Living With Madeley
"Living With Madeley" is a nostalgic TV based podcast that attempts to take a humorous look at some of the most weird, wonderful and woeful moments in UK television history.
Titled "Living With Madeley" as neither host can remember a week of their lives where Richard Madeley hasn't been on their screens, join Andrew and Liam as they take you on a journey to TV past.
Living With Madeley
Series 8 Episode 3 - TFI Friday (Part 1)
Remember the iconic 90s show TFI Friday? This episode of Living with Madeley promises a nostalgic trip back to the days of vibrant lad culture, cheeky banter, and unforgettable live music. Ever wondered how Chris Evans went from assisting Timmy Mallet to becoming the king of British TV? We've got all the juicy details on his meteoric rise, including behind-the-scenes insights and the story behind that memorable theme tune by Ocean Colour Scene. Spoiler alert: there's more to it than you might think!
Join us, Liam and Andrew, as we relive the electric atmosphere of TFI Friday's unique set design, the unforgettable guest entrances to the Riverboat Song, and the show's lasting impact on pop culture. We're splitting this conversation into two parts due to our excitement and endless anecdotes. This first part sets the stage, sharing our personal memories and plenty of laughs about this emblem of 90s television. Whether you're a die-hard fan or new to the legend of Chris Evans, this episode is a heartwarming and hilarious celebration of a bygone era.
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to Living with Maidly. This is the TV nostalgia based podcast. Hello and welcome to Living With Madeley. This is the TV nostalgia-based podcast, episode three of series eight. I am Liam and Andrew is the other host who's on the line. Good evening.
Speaker 3:Hello sir, how's, things?
Speaker 2:Very good this is. Let's lay our cards on the table. Let's show how it is. This is a re-record of the intro. Because the TFI episode has went on that long, it's become a two-parter. We don't. We try and aim for an hour. We sometimes go a bit over, sorry. We try and cap at an hour, but this has gone well over that. So it's split into two parts, which actually works fairly well because we've both got holidays. So it wasn't intentional. We haven't decided to drag this out in two, but it's just worked out that way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like we planned it, but no, no, we didn't. No, we're not that clever. I mean, in hindsight we should have said like, oh, we'll just stretch this one out, but no, we're not that clever. So this is part one of the TFI Friday episode of Living with Madeleine.
Speaker 1:Living with Madeleine.
Speaker 3:Before we start, shall we play the iconic theme tune to TFI Friday? And some people will be waiting for Ocean Coliseum here. No, no now.
Speaker 2:Well, what do you mean? Who would be waiting for Ocean Colour Scene?
Speaker 3:Well, I reckon if you say I don't know, I reckon off the top of your head. If someone said like, can you name the theme tune for TFI, they'd go Like Ocean Col Cold Scene song. But that's not actually the theme tune.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've confused me a bit. What is the theme?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's not Ocean Cold Scene. Yeah, that's not Ocean Cold Scene.
Speaker 2:No, but what's the one you've just done so?
Speaker 3:Rainbow Song was used as an introduction to every single guest on TFI Friday.
Speaker 3:So Riverboat Song by Ocean Colour City so, as they were, yeah, yeah because what they had to do is they had to walk through the bar. This is why it's like proper 90s, like lad culture. They had to walk through a bar to get interviewed by Evans and that ran background all the time Bam bam, ba-dum, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam bam. But that was because Ocean Colour Scene were the first band to ever play TFI. That was the first song they ever played on it. Did they play that live then for the first time? Yeah well, I don't know if, like, obviously, it might have been out by that point, but that was the first ever live act that appeared on TFI. Friday. Ginger Productions produced this and it's not in service anymore, ginger Productions. But do you remember the Don't forget your toothbrush as well, where there is glasses and like a little ginger sort?
Speaker 2:of, or like a sort of table cloth or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's not going anymore. Obviously it was by Chris Evans. Did you know Chris Evans used to be the assistant to Timmy Mallet? Did you know that?
Speaker 2:No, it kind of seems right, though, doesn't it Pieces fit? I can see it. He had that wacky zany style to him, hadn't he?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah. This obviously came off the back of the Big Breakfast, which we might cover in a later episode. Evans was massive on the Big Breakfast, obviously, I think when we were probably growing up a bit more. It was Johnny Vaughan, weren't it? Yeah, like when we used to watch him, but it used to be Evans and as an everyday, like a weekday morning show.
Speaker 2:And I take it then. So they finished Big Breakfast and then he went on to do this and did no, he went, he did Don't Forget your Toothbrush.
Speaker 3:And then he did this Right, and he was doing Radio 1 at the same time. I mean, he just blew up basically overnight. No one knew who Chris Evans was until Big Breakfast, and then he was by far the biggest. Well, I don't know if he was obviously you can't really class him alongside Wogan and people like that but he became a household name.
Speaker 2:Everyone knows who Chris Evans is, even now yeah, in this era he was absolutely sort of peak lad, wasn't he? Like?
Speaker 3:he just kind of captured that moment, that feeling of woo, lads, lads, lads, even Danny Baker and Chris Evans in particular, were known for it, just kind of captured that moment, that feeling of woo, lads, lads, lads Well, I am Even Danny Baker and Chris Evans, in particular, were known for, and Gazza obviously were known for going out on the town, weren't they? They were always in the papers and there's actually a bit which Eggie I've seen today alerted me to, which I completely forgot about. There was a scene in one of the episodes where they put Gazza in a cupboard before France 98 because they thought we don't want you to get injured, we don't want you to start drinking, we're going to put you in this cupboard and you're not allowed to come out until France 98. Gazza never got picked for France 98 due to his off-field shenanigans, basically because he weren't fit enough, because he forgot they'd left him in the cupboard, didn't they?
Speaker 3:Yeah, imagine that I've been lacking for him and I can't do his accent. I've been lacking for him, but you know, I don't know where he's in. I don't know where he's at. He's just in the cupboard. I'm not now, but we talked about, obviously, danny Baker. He wrote pretty much all the show. All the features were written by Danny Baker. The entire sort of idea was Danny Baker's idea, which I didn't know at all. I found that apparently this was going to be a show for RTV and Jonathan Ross was going to present it, but that didn't happen and they got Chris Evans in. And Danny Baker is the genius behind the whole idea of TFI Friday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that doesn't. I mean I knew because you told me in the week I didn't know he was behind it all, but I can well believe it. He is a kind of he's an encyclopedia of knowledge and wit and yeah, he's actually probably a bigger icon than he gets credit for Danny Bakes he's always a hero of mine, purely because of the own goals and gaffs videos and right hammerings videos.
Speaker 3:How many times did you reckon I made you watch them at my house? Like after a night out we'd go back to my house and I'd say, hey, have you seen own goals and gaffs 3 though, Liam, or whatever it was, and you're like oh fuck, no yeah.
Speaker 2:I who scored a lot of own goals as well. Was it Sinclair? Oh?
Speaker 3:it might have been Frank Sinclair they were a Fulham goalkeeper, I can't remember his name and Baker, as you say. And here he is again, the great funny man. I thought I'd throw the ball into his own air. Honestly, Danny Baker's own goals on Gasper, unlike, at that point, any other football video we talked about Jimmy Greaves' last week, where Jimmy Greaves obviously not doesn't know what he's watching going. It's a fanny out game. Baker actually watched on goals, all the footage and like quips and clips at the end of it brilliant on goals.
Speaker 2:I mean. What I say, though, is because he's quite a safe pair of hands these days, danny Baker, but this is quite risky 20 and a half 6 years ago, he got sacked from BBC for making a what people perceived as a racist tweet. Oh right, I didn't know that, yeah yeah, I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was when, as we'll come to and probably get into some of the detail of it soon, but a lot of this. You just couldn't do this today, could you?
Speaker 3:No, no, no way. We talked, obviously earlier about the man in the suitcase theme tune. The guy who did that was Rob Greiner, I think his name was called. I did write this down, sorry and he was part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which I actually saw live, and they did the Doctor who theme tune, the Prisoner theme tune, steptoe and Son theme tune and Tales of the Unexpected, which is something else that we've mentioned, like the weird, like the horrible, freaky music of the Tales of the Unexpected. Yeah, yeah, I'll play a clip here of Tales of the Unexpected again, actually, because I think it's easily one of, like, the most bizarre theme tunes of all time.
Speaker 2:I didn't expect to be playing that in this episode, but yeah, always good to hear, always welcome.
Speaker 3:But I thought for me I mean, obviously this was, this was what 97, like 96, should have said, like when it started. So we were still in school, probably thinking we were cool, just getting into like decent music and sort of like I don't know. Thinking of lads, lads like can't wait to get get chans out, looking at, you know, trying to get underage drinking all this sort of stuff, because like were just that sort of era and this catered to us massively, didn't it?
Speaker 2:Well, no, I don't think it did. I think it catered for. It certainly was aimed at people as a pre-night out show, wasn't it so like?
Speaker 3:before you. Sorry, one of the geniuses of it was that they did play. It's six o'clock at Ustastar, but they used to play again the same night at 11pm. So people like used to come into pubs and stuff like that used to come in from pubs, should I say, and stuff like that did watch it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah no, that's right. But yeah, I remember how old would we have been then?
Speaker 3:so 97, so we'd have been 14 when it came out 97, 14, 15, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it was probably even slightly older than us. But yeah, you probably wanted to like it, didn't you? Because you was kind of quite grown up to watch TFI Friday, I suppose. So I don't know, I'm still not sure on my feelings about it. We'll kind of come to that at the end. But yeah, I don't know if I liked it or not, and I probably liked it more now than I did at the time, I think yeah, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 3:I mean, obviously, like we've gone through this 1997 episode, which is not like a. It's the best sort of like roundup I reckon we could have done, because there's that much that used to go off every week there and you're going to lead the sort of best of episode that we've watched. But there was so much more like going on. For me, tfi were always about like the bands. For me, like they always had the coolest music by and large they were better than Top of the Pops at that point, better than I mean the White Room were on, which were really good as well, but I mean the Word used to have really good bands on and stuff, but this used to have like two or three bands on every week and it were always we're not just talking indie bands as well. They used to have like bowie on and you know people like bjork and you know outside of that indie zone that were obviously dominating the charts at the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I, I kind of in. I in memory I thought it was just all indie stuff. So, yeah, some of the exactly like you said, bjork, I didn't kind of expect that.
Speaker 3:So yeah, maybe wasn't quite what I remembered but if you want to like go through what we actually, well, we watched the obviously the 1997 um, best of what what I want, but I'm gonna go through it step by step, because it's literally clip after clip after clip after clip. But we're gonna like try and use that as a base to to talk about the show.
Speaker 2:So I don't know, I thought you were kind of going to try and use that as a base to talk about the show. So I don't know, I thought you were kind of going to do some background on the show. So I was going to. I don't know if you already know this, but I was going to ask you Is this Riverside Studios, as in Richard and Judy Riverside Studios? I don't know.
Speaker 3:I've absolutely no idea.
Speaker 2:The opening shot is like a sort of riverside on a Docklands. Is this Liverpool? Is this the same as where Richard?
Speaker 3:and Jude did. No, I don't think it was. I don't think it was. If anyone actually knows that, You'd think it's more London, wouldn't you Evans? Yeah, I don't think it was. No, nothing's come up on my Google search just now, my research just now.
Speaker 2:Nothing's come up on my Google search just now, my research just now.
Speaker 3:We cannot confirm or deny? Yeah, we can neither confirm nor deny.
Speaker 2:So the first thing is obviously we get the theme music we pan in.
Speaker 3:By the way, do you like the theme tune? First, it's called man in a Suitcase.
Speaker 2:the theme tune I think it's a great theme tune. I wouldn't listen to it on a CD, I don't think, but I think it sets the tone very well, what about the Riverboat song? Are you a fan of that?
Speaker 3:Eh take it or leave it.
Speaker 2:You're not a fan of Ocean Core, sam yeah, go on, I like their big hit. What's their big hit?
Speaker 3:The day we caught the train. Don't sing it like that the day we caught the train.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like that yeah it's a good song.
Speaker 2:Salve TG Oak.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:Well, that actually features later on in this. But yeah, I do like that song and, as you said, we start with Lenny Kravitz live and with Lenny Kravitz live and the camera kind of pans around and, as far as I'm aware, this is a real kind of club bar that he's just kind of sat at the back of doing some interviews, because it certainly looks very authentic. I always assumed it was that this is happening A live band people can get drinks and watch it. Some of the sort of either lucky ones or the ones who get there first have managed to kind of get up and around where he's doing the interviews, but it kind of could be the lead mill, really, couldn't it? Like it's the same people around all all having a drink by the way, like there's no, I suppose it's a risk they took because it's seemingly it's just a bar where people can drink what they want.
Speaker 3:I don't know if it was totally live up until Sean Ryder swore, which we'll get on to, but it was totally live, like by six o'clock as well. People pissed up people. You're in the background. You don't get that on the one show, do you, mind you? You might now with Gina's, to be fair. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then we get a kind of quick sort of cut scene of various different things coming up and that have happened in this particular year, and one of them that made me laugh is that Ron Atkinson and Richard E Grant both crabbing by the throat- Evans.
Speaker 3:It's like it's ridiculous. I did find really, really funny that one of the first guests, the first guest, the show Lenny Kravitz, like this is the best of 1997, the show Lenny Kravitz doing um's Fly Away, isn't it? I wanna fly away. No, I don't think it is that is it not that one, I don't know as soon as I hear like think about Lenny Kravitz. That is the song I don't know.
Speaker 4:I think it's too early for that it might.
Speaker 3:But anyway, whatever it is, it's one of the one of the Lenny Kravitz songs, but the first guest the best of 1997 is Ron Atkinson.
Speaker 2:Comes strolling out and he I mean Richard E Grant is a bit of a mock pretends to grab him by the throat Atkinson kind of almost sort of picks him up by his head almost. I don't know what he said or what intro he got, but we never see any more of that. So that's enough of that. We've got Anna Freel in the studio.
Speaker 3:Freel, isn't it? Yeah, I think she was still on Brookside at the time. First ever lesbian kiss obviously a massive TV moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she would have probably been one of my favourites around this era as well.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:I think so. Yeah, and there's a lot of these kind of cut gags where they cut to and they say oh, by the way, is this your dad? And he stood outside a garage and then they'd drop a fridge on him. Obviously it's edited to look like he's got squashed by a fridge, but there's loads of these little cutaways, of little sort of gags that happen over the space of 30 seconds.
Speaker 2:I don't know about you but I thought there was certain influence in in and they probably hate this. But um stuart lee and richard herring, like little cutaway sketches, and also Harry Hill, where, like the funniest thing that happened on TV this week, like three second clip and it's gone.
Speaker 3:But at the same time you've got to remember like, say, this is prime time. I know it's Channel 4, which is not obviously one of the main three channels or whatever it was at the time, but I do think this is really unique for the time it was quite like.
Speaker 2:I do think this is really unique for the time it was quite like think about what you just said, then I'm not sure if channel 4 was one of the three channels we had at the time.
Speaker 3:Channel 4 was the first channel one of the main three channels sorry yeah, rephrase that, I've had a few like Baker Evans and Galveston, and I'm at my best today. But yeah, what I mean is like obviously it wasn't BBC, you won't get away with this on bbc one, I don't think.
Speaker 2:But no, no way you don't need to get away to be doing the news news at six at this time, wouldn't they all?
Speaker 3:yeah, and this had like just loads of piss. People in a bar with really really really cool guests like not sort of cool, yeah, but like big names as well. This is as soon as I like found out that this was like sort of devised by Danny Baker. It made complete sense. I think what they wanted to like get from it is this is just you watching him and his mates in a pub.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, I'm not sure that you would kind of shout out in the way that they do if you didn't know him, because I think you're at risk of him saying like get out, stop shouting, can you?
Speaker 3:imagine if it was really serious, like no, honestly get out. They're like the officers here Like I won't hang on a person. No, honestly get out, yeah right.
Speaker 2:It's just like they're all like, ah, shut up.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they were told to do that or if it is people who weren't in the but the Big Breakfast were a little bit like this in the sense that. Yeah, this is a bit more rowdy though, isn't it?
Speaker 3:But at the same time, you remember the Big Breakfast where Evans, or even Johnny Vaughan and late years would say something, and all the people who were there, like the producers yeah, but that was the crew, weren't it? They were all in on it.
Speaker 2:This seemingly, is members of the public having a beer. I mean, that could have gone very wrong, couldn't it? But yeah, another bit of music. And again, because this is a best-of show and this is why, in hindsight, maybe we should have just picked an episode, but it cuts, so we now get a bit of garbage doing Stupid Girl. It's only a 30-second clip or more.
Speaker 3:I've written this down because I thought clip or most. I've written this down because I thought is this one of your songs? Liam, this seems like one of your songs. No, do you know what I really?
Speaker 2:disliked it at the time.
Speaker 3:I'm really surprised by that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if it got overplayed, I don't know for what reason, but I never liked this at the time. But actually when it came on I thought this is actually really good. I've not heard this in years.
Speaker 3:I think she sings this unbelievably well live.
Speaker 2:She sounds exactly like the recordist Well this is one of the questions I had for you, and I'm assuming it is, but to me, everyone who sings on this looks like they're singing live. Is that, do you agree?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, completely. I mean, obviously there might be some oddities in there, but everyone's singing live and I'm not a fan of this song, but I thought, shirley Manson, she sings this like unbelievably well, Exactly.
Speaker 2:Fantastic live performance, absolutely. And then we come to the first controversial part of the show. Should I say and freak or unique? I mean that's what it is. Yeah, and for anyone who doesn't remember it or hasn't seen it, this is where they used to get people on and decide if they were a freak or unique. And it doesn't quite make sense to me because they didn't actually do the voting on any of them, so I can't remember how many there were.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they vote for the most freakiest Freakish. Yeah, I don't know, but on this one they basically got a woman who puts her lips together and can kind of make the side bits stick out, stick up. It's a bit weird. And then they do. I think this is Danny Baker's kind of. I don't know, I didn't think this was funny, but I can imagine to certain people I'm thinking that's a great gag that so one of them is we are two men who dress the same but we do different jobs. Yeah, I'm a boxing referee and I'm a waiter and everyone goes. Yeah, that's not freak or unique, is it like?
Speaker 3:that's no no, no, it's like I don't know. I I'm sure there's loads of jobs I can't think of any head but there must be loads of jobs like that, where you're, like, dressed exactly the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I can't think of any, so maybe there's a.
Speaker 2:A woman with a really long tongue.
Speaker 3:I would ask you this actually If you were on Freecore Uni and they said, liam, I ain't got anyone, would you do? Mine would be. I have a really long tongue, so that would have to be my speciality. I don't even know I can touch my nose with my tongue. I can't.
Speaker 4:I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3:Hang on, hang on, I'm going to mix the microphone. See if you can hear this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's my nose.
Speaker 2:I can do a. It's another tongue-related thing, isn't it? I don't know if they let us both on the same show, but I can do that clover thing You've seen where you kind of half-roll it and half-fold it oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:The big thing for in this free Q&A and I wrote this down before I actually watched the best of, but it is on this is the woman who could cry milk. I remember that from my youth, thinking how the fuck has she done this?
Speaker 2:How has she done that. I was trying to figure it out. So presumably she's got to. She's got to preload milk, so she must have milk in her mouth and then kind of force it up into her sinuses. I suppose you can't just cry milk, can you? She must. She can't produce milk from her eyes, is what I'm saying, so she must be.
Speaker 3:If people have not watched it. She literally starts crying, not sobbing crying, but a milk rolls down each cheek. There's a brilliant bit, actually, where Evans comes in at the end going oh, that's enough. The end going oh, that's enough, that's enough, that's enough.
Speaker 2:As if like it's somehow like dangerous what she's doing well, that is the I mean as a guy with a hairy back. To me the cry milk was the. You know, if you have to pick the freak or unique, or again I don't know how it works. If there's a winner, the cry milk would be for me, because I can't quite get my head around that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that is unique. I think that's better than Freak and that goes into unique. Do you know, every single time this feature was shown, there used to be an old lady like an unusual. There were six people waiting. So they'd say right, who do you want to see? Do you want to see the woman who's crying milk, this, this or this?
Speaker 3:Yeah, they'd shout like like number four, number four yeah and every week there was an unusually tall old lady in every single section of this and she wasn't actually that tall. She was standing in a box. She never got picked right, so yeah broke the yeah, yeah, unfortunate, but yeah, but I don't mind this. I think this is like quite quick sort of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just think you couldn't do that now. It'd have to be called Unusual Skills or something you couldn't have Freak or Unique, could you? I just don't think that'd pass now. No, no, no, but yeah.
Speaker 3:But I don't mind this, I don't mind this. I did find a lot of it sort of they only showed like three or four on this one, but I remember in the past and you're like fucking. But the milk one is the one where you think, no, honestly, how did how, how did you do, yeah, yeah yeah, fair play, so that was the best one.
Speaker 2:There we get tom jones in the studio and did you watch? You've seen? I'm sure you've seen the clip they cut to him? Uh, they do like a. What happened next? And it's tom jones and he's singing in a kind of a studio.
Speaker 3:This is in his heyday as well. I'd say, like what? Early 40s, max, probably 30s, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's sort of dressed very smart and he's singing a song to a crowd of not elderly, but they're not like young teens sort of screaming and jumping about. They're all. People sat very formal.
Speaker 3:This is a clip. By the way, this is not on TFI Friday.
Speaker 2:They go to a clip and this is yeah, they go to a clip and they say what happened next and people say, oh, he gets knickers thrown at him, he falls over all this sort of stuff and everyone says no. What happens next is Tom Jones becomes the sexiest man ever and the dance he does is absolutely amazing isn't it?
Speaker 3:I've never seen this and we can't play it because it won't make any sense. Just watch the best TFI 1997. If you can't go on to watch it all, it's the first lot off of it. Just fast forward about 10 minutes. This dance I've never seen this dance before. It's incredible, isn't it? It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2:I don't even know like. I mean, it's nearly comical, but he pulls it off. It's amazing.
Speaker 3:I mean bloody hell. He somehow looks cool, looking like a complete idiot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he does yeah.
Speaker 3:It strikes me when I'm dropping stuff, like moving around all over the place, he's jolting, he's jerking, he's throwing himself around, he's making all sorts of shapes.
Speaker 2:It's nearly terrible, but it makes it look incredible. I suppose that's why he was such a hit with the ladies at the time, because he's got the moves, hasn't he?
Speaker 3:We've mentioned him before, haven't we? On our most ridiculous songs, tom Jones International. Everybody wants to come home to Tom Jones. One, two Tom's coming for you, but yeah, this really is like in his better years. I do like Tom Jones. I've seen him live before as well, at Glastonbury. I do think he's a he seems a good man, doesn't he? Yeah, I'm hoping he's not going to get put on a register let's put it that way, because I do like him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully there's enough time that the truth would have come out, if there was any truth to come out. So, yeah, hopefully. I mean we still don't condone or condemn. We assume that we can condone him, for now, next band that comes on don't know who they are, I think they were singing a song called she Said.
Speaker 3:Yeah, long Pigs, sheffield's own Long Pigs.
Speaker 1:From Sheffield.
Speaker 3:Richard Hawley used to be in the band. Oh really, yeah, these were like a lost Britpop band because when they came on I was saying I was thinking, who the fuck are they? I was thinking, oh yeah, it's Longpigs.
Speaker 2:I don't know that much about them. Richard Oley's style is like this sort of style at all.
Speaker 3:No, he's still like sort of what at the time would have been considered Britpop. I really like this song and I don't know enough about the Lumpigs, but I know there's a lot of people who say these are one of the lost greats of British music.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, I didn't realise that His song was alright. And then another band straight after for another short clip, and again don't know who they are.
Speaker 3:Dodgy. Ah yeah, I remember, ah yeah, and with Dodger. Good enough for you, that's not for somebody playing, but yeah, and we had him in our 3am grooves tape.
Speaker 2:We took an holiday with us that time actually.
Speaker 3:Oh, we did didn't we? Yeah, but that was a famous one though, wasn't it? I don't know what the famous one is. Good enough for you, it must be that.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, because the other one is In a room, I feel it in my bones.
Speaker 3:I feel exposed. Yeah, because we had 3M grooves From the Mirror Used to give away CDs every month. With a Like, a compilation of like, whatever the Fucking season was At that point Saying like these songs Some of the season, and we took away what we'll call 3M grooves. Do you remember our mate stratford?
Speaker 2:yeah, we've gone back to the room chilling out a few drinks on the balcony, I think. Oh no, it might even be late now. We might be in bed.
Speaker 3:He might come back it will have been really late because he came in. We had it on so loud, maybe not good enough, just just like for you know, for arguments, say it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me. And he came in after us. As soon as he walked in, someone knocked on the door and he opened it. He just got in and there were a German guy going turn the music down, turn the keep the noise down, because I've just fucking walked in.
Speaker 2:Brilliant, yeah and then, if you remember, he said he came in and went you two fuckers just have fucking Germans shouting at me. He opened the CD player up and said what the fuck's this shit? It's not 4am and I don't want to fucking groove.
Speaker 3:You were genuinely 4am. He was about 4am. I think he'd lost his way back, so he'd just got back. We were like just chilling out, having a couple of drinks. They're about 4am, in fairness, so apologies to the Germans if they're listening.
Speaker 2:We're next door. Yeah, as they know, we all make mistakes, don't we so?
Speaker 1:apologies.
Speaker 2:Next we get Stephen Fry and he looks so wrong in this environment. He's dressed like a kind of senior level manager. He's got a full suit on, but it's not like a sort of like a trendy suit or like it's just like a business suit he's got on. It looks so out of place. It looks like I don't know like a bank manager's come in for a brief sketch.
Speaker 4:But I mean.
Speaker 2:I actually thought, because there's bits in it where he makes people quite uncomfortable, like go on, do that, do that, go on, do that thing, do that go on, do that thing, yeah he actually, he comes across really well. Stephen Fry when I saw him, because he seemed quite a nice bloke, I thought, oh, is this going to be kind of ridiculing him almost? But yeah, he comes across quite well and quite funny. So I was pleased about that. And this is the thing with the interviews, I think as well.
Speaker 3:There's one earlier where and he says something like, because he's just done Trainspotting he said do you worry that young people are going to watch Trainspotting and then want to become an actor? And he's like oh yeah, because Evans' whole thing is like taking a bit like Jonathan Ross does. Now, to be fair, where he's like it's that sort of cheeky woo yeah but Evans does take it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean yeah, he does deliver that bit really well actually, because he sort of really drags the question out to really throw him off. He says, you know, if you ever thought, if you've got concerns, it might make young people consider getting into acting Because he's ready to defend himself.
Speaker 3:Mcgregor, yeah, he's got a back. He sits in the back area where he trades boys, so he's like think about that. I'm like, yeah, fair play life.
Speaker 2:We get Dawn French next Again.
Speaker 3:I like Dawn French. I think she's quite funny. Bit this I don't know why she's got lipstick on to the point where she's got massively oversized lipstick drawn down her face.
Speaker 2:I think it's when she comes on. She gives him loads of kisses and puts these kiss marks all around his face. But again I was pleased because you never quite know where he's going to go and how uncomfortable he's going to make someone and I think she fends him off very easily.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because he says something along the lines of you and Lenny, you must have big arguments, like big, big arguments, and she goes yeah, we have even bigger make-up, sex or whatever it is. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, he says big guy, big woman, you must have big arguments, she's in yeah, and big, yeah, big makeup.
Speaker 3:So whatever it is, anyway, but it's just like more than you could ever imagine, Chris, Like it puts him in his place straight away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean she really does, yeah, and she's only, oh, I mean, I don't know how old she would be at this time, but she looks young in this and yeah, she's kind of certainly puts him in his place. Yeah, so I like that. Then we cut to. Well, I think he's possibly the most sort of TFI band. I know there's a few others, like you said We've mentioned. Oh, go on Tal de Deer.
Speaker 3:Oh, she calls it. Oh, she calls it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but this to me was very TFI.
Speaker 1:So this is Skunk and Ansi doing Weak as I Am, and I'm actually going to play this because I think it's a great song. We saw these at Glastonbury. We could go round and round, so why don't we?
Speaker 3:We saw these at Glastonbury. I'm not a massive fan of these but Tom, who I went with, like really likes them. Good band, Good band. But I'm the same as you. I always saw the headline Glastonbury. It's going good, aren't they Like? Oh, really, In about 1993.
Speaker 2:I didn't know it was that big, I mean like in 1995. I only know of this song from Same same. I might know it if I heard it, but this is the only song I associate with Skunkinancy and again, live singing on this is absolutely fantastic, really really good.
Speaker 3:I say this about Skunkinancy because when we go to Glastonbury we look back at old headliners and stuff like that and like they'll say, bloody hell, shakespeare's sister. Like were they big enough to headline? Well, they were, because they stay this. I still can't understand how Skunk and Anty got to headline Glastonbury, not in terms of, like, the quality of the band, but I don't. This is the only song that I think is like resonated with the general public anyway.
Speaker 2:Isn't it just this song? Was that good? Did they just play this song on repeat?
Speaker 3:no, I think they're a good band, like I say loads of like. They've got a really really big fan base. It's all going. I won't like Slag of the Band by far. It's not really my sort of thing, but I don't know. She was quite cool looking as well, weren't she? What were the?
Speaker 2:leads yeah, Skin yeah. So I don't know whether that helped them, but yeah, she was really cool.
Speaker 3:And then that solo band played straight away by a complete and utter other. I will not play a clip, but at the time indie band and they're still going again, shed 7. Oh really, is that what that was? It's getting better. All the time I've written down the most sort of.
Speaker 2:AI indie band. It looks like they're artificially generated. They just look like a generic indie band. I didn't know. That's who it was.
Speaker 3:They're one of the bands who, if I remember I mean I'm not cool, but I thought we were they were like sort of seen in the 90s as a bit of a pfft Shed 7. I like Shed 7. Their number one album about three years ago actually, because they've sort of lasted the test of time and I look back at them now again. A really fucking good band, to be fair, shed 7.
Speaker 2:I only know of them on XFM, where Merchant says I've got some really bad news for you, rick. I think it's what's happening. What's going on? It looks bad.
Speaker 2:Shed 7 have split up, but that's all I know of them really well, they're doing better work than fucking Gervais, probably yeah we get Sting now some of these to me, like Mr Mark, so this is something like. It's one of these quick again Harry Hill. I'm saying Harry Hill style. This was before him, but it's like something like if Sting referred to everything as a 90s pop song or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The sketch or the gag really Sting's in it, but he's not playing Sting and it. Yeah, I just don't.
Speaker 3:I think at the time Sting was taking himself very, very, very seriously. So this is a bit like what extras did. They'll get someone who everyone like the public see as like. Oh, he takes himself really seriously and he's taking the piss out of himself.
Speaker 2:Well, there's a few bits as well. So I assume once they get a big guest in, I don't know if they use their clips on the same week or if they're getting to film a couple of extra bits to use on other weeks. I'm not sure, because he's interviewed in there at some stage, but there's no way you'd just get him just to film this sketch. But then we cut to another incredibly TFI sort of band bass band for me which is the Mannix doing a design for Life. I think this is fucking brilliant.
Speaker 3:Can we play a clip of this? I think it's a brilliant performance. Yeah it is. Yeah, I'll play a clip of this.
Speaker 1:This is Designed for Life Manic Street Preachers. We don't have to fight now. We all wanna get drunk and we've got a lot to spend. I will not love to stand as we are told that this is the end. I desire for love. I desire for love.
Speaker 3:I desire for love. I really think this is a fucking. I mean, I've seen the Manics a few times. I'm a fan of the Manic Street Preachers, but this is like probably at the peak, in the sense of Maybe not the peak creativity. People say, oh, the Bible was before this, but in terms of his vocals, like I just think they're fucking unbelievable.
Speaker 2:So this was when I remember kind of everybody getting into Manix and not really quite getting them, but loving this song I didn't like a lot of their other stuff. Do you remember like there's so many bands around this time like I love the verb, like Seahorses would they have been?
Speaker 3:around then. Yeah, some of the Britpop era like a waste of stuff going around, blur Pulp, obviously, all these sort of people. I remember someone at school saying, trying to act cool, I'll knock his name away. He might be listening. Fuck it, sean Probably won't be listening. And he was like quite uncool, if I dare say. And he was saying like oh yeah, I love Britpop. What's your favourite song? Because that one.
Speaker 2:we don't want get drunk. That's not even the lyrics. We don't want to get drunk, that's wrong yeah. I remember doing a similar thing to that, actually in a physics class where people were talking about a new album coming out and I kind of half overheard him. It weren't the Seahorses. But I said something like are you looking forward to the new Seahorses album? And he said, yeah, what's your favourite track on the last one?
Speaker 3:and I said I don't know you should have just had a guess and then if you said like a bit, like I don't know, just say I like that one, yeah, yeah, yeah I reckon, because I'll do this like if someone said, like I like that one, the man with the teacup where he goes bam bam, bam, bam bam and I'll either say oh yeah, I know what you're on about. Do it with Bly, or I'll say I've not heard that one and you can the B-Sides mate.
Speaker 2:I don't love their last album. I like that obscure bootleg thing that they do the man with the teacup?
Speaker 3:Bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam.
Speaker 2:Then we go to another kind of very scripted guy Well, clearly scripted guy Much, if it weren't actually as I've said it. So this is where they come back after the break and there's no atmosphere he goes to the. Irish barman and says what would you do in this situation? And he says, sure, if I were you I'd use some of this. And he's got like a can of atmosphere in a can and he sprays it. He's saying like I think this is scripted.
Speaker 3:Imagine if this was scripted imagine if it weren't what I don't know I, oh, my God, he has that he's literally got atmosphere in a can and then all the balloons come down and everything. It's got that sketch Miles Funnier, because I thought this was a shite sketch. This.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really was, wasn't it? Then we go to another music thing. I know this is again like I say, this is purely the nature because of what we picked Lots of short clips. We get Bryan Adams this time. Was this before or after his? They were after everything I do, but pre-Mel.
Speaker 1:C Right yeah.
Speaker 2:The Mel C one's my favourite. This is decent. He's a good singer. I can't remember the song, but it's decent. And then another one of these random moments where a big-name celeb comes in for seemingly a very brief moment, so the thing's called Hollywood star we simply don't have time for. And Samuel L Jackson doesa I don't know 20 second little spiel to camera about that. They haven't got time for him. Quite funny though in the background, because Evans is like going go on, get on with it, like tapping his watch and stuff which I quite like. I quite like this bit.
Speaker 3:I mean it's a fairly like sort of route. One gag in a way, like obviously Samuel L Jackson's the biggest person to love on the show that week, but they just give him like one line going I haven't got time to interview me and he's like come on, get off.
Speaker 2:I wonder what they had to pay him for that. Or do you reckon he did an interview and that's done for a different show, or what? I couldn't quite figure that bit out, yeah, yeah yeah maybe Mick Hucknall then does some karaoke. Can we play?
Speaker 3:this, by the way, because I think this is fucking unbelievable. I'm not a Mick Hucknall fan, so they give, like Mick Hucknall, a microphone and say no they give him a crappy like.
Speaker 2:I mean not crappy, it's probably decent, but but what I mean is in terms of sound quality it's just like a what do you call them? Like a ghetto blaster, Small ghetto blaster. They play a CD of music and they give him a mic to it, so he's just doing karaoke and I presume he's not aware of this. No, because at first he looked a bit like not sure whether they're trying to set him up for some kind of gag or something. So no, I certainly don't think he was in on it.
Speaker 3:No, I agree. And look, I'm not a fan of Simply Red music like, but if you gave me a mic and I did this, what I'm going to play, I'd be so. I'd probably have my life straight after it, because it doesn't get any better. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So fly away with me. Gotta find me an agent who will set me free. My heart is without a home. I don't wanna be alone. My heart is without a home. I don't want to be alone. Got to find me an agent.
Speaker 2:In my life. I think when we do the Maidly Roadshow in Chapel, st Leonard's, you should do that on the mic.
Speaker 3:let's see if you can do it as good as that just because I'm ginger, I'm not as good as Mick Utner, but honestly, this is I'm amazed. He's like brilliant singer in his heyday.
Speaker 2:Mick Utner, whatever you say about him, I think it just shows you at that level, like people might think, oh, it's all auto-tune and all the equipment, but there are some singers who are just just give them a mic watch them go. So, yeah, really good, though Again, like you, I'm not a huge Mick Cooknell fan, but I thought like, wow, this is great. Yeah, you get the first glimpse here of the pub genius sketch.
Speaker 3:Do you remember sorry sketch, so sorry will. Mcdonald is the guy who does the pub tricks. It's like pub tricks. This pub genius. Again, this is purely clearly from the brain of danny baker. So he does like pub tricks. You know like an obvious one would be. Like, you know, flipping a bath, a what you call it, a coaster up beer mart, that's it. And like landing on top your pint. So he tries to do stuff like this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's certainly these things that like are, and what I liked, actually as well, is like they say what I'm going to do, I'm going to remove this matchbox from this underneath this pint glass without touching the pint glass. But I love how, like all the audience go, that can't be done, couple, he doesn't do, he gets them wrong, which kind of is almost what they want. Actually, I think the reaction is is the same whether he does it or he doesn't, really, so gets a big laugh. I don't know if you saw in this one as well, but he actually, because he the first one that he tries is something to do with flipping something up into a wine glass or something that goes wrong. Then he tries to knock the matchbox out. He knocks it over, spills the pint everywhere and then he picks the glass up. It looks like he's going to throw it. He sort of just half throws it towards Evans. Imagine throwing it in his face because it went wrong, it's so funny.
Speaker 3:But when he actually completes one, when he does one, I think Will's face here is pure Like he looks at Evans as if, like you know, when you scored a goal, like going, I've done it, I can't. Like in a World Cup fight, I've done it, I can't believe I've done it.
Speaker 2:He looks so proud of himself when he does it. The one that he does is where it's like some kind of little ball You've got to get it over something without touching it and he turns a glass over and turns it round. It's the older centrifugal force trick I would call it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 3:I like Will MacDonald, I have to admit. I think people just point at him and go Will, what happened to him? He did a book. He got into science. I looked into this, he got into. He's written an actual like what do you call it? What they do Scientists papers? He's written an actual like what do you call it? What they do scientists papers? What do you call it thesis? I don't know. Hang on, give me two. I should have written this down. Wilma Donald, yeah, he, he started studying zoology and he, yeah, he got published in a scientific journal about the behavioral sociobiology.
Speaker 2:I would never have said that's where it went. I assumed it was. Well, obviously he worked good enough for his pub trick.
Speaker 3:So this is the next logical set for him, isn't it we?
Speaker 2:then get, uh, another moment of mega celebrity in a in a silly sketch. So it's Chris and Cher in bed. What do you think to this? Do you think it works? What do you think to this? Do you think?
Speaker 3:it works. No, I think it's one of the most funny things of the entire thing, personally. So Chris Evans is in bed with Cher and Cher's saying will you love me whatever I do? And he says yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, will you please? Whatever I do, will you love me? Yeah?
Speaker 2:She turns over whatever and he says, yep, of course it reminds me of something I imagine.
Speaker 3:I think it might even be below SMTV, to be fair, you know, like a kids' show sort of thing.
Speaker 2:It's funny and I might get some stick for this, because I'm not really into it. But I know you kind of quite like your viz. Is it not a viz-type joke that In a way?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think. I mean, I don't think Johnny Forty Pants is that clever as a character, it's just a guy who farts. But yeah, I do think this is clever yeah.
Speaker 2:I just thought clearly somebody to get her in to do that and play, that is absolutely huge that they got her to do that sketch, but it just felt a bit wasted.
Speaker 3:I think there was more to the gun. There he leaves. What then he leaves? She should have farted that actually, Do you believe?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like auto-tuned kind of fart noise yeah.
Speaker 3:Auto-tuned farts yeah.
Speaker 2:And we get the Friday fun thing. Which did this come from? Tfi? Don't forget YouTube sorry, I'm not sure, but they do a bit where they play like some kind of like lounge music and everybody starts waving their hands side to side.
Speaker 3:I thought it came from. I thought it came, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I.
Speaker 2:I don't know, not sure, but then it to Tony Hart, and again I was glad because I love Tony. Know, not sure, but then it cut to Tony Hart, and again I was glad because I love Tony Hart.
Speaker 3:You can't just say it came to Tony Hart, Tony Hart no it cuts to Tony Hart, who was the Tony Hart. People like younger viewers might not know who Tony Hart is. He did an art show called Heart Attack.
Speaker 2:that had more fun in it and was really big when we were little, but even before then we were probably at the end of his reign.
Speaker 3:Would you get away now with a kid's show called Heart Attack? Do you know what I meant by this Heart Attack? No, it was Heart Attack. Yeah, but Heart Attack is the you know.
Speaker 1:No, that was.
Speaker 3:Heartbeat. No, it's called Tony Heart. What are you on about Heartbeat? What are you on about Heart?
Speaker 2:Tony Hart, what are you on about Hartby? What are you on about Hartby? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do-do, it's Hartby wasn't it.
Speaker 3:What are you talking about? No, a heart attack? No, it wasn't. You were called Hart Attack. I'm telling you, it was called Hart.
Speaker 2:Attack.
Speaker 3:Nick Berry's heartbeat Heart attack. I've got the symptoms of an heart attack.
Speaker 2:We're both looking it up now.
Speaker 3:A heart attack. Heartbeat.
Speaker 2:I knew it would be called heart attack.
Speaker 3:I'm watching this show for a heart attack.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're right, sorry, yeah, I apologise, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll take it.
Speaker 2:You're a fucking idiot. Heart attack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't want. I'm going to call it Heart Attack Are you watching Heart Attack.
Speaker 3:Have you seen that on the BBC schedule Heart Attack.
Speaker 2:I love how you thought that was okay, like in the 90s, but it wouldn't be now.
Speaker 3:She always thought that was called Heart Attack. Anyway give a fair amount of you Cannon.
Speaker 2:That's a tough one, isn't it? That's like what do you call it? What's the film? Is it Selfie's Choice?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a bit like.
Speaker 2:Blur, it's not quite the same, is it At?
Speaker 3:the time it was like Blur in a way. It says what do you watch? Heart Attack, but it's not called that. Or Neil Buchanan's, what was that called? I forgot what was that called Heart Attack? That were called Heart Attack. No, art Attack, what Buchanan's one?
Speaker 2:Yeah, art, I'm not just missing the H because I'm Northern, I'm saying it's.
Speaker 3:Art the word is A-R-T.
Speaker 2:I've got it yeah.
Speaker 3:I thought yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 2:There was no show called Heart Attack.
Speaker 3:I'm getting mixed up. I thought it was called Heart Attack and obviously it's Neil Buchanan's Heart Attack. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:yeah, sorry, crazy anyway, as I say, to go back to that, I thought that it was good how they didn't mock him, because it's quite funny actually, because he says I've got something I think you crazy nuts will like. I think they played that very well.
Speaker 1:I thought it was very softly handled.
Speaker 2:Then we move on to the next, probably for me the most controversial bit in the whole thing, which is the ugly book. So they bring out an ugly guy.
Speaker 3:Hang on. Can I play the theme tune to this, Because people don't know what this is? Well, they'll remember it from the theme tune. I reckon so it's funny that because they play that theme tune and Peter Beardsley's face comes up Like is it so harsh, so harsh.
Speaker 2:Well, it is harsh, but you know, at the same time, like Peter Beardsley, like some people might say he's ugly, some people might not. Some people might think he's a great-looking chap, but some of the people on this have got deformities and it sounds really uncomfortable with me because some of them are like a bloke who's just got some teeth missing. This is the worst bit.
Speaker 3:I genuinely watch this, thinking I mean maybe I'm being a bit woke. Someone in the pub today was saying I can't remember what she said. Now it was something really normal. Like oh yeah, have you heard? Like I don't know, you've got to put dog litter in bin. In this particular bin, it's so woke. This is what people in classes woke. Now what I'm going to say this is just ugly people being brought out on stage, some with deformities. I think it's.
Speaker 2:Honestly it's and I get it. It's kind of over time and whatever, and maybe at the time I sat and watched and laughed, I don't know. But yeah, just people was kind of I don't even know I'm treading lightly because I don't even know the correct term but people kind of whose faces have got kind of developmental issues. Alongside a bloke who's gone bald and he's lost a couple of teeth and it's saying look at these ugly people. And then I think the guy at the end of it. They said to him each time how long have you been ugly? And they said they say all my life. And I was like it's horrible this.
Speaker 3:There's like people who it's horrible this. There's people who I mean, I don't really know what to say about this because it's just horrible. It really is horrible. They obviously can't help the way they've been bothered. There's people who are I don't know.
Speaker 2:they say objectively ugly, but I mean, obviously the kind of counter side to it is that they obviously kind of knew what they were going into. They've not took a photo of someone on a long lens and said look at this guy They've chosen to go into the studio.
Speaker 2:It's a bit like the Jeremy Kyle show became this in a way, it's their sort of moment of fame and hopefully they got a great day out chance to meet some celebrities, a few beers, and yeah, they were kind of willing to be the butt of the joke for a short piece of time. I mean, it still doesn't sit well with me, but no.
Speaker 3:Just before you move on from Ugly Block. By the way, can I use this opportunity? I think you've heard this. When New Order did the World of Motion rap and John Barnes, you can be slow or fast. Peter Beazley genuinely tried out for this rap before John Barnes. I'm going to play it here. I know what you're going to play. Yeah, brilliant, it's unbelievable. This is Peter Beazley's genuine, genuinely trying to get on the New Order record.
Speaker 4:To hold and give for it at the right time. You can be slow or fast, but you must get to the line. They'll always hit you and hurt you. Defend and attack. There's only one way to beat them Get around the back. Catch me, if you can, cause I'm the England man and what you're looking at Is the master plan. We ain't no hooligan, this ain't a football song. Three lions on my chest.
Speaker 2:I know we can't yeah, I mean it again. Is that, is that tragic in its own? Right like that you can wrap on the laughing. He kind of got like a vocal deformity. I know like you, almost you can't. You can't really hear what he's saying. He almost doesn't open his mouth enough when he speaks.
Speaker 3:Almost you must get to the main thing.
Speaker 2:It's unbelievable, yeah. So yeah, I mean, and like I say, you know, we got some stick for kind of doing the whole. Go on, who did we do the documentary on and we kind of we were quite a bit of manning yeah, you know I get it. I'm not. I'm not kind of saying this at the time wasn't well, kind of I'm saying it wasn't okay, but it wasn't perceived as okay. I don't know, let's move on. I just think this is a bit harsh.
Speaker 3:This I think if it were your. I don't know your fucking dad, uncle, brother, sister, whatever, and just because it's ugly. But, like you say, they volunteer and start to go forward.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, so yeah, we're saying they're asking for it, or are we saying we? Where are we saying, are we not saying anything or not?
Speaker 3:you can be slow affair, did you laugh? So again. This is now an insert.
Speaker 2:It wasn't part of the original recording we like to show you behind the curtain. This is how it is. We're ending the first part there. That's gone on quite long enough and we appreciate you listening to all of that. We're back next week, although for us it's the same week and we've already been there. So back to the future.
Speaker 3:Probably dead by the time you listen to this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, you never know, but I'd be sad if that in a week one of us had died. But the curse could strike. The curse struck Jermaine Genis didn't it this week?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, we talked about Jermaine Genis saying about he's on TV too much. Literally will not be able to get on TV for loving the money, but hopefully that's not us. So that's part one done part one.
Speaker 2:yeah, we're not quite sure what the midweek situation is because, like I say, I'm on holiday, then you're on holiday. There may be a chance to do some midweek, so so keep sending us stuff. I can't promise anything, we might catch up at a later date. But yeah, we'll certainly be back with the second part to this next week. So thank you for listening. Thank you, andrew, for contributing.
Speaker 3:Thanking you.
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