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Welcome to the Peacock and Gamble podcast.
Hello.
Oh, good morning.
Hello.
Oh, have you fallen asleep?
Yeah.
Right next to the computer?
Yeah, it's August now.
I beg your pardon?
It's August, you've been asleep since May. Hush your mouth. No. I beg you, Puddin'. It's August.
You've been asleep since May.
Hush your mouth.
No, I can't.
I'm sorry.
How on earth have I done that?
I don't know.
Again?
You've been in hibernation.
I have been in hibernation
all this time.
You little bear.
I've done it.
Oh, look at all this poo.
Have you been awake?
You could have cleaned up
some of the poo.
I didn't want to mate.
You've grown moss
all under your busters.
Oh I've got a little
moss bra.
This is how
embarrassing
for me
Ray Peacock
television star
in a way
I am in a way
a little bit
in a way I am anyway.
That's a lovely title.
Yeah how have I
grown a moss
buster bra?
And how have I
Ed Gamble,
friend of Ray Peacock, television star in a way,
not got my rag on a stick out
and cleaned all the moss from under your busters?
I just wish you would one day.
I know.
Oh, well then, well, here we are then.
Oh, we're recording as well, look, I can see.
Yeah, look, we're straight back on it.
I see on the computer it's recording as well.
Yeah.
Well, we'll crack on with a podcast then.
Yeah, shall we?
We'll keep on going with podcasts, is it?
Yeah, I think so.
Series two or not?
You know...
Ah!
Fuck that, no.
Just the continuing story of...
Yeah, it's the...
It's like pigs in space,
isn't it?
The other thing I've noticed
there straight away
is while I've been asleep
you appear to have
had a sex change.
Oh, yeah, that's why
I've been away doing that.
Nice!
Nice, Luke.
I see what you've done there.
Thanks. What you've done there, you obviously haven let's see what you've done there. Thanks.
What you've done,
you obviously
haven't gone for
the proper
cosmetic surgery
there.
No.
Couldn't afford
that,
no.
No.
You've grown
your own busters.
Yeah.
And for the
downstairs,
what you've got
is you've got
a plastic fanny
that you've
sellotaped over
your knob.
Yeah,
that's how they
do it,
it's a quick job.
That is what
a sex change
is,
you know.
Yeah,
basically,
yeah. So, it's sort of a reawakening, reimagining. Yeah, reimagining they do it, is a quick job. That is what a sex change is, you know. Yeah, basically, yeah.
So, it's sort of a reawakening, reimagining.
Yeah, reimagining, yeah. Because, I'll be honest with you,
I can't remember anything we were doing before.
I can't really, mate.
I remember there was something about a film pitch
that we'd done.
Have you written another one?
No.
Nope, me neither.
So, that section, fall into the wayside.
Speaking of films, though,
not a film pitch,
but I've had an idea for a film franchise.
Have you?
An existing film franchise.
Right.
I've had an idea
of something they can do
to hit a better audience.
Right, okay.
A wider audience
of how they can change it.
Well, I look forward
to hearing that.
I had a dream about it
the other night.
Did you?
It's not just 3D,
it's not that.
Although I have invented that.
Yeah, oh, that's you,
is it?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, do you know
how I invented 3D?
You went to the theatre
and you thought,
wouldn't it be brilliant if this could be in films? But do you know how I actually invented it? What, how did, is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, do you know how I invented 3D? You went to the theatre and you thought, wouldn't it be brilliant if this could be in films?
But do you know how I actually invented it?
What, how did you do it?
I'll tell you how I did it, right?
Do you know food dye or not?
You've got a red one and a blue one, right?
Yeah, I do know food dye.
Yeah, two pipettes.
Yeah.
I put the pipette in the red one and the pipette in the blue one.
Yeah.
Squeezed a bit into it.
Yeah.
Had my eyes wide open.
Dripped the colouring into,
red in my left eye, blue in my right eye, right?
And then I noticed after that that everything looked really close up.
You are a brilliant inventor.
That is how I invented 3D.
Welcome to the show.
So what have we been up to, I hear you asking?
Hello? Loads you asking. Hello?
Loads, mate.
Well, there's been bits and bobs, haven't there?
Yeah, bits and bobs and odds and sods.
Yeah, it's been an odd time, really.
But we did go away last week.
Yeah.
We went to the Laurel and Hardy Museum.
Went on our holidays to the Laurel and Hardy Museum.
I mean, we didn't have a holiday to the Laurel and Hardy Museum.
Up in Cumbria, it's in Ulverston, in Cumbria.
Can hardly recommend it. Yeah, go it. I like it a lot. I'm Hardy Museum up in Cumbria. It's in Ulverston in Cumbria. I can heartily recommend it.
Yeah, go it.
I like it a lot.
I'm a big fan of Lauren Hardy.
I went to the old Lauren Hardy Museum years ago where my grandad relocated.
Now they've gone to bigger premises.
Yeah, I came with you, didn't I?
You're not so keen, are you?
It's not that I'm not keen.
I just think, you know, she's old.
Yeah, that's it.
She's so old.
What Ed's doing now is he's pretending something just to upset me.
He's never even seen, well, he has now, but he hasn't seen a Laura and Ardy film.
Well, you know, we've all seen them, haven't we?
We've all seen them.
It's just so old.
You know, just really boring.
I don't understand why you're into, like, old stuff.
Well, I'm not into old stuff per se.
Well, you are.
You're like, oh, make sure that's in black and white.
Well, when have I ever put the telly on and said,
turn the colour off, I want to watch this in black and white?
Sin City, Sin City said.
I didn't say it.
That's how it's filmed.
No, you.
You'd put Sin City on and make them take the yellow off the bastard.
Yeah.
It says all this.
But when we went to the museum,
he was all sat giggling away watching it.
Yeah, so he found
it quite quaint it was quite it was nice quaint little thing yeah and the thing is like you're
you're usually a modern man yeah you got your iphone yeah ipod phone ipod phone right yeah
you're not gonna go oh this would be better if it was back to smoke signals would you and that's
what you're doing with films yeah but that said if there was an app yeah if there was an app to put laura lennardi films on it i would download that and watch it
i just think you should get reason get with the times right yeah ditch the laura lennardi
stick on crank two high voltage i mean you were a twat all day when we were in there i was not i
was i was pleasing you i was letting you have your little time you weren't badly behaved to the
extent that i often would be in places like that
if I have no respect for them.
Yeah.
But you were.
You know, you're mischievous and stuff.
When we were leaving, the man who was running it,
he was saying to everyone,
what's your favourite film?
What's your favourite film?
Yeah.
And he asked me, and I said,
probably out of the shorts, it's Turn in the Owl.
Out of the longer films,
I think my favourite one would have to be Way Out West.
Turn to you, what's your favourite film?
What did you say?
Fight Club.
Yeah, exactly. That's not what he was getting at. Well, that is my favourite film. Yeah, be Way Out West 10 to you what's your favourite film what did you say Fight Club yeah exactly
that's not what
he was getting at
well that is my favourite film
yeah but
poor bugger
he was like
he was trying to work out
what Laura Raleigh film
Fight Club was
and it might be something
because he had loads of films
it might have been one
that he'd not heard of
or one that had a different name
I'd turned off as a proper expert
yeah you'd be like
yeah Fight Club
my favourite one is
Fight Club
Fight Club
yeah yeah
but that's one of those questions that you just get asked
and then you've got an answer for it straight away in your head.
Yeah.
Fight Club.
Yeah.
If we were in the Fight Club museum...
What Fight Club museum?
If we were in a Fight Club museum...
What Fight Club museum?
I can't talk about it.
Would you say, if they said, what's your favourite film,
would you say a Laura Linardi film?
Can't tell you, mate.
Right. Can't say it. I't tell you, mate. Right.
Can't say it.
Literally, we both know that we can't say nothing.
Let's afford each other the mutual respect of keeping Sturm
and not putting ourselves in awkward situations
where we have to either confirm or deny that there is a Fight Club museum
or what we would say if we were there.
Yeah.
And let's move on.
The other thing as well that I found out today,
because they have a Lauren Hardy film shown pretty much continuously
in the little cinema there.
Yeah.
And we watched that.
One of the ones they showed was the music box,
which is probably the most famous one,
which is where they're delivering a piano.
I watched it all the way through.
You did.
And I had to leak, because I find it frustrates me.
Yeah.
To such a degree.
Yeah.
That I can't even watch it now.
I can see why it's frustrating.
Massive fan of Lauren Hardy, but I want to just go,
no, you're doing it wrong.
Because they have to get a piano, right, to announce.
Which is up at the top of an L.
Up some steps on an L.
Up some steps.
I mean, I used to wonder, please don't.
If that person says, can I get a pass, just say no.
Just say no. Please don't take If that person says, can I get past, just say no.
Just say no, I've got to do it. Please don't take
the piano back down to the
bottom again. And please
be careful with that piano.
Well, the piano was
clearly broken about two
minutes in.
Absolutely. They take it
off the back of the horse
and cart. It bangs on the
floor. It's in a crate.
It bangs on the floor. I
mean, that piano is fucked.
It's fucked now.
I mean, you did sit there
saying that as well.
Yeah, totally.
That's fucked. That's fucked. No sit there saying that as well. Yeah, totally. That's fucked.
That's fucked.
No removals company would just say,
look, really sorry, we're insured.
We'll cover it for you, but we've broke your piano.
Really, really sorry.
Don't drop it down the stairs 15 more times.
Don't keep taking it up.
I mean, at great risk to yourself.
Several times they fell over and it hurt them
while they were doing it.
And also, and they tell them in the film, don't want to ruin the ending of it,
they tell them that they could have got to the top.
That's what I was thinking.
That's why it's better if it's modern.
If they'd had sat-nav on their horse, then they could have got there, couldn't they?
It's true, mate.
In modern films, you do have sat-nav on their horses.
That is true, that is true.
I concede on that one.
Only two absolute idiots would try and deliver
that piano in that one.
Couple of wallies.
Yeah.
But we had a laugh in there
as we always do
when we go out for days out.
Yeah.
And yeah,
I'm really annoyed at you
for taking the piss
out of that bloke though.
He was a lovely bloke.
Yeah, he was fine.
All the blokes in there
were lovely.
There weren't any ladies
there, were there?
No, no women.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what, right?
If there was a woman
working in it, right?
You know how it says
if you work in a job
you do a joke when you go in in the morning?
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
If you do a day job.
And what she could do, when she comes to work,
she should always wear a frock,
but not have it zipped up at the back, right?
And she should say to one of the blokes,
can you just put my zip up?
And he'd do it, no problem with that.
Then do it again the next day, right?
Then do it again the next day.
And then the next day, right? again the next day and then the next day
right
and then
on Friday
on Friday
on Friday
for a bit of a joke
when he does it
she should go
that's another fine dress
you've got me into
now when we went to
Laurel and Hardy Museum
on our holidays
In Norverson
Yeah
They had a guest book
to sign at the end
Oh yeah yeah they did yeah
I've only ever signed
a guest book at something
once before
You say this like I've asked you
Right I know
It just reminded me of it
And now I'm going to take it
Yeah no I went now
So you signed that one
Yeah
That's twice before
I signed that one
I remember just going to
the Royal Tournament
at El's Court
and this was before Diana died.
And there was a book of mourning.
Already?
That's weird, isn't it?
And a picture of September 11th.
All you conspiracy theorists.
No, there was a big cake thing
with H-R-H.
I think you'll find
that's pronounced
H-R-H.
All right, H-R-H,
Princess Diana.
And my mum's friend went,
told you she was a tart.
That's a nice joke.
So yeah, that was a lovely joke.
But anyway, this guest book...
I know how Princess Diana died anyway.
When they went through the underpass,
the driver sneezed.
It really is as simple as that.
That's all that happened.
Just sneezed.
Wasn't even breaking the speed limit.
So can we please put this to rest
yeah
nothing to do
with pepper army
so I went to a place
called Diggerland
which was a brilliant
day out
yeah
it's Castleford isn't it
no it's one in Durham
oh is it
I went to it in Durham
I think there's one in Durham
maybe one in Castleford
then one in Devon
the reason I know that
is I'm sure they sponsor
Castleford Rugby League
oh right
well maybe there is one there
then I think there might be
two or three around
it's a franchise isn't it
yeah yeah mate
Diggerland you basically
get a go on diggers
pick things up with them
there's a big ride
where you sit in a bucket
of a big digger
and they spin you around
what more would you want
yeah exactly
and then sign the guest book
at the end
and I don't think
I'm allowed back there now
because my message was
what's up my diggers
Ed
yeah what's up my diggers and yeah so in the past
we spoke about
my mum and dad
on and off
on this podcast
we've had plenty of laughs
at their expense
over the past few
well
the past month or so
my dad's been very, very poorly.
I mean, he's been properly poorly.
He likes to pull gigs and stuff
and I've been going up north
and down again
and all the rest of it.
Anyway, the point of the matter is,
for ages, my mum's been saying
he's diabetic.
Right.
My dad's clearly not been well
for quite a while, you know,
and we've always seen,
go, you know, go to the doctors
and he won't.
It's that sort of mindset,
which I was for an awful long time
as well, just going,
I'm not going to the doctors.
It gets to the point where you're like,
look,
they're just not going to go,
you'll have to wait until something happens,
serious,
and then you'll have to go,
and that's what's happened.
But for ages,
my mum's been saying he's diabetic.
Interestingly,
she's been saying it since she was diagnosed
as being diabetic,
and she's decided that every fucker else is as well.
Well,
she's been telling me I'm diabetic.
Yeah,
so you're her one success,
because she's telling me I'm diabetic, i'm not no you can see now i'm drinking my
boon and you're fine yeah but anyway so this this is going on to my dad she'd be saying to
my dad yeah you're diabetic i'm telling you now you're diabetic i mean he's had everything wrong
with him because my mom so he went into hospital he was an emergency into the hospital because
he's not been to the hospital his adult, they just did lots of tests straight away.
Yeah.
I mean, when I went in there, he had wires everywhere and, you know, stuff down his throat
and blah, blah, blah.
It was horrible.
But apparently, on the day he went in, the Friday that he went in, I got there late Friday
night, but on the Friday that he went in, he'd been rushed in, you know, they'd put
him on oxygen, they'd done this, that, and the other, blood tests and everything.
Yeah.
You know, battered him, basically.
They eventually got him stabilised and this doctor came over to him and said all right we've got to stabilize now and you know i'm gonna see what's what and as he as the doctor was walking
away my dad took the oxygen mask off and went can i ask you a question and the doctor went yeah and
he went i'm a diabetic and the doctor went no you're not and my dad turns to my mum and went see I put the oxygen mask back on
he's like for fuck's sake
will you just be ill
he did it
right
I went in
the other day
and he was very very weak
he was in the bed
he'd been asleep
for a long time
he could barely talk
so I'm sat by the side
of the bed with my dad
and you know
we've never been affectionate at all
we're not really affectionate
as a family at all
not in a bad way
that's just not the way it is
yeah so you save all your affection up for me don't you I'm very affectionate at all. We're not really affectionate as a family at all. Not in a bad way, that's just not the way it is. Yeah, so you save all your affectionate for me,
don't you?
No, I'm very affectionate with you.
Yeah.
Violently affectionate.
You are thigh-bruisingly affectionate.
I'll tell you what,
I've left some marks on some glasses.
I'll tell you what I have.
Anyway, so I'm at the side of the bed with my dad.
I'm holding his hand.
Well, he's holding my hand.
It's a very unusual situation, but it's all right, I'm there. So I'm telling him what things holding his hand well he's holding my hand yeah you know it's very
unusual situation but it's all right i'm there so i'm telling him what things are going on and he's
saying have i been bad i'm like yeah you've not been very well at all he's like very very weak
and that all quiet in there it's intensive care and i i looked up at the the machine one of the
machines he was attached to which is the which was the the master one so the one that had his
heart rate on it his blood pressure on it, everything on there. Yeah.
And I'm just staring at it,
because I've been looking at it for weeks,
and I'm just sort of looking at it and trying to see what's what with him.
Dead quiet in that.
And then he suddenly just went,
bang!
Right?
I thought I was shouting at myself.
That's intensive care.
You can't do that.
I mean, what are you doing?
You can't do that.
He didn't talk for another 20 minutes.
He was knackered.
It was like,
it must have took everything he had
to do that joke.
Do you know what I mean?
God forbid,
he could have dropped dead
after doing that joke.
So you're telling me
that you wouldn't have done that
if you were in there?
I would definitely have done it.
But what I'm saying is
I don't appreciate it being none of me
when my emotions are fraught.
When I'm already worried about him, I'm crying more tears than I've cried in years
and he's doing bang jokes
totally forgot about it
tell you what, the other thing that he did
when he went in there
the first day he went in there in an emergency
and there's a girl, there's this doctor right
first of all I had to say to my mum
stop calling him the black doctor
well he is the black doctor
no he's not
the black doctor
and I was going
he's a doctor
he's a doctor
and also
here you go
he's the only man here
call him the man doctor
if you need to single him out
my brother's going
oh she's lovely that doctor
this other girl
oh she's lovely
I mean I was going
oh yeah she's gorgeous I didn't even think she was particularly but, she's lovely. I mean, I was going, oh, yeah, she's gorgeous.
I didn't even think she was particularly,
but anyway, they're going,
oh, she's gorgeous.
And my dad just went,
tell you what, right?
She's having her hands
down my pants today.
And my brother's going,
no, no way.
And he's going,
yeah, she had a right good feel.
I was going,
no, she was checking you.
She wasn't fucking,
you can't make that,
they can't sexualise it.
Your dad is just,
because he's in a shitty situation,
he's just getting as many wins in as possible.
Oh, yeah, totally.
Totally, totally, yes.
Yeah, beating my mum, making me jump.
Talking about how the doctor had her hands down his butt.
Well, I'll give you extras in here.
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
They came to move into another ward,
and you went, you're not going far.
He went, that's what all the girls say.
I get my own way in the end.
I'm like, great.
Now he's insinuated a sexual assault
he's still not very well
but we wish him lots of love
oh gay
you're right
holding hands with your dad
I am gay
for wishing my dad lots of love on his own
when he gets out you can go skipping in the park
with him
at least my dad lots of love on his own. When he gets out, you can go skipping in the park with him.
At least my dad didn't leave.
Oh.
I think I know why everyone on the fan
page and on the emails and all that was going, come on, do a podcast again.
I think I know why they've been saying, come on, do another podcast.
Why?
Because none of them are eating.
Because they've not been told a food.
Right.
In the section, Ray says a food, does one, says it out loud,
and then the people at home or on the bus or the tube
or wherever they listen to it, computer,
listening to it, hear the name of the food,
and you go, ooh, now then, I'll bloody have some of that.
Or a drink.
And this week
don't worry
you can come off your diet now
you're nanorexic
but stop that now
and put some weight back on and get healthy again
this week's food is
tractor
I'm a tractor
a tractor
I'm a tractor get tractor I'm a tractor
Get in for a snack first of all
Eat a bit of the aerial
If it's got an aerial
A lot of tractors don't, do they not?
You don't know anything about tractors
Why are you eating a tractor?
I've wanted a big tyre for your Sunday dinner
I'm a tractor? I've wanted a big toast for your Sunday dinner.
I'm a tractor.
Get two of the windows.
Put the seat in between them.
Like a sandwich.
Tell you what, I haven't had... What?
Tractor for pudding.
Can you imagine that?
Having a normal meal of beef and cheese and going, oh, I could
fancy something sweet now. Have a tractor. Eat a tractor. Eat a tractor through your
eyes. Yeah? Right. Can you see what you've driven me to?
Podcast fans.
Can you see where the pressure has got me?
I'm talking about having osmosis.
So you can ingest a fucking tractor through your eyes.
And you wonder why I've deleted my Facebook page, you cunts.
Attracting.
I don't know if eagle-eared listeners can still fucking hear that,
but that budgie upstairs hasn't died yet.
Do you know what I mean?
Don't buy a budgie and then put it on your fucking balcony.
Yeah, if you're bored of it, just... Just kill it.
Yeah, just kill it.
We've said this before.
We've said it's everything.
If you're bored of your budgie, lay it upstairs for me.
Yeah.
Just kill it. And if you're listening to your budgie maybe upstairs from me yeah just kill it
and if you're listening to this
and you think
I wonder if that's that bloke
downstairs
it is me
yeah
it is me
kill your fucking budgie
put it in the kettle
cold kettle
yeah
and then just warm it up
and it'll fall asleep
and then die in sleep
it'll fall asleep
and then just get it out
wake it up
and knife it through the face
and then you'll have
a lovely budgie broth
I tell you what have you ever had a budgie broth. I tell you what, budgie broth.
Have you ever had budgie broth?
I've not, mate.
Is it good?
Very big in the Shetlands.
I don't know why.
Yeah, no.
I don't even know why I said that.
You know sometimes with improvisation,
you go, just say the first thing that comes into your head.
Yeah, and Shetlands.
First thing that comes to my head, Shetlands.
I'm worried that you're right about me having this breakdown.
Well, we've got more breakdown news coming up.
What breakdown fucking... No, we're not.
Well, alright, shall I say it now?
What have I done?
You've bought a massive pig's head on the internet.
Right, that's not fair, because that makes it sound like I've gone to an awful site.
That's not what's happened at all.
Right, well, it may as well be that.
For all the use you're getting out of it, you may as well get a pig's head and cook it
up nice and make
me a nice dinner
with crackling and
pork and ears and
eyes.
Fuck you.
Fuck you and
all you stand for.
Right.
Right.
Fuck you with
your big pig's
head off the
internet.
No, fuck you,
right, because it's
a Gamma Ray and
God.
Yeah.
I don't care what
breed it is.
From Return of
the Jedi, the
Star Wars film.
It's a, it's a
replica.
Yeah.
There's only, there's
only 300 in the
world.
Yeah.
I've got 208. I the world yeah I've got 208
I don't mean
I've got 208 of them
I mean I've got
number 208
yeah number 208
right you now
can't get them
for love nor money
well you can get them
for money probably
well yeah
alright then
you can't get them
for love
and if you were
a sexy lady
you could probably
get one for love
tell you what
it's massive
when that arrived
when the courier
came with that
yeah
I literally
was at the door
going ahhh
when he turned up with it,
because it wasn't cheap.
God, it wasn't cheap. How much was it?
No, I'm not even saying that's cheap. If you want to know how much,
go on the internet and have a look and see how much they are.
You'll see for yourself.
But he turned up with it and I was like, oh, that is
going to be big
that. Unless there's a lot of packaging.
That is going to be
massive. See see I know you
you would have
been annoyed if it
was just like layers
and layers of bubble
wrap then tiny little
pigs probably would
literally can't please
me when it comes to
buying a Gamma
Riengard replica head
speaking of big heads
it would be remiss of
us to not note here
that Frank Sidebottom
who did our end
theme tune
yeah died while we
were away
he did
I don't think it was
connected
no I hope not.
But yeah, he's away.
He wasn't very well anyway
but luckily he was in his short illness
and we obviously want to send our love and stuff.
I'd advise people to go and watch him on YouTube
if you're not familiar with Frank's Eyebottom.
You may not get it
and I'm not even sure what there was to get.
I saw him live many, many times.
What was getting on my nerves a bit
in all the obituaries and things
is a lot of people said
he was a family entertainer
and he was this and he was this he was accessible and tell you what
sometimes it was fucking terrifying really sometimes he was what i like in comedy as well
he had a proper nasty street yeah yeah the character did yeah i mean the character is very
complex anyway because the character was an egomaniac um he wore a originally paper mache
head it was in a fiberglass head that he wore but look that's pretty much the same yeah the
character was an absolute egomaniac megalomani that he wore but a lot that's pretty much the same yeah the character was an
absolute egomaniac
megalomaniac
showbiz star in his head
yeah
in semi-professional
show business
yeah I love the
contradiction of the
fact that Chris Seavey
who played him
was completely anonymous
right okay yeah
so it was a lovely
contradiction
yeah
that it was that thing
that's going oh look at
me look at me look at
me you can't see me
yeah
I really liked that
but I saw him once
I saw him many times
at the Citadel in
St. Helens
a little theatre in St. Helens and it would always go on too long yeah without it i mean it
must be maybe it's a since i think because johnny vegas is the same when johnny does live live shows
yeah i'm myself yeah always go on too long yeah i i can't leave a stage yeah i've no idea how to do
it i will might make exam you going, so, look after yourselves.
But there's one night I saw Frank Slybot.
First of all, he came on.
He went, there's going to be an interval.
I'm doing two bits to this.
Now, I've only written the first half.
So for the second bit, do you want me to do what I've written or do you want me to do my Christmas show again?
And this was in like May or something.
And I was going, Christmas show?
The whole second half was his Christmas show.
Just him in a Santa outfit.
That was nice.
But he was,
one of the nights we were there,
there was a heckler in there.
He was just a really drunk bloke.
He was clearly a big fan
of Frank's side bottom.
Yeah.
And Frank always sold
merchandise and stuff,
really nice little bits,
you know,
t-shirts and mugs
and what have you.
Yeah.
And this guy bought a mug.
Right.
But he'd been showing out all night.
It got really boring
and he wasn't being nasty.
He was just ruining the show.
Yeah.
And Frank was going
come up on the stage
come up on the stage
and join me on the air
we'll sing a song together
whatever.
And the blow
staggered onto the stage
and still had clutched
his mug.
Right.
And Frank went
oh you bought
I mean I can't even
emphasise how beautifully
timed this was
and how quick it happened.
He went
oh you bought a mug
took it off
and smashed it
on the floor. Right. And there was no because he was expressionless there was no anger to it
it was just a just a cunty thing to do but god it was funny if you ever get a chance to watch him
being interviewed he's got a brilliant dvd frank's world dvd which i'm i actually don't know if you
can get it online now because he did he was a one-man business yeah but the frank's world dvd
an amazing interview
on there
with a man from
the Manchester
Daily News
who's trying to be
funny while he
interviews him
and you just see
this man's soul
sap away
because Frank
just relentlessly
talks at him
and he's going
oh do you know
how they do
animation
right
here's what they
do right
they get the
puppet right
and they move
the hand a little
bit
take a photo of it
then they do that again take a photo of it.
Then they do that again,
take a photo of it,
and the bloke's going,
yeah, but Frank,
I want to ask you about,
this is a bit Bobbins, Frank,
this thing,
and he's going,
no, listen, right?
And they move it again,
take another photo,
and move it,
take another photo, right?
And then they put it somewhere,
and they move it,
take another photo,
move it,
and relentless,
and doesn't stop doing it. That was really funny.
I love the idea
that Chris was laughing
underneath that head
but yeah
but it's a way
and he was so nice
to let us do
to let us use his music
and we'll continue to do that
on what he said
right
when we first spoke to him
about it
he went
such a nice book
he went
if you could credit me
that'd be great
and then
talked himself out of it
he went
but you know
I understand if you don't
because it's a podcast
and that if you don't if you can't actually don if you don't, because it's a podcast and that, if you don't,
if you can't, actually, you don't have to credit me.
We're going to credit you anyway.
Well, we don't have to anymore.
Don't have to now.
It's not like he's going to come round and have a go at me, is he?
Or if he does now, then I'm going to put that credit right straight back on.
Because that is terrifying.
That's scary, that one, isn't it?
I can't believe that
I'm potentially being
haunted by Frank
Sidebottom's ghost
you're a big ghost head
yeah probably living
inside your
Gamarien guard
well that's
I don't know if I
should even say this
what
you'll probably notice
with all the obituaries
of Frank Sidebottom
and Chris Seavey
that you never
there's no picture
of Chris come out
that's how guarded
he was about
about his appearance
about maintaining
the character
but I thought
that's what he looked like
on the name
Gamma Ray and God
right
heartbreaking really
yeah
I'm teasing of course
he actually had
exactly the same head
underneath but smaller
so there we go
our friend Fran Symon
was the way
I mean genuinely gutted
genuinely gutted
very very funny and it's horrible if you've not seen him live that you never will but go and watch him on YouTube and stuff There we go. Our friend, Fran Symon, has been genuinely gutted. Genuinely gutted.
Very, very funny.
And it's horrible if you've not seen him live
that you never will.
But go and watch him
on YouTube and stuff.
If you watch it long enough,
you'll get it.
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All music by the Tiger Lilies
except for the last one,
which is performed
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Is this the real life?
Or is this just Timberley?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
I open my eyes, look up to the skies and see.
Oh, I'm just a poor boy and I need no sympathy because it's
easy come, easy
go. A little bit
high and a little bit low.
Especially where the
wind blows, doesn't
really matter
to me.
To
me.
Mama, To me Mama I just killed a house plant, you know
I forgot to water it every day
That weekend you went away
Because mama
My life had just begun
And now I've gone and left it on the 108 bus
Oh mama
Oh mama
Oh I don't want to die
Because I don't want to end up like Anita Dobson
So carry on, so carry on, so carry on, so carry on
Because nothing really matters
Hey, it's very late, oh yes
And the time has come, you know
To send some shivers down me fabulous spine
Me and infection aches all the time
Oh, goodbye everybody
I've got to go I've got to go
I've got to go home on the bus and leave you all
Oh mama, doo doo doo doo
And her wind's still blowing
Oh I don't want to die
Because I don't want to end up
Like Anita Dobson Oh, yes!
Oh, I see a little silhouetto of a puppy.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, how will you do the fandango?
Thunderball and lightning, very, very frightening me.
Galileo.
Galileo.
Galileo.
Galileo.
Deo.
Deo.
Dedeo, Dedeo, D-day-o, D-day-o
Cos you know that
Nothing really matters
And anyone can see
That nothing, nothing at all matters much to me
You know it doesn't
It really doesn't
Whether we're close
Fuck you