Listener Feedback Catch-Up

Eight months of listener messages have been sitting there, judging us, and we finally crack them open. The comments drag us through childhood urban myths, school trip memories, first-day-of-school trauma, corridor stampedes, and playground games that somehow existed in every town with a different name. We also get into the odd stuff that sticks: Christmas TV guide nostalgia, Santa logic, awkward medical small talk during procedures, and the TV and film moments that scared us stupid as kids. 

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Back To Listener Feedback

SPEAKER_02 0:41

Long time this one, Leon. We haven't done these for ages. Literally, since I think it's October, innit? Last one time we did a listener's feedback.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

No, we did uh oh yeah, it could be actually, yeah, because we were waiting on the chapel episode for ages, weren't we? So yeah, maybe so. Have we not done one since then? I thought we did.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

Not done one, not done one. No, but we've not done one. Um and this is this I don't know how long this is gonna take, obviously, because it's so much time. It it really is, yeah. So we've not done one we've we we are gonna from now on, we've we we are gonna do one of these at least once a month. We used to do them every couple of weeks, we used to do them every week on the Delivering Made podcast. We're not doing that. A week, yeah, we're not doing that. But no, we we're um but because we we just got behind with the chapel thing and all that sort of stuff. So we're not gonna have to read every single comment out that you've sent over the past eight months, but we've picked out we've I won't say the highlights because that makes it sound like the people that we haven't like read out. Uh it just makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Oh, we've seen all your comments, we appreciate everyone. You've tried to kind of capture one from every person who's commented. If if we've missed anyone, let us know. Call us out and we'll uh call us out and we'll read it out.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

Yeah, we'll read it out of the next one. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

We can't, I mean, you know, we we literally get sort of how many like tens of messages praising praising us. So oh, there's loads, isn't there? There's no way we can read it out or ten of them.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

Some some may say over ten, some may say under ten, but um, but yeah, we do get yeah. So the people who are just like saying cheers, brilliant, keep it all, really, really do appreciate them. Um, but they don't make for the best, obviously. Um listeners' comments for this particular thing that we're doing. So they are. They're no they're they're never they are, yeah, they're they're near they are. Let's get going, Liam, because we have got about 400 episodes of comments to get through here. So um and I think we're gonna start with a chapel. I've missed a few out. There's a few episodes in here that I've not even bothered to get comments from because yeah, because the like I say, I've had to be tough. You've got in this business, in the game of podcasting, you've got to be tough, aren't you? And cut down the comments and all your life out.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

The episodes that didn't get the good comments, and we're yeah, we're just gonna carry on with doing that.

Chapel St Leonards Karaoke Fallout

SPEAKER_02 2:44

And this is where we've yeah, but carry on keeping them on, even if we don't read them out. So yeah, Liam, right, we start with the chapel one actually, aren't we? Because uh that's like sort of a bonus episode that we we put out.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

So yeah, I I mean obviously it's it's a bit of a mad episode by definition. We we're going to the Jolly Boys out in Chapel St. Leonard's for those that don't know. Um record a bit of chit chat, a bit of laughs. Uh we have some highs, we have some lows. Um but yeah, we do a bit of karaoke as well. Mostly lows, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

Yeah, but that's where the lows come from, to be honest. That's where the yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

Yeah, we stayed in a different caravan this time, but um not so nice, but still fine. Anyway, the comments. So Bongo says entertain entertaining and alarming in equal measures. Thoroughly enjoyed the listen. The karaoke interludes did remind me of the unclassified psychiatric experiments you sometimes see in documentaries. Something for everyone. Yeah, they were gonna come in. Something for everyone. Something for everyone, something for everyone, sort of psychiatric documentaries, yeah, something for everyone. Yeah, we were. I mean, to be fair, we we we know this this one was bad, don't we? We didn't know we didn't actually do as much karaoke, and I I thought our standard was was very poor this year.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

It was poor, and I think the reason we only did it one night karaoke this year, we normally do two nights, and I think it's because we were both sort of doubting his performances from although I as you you were there in the room, I wish we were recorded it. Um I did a fantastic Shirley Bassey dance routine, didn't I, as we were doing Big Spender. So you're Big Spender.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

I had to go to the you can still hear me laughing actually on the recording. I had to go to the room at the back of the caravan because I was laughing so loud I thought it'd ruin your performance. So yeah, it was yeah, I would dancing around. If we ever go video, I mean you're in for a treat if we recreate that.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Yeah, but it was shocking. The carryout. Well, obviously, we'd not heard that back ourselves since we recorded it, which were months ago.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

But one of the reasons I put it off for so long was because I I just thought this is not good, this one. Like, not not that I thought the year before was great, but this one was old. No, this would it was shocking. So thank you for sticking with us through that. Justin, we have to send out apologies. Uh, I started drinking again after listening to this episode. Yeah, this is what this is the power of of what we do. Yeah, this is the power of what we do. Again, we can give you the highs, but we can also drag you right down. So, really sorry, Justin. Help but it's probably still on a bend now, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Yeah, maybe, yeah. Well, it's it's bad, innit? I mean, yeah, yeah, big spender, like spending in the bars, isn't it? So yeah, thanks though, Justin.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

And Stuart, asked uh ask for an episode about a dock called the Hotel.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

Yeah, I put this in because I don't know what this is. So I'm just saying to Stuart here, I really do appreciate that. But I mean we will probably watch it and get around to doing it. But I've never it's apparently about a hotel in Turkey. I thought it were genuinely about faulty towers at first, but it is um it is like a fly on the wall about a hotel in Turkey. So yeah, we've not got around to that yet because um I've not seen it.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

No, okay, so so yeah, that's that's a good idea potentially for a future episode. Always appreciated and enjoyed, I enjoyed reminiscing about the perfect escapism.

Urban Myths And Playground Rumours

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Yeah, thank you very much. Nice to hear. Yeah, thank you. Nice to hear. We're going now back to Urban Myths, which is so long ago that we did this. And Joshua uh sent us a um this one though, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. Joshua sent us an email saying uh hello, uh fellow hall members. Um and he had three things that um that he remembers uh from like being urban myths when he was young. He said, Do you remember those alien toys that were sticky that came in some sort of sticky gloop in an egg about the size of a hand? And the rumour was they had babies, but at last no one ever saw any evidence of this. This was when I was in primary school. I don't know, I don't know what he what he's on about that person.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

So I do remember the the alien things that came in the eggs. And and like sort of my kids, there's there's modern versions of this, like these sort of slime's become very sort of popular these days, but I yeah, I didn't know they were supposed to have kids.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

I th I think why is slime popular? But I don't why is slime popular?

SPEAKER_00 6:34

I don't know, it's a horrible thing as well. Like they get it, they get it everywhere, it's weird, they want to make their own slime. I I don't know, I don't get it. Um eats. I think I think being a seeker of truth and justice, though, I I would have seen through even back then that they probably don't have kids.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

Yeah, well Joshua did doubt it, in fairness to you. Yeah, the other one is on the ball. Yeah, it is on the ball. It said there was a rumour on the Pokemon uh Pokemon Game Boy game that you could somehow get behind the big ferry after the second big city. Um to this day, I don't know if it's true, but I again I we uh Noah, if Noah, if you're listening, please let us know if that's true. Um because I don't think you ever played Pokemon on the game, but like we said, didn't we? In the uh in the game episode that we didn't.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

No, I mean I I did love those sort of those playground rumours that there were certain things you could do in a game that people were trying to do. Um I I didn't know that one in particular, and I can't think of another good one off the top of my head, so let's move on.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

Yeah, and this is the last one, this is my favourite one. This there was a classic Chinese whisper story at school of a couple who were one of their parents went away on holiday, they made the most of the free house and got to some bum stuff. That's his words. Um he said they left some stain, left some stains on the carpet and blamed the dog. And sadly, the dog was put down. Obviously, we can't confirm nor deny that because we that that might be true.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

And we can't condemn or condone it either, because we can't condemn or condone it. No, so apparently, yeah, I suppose I do condemn the the putting down of the dog if that is true.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Yeah, that's not his fault. But yeah, cheers for that, Josh. We've waited a long time to get those read out. Because he did also say don't forget about your fans, ma'am, because we didn't do a listener's comment uh episode for that long, so yeah. Thanks for doing that.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Yeah, what are we talking? We're talking what uh a year later? No, but yeah, like you say, about eight months later, we've responded. So come on.

School Trips And Getting Facts Wrong

SPEAKER_02 8:16

We've responded eight months later, yeah. Right, on to school trips for you, Liam. This seems like so long ago that we did all these episodes, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

School trips, the school trips episode. So Chimpanai, um, absolutely top-notch stuff. The famous Roxave, York's Viking Center uh a potential conflict of interest with a nearby Jorvik Viking Centre. So, yeah, we called it Nordic.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

Yeah, let's go. Well, we need to, yeah. This this was our worst episode of the city.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Amazing that we built two so close together. A little a hint of sarcasm there from uh Chimpanai, I think. This is our worst bit of remembering this, I think. 10 on 10, the Guardian podcast review.

unknown 8:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:55

That's not actually them who put that, that was his, you know, well we don't know that. We don't know if he's got his recording. Yeah, maybe maybe he does work for the Guardian, yeah. Yeah, but this were a lot of things. I think I think I counted, we got 13 things wrong in this episode.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

Yeah, I mean it's kind of what we do, innit? It's that we're you know, we're not I I don't think it'd work if we tried to polish it up too much. So this is what you have to accept. That there will be mistakes, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

Even the top, even the top rememberers have off days, don't we?

SPEAKER_00 9:25

Yeah, I mean when you're remembering as much stuff as we are, you you you can't remember it all properly.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

When the memories are coming as thick and as fast as they do in our brain, so you've got them, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Anyway, yeah, Webding, uh the haphazard remembering is truly immersive listener experience. The agony and frustration as you incorrectly circle the right information, followed by the elation when one of you finally gets it. It's exhausting and beautiful. This is that moment when he he gets it, doesn't it? Like, you know, like you can look at a piece of art and you think, I'm not quite sure. And then all of a sudden you think, Oh, I get it, I get it, I get what it's like, is it?

SPEAKER_02 9:58

Yeah, but like when you listen to a song, you listen to an album, and after about 15, I don't know, 15 listings, you go, like I did with Pet Sounds, and I'm like, Oh, did I get I get this? It's taking him seven years, he's finally got it.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

He's tuned in, yeah. Fair play, fair play to Webding. Uh Bobby B, the real Bobby B. Only 15 minutes in, Dust has settled after Dora Gate. Yeah. Do you remember Dora Gate?

SPEAKER_02 10:23

That were ages ago, where I said, I should probably be. I know we've got a few new listeners, and if they listen to this, this is gonna sound terrible.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

Don't restart the accusations again.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

No, I said, um who did I mean? I've can't remember what we're talking about. Oh no, I'm about I were on about Daria, and I said, I never found Dora attractive as a cartoon. Yeah, it was like a nine-year-old or something. Yeah, she's a nine-year-old. I meant Daria, and yeah, so I had to apologize for that. We do we do not gone down now.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Um sorry, you've thrown me there. Um Andrew's remembering Victorian school, it's not looking good for you this coming, is it? Andrew remembering Victorian school girls wearing harnesses. Yeah, like the Epstein files, it won't go away. This or a petticoat.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

I don't know which one I meant. Why did I say a harness? You know what I mean, don't you? Yeah, I didn't mean a harness. But I think he's right.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

I think I don't know the difference.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

No, I'm not sure. It weren't a harness though that he used to wear it. Like Yeah. Yeah, probably a pinafore, yeah. So yeah, it were a bad time for me, that it were a bad time. Uh you know, allegations, it was what were it? Uh what is it, hece Phil Schofield? It was uh unwise but not illegal. Yeah, that would that were me with that.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

I mean there's been no charges raised or so far, no. No, so uh yeah. Thanks, Bobby B. Thanks for as always for listening. I I don't know how many you've got from Bobby B, but he's had some good comments on a lot of episodes as well. Now I've one of our oldest listeners, right back from when we started out. Yeah, yeah. Uh remember making hand gestures with rival schools on the coach journey. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

Imagine that, imagine after when they get rods up to rival schools and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Yeah, because you'd sort of arrive at some of these centres and there'd be other schools around the same day, wouldn't there? And there'd be like uh like a sort of football mentality.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

Oh, this one of your ear, yeah, or this one of mine, fuck off.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Read the read the standing orbit anyway. And then I don't know quite now to say this, uh Barnsworth, I think it is. I think it's Barnsworth, yeah. Yeah, we went to Calais, I was a picky eater, so I had a baguette and cheese for lunch. I I suspect that should be cheese baguette, Barnsworth.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Maybe this is not you editing the comments badly, is it? No, I don't think I don't think so. It's just I don't know why I'm calling him out. We appreciate the comment, mate. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 12:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Well, the rest of the school ate a French meal. An hour later, they all had the shits on the ferry home. All our recently Percy flick nights were confiscated, thrown overboard. Happy days. Yeah, that's incredible, isn't it? Thrown overboard. I I remember people the sort of Larry lads in here trying to buy the like the porn pornographic playing cards. Uh we must have been a softer school though than Barnesworth, because I I don't remember anyone, to my knowledge, buying a flick knife.

Impressions Love Triangles And Freezers

SPEAKER_02 13:15

No, not a flick flick knife, neither. Anyway, onto the D Drip zone.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Who remembers flick knives? Not that we don't want to bring them back. We get rid of them.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

I mean stretching that out, stretching that out for an hour. Uh the D-drip zone, two comments in one here, because they're both praising us and we like a bit of praise. Chris said some great impressions of Audrey Mike Ken, etc., in this episode. I thought he had an audio version of Cory on, and that was followed up by Berlin Blade. Who and he commented actually for a while, Berlin Blade, to get back to some of the best comments that he comes out with. He said some of the best impressions ever put down in audio. Well worth a listen. He's a busy man, though I know he's you know he is a busy man, got a lot going on in his life, yeah. Yeah, and we're trying to get him on it on here actually, but you know, we're trying to pick him up.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

I think he's up for it, and we've kind of not really gone for it because we don't quite know how to do the episode that we want to do with him that seems so big we're not quite sure how to tackle it. But yeah, I hope you keep him well.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

It's funny that by the way, just on that, I'm I'm gonna give it away. He wants to do XFM, and I so he said the Ricky Gervais callbroker and Steve Merchant specifically. So I said I'm genuinely not trying to be funny. I said that's a bit too big that. What about if we do the Berlin Wall instead? Think about how that much of a bigger story that is than the XFM podcast or whatever. Similar episodes, aren't they? Doing very similar things. Nick says, I love how Liam thinks it's only a love triangle if three people are involved, all three people are involved, are all rat rattling each other.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

But I think if they're not, the the triangle's not closed, is it? It's just uh it's just a V or an N.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

Yeah, yeah, but what it is is like if like me, you and uh Berlin Blade. Yeah, and I were getting off with you and Berlin, but he wasn't getting off with you, that's still a that's still a love triangle. I know that would still be referred to as a love triangle.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

Uh Carl said there's uh slight tangent, but the longest you'd last in a freezer is a couple of hours. You'd have after hypothermia after three and be dead by six at most. He says wild that Liam fancies his chances at spending the night in a freezer.

SPEAKER_00 15:10

Well, I mean you know how fast I can run. You know, I I'm just not sprinting around a freezer. I think you could keep warm for a while in there. I think uh I'm not a skinny man by any stretch of the imagination. I think if I kept myself moving. That would be by the way, if you're not if you're not gonna be able to sponsor us to find out.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

I I'm not fucking doing that. No chance. Absolutely not. Not even for the not even for you know for no charity. No charity is good enough for me to spend the night in a in a freezer.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

I mean people survive in the Arctic and stuff. I don't get me wrong, I need the equipment, I need the the kind of hooded coat, I need the the double socks, the the full boots, but yeah, I mean I've I've watched Dead Stafford, he keeps himself alive just by getting up and doing some press-ups and stuff. I I think I'll be fine.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Well, we'll try it out. If you want to sponsor Liam to spend the night in a freezer, then please do get in contact with us and we'll uh yeah, Liam's charity of choice. It can be arranged. It'd be amazing if like somehow you did do it and you and then you died and somehow you accidentally got to Noel Edmonds, all the money raised.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Yeah, like just as an point, I was dying, so like I just got a message saying, by the way, the charity money actually goes to Noel Edmonds. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

Ah no. I think it will low low keys. We've got another comment coming up. He said, I love how you class Jimmy Savile in the same breath as Noel Edmonds. Like we talk about them both as if they'd done the same thing. I mean you can't officially, can you? I I understand the point. Yeah, but we talk about Edmonds as like he's I don't mind Edmonds. You've you've sort of you've you've influenced your Edmonds hatred onto this shell. I I've got to do that.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

So for anyone who's kind of not coming back from our our original origins of the Living with Mail episode, I I mean I've always kind of not something I don't find quite right about the man. But one of the main reasons I hate him is because when I used to play the uh deal or no-deal quiz machine, yeah, you'd you get kind of quite far in it and you'd lose. So the next round you think, right, I've already paid for a couple of games. Edmunds is gonna go easy on me now. The the kind of target score is gonna go down. He'd always put it up and then he'd appear with like his horrible sort of smug face on screen. God, I I absolutely hated him. Absolutely hated.

Christmas Carol Clip Gone Too Far

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Well it might be talking about more about Edmunds in a couple of uh a couple of weeks' times. Anyway, Leon onto the Kent Christmas Carol.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Yeah, so Adam, good episode, fellas. Why on earth does the same three seconds of Cliff Richards save his day play randomly through the episode? Felt like a fever dream, uh bongo. It was a powerful subliminal message. And in a trance, I've somehow bought a Cliff Richards calendar, which is which is disappointing as I already have two. Uh Webding didn't call him Grant Mitchell, just loudly said Kemp. Right, lads, have a good evening. We felt like idiots.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

He actually posted a picture of him uh with Ross Kemp as well. Um and yeah, I'd love to meet Ross Kemp, I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

We we wanted to sort of play a clip of uh uh from The Saviour's Dave, Cliff Richard. And I didn't tell you how many times I was gonna play it through the episode.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Yeah, and and I went for it.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

I thought, you know what, if we're gonna do it, let's do it. So I put it in far too many times. I was laughing my head off doing it, even if nobody else found it funny.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

I l I listened back when I had a few, I think I've been to Cheff United again. I come back and I had a few drinks, and I was laughing my head off at first, realize put a lot in here. Back middle, I go, what is he doing?

SPEAKER_00 18:46

What what ridiculous is that like this is funny? Hold on a minute, this is not funny, this is ridiculous. I know it is funny again now. Oh no, this is really irritating now. And I was hoping there was a final uh this is funny again, but I'm not sure everyone got to that. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Anyway, Christmas through the eyes of a child, Ron. I love the word name Ron because we've got a bit of an anecdote about that, aren't we? Ron, we won't our mate Russell Paul Jones at which we always mention on here, in fact. Um, we once we all worked at Sage at the same time. Me and him had been me and you had been working there longer than Ross, and I said, Someone's been slagging you off, yeah. I was just like wounding up because someone's been slagging you off yesterday. He goes, Who were it? I goes, Oh, I can't say because you were Ron, weren't it?

SPEAKER_00 19:25

I go, 'Who was it?' Because it was Ron off Bakery.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

Yeah, it was Ron.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

I go, 'No, Ron Off Bakery.' I've still no idea. Yeah, despite I don't think you'd ever talk to him. Someone's been slagging you off. You're fuming with Ron off Bakery. I can't say it were Ron Off Bakery, weren't it?

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Little old man. Anyway, hopefully this is not this Ron. Ron said, cracking episode, loads in common. One thought, I rationalise Santa's dubious feat by reasoning that he works all year delivering every day, and actually has Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off. And his trick isn't speed, Windsor for a plot twist, it's making the gifts invisible.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

I mean, I like it. I like the sort of the the sort of trying to think around it. I think he it he takes a gamble that nobody sort of trips over one of these invisible presents, or that the tree is where he thinks it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 20:12

Because because the tree might not be might be invisible and uh you can't touch him. I suppose if you're gonna go like that, really, you could he could just be a magician like Paul Daniels and just go and it all just comes on the day rather than it doesn't have to be invisible, does it, really, if he's got that power.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

Yeah, I mean I'm wondering, does he sort of work as like a in a parallel dimension, as like a sort of phantom, and then they're there on they're there, but they're not there until he wants them to be there. Um but it's always only some gamble on the positioning. Imagine if like if he does it all, and then every tree's like not where he thought, and he has to go around them all again on the last week. Like really like complex, like you fucking idiot, Sandy.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

Yeah, yeah, you idiot. Yeah, Tyrone said nothing, nothing says Christmas more than Andrew saying fat swap from Lapland, which I what I describe Santa Claus as.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Thank you for that, Tyrone. Do you know when they showed him clips where like depending which words you read, it says a different thing, like fat swap from Lapland. Cat likes to have a sandwich. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

I can't think of any good versions. Cat likes to have a sandwich. Swayze says, Great podcast, lads. I also remember the Christmas TV guides, the August catalogue, screwball scramble, the stockings, and much more besides. This podcast brought back a lot of good memories and nostalgia. And that's what we're here for, isn't it, Liam? Yeah, that's that's it. Mission accomplished, so thanks for that. Yeah, yeah. Baby boy byfield, big day for us. And we sort of ruined this because Major Charles has been someone we've been trying to get on for ages in this, and and you uh ruined it by your heavy breathing, as we'll get on to.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Uh yeah, sorry, it's me, innit? Uh so and RE noravirus. My sister had it in Feb and also declared it was the worst illness ever. Since September, she changed the tune, and apparently it's now chemotherapy side effects that give you the worst illness ever. Or to sympathize with folks that cry wolf like this. i.e. cancer, which sounds like that's my favourite part of the world. Yeah. Uh you got a message from the doctor, didn't you, saying we need to talk to you about possible implications, i.e. cancer.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

No, no, what yeah, what I just went in and it said, like, uh, we unfortunately we have found blood in your stool. Um, we want to go for a colonoscopy to rule anything out, i.e., cancer. It's like, don't put it in. I still can't believe they did that. I still could not believe that they did that. But that's my favourite quote of the lot, that from Ange, because she's like, Yeah, I hope every obviously your sister's up doing well now. Because that obviously were a while ago that she sent that message. So I hope everything's going okay for her.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Like, that's this is why we should read things out quicker, really. Hopefully, everything's good there. So, yeah, hopefully all good, Ange. Um Webding, Liam breathing like a 1980s pervert. We'll grab the headlines here. But my favourite bit was when he suddenly did a Cumbrian Northumberland mashup accent for a single sentence around the 90-10 minutes. Lovely content.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

I don't remember this, but yeah, like I say, it's that weird time over Christmas where I think everyone goes a little bit mad. Uh everyone's breathing a bit heavier, everyone's doing it. Allison Bags, because you sent me the podcast because we always go through it just to make sure and and the men, if you remember, there were no audio at all. I thought, oh god, there's no audio on it.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Yeah, we we thought after getting made getting the sort of huge achievement of getting Major Charles on that we'd not actually recorded the audio for one half of the recording. But yeah, I've I've got a background app that does record stuff as a backup, but yeah, for whatever reason it picked me up.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

But you boosted it, you boosted the uh the audio because it wasn't very good, and for some reason it only seemed to boost your microphone, so everyone's normal, and you're going through it like that every time everyone's speaking.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

So I mean it is you know, obviously, we we talk about your uh your dyspraxia and the challenges that brings. I I I do have chronic breathing problems that uh are actually not very, very well controlled these days, but I did have quite severe asthma, so yeah, I I think you know, Webdings going in on a on a disability there.

Medical Small Talk And Dark Jokes

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Well, you know, we are you you've you welcome to my world, people are gonna go with disabilities. It's a dark place, innit? When people are turning on you for your disability. 2025 year in review. Phil said remarkable that Panchero couldn't remember the name of the farmer that shot that burglar to the point of having to Google it within half an hour of previously correctly naming him. Uh this would brilliant though. So you remember this, Tony Martin. So I said like Tony Martin, and I said, What's his name again? What's his name? And I'm Googling it for ages and ages, and I kept as I was saying his name, that we're right.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Oh, you thought you were wrong, but you were right. Yeah, yeah. I thought you said Russell Martin, I've misremembered it.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Yeah, he says new Barset, because that's almost like misremembering, but remembering right and thinking you misremember. It's like a bazaar. Do you know what I mean? It's like almost like quite meta, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 24:39

I mean, this is why you shouldn't you shouldn't doubt yourself when you're a professional rememberer, you shouldn't doubt yourself, should you?

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Christmas though, innit? We've all had a few. Calm down, we've all had a few, and everyone's not really thinking right. And you know, you think, oh, oh, I don't know. No one's at the peak of the at Christmas, realistically.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

So I my advice to you would be never doubt yourself again.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Yeah, I I well, yeah, I very rarely do. Deb Bart, this is brilliant, this. On the subject of delicate procedures and small talk, when I had my vasectomy, they had two women supporting the main doctor. One was an older nurse who was very business like, based at, shall we say, the bottom half of the table. The other, a younger nurse, was at the top half, and she was very chatty. As smoke was billowing out of my nether regions, accompanied by the odd burning smell. The young lass picked this time to say, Oh, you're going to tram lines this year. I'm looking forward to seeing public enemy. Afterwards, she'd probably kicking herself as she could have said pubic enemy. I wanted to go back in after and after I thought of the joke, but I thought the moment had gone, and I could barely walk anyway.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

I mean, I like how he says the moment had gone. I think it'd be imagine if you'd said it in the moment. Well, pubic enemy.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

Yeah, absolutely amazing that. But I love that. I love that, like, just sort of, I don't know, coming out with this like a little joke. Like it is a bizarre thing when you're having like sort of procedures like that, and they obviously do try and put you. This is obviously on the back of when they were saying, Do you like Ed Sheeran when I've had my colonoscopy after the IE cancer thing? Um, yeah, there was and I'm like, uh, no, not really, nah, it's rubbish, ain't I? Like, do you know what I mean? And yeah, they do obviously, that's the job, innit? That's the job. You'd eight, you'd be terrible at that, actually, wouldn't you, Jake?

SPEAKER_00 26:08

I want back back to the the breathing problems back when it was quite bad. Um I once back in '94, no, it was after that. Um I was doing some lung function tests and I kept passing out when I was doing it. And Jody had come down with me to see because she was sort of saying, Look, this is it's not good, this they don't seem to know what's going on. And I I passed out doing this particular test and sort of came around and Jody said to the nurse, uh, you know, this this doesn't seem normal. Is this is this like is this a good sorry, which say is this a bad sign? It's just really a matter of fact, we said uh, yeah, unfortunately, love this is a really bad sign.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Love it, yeah. Yeah, actually, this is the worst thing that yeah, yeah, yeah. My mum is really really bad.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

The last thing we wanted to happen, but yeah, that turned out uh now I was gonna go a bit conspiracy theory there. It's it's in it's in control now. Um managing it my way. I take charge.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

I take charge. Um I yeah, my mum's really, really, real ill at the moment, and we got her uh a doctor round, and my mum like sort of joking saying, Um, oh, is that it then? Am I dying? And she just went just smiled and her face. All right, like carried on. And I didn't say like she can't say no or yes to that because anything can happen and like so.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Imagine if she'd done like you know, like uh sort of what do you call it, a weighing scales gesture, like a 50-50.

First Day Of School Memories

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Like shrugs, like like a proper like like a continental shrug. I I don't know, it could go either way. Uh right, Liam, on to you. First day of school.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

First day of school, first comment from Jack. Personal highlight this week was Panchero stating that he covered his textbooks in Seaman. Yeah, Dave Seaman on my uh textbooks, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:41

David Seaman, not Seaman, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Dave Seaman. Has anyone ever called him Dave Seaman?

SPEAKER_02 27:48

He doesn't like it, does he actually? But when someone calls it unsort sport, he corrects him every time, doesn't he? He says nice David. Arsenal Invincible, David Seaman. Yeah, Arsenal Invincible, David Seaman. Arsenal Invincible, Dave Seaman. I'd love to keep saying sorry Dave. Now it's David. Sorry, Dave. I don't know how I won't get gone for because he's quite an amicable chap, isn't he?

SPEAKER_00 28:04

So Yeah, you keep calling me David. It's you keep calling me David, it's David. Uh I won't do it, because it'd probably be a very similar impersonation that would prove you right. Uh Tom, great pod gents. Uh the good old Gossi and fanshaw days, he says uh a drum field man, Tom. Uh brought back some funny memories. Being forced to jump in the showers after PE was weird. Uh not sure to get away with that these days. Yeah, I mean I I I don't know, I don't know if that's still a thing, right, guys. You all have to strip off and get in a shower together, and the teacher will make sure that you do it. It does different times. Um corridor crushes, huge stampedes when a rumour's flying around that there was a fight. Liam, I'm too two to three years younger than you, we definitely could leave Gosforth at lunch. Yeah, I I mean I d I don't know. Uh I certain we certainly couldn't when I was there, so whether the rules would change. I I I'm not sure. I apologize, Tom. I'm I'm I'm doubting you on that one. Uh remember each day a large group of us with ahead of Pentlon. Well no, he's right, because you wouldn't go to Pennaton shops from uh from Fanshaw to the butchers for a pork stuff in an applesauce sawney without fail each day. Uh without fail each day, one one was set off running.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

I think that I think that entire last two minutes is aimed at such a niche audience of people who went who went to God's fourth school.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Yeah, probably. But no, but that he's right. Obviously, there must have been a change because I we could not leave school at uh dinner time, definitely not. So if he's two to three, I mean it just shows, don't it, how the to get away with murder these days, the youngsters, don't I? Uh sad can Leroy's shoe story reminded me of a similar experience. Not the first day, but a taste today. I wore my Puma disc. Uh rocking this up, a couple of lads came over and started talking. I was pleased, this was a new school for me after we'd moved. We're all still friends this day. I mean, that's the Puma disc.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

Exactly. The power of Puma. You should have had that as an advert. They should have had him as a talking head, like years later. Well, it was um, I remember it was like 94-95, and matching like rival like.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

Well, I advertising execs who'd pay a fortune for that story second.

SPEAKER_02 30:14

That Ken's missing out, yeah, yeah. I I'd email that to the Puma King uh I don't even know that's still a thing, or they Puma's a sole thing. My dad loves a Puma. Puma disc though, I don't think that's a thing. Oh, probably not. Now what I thought. Let us now sad if you sad. If you've still got all right, sad. Like Jason Kunday. All right, all right, S. Sad. Sad A. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

Uh Capi, nice one, boys. Did this contain the first reference to Mainly since the new pod, Judy's Soup in the Garden?

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Uh maybe, actually. I mean, we're gonna be talking spoiler alert. The next episode is about um music, how we're useless into music. But the one after that, keep your eye, keep your ears open because we might be mentioning the great man again. It's not really about him, but he's got a new thing out, hasn't he? Is it it's not called this, but I've read it as Richard Melee on Death Row. It's not that, but it's about him sort of I don't know what it's about, actually.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

No, I I've you've sent me a clip of no, sorry, you've sent me an image of it. Yeah, I I don't know yet what it is. I don't know if he's talked to people on Death Row, if he's playing somebody on Death Row. I I don't know, but it's intriguing anyway.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

It'll be good. It'll be good either way. So to coincide with that, we've got um yeah, a little bit of a Maidley thing going on. But it's not about it's not about him, but he'll he'll get a mention anyway.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

And last one on this particular episode we're gonna read out, so from Low Spam. Uh expense size metal parker pens.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

I've that's my fault that it's expensive.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

It's because it was expensive metal marker pens was what everybody had at my school.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

Yeah, parker pens, yeah. Oh parker. Yeah, Parker. It's just there's a P there, I can see it.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

Oh yeah, sorry, sorry, yeah, no, I'm with you now. Yeah, I I I read it as marker pens. Yeah, um Yeah, I don't know. I don't maybe I did sometimes start the term with a nice pen, but I think very quickly you're just borrowing Byros off people, aren't you? I don't think I've ever owned a pen for longer than like an Alan Bennett thing, isn't it? I've never owned a pen for longer than uh a couple of weeks.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

And I remember I put that pen into a place that I can't do that's a terrible sensitive dead part after doing that then. But anyway, county. Yeah, I could just use a pen on a Wednesday. And after that, I just saved it for every October at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Mother used to say to me, Where's your metal pen? And I'd say, I'll definitely use it on a Wednesday. I'd love Alan Bennett to phone it.

Childhood Games And Regional Variants

SPEAKER_02 32:32

I'd love to fan uh Alan Bennett to phone the sports bar off. Alright, Al. How's it going? Benzo, how's it going? Well, I would just think, Jason, that one day. Yeah, get all of it. Come on, Al, come on now. We've already read now. Come on, Al. Uh Childhood Games, Mommy Meek instead. Not that I'm desperate for the attention or anything, uh, but slightly surprised no one mentioned the fact your boy worked for Top Trumps for a bit, which I did forget about that, to be fair. Um, question episode for you for the feedback episode, which is obviously.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

But by the way, there, it means he he to be fair to Ben's credit, he did work for Top Trumps, didn't he?

SPEAKER_02 33:04

He did work for Top Trumps, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:05

By your boy, he doesn't mean your son or no. I think people maybe they didn't know. I don't know. But yeah, but more money making one of the reasons he is more money is because he spent some time working for Top Trumps.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

Yeah, he made millions from Top Trumps. Uh, question for your feedback episode. Um, which of the games discussed on this do you think you'd do best at in 2020-20, 2026, based on the same people your age? Unfortunately, Ben, I can't remember anything that we spoke about because it's been that long since we did uh did that episode. I mean, I'd I'd fancy my chances in all of them, I think. Bulldog, yeah, you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh I think I'd be alright at um no, I don't know actually. I'd be alright at sport. I don't think I'd be very good at any of them, to be fair. That was a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

I know, spot so yeah, that's that's probably one where I faded. I don't play football anywhere near as much as I did, but I I think the ones where you sort of you don't lose it, your natural talent. So Kirby and Bulldog, British Bulldogs. Hide and seek. Uh I I'm still good at hide and seek. I mean I'm a I'm a bigger chap these days, but I can still hide myself.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

You know that.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Uh De Gauntie said we at Abadel Grange played one, two, three dunya, which was hide and seek a hide and seek variant where you had to return to base without being spotted. I do remember this actually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

You know, like you sort of yeah. This was my biggest regret in the whole episode because it was in the notes and I just didn't see it. So it wasn't that, but I know what that means. That is one, two, three dunya. That's what my cousin used to call it. But 50 up is what we used to call it, and you had to get back to base and say 50 up save if you would have if you got back. So the person had to look for you, and if they saw you, they had to run back to the base and say 50 up, uh, no save, whoever they saw. If you got back first, you'd say 50 up save me. If you're the last person, and I with my kind of hero complex always wanted to be last person, you had to hang around to last, and then if you got back there, you could say 50 up save all, and the person who was on had to go again. Um, great game, great days. Great. But yeah, once you've done your I have played that.

SPEAKER_02 35:02

Yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, but I played this, he said sticks, which is too bloody difficult to explain, but mainly an excuse to throw a tennis ball at your friend as hard as you can uh as hard as you can.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Um I don't know if that's like a dodgeball type variant.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

I I don't know that one, I'm afraid. This is one of my favourite comments, though. This is nav. British bulldog was banned at my primary school, it was deemed horseplay.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

I love that.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

I'd like to know who made that decision, who deemed it horseplay. I'm sorry, we could not have British Bulldog anymore. It has been deemed horseplay.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

Yeah, like like dinner ladies say, look, are they alright playing this or not? Well, somebody's gonna have to deem it one way or another. I'm doing it, I'm deeming it.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

I'm deem deemed it, I've d it's been deemed horseplay. Sack Ken said it's always fascinates me that I grew up hundred miles away um from you, but the games and little things discuss are exactly the same. We had stuck in the mud and you were stuck in obviously we spoke about that, until someone crawled under your legs, which does ring a bell. You were stuck until someone crawled under your legs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then Tiggy Lamppost with the like a just like Tiggy Lamppost, he says, but with a Scottish Corby name. So yeah, that is interesting that people played the same games and you know, from my.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

You sometimes see these graphs, don't they? Where I mean you've you've just seen it done to death, like what do you what do you call this? A bread cake, a bread carb, and bread roll. But I've seen ones with like Tig and Tag and there's other versions that I can't think of, so it's like just move on.

SPEAKER_02 36:22

So all the older versions. This one we did use to play. No, I'm sure you did as well. Not a playground game as such, but a football, uh, one of the best games in the world is crossbar. Uh, you spend hours on Longley Park playing it. Um that's obviously just hitting the crossbar, which sounds boring, but it used to get really like you used to proper get into it.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

Yeah, we used to play it, but it was uh the field near me, uh it was a rugby post, so it was a bit higher than a traditional crossbar, so we just call it hit the bar, but I suppose it is still a crossbar.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

Uh and Mega Hall said for some reason football was banned in morning break uh for my last year of primary school. But yeah, I think we had this happen to us, this I'm sure it got banned. Well, I would imagine it was deemed horseplay. Yeah, deemed horseplay, yeah. But it's uh I I think it got banned at high school for people swearing. So I remember our teacher saying, instead of swearing, say fiddlesticks instead. And it became like a bit of a meme going around the playground. Uh oh, fiddlesticks. But yeah, it got sure it got banned. Uh he said he had a trop, they had a top Trumps league that lasted about four months. Exotic sports cars was the favourite pack for men, eh? He never had pogs, but he did have the full Star Wars Tazzos from the Walker's Crisp, which does definitely ring a bell, the Tazzos things from that. Um I wonder if nay won't I say I wonder if Mel Winnie Meeking would be on the exotic sports cars. But um, it's too early for it because I yeah, they'd have been the same age. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

I mean he's a clever guy. I don't know when he first got involved with Top Trump.

Things That Scared Us On TV

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Imagine him doing exotic sports cars at last. Yeah, right. Leo mounted things that scared us.

SPEAKER_00 37:45

Nav. Uh when he used to work on radio stations that didn't run 24 hours, Tommy Boyd used to wait half an hour after his show and make creepy noises for the people who hadn't switched off. Years later, an old lady phone in a lady, sorry, not necessarily an old lady, phone in on the play. Yeah, that's good though. I like that from Tommy Boyd. That's fantastic. I mean, what's mad though is like obviously I assume that's a really late night finish. Why is he hanging around half an hour just to make weird noises? I mean, I I like it. I like it. Prankster, isn't he? Go home, Tommy.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

No, he don't need to. Look at Beadle, he made a career out of it, didn't he? Prank being a prankster. And Don Jolley. Yeah, but he would cash it in, weren't he? Like, this is just done for his own amusement, really.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

Which is better. He's doing it for the love of the game, isn't he? The love of pranking. Yeah, fair play. Uh KM 1984, enjoyable pod, only slightly disappointed not to hear discussion on Return to Oz. I mean, yeah, I'll finish the comment, then we'll talk up, then I'll discuss it because it's absolutely spot on, to be fair. Full-blown horror film posing as a sequel to a kid's classic musical uh From the Insane Asylum to the Wheelers, giant rock monster and the woman who wears people's heads. Yeah, I absolutely very nearly made it on for me, probably even should have in hindsight. The the the witch woman who cuts off girls' heads and wears different heads is genuinely really freaky. The wheelers are genuinely, yeah. So, yeah, that is absolutely up there, actually. And I even found the the sort of even though it's one of the good guys, the the sort of bed thing with the horse's head on it. I found that a bit weird as well.

SPEAKER_02 39:17

I I've only I have actually seen this, I've only watched it once, and I remember it it was when I were young as well. Like obviously, no, I we've been too young for when it came out, we're about like 86 or something, anyway. But I remember just watching it once at my nan's house and thinking I didn't realise it was a wizard of ours at all. Like because I'd started watching it halfway through, if you know what I mean. I didn't realise it were a follow-up or whatever it was. Um yeah, mad, mad scenes.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

Well, and even the concepts of TikTok who once he's kind of winding up runs out, he's just frozen in eternity until somebody winds him up again. I I once had a nightmare where I was in a science laboratory, um, strapped down to a chair, and they were just keeping me alive forever. And like it might to me the dream went on for about 100 years. Like obviously, it would have been about six or seven hours. No, it wouldn't even have been that, would it? But it sounds like an acid trip there.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

So I don't know about a dream, it sounds like a mad. I once I saw someone, uh, what's it called? I'm not I'm not gonna say because I can't remember the drug, but it's like one of the strongest drugs you can you can get, basically. It's like a it's a plant, and it makes your perception of time go mad. And this guy said he was stuck on a ceiling for 150 years, and he says that he was just like on in someone's house and he saw all these people's lives come and go in this house who had bought it, but it were about 10 minutes, like and a bit he said it was like the the most dis horrible experience of his like we should do drugs, let's do not mean let's do drugs, I mean we should do we should do drugs as an episode actually. Yeah, brilliant stories. Yeah, yeah, let's uh let's continue. Yeah. What were you gonna say? Yeah, I'm gonna say do do a drugs episode on drugs, but anyway, get Berlin. Berlin will come on for that, actually, won't I?

SPEAKER_00 40:48

So he'd probably be up for it now, wouldn't I? Like for calling now. Um Simon, as a child, I was petrified of Lord Lucan. Must have been a crime which appeals and disappeared 15 years before I was born. Uh my son is terrified of the snowman or he despises Allah Jones, not sure which. I mean Allah Jones does the soundtrack to it, but I I don't I was aware of the snowman before Allah Jones. Oh, would have would have been. No, no, he might be right. Could be could be connected to Allah Jones. He's not sure which, and I'm not sure which, to be fair.

SPEAKER_01 41:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Fair enough. I can't imagine being petrified as Snowman though.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

I'm not sure what's going on. I'm just trying to think when did Crime Watch start, because Lord Lucan went missing in 55 and he said he was born 15 years after. When did Crime Watch start? Why were they still doing appeals for Lord Lucan on Crime Watch?

SPEAKER_00 41:35

I think it I think he's been tongue in cheek, isn't he? I don't I don't think imagine I can't imagine watching a Where's Lord Lucan and the 90s and Crime Watch.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

I I've taken that at face value, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna even think that isn't it. Simon's run ring round us, I know he's he's he's he's he's phased us.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

Yeah, he's f he has phased us, yeah. Uh and from filbert, uh do you mention Jimmy Savile? He scared me a long time ago before we knew he was an on. I mean I don't know why he put it on because he clearly hasn't listened to the episode, so he won't be listening to this. So uh No.

Major Charles Ingram Guilt Debate

SPEAKER_02 42:05

We're not gonna tell you, Philbert. Listen to the episode and find out. No, listen to the episode. Uh the Major Charles scandal, the Major himself, not the Major Charles Ingram, the Major Joe Stevenson. Said, I've listened to most of this, I like most of it. Um and I commend you for your grace and balanced views on the situation. He is innocent though.

SPEAKER_00 42:20

And in Classic Living with Maidley style, you said that the quiz, that the the show quiz, um was shown six years it was shown six years ago when we said it was new, so that's something that we so you told me we'd we could find this perfectly because it was coming with the upcoming release of a show called The Quiz. And I thought, oh yeah, that's a good idea. It was six six years late.

SPEAKER_02 42:38

We're only six years late, so it don't matter. Um, but yeah, but yeah, I don't know where I got that from. But yeah, good to see the major obviously is gonna he's gonna, you know, he's gonna he's gonna lean one way and not the other. And as we'll get to, some other people have got different views. Matthew said, Great pod, but I'm interested in this was recorded in 2020 when Quiz the Drawer about the scandal was originally uh released. Sorry for being pedantic, but you kept referring to it as Neil.

SPEAKER_00 43:00

That's just the issue we just I mean we we don't want to confirm or deny that we recorded it in 2020, and that's why we've got it. We're not sorry with it. If you think that could be true, that could be true.

SPEAKER_02 43:08

We've been editing, remember like uh Jute Newcombe. It's okay, just redoing it and redoing it. That's the that's the best we could get it. But Neil, um if if Major's listening, Neil says I think he's 100% guilty. But the real question is, is cheating at a quiz really a criminal offence worthy of jail time? In a way, because he's pinched money, it's fraud, isn't it? The major fraud.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

No, but I I I agree. I'm on board with Neil. I think it even if even if he could prove he did cheat. Yeah, he done get the prize money because he cheated. It's not it's not a it's not a criminal act, is it?

SPEAKER_02 43:43

Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

I mean if he took the prize money and spent it possibly, but if if it's just a case of you don't get your prize money. And also think about the publicity that it drummed up as well, like No, it's not a criminal offence, is it? No, not a criminal offence.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

Lynn says really enjoyed this one. I always assumed he was guilty, but now I'm all on his innocence. We'll be ordering some stickers of Big Joe and spreading the word Big Joe Stevenson. Sell I don't know if he does sell stickers. I don't want to put I don't want people bombarding him with uh emails, but he has got stickers saying Major Child was innocent.

SPEAKER_00 44:15

Um so yeah, but yeah, I'm glad even if we just managed to sway sway that one person in Berlin Blade, at least we you know we got to the truth for one person, I think. Because I I personally think he is innocent.

SPEAKER_02 44:26

Yeah. LJ um he said honestly, my favourite part of the reason I've not just put that in for a for an ego boost. I like how he's put honestly, like honestly, I'm not joking. Honestly. Like he's had to like think this is ridiculous. He's had to prefix it by saying honestly. Yeah. No, honestly. I swear, I honestly, I swear on a quarter. Finish by saying I am not being sarcastic. I am not being sarcastic. Anyway, Lee Monty. I've missed this one. Jerry, Jerry leaving the Spice Girls, I forgot to dumble this one, but go on.

SPEAKER_00 44:56

Yeah, um, so first comment from Jane. Uh love Spice Girls. Went to see them in Lyon with four friends just before uh Jerry left. Epic night, but it seems in France they were mainly for children. We were the only adults there who weren't chaperones, making the fact we'd each dressed as one of them look even more ridiculous. I don't know. I think you I think embrace it. I think that's quite cool.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know, I don't know, cool's a strong term, but yeah. Don't should never be shouldn't be ashamed. Should not be ashamed.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

I think it's cool. Uh Gary, what a great pod. Uh I think you're an equivalent of peak, Vic, and Bob. This level of nonsense and chaos is surely planned in advance. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, do do we spend hours and hours crafting these episodes and and debating every little bit of dialogue, or do we just switch the switch the mic on and see what happens? We like imagining this, Gary, but I think you'd be sadly disappointing if you saw the recording most of these episodes.

SPEAKER_02 45:52

Yeah, I did uh something for memory lane, obviously what I do for the pinch now and uh Belay Picker um came on with us to talk about Cheffe United stuff. Um me and Deadbat did it with him, and he was amazed at how Champolleg me and Deadbat were about do I how do you record this then? Do you press this? Did you put the right is your microphone working? How do we do that? We had to get Sam to come on to record it to upload it to Cloud. It was ridiculous. Yeah, because I thought you two were like professional podcasters.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

But the best in the business. The best in the business, yeah. And uh last one on this one, quite a quick one on this episode, but uh from Jason. Uh shouldn't listen whilst at the gym, was lifting weights when I heard uh when I hear she pins Prince Charles asshole. Yeah, that was a comment from you summarising uh was it Prince Charles or was it Nelson Mandela?

SPEAKER_02 46:36

No, fucking she's not printing. I suppose why not? But I actually can't imagine. I think Charles Charles has got uh I think he'd he'd be alright with it. I think Mandela loved it, wouldn't it, Charles? I think yeah, Mandela would have been going, what the fuck are you doing, Jerry? I'm not gonna do the accent, but yeah, I'd like to anyway. We're nearly done, don't worry. Uh hoaxes now, glacier and anders, quintessential Liam. To effort rec effort effortlessly recall the major elements of the Billie Jean short film. That is if the Billy Jean short film was actually smooth criminal. When you were saying this, I thought you've got this wrong. And then I thought it you were going on that much. I thought, if I cut if I pick you up on it, I'd have to go back because you went on something else. But yeah, you you you were describing the smooth criminals.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

Complaints will be false on this case, and he's absolutely spot on. Yeah, he's uh he's got me banged to rights there. So yeah, apologies.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

Ange said, uh, I recall I enjoyed recalling the hoaxes. My own favourites on a smaller scale. The John Craven's news round April Fool's Day hoaxes, the newly discovered limper aloof animal. Read it backwards, which is uh full what? Full April. April full, yeah, full April, yeah. Full April, yeah. Yeah, it is, yeah, full April. I'm going to fool the breakpool. Uh and spaghetti growing on trees. Spaghetti growing on trees, which I do remember that one. She said uh some people fell for them briefly. That was tomorrow's world, I think, weren't it? That that's the one I thought it was news round, she's put news round, I thought it was news round.

SPEAKER_00 48:04

No, she's I think there's separation in there. Maybe so, whatever it was. That's the one that I probably fell for the most. The spaghetti on trees. Yeah, because as I was watching that, I was thinking, this it can't be right. I mean, I was very young, but but I remember sort of thinking, oh, that's crazy. I never never thought that.

SPEAKER_02 48:24

That that absolutely got me that one, yeah. I remember uh football focus once doing, they were making goals bigger because they wanted more goals. They were obviously in April Fool's, and they had Nigel Martin on. I don't think I've ever seen interview before or since. And he'd been, well, that's ridiculous. I mean, you know, are you supposed to save shorts? There's a massive goal behind him. Brilliant. Uh Marty said, uh I remember I used to sleep with a radio playing at night. One morning I woke up thinking I'd had a weird dream that Princess Diana had died, and then I switched on the TV to find out it was true. I think you've had sleep paralysis before. I've certainly had sleep paralysis before. Yeah, have you ever done that though? Is it? No, it's not though, but do you know have you ever had that sort of thing where you know everything's going on and stuff like that, and then you wake up because you what you're fully awake, but I think when you do finally come out of it, you're like, did all that happen?

SPEAKER_01 49:10

Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 49:10

Yeah, I've I've had like interstellar dreams where I I wake up and then I everything goes weird, and then I realise I'm still asleep, and then I wake up and everything's a bit odd, and then I'm I'm still asleep. I'm like sleep within my sleep, within my sleep. Yeah, but yeah, I've had well, like where you you half wake up but you can't move, but you've you kind of think something or someone's in your room and and it's it's awful. Yeah, really. But but that's not what it's not what Martin's explaining. No, it's not that you just come back. He heard on the radio Prince Diana died, and then he woke up and found out. It's as simple as that. Liam, we're on to Chuckle Vision. Well, we are, but I don't know if you want me to go back because you've skipped one. So I don't know if you want to go, can't get on TV for love nor money.

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Oh, yeah, you do that one. Sorry, I've gone straight past that one.

Forgotten TV Hosts And Viral Clips

SPEAKER_00 49:51

Sorry, yeah, go on. Uh so we're slightly out of order, but again, because this is so sort of well polished and well written, this this is a deliberate mistake. Um, so this was another one of our kind of quite successful ones, people who uh the guys who can't get on TV for love nor money anymore. So comment from Simon. I see Gordon Burns all the time, he lives near me, he's keeping very well in retirement. Also, so I saw Andy Crane uh on a train a few weeks ago. Gordon Burns is crypto factor, wasn't he?

SPEAKER_02 50:18

Yeah, Gordon Burns is fit because when we shared this, it was we shared a Kilroy clip on the back of this, which went viral ladies as well. Yeah, we've had a couple of virals recently, haven't we? Yeah, and um a lot of people and someone comment and someone commented on this epic on the the TV hosting love uh loving money and said, Who who the hell has forgotten Gordon Burns? So I had to politely point out that no, no, we haven't forgotten Gordon Burns. Yeah, we're reminding people of him. Yeah, he's the TV executives have forgotten about Gordon Burns, and he just never got a lot of things. Yeah, we don't decide who gets on TV for love and all money.

SPEAKER_00 50:51

We we just remembering these people. I let him on TV for love or all money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Uh Moonlit Nonsense. Uh I was listening to the uh I was listening to the open on Five Live, the opening that's him. I was listening to the opening on Five Live when John Inverdale was attacked by a bee. I'd love to hear that footage again. Oh wow, right. If anyone can get that, I'd love that, yeah. Absolutely love to hear that. Oh it's gone for me. Yeah, brilliant. I love an Inverdale. Um uh Peter, in response to the Kilray clip, um you listen to the you better do it, you're better than me. You listen to the Who Remembers pod.

SPEAKER_02 51:27

But you're a girl. Yeah, so we're like basically taking the piss that um we only have um I think it's gone up our female uh listenership, hasn't it? I think.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

Uh yeah, I think it's about four percent now. No, no, it has gone up to uh it's something more like sort of 12 or 13 or it might it might even be getting up towards 20. I mean, all welcome. Everyone's welcome.

SPEAKER_02 51:48

I love I love like all the uh all the guys they've gone woke.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Turn it off. Yeah, try get get as a female grab as a female listener if you can.

SPEAKER_02 51:57

That sound don't that's no, I just mean we should kind of like to sort of update the stats, not yeah, grab as a female listener anyway.

SPEAKER_00 52:05

We do not like on down grabbing female listeners.

Chucklevision April Fools Con

SPEAKER_02 52:08

I'll do Trucklevision and then mate I like this because this is if everyone has not listened, we're gonna give the game away. We decided in our wisdom, didn't we, that um we were gonna do an April Fools episode because our episode did land on April Fools anyway.

SPEAKER_00 52:21

This was more crafted than most, in a sense that this was actually our chat was natural, but we had a kind of bullet point thing to get through to keep it on track because obviously it didn't exist, so we had to make sure we were yeah, so so we made up or you I mean to be fair, we we both gone through it now, friend, I think we both came up with the idea of doing an April Fool's episode, and I think the kind of actual chuckle vision and episode we went with was kind of mainly your ideas, so yeah, fair play on that. It did fool people.

SPEAKER_02 52:50

Weren't one of your ideas just then them saying to me to you for a full episode of the case, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:54

They've got some in a loop, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:55

Which I like, but then we thought, how do we get a full episode of sales out of that? That's all you say.

SPEAKER_00 53:00

And we thought, why would they ever broadcast that? We needed it to have been broadcast. So yeah, just I mean, if obviously it's not gonna have the same. I'm pretty sure, you know, we're masters of of our craft. I'm pretty sure we would have fooled you, but if you haven't heard it, go back and and let us know at what point you'd have realised.

SPEAKER_02 53:17

Well, to be honest, the only people the only person who's admitted uh not admitted, the only person who said he wasn't fooled is Mr. Mo Money Meekin, who sent uh sent me a private message saying he knew from I think he said this the first jumper that this was this was a con. And and no one else, I mean I've had Sam off the pinch, he's messaged me saying, Oh fucking hell, you're dumb. A couple of other people. Um I said to Eggie, when did you did you realise? And he went, Oh, I just don't wait real listen to that on it background. So that's Meggy still believes it to this day. I don't know if it was true or false. But the major said, Congratulations on the Chuckle Brothers episode. Consider the Major murked. So that's a that's a massive feather in eye. That's why we did it. Yeah, we can murk somebody like the major.

SPEAKER_01 53:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:57

Bobby B said Lost Media, for fuck's sake, in in battle, feet, hut, line, and sinker. Just about to tweet and say, What do you mean, Liam? You don't think it was sinister? Because obviously you were playing the I don't think it's that big.

SPEAKER_00 54:07

I was going to say, yeah, I can't understand why he's cancelled it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:10

He said it read like a Doctor Who story. Um, but he said in his defence he only listened on the 14th of April. I love the idea of him like working it out, like Pete Paul's going, bastards he finished with anyway.

SPEAKER_00 54:21

So um opinions only, and by the way, uh Bobby B's a huge friend of the show, but I I love how he loves the show that much that he waited 13 days to go and listen to it.

SPEAKER_02 54:30

Yeah, thanks for that, Bobby B. But we're going down our seven-day numbers there. Uh opinion's only mine said I must be done, but I got to the end without realising. Not at all, not at all, only my money me can saw through it. So uh Trace had completely got me, literally got to the end before I realised. Well played, also got me obsessively watching Chuckle Brothers clips. Cheers. So a bit of goods come out of it, a bit of goods come out of the Tom Fulroy. Yeah, David, brilliant job. Just finished the episode. And for the first five minutes, I was thinking what day was this release, but by the end I was fully on board wanting to see it.

SPEAKER_00 55:00

I like sort of seen sort of seen the clues, but then we we dragged him that much into the Chuckle Brothers episode that he decided no, that's this gotta be real. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:09

Adam says, I've no idea. I'll be honest, I've no idea whether I thought it was an April Fool's or not, as that was the most insane 30 minutes of audio I've ever heard. The concept of real or fake lost all meaning for me for that half an hour.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

Well, yeah, does it? I mean, to be fair, I think you know, it could it could be real. Could be real. What a double bluff it would be if it turns out it was real and we double pranked you.

SPEAKER_02 55:31

Next one we actually do review it the next next April Fool's Day. Uh and Loudspan, they'll love this. Loud Spound said this was my first listen to this podcast for fuck's sake. What a debut. What a debut for campaign.

SPEAKER_00 55:44

I was wasting his time for about 40 minutes.

Boy Bands Guest Chat And Future Ideas

SPEAKER_02 55:47

Unbelievable. Anyway, on to uh boy bands, which we did with Miss Kate Bedon.

SPEAKER_00 55:52

Yep. Uh another one that that the fans seem to like, so thanks, Kate. Well done. Uh now very entertaining episode, good choice of guests. Kate was great with an analysis on boy bands. Maybe you could do an episode on 90s girl bands as well. I mean, he strives for equality, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_02 56:06

Yeah, yeah, and it's on the list. In fairness to now, he asked us ages ago to do Take That versus E17. Um, and I hope he got a bit out of that, you know, because we didn't actually do because we'd already done Take That when he'd asked for it, so but anyway.

SPEAKER_00 56:19

Gary, great episode. It felt like a real podcast instead of uh usual insane ramblings. I mean, yeah, sometimes an amateur will upstage a professional, and I think Katie probably did that, didn't she?

SPEAKER_02 56:29

Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah, she told me privately, I maybe I'm I'm I might be betraying a trust there. In fact, it wasn't her who told me, her other half who told me, but um she wasn't happy with her performance. Yeah, she she wasn't happy with her own performance. I know I thought she was good. But yeah, but yeah, she wasn't happy.

SPEAKER_00 56:46

And uh as we told her, she's she's welcome back anytime.

SPEAKER_02 56:48

So uh true professional, true podcast professional.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

The real Dave Curry. Katie should check out the curry garden here in Ringwood to see if she can catch Howard as a sign proclaim in my favourite restaurant. Uh Howard Donald from Say That. Never seen him in there. Uh I've copied him doing a weekly shop in Waitros a couple of times. Ringwood, I don't I don't know where Ringwood is, but I'm sure Katie is now sort of wheel spinning off the drive to get to to Ringwood. Yeah. Chango Motley, top ten hardest girl bands next. I'd love to do that. Top ten hardest girl bands. Off top of your head, can you think who's number one?

SPEAKER_02 57:25

Uh maybe spice girls, because I reckon Mel B's packs a punch. Sporty, obviously. You know, she's literally sporty. I fight like my dad as well. I don't think I think they were just I don't think a line and a song. I think they were just a line in a song, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd probably go spice girls, but I can only think of those three at my girl bands. I thought we came with mad carry kitsona. I'll tell you what, sugar babes, they had about 400 members. So imagine them coming with you.

SPEAKER_00 57:54

All saints are a bit posh, weren't I? I don't I don't think they'd be too much to deal with.

SPEAKER_02 57:59

Anyway, we might do it. We might do it.

SPEAKER_00 58:00

We're not, yeah, we're not sorry, I was going to do the episode now, um Carl. Time for a hard man world cup groups, football TV, films, ask Lim for help, obviously, because you don't watch films, superhero comics, uh cartoons, and real life. And then question mark.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, to go, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:18

I mean, we did obviously we did something with hard men, so yeah, we might we might we're gonna do some more top ten stuff. This is uh everywhere growing up. Sack Ken said he once had a taped a one pound coin to a card for a girlfriend he had in primary school for Christmas. Um, she gave it back and said she couldn't accept it. My wealth had clearly intimidated her. Some some can handle the flash lifestyle, some can't.

SPEAKER_00 58:41

Yeah, he showed it he played the the power play too early, didn't he?

SPEAKER_02 58:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people are intimidated by the rich people. Um, Kate said uh we used to use the yellow pages to hold our indoor TV area, was mixing two of our topics. Yeah, that's interesting, like.

SPEAKER_00 58:55

Yeah, you had uh I mean you'd have to listen back to get the context, but one of your table legs was so short you had four yellow pages lifting it up.

SPEAKER_02 59:02

Right, I've spoken I spoken to a few Harvey messaged me about this and we we spoke about this and we decided that you were full of shit. That's my I said that he didn't say that. Uh you know what I'm saying. I'm not saying it were a really low table, I'm saying it were wobbly. So you put a a yellow page of sort of underneath it just to stabilize it.

SPEAKER_00 59:19

Yeah, but I'm saying that's that's absolutely ridiculous because the yellow page is about four inches thick, and no table leg on a usable table is four inches shorter.

SPEAKER_02 59:27

I'm telling you that.

SPEAKER_00 59:28

I mean, even like even if I'm remembering them as bigger, bigger than they were, like say they're two inches thick. Do you know under a table you put a folded beer mat or a bit of tissue, not like a book or a well, how come's yellow pages holding case indoor aerial higher up? Because aerials, you sometimes need to like lift them up on the roof, don't you? Like that does work.

SPEAKER_02 59:44

I used to have that. I used to hold an aerial. Oh, an aerial, ridiculous. Matters who remembers aerials. Anyway, let's not get into a round.

SPEAKER_00 59:50

Yeah, let's start in the same argument again.

SPEAKER_02 59:52

Major said a jump. This is brilliant. Facts from the Major. A jumble sale is where you would donate items and they'd be set out in a village hall and then sold to raise money. A tabletop sale is an indoor car boot sale, and a car boot sale is outdoors usual. I keep up the good work.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:06

Yeah, I I don't know if I read that as uh JP Chango Motley or if he sent the same comment, but I I thought I thought that had come from JP and then and then realised it had come from the major. So that if JP sent the same explanation, then thank thanks to both.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:22

I didn't see that. To be honest, like we said, we've not used them all here, so if people have repeated similar comments, then because it would have gone on for ages. And says the milkman is back. Uh mine delivers post 11pm, but my friend is there at the Friends is there at the cra at the crack of dawn. One time or other, I think everyone's been up at the crack of dawn. Um I've had furry dice for years, not a euphemism. Even got some Cheff United dice. Should stick to the side or back window with a sucker, but they fall off.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:48

Oh yeah, I mean we I think we said furry dice is gone, but obviously Angie's proving that you can still find them.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:53

You can still get them, still get him. Stuart said there was a female milkman. Oh, we should have got this. There's a female there was a female milkman in open all hours who Gramble had a crush on.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:00

Yeah, no, that's right. I uh I confirm Stuart, that is true, and and we've I don't know if we should have mentioned it, but we certainly could have.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:07

Nostalgot said, This is why I love your podcast. No other podcast would talk about how much they miss good old-fashioned nut jobs. I think people knew what we were talking about with that. We're not talking about like, you know, uh aggressive people, we were talking about local eccentrics. Local eccentrics would have been a better way than a good old-fashioned nut job. That'd have been a better way, yeah, to be fair. But anyway, thank you. On to Snooker Liam.

Snooker Takes Ronnie And Slow Selby

SPEAKER_00 1:01:28

Yeah, we're getting we're getting really up to date now. So the snooker episode that we did to coincide with the World Cup uh world championships at the crucible.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:36

Uh just on that, by the way, before I forget, would you add anything from this year's world championship into this? Great question. I think black masses are probably my top ten.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:51

Yeah, maybe maybe. And maybe maybe in context as well, because like I our sort of group was all watching it and commenting and it it was a huge moment. So I thought I thought the semi-finals were excellent. Um I think you're right. I think if if anything is gonna make it in, it it's Alan's uh missed black because it's such a such a straightforward shot, it was unbelievable he missed it. So yeah, yeah, I think you're probably right. Um and yeah, quick thanks to Chris who sent us today actually the side by side that we talked about of uh Ronnie's 147 and Peter Ebden's break of what was it, 20?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:27

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:29

Um so if you want to see that, I've I've reshared his his video he sent us on on uh X, but for some reason, I don't know why it does this sometimes. The the video doesn't show up in the retweet, you can just see the YouTube text. Uh, it might might be different for for you. Have a look at yourself. But yeah, if you have a look at underneath where we've said decide what which one of these is better, posted about I don't know, a couple of hours ago. You can see it's incredible actually. You can see him side by side. It says, Have you seen the one with Selby?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:57

Someone someone sent me on Chefing Art form. I can't use the name. Anyway, uh someone um sent me it was Mark Selby doesn't have a shot in that time at all. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

I mean that that's ridiculous. I'm sure there's a video. Mr. Earth commented on that episode. Uh talk about not taking a piss, then Panchero says, name all the can Canadians, and then you go on to name the Alaska team.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:22

I was so I was talking about famous there's no famous Canadians, and then I was saying why can't they name another famous Canadian? And I was like laughing at somebody, and then I couldn't name a Canadian sportsman. The Alaska team is the first thing that came in my head. Greg Rudetsky, he's not really he says he's English, whatever his name is, but he he he represented England, but you know, we all know Lenny's Lewis Canadian born.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:49

I don't know. Yeah, probably, yeah. Then there's the uh Alaska B team.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:56

The Alaska B team. There's load there's loads you can have, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:00

As I'm a little bit c Canadian, I'm waiting for an apology. Uh sorry, Mr. Earth. Uh Alan's missed black from this year. We'll be a contender. He's right, spot on. Um has an easier winning plot ever been missed. Not that I can off the top of my head think of an example now, it was just crazy, crazy in the moment. So I think he's right. That probably I don't know if it's one of them that like recency bias almost it needs time to settle, and then people will look back on it as a huge moment. So yeah, I'm not sure. But uh yeah, good good comment. Just on that, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:31

It was uh sorry, just a minute, it was Gimli who sent the um oh so love film 147 uh against you know Mark Selby and stuff. If I get the chance, I'll share that.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:39

Cheers, Gimzo. Um Nav. Jimmy White did go on to win two senior world titles. Uh he should do an episode in the top ten world darts championship moments at the Ali Palae. Great idea. We may well do that to coincide with the next tournament. It's like a new year thing, isn't it? So we probably might do it around then. Uh Ben, is this Mal Money? Yeah, it's Mal Money. Uh was always baffled that Peter Ebden became such a boring bastard considering when he first emerged he had a ponytail and would scream, come on. Uh same remark Selby used to be a proper attacker. Yeah, that's what I thought. I that's why I'm surprised when you said Selby didn't take a shot. I always saw him as quite a he'd take on a shot. Uh out of Stuart Bingham as a worse champion than Taylor, genuinely felt like it cheapened the fine name of Snooker by having this goon win. I mean that's quite quite strong words from from Ron.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:28

Strong words there from Roman Eakin, yeah. This goon win.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:32

Yeah, I don't mind Bingham. I think he seems quite a nice chap. Uh I I get what he means though. It it does feel a bit like what really Mark Bingham wanna won a world championship. I I kind of take his point. Um but yeah, I I don't mind him winning it. Um even if he is a goon in Ben's eyes. Uh big man triple zero five. There's definitely a clip somewhere where Ronnie's one four seven. Oh, yeah, this is what you're talking about. Ronnie's one four seven, he's played along Mark Selby. Taking five and a half minutes deciding what safety shot to play. I mean that that to me is unacceptable.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:05

Not big man 0005. I appreciate the comment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark Selby taking that long. He's outrageous.

Chip Pan Safety And AI Cover Talk

SPEAKER_02 1:06:12

Right, we're this is the last one, Liam, and it's that we've got through it. Next time, like I say, we are going to be starting doing these a lot um a lot more re uh what's the word frequently? Uh things that used to be safe. Owen and Savile said, Christ the devil doesn't need to be shown on the net. Oh, talk about the Jimmy, because we used Jimmy Savile to promote the episode. That sounds mad in hindsight in the outer context, should I say? We used Jimmy Savile to promote the episode. He went a bit mad that, didn't he, actually? Because we just shared it as a normal thing, and then loads of people have obviously not listening to the episode, but sharing the clip, going, Oh god, like uh OK said, Why do people actually like this creepy, unfunny cutting?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:47

Yeah, I mean we said it on previous episodes. I I I had my suspicions from from being a really young child. I I didn't want to go anywhere near him, but I'm I'm not I know people had horrible experiences, so uh we're not we're not cheapening it, but he didn't.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:02

Well you say that on the to promote him, Trill says, I feel like Sir Savile's reputation as a pioneer for road safety does get a little lost amongst the other stuff, which is a shame, really.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:13

I mean it's a bit like people say, I don't like sort of Morrissey's politics, but I like his music. Is he saying we should separate the safety stuff?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:19

We should separate the safety stuff, yeah, from the other stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's a good point.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:24

Certainly uh yeah, it's a it's an interesting conversation.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:28

Uh Bobby V said only halfway through, as I'm currently in Mossway police station after being pulled over after 10 pints of Foster, no seat belt, on a baby pot a baby on parcel shelf. Need to stop taking your advice. Maybe Lee should include a disclaimer later on the pod to save other listeners the same fate. Yeah, I mean it did feel like because I was sort of saying, I miss sort of some of these things. You were like basically promoting drink driving, smoking, no seating that I know and I think I could edit all that together to you probably lose your job.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:58

Yeah. No, I um I I mean hopefully, Bobby B that that's not real because imagine if you did think in tribute to this episode, I'm gonna go and drink ten pints of Foster's drive and put a baby on a parcel shelf, but no, I I'm hoping that is not literal.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:14

Chango Motley said surely chip pans uh should have got mentioned which is a great shout to be fair.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:20

Yeah, I mean I I don't know if uh I don't know if people still because we've we've got a deep fat fryer that I told Jolly we didn't need to buy, and I think we've used it twice in about three years. Um but it's not the same, it's not just a pan of fat boiling on the stove, it's like uh it's got a lid and stuff, so yeah, chip chip pan fires.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:38

Chip chip pan a chip an Amazon it's a fucking heavily pregnant brother song, isn't it? My chip me chip pan's on fire, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:48

I don't know, it sounds like it kind of should be. If do you know if if it catches fire, do you know again? This is another one of the those obvious things that not everyone knows. Um do you know what you're supposed to do if your chip pan's on fire? Or do you know what you're absolutely not supposed to do? Found the fire brigade. That's the worst advice I've ever heard. Why? I've got fire in my kitchen. Do you know the one thing you should not do is found the fire brigade?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:15

Sorry, I thought sorry, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:17

I haven't converted I'm with someone having a heart attack. What's the last thing you should do?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:21

Found an ambulance. It's like someone you know like stupid quiz questions off like family fortunes. You said fire engine. Uh uh, no, it's not that.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:33

No, so so if you've got a ch I mean again. Throw water on it. Yeah, that but is that that's the last thing you should do. But what is the thing you should do? I mean, obviously you should phone the fire brigade as well, potentially, but the last thing you should do if you're gonna attempt to tackle it yourself, what what should you do? Uh everyone's screaming at the radios that throw throw uh uh um I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:53

I really don't know. I'd just throw some. What towel, wet towel over the top, of course. I take charge. I take charge. Uh the last comment for today, Ryan. Was Andrew trying to say A and E? This is ridiculous. If you look at the transcript for that episode, because he sent it as a screenshot. Kind of break. I say, yeah, it they can't keep up. The AI transcript can't keep up. It says A E. I I say something like what is it what I say? A R A R A R E A A R E A and E, E and R, E and R, A E, A and R, A and E. And I meant Yeah, he's right, I meant A and E. On AI, by the way, I forgot to have mentioned this at the beginning. We're thinking about changing our cover for our podcast because we think it's a bit too you you've kind of overthought it, and it's a bit too AI, so we might change it sometimes. Yeah, so but that's what's so annoying about this. And just let us know, by the way, if you would draw if you'd like us to change it. Because I've done a new cover, which is a VHS tape with sort of things that we talk about, like as stickers around it. Send it Liam, what did Liam say? That's surely done by AI. So if Yeah, I said you don't own that, do you? That's not a picture, so you've done it with AI. But you said no Photoshop, but well, you know, Microsoft Paint is what I did it with and a little bit of picks and art. I'll use picks and art um as well to just to make it look more like stickers.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:09

I don't know, if you have a strong preference one way or another, about the fact that our cover not on the so the Twitter page, the the Ramsey Street one, I did that with some kind of Photoshop paint type thing, but the the actual cover image on your uh iPlayer or what would you call it, like podcast player. Yeah, does it bother you even one percent? Does it bother you? Yeah, one percent. Would you mind if we changed it one percent? And would you yeah, would you miss it? Do you do you even know what it is? As you're listening now, because I caught you out on this. You think we need to change it? And I said, What are named a few podcasts that I know you listen to, and you couldn't tell me. As you're listening now, try and think what you think our podcast cover is and whether it has ever bothered you even one percent.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:52

Stump I was telling you Stump Peg got done uh for using AI in a we got a comment on saying I don't like it. Yeah, well we got done, we've we've we've been caught on it a couple of times. So when I used to uh promote episodes, I'd use a a really lazy AI cover, but now we're uh we're all about the videos, aren't we, nowadays, so it's fine. But yeah, so people don't like it, which is fair enough. But let us know if it bothers you that much, and if it does, I've got another one waiting. Another one, what do you call it? The what like a plus two come at once. That's don't don't work at all, does it, as an analogy?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:23

But yeah. Good evening. So yeah, good evening.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:27

Right, that's it, Liam. Thank you for being so patient with us for that. Because obviously, nobody's still here.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:32

Let's wrap it up. If anyone's still listening to this, I'm genuinely absolutely amazed. So, yeah, let's let's wrap it up. Cheers, cheers everyone.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:39

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