Hollywood Handbook - Libby Watson and Charlotte McDonnell, Our Close Friends

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

The Boys talk to LIBBY WATSON and CHARLOTTE MCDONNELL about their new podcast What’s All This Then.Get a Hat Pack Hat here!Watch the video of today’s episode at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook This is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Hollywood Handbook via Gumball.fm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. So, like, before we get too deep into it, Yeah. I just, I mean, I really only have one question. Okay. Are we, are we allowed to like call you guys birds still? Or like is that like? That, this has been.

I think it's nice. Thank you. Let's let the air out of the balloon, the fucking pressure that has been in this room from the second we all. Can you silence your phone please? Sat down. Actually, hey, can you turn it up?

I don't think it even was my phone. Can you crank that up for me? I'm gonna just check it, wasn't mine. Wasn't mine. My mobile. You want me to check mine? Mobile? You want me to check mine?

My mobile. My mobile Alabama? My mobile. I would like to ask you why you think it's nice to call us buds. I don't think it's nice or mean. I just wanna know if I can do it. I did say it's nice. I do think it's nice. And I think chicks is nice too.

Everyone's like. Oh, I think chicks are great. Little birds. Can I, can I just, can I chime in because this is for Charlotte and Libby. I'm texting right now. I got a text on the way in here from a British person. Uh-huh.

And he was asking if I could do a phone call this morning. And I said, well, I'm recording right now. I got a text on the way in here from a British person. And he was asking if I could do a phone call this morning. And I said, well, I'm recording a podcast, but I can do the phone call after the podcast. And what do you think he wrote back as British people? Because this is not what I would write back, but what do you think he wrote back? I think he said, no problem, cunt. Okay, that's a very good guess.

Charlotte, do you have one? Oh God. All right with me. And then he said in brackets in that accent. Further away. I think he said. What do you think he said? Sorted.

Okay. Sorted is actually really good. That's a good guess too. You wanna know what he said? Legend. No. Legend is great. I don't think you should talk to this guy anymore. I think he sounds like a bit of a twice.

Legend. Sounds good. Did he put a kiss at the end? Cause that's something we do. We put kisses at the end of our texts. I've never, he's never sent a kiss at the end of me. Oh, he hates you. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm starting to feel.

Oh dear. Yeah, he hates me so much. He thinks I'm a fucking legend. Unless he's adjusting, right? I don't like to put kisses at the end for Americans because they just go, what's the X mean? Yeah, exactly, yeah. Why are you trying to fuck me

with the triple X at the end? Maybe he thinks it's the legend of the epic twat. Maybe that's what he thinks the legend is that I am. Oh boy, this guy thinks it said twat. I was gonna say twat. That's how they say it Charlotte, they say twat. Twat, twat. I'm already feeling this,

I was just complaining to Kevin yesterday. We had yet another Australian person on the show. Oh, sorry. I know, we have so many. I said, why don't we have any British people? Like, I feel like if I go to Australia, I have like nothing but obligations of people that I have to do like, I'm in town.

Yeah, there's so many people I have to connect to. But, you know, I would say like, if I went to London, I have basically nobody. No one, it's much smaller and I should have, with all the people that we've platformed here on our podcast and given oxygen to, who were fucking gasping, who were dying before we arrived.

And none of them are stationed in the UK mainland at all. But you know what this is called? Over-correcting. Oh, oh, you think two people? Over-correcting. Oh, oh you think two Two people is over correcting. I think two birds two birds Oh, I see service. I haven't said whether or not you birds one stone. Yeah, right. Yeah, what's that? Like that's like 20 20 20 bucks or something. Yeah It's okay for you to call me a bird. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, just putting it out there

Charlotte would you like to you're gonna fucking do about it. You won't even come to the country Literally you won't set foot on American soil, you know my ass ain't going there we have no friends over there they have feathers Elegant animals Birds chicks, This is all nice stuff. Ducklings, I call girls ducklings. Like I think it's nice. Is there an animal you would like me to use for men?

Like for blokes? Yeah. Fucking stag. Oh, OK. Yeah. Two nice stags instead of two fit birds, two nice stags. Elks. Don't slag the stags, right?

Don't slag the stags. Grosly bears. Don't slag the stags. I have that up in my man cave. Yeah, yeah. My stag den. Anyway, I like it. Yeah, Charlotte likes it.

I do actually really like it. Thank you, Charlotte. It makes me happy. Chicks though, I've realized I do hate. Yeah, Chicks is absolutely fucking rank. Yeah, I don't want Chicks. I have a question. Now, Charlotte sent me a screenshot of the Zoom invite

and it said, Hollywood handbook, Demi and Charlotte. Was that a little joke? Was that a little joke? Yeah, the joke is- It was aspirational. You fucker! Aspirational? Holy shit!

Yeah, dress for the job you want, you know? You made the podcast you want. Good Lord. I would not be able to dress like Demi because I don't know. Can you imagine though? Yes. Can you imagine? Well, if Demi was here- Demi and Charlotte on the show?

Fuck, dude. Oh no. That's an episode. This is gonna be the thing,'t it? It's a new have a great repose It's gonna be a few things a new podcast Libby and Charlotte are doing It's about British culture. Uh-huh. You guys come from where they got that idea the streaming It's all we talk about on here the streaming world world. About British culture? Yeah, this is essentially London Handbook at this point. London Handbook. Yeah.

Okay. Sorry. Well, give me a tick. Piccadilly. We talked about it. Piccadilly? You think that's luck, this is Hollywood? Yeah.

I actually don't think that's Hollywood. We're always talking about this stuff. We talk about Alfred. Uh-huh. I'm sorry, I haven't listened to the show. We talk about Savile Row. I'm always. Why'd you name it after that guy? I'm at the fucking hippodome

You talk about the hippodome. I'm on the third floor of the hippodome all day. Uh-huh. I'm up there What's going on up there pills pills my lovely pills mate. I'm having so many pills Lovely pills mate. I'm having so many pills I'm having pints. I'm having pints not pills. Oh, I will say now that you're so going from streaming to podcasting Oh, I'm still doing streaming just well like the adjustments. Yeah, I assume you're experiencing it now People will not pay you in real time to debase yourself when you're podcasting. No. There's just a different cadence of it. There's a little delay, yes.

You must be humiliated yourself. You must be doing the podcast and be like, where, you know, where me shekels? You know. Shekels? Where me shekels? Where me shekels? Did you think shekels was?

Shekels. Where me shekels? Okay. Were you thinking of shillings? Wear me rubles. Yeah. Yeah. I want me bloody rubles.

I need some yen. Well, you're just kind of sitting there comparatively, right? Yeah, I would say so. Yeah, you're right. The lack of real-time feedback is an adjustment. For example. And no one asks you to go private.

I'm sorry? When you're doing the podcast, it's never like, example. And no one asks you to go private. I'm sorry? When you're doing the podcast, it's never like, wanna go private? Like, can we go private? What kind of stream? Do you think we stream on like Chatroulette or something or like Live Jazzman or something? No, I know exactly how you stream.

I know all about it. I'm like really, really invested in where you stream. Live Jazzman. You're magic. Oh my goodness. Live Jazzman, yeah. I'm like really really invested in where you stream live jazz man Yeah, you know about live jazz there's a whole platform for that Multiple yeah, I think our friend Stefan used to stream on there, but not like that. I have jazz man, but not like that All right, I've had them you guys ever heard of stick cam What stick cam stick cam that was that that was my first streaming platform Okay. All right. You guys ever heard of Stickam? Stickam. What's Stickam? Stickam.

That was my first streaming platform. No way. What the fuck was that? It was... The technology really, I mean... You could actually, you could join someone's stream and like it would turn into like a cool and so there would be like some of your viewers, you would be able to see them on the side. And they could interact with you.

Okay, so kind of like chat roulette. You know, I dropped the ST, it cam. That's giving me the ick to think about that. Okay. Do we say that in London or in Britain at large? Yeah, I guess you don't say the Ick, you probably say the, ooh, the Willys or something. Oh, the Willys. Yeah, he was giving me the Willys by texting me.

Well, saying the Willys gives me the Ick. And that interesting. Well, that works, yeah, that works. Well, this is a problem, because me and Libby both are obviously from the UK, but we left the UK quite a while ago. Yeah, so we don't know, we wouldn't know. Yeah, we don't know what the Ick is over there. Yes, we don't know we wouldn't know. Yeah, we don't know what we wouldn't know

If they were saying frankly, we don't know what we're talking about. And are you guys posh? Yeah Well, I don't know. Do you think I'm posh? I kind of do yeah I kind of think you guys are both picking up kind of posh vibes off of y'all This is could not be going worse. This is like yeah. This is like the worst thing that people say about us. I know, I know. But let's get out there. Let's get in front of it. Let's actually deal with it

so that we're not evading the issue. And let's develop a response where like, it's good I'm posh. I don't know. By the way, we ran this country pretty well for a little while. Is there anything worse than someone who's so posh and like won't acknowledge it?

You know what I mean? Like I'd rather just go like, yeah, I'm posh. I feel lucky to be posh and I actually think it's good. Somebody's gonna be posh. I didn't choose to be posh. Yeah. Oh, great. I'll be Minjin. What that tells me is that you're not posh.

That's right. Oh he's not. He's not posh. Which by the way is good. Neither of us are. That's also good. Wait. No.

Which one is good? Is it good to be posh or not posh? Well it's good to own it if you are. Okay. Rather than to do this fucking. We're not. Not a situation. This Minjun cosplay.

We would not have had to witness. We can have. We put on the dickies and the Carhartts every day and we get lowered down into the podcast shaft. That video that goes around with the shirtless guys doing the mud, you're doing that. That's real work. The shirtless guy video.

Really hard to do. Live Jasmine. You get so messy. Live Jasmine, it a shirtless guy video. And it's really hard to do. Live Jasmine. You get so messy. Live Jasmine. Live Jasmine. It's shirtless out there. Yeah. Well, sometimes even more if you ask, if you go private.

Wow. And is he like draining the saliva reservoir? That's horrid. That's absolutely horrid. He's really, you can hear him really filling up the reservoir with the mouth aperture? And he'll only drain it off. Honestly, I'm completely fucking lost.

You've completely fucking lost me. Can we go back to our own caution? What do you think, the saliva that goes into the... The live shirtless jazz band would be... Into the aperture, you think it just like, disappears at the bone from the front? Like, of course. How do you think saliva works?

I don't know. You gotta empty it out at some point. You gotta fucking drain it. They didn't teach me anything about that. At school, which by the way was a public school. And is college. And not a private school. You guys call that college or something?

No, that's sixth form. We have sixth form, we have university. Yeah, I think it's called uni. It's called uni, yeah, he knows, he knows. It's uni, isn't it? I actually think's called uni. It's called uni. Yes, you know, you know, it's uni I actually think it's uni. It's actually uni. Yeah. Okay, maybe you should be doing our podcast Hey, why did you go to uni by the way speaking of posh? Where did you go to uni? I'm still I mean, I honestly still feel like I'm in uni. That's how I like that's how I go about my day Legit the whole world is my uni and And every semester. That's really nice.

That's actually a really good attitude to have. Continuing education. I'm signing up for my new class schedule, like really. Continuing. Continuing. It's continuing. I think my education is continuing, actually. Actually.

Sorry, I wasn't listening to what we, could you say that again? Cause I wasn't listening. Every semester, signing up for classes, I'm writing my thesis. I'm like. Your thesis. I'm like, signing up for classes, I'm writing my thesis, so I'm like. Your thesis. I'm like signing up for my lunch plan. Your lunch plan?

Yes. Is that something they had at Hobbit? Oh sorry, my scran plan. Your scran plan. All right, all right, fair dues, yeah, fair dues. I would love a scran plan. So you guys, like, so what's an, like what's a episode for the show?

What would the episode be? Is it just like one thing? Is it one guy? Is it always about the king? Every episode's about the damn king. Do we have to do the king only on Live Jasmine? Do you have to? King.

Yeah, we're sucking off the king of Live Jasmine. Okay, we had a lot of fun Libby, but it's enough. Is it, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I brought up live Jasmine at all. And he's actually been through a lot. So like he's had a really hard time. The King? Yeah. Yeah.

I honestly don't know. I don't keep up with the news from the UK. So what is the show? Obviously he and Diana had their issues, but they were mates. Like they were still mates. They were still mates. Yeah, issues, but they were mates, like they were still mates. They were still mates, yeah, no, that's true. Yeah, they were still mates.

That's sad when that happens to one of your best mates. And now it's a joke that he would get sucked off on a live stream. And suddenly now it's comedic. His best mate died. That this man would be sucked off on a live stream when one of his best mates died. Died, what, 30 years ago?

His best mate died 30 years ago and you're saying he was sucked off. Oh, I didn't know there was a statute of limitations on enjoying getting sucked off on live stream to soothe your grief. How soon after your best mate dies can you get sucked off? That's part of the mourning process. For some people, yeah, for some people you have to go do it

right away. Right away. Yeah, same day ideally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, suck out the grief. What's an episode of our podcast, Charlotte? We talk about a guy or a thing, sometimes it's a thing. We've recorded one episode about a guy. We did an episode about Gordon Ramsey. Yeah, Gordon Ramsey. That's our first guy. Did meat pies come up? I just, I want to say like Mortar Ramsay, we have that already. We have that. That's not really British culture anymore.

It's really yours. Okay. That's actually, we've had him for a while. You fucking donkey. That's good. That's what he says. Yeah. That was why I did it. One thing was great. One thing we got something going.

I feel like once someone has a restaurant in like not even Vegas, like Henderson, Nevada, I think that's ours at that point. So we can't talk about it. So we have to just bin that episode and do a new one? It has to be binned. Okay, we'll put it in the bin. I've seen him walk so many American neighborhoods

and realize what's missing from their cuisine. He'll just go in and he'll be hanging out at some Italian restaurant and he'll go, I walked and there's not a single steakhouse. And then they just become a steakhouse because that was what he noticed. I don't think we came across any of that in our research. Really?

I don't think we've seen that. He's doing it. He's doing it. He's doing it here. I was wondering if maybe you were thinking of Jamie Oliver. We thinking about Jamie Oliver? Different guy. That you can have.

Oh, okay. If you want Jamie Oliver, take it. Let's do a Jamie app. Should we do a Jamie app instead? I think Libby, I think that would be P pucker I fuck up. You see what we pop You say pop a pucker No, you can't take it again Pucker no, they don't do that. They don't do the podcast like we do where we cut out everything bad that we say

They just I know but I'm just wait. Can you say Pucker? Is that how you say podcast? No You say Pucker. No Pucker means it's a proper I know, but I'm just... Wait, did you say pukka? Is that how you say podcast? No. You say pukka? No, pukka means good. It's a proper pukka. It's pukka, mate. It's pukka. It's pukka. Yes, it means good.

Should I say that to my... When I get on this phone call with the British guy, should I say it's pukka, mate? It's pukka. No, you have to say pukka. It's pukka, mate. Don't say pukker, because that's something else.

That's like, yeah. Can you say his first name so we can figure out what's the British version of that? Luke. Charlotte, you know any British Lukes real quick? So is it like Leza? I don't think I do. There's two of them, it's Luke and Alex.

Oh, is it Alex Horn from Taskmaster? I don't know, I didn't ask. Yeah. Yeah. Whoa. Hollywood handbook. Guys, I think't ask. Hollywood handbook. Guys, I think we lose sight of this sometimes. I've been using Harry's for years,

and we've done all these ads, but it is a product that's really a part of my daily life. It's really easy to, it's a low-cost product that feels like a luxury product. And I feel like I get distracted from my own relationship with Harry's because I spend a lot of time talking to you in these ads. That's my fault, punk.

I just like, and so I wanna hear from you. Do you have any per, Apparently you don't wanna hear from me. Clean Harry is here. Apparently you don't wanna hear from me. Clean Harry is here. Apparently you don't wanna hear from me because you get distracted talking to me. Well, I say we've gotten away from it because you used to be obsessed with shaving,

which is what Harry's does. I was obsessed. I don't know if I would characterize it as obsession. Your name was Clean Harry, it was your entire identity. It was about beard and shaving beards. Totally limited, two dimensional. Sorry, I'm sorry I don't fit inside your neat little box. This is an example.

Like the neat little box they ship the Harry's, you know, travel set in that's so well organized and perfectly adorned that anyone could enjoy their shaving experience with this great Harry's box that makes a great gift for dad, even though it's not Father's Day anymore, doesn't mean you can't send him a Harry's gift set. I'm sorry I don't fit in a box like that.

I actually have a lot of other things going on. That was perfect. That was perfect. Talking about how it was adorned. Well, don't use that, punk. We can't use that? Come on, punk. That we can't use?

Oh, punk, come be a, oh, come on. You can't use that. Why? It was an example of the kind of thing you're trying to do to me, the way that you're trying to limit and define me that I find distasteful, punk. Okay. If you wanna talk to me, actually ask about me, what I've been up to.

I don't want, but that's the point, I don't really wanna do that. I wanna talk about Harry's razors. Oh, do you hear yourself, punk? That'd be just because it's an ad. I'm a human being. You get the five blade razor, weighted handle, foaming shave gel and a travel cover for just five bucks

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Little kid shot me with a skittle. With a $5 meal deal with new McValue you pick a McDouble or a McChicken Then get a small fry a small drink and a four-piece McNuggets That's a lot of McDonald's for not a lot of money prices of dissipation may vary McDouble meal six dollars in some markets for a limit time only So it's two different food guys that you either did one or that one's been one you should do in one that's in the bin Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. We did a food guy. We did a fucking rubbish. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah our podcast rubbish I guess is that well that episode it not that episode is you want me to say my podcast rubbish

I was hoping you guys I honestly was hoping you wouldn't say anything Talked about is rubbish I honestly was hoping you wouldn't say anything at all. I just wanted to talk to Ace. If you ever talked about his rubbish. Okay, what else have we talked about, Charlotte Train? Thomas Tank Engine? We can't say Thomas the Tank Engine because they're gonna try and claim that as well.

Yeah, you're gonna say, oh, that was on my TV, so it must be American. Well, I did. Where's Ringo living? I'm not even saying it's just ours. He went to the moon and stuff. I don't feel like he's bound to. You think Thomas is global.

Well, I just wanna know where Ringo's primary residence is. I don't know, I'm sorry. I don't know. Does he live here? Like in LA? Yeah. Have you been there? Yeah.

Okay. Let me just say. Can I come? Can I come to Ringo's? You know what? Mm-hmm. Before some of your behavior today on the podcast, I would have said absolutely. If I hadn't brought up my Jasmine.

Would have been no question. That's the number of times that Jasmine, the way you talked about the king. I mean, Ringo lives here, but he still has a lower respect for the king, losing his best mate. Oh, okay, okay. So Ringo thinks the king is his best mate,

but the king's best mate is still Diana. No, no, Ringo doesn't. No, they were best mates, she died. Yeah. Okay, so he sort of replaced Diana with Ringo? No. Okay. No, I mean, sure.

If that'll move us forward, sure. Okay, that's good. Let's just do that. I don't wanna get bogged down in that. Let's do that, yeah, it's a podcast about Britain. Charlotte, does she do this to you as well? I sort of feel like it might be the energy that you guys are bringing to the house.

Us? It's making her in this way. Us? Yeah, because she's not gonna be able to do this. Are you really putting this on us? Whoa, are you really putting this on us right now? That's so crazy. Wow.

I actually do. I actually now am feeling a huge cultural divide that you could be watching this and be like this is on those guys. That's so passive aggressive. I'm just trying to be aggressive. It's very posh. If you're British, that's full on aggressive. Sir Topham Hatt, now that guy's posh, right?

I still don't know. Honestly, we don't do a lot of research. You know who Sir Topham Hatt is? You's posh right I still don't know honestly we don't do a lot of research You know who Sir Topham Hatt is you did a whole Thomas the train episode Thomas the tank engine the tank engine is a different thing than a train Sir Topham Hatt Thank you, Sean runs fucking part of the train even though he probably does have his own like family estate He still like goes to work Well, you kind of have to because you days. Because you gotta run this country. Like if they just confined themselves to their estate,

like the entire thing would be minjured. Kevin, while we're doing this, can you just get me a strict definition of tank engine? I'm being told it's an entirely different thing than a train. This is Jamie mode right here. This is what we've been aspiring to. Oh, right.

You're trying to make like a thing for the podcast? Yeah. Like a segment or something. A tank engine refers to a steam locomotive that carries its own water and fuel, parentheses coal, in tanks mounted on the locomotive frame. Okay, go ahead and give me the definition of locomotive. frame. Okay, go ahead and give me the definition of locomotive.

This is a really good podcasting by the way. A powered rail vehicle used for pulling trains. Oh! Used for pulling trains. For pulling trains and therefore it's not a train. Yes. It's something else than a train. Cause you know, for pulling itself,

that doesn't sound like something you would do unless you're on a certain website. You're incorrigible. You guys, that's what they do over there, you just pull yourself? Yeah, it's a lot. It's only pulling. It's quite a lot of wanking.

Charlotte, I can hear them. Well, it is called pulling. It is called pulling. They do call it pulling. We call it something else pulling. That's what that is too. Pulling is something else. Pulling is something you do to a bird at the pub.

Oh my God. And this is a show that really filthy like this. I gotta go over there. Now I gotta go. You think you'd be able to pull some birds at the pub? Well, I'm not gonna be so presumptuous to say that I would be able to, but I gotta go see what it's all about.

Mm-hmm, okay, okay. Pulling a bird? Pulling a bird, pulling a bird at the pub with a pint. At the pub? Yeah. I think I probably would just be watching people pull birds at the pub, but to see a bird get pulled. Yeah. Yeah.

To see how the stag pulls a bird is wild. Good gracious, wow. Yeah, it's like Adam Burrow or something. You know what's crazy is that Wiga told me. It's nasty what they did to Amy Lou Wood, isn't it? What? That was unacceptable. You don't even know.

I apologize. Wait, wait, wait. For that I apologize. It's a tea thing, right? Yes, what, are you aspiring to be I don't know. like a voice for British culture and British people? There's something. You didn't know what happened? That was a big story. Libby doesn't know. Like a voice for British culture and British people. There's something, you didn't know what happened.

That was a big story. Libby doesn't know, but I do. And that's the ideal podcast dynamic. I have Charlene. Thank you, Charlene. Because you explain it to her and then the audience. And she says, what? You each represent one part of the audience.

What? That's our segment, but you can't have what? You have what? We have what, yes. What? What? So there's, yeah, there's always, every podcast has two types of audience members.

Ones who actually know what's going on, and then they have the Libby. And the one who knows what's going on can explain to the Libby, and effectively explain to all the Libby's out there listening. So do you think if it was Charlotte and Demi instead, maybe the podcast wouldn't work

because she couldn't be the what because she knows too much stuff maybe. I don't even know what that is. I don't know any, I don't know. You don't remember Demi? You guys seem to get along really well. I don't know, I don't know. Which one of you guys is the Libby?

Looking at the engineering of our podcast, you can tell who the Libby is because the audience member who is the Libby is sitting in the back seat of the car. Oh my God. And so that we have to make sure that that hosts audio is like reaching the back seat. Oh wow, okay, so it's like a stereo thing?

Yeah. And so like we take turns being the, like Sean, Kevin listens to each episode and like kind of figures out who the Libby is. And then sends that channel to the backseat. Something you might be noticing is that often the guest is the Libby. Well, that's nice.

But y'all don't have a guest, right? No, we actually do have a guest every week. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah. Would you like to come on? And who, wait, who's- It feels like a trap? It feels like if I say yes, it's gonna be like well you can't and it's so like no

I'm not gonna set myself up for that. Okay, well, it's just would you like to come on if I say yeah I would like that and it's like well, you're in you'll never have it. We were invited. We're officially We are in formally facing you to come on That's fine. That's fine, that's fine. It's really no trouble. Oh well. It's really no trouble. Are the guests yanks?

So far, yeah, well there was Canadian as well. So there's no premise. I mean, Demi's been on. There's no premise? There's no premise? You said so far, there's no premise to like who the guests are. Oh, no, to be clear, there is a premise to the podcast.

I cannot stress enough that there is a premise to the podcast and that is that we are British. You too are British. And we talk about the British things. And we talk about the British things, which are interesting because they're from somewhere else. Y'all are obsessed with your Britishness. Weiger told me you guys were gonna be nice.

He said, don't worry, they'll be nice to you. Weiger said that? He said, they work me over like a heavy bag, but they'll be nice to you. Well. How would he know? He hasn't seen us in like 16 years. Yes. Fucking guys and ghosts, man. And when I go for like someone to predict

how humans are going to behave, obviously I I would ask well no one has a better Understanding and no one has a more normal brain. I Should have asked Mitch you're right Okay, yeah, you did gordo I was set I was closer I was setting you up to maybe say something mean about Mitch, but you didn't want to do it cuz you know Why cuz he's he's like he's actually my mate. He's something mean about Mitch, but you didn't want to do it. Cause you know why? Cause he's really nice. He's actually my mate. He's your mate.

Yeah. Would you say he's your best mate? No, I wouldn't go that far. All right. He's my best Mitch. Pfft. I pit the person who claims Mitch is their best mate. Oh, I feel so bad for that person.

That's tough cause he's just not gonna. He kind of goes where the wind blows. He's not gonna step up. Mitch's best mate tough. Because he's just not gonna. He kinda goes where the wind blows. He's not gonna step up. Mitch's best mate is Mitch, let's just say that. If King Charles had Mitch as his best mate, after his first best mate died, I don't think Mitch is gonna be like, would he even show up to the funeral?

I kinda don't think so. I think he would text back in three weeks, oh shit, so sorry I missed this. I'm really sorry about your best mate. I locked myself in my basement by accident. All the fucking, all the live cam suck offs in the world couldn't fill the hole that you have if Mitch is your best mate.

You know what I mean? It's just like not ever gonna feel good. Yeah. Yeah. You wouldn't want to fill that hole. Gordon Ramsey, Thomas the Train. On live Jasmine. Tank Engine. Tank Engine. Thomas the Tank Engine. What else?

Um, Greg's. We've been to Tesco? Yeah, Tesco, Greg's. You guys were right. Tank Engine's not a train. We did. Mr. Blobby. Let me just say that. Thank you so much. You guys were right, Tank Engine's not a train. We did, Mr. Blobby. Let me just say that. Thank you so much. I didn't know, I was looking for the definition.

Greg's and Tesco were one episode? No, they were two different episodes. Two of your friends actually were on those episodes. Who was that? Well, do you want to guess? No. Simplement non. Don't fucking start with the French. Absolute non.

Non. The French? You're gonna go French? I'm guessing, I mean, imagine my ass sitting here guessing who did the Greggs episode. I thought that was what podcasting was. It was like guessing games and stuff, like little games, you know, you have fun.

No, that's what British shows are. Yeah, yeah charlotte put my hand up i thought of a guessing game okay charlotte hit me yes all right it the guess the game is word or letter i'm gonna say something and you have to guess if it's the word i'm saying or the letter sound fun yeah yeah sure let's do it please I. I think that's gotta be word. I think that's gotta be word, yeah. That was word. That was word. Okay.

Okay, this rocks. That was good. All right. B. Letter. Letter. Let's go letter again. That was word again.

Oh, haze is in the fucking pocket, man. There's only like six of these in the in the alphabet Can we do us like a mini game where I guess what the next one is gonna be the question is which word it was Which B word it was? Oh, yeah It's be one II be or be But I think it was one II. I think it was one E. Was it two? It was two E's. It was the bungal.

Oh, it was a bungal B. It was the damn bungal B. It was a bungal B. How about this? B. Oh yeah. Oh wow. She's so fucking good at this.

Charlotte's got a fucking raptor on her finger. She could do one E or two. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I didn't learn about that. Got me dancing on the puppet strings, man. I'm the letter.

That was the letter. That was the letter? That was the letter. I knew it. I knew it. I was being nice by not guessing. Yeah. Can I do one?

Yeah, of course. Yeah, sure. Can you? Honestly, can you? I mean, look, I've got one. So if you'll let me. It's an. Can you? What about, yeah. Honestly, can you? Can you? I mean, look, I've got one. So if you'll let me. It's an open question for me right now.

Tea. If you can. Tea. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Yeah, I don't,

something just doesn't feel good about. I'd just rather not engage with that one. Charlotte, can you? This one I just don't. I won't be playing this round. Y'alls can play together. It just doesn't feel like there's a lot of upside. Charlotte, can you? This one I just don't. I won't be playing this round. Y'all can play together. It just doesn't feel like there's a lot of upside for me to answer that one. Can you try saying T instead, please?

See if they might do it, if you say it. You want me to say the word? Can you say, well, or the letter? Or the letter? Or the letter T. Cause they didn't like it if I said it. T, oh, that was, that had a little A at the end. That's the word.

That was the word. Yeah. That was the word. Really fun to play the game with you, Charlotte. It was actually the letter, but that's okay. Do you guys like word or letter? Yeah, I love word or letter. Yeah, that's a really good game.

Word or letter's really good. Word or letter is a really good game. Word or letter, so good. Can't believe I wasted word or letter here. Zed! We can do it on our show. Yeah, we'll do it on our show. No reason why we can't do it on our show.

Yeah, okay. Well, there's one reason your show's not gonna exist in a month. Pfft. Pfft. Why not? Why not? Okay, you're getting too comfortable with us now.

You think this shit's got legs? Do I think word or letter has legs? No, the game will exist. Oh, the game maybe it will be its own podcast with just Charlotte and maybe Demi. Not. Okay, subscribe. We need to lip-e.

Exactly. That's a word. That's a word. Who did Greg? No, I really did Greg. Oh, now you wanna play the fucking game. No, I just wanna know. Now you wanna play my fucking game.

Hey, can I do one American word or letter? Yeah, sure. Let me just do one. Hey! Very American. Yeah, that was really American. I don't think I could do it. Hey!

If I tried, I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it, yeah. Although I am actually American as well, so. Is that interesting? Would you find that interesting if I talked about that? On a podcast? That's actually got me fired up.

American. Barbecue and stuff. Cheeseburger. Cheeseburger. That get you anything? Subscribe. Subscribe, there we go, subscribe. It was Y.

Can I do a Canadian word or letter? Oh, hit me. Yeah, Canadian word or letter? Can I do a Canadian word or letter? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A. A. me. Yeah, Canadian word or letter? Canadian word or letter? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A? A? A? Oh.

Yeah, I think that was the word because. She said Canadian. Yeah. She said Canadian. So I'm gonna go the other way and say letter. Yeah, I was saying letter, but just in the voice. She fucking got you guys. Twisted it.

Yep, I think we're doing pretty well. I think we could do that. I think we're doing pretty well. Kevin, there's no clock running on this episode. I'll do it. I'm gonna do a countdown. Where are we at time-wise? Please tell me where we're at time-wise. Please.

33. I'm gonna do a countdown for 15 minutes. 33? 33? Oh my God. Fuck me. I feel like it's been two hours. It feels like I'm at uni doing my exams.

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Gregg's doesn't have a apostrophe. No, it doesn't. It's just Gregg's. How did you fucking know that? And so that means that there's a bunch of, it's not just one Gregg. That means there's a lot of- Every shop has a Gregg.

Every shop has a Gregg. Every shop has a Gregg. Every shop has a Gregg. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that was why I grew up- Lousy with them. Every shop has a Greg. Every shop has a Greg. Every shop has a Greg. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that was Wyger. Lousy with him. And of course, Tesco was Jesse Farrar. Of course.

And you're friends with him. Really scraping the barrel. How many episodes have you? Six. Have you done? Oh my God, and Jesse was a- Should we- Jesus. Jesse was our first guest.

Seems like things went pear-shaped for you a little bit, doesn't it? Okay. Well, it was nice of you guys to invite us on, I was actually Kevin that invited us on the podcast. Well, he invited Demi. It's good to... Charlotte, help.

Did you, help. And now it does make, having Jesse first and just like resolving the Jesse question, like out of the gate. What's the Jesse question? Not having it hanging over the show, like. Like the question of whether Jesse will be on the show? Yeah.

Yeah. Like now I feel like I can subscribe knowing that he's not gonna be on again for at least like two or three more episodes. No, he's the seventh episode. He's the seventh episode. He's back. He's coming back every month. He's coming back daily. He's the seventh episode. He's coming back every month. He's coming back, uh-oh.

Maybe we do the same seven guests and that's like our thing. Cause I feel like we don't really have a thing yet. You know? You guys done an episode about Madame Webb? Why would we do an episode about Madame Webb? Because I wanna listen to it. Is she British?

Is she British? I don't know. I need the episode to explain it. Okay. So you think that maybe the podcast should be, we take anything in the world and we say, is this British? Is it British or not?

That seems better to me. I mean, if you had done it correctly on the Gordon Ramsay episode, you would have come up with no, it's not. And then we wouldn't have to put it in the bin. We wouldn't have had to put it in the bin. It really sucks to put your sixth episode in the bin. Yeah.

Yeah, okay, we'll do that then. What else would you like? I mean, Madame Webb, sure, that's one, but we need like 400 more topics. So what else would you like? What's the name of the show? What's all this then? I was really hoping for something there,

because like sometimes when I say that people go, huh, that's nice. But I, I, that's happening inside for me. When you watch it back, what you're going to see, corners of this thing go up. You know what I mean?

That would be such a treat. When I hear what's all this then, couple of these corners go ahead and they got a mind of their own. They start creeping towards the old ears. I don't get to see that a lot. So that would be nice for me to see. When you watch it back, you enjoy that.

You think I'm gonna watch this back? You think I'm gonna watch this back? You don't do game film? This isn't streamed, this is available. You don't watch tape after, like. Sports, you're doing a sports thing. Sports. You're talking sport, is what we would call it.

Footy. We don't watch the dailies. We don't watch the dailies, no. Charlotte, you ever watch Match of the Day? Can't say I ever have watched Match of the Day, Libby. Okay, but you know about the theme song. Matcha. Matcha, that's what I call Sir Paul.

How does it go, Libby? about the theme song. Matcha. Matcha, that's what I call it. I can't remember what I called Sir Paul. Pfft. How's it going, Libby? It goes, da da da da da da da da da da da, that one. Is it really that? Yeah, the ice cream van theme, yeah, yeah. Well, there we go. Pfft. How mean. How am I striking out with my own podcast host?

On this podcast. Charlotte is really brain. She holds T in exactly the right way. But you're actually, I think, maybe too American now. That is actually very possible, yeah. British people did tell me I sound American. Do you think I sound American? It's just the whole like posture.

Not posh, but posture. Not posture. Not posture. So I've lost my posture. Charlotte has posture. Yeah, cause she's posh. Unlike me. Who is the poshest one, Libby?

Is it, cause you've said before on the podcast that you're the posher one. Have I? I don't think that's true. Okay, well. It would be really good to figure this out. Should we just get like our parents' tax returns for the last 30 years and just. well. It would be really good to figure this out. Should we just get like our parents' tax returns for the last 30 years and just.

You know what would be really good is to have David Beckham peeking his head in as you guys talk about how you weren't actually. Yeah, correcting you. You're fucking posh. Correcting you on the amount of poshness, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, she was called Posh Spice, so what the fuck was she doing trying to say

she wasn't posh? The Doughboys would have a show, a game called like Ph or squash or something. And then it would just be like. Charlotte, write that down. Yeah. Cause I don't have a pen. What's the squash pie? Well, I don't know.

Maybe there'd be a pumpkin on the desk and they would be like, is this posh or squash? You go, well, that's a squash. And then they would spin it around and it would have like a T.R. on it. The traditional pumpkin that you eat from a can, canned pumpkin is actually kabocha squash. So the proper name for the segment actually is squash.

It would be incorrect to use pumpkin. Yeah, that's why I go, you're doing, right? And this would be part of Socktoberfest or whatever the fuck they do now. Socktoberfest, is they gonna use that, you know? They're gonna use it. And they're not gonna say anything about you when they do. I mean, is they gonna use that, you know? They're gonna use it. And they're not gonna say anything about you when they do. I mean, they're gonna not.

They're not gonna mention you at all. They're gonna say, we came up with Soctoberfest. That's our thing. Welcome to Flowvember, where we rank all the flow from progressive ads. Is this what the show is now? I like Doughboys, I think it's a good show. Are you guys on a network?

You're indie. Yeah, we're indie. What's the benefit of being on a network? What is the benefit actually? Cause I've heard it's actually not. I guess when people ask, you seem like you're actually desired. You know what I mean?

Feels like a job to some people, older people. Do you feel like it's a job, doing this? I mean, as I said, I put on my dickies, my car heart every day. I go down the podcast shaft, and then I do just kind of like shut it off. Okay. Until the little, you know,

someone pulls that little bird's tail and it goes. What? Ah! Oh, sorry, I thought you meant birds as in like women. And I thought you were pulling on their ass. That's how they do it at the pub. That's how they do it at the pub, you pull on their tail and she goes, oh, all right, fair enough then.

No longer the fashion down in Savile Row. Why did you name it after that guy? Did you ever explain? I was curious as well. We didn't have anything to do with that. It's like nothing to do with us. So that's a great way to do your podcast when people ask about unfortunate aspects

of British culture, like, well, we didn't do that. I didn't invent that, so. Nobody check with me. When they're asking why Gregg's doesn't have an apostrophe, and I'm like, I don't didn't do that. I didn't invent that, so. Nobody checked with me. When they're asking why Gregg's doesn't have an apostrophe, and I'm like, I don't fucking know. Why do you ask Gregg? Why, do you think I'm in charge? You think I'm in charge of Gregg's?

I don't even fucking live there anymore. Do you think I would be doing this if I was in charge of Gregg's? I would be doing nothing, except for eating sausage rolls. Sausage roll, do you know about sausage rolls? Gordon Ramsay, what do you think about friends with Gordon Ramsay or something? Like, just cause I'm from England,

you think I'm friends with like everyone who's a celebrity there? What are you, a donkey? What else is he doing? We were talking about the king earlier. I actually, I do have a story about the queen. Yeah, let's hear it. Oh, did you meet her?

No. Cause you have met a lot of celebrities cause you were really you know, because obviously you look really famous Well, this is this is she allowed to tell stories on on your show or just Hmm is that allowed I just like don't know what the rules are. Yeah, I'm curious about the Charlotte allowed to like actually Do you think Libby's in Charlotte actually got a damn story out Do you think for one fucking second that I am in charge on our show? After all that's happened today, you think- I am just more interested in hearing up Charlotte's- I don't think anyone's in charge.

...actually rather than your anticipated version of what it might be. Charlotte, do you want to tell your story? Would you like to tell your story? It's, I mean, oh, now I'm embarrassed. Come on! Oh, great. This is what Libby does to people. Oh, you must, Charlotte. I'm sorry.

Charlotte, please. It's that I had the opportunity. I was invited to meet the Queen. What did I fucking say? I was invited to meet the Queen and I turned it down. For political reasons? Okay, because it's bollocks to her, right? Is this bollocks?

Is it bollocks to her now? Is it bollocks? Is that bollocks? I had a plan to go and meet some internet friends and it conflicted with that. And I was like, I'd rather meet them than meet the Queen. She's such a real woman. The Queen is in meatspace.

This is back in my YouTube days. Meats face. Can I ask you a question about that? You're not really doing it, Charlotte, but how did it become a thing that British accents are considered to be associated with more intelligence and sophistication, but so many of you say YouTube. It's spelled differently in the UK.

It's spelled YouTube over there. That is actually the only explanation. YouTube. That would help me. That's how it's spelled. It's two O's, it's not even YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. Yeah.

O-O-B. That's just what I grew up with. Yeah. Wow. She. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube.

YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube.

YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. No, that's her that's the next one. Yeah Yeah Crazy check it out new poster New poster. Yeah, she's in the background of her

Of her frame. She's got a new poster up. She switched out some of her art work This voice for the queen is so good. Her shit is a fucking mess. Hello, I'm the Queen McCartney Queen. Don't mind the mess. The cat's like running around. Uh-huh. Yeah, gamer lights in the background, like the purple lights and stuff. Yeah, RGB lights, yeah. Squishmallows and stuff in the background.

New poster, Pink Floyd. I don't think the queen listened to Pink Floyd. I don't think that works. She a hundred percent did. Yeah. A hundred percent. A hundred. A hundred percent.

So who is next to be the king or queen after, I mean, that's obviously long live Charles, God save Charles. I'm sorry. Who is next to be the king or queen after, I mean, that's obviously long live Charles, God save Charles, just wanna get that out of the way. I'm not like praying on his demise, he's been through a lot. We've already discussed. Yeah, yeah. But who's next?

William? There's another music you guys like. It would be William, huh? I guess it's William. I think it's William, yeah, I think it's William um don't really know anything about that yes acting like they don't know I mean do you think I know? So excited for the Jolly or whatever. I can look it up yeah we could look it up yeah we don't I mean we don't obviously we are not on a network so we don't have like a producer who can look stuff up for us so. The Willys you

probably wouldn't be able to say that anymore. The Willys, you probably wouldn't be able to say that anymore. The Willys? Mm-hmm. Or it probably means something. It probably means good. After he becomes king. So if you fancy someone, then you've got the Willys.

I wish I could get the Willys right now. I'm looking to get the Willys tonight. I can get the Willys, and the Willys can get it. I'm going to the pub to try and get the Willys. I'm looking to get pulled. Somebody grab this thing and give me the willies. I got the opposite of the willies right now. Whatever the willies is, I got the opposite of that.

Yeah, we kind of both have the willies I think, but obviously the current meaning. Well, you turned down the queen, so I'm not trying necessarily to like. I'm not really sweating getting on your radar necessarily. You turned down the queen to meet your YouTube friends. Yeah. Yeah, I did do that.

I went to New York, it was fun. And where are the YouTube friends now? Are they in the room with us right now? Are the YouTube friends? Hank and John Green. You know them? Yes. You know those guys? Hank and John Green, you know them? Yes. You guys? Hank and John Green. Yes.

Wow. No, I guess you could. It was lovely, I went there as a surprise, they didn't know I was coming and then I just showed up and it was a big day. Did you tell them that you turned down the Queen for them? Cause that would be so nice. Yeah, I did.

Wow, and were they like, I felt good. Wow, were they like, wow, that's so nice. Wow, that's crazy. We would have still been here. We would have been here any other time. It literally never mattered what you gave. Could have done both.

I could have met the queen. Damn, dude. And I never did, and now I never will. No. Well, maybe in the next life. Maybe in the next life. What are some upcoming episodes? Yeah.

Of The Listener. What would you have us on for? Do you think Gordon Ramsay? When does this come out? Yeah, what do we get to do? When does this come out? What would we do? Can I do Blackadder?

I would love to do Blackadder. That'd be great. Yeah. But what? Just say yes then. Well, I'm just. Oh, I would love to do that. It doesn't seem.

What do you mean you would? It doesn't seem like you wanna come on the show. Well, it doesn't seem like you would love to do it. What do you mean? You would it doesn't seem like you want to come on the show Well, it doesn't seem like you would love to do it. So it's like I literally just said I would love to do that I literally just said that and just then just do it. Okay, it's like it's when do you want to do it? You like you need to have a network to like get approval from you know, you have to get approval for guests Oh that sucks because we just kind of asked them what that they just come on. Well, that's, I mean, like, obviously they look at the Zoom calendar invited. Sometimes we try and sneak one by them a little bit.

No, we don't have a whole meeting about it. They just check the calendar. They just check the calendar and they see, Debbie, check. So it's a little ask for forgiveness, not permission. Yeah, there's a big decline on the Libby one. Yeah, you can come on whenever you like. We've got a pretty open schedule.

I feel like we usually record on Tuesdays, so how's Tuesdays? Okay, Tuesday is a little better for me. Yeah. That feels like, just because it actually exists within the week that I'm familiar with. Okay, okay, what about, what about fursday? Do you like fursday?

Fursday. Fursday. Furs day? Do you like furs day? Furs day. Furs day. Do you like furs day? Furs day. Yeah, furs day, furs day. Yikes. Yeah, my dog maybe would show up on furs day.

That's really nice. Yeah. That's really nice. Thanks. Okay, so Hayes is doing Blackadder, what do you want to do, Sean? Because we will do separate episodes, like obviously we're not going to have you on together.

Good, good, I'm my own person. Mm-hmm. Can Hayes be doing Blackadder, what do you want to do, Sean? Cause we will do separate episodes. Like obviously we're not going to have you on together. Good. Good. I'm my own person. Can he be there for mine? No, no. And he can't actually know. Even if he's just like quiet in the zoom. I assume it's on zoom. Okay. Okay. Do you go to Canada for every episode?

Well, I'm very posh, so I could afford to do that, obviously. Not what I asked, but go off, I guess. No, we don't. We don't do it in the studio. No, we do it on stream yard, actually. They're all, what's the advantage of having a network? And it's like, well, maybe you would have a studio to record in. It wouldn't be on streamyard with the guys podcast. Oh.

Do you guys talk about that? Like, are you allowed to talk about this? Is Henry Tudor gonna get his divorce from Catherine of Aragon? Henry Tudor? Do you think that? Henry Tudor. Is Pope Clement gonna, is Pope Clement gonna let him get it?

Oh, Clement. Clement. Not Clements. Is he gonna let him get it? Oh, Clement. Clement, not Clements. Is he gonna let him? Because I wondered if you meant this guy because his name is basically Clement. Let me sick. Yeah, Pope Clements.

Oh yeah. Because we got an American one now, so it could be you, you know? Yeah, because I hear Ann won't let him get in there. Don't jinx me. Okay, okay, I won't jinx you. I would love for that to happen for you. I think, yeah, sure, fucking, what was, yeah, yeah. love for that to happen for you. I think, uh, yeah, sure. Fucking what was, yeah. Yeah. First podcaster Pope.

Imagine what an honor. Yeah. Pope cast the Pope. Hey, this week's Pope cast brought to you by blue chew. As long as you're married, you can take as much as you want. As long as you're married. You probably call it it Bluetooth or something. Bluetooth, yeah, like the YouTube thing.

Yeah, that's good. All right, so Sean is gonna do an episode about the Pope, I guess. And we're gonna say- Is that British? That's not British. Okay. Because remember, we're doing that now as well. That's not British. That's not British, yeah. Yeah, I don't know what my episode would be about.

I don't really know what's going on over there. I mean, we could do pulling birds, bird pull. I don't think I should talk about that. No, I don't think you should either. No, you're right. You're right, that was inappropriate. I'm sorry. That actually made me really uncomfortable

when you talked about that with me just now. Okay. Read the room. Yeah, no, you're right. I'm sorry, you wouldn't ever pull a bird. Well, I pulled one bird. Sorry. One. You wouldn't ever pull another bird.

So you have experience and therefore could talk about it. You could talk about how you pulled your bird. We don't talk about that. Okay. Well, not on this show, but. I guess I could talk about a Christmas goose. Okay, but we actually, speaking of posh, I actually did used to have goose at Christmas. Bye.

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