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Podcasts. There are millions of them. Some might say too many. I have one already. I don't have any because there are enough. Politics, business, sport, you name it. There's a podcast about it. They all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day. But nobody is covering the most important topic of all. Why is that? Are they scared? Too afraid of being censored by the man? Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters. We try and say it at the same time.
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Max, what did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guest got up to yesterday. Nothing more. Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life? Unless it was yesterday. We don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushden. And I'm David O'Doherty. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello, and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? My name is Max Rushden. Alongside me, David O'Doherty. David, and once again, I've booked today's guest.
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Today on the podcast, we have an amazing comedian, Amy Annette. I have lived with her at the Edinburgh Fringe several times. So thanks for sorting that as well. That's okay. A friendship that goes back over a very long time. This is, for the tape, we have recorded the episode already.
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We did yesterday. This is a rare episode because it features me in the same way that Alfred Hitchcock used to play small roles in his own film.
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Tarantino popping up in his movie just before everyone just murders each other and everyone goes, what a genius. And I'm like, come on.
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Yeah, similar to that. I'm in this one. I mean, I do bring it up in the episode that there's some controversial elements of, you know, if you're not in the room, can you talk about what you, just because you were near. In the terms of the universe, I was close to Amy Annette yesterday.
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Yes, sure. But I don't say what I was doing. That's for the midweek episodes.
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I know. We've tested the bounds of this. There was a point where you sort of sat back with your arms folded in that little chair. I knew you weren't happy with what was going on.
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Well, I'd be interested to hear from the purists, how they feel.
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Amy's yesterday was the press launch of The Way Out, this escape room TV show that I, listeners may remember, I made in one of my yesterdays. And it's, I guess, how you build the hype for the show. Amy will be doing the Edinburgh Fringe this year with her new show, which is called Say What You Like About Me. She's absolutely brilliant.
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And this is what Amy Annette did yesterday. Amy Annette, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Hello. How are you both? I am good, but I'm also worried because I think this might be the first time ever where a yesterday potentially breaks what we call in time travel, the prime directive, which is not to mess with the events of the past.
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And I may figure in Amy Annette's yesterday. So we'll see how big a role I play and whether I made an impact, whether I ruined the day.
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I could erase you from history if you like.
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Like the Polaroids from Back to the Future. David will be staring at a Polaroid of him and you. And then he's disappearing. It's because you haven't brought him up. That could be exciting. But I could also turn up in this episode. We don't know. It seems less likely since I have never met you until 30 seconds ago, Amy.
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Yeah. But it could happen. That's all I'm saying. It could happen. I'm so excited to meet you, Max. It's like to see the other half of David is so nice. It's like meeting the Deck, I guess, to his aunt.
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And you would want to be Deck out of those two, I think. I think so. Or the Phineas to his Ferb. Or the Phineas to his Billie Eilish. You know, it's just so nice.
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I feel the Helen Copter may have something to say about this, you know, in terms of sidekicks.
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The Eddie to his Charles, maybe? Yes. Oh, R.I.P. Are they gone? One of them.
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One of Charles and Eddie is no longer with us. I don't know which one, but I think that's the only perfect song, sorry to say, to the jazz men.
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Would I lie to you? That one. There's a point where he goes, who are you? Oh, my God.
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There is a bit where he tries to say, that's not the kind of game I play. But he says, it's not the kind of game I play. And that is, that's maybe where music peaked.
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I honestly think it is when it stopped getting better. Yeah. You're not turning it off, are you? When it comes on.
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We have so much in common, Amy. I love that song so much. Come on. We don't have time. This is not what did Charles and Eddie do yesterday.
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One of them dead, of course. Although interruption at the end of every sentence, you'd have to question whether they were telling you the truth.
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So it would be a very long episode. So are you putting forward the theory that the theme music to Would I Lie to You, the TV show, should be Charles and Eddie singing,
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Would I Lie to You, Baby? Yeah, very different show. I think every theme tuned to every show should be Would I Lie to You.
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News night. Really good. Yeah, news night. Oh, my God. We get you in a good mood. You'd be like, oh, what's happened in the world?
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Would I lie? And also politicians do lie to us. It's true. Yeah. And the mainstream media. That's always lying to us.
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You are it. You are the mainstream media. No, you're right. And I'm bullshitting my way through everything.
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Now, Amy, what time did you wake up yesterday? And tell us the truth. I woke up at, well, I set my alarm for 7.30. I woke up at 8.15 after snoozing it multiple times.
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What is my alarm? Thank you for asking. It is Alessi Seabird. Say that again.
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Seabird, seabird, fly home. That's the song that wakes me up. Yeah, I know that song.
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I don't know how old I am either. Such an old song. But it doesn't work, obviously, because, well, it's a mid-tempo, beautiful 70s singer-songwriter-ballad.
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It starts by going, it's very soft and lovely. And I'm like, wow, I'm having a great time at sleep.
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You need a more rockin' song. Chumba-wumba. But Chumba-wumba starts with a lot of talking, but I guess that would work too.
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Yeah, true. Pete Poffelsweck going, people don't matter. Yes, that's it, isn't it? But maybe Pete Poffelsweck would be a good, again, may he rest in peace, but like a good alarm.
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Hang on, just talking a bit before I get knocked down and I get up again.
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Yeah, quite a long bit. It is there. It's a classic old song where the song actually is about 20 minutes, but the music that you know is about three minutes within it.
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The mainstream lame-os like me only know the famous bit. Not the hardcore Chumba-wumba. Okay, so we've got 45 minutes. Are you just like sleeping and snoozing? Have you got your phone out or is it just, there's nothing really to report until 8.15?
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A lot of times I will just be looking at my phone, but this time I think I'm snoozing because I'm anticipating having to leave the house.
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I'm pushing it, basically. The longer I stay in bed, the less amount of time I have to sort of get ready and go.
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I find time very hard to understand. Oh, wow. Distance. Finally. Distance. Time. Physics.
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I've got no concept of it, so the night before I go somewhere, I have to spend quite a lot of time being like, if I get there on time, I need to leave at this time.
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So I've spent a lot of time doing that. So I know in the back of my head that the latest I can leave is 8, I don't know, 45.
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So I've got that in the back of my head. But unfortunately, what that means in my head is then 8.45 becomes the time to work with seconds to spare.
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Right. So you want to sort of get up in a Wallace and Gromit style, into the trousers, out of the house.
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I would love that. Okay. And also you've got to factor in not understanding the concept of time from 8.15 to 8.45.
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It's so stressful. And that's a big part of why I'm late, it turns out.
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And I am late. Yeah, I would say that with London more so than Dublin.
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You're in London, I presume, Amy? I don't like to reveal my location. SE 15 4GF.
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How do you know? Yeah, yeah. I'm in London. London W12 8QT. I think I've said this on this pod in the past, but I've said most things in the past.
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That was the zip code or whatever you call it in London, postal code for swap shop.
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And going live probably too. If ever they asked me on a free Wi-Fi or whatever for my postal code, I very much, Noel Edmonds and Keith Cheggwin, rest in peace, Cheggers.
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Noel, of course, still fine. Not fine. But a lie, right? With us. Yeah, yeah.
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Okay. So what happens between 8.15 and 8.45? Is it a real bunt fight? You've got lots to do to get ready.
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Well, to be revealed, but the thing that David and I are both inexorably moving towards is a press day, I guess, for a TV show that we are doing, have done.
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And they are going to do hair and makeup. They've asked me to get there early so they can put makeup on my face.
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So what I don't have to do is a traditional slap on the makeup. So I've got that in hand.
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So what I have to do is take some new medication that I've started, which explains a lot of my vibe at the moment.
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And I have to take some protein with it. And then I realized as I've left the house, I've not taken any protein.
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I've not eaten any protein. So then I have to stop in a Sainsbury's local and buy a bottle of Huel.
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Oh, God. And be a girl who is on the morning commute train drinking Huel.
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Is that the only protein that Sainsbury's had to offer? Surely they had a banana.
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Does banana have protein? I'm not an expert. I don't think it has it in the quantities that ADHD medication needs to stop you being literally high in the streets of London.
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Oh, wow. Is there a fear with it that it could all come out your poop?
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The Huel. Yeah. I guess that's a fear I have with everything, actually. I've had it before and I'm not pro it in any way, but the poop chute doesn't seem to be a problem.
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Is it tasty? Sorry, David. Obviously, I reject it on principle. Well, I'm buying the ones that they have in the shop.
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So it's like pre-mixed with a bit of flavor. Is it tasty? I was a child of the fridge and sort of Yazoo generation.
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So I think I have space in my heart for a sort of slightly powdery chocolate-flavored liquid.
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Yeah. Slightly viscous. A sort of Gaviscon thick sort of consistency. Yeah. I have space in my heart for that.
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It's sort of a treat. I'm sorry to say that when I was a bebe, I thought having any chocolate-flavored anything was a treat.
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So you could trick me with that quite easily. And so I still sort of think that.
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But then we come back to Max's deworming chocolate. Oh, yeah. Which I think is the official limit of all chocolate is delicious.
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But then when it's just trying to kill a parasite that's living in your stomach that your children have given you.
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That chocolate is not only delicious, but also has a use. Whereas, you know, Tony's Chocolate Only's, those worms are staying in your ass.
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But riddle me this. Would you, if you were absolutely starving for a little treat and you looked in the cupboard and there was nothing except a big old bar of worming chocolate and you made a cup of tea, would you have it?
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That's the question, really. You actually make a good point there, David. You wouldn't have it.
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But if you don't have worms, surely you just basically had a bit of chocolate.
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I understand where both of you are coming from on this argument, but there has been a worming chocolate in the cupboard for a long time and I have rejected it when there's no other chocolate available.
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Case closed. Can I just get back to your fresh ADHD meds? Yeah. Woo! That would be an upper, would it?
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So you would be speeding. It's literally speed as far as I understand. I won't look into it.
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And they, I will say that when you are in what they call titration, where they try to figure out what's the right dose for you, you will have too strong a dose or even just starting anything new.
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I didn't realize this till afterwards. I looked it up and there's a whole section on the internet being like, don't make plans when you're trying out your ADHD drugs for the first time.
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Wow. And it is because the dopamine, whatever it is, is so high that you start like, I reached out to a guy I haven't seen since university.
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I was like, I'd love to meet your baby. I'd love to meet your baby.
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And then I did meet the baby, lovely baby. Is it the case though that you take this, if you hadn't had the hule, you would be standing on the tube, like between the tracks being like, I command you to stop.
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I'm the queen of Mexico. Yes. A bit of that. I would have got to the venue, the hotel and sort of just sort of asked Mel Goodrich to tell me her life story.
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Yeah. Okay. Fine. So what are we on a tube train? Are we on a bus with our hule and our new drugs?
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We're on a tube train. We have to change at Piccadilly. No, Green Park. Green Park.
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So London-y. The change at Green Park. That's quite a long walk, isn't it? Only if you're a chump.
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Okay. What you got to do, you got to follow the signs for the way out.
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All right. And you go up into the ticket hall and then you go back down the other side.
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Wow. Here's a pro. A few things there. The name of the TV show we are promoing is The Way Out.
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So you've got a mention of it in there. That's phenomenal. I did that on purpose.
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And secondarily, just for me and the two of you are the pearly, cockney, king and queen.
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You just throw out these words like, go get off of Piccadilly. But the vast majority of our listeners are around the world.
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You know what I mean? They're just seeing your lives. You're both singing sun is in the sky.
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Oh, why, oh, why would I want to be? You know, like it's very much that's the that's the vibe here.
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You're saying they're unobtainable. I'm saying that Richard Curtis has given the world an image of London, that even though I spend a lot of time in London, I still can't quite shake off such that when you say Piccadilly
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or Oxford Circus or one of these things, I do imagine Hugh Grant is bumbingly trying to follow a woman to give her flowers.
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Do you know what I mean? And yet, you know, so interestingly, they've done such a good PR job on London, a place I'm very happy to live here.
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But my experience was less Hugh Grant bumbling and more the northern line was down.
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So the tube I was on was so packed that at one point the door broke and they were like, everyone has to get off the tube.
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We all got off. I had had a seat, of course. And then he comes back on the tandoi and he's like, I fixed the door.
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So actually, you can all get back on. So then we all had to get back on.
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But of course, people weren't really sure. Like, well, if you had a seat a second ago, do you get to have a seat again?
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Because you haven't got back on in the same order. Right. And someone went, haha, but it was mirthless.
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And you can't obviously say, let's go back to where we were, guys, because if anybody had a system that worked for me, anyone speaks up on the tube, everyone's like, that person is fucking insane.
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Yeah. The only thing you're allowed to say is please move down. Yeah. And actually not really allowed to.
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You can say that, but everyone judges you for saying it, even if you're right.
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But you see, even this situation, I'm imagining you get on Stormzy is beside you and a little child with chimney sweep brushes, you know.
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Dick Van Dyke's complaining that someone's nicked his mobile phone. Oh, Dick Van Dyke was there.
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Yeah. And with his much younger wife. Has he got a much younger wife? Well, because he's so old with love.
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His wife is not, for most people, she's so age appropriate, but for him, she's still very young.
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Right. So she is like 40 years younger than him, but that means that she's 60. He managed to get, in one episode of Diagnosis Murder, I think there were six Van Dykes.
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Like, it's the ultimate nepotism. It's like absolute genius. Everyone in it was a Van Dyke.
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I can only give credit to that guy. Also, his name is Three Nouns, which is one of the rarest things in a name.
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Yeah, it is true. Apart from, damn it, damn it. Apart from, I've really stuck on Three Nouns.
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To the listeners, can anyone think of a Three Nouns person in the world apart from Dick Van Dyke?
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Mr. Kettle Whisk, we've won. Played 30 times for all the shot in the 50s. Okay, so we have this on the tube, off the tube.
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Do you don't get a seat or you do get a seat when you're back on?
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I decide not to fight the good fight because I'm getting off the next stop, I say.
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Where are we alighting? We have alighted at Covent Garden tube station. Oh, so London.
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Where my fair lady was once seen to be selling her flares. Yeah. And she was still there.
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She's still with us. Well, for where I broadcast from currently is in Dublin. And the next street over is where George Bernard Shaw was born, who wrote Pygmalion that my fair lady is based on.
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So this is the center of the known universe, even if that was a very complicated...
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So yesterday, when you went to Covent Garden, David, and then went back to his hometown, to his home street.
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Yes. You did some sort of George Bernard Shaw pilgrimage. Yeah, that's absolutely what I did.
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Wow. There is some graffiti of some of his famous quotes on the next road over, which I don't think is appropriate.
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And I don't think it's what he would have wanted. No. Is one of them, I would love it if we beat them?
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Is that... Yes, that's one of his quotes. Yeah. The other is, everyone's got a plan till you get punched in the face.
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Yeah. That's another of his famous quotes. Also, nobody beats Vetus Garalitis 17 times in a row.
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A lot of the famous sporting quotes. We're in Covent Garden. We've just had some huell.
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So I presume, if you're going to the press day straight away, are you going to...
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There's going to be some little bits of food there as well? Yes, there was some little bits of food.
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So I walk through to the hotel where it's happening. I go past Monmouth Coffee, and I think, I'm going to get a coffee.
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Walk in. Cues. Way too long for a lady who famously has left late. So then...
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And this is willpower. I turn around, and I walk into that hotel. And I've arrived before everyone else somehow.
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And so I sort of wander the hotel for a bit. Then I find some people, and a very nice lady called Mel starts to do my makeup.
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So this, just a little bit of context, because I haven't done many of these in my time.
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No, I think this was a fancy one. This was a really high budget. So it's the launch of this show, and they have invited the people of the press in.
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Mm-hmm. And... Influences. In this hotel, there's also a screening room, and some incredibly good-looking people are also coming to watch it then.
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And this is the show where you are covered in lube for all of it.
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That's what we've established in this series. He honestly is. I know sometimes David likes to, let's say it.
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Lie. Exaggerate. Yeah. What? But he is truly, at all points, covered in lube. Yeah.
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Great. Every evening, it was when you got in your shower, you would say to yourself, I'm covered in new smells and new products, and I'm really going to have to work this carbolic soap to get all of this off.
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And they did say a lot of times that they would explain what the lube was, because they used all organic lube.
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And there was one episode, I guess, where David and I are sort of in a spider's lair, I want to say.
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Oh, yeah. And there was this glue on the floor. And so we put on these little booties and we had balaclavas on.
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I guess so that our hair and feet wouldn't get too stuck to the glue.
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But then afterwards, one of the women, the Belgian women who make it happen, was very proud to tell us the recipe for the glue.
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And it was oil, tree sap, and some sort of essential oils. So actually, should have rubbed it all over our body.
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I've never really thought a lot about lube. But do you think like the all organic lube, that there are people who are, you know, ethically minded, but also like to lube up before nighttime activity and would be like,
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oh, is this organic before we go any further? Or do you think that's a bit of a mood killer in those situations?
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Interruption there. There are dozens of uses of lube. For example, professional cyclists put it on, you know, their nethers before they go, etc.
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Before they fuck their bikes. Yeah. So it's a thousand and one uses. Personally, yeah, I would go for the more natural.
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Are we trying to sweet talk another sponsor into approaching the show? Imagine if like dirty chemical lube came in for this.
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I'm happily saying this podcast is brought to you by the most disgusting lube that has ever been.
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Do you think lube is a byproduct of like some sort of petrochemical thing? You know how like Vaseline is the byproduct of something?
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Like, do you think lube initially was like, they've got, oh, we've got all this gunk that came off the machine.
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What should we do with it? Cover and gamble in it and make a TV show is what somebody thought.
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All I know about it is on Achill Island, where my granny spent a lot of time, there was in the post-war period, there was a shortage of oil, processed oil that was used for soap and lube,
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I would imagine, and candles and things. So they took to catching 30 foot long basking sharks and using their liver to make these products.
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So these products are quite important. How exactly they are byproducts of oil, I can't tell you.
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But I do know if you're ever really caught short, you can catch a shark and use its liver before.
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I cannot believe how casually and coolly you just said basking shark. Yeah. Just your grandmother.
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I assume at the time she was not the age she was when she was your grandmother, but just imagining her as a grandmother catching a basking shark.
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Fun. We're a tough lot for definite. Amy, when you are doing the makeup, do you say to the person, this is what I want?
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You know, is there a fear, especially with sometimes with TV makeup types, like they try to make me look like someone that I'm not.
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They try to make me look like the wolf of Wall Street. Do they contour you?
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They don't so much contour, but they try and do things with my hair sometimes that I don't approve of.
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I can slick it back like Michael Douglas. Do they try any moves on you?
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I think in the past, yes, I've thought I'll just let them get at it.
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And of course, they don't know me or my vibe. So then they sort of give you, as you say, like Love Island lady makeup.
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Oh, yeah. I wish, I wish, I wish I could pull off, but it requires a certain level of confidence to have that much framing, even because what, so they'll do contour,
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which is contour. If you've never watched anyone do it, I must insist you go and find a video.
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They basically take a stick of makeup totally out of your skin range. And then they sort of line your face.
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So like they'll do a line along your cheekbone, a line along your jawline, sometimes a line down the middle of your nose, and then a huge amount on your forehead.
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And then they buffer in. And so initially you're like, this is crazy. I'm going to look absurd.
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And then they buffer in so good. And then you look at yourself and you're like, well, I hope no one looks at me from the left, but from right on,
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I look amazing. So there's a fine line between makeup and ostensibly coloring in, which it sounds like, you know.
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Well, I think it does come from the drag queen community, the contouring. So it is sort of about creating a totally new face, but yeah, makeup is drawing in.
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That's why we like it. Max, do you think if I contoured, we've established in recent times on this podcast, Amy, I have a huge head, massive head, even in the publicity photo for this TV show,
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everyone else has a normal sized head. I didn't notice that, but you are wearing a beanie.
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So maybe it's likely highlights it. It's a big head. But do you think I could contour it away?
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Oh, like, so then you look like a Beetlejuice character. I think if he contours it away, it'll just go to a normal size head.
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I see. I see. Not going all the way down. Yeah. Yeah. I think they can do anything with makeup.
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During the Socrate and Glory years, occasionally the makeup artists would have like one of those airbrush things.
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We just close your eyes. They go. And then I would sometimes, I would never really look at it, my face, because I was just had other things to do.
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And the show would start. And I'd, then I'd notice on camera, I look like Dale Winton, but it was too late.
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You'd have to just do. And the worst is if I then went straight to play football and didn't take it off.
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I would look really like a fancy Dan on the football pitches of Chiswick when I had an orange, an orange face.
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Okay. So how long, so this time does the nice woman, Mel, does she contour you?
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Is this just a bit of powder? What's the vibe? No, she doesn't contour me.
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She gives me a very exciting flick, as we call it, on the eye, like a sort of a fun line.
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She puts some false eyelashes on me, but she does it in this very chic way, which I've not seen before, but I am aware is what they do nowadays, which is not one big chunk of lashes.
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It's like lots of tiny individual ones. Wow. So she spends quite a long time.
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She's lovely, by the way. And I'm really trying to get her to like me.
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I don't know if she loves that energy, but anyway, she's popping lashes, boop, boop, boop on me.
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And then... Interruption. How do they stick them to your eyes? Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
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I think I made that very clear. No, no, internet stories of people misunderstanding which glue they're using and using the wrong glue.
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Oh, araldite. You can imagine. Pritt stick's quite quick, but it's, yeah. Pritt stick's really quick.
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People do pritt stick down their eyebrows sometimes when they're doing full drag and they sort of want to hide their eyebrow and then write, make a new one.
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That's what I mean, David. I think you could contour your entire head down. On this road is a Volkswagen Beetle, one of the sort of 2010 ones.
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And it has eyelashes, plastic eyelashes that someone has stuck to the lights. That's so ugly, but I love it so much.
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I didn't think cars had genders, you know? Well, girl cars have girl genders, but I don't think there's no boy car.
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Does that make sense? The movie cars would beg to differ. But don't, because I don't think men want to drive when men, capital M men drive sexy cars.
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They call them women's names, don't they? They don't want to call them like, Oh yeah.
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Max. Yeah. Wow. I don't know. Sexy Max. I call my Porsche Jeff. And it absolutely flies along.
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Really gets you going. I call mine Gladys. Max, you can't drive a Porsche into the tram lines.
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I don't know where you live. I don't drive a Porsche. Okay. I drive a Subaru.
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And actually Ian has a, my four-year-old has a Australian, Mr. Chicken goes to Australia puzzle.
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Obviously in the middle of it is Uluru. And he called it Subaru. And we're like, okay.
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A Subaru is a lesbian car. Do you know that? I should hope so. It's a classic car for lesbians.
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Oh, really? Okay. So Mel. Max moves on. He's done. He can't be getting into this stuff.
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He's got a broadcasting career. I'm very happy to be driving a lesbian car. Straight to the record.
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It's what I asked for. When I moved here, I said, yes, love, I'll move to Australia as long as my car is a car for lesbians.
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As a, not a lesbian. Am I allowed? Do I need to offload it? Or what's the?
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No, no, no, no. But just don't be surprised if you get a boop from some sort of powerful lesbians in your area.
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Oh yeah, that's fine. I look forward to it. Now, okay. So what happens? So you've had your eyelashes glued on.
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What's happening now? No, David's not arrived. David hasn't arrived for a very long time.
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And I will say this, we are all thinking to ourselves, how's David? Where is he?
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And I keep being like, I think he's flying in from Australia. So we sort of get this image of him coming in from Australia straight.
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Yeah. That would have been cool. To this hotel. Yeah. People have started to arrive.
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Ed Gamble has arrived. There's a pile of pastries. Yeah. I think the pile is too piley.
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So I don't feel confident enough to touch it. Are you expected to be mingling with the great and the good who are here at this?
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We never got told to mingle with the influencers. And I don't know if they wanted us to.
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But the influencers, I guess, haven't actually arrived yet in this timeline, but I'm chronically online.
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So I did recognize a lot of them. And I was hoping to get some FaceTime with some influencers and just chitter chatter about the online, you know, because I know about it and I'm on it.
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Hang on. There's you and the stars of the show. You, Ed Gamble, Doddles when he arrives and some other comedians.
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Make them wait. That's what I say. I want a big entrance. So you're in one corner of the room by the giant pyramid of croissants.
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And then the other side of the room are sort of some young people doing TikTok dances.
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That's sort of... So we're in a sort of separate room, which is very beautifully designed with fabric wallpaper that is also the curtains.
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So it's sort of, it's like the most beautiful, I don't know, padded wall you've ever seen.
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Yeah. So it's like, you know, for beautiful, crazy people. So that we're in this room with the pile of croissants and Mel Goodrick is here.
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She's getting her face done. She's the host of the show. She's fantastic. She's a pro.
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She's wearing a shirt that she's brought for the occasion. And it's not really a shirt.
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It's a kagool. Would you say, David? A zip up kagool from C&A that she's got online that is multicolored and it just says fun.
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Right on Mel. Yeah. This is a professional. And she's brought options. I can see that she's brought options, but every option is silly in some way.
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One has it. There's a jumper with lobsters on it. It's very good. You're dealing with a real pro here.
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And later on in the day, there's a point where you have to stand in front of a green screen to make some online content.
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And all they said was, don't wear green. And I look down and I'm wearing a green t-shirt and green trousers.
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So I'm just a floating head. And that's what you don't want to be, David, is a floating head because that does draw attention.
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To the head. To the head. Yeah. Or maybe it makes it better because then you're just like, well, I guess the body is probably the right size.
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Thank you. So when do you actually have to do something? When does someone say, go to this room and talk to the Daily Express about your...
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These famous people, Max, they do nothing. Oh my God. I will say, I was quite tired at the end, but then I was like, why?
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Also, I used to work in TV and it is funny to be handled because I used to be the handler.
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Got it. So some very, very nice people there from the channel, I guess, whose job it is to like move us around.
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And I keep going to the toilet. And as I'm going to the toilet, I'm like, why am I frustrating this young woman?
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Let her live. But I did need to pee. But then I suddenly was like, wow, to be handled is weird.
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And they are clipboard and earpiece. Yes. Yeah. I mean, they're more charming than that image shows, but yes.
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You haven't had any breakfast. Thank you for noticing that because I'm realizing that too.
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And this is probably why I said what I said to the influencers. I've had my huell.
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And then we eventually go up for a sort of, this is the room. So we get ready and we get taken up to this other room.
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This is where the influencers are. They are doing spy games that someone has set up for them, which we then, we did not interact with, but I would have loved to.
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And so they've built a sort of room with games and stuff in it for them to do.
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But there's a load of sandwiches, tiny sandwiches. Sorry. Interruption. How tiny? I mean, like in afternoon tea, tiny slice.
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So two fingers. Yes. I'd say you'd get, you know, the way with the sandwich, normally you go triangle or halfsies.
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These are thirdsies with the crusts removed. So cucumber, what flavors? Okay. Thank you for asking.
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Cause initially I look at them and I'm like, I don't know if this is going to be good.
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Like, cause sometimes when they've been out like that, they kind of get crusty on the side.
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I was wrong. This is a fine establishment. We're talking cucumber and, I think actually not cheese, coronation chicken.
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Bit early for that, but nice. It's a nice sandwich. Surprise winner for me. Interruption.
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David. Is that a celebration of the coronation of the previous queen of England? That's why I told you, you couldn't eat it.
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You know, you're doing well when a sandwich is named after an event in your life.
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And it's weird when they were like to celebrate our queen, we're going to mix up some chicken with some raisin.
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Yeah. I'm wondering if that will happen to me at any point, whether any life event will be commemorated with a sandwich.
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What would the sandwich be? Well, I've quite boring taste. By coil. It would have to be by coil.
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No, maybe something like courgette, like a courgette that's been fried in olive oil and put on pesto, something like that.
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That's the bougiest thing I've ever heard. Just a normal sandwich. We have different concepts of normal sandwiches.
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So you've done nothing so far, Amy. That's what I'm going to say. You've just arrived.
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You've been beautified. And now you're standing. No, no. Cause I've really made that makeup artist talk to me.
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So I've done that. I've welcomed friends in not you yet. Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders.
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I've gone to the coffee shop whilst everyone else is getting made up to buy a fancy coffee.
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Yes. They keep offering me coffee. I say, no, I want Monmouth coffee. What are we having?
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Oh, well, I'm having an oat flat white and they used to not even let you have oat milk in this cafe, which I really, I respected at the time, but I'm glad that they've capitulated on that,
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but they do have a crazy system where I have a keep cup, but I'm going to get a coffee for Lou and Nish, who has also not yet arrived.
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And people keep asking me where he is. And I keep going, I never know.
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Because you are, he is your partner. Allegedly. Yeah. Okay. Fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's my partner.
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And to be fair, we do live in the same house. But you don't leave at the same time to go to the thing.
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No, because I've got to get beautified and he. Has to go to the toilet.
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Go to the toilet. Most listeners would expect that. Yeah. One of us to say that.
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There is an honesty to that. You know, it's like, he do be shitting. We all know the 30 seconds.
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You must know it better than anyone else, but we all know the 30 seconds. David says, I'm going to do a podcast with sort of the aunt to my deck.
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And Nish, would you like to do one of the first episodes? And Nish goes, yeah.
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Yeah. I've got something to talk to you about. And he did. He really did.
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And what this is, is you can't just get a takeaway cup. You have to buy a keep cup.
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So they don't do. How does everyone know about Monmouth coffee? Is this another one of your London things?
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It's like Charles and Eddie. If you know, you know. Is Brian May in there just playing some of Bohemian Rhapsody on his own?
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Just more London stuff. He is actually this time. Yeah. He was in the corner, but he kept talking about badgers.
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It was really ruining the vibe. And actually he was singing his debut single, Everything I Do Is Driven By You, which, you know, he's not allowed to sing any of the Queen stuff in Monmouth coffee.
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In Monmouth coffee, this place that we're hearing so much about, you have to buy a keep cup.
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So they do a deposit where you pay five pounds and they give you a keep cup.
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That is, looks like a normal cup, but it's hard. It's quite chic. And then you pay five pounds and then you bring the cup back and you get the money back.
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And I think five pounds is like, it's cheap enough that you might be like, well, a keep cup for five pounds is quite good.
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But then it's, it is enough that I did bring both cups back and someone had thrown one of them away because it just looks so much like a cup.
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You think I'm not digging through this bin? I'm digging through this bin. So I'm in full makeup.
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All the influences are around me and I'm going through the bin. This is good.
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This is the first time perhaps anyone's going through a bin. Now I'm guessing as bins go, it's not, it's not like a family bin with nappies and detritus.
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It's just sandwich plates and there's nothing too bad in the bin. But I would have still gone through a family bin.
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Good. I like family bin as a demarcation between good bin and bad bin. But yes, family bin.
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I mean, I should have said no family bin is not as bad as big oblong.
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Street bin. Street bin. Yeah. That's the worst bin. Would I have got into a street bin?
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Hard to say. I could see Amy Siegel style going out at side on, where you just sort of take a mouthful out of the side.
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And then that really violent kind of head backwards and forwards to try and pull some stuff out.
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No, but we're thinking about different bins. That's your thinking of the kind of like a sort of four letterbox bin in the street.
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I was thinking more of one of those enormous ones on wheels that you like might have as like a big communal bin on an estate.
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Oh, yeah. Would you climb up? Because you'd probably have to get like a ladder or a chair to stand on.
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Yeah. What's your bin limit for a keep cup? This does sound like a storyline in one of our escape rooms.
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In the show, The Way Out, which we are in, and people should, I guess, watch on the Dave channel.
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No. What's it called, David? You and Dave. You. No, it's just called you. Oh, shit.
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Is it? They kept trying to get me to say, they kept saying stream free on you.
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And I kept saying stream for free. No, no. Stream free. I said streaming free on you.
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And they were like, nope, it's stream free. I said, I'll say it, but I need you to admit to me that this doesn't make sense.
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It doesn't scan. Stream free. Stream it free? No. Stream free. Anyway, so I got my bin, got my bin cup, got my five pounds back, but I had a very delicious coffee.
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And then, yes, I've done nothing. I go upstairs. I chitter chatter with the great and the great, good.
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And by that, I mean, I go and sit on a sofa and look at the influencers from afar.
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And then I am interviewed by one of them, which is two of them, which is very nice.
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And they are very sweet. They ask me quick fire questions about games. And I take it way too seriously.
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And you can visibly see them be like, just one word answers, please. Could you role play it now?
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Could you ask me and David the questions? Rate these games, Operation, Clue, Doe, and Monopoly.
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Operation's actually shit. Like once you've played it three times, it's shit. Also, they've done a re, the new edition of Operation.
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I think the old version of it. And that's our time. Thank you so much.
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Children used to be able to get their tongue stuck in it. Obviously someone somewhere died on the board game operation or something.
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So there's a new sort of fun version of it that just doesn't quite have that hint of menace.
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Like the old operation would go like, when you touch the thing and the man's nose would go red.
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I'm just not getting that. We did in one of our games in the way out TV show that we're on on stream free on you.
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We had to do an operation style. Oh, the turny. David and I had to move a spanner along a copper wire that electric, well, it didn't actually electrocute us.
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If you hit it, some Nerf guns shot at you. Max, we have a serious job.
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No, I know a lot of the listeners to this probably think that it's just frivolous ivory towers that we live in.
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Well, I say to them, have they ever been hit by a Nerf gun while making a spanner touch an electrical pipe?
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In Belgium? And it's people are flicking between this and the latest from the Straits of Hormuz and going, actually, if you were to die playing operation, that would be bad.
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And also if you're, if you're driving your ship through the Straits of Hormuz and you haven't hit.
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That is like operation. If you happen to hit one of the sides. Do you think there's a card in operation that they say, I'm sorry, they didn't, they didn't make it.
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I'm so sorry to tell you, we tried everything we could. Exactly. Yeah. When I play operation, I put a do not resuscitate sign.
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Very bleak. That's how you win. That's how you win. Okay. So you do these influencer stuff.
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And now what? What's happening? I think Lord Davidee might have arrived at this point.
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Here he is straight in from Australia. Beep, beep, beep, and I've got sort of just a leather waistcoat on.
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Yeah. Sort of a leather cowboy hat. That would be hot. Don't knock that until you tried that.
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I think that would be great for you. The place goes crazy. I give everyone a furry kangaroo balls, key rings.
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Yeah. The influencers love it. Yeah. And they definitely know what's going on. David arrives and he is wearing a very fetching orange jacket, which.
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I know the jacket. Yeah. The chore jacket. It's very chic. Like a little collar pockets.
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Nish, our teammate and friend is wearing a blue version of that. And they are both wearing cute caps.
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And it does appear planned. A sort of Mario brother vibe. Yeah. It is. Mario brothers, but in LCD sound system.
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Yeah. Okay. Perfect. One with a massive head and one who's constantly on the toilet.
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But that aside, it's basically is. It's Mario brothers. Okay. It does appear like we're non-identical twins.
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And our brother has cutely dressed us on this occasion. That charms me for, I'm going to say about half an hour.
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I'm pointing that out for half an hour. And this is when the milling is kind of occurring.
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But again, none of us have been introduced to any of the influences. So I sort of just look at them from afar.
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And then we have some sandwiches that are very small, that are very delicious. There are scones and I don't have one.
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And I'm still thinking about that. At the end of the day, I believe they were all boxed up.
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Yeah. I got some in my fridge. Various friends of ours stole large quantities of this, which again undermines that you rooting in a bin.
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And then Mel G stealing a box of sandwiches from a launch. These are not the right people.
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Mel G kept saying they freeze really well. Her fridge is just full of stuff she's stolen from.
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I know. I was thinking that. One launch from 2007. When she did this episode, she had, this is our second press day after the, you're not allowed to laugh.
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Oh yeah. What's it called? You're not allowed to laugh. It's called you're not allowed to laugh.
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You're not allowed to laugh. You're not allowed to laugh. You're not allowed to laugh.
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You're not allowed to laugh at anything anymore. Exactly. That's what it should be called.
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Yeah. So do you think maybe she does press days when she's run out of frozen sandwiches?
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Cause that may have been a month or so ago. So she's been living off the, please don't laugh today, Bob Mortimer to this month where she is now getting her escape room lube sandwiches.
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And then in a month we can plot Mel G, she'll be getting some more sandwiches.
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This is why she works so much. Exactly. Just for the press days. So you've had the sandwiches.
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Are you going to talk to anybody? Are you going to tell anybody why the show is good?
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Like surely that seems to be the essence of this day. I know Max, you seem to be misunderstanding the sort of pointless vibe of these things, which is that if someone had said,
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go and talk to them and engage and talk about the show, I would have done it.
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Nobody wants us to do that. I think they understand that that would not necessarily help the cause.
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What they are there for is to take photos, I think. And then most crucially, we all go downstairs into a screening room where they have set up an episode of the show.
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Yes. And we all watch it. And the influencers, maybe they like to be called something else.
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Content creators. Yeah, maybe. The youth, the youth watch it with us. And we are all so relieved that the show is good.
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The show's good. The show's good. They make us all stand up at the end of it and answer questions.
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But Mel's a very funny moment where Mel, one of the influencers is clearly making some content or like has videoed someone saying something fun and is putting it up.
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And Mel goes, bit rude. Someone's on their phone over there. It was like, Mel, that's the whole point of these people.
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It is so charming. It's so revealing of her relationship, I guess, with her children, because so she's talking.
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And also we've been talking for ages and we've all just watched this show. So in some ways let them text.
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So then they're tap, tap, tap on their phone. And Mel goes, Oh, on your phone.
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Bored are you? And I have to be like, Mel, they don't use pens, baby.
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They're not using pens. And then he's very charming, that influencer. And he says he was on Grindr and we laugh and we laugh and we laugh.
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we do laugh. David is great at the press. Is he good at it? Honestly, I don't understand sport very much, but I imagine it was like, um, Oh, here we go.
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Watching David Seaman. Yeah. save a goal. Save a goal. Against. Yeah. Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho. Yes.
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Yeah. That's what it was like. Famously, he really didn't do that. Actually, like, which was quite amazing is like he, he did literally the opposite.
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It's quite amazing that you picked out Ronaldinho and David Seaman. If you'd said Paul Pesca Salido, it would have been absolutely perfect.
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Paul Pesca Salido, of course. It was like watching David Seaman. Paul. Paul coming in from Mr.
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Pesca Salido. Correct. Wow. We now, I was watching a Ronaldinho documentary the other day because.
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I did not think we were going to go here with this. Yes. One thing about living with a man is that you do imbibe things that you might not content media that you might not otherwise.
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And so I watch a lot, a lot of match of the day. And I don't mind that actually, because it's the best bits.
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It's really great show. It's a great show. Love, love, love watching the weird handshake hug between the two managers at the beginning and the end of the.
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Oh my God. There's the tales that they are telling. I love it when they do like a slightly intense hug whisper.
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Yes. Mamma mia. Live for that. I think a lot of the time they're friends, but they can't let the fans know that they're friends.
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So they have to whisper. I remember playing with you in Barcelona in 92. Or. And then they keep moving.
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I'll meet you inside third room on the left. And we will have a few cans.
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Yes. And so Nish was watching my longtime partner. He wasn't pooping at the time.
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He was watching the Ronaldinho documentary. His older brother was a football player for Brazil.
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Was he possibly the Ronaldo that Ronaldinho was the itsy bitsy version? They're not brothers.
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Ronaldo and Ronaldinho are not brothers. No, you mean that is Ronaldinho his name, a sort of a miniatur of his brother's name?
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Yeah. Because it means small. And therefore I know there's a famous Ronaldo. There's two famous Rinaldos.
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It's quite confusing. But the old famous Ronaldo was Ronaldinho the small version of him or of his big brother?
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No, I think that was just their name. Isn't Ino son of? I think it just means itsy bits.
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Anyway, this didn't happen yesterday. So I'm so sorry. That's okay. And we did a lot of football with Walid Ali.
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You know, and I try and keep my football and my yesterdays apart. I'm so sorry.
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I am desperately trying to, you know, entertain you. So watching David O'Doherty field questions, work a panel, sort of maintain a light, but an easy breezy vibe in a dark room on a very sunny day,
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was like watching Ronaldinho play with his older brother for Brazil. I have chaotic jet lagged energy, which is actually ideal for something like this.
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So for example, when all of our names are read out, everyone claps, but I boo when Mel's name is read out.
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Just it's funny, the idea that I have a vendetta against Mel Gettroy. You actually boo the woman from UK TV saying, of course, we loved working with Mel on her hit TV show.
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And you went, and then I was thinking that's charming because I don't think they renewed that show.
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So I thought, I wonder if that's you. Oh shit. Pooing the man. Okay. So this screening happens and then have we been here?
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It feels like we might've been here for either 20 minutes or seven hours. You're talking about this podcast?
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You don't understand the concept of time. So I don't know if you know what time it is at this stage of proceeding.
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The only thing I'll add to this timing wise is at some point, I've gone and put on a white version of the jacket that Nish and David are wearing.
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Because I suddenly realized that the coat I wore in looks a bit like it.
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So I'm hoping that we look like a sort of a flag. Yeah. If we were to lie on top of each other, we would be the Dutch flag.
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Yes. We wanted to look like the Dutch flag, orange, blue, white. So we watched the TV show and it is weirdly good.
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Thank the G Lord. I must say that. Well, thank the editors. Yeah. I'll say that.
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We had no idea whether it was going to be, what it was going to be like, because we were just trying to do it properly.
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Yeah. And they seem to have done a pretty good job. And then we're sent off to do actual interviews.
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Right. Amy, where are you sent? David and I split up. Too much charisma. Yeah.
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Too much David trying to explain to me who Ronaldinho is in one group. We split into two groups.
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I'm with Nish and Ed and David's with Mel and Lou. And we are across two floors.
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Anyway, we split between three people from three different magazines, maybe supplements. I think they were called.
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And they are representing different. One woman is PA, which I found exciting. Press association.
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The news wires. So it can be like breaking news. Yeah. That's what I kept saying.
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I was thrilled to meet someone from the PA. Are you kidding me? Straight with Hormuz again, you know, then there's another one where we talked to two different journalists.
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One has a dictaphone in an iPod sock and I get very overwhelmed. So I'm with Mel.
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So Mel is kind of all they really want from my experience of this scenario is Mel to say something rude about Bake Off.
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So then there's your headline. You know what I mean? Like good riddance says Mel or whatever.
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So the same question is effectively put to her many different ways about, do you still watch it?
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How do you think it's going? And all of that. And she is so deft in giving them nothing.
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It's a beautiful, in a really polite way, just being like, what a wonderful time it was.
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And I'll be honest, I never really watched it when I was in it. So I haven't been keeping up with it recently, but whatever I see, it always puts a smile on my face.
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You know what I mean? And it's just like, wow, this is a master at work here.
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I guess our version of that was them trying to get Ed to talk a bit about traitors.
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Oh yeah. Nothing as salacious as, you know, slams, bake off. I could just keep saying that I'm in the Epstein files and they would be like, I'm back to Mel.
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I feel conflicted, David, because it's not your yesterday. I'm sorry. No, but it's happening at the same time and we're in the same space.
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I understand that, but I'm thinking of the purist listening, going, well, Amy wasn't in the room with David.
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There were some people that would accept that kind of anecdote, but there'll be others furious going, David and Mel were not part of Amy's.
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This is Amy's day. And David has lots of days on this podcast. But I would say that in this instance, that's much more interesting than what was going on upstairs,
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which was sorry to the purists, but upstairs, it was just Ed and Nish made a series of jokes about Fritzl.
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And visibly everyone was like, well, can't do anything with that. Yeah. So then they clock in for a little bit and then they clock back out.
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Cause at some point they're saying, who would you want to be trapped in a room with?
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And unfortunately that's of course going to make someone, not me think of Fritzl. But then we do start to think of people who are famous for being in enclosed spaces.
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So of course we're talking about Hitler. Of course, we're talking about Hussein, Saddam. We're just thinking of the people in the enclosed spaces that you might not want to be with.
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David Blaine was in a box. And I went to see that when I was a kid.
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Really? And it was weird. It was so weird. He was in a glass box hanging by...
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Tower Bridge? Tower Bridge or Tower? Yeah, Tower Bridge. Where the mayor's office is now.
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Do you think you'd ever be like, you know, you're all in this illusion and we all work funny jobs, but at some point in the box, he must've thought this is weird.
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He's in the Epstein files now. Well, don't just be saying that, Amy. Absolutely. Back check yourself.
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Back check yourself, girl. So David Blaine, to the listeners, was a sort of 90s magician friend of Leonardo DiCaprio's.
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He was in the Pussy Posse. Was initially... Excuse me, sorry. For what? He was in the Pussy Posse.
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I wasn't, so no, I don't know what. You were not in the Pussy Posse?
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Pussy Posse, a phrase that never has been said in my accent with my lisp before.
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Pussy Posse was David Blaine, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, me, David Seaman, and David Odocherty.
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Right. And it was like a famous gang of... Lovers. Dweebs who... Lovers who were out and about.
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And then, you know, Molly's Game, that movie with Jessica Chastain about poker. No. Oh.
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Are the Pussy Posse all in it? Yeah, yeah, it's basically, she's a very beautiful woman who's very good at maths and she runs a poker game and there's a character in it that is basically Tobey Maguire.
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So he becomes like a sort of player on the scene who plays a lot of poker.
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Anyway, Pussy Posse, David Blaine, continue. I was getting my Maguires muddled up and I thought you meant Sean Maguire, tags from Grange Hill and I was very excited for a while that he managed to worm his way into this posse.
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The thing about the Pussy Posse is it was filled with quite random people. So you know what, maybe he was.
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It's possible. Tobey and Sean Maguire and he played an Irish person in maybe EastEnders?
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Tobey Maguire? No, Sean Maguire and he was quite a promising footballer, I believe. Not important.
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My point was this. What was your point? With Blaine's work, there was a strange mixture of magic but then it became more kind of endurance but then you were also like,
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but there's no way he's actually doing this. Was he in a frozen block of ice over the Thames for a month or something?
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He was in a glass box over the Thames and I think he did do a frozen block of ice and I will say this, he was in the Epstein files.
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So keep it in. Okay. Keep it in. All right. And he was really in it.
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Oh really? Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It turns out that Epstein was obsessed with magic.
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So Paul Daniels? I can't speak to that. I won't speak to that. Check the great Suprendo.
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In 2015, Epstein wrote to David Blaine to ask him to provide a letter of support for a visa application for a woman.
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Why are you asking David Blaine? David Blaine is in a box. He's got no stamps.
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Yeah. He's got a pen. He's the absolute worst person to ask for this. He's got no, he hasn't got his phone.
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He can't check his emails. Absolute daft choice to ask for it. Anyway, we don't have, David Blaine's not in the way out, the TV show that you stream free on you.
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It's just us. He should have asked David Blaine to make his entire past disappear.
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Now that would be an illusion. Okay, so you had these interviews. What time were we at?
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We're without time at this point. We've had a sort of lunch, so I guess we're at 2 p.m.
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Hang on. What was the lunch? It was a series of bowls laid out. Considering how fussy and fascinating the spread was upstairs, tiny sandwiches, scones.
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This was a slightly more motley crew of things. There was a bowl of fried things that I thought were fish, but turned out to be some sort of, what would you say they were, David?
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Dumpling? Vegetable-y things. Yeah, it was like a fried vegetable, but it really had the energy of fish, but it wasn't fish.
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Then there was sliced roast beef. You definitely don't want the energy of fish if you're not a fish.
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But even the presentation was fish, and it had like a sort of tartar sauce.
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I was like, well, this is fish. Yeah. It's not fish. Okay. But Lou Sanders is famously vegan, and there was very little for her.
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So she disappeared for a bit and came back, and she just had a bowl of veg.
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Just crudités. Just raw. Slightly cooked veg, and I thought, you're driving to Leeds later, Louie.
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You're going to shit yourself. Amy went off, went into a bin, came out of it with some jack-o-potato, half a jack-o-potato, handed it to her.
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Yeah. I said, Louie, this is for you. I got it in the bin. I got it in a good bin, a fresh bin, a lovely bin.
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I did actually go back to the coffee shop at that point to return the coffees, and I got another coffee.
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Now, was this a mistake? Because I did have quite a lot of caffeine yesterday.
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Yeah. We're having lunch. We have the roast beef, sliced roast beef. There's a sort of taram salata type spread thing.
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There's a lot of chips, and that's delicious. What else is there? Some fruit, chopped up squares of fruit on tiny sticks, and it's on a big plate and they've layered them.
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So there's two in a row, but from the fool's eye, my eye, I think it's one huge, long stick of fruit.
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Oh, yeah. So I go with the sort of, you know when you're trying to pick up a cup and you think it's filled with something, but it's actually empty, so you pick it up with the wrong energy?
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I go to pick up this fruit stick, which I believe to be the world's longest fruit stick, with the energy of someone who's going to need some heft.
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And it's tiny, it's small. I'm throwing fruit around the room. Yeah, shoots up, stabs Ed Gamble.
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Stabbed Ed Gamble, and he dead. It's a very bad David Blaine sort of sawing a lady in the car.
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My illusion. What I can do is take, I can give the image of a large fruit skewer.
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There's two small fruit skewers. But only one lady from the Radio Times sees it, and she doesn't say anything.
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Right. And I think that's so chic. So I am now, I mean, this is not my yesterday, but this is where our yesterdays do disconnect now, because I will only be there for a short time because I am flying back to Dublin.
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My vibe is rapidly starting to decelerate as I run out of energy, having been at my peak, maybe at eight o'clock this morning.
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When you weren't even there. So you do some more interviews then? Did you do the interview with the nice woman from Scottish TV?
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Yes. Very glamorous lady. Very glamorous. And she is interviewing us. And she's really jolly.
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And then the mistake of that only is, and then we are all a bit too jolly.
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And I, again, don't think she can use any of that. Because it's all about Fritzl.
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Fritzl. We'd moved on from Fritzl at that point. A wise choice. I made the mistake of saying to Nish and Ed before it starts, let's not talk about Fritzl in this one.
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But then Ed, of course goes, well, you've reminded us of Fritzl. And I'm like, sorry, I don't think this is on me.
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But then I don't want to be a party pooper. So then I bring up Fritzl.
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In my interview with her, I used it as an opportunity to do what I think is my perfect posh Edinburgh man accent.
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I heard this. David, you can talk about this because I was in the other room and I heard you do this and I heard her laugh mirthlessly at you.
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Yeah, it got nothing. You think you've got a perfect accent, Max? We're very excited to have you back this year, David.
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Like, it's perfect. And yeah, she got nothing. She's literally thinking, well, I'm not putting that on Scottish TV.
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Yeah, fair enough. I do remember this because I remember thinking, huh, I thought Scottish people would let an Irish person try to do their accent.
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No. No, because I was on tour, I've been on tour with Aisling B recently and I opened for her but she goes on and says hi first and she'll often do the accent of the place we're in.
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And I am always backstage being like, I would never do that because I am so Southern English that the idea of me coming out and trying to do a Liverpool accent.
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Yeah. They would hate me but they find it very charming when she does it and she's good at him which probably helps.
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Yeah, everyone loves when I do it with the exception of this woman from Scotland.
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But that was a big moment of my day, me thinking about the fact that I would never do an accent to a person and Irish people do it and they get away with it is what I was thinking.
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Max has been holding back an Irish impersonation until recent episodes of the podcast where he occasionally will do me saying something.
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Pretty good, yeah. Well, it's just the most basic. It's like he's never met. It's like we haven't spent the last two years talking to each other for hundreds of hours because it's just,
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it's a desuad. It's worth pointing out as well is that the other podcast I do, I have an Irish co-host as well.
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So I spend my whole time and that's why I have it completely down pat.
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But I'm not, I'm not a performing monkey for you. I'm not just going to go straight into it.
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Could you be David? For you, I absolutely could. Do you know what I mean?
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There you go. See what I mean? Could you do David trying to help Mel Giedriyc out of a question about Bake Off?
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Well, you don't have to answer that now. It's pretty good. You don't know who said that.
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Was that me or David? You just don't. I didn't expect the energy of it and I really liked it.
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Do you have any Irish in you, Max? Yeah, I do. Yeah, I do. I just want to know his, because you do have quite a big head.
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That's very kind of you. I was just thinking, Ashley B doesn't do that in every country.
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There are some countries where I, she can't. I've not left the country with her.
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So. You haven't done the tour of, I don't know, like some parts of, you know, the West Indies or something.
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That would be not, I just can't imagine Ashley B like kicking off with that.
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But maybe she would. Well, I don't know, but she'd get away with it if she did.
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What has gone hugely viral recently in the West Indies is a Cork politician. Yes.
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He's really angry in the Dáil, in the Parliament. And so the initial comments are like, why is he doing an impersonation of a Jamaican accent?
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Yeah. And then people are explaining. That's his voice. He's doing his accent. Yeah. But then you've got to assume dark history.
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Certainly some, yes. Okay, fine. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. It's lovely. It's a beautiful moment of connection.
1:03:33 - 1:03:41
Classic Amy Annette there. Yeah. So, right. So you've done some more interviews. When are you getting out the hell out of this place?
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Oh my God. Good question. Because I thought we would be done, but we're not.
1:03:44 - 1:03:49
Then we have to do, I do the promo thing that we were not meant to wear green for, green screen.
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So you go back down into the screening room where they've set up a huge green screen.
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You walk in, it's really dark because they've set up for this green screen. One person says hello, but then as you sort of enter into the gloom and your eyes adjust,
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you realize that there are 10 to 12 people in this room all silently dotted around. Yeah.
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And so then I keep going, how many of you are in here? Which I don't think they expected me to do.
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But I was like, you can't ask a lady to walk into a darkened room and then just suddenly see that there is a man holding a boom mic in the corner,
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hidden from her before. So anyway, they find me vaguely charming. I'm the first one to do it.
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So I think they have more space in their heart for me. They give us a jacket, which is sort of like the uniform that we wore in the show.
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And I'm wearing a sort of chiffon top, a black shiny thing with a big collar and it looks crazy under the jacket.
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So then I go and get changed and then I go to the loo again.
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I cannot be handled on this show. And so then I come back to the room and I feel like I've taken too long.
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So then I want to be word perfect. I want to be quick. So we're standing in front of a green screen and in front of us is a green block.
1:05:01 - 1:05:10
Yeah. And they show you on the screen. It does look quite cool. It looks like an Instagram square and it looks like you are standing in Instagram and it would,
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sorry to say, Harry Potter moving portraits. But what they want you to do is talk down the lens and then climb over the green screen in front of you, which is low.
1:05:20 - 1:05:28
So it looks like you're escaping the Instagram picture. Ah, I see. Clever. And they do say at one point, do you want to try climbing over the thing?
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And I look at it and I'm like, I immediately nearly fall over. Of course.
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Yeah. Because it is actually quite high and I'm famously shorter than I think. So that's not a great start.
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So then a woman called Pam introduces herself and she's like, I'm here to help you over in case you fall.
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And I'm looking around the room and I'm like, I don't want to be rude, Pam.
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You seem like a lovely lady. You are the smallest woman in this room and all around you are some of the biggest men I've ever seen.
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And why is it Pam's job to catch me? Stunt coordinator. It's stunt coordinator, Pam.
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I think she might also be not a stunt coordinator in real life. But anyway, God bless Pam.
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Yeah. So then I'm hopping over the thing and they want us to say it's comedians versus escape rooms.
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And I have a lisp and I don't fully understand the syntax. And so I cannot say I try so hard but I keep going.
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It's some comedic. Oh, no. Like I just, I think the word that's throwing me is versus, versus, versus.
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And so, you know, we do get there eventually but what I decide to do to make up for that is really act scared.
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So then, because they say, you know, they're going to be like burning embers behind you so you're escaping this room.
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So I do a lot of big, big eyes left and right. And I sort of creep out and then I offer them something they did not ask for which is I finish saying the sentence and then I disappear down.
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Yeah. Behind the block. You're acting too well for, what's something that they had factored in maybe a 20 second thing and you are literally asking them what your motivation is for this mindless little thing that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I take my craft real serious. And also, I find it funny to have to confidently say sentences that don't make any sense.
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It's comedians versus escape rooms. It reminds me a bit of sometimes you'll see an ad for the Formula One driver just holding a white sign that Santander Bank can then afterwards put anything on.
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So it would be Jensen Button is standing there and it'll say like students getting ready to go back to university.
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Look at these rates we've got for you and the Jensen Button is advertising a two and a quarter percent on overdrawn credit.
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You know, where Jensen hasn't come in for all of these. I have a similar fear with us.
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They could do anything because this is a green screen. I mean, they could make Oh, yeah.
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But also, what they want is you should just do the thing. But there's something, I don't know, whenever I'm asked to do a thing, I'd want to give them more than that.
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And they're like, no, no, just say the fucking words because we've thought about this and it's like, you know, when it's all put together it'll make sense.
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But you want to have lots of like relative clauses to the sentence which clearly won't be included.
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But you don't end when they want you to end and then they know that you're in but then there's like lots of other people are going to come in and do exactly the same thing and they'll be like,
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this will never work in the edit. There's a thing that plays at the start of this podcast, Amy, the podcast, there are millions of them where Mars Bar had given us a rough this is what we want and boy,
1:08:36 - 1:08:47
like there were versions of that that were probably six to ten minutes long. Okay, we'll do that again but I had a 20 second idea for it.
1:08:48 - 1:08:55
Yeah. Okay, so you do the green screen, Pam helps you and then you leave that room and now surely you're free to go.
1:08:55 - 1:09:03
No, I have to do one more interview upstairs with the nice Scottish woman because we're in and out of things.
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I hear David try to do his accent. Oh, fellow Scottish lady, I am a Scottish man.
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Yeah, yeah, she goes, yeah, okay. And she reacts as well to that. She actually reacts worse to the accent than she does to Nish and Ed talking about Fritzl.
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Just FYI. That might make it to Scottish TV but David's accent won't. Listen, we've got to choose between the accent and Fritzl.
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What are we going to do? For some reason, I don't love this about myself.
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I decide to try and do the opposite and the only person I can think of who is the opposite is Bill Bryson.
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Of Joseph Fritzl? I just keep talking about how I'd like to hang out with Bill Bryson.
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It's a good, like, you do want to be the opposite of Joseph Fritzl, don't you?
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Yeah. He's a great compliment to Bill Bryson. Yeah. I don't think he'd describe himself as the anti-Joseph Fritzl but like it is...
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He doesn't want his name to be in the same sentence if possible. I think you're probably right, yeah.
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But if it has to be, be the opposite. You wouldn't get an email for him saying, look, could you just give me a sentence for the front of the book?
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Yeah. And you say, in every way, the opposite of Joseph Fritzl, Amy and Matt.
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I'm going to buy Curious Tales from a Small Island or whatever. Anyway, let's move on from Fritzl in every way.
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So then, there is a point where it finishes, does feel like it goes on for a very long time.
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I've left one of my bags in a room that Mel Goodrich is having her solo interview in and David's gone.
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David has gone. My favourite moment of watching the episode is where I tell David he's very young and that he doesn't even know who John Major is, which I'm thrilled that they kept in,
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but it is such a funny insight into our relationship, I think, that that's the bit they were like, there's some honesty there.
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Let's put that in the episode. The episode turns on Ed Gamble calls me old man and then it's really in my head for the rest of the episode.
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I keep saying to Amy and Ed because we're twinned together in this episode, I'm not old, am I?
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And she tries to think of an iconic figure from olden times and the best is John Major.
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So Mel is doing an interview. Mel's doing an interview so I can't get my bag and also I haven't discussed with, and Lou is also waiting to get in to get her stuff,
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but I know that she's leaving town. So then I'm thinking, well, do Ed and Nish want to hang out?
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They're doing a separate thing as well that maybe they're doing their promo stuff. So then I'm sort of in, I'm waiting for my bag and I'm in the centre of town.
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So I think, come on, lady, live a life, the outside. Go to the Strand, go and see a show, go and see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Yes, go and see The Mousetrap, which I have seen twice. So I could see it for a third time.
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And I, for some reason, I think I'm going to get a matcha. Oh yeah.
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A matcha drink because maybe because we've been hanging out with influencers all day, but I'm like, I've had two coffees already so I can't buy a third coffee.
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So I think, let me get caffeine in a different way, which is I actually now understand to be as strong, but I didn't know that at the time.
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So then I, on the road that we're on, there's a famous matcha shop. So I go there, get in the queue, then it turns out that the system there is that you order it and then they ceremonially make it in front of you.
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Oh right. So I say, the matcha please. And she asked me some follow-up questions which I don't know if I answer correctly.
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And then she gets a golden bowl, pours in the powder, measures it, and then I sort of realise I'm, I'm meant to watch, if you know what I mean.
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Like, I wanted to see some, if Ed and Nisha texted me, but then I realised, no, no, no.
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Oh, I see. You must be present. So then I engage, I watch her, and then I find this very charming and sweet.
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She gets the cup out, puts the ice in, puts the milk in, and then she's like, you know, she's finished the swirling of the matcha with the little, the little wand,
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then she picks up the bowl and then she dumps it in the cup and so much of it goes on the table.
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She's worked so hard, it's so beautiful. Do, do, do, do, do, and then it's, and does she like reference it or just pretend that it happened?
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Great. Doesn't reference it, doesn't even really clean it up, like slightly wipes the cup and I'm like, I think I paid for some of that powder that's on the floor and then she gives it to me and I leave and I thought that was very charming of her.
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Is this always the case with matchas? Is there always, I've never had one, like if you go to just pret a matcha, surely they don't.
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There's no ceremony at pret, is there? Insist that you watch it. You don't have to watch it, but they do, I think if they're making it for you, they do always have to put the powder in and then swirl it for you,
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I think. Anyway, it's very delicious, but then mostly what I realize is I'm just sort of drinking sweet milk, yum, and then I go back into the hotel and at this point I can tell that the people who work there are a bit like,
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well, you're done, so you're not really allowed to be, but I'm like, I'm confident, I've got to sit somewhere.
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I take myself back up to the drawing room, which is where a lot of the business has occurred, which I kind of subsequently understand is for guests only, but I just confidently,
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poof, poof, poof, walk up there. I'm sitting there, drinking my matcha, and a series of some of the worst Americans I have ever seen appear, and they are so beautifully dressed,
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like every woman looks like she's from a Vogue cover. One woman is wearing a sort of leather jacket and matching long shorts in a red, shiny situation, but a gorgeous slicked back bun.
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I mean, these are women. It sounds like the video for Addicted to Love. Yeah.
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It's very Addicted to Love, but sort of real housewives edition. They're all coming together to meet.
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There's loads of them. Couples keep appearing, and they at one point were going to meet in the drawing room, and now they're meeting downstairs.
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I overhear this, because every single couple comes in, they go, are we meeting in here?
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No, downstairs. And they go down. One husband is desperate to use the quote-unquote honesty bar and get a drink before he goes down, and his wife is like, you don't need that.
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And he's like, I paid for it. I'm going to have it. Awful. They're so cruel to each other, and they're so beautiful.
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I can't tell you how hot they are. Every man is in a suit. Every woman appears in this sort of different version of a bougie dress, and then one couple appear,
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and they're having a full fight, and they can, they can't see me, and they continue to have the fight.
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Wow. And that's when I realize I am less than nothing to these people. I am dirt on their shoe.
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I've got to let you know, I'm wearing false eyelashes, right? I still got all my makeup on.
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Yeah. So I think we're looking the same. No, not at all. So they fight about, she goes, it seems to me like you're spending all your time thinking about things you don't want to do tonight.
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And he goes, that's not what I said. You said that. And she goes, you can't tell me what I said.
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And I'm not telling you what you feel. I'm telling you what I'm observing. Oh, this is great stuff.
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So intense. And then right in front of me, I also know that they're having this fight and what they're going to have to realize in a second is that their friends are downstairs because every single couple has come through beautiful,
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annoyed in some way, realizing their friends are downstairs. And so they're sort of in an ante room.
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I'm still very visible to them. And he's going, you always tell me how I feel.
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And she goes, I'm not telling you how you feel. I'm telling you how I feel.
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This is so good. And then I'm in the corner drinking my ice matcha. Like, anyway, then he says the line, which I've heard so many times in the last 10 minutes,
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which is, I think they're downstairs. You should have said, do you think Bill Bryson is the anti-Joseph?
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Yes, that would have really thrown them. But I will, I can't tell you how palpably rich and disinterested in, I know this is so self-involved, but I was thinking like,
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I'm upstairs in the guest bit. I've got my false eye lashes on. And yet you could not consider me to be less of a person that you're having this full argument in front of me.
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And I, it just made me be like, how can, what could I do? Apart from maybe just like flash money at them.
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I'll tell you what happened. They went downstairs and then rats started coming out of their clothing because it was that scene from the witches, Roald Dahl's The Witches, the adaptation of Angelica Houston.
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And there, it turns out they're wizards and witches from around the world. Thank you.
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That's probably what was actually going on there. That would make so much sense. But then wouldn't they be fighting about how they can eat all the children?
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Yeah, but they can't say that in front of you. Right. Wow, we've talked a lot, a lot of anti-Semites on this show, haven't we?
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Why, who else have we had? We've had... Hitler? Hitler, yeah. That's a big one.
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That's kind of the number one one. Roald Dahl and The Witches is, I think, anti-Semitic.
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Oh, yeah. I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, the dark history of the Irish and the West Indies.
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Roald Dahl is an anti-Semite and The Witches is anti-Semitic. I'm ruining everything. I want to be a fun girl, but people keep talking about Fritzl in front of me.
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What am I meant to do? So the lads, lads, lads are now finished. Lads, lads, lads, they fight in front of me.
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Then Ed and Nish appear. Ed has to do a gig this night at Always Be Comedy in London's trendy Kennington and he is fatigued and he is doing a preview and he says,
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would you mind coming to do some comedy at the top because I don't know if I have a full hour, would you do 15 minutes?
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And I'm high as a kite on my ADHD medication, two strong coffees and a matcha and I say, yes.
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And then we leave the hotel and I immediately feel the most tired I've ever felt and I say, I'm going to do this gig but I'm not going to be able to hang out with you in between.
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I have to go home and just sort of be prone for a bit. Interruption.
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Once you decided you're going home, surely the last thing and Ed might be a great friend but there must be a lot of I cannot be arsed now.
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I know and isn't it fascinating that I still managed to do it but I think also some of it is that the gig is in the right bit of London for us and I traditionally drive to it so I'm thinking I'll go home,
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I'll be prone and then I'll drive to the gig but I thought if I went out and had a drink with them I'd be gone.
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I mean it's been such a tough day for all of the people for all of the A&E nurses that listen to this they must be hearing this day and going This is a tiring day and I actually think it's rude of Ed to like request
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that at this late hour. He was being very chic with it and very like you don't have to do it but the problem is is that I'm going to Edinburgh this year and I am bad at making myself do new material so I was thinking this is
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a good way of doing that. Yeah, creep up on yourself with the gig see what comes out record it there'll be a few nice new bits there.
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Yeah, because I'm inherently lazy the only way I make myself do anything is by sort of the deadline of viewership.
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So I go home I'm prone I'll be real with you guys I do one of the great shits I do one of the great shits sorry, sorry I wouldn't normally say that on a pod but I understand this is a safe space when it comes to
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pooping in my house in my house particularly. That is the safest space this is the toilet that defines the podcast yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Did one of the greatest shits of all time because it really releases me from some of the poisons of the day do you ever do that when you do a poo and then you literally be like oh,
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the poison has left yeah, a new person a new person appears I shed my chrysalis and I appeared ready for the gig shedding the chrysalis would presuppose it was actually bigger than you yeah,
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and the chrysalis normally isn't inside you to be honest if the butterfly were to shit out the butterfly butterfly yeah if the butterfly was to shit out the butterfly that's one of George Bernard Shaw's quotes so in that analogy the chrysalis is my corporeal form and the butterfly
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is the shit what you emerge as oh, then the shit flies off to do the gig okay, so I leave my flesh suit at home and my flying shit appears yeah you don't lie down then
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you don't it wasn't really time for lying down I decided I should try and be good at the gig and actually do some stuff I've written down but only ever managed to say out loud once and I'm working on a new idea about boobs which is that
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I think that it is weird that we as a society we love boobs but we hate fat right so it's like the weirdness of having everyone's like oh, I love boobs and everyone's like but belly fat that's disgusting and you're like what do you think boobs is
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so it's just me asking the audience what they think boobs is well, the answer is that boobs are boobs yeah, yeah, yeah well, I'm just I'm saying it's totally fine to love boobs but when you should also equally love like bingo wings like big old arms because like
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what is really the difference and then my guess is that people think it's a different that either they think boobs is filled with air like airbags or they think it's a different kind of fat like a good fat like avocado so I'm spending a lot of time
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in this moment I do one of the greatest shits and then I sit down and I think is avocado the funniest thing to say and I decide it maybe is and certainly I don't have time to think of a new word and then I tend
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to spend a bit of time thinking about I'm obsessed to the fact that RuPaul's very into fracking and I think RuPaul's big investor in fracking and really yeah and people said to RuPaul stop fracking and RuPaul did a DJ set where he just had videos of fracking
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behind him interruption interestingly is that once on TalkSport we had Bez from the Happy Mondays on and he is they said he's a massive Man United fan and we said oh you know Bez is on big Man United fan what do you think of the game today
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and he said I don't want to talk about that I want to talk about how bad fracking is so Bez v RuPaul and a kind of pay-per-view fracking discussion is actually what we all need Max I'm so
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happy that ended with Bez being anti-fracking I actually couldn't live in a world where Bez was also invested in fracking well I think I think what it is is RuPaul has a ranch and on that ranch he lets people frack so
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and basically my conceit is like what is going on in this world where RuPaul's into fracking and then I couldn't think of and I'd be very happy if you or your listeners could help me think of an equally like we live in a world where RuPaul fracks
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what's next blah blah blah oh yeah it's David Attenborough is an anti-vaxxer maybe Cookie Monster runs an AI yeah you know what I mean something that's the thing it's like you know in a weird way like why can't gay people be into fracking it's like more it's just
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the fact of like it's not that it's the opposite it's just that it's so random I guess and a little bit evil random and a little bit evil in the early days of my courtship with the helencopter I once broke wind in bed and I tried to just
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force my butt down into the mattress such that the sound like echoed out of the divan bed and the whole mattress kind of moved and I referred to that part as a fracker you know that they do fracking you yeah you just send seismic things that's lovely
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that she that happened and she was still like yeah this is my number one boy for life well she's pro fracking so she's or maybe they did David did actually extract some oil out of Dublin Helen the goodest woman of all time who works for the people
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in such kind and beautiful ways I don't know how much you reveal about her on your podcast I'm not gonna say what the job is her being into fracking would be funny yeah so that's the answer it'd be like if my friend David's wonderful girlfriend was into fracking
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anyway so I spent a bit of time doing that realised I had to print it out printed it on the only paper I could find which was a spam well not a spam letter like a random piece of junk an estate agent had put through our door
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and then I slightly fucked the gig I got it back but I weirdly started the gig by reading what was on the other side of the paper oh are you thinking of selling we're looking for similar properties in the area yes but I've never seen this before
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they named two people who were looking they said Rydian and Arla are builders who would like to take on a project I said keep Rydian and Arla out of my life please so I was very overwhelmed by that so then
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I got to the gig drove to the gig parked quite badly I'm gonna say I had my back wheel on a double red line was thinking about that for quite a long time once Ed took to the stage I left the gig parked the car properly came back
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upstairs but it was very nice ABC is a wonderful gig in Kennington they are very charming they knew it was an Ed Gamble show they knew it was a work in progress so I had very nice beginnings spoke to a man called Bryn who had met his lover
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in Montenegro that threatened to derail the whole thing because I'm like I'm not gonna do new material I want to talk about Montenegro Ed Gamble crowd are probably mostly chefs big hats with probably rats recipe loving rats inside the hat so you've got to do rat friendly
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comedy so they can make their people laugh I kept talking about the witches it's also bad if you're in the second row you can't see the hat so high chef hats there yeah and Tom carriage was there and he's just tall and Delia Smith was there and that's
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all the chefs I can think of Hugh Fernie Whittingstall was who was there one of the fat bikers I think they're called hairy bikers I was gonna say the two fat ladies and I was like oh they're dead and then
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I said oh the bikers and one of the bikers passed away move on how did avocado boobs go down thank you it went down pretty well because I wasn't sure if people would think about good fats in the way like that feels like such you know sometimes things
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that are so obvious to you and not obvious to other people yes I don't know if they were laughing at that as much they were just laughing at the surprise of me saying avocado but
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a laugh was had we bail you don't get clamped or ticketed despite having one wheel on the double red yeah I drive back I stop at a co-op that is got a parking lot out the front which is very unusual and so
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it sort of entices me in and I buy the best crisps known to vinegar crisps they are so vinegary and so salty that they burn your mouth and I love them so we eat all of them in the stationary car and then go or as we're driving
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I'm driving I don't eat all of them it's quite a big bag but I do have fistfuls and I do stop at a light and a bus and I try to stop before the bus like behind the bus rather so that the bus driver doesn't see me
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but then because you don't want you don't want the bus driver to know you're eating crisps is that yeah I don't want the bus driver to look over and I'm just sort of fisting crisps into my mouth you filled the footwell of the passenger seat
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in the same way that Isy Suttie filled it with paint you have filled it with co-ops I filled it yeah yeah and like Isy Suttie I will not be cleaning that up I'm just letting that be that's Alice's problem and then
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I actually just to talk about footwell there is a point where I'm braking and something like flickers across my foot and I do think it might be a mouth and then I look down and it is an empty mini eggs wrapper and I have not had mini eggs
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for a while so that's been there for a long time and yes then I get home and I try to film a comedy video because my makeup is so nice and I think I should make a video of myself saying something funny but then I can't think
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of anything funny so then I sort of just go to bed do you dislodge the eyelashes are you worried because during the night the every time you blink I begin a sort of butterfly effect I do take them off and I oh before I go to bed
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I move the desk around in the room I'm in right now which is like my room but it's also the spare room which David has stayed in many times every time David comes I have rearranged the room and I've done it again David I found a new iteration
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very exciting and that's before you go to bed you come in and think this is time to rearrange the furniture and then I do a terrible content where I talk about how I don't like when parents talk to me through their children in supermarkets when they say things
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like I think that lady wants to get by either say to me sorry let me move my dumb kid who's not moving out of your way he's young or say to your child there's someone behind you move but to look me in the eye and then
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be like I think that lady wants to get by no so you do that I just go I think that lady thinks you're a twat I think who's that lady I'm no lady now have you hang on what did you have for dinner I came back and
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I had some chicken and avocado and lettuce and I put it in a bowl I ate it with a spoon is this after you get home this is before the gig sorry this is when I'm I used the spoon to scoop the avocado and then
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I think I don't want to bring another implement into this dinner so I eat the chicken avocado and lettuce with a spoon with a little tiddly spoon no quite a big spoon a ladle a ladle a ladle I use a ladle yeah I use a big old ladle
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hard to get lettuce on a spoon thank you that's why I think it's worth mentioning absolutely here's an adorable thing about me I don't eat that much breakfast cereal these days but I still eat it with a teaspoon oh that is sweet with your big head
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and a tiny shoe it's hours it's absolutely hours right so you've got to go Max I've got to go yes so you're in bed do you just fall asleep like this hopefully yes no sorry sorry for your podcast which you must finish soon I take off my makeup
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Nish comes home he's been at a dinner with James A. Kester and James Kester's dad where I'm sure they've only talked about Steely Dan so I ask him how that went he asked me how the gig went he then
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goes to watch TV and there's a moment there where I'm like uh oh should I go watch TV and then I think no you are so tired so then I get into bed and I look at my phone for an hour and a half and then
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I go to sleep you've got a lot of caffeine slushing around that system so you need I got speed and so much caffeine yeah awesome through my body and adrenaline from doing a gig I wasn't expecting to do so I'm I'm awake what are you looking
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at for an hour and a half mostly Mormon influencers I'm very big into the Mormon community wow we those ladies know how to do the internet but then after a point it just becomes sort of slush like I'm not even really sure what I'm looking at
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I love the Mormon women because they're so keen not to let you know they're Mormon so they'll talk about like their life and their day and their husbands and they have so many children but then
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they and then they're like and and what else do you do and they're like nothing we have our Mormon listener who very much wears his Mormon on his sleeve because he had never heard of movements before so for a while when we were talking about movements I
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think he thought we were using as a slang term for Mormons but then why did he think you're talking about Norway so much Finland Finland but specifically not Japan but he was in Japan where was he yes he was on a bullet train and we were talking about
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putting Moomans up your arse we can't go into it because I've got to be on talk sport in 20 minutes okay do you just then go to sleep yes say yes yes yes and I dream of David what beautiful dreams unfortunately that's a different podcast though Amy Annette
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thank you very much for telling us what you did yesterday thank you so that's Amy's yesterday thank you so much Amy and can I just for the tape apologize if towards the end of the episode I'm sort of rushing things along because as it became clear that this
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was going to be one of a sort of not Ross Noble levels but getting to that stage I was due on air at talk sport I had a contractual obligation to talk about the PSG Bayern Munich game and
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the clock was ticking so like at some point I'm I'm hurrying things along at the end what amazes me though is from the other side of the earth when she mentions is it Monmouth coffee Monmouth coffee immediately you can just walk in there you're basically in the
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room you know the system with the cups I'm still a Londoner David I'm still you can't you can take London out of the man people know like all the podcasters I am the closest to the Bobels of Cockneys but specific coffee shops I mean come on whatever about
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knowing the names of tube stations okay this is even more hardcore than that but like if you are as London as me apart from maybe 18 years in central Cambridge and
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a few years elsewhere for university and now five years in Australia a great man said if you're tired I'm tired and then something about London but I can't remember what it was because I was too tired to remember yeah but it was a good it's an interesting day
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it's our second press junket yeah Mel was in both of them as we established Mel does press junkets to fill her freezer with sandwiches and that's what we've understand she's fallen on hard times but we're establishing this podcast is we need to set up a crowdfunder for
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Mel so she can maybe get some food in a box she can cook because her children are just getting what are we having thawed coronation chicken sandwiches again mom seriously yeah canapes unfreeze the canapes I have never thought about eyelashes as much as I have over the last
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hour and a half that's poor like isn't it to glue them on yeah yeah I'd be like no I don't need I'm happy with what I've got yeah I would say I have never looked at my eyelashes oh really like I have never ever looked at them I
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couldn't tell you like I can see I'm on a camera I'm too far away to judge my I think I have some but I have literally no concept of what they like I have sensational eyelashes because several times hairdressers and
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barbers and makeup people one lady once said I had eyelashes like a giraffe which I believe in eyelash terms is the greatest compliment of all is it how has that hairdresser been high enough up to see the eyelashes of a giraffe that hairdresser has glued many eyelashes
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to many giraffes is that what they do at zoos they someone's in charge of gluing eyelashes to giraffes
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maybe it's just my massive hair means that I have a massive eyelashes as well isn't it anyway thanks David thanks Max