Have A Word with Adam Rowe & Dan Nightingale - #61 Shutdown Pod (VIA ZOOM) -w/Adam & Dan
Episode Date: June 1, 2020Remember to checkout Adam's new special: Adam Rowe CLUB COMIC on YouTube. Follow us on socials @haveawordpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See ...acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Discussion (0)
Thanks so much for downloading the Have A Word podcast.
We really appreciate it.
If you'd like to support the podcast, sign up at patreon.com slash haveawordpod.
Everyone that signs up on Patreon gets an exclusive episode.
They also get extra content.
You can also get merchandise discounts, live show tickets.
But that extra episode is the big one.
So Monday and Friday, they're the public episode.
Monday, that's for everybody.
Friday, that's for every motherfucker as well.
But Wednesday is a whole extra exclusive episode just for Patreons.
Sign up at patreon.com
slash have a word pod. Thank you.
What's happening guys? It's Adam here. Just a quick
word from our sponsors before we kick off today's
episode. That is beer52.com
Beer52 is the UK's
most popular craft beer discovery
club. They're number one baby and they'll send
you some amazing beers every month
and you can rate and review them via their website
to earn points and rewards.
Now, every month's beers that you get sent
will have a brand new theme.
Past themes have been the beers of Germany,
California, Belgium, Korea, New Zealand,
South Africa, and many, many more.
And they've kindly given our listeners an exclusive offer.
You'll get a free case of eight beers,
an award-winning beer magazine,
and a tasty snack the second you sign up.
They'll send them out in the post here, and you can't catch
Corona from the post. All you have to do
is pay a few quid for the delivery, and you
can cancel or pause your membership at any
time. Sign up now at beer52.com
slash word. That's our
exclusive link. That's
beer52.com
slash w-o-r-d.
You'll claim your free case of beer
and for every person that signs up
via that link only.
They slide us a little bit of money.
That supports the podcast.
It helps us out.
It's win-win.
So do us a favour.
Pause the pod here.
Go and do that now
and then enjoy the episode.
Nice one.
See you in a bit.
Fucking did it in one take, bro.
Yeah, man.
Now,
I'm getting the word
not.
Cha!
Upset me, nasty bitch!
Catch me outside, how about that?
I'm big-boned.
I'm heavy-structured.
I'm hung low.
If I pull my shit out this whole room, get dark.
Disgusting!
Follow us on social media at Have A Word Pod.
And don't forget to watch our very funny podcast videos on YouTube.
You can subscribe at youtube.com forward slash have a word pod.
They go by Alan and Dave, Aaron and Dean, Grandad and the Yeti, or even Chanel and Denise.
But what's for sure is they are the funniest leads in the podcast game.
Don't be a Tory.
Down your tub or shandy and tell a friend.
This is Have a Tory. Down your turbo shandy and tell a friend. This is Havawad.
Ding dong!
Ding dong!
Hey, sorry about that.
I'm recording, by the way. It's fucking Jimmy Rolls, isn't it?
Cool.
I just got a call from a fencing guy.
It's why we're trying to get a fence sorted
because we have two very fucking large dogs that live next door
and my daughter is mouth height.
Her head is mouth height.
And they're like, they are so gentle.
I'm like, yeah, but they are both fucking massive.
So I would like, they do seem sound and i'm not even like i'm not even
i quite like them they're nice dogs but i'd like a better fucking fence i could jump that fence
and they could jump me so what the fuck are we doing um so that was uh that guy trying to get
some fucking lockdown dollar how are are you doing, Adam?
How are you doing, Achid?
I'm all right.
Oh, he's not having a good day.
It's not a good one.
He's not having a great day.
I can feel it.
I'm just a bit fed up, lad.
Yeah, repetition's kicking in.
Just a bit fed up.
Everything's the same apart from, oh, the world's on fire.
So, yeah, I'm
just a bit fucking bored of it all.
You know what I mean? You know when you just have
a nose debt and it's been like two or three days in a
row now where I'm just a bit...
Yeah, and also you've been building
up to that special.
Yeah, and...
And then you've got that out.
Yeah, and I've been kept busy
by that because I'm still making the little clips
that are going to go out on social media and stuff.
And we've had nearly 10,000 people
have watched the special,
which is Phenom Numbers.
This early on in the release.
You know what I mean?
So I had a few targets in my head.
I had a few targets in my head.
I wanted to see 5,000 views on the first day,
10,000 within a week,
and 20,000 within a month.
That's what I set as a target.
We're just under 10,000 already,
so we should smash through that 10,000 in a week target,
and then we'll move on to 20,000.
I'm putting these little clips out from it,
but the response has been ridiculous
as good as the response we had to this
podcast it's just
a barrage of
positive comments loads of important
people sharing it and watching it and
yeah so if you have
watched it and especially if you've shared it as well
thank you very much if you haven't watched it yet
you're fucking dead to me
alright, dead, gone
you've got a two week window
and then after that
yeah go and
check it out, it's doing well and if
you do enjoy it just spread the word for me
text your mates and say hey check this out
if every single person who watches it does
that then we'll be on 20,000
within a fucking week kid
have you felt a little bit knackered from it
because it's been a lot of work hasn't it
have you felt like
I mean when people hear this they'll be like
what the fuck do you mean knackered
you're like yeah we get it
it's not building a fucking
wood cabin in the
forest
it is a bit knackering, isn't it?
It can be, but it hasn't been.
That's not sort of why I'm a bit sort of slumped.
I'm just a bit fucking bored of everything being so shit,
and it just seems like getting worse.
We started 2020 with what looked like World War III.
Then Australia was on fire.
Then there's a pandemic that's killed everyone. And now
civil war
started in America and it's just fucking
like what
when are the aliens going to
turn up and just take us over? Because I feel
like that can only be a maximum
of two or three months away now. Do you know what I mean?
What if they came with the cure for COVID?
They were like, listen, we are
your alien overlords.
You're going to have to basically be enslaved to us,
but we've got the cure for COVID,
so on your one night off a month,
you can go and see live comedy.
Stupid humans.
What was that voice?
Stupid humans.
We are aliens Robots from Hollywood in the 1970s
We are slightly racist
Borat robot aliens
Oh Adam yeah
I feel it
I feel it a little bit
I think it's
This is weird
I genuinely think it's worse if you've got a fucking social life.
I think it's, I think that's going to have an effect.
If you, if you're where I'm at, you're like, yeah, it is fucking repetition, still got a kid, still, you know, just dicking around doing the same thing.
I think a lot of people who are like, I would like to go and live the fucking life I was living.
Like, we are, we're missing out on some stuff.
Yesterday we went for a walk around a reservoir in Staffordshire,
which was fucking weird to be out of Chester.
To be out of Cheshire was mental.
Little things like that.
Laura's going back into work tomorrow, which is fine.
So things are sort of creeping back,
but yeah, I've noticed a lot of my mates,
no one's like fuming, no one's in shock anymore.
Everyone's just getting that like,
ah, for fuck's sake.
But that weirdly doesn't mean,
I mean, there'll be people hearing this and going,
yeah, but it doesn't mean everything should be fucking lifted just because
of boredom you're like yeah
that's true as well isn't it
it's a careful fucking it's got to be a careful
process that I'm sure the Conservative Party
will deal with wonderfully
say goodbye
to your loved ones
I am yeah
I do think lockdown is being lifted a bit early but
I'm now at the point where I think I've decided
I'm going to just take a bit of a social media break.
I think I'm just going to let it fucking chill for a bit
because I spend hours every day scrolling and promoting stuff.
So I think over the next sort of I don't know week or so
I'm going to put a couple of stand up clips
out from me special to drive people towards
it and then maybe like
I'll give myself four times a day
where I'll go on
check a couple of things quickly
retweet the odd bit of praise
do what I need to do to get people
but I think I'm just
there's no positivity there at the minute and
i think i just need to take a fucking break from it because it's just
awful and me looking at it is not making anything any better so yeah you know what's difficult there
is there is there is some positivity but when there there is a Black Lives Matter protest
and so much upset in America and beyond America about George Floyd's fucking murder,
the positivity just comes across as twee, doesn't it?
You're like, when someone's like, well, there's always, and you're like, oh, shut up.
I know, it's only just fucking happened.
Like, it's literally just happened.
And this anger will come in a wave.
And then it's a natural response for some people to be like,
but what we've got to remember is there is love in the world.
And here's a picture of a black officer holding hands with a white child.
And I don't know if it's a paedophile.
He could be a paedophile, but that's not the point.
He's not kicked her head in, and so it is a positive, isn't it?
Yeah.
It just almost doesn't feel like the right time for that.
It's almost like it feels like you want the anger,
but then the anger has an effect on you.
You're like, oh, fuck, I'm going to bed fuming,
and I'm waking up fucking
fuming it's why i've stopped promoting me special already so i promoted it all day friday and then
saturday morning i woke up and did a bit more and then i was retweeting the odd bit of thing that
people were sending me but it was sort of late saturday in the uk that it started filtering through how bad things have got over in America.
And then all day yesterday and all day today.
And I'm just,
I feel like I was going to put a standup clip out on Sunday yesterday.
That was my plan.
Put the special out Saturday,
put like my favorite clip from it out on a Sunday.
And hopefully that drives more people towards it.
And then I was like,
at the minute, who the
fuck wants to sit
and watch me talk about
fat rights
and whether fat people
need to shut the fuck up for it? Like no one
gives a shit at the minute. It's going to look weird
in a feed innit? It's going to look weird in the feed.
Like just fucking, this guy
this prosecutor says this and this police officer
said this and this murderer adam
rowe i tell you what it's just fucking insane i just can't bring myself to do it so can i can i
tell you something funny right your twitter is a different twitter than mine now i've i've i know
i what adam's feeling now about three years ago I had a massive wave of this, and I was like, social media is not doing me good.
It's making me into the kind of comic who we know, who just literally is embattled and, like, jealous and annoyed about everything and, like like snarky i was like i don't want to
fucking be that guy i'm not that guy it's very hard because you can't control the tone of what
you see you get addicted to picking up your phone fucking murder fucking women's rights
you know there's poverty everywhere and i tell you what i think's a cunt and you're like oh i
was in a good mood and then someone's slagging someone off.
So I unfollowed a lot of it.
And I know there's an element of like that sort of sticking your head in the stand. But I still use the Twitter news feed.
And I still go looking for stuff.
I just don't give up the control of my timeline.
But since we've started a joint Twitter, the Have A Word Twitter,
I'm using that just as much.
And Adam adds things to that that I wouldn't usually add.
I'm fucking out.
Because it's a limited following, we have got, at the moment,
it's fucking mental.
We've got just these are some of the people that tweet a lot.
We've got Louisa Omelan, who is a friend of ours, a good mate of mine. We've been on the phone recently a lot. We've got Louisa Omelan, who is a friend of ours,
a good mate of mine.
We've been on the phone recently a lot.
She's very politicized.
She used to be just straight comedy, really,
and when her first show came out,
what would Beyonce do? It was very young women taking control.
And now she's very angry and politicized
in a lot of the way she tweets.
So comedy's still very funny.
So we're following that.
And then you've got people like Dane Baptiste popping up
and he's obviously a black comedian.
He lives in London and he is fucking politicised
and angry about Black Lives Matter.
I've then got, just as contrast, the Redmen TV.
I mean, repeatedly reminding me that Liverpool won the Champions League
exactly a year ago
and then we've got
Olaf Falafel
doing his fucking
art club
and I'm telling you what
it's not that it's
all depressing
it's mental
that Twitter feed
is mental
it's like
people are dying
Liverpool fucking
nailed it
here's a picture
from Pablo Picasso
I'm like
mate this
this Twitter feed's making me
fucking mental and then someone going hey adam i fucking love the special and you're like what is
going on i could see why you'd want to tone that shit down a bit yeah i'm just gonna i'm gonna give
myself like a new rule when i get up I'll check my emails and my texts
but I'm not checking my social media for like at least
two hours, I'm just not going to touch my phone
and then I'll have like
ten minutes where I check it there, ten minutes
later on, whatever
I'll keep on top of it, I've still got to put a few
things out because this is how we make our living
and shit
but yeah, it's just a bit too
fucking eggy at the minute.
And I wanted to...
We spoke earlier because
we obviously
talk a lot off pod as well
about what we want the podcast to be.
And we felt
it was important that because we offer an opinion
on everything on this
fucking thing, because that's what we are, opinionated comedians,
we couldn't ignore
what's going on now but we also
I think it's important we say
we're going to say, I'm certainly
going to say what I'm going to say and you say whatever you want
and then we'll
draw a line on the commenting on this because
first of all we're two white lads in the
northwest of England whose life is largely
unaffected by racism. We just want to
make it clear, I certainly want to make it clear that
what side I'm on. But after that
I'm not going to mention this again because
the same way I need to put
my social media down at the minute, I'm sure there's
fucking hundreds and possibly thousands of
people listening to this podcast who feel
exactly the same and we want this
podcast to be a fucking escape.
Our podcast has become successful
because it's utter
fucking nonsense,
stupid, funny bullshit.
That's what our listeners like, and we want that
to be why people are coming to us.
Not to hear constant social commentary
because it's just a bit
too fucking everywhere at the minute.
We've always been honest about when
stuff's come up, when the shutdowns happen.
And I think people listen to this like the up when the shutdowns happen and I think people
listen to this
like the podcast
they like us
and I don't
I think it would be
disingenuous
if we were
dodging everything
because we're like
oh come on Adam
we've just got to do
the shtick you know
that's our shtick
we've been honest
about everything
but we've never
banged on about
the shutdown
I know
I've had messages
of mates going
mate it's so refreshing
to listen to your podcast
because every other pod they're just obsessing with Corona and the shutdown I know I've had messages of mates going, mate, it's so refreshing to listen to your podcast
because every other pod,
they're just obsessing with Corona and the shutdown.
And we talked about it.
And then we just talked about other stuff as well.
We've never pondered on something too much.
When it comes to Black Lives Matter,
you're like, as a white guy living in fucking Cheshire,
I don't think the world's going,
tell you what, let's tune in to have a word
and find out what Adam and Dan definitely think about.
Do you know what I mean?
And I say this before you say what you're saying,
especially when it comes to my village,
and this is in support of all the black people
and BAME people and anyone from an ethnic minority
who has suffered at the hands of police brutality.
I'll tell you this,
if we ever get a black person in this village i i will make sure he's not being up by the police
and i'll say that i mean we'd have to get some police here as well but that's not the point if
sorry go on i've just been a dick um so i i've basically tweeted the exact same thing i'm about
to say and I'm sure most
people have already seen it, but I want to use any little platform I've got to say this. I think
what's going on in America, and we have just the same racial disparity over here, it's just that
in America they have more power, more weapons, everything. I refuse to condemn the rioters and the losers and everything in America because
if this horrible moment
in history, which is what it will
become, leads
to black people
not getting murdered in the streets anymore by police
then it's worth it and that's
the bottom line for me. I've never
been profiled by the police
based on the colour of my skin. I
don't know what it's like to go out every day.
And every time I see a police car,
wonder whether I'm about to be killed.
I can't possibly understand that.
I don't understand that.
So everyone who does feel like that,
I can't say you can't act that way to get the rights you feel you deserve
when I don't know how they're feeling or what they've gone through in their
life.
So I'm not going to do it
I think it's time for change
and that change should be brought around
with any means that they
deem necessary, I'm not saying
I'm not encouraging anyone to go
writing, I'm not encouraging anyone to go
looting, I'm not encouraging anything
what I'm saying
is if people feel like that is their
last resort then I refuse to condemn it, that's all I'm saying is if people feel like that is their last resort then i refuse to condemn
it that's all i'm saying yeah i wonder if it's i wonder if the looting element is just
once that seal's broken by a few dickheads who aren't genuinely going out there fully with the
intent of protesting and making a stance i wonder what
if that once that first target is smashed into if if it's like man the barrier's gone and then
everyone's like oh it's part of the protest was it the blue paper in it yeah because because we've
i think we've seen the twitter videos of protesters in cities a day or two down from Minneapolis, like in Boston and in different cities,
standing in front of shops going,
don't, don't fucking do that,
because then we lose some of the moral high ground.
As soon as you do that,
they get to just paint you with a brush going,
they're thugs.
And they're just,
there's some fucking amazing pictures of that,
like that white woman just walking out of
a smashed up target with some shit under her hand you're like oh don't think that's a protest think
you're just going gonna get some steely steals the best one was the asian woman who walked out
with a full cheesecake did you see that a cheesecake factory got broken into and she just fucking danced out of there
with a full cheesecake on a plate.
Like, really calmly.
She had a mask on.
She had...
I don't know whether it was a hudup
or, like, a niqab or a burger of some sort.
But, yeah, she just bounced out with,
oh, I've got myself a strawberry drizzle cheesecake.
You know your looting is going a little out of hand
when you've gone from, like,
right, we're going to do Gucci
and we're going to do Chanel
they took ages we need a snack
right well let's loot the cheesecake
factory and then
is there anywhere to sell drink
let's loot
a fucking vending machine for a can of pop
there was
a vans shop
you know like the shoes vans getting looted.
I think it might've been in New York
on like 7th Avenue or something.
And a lad runs out of the vans smashed window
and he's got like five boxes of vans in his hands
and he looks left and he's like,
I've got all these vans.
And then he looks right
and there's three police officers. So he just throws all the stuff he's like i've got all these vans and then he looks right and there's three police
officers so he just throws all the stuff he's just robbed all over the fucking street and runs away
and if he's looking if he's if they work out who he is on cctv he's still going to prison
and he because you can't be like dropped it if they've got you on camera
walking out of the shop the guy who who went in the target and came out with a box of lego
that's uh that's one of my favorites like how millennial could you possibly be like oh shit
everyone's looting oh but that death star is like $200. Ooh, damn, I'm going to get myself a collector's pizza.
Honestly, right, let's say you lived in Liverpool with me, right,
and it was kicking off here.
Something's happened and we're kicking off,
and people start looting, right?
Let's say you find yourself in John Lewis, right?
Oh, I know exactly what I'm going for.
What are you grabbing?
Oh, mate, I'm so glad you said John Lewis
because they've got some nice...
It's a big department store, isn't it?
So there's plenty to pick from.
Straight to the fucking cookware section,
I'm getting one of them posh Swiss fucking griddle things.
You know, is it crusette or crusso?
They're like orange underneath
and they are so fucking good.
Oh, for grilling steak. And I'm such a cheap cunt, I'm always like, oh, and they're so fucking good for grilling steak.
And I'm such a cheap cunt, I'm always like, oh, it's 140 quid.
I'll just buy one of the cheap griddles from Amazon that's 30 quid,
and they're never as good. And you'd see me staggering out of a fucking John Lewis with the heaviest item.
That's the problem.
Those fucking things are like wrought iron.
You're like, oh, God.
But straight in there.
Where are you going in, John Lewis?
I would get the one model up of my current coffee machine.
Jesus Christ.
You know you're doing all right if when you go looting
you just want a slight upgrade on your coffee machine.
Adam's doing all right.
I'd just start stealing clothes but wear them
and just try and waddle out
with all my clothes and be like,
have you been looting?
No, I just really feel the cold.
June, dickhead!
Because we're in the middle of sorting this house out,
we've got a lot of rubbish at the minute.
A lot of stuff we're throwing away, so maybe I'd just
take some of this there and leave it
because the tips aren't open at the minute. it's very fucking hard to get rid of this shit
oh my god i pressed the wrong button i was trying to give you an applause and i chaneled it
but it's actually accurate because it's well scouts mate that is fucking genius i would love
it if they got the cct footage up and they were like, right, this fucking daft bitch
stole cheesecake.
That knobhead, student-looking guy
stole Lego. Here's a little...
Is that Grant? Is he a paedophile?
Who's that Danish guy?
I think he's stolen...
He's got a griddle, cookware.
Now this guy, this is an interesting one.
He seems to have looted, but he
goes in with four massive Sports Direct and Ikea bags.
He just comes out with nothing, looking really pleased with himself.
No, I'm still getting me coffee machine.
All right.
Oh, it's a bring and buy.
I'm just swapping it.
It's like a cash converters.
I've gone in.
I've gone, here you are.
I've got all this stuff.
You have that. I'll have a. I've gone, here you are. I've got all this stuff. You have that.
I'll have a coffee machine. We'll call it even.
I mean, I've told you the story of the looting in Manchester
when that night of riots happened, haven't I?
And
I don't think I've ever told the full story,
but me and my mate got stuck in a cinema
while we were watching a film and they
closed the cinema to
let us watch it and i lived this was
2011 and we got back it was horrible getting back after it was really nasty atmosphere in town i
tell the full story on stage it's very fun but when i finally got back my housemate wound me up
i was really stressed but then we sort of watched it was the weirdest thing we watched bbc news on our
living room telly which was right next to our fifth floor window just outside manchester city
center and we would like it was the weirdest thing i've ever and here it is on tv and there it is
live and here it is on tv and we saw because what happened that day it was like after the guy got
shot in London,
then there was a few days of protests that became rioting and looting,
and it moved up Birmingham and Wolverhampton,
and it ended up in Manchester on the Tuesday or Wednesday.
It really just was Scully's kicking off.
It wasn't proper.
There was no placards or anything.
It was just a load of fucking eggy teenagers going,
nice one, let's kick the shit out
of the town center and they dealt with it like that there was at no point were there any loud
hailers it was just knobheads having a fucking boot off bang and olivson got done with a white
two white minivans and they apparently out of nowhere it was really coordinated the cctv footage
of everyone else he's like you can see bell and just like hey let's fucking kick something and then and then the cctv footage they showed it afterwards of
bang and olison was not it was nothing like that all of a sudden there's no one on the street and
then these fucking mob of like kids come and then they smash the windows and then these two white
stolen transit vans turn up they unload and if you're not from the uk bang and olison is
probably not from the uk but there there are like really high-end tvs and stereo system suppliers
and they honestly without exaggerating one of their tvs can be 30 grand and they nicked everything
and then me and andy hunt watched from our window as tons of kids just circled round the JD Sports
and just fucking came.
Oh, it's the weirdest feeling,
watching like a gang of 50 scallies
thinking about busting into a massive JD Sports
and then the police car would come onto the car park,
do a loop and fucking scare them all off
and we'd be like,
it was the most entertaining shit watching
it on the tv seeing the streets around where you live and then just looking out the window and
seeing it fucking mental and the guy coming down the coming down the canal with all sorts of random
shit like a fucking they're just so much so ridiculous have you ever actually seen looting
and have you ever
been anywhere near a protest like that no only on the news and in the films and that it's uh
yeah have you ever been on a march have you ever i've i was thinking today i've literally never
i've never protested anything no me neither like i've sort of been vocal and been to sort of
the
vigils and the services for
the Hillsborough disaster
but
never like an actual
placard protesting
no
well yeah
just
I don't normally care about stuff enough.
I've sort of learned that about myself over the past week or so.
Like, I tend to have a lot of opinions on things,
but there's nothing I really kick off about.
Um...
Sounds like a comedian, that.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like, you're just like, ah, here's what I think.
What are you going to do about it?
Ah, none.
Write the joke.
Tell the joke.
End of story.
I fucking hate the Tories.
Are you going to join another party?
That's not working.
Fucking, the meetings are in the evening.
The meetings are in the evening.
I've got shit to, I've got gigs.
The only thing is, this is what, I mean, I'm not trying to,
but this is all going on against the backdrop of social distancing,
keep your distance, COVID-19, there's a pandemic.
So it really must have this added extra edge.
Like, if you live in one of these cities in America
and you're listening to this, just stay safe beyond the sort of,
you know, the pandemic chat that everyone's been saying.
Now it's like, genuinely, how pandemic chat that everyone's been saying, now it's like genuinely,
how angry must you feel to be like,
yeah, I'm so fucked off with this.
I'm going out and I couldn't give a shit about the pandemic.
This is more important.
I just, I think it's hard for us in this country
to fully understand that.
And that's obviously speaking as a white bloke, but.
Yeah.
Would you rather have bollocks for eyes
or eyes for bollocks
Adam's decided
that got a bit too heavy
could you imagine
could you just imagine
looking round your underpants
alright
let's end that section
of opinion
are you alright?
are you alright?
you just did a yawn and then a like a
this chair is just shit
because I'm still in the fucking
I'm still using boxes and
fucking tiny chest of drawers
side table thing as my fucking
studio
is it painted though?
Is Jade painted it?
It's all gone.
It's all gone quiet.
Mate, Adam, I get it.
Your silence says so much.
If you'd like to kick yourself out on some Have A Word merchandise,
some clobber, or you want a fucking podcast mug,
check out our online store, haveawordpod.com.
www.haveawordpod.com for the merch store.
Nice one.
Shout out to Trans Alloy Wheels.
Alloy wheel refurbishments, car bodywork, and customization services in Leeds and throughout West Yorkshire.
These guys are a well-trusted family business.
They do exceptional work.
If you want your wheels and bodywork jazzing up
and you're anywhere in the north,
go and see Charlie and the boys at Transarlo Wheels.
They're good guys.
They can make your motor look better.
They can add value to your car.
They do insurance work.
They do powder coating, diamond cutting, painting.
They do new tyres, acid stripping, shop blasting,
tyre fitting and removal.
These guys are wheel wizards.
If you've got cracks in your bodywork, they can well repair them
and they do insurance gigs.
And the best part is, have a word, listeners,
get 25% off fucking everything.
The main thing is, Charlie and the guys at Trans Isle Wheels
have supported us during the Rona,
they've sponsored this podcast and we want to support them.
We can't go and get our cars sorted just yet. soon as the rona's done i'm going in the meantime
i'm going to follow them online we'd love it if you could do it as well on facebook they're trans
alloy wheels that's all one word trans alloy all one word wheels give them a like give them a follow
they're on twitter at trans alloy w trans alloy w and have a look for
trans alloy wheels on instagram they've shown this podcast some love let's show them some love back
all right back to the pod
your ma and da listen to have A Word We have a few things
First of all
Do send any suggestions you've got in to haveawordpod
Oh fuck it Al
Where does that come from?
It changes all of the time
We sort of make it up as we go along
We do some chit chat
Then we do some random features in this bit
and have a word comes at the end oh my god it's feels like so long since you've
started doing that shit it took me by surprise i was like oh good god man um yeah first of all we've got a ledge of the day
Michael says
not to blow smoke up your arse but ledge of the day
goes to Adam for timing his release of his special
apparently he's finishing his masters
in physiotherapy and he
is hugely appreciative
of the laughs you've
given him so mate you're getting a
bum sucking ledge of the day
there Adam he's a fucking he's a hero laughs you've given him. So, mate, you're getting a bum-sucking ledge of the day there, Adam.
I'll take it. He's a fucking...
He's a hero!
Michael also says,
next time you lads are
gigging in Dublin, let me know.
Hopefully you're not too far
off gigging in the laughter lounge.
Mate, that, the prospect
of doing a
have-a-word show in Dublin makes my dick a little bit twitchy
if we do that i want the whole audience to do a who the fuck is that guy to freddie quinn
on the phone we're ringing freddie qu Quinn from the fucking live show in Dublin and having
300 of that
fair city's best. Who the
fuck is that guy?
We'll take him with us. We'll pay for his
flights. They're about 12 quid to go to Dublin
and back and we'll pay for him
to stay in a hostel. There's another six quid.
Where are you guys staying?
Well, we've got two rooms in the Malmaison.
Things are going pretty well.
And what we'll do is,
we'll say, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the stage, Freddie Quinn.
We'll get the whole audience to go,
who the fuck is that guy?
And then we'll tell them that we don't need them anymore
and tell them to get off the stage.
I saw, this is one of the things I resent about COVID-19 the most,
is that it really made me feel less cunty towards
freddie and the who the fuck is that guy chat because it was good it was good and then the
pandemic hit and you're like oh we've got to be careful of people's mental health it was about
it's not funny it's not funny anymore i don't think if there'd been a virus we'd have stopped
doing that shit uh by the way there's merch available at haveawordpod.com
so if you want
some merch we've launched
our very first merch run
it's a pre-sale
there's just some classic logo designs
we've got some hoodies, we've got some t-shirts
we've got some mugs
it's at haveawordpod.com
it would be great
if you could go and have a look,
and we're going to do the proper order.
It'll take a few weeks to get you your stuff.
In the second batch, oh, we've had some great suggestions so far.
If you've got any ideas of what you'd like as merch,
do let us know, haveawordpod at gmail.com.
I wonder if Freddie will be all right with a
who-the-fuck-is fuck is that guy bit of merch,
because I think it'd really sell quite well.
In my experience, it's a lot easier to get forgiveness
than permission with that stuff.
So let's not ask him.
Let's just fucking do it.
And then we'll say sorry.
And tell him in Dublin,
he'll be like,
I thought this...
And everyone's wearing
who the fuck is that guy t-shirts.
I thought this joke
had been put to bad well how do you think we're
paying for the fucking
hostel Freddy hostels
don't pay for themselves on the Malmaison
nice one Michael thanks alright Liz
listening to Adam going on about beer pong
in Roxy's reminding me of my
mate Keith now I bring this up
because on Saturday,
I played my first ever bit of beer pong.
Okay.
The next door neighbour, their daughter Adrienne is 19.
It's her birthday.
So happy birthday, Adrienne.
She started to fucking, she's just dead nice.
They're a really lovely family.
The family with all the A's.
I know what you think, Adam. I know. I know you think it's the most just fucking knobs lad they are absolutely
they're absolutely lovely and old money tony s crippling rats that's the vibe i get from these
that i make they'd rather kill your fucking nan
than lose some of their stock prices.
Absolute fucking
dog nonces.
They're really nice.
They had a bit of...
You would say that, wouldn't you?
Because I've met them.
Hey, order!
Order!
Some merch. Order!
Just before we move on, because you just said
order like that, I just want to tell you this.
Do you ever have little moments
where you realise how fucking
mental you are? I do.
And it was because the other night, I ordered
No,
I was checking on an order that I'd made.
I'd ordered some golf balls.
Right? And I went to
my Amazon
app on my phone, and
I wanted to check what day
I'd asked for them to be delivered on.
And you go to the app, you press
the menu, and then it says orders,
right? Now I was on my own
downstairs in
the living room, and to myself,
I just started going,
oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
And Jade comes to the top of the stairs
and went, Adam, what are you doing?
And I was like,
I'm checking on my order on my phone.
I'll be up in a minute.
Why?
And she went,
because you've just been sat
in the living room in the dark,
just saying order like John Baird
for five minutes.
I was just sat on my own. All the lights were off off i turned the telly off and i was just going oh dear you know what
because doing 50 50 fucking episodes of a podcast during a lockdown will make you insane
it will make you insane oh dear i'm you what? I've downloaded it for the merch little ident
that people will have already heard.
I'm going to put it on the soundboard
just for when one of us is getting a little out of line.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
Do you know, I almost resent having to say this now
after you've gone after my lovely neighbours
and my Cheshire very white
community
but we didn't actually play beer pong
but she had
Prosecco in the glasses
and I had Turbo Shandy
upset me
nasty Tory
I tell you what though, fucking hell
beer pong with Turbo Shandy
will get you shitted quickly.
I was literally like, you know after you've played two rounds of beer pong
and I'm trying to hold it together because it's still my neighbours
and we don't know them that well.
And I was like, I think it's right.
The merchandise is a real amazing response to it so far.
And this is amazing with the support we're getting from the listeners.
And he seemed like, why the fuck are you telling me this?
And I had that moment of going, why am I telling this?
And I couldn't remember.
So I just go, I don't know why I said that.
Fucking embarrassing.
And Daniel wasn't invited to play anymore.
Fucking Prosecco pong.
Anyway, he reminded him of my mate Keith, who's a belter footballer
and as such has lived his life like a pro,
which he would have been had he not been made of glass.
Oh, prone to injury, mate.
I think I'd have made it as a pro footballer
if I'd been made out of fucking Play-Doh.
I genuinely would have.
My knee is the only thing stopping me being a Premier League captain.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've always thought that.
What about your general physique there?
Your natural body shape?
That's only, like,
that's only happened
because my knee became bad,
so I couldn't exercise as much,
so I kept the weight on.
Damn, though.
The thing is, like,
I was an athlete,
so I got used to eating
the amount an athlete does
because when you're exercising so much,
you keep burning.
Yeah, yeah.
But now I still eat that much,
but because of my knee, i can't do the exercise
so yeah well you know it's carb loading isn't it you know like uh marathon runners they carb load
for like a week before i've been card low card loving since 1980 fucking 81 that's when i started
carb loading and it's gonna be a big fucking run that gets rid of this shit. Have you heard about Nightingale?
Yeah, he's run 1,400 miles.
Still only lost two stone.
One of the consequences, though, is he never drinks.
He doesn't have a bevy.
So we'd all be out on the lash and he'd get involved with his J2Os and Diet Cokes,
but would generally just sit back and laugh while everyone else got paralytic.
But he was really good at sport and very, very competitive at everything,
and he loved beer pong, even though he'd only ever referee the game
as he wouldn't drink.
What he did do, though, to ensure everyone else was fucked up,
he got some good stories out of it, he spiked all the beer pong cups
with a random selection of miniatures that he'd bring out with him.
This was all good until you got some rank-forgotten-about miniature,
and it tasted like fucking piss.
I would say have a word with him for spiking everyone's drink,
but to be fair, it was a bell to shout,
and funny watching everyone else get fucked up while he was there to take it all in
and remind him of it all the next day, and then the next week, and then the next year.
Also, he's a proper boss lid, this guy Scouse.
Also, he's a proper boss lid.
He uses all his spare time to do mad shit, raising money for charity.
So I think he's allowed the odd mad thing like this.
Keep up the good work lids.
That's from Leon.
So Keith fucking referees beer pong and spikes the cups what how do you feel about that Adam
uh I think he's an honorable gentleman and as long as he's telling people that they're being
spiked no harm no foul yeah that's the kind of banter that is absolutely allowed when you're
with the boys but as soon as someone brings their missus along it will cause problems
legal ramifications
like
Thandropath Throne couldn't remember anything
what's Keith like?
well he's got a criminal record now
I didn't
I think it's enough that there's the booze
I mean I'm talking
I'm not an expert but the
excitement of the throw and the way i've
fucking done it and then down and shit i've played it with sambuca once before and that was just not
good that is a that's a one that's not a best of nine is it that one well and also he had three
cups left so i did nine sambucas within the space of about half an hour oh so you lost
oh yeah
um all right lads this is uh someone asking for a bit of advice he says all right lads i'm emailing
to ask for some advice mainly uh pre-lockdown i was planning a stand-up charity night where
people could sign up and have a go at stand-up for the first time. I have asked around in the past speaking to some comics and promoters and I was
instructed by some it might be best to do it through a comedy course. I want to do this kind
of event one because I love stand-up and my mates all of us we love stand-up and we've always thought
about giving it a go as much to tick it off the bucket list more than anything. I want to raise
as much money for Marie Curie
because they looked after my dad in his final days.
So all I want to know is,
do you have any advice for me and my mates
to make this kind of event happen?
Do you think me and the other first-timers
should do a course, a comedy course, before doing it,
or should we just dive in, book a room, put the night on,
get our family and friends in and just
dive straight in the way i see it it'll be a friendly audience even if we are dog shit everyone
will get that get it does it really matter as long as everyone has a good night and we raise some
money for charity so what are your thoughts though this young man is called sean has asked for our
advice on putting on a night.
I get quite a lot of these. First of all,
you can't do anything right now
and you're not going to be able to do anything for a good few
months.
To be fair to Sean, I just
want to say, he did write that at the end
of the email, but it had already been a wee bit
of a long one. So he knows that
he was like, I know it'll be a long way down the line
but that's actually made me more
determined. I think
he should do stand up
for a year before
he tries to do this
I think he should see
how good gigs are run
how bad gigs are run
and get to a
semi acceptable level of being
able to do jokes
before he tries to run his own night and raise money.
Because, and I don't mean to be so dismissive,
because Marie Curie, whatever money they can get, they will take.
But you're not going to cure cancer with one of these events.
Let's say you sell 100 tickets at Tenner a go to £1,000
to drop in the ocean compared to the money they've already got in the reserves.
It's a phenomenal gesture, and it's a great thing to do.
But what you really want to do first and foremost
is make sure you know how to run a good gig.
And I think the only way you get to do that
is by either getting someone in, an external person,
to do it for you, but they're going to want to take money out of the pot
or you can
do comedy for a while and
learn the ropes before you try and take something
like this on. When I first started
doing stand-up I tried to run a few gigs
and they weren't good
and I had family and friends involved
and yet they were a friendly audience
it went better because they were there but if I'd
waited a year they'd have been a lot better.
That's my advice, is just fucking chill on it
until you know, A, how to do stand-up a little bit,
and B, how stand-up nights should be run
and what makes them good and what makes them bad.
I think Adam's right, Sean.
If you've got one eye on actually doing stand-up
and running a comedy night,
that's the soundest advice because
like when people haven't done comedy they have an instinct of like well it's telling jokes or
telling stories my favorite comics lee evans or fucking romesh or someone and i'll do something
like that but it's really difficult putting together a night. Doing comedy's fine in a sense.
You give it a go, but you go to a place
where someone else is doing the technical stuff
of organising how they get people there,
how they seat them, how they light it,
when the show starts, is there a bouncer,
who's running it, who's comparing it,
what order the acts go on, does it build,
does it have a headliner, there's a lot of shit that goes into even to the point of like getting the sound and lighting right is fucking
painful as a comedian when you turn up to a gig and they've not got those things right because
comedy's delicate at the best of times that sort of shit is so it feels obvious but it's not until
you've seen it and you've experienced it and you've seen it done badly and you go oh
that makes a big fucking difference comedy nights are hard to put on like that however if you just
want to do it in a sort of charity bucket list thing then i don't think you need to do a comedy
course like comedy courses i don't think they need to do a comedy course anyway. No, you're not a big fan of comedy courses.
No, like I've actually
hosted a comedy course
for Hot Water before.
So they used to have Paul Smith teach
their comedy course and it was a four
week course. You did four
two hour sessions and at the end of it you did a
gig and there was a
time when Paul Smith was unavailable to do
that but they'd already booked it in but he had like a holiday booked to go somewhere with his kids and it couldn't be moved
and so like well you run it for us you're sort of our second in command at Water Comedy Club will
you do it and I was like yeah I can do it because I can teach people what Paul teaches them and I
can I can teach people the basics and what I'm about to say is a bit hypocritical,
having done that course and ran it.
I don't think you learn anything in those courses
apart from the very basics of take the mic stand,
move it out the way,
try not to look at the floor the whole time.
Here's a couple of tweaks with your writing.
The only way you get good at stand-up is by doing stand-up that's the only way to do it all a comedy course can do is give you the confidence
to get on stage and it sounds like sean has already got that confidence and doesn't need
the course yeah the course i mean really with comedy whatever just gets you to being a comedian
if you feel like you want if you've got the budget and you're not skint
and you feel like, you know, actually, I'd like my handheld,
the great thing with the course is, and I totally agree with Adam,
it's basically like, okay, so when you stand up, face the audience
and then this is how you write a story and this is how you write a bit
and that's that and this is this. All of that stuff and this is how you write a bit, and that's that, and this is this.
All of that stuff, I mean, you could tell someone over the course of eight weeks,
all of that stuff really, practice is the only thing.
Trial and error.
The good thing I would say, if you're genuinely thinking about going,
if you research where the good courses are,
if you do it together with another six or seven comedians,
or even ten other new acts who
are brand new you get a little support network it's almost like nct for pregnant mums it's not
like you're going to learn anything particularly from the course maybe that you wouldn't learn
through experience but it is kind of nice to have a load of people going fuck we're a bit nervous as well i've i've headlined some of those course finals
in the past and and they are such a nice supportive atmosphere obviously a little artificial because
that's not how gigs are but if you need those first few steps to be sort of baby steps which
i totally understand it's as much the things that the professionals are going to tell you
i think as having those acts who are going to be there and support you and bounce ideas off um so i'm
not shitting on comedy courses i think some and i'll say this and i and you know who the fuck you
are some people who are on comedy courses are shysters who overcharge and are just in it for
the money and then there's comedy underqualified As well? It's always the failed fucking comics
who are like,
we've got a cause.
I don't know a comic that I respect
or that I would go to for advice
that runs a comedy course.
I don't know one.
Not one.
There's no comic I would go to and go,
what do you think about this
that has a comedy course that I can think of?
I think I agree.
Does Freddy not run the course?
Yeah, he does.
I thought you were just like forgetting about Freddy.
I was like, fuck off.
I'm not.
Like, Freddy is a mate of mine and he's a decent comer,
but I don't, I outrank him.
Like,
I'm not being a dick.
No,
you're not.
Oh my God.
I feel like,
I feel like you don't,
I almost feel like you think
we're having a private chat
in between adverts.
Adam,
I so did not expect Adam
to drop that much.
Honestly,
I'm not disagreeing with you,
but my eyebrows are higher than they were a minute ago.
I'm like, oh, shit, Adam not playing a day.
Motherfucking, he ain't eating sugar,
but he giving out some shit.
I think Freddie is a good comic,
but I don't share his philosophy on stand-up,
and I don't think he's right most of the time.
Jesus Christ. See you in Dublin Fred
anyway yeah
but I tell you what mate, if you just want to put on
a night and you just want to put
find a venue, get some lighting
get a mic system, if you can get all your
mates on and you can make a grand
and you're not in this for the long run
have a fucking laugh
have a laugh and maybe try and find a £100 closer,
like an up-and-coming professional act
who'll do 25 minutes at the end to top it off.
I'd say if you've not got aspirations
to be a long-running comedy night,
£1,000 for Marie Curie is nothing to be sniffed at.
Have a raffle, have a laugh, drink,
and you never know, even if, have a laugh, drink,
and you never know, even if it's not you, Sean,
one of your mates might go,
holy fuck, that was great, I'm going to give that a go.
Yeah.
But yeah, like Adam says, it's just... You just want to, like, especially if you're going to charge people
to get in, which you're going to have to if you're going to raise money,
you want it to be good,
not just that they're telling you it was good because
it's you. You actually want
to give people in your life
a good night. And the way you're going to
do that is with either a bit of experience or by
asking people for help and advice.
The basics is
all the chairs should
be facing the stage. There should be a
mic stand, there should be speakers, there should be spotlights on the stage, and the rest of the room should be facing the stage there should be a mic stand there should be speakers, there should be spotlights
on the stage and the rest of the room
should be as dark as possible
darkness for the audience, bright for the acts
but you want it to be a warm light on the stage
you don't want it to be a cold light
because a cold light makes it look too clinical
you want people to be there about
an hour to half an hour before the show starts
you don't want them sat there for three hours drinking
and waiting for the show to start.
You want to keep the intervals as short as possible.
Let them get a drink and have a piss and have a smoke
and then get them back.
You don't want the intervals to be longer
than the actual sections of the show.
You want a comp here.
You want someone to host the gig who has done that before.
You don't want to do that to yourself
because if you just try and do crowd work banter
with people you know as well, it never really goes that well it's not going to be a great night for the people
and it's well worth if you're going to raise a grand it's well worth taking 200 quid of that
and paying 100 to a compere and 100 to a headliner who'll do it for 100 quid for you and i know you
might be thinking well you might be thinking well, it's a charity night.
I'm not giving people money that could be going to cancer.
You've got no idea how many of these causes
comedians get asked to do stuff for free for.
And you'll be met with a lot of derision, to be honest with you,
if you ask comedians to work for free.
Comedians do a lot of free events.
They do a lot of charity events. They give to a lot of
charities. If you want a professional comedian
to come and improve your night, you do
have to pay them for it. And their argument
will be, the bar staff are getting paid,
the venue are selling
drinks, you might have even paid
a higher fee for the room. You're paying for
these commodities and comedians should be included
in that. And it will make your night
infinitely better if you've got
a professional or a semi-professional host
and a professional or a semi-professional
headliner who'll bump it up a bit for
you rather than just having you and
your three mates or your four mates or whatever
doing 10 minutes for the first time and
one of you trying to host your way through it.
So essentially what Adam's trying to say,
if you want Freddie's email, just give us a
shout.
And if you want Freddie's email, just give us a shout. You'd be up for it.
And if you book Freddie, then you've just saved 60 quid.
Book him into a hostel.
Okay, well, poor old Frederick.
Let's have a little fucking weird for one of our sponsors.
And then you know what time it is.
You know them, you love them.
It's Vauxhall Comedy Club in that there London.
If you're visiting London, if you're going down for the weekend,
take your missus, take your fella, take them to go and see comedy. There's some cracking comedy shows in London. If you're going down for the weekend, take your missus, take your fella, take them to go and see comedy.
There's some cracking comedy shows in London.
Some of them,
and I've played them,
are a little lacking in fucking soul.
Vauxhall Comedy Club.
This is a comedy club done with love and care
and done properly.
In a great room,
with great atmosphere,
with brilliant comics,
some from the TV,
some up and coming circuit talent.
And the absolute best of it,
if you're there for the weekend,
is Friday and Saturday night.
And down at Vauxhall Comedy Club,
they call it Bottomless Booze Comedy.
So basically, you pay them an entry fee,
with the money for your booze included.
It's 25 quid, it's a 90-minute show,
and you also get bottomless booze,
wine, beer, cider, 25 quid.
There's also a spirit and mix of bottomless ticket,
that starts at £35,
and if you're a purist, you're staying sober,
you're fucking ziving,
the ticket's just a tenner.
Once we're done with the rona and back to normal trading,
Vauxhall Comedy Club is usually open Monday to Saturday.
It's right next to a street food garden.
And between now and then, do us a favour and have a word
and follow the Vauxhall Comedy Club online.
You can join their mailing list.
It's at Vauxhall Comedy Club on Insta, at Vauxhall Comedy on Twitter
and Vauxhall Comedy Club on Facebook.
It's an over-18 night out and you never know, come the autumn
you might see me and Adam there.
From Texas
to Skem, every lead is
listening to the funniest podcast
in the game. This is Have A
Word. Adam was really going for that.
Adam was really having a little sing song.
What are we going to do here, old Adamski?
Because we obviously have the bin shit. So are we drawing a obviously have the bin shit
so are we drawing a line
under the bin shit? How do you feel?
We can't
solve it but my god people have been
invested in this.
So John got in touch didn't he and John
basically said he wasn't at
the house party where the shit was found
in the shower and that he
definitely knows he wasn't because he always,
he's from Ireland and he used to go home for Christmas.
So he couldn't have been at a new year's Eve party.
Um,
and that the lad who got in touch is a massive liar,
blah,
blah,
blah.
We're never going to get to the bottom of this.
I'll tell you right now that I think it was John and his wife.
Um,
and I will never budge on that.
You actually now are at the point where you think it was John and his wife and I will never budge on that. You actually now are at the point
where you think it was a conspiracy
between husband and wife.
Yeah.
Holy shit.
Do you know, I honestly think it gives an insight
into what it would be like to be shacked up with you.
I think that would be fascinating
because I think you're like covert ops,
black ops level of like, fuck you.
Just on the sly.
Nothing nasty.
Out of the two of us,
who watches more courtroom dramas?
It's me.
So we're going to make me the judge.
My decision's final. I'm banging me hammer. It's me. So we're going to make me the judge. My decision's final.
I'm banging me hammer. It was John
and his wife and Sam and
Malachi. We're very, very sorry
that you had even suspected this at any point.
You have the court's deepest apologies.
John and his wife, you dirty
shit and conspiracy rats.
Sam, it was you, you dirty bastard.
I'm having it. There you go.
Order! Order!
Order! Sam, it was you, you dirty bastard. I'm having it. There you go. Odder! Odder! Odder!
You will address this court as judge or your honour.
Judge Roe.
I think you could, mate.
Oh, mate, how fucking eggy would that get?
Judge Rynder there with his fucking
full face of makeup like,
excuse me, excuse me,
I will finish doing little gay
quips so i didn't mean gay little gay quips
that is your internalized homophobia doing his little gay quips being all gay and shit
y'all know it ain't sad but y'all know
motherfucking gay is here Y'all know. It ain't sad, but y'all know.
Motherfucker gay as hell.
So are you.
Probably.
That motherfucker is gay as hell.
Gay as hell.
I'm telling you right now.
I'm a gay man.
I always have been. My gay dog's not broke.
That man is gay as hell.
Motherfucker broke my gay dog's not broke. That man is gay as hell. Motherfucker broke my gay dog.
Shit.
I'd love to be black, American
and gay. Hey,
y'all don't know me.
That's a tough life, that.
That's a bad hand to be dealt.
It would be great if you lived where I lived.
As long as you live where I live, everyone will be like, oh my God,
you have got to meet Dan.
Dan, the new neighbour.
He is actually from Louisiana, but he is black.
And I think he's a bit hateful.
But honestly, it's quite the change at the dinner parties.
And he's come down to the women's...
No, carry on. He's come down to the women's women's no carry on he makes a lovely cake and he's there
every saturday morning you said he come down he's come down to the women's and then he started
laughing women's institute i was just that's literally out of my depth i was out living out
my depth i was trying to think what what would would be happening. I'm trying to think because we have a little village hall.
It's so sorry.
We have a little village hall, and I was trying to think what goes on that Slimming World.
If I were like, hey, y'all.
Honestly, damn.
I'm trying to keep the pounds off, but y'all know they're just coming.
I'm sitting on my hips.
There's a reverend i see you looking he's a methodist he's got his meth methodical bastard um no yeah being a black
american gay guy probably not easy in certain parts of america but i honestly think you'd be quite the celebrity around here
do you not think like like english guys go over to the states
at all my mates and like i've got a mate from fucking carlisle who's like yeah they fucking
lovely accent i can't do carlisle because it's the weirdest it's like a hybrid of jordy the fucking hills have eyes north yorkshire
and scottish and he's like i love the accent you're like do they definitely how fucking starved
are americans of british accents like oh my god you sound like hugh grant he fucking doesn't
everyone thought i was irish when i went to new y? Yeah, they thought the Scouse accent was Irish.
It's more similar to Conor McGregor
than it is Hugh Grant.
Yeah.
It is, I suppose, but it kind of is, isn't it?
With the Irish...
Right, I want to ask you something.
So, I've been doing impressions for Jade
and I think I've got a...
Do you ever watch Gavin and Stacey?
Yeah.
So, you know Nessa from Gavin and Stacey?
Oh, yeah, go on.
Yeah, right.
I think I'd do a perfect impression of her,
and Jade's telling me I don't,
and I just want to see.
Yeah, I tell you,
I'm glad we're doing this now,
because when they did the Gavin and Stacey Christmas specials,
which I don't know what happened over Christmas,
for some reason,
that really got in this
family's like fucking thought process the zeitgeist of this family was oh my god gavin and stacy and
then i was like i wasn't even that bothered about gavin and stacy the first time around but that
weird nostalgia they're bringing it back it's gonna be amazing james corden's famous now but
he's come back and we heard a lot of like oh like around like round this house. So I'm glad you've left it six months.
Let that sort of fade.
Adam Rowe doing Nessa from Gavin and Stacey.
I,
fingers crossed that it's not retarded.
Go on.
Oh,
Dan,
give her a rest,
will you?
Truth be told.
Why are you laughing?
Let me get it out.
Stop it.
Please.
Your accents are shit, but your impressions
are slightly better. I'll give you that.
Some of them are slightly better, but it's how proud you are.
Oh.
Dan. Mr. Nightingale.
Yeah.
That's nasty as hell.
God damn it.
Do it.
Why are you still on the way?
Oh, Dan, listen to me.
Give it a rest.
You just sound like a scouse woman.
Oh, listen to me.
Give it a rest, will you?
Truth be told. Truth be told,
I...
Truth be told,
I've run out of Tampax, so I've had to put
a fucking teddy bear up there.
Ow!
Was that from the fucking...
Was that from the blooper reel?
I don't remember that
from the Christmas special.
Everyone sat around. Ow! I just killed a squirrel on the Christmas special. Everyone sat around. Ow!
I just killed a squirrel on the fucking road.
I ran out of...
I've run out of lilettes.
I put a dead squirrel in there.
Roadkill, innit?
Do you think that's good?
Ow!
Damn!
I think...
I'd love to get an impression...
I was going to say an impressions expert. It's just an impressionist on it. Because I think I'd love to get an impressionist. I was going to say an impressions expert.
It's just an impressionist on it.
Because I think that's, I think you tackle some of the,
you're not going to like this because of the comedian you are,
but you've got some of the hackiest impressions in the game.
This is the ones we've heard on this podcast.
You're Christopher Walken, which is
an impression of other people doing an impression.
No! I'm Christopher Walken!
I reject the
accusations! Be amazed!
I turn nightingale!
Now who's a gay American?
God damn, I said god damn!
Reject the accusations!
I'm really worried because
you're now doing
I'm worried
with all your impressions. When you start
going for it, they get more aggressive
and then you start going, I will fuck you up the ass.
I will fuck you up the ass.
All you motherfuckers get fucked up the ass.
I take the square alone. I'll fuck it up the ass
and then stick it up your ass
You've done
Christopher Walken
Now Nessa
From
It feels like Michael Caine
Is just waiting to happen innit
I'll tell you what
I'll give you Michael Caine
I
What I'm gonna fucking win I'm gonna take a miss Wait I what
I can't get it fucking weird
I haven't taken a miss
wait
that's the way you pause like
line
I was
I was at a shopping the other day
and I was like
I'm going to get some Cheerios
and someone was like
hey Michael Caine
do you eat Cheerios
and I was like yes
yes I do
I don't like crunchy nut
it gets stuck to my teeth
right
before we even talk about the impression
where did
have you bought Cheerios recently?
Where did that come from?
Where did the cereal bit come from?
Hi, I'm Michael Kay.
I don't like Alpen.
Oh, God.
Any suggestions for impressions you want Adam Rowe to fucking murder?
You got any more?
You want me to?
We'll also
definitely in the next week or two
we'll do another round of
out of the hat
character action.
The Russian guy from Armageddon.
Another guy who's on the space station.
Oh, go on.
American components, Russian
components, all made in Taiwan. I cannot space station oh go on American components Russian components
all made in Taiwan
I cannot argue
with the quality
of that impression
fucking hate Russians
I love being allowed
to just
hate
a whole
people
fucking sneaky Russians
what else have you got come on People. Fucking sneaky Russians.
What else have you got?
Come on.
Are you okay?
Yeah, just trying to think.
What have you got?
Denzel Washington.
Oh, Jesus.
That's definitely harder.
From training day.
Tell me it's from training day. You will be podcasting in Pelican Bay when I get through with you.
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
A little culturally insensitive
with everything that's going on.
I can't believe I'm on a podcast
with Dan Nightingale.
That's bad.
I can't do Eddie Murphy.
No, you can't.
How's Eddie? I can't do Eddie Murphy. No, you can't. Do you remember the first section of the podcast
where we...
Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!
Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!
That's actually quite good.
What was that from?
I don't know.
Was it from Mulan?
Maybe.
Or Shrek.
Shrek-a-dong, you're another world-winning bitch.
That's not bad! That is not bad! That's not not the worst that is not the worst donkey i've ever heard
i thought the whole bit was like you were trying to do it badly i thought you were trying to do a
bit about the contrast of maybe even a superfly but i bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly i honestly thought you were doing it
on purpose to contrast what happened in the first section with the black lives matter chat which you
took very very seriously and now we're doing famous black american actors badly i was like wow
this podcast is all over the fucking road um a quick one a quick have a word now chloe levi joyce who is a comedian i used to do a pod
with her um she audioed me and i fucking deleted it but she audioed a quick have a word and i
thought adam it was so pertinent to mine in your life that i couldn't couldn't do a podcast curation
without chloe levi joyce says can
use two she's got more scouts for this because she's from southport so she's plastic scouts
she's trying to she's like hey let's do it let's have a word from chloe as donkey chloe levi joyce
says can you two have a word with lads with big dicks who just turn up and bang it in and out and do fuck all else that's the whole have a word
from chloe she wants us to have a word with guys with big dicks who just banging it and as i said
in the first section about not knowing the strife of people out there i don't know what it's like
to have a big dick so i don't feel i'm in a position to tell people with big dicks how they should act
with their dicks it's so amazing big dicks matter don't they
deteriorate
the what a beef they're lazy that they just turn up with the packet and they'll be like
i brought something.
You don't need to do anything else.
She needs to have a fucking word with herself.
If she's getting some pipe.
Now, now she's got, by the way, this is current pipe.
How big is the dick?
How big is the dick? If you can socially distance and still fuck someone,
that's a big old dick, sister.
So, she's getting big dick,
and she's whinging that he's not putting any effort in.
What's she doing?
Is she getting all fucking romantic and sexy
and setting the mood,
or is she just lying there like the fucking rest of them?
I'll tell you, you've been a member of the Tinder community before.
Hi, my name's Azim. I, you know, set a mood.
Now, I, you know,
speaking as someone who's
shit, I dealt with some big dicks
in my town. God damn.
Y'all need
to make the effort. Kiss, kiss a
motherfucker. On the lips.
No, these ones. Nasty.
Um, absolutely ridiculous can't believe she's getting dick in lockdown it's illegal from today isn't it to have sex
with someone from another household in a household it hasn't been illegal all this time no but it's
legal if you do it in the garden, isn't it?
That's the rule.
I think, yeah, there's been a lot of grey area about Watsley.
As long as you get fucked in a park,
you're allowed to drive unlimited amount of distance
and you can get fucked by up to six friends from different households.
You can fuck them in the garden,
but if then you go in their house to wipe your dick off,
you have to, like, get all the whole bathroom because you don't want anything you go in their house to wipe your dick off you have to like that's all
the whole bathroom because you don't want anything you've got for them to catch yeah but if you've
got a really big dick what you can do is stay outside ask them to go inside turn the tap on
and just fucking prong it in from the just through the kitchen door give it a walk
right this one's this podcast is deteriorating too but when i said big dicks matter that was
my favorite bit and it was the bit where adam was like and we need to tap out because this is off
the rails whatever you do yeah whatever you do you know the little picture you always make to put out
on twitter and instagram to promote today's episode yeah Do not put the words Big Dicks Matter on that.
Whatever you do,
do not do that, okay?
No, no, no.
That is for people who
listen this far into the podcast
and fucking nobody else.
That is, in fact, now I'm thinking about it.
The form we've taken for this podcast
is very clever. At first, like,
how are you doing adam are
you doing all right let's get through this together it is the rhythm and you know what's
going on over there we sympathize completely by the eddie like i've got a big dick comedy
that's my eddie murphy not good what no
it's from the clumps is it it isn't it you're doing an impression of eddie murphy doing an old
woman isn't it i bet you anything nutty professor nutty professor yes mate Oh, you fat. I'm muscle. Oh, look at that little thing. Oh, he's a little Hercules. Show me muscle again.
Oh, Hercules, Hercules, Hercules, Hercules.
What's a workout?
God.
Right.
I'm going to download two things for the soundboard
because I'm getting bored of the soundboard.
So I'm going to...
I want udder.
Udder.
Udder.
Udder. For when it's kicking off he's now watching nutty professor
and i also want i can lose i can lose for when adam's talking about his fitness
when he's like i've lost another two pounds i'm getting hench
your mama got a mouth with the back of her neck and the bitch chew like this.
Oh, God.
So I can do Eddie Murphy and I can do Nelson Mandela.
Me too.
Mate, your Mandela's good.
No joke.
I've lived a while
where a man and a woman
can live together.
Oh, no.
Not today.
No, no.
No, no.
That is my threshold, that.
No, no.
Adam.
Give me a break, will will you i've been up and
down all over the place with these accents and i think i'm doing quite well thank you very much
that's fine i've had a bad day i want a cup of tea i'm hungry and i need a shit so give me a
fucking what's going on with this every end of the podcast you're itching for a tweet doing
the podcast at five o'clock and i have a half sick shit every day right okay
but no more mandela oh guys it's been an absolute treat we have a new song we've gone very hip-hop
in the last few weeks graham thompson who is uh an irish hip-hop artist we've featured before.
And honestly, I never thought I'd say this.
This podcast is getting me into Irish hip-hop.
Dublin hip-hop is fucking cool as fuck.
And if we do a Dublin show,
we're asking Graham Thompson to play us out because he is cool as fuck.
Sad, said and done is his new track.
It's about to get released.
Have a little look for, yeah, Graham Thompson.
What's he called?
What's his Instagram?
What's the fuck?
It's just Graham Thompson.
Is it just Graham Thompson?
It's just Graham Thompson.
I'll just shut up and play his excellent music.
Thanks, mate.
When all is said and done, I hope you get to hear me.
And you can comprehend that I wrote the message clearly
When life is bleak it seems emotionless and dreary
You get buckled twice a week it's not a joke the shit is scary
And the endorphins from the likes of philic morphine
Been feeling like a sorcerer a mile since I was fourteen
When I was trying to saw grain the boys were on the snort scene
And how are you to judge me man I see you at the coffee
I swear I'm sick of
seeing rooms filled up with baristers and getting into arguments with goons and fucking amateurs
I'm laughing like I've done balloons filled up with canisters get back at the LA you can't
detrude on my parameter I'm rooting less me manners I needed to get the sentence shortened
I'm still behaving and saving for a potential mortgage it's an extensive cost it's risking
an expensive loss it's reason why I'm packing out these dearies with eccentric porsches
So I can sit and try to smoke until I'm calm
I don't wanna be another with the rope beside me, Pam
I wanna make it clearer and I hope you understand
That if you've something to look forward to, you won't destroy the plan
And I'm hoping I can brandish my lyrical skill
And let you know you can't depend on a miracle still Being cynical kills and I've been optimistic
for a good while You're still alive and breathing
That's the reason why you should smile You could cry, tell me what the fuck would
it achieve You had your shot and missed it man
You fucked it to the braids I write a verse and I construct a shitwraith
It's a pile of love to use I be but I'm reluctant with the face
This man is paved I hope you understand that when I leave
I'm only planting seeds and years from now I hope for massive praise
Writing lines of self belief like no one's matching days
And lads are catching z's, I'm here to cumulate and stash your j's
And please, we can't stop it's a disease
Anticipating when the album drops and I'm relieved
I want more than just the props that I'm receiving
Fuck a shop or spray, I want more than just the props that I'm received To fuck a shop or spray
I want whatever someone's got for me
I can't, boy, I don't want a lot for free
A tenner for your Spotify is not a box of G
You act as if a man is trying to tap you off a five grand
I'm asking for your home address, you're big and fucking low so Thank you. © transcript Emily Beynon As ever on a Monday, it's our patrons.
£10 tier, you become executive producers.
Appreciate the fuck out of you guys.
Now, there is one name here that's not named,
so if you're listening and you're like,
my name has not been mentioned and I'm a £10 patron,
on our patron list
there's a guy called No Name
so this might be you
because you haven't filled your name in
on Patreon
for everyone else
thank you to
Aaron Ledbetter
Adam AJ Gregson
Alex Jones
Alexis Bly
Ali Richardson
Amy
Andrew Boyle
Andy Mannix
Andy T
Anthony Duran
Anthony Jollies
Anthony Wilkinson
Barney Wood
Barry Parsons Becky Hale Bethany Griffith, Bunny Whitehead, Carmel, Chris Chubbs, Chris Jones, Chris Townsend, Chris Watson, Keane O'Connell, Colin Pugh, Colette Hind, Curtis Charlton, Dan Lindsay, Daniel Newman, Daniel Pugh, Danny Gilligan, Dave Checkley, Dave Everson, Dean Cochran, Donatello, Donna McCauley, Ella Knight, Emma Donnelly,
Emma Green,
Fiona,
Frank Hughes,
Frog and Bucket,
George,
Gerard Keane,
Graeme Cashel,
Graeme Owens,
Ian Pringle,
Ian Chadwick,
Jack Roberts,
Turner Page,
Jack Rush,
James Fuchs,
James Hall,
Jamie Moores,
I don't know why it makes me laugh,
Janet Roskell,
shout out Janet,
Jason Hopkins,
Jason Reynolds.
Jay Kyle.
Jen Wilson.
Jennifer Ridding.
Jess Yarwood.
Jill Bushell.
Joanne Parr.
John Barrowcliffe.
John Ryan.
Johnny Armstrong.
Johnny Edwards.
Jonathan Bagley.
Joseph Moore.
Josh.
Josh Holt.
Fluesk.
Julie Smith.
Kate Bidwell.
Kate Hamilton.
Kathleen Simon.
Catherine Wells.
Kira Tan.
Kenny Gad.
Khadija Mir. Kiefer Gallagher. Kieran Woodall. Kieran Gibson. Kirstie Leonard. Lee. Lee Aitchison. Thank you. sorry, Maxine Eyre, Megan, Michael Woods, Mike Kivy, Mike Pugh, Mike Quirk, Mike Sullivan,
Muttley, Nathan Sharricks, Nick Stannard, Owen Badman, Paul McDonald, Pete Graves, Peter Vincent,
Rachel Herron, Rachel Whiteley, Rebecca Thomas, Richard Palmer, Rob Barker, Rob Bell, Rob Knowles,
Rob Upton, Robin Kerr, Russell W, Ryan Farrow, Sam Crow, Sam McGuire, Sam Snook, Sammy Taylor, bell rob knolls rob upton robin care russell w ryan farrow sam crow sam mcguire sam snook
sammy taylor saz green saz i'm gonna message you scott brickcliffe simon martin steve woolley
steph keeling stephen billick stephen burn steven theobald steve boros steve boris fucking up these
names sorry guys steve green steven d malone steven thompson terry burke texas jellybean Steve Boris Steve Green Stephen D Malone
Stephen Thompson
Terry Burke
Thomas Sivita
Tom Chadwick
Tom Lazarus
Tom Simpson
Tom Twisleton
Tony P
and Wes Coakley
Apologies if I've fluffed
any of your names
can't tell you
how much that means
the £10 Patreon
it really is
keeping us going
I hope you've enjoyed
today's audio bullshit
we'll see all the Patreons
on Wednesday
and everyone else
on Friday
can't afford a Patreon
and you're listening
going I feel blagged man
about this Patreon
that's fine
just tell a mate
that you're enjoying
the podcast
help us grow it like that
appreciate you
see you later