WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Join amateur historians Andrew and Liam (thrice bronze medalists in 'The South Yorkshire Rememberers Chalice') as they take a trip back to life in Britain during the eighties, nineties and noughties to discuss the pop culture moments that defined a nation.
Do you remember when Del boy fell through the bar, when Marathon bars changed their name to Snickers or when Paul Sykes punched a shark? If so then come and remember with us. If not then stick around and we will remember for you. This is literally a no lose siduation (situation).
WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Listener's Feedback 14/06/25
Remember when podcast hosts actually listened to their audience? We do! In this feedback episode, we're diving into your comments, memories, and occasional corrections about everything from the National Lottery's cultural impact to that iconic Blur vs Oasis battle that divided the nation.
Your passionate responses to our Sopranos episode prove just how deeply that series embedded itself in British culture, while the Italia '90 memories transport us back to a time of Pavarotti, those distinctive billowing nets, and the heartbreak of Waddle's missed penalty. It's fascinating to discover how differently we all experienced these shared cultural moments – whether you were a Blur devotee with "Coffee and TV" blasting from your Walkman or an Oasis disciple who'd fight anyone who criticized the Gallagher brothers.
The irony isn't lost on us that while hosting a remembering podcast, we occasionally forget things ourselves – like when Liam couldn't recall a video sent just days earlier or momentarily believed Mystic Meg was still predicting lottery numbers. These moments of memory lapse actually highlight something important about nostalgia: it's less about perfect recall and more about the emotional connections we form with our shared cultural past.
We're also announcing our transition to a dedicated Who Remembers feed, so be sure to follow us there for upcoming episodes including our Liar Liar special. And if you're a new or aspiring business owner, creative, or podcaster yourself, we're offering free promotional shout-outs to help build our nostalgic community. Because at the end of the day, remembering is always better when done together.
Rate, review, and share with fellow nostalgia enthusiasts – and don't forget to follow @whorememberspod on your platform of choice!
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Speaker 2:This is history. This is history Right now. Right now.
Speaker 1:This is history. Hello and welcome to who Remembers the UK Nostalgia Podcast. In this episode we're going to look back at your comments. I'm laughing because I tried to do the intro twice and both times you started speaking as I did it.
Speaker 2:I'm.
Speaker 1:Andrew, by the way, and that's Liam.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we've lost a full episode and a half episode on thinking we've pressed record and we haven't. So I just wanted to confirm, but I kept doing it over your.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going yeah, I'm going, hello and well, yeah, so have we got record. I thought what are you fucking doing, man? But yeah, we're here. Thank you for all the comments. We're going to go through them all now, but a few things to start with innit Liam.
Speaker 2:A few random things, yeah. Well. Yeah, if you're new to the, who Remembers and you've not come across from Living With Maidley, what we like to do, sort of sporadic intervals, is we will read out comments we've had and feedback. It's not a full episode. If you're wanting us to remember stuff, I mean we are remembering, we're remembering comments aren't we yeah?
Speaker 2:So, yeah, this is I'm not sure how often we'll do this, we've not kind of quite decided, but after a build-up of episodes we will comment and read out some of your feedback and it's all much appreciated. And, yeah, keep, keep doing what you're doing, keep letting us know what you think.
Speaker 1:Keep up the doodling.
Speaker 2:So the first thing we're going to start with is a begging bowl, isn't it? We're going to say we've, I don't know, we've over two different podcasts. We've got 160 episodes now. I think, yeah, if you like what we're doing and you're here, give us a like, give us a follow, subscribe on whatever platform you listen on and follow us on Twitter on whatever platform you listen on and follow us on Twitter Blue Sky, whatever. Whether you're a mad right-winger or an extreme left-wokest, follow us on whatever platform you choose to do that.
Speaker 1:Anyone will do. The reason we're asking this is because a couple of people have got in contact with us and said, the type who remembers into a search bar and they can't find us. And that's because, obviously, because obviously it's, it's a new podcast We've only got like two ratings, so we never come up. So please give us a rate. Even if you give us two star, I don't give a shit. Tyrone's actually said that today. I told him um, I hope you don't give us a one star like last time, which he didn't. He said he might give us a two this time after a cracking start. But yeah, people try to find it and stuff. If you don't like it and all that sort of shit with stars and bollocks, then no one finds it.
Speaker 2:Also, there's going to be one more episode, I think, on this stream and then you will have to go over to the WhoRemembers stream if you're listening on the middle of the stream. Do you know what?
Speaker 1:If you're listening, thinking it's all right, I'm not that bothered, that's fine. You don't have to follow us across, but if you like what we're doing, you're gonna miss out on liar. Liar, mate, I tell you that one of you won't stop it.
Speaker 2:No, you're still a liar liar. You miss out on anything post liar liar. But. But that's your own decisions. So you're called. But yeah, we do need people start moving across to the new social media presence, the who remembers pages andbers pages. And yeah, we've got a chunk of you that have now subscribed to the WhoRemembers, I think, until we change, because Living With Madeleine was a bit vague and we've changed to something WhoRemembers. That is now quite generic. So if you're typing it in, there's loads of stuff that comes up. I think the trick is typing in WhoRem who remembers UK nostalgia? That should get you there. Well, if you're listening.
Speaker 1:You don't need to do that, to be honest, but if you actually wanted to come over to the new stream and you can't find it, who remembers UK nostalgia? And, like I say, if you can give us a, do it now unless you're an operator doing heart surgery. I think we've got Fat man Scoop who listens to us. Actually he gets involved in heart surgery.
Speaker 2:If you're in the middle of surgery, just ask him to pause for a bit. No, just say hang on yeah just hold on, this will say 10 seconds.
Speaker 1:This will say 10 seconds. Yeah, we need Whoa Hang on, I need to fucking do this right now.
Speaker 2:This. No, whoa, Hang on. I need to fucking do this right now. This is life or death. So is the podcast decision.
Speaker 1:So is the podcast yeah, yeah, I want you there, lob, a nice little five star, or a four, or a three, or a two or even a one.
Speaker 2:I always think if it's a one, why are you still listening If it's that bad?
Speaker 1:Well, we've got two one stars. I think one of them is one of our enemies from years gone by and I think another one was because I said Richie Edwards can't play the guitar because straight after I said that on that episode we got a one star rating and a woman berating me for saying that. And he can play the guitar, but he's not very good on the guitar and I'll stand by that. Throw all your one stars that you want, I'll stand by that and what we're going to offer in return.
Speaker 2:So we, we don't advertise, we we certainly don't monetize the podcast, um, but what we're going to do. So if, if you're I mean it makes more sense if you're sort of sheffield based, but but we'll promote anything anywhere if you're somebody trying to get something started, if you're a dog walker, if you're a- great random cake maker.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to think like a solid yeah, or if you're doing something, if you're releasing something, if you've got a blog your own podcast or blog or your own website.
Speaker 2:Let us know, we'll give you a shout out, we'll give you a shout out.
Speaker 1:We might even do a jingle for you about that. So, if you're honest, genuinely this as well if you've got your own business or anything like that just free of charge, you know? No, no charge necessary.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah just and what we'll expect, sort of, in return is that if you're listening to us, you at very least are liking and subscribing, and if yeah, if you want, if you want to tell your friends, if you, if you want to get other people on board, that'd be great.
Speaker 1:But that's your, your and we will be looking up at this now. But genuinely, if anybody wants, uh, anything advertising or shouting out, I'll get millions of listeners. But honestly, it gives a shout and we'll put it on and, like I say, if I've got the time, might even do a little jingle. Think how good that'll be.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I mean that's. It's hard to put a value on that, isn't it?
Speaker 1:absolutely yeah, and they haven't. I mean, obviously that you know could take your business to the next level if you've got one. Anyway, let's get to the comments.
Speaker 2:Liam, you've got the first ones yeah, so just just cards on the table. You've sent me the notes so some of them might need some clarity, because I looked at a couple and I weren't sure what you meant. But we'll go through. So the first couple are just generic sort of comments on the podcast. So James Twitter's handle is right up there with and I think the actual thing is Susan Album Party.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Susan Boyle's Album Party this fairly famous thing on Twitter.
Speaker 2:It obviously reads as sus anal bum party. So yeah, yeah, we're. You know, we're well aware we're marketed geniuses. You could, you could say we're well aware that he remembers he also spells hall members.
Speaker 1:Not quite as marketing genius as dead part um, which we might come on to later, but he is now. Obviously he's a self styled in the nowhere and Tufty Club are picking up some right subscribers from this, aren't they? So?
Speaker 2:the guru of knowledge is probably like an example for us. But yeah, we'll carry on. Gary, after all that silly football nonsense recently, it's great to hear you two chatting shit again. I'd love a Tufty Club crossover episode.
Speaker 1:Which we have thought about. We are thinking about this, we've got some ideas about we don't quite know how to do it.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's a bit of a play-along where we're slagged off multiple times by both parties involved, because I think Womble's well and truly gone now, but I think both existing members have slagged us off a couple of times, so, yeah, we might do something with him. I almost want to challenge him to some sort of quiz because they're doubting my knowledge. But we'll see.
Speaker 1:We'll see where that goes yeah, that's a good idea, yeah, yeah, but we'll do some stuff like that. We're going to get more guests on and stuff like that. Berlin Blade for his viral tweet. Shame, he didn't mention who Remembers podcast, but he can't have it all. Carl brought him up on that, but you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:We do it for him is all I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, sometimes it's not a two-way street, is it this kind of thing? But yeah, berlin Blade, if you don't follow him, you should do because it's very, very entertaining. You don't have to be a blade to get and like his content. But his comment is good content from some good content providers. I personally like remembering, because it reminds me of when I was 12, stone wet through and shagging supermodels didn't have a job and life seemed simple. Uh, the reason my dad voted brexit too, by the way. But if if you like remembering this is for you, that's great that's.
Speaker 2:That's because we've had a couple of reviews where one was, yeah, not bad this, and only fell asleep towards the end that were a review there are people we've been told and I do this with other podcasts, so I get it who put this on at bedtime, fall asleep and sort of dream of us talking nonsense in the background.
Speaker 1:So yeah, the podfather, sean um and he um. He would listen to a podcast and fell asleep. They were on our mysteries episode on living with made like podcast and he got woken up, jolted up by oh, mysterious, I listened to a crime podcast or something like that before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've had that. I used to. I've tried to cut it down now. I used to listen to a lot of true crime and I've been woken up in the early hours to. At that point he grabbed the axe and swung it towards his head, like that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1:So yeah, he knew something from Insomnia for quite a bit as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, stars still do to a certain extent. But, yeah, probably turn off the podcasts. Whoa, whoa, whoa. And we'll get to feedback now on the first episode we did, which was who remembers the first ever UK National Lottery? So, andy, he sent us the Noel Edmonds video.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember you seeing this. Obviously he aimed this one particularly at you, didn't he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it's gone out of my mind. Now you're saying it, so remind me what it was.
Speaker 1:It's Noel Edmonds when he's talking about. He's making quite slight sort of innuendos.
Speaker 2:I must have seen it, because we've talked about it.
Speaker 1:You have. You've commented, you replied. Who remembers about three days ago when Andy sent this video?
Speaker 2:Could have been an insomnia moment in the middle of the night. Yeah, I can't quite think what it is. You sent it to me. What innuendos is he making?
Speaker 1:Have a look at it. It's not really like innuendos. He's saying stuff that's quite suggestive. I'd say have we reshared it anyway.
Speaker 2:No, no saying stuff, that's quite suggestive I'd say have we re-shared it anyway?
Speaker 1:Have we posted it?
Speaker 2:No, no, no no, no, we haven't. No. Well, we're going to have to now, aren't we? I loved it at the time, Andy. I cannot remember it now.
Speaker 1:That's incredible, that you can't remember that.
Speaker 2:Anyway, john has commented. Listening to the bit about Mystic Meg reminded me of the Brian Connolly character.
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't know what I think about Brian Connolly to be honest, or an entertainer Butlins sort of guy, I reckon Not in a bad way, you know, certainly not a Stephen Muller in Butlins man More funny than him, he were quite I don't know, I don't quite know how to place Brian Connolly in my sort of memories of comedians he were in the Grimbles. Were it the Grimbles, the Were it the Grimballs. Were it the Grimballs, the Grimballs. I don't know that bit. Mander Alden were in it and Noddy Alder.
Speaker 2:Ah, yeah, that retro 70s or something yeah yeah, I think I like him, but I'm not sure why. I don't want to commit to that.
Speaker 1:It's almost like I know what you mean. There is something about him. I like him, but I don't know there.
Speaker 2:I don't know there's something about him that I don't trust, and I don't know there's something about him that I feel like I forgot.
Speaker 1:It's not a great start for a remembering podcast. No, you forgot an episode, sorry, a video that someone sent us about two days ago that you told me because this is brilliant, and then you forgot it and you can't remember what Brian Connolly's done.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not saying he's done anything, Just saying I'm not sure why I don't remember him more fondly to be honest, he's very sunny, by the way, so fuzzy heads.
Speaker 1:I've had a shandy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've had a couple of vodka cokes just to get me in the mood, but I've not drank enough to not have any memories, so I don't know. Eggie, I think there's a reason why Mystic May can't get on telly anymore for love, no money. I mean, is he insinuating something there? Is that something else we've forgotten?
Speaker 1:No, she's passed away, didn't she? And we said she can't get on, telly. I think it was a joke from us.
Speaker 2:She's a shambles then yeah, I forgot she died. What's?
Speaker 1:going on with this. Leave her with that much. You're forgetting. I thought it just meant We've had three comments and every one of them you forgot something about.
Speaker 2:I thought it meant she was just pretty poor. That's why she can't get on telly.
Speaker 1:No, she's passed away. We mentioned it. I wonder if she saw it coming. Do you know what this podcast is called?
Speaker 2:Do you know who I am? Mysterious girl. Craig, the excellent work continues. Thought you were giving yourself a tough task, covering the national lottery as your first episode, but, as per normal, you nailed it. Just a couple of chilled out entertainers. I mean yeah, fair play, craig. Thank you for that Really nice comment. Km 1984. Howling at Kim and Aggie siphoning through people's shit. Think you meant Gillian McKeith? Yeah, that's my fault.
Speaker 1:I say Kim and Aggie Used to look at people's shit, but it was Gillian McKeith, weren't it?
Speaker 2:They were sort of cleaners, weren't they?
Speaker 1:Were they cleaners or clothes? I did ask him this. I forgot what he said now.
Speaker 2:They were cleaners, they'd go into, like you mentioned them, hoarding brothers in the last episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, they used to go into houses like that. It's not gone out yet, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, they'd sort of I don't know like they'd sort of revamp somebody's house almost, and like one of them was a Scottish woman, I think almost, and like one of them was a scottish woman, I think I'm not sure which one that was. So there's kim and I gay jillian mckeith, obviously when she was like a nutritionist, nutritional specialist, yeah, but I don't think she were an actual nutritionist was she.
Speaker 1:She's one of those fake bit like them, what they're called. You know the speakmans. You ever come across those guys, the speakmans, and they're like cure phobias and stuff. No, but sometimes on this morning look really weird. They're not registered. That's what I do in my spare time. They're not registered TV celebrities, so certainly no. They employed a nutritionist, nutritionalist, who turned out to not be a nutritionalist, I think was the story there I always get Kim, and Aggie meets up with Trini and Susanna, but this is a wardrobe from hell.
Speaker 1:They are the fashion people, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Who would live in a wardrobe like this? I'm going to say who would own a wardrobe like this. Look at this. Who the fuck do you think you are? I'm wearing a Barcelona shirt at the moment, from the 90s. A Figo on bike. What are you going to say about that?
Speaker 2:Yeah Place closed. Mark national lottery memories. I remember that very early on week five, very specific. That's good remembering for Mark the live draw took place at Meadow Hall the week before Christmas with Anthea the body turner. He didn't say the body I'm sure she was thinking.
Speaker 1:I'm sure he didn't say it.
Speaker 2:I don't remember him saying the body turner, yeah, and the Oasis looked very different then. So the Oasis is not a reference to the Oasis episode. That is part of Meadowhall, which is a large shopping centre in Sheffield.
Speaker 1:Is it still there? I haven't been to Meadowhall for about three years, to be honest.
Speaker 2:Where would it go?
Speaker 1:Have they renamed it? They renamed it, blur.
Speaker 2:Yeah, renamed it. They renamed it Blur. Yeah, the Metawall is still there and the Oasis is still part of it.
Speaker 1:I was watching. Actually I don't know why, it's probably because all my stuff on YouTube now algorithms is all nostalgic stuff. I watched a Look North report of when Metawall first opened. It's quite good Interviewing some people saying, hey, you don't get this in Chesterfield.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they haven't got an equivalent. Get this in Chesterfield. Yeah, they haven't got an equivalent, have they?
Speaker 1:I mean to be fair.
Speaker 2:Meadowhall's pretty poor when you compare it to Trafford.
Speaker 1:Trafford Centre. Yeah, Look at Meadowhall.
Speaker 2:What's the Leeds one? Is it White Rose?
Speaker 1:Don't need it, get online, get online, get online. Or Badda Badda Bing's at Chapel, st Leonard's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a similar. That's the chapel st leonards version of metal hall, isn't it?
Speaker 1:but that's it.
Speaker 2:Badda bing, badda boom or yabba dabba is the other one, I think webding, so part of the tough to club franchise, so had the same lottery numbers for a while but purposely tried to forget them. And and that's in reference of us sort of saying, if you played the same numbers, you, you were absolutely stuck because if they ever came up and you didn't put them on you'd be screwed. I think you can still remember three of them. I bet a top professional like Mystic Meg or Yuri Geller could extract the rest. One of those can't we've established. Yeah, true, would you believe that I picked him by writing a Commodore 64 basic program to generate six random numbers? Unbelievable. I was 15 or 16. What was I thinking?
Speaker 2:there's no more or less logic to doing that than picking one, two, three, four, five, six come out.
Speaker 1:No, I mean, I've not looked back, I'm saying that'd be my, that'd be main headlock, that'd be like bigger than 9-11, wouldn't it if that had happened?
Speaker 2:to be fair, it's funny, isn't it? Because people always say, ah, yeah, but it's no more statistically probable than any other set of numbers.
Speaker 1:No, it's true, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's right, but you're picking one set of numbers and putting them up against all the others, so it's much more likely you get one of the other. Yeah, yeah, speaking of tossing the coin flip thing is a technique you can use when you think you don't have a preference on something. So, win or lose, you instantly know which one you prefer. Does Leroy think it's upsetting the tossing gods or something? Yeah, absolutely I do. I do think you should not toss the coin unless you want the coin to decide. If you should, you should be able to know your own preference, and if you can't do that, you can't let the coin do it for you. The coin is going to make the decision for you. It's not going to let you know your own brain that's, that's my take, anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fair enough you can't toss a coin because you have. You've got dyspraxia. What'd? You do, then roll a dice, even though not. You can't carry dice around here. I could roll a dice even though not gonna be. You can't carry dice around here. I could roll a dice, but imagine it like I don't know if I'm picking what sandwich to have. He said he's rolling a dice across floor, a supermarket or something same thing?
Speaker 2:no, I think you should. If you're gonna do that, that's fine, but if, if number three is the blt and you roll a three, you have to go. It's not bacon.
Speaker 1:I don't like bacon because I once went to a festival and I ate some. It was the last day when everyone goes home and we were starving. I'm sure there's a burger stall down there because I can get us a bacon sandwich. Fucking horrible. Came home sick, all over the place food poisoning, and I've not been able to eat bacon since. So shove your BLT where the sun don't shine.
Speaker 2:That's normally associated more with like an alcohol experience, isn't it? People say, oh, one's got so much on their heart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but yours is bacon, bacon, bacon, mate. Yeah, how's the?
Speaker 2:beer, can you?
Speaker 1:see it, How's the beer? That's another Geordie accent. We'll get on to that later yeah, comment from Sean.
Speaker 2:I was convinced I was going to win that first draw. Didn't even get a number. Yeah, I do think that's People kind of quite Hadn't quite grasped the maths of it the first time around. I think everyone watching it thought they were going to win it and then quite quickly like we were sort of told Ah yeah, but no chance. Actually, 49 million to one chance, or?
Speaker 1:something like that, yeah.
Speaker 2:And now a guy continued being a McDonald's crew member after winning the national lottery. Probably still wanted his free shift meal. I mean, what do you think about those people who win the lottery and then Just give it me? Just give it me, there were a couple who won it and they said oh, it won't change our lives, we've just got more money in the bank, so why are you playing it?
Speaker 1:Why are you playing it? Just don't play it. You're taking up other people's fun, Mikey Carroll. I'd rather Mikey Carroll win it and blow it on a demolition derby in his garden and prostitutes and cocaine, Leather jacket and a leather jacket, yeah, and jewelry. I'd rather him have it and have a good time for a year and lose it all. Then these pricks will just let you sit in the bank account. Do you know what I mean? Just give it If you don't want it.
Speaker 2:Don't play it's like the coin toss thing. Don't toss the coin if you've got a preference. Don't play the lottery if you're not going to use and abuse your winnings. So yeah, that's all I've got for that one, I assume. Yeah, correct, correct, shall I move straight on to the next one? You've not done this in sort of yeah, but yeah, step to step.
Speaker 1:Am I going on to the next one?
Speaker 2:no, right, okay, so Blur vs Oasis, the episode, the one about the, I mean, I can't remember what we worded it. You said afterwards you would have changed, changed the title.
Speaker 1:There was something you went after the Battle of Britpop. I was going to it, but yeah, but blurring away says it's fine so we got a message from angie.
Speaker 2:Actually, uh, I don't know if I should read the whole thing out, if it's a message, to be honest. But no, fair enough yeah, but she was talking about it's hard because I don't want to pick bits of it out.
Speaker 1:To be honest, uh well, I think she was basically saying that, um, she don't think we had any blur, is it? Did you not have any blur fans in your friend group?
Speaker 2:because they were north, south, divide thing yeah, I take a point but, like you said, I I seem to remember the vibe at the time was most people were people that I wasn't necessarily close mates with. There was a lot of like blur stickers on pencil cases and I love damon from the girls and stuff that in fact I remember, yeah, one girl had I love li, had I Love Liam on her pencil case. I used to think could be me, but I'm sure it's probably Liam. Gallagher yeah yeah, yeah, she also said.
Speaker 1:Damon Albom obviously a humorless blowhard in interviews.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he is very sort of downbeat in interviews.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so she sort of made the point that she was glad Oasis won, even though she didn't really care at the time. Uh, jane, is this jane stacy, stacy jane, yeah, yeah yeah, very strong start highlight for me how are you the only two men of your generation who don't know the words to part life? Yeah, it's not. Wasn't good remembering that was?
Speaker 1:it no bad bad remembering, but it's fucking hell one of your best bits of remembering if today's anything to go about, to be honest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, favourite two Oasis Blur tracks are Live Forever and Supersonic Live Forever. I think is great.
Speaker 1:I love Supersonic. Supersonic is definitely one of my top ten and then Blur. This Is coffee, and tv was one of mine. I don't know, this is a low. If I'm honest, this is a low.
Speaker 2:You ain't got it from that. Ah, yeah, yeah, I remember it now. Yeah, um, yeah, ps. Thanks for the soprano spoiler. Yeah, um, I think we said, didn't we, that 20 years later is not a spoiler? I don't think. But if you haven't seen it, I suppose it is. Uh, it did seem massive at the time, though maybe we do remember it that way because it was our era, but I don't think stuff like that would get on the news now. Yeah, I don't know, I'm not sure if, if breaking bad had a no, I think.
Speaker 2:I think she's on about blur and oasis oh sorry, yeah, yeah, I think so I know.
Speaker 1:Soprano spoiler no, I think she's on about blur and oasis. I think so it's. It's like what's the equivalent? They're not an equivalent is they? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Like rivalry.
Speaker 1:Even that it's not new, is it? Yeah, sam Fender versus Ed Sheeran, even Ed Sheeran, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no fair point. Yeah, I don't think those sort of rivalries. I mean to be honest now they wouldn't want that, would they like they wouldn't want that clash? Almost they did.
Speaker 1:They'd rearrange dates, I would imagine well, kendrick lamar, rappers are different now, aren't they? Because rappers had to go easier from from the day they were born, didn't they?
Speaker 2:but in terms of bands, I think it is yeah yeah, but even then don't you think the marketing team would sort of say, oh no well kendrick and they've got some like unbelievable beef.
Speaker 1:like kendrick's come out with some right stuff and I think there's quite a lot of publicity around that.
Speaker 2:Obviously Tupac and Biggie. We might do that in another episode. Actually Dead Bat, sorry, no, I've skipped forward a bit there. Chango Motley. So JP rebranded my personal best of Oasis Rock and roll star. It's pure balls. He likes that for and stop crying your heart out, which, yeah, I accept that that is a great song. Uh, I'm blur.
Speaker 1:we've got a duplicate coffee and cv and this is a low yeah, so I'm gonna have to send you this is a lot to see what you think correct, yeah I'll listen to it.
Speaker 2:I'll listen to it and see what I think. Uh, webbing as the world champion of fencing, it will not surprise you to learn that I did find it hard to pick. What I'll say is I find it easy to pick a top three for Oasis, probably because, unlike Blur, most Oasis songs are basically the same, or at least from the same narrow genre. Yeah, he kind of dissed the Oasis fans and then faced the wrath of travelling, didn't he? So he backed down a little bit, I think Travelling Blade, as a huge Oasis fan.
Speaker 2:He's a massive Oasis fan travelling. Yeah Dead Bart, new podcast. Same outstanding music knowledge from Leroy. So yeah, you said the original.
Speaker 1:I Love you Baby and I said, oh, who did the original?
Speaker 2:And you said no, they were called the original, which I didn't know.
Speaker 1:Liam, we are. Oh, we are sorry, it's just come up on mine. You what you broke up for ages I. I didn't hear what you said for the last one and then I thought, oh, we're not recording, but we are recording.
Speaker 2:Carry on technical difficulties yeah, um, did you hear what said about the original there? Nah, so yeah, dead back called us out for me, not knowing what the original did. I Love you Baby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you thought the song was called the original, didn't you?
Speaker 2:No, no. When you said the original, I said oh, who did the original?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, that were it, yeah, that were good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, he's once again slagging off my musical knowledge. This is why I don't know if we need to do some sort of trivial pursuit.
Speaker 1:Tough Divorce, trivial Pursuit right, yeah, I'm happy to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he might remember some old bands and me, but put him up on Science and Nature.
Speaker 1:Oh, here we go, fucking, going on about fucking snakes and shit like that, go on.
Speaker 2:As if I was talking about snakes. Always going on about snakes. Bobby B on replying on ex-Twitter. First time I've been called a right-wing fascist, did we call him?
Speaker 1:right, yeah, because obviously at the end of the. Yeah because at the end of the.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we called him a right-wing fascist.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:A bit after my time, but for me a bit after my time for this, but for me. Blur I consider a pop band, but Oasis got a generation into guitar, rock, band music, including my lad, after a dearth of Dan's shite, by the way. Yeah, it is 90s, tinted glasses from someone who's late teens to the punk two-tone and going out in the 80s, new romantics and the wham years yeah.
Speaker 1:Obviously we were saying, like, was it our era with this big and on the news and stuff? I don't know A lot of the Sex Pistols and stuff like that were always on the news. I don't think there were a battle like this, though, in any of them that got the hype, if you know what I mean. I don't remember Wham going up against Culture Club or whatever, but I'm happy to be corrected on that.
Speaker 2:I think you want to do a two-tone episode at some point as well.
Speaker 1:Well, he's asked us to do one, Bobby B, so that is definitely on the list, yeah that is definitely on the list.
Speaker 2:I'm getting to the end now, Sean. The impression of Brett Anderson was absolutely extraordinary content.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, trash, oh my.
Speaker 2:There you go, another sample, and this is the one I don't quite get.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll read this because I thought this when I sent it here. So Dave said remember when the Blades signed John Kofi striker for those who don't know me and my mate had a cracking chant ready for when him and James Beatty tore up the league and it was to the tune of Coffee and TV by Blur. But Glacia Hernandez Hernandez, responding to Dave, said B he wasn't at the club when we signed Kofi, so he's calling some revisionist history and shenanigans on that one. He says also he's a bit late to the party because he's already made one up for Ryan Oney. I'll try and sing it. His name is Ryan Oney. Nobody I'd rather see Come off the bench for Mori and take United up the league.
Speaker 2:Good, good stuff. So that is the end of the list of the feedback you've sent me and we will move across to you reading out some comments.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so on to the Sopranos, and Ange said she enjoyed it. It's a private message, I don't want to go too far into it. Nothing's going on, by the way, with these private messages it sounds like she's sent us loads of lewd stuff, but when?
Speaker 2:people send us a DM. Well, it's like enough people like falling out. Yeah, it's like you know.
Speaker 1:It's like fucking this shit as well. But now if people send, chase said, um, even he don't know what happened next at the end of the sopranos and he wanted to portray to the viewers this is what tony's life would always be like, looking over his shoulder, and I think we like sort of mentioned that, didn't we that you just sort of you know what I mean, you, you, you, what it was with the sopranos is that. I think one of your theories, if you like, is we left that family there. We don't need to know what went on there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, their life goes on. We saw a glimpse of their life and it carries on without us witnessing it. But yeah, I mean, we touched on it in the episode. This to the episode, not this comment, I suppose. But I think what was so clever about it is that it left it up to you. It's up to you what happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, up to you. Well, phil said Phil Forblaze, great podcast, when they do one Glistening Kicks as well, get your shoes done from Glistening Kicks. He says only the look-up knows the answer. And he posted a picture of Tony Soprano's obviously final shot and he said proper, enjoyed this, gents, and yeah that look-up is absolutely one of the best ever things on our TV.
Speaker 2:I can't quite remember. Is that look-up that he sent us? Is that the moment it goes to black? Then yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1:Matt said I only seen the first episode years ago, but it was interesting how you were both engaged in it in the pod. He says he does remember how unconvinced or unhappy he was with the finale the first time. He says he's currently watching Breaking Bad on Netflix for the first time and he's only halfway through it. I've never seen Breaking Bad.
Speaker 2:I started watching it. This probably blow people's mind because I know people are obsessed with it.
Speaker 1:Oh, you don't like it.
Speaker 2:It were all right. I just didn't see enough to make me stick with it. I thought it were good, but yeah, I just didn't. I didn't, I didn't see enough to make me stick with it. I thought we're good, but yeah, I just sort of fizzled out with my interest.
Speaker 1:David says sorry, go on.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just going to say I don't know if I think somebody said to me like, yeah, you left too early. It kind of gets really good after that bit but maybe I'll go podcast.
Speaker 1:They always start slow and then by the end everyone's going. Oh my god, this is the greatest thing that ever has ever been produced. Sometimes. Who said that? Uh, I don't know, just this is my dream, what I hear in my dreams when I fall asleep. Uh, david said he went out for a walk and popped on the podcast. He has to say there were a few times where it felt like we were trying to get him to turn off, uh, but he persevered because he's never seen the sopranos before. But after today's episode he's going to give it a go because obviously all the way through we were saying if you've not seen I know a couple people not listening to the pod, who you know, ben and stuff like that I've not bothered listening to because I've never seen sopranos and I don't blame him for that. It's like when I don't know another podcast going about things. It's like an in-joke almost in it.
Speaker 2:You know if you've not seen it yeah, but we actually did say you might as well switch off if you hadn't seen it. Yeah, we were honest.
Speaker 1:We were honest about it. Justino said he really enjoyed that as a Sopranos aficionado, I can't say it. We'll come on to something else that I can't say later.
Speaker 2:Aficionado.
Speaker 1:Aficionado. Always interesting to hear other people's takes on that. It says the ending to him.
Speaker 2:He's trying to say that the people you admire and like Tony Sopranos and you want to be him. You wouldn't ever want to live your life like him and forever looking over your shoulder in every social situation. Yeah, which is kind of similar to that answer, isn't it that that's his life now. Whether he dies in that moment or not, he exists, looking over his shoulder.
Speaker 1:Tyrone says Full, solid episodes, lads, and the Sopranos was everything that helped. Great work, as always. Give us that two-star, tyrone while you're at it. On to Italianati. We've got more. I think this is our highest-listened-to-ever episode, isn't it?
Speaker 2:if we're going to be transparent with people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like in terms of oh, maybe Paul Sykes actually.
Speaker 2:Paul Sykes has grown to be our highest-ever numbers, but the Sopranos is the sort of best week we've had on numbers.
Speaker 1:I know I'm on about Italian, aren't I?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, of course, yeah, Now sorry, yeah, that is what I meant. I meant to say that. Very similar thing I need to turn this TV off because it's distracting me. Sorry, what have you got on? I've moved rooms because we were struggling a bit for connection and Tilly was watching modern family and I've got it without sound on, but it's just grown up.
Speaker 1:For her, I don't even know what modern family is. Um, I don't think so. Fair enough, it was not like chubby brown, is it? Um? Paul said uh, it's only night. Best world cup ever, you know? John said what time to be alive owls down, blades promoted ness and dormer in the charts, linica gazza and the ghost of peter shilton goal. I forgot about this. Obviously, again, I don't have any Sheffield Wednesday fans listening. Well, there's a lot of them, isn't there? There's like 200 million of them.
Speaker 2:So you know, there's a good chance that you've got Statistically most people on Earth are a Sheffield Wednesday fan.
Speaker 1:No-transcript and Sheffield Wednesday went down to replace each other, so that must have been an unbelievable. I was too young for that to be fair, but that must have been an unbelievable summer, was that?
Speaker 1:Dave Bassett era. Was it Dave Bassett? Yeah, dave Bass episode on big ron just as big wrong, because we were talking about him recently got a lot of time for him other than the the racism, yeah, but yeah, he were a big character. Red off said uh, roy's parents in a. I can't even. That is unbelievable. I've got that wrong. Roy's pronunciation. I can't say it. This is like a joke.
Speaker 1:Roy's pronunciation pronunciation pronunciation of Neanderthal was a highlight for us. I can't believe I got that. I think I've been that fixated again Neanderthal right that I forgot how to spell every other word. I forgot how to say every other word. Yeah, so obviously that's me. What did I say In a thunder hole or something?
Speaker 1:Yeah who knows, who knows, who knows. Jane said about the ball. I posted the ball on the Twitter account, the Coca-Cola ball. She said it definitely wasn't just you who had this ball. I'm a bit older and this is still the World Cup I've been most invested in. That Pavarotti song was everywhere World in Motion. We never mentioned World in Motion, actually. No Good shout. We were all obsessed with Gaza. Everyone coming to school in England's shell suit. So remember, I had an England shell suit. Did you have an England shell suit?
Speaker 2:I don't know if I did. I had a Lecoq Sportif one and an Adidas one.
Speaker 1:I had a Lecoq Sportif one. Yeah, I don't know if I had a specific England one?
Speaker 2:No, I'm not sure you know what's weird?
Speaker 1:Because I was talking to my dad about this after and he said football, I had like goal, I want to be a goal. Obviously, if anyone's ever seen me, I'm about, I'm about four foot, but, yeah, I want to be a goalie and I bought, like, apparently, a Peter Shulton's.
Speaker 2:England like kit as well. So well we we read out some shocking stats for his penalty saves in the episode, so I reckon you would do better in the penalty.
Speaker 1:I honestly think I don't think you can do worse. I think, if it do worse I think it was a nine-year-old I couldn't well, you can't do worse than letting them all in, can't you really? So, um, yeah, she said those little car window flags as well, and obviously camera room, and she says, yes, everyone did have the coca-cola balls. She said she did a survey in her gym about their favorite ever world cup. I like the idea of people running and changes going around, going. Oh no, hang on, stop, just stop what you're doing. Do you mean like-settling?
Speaker 2:weight. Put that down a minute.
Speaker 1:Put that down a minute. What's your favourite World Cup? Everybody said Italia 94, except a husband who said USA 94 because England weren't in it. Absolute weirdo. Massive sympathy for Mr Stasek here, because I get this when England didn't qualify for 2008, you went to Spain, if you remember.
Speaker 2:You went to Spain. If you remember, you went to Spain to work there for a few months.
Speaker 1:And you were in England. In qualifying, spain won it and we all picked a team beforehand. This was before Spain. This was the first thing Spain had ever won. I think we all picked a team before you picked Spain, because obviously you were going to Spain and we all supported Spain from home and we actually won.
Speaker 2:And it was like oh, oh, this is the closest he's ever going to get. You know, watching a team, I don't think you get those like real high moments when you take wins, but you take away those massive depressing lows, don't you when you never lose?
Speaker 1:But I do think you can enjoy it. For me it's a bit like watching the Champions League a good game in the Champions League. I'm not invested in Arsenal versus Real Madrid as clubs. They're so far ahead of the club I support that. They don't mean anything to me. So I do like tournaments. I like it when England are there because you get all the. You know there's some great moments watching England, but when they're not in it.
Speaker 2:I'm all right with that as well. Just enjoying both man.
Speaker 1:Just enjoying both man yeah, just enjoying both. Now said he wants that ball. He said Nessun Dormo was played on Radio 1, and he said it was the first tournament he watched and it was great, until Chris Waddle sent the ball into orbit. And he's still not forgiven him for making him cry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean, it was sort of like quite a crush To say for a lot of England people that's their favourite tournament. It was a very sort of crushing way out, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:Shane crushing way out, wasn't it? Mm-hmm. Uh, Shane said, because we got into a bit of a chat about Sabutio with some comments and stuff, Shane's still got the Italian 90 nets that I had in my Sabutio set and the balls, the big Italian 90 balls, and I had them. I don't know if you had the Sabutio set at that point.
Speaker 2:Uh, maybe, but I don't think I had anything. I remember getting the throwing people and the corner takers and actually thinking it's better without either of those.
Speaker 1:I had. The corner takers, the goal kick takers were ridiculous. They were so hard, like you sort of. I mean, I think we are going to do a severity episode, but you couldn't kick it soft, you just booted it out of play. Anyway.
Speaker 2:Furness had the AstroTurf pitch and I had the the astroturf for a little bit. Yeah, I think he got some stands which always blew my mind because they just got in the way. You just had to keep moving them don't think.
Speaker 1:I think I might have had a scoreboard, but I don't know if I had the stands. Uh, I can't remember. But we'll do a stability episode anyway. So let's not, let's not ruin all the fun. Uh, webding says he agrees with roy that italian night was more important than the big bang. Thank you very much. I think that's obvious now to everyone. He says we also left out the highest a man has ever jumped from his memories, and that's the. He basically said it's three times higher than Peter Shilton could jump. I don't know if you've seen the first goal the Torre Cameroon scored against Argentina. It is an unbelievable jump. I think is it Oman Bia? It might not be him, I've got the name wrong, but whoever, scores it's a fucking ridiculously high jump.
Speaker 2:I'll have to send you yeah he posts the picture, but Shilton gets smaller as he jumps, though, doesn't he?
Speaker 1:that's his sort of trademark well, since we stopped filming after we recorded, we probably talked for about two hours, didn't we? About Pete Shilton? Just generally like just about how bad he was like it jumping and stuff Like that Maradona thing. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Well as we said when we were sort of chatting about it. The maddest thing about it is, obviously Maradona was vilified, but he didn't have to use his hand. He's well above Shilton and he puts his hand on top of his head. Yeah, he could have added it in. He could have just added it in and Shilton, despite theadona, can head the ball. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:I was going to say he's five foot bigger, he's five. What do you call it? Five inches bigger, five foot bigger.
Speaker 2:Imagine if he lost.
Speaker 1:Imagine if he lost to Maradona. He should be investigated for fucking match fixing Chilton doing that. Webdig also said the nets, the, my word, the nets came at the nets of italian art. A but unbelievable, he says. Him and his mates went mad for these nets. Um, sticks instead of stanchions, box shaped billoway and hex. Added there billoway and hex, agonal, uh, all practically porn to the preteen. Him, uh and italian nets were an obsession with him for ages and he seemed to set the uk years to catch up with him. Those nets are unbelievable in Italian art.
Speaker 2:So instead of just the net hanging from the stanchion at the back, they were actually propped with a pole, weren't they?
Speaker 1:And every goal looked better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it looked brilliant when the ball hit the back of the net.
Speaker 1:yeah, he sort of bounced back out. That's when Partridge was on his World Cup round-up thing. It was a goal.
Speaker 1:Then Cameroon player Pabucci said and another Sad Ken said he agrees that the timing was pivotal, but he's not sure Gaz's tears were as pivotal as we said. He said well, me, really not you, to be fair. He said they were part of a wider perfect storm that shaped modern football. He says most important was the influx of money as the game became marketable. Italian night is fondly seen as the last of the old. I think that's definitely true. It definitely feels like the last Because obviously the next one, the glamour of the USA, weren't it? The razzmatazz of the USA.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's the last old school, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the last old school World Cup before everything. So by USA 94, premier League had started. Every game were on TV and all that sort of stuff and you could get even stuff like Gazetta. You knew all the players and stuff.
Speaker 2:I think there was just a lot more football available to watch after that time, wasn't there?
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything like sort of kicked off. Matt says Cameroon's first World Cup was 1982, not this one. And they were. I don't remember if obviously I weren't born, but I do remember reading that.
Speaker 2:It's weird if you did remember it when you weren't born.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who would come out to talk about Cameroon? But yeah, I remember, like because it shouldn't have been really that big of a shock that they did so well, I suppose because they were unbeaten in the last one that they were in. He says the game versus Argentina was a great, great watch. Benjamin, the game versus Argentina was a great, great watch. Benjamin Massing taking out Canega like a rag doll. He says the best World Cup was 1982, the most exciting since Brazil 1970. Northern Ireland beat Spain the Italian classics versus Brazil and Germany. Northern Ireland beating Spain obviously again before our time. That was an unbelievable thing. Beating the host nation to go through. And he also says Liam, this is more aimed at you think, are you planning anything around hodl and waddle, just so we can get to hear more authentic chris waddle impersonations or even more coverage about biker grove or anton deck. It could be the start of a new bgt britain's got talent career as the next rory bremner um I'm not against it.
Speaker 2:Well, I think we can do Oddle and Waddle if ITV want to put us on as a yeah imagine that with his Chris Waddle impression they used to do that, though, didn't they some impersonators, and it makes me wonder what oh, go on, what's he called? David Bellamy would think about this. Oh, the worst comedians are like right now I'm doing Rodney from EastEnders. Um, oh, go on, what's what's he called? David bellamy would think about this.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to go, yeah, like oh, the worst comedians like right now I'm doing rodney from eastenders, eastenders, fools and horses. Even better, rodney from eastenders, rodney from fools and horses like yeah, hey, there's a comedian and he wrote I I went through a phase of watching really old fucking, um, like talent shows, what do you call it?
Speaker 1:Opportunity Knocks and stuff just like flicking through them and there was this one comedian in every one of them. They were like and now I'm going to do it's like don't tell us, we're supposed to fucking, you're supposed to be good. There's no point in telling. I could say and now it's Paul Gascoigne, all right man, what are're doing?
Speaker 2:that's terrible yeah, yeah, I'm not going to try. I'm not going to try a gazzer, because I think it'd be quite offensive these days. I think his his speech is not that clear, is it? But I don't want to disrespect the legend that is Paul Gascoigne we might do an episode on erm people who charted who weren't, we could do. Who remembers?
Speaker 1:early impressionists who weren't actually singers. Who remembers Early Impressionist? We might do that or something Could easily do. Yeah, early Impressionist, yeah, yeah. And you'll probably realise then why. Chris Waddle, I can't speak. I'm the same as you Can't speak, les Dennis. I could get Les Dennis and Chris Waddle next time. I'm going to say we could probably realise why Chris Waddle was the best Impressionist of his time, les Dennis was the best impressionist of his time. You'll probably realise why if we go through all the rules.
Speaker 2:This is becoming like a roadshow episode. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1:I'm sweating buckets here. It's too hot for me. Chango Motley. The final one, you'll be happy to know the final comment Already remembered this week. He said a guy delivered his new sofa didn't speak the local lingo so he asked him where he come from. He said cameroon. So the rest of his conversation centered around roger miller, in italy united, who came from his hometown. So I asked him if he did the dance when he put in the, you know like when he finished putting the.
Speaker 1:He said no, that's a shame, man. It's a shame I'd be doing it all time if I were cameroonian yeah, we sometimes do it now even though you're not, don't you? Do you know the last episode where I was talking about how bits of the Adidas thing has come off my Cameroon shirt?
Speaker 1:I've noticed that some letters have come off the Cameroon badge and now it says Cam-roon. Where's the R coming from? Oh, where's the R coming from? Don't know how to spell cameroon mate camera. Yeah, but it's after the. Now, as it's spelled in cameroonian language, it's different. Uh, it is.
Speaker 2:It's spelled differently is that the right? I like it, but I'm not sure if cameroon it's gonna be on it, I'm not saying it isn't, I just I just like it cameroon.
Speaker 1:Uh, spelling right. So the real cameroon. The way to spell cameroon is well, hang on a minute, I might just got a fake shirt now c-a-m-e-r-o-u-n. And what? What does yours say now? Mine says cameroon.
Speaker 2:Yeah but I thought you said cameroon.
Speaker 1:I thought you said or cameroon.
Speaker 2:yeah, c-on, I thought you said Cameroon, yeah.
Speaker 1:C-A-M-R-O-U -N. There's no. E let's not worry about it. Anyway, let's not worry about it. But he says noun Cameroon also called the French Cameroons. Anyway, ending on the Cameroons, and why not? Thanks for bearing with us with this one. It's not been a classic, but we just like to burst through the comments in the hottest day of the year, after a couple of shandies, and just chew the fat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been. I don't know it's been alright, I think. If you've made it this far, well done, Congratulations.
Speaker 1:So tomorrow, we think because we're going to try, because this should be going out tonight, aka Saturday we think tomorrow we're going to drop the Liar Liar episode because we want to try and coincide it for the day that it used to be on our TV too, all the time which were every single Sunday night.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Sunday evening. So we'll try and get it out for that. And then, yeah, thanks for all your comments. Please keep leaving, smash a like and subscribe, give us five stars, spread the word and, yeah, we'll see you for the later later.
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