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Could you do that again, Carl?
Let's go.
Oh my God.
Sexy ASMR.
Love a bit of fresh orange jelly in the morning.
If you like sweet Tropicana.
Do you like it with bits?
Did you like it smooth, Adam?
Smooth, because I'm not a paedophile.
Paedophile like bits.
Famously.
Orange paedo banter.
Yeah, they do.
You're a pulp guy, aren't you?
I can tell.
Pulp?
Yeah.
Pulp?
That's the Americanism, that.
Is it?
Well, that's the Friends one, isn't it?
No pulp.
Yeah.
What's it called?
Just bits. We say bits, don't we? Yeah, classic English. We don't call, isn't it? No pulp. Yeah. What's it called? Just bits.
We say bits, don't we?
Yeah, classic English.
We don't call it pulp.
We call it bits.
Yeah.
Bits of orange.
No, I'd go smooth.
I think smooth, yeah.
You give off pulp vibes.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I mean, if this is a slime,
it's a pretty fucking lukewarm one, isn't it?
You give off bits in your orange.
You can tell we've done quite a few pods this week.
It's not amping up.
It's like, yeah, well, you're not always kind.
Oh, what have you been up to?
I haven't seen you for fucking 12 to 14 hours. Oh, it's been fucking mad.
Yeah?
I don't know.
This is starting to feel like a job.
It is, yeah.
This week.
Yeah.
I've been here five days.
Why was I tired when i got
back last night how were you when you got back i was like oh i was just fucking laura's like
are you all right it's been did it go well yesterday i was like today it was like yeah
it went really well just felt fucking knackered and then we haven't got any food in and laura's
like now getting pregnant and large and i can't be like where's my fucking tea so i had to go to co-op
and you're allowed to say they're getting large okay right okay good just a little fyi don't go
you'll get in large love if there's no pregnancy involved when you're at like the four or five
month mark you can be like oh that's a nice bump they're like is it am i glowing you like you
you just gotta go you're getting larger i I'm beautiful. I love you so much. Is she glowing or is she sweating?
She is glowing.
Glowing, Adam.
Glowing.
She's beautiful.
She's all I could ever dream of.
So I just went to co-op
and did a tired shop.
Have you ever done that?
It's almost like you're regressing.
I'm hungry,
but I can't be bothered so
i just bought fucking chicken dippers and those like baguette garlic breads that you're meant to
have with a proper meal and i had two baguette garlic breads and chicken dippers and i was i've
never been happier you had that dinner that most people have on a wednesday the day before they
get paid when there's fuck all else in the house, but you actually went and bought it.
All fresh produce.
I'm having coconut noodles with beans on toast.
I've done that.
Genuinely, that's fire, that.
Yeah, it's like making cocktails when all of the good stuff is gone, isn't it?
You just start rummaging round in the fucking freezer.
Uzo.
Yeah, sorry, I was still doing the food bit,
and you're like, you don't get Uzo out of the freezer.
I had a bath last night oh my god
it's done you wonder
so you've turned up
in a cracking mood
did you do candles
no
well that's the line is it
that's the line
yeah I got in a bath
I do
I did candles
if it was a Patreon
if it was a Patreon episode
I'd talk about candles
put a podcast on
got in a bath
what podcast
your mum's house oh that's on got in a bath. What podcast? Your Mum's House.
Oh, that's on.
Got in a bath.
I'm so jealous about other podcasts.
Yeah.
Who you listening to?
What?
You put ours on.
Which one?
Talking about ASMR.
Is that the one where everyone...
You could do it, where it's just like nice sounds.
Hello.
So Carl...
No, no, no, no.
So Carl Donnelly does one.
Laura was in bed.
She had a little afternoon nap
while Etta was at nursery.
She had her earphones
and she was like this.
I was like,
you all right, love?
She was like, yeah.
Just listening to a podcast.
I was like,
well, that's definitely not ours
because no one listens to ours
with their earplugs in,
half asleep going.
I was like,
who are you listening to?
She was like, Carl Donnelly.
I was like,
it feels offensive.
Yeah.
She cheating on you?
Carl Donnelly's in my wife's ears going,
oh yeah, you know, I did something else.
That was the worst Carl Donnelly impression ever.
Yeah.
But yeah, I get really jealous about other podcasts.
Someone sent me a link the other day.
There's a guy who does like sexy talk ASMR for girls
for them to fall asleep to.
I don't.
What?
Please do some.
Let's take it down. Yeah. So he's just like, yeah, baby do some. Let's take it down.
Yeah, so it's just like, yeah, baby.
Yeah.
I'm going to fucking cum in your ass, baby.
No.
I want to go to sleep, baby.
No, no.
I'm not messing.
I don't think that relaxes them, though.
I think you've got some of the sound,
and I'm not sure you've worked out the content.
I'm not messing. No, he doesn't go, hey, baby, I'm not sure you've worked out the content. I'm not messing!
No, he doesn't go,
Hey, baby, I'm going to cum in your ass.
Dream, dream, dream.
Dream!
You know you're a dirty girl
if you want Adam Rowe doing hardcore dirty talk
but in a soft accent.
I'm going to jizz on your tits.
Night-night, love.
I'm going to fuck...
Adam Rowe doing dirty...
It's not me doing it.
You're going to have to wipe cum out of your fringe.
Sweet dreams.
It's a real thing.
He's like, yeah.
Just spread them
Spread that pussy lip
So I can spit on it
And lick it off
I really need it
Are you comfortable
Are you snoozing off
Do you want me to slap my finger into the stank
The stank
Damn
Is it American it have to be
in the...
Is it American?
I'm pretty sure.
It has to be American,
doesn't it?
Can't be like,
I want to put my finger
in your wrong hand.
It's a real thing,
no?
Like,
I'm not messing.
And he's like,
all creepy.
He's like,
yeah,
I can feel you getting wetter
and wetter and wetter.
Adam,
you have not researched this properly.
And I watched.
You have not.
Was it proper dirty?
Yeah, I watched about 12 seconds of it and I couldn't anymore.
Oh, I thought you just heard about it and gone, it's sexy talk.
And that's your version of it? You're getting wetter and wetter around my plumpier hands.
What?
Plump.
I want you to dribble on my beard
and I'll go and rub it on your face.
Stop making eye contact with me.
That was the most you've ever looked at me
doing this podcast.
Your nipples getting harder and harder.
I would like to be asleep.
As I swirl my tongue.
I'd like to be unconscious.
Your nipples up and down your chin.
I'm telling you there's some things
Americans will always
be able to do
no one from Preston
is like
I'm gonna dribble
jizz on your chin
and then
do it quieter Geoff
alright
and then
I'll get me man's bath
I'll come on your leg
hey you never had j come on your leg.
Hey, you never had jizz on your leg, have you?
Oh, do Kevin Webster sexy talk. Kevin Webster ASMR.
In the booth.
Solid.
Right, Kev, we're just about to go.
Kev, we'll just check your levels.
Right, really sexy, Kev.
Okay.
Solid.
Go, record.
Solid.
Listen.
Rosie.
She's asleep
So's Sophie
I can't hear her, Jack
I want to cum on your leg
Every day
I'll give you a ladder in your tights
With me dick
I was in the garage earlier
Picked up a spanner
I thought
I could do something with this with our Sally
What? Put her up her arse Oh my god Mechanic sexy talk in the garage earlier picked up a spanner and thought could do something with this with our Sally what
put it up her arse
oh my god
mechanic sexy talk
I'll fucking change
your carburettor
I was covered in oil
I was like
I wish this was
air poom poom juice
there's gotta be
something to do
with a dipstick
do you think we could
get sued by Kevin Webster
no
because he's fictional
that's true but he's fictional. That's true.
But he's not, is he?
That'd be a sick
horror story line
that Kevin Webster
sues, have a word.
If he comes on,
I want him to do it
in character.
Yeah.
If he comes on,
I want him to come in
for approximately 14 seconds.
I want him to look down
that camera and go,
hey, listen up everyone,
it's me, Kevin Webster.
And then go.
That's all we need.
And then I'll just
fall asleep gently.
Yeah, we're not going to get sued
by the fictional mechanic from Coronation Street.
And I don't think Michael Lavelle, the actor, really cares.
Oh, all right.
Michael Lavelle?
He is the spitting image of my vagina.
Are you Equity?
Fucking knowing everyone's name.
Oh, I'm sorry,
because I know one actor's name from Corrie.
I don't know Ken Barlow's name.
Well, there's a thespian.
I'm surprised.
William Roach?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, it's a famous one
yeah
Hayley
Julia Herman-Skaligov
her second name's Mad
wow
good effort
good effort though
it's Julie Herman
you sounded like an
alcoholic compere
at a gig
where you're in open spot
Julia Skaligov
blah blah blah
I don't think
soap operas get the credit
they deserve
I think they get more than they deserve.
But the longevity of them.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
They've been going for 60 years.
We know from experience how hard it is to do six podcasts a week.
Do you know what I mean?
It's hard.
They do four or five episodes a week for 60 years.
It's not seasons.
It's still there.
You know like Breaking Bad?
Yeah, it's very good good but would it be better
than Corrie
if they had to do it
constantly
that would be a real
fucking stretch
for both the actors
and writers
wasn't it
year 60
of Breaking Bad
exactly though
EastEnders did that
didn't they
what
in the lockdown
when they came back
after the lockdown
they said
this is EastEnders
series 2
but they only did
that as like a PR.
Yeah, but it was funny, wasn't it?
Yeah, and it worked.
It worked really well.
But they've done it forever and ever and ever.
And what you're saying is it'd be hard for Breaking Bad?
You're not giving Corrie's writers the credits that they deserve?
Yeah, but if I think something is dog shit,
just because it's been dog shit for 60 years,
if anything, it makes it more annoying, doesn't it?
Like, I just can't be doing with it.
what I do always think
with those things.
Stories that never end
on people that never go to Ikea.
Who's moving
to Coronation Street?
Like,
someone dies in a fire
every six months.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Like,
the crime statistics
on that street
must be like the highest
in the whole of the country.
No one's ever got mates
from uni that come and stay.
Always the same fucking knuckles.
You're all living the pub.
Got no washing machines.
Did you know that?
Yeah.
They've really struggled with washing machines.
There's no Comet or whatever they sell.
No Comet?
Comet, yeah.
That's quite realistic, that, because they haven't been there.
They went with Dixons in 2006, didn't they, then?
Something where you buy washing machines.
There's no Woolworths.
You can't get the little cans or the pick and mixes.
Dan tried to find somewhere where it sells washing machines.
Comet.
Quack, quack.
No, it's just, I can't.
I find it very annoying,
and the fact that it's there all the time
and has been there forever doesn't win me over.
Like, cancer's been around ages.
I'm not like, you've got to give it to cancer.
Still fucking knocking them off.
I don't think they're comparable.
I don't think the longevity of Coronation Street
can be compared with the worst disease
in the history of the human race.
I really don't think they're...
Putting the numbers up for a long time.
Emmerdale's definitely comparable.
You reckon?
Yeah, to cancer.
Why?
Because it's fucking awful.
Why is it shit?
I don't think he's being unfair.
So, what, do you watch any of them?
No.
Okay.
So this is going quite well.
Coming out of the fucking Rona Malarkey,
things, you know, are hopefully going to pick up where they were.
You were doing well.
TV, career's doing good.
Got a tour hopefully coming up.
But then Corey coming and go
we like Adam
we want a young
Scouse character
or even EastEnders
now let's keep it to Corrie
because let's keep it local
you could do the drive over
to Granada
there's probably more
Scouses that live
in London though
than in Manchester
so it's probably more likely
more realistic
for me to be a character
in EastEnders
than Corrie
maybe
alright we're in the weeds but pick the one that be a character in EastEnders than Coddy maybe. Alright we're in the weeds but
pick the one that you find
least offensive. EastEnders.
How much
are they having to pay you
to be a full time
member of the cast on EastEnders
you're saying it's fucking great
it's a full time job. How much is Sadio
Mane on? Just google that.
200 grand a week. 140. Google that. 200 grand a week.
140.
200 grand a week-ish.
So you want 200 grand a week?
I'd be working harder than Mane does at Liverpool.
What do they get on the soap operas?
Do they get about 130, 140 grand a year?
A year?
Yeah.
Mane's on 150 a week.
There we go.
That's what I want.
Yeah, 150 grand a week.
I've got fucking 19,000 Instagram followers
well that's it
does that equate to
yeah
what would your
what would your character be
just me
just Adam Rowe
in the square
just play me self
what
play me self
in EastEnders
because then
Adam we really want you
to be involved
in EastEnders
how do you see yourself
in a role
I'd like to be
Adam Rowe
the comedian.
Why not, though?
Where have you been, Adam?
Been to a fucking gig.
But, as you know, I've got a problem with authority, right?
So if the director's like,
Court, court, court!
You wouldn't fucking say it like that.
Be like, listen, you fucking gimp.
I know myself better than anyone.
Fuck out the way.
I know exactly how I'd say it.
On your bike, kid.
Don't need a director for this scene
go and do the next one
what does Adam Rock
do you set up a gig
at like
do you set up a gig
at the Queen Vic
yeah
every Sunday
that'd be so shit
new material
nice at the Queen Vic
oh fucking hell
yeah
it's happening Bradley lad
there's probably never
been a stand up in soaps
so that's not even
a bad shot though
exactly
Peter Kay's been in Coronation Street he wasn't Peter Kay was he there's never been a stand up in soaps so that's not even a bad shot exactly Peter Kay's been in
Coronation Street
he wasn't Peter Kay
was he
there's never been
a stand up character
they never want
stand up characters
in anything though
really do they
exactly
this is
the opening
Seinfeld
sort of did it so well
and then almost
ended the fucking
and Louis did it as well
yeah
but he had to basically
be
one of the best comedians in history
and then get FX, which is a lesser-known TV station and studio,
to give him total control.
And he edited that on his fucking Apple Mac, didn't he?
He literally edited the whole thing.
Did he, yeah?
Yeah, he had total control.
Did I tell you?
I worked as a consultant on a programme that was going to be made for Sky One
about a stand-up comedian from Liverpool.
It was going to be a drama.
I'm not talking about this.
How have you never told me this?
So I was...
And how were you not in the running for the gig?
I was.
So this was about two years ago, maybe.
No, probably a bit more,
because I think I was still living with my dad,
maybe three, three and a half years ago.
That's the weirdest thing.
I was still living with my dad,
but I was working as a consultant for Sky One.
So I didn't get paid,
but I got a phone call one night.
I was in bed.
It was about half one in the morning.
Do you remember Arlo, the doorman? Arlo Bailey? Yeah. So Arloiley yeah so arlo's a i'm gonna bleep that shout out no it's fine he's a
good lad yeah he was a doorman on envy the nightclub that i used to work him and i got my
phone goes and i had his number but i'd never spoken to him away from work and it rings at
half one in the morning i was like i'd be a pocket dial so i answered it and he went what i told him
like how's it going and i was like sound all. And he went, what did I tell them, Lord? How's it going? And I was like, Sandalo, how are you?
He went, listen, this Australian fella here
needs a Liverpool comedian.
Can I just put you on the phone to him?
And I went, yeah.
So I speak to this guy and he's Australian.
He's like, I'm in Liverpool.
I could do with talking to a local comedian
who knows the scene.
Are you free tomorrow for a drink?
And I was like, yeah, sound.
So I went and met him his name
was michael thomas australian writer um and he took me to a few pubs around i've been he told
me he was writing this thing for sky one it had been commissioned um i went to buy a round at one
point he was like none of this money is mine it's all coming from sky i'm paying for everything
love the expenses so i met him in Liverpool,
ended up,
he came to a gig of mine
at the Comedy Cafe in London.
Johnny Schumacher came down with me that night,
he met Johnny,
he liked Johnny,
because Johnny's an actor as well,
and he was like,
he'd be fucking great for this role
that I'm writing.
And essentially,
it was about,
because Liverpool's got a huge Chinese community,
right,
as in,
lots of Chinese people,
not big Chinese people,
he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, got a huge chinese community right as in lots of chinese people not big chinese people he fucking hell champ
what do you mean you don't want to play basketball
so yeah yeah he was writing this thing about there was a scouse family
and they were having beef with the triads right
I'm not messing
the Scouse family
were having beef
with the triads
the main character
was a stand up comedian
from Liverpool
who would just
come back from America
because he tried
to make it in America
but he'd essentially
fucked up his career
and he was coming back
and he was
going to start
being a comedian
in the UK again and he was Chinese heritage no no no he was coming back and he was going to start being a comedian in the UK again.
And he was
Chinese heritage.
No, no, no.
He was Scouse
but his family
had a link
with the Chinese
triads of Liverpool.
Right?
But they weren't Chinese.
No.
But like, I think like...
Do a lot of like
Scouse families
get wrapped up in
triad BA?
But where's Paulie?
I don't know, mate.
She's been missing
for two fucking weeks.
And I either try William Hill
what the fuck
Triad
I think like
his ex-girlfriend
was a Triad
fucking hell
mate
and this didn't get made
with the absolute
fucking
right
okay
we're gonna have
an Irish like a Scouse family and then there's that needs to be more of a link don't it yeah absolute fucking right okay we're gonna have an Iron Man
like a
Scouts family
and then there's
that needs to be more
of a link don't it
yeah
I love it
so I think his
ex-girlfriend was
a triad or something
I can't remember
nightmare dumping
that bitch
but like
he wanted
so the way he wanted
it to be
was
in a lot of the episodes
you would see
bits of stand-up
because the guy would be on stage talking...
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
Hey, what about fucking triads?
Who here has tried to dump a fucking triad?
It's a fucking lie, ladies.
And I'm not talking about triads.
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
I said to me,
Mrs. I hate triads.
She went,
what the fuck are you saying, lad?
So,
he was like,
yeah,
I wanted to also
in cap,
because he was,
he loved comedy
and he was like,
I've always wondered
how comedians get to where they are
and like the lower levels of the circuit.
He was like,
so I'd like it to be about
this Scouse family, the triads, but also they are and the lower levels of the circuit. He was like, so I'd like it to be about this Scouse family,
the triads, but also the inner workings of the UK comedy circuit.
It's like, I want to see.
Because I was like, yeah.
Because he was asking me, what are the problems with the circuit?
And I was like, you know, sometimes a promoter won't pay you on time
and he's writing this down.
He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's like, so you could have one time you could send the triads to a comedy club to get your money and stuff, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, so you could have like one time you could send like the triads to a comedy club
to get your money in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good idea.
It's almost like someone's gone,
let's make the Sopranos.
But I really, I'm into beach volleyball as well.
I really think we could, like the New Jersey Mafia,
but also like one of the girlfriends
could be like an Olympic beach volleyball player.
What do you think?
And they could be playing beach volleyball and they're all like, what are you doing here fucking spike the ball come on barbara what the fuck two cards what the fuck what an amazing bit
could you imagine the scene when they get someone to play the fucking promoter and we know some of
the comedy promoters are like,
oh, well, this is my gig and I'll compare it as well.
And you have to cast that guy
and then literally write the scene
where a fucking Scouse comedian turns up
with loads of triad back on.
Bobby Maddox.
Sorry, lad, it's two weeks back to follow.
I don't think it is.
I think you're going To pay cash tonight
Where you from
I'm a trier
But I sound
Weirdly Mexican
Oh my god
I'd love to see this
For all the wrong reasons
You're saying
You didn't get the part.
Bullet fucking dodge.
He said I would have got an audition.
But like in his head, because this was like, I think.
So you're looking like maybe four years ago, maybe.
If I was 24, he was like in my head.
The main character's like early 30s.
Yeah.
So it might not be you.
But you know, we'll get you in it in another way
yeah
as a child
what went wrong
so
he was
he was looking to get me
in another way
and then he
he asked me like
would I be interested
in writing
the stand up
do you know what I mean
so for the guy
he'd cast an actor
but I'd write the stand up
for the guy because he wanted episode an actor, but I'd write the stand-up for the guy
because he wanted episode three
because it was going to be on Sky 1.
So you get 44 minutes of screen time
because you get 11 minutes.
Then you have an ad break,
and then another 11, and then another 11,
and then another 11,
for the hour.
And he wanted episode three to open
with just 11 minutes of stand-up
to recap the first two episodes.
So he wanted the guys to be on stage
with stand-up and written.
I mean, like,
yeah, so I was,
I was broken in this deal
between me ex-girlfriend
and fucking Pablo Escobar last week. Yeah, so. was broken in this deal between my ex-girlfriend and fucking Pablo Escobar last week.
Yeah.
Adam, can you try and get a few more triad things?
It's so amazingly shit.
I want someone to make it.
They commissioned the pilot
so you're laughing
at this
but like
he'd got the commission
from Sky One
because
he'd been given
a budget
to come to Liverpool
and research it all
he was like
it's a fucking
Rupert Murdoch's money mate
the fucking rounds
are on me
yeah
and then I took him to Brown's Shoreditch
with Johnny Schumacher.
I got bevvied there.
I don't know whether I...
I think maybe I forgot to text him back.
I wonder why.
Maybe that's why it never got made.
He was waiting for me
to write 11 minutes of stand-up
about the...
Do you reckon there are triads in Liverpool?
Yeah.
Is it Chinatown?
I know there's a Chinatown yeah
Definitely
I wasn't ready to laugh that much
That was a slow build
Of the most ridiculous
Amazing
Yeah
Yeah
Triads
Yeah so
Triads is the Chinese mafia.
Am I wrong?
The Chinese gang, yeah, yeah, mafia, yeah.
Are they just Chinese, or do they, like...
No, they're just Chinese.
Are they a bit more divot?
Because 2020, are they letting other people in?
Are they just Chinese?
Yeah, I don't think the triads are like,
listen, guys, we need at least one disabled lesbian.
This is not very inclusive.
He's Chinese. He's Chinese. He's Chinese. He's Chinese. this is not very inclusive he's chinese he's chinese he's chinese he's chinese i'm chinese
it's starting to look bad we're turning up to killing someone and they're like bloody hell guys
at least try and fill a quote
i don't mind being killed.
But not by all Chinese guys.
If you are growing up as a black dwarf in Liverpool,
you should be able to believe that being a triad is a possibility for you one day.
Imagine the black dwarf turning up with a triad.
Get him, John.
Get him!
Get him, John. Get him!
I am here because you raped me, though.
Lads, be honest.
I am a good triad, aren't I?
Lads!
Lads!
I'm not just here filling a quota, am I?
Cheers, guys.
Yeah, they're just Chinese.
Japan's the Yakuza isn't it Oh here he goes
He's been waiting to see that
Fucking with his ASMR
I saw them
If you dishonour the code of the Yakuza
They chop your fingers off
I used to see them on the beach
What?
I used to see the Yakuza on the beach
Because they've all got
Fingers
Just everywhere
What you saw the Japanese Mafia
On the beach
Yeah so tattoos are
Pretty much prohibited in Japan Because of the Yakuza And they have like So they have mafia on the beach. Yeah, so tattoos are pretty much prohibitive in Japan
because of the Yakuza.
And they have like,
so they have tattoos on the chest and the back,
but they have the middle bit,
do you know where your buttons go?
Clear.
So they can wear a shirt.
So they can wear a shirt open.
Because they're the Yakuza
and no one's going to be like,
looks a bit noncy, mate.
Yeah.
So you can see them,
they've just got a line to the middle of the belly
and the chest and tattoos everywhere.
And they used to be on
I used to go to a beach
it was like a Brazilian beach
lots of Brazilians there
not many Japanese
so they used to go there
I used to see them all
there's a lot of Brazilians
in Japan
huge Brazilian
yeah
hot
I used to go to a beach
and it was 90% Brazilians
and then
90%
it was 9
in every 10 people
it was 90% Brazilian
about fucking 9.9% Yakuza.
And then one Scouser.
Sorry, lads.
No, no, I'm not Yakuza.
I got this in Benidorm 2007.
It says, I love me, man.
Fucking hell, lads.
Yeah, it was like 5% expats
and then 5% Japanese people.
That's incredible.
Yeah, and all the yakuza were fucking
sound as well they were sound yeah don't they kill people though yeah but that doesn't mean
they're not nice as well oh yeah that like oh fred west probably bought his mates like
prison presence and that yeah that was hard for them on it when he went down like oh jesus christ
i know he's killed loads of people but he got me a fucking amazon echo
you don't fucking great one of them is dog
this dog went over my towel and got sand on my towel and i didn't say anything shot the dog a
member of the yakuza's dog got sand on your towel yeah i didn't say anything
i just sat down i'd been in the scene
I came back
And it was all sandal over there
And I was like
What the fuck?
And this fella went
Hey sorry that was me
I was like no that's fine
No problem
Because I knew
And then he went
I'm in the Yakuza
And walked away
And he went
Do you live round here?
And I was like
No no we live about an hour away
He's like
Oh I've got a bar in Sakai
Which is near me
You should come down one day
And get some drinks with me
I was like
They were trying to recruit
a scouser
maybe
why aren't you in the Yakuza
do you know how much more
interesting
it would have been
if you'd have joined this podcast
with fucking
eight tattoos
and a year's worth of
Yakuza experience
yeah
think of the sitcom
you could have wrote
he scouts
it wasn't a sitcom
they're Brazilian
it wasn't a sitcom
it was a drama
it was meant to be gritty
yep
could you write
11 minutes of
triad based Scouse comedy
for a gritty drama
is this definitely
going to get made
oh yeah
oh yeah
pretty good chance
I can't believe you didn't go to Sakai, to the bar.
You're getting the Tony Soprano of fucking Japan going,
hey, it's just that way.
Come to the bar.
And you didn't go.
I'd have gone that day.
We went to that bar previously because he went to,
do you live around here?
And I was like, no, Sakai.
And he was like, oh, I've got a couple of bars that way.
By the way, are they speaking English when they're talking to you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Your car spoke fluent Japanese.
I thought he could have.
He's a bright guy.
I couldn't have understood what he was saying in the conversation,
but he spoke English.
I mean, they have to because they're doing international deals, aren't they?
Yeah.
Even on the beach, full of Brazilians.
He's like, you should come down and get some drinks together.
And I was like, yeah.
And for like 10 seconds, I felt cool as fuck.
Yeah.
How did you know he was in the Yakuza? Because he had the tats And I was like, yeah. And for like 10 seconds, I felt cool as fuck. Yeah. How do you know he was in the Yakuza?
Because he had the tats.
Oh shit, yeah.
You don't,
like tattoos are not seen.
You can't go in lots of places
if you've got tattoos.
So if you've got them
and you're flaunting them,
you want people to know who you are.
Yeah.
Let's pass that.
I'd have gone that day, me.
I reckon if that was me,
I'd have ended up like
running the Yakuza or something.
Do you know what I mean?
I'd have got in with them.
Just for the life experience.
Imagine the Edinburgh show you'd write if you spent a couple of years running the Yakuza.
Adam and the Yakuza.
Does Japan appeal to you?
We've talked so much about it.
Everyone's Edinburgh show title's always, like,
a pun, innit?
You're accusing me
of being a gangster.
Oh!
What?
You're accusing me of...
All right.
Yours is better.
Does Japan appeal at all?
What, to go to Japan?
Yeah.
Yeah, as soon as, like,
COVID's over
in, like, six or seven years.
Because I was going...
I was going to Japan
for 10 days
I was meant to go
and see him for 10 days
and we made a new plan
to go in
for the Olympics
next year
but that's going to be
A expensive
and probably not going to happen
unless the vaccines come
in spring
and it's mass produced
straight away
yeah I want to go in him
I want him to show me
around his gaffs
and I want to go to that
that place
and have a bevy
with the Kikki Hoos guy all I want is to be successful him. I want him to show me around his gaffes and I want to go to that place and have a bevy with the Kikki Hoos guy.
All I want is to be successful enough
that I can go to Japan whenever I want.
You want to just be able to fuck off to Japan for an hour?
What, like a weekend break?
Like people go to Amsterdam,
you're going to fucking Nagasaki?
He means more like the way I go to McDonald's
for a McFlurry when I'm hungry.
That's what he wants.
Like, I'll go on to Japan next week for the week
or two weeks.
Like, I've got a house there.
That's all I want,
just to be able to go when I want.
Not like once a year
because it's fucking...
Yeah, Algarve will do for me,
you know, because of the flight times.
I want New York for me.
I want to be able to just
fuck off to New York for two weeks,
do two weeks of stand-up
and maybe LA for the week
and come back.
That's just you and me
doing the podcast those weeks, Finn.
When he's in Japan
with his Yakuza mates
and he's in fucking America.
Does it appeal to you?
China and...
You don't want to live a life
and say there's somewhere you haven't seen.
So I'm not.
I've done some travelling.
I've done...
Most of my stuff is like tourism rather than travelling.
And I've been places,
which is a bit of a sneak, with gigs.
But I'd love to see China and Japan.
I just don't know.
They're incompatible, you know?
Really?
Genuinely.
I feel like if you're in Shanghai and seeing China,
you might as well get the two-and-a-half, three-hour flight.
I don't know how far it is to Japan.
About four hours from Hong Kong to...
Yeah.
But, like, as compatible as Wales and Mexico.
I'm a non-C...
Genuinely, this...
No. Honestly, theyuinely, this... No.
Wales and Mexico...
Honestly, they are.
No.
No.
Why are you saying no?
Because...
Because they're both vaguely the same in your head.
Okay.
Okay.
Because they are geographically next to each other.
They also...
If you look at their language and how it's written,
there's a lot of similarities there.
If you look at Chinese food and...
Well, more than welsh and spanish well there's a welsh um society in
patagonia and argentina okay yeah like just to blow that way out of mexico are like quite similar
do you know i mean like a little small country near a fucking big one.
Mexico, little small country.
Comparatively.
Comparatively.
Yeah, Wales is smaller than England.
You are on the bullshit bus on this one.
It's smaller than America.
Yeah.
Mexicans love going to America to get a better job.
Wales, they love coming here.
Just lost 500 listeners.
What are you fucking saying?
No, I'm not saying they want to live here. They fucking hate us. Mexicans don't like America. Yeah. Wales they love coming here just lost 500 listeners what are you fucking saying no
I'm not saying
they want to live here
they fucking hate us
Mexicans don't like America
yeah
it's just as better jobs there
he's right though
and there's always the Welsh
trying to get over the border
innit
build a wall
yeah
round Shrewsbury
yeah
yeah it's just the same
they're always
I've always had Welsh cleaners
does Spanish use
a very similar alphabet to us
do you know what i mean
i mean they use the same alphabet they've got like accents and stuff on top of them so like
that we haven't got so it's very similar but it's not the same yeah china and japan same alphabet
no no exactly well they they share i'm arguing for you yeah you you've just he's just decided
which way he's the wind's blowing on this. They shared a written language that is not used
everywhere.
Yeah.
There's like,
there's three languages
in Japan, so.
That must be a fucking
nightmare.
I tell you,
these lads from Wales,
they'll back you up
because you live in what?
Llanelli or
Brecon,
you live in the fucking
valleys.
You're like,
I tell you what,
we've been in Mexico
for two weeks.
I hardly know
I'm out of the valleys.
Honestly.
I've spent some time
in Mexico City.
No, but you can get a burrito.
And it might as well be Cardiff.
You can get a burrito
anywhere now.
Do you know what I mean?
It's not like
people are wandering around
while you're struggling
to get a burrito.
You can buy the wraps
in Tesco.
It's exactly the same.
Fucking hell.
Guadalajara.
Is it Guadalajara in Mexico?
Oh, I fucking reached for that one.
Mexico City is in Mexico.
Abagaveni.
That's not in Mexico.
Thank you for...
Mexico City is in Mexico.
That's all you had
You fucking fella
How can you even say it
With a straight face
That's
Bit of info
Remember this for your next pub quick
Pub quick
Mexico City
I'd say Mexico
No but there's a London in Ontario
So you never know You know what I mean There's a Newcastle there's a London In Ontario So you never know
You know what I mean
There's a Newcastle
There's a Paris
Tennessee isn't there
Oh yeah
But the Americans
Just ripped off
All the fucking
There's a Paris
In Tennessee
Bargatze's got a bit
About that hasn't he
Like that
Little bit arrogant
Well we're going to
Call this place
Mars
Perry
We've done so many
Of these pods
And sometimes you think Are we going to be able to talk about
something that we've not talked about before?
And that was all pretty different.
Phenomenal.
We'll have a little breather.
Try not to think about the Scouse
circuit and triads.
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Hey!
Hey!
Mach, got some
questions and shit? Have you got some ready, Carl?
I've got some questions, yes.
This is a would you rather. Jiggle on your belly.
What, er,
is this for a reason? Are you getting a bit
fat? Just felt it. Fat sad?
Yeah. Yeah? Someone just
offered me some pit. You're gonna do a new year, new you.
That's half the plan Just I just start that shit
Just start it
Did I tell you what I did
Because I just go crazy
And then don't start it
If I'm like
I will start
Monday
And then I have a
Fucked up weekend
Don't start it properly
And then I'm further
Behind the eight ball
Yeah
That's quite common
Isn't it
To go right
I'm starting Monday
So I'll have my last
Bevy On Saturday And then you my last bevy on Saturday.
And then you have your bevy Saturday.
You're hungover Sunday, so you have horrible food,
and then you don't feel good the next day, so you're fucked.
A couple of weeks ago, I spent money I don't have
to turn my spare room into a gym,
and I have not opened a single item of gym equipment.
There's just loads of heavy shit under
my window i can't fucking even lift it to open it can't yeah it's it's embarrassing so if anyone
wants to buy the equipment to turn their spare room into a gym just uh contact me no you're not
already selling no you're not you can do it we'll go with the gym when they open again yeah i'm
never gonna set it up i got a message on insta art dan has a podcast um from a guy who's a personal trainer i don't really know if he'd
want me to say his name but uh he's like you've mentioned losing weight i love the pod you've
helped me through a fucking rough year if you're serious about it i could give you some help and
my instant everything was like i'm fine i'm fine just done that. I'm good. I'm not fine.
So you're fucking like, you know, maybe I need to buy that shit off you.
Yeah.
And I'll give you only a 20% markup.
Oh, it's great.
Signed?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd really like a signed fucking dumbbell.
Is it all the stuff?
Or what is it? Is it the boxing stuff?
No, I've got a bench.
I've got the bar.
I've got the things to go on the bars.
I've got some dumbbells.
Got any lube?
Yeah.
Hot pants?
Yeah.
Who helps out?
I've got...
Come and spark me, Jeremy.
A squat rack.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've got everything.
Set it up, man.
I've got a bike.
Sounds good.
I do want to set it up, but I also sounds good yeah I do want to set it up
but I also can't be asked
we'll set it up next week
we won't though
no we won't
we'll play FIFA
yeah
question
yes question
tell me what you think about me
would you rather
would you rather
hi lids
din dan the bin man here
made his own nickname
loving the podcast
started late
a late bloomer so I'm still in March in lockdown 1.0.
Fucking weird when people do that.
Well, get in touch because they're listening to March.
Well, you get emails going, oh, the funniest story from when you're like,
mate, that's literally April we were doing that.
And it's great that you've written the email in,
but we're not going to be like guys had a great story in
I don't know if you've listened to episode 28
no we will sometimes
after stories are good
don't ever think you can't send something in
yeah
but if we ask a question
five, eight months ago
we might not get the answer anymore
hopefully I'll catch up by the end of November
would you rather
have £50,000
in £50 notes yeah or 1 million pounds in one pence pieces
1 million 1 million pounds and you can only spend the money in the form you are giving it
no banking no changing etc keep up the good work so you get £50,000 in a briefcase I imagine
£50,000 in 50s
is probably
probably not as much
as you think
well it's a thousand notes
isn't it
yeah
is it
am I being thick
no that's right
yeah yeah
well done
you get a thousand notes
in it
thank you Adam
and then you've got
you've got 500
no hang on
50p
is it 50p
it's 50,000 times 100, isn't it?
So it's 5 million.
What?
What?
Is that right?
No.
You get a million pounds in 50p's?
Yes, you've got 50,000...
Oh, no, sorry.
Yeah, that's totally ridiculous.
50 pence is...
You've got a million in one pence pieces.
In one pence?
Yeah.
So that's 100 million pennies?
Yeah.
Look, the answer is...
Where are you keeping that shit?
The answer is, even if you expand your imagination
and you've got this room that you can store them pennies in,
what can you actually buy?
Where, like, most stuff is online now.
Tenders can actually refuse more than £2 in coppers.
Yeah.
So, unless you're one of
them dads who's got a
fine for taking the
kid out of school
oh that is the
least original
fucking online content
we took the kid to
fucking Marbella
and then we got a
fine for taking him
out of school
so I went and
paid the fine
in two pence pieces
you're a bellend
I quite like that
I think it's
bellendry of the highest order if you're the bellend I quite like that I think it's bellendry of the
highest order
if you're the first
person to do it
absolutely brilliant
when you're like
oh I've seen it before
it's just unoriginal
and annoying
fucking grandad
page
nah
it's fucking hell
well they can
refuse it as well
yeah
so I'm taking the
50 grand mate
what's the most
you can spend
with pennies
at what point
a tenner
innit yeah like imagine if you were on the till at the most you can spend with pennies? At what point? A tenner.
In it.
Yeah.
Like,
imagine if you were on the till at fucking Tesco
and someone did
their big shop
140 quid
and you had to count
the pennies
into your till
which has got about
this much fucking space
for coppers.
It's a thousand.
We didn't even take
coppers in hot water.
That's how fucking little
they fucking use now.
Yeah.
Do we even in the till?
Yeah, I'm taking the 50 grand me
and I'm putting it on an horse
at 20 to one.
Right.
And then you've got your million.
You only need 19 to one, actually.
Yeah, that's how betting works.
Yep.
What you've done there
is you took 50 grand
and you've got no grand.
No.
No, no,
because it makes sense, doesn't it?
He's done the math.
There is literally
no problem with that plan
take your briefcase
stick it down
at fucking Ladbrokes
what you're best doing there
is going to Ladbrokes
with the pennies
because fuck them
no
because they won't take it
you're not even allowed
to go to one of them
noncy coin machines
I love those guys
can you get a tip
on a good horse
you know
what was the odds on the last grand national winner I bet it was about 20 to 1 yeah good horse you know what was the odds
on the last
Grand National winner
I bet it was about
20 to 1
yeah good
it's a safe bet
the Grand National
that's well known
people who are into
horses know that
the Grand National
is the one you bet on
because it's all about
form
do you ever
how much is the most
you've ever bet in one
I by the way
I'm a absolute
fucking grandad
for betting
I'm like
can't be doing with it.
Oh, really?
Oh, I can waste money like a trooper.
I can't justify the loss.
No, I like putting a little accumulator on a weekend.
A fucking hacker.
Yeah.
And I reckon when I've been a bit silly with the lads,
if Liverpool are playing someone,
and I think the most I've ever put on a bet was like,
it was like one to two.
So you have to put 100 quid on to win 50.
And I think I put 100 quid on and I won.
It was like Liverpool to have the most corners in a game or something.
What a weird thing to bet on.
But it was against like fucking Burnley.
Right.
It seemed like they're going to sit back all game.
We're just going to be lobbing balls in the box.
You're going to get corners. They're almost certainly not going to get back all game we're just going to be lobbing balls in the box you're going to get corners
they're almost certainly not going to get many
because it's all counter attacks
we do the odd bet don't we
if I come to yours to watch the footy
like I go to hers to watch the footy
two or three times a week
we'll throw a fiver on
yeah because it's a bit
it's a bit of fun isn't it
I don't bet to win
I bet for fun
so I'll put 12 teams on an accumulator
and a fiver'll get you back 300
grand all right so we've got a facebook group for comics that like the nfl me and rob i've lost two
bets to rob thomas and you put like a nando's on it yeah and then it's fun because i've had to take
rob thomas for nando's which is well you know don't take nando's though you can't take up with
a fucking no but i mean that type of betting i like a bit of't take it off with a fucking... No, but I mean, that type of betting, I like a bit of that.
Because it's also about, we were betting on,
I think it was literally like, who's going to... We were betting on one NFL team,
and I was like, they're not going to end up better
than, like, whatever, 8-8.
And Rob Thomas said they were, and I lost.
And at the end of it, you get to take a mate for tea.
That's fine.
Or Rob Thomas.
Yeah.
A couple of weeks ago in the NFL,
it went a little bit viral, this.
The Green Bay Packers, who are a good team,
are playing the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are having a shit season.
And someone put on a £100,000 bet that the Packers would win.
And if they won, he'd get seven grand winnings.
So put £100,000 on to win £107,000,
which is a mental amount of risk for
profit but it was such a slam dunk in the odds and it was a one score game it was tight right
till the end and that's why it became a story because if if the Packers had been blowing out
the jags right from the off it'd be like the guy's sensible. But it was literally like 24 all in the fourth quarter,
as tight as that.
And like,
Sky were like,
did you know that someone's shitting themselves in Green Bay with Conor McGregor?
I remember when,
you know,
when McGregor fought Mayweather,
and they had like an exhibition boxing match,
Conor McGregor.
Yeah,
it's one of their,
it was,
it was an exhibition,
wasn't it?
But it's like,
isn't it the biggest,
it's the second highest, it's the's like isn't it the biggest box office ever
it's the second highest grossing
boxing match
after Floyd Mayweather
Manny Pacquiao of all time
oh yeah
and they finally got that on
too late
we watched that
in Edinburgh
because it was Jordan the Fringe
at Daniel Sloss' house
and he had
50 of us around
all wrapped around the telly
oh my god
and I won't say who the comic was
in case he doesn't want to
go out there
we've mentioned it before
yeah
we've said this.
But someone put a lot of money
on Mayweather to win.
Like a lot of money.
A lot of money is relative to what you own
or what you have in your account, isn't it?
But this comic's got money in his account.
Okay.
And he was sweating
like a paedophile near an A3.
He was fucking shitting himself.
He was... because at the start
of that fight like
when you look back
on the fight now
everyone's like
Floyd Mayweather
arguably the greatest
boxer to ever play
against McGregor who
is just a stand-up
MMA fighter it's like
of course Mayweather
won but when he got
in he looked big
didn't he well no
it wasn't bad
McGregor looked big
I think Mayweather
sort of for a laugh let McGregor looked big I think Mayweather sort of
for a laugh
let McGregor win
the first two rounds
because he
he just was like
he was smiling
but McGregor
McGregor won the first round
and arguably the second
because he was just
throwing digs
he was
he was scrapping
like an Irish MMA fighter does
and Mayweather was like
I'll be fine
you're not going to
and he's got a hell of a punch on him hasn't he and I can move out the way and then as the fight went on Mayweather was like I'll be fine you're not going to and he's got a hell of a punch
on him hasn't he
and I can move out the way
and then as the fight went on
Mayweather was just
picking him off
and in the end he won
but for those first two rounds
the comic in question
was like
holy fucking shit
I've put too much money
on this fight
and it's an absence
can you say how much
I don't know how much it was
but it
I think it was
might have been 50 G's
you know
I don't think it was that much
there's definitely a 5 in it and I don't think it was that much.
There's definitely a five in it, and five seems too little.
It was a lot of money. 15 would be.
Maybe 15, yeah.
But it was large.
You see, there are some conversations you have to have, like,
you know, when you've got a podcast
and you tell your partner that you're renting a studio in Runcorn
and then you have to lie about how much money it costs
to renovate said studio. There's certain things you do as then you have to lie about how much money it costs to renovate said studio.
There's certain things you do as a partner
have to speak about.
My account's my account.
But in theory, it's our money.
Like, we don't do shared accounts.
It's just like, what are we doing?
She works, I work.
If we need stuff, I'm not like,
spend your own fucking money.
But I don't want someone...
I just think it's an argument waiting to happen, access to my bank account however there are conversations where you've got
to be like i'm doing this i'm just saying yeah if you lost 15 g's 15 grand because you've been
to daniel sloss's house and got fucked up watching an exhibition boxing match i I think that would cause quite a few issues
in the following weeks.
It might do, it might know what you're missing.
Yeah.
You're only like, university's bullshit.
Shouldn't need to go.
Yeah, I can't do it.
To answer the would you rather,
I'm doing 50 grand in 50s
because you just can't spend the pennies.
Yeah.
It's not always easy spending 50s though, is it?
It's easier than spending pennies. Yeah. It's not always easy spending 50s, though, is it? It's easier than spending pennies.
Yeah.
I love the face people pull when you try and pick, like,
you know when you turn up with a 50-pound note,
and they're like, ah.
Like, if you go with a 50-pound note to the wrong shop,
it literally shuts down.
If you go with a fiver to the bus,
it's like you've handed them a fucking box of Arsenal.
Mate, KFC refused money the other day.
I went, I'm sorry, I've had a tenner.
I did have my card, but I knew it was like in my phone
and my phone was down there.
I was just like, I'm going to be lazy.
I was like, a tenner?
They were like, all right.
Disease paper?
Be gone, man from the past.
But what about coronavirus?
I'm in a KFC with fucking 17
other bellends
that's a conspiracy
that isn't it
what
that they invented
coronavirus to make
banking
less paper
and more
online
but it was already that
no I mean
but like
like speed
like quicken up the process
yeah
it's like money
doesn't really exist
do you know
who I feel bad for
the 2p machine
owners in Blackpool
yeah
it's fucking them, isn't it?
They're finished now.
They've lost eight quid so far.
It's a fucking nightmare.
I love the 2P machines where you're like,
I've got this.
Four quid later, like,
no one touched that one.
You're dying to just blast it.
The only conspiracy theory I buy into
about coronavirus
is that there's a network of paedophiles
who are about to be exposed
and it might be them.
Okay, next time on the
Have a Word podcast.
Do you know what I mean?
It's just like...
To take the limelight.
What?
To take the limelight away, you mean?
Just because, yeah,
like, you know,
you had Jeffrey Epstein,
who, let's be honest,
definitely didn't kill himself.
Ghislaine Maxwell,
she's been arrested.
She's got fucking
coronavirus now
or she's isolated.
She'll be dead soon.
Quite fit.
Everyone's like, not talking about be dead soon quite fit everyone's like
not talking about her
Prince Andrew
everyone's forgot about him
Philip Schofield as well
he had some kind of
and that's why
we are in a world
worldwide recession
yeah
with millions
because that's how powerful they are
and I guarantee you
they've got Richard
as a result of it
it's the rich and powerful people
innit
yeah yeah
it's like there's a network
of nonces
oh 100%
but there is though it's the pedo illuminati it is though yeah totally yeah yeah it yeah yeah it's like there's a network of nonces oh 100% but there is though
it's the pedo
illuminati
it is though
yeah totally
yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah
but there is
do you not think
that there's genuinely
like a pedophile
ring like that
fucking
what was it
the pedophile
express like
Epstein's plane
he'd fly them
around and all
shit
he flew them
to an island
and there was
just like kids
in boxes
he had a sex cult
he had a sex cult
yeah
they don't start
worldwide pandemics those guys how do you know of course he had a sex cult yeah they don't start worldwide pandemics
those guys
how do you know
of course I don't know
exactly
but you don't know either
I'm not saying I know
and you sound like a fucking non
I'm not
I'm not saying that I know
it's a fucking worldwide
pedo illuminati
who've got access
to fucking Chinese
fucking viruses
no
I mean it'd be easy
to get it
Bill Clinton's deaf
I was
and he's deaf
I wasn't
yeah I hate fucking conspiracy talk I love, and he's deaf, I wasn't.
Yeah.
I hate fucking conspiracy talk.
I love that you hate it, you know.
I honestly, it makes my eyes water.
But, like, I'm not saying it's happening.
I'm saying it's definitely realistic and possible.
Imagine if you've got a whole network of 2P machines and it's the pedo Illuminati that have fucking ruined your business.
There's some poor cunt in Pachelli, North Wales.
Do you not think it's a bit of a coincidence
that as it looked like all that was coming out,
that this all went off?
I'm not saying I believe it.
I'm saying, you know, I'm open-minded.
Jeffrey Epstein has single-handedly fucked Landudno.
What's the question?
I've got another, would you rather?
50 quid's are a bit of a dickhead thing
to spend aren't they
yeah
remember like
I had an uncle
who used to
used to
gave us a 50 quid once
and you're like
alright dickhead
you're not the stripper
I fucking love having
a 50 quid in my wallet though
I feel like I'm
a millionaire
yeah but apart from
when it's too big
for your wallet
and then it goes
frayed at one side
because you've got
a fucking poor person wallet
that only goes up
to the 20 side
and then your big 50's flapping out the side it's been in there too long because you can't spend it poor person wallet that only goes up to the 20 side and the big 50s
flapping out the side
it's been in there
too long because you
can't spend it at Greg's
this is why you
shouldn't have wallets
you should have a
little card carrier
like I've got
where do you put your
50 pound note then
just keep it on its own
sounds good
I'd rather have a
50 pound note than
three 20s because I
feel like I've got
more money
pedo illuminati
would you rather age from the neck up or the neck down only
i think what what so you either get wrinkly from from this point on yeah yeah let's say now
exactly where you are now yeah Yeah. Your head keeps aging.
Yeah.
And your body stays a fucking pudgy little 39-year-old.
But for the purposes of this.
That needs the help of a PT.
You're single.
Because you've got to consider like attracting a mate.
But I'm not single, Adam.
I'm in love with my soulmate who's beautiful and glowing.
Yeah.
In this crazy universe.
Yeah.
In this crazy universe.
You've got the body you want as well.
You can go to the gym and smash it, and it stays like that.
No, that's not the question.
No, it's my body, isn't it?
Yeah, your body, but there's an age.
No, but I could work out in it.
It could achieve all the things that my...
I mean, there's a glass ceiling.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a concrete ceiling.
Or you stay with a youthful head
Yeah I think that would look fucking weird
If you had wrinkly bollocks
But you looked like a Kendall up top
But not many people see your wrinkly bollocks do they?
No but the ones who do
Get you in our boat
The ones who do
Like if you could
If you could have like a wrinkly face
And you get old
Just normally
Because you're not
It's not like you age overnight.
You're still going to age naturally in your face.
And then you get to, like, 70,
and for some reason you manage to pull a girl
because she falls in love with you,
and you get her in bed and you fucking whip your body out
and you've still got a fucking 30-year-old's pipe.
She'd be made up.
Yeah, she would.
Do you know, because of clothes,
the first one where your head ages normally
and your body stays the same is an absolute touch.
Because that happens anyway.
That happens normally, doesn't it?
You get older.
But all the old people you know can't fucking walk.
They've got bladder issues.
You know?
Like, that's my big fear.
I want to get to 80.
If I go somewhere between 80 and 85,
I've had a great result.
Because 85 to 90,
it gets a bit rickety, doesn't it?
Just having watched my grandparents.
95, literally my granddad at 95,
fucking hell.
I have to let the phone ring and ring and ring and ring and ring and then
he's like hello and he's he's walked three yards and it's a fucking it's not even on a wire he just
leaves it in one place because he doesn't understand how fucking wireless phones work to be fair though
that's not a bad tactic the amount of times i lose my phone and my car keys. I'm definitely on my way to being him. You'd go 40, wouldn't you?
Happily. Not 40,
like 65.
Would you take 65 right now?
No, because I don't,
I've got too much fear of missing out, so I don't want
to ever die, but
I'd like to skip from 65
to 95. Mental reason
not to want to die.
Grandad Ro, what will you miss
the most
the fucking results
on Saturday
yeah
isn't that mad though
that it carries on
when you're dead
I'd like to skip
from 65 to 95
that's mad though
isn't it
the world cup happens
when you're dead
it's still happening
yeah
but if you get
a little bit spiritual
then you can still
watch it and you can watch it from the sky you get a fucking dead people if you get a little bit spiritual then you can still watch it
and you can
watch it from
the sky
you get a
fucking
posture
if there is
a heaven
which there's
not
they still
give a shit
about the
world cup
I would
not the
world cup
but the
premier league
yeah
yeah
100%
but like
the idea of
when to go
I reckon being
like 65
66
you're still all right starting to
get a bit achy though you know you're not i've done stand-up about this you get you gotta go
in and out to hospital for scans i'd be gutted to go at 65 some 66 year olds are in great nick
yeah but me and you aren't gonna be that's true um i reckon being like 78 looks horrendous because
you've still got all your marbles you can see your grandkids eyeing your house up for when you're dead.
And you've got to keep, you get resentful of them.
If you're 95 and the dementia's kicked in,
you're fucking sweet.
I've got to agree with you on this one
because I've sharted after a can of sugar-free Red Bull.
Yeah.
And that's in your late 30s.
Yeah.
So what's going to be happening?
I wake up for a wee now.
I'm 28.
Do you know what I mean?
Oh, God.
Do you in the middle of the night?
Like, once a month, yeah.
Earlier.
Just has one piss a month.
Of course.
It's Adam.
He's still upstairs.
Two-hour piss, first of every month.
The direct debit goes out, and he fills the bowl.
Got any more?
Yeah, if you want to do one more this has been one of my favorite starts to a podcast for ages let's do one more would you
rather um would you rather give up your love life or your work life oh what are you trying to do to me, Carl?
Oh my God It's a public episode
That means he'd get rid of his love life
I know you can't say it
But I can say it for you
Laura, pack your bags, girl
You can still keep Etta
You'll have to get rid of Laura
It's unthinkable
I mean, i don't know i don't know if laura what would want
me if i had to give up comedy and podcasting yeah i don't think she would want the annoyed
fucked off like we've just had a another break from what we love doing. And this has been an absolute godsend, hasn't it?
Without this, you know, how would your head be?
Mine would be fully in a shed.
We've been in here four days this week.
Because, like, just to contextualise this for people watching,
as you'll know by the time you've got to this point in the pod,
today's episode is with Johnny Bongo,
which we recorded the Johnny Bongo bit two days ago.
Yesterday we recorded an episode with Tom Lucy. And today, after we recorded the Johnny Bongo bit two days ago. Yesterday, we recorded an episode
with Tom Lucy.
And today,
after we've recorded this bit,
we're recording a bit
with Rob Mulholland
to go out next week.
And we've also obviously
recorded a Patreon episode
this week.
We've been in here four days,
which is pretty close
to the six we were doing
during the first lockdown.
But we haven't felt
fatigued this week.
It's felt like fun
because every episode's
been a bit different.
This has been,
literally,
it's not getting like, oh God, I can can't be bothered this has been one of the most
fun bits of the whole week it's a reason to get up imagine not having this i honestly lockdown
i honestly think i would be on the brink of being locked in a mental health institution
if i didn't have this because it's been a reason to get up like in the morning when you get up and you're like
oh fuck can't be arsed back to sleep for an
hour I do that all the time when I've got
nothing to do but when I've got this I get up and I'm like
oh fuck I should go back to bed for an hour and then
five minutes later I'm like fucking pod day
got my music on I'm in the shower I've brushed
my teeth I'm minty fresh I've got a bit of lemon
on me fucking underarms not smelling like pits
anymore put a bit of aftershave on
pick Carl up got a bit of jshave on, pick Carl up,
got a bit of Jerry Cinnamon on in the car.
Oh, it could be a...
That's what it's like
to love your job, isn't it?
Yeah.
Fucking sick.
And if you're listening to this
going, I fucking hate my job,
I just...
We empathise with you.
Just keep trying
to get to somewhere
where you like your job.
And it might be a job
that someone
else would fucking hate but talking to people who buzz off what they do the similarities between
my life adam's life and their life all right it's a different thing they're doing but when you buzz
off what you do doesn't half make life easier and i know it's not as easy as just fucking off your
job that you don't like you've got a graft We had to work unpaid for God knows how long.
But, yeah, I don't know if giving up a love life
to then do this would be grim,
but I honestly don't think Laura wants to deal with me fucked off.
See, I think either one of these is devastating
because even as a recently single man,
at some point...
You've just got to become asexual.
At some point, just to be slightly serious,
at some point I'm going to want to be in a serious relationship.
I've got ideals on having a family one day
and a house with pets and all that sort of shit.
I like that idea. I really do.
But, but, and I really do. But, but,
and I really do want that.
However,
there's a reason this is a would you rather
because they're both fucking awful.
I feel like as long as I had
me mates around me enough,
I would survive easier
with keeping me work life
than I would with keeping me love life.
Because I think
having,
it, it's yeah
I don't think
I can give up work
I really don't
I can't give up
my beautiful
pregnant wife
when we found out
yesterday
end of pod
that Liverpool
are going into
tier 2
and hot water
went
we're opening
on Friday
and Saturday
and December
I could have
cried with happiness
that I'm going to
get to do
3 gigs a weekend
for the entirety of December and I'm going to get to do three gigs a weekend for the entirety of December
and I'm going to cherish every single fucking one of them
because we all know far too fucking well
that on the 1st of January,
the country's going into national lockdown
until these vaccines start getting fucking shoved up our ass.
I think everyone's like,
January's going to be shit.
What about February?
Are the government helping you financially?
Yeah?
Well, it's not looking good then fuck knuckle yeah oh we'll deal with that let's deal with that when we get there
but i i'd like to keep both that's okay yeah it's all right carl just no you're both picking work
and that's fine no i think you misunderstood me no no no no we're both picking work sorry laura
pack your bags leave the baby
push it out if you can
he'll look after both of them
I'll upraise them
they'll join mine
and Carl's
we'll join mine
and Carl's footy team
it's gonna be sound
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Nice one.
Welcome back.
Back?
Yeah.
Is that what we're doing?
Whenever we record an episode like this, we were recording a bit with the guest in advance of the first half.
I always, for some reason, get clunky about that first.
Yeah, but we've done like a year or so.
It's like,
welcome back from the last time you watched it
or listened to it.
People also,
there's definitely people I've noticed
when we have a guest in,
my heart esteemed guest today.
There's definitely people who jump to the guest bit
and just fuck us off.
Yeah,
it's a YouTube comment like,
one minute,
five seconds,
thank me later.
You're like,
oh,
fuck that.
Welcome,
Johnny.
How's it going? Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me in. Thanks for the delicious Cherry Coke me later You're like, oh fuck that Welcome Johnny How's it going?
Thanks for coming in
Thanks for having me in
Thanks for the delicious Cherry Coke Zero
You're very welcome, is it alright?
You've never tried this before?
Never tried it, good
You on to the Fanta Lemon?
Fanta Lemon, back from Tenerife
On that, Fanta Orange is different as well
What's Tenerife like at the minute?
Because me and Carl are thinking
If Liverpool goes into Tier 2
Yep
It means that
there might not be many gigs for me
and I can't be arsed staring at the same four walls
anymore so I might fuck off somewhere
I reckon you'd get gigs in Tenerife
Do you want me to get some gigs going?
Do you have to do lowbrow comedy?
Oh no, there's no point in that
Where can he take his highbrow political satire?
That's the question
It's all right.
I went to a family resort for the first two weeks.
And I was like, I've got to get out of here.
We're going to stay another week.
And went to Costa.
Costa Decca, maybe?
Costa something.
It was rough.
Yes.
That's what we wanted.
Two weeks of family.
Two weeks of family.
You know, nice.
Yeah.
All inclusive.
Many discos.
By the pool. And then this bar, Sky know, nice. Yeah, all inclusive. Many discos. By the pool.
And then this bar, Sky Bar, did seven nights on a row there.
Different entertainment every night.
Someone from Britain's Got Talent was on it.
Oh, that's it then, isn't it?
Like a drag act, but when I, like, research, you know,
it's like, from Britain's Got Talent.
It took me ages to find it.
They were on it for maybe about seven seconds.
Oh, yeah.
They were just flashed up on Britain's Got Talent.
Still got the fucking credit.
But you can put it on the poster.
They were in the background of someone else's audition yeah they're interviewing someone talking about the dead man and they come walk around in the background like mate i did uh
i did tv about eight years ago nine years ago and it was the john bishop's only joking show
and my agent put on posters without me knowing star of john bishop's only joking i was like mate
they've been printed i was like i'm not the star of john bishop's only joking i was like mate they've been printed i was like i'm not the
star of john bishop's only fucking joke how long were you on bishops literally 30 seconds split
into two clips about four weeks apart might have brought some people in though yeah once you see
that sticker as seen on tv if you've got a credit fucking wh whore it out. Some TV credits you don't even want to put on it
because they're shit shows, aren't they?
And you see people like,
I'm not going to watch this country if he's been on that.
I'm at the point where anything goes on.
It's nice to have like a fourth option
to knock one of the three out.
But yeah, not John Bishop.
Fucking ridiculous.
So Tenerife would be, because everyone...
It's a travel corridor, isn't it?
Is it? It's a new term. Right, yeah. Just all these new terms. Bubble. It's bubble. Tenerife would be because everyone it's a travel corridor isn't it is it
it's a new term
right
just all these new terms
bubble
it's bubble
Tenerife's in our bubble
you can go as long as
it's a travel corridor
every country I've ever met
seems to be in Dubai
at the minute
yeah
so that was my first thought
my mate Libby lives out there
shout out Libby
in case she's watching
and I was like
Lib what's it like
and she literally sent me
a video of her in a bar
and it's just chocker.
Everyone's sound, but you've got to wear a mask
when you go to the toilet and stuff.
I said to Carl, like, should we just...
If we're not...
If there's nothing to do...
There's only so many PlayStation pads
I can smash up playing FIFA, do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
So, if it was you...
Well, we're trying to get shows out there.
We're trying to get some bingo shows out in Dubai,
because everywhere else, we can't do them.
That would decide it for me.
We should contextualise that, actually,
because a lot of our fans are fans purely of comedy
and they might not know who Johnny Bongo is at this stage.
So you invented Bongo's bingo.
Yeah, I was a wee bit nervous coming in
because everybody's all comedians.
I'm not a comedian, really.
Some of the best episodes have been the non-comedian ones, to be honest. Oh, great in Because everybody's all comedians I'm not a comedian really Yeah Some of the best episodes
Have been the non-comedian ones
To be honest
Oh great
Because when we have comedians in
We just talk about comedy
For the whole time
And you can feel our listeners
Sometimes being like
Talk about something else lads
We get comments going
When are you getting a non-comedian in
And I've wanted to get you in for ages
Yeah
I'm sorry
Do you know I've
I've seen on TV as well
Oh yeah
Yeah I've got that
No one knows
I know
What did you do
don't tell the bride
don't tell the bride
fuck off
oh my god
don't know why
I've just threw that in
right this time
because we're doing
TV credits mate
I think that's
how it is
you've been on TV
longer than Dan
yeah
my current wife
will be fuming like
oh really
yeah
second marriage
I'm in now
oh so the don't tell the bride one didn't last no it didn't last Jesus Christ My current wife will be fuming like. Oh, really? Yeah. Second marriage I'm in now.
Oh, so the Don't Tell the Bride one didn't last?
No, it didn't last.
Jesus Christ.
Please tell, we've got to hear the story because you watch it and it's basically just like,
aren't lads fucking morons on TV?
It was a bit of that, but it was early.
Don't Tell the Bride.
Right.
I mean, like the golden age.
If that's even a thing.
They were letting you genuinely make decisions
rather than like, she loves trampolines.
Yeah.
Do the reception on a trampoline.
Yeah, it cuts to her going, I just hate trampolines.
I've just never been on a trampoline.
Like, Nana's been sick three times.
Are you happy, Brian?
I'd love to see the statistics, right,
of how many don't tell the bride managers
actually went the distance.
Yeah.
Because it can't be a lot.
The amount of fucking mismatches.
I felt like they only recorded
with people who weren't
meant to be together
because it would literally,
like, my favourite one was,
she was like,
he's obsessed with aliens
and, you know,
I've never been into it.
He's a bit of a conspiracy nut
but I accept that about him.
I just don't want that
anywhere near me wedding.
And then it cut to him
looking around aircraft
and he's like,
we'll get Klingons on the wall
we'll put a Dalek
up there
it'll be fucking great
she'll love it
what did you think
was going to happen love
this bell ends
got 15 grand budget
how much budget
did you get
12 grand I think
it was
12
12
and uh
do you know what
I did alright
the only thing I messed up
was um
I did a hog roast
and she's Turkish
and all her family
are Muslim
but I didn't know
thanks for having me
and I'm going now
oh my god
so
I didn't know
I didn't
like
I was only like
20, 21
did that not come off
while you were dating
no because
she would eat pork
is that why you
texted me today
and said
do you eat bacon because Johnny texted me today and said do you eat bacon
because Johnny texted me today
before he came in and said do you eat bacon lad
and I was like it's a bit of a fucking weird question
what cunt doesn't eat bacon and I was like yeah as often as I can
and you've turned up with
we've got to show people this
two, one for me and one for Dan
is this leftover from the wedding
have you just got this out of the freezer
so this is these bacon ribs one for Dan is this leftover from the wedding have you just got this out of the freezer frozen hard roast
so this is
these bacon ribs
listen I just
have two things
I'm into at the moment
is baby Yoda
merchandise
and this butcher
from Ireland
yeah
called meet Peter
you need to check him out
like
I'm a big fan
girl of him
and I'm like
messaging him all the time
he doesn't really
message me back
it's a bit awkward
but it's buried
in a pit of sugar but it's buried in a
pit of sugar.
So it's dry cured first.
Dry cured first and then
all the moisture comes out when it's dry cured and then
they bury it in sugar and the moisture is replaced
with sugar. It's sweet.
It's the best gear you'll ever have.
I feel a wedding coming up.
Honestly it's unbelievable.
That's our tea later.
Yeah, there's enough to go around.
Our tea?
Yeah.
We're not married yet, lad.
This is fucking mine.
You can have some spuds.
You know, people want to do little plugs of things and everything
and obviously give their mates and whatever.
If you turn up with 1.8 kilograms of meat as a guest,
I'll literally talk about anything for you.
That is fucking decent.
You've set the standard
for guests now.
It's not even like,
I've got nothing to do
with the guy.
I'm just like,
fucking into his gear like.
Oh, I thought you were like,
I thought you had a like a.
No, it's not like,
this is my mate
who's an Irish butcher
and I'd love you to
like take this
and maybe give him a mention.
Like,
I just love the stuff
so much.
And I just want.
It's like he was sponsored
by a butcher in Ireland. I thought he was his mate. He was like, go on the thing, give him a bit of so much. Did you think he was sponsored by a butcher in Ireland?
I thought he was his mate.
He was like, go on the thing, give him a bit of meat.
See, when you go on that there, you mention my bacon.
No, it's not like that.
I, like, just love that stuff.
I want to re-tweet, I want to re-meet.
He won't even follow me on Instagram, the guy.
He won't follow you?
No, I'm tagging him in.
I'm saying, look, I've got this.
I'm going to restaurants where they do, like,
Himalayan salt-aged beef. I'm just so them in. I'm saying, look, I've got this. I'm going to restaurants where they do this, like Himalayan salt-aged beef.
I'm just so passionate about it.
But I know that, like, it's like if someone's, like, with the bingo,
if they're, like, so passionate and messaging all the time,
it's almost a wee bit like you get a wee bit of standoffish.
Whereas he's probably looking at me going, like,
what the fuck's this guy up like?
Because you're a grown man stalking a butcher.
Exactly.
It is a little bit of a weird spot
isn't it, it's not like he's an Instagram
influencer and he's getting, like an only
fan says like there's got to be a line, this guy's
a butcher in Ireland and you're like
mate I just want to be closer to you
through your meat, yeah I don't think there's many butcher
stands you see
but you'll get it once you try it
yeah, I think you'll understand why
I can't believe you thought
he had a fucking brand deal and that's why you come in if i did i wouldn't like be like sit down
this is the brief i want to advertise maybe we have to slip it in at the end like oh by the way
there's some meat there from uh meet peter in moira in ireland i just thought i just it just
made sense apparently i just i've never been gifted anything properly the last 25 guests whereabouts is he based?
he's based in Moira
Moira
because we have quite
Ireland
it's in Northern Ireland
yeah
so
he's like the most
the only time I think
I've actually got
close to speaking to him
was when I did a big order
my man and I
right at the start of lockdown
they came over
and I
like he wasn't doing
online shopping
yeah
so I asked him to fill up
like two freezer bags of go to his butchers and get all the stuff and bring it over i think i
spoke to him on the phone what year did this transaction happen like hey can you come over
i want a fucking van of meat that's what it was like and then i phoned him and i had to give like
my card details over the phone and then at the end you know like can I have your expiry
and then he asked for the three buys
on the back. I love that.
I love the three buys. And give us the three
buys on the back for the security code.
Excellent.
He probably wouldn't have spoke to me if he knew
it was like me that he was talking to.
I'm not that fucking guy from Instagram.
So he probably wouldn't have
driven to your house. How did he get it delivered?
Did DPD?
My man, Dad, brought it over on the ferry.
Right.
You were smuggling bacon across the Irish Sea?
They brought it over and, yeah.
Shitting it about the backstop, Mum, Dad.
You need to get it in.
You need to get the shit in.
But now he's doing delivery to the UK.
Customs are letting fucking women through
with fucking cocaine
up their arse
and they're like
share a chair
fucking batty
see if she's got any bacon
sausages
good meat chat
good meat chat
great meat chat
guys
take it off
ten minutes into a pod
I reckon that's the most
we've talked about meat
I loved it
it's fantastic
we are getting to the point
where some things
are getting brought up
again and again
and we're like
oh we kind of covered that we like i've caught us both saying it in
the last month two months going we've mentioned it before none of that like don't tell the bride
into a fucking meat advert that's really original we've not even talked about bongo's bingo we're
like yeah never mind that what about meat i'd fucking love to to have seen your ex-wife's uncle turning up from fucking Turkey.
Fuming.
He's waited all day.
Because no one likes being at a wedding, do they?
They're just waiting for the food
and then they bring out a fucking pig on a stick.
Like, here you go, fella.
All my family were absolutely made up as well.
Because there was more.
My uncle's not going up again, there, so I am.
Maybe it's... I can't imagine loads of Muslim uncles
are dead happy about trekking over to Northern Ireland
for a wedding either.
On telly.
And I think it fits how they want it to happen for their daughter.
Yeah.
Or niece.
Poor Mohammed's just like,
I'm going to see me niece get married.
And he ends up on BBC3
stood next to a dead pig
while everyone's having
fucking sambuca
this is not going to play well
what else
did you do
everything else you played
it down the line
I think it was alright yeah
I just went a bit
off the wall
it was a big outdoor wedding
it was good
it wasn't like
I think most people watched it
probably thought like
that wasn't too bad
yeah just don't look like a fucking idiot is the game innit yeah because it's hard I did look like an idiot it wasn't like i think most people watched it probably thought like that wasn't too bad yeah
just don't look like a fucking idiot is the game in it yeah because it's hard they look like an
idiot like i think just in general yeah that's sort of the fun of it isn't it it's like did she
cry at any point yeah yeah oh fuck yeah the happiness or no they took her into the flat
so where we were staying because it was all like dead strict and you had the proper
sign you know these like waivers that you won't speak and if you do you're like liable for
production costs and things like that so the the guys that were like directing it um they promised
when she was over and because we're living in london at the time yeah and she had went over
the island she was coming back for a dress fitting and because I was like 21
not allowed to speak to your missus for three weeks
it was just like a fucking free for all
the flat was just like a party house
and fuck fast bottles
and I said you've just got to promise you won't bring her back
and they swore down that they wouldn't
and then on the wedding day
she told me
I was in the flat
I looked like a dickhead on that when she goes into the flat and she told me like I was in the flat and it was like that I looked like a dickhead
on that like
when she goes into the flat
and she's crying and stuff
oh TV people
are fuckers aren't they
because it wasn't in the contract
no of course
of course
of course
we'd never do that
get her in
get her in
they're evil like that
what's the one thing
you don't want to happen
we'll make sure
that absolutely doesn't happen
Muslim you say
I know a butcher in Moira
yeah you can't really take them to court for that can you
Was it in the contract
Nobody fucking swore down on his man's life
He said he wouldn't take it in
The fuckers for that
Can we just explain to our
Avid listeners
For anyone who doesn't know what it is
What is bongos bingo
And how the fuck did that idea come around um
it just came about because i was doing this pub quiz in liverpool in the shipping forecast yeah
and i was doing that and it was a bit like off the wall bonus rounds just fucking loads of mad shit
um and when was this johnny when we're talking about maybe 10 years ago. The bingo's been going for five years.
So it was like, pub quizzes are a good laugh,
but sometimes you can go and it's like fucking eggheads
and you don't win anything.
So this was like a pub quiz where it was still a quiz,
but it just was like carnage.
And it's a cool bar.
It's right in the middle of town.
It's well known, that boozer in it.
So that was like packed on a Monday.
And were you just working there,
or did you come in to do the quiz?
I think I'd been working in london in bars and restaurants and then came up and was working in the shipping forecast then put the quiz on and then started doing more like dj and
radio work so left all the bar work i was like i'll maybe do more events and entertainment stuff
and then from the back of that the bingo which is the same sort of concept it's like if you've
ever been it's like you do go and
play bingo and that's like really important because i don't think it would work if it's
just like a themed night so you can go play bingo win mad prizes but win like money as well
and then it's all this other sort of like creativity thrown into it like dance offs
mad irish and was it was it like a manager going push it push it further or is it
you that was going so we're gonna have dance rounds we're gonna get everyone up on like yeah
it was like basically what i was doing at this quiz and then i met my who's now my business
partner he was josh he was doing like club nights and on that kind of scene so we we came together
to do this like event did it in liver. Started it in the Camp and Furnace.
Sorry, that's a bit...
Oh, wait.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
I'm glad that's come up.
I fucking love it.
Can we mention the beef?
Can we mention the beef?
We only mentioned the pork.
Didn't get comedians on the show.
Told me.
So went and did it there.
But it was my business partner that really pushed to do it
in other cities and and tour it out and like the demand for it's just nuts people just love it
you did it um you did a private one for my work joe for connoff only in work yeah in par street
that's i knew i knew your face fucking heavy yeah i knew i knew i knew your face and there was it was only like. Yeah, I knew, I knew, I knew your face.
It was only, like, for a couple of hundred people?
Yeah, it was three workplaces all under... Dave Rhodes, Conner Foley...
For, like, Lucha Libre and all that.
Lucha Libre and Miyagi, it fucking went off.
I think there was a serious injury at that level.
There was.
Dave fell off the table.
It's essentially a club night, isn't it?
That's got bingo, dance-offs, big games all thrown in.
And, like, you're not just winning money.
Like, I've seen people win space hoppers,
and then they're bouncing around this fucking huge hall on space hoppers,
off the fucking air, bladdered.
And it looks like you're living your best life up there while you're running.
No, it's class.
We're doing it all with our mates,
and it started off with just one team doing it and going around.
I was doing like five gigs a week around the country on repeat for about a year.
Then we started to hire in more hosts and dancers.
And I think where we're at now is we've got like 10 different hosts.
And we do it all the work we're doing.
Just before Corona, we were doing like 30 shows a week across everywhere.
But it's just class it's class Because everyone just like it's nice doing something
That people of all ages
And all different walks of life just buzz off it
And it's not we don't take ourselves
Too seriously it's just like a fucking laugh
It's not easy that
For it to be for everyone
You know like there's loads of things that are
Shit hot but they leave part of the
family out or part of your friends group out or anything like i've seen the videos that are the
kind of videos that if you watch now where you're not allowed to go to booze you're like i want to
go drinking so much i'd love to take you to a bongo's bingo night make that when please now
we should vlog it oh my god add it to the fucking list well if we go to dubai next week and you're
out there we're absolutely going to that that'd be the fucking list. Well, if we go to Dubai next week and you're out there,
we're absolutely going to that.
That'd be the fucking best thing.
When we first did Dubai,
it's just,
like we did it maybe three years ago.
And it's actually,
any time we ever start,
because it started in Liverpool,
I think it wouldn't be as successful as it is
if it had started in maybe another city.
Liverpool is so sort of parochial,
that spreads.
And also it's like people,
if you're on holiday and you heard maybe someone
talking about Bongo's Bingo and a Scouser was there,
they'd be like, that's fucking from Liverpool.
You know what I mean?
Even though I'm from Ireland.
You're an adopted Scouser.
So when we did Sydney and Dubai
and you just said, any Scousers in?
You were actually in Dubai
last year when I was out there. November
last year. And why did you not come to the show?
Because I was doing a show.
But our show might have went on later maybe.
It didn't. I was closing the show
so I wasn't finished until like half eleven or something like that.
I think we went on to twelve.
If we were acquainted back then
Johnny I would have been there. Well I did reach out
to you on Instagram.
Did you?
Mate, stop stalking people on Instagram, Johnny.
Did you really?
No, I didn't.
Sent him some lovely chicken.
One of our other hosts said that he did speak to you.
He did in Edinburgh?
Yeah.
At the Pleasant's Courtyard, yeah.
Yeah, he said you blanked him.
I did.
I said I wouldn't bring it up.
You cut me off on my own podcast.
I'm sorry.
I know.
He said, if you're going on that, bring that up.
And I said, I'm not going to bring it up.
I was in the Pleasant's Courtyard and he come over to me.
He was hammered.
And he's like, lads.
That's what he didn't put in.
He's like, lads, you fucking watch all your videos.
You and Paul, lads, fucking have it.
You want to come on Friday, lads?
I'll fucking talk to Johnny, lads.
We'll fucking get you down, lads.
And I was like yeah yeah i will and
then it just didn't happen yeah see he didn't tell it like that and i mean that's what the problem
the truth is knowing uh this host rich furnace he was like well i seen that adam and i went up to him
and i said well are you enjoying the fringe come to our show and he here's my business and he walked
away i was like you're off your head on gary's problem we're like sweating all over him it was
like day two of the festival as well
and I was on day two of the Edinburgh festival
because you were there for a few days, weren't you?
Is that right?
I can't remember.
That month of Edinburgh for a comedian,
those first few days,
you're mentally preparing yourself
for a month-long tough mother
that you're about to do.
It's heavy going.
And the show's not quite ready
and you're like tweaking things.
You're like thinking as you go
And you've got a fucking
Publicist in your ear
Going on Friday
You're doing your show
Then you're doing these three
Then you've got an interview
With the Scotsman
Then you're doing this
Fucking TV show
That no one's gonna
Fucking watch
But you need it
Because I need to write it down
And tell you that
I got you this fucking
Yeah
And all your family going
When are we visiting
You're like never
Ideally
Never
I think now just to atone
For this though
We're just gonna
Even if we just go to Dubai
For one night Just go to Dubai for one night,
just go to that next week,
we're going to have to do it.
It's quite interesting though
because a lot of people in our industry
and the events industry in general
have struggled to cope with coronavirus.
So your work is entirely in events.
Is it just smuggling meat you've gone into
or have you found some other...
No, it is. It's like bringing the mood down it's it's fucked us big
time like and everyone in in the events industry and it's just such a tough one because you don't
know how to play it like you can like you just have to fucking go with the flow i think that's
what i've come to accept like you can't just like be angry all the time and just just have to go
with it we got there in the spring we were trying to it starts doing your head in but it was the natural thing
in march and april to be like i think we must have done this when we were doing the lockdown
lockings the shutdown lockings whatever we were doing daily podcasts we started doing this thing
about i think by june maybe july and it was like no november and well i think by september and in
the end you just have to become a passenger
and be like we'll be ready when we're fucking allowed there's no point you're messing with
your own mental health trying to predict it because you're trying to affect some control
you just know that as soon as you can you're going to do your thing again yeah but it's brutal
guessing nail in the head like because when when we started that that like when it started we were
doing some streaming and it was kind of good and it's like oh well, this will be over by the summer, and then it's dying down,
and then the government were sort of saying,
oh, you know, there'll be arena shows in October and all,
and it's just been tough.
It's been tough for all of our host dancers,
like guys in the office, just a killer.
But hopefully the brand that we've built will survive through it.
Oh, it'll definitely still be there. We know that the style that we've built will survive through it.
And we know that, like, the style of the event and, you know,
comedy nights and things like that, like,
that's what people want more than anything.
As soon as, like, the green light goes,
I think the demand for to go out and have a night out,
and not just maybe to go to the boozer for sort of, like,
live entertainment, something a bit different.
2021, there will be a release of energy.
Hopefully.
We're banking on, we're doing the same thing again of like,
it should be done by Easter.
I mean, it should be done by Easter. No, but it really should be now.
Should let the vaccine come in.
Stab your nan in the arm with this vaccine.
Keep it in a fucking cupboard for two weeks.
Give her the rest of it and let us go and have a fucking party.
And I think there'll be such a flood of like,
not just going to the boozer
or fucking Nando's,
things like comedy
and things like bongo spring up
become like,
oh fuck,
I want to live,
I want to do,
like,
to make up for what has been
a bit of a shitty year
where you've missed out on stuff.
Yeah,
it's going to be like
a fucking spring,
isn't it?
It's just constantly
getting more and more tense
and the tenser and tenser it gets,
when it gets released,
it's just going to...
My mate's starting to plan
his 41st birthday
because his 40th just got shat on from a great height,
turned 40 in November, and he's just gone.
There's nothing.
I've not got to do anything.
So he's like, we're going big for 41.
And he's just moving all the excitement to then.
Good on him.
So we're all going to be knobheads
and try and find 41 balloons, which don't exist.
Get a Sharpie pen, we'll be off.
You're going to have to get a four and a one,
because they definitely exist.
Because quite big birthdays when you're a kid.
Two balloons.
Fucking clever, lad.
Not just a fucking hat racket.
Is there a, like, do you get people on stage, don't you?
What, from the crowd?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Has there anyone ever, like, has there ever got a bit fucking eggy? Because I've brought people on stage before don't you? What, from the crowd? Yeah. Yeah. Has there ever got a bit fucking eggy?
Because I've brought people on stage before.
I made a mistake very early on.
This was when Hot Water was in the Crown pub,
and I was like three years in maybe,
and the headline of that night was a Canadian called Marty McLean.
Remember Marty?
I do, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm on in the middle section,
and there was this heckler who just,
he thought he should have been on stage.
So I went, come on then, come on stage.
And Marty, who's a veteran of comedy,
shit himself, he was like, this is going to kick off.
Because I gave the guy the mic and stood next to him.
I was like, go on, you do your bit then,
if you think you're good.
Because I was having a decent gig,
and he just, he stood all like awkwardly.
Oh God. So I was in my mars the
other day fucking bitch and it gets fuck all and he's like yes you know when your mars is doing
your fucking head and fucking bitch and uh saying this i don't really remember what else he said but
i remember he said that and it just didn't work and he's like oh you should all just fucking be
knobheads because i was a knobhead to him this This is funny, this. Right? And I was like, can I have the mic back?
He was like, you can have it back when I'm finished.
And then it got really fucking eggy
because when Marty then rushed the stage
and was like, give us the fucking mic, fuck you,
he got kicked out, this guy.
And afterwards, Marty was like,
don't ever, ever get someone on stage,
especially if they think they're going to be funny
because it's always alpha males who can't deal with the fact
that someone's funnier than them in the room.
They get on stage, they realise the fucking shit,
and then it kicks off.
So you've given them the mic because you know they're not going to be funny,
but the end game isn't them going,
Sir, I admit you have bested me,
and I wish everyone here a lovely evening.
I'll go and put my head in the oven.
So has it ever got a bit awkward?
Not really.
We get people up, but it's more for dance-offs.
We do a raffle after every game.
There's a lucky ticket.
If you come up, that's when you win for big money.
And it's like a who wants to be a millionaire question question or whatever um and like people have pissed themselves on stage like literally a couple
of times like winning like a couple of grand i think i only had one like like as as someone
comes up and i'll like quickly give do like a wee like interview with them briefly like so where
you from like warrenton or something and then as it's a
shit gag but i just i just like it um and as they as they're leaving if they've got the question
wrong i like you know beckon them back going listen saturday night we're all having a good
time you know as if i'm going to give them another go and then i just say fuck off back to warrington
and then everyone cheers and they sort of play the Curb Your Enthusiasm music and then they walk off.
One guy once went to bottle me, but that was about it, really.
Oh, so when I said, does it ever get eggy?
And you said no.
Just the once, I nearly got bottled.
But we've got this big security guy called Dangerous Dave,
who is an absolute unit, and he just dived in.
Did he pick his own nickname?
I don't even think he's called Dave.
Fucking brilliant.
He's class though, big boy.
He's become part of the show,
almost like Steve or whatever you call it from Jerry Springer.
Yeah, he's just Dave.
He just comes in, does little bits.
He's like Graham from Jeremy Kyle.
Like Graham, but like a unit.
Graham was fucking massive.
No, there was another one in Jeremy Kyle. There was the security one, I think. Graham was fucking massive no there was another one
in Jeremy Cal
there was the security one
I think
Graham was the
pastoral aftercare
was he
yeah Graham was the guy
we don't have one of them
like that comes and
speaks people off the wall
you just fuck off to Warrington
just fuck off to Warrington
and go and speak to Graham there
we'll get you help
we'll get you help
we'll send you home
with a bit of meat
we'll get you help
we're not dinkheads
dangerous Dave
oh fucking love the idea
of just someone like being
that's the thing with security
at comedy clubs
they're there
but
they're not always watching
I feel like Dangerous Dave
is definitely there
and watching
that's his job
I remember
at Rawhide once
I said something about
Northern Ireland
I mentioned it
because I used to have
housemates from Belfast
when I was at uni
and it got mentioned and I went into a bit and this piss person just
couldn't accept that I talked about Northern Ireland and went to throw her
drink at me,
but it was a glass of wine.
And as she did that motion,
it sort of looped out of the glass and I just saw wine sort of just go over my
head and then stood there going,
did you just, just throw wine at me?
If you're quick enough there, free baggy.
You shouldn't have said anything.
You're nailing it.
And I went, okay, but did you throw wine at me?
And I was just waiting for like, and nothing fucking happened.
It was the worst because I was just waiting for someone to get fucking rugby tackled from the side.
Because bouncers are dying for something to kick off, because it's boring
and nothing happens, so I had to go
oh, okay, you did then
well, I'll get on with the commentary
she's off for another glass of wine
it's fucking brutal, there's a league table
of bouncers though, isn't there, and I feel like
bongos bingo, needs a dangerous Dave
and then one step down from that, you've got
nightclubs, step down from that
you've got local pubs that are a bit tasty step down from that, you've got nightclubs. Step down from that, you've got local pubs that are a bit tasty.
Step down from that, you've got
comedy clubs, and then even below that,
you've got that sad cunt who has to stand on Burger King.
Oh, no!
Like, what happened in their life when
they're like, oh, I'm going to be a doorman, I'm hard
as fuck, I'm a fucking blue belt in fucking
karate. Chip flying!
Chips are flying! Chips are flying!
They just have to decide
whether you're drunk enough
for a fucking
overpriced burger
I feel so sorry
for those guys
yeah
what would your
bouncer nickname be Dan?
Dangerous Dave
yeah so
Dangerous Dave
what would you
it's not Dangerous Dave
is it
it's fucking
Baldy Nance
is that
I just like
sex pest them
until they start like
alright
no alliteration
just Baldy Nance Baldy Nance yeah I just don't do it until they start like, all right. No alliteration, just balding nonce.
Balding nonce, yeah.
I just don't do it like Liam.
Leave me out of it, Liam.
I don't.
I'm a thespian.
Are you?
Well, yeah, I was back in the days.
You were a thespian?
I did a bit of amateur dramatics.
So I'm not a real thespian.
I was just saying, you know.
Isn't a thespian like an old-style English actor?
No, I think it's just any form of sort of actor or drama type.
It's just because most people, when they say thespian,
that's how they say it.
Yeah.
I'm a thespian.
I'm a thespian.
Yeah, it just means actor or, yeah.
But people who use the term thespian are those type of cunts.
Yeah. And so I apologise. I wish Iian are those type of cunts. Yeah.
And so I apologise.
I wish I'd not done it.
Argumentative, Adam.
What, as a doorman?
Yeah.
That's not your idea.
It is.
It isn't.
He'd start more fights than he fucking ended.
I wouldn't.
You would.
What a great response.
I wouldn't.
I'm not argumentative.
Yeah, you are.
No, I'm not.
I'm quite good at calming situations fuck the fuck off
what do you mean
what situations
do you calm down
all of them
like I'm quite chill mate
when it's kicking off
I'm always like
come on
we can sort this out
that's how I did my shoulder
I was trying to calm
my fight down
between my little brother
and some big cunts
might have been dangerous Dave
you never know
and that's when I got assaulted
I didn't assault anyone back.
You're a very calming influence, especially on this
podcast. Yeah, should everyone just chill
out? Why are we arguing? What has happened?
I'm calling myself a thespian and you're lying about
being chilled out? What the fuck are you talking about?
It does feel like it's kicking off a wee bit.
It's because he's fucking speaking
to me like I'm a dickhead. It's kicking off
while we're arguing about how we don't kick off.
I'm like sitting here like I'm in some sort of gaff at four in the morning
going like, I'm taking my meat and go.
You're going to have that for tea.
You're all right.
You're all right.
You're going to be all right.
That'll do, pig.
Shall we have a word from some money cunts?
Stop calling the sponsors money cunts.
Jesus Christ.
Fucking hell.
Who have I put in now?
We sat here with a business owner who's like,
we've grown the brand, you know, we're up to 10 presenters.
And he's always like, there's some fucking money cunts.
Hey, they're not giving us meat.
We appreciate the sponsors, but you know,
if you can't take a joke why are you sponsoring us
you fucking gobshites
what the fuck
I love it
he's leaning into it
dead chilled out
just a nice chilled out guy
give us your money
you fucking cunt
it's gonna be a jump cut that one
no it isn't
leave it in
leave it in
they're grown adults
comedy podcast we're joking what's happening lids Leave it in. Leave it in. They're grown adults. Comedy podcast.
We're joking.
What's happening, lids?
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Have you got some questions?
I have.
So how much of the podcast
do you manage to get through?
I know you listen to an episode or so.
The title of the podcast, Have a Word,
is people sometimes write in
like a reverse Agony Ant style thing
where they're like,
hey, have a word with this dickhead
because he's being a knob.
And we also do a few would you rathers
and shit like that.
This is the feature section.
Fine.
Yeah.
I'll let Johnny decide what you want.
We can give some serious advice.
Someone's asked for some serious advice.
We've got a question about sport.
We've got some would-you-rathers
that are definitely not serious.
What's your preference?
What are you feeling?
Is this in order?
Are you not going to do it?
No, you can do whatever.
Why don't you just do them all?
Yes.
Johnny came to play.
Fucking hell.
This is a serious bit of advice needed on this one.
Are we going to do serious before we go into Wunji Rathers?
Why don't you do like a serious sandwich, that one?
So a silly, serious.
This guy knows how to
put a fucking show together
that's entertainment right there
just calm down
alright
just see it in your eyes
you're getting a little bit
touchy
breathe through it
you're really starting
to piss me off
have a fucking
cha
tea
you're really starting
to do my head in
okay good
good
alright
just breathe
you're alright
would you rather would you rather
would you rather
I've never been this pissed off
on the podcast
would you rather
just breathe through it babes
you're alright
you can't
find a happy place
Dubai
would you rather
finish every
unattended glass
by the way
you have to do one of these
on pain of death
you're not eating that shit
yeah
would you rather
finish every unattended
glass pint on a table in a bar even if someone's just. Yeah? Would you rather finish every unattended glass pint
on a table in a bar,
even if someone's just gone to the toilet,
you have to go over and down it,
or every time you're out,
you're at the bar,
and you order a drink.
If you hear someone order something else after you,
you have to point to them and say,
I'll have that instead,
and you can't explain why.
So the two options are,
you're in a pub
and you literally just fucking
mind sweep
every empty glass
around you
you're that cunt
you're basically the alcoholic
you haven't got a choice
or
it's called mind sweeping innit
yep
it's a student move
it's called mind sweeping innit
yeah you just said it there
I just said mind sweeping
wake up lad
you've seen Red
big time
haven't you
sometimes when Dan
this is the silly section
sometimes when Dan's talking
because I
sort of
like
I know
like
I know the format
and that
I've got a bit of ADHD
so what was happening there
was I was playing
an episode of Friends
in my head
and I missed a bit
this is
developing as a problem
and we've
done so many podcasts i read these
out and i just look over and i'm like he's gone he's not there i'm just like we were on a break
right or you're at the bar you order your drink but if someone comes up and orders fucking
two gin and tonics you're gonna go oh I'll have what they're having. They're your choices.
Every single time?
Every single time.
And when you go to a pub, you mind sweep every time?
I think mind sweeping is like,
you can't do all the tables because you're just going to get,
unless you take dangerous Dave out
every time you go for a booze,
you're just going to get twatted, aren't you?
Yeah, but the other option of
I'll have what they're having,
like that is easily explainable. If you order tobacco, I'll have what they're having like that is easily
explainable if you're at the bar i'll have a pint of heineken and someone goes i'll have a double
gin and tonic and you go i'll have a dead oven because you've just heard it and reminded yourself
that you like a gin and tonic that's explainable but what wouldn't be explainable is if you went
to the bar it was like can i have six jager bombs mate and someone comes over and go can i have a
glass of water and you go i'll have a dead of water? And you go, I'll have a dare down.
That's when it gets a bit fucking ridiculous. I've just put myself in the programme.
What would you rather do?
Well, like, no joke, I was minesweeping last week in Tenerife.
Like, it's not an issue for me, the minesweep.
Was it not all-inclusive?
Yeah.
Were you doing it anyway literally people going over good mate you can have anything from the bar no it was like end of the night do you know what i mean so
it was with slutty suzy cool who's one of the dancers uh he was out there even though it was
a family holiday you love these nicknames can we just park for a second if
you don't mind slutty suzy and he is one of the dancers yeah yeah all the dancers are you wouldn't
call it drag they're just like sort of party boys you know slutty suzy horny heidi naughty nicky
but they're all men but they're all men but they're not it's not good enough to be drag
right i mean it's just like they're in a dress, they're going to collect
the books and run about
he was there anyway, he was like a sort of au pair
because on holiday
he just came, I was like I'll just come
So you took him on holiday to look after your kids?
Kinda. Slutty Susie?
Yeah but then we got a bit of time to
have a few bevs in the night
because the kids were in bed
but then even though it was all inclusive,
there was restrictions,
the early curfew, 11 o'clock.
So everyone would be on the terrace of this hotel
and everyone would get a big round in
just before 11
and then sit there till the early morning.
And then, as people would drop off
and we were running out of booze,
we'd just go in.
That is a valid mind are you
saying are you saying when someone's there stealing their drinks no but if they're left over drinks
stealing when they go the toilet i do the i'll have what they're having because nine times out
of ten you might get something decent yeah and and if you don't sure you can just order something
else i wouldn't steal people's drinks if they've've left, I'd drink the dregs.
It's also not very COVID compliant.
You steal people's drinks.
You know, there's spittle going in there,
bit of saliva.
Spittle.
Spittle.
He's looking fine.
Look at him.
You'd do that, wouldn't you?
What you did in Tenerife,
I think is valid mind sweeping.
They've gone to bed.
They've got like a few glasses on their table.
Just go and sweep them
Yeah, no I would
Especially if it's 11pm and everyone's playing the game
Of like, we're allowed to get as many drinks
As we need
But after 11 we can't get any
So if a table's full of like
Half drunk drinks
Fuck it, if the game is, I'm gonna stay
Yeah, that's alright
I can't deny that I'd definitely do that
Because my problem with drinking I can say, I don't want to drink today And I can have two and be like, that's enough, I'm not to stay, yeah, that's all right. I can't deny that I'd definitely do that because my problem with drinking,
I can say, oh, I don't want to drink today,
and I can have two and be like,
that's enough, I'm not having any more.
If I've had four or five drinks,
I'm going to have a 27th.
Do you know what I mean?
So if there's the option,
if I've got to the end of my drink
and I want to carry on
and there's a fucking table of bevvies over there,
unattended, no one's going to miss them,
I'm having a little fucking...
Have you ever done
mind sweeping properly
though back
like when you were younger
I haven't
you've never taken
like a drink
like from a table
or something on a night out
well I don't do drugs
so I'm always worried
that there's gonna be
a bit of fucking
free whatever in there
and I'm gonna
end up in
oh because I do do drugs
I'm the one going
there's no MDMA
in that
there's no
I'm trying to get
day raped come on guys like it's no MDMA in that. I'm trying to get day raped.
Come on, guys.
Like it is.
No, it's just, you know,
just because you don't do drugs
doesn't mean like mind sweeping's more dangerous.
But when we went out,
the drinks were that cheap.
It didn't fucking matter.
We used to go to like places,
it was a quid, a bevy.
Yeah.
It was fucking.
Yeah, imagine stealing,
and half drunk bevy,
that's like 40p innit?
Imagine,
I wouldn't pick 40p up off the floor.
And I feel like it's the same as that
so I never really did it
Squires
Squires on a Monday night
was 50p a pint
back in our college days
I remember
even we were skin
but fucking hell
you don't need to
minesweep at 50p a pint
I remember walking
in the Raz
you know the Raz in Liverpool
the Blue Angel
sticky floor
yeah
so I went in there
sounds like another dance
isn't it
I was on like a
staff night out
not like a staff night out
but
lads who I worked with
in Mackey's
we went to watch the footy
and we went in the Blue Angel
it was my round
and I walked the bar
it's fucking grim in there
you're literally like
it's like
it's like fucking
SMTV
when the floor's being slimed
it's grim
a few discs going round
it's like
I hate love there
I went to the bar I went can I have six pints of Carlsberg or whatever it was and she went 5.40 Floor's being slimed. It's grim. A few discs going round, and it's like, God, I love that.
I went to buy one,
can I have six pints of Carlsberg,
or whatever it was,
and she went 5.40,
and I went,
no, six pints of Carlsberg,
90p a pint.
It used to be a coin for the drip trays.
You have a pint of drip tray for a coin. I used to have that in the blob shop.
What's it called?
Blob shop.
On that street.
Great Charlotte Street. Yeah yeah when i first came to
liverpool i used to go in because the girl the girl i was with at the time she was studying
as a thespian in lippa and uh yeah i used to i didn't really do much in the day i was just
hanging about and i used to go in there the blob shop and it was 30p for the drip so just take the
so they take the drip.
You know those big, long drip trays?
Yeah.
All of the taps.
Everything.
A wee mix, a wee bit of Guinness in there.
Stella, cider, Guinness.
Do you get it in a glass?
You don't have to drink it from the fucking drip tray.
No, they just pour it in.
Or it's in a bucket.
Like it's in a separate thing.
Yeah.
Just for a laugh, innit?
You know what I mean?
Just me on my own like that.
Lads.
The guy who drunk the drip tray
never got laid though, eh?
Like,
he was not like,
ladies.
No, this is how the rich stay rich.
Bill Gates loves a fucking drip tray
because he's not spending
fucking three pound a pint.
Jeff Bezos
always at the blob shop.
Never mind the glass, get the fucking old tray down.
He's fucking clever, this lad.
That's how the rich stay rich.
You know, they see a bargain.
Like, they're just there to get pissed, aren't they?
It's not all about the flavour.
Yeah, billionaires are just there to get pissed.
That's not how I looked at it.
I think I only had, like, maybe 60p,
so I was like, there's two pints there.
Yeah.
Baby, you're doing all right now.
Fucking makes sense, doesn't it?
The offer has a third.
I can't remember what the other option is,
but it's basically just losing your mates, isn't it?
You would definitely order the thing at the bar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm a bit worried about this serious one.
It's actual advice we've got to give here.
Are you ready for it?
Yeah, that's fine.
Adam and Dan, Lids, long-time listener, first-time email.
Due to this being
possibly the worst scenario i've ever found myself in i'm gonna get right to it my partner listens to
you have a word no no it's advice it's no it's i've got it i've got it this is serious but what
if this is really serious fucking jamming my buttons so fucking flippant. Mama like that. Mama like that.
Order.
Order.
Order.
Will you give him more meat, for fuck's sake?
Doesn't like it when I touch the buttons.
My partner listens to your podcast with me,
so he will know it's about him.
Oh, Jesus.
Oh, I'm gone.
His face would be a picture.
I got together with my partner February 2019.
He's 32, and I'm 25.
I love me an older dude.
They bring, oh, mama like that.
Mama like that.
I like me an older dude.
They bring maturity and all that stuff, right?
Well, anyway, he's got two kids, two baby moms.
Now, I know you might stop me in my tracks already,
but this is common these days, broken families, et cetera.
Open mind, I gave it, being the nonjudgmental person that I am.
But to put it bluntly, the baby mommas are both fucking nightmares.
They play habit with whether or not we can have the kids.
I've tried really hard to be sound to them, helping out with childcare,
but they're an absolute pain in the neck.
Okay, boring shit over.
I've painted the picture.
Three weeks ago.
It came out that he has cheated on me and it turns out he's been sleeping with one of the baby mamas for 10 months at the beginning of our relationship. He said, basically it was easy. She was always
there. And as soon as they realized they were in love, he stopped it. Uh, and she's put, wow,
typing this out. Fuck sake. Now my my question is can I really accept that it was
just sex can it really be
just sex with someone you've had a child with
or do I need to take
my muggy muggins cap off
and be rid I can't escape
this woman it's a baby mama
for as long as I want my partner in my life
she will always be there please take
into account that this man lay with
me near enough every night
and told me
neither of them
were anything to worry about.
It took the entire relationship
to tell me.
Please help.
Your brutal honesty
is what this chick needs.
I don't know if it's plain obvious,
but my type of personality
just doesn't know ever
when to do the right thing
or what the right thing is.
Cheers, lids.
Don't hold back.
Whoa. Serious sandwich hold back. Whoa.
Jeez.
Serious sandwich, that.
Oh, my God.
So has she got kids with her?
I think what we should say, yeah, is just do what you feel, love.
You know what I mean?
Just do what you feel.
And if the guy who listens to the podcast, if you're a Patreon,
you do what you feel, lad.
And that's my advice.
Just both do what you feel.
There's the fucking businessman coming out.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
He listens to the podcast.
Is he a patron?
Wind your fucking neck in love.
He pays the subscription.
He's all right.
First of all, I mean, you're spot on about the older guys.
Oh, yeah.
So she's a wise woman.
You can tell.
Yeah, but there's a difference between older and old.
So don't get your fucking dick to him.
All right, okay, good.
Has she got kids with him? No. No, no. Oh, but there's a difference between older and old, so don't get your fucking dick to Manchester. All right, okay, good. Has she got kids with him?
No.
No, no.
Oh, so there's not many ties.
So he's got two kids to separate mums.
Oh, okay.
So there's two baby mommas.
And it's just come out that he's slept with one of them
for the first ten months of the relationship,
and they've been together nearly two years.
Can we have a
guest ruling what do you think um i reckon she's probably a crank as well to be honest
how have we not had this man on already the meat the advice the dancer nicknames
no just on the on the, you know, fair enough,
he's in the wrong.
If he's done the dirt, you do the dirt, you're in the wrong.
Yeah.
But, you know, I don't know, just the wording of it was a bit, like...
Suspicious.
She's saying, oh, these other girls are, like, absolute cranks.
But she's written into a podcast that she knows that he listens to
to call him out on it hoping that yous will be like what a fucking dickhead which he probably
is a fucking dickhead if he's cheated on her but she is also a dickhead for doing that know what
i mean yeah no no no you know i'm i'm actually what they know what they need to do is um you
know talk it out and just enjoy the delicious taste of sugar pit bacon.
You know what you need to do?
You need to cook up a nice tea from a butcher's in Moira.
140 degrees, two hours, and then rest for 20 minutes and job done.
Don't let your man be either horny or hungry because there's always somewhere a slag with a butty.
He's a, especially in tier two, with a butty. He's a...
Especially in tier 2.
He's a shagger, innit?
This old boy's a shagger.
I don't know about that. He doesn't shag, he lays with people.
That's what it says.
He lay with me.
Do you lay with me, sir?
She's a thespian.
Does thou lay with me? What sort of
bedfellow are you, sir?
He's a shagger, though, isn't he?
I don't actually think he is.
Two baby mamas, two kids fucking the baby mama.
He could have only ever slept with three people,
and that is possible.
Yeah, that's coming across, isn't it?
He's only had sex three times.
I've got to give him the benefit of the doubt here.
No, you don't.
No, here's the thing.
Here's my weigh-in, okay?
Okay, good.
I'm almost there with Johnny, right?
I think...
Ooh!
It's hard, this, because, you know, he's a fan of the pod.
I think...
It's loaded.
They're both fans, aren't they?
It's weird.
I think the fact that she's written in,
she's doing it for two things.
First of all, she wants us to tell him to fuck off.
Right?
She wants,
because they've had murder about this,
right?
And he's being like,
look, it happens sometimes,
you know,
there's still feelings there
from when you were together,
you need to fucking calm.
It stopped after 10 months.
You need to lay somewhere.
Gravity's a nightmare.
Yo, it stopped after 10 months.
We've been together two years.
That's 14 months love
I haven't been fucking near
apart from that one time
after that night out
but you know what I mean
I've hardly ever gone back
after that 10 months
and you need to fucking chill out
and she's gone
you're a fucking dickhead
and he's gone
no I've
and she's gone
I've fucking
you know what
every one of your mates
will think you're a dickhead
they fucking wouldn't
and she's gone
I know who think he's a fucking dickhead
Adam and Dan
and I do I think he's i know i think he's a fucking dickhead adam and dan and i
do i think he's fucked up i think he's probably got those 10 months in started catching feelings
for this new girl and gone this needs to stop because i want that to go somewhere i do think
he's done that but he's also hid it and he's a shaggy if i here, if I'm here, I could never get past that.
So I would be Homer Simpson into the bush and staying in there.
T-1000.
I reckon you'll get a part two to that.
I reckon if they both watch, he'll write back his version.
Oh, yeah.
And I'll let you know if she, because I've just called her a crank.
You know, if I get like a message request on Instagram or something
going, you're fucking thick.
Like, why did you call me a crank? She's a crank then, and I'll let you know. Do you know what? get like a message request on instagram or something going you're fucking thick like why did you call me a crank she's a crank then and i'll let you know i don't
you know what i don't think she is i think it's the tone of the pod it's this kind of shit we
talk about and she it's clever in a way it's also putting all your shit out there on online it's not
easy but she's like obviously pissed off but it is a sneaky very 2020 way of getting in your
partner's head in it oh you've
done that who do you really like and respect that podcast well i'm gonna fucking snitch to them
and they're gonna say what they think but i just like i i know he's a listener but
when has he been banging her like when is it gonna stop as well it's not like he got i will never see
her again no no no i know i banged her again but you know like i pick up the kid from hers and he's playing lego and i'm like she's here i might as
well bang her again like it's always gonna be there in it she's never gonna be able to know
that he's going to pick that kid up and nothing's happened let me smell your dick do you know what i mean like every time he's it with that
baby or with like i've got to go and pick him up if he's like if she lives 20 minutes away and he's
23 and a half minutes getting there and back she's gonna be like what were you doing with that three
and a half minutes we were just talking about you know the kids schooling yeah yeah with your
fucking dick out your rat every every Where were you? McDonald's.
Oh, where are you?
I want to see a fucking McFlurry pot.
Like it's going to be constant.
My honest verdict on this is I think it's totally possible
that he realised 10 months in he was being an absolute cunt,
which he was, and that he stopped,
and that it'll never happen again.
I think that's possible.
I don't think it's necessarily very likely,
but I think it's possible.
And I think it could happen.
However, I think, you know, to paraphrase Beyonce
from the song Telephone with Lady Gaga,
trust is like a mirror, and once it's broke,
you can still see the cracks in it,
even if you glk back together.
How is it possible for you to surprise me
at this point of our working relationship?
Yeah, look, I think...
It's because he's such a calming influence,
and he just can quote...
I'm just trying to chill everyone out, okay?
I think...
I'm lost, like I've been doing episodes of Friends in my head.
Johnny's like, she's a crank, play a song.
Lady Gaga telephoned.
I was like, oh, I'm gone here.
What's going on?
Yeah, I think...
I think you'll get a response from the guy.
I think it's unfair.
There's no point in just like,
batting about unless he gets to tell his side of the story.
Yeah, that's waiting until we get both sides
and then we'll fuck him.
Johnny Bongo now said to develop content.
This is a fucking great point.
That's the way to do it.
Then he comes back,
and then you get them in as guests,
you know, like surprise guests.
Can we bring...
You've got fucking curtains there,
they pop out.
You could beat them in Jeremy Kyle.
We need Dangerous Dave.
Can we lend...
Can we lend Dangerous Dave?
You can, yeah.
Because Creepy Carl's not going to do the job, is he?
Whoa. Non-C-Dan and fucking Calm Adam. Cunning not going to do the job, is he? Whoa.
Non-C-Dan and fucking Calm Adam.
Cunning Linguist Carl.
Yes, thank you, Adam.
Not nothing funny.
You're a cunning and you're good with words.
We got it!
We got it, Adam!
And both.
Call me!
Yeah, I think that's over.
And whether you admit it now that it's over or in a year,
it's done and it's not coming back.
I'm sorry to both of you, but it's time to move on.
And lad, when you get me your next one,
don't be banging your ex behind the back
because it'll always fuck it up.
Soz.
Soz.
That's my...
Adam's ruling.
Another, oh no, really serious one. Soz Soz That's my Adam's ruling Another Oh no
Really serious one
Alright
Yari Lidmanans
Your celeb crush's head
Would you rather
Your celeb
Celeb crush's head
On your mum's body
Or
Your mum's head
On your celeb crush's body
You've got to bang one
Would you rather
I would bang
My celeb crush's head on my mars body
because i don't ever want to look into my mars eyes while i'm coming just turn around
this one's for you mom hashtag got too soon yeah that's you can't look at your mom's face while
you're fit like you wouldn't finish would you yeah yeah i know it's audible and it's a would
you rather for a reason because it's look look, he looks fucking petrified.
What are you going for,
Johnny?
Also,
what makes,
Johnny,
what makes this,
both of our mums are dead.
Oh,
is it?
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Oh,
I'm sorry to hear that.
So mine is a,
a dead 45 year old ginger woman
on the body of Scarlett Johansson
and that's not a good look,
is it?
What about your ma,
are they fittest?
So like,
she was like 23.
You know what I mean?
Plump.
Doing a Robert De Niro impression.
Oh mum,
that really got me going.
It's either my mum or Robert De Niro I don't know
Would you shag Robert De Niro's head on your mum's body?
No
There needs to be one of them as a good thing
That's why this would you rather works
Carl that was a nightmare to answer that one
I'm going to go
Nah I'm alright You've both got to answer this would you rather words? Carl, that was a nightmare to answer that one. I'm going to go, no, I'm all right.
I'm all right.
You've both got to answer this would you rather, by the way.
I put the bullet there and I went for it.
I don't want to look at my ma.
I'd rather have her tits than her face.
How can you argue with that theory?
Johnny's out.
It's dark.
I'm going to go Celeb Crush Head.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Same reason.
Same reason.
Yeah.
It is good clarity of thought there.
Yeah, because that could not be your Mars body,
do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
That's definitely that.
Yeah.
Without sounding too morbid,
but would you not maybe want to spend time with your mum for a wee bit?
Is that really deep and dark?
Genius.
But I've got to fuck her at the end of it.
But at least, like, I don't know the circumstances with your mothers
and I don't know if that's, like, too heavy, but...
Look away!
I'm also feeling a wee bit emotional
because you get to see them for a bit.
Yeah, that's a good point, actually.
Here's another one.
Would you rather never see your mum again or you get to spend a day with her but you's a good point actually here's another one would you rather never
see your mom again or you get to spend a day with her you have to fuck her at the end of it
god i wish this was a patreon uh come on answer the question um yeah i think the day
i think the day i think the day might be slightly overshadowed by how the evening comes to an end.
It's really awkward, both with an open bottle.
What if you get one of the way first?
Like, reverse it?
Yeah, so you bang her, but then you get the day with her.
So you finish, and then you're like,
let me tell you what I've been up to for the last 20 years.
How's heaven?
What's God like?
Well, it was quite good until you dragged me down here, mate.
Heaven was fucking great
until you started doing a Would You Rather
with Johnny Bongo and Adam Rowell.
Yeah.
Look, I'd love to see me mad again,
but I don't think I could fuck her.
I don't think so.
Fact.
No context, have a word.
Enjoy that one.
Yeah.
You'd never get over that, would you?
They're both up there now.
Not getting fucked.
They wake upstairs.
Do you get banged in heaven?
If you want to.
Heaven, in my opinion, is whatever your idea of heaven is.
And hell is whatever your idea of hell is.
Your ma's therefore getting banged in.
What?
Your ma's therefore getting banged banging. What? Your ma's death
will get them banging.
You reckon?
Yeah.
Yeah.
My ma loved the idea.
She's up there.
Are you a man of faith,
Johnny?
That's what I think though.
I think heaven
is like purpose built
for each person.
So if you go,
like the spiritual side of it is,
if you go and your idea of heaven is you want to see your mum
and just have a nice time with your mum,
then your mum's essence would be in your idea of heaven.
But if she doesn't want to see you, she doesn't see that.
So it's like there's two versions.
Yeah, like, Piers Morgan isn't in my heaven.
I'm not saying he's going to hell.
It's not like he gets his heaven
and I get mine without fucking Piers Morgan
twatting about like a big fucking ball.
If your idea of heaven had Piers Morgan in,
yours would have him in,
but his wouldn't have yours in.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
It's a personalised VAR.
Yeah.
And hell is just
me on the phone
trying to cancel my sky
just forever
forever
just listening to some guy
who doesn't give a shit
about my problems
whatsoever
oh your internet's not working
oh I'll just put you down
hold for an hour and a half
they definitely just
go and have a little
blast of FIFA for a bit
ding ding ding
ding ding ding
ding ding ding
ding ding ding
ding ding ding
Johnny what's your idea of hell?
This is on the phone.
Just that wee song that you were in.
What was that wee song?
Someone shared a meme of it the other day,
and it was like,
me, I'll get an early night,
my brain at 4am.
Mine's Downton Abbey on repeat.
I fucking hate
period dramas
wow
what a nightmare
hell that is
literally you've just
named
you've just
basically described
all pensioners lives
as hell
exactly
they do live in hell though
pensioners
it's not good is it
I'm terrified
of getting old
I think
I think it looks terrifying
because you're 28
and you've got a life to live
but by then you're like I don't have anything to do no that's kind of what they want in permanent lockdown
do you know i mean they've been in lockdown for years if you hadn't told old people there was a
pandemic going on they wouldn't fucking know about it i mean the only reason they know that there's
a pandemic coming on is that jeff stopped coming round because he was taken out by it
what's your feelings of getting old Johnny
how old are you?
34
it's weird how turning 30 gets in your head a little bit
doesn't it
I really felt invincible all through my 20s
and 30 is a weird
milestone where you're like god that sounds
dead grown up
and then it just starts
on the second half as well how old are you? 39 weird milestone where you're like god that sounds dead grown up and then it just starts like you
know the second half as well how old are you 30 39 oh you're well you're 40 then isn't it yeah but
40 in march what's that is that gone quick for you there 35 to 39
yeah 35 to 39 is going quick because that's when i met my wife had a a baby. It's just an absolute shit show of love and sleep deprivation.
Yeah, that's right.
So it's been busy and great and tiring.
He was about your age, found a fit woman who'd put up with him and just...
Oh, my God.
He decided to quit while he was ahead.
That's exactly what I've done.
Yeah, it's a good move.
I'm looking forward to turning 30.
How old are you?
I'm going to be 29 in January.
So I've got another, 15 months or is it 15?
14 months of being in my 20s.
And I want to be 30 because I think that's like, I'm a man.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I'll be on the dating apps and that.
And like girls will be matching me like, he's a man.
He's got his shit together, you know.
He's got a good podcast. Comedian. He's well-tra a man. He's got his shit together, you know? He's got a good podcast.
Comedian.
He's well-travelled.
He's sorted his teeth out.
He's got a nice beard.
I reckon he is ready to have a kid, and I'm not.
But they'll think I am.
And that's how you get laid.
Well, how old were you when you had your kids?
I've got a three-year-old and a one-year-old.
Oh, you are in it, mate.
No, he's not one.
Sorry, he's four months. He's 29. Sorry, mate mate no he's not one sorry four months he's 29
oh sorry mate only four months four months yeah oh muscle tough how you uh how you doing it's
brilliant like having a baby in a pandemic yeah it was brilliant were you allowed to be at the
birth you were allowed to be at the house home birth the one i tell you what you fucking save on petrol
but you lose a couch
no you get a little jacuzzi
in the house and all
it's brilliant
I could
I'm a real
so they gave birth
a water bath
in the house
in the jacuzzi
yeah it's class
I'm dead lucky
because my missus
is like
like
like super mum
you know what I mean
she just
I kind of don't have to
not do anything but you know like when it's about i kind of don't have to not do anything but you
know like when it's about the decision you don't have to not do anything like she's picked all the
right kind of stuff do you know like their diet and what to do and like the routine and you know
yeah i'll just go i know what she says is probably like the kind of good thing you're like the fourth
official she tells you what numbers are put on the board and you just hold it up being a dad sometimes i i love being a dad and i'm involved but it feels like you are a part-time member of
staff and your wife is like the ceo and fucking general manager of the whole thing and like why
i did your wife my wife read up on everything and then was like have you read those things and i
hadn't and she she tested me on it she was like you haven't read anything I was like no I have I have
and she was like
right so how often
do you feed the baby
and I paused
I was like
oh I'm under so much pressure
every two hours
she went right well
you've got lucky there
yeah that's right
fucking testing me to
I won't be having that me
my wife or partner
or whatever
if they're like
hey we're doing it this way
no
we'll talk about it
and if I
if you can convince me you're right then sound but i'm not you're not getting you say you say
that no i like but i don't know it's actually it's easy straight if it's like that i think
do you know i mean like when we're on like when we're on holiday i'm a control freak though john
no but it's not unless i don't know maybe i'm just being no you're not i know exactly what you mean
like when everyone's tired and the pressure's on
and everyone's feeling a little bit emotionally fraught,
you're going, no, love, I've done my own reading.
I know your nipples are sore,
but I think this is how you get the baby on the teat.
There's a lot you've got to just roll with.
Yeah, that's an area of expertise.
Do you know what I mean?
So what are you talking about specifically?
What's your expertise?
Fussy boots. Fussy boots. Yeah. Oh, because a lot of wives will just have an argument area of expertise do you know what I mean so what are you talking about specifically what's your expertise footy boots
footy boots
yeah
oh because a lot of
wives will just have
an argument in JD
sports going
no Adam
I want him to have
Astro
I just can't be having
someone being like
oh he's not having
McDonald's till he's
seven
it's his third birthday
get him a happy meal
put him in front of
the telly
what's the problem
you're having an
argument with someone
that doesn't exist
and isn't having
his argument with
yeah but think of his kids
They just want a Maccies
I just want my kids to be happy
I'm going to be the best dad ever
Here you go
Happy child
I've learnt that because I was kind of like that
Just before even we went on holiday
My oldest son Alex 3
Hasn't had a Maccies
Well he did have one in Spain
And he never really has, like, loads of sweets.
And I was kind of thinking, like, we're being really sly on him.
You know, there's other kids having fucking Haribo left, right and centre.
And then when we were away and the sort of rules got a bit more relaxed,
I was fucking giving him Kinder Eggs and everything.
And my missus was like, yeah, go for it.
You know, we're on holiday.
And he was a fucking nightmare.
That's the first time I've ever, like, you know,
he's been a bit of a brat.
I'm thinking, should have just stuck the blueberries
and bananas and stuff like that for him.
Oh, because he's just, like, insulin spiked off his mind.
He just fucking went nuts.
And now he's come back from the holiday,
and I'm like, here's nice grapes.
He's just like, where's the fucking good stuff?
See, here's the thing.
Daddy, I know you got the good shit.
What's up in that fucking top drawer? I know you got a bit of plastic that gets all the good shit. Let's go to co-op. Where's the fucking good stuff? See, here's the thing. Daddy, I know you got the good shit. What's up in that fucking top drawer?
I know you got a bit of plastic that gets all the good shit.
Let's go to co-op.
Where's the kinders?
Look, I get it.
I understand that you fill a kid full of sugar.
It's like putting a fucking battery in a Joris L. Bunny
and off they go.
I get it, okay?
But I know that I'm going to settle in Liverpool
and I know that my kid...
I'm probably settling in West Derby or nearby
and that means my kid will go to a school, either my school or a similar school,
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School.
And I can't handle my kid being bullied.
I just can't, right?
I want my kid to be the normal kid.
He's got three or four good mates.
I don't want him to be a bully.
I just want him to be one of the normal kids, okay?
Where does sweets come into this?
Because if your kid in Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
pulls out some fucking blueberries at break time,
they're getting fucking battered.
That's all.
I want them to just be like,
I want a hot dog.
I have a hot dog, like everyone else says.
Don't be the guy going,
well, actually, they're really bad for your metabolism.
Tristan, Tristan, you haven't finished your quinoa.
Yeah, I can't, like,
I want my kids to be exactly who they want to be.
But while they're in school,
you just need to be a normal lad,
play a bit of footy, you know?
You need to be down in the middle in school, don't you?
Yeah.
You don't want to be hard or the bully.
You don't want to be a ming.
You want to fly right through the middle.
Yeah, but you also don't want type 2 diabetes.
That is something to keep an eye on as well.
Yeah, I want them to be normal.
I don't want them to be Mr. Sweets
turning up like,
Hey!
These are all for me! I want them to be normal i don't want them to be mr sweets turning up like hey these are all for me i want them to be the selling the sweets like i did i want to pass on the family business i sold sweets on the yard at school you my dad did as well you know like me
like your granddad did yeah yeah yeah and then he'll pass it on to him yeah yeah this is true
actually i don't know i've told you this before there was a lad who sold the people selling on
the yard in your school?
Yeah, sherberts, isn't it?
Yeah.
Sherbert sticks.
Yeah, so the big thing in our school was big bars. Great practice for cocaine dealing one day.
A little bit of white.
White pudding as well, and black pudding.
Hang on.
Just meat products, isn't it?
Clonacilty black pudding, mate.
I'm only winding you up, mate.
I thought kids on the yard,
do you want a bit of fucking breakfast? So I used to sell big bars at Galaxy. Black Puddin' mate I'm only winding you up mate I thought kids on the island trying to get a
fucking breakfast
so I used to sell
big bars at Galaxy
Orange Lucas Aids
and packs of
Disco's Crisp
and I was like
the one people
came to
when the big guy
had sold out
because he sold out
quite quick
and his name
should be coming in
first name
so there was a big guy
and then you were
the little guy
so there was like
a Morrison's
and you were the corner shop
yeah yeah
see coming from
I'm partially
I never bought off you
yeah
because I was closer to Jack
Jack Heelan
well I wasn't going to talk about Jack
oh you were going to talk about
Fabian
Fabian
see he was too fucking maverick for me
him
but you know what I mean
no
I've gone as well
I know you've gone
but I've gone as well
so there was a lad called Fabian.
We're on memory lane.
It's called the Cindy path.
And he sold like four times as much as I did.
So I made about 25 quid a day profit.
24 quid exactly.
I used to spend 11 quid on the project.
I'd come home with 35 quid,
24 quid profit every single day of the week in school.
Fabian would go home like 100 quid a day,
right?
He was genuinely,
there was rumors he was genuinely there was rumours
he was paying
the rent on his
his ma's house
and everything
the rumours
you're 11 now Fabian
but this is the thing
come on
I've got the lecky pill
this is the god's honest truth
right
so you know like
how in school
there's like
sort of legends
of the kids gone before
you'd hear about kids
who aren't at the school anymore
this
I swear to god, this is true.
So this was about, how long ago was this?
About seven years ago?
Yeah.
Right?
I'm walking down my dad's close.
I was living with my dad at the time in Liverpool.
And there was these two kids walking down my dad's street.
And they'd been to B&M.
And they had loads of fucking cans of Pepsi and bags of crisps and chocolate.
A bag over each shoulder
both of them
right
and you just hear
a little snippet
of a conversation
and one of them
said to the other
yeah
there's a legendary
seller from Cardinal Hayden
his name was Fabian
and he bought a Ferrari
in year nine
that's the gods
on the street
I remember texting him
going lad
you'll never believe it
so the legend of Fabian,
he made it under a quid a day,
paid his Mars or whatever.
That's been passed on down the year.
Because this is like seven years ago,
I was 21.
So I'm five years out of school.
Fabian was in our year.
He lived around the corner from me growing up.
And yeah, apparently.
Jack bought a motorbike and a watch in year 11.
Imagine what that lie is doing now.
Another God knows how many, like another eight years. Imagine what that lie's doing now. Another, God knows how much,
like another eight years.
Yeah, yeah,
you know Tesla.
You bought fucking Tesla
in year 10, mate.
Is that a podcast?
What have we got more stuff?
Should we do a Have a Word
as it's the name of the podcast?
We haven't done one of them yet,
have we?
Stop fucking pressing my buttons,
you rat. I'm going to have a word with Adam and Dan. We tell us all the problems you have with your friends.
This was going to be the whole podcast.
Now it's just the final 10%.
Very professional.
It's been a bit of a messy one, Johnny.
Even by our standards, this has been a messy one.
I've enjoyed it.
And I think I'm going to lean into it a little bit more with this have a word.
Are you prepared?
Because there's been points where you've looked a little bit like, I've enjoyed it. And I think I'm going to lean into it a little bit more with this have a word. Are you prepared? Because there's been points
where you've looked a little bit like, I came with
meat. It's just hard sometimes to just
keep up with what's going on.
Says the man who runs
a fucking disco bingo.
I know, but I mean, there's a lot. It goes
from topic to topic very quick.
And I'm still, you know, dealing
with the whole
fucking your mum's head thing.
Yeah.
That even by our standards, that was like a little bit of an eye opener.
This is a have a word.
So we're just trying to help out.
You know, people got issues.
And again, me and my mates were chatting the other night and this sparked a debate and nearly a row between us.
We were talking about shagging and the lasses brought up how jizz tastes.
They all said it tastes gross, to which I said,
well, I've never tried mine, so I don't know the issue.
This was met with uproar from about three quarters of both the lads and lasses
saying that I should try my own nut so I would know.
Only one of my mates was on my side about how fucking gross that is,
trying your own juice.
Imagine there's some cunt out there trying to perfect his own recipe.
Lads, have a word with my mates and how gross this is.
Cheers, Anonymous.
What do you reckon?
It's gross, but I think
most people are
lying if they've never had a wee taste.
What?
I fucking love Johnny Pongo.
It's not fucking breast milk, Johnny.
No, no, no. I'm not talking about
a pint.
You know what I mean?
I'm talking about
I'm just talking about
a little How are you fucking chaining that out for? I'm just talking about a little...
Like...
How are you ingesting it?
I don't even think it's an ingesting thing.
Johnny, a little bit like...
What's it on?
Is it on the wall?
Just on a gum.
It's on your hand or something, isn't it?
Mad.
Never.
Have a word with me then.
No, Johnny, I've...
I think
have you done it
no I'm
I'm not leaving him
I'm not saying
I am not leaving him
to hang like that
because in my head
I was like
I have in my life
gone
yeah
that's all I'm saying
yeah
I was
I was gonna go
yeah it's fucking gross
but as I can't leave
Johnny
who's done
the honourable
have a word thing
of going,
fuck, balls out.
We're talking about mum's heads on Scarlett Johansson.
But yeah.
I'm just talking about a taste.
Not a shot.
Yeah.
Not even ingesting it.
Not a sharing platter.
Just like, I don't know,
you do with a little bit of mustard or something.
Do you know what I mean?
Oh, is that mustard too hot?
Yes.
Let me just have a look at this meat.
Right, I can't bear the thought of that.
I just think you're lying if you say you've never done that.
No, well, look, right, if you'd listened to every episode of this,
you know, you would know by, there's no reason for me to lie
because of the things I've admitted to on this podcast
so I'm not lying, I've never
tasted it, it disgusts me the idea of it
and once I got kicked out
of a girl's house because
I'd finished
Insider and then
she asked me to go down there and I was like
absolutely not, you're full of my
nut and she was like
what the fuck?
So you can't get on board with this.
It's your thing.
Because she'd sucked me off at the start of the banging.
And then she was like, you know, I haven't finished yet.
And I was like, I'll fucking get it on my hand.
I've got magic fingers. But I'm not fucking tongue-punching box right while it's full of my goo
well i think that should be on your headstone
just uh it is i have i've done that with it there was a yeah i've had a girl go go on then
a girl in newcastle was about 21 21 and she was like she was from Brighton
and I remember
she was like
really like
she talked like that
and then
I
in her mouth
and she was like
do you want to taste it
and you're like
no
that's not how this works
I'm finishing the girl's mouth
and she went to kiss me
and I was like
hey
what
as long as it's not there anymore
no
it was there it was all over their face like she just you know when the kids What? As long as it's not there anymore. No.
It was there.
It was all over her face.
Like she just... You know when a kid's had chocolate
that it's just not bad?
It's just so graphic.
You know when a kid's just like...
Yeah, no, but if it's gone...
She's like, come here.
Absolutely not.
You can kiss it if it's gone, though.
You're not that...
Yeah, after a couple of minutes.
If she's swallowed it, yeah.
What's the big issue, though?
It's just not...
I'm homophobic.
I think it's weird. It's not homoph yeah. What's the big issue, though? It's just not... I'm homophobic. I think it's weird.
It's not homophobic.
It's yours.
I don't want cum in me...
Nobody cares.
Do you know what I mean, at least?
Like, you'll...
You've got a bit of madness to you.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, I reckon a girl would like that more.
You know, kiss me.
And you might be thinking in your head,
oh, fuck, no, I don't want to do that.
But then if you just go,
yeah,
fucking right.
Then they'll be like,
whoa,
he's mad.
I would rather.
Does that make any sense?
I really want to drink with this guy.
This guy.
I would rather.
Just fucking do it.
What are you fucking drinking though?
Yeah,
I can't.
I'd rather like just take the bins out,
get around that way.
Do you know what I mean?
I'll do the bins every week,
but keep my cum to yourself.
Is that the trade off?
I feel like that's
a big like your imaginings of how like married life is gonna go like listen he's not having a
mcdonald's and if i'm jizzing i'm fucking you're doing the bins like yeah like i'll i'll do more
chores so that i don't have to taste my own cum i just mean you're a bit of a stickler really in
that in the bedroom no i'm adventurous, to be honest with you.
I like, you know, slapping each other about and that,
but I just don't want to taste my own produce.
Don't mind throwing a donkey punch in, if she's asked nicely.
I did it.
I knew what, like, we've already had a weird one,
and then I lent into it with the old jizz-tasted.
Like, I can't, look, I just, no.
Okay.
No, no.
But yeah, I'll do the dishes, I'll take the bins out, you know.
That's not the trade-off.
What kind of pornography are you watching?
And I'll put it away.
Would you pick your nose and eat it?
Yeah, all the time.
What's the problem then?
It's just more of yourself, isn't it?
It's just yourself.
No, because this isn't a dick.
Famously.
Would you drink a pint of piss?
No.
Not again.
Just for like to be mad.
Have you drank piss?
Piss, yeah.
Just a taste.
Do you know what I'm saying?
When bongos bingo goes really weird.
Those late night ones in Dubai.
No, I can't like, I can't recall a time,
but I'm sure I've tried a little bit of piss at some point.
Sure.
Yeah.
I'm putting it into the argument about,
I just don't think you should worry about a bit of your own jizz.
Someone else's jizz, maybe that's a bit of an issue.
That would be a bit more off-putting, but.
It's organic, homegrown.
Would you have piss as well?
No.
No. Just going back in, know where it came out of, innit have piss as well no no it's just going back in
know where it came out of in it it's just a bit of a laugh in it just do it come on
i think that this question was about having a word with someone that like just was saying like
you shouldn't taste it whereas now i'm really like saying now you have to do it everyone needs to do it that's what goes really well with that fucking
bacon red yeah all i was all i was saying is i think most people have done it i think in a group
of a group of mates everyone was like oh well you've not tasted it you're allowed to be like
no no you're not meant to but you know like that reaction is like the full-on, like,
I just can't.
It's just not for me.
Just give it a go, and then next time on the pod, tell us.
You give it a go.
Part two.
Part two of, like, the cheating partner.
We'll find out, and then we'll see what, you know, homework.
I think we're going to noticeably see one listener drop off.
Have you got any other butchers you'd like to promote
before you go?
No, I just thought we could all have a game of
Soggy Biscuit or whatever that was called
Is that a real thing?
Soggy Brisket
Oh, here it is
Thank you
You're not even getting a Kobe for that
Where can everyone find you?
Well, at the moment we're not really doing anything
Social media wise so that they can see announcements
Just everything on Bongos Bingo facebook and the island instagram yeah um hopefully we're
back we've listed shows for we've put about two or three hundred shows on sale for the summer
yeah all over all over the uk about two or three hundred starting in june yeah so where's june
when's liverpool kicking it back off everywhere just all all all our cities. So we do 30 to 45 maybe in the UK.
We're definitely going to one of them as a team.
I would like to go to one of the very first ones.
Have you never been?
I've never been.
I've literally seen some of the dog shit fucking rip-offs
that have tried to do their cheap shitty version of it.
Like Barry's bingy bingo.
You're like, oh, fuck off.
Yeah, there's a few rip-offs coming, isn't there?
And we're starting to get a bit of that ourselves, aren't we?
Ha, ha, ha.
We didn't talk about Camp Inferno, and that was juicy.
Oh, yeah.
That's a big, long story.
You can have me back for the Camp Inferno's lawsuit scoop.
Got in a big lawsuit with the venue that we did in Liverpool.
Over who owned Bongo's Bingo. They tried to say that in Liverpool. Over who owned Bongo's Bingo?
They tried to say that they owned and invented
and created Bongo's Bingo.
It was good.
Is there an abridged version?
Because I'd love to...
I feel like it's so juicy.
I love slagging off.
Fuck, I love the legal dispute.
It's a big one, like.
All right, okay.
It's four chapters.
It's good.
Right.
Good God.
I have to get Johnny Bongo Mark 2 on
we'll get you on
when we know
I feel like I'll bring
some lamb or something
and that's how you get booked
yeah we'll
we'll get you back
before the Bongo's Bingo
launches in the summer
June
do genuinely come
we will do
and they'll be
they'll be in Dubai
that's fucking mad
like every time
I've gone to go
so like
we were talking about this
not so long ago
I've
so I'm 10 years
into comedy
and I've missed
so many social occasions
because if I get off
of the gig
I just take it
I'm so career focused
because of how
this podcast's doing
the next couple of years
of my life
are going to be
a scale back from that
and if I want to start
going to stuff
my ex-missus
who doesn't drink
and barely had a social life has been twice and she's you need to go i know i need to go but i
don't get any fucking nights off uh it would be great to do one of the first ones back for you
guys that would be amazing there's every chance we'll see you in dubai if that happens next week
yeah me too um we can do brunch yes the brunch that starts at 10am and never fucking ends
yeah there's brunch
in that
and just mind sweep
the whole lot
mind sweep
loads of air hostesses
all running around
lovely
I'll be in
Cheshire
me and Brennan
recently went to a brunch
with my child
when we went to Dubai
to do those shows
and all the shows
are on the weekends
the Fridays
it's Thursday and Friday
over there isn't it
Thursday and Friday
and we said to the promoter
we're going to do a brunch tomorrow and she was like you're fucking not we're and we said to the promoter we're going to do a brunch
tomorrow
and she was like
you're fucking not
we're like we'll be here
if she was like
you're not doing a brunch
you will not be able
to do the gig
so we didn't fucking do it
so if you've never heard
of these brunches
in the Middle East
like when I've done
army gigs
or navy gigs out there
it's like Friday
it's all you can drink
from like 11 till 3
it's only like 4 hours
over there
and they all go off the ship
or off the boat
and get there
and the amount of people
that are arrested
and fucking nearly hospitalised,
but it all happens
at quarter past three
in the afternoon
because they've just smashed it
for four hours.
I just think it's absolutely hilarious
the state of the world's in
that me and Carl
are considering going
to an Islamic country
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Good. Can't wait for that merch.
Yeah, me too.
Bye Felicia.
Bye Felicia.