THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST - EP.2 - LIANNE LA HAVAS
Episode Date: September 23, 2015Adam Buxton talks to pop musician Lianne La Havas about hanging out with Prince & Stevie Wonder and she plays a version of her song 'Grow'. Watch the video of that performance here: https://www.yo...utube.com/watch?v=oSTe_lYBd9s There's also a rare clip of legendary American standup Guy Manguyman talking about doing a spot where he was worried about killing but ended up crushing. CONTAINS SOME BAD LANGUAGE AND SOME STUPID LANGUAGE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin.
Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening.
I took my microphone and found some human folk.
Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke.
My name is Adam Buxton. I'm a man.
I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan.
Howdy, Adam Buxton here. Welcome to podcast number two.
Oh, it's a beautiful day, beautiful September 2015 day, and I'm out walking Rosie once again.
And I'm out walking Rosie once again.
And first of all, I would just like to say thank you so much to everybody who downloaded and commented on podcast number one with Louis Theroux last week. I was genuinely touched and surprised by the response to the podcast.
And that's, well, that's a rare thing these days.
I mean, you can't, you can't just
go around randomly touching and surprising people, can you? It'll get you in all sorts of hot water.
But genuinely, I was, I was delighted, I have to be honest. Slightly different kettle of cod this
week. I know a lot of you are hoping very much that I'm going to fill the podcast with stuff about David Cameron and pigs.
But, you know, I didn't really have anything on the day, even.
This is as close as I got to contributing.
This is a tweet that I didn't send.
All these people referring to Boris Johnson as a dead pig are going a bit far, I think.
Yeah. Just the one appearance on Have I Got News For You for Dr. Buckles, and mysteriously never been asked back. But this week
I am talking to the pop artist Leanne La Havas, currently aged 26, although she was 24 when I recorded this conversation with her last year.
So she's aged two years in one year.
I don't understand how that works.
Maybe that's just life in the fast lane.
Anyway, Leanne facts.
She was born Leanne Charlotte Barnes to a Greek, a male Greek man and a woman from...
Did you make her?
That's how I pronounce the name of that country.
Some people say Jamaica,
but did you make her is the proper pronunciation, of course.
Like the joke.
My wife went to the West Indies.
Did you make her?
No, what are you talking about?
Of course I didn't. That would be grotesque.
I don't force my wife to do anything.
She's her own person.
Anyway, why would I force her to go to the West Indies?
It's an amazing part of the world.
She'd be delighted to go there.
Jesus Christ.
You know that joke?
Anyway, she is a charming person.
And as you'll hear in this conversation, she actually introduced herself
to me. I guess she used to watch the Adam and Joe show back in the day on Channel 4 and she
used to listen to the Six Music Show. I didn't know who she was, though. And after we'd spoken
about music and her music and everything, I looked up some of her stuff online. Here's a track called
Forget, which was one of the first things that I came across, which I mentioned later on. And I watched a performance of her on Later With Jewels from 2011
and I just thought, well, she's a brilliant performer.
And I hope you'll agree when you hear her singing at the end of this conversation.
The conversation itself is a fairly straightforward chat mainly about a few of the music legends that
she has come into contact with in the last couple of years and at the end of that she was nice
enough to sing a song actually that she had just written at the time which now appears on her album
Blood which came out in August 2015, I believe.
And it was just her standing in her front room playing her electric guitar with a little amplifier.
And there was also her then boyfriend, Chris Dagger, who was playing the upright bass.
And it sounded pretty good, I think.
I mean, anything sounds good once you stick a huge amount of reverb on it I find but and I also filmed it on my phone and I'm going to try
and put the video of the performance up on on YouTube and I'll post a link I'll put it on my
blog I've got a blog I've got a blog. Rooty, rooty, spooty, rooty blog, blog, blog. I've got a blog.
Here's the address.
Here's the address.
It's adam-buxton.co.uk.
So check it out.
And I'll put the link on the SoundCloud page.
That's the home of this podcast is SoundCloud.
I think you will agree when you see it that she is quite an unusually talented
performer and magnetic and just with an extraordinary voice. And I love the song too.
And it's a great performance. Also, if you watch it on YouTube, you get to see the mystery geezer.
I think it was one of their housemates standing in
the corner. But it's funny, the camera sort of pans across at one point, you just see this guy
nodding. So, whoa, where's he? Where did he come from? Anyway, that's that's if you fancy a trip
to YouTube. But for now, let's keep it on the podcast. And I will chat to you later on. But here is Leanne Lahavis.
I'm sat here on a lovely summery afternoon in, can we call this Lee Valley?
Well, the borough is Waltham Forest.
Right.
And the area is Leighton.
Leighton.
Leighton.
And how did you end up in Leighton?
And this is sort of
northeast London would you say? Yeah but more east than north. Right. But kind of. Yeah. I'm
near Walthamstow. Listen don't take this the wrong way but I wouldn't describe this area as in any
way trendy. Well you know I think in time. mean, that's good because obviously maybe the trendiest you can possibly get is not in any way trendy.
That was my thinking.
Because then you've got somewhere to go.
Yeah.
Because if you're, you know, wandering around in a little beanie hat with your beard and your two tight weird trousers in Hoxton, it's only you're only going to go downhill from there.
Well, yeah.
Everyone hates you already
just by having facial hair exactly and they hate you because you're working in some internet design
company in the coolest part of london and you've got cafes with special paint jobs on the outside
and because everyone's got too much personality and there's too much excitement but that's not a problem out here in Leighton
it's uh it's really not it's great we we have grown very attached to Leighton yeah how long
have you been here yeah about um about eight months now okay or nine months and it was my
friend who bought this house um and he was doing it up and i was actually
conveniently looking to move um and i just had one look around loved it and we've made it our own
yeah well it's very nice i must say you've got a lovely lovely house here where were you before
that then i was in homerton homertonerton. Homerton in East London as well.
Right.
But it's...
See, I grew up down in South London, Clapham, Stockwell.
Nice.
Me too.
Did you?
Yeah, you were in Streatham, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Well remembered.
Yeah.
With your granny?
Yes.
Yeah.
Did I tell you this much?
Well, I don't know.
I read a little bit about you.
I read a couple of interviews that you've given.
And we... I mean, I have to confess, I didn't know much about you until read a couple of interviews that you've given um and we i mean i i have to
confess i didn't know much about you until you tapped me on the shoulder uh down in trendy east
london one evening yes and usually if you get a shoulder tap it's like some really drunk guy who's
like oh i saw you used to watch your toy things yeah you're a twat um and so obviously you did that a little bit but then uh well
yeah i was very aware of how i was being because i didn't want to like scare you no well it was
really nice it was and you said i asked you what you did and you said uh oh i i'm a singer
but um you said it in a way that certainly gave away nothing about what kind of singer you were,
whether you were signed, you know, whether you're a professional singer or not.
It was left a total mystery.
And so at a certain point in the evening, I don't know why,
but I think I mentioned Prince first of all.
Yeah, he comes up in just general conversation a lot.
And I had no idea that you'd actually met him.
And even maybe a few weeks before we met, he had played in what, in here?
Where you're sitting is where he was.
Shut your mouth.
Really?
Yeah.
So listen, start from the beginning of this particular episode.
How did that come about?
Well, I first got in touch with prince
about two years ago and my first ep had come out and he um discovered it somehow and he
got in touch with me so he called me up on the phone and i was in a noisy bar and I and I answered the phone and I and I
saw it was like a withheld number and I said sorry I just I need to check who this is and he was like
I think you know who this is so we just went from there and stayed in touch ever since so at uh new
year I called him to wish him a happy new year and he mentioned that he would be
coming to london so i said well you should stop by my new house and he did and he he worked it
into the beginning of his hit and run tour which um i'm very proud to say it began in my house
did you suggest that he come here and play some music?
No, not necessarily.
I think a jam is always assumed.
Like in someone's house, though?
In someone's semi?
I mean, that's what we do.
Yeah.
I mean, just anyone that plays, we just jam with them.
How are your neighbours with that?
They seem good at the moment.
But I mean, who knows?
We don't ever go on TV.
She's got that Prince round again.
Fucking hell.
Was it like that?
Yeah, pretty much.
Play sexy, motherfucker.
He doesn't do that one anymore.
Does he not?
No.
Does he never?
He doesn't like swe one anymore does he not no does he never he doesn't like he doesn't like
swearing does he he doesn't when did he acquire a problem with swearing i don't know he used to
have them the pottiest of all the mouths exactly exactly so you are being bothered by the little
purple man i mean that's a disgusting way of putting one day in february yes and um sorry for
being so small-minded but i'm interested in the specifics of how you receive a call from the
prance how did you know that it was him then if it's an unknown number so it had to be arranged
because he was in america so there was a time difference and everything yeah so uh our
managers spoke with each other okay beforehand and then i was supposed to make sure i had my
phone on me yeah when he called at whatever time and i didn't because i forgot yeah i just i went
out uh and just sort of left the phone on the bed so So he had to call my boyfriend's phone at the time.
And his battery was low.
Oh, mate, get it together.
I know.
Yeah.
I know.
But we did speak for about 15 minutes.
Right.
We could have gone on a lot longer.
And what are you like in those situations?
Because now you're at the point in your uh career that you've been well
you were you're only signed in like 2010 12 10 10 first album came out 2012 yes i mean it's really
only a couple of years that you've been in this world yeah where you're bumping into some of your
musical heroes exactly and i wonder what it's like being so young and meeting these people. You're 24.
Yeah.
And I get very nervous and tongue-tied in those kind of things.
I never really met anyone famous until I was nearly 30.
Okay.
And even then I found it very scary.
Yeah.
But what are you like?
I mean, do you struggle to say something on the phone to Prince or what?
Well, you kind of do.
Are you sort of thinking, I've got to sound cool?
Yes.
Yeah.
I was like, I mean, I think that with a lot of people I speak to anyway,
like famous or not.
But I, it was, I could feel myself thinking a lot.
Like I didn't want him to lose interest at any point.
I wanted to sound smart and also be a little bit funny maybe. But I didn't, I just, I didn't want him to lose interest at any point. I wanted to sound smart and also be a little bit funny maybe.
But I didn't know him.
But then, as the conversation went on,
it felt like we kind of knew each other already in a way.
I don't know.
He was like an old friend.
And the fact is we've stayed in touch and I love it.
And did you... I mean mean forgive me if I'm I know this is a question that everyone asks you about um because obviously it's kind of
fascinating um because he's one of the very small group of real genuine legends I would say in the
music world yeah and also one of those people who is quite eccentric especially with the way he
interacts with the world you know yes i was surprised to see him on arsenio hall recently
have you seen that yeah i was in the audience were you yeah yeah did you how did you watch
i watched that on youtube okay cool i mean even there he's not prickly exactly because he's sort
of polite he's very polite but he's not verycoming. Is he more easygoing when it's on a one-on-one basis?
Yeah, I think that's just a thing.
He just likes to get to know people, I guess.
Yeah.
You know, because he's basically the most famous person in the world.
Certainly one of them, yeah.
And so when your initial chat, was that mainly about your music or music in general?
Music in general.
And he was very complimentary about my stuff.
Right.
Which was great.
But he asked me like what I was into.
And I remember we talked about Joni Mitchell quite a bit.
Uh-huh.
So I think he knows her.
I don't think there's any other legend that he doesn't know yeah so uh
we talked about her a bit and prince wise what was the key prince album for you growing up if you
were into him or maybe you weren't i don't know well that's the thing i i discovered him i think
late yeah when i was a kid like hearing people talk about Prince the artist was like I just grew up and thought he
was a prince you know and then like realized he was a singer but just always thought he was
mysterious and because I heard Kiss and then I remember the first time I really listened to it
I was in LA at night on the freeway and it was like amazing backdrop and
then Kiss comes on the radio and I was just completely blown away by the I don't know the
creativity the attitude so that's when I got into Prince. It's a real piece of art isn't it that one
because it's so stripped down and spare and every nuance in his
voice is right there and i love that about it yeah i think it's only the the parts of it that
are necessary that are in there you know you know and obviously tom jones did a much better version
which was which was way more subtle but still the prince one holds up i think that's
controversial but i still think it sounds decent next to the tj version i remember when alphabet
street came out and that certainly you know that's what i love of his sound i think it's probably my
favorite uh can you say era of his sound i think so i just i love it i love the because you can't really beat
when when something is minimal and completely right you know the melodies are perfect and his
performance is perfect so he could put only one instrument behind it if he wanted and it would be
still amazing well there's something of that.
I hear something of that in, is it Forget, your track?
Oh, so nice of you.
With the little nice choppy new wave guitar.
Yes.
And the lovely harmonies there, strange harmonies.
Thank you so much.
I can't believe you've...
Well, that's, you know, maybe I'm imagining that,
but that's what I sort of got.
No, I really intended for that.
Yeah, good.
I wanted to be a female prince on that.
Right, right.
Well, I think it works.
And also I was, you know, I like a lot of that kind of quite minimal new wave music,
talking heads and people like that who had those lovely choppy guitars and things.
Yes.
I really like that.
Very nice.
But yeah, that alphabet street, it was...
Because you read about people saying, oh, I saw this thing.
It blew my mind.
It changed my life.
And I keep thinking, well, that doesn't happen to me very often.
But actually, it happened to me then.
I really did.
There you go.
I really did think, wow, this is one of these moments.
And it was Prince, though, that we share the fact that it was him.
And he's like, you know, he's just this guy.
He's just a guy with a giant afro that makes him
look like a big microphone which is ideal and now you are also getting messages from stevie wonder
on your answering machine yes i mean you must have made a number of copies of that one did you
i actually tried to record it yes but. But it's still in my mailbox.
I won't let it go.
That was interesting because he came to a show.
Oh, where were you playing?
I was playing in Los Angeles again.
A lot of my album was made there, so I go back and forth.
But we did this show.
This is your first album you're talking about, is it? Yes.
Yeah.
Is Your Love Big Enough, which is really a revolting uh title there i felt that was
coming yeah it doesn't have to be revolting wow come on but um but he that's what he sang on my
answer phone machine oh really the title track yes he he gave it his own spin and did he do it like
um full-throated or was it a bit half-hearted no it was proper
whoa it was the full thing and he he placed in my name into the lyric said leanne is your love
big enough and he sang it oh my god but yeah so that was mental because i found out like
half an hour before the show yeah that he coming. And obviously I didn't believe it.
And then all the band were all downstairs like pacing around.
And then one of us went to the bathroom and saw him like on the way.
And it was real.
And I think it just, like we were going to play a good show anyway,
because it was a great atmosphere.
But I think it gave us a fire in our bellies to do it
really well and then he was happy to hang out with us afterwards you know for a good hour i don't
really remember a lot of it was crying for a bit of it did you actually cry in front of stevie
cried yeah just being sat next to him was like because he weird because he meant a lot to you
when you were little or because yeah yeah yeah like I used to just hear him on the radio all the time.
And my mum had some of his finals and he was just, you know, again, in your consciousness growing up.
But yeah, it was just kind of and he was very inspiring, actually.
And when you actually spoke to him, was he still inspiring or was he just talking about cheese and stuff?
No, we shared a wine, a little red wine, and he played me a song from his iPod that he had done, a new bit of music that I don't think anyone's heard yet.
He didn't just play you happy birthday?
No.
I just want to play you this one. I'm really pleased with it.
Happy Birthday
to you.
You've got a good voice. Thanks.
So he
played you a new thing and was it good or was it
It was amazing. Was it? Oh that's a relief.
It was, yeah. I thought that too.
You don't want to have a really rubbish one and then
have to sit there and pretend it that too. I was just like... You don't want to have a really rubbish one and then have to sit there and think...
Pretend it's good.
That was interesting.
Hey, that was very interesting.
Who produced that?
Exactly.
Yeah.
So, yeah, but he was super humble about it as well.
So, Leanne, my daughter is five and a half.
She won some weird competition at her school,
which meant that she could become a member of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
Okay.
She was absolutely jazzed.
And she came home.
She was like, I'm a member of that.
And later that night, when I was reading her a story, she said,
Dad, you know what I want to be when I grow up?
I said, I don't know.
She said, I want to be when i grow up i don't know she said i want to be three
things i want to be one a member of the norfolk wildlife trust which i am two i want to be a pop
star and three i want to be a vet i love her ambition yeah. But she's very excited about the whole idea of being a pop star
and wanted to ask a couple of questions.
Let's see.
Okay.
Has she made these questions?
Yeah.
Okay, lovely.
Let's see if I can find them.
I'll edit them after the fact.
Being a pop star.
Is it hard when you're on stage
and there's hundreds of people in front of you and you get really nervous?
I know that you have to dress up in lots of different kinds of clothes and go to different countries.
Can you give me some information about how to be a pop star?
That is amazing so that's three questions there do you get nervous when you go up in front of hundreds of people um what's it like wearing
lots of different clothes and going to different countries and could you give her some information
about how she can become a pop star or being a pop star how to be a pop star i wish i
knew but um so nerves first of all nerves let me start by saying that i watched you on uh on jules
harland in uh when was that 2011 after your ep first ep lost Found, came out. You are good. I've done, I read some things.
And I must say, my heart was in my mouth for you.
Yeah, it's terrifying.
Because you played solo, right?
Or was someone backing you up?
No, I had the spot I always dreamt of having on Jules,
if I was ever on Jules,
was the solo in the middle of the floor.
So it was just me and guitar that time.
Very good.
Thank you.
Good job.
And I was searching your face for some trace of nerves, you know,
like a little twitch of the eye or a little sadness.
No, well, I couldn't possibly be sad.
I couldn't see any.
You looked completely composed. Thank you. Did you feel that way? No, well, I couldn't possibly be sad. I couldn't see any. You looked completely composed.
Thank you.
Did you feel that way?
No, no.
It was terrifying.
Like, the first...
It was like the first time singing in front of anyone ever.
Except by that point, I had had some practice at performing to an audience.
But this time, I don't know because I
was so excited about it and it was like a huge milestone and a huge break it turned out to be
I was just like I don't know I was I just really didn't want to make a mistake so we did it but it
was all very sudden you know they kind of there were loads of other things going on and you wait around a little bit and then suddenly you're thrust up there.
There's like five guys putting the equipment together and then you have to do it.
And there was a live performance as well.
So we just did it live on TV.
And how long did you know that you were going to be on the show for before you went on?
Two weeks.
Not that long.
Not long.
So were those weeks fun and
exciting or filled with dread and misery no boringly they were really fun and exciting right
that's not boring that's i i mean i i admire it and it's it's nice to talk to someone who has that
attitude to these things because my thank you my attitude has always been the opposite. I've said before that if my Native American name would be Falls at Hurdles.
Good one.
Because I just, I don't know, as soon as I get the impression that something is important
or could be really useful or great exposure or could take me to some kind of mystical next level,
I'd fuck it up.
You know what I mean? Like I'd do a shit job because my nerves get the better of me yeah yeah that has
happened though has it yeah in the past like i used to sing and then like just be shaking my
whole body would be shaking therefore my voice would shake and it would be like weird to watch I imagine but then you I just did as much of it as possible
and I think I've played to many types of crowd as well to so by that point but it was still like
nothing I'd ever done but I tried to just smile and not fall over so that's good I mean that's
an important piece of the puzzle you don't want to be crippled by nerves because then you've picked the wrong job no listen i would love it if you would you
be all right to play a song before we conclude honored what kind of thing do you want you're
on a fast one or actually forget it i've decided all right yeah so what are we gonna are you going to play guitar and sing? Yes It's musical performance time of the podcast
Go studio
So
This song is called Grow
And it's Leanne Lahavas and Chris Stagger on bass
I resisted the charms of evil's arms
As she stood by my bedside
Speaking in tongues
And the lovers who cried
Won't be denied
As they fight for their right
To grow, to grow
Please don't turn us down
Don't turn us down
Turn, turn, turn, turn
Turn up a lot, turn up and watch us sing
As we grow
The future we don't know, know.
Unless we're together, together.
Turn up for love, turn up and watch us sing.
As we grow, the future we don't know
No
Unless we're together
I requested to know
What I did wrong
Cause I sure didn't mean to string you along but the blood in my body
and my heartbeat it said it's to feel a crime a crime please don't turn us down, won't be turned down
Turn, turn, turn, turn
Turn up for love, turn up and watch us sing
As we grow
The future we don't know
No
Unless we're together The future we don't know, know
Unless we're together, together
Turn up for love, turn up and watch us sing
As we grow
The future we don't know No, unless we do it together
Turn up for love, turn up and watch us sing
As we grow
I love
this song, it's so great
it's so wonderful
I love it, it was great
thank you so much
thanks Chris
nice one, thanks a lot
this is so cool
it works now, I had to practice it.
Wow, that was just great.
Right, should we have a beer?
Let's have another beer.
Shall I do a beer?
No!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
No!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
No!
No!
No!
No!
No!
No!
No!
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For goodness sake.
Anyway, Leanne Le Havis there playing her song Grow with Chris Dagger, the beer peddler, the beer pusher on bass.
And I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out.
I have to be absolutely honest about it.
I just had a couple of little teeny weeny drum mics that I plugged into my
computer and it ended up sounding decent. Actually, they were the same. This is a little drum mic
name drop. They were the same drum mics that I used to record Tom York and Johnny Greenwood
playing the song Faust Arp in Oxford a few years back with Garth Jennings. And they've done good service.
But anyway, I don't know how this podcast is going to evolve.
It's early days.
I hope you're going to be able to roll with it for a few episodes
until it finds some kind of groove.
It's just, I like the idea of trying a few different approaches out
for the time being.
So hang in there.
I appreciate some of you don't have the time to hang in there. And
you guys, cheerio. Thanks for making it this far. But the rest of you, I hope you'll stick around
and do stay in touch. I read all your messages about last week's show with Louis Theroux.
There was a few on SoundCloud on the SoundCloud page. Obviously, those are longer. You don't have a character limit there.
Phil Watson I says,
Louis was great as a first guest.
I could hear his disappointment in you about the buffet behaviour.
I agree. It is not cool.
Saw a family do it at a hotel near Legoland, Windsor.
Was taken aback by their blatant, shameless behaviour. They had an assembly
line going. Mum slicing rolls, Dad buttering, kids filling and pilfering. I mean, to me, that sounds
like paradise. No, it doesn't. We did not have an assembly line going. All right, Phil Watson I? It was very, very subtle. It was like a scene from
Mission Impossible, one of the Mission Impossible films. I think maybe the next one is going to be
about a buffet. And probably they'll ask Buckles to be a part of it, because it couldn't have been
more stealthy and in no way sleazy. I mean, Legoland, Windsor, that is a very lawless part of the world.
And the thing is, once you've queued for about an hour and a half for a ride that lasts 90 seconds
and isn't very good, then you deserve some free snacks, is my opinion. But anyway,
I appreciate that perhaps the assembly line is too much.
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Yes.
That's it for the podcast this week.
Thank you very much indeed.
I'm back in the sound booth now.
It sounds more professional, doesn't it?
A little bit.
Anyway, thanks to Leanne, I was going to say.
And if you enjoyed her song Grow, you can see her performing it on my YouTube channel.
I uploaded the video
that I shot there on my phone
and you can see the mystery geese
standing over in the corner
and you can see what
Leanne and Chris look like
and I think that it's
just a lovely performance.
So thanks again to them.
Until next time,
I'm hoping to put another podcast out
next week.
Not exactly sure what'll be in it,
but there'll be something.
All right. Take care. I love you. Bye. Bye.
On a future edition of the Adam Buxton Podcast,
reminiscences from still-living stand-up comedy legend Guy Mangyman. I ask for Mindy, and Mindy comes over, and she says,
Oh, yeah, you're the guy. I'm like, shut the fuck up. Can I get a spot?
And she's like, yeah, sure, whatever. Why don't you go up after Jerry's ski holiday?
I'm like, shit, that guy's fucking dangerous.
I don't know if I want to go up after Jerry's ski holiday.
And sure enough, Jerry goes on and he kills.
You know, I mean, Jerry always killed.
He killed several people that night on the front row and a couple of waitresses.
So that, you know, put a damp on the evening.
Anyways, so Jerry comes off and he's arrested.
He goes to prison.
And then I come on and the audience is, you know, kind of sad after all the killing.
of sad after all the killing. So I'm like, ah, what am I going to do now with this sad audience after the killing? So I start with my sausages bit. I got so many sausages, it's
going to take so long to cook them all. I don't have an oven big enough for all the sausages I got who does I destroyed him I mean I I crushed
them and then I um after I crushed them I shit on them and then I I folded them up and I burned
them and then I uh put the ashes down the fucking toilet and then I uh flushed them and then I
jumped in after them and I swam down the pipe and I uh when I found them I ate them and then I flushed them and then I jumped in after them and I swam down the pipe and when I found them, I ate them
and then I shit them out again and I fucking crushed them one more time
just to make sure they understood that they had been destroyed by me, by Guy.
I was badly beaten up that later in the night.