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
Midweek Madeley - 24/10/24
Have you ever wondered what mysterious forces could be behind unexpected one-star reviews? Join us as we put on our detective hats and humorously unravel this puzzling phenomenon, while pondering if our playful remarks about the Manic Street Preachers and Richie Edwards were the catalyst. Along the way, we highlight listener interactions, celebrate Tyrone's endorsement of The Sopranos, and welcome candid feedback to keep our podcast thriving.
Music fans, brace yourselves for a rollercoaster of controversy, nostalgia, and karaoke blunders. We navigate public perceptions and parodies, recalling delightful musical mishaps and the joys of sharing laughter through song. Stories of retro British radio legends like Kenny Everett bring a touch of nostalgia, while listener anecdotes and comedic impressions keep the fun alive. We close by encouraging your thoughts and memories, ensuring our conversation remains as lively and engaging as ever.
Hello and welcome to the podcast Living With Maidley. This is a midweek episode where we talk about some of your comments on previous episodes. I am Liam Leroy Jones Marley and the other host is Andrew Billy Boy Jenkins. How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 1:I've never called you that before. No, andrew, billy Boy Jenkins. Jim Higginson is one of yours, isn't it? That's one of your names?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's too hard to explain, though it's not actually, is it? Yeah, Jim Higginson is based on the fact your surname is Hague and you look like, or you did look like, Jim Davidson. Yeah, what were under?
Speaker 1:your phone, andrus Frisk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for a while, yeah, I heard you were under Boob Magnet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anders Frisk was the referee who got death threats, wasn't he?
Speaker 1:I think it's the referee who disallowed the Sol Campbell goal in one of the I don't know if it was the 98, where we sent Beckham off, or if it was the other portrait. He's mad that he did two goals exactly the same but disallowed.
Speaker 2:I think he had to go to hiding for a bit, didn't he?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's mad, that Campbell big soul, but now look at him. Now, here we are. We knew it'd come to this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, first one in a while, so there might be quite a few to go at, but obviously the roadshow episodes derailed us a little bit from the normal process. So we're back, back with a bang Right Before we get going.
Speaker 1:Now it's come to our attention that in the past month, I think, because we don't want to look at this, but I will look at something we've suddenly got two one star reviews on Apple Music and we're on the hunt. We're not saying we're going to physically assault them, but we're on the hunt to see.
Speaker 2:It's not necessarily a problem is it?
Speaker 1:Just let us know why. So all I'm saying is if anyone can help us out, this is where it starts now. I don't think I've told you this, neither have I, but I'm starting a campaign now A detective agency. So who has given us two one-star reviews? They came out around the same time.
Speaker 2:You're thinking is that this is one individual who's used two accounts, don't you? I think so. It happens very quickly, yeah because they happen very quickly.
Speaker 1:We've had like fives and even fours and stuff. The score is fine. I got a terrible review on BlazePod where he said Ben's brilliant, but Andrew's just too negative and talks shit. That's fine, Put your opinions across. I can take that it's a hit run list, though it's a hit and run case, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let us know your reasoning. I mean to be fair, we don't care, like if you listen to this and you think we don't care if you're setting up a detection agent to find out. Yeah, it's not like we check it every day and we're really arsed about it, but no, it's fine. I would like honest reviews of.
Speaker 1:I don't like to hit and run one star. So we are on the hunt. And my first thing, liam, I've not talked to you about this. I'm going through the comments. You've got a clue. This is something we missed out on the Mysteries episode. From how long ago was that?
Speaker 2:Well, we've done two, haven't we? But the most recent one. I don't know about a year ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So we had a Manic Street Preachers obsessive just looking at their Twitter profile and they've got Richie Edwards, who obviously one of the things that we spoke about was him going missing and they thought Richie could, in big letters, play guitar. He was at least competent enough to play bar chords and that's it. So maybe this Manics fan is not happy that we said Richie Edwards couldn't really play the guitar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you said, he wasn't that great, didn't you? He's not so give us another one.
Speaker 1:Get another account and give us another one star.
Speaker 2:But, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I'm wondering now, because I'm looking back and thinking could be yeah, could be Mannix?
Speaker 2:I like to think no, to be fair. I find it quite funny. If kathy has given us one stars he might do after this now. But he said he'd be disappointed if we didn't pick on something. And the uh pick up on the pulling his hair out comment and we missed it.
Speaker 1:So we did miss that, that's fine yeah, if someone ports love enjoyed this, but they missed out a really obvious thing one out of five. We were laughing earlier, though, because one out of five is you can't get lower than that on Apple Music.
Speaker 2:And it's sort of. Yeah it is. I hate this. I detest everything. What would you give us?
Speaker 1:Steady three.
Speaker 2:I won't, but my aim, it's a three at least, isn't it?
Speaker 1:It's a three. Yeah, I think it's a three. My aim is to get this podcast down to four stars. I think because you're more professional. Yeah, maybe not. I always think if your podcast has got five stars, it just shows you're not very popular. Yeah, generally Not everybody can win. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:To be fair, our five was based on about 50 votes, wasn't it oh?
Speaker 1:yeah.
Speaker 2:There was a few, but obviously it's been dipped down by these ones. But give us your real reviews if you listen to this, give us. If you think we're a two and a half and you listen because you've got nothing else to do on a train, tell us that. Tell us what you'd rather we talk about. Yeah, no problems.
Speaker 1:But now we're on to the comments in all seriousness, and I'll start with Tyrone. He says we're talking boys. He agrees about the Sopranos. He says how do you do justice to the best ever, because this is obviously a comment from I can't remember who it was at the top of my head now, but obviously.
Speaker 2:Brilliant as always. Boys, One star.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one star.
Speaker 2:yeah, I can't remember the comment, but we did get someone telling us like, how come you haven't done one? And we? We do think, though because the next episode we've got in the bag that you're going to hear to this one was slightly less, at 11 minutes, this happens and we've tried to be a bit more relaxed, and that might be a way.
Speaker 1:I think we'll do it next series. I've definitely cancelled it next series because we're probably going to do Sopranos next series and we won't do it justice because we're a one-star podcast.
Speaker 2:We'll give it a one-star effort and see where we go.
Speaker 1:Kathy said when the doctor diagnosed me with dyspraxia, did you get prescribed, liam? Because it seems like you're just there to make sure I don't do harm to myself when we're out and about.
Speaker 2:No sweat, do what I can.
Speaker 1:Do what you can. Yeah, it wasn't there. They were at school. I don't think I've ever told a story Could be like?
Speaker 2:what's the like? Is it Meet Joe Black or something? What's it like where there's an angel that comes down? Is it a Nicolas Cage film I could be sent down to?
Speaker 1:steer you no, you haven't seen it but steer you through life without hurting yourself. Yeah, maybe. Um, I got diagnosed because when I was in primary school the teacher kept ripping my papers in half because she couldn't read them, saying rubbish and like throwing them in bin. And I came home one day and I obviously thought that was quite normal from a teacher. And I came home from one uh one day and mum I goes oh yeah, she threw my paper in the bin again. She goes what. I goes, oh yeah, she does it all the time. She can't read it. So she went up to school to complain and then the headteacher got involved and said have you ever heard of anything called dyspraxia? So I went for a few tests, got the green certificate and I use it as an excuse ever since.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure there's not some artistic license in that story. What?
Speaker 1:do you mean why?
Speaker 2:I don't believe your teacher just kept ripping up your paper saying read it, forget it it happened at least three times honestly, because I used to show my mum. I can't believe that nobody contacted you and said do you think he could be dyslexic, does he? Need any help they just instantly ripped her. Honestly, I remember her name.
Speaker 1:She might be a DC teacher, Mrs Cox. She was called and, yeah, she used to say Nope, I'm going to rip it and just throw it in the bin.
Speaker 2:I weren't hurt by it. As a kid she used to like rip it, set it on fire, volley it across the room into the bin every time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she did honestly. And you were the only one who mentioned it to my mum because I just thought it's normal what teachers do when you put bad workers rip it in half. My mum said, oh, how did you get on with that thing, or whatever. And I said, oh yeah, she ripped it in half again. She went what Went on to school.
Speaker 2:Again, though I'm nitpicking, you're not yet. Screw it off. Or like just say this is not good enough. Just throw it in a corner, ripped it Instantly, ripped it directly in half.
Speaker 1:On one of the occasions she actually said I can't read this. It's like, in hindsight, she should have been fired immediately. But you know, but she's got me, she's done me well, because look at me now making anecdotes. Once you've got that diagnosis On a one-star podcast about dyspraxia.
Speaker 2:And since you've got that diagnosis, you've been away, haven't you? Nothing's held you back since then.
Speaker 1:No, nothing, no, I don't talk about it, obviously, so I can't help to keep it under wraps. But yeah, chimpman is back and he said he had to replay the Lloyd Grossman impression twice. He said he was racking his brains trying to remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger hosted Fruit of the Kill. That's when I was like who would live in a house like this? I can see what he's saying Like. It's like like this.
Speaker 2:This is a house, somebody must live in.
Speaker 1:Who would live in a house like this? That sounds more like you as an enforcement, doesn't it? He should do it. Who would leave a house like this? Paul said great pod Always surprises him that people suggest different titles because he loves living with made life. So thank you for that, paul. But actually, however, should I say, given the revelation of Liam possibly being on the spectrum, that's you, obviously. You know your name, but you mentioned.
Speaker 1:If people haven't listened to it. You mentioned that your girlfriend thinks you are on the autistic spectrum. I think we all are in a way yeah, but not in a jokey way, it's not like she actually does think that. And he says we should have a spin-off called Living With Neurodivergency.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we could. This is a lot of mental health stuff about these days.
Speaker 1:it's not mental health, well, I suppose it is mental health. I've got this practice. It's like a sitcom, this practice. You're an autism man like sort of wandering the streets yeah, anyway, we'll pencil, it in Webding, who's now accepted as a friend, by the way.
Speaker 1:Webding said he said it's an article to the BBC, actually, because we were talking about going back in time and the article about the huge asteroid that hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, however, a million years ago, was not alone. Scientists confirmed, apparently, a second smaller rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West Africa, causing a crater in the same era. So if we'd have been there, we could have you know what I mean. There might have been two of them there.
Speaker 2:I've seen the rains fall in Africa. Yeah, Weezer did that who's?
Speaker 1:Weezer.
Speaker 2:I thought you said Louise, I thought that'd be a weird one. No, yeah, it's not very good, it's alright.
Speaker 1:it's just the same song, really a bit.
Speaker 2:Just a quick note on Webding there. By the way, a quick shout out to him, because obviously we went to Johnny's funeral, which was as good as that sort of thing can be.
Speaker 1:It was brilliant. It sounds ridiculous, but it was the best funeral.
Speaker 2:His cousins were really funny. But yeah, I made the mistake. I hate walking through at the end and not having money for the collection and I kind of felt like I'll fill up. So he did what my uncles used to do to me when I was little and pocketed me a fiver to put in a collection note. So I owe him a beer and I owe him a big thank you as well.
Speaker 1:So cheers to that, Mark. It's very interesting. He did that because he didn't do it with me and I just had to walk past it with no money.
Speaker 2:You've got different principles, don't you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I had to do it Well, to be fair, and I did the old it's cashless these days, isn't it? We're cashless I know, I know, I've done it a couple of times at funerals, where you walk past and you have to get your wallet out, I'm looking at it, you know, like, oh yeah, I knew I didn't have any money, but I had to get it out as I was walking past.
Speaker 1:You might mumble to the person next to you like everything's done on, I'm sure he'll go to the right places. Webber also said that it's worth listening to the latest Richard Osman podcast because they rip into Schofield. Yeah, well, funnily enough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have since listened to that.
Speaker 1:Oh, nice one, I've not, yeah.
Speaker 2:They are quite critical. I mean to be fair. I listened to that and it made me want to watch the Schofield show, so I have watched it. And he is such a narcissist he show. So I have watched it and he is such a narcissist he comes across so badly. On that. I know you've had your issues with him for a long time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have, I have, I have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he does not come across well in that.
Speaker 1:He's another one of my contenders for the one-star review. He might be nearing this and, yeah, I thought he'd get his own back. I watched the end of that because it went on I think it went viral or whatever, on Twitter. Do you know what? The very end on Castaway. Is it Castaway with Phil Collins? Whatever it's called?
Speaker 2:Phil Collins, phil Schofield, phil Collins. I've watched that. Imagine if they called it that as a red herring.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'd be amazing. Phil Schofield right at the end, when he basically just does this monologue saying you wankers, you fucking took me off TV, you bastards.
Speaker 2:He keeps saying he doesn't want to be back on TV.
Speaker 1:No, no, as he's on TV.
Speaker 2:What his skill set is. He keeps saying that's what he's good at. But he doesn't want to do that. But that's what he's good at and he says he doesn't want to work for certain people. Again, he's sort of moved the bar, in a sense that he says the reason people have hated him is because he had an affair, and if he affair with a woman he'd be getting patted on the back.
Speaker 1:I don't think he'd be getting patted on the back. Let's be honest.
Speaker 2:No, and it sort of dismisses the whole and I don't know the you know, we don't know the legalities of it. We certainly don't condone his actions. I can't condemn him because I don't. It's to do with when he met this kid and how old he was, but he certainly doesn't look great.
Speaker 1:Either it's not about the homosexual.
Speaker 2:is it?
Speaker 1:It's not no no, I think that's what he sort of seems to have got mixed up. He seems to think that if it were a 60-year-old man no matter how old he is going with an 18-year-old woman, everyone would be going oh what a player. But that's not the case.
Speaker 2:Well, I think personally when he came out it bought him some goodwill. People like fair play to him why he did it because he was worried about what were Worried about the accusations yeah, Coming next, but yeah anyway.
Speaker 1:So yeah, he just comes across as a prick, which I saw, and once again, you know everyone's. Maybe we're trending again yesterday. I don't even look anymore, to be honest, because he's trending that often that I don't even bother looking. I always think if it's something worthwhile, then I'll get a, someone will tag us in it generally when threads were on last week. As threads were on, yeah, we got a few shouts for that.
Speaker 1:We got loads genuinely about. I think it was about 14 qualifications on the mail account and myself saying, hey, roy, you're watching this and I didn't like sometimes you get tagged in the same thing. You think, oh, here we go again. I'm like good, spread the word, spread the word. I didn't watch it actually.
Speaker 2:Well, you watch it fairly often anyway, don't you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's on iPlayer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got it on in the background now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, it's on iPlayer so I'm going to take a night to watch it. Ljd said he was laughing his head off. Piss funny. He says about you singing Big no Strikes Again instead, obviously Big Mouth. That makes sense. Big Mouth strikes again. I've got a Big Mouth. I said the wrong thing. What could Big Nose strikes again possibly be about?
Speaker 2:I think that maybe the partner served them some food and they've sort of like smelled it and said you've used the wrong sort of spices in there or something.
Speaker 1:They said, no, we just let it go.
Speaker 2:I've done my best with it. What a song about that, can't leave it.
Speaker 1:Or maybe like Big Nose, la, la, la. I've ruined the meal again.
Speaker 2:I sit next to someone at work and knock the shower in the morning and I say can you smell something? In fact, to give you a good example of this, we worked with someone who this is a- song, by the way, you're going to write now? No, but I'm trying to find a scenario that fits the Big Nose Strikes again. So I'm trying to think what that could be about if it was a song.
Speaker 1:I've got one which makes. Anyway, you do yours, go on.
Speaker 2:So I was working. I don't think the person listens, I think it's not true anymore, but he did used to smell quite bad, this person, yeah, and it was kind of known and I don't know the reasons for it or whatever, but he, he were a nice guy Really nice guy.
Speaker 1:His nickname was Khaki Raphael.
Speaker 2:Um well, I didn't know him as that, but yeah, um, yeah that's what, uh, that's what Brendan called him, Anyway anyway.
Speaker 2:So he's once came table eating at work and he came and sat down. No sorry, he was already sat down and one of the managers came and sat next to him and had just bought a sandwich and sat down and sort of smelled their sandwiches. If it was a really bad smell, I went god, what's that smell? And then turned to him and smelled and went oh god, jesus, that's it so he kind of not done it deliberately, people tried not to talk about it, but but, but big nose struck again.
Speaker 1:you could say yeah, Big nose struck again. Um, yeah, really, I said the guy was really nice.
Speaker 2:Um as well, really sound guy, but um, maybe someone whose nose is that big that, like they turn a corner in their house and it keeps hitting a doorframe, I thought maybe just about a liar, are you?
Speaker 1:that makes far more sense that would be a lot easier to write a song about a liar, wouldn't it hitting?
Speaker 2:mirrors and door frames. Imagine having to write a song.
Speaker 1:I've got this idea for a song Simon Cowell's gone mad he came into the room two minutes after his nose. Yeah, and he goes right.
Speaker 2:I can't actually imagine Morrissey writing that to be fair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to be honest, yeah, very literal. Ljd also said he'd go for a top of the Pops line-up that messes with the and Foo Fighters and the Jam and Style Council. Do you know why? That wouldn't work, liam, just putting you there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know I came across a bit of a music idiot on whichever one we did. But yeah, I get that. But I think it would be allowable because it's I get that there are different ages in different bands, but they can still appear as an act.
Speaker 1:No, but it's. Obviously. It contains the same people, doesn't it in different bands.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, but it's almost like you know, like when Tupac did his projectors thing.
Speaker 1:That was brilliant that.
Speaker 2:I'd love to have been at that because I think I'd love to have been at that, but to me you could still cut them together. I get in the real world you can't do it. But in the real world we're not making a Top of the.
Speaker 1:Pops with our favourite artists, I mean people who are dead. That's a bigger issue. Yeah, I suppose, obviously. Yeah, do you prefer Nirvana or Foo?
Speaker 2:Fighters. I went through a phase of really liking Foo Fighters and I've gone off them a bit now. I think they're all a bit similar. I'd probably back to Nirvana as it stands.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably. I'm not a big fan of both, but not my Asher Gary. He says surely Excluso and Mr Officer has to be one of your funeral songs, and it works for Top of the Pops too. That's a great shout-out. That's a novelty track. We should have had a school to a master officer. Yeah, I'd be very shocked to hear a funeral, though That'd be amazing for a funeral song, wouldn't it? Johnny had Highway to Hell, which I thought were a really good number.
Speaker 1:I think those sort of things. I went to another one where he had Burning Love, which you know it's all the fire thing about being cremated and stuff. As we'll get on to, we're very different, but I'll come back to that later. Nick said funniest episode yet and not just because of incompetence or mistakes. So thank you for that. It's just from Woke Nonsense, which is what I said about Anna Repealer and Blaze Paul which were a joke.
Speaker 1:By the way, Maybe that's the one star, Maybe it's Anna who was listening to that and said you know, all right, didn't like me stepping in for him, did I? No, no, I don't think so. To Warnock, on a desert island, he says the dog walk laugh-o-meter was kept very busy. The girl is mine. Insert plus the story of Liam and Effingham blinding in the playoff final warm-up. I'd be adding in bits that was one of my favourite ever moments of you, that, to be honest.
Speaker 2:Not at the time. No no, by the way, I think that's great. I don't think we've ever kind of referred to it as cleanly as that, but I know exactly what it means in terms of dog walk, laugh-o-meter, because.
Speaker 1:I listen to a lot of podcasts on the dog walk, and that's kind of where I first fell in with us, the toasty club. Get an episode out, you pricks.
Speaker 2:Um, also the thing about the one star review coming in there also the thing about liam that irritates andrew so much.
Speaker 1:He says he's so much like him, it's scary. He says he's completely on your side with that one. He also said at least you got the weather for it, obviously. We went to chapel so brilliant. Yeah, so it's scary. He says he's completely on your side with that one. He also said at least you've got the weather for it, obviously. We went to chapel so brilliant. Yeah, so it's good to know that there's other people out there are completely mad as well, aren't you?
Speaker 2:they are not the only mad people, yeah yeah, yes, that's good webo's.
Speaker 1:Webo's back, webo's back um. He said if it comes down to music v football, which do we choose? Because this was one where we had to get rid of made likeley music football, which one would you lose, didn't?
Speaker 2:he say there is an obvious answer.
Speaker 1:He says Dead Bat always gets this one wrong. But I don't know what Dead Bat Norman says in this. He might have told us, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:So I think what he means is that the obvious, easy answer is you can't lose music from your life. No, because it's two bigger parts embedded in everything.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't have any chance, would you at football for a start?
Speaker 2:Yeah, football, just shouting and clapping. But you could replace football with something else. So if football didn't exist, we could all question it about a local rugby team. Yeah, tennis squash. There could be a completely different sport that was made up. So you can replace and I get it probably Dead Bart, because obviously he's quite invested. I read that Pinch article about his dad.
Speaker 1:Brilliant yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's touching actually. So I kind of get. If big moments of your life are quite invested in football, you wouldn't want to lose it. But I think those moments could have been replaced. I can't imagine not ever hearing music. I'd be finished, for a start. I'd be half our content gone if we could see that I would keep music.
Speaker 1:I love football. As we're recording this, I don't know if it's coming out tomorrow or whatever, but checking out losing to Middlesbrough. In my opinion, you think they're going to win, so you know rivals. I need to get my prediction in, actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we'll see about that.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward to it, but yeah, I mean, I'm one of these more of an armchair fan than you and some of the other guys in the chat.
Speaker 1:You're an armchair music fan as well, aren't you? Which is not, I mean that, that many gigs. It's not a sort of criticism, but a lot of people don't like it, do they?
Speaker 2:One out of five armchair music fans. But yeah, no, you're right, I don't. I don't. I don't go to loads of gigs, but I do listen to a lot of music. I suppose I do watch a lot of football. I just don't go.
Speaker 1:It makes me sound tight. Yeah, I haven't got loads of money. So Anyway, you said especially in Dream, liam, find a previously undiscovered key when singing up the junction. This is the start of many things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to be fair, yeah, listening back, it's not great listening After you've had a few drinks. It sounds OK at the time. So, yeah, I accept some of it is awful and I think that's why and I think Follett, you've probably got a comment, but Adam Follett picked me up on changing keys multiple times in songs and I think that's the thing. Without the backing music that we suspect was being played too high, yeah, the key was off.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm bringing the guitar next time. Get the guitar off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're get the guitar. Yeah, you can bring the guitar and we'll set the key next time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because then I can get a capo and just, you know, move it up the key. Anyway, he says that he was driving into work straight out of Compton, came on the radio and he decided he didn't fancy any of that violent West Coast rap in the morning. So he switched our pod on, only to get Snoop Dispraxit Dogg spitting balls at me. I can't remember why I chose to do. It Was a Good Day by Ice Cube. I cannot remember that moment where I said you know what I'm going to do. I don't know if I did it as a joke or if I thought it was on your list on the way there when you were.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I think it was like, I don't know. I had a list of 50 songs.
Speaker 2:This is your dyspraxia list. So on the way there, you started reading out a list of songs that you might do. I think most people might read out ten and then say, yeah, I'll pick out a couple more. I think you just read through your full list of a hundred songs, one after another. That was definitely on it, so it was in your mind somewhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it must have been in mind. Then, like I say we're thinking about, yeah, that we're. We'll come on to it a bit actually later on, so I'll come back to that.
Speaker 1:But he said as well yeah, fantastic, I fucked it in the big fat fan. He said he thought I referred to hemp pot as a slag doos, so I missed. I missed. I said slag Do's instead of N? Do's and he thought I said Slag Do's, slag Do's. I can confirm that. I said Stag Do's. I got it mixed up. And he says you know how? He told us that we Can Work it Out was in his top three Beatles songs. Well, let's just say you might be changing my view of the world. What's he saying? Top one now. Well, trango Multi came back with where we can't work it out. This is excellent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, again, it was all right. It was all right To be fair, though, I mean, like some people will easily be able to do better, so we don't necessarily want people to send us better if they are better, but if you think you're better and you're not, send us out and we'll play it. So you see, yeah, Depa.
Speaker 1:Well, the May 4 member of the Tufted Club of Webding. He said he listened last night with Kate, his missus. He said she genuinely thought we were both doing karaoke in a bar. And he says like yes, Mr DJ, first up I want to see Jimmy Nail, followed by Morrissey, and then we'll finish with some motherfucking Ice Cube. The crowd in Chapel, St Leonard's, will lap it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, we did consider doing some live karaoke, because there was actually a place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you weren't a fan of the pub, were you yourself?
Speaker 2:No, no, and I mean maybe next time. That's the thing. Maybe we have to get at least one authentic one in.
Speaker 1:I think that's fair. Yeah, there might be a better karaoke machine than the one we were using as well, to be fair machine than the one we were using as well.
Speaker 2:to be fair, I don't know, it's pretty high spec, not your karaoke machine.
Speaker 1:I mean we were getting off the internet, so that's what they do, don't they? That'll sort us out. I think, yeah, get the guitar. Carl said he was not prepared for Today Was A Good Day on karaoke. Today it sounds easy that song, because it's a slow rap song, because it's a slow rap song Like a-do-bin-a-do-bin-a-bid, it's hard to keep up still.
Speaker 2:I think it was a ridiculous song choice that you do even more ridiculously. So yeah, it was outrageous.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not from the fucking East Coast or wherever he's from. Ice Cube, I can't get away with saying genuinely I fucked her in the big fat fanny we're like, like all serious, you're not a reggae master, but you can, yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can do that. I suppose so, but they're the cleaner boys, aren't they, the reggae men, than the west coast rappers that you get these days Travelling, said it's been a very rough week, but hearing us two sing Ain't no doubt has floored him, I don't know in a good way or in a bad way. And Adam, as, as you said, said, fucking hell. That acapella rendition of Go your Own Way had more key changes than birdhouse in your soul.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean to be fair, he is a very good. I would say probably is a professional isn't he Professional? Yeah, yeah, but he does. Does he do other stuff, or is he just exclusively a band member?
Speaker 1:guitar, man mainly, but lyrics just go.
Speaker 2:I don't know what to be placed for but anyway, yeah he is very, very good and actually, as we're recording this tonight, he's got an event on at a lead mill tomorrow night. So if you're hearing this on a Thursday, oh, nice one.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that probably too late to do anything about it. Yeah, I was going to say I'll be at work, but yeah, I'm off to.
Speaker 2:I'm off on holiday in three hours oh yeah, where are you going? Friday.
Speaker 1:Cornwall yeah. Cornwall yeah, you did say you were going.
Speaker 2:I didn't ask, so yeah, could be a washout hope not to be fair he quite often organises events when I'm going away, so maybe he just doesn't want me singing along in the crowd with my key changes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe he thought yeah, Sad Ken Says Asleep is a terribly depressing song and he's not even sure the people left behind will thank you for it. Yeah, but don't you like the?
Speaker 2:idea of that, like people, sort of weeping as they come out like I don't know, like Take what Johnny's funeral, where they had Saved the Best Till Last as one of his songs.
Speaker 1:What a tune. I could not stop singing it after. I've got a massive, newfound love of that song. I mean, it's a great. I always liked it as a song but I just thought I don't know. It worked brilliantly. I never even thought of that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, and I think there was a moment in there that captured kind of our identical sense of humour, weren't there? Because somebody said, and it was about a year ago, that somebody very important came into Johnny's life, who we have to mention, and we turned to each other at the exact same moment and pointed at each other.
Speaker 1:Honestly, though, johnny were really Johnny wouldn't have minded that. I don't think he listened to that many episodes of this pod and stuff, but he often talked about it and promoted it and stuff and I don't know. Obviously I did talk about it on on Blast but it does still get to me. The Johnny King. I have to admit I'm not just saying that as a you know, sometimes I'm not going to bed at night and stuff.
Speaker 1:I think fucking hell, I can't fucking believe that. And yeah, I wish I'd have gone to the. I've not been well, as you can probably tell, with my cold and stuff now, but I wish I'd gone to the Waking Eye. So it sounds like they had a karaoke there, so I saw Kenneth doing. Oh, what did he do? Don't stop moving, baby. That'd be crazy Really.
Speaker 2:Brilliant.
Speaker 1:No, Kenneth, sorry, not Big Kev.
Speaker 2:Ah right, sorry. Yeah, we saw Kenneth briefly after, didn't we? Yeah, I get what he means Kenneth briefly after, didn't we? Yeah, I get what he means. It is a kind of horribly moving song, but to me you want a kind of a good song to come into almost quite a moving song mid-ceremony and then you can finish on something a bit more upbeat. I think that's it now. The funeral's done now, so I think it's I get it. It's a horrible song, almost like in terms of it's like you're trying to make people upset. But yeah, I don't know, I think it's better than and if anyone's had this, apologies, I think my grandma did as well, actually, but anyone who plays my way, it just seems the most obvious song choice in the world.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. Or, what a Wonderful World is that? Another obvious one. Choices in the world. Yeah, I know what you mean. Oh, what a Wonderful World is that another obvious one.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know if I've ever heard it. I know what you mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Sad. Ken also said he wasn't overly thankful for the Nick Cave murder, one of his favourite songs, but he's, put, all in All, a good show. So he's definitely not the one-star man, don't like that you picked a sleep Not appropriate.
Speaker 2:Don't like what you did to Nick Cave. All in all, it's like the.
Speaker 1:Partridge line. All in all, seven on ten. Let's make love. Realbobb said he loved these three extras. Brilliant, it says prime living were made Like McCartney and Jack all be turning in the graves. We're hoping that we haven't, and my car is obviously not dead, but we're hoping that we've not offended Mr Pablo Hernandez, glacier Hernandez, because he's a massive Jacko fan. People might not even know what we're talking about. And yeah, and we can only apologise, I think I think you did a bit of a hee, hee, hee, yeah it was done in.
Speaker 1:It was done in with affection, done with affection, he says the ability to sing in three different keys in one bar of music can never be understated, underestimated, sorry. He says our funeral's going to be a bit different to his because he's going for all the bright colours and the celebratory thing, which is why he's gone for the Fiesta by the Pogues. He says us two seem to be going for the more sombre people fall into the midway.
Speaker 2:Why?
Speaker 1:He said, yeah, he went for an upbeat celebration and we have gone for the goth depressing feel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like the sort of bit of Peaky Blinders, isn't it, where he sort of gives him some money or something and says, if you cross me, this is for your wife to buy a coach and two black horses to plug your carriage down the street. Yeah, they're quite like, obviously like I don't know if you've ever mentioned it, but my family's Irish and like Irish Catholic and they just do more of a thing for funerals.
Speaker 2:I think we went to one fairly recently that just fizzled out afterwards and it just blew my mind a little bit. It's not kind of the way things are done. They're a bit grander in the Irish scene of the way things are done. They're a bit grander in the Irish scene. The Irish scene.
Speaker 1:The Irish funeral scene. Ben said he paused listening after last night. Listening last night shortly after we were discussing funeral songs. When he resumed he'd forgotten that we'd moved on to Top of the Pops line-ups. He said he got increasingly confused until he realised I love every loser with me. What else did we have? Did we have deeply, deep fans? Don't?
Speaker 2:talk, just kiss, I had the spaceman you're making that a funeral, that would be so good.
Speaker 1:And this is a song that he always loves spaceman.
Speaker 2:I know exactly what it means. I do that I fall asleep listening to podcasts, and then I've done it a few times where I've fallen asleep listening to some, and then I've done it a few times where I've fallen asleep listening to some light hearted thing and then I've woken up and it's like Unsolved Murders and it's saying the axe was found dripping with blood and it's like Jesus Christ, what's going on back in the Adrian, just show.
Speaker 1:Anne said forget the alter egos. Because she was asking, because I don't understand the difference standard distance treating Andrew and Roy. So I said Roy is my alter ego and she said bring on the dyspraxia man. It's like alright, stop going on about it, I don't like to talk about it. She knows that, doesn't she?
Speaker 2:well, you you have to kind of be this, this chameleon, don't you like? Yeah, different men to different people, the same man, just different names. But I found that I've had, because now, obviously, well, I say now like for years Eggie's been on the scene, but Eggie and Hege I've always called you Hege and Eggie sound very similar. So for people who don't know us, when I'm saying Eggie, I think they might think I mean Hege, or vice versa. To certain people you're Roy, to some you're Andrew Panchero. Panchero, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what Johnny is calling all the time. Panchero yeah, that's what Johnny used to call me all the time. Panchero actually all the time. Yeah, were you Roygbiv for a bit? Roygbiv was the initial name that I used on Blaze Mad when I started doing the gathering views and stuff. So yeah, Roygbiv yeah. You know what it means.
Speaker 2:It's one of the crappiest music things that you listen to, isn't?
Speaker 1:it. No, you know what it means. Roy G Biv, though, like Roy Biv.
Speaker 2:Is it something to do with colours, or Colours of the rainbow?
Speaker 1:Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Richard of York gave that up.
Speaker 2:Richard of Yellow.
Speaker 1:Richard of Yellow gave it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but what's one of them like lift music, things that you like.
Speaker 1:It's not lift music, it's a Borders Canada song it's not lift music.
Speaker 2:How dare you, yeah, like background music yeah it's not background music.
Speaker 1:I'd like you to listen to Geo Gaddy in full with the lights off. I bet you won't get half an hour in without being scared to death for some of the sounds. One star on there one star right, liam, you're on to the Radio.
Speaker 2:1 comments now sound as a pound. Yeah, thanks for people who comment on the road show. So Radio 1, we did the walking with disc jockeys. If you've not listened to that or watched it, I think it was well worth a watch. Neil, glad you enjoyed the suggestion. His favourite scene is the closing credits, where Adrian just wanders around abandoned Radio 1 headquarters and he's pointing at the ladies toilets and looking at piles of old furniture with misty eyed reverence of someone gazing at the Elgin marbles. Yeah, it's weird that it chooses to end. We mentioned, didn't we? He's the villain of the piece, if you like.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I mean Neil. Obviously he's the guy who asked us to do it as well. Like he says in this thing that his mum used to love Adrian just as a teenager, but he thought he was shit back then, but now he'd listen to him in a so bad he's good way.
Speaker 1:I advise anyone to give honestly, just have a flick through. Put Adrian Just out in 1983, something like that. You'll find one of his shows. It's quite quite. I don't know. Like I say at the time, it might have been really. It's obviously well put together, but I'm just like I don't.
Speaker 2:I just don't get it Well he actually looks like one of the wacky Simpsons DJs.
Speaker 2:to me Like he's kind of got that hair that starts on the back of his head almost. Yeah, um, gary, we've got a message from him saying great episode, brilliant stuff by Neil. I've never heard of it. Thought well worth a watch, cappy watching it now, when the narrator says hippie Trevor Dan was pulling his hair out with frustration and then cuts to him modern day with boldness. If you haven't mentioned it, I'm going to be furious. So we didn't mention it.
Speaker 1:Are you furious? I?
Speaker 2:don't think I picked up on it. If I'm honest, no, I didn't.
Speaker 1:He actually said I can't believe neither of us noticed it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I did notice how mad he looks in modern day. He's one of these like long hair at the back, no hair on top, isn't he?
Speaker 1:He's a weird-looking man yeah, very weird, very strange, but yeah, it seems he literally pulled his hair out.
Speaker 2:So no apologies, captain, we didn't miss that LJD. A bit of summary on. So I mentioned the quack, quack Oops that I remember. So, apparently this came from Dave Lee Travis's Give Us a Break quiz, and that's what you got for a wrong answer. It was a snooker themed quiz on Saturday mid-morning show. It was so popular that there were Give Us a Break quiz machines in pubs the length and breadth of the land.
Speaker 1:I don't remember this.
Speaker 2:Obviously it's a bit before our time Pubs length and breadth of the land all right new sentence there red bull, red bull worth one, yeah, so obviously it's like snooker. So you get points relevant to the color and they're more difficult. Black is the hardest, yellow would be the easiest, um, and you have to put a break together. I presume um you put. Adrian just was on after dave lee tra Lee Travis. Saturday lunchtime I think Radio 1 created a zany DJ slot as Kenny Everett preceded him. I would definitely listen to Kenny Everett.
Speaker 1:Kenny Everett, we watched more of sort of madcap yeah, we watched because his shows are on is it that CV or whatever? And obviously he doesn't all work still, but some of the sketches that he does are still genuinely brilliant, kenny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good summary. Some of it like time has moved on. It doesn't. It's not offensive as such, it just doesn't. I think. One of my favourite ones is when he does.
Speaker 1:You like it as well when he does, rod Stewart and he's singing, and then as the song's going on, his arse gets bigger and bigger and bigger and he ends up flying away like Just ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brilliant A comment from Nick, so watched this last week in preparation. Summed it up perfectly when you read through the current Radio 1 DJs People in their 40s shouldn't know who they are. If they do, either Radio 1 is doing something wrong or people in their 40s are trying too hard. And yeah, that's exactly what it is, isn't it? It's not really for you at that age.
Speaker 1:No, exactly what we were saying we. Exactly what it is, isn't it? It's not really for you at that age. No, exactly, we were saying that we didn't know anyone on.
Speaker 2:Radio 1 and it would have been a bit weird if we did in a way, yeah, yeah, chimpanay has said Wonderful Tim the big dog, westwood impression, channeling John Candy's Jamaican impression from planes, trains and automobiles For the lowest off-born bishop's son. Is that where he's from?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, he's quite a posh dude.
Speaker 2:Attention to detail. I love it. Yeah, and you responded that you've not seen it, didn't you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've never seen it.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you've not seen Trains, Planes and Automobiles.
Speaker 1:Never seen it.
Speaker 2:I thought it was black and white. It says there's a motel room and they have like three sort of shot bottles and they're like they're absolutely wasted. Like it says, oh, what's next? And Steve Martin throws him something. He says, oh, rum, oh yeah, get me a rum man for Jamaica man. But yeah, like after three of these shots they're absolutely wasted.
Speaker 1:Talking of that, do you see Bill and Blaise tweet? Someone tweeted that Nancy Pelosi was on a plane and she had seven drinks which were like apparently half drinks in four hours, and this man was saying, well, she's obviously an alcoholic. And Bill and Blaise were saying all Americans, they can't drink, and all this sort of stuff. And then he says sometimes he has seven drinks before he starts work, which I absolutely, absolutely love and I completely believe him as well.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah yeah, he's a man of his word.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, we owe him an apology. We'll get to that after a last comment, actually.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, shit yeah.
Speaker 2:Is that the last bit of comment from Chimpanay Dirk?
Speaker 1:No, no, it's a new, no, it's a yeah, ho-has-ek-wesh.
Speaker 2:What that's? Who sent us the comment? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, just because that one got like a reply, didn't it? Anyway, just check Wikipedia to confirm my suspicion that Bruno Brooks is actually slightly younger than Tim Westwood.
Speaker 1:I is actually slightly younger than Tim Westwood. I think that's incredible. I left that to last because it blew my mind what's? The difference so.
Speaker 2:Bruno Brooks is 65. God Tim Westwood's more than 65.
Speaker 1:This is, and Tim Westwood is 67.
Speaker 2:67. Seems wrong because Tim Westwood came on about 20 years after him, didn't he 67.
Speaker 1:67? Seems wrong, because Tim Westwood came on about 20 years after him, didn't he? Yeah, and whatever you think of Tim Westwood and there's a lot you can't say that he's not looking more for his age. Yeah, apparently he used to give false statements about his age. When he was 43, he told the Guardian he was 27. Yeah, so yeah, I Guardian he was 27. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm just looking on these books. Not the worst lie that he's told, is it Apparently.
Speaker 1:Sacha Baron Cohen said Westwood was a big inspiration for Ali J Alright.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's the comments we should mention as well. So we did get a question from Berlin Blade, I think he promised it would be the first of many when we were away, and then we didn't get any after that. But yeah, he asked us who would win in a fight between us and it triggered a sort of it didn't trigger a fight or a confrontation.
Speaker 1:It went on for ages. It just triggered a really sort of rambling response. We talked about 20 minutes about who would win in a fight and really sort of rambling response that we just thought we talked about 20 minutes about who'd win in a fight and it might sound interesting. Yeah, you might think I'd love to hear that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it wasn't good radio. It was good radio like a radio host. Now I don't know, it just didn't really work.
Speaker 1:So we might do that again next time. We'll try and do it in a bit more snappy way really. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm not giving away what conclusion we came to. It was so boring, Like we were doing the editing and I actually said to you this has gone on for about 20 minutes and there's nothing funny about it. We're like technicalities and stuff. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:I was sort of listening to where I trained him for how long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were both talking like we were fucking Steve Bum this night doing an upcoming fight. We're ridiculous, so boring. So, yeah, we'll answer that in a later midweek when we get time, but that is today's Midweek Made Life. Thank you for listening. Thank you for all the comments and everything You'll be hearing from us next week when Liam's awake he's already in the bag Robot Wars. I enjoyed doing it. You're a bit concerned that we didn't cover it as well as we possibly could have.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Let's see. We're slightly different format, a bit more relaxed. We'll see what people think we're hoping to do a midweek next week. I might have to record it when I'm away. That's the only thing I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fair point.
Speaker 2:We're aiming for it, but if not week after, we won't do one, so you won't do it fair, fair, fair.
Speaker 1:Oh, in fact, hang on just before we go, literally, as we speak. Real Bobby V just tweeted live yeah, live just listen to the pod, watch the programme. He says he remembers these guys because he's older than us too and he's surprisingly still alive, so obviously there might be people older than us back in the day they were superstar DJs, but now you look back and it's just literally like smashy and nice. They're a great pod which pretty much echoes the views of what everyone said about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean they were big in their day. They got kind of called out and obviously some went on to do good at other stuff, some didn't. But yeah, cheers for that.
Speaker 1:That could have been another one star. It could have been Brooksy, couldn't it Bruno Brooks? Or Goodyear, mark Goodyear or Anthea. Turner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think we slagged Anthea Turner off, did we?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know what these celebrities are like. You know what I mean. All I'm saying is Don't forget to sign the mail.
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