Have A Word with Adam Rowe & Dan Nightingale - #191 with Mark Watson - Have A Word w/Adam & Dan
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They're good.
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Carl's just done a hiccup stroke,
like pterodactyl impression that's freaked me out.
Can you burp on demand?
Not like... I can fart on demand.
I can poo on demand.
Strong start to the episode
if you've never watched Have A Whip before.
And you're like, bloody hell, is this the tone? It kind of is. Have A Wear before. Hello, my Watson fans. Bloody hell.
Is this the tone?
It kind of is.
We changed clothes in the second section, by the way.
Yeah, we time travelled.
You brought new clothes?
Yeah, yeah.
For last week.
I'm wearing something.
I can't remember what it is.
I don't wear the classic fuzzy tops.
That's more your vibes, isn't it?
I've seen it in the wardrobes.
They haven't worn it. Oh, the vibe is very much there.
I am like a rotation
in occasionally
it's kind of getting
as much as it's my thing
it's kind of getting ruined now
why?
I don't know
it's becoming everyone's thing
I don't know
I'm profiting off that
I'd go classic rugby shirts
from now on
I'm going classic
tennis kits
that Martino fire
tennis kits
classic tennis kits
you get too turned on
only at Wimbledon
white though
I love tennis kits Wimbledon white though.
I love tennis kits.
Wimbledon.
I was thinking about that a lot earlier.
This kit,
this,
this match would be a phenomenal combo of shirts. If this had happened,
I mean,
it couldn't have.
It could.
Oh,
it could nearly have happened.
In Argentina.
92,
93.
This is late 80s,
I think.
No,
it's not.
Is it midnight?
92,
is it?
It's in and around 94, 95, I think. Ian Rush? Is it mid 90s 92 is it It's in and around
94, 95 I think
Ian Rush
Is it
Is Ian Rush there
It's definitely not late 80s
I think this is 89
It's not 89
Let's google it
89 was the candy kits wasn't it
Liverpool
Is that the away or the third
This will be away I think
Yellow added us away
I'm saying 94
There it is
That one
Click that 94, 96 You're. That one. Click that.
94, 96.
You're right.
Oh, yeah, we've been starting for two years.
Woo!
So it could nearly have happened.
That would have been one of the most visually satisfying matches.
Batty goals Fiorentina with a seven-up sponsor.
And that, which at the time I thought was a bit of monstrosity,
but now I can see it.
Have you seen the band kit from this season
because it's got nazi symbols on it it's got the swastika in it and it says fuck you's on the back
hey like no one noticed the back but then when they saw the front like get rid of that
because i don't read football shirts famously it's got like patterns in it that forms
many swastikas yeah Right. Hopefully accidentally though.
Right.
Who's it made by?
It's this kid.
Hugo Boss.
It was Hugo Boss.
It was actually the Nata uniform.
It's got the SS symbol on the side as well.
But no one noticed any of that.
Very controversial.
It is, isn't it?
When you stick swastikas on stuff,
people get upset.
Band Fiorentina kit.
We've started very football heavy here.
But I didn't know about it.
I saw a TikTok about it today.
It's on the top of the kit.
Yeah, that's an... Oh, I've just seen it.
That is a total accident.
Surely that's an accident.
I don't know, you know.
Are they fascist though?
I don't know.
Are they a fascist club?
Who, Lotto?
No.
Fiorentina?
Yeah.
It's Italy, isn't it?
Lazio, aren't they?
Italy.
Yeah.
It's all a bit fucking Nazi-ish, mate.
Italy.
Because there's a lot of Nazi shirt collectors.
Carl.
I've been doing comedy again.
I've been doing stand-up comedy.
Back in the game.
New material.
Oh, right. An hour. But you have been doing... You've comedy back in the game. New material. Oh, right.
An hour.
But you have been doing...
You've not just had two months off.
I don't feel like I've been doing it, though.
Do you know what I mean?
I feel like I've done a couple of gigs here and there.
So just...
Been down to London, done Dubai.
I'd done the store at the end of July,
and that was just tour stuff,
and that was great.
And I went to Dubai and did essentially a tour show.
Like, I'd done some of the tour, because it was an hour, and it was... You've I went to Dubai and did essentially a tour show. Like an add-on to the tour
because it was an hour
and it was, you know.
You've been supporting me.
I wanted to give you a chance.
You know, you're a young lad
coming through.
And the bit I tried opening for you,
which was eight minutes long,
which was the story of me
and my ex's breakup
and the stuff surrounding it.
I did eight minutes before you
the other day, ish.
And then I did it again.
That was Sunday. And then on monday i did it
again and it was 28 minutes and then i did it again last night and i was you don't need to do
that again because that'll be an hour and a half then it's 45 minutes last night yeah which a
worrying story sam's story 45 minutes i could do a tour show literally because it's not even peppered
and whatever yeah what your dad in it what you put your you're doing now like that story no no it's 45 minutes beginning to end at the minute just the breakup
story i could do it you whittle that down i will whittle it down at the minute it's very sort of
meandering and ponderous but if it feels the right tone to do that bidding um i had several messages
last night from people going i've been to see you X amount of times.
Tonight was my favourite time.
And it was so different
to anything else I've seen you do.
And yeah,
I'm trying to get it ready
for the arena show,
but I don't know whether
the cadence of it
is going to suit 8,000 people.
Hello, everyone.
It's our user, bitch.
Have you seen it
you're gonna bring the fire
surely you're gonna bring the fucking
energetic fire to the arena yeah
but you're gonna bring your best
stuff aren't you
if that's what's working the best
also it's all lids the arena show
is gonna be all our lot they're
very invested in that story when Adam
finally told the story of that on a patreon the reaction was like oh finally it's like you know there's been
gossip but you've not been allowed to know what the gossip is like telling them every detail of
it last night there's moments where like as an audience they went oh like that property i can
see people like on the edge of the seat invested in the narrative of it and painting it and oh very
good you have been doing stand-up but it's well exciting after a tour is that what you mean you're
now doing real stand-up because you're like oh now we're building it yeah yeah yeah it's just
i'm so bored of my act like the the stuff we filmed i'm bored of all of it i hate all of it
even my favorite bits from the tour but yeah
doing new stuff
for the past couple of nights
I just really sort of
happy with myself
to be like
I can go on stage
and do an hour
without really
thinking it through
do you know what I mean
like just how I'm just
going to tell this story
and then pepper it
with a couple of
unless she's in
and then it's probably
going to you know
two hours
alright okay
two hours
yeah I haven't got sick of anything in the tour yet.
There's a couple of bits that are newer and I'm enjoying more.
And that's part of that same process, isn't it?
I think by the end, I remember we went to Nando's
and it was about a week after your tour finished
and you went, apropos of nothing, just went,
ah, just really glad I don't have to say any of those words again.
Yeah, yeah. And you'd obviously been thinking about the show gets in your head, apropos of nothing just went ah just really glad i don't have to say any of those words again yeah
and you'd obviously been thinking about the show gets in your head doesn't it like someone asked
a question and it's a very stand-up centric question which we get asked quite a lot but
they're like how do you remember a full tour show or an edinburgh show how how do you do it is there
like tricks to it and it's just experience when you start out i have sometimes struggle to remember 10 minutes yeah but like you are i have a mnemonic for me
that's like naughty elephant squirt water the first letter of every routine um yeah because i
because i like shredder wheat i don't like to do them i used to do northeast southwest but that
was too hard so i'll do naughty elephant Elephant Square. It's easier to remember.
It's hard.
When you first get your longer sets,
just remembering where everything goes
is actually part of the skill.
After a while, remembering an hour,
it's just experience, isn't it?
Watching Mnemonic.
I love the fact that that's it.
For me, Tor.
See, you're taking me back to junior.
Sorry, what was that?
What's my new...
What's my new monic?
Adam's thinking about what he can't remember
about the new monic from his Tor.
What was it?
Do you know?
So the first one's Tea for Terrorism.
That's what I started with.
Second one was...
Is the show still in your head right now?
Yeah, I could do the show.
It's so funny.
Where's Will? Do you remember in It's so funny. Where's Will?
Do you remember in May when I was...
Where is Will?
He's not...
Where is he?
Oh, he's the closest person to us on the camera.
I'm so used to him being there already.
I did a preview in May where I got 40 minutes in and went,
I don't know what the show is anymore.
Sorry.
It just wasn't in.
And now I could literally do exactly the same
thing just list it off i had a moment last night where so i went into a portion of the new set the
new story and i was like it was towards the end and i still can't remember this bit and it's done
me head in because i was going into it and obviously i don't write anything down i was
like right i'll do the jerry cinnamon story And then I'll end on this I remember having that thought
And I'd done the
Jerry Cinnamon bit
And I was like
I went to the audience
I went there's another bit
But I forgot
I love new material nights
And I can't
Even now
Can't remember what I was going to do
Was it the Archery story?
Oh my god
No
I opened my stuff
How do you not write stuff down?
Does he know the Archery story?
I don't think he does know The Archery story What the Archery story? Did you open with that? Where's down? Does he know the archery story? I don't think he does know the archery story.
What, the archery story?
Did you open with that?
Where's Will?
Do you know the archery?
Go on.
When me, Carl, Seneca and Sam went archery.
Archery?
Archery.
Arching.
Arching.
Yeah, it's arching.
Arching.
Shooting hoops.
Shooting.
That's what I call bumming.
So how do you know?
Yeah, you got in trouble in America
when you visited LA
and someone asked you
if you wanted to
shoot some hoops
no I didn't
we went basketball
to the store there
oh okay
you didn't get bummed
by the fact guys
the archery story though
fucking doozy
why don't you tell her
I probably could tell her
but you know
doesn't feel like the right time
we had a gang bang
at the archery place and we were all on rollerblades time we had a gangbang at the archery place
and we were all
on rollerblades
what you shot some
hoops at the archery place
no there was no bumming
oh right sorry
you can't bum in a gangbang
what do you mean
like
not a gangbang
it was more
it was
you can't bum at swinging
people keep their arse
all over the fella
no it's the closer
it's the closer move
you don't bum when you swing
no
it's a well known fact come on then come on closer move. You don't bum when you swing. No.
It's an all-known fact.
Come on, then.
Come on.
You know.
You can't bum someone else's wife while he's in the building.
Is that a thing?
Tell the archery story.
What's the archery story?
What is it?
Are we after two?
I don't think we can, you know.
No, don't make me tell you.
Oh, you absolute.
Just come and watch the show.
Hoop shooters.
You mind doing the arena?
Eh?
All right, cool.
I'll see you there. It's a public episode.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, fair enough.
Yeah, it's a public episode.
Can't do it.
This has been the worst dick tease ever.
Lad, do you know the answer?
It's because dick teasing.
Have you heard it?
Have you heard it?
You haven't heard it?
Well, you can't. And neither can they. Yeah. Would you bump someone if you were swinging? Have you heard it? You haven't heard it? Well, you can't.
And neither can they.
Would you bum someone if you were swinging?
Would you let...
Maybe I won't do that question.
Hypothetically, would you let someone bum your wife?
Well, if I hypothetically had a wife
who would let me talk about our sex life on the podcast...
Yeah, but it's not your real sex life, is it?
Because you don't go swinging.
Clatter in there.
What do you do if Jonathan walks in?
Jonathan?
Yeah.
Should I snap back on?
Never wear a snap back to a gangbang.
Come on.
Oh, I'm down on a t-shirt by Monday.
You cannot.
Jonathan walks in.
He's got a fixie bike outside.
20-20 vision, but he just wears things with just, like,
shades with no air.
Plays synth. Tell you what, you've painted a beautiful picture there, Carl. He walks in, he goes right into his car. 20-20 vision but he just wears things with just like shades with no air he plays synth
tell you what
you've painted a beautiful
picture there Carl
he walks in
he goes right
who invited him by the way
this special needs kid
he's running it
what?
he's running it
it's Jonathan's Gangbangs.com
oh god
he sounds like he's
got his own venue
got a new gangbang studio
in the town
yeah he's got a lisp
that's why he got into gangbangs
he sounds like a real gangbang entrepreneur, doesn't he?
He's a globetrotter.
Yeah, my name's Jonathan.
You know, if you had a hypothetical partner
and you just did agree to go swinging,
is there anything she could tell you that happened
that you would be like, that was too far?
What?
Where would I be?
Why would I not know about it?
What am I doing?
It's not a gangbang.
It's a swinging.
It's a keys in a bowl thing.
So your hypothetical wife, let's not a gangbang. It's a swinging in it. You're swinging in a different room. It's a keys in a bowl thing. So your hypothetical wife,
let's call her Lauren, right?
She picks these keys up
and she goes into another room
with a man called Jeff.
And then they leave the house, don't they?
What?
No, Adam's got swinging.
Dan, what would you do?
The key thing,
everyone goes home.
Yeah, in the car.
That's where the keys...
Oh, I thought you hired a mansion
and you just went into different rooms.
Yeah, but why would you need the car keys? I thought it was just to identify who... It is? Who's in the car. That's where the keys... Oh, I thought you hired a mansion and you just went into different rooms. Yeah, but why would you need the car keys?
I thought it was just to identify who...
It is?
Who's driving the Ford.
I thought it was that.
Yeah, sounds right.
No, it is.
You pick the person, but they leave.
What would you do if she went,
Yes!
Devontae!
Yeah.
Right, so they go home.
Right, and the next day,
you meet back up. You're like, how you love? You're all right? How was it? and the next day You meet back up You're like
How you love
You're alright
How was it
And she's like
Fucking great
And you're like
Yeah man I was good as well
So what did you get up to
Is there anything
She could say
That had happened
That would be like
Oh you can't be doing that
With a
Married
Not with Devontae
Yeah
Is there anything
So
We are now swingers
Yeah
Me and this imaginary woman
Larden
Larden
This feels so alien to me
This
The whole concept
She's brunette
Of being married to
She's brunette
Yeah
Weird
Yeah
What is she like
33
Yeah
Yeah weird
My wife's 36
She's beautiful as well
Yeah
Well that was too far wasn't it
Why
Because of the game we're playing
Why are we talking about your wife
Not bad Right I can't believe you didn't get what was Why? Because of the game we're playing. Why are we talking about your wife?
Not bad.
I can't believe you didn't get what was going on.
Nevermind.
I did.
But she's not 33 and she's not cold.
And then you're like.
But she is beautiful.
Oh, I get you.
Oh, hey.
Okay, so Lauren.
You mean back off for that?
It's, how did you not see that that sounded like a dick?
I get it.
So like, is there anything she could...
Sorry, Lauren.
Oh, shit.
Lauren.
Oh, what?
Yeah.
Because, like, for me...
No, because...
No, but listen.
Listen, right?
For me, I...
Look, I don't think I could deal with going swinging, right?
But if I was talked into it, there'd definitely be lines.
If she come back and told me she had a tongue up her man's arsehole,
I'm never talking to her again.
Leave the house it's gonna be a difficult first kiss afterwards isn't it yeah oh i'm really annoyed at you but i don't go to sleep angry no tongues lauren
like you're asking me to like project forward if you're genuinely into swinging to the point
where you're like,
you're going off banging someone and I'm going off banging someone,
it would be really weird to then start setting really stringent rules.
Like, I have very strict rules about what you're allowed to do
when you're off in an Audi fucking whatever getting banged.
Like, A4.
Do they fuck in the car?
Do they not go to each other's houses?
I think they go to each other's houses, yeah.
I prefer the swinging
When you're all there together
You know?
That's a gangbang
No it's
Swinging in a different room
And all
That's what I thought
The keys in the bowl was
Right
I think
Is there any small talk
At the start of a swinging
Gangbang thing?
You know
Does anyone get a guitar out?
Jonathan
Yeah
Finn
Should we book Finn
for a gang bang
I'm cheap
I don't want to
shag anyone anyway
I just want to play music
yeah I think any ass play
either way
I mean
I wouldn't mind them
getting like
their fingers dirty
but I just don't want
their tongue up
a man's bum
just it's that
it's where you live
your life mate
no I want to do the
I want to do the swinging
when we're all in the same
you know
in a big house
you know like when someone comes over to like fix the boiler or service the swing and when we're all in the same, you know. In a big house.
You know, like when someone comes over to like fix the boiler or service the boiler and you get to just sort of pretend you're watching and go, yeah, good job, that.
I don't really know what's going on.
Yeah, I just like to, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I couldn't be a cook.
Just be in there.
Yeah.
Cook old.
Not like a chef.
I couldn't.
What, I couldn't?
You don't want to case the gangbang?
I don't think you are a cook If you're getting
Noshed off at the same time
Think about that
Alright
Speaking of cooks
In mansions
I'm really
Wait
Wait
It absolutely deserves it
I'm so glad
You swerved us out of there
I felt like
We were like
What are we on about
Yeah yeah
We're looking at hiring
A mansion for New Year's Eve
Aren't we
And having a big
Party
Mansion
I'll bring my keys.
What?
What?
We could do that.
Yeah.
That's a biggie keys.
How would you get back home?
Yeah, that's a good point.
I want to hire a fucking house.
A big house.
They're not even that expensive, really.
And you have a big party with your mates.
And you're all secluded.
It's great.
In the middle of nowhere.
No one can hear you, Chester.
If I don't go, I'll be able to hear the music.
And we want to get a chef in and a couple of bartenders
and just have a really high class New Year's party.
What is going on?
So I thought it was just us renting an Airbnb.
Not a B&B.
An Airbnb.
No.
Housepartysolutions.co.uk.
Really? It's owned by jonathansgangbang Airbnb. No. Housepartysolutions.co.uk. Really?
It's owned by jonathansgambangs.com.
Welcome everyone.
I'm wearing my best snapback.
Yeah.
It's going to be great.
I've put plastic on the face.
I'm getting fireworks,
but I'm not getting someone to do the fireworks.
I'm going to do them.
Oh.
Right.
I'm doing the fireworks.
You're not meant to approach a lit one,
you know that?
What?
You're not meant to re-approach a lit one.
You go and light it and then you stand back but if it doesn't go off what would you do
what if that firework didn't go off what would you do from a distance piss on it
everyone using adam's dick like a fire hose diet host. Oh, control.
Sounds good.
Can I just,
a few concerns?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You and your mates in a mansion.
You're one of our mates?
Yeah.
I'm not worried about me
damaging the deposit.
Although I do get
silly drunk.
What's the deposit then?
What's the deposit?
No,
my mates are quite civilised,
you know,
especially if I make them
all wear black tie.
Right.
Yeah. Cool. Right. Yeah.
Cool.
Black tie fireworks.
It's good that you've not changed.
Just a lad from Dovey hiring mansions.
Black tie fireworks with a staff.
Sing, sing!
I want another gin and tonic, you lazy cunts!
Sing, sing.
That's burning.
Someone grab my dick and put it out.
Do you sing now?
I actually don't know the words.
What other concerns have you got?
Losing the deposit is the main one.
I think we'll be fine.
What is the deposit?
What?
You don't know what the deposit is, do you?
I don't think there is one.
I think you just pay a fee.
10% probably.
Yeah.
Right.
60 grand wow
yeah
wow
that'd be sad
yeah
any dietary requests
because we're having a roast dinner banquet
roast dinner banquet
yeah it's gonna be like
he's gonna cook a pig
a chicken
no nachos
right
any other animals
just while we're
you know
a lamb's leg or two
I honestly thought
You nearly said llama
A fucking llama
A lion
It's near Chester Zoo
Sing Sing's breaking in
Get ourselves
Hey
Hey
Lads
Buffets with fucking lamb
Lazy
Have you tried tiger?
I want it to look like
A big thing where like
Like you've got to pass me
The roast potatoes
And I take my own
And I pass them on
Do you know what I mean?
You want it to be a Gatsby party
do you know what I mean
like yeah
I'll take the spuds there kid
I'll have eight of them
and there you go
Carl
your go lad
Carl sitting there
eight potatoes
yeah
I love a roasty me
oh yeah
we've all
yeah
yours even isn't the same
with that roast potatoes
is it
no this is like
seven o'clock
can I just go somewhere
and take drugs and dance
this is like seven o'clock
yeah
the frivolity kicks off at nine p.m yeah and not a minute sooner potatoes, is it? No, this is like Can I just go somewhere and take drugs and dance? This is like seven o'clock. Yeah.
Frivolity kicks off at 9pm.
Yeah.
And not a minute sooner.
Sing, sing!
Get the itinerary!
Hey, lad.
9pm frivolity.
Gonna have to finish up
on those taters.
Yeah.
I can't, mate.
You can't eat potatoes
while you're being frivolous.
No.
Let's let you know.
What's the lead?
It's starchy. You're gonna finish your potatoes by what, half eight? Yeah, then you're gonna frivolous no they'll show you though what's the lead starchy
you're gonna finish
your potatoes by what
half eight
yeah
then you're gonna
have an hour lead up
time to your food
I think we have a
the banquet is at six
and the cheese is at eight
frivolity at nine
finger fucking at ten
come on guys
it's been printed up
and poured around the mansion
how many people
what's the
how many covers
er twenty eight twenty eight how many have said yes four It's been printed up and put around the mansion. How many people? How many covers?
28.
28.
How many have said yes?
Four.
But the others are getting back to me today.
So it's started strong here.
It's me, you, Steve and Carl at the minute.
Oh, shit.
We're going to have to invite Lauren.
It's just a lock-in.
We should have a food lock-in. I know we've done a food challenge
But a food like a mukbang
That'd be great
What?
A mukbang?
That's what they're called
A mukbang?
We've talked about this
Yeah we have
We've talked about everything Finn
Where we all eat
Yeah we're going to do it for Christmas aren't we?
I'm going to cook Christmas dinner
Oh yeah
Yes
Yeah yeah yeah
Can't wait to see that itinerary
Presents at four
Oh lad they didn't turn up
Pigs in blankets at fucking
eight eight frivolity at 8 30 yeah i'm looking forward to it all it's gonna be fucking all right
well cool well i'm in but i can't stay i don't want to you know i'm not coming for all i just
want to come for a party yeah i think that's everyone to be honest everyone else in the group
there's a lot more than four that i've got because you wanted to do a bit of a stay over
for a few days
yeah I think
I think we'll probably
have to hire it
overnight for that night
anyway
right
so anyone who wants
to stay that night
is it's going to be
it's going to be
an option
now
now
just
because this is how
it's been sort of
brought up
we've talked about
swinging parties
keys in bowls
cook getting noshed off and then you went I'm having a big party yeah sort of brought up we've talked about swinging parties keys in bowls cook
getting noshed off
and then you went
I'm having a big party
yeah
this is not that is it
I don't want to fuck
any of your wives
how many have you got
no I mean
no
she's basically
she's your common law wife
she is
what is that
been together over 10 years
not married
have we got lawful things
have we got things
yes have we yeah yeah no Been together over 10 years Not married Have we got lawful things Have we got things Yes
Yeah
Have we
Yeah
Yeah
Tax pay
No
I think there is a tax pay
Yeah
Not for common law wife
No
No
No no no
Thanks for that
I count it
I do
So what do I get then
Basically
If you owned the house
Just you
And you split up
She would Be entitled to claim part of it.
Fucking, I know she...
Do you own the house half and half, 50-50, straight down the line?
No, we own it as a couple.
50% each?
No, so there's two different ways of doing it.
Carl and Seneca Limited owns it.
They're just directors of the company.
I don't know what it is, but there's two.
There's either a percentage where you can 60-40, 50-50,
or you can own it as a couple.
I sorted it with Sam.
Shout out, Sam Hickson.
Shout out, Sam Hickson.
So glad you said
a surname there, mate.
Shout out, Sam.
I'm on your side.
Hickson.
I did a module.
Sorry.
But we own it as a couple.
I don't really understand it
I just signed the thing
that's always a good technique
isn't it
yeah
what's this
that's how I sign everything
terms and conditions
you've read terms and conditions before
never in my fucking life
exactly
we should do something
where we put sort of
mad in terms and conditions
and get everyone to sign up
and rob them all
yeah because that wouldn't be suspicious we've got a contract here from the have a word podcast We should do something where we put sort of mad in terms and conditions and get everyone to sign up and rob them all blind.
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Have you got any ideas
for the party?
Because obviously
we're going to have food
we're going to have nice drinks
because we're going to get
some mixologists in.
I think fire breathers always go down well
where have they got fireworks
can't have two lots of fire
on the same night
magic
what?
magic
magic
MDMA
yeah yeah
murder mystery
where we all play along
and we're all part of the
that would be so good
wouldn't it
you know how good
that would be as a special
that would be a good patron
special on new year's eve i think what i want to do is just get drunken or a dj live music both
at the same time as a dj have you just got out of prison music i want to dance again
and ladies who nosh me not Not your wives. Pigs.
Can we do a murder mystery special?
Yeah.
Can we just sort of this fucking party?
I wasn't calling you wives pigs, by the way.
No, I know you weren't.
If anything, I think they're too attractive
or I might fall in love with them.
She is beautiful, Lauren.
Yeah.
I think music, great shout.
Yeah.
I don't think murder mystery
I was being a dick
and then Steve was like
yeah good
but it would be a very good
pitching special
I know that's an aside
yeah
because we're doing classy
do we go with
like more acoustic stuff
like we normally would
or do I get like
a jazz quartet
yeah
quartet or
okay
um
barbershop quartet
if you get classic
no can I have a quarters if you get classic no
can I have a haircut
if you
all four of us
you can't
get four
yeah but if it's a big night
I do my pubes
do you
yeah
you're not going to bar me
to do your pubes
yes you can
you've got fucking
rowing money
courts is pubes lad
I'm into it
I'm into it
I think
I'm seeing black tie I'm into it I'm into it I think I'm seeing black tie
I'm seeing roasted animals
deer
llama
lions
tigers
bears
oh my
a lot right
it's exciting
high class affair
do we need classical music
no I think we need jazz
and some scatting
no I think
I think we need
classical music
but songs that you like
no I think we have classical music But songs that you like No I think
No scatting classics
Like scat like Barbie girl or something
Go
He nearly didn't try it
There's a little pause
And he was like fuck
I can't remember the start of it
What else?
I'm the scat man
No we're not scat
We're scat man
That's two on the nose
I'm getting them
I'm getting a band
With a saxophone
A scat band
With a saxophone
The Zootons
I know the lady from the Zootons
We could get the Zutons
yeah
do you actually know her
yeah she used to
we've now got Mel B's
email address
we could get the Spice Girls
to get the band back together
that'd be fantastic actually
right
we can talk them into that
Mel B is actually
we're trying to hunt her
for things
she's in on it like
so one of us
was working with
Mel B last night
yeah
and now we're trying
to poach her
like an egg
poach her
leave the Spice Girls
come to have
I think she'll be alright
don't do anything
she'll never know anyway
no
that's all just like
to build up the tension
for when they do
another reunion
so everyone's like
well I didn't think
this was coming
it's all just a piast
Victoria's never doing it
though is she
what
Victoria's gone
yeah but then she
walks out
It's worth a lot of money isn't she
Why does she need to go back in
Because why wouldn't you want to go and have fun with your friends
From the 90s
Because they've all done your head in
No but like you just you know
You let bygones be bygones and you sing
Your fucking hits
Spice Girls by the way
Are you trying to get them
back together?
Yeah.
You know,
a few years ago
when I was with,
it was back when I was with Jade
and she hates the fact
that I hated like,
that I like cheesy music
and I booked two tickets
to see the Spice Girls
via via go-go.
Paid through the news for them.
Via via go-go?
Yeah.
And she,
she wouldn't come with me and no one had come with
me and you i think you were in japan yeah i was gonna go but i was away yeah and i had to sell me
spice girls tickets because i didn't want to go on my own it would have been because you can go
you can be a 30 year old man who goes to the spice girls with his friend you can't be a 30 year old
man who goes to the spice girls on his own no fact fact who are the artists where you can't even go
i like i've been to k Kylie with my ex-girlfriend.
That's not one I can be like,
lad, she's let me down.
Karl, you coming Kylie?
I don't know, you know.
I'd go Kylie with you.
Yeah.
No.
I would go to Kylie with you.
Yeah, she's got bells on.
Do you know how much that means to me?
You're having a laugh.
That you'd come to Kylie with me.
I don't think there's any artist you could say,
apart from, like, goths, that I wouldn't go with you.
The goths.
Enter Shikari.
We saw them at Leeds, Berksons,
and they were the worst thing I've ever watched.
Yeah, but I'm talking, yeah.
There's loads of bands that I don't know
who I'm not arsed about, but I'm talking.
Who can't you go to on your own?
Cher.
You can't, you can't go to Cher.
Are you having a fucking bubble?
Do you believe?
Lad, go off.
She's got rammers.
Right.
Do you believe in love?
Love the love.
Oh, come on.
Any other ones?
We're only there for that one, though.
You can go to Christine Nike later on your own.
Not on my own, but I'd go with either of you.
Yeah, go off.
Dirty.
Do you a leaper?
I'd go there on my own.
I'm not asked.
I'd have to go there asked I'd have to go
there with someone
to stop me
many many
bumholes
who's the
who's really
I don't think
there's anyone
I wouldn't go and
see if you wanted
to go and see them
be quite happy to
just go
try it out
apart from like
the goth ones
yeah
just not music
it's just noise
sounds like they're
throwing frying pans downstairs.
Right.
Yeah, just screaming.
System of a Down.
I'd love to take you
to System of a Down.
That'd be fucking great.
I don't even know what that is.
System of a Down.
Chop suey.
It's just a menu.
What?
You've seen.
Sweet and sour chicken, please.
They'll have heard it.
They must have heard it.
I mean, that's good
that's good
my chemical romance
I'll go and see them on my own
yeah they'll be ramblers
yeah
what the kings of the goths
no they're emo
oh sorry
they're also soft goths
that's like getting
Chinese and Japanese
people mixed up
they're very upset
when you do that
the soft goth
yeah
also you think
people that drink
Monster are goths
so
they are
it's a fact
it's an absolute fact
and so do you Dan because you drink Sneak.
I drink Sneak.
Use code Carl10.
What is it?
What's the code, Stan?
It's Word10.
Word10.
Word10 at Sneak.com.
Get yourself some energy for all the pussy pounding you're doing.
You're drinking Sneak, you ain't pounding pussy.
What?
If you've eaten loads of roast potatoes
and the frivolity's about to start,
you need sneak.
Should I have a break?
Yeah.
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From director Will Hutchby and executive producer me.
And executive producer me.
Did we just get producer?
Alfie Brown.
Did we just get producer?
I think so.
He's executive.
I was the exec on it.
He was.
We went.
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We filmed a special for Alfie Brown.
It's called Alfie Brown Live in Liverpool
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It's the first thing we've produced
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Well, we haven't even produced anything for our stand-up yet.
No.
But I mean, we've produced specials and stuff, haven't we?
Like ours.
This is the first thing that is not for us.
Yeah.
And he's in the extended family
yes
oh he's
he's hall of fame
hall of fam
who's the next one
that's the
that's the exciting thing
isn't it
comment below
I think it's hard to look past
what
it's hard to look past
OJ Simpson
comment below
who you'd like to see
the next
have a word
half hour
let us know
who you would like
as
there's certain things
that are gonna
stop you getting it if you've already just filmed like a special then not gonna need a it was that
beautiful window for alfie won it where he had this material it was ready to go well alfie came
to me in february when we were having a pint and just said i want it that's where these ideas came
from really alfie was like i'm gonna shoot a little hour special. Just want your advice on how to go about it.
Because you're an executive producer is what he said, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, can I just do it?
And we did it.
Next up, Michael Owen.
No, he's a retired footballer.
I don't think he's got half an hour, 40 minutes to stand up.
He probably has.
Do you think?
Or kill him rabbits, isn't it?
I couldn't think of...
Rabbit shagger Michael Owen, isn't he?
Allegedly.
I couldn't think of anyone I'dag on my clown, didn't he? I couldn't think of anyone
I'd want to watch a half-hour special
less than my clown.
Abu Hamza.
Mate, that'd be well better.
Abu Hamza's better be fucking great.
What, when he's got literally...
It's all hook stuff, isn't it?
Yeah.
But what's the hook?
That's it.
That's not the special call.
What's the hook?
He's just literally Got a mic
Screwed into
He's like
Tell you another
Fucking joke
This is dead good
Yeah
He's from
He's from
He's from
University
I do not know
Abu Hamza
Abu Hamza is a red
Is that the song
I'm so glad
Abu Hamza
Is a red
I'm so
Otherwise
We'd all be
Fucking dead
Hey
Um Abu said to me
you know
is he dead
what
Abu Hamza
they think he is
who
yeah
powers that be
they think he is
until he returns up
on a Havre word special
or the cop
oh yeah
that's one of the
stans at Anfield
it's very exciting
Will filming things
he's going to film
my special
in a church
my god
you've always wanted
to choose a special
in a church
haven't you
because you have
religious tendencies
I'm deeply religious
I'm deeply
and Abu
has obviously got
a connection with mosques
and I was like
do you know what
maybe on the second one
comedy is haram
they wouldn't let you do it
what?
comedy is haram
do you know what haram means?
bad ting bad for the gods isn't it bad ting I mean god don't like it bro It's haram. They wouldn't let you do it. What? Comedy is haram. That's what haram means. Bad thing.
Bad for the gods, isn't it?
Bad thing.
I mean, God don't like it, bro.
Halal?
Good thing.
Yeah, halal is like, you know, chicken, beef.
Isn't it?
Comedy is haram.
Like pork, isn't it?
What else is haram?
Alcohol?
Gambling?
Michael Ola doing a special.
Easy, Carl. Easy. I'm gone. Whoa. Whoa. alcohol gambling Michael O'Lantern doing a special easy call
easy
I'm gone
whoa
apparently
Muslims are allowed to drink
they're just not allowed
to pray whilst drunk
and they have to pray
five times a day
so that's where
the drinking thing comes from
apparently
that's what it says
on the internet
yeah
you can have like a snifter
just have one that'll half
have a lime
I'm laughing
yeah I just have half
half between every play
I think a lot of people
come to this podcast
for knowledge about Islam
and that's what they get
yeah
we know what's haram
and what's halal mate
yeah
Abu said to me
are Muslims allowed to do smach
it's just a matter of time innit
once a line gets mentioned
Dan would you try
I've asked him that before
would I try it
Islam
only on smach I wonder if they are allowed to do smach though Dan, would you try? I've asked him that before. Would I try Islam? Only on smack.
I wonder if they are allowed to do smack, though.
I wonder if that's against the rules.
Yes, probably.
Unless it's halal smack.
We're in dangerous waters here, boys.
I feel them.
I feel them about to get choppy.
Smack's got to be haram.
Carl?
What?
I don't think it is
I think it's just booze
I reckon they can be
potted
smacked
cracked up
shall we do some questions
who's wrote one in
lots
we get a lot of questions
any Saudis
loads of Saudis
what are we trying to do everything's going so well do you like your new studio do you want to
keep it uh paul macaulay says wag wag lids where's uh yeah oh maca paul macaulay it's famously that's
if you say maca everyone thinks it's a lovely name that's paul maca Paul McCauley. Paul McCauley. It's like one word.
Paul McCauley.
That's what McCauley called him.
He had too much drugs and he's passed out.
Paul McCauley.
What did he say?
Paul McCauley.
Lock on him.
I'm telling you right now.
Fucked again.
I'm telling you right now, that was too far.
Wag Wag Lids was reminiscing with the family and we got into talking about our earliest memories
and whether they were good or bad.
My earliest memory was being in a soft play in Butlins when I was reminiscing with the family and we got into talking about earliest memories and whether they were good or bad. My earliest memory was being in a soft play in Butlins
when I was about three
and getting launched down a slide by some fat older kid
and nearly breaking my neck.
So obviously it's a bad one.
I was just wondering,
what are your earliest ever memories
or earliest memories that you remember being really good
or really shit or terrifying?
Cheers, Lits.
Falling off a lilo in Gran Canaria.
As a child. Cheers, Lits. Falling off a lilo in Gran Canaria. As a child?
That was last week.
Because he banged his head
really hard
and he's lost all his memory.
How old were you?
Four.
In the sea?
Or in a pool?
In a pool.
But in the deep end though.
And I fell off
and I panicked
and my auntie Sue
came and put me back on it
and it was fine.
You stayed in the water?
I did. That's lovely. I just got back on the lila constant panic attack having little kids around fucking swim pools it was when we were there in mallorca in uh april just just watching
jack not know where the danger was lauren never relaxed the whole time that is a like having a
swimming pool in your back garden i don don't know how people do it.
It must,
in America where they've all got it.
It's so fucking stressful if you've got little kids.
That is my worst nightmare.
Just going,
where's the baby?
Fuck.
Awful.
Swimming.
Oh no,
I've got a slightly earlier memory,
but I've told you this before,
and it's a confabulated memory.
When I thought the baddies from Home Alone 3
were showing us around our house.
You won the Olympics in 1938.
And Hitler was in the stand and you were like,
fuck you, Hitler.
You beat Jesse Owens in the race, but no one saw it.
Fuck you, Jesse.
I've got a memory of being in Florida when I was five.
We were staying in a chalet
and the insane storms, digga.
We caught one of them in the car
and we couldn't recognise the chalet
because it was the first day. So we didn't know where we in the car and we couldn't recognise the chalet because it was the first day
so we didn't know
where we were staying
and we just kept driving
to the block
for like half an hour
trying to find out
where we were staying
and then we were just
getting dead scared
thinking like
I've never going to
live anywhere ever again
where was this?
Florida
and then someone
recognised like a
a storm in Florida?
not like a
like a piss
like during rains
it's insane
for like an hour.
We couldn't find the house.
I was scared, thinking,
oh, we live in this car now.
And then someone recognised the hosepipe
and we found the house.
And it was like,
when you're little,
the most insane relief
from the stupidest things.
I love kids' perception of time
is so bananas, isn't it?
You're in a car for half an hour,
like, that's it.
My life's different now.
I live in a car.
I can't even conceive of what
life was like 35 minutes ago how long will this continue maybe another 10 minutes gal but i've
got quite a poor man i always think my when i look back my memories are like me looking at a picture
yeah and i'm in the picture but i'm not i'm just looking at a picture but i think that's a memory
right i know what you mean i know what you mean like watching a video of myself when i was a kid in my eye i'm like i remember that but i don't i
remember watching the video i think i remember pooing my pants during the war when during the
war when the first when the first bombs dropped you're like what i was playing xbox um it's
confabulated that might be confabulated yeah the the Xbox wasn't out Until like the late 2000s
Oh yeah
Late 2000s
Cut
Cut it out
Cut it out
Too fast
It's too fast
Microsoft
Microsoft
All over us
Do you not remember from houses?
I suppose it's a bit different
Because we
We moved houses
So
Like if I want to try and remember as early,
I have to remember the house.
We used to live in a place called Ribble Bank in Penwitham,
which is near the bank of the Ribble.
It's not complicated.
But that's the first house I can remember.
And that's how I get my earliest memories.
There was a power station down by the river that got demolished, I suppose.
But obviously I was too young to have that explained to me.
So one of my earliest memories is just sitting
in the back room at Ribble Bank
and then there was an earthquake.
There was literally the whole house was fucking going.
It was the most mental thing ever.
And they were like, it's fine, it's fine.
Power station's been demolished. Loads of rubble on Ribble Bank. And after that it was called most mental thing ever and they were like it's fine it's fine power station's been demolished
loads of rubble on Ribble Bank
and after that it was called Rubble Bank
they changed it's name
I said Rumble
Rumble caused a lot of rubble
just absolutely fire sometimes
I also found a dead rat
on Ribble Bank
that's all going up on the Ribble Bank
these are my
earliest memories
someone giving a fucking
what um
like a bit of
a birthday cake
to Donald Heard
at my
what might have been
my third or fourth
birthday party
hang on
someone your age
called Donald Heard
yeah yeah yeah
the Heards
yeah
Amy Heard and Donald Heard
I went to primary school
with them
oh I thought
Donald Heard was like
a celebrity I hadn't heard of.
Why would he be at my third or fourth birthday party?
Because the 80s were dead paedophilic and rapey.
Yeah, we had Jimmy Savile.
But you said Donald Heard like it was a known name.
You said, oh, I remember someone giving something to Donald Heard.
I'm sorry.
When we do Cardinal Heenan, Memory Lane,
you do all sorts of fucking names.
We don't name anyone because they're all murderous.
Yeah, that's true.
Keep that name in your fucking mouth.
Donald Hare.
I found a rat on the grid and just went,
ah, look at that.
Picked it up, just walked home.
Oh, you absolute weirdo.
Walked in, must have been about three.
I knew not to touch rats from an early age
because we had loads in the back garden.
Dovey was festering.
There was loads of rats. I'm not even messing. Even in the back garden. Dovey was festering. There was loads of rats.
I'm not even messing.
Even in the swim pool?
We didn't have a swim pool.
Oh, yeah.
I had a rope swing hanging from the tree, though,
with a tyre on it.
Oh, you lucky fucker.
Yeah.
And it was close enough to the extension wall.
So our bathroom was an extension,
and it was the same on the entire estate. So the extension bathroom was an extension and it was the same in the entire estate.
So the extension would stick out
and you could kick yourself off the extension
and back to it.
We had a rope swing in the woods near our house.
I don't know who set it up.
I think it had been passed down generations.
It was one of those epic ones
where it was quite steep.
And if you pushed off,
you were fucking literally 20-30 metres
from the ground
at one point
if it had broke
you could have died
everyone was like
yeah let's get down the woods
and definitely swing on that shit
we didn't go to the woods
no
why?
because you went down to the woods
you got a big surprise
yeah
there's loads of bears
having a picnic
there's a
gay guys loads of fat g a picnic is there gay guys
loads of fat gays
lots of fat gays
having a picnic
have you bought
lemon meringue
Steve
yeah I have
Donald Hare
there as well
let's shoot some hoops
you know
from before
shag each other up the arse
no playing basketball
gay guys
big fat
hairy gay guys can play basketball, Carl.
Grow up.
It's the 90s.
And one day there'll be an Xbox,
but not for at least 10 years.
Thanks for that, Maka.
Great question, Maka.
Paul McCauley.
Paul McCauley. Paul McCauley.
It sounds like an Irish, something Irish, doesn't it?
I'm going down to Paul McCauley.
Have you been known Paul McCauley?
That's a beautiful, Paul McCauley this time of year.
Lovely.
Christopher Tremaine, who is a wordsmith, by the way, ladies and gents.
Tremont.
Christopher Tremaine.
Tremaine.
You all right? Yeah. way ladies and gents christopher tremaine tremaine you're right yeah adams listen this could honestly christopher tremaine could be a pseudonym for adams like this could be who you know he's writing
a book it's the way i'm posting this yes yes how to know your best friend dead well christopher
tremaine says taking a break from being the poet laureate, my favourite thing to eat is my wife's pussy,
closely followed by black pudding.
Never.
Can't call it that.
Is that an arsehole?
Snip, snip.
Snip, snip.
Closely followed by black pudding.
Never had the nerve to ask if I can combine the two.
What would be your mid-stroke during sex snack?
I mean, Christopher, the question is,
without any of the preamble,
what would be your mid or during sex snack?
But you have really enjoyed taking us down black pudding lane.
Just wait for the period.
You can do both.
God, God.
I'm just trying to fucking fix the world over here.
Oh, Lord.
He's lying, though, isn't he?
Can we call bullshit on Tremaine? What's really bad there is that Carl's basically just called his wife a pig as well.
I don't know his wife.
Oh.
Listen,
I really like
eating pussy,
right?
I don't think
you can start,
you know,
stuffing your wife
and improving
the experience
for anyone.
I thought it was like a...
Yeah, a break.
Yeah.
That's the way
Chris been all.
No, I thought he was treating her like a fucking Christmas that's the way Chris been all pussy no I thought he was
treating her like a
fucking Christmas turkey
and filling her with
sage and onion and
stuffing
a goose inside
the pussy
I mean that's nailed
on thrush innit
no it's
he's being silly
for comedy's sake
innit
that's not
that's not a combo
is it
come on black pudding and pussy surely he's just doing it for a bit He's being silly for comedy's sake, isn't he? That's not a combo, is it?
Come on.
Like pudding and pudding.
Surely.
He's just doing it for a bit.
I know, you know.
Sometimes you get peckish in the old, you know.
So let's just assume that it's not any form of weird, like, you know, New Year's Eve.
We've roasted a lady.
We've got duck.
We've got lamb.
We've got Shirley.
Got her from the zoo.
She works there.
So mid-Sex-Knaff?
Yeah, just to be like... Because sometimes if you're going for it
and it's an absolute sesh,
you do need like a water break, don't you?
Millions?
Like the cricket.
I love millions.
Blueberry.
Oh, fill it.
Fill it with millions.
No, it's very separate.
We're separating it
so we're not stuffing food into people.
No?
You can do whatever you want.
I just want it to be like
one of them things that you get.
Play your own game.
That you get bubble gum out.
Just put 20p into me, girlfriend.
Twist that round.
I can't even catch them all.
Minstrels.
Oh, we can't call them that.
Yeah, you can. That's the name of the chocolate
Do you know what I mean though
Sometimes a bit of a
Do you have a bonk for long enough
That you need a
Like a water break
Look at Finn nodding
Yeah yeah yeah
Water breaks
That's
That's not uncommon
If it's a summer one
Yeah
But like a food...
A summer...
Karl, I need to stop for water.
It's fucking February.
No, it's like the Premier League, isn't it?
They get a water break in the summer, not in the winter.
Yeah.
Oh, right.
If you're fucking in Qatar, you want some Evian on hand.
Yeah, it's true.
Have you ever had a girl spit water back into your mouth?
I love it.
Oh, mate.
I love it so much.
She's like, oh my God, I need a drink.
And you're like, a bit of that.
That's great fun.
I forgot that that's a thing.
Adam's horny.
I am.
I am.
I love it.
I love it.
I don't know why I said it like that.
I love it.
I'm on into food with sex. I don't think. I said it like that I love it I'm not into food with sex
I don't think
I've never
Have you ever done it?
Have you never covered Seneca in cream
And licked her dry?
I'm not really into food
In sex
Have you never like
You know
Bit of double cream
Bit of Elmia
I don't know
I just like
Well what are the traditional ones?
Like squirty cream
Double cream
Not whipped cream
Double cream Pour it It go all over Double cream Not whipped cream I prefer custard
Hot
I'm British at you
Hot custard
Yeah
Oh fucking hell
I like crumble but
Yeah
No I don't know
I just
I don't know
I'm all into food
Maybe I've never
Maybe I've never tried it properly.
I'd start with squirty cream.
That's not really a food, though, is it?
Yeah, it is.
It's something you eat with your mouth and digest.
It's 100% a food.
That is a food.
Is there any proper food, like a solid?
Then you can add into sex.
Strawberries.
I think strawberries and cream.
I have dipped a strawberry into a pom-pom before,
and it's fantastic.
They complement each other really well.
When? What? When? each other really well. When?
What?
When?
Come on.
When?
With your ex-girlfriend?
Right.
I won't tell you which one
because...
Were you doing...
Was it during Wimbledon?
Because strawberries and cream
and a tennis outfit
with fucking
the tennis on.
You're literally describing
me dream night
but no, it wasn't.
Right.
I just tried a bit of food.
It was just
scratchy cream, bit of food It was just Squirty cream
Bit of strawberries
Just popped it in
Okay
Go ahead Gil
Did she pop it in you
And then go
No
No
You don't want bum all
On your strawberries
That's a fact
Adam row bum all
On your strawberries
There's not many worse
Substances on planet earth
That you won't
Borrow your strawberries
One of you
Battery acid
And now my
Hey
Can you imagine Adam legs in the air
my turn
get a strawberry
you've had it done to you
now it's time to do it
to me
I don't know
maybe we all do
a Patreon special
we all shag each other
with food
I don't know
mukbang
cool
I'm just open to experimenting me.
I'll get like,
like I'm not like,
there's not many things I'm super keen on.
Like not,
keen's the wrong word.
There's not anything I'm super insistent on
where I'm like,
oh, we need to try this.
But anything a woman wants to give a go,
eh, I'm a little soldier
and I want to make people happy.
Also, I love this new lane of everything we talk about.
Maybe we could do a Patreon special about it.
Stuffing strawberries up each other's bumholes.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm not into it,
but if I can monetise it and put it on our Patreon.
You know we've...
Guys, if you see the strawberries up a bumhole special,
you know we've defo run out of ideas for Patreon specials.
Yeah, that's us jumping the shark there.
Sign up. Sign up.
Sign up at patreon.com.
Matthew.
Matthew's come for strawberries.
Sorry, guys.
I could only get raspberries.
Have you met Matthew?
That's not Matthew's voice
in any way, shape or form.
Is that more like fucking Luis Ogula?
He's just a scouse lad
bit of advice
I massively disagree
one bit of advice
and then we've got a break
because our guest is here
Will's lost it
apparently I can't hear
Matthew's voice
apparently he's like
lad
you alright
my name's Matthew I'm technical with tech yeah that apparently he's like lad you alright my name's Matthew
I'm to go with tech
yeah that's
that's definitely
the Matthew I've met
I'll get him on right now
I'm doing that again
Max Rutherford says
now this is an update
from a previous episode
Max Rutherford
used to work in size
oh he did
and he left
he got a job
at a golf club
do you remember this one
oh no it's a different Max
I think
I was just one of your
batty of colleagues
to give them
fucking king shit
yeah
no
what
it was like
assert yourself
yeah
he wanted to assert himself
at a Tory golf club
have a lion
take a lion
take a lion
it was one of the better
bits of advice
and then cook it has he done it put it in the oven 280 you want 180 take a lion. Take a lion. It was one of the better bits of advice. And then cook it.
Has he done it?
Just put it in the oven.
280,
you want 180 for a lion.
Slow cook it.
In the main oven.
And Wag Wag Lids,
sorry,
that's the worst joke ever.
No,
I actually really liked that.
It was good.
No,
it was good.
Well done.
Cut it out.
Cut it out.
Max Rutherford says,
Wag Wag Lids,
Max from the golf club here,
or formerly from the golf club here Or formerly from the golf club
Now
Just been made
Redundant
From the money grabbing
Money laundering
Tory cunts
Allegedly
That I work for
Having had you lids
Tell me what to do
When I get to the club
Lion handgun
On first tee
He's just put it in brackets
Just to sum up the advice
I think I'm going to get a gun as well
Gun in one hand.
Playing golf today, lads.
Yeah.
You're all right.
I need your help to fuck with them.
Now I'm gone.
Unless you work for these cunts,
you didn't hear anything.
See you in December, Lids,
at the live show.
Big love from Max from the golf club.
Simple solution.
Just let the line loose
on the golf course now.
Now you've left.
And just shoot the odd person on the way out
yeah
is that
you go to prison though
get on the golf course
for murder
before
for murder
that's quite a long sentence
that one
get on the golf course
before it opens one day
poo in every hole
right
you'll need Adam for that
this is
very rarely
very rarely do we have the same advice but i'm not joking that was exactly
what came to my head yeah but in my head you were like i haven't got enough shit for 18 holes
i could pinch one off i could do one and two we can do every golf course in the northwest if you
think me i need the boys.
Max, we'll all come down.
We'll bring Adam.
He's the whole back nine.
We've got normal humans with normal bowels.
We'll do the front nine.
Pooing in golf courses, special.
Yes.
Lads, I'm not sure about this.
Get that strawberry out of your arse.
We're going down the golf course.
Yeah, poo in every hole.
Poo in every hole Or collect some poo
Over a period of days
Don't do that
That's worse
No it's not
What are you doing Max
Just picking up poo
No your own poo
You only need 19 days Dan
Right
Or if you're like me
You need like 3
19?
Am I biting?
You nearly did
Oh I nearly bit
You kind of nibbled on it.
I had a little nibble.
I thought you were being special.
I think that's literally...
Yeah, poo in all your holes.
Hole in one on that advice.
Like shove it in,
but like some kind of stick as well.
So like it's all over the gaff
because you could probably scoop it out
if it's easy.
Plunge it in.
They won't know until the ball's...
You just let them pick the ball out
and it's covered in shite.
If you just plop in the hole, they're going to go,
oh, well done, Trevor.
Imagine how gutted you'd be with that hole in one.
Great pop there.
Thanks, guys.
Looks like my handicap's not too bad today.
Oh, God.
Dilute it.
Dilute it.
That'd be even worse.
Oh, yeah.
Make a little squash.
Like, shit squash.
Wow, Finn. I like it. You want it to be as lumpy as possible. There's a reason you've not had a mic. even worse make a little squash like shit squash no wow Finn
I like her
you want it to be as lumpy as possible
there's a reason you've not had a mic
okay
oh
you don't need to
you don't need to dilute Adam's plop
just get a fucking spade
and just tap on loads of holes in the greens
that's good as well Carl yeah
or
murder
everyone set fire to the clubhouse and then shit That's good as well, can't you? Or, murder everyone.
Set fires
in the clubhouse.
Shit
in the holes.
Set fires
in the clubhouse
and then at their funerals
poo on their caskets.
I'm just giving options.
Let's have a break.
Landmines.
Get Mark Watson in.
Let's get changed.
I fancy a change. Let's get changed. I fancy a change.
Let's subtly change
the backdrop as well.
The lighting.
I'm going to put a green.
Mark Watson was in last week
so we've already
recorded with him.
Yeah, that's the bit.
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Hey, part three.
Mark Watson's here.
Mark Watson is here. How are you, lad?
I'm alright. How are you? Thanks for coming in.
We're going to have to stop. I'm going to have to stop
asking the guests how they are when we record, when i've been sat here talking to them for half an hour
before yeah there feels i've tried to keep some chat back you kept it bad yeah yeah mark just
stared at him and didn't answer any questions like yeah it's been a really weird half hour
actually i'm really glad we can't monetize it yeah Yeah. Exactly. How are you doing?
You're in Liverpool tonight and we've nabbed you for the studio.
I might not even talk to you now.
I might just see how long we can keep this going.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, you talk to Dan.
Massive payoff going to do.
In the first half earlier, Mark,
I did quite a lot of the heavy lifting.
So if you and Dan just want to have a chat, that's fine.
Yeah, you'll have to go through Dan to get to me
if that's all right.
So Dan, I'm not bad actually.
Yeah, I'm in Liverpool tonight.
Lovely studio, by the way.
Are you on tour?
I am, yeah.
Oh, nice.
And it's fair to say I'm hungover actually,
because I did a show in, well, I was in Yorkshire last night.
Where in Yorkshire?
Ilkley.
Ilkley?
Ilkley, more Bartat?
Yeah.
What?
Which is a song, it's about not having a hat on, isn't it? Is that what thatat. Yeah. What? Which is a song
that's about
not having a hat on,
isn't it?
Is that what that means?
Yeah.
It's the sort of thing
your grandad...
Yeah,
as I said that,
I knew it would just
fucking annoy
and melt minds.
What the fuck
are you talking about?
What were the words?
Say it again.
Ilkley,
more Bartat.
It's the sort of song
your grandad sings,
but then he's dead
in the end,
isn't he?
Yeah,
he is.
He died in Ilkley
I took a punt on your
grandad being dead
he's not
he's not dead
I've actually got one
you've still got one left
but he's not the better one
yeah
I'm down to one grandma
but it's also not the better one
oh yeah
just spiders
I'm all dead
as of very recently
Ilkley Moorbar Tat
yeah Ilkley
like a lot of people
from Bradford
go up there apparently
isn't it
it's your Bradford
it's your
it's your North Bradford it's your Ilkley exactly I was going to say it's your go up there apparently, innit? It's your Bradford, it's your...
It's your North Bradford, it's your Ilkley.
Exactly.
I was going to say it's your Leeds,
but I've got a separate gig in Leeds.
Did you have to get shit-faced in Ilkley?
Is that what you're saying?
I think it's fair to say I didn't have to.
When in Rome.
Yeah, but I mean, I don't know if...
I can't really blame it on Ilkley.
You tell Mark that I'm hungover as well.
Right.
Mark, Adam says that he's a bit hungover as well.
Okay, ask him how he got hungover.
What happened?
He was in Ilkley as well. He did a rival tour show. I thought the numbers were a bit hungover as well. Okay, ask him how he got hungover. What happened? He was in Oakley as well.
He did a rival tour show.
What's Oakley?
I thought the numbers were a bit low for me there.
What's Oakley?
It's a town in Yorkshire, lad.
West Yorkshire.
Going towards North Yorkshire.
Small one.
And there's a moor next to it called Oakley Moor.
If you go up it without a hat,
you're up Oakley Moor by a tat.
There you go.
Yeah, fair enough. That's everyone. Northern gibberish. Do you know how it without a hat you're up Ilkley Moorbat at there you go yeah fair enough
that's everyone
Northern Gibberish
can you do you know
how it goes the song
Ilkley
Ilkley
Ilkley
Ilkley
Ilkley
Ilkley
Moorbat
I think
that sort of thing
I'm not good
I'm not always good
with the tune
but I think
yeah yeah yeah
you beat me in the
So You Think You're Funny
semi-final in 19...
He doesn't stop going on about this, by the way.
He was fuming when I told him.
1912, 1912.
It was 1912 because we had the centenary a few years ago.
The Titanic sunk six years prior.
The Lusitania had just gone down.
He mentions this quite a lot.
He does.
When I told him you were coming in, he's like,
that fucking prick beat me.
I don't deserve it.
You've just got to move on
With your life haven't you
No
Every success you've had
I thought should have been mine
Is that
Is that what's going to happen
Genuinely
Did you win the final Mark
Run her up in the final
To Nina Conti
No she was third
It was a bloke called
Matthew Osborne
Who won it
And he was
Matthew Osborne
First ever live comedy club
That we went to
He was on
Do you remember him
With the glasses
He was a doctor
With a stone
He was a retired doctor
he had the opener
with a suit on
yeah
oh yeah
yeah
he was fascinating
because he was one of these
you sometimes get these people
win a competition
he was rave and funny
but he had no interest
in actually being a comedian
he just entered it
for the hell of it
yeah
and then everyone was saying
what are you going to do next
and he was like
like Jack Heel
who won the Chortle Comedy Award
it happened surprisingly often
yeah
someone's great at it
and then they've got five minutes
and then they just piss off
and just become a jewellery.
Jack Seale beat Simon Baird,
Chris Ramsey,
Danny McLaughlin
and someone else
in the final.
So Matthew Osborne
actually went on to do
professional work
for about three years.
Yeah.
Got a look at the circuit
and then as a pretty
intelligent person went,
nah, that's not how
I want to make a living.
And then just disappeared.
He worked in a jewellery store I think or something and our final it was rod uh greg davis again it was a good lineup and he rinsed everyone he was clear winner but yeah as you say he had a bit of
a go at doing stand-up and thought now you have to he hated going anywhere that was part of his
problem i think he didn't want to ever do gigs that took him further than his hat bit like adam
sleeping in the studio i suppose yeah but there have been in in your career in our career we've known people who are super talented
and then they just sort of they don't it's not that they're not funny they're dead funny they
just sort of don't suit the life like uh i don't want to be on the m62 all the fucking time and it
it sort of makes sense it's how you whittle down like truly great comics are not just good at
comedy they've also had to put up with a fucking ridiculous lifestyle
and been able to put up with it.
I'd say that, like, how much you stick at it
is more important than the raw talent you start with, for sure.
Like, more of it is hard work than actual.
Because there's loads of people who are good,
but as you say, there is...
There's some people who are shy to work too hard, though,
and need to stop.
Unfortunately, that's also true, yeah.
You've got to stick at it unless you're shit
and then you should leave.
But we've not really got a filtering system for that.
It's hard to tell people.
No, it's the freest form of art.
The cull.
I think every year a council of comedians
should be brought together and enforce the cull.
That would be so good.
Mark Watson, Adam Rowe and Dan Nightingale,
sit down and you just, there's 20 got to get relegated.
Name them, go on.
Yeah,
yeah.
And the way you were,
I will start with,
the way you find out is,
I reckon you just get,
it's like the mafia,
you just get a tap on the shoulder
or something,
you're just walking down the street
and someone just,
you just get given
like a Tesco uniform.
Yeah,
yeah,
and someone says,
I'm sorry,
I think you're on your way to a gig
and you get there
and your name's not on it
and it turns out you've been there.
Or like a room and it's just a staff room of a modison's when they pick a like pick the england squad and there's always two or three players that like
thought they were going and the manager actually calls them personally and says
i'm sorry you've not made it like it should be that maybe like we actually have to phone them
up and say oh definitely adam this is a tough phone call to make but you're not a comedian
anymore i'm quite happy to be there i like breaking bad news
yeah i think you'd love it he'd do it on a group call like lads you fucked is it 20 every year
there's so many comedians now it's gonna it's got to be at least that many i think cold i think it's
20 and then it goes up by 20 on top of that every year so it it's 20, 24. Right. 28.4. Right, until we're, yeah.
Until we're down to eight comedians.
No one expected 28.4 there, to be fair.
It's also wrong.
It's 28.8,
but I didn't want to correct myself.
Fair enough, yeah.
Steve wanted to.
Yeah.
The competitions are a bit batshit, aren't they?
Because they teach you from a young,
like a early age that you,
like I always felt like it was a bit unhealthy,
sat at the back hoping everyone died on a bill.
It's not really,
it's not really what stand-up's about.
Stand-up's about you being the best act,
I get it.
Like you're very competitive.
Everyone likes being a very good comedian,
but I want everyone else to do well.
I want the crowd to have a good,
it's a weird thing at the comps where you're like,
die, say something wrong, die.
Every laugh, like your competition gets you like,
you fucking prick. It's not even that good of a joke you fucking there was one-on-one
and uh and part of it was the bloke before me it just died so much that just whoever was next on
was gonna have a great gig and backstage you're thinking yeah you think i feel for this guy but
also this is absolutely playing into my hands and again that's i felt dirty having that thought i
don't think even if
you're competitive you're not in a club watching someone die thinking right this will be easier for
me but in this competition yeah you've got a thing like that like i don't even think it's good having
someone die if you're on a on a comedy club bill or if you've got a support act having someone die
i suppose if you don't know stand up you might think oh well you're gonna look dead good now
you're like no because it can fucking weird out a gig just a grim atmosphere around the whole building yeah like you want everyone to do
dead well and then you go fucking blast would you ever throw someone under the bus if they've died
would you ever go on and be like what the fuck was that i had chris addison emceeing though in
that competition so it was perfect because not only did the guy die but then he went on
immediately lifted it again there's a relief in the room yeah you're right if i got on straight
after the the death then you're in if I'd gone on straight after the death
then you probably are
I think if someone dies
there has to be
some sort of
acknowledgement
professional courtesy
and also
you have to acknowledge it
you can't be like
hey well done
because the crowd are fuming
it's difficult
every time I've MC'd
when someone's properly died
it flashes through your head
to just ignore it,
but then...
No, you can't.
If you're comparing,
the audience has to trust you.
Yeah.
And if you go on and go,
that was great,
the audience is like,
no, it isn't,
and now we think you're a fucking moron.
Yeah, I've had it in competition.
I've hosted competitions quite a lot,
like student ones and stuff,
and you do,
yeah, you lean quite heavily on going,
these guys are great, you know, they're all great new talents, and if the first guy is shit, And you do, yeah, you lean quite heavily on going, these guys are great.
You know,
they're all great new talents.
And if the first guy is shit,
like you say,
Adam,
you can't then be like,
told you,
you have to say,
all right,
some of them are shit.
These guys are great.
And then you have a list in front of you
and names you've clearly read him
for the first time.
These guys are amazing.
You're in for a great night.
Two or three of these would be good.
Yeah.
Well,
it's Dave,
Dave Johns,
famously,
John Bishop wrote about in his book, when I was the sound tech, when I was in the competition with you, when I was starting out 2002, great night two or three of these would be good yeah well it's dave dave john's uh famously john
bishop wrote about in his book when i was the sound tech when i was in the competition with
you when i was starting out 2002 that was when i was the sound tech at the hyena in newcastle yeah
dave john's compared john bishop on john bishop was a year and a half in and he was already getting
paid work he was just very very good yeah just naturally good but hadn't got much experience. Rough night at the High Year in Newcastle.
John Bishop was opening and John went on.
He was very slow paced and like laconic.
Is that the right word?
Just super relaxed and not what the Geordie crowd wanted.
After they'd had Dave John's compare for about half an hour.
Incredibly well.
A million words a minute.
A million words.
So creative.
So in the room and then
john bishop just rolls off he only loves gold does he love copper i haven't seen that for more
than a decade but immediately it comes back but john bishop died there's no two ways about it it
was a bit of a stinker and dave bishop walked on away john's there dave john's day bishop dave
john's bishop dave john's Dave Fisher just let me finish the story
you pack of cunts
whoa
he went
I'll break
it's alright
Dave's back
Dave's back
I'm like
I'm like an emergency
comp hair
break here
instead
in case of shit
first act
and
fucking hell
it's
so that's not just
acknowledge it
that's
that's throwing someone on the bus but I don't mind John Bishop mentioned that's not just acknowledge it that's that's throwing someone
on the bus and i don't mind john bishop mentioned that can you just ask adam not to interrupt you
again if you're doing a story yeah what would this the podcast wouldn't exist mark oh yeah
i forgot that the podcast one is adhd and his pal like a word i agree that uh if you get to
the level of saying in case of first first acting shit then that is a little bit more than no it's a so next time i saw we were in chester at a gig john bishop dropped in
and i was there and i'd compared him on and john was like oh cool that's so nice that dan's compared
me on he was the sound tech and you're like i didn't know this was brought up 10 years later
john bishop goes dan used to be a sound tech that's how he got into comedy it's really nice now right yeah yeah yeah he's a big name they're dead chuffed
to see him and he was like i remember when i was in newcastle i got compared on by a guy called it's
all there he retold the story perfectly because dave john was like i don't give a fuck who this
guy is he's done badly i'm gonna make a little joke at his expense. John Bishop has then got really famous and had remembered every fucking ounce of that story.
One day,
James Jones sees him on the telly and thinks,
If you die on your ass,
you'd remember that more than a lot of the good gigs you have.
And especially if you knew.
And then the compere cuts you off.
Yeah.
That's a whole other layer,
isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I also don't,
I don't hate it.
If I died on my ass
and the compere went back on after me
and was like,
that was fucking shite.
You're 10, 12 years in,
you've been on telly,
you're dead successful.
When you're two years in,
you're doing your first professional,
you're very,
everything's dead important.
I never did the hyena.
Because of that reputation,
not specifically that night,
but it was,
when I was starting out,
it was seen as the most frightening club.
Also,
I didn't have enough
money to get to newcastle to be fair but and the frog in manchester had the same sort of it did and
the first time i played i was terrified for that reason it was quite a benign night and i thought
what was all the frogs fine yeah frogs good when you when you're starting out again certain clubs
have this this you know like in my head the hyena was hundreds people like a real snake pit and you'd
you'd you imagine people basically,
as soon as you walked on and opened your mouth,
people just screaming for your butt.
But a lot depends on just the night.
Fucking shite, mate.
Fucking shite.
The guy that stood on the table.
Get off the table.
And nobody shite at the bounce was like,
I know he's shite, but you can't stand on the table.
Full volume, everyone listening.
The hyena was bad.
Like, I mean, when i got down to the
frog everyone's like oh the frog's a bit mate but a really rowdy club yeah is a is is a rough one
it is something isn't it and i think you've got to just when you're young there's a bit of
fearlessness you're like oh yeah bring it on like if i'd been in the area and i'd have the
opportunity i probably would have because it's almost as though if you know a club is meant to
be wild like that a part of you's just like when you're 25 you think go on and throw me in i'm
not scared of these guys yeah then i reckon i'd be worried about that now because when no one knows
you are a death doesn't hurt that much does it you just fuck up home also i when i was young because
that's how i grew up i was more intimidated by the fringe because with the fringe you get a load of
comedy fans people who work in the industry and they sit there and go go on then and then you basically yeah you you all your limitations
are on show because everyone's listening to all of your bullshit it does i i found it easier in
the bear pits because i was like i've got bits about drinking and fingering and it worked really
well for the first three four years i used to be his opener i've got bits about fingering and
drinking i know it's paraphrasing
but I basically did
it was dross
but it worked really well
I used to go up to the fringe and find it
as you say you've got
suddenly it's like people are like
I will politely listen to everything you've got in your brain for an hour
and you're like oh shit hang on
what about the drinking and fingering stuff
maybe you shouldn't have called your fringe show more stuff about drinking and fingering
I actually think that'd do quite well now.
It would be a great name for Fringe.
As long as you've been to Oxford or Cambridge
and you're like,
I've got a show called Drinking and Fingering,
everyone will be like,
oh my God, so interesting.
20 minutes in, it's a bit challenging.
40 minutes in, it's a twist
where it turns out you were fingered in childhood.
It's all there.
I'm tempted to do the Fringe next year
as like a half run,
as a work in progress.
And I think I want to do the story about my mum again,
which was in my debut show. That was shit because I wasn't good enough to do it.
And I think I might just call the show My Dead Mum.
Yeah.
Just really on the nose.
The only problem with that is all the other shows
called My Dead Mum in the Fringe,
it'll be confusing for everyone.
No, there's not going to be many of them.
I don't know.
You don't reckon?
I don't know.
Weirdly, there is a chance.
I'll scout you up then. Me ma's dead. Yeah yeah there you go yeah me mars dead lad yeah yeah and then maybe a poster of you with your dead mum or something like
yeah we'll workshop it i guess i want to play me mum i'm just i just sit down in the theater to
watch my mars dead lad five stars by the way. Incredible. We saw on Twitter that you've been trying to develop a pressure group
to sort out the fucking rents at the Fringe.
Yeah, well, that's just not me developing,
but basically there was a meeting.
Can you just pull the mic into you a little bit?
Oh, yeah, a mile away from it.
Actually, they said a fist away,
and it'll be a fucking hell of a fist.
It's a hell of a fist.
You'd have to have something wrong with your hand.
Feel free to pull it towards you.
It is.
The mic is fancy in that you can do...
It's very fancy.
The arm, it's on his long.
Yeah, well, I went to a meeting
where someone from the fringe society was saying,
like, how much evidence can you gather
of people's rents going up madly
over the past three years?
I've basically just been asking people to name, like...
And sometimes it is, like, even with inflation,
it's like, the flat cost two grand more than three years ago oh wow just feel like there's loads of those
and it's just if you don't know the fringe is incredible and it's wonderful and it's great to
be a part of but it feels like somewhere along the way it got skewed to how the fuck is someone's
getting very rich off people trying to be comedians.
That was an interesting moment with the bell.
It keeps like jingling.
It keeps jingling.
It's doing me, Adam.
Because you're doing this.
Adam's bought property in Edinburgh
and he rents it out during the fringe.
He's like, I'm not fucking.
Yeah.
That was the landlord.
Calling bullshit.
Shut up, Dan.
And when the tenants need something,
they pull a cord and the bell rings here.
And then Adam pulls
another cord.
Yeah.
And someone else
goes and does it.
2,800 quid I spent
on a two bedroom flat
that was fine.
Yeah.
Fine.
It's fucking horrific.
It's mental.
It's mad.
I heard that and thought,
oh, three grand,
that's not too bad.
Your sense of what is normal.
That's 2018
so has it gone
boo loose
I turned up
sorry
on this
I turned up
the Southside Property Management
who
by all accounts
are a nightmare to deal with
and I just booked with them
because I didn't know
what I was doing
and I turned up
and there was a homeless fella
asleep on the stairs
like
right next to my
like flat front door
he would have paid
a grand and a half
I took a photo and sent
i sent it to south side property manager it was like a
there's a fella asleep in there in the square way property details
this is uh this wasn't on the website and they said wake him up and ask him to leave yeah
problem solved oh ask him yeah he said no ah's a guy shooting up out here well take it
off him don't let him do that it's a problem and i think like the the trouble is there's things they
can do like the council could put a cap on it or whatever but it does come down to a small number
of really greedy people owning property which is where a lot of the world's problems come down to a small number of really greedy people owning property, which is where a lot of the world's problems come down to, I suppose.
And there's also, again, this is where the cull will be handy.
There's so many people doing the fringe,
the demand's always there for accommodation,
so they know they can take the piss.
I think that's the problem.
If we all just didn't do it for a year, though,
if we all just went, no, then it's fucked, isn't it?
Oh, let's just move it.
Let's just not do it.
Let's just randomly choose A-Town's just not do it let's just randomly choose
8 hour
Ilkley
let's have the Ilkley
International Fringe Festival
and go
Betty's Tea Room
would be like
the loft bar
it would be fucking brilliant
20,000 people descend on Ilkley
suddenly
that would be phenomenal
yeah I
I've
I love going up there
but someone is making
way too much money
also there's other there's other people making money
not last time I was up there
about 10 years ago I was at the Fringe
and just middle of the afternoon
we had this, are they called tenements
in Edinburgh and Glasgow
they're basically old Victorian high rises
really nice, like 5 bedroom flats
or whatever, just got a knock
one afternoon and these three
rough looking
edinburgh lads were like right we're here to clean the windows and i was like like a knob and i was
like okay cool come in thank you clean windows are great they had literally like a squeegee and a
bucket and nothing else and then walk they were like just quickly walked into all the rooms and
i was like oh they're all cleaning windows by climbing onto the ledge we were like just quickly walked into all the rooms. And I was like, oh, they're all cleaning windows.
By climbing onto the ledge, we were like four floors up.
And they were like, so you're doing the fringe?
Oh, Marta, are you doing a show?
I was like talking to one of them while the others were having a good old fucking rummage.
A good old look.
Did you get robbed?
Well, I don't actually think they got anything.
Like no one, like I was like sort of worked out what had happened no one was missing i think my i think my ipod nano
went but that might not have been a bad thing like it's a bad day at the fucking window cleaning
burglary office you come away with is a nano yeah nano little pedo that's disappointing isn't it
yeah yeah the window's still there you didn't notice that they didn't take the window window cleaning i'm such a yes come in clean window you'd have been
like lads fuck off where's your permit i don't respect window cleaners get out what is that
if someone turned up to clean my windows and i hadn't booked them i'd be like no indoors no in
a rental though indoor Indoor window cleaning?
Yeah, of course, if it was your house,
you'd know that no one had booked it.
But in my head, I was like, oh, it's the landlord.
The landlord's really conscientious.
Once the inside of the window's cleaning.
Oh no, they got out onto the ledge and cleaned the outside.
Like, this is how we do it.
You don't want to say. I feel like this is very much on you, this one, you know.
Yeah, I'm a dickhead, yeah. That's what I'm saying. I was like, I'm in. I'm the same though. It's funny, very want to say- I feel like this is very much on you, this one, you know. Yeah, I'm a dickhead, yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
I was like, I'm in.
I'm the same, though.
It's funny, very difficult to say.
Okay, just one question.
Are you burglars, though?
Hey, hey, hey, come on.
I have to tell you as well,
the burglars code means if you ask them,
they have to tell you.
Yeah, it's like the magic circle.
It's double jeopardy, isn't it?
It's double jeopardy.
Oh, sorry, yeah.
Yeah, if you say, are are you a boogler?
They're like, fair play, got me, and there's hands in the air.
Part of the problem is there used to be loads of people
that would come round your house,
just 20, 30 years ago, someone would knock on the door.
And that's sort of declined, isn't it?
So there's a guy that knocks on my door selling fish once a week.
Now?
Now!
Now, as in the present like just knocks the door says
what any fish obviously i say firstly no exactly i'm definitely not getting fished this way and
are you a fish man or is this because it just is this an elaborate haddock based
anyone that thinks fuck it i'll have some prawns off this with the best world in the world dirty
man but like they're looking for where your car keys are. There's a fish man, that's the thing,
like,
there's a fish man by your Mars.
Is there?
There's a fish man.
Sounded like a slam,
did it?
There's a fish man by your Mars.
I've never seen a fish man at my door.
Maybe,
it smells like it.
There's a fish man by your Mars.
He,
he,
he,
sells fish,
outside the fruit shop
Oh he doesn't knock on your door
That seems like a
He doesn't knock on your door though
No that's not what I said
Yeah so that's
If that's a crime
That's a pretty
That's a very long way
He sells fish
Hang on
But that's a different thing
That we're talking about
We're literally talking about people
You know when there's a shop
With TVs
Near your house
No
He literally turns up
And sells fish
Out the back of a van
At your door.
No,
on the road.
Outside the fruit shop.
On the road.
It's time to see
where your car keys are.
Don't be stupid.
Oh,
really?
Yeah,
because you can just
fucking steal your car keys
because you know
you put them next to the front door.
What if they sell
really good fish?
That's the sort of thing,
isn't it?
That fish man's
had a good old look now.
What you should start doing
is buying the fish off him
and then he can't afford
to buy the fish no more
and he'll stop robbing people.
That's a great idea.
Actually make his business sustainable.
Yeah.
I'll have all your fish.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
That'll be 250 per piece.
Yeah, that's a great call his bluff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Buy loads of fish.
Imagine, imagine for a second.
You want me to buy fish?
I will buy fish, pal.
Imagine for a second if a man knocked at your door
and was like, do you want to buy any fish? And you went, yeah. And he went, I haven't fish, pal. Imagine for a second if a man knocked at your door and was like, do you want to buy any fish?
And you went,
yeah.
And he went,
I haven't fucking got any.
I'll have 21 cod, please.
How fucking insane that would be.
Fish, me.
I want a fish.
I want you to sell me fish.
I want to buy your fish.
You'd see the panic in his eyes
and then you'd hear the engine screech away
as he drives from the actual fishmongers.
Oh yeah, I'll go and get some fish. I'll be back in two hours with some fish then, pal. He goes to Tesco you'd see the panic in his eyes and then you'd hear the engine screech away as he drives from the actual fishmongers oh yeah
I can't get some fish
I'll be back in two hours
with some fish then
he goes to Tesco
and just plants 20p on the price
he heals the labels off
clever
hey Egor
if you're listening
that's how you make money
if someone's trying to tell you meat
it's usually like
in the pub innit
yeah someone who's just
robbed
robbed from Tesco's
yeah
I've never had a stolen
smackhead steak
I don't know if it tastes better again like
you've got to have a better plan for your dinner than just hopefully someone's going to put up with
some meat that they've got for sale no i thought i'd wander down the pub and see if anyone's selling
beef just take the security tag off ready to go you ever bought anything in the pub like that
like dvds anything no but i don't know if i've ever drunk in the pubs that you uh thinking about i thought it happened in all pubs i bought the original jumanji
on dvd in the air and arms because because no when do you ever say no to anyone selling jumanji
in the air and i don't understand how funny this was right so we're sat around watching like the
fuzzy and this fella comes over
and he's like,
do you want to buy a DVD?
Did it come with free lamb?
No.
I went to him.
I went for a laugh
to make Josh laugh.
I went,
have you got Jumanji?
And he went.
Mate,
he didn't do it that quick though.
He didn't,
have you got Jumanji?
Yeah.
Weirdly,
Jumanji's the one
that I keep getting.
In fact, these are all Jumanji. Yeah. I knew you were going to ask for Jumanji's the one that I keep getting in my songs in fact these are all
Jumanji
yeah
I knew you were
going to ask for Jumanji
he's a magician
yeah
he was a magician
who sells DVDs
here's Jumanji
you wanted me
had he
go home to yours now
and see what's on the telly
there you go
I'd buy a DVD
from a magician
who could get any DVD
out of your ear yeah big mum's house too please lads go ahead mark have you ever bought
it from the pub no because i think i'm trying to think like i once saw someone trying to sell
cheese in a pub that's even weirder than me and it because like that goes off so quickly and stuff
like that and i could again i couldn't get he must have nicked it but it's just like again i just oh you'd be going to a lot of pubs before someone said yeah fuck i'll have some
stilton it's just it seems like it's the same with the fish man i don't understand how much
business these guys are doing really i don't think i've ever bought anything i mean i'd buy fish off
the fish man if he knocked at my door i mean you know to get to my front door some fucking effort
that but like if I lived in a house
and someone knocked on the door and was like,
do you want to buy some fish?
I'd get some.
I respect the hustle.
Do you know what I mean?
That's better than getting it from Tesco, isn't it?
Getting it from the fish fellow who's going door to door.
I think Tesco's dead good, you know?
I worry if things are going to go wrong,
even if, like, someone once offered me a train ticket
in a pub, I remember, that was unused.
They were just like, I can't use this.
And I think I did. It was a station next to a pub, and I worked there, I could I remember that was unused. They were just like, I can't use this. And I think I did.
It was a station next to a pub
and I worked out I could use it,
but something about it is just like,
this can't be.
And probably.
Like a SWAT team's waiting for you.
Yeah, basically.
They're non-transferable.
You're not going to it.
Get down.
In Liverpool,
if you walk past a bus stop or a train,
you'll very often see a day rider,
like a day ticket,
just tucked into the thing nice if
someone just leave their day tickets like to bus stop so you see that's nice and that's what yeah
and if you're leaving a car park and you've bought an all-day pass and you're like there's four hours
and you see someone go into the thing as long as it's not one that asks for the registration you go
it's not my ticket yeah i've had an ncp car park attendant go you can't do that you're like fuck off are you are you from the family that
own the ncps because if not yeah sure is your name alan ncp it is actually yeah yeah yeah
oh dear i just the guy who invented car parks Just really wanted to live his life that way Invented car parks? The invented car parks?
Yeah
He was like
What year was that?
What year was the car park invented?
97 I think
97
Oh shit I remember that
Because
You probably won't remember it
Because you were a young lad
We just used to park in fields
Sometimes we'd like
I remember
Yeah just
Oh shit it's a ditch
Yeah
You'd get to a new town
Your dad would say,
if only they'd invented somewhere where you could park cars.
But yeah, we'll go on the beach again.
One day, lads.
Do you watch Tomorrow's World?
Everyone watch Tomorrow's World.
When you get to Tomorrow's World,
I want to see some of the funny shit Tomorrow's World.
Yeah, so it must have been in about 1992,
they did one where they said,
one day cars will be parked systematically
in two-story buildings.
In one building.
Whoa, mind blown.
At the time, it was like sci-fi, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Like Tomorrow's World,
like funny predictions.
I watched one yesterday,
the internet one.
Really?
Yeah.
What a show, mate.
Right, what are we doing?
Tomorrow's World.
But like funny predictions.
I've never heard of it.
It was a programme on BBC
and it was like,
this is what will happen in 20 years,
big flying cars and shit.
Yeah.
The Office of the Future.
Just go and text Finn.
What?
All right.
Ladies and gents, welcome to our new feature, Finn Can't Work the Internet, which go on text, Finn. What? All right. Ladies and gents,
welcome to our new feature,
Finn Can't Work the Internet,
which is becoming a regular thing.
There must be a list of funny things
tomorrow's world predicted.
There isn't,
and it's not Finn's fault.
It's his sort of thing tomorrow's world.
I mean, there's one right there.
I'm looking at it.
There you go.
Go down to the text.
Yeah, let's read it.
Tomorrow's world prediction.
Oh, yeah.
We are remarkably on the money.
Oh, yeah. We can't on the money. Oh, yeah.
We can't listen to it.
We can't listen to it
because you're fucking pubes.
What a show, though.
Anticlopube Challenge.
It'd be stuff like...
It'd sometimes be...
Carl, I'm giving you this.
You deserve that.
That's all you were trying to do.
And, you know,
Neighbours,
Lonely Doors,
Mad.
Have you ever watched the telemark?
Oh, man. My dad used watched the telemark? Oh man.
My dad used to sing me the theme tune from Home and Away to send me to sleep.
That is so council, it's unbelievable.
Close your eyes Adam.
Let me be the one that you run to, someone you can rely on, home and away.
It's closer each day first. Home and away. It's closer to each day first.
Home and away.
If he'd sung Home and Away first,
you'd have sat up in bed and said,
fuck off, do that again.
Hang on.
Wrong lyrics.
I won't sleep a wink now.
If your dad actually sang theme tunes
from the fucking
90s
80s and 90s
no I'm not messing
I'm not messing by the way
I sort of
do you reckon that
that
age has gone
where the theme tune
was like
someone would actually sing it
and it would have the title
of the program in it
I don't reckon you get as much
like Only Fools and Horses
used to have
really long you know I don't reckon a sitcom now much. Like Only Fools and Horses used to have really long,
you know.
I don't reckon a sitcom now
would ever be like,
here in the office,
funny stuff happens.
Yeah.
Not as on the nose.
Funny stuff happens.
Yeah.
It's very deadpan.
It's a bit on the nose,
that market.
I'm just,
I'm just workshopping a bit.
Yeah.
I mean,
that's right though,
because even Friends
didn't have like,
you know,
Friends doing loads of stuff
having a laugh
different characters
you know
yeah but the song
is about friendship
isn't it
I'll be there for you
when the rain starts to fall
I'll be there for you
like I've been there before
don't fall asleep
oh I see
I'm starting to read
between the lines
of the lyrics now Pat
I don't know
what he's a sing
the lyrics
too didn't the cast would sing them occasionally like as well in the 80s The lines are the lyrics now, Pat. And I want you to sing the lyrics too.
Then the cast would sing them occasionally.
In the 80s, you had sitcoms where like...
He's just trying to fuck me up.
Monarch of the Glen.
Monarch of the Glen.
There's a king in the Glen.
Here I am in my Glen.
I wish I was a king in this Glen.
Closer each day, day monarch of the glen
every one of them
like the theme tunes
every single show
in the 80s
even the news
it was a guy going
here's the news
here comes the news
here's the news
it's the 10 o'clock news
with me
Trevor McDonald
actually that
you know Christian
what's his name
Christian Guru Murphy
who does
used to do Chime for News.
They used to have, maybe they still do,
the theme tune went, ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba.
Oh, I used to love that.
And he told me that when he goes home,
he sings in his head, and when he's on camera,
in his head he goes, it's the news.
It's the news.
It's the news.
It's the news.
I can never forget him, don't I?
Love it.
I've seen him driving home.
It's the news.
Stop doing that.
It's the news. shall we have a little
interval
yeah
is it
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What, my wife, Laura?
All the time.
And I'd actually,
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She loves it.
She loves it
because she likes being talked to
like she's a scouse teenage boy.
Lad, do it.
Chew me.
Then she just noshes me off.
I don't think noshes me off is much better as an expression to be absolutely fair.
It's what she uses.
Genuine question.
Have you ever heard a chew used in that context?
Gizzard chew?
No, but I don't mind it.
I have to say.
I think I will be using it.
Gizzard chew?
That's a chewing gum, isn't it? No, it's chewy. If think I will be using it. Gizzard Chew. That's a chewing gum, innit?
No, it's Chewy.
If you say Gizzard Chewy and someone starts stuffing you up.
Chew versus Scouseism.
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Yeah, it's very terrible.
It's all mad school.
Hey shout out all Scouse women
or gay guys giving blow jobs, don't chew.
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No one wants that.
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Yeah.
Using your fucking business teeth.
Yeah, it's more meant to be melting your mouth situation
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Yeah.
That was a thing at school for us, wasn't it?
There's a chewed air girl.
That's what I'd say.
Is that what you'd say?
I love it.
There's a chewed air girl.
She chewed me off.
I'd shove it out the window.
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Craig Knight says,
Wag Wag Lids.
About 10 years ago, I went to see a stand-up show
in the Brindley Runcorn.
The crowd consisted of me and five other people.
You could tell the two acts who were on,
Andrew O'Neill and a lady whose name I can't remember,
sort of struggled and just wanted to go home,
but still finished the show, fair fucks.
So what's the smallest crowd you've played to?
And if just six paying customers turned up to a show,
would you play it or just fuck it off?
Mark.
Firstly, I've got a memory of the Brindley in Runcorn,
which is I did a tour show once there,
and for some reason, at some point,
they changed the start time
and half the audience
had 7.30 on their tickets
half at 8 o'clock
so I went on at 7.30
and I thought
this is not as many people
as I was expecting
and then like
another hundred people
walked in at 8pm
unbelievable
I've never seen that before
there are some fundamentals
that a venue can't fuck up
and that is one of them
you've got to tell everyone
the same time
for the start of the show
we like to stagger the crowd yeah like with football you don't see like loads of people
suddenly coming in at half past three it's um i'd say oh well first you go to an everton game
you see a lot of them leave at a different time no we don't try to beat the traffic that's gonna
hurt them even more than they're already hurting um i don't think it's possible i'd first yeah i
would do it to just six people
because I think you'd just
make a thing out of it
wouldn't you
you'd just
I like
if anything
if it was going to be
a terrible
like terrible turnout
I'd sort of rather have
six than
like 40 or so
like if it's enough
if it's a small enough
number of people
that it's absolutely stupid
depends what room it is
doesn't it
because there's some
amazing gigs in small rooms
where 40 is banging
definitely
actually yeah
six in 150 seats who's like I think we need to pull it.
Unless you're at the fringe and then you've just got to get on with it.
Hot water's 220.
You can have a gig with 15 in there.
Yeah, for sure.
I reckon, like, I'd always do it regardless, I reckon.
But that's partly because I do like chaos and stupid stuff.
Like, if it was a small enough number of people,
you could just take them to a pub and do it around a table or something.
I think that'd be a nice compromise.
Oh, yeah, that'd be nice. I've performed. Do it in the car. Just do it in the car. I've got a pub and do it around the table or something I think that'd be a nice compromise oh yeah that'd be nice
I've performed
do it in the car
just do it in the car
I've got a Q7
yeah
I've performed to
literally no one before
because I had to
because you wanted the fee
yeah
which promoter was it
let's name
Adam Ruslan
made you do the show
no so we got there
Adam was like
booking it
and the fella at the bar
was like oh yeah
we've tried to sell tickets
like we're just gonna
hope for walk up because we haven't sold
any. And then nobody
turned up and we were like, right, can we have our money so we can
go home? And he was like, you haven't done the gig.
Well, you have.
And he was like, you haven't done the gig so I'm not paying you. And we were like,
we'll do the gig. And he was like, go on then.
So you did do it?
Yeah, to nobody.
We had two intervals.
Just for the bar taping.
Oh my God.
You're not running straight through on my watch.
That's brilliant.
Adam rushed me with my phone.
I was like,
we're going to have a break now.
We're not going to have a break.
So grab yourself a drink,
have a sit down.
Go to the toilet.
What kind of fucking landlord is that big a cunt?
I was going to say that. Are you going to sit in the room? No. I'm going to be in the other bar, fuming. toilet that's kind of fucking like landlord is that big a con i was gonna you'll do it and are
you gonna sit in the room no i'm gonna be in the other bar fuming but i'll know if the show happened
or not i've got a few stories about i've played to like fours and sixes but i don't think i can
top playing to zero people to make a point like that that's brilliant forms in negative people
yeah yeah i wasn't even there but but I did the gig. Somehow the venue
would have to burn down
while there were no people
in it to top that.
That's amazing.
The most amazing bit
is that,
like,
well,
the mind boggles at that.
Why did he think
that the gig would,
this gig still hasn't really happened
if no one's there,
is it?
It's like a tree in the forest situation.
He was just like,
he's trying to not pay,
He didn't want to pay.
Yeah.
But he sort of backed himself
into the corner of,
if you want the money,
do the gig.
And we went,
we were like new enough
that we needed the money.
That's brilliant.
And we were like,
well,
we'll do it then.
He was like,
go on.
We were like,
right.
That's really funny.
You speak to each other?
No.
You speak to other comics,
I mean.
No,
we just stood like at the bar.
That's brilliant.
You should have gone backstage
when each other were on.
When you're at Skin
and you've driven to a gig,
I did a gig in Cardiff that I started at eight.
I'd have been on at sort of 10.
And I just,
cause it was such a long drive from Manchester.
I was going to get there for nine.
In the time it took for them to try and start,
they realised no one was there.
So they pulled the gig.
So I walked in at 10 to nine to an empty pub.
With no idea until then.
They were like,
oh,
the gig's been pulled.
I was like,
I'm in Cardiff.
That's a three hour drive from Manchester yeah the guys were just sort of finishing
upstairs and they were like oh the gig's off i was like cool i need to get paid though
he was like oh the gig the gig's off and i was like i know but i'm studying cardiff mate
we had to walk to a cash point and he got the cash oh that's horrible
oh I don't know
if he's done that to you
but I had to have
no not on you
on him
but I also
I wanted to be the guy
who was like
cool leave it
but I was like
I can't leave it
no you
I've just driven
from Manchester to Cardiff
I'm a new comic
no there's nothing
there's nothing like that
the worst walk
to the fucking
cash point ever
I might as well
have been fucking
mugging him that's horrible I might as well have got a fucking knife at his back you might as well have leant across him at the cash point ever i might as well have been fucking mugging him that's
i might as well have got a fucking knife at his back you might as well have lent across him at
the cash point and gone 10 20 he's like oh you should have seen it last time so busy i'm sure
it fucking was oh every comics had that hey it's unbelievable last night i once had um uh hardly
any sold in blackburn and the king george's and the bloke, he was trying to help.
He said,
firstly, he said,
it's normally round for comedy, mate.
So, okay, cool.
So I'm just shit.
And then he doubled down by saying,
we had Jason Manford on here,
two nights sold out last week.
I was like, right,
I'm starting to see where
my punters might have gone.
They went to fucking Jason Manford.
It's amazing how many promoters
think it will comfort you
to hear about someone else's show
went so well last week.
Yeah, yeah, Jason Manford.
I'm to have three extra dates. Yeah, yeah, Jason Manfred, he had three extra dates.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what's going on with you.
Yeah, whereas you're taking dates off here, basically.
He's in the other room right now.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what's happened to you.
When you were doing the world record attempt at The Fringe,
the longest ever comedy show,
how many people in the, like, weird 5am slot
did you get down to in the room?
We never went below about 30
or 40 I think but some of them were asleep to be
absolutely fair to them. How long did you
do just for the do do do do?
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do fucked and the erection still to come of course i can't wait sneak up what have you had the deliver just uh just you tell me i don't know about this world record attempt oh i did i used
to do not an attempt he got the world record do it sometimes i do these 24 hour long um comedy
shows which these days are for charity but when i started out it was in edinburgh it wasn't even
for charity it was just for a stunt and the longest one i did was 36 hours so like yeah a day and a half and you'd the idea is people can come and go
if they want but you get like like with any of these things you get a cult you get a hardcore
of like 40 50 people who just camp in there and literally like bring sleeping stuff and things
like that so it was legendary it's all anyone was talking about that i did it several years
consecutively in edinburgh i haven't done it for a while but uh two years time will be the
anniversary the 20th
anniversary 2024
so I think I'll have
another go at it then
we need to do the
longest podcast record
I know it was like
we went on
and we found that
it wasn't a world record
let's just set the
world record
is there not an
existing record for that
it's only audio
right
so you could just
press the podcast
and then speak every
two minutes or whatever
yeah that doesn't
so what were the
rules with yours?
You were allowed piss breaks or...
Yeah, there were some like stupid...
Well, not stupid rules,
but there were things like...
I think it is...
In theory, I think you're allowed
something like five minutes off every hour
with any endurance records or something.
There's some sort of rule
that stops you from actually dying,
but I never did that.
Were you awake the whole time?
Yeah.
Fuck me!
Even when I went to the toilet, I would bring someone with me and they would the whole time yeah fuck me even when i went to
the toilet i would bring someone with me and they would relay it back to the toilet i was awake
yeah i mean i don't know if i could as it's going on like the ones i do these days i'll have more
guests in and like the thing with the fringe is obviously there's always comedians in the area
you can always bring people in and stuff like that but even so i try never to leave the station more
than about five minutes because it starts to feel like cheating
we've got to do it
now we're in here
we've got to do it
it's an incredible feeling
you just do it like on a
you must have
you've got guests coming in
you can just have guest hosts
replace you
Mark please
please come up
it would be such a lovely tie-in
to the fact that
you're the world record holder
I'd be all over that
I'd love to do that
lads we've got to do it
it is
and also it is quite it is quite kind of like what happens to you psychologically is quite is it well it's a
bit like you know like everyone's had the thing where you uh you stay up all night whatever and
then you do not immediately but a certain point the next day you just start feeling like you're
not quite there you sort of it's not entirely unpleasant like sort of trippy feeling it's
a lot of it is like that sleep deprivation i'm gonna care yeah like i'm definitely gonna keep jordan yeah we just have guests call all our guests we've just got to
do you just got to keep i keep long enough four hours i'll have a 30 an hour i'm gonna go home
and come back and see how we're getting on i did some um i did a couple online during the pandemic
and stuff like that as charity things and loads of people stayed for the whole 24 like these sort of
events do attract you'd get you'd get loads of people stayed for the whole 24 like these sort of events do attract you'd get
you'd get loads of people
like following the whole
thing
because people start to
it's like once you've done
the first three or four hours
as a punter
you're just like
well I'm not
I'm not leaving it now
especially when you're
you might go for a kip again
but like basically
the longer you're in it
the longer you're willing
to stay in it
past that aren't you
I wonder if we could stream it
we'd have to
I think we'd have to
set some sort of stream up
and then work out
how to get it all up or whatever when stream something to go it then i don't like if we if
we do 48 hour podcast i'm sure we could set the record for audio and video and like we could just
pick a bunch of legends and book them in two hour slots and be like could you come and do two hours
we can tag in and out a little bit. Come on. That'd be fucking amazing.
Yeah, and it would be...
Mark's got to be here for that.
I'd love to do it, yeah.
Also, now you've got this,
like you say,
you could comfortably live in this for...
I'm going to try to.
And not for the world record attempt.
I just want to be here alone.
I was going to say,
for six months, yeah.
A would you rather.
We live and die by these would you rathers.
Would you rather.
George Wanless says,
got a would you rather for you. If your team was in the fa cup final and you were going down to wembley would you
rather wear a full kit including boots captain arms band and cap uh or oh and cap sorry or go
head to toe in the union jack we're talking full union jack suit socks shoes and possibly a hat
to complete the ensemble both need to be carried with the utmost seriousness.
There can be no chat of this for a bet, ATC.
So you can't be like, oh, it's just a bet.
You've got to wear it in seriousness
down to fucking Wembley.
Love the pod.
Keep the bullshit coming.
That's from George.
It's just, I mean, the easiest one in the world for me,
so I'll pass it over to Mark.
Yeah, now I support a team
that have only been to the Efficot Final once,
and that was in 1909.
Is that Bristol City? Yeah, we're in the second tier but like i'd say if we got to the final there's nothing i wouldn't do like i i think all bets are off i'd so like i think full kit
like including boots is all right i'd like i know that there's a lot of that full kit wanker thing
is a sort of but i reckon i'd i think i could that. The boots and the captain's armband is maybe a bit much,
but I reckon.
The boots is a little much.
I'd much rather be a full kit wanker
than a full blown union jack shagging paedophile.
Post,
post Brexit,
post mother,
post Queen's death,
if you went down to Wembley now,
full union jack,
you'd look like such a flag noncy sort of racist,
wouldn't you?
It's just, yeah, I don't think. I'd rather go naked than wear a fucking union jack you'd look like such a flag noncy sort of racist wouldn't you it's just yeah
yeah i don't think i'd rather go naked than wear a fucking union jack that's a good would you rather
actually yeah naked at the fa cup final would you rather go no you wouldn't rather go naked though
no i absolutely would if you were allowed let's say you are allowed into wembley naked yeah you'd
rather sit there like that for 90 minutes i don't think it's written in any of the bylaws that you can't go in
yeah
if you take in blue tube
before you get in there
bylaws
I'll take a full nudity
this is interesting actually
would you
they wouldn't let you in
would they
no
no they'd arrest you
would they kick you out
if you got naked
once you were in
yes
they probably would
quite quickly as well
officer
Dave
I do not respect
your authority
I was born this way
it's funny because
you'd be arrested that way
you'd get chucked out
if you're a streaker
on the pitch
but you don't have to
see someone strip off
and then
are you going to streak
no I'm just
a bit hot
yeah just fancy it
warm
woo
hands off
just doing this with me
because I'm going to
stop
imagine the feeling
if someone next to you
at a game
started to take the clothes off you'd think I'm going to witness a a top on. Imagine the feeling if someone next to you at a game started to take the clothes off
and you thought,
I'm going to witness
a streak here,
but then they just
remain in the seat.
You've got your kids near you
like, don't look, look.
So sorry.
Awful.
I go Union Jack
rather than naked.
I'm not taking my small peen arse
to a fucking cup final.
Nah.
It'd certainly be a
talking point, wouldn't it?
I don't think that.
Yeah, I think a final's
always sunny, isn't it?
Yeah, it wouldn't be a bad day to be naked
it's normally it's may mid may yeah the end of may now do you have to wear the current home kit or
because no retro it's going to be the current with the goalkeeper on the back of the home kit
of the home outfield yeah oh you put it wrong as well the goalkeeper's name but yeah right so it
doesn't even so not even his number so i've've got to have Alison on the home kit with number 11.
Oh, that would feel odd actually.
Yeah, in a way that's almost the worst bit.
People thinking you're not in the real world.
I think Westerveld on the new kit.
Shout out, Sander Westerveld.
He played for Everton as well, you know.
Sander Westerveld.
That's a little old fact.
He just made his transfer to Everton.
I remember hearing my own name.
I loved him.
Reebok.
Was he Reebok era?
He was, wasn't he?
The green one, I can see him in the Reebok green one as well
Green and navy blue
Yeah
See it
Love
Reebok were class when it was the old
My god
Let me do you a Sunder Festival impression
What?
No he used to go
It's uncanny
What?
What is that?
I wanted to be a goalkeeper when I was a kid
Adam what do you think about
Like retro
Kits like for Liverpool fans,
for example? Because I've got a Liverpool
massive Liverpool fan mate who
takes a really dim view of people wearing
Carlsberg and Candice. I'm not sure why.
He thinks it's too try-hard or something?
I really like the retro stuff.
I won't wear... Huh?
Insane, innit? Just use code CARL10 if you're going to.
Carl's sponsored by classic football shirts.
Just Carlo.
Doesn't give the revenue to the...
Absolutely, just me.
Absolutely fine.
I've got a few classic Liverpool tops,
but I wouldn't...
So I wouldn't wear the current kit
unless I was playing football.
Right.
But I would wear a retro top.
Interesting, yeah.
For like...
We went to Leeds festival and i had
the yellow retro i'll show you the picture in a minute and he had the retro everton top on
right at leeds festival like a couple of weeks ago that's good um but you'd not wear this shirt
to it no that would make me feel i wouldn't go with you no i don't know it has to be at least
like 20 years old 20 years old yeah that's interesting so you think retro beats modern
yeah every single time modern modern training stuff i like wearing because it's always nice like 15, 20 years old. Yeah, that's interesting. So you think retro beats modern? Yeah.
Of course.
Three single time.
Modern training stuff
I like wearing
because it's always nice
fitting and stuff.
Old training stuff's
a bit baggy.
Yeah.
But that was boring
for everyone listening,
but yeah.
Okay.
It's always been like,
hey.
Adam gives good advice.
Mark, I think you've got
quite a sort of a wise
sort of way about you.
I think you'll give
a good advice.
People, oh yeah, for sure. And it's serious, so give a good advice. People, people, and it's serious.
So please take it seriously.
Well, the whole podcast is pretty serious.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
People don't come for laughs.
No, they can go somewhere else for that.
Stay at that height.
This is from Anonymous.
Dave says, wag wag lids.
Whoa, whoa.
Anonymous, please.
I've been seeing this lady
for just over two years
and have recently decided
it's time to call it a day
on our relationship
the issue is
that she has only recently
like two weeks ago
got a job
as the manager
where I work
making her
my boss
now I don't know
what to do
as I want to break up
with her
but can't really be arsed
with the awkwardness
of working together
after a breakup
would love your advice
please lids plant drugs on her in work but can't really be arsed with the awkwardness of working together after a breakup. Would love your advice, please, Lids.
Plant drugs on it in work.
Game over.
So easy.
So easy.
Organise the police
ahead of time.
Put loads of cocaine
in her bag.
Yeah.
And then,
so then she's fired
and then you can split up
with her.
Yeah, you can say,
oh, drugs,
that's not a bit of me.
Bam.
Someone I know
wants to leave the army
exactly
and did
got his mate
to do that to him
to get checked out
of the army
yeah
so he
so many of life's problems
are solved by planting cocaine
on someone it turns out
yeah
he wants to leave the army
but he had a few years left
so he
he got his mates
to plant cocaine
in his
like his
bunk or whatever
and then got his mate to grass
and say yeah
he's doing coke
so with that
and he was just
honourably discharged
why couldn't he have
just sort of
planted it himself
and then be like
he's got someone to
he's gone through
with the full
plausible deniability
then
yeah
you have him
turning around
so he can have
deniability
fine
double Jeffrey
did it work
did he get you that
yeah fair play yeah his missus was pregnant and he wants to go and see his kid grow yeah fair enough I have no deniability. Fine. Double Geoffrey, isn't it? Did it work? Did he get you that? Yeah.
Fair play.
Yeah.
His missus was pregnant and he wants to go and see his kid grow.
Yeah, fair enough.
I think you've got to,
I think you've got to listen to Adam Rowe though
because women, powerful women,
very sexy.
Yeah.
I would wait a while.
So all of a sudden,
all of a sudden,
she's like,
you're not down for a shift till,
you're like,
oh, wow, what's that?
Power.
She's got a rotor.
Nothing sexier than a woman with a rotor. As I've said for a shift till uh oh wow what's that power she's got a rotor nothing sexier than a woman with a rose for a while i find powerful women really attractive yes which i think is that's
i agree yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah not a woman who can tell you you're not going on your break yeah
you'd love that if they yeah yeah there's nothing more sexy than a supervisor at Frankie and Benny's
when I'm on a split shift
Adam
clean the kitchen
floor
and you're like
oh you sexy bitch
like no
I couldn't stay for 15-20 minutes
because you fucking hell
what for
someone's puked
if they're working like
the range
and she's his manager
I just leave
because
it's not sexy is it
where's sexy
where's
the rain
we could have done
with someone
fucking the managers
of the rain
last week
when we need a
furniture for this place
can we take these
six chairs off the floor
no they're display
so he's not said
your correspondent
has not said where
no not what type of
work it is or anything
no
I think it's a morgue
no it is
it is
it is
it is
is it sexiest of all the food chains I think you've nailed morgue. It is. Taco Bell. It is Taco Bell.
Is it?
Sexiest of all the food chains.
I think you've nailed it with the planting drugs on it.
Gone by a groundsworth of drugs.
The best class in town.
A groundsworth?
Or a groundsworth?
A groundsworth.
A groundsworth of drugs.
The best money you'll ever spend.
Do you want to get her fired or get her 15 years in prison?
No, personal use.
A grand?
A grand.
Oh, shit. If she does end up in prison,
then that is your problem
well and truly solved,
Exactly.
She's deaf all gone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unless they find out
that you did it to her
and then they put you
in a mixed gendered prison
and she ends up being
the top dog
and then you're back
in the same situation.
That is unlucky though.
Is she going to prison?
You've got to think
that far ahead.
But why is she going
to prison if you get caught
fraud
she's still in there
it's a separate offence maybe
because you get done
as coke conspirators
in another bag
that is actually
loads of lemon
you don't even have to do it
the twist is
she's a massive coke head
yeah
she's been stealing tackles
Joe Williams says
hey lids
hey lids
I'm looking for some advice
I'm 21 year old lad and i'm looking for new mates
but i've got anxiety oh sorry oh no there's nothing wrong with sorry joe i laugh but i've
got anxiety about going out and meeting new people i've had a girlfriend for two years and
her company continues to be great plus she's ushered me in with her group of friends but
they're all uni students so they're away for most of the year i feel that having a girlfriend rules
out bars and clubs
and going on the pool or whatever,
but I don't deal well with crowds anyway.
I'm wondering if the Lids have any advice
as to where I could go
or how I could change my attitude
to meeting some pals.
Thanks, Joe.
Five-a-side.
Yep.
Five-a-side.
Five-a-side.
Or another hobby.
Where everybody knows your name.
Five-a-side's a good shout.
That is right.
That is like,
it's hard to,
if he's into football,
it's hard to think of an easier way to meet.
Yeah,
but how would you find the game of Five Aside?
If you've got no mates?
Just wander up one day.
It's an app.
Yeah.
That is,
find the game or something it's called.
Yeah.
Or the local snooker.
Wow.
You're getting closer to that grand of drugs,
aren't you?
Just turn up.
Hello,
I would like to play snooker.
I think I'd go for the app, yeah.
I tell you what, I cannot wait.
I literally cannot wait for all the groups of friends
to be brought together.
All her uni mates, all your snooker mates.
This is Alan and Ian.
We're friends.
So, do you like snooker?
What are you studying?
Snooker.
You can actually do. That's the University of Bootle.
You can do a BA in snooker.
He's a snooker artist.
A BA in snooker?
Yeah, it's one of the leading... I'm actually a potologist.
If you're talking about a seat of learning,
the University of Bootle.
That's amazing.
Those who can bootle
you do you're abroad in sheffield at the crucible can we do can we do the branding
for the university of bootle the university of bootle go ahead
what's welcome into the dream believe achieve it'd be like go to bed
get on it stop being a fanny get Get a degree. You're not bad.
The University of Bootle.
It needs to be a hobby though,
doesn't it?
Somewhere you're surrounded
by a lot of like-minded people.
Even online,
you can find friends gaming.
Oh, mate.
Pottery?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Fiberside pottery?
Fiberside pottery.
No, it's some of mine.
Tough game tonight.
It's a tough place
to go and get a result.
Compensative pottery. Drawing a life- to go and get a result. Competitors of pottery.
Join a life drawing class.
Five wheels just facing each other.
I'll tell you the best team of pottery.
Stowe.
Very nice.
Carl, I'm going to give you that.
I didn't even want to.
Someone else has got a big pot going
and you just slide in.
Put a reducer on them.
Draw me friends.
I'd watch competitive pottery
Oh 100%
A life drawing
Classes apparently
Are a good way to meet people
What other
21 year old mates
Yeah
You're going to end up
With a 68 year old divorcee
Called Pam
That's your bezo
It's a start
You come back from uni
I want you to meet Pam
Vegas
Vegas
Happy Tuesday
It is true though
Do something
Lads are so much better when they're doing,
when there's an element of doing.
That's a podcast.
Going doing.
Exactly.
That's where the pottery, the five star pottery comes in.
What the, climb, everyone's climbing.
You're always on about climbing.
You don't make friends at climbing,
no that'd be weird.
You make enemies.
They're always out there bugging you.
You're not there to make friends, mate.
You're made to make fucking progress.
If he'd written anything, I'm looking anything, I'm looking to make some enemies.
If you turn up to climb and go,
would you like to climb with me?
You get kicked out.
What about abseiling?
Because there's an element of like-
Literally kicked off, like off the climbing wall.
Get off the wall.
Carl, on the fucking kid's wall.
Get the fuck off.
Now we need another five-a-side party, it'd be good.
Join a walking group.
There's walking groups as well now, isn't there? need another five-a-side party. It'd be good. Join a walking group. There's walking groups as well now, isn't there?
Oh, five-a-side.
All right.
You've changed, mate.
I'm not an old woman.
Walking.
Aplique.
Haberdashery.
Yeah.
Parkour.
Oh, parkour would be great.
That looks great.
No, no.
Again, though, are you getting much time to meet people
or are you just leaping up and down buildings?
It's just a fast moving goth.
I'm not having it.
Oh, look at that fucking wall.
Ha!
Shut up.
Fast moving goth.
Rollerblading.
Five-a-side rollerblading with knives.
Joe, try all of these in the same week.
Basically, Joe-
What a week.
We agree it should be five-a-side something. Yeah, yeah, we agree it should be five or so something.
Yeah.
Five-a-side parkour.
That would be a great week, you're right.
Join your local darts team at the local pub.
That is actually a good idea.
That's a good one, is it?
Yeah.
Take Pam.
Hang on, he's 25, he's all in anxiety,
you want him to go and join the darts team.
I'll tell you what, he's gonna feel anxious,
he's just aging by four years.
He's 21.
He's a young lad, he's 21.
You're getting eaten alive in the darts club?
I agree, Adam.
He should do all of these
like,
consecutive nights
and then someone
should film it.
Maybe he's got too many mates.
Yeah.
Or,
listen,
just throwing it out there,
go to a gay club.
You'll make friends.
21-year-old lad.
Bum friends.
Wow,
nice and subtle there.
Thanks for that.
There is...
Go to a gay club
to make friends
as a 21-year-old straight man.
Yeah, it was silly, wasn't it? it was silly wasn't it do you know what that was silly i shouldn't have said that i was saying it to just be stupid but you're right adam because this is the most serious podcast i'm done can i
stop you there are there five aside oh yeah i go five a side gays clubs easy
there's a chaotic quiz
once a month
at the shipping forecast
where you make many friends
yeah
come to our quiz
that is always
sold out
you can always make
friends at the
comedians club
Chester
on September 24th
I hear Finn Taylor
Nick Doody
and Vittorio Angeloni
are looking to make
friends
come to our quiz
have a word
shall we do some
have a words and then let Mark Watson go and do a tour yes it's time to have a word Shall we do some have a words
And then let Mark Watson
Go and do a tour
Yes
It's time to have a word
With Adam and Dan
Which one am I choosing
Cause I fucking can
This one's quite good
From a woman called Tash
Let's read it with our face
Alright the boys
Can you have a word with my fella
Cause he's being a fucking jealous cunt
About a mate
who's a lad I've had since I was in college.
We've been mates for nearly 10 years.
Never had anything happen.
Would never want it to.
It'd be like necking my fucking brother.
Been seeing my fella for 18 months
and he's honestly a bit of a jealous type,
which I can be as well, so I'm not that arsed.
But not about my fucking mate of 10 years.
He reckons men and women can't be actual friends and it's bollocks and he's about my fucking mate of 10 years he reckons men and
women can't be actual friends and it's bollocks and he's doing my head in have a word lads love
you lovely love you lot loads from tash projecting what he means is that he wouldn't trust himself
around ladies so he doesn't trust his girlfriend around men he's projecting fuck him off next
on you go what do you think, Mark?
I'm not following that.
My favorite bit was the way he went,
projecting, projecting.
Where's he getting that from?
He's only getting that from his own actions
unless it's happened to him before.
Yeah, jealous people in relationships
often put their own insecurities about themselves
onto their partner and then expect that-
Sorry, can you sing it first, Adam?
Like you did.
Jealous people!
Closer each day.
It's interesting though
that Tash said
she can be jealous as well.
Yeah,
she even said
I'm not that arsed
so it doesn't seem
like an urgent problem.
But it's obviously,
there is exceptions
to the jealousy.
Like,
if you've been mates
with someone
for 10 years
and they were your best mate,
you can't then meet then You can't meet someone
And have them go
Who's this
You're like
He predates you mate
By a long way
I think that's
Yeah it's Laura the jealous type
So I've got quite a lot
Of female friends
Yeah
And Laura
And you fuck them all
Don't you
What
All the time
You fuck all
That's the opposite
Of what I do Adam
I'm not quite as sexual as you You've banged everyone you banged laura which i just like to live with
she needed to meet them first yeah understandably then yeah so i i've got i've got some really close
female friends but she just laura was like oh okay fine and then met them and saw the dynamic yeah and
went oh i get it yeah but yeah before that she was a little bit like i've got three a named female
friend that's like a mystery figure is always going to be it wasn't yeah yeah was single as
well yeah yeah two of my other best mates have they're married i agree it's just that you can't
be friends oh it's what he what he what he means is i am not friends with any women
so it's not fair so what he's saying is yeah the secret you wouldn't be yeah the secret tell on
this is the only interest i have in women is women i want to fuck so that means beyond that i'm not
interested in so yeah it's it's a very fine i'm a female friend. Oh, he sounds like-
Yeah.
Go on Friends Reunited.
Find someone who's struggling to be reunited with people.
And be like, well, you have to John.
This is John.
And go on Friends Reunited.
Can you intercept the system on that?
I'm looking for him, but-
No, no, no.
No, I think the jealous boyfriend needs to go to a pottery class.
Five-a-side pottery.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What did he say?
A real drawing class.
Links the last two together.
Life drawing.
For sure.
We've got two of the 10 boys
for pottery now,
so get them a WhatsApp group
and off we go.
A pottery team on the go.
Yeah.
Oh, poor 21-year-old Tom.
My girlfriend's at university.
My girlfriend's trying
to fuck everyone.
Angry, angry first meet-up.
Get him a female friend.
Go on Friends Reunited
as him.
Set up a fake profile.
Message women
and say,
we went to school together.
First, first. We'll leave, yeah? Friends Reunited at the age of 21. as him sets up a fake profile message women and say we went to school to get there the first person to believe yeah
friends reunited
at the age of 21
in the age of social media
and also in this
where have all my friends gone
I do feel like you've got
a lot of faith in
friends reunited here Adam
yeah
is it still going
half of them are dead
they're all on twitter
all of them
having a reunion
four years after school.
Where have you got to?
Yeah, look at that.
If you Google Friends Reunited, Wikipedia comes up.
It's shut down.
It's gone.
Friends Reunited, the first hit is a Wikipedia page
about what it used to be.
Oh, what do you use now?
There must be a replacement.
Maybe because of Facebook and like you say,
because social media.
Yeah.
Oh, it's called Mates Back Together now.
How is it? Check it. It's called mates back together now. How is it?
It's the rest of the internet.
Don't check it.
Don't check it.
I didn't.
I didn't do anything you were about to say.
All right, I think I used to know you.
Have you been killed in year nine?
The Welsh version of friends reunited.
Oi.
By the way, Mark, lots of murderers went to our schools.
Right, right.
I'm starting to get that.
There was five murderers in mine and Carl's year.
Five murderers in your year?
Five convicted murderers.
Year.
That's unbelievable.
Yeah.
It's a good one, isn't it?
I don't know if it's good, exactly.
No, you don't know.
It's the world record.
It's got to be up there.
If you could get a list of the most murder-affiliated schools,
it's got to be high.
Yeah.
Five in a year. But it wasn't a bad school. Not murder-filled schools, it's gotta be high. Yeah.
Five in a year.
But it wasn't a bad school.
Not so bad school.
Was it a freak year or were you regularly producing
top level murderers?
A freak year.
Cause that wasn't a top academy.
I don't think we know that for sure.
They were in top set for murdering.
So.
Yeah, they were streamed.
They were only set.
As far as our Duke of Edinburgh award was made.
That's amazing.
Only five of us passed.
Sometimes you get these schools that produce a lot of
like top level sports
people but you don't
often hear of murderers
we are top level
we were a specialist
sports college
Steven Gerrard went to
our school we don't
mention it
David Nugent
the footballer as well
David Price
the boxer
thank god they all
made it otherwise
there'd be more
dead bodies
our school produced
interesting people
your school produced
sports people
murderers and
podcasters ultimately
yeah
that's
was there any connection
between the five of them
as well
or just
it was one attack
right
no but they all
they all
weirdly they all met
at pottery
yeah yeah
five-a-side murder
five-a-side murder
yeah
I'm aching all over
I went to that
five-a-side murder
thing last night
we're all getting done together
yeah yeah
at least we're mates now though
that was like
since school
like
how long have we been
after school
14 years
it's just been
incrementally like
oh there's another one
that's amazing
yeah
like
we had one in my year
and he wasn't
he was not in
even found guilty
it was
do you remember
that years ago
there was a fellow
he was on the news
it was a big one
his wife died on honeymoon in South Africa yeah Sri Andwani his name was wasn't he? He was not in the end even found guilty. It was, do you remember that years ago there was a fellow, he was on the news, it was a big one.
His wife died on honeymoon in South Africa.
Yeah.
Shreya Ndwani his name was.
Ah, yeah.
And then it was,
he was in my year
and he was eventually found not guilty
but it's one of these ones
where it's impossible
to sort of know.
Yeah,
a lot of people
probably shouldn't
pass comment on this illegally.
No,
I heard he definitely did it.
Fine, okay. Well, that's kind of your not mine yeah so yeah it's my my opinion allegedly that he definitely did it allegedly your opinion allegedly it's my opinion that this fellow definitely your alleged opinion
it was about 15 years after we left school again and the incredible thing was this like this
intricate complicated case that happened. This is Africa.
No one knew anything about it really
but everyone had been
at the school
was like either,
yeah,
I can imagine him doing it
or it made you worry
about juries and stuff
because none of us knew
fuck all
but everyone had an opinion.
Everyone was pitching in.
Have you ever done jury duty?
No,
I always think
it would be quite fun
but then you think about
what it would do
to your diary.
It would come at a time
when you had like six weeks of stuff in.
Oh, I want a multiple murder that gets boxed off in about four working days.
That's the, it's not going to happen, is it?
You're looking for a quickie.
The juicy ones, this blue cheer will wear off.
They last for fucking months.
I can't.
Can you tell me then, is it compulsory?
Like, isn't it?
You have to have a good reason.
So like where?
You can't be like, oh, I broke my arm.
Don't worry about me.
I get excused.
Would you say I've got tour dates in,
or, like, would they not?
I would bash three blue chews, turn up no pants,
I'd be off that jury real quick.
Yeah, I want to do it.
It's a bit like the planting cocaine thing.
There's probably ways you could get off a jury quite quickly.
Yeah.
Plant cocaine on the judge,
and the whole thing will get thrown out?
Yeah.
Or just in the first 10 minutes,
yell, guilty!
Turn up next!
Turn up in the full kit of your...
Yeah, yeah.
And immediately,
he's done it, him.
He's done it!
Shout, wanker, wanker!
What are we even listening to anything else for?
He's done it!
That would get you on.
There's a load of ways
I think a couple of those
and you'd probably
sorry
sorry your honour
no sorry
no I'll listen to this
for some people
it's the opposite
it'd be a dream
to have a multi-week one
wouldn't it
like if you
if you hated your job
yeah
now I'd love like a
fucking two year long trial
where there's fucking
you know when it
like it's eventually
going to be on Netflix
you realise you can't go on your phone at one way any country's talking about where's that
bullshit when you're away in the hotel you have no contact i don't what do you think that's the
point isn't it you're quite my mum did you i do a bit of stand-up about this my mum is really
chatty and she would always be like can't tell you anything about it you know you're under oath
exactly then she'd tell she would tell you that she'd be like oh you're never gonna meet him anyway because he's from
sunderland i think that's part of the oath to be fair you're not gonna meet him because he's
from sunderland and he's going 25 to life now actually well if i did that don't tell us anymore
please it's like she was she loved the idea of being under oath but she someone like my mum can't
easily keep to the terms you do a really good job on Jodie Jousey
do you get to go back
my mum's done it twice
is it like oh
he was a good Jodie
let's get him back
every week
isn't it
it's meant to be random
yeah but she's done it twice
within like the space
of 15 years as well
I think it's on your job
as well
oh I'm a hon
it's interesting
boys
all we ever need to do
is send them one
patron exclusive episode.
Could you watch
eight minutes
of this episode
and we will be excused
from any jury.
And then consider
whether we are fit for jury duty,
yeah.
I want to do it.
Right.
I think it'd be great.
I've sat in a court case
and I loved it.
Such a mad environment
to be in
that we're not used to.
It would be an experience,
wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah,
it's not somewhere.
It's got to be a juicy,
like,
maid.
Yeah,
you don't want
Like fucking fraud
Or something
Oh you did rob
The fucking tenner
You want like a
Four car pile up car crash
Like someone intentionally
Caused
It is true
Oh you robbed a tenner
Fraudster
That's the thing
It's a real
It's a real mixed bag
Imagine if the case
Gets read out
And you're like
Oh for fuck's sake
No when you're
Sat there going Murder murder Yeah you're hoping For murder, for fuck's sake. No, when you're sat there,
you go, murder, murder.
Yeah, you're hoping for murder
and then...
All right, lads,
I haven't seen you since school.
It's good to see you.
You'd not find out
until you're in court,
would you?
Any details,
you'd be going in blind.
So there must be
a disappointment
must go through the jury.
They open an envelope
in front of the jury
and they're like,
and you've got...
Tax evasion!
Oh, you'd be gutted.
It's picked on you demographic, isn't it?
No, they give you three envelopes to pick,
and you pick one,
and whatever they pull out,
they bring that case in.
No, they've changed it.
What do you mean?
Picked on your demographic?
Yeah, so it's like a rape case or something.
They'll obviously,
they'll change the demographic of the jury.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Of course they will.
How does that work?
The jury's picked, isn't it?
It's not just random.
They've got loads of jurors in a room.
It's selected by the defence and the prosecution, isn't it? They pick one each, got loads of jorys in the room it's selected by
the defense and the prosecution hang on hang on it's like captains what's it called what's the
what's the for joie de joie de what is it i know you mean yeah guardia yeah jory selection
wendier plays for honestly sounds like you're trying to say jordan shakiri
no it's the first bit's random and then they select it.
Yeah, no, totally.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of the pool of Jorahs in the court at that point.
Yeah, they whittle them down.
And certain Jorahs act certain ways
to either get picked or...
You're gone.
I'm gone.
I'm there in a Watford kit
with Sander Vestervoel printed on the back like...
I've never considered that,
but yeah, obviously,
so you can get that close
and still not actually get on.
Oh, yeah.
Imagine if you got picked and you went, yes!
Fucking get in!
They'd send you home again.
No, so it was Jordan COVID,
so we can't sit you all in the building,
so we'll call you if you're on a case.
Like the X Factor or something where they tell you.
Yeah, but you had two weeks off work
and they were like, oh, we didn't call you, you're fine.
So if you got Jordan duty at home and didn't do anything
because of COVID.
On Zoom.
Essentially.
They weren't the same, though, those court cases.
No, behind closed doors. Yeah, there was no atmosphere. There was the same though those court cases no behind closed doors yeah there was no atmosphere it ruined it really didn't it you couldn't hear the guilt yeah should go and sit on a court case
so i said the cases without fans and nothing yeah i sat in on a murder trial uh quite an infamous
one and uh yeah as long as you're not allowed to take any recording devices in you can take a pen
and paper then you can't just show a recording device though.
Me head.
What?
You can just, like, on a given day, you can just show up like...
That's interesting.
No videos, Adam.
But you go in and you say to the person...
You're not even a fucking judge.
So they search you and you go in and you go,
can I have today's thingy?
And they tell you what all the cases are.
Right.
And what court, at what time.
And you go up and the fella at the, like, controls,
it can be like, no, fuck off if he thinks you're a vagrant. Right, yeah. But if you wandered in, you can up and the fella at the controls can be like no fuck off if he thinks
you're a vagrant
but if you wandered in
you can sit and watch
is this when you were
studying journalism
when I was studying journalism
yeah to go and watch
some murder cases
it was great
I loved it
it was like
such an interesting
environment
you only see it on the telly
to be sat there
I was like wow
do you reckon there's people
that go a lot
that are like fans
yeah definitely
oh season ticket holders
yeah yeah
I missed last Wednesday
but I'm back on
100% there will be you know if you're like take the little pat lunch Oh, season ticket holders. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I missed it. That's Wednesday, but I'm back on. That was a good one.
100% there will be, you know, if you're like... There will be.
Take the little packed lunch, have a sandwich.
It's a murder barrel.
I know.
Get your arms going, don't you?
It's like an away end.
Yeah.
He's good again!
Yeah, we did it again.
Oh, shit!
Yeah.
Judge, judge, judge.
Wank, wank, wank.
That's it.
You don't know what you're doing!
Yeah.
You get removed for that.
I think that's a pod.
Everyone happy with the pod?
Wonderful.
Come and see us at the arena,
ladies and gents.
Last few tickets really,
innit?
Yeah,
about 300 left.
We've got a huge meeting this week
to design the show.
Imagine missing out on that.
Oh,
I get it late,
I get it late,
I get it late.
Just get it now.
Get it,
go and get it right now.
It's cheap and boss. Pogo sticks. Ishan Akbar. Yeah. Just made that up, but it it late. I get it late. I get it late. Just get it now. Get it. Go and get it right now. It's cheap and boss.
Pogo sticks.
Ishan Akbar.
Yeah.
Just made that up,
but it could happen.
Mark, you're on tour.
Yeah.
MarkWatsonComedian.
I think it's
MarkWatsonTheComedian.com.
Okay.
And that is because someone who's,
I said this in the interval,
but there's someone who collects stick insects
and he already had a Mark Watson website.
Yeah.
Don't buy tickets to that live.
It's not going to be.
It's a lot slower as a live experience.
People used to occasionally send me queries
about the care of sticking sex,
and I'd normally just have a guess.
You've killed so many.
Yeah, yeah.
Many died.
But yeah, markwatsonthecomedian.com.
Thanks so much for coming in, mate.
That's been really fun.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, and obviously good luck
with whatever you use this building for, Adam.
Sex.
See you, lads.
Shall we do a song?
Got a song?
No, don't want to do it.
Yeah, cool.
This week,
it's a band called Static,
their debut single
with Moscow.
Oh my God.
My mate used to be in,
my mate used to be in that band.
He's left now.
He's really happy about it.
He's ex-static.
Is there a bell or anything for that
or do you just have to deal with that?
Order! Order! Is there a bell or anything for that Or do you just have to deal with that Order
Order Thank you. standing. They send in brave men to do their dirty work. They're unaware responsibilities
are shirked. Their heads in the clouds, our feet are on the ground. They live their life
as life, but we all get dragged down. Moscow, we're here to stay. Look at them wrong and
they drag you away. Moscow, they don't like to play in Moscow
Sheltered masses blindly led
Fall in line or off with their heads
We're all equal so they propose
But their actions are quite juxtaposed
Is it just me
who can see
Just how relentless
the media can be
The world is turning faster
than before
We're so far back
that we're out the door
Moscow, we're here to stay
Look at them wrong and they drag you away
Moscow, they don't like to play in Moscow
Moscow, say nothing's wrong
Stay in your bubble and you'll get along
Moscow, pretend nothing's wrong with Moscow We'll see you next time. Moscow, we're here to stay
Look at them wrong and they drag you away
Moscow, they don't like to play
Moscow
Moscow, say nothing's wrong Like to play in Moscow Moscow
Say nothing's wrong
Say and you're bumbling
You'll get along
Moscow
Say nothing's wrong
With Moscow