Desert Island Dicks - REGINALD D HUNTER

Episode Date: August 4, 2022

The incomparable Reginald D Hunter joins us on this episode for the same reason that everyone else joins us - to tell us about the worst people and things he could be stuck with on a desert island, but of course he does it in his own inimitable way, and it was a great deal of fun. If you enjoy this (or any of our other episodes), then come and see us live in October as part of the Cheerful Earful podcast festival - we'll be doing the podcast in front of an audience with a great guest and could be there. So do it via the accompanying link, or search Cheerful Earful. 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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Let's listen to Reginald D. Hunter on Desert Island Dicks. Hi, I'm Dan Benedictus 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 our guest. And here to share their desert island dicks with us today is comedian and swashbuckling adventurer, Reginald D. Hunter. How are you doing? Ha ha! All right, sir.

How are you today? You seem in good form. I'm all right. I just swung in through this window on this rope, as swashbucklers do. And I'm getting over a mild bug. Came down with it on Sunday, but I seem to be coming back this way. Tonight, I go on stage to do a preview, and we'll see what we got to play with nice okay so being in an upbeat mood you know i don't want to i don't want to bring you down by talking about things that you hate but do you do you find that's an easy topic for you to sort of discuss would you try and keep things sort of positive most of the time my estimation of myself says no because um my my default nature tends to be someone between pleasantly mellow and pleasantly indifferent. But when someone gets my goat, they really get my goat.

You know what I'm saying? Like some people take your whole farm. You know what I mean? Well, we'll see how we get on today hopefully it'll be a cathartic experience and won't descend into putting you in a bad mood so we'll see how we get on hopefully we'll come away from this with no new enemies yeah well look how you're laughing yeah as long as i'm not one of them that's so that main thing. Well, we're off to a great start, so I'd be very surprised if that happened. Good stuff.

All right. Okay, so your plane has crashed. Who's going to be the first person joining you on your desert island? Ben Shapiro. Okay. His politics aside, which I find troubling, I find his voice to be piercing and relentlessly grating. And it's difficult to listen to someone who has views that are polar opposite to yours in a voice that you find piercing and relentlessly painful.

And sometimes I want to dissect an argument of his, but I get like 30 seconds into listening to him and I take off the headphones. I just can't do this no more I can't I just I I don't I don't know how I would defeat him in a debate just purely because of the sound of his voice yeah maybe that's a tactic I don't know I've wondered that I've wondered that um because um I mean to his credit he speaks fast and he has a sort of relentless sort of relentless pressure bringing way of framing phrasing questions and he speaks a sort of relentless, pressure-bringing way of phrasing questions and he speaks very quickly. And so I would guess that he has been told this before about his sound and he has, to some extent,

worked to use it to his advantage. Yeah. And for people who might not be that familiar with him, give us a little bit of an overview of him so we can really appreciate what a dick he is. Demi Sapero is considered by many a right-wing pundit. He has a podcast and I think he's written a book or two. And he's very anti-critical race theory,

very pro-Republican, very pro-Jewish. What's the opposite of an anti-Semite? A Semite, I guess. I don't know. A pro-Semite. A pro-Semite. He's a significant supporter of Candace Owens, someone who may or may not feature in the second and third slot of my island.

A Fox News regular. Yeah. Okay. All right. That's the real nail in the coffin. It's funny, isn't it? Because it feels like there's never been a better time to be a right wing commentator. But at the same time, so much of the stuff is based on them saying how they're not allowed to say anything. Yeah.

There's so many of them. They're getting so much publicity. Yeah. I mean, they have to have like secret meetings down by the docks late at night. And they have a significant impact on the airways and in some places in the world, total control. Yeah. I think, I mean, in a desert island island scenario it'd be so difficult to be with anyone like that because i don't think just because they were cut off from civilization they'd stop

ranting about the civilization they'd left and sort of saying you know what's broken with the world and you know maybe for the first day or two you'd think okay i've got to stay in my box not you know just keep the peace not get into all of this but there'd just be a time when you're doing something you know you're really tired and hungry and you just go, oh, for fuck, like, come on.

Like, of course it's not like that. You fucking idiot. You know? And then that would be it. That would never stop. I don't think. Yes.

I imagine that the first week or so, 10 days, he and I will probably get along. Okay. Cause we'd be in the same predicament. And then we'd be looking for firewood and trying to figure out how we're going to catch fish and you know how we're going to survive and then probably like one night we'll be we'll be sitting around a campfire looking at stars and moon and just talking and then all of a sudden that right wing stuff will start um coming out

his mouth and then we'll probably disagree and then i will probably move to the other side of the island and but then um after a while um we would get lonesome and we would resolve to try to put our differences aside because our survival depended on us getting along together so we try to hang out again some more and it'll go well for a few days and then he would he would he would say something analytical and crazy in that political and in that piercing voice and then it it might be some coconut head smashing after that i will have meat with my coconut for several days yeah i've previously spoken this podcast about with cannibalism,

whether it's better to eat someone that you kind of didn't mind that much or someone that you hated because it's like, you know, like, oh, God, now I've got to put that person inside of me. But like, oh, but they were a good guy. I don't want to eat them. You know, it's like I don't think there's ever a good way around. Okay, so we've got a good base of sort of tension now on the island. So who's going to sort of join you?

Who's going to be the second person joining you? I'm going to say Candace Owens. Okay. She's also a right-wing pundit. She's very pro-Trump. In America, she's an unusual animal, like the like black Tories over here. She's a black Republican. And both of these people spend a lot of time trashing the Democratic Party, which a lot of us do. But it acts as if the Republican Party and the Democratic Party aren't the same people.

Now, you used to be able to say up until like six months ago you used to be able to say the difference between republicans and democrats was only abortion you can't even say that anymore now it's weird that there's still people going no i like donald trump they don't even say i like what he stands for they actually like him it's just bewildering isn't it well it was for me until i understood it a bit better um going towards the more extreme right wing you have people who more than wanting to fix the country or repair anything they really want to say a fuck you to their liberal enemies and anything that the liberal enemies get upset about or alarmed about, they are totally for.

And there's something about Donald Trump that makes a lot of liberals just make their brain melt and just become mad. And so it seems like they want to keep the liberal side constantly vexed and warring with itself. Yeah, that does make more sense. Okay, yeah, so you've got these two right wingers together on the island, both sort of, so now you're outnumbered as well. I mean, I suppose at some point, they might sort of turn in on each other about various policies and stuff like that. But it's unlikely, isn't it? They're going to find you as a common enemy, I think. Oh, they were definitely banding

together. I mean, you know, I can see things going very poorly for me uh for a time on that island with them two people there yeah so i guess it all hinges quite a lot on who the third person is going to be joining you obviously this being desert island dicks we're probably not going to have like a silver bullet that's going to fix it all um so who's the third person joining you unless they're lined up like one behind the other. So who would your third choice be joining these two already? Oh, I guess Ronald Reagan. But Ronald Reagan we have to do. And I don't pulsate

with rage towards him. I guess partly because he's an actor on several levels currently. But I see his trick-or-down economics as one of the destructive things economically to the American financial system and devastating to the poor and how he's just given a free ride to that. It's just thoroughly goat-kidding. Yeah, I mean, the idea of sort of trickle-down,

like if we can make the rich richer, then it'll all trickle down and stuff. It never accounts for the fact that when you've got money that you don't have to spend, you keep it in a bank because you've got spare money and it doesn't go into the economy. If we oversaturate the rich with money, then the rest that they can't take in will just trickle down and it'll be manna for everyone. It don't work like that.

It's like you can't oversaturate greed. I'm not saying the rich are greedy. I'm saying human nature is greedy. I watched this Jimmy Savile thing the other day. The people that were being interviewed were people who worked with Savile at the BBC and various charities. And they were being interviewed.

And they kept being interviewed. And everyone was like, at the time, I thought he was a bit eccentric. But I couldn't put my finger on it. And it's like they kept saying, I knew, but I didn't know I knew. And it's like, forgive saying, I knew, but I didn't know I knew. And it's like, forgive yourself. No one knew. But I know, but I didn't know I knew. And same time with voodoo economics.

It's like I was alive at the time he announced this. And, you know, these policies were discussed on TV. And everybody else was like, well, I've never heard of such. It certainly has the benefit of being unorthodox. Let's try it. Yeah, I mean, in an ideal world, people might go, do you know what? I've got a massive house. I've got all this money.

I've got everything I need. I better give the rest away to people who need it more than me. But that's relying on quite a lot you know quite a lot of goodwill could you imagine going over to your your fifth cousin house and your fifth cousin says all right i forgot to tell you i have a lot of extra money do you need any i just i i have too much really and if you don't need any maybe you know someone who could use a few thousand here take this yeah i don't know what i'm gonna do with it i just yeah i mean my five-year-old son recently sort of sick he's got a few coins in a piggy bank he said listen if you

don't have enough money i've got some spare upstairs and i was like oh that you know it's really sweet and like but problem is billionaires aren't five years old. I mean, they probably will be five-year-old billionaires these days. But, you know, if everyone had that lovely childish outlook on life, then it'd be okay. But we'd probably also have other problems like, I don't know, cars with guns all over them and stuff like that. So, you know, it's probably better the way it is in some ways.

But, yeah, also, I mean, Ronald Reagan probably better the way it is in some ways, but yeah, also, I mean, Ronald Reagan on the Island, he is quite old as well. So he's kind of, he's not going to be pulling his weight. He's going to be someone that you end up having to look after a bit, even though you don't really want to. But having Ronald Reagan on the Island would be a major advantage for me,

considering the first two people I chose, because people like the first two people I chose, they look at Ronald Reagan as a God. And so if I got along with Ronald Reagan and I believe, I believe I would get on with him. I mean, I believe he's very folksy and everything. And I can see him standing,

standing in front of the other two saying, well, I think you all make some nice points, but we're all in this situation together and there's no economy on the island to fight about. So why don't you all try to get along with Reg? And they would instantly just follow him in the ears. They'd be like, oh yes, oh great God of voodoo economics,

we will do as you command. And as long as I stand in good with Reagan, I should get, he should be able to keep Candace Owen and Ben Shapiro from trying to kill him. OK, so then the pressure is going to be to keep him alive, basically make him live forever, because once he's gone, then it gets nasty. But then another problem would be Ben Shapiro attracted someone who was intellectually arrogant and very ambitious. And it'd probably just take a few days for him to sit around the campfire talking to Ronald Reagan before he goes, I'm smarter than Ronald Reagan. I'm smarter than you.

I should be the Republican God, not you. It's just a better time before that would start. And then they'd start start fighting and then candace owen wouldn't know what to do she'd be confused and then the republican controls in her head would explode and melt and i catch her in my arms and she'd go where am i and and i say i say republican and she'd go what never? Never. Where am I? Who am I with? And so she become human again.

And I would want to help President Reagan defeat Ben Shapiro. But I realized that that's not my fight. I have to let good and evil fight each other. Evil and not so evil fight each other. And see, because, you know, it's like the quest, you know. So, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I like how this is spiraling into, you know, we can turn this into a series, perhaps. I think it's got legs. I think it's got legs. A Democrat gets trapped on the island with two Republicans and one Tory. Comedy ensues okay well that's the people dealt with now 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 Lipson ads. Go to lipsonads.com now. That's L-I-B-S-Y-N

ads.com. Mercifully, amongst the wreckage of the plane, there was some food and drink left over. Unfortunately for you, it's your least favorite food and drink in the world. What are they and why are they so bad uh the worst possible meal would be liver with stilton cheese with a bottle of southern comfort yeah i think i think i think i would get a handful of dirt and some water and just fry it in a pan and eat that first. Okay, well, let's unpack that then. So, yeah, I mean, liver is one of the things that I hate most in the entire world. So definitely with you on that. Did it feature highly in your childhood?

Because I feel like awful has a lot of bad childhood memories for a lot of people. Yeah, my parents, I mean, liver was probably cooked cooked we probably had liver for dinner like once a week and on those days it was known around the house it's burger king day for reg and uh and my father was real good in that um my mom my father didn't force me to eat things he'd be like man you don't like that and and a lot of things that i dislike i have come around to really like like um i used to find um broccoli revolting i used to find any kind of cheese revolting and and i grew out of that but my mom if it just been up to my mom been like, well, that's what we got. So if you're eating, that's what you're eating.

All right, so we're going to pair that with Stilton now. What are the reasons that you hate it? The taste. People who like Stilton cheese and smoke Marlboro Reds, I get nervous around them kind of people. I think they have a capacity or depth that they can reach that is beyond me. Maybe a certain level of ruthlessness. I just think those are two very harsh things to administer to one's own body.

Fair enough. I mean, it's weird, isn't it? Because there must have been a first person who tried it. And it's, you know, it's an acquired taste, I guess. But just to see that thing then go, wait, have you seen what's happened to the cheese? Give it a go. No, fuck that.

Look what it is like. It looks like, I don't know. I mean, it looks like some kind of weird fungus thing it's it's mad it makes me think like this is food that was developed during the war like oh my god the cheese is awful supply lines have been cut there's nothing left for this moldy cheese eat it okay i've acquired i've acquired a taste for this I mean it's like you know sometimes you get a nice steak and it's got some nice cheese melting on the top of it but imagine like yeah the idea of like liver and stilton together a pepperoni and stilton and and you're gonna wash that down with southern comfort now you know Reginald you're from the

deep south are you not all just drinking southern comfort all the time and I mean surely you're gonna wash that down with southern comfort now you know reginald you're from the deep south are you not all just drinking southern comfort all the time and i mean surely you're it's it's the main drink over there that's what we've been told over here well actually southern comfort is moonshine that's what that should be called southern comfort um i know a lot of drinkers back in the South, and I don't personally know anyone who favors Southern Comfort. I don't know many people who are disgusted by it like I am, but nobody I know reaches for it first. It's like a drink that we drink, but it's like, we ain't got nothing else? Okay, we'll mix that with some Coke or something, I guess. But I can't even do that.

I don't know if you have this when you're drinking, but if you're going to get sick off a drink, there's a sip that you can take that feels like a line too far. And you may not puke for an hour or two, but you know that was a line too far. The line too far with Southern Comfort comes way earlier than with other drinks for me. I mean, it feels like a drink based on marketing because it's like, you know, when you're young and you're starting drinking and you try some whiskey or something,

maybe from like your friend's parents' house or something, and you go, holy fuck, is this, whoa, this isn't nice. I don't like this sort of gin or vodka or whatever. And then Southern Comfort, you're like, oh, it it's kind of bad but it's sort of sweet as well it's sort of like starter whiskey it's like whiskey with stabilizers you know it's like it's not nice but when you're a kid it's sort of it's an entry point isn't it it's the sweetness of it that gets to me there's something about this and i like sweet things but there's something about the sweetness of southern comfort that just just gets me right in this just under my sternum and i feel it and my taste bud memory is a sickly sweet taste

yeah like you say you think people probably drinking moonshine and stuff i don't think you know like any kind of like good old boys are sitting around with this really sickly sweet drink. It's such a funny idea. I'm just imagining just some old good old Southern boys like, yeah, ice is Southern comfort. This is Southern man's drink. Hey, Tommy, bring out those little umbrellas from the drinks that I bought the other day. A while ago, they tried to sort of rebrand it a bit of like you know down here we call it soco

and it's like okay first of all no you don't and it's sort of like people in the advert kind of ordering a soco and coke you know even if i like the drink i'm not going to the bar and asking for a soco and coke oh. Let me ask you this. Do you have an appreciation for sherry? Sherry. I think there's some, there's one called, is it Pedro Jimenez? It's really dark. That's quite nice.

But then there's the sort of light stuff that sort of tastes like bad wine. Before I came to England, there were several things I did, you know, trying to get, you know, an idea or an anticipation for England. You know, I watched My Fair Lady and I reread my Rumpel of the Bailey books. And then I read something that indicated there were a lot of sherry drinkers in England. So I bought a bottle of sherry one night and I attempted it. And I just, I was like was like wow maybe I should use this for cooking I feel like your early understanding of what England was is probably a bit like our understanding of the south based on southern comforts kind of yeah i probably came over with a slightly 19th century view of britain

i can't wait to buy my own personal spittoon okay well that's your meal sorted and i think yeah it's a a horrendous combination that you've got there for your meal so that's that's that's good but um fortunately you won't be without entertainment on the island the Plains 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? The Green Mile and my least favourite song I don't know who made it but it was uh in early 80s and it oh mickey you so fine you so fine yeah yeah back home on the local radio station they played that like three times an hour and it and like every every school party you went to. It was just everywhere. Wow, I'm getting flashbacks now.

I mean, being a young man at a dance and trying to find up, pluck up the courage to ask a girl to dance and then when you do, you say wait until the next song. I hate this. Oh, you love this. Oh. This is your favorite song. This song I hated was the favorite song of a lot of girls that i liked at the time too and you know mickey might have been a hell of a dude you know it sounded more like the way school girls would tease a boy um if they knew he had a crush on a

particular girl and And they'd just follow him around. Oh, Mickey, you're so fine. You're so fine. You're in your locker. You're walking. I was bullied by several girls at school. It's quite a novelty

song. It's something that you could almost imagine started as the theme tune to something and then became a hit afterwards. It't feel like you can't imagine people sitting down to write it you know it's like it's almost like it came out by accident you know what are we we've got this great new sitcom like write a jingly sort of upbeat tune it's like wait a minute that's got legs we could do something with this let's do a simultaneous sort of release with this sort of thing but then you're like oh that's you know like i find it amazing that the song from the friends theme tune was a song in its own right before it was a thing you wrote that on purpose to be a song you know like

hey how's the band going yeah great listen to this it's like oh yeah yeah it's great yeah oh man his band's shit oh man yeah just imagine telling a girl and saying i wrote a song for you she's like oh wow that's um that's that's very miracle or something okay so yeah i mean i think on a desert island, having a song like that, it would just, you know, because it's designed to get in your head. It's like, it's just something you'd end up humming. And it's like, oh, fuck.

Oh, God. It's a very intrusive song. It's very intrusive. There's a bit in Wayne's World where he's in the car just singing it. And then they start singing it. And they're like, oh, God, I better put on some music. And I think I knew that bit of the film before I'd heard the song but even just hearing two people in a film sing it was enough to get it in my head quite a lot and then years

later I was like oh that's what Wayne was singing in Wayne's World okay right I get it so yeah that's the power this song has so it's a good choice for going mad to on the island and um you said the green mile for your your film choice yeah what is it about that film well i'm a big black dude so i guess to some extent i empathize with the big black dude in the green mile and here's a big black dude who can heal sick people, didn't kill anybody, and yet he still has to die to make the white people in this movie feel better. And I'm looking at this and I'm just like, well, this dude walks around healing people

and they still killed him. I mean, he even healed Tom Hanks' penis and he still had to die. That's right. And there's a scene in the movie where it's like 30 white men with shotguns and hound dogs. They're going through a field looking for these two missing twin white girls. And then they find a black dude laying there on the ground holding the two dead girls and he's crying because he can't make them live again

but in the next scene he's in prison now I'm thinking knowing what I know of Southern white men in the 1930s with shotguns out in the field how did he get how did the black dude get from that scene to the prison alive

who how did the black dude get from that scene to the prison alive? Who was the white dude who says, this looks bad, Joe. Yeah. Better get a social worker down here. Let's take him in and hear what he has to say for himself. Just, I don't know. he seems mighty traumatized himself i didn't expect him to being a killer i'd give him a hug myself imagine how safe you'd feel in those big arms of his and and it's it was weird at the time when my wife was coming over, oh, I love the Green Mile, it's great.

And I'm like, oh, yeah. Spoke till you did it. Yeah, I can't argue with that. Imagine the other people on the island probably quite like it as well. So, you know, you're there like, oh, come on, we're having movie night. Why have you always got to go to the other side of the island? Come on, just this one. Just kind of sit down and

let's enjoy, you know, have a glass of Southern Comfort. Relax. Yeah, all three of them, Ronald Reagan, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro, they've just finished watching The Green Mile and Ronald Reagan going, wow, that was a fantastic movie.

I wish I could have played something like that. And then after that they start, they're like, well, let's have our dance. And they start drinking sherry and dancing to Old Mickey. And I'm on the other side of the island eating

my fried dirt and water. Oh man, on the other side of the island eating my fried dirt and water oh man it says it doesn't paint a pretty picture okay well listen we've got one more category and then you can be out of your misery and stop thinking of awful things because finally the island is overrun by the biggest dick of all the animals which animal is it and why my usual one be snake. I grew up in an area that wasn't very snakey. Most of our snakes resided in the swamps. But in places like Indonesia, or like you get up one early one morning and go to the bathroom for a pee, and there's a ball constrictor just coming through the vents. A snake is my animal that make instantly makes me unreasonable it's like i i i go into some automatic mode i just like anything that makes me lose instant

self-control one of the reasons why i love britain no fucking mosquitoes oh Oh my God. Oh God. I tell my friends, when I first got over here, they was like, well, what they got over there that's keeping you there? No hurricanes, no tornadoes, no roaches, and no mosquitoes. And when I told my people that, they're like,

we're coming. It truly is a fairytale land when you look at it from that perspective. Yeah, I've got two brothers live in Australia and my nephews were over recently and they're four and five. And they were sort of asking me about stuff. And they're like, oh, there's a spider over there. Is that one OK? And I'm like, listen, everything is fine. But really, what?

All of them? all of them all of them you know explain to a four-year-old that like there are no dangerous spiders when they come from Australia they just can't believe it about 15 years ago I was at a house party one night and I was um I was on the patio talking to the great Andrew Maxwell and he had just come back from Australia and I said what's Australia like and he pointed to the dark field in back of the patio he says if this was Australia in a hundred feet there'd be about 80 things that could kill you that you've never heard of it's funny because I think it feels like you know if you go to sort of indonesia or asia or somewhere because it's so culturally different it sort of makes sense that there's more animals that can kill you there was australia you know it's not like a giant leap away from like england

or the states or somewhere but it feels like you know they're really just like holding back the wilderness as much as possible and every now and again it just creeps in you're like oh my god there's a toad the size of a fucking rabbit over there speaking loosely of um um death brought on by the wild i have a friend from minnesota and it was really cold here in lond London one day and I said what's the difference between London cold and Minnesota cold and she said that's easy she says in London you can sit in your house in the coldest day of the year with no heat and not die and it was like well scratch minnesota optimist uh listen reginald i think you've done a great job filling your island with unspeakably awful people and things for your for your time there so i think you've done a good job and you know you seem to have remained upbeat throughout so i don't have to feel too guilty

as well about putting you through this experience and you, you know, that's a nice thing to do. Well, thank you for having me do this show. You've helped me take a little inventory of the people who populate my thinking. And I'm happy to say that there's not a whole lot of people that I currently despise. And so that's a nice little inventory. I either like or am indifferent to most people that's great i think yeah as i say there's a nice calm you know sort of enlightened place to be so so well done i get a lot of people going like god i'm really angry now i've done this and some people

i think that's why i've been a little bit defensive about it like i hope you feel okay at the end of this so i'm glad i'm glad. Like, I hope you feel okay at the end of this. So I'm glad, I'm glad. Now, Reginald, what are you up to at the minute? Where can people sort of see more of your stuff? I'm gearing up for the Edinburgh Festival. I'm coming off a brutal loss in latitude this last Sunday. Things just didn't go well, and I didn't perform especially great.

My record is 71- 5 after a loss. So I expect to be pretty sharp tonight. Good stuff. Nice one. Well, we'll keep up to date with everything you're up to. And thanks again so much for coming on Desert Island Dixie. It's been a pleasure. Thank you so much, brother.

Peace. thank you so much brother peace so there you go that was desert island dicks there with reginald d hunter who is very nice to chat to i had a really nice time talking to him and uh yeah loads more to come that i'm very excited about as well so um subscribe and they'll just pop into your not inbox but you know little podcast app i suppose desert island dicks is a sync clap production it was created by james deacon is produced and presented by me i'm dan benedictus i think i've mentioned that before and we get it edited by the wonderful chris attaway he's a nice man he's a fine editor those two things don't always go hand in hand so there you go what else was i gonna say oh yeah huge thanks as always to uh john deacon father of james not the queen bass player um because

obviously the bass player from queen is called John Deacon. Not him. In fact, I'm not keen on him. I've said that before in the past. He holds his bass way too high and just doesn't look like he's having a good time. But John Deacon, James's dad, wonderful man. So thanks to him, as ever, for his unwavering support.

That's it for me for now, but I'll be back very soon with another wonderful guest on Desert Island Dicks. So I hope you have a lovely time until then. And even after then, God, I need to stop talking. Okay, bye.