to ours.
It's actually slightly worse.
We usually go,
we've been talking about wanking and arses for far too long.
That's all we've spoken about.
Have you noticed I'm slightly off the leash?
It's like-
It's not our fault.
I will use tissue, but if I've just got out the shower
and I know the towel's going in the wash,
I'll just use the towel.
Oh.
What is wrong with that?
Oh God.
What's wrong with it?
I don't trust that you're doing enough laundry.
No, not at all.
Do you boil it?
Do you boil the towel?
Do you burn it?
What?
You should burn it.
I just put it on a 60 degree wash.
Do you boil the towel in your 19th century wash house?
It needs boiling, doesn't it?
If you've just-
Do you take it down the river?
Also, could it, that's a towel book.
Could you not apply the same logic to like- Curtains. Oh yeah, anything that's going in the wash. So like, oh, my jeans are gonna go down the river. Also, that's a towel, but could you not apply the same logic to like,
oh yeah, anything that's going in the wash.
So like, oh, my jeans are gonna go in the wash.
I'll just jizzle on my jeans.
Like no one in this room has gone,
I'll wash that t-shirt.
Come on.
I would have no problem jizzing on my jeans
if I was about to wash them.
That might be what happened
with that woman
oh you should have used the blazer i told him i like your stone wash
yeah yeah these were actually blue when i got them that's quite coarse as well like course on your skin jeans well yeah i haven't done it all right i'm just not ruling it out you
know what i mean i'm a man with an open mind 40 boots it is making me feel a bit pat and
make this conversation,
I must admit.
Yeah.
Can I just say,
you support your heroes here
and we're like,
no,
but how do you wank?
Do you do a noisy wank
or is it a quiet one?
Well,
when no one's in,
I'll fucking shout it out.
Soon you will be out.
Get out.
So,
that's wanking done.
I don't think we're quite finished.
No,
no.
So,
so,
so.
So, what's it like being back in Runkorn?
So I was talking to,
we've liaised with the guys who produce your podcast.
Yeah.
And they were saying this is your first time together
back in Runkorn since the Two Pints days,
which is obviously, for any new viewers of ours,
I'm Adam, this is Dan, this is Have A Word.
It's like this every week.
Get on board.
No, this is Have A Word and two Sudafed and a can of coke and two pints and a pint and any of uh
our listeners uh who are not accustomed with our esteemed guests in today stars of many tv shows
the show you worked on together was two pints of lager and a pack of crisps yeah and you now do a
podcast back together called two pints with willem r. Yep, exactly. So I want to know, and Two Pints was based in Runcorn,
which is the spiritual home of Have a Word.
And it's sort of this perfect melt and puff for this crossover.
So what is it like being back here?
Because a lot of it was filmed here, wasn't it?
Yeah, we did all, like it was in a studio,
but any exteriors we shot here.
The studio in Manchester?
No, it was in London.
Oh, wow. CBC, TV Centre, yeah. but any exteriors we shot here the studio in Manchester no it was in London oh wow what do you believe
CBC TV centre
yeah
but like
Gaz's Garage
was in Runcorn
all the exteriors
we did in Runcorn
the pub that's now
a yoga centre
or something
a Buddhist temple
a Buddhist temple
wow
the archer
yeah
it was called the archer
it seems weird
it seems like
the basic opposite
end of the spectrum
from what it was
in our show
it's a Buddhist temple.
It's like, what's the furthest we can get away from?
We used to stay at the Daresbury Hotel, didn't we?
Come off at Daresbury and stay there.
And we had, man, we had two weeks of just...
Remember we used to crash a load of weddings?
Yeah.
What's going on in the function room?
Let's go and get in there.
Just bored in the Daresbury going,
sounds like there's a big party in the Daresbury.
We'd be like, hi, everyone who's getting married.
And like, occasionally we weren't very welcome.
No. Fuck off. I'd love to crash a wedding you know yeah i had a hotel and just like act as if like oh yeah i live next door like just try and blend in yeah with the crowd it works better if you're
on tv though because otherwise you're just a bloke crashing a wedding and everyone's like why is he
here if they're like hey who's this guy why are his jeans
all crispy that's weird i just think i think it'd be a lot better to be completely anonymous
and try and convince try and get through the whole wedding not like being way crashing the
wedding but try and actually assimilate the crowd and get have everyone have like the the bride's
father like invite you for dinner.
Like, you know, win him round.
Like on Wedding Crushers.
I haven't seen the film.
Just describe the plot though.
Yeah, that's it.
Here we go.
You've never seen a film? I feel like you might have seen the film.
I've got the brain of a Hollywood movie writer.
That's what I've just learned.
Get that jacket on, see what you can do.
Well, we had some good times at Runcorn.
Everyone used to come out when we were filming
obviously it was like
I think it's probably
the only thing
that's come out
at Runcorn
TV wise
they were proud
but no it was great
and remember
we've spoke about this before
when we did early stages
of our first series
of the pod
was some strange things
you'd see
like a woman
with a parrot
on her shoulder
that had no feathers
eating chips
the baldest parrot
you've ever seen
she'd say say tight and go the scouse accent and she'd feed it A woman with a parrot on her shoulder that had no feathers, eating chips. The baldest parrot you've ever seen.
She'd say, say, say, go,
and she'd feed it fucking chips on her shoulder.
Are you fucking us, chips?
Say, what do you say? It was bald from the neck down,
and it was like, not happy,
this scouse parrot eating chips on her shoulder.
She'd come out.
We'd see her every night, wouldn't we?
Say, say, say't we? Say tat.
Let's get a chip.
It was fucking random as hell.
Do you remember going in the canal?
You went in Runcorn Canal.
Yeah,
that was horrible.
We got pushed in the canal.
That was stunk of absolute shit.
And they not even dragged it.
Shopping trolleys
and everything at the bottom.
Could have died.
In the show,
obviously.
You can see it in your face though
in the show
that you're not happy to be in there.
Oh my God.
It was fucking awful.
You don't see it in the show,
but he's pushed in the canal
and then in the show he comes out
and he's like,
oh,
oh,
he comes out.
But what actually happened was
he came out and he went,
oh,
oh,
it stinks to shite.
Like for about three minutes
and he couldn't get out.
It was horrible.
Shopping tries and fucking all sorts.
And I was thinking my head went under that.
Oh yeah,
they probably went in.
And I remember as well, we were filming one of the garage scenes,
and we obviously used the exterior of the garage.
And it's a real garage, but obviously we rent it off the guy and all that.
Anyway, as you walk in, they cut, and then they'll cut to the studio,
obviously, and then we're in the set.
And it's one day, I'm walking in, and they said,
what we need to be doing is, as if you're bringing something mechanical or whatever.
So I found a little box or something.
It was like an empty box.
So I put it under my arm, and I'm walking.
This fucking bloke comes running across the road and grabs hold of me.
Hey, get off me stuff!
What are you talking about?
That's my stuff!
That's my garage!
That's my stuff!
I said, can someone have a fucking word with this bloke here?
There's a whole camera crew and everything.
There's a camera crew.
He had to go and get his son.
Fucking idiot.
We own the garage.
I thought I was robbing shit.
I said, I'm actually bringing it in.
That's the opposite of fucking robbing it.
So I'm just using...
Exactly.
Haven't we rented it off?
You know we're supposed to be here.
How did you not know?
Fucking idiot.
We're in the middle of a take.
Can someone get this fucking idiot here, please?
Just a really, really overzealous extra
who's like, this is my chance to show me skills.
There's a story about that.
Was it on Emmerdale?
I can't remember.
I'm probably going to get this wrong,
but there's some old story about
how one of the lads on Emmerdale years ago
got in one of the extras and started winding him up.
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember?
Yeah.
And it's a bit harsh, really,
but it's funny like it's extra
it's like so uh um yeah so i'm really hoping to get into actors my first day is an extra but i'm
really hoping to be an actor and sort of went up and was like socializing with with like all the
actors which is actually fine you don't you don't really do it but there's no reason why not right
so one of the lads on emmerdale forget who was like well if you want to get into what the key
is like just always think of a way to get noticed.
So,
you know,
so just throw something in,
throw something in,
right?
This extra supposed to be waiting at a bus stop.
And they go,
okay,
action.
He's like,
Oh,
looks like a bus.
Extra goes,
eh,
terrible.
These timetables,
aren't they?
Should be here within the hour.
Cut! Who the fuck's that? goes, eh, terrible these timetables, aren't they? Should be here within the hour. Cuts!
Who the fuck's that?
What's that?
And also should be here
within the hour.
Within an hour?
How long do they think
the tape's going to last?
It's going to stand there
for 55 minutes.
Bless.
I don't think they worked again.
There's a story
we can't name
the two of the comics
involved in the story
because we
told the story early on
and we had to cut it out
but it's on the source of a similar thing. There's a tradition at the comics involved in this story, because we told this story early on and we had to cut it out,
but it's on this sort of similar thing.
There's a tradition at the comedy store in London of the pro-acts winding the open spots up,
the guy doing the spot I was doing the night we met,
like winding them up and making their life difficult.
So you know the comedian Paul Chowdhury, right?
So his opening line for years has been
what's happening, white people, right?
And he was on the bill later on in the show,
but wasn't quite at the venue yet. the compere goes up to the the new comedian who happens to be asian as well and says uh how you feeling he's like oh well uh really nervous you know it's the
comedy store big chance want to be in with this club blah blah blah and he goes what's your opening
line open lines most important thing yeah like if you, if you get them, you've got them. Yeah, yeah. And he goes, I'm quite a slow builder.
He goes, I'm going to work here.
You're going to need a big opening line.
I've got one foot.
Got one foot.
I think if you just walk out and just go,
what's happening, white people?
That'll get a laugh and you'll be in.
Oh, man.
So this new act goes on and goes,
what's happening, white people?
Smashes it.
Big gig.
Paul Chowdhury's at the back of the room.
Been using that line for 15 years.
Comes straight into the green room and goes,
that's my line.
And the guy goes, it was him.
He told me to do it.
But by the time he's done that,
the comp is fucked off.
Leaves this guy in the green room
with a very, very, very angry Paul Chowdhury.
How long ago was this?
Years ago.
Was it Romesh?
No.
Just asking.
Just asking.
I want you to name names.
Know your place.
Extra at the bus stop.
Young Asian open spot.
I want to ask you about,
we have talked to a lot of comedians we've spoken to.
We spoke to recently.
Darryl Breen.
Darryl Breen, Russell Howard.
And one of the reasons we talked
and sort of got chatting over a bit all those years ago,
and I've been toying, banging on about the idea
of trying stand-up for years and never done it.
And part of it's because I'm lazy,
part of it's because I guess I'm scared.
I've just never bothered to do it.
And Will's similar, right?
We had this conversation.
You've always toyed with the idea
and neither of us have ever done it.
You look a lot more scared than him
when this conversation's up there. No no because it's one of them things
you know
I feel like I want to do it
it's a difficult thing
if you're an actor
and you just suddenly go
well I'll do a bit of comedy
you just worry that
the comedians
who have fucking slogged their way
just don't
don't think you're going to come in
and just because you've got a profile
jump straight into the comedy store
well if we watch that stage now
we've got baggage with us
you feel a bit
and people know you
and people know what you've been in
and they
yeah
it's not easy
it's actually easy
easy being unknown
yeah you kind of almost
don't want to walk on
because if you have a bad one
you can just slip into the night
and you're gone
and then you go
and lick your wounds
and learn from it
it's harder if you've got
a name
so specifically
what's your question
and I'll do my best to answer
well I've asked all the comedians this
like
I guess I
we met when you were very, very young
in your career and it was a big open spot.
It wouldn't have been your first ever gig,
but I guess your first ever gig,
you're not absolutely shitting it about bombing.
And follow-up question, what's your worst?
When have you died the worst?
You must have absolutely bombed.
So first gig, I was definitely very, very nervous,
and we've covered it on Have A Word before.
I did a gig in a nightclub in Liverpool,
which is not there anymore, called Envy.
There was 32 people there.
28 of them were my friends.
Two of them were Hungarian tourists
who literally just got dragged in off the street
and didn't know what the fuck was happening.
And two of them were the only two people
who would have been there
if there wasn't a trip from Hungary
and my friends in the room. The gig went, in my head well i can't watch it back anymore because
it's abysmal right and the stand-up is really really bad you were 18 i was 20 what like you're
not you're not even aware of damage that could be done you're like i want to do it it's a very
different deal at that age really when you're in your 30s or 40s you've got more pride i suppose just yeah you get you get scared as you
get older i think about a lot of things but like this kind of thing this one i think i worry that
because we we've been talking vaguely for our podcast about the idea of maybe try and stand
up as a kind of will versus ralph thing Oh, we would love to be involved in that show.
I don't know about you, but that terrifies me.
I'd rather do a skydive.
Yeah, it is hard, isn't it?
But, you know, it's one of them, I think, you know,
as far as I'm concerned, I've been writing stuff down,
stuff that makes me laugh.
And I think, well, if I find it funny,
then hopefully other people will, but that's not the case.
But if you're at that stage, though,
so I'll answer the death question in a minute.
If you're at that stage, you're going to do it. This gonna do it this doesn't go away this itch does not go away i've got reams of notes on my
phone that i've been taking for 20 years this should be our second crossover why don't you
both why don't you both take a comic and help each other and then they can help you i mean do you know so it is here's the thing if you announce now i'm gonna do stand up go and it so this it's a
it's a complicated question because stand up as a as a an r form for lack of a better term
is so delicate and so it takes a long time to get truly good at it but you you get away with the
a lack of the the intricacies of the skills polish yeah when the audience already like you
now if you got and you guys are sort of so famous that most club audiences in the uk if you walked
on would be like oh it's the that guy from the thing so you'll get that often i would not advise either
of you to go to comedy clubs like weekend comedy clubs because they might book yeah because they'd
be like well they're gonna sell tickets you'd get an extra two minutes from the crowd but a weekend
guy and then then you thought if you're on your own yeah yeah yeah so you don't think we should
try and debut at the comedy store no you should you should there'll be open mic nights that not are not open mic they're sort
of new material nights so they're like the type of give the daughter and russell and even me and
dan will go to to go oh we're working through material and we can get on yeah yeah so like
there's a comedy club in liverpool called hot water they do uh new material nights on mondays
and wed Wednesdays and
Sundays
I've just started
running Liverpool
on a Tuesday
it's the kind of
thing where it's
really really
relaxed
it's who's going
out to watch
comedy on a
Tuesday
it's comedy fans
it's podcast fans
it's comedy geeks
not slagging them
off but it's people
who really like the
stand-up they're not
there for like you
know fucking Phil's
like Stag do or
to be fair
or Tracy's birthday as a as a will
versus ralph that's what we got to do it yeah do it as a second crossover we'll do it at your place
yeah oh my god it would it's so perfect for it 80 90 seats intimate sound tuesday night i've just
got a bit scared that we've even said that like my heart's pounding now we've got a tour coming up a
podcast tour we have no idea what we can say scared shitless we did our christmas special live show
in liverpool and we were planning it in the pub three hours before it started yeah but we've got
three weeks of dates if we even have a good first night we're like right what we're gonna do next
night yeah we're conscious of that we haven't put a tour of the podcast together yet we're trying to
funnel all the touring from this into our our solo stand-up tour but haven't put a tour of the podcast together yet. We're trying to funnel all the tour and from this into our solo standup tour.
But you know funny,
like half of the battle with brand new comics is
they don't know which way the audience is,
which way they're looking,
how to hold a mic.
They haven't got a performer or the confidence.
You've acted,
you've done comedy acting.
You've got so many of the initial ticks.
Also, you're not kids who don't know what you're saying.
You've got an idea of what you like.
The rhythm and the confidence and the nerves,
they're always the problem,
but you'll get over them quicker
because you know funny and you know performing.
Fancy it.
Well, I watched RuPaul's Drag Race the other day
and I thought,
why don't we both see who's the best drag queen?
Okay.
Will versus Ralph.
We can't do it on the same night, by the way.
On the same night.
Can we do that at your club?
Just a whole different thing.
No, I mean,
it's one of them things, man.
We'll give it some more.
It's a bucket list thing, isn't it?
It's an interesting idea, isn't it?
If the interest is there,
you will scratch it eventually.
But yeah,
so here's my advice
just from experience.
Because it's not the same thing,
but here's what's happening at the minute.
There's a sort of revolution going on
with how comedians sort of sell tickets
and how they get a profile enough.
And you've obviously already got a profile
to be able to sell these thousands of tickets for tour shows.
Stand-up is not the same as just being funny.
It just isn't.
A lot of people think,
oh, I'm funny in the pub with my mates.
It's not the same thing.
They're always the worst new acts.
Always.
What dance anyway, you guys is.
No, don't worry.
You're not funny.
Yeah, you're good.
Yous have worked to a professional level of comedy in TV,
which gives you an advantage.
But here's what happens now.
So there's a lot of selfie video comedians.
That's what I call them.
They start with videos going viral on Facebook and YouTube. now so there's a lot of like selfie video comedians that's what i call them so like and uh they start
with like videos going viral on facebook and youtube there's one exception to this rule that
i'm about to say which is mo gilligan so mo gilligan was already a stand-up and he started
doing this and blew up and he's now one of the biggest names in british comedy um there's a lot
of them who do that and then they get on stage because they then get an agent and
the agent goes the only way we can truly monetize this is for you to do a stand-up tour and there's
been a lot of them that get cancelled after two or three dates really because they're getting
millions of views in their bedroom pretending to be i'm me and now i'm my girlfriend because
my hair's a bit different and then they go on tour in front of people who've paid 20 quid
and have to get a babysitter and park the fucking car and go for a meal and it's it's a date night and
it's all the stress that goes into going on a night out venues are getting complaints by the
from the people who bought tickets going what was that is not making us feel any more happy about
our upcoming tour people have paid money got a babysitter oh shit no but you'll sing mustang
sally it'll be fine you guys are doing something that the listeners are already,
they've already bought into.
You're going to be doing a podcast on stage, I assume.
Like, these people are going from selfie videos
to trying to do stand-up,
and in a live room watching a stand-up comic,
it's so instant.
Like, what's interesting for me,
I've got a couple of jokes in my new tour show
that at the minute, they get a 7 out of 10 laugh,
and I would normally kill them.
I'd normally get rid of them and be like, they're not good enough.
I need to get better jokes for whatever.
They're staying in because I know when this eventually goes online,
they'll be the jokes that do the best online
because people have another 30 seconds to think about it.
It's the instant.
You've got to make them laugh
within half a second
of saying whatever you say.
And that's what these
influencer selfie video comedians
are just not accustomed to doing.
When you've done your live shows,
you did one,
I know you did one
live podcast on stage.
Did you just sit down
and do what you do here?
Just sitting down
and chewing the fat?
Stand up in the first half. We've done four proper live shows haven't we two are hot water one at content in
liverpool and one at the underbelly festival what we want to do because of what you just said about
people are paying like we look we could just turn up and we could just sit and do our podcast maybe
get a guest or whatever we could but if people have paid some like you've you've you've got to
step it up you've got to give something a bit more. You can't just ask people to come and go,
just pay some money to watch us with their eyes. We want them to be a part of it, I think.
Yeah, like I think we want audience interaction and stuff.
Might be the generation game.
I have a tattoo of a pig on my arse
to top off a pod show.
If anything doesn't...
So yeah, you...
That photo on the wall up there
is Brennan Rees getting his arse all waxed
at the end of the live show in 2019.
And a year later,
in reference to a joke,
a story I told on the pod,
I got my first ever tattoo at 40 years old
on a live stream in front of 3,000 people.
Yeah, you do need to bring a little bit.
A little bit of something, yeah.
It's not just like, sit down and see.
Yeah, it's a live show.
So welcome, everyone.
Same old shit.
Here we go.
Yeah, you can't do that.
Yeah, but they also want that too.
They're coming to watch a podcast.
Well, yeah, we've got a screen and stuff
so we can show clips.
We've got to be of audience interaction.
You know, we've got a few things
that will just take it on a different route.
The big challenge is going to be stopping Will singing.
That's going to be the real, like,
because he can sing, but my God, he can't wait.
That's the thing.
He'll be like, not yet, not yet.
Not yet, easy, easy, easy.
Wait till the end. Are you going to sing at every show? I mean, you can't stop. It's the thing be like not yet not yet easy easy easy wait till the end are you
gonna sing at every show i mean it's the first i fucking heard of it you can't bollocks you can't
stop it it's been amazing that he's not sat here going mustang sally because it's a running gag
that he said all the way through it's true though he how often do you how often do you get paid to
sing mustang listen at gigs if they want me to sing, I'll sing. You know what I mean? Mustang sound. And if they don't...
Everyone's got a song they can sing when they're pissed.
Reef, Reef, place your hands you've got.
Place your hands by Reef.
Play that funky music, white boy.
Really?
Play that funky music, white boy.
Can you say that nowadays?
Play that funky music, white boy.
That's not me.
As a white boy, I find it really offensive.
I find it very offensive.
You sang Tom Jones as well on...
Oh God, yeah, I did, yeah.
We know so much more about this show than you.
You sang Can I Get a Blowjob on Two Pints.
Yeah, Can I Get a Blowjob.
I did that on...
Are you?
I did that on a Valentine's Day message.
Do you know you do these messages for people on Memo
and stuff like that?
Yeah.
And it was a Valentine's message and all that.
And it was...
I get asked to do the biscuit rap quite a lot.
They didn't ask me.
I just said, what you need to do is walk in the bedroom
and just go, I want a blowjob,
how are you?
And just see what happens.
Happy Valentine's Day.
I told you he'd sing,
by the way.
I told you.
Nobody asked him to.
You goaded him into it.
Nobody asked him to.
Open the fucking door
and I walk through
and let the witness.
I told you,
it's stopping him singing
that's the difficult bit.
Will, you're involved
in one of our,
remember the last,
we watched the last episode
together, didn't we? Remember? Yeah. Because we used to watch it together. Did you hold hands one of our remember the last we watched the laps episode together didn't we
remember
yeah
because we used to
watch it together
did you hold hands
while you were watching
the last episode
essentially
yeah
but you made us
nearly cry
you remember the end
of the end
don't you
of course yeah yeah
at the airport
yeah oh my god
because we were like
what the fuck
there's obviously
got to be another series
and then I read in like
the paper a couple of weeks
later it was like
no more two pints you know we have got another series and then I read it in like the paper a couple of weeks later it was like no more Two Pints
you know we have got
another series
written
Susan Nixon's written it
written
yeah
she's written it
called Two Pints
Last Order
sort of thing
and the BBC said no
they don't want it
why?
we all put it
we all do
BBC 3 is coming back
so
they said no as well
really?
so we think
I think what we need to do
is put it onto a stream platform
of some kind whether it be Amazon Prime or anything like that.
Should we all just make it?
So, yeah.
Oh, my God.
Do you want to see these two giz?
No, we brought him back.
I sent you the video.
Oh, shit, on the beach.
What sort of fan are you?
Yeah.
On the beach.
Come on, Carl.
On the beach.
As if you don't know that, even I know that.
Stan knows it.
Johnny Schumacher's alive!
Don Zorn, yeah, exactly.
That was my name, that was my name.
Yeah, so we brought him back to life
just so we could then go, right, well,
now we can do, you know, where are they now sort of thing.
Several questions.
Yeah, go.
First one, just to let you know upfront,
and we'll talk about this afterwards,
we will fund and make it.
Yeah, give that that sweet sweet Patreon money
HSBC
Dan, Dan, never mind
never mind about your season
that's what we can do for our Patreon, we'll do a scene every episode
one scene from the new series
you have to pay 10 quid to see it
secondly
please, I don't even care if I carry a crate
in the background holding with him I've got to be if I carry a crate in the background, holding with him.
We've got it.
I've got to be an extra at some point.
And thirdly, right, here's something I've always wanted to ask you.
I was going to say barman, but you wouldn't be able to see you over the bar.
I'm not that small.
I'm deceptively not small.
That's what he always says.
I thought you were stood up now.
I am, but I'm taller than I look.
I'm far away.
I'm 5'9", or 5'1111 on Tinder, depending on who you ask.
So here's something I wanted to ask you.
I don't know whether you've discussed this on your show.
What was it like for you and for you, I suppose,
when you left the show and it carried on?
It was gutting, actually.
It was a bit difficult, yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
It's a weird one, really.
It felt, I look back now and I'm like, yeah, it feels like a mistake. Was it your call? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a weird one really. It felt, I look back now and I'm like,
yeah,
it feels like a mistake.
Was it your call?
Yeah.
And you felt,
I've gone as far as I want to go with it.
And yeah,
look,
I mean,
he went to Hollywood.
I've got regrets.
And he's back.
And I came back.
Hollywood's calling.
I'm about to run call.
And I was like,
oh,
Hollywood,
you were calling.
Just the wrong number
what happened though
because when you got shot
there was a vote
to see whether you lived or died
did you just say
you'll carry on
that wasn't how
you left though
no no
I'm saying you carried on
afterwards
what happens if
well
we know you
yeah
no well it's a good
it's a good
honestly it's a good question
because they were like
so we're gonna get you shot
at the end of a series
and then we're going to have this vote
to decide whether you should live or die.
Isn't that fun?
And I went, what if people all say I should die?
And they went, oh, we didn't think of that.
Fuck it.
And nobody even addressed, there was no plan B.
So if everyone had voted no,
I just wouldn't have come back.
In my head, you were wanting to leave,
well, not wanting to leave.
No, no, not at all.
That was just like a bit of fun for fan interaction.
No, there's a run corn shooting on Two Pints of Logan and Packet of Crest.
There is, yeah.
But then someone watched the wire and get a bit carried away.
That was the first crossover there.
It was Two Pints and Brookside.
They did a crossover there.
Jimmy Corkill turned up and was like, you phoned the busies.
Bang.
What did you have in your hand?
I thought it was a gun.
A crunchy.
It's just a crunchy
put the gun down i went what i mean this is right on the top of by the castle i'm going what and all
the airs there's a helicopter like it was amazing it was a fucking police helicopter
and they blew the budget on it we didn't get paid um and uh and they went put the gun down
mr keown i went what gun they went there's a gun in your pocket i went gun oh no this is just a
crunchy which is just so stupid.
And I pulled out this crunchy
and got shot.
And that was the end of the series.
It was good, wasn't it, to be fair?
We did some brave things on Two Pints.
We did some mad things on Two Pints.
And I don't think, if I'm really honest,
that I appreciated how good it was at the time.
I did.
When it finished, I cried.
The last episode, we filmed it.
The scene where you see Gaz and Donna at the airport,
we'd already pre-shot that,
so we did the studio audience stuff,
and then we came out and watched it with the audience,
had a bit of a glass of champagne,
and it finished, and the audience all stood up clapping.
And I looked round at the sets, and I thought,
we're not going to do this again.
And it proper hit me
Yeah
I got all upset
I was crying
And my wife run down
From the audience
And ugly and stuff
And it was just weird
That I didn't see it coming
That it had that much effect on me
That I'm not going to do this again
How long did you do it for?
Ten years
You did it for ten years
I did it for seven
Nine series, ten years
But it was
It was the end
It was a natural end.
But it's just when you realise.
I said to Susan Nixon the other day,
because she came on the pod,
and her and Catherine come on,
and I was saying to her,
what happened to the sets?
They're destroyed.
They just do that.
And it killed me.
I was like, what?
I have this image in my mind
that they're stuck away somewhere
in case we come back.
Do you know what occurred to me?
Side note,
as I was on the way
to Runcorn today
on the train
we never asked Susan
and I'm still
desperate to know
what is that lyric
is it flakies
KP's
like no one knows
it's flakies isn't it
it changes though
doesn't it
it's KP's
it's nuts isn't it
no
no it's not
do you like to
like a packet of nuts
wasn't it plain cheese
you're supposed to be a fan
plain cheese he thought
plain cheese
no I thought it was
flakies in the first like four seasons then it changes to plain cheese doesn't it supposed to be a fan. Plain cheese, he thought. Plain cheese. No, I thought it was Flaky's in the first like four seasons
and it changes to plain cheese, doesn't it?
KP's take Christmas rather than these chains.
I don't know that anyone actually knows the answer.
So the end of the intro song is,
I'll have a pack of lager, please.
And a pack of Flaky's.
KP's.
It's not nuts.
Plain cheese.
I thought it was Flaky's.
Yes, please.
No one knows.
We used to finish scenes and we'd go,
while we was in front of the audience.
So they'd go, that's that scene complete.
We'd go, and then we'd walk off.
Yeah, it was fun.
I don't think I realised it was as good as it was
and as brave and as, I mean, everyone knew it was silly,
but it was silly in a kind of like
a really fearless way.
I don't think I realised that.
The type of telly
that hasn't been made for a while for me.
And like for me and him
sort of being 17, 18, 19
and being from Liverpool
and although Runcorn,
you know,
is a different town to Liverpool
and whatever,
especially the scenes
with you two in the pub
and watching, you were just us a different town to Liverpool and whatever, especially the scenes with you two in the pub. Yeah.
And watching, you were just us,
but on the, like,
because there was no, like,
it felt real.
The type of things you would say to him
and he would say to you as in your characters.
They ate the pie.
Oh, yeah.
They were always our favourite scenes, weren't they?
Like, the number of times we were-
Like, working class comedy that doesn't punch down.
Yeah.
That we're like, oh, aren't they, they're thick. Like-'re thick like yeah well it was just like there was not even any question of that it was like
this is what lads talk about in the pub just nonsense just absolute nonsense oh we're doing
very well well that chat yeah just talking about like who invented the pie and wine a lot of wanking
chat which as we know is not what lads talk about. But you know, so yeah,
I don't think I realized it was as good.
And when I left,
to be honest,
it wasn't because I was like,
Oh,
I'm going to Hollywood.
Although it was like,
well,
I might as I'll give that a roll of dice because why not?
But it was more,
it was,
I'd grown when I was 18,
19,
20.
It's like,
you know,
things like empires had crumbled.
Like,
you know,
Robbie Williams had left, that and so on.
It wasn't like, that's not even the right analogy.
I just thought maybe it's time to move on.
And I think that was a really bad choice looking back.
It didn't, it wasn't like a,
it wasn't like a career ruining thing to do,
but I was like, why don't I just carry on with the guys?
Like we were having such a good time.
And for some reason, I kind of broke.
It was never the same as well.
For some reason, I broke up the band.
It started to slide, I think, the show.
And sometimes, you know, you leave something like that
because there's some tension or people aren't getting on.
There was a lot of negative press around it as well,
if you've got to remember.
That's true.
There was a lot of people that didn't, you know,
they sort of, it was a bit of a, what would you say it was,
a slanderous word to say, you liked two pints, you know.
We had a massive following. There was a slanderous word to say you liked two pints you know there's people used to refer to it if anything as a guilty pleasure i fucking hate that yeah yeah exactly if people like it they like it but look to be honest as well god this is like therapy i've never really
talked about this but since you ask i came from the royal family which was the most which was my
big break in tv incredible as well it was the most, which was my big break in TV. Incredible as well.
It was the most well-received.
It would be harder, other than The Office,
it would be harder to imagine a more overnight huge success that was adored by everyone.
And I did that, and all the critics loved it,
and it was like, ta-da, and I hosted the first ever GQ Awards.
The first ever GQ Men of the Year Awards,
I hosted at 21 years old.
It was insane.
And then started Two Pints, and it it was great fun and everyone loved it,
but the critics fucking hated it.
And I remember GQ went,
yeah,
we don't want you back because you're in that show.
And we think it's shit.
Like I remember that.
And that always,
I guess stuck with me.
So even though I loved doing the show,
I loved hanging out with my mates and we did all that.
You felt sneered at.
I felt a bit sneered at having come from something that was so universally adored and i look back now and i wish
i'd have just gone i won't give a shit but yeah but i cared too much about that in a way that i
really regret now we like we've got we'll have a word we've got so many comedians who love this
and we've got we're in a position now because of the listenership and how big it is we've given
our comedian mates the chance come on have a go and you know they
notice their talk we've had comedians tell us this is better than doing telly like for sales
and new followers and stuff like that it's amazing to be able to give them that but we also know
there's a sect of the comedy industry we're like you've seen what we've done in the first half here
like we're talking about stuff that some people like oh, oh, you're talking about that for 15 minutes.
It's like, we're just having a laugh.
We're sitting here having a pint with our mates and talking shit.
That's why we called ours Two Pints,
because the idea was, like you say, about us in the pub.
It's just like, we really, really just wanted to transplant
what we would sit and dick around and talk about in a pub.
And sometimes it's football.
Sometimes it's mental health.
You know what I mean?
Sometimes we do go in with stuff like that.
Will talked, we did a whole episode during lockdown
and Will lost his dad
and he talked really, really openly
and honestly and really generously about it.
And it was quite incredible.
Like it's not all whacking.
There's a lot of whacking.
I think if you don't do that honestly,
if you're not yourselves on podcasting,
I think people sniff it out.
And I think the old style of entertainment,
like, hey, this is my character, this is my shtick,
they're not going to work in this new format
of long-form, honest podcasting.
Because if you try and bullshit people that listen to podcasts,
they're like, nah, I can fucking hear that you're a fake.
I think you've got to...
For all the moments of, like, we take the piss
and we go past the line,
we've talked about all sorts of
like honest stuff about like our lives our history and everything it's massively important i feel a
little bad i think i was part of that snobbery against two pints and i and it's weird now that
we work so closely obviously we've become best mates and the the adoration they look the love
that these 10 years younger than me I was a bit older
I
we've watched clips
in here
and I've watched it
through a different lens
I've watched it
through the lens of
my respect and love
for Carl and Adam
who love your
that show
and we just watched
a clip before
and I was like
that's a fucking
funny clip
but when I was 23
when I was 23, 24
I was like
I was like
the mighty Boosh,
Kirby enthusiasm,
you know,
like,
yeah,
yeah.
That's fine though,
isn't it?
That's what I mean.
It's subject to opinion.
And I think that's,
it does divide opinions
when you've had that kind of comedy,
but we had the following
when we did have,
was they was,
they,
they adored it.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't like we liked it.
They loved it.
Yeah.
The people who didn't like it,
hated it.
So that's, you don't like this part? It's kind of like the part yeah but also and not to go too
sort of political on it and i i don't like bringing up sort of oh it's about this and whatever
and i'm not lumping down in with this there's a net there's definitely an element of classism to
it there just is there's an element like working class people will have loved that show because it is
literally uh a documentary of their lives it's yeah i work in a garage my mate's unemployed
we'll always have a murder with our birds like a hyper we can sit in the pub and talk about who
invented the pie and it gives you a break from my butler loves it yeah my butler loves it
you can watch it downstairs yeah Yeah, exactly. Get downstairs.
More cake.
Walk in the fridge.
Walk in the fridge, Michael.
Yeah, I know.
Well, do you know what?
Also, you look back now,
and I do look back without that lens of going,
oh, what did the critics think and this and that?
And look, some bits of it, it wasn't even hit and miss.
It was just so out there that some bits just didn't click in the way that other bits did, right? Which I don't think is necessarily the same as saying't even hit and miss it was just so out there that some bits just didn't click in
the way that other bits did right which i don't think is necessarily the same saying it's hit and
miss because it was pretty fucking good but there are some bits where i go that is legit fun like
it's look back now and i go that is legit funny like can i ask you a question yeah both years
please so we'll start with will yeah and it might be the same answer i'm just interested to know
because obviously i can tell from talking to both of you how much you love doing it is there a favorite either episode or
ideally scene that you remember that was like because i've got mine oh we've got ours it's the
same yeah well the idea i mean musical the musical episode just we can put that aside like because
that is in of itself that was amazing by the way the scary episode scared the
shit out of a lot of people and do you know why that did it made people feel because there was
no laughter track that's what it is so usually it's live live audience there was none of that
on it and when two pints did go for it they went for it you know the musical episode was on such a
low budget but the director made it look amazing we parodied like 12 or 13 huge multi-million budget music videos.
We parodied 12 or 13 of them for no money in about six days.
Like, it was unbelievable.
Getting dressed up and singing and pissing about.
Me and him doing the biscuit rap when we had that.
And the biscuit rap is still on.
Keep any bitch, I got my rich tea.
Rich tea.
Which I rewrote.
I rewrote.
He rewrote most of that.
And being in the recording studio
doing the songs,
just pissing ourselves,
you know,
it was just like...
Do you remember doing the biscuit rap
in one take?
I don't remember it.
I did a few improvisations
at the end
sounding like ludicrous.
My favourite song
in the musical episode
is when you're trying
to convince him
to go out for a drink.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll get pissed
and I'm going to have his face.
His face. Smile at the end of it. get pissed. I'm going to have a face. It's Ace.
Smile at the end of it.
It's Ace.
We use that picture as a reaction meme for anything.
Our Twitter followers know that.
So my favourite scene,
well, it's three scenes from the same episode,
is in the episode Dresses, Dresses, Dresses,
where you find the keg.
Oh, yeah.
Blue beer!
It's Barrow-Oscar.
It's Barrow-O barrel wash gas it's blue beer
you know we couldn't film that
we overran that day by about
half an hour and the whole crew was gone
carrying that barrel down the street
we know the song that you sang
the bit for me
no I'm going to think of Joe Guest
that is literally
exactly what he says
but the bit for me and it's just a subtle scene if you
ever go back and watch it you'll see exactly what i mean when you've failed to open the keg and you
run at it to have a fight with it and it cuts to your face am i laughing no it you look genuinely
worried for your mate's mental health it's either the most perfect bit of acting i've ever seen or it was not in
the script yeah he just ran out of here i probably was that oh do you know i i can't believe the
number of times we cut to things and i'm like i'm just openly laughing how they kept that in
yeah it was bad there must have been a lot because i've seen some outtakes When they used to be on BBC 3 But there must have been a lot
Oh yeah
Like the number one is
When
The noise Donna makes
When she comes
And you have to leave
Yeah
That one
Well thing is
I changed it
Because the night before
I was thinking
Right
In rehearsals
I did a different noise
And I thought
But I got used to it in rehearsals
It took us four days
Of having him going
She goes
And I was like Okay I understand that noise now That's fine And I thought, I'm tonight. But I got used to it in rehearsals. It took us four days of having him going. She goes, oi, oi.
And I was like, okay, I understand that noise now.
That's fine.
And I thought, like, I'm going to change it tonight
when we do this thingy.
And then it came out and I did this.
And I looked at them and Ralph's just crying.
Sheridan's pissing herself.
It took us, I mean, literally.
Do you know it goes from everyone's laughing,
then it gets serious going, no, listen,
we're going to run out of time for the studio.
Even the audience is shifting
in their seats
going come on
I had to do the scene
without them there
they had to leave
they got thrown off
I had to do it to nobody
because we couldn't stop
he had to move the audience out
no no no
Ralph was there
the audience was like
please get this right
Ralph sat there
Sheridan's there
and they had to get rid of him
because I couldn't look at him
how many takes do you think
over 12
at least 15 takes
I mean
and there were some times where I didn't even get to speak How many takes do you think? Oh, over 12, I thought. At least 15 takes. I mean, and there were some times
where I didn't even get to speak
and Ralph's just got snot and tears.
And I'm going, she's going, and action.
I'm going, he's pissing himself.
He's not even started.
It's a bit when you hear someone go, action,
and he just points his camera at him.
He's got his shoulders like this.
And he comes to me, I'm going.
Which take is it where the director starts getting pissed?
Is it like take four or five?
Yeah, it's five or six.
The floor manager's like, okay, guys, come on. And Yeah, it's five or six. It's the floor manager.
It's like, okay, guys, come on.
And we're like, we're trying.
It's like being in detention and you can't stop sniggering.
And the more serious they get, the funnier it gets.
We don't, I mean, there was so many, so many.
I mean, when I wore the fat suit, I had so much fun with that.
Oh, my God.
I had to be in makeup for like three or four hours in the morning
and getting at like six, be on set for, well, being at five,
get on set for eight.
And the fat shoe when
i put it on and it made me act different i felt different in it with the body language and
everything i was sat there natalie casey would come in and introduce and she'd go i fucking
hate fat guys because i'd just be horrible yeah i just feel like picking me no scratching my ass
you know talking about it makes it i went out to the shops in it i was filming on unless i'm just
gonna go to the shop,
see if anyone recognises.
The way people are looking at me,
like I was disgusted and I thought,
is this how it feels to be-
Yeah, you went,
I'll get him a diet coke.
It's a fucking diet coke.
Get a fucking kebab and fuck off.
Funnily, talking about like the way different people
felt about it and that kind of snobbery and whatever,
there's this, I think, I perceive,
maybe I'm right or wrong,
I don't know if I'm right or wrong,
but I perceive that now there's a sort of slight
looking back at it retrospectively,
kind of like I do, and go,
that's better than I thought it was.
A nostalgia.
Yeah, but also an appreciation for like,
you know, doing a musical episode and a horror episode
and just a-
A live episode.
Doing nine seasons, did you say?
Exactly, yeah.
Fucking hell.
All that kind of shit.
What gets commissioned for nine, like, that's amazing. So like, there was this was I was in some fancy London London Club last night and
Let some fancy London bar and because I was out last night as well. I've manned up and I'm having a bit
And whose premiere was it? Yeah, it was no nobody
He was like I really kind of posh guy came up to me and he was like,
oh,
I'm a really kind of posh guy.
Like,
we said it was a class thing,
but like,
you just never know.
Sorry,
I can't get that documentary
on the air.
I nearly went Lee Carsley.
I nearly went Lee Carsley.
Just Anton Ferdinand
just looking to camera
for two hours going,
my brother did really well
actually.
Didn't quite work out
as well for me,
but you know.
John Terry's a cunt anyway this this guy
come up to me and he was like he was quite a posh fella and he was like hey uh just to say i'm a big
fan i was like oh thank you very much he goes yeah that bit in two pounds i still watch where fat
gaz wanked himself thin i still watch it on a weekly basis and makes me laugh and i was like
that is literally the last thing i thought you were gonna say that's the one episode i told my
mom not to watch i went mom you don't have to watch it this week.
She's like, I'm watching it.
I'm like, no, it's all right.
I know what goes on.
I said, you don't.
The bit where Munch has to duck because your jizz.
My jizz hits the dartboard.
To the theme of Rocky music, he's the Mickey out of Rocky.
And he's sort of.
It's one of the silliest things I've ever seen.
And it still tickles me.
But did she watch it?
Yeah, she watched everything.
I was saying this the other day.
You know what proud parents are like?
You know, they watch everything,
and I'll say, don't watch this,
because it's a bit of language.
When I do Celebrity Juice or anything,
I'll say, Mum, you know, it's a bit base.
Well, my dad, I did a photo shoot...
Did you see on Celebrity Juice fingering a melon?
Yeah, I was fingering a melon, yeah.
Well, I had half a melon
between my legs
and I had to try and find
the penny in the melon
so it looked like
you were blasting yourself.
And my dad's watching it going,
oh, it's terrible.
It's terrible.
But anyway,
we had the
proud parents.
So there was this one time
when I was,
I did,
I did a verse.
These two couldn't be more suited to us ever.
I feel like, why have we not worked together already?
This could be the whole new podcast.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, so it was, my dad bought every magazine.
You know, my mum kept it all and stuff like that.
And I did a photo shoot for Attitude magazine.
It was the naked edition right so i did this shoot and uh um obviously my mom and dad said when's it out i said oh it's
it'll be out and anyway my dad went to the local shop and he went hey johnny all right uh have you
got attitude magazine not a clue what it was he's like uh are you sure, Bill? He was like, yeah, yeah, my son's on the front cover.
That's his name!
Are you sure, Bill? And he went,
yeah, yeah, my son's on the front cover.
Anyway, he fucking got it.
That's it.
Yeah, it wasn't, my mum got it.
It's absolutely disgusting.
It talks about the shape of your penis.
Does it?
What shape is it?
Well, do you know,
because, you know,
it was obviously,
I'm sat here watching Will have his shoot
and I can see the shape of his penis
through his pants.
It was all like that sort of stuff.
My mum's reading it.
And I was like,
Mum, I told you not to get it.
You don't want to read that, do you?
I can't find,
I'm trying to find something.
Stop trying to find things.
No, I don't know if you know this,
but like there was some guy on Twitter,
some like right-wing religious nut on,
passed him Christian pastor,
but like proper right-wing nodder,
American guy on Twitter.
And he was like,
ladies, you don't need to show,
you don't never need to post pictures of yourself
in a bikini or underwear online,
not to show your weight loss, not to do this, not to do that.
It's a bit like, who's this guy to tell women what they can and can't do?
Anyway, he got a lot of pushback.
So I just replied to him with all your Attitude magazine pictures and no context.
What about Will?
He hasn't got back to me.
But I just really enjoyed the thought of it.
I think it's time we take a little break.
That has run quite long and in a very, very good way.
This next section is going to be A, hard to follow this one,
and weirdly short, but that was amazing.
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to the Have a Word, Two Pints of Flora crossover episode.
This is the final section of the show.
It will be significantly shorter than the first one
because it was seven hours long.
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That's the end.
Good night, everyone.
Good night.
Look, so without further ado,
I had this idea
on the way up
I was like
I tell you what
how about
I hope this works out
but I thought
well the lads
I've been aware
of your podcast
you've done some homework
yeah I know
he doesn't do that
on our fucking pod
he never does homework
I just you know
go on
I'm excited
well I was like
you know
so I've been aware
of your podcast
because
well you told the story
that I was in and everyone sent it to me and then more and more kind of your clips have gone viral and I was like, you know, so I've been aware of your podcast because, well, you told the story that I was in and everyone sent it to me.
And then more and more kind of your clips have gone viral.
And I was like, these lads are basically very similar to us.
We have talked about a lot of the same things, juvenile stuff.
And, you know, you mentioned that you're fans and so on.
Anyway, I looked you up and I thought, do you know what might be quite good fun is to have a look at some of our reviews and your reviews and see what we think of them.
Oh, no.
We've never, ever, ever, ever.
Oh, we've never done that.
Oh, my days.
Would you like to do that?
My bum hole just got hot.
Look, so to be honest.
Have you sieved these?
So out of, what, you think I'm just going to read
thousands of them out there?
No, no, but have you just picked really shit ones?
Yeah.
Well, the point is-
Good ones for us, shit ones for them.
Yeah.
Well, the point is- Other word,, shit ones for us. Other word pod,
what all is shit.
So it's out of five,
it's out of five stars
in people's reviews.
And look,
your pod's a big success
and we're very relieved
to say that so is ours.
Can I just ask a question?
Yeah.
Are these reviews of the podcast
or of our standup?
The podcast.
Yeah, podcast.
I couldn't find any,
I couldn't find,
oh,
you mean like the Apple reviews?
Yeah.
Right,
I thought you meant like critics. No, I couldn't find anyone who's I couldn't find any reviews. Oh, you mean like the Apple reviews? Yeah. Right. I thought you meant like critics.
No, I couldn't find anyone
who's ever reviewed your stand-up.
No.
They're all over my website.
They're quite impressive.
Reviews of our respective podcasts.
Now, on the Apple reviews,
like you've got 4.9 out of 5
and we've got 4.8,
which was fucking furious about.
What?
Why are you telling them this?
I was livid.
But to be fair,
statistically,
we've
got one and a half thousand reviews and you've only got one thousand so it could have balanced
out in that way but let's let's we also have we got any ones we are we also well we are we've both
got some ones oh we also we also lost a few points by because these lads are so their output's amazing
and they do every and we lost a few part a few points because um pissy reviews because when i
was away in guadalupe and we couldn't do new material like we'd repackage some of our like
best bits and a few reviews are like one star i've seen this before it's like all right okay jesus
anyway look just to for a bit of balance almost all of them here's one for you uh pod bible best
comedy podcast listening for nearly two years every episode is worth the time taken to listen laugh out loud regularly often to the point of tears five stars um you know we
got stuff like we'll find them but there's no fun in that no no no let's have a look look at some of
the ones that aren't five so can i just say on this right so me and carl go back to school as
i was saying before and over the 10 years plus that i've been
doing stand-up and dan's 20 yeah 20 what day is it two days ago i had my 20th anniversary as a
stand-up so i'm nearly 12 years in and you get used to critics and people uh on twitter and
reviews and whatever slagging you off and you develop a bit of a sort of thick skin, you're like, yeah, they think I'm shit.
And at first it's awful, right?
But you get used to it.
He's not used to it yet.
Cause he really fucking gives you just about,
as much as we sit here and we're the hosts and whatever,
he makes the episode and he's the third Mike
and a very fucking valuable one.
There are a few people who specifically name him
to slag him off.
Oh, wow.
Bring it on.
Yeah. This is my new favorite section.
Is Dick's too big?
To be fair, to be fair, there aren't.
I just wanted to see.
Oh, wow!
I didn't even know something made one up.
Now I wish there was.
You're going to Disneyland in Wigan.
Let's just do the, you know,
just be sure that like we're grateful for,
look the vast, vast, 99.9% of them are people
who love this, right?
Just do it. So here we go.
So here's one for you guys.
This is a four star.
Good laugh,
but please stop banging on about cocaine
like you're some kind of rock star.
We spoke about this!
As opposed to some bellend
who took a few lines on a Saturday night 20 years ago.
All very tedious.
So we spoke about this.
So I literally brought this up in the
patreon episode this week right someone commented that and like so uh it's just so unnecessarily
like eggy uh but it but it's it absolutely what's interesting about these i was reading all these
and it's like people like if they go oh there's a bit that i didn't like it's like i better go
on to a review and give it a once that's like why it's okay you're not gonna like every opinion and
ralph i'm actually seeing a therapist for cocaine addiction yeah so that's why we've been talking
about it and someone's gone i'm fucking bored of this yeah exactly i'm so sorry because i didn't
od on set during the pod which weirdly car left in in. Oh, you can talk about it now.
He's obviously got a problem.
So here's one.
So in between incredible podcasts, five stars,
this is you guys, five stars, incredible podcast.
Music distracts me while I'm working.
So I listen to podcasts, blah, blah, blah.
This is fantastic, et cetera.
And between two brilliant five stars, you've got this.
Just excellent, loving it, four stars.
Why?
It makes no sense.
More than a one star.
And that brings down your average.
Why?
Just excellent.
The best thing I've ever seen.
Four stars.
Why?
It's so weird.
And you honestly, you read them and you just go,
I can't get it.
So here we go.
Here's one.
Unimprovable
hit and miss this pod is absolute chaos which can make for both hilarious or boring content
some episodes have you crying with laughter others you turn off after 20 minutes it lacks
consistency and adam talks over or interrupts dan and the guests to the point that it can feel very
awkward however however one in three episodes will be the best two hours entertainment
you have that week.
Three stars.
Why not just not review it?
I think that's fair.
I think a lot of that's fair.
You stand on me more than I stand on you.
No, it's true.
We stand all over each other,
and you've basically got to be a big boy at Garmin.
So do we.
I shall find out.
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
I ignore Carl
all the time
I ignore Carl
all the time
I ignore Carl
all the time
Carl gets just ignored
40% of the time
have you ever tried
doing it over Zoom
you crash each other
all the time
so a big part
of our growth
we started this
January 2020
just pre-covid
that's what we did at the same time as us
pretty similar yeah
and then went on Zoom in March
we said as a joke
in like the build up to COVID
because we thought like
oh it's just not going to be a thing
it never thought it was going to be what it became
we said if we get locked down
we'll do it every day
and then we got locked down
and our listeners went
so come on then
we called it so early that with Aaron oh if we get locked down, we'll do it every day. And then we got locked down and our listeners went, so come on then.
We called it so early that with Aaron,
oh, if we get shut down, we'll do a shutdown daily.
And everyone was like, oh yeah, that'd be great.
And then obviously the branding of it became lockdown and we got hammered for it.
Like, why the fuck did you call it shutdown daily?
Because we called it in late February, you fucking non.
Yeah, I know.
It's so, honestly honestly what people criticise
and then give you
like lower ratings for
is quite amazing
so there you go
but that last one though
just
a lot of it
you know
sometimes you gotta listen
these are all five stars
I'm just choked to death
on that lager
you cunt
these are all five stars
but they're all one liners
for yours
and I just enjoyed them
because especially if people
don't listen to this
and like out of context
these will be enjoyable
five stars Purple Alley will bum you if you don't listen to this and like out of context, these will be enjoyable. Five stars.
Purple Alley will bum you if you don't listen.
Purple Alley?
Purple Alley.
Five stars.
Five stars.
Lids, lids, lids.
You're a nonce if you don't listen to this.
And five stars.
Adam Rowe fingered a pigeon.
What about this one?
This is five stars.
Who's Dan?
Never heard of Dan before this.
He's funnier than Adam.
Five stars.
Have I upset you in the build up to this?
To be fair.
He's handpicked these as well.
To be fair, stay with me because there's some about ours.
I don't come out great.
Is there any about him?
And I don't come out great.
Oh, no.
Everyone loves him and everyone loves him.
Me and you don't come out great.
Okay.
So. Cookie leave. Cookie leave. Right. come out great oh no everyone loves him and everyone loves him but me and you don't come out great okay so right these are these are ours right this is what it's like you say an opinion that someone doesn't like right good good podcast but a minor gripe three stars this is for us
sorry but how can somebody moan about their production company having to fill in some
paperwork for them to live five months in the caribbean come on ralph have a word with yourself brexit was five years
ago time to move on oh fuck off do you know what i mean fuck off how incredibly specific a bitch is
that really specific and three stars like bringing our rating down because i said one thing that then
they're like oh i mentioned bre and I disagree, therefore you're going
to get three stars.
But still not angry enough
to make it one or two.
No, we know.
It's like just a weird thing.
Anyway.
Three star reviews shouldn't exist.
They're the worst ones.
They're worse than one.
They never get read.
This is a thing amongst
comedians in Edinburgh.
So obviously when comedians
go to the Edinburgh Festival
and that's where a lot of
comedians get reviewed ever.
Like nevermind,
like en masse.
But you read the one
star reviews first the five star reviews second then the twos then the fours and you never read
the threes could you just say three stars meh yeah this exists yeah if you want to waste your
time yeah no you'll never get it back yeah yeah um more content please old content being uploaded
lads this is specifically old content content being uploaded lads this is specifically
old content being uploaded lads i see a new episode uploaded get excited to realize only
to listen to i've realized christ i can't read old content constantly being uploaded lads i see
a new episode uploaded get all excited to realize i've listened to it before in the there's no
punctuation in this by the way in the newest episode episode- There's so much, this is, it's like a mirror. Therapy, yeah. It's two episodes old in this one.
Disappointed lads, one star.
As if, like, I've got a full-time job
when I'm in Guadeloupe.
He's got full-
Just to let you know, Ralph,
I've got a full-time job as a standup comedian
and we don't ever rehash our old shit.
Just to check, how is a standup comedian full-time?
Don't you do a gig once an hour?
Also, Ralph, you just said,
I've got a full-time job when I'm in Guadeloupe.
I don't know if you know.
It's not going to get a lot simpler than this.
Yeah, that's true.
I keep going to log on you.
And remember, I had to fill in some forms after Brexit.
Who filled them in?
Sorry?
Who filled them in?
I don't fill in my own forms.
What about this?
This is us.
Great podcast.
Just two blokes chewing the
fat in a down-to-earth very funny way fantastic and must listen four stars give it five stars
then you're bringing our rating down it's so weird love it but it gets worse when it has potential
but sadly ruined by it okay this is what they meant has potential but sadly ruined by immature
self-indulgent rubbish one star oh that Oh. That's me and you. Has potential.
Yeah.
One star.
Yeah, right.
But also, they've got a typo,
and instead of saying ruined by immature rubbish,
they've written my.
So it actually reads, has potential,
but sadly ruined my immature, self-indulgent rubbish,
which seems fitting somehow.
That guy shouldn't listen to us.
No, but.
I don't think.
Just don't listen.
So glad I came across you, Pear.
You've made my weekend.
You are both so funny.
Two stars.
Somebody explain that to me.
It's so weird.
Anyway, so there's a few... Oh, Absolute Dross.
This person says...
How many of these is there?
There's two more.
This person says the word Dross...
1,500.
This person says the word Dross and tosh in the same review
which tells you quite a lot about this person i think absolute dross couldn't listen to this
self-indulgent tosh anyway oh that was yeah self-indulgent yeah shape three stars great show
shame ralph looks down his nose at will i mean that's that's not easy because it goes in so many
he fills in his own paperwork.
And these are the last two,
and you'll see why they're important.
I love Will and Ralph doing a podcast.
It's usually so funny, just as Two Pints was.
But in these current lockdown times,
I don't think we need to hear Will going on about his father passing away.
We need the humour at the moment,
not listening to Will's loss, one star.
Oh, can you believe that as a review?
Wow.
Who, seriously, who fucking hears that?
And like I said earlier-
That's a funeral director that you didn't get back to.
Yeah.
And honestly, like I said earlier,
yes, we do a lot of immature dicking around,
but when he talks about his dad, this lad was so fucking unbelievably open. and honestly like i said earlier like yes we do a lot of immature dicking around but his
when he talked about his dad this lad was so fucking unbelievably i remember seeing you
and seeing how like you gotta remember as well like when you're in an entertainment business
you sort of desensitize to it but we've had a lot of people when we have vicky patterson on recently
we've had people say oh your podcast humanized her and she's done i'm a celeb do you know what i mean so like
they've had a version of it but they're just being on there and being normal and stuff like that when
a huge star goes through something they post something like that on social media or in a
podcast and they talk about real stuff it it stops you being just an entertainer to these people and
relates to them and cunts like that can fuck off. Well, there was a few around that,
which I didn't bother reading because of the time,
but like they're going amazing to hear Will talk.
So honestly, it really helped me with my mental health.
It was really an incredible thing in lockdown.
And it was, honestly, it was a wonderful thing that he did
and a brave and fucking brilliant thing that he did.
At a time when hundreds of thousands of people
are struggling with loss.
And it was so moving how he talked about his dad.
And then who goes on to a review and says,
oh, come on, keep the laughs coming.
We're going on about it.
Who the fuck is that?
So two things on this, right?
I've started, I used to reply to trolls and be like,
oh, fuck you, whatever.
What I've started doing, and this, you know,
if you ever get a tweet or anything and someone's being a cunt,
just try this.
It's like a DM
and you can get back to them.
Can't really reply on them.
If you get it in a DM or a tweet,
try this.
B,
really, really nice.
Killing the kindness.
So I go,
look, mate,
if you feel the need to message someone like that,
something like that on the internet
that you don't really know,
you're obviously going through a really tough time
and I hope it gets better for you. Have good one adam and the next message is always do you
know what i mean i'm so like they it disarms them there's there's a famous story about how
sarah silverman did that somebody like said something abusive to her and she was like
are you okay are you going through some do you want to talk and it became this bizarre story in
of itself and they then had this dm exchange a friendship where he's like thank you so much no one's listening to me i'm
really you know really in trouble and going through some stuff because no one doing that is
happy yeah yeah that they can't be it's impossible to be happy and send something like that yeah i've
got one thing i want to read for you now i'm not going to name the comic because it's not fair
right oh you've got to name names we can can't, because... Is it Romesh again?
It's Romesh.
Like the earlier story.
I'll tell you what, I'm going to read this,
and I'm going to put Romesh Ranganathan in it,
and see if it fits.
So there's a guy,
and he's sort of known for doing, like,
promotional stunts at the Edinburgh Festival
to try and sell his tickets,
but he's not quite climbed the career ladder
as fast as he would like, or whatever.
This, it's just the opening paragraph of his review
from his Edinburgh show in 2018 or 19.
So this is the first where there's enough, right?
But this is so bad.
And I believe, I don't know whether this is 100% true,
I believe he went home after this review
and this was about 10 days into a 30-day festival.
Is it the stars or is it just the written review?
It's a one-star review.
From a critic.
Chef's kiss.
Literally, when you're a comic at the Fringe,
they're the only ones you try and go and see
are the ones and the fives.
Yeah, the Fonz and the fives, yeah.
So here's what I think a lot of,
what we would call club comedians,
people who do the clubs but don't really get a lot of tv work and do uh very well at edinburgh forget
about edinburgh there's a sort of a civil war amongst comedians about whether you're an edinburgh
comic a club comic a mixture of the two and people go to edinburgh with an hour of really funny
comedy and then they get two and three and three and a half star reviews from critics because it
doesn't have a unifying theme and a narrative and it's not about some satirical thing it's just some jokes right
partly that but also partly because a big thing with edmund reviews and i only found this out a
couple of months ago is they review based on the press release and the blurb and the title so if
you go this is an hour about how i dealt with the loss of my dad or how i dealt
with the loss of my grandma and then you don't really talk about that for an hour and you do
two minutes about it at the end they go that's a crowbar piece of shit two stars do you know what
i mean yeah right so this guy's sent out a press release which is how he's got this review
and obviously he's he's sold it quite well which is
why he's got quite a high rank and review but anyway i'll tell you off camera this is how it
starts this is the first word and there's a full stop after the first word christ oh shit it
sounded so interesting it turned out so bad romesh Ranganathan's title
desperately wants to be
cool
dangerous
wisecracking
the James Bond
of Edinburgh shows
instead
it's narcissistic
tedious
and deeply
unfunny
I want to see it though
I would have gone
and seen that show
I would have gone and seen that show
all day long
the next day yeah and that review got like spoke would have gone and seen that show all day long. The next day.
Yeah.
And that review got like,
spoke about a lot in Edinburgh that year.
It's like,
is there,
has there ever been a more brutal opening paragraph
to any review ever?
10 years ago,
there was a show that was so famously bad
and it was right from the off in Edinburgh.
I was up there that year
and in the venue,
there was a balcony that they couldn't sell tickets to the punters.
Also, they never sold enough tickets
where it was even a problem.
And if you're a performer at the Fringe,
you basically get a pass to go in other venues.
So if there's space, as a comic,
you get to just go and watch shows.
And this show became so legendary
for all the wrong reasons,
that the room was quiet and the balcony was rammed full of comics,
and they had to stop.
They had to close down.
People were like, could I get a guest list for it?
And they were like, no, we're not doing that anymore
because comics, like by the middle of the fringe,
third week of the fringe, there was like 45 comedians up there,
23 people in the audience.
So what would happen was,
the comic would try and do their joke.
Was this in the nightclub room of the Guild of Balloon?
They wouldn't laugh.
We know exactly what show it is.
The crowd-
I don't, I just know the room.
The crowd wouldn't laugh.
And then in the pause,
all the comedians would piss themselves.
So the rhythm of the show was awful.
And the comic was like, you can't have them up there anymore.
It was just like, yeah.
I genuinely do not know who it is or what show it was.
It's just you describing the room.
That way I was like, oh, it's got to be.
And that's how much comics act.
So when you start reading one-star reviews,
people will be like, oh God, they're not going to enjoy that.
There's something so weirdly cathartic about when someone calls you a putter watching someone about about realize because because
i read hours and i was like fuck i mean do i look down on my nose i mean i do i just didn't know
anyone would notice but i was like and then well they're like but then they're so weirdly
inconsistent the ones that go this is absolutely wonderful best podcast ever two stars and you go
well they don't that's ridiculous so you've got to be able to laugh at it but
i have a genuine question about and i don't mean to be all kind of like uh you know hugging and
learning and and sort of let's all be nice to each other sort of question but that makes me really
sad for that that person that got that review and then went went home 10 days into a 30-day thing
i'm like 80 sure that's true, just to be fair.
Honestly, we talk about,
there's a lot of talk these days about mental health, right?
But that person,
they could have gone home and killed themselves
after that review
if their career was that big a deal to them
and that's what they had
and they'd worked really hard to put an hour together
and spent the money on Edinburgh.
So then what do you do?
Do you go, well, reviewers shouldn't be that mean that that that seems wrong as well i don't quite know
okay i think that paragraph is unnecessarily mean delight it delights in being cruel yeah
but i understand what you're saying but just to sort of offer the other side of it and devil's
advocate a bit he has asked to be reviewed.
Yeah, it's not through his letterbox.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like he has begged reviewers come and watch my show
and review it.
Yeah, that's true.
And he's not like he's just gone to the Edinburgh Festival
and gone, oh, I hope,
like this is a press release.
Yeah, you're right.
There's a reason that in that first paragraph
it sounded so interesting.
And they're not assassinating him.
They're assassinating the work, really.
When it borders on bullying is when it's a...
Like, I've seen where it's an attack on...
I got someone in a review, weird, early on,
attacked my facial hair.
And you're like, I don't know.
Someone was like...
And he's got it's almost
like a bawling facial no like yeah but like that's when he goes oh no that kind of isn't all right
although that's a minor example but like they're they're being cunty yeah but at least they're
being cunty about the show i think your point actually about he's asked for it he's put out
a press release he's gone come on bring it because yeah you you're rolling the dice aren't you if he gets a five-star review then his career
is made the thing with their career is made we don't know it's a he there's so there's so much
hypocrisy within comedy in that and i suppose it's probably the same when you make a tv show
and we're talking before about how two pints sort of. Like, I hate the fact that at the Edinburgh Festival,
reviewers are a big part of it.
I really do.
And I would love it if they weren't.
I would love it if it was all on words of mouth
and it was all on flyer and the effort you put into it.
Or if in Edinburgh, there was a way for everyone
that's bought a ticket to a show
to put a cumulative five-star review together,
like iTunes, like Apple Podcasts do.
So you could go in the second week of
the show well adam rowe oh he's got 900 reviews and it's averaging at 4.8 yeah so why would that
be less important than some disinterested professional theater reviewer who doesn't
give a fuck about stand-up like it would be useful but two points when we did two points like um
it's really interesting because the,
like we say,
the critics,
they were like,
no,
but word of mouth,
you're talking about
being a word of mouth comedian.
Two Pints was a word of mouth show.
It was like,
Two Pints was like
the ultimate word of mouth show.
Do you remember when it came out?
I think that's the best thing
about the success.
It came from the right place.
Nine series from word of mouth.
Yeah,
and it was,
that doesn't happen
in spite of the reviews. Like, the reviews came out and it was like happen it doesn't fucking light of the reviews like the
reviews came out it was like this won't last and then people like yourself whispered to each other
going have you seen the show it should stick it on when you get home from from the pub or whatever
and word of mouth it should by any normal metric it should have died it should have died after
series one and yet it came back and back and back and back and by series four you're like rock stars
remember walking out to the live audience it was amazing and back and back and back and by series four you were like rock stars remember walking out
to the live audience
banners and everything
I'll tell you what though
the first series
when people didn't know
what it was
you come out
and there's old people
knitting on the front row
you think
they're not going to enjoy this
guys I've got a ball
hanging out my ass
and they're like that
what did he say
did he say ass
they're not going to enjoy it.
We'll be lucky if they see it.
We were like, you can hear Sweets whacking off, you know, dentures.
And you're thinking, that's not our audience.
So it took a while to find it.
And then they literally were queuing up the street.
It was just overnight.
People come in.
One night, suddenly, it was like the live audience.
We walked out.
And they literally had banners.
And we walked out.
It was like, what?
It was like walking out like a rock star.
It was amazing.
I wish critics could sort of take that into account
but also
you know what I mean like
it's sort of
the hypocrisy
I was going to point out
is I will happily
slag off any reviewer
for writing a review like that
or a two star or whatever
but at the same time
I'll read it
and at the same time
if a reviewer gives me
a four or a five
I will plaster it over
every post that I've got
yeah yeah
so if the comedy industry
and the theatre industry and the theatre industry
and the TV industry wants to truly get rid of this,
they need to never give it any attention whatsoever.
If you pay attention to five stars,
you've got to pay attention to the ones and the threes.
Absolutely.
I think, to round off what has been quite a spectacular episode,
so we have a title featured of our show.
The initial idea of Have A Word was that people could write in
and ask us to have a word with their friends on their behalf.
So it might be like, oh, my dad's recently divorced my mom.
He's already got a new girlfriend.
Will you have a word with him?
Tell him that's too soon.
Okay.
That sort of thing.
We get a lot of correspondence like this, and Dan fished that one in.
Is that all right?
Because this is a crossover.
Let's do it.
It would feel bizarre. You guys have had two pints with will and ralph
so we have so that's that's your side of the crossover and also it's nice to think of someone
you just run the show and we'll just listen i brought the reviews to the party yeah and they
were great thank you very much yeah that's the only five stars that's the only bit that's been
great but what about me and you talking over our respective partners that's the only bit that's not stupid. That's the only bit that's been needed out. All the five stars are great. But what about me and you talking over our respective partners?
That's bad, isn't it?
I felt so looked down.
Were you upset?
Did you look down on me?
Yeah.
Can you tell I'm looking down on you?
From Guadalupe.
Several directions.
Can't believe I have to...
He can look down his nose and round the bend through his nose.
At the same time.
At the same time.
Will needs...
Ralph needs to stop looking round the corner down his nose.
Yeah, can you believe that Will said that about Ralph
he must be really upset
so we either criticise them
we either sort of pity with them
we give them advice
so Rob Barber says wag wag lids
listening to, oh by the way
shout out to the guy who drove past my daughter's
primary school as I was dropping her off
slowed his car and shouted wag wag Dan
in front of all the other parents and made me look like you were my drug dealer daughter's primary school as i was dropping her off slowed his car and shouted wag wag dan in
front of all the other parents and made me look like you were my drug dealer nice context just a
little bit we had a guy writing a while back and he tried to open his message with wagwan and he
wrote wag wag and that is now wag wag wag yeah and i'd suggest wag wag liz listen to sort of what
happened with that woman from Sheffield and Jeff.
Absolutely.
So is this like an agony aunt?
Is this like agony auntie aunt?
A little bit.
Yeah.
Oh my God,
we're going to have a section called agony auntie aunt.
We're going to have this on our tour.
Go on.
Wag-wag, Liz.
Wag-wag.
Hey, you might need to have a word with me about this.
Not sure.
On my 23rd birthday,
I was DJing in a gay bar one of the
regulars was a lady called sam who was i imagine that's me
maybe just a lady john bishop
was the last called sam who was one of the fittest girls.
John Bishop's not hard of hearing.
He isn't my impression of him.
I've seen that.
She was one of the fittest girls I've ever met.
She was a regular, well out of my league,
and I'd like to flirt like mad knowing it could go nowhere because she was gay.
When she found out it was my birthday, she asked if I wanted to go back to hers
with her girlfriend.
Thinking I'd won the jackpot,
I told her I'd meet them after my set.
Little did I know that the girlfriend,
Tracy,
would be a bit of a shock to the system.
Whilst I'm not exactly a manly bloke,
this girl was the equivalent of Brock Lesnar
compared to me.
Overcome with fear and panic
that this girl could do whatever she wanted
with a strap on and there's now I could do whatever she wanted with a strap on
and there's now i could do to stop it i made my excuses and left i still regret missing out on
the experience of a lifetime but i probably made the right call probably too long an essay for the
show absolutely not rob i'd send it anyway do you need to ever have a word with me that's from rob
bob yeah 100 i'd have been there just as a spectator 100 you got
i mean how do you know you'd have been jeff yeah i'd have been jeff in the corner this brings us
right back to where we started in a beautifully circular way i still am kind of furious with you
for not no that wife no i'm with you on that mate i've got an image of jeff and his stained wife like look
you gotta take chances in life no one on their deathbed ever has gone oh uh do you know what
i'm so glad i didn't have more sex i think like fucking he should have gone in because
and also maybe he would have enjoyed it. Who says she was going to do that? He should have absolutely gone back. Oh, fuck it.
You've got no right to say it.
He has.
I have.
Because there's two women.
Exactly.
That's better.
What?
That's better.
Exactly.
He should have gone.
But you just could have said to Jeff,
no, mate, just stay in the corner.
I think it's quite difficult, Ralph.
I'm just going to say this out loud as an actual human adult.
I think it's quite difficult to go back to a hotel room
with Geoff and Julie and ask Geoff to stay in the hall.
I've actually got one of these, a real one.
Oh, no.
I'm sorry, Will.
Stop going on a loose bit.
Let me close the laptop.
No, it's a story where I go,
that was one that got away.
I can tell the story, but, you know,
I hosted a show. I feel so tense. that was one that got away I can tell the story but you know I
hosted a show
I present
I was
I feel so tense
I'm excited
Will's started this story
and he's now going
no I was
I was hosting a show
with your ex
Lisa
Lisa
it was a magazine review show
and we was
and we had Bridget Nielsen
in as a guest
that was Brock Lesnar
we had Brock Lesnar
no
Bridget Nielsen come in
and
shut up Carl
and the producer
said
I was getting into the
producer said
I thought that's what we did
she loves younger men
right
and he's going
she loves younger
so please
she wants you to do the interview
just
she's American
just got to sort of
go with it
with her right
doing the interview
and all that stuff
and then she said
it was all finished
and then she said
come with me to the car
so I was like
okay
get to the car
she said
she went
open the door
get in the car
I got in the car
and she stuck the lips on me
like proper stuck the lips on me
she's 60 plus at this point
yeah
and she's 6 foot
with these massive boobs
6 foot plus
and 60 plus
massive tits
you'd have lost the other
she grabbed
she's a Viking queen
But she hugged me
You wouldn't want to
Mark her on corners
Yeah
Do you know what I mean
If the gaffer goes
Yeah Will
You're on Bridget Nielsen
On corners
You'd be like
Oh gaffer
Get some
All the femininity
Of Robert Huth
Exactly
Yeah
And she put my head
Between her tits
Right
And I felt
Like a small
boy i was like fuck i was frightened i must admit i was frightened and the driver used to drive me
years ago and he went all right will and i went hi with a fear in my eyes going fucking save me
and she snuck me and then she went where's my hotel and she went tell him where my hotel is
and and um and she said you come there tonight come to my hotel and And she went, tell him where my hotel is. And she said,
you come there tonight.
Come to my hotel.
And I went,
yeah, all right.
And she kissed me and then I got out the car
and shut the door.
I was like,
fucking hell.
And he was like,
what are you going to do?
So I said,
fucking hell,
I'm frightened to death of you.
So I said,
I've got to go home.
I'm going back.
I was living in Manchester at the time.
I've got to go home.
Anyway,
the missus rings me
and I tell her,
I tell her,
Bridget Nielsen
just stuck her lips on me
she wants me to go back
to her fucking hotel
and she's laughing
anyway
that's so sound
what a sound missus
because she knows
because she knows
I'm shitting myself
I'm like
fucking hell
frightening it was
it was frightening
attack of the 50 foot woman
anyway
I'm on the train
and the phone rings
hey Will it's bridget
and i was like fuck she's got my number from production where are you who gave it to where
are you i said i'm on the train i'm on the way home oh my god you should be here with me why
are you not here why are you so boring but i went i've got a girlfriend oh oh my god will you're so
and then i go I go home anyway.
Then on the way back that night,
I'm going out to pick a takeaway up.
The phone rings again.
Hey, Will, it's Bridget.
I went, please, Bridget, please.
I'm not interested.
I've got a girlfriend.
It was me fucking girlfriend winding me up.
Hearing me.
She was like, I'm at your house.
She was literally just like, I'm coming to see you. Where are you? And I was like, I'm not your house and she was literally just like
I'm coming to see you
where are you
and I was like
I'm not in Manchester
I've got my girlfriend with me
and it was Michelle
and my wife
who wasn't my wife at the time
but imagine if I said
Bridget
I'm in London next week
I'll come then
I'll fuck the shit out of you
imagine if Michelle
would have gone
oh will you now
you know what I mean
it could have gone so wrong
I've never thought of that
as an idea
but now that you've said it
I could have gone listen I'm in London next thought of that as an act, but now that you've said it... I could have gone,
listen, I'm in London next week,
I'm coming and I'm bringing some weapons.
I'm impressed with Michelle
that she can knock out a Bridget Nielsen impression
that quickly.
Just like that.
I was that frightened
any American would have done it for me.
I was fucking...
She didn't even do an accent.
Mr. T.
She's like, all right, Will.
Bridget, I'll be there next week
and I'm bringing Brock Lesbo with me.
And her tools
so honestly
so what do you think
do you think I should have
I think Will should have
gone with Bridget
if you were single
yeah
come on
aside from the fact that like
he was with Michelle
so forget
so that makes it null and void
but I 100%
had he not been with Michelle
think that Will
100%
should have done it
early 20s
oh my god
listen and also as a comedian in my head I'm like even if I go back 100% should have done it. Early 20s? Oh my God.
Listen.
And also as a comedian,
in my head I'm like,
even if I go back and she pulls my knob off,
it might be like a funny story.
Right.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
No, this needs to,
just for one second,
because you can go fuck yourself now.
Right.
Harsh, isn't it?
Yeah.
See why he gets those fucking
two-star reviews.
Hold on, wait.
He talks over Dan.
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Fuck off and die. You can fuck off. see why he gets those fucking two star reviews hold on wait he talks over Dan whoa
whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa
fuck off and die
you can fuck off
a while back
we were talking about
whether we would shag
Mother Teresa on her deathbed
right
and you said no
and I said I'd do it for the story
and you called me
a fucking asshole
98 year old
nun
Mother Teresa
horny
Viking Queen
Brock Lesnar.
Red Sonja.
Please. Please, I've died.
Even it might make a good anecdote.
Could you come and fuck me?
I've got to ask, what's Mother Teresa offering?
Oh, so whatever you want.
Some wet.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
The only thing, I was proper panicking
That I thought
I'm not going to be
Out of handler
And that's what
Frightened me
You'd be a bucket
You'd be on a booking bronco
Fucking hell Bridget
As far as I'm concerned
Jesus Christ
As far as I'm concerned
Will should have done that
Michelle notwithstanding
Let's pretend he was single
Will should have done that
You 100% should have
Gone back to the hotel
With the woman from Sheffield
back when you were 21
you should be ashamed
that you didn't
are you single Ralph?
no
no
but if I was 21
if I was 21
and I just got sucked up
I was just going to look to camera
and say if the couple are watching
if this gets back to them
Ralph is up for it
because he's clearly up for it
hey a mother Teresa
make a call
you don't know that me and my
missus aren't swingers
don't judge us
okay well good
do the camera thing
hello Jeff Julie Janice whatever your names are you don't know that me and my missus aren't swingers don't judge us do the camera thing
hello, Jeff, Julie, Janice
whatever your names are
and if your daughter, Jane
if you're watching
Ralph, he's very disappointed in me
and that would obviously mean that he'd be up for the opportunity
so if you just email us at haveawedpod
at gmail.com
email HAW blind date
we're doing a big blind date show
and we'll have you on.
It'll be the weirdest three ever
behind a screen.
And also,
also,
get Rob involved
because as we've all agreed,
he fucked up that opportunity
that he really should have taken.
He should have gone back with them girls.
Exactly.
Because you don't think you've got...
You never know.
I think if you're single,
you've got to take these opportunities
and just see,
let the chips fall where they may, no?
To just have the experience
with two lesbians,
just off to suck it off.
What?
Off to what?
To suck off the what? The dildo?
Wait, yeah.
Oh, what?
Why?
It might be part of it, Fanta.
Maybe she just-
That won't be awkward.
Maybe that'll do.
It has to be said that we've assumed
in this entire scenario that serious sexual assault
is gonna take place.
That's not necessarily a fact.
Like somebody- She might have said a fact. Like somebody in this scenario
could have turned up with a strap on
and you'd have gone,
I'm not into that.
And they might've gone,
all right, well then I won't sexually assault you.
Yeah, Tracy might just have been in the corner like,
yeah, like Jeff.
Yeah, exactly.
There you go.
She's going to use the strap on,
on her girlfriend.
Yeah, you're not involved.
While you're involved with the girlfriend.
Yeah, exactly.
I love it how he's like,
oh, I'm going to get bummed.
I'm just looking to cover all bases. Lord, let's be clear. They're into with the girlfriend. Yeah, exactly. I love it how he's like, oh, I'm going to get bummed. I'm just looking to cover all bases.
Let's be clear.
They're into women.
And Rob thinks that this woman's going to walk out
with a strap on and go,
ah, do you know what?
I've had it wrong this whole time.
That guy's the one for me.
She's going to be with a girlfriend.
P.S.
I want a hairy bum hole tonight.
Well, boys.
Wow, what a finish.
This has been fucking brilliant
yes
fabulous
for our listeners
Ralph Little
and Will Millett
first of all
they're going on
a huge tour
which has been delayed
because of Covid
where can they get
tickets for that tour boys
good question
sea tickets
go to sea tickets
but if you go to
my Instagram
or Ralph's
willmiller76
or Ralph's Instagram
yeah but there's in our bio you can click the link and Ralph's, Willmilla76 or Ralph's Instagram. There's an official thing we're supposed to say about this. Yeah, but in our bio, you can click the link
and it's got all the details on there.
But Ralph's going to tell you some other ways.
It's like a literal official thing.
Oh, here we go.
2pintspodcast.com.
There you go.
That would make more sense.
There you go.
Go to that.
So you can get live tour dates, podcasts,
sign up for our Patreon,
and information about where to get tickets.
Check them out on all our social medias,
the podcast,
the viral group releases the podcast
on Facebook as well, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the Series 3 is coming
in the next couple of weeks
and we've got lots more guests,
lots more happening.
How about we do,
since we've done a crossover here
and it's been great fun,
why don't you guys get down to London
and come into our space
in our pub where we do ours
and we'll do a second episode
of our crossover
100% up for that
oh yeah
and we could stick that
on our Patreon maybe
you could get down
to that London
I've heard of it
it'd be fun for you
that one
yeah and if you're
watching us for the first time
and you've come via
Ralph and Will
we do a public episode
every Monday
on YouTube and on all podcast subscribers and We do a public episode every Monday on YouTube
and on all podcast subscribers.
And we do an extra episode of this bullshit
on patreon.com slash have a word pod.
Yes, I'm going on tour too.
adamrowe.co.uk forward slash shows.
And he's going on tour.
Tickets at dannightingale.com.
And I think that just about...
And I have to get my production company
to fill in some forms when I go to Guadalupe.
So we all have our cost system there
and you're doing
live comedy real soon
at my night
in Liverpool
that's scary
he scared me
when he mentioned
the tour
confirmed
that's booked
that's booked
bring the strap on
thanks for having us in boys
thanks very much
cheers guys
thanks for having us
me gone