Triforce! - YoGPoD 37: Hodor!
Episode Date: April 15, 2011The boys interview Kristian Nairn, a yognaut who is starring as Hodor in HBO's upcoming show! :D Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
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It's encrusted with diamonds.
Yeah.
We've pimped it up.
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I literally have a tree.
Thank you, Scott, for the tree.
Thanks for sending that over to Simon's birthday.
We haven't put out a podcast for ages because we've been focusing on our YouTube channel.
However, we are going to start putting it out again.
And this is the first one for a while.
This is an interview with a giant of a man christian nairn who is starring as hodor
in hbo's upcoming series which is we are so excited by because you know we're huge fans of
the books and if you haven't heard about it you should do because it's coming out very shortly
and it's pretty big news it's going to be big it's going to be huge like the man himself so without further ado here is simon's and my interview with christian nairn
hello and welcome And here we are on the Yoggpod
And we've got a special little guest
Except he's not so little
He's a very big man
Hello
He's Christian Nairn
How's it going?
Hello Christian
And why are you on here?
Why are we wasting our time interviewing you?
Are you some sort of big shot actor
In some huge TV series
That's going out soon or something?
Well, I don't know about big shot, but yeah, I'm big.
Yeah, I'm in HBO's forthcoming Game of Thrones, and I play Hodor.
Hodor, who is...
Are you a giant character?
Yeah, I'm a giant with the mind of a child, I think is the tagline.
A gentle giant. Not too much acting involved, I think is the tagline. A gentle giant.
Not too much acting involved there.
Oh dear, oh dear.
So you're playing a giant.
How tall are you, Christian?
If you don't mind me asking.
I'm like a hair off seven foot.
Okay, so you're not quite seven foot.
That's disappointing.
Oh, fuck.
You're still quite big.
Yeah.
Have you ever played basketball? No, I'm too cockeyed. Oh dear. No, fuck. They're still quite big. Yeah. Have you ever played basketball?
No, I'm too cockeyed.
Oh, dear.
No, I don't really excel.
I was forced into playing rugby at school.
Oh, my God.
You must have terrified the other children.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, there was a few times where I was a tight-head prop,
and I remember the opposite child crying. You were a tight head prop and um i remember the the opposite child crying you're a
tight head of prop yeah that's gonna sound so funny to people you know nothing about rugby i
mean i don't know anything about rugby and i find yeah how big are your feet have you got like do
you have to get special shoes made no um yeah i've got a small a small elven workshop in the basement.
It'd be funny if you had these dainty little feet, though.
You're like a size 4.
Yeah, like a blowover.
Blowover in the wind.
No, I've got size 15 slash 16.
Oh my good god.
Yeah, so eBay's a good source.
So I basically get all my shoes off eBay from America. 16. Oh my good god. Yeah, so I use eBay as a good source, so
I basically get all my shoes off
eBay from America, the land of
the big. Oh, that's very true.
I wonder if I could get any jeans from there.
Seeing how I've ripped a hole
in the arse of one of mine.
I was just looking over there at it.
Yeah, I get my jeans from there as well.
So yeah, if you want a website
I'll hook you up. I was lying back on this sofa and I gave Hannah a terrible shock the other night.
In those jeans.
Yeah, I've been known to do the same.
I think larger gentleman's jeans tend to rip in a similar spot.
I'm not wanting to break away from this enthralling discussion.
What?
Arsehole. Did you want to talk about the TV show
or something Lewis
I was quite happy to talk about
ripping jeans
Christian
on April 17th
I believe
HBO are bringing out
their new television show
an absolute fortune has been spent on it
10 episode
mini series
of George RR Martin's
fantasy work
A Game of Thrones
and you are in it
you're a fan of us as well
so that's partly why you're here
because we have actually got permission
have we got permission.
Have we got permission by HBO to do this interview?
I don't know.
Oh, God.
Do they know about this?
Are we going to get into trouble?
No, it's fine.
Go for it.
Okay.
As long as you don't ask me to say Hodor.
Okay, we're not going to do that.
Are we not allowed to do that?
Well, I imagine... That's a bit offensive.
You've already asked him how tall he is, what his shoe size is,
if he's got any holes in his trousers.
Come on, Simon.
That's true.
Well, it's important to get these things.
People have to get, like, an idea of the man
who's going to be playing this giant role.
So what's the mental picture so far?
Is it, like, seven foot tall with two canoes on my feet
with my balls hanging out my trousers?
Pretty much. It's likerian blessed in platform shoes that's kind of what i'm picturing oh my goodness terrifying image that's quite horrific yeah so i mean these books a lot of
people won't have even heard of these books but i am a huge huge fan having read them all and loved
them and sim Simon as well.
You can't have really not read the series if you're
a fan of fantasy.
And it's long
overdue that they were made, really, because they
are great, great books.
Yeah, well, I think it was...
People always thought
they would be made into films and stuff,
but because of the amount of characters and
the detailed plot, I think they really
needed to be taken on as a
series.
I agree. There's so much
complex stuff going on, isn't there?
Intrigue and
clever twisting. I'm surprised that it's only
ten episodes, to be honest.
Well, I have to make
quite a bold statement here.
I haven't read the book.
Oh my gosh.
Get out.
Yeah, I actually
sat on a panel with George R.R. Martin
himself, and he asked me,
so Christian, have you read the book?
The thing is,
why would he ask you?
That put you in a really awkward position.
It did, but I was honest.
I reckon Sean Bean's read them.
He hasn't got time to read books.
He's too busy making O2 adverts and stuff.
Well, you never know.
His character is huge,
so it may be more beneficial for him to know a bit more about the character.
Whereas I think Hodor
is more of a sort of
point me in the right direction and push me.
Sean Bean I'm an absolutely huge
fan of because when I was a kid I was
watching him doing Sharp
and I've just always been a big fan.
Have you got Sean Bean's
phone number?
Maybe we can interview him.
I wonder if he rips holes in his
trousers as well
roll eyes here
trying to like
move this in an
intelligent direction
you're trying to be
serious
you're trying to
take this as a
serious interview
well I'm really
I'm a huge fan
have you watched
the teaser trailer,
Christian, that's like the first
14 minutes or something that's come out
on YouTube? Yeah, I was really impressed
by it. Obviously,
you know, I sort of saw the details
going into it, and I know how much money
has been spent, and
literally, it's insane
the
length they will go to get every single second,
right? I knew it was going to be
impressive, but
I was really pleased with what I saw so far.
Yeah, I was absolutely
captivated by it.
It's really reassured me a little bit, I guess,
in terms of how it's
going to turn out, because I was a little bit worried that
sometimes adaptations
are a bit kind of funny, but
it looks really, really good so far.
So, I can't wait.
Yeah, well, it's really
the kids for me so far. The kids are amazing.
Because Hodor spends most of the time
underneath Bran,
the crippled child. He just rides
around on him.
Yeah, I'm sort of his
mount.
Yeah, that's exactly...
Oh dear.
You're a guardian, really, as well, aren't you?
Yeah.
Well, without being a supporter, not really
so much in the first book.
But yeah, as the books
go on, I become more of his guardian.
So, when you were actually out filming it,
where is it filmed? I heard some of it
was filmed in Wales,
out in the hills.
Is that bollocks?
Maybe
some for the,
what do you call it,
the pilot, which has all been refilmed.
Maybe some of that was filmed in Wales, but
the pilot's all been reshot.
It's all based around basically Northern Ireland,
various places around here,
and in Malta as well.
In Malta?
My gosh.
Is that the desert-y parts of...
Oh!
On the other continent?
The Dothraki stuff?
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, I'd forgotten about thatki stuff Yeah Wow I forgot about that
I mean that doesn't really get going until
Well it doesn't get going at all
Does it? It's kind of just
Some stuff happens out there but it's completely isolated
From everything else
Until
Future books
Yeah well you can totally see how it wouldn't
work as a film, you know what I mean?
There's too many things that aren't tied off.
You have all these strands.
So yeah, they used
down in the
docks here in Belfast, there's a huge
warehouse which they
used to paint the ships. That's where Titanic
was built. It's sort of converted
into a huge soundstage.
I think it's the biggest in Europe, if not the world.
So that's where all the interior scenes are filmed.
I'm interested to see what the Eyrie place looks like.
The castle that's on top of the massive mountain.
It's got the cell that they throw the dwarf fella in
that just opens up into the sky.
Of course, people listening to this
don't really know
too much about the story or
things, so the things that Simon's referring to
are suddenly a dwarf out of nowhere.
Of course... Well, yeah, obviously I focus
on the dwarf, just naturally.
Well, he's one of the most
appealing characters, isn't he, in it, really?
He's a much bigger role
than Hoda. Why didn't you
apply to take the position of the
dwarf of Tyrion?
I would have
involved some horrible mutilation.
It's discrimination
if they didn't
at least watch you.
No, I didn't, like, at least watch you. No, yeah, I didn't think I was right for the role.
That's fair enough.
No, Peter, he's being played by Peter Dinklage.
He's a great actor.
He's a really cool guy.
Really good actor.
It was actually one of my first scenes with him.
He's superb.
He's perfect for Tyrion.
Yeah, I love Tyrion.
He's fantastic. I kind of think of him. Yeah, I love Tyrion. He's fantastic.
I kind of think of him as the main character of it. It's like so much of it
surrounds him. He is involved a lot.
I mean, because he travels around
this fantasy world so much
and there's always action
surrounding him. Well, he's also kind of an underdog,
isn't he? And people always
love that as a character. Like an anti-hero.
Well, I mean, he's a member of this
sort of prestigious Lannister
family, but he's kind of a bit...
Although he's like of noble
blood, he's kind of a bit undertreated,
isn't he, by other members of his family.
Yeah, they're all kind of blonde and beautiful.
An inbred. Spoiler.
You can't say that.
What about the dogs because obviously
they're involved
in the first film
aren't they
or are they just
pups in the first film
well yeah
they are pups
but they're
still pretty big
they're darrow wolves
so I think they're
supposed to be
like the size of a cow
by the time they
grow up
oh my god
I want one of those
yeah so they're
proper dogs
they're stunning
I'm not sure exactly
What breed of dogs they use
But I would imagine there was Timberwolf
I would say, maybe
With a husky
Sort of Alzation cross
They're all slightly different
But oh god, they were beautiful
World of Warcraft, my hunter
Honeybeard
Has a little pet wolf
Called Wolfenstein.
Yeah.
Which he and recently she adores because he had a sex change.
So that's why a female dwarf is called Honeybeard.
Just filling him in there.
I thought I'd tie it into gaming somehow, just vaguely.
Yeah, thanks.
Oh, of course, because you're a big gamer and you're really into World of Warcraft as well, aren't you? Are you still playing?
We've kind of had a bit of a break.
You know, I'm a bit of a serial
leveler. I get my
characters to high level
and then I get fed up and start another character
and then that sort of thing.
I'm not really sure
about Cataclysm yet. I'm not sure
if I'm loving it.
Oh, it's good. Well. I think some of the stuff
that's done is amazing.
Graphically, quest lines,
what's it done with the characters yet,
but I don't know. I think I'm
looking forward to the next kind of
expansion right now.
Are you not playing it really at all at the minute?
Too busy.
Doing other things. Talking to people like
you. You're the first famous person we've ever spoken to
Well I'm not famous
Or ever
Well not yet
Yes you are
Yeah you're famous
You're famous enough
Well um
Famous enough
Yeah we generally don't do interviews do we
We've been on other people's podcasts
Not with real people Not with real people.
Not with real people.
Who have we...
What are you saying?
Oh, that's true.
Oh, God, of course!
Yeah, I mean, of course we've interviewed famous people before Lewis.
Before?
You know, we've interviewed Warren Davis and the Queen, I think, one time.
Brian Blessed.
All these people.
What are we saying?
Gary Coleman.
Gary Coleman.
Is this even actually the real Christian Nen,
or is it just me doing a silly voice?
I don't know.
Silly voice?
It's a bit too realistic.
Irish person with a cold.
Yeah.
Anyway, so
what happened
the other day?
We were walking
back.
It's the first
sunny day here
in Britain.
We were walking
back from
Wetherspoons
having just
had a pint of
beer inside
Wetherspoons
because the
beer garden
was absolutely
packed.
And what
were we doing?
I wanted fish
and chips.
You ordered
fish and chips?
I wanted to eat
fish and chips. That's right. And? I wanted to eat fish and chips.
That's right.
And it comes with a free cup of tea, right?
Yeah.
And so Simon said...
Lovely sunny day.
You know.
Isn't it?
Lovely sunny day.
I don't want a cup of tea on a sunny day.
That's ridiculous.
You know?
I want like a beer or something.
Because it's not tea weather.
Yeah.
And this is where it all led on didn't it
so Simon did an impression
of Sean Bean saying
the catchphrase of
Game of Thrones
tea weather
tea weather is coming
that was nice
tea weather is coming
instead of winter is coming
it's such a good accent isn't it I love his accent pullover season is coming. Instead of winter is coming. It's such a good accent, isn't it?
I love his accent.
Pullover season is coming.
That's it right there.
Is there any other lines from Game of Thrones we could get you to say?
Me?
Not Christian.
Not the guy who was in it.
No, you.
But me.
Naturally.
I could do Hodor, I guess.
You don't know how he sounds though in the actual okay i know exactly how he sounds lewis right he's a he's a he's a giant of a man okay he um
i actually think he might be a pokemon because he doesn't speak except to say his own name. So I think he might be a Pokemon.
And I think he would sound a little bit like this.
Hodor!
Because, of course, for the last two weeks,
you've been playing Pokemon White.
Is it on your DS?
I've been playing White, yeah.
I haven't been playing it too much.
Hannah's been playing it more than I have.
Didn't you come up with the idea?
I asked you what kind of Pokemon you'd create if you had the chance.
Oh, God, what did I say?
Oh, God, I remember now.
Jaffabong, wasn't it? It was a bong, but with a Jaffa bong Wasn't it It was a bong
But with a Jaffa cake
As a head
And it would sort of
Had like
Goggly eyes on it
And you know
It's mouth would open
Jaffa bong
Jaffa bong
That's what it would say
It would speak like that
God
What's its special power
I think it would have to be
Like a psychic pokemon
Or something
You'd have to have like Confuse or something.
Does psychic ones have Confuse?
Wouldn't it have like Jam Spray or something like that?
Jam Spray?
That's like eating a donut messily or something.
Jam Roll, maybe?
Orange Slick.
Yeah, that's a good one.
What would it evolve into? Or would that be the final form of the evolution
I don't know
I don't know
maybe it would start off as Jaffa
Spliff and then it would be
are we allowed to talk about drugs like this
we've got a lot of young listeners
we don't want Christians to be
associated with this
grief I think I walked in on you we've got a lot of young listeners we don't want Christian to be associated with this we'll move on
grief
I think I walked in on you playing Pokemon
the other day and you showed me
you've renamed a couple of them
haven't you
you're obsessed with Pokemon
I thought I'd get this out of the way while the conversation was on the topic
ok
yeah I started off with the
oh my god you've not read Game of Thrones on the topic. Okay. Yeah, I started off with the... Do you know I've never played Pokemon?
Oh, my God!
You've not read Game of Thrones?
You haven't played Pokemon?
What the hell, man? What do you do with your time?
I make shoes for myself.
He acts in HBO series as well.
He worked for Santa.
It's quite a big...
Oh, my God.
See, I've got a pig.
Pigu. I called it because Pigu is Japanese for pig. Oh my god. See, I've got a pig. Pigu.
I called it because Pigu is Japanese for pig. Yeah, spelt with two
Gs. I think that's the original name. I noticed.
Yeah, Pigu.
Some people say that
isn't the actual Japanese word
for pig, but they're
wrong.
They're just wrong.
They're just wrong, yeah.
Anyway, so...
Is there anything that we want
to ask, Christian?
About Game of Thrones?
I need to think.
I'm excited.
I just want to watch it.
I just want to watch the show.
Yeah, me too, actually.
Apart from episode four.
Is that the one you're in?
Oh, no. It's just a scene
I don't particularly want to watch.
Oh. Oh, God.
Involving a book.
Don't tell us, but...
Well, if you've read the book, it's nothing new.
It's not going to be news for you.
Okay. Go on, then. I'm excited.
What is it?
If you don't want to listen...
No, we better not. We better not.
We better not spoil anything for anyone
Why Lewis
He was just about to say
He was just about to say
I was hanging on every word
I wasn't desperate to know anything about this
And he just fucking interrupted him
Right as he was going to say
He could have just cut it out of the podcast
He just should have let him speak
Right alright go on then.
Okay, we won't use this.
We won't use it.
What happens in episode four?
What happens in episode four?
Well, it's where I come out of a fucking bush in the deckhouse.
Oh my god, of course.
In like the sacred forest bit.
For the old gods.
Yeah, in front of a child.
Oh my god.
Yeah, it was a fucking bizarre day.
So, were any prosthetics used?
I don't really know.
I can't really say.
Is it all you?
Mostly.
Oh my goodness.
Basically, when episode four airs,
are you going to get every female friend on Facebook messaging you instantly
what
so it's going to work
okay okay let's move on let's move on from that good
so
anything else we have to talk
about um
it's very cold isn't it winter's coming
obviously it's all very dark
oh for god's sake dear winter's? Winter's coming obviously. It's all very dark. Oh for god's sake dear.
Winter's coming.
Winter's coming.
Aye. For England James.
Oh I love that.
Yeah. Oh god.
It's difficult to say stuff because I don't
want to put too many spoilers in.
No. No you've got to be a bit
careful. So yeah I've started playing Minecraft after watching your videos.
I'm absolutely terrible at it.
What?
Even after watching our videos?
Our helpful how-to guides?
You're saying they've not been any good?
What?
You're saying our videos are terrible?
What?
Christian, how could you do this to me, man?
Well, I literally have a similar setup to you two,
which I've observed.
I have a friend to play with,
and he sort of learns about the game
and does all this cool stuff,
and I sort of fall off things, die, and blow things up.
So you're like me, and your friend is like Lewis.
Pretty much.
Right, I see.
I can't be bothered.
I just like to destroy everything.
Oh dear, keep the TNT away.
And sort of push him off the edge of high places.
Well, it's hard to resist that, isn't it?
You know?
Yeah, it's a great game, though.
I think it's going to be massive.
I'm looking for some trying-to-find-Sean-Bean quotes.
For God's sake!
So you can do, like... Winter's coming. For God's sake. So you can do like,
Winter's coming.
Soon be cardigan weather.
It's a strange fate
that we should suffer so much fear and doubt
over so small a thing.
Such a little thing.
What's that from?
Can you guess?
Christian.
Oh, it's from Lord of the Rings.
Of course it is.
Of course it is. He's Boromir.
Is he Boromir?
Have I redeemed myself, Emily?
Is he a Pokemon as well?
Boromir!
Boromir!
Boromir snatches the ring.
It's super effective.
Oh, gosh.
Here you go.
I've pasted you some James Bond quotes from Alec Trevelyan.
I can't remember how he says these things.
These are good.
Good luck with the floor, James.
I've set the timers for six minutes.
The same six minutes you gave me.
It's the least I could do for a friend.
It's not really sounding...
Does that still sound like...
It sounds amazing.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Half of everything is luck, James.
James.
I'm starting to go a bit like...
I'm starting to go a bit like Warwick Davis.
Half of everything is luck, James. I'm starting to go a bit like Warwick Davis. Half of everything is locked down.
It's starting to go...
Warwick Davis stars as a James Bond villain.
Of course you'd say that.
James Bond, Her Majesty's loyal terrier,
defender of the so-called faith.
Oh, amazing.
Actually, do you know what?
I've been fairly useless because on Facebook
today, HBO
have been running a competition for your
favourite Ned Stark quote.
I don't know why it hasn't occurred for me
to have a look yet. Oh god,
really? Oh my god.
Yeah, hold on a sec. See, that would have been perfect.
Oh my god, let's find this.
Oh, yeah, okay. 456 comments. Oh my god Let's find this Oh yeah okay
456 comments
Oh my god
Actually there's a pretty good quote
As the tag
When the snows fall and the white winds blow
Etc
Okay let's give it a shot
When the snows fall
And the white winds blow,
the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.
Oh, man.
That is amazing.
Oh, that's epic.
Goosebumps.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
Oh, okay.
This is a good one here.
Do Bran.
So Bran says that, and then Ned says this back.
Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?
That's the only time a man can be brave.
Aww, yeah, that's good.
Aww.
Bran sounds like Harry Potter.
Daddy! Daddy!
Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?
Fuck off!
That's JK Rowling telling him to...
Am I just doing... Has this just turned into Simon...
Sean Bean?
What's going on?
I love it. I can't get enough of it I cannot get enough
Of your Sean Bean voice
Oh fuck's sake
It just does something for me
Okay that's all
And here we are
We're joined
By Sean Bean
He's joined the Yogg Pod
He's replaced Christian
We've got someone more famous
Someone who's sexier
He was in a James Bond movie
And everything
You were never in a James Bond movie and everything. You were never in a James Bond movie,
were you, Christian?
No. No.
No. Useless.
Winter is coming.
And so am I.
Oh, God.
No!
No!
Sean Bean, why?
Sean Bean, why?
That is revolting.
So, um...
Sean, thank you for joining us
on the Yogpod. Do you want to tell us a little bit about
you know, how you...
Have you read the book
Game of Thrones?
I'm so sorry, Christian.
I've been usurped by
an unreal guest.
I've read it 14 times.
That's 14 times more than
Christian has.
Oh, and what did you think?
Have you met George the Beardy Man
yourself?
Yeah, he were a nice...
He was aasked.
Winter is coming.
You deflected that question well.
It's like Hodor. He just says the one thing.
Thank you for joining us on the show,
Sean. That was a real...
It was very kind of you. It's no problem.
It's great to be here.
I'm Sean Exclamation,
Mark Youngstall.
Oh, gosh.
Winter is coming.
Sean Bean,
away!
And then he skis off
like a snowboard.
He's off. he's gone Lewis
Sean Bean has left us
Oh dear
Oh
So what else have we got
Have we got anything else that we want to ask Christian
Have we got the opportunity To talk to him Do we write anything down that we want to ask Christian? Have we got the opportunity to
talk to him? Do we write anything down?
Maybe we should find out
if the Yognauts want us to ask anything.
Do you plan to be in any other HBO series?
I'm making a quick post on Facebook.
Have you got an agent
now? An acting agent?
Yeah, I do.
I don't really
know what's next.
On IMDb I see that I've got a role in a
Forthcoming film but to be honest
It's the first I've heard of it
It's the rumour mill at work
Yeah so
I'm just looking forward to seeing what happens really
I hear there's rumours that you're
Going out with
Cheryl Cole
These days as well.
You were spotted
coming out of the ivy with her.
That was gin security for her.
You came out of the ivy
completely naked
with your massive dicks hanging around.
Your club.
Oh, God.
Hodor!
No, Hodor.
Put it away.
I think it's the kind of type she goes for.
Oh, don't say that.
You can't say that about Ashley Cole.
Oh, my God.
Whatever.
Oh, dear.
He's actually a yugnaut, Ashley Cole.
He listens to everything we do.
Plays Minecraft. Okay. He's probably better at Minecraftnaut, Ashley Cole. He listens to everything we do. Plays Minecraft.
Okay.
He's probably better at Minecraft than he is at football.
So have you found anything?
Have you posted that we're interviewing Christian?
Oh, God.
Yeah.
We've had 20 comments so far, and none of them have been useful.
Of course not.
Have you got any pancake mix?
Why is there pie on my house?
What colour are your underpants?
What's your favourite kind of soup?
He's not even making this up.
Do you want to answer any of those?
Will you slap my anus?
Why is my
hair on fire?
That is not a good one.
This is terrible, isn't it?
This is just so bad.
Do you have the balls?
I'd like to think so.
You're going to eventually see.
We're going to see everything.
Seen everything.
We're going to see.
So, I mean, you live in Northern Ireland, right?
Yeah, Belfast. What's it live in Northern Ireland right? Yeah Belfast
What's it like
in Northern Ireland?
Smallest of the British
protectorates
I really like it here
Lewis I know
I just know
that Lewis has opened
Wikipedia and he's got the page for
Northern Ireland open
Are you planning on spending some time over here know that Lewis has opened Wikipedia and he's got the page for Northern Ireland open?
Are you planning on spending some time over here?
Because there's some really nice tourist attractions.
Are there? No.
Oh. Oh.
No, it's a dump.
No, it's a pretty cool place.
We've got the Jans Causeway.
Of course, to you, it's a pretty cool place. We've got the Giants causeway. Of course, to you, it's just a causeway.
It is.
Yeah.
Serious question.
What is it like working on the show,
comma, CGI, comma, scripts, comma, co-actors?
Okay.
Well, I haven't had too many scenes with CGI.
Most of my props have been real so far.
The actors are great.
It's a huge cast.
Not everyone's met each other,
and people are flown in at different times,
but everyone's really friendly.
What was the other thing separated by a comma?
Scripts.
Hang on.
Hoda's script.
It just says Hoda on it.
I see it.
That's true.
Walk out of bush naked,
say Hoda.
Look confused.
You've tried so many different variations on confused
oh dear
oh my gosh
what were you going
to say
so no
seriously
I mean
I'm interested in
like how
the whole thing
works
and like
how do you
go out
to a day
like
what time
do you start
do you get
lunch and breakfast
do you sit
on like
a little
is there a bus
serves lunches
and stuff and do you get to talk to the actors is like a little is there a bus, serves lunches and stuff, and you get to talk to the
actors. Is there a bus?
Is there a bus?
Yeah, they have like these open buses, like
kebab vans, don't they? Yeah.
Oh, well, the typical day is you get a call
five o'clock in the morning.
It's bloody horrific.
Cast members get picked up in
separate cars or sort of Range Rovers.
Pretty nice cars.
You're taken to the location.
You get a trailer straight into make-up.
Someone will bring you a bacon sandwich.
Oh.
And you're basically...
Yeah, that part is amazing.
Oh, gosh.
What time does the bacon sandwich arrive?
Is that like...
No, you can basically have a sandwich whenever you Is that, like, it's the summer.
No, you can basically have a sandwich whenever you want.
That's probably one of the best things about it.
I'm thinking of getting into this acting business, Lewis.
What else do we... I think my brain's died a bit now.
Yeah, let's do a little ending bit as well.
Thank you, Christian Nairn, for joining us on the YoggPod. No problem. Thank you. Yes, thank you very much. It's been a little ending bit as well. Thank you, Christian, then, for joining us on the YoggPod.
No problem.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you very much.
It's been a pleasure to have you,
so to speak.
Not in that way.
A light in this dark season of winter.
Winter is coming.
You have been listening to the YoggPod
and our executive producers, the people who've donated to keep us going, to pay for our hosting and our new website and everything, all that gubbins, are the following people.
We have Mark Kripner of Wisconsin, maybe, in the United States of America.
It's WII I don't know
Maybe he's from the Women's Institute
He's also built a lot of the stuff
That we use for the charity event
He built the whole map that we use for the charity event
So thank you Mark Kripner
Welcome to the
Executive Producer Club
Come in come into our Executive Producer Lounge
It's a roped off area
There is complimentary
bucks fizz and canapes.
Little bits of prawn
on a little wafer of wholemeal.
Come in. Stephen Law.
This way. Come along, Stephen Law.
Stephen Law. Of Marco Island, do you remember?
He was one previously.
He was previously an executive producer
and he is again. Okay. Awesome.
Thank you. Come in, Stephen. Help yourself to a
vol-a-vent.
Are you like the man with the trumpet at the door?
Like announcing these people as they come in?
With the trumpet?
I don't remember the trumpet.
Stephen Law,
please enter.
The executive producer now.
Joseph Bertio, come on in.
He bought me something for my birthday And I can't remember what it was
Thank you Joseph Bertio
But he definitely got me something
If you haven't seen the videos and photos
Of Simon's birthday
You need to check them out on his Facebook
I believe
But can people who aren't your friends
Don't add me as a friend
I've got too many
I'm friend capped
How do people look at those videos if they're not your friend though
I don't think they can
So
Maybe you should upload them to like Simon Honeydew
I've gone through
I've gone through my paperwork Lewis
Joseph Bertier bought me the knight costume
That I wore in the video Oh the costume that I wore in the video.
Oh, the one that you wore in the video.
Yeah.
My gosh.
Thank you, Joseph.
Joseph, you're a legend.
You are a legend.
Thank you.
You made that video possible.
Thank you, friend.
Also, come on in.
Sean Foyle into our executive lounge.
Come along.
Come in.
Have a seat.
Here I've got a comfy cushion
for you to sit on.
There.
I'm trying to think
what else do you give people
in like a VIP lounge?
Have a lap dance.
I don't know.
Have a lap dance.
We've got some dancing girls.
That's amazing.
Hang on.
We should have like a bar and a pool table.
Maybe an Xbox with a large screen.
Tracy!
Tracy.
Come on, girls.
Where did you get these dancers from?
Essex.
Peppermint Rhino, I think.
Peppermint Rhino?
You should have said Spearmint Rhino.
I don't know what that is. I think you're thinking of Peppermint Pattino I don't know what
I think you're thinking of Peppermint Patties
It's like the down market
It's like the down market
Peppermint Rhino
Oh god
Also
Welcome to the VIP lounge
Executive producer Ali Dhillon of Australia.
Come on in.
Come on in.
Very generously donated to us.
Is he wearing like an Australian hat with corks on it?
Like a true Aussie?
It's a lady.
And a pair of...
And I believe she is.
Oh.
She's got little corks.
Oh.
And some of those massive trendy glasses.
Take the flies away.
Probably sunglasses.
Since it's so hot in Australia.
Is that what they wear?
Alligator shoes.
That's what they wear.
Or is it crocodiles?
Crocodile shoes.
Crocodile boots, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Crocodile Dundee.
It would be.
It would be, yeah.
Fairdoos, come in.
She's a trendy lady.
I've thrown another prawn on the barbie.
I can't really do Australian.
I can't really do it.
No, you tried, though.
You made an effort.
I tried.
I'm a big fan of, like,
Crocodile Dundee.
I want to go to Australia.
We should totally do that.
I think if we do do a YodCon,
it should be in Australia.
Oh, God, here we go.
That's the best...
You want to move to Australia,
don't you?
That's your, like, dream.
It's never going to happen, though.
We're going to move to LA, probably,
and be, like, big shot.
You're going to be like a voice over artist
Like that guy with the golden voice
Do you remember him
He faded into obscurity
After about two days
He was like an alcoholic drug addict
So that's probably why things didn't work out well
So that's enough slander
There's one more
One more person
Before we have to go.
Michael Rayner.
Welcome to our VIP lounge.
Executive producer, Michael Rayner.
Come on in.
Help yourself to a golden throne.
P. Diddy's here, if you want to have a chat with him.
Yeah.
We've got him here.
He's chilling out over there by... Chilling out with his homies. Katy Perry. That's got him here. He's chilling out over there by...
Chilling out
with his homies.
Katy Perry.
That's where he is.
He's over there.
Yeah, yeah.
Katy Perry.
He's over there.
Yep.
Or is it the girl
out of Bones?
It's hard to tell.
They look very similar.
Very similar.
So does Doe...
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She's around as well.
I like having multiple girls who look similar but aren't the same.
So you can get confused.
Just in case one of them, you know...
What?
You have an accident with one of them.
In the pool.
Yeah.
In the pool.
Michael Barrymore style.
Okay, well that's all for now.
I think we've got some more EPs,
but we'll make them EPs for the next episode,
which we promise is going to be soon.
We're going to go through some of your fan mail.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
There was a lot of awful stuff in there.
That's going to be interesting.
That is going to be very interesting.
Well, take care.
Lots of love Goodbye
Thank you for listening
Goodbye
I just noticed the Hodor comments
Oh god
Hodor
Oh dear
So you're not allowed to say that
You're not allowed to say Hodor
To be fair I don't actually know.
I meant to contact him, but
contacting HBO is like
throwing a fucking sausage up
Oxford Street.
I don't know what that means.
But...
But it sounds lovely.
Throwing a sausage
up Oxford... Is what? Is that
what they say
in Northern Ireland?
What the hell?
It's the first thing coming to mind, man.