As the confetti settles on another rambunctious year in TV and pop culture, join Liam and Andrew for a heartfelt year-end roundup that's brimming with unforgettable moments. Who could've predicted Cristiano Ronaldo's leap to Saudi Arabia would intertwine so seamlessly with our personal yarns and brushes with celebrity? We wove through twelve months of highs and lows, from the cyber glitches plaguing Royal Mail to the nostalgic waves that 'You've Been Framed' sent off after thirty years of home-video hilarity. And let's not forget the royal scandals and rock legacies that had us tuning in with bated breath.
Our trip down memory lane isn't all laughter and soap opera awards—though there's plenty of that too. We're serving up candid reflections on the state of the TV industry, the cultural impact of female musicians dominating the charts, and even our own misguided Twitter identities. With the indelible icons of our screens and the indie anthems that brought us to our feet, we parse through the year's most gripping narratives, including the Phil Schofield buzz and the heart-pounding tunes that made us stop and listen.
As we bid adieu to a year chock-full of TV twists and turns, we send a colossal thank you to you—our listeners—for tuning in and sharing these moments with us. Whether it was the soap opera successes or the quirky indie concert recollections that caught your ear, we loved every second of this wild ride. Stick around for the surprises 2024 has up its sleeve, and don't hesitate to join the conversation on Twitter or email. Here's to a future bursting with more enthralling TV tales and the unforeseen gems of pop culture. Cheers to new beginnings and shared laughs!
As the confetti settles on another rambunctious year in TV and pop culture, join Liam and Andrew for a heartfelt year-end roundup that's brimming with unforgettable moments. Who could've predicted Cristiano Ronaldo's leap to Saudi Arabia would intertwine so seamlessly with our personal yarns and brushes with celebrity? We wove through twelve months of highs and lows, from the cyber glitches plaguing Royal Mail to the nostalgic waves that 'You've Been Framed' sent off after thirty years of home-video hilarity. And let's not forget the royal scandals and rock legacies that had us tuning in with bated breath.
Our trip down memory lane isn't all laughter and soap opera awards—though there's plenty of that too. We're serving up candid reflections on the state of the TV industry, the cultural impact of female musicians dominating the charts, and even our own misguided Twitter identities. With the indelible icons of our screens and the indie anthems that brought us to our feet, we parse through the year's most gripping narratives, including the Phil Schofield buzz and the heart-pounding tunes that made us stop and listen.
As we bid adieu to a year chock-full of TV twists and turns, we send a colossal thank you to you—our listeners—for tuning in and sharing these moments with us. Whether it was the soap opera successes or the quirky indie concert recollections that caught your ear, we loved every second of this wild ride. Stick around for the surprises 2024 has up its sleeve, and don't hesitate to join the conversation on Twitter or email. Here's to a future bursting with more enthralling TV tales and the unforeseen gems of pop culture. Cheers to new beginnings and shared laughs!
Living with made a leap Living with made a leap Living with made a leap. Made a leap Living with made a leap. Circle BELLS RINGING and we'll not even bother. We're. Do you know what I mean? We'll just trick, as obviously we need to go out by tomorrow. If a break up, we'll just have to take a minute, a fucking look at what minute it is, and you remain. Yeah, yeah, right, start, hello and welcome to Living with Made a Lead. This is a nostalgic TV podcast. I'm one of the hosts, andrew, and I'm joined by Liam, and it's the last hurrah for the 12 days of making Made a Lead.
Speaker 2:We made it, we did it. This is the final countdown.
Speaker 1:Really enjoyed doing it. It has been a bit stressful at times, I think so, especially these last couple, which is why there aren't many clothes in last couple and stuff, because obviously we're both busy around Christmas. But we've done it. We've got the final one in the bag and we've actually gone away from everything that we normally do in our nostalgic TV. And we're doing a review of the year, aren't we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we watched that 97.1. Thought it got too hung up on a couple of key moments so I thought we could do better. I'm sure we can't, but we're going to give it a go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're going to do a podcast in January. All your comments, but genuinely thanks for everyone who's been listening and retweeted and all this sort of stuff. It does make it worthwhile to get a bit sentimental. I'm glad I'm brought.
Speaker 2:I thought it was something to end at once. It's been good. Some good messages come through and, yeah, thanks to everyone who's liked or just even just listening. Thanks for that. So, yeah, it's been good. We haven't conferred on this one, have we? So we're doing alternate months as kind of to start the chat, but we don't know how they've gone about it. So it'll be interesting this one. It could be shambolic. There's plenty of evidence to suggest it. It will, particularly the film's one. But yeah, I think should we start, let's get straight into it.
Speaker 1:So not much happened in January. Well, that's not much happened. I hadn't done very much research, but the big thing that stuck out for me Cristiano Ronaldo leaving man United really suddenly, if you remember, and going to, obviously, saudi Arabia for the biggest salary ever in football. Obviously you've got ties to man United, not, you're not part of board or anything. But how did you feel about this?
Speaker 2:I think it was probably the right decision. Too much dead wood. But Ronaldo, no, I think he's great, but I just think they need to move forwards. I mean, there's still players there that they should have got rid of, that they haven't. Yeah, I was sorry to see him go, but I don't think he should have come back. But I didn't go to City so if nothing else, I'm glad I didn't see him in a city shirt.
Speaker 1:Did you see him? Obviously, at what were they? They were boxing, where he was sat next to a kind of a Gregor shoe in his ear off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was recently, weren't it the 23rd?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is going to be really shit for the first time for this one. We'll elaborate more in further months. This is a shit monthly. I genuinely tried hard to get some things.
Speaker 1:It was a hard month in it February, january sorry, we've already moved on to February. That shit. The only other thing that caught my eye was postal service. Royal Mail tells people to stop sending mail abroad due to a cyber incident, and he was reminding me of that. You know, ringo Starr, stop sending me fan mail. That's what he is going out like. You remember that?
Speaker 2:Very, very. I think I remember you telling me about that. I don't know if I remember that he's still on.
Speaker 1:YouTube. We normally play clips. But look on YouTube, he's fucking brilliant. He just he comes on, he goes. I'm telling you now he's like so angry to stop sending me fan mail. If you send it, I will not respond. It must be, let's get inundated. He was genuinely angry. Then he went peace and love, peace and love.
Speaker 2:Stop sending me he tried to trademark. That, didn't he? I only have Frank Skinner's word for that, but he's apparently tried to trademark the phrase peace and love.
Speaker 1:He's an absolutely ridiculous man. Ringo Starr, I like him, I like. I think he probably comes across as the most normal in the and probably the funniest in the early Beatles videos. But it's got a mess of your head. I've been watching, actually, a bit of McCartney Lemon stuff recently. Yeah, good band. Anyway, we're on to February.
Speaker 2:That would be brief, so got a few, few little bits happen in February. I've tried to focus on TV because that's what we do, but they're also where it's relevant Might be a couple of music notes. So Castle Rock Entertainment announced a deal with John Cleese that we're going to revive the sitcom Faulty Towers.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, what's happening with that?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know what happened. I know he sort of said he had some kind of fallout with a BBC. But we're not doing politics, we're not. We're not doing war or famine or anything like that in this. We're going to try and keep it fairly light heart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to do you, craig. That is probably Ukraine and or still the one I forgot the war right, gaza, that's obviously coming up. When I was doing research for this and I thought I think you can say that's very funny about that, so I've left it out and replaced it with shit.
Speaker 2:Well, the main thing that kept coming up that I've left out was in every month of research I kept getting GMB news were investigated.
Speaker 1:I've got something about that. Yeah, in the right. Ok, I'll try to actually hold that for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go on OK, so I don't know what happened with that. I don't know why it hasn't been remained GB news.
Speaker 1:By the way, what you want to talk about, good morning Britain news. It's just got just it morning, but anyway.
Speaker 2:I think I've always called it that. But, yeah, I don't know if Mr Faulty Towers is in the works. I'm not sure BBC Three celebrated its 20th anniversary. I thought it had gone off air. Well, I don't know, a strange way to celebrate that could have happened after February.
Speaker 1:I don't know, celebrating back, canceling the channel.
Speaker 2:And originally scheduled for 2020. But, due to COVID, it was delayed as series seven of Open All Hours is completely canceled by the BBC, with no plans for further series.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:Well, they wanted it before COVID, and now they're chasing it all still. Yeah, he's like they still saying, kerryton in Granville, is that?
Speaker 1:right.
Speaker 2:Channel five presenter. I don't know if you remember this Dan Walker was hit by a car and taken to hospital and they're all big fan of that.
Speaker 1:He resides in Sheffield. Don't I Near us? Well, not with us. I want to say with us, but he lives in Sheffield. But, yeah, I like him. He's a good man, Dan Walker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I said one. This one. Itv confirmed back in February that you've been framed. Will not be returning for another series after its 33 year run. You've been flamed. That's got to be a headline as well, aren't it?
Speaker 1:That's surely you've been flamed.
Speaker 2:And last one I've got for February, so I don't remember this. You like the guy, so you might know more about him than me, but maybe laugh when I read it. John Leiden loses in his bid to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest with the public image song Hawaii. They're lost out in Wild Youth.
Speaker 1:It's nothing like you'd imagine. That Obviously, john Leiden like is like rock and roll man, whatever we ain't been called that, but you know it's quite heavy sort of punky sort of stuff and that's like a really nice ballad. I think you'd like the song actually.
Speaker 2:So I think it would have been good.
Speaker 1:I don't think they'd have won it. But I mean, someone mentioned actually on the. I think it would have deep, actually the 1997. Last time your vision was won by Britain, which of course was Katrina and the waves. So they're in, represented Ireland and right on to March. So I'm going to start with GB GMB news. As you recall, media regulator offcom finds that GB News programme, which had on the 21st of April 2022, was in breach of broadcasting rules as it presented misinformation on COVID-19 and the vaccines. Not going to go into that, Not give a shit, but you know I brought this up. Now you learn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and just assume, by the way, because I've not mentioned any of them, but just assume that same thing happened in every month, because that it does, it does yeah.
Speaker 1:It's, yeah, the most. And I saw I think it plays into their arms, though me like especially this guy we're going to talk about now, which is Neil Oliver. He's definitely the generian, the controlling media, so I know you like to do a nice little impromptu Neil Oliver monologue. Liam, so I'm going to give you three genuine title from three videos that he's released this year, and I want you to try and guess what I mean. I don't know the answers, so that where he's coming from and how he's going to start this monologue. So the first one is from a couple of weeks ago and it was titled Christmas killings.
Speaker 2:I wish it. I wish you'd prepped me on some of this Wrapping paper, smothering surrounding, contesting, condensing a metaphor for a government's hold, perhaps, over the education system. Very good, I reckon, chris, but I don't know what you've been about Christmas killings. Obviously, I don't actually watch his videos, but I do watch the beginning.
Speaker 1:Another one was are you going to let them put a chip into your brain?
Speaker 2:Yeah, good example, a future of toddlers, part cyborg, part government robots. A future for you.
Speaker 1:I can imagine him as well doing a future. Everyone is woke. I can really imagine going to that. And the last one and I picked this one out because I have just imagined him saying it so much the cold hand of control. The cold hand of control.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I could do one, but it would be very similar to the others. They're all the same.
Speaker 1:A cold clammy hand. A cold clammy hand on the receiver. Absolutely mad Neil Oliver, but really good entertainment. I love how he does this. I've not wrote this down or anything, but I was going to say in other news and he does do that in other news He'll just go from one monologue to another one, don't he, but it used to be though, didn't it?
Speaker 2:That was the ending. So, in other news, a cakey in contest he just goes through just a constant, I don't know. It's like a poisonous influence. In other news, death on the streets. In other news, yeah, yeah yeah, he's brilliant.
Speaker 1:In other news he's always more disastrous. In other news it's like a cat getting stuck up a tree or whatever. In other news, should we be scared by the government with their piracy controls? It's unbelievable. I fucking fight. But it must entertain men in the world. But in other news great news for you, liam we're in March this year that Soccer AM was announced to be cancelled after 28 years. Yeah, well, this is.
Speaker 2:You're trying to stitch me up there because I had it as over at TV. I didn't celebrate it being cancelled. I wasn't even a hater, just wasn't for me and seemingly by the fact it was cancelled and a lot of people's reaction, I think it's stagnated or I don't know. It didn't seem to be as upsetting to as many people as I thought it would. Be that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I watched it fucking. I couldn't even know the presenter actually, and obviously the big news from this month realistically was Garolinica obviously was told he couldn't present it much of the day and then everyone walked out. It's still the weird. I don't watch it there. I think it's one of the most boring programs in the world and we're going to have it on over at TV. It's shit. It's too long 40 minute highlights of shit you don't want to see. Just show me the goals and get out. If I want to want the highlights, I go on the YouTube channels, but I watched this one because it was so weird that it was like what a 25 minute show or something like that, no commentators or anything. We'll never get that again, I don't think.
Speaker 2:He said soon, as on Talksport he said he would have done it. What?
Speaker 1:He would, of course he would have. What about Keenow? I don't know. I don't get his turn and Gary's got to get on with it. You know, simon.
Speaker 2:Jordan said he would have definitely done it as well.
Speaker 1:Of course fucking sat. You've got the coverage of his convictions. Yeah, he course said he fucking did it. He's squared the circle. He's squared the circle, garolinica's squared the circle and he's got the coverage of his convictions. And everyone was saying like I'll be better without him and all this sort of stuff. And he did get me thinking. I mean, who would have taken over? Do you reckon, like, would it just be someone really dull? Because obviously no one at BBC would have done that show in solidarity with Gary. So they'd have had to go to Talksport, wouldn't they? Or Sky, or whatever? Mike Perry would have done it. Well, I've got to go to the show. Imagine Gary. Mike Perry would have been better as a pundit, though, than a presenter, won't he? He'd definitely want his views on the Dutch fella. So I've got that. Ronald Koeman. What is it? The German fella?
Speaker 1:You know Koelman's.
Speaker 2:He's Dutch. No, he's not, he's German. Nice, dutch, nice, german. Who are you talking about, koeman?
Speaker 1:He's Dutch, yeah he's Dutch, he's fucking brilliant. Yeah, so with that, with the big news in March, what about you, Liam? For well, what's comes after March? April, April.
Speaker 2:Quite one this. According to my notes, James Corden presented his final edition of the late to late show in the US. You have a seat. Return to the UK, you're joined by Adele for the final edition of Cartpool Karaoke Fucking. The best part about James Corden is the limny reviews of James Corden.
Speaker 1:He's brilliant at it.
Speaker 2:He did one this year. He might have even reviewed this. Actually, I've seen one that he did this year, but he toned it down a bit. He sort of said Does he feel sorry for him now, don't I? Yeah, he's kind of said all there is to say on this now and this was sort of big news, I think, even though I'm sure he'd announced it once before and it didn't happen. But Jeff Stelling announced he will step down from presenting soccer Saturday on the Sky Sports in May, and he said the same thing in 2022, but he decided to stay on for another season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just back to James Corden. Have you ever seen that episode? I've not seen it. Someone shared it on Twitter and I watched it. I'm sure I must have sent you about 25 times in a row. He does a song at the end. It's my last show, it's so like I'm sure I sent it before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it rings a bell yeah.
Speaker 1:I can say goodbye to LA. It's so fucking whatever it is. I might want to think about James Corden.
Speaker 2:I don't think you've seen that song, but there's a bit Limmy Hates isn't there where he does like a certain move, like a clap or a little shimmy or something.
Speaker 1:It's John Travolta. John Travolta showed him how to do the fucking Pulp Fiction dance and all he does he goes right now you do the mashed potato and James Corden is going. Ah, john Travolta is not laughing at all, he's just always doing it, doing a twist, that's it, and he's laughing his head off, james. I wonder what he's going to. Is he coming back to England?
Speaker 2:I don't know. He said he was going to return to the UK. Yeah, that's why he quit. Fucking hell. What's he up?
Speaker 1:to what's he got planned.
Speaker 2:Must be more Gavin and Stacy. I don't think he's done anything else, is he?
Speaker 1:He can't do that anymore. You know, like I like slacking celebrities off. They have no idea what they're actually. Like I, who are they speaking?
Speaker 2:to.
Speaker 1:A girl who used to work in a hotel somewhere. Anyway, she met Ruth Jones, who was a co-writer, and I thought like, oh yeah, I bet she was sound. No, according to her. But again, take it for a pinch of salt. But I like it when I hear that sort of gossip.
Speaker 2:Well, we had one that shocked me the night from our BBC correspondent, but I won't mention it because it was so said in Don't mention his name, but yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I won't mention his celebrity idol because it was said in confidence. Yeah, it was a bit shocking that one, but that's it. April was a very quiet month in terms of my notes and, by the way, I think we should probably I assume you've done the same, I don't know. We should probably give credit to Wikipedia, because I've just used their sort of review of the year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I've done a little bit more. He's gone into different categories, but yeah, he just looked at Wikipedia. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I've gone into music and TV. Basically two extra clicks of the mouse, well May.
Speaker 1:I think have the two biggest news stories probably of the year. Possibly One was the coronation of Charles III, which I find all that stuff boring so I don't really want to go on it, but I've mentioned it Even bigger. You know, this was a big thing for me Phil Schofield getting his comeuppance, getting found out and having to leave this morning due to, you know, having a relationship with a much younger male colleague which every single person who's ever been on Twitter knew were at then, and he took this long for it to finally get into the mainstream. What do you think actually happened and why do you think it came out? I think Holly had had it off.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know, if he just came out for his booze He'd done the whole sort of came out his gay dinner and I think people thought that sort of swept everything under carpet. But seemingly there were still people disgruntled because it wasn't actually about that. It was about whether the relationship was appropriate or not because of the ages.
Speaker 1:Do you think he's finished?
Speaker 2:No, probably not to be honest.
Speaker 1:It could come back on GB News, actually with the cold hand of the control against Phil Schofield. Rumours and delicious gossip.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I get the feeling that it was kind of managed in such a way that it could return at some point. I don't know, I don't think he's finished, but you were on to him for a while anyway, weren't you?
Speaker 1:I knew what were happening with that guy. He didn't do anything to me. Shame, because he was really good on what he called Going on. Remember Schofield's Quest? Do you remember that it rings a bell? But no, not really Fucking brilliant idea.
Speaker 1:It was before the internet or the internet were obviously not as big as it is now. So people have phoned in and said I really want to know. I don't know who was number one on my birthday. And then other people have phoned in and said I found out it was. Do you know what I mean? Schofield's Quest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why didn't they just Was this a long time ago, yeah, about 97, so it was like before everyone on the internet.
Speaker 1:So, obviously the internet wouldn't have been as big then as well, I wouldn't have been as much information on it. It was better things than number one. It was stuff like I don't know, is it true? The last episode of Bagposs.
Speaker 2:Someone bought Bagposs and and then he just waited for people to send in the answer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And sometimes there'd be experts there saying he's very much the middleman and he's not actually doing any question.
Speaker 1:No, he's not obviously. Well, you won't expect Schofield the middleman? Yeah, you won't expect him to do much question. And my last thing for May is the rock and roll whole of fame announces that Kate Bush and George Michael would be amongst its roster for 2023. Both will deserve the thing. He's fair to say. Yeah, I wouldn't disagree with that. Can you do a good Kate Bush impression? Well, if you had to go on stage, you only could either do Kate Bush or George Michael. Which one would you do, er?
Speaker 2:Good question, I would probably do.
Speaker 1:I think you'd ask me, Michael. I think I might get away with Kate.
Speaker 2:I'd be more worried about some of his sort of high notes.
Speaker 1:Baby. Yeah, that's what I was going to say when he's you could do what he does, but more than that.
Speaker 2:I do Kate Bush, I'd probably do no, I might do Hounds of Love.
Speaker 1:The Hounds of a Lobo-Caw-Ling. I'm doing a two-trend version. Yeah, yeah, joe's Michael, you could just do what he does, obviously Bob Mortimer and pick a Bob Ripper. So really, shave face mask off and just go ding-ding-ding-ding. It's like dancing.
Speaker 2:By the way, we saw two-trends, didn't we at the Old Roxy? You might have seen them a few times. But do you remember our mate Russ? Yeah, there's like the backing melody and they get the crowd to split this into two parts. No, he can't do it, can he? Yeah, but he can't get his head round, so he goes Uh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so one side of the crowd goes Uh-oh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh, and the other side of the crowd goes Uh-oh-oh-oh, and they obviously all have a lot. But he can't get his head round, can he?
Speaker 2:He kept on going Uh-oh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh, like he could have done both parts at once, wouldn't he?
Speaker 1:We're doing Uh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh. He said a lot of genuine stuff, like a monkey, something, uh-oh-oh-oh, like. I don't know what you do. Honestly, what are you doing? Because I just can't get it. Uh-oh-oh, uh-oh-oh, ridiculous. Don't like Freddie Mercury ay-oh-oh.
Speaker 2:One of the band's future heads did to me anyway, did a couple good songs but nothing else were good in the set. I didn't think.
Speaker 1:I like the future heads. I think they were, um, one of the the the the alright bands of that shit Indie landfill it's called now that scene. Um, like we're just loads of indie bands came out, didn't they at the same time. Who else would be considered part of that then? Uh, hard Fire, I think they're probably part of the the indies.
Speaker 2:Well, I quite like uh Block Pie. Would they be considered part of that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they've been around that same area as well. The Zootons remember them.
Speaker 2:Nah, I didn't like them.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, I mean uh, just I don't think there'd be absolutely loads, I mean killers and strokes in that were were too big for it. But around that, the Rye Falls I think we saw them once Little Mantae uh, they'd be in there.
Speaker 2:What about them? Uh, milburn, oh yeah, yeah, I like Milburn. Stop giving me choices. Was it Hoosier or the Hoosiers, or something.
Speaker 1:Oh, hoosier, I don't know if they'd be, I don't know if they'd be accepted into the Indie landfill party but yeah. Jack Mantae, I think he'd probably be in there, yeah but you're a detective, Terrible name. Yeah, Um, right onto your next month then.
Speaker 2:So I've actually got my first story of June, which is Phil Scofield gives his first interview since the scandal.
Speaker 1:Ah, I know, a vape in all the way through it, weren't I.
Speaker 2:Yeah. He described as a fair with a young man as a grave error, blaming homophobia for fueling the courage of the controversy.
Speaker 1:As Elton John said, on that documentary, we covered grave disappointment. It'd been brilliant if he'd just passed it off by saying that what do you think? Grave disappointment.
Speaker 2:And same same story really. Uh, alison Hammond got emotional, uh, talking about his departure and urged viewers not to judge him too harshly.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm going to say something here. Everyone seems to love Alison Hammond. This is the bitchiest episode, by the way, we've ever done. It's like fucking Pop Bitch, like fucking in the podcast. I don't like her. I find her really false and I might be wrong. I might be wrong. We need our BBC man if he's listening to, to meet her and let us know what he's, what she's actually like. I've just got a feeling she's she'll be abasted behind the scenes. I'm a couple based on nothing.
Speaker 2:I don't know how. I've seen her do a sort of couple interviews for films with celebrities and they seem to get on with her.
Speaker 1:But yeah, the issue. One of those is alright with celebs, and you know what I mean. Yeah, not the little guy Did I tell you again I don't want to give the. I'll give the person a because it's a good thing. Someone, um in the media we know a little bit, met Garosovsky and he said that off air, like when when there's no interview going on. He's one of the funniest people they've ever met.
Speaker 1:Like is he a good guy, yeah, and he just becomes deadly serious. Uh, when he's on, you know, when it as soon as like the, the, the microphones are, it becomes deadly serious. And then, as soon as it goes off, he's like laughing and joking, my.
Speaker 2:Barrymore Rips his shirt open. He's got like a comedy t-shirt on underneath and you want to laugh?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't, it is. I'm like yeah so anyway, carry on.
Speaker 2:So next one. Another reason I've got this in there is because I've got no idea who he is, so I don't know what he's gone on to do. But comedian Vigo Venn won the 2023 series of Britain's Got Talent. You remember that, no?
Speaker 1:but I was on holiday, uh, when this final was going on, um, and we watched because we were in a caravan. But now I'm with her and he's in the old watchers, shit and stuff. I travel boy, I travel boy Um rock and roll, uh, and I think he won't. I think he won like a high vis vest, but I don't know why. I don't know what he was doing. He had mad hair, um, I've just talked to him in now, actually, but I don't remember anything he did, um. To be honest, comedian Vigo Venn yeah, I never met him. Never met him, don't know him.
Speaker 2:Okay, Um, it was a British soap awards held in June, on the third of June. Uh, winners were extenders for the best British soap. And the reason? Well, I want to put it next. I think it's relevant A Coronation Street won actually won more awards that evening, but the way it's written on Wikipedia and I've never heard this as a phrase, so I wanted to know if they've written it wrong or if I need to update my vocabulary. But so it says winners include EastEnders, which is named breast British soap A, while Coronation Street wins the most. Now, best British soap.
Speaker 1:You definitely said breasts. When you listen to this part, you'll be, you'll be saying, oh yeah, it is right. Yeah, freedy, and slip.
Speaker 2:Okay. So which is named best British soap? A while? Coronation Street wins the most awards of the evening? A while. Have you ever had a while in that?
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. She's not just sort of, she's not a typo. This many months later, someone who spotted that on Wiki, weren't they?
Speaker 2:Wiles, would that make more sense, Wiles? Yeah, what a white. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then are they interchangeable. Could you? You can't put. I'm having that, but, paul, I don't care. Debbatt's an English teacher, I think. If he's listening, let us know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, and I didn't know this. I didn't know she was back in it. So Michelle Collins returns to EastEnders Cindy, yeah, cindy.
Speaker 1:Beale, how much we did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, she's in it now. I saw her this year, I didn't really think anything of it, but apparently 25 years after the producers killed her off in a storyline where she said she'd died in prison.
Speaker 1:I'm so sure she would.
Speaker 2:And also producers confirm Adam Woodiart will return as Beale the Squeal.
Speaker 1:Of course he's going to fucking return. What else is he going to do? No one's going to cast Ian Beale in anything else.
Speaker 2:Now are they it would be a busy and pantomime season, I think. But other than that he said yeah, free to go.
Speaker 1:Do you know what? I think Mr Trick Roy Cropper, the actor David Nielsen, I think he's called. I think he's got a look about him where he could play either like a hard-line detective or a serial killer one of those two things. I think he's wasting his talent on Coronation Street. Is he still in it? I don't know, but I presume so, because it'd be massive news if Roy had a life, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, well, I don't know. The Sun reported that Ross Kemp had planned to mark the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic by recording a documentary for Sky History in which he would undertake a dive to the wreckage using the titans, and I think that's the same submarine that then obviously went on to have the accident later on in the year. Is that a?
Speaker 1:Yeah well, it can bring you underwater for more than four minutes, can't it?
Speaker 2:But the yeah, the apparently production team reviewed it unsafe and not fit for purpose.
Speaker 1:That could have been gone. It could have been a gunner then, couldn't it? That was a bad story, that submarine story. Just back on Roy Cropper a minute. Obviously, my handle on Twitter is Roy and when I argue with opposition fans, amazing amount of times people say oh yeah, I'm going to take advice off Roy Cropper, aren't I? I think how unfunny that is like as a comeback to anything. It's like the guy at work and everyone, everyone is a really thick person and everyone who wears glasses. It calls them Harry Potter, every one of them. Like you don't know who he's on about. Oh, he's here, harry Potter. Which one? Should you fucking call them all Harry Potter?
Speaker 2:Er, I lost track of my notes. Yeah, and also obviously close to your heart, although not this particular year. Glastonbury was on and the food fighters made a surprise appearance on the pyramid stage. Oxy Monkey's headlined is their third appearance. Rick Astley played per image stage.
Speaker 1:Yep, looked good, looked really good.
Speaker 2:Guns N' Roses headline as well, and Elton John played the final concert of his farewell tour headlining on the final day, which was a fantastic set.
Speaker 1:It was fantastic that I watched er. I was away for the weekend but I managed to. Everyone was saying I like X for shit. They were and they're just a different band now they just do what they do. Yeah yeah, they're just different. I went to see them a couple of weeks later. I thought they were good, and then I saw Guns N' Roses' workhouse, but I'm not a massive fan anyway.
Speaker 1:I thought they were alright but his voice is gone now. But they were alright. But I didn't get the withdrawal symptoms until Elton waddled, literally waddled onto stage, and er because when he came on I thought, oh, this is gonna be bad. He kicks off with Pinball Wizard and, honestly, halfway through it's the first time I've watched it thinking, oh, my, fuck it. I wish why aren't they there?
Speaker 2:Well, you were messaging me like saying God, I didn't actually realise how good he was. It triggered a bit of love for Elton from you, didn't it?
Speaker 1:Well, I've got Spotify to Starthing, and before this he had two songs starred by me, and that was Rocketman and Goodbye Elibric Road, and he's got eight.
Speaker 2:so so would you guess what they are Go on then? Er, well, what's the one that we did that that we've talked about a lot? Someone saved my life tonight.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's him there Er. Someone saved my life. Tonight Sugarbeam yeah.
Speaker 2:Sorry, tell me the two that you had previously.
Speaker 1:Yellowbrick Road and go on. Er fucking Rocketman, er Sacrifice.
Speaker 2:No, er, don't let the song go down on me. Is that classed as one of his?
Speaker 1:Er, yeah, I've got that. Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2:Was that his song? Was that a song?
Speaker 1:Don't let the song. It is, isn't it yeah, yeah, it is his song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, er.
Speaker 2:I don't know. My mind's gone blank. I'm a massive LA John fan so I can't think of him.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, I'll give you the full. It was weirdly. Don't Go Breaking my Heart. I think that's a brilliant pop song. Don't Go Breaking my Heart. Daniel, daniel, my brother, er.
Speaker 2:What. Daniel was travelling tonight on a plane, Played a song your song.
Speaker 1:You missed your song. I did, though I'm gonna say that, but I thought you might.
Speaker 2:You're quite cool for school, aren't you?
Speaker 1:I think you did like that. I think, Well, come on, I think you. I hope you don't mind. I think I'm gonna sing, I Think you Don't Mind. And then Er Betty and the Jets, which is all my favourite.
Speaker 2:Ah, yeah, I can see you liking that yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, good year for Elton in terms of me liking him.
Speaker 2:So yeah, certainly one of his most successful. I would say right, what happened in July?
Speaker 1:So July I'm gonna bring this up because I don't remember this like being Apparently we're the hottest July on record Sorry, yeah on record with an average temperature of 15 degrees. Didn't feel that hot this year to me.
Speaker 2:I don't know. We were digging fans out and cool packs and all sorts at one bit. I remember that. I don't remember it being that.
Speaker 1:I don't remember it being that, but that's all it is that I bring it up. I don't remember one sunny day this year and this was the big news again. You know I like gossip a lot. A story, particularly in the sun, alleges that an unnamed BBC presenter paid a 17-year-old for sexually explicit photos. Bbc's further investigating and the presenter is not scheduled to be on air in the coming days. Can you remember that? Everyone was going? Oh is it. Oh is it. What do you reckon it?
Speaker 2:is Well, the thing is where everyone seemed to know it was.
Speaker 1:Well, no, before it came out, people weren't sure and people were just like who had to come out? Oh no, yeah, ryland, he had to come out, didn't he and say it's not me? Why is everyone saying he's a?
Speaker 2:Someone else had got an already booked in, didn't they? And they were like, oh shit, I'm going to have to explain why I'm not on air tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Maybe that was Ryland. There was someone else as well that I can't remember who. It was One of the Vines, one of the Vines brothers Jeremy Vines had to come out, didn't he, and say it weren't him as well? Yeah, and everyone were going like imagine that, like it's not me, and then. But I was surprised because when people said it were Hugh Edwards, I thought oh yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'd say this. Was that all official now then?
Speaker 1:Well, some printed it and, as we know, they don't print any shit. So, yeah now, yeah, he obviously did get announced by him. I think his misses actually announced it before anyone else did, Because people were having to go at the BBC say he took his wife to break the news rather than them. Yeah, I remember that and I said it on last week's episode, that it's really weird now because obviously we're involved in one of the biggest stories ever of the Queen's death. That makes it sound like he's killed her, which he didn't as far as we know. But obviously he presented it, he announced the news, he did all the fucking with the main Royal man for that thing and they're never going to be able to show that again. I want to throw out now.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you think. You think they'll redub it or reshoot it, or yeah, I don't know, can't redub it what it was.
Speaker 1:Vote like Chim Fane With a nap. Tolerate the queen dying on a day like today.
Speaker 2:What did they do with sort of past Jimmy Savile clips? Did they just not play on it?
Speaker 1:They just don't show them. They don't show them. Yeah, there's Jimmy Savile and who's the other guy on top of the pops? And they never obviously glit if he's on an episode, they don't show that. Neither. There's another one isn't there. Can't remember it is.
Speaker 2:It's my wolf Football fundates who did all like posh, did it graham something? Or like a great day at the ground.
Speaker 1:Oh, shoot what hall. Ah, yeah, that might be it. Yeah, shoot what hall. Yeah, I mean. But that's massive, the queen dying, and I don't know how they're going to show that again, like when they're looking back at you know they just don't show it on there, they won't remember. They don't remember. Yeah, so that's too lily, and what you got for August.
Speaker 2:August, so this stat surprised me at the end. Medianation, which is Offcom's annual report, interviewing and listening habits.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:They published their report and it said a significant fall in the proportion of people watching linear television. Mmm, yeah, I can see that Percent in 2021 to 79% in 2022. I'm stunned that's still so high. I mean, I don't know about you, I don't watch any. I presume linear television is sort of live televised Rather than going through an app or it's just watching TV on your tele, which I just don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1:The only thing I watch when it's on is the Emily A-Tac show, and that's purely because it's crap and I messaged you and saying, oh god, this is terrible. I like it. I've said before like Emily A-Tac as an actress and as she's a good person. That show is fucking awful and I love awful shows which will come on too later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't want to go going on around the festive screen.
Speaker 1:No, I'd say she probably doesn't even write it. You know what I mean? It's not a fault, it's fucking classic ITV2 stuff where you have fucking moshes. Remember Dapper Lafts? Oh yeah yeah. That was fucking unbelievable, do you know? I don't know if he saw the commission editor, but the person who commissioned Dapper Lafts was Holly Willoughby's husband.
Speaker 2:I wonder if he was the same chief commission editor who didn't commission an alcicle.
Speaker 1:Not. All I'm saying is I'd rather not. I would rather be Dapper Lafts than anything.
Speaker 2:Anyway, carry on. Anyway, I don't remember this. So following a protest by Greenpeace activists, so apparently they climbed onto Rishi Sunak's house, and so I don't know what they did up there. I don't know if they were just up there and that was it. But then so GB News stages a stunt in retaliation and a reporter, ben Leo, was sent to Greenpeace's offices. They didn't ask him, they just turned up. He wanted round speaker to officials and made himself cup of tea.
Speaker 1:I don't remember that all of them, you don't. They had to be fair GB News and stuff. We've obviously lost an old colleague of ours this year massively into GB News. So my quip, they've lost half the viewership. Now he's not here, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I said for that one. So BBC One broadcast the 2023 FIFA World Cup Women's Final.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're watching it. Yeah, I was at Caravan watching it with the girls, and particularly my eldest was devastated, but they weren't good enough on the day, so you know what was Serena thinking taking Root off that early Now she took like two strikers off poor decisions, as golf trucks would say poor decisions yeah but overall she's done a decent job. Oh, she's done an absolutely fantastic job. Yeah, absolutely fantastic job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't remember. I don't have the encyclopedic knowledge for games that you do, so I can't remember that. But yeah, I remember being really disappointed that we didn't Not the great one though.
Speaker 1:I'm really getting. I mean, I didn't give a shit about women's football. I'd rather admit when Phil Neville were there, the Phil Neville years, because I just thought probably because I don't mean long after a semi, but the standard did seem too poor for me to really enjoy massively. Come on, especially international level. It's like you know, I really, really enjoy those World Cups.
Speaker 2:I think this might touch into what you're going to come into in your next month, because I think this was might have been just the announcement of it, but it says the air the CITV block for the last time. So the following weekend some of its shows would start showing on ITV2.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I have got this also.
Speaker 1:Have you got another one?
Speaker 2:Yeah, last thing I've got, which is, I thought was an interesting fact, a sign of the times moving on is, for the first time in its 70 year history, the top selling singles on the official chart were all by female artists, and they were Billy Eilish, dua Lipa, olivia Rodrigo, taylor Swift, peggy Goo and Olivia Rodrigo. Again, I don't know what Peggy Goo is. I don't, to be honest, the song was. It goes like and it's na na, na, na na. I don't know. My daughters would probably know it. I don't.
Speaker 1:Who wrote it? Morrisay, anyway, yeah well, my September one. One of them was the closure of CITV, and the last show that they aired on there was. Have you ever heard of a show called the rubbish world of Dave Spud? No, now, you'd have thought they'd have gone out with at least like Art Attack or something like that, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, close for the final time. Was it Burners Watch or Brendon's Watch?
Speaker 1:Burners Watch, burners, watch. There's loads of stuff. So I'm going to ask you we've sort of done it at CITV before but what, if actually to you CITV? Well, you probably just answered it. What's the first thing that you think of?
Speaker 2:Maybe that, maybe, wuff, yeah, art Attack, definitely, I think Art Attack.
Speaker 1:Which said before.
Speaker 2:I was never a big ITV guy, to be honest. So yeah, there's certain things I watched.
Speaker 1:See Sabrina's, another one that I think of not one of my favourites, but I do remember, you know, yeah, I did use to watch that, but yeah, so, really, really, really sad. I mean, obviously your kids will know thinking, but I do think it's sad that you don't get that and it's like any channel. Now that you don't get that, everyone watches. You can see why it just doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 2:They just don't watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it. They've got no patience for waiting for anything now.
Speaker 1:I listened to the Scarred for Life podcast recently, a really good podcast, and I think you're Matthew Olness who we're talking about how what were amazing in the old days like probably, like just, we were probably in that generation but young is that everyone watched the same thing, because there were only three channels, obviously were more than when we were older, but everyone.
Speaker 1:It was brilliant that you could go into school or whatever work or whatever the next day and how do you see that, whereas now you say we've seen that, yet now I've got it on. You know, standby or whatever I'm going to watch it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm halfway through that other American crime drama, but I might watch it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah it's like the Jimmy Saville thing I watched, really cool, which was amazing this year probably the best thing I watched on TV this year, actually brilliant and it was really annoying because I watched it and I don't think you'd seen it at the time. Someone else had seen it, but they were further in front than me so they couldn't do. You know what I mean? Everyone's all over the place. Yeah, I've still not watched it yet. So, yeah, I take your point. And my other thing for September, our birthdays for a kickoff. So that was my breakfast day do you think we go out?
Speaker 1:Can't remember what's going on. We must have gone out, but all we go out.
Speaker 2:I don't know if we go to a match round about then. I can't remember.
Speaker 1:I can't remember, but it also coincided with UK announcing that 400 Wilco stores were closing after a bid to rescue the retailer fell through right, which rings around about. Well, I don't have many memories of Wilco. I mean I know what it is, but Joe Arman always went down with talk about the four picket mix. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:If WH Smith's goes down, I'll be like, oh fuck, you know, or I don't know even something like Debenhams went down in town. You know what I mean. I'll be like fuck you know. I've spent loads of time with Debenhams picking clothes out, whatever. I don't have no memories of Wilco like I've been in, but I've got no anecdotes from Wilco.
Speaker 2:I used to go in Kobe and my grandma bought me a yellow skateboard once.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we did go in there a few times. Yeah, it was just like a general all round, I think. I always think my grandma buying like bleach and sort of I don't know like cleaning, yeah, that's what I imagine it has Boring.
Speaker 1:All the Wilkinsons obviously used to be called, and why did they change it to Wilco? Just to try and be cooler.
Speaker 2:Well, I think people used to call it Wilco's, even when it was Wilkinsons, like, like.
Speaker 1:Woolies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it made me think because it used to be near when I used to go to shop with her Do a Z. Well, I don't know if this is a big thing anywhere else, but I saw a van recently for Menzies. Do you know Menzies news agent.
Speaker 1:Menzies. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm thinking. I'm not thinking of Menzies.
Speaker 2:Well, they used to have a John Menzies, but I don't remember anywhere else having a John Menzies, just a Menzies.
Speaker 1:A John.
Speaker 2:Menzies Like a mainly sort of Well like a news agent, but a bigger one, a bit like a WH Smith, I suppose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I mean, well, I would like to actually say that obviously our Sheffield listeners will probably know Suggsport, which were massive round, but it weren't anywhere else out of South Yorkshire. As far as I know, suggsport and everyone used to play Suggsport, which was fucking nothing to do in madness. Imagine if it were they brought it back and it would just like I don't know, just like the love of Suggs memorabilia.
Speaker 2:I just like looking at Sabuti's stuff in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah that. And what were the ones across the crossroad? My car now was right now.
Speaker 2:There were.
Speaker 1:Beaties weren't there. Beaties, that's it. Beaties. They sold Sabuti as well. Yeah, I used to get my car now from Beaties. I got them two mixed up. Yeah, brilliant memories. Anyway, what's your?
Speaker 2:October, do you remember October? So BBC correspondent Nicholas Wichel announced he will retire for 2024, after five decades. That's one of my. He's one of my favourite names ever. You know, if you wanted to write a comedy character, nicholas Wichel, I love that name.
Speaker 1:Well, we thought of a comedy, comedy, comedy, when we did one of our scripts that didn't get commissioned. Brian Denmark, we come up, we don't know so, and I still think that's a fantastic name Brian Denmark and Nicholas Wichel investigate. I definitely would. I've watched that as soon as it came on. To be fair, I wouldn't be like putting that on, you would know everyone had watched that one.
Speaker 2:You, just because of the names, that I would. Bbc One, ed, this is what you've just mentioned is Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savill. The program wins praise from critics, particularly for Coogan's portrayal, which, as I say, I haven't seen it yet, but everyone's told me, like I think everyone's kind of got the same thing, which is ridiculous, like how everyone knew but nothing was done. And yeah, apparently Kugan does it.
Speaker 1:I saw Kugan said he thought he was one of only three people in England who could play that part. Sorry in the world who could play that part, and I presume he meant by the accent. He's obviously an impressionist. I'd love to know what the other two were. I can't imagine him playing Jimmy Saffle in a really serious way, right Bride and Bride, and be able to play Saffle. I suppose he will build to, won't I?
Speaker 2:I don't think Kugan would have him in his three, though, because I think they're rivals, aren't they?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, but I think that's just a trip the other two were probably Alan Partridge and Jimmy Saffle. Yeah, he's brilliant, though if you've not seen it. Absolutely fantastic, horrible, horrible, but brilliant.
Speaker 2:So two more things. The son agreed with Fred Flint off I don't remember the figure coming out because I just thought it was a seven figure deal but apparently they agreed a package worth nine million pounds for him because he got injured, a car turned over or something filming Top Gear, and it completely messed his fate like. I've seen pictures of him, like he's had major surgery on his face so I don't know what happened there. But yeah, and as it stands, I don't think there will be any more Top Gear. Whatever, I don't think so. I don't think they've got plans to make any more.
Speaker 1:That's mad man. I never watched it because I don't know how to drive, but I know everyone loves it. I think Traveling Blade said if you had to take any TV show to a desert island, it would be Top Gear.
Speaker 2:Well, to be fair, there's one like Motoring show. You don't need to know how to drive to kind of appreciate it. I suppose, it's nothing to do with it. I don't remember anything. In the really early days it was with what's his name? A fantastic voice.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Quentin Quentin Wilson, that's another fantastic name, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love the use of the old theme tune as well, and that's not what you know, what I'm saying. It has to go. That's a pendulum song, you know what I mean, don't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know how it goes.
Speaker 1:That's fucking Snooka.
Speaker 2:I'm not trying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't. I don't know if I did it right actually.
Speaker 2:This is going to go out like quite quickly so I haven't got time, but I'd love to put in again your saxophone. And last thing I've got to comment because it came out and it's one of my favourite shows on TV that I watch quite often in the background and they released the third series of Planet Earth in October.
Speaker 1:Yeah, excellent stuff. I don't watch them all, but when it's on, when it's on and I've got nothing to do with Flickrute channels it always stays on. That's what I say, so if I go into November. We've already talked about Glastonbury a bit, but self ticket for the 2024 Glastonbury were delayed by two weeks out of fairness for customers who did not realise their registration had expired. Bullshit if you're not ready for it, you're out. That's what I think. So I missed out. Mr Webster missed out. He listens from Tufty Club as well, and who knows if they'd have done it like when they were supposed to do it. We might have been going, but then the Rumen Headliners came out and I weren't that bothered. Let's see what you think of these, liam Madonna.
Speaker 2:Yeah, used to be a fan, not so bothered now.
Speaker 1:I don't think I'd say that Dua Lipa.
Speaker 2:Alright, good what she does not really for me. And Coldplay, no. Do you know what? It's around this time of year that I hate Coldplay and then I sort of grow into him again. I think their Christmas song is the worst Christmas song I've ever heard.
Speaker 2:I despise it. You sometimes put on like a Christmas radio thing in the car over Christmas, so we've got it in the background. It's the only Christmas song that will make me turn over. I can deal with any other ones, but I just hate it. Even Lab Baby, I don't know, I've not really done playing. Did I still play then I probably would leave it on as long as it didn't keep playing. Maybe once all year. I don't want to hear Coldplay even once.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, on the subject of music, the Beatles released now and then the band's last ever song, probably. Anyway, as other fans have heard, they're all resold vocals by John Lennon, obviously, and guitar tracks from George Harrison, based on the home demo by Lennon in the late 70s. Have you heard this year?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you like it, it's alright. I didn't get the. I know travelling was kind of wowed by it, weren't?
Speaker 1:it. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2:For the right sort of fan. I get it. I think it's a massive moment and it must be brilliant. But I don't know. It's just. It's a bit like an obvious answer in it. But I think if that was a new band that released that song now would it be bothered. It's more for the fans than it is for music lovers.
Speaker 1:I mean it's supposed to be about McCartney and Lennon, which is where the ones sort of take on it, which, yeah, it's like a deep sort of thing. It's obviously not going in your top ten Beatles songs of all time. That said, I fucking love Free as a Bird and no one likes that, and that was one of these sort of you know, get everything back together and you know, overdubbing me and all that. I fucking love that song, free as a Bird, but, yeah, I enjoyed it. It's not one that I, when I listen to the Beatles, I'll not be sort of. I don't think it's one I'm going to reach for. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. And my last thing in November was I have announced that they were commissioned in a new comedy called Go Ed, which you know I'm really obsessed with already, liam, and we were talking about the Emily ATack show earlier that I used to watch every week. This looks like genuinely the fucking worst ever sitcom.
Speaker 2:Is this the thing that you sent me a clip from?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Scousers. It's about 13 year olds and if he's pressing you, he has a heartwarming and funny look at how teenagers view the world, written by a 40 year old man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, commissioned by a 60 year old man, probably.
Speaker 1:And it's fucking. So the one scene that it might be better than this, who knows? You know, I remember watching the in between is trailer and he got when they threw the frisbee. It's the disabled one around the head and I thought but you know, in between is good, this, I just am going to pull it around. So if you haven't seen, the scene that they've sent is two girls walking and this Scouser kid goes all right, girls, what's your pronouns? What does your thing off? A fuck's sake, straight away, like just so. No one, nobody feels like that. And then they say my pronouns is get lost, no chance.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 1:know what I mean. It's like a kids show. But shit.
Speaker 2:Trying to be clever in here.
Speaker 1:Trying to be clever and it's fucking. It looks fucking awful and I can't wait for it to come out. Yeah okay, could be good.
Speaker 2:Right December. So first thing I've got is cutie Gatworth makes his on screen debut as the 15th doctor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I watched it the first episode was the giggle.
Speaker 2:Now I've gotten well, you don't need to record things anymore, do you? But I have gotten to watch a big fan of 10 and didn't mind Matt Smith quite like some of his stuff and then sort of fell out a little bit through the Capaldi era, watched a few Jodie Wick ones but didn't really get drawn in. So yeah, I'm hoping, I'm hoping the writing some good stories so that I can get back on board with it.
Speaker 1:Well, I had a doctorate as one of my overrated things when we did that. I don't think it's terrible or anything, but they were nothing. On Christmas Day shit for TV, absolutely shit. We were actually going to do Mrs Brown's Boys, weren't we? As I liked the episode, we were going to watch it, but then we just didn't. I don't know why we didn't do that. Yeah, we didn't do it. But I didn't watch this. I just again, I just what I said at the time is not changed. It's just a bit of a glorified kid show to me. I'm sure it's fucking really entertaining, you know, to watch with a whole family and stuff. I just I get why people like Star Trek. It's not for me, but I get it completely. I don't really get this new doctorate.
Speaker 2:I just thought in that 10 and era there was some episodes that was so well written. I don't know how I tell you the same ones every time, but it weren't just the same two and three yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:But there was.
Speaker 2:There's the one where he met. The girl that he ended up marrying was Peter Davidson's daughter.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, oh shit.
Speaker 2:He plays like a queen, I think, but but any princess. But there's, I reckon, is eight, nine, maybe 10 fantastic episodes of that era. And yeah, like I say, I don't know. I just I just hope they write some, some really good stories, because I would love to get back into doctor. I used to really enjoy watching it and just not grab me so much in the recent, recent years. Ian Wright announces is to leave his role on the match today.
Speaker 1:I've not seen many people turn around as a football pond. It turned around my opinion on them like you're right, when you were on talk sport with Durham, like when I first sort of listen to him as a pundit, I thought we're a bit shit and I thought you were a bit. Oh, I don't really know. Do you know what I mean? But I thought when he went on to match the day, I genuinely think you're one of the best pundits on that. I don't remember him on talk sport, to be honest. Yeah, we're in Durham drive time before goffy, before goffy, yeah, he left and that's when got the gig. I thought goffy was fucking. I don't listen to. Goffy was shit as well, because Adrian Durham is genuinely entertaining.
Speaker 2:Well, it used to be brilliant at winding up Arsenal fans didn't?
Speaker 1:it In another world. In another world, he is the biggest football YouTuber. He's basically Goldbridge, isn't he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's very good at stirring up debate. You could say he very much fits the motto, doesn't he for the Jordan and White show, which is engineered for confrontation.
Speaker 1:I love how much you love that you mention it. Or every time we talk about talk sport, you say engineered for confrontation.
Speaker 2:I just love that. They're not even hiding it. We're just trying to create argument. Basically, mary Erps was voted 2023 BBC Sports Persona of the Year. Joey Barton went up here. Joey Barton went up here. What I was going to say to you about this is one of the last one that you watched. It's one of the most boring shows.
Speaker 1:It's so boring, isn't it? It's proper boring.
Speaker 2:You should condense it down and just show the award. It's such a drawn out massive and I get it the dimension of youth teams and charities and all that and it's brilliant, but it's so inflated as a show. I remember some celebrity saying oh yeah, it's an awful event when you're at it. It just goes on forever and I can really see that.
Speaker 1:We were going to do it as an episode, weren't we? And then we both, after about 30 seconds of discussing it, said actually it's probably one of the most boring things that's ever been on TV. So we didn't do it.
Speaker 2:It would have been awful. Yeah, but yeah, congratulations to you on that. I didn't really follow it, so I don't know who else was in there to be caught on, I think, oh.
Speaker 1:Kevin O'Sullivan. That's the guy who's really into it. I'm thinking it Mike Graham, ronnie O'Sullivan, where a lot of people went happy that he didn't win, I think.
Speaker 2:All right, a long-running EastEnders story that began with a flash forward in February reached its conclusion on Christmas Day, so there was a quite cleverly, I suppose, they started a flash forward in February. That tied into it.
Speaker 1:Oh, we're at the end of this. On Tufti Club recently yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, where Deadbat don't watch it, but he watched that because it had been going on for that long, even though he didn't know what we're going on.
Speaker 2:We could mention that in December actually, because the Tufti Club's sort of live public recording was released in. December and brilliant stuff in there. Brilliant joke about having your empty sack on Christmas. I don't think WebO even sort of picked up one, as in your endo oh. I love it and also really short little bit, but you get a really quick Barbara Windsor impersonation in there that I thought were really good.
Speaker 1:Are you? Yeah, I like the bit where they're talking about the bin man coming, is he?
Speaker 2:is he a f***ing Santa he's been.
Speaker 1:He's been, he's been, bin man's been Really check it out. I'm sure everyone will listen to this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know anything about this story because I've not seen it, but apparently Keanu Taylor Keanu Taylor was was killed. Some sort of body lying on the floor had been knocked unconscious. Keanu's death revealed as a plot twist when he's stabbed by and I won't say it in case you haven't seen it, but it means nothing to me no.
Speaker 1:You're talking German Big news to me then.
Speaker 2:The murder in EastEnders was Chris Cascoigne. Left the street as a Peter Barlow.
Speaker 1:Did he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, shit Good, not if he gave him a good send off or what I don't know Great character.
Speaker 1:He's a f***ing lighter drink, don't I Like?
Speaker 2:not the actor like Peter Barlow Alco aren't I yeah a few times, I think. Eighth of December. I've got the answer. This is coming into the music stuff. So just reporting on the eighth of December Total of 28 of the 40 songs in the week's official Top 40 are festive songs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's shit.
Speaker 2:Obviously, christmas number one was Wham's Last Christmas, which apparently is it's his fourth time it's been a Christmas number one I heard this was the first time, but I don't know, not sure it says reaching number one for a fourth time, and Sam Rider was second. This is pro.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think he's sound a bit like an old man, but I do think I used to love the charts, even when I'd grown out of it. It was really really good, like sort of oh God, he's gone in number 25. F***ing hell, he's not in the hit for years and it's just ruined now and it's better music in the sense that you can get anything you want and all that. But I do miss the Top 40 and sort of seeing bands and stuff like that coming up. Yeah, I never thought they were that big Number five. I don't know how you tell bands big anymore, to be honest. Probably streaming, I suppose, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mostly listened to this week on Spotify or whatever. I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't know how good a reflection the charts are now on what's the most successful and other thing just to mention. So it's not just December this, but this is I was who reformed this year, so Frankie goes to Hollywood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Er Ercut 100. Hang on, before you carry on, liam. Every one of these, I want you to ask you if you would see them or not.
Speaker 2:Er okay, Frankie goes to Hollywood Probably not, to be honest, Ercut 100. I don't know who they are.
Speaker 1:She do Fantastic day. Doobie, doobie, doobie. Do as a dead bat I'd say, but I don't know. Probably probably won't see them. Would you go see? Franky goes to Hollywood, by the way.
Speaker 2:If they were at the festival both.
Speaker 1:If they were at the festival, I wouldn't pay to see them.
Speaker 2:That's like Bill Clinton answering it when they say if they remade Woody Mammas, would you go and see them? Er, if I was in the area.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. If I were in the area and there were nothing else going on, if I'm not going to wait there and Frankie goes to all of the plane, mark my dad, I'm just going to go and see Frankie go to Hollywood he'd say no, so no, I'm not going to see him.
Speaker 2:Okay, we'll get through as quick now. So I think your signal's breaking up. It could be mine, but I think it's yours. Love and Rockets no, I don't know who they are. No, I don't know who they are.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know who they are Rialto?
Speaker 2:No, I don't know who they are oh yeah, I do know them.
Speaker 1:Indie band, indie band, yeah, s.
Speaker 2:Club 7.
Speaker 1:Well, it's called 5 in it.
Speaker 2:Well, I know one of them died. Why is one of them not doing it?
Speaker 1:Hannah, who was. Well, the two of them died now. No, hannah's not dead. Hannah's on Shrug to Come Dancing, or Dancing on Ice, or something. Hannah, though, went out with Paul, didn't she before?
Speaker 2:the guy oh right, she's not doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they weren't still a couple, but obviously close ties and she said I could not do it. I can't fucking do it. A lot of people are slagging her off because a couple of weeks later she signed up to do I don't know Shrug to Come Dancing or Dancing on Ice or something. So people were saying not to do it without Paul. I don't know. Hannah.
Speaker 2:Lots of few Super Dragons. Girls Allowed Stray and I think I missed out heavenly. So I maybe would see Girls Allowed, but I don't know any of those. I must hear any of them. Next, next. So final thoughts. Really, major Charles did the Baby Boy byfield. Yeah, I can't remember who won it actually, but I saw him sort of questioning what it was, like he seemed very concerned with what he'd won, dmitri, oh yeah, the guy who won the Exeter Kid.
Speaker 1:Oh, what's his fucking name? Hang on, hang on, hang on. I'm going to need to get this right. I can't remember. This is a massive, massive, massive event. I genuinely mean that as well. He's not even updated on his Baby Boy byfield page. There was some guy from Exeter anyway who won Sure, dmitri.
Speaker 2:Mitchell, dmitri Mitchell.
Speaker 1:Dmitri Mitchell. Dmitri Mitchell, dmitri Mitchell. I voted for him.
Speaker 2:I missed out on voting in the last couple of rounds. I was voting early on and then the rest had happened before I had a chance to vote. So, yeah, it wouldn't be my winner there you go. Last thing I want to say is another major event this year. So the podcast Living with Maitley did the 12 days of Christmas and they released 12 podcasts in December.
Speaker 1:Never seen it. Now I have seen it. I mean obviously a close thing, weren't it? Who's going to get the most listens, us or Ricky Gervais? We are on the get-in, but they could just pips us to the post.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but still, there's still a couple of days left, so see how we get on tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, yeah, you never know. I don't know how many he's fucking selling or whatever he's doing, Ricky Gervais, but if you don't like Ricky Gervais and you like us, listen to us. Put that on an advertisement.
Speaker 2:Well, ok, so that's it. This episode will be released on New Year's Eve and thank you everyone who's listened to any of what we've done this year, but in particular, who's got through all these Christmas episodes. And, yeah, thank you, mr Andrew Hague, for being co-host. Co what would you say? Co I'd just say sort of knows nothing. Co Even this, we don't know.
Speaker 1:It's a great way to end it, I think, yeah, thanks. Anyway, I really enjoyed it and thank you to everybody else and have a great new year and you'll be hearing more from us in 2024.
Speaker 2:You better believe it. See you later. Everyone Bye. If anyone wants to get in touch with us, send us anything. Find us on Twitter at livingwithmade1, or you can send us an email at livingwithmadelyatoutlookcom.