Desert Island Dicks - DANNI MENZIES

Episode Date: March 21, 2019

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Taxes and fees extra. Speeds lower above 40 gigabytes each detail. Hi, I'm James Deacon and welcome to Desert Island Dicks, the show that sees you marooned on a desert island after a plane crash with the worst people and worst things imaginable. Who they are and why they're a dick is up to you. And here to share their desert island dicks with us today is TV presenter Dani Mingus. Hello. Hello how are you? Yeah I'm very good thank you very happy to be here sounding slightly squeaky because I've got a bit of a cough. Okay yeah. But pushing through. I really appreciate you taking the cough and and still tearing up today and I was thinking on the way in, I was thinking maybe this is slightly apt for you

because being on a place in the sun, you spend a lot of your time on places that may be slightly like this island. Well, I don't know if they're quite deserted. They're usually quite popular places. But I was thinking, I was thinking about this podcast and I was thinking,

God, I bet you loads of people would pick me as the worst person they could be stranded with. What? Yeah, I bet they would. No way. My friends definitely would. I'm the most excitable out of all of them and I never stop talking. So I'm pretty sure I'd be up there. Okay. Look, hey, don't be self-doubt. Dani, let's dive in. Who's going to be your first choice? Okay. So my first choice is people that do a thing right okay so i've had a bit of um i was gonna say irrational it's not

rational but i've had a bit of uh insanely irritating annoyance with certain people since a really young age okay go on but to the point that it drives me to, like, anger. What? Yeah, this sounds really serious, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who is it? So I got it from my mum. My mum got it from my granny.

It's something that runs in the family. Yeah. We all hate people who bite their nails, eat with their mouth open, and make loud breathing noises. Interesting. It sounds so bad, because that's probably like half the world yeah yeah was it like so that's like do you think that okay so it's come through the family do you think that's something that you've naturally felt or someone's point one of those have pointed it out to you and then it started to get on your so it started when i was

i remember when i was about six years old sitting at the dinner table and getting angrier and angrier and then just getting up and storming out and leaving and having to sit in the other room and do deep breaths and it was because of my mum eat my the noise my mum made when she was eating what so i'd get like mentally angry obviously i'm an adult now and i don't i don't do that i've learned to control myself yeah but i still get it so i can be sitting on the tube and someone will be biting their nails right and i can't hear anything else i can't hear people laughing shouting talking all i can hear is this nail biting noise but you know what has like saved me in social circumstances is that there's actually a name for it. So anyone who's listening to this that is relating to what I've got to say, it's called misophonia.

Misophonia? Yeah. It's a thing. When did you find out it was a thing? About a year ago, one of my friends put something on Facebook or Twitter saying, this explains everything in a link to Misophonia. And I read it and I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Mum, it's all right.

No way. Like, as if that is something. And how are all these things connected then? Well, it's basically, I mean, it's not scientifically being proven. Okay, right, right. But it's basically, it's just like repetitive certain noises. Oh my God. Yeah, I need to look up the definition.

It's all right, no, don't worry about it. But these are generally things that are like, it's impolite to do these things, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So there's something about etiquette or something that maybe falls into it in a way. I just find myself though in situations where like, you know, someone will be doing it and you kind of like give them that look and then you go back to normal and then you give them

that look for a bit longer and you're like, come on. No way. I'm like telling you with my eyes they just don't get it but you must be like on a flight and see people doing this kind of stuff all the time oh my gosh but I've learned to take wax earplugs with me oh my god I must look mental like I'll be in certain situations and I'll just take out my wax earplugs pop them in as if and i'm fine no way yeah really i swear my my last boyfriend i get it with snoring as well right my last boyfriend probably would have got dumped about a year and a half earlier had wax earplugs and not been invented really yeah you're like sleeper yeah okay it's just

he didn't even snore it was like the heavy breathing oh my god um are you sure you don't do any of these things i mean i definitely probably do i don't bite my nails or eat with my mouth open but i think everyone snores after a few drinks oh yeah for sure if you could hit yourself i'm glad i haven't do you ever wake yourself up from snoring no but actually that said ex-boyfriend once recorded me asleep oh really it was like you do it yeah yeah yeah okay right yeah yeah yeah okay people misophonia yeah it's a thing as if yeah okay so people no not people with misophonia that's you that's people that i'm the one with the problem with the problem people that eat with their mouth open people that um breathe loudly and people that breathe loudly

and people that bite their nails. I'm almost regretting saying this now. I sound like a nutter, don't I? You don't. I think that is very reasonable. I mean, that is annoying. Yeah. For sure.

Yeah. Okay, first choice. And Dani, who's going to be your second choice? Okay, my second choice is another thing. Okay. Is that okay? Yeah, is another thing okay is that okay yeah of course yeah yeah yeah so basically it's men who grunt in the gym okay grunty men oh yeah because i feel like from whole life they followed me around wherever i go So the gym can be really busy, right? And I love going to the gym, but it's always cut short because of the grunty, bloody men. So they'll wait.

There'll be loads of girls or girls and boys around stretching or whatever, and they'll wait till there's a space next to me. And then they'll come over and start giving it... No! And I'm like, dude, all i can think about now is having sex with you because you're making sex noises next to me in the gym and now i've got to leave like i can't stay here so i have to move and then someone else will appear and do the same thing oh my god just stop it is this happening to you all the time like every time i go to the gym really honestly i bet you so many girls get this do you know what the other really bad thing is about it these same men who generally sorry boys generally are older. When I say older, I mean older than me.

And they kind of think it's okay to wear sweaty gym kit a few days in a row and they can get away with it. Which you just can't. If you get really sweaty and you put it on again the next day, you'd smell like an actual shit. It's disgusting. It's so disgusting.

So not only am I like gross i'm visualizing having sex with you you're then smelling that and you've got all these associations happening at the same time and so i go in for like i'm like pumped i'm like yeah i'm gonna have a great session and i end up being there for like 10 minutes then i'm like, fuck this. Oh, this is disgusting. Oh my God. Yeah. Also, sorry, I'm having a real rant about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good. Also, on a desert island, those men, right, I grew up in the country, so I feel like I could knock together a tree house

in half an hour easy, right? Nice, okay. And I feel like if one of those guys was there, they'd be like, no, no, no, no, I'll lift that. Okay, right. And they wouldn't let me do anything. And then they'd be like, no, no, no, no, I'll lift that. Okay, right. And they wouldn't let me do anything. And then they'd just mess it all up, you know? That's horrible that they side you up next to you for that as well.

I feel like they wait. They wait sometimes until there's a space free. And the worst thing is when they do it and they look you in the eye. No. So they can just be doing a simple sit-up. Nobody needs to make a noise when they do a sit-up i don't care who you are but they'll wait and they'll look in the eye and they'll go no you're like oh damn it i'm sorry sorry am i grossing you out no no i just feel really sorry

that this happens to you in the gym you just want to go to the gym and like do what you want to do and get out i just want to work out man oh my god okay i mean yeah i i apologize for all mankind for all mankind um that that these men should be like this yeah i mean it is a man thing i've never had once had a woman do it yeah because we're idiots such idiots but why this i know it scars me you know i go, like, I'll be trying to do something and I can still hear that ringing in my head. Were you going to be sick then? Yeah.

I thought you were about to throw up in your own mouth. Just think, stay with you. I don't feel like, I don't know why men feel like they can do that. And actually, no, that's inappropriate, right? Well, like, I can lift a weight. I don't need to make noises. Why do you have to make a noise? And, like, I can lift a weight. I don't need to make noises. Why do you have to make a noise? And, like, give me that look when you do it.

It's the other option, though, the heavy breathing that comes under misophonia. Oh, yeah, maybe it's connected. I mean, that's also probably quite awful. Okay, grunting men, I've experienced this. This is awful. And putting them on the island, being like, hang on a minute, that is not something is awful. And putting them on the island, being like, hang on a minute.

That is not something you want. No, it would annoy me. And I know they wouldn't let me lift anything. Okay. I like being hands on, you know. Yeah. The same type of man is going to mansplain everything. Yeah.

Going on. Let me just show you how. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, this is a tree. Yeah. Okay. Cheers, mate.

Okay. Grunting men. Thank you very much, Danny. And who's like, okay, cheers, mate. Okay, granting men. Thank you very much, Danny. And who's going to be your third choice? So the last one is, I'll go for a person this time. An individual this time? An individual. It was a bit of a toss up

and I'm worried my fellow Scots might not like me for this. Interesting. But I can't stand Nicola Sturgeon. Might I ask, why Nicola Sturgeon? Well, I mean, I'm not for Scottish independence. Okay. So that plays into it quite a lot. And then aside from that, just her.

Okay. More specifically? More specifically, the way she talks, the way she flutters her eyelashes when she talks, the way she takes too long over saying flutters her eyelashes when she talks, the way she takes too long over saying certain things that you just, you don't need to pause like that. You can just keep talking like people are understanding you. How she looks.

Oh, that's really bad. Oh, that is cutting. Oh my God, that is cutting. Actually, do you know something I saw that was fabulous? Go on. So if you Google young boy... Go on, hang on, what? What is it?

If you Google young boy dressed up as Nicola Sturgeon, this guy for Halloween dressed up as her, and he just nailed it. Really? I've never seen anything so funny in my life he looked just like her oh really but he did also say she must have a really great stylist because he spent two days trying to find the right clothes amazing like her but he did nail it he looked just like really so she looks like a young boy can i google this right now yeah? Yeah, go for it. Okay, I'm going to do it. Because you picked two kind of groups of people,

and then you picked her. She is your lone choice. She is like your... Well, I just can't imagine being stuck with a worse person. Also, I feel like you're on a desert island, right? You live like built camp. You've made it all sweet. And then she'll go and try and like separate it down the middle, won't she?

Oh my God, that is good that is amazing he nailed it didn't he didn't he nailed it he can only be like seven or something that is no he's 22 he's 22 no that's a joke he's 22 that's great you really got me there. Wow. When you search young boy Nicola Sturgeon, there's some other interesting results and I'll urge you to look those up. That is actually amazing. Okay, Nicola Sturgeon. I mean, it was a bit of a tough one. The other thing is she's just,

she's cracked a few jokes in the past, right? I've not heard any of them because as soon as she starts talking, I have to turn off the television. But apparently she's cracked a few jokes and she's supposed to have a bit of a sense of humor but no one can watch her for long enough to hear her jokes because she's just so annoying and i love how it's not just the politics it's so specifically just it's totally the politics as well like great britain is great my my grandparents, for example, love Great Britain.

They came over after the war. They were essentially kind of refugees from Poland. And they loved what Great Britain did. And, you know, we've spent so long trying to become Great Britain. Now she wants to go and split it up. Okay, yeah. Come on. Yeah, okay.

Anything else on Nicola Sturgeon before we put her on the island? No, no. Come on. Yeah, okay. Anything else on Nicola Stedgham before we put her on the island? No, no, not really. I mean, it was a bit of a toss-up between her and... Sorry, Dad, Mum. A bit of a toss-up between her and Andy Murray. Andy Murray! Because, I know, and all Scots love him because he did something great,

but he's so miserable okay yeah he's so miserable and he just takes all a bit too seriously doesn't he and I think it's like just like chill out Andy don't throw your racket away be a fucking good sportsman yes you're right actually yeah that's a good point

be cool and also like because of his position he gets um I don't know whether he wants to or maybe he does he gets made to do a lot of sort of um a lot of tv stuff sometimes get involved in like comedy tv stuff and it just never works no he's so dry learn to smile andy i know like people go to voice coaches there must be someone funny enough or like someone who can physically teach his face to go into a smile just do anything else push it into the right spot and then hold it there for a while just just to pretend to look happy it's just a miserable and and also his mum she's miserable

oh my god you're going in do you want any do you want to be allowed to return to Scotland after this? I know, I'm really sorry. I feel like Nicola Sturgeon, lots of people feel that way about her. Andy Murray, I'm definitely going to get a bit of flack for that. Okay, interested to hear the backlash. You can't deny he's miserable. Yeah, don't at me. Wow.

Okay. Oh, actually, sorry. Go on. He also really supported Scottish independence. So him and Nicola Sturgeon are probably best buds. Yeah, actually, sorry. Go on. He also really supported Scottish independence, so him and Nicola Sturgeon are probably best buds. Yeah, okay. That's why they're on the plane together, right? Yeah.

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in the world what are they and why are they so bad okay well i am veggie but it's a bit boring to say meat because that's boring. I'm sure it's been done a few times. So I'm going to go with cheese. Cheese? Because I'm an addict and I know I'm an addict. And if there is cheese left on the plane and I had to make it last for however long, there is no hope in hell it would happen i'd eat it all in 10 minutes i in one sitting i can eat a family-sized pack of mature cheddar like in

10 minutes easy easy so i'm just don't allow it in my fridge anymore like actually i've got i've got a cheese problem right really actually this is like a serious, the tone has now changed. Oh, wow. Now we're going serious. This is a problem. Is it? But as, okay, as a vegetarian, right? Yeah.

You know, what else you got? You got to go, it's veggies or cheese, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well. But are you eating cheese like all the time?

Yeah. Really? But I'm trying not to. I'm trying to like live with this and like take control of my habit basically i really really am i'm trying to like because if you eat a lot of cheese you don't understand you get fat you get spotty right you get all these things because i was going to say if i ate a family-sized amount of cheddar you know i'd be i'd be a big boy i wouldn't be like do you know i mean i'd be like

yeah massive is this what you're trying to get away from i'm quite lucky no um no but i'm trying to keep control of it now it's a real problem yeah yeah honestly oh my god yeah you'll never seen anyone who can eat as much cheese as i can it actually goes for dominoes as well i can eat two giant dominoes in one sitting. Can you? In like a bottomless pit. Yeah. Okay, how are you not the size of a house?

How are you not like... Because I'm controlling myself at the moment. Yeah, but I mean... So it usually all goes down the pan on a Sunday when I'm hungover. And then I'll smash two blocks of cheddar, two dominoes. I'll have it all and then the next day feel a bit sluggish and then not do it again until the next Sunday.

Right, okay, right. Salads the rest of the week. Getting your ten minutes at the gym before someone grunts at you and you've got to go. Okay, I think I'd have to if I ate that on a Sunday I'd have to spend the whole next week in the gym. No, just one day in bed. The other trick is if you lie horizontally, you can fit more in.

Oh, my God. So you've got to lie down to get the pizza in. No way. Is that true? Yeah. Or it is for me. Okay. Also, cheese isn't going to keep on a desert island, right?

That's true. So might as well eat it all in one go. Yeah, just go with one go. I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's said they've actually got a cheese problem that they've got to back away from. I googled it once to find out if it was like, if there was any reason for me craving cheese

so much all the time. And apparently cheese does the same things to the receptors in your brain as heroin. No way. Really? Yeah. What? Google it.

What? No way. I really hope I didn't just make that up. I don't know. I don't know. That just sounds incredible, though. No, I think it is actually true. Heroin or cocaine, I can't remember which one.

But basically, cheese does something to your brain that drugs do to your brain to make you want more of it all the time just give you that addiction I do find okay although I'm not an addict a cheese addict

once I start I have a right safe you can't stop do you know what I mean yeah I don't know if I could see away a family block of cheddar

but like if there's a wheel of brie do you know what I mean oh really see oh man brie's the one one the one one

the one cheese that I a one one the one cheese that i could actually probably leave it just go without i can just leave brie wow cheddar cheese differences yeah just cheddar is that you made what other cheese a strong strong cheddar oh not a real mature cheddar oh i love a camembert i love dipping something in camembert a camembert and a brie is very similar no No, camembert is stinkier and tastier. Brie is just a bit bland. Okay. Yeah.

At Christmas time, I went for a run and I ate a whole baked camembert and one of those baguettes that you bake in the oven in one sitting. Sorry. Which sounds like kind of your... So wait a minute minute did you not just say i went for a run yeah i went for a run for a run and i ate camembert yeah i did yeah at the same time no no as when i got home all right sorry you're like justified i can have all of this now yeah i think yeah i think

that's fine right that's all right totally yeah yeah okay balance out okay it's how i live it's how you live your life you're like this is exactly what i do all the time i've run hello chatter yeah okay right um cheese is going to be a food choice and what's going to be a drink white wine white wine yeah interesting it makes me it makes me mental i think i think that white wine for women is the equivalent of whiskey for men. Like, it just makes them a bit aggressive and crazy. Really? Yeah.

This is the first time anyone's ever said that. Maybe because I'm talking about drinking lots of it. Right, okay. Drink to drunk, then white wine's a problem. Serious problem. Like, I'll cry, I'll get angry, I'll probably sweat through the night, probably wake up regretting life in the morning.

It's not really a good thing if you're going to be stuck with yourself on a deaf island. Actually, you spend... Full of self-loathing. But you spend a lot of time in sunny places, right? Mm. White wine surely is kind of the go-to with a meal. Is that like... must be no i'll have a glass of red do you yeah but also um prosecco or actually in in spain for example

their cava is probably just as nice as the prosecco ah okay yeah nice actually that makes sense because i had some friends that went to barcelona and they said that the whole time they just drank cava. Yeah, which here, you totally wouldn't drink cava. It's like, you know, you turn your nose up a little bit at cava over here. But in Spain, the cava is lovely, as long as you don't get the sweet stiff. Okay. Nice. Good.

Thank you. Yeah. And it's cheap. Is it? Cava, red wine, it's like two bucks a glass over there. Oh, it's good. Whereas London, you're looking at like, what? Yeah.

Eight pounds? Yeah, yeah. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Also, though, going back to cheese, I'm sorry, we left cheese, but we're going back to cheese. You must get to try some amazing cheeses. Yeah. Travelling around.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I do. I actually really do. Feeds the addiction. Like when we go in, it really does. When we go into like the countryside in France or Spain or wherever, yeah, we get some Italy amazing cheeses. Oh, my God.

And they love doing a little segment on the show where they were like, we're just stopping off to try some of the local produce. And they're like, Danny, eat that 25 times while we film it from different angles. And then they get mad when there's none left. Oh, what? And you're like, yeah, it's hard okay white wine what when have you uh when have you experienced one of these wow i mean i'd like to say that not in my adult life but i'd be lying um so i think the first time it was really bad i was very young like 16 or something um the last time must

have been mid-20s like i did learn in my 20s it was really bad because the problem is it also is the only drink like prosecco i can drink like 10 no i can drink a lot of bottles i'll probably be fine wine as soon as i go past three glasses i I have no idea what happened. I wake up the next day and I'll be like, how did I get this? The fear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just makes me go. Oh, my God. Okay.

Do you like the taste of white wine? I like it, but it's full of fear. Because you know it's going to... I have a sip and I'm scared while I drink it. Wow. Yeah. That's a danger on the island as well, right, if you're doing that all the time.

But maybe it's a way to just black out and get through it. Yeah. Yeah, okay. But I know what you mean, because I get the same thing with whiskey. Like, if I get whiskey drunk, the next day it's full of the fear, and then someone will say,

do you know, last night you were a right dick. Yeah. Yeah. I had an ex-boyfriend, if he had more than four whiskeys, he'd start trying to fight people. He was Irish as well. Okay. And then not remember it.

And you're like, what? I'm half Irish and the same thing happens to me. But I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Does it? I don't know. I'm a quarter Irish. It happens to me. So maybe then.

Okay. I'm happy for someone to squash that myth. But actually, my dad isn't Irishish at all and he's fine he just didn't like the taste anyway interesting we'll see um okay what wine's gonna be a drink choice thank you very much danny unfortunately for you you won't be without entertainment on the island the planes entertainment system continues to work but just your luck it only has two working settings One is your least favourite film of all time and the other is your least favourite song. What are they and why? Okay, so the song, have you ever been on a Jet 2 flight?

No. So there's an airline called Jet 2. Anyone who has travelled with them will know exactly what I'm about to say. But they do have an advert on telly as well. So when you get on a Jet 2 flight, right? Right. There's... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They put it on repeat. No. It's like you get on the plane and it goes, welcome to your Jet 2 flight. And then you sit down and it goes off for a second and then it starts again what and they just keep playing on repeat until it's time to take off and if you're stuck on the runway for like 45

minutes it just goes on does it actually yes that is terrible so it's so terrible and i've like because we go to spain or wherever there's a lot of jet two flights in Europe we travel with them quite a lot and every time I see get my call sheet through and I see that I'm on a jet two flight I'm like I die a little bit inside

like if I was booking things I would almost pay the extra hundred quid just not to fly with them just because of that wow

they're so not it drives you to insanity the poor girls and guys who work on that plane oh my they must have to hear it all the time

I've asked them I'm like do you do you want to they're like we sing it wherever we go it's just permanently

on repeat in your head oh my god I curl I die a little bit inside whenever I hear that song and they've actually totally ruined

Jess Glynn for me I can't even listen to her now anyway you're like didn't like her anyway. No, no. That's what your face said. I've seen her once. I saw her once.

She... No, I mean, yeah, I get it, yeah. I mean... Do you know what else they do on that flight that they don't do anywhere else? On any other airline? Go on. So once that has stopped,

you take off and you're like, imagine we fly out on a Sunday, right, to go to work. We get on this flight and you hear that song on repeat. You've had your friend's birthday party the night before. You might have a little bit of a sore head. You've already had to deal with the song. You sit down and you think, oh great, I'm going to have a little snooze now. you've already had to deal with the song you sit down you think oh great i'm gonna have a little snooze now and then on the tannoy thing they go welcome to the

flight ladies and gentlemen so today we've got this scratch card this scratch card this scratch card this scratch card we've got all these prizes and then also we've got 20% off Tommy Hilfiger, 50% off Givenchy, 70% off... But they list every item on the duty-free and tell you how much percentage you can have off. It takes about 15 minutes, 20 minutes, which if you're flying not very far, it's a really long time. Yeah, and no one is going to listen to all of that. No one gives a shit. Just like, all you need to to say is look in the magazine. There's some great deals.

I've never been in another airline that does that. Do you know what? Interestingly, all of this is going to put me off. If I see that it's a Jet 2 flight, I'm probably not going to book it. Totally. Just don't fly Jet 2. Wow!

That bad? Yeah. I mean, do you think what's happened here is that they've paid for the rights to use this song in their adverts. They're like, we're going to rinse it. The contract is like, it's got to be the only thing, right? Would that cost a fortune? We're going to make the absolute most of that and put it on repeat. I almost put Mr. Jet too in my people not to have on a desert island because I was so angry with him about putting that song on repeat. I almost put Mr. Jet 2 in my People Not To Have On A Desert Island

because I was so angry with him about putting that song on repeat and everything. We've done that. You've done really well to get it away as well. Okay, so Jess Glynn, Hold My Hand.

Yeah. I think it's called, right? Sorry, sorry, Jess. Blame Jet 2. It's not your fault, mate. Okay, Dani, thank you very much. And what's going to be your film choice? So my film choice is... I feel like you're not gonna you're not gonna like this one

star wars star wars wow well it's because i seem like a total nerd you look like you i can just imagine you wearing a star wars under this massive t-shirt that i bought um i um do you like Star Wars? I do like Star Wars, yeah. I'm not like a super fan, but I do enjoy it. I just don't get it. I just don't get it. I just thought it was so boring and it was so obvious and it was so fake.

Do you know what? I get that. Beam me up, Scotty. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, I love that. I think that's Star Trek. I'm almost setting that up oh it's okay wait is that not the same thing wait a star trek and star wars not the same thing no

it doesn't matter that's both of them it's great i mean no i'll tell you what as a kid didn't get it and then it's only as i'm older but maybe i um maybe i am a bit of a nerd i don't know i'm to be honest i'm just really confused right now i thought they were the same thing okay no it's fine it doesn't matter i don't know which one i'm talking about probably uh probably star wars or star trek it's like i get what you mean it is obvious and it's kind of like you know uh it's like you have to swear in at the beginning and just be like, right, I'm just going to have to go with everything that's in here. Otherwise, you know, people who like get that into it, that they like buy the outfit.

Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Like all of that weirds me out. Yeah. It's a bit too full on. You know that there's, if you Google, I know this is maybe a step too far. Go on, go on. You get like porn sites dedicated to it.

Do you? Yeah. What, to Star Wars? Like Star Wars and cartoons and stuff. It's like really niche. It's a bit weird. How did you find this out? I worked with a director once who was into dressing up as a cartoon character.

Why? Now, I did not learn that from experience i'm just going to make that very clear but whilst having a few drinks he confessed this to us and so we obviously went on google and had a look and star trek wars was one of the things that also came up interesting people dressing up and doing it really and that's what he was into yeah star wars or he was into cartoon characters like what cartoon characters i don't know and if i say it then i mean if he listens to this he's definitely gonna know it's him because i don't think anyone else does stuff like that but maybe they do i don't know okay anyway have you said too much i feel like i've said a little bit too much i might get in

trouble can that stay in yeah okay fine okay fine if you're happy with that fine um okay um star wars on my facebook in case he sees it okay just in case all right fine um okay star wars for those reasons thank you very much danny okay and finally the island is overrun by the biggest dick of all the animals which animal is it and why oh so this was the hardest one okay you're an animal why did that just sound rude um so i'm the biggest animal lover you've ever met like ever like i used to save every animal i could possibly save from a young age um so this was really hard so i actually had to research this okay to find an animal that repulsed me really okay yeah and i found one so it's a rodent called an i i e y e y and e y yes okay go on for anyone that hasn't seen one, I think I've seen one,

but go on. What does it look like? Wait, E-Y-E-E-Y-E. That's what I meant to say. An I-I. Okay, yeah. So I think it's in Africa and it basically looks like a rat.

So it's got a really rotted knee face and some hairs and some horrible ears and horrible pointy eyes. But then the thing that really did it for me was that or didn't do it for me was that on its hand it's got one really long finger what that's like long i'll show you a picture it's like a long claw claw pointy finger and it just freaks the it's the most freaky looking thing i've ever seen. But just also like really repulsive. And I just thought if I was on a desert island,

I wouldn't be able to sleep at night because I'd be dreaming about this pointy finger poking me in the middle of the night. Oh, no. Why? Look. No. Look at his finger.

Isn't it gross? That wasn't the thing that I thought it was. That is horrible an eye eye eye eye okay it makes me like screen crawl a little bit i mean yeah i mean it is pretty freaky looking right really freaky okay no no to the eye no no to the eye eye that's the out thank you very much um danny thank you so much for coming in no problem thank you it's been a real joy if people want to find you where can they find you

I guess everyone just uses Instagram nowadays don't they I actually even like dating people do that nowadays do you know that what do you mean

like they don't say what's your number anymore they say what's your Insta someone actually did that to me the other day really so it is Danny

D-A-N-N-I dot Mingus M-E-N-Z-I-E-S at oh no wait Someone actually did that to me the other day. Really? So it is danny.mingus. M-E-N-Z-I-E-S. Oh, no, wait, that's my email address. Not my email address. Just danny.mingus. danny.mingus is your Instagram? Yeah. Okay, great.

And Twitter. It's spelled M-E-N-Z-I-E-S. Right, okay. So in Scotland you say Mingus. Yeah. But it's spelled Menzies. But Scots say Mingus. Right, okay. So in Scotland you say Mingus. Yeah. But it's spelt Menzies. Oh, interesting. Which is how it should be said.

Ah, interesting. Okay. And of course, if people want to see you on TV like every day. Yeah, pretty much. My place in the sun is just on TV. Like, I feel like if I'm at home, it's on. It's on all the time. So it's on three or four o'clock, depending how Channel 4 feel,

on Monday to Friday. Monday to Sunday, actually. Wow. Actually, most days of the week, yeah. It's on every day. And it's always on repeat on Channel 4 Plus 1 or Living or whatever. Yeah, basically, it's always on.

People want to see you. They can see you every day. Yeah. Amazing. Okay, well, thank you like every day. Yeah. Amazing. Okay. Thank you very much. No problem.