The Gargle - Oscars slap | Bum tattoo | Seagull war
Episode Date: March 31, 2022Alison Spittle and Neil Delamere join host Alice Fraser for episode 55 of The Gargle, the weekly topical comedy podcast from The Bugle - with no politics!✋ The Oscars slap👰🏻 Wedding cosplay�...� Bum tattoo🐦 Seagull war🍰 ReviewsProduced by Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This is a podcast from The Bugle. singing just for you. But you're both engaged to other people. Also, you're both wedding planners
and you're planning each other's weddings. If anything were to happen, you wouldn't just be
breaking two hearts, you'd be breaking two contracts. But everything's changed now. You
can't pretend it hasn't. The day arrives at last and instead of two weddings, the guests find only
one. You're doing it. You're going to marry each other. To hell with your commitments. No refunds.
But as the ring slides down your finger, you realise you've made a terrible mistake.
Your true love isn't rattling off wedding vows.
Your true love isn't even at this wedding.
Your true love is the gargle.
From Sonic Watsi Magazine to the Bugles Audio Newspaper for the Usual World,
welcome to this audio magazine.
All of the news, none of the politics.
I'm your host, Alice Fraser.
Your guest editors for this week's edition of the podcast are
Neil Delamere and Alison Spittel. Welcome.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, thank you so much for having me, Alice. Great to be on with Neil again.
Alison, you have your own sound effect introduction that you did there that was amazing.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yes, yes. It's like, you know the way producers of songs have like,
red one. This is me introducing myself on a podcast with my own
sound effect
I think that was
magnificent
I think you should
have it in real life
I think you should
be like
Miss Alison Spittel
of Moat County B
when you walk
into a room
and a guy
like in red livery
and an old horn
just announces
you everywhere
I'd love that
I would love that
like my coming
to America
yeah that would
be great
but also like
an air horn
quite an aggressive combination into America, yeah that would be great. Yeah but also like an air horn.
Quite an aggressive combination of the modern and the ancient together.
That's how she arrives to everything. She rocks up in a car that's bouncing and then she presses the horn.
And it goes da da da da da da da. Alice's Metal!
Well we're going to clasp each other's hips and dance merrily into the body of this week's magazine.
But first, let's have a look at the front cover.
This week, the front cover is an Oscars award looking sad as everyone ignores it to focus on Will Smith getting his slap on.
And the headlines are the other side of the Oscars.
Apparently, there was some sort of awards.
and the headlines are,
the other side of the Oscars,
apparently there was some sort of awards.
And the new diet that's turning heads,
keep these names out your f***ing mouth.
There's been too many takes.
Would you agree?
Like, genuinely,
there's a part of me that goes,
oh yeah, Will Smith should be ashamed of himself but like um every
wedding i've been to someone has done a will smith do you know what i mean where like uh no
neil is that not normal for you no i'm just thinking that the chances of every wedding
you've ever been at jada pickett smith to be at them it's just remarkable i move in great circles
you really do it's it's the introductory horn i think yeah it is it is
definitely the introductory horn that sounds like a one-night stand or something
that was the original table name for tinder but they decided to
yeah it was it was a particularly raucous dance in our school
this is where you go for it. Yeah, the introductory horn is like
what some man can be arrested for on the train or something.
It was just an introductory horn.
Hong Kong.
No.
I just put it out there
and let the universe decide how to react.
I think that's what flashers do, don't they?
Generally, they're just too open with the world, aren't they?
Yeah, I don't know.
My take is uh very
ambivalent it changes all the time i'm i like i don't think that was a bad joke that chris rock
did i thought it was quite complimentary g.i.j and is beautiful yeah there are more horrible
alopecia jokes that you know that i that could have come out of chris rock's mouth and i think
he thought he was doing a softball
by comparing a very beautiful woman
to another very beautiful woman with a similar haircut.
I think so too.
I believe when he says he didn't know about the alopecia.
Also, he doesn't write jokes.
Come on, he's writing for the Oscars.
He's got a team of like 10 people writing jokes.
Yeah.
Somebody said what they would have liked to have seen
is just in terms of not
the morals of this just the sheer spectacle of if chris rock unbeknownst to will smith had done a
boxing film and will smith goes and he just slips the punch and decks him just in terms of the
outcome of that it would have been absolutely amazing the skinny older dude just lamps will
smith and goes you didn't expect that, did you?
Just lords over his body.
Genuinely, I think that happened in Ireland, though.
I think there was an Irish comedian, I'm not going to name him,
but he used to be a boxer and he was doing stand-up.
And some drunk guy got up to give him a slap.
And that drunk guy went to sleep for a few seconds.
I don't know how, but he just was unconscious.
So there is that thing of like,
especially comedians are getting fitter and fitter these days
and angrier, you know?
I would be wary about punching out a comedian.
It's not like the old days.
Well, let's not be every other single podcast
that's happening at the moment.
I feel like all podcasts obligatorily have to mention
the slap but let's move on the satirical cartoon for this week is a ukrainian fighter in a tuxedo
slapping a russian tank while his friend films it caption do they care about us now
and now we get into our cosplay section this week uh jamie lee curtis actor and name hoarder has
announced that not only will she be officiating
her daughter's wedding, she'll be doing it dressed as
Jaina Proudmoore, a character from the video game
World of Warcraft. The most
powerful human sorceress alive, Jamie
Lee Curtis, invented two new kinds of
nappy. That's true. Did you know
that? Although the patent for one of them has
expired, so hands on nappies
everybody. This is genuine.
This is not like a this is genuine
rumors or anything like that no this is a legitimate this is a legitimate pursuit of
jamie lee curtis when she's not acting her pants off um she's acting baby's pants on
wow you would have thought that like thousands of years of human civilization would have
brought us to peak nappy i wouldn't have thought that we could get to modifications, but Jamie Lee Curtis has squared that circle.
I mean, she's thought inside the box, outside the box.
All of the things that a nappy can be in or outside a box.
Those are the only two things a nappy can be.
It's really the only two things anything can be if you put things in a certain way.
Never go in Dragon's Den, Alice.
Never go in Dragon's Den.
Just walking upstairs, throwing a box of nappies at Dragon's Den, Alice. Never go in Dragon's Den.
Walking upstairs, throwing a box of nappies at them,
going, listen, it's in the box or out of the box.
You f***ing decide.
I'm not here to babysit you.
I have a child.
That's why I'm designing a new nappy.
Well, Neil Delamere, you have the beard of a man who might play World of Warcraft.
Can you unpack this story for us?
Well, the first thing I thought about when I saw this story is that Alison,
so she's officiating at her daughter's wedding,
and that Alison and I were raised in very traditional Catholic Ireland.
So if one of your parents was officiating your wedding,
that would be the talk of the town.
Wouldn't it, Alison? It would be the talk of the town.
You'd be standing there going, continue, Father Brennan,
because it's not like father, like son.
I'm not afraid of commitment. W wink wink wink wink but um she dressed as somebody from world
of warcraft and i'm hoping that because her daughter's into cosplay as well i'm hoping that
there's loads of cosplay all over the place i would like somebody to be dressed as frodo
and then when the when somebody brings the rings out he just grabs them and then destroys them by
throwing them into a lava lamp.
But they're getting married, I think, in her backyard,
which is the ultimate kind of wealthy
Californian thing to do, I think.
I don't think anybody does that in England or Ireland.
I don't know about Australia,
where you would have a magnificent kind of maybe outback ranch,
but nobody does it here.
Nobody does it in suburbia.
Nobody goes, Mary,
stand over by the green wheelie bin there
because I want to get the fake plastic grass
in the background.
Your father and I was going to stand
with one foot in the paddling pool
and one foot on the goalpost.
It's going to look amazing for the pictures.
It's a very American thing to do.
It's incredibly American.
It also feels like essentially
weddings are cosplay though. To that like jamie lee curtis
is doing cosplay at a wedding aren't we all cosplaying when we go to a wedding my mammy
wants me to get married so hard because she wants to wear a fascinator essentially and i'm like
mammy you can wear a fascinator any day of the week love do you know wear a fancy hat it's just
a tiny hat it's just not enough of a hat yeah yeah it's what a
fascinator is just not enough of a hat that's exactly it that's exactly it it's like a peninsula
of hats you know what i mean it's not quite a an island not quite land it's just there so
interesting you were saying about like cosplaying and computer games and stuff like they're into
computer games and i think they're missing a trick here with who Jamie Lee Curtis should be cosplaying as.
I think Sonic the Hedgehog.
I mean, the rings are there, you know.
You drop the ring, she's going to pick it up straight away.
Zoom, you know, she's got it.
And then you just hit her.
I just think this is a bit rich.
I mean, it's a bit rich in that they're having
their fabulous wedding in their backyard,
but I mean, I think it's a bit rich to ask your mum
to work on your wedding day.
No, they love it. Because her job is dressing up as other people mami's love doing the extra bit you know that
that you can go are you okay mom they're like no no i'm fine i live to serve i live to serve
and this is here you're just giving mommy that extra bit to do actually i've become way more
disobliging since i had a baby
are you confusing your mother with the new york police force
i live to serve and if any of you get out of the line you're going i know look they're both very
good at smelling weed like a very small amount of it you know they both i get stopped and searched
by my mommy like i was stopped my mother used to carry her wooden spoon
in the holster
she was
hardcore
she was like
yeah
she was like
she'd take it out
and it would be like
Zorro
the first bit of back chat
boom
bang bang bang
back in the holster
and there'd be a big M
on your chest for mammy
that's true
no messing around
Neil maybe we should
explain as Irish people
we all had quite violent
childhoods
yeah
but I mean we're grand
we are
perfectly fine
we're grand
very good at
attracting foreign
direct investment
that's the main thing
that we do
very well
yeah the spatula
industry are very
you're into cosplay
though really
kind of Alison
aren't you
because I've seen you
dress up as film characters
with, you know, watching films, film-alongs, shall we say.
Yeah, yeah, I dressed up as Miss Trunchbull.
That's when I realised that buns suit me.
Like, that woman, isn't it?
Miss Trunchbull from Matilda, the headmaster.
A horrible child abuser in this story,
but incredible looks that woman was serving.
She's a fashion icon.
She really is.
Oh, yeah, villains have got all the best looks.
Best tailoring goes to villains.
They really do, don't they?
That's why, like, Karl Lagerfeld was such a stylish man,
but yet so horrible, you know?
Never be a defence attorney, Alison.
Like, I'm not sure if that's proper
mitigation you could go listen i mean it was a lot of war crimes i'll be honest with you but i mean
look at his suit look how sharp that is look at him serve look at him serve
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I mean, you wouldn't be able to chat for one, do you know?
She'd be like, how's your day?
And then you're like, oh, why aren't you?
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I mean, you would always be biting your nails as well.
Very rude.
Teeth for nails would be pretty cool, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
I mean, Will Smith would give a better slap, wouldn't he?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that's only one step away from Wolverine at that point, isn't it?
The closest I know of teeth to nails is my grandmother who had a
bracelet with every single one of her three children's uh childhood teeth um set in gold
around it with the dates that they had been lost and the initials of each child so i think i think
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What's amazing is that both me and Neil have disclosed that in our childhood,
we got beaten with wooden spoons.
But yeah, what you've shared, Alice, is far more traumatic,
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because now it's time for your reverse Cinderella news.
We've all done it.
We've gone to Spain.
We've met an adult man dressed as a baby.
We've had his name tattooed on our bum.
Alison Spittel, can you unpack this story for us?
So this is an amazing story.
It's about this lady.
She's on holiday.
I think it's in Magaluf, of course.
And she's hunting down the man whose name she got tattooed on her bum.
She says, I don't regret my tattoo at all.
I'll never get rid of it either.
It's a nice reminder of our girl's trip away.
And what's hilarious to me is Kaylee Williams is her name.
She got this man's name tattooed on her bum.
It's not just his first name.
She got the whole lot.
It's Daniel Ford.
So Daniel Ford has been tattooed on her left bum cheek. just his first name she got the whole lot it's daniel ford so daniel ford has been tattooed on her left bum cheek and it was for 30 quid it was right and now
she's trying to get back in touch with him god gave you two cheeks for a reason if you're gonna
get a man's name tattooed on your bum get his phone number and email address on the other side
you have the room you have the room what what's amazing to me they actually when i got my first
tattoo in newcastle wanda cost very quick it was far i was far too drunk to like i was bleeding
through like he really shouldn't have tattooed me this man but he also tattooed a stag party
in front of me and everyone had to sign the groom's bum and uh and he got like about 12 names tattooed on his bum so like this
man's arse looked like the declaration of independence by the end of it or like one of
those tea towels you get from schools where people get to sign stuff and then you you know
it was just too much writing so this lady's gone for a minimalist approach
with daniel ford that's not a tattoo that's a petition that is a petition yeah
petitioning his fiance if you sign the bum enough it'll pass something
yeah i wasn't shocked by this story i i really am rooting for her to meet him
i don't know what's gonna happen she's happily married to somebody else and she hasn't decided
what she's going to do when she meets him.
So either she's looking to get out of her current relationship
or she just wants revenge
and she's just going to hunt him down and tattoo her name on his palm.
Could you imagine like a romantic comedy with like,
you know, Jennifer Lopez is in it.
She wakes up with a tattoo of a full name across her arse
and has to find the man.
Like, this is the setup i would
watch this as the romantic comedy it would be beautiful because you know the tropes are gone
you can't run through an airport anymore without being shot you know true can't play a boom box
anymore you have to offer someone one earbud which is less grand as a gesture you can't even follow
someone around anymore and make big gestures
that is stalking so like we have to change the romantic comedy trope and i think this is the
first step i mean this is great i do have this image of the two of them i'm what i would like
to have happened right they were they were both very drunk when this happened right so there's a
very good chance that he doesn't remember her and she doesn't remember him because you didn't see him the next day after you got the tattoo done.
So I quite like the idea of them
hooking up
years later.
They're both single.
They get back to her place or his place.
They take off their clothes.
They start to do what people do
and his name is
pre-tattooed
on her backside.
I think the level of freaking out that would engender in any person
would be amazing to watch.
This is the story.
A friend of mine once went on a first date with a magician,
and they got back to her house, and he did a magic trick
that involved a card suddenly appearing on the outside of her bedroom window,
which means that he had scouted her place out beforehand
and stuck a card on the outside of her bedroom window on spec
that he would be invited in.
Alice, I can't believe you're telling me that magicians are creepy.
This is like destroying my whole outlook on life.
I've got nothing against magicians.
My only issue with magicians is that they're men who couldn't talk to women
who decided that the solution was to trick them better.
I don't know.
I'd be freaked out if you were named after your dad, Neil.
Do you remember you were talking about the kind of like, you know,
if you're named after your dad and then you find this woman with your name on your wrist,
you'd be like, I don't know what to think. It would be scary well would you continue as a man i don't know would
you can would you just continue and go you certainly couldn't say who's your daddy during
the thing you would you would insist on junior would you you'd insist that the junior be part
of the tattoo just so we're clear on this.
Now it's time for our next segment, which is our reviews.
As you know, each week we ask our guest editors to bring something in to review out of five stars.
This week, Neil Delamere, what have you brought in for us?
I have been watching The Great British Bake Off
because I had recorded and it's available on, I think, all four.
And this season is exceptional
Jürgen the German is one
of my favourite real life people
from day one he came
out and was smashing it
like day one he was like I have invented a fully
functioning electron microscope out of ginger
bread in the brandy snap and
on the slides they're made of gelatin and
the slides has a genuine DNA
sample of Mr. Kipling.
And then there was these other people were like, I made an apple tart.
It was absolutely fantastic.
It's so good because it represents, well, first of all, it's all French, which I didn't realize.
Everything is creme patisserie, creme diplomat, and creme gérard d'epardieu baked in a citron Picasso.
It's all amazing stuff.
And it's all from the, it's all,
if you look at these French recipes,
they're so advanced.
This is from recipe books from the 19th century.
And you think, I don't know about you, Alison,
I think like what does a 19th century Irish recipe book say?
It says one, find food.
Two, have you found food?
No, go to America.
That's what it says.
Three, steal the food.
If you have stolen the food, go to Australia.
That's basically how it works
and uh it presents this kind of twee version of britishness that everybody around the world
even in ireland finds quite comforting because you see a white tent in the english countryside
at eight o'clock on channel four and you think oh people are baking whereas you see a white tent on
the news from say london you go there's been a
murder a very significant murder every time i see a white tent now i think ah rapid antigen testing
center oh well that's better than the state pathologist walking out going
so i think uh generally speaking great british bake up this year five stars five stars for the
great british bake off i watched an episode of the great british bake off when i was in labor generally speaking, Great British Bake Off this year, five stars. Five stars for the Great British Bake Off.
I watched an episode of the Great British Bake Off
when I was in labour,
so I can second that five-star experience.
They take the child out and go,
oh, it needs to be proofed more,
and then put the child back in.
We're not lamination.
We're not lamination on this child.
Alison Spittel, what have you brought in for us so I've started to review
Covid I got Covid
two weeks ago
it was shit I slept
for a long time one of the big
things about Covid is
brain fog I couldn't watch
anything that required any kind
of fog altogether so i just started
watching the formula one reality tv series on netflix amazing it's so funny because i'm watching
it and uh you know you're starting to root for these people and then you get to see their family
houses and you're like hey they're rich and that's the whole thing about formula one everyone's rich
in it so i root for nobody in it there's no true underdogs in Formula 1
they're going to be fine
if you don't make it in Formula 1 you'll do
hedge funding you'll go into your dad's wine
business you're going to be fine
so it was great to watch a reality
show they didn't require any
brain work altogether and for
Covid I'm going to give it 2 stars
out of 5 it's a shitty
disease but I survived it.
And yeah, and for race to this Formula One reality TV show I'm watching,
I'm going to give that two stars as well.
Because I need to watch it when I'm not having COVID and we'll see how it is.
But the brain fog is still here.
This is my belief.
You should never recommend a movie that you have seen on a plane because you think it's amazing when you're on a plane that's because you're dehydrated and
miserable and bored out of your mind and you'll be grateful to anything
never never recommend anything that you enjoyed while you were on a plane or during a breakup
those opposed to your just judgment is impaired oh so i shouldn't recommend like a shagging
strangers then
like because i do that when i'm on a plane or i'm in a break
now it's time for our seagull war section the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun
is with a good guy with a gun uh presumably to put the good guy with a gun in front of the bad guy is
sort of a human shield apparently the principle works equally well for seagulls. For years, St. Mark's Square in Venice
has been plagued by seagull thieves.
This new breed of gentleman pickpocket
is so daring that they've been known disgustingly
to steal food directly from tourists' mouths
while they're chewing it,
which is only romantic if you're both dogs.
Neil de la Mer, you're both dogs.
Can you unpack this story for us?
Yeah, so it's
one of the hotels, specifically in
St Mark's Square, they've decided that they're going to give
their patrons
orange water pistols
and they researched orange
because apparently seagulls hate orange
and if the seagull sees the water
pistol, it will fly away
and not plague the patron of the hotel's
lives. Now i have a
couple of issues with this first of all i know it's a bit of a stereotype stereotype to say but
seagulls certainly are getting getting bigger they're absolutely massive now i remember going
to the beach here in dublin when i was a child and you get you get a little whatever ice cream
and the seagull come down and grab your ice cream i was at dollyman strand two weeks ago and i was getting an ice cream and i turned around and i saw seagull fly off
with the van you just heard the doppler effect of
they're massive however if you're the type of seagull that is disturbed by a jet of water
type of seagull that is disturbed by a jet of water you're a type of seagull i feel the emphasis should be on the sea and you're annoyed by water from a water pistol i'm not sure that you're the
type of aggressive seagull that would steal food from somebody's mouth you know i don't know if
that necessarily works like to look well we get a lot of mosquitoes here as well so what we started
doing is throwing blood bags at them oh that really teach them a lesson i mean it's just all
sorts of a solution being these water pistols uh for protection against the seagulls when we all
know the studies show that the real way to fix the problem is to do something about the
socioeconomic conditions the seagulls are living in tough on seagulls tough on the causes of seagulls
yeah i think i think you could be right. I mean, I think
it's just a plaster. It's just a bandaid
over the avian problem. I think you're right,
Alice. But also, Venice is one of the most
expensive cities on Earth.
If I paid €21 for a
club sandwich, there isn't an animal
on the planet that would get it
off me. An escaped tiger
could be roaming St. Mark's
Square and people would be like,
he caused the crowds to flee,
except one Irish man who shouted at the man-eater,
and I quote,
this Cornetto was nine euro,
I'll eat it and wear it.
Like, f*** this.
It's not Joe Exotic that you have here.
You know, I think I've talked about it before in this podcast,
I am shooting pigeons with a water pistol at the moment.
My balcony has
been once again uh taken over by pigeons and like uh one of the steps i've got a book i got two
self-help books about how to get rid of pigeons wow isn't that mad there's two yeah it's not
working on the pigeon so i don't see how it's going to work on the seagulls. Don't you fear escalation?
But if you bring a pistol to the pigeon fight, they'll come back with super soakers.
And the next thing there's an arms race and everyone's riding around in tanks.
The pigeons are trying to take over.
They really are trying to take over.
Yeah, they build.
They're incredible at building nests.
You are resisting the urge for a joke here, Alison.
Oh, yeah?
The pigeons are taking over.
Oh, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That would mean it was some sort of a...
Anybody? Anybody?
Coup.
Okay.
Coup.
I'm saying coup.
I'm from Australia where we genuinely had a thing called the emu war,
which the emus won.
So look that up on Wikipedia if you want something fun to do with your afternoon.
I'm not going to tell you about it.
That's not news.
So does that mean the emus are through to the final
and they play the cards who won the Icelandic-British thing?
That's how that works, isn't it?
That is how it works.
No, they're real emus.
Apparently they're really hard to shoot at
because they've got tiny heads.
Tiny heads and beautiful mad eyes.
And they'll kick your guts out.
What a country.
What a country.
What a country.
Well, that's all the time we have for our Seagull War news
because we've reached the end of our episode.
Flipping through the ads at the back.
Neil Delamere, have you got anything to plug?
I'm on tour and I'm doing the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
and I just found out that Alison Spittel was there as well
and Alice Fraser.
Hopefully she's going to be there and we can share the same room again
and we can both forget each other afterwards.
Hey, I didn't forget you.
I just didn't have your last name on the tip of my tongue.
Oh, OK, all right.
And I'm on social at Neil Delamere Comedy.
All the rest.
Alison Spittel, have you got anything to plug?
Yeah.
So I'm bringing over an Edinburgh show.
It's not on sale yet.
It's called Wet.
And it's about aqua aerobics and violence and the coil.
I'm trying to link them all together at the moment,
and I got a load of previews coming up, so I got some previews in London, I'm going to
Maclanliffe Festival, I'm going to Cambridge Fringe Festival, Hey On Why, Where The Light Gets In,
Edinburgh, if you go to my Instagram page, I'll have a full list of where you can find me and my
previews, I've also got a podcast called The Alison
Spittel Show which is on the Headstuff Network
which is coming back this year and another
podcast called Weed of Misfortune which
I'm presenting with guest co-hosts at the moment
so yeah please
come and have a listen to that. I'd like to say thank you to
our roving reporters Miss Otis
for the seagull water pistol and bomb tattoo
stories and Sam Rugg for
additional material to this week's script.
I would also like to say I'm Alice Fraser.
Find me online at atalitative on Twitter and Instagram.
That's A-L-I-T-E-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Or look me up on Patreon.com slash Alice Fraser,
which is a one-stop shop for all of my stand-up specials,
podcasts and blogs.
I am on tour.
I'm currently in Melbourne.
I will be in Perth and Sydney.
Then I will be in London, elsewhere in the UK,
and in Edinburgh with my show Kronos.
So that's going to be fun.
This is a Bugle podcast and Alice Fraser production.
Your editor is Ped Hunter.
Your executive producer is Chris Skinner.
I'll talk to you again next week.
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