Desert Island Dicks - COMPACT DICKS WITH SPECIAL LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT

Episode Date: September 8, 2022

John Robins is going to be our guest for our live show on Thursday 6th October, at the Bedford Pub in Balham, as part of the Cheerful Earful podcast festival, so to get in the mood, Dan goes back through some audience dick choices from our previous live shows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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or run a reproduced ad like this one across thousands of shows to reach your target audience with Lipson Ads. Go to lipsonads.com now. That's L-I-B-S-Y-N ads.com. hi it's dan here from desert island dicks and this is a special compact dicks which is something we haven't done for a while but um i wanted to put one out there because we've got good news which is that i can announce that our guest for our live show on october the 6th will be john robbins we're really happy to have john as a guest he's going to be

fantastic loads of you all know john robbins of course um he does loads of things doesn't he does the ellis and john robbins show on b BBC Radio 5 Live, for which he was nominated for Best Entertainment Podcast, as was Desert Island Dicks at the British Podcast Awards. He does the Moon Under Water podcast. He also does the How Do You Cope podcast with Ellis James.

So he does a lot of things. He's really funny. His stand-up has won awards. He's just brilliant. So I'm really happy to announce that he will be joining us as our guest for Desert Island Dicks Live as part of the Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival. We're kicking it off on day one alongside Sound Deals with Max and Ivan,

another podcast, and it's Thursday the 6th of October, so only a few weeks away now, depending on when you're listening to this. It's at the Bedford pub in ballam they've got an amazing back room um which is like it's like a tiny ballroom it's it's lovely little space so uh really excited to be there um you can get tickets by looking up cheerful earful podcast festival i'll also put a link in the description of this podcast as well. And we'll put the links on our Twitter and Instagram at Dick's Pod as well. Anyway, I was thinking, you know, I can't wait until we start a new series to tell you this news. So I'm going to pop up and put this information out there.

But then it reminded me that last time we did a couple of live shows at Christmas last year with fern brady and stephen k amos at the end of the uh show what we do is ask audience members to submit their own desert island dicks choices and then we sort of read them out with the guest and we have a bit of fun and i remember that because of time we couldn't get to them all and i've still got some of the things that people wrote down so i thought i'm going to have a little rummage and um just read some of the suggestions out from the last one and obviously if you come along on the 6th of october and uh come and come and watch desert island dicks with john robbins then you can do the same so i thought this might wet your appetite a little bit so uh here we go also you know what we haven't done a compact dicks in ages

so why not eh so this first card, these are also from audience members and they don't really have their names written on them so they're kind of anonymous ones which is also fine. This first one is people who wish happy birthday or happy anniversary to their partner on social media even though they live with them. I think this is a perfect one. I think it's a really weird thing isn't it? You just think you're with this person anyway surely you've told them and so if you've told them why do you then post it as well

it's a really weird thing i think some people probably get in trouble if they don't you know i've heard people get annoyed because their partner didn't post about them um you know i posted about you on your birthday why don't you do a nice birthday post for me I think it's a really bizarre thing of modern life once I remember seeing a colleague on Facebook going oh all the best to my darling wife for her operation today and it's like mate if you haven't told her that in person then you know

you're really in the bad books I mean it just seems really bizarre to me so I think that's a really good choice this one does have a name on it Simon nominated Brian Eno and me so i think that's a really good choice this one does have a name on it simon nominated brian eno and um yeah he's a strange man isn't he when i listen to brian eno talk i can never get over the fact that he never has any pauses in his in his voice there's never any ums and rs or hmm it's like he's a robot they all his words are just delivered perfectly

in a perfect even um tempo and he never hesitates or stops or adds in repeated words or they're basically the opposite of me so i think i'm i'm just in awe of him when i hear him speak but he also does seem like quite a pretentious person he's very interesting but it's really such a sort of scientific approach to music and you know I'm a big David Bowie fan famously he worked with David Bowie on the album Low and you know he has all these sort of cards with him with different strategies for working on which Bowie quite enjoyed but also I just think you'd very much have to be in the right mood to work with Brian Eno so I think although he's an interesting man I think he could very easily start winding you up so yeah I think that's a fair call this card just says dog's cock and I don't know if that's a food choice or or there's a person called dog's

cock but you know I didn't want i didn't want to not read that out okay someone here has put clarkson james may and the hamster basically top gear when we had stephen k amos on the live show he chose jeremy clarkson and i think we can all understand why those three as the top gear bunch i think james may seems like he'd be okay um maybe slightly curmudgeonly sometimes but he basically he seems like he's probably not an awful person whereas i think clarkson and hammond do seem like they'd probably be quite hard work especially on a desert island i mean jesus you're a podcast listener and this is a podcast ad reach great listeners like yourself with podcast advertising from lips and ads choose from hundreds of top podcasts offering host endorsements or run

a reproduced ad like this one across thousands of shows to reach your target audience with lips and ads go to lips and ads.com now that's l-i-b-s-y-n ads.com um i'm actually really into cars and it's something i'm increasingly embarrassed about because i don't think it's a very cool thing to be into but i've always loved cars since i was young so then i have the annoying thing of wanting to watch top gear but also finding it a bit annoying as well i mean now they don't present top gear they do a different one don't they so i don't have to watch them at all and i can watch normal top gear and it's all right but for a while they'd all put out some books and things like that with dvds which people would then at christmas go oh you like

cars dan i'm gonna buy that for you and then people come to my house and say i've got like clarks and books that i never bothered to take to the charity sharpened oh it's a bit embarrassing so yeah and i mean apart from my own displeasure with them i just yeah can you imagine being stuck on an island with those guys fucking hell clarkson would be no use at all i think richard hammond would just i can just imagine arguing with him the most i reckon and james may who knows who knows next one here is richard madeley richard madeley right here's a story once i was working on a radio show as my job and he was a guest on the radio show

and he came in and, do you know what? He unexpectedly really charmed everyone. Everyone just found him really nice and charming and just quite sort of witty and, like, he was bordering on suave, which is, like, now I'm saying it, I can unbelievable now i'm saying it i can't believe i'm saying this because i totally understand why this person has chosen richard madley because he'd be terrible to be on a desert island with i mean he's you know very close to a partridge

isn't he so you'd basically be stuck with someone like alan partridge someone who takes himself really seriously says awful things without meaning it. Yeah, but I mean, all I can say is from experience when I met him, he did surprise us quite a lot. Whether or not that would mean he would be pleasurable to stay on a desert island with, I couldn't tell you. But, you know, there's my fairly shit anecdote for you. Finally, I've got this card that just says leaf blowers.

So I assume that's people who use leaf blowers. I've never really understood them because I think they obviously make loads of noise. I mean, it's as noisy as a lawnmower. But whereas trying to cut a lawn with anything that wasn't a lawnmower would take ages and be really annoying. Like raking up some leaves isn't that hard is it i think you know if you have to do if you're like if you work in a park if you work for the council and you're cleaning up a park or like a football ground or something then yeah i get it use the machinery but when you see people leaf blowers in their gardens it's it's

really leaves aren't that heavy i mean it's quite easy job so i think yeah someone who sort of bothers the neighbors with a leaf blower i think is quite annoying lawnmower is all right isn't it because you know it doesn't take that long afterwards you get the nice smell of freshly cut grass but um yeah on a desert island and someone's just insisting on blowing the sand around with a leaf blower um yeah that would be fucking annoying anyway look i'm keeping this short and sweet today so there were a few of the leftovers that we had from our last live show in december with firm brady and stephen k amos and you know what it was so much fun it was a real laugh doing the show live and it was nice to meet some of you as well so i hope to see you at the

bedford pub in ballam on Thursday, the 6th of October. Tickets are £8, which, you know, feels like a bargain to me. I mean, I may be biased, but I mean, considering how much everything else in life costs, I think £8 for an evening of entertainment isn't bad at all. And, you know, you can always double up and see the other show, Sound Deals with Max and Ivan before ours as well and do a double header so yeah have a look google cheerful earful podcast festival or go to the link in the description of this episode or you can find the link on our twitter or instagram at dixpod and um yeah i hope to see you there it's going to be really good john roggins is going to be a fantastic

guest i have no doubt about that at all um and we're going to be back really soon with a whole new series of more wonderful guests uh we're in the process of booking them now and we've got some really good leads so i think you're going to enjoy what we've got up our sleeve as well all right thank you as always for listening and uh hopefully see you soon bye