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S2 - E9 - Algebraic Adventure - (feat. Mick Dundee)
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You're in for a treat, listeners! Coming to our microphone is the one and only Mick Dundee, whose credentials span from being a design animator to a seasoned name in the entertainment industry. Get ready to be tickled pink as Mick retraces his humorous journey in comedy, his seafaring adventures, and unveils his peculiar lockdown hobby.
Interview With Mick Dundee at Lakes
Speaker 1Jack, welcome back. What a week we've had.
Speaker 2I mean we've literally just pressed stop on the previous episode, sign off. We just went back and then I went, Jack.
Speaker 1Because you're on holiday, Henry, we've had to record the introductions from last week's episode and this week's episode back to back.
Speaker 2So what's happened to you this week?
Speaker 1Oh, in the last five seconds I had an itch on my cheek. I scratched it.
Speaker 2I just scratched my eye, you did so. What does that mean?
Speaker 1What does it mean? We'll never know what an episode we've got coming up today.
Speaker 2We have. We've got Mick Dundee. We're still in Five Lakes. We couldn't get back.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2So we've not managed to get back to Hopchon On-Sea yet. On-sea, that's all right, because we are here with Mick Dundee Well, not right now, but not no, but we soon will be, and it's a good job. We're at Five Lakes because I believe you have a little exclusive, jacques.
Speaker 1January and February there's going to be soul party nights down at Five Lakes.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 1Yeah, not just that, there's also going to be the new PTC Unplugged and PTC Stories.
Speaker 2They did Sondheim Unplugged at 54 Ballet. They did, didn't they? So what's PTC Stories?
Speaker 1I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know, I can't. Is it like Instagram?
Speaker 2Stories. Do they disappear after 24 hours?
Speaker 1No, I think it's a collection of songs put together by the PTC.
Speaker 2It's like a concert, it's like Sondheim's Old Friends yeah, without Bernadette Peters and Lester Longer.
Speaker 1But Potters, five Lakes, new friends.
Speaker 2Well, that's very exciting, Jacques. Have you got any favorite soul songs.
Speaker 1Too many to name.
Speaker 2Just Think, count it as a soul song.
Speaker 1Possibly.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's my fave.
Speaker 3You better think, think, think.
Speaker 2Oh, wait, wait.
Speaker 3Think, think, think, think, think, think, think, think, you, think you think no, no, no.
Speaker 2you keep going with. Think that's, that's. I've got a bit of a croaky throat.
Speaker 3Think, think, think, think, think, think, think, think you think you think no, no, no, no, you think, think Sorry.
Speaker 1I wasn't thinking.
Speaker 3Think, think, think, think, think, think, think, think, you think, think.
Speaker 2It sounds weird.
Speaker 1now, no, it's, I can't say the same words too many times. Isn't it weird when you do that?
Speaker 2It is weird Think, think, think, think.
Speaker 1Do you know what I want? To bring back the feature of we haven't done it much this season.
Speaker 2Today was a big day because something happened and it's the appropriate time to bring back things we got told off for this week.
Speaker 1Today we were at rehearsals for our brand new Christmas show which will be up now? Yeah, we'll be up now, but we were. We were quietly getting given notes for the show.
Speaker 2You got a lot of notes, Jack.
Speaker 1I didn't get any notes.
Speaker 2You got a lot of notes.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2No, they just didn't want to tell you. Oh, thought about your feelings.
Speaker 1Well, that's not helped me in any way, has it? Shane, our entertainment manager, handed me a balloon.
Speaker 2Why? Why did he hand you a balloon? Because he should. He should have shame on Shane for that. Because Shame on Shane, shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 1Shame, shame, shame. He handed me the balloon and I did what any normal, rational human being would do I blew the balloon up To the point that you popped it. Well, libby said don't you'll pop it? And I said no, I won't. And I blew it up some more and she went no, you're going to pop it. And I said ha ha.
Speaker 2And then I popped it by blowing it and Saskia was very unhappy with you.
Speaker 1I mean there was quite a few startled Potter's Theatre Company members who weren't paying attention to me blowing this balloon up.
Speaker 2Do you remember in the Pantote? Well, because they were doing their job. But do you remember in the Pantoe last year, when Matthew led off that party popper and Saskia, who has a phobia of all things loud? I forgot that she was hurt. She death-stared you. She was like this for ages, covering her ears. I'm used to that. What Saskia, covering her ears with your inner rim.
Speaker 1No, just death-staring me.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, fair enough, she does do that often to you, Jack.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I got told off very much.
Speaker 2I wanted to get the Liberty Advent Calendar.
Speaker 1Didn't last year your mum make you an Advent Calendar?
Speaker 2Oh, it was an absolute disaster I ended up with so much shower gel.
Speaker 1We've talked about that before, but I still make some.
Speaker 2No, I actually think I cut it from the episode where we talked about it. It was a total disaster. And she's just told me because I said can I have the Liberty Advent Calendar this year? They're doing a male beauty one. And she said no, I've already got your Advent Calendar and I'm just, I'm just dreading it. I'm going to be honest, mum, I'm just dreading the Advent Calendar this year because I have no idea what it's going to be.
Speaker 1Good luck, Henry. Yep, I'll need it.
Speaker 2Let's make some room on my shower shelf For five months worth of shower gel. Yeah for 24 organic sourced shower gels. So looking forward to that. Merry Christmas to us all. But before we get to that, we have an interview with the wondrous Mick Dundee from Five Weeks. Yeah, mick Dundee Really enjoyed this chat.
Speaker 1I did as well.
Speaker 2So let's jump straight into it with episode nine. Can you believe it? I can't believe it Of the All-Exclusive Podcast Press. Play.
Speaker 3Play, play.
Speaker 2Welcome, Mick Dundee. Hey, how are we doing? Very well, thank you Good.
Speaker 1It's good to have you on. It's good to have you. Yeah, it's nice to be Nice to meet you as well. Yeah and you guys, I heard lots about you.
Speaker 4I hope they're all good. Well, most of them.
Speaker 3We can't disclose that information. It's fine, sadly.
Speaker 1Not at this time anyway. So what have you got on for the rest of the day? What do you?
Speaker 4do so after this. It depends what time we finish. But rolling quiz part two if I'm down in time for that, and then it's variety tonight. What's the rolling quiz?
Speaker 1Is that so? It almost says like it's you know rolls on. So I know it speaks for itself, but it's intriguing.
Speaker 4So every night the Tuesday, wednesday, thursday we do a quiz winner each night, but we take the quiz sheets in, add the scores up over the course of the week and then the high scoring team at the end of the week.
Speaker 2I love that idea. It's a bigger prize. Why don't we do that? I love that idea.
Speaker 1I went on a cruise back in March and they did a thing. Obviously, cruises are longer so you can do a little bit more with that sort of stuff, but they did like a thing during the day where you'd have two teams and then the same people. You don't have to return every single day and you accumulate points over the cruise and things like that and that was really good fun.
Speaker 2That was a lot of like, but Do you normally find people like that they're really close scores, or is there usually one team who's like a landslide victory?
Speaker 4It depends. So I quite like writing quizzes, kind of making them a little bit trickier and making You've got a certain amount of fairly. You don't want anyone to kind of not be able to get anything, so there's got to be kind of like a 75% chance of them getting most of the questions. But yeah, we had 72 was a high score last night and 27 was the lowest. That's a fair jump.
Speaker 1Does the theme change every single night?
Speaker 4So the format stays the same. So there's six rounds, there's picture rounds every night on the back of the cruise sheet. Then we have true or false it's the first round Top five. So I give them a question. They need to find the top five. Answers Musical connections. So we do that Five songs, they need to name the title of the artist and then what links all five of the answers together. Give an example. So last night we had animals, right?
Speaker 1I don't want to do too much, just the people that come in and do it, just the ten of them.
Speaker 4But yeah, last night was animals, so even in the title of the song all the performing artists was an animal.
Speaker 2So you let the dogs out? That type of thing have. I just just ruined it. You've ruined it. Can you play it? Oh for the sake. You record for three minutes and suddenly the whole thing's ruined.
Speaker 1You're assuming that people actually listen to this thing? Well, yeah.
Speaker 4And then we do cryptic clues. Yeah, I love cryptic clues. Yeah, I've got a cryptic. Absolutely love cryptic clues.
Speaker 1I do for years on the ships. I did a cryptic body quiz and then brought that over to Hot Town as well. Yeah, it was. That was. I haven't done it recently, but that's things like well, a man's name is one of the ones I finish on, and you're talking about parts of the body. It's a man's name. This is like a race now for me. Yeah.
Speaker 4I just want to go for some of the rudder parts of the body. But yeah, I'll let you. I'll let you come up with your own answers there.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, and then you've also got a woman's name and other parts of the body as well. It's quite an interesting one, Like part of a river, part of a tree. Are some of the other questions You've gone for a very exotic drink.
Speaker 2Mick, what have you gone for?
Speaker 4A lovely Diet Coke. I've had a very good drink. It would have had Southern comfort in, but of course I'm performing and driving home tonight.
Speaker 2So yeah, never an idea to perform driving.
Speaker 1No, exactly Words, words, words, to be honest. What?
Speaker 4was the other one you said Southern comfort Southern comfort, that's your go to if you're not, yeah, yeah, never lemonade. No, never lemonade.
Speaker 1That's the more popular one with Southern comfort. Yeah, it just it tastes weird. Yeah, I do know what you mean by that. Have you ever tried a Southern comfort?
Speaker 2Because Henry's fairly new to drinking, so he's ran with it. To be honest, he was at Hopstead On Sea made me a Gatsby. What's a Gatsby? It is a lime lemonade in Southern comfort.
Speaker 1Yes, yes.
Speaker 2And I quite enjoyed it, to be fair. But when she used to, she was saying to me she only used to let Mama Jules make her that drink. She would request it made by her, and then that was the same. Like that, johnny Mack was there, who then got me drinking. I don't even know what he had to be drinking, I'm going to be honest with you, but it was something orange and he had a whole plate of limes.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've been drinking with Johnny Max, so I know how he's that concern.
Speaker 2He was squeezing real lot like he made like a whole thing of actual lime juice. Okay, it was awful.
Speaker 1It sounds like a lot of work. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of work.
Speaker 2He's got tiny little hands as well. It would have taken a while to squeeze the line. That's it.
Speaker 1So we're going to. What we're going to do is we're sort of doing a bit of an interview process for a new, new position. Okay, we'll get onto that a little bit more, but we want to know a little bit more about yourself. So what's your? What was your first experience within your career? As it currently stands?
Speaker 4So I'd never kind of performed or did anything when I was at school, or that you would never have picked me for this kind of career. So I went on holiday to Kessingland.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4Way back in like 1998, something like that, 99, can't remember which I was about 18. Met a girl and she was Sometimes you do.
Speaker 1Was it a holiday romance?
Early Career in Comedy and Art
Speaker 4I don't think it got that far. So she was wanted to be a haven mate. That was what she'd always been to those and that's what she wanted to do, and she convinced me to enter the talent show. She sang. The only thing I could think that I wanted to do was tell jokes which, looking back at them, were really, really kind of inappropriate.
Speaker 2Do you remember any of the jokes?
Speaker 4Yeah, I definitely can't. Can we put them on air?
Speaker 1Could we just bleep some out?
Speaker 4Can we have one? No, no, no.
Speaker 2He doesn't even want them on record.
Speaker 4They were really bad for what I was, oh God For where I was.
Speaker 3Not like language, but just not, just not appropriate.
Speaker 4So I did that. Why jokes though? Why, I don't know.
Speaker 3Because I couldn't sing.
Speaker 4I mean, it's still questionable now. So yeah, it was just the kind of the. I've never done anything like it before, did you ever?
Speaker 1love for comedy before that.
Speaker 4No, not really.
Speaker 1You just went. Yeah, she was like I was like divine intervention, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 4It went awfully. I think the whole room was just silent from my recollection. But we talked and she was like I really want to do this. I was like, okay, look, two years we'll be back here on this park and we'll work together and stuff. And literally two years later I was back at Kessingland Was she there too. No, no, I never heard from her again.
Speaker 1You're promised, but she stood me up. She stood me up. I love that sort of story though.
Speaker 4When you're like you make a promise to the universe or to yourself, and then when you do follow through with that sort of thing, yeah it was weird, Like I never, never planned to really kind of follow this, and even when I got into it, I was only going to be for a couple of years to see a bit of the country. What did you want to do before that? So I've always wanted to be like a design animator. That was. That was what I wanted to do. I've always drawn since I was little and I wanted to get into design and creation and things like that. And yeah, this just kind of came from nowhere. I was like do you know what? I'm going to have a bit of fun for a few years. I didn't go to university, I didn't fancy doing that. So I was like do you know what? I'm going to see a bit of the country, have a bit of independence and enjoy myself for a few years and then literally just got the bug for it. I think you do, don't you.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4It's a bug. It's sort of you. Yeah, I was lucky to make it through the first year. So, yeah, I did that Like. So I just got a bug for it and did a few years. You used to come home every winter. Where is home for you? Clacton, clacton, clacton, on-sea, so not far from here.
Speaker 1On-sea, on-sea, it's another on-sea Born and bred.
Speaker 4Yeah yeah, family still live there and.
Speaker 1Is there much of that sort of thing in Clacton then? Because obviously on-sea sorry Because obviously seaside towns are quite sort of entertainment heavy for you know it's really weird.
Speaker 4There has been a load of people over the course of like my career who either have worked in, been from Clacton, and there was people I went to school with who I ended up working on in parks with, yeah, yeah, so there's been a lot of people from the Clacton area kind of in, and amongst the people I've interacted with, it used to be massive because the Butlins was there, okay, and it was a big place for it, and then it kind of went downhill, yeah, very steadily, and it's kind of had a resurgence again. Yeah, this five or six holiday parks in the area and yeah, it's just kind of had another massive lift.
Speaker 2And we can exclusively reveal Potter's Resorts, clacton on-sea.
Speaker 3It's not coming soon.
Speaker 4It's taken over Jowick.
Speaker 2It's soon going somewhere, but not Clacton.
Speaker 1Maybe if we get a portable wave suite we can take it to Clacton.
Speaker 2Like a Potter's tour. We could have tore the whole resort around.
Speaker 1Yeah, Mike Scott's camper van yes, do you still do a lot of the art? Then yeah, still do all.
Speaker 4Yeah, quite a lot. What's your favorite sort of style or most favorite sort of stuff? It depends. I can tell my hand to most things, so I always drew from when I was little, but then I kind of stopped for a long while and then, when lockdown happened, I had an iPad and I started to get into digital art. So ever since then I've kind of really got back into it. Cartoon style is my main thing. But, yeah, I do logos and stuff. So a lot of the logos we use on the screens for our cabraes and things I've done and designed. Yeah, so the one if you're in tonight you'll see Gemma and Alice's Rock and Roll Pie. I did that one. Sarah's Icons, one Dan's Musical one yeah, so I've done quite a few of them.
Speaker 1I got one man graphics department. Yeah, pretty much, which is great, and I'm really envious because I always used to enjoy doing artsy things, making stuff, just never really pursued it or followed that side of things.
Speaker 4Yeah, like I said, I stopped for ages, but it comes in ways. I have to be in the mood to draw and when I am I can go through stuff really quickly.
Speaker 1Especially if, during lockdown, I always have creative bursts and I really want to be creative, but I don't know what I want to do, and that's really good. So over lockdown, I just did paint by numbers, because I think you take all the choice out of it. You find a good picture and image and then you just switch off. Yeah.
Speaker 2I had a very peculiar lockdown hobby. Do we want to know about this? Yes, so I was weird, locked down in a log cabin in the middle of a forest and some hills that look like I was in the sound of music. And were they alive? They certainly were when I was on them and anyway.
Speaker 2So I first wanted to do some puzzles like jigsaw puzzles Puzzling, so I ordered them, but that was when the rest of the country was ordering puzzles, so they never arrived. It's like everybody was doing the same thing at the same time. So I thought, okay, I know that everyone's going to be ordering the exact same stuff, so I need to think, out of the box here, what's going to keep me entertained. And I will tell you what kept me entertained the melodica.
Speaker 1Is that a musical instrument? No way, because I bought a melodica as well, the little music box with the little flicky.
Speaker 2Oh, almost no that's a cambala.
Speaker 1No, that's a cambala. Yeah, cambala, anyway.
Speaker 2The melodica is a piano with a straw.
Speaker 3Oh, yes, you know, like one of the ones you hear.
Speaker 2It sounds like an accordion or harmonica.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And I sat on those hills and it was completely shut to the public as well because it was blocked down. And I sat on those hills and I did play the sound of music many times, along with many other songs. The following clip is real footage from me playing my melodica on the hills. Enjoy this rendition of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein song Adelweiss.
Speaker 1I can't work out if that's really good, really nice or really sad.
Speaker 2What was your favourite subject at school?
Discussion on History and Personal Experiences
Speaker 4Art, strangely enough. Yeah, I loved art. I like history as well, but not the kind of modern history I really wanted to kind of I liked to kind of the Roman stuff, but I really wanted to do. I would love to have done Greek history and myth and back up.
Speaker 2History is a part where it gets so boring. When it gets too close to modern times, it's all a bit.
Speaker 4Well, yeah, when it starts getting political, yeah.
Speaker 2That's all it seems to be about after a certain time I'm all right with American Revolutionary Wars political, but after there it's like we had to do a whole thing on 1950s history and I was like that's not, that's just happened.
Speaker 4Okay, it's not really history.
Speaker 2history no it isn't history. History and and and, like the 70s and stuff like the Watergate scandal, I'm like, yeah, that's really interesting, but I don't want to be learning about it in history Like Sounds really riveting you. I love history classics. I love the Watergate scandal as much as the next person. Yeah he does, doesn't stop talking about it. I'm not joking, I wrote a song about it.
Speaker 1No, I know I believe you, I really did I have.
Speaker 4Did you sing it as Nixon?
Speaker 2Parts of it. Yes, actually I did. It was say no to this from Hamilton. But about Watergate, because I used to hand in some of my homeworks as parodies, because I just thought who wants to write an essay? Exactly so I did. Bohemian Rhapsody about mangroves, those trees that grow in salty water.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, I was a questioner.
Speaker 2No no, the shocked face was more, I think, because of the Bo Wrapped. Yeah mangroveian rhapsody Nice. I can perform it now at six minutes, but I can do it if we need to.
Speaker 1I think we're okay. If you're Maybe just a little bit.
Speaker 2One of the great lyrics was Asia, the major home, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, I guess that was good, I can't believe it was that?
Speaker 1Yeah, I was going to say that. That was just you listing things.
Speaker 4More like we didn't start with fire. Yeah, that wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2It was there. There was also ICOCO2 emission from a grove, crucial source, crucial source, crucial source of blue carbon termite infestation, weak stabilization, no tidal flashing tidal flashing tidal flashing tidal flashing tidal flashing, flashing tides because of lack of fresh water available in salty soils.
Speaker 3This went on for six minutes.
Speaker 2Man grows must filter the water through their leaves. Sometimes high, sometimes low. How high can they grow? 80 feet tall? They really, really grow, really grow. It was a real vibe.
Speaker 1I bet your teachers really loved that.
Speaker 2It was a real vibe.
Speaker 1And that's why you did it, because you knew that would annoy them. No, they loved it. I suppose it was better than reading for a minute that was played at Oxford University Genuinely. Sorry, I don't know where we were at. We go off on all sorts of ways. History, we're on history.
Speaker 2What was your least favorite subject?
Speaker 4I never liked maths no one does. No, I just don't understand the point.
Speaker 1I didn't mind maths. That's why you're unpopular.
Speaker 4Not strictly speaking, true. I just didn't get the point of what they were teaching us. I understand why maths is important, but I've never used any long division, I just saw it more like puzzles, and that's the only reason why I enjoyed maths.
Speaker 2I was having this chat with some guests the other day the Burgesses, if you're listening, how are you? Anyway, I was having this chat with them and one of them was just saying like when have I ever used algebra? And you made a good point of like, why don't you just have that as an optional thing later on that if you want to do x stuff, then you can learn to do that. But how many people can say, they've often?
Speaker 1used algebra in their lives. I think you have to find x stuff and then use it Stuff that's previously.
Speaker 2Oh, that was.
Speaker 1I don't really know where I was going with that, but it's relevant.
Speaker 2Sorry Jack.
Speaker 1Most of algebra is finding x.
Speaker 2But how many times have you used algebra in your comedy career?
Speaker 4Never. Can you try and use it tonight for us?
Speaker 2I'll see what I can do Try to fit some algebra in there. Thank you, we are staying to watch Variety, as I've told you already Mick.
Speaker 4I'm going to try and do a great onstage moment. I'll see what I can do. I used to go out with a girl like that. I actually dumped her because she wasn't any good at algebra. That's why my x is out of the equation. So I stayed with Haven for about five years, kind of worked my way through different roles, was Tiger Club leader and assistant attainment manager, what's a? Tiger Club. Where are you For the purposes of the podcast he's doing?
Speaker 1really weird. Hand signals Very strange.
Speaker 4We're having fun in the Tiger Club.
Speaker 2So we still don't know what it is. You just know there was a kind of cult dance that went with it.
Speaker 4So the Tiger Club was kids club. It was kind of like five to twelve.
Speaker 1And you fed them to Tigers.
Speaker 4Yes, I could have done that over summer of fun. No, we just used to do loads of different games and stuff.
Speaker 1There was dances, We've seen some of the dancers.
Speaker 2We know they were dancers, mick, so I stayed there with them.
Speaker 4Then I was assistant and attainment manager and then presenter. Then I went and worked on ships. So I was at sea for four years. Which cruise land did you work? So I worked for Thompson.
Speaker 1Which is now Morella. I think, yeah, I had no idea.
Speaker 4So I did a year for Thompson on the Thompson spirit, and then I joined Island Cruises, which is no longer with us. It's a shame, but it was a kind of moment, silent, silent cruises. It was a younger kind of cruise clientele, yeah, and we just used to have a lot more fun than kind of they used to go to Brazil in the winter and do three day cruises.
Speaker 3Party cruises around Brazil.
Speaker 2It's crazy, I'm imagining some wild nights.
Speaker 1Where were any highlights from your cruising days?
Speaker 4Yeah, so many. So obviously, like I said, we used to go. We used to start in Brazil and then travel across to the med, do the med season and then we'd go back over to Brazil. So we went to Rio, played football on Copa, cabana Beach. We had some Brazilian kids which was awesome who won. They were superb Brazilian and hang glided off the top of a mountain and landed on. Ipanema Beach, which was phenomenal.
Speaker 4I love the story Do all like Sugarloaf Mountain and all of the I don't know what can't remember the name of the mountain.
Speaker 1But yeah, it was Christ the Redeemer. Yes, saw Christ the Redeemer. Was he there with the Tiger Club?
Speaker 4Yes, he was doing the choreo Um Caribbean, yeah yeah, big lover of the Caribbean, I went back.
Speaker 1As I said, I went on Cruising March, went to the Caribbean just to do it from the other side, to do it as a guest, rather than as a.
Speaker 2Yeah, he had many coconut dream.
Speaker 1Well, I love a cocktail.
Speaker 4It's weird, like some of the Caribbean is kind of weird, like the ports and stuff we used to go to unless you were going on tour.
Speaker 2Yeah, I always say that what's weird about it? Sorry, I've never been, so I.
Speaker 4And so like, obviously, unless you go out on tour, some of the ports are just kind of real, kind of shanty towns and nice, like kind of real, not a lot there. Yeah, kfcs, did you? There's a lot of KFCs, just bars and KFCs.
Speaker 1Well, kfc isn't the same as over here Did you find that I'm going to be honest with you. The last time I had a KFC in the Caribbean, I'd just been on a catamaran and I have pictures of me in KFC, but I don't really remember anything other than that I was in KFC.
Speaker 2How does KFC differ? Dolphin what?
Speaker 4They used to sell dolphin and shark as well as KFC. It's KFC yeah as well as chicken.
Speaker 1I'm going to have to go back.
Speaker 4The ones we used to go to. A lot of them had dolphin and shark.
Speaker 2I'm skipping ahead here, but we do a quiz in this podcast called the ABC Quiz, and one of our questions, previously used in a few episodes, has been what does KFC stand for? Now, if someone said Kentucky Fried Dolphin, that means we would have to take a point away because it would be a correct answer. And now I'm really freaked out about going to a KFC in the Caribbean.
Speaker 1I plan to go back again in March so I might go into a KFC just to try it. Did you try shark and dolphin?
Speaker 4No, I didn't.
Speaker 1Dolphin, are you against that?
Speaker 4Yeah Well, no, not necessarily against it, but I just didn't see the purpose.
Speaker 3Hey.
Speaker 4We just cut that bit out. You're a fan of rollercoasters at times. I love rollercoasters, absolutely love rollercoasters. Don't do things that spin you around constantly, but I love rollercoasters. Favorite rollercoaster have you got a favorite part? So we did Florida. A couple of years ago you said in your form you did Disney. Right, yeah, I did Massive Disney fan. So we did all those. It's not really a coaster as such, but Rise of the Resistance was phenomenal.
Speaker 3What's that like? So it was the.
Speaker 4Star Wars. It was the brand new Star Wars one that had opened and it's like a dark ride and it takes you through in this little car and you go through different scenes and there's giant Star Wars. Do you know much?
Speaker 2about Star Wars. Yeah, I've never seen a Star Wars fan. You're not.
Speaker 4To be fair, I'm not a massive Star Wars fan. Okay, but there's a room with a giant atta or AT-AT in it and it takes you up through. It's like a big mechanical dog. Do you know where?
Speaker 1to describe that to you.
Speaker 2Thank you Because you looked a bit like what's that? I was just thinking of AT&T the carrier.
Speaker 1I knew exactly you were going to say that.
Speaker 4And then there's you come up against Kylo Ren and he uses force to push you around.
Speaker 1And Kylo Ren is Kylo Ren is like the villain in the newest trilogy, the worst trilogy, because it was terrible. Do you like those new ones?
Speaker 4Again, I'm not a massive.
Speaker 3Star Wars fan, so it doesn't bother me too much.
Speaker 1They are awful. I mean the first one's not too bad, but the rest of them, yeah, the second one was terrible.
Speaker 4The force is like never mind, never mind, okay. And then it takes you through and it puts you on a lift and it kind of drops you into a motion-moving thing. It's just phenomenal. If you get a chance to have a look at the videos on YouTube phenomenal Absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 1Have you ever done Disney or anything like that?
Speaker 2I was meant to go to Disney. This is a very sore subject. I was meant to go to Disneyland Paris for my sixth birthday and we were going to go on the Euro Star. My birthday is January 15th, if anyone is interested. And we got to.
Speaker 1October 29th.
Speaker 4April 16th.
Speaker 1Just in case anyone wants to know.
Speaker 2There you go. My birthday's coming up. We got to no by this episode it's passed. I'm afraid oh sorry, next year, jack, I do take gifts in though. Mine's very soon with this episode. Anyway, we get to St Bankers International Station.
Speaker 1You can already see the pain on his face. I don't know.
Speaker 2We're stood in the queue and they say it's been snowed off and I stood there thinking I'm never going to get to meet Chip and Dale.
Speaker 1Oh, they're awesome. I love meeting Chip and Dale when I went to Paris Stop rubbing it in. No, but I used to. You just brought this memory back Great, when I went to Paris when I was younger, you get a little autograph book. Yeah, and I remember Chip and Dale being one of the autographs.
Speaker 2I really Met me a couple of times too. Yeah, very cool. I'm so glad you have those memories, guys. Thanks, I'm really happy for you. What about for your birthday this year? I take you too I'd love that To Disneyland Paris, thank you. But anyway, the pain didn't last too long because my mum then said we'll take you to the Hamleys. You can get anything you want.
Speaker 1But Do you still learn Paris or Hamleys? I think you were still conned out of that there.
Speaker 2Well, she conned me. Well, because she knew that if she said we'll go right now and I'll get you anything you want and we get a full refund for the trip, it worked, didn't it? It really works in her favour, actually, although now she keeps messaging me going oh, I really want to go to Disney with you because I feel sad I've never done it. I failed you as a parent.
Speaker 1I'd go with you because I, I think, yes, my new house.
Speaker 4I'm looking for an excuse to go. I don't see why we couldn't do a podcast.
Speaker 2Would you like to come as well? Yeah, I'll be there, because Mike Scott will also be down.
Speaker 1Yeah, let's do it. We keep saying he's going to take us in his camper van he hasn't agreed to it yet.
Speaker 2He's not offered. We've said, we've offered ourselves, the four of us we're going to invite you along with us.
Speaker 1The four of us will go into Mike's smaller camper van we like Gino, Gordon and Craig. Yeah, Disney and Paris.
Speaker 4I recently got engaged, so Congratulations.
Speaker 2Thank you very much. Thank you. What do you think of themed weddings? You know, when people choose like a.
Speaker 1Sorry, before he finishes his sentence, is yours a themed wedding?
Speaker 4I'd love a themed wedding but, Chloe wouldn't let me.
Speaker 1No, would she not?
Speaker 4No, I wanted a Harry Potter wedding.
Speaker 2Yeah, were you going to be dressed in a robe.
Speaker 4I don't think I'd necessarily go full kind of cosplay, because I would have it.
Speaker 2so you send out their letter in a Hogwarts letter With an owl. Yeah, obviously.
Speaker 1A lot of owls to do that.
Speaker 2A lot of owls. That might up the cost a little bit because you have to train them as well, but I would then, as the guests arrive, put them under the sorting hat.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, so the bridal groom Put them into there A bridal groom and then just the table of Slytherin.
Candles, Harry Potter, and Job Interviews
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4They do candles. I remember going in Primark and they had candles for the different houses and there was no Hufflepuff. I just assumed the Hufflepuff the candle would smell of disappointment and shame.
Speaker 2There was one and it just got sold out.
Speaker 1No, we don't need to stock that one. What would a Gryffindor candle smell like?
Speaker 4Victory yeah An apple pie.
Speaker 1And Slytherin probably like cabbage oh.
Speaker 2No, I think it would smell of like musky like.
Speaker 1Musky and metallic yeah, metal, yeah. And then this is really what people want to know this is why people listen.
Speaker 2What would the?
Speaker 1Harry Potter, houses candle smell like If we were doing scented design in the Hogwarts houses.
Speaker 2What would we make the room smell of? What was your first experience of Potters? How did you end up here?
Speaker 4I saw the job opportunity come up here for activities later and I was like do you know what I'm going?
Speaker 4to just go in the interview and I came and saw Vince, who was here at the time, and he was chatting and he was like why haven't you gone for the entertainment's job? And I was like I said to be fair. I said I didn't know there was one, but I also didn't want to do six days a week, days and nights, Like I can't. I'm over that, I'm too old to do that now. And I was. He said no, we're not doing that, it's five days. You leave the work a day time or you'll work a night time. And I was like, okay, this sounds more appealing.
Speaker 3This sounds more appealing.
Speaker 4And he said, look, we'll come back to it later on today with one or the other. And they came back, offered me choice of either job. So, yeah, I took the ENTS and yeah it's genuinely been the best thing I've ever done.
Speaker 2That's great, I love it.
Speaker 4Yeah, having been a manager for 15 or years, it's really nice to not be. Don't worry about all that.
Speaker 2Yeah, had you been familiar with Potters before, or was this like your first experience with it?
Speaker 4Briefly, yeah, I only kind of. I obviously like you hear the name in and around, but I've never been. I've known a few people who'd worked up at Hopton On C On C On C.
Speaker 1It's like a weird tick that we've developed because we were told you haven't worked with the yeah we are allowed to say.
Speaker 3Hopton, I know.
Speaker 4So David Grigo.
Speaker 3Yeah, who I worked with on ships.
Speaker 1Yeah, many years ago, everyone's worked with David Grigo.
Speaker 2We have to put you through a quiz which we've mentioned a few times and is a all exclusive staple, yeah, which is the ABC quiz.
Speaker 1Yes, and ABC stands for.
Speaker 2Anything but correct, correct.
Speaker 1So basically, the premise is we give you a question, all you have to do is answer incorrectly.
Speaker 4That's all you have to do. Yeah, I'm awful, I'm terribly competitive.
Speaker 1Oh no, I can already see that on your face that you're like oh god, I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 2And three of your five legs, because you're the final person we're recording at five legs. Three of your five legs. Colleagues have already gone through this quiz.
Speaker 1Yeah, so right, here we go then. Mcdundee, your time starts now. What is your name? Steve? Name a flavour of soup Ice cream. Name something with four legs, a wonky donkey. What colour is a flamingo Orange? Who was the first man on the moon? Buzz Aldrin. How many days are there in a year? Seven? What does WWDOT stand for? Where is Wally when? Where would you wear glasses On my knees? Name something you'd put in the fridge my name is Wally. I'm a big fan of Wally. I'm a big fan of the fridge. My name what shape is a pizza Triangular. What is the opposite of sad, even sadder? What does a vet look after His finances?
Speaker 4And a final question Name something you'd put on a hotdog A cold cat and a white-eyed white-eyed red-eyed kid, I've never seen one of these.
Speaker 2Well, that was actually a very good. That was a good little number, number of questions you answered there.
Speaker 1You did pause at the start.
Speaker 4Yeah yeah, yeah Is the soup one. It was the soup one.
Speaker 1Because your brain only goes to I just wanted to say prawn.
Speaker 4I don't know why I just wanted to say prawn and I was like, but there could be prawn soup and it's like yeah.
Speaker 2So you answered 13 questions correctly. Ok, I have two questions to ask you. Laughter, because we have bonus points, but we also can take points away if we believe an answer was in fact correct. Now he gets very serious about this role. I really do A wonky donkey. I agree with you, may not have four legs, but it could just have one leg shorter than the other.
Speaker 4That's true.
Speaker 2Are you agreeing that wonky donkey is an incorrect answer?
Speaker 4No, because the joke is what you call a donkey with three legs. Yeah, a wonky donkey.
Speaker 1He only thinks in jokes, Henry.
Speaker 2So Right, yes, ok, and if you remember like the Hanna Dex game show wonky donkey.
Speaker 4Good point.
Speaker 2Donky with three legs Triangular pizza. Now, if it was a pizza slice, maybe you didn't ask whether it was a pizza Pizza. This means a lot to you, Mick. I don't know I can see it. I will give you a bonus point for Cold Cat on the hot dog and also looking after his finances.
Speaker 1I feel like that's sage advice.
Speaker 4Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3You're questioning it, aren't you?
Speaker 1You're like, yes, he, yeah, but yeah, yeah, you don't look so sure about that one.
Speaker 4I thought the question was going to be about my nan in the fridge. I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2Oh, and a bonus point for that as well. That's what I wanted to give them for, which leaves you completely overlooked.
Speaker 1That is now yeah. I hope you mean now as in the relative, and not like the bread.
Speaker 4Yes, yeah, that leaves you weird.
Speaker 3She's cryogenically frozen. I took it to bring her back.
Speaker 2Good old man, that leaves you with 16 points Super.
Speaker 1Here are the scores on the doors for the ABC quiz yes, fifth place. Dan Fox and Rachel Bady 10 points.
Speaker 2Do you like my new time signature? Yeah, no, I don't like it, I prefer the old one. Fourth place.
Speaker 1Harley Shaw 11 points.
Speaker 2Third place.
Speaker 1Joe B and Chloe Driscoll 14 points. Second place Brian Graves 15 points.
Speaker 2Oh my God, he's been elsted, he has.
Speaker 1And in first place knocking Brian off the top spot. Mick Dundee 16 points. Bum, bum, bum bum, bum.
Speaker 2I feel so sorry for Brian, poor Brian.
Speaker 1How have the mighty have fallen, so we're going to get into the. This is the main bulk of the job interview selection process.
Speaker 2Which, ironically, is the fastest part of the podcast.
Speaker 1It's a weird premise OK, these are quick fire questions. However, you don't have to answer quickly, we want to take time with that. Just the first thing that comes into your head.
Speaker 2This time you really can take 48 seconds per question. Ok, and more If you want to.
Speaker 1I mean, let's not just have radio silence? Yeah, do you want to go for the first one?
Speaker 2Yeah, of course. What was the last thing you put into Google? You can check if you want to. Oh, wow, yeah.
Speaker 4Um, probably something really random, apart from my emoji check, which my car failed the other day. It's just my condolences. Yeah, just cost me 500 quid to sort out, always lovely. So the last thing I literally put in was Simpson's Barbershop Quartet. Yes, what an episode.
Speaker 2Wow, yeah, jack sent me an episode of the Simpsons the other day. Well, not the other day, it was quite a while ago. It was a little Simpsons themed, wasn't it?
Speaker 1But it was like a Sondheim themed.
Speaker 2Simpsons episode. It was amazing with Patty Lepone and Sutton Foster in it. Are you really impressed when I sent you that I was so impressed?
Speaker 1This is a really great standalone episode. Yeah, if you were an insect, which insect would you be? And why? Probably a bee? Why a bee? Um, good answer.
Speaker 4But yeah, um then, kind of chunky.
Speaker 1Kind of chunky Honey.
Speaker 4I love honey and just they're nice, they're like bees.
Speaker 1I like bees. Bees are useful yeah.
Speaker 4Like, as opposed to wasps, which is just hideous wasps. But yeah, probably a bee. Yeah, I want to just bumble around a bit Bumble around.
Speaker 2Bumble around. Yeah, if you were stuck on a desert island with any team member, who would you take with you?
Speaker 4I would probably take Gemma. Gemma Hamilton. Yeah, from the end same. I don't think we've not really met Gemma yet I haven't really met Gemma.
Speaker 1She's awesome. I keep hearing that, which is lovely.
Speaker 4Why, gemma, she's crafty, not in like a.
Speaker 2She's crafty.
Speaker 1Not in like a sly kind of I thought she runs the craft.
Speaker 4But no, she makes stuff so like podiums we use. She made all the podiums. She made stuff for Pantone last year. So yeah, gemma would be up to knock up Shelter.
Speaker 1Yeah, good answer yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 4Gemma, although they all have their own merits.
Speaker 1Yeah, good way to cover your back there.
Speaker 4They all have their own merits. As much as I love Dan, I don't think I could be stuck on a desert island with him.
Speaker 1If you were to challenge Usain Bolt at anything and win, what would you challenge him to?
Speaker 4Oh, probably a slow race.
Speaker 2Last to the finish line.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think he wouldn't be able to resist?
Speaker 4going fast, is that it? I just think I could go slower.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think I would like to see this yeah.
Speaker 1I think that's more exciting than a fast race. Yeah, what are the parameters of that Like do you have to Like how fast? Can't stop moving, can't stop moving, can't stop moving how? Do you define, not stopping.
Speaker 2Like if you pick up your leg. It has to keep moving forward.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, this, Nick, is the most important question we ever get to ask who would you rather go on holiday with Me or Jack?
Speaker 1That's a big question.
Speaker 2When we were interviewing Chloe.
Speaker 1She can actually remember my name, but Don't say this just because you want him to feel sorry for you.
Speaker 4Yeah, see, it's obviously done. The Disney and stuff like that, it would be great.
Speaker 2I mean you've never done it, sorry, it'd be good to be able to kind of, to be loved and experienced that with me for the first time.
Speaker 3Yeah, to be able to take you and show you To finally meet Chip and Dale what your face like lights up when you.
Discussion About Age Gap and Gratitude
Speaker 4Finally meet Chip and Dale. Yeah, when you finally meet Chip and Dale, it would be amazing. I can't wait for that. Yeah, that'd be lovely. I just think there'd be there's too big of age gap between this.
Speaker 2As much as I like you, it's not me, it's you as much as I like it, Henry.
Speaker 4I think there's too much. No, I think you'd want, I don't know.
Speaker 1I feel like I went to see a breakup, Although much of an agent. You just want something. I don't right now.
Speaker 2I mean yeah, I think I'd rather go for a phoenix.
Speaker 4That's the. Can I just take you each on a holiday. No that's what we need, some sort of decision.
Speaker 2No, OK, we don't travel in the same time.
Speaker 4That case, I go on holiday with Jack.
Speaker 2Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 1Well, make Dundee. I've been trying to think of this, but I haven't been able to, I've got it. You've got it? Yeah, because we, we, we put all of your answers into AI. Ok, and it will, your responses, and it throws out your, your best position. Ok, cool. The exclusive podcast company.
Speaker 2Yes, and the position that we've allocated you today is our on resort. Resident candle maker.
Speaker 4Oh, super yes.
Speaker 2Obviously with your knowledge of Harry Potter candles before you sent Connoisseur. Yeah, you've. You've smelled some of the world's greatest smells, like Kentucky Fried Dolphin or things like that. And obviously you could design the labels. Yes, so all in all make sense. You will be supplying the candles for each of our rooms, but we can't have flames in the rooms. I just need to give that disclosure now.
Speaker 1Yeah, you can create the sense, but we're not allowed to put it in a rage diffuser. Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, what an episode that was. Jack certainly was an episode. I realized that we've got to do something in our intro.
Speaker 1That's great. We're very ungrateful for doing it, yeah because we should be grateful. Yes, we should.
Speaker 2And to be grateful.
Speaker 3We like to take trips to gratitude Gratitude Corners, that's really nice Play the jingle. Gratitude, corners.
Speaker 2This week. Jack, I am grateful. Well, we're both grateful. Yeah, we are, Mike Scott, he's always grateful to Mike. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1Unless he stops us from using the word omelette or f**king.
Speaker 2Yeah, but we're grateful to Mike because he gifted us hashtag gifted to Potters Puffers.
Speaker 1Yes, potters Puffers, he bought us these puffer jackets as a joke they're actually lovely they thought we'd look ridiculous, oh no, we didn't.
Speaker 2No, we certainly didn't, and we looked gorgeous and everyone's been asking how to get them. Everyone has been asking me how do I get one? Of those, the staff guests, random people on the street, have been stopping us.
Speaker 1I feel like we've started a movement, a fashion movement.
Speaker 2We are the two most fashionable people in Norfolk, it's been said many times, many ways. Merry Christmas to you. So anyway, who knows if you'll ever be able to get your hands on those jackets. It's not impossible. Let's wait and see what time says.
Speaker 1Me and Celia were talking about trying to sell them earlier, were you really? We were starting to have a business.
Speaker 2Very nice. Well, anyway, we're very grateful to Mike. He also got us some beanies which we were quite reluctant to wear, and it was like trying to force someone a small child trying to make me wear a beanie.
Speaker 1You wriggled a lot. I stuck mine on a tree.
Speaker 2Until he forced you to put it on your head. And then I almost ruined the whole Christmas display. But, mike, we're grateful for you.
Speaker 3We're so grateful for you.
Time Traveling at Potter's Result
Speaker 1I've got to go and do the Friday Night Pre-Show now, have you really? Yeah, sorry to break the fall wall here. Sorry about that. I know it's Monday morning for many of you or wherever you're listening Friday Night, but it is Friday Night for us.
Speaker 2Friday Night two weeks ago as well.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2We're time travelers. Tell us about what you were doing Friday Night two weeks ago.
Speaker 1Probably something less interesting than being at Potter's Result Hopton on C, unless you were here at Potter's Result Hopton on C.
Speaker 2How would that be?
Speaker 1And if you just watched, if you were at Hopton on C on Friday Night two weeks ago, this is what we were doing.
Speaker 2This is the conversation we were having.
Speaker 1We were having just before I said hello to you on stage.
Speaker 2So Jack is now going to take two steps out and be on stage.
Speaker 1Listen to that rupture of applause.
Speaker 2I can't hear anything.
Speaker 3Oh Bye, music playing.