Living With Madeley
"Living With Madeley" is a nostalgic TV based podcast that attempts to take a humorous look at some of the most weird, wonderful and woeful moments in UK television history.
Titled "Living With Madeley" as neither host can remember a week of their lives where Richard Madeley hasn't been on their screens, join Andrew and Liam as they take you on a journey to TV past.
Living With Madeley
Midweek Madeley - 14/01/25
From the missed Bullseye Christmas special to our spirited dive into the Gavin and Stacey finale, this episode is a tapestry of cherished TV moments and the listener feedback that keeps us on our toes. We're apologizing, laughing, and everything in between as we navigate the world of '90s TV and the pop culture phenomena that remains etched in our minds.
With stories that burst into laughter, we unravel the peculiarities of figures like Frank Bruno and Phil "The Power" Taylor, while reminiscing about oddball moments from 'Crimewatch' reenactments. Our conversations veer into the wondrously strange, with anecdotes about penguin-inspired crime syndicates and the ever-controversial reality TV sagas. Adding to the chaos, we ponder the comedic brilliance of shows like The Sopranos and the quirky appeal of British sitcoms, all through the lens of listener insights that bring warmth and chuckles to our discussions.
Prepare for a whirlwind of comedy as we invite you to explore the transformative power of pop culture from the '90s to today. With witty banter, we dissect celebrity personas, from Noel Edmonds' eccentricities to the mythical aura surrounding Van Day, and even the perplexing allure of Bucks Fizz. As we tease our upcoming "difficult series 9" and comedy specials, we express our heartfelt gratitude for our listeners' support. Join us on this delightful escapade of humor, nostalgia, and the shared stories that make our podcast a joy to create. Connect with us on Twitter or shoot us an email—your feedback is the heartbeat of our show!
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Speaker 2:Midweek Midweek Midweek Midweek Midweek Midweek Midweek to Midweek Madeleine. This is the spin-off show to the nostalgic TV podcast Living With Main Life.
Speaker 1:My name's.
Speaker 3:It's a spin-off show.
Speaker 2:Is it a spin-off? Is it classed as a spin-off? What is it?
Speaker 3:It's like a I don't think it's a stand-alone show, is it? It's just a.
Speaker 2:If you fuckers paid us for this stuff, this would be a Patreon, wouldn yeah?
Speaker 3:but even that, I don't know, it doesn't stand alone, does it? It's only based off the back of the other content. So I don't think it's a spin-off, I just think it's a supplementary show. I would say it's a supplementary show so based on what we're going to do sorry, I cut you off introducing us, didn't I? It's fine, it's absolutely fine.
Speaker 2:Straight back into it New Year, straight into of the old stuff, yeah. So first I want to ask you a big apology about because we said we were going to do the Bullseye Christmas special. That was going to be the last festive episode that we did, but once again my mum had to go into hospital and she was in there across Christmas basically. So I just didn't have time to fit in, which is very selfish of her Convenient wasn't it Convenient, very convenient.
Speaker 2:She never liked Bullseye, but we will do that next year when we do an Ex-Christmas episode.
Speaker 3:By the way, for anyone, because I don't know if we actually mentioned the episode, but for anyone who did watch it or wanted to watch it, just for reference, because we're not going to talk about it right now, but it's still a fantastic episode. Frank Bruno, linda Lussardi and John McCririck are the guests on it, but Phil, phil, the Power Taylor's on there, it's 1991. And Frank Bruno's contribution is stunning actually. So, yeah, like it's, we've passed the festivity now, haven't we? So we're not, we're not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we're not going to do it. Yeah, we didn't want to do it later on, and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:But we did that you know.
Speaker 2:But we've got. There's no reason why we can't have a lot of fun today. So what we're doing, we're going to go through your comments because it's been a while since we've done a midweek, because obviously we wanted to fit in as many Christmas episodes as we could. So we're going to get on to your comments from the past must be weeks, liam.
Speaker 3:We've got quite a lot here, haven't we? Yes, there's a bit of a build-up in there, so we'll try not to just list out comments. We'll try and pause and have a bit of chit-chat about some of them.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what, later on as well, we're going to be talking about, because we had a message in I think we're LJD who disagreed with our 94 being better than 2024, which we said on the Christmas Day TV schedule, which we said on the last pod, and we're going to have a bit of chat about the Christmas TV. What?
Speaker 3:we call the Christmas Day TV. Well, yeah, because we made that assumption having not seen the Christmas TV.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Whereas now we can have another bite of the cherry.
Speaker 2:So we're going to have an hour analysis on Gavin and Stacey finale, but we will be talking about that. So, finale, but we will be talking about that. So you know, stay tuned, I'm excited Liam.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll get to that, but let's start with the comments. So you've sent these to me and you've labelled them Last midweek mainly, so I'm assuming I'm starting with the comments on the last midweek episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so these are the comments below.
Speaker 3:These are the comments on the comments comments episode, then, aren't they.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the comments on the last comments episode yeah.
Speaker 3:Where does it end? Can we do comments on comments? About the comments.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we could do comments upon the comments about the comments.
Speaker 3:Right, okay, but let's start. So, Tyrone, I'd like to reconfirm I've not left you a one-star review. This podcast is easily in my top four and, trust me, I listen to proper shit, ones for defence rest. Yeah, we've thrown shade a couple of times towards Tyrone, haven't we? He could be the one-star man.
Speaker 2:I absolutely adore his podcast. Top four, top three or five Top four.
Speaker 3:We might as well just say fourth yeah, you are my four favourite podcast.
Speaker 1:You are my four favourite podcast. So, yeah, really do appreciate it.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's Ty, it's not Tyrone. It's not Tyrone. Is it Now? Yeah, so we do believe you for now. We'll see, but as it stands, we accept it's not a one star from Tyrone. Comment from Chris. Your reference to the Raggy Dolls remind me that in 2008, my mate messaged Babestation to ask the presenters to sing the theme tune. She didn't, but he received so many premium messages back he had to cancel his contract Unbelievable.
Speaker 3:I don't. This is not me like. Oh, how does Babestation work? I've obviously seen it and I know of it. But what does it mean? Do you get charged per message back then?
Speaker 2:I presume that I don't know how this works. I've never actually sent a message into Babestation, but I presume, I presume, like I don't know, is there women on there who, like, think this guy seems like a cheeky chap. He's like a bit of a cheeky character, so I'm going to start bombarding him with messages.
Speaker 3:I don't know if that's what's happening.
Speaker 2:I don't know I didn't think it were that. But you know, if you ever have you know, messaged Babestation or know anything about Babestation, then please do let us know.
Speaker 3:Tell us more. Yeah, definitely, for all. He is Chimpanae. Are you still calling him Chimpman or Chipman or whatever it is Correct? Shipman or whatever it is Correct? That's his name. I think he's actually it's Andrew's brother, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah yeah, that comes up later that actually in the comments. Yeah, I didn't realise that, to be honest. So yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:Crime Watch, there was always a couple driving a country road who distinctively remember. When one of them says, I wonder what he's up to, why would I be able to remember in that?
Speaker 2:much detail. I love it. Crime Watch we can't do an episode on Crime Watch, because it's too.
Speaker 3:That's what you say that bit as well, isn't it? There is always like oh, he looks suspicious. You don't say that in real life, do you? No, it's like.
Speaker 2:I was walking across the road and I saw a guy and he was wearing a backpack and I thought, hmm, don't see many backpacks around this part, and then he'll call back to the reenactment and go.
Speaker 3:Hmm, he's wearing a backpack, hmm, yeah, I remember distinctively he had a very suspicious walk yeah, yeah, you were walking like what's his face? Off Stranger Village yeah, I forgot his name. Man, his name. Man, what's his name? He was brilliant as all wasn't he.
Speaker 2:Oh, I want to keep this up, Kevin. This is going to be a big.
Speaker 3:Yes, this is going to be a great walk. I want to make this famous this year. Anyway, whatever his name was, he was brilliant. The Strangest Village Watch the episode if you want to know more about. Remember when is the lowest form of conversation and I've seen this since, actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, this is on my, because I said remember that scene of Sopranos where Tony says, ooh, remember, but he didn't actually say who remembers, but he said that that is it. Who fucking remembers, I think, like I don't know, probably Knowing Paul, probably with Paul they go in.
Speaker 3:Who remembers he goes hey fuck, remember, fucking lowest form of conversation. I think Paul is making another one of his like yeah, remember that. Yeah, and remember when is the lowest form of conversation? It's funny because you get to the stage where it starts to hate Paul, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's brilliant, isn't it? I love that scene where I mean we're going to do Sprout Nose next series. But I love that scene where he's goes so funny Sprout, and I was at times.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and do you want me to carry on through, because obviously I've got Steve Irwin next.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you carry on for the first three episodes and I'll do the last three, so we move on to the legend Steve Irwin and the episode we did about him.
Speaker 3:So from Real Bobby B, another great one, boys, well held. Liam the South African was teetering on the edge of going, dudley, penilsualia. If you know now, andrew, I haven't got a fucking clue.
Speaker 2:No, but what's it called that place? And it's not Penilsualia. There's a place in Australia and it's somewhat like Penilsualia, but it's not that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but again you say it's not Pennsylvania. Is that what you're trying to say?
Speaker 2:It's not Pennsylvania. No, it's not. It's not, it's not Peninsualia, peninsualia. I can't remember exactly what it is, but yeah, but yeah. I apologise for that, because I can't pronounce it.
Speaker 3:I can't pronounce a lot of things. Apologise to the.
Speaker 2:Australian people, the Australian visitors, listeners out there, cool blimey.
Speaker 3:He's just called somewhere pencil swillier. Um, yeah, and I've never watched any steve erwin shows, but these clips sound like someone doing a fake accent. I thought it was one of you two at first. Yes, eddie murphy isn't in lethal weapon either. That'd be danny glover. Yeah, this is you mixing up. Yeah, we spoke about this.
Speaker 2:This wasn't this is yeah, this is not my finest hour. This. For a start I said it was um, who did? I say richard Pryor, and then I said no, no, it's not Richard Pryor, it's Eddie Murphy, it's Danny Glover. So you know, that is not my finest hour, I'm afraid to say as people know Not your worst hour though either, is it no?
Speaker 2:unfortunately, it's not my worst hour either, but yeah, that is yeah. I apologise to Danny Glover, eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor, who's sadly not longer with us, I believe yeah, I mean, I don't actually know about the.
Speaker 3:Is Danny Glover still with us? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 3:Eddie Murphy he did another Beverly Hills Cop fairly recently did he, yeah, same couple of guys. You know the couple of. Well, you won't have seen it never seen it, the same guys who were with him. The police guys are in it again, and then what's that?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's Police Academy, isn't it? When he goes brrrr or whatever, he does that noise, man, yeah, if he just did that, it'd be terrible. That impression is funny. Well, there's a few helicopter noises and things I don't know what he does Imagine if his trick was he could do. We've got a mate, haven't we? Russell Paul Jones, who can do a really good actually electric guitar noise. It does sound. It's not as good as he thinks. Actually I'm probably going overboard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it sounds like someone doing an impression of an electronic guitar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he does it all the time. He's like it's like a really distorted guitar. Can he do that, this guy?
Speaker 3:I don't know, but yeah, I would imagine. So he can do all sorts. He can do bullets, he can do, like you say, the old helicopter noise. It somehow doesn't really make sense either at all, because I get he can make sound effects, but he can somehow make his voice louder like a tannoy or a public address system, as Partridge would say. Webding, does a snake even have a tail, or is it just one big tail with eyes and a mouth? Does Panchero, does Panchero? He wants one of the listeners to shoot him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because this is where.
Speaker 3:Yes, do you want a listener to shoot?
Speaker 2:you. Well, I said yeah because this is where, yes, do you want a listener to shoot you? Well, I said yeah because obviously I said you wanted to go the same way as your hero, steve Irwin, which had been stung by a stingray.
Speaker 1:It was a stingray wasn't it Stingray for the heart, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I said, oh yeah, it'd be great to go out with your heroes and genuinely it wasn't trying to be funny. The first thing that came to who, as everyone knows, died of AIDS.
Speaker 3:I should be checking that out, because it was that ridiculous yeah yeah, yeah, of all the ways you could die, and bearing in mind we've done an episode about him as well and how sort of at the end he was basically just in bed like wasting away, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then my second one I thought of was John Lennon, who obviously, as we know, got cut down in a hail of bullets, got cut down in a hail of bullets, hail of bullets, yeah, yeah. So yeah, the two that I thought of and I still can't. I mean, obviously I've not thought about it much since, but I can't think of someone who died who I'd like to go like that way.
Speaker 3:I mean Tommy Cooper died on stage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could die on stage as the great comedian. That, yeah, everyone will laugh at him. Have you seen that death footage of that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think you've probably seen that to be lots of times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone's pissing themselves off. Tiny Tim as well. He died on stage with his ukulele.
Speaker 3:Yeah so oh Tim.
Speaker 2:It is Tiny Tim. Yeah, he's like a comedian joke. Comedian, all right, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know like what celebrity death you would choose, like James Dean. Was it just a car crash, was it? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Or like Barry, but not Barry the agent actually Blow your money on prostitutes and a gun in the mouth. Yeah, yeah, fair enough Classic I mean does a snake have a tail?
Speaker 3:So I think it does, but I think it's defined by the bones in the back and where it sort of meets where there used to be a pelvis, I think there's still science. I think the bit after that is considered the tail. I think the bit before that is still part of its main body would be my answer to that.
Speaker 2:Science hour.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not that funny, but that's how I would define it. It's not a special, it's not a talent. Is it, though? Knowledge?
Speaker 2:Yeah, science hour. Yeah, not that funny, but that's how I would define it.
Speaker 3:It's not a special, it's not a talent. Is it, though, knowledge? Yeah, exactly yeah. Nick really enjoyed this Greg Wallace episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we were talking about Greg Wallace, obviously, because that's when it all came out about him, and we still well, he can't get on though.
Speaker 3:Now highlights. Andrew wanted to go like Freddie Mercury. Liam crying with laughter, that was me trying to tell the Stratford Zoo story. New Zealander Russell Crowe is the most famous Australian and he was definitely an Australian, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sorry, go on. Is Russell Crowe Australian?
Speaker 3:No, I think that is right. He is from New Zealand.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that, so he's not the most famous Australian, obviously.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, he can't be, can he? Maybe he could be, but he isn't. Factually he's definitely Australian. And the impression of the disgraced Aussie artist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's obviously Mr Roll Farris who we talk about later actually.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Andrew mispronounced several countries, including creating a new place in Mexico called ah fuck it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, I can't you know if he's people who listen to Blasepod know this. If he's longer than like about I don't know five words, I'm not even going to make an attempt to pronounce that. To be honest, letters, Letters, words and letters. Oh yeah, letters, yeah, letters, not words. Five words, imagine that.
Speaker 3:That's extraordinary. Words are his tools.
Speaker 2:Yeah, five words yeah.
Speaker 3:I seem to remember this sort of triggering, a bit of a conversation, like people coming together over tour choices, because he also said tour choices are a lot more interesting than people imagine and do have their own personalities. Here's mine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a couple of people posted a picture of the tour choices. We weren't slagging tour. I mean it's funny that episode, because we thought we might get a bit of stick for me obviously saying I'd like to die of AIDS, essentially. And you, actually, why did you just clip that? And then you say you laughing well, you weren't laughing at this, but it could have been perceived that you were laughing at monkeys with cancer. I like to say the only thing we got, stick for.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah slagging off tortoises. So I've got nothing against the lads, I just don't know much about them and also you've added there as a side note.
Speaker 3:He had us in his top three podcasts of the year, so thanks for choosing to only listen to three podcasts last year so we've got top three and top four so far we're doing well.
Speaker 3:Tim Panay's back really good episode. Terrific summary of Mr Greg Wallace yeah, we captured his essence, didn't we? Yeah, jemima had me laughing out loud at this episode. Thanks guys. Um, thanks, jemima. Um, is that because we got a sort of new follower fairly recently and I looked and she's sort of some sort of doing a medical master's or something and well, yeah, I'm not, I'm not that familiar with jemima.
Speaker 2:she's not one of the normal common commenters and it's not normal that we get people in. Um, you know such high class fields, no offense. Normal that we get people in. You know such high-class fields, no offence to us all as listeners, obviously. But you know we're very low-class, sort of Low-brow, low-brow Very nice to hear Low-brow, low-class, yeah.
Speaker 3:So yeah, thank you for that, Jemima Craig, one of your best episodes. The Freddie Mercury bit and Liam's recollection of his mate's observation at the zoo had me laughing out loud. Great stuff, fellas Cheers. Craig Nav, fascinating man. It's sad that he's no longer alive. Would have been a great guest on your podcast, can?
Speaker 2:you imagine that? Oh, crikey guys, I will listen to some of your episodes. That, paul Sykes mate, I can't believe it.
Speaker 3:Can you imagine that? Yeah, what would he like? I think he might like that Richard Hillman. What a nasty piece of work he was.
Speaker 2:Yeah he's a really nasty guy.
Speaker 3:I can't go nasty, he's a stinker mate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a real nasty piece of work. And him nasty, nick, big brother. I watch him, by the way, big brother, do you remember the racism row?
Speaker 3:Yeah, dude, I must have.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I'm thinking of a different one then. No, no, no. Jay Goody, shilpa Chetay, joe O'Meara and Daniel Lloyd, and those three basically ganged up on Shilpa Chetay and they were saying things like why don't you fall off back to where she came from and proper diplomatic sort of thing. Like Gordon Brown had to make a speech, they were making speeches in India about it, and when they all like it's brilliant watching back, well, obviously what they said weren't brilliant, but watching back about how much of an uproar it caused and it basically well, I'd say it ended. I don't know what Daniel Lloyd's up to now. Joe O'Meara, obviously I think she recently reformed S Club, but you know, yeah, okay. And then Jade Goody, obviously she went back into another big brother and then she found out she got cancer and died. So my dad a hero, although she was a hate figure then, but you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Chilpachetti, she was really pretty. What did she do?
Speaker 2:I think she was a Bollywood actor, really big in India, and these three she was just very sort of bold Again, I'm slagging the working class off of what I am, but all lower class even. But she was a much more higher class person, I'd say, than J Cuddy, joe Amir and Danielle Lloyd. She was very like hello, you know what I mean. And they were like fuck off, you fucking. I don't know why. They're all Scousers. But yeah, you know what I mean. So yeah, and they basically just bullied her. Really, I don't think.
Speaker 1:We don't condone bullying do we?
Speaker 2:We don't condone we do not condone bullying in the workplace environment.
Speaker 3:No, julian boys. Well done on the Steve Irwin app. He was an absolute legend. He played cricket in Hyde in 2006 when he died Couldn't believe it. Part of Australia died that day. We saw him as bulletproof national icon. Yeah, I mean we sort of kind of adopted him a little bit as our own Stephen Irwin. But yeah, as I said at the time, it hit me really hard. So for the Australians it must have been a right shock. It was bigger over there than here, I would assume. I know we sort of started chucking him on telly a lot but yeah, it must have been awful.
Speaker 2:I mean, first they found out Steve Irwin passed away. Then they found out Russell Crowe was actually from New Zealand. What's going to go? What's next?
Speaker 3:Wait till they hear about Rolf Harris. And then sad Ken, what a guy Steve Irwin is, on the other hand. And then sad Ken, what a guy Steve Irwin is, on the other hand. Never trust a man who doesn't like penguins, which is you. Well, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I stand by it. I think of all the animals. You don't want to upset people, do you? But what's the point of having a bird that just goes in the sea? I just don't get it.
Speaker 2:I'm just not with it, it's more funny.
Speaker 3:Exactly yeah, and.
Speaker 2:Penguin of Batman is probably the second best villain ever in Batman, I'd say.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've not watched the new version yet. Did you do that?
Speaker 2:That's the 60s one, isn't it? Yeah, I like the backstory to him. What's his name? Oswald Oswald Copperpot, is it? Something like that? Yeah, and he obviously got bullied and then he was looking after his mum or whatever, and then, I don't know, she gave him an umbrella or something and he started battering people to death and he became a yeah, gang. What a guy. Penguin the Penguin Brilliant His life's parallel to yours, him anyway Very very similar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, All I need is an umbrella and yeah, I'm well away. Imagine me doing like a crime syndicate, this frantic crime syndicate.
Speaker 3:Just keep going wrong like oh shit. Well, he was robbing a bank, but he dropped the gun. He ended up dropping his wallet. He actually left his money behind. They're £100 up.
Speaker 2:Going down an internet in a wheelbarrow With a lesson on summer line tune playing.
Speaker 3:That'd be a good story, that wouldn't it. Every week you try and rob something, but you always end up out of pocket and going down a hill in a bath.
Speaker 2:That would be a really good sketch. Actually, what's his name? I always get mixed up. It's Compo. What's the guy off fucking? This Is England called Was he Compo. Was he Compo as well?
Speaker 3:No, I know you mean, but I don't know, to be honest. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Those two got mixed up as well. He's like a massive Switch roles. Yeah, and he's going down like Doing that hell in a bathroom Anyway.
Speaker 3:Anyway, let's move on to the comments we got for the Bucks Fizz episode, which was the David Van Day versus I can't even remember the other guy's name.
Speaker 2:Bobby G, bobby G yeah.
Speaker 3:So, sean, in a land of make-believe, damn you. Living with Madeley, I can't stop singing that now, which is that's the one you said is their best song, wasn't it, I think?
Speaker 2:so Sorry if Sean's listening. By the way, he's going to be singing it again In the land of Maple.
Speaker 3:Leaf, yeah good song, yeah good. Bobby B. What a set of pricks to a lot of them. Bobby and his wife playing the pathetic victim. She's obviously trouble, but Van Day is in his own world, his own fucking world. Sorry, I won't take out the swearing.
Speaker 3:We do allow swearing on this channel. You've got the take on this one absolutely perfect. Van Day is both abhorrent and a prick, but you find yourself sort of on his side. Bobby G definitely not allowed back in the original line-up because his missus would be out of work. Yeah, I think so. I have a mate that looks like a love child, a Van Day and a bloke. It's a great ending, isn't it?
Speaker 2:brilliant that, and he's a prick as well yeah which one's Holmes under the hammer. I can't quite think of that. Well, what's Dion Dublin? He's not Holmes under the hammer, is he? It can't be Dion Dublin no, it might be. Imagine looking like a cross between Van Day and Dion Dublin. It'd be incredible. We've got a story about Dion Dublin, haven't we? Which, well, I don't know if we're allowed, we are allowed to say, it, aren't we? Our mate Fern, I remember when he shared what did he do, did he?
Speaker 1:share the soil.
Speaker 2:Did I Not sitting down?
Speaker 3:No. I think, I don't think he had evidence of what he thought, I'm sure he said he had a pee, I think he lived in a communal building and he said he thought Dion Dublin had a huge penis, but I don't think that's because he saw it at any point.
Speaker 2:I'm sure he said he had a Pete when they went to a cubicle.
Speaker 3:yeah, I thought he was just basing that off sort of stories he'd heard. I don't know if he had any.
Speaker 2:Stories. He'd heard the long myth of Dion Dublin's penis.
Speaker 3:I don't know. We don't condone or condemn his possible large penis.
Speaker 2:He should be applauded, if anything.
Speaker 3:Neil sent us a comment. I don't believe Andrew has seen Terminator 2. To be fair, it's a good show.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen it. I know the music. The reason I know the music is because our mate, brendan, had movie soundtracks he used to play all the time and that one of his favourites Terminator 2 theme tune. That's the only reason I've never seen Terminator 2.
Speaker 3:When me and Brendan worked on the meat counter at St Andrews some mornings at about half five in the morning, one of us would start whistling the tune quite quietly and then the other one had to bang the counter to the brilliant good times what's?
Speaker 2:what's the famous? What's? Remember when I said I'd kill you last, I lied. I know that is that Terminator 2 no that is.
Speaker 3:Twins, I'd kill you last. I lied, yeah, no, it's not Twins. Hey, bennett, remember when I said I'd queued you last? I can't remember, it might be last stack. No, it's not.
Speaker 2:Lord um and then I'm not sure, and then the other one I know from him is this is definitely not Terminator. Do not drink and bake. Yeah, that is. I think it's his wife throws a glass of some air.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's just Do not drink and bake, staron Stone, isn't it? That is the one.
Speaker 2:Never seen that, but I have seen that scene for some reason.
Speaker 3:Get yourself to Mars. I can't remember. Anyway, ljd, do not drink and bake. I knew in a heyday that Bobby G's real name was Bobby Gubby. I fully understand him changing his name, as it doesn't exactly scream pop star. It's not just Bobby Gubby.
Speaker 2:It kind of sounds that ridiculous.
Speaker 3:It's almost quite good. I did wonder if David Van Day had some Lowlands family connection, but no, he was christened David John Day. The man's a genius. Swap your middle name to Van and you instantly sound like a superstar of stage and screen. I may have to review my middle name too, so that would be LJ Van D.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Or L Van JD.
Speaker 2:L Van JD. Yeah, I mean, we obviously spoke about this. I thought it were LJD or Neil, I can't remember which one it was. We said this this is fantastic. I mean, if you put a van in the middle of anyone's name, you instantly straight away think oh, he sounds interesting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I wonder what he is. I wonder what he's about.
Speaker 2:I don't know, mike. I'm sorry. Who's the most boring? James Milner? People say he's boring.
Speaker 1:I don't know if he is, but if you call James Van Milner, no one's saying he's the most boring man.
Speaker 2:Are they All of a sudden? Yeah, no, I think the logic holds, yeah, well.
Speaker 2:I'll come on to the next comments now, because we're going on to Noel Van Edmonds, which actually sums him up quite well. It makes him sound like an evil genius, noel Van Edmonds. So this is the Noel Edmonds Christmas present episode. And RealBobbyB said you didn't hold back on this one, boys. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the distinct feeling that Leroy is not a fan. He said he had to re-round twice after thinking what the fuck was Noel Edmonds doing walking down London Road, which I can't remember that bit. What's that?
Speaker 3:I don't know. Did we say he was in London? I can't remember, I can't remember.
Speaker 2:I don't know of him being on London Road, but he also said it's another in the long list of living with Maidler reveals. That got him thinking, yep, he's a bellend. And that's what we're here for to make people think other people are bellends. That's our service, isn't it?
Speaker 3:Pull back the curtain, don't we?
Speaker 2:We say, yeah, you think's untouchable, like, who everyone agrees is a good guy Like, and we'll try, and we'll try and make you hate him. That'd be a good little task, that actually.
Speaker 3:What were he called With the really like terrible anecdotes out Des Des something.
Speaker 2:Des, not Des Lynam.
Speaker 3:Des O'Connor.
Speaker 2:Des O'Connor yeah, Everyone hates Des O'Connor.
Speaker 3:Des O'Connor. Yeah, everyone hates him anyway, don't they? Well, not everyone hates him.
Speaker 2:He's dead, I don't know well.
Speaker 3:I think it would be interesting, because I think he's great. I wonder if we could. Could we turn people on Bob Monkhouse, bob Mortimer? Oh, that would be odd, wouldn't it? Yeah, the truth behind Bob Mortimer.
Speaker 2:The truth behind Bob Mortimer. Yeah, we're trying to do some digging and see if we can get some. Yeah, so if you've got anyone who you think is universally alive, we'll try and pull them apart.
Speaker 3:It does annoy me actually, honestly. Have you seen his?
Speaker 2:What I Lie To you stuff.
Speaker 3:We're just going to sow a little seed in there, because if you're going to tell, even when your stories are true, if you're going to put that much nonsense in them and don't get me wrong, he's absolutely. But there's no way. Every moment in his life has lived like a fairy tale, like with all these magical characters.
Speaker 2:I've always found that with Wood I Lie To. It's one of the reasons I don't watch it much, because I just think I'm not having this as being. This is not as mad as you're making it.
Speaker 3:He'll tell a story which is something like that. I don't know. He went. He once went to the fishmonger, took off his hat and he had a warm Cornish pasty underneath it and it's like. But that didn't happen, did it? No, but then again, again.
Speaker 2:Going back to Russell Paul Jones, who we know, there's some stories like what we know is true about him and you think, nah, that's bollocks.
Speaker 2:And it is true. We've tried to get this guy to do his life story in a book or a blog or something, but understandably we don't really want to do it because a lot of it is, fairly I won't say it's embarrassing, but he might not want to. Some of them are embarrassing, but he might not want to revisit those moments because some of them are. I don't want to say any on here, but, yeah, he ends up in scrapes like that, basically, doesn't he?
Speaker 3:Yeah, but he doesn't know the bits that are funny. You almost have to sort of like tease out of him the funny bits, whereas. So what he'll do? Ross.
Speaker 2:I know it's probably boring, something you've never met, but what he'll normally do, ross is yeah, what happened last night? Then Ross, yeah, I went to the pub, yeah, three pints. Here we are actually John. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you'll go on for say and then obviously, someone threw a coconut at my head what? Like he'll just drop it in at the end like the mad bit at the end.
Speaker 3:So I say, well, good night. Yeah, not bad, not bad. Did you get home? All right? Well, yeah, once I got out the wheel a bit, I'd only been in there about an hour. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Just mad thing that happened, that he went home. Yeah, yeah, oh, have you seen that film? Blah, blah, blah. Then he'll just say well, obviously I got home late last night. Well, I got locked in a grit bin, didn't I? What yeah?
Speaker 3:He did once run off and hide in a grit bin, didn't?
Speaker 2:he.
Speaker 3:That is a real shreds of real story in there.
Speaker 2:He once argued with his girlfriend at the time and didn't, I don't know. I think he panicked because and he ran off and hid in a grit bin. Yeah, we found him in a grit bin.
Speaker 1:He was about 35 at the time.
Speaker 2:by the way, he's older than us, so yeah, ridiculous. Sad. Ken said he's just imagining Leroy's family gatherings and they're all just slagging Edmonds off because of a computer game.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, he's pretty much a picture of my Christmas Day, to be honest. No, I'm only joking. I don't think the rest of the family absolutely hates Edmonds like I do Did you come up in your family meals this year. Erm, no, I think we had an Edmonds free Christmas, just the way I like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just the way I like it. Ljd said love the Nils Edmonds shakedown. It says Noel's house party was just awful. By the way, mr Blobby, for fuck's sake, obviously we did do Noel's house party as an episode, didn't we? And we both agreed it was pretty shit really.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it clearly sort of was of a moment, wasn't it, because I remember everyone loving it at the time. Let's not rewrite history, but yeah, in hindsight it's not AIDS particularly well is it.
Speaker 2:I think we did decide. Oh no, we didn't decide we did, because I think we went up against Blind Day, didn't we? What were better? I can't remember what we decided were better. Actually, two evil people, godzilla and Edmonds, up against each other prime time. No wonder Jim Davidson kept getting roles, you're like you know, in comparison, yeah up against those two egos.
Speaker 3:yeah, you need a bit of light heart at Davidson, don't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, paula G said Edmund's an incredible specimen. He said he has got a completely unearned ego for a man with no discernible talent. Nol's HQ is the perfect relegation of Network, brass Eye and Partridge and yet he's convinced he's a generational talent and not just someone who can read a teleprompter. We'll come on to this later on, because we're going to.
Speaker 3:He made a whole lot of money, though, hadn't he, for someone that was sort of slagging off for no talent and stuff. He's quite a successful man.
Speaker 2:I know, but there's a lot of people like that, isn't they? It would like? I mean this one again. I know you want sort of want this, but you don't want this to happen. But I watched the um Jimmy Savile thing. You know what Steve Coogan did um a couple of weeks ago. I'm intrigued to know what I want to happen after this go on. Well, I thought you wanted well not not like without reason if he's no, no, no.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying like you want people to be harmed or anything, but like you know, if it's coming out you're like, no, what I?
Speaker 3:mean, though, is I don't want sort of false accusations to come out off the back of me not liking him. I just yeah, there's something I don't like about him, I think. I think what it is is. It would kind of justify it, it would think, ah, that's what I've seen through all the time, that's what I could see in the background. But, yeah, as of now.
Speaker 2:Completely talentless people Forget everything Jimmy Savile obviously did. What a fucking awful broadcaster Jimmy Savile were, and absolutely I know they're a different era.
Speaker 3:He's not funny, he's just odd, he looked unsounded, ridiculous, didn't he Like mainstream TV?
Speaker 2:What do you think Redmond's he's got that sort of. If you buy it into what people might say is a grift, is this heartwarming? I'm going to do this and I suppose in a way that's what Savile were doing. But Savile.
Speaker 3:I mean, imagine one of your catchphrases being ooh ooh, ooh, ooh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he sticks with that. Yeah, but anyway, off Savile. But yeah, it was all like obviously that weren't the main takeaway from watching. It went like bloody hell. I can see why people hate him. Rubbish Chip and A. He's back. He said. Edmund said if I was going to continue my career at the BBC, I would want to be fully confident that any production team I was provided with and then he returned Will we ever find out what his production team had to deliver? I'm at the edge of my seat. So this is me doing some live Wikipedia reading and not finishing the sentence off, and I'm not going to go back, I'm afraid. So it's like the Gavin and Stacey fishing trip You'll never know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I'm going to slag off Gavin and Stacey there.
Speaker 2:We'll get to that later mate. Webding said when Edmunds went to Paris, was it to take Liam, who has been in Paris? You know, it would explain their strong bond. I've not mentioned that for a long time. Actually have I. No, no, no, but you have been to Paris, I've been boy.
Speaker 2:I travel boy, you've been to it and you're Irish as well, so, yeah, it's great stuff. Then I want to end the Edmonds. I don't follow it. He had his fifth, by the way, on his end-of-year podcast list as well, so thanks for that. But he sent us this absolutely brilliant Edmonds rant which we're trying to find for the podcast, and he's from Noel's HQ. This is Noel's reaction. It's basically a councillor who won't go on his show, and this is Noel's reaction towards it.
Speaker 1:The council to come on the show. They declined. Their head of press, jim Vandenboos, actually said we don't talk to entertainment shows like yours. Well, actually, mr Vandenboos, I've got a message for you don't think, simply think this is an entertainment show and decide then that you don't want to talk to us because mark prince and the fight against knife crime didn't just turn around and dismiss us as an entertainment show. Actually, I created this show. I do not get paid a penny to do this show. I decided no fee. I wanted to put my heart and soul into it because I want to fight people like you and your council, because I think you're at the heart of what is wrong with this country. If, do you know something, something? Do you know something Mr Bannon-Bose? Mr Bannon-Bose and Wieldon District Council? I know I'm right, nick Clegg, he's behind us brilliant.
Speaker 3:You said I didn't see the comment live. You told me today, watch this before record. I absolutely it shouldn't be funny really. There's not. There's not actually anything really to find funny, but somehow Edmonds makes it his own, doesn't he?
Speaker 2:there's a lot of funny things.
Speaker 3:Mr Vandenboos is so funny well, let me tell you, mr Vandenboos.
Speaker 2:Mr Vandenboos, he is so much. Obviously we've got the sorry Paul G, who we're talking about? The brass, this is so brass, iron partridge. Let me tell you, mr Vandenboos, what a name. If it were just Mr Smith, it wouldn't be half as funny, and he keeps saying it as well.
Speaker 2:Obviously we're going to play a little bit there, but it's like four minutes and Mr Vandenboos will not come on the show. Listen, mr Vandenboos already. I'm already siding with him of all Edmunds, but there's so many good bits because he says this look, do not say this is an entertainment show. It cuts the crowd and we're all wearing faux mans.
Speaker 3:Yeah, even the bit where he says, and he said it will not come on an entertainment show like this one. It pulls us for the crowd to go.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, but he doesn't think it's an entertainment show.
Speaker 1:He thinks it's like fucking Watch Dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah yeah, he thinks it's like fucking Question Time, but there's a brilliant bit at the end where, like that clip which was played, where he says Nick Clegg, he's behind us, he's so like the Office, like David Brennan, nick Clegg, so, and that's he's up against Nick Clegg and I don't think you noticed this. I presume you did notice it. The guy sat with him on the sofa.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's Keith Treadwin.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know why he's there. He actually reads the correspondence back from the local council. I don't know what he's there for. I don't know what he's doing. It's very rare you see a deadly series Keith Treadwin but Therefore I don't know what he's doing. He's deadly, it's very rare you see a deadly series Keith Chegwin. But yeah, he's in the moment.
Speaker 2:It's absolutely fantastic because his whole thing is this is not an entertainment show. He's talking to a man called Jim Vanderbos. He's saying people with foam hands. He's people going, oh, and he's sat with Keith Chegwin.
Speaker 3:He's sat with Cheggers.
Speaker 2:Absolutely unbelievable. God bless, edmonds, that's what I say. Right, we're on to cooking now. And it was Ange who actually told us who asked us to do the Fanny Craddock cooking thing. She said glad you enjoyed it. I agree that both her appearance and manner is terrifying, reminiscent of Thatcher and also Miss Richards, of that Fawlty Towers episode, which is so, by the way. 70's taste aside, she makes a balls up of many dishes shoddy presentation, burnt buns, haphazard icing and piping yeah, which is weird, isn't it?
Speaker 3:because you kind of imagine that people would almost be better at baking back then they didn't have nothing else to do, was there?
Speaker 2:what do you mean?
Speaker 3:they've got nothing else to do well, I've got loads of options these days, like YouTube channels and podcasts. More of these. Yeah, doing a few more of these. But yeah, I reckon I can probably cook better than her.
Speaker 2:Cooking quiz machines. We've got it all.
Speaker 3:She was like the pinnacle of cooking and I reckon I would beat her in a cook-off In a cook-off.
Speaker 2:Well, as we'll come on to in fact later on, you have natural flair. But Jade said brilliant. She said we had her at Fanny Rabbit Hold, which I genuinely. It's like. You know, this is just the pure comedian in me. I didn't write that.
Speaker 3:But yeah, no, no, I can confirm that Natural flair. Just roll off the tongue with you.
Speaker 2:And she said she'd like a spin-off show. That's just me talking about my experiences with dyspraxia, but, as I've said, I don't like speaking about it. I told you a story actually we were talking about on the way back from Watford away last week. I don't know if I should say this. It might make me sound Well, it makes me sound completely mad. So this sums up my entire personality. I think you know what I'm going to say here. When you killed the man.
Speaker 3:Almost no, it's not this, but no, I can't remember, to be honest.
Speaker 2:So this sums up my personality in that I've got dyspraxia and I suffer with anxiety as well at times. This sums it all perfectly. So we were in school one day and one of my mates came in and I went to trip him over as a joke. But so we were in school one day and one of my mates came in and I went to trip him over as a joke, but not actually trip him over, you know, like wee, but because I've got dyspraxia.
Speaker 2:I pushed him too hard and he went flying and he smashed his head on the floor. So he got up and I thought he's going to be fuming. He's going to hit me. So I just started hitting him in the face because I was out of pure panic and, too, got suspended. And that whole thing was purely because the dyspraxia caused the incident and then my anxiety caused the second incident.
Speaker 3:I rest my case. Your honour sounds very much like a defence it does sound like a lie.
Speaker 2:This is why I wasn't going to bring it up, but I think it's important that people know I'm not an aggressive man.
Speaker 2:I wasn't aggressive, I know but that again it sums up the only two sides there to my personality dyspraxia. Oh, he's messed that up and I thought he looked angry and I thought, if he gets, because you're a much bigger guy than me, as most people are, and I thought, if he gets first punch and I've had it. So I just started hitting him, him, and then I had to go round to his house and apologise and explain to him yeah, fine, yeah.
Speaker 2:Living with Madeleine the Major said if it's not too late and it was too late he'd like to share his dad's diary entry from 1998 about the late great Delia Smith. This is brilliant. I don't know why he's got his dad's diary, by the way, but his dad's diary in 1998, 1998 said we've suffered Delia Smith on TV. God, it's boring. She needs a rocket up her arse to try and inject some pace into her programme. My intention span is about 10 minutes. Then I start losing interest.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I take his point, but that was kind of the charm of Delia, wasn't it? She was quite slow-paced and like now, next we're going to do it was quite sort of easy watch.
Speaker 1:I get it.
Speaker 3:I get where he's. What is it? Would it be the majors? Senior-major.
Speaker 2:Major-senior yeah, major-senior. Senior-stevenson Neil says my dad used to confuse the names of Ainsley Harriot with the boxer Alder Harrison.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've heard that done before in real life.
Speaker 2:yeah, he said he's fighting for British red title this week, isn't he Ainsley Harriot? I said, who against Jamie Oliver? No, he's so shit, really brilliant.
Speaker 3:He's in the middle of a boxing match. Look at Audley. Look at what's Audley doing.
Speaker 2:He says Ainsley might have beat Aldi on points. Thinking about it, I wouldn't be that surprised at all. Genuinely, ptrd said now all your donuts can look like Fanny's, which is a really famous line which I meant to bring up, actually, that her husband once said Now all your donuts can look like Fanny's. And we've got a really good quote here from Chad. We explained this privately so you described Fanny Craddock. Good quote here from Chad. Who sort of explained this privately? So you said you described Fanny Craddock as a battle axe and you weren't sure if that was the right term to use.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, I just didn't know if in this day and age if I'd be shot down and hail bullets for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Chad said what does that term mean? Because we used to call a girl, I think. He said a girl, you used to work with Battleaxe. I said oh, it's just like you know, someone who sort of you know is quite forthright with their opinions. I think that's right, innit. That's what.
Speaker 3:I'd say it's like. I would say it's sort of a dominant female, like a head teacher who's quite strict, or like a strict head. I think Ansa didn't she like the sort of Thatcher feel to Fanny Craddock, which is, yeah, it's that sort of quite imposing, quite intimidating sort of male character. Female character.
Speaker 2:Sorry, so I saw her explain this to Chad and Chad responded by well, now I can understand why, god she is rough looking. That's a real incredible word from Chad, yeah.
Speaker 3:Chad is very good at just getting straight to the point.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to repeat on it, it's nothing bad. But you know I'm not going to throw him under a bus and let him explain to myself that people didn't like it, but said something on our chat yesterday which was absolutely fucking hilarious. I'm laughing at that.
Speaker 2:I missed it yeah, Absolutely fucking hilarious. I'm laughing at that. Look at that, I miss it. Yeah, Webbo said great episode Roy on about onions in puddings is intriguing him Says is that another dyspraxia symptom? So I've just had to explain to him. When I went about onions in puddings he thought I meant cakes Fucking onions in cakes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you banged on it. In fact, you talked about this in the taxi whenever I saw you at Boxing Day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, another thing as well. When I went to Watford I got a cheese burger, I said no onions, give me onions. Scraped them off, got a bit of onion on my coat, literally tried everything, can't get it off. So maybe I'm going around to your no onions world.
Speaker 3:You've never known an onion to stain anything? No, I don't think so. It's probably more in it, is it yeah?
Speaker 2:all the grease, yeah, so like horrible. Anyway, he said good dinner item conversation. At the end too, he said, apart from Liam slagging off Tufty Club by saying this is terrible chat Because obviously they had the same conversation.
Speaker 3:Yeah, about roast dinner. What was on?
Speaker 2:the dinner, wasn't it? He also obviously found it funny that he said I will always ask for pork if I get the choice, which is classic.
Speaker 1:Classic Webmo.
Speaker 2:Classic Webmo. And he said pizza in for a kick-off is a superb accidental gag when discussing the royal family boot in a turkey about microwave lasagna for a golf kick. And he said ask for Panchero's dyspraxia, he fully agrees with you, but it suddenly disappears when beer's involved. He said he once saw me carry three pints through a busy pub and a beer garden and then put them down without spilling a drop. Maybe the cure is alcoholism. So you know, this is a fairly new thing for me carrying three pints.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not coming until fairly recently that, and even I often, even if you're just going to the bar for three drinks.
Speaker 2:You sprint generally Boxing day when we're having a pint.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I tend to go and get involved because I don't, like I can kind of see the problems coming normally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he also said does Leroy have some decorative cow manure in his garden that regularly needs a trim? That's because, when she was talking about these, shears have been sterilised. You know. Obviously you said, oh God, there's cow manure on this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I was just picturing a scenario where you're trimming the grass, you put them down. Somebody's fertilised the flower beds. There's contamination, yeah that's fair enough.
Speaker 2:Case closed, job done. Yep, can't argue with that. Sad Ken said Leroy absolutely fuming at Edmonds being full of himself one week. Then the next week he's saying he's got natural flair.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fair point. Fair point, well made, how much would Edmonds definitely tell you he's got natural flair at whatever that's so good TV schedule.
Speaker 2:Next, this is when we did we did 1994 the TV schedule. I keep fumbling over this. It's really really simple which TV was better Christmas Day 2024 or 1994. Yeah, that's it, he's got it. Yeah, so the Major said he was very pleased by the Alan Bennett chart. This is where you summed Alan Bennett up by saying I usually come round on a Wednesday. Somehow, though that could be an Alan, what's his name? Talking Ed man, what's his name?
Speaker 3:You know, I usually come round on a Wednesday, To be fair.
Speaker 2:I got it from that, it was Alan.
Speaker 3:Bennett.
Speaker 2:Yeah, alan Bennett, yeah, and this is what I want to speak about really. Matt said he's surprised that we heavily went to 1994 over 2024. He said Toy Story 3 is a great animator film, miles better than the Jetsons I've never seen either, obviously. He said you'd rather watch Rolf over Strictly come dancing with Josh Widdicombe as a penguin. We've talked about your dislike for penguins and he said keeping up appearances is a one-joke comedy. Gavin and Stacey, doctor who and Wallace and Gromit were very good. Yeah, I wanted to use this as like a bit of a gateway to talking about Segway.
Speaker 2:A segway that's the term. What we watched on Christmas Day on TV. I only watched Gavin and Stacey on Christmas Day, actually.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we picked 1994 based on our assumptions about this year's TV, because we hadn't seen it at the time. I saw Gavin and Stacey, but not live. I think you watched it on the day, didn't you? Yes, I did, yeah, yeah, yeah. The one I'm most disappointed in myself about, because it's sort of two weeks later now, but I've been away and we want to all watch it together as a family and we've just not done it yet. I've not watched the Wall of Sodroma yet, so I can't comment on that. The one thing that I can, before we sort of talk about this year's TV, if we just let's just look back on the 94 stuff that we picked out at the time, the one thing I would say is that, since we did that recording, I went back and watched that particular episode of Keeping Up Appearances Really poor, really poor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you said this to me and maybe Matt's got a point here. Maybe I've got the fuzzy nostalgia of you know, like I don't know, maybe I just found it funny at the time. I'm going to have to go back and watch some of these.
Speaker 3:I mean Keeping Up Appearances was one where very little happens. And don't get me wrong, I think it is great. I know we had the comment. It's a bit of a one-joke pony. I assumed it would be the Mrs Bucket there, by the way. But yeah, I just didn't find it that funny and we said before I think I've told you before, I might have said it on here before I can't stand Emmett, the next-door neighbour. I absolutely despise the man and he's in it. So that, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, do you know what I mean? Like, yeah, emma, emma, yeah, he's always he's furious with, is it jane, his sister, because she always agrees to do stuff with hyacinth and like he's absolutely livid all the time. He always plays like he's.
Speaker 3:He's a piano player so he plays like a, but every time he speaks to Hyacinth he agrees to do everything and the only thing he does is when she's out of earshot, makes sort of snidey little comments like oh God's sake, but he never dares say anything. He's just all talk and no trousers, or whatever the phrase is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so do you think he's got a point in him that it is a one-joke comedy?
Speaker 3:No, I don't think it's a one-joke comedy. I think there's some fantastic scenes. I mean, I think the Sheridan, the Sheridan, despite never seeing him. I think that's a great gag. I think Onslow and Richard's relationship's quite funny. I think Daisy and Go on, what's the? The one who's like all over Onslow?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean, though I can't remember her name.
Speaker 3:It's another flower, isn't it? They're all flowers, anyway, whatever. But yeah, I don't think it's a one trick thing and I think there are great episodes of Keeping Up Appearances, but that as a Christmas special is incredibly disappointing. So, straight away, that's a point down for 94.
Speaker 2:Well, you watched Gavin and Stacey after, didn't you? So what did you make of Gavin and Stacey?
Speaker 3:I thought it was alright. I think a couple of caveats. Jodie loved it, so you know she thought it was great, I didn't, but I think I missed the last special. I think I have to be honest. I think I probably stitched myself up a little bit because to get the most out of it, I should have made sure I was up to date and I wasn't. And I didn't even know who that character was that Smithy was with. I didn't know if we were supposed to know anything about her, and it turns out she was in the last special, so apologies to the guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I watched it on the day and I was a little bit disappointed. Like I said earlier, I had a bit of a shit Christmas with stuff going on with Mum and stuff, so maybe I went in the best headspace. I went back and watched it and it was definitely a lot better the second time. I'm still not seeing this, like I don't know people saying this is the greatest ending to any sitcom ever.
Speaker 3:I'm not really seeing that, but it was a lot better than I first thought. Well, and you'd seen it before me and I sort of said, you know, is there any real laugh out loud moments? And to me you kind of summed it up, despite the fact you were praising it, by sort of saying, yeah, when Pete comes in, it's really funny and yeah, that was a funny moment, but it's really funny and yeah, that was a funny moment, but that that shouldn't be the best gag in the Christmas special. That he comes in looking a bit funny.
Speaker 2:There's a few things here. This just doesn't suit my personal comedy taste. I thought we were a bit Richard Curtis, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I think it's a very sort of you knew it was going to happen. You know what that's a? That's a great pre-prepared that comment. So I think you're exactly right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was very sort of you knew what I think it was really. I think there was so much obvious in it, like when you knew it was going to be Dave Cochise because he'd not been in it all the way through the episode.
Speaker 3:Well, and actually as well, because we've got Radio Times. He was listed as a character in it, so it was so obvious partner. It had to be someone we already knew and he was the only character really that would fit.
Speaker 2:And I didn't like, I don't like will-they-won't-they dramas anyway, because they always end one way or normally only end one? Way. That would have been a shock, wouldn't it, if it were.
Speaker 3:Gavin and your partner.
Speaker 2:This sort of should have ended Gavin's been having an affair with Gwen like her mum. That'd be amazing, wouldn't it? I can't believe you've done this.
Speaker 1:I don't know about that accent, that word, but it's a bit shell-sock isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then I don't know, like Nessa, imagine if I I don't know I've always wanted this could never happen in a really mighty boo sort of way. Mad sort of way, like where Smith is flying and stuff. Do you know what I mean? I'm like fly, I don't know. Just mad. I can't believe it that boy could fly all along.
Speaker 3:He's stunned, absolutely stunned. I think I'd have much more.
Speaker 2:I don't know fondness for it, but it was good and it was what everyone wanted. Everyone's sitting down to this. It's the. I think this. Do you reckon this will be the last big comedy ever, with the way?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, we've sort of talked about this away from the podcast until our sitcom finally gets made, obviously well, yeah, yeah, then we'll enter a new chapter, won't we? But yeah, as things, things stand now. You can't really have a big hit comedy, can you? Because people don't all do that. Oh, I tell you, what did you watch that last night? It's not done like that anymore. Things are just all released on streaming services.
Speaker 3:And it's not to say there's no good stuff out there, but yeah, you're not going to get that sort of sequential six-part hit anymore. It's just not going to work.
Speaker 2:I think one of the best things I can say about Gavin and Stacey is everybody fucking hates James Corden until Gavin and Stacey's on and everyone absolutely loves Smitha like as a character. But the three problems I've got with it and I'll come on to stuff that I did like of it the three issues I've got from it and the first one is just an issue of the sitcom in itself is no point of those two being.
Speaker 3:I know he stands- up and says no, there is.
Speaker 2:The background characters.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I didn't watch it. But Jodie told me she watched the documentary about Gavin and Stacey, which is a bit much for me. I can kind of get on with it. I don't want to know about behind the scenes, but apparently he said that James Corden, he thinks they've got the hardest job in the whole thing because they don't actually get any comedy.
Speaker 3:They're just straight characters yeah, they're just the thing that keeps the plot moving along. They're not. They're not gag characters. Yeah, exactly, they're straight men, aren't they? They're Ernie Wise and Ernie Wise, aren't they?
Speaker 2:I thought Ernie Wise and Ernie Wise and Ernie Wise. I was like you hate Morecambe as well, don't you? Morecambe and Wise?
Speaker 3:I think you were funny, morecambe. I just think he's a bit like a bit hard work. But yeah, we're funny. Yeah, I'd rather two Morecams than two Wises.
Speaker 2:I don't think they're enough. Bryn and I think this Bryn version of Bryn I thought were really unlikable, I think.
Speaker 3:He has his sort of madcap, really funny moments, and it didn't really feel like it.
Speaker 2:He was just angry throughout as soon as Dave Cochise came in. It was just him being angry until the last minute when he did that fist bump. Like I say, it was really obvious. A lot of it was really obvious.
Speaker 3:It was Christmas-y, wasn't it? I don't mind that.
Speaker 2:That's what it's for that's what it's for. But the thought smithy almost I know people might say he's matured. I thought he'd almost totally change character in the early. He's not that mature and I know people do grow and they get, you know, more mature and stuff like that. But this, this could have been a completely different man.
Speaker 3:I think this smithy in this, yeah, he had a lobotomy or something just like a, just a dull version of himself, weren't he?
Speaker 2:but it was really like sort of an impulsive, like a man-child sort of person and, like I say, you can grow up, but it just didn't seem like him whatsoever.
Speaker 3:And again, to me it's almost written the eccentricity out of some of the characters. The reason why some of these characters are funny is they're mad over the top, sort of. They're huge exaggerations of people we might know, and actually in this they just became people that you might know. There wasn't anything that wacky about anyone, really no, I don't think it was that.
Speaker 2:I don't think it was that funny. What I did like about it, I did I I don't know if you I think I've talked about this I think you disagreed I really did like the bit where he asked for mix approval at the wedding, where everyone's standing up and he says Mick, because I thought that was really nice, because before that Mick had obviously said that you know he would like a son to move. It shows how fucking boring Gavin is, by the way.
Speaker 2:There's a really good speech where he says something like we always wanted a second child, but we couldn't have one, and then he came along. So it's basically it's like saying this fucker's better than my son, do you know what?
Speaker 3:I mean, we always wanted an interesting son and we had this fucking boring twat.
Speaker 2:And then you came along, yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, we should probably say, by the way, spoiler alerts for the.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, spoiler alerts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got this phone, start of watching Gabberdon's Day and didn't know what was going to happen at the end. Everyone knows what's going to happen at the end.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but no, I didn't like that scene because if you try and sort of probably overanalyze it, I was going to say analyse it but it basically says, like you know who thinks this is a bad idea, and all these people are all his friends and close family that he respects, he spends all his time with. They all stand up. But it's like if Mick had not stood up, that he'd have said no, I'm doing it anyway because Mick's all right with it, despite the fact that everybody else thinks this is a terrible idea. Well, mick thinks it's all right, doesn't he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Mick thinks it's all right.
Speaker 3:But Mick's like the leather-leathered one. Isn't he level-headed one in here? I like that because I think you look to him as like his dad. Well, I think you look to him as like other people. Maybe they're a bit caught up in the moment. You're the level-head here. You know what do you think? But imagine if you'd done like a sort of pretendent stand-up and then just readjusted his jacket a bit and like oh, like, oh. Is he going to stand up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh sorry, something in the back pocket phone ringing.
Speaker 3:yeah, just played it, but I get why people loved the moment it just felt very contrived.
Speaker 2:I just thought he saw him as like he'd never we'd never heard about Smithy's dad as far as I know, and I think he sort of looked.
Speaker 3:I thought that looks to him, as his dad Do what you want.
Speaker 2:pal, You're not my son. Yeah, I don't give a fuck. Why the fuck it turns into his character a few seconds later.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like gangster character.
Speaker 2:Like gangster character.
Speaker 3:I can do it. I don't give a shit.
Speaker 2:I've got shit to do with a fucking film. It'd be amazing that. But yeah, I like that bit. I actually thought one of play. I thought Laura Aiken, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I've learned a lot of people say, oh, she was too two-dimensional. I disagree. I think we've got mates and stuff who have gone out with people like that who on the surface are really nice. But you can see, I don't think she was, I don't think she was overly horrible.
Speaker 3:You know that annoys me that, because even I don't. I think she was really well done, done. But even if you don't like the character that's in the writing, that's not. You can't people who are criticising the actress.
Speaker 2:I don't think they're criticising the actress as such, but I think people who are like sort of saying that she was too horrible. I don't think she was that horrible, I think it's exactly the old. The old Smithy it's exactly. Someone said like he'd never stay with her for five years. The old Smithy would absolutely stay with someone, just purely because they were good-looking. I think. I think that did work.
Speaker 3:I think that was a Also the fact that he kind of decided he wanted to be a bit more grown-up and she was kind of almost kicking him down that route.
Speaker 2:Yeah because he says something on the lines like who gets married at my age, I think like 40-odd, aren't they whatever in this? Now, matthew Horne's aged, haven't he, by the way? But no offence to the guy, you know, he's all aged. I used to have hair, believe it or not? Let me tell you now I've never liked Matthew Horne. I know you don't like Matthew Horne. I don't know why the reason is that, but it's funny there you took a swig, by the way.
Speaker 3:It's like you're going to, and I'll tell you another thing. And I'll tell you one more thing. I've never liked Matthew. I had a swig of a bottle of Budweiser and, right away from, actually, I'll tell you where does it come from. It comes from, Do you remember? Oh, is it Alan Partridge? No, it weren't. It was Steve Coogan. Is it Live and Lewd that he does, when it's all different characters? He's got Duncan Thicket. Yeah, Laugh or cry, the choice is yours. He's got all different characters on. But there's a bit where he's doing Partridge and he says something like there's a fish in a tank and he says people shout out words and I'll tell you oh, I know what you're going to say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And there's somebody who shouts gravel and he pauses and he says, right, what you've done there. You made a huge mistake and it became like quite a successful bit. And the guy came back every night and it was Matthew Horne but he's so smug, matthew Horne, that yeah, well, basically I just came and did it every night Ever since then.
Speaker 2:I think I don't like him, I think it's not like him. And I thought Pete and Dawn were really good. Again, I thought I like the throwbacks to old episodes. I like the fact that they went to a phone party and because obviously they're old now they're like why the fuck did we enjoy this? Do you know what I mean? Because obviously in the first episode they go into the phone booth, they're sliding around all over the place and stuff, and now they're. I'll play it with God. I think he said it absolutely fine.
Speaker 2:And what I really found interesting is that the last three massive sitcoms like at Christmas anyway that everyone seems to have got around to watch has been Gavin and Stacey, royal Family and Only Fools and All. So I don't think I've missed one out. They're all really like sort of working class family comedies and I thought it was really interesting that obviously, like the woke BBC, always like sort of commissioned, these middle class sort of you know, like my family and everything is fucking like this. I don't know. Do you know what I mean? Like a suburban sort of thing.
Speaker 2:Alright, gavin's family are fairly well off, but obviously Corden Smith is and Gavin and Stacey's isn't. The royal family are obviously really working class, and so is Falls and Horses. Is there something in that? That's why they're the big three-hitters of the last 30 years.
Speaker 3:I don't know, you put me on the political spot, I don't know. I mean Mrs Brown's Boys obviously got a prime time slot, but that was slated this year. I don't think you I mean Mrs Brown's Boys obviously got a prime time slot, but that that was slated this year.
Speaker 2:I don't think you can just get away with like being working class, Generally speaking.
Speaker 3:I think that's what comedies are, don't it? No, there's not many sort of you think of a comedy about? Like it's sort of I mean, I think it's to the man of Bour, what's a sitcom about? Sort of like posh people?
Speaker 2:Yes, posh people but I never watched my Family and I like a lot of jokes in my Family but I never thought like, oh yeah, I can relate to this because they were too you know you liked. Janey, didn't you? I did like Janey, yeah, but that's not. You know, that's not the only reason I watched it. It wasn't a class thing, though was it, it wasn class thing, though was it, it weren't a class thing. But I don't know, I never could. Outnumbered actually, did you watch Outnumbered?
Speaker 3:No, I didn't. Actually I went right off that I thought it's that age old thing you know of kids in a comedy.
Speaker 2:They're funny when they're young and cute and then it kind of doesn't really work. As they start I thought that were alright, but again that's just another comedy. Again it's more like a middle class Boxing Day, I think it was.
Speaker 3:I think it was Boxing Day. Christmas Day this year then.
Speaker 2:So neither of us watched Boston Gromit, but you didn't watch that no, actually Hun Sadier said it's only 30 minutes into our podcast at the time he said he's violently in disagreement with me about Gruffalo's Child and all JD's kids books. He says it's genius. And he said Toy Story 3, he's easily got a Toy Story 1, and he's never met Mrs Jepsen, but she can't trump the above period.
Speaker 3:Toy Story 3,. Yeah, I mean it's one of them, isn't it it? Toy Story 3? Yeah, I mean it's one of them, isn't it? It's the age old. I said that a couple of times in this episode. It's the age old trilogy of films where there's an argument that there's no decline in quality. Yeah, that's one of the. So I would agree. Toy Story 4, actually, I think, does drop away. But if we're just doing trilogies, I think Toy Story 1, 2 and 3 are all. There's no decline. I would say so. Yeah, he's right, toy Story 3 is as good as Toy Story 1, I would say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll tell you what. The best thing I saw around Christmas was meeting up with Bill and Blake. You did as well, actually, didn't you? You were there as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, good to put a face to the name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, great guy, yeah, great guy, great man, great great dog, didn't mean to Chango Motley, aka JP, said Victoria Wood beat him on the bottom of the Women's Weekly has to be one of the most memorable comedy sign lines ever. I've seen her do this recently, like I've just been searching on YouTube with a full band. It's so good, it's absolute how she like sings sort of that fast to keep up with, like the band and like that and like everyone's laughing and she's still going for it.
Speaker 3:Brilliant. It's an absolutely superb annunciation, isn't it? It's an annunciation. Linguistically fantastic yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I told you before I don't like this. You sort of jumping on the Victoria Wood. I always liked Victoria Wood it's been my territory for a long time.
Speaker 2:this On the subject of the baby byfield, Major Charles's fantastic yearly competition where he goes for the most 2000-whatever-year-it-is football.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was won by, obviously, victoria Wood's famous nephew, chris Wood. Actually, good, chris Wood.
Speaker 3:I think I voted for that. The thing I found funny is, in the first couple of rounds, everything I voted for went out, I think.
Speaker 2:I've got a bone to pick with the Major, if he's listening. I entered three people who didn't even get to the group stage. Now, maybe they didn't get past the qualifiers, but I was disappointed to see none of them in there. Yeah, but he's dealing with a huge amount of data. I know what he's dealing with, but I thought we might have like a. You know you're like FIFA with bribes, you know what I mean Like. So I don't know. Yeah, I'll share Baby Byfield mate, just get. What I put in is Glenn Elder, who no one will know unless they listen to this podcast, and even then I imagine they haven't got a clue. It's the guy who said Jesus, Jesus Christus, jesus Christus, jesus Christus. I went for Noel Gallagher on co-commentary, which I still find mad.
Speaker 2:A bit more mainstream, yeah, that could have got in there, I think, and I went for the official that ate a sandwich in front of Chris Wilder, because that comes, I do view froms every week. People aren't Sheffield United fans. I do, like what other every week about the game coming up against Sheffield United that gets mentioned every other week. About the sandwich.
Speaker 3:The only thing I can sort of defend the major on there is that that felt so long ago that didn't feel very 2020.
Speaker 2:I actually looked it up, it was the start of January. Yeah, it was the start of January when we lost to Palace. But yep, now our feelings. Now our feelings. Anne said, as a result of our enthusiasm for Mr Bean, she was debating whether to give it a go or not. So she's seen that episode the Christmas one that we did a few times, but she's always loathed Mr Bean, mr Bleen, mr Bean in general. She says her brother, which is Chip Manet, as we now know, always loved it. That's why she ended up watching it. So I'd like to know I genuinely am like if you have watched it again, let us know, because I'm in a very similar sort of position.
Speaker 3:No, I never love you. The thing is, though, I get absolutely. If it's not your thing or if you've kind of almost taken against him, he's not really going to win you round, because it is what it is really real. It's not like, say, if you watch the thick of it too young and you didn't get sort of the the context or or sort of the political jokes, if you don't like mr bean, I can't imagine that you're going to re-watch it and think, ah yeah, I get it now, but it was better than I remember.
Speaker 2:When you said, let's do, mr bean, I wasn't like, oh god, but I'm thinking, oh yeah, it's all right, whatever, but I really, really did enjoy it but I think, everything we've ever done, you've finished by saying, yeah, I really, really enjoyed that, not necessarily. That is a great question, that, Of all the episodes we've done, people have asked us to do stuff where I thought that didn't work for me, brother, yeah normally when we finish, and in fact often on Blanket. It's like we all like him it milked brilliant.
Speaker 3:Yeah. But you often say, yeah, we've got a new episode out about something. Yeah, really enjoyed that one. And it just feels really contrived because you say it about every episode. I'd love it if sometimes you said, yeah, I didn't like that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it makes for you. It's fucking shit. Imagine that. Imagine if it hit me. Swear and blaze for that. It's fucking shit, Absolutely fucking wanked that one Talking of Sheffield United related content creators, Deadbat, said he listened to these TV schedule ones. We were running around Central Park in New York because obviously he's been to America. He said he ran past a lass who had headphones on and was laughing loudly. He assumes that she was also listening to us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'd say to be laughing out loud, like it can only be this or Chad's rant on Red Half, sheffield I don't know if you've heard that yet his rant about getting the remote control off him.
Speaker 2:I'm a couple of episodes behind.
Speaker 3:So no, maybe not. It's fucking honestly one of the funniest things I've heard. I started the newest show, but I don't think I've listened to the one before that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm not sure I need to catch up on a bit of Red Half. I'm a bit behind Jeff United in general.
Speaker 2:Yeah, rubbish KA Debats. Better half, as you say. She said Roy's version of the Animal Hospital theme tune sounded more like George Harrison's. Got my Mindset On you, it does.
Speaker 1:Got my mindset on you.
Speaker 2:I think that's a cover song. Got my mindset on you. Got my mindset on you.
Speaker 3:I don't think of that as George Harrison.
Speaker 2:I don't know who I would have said, but I certainly wouldn't have said George Harrison, because I'm it's going to take time a whole lot of precious time. Why does that come up as like a sponsored post? Do you want universal credit? No, got, oh, that's what I put money. I've got money set on you. Got my mind, got my money set on you. It's originally by Rudy Clark and was recorded by James Ray in 1962.
Speaker 3:Interesting, by the way, they're back listening in Central Park. Because obviously we're global, aren't we? We get listening around the world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, big time.
Speaker 3:I wonder what sort of mad places people have listened to us talk nonsense.
Speaker 2:Well, I imagine they're probably you haven't anywhere kind of Guantanamo Bay still going. I just had to put it. There Is Guantanamo Bay still going.
Speaker 3:I just had to put it there. Would you think it was a good thing if somebody said we're the most played podcast in Guantanamo Bay?
Speaker 2:I would be happy with that. I think that's something to take to your grave, isn't it?
Speaker 3:It tings with a bit of sadness though, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:It tings with a bit of sadness but you know, it would be funny if you were in touch with me going da-da sadness, but you know it'd be funny if, like if you're radioing to us, you're me going how long could you do that? For how long could you listen to just that and then rush me is like they give up like every secret they had in minutes amazing, wasn't it? So that's all the comments. There's a lot there. I know it's a long episode. Thanks for sticking with us, but obviously we, you know thanks.
Speaker 3:If you keep sending comments in, these, episodes are going to be that long, I'm afraid yeah, and we did a bit of a Christmas day tangent, but yeah, no, thank you for all the comments we got in, sincere apologies if we missed anything. We tried a bit of a Christmas Day tangent but yeah, no, thank you for all the comments we got in, sincere apologies if we missed anything. We try to sort of make sure we read everything out. But, yeah, if you've sent us anything we missed, there's no, there is no agenda. We just, we just missed it, you get an agenda.
Speaker 2:So this is where we go to before we go to the next series. We do some specials, don't we? Liam, and I don't think we've actually spoken about we're going to do this next, but I'm just going to throw it out there and once I've said it, we have to do it. We have talked about doing it. We're going to do somehow an episode on Talks, but yeah, we've mentioned this a few times.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 2:I think there's such a huge amount of content we're not going to be able to do it justice, but we're going to try and do, try and get a bit of history about it. We'll talk about our introductions to it and just the fucking madness of it. It's absolutely. We both listen. I don't listen to it as much anymore, to be honest. Yeah, like I said, I don't know if I said it on the air or I can't remember, but Elvis had been going back and forth to the hospital with mum and stuff and Talk Sports were always on. It's crazy. You were like just a little thing. We'll not bring it up now on the actual pod, but you've mentioned it before. How often do they?
Speaker 3:go to Alex Crook. Yeah, he pops up. He's always in like a black jumper. Well, yeah, there's rumours he's got a swilling round at Villa Park at the moment. Yeah, he's got nothing as well.
Speaker 2:Obviously, I've got context out of this crook I might have got out of this manager. Yeah, it looks that way. Yeah, it's looking like very much like the manager.
Speaker 3:I don't know how he broke that on Monday and this happened on Wednesday.
Speaker 2:yeah, Fair play to him. Maybe I'm doing it, but it's brilliant because they keep going back to him. He may as well just play a recording, like it's always the same stuff, because every show has him. Every show will say let's go now to Alex Crook to tell us about Marcus Rashford.
Speaker 3:He. He's not been included, he's not happy rumours he could be possibly linked to Italy. Anything, anything definite out there? No, not at the moment. No, not at the moment thanks for that, alex.
Speaker 2:Like an advert. Oh come on, mike, it's ridiculous. So we're going to try and do Talk Sport. We can't do it all. Might even be a two-parter. Who knows?
Speaker 3:who knows what's going to happen well for Mike Parry fans as well, obviously there will be some mention of.
Speaker 2:Mike's and Mike Parry, so We've already done Mike Parry, so we'll probably stay away from him.
Speaker 3:as you know, I don't know if I'll be able to.
Speaker 1:Well, no, we're going to mention him.
Speaker 2:but obviously you have to mention him. But this is not If we just we have to do Mike Parry as a separate episode. If we're going to do him again because you'll to dominate, this for me is going to be about Parler, brazil, townsend, mccoyst, glendon, russia.
Speaker 3:Saunders features Durham, yeah, oh yeah, Durham and Goffey Durham. And.
Speaker 2:Goffey, we're going to go back as well. Like you know, people who are not there anymore Keyes and Graver on it for a bit. You know I might talk about them a bit you know, I might talk about them Diamond. Jordan, jim White. Diamond Jordan yeah, jim White.
Speaker 3:Darren Bennett Goldstein.
Speaker 2:yeah, I'd say Colin Murray, but he's too good for it, if you know what I mean. Like Colin Murray used to be my favourite, I did use to listen to that Colin Murray show all the time Probably my favourite he left when he became bought out by the sun?
Speaker 2:Yeah, when he got bought out by the sun and the honourable because obviously he didn't agree with it. But I'll probably not mention him because what we're going to try and do, if we're going to be honest, is laugh at people, and you know I can't be the laugh at Colin Moran.
Speaker 3:No, he's quite. I mean I love it, but yeah, he's quite a rare man of integrity in the talk sport world, isn't he? He's fantastic.
Speaker 2:Absolutely fantastic, colin Moran, but you you know for listening, I think we also might squeeze in.
Speaker 3:I always quite like the mystery episodes and people seem to respond quite well, so we might do another investigation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want. I've been wanting us to do a conspiracy episode for a while so we might get this in for a as a thing. So if you've got any good conspiracy theories, let us know about that as well. Don't come out with the fucking vaccine stuff boring. Now I want interesting conspiracies.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a bit more left field things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I don't know. In fact, I've just thought of an idea and I'll not give it away. Anyway, so next up, we're going to do TalkSport, we're going to try and do the mad world of TalkSport Rory Jennings is another one on it, by the way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I sent you something you like, the name Hugh Woosencroft.
Speaker 2:Don't you as well, hugh Woosencroft?
Speaker 3:is one of the best names I've ever heard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, another one is again before we bring it up. Is Majestic and Alan Pardew. What a combo.
Speaker 3:I think Barry Glendening is a great name, isn't he?
Speaker 2:Barry Glendening, but we'll talk about him because he's fucking yeah anyway, yeah, thanks for sticking with us.
Speaker 3:That turned into quite a rambling episode. So if you're still here, we admire your patience. And yeah, we've got a couple of specials coming up. We'll probably do a sort of summary of the comments of the specials and then we'll be back with series 9. Can you believe we've got series 9 now?
Speaker 2:series 9, series bloody 9, the difficult series 9, as it's known, yeah, but I really enjoyed that, as I always say, liam. So thank you very much and I will see you for Talk Sport, arrivederci.
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