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"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 4 - TFI Friday (Part 2)
Ever wondered about the origins of the nickname "Burt Backoutrach" or the chaotic energy that surrounded Noel Gallagher's interactions with Chris Evans? Join us as we embark on a rollicking journey through TFI Friday’s most iconic moments. We kick things off with unforgettable performances from Gabrielle, Bon Jovi, and a unique rendition of a famous number by The Police. Chris Evans' quirky Michael Caine sketch, seamlessly transitions into a serious discussion, setting the stage for the Fun Loving Criminals. Throughout this nostalgic trip, we explore edgy conversations with Patsy Kensit and a mischievous look back at a band's refusal to play new tracks.
From the infamous live swearing incident by Sean Ryder, which changed the show's broadcasting forever, to Ocean Colour Scene's electrifying presence, we capture it all. Relive the hilarious "Stars in Your Eyes" segment and the controversial "Fat Lookalikes." We even uncover the real Des Lynam, adding another layer of charm to this eclectic mix. George Best's hedonistic lifestyle, Sting's stellar performance, and a light-hearted nod to Jules Holland's musical prowess round out a chapter brimming with unforgettable highlights.
Finally, we tackle juicy topics like Chris Evans' questionable behaviour and a disturbing Björk fan anecdote, blending humour with critical thought. Listen to tales of festival mishaps, Jarvis Cocker's arrest, and Terry Wogan's timeless humour. We also reflect on the impact of "Someone's Going to Be a Millionaire" on game shows and the unforgettable Kylie Minogue and Geri Halliwell kiss. Whether you’re a dedicated fan or a curious listener, this episode promises a whirlwind of laughter, music, and celebrity intrigue, capturing the essence of TFI Friday’s enduring legacy.
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Speaker 2:Another week?
Speaker 1:Nobody wants to listen to a two-hour podcast about Christmas.
Speaker 2:Think of all the things that have happened in this week since last week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't know, we don't know we're not.
Speaker 2:there are we? We're not in the next week.
Speaker 1:Again, like I said last time, could be dead, could be dead.
Speaker 2:If I died, would you release this second part?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we'll get miles more views. Think how many listeners that'll get. I should kill you. The last views of Leroy Go from fucking 10 views 10 listens to 20. Look at that 100% right. They're raking it in. Anyway, this is a TFI Friday, part Dwar it is Dwar, it is Dwar. Living with May the Louie.
Speaker 2:More fantastic live vocals here, and actually there's a triple hit of fantastic vocals, so we get Gabrielle Really really good.
Speaker 1:Bon Jovi Bye.
Speaker 2:Yeah, great song and a great version. Yeah, is it, mr?
Speaker 1:Back Out Rack. That Mr Back Out Rack. Yeah, I never dug after Burt Back Out Rack, but he's nothing like. I called him Back Out Rack then, because we call our mate Back Out Rack because one of our mates always agrees to do stuff and he never does it, so we're calling Burt back out rack.
Speaker 2:I made that up.
Speaker 1:You think, yeah, we've all argued about who made. I think I made that up, you think?
Speaker 2:I know I made that up.
Speaker 1:I know the situation.
Speaker 2:I erased him out with Russ. There was only me and him going out on this particular occasion. He let me down. Last minute I phoned you and I said Burt, back out, rack, let me down big time. I think I no, yeah, we'll move on, we'll move on let's end the podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, end it on that and then finish us with Van Damand doing Moondance brilliant. The only bit I'll play of that, which is it's a great song. I love the song, but I'll just play the very end, because I love it, of kind of that style of music, music. So so now obviously we're still quite a bit to go, so I might kind of accelerate this a bit. I didn't take this long, I don't think, but we we're. We come to another strange bit here. So it's a Michael Caine sketch where Chris Evans goes to Michael Caine's house and he's doing a kind of Michael Caine impression and then it turns into a really short, serious interview where it's like I'm here to say if you want to do my interview, and he says I doubt, but come in anyway, and then he sort of sits down and he's there, so like Evans is going, my name is Michael Caine.
Speaker 1:I've come to do an interview and he's going. Don't you talk to me like that then about a second later he's going. So what's your favourite film that you've been in then and there, Any films that you've had any strange experiences on?
Speaker 2:Well, I did not like doing a stance on that film. I didn't quite get it, but again we're seeing a really short clip of it. We're not getting the context. I just didn't get that bit at all. And then back in the studio for more live music and I think I put a question mark after it, but I'm fairly confident. I think it's just the Fun Loving Criminals.
Speaker 1:Oh, stick them up punk. It's the Fun.
Speaker 2:Loving Criminals, oh, Stick Em Up Punk is the Fun Loving Criminals Bam, bam, bam. Yeah, it's not that song, though, is it? Which is, again, probably the only one I know? No, it is that song, is it really?
Speaker 1:Stick Em Up. I've actually wrote Stick Em Up. Punk is the Fun Loving.
Speaker 2:Criminals I thought that was describe it. I thought that was a bit more bouncy and almost like animated. His singing is quite serious. I don't know. It's not what I expected from that song. Then he's just got in his suit, isn't?
Speaker 1:he. Yeah, it is that. One of my favourite ones by them is Barry White. Saved my life, barry White, and if Barry White saved your life, they're really serious.
Speaker 2:I never quite got into fun loving criminals. Patsy Kens are in the studio Again. This is a six o'clock show on Channel 4. And the first question he says to her are are your pubes back? To their normal colour. This was going on with.
Speaker 1:Galaga as well. At the time, I was the biggest rock star in England.
Speaker 2:I don't know what that refers to. It's a really odd question, kind of out of context. I mean, she's fine with it, but again it's that thing where he's always on the edge of sort of trying to make someone uncomfortable and it kind of feels a bit like he almost wants them to stomp off and say but then again, they know what they're going in for, don't they? They?
Speaker 2:know what they're there for We've got Noel Gallagher in the studio. He comes across quite well on this. Actually I love his music. I think in certain interviews he doesn't always come across great, he does come across.
Speaker 1:Well, A little bit of this. Actually, Noel Gallagher and Chris Evans have not spoken since 1997. I think end of 1997, where on one of the TFI Fridays Noel Gallagher got sorry, Chris Evans got the album being now, which obviously is renowned as not being as good as like the first two, and he was like trying to give it like sort of what do you call it? Like you do a heart thing, not a heart attack, what do you?
Speaker 2:call it oh, bring it back to life.
Speaker 1:Bring it back to life yeah, oh, bring it back to life. Bring it back to life. Yeah, resuscitation. He was like we need to bring it back to life. Noel Gallagher, as far as I know, has never spoke to Chris Evans to this day since he did that well, I was intrigued if because I know you're certainly at this time you would have been an Oasis expert and deflaborate, deflaborate yeah, that's what it is, anyway.
Speaker 2:Ah right, so yeah, with the pad things. Yeah, do you know that's not trying to start the heart, that's trying to stop the heart when it's going into spasm.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that, but I'm not a doctor. You live and learn, you live and learn. But yeah, no, I've always not spoken to him since.
Speaker 2:Well, what I wanted to ask you, though? So in this particular clip we get basically he's getting him on saying come on, let's play something a new album. And he says if you fucking think I don't know if he does swear in my head, he does If you fucking think I'm going to let you play something a new album, you've lost the plot. He says 50 grand, now we'll onto the table, yeah. And he picks it up and says right, I'll tell you what, I'll toss it Heads. We play somewhere. It's lovely down. He flips it over it's heads and then the clip cuts off. Did they play any of the new?
Speaker 1:album no, he just said no. I've seen this interview before, where someone he's like.
Speaker 2:He said I ain't got a Plectrum. Has anyone got a Plectrum and?
Speaker 1:no one's got a Plectrum, so sort of booing and no one goes.
Speaker 2:well see fucking your new album now Brilliant. Well, somebody's got a Plectrum because there's a live band playing about 100 minutes away. Well, he says no one's had a Plectrum, so don't stereotype yeah, but I don't. I wouldn't associate them with this. I'd see them as a bit like no, we're not doing. We're not doing Chris Evans, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I might have got all right into Blur and Awaits at the time and I remember Damon were at the bar before this and this was just as like Awaits was becoming miles more massive compared to Boyle Big rivalry. And in the interview Damon is just like so I can't be arsed with this, like Evans is like trying to do his thing. He's like yeah, yeah, whatever, chris, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that's kind of why I'm a little bit surprised they're on this. But we then go to and he pops up at the window like it's sort of incorporated into the dialogue. That who's at the window? Oh, it's the new window cleaner.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:One that fell very short for me like did it work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't get that yeah.
Speaker 2:Don't know, just I don't. I don't even know if that would have been funny at the time, but maybe it was. Was he? He was in Dispersion. Anyway, I wrote down Sean Ryder because I couldn't remember the name of the Black Grey yeah, black Grey.
Speaker 1:Obviously, sean Ryder is probably the most famous ever guest on TFI Friday for swearing and it was live. And he made sure it wasn't live anymore because there were a bit where Chris Evans, evan, says like if you don't swear on this interview, I'll give you my shoes straight away. Sean Ryder, I don't think he's like trying to like act up. No, no, he's not no and he goes. He goes, oh, patrick, man, patrick's a fucking good man. He goes, oh, and like takes it back like he's, like we can't have it anymore and then they play live doing.
Speaker 1:They used to have a feature on TFI Friday called Stars in your Eyes and it were like major bands playing cover songs and he'd be pretty vacant. And he came on and he goes fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Yeah, fucking, pretty fucking vacant, fuck like that. And it comes back to Chris Evans and I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry right.
Speaker 2:So he was responsible for the, the death of it being live.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he comes on in the, because they revived TFI Friday for one series and Sean Ryan is on it and Chris Evans is like you were the reason why we had to stop the show. He's like I'm really sorry about that. Oh.
Speaker 2:I didn't mean that, yeah, and I wrote another question mark here because I'm less confident, but I think was this cool as Shaker that came on after that. Yeah, never a huge fan for me no, not a fan. And then we get the old Day we Caught the Train Ocean Colour scene. Yeah, I forgot Ocean Colour scene three or four times Day.
Speaker 1:We Caught the Train we watched it yeah great thing me and our mate Jay went to see them at a festival. Me and our yeah great song. Me and our mate Jay Went to see him at a festival. I was like I was watching him. They played all the hits Like really early. Then we were like Teens to each other, what they got left, what they got left, and we couldn't think of ones. We were left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, yeah, because that's not what they do. Is they play the new stuff and then hit you with the? Yeah, it's the other way around.
Speaker 1:They played the hits and I'm like I genuinely don't know any more of the songs that we just left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fair play. Next feature another slightly controversial one, although less so than the Ugly Bloke, I think, but this is the Fat Lookalikes, yeah. So, basically, somebody comes on, they walk out on stage, they say, hello, I am our fat. And there's Demi Moore, there's Andre Agassi, there's Morrissey, there's Cher, there's George Best, there's Lynam. I suppose it's their choice, isn't it?
Speaker 1:The worst part of this again is Noel Gallagher. It's just a guy with like all your classes and a way to say it. He's got drum, drum, drum, sort of a fat nog. I like a whey. Yeah, you never get.
Speaker 2:I mean some of them do, some of them are a good lookalike, des Lynam one looks like, really like Des Lynam, yeah, the. George Best as well, but I mean it's a short clip.
Speaker 1:Nobody was hurt.
Speaker 2:I suppose They've decided to, they've sort of been dragged there, and then we get so straight after that and we've had this fat Des Lynam lookalike. We get Des Lynam actually being interviewed on TFI Friday. I don't know what to make of this. Is this? Is he playing along with it and laughing along with it, or is he a bit sort of pushing back back on the fact that I don't get this? Like, whatever you say, everyone's laughing. Yeah, because they kept it to us like this.
Speaker 1:They did like a thing about Des Liner and they were talking about like they felt a bit uneasy with this interview because, yeah, yeah, des Liner he's not really taking the piss at all out of Des Liner, but Des Liner's such a I don't know like a cool customer, like I don't know like a cool customer.
Speaker 2:I don't know. He doesn't seem that comfortable here though. Well, they kind of show clips of him when he's a bit younger, with his tarshing and various different poses, and I think he's not sure if they're mocking him or not, and I don't think they are. I think they're all kind of saying look how cool Des Liner is. But yeah, then he sort of does this thing. That's a bit uncomfortable, where he kind of says I don't really get it. It just seems like whatever you say, everyone's going to laugh at him. It's two eras clashing.
Speaker 1:There's a brilliant bit on Fantasy. Football League where David Baddiel and Frank Skinner interview Jimmy Greaves and Ian St John and they're doing the same sort of thing and Ian St John after said he hated it. He thought they were both complete pricks. Blah, blah, blah. Because they're taking the piss in a modern, what was at the time like a modern way.
Speaker 2:But I think it's so. It's seen as quite affectionate, isn't it now? Yeah, yeah, yeah To know a lot about them and be able to lightly mock them, but with clearly affection almost.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that reached that generation. Like I say, ian St John and Jimmy Greaves were not happy with Badil and Skinner taking the piss out of them, but they weren't. I've watched it back. I think it's harsh from Ian St John because they are taking the piss, but it's not like.
Speaker 2:But they're legends to them, aren't they? That's how they would speak to their mates or their family. That's the difference, exactly that If would speak to their mates or their family.
Speaker 1:That's the difference, exactly that exactly that it's like if I met fucking Des Linen, like I mean, I wouldn't have been starstruck, but if you actually started having a drink with him and stuff, you'd probably start talking to him like Chris Evans does, and that's, that's the good thing about TFI do as an introduction to the next round, come on.
Speaker 2:And he'd think, oh, fuck it. But it'd be meant like come on, you're the best at that intro, with a wry eye like a hello welcome.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:It wouldn't be taking the piss out of him to say come on, do what you do. It would be. We really do think you're brilliant at that. Come on, please do it. But yeah anyway so it's another short clip. You don't get much of it, so I've not seen the full interview. I don't know what's before and after it. I quite liked the next bit, which was there's a guy with a violin there and they do.
Speaker 1:You keep saying the guy with the violin. Why will you not acknowledge Nigel Kennedy? He's done this before.
Speaker 2:Oh, is that not? Yeah, right, okay, yeah. Before me he said oh, he's not as.
Speaker 1:I don't know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I said Vanessa May is better, didn't?
Speaker 1:I yeah, that's her name Vanessa May. Yeah, Like it's Nigel Kennedy again, though, yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, so he does it incredibly well. So somebody says like these are the things where, when it lands, it's perfect. So Danny Baker's come up with this thing. Let's read out a football result, but on a violin, which sounds like why would that work? It's brilliant.
Speaker 1:It really made me laugh, that bit it does like I can't remember the first one, but it's somebody won, so yeah, russia 2, italy 0, and he goes yeah, it's a brilliant bit there when he goes like so obviously I think it's about Euro 96 and it's England-Scotland next and it goes. What's going to happen next? It goes Scotland 0, england 100. It's like sort of fast start jumping about.
Speaker 2:Well, no, this is after 96, isn't it I?
Speaker 1:think this is 96. I think this is like sort of the best of 97, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 2:anyway, Right, okay, yeah, I'm not sure I could be wrong. Anyway, right, okay, yeah, I'm not sure I mean on that theme as well, we get Terry Venables on there, which I suppose would make sense, and Venables in fairness to him takes like everything that he is praising him a lot, but Evans is far more clued up to what he's into, I reckon. Yeah, and I think what he does very well there. I suppose he's around that kind of laddish football culture anyway. He probably knows how to handle.
Speaker 1:You can see why we're a good man manager at that time, because he's obviously a lot older than Evans at that point, but he doesn't feel out of place at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not like the lining thing where I'm not sure if that's comfortable or not. He looks quite at home in that space. Very brief bit of Jack as well, kind of duplicating the pose he does on his book, which again he seems to do well-natured.
Speaker 2:He doesn't seem to look like that's uncomfortable for him. A weird bit with George Best that I assume is supposed to be funny, but again I find a bit tragic really. Where it's, chris Evans is interviewing him and he sort of says so people say you've spent maybe 2 million, maybe 5 million. Whatever you've spent, how much of that would you say you've wasted? And we quite a sad look on his face. George Best says well, all of it and that's it it just cuts off.
Speaker 1:That's all we get of that. It's almost classic George Best that that sums up that sort of hedonistic character, I think, where he's lived his life to the full, he enjoyed every bit of his life. But there's also those regrets that should I have done that?
Speaker 2:I don't know Do you know what I mean I think it's quite a poignant moment actually. Well, there's a quote, isn't there? I should probably know it. It used to be up on the wall, the arms used to be sprayed up on the wall, but something like. I spent most of my money on women and drink and I wasted the rest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But in this particular moment he looks quite sad and quite vulnerable. Again, don't have the context, so we can only judge it as we see it. If somebody says, no, it weren't like that, he'd start laughing afterwards.
Speaker 1:George Vess. So we can only judge it as we see it. If somebody says no, it weren't like that, he started laughing afterwards. George Best is a brilliant, absolutely brilliant character. By the way. I didn't realise this until my late years. I just thought like George Best, brilliant player, bit of a pisshead. But when you watch his interviews.
Speaker 2:He's a genuinely articulate, intelligent man. Oh yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and a funny bloke as well, like quite yeah, yeah like quite yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So straight after that we've got sting doing message in a bottle, which again we've said it repeatedly, I think maybe if it is because it's a live show, you wouldn't go on it unless you can sing live. So maybe that's what it is. But again, it's another great live performance from sting he's. I've heard him do other live shows so I know he can sing. But really good, this I'll send an SOS to the world. I'll send an SOS to the world. I hope that someone gets my I hope that someone gets my.
Speaker 1:I hope that someone gets my message in my body. Message in my body. I'm not a massive fan of Sting after a minute, but well, I used to have a CD.
Speaker 2:I had a version of Messaging a Bottle On. I don't know if it was this or if he'd just done it similar somewhere else, but it was this kind of really stripped back without the drum or anything. It's just him doing it. Yeah, brilliant, we get an actress that I have no idea who she is on this bit.
Speaker 1:I had no idea who this is. Who is this? I haven't even written it down. I don't know who it is.
Speaker 2:I thought we would get that, so she's in like they're asking her to complete some lines of dialogue and she's been in some like I don't know what would you say it is.
Speaker 1:It's like a Like a frat project sort of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and just saying here's the line. Can you complete it? And it's basically done, because the last one is a gag where it says something like oh, I absolutely love TFI Friday. It's like overdone, so it's built around a joke, but I don't know who she is. I don't know who that, no idea who that is, and I'm trying to think if she's done anything since, but nothing that I know of Next and by the way, I'm just going to live on air, open my next can of San Miguel.
Speaker 1:Shit.
Speaker 2:What do you think of San? Miguel, oh yeah it fit right in with TFI. I'd get a round of applause after that.
Speaker 1:Ugly bloke, ugly bloke. No, it's not. Oh, come on mate.
Speaker 2:Ugly bloke opens a can of San Miguel. Whee, I like that, I'll start it To be fair, I probably could do that. You're right, yeah. So next on we get Mr Jules Holland. Now I've seen him once or twice. You've seen him live, yeah, live. I've seen him multiple times on Jules' Hootenana. I've seen him at Buxton Opera House and I tell you what it was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1:I've seen Jules.
Speaker 2:And what I liked is and you can kind of see it in this actually he's such a showman. Some of them are quite daunted by this live audience being quite close by. They're all drunk, they're shouting. You can see these guys come through cabaret clubs and different stages. He's so at home in this space, isn't he? He kind of owns the room. He almost presents it for a little bit. He says, right, everyone, everyone, right, I've got this piano he's going to play. Then I'm going to do this. I mean, for one, he's not aged a day like. He's always looked like that. He looks exactly the same. Yeah, I mean Adam and Joe. Joe does a brilliant impression of him.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's amazing, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Just like yeah, I think he's incredibly talented and I think he just looks Again. I kind of thought, because there's another person that I really like, that I thought, oh no, is this going to be him saying, I don't know, mocking him for like yeah, but you basically just play over the top of other people, don't you? Boogie-woogie.
Speaker 1:By the way, you say that I reckon potpickers will know this, but do you know what band he started in Chills Holland?
Speaker 2:Er, yeah, I yeah. I don't want you to tell me, look, I do know it. I don't want you to tell me because I know it, but it's not good podcast material.
Speaker 1:Go on you were singing it before we started. Yeah, yeah, the squeeze, the squeeze, yeah, I got a job with Stanley, he said I'd come in handy yeah brilliant. I'm cool to cast brilliant band squeeze I want to that in particular, I said Squeeze, didn't I?
Speaker 2:Yeah, squeeze. But the lyrics to that are phenomenal. I don't know what's it called. Is it Girl from Clapham? What's it called?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham down somewhere in the burner the night. I never got in.
Speaker 2:The best line of that is beg for her forgiveness. But begging's not my business.
Speaker 1:I once saw him at Squeeze it's in the park. I want to say I was miles away from the stage. We're now at one of the smaller tents, so there are no screens. I was like why has he got an afro?
Speaker 2:I can't believe he's got an afro.
Speaker 1:I didn't realise.
Speaker 2:We might have mentioned this before, haven't we? But when? What were people singing about? David James on his head?
Speaker 1:He's got a microphone on his head. He's got a microphone on his head. We were playing United At Portsmouth, I think it were. I couldn't believe that chant. I just thought While he was singing it it wasn't like he's got a microphone. It was like so slow, he's got a microphone.
Speaker 2:On his head, so slow Downbeat as well.
Speaker 1:Like he's got a microphone on his head.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I thought I thought really good this to see Jules in that space and feeling quite comfortable. And yeah, I don't know, I don't know if he played. You don't see any of them playing, so it's not really their type of act, I would say, because he kind of more recently at least he joins in with other people. I mean live, he was absolutely fantastic. He gets obviously guest singers to come on with him, just amazing. But anyway, yeah, let's move on from the Jules show.
Speaker 2:The first time it's mentioned in the show, because I wasn't sure in the sequence what came first, to be honest. But he's got a card from Don't Forget your Toothbrush and he holds that up and he says, oh, what was this? Oh yeah, I had this lying around in the office. Somebody must have written on it. And then in this particular show, I don't quite understand it because it kind of cuts back and everybody's there dressed. He's dressed like he would be for Don't Forget your Toothbrush. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know what they did with that. I don't know whether they, whether they, because this will actually look alive, I reckon.
Speaker 1:I think obviously Sean Ryder ruined it. Yeah, yeah, it must have been, because it Well obviously yeah. Yeah, and it.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it doesn't, because don't forget your toothbrush. For anyone who doesn't know, maybe we should do an episode on this.
Speaker 1:I don't know it too well.
Speaker 2:No, I was kind of aware of it and I saw bits of it. I don't think I ever sat down and watched the full episode. But the studio audience, basically there were certain tasks or they had to vote for certain things. I can't quite remember how it worked, but if they won, they all went on holiday. All the audience, whether there's a thousand of them, just went off on holiday or however many there were. This is the first reference to that, but I don't quite know what they do with it. Do you know? Do they take them all on holiday, or is it just a gag?
Speaker 1:I presume it's the same sort of thing on Tearfire Friday. I presume it's the same sort of thing on Tier 5 Friday. They sort of recreate Don't Forget your Toothbrush. So whatever gets said, whoever gets it right, all the Tier 5 crowd go on holiday, I presume, and the gap there is obviously.
Speaker 2:Don't Forget your Toothbrush is in. You might be travelling today. You're not going home, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think people know they're not here. I don't know how they're not. They're not here yet.
Speaker 2:I don't know how you say that like the world's moved on. I don't know. I don't. Who knows what people.
Speaker 1:Everyone needs a toothbrush like we don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you don't just say to someone on daily like yeah, but you didn't.
Speaker 1:Did you say that in 90s? Don't? We've got a holiday mate, Don't forget your toothbrush.
Speaker 2:No, I don't mean that, though, but what I mean is, like it's not in daily life that you're going to. You might be going on holiday next day. You generally know when you're going. The gag is bring your toothbrush, because you might be on holiday tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I I've missed the. I've completely missed the idea of the original show.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:I feel like a term that people use why is he telling me about the toothbrush?
Speaker 2:I know I've got to brush my teeth probably the for all the madness and everything that we've said on this show. The next bit is probably the bit that all the madness and everything that we've said on this show. The next bit is probably the bit that blew my mind the most. So they've got Richard Wilson in the show. Hmm, they're doing some magic tricks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you don't know Richard. Wilson, if I say to you I don't believe it, you'll know exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2:Well, I've got in my notes here. I wonder if we can get through this bit without you doing the I don't believe it impression.
Speaker 1:I don't believe it.
Speaker 2:And that's the dumb thing with him, isn't it? It's a fantastic sketch in Father Ted. Where do you know what he'd love? Somebody went up and said his cash freeze to him.
Speaker 2:It's brilliant, it's a bit again on XFM second mention, I think, but where Stephen Merchant says at an awards ceremony, went up to him and he was talking to him, saying, oh yeah, it'd be great actually if you cameoed in the Office next series. And he was saying, yeah, yeah, that'd be great. And he said, oh yeah, we could have you pop up and say I don't believe. Basically, oh no, why would you say that to him? Why on earth? So again, when you see him, when you see one of these characters you love, I was thinking, oh, don't just have him saying I don't believe it in different styles and voices. Fair play to Evans and Baker. They've got him here doing magic tricks. It just really surprised me this. What's he doing?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but he's good.
Speaker 2:Well, you say that the first one they've got like a flame and he's sprinkling some pepper or something onto it. That's kind of sparking a bit as it goes up and it's like is that magic?
Speaker 1:I don't know. It's not magic, obviously it's not literal, it's not like it was a wizard. I remember once, by the way, ages ago, when I'm oh fucking hell, who were it? I can't remember who it were. Anyway, we're talking about One Foot in the Grave and he goes oh yeah, I love him. He goes. You can't say that I goes. What he put that on his cat. He goes no, no, no, I don't believe you can't say that.
Speaker 2:You can't say that I just choked what's from a drink.
Speaker 1:You can't say it. I've got my different show.
Speaker 2:The worst example of misremembering. If one thing like Richard Wilson's famous voice, I don't believe it, you can't say that.
Speaker 1:Well, Richard Wilson, you can't say that.
Speaker 2:Oh, dear Brilliant. Yeah, I don't know who that was. I don't remember that. If I was there I can't remember that word, but anyway, yeah, he does a few magic tricks. He does one where, and at this bit. I don't know if one of the kids were asking me for something, but I was only watching it. I couldn't hear the sound, but he seems to have a pot of clear liquid that he pours in some other liquid and it goes one colour and then he pours it into another one and it goes clear again. That was seemingly one of the tricks. I quite like that. They got him on there doing these random things, but things, but it just seemed really weird to me that that's what he was doing. Bjork so you mentioned earlier like obviously you think it's all Britpop and indie, absolutely fantastic, and you years ago did me a playlist with Venus Is A Child On which I absolutely love. I really like this song, actually I don't know what song this is that she's doing.
Speaker 1:I can't remember, actually, but it's another really good fucking Bjort song. I can't remember what song it is on this particular. Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really good. And then and I never quite got this on the TFI Friday, is this just Chris Evans attempting to kind of get girls on that he's attracted to, to kind of get girls on that he's attracted to, to kind of try and get in there. Almost I don't know what he's, because he interviews her and he gives her oysters and, oh, go on Tabasco sauce and champagne, a bottle of champagne. Yeah, she's quite a move by it this is a beaut, by the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you, yeah, yeah, I don't know what he's doing. He's like you, like this, we've got you this, we've got you this, we've got you that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's almost then that he's going to say and I'll take you out for a drink after the show, don't worry and there'll be more champagne.
Speaker 1:I don't spend some time.
Speaker 2:Was he actually with Billy? I don't know. It's got to be around this time.
Speaker 1:This era, weren't it yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm judging him maybe unfairly, who knows, but it just seems weird that this kind of quite pretty I don't know how old she is, she'd be younger than him, but it's like oh, I brought you oysters and champagne because I've heard that you love them. It's supposed to be an interview. It's like what I don't know. Just something seemed a bit I might be reading something that isn't there.
Speaker 1:Usually on YouTube. It's obviously not anymore. But there were a guy who were obsessed with Björk, like absolutely obsessed to the point where he ended up killing himself, and he did a video like at the end saying and he did a video like at the end saying like this is a few Bjork, you won't respond to me. And he tried to like shoot himself through his mouth and he wanted his blood from the back of his brain to like hit what he put behind, which were like Bjork lyrics, and he missed that.
Speaker 1:So wank, wank, suicide attempt well, he died, but he missed the yeah, he missed so I reckon he thought it was going to be hard. So he had the lyrics behind him, so he shot himself in the mouth and he thought like all the blood will splatter onto these lyrics. But they didn't. He just went like forward dead. He died like a dog, beautiful dog.
Speaker 2:Beautiful dog, great dog. Yeah, fair enough. I Beautiful dog, great dog. Yeah, fair enough. I didn't know that. I'm not sure if it's what we should be talking about in a light-hearted podcast. But fair enough, ben Elton is the next person that we see. Unbelievable this. Where do you stand on Ben Elton? I don't know if I stand on Ben Elton, I think I would yeah, he were pre.
Speaker 1:I think in the 80s it was like seen as like the the biggest.
Speaker 2:what came through was the, the up and coming sort of next alternative yeah, almost like let's laugh at the system. Yeah, the system's broken, isn't it?
Speaker 1:yeah, it is why and I mean he comes across as so cocky in this from my point of view, like not just the interview, but like even better than mine since I've been growing up. He, he seemed almost like old hat from what we get, like I, I don't know. I classed like I don't know, off the top of my head, like at this point in in time, Leonarium like media Vic and Bob, someone like that.
Speaker 2:And it's been out of town by this point. I think the problem that he had is this is probably the end of his era. And I think, when the next wave came through exactly those that you're mentioning. He very quickly became offended by their sort of next-generation alternative comedy. That to me is where he lost a lot of credibility because he mocked the system and those that had come before him. But then, when the next wave did that to him, he seemed very offended and affronted by that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think in this interview it like he knows evans is a cocky character so he's trying to like out, speak him like, he's trying to dominate the interview but he comes across purely like as a complete prick. Like because like evans is like going well, I don't know what you're thinking, chris. I don't know what you're thinking but by that point Evans has got the upper hand, because Evans is like the cool kid and he's not anymore.
Speaker 2:He's kind of sat back there thinking, alright, mate, you don't have to keep shouting over me, you're not. You're not doing yourself any favours by doing this. And he one of his guys, he's out of the blue. He kind of says oh yeah, I'm doing Harry Enfield, oh, I'm doing a different voice, yeah, I'm Harry Enfield. It's like it seems even bitter of kind of Harry Enfield. He's not doing the same thing, harry Enfield's, not a stand-up.
Speaker 1:No, that's what I got from it. I mean, look the people younger than us who maybe love Ben Alton for what he did in the 80s. I don't know, because obviously he co-wrote the young ones and stuff like that but from what I was growing up he always seemed like someone from a bygone age who was trying to be funny. But he's not funny anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, we're not the pinnacle of UK comedy, but there'll be a new wave after us, won't there? We'll embrace them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we will, Completely yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in a way yeah, and then we get Sean Ryder telling a story which, again, I just don't think. Everybody's outraged about everything these days and I know, like I'm not saying I'm not woke or anti-woke, or I find it amazing people have got to be at one end of the argument or the other in the middle ground.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the bit I found really stunning is it's shown why. It's basically like really lightheartedly telling a story about where he killed hundreds of pigeons because he fed them rat poison. Yeah, it's also everyone's like and I think, yes, I know it's a different era, but is that is that? Is that all right? I don't know, because I think these days you'd have to say, yeah, well, you know, we got something wrong. We thought it was bird seed. It turned out it wasn't. Oh God, what a disaster. Basically, yeah, we just killed a load of birds, never mind.
Speaker 1:When I was about 15, probably around the time, like of the TFI, we were just walking through town and this guy got arrested and like it was like shuffling around and these coppers were sort of like moving around and stuff and a pigeon flew out of his pocket. What's happened here? So the coppers are actually trying to cook a pigeon pie? What do you mean? Because, yeah, he comes around all the time and nicks pigeons and tries to cook a pigeon pie.
Speaker 2:Well, I've got a. Well, it's like a double confession really.
Speaker 1:I suppose I have physically struck two different kinds of bird in my life. Is that your wife? Hey, hey, no, now we do not condone.
Speaker 2:No. So three types of bird? I've struck no, no, there's two types of bird. So we were once in St St Ives and we got there and my youngest, tilly, was a baby and I was carrying her and she had, she had a dummy in her mouth and she was kind of looking forward so I could show what's going on and a seagull flew straight at us. I think it thought that whatever she had in her mouth was food, because she had a dummy, but it kind of flew straight at her head. So I turned and it kind of flew into my back and shoulder and then it sort of flew off. But as we turned the corner the seagull was kind of on the wall next to us.
Speaker 1:Jodie says it's not the same seagull In my head.
Speaker 2:It was the same seagull and I was absolutely fuming so I punched it off the wall and it sort of flew away. He's not going to be happy here with this Justice in my mind. And then the other time that I struck a bird was I was once at a park with my little niece.
Speaker 1:I like how you always have to have children there to admit to your cruelty to animals.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I'm serving out justice in the poultry world, I suppose. So this big swan come out of the thing. She was feeding it and throwing bread to it, but it came out and it kind of wanted to fall back. So it kind of came towards us, spread its wings out. So I kind of stepped across and it was sort of trying to peck at me so I sort of slapped it on the side of the head and it turned its head and went back into the wall. I don't know if it did go back, or maybe we backed away, maybe it was a double back away. I'm not saying in this instance that this one lost. I think that was. He just kind of thought, yeah, I don't need this, so, yeah, don't need this. So yeah, they're the two occasions where I've come to physical yeah.
Speaker 2:Then we get another kind of short montage, a little bit, where Gabby Rosling's in the studio, which obviously they've worked together I don't know if she was there a lot or for a certain episode. I don't quite know what her role, if any, was on TFI Friday, do you remember?
Speaker 1:No, no, because he says in this, chris Evans, that you're one of my best friends, aren't you? And he goes yeah, yeah, yeah, I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this is the first time you've been to my house. Yeah, second time in five years, I think.
Speaker 2:Second, time, sorry, yeah, second time in five years. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what his point is there. He's saying they're not real mates. Like he says, if I phoned you in the middle of the night, you'd sort of come and help me, wouldn't you? She goes yeah, of course. Well, this is the second time you've been to my house. All right, what's your point, Chris?
Speaker 1:It's almost like before office, Like if everyone's not laughing, I'm not laughing. Well, I've been you. Yeah, jarvis Cocker, I don't know about the Weird relationship, aren't you, with Jarvis Cocker Like? You didn't like him in your youth, but I think you've like grown to like him now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I found him to be a bit of a sort of novelty act, which I still think he, to a certain extent he is. I disagree there.
Speaker 2:let's put that in, but anyway but at the same time I now don't think he's playing a character. I think that is just who he is. I think that happens to be a little bit of a novelty act at times. And also you sent me some of his early stuff which I think he's absolutely fantastic, like really sort of blew me away that that's where they came from, so but but what I was going to say on this is, again, he's another slightly sort of oddball character. You see him, you think oh no, evans is going to rip him apart and make him look stupid. He comes across.
Speaker 2:Brilliant, he comes across really confident you know he's clearly a bit of an oddball, but kind of kind of owns it and he's really comfortable in his own skin. I think he's brilliant at this. That's really funny, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jarvis were all over TV, like at this point, and he like admits later that he was chasing fame. So he went on everything. Then he hated the fact that he did that and he hated like being famous. My auntie met Jarvis Cocker a couple of years ago and she goes oh, can I get her a picture? Like my nephew loves you? Honestly. He goes why? Because like he loves your band, he loves Pulp. He went oh, it's just music, isn't it?
Speaker 2:But he did have a picture Like it went to dick, really nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, you've changed my life. Well, I didn't mean to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, didn't mean to. Yeah she said it like it was just so, so normal. Well, do you remember?
Speaker 2:one of our mates. I don't know if he were actually there. Mr Lister is his name.
Speaker 2:I don't know, if he was there or it was his mates, but he, let's say he wasn't there because they went there to smoke cannabis in a field on the outskirts of Drumfield and they said there was a bloke kind of up on the hill who slowly sort of meandered down and come over and said alright lads, it was Jarvis Cocker, just wandering about on the moors, almost. So yeah, like I said, he comes across really well we TFI, by the way is quite sort of.
Speaker 1:When Jarvis got arrested for doing his thing on stage with Michael Jackson, you know, he lifted his shirt up. I'm doing it now yeah yeah, they had an interview when he was still in custody. Like TFI went live to him in custody like saying, well, what happened, what happened, what happened? And he goes. Well, you know, I just went on stage and I don't know if I know a McCartney accent, but yeah, I just went on stage and you know.
Speaker 2:I just thought it was wrong. I just thought of the song Let it Be when I was talking to John.
Speaker 1:Yes, the rest of it turns into McCartney. Well, you know John gets a lot of the credit, but you know I thought that you know, I wrote a lot of the Beatles stuff as well. Now he was on this and Bob Mortimer became like his, because he was at the Brit Awards became like his impromptu sort of defence lawyer. Have you heard this story before?
Speaker 2:That's crazy. No.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I'm not making this up. Honestly, type that in when he got arrested.
Speaker 2:One thing I have to ask George. And then pulls like a large frying pan out of his pocket and whacks George.
Speaker 1:It's brilliant like he pulls that George Michael mask on. But honestly, yeah at that Brit Awards, bob. I'm just looking now Bob Mortimer's hang on Bob Mortimer, one save.
Speaker 2:Was that the same one where Vinnie Jones did, obviously? By the way?
Speaker 1:if people don't know, Bob Mortimer was like a qualified lawyer, weren't he yeah, yeah, yeah, Sorry.
Speaker 2:is that the same award ceremony with the Vinnie Jones?
Speaker 1:No, that were Brandon Block. When he said Brandon Block came on stage oh, what were? They were Brandon Block. When he said Brandon.
Speaker 2:Block came on stage and oh what were. Brandon Block was giving an award out of.
Speaker 1:Brit Awards and I can't remember what he said. Ronnie Wood come up and he goes yeah, yeah, you fucking old fucker, something like that. And then Vinnie Jones goes just like to say that guy who had a go at my mate, ronnie Wood, is seriously going to get fucked, or something like that. I'm like no will.
Speaker 2:I yeah, he won't, he won't and he didn't, Vinny, so I don't no.
Speaker 1:I mean look, I don't want to challenge Vinny to a fight, but all I'm saying is find some chances, not one for charity.
Speaker 2:He's about 6 foot 5 mate yeah, I don't know if I'd have a go with him. I don't know that'd be a really bad move from you all, but were you to challenge him a minute ago? Now it's me in the ring, yeah, but I backed out. I'll be in the ring. I'll tell you what. I'll have a go in the ring, not on the streets. Let's say that nah, even then anyway, come on.
Speaker 2:Anyway, from one TV hard man to another, it's Terry Wogan is the next, the next guest that we see. And again, I suppose the repeated thing I'm saying here is maybe I should just have more faith in Evans. I keep thinking he's going to do this like oh no, I love Terry Wogan. He's not going to make a fool of him, is he?
Speaker 2:And he never does. So maybe I'm the problem and not Evans, maybe it's me that's thinking he's going to do something he never does, but done really well, done with affection, really well actually. And again, you can tell Big Tell can take a joke, because there's a certain line that he says it's something like it's not rocket science doing a radio show and Chris Evans has got it written down on a card and he holds it up and says I knew it, I knew you were going to say it and he really laughs, terry Wogan, and he says, come on, like he rips up the card.
Speaker 2:And yeah, it's all really well natured and it's only a short scene, but, yeah, nice to see Mr Wogan again.
Speaker 1:And then it ends, doesn't?
Speaker 2:it with Tom Jones singing. It's Not Unusual. Yeah, it's quite a drawn-out ending this bit. I thought the whole thing is a kind of clip show. The whole show is a montage of clips, so we don't need a kind of shorter montage of shorter clips. I don't know, I just thought the last few minutes were a waste of time, if I'm honest.
Speaker 1:So that's the end of.
Speaker 2:You've cut out the best time you've been in.
Speaker 1:I think Say again, you're there. I'll just say that again.
Speaker 2:So that's the end which I think whoa, whoa, whoa say again you there, you there, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'll just say that again. So that's the end of the, the best of 1997 YouTube thing that we watched like we wanted to watch, like to try and get like the best of TFI Friday.
Speaker 2:That's why it's like a two parter, because there's so much a few things I think we said that we've re-recorded the intro, so you will already know this, but at the time you wouldn't have known this if you'd listened to the recording. But it wasn't intended as a two-parter, was it?
Speaker 1:It just became longer than we thought. No, no, no, two-parter. So in the second part, which you're listening to now, if we're a bit more pissed, pissed, that's why, yeah, a few things that we didn't mention is it's your Letters, it's your letters, it's your letters. Who sang that?
Speaker 2:Reef. Right, yeah, because that's the proper song. Now, the proper song is Put your hands up.
Speaker 1:Put your hands up, reef. Actually, because when they were singing live at the time when that chorus came in, loads of the crowd were singing it's your letters, it's your letters to him and he actually got like a bit upset about it. The Reef singer and said like can you please stop singing this? Why? What? Because it's not the fucking song.
Speaker 2:The song is I know, but he presumably was okay with him using it for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:When he first did it he thought I'll just do this for a little bit.
Speaker 2:But everyone started singing it at the gigs.
Speaker 1:Oh right, Sorry, so not on a TFI performance at the gigs, no, no, just at their normal gigs. People going it's your Ladders.
Speaker 2:Every time they started playing everyone started going Bam yeah.
Speaker 1:So genuinely he has to say to people he was really angry for a little bit, saying like don't you know, do not sing that To the point where if I ever see Reef which I'll never see him again I'm at the thought.
Speaker 2:I will start singing that so place your letters.
Speaker 1:I don't like Reef anyway. I know our mate Webding went to see him at Glastonbury. Not for me, though, Reef, I have to admit. Not for me.
Speaker 2:All right, a bit soft, yeah, all right, all right.
Speaker 1:Another few famous moments. During November and December 1999, they had a segment called Someone's Going to Be a Millionaire, which inspired who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which I didn't know that at all until I looked into it. I'm not sure Taron had said it that way. Well, the first person to win a million pounds on TV was on Was on T5 Friday.
Speaker 2:Not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's where they took their inspiration, from which, I think, wasn't it Jasper Carrick who thought of that show anyway, not Chris Harron?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was certainly involved. Yeah, I think that's right. It was one of the two or three key people who came up with the concept. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Another thing is it came to notoriety at TFI Friday when, as part of the competition, two children were forced to go head-to-head in a stair-out competition to win a parent's car. One of them lost and started crying to the point where people started complaining. So they had to actually like, give him like a source of toys, and it's bollocks that though.
Speaker 2:What so again? We've mentioned this before he knew what he was going into, didn't he? Yeah, but he's a kid. Yeah, I know, but it's still. It's his choice and he didn't win.
Speaker 1:What does he want, anyway? So they give him like loads of people complained about that Another famous moment on TFI Friday Kylie and Jerry kissing. Do you remember this at all? I don't remember this, but I did watch it back because I was looking at research and stuff. I don't remember this happening. I did watch it back several times for research.
Speaker 2:I think I would have remembered that, but no, I don't remember that. I don't know if I've seen it, but we'll finish it when I go and check it out.
Speaker 1:See you later. Calvin Hogan and Jerry Iwell have an arm wrestling competition and halfway through that rings a bell, now actually and Evan Spell on Radio 1. Obviously we like the Radio 1 main DJ, breakfast DJ. He left that because they wouldn't give him Fridays off anymore, like they were a bit like sort of row about it, to the point where he just didn't turn up for a show anymore. So he lost his breakfast show. And do you know who took over the breakfast show? Really good, you are sorry, moylesley. No, no Better than that. Didn't work out for him, but probably not suited for Radio 1, but a brilliant, brilliant duo for Radio you've put me on the spot there.
Speaker 2:Let me just give you some names. So Vic and Bob. No, that doesn't sound right pure Radio, you'll definitely you'll know them. Mark and Lars, but they were all out, weren't they? Yeah, yeah him, mark, and.
Speaker 1:Lord, yes, they were all that weren't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, mark, and.
Speaker 1:Lord. Yeah, january 1997, mark and Lord took over from Chris Evans. The ratings like dipped massively. So they were massive the evening show. It didn't work Mark and Lord as a breakfast show, because it's all like sort of hello, you know, blah, blah, blah and they were like sort of like, you know, they were just better than they need to be to be like a radio one, like Breakfast Show.
Speaker 2:And then so did Evans then decide to set up Virgin Radio, to just think, well, I'll just do my own show then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he went against them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he was getting and was Virgin Radio. Not a thing then, until it was, until it was obviously Branson did.
Speaker 2:Virgin Radio.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah of course I'm thinking of the Evans brand. Yeah, branson, when Evans came in it did beat Mark and Lard, like he Considering, like Radio 1 is like the establishment that were a massive thing for Chris Evans. And then what?
Speaker 2:because Moyles to that yeah.
Speaker 1:Miles were. After that, he called himself the saviour of Radio 1. Mark and Larder, I think, are still the best duo on radio. I think they're better than Evans. I think they're better than Miles. I think they're better than them all, to be fair.
Speaker 2:They were quite sort of downbeat, though they probably were better than.
Speaker 1:Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2:Have we got any more to add, or is that the end of our TFI journey?
Speaker 1:We've got nothing else to add for TFI Friday. If you've got any memories of TFI Friday, please let us know. Like I say, we didn't expect this to be two-parter until halfway through and we thought, fucking hell, we've been recording for ages, so if we're a bit pissed at this point, that's why we don't drink it day usually, do we? Liam?
Speaker 2:No, I mean, and it's 10.30am now, so it's fine if we're drunk, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've been going all night, all the way through the night. But now have you got any genuine memories of tea time?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd be intrigued actually to know both ends of the spectrum, so those a little bit older than us that were getting ready for going out clubbing or kind of coming in after a night out and watching the later one, or actually the youngsters who don't remember this at the time, whether they now have any knowledge of it and what their take on TFI Fridays or concept is these days. So, yeah, let us know Was it, was it or was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lot of comments on the on the video that we watched, like saying, oh, you won't get this nowadays, everyone's gone woke and we've obviously like spoken ourselves about like you won't get away with this these days and stuff, but what's your overall feelings? It was a really really good show.
Speaker 2:I I kind of concept more now than I did at the time. I think at the time, I don't know, because I wasn't going out clubbing, because I was going out to see my mates or going I don't know, going to the gym and then back to the mate's house to whatever I was doing. This was a bit of a oh, is that on again? It's all right. Yeah, I don't know, I just didn't buy it. I just didn't. I wasn't in the right to me the right age, but you were the same age and you enjoyed it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:No, I did purely because of the bands, though. I mean, there were loads of like sort of songs that I'd never heard of by bands Like Supergrass one of them. I remember them like singing a what was the song Going Out? I think it was by Supergrass. I only knew him from. That's something that I hate Supergrass I only knew him from. We Are Young, we Are Free. Keep Our Teeth Nice and Clean. I've heard all that.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's why I didn't like it I don't know but yeah, I get it because I think if you were kind of into your indie music at this time, but I pretty much listened to Urban Hymns on repeat at this era so I wasn't really into a lot, like you mentioned, some of the other bands Shed 7 and I don't know certain other ones I wasn't really into a lot of this sort of stuff. So, yeah, not aimed at me, and that's fair enough. Not all TV has to be. So. Next week we're doing an episode and this is a viewer's request and, to be fair, I'm delighted Because I mentioned it to you and you said I don't know about that one.
Speaker 2:It's coming from Pugaccio. I don't know who he is, but what? Pugash? Well, that's what I thought. I'm assuming it's not, but it could be. But he's basically what he said said is he'd love to see us talk about the strangest village in Britain documentary. Now I've seen this and you haven't. It's absolutely fantastic TV but we're going to have to tread carefully because it is from memory. It's a village of people with kind of different mental disabilities, but it's a community. There's some of different mental disabilities, but it's a community. There's some really touching moments, some really funny moments. I remember it as being one of the best things I'd seen. But let's test that theory.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I've never seen it. Someone sent it on. We're always up for it. I can't even fucking speak, liam. What are we on now Fucking? Yeah, four cans, yeah, four cans. But we are always up for requests and stuff people sending and this seems like an easy one to do. You're away next week. I'm away the week after.
Speaker 2:Well, no, because you're out of time frame now, because this is a two-parter. This will go up next week, so we're away this week for the viewer.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:That's it, whatever, so, whichever week you're, we're away one week. You're listening the other week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's it, that's it, that's it, anyway, thank you very much, liam, and I will join you for the fucking strangest village in Europe, whatever it's called.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like the fucking strangest village in Europe, whatever it's called. Yeah, and like I know, we sometimes say it doesn't matter if you watch this one or not. I would really recommend, before you listen to next week's episode, go and watch on YouTube. It's 48 minutes long. The strangest village in Britain.
Speaker 1:I'll watch it. I've got it. You're in it, yeah Right. See you later, liam. See you later.
Speaker 2:If anyone wants to get in touch with us, send us anything. Find us on Twitter at livingwithmade1 or you can send us an email at livingwithmadelee at outlookcom.