Step back in time with us, Leroy and Andrew, as we uncork the memories of 1997—a year that danced to the tunes of the Spice Girls and mourned the loss of Princess Diana. Join our 'Twixmas' for a watch-along that promises not just an abundance of nostalgia, but an honest exploration of the cultural and political milestones that defined an era. Whether you're nursing a Magners or toasting with sparkling water, we're here to rekindle the embers of the late '90s with humour, warmth, and perhaps a few unexpected insights.
Transport yourself to the year of Blair's ascension and the Good Friday Agreement through our musings on election night blunders, campaign songs, and the evolving spectacle of media and politics. Let's not forget the Hong Kong Handover and the peculiar charm of Channel 5—just some of the myriad topics we'll be chatting about. Peppered with personal anecdotes and light-hearted debates, our episode is your ticket to reliving the excitement and drama, as if you were right there with us, watching the year unfold on the BBC.
As the night draws to a close, we'll pay tribute to the influential figures who left us, delve into the conspiracy theories still swirling around Princess Diana's tragic departure, and reflect on the cultural zeitgeist that seeped into every corner of 1997. You're invited to share the journey, chime in with your thoughts, and continue the conversation beyond this episode. So, from election thrills to royal spills, "Living with Madeley" is set to be a festive frolic through the annals of a truly momentous year.
Step back in time with us, Leroy and Andrew, as we uncork the memories of 1997—a year that danced to the tunes of the Spice Girls and mourned the loss of Princess Diana. Join our 'Twixmas' for a watch-along that promises not just an abundance of nostalgia, but an honest exploration of the cultural and political milestones that defined an era. Whether you're nursing a Magners or toasting with sparkling water, we're here to rekindle the embers of the late '90s with humour, warmth, and perhaps a few unexpected insights.
Transport yourself to the year of Blair's ascension and the Good Friday Agreement through our musings on election night blunders, campaign songs, and the evolving spectacle of media and politics. Let's not forget the Hong Kong Handover and the peculiar charm of Channel 5—just some of the myriad topics we'll be chatting about. Peppered with personal anecdotes and light-hearted debates, our episode is your ticket to reliving the excitement and drama, as if you were right there with us, watching the year unfold on the BBC.
As the night draws to a close, we'll pay tribute to the influential figures who left us, delve into the conspiracy theories still swirling around Princess Diana's tragic departure, and reflect on the cultural zeitgeist that seeped into every corner of 1997. You're invited to share the journey, chime in with your thoughts, and continue the conversation beyond this episode. So, from election thrills to royal spills, "Living with Madeley" is set to be a festive frolic through the annals of a truly momentous year.
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to season six. Technically it's a Christmas season and it's episode 11 of the podcast Living with Maidalee. I'm one of the hosts, I'm Leroy and I'm Irish. The other one is Andrew and Andrew, how are you?
Speaker 1:I've got the sprax here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I didn't want to rehearse that and you didn't have that one set up?
Speaker 1:No, but I thought that's what you're going for. People stop playing the drinking games. They're gonna have to get on it. But it is Christmas, so well, I hope everyone did have a good Christmas off so well.
Speaker 2:Oh, so just that Christmas Eve recording. I'm just gonna open a can of Magna. Fully enough, Magna's Irish cider.
Speaker 1:I'm completely opposite. I've got a bottle of Nestlé Pure Life Water, but I will be indulging. I think tonight it might be gonna pub, I'm not sure. But obviously that's irrelevant to this, because when you hear this it'll be Christmas, will be gone. Well, I've heard you're in that weird period of yeah, it's nice to be off, but you, I don't even want to work, I think, at this point of the proceedings, but he's still a nice time in it.
Speaker 2:Tired. It's alright, that week before is alright, but it just goes, the week before is better. Like my work finishes a week before Christmas, but kids have finished right on Christmas this year, so that's time after. I'm sure when I'm back at work they'll be, they'll be smoked, but yeah, I've enjoyed my time off before Christmas, I think.
Speaker 1:Bastards. Anyway, what we're doing today is a review, the BBC review in 1997. So every year they I don't know if they still do it they do it just basically do a review of the year. Neither of us will watch this. This might be a bag of shit, but we are having to squeeze the same way, that being Christmas. So it is a watch along, but it shouldn't be like the other ones, because I imagine it's just lots of news stories that me and you are gonna have to try and make some sort of fun of or some sort of sense of.
Speaker 2:We're gonna dissect some of the stories of the year. We're gonna give you our opinions, our hot takes on what happened in 1990.
Speaker 1:Our hot takes on what happened nearly 30 years ago.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah it was long and not, I know it's 26 years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 26 years ago, yeah, so we'll give us our hot takes on what we think is gonna happen. We should have done this actually, as as if, like it was, we were in 1997. We were saying, oh, what's your record's gonna happen here, but yeah, it might have not worked. Anyway, right, are you ready for the video? So this is on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Just put it in it's on YouTube. We've both downloaded it unofficially and we don't think there's any advert? No, we didn't know, do we? So maybe if you're gonna watch it I don't know if it depends if you've got to pay YouTube account, if you get advert, so I don't know if you if you are planning on watching along with us, there are ways of doing it, so it's up to you. But yeah, if you, I don't think it's gonna matter in this one if we're not.
Speaker 2:I don't think you need to watch it, I don't think with anyone, because it's just gonna be a general chat, this.
Speaker 1:So yeah, you're not. You're not gonna need it. Yeah, right on the was after three. Shall we do it on the on the R of Tony Blair? Yeah, okay three, two, one, tony Blair, we're in business, we're in business. So it starts off with it's like a clock, isn't it? Well, it's a bit serious, isn't?
Speaker 2:it? Well, this is the title scene, isn't it?
Speaker 1:this is not events from here no, no, no, it's just like a bit the music slide sundials. It's all happening. Yeah, it's. Uh, you've got candles out as well. Um, so it's getting a bit operatic. Now the music review of the year 97 Princess Die, first person that we see.
Speaker 2:Princess Die with big hair flopping in the breeze and then the funeral of Princess Die straight up. Obviously that was the key event then of the year, was it?
Speaker 1:yeah, it must have been. Yeah, what's that? They're just in a church, like get demolished and then two old men kissing what things? Well in the message, well in the messenger.
Speaker 2:Yeah tell it's obvious and Blair here he is, first appearance for the big man it takes me back this oh, remember her.
Speaker 1:Oh, your man, gerry Adam who were that girl.
Speaker 2:We just saw what was she gonna.
Speaker 1:I want to say Louise Woodward, she got done. Got done for killing that baby and I think she got found innocent later. Spiced girl straight on with who do you think one of the best songs? I think this they did. Who do you think you are?
Speaker 2:that were that dawn friends doing it with them. Is this like it's sort of yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah, they did it for comment. Relief is Jennifer Sonner's dawn friends and some other ones. Oh yeah, they met Prince Charles and Nelson Mandela, didn't they? For some reason, spies girls remember that yeah.
Speaker 2:And there's the Mel B pinch his bum, yeah, either.
Speaker 1:Mel B or Jerry pinch his ass. I can't believe it that's the worst Prince. Charles, I've ever been. I can't believe it didn't say that either. And Mel B and Mel C talking about, I think, uh, world War.
Speaker 2:Sorry, remember his day it's sort of skimming through a bit of a pace.
Speaker 1:This image, do you think it's gonna yeah, I reckon, doing a quick yeah, I reckon doing a quick run and then it'll go, you know, into into more dead dimbleby. By the way, the overdub the uh, not the. What's the other dim? What's the dimbleby called David dimbleby, david dimbleby? Yeah, is it David dimbleby?
Speaker 2:this one there's two of them I think the other one.
Speaker 1:It's like the jitter blue she brothers all over again. Who's?
Speaker 2:the other, dimbleby. I only know of one, I think oh, there's three.
Speaker 1:Dimbleby isn't there? Dimbleby roll, you carry on watching on a look at the dimbleby others. Jonathan dimbleby is the one doing this and Nicholas dimbleby I know David dimbleby is the one doing this and the other ones are Jonathan dimbleby and Nicholas dimbleby. What do they do at ATV guys? Nicholas dimbleby I think it's Nicholas does the ITV election on the same day as David dimbleby does the BBC one. But he did obviously the yeah, they don't do it anymore. But yeah, I thought John Snow would one of them either. The fucking swing on it. The thing didn't age. You know, like I'm these six here yeah, yeah, you didn't present it like dimbleby presented it.
Speaker 1:Don't know is there, is it? No, it's gotta be Coombsburg. I think I would have thought a mar yeah, probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah. No, I don't know if Mars out favour these days is there, I'm not sure he's on lbc anyway.
Speaker 1:Dimbleby's presenting this from the telly to be set. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know, they still go into a little bit. Is that still a? Thing?
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure Ben uh place pod Ben's told me that he watches it with his kids. Still, no, look, I like a meeting Tony Blair. Remember that.
Speaker 2:Remember that yeah, that were when people said like no one sold out in there, would you have gone? I don't know, I don't. I mean, I suppose at the time I was, I was kind of the Campbell having a chat. I was quite on board with Blair at this point in time, so yeah, probably it wasn't exciting time.
Speaker 1:This is major job, major, major disaster. I would never, deadline being big, boring John major. I like to much like well, I don't. I don't remember him at all, but I've listened to him on the rest is politics podcast and he come across really well actually compared to today's politicians. Anyway, I imagine at the time we probably would have hated him.
Speaker 2:I've heard him on there. Who could your namesake um?
Speaker 1:William, yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, I would have been William yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna be called, will you? I would have been William, he might have not completely different career. So I think this is the election trail in it.
Speaker 2:Like this is when, obviously 1997, tony Blair bit Labour being out of power for about Paddy Ashdown, 20 years yeah, is it fresh face player and an old looking, john major and Paddy Ashdown, a lot of like military stuff. He stood by a helicopter at the minute yeah, yeah, it did say this now.
Speaker 1:It's a bit similar to this election coming up next year, I think, in it where the conservators being in power for ages and everyone hated him and everyone expected a label on slide.
Speaker 2:But you know, I'm not sure if we're gonna get it this time that was Richard Branson, then as well, when it kind of did it, just played the celeb game. Well, didn't he, tony Blair?
Speaker 1:player was fantastic at that. Yeah, that's like say, I think he sort of used like nor Gallagher and Oasis and that I remember this member, john, made you to stand on his soapbox and sort of shout in policies, how at Middle Street no, looks odd like I can't imagine that now.
Speaker 2:Do you think would that be safe to do now, do you?
Speaker 1:think I don't know he's getting hammered there. His glasses are huge on the John major because have you seen that looks like Frank side bottom? I don't even think he wears glasses, but this tall man, who's he?
Speaker 2:this is one of these like that, this booth on, yeah, yeah, he's obviously had to resign this guy.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I didn't mean to uh what like what's the one that they do? Is one where he goes there's like. Unfortunately, at this point I fell headfirst into a man's lap yeah yeah, I realized this question. My belt buckle was loose and my trousers had slipped down yeah, unfortunately then, because I could not get my head away, I began to suck. Frank, it's just like brilliant idea. It's there going back in it, little bread. I can't think out what characters they could possibly do in this day and age.
Speaker 2:No non-originals would would be acceptable. I don't think well, I well, he is his well out of favor and he, like I know we've touched on it, but he's looking at his Wikipedia.
Speaker 1:I always say, oh, what you could ever well he'll take a look at his Wikipedia is what I said yeah, there's Matt dip man from Del Monte. Yeah, why too?
Speaker 2:I thought he was like the war correspondent and he is either guy who often goes off to wars oh yeah, it looks like an easy interview in the Hamilton's Christine and David Hamilton. Uh, christine obviously went into big brother look how many cameras and microphones around him. It's absolutely crazy that they did that fucking nuts.
Speaker 1:Now I'm getting a boring in, but it looks like a boring interview with Sheila Gump, uh, press secretary to John Major. But yeah, like I say, this is obviously all the election stuff, so remember, um, who were the old Norwich players?
Speaker 2:was it Brian Gunn? Yeah that's just a good name not Brian Gunn character out of Tekken or something, don't it?
Speaker 1:if that is, it a character out of Tekken, but it might be right. You know he's son as well plays, doesn't? If in Norwich Angus Gunn another good name, angus, did I say once. Or at the same prison, someone come up to me I remember a staff and said like a young girl and goes are you Angus? I went, no, but Angus.
Speaker 2:I don't know anybody called Angus yeah remember the old thing where because obviously we used to all have to wear name badges, but not that any of us did anything particularly bad, but no, you know you kind of didn't want anyone knowing who you were. And yeah, everyone used to try and get their hands on the David Bratherton one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were what? So you could say you get your name badge. We're always like the first name, like just your first name yeah, yeah, yeah, and they were one David Bratherton full name.
Speaker 2:I don't know who he was. I don't think he existed today. I think just just a name badge we used to all try and get our hands on so that people think you're David Bratherton yeah, rather, get some animal protesters now, I think, against animal.
Speaker 1:Ah, I didn't know that apparently, blair refused a television debate with Major, which is weird, because he'd have hammered him, wouldn't I?
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't quite get what this, what this? Bit is like animal rights, is it?
Speaker 1:yeah, I think I think the did he ban, fox something and then he went back on it or something about chickens.
Speaker 2:It said something about Tony Blair as a chicken.
Speaker 1:I don't know. This is a campaign video running with Labour. Do you think campaign videos work at all? But they must do, because people spend millions on them, don't they?
Speaker 2:yeah, but now I don't think they do.
Speaker 1:I, I think most people, just decided they're gonna vote for and something absolutely shocking has to happen to make them change yeah, yeah, yeah, I do think people have it in the red, no matter what they say, like as they go into the box. That's it. I'm fucking as well. I'm out of vote next year. Not really solving anyone, though no one might might stop me on bloody party, liam yeah, get mainly running for it imagine that that would be pure Tory policy, though it's all just for for conservatives it couldn't lie either, could he?
Speaker 2:so yeah, we're gonna text him oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely yep, yep.
Speaker 1:Um, this guy here I think is the owner of the was the owner of the Daily Mail. Mad at that. If you look at it like like Keith Flynn tonight, see election day about, looks of it, um, I think the Labour was so far out of polls that he wasn't really assured, but I think the majority of the defeat for the Tories were massively like shocking yeah, this is still quite heavy on on that.
Speaker 2:I suppose it what that and Diana, I'm guessing will be the major stories you know a fucking love election night she's showing you who's that absolutely bold as a cue ball, like on the front and middle of his head and loads of hair around the sides fucking hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, paxman, paxman interview in Portillo. Oh, portillo lost his seat tonight, remember no, I don't know massive thing. You were like shadow or whatever, uh, like one of major roles coming. What it was might be Chancellor and he lost his seat with huge Portillo. Um, do you have? What's his training program?
Speaker 2:it's actually really interesting John snow doing this swing on it yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that was 26 years ago. Yeah, it looks like he looked really old and he's not aged a day, has he since then?
Speaker 1:now John snow, he's there. Yeah, um yeah, july Portillo's shows. Uh, you know his train show in a couple of a minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're all right. I don't mind. I think he's, I think it's all right. Guess that's himself out and about don't I?
Speaker 1:I love elections. What about you? I always watch him, like your man again, jerry Adams gone.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not into uh elections in the same way as you are now. I can't help, but watch it now oh, I love him.
Speaker 1:I think he's so excited. They're like I don't know, like FA Cup drawl or something like. Which way is it going?
Speaker 2:oh my god, I just think it takes ages for anything like to be confirmed in it. Yeah, all rumour, like you might as well just get up and have a look next day, really.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I might still this year, might buck it off next year.
Speaker 2:I thought you said you're making a night of it against some cans in one yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's. That's the plan I'm gonna get. I'm gonna try and book bail. I love it, man, honestly, absolutely love it. Uh, that best one I think I've stayed up for is the. Uh, you know, when it looked like Corbin might win because everyone thought, may, we're just gonna amour it, and then it were a wrong parliament. But it was such a shock you didn't know which way we're going. I think at one point Corbin right favorites with Prime Minister which were unthinkable at the time sorry, just somebody came up, I don't know their word.
Speaker 2:It looked like uh, it was almost like a spoof, like mafia man, like it's sort of fake tan, like fake hair, tell him look.
Speaker 1:I don't know who he was this is a David Melo losing his seat right now that we're watching they're all shouting out at him, aren't they? Yeah, they're all saying ow, ow, ow. And he was going. You are a disgrace. What to the people? Yeah, to the people, like shouting him out, like look here he's still talking. There is loving it him. I think it's Goldsmith, I think who the? Or is smorgasbord? You threats over all in. Do you like that I can love, packs man me yeah, he's all right.
Speaker 2:I think he's good at what he does.
Speaker 1:I think he's on channel four now. Anyway, he does elections, he's like. But, comrade, here we go. Portillo, uh, losing, with brilliant air from Portillo. There weren't a he's, yeah, he's good, actually yeah his middle name is zander, alexander, alexander, alexander, I'm sure that's what he said. You carry on, look out nervous as he look.
Speaker 2:Is he the guy? Take it easy, lay my man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, steven Twig. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I call Portalo.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised you know all these, have you? Uh, I like sneaky research.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, but I honestly this were on once in lockdown. They put elections on like all 10 hours of them, wherever they were on BBC Parliament. Yeah, it's BBC Parliament and I had this on all day in background. Wonder because? There are nothing to do with it. So, it's called Michael Denzel Xavier Portalo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's all get a bit bit repetitive, this for me yeah. The year that they're spending far too much time on this.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't even massive thing. We're nearly a bit. Leave a victory. Landslide majors here. Given his goodbye speech, get a few laughs. Why is it glasses?
Speaker 2:that big.
Speaker 1:Nobody needs glasses that big. Look how small his eyes are Like a party down his head, don't they, they're absolutely slight. He actually does look like like a doll, like a spitting image doll.
Speaker 2:Do you think they're bigger than Graham Taylor's?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do. I think the fuck the biggest, like Dider Rashid's.
Speaker 2:Do you think that's the top three? Rashid major and Graham Taylor.
Speaker 1:If anyone knows or any people have got bigger glasses than those three, then please do like us now, because I've lost that. You can't have that bo-selected glasses. Oh, here we go. The classic things can only get better. What's?
Speaker 2:up. He's just played it to death, didn't they? We're good at song art and they ruined it.
Speaker 1:They went to you know they weren't allowed to play it on the radio because he said you don't play political songs, so they weren't allowed to play this, even though, realistically, d-re-mad nothing to do with it Did someone else use it later on for something, and they wouldn't let them. I'm not sure. To be completely honest, I really, really can't. I told you before.
Speaker 2:I hate the bit in that things he can only get better, he's got massive breath in that he does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tony Blair, by the way, I love this beat. When he won he goes a new dawn has broken, has it not? I don't know why I love that. I say it's rather like a word when, like, we get something goes well, like a new dawn has broken, has it not?
Speaker 2:I think. By the way, on the Die Hard on the films episode, when I said the quote from Hans Gruber, I think actually that might be from Die Hard 3 and it might be his brother, Do you know? Played by.
Speaker 1:Jeremy Irons no obviously not no, obviously not.
Speaker 2:You surprised me again, mclean. I think that is from number three. I think I need to. To be fair, there were that many mistakes in that. There's not words, people who make it.
Speaker 1:all people like got comments on that, saying if you meant to do this, genius, but we didn't. I think real Bobby B said if you meant to do this, it's comedy genius, but If you didn't it's shambles and not. Yeah, it's just a bunch of thickos. Yeah, so we're still on Labour, yeah.
Speaker 2:Get it out, Major. We've had enough of this now.
Speaker 1:Cricket. We've got some cricket now, though. Oh no, he's not, it's just major. Yeah, major's gone to watch cricket. It looks quite relieved to be out of office, don't I? To be fair.
Speaker 2:They were far better glasses like sort of much cooler it looks really cool there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's got shades on shade glasses. It looks a little bit like Steve Martin there don't you, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, he's here a minute. Michael Howard, oh no, it was William Aig next, weren't it? Yeah me. Me yeah so now he's done about the Conservative next leader and William Aig did win that. He talks really often. I can't do it. Can't really do it, but I can't do it at all.
Speaker 2:I'm a Conservative, I do it. I still do that. It's not bad though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is, and I am a Conservative, I'm not even bold here, right, and I honestly think he is about 30.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he's done that thing where he's got see-through hair. I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I have to give you absolute credit for this. We were outside the White Swan and I said to you I can see through your hair. You went oh, come on. I said no, honestly, he's getting really see-through on top. I'm not telling you to be nasty, it's just gone see-through and you should just shave it off. That were it. Don't.
Speaker 1:Done. Do you know what it looks like? You know Pussymandan on Twitter? It's really made those feel like huh.
Speaker 2:It was calling out Joey Barton, weren't it last week, Joey?
Speaker 1:Bolton, he called him, wasn't it? Brilliant, brilliant account. So Blair now is taking off. Oh, he's going to meet the Queen, aren't he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I see he's in now he's topped off.
Speaker 1:But a Prince Charles. Prince Charles is best.
Speaker 2:Only 20 minutes on this one story.
Speaker 1:Yeah shit, but a Prince Charles is best ever moment. Jesus, you and Liz Truss had to go in. I can't make a shet to call an election. What does she do? What has she did? She's got a long long hair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she has to go in. I can't remember, yeah, I don't know if they had to do a leadership vote or something, but yeah she. What did he say? He's brilliant, he goes. Oh no, back again.
Speaker 1:Oh, back again. It's so brilliant like she goes oh no, back again, fucking brilliant.
Speaker 2:My favourite King Charles line is when someone shouts, charles, we're going for a pint, and he stops and points to him and it completely catches the child, and then he winks at him and walks off.
Speaker 1:Fucking unbelievable? Yeah, he's done some funny things. Is that where they caught him on some court in like doing this is a fucking stupid person? Do you remember that peddler who had mad about that, god I can't. Gordon Brown. That's the first time he's seen Gordon Brown. He was obviously a massive part of this.
Speaker 2:I think you've sent me something before about the story of it and now it was kind of it was probably because he was supposed to be in place, weren't it?
Speaker 1:But they stitched him up, they switched him for the charisma of the young man, I mean Brown, probably would have won this election, but maybe not by this landslide, because this blier here was universally Not universally, that's bollocks, but you know it was really really popular like. Hence the massive landslide.
Speaker 2:Oh I remember this.
Speaker 1:I do remember this. You know, they went straight into it. I've read this and I think it was. I don't remember what it is, it was a Labour book or whatever, but straight away as soon as we were in office they were scandal that he said he was going to ban smoke and advertisements but he didn't ban it for Formula One and it turned out Bernie Eccleston had been paying the Labour Party you know what I mean Funding them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because that was a Williams card. Then Rothmans weren't it? Yeah, and Blair did that and Matt Albrer was on the. What was it? The McLaren?
Speaker 1:I think so, yeah, so, and that came out and that got leaked. So he had to do an interview with Blair and he said I mean, people kept playing it after the Iraq War. And he said look, I'm a pretty straight guy.
Speaker 2:That's what you'd love to see like a Madeleine politics. I want you. Yeah, I took the money. Yeah, we wanted the money and changed my mind, not banning it tomorrow. I said to Jude, we'll just not ban it now.
Speaker 1:Right, so Dimple, I think that's going to end it now. What we're in now, 20 minutes in, and it's just been about that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think we're going to. When was the election?
Speaker 1:July, I want to say normally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, take it one summertime.
Speaker 1:So what's this Records? Oh, ken Clark.
Speaker 2:Oh right, he's gone on to BBC radio.
Speaker 1:He's gone on to the six bits of the year, if you know what I mean Like smaller stories. I quite like Ken Clark.
Speaker 2:I quite like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:I know we don't do politics on this show. The rest is not politics but I tend to like the Labour guys who are sort of closer to centre and the Tories who are closer to centre. I don't really kind of go strongly one way or another. I prefer the Almost the ones in each party who are closer towards the other party, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:And Marxist.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That always will be. Always will be Fascist or Marxist, either way. Channel 5, we did this. Channel 5 obviously launched in this year, in 1997, we just see Dolly the sheep. Remember Dolly the sheep the first sheep to be called.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the first sheep. Yeah, and we Do you believe that, by the way. I don't believe, because it's conspiracy time here to foil half of it.
Speaker 1:It's called sorry. Just remember him swampy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't believe that that was the first thing that was ever cloned.
Speaker 1:But the sheep? What you think? Things have been cloned before. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:I don't think the first time the public see it is the first time they do it. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, but that's the first you know. Do you think they'll ever clone a human Properly?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they probably already have.
Speaker 1:You reckon, well, you reckon, there's two Tony Blayers, two Richard Maidlers. Who would the clone first? Like, you reckon, like, in terms of like. Oh, we need two of these, I think Stephen Muller, because I mean few of them actually, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he seems to present everything. There's about eight. Stephen Muller isn't there. Yeah, by the way, sound's gone on this a little bit, but I did see on the description. I meant to mention this before. Apparently, there's like this bit for about two minutes. The sound goes so, but we're not seeing anything other than it's like a recap of the year anyway, but that's something to do with.
Speaker 2:Do you remember that guy? I think Pawnstrench in there? The guy lost and his bow and ate chocolates to stay alive, or something.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, do you remember that? Yeah shit, yeah, that was a good story, I think it was just a quick shot at that, Blinder.
Speaker 2:where are you now in time?
Speaker 1:I've got the catwalks. Catwalk women. Yeah, what's the time you know? 2156.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I lost a couple of seconds there, so I meant it just paused.
Speaker 1:Well, 22. Just gone to Tiger Woods winning the US, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like weird that I don't know, would they still do it? Well, the message is still in, like in just a bra and pants hugging two old men outside, yeah, yeah, yeah, is this Birmingham 6? There was even somebody who's been released, hadn't they? Yeah, I don't know. To be quite honest with you, there was some.
Speaker 1:I think it might be Birmingham 6, though, remember, because Richard mainly interviewed him after the interview and his first question was what was changed? For instance, cars now have five gears. Yeah, yeah, oh, this is it Right. I remember this. I remember watching it, because this was quite a weird thing at the time. If you remember, they used to have trails on. Remember, they were really unique at the time on Sky.
Speaker 2:Like Sky.
Speaker 1:News. The cable TV just came out. You saw the trails and I watched the OJ trail and I watched this trail. This is Accused of shaking the baby, weren't you? Yeah, accused of shaking the baby and the baby died. Look at the guy here now.
Speaker 2:Look at his hair shaking as he's doing it. Yeah, so, so he's clearly saying like this is the amount of force.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this man is going mad if he just saw this like the dodgy.
Speaker 2:These things though, aren't they Like? Did you say she got found guilty, but then overturned?
Speaker 1:It got overturned, so involuntary manslaughter.
Speaker 2:Right. So she killed him, but didn't mean to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so she got what? 1998? The release. I think that's right Right.
Speaker 2:I don't think we know enough to discuss this one.
Speaker 1:if I'm honest, no, and this is obviously the the reaction from yeah, the reaction of the girl. I remember watching Allway through and thinking she didn't do it, she didn't do it. But I was really young and I'm wondering if I just want to stick up to the British woman.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. I've seen a few of these things where the experts are proven to have talked absolutely bollocks in a lot of these sort of trials.
Speaker 1:Did you watch the LJ trial?
Speaker 2:Some of it. Yeah, I weren't really into it. I think you were quite into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I were into it big time. I mean, he put his glove on. Does the glove fit? The glove fits.
Speaker 2:The glove doesn't fit, you must have quit, they reckon like that phrase got him off basically. But he did fit, didn't he. No, I don't think so. I think it was too slow for his hand and that's why the glove doesn't fit because he had to quit.
Speaker 1:I'm sure it fit. Anyway, I could be wrong. Remember he released that book and he was called I Did it, but then there were a little if in corner so he was called If I Did it. Brilliant, oh really, yeah, I'm looking at that. He didn't know what he would have done if he had a killler, how he would have done it, but he was called If I Did it. But the if was so small he was just like said I Did it. Absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2:I'm just trying to get this catchphrase why didn't the gloves fit, OJ Simpson? Yeah, they didn't fit.
Speaker 1:If it doesn't fit. You must have quit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought he did fit, so if you want to kill someone, do it in gloves that slide.
Speaker 1:Just doing small gloves or big gloves, Just get David Seaman's gloves. Got a killing spree so it can't be me. These gloves don't fit Just keep saying that as your defence If the glove doesn't fit, you must have quit Gloves don't fit, you must have quit. Yeah, they just keep saying you know what I mean? No, no, no, no. You got to answer these questions. If the glove don't fit, you must have quit. Don't worry, we're actually. I don't know what's going on here. Two people in a pub just talking.
Speaker 2:She's got vibes of the League of Gentlemen, Shelly, is it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, tell him, tell him. Tell him he's a fucking bastard. I don't know who these two are. No, I don't know who these two are. I don't quite understand this bit. I think the pub is called the.
Speaker 2:Rigger, but I don't know what was going on then.
Speaker 1:The World. Now we're on the section called the World April some things blowing up. Yeah, it looks to Kamara gorillas. Yeah, it looks like there's a big war going on. There's always a war and there's always a bull.
Speaker 2:Do you recognise it?
Speaker 1:now.
Speaker 2:Finger on the pulse.
Speaker 1:He toppled Joseph Madutu.
Speaker 2:Some African nations. Some sort of rioting is going on.
Speaker 1:We're moving on past that now and we are watching.
Speaker 2:No, I don't, I don't miss Setting fires in the street rail blockades.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's just loads of I don't know what this is some made up country somewhere. Oh Mars. The first time they landed on Mars, I didn't know that in 1997. Do you believe it or do?
Speaker 2:you think it's set?
Speaker 1:up? No, I do. Do you ever watch the videos of the voyagers?
Speaker 2:Probably at the time. Yeah, I don't see anything recent.
Speaker 1:I like the Venus ones. Venus fascinates me more than Mars, to be honest. What's on?
Speaker 2:Venus.
Speaker 1:We don't really know what's on there, do we? Because it's that hot in, it Could be anything on there. Nothing, to be honest.
Speaker 2:Do you know what the closest planet to Earth is?
Speaker 1:Venus.
Speaker 2:No, Well, it could be, but the answer is it depends where we are in the solar system. Everyone thinks like it's just a sign of progression out from the solar system. You might be right.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure Venus is the one that we're most close to which one would you like to go to if you could, if you had the oxygen levels, if you were invincible?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, jupiter would be amazing, wouldn't it? Because it's just like gas hundreds of miles an hour, gas, wouldn't it, would it?
Speaker 1:be interesting, though. I mean you could walk around here. If I'm invincible, I'd like to fly through it. But you're just gas in it. It's just gas, like if you went to Mars you could have a. Imagine it swirling hundreds of miles an hour around you. Yeah, but if you went to Mars you could have a snoop around, couldn't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but just what you might as well go to, I don't know, northumberland or something, just have a wander around, I didn't know.
Speaker 1:Like you're not going to Mars now, I'd rather go to Northumberland.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you're just pottering about Like alright, yeah, there's nothing there, but so what I like to go to?
Speaker 1:Venus. I think to go to Venus. I don't know why. I've just caught. It's weird. Do you have any suspicions? She's here. Look, the Queen of Hearts is here.
Speaker 2:I think she's been with Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa, I've read some unsavory things about Mother Teresa.
Speaker 1:I have actually about what? About Mother Teresa?
Speaker 2:Marjorita, yeah, that she. I mean this is absolute speculation. I've got no facts about this, but the story that I read said that she she's a bastard. A lot of her clinics had a lot of people in a lot of pain and she believed or told them that this was to be close to God, was to be in agony and in pain and they kind of had to enjoy it. And then, towards the end of her life.
Speaker 2:She told her to go to high-end clinics and pain relief places. So yeah, I don't know if that's true or not. If it is, it is pretty shocking for someone who my grandma sort of thought she was like, I don't know, like some kind of angel come to life or something. Yeah, so I don't know if that's true or not. We don't condone or condemn Mother Teresa, because we don't know enough about it.
Speaker 1:Oh, is this when Lost on what you went? We didn't lose India this late, did we Sorry? Did we lose India this late.
Speaker 2:Can't be. Must be some like 50th or 100th anniversary or something it can't be, can't be, not in 97.
Speaker 1:Nah, it weren't we're in. Nah, it weren't Something we definitely lost. Well, there were Hong Kong, like we came in late. Hong Kong, I think Hong Kong's 97. Sorry, I think Hong Kong. I think we lost, you know, sovereignty of Hong Kong. Went to their own. You know what I mean? Well, went to China check my passport.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. I'm just trying to look when I've forgotten it's gone.
Speaker 1:I forget it, yeah, 15, it was 50 signs.
Speaker 2:It must be 50 years since.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. 50 years of independence or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right how it's gone on, don't know that Don't know, but again but yeah, it's not coming for a. Is that Robin?
Speaker 1:Cook, robin Cook, as he used to get called.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that's true actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, yeah, the Queen has gone. Queen wore some pretty garish outfits, didn't she?
Speaker 2:Yeah, she woke up and she was shaking her nose and this reminds me of the kids want to watch this again tonight. Actually Wanted to watch a Christmas film with them because my mum and dad are coming around, but instead they want to watch Merry Christmas, mr Bean again and they want to watch the Mr Bean wear his headbutts to Queen.
Speaker 1:See you later Now, actually now Surprising, like yeah, I think I thought you were going to say they want to watch the Queen's funeral. No, but obviously you know it's about two years ago that one, and now Queen passed anyway.
Speaker 2:I don't think there's many things that shocked me more today, as if my kids said to me instead of a Christmas thing, tonight can we watch the Queen's funeral?
Speaker 1:It's bad it is at BBC because obviously after the Hugh Edward scandal, obviously the guy who broke the news, so they're not really going to probably play that ever again, are they?
Speaker 2:That's a good point. I don't know, actually I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know why they'll probably just I can't see them using it. I watched some old Top of the Pops last night as I do. I've got nothing on.
Speaker 2:You don't watch any films, you just watch the old TV. Top of the.
Speaker 1:Pops, but this way, because this one has not been shown, because obviously they'll re-run on BBC Four, because this one will not be shown on BBC Four and it will, because Rolf Harris will run it with the number stairway to Everett. You guess what it is. Yet he goes, but he starts with there's a man lying, dying and it looks like you know what I mean. It's a bloody catchy number that he did there to be fair.
Speaker 2:But I like Two Little Boys, but I'll never be the same again, will it? And now we're on it.
Speaker 1:Winding you With An Ember, because Street by Ember Cover. Oh, it's good that. Yeah, it's exactly the same as Baker Street, but apart from it, he goes another crazy day drifting out of way and forgetting about everything. Thing, thing, that's it.
Speaker 2:It's exactly the same.
Speaker 1:It is, though, but it all it does is end like random lines with thing thing. That is exactly the same as fucking.
Speaker 2:That's like your boobly innit. I absolutely love boobly Christmas songs.
Speaker 1:They genuinely make me laugh. You know when he does this the old Christmas tree.
Speaker 2:Rudolph the Red he's got a red nose. Reindeer it really does make me laugh. Had a very shiny the shiniest nose. It doesn't do anything, but it somehow makes it really interesting.
Speaker 1:Jingle bell, jingle bell. The jingle bell's got a rock. I don't know what you mean. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just like add things in the night.
Speaker 1:Genius. I think he's a genius. I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2:by the way, I've lost track of people Lost a bit of track there.
Speaker 1:My refash is signing something. Oh, it is Hong Kong. I think this is Hong Kong.
Speaker 2:No, that's a USSR flag innit.
Speaker 1:This is something to do with Soviet. That's a Chinese flag.
Speaker 2:Was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, hang on. Yes. Handover of Hong Kong 1997.
Speaker 2:I do not know my flags. I thought them, sort of stars, were USSR.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So obviously we're a former colony of Britain, 1841, we did.
Speaker 2:I don't think Hong Kong wanted it to happen, did they?
Speaker 1:No, some people say I've read before that. Some people say it's sort of marked the start of China's resurgence. It's like a you know, maybe not resurgence, you know as a global power, but I don't know enough about that. So another one of them we don't know though no, I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 2:It's funny obviously it's symbolic, but it gave them the flag back. I love that. Like right, take your flag, piss off, it's ours now.
Speaker 1:Fuck off, yeah, would you ever go to the Far East, liv? It's not something I'm a bit bothered about.
Speaker 2:I'd like to go to Japan. There's bits of China I'd like to go to, but not I'd bloody love a trip to Russia, though.
Speaker 1:Tom Jolley's brother went to Russia, so it was crap. Oh really, yeah, boy, I mean that's not. I don't think you should be basing your holidays around on that. One review, though to be completely honest when is the best place you've been to? Er?
Speaker 2:I don't know if I've mentioned I've been to Paris before. That was alright. Where's the best place that I've been? That's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think I'll go. I like Munich and Germany, but you know four floors of pure Nazi museum.
Speaker 2:so Er, yeah, I like Madrid. I'd probably it's a bit sad really but probably Monorca, I just think as a family resort it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Most of Italiano. And Porto, naples, and Porto next year. And Whitley, where's the furthest you've been, Furthest I've been, might be with you Well, artenri Arlen's Grand Canaria, but did I go with you? Yeah, that's about a four-hour flight innit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, four and a half hours from now.
Speaker 1:I reckon that's the far I've not been out of Europe. I'd like to go to America, like certain places in America, but it's a fucking long way innit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I went to Disney this year and the flight is horrific.
Speaker 1:It stretched me out for weeks before it like yeah, the idea of getting there is what pushed me off, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:To tell you the truth, I couldn't do this a lot because I couldn't enjoy the travel Brilliant when we were there, but just hated the flights and squashed in and some twat in front of you reclining his seat right back and kids bashing about and yeah, just when is it?
Speaker 1:Disneyland, new Jersey? No, where is it?
Speaker 2:New Jersey. No, it's Florida or Orlando Florida.
Speaker 1:Orlando, Florida. Yeah, You're not missing anything on this. By the way, the reason we picked this? Because we knew it would be more of a chit-chat. They wouldn't, because we knew it would be lots of people. It's just a festive chit-chat A festive chit-chat with something on the background. Yeah, it's just the Hong Kong handing over a Hong Kong. Still, Prince Charles is here to oversee, just to make sure things are going smoothly In case.
Speaker 2:It kicks off.
Speaker 1:Who is your favourite royal? Have you got one? Probably Charles, andrew. I don't know if I've got one. Yeah, charles, probably because he's had a couple of funny things.
Speaker 2:There's not a lot else going for any of them.
Speaker 1:William's, not Harry. What about Big Hazard, big?
Speaker 2:Harrybo, he's alright, don't mind him. I don't necessarily agree with all the kind of shikes that about him just to sell papers, but I don't care what he does, I don't care where he lives, no.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't have him ever done like a seminal album, have I, so I'm not really that bothered.
Speaker 2:I mean, obviously he were controversial, weren't he? Prince Philip, were always entertaining.
Speaker 1:The racist one, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I don't know, yeah, I don't think sort of intentionally.
Speaker 1:I hate that video going around. Personally, Do you like video where someone's taking a picture and he goes get the fuck on with it? Remember that.
Speaker 2:No. What I'm remembering for now is that horrible image where he's Towards the end of his life. Isn't?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 2:He looks about 150 years old I just can't believe it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would have been a lot, I quite like him, he clearly had his flaws.
Speaker 2:We're back with Dimbleby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dimbleby. So I think we'll go on to another news story. Thankfully, kind of what it'll be, but he's talking about economics and stuff.
Speaker 2:You kind of wanted this to be more like In other news. Do you know, like the?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, big it's a bit too serious, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Probably a bad choice, but you know we didn't plan it that much. So what's next? I think we'll get some small news items now, though I think In other news. Oh no, it's the deaths People have passed away this year. I think Goodbye Norm, goodbye to the. I feel goodbye to people.
Speaker 2:Goodbye to the.
Speaker 1:T-bon steak. I feel like we're saying goodbye to like people with that Goodbye.
Speaker 2:T-bon steak Bob Jordan Dominant Number 10 for a decade retired after saying hello up to 900 times a day.
Speaker 1:Christ Humphrey, the Downing Street cat, retired to spend more time with his goldfish. Oh, who's this man? You know that, Eric Cantonaw. Fucking Eric Cantonaw retired now, Mind you, we're already like 31,. Man, Eric's tired.
Speaker 2:We're only starting off. It doesn't seem right, though, does it 97? Can I picture him?
Speaker 1:playing later than that. Chris Evans said goodbye to Radio 1. Oh, he went missing, didn't he? He went on a shift he went on a bit of a nails, didn't he? Did he go to Virgin then? Yeah, he went to Virgin. Yeah, I think he bought himself a radio, bought Virgin Radio so he could do his own working hours.
Speaker 2:Would he be with Billy Piper then?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, he would have been with Billy Piper then Other types of shrinkage you went out with Lawrence Fox, married to Lawrence Fox, didn't you?
Speaker 2:I thought that was saying it. Nasa said goodbye to satellite. I think I thought it was saying goodbye to the crew, as if they just abandoned them. But they didn't.
Speaker 1:So you're great after music as well. It's super grass, you're background. I don't know what this is. Sacrifice the dam project.
Speaker 2:George created a new dam in.
Speaker 1:China. It was almost goodbye to the Grand National after an IRA bomb threat caused chaos. I remember that? Yeah, really, probably you were involved. The race went ahead the following Monday. I didn't run a Monday, granted, no, grand National went on a Monday because of that.
Speaker 2:No, I didn't know that to be honest, I do remember it being the IRA threat.
Speaker 1:Goodbye. It could be goodbye to Huntington if the anti-Hunt MPs are there. Wait, it did happen, didn't it? I think did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it took a while after this though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean it is ridiculous, isn't it? I know it's traditional and stuff, but it is ridiculous. It's chasing a bunch of people in their part. Well, it came back after that, surely, because it's gone down now, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course. Yeah, I'm not sure what this is. You said goodbye to a nationalised railway. It's half a cent, yet I didn't know that was a slay.
Speaker 2:That's the start of the absolute fucking joke. Then, because they are absolute shambles trains, honestly like absolutely pathetic, you were treating stuff from.
Speaker 1:Maitreya County a couple of weeks ago, weren't you?
Speaker 2:I wanted to get more eyes on it. Yeah, so I was tweeting from Maitreya.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you went after him and wepting were on the train, weren't you waving at you?
Speaker 2:No, but he said he wanted it was on the train and he would have waved and smiled at me as he went past. But he didn't know I was stranded.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were furious when I found you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, then after all that the next one came, they couldn't get on that either. I had just about squeezed on that, and then the one I went to to come home on was 30 minutes late. So yeah, just a disgrace. I have to use them a bit for work and they're always late. Sometimes they just cancel randomly and they say the train ran, isn't it? This is very festive, but what an idea it is it'll say on time.
Speaker 2:So say if I'm stood waiting for two minutes past five, it'll say on time up until a minute before. And then it starts getting later and later and later. But they know that. Why am I still stood there like a nob? If he's going to be off an hourly, just tell me he's going to be off an hourly. Don't just keep putting back a minute every minute where everyone's stood there like a twat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, lizzie, I know she's in charge of all trains.
Speaker 2:I'll have a word with her. Yeah well, it's not good enough.
Speaker 1:She's not as much as a manager. I don't know what she does. I think she's employment manager. Whatever, anyway, I'll have a word she's a disgrace.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dead, by the way.
Speaker 1:Sorry, go on SMP. I didn't know this early. Trying to get referendum to get out of Britain? Yeah, this early 97. It's the same thing. He's still Alex Salmond. I know he's not there anymore, but I'll see you all again when he's done a bit of it.
Speaker 2:What they're celebrating something here. What are they celebrating? Don't need to get the vote and lose. Was this the founding?
Speaker 1:of the SNP British Parliament referendum 1997.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe they just won a load of seats? I'm not sure. I'm not entirely sure what they're celebrating here.
Speaker 1:No, they're just Scottish people acting a bit cocky. Blazzi had to sort them out. He just jumped out of an helicopter.
Speaker 2:Swagged out of his helicopter.
Speaker 1:Swagged out of an helicopter into Scotland. You're doing me. You're doing me. You've got no fans. It's a shit flag. You could get elected. You could get elected as Prime Minister. If you just thought I'd have to go over political parties.
Speaker 2:You've got no fans. You've got no ground.
Speaker 1:You're shit. You've got no MPs. What's that you want?
Speaker 2:to do with me? Yeah, it still seems to be about that I don't.
Speaker 1:There's no debate going on. I'm not entirely sure what they're celebrating. There's no other celebrity going on, but I don't know what they're celebrating. Only half the country voted. Wales say yes. Is this Wales to stay in Britain?
Speaker 2:All right, is it? Yeah, possibly Carefiller. Yeah, that is Wales, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they're not in Scotland anymore. They've gone to Wales. They don't know what they're cheering for.
Speaker 2:So Scotland wanted ditches, don't they? But Wales are happy to stay where they are.
Speaker 1:Oh, we're in Northern Ireland now. Gerry Adams is here.
Speaker 2:I know it's been sort of done before, hasn't it? Like it's been more. But do you remember when you went on to hear his voice?
Speaker 1:Right as Matt. We made you, Charles, a Tweet of this. They were a question. He said who in the night is had to have their voice overdubbed when they were on the news and someone said Mr Blobby, because you know it was Gerry Adams.
Speaker 2:Yeah, weirdo innit Like you could see him but you couldn't hear his voice.
Speaker 1:Sinn Féin will not accept their whole that right high voice, weren't it that they put on. Sinn Féin does not tolerate this kind of actions and they will not condone yeah crazy. What a ridiculous thought. I think it's just sort of known as Blair's finest achievement, innit the Northern Ireland Peaks Treaty thing.
Speaker 2:Good Friday agreement Good.
Speaker 1:Friday agreement sort of thing. I think that's like his shining glory Fairly early on into his reign as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, just saying.
Speaker 1:I still, really, really badly still love to Kyl. Did you ever get that sense? When you're on your trips to Ireland, you still get the tension on.
Speaker 2:No, I know people who have. I know people who Well, yeah, in fact I do know them, but my dad's made some of mine but went to a part of Ireland and were kind of cornered in a pub and told sing us a rebel song. Really, Sing us a rebel song, or do we're going to get beat up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you were sweet 16.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, I don't know kind of what became of.
Speaker 1:It Is some great good Irish rebel songs, to be fair, like you know, whatever you play, so unbelievable songs, wolf Tongue, brilliant band, yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is just talking about the IRA and Blair trying to get, and I think you did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I know this is like a sort of trying to be funny podcast, but that was a massive achievement, wasn't it? Like the Grishani agreement Because it wasn't. He's kind of gone away now. I know there's other threats and there's other things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was like, oh god, another bombing somewhere. Yeah, it's a massive achievement.
Speaker 1:Shimmfamer debater on Newsnight for the first time. Yeah, because they weren't even allowed to, you know, to be shown on TV and stuff, were they? And I think they were winning seats in Parliament, you know, every single year, aren't they?
Speaker 2:When I worked on a building site there was an Irish guy, the Protestant there, and one of the guys that I worked with. You always call him the Red Hand of Ulster, Like never call him anything else. Here he is, look, the Red Hand of Ulster, the.
Speaker 1:Red Hand of Ulster. He's gone into number 10, jerry Adams, which he just said, like a year previous, have never been thought of. Yeah, interesting, I do like the. I mean I've read the book of the IRA, at least here at the.
Speaker 2:IRA. I don't know what this is, though. Is this the actual Good Friday agreement then? No, no, Dimblebiz just got this has got to be like a historic document now. Yeah, it's got a lot of stamps on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's got scripture out on it, dimblebiz, just looking through it.
Speaker 2:You're just rifling through like some artifact, isn't he Like? What's he doing? Why has he got that?
Speaker 1:I don't know why. I don't know where he is. I don't know. Is it almost like he's in Parliament because he's got the House of the Commons sign there? So he is in Parliament, but I don't know what he's actually doing. Imagine if you're broke in Dimblebiz. That'd be amazing. That'd be one of the most shocking burglars if you were.
Speaker 2:Someone broke into your house. I'm a Danish, no one knows. I'm here and I'm rifling through documents.
Speaker 1:There's someone broken into your house and it was Dimblebiz, and it was Dimblebiz That'd be like outrageous. You've probably got to take him down to be honest.
Speaker 2:It's like that, stuart Lee sketching it where Joe Pascual is in his garden.
Speaker 1:Is that Joe? Is that David Dimblebiz?
Speaker 2:Is that David Dimblebiz? What's this? I don't know. It looks some sort of tragedy at a river.
Speaker 1:Guy reading the poem the verving background Happiness. Morally, oh, I think this is Deaths.
Speaker 2:I got that Urban Hymns album.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gutterings died, sorry, go on.
Speaker 2:I used to play that over and over again, that the verve album.
Speaker 1:Happiness I would have been walking around in this year just playing that probably constantly. I think he's probably got about five good songs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I used to. I got to have it as skipping a lot of the second half of the album. I really didn't like rolling people. I'm not sure where that was.
Speaker 1:That was third one, I think, but there was obviously Lucky man.
Speaker 2:Bittersweet Symphony Drugs Don't Work. And there's one other good one on there Sonnet.
Speaker 1:Sonnet. Did you say Sonnet?
Speaker 2:No, I didn't, and that's actually my favourite.
Speaker 1:I think Weeping Willow's alright in space and time, but yeah, it's a fucking overrated album. I think Dennis Compton died in 1997. He's just going through the death, so yeah, I've not heard him. Also himself, Sir George Salty.
Speaker 2:Conductor.
Speaker 1:Conductor.
Speaker 2:The Conductor.
Speaker 1:The who's that People don't speak like this anymore, do they? I don't know who this guy is, but Well, you know it's Jack May. Well, you know it's time for us to go here Famous actor Nelson Gabriel.
Speaker 2:but I don't know who Nelson Gabriel is.
Speaker 1:Oh, but Mitcham. Almost as if we won't have grown up with these people at all, because they've passed away as we were growing up, so they're not going to be very. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Versace, versace died.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wouldn't have known that was him, but I do remember that.
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't know, who this guy is.
Speaker 2:Stern Face man, Sir Mike Asaya Berlin.
Speaker 1:Asaya Berlin.
Speaker 2:Looks a bit like Eric Morkham, I thought.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did Big Daddy. Big Daddy died. Shirley Crabtree Shane.
Speaker 2:Paused up for a while, or not? Is it Almost too long?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Stefan Grapelli, a violinist. Well, on mainly podcasts, we talked about violin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you saw, vanessa May had sold more than Nigel Kennedy, didn't you I?
Speaker 2:still do. I know the facts, don't buy it.
Speaker 1:Frank Lover died.
Speaker 2:That's what we are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, brilliant, not that he died. Brilliant actor, I mean, and that's it. It ends on Frank Lover. That's not quite that many deaths there, really.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 1:Not that many. Oh, you know why it's just like a profile.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. I was all about this now.
Speaker 1:I reckon at the end of this little thing we're coming towards the end.
Speaker 2:Now There'll be about oh, what worries me is there's 20 minutes left. Is it all going to be about our Queen?
Speaker 1:of Hearts. Good bye. You're going to see better, elton at least. Elton said it's the most nervous he's ever been in his life when he did that funeral.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can believe that. I mean, I know he does massive venues, but like the world is watching, isn't it Literally so?
Speaker 1:why does it go through this, liam? I reckon it's one of those things. This, even though we're really young at the time, I do remember finding out about it. I presume you do as well. It is one of those where you went, sort of things, when Prince of the Final.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't remember it being a shock in those Now. I remember sort of seeing it thinking oh, that's bad and that was it. But then going up to see Fairness and his mum was really upset and like, yeah, matt and I were really upset.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you know who broke the news? In England, by the way.
Speaker 1:I know claims to have broke the news in England that it's my porcuparri in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he spread the word in England. He got the call first. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Why? Why does he think he broke the news in England?
Speaker 2:Because he got the call and he put it out there. It was astonished when he did some sort of book writing about it or he didn't get a mention.
Speaker 1:I don't believe him, I'm afraid. I believe him? Do you believe him? Can you imagine it? Imagine if Mike Parry phoned you, though, and said yeah, Princess Diana, she's dead. You think he's definitely going to run, Shut down in a hail of limousines, Shut down in a hail of Princess Diana's been put down in a hail of bullets. If he is true, I I mean it was a sort of senior- yeah, I know it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it certainly is possible that he did being here, but is this the same man who claims he was the first person to have a hamburger in Russia?
Speaker 2:He broke into someone like who was dying in hospital. He went in an adoptive thing to get a last interview, didn't he? I can't remember who that was.
Speaker 1:He's absolutely crazy. But yeah, I think if I bet he was so excited to break that news if it's true, mike Parry I bet he couldn't wait.
Speaker 2:I mean showing all the stuff of. Obviously she was with Al Fayed, weren't she?
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was with him.
Speaker 2:Don't be Al Fayed. And yeah, I mean do you buy into any of the conspiracy about it, do you think?
Speaker 1:No, I don't know. It's one of those in it that I don't think, like people say, prince Charles wanted her dead. I mean, this is the worst, I think, in my growing up, probably the worst. I don't know the lowest opinion of the Queen and the Royal Family around this time. They did think they were in on it, didn't they?
Speaker 2:If they did want her out of the way, it just seems a mad way to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And she would already have a family. The thing is, she would do interviews, obviously. She did, Bashir didn't she, yeah, yeah, and she would say there were three people in that marriage and I don't think the Royal Family were happy because she was sort of airing all the dirty laundry and stuff. And before that these were like pre-celebrity Royal Family sort of thing and they were really private no one knew much about. I mean, she were out there just saying all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2:So I do see where the conspiracy. I get why they kind of wanted a kind of distance from the family. But yeah, I just I find it hard to believe if they have the power and influence to do that. What a mad way to do it. But then maybe that's why you do it that way, because people would say oh, they'd never do it that way.
Speaker 1:I reckon, when it happened, Charles did that wing thing like she did. I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you.
Speaker 1:Oh no, now, I remember waking up in the morning and my mum's saying Prince is down, is dead, and I didn't think it was a massive thing at all Until I used to listen to Radio One or Radio A Lot of this song with proper inter-music what is it, moiles? Well, they were on a Sunday, this, weren't they? It's that nice thing. And it was top 40 that day and they didn't do top 40, and I was fucking right. And they used to listen to top 40 every week.
Speaker 2:Why is that a micro-respect?
Speaker 1:We're not on top 40 this week.
Speaker 2:Why does that change?
Speaker 1:They played the same seven songs in a row.
Speaker 2:They played Elton seven times in a row.
Speaker 1:Also Cando, and the Wind stopped Stand by Me by Oasis from getting to number one, and I bought Stand by Me, so that's a bit unfair, though I think Stand by Me should be number one, because it's not fair going up against.
Speaker 2:Cando Did it not get to number one?
Speaker 1:No, that's it released same week. So obviously they.
Speaker 2:Obviously, they released it. Get it back to number one now.
Speaker 1:Well, some of the other facts are out there now innit Stand.
Speaker 2:By Me. Yeah, I don't like songs once you've been on Adverse.
Speaker 1:I don't actually think that's one of Oasis' best songs anyway, but I do think it's unfair that they should have. A lot of people say Diane ended Britpop, which I think is a lot of bollocks, but what they say is that Britpop music were all big celebration, like all beaching part-life and all that.
Speaker 2:So the mood changed and that's when everyone started getting into the verve and the radio had who's told me, or if I had Mike Paris this is mad that I'm mixing up you and Mike Perry, by the way, but where? I heard it before that it was a Clinton's cards were behind. It was a conspiracy that Clinton's cards were behind the not me but what just to sell? More yeah, to sell loads of light like cards and flowers and gifts and things do not have that sort of ridiculous Clinton cards fucking oh, and then I think it would a year after that that I had to do in business studies.
Speaker 2:You have to pick some shares to see how they did, so I picked Clinton's cards excellent idea to prepare yeah, that sort of power, all the players are now doing his speech.
Speaker 1:This again, where Blair showed his good PR skills, I think, because she was the people's princess, and I think that no one before that actually called her that, and she's still now known as the people's princess, isn't she?
Speaker 2:not by me. I don't have a problem with her.
Speaker 1:I just I only called the Queen of Ars, because of that she would leave yeah, yeah, I say Queen of Ars because I find it like I don't know because wake up, wake up, something bad's happened. What Princess Diana's dead, not the Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 2:I don't have any issue, I'm not. It never bothered me any of that sort of royal stuff. I know like it used to sell papers and magazines and stuff just doesn't interest me in the slightest what they're up to.
Speaker 1:I was using things. You look a bit like George Michael yeah, yeah, I could see that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I never thought about it, but yeah, I can picture it baby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so now it's the funeral. She passed away, so we're just getting the cars going to do. You know, one of the best things on TV ever is when the Queen died and you know when they followed the coffin yeah, from. Balmoral to wherever the fucking funeral work it was so.
Speaker 2:I didn't watch it was it?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah honestly about three hour car journey, maybe even fall. I reckon I watched it for two hours at an angle, but it was so relaxing. It was just a car then you every now and then going and now we are turning into that is like one of them.
Speaker 1:Like on these apps, we get meditation like yeah train journey through Snowy Canada yeah, it was just so, I just had it on like this is unbelievable. But yeah again, though, like you said, they stopped all TV, didn't they? And I mean, I worked on that few months like very disrespectful, but you know I've got to live your life, don't you?
Speaker 1:yeah, and yes, everyone I was supporting fly. I did write the outpouring agree fear. I'm gonna say something pretty controversial there. I'm probably wrong, but bear with me. You know, when everyone's crying, their eyes are, they're all outside. Now crying outside, booking and pause. Yeah, and we laugh at people in North Korea when they do this yeah, in this like bainterdice regime yeah, is there any different?
Speaker 1:I'm not saying there you know the wrong form of presses or anything like that, but we look at all these like crying their eyes out, cuz I just think like again this is so controversial.
Speaker 2:When you read these stories about some kid who's been being to death in their house by the parents who've been locked up like that, truly that that's who you should be crying for, not not this sort of rich successful. I suppose you can?
Speaker 1:I don't look everyone's up for their own fucking emotions, whatever. I just don't understand like and you know she was.
Speaker 2:To people she was a symbol, wasn't she like?
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean you know. So a bowie to me, but I didn't start roaring when it, when it. I don't think of it. I can't see me ever crying when a celebrity dies. I saw her under when the queen died. My name were really upsetting stuff. And people that age and I sort of get that because they've grown up with her forever, if you get what I mean like woman and 86 so for all their life the Queen has been the Queen that she can remember. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I get that it's an ending, oh my god, you know to me, but this shocking death that you found out about. I'm gonna make you see that don't want to have no more time for the royal family somewhere in the in the public. This were really low moment for them, shocking death my purely because of the way you did.
Speaker 2:It is because I once got up for work in the morning, me and my dad were worked working on site in Manchester and we've traveled in the van. I got up and like as I went to open the door to go out, my dad like stopped me. I said just before you leave, I have to tell you something. And I said what they said Michael Jackson's died.
Speaker 1:I wrote Blaston room Michael.
Speaker 2:Jackson alright, and that was it. I said, you know, I think Gary's feed really through my eye.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that were really weird. I remember Jay I make Jay for me up and said Gary's feeds dead and I was no in. He went easy. Something who's now was it'll be a different one. It's obviously not Gary's feed and I put it on yeah, that was the right actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was like what do you mean? Like yeah, stunned I was Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1:Our glass of red I made Damon. I was quite late, about 11 hour my 10. He goes here get Michael Jackson's death and I went yeah, whatever he goes, he is. He is because I don't believe you at all. He goes, tell him, tell him. It was so angry that I didn't believe. Why would I believe that?
Speaker 2:do you know actually, do you remember what we were out with? Was it Tron lines when Amy Winehouse died?
Speaker 1:yeah, you were fucking all and you went. I thought really that much for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, bowie, diane, that were a bit of a shot, but again, all the guy like it's not yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah speed's a good show actually, yeah speed, james Dandelfe. Now we're in Belgium, me dad yeah, sad, sad day yeah, so we've got the Queen on now doing a speech and thinking out. Well, because this is where everyone said bless speech and what's more emotional, and she seemed like quite robot fuck Diana, she's dead.
Speaker 2:I don't care.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm gonna say really, really, really shit joke. I heard after this this we're going around at school, so bad, don't if I had. Goes to heaven and said to God I said I wanted to fuck die in the tunnel, not fucking die in the tunnel well, I'll go, I'll follow that with that one do you remember when Jeremy Beedle died yeah, yeah, I want you. Morris, you and Jeremy Beedle died. True story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're like people dying is tied to music events for you where? They said the it he's gonna be cremated and they're doing a show called you've been flamed, he said and then, but then they're gonna put, put his ashes into what you call it like an allotment and grow some vegetables. And then there's a new show come out, call watch out, beatles a sprout so bad it's all unless yeah, oh my god, that is.
Speaker 1:Look the lens like the gun about.
Speaker 2:We're gonna be a little sprout child Beatles, a sprout, you know she probably do Beatles about some point somewhere another one is when Kevin Keegan resigned from England, died.
Speaker 1:But you've done for England and should be brown Kevin Keegan, because, well, he has fucking gone on there.
Speaker 2:We're it so bad again straight to the point, straight to the point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is obviously the. This was the biggest new story. It was one of the biggest ever. You get to do the biggest. We should do this. You know, the biggest 10 news stories about our time. But this is probably in there for a lot of people in.
Speaker 2:It. Was that glass and really, or is that? Is that something to do down, or all them people? Yeah, glass them break. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:I can't remember any of this. This first time I've seen it. To be honest, did he?
Speaker 2:make some scathing remarks.
Speaker 1:Her brother, oh, I remember his name. Oh, charles Charles Spencer, was it Lord Spencer? And who called? And he was furious bit royal family, weren't I? Yeah, I remember Lord.
Speaker 2:Spencer, yeah, if you take it sort of face value that just to press hand her and she died in a tunnel, what is it that the royal family did wrong then? I?
Speaker 1:didn't really know, to be honest, I really, really don't know ostracised her from the family, left her you know she was getting a celebrity through them. Then they just left her. I don't know, I don't know, ask Elton you weren't bit robot mode, but yeah, okay yeah, ask Elton what he thinks Elton's on now. It the worst of all his wigs probably is yeah yeah, is he an owl? Lord Spencer, there's loads of people there, isn't there?
Speaker 2:I know what you mean actually what's that? Nedworth Nick Cotton there it is crazy, like I just didn't buy into it and mean anything to me particularly, but yeah, it's obviously did to a lot of people ruining it if we do an episode on it.
Speaker 1:But what is? What is the biggest news story? The one that shocked you the most, would you say 9-11 yeah, in real terms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'll get ready to go to work as it were happening, and so it was, before you had my phones that could tell you everything yeah you know what was going on and remember coming into work and it being shown on TVs at Sainsbury's and and thinking, oh god, look at that, and it wasn't the same thing. It was like another, another plane hitting a building, it. Well, my god, what was going on here?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, we would be that, yeah things. Either that, or when Kenny Douglas resigned from the football dad. I think of anything else bigger than that actually, yeah, no, I mean what handles have come out. What's to do an episode on that like major shocks. Jimmy Sabble wasn't a shock, were it? No? Everyone knew repeat, everyone knew about that. Roll Forest was a shock, to be fair, about his school field stuff. Is you know he's not shocked, is it?
Speaker 1:I think, well, you've raised flags before any few times yeah, this couple other people who might be watching this Christmas. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I'm in, I'm not sure I do actually, but yeah well you know if you've got if you've got suspicions about other. Oh yeah, no, I probably don't know what you do.
Speaker 1:I don't want to say anything. I don't even want to say it's catch phrase, because I hope it's wrong, so I don't think I hope it's wrong. I hope it's wrong. Yeah, just heard some things. What I'm saying is, yes, some DVDs might be getting thrown out yeah, I mean there's enough time left, surely, to finish on something else, aren't they do? Well, yeah, there's another 10 minutes, pretty much like yeah yeah, sort of.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I've fallen slightly out of sync with you again, because it just the video stopped but my timeline at the moment is any seconds.
Speaker 1:I'm just looking at it's 107, 24, oh yeah, I'm only about two seconds behind yeah, they just great. It's just a few rules, just just a few more with something you like I'm looking at. It says the biggest TV at the biggest new story of all time this is American, obviously is JFK assassination well, yeah but well before our time yeah, yeah, but Lazz is obviously 9-11.
Speaker 2:It's so dull to me this.
Speaker 1:It is, isn't it yeah, I mean imagine as well.
Speaker 2:Imagine money spent on this, like it, I don't know. Do you imagine as well? There's almost people on the streets and stuff and the money that people spent on this?
Speaker 1:It's incredible, isn't it? It's crazy.
Speaker 2:Everyone buying flowers and cards and teddies and it's mental to spend on it For someone you've never met.
Speaker 1:She wasn't even in the Royal Family as well. At this stage, you're going out with. Doudy, weren't you? You're going off with Camilla, aren't you? Camilla Parker?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, and then there were the Will Carlin thing that was before this. Yeah, Will.
Speaker 1:Carlin, you don't see him anymore, yeah, Julia Carlin, yeah, Dynar Princes of Wales 1961 to 1997.
Speaker 2:I mean it's sad. It's sad, yeah, but to me that's far bigger story than it probably should be.
Speaker 1:They're still talking about it now, right?
Speaker 2:Even though they're talking about like just Clean-up operation of all the flowers and stuff, weren't it? I mean thousands, hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on flowers is to throw in a bin.
Speaker 1:Flowers are shit anyway. Do you like flowers? Do you buy your Mrs any flowers?
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so. You've never bought any flowers, maybe for a Mother's Day thing, from the kids or something, but no, not no.
Speaker 1:Smooth operator. I don't, you know. It's just ridiculous this. You know what flowers remind me of for a girl. When you get flowers for a girl, buster Now Phil Collins.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just because of that film cover, it's him, isn't it A bunch of flowers? I don't think. That's another film I've never seen. Is it any good, buster?
Speaker 2:It's a long time since I've seen it. Yeah, I think it's alright.
Speaker 1:He is Buster, isn't he? I don't even know he acted like that. Why comes he gave up his glitter in film career.
Speaker 2:Making shitloads out of music when I yeah it's true to be fair. Not anymore, Well he is.
Speaker 1:He's doing his tours. Can't even stand up, can he now? Awful, aren't they? You've seen him, haven't you have?
Speaker 2:I seen him live. Yeah, I think I have.
Speaker 1:I've never got the chance to see him, unfortunately. What?
Speaker 2:have I seen him? He's not, so Is he about finished now?
Speaker 1:I think so, yeah, he's.
Speaker 2:I think he's one of those who might do like a sort of Glastonbury send-off.
Speaker 1:I thought he might do a Legend spot or something like that Glastonbury, but that sounds a bit. He is too ill. I think he's in a wheelchair now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's a shame.
Speaker 1:Pardon it, they still going on about Diana, are they? I mean, fuck me. I know it's a big story, but it's Blair again just talking about her, like saying Me Let it go Tony.
Speaker 2:Let it go Tony.
Speaker 1:Man, I do good news for him. Yeah, it might have been good news for him, but it were. I think it helped him in his Because the way he handled it, you know what I mean Bringing the country together and all that crap, yeah. And then the Queen is doing a speech. You know looking massive, hot, just All right, I get it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Is this? Yeah, it's still. I'm going to say this they moved subject, but now.
Speaker 1:Nah, it's still Diana. This is Honest life, honest life, honestly. We chit-chatted around it, which has been decent for us, but I wouldn't have liked to have watched this on my own, would you?
Speaker 2:No, nah it's. I get that these things are right to be mentioned. They're big stories, but I think the fact that They've probably given away.
Speaker 1:We've only had nearly 25 minutes now on Diana.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I reckon more than two-thirds of the full review of the year has been about Diana and Blair and. Blair and Blair and Blair, and there must be loads of other things happening this year, and we've just focused on these two, two quite dull stories, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and now it's just showing you're a massive boat. Is this the?
Speaker 2:Is it Britannia? Is it? Didn't they release it? Or is it the QE2 that got refurbished, or not sure?
Speaker 1:I don't know, it's just a boat isn't it.
Speaker 2:It's a big boat.
Speaker 1:Would you like to own a boat, a yacht?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I suppose, so I don't really live near to any water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is fucking my mother's boring thing to her. Was it, to be completely honest, like there were five minutes left about five minutes ago in my eyes, nothing's happened.
Speaker 2:No, it's been, it's a pro. Dead Barton, the famous Stoke podcast, have been terrible.
Speaker 1:It's been terrible. Yeah, so we're just getting. I think we're getting towards the end. Now there's a march next to a boat.
Speaker 2:What people clapping about what's it? Yes, I mean the fact that this is a new story for the year.
Speaker 1:It must have been a pretty dull year really. Didn't nobody say that? It's been dominated by two moments Labour's historic election win and the death of Princess Diana.
Speaker 2:Is it about? The year or this programme.
Speaker 1:Well, I know, yeah, the year, but obviously in 1997, fucking song two came out for a kickoff. That's not being mentioned, is it?
Speaker 2:No Well, I'd quite happily leave that out. Anyway, I've never bothered about Blur.
Speaker 1:It's not one of the best ones is it. Beatlebums are a good song, though that album Beatlebum yeah.
Speaker 2:I just don't, I never really got.
Speaker 1:Blur.
Speaker 2:It weren't because I was one of these that was so obsessed with Oasis that I hated Blur, I was quite prepared to like Blur, I just never really got them.
Speaker 1:It's finished now, right, but there's two minutes left, so I'm hoping we might get some cheeky adverts at the end of it. What direction?
Speaker 2:You know that was coming up next Information research.
Speaker 1:Jim McQueen, you know, yeah, you know, Dimplebee's solid is always there, I think. Did what he had with the, did what he could with the, what he had to work with, do you agree?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, professional as always.
Speaker 1:Yeah, always professional, all dimbers, and that's the end of it.
Speaker 2:It's BBC in it, so we're not going to get adverts unless we get oh shit, yeah coming up next BBC.
Speaker 1:We've still got a minute left here, so we've got a minute. Can I expect to see him? Is it Tom Robinson?
Speaker 2:Erm, tony, tony Robinson. No, tony Robinson's fucking no. Yeah, I don't know his name. I know he's not Tony Robinson, I can't remember his name.
Speaker 1:Tony Hall. He just said Tony Hall. What happened to him? Where's he gone? I don't know. Actually, I don't know, but he's doing a show here that I've never seen before. The best show in the world probably starts Thursday, the 8th of January, and probably ends at 9th of January, because I've never heard about it at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah he were, he were a sort of big name, weren't I? I can't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure he's a writer as well, isn't I? I'm sure he's a writer. Tony Orks, the skater, isn't he Tony Orks? Yeah, I don't know the same name as that. I'm getting the next programme on here. Hang on, bbc One.
Speaker 2:This is a famous shot, weren't it? The BBC Hot Air balloon going around the world. Yeah, Carry.
Speaker 1:On Christmas is on full film. Do you know?
Speaker 2:what I don't mind, a Carry On film now and again.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I've ever seen Carry On Christmas. I've never seen any of them. I haven't genuinely, though, like not a joke, obviously. Who made you a mattress innit? Yeah?
Speaker 2:yeah.
Speaker 1:Carry On Up the Kiber. Carry On Up the Kiber yeah. Yeah, right, so that's that. I fucking know that we're a lot longer than I thought. That one, to be completely honest, but I enjoyed the trap, hopefully, people, because it's in that, like I say, it's in that weird place innit this where.
Speaker 2:People have deployed, they've put an extra done, an extra buckle on the belt, like you know, yeah, they've loosened it off. They've had some Christmas left, though was They've maybe had a couple of afternoon beers and hopefully have enjoyed a bit of nonsense chat and we'll be back on New Year's Eve, weren't we?
Speaker 1:Liam?
Speaker 2:It's all quiet on New Year's Eve. Is it New Year's Day actually? This song innit.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, yeah, we had set this all. We didn't slag that off just because of this, but that was pretty shit. I thought the review of the year. So what we're going to do is our own review of the year, aren't we? Liam?
Speaker 2:We are actually going to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the review of 2023, we don't only do nostalgia, but we're not this time. We're going to do other things, like Jules Holland and stuff like that, but too much research. So what we're going to do is just go through every single month. We're going to look at some stories from each month and just see what's caught our eye, what caught our eye in that particular. Yeah, Basically, we're going to look on Wikipedia and see what's happening in these months.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we might include some feedback on the festive episodes. It just depends on what time we get there. We will do that as a bonus episode. If we're not, We'll definitely do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll do that in January, if not anywhere, if we have some great feedback.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so thanks for everyone who's commenting. Who is? What am I saying? We're posting, retweeting, liking what we're doing. Yeah, thanks everyone. It's been emotional.
Speaker 1:It's been emotional One more to go and enjoy the rest of your holiday. We'll see you on no, we'll see you at the end of this year. We'll see you on New Year's Eve. Thank you, Liam. Goodbye.
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