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 Bonus Episode - Chapel St Leonards Roadshow Part 3
Ever found yourself belting out karaoke classics with confidence, only to realize your talents might be better suited for the shower? Join us as we laugh at our own musical misadventures and embark on a whimsical exploration of surviving a post-apocalyptic world. We humorously consider the logistics of rebuilding society, complete with a quirky leadership structure starring none other than Richard Madeley. It's a mix of speculative humor and strategic planning that sets the stage for our nostalgic journey.
Next, we share those little irritations that get under our skin, from doors left ajar to traffic jam woes, illuminating how personal quirks shape our interactions. Our light-hearted tale of meeting through a mutual friend comes with its own set of misunderstandings, showcasing patience, growth, and a bit of laughter. Plus, a lively debate on passions and living with eccentric roommates keeps the conversation spirited, pondering hypothetical scenarios like embracing a new sport abroad or cohabitating with a peculiar character.
Lastly, we channel our inner critics as we unpack Morrissey's lyrics, revel in drinking mishaps, and reminisce about nostalgic TV favorites. From a chaotic day trip to Wembley to our playful critique of sitcom classics, the episode is a celebration of humor and the quirks that make life interesting. We promise a captivating blend of stories that entertain, reflect, and perhaps even inspire a chuckle or two. Tune in for a delightful trip down memory lane with a twist!
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to Living with Maidly, the TV nostalgia podcast. Hello and welcome to Living With Maidley, the TV nostalgia podcast. We've done a quick intro for this one because we didn't have a little gap where we did another intro. This is the third part of the Chapel St Leonard's Roadshow. Liam's here, by the way.
Speaker 3:It's not just me. I'm here. Yeah, we managed to drag three episodes out of that, although we're not counting them as part of the series. It's not counting. Yeah, exactly, You'll still get 12 official episodes of the series. The Roadshow has made up three bonus ones. They've been quite hard work to edit. They've been quite hard work. Not edit so much because that's just a chat, but putting in Not for me.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, it's no effort for you, is it? But all the hundreds of terrible karaoke songs we've done, yeah, apologies is all I can say. I think we both think we can hold a tune to a certain extent Something's going wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think something's gone wrong, because I think we're both top class singers, but the karaoke recordings don't give any evidence towards that, do they?
Speaker 3:No, I think we've tried to. You've spent a long time trying to justify why it's been so bad, haven't you Even? On the night you were on, you trudged off to bed. You were sort of mumbling to yourself about where we were going wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I think, normally your karaoke is done in a bar full of other drunk people. It's quite noisy. You're trying to sing above a crowd, like in a cold reality of a, of a caravan, where nobody else can hear. What was it say. No one can hear you scream in space in a caravan. Everyone can hear you fail at karaoke.
Speaker 2:Well, next time, because I think the keys out are all the karaoke songs I'll bring. Well, next time, because I think the keys are all the karaoke songs I'm bringing this guy Thorn in my side.
Speaker 1:Was that Exactly. Yeah, so we thought we'd cap out. Anyway, rambling on, enjoy the episode oh, get me away from here. I'm dying. Play me a song to set me free. Nobody writes them like they used to to, so it may as well be me here on my own now after hours, here on my own now on a bus. Thinking it this way, you could either be successful or be us, without winning smiles and our hearts with our catchy tunes and words and we're photogenic, you know we don't stand a chance similar theme here.
Speaker 2:Jp said you wake up and you hear a radio. A mystery virus is called 90% of the population, all the power goes off. He says what is our strategy for survival for the next 72 hours, the next six months and then the next five years? To build a new society so the power's gone off.
Speaker 3:I want to investigate why. Why can't we get the power back on?
Speaker 2:it might be like Threads, like a nuke.
Speaker 1:I'll take Maybe like Threads, like a nuke, I'll take it like that Threads has happened, a nuke's happened, but it's a bit different, isn't it?
Speaker 3:Because it's not like everything's been destroyed, Just the people have gone. So I want to find somewhere, a farm maybe that generate their own electricity. We need power.
Speaker 2:We've got to keep recording podcasts, haven't we? Yeah, exactly. Besides the audience we've got. Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 3:So we need a power source for those that are left.
Speaker 2:We need some entertainment as well, so I think we have to bring in if you're still alive Stephen Muller to present some sort of entertainment show.
Speaker 3:I mean, I certainly wouldn't. I can of see where you're coming from in a loose sort of way. But yeah, we need power. So we go to a farm that's got a wind turbine, it's got solar panels, it's generating power, it's also got a food source. It's growing itself. So that's your first six months. Yeah, so the first six months we need power, we need food. So you're all going to a farm. We find a farm, we go to the farm, we take over the farm and then we're rebuilding society for five years so, then, we need to put down leaders.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get, I'm going to get warm.
Speaker 3:You're fucking on a farm again. You're fucking on a farm again. So we've got to establish Some kind of democracy, so we need a leader. So maybe Are you?
Speaker 2:Could he lead us? Massive Tory though. Imagine when it gets Sort of A lot of the food you make Comes my way. Yeah, I think I do the most, I get the most.
Speaker 3:That's for me yeah.
Speaker 2:I think this should be Like some Divine Rite where I get this.
Speaker 3:No, but I think it'd be a team player, yeah, so, maidly, give us some of it.
Speaker 2:We're calling it the Island of Maidly. Yeah, and Maidly's the leader, yeah.
Speaker 3:So we've got kind of the we're not having a king or anything, we're having a leader. It's like communism, we're going to a horrible place.
Speaker 2:Communism led by Richard Madeley Imagine that I like the farm.
Speaker 3:It's a great farm. Great farm, most of the country.
Speaker 2:In fact, would you get Trump here? Great farm, beautiful farm. What a farm. Great farm, beautiful farm.
Speaker 3:A lot of people dying, dying beautifully, beautifully dying. But I like Richard Madeley Beautiful man, great man, great host.
Speaker 2:So I think, to rebuild society if I had to I'm going to take this a different way, in a way If you had to rebuild society, so let's see what we've got to do.
Speaker 3:So we've got to create law and order.
Speaker 2:So to set the rules we need, I reckon, like if you're really bad, you have to listen to all our podcasts back to back on a loop.
Speaker 1:I'm saying people again.
Speaker 3:But I would love to see I think it would go very, very wrong but a democracy led by Mike Parry.
Speaker 2:I would not be involved. Honestly, I would do it, ian Curtis I really would not.
Speaker 3:I think how mad that world would be, but I would like to see it.
Speaker 2:Mike Parry, today by the way has said that we watched the game. We played the game. We watched Southampton man U and they were a bad tackle from a Southampton player. He got sent off.
Speaker 3:Didn't quite catch him, though, did he, but it was dangerous it was a bad tackle.
Speaker 2:Mike Parry said it's the worst tackle he's ever seen in Premier League history yeah, we won't have Parry leading the country.
Speaker 3:Then, like I want to Mike, parry good death straight away.
Speaker 2:I reckon definitely yeah, like well, he's Mike. What happened yesterday?
Speaker 3:he's accidentally added an extra cookie or whatever.
Speaker 2:Death it's got to be, death it's got to be death the shovel I was using yesterday.
Speaker 3:Mike, I didn't put it away properly. That was a death penalty. That's a death penalty, yeah, but we'll be dead in days, won't we? A sane man at the top, or woman, or woman Sensible head Southgate. Ah, now you're talking. So Southgate runs because he's not capable of winning anything. Yeah, yeah but in terms of a safe pair of hands to run and if he's a fair man, he's just we then need. So we're talking what do we need next? We need infrastructure, we need to start planning, we need, but I think like.
Speaker 2:The question is like how would we I don't think I'm reading. The question is like how would we well, I don't think I'm reading this wrong from JP how would we rebuild society in our image? I suppose well, I'm paraphrasing what I just feel. What would you ban like, what would you say like?
Speaker 3:right society's back on its feet.
Speaker 2:We're eating and stuff, everything's okay so maybe I want a daily safe. I was going to say daily mail. I need daily mail directed to my door.
Speaker 3:Commentary on what we're doing. I'm thinking Sarah Cox, I don't know why. I'm thinking Sorry, I'm nearly spitting a drink.
Speaker 2:Why would you want?
Speaker 3:Sarah, where did that come from?
Speaker 2:Someone's just like why are you getting celebrities involved? That's not the question. How are we? Why are you getting? How are we?
Speaker 3:rebuilding society. Sarah Cox, I'm thinking of a morning show that says here's what we're going to do today. We could do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should get radio on a fucking show like Mark and Laura. That would be.
Speaker 3:It is job for today. We've got to get on with him, okay. Yeah, that's terrible in person. Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 2:But what would you like? What would you ban then? For instance and if we were, well, I'll tell you what I'd ban chewing gum. So honestly, he looked at me the most serious way. I can't stand it. I like chewing gum Horrible habit.
Speaker 3:I'll argue with that. People talk to someone looking at it. I would ban that on the spot.
Speaker 2:What more than tobacco and alcohol?
Speaker 3:Yeah, law one.
Speaker 2:Law one no chewing gum?
Speaker 3:No chewing gum.
Speaker 2:What other laws?
Speaker 3:Let's say we've got five laws then Five laws no chewing gum.
Speaker 2:We've got that, I think. Do you have a curfew or do you mind people staying out?
Speaker 3:no people can stay out. Yeah, a bed like an early rise time, no, no, just stay in bed all day if you want.
Speaker 2:Yeah do that?
Speaker 3:I reckon no would you have to do? You have to earn your right. In a sense, do we all work, or is it that actually the doctor? So we need a doctor.
Speaker 2:Doctor Imhoff Maidley this morning what's called Geordie Mann?
Speaker 3:yeah.
Speaker 2:Doctor, whatever he's fucking called, yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know what to say about your sore feet.
Speaker 2:I've got. I've got absolutely no medical equipment, because the world has ended.
Speaker 3:I can't help you, but it looks so Now.
Speaker 2:we do need a doctor, though, yeah, we've got a doctor, but I'm on about that. I'm on about that, all right, then I'm going to change the question what five things would you ban? Right, so we've got chewing gum?
Speaker 3:I would probably ban. You're having chewing gum, aren't you? I would probably ban. You're having sugar, aren't you? I would ban. I'll go for that?
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't need it.
Speaker 3:I'd probably ban really spicy food.
Speaker 2:No, I disagree. Oh no, so maybe not. I fucking love spicy food.
Speaker 3:No, but the people who pretend they like spicy food when you can see when they're eating it. They don't like it. Eyes watering. I love that, mate. Small talk. I'm banning small talk. Oh, I'm absolutely for that.
Speaker 2:You know how, when people come in to like we've had someone today, really nice guy. I just don't like it, Like when they'll say no, I see a game today.
Speaker 3:Well, I always say, if me and Jerry go to a wedding or an event, I always say let's see how long it takes for someone. Weather didn't turn out great, did it? But it's been a great day, yeah I'll. Small talk is banned, Small talk specifically about the weather for the day. I just think small talk is.
Speaker 2:Small talk in general, if people come up Unless they've got something to add, like A guy said to us today watching football as the Villa got on, Dan played, yeah, Dan played.
Speaker 2:He said he'd be playing later. Dan played. You said they're playing later. They haven't played. Oh right, yeah, he's banned, he's dead. Yeah, he's gone. Yeah, gone to head. I'm all right with small talk if they're going to add something Like if they say that's not small talk, though, is it? No? No, no, yeah, exactly, so, like the guy came up, what I want is some XG On conversation. Yeah, yeah, how many points hit?
Speaker 3:Yeah, how many like. I want like.
Speaker 2:So of the seven things you said to us, yeah, one of them.
Speaker 3:There was an expected two, but you actually only delivered on one. Yeah, I want to know, I want to learn something. No, small talk.
Speaker 1:yeah, I want to learn something.
Speaker 2:I'm absolutely up for that. Well, we'll fucking leave it at Now. A small talk, and yeah, whatever, I don't think we've done five. Do you think we've done enough to move on? I picked five, so it doesn't matter Are the other three small talk All the other three small talk, yeah.
Speaker 3:Once I never could have hoped to win. You're starting down the road and leaving me again. The threats you made were meant to cut me down, but love was just a circus. You'd be a clown by now.
Speaker 2:Irritates each other.
Speaker 3:Where do you start? I admire you, despite having kind of anxiety issues, but you put yourself out there. You write articles, you do your podcast, you do your website. I think.
Speaker 2:You make your masks, go on.
Speaker 3:No, but I genuinely as well. I think you could be someone who says, no, don't do any of those things, because, yeah, I struggle with anxiety. I think you put yourself out into the world and I admire that. I don't think that's easy for you, but you do it so genuinely, I admire that.
Speaker 2:I admire your you easy for you, but you do it so genuinely. I am I your you, I think. I think you're quite a charming man thank you, this is, it's like a like some sort of um uh dating um, I do. I do admire that. I think like I genuinely I roll my ace if I'm bringing, bringing someone out, I know you'll make a good impression.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think if I want to get on with people, I can be great, Alright.
Speaker 2:The worst trait from you by a mile, I reckon, is your Too funny, no ability to get unbelievably angry about really minor things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll accept that Chewing gum pointing hand.
Speaker 2:There's loads of times like even today. You've not been bad today, to be fair, but it could have escalated, maybe Like where someone left a door open instead of closing it, and that ruins your day. You're like fuck me.
Speaker 3:Why has he left that fucking door open. I can't understand why people don't do sensible things. Yeah, I do struggle with that. Not like, not huge things. Great gesture from us.
Speaker 2:When we were talking about it he said, like he gets a sense that you're like a man who, when they've been wronged, you can't handle it. I agree completely. I don't like to be wronged, you can't handle it. I agree completely. I don't like to be wronged, but don't just wronged, I think, like I say, someone leaving a door open, you're like, oh for fuck's sake, I'm so angry about it.
Speaker 3:I don't understand why people can't apply common sense to a situation that really grates on me, and also not even just that, but why people can't apply another. So we were sat today in a pub, a group of 10 or 12 girls on a hen do we're really struggling to figure out where to sit? And they didn't want to split the group, yeah. So my first reaction was to say to them we can move down there, push these tables together. Oh, do you mind? No, not at all, it's no loss to us. It took us 10 seconds to move our seat. What would really annoy me in that scenario is me watching that, with two lads watching the football, thinking, well, we're not fucking moving For 30 seconds of your time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But you're right, that would ruin my night.
Speaker 2:You'd ruin your day, I would think why the fuck could they not move?
Speaker 3:And even an hour later I'd be saying to you remember the fucking kids who did that.
Speaker 2:So on the way here there were a massive traffic jam. What was it called?
Speaker 3:There's one at Renishaw Van Dyke.
Speaker 2:yeah, there's one at Van Dyke, but you were fuming because there were a massive traffic jam and then we came passing the car and you thought that the road men were doing nothing. So you start beeping.
Speaker 3:No, no, so what I was doing there? Yeah, slightly beeping at them, but I was also thinking so. The hotel guests need to know that this is not acceptable yeah, so you start beeping.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's insane. Yeah, I accept that absolutely as I'm thinking about now.
Speaker 3:It's mad, but I was beeping my horn to disrupt the hotel because I didn't like that. We queued for the hotel's roadworks that's why you're that.
Speaker 2:That's your by far your most irritating trait, the fact that you like sort of go way over the top about your most irritating trait is, I think, the fact that you accept that, yeah, I've just done that.
Speaker 3:that's wrong. So, like you're really trying to look after Jodie's dad's caravan the way we are right now, you'll pour something on the floor and go ah, shit, yeah, no, that's fine.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying that you did it deliberately Bullying.
Speaker 3:But then there's kitchen roll next to you and you won't say, oh, I'll wipe that up. You'll look at it and then look at me with like scared eyes yeah, oh, I poured that on the floor. Yeah, so I'll get some kitchen roll and wipe it up and say it's fine, we can just wipe it up, and you'll go you think, to say, alright, I didn't do that on purpose, which I accept. Pure panic, easy to fix though, yeah, but no dyspraxia, so once again, but the afterthought isn't dyspraxia, is it?
Speaker 3:the incident is dyspraxia. No, the afterthought is just ah yeah, that's my dyspraxia yeah, let's leave it. I don't like why you don't try and correct that you? You can't, you can't, but then maybe if you tried to wipe it up, you'd end up like spilling, Exactly yeah, I know what comes next.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe that's not fair.
Speaker 3:Maybe that's not fair.
Speaker 1:Those were the days of our lives. The bad things in life were so few things in life were so few.
Speaker 2:Those days are all gone now. But one thing is true when I look and I find I still love you anyway. Adam said potentially boring question how did we meet? So I remember this clearly like KKK meeting. No way, it's not. We've got a friend called Brendan who I've known since school. Liam worked with Brendan.
Speaker 3:So I got a job at Sainsbury's aged 16. They didn't keep me on actually because I did a really bad Sainsbury's aged 16. They didn't keep me on actually because I did a really bad interview.
Speaker 3:Furious with someone like opening a bag of crisps in background somehow no, but they said like it seems the most obvious question in the world. But one of the questions was if we haven't got something, what would you say? Obviously, offer a replacement. And what I did in later life was I used to I would bet I used to get shining stars and gift vouchers because I used to say, look, we haven't got this, but let's go and have a look at recipe book and find it. But in my interview I said I just said I'm sorry, yeah, and I think that was a really poor answer but anyway, that's not the question no, no, but so my point is so.
Speaker 3:So I got the initial job at sainsbury's. Didn't get kept on, met Brendan briefly. When things started picking up again, they phoned me and said do you want a job? Came back. We're desperate.
Speaker 2:We want this mad Irish man here who wants to rouse singing in you there's nobody else.
Speaker 3:So I took the job at Sainsbury's, got to know Brendan and then went out for a night out with Brendan and met you and Stratford I think Not, true Not.
Speaker 2:Stratford in the first instance. No, not true at all. Not true, not true, that's not true at all. All right, tell me. This is how I remember it. Right, this is what happened is Brendan, our mate, is late for everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, ah, yeah, no. Yeah yeah, yeah, Sorry.
Speaker 2:I, our mate Brendan is just, he's not just late, sometimes deliberately late, yeah, so once we were supposed to go to see him in the park and we missed train because he ran an hour late, because he stopped off on the way to get to the train for a full English breakfast. Yeah, so he's a brilliant guy but absolute, fucking renegade. So he said look, my mate Liam, who I've met at Sainsbury's, is a. I'm going to meet him in a pub at.
Speaker 3:Wetherspoons weren't I yeah, on Wetherspoons yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, spoons, and he was probably there about 8 o'clock or whatever it were, so I got there. He weren't there. Rather, you were an hour and a half lucky.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so me and your mate both expected to meet Brendan. Yeah, we didn't know each other and said, oh, you'd meet Brendan, yeah, yeah, so I had to kind of chat to each other because he didn't bother turning up. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then we started a podcast immediately after, and that's where the magic started. Yeah, that's it, that's it genuinely, because he was that late.
Speaker 3:Was that 17, 18? Yeah, 17, I think yeah, so that would be what 25 years ago. That's mad, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Another question from one of them was if you could have any item out of one person's house, what would it be? Mine is my island shirt that I lent you. Well, it's not in my house anymore. Well, you still fucking know it, man, because I lent you an island shirt to play a football game in. I've still not seen it.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, I'm sorry it's not there anymore. I don't know what happened to that. I apologise.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you know, that's where all criminals apologise.
Speaker 3:Hitler was sorry, wasn't he? I don't know if he was actually, but what would I have out of your house? I would have, I would love to take a piece of technology from your house that you think doesn't work and have it for like 10 or 15 minutes and prove that it does work. Well, this week the number of times I speak to you and you say this fucking laptop's not working. I'm fairly convinced if I took it away from your household it would be fine.
Speaker 3:I always love this. To be fair, this is praise to you. I always loved your 12-string guitar. I thought you played it beautifully.
Speaker 2:to be fair, that's fucked because this practice. So you know, yeah, that's fucked. Now I'm not genuinely knocked somehow, do you know? I'm one of the tuners, so you can't. I took it into a guitar shop, said can you get men this? He goes no, it's fucked that's it done For one.
Speaker 3:I was impressed you inspired me to start learning the guitar, which I'm not great at, but I'm okay. But when you play that 12-stringer that's really difficult to play. I always used to think like, wow, that sounds brilliant. So I'll take your prime 12-string guitar not if you've ruined it now.
Speaker 2:And I'll take my Allen shirt back. Berlin Blade is brilliant in this, because he said after this question I'll send more questions, as I think of him he's never asked another question. That's one question and that is who would win in a fight between us two I don't, I don't like this question.
Speaker 2:Well, you say that, but we all know the answer. It's me now. Um, we had, um, we were really drunk one night and we said this was ages ago, to be fair, so don't judge us. But we said, well, judge us a little bit, because this was at a wedding. It was a wedding, yeah. I said like we had a spa. We had a spa. I said like we'll have a one-minute fight, russ minute fight. Russ was there as well. Like he didn't get involved, did he? In fact, we had a one minute fight.
Speaker 2:We said you're not allowed to hit each other in the face but you can go as hard as you want in each of us, and Liam broke my ribs, genuinely broke my ribs. I was off work for three weeks, so I've had to hand you the accolade of the hardest man, but didn't we both end up in hospital in fights? Your arms fell off.
Speaker 3:So what happened there is oh, here we go. No, no, this is true, this is good instincts from you. So we were scuffling and having a bit of a few jabs. I think probably the shot that threw to your ribs you sort of blocked instinctively and your elbow hit the top of my hand and it sort of fractured the top of my arm so you had broken ribs. I had the top of my arms black and yellow for about a month. They were awful, they looked really bad.
Speaker 2:I want to give myself a black eye. Genuinely, I was trying to sort my bed out, swing me to sleep. Honestly I was trying to sort my bed out. You know, when you do that with your sheet like, so I'm doing the actions now he's actually shaking a bit yeah waving like a because I don't like to mention it, but I've got dyspraxia. And yeah and I drop. I drop one light side of it and punch myself in the eye black eye.
Speaker 3:That's how hard I am. So I think what in response to that, what I would say is 10 years ago, I think you'd have got a really kind of hostile debate of we might have even earned up sparring yeah, just saw it out once and for all. But but I think, I think, probably me, but, but I'm not. Once upon a time I would have said fuck off, I'll easy fucking way yeah I, I fancy myself but I'm not ruling you out.
Speaker 2:I'm the brains, he's the brawn, but he edits it. So he's the brains, I'm the brawn and I'm just the shouter. I'm, like you know, like one of those people like fucking what, eh you what?
Speaker 3:No, you put yourself down there. That's it. The girl's my Paul, I told you, I'm 11.
Speaker 2:Michael, no, no, that's my bit.
Speaker 3:Hang on, no, I'm that bit.
Speaker 2:You're that bit. No, I'm that bit. I'm that bit no, the girl's my Paul.
Speaker 3:I can't be you. I'm talking to Paul. Yeah, I'm Paul. Yeah, so I'm talking to Paul.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'm fucking talking. What are?
Speaker 3:Don't waste your time, because the doggone girl's mine. The doggone girl is mine, the doggone girl is mine.
Speaker 2:Michael, I've told you we're not going to fight about this okay. I think I told you I'm a lover, not a fighter. Yeah, I've heard this before, Michael. She told me she's mine.
Speaker 3:Well, after loving me, she said she couldn't love another.
Speaker 2:Do you remember what I said?
Speaker 1:Yes, you did. I don't believe it. She's mine.
Speaker 3:Mental, mental.
Speaker 2:Cappy said, you have to move abroad and watch another sport as your main passion. Which country, which city, which sport?
Speaker 3:well, you might not know this, but I have Irish family, so I may choose an Irish town and Gaelic football, but that seems too obvious. I can't believe you're on that route, aren't you? How many times have you mentioned this practice? But no, that seems too obvious. So I'm thinking about it a little bit more seriously. You don't have to be. Last night you were really cold, weren't you? I was all right, but you were caught. Seriously, you don't have to be last night. You were really cold, weren't you? I was alright, but you were caught. I don't mind being caught. I like the idea of being caught yeah, I prefer cold to hot.
Speaker 3:I couldn't go in a hot country yeah, you were fine once you got your jacket, watching your hair yeah, but I haven't anymore, I've got no hair but what I'm saying is I like idea of maybe like a canada and an ice hockey team, so so I might go, uh, quebec and uh, I don't even know who then I should see. But but I like the idea of like an ice hockey, baseball or something. I was quite good at school at rounders, so I always thought if I was american I'd be good at baseball sorry, if I were american I'd be good at baseball no, no, but I do think like I'm not saying that but, I don't think I'm sort of big enough to be the American footballer like I think it's not about you playing.
Speaker 3:It's like what we're watching no, I know, but that sort of drives your passion doesn't it so I like the idea of watching.
Speaker 2:I like fast paced stuff. I think I'd go to probably America to be fair and I'd probably play basketball.
Speaker 3:Basketball yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm not big enough, but I think that's the game.
Speaker 3:But you'd like to watch it like the pace of it, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think that's a good answer so.
Speaker 2:I'd go to America. I'm not against that.
Speaker 3:I'm going Canada, montreal. Don't know who the teams are, but I'm going to ice hockey in Canada, please, yeah, fair play Webding the great Webding, who obviously said like it wasn't our mate.
Speaker 2:so you know we've got to be quite harsh with this. But he said, could you genuinely live with Maidley? He said he imagines that he's a very difficult man to talk to, to live with.
Speaker 3:Do you think he'd be really like passive-aggressive? Well?
Speaker 2:he says like it'll get worse because Royal continually knock off all his TV Quick Awards off his mouthpiece.
Speaker 3:No, it's fine, it's fine, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:He's got a disease. He's got a disability. He's got a disability, it's fine it's fine.
Speaker 3:It's fine I'll. Short answer is I actually think he would be quite an easy, mind you, in the sort of living with the maleys thing. Didn't they do a documentary where he's don't have anyone in my kitchen? That short answer is yes. On open appearances I think he'd be an easy man to live with. But I think if he scratched at the surface I think he'd like like I have my own sort of quirks. I think he would have really over the top quirks.
Speaker 2:I could absolutely live with him.
Speaker 3:Oh, I think you'd drive him mad.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. But imagine like oh, I'm really hungry, rich, I'll get it, I'll get it.
Speaker 3:I'll do your ham sandwich with Tenerife and Canaria. He's left. He's left the butter out. He's not put a lid on the butter. I'll tell him. I'll tell him, it's fine, it's fine, I accept him.
Speaker 2:It's not my life anyway, so it doesn't matter who's like mad about that.
Speaker 3:I think you could live a maid life, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure, maybe could live with you that's a good question yeah, because obviously he's you could be a bit more like me like. What you're doing, yeah.
Speaker 3:It's fine. It's fine, you've left the lid off the butter. Can you put it in the fridge tomorrow, but then the next day it's not in the fridge again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:He's not putting it in again.
Speaker 2:He's not putting it in again.
Speaker 3:It's unacceptable.
Speaker 2:So I could live with him, but you couldn't live with me.
Speaker 3:I don't know if me and I've never heard that phrase.
Speaker 2:No, that's what he says, isn't it?
Speaker 3:He's just like he's Hitler in the kitchen yeah. I thought you were thinking too many cook sports, too many Hitler spoiled broth. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if we'd get on each other's nerves like, well, I'm wiping the kitchen down now, well, I'll do it.
Speaker 1:No, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 3:I'll do it. I think I could. I'd either get on really well with him or within a day it would be. This doesn't work. We're trying to do the same roles. You could live with Mayley? Yeah, definitely, Mayley could not live with you.
Speaker 2:No, I think if I said like oh, really hungry. Okay, cereal, do you want porridge? Yeah, do you want blueberries on it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, bananas, yeah, yeah, bananas.
Speaker 3:And then you'd have one spoon and leave it on the side, maybe slightly tipped up onto the sofa seats. Yeah, he's fine, he's pulled the seats. He's pulled the seats.
Speaker 2:I'll tell him, I'll tell him, yeah, a couple of days down the line he's done it again.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Don't say be that, Don't say stop that, don't say see here.
Speaker 1:Free to run around all day.
Speaker 2:Free to do it all my way. Eggie has said this is a thing we've been saying all weekend. To be fair, he just put say his name. I don't know if anyone's like familiar with the wrestler, joe Hendry.
Speaker 3:So I'm only familiar with this from this week because you sent me a video. It's not a question for Maggie, but it's worth debate, I think because he's not asking this. It's definitely worth a debate. Yeah Well, I'm going to take a question from this, because you know much more about him than me. So there's a wrestler I think he's a UK wrestler.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's in WWE now, but yeah.
Speaker 3:And he's done some fantastic publicity videos, which is the kind of gag is. Well, eggie said say his name. So do you want to do it?
Speaker 1:Every time someone says his name or says say his name, this wrestler comes out or says or says says his name.
Speaker 2:Uh, this, this wrestler comes out, joe Hendry, saying say his name, and he appears, so he, he'll dive out like a, like a I don't know a locker, like saying I believe in Joe Hendry and it's so catchy, it's so good, it's so, so he's so good.
Speaker 3:He's so so, so good. And you've said this to me and I don't watch a lot of the WWE sort of stuff, so I don't know much about him, but this is so catchy, We've been singing it all weekend, so I suppose the question off the back of this, do you?
Speaker 1:believe in Joe Hendrick, do you believe in Joe?
Speaker 2:Hendrick, I do, yeah, I do believe in him.
Speaker 1:I've only seen some videos.
Speaker 3:But what my question is is has this established him as a real WWE character?
Speaker 2:I'm not really up on WWE. To be fair, we obviously did a podcast on WWE. None of us are experts.
Speaker 3:This seems such clever marketing.
Speaker 2:Our mate Tom goes to all. Well, he didn't go to all the WWE, but when it comes to England he'll go to the WWE.
Speaker 3:He follows it. He knows all the storylines.
Speaker 2:And he sent me this, like this Joe Hendry character, honestly just like typing in. He's so funny, and has he?
Speaker 3:so is he now part of WWE.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's part of WWE now, so maybe that answers the question then.
Speaker 3:So by doing these videos then, as he forced his way into the WWE, yeah, yeah, yeah, because he's like that's brilliant marketing, unbelievably charismatic honestly.
Speaker 2:You know there's a wrestler called Morrissey, by the way. I won't be fighting him today no, honestly, it's brilliant because I come to him and go Morrissey with a right hand, morrissey with a leg drop well, actually this cheers Eggie.
Speaker 3:This feeds into the next question. What's our favourite Morrissey line? But and apologies, because you've written them all down, I've not got theirs. Yeah, you haven't got theirs. I don't know who sent theirs. And in brackets you said almost ridiculous, yeah.
Speaker 2:So my.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you my poetic or are you going to go favourite in terms of most sing-along?
Speaker 2:My favourite Marisha line is with the triumphs in your charms while they're in each other's arms is brilliant because it's about like he's got all these triumphs but they're in each other's arms Like he's still not got. You know what I mean? He's still not got a love.
Speaker 3:I love that, so my favourite. But the most ridiculous oh go on, you do your ridiculous thing. Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the most ridiculous is definitely we hate it when our friend becomes successful, when he goes such a laughable laugh. Then he goes oh, no one laughs like that. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sorry, go on, you wash yours.
Speaker 3:So I think the most beautiful Morrisey Larry, because I think he writes fantastically is you have never Well, I'm not even going to sing it because we've got so much karaoke to cut in you have never been in love until you've seen the stars reflected in the reservoirs. I think that's a beautiful line Most ridiculous there's so many isn't there, but it's not a ridiculous line. But I love the first line of a song being losing in front of your home crowd.
Speaker 2:That's something you'd let an opening To start a song.
Speaker 3:It's the most depressing opening to a song Losing in front of your home crowd.
Speaker 2:Like obviously it's a depressing single he sings about like depressive things, but that is probably like realistically losing in front of your home crowd.
Speaker 3:I mean we've said like I have forgiven Jesus. I love him, but actually that becomes a clever lyric, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:no, but the bit in the middle of that when he goes Monday suffocation. Tuesday provocation. Wednesday suffocation. Thursday is pathetic. Thursday is pathetic. Thursday is pathetic. I mean, we've mentioned it before, but it's by Friday.
Speaker 3:Life has killed me yeah, I find the lyrics we've mentioned it before some girls are bigger than others. The lyrics are are ludicrous to match the fantastic melody. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I think that there's loads of sort of stupid lyrics Bum, bum ba-da, bum, bum, bum bum. What's the? Oh? No, it's.
Speaker 3:Girlfriend In A Coma, Girlfriend In A Coma, I know I know, which again is kind of poetic as a full piece, but there's lyrics you can pick out on their own that sound ridiculous. Yeah, but yeah, and this is when I first got into Morrison and you did a couple of playlists for my tape deck when I was driving around. That's how old we are, yeah, and yeah, I remember saying to you like this is brilliant, but why has he put those words there?
Speaker 2:When I first tried to get into morrissey like this was literally like 17 and stuff you were like it's a fucking novelty, act like what you're talking about, why you like send him in this guy's fucking stuff because, like I love that line, it's a terrible line in fact. Uh, when he goes, I will be in the bar with my head on the bar. It's right on bar with bar you can't bar.
Speaker 3:I thought Big Nose Strikes Again was a little bit ludicrous.
Speaker 2:Big Nose, oh, big Nose, oh yeah, big Nose Strikes Again. What's with the big nose, though?
Speaker 3:With the big nose.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, with the big nose, the Roman nose, it's the same song. Yeah, right yeah. With a big note the Roman, it's the same song.
Speaker 1:yeah, right yeah and now I know how Joan of Arc felt.
Speaker 3:I mean again like if you want sort of great lyrics and if a double decker bus crashes into us, but then the beautiful lyric to die by your side. Pleasure, privilege is mine.
Speaker 2:He said earlier I said this to you earlier to be fair. He said like I said this to you earlier to be fair. He said like they have been asked to reform the Smiths yeah, morrissey wants to do it and Marr says nah but imagine working, imagine, this would just not work.
Speaker 2:Imagine working with Morrissey. He'd be fucking. He'd put a picture of Farage up like, say why, because you got reformed. And he just put a picture of Farage up like, I say why because you've got refoiled, and he's just put a picture of Farage up. Yeah, and even though that seems you think it's like him off Partridge. What do you want in blacks?
Speaker 3:But that, yeah, that seems ridiculous. A picture of Farage, but I kind of take his point. I think he would say immigration is the failure.
Speaker 1:Yeah and Ma don't want to be involved. Ma can I just?
Speaker 3:play my songs. If you play that song again, I will associate it with immigration.
Speaker 2:I just think he's England is not for the English anymore.
Speaker 3:It's so hard to deal with, isn't it? He's?
Speaker 2:actually got a song on National Front Disco when he goes England for the English, but everyone thought it was being sort of like Sarkic. Maybe it was. I thought it was like being sort of like sarky.
Speaker 3:Maybe it was. I don't know who knows, who knows actually this ties in something we mentioned earlier today. So sometimes when you've had a drink and you come home after a night probably a lead mill night or whatever it was I went to bed and I could not get it out of my head. Oh, fucking hell, this is mad for me this.
Speaker 2:I've got a feeling this was before Burnley playoff final.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you have a much better memory of me.
Speaker 2:Because you had slept all night. Anyway, go on.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, so I'd gone to bed, we'd been out, gone back to bed, all I could hear in my head was playing over and over again, last of the famous international playboys, but one specific part of it, and it was just looping and looping in my head. We tried to establish which bit today because I thought it was, and now in my head will I love you? No no, but what did we establish?
Speaker 2:it was you had to get into your car.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to go to my car because I didn't want to wake mum and dad up. It was like 5 in the morning, yeah and listen to the the News World.
Speaker 1:Hans them Stardom I don't know, it's not that bit.
Speaker 2:Was it that bit, though? No, it's the News World, hans them Stardom? No, it's not am I more attracted to you? Have I failed that bit? Yeah, so I had to go and listen to the song. This is what I had to deal with. By the way, listen to this, yeah, this makes me sound.
Speaker 3:Absolutely mental you are, but I couldn't stop just this little bit looping in my head. There were no hardcore drugs involved, only alcohol. But I couldn't stop just repeating this bit in my head. So I said I'm going to get in my car about four or five, put the tape, deck in, find a bit, listen to the song to let it finish, to let that. That sounds absolutely.
Speaker 2:You are insane. Yeah, this is what I'm dealing with. Like living with the insane man.
Speaker 3:But once it kind of fit well, we had it a little bit Well.
Speaker 2:You got that pissed that you were hammered. You were absolutely hammered Because you came on the coach. We were going to be in the playoff final Sheffield United versus Burnley 2009,. I think it were. Liam came on with a full, I think it was like a pint of vodka.
Speaker 3:No, no, go on, let me explain myself. Go on, I know what you're talking about now. So, yeah, we're going to play our final. So I said I'll get the drinks for the coach. Everyone said, yep, fine. So what I bought is two litre bottle of Fanta, tipped some out, poured in some vodka, filled it up. We didn't want to be too drunk, but as we got in view of the Wembley Arch, you were hammered. No, I wasn't then. But I said, right, I've got this thing. So I opened it up. You said, oh, I don't like Vodkroins, jay. Jay said I don't really like Vodkroins. So I said, well, I bought this for the drinks before we get there, thinking it was a three-way sharer.
Speaker 2:You both didn't want it. We got stuck in a bit of traffic so I drank the final Shane McGowan over here on summer. So I mean we might have mentioned this before on the pod. I've definitely talked to people about it. Liam was that pissed when the teams were warming up. They were like crossing, I thought it was a game. Liam was like fucking, just put it in there. What are you?
Speaker 3:fucking doing. I was like why has he passed that? Why has he passed? We were like he's fucking one more.
Speaker 2:He's bollocks, mate, he's fucking bollocks. Yeah, not my proudest, no man. And then we found you outside well, no.
Speaker 3:So then what happened was so guys didn't know where I was.
Speaker 2:You saw me wandering on some like yeah, I don't know how you got into like VIP upper levels of VIP wandering around saying he's there we're trilby on, by the way, my trilby. I wear a trilby because I thought it was cool like that.
Speaker 3:I ended up in a trilby wandering about, but then I got paranoid that I wasn't, so I left the ground. Missed second half. I had a sort of mini nap next to our. I found our coach, by the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brilliant, found the right one in the car park.
Speaker 3:I had a nap next to the wheel.
Speaker 2:Missed all the game. Missed all the game it was fun, though you sobered up a little bit.
Speaker 3:And then on the way home we were a bit annoyed at like where are we going to finish tonight and when are we going to finish tonight, and everyone else were a bit drunk and tired and down and I'm like well, I'm all right again now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you sobered up. Yeah, you sobered up. You missed the game. You missed the worst bit, to be fair. What's happening now? Where are we?
Speaker 3:going. Everyone's like. Well, we'll get back about one in the morning. We're going out.
Speaker 2:And I'm like come on, we. That's when the guy in front of you, you were asleep and you kept playing over and over again like the beginner international famous playboys Down, down, down, down, down, down, down down. I like it, I believe all that. Welcome to your life, welcome to your life, I've got a sing a sad song by oh yes, I never.
Speaker 3:I never thought it would happen me and a girl from Clapham out on a windy con the night and I've forgotten whatham, out on a windy common the night I'd never gotten. Once she dialed out the rations with some or other passions, I said you are related Sometimes she said uh, maybe.
Speaker 3:We moved into a basement with thoughts of our engagement. We stayed in by the telly, Although the room was smelly. We spent our time just kissing the railway arms were missing. I was getting up and hooked up the time that it had took so long. I got a job with Stanley. He said I'd come in handy. He started me on Monday and I had a bath on Sunday. I worked eleven hours and bought the girls some flowers. He said I'd seen a doctor and now nothing could stop her.
Speaker 1:I worked all the winter Pricing bitter, bitter. I put away the tenner. It's winter, make it better. And when the time was ready we set the solitarily Lady news by the fire. I know the kicks inside her this morning at 4.50,.
Speaker 2:I took her up in Nifty.
Speaker 3:Down in Pinky Bay 30 minutes later, I gave her a job with Stanley and then Pinky Bay.
Speaker 1:30 minutes later I got a job with Stanley.
Speaker 3:I'm a year old walker. She looked just like her mother. If there could be a.
Speaker 1:I got a job with Stanley.
Speaker 3:And now she's two years older Her mother's with a soldier.
Speaker 1:I got a job with.
Speaker 3:Stanley Became a proper stingy Devil, came and took me From by the school of smoking. No more knives by the telly.
Speaker 1:No more knives by the smelly.
Speaker 3:I love her in the kitchen. I feel there's something missing. I beg for some forgiveness, but beg about my business and I won't write a letter, although I always tell her.
Speaker 1:I gotta jump your business we're probably at the junction so that was the last final part.
Speaker 3:I can't say it's the final part you'll ever hear him sing, because that's not. It's not unusual, even right now. No, it's the final part you'll ever hear him sing, because that's not unusual even right now.
Speaker 2:No, it's not going to be. Yeah, we.
Speaker 3:That's the last of Chopper St Leonard's for this year. Thank you for sticking with us, for sticking with some medium to terrible karaoke.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we're going to move on to an actual episode after this.
Speaker 3:Now, aren't we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're back to the series and it's a request from Neil Peter and I remember watching this and loving it, and we've already watched it and we've both really enjoyed it. It's Blood on the Carpet, a series on BBC, and the one we're watching is Walking with Dish Jockeys from the year 2000, and it's about when Matthew Bannister and Trevor Dan took over Radio 1 and had a huge clear out of the Radio 1 DJs. I really enjoyed this, so I do advise people to watch it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we sometimes say it's not worth watching it. We sometimes think it is. I would 100% say if you do have the spare, what is it About? 50 minutes? I?
Speaker 2:think it's about 40 minutes. It's not a big one.
Speaker 3:If you, it's not a big one. Yeah, if you get a chance before, search on YouTube Blood on the Carpet, walking with DJs. It's really entertaining, particularly if you remember some of the characters in it yeah, bruno Brooks little feature.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bruno Brooks little feature. Right, so thanks for being here.
Speaker 3:This is something we don't normally do, by the way, before we go. Normally we'd save this for a midweek, but we're a bit out of sync, we ones, and because it's literally come through like five minutes ago, we've got a message from Gary saying well, he's obviously praising what we do, that's normal, but, yeah, he's asking for an obscure. He's not necessarily asking for an obscure one, but he's wondering if we can recommend a sitcom to watch, something that's maybe slightly more niche than the obvious. Do you have any ideas?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean I presume you've seen Dark Place. That's fairly niche, marion and Jeff, always worth a watch. I've not seen that for ages.
Speaker 3:Night and Night, Human Remains.
Speaker 2:Yeah, human Remains. What's the one that JP suggested without Human Remains? No, oh God, neither of us have actually watched that yet. What of us have actually watched that yet?
Speaker 3:What's the?
Speaker 2:one as well with the. Operation Good.
Speaker 3:Guys? Oh yeah, I would definitely, although it loses its way a little bit, but that started fantastically well. Yeah, what's the one on the On? Like a cruise ship with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, is it?
Speaker 1:Oh, the.
Speaker 3:Trip? No, no, hold on, let me do some live research, yeah.
Speaker 2:I've done this thing.
Speaker 3:New England Brighton Cruise ship. Is it Cruise of the Gods? Is it Never heard of this? Well, there you go. It might even be that niche. Yeah, cruise of the Gods. I can't remember it. I remember quite enjoying it at the time. David Walliams as well looks unsurprisingly seedy in the background yeah, well, another one.
Speaker 2:I like James Corden not really selling it. Star Stories I like as well, so that's always. I think I've watched every one of those and they're all really funny. Yeah, what's the other one with Matt Berry? It's a sketch show. Oh, come on, what's it? Called it's after a sitcom, I think.
Speaker 3:It's just sitcoms. Is Green Wing worth watching?
Speaker 2:What do you think? I think it's all right. People love it. I never got into it that much. I think it is all right though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the one that we keep saying we're going to watch, that apparently kind of really kicks on from series two, is the Friday night dinner. That, yeah, yeah, apparently gets really good, but I've not got around to watching it yet. So, yeah, a few to go out for you there. Night and Night, I would say, is the obscure one, if you're not familiar Angus. Deaton makes his name?
Speaker 2:yeah, I thought you were in it. Yeah, angus Deaton isn't it? Yeah, I thought you were in it. Yeah, yeah, so that's really good. If anyone's got any other suggestions, bang them.
Speaker 3:There's a little known one you might not have heard of as well that might be worth watching, called Only Fools and Horses. Nah, never heard that one. What's that? There's a guy's. What happens is he's like a yuppie and he. He's got a file of facts and he falls through a bar Sounds amazing.
Speaker 2:To be fair, I'm amazed they should not win all the awards and got like huge ratings and stuff.
Speaker 3:I mean to be fair, we both actually do like it, but a lot of people have kind of turned on it more recently and one of our mates hates it One of our mates, absolutely.
Speaker 2:He fucking hates it, doesn't? He Absolutely hates it, but I do know what it is. It is good. Fools and Horses I don't think you can. Yeah, we got a lot of criticism when we did the sitcom list because people were saying oh yes, where's Fools and Horses, where's Fawlty Towers? Because they don't read.
Speaker 3:That's why, yeah, they didn't fit into our criteria, unfortunately so unfortunately so yeah, read what we've written, read, read the small print. It's not even a small print if we said it out loud, but yeah okay, we'll be back in your cone tract. We'll be back with a normal episode. Thanks for enduring. Enduring what we've done. I mean we've managed to get probably like two and a half three hours out of that that trip, haven't we?
Speaker 2:so out of that that trip easy money, don't get any money. But yeah anyway, thank you, liam, and I will see you for blood on the what's it called? I forgot it already blood on the carpet walking with disc jockeys and we'll be recording soon. You'll be hearing from us again very soon, yep cheers do it.
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