Memory Lane with Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister - S03 E36: (Some of) The Best of Series Two

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

"This was the first day of my sixth form college..." This week we have pulled together a best of episode as Kerry is on holiday... PHOTO 1: Carl Donnelly's brand new suit is without doubt the best bad outfit so far... PHOTO 2: Kevin Bishop telling us about nearly dying after a night in a hotel with Michael Elphick... PHOTO 3: Isy Suttie explains her skateboard with no wheels... PHOTO 4: Jason Manford joins his travelling family band... PHOTO 5: Rosie Jones goes on a night out for her twenty-first birthday in a Mr Blobby inflatable suit... PICS & MORE - https://www.instagram.com/memory_lane_podcast/ A Dot Dot Dot Production produced by Joel Porter Hosted by Jen Brister & Kerry Godliman Distributed by Keep It Light Media Sales and advertising enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Come on, we can all be nosy together. So for this episode you may have noticed we're doing some. something a bit different. And that's because Kerry Godleman's diary has made it impossible for us to record an intro for the next episode. Instead, what we have for you is a veritable schmorgas board of delightful highlights from the series so far of guests that we've really enjoyed speaking to. Listen, these stories have been handpicked, not just by me, but by our producer Joel. And when I say that, I mean exclusively by a producer Joel. So sit back. relax and enjoy this

the very best of the last series what's going on here so this was my first day of six form college why oh my god it's one of the worst

decisions I've ever made like this is genuinely like to this day I cringe every time I think about this so I went to a I went to... Can you didn't go to school like that, did you? I went to...

Did you pull? Oh my God. So I went to a Catholic secondary school. Yeah. I moved around a bit. I went to actually went to a school near here, secondary school for Bishop Thomas Grant for a bit, which was rough as guts.

BTG. Everyone's trying to get their kids in there. They'll church up for a... Is it nice now? I don't know. Actually, it's considered to be a good school. It used to be... It used to be rough as shit.

Yeah, that's the story of many a school, isn't it? So like, so basically, I went to... I went there and I left after a year luckily and I went to St Thomas's in Mitchum, which was a middle school. It's all middle school in Merton. And yeah, and then I went to Women in College, which was like a good. It was a secondary school. Yeah, I went to the Esteline. Did you?

Yeah. Oh, what age are you? 48. Okay. You're a bit before me. Carl, I'm a lot before. But, but. Deligantly.

Yeah. Oh yes, I've heard of a dude that year. But I, yes, I went to women of college, which was like, again, went to a great school. It was a decent school, but it's all boys. Right. Did you go out with anyone from the Escheron? I didn't know. I...

Ricards? No, not until like... But the sixth form was when it sort of all changed, wasn't it? Because it was all boys for three years. Ursuline was all girls. And then it's 16 to 18, mixed. But then you blew it with this outfit, right? Oh, this is it?

Oh, my God. Is that the outfit you wore? Well, yeah, because we got told. We have to wear a school uniform up until 16. And in sixth form, they said, you have to wear a suit with a college tie, right? And they said that you can just buy whatever suit you want. And I thought everyone was going to go, oh, we can buy our own suit. Let's go buy a nice suit.

So every single person in school, like 99.99% I was the only one. Everyone else bought a navy blue, a grey or a black suit. And I went to Cero Citerio with my bloody pub money. I was making it and I bought a three-piece cream suit. And I literally, I thought, I remember walking to school and being just instantly like, I've fucked up so hard. Didn't you have a mate to just brief you before the day? Well, no, because I was like, I thought this would look cool, isn't it?

Did you style it out? Or you just, well, the problem was, again, this is quite sad. I know exactly the kind of environment you're wanting to. And I know exactly. how badly it went. It was so bad. It doesn't even fit you. No, there's lots of problems.

Obviously I've got it off the shell, off the hangar. I didn't get it tailored. Peg is the word. Sorry. And like to get it to fit, I just had to buy the ones that were like, well, the trousers sort of fit. Even then like, I didn't, you know, now I wear a much more tailored suit. But yeah, the shoulders are way too big.

The legs are too big. But I didn't mind a baggy trouser then, did I? That's not a baggy trouser. It's a too long trouser. Do you know what? You look like a young Alan Davis. Yes, you do. I'm weirdly red lips.

How did this go? How did it? Bad for about basically, but because again, because like my parents obviously weren't very flush with money. So you couldn't just get in a new seat. It wasn't a case of like some kids had two suits to alternate. I had one suit. You had to go in every.

And I mean, I had to literally use my own money and ask my parents for money. Like that about, I think I lasted about two weeks before I was like, I need to buy a backup suit. This is not happening. How quickly did you lose the waistcoat? I mean, yeah, the waistcoat didn't stay with me for too long. You can just imagine even teachers coming up to you and going, you can lose the waistcoat.

It's something that will help. Yeah, look, get rid of the way. Lose the waistcoat. The whole ethos was, is to make you like in the transition from boy to man. Okay. Where a period you wear a suit. Okay.

You were like, I did that transition when I started working for the pub at 13. So this was my, this was what I transitioned like 40 years too far. The suit was transitioning at a different place to the point with, in it? Oh, wow. Even like the shirt colour, everything was so bad. There's so many problems. And also. I found out of what shoes I were wearing.

They're out of shot, lucky for you. I did, I used to, I, weirdly, like, I mean, it wasn't that out of character. I was, I used to dress quite flamboyantly as a... Like a dandy? A little bit. I used to wear a lot. I used to love a flowery shirt. But I used to, there was this period where you just could buy these big,

flowery coloured shirts. Paisley, but big, like, like, you to wear like sort of 70s-style shirts. Yeah, like those big 70-colle. Oh, God. Sorry, I'm remembering it now. Hold it yourself. Oh, God.

Even when I first met you, you were wearing very loud shirts. Was I? Yes. You always had a look. You always had a very strong, loud shirt thing going on. Like a 70s pimp ride. I did have a bit of a pimp ride.

I think you even, yeah. So you would have it tucked into your jeans and. I remember that. We've all had sartorial chapters that we're... I've really settled down in my middle age. I mean, of all the pictures, because, you know, on this podcast, a few outfits have come up.

But I think so far that is my favourite. We know what the cover of this episode is going to be, don't we? First day, but the first day of college. But that, you see, those early decisions can impact on your love life, your social life. I mean, that ruined two years of my life. You weren't going to have a love life on the back of that. And also, what I remember at the Airsteine, I think

the girls don't really have a dress code in the same way. No, they don't. You don't have to wear a seat. That's crap. Yeah, so I was overdress for courting. So everyone else is in jeans and a t-shirt. You're just in the wrong century. Oh, God, I'm a fucking Del Monte man.

Oh, Jesus. Tell you on Michael Elphick. So Michael Elfell picture. Okay, this is the third picture. Yes. The third picture, right. Well, Michael Elfitt, right. So Michael Elfitt was, there was a program on television

called Dangerfield, and it was Nigelian. I remember it. I remember it. I'm a vet, but I was also a private detective. It's one of those like, you know. I'm in one. I'm a restaurant. No, but I'm in a program where by day I'm a fish restaurateur,

but on the side I'm a private detective. It's a solid genre. This is it. And, well, anyway, we did this program. So this is like late. He says, no, it's 19, about 1997. Wasn't he Boone? He was.

He was. Among other things. That was the big one. That was the big one was Boone. But this was kind of like Mike, you know, sort of famously had quite a bad drink problem. And we did this show. He played my dad.

He didn't know anything like me. But I did, I played his son. And I remember we were in the Lemington Spa Hilton, right? And we had a layover. And Mike went, What's him? Gis Paul. And remember Mike had this sort of nerve damage.

And he said this thing and he goes, like, with his jaw. And he go, Oh, look at James Gisbilt. Not that. And I said, oh, many nights to support, really, he went, I thought so, tomorrow, midday,

Manu, Arsenal kick off, meet me in the bar. So I was like, and I loved him. I mean, I'm a big fan of him. And we've got this day off. So I go meet in midday in the bar, the Lemons Bar Hilton. And then I get there, and I'm, I'm having any breakfast. Probably because I got drunk the night before.

And I went up to the bar and I said, can I was a chicken sandwich? And I remember they said it was £7.50. But in 1997, that's a fucking lot. That was a lot of money, right? And so I thought, I'll just eat the peanuts, right? They have those hair-brained ideas when you were young. And so I was like, I'm just eating peanuts. They're free, right?

sat with Mike and he went, right. Right. What do you want? And I went, oh, I'll have a pint of Stella, please. And he says, right. He goes away, he comes back, and he sits down, drinks his drink. And I went, right, oh, my round. What do you want, Mike?

He went, Mike Ophick Special. Mike Alford Special. Right, and I went, what's that? He went, they know. So I went up to the bar and I was at the bar And I said, sorry, can I have a pint of Stella, please? And Mike Helphick special? And the guy went, sorry, what was that?

I went, sorry, Michael Helfix special. And the guy went, oh, yeah, yeah, got this glass, a bit of ice in the glass, and he went to the vodka optic, three on the vodka optic on ice, and a bottle of red rock cider, chase, right? Oh. And that was like, I thought, fuck. We're in. That's my pedeum's gone.

Like one round, you know, like, you know. You wouldn't even get a chicken sandwich for seven. I wouldn't even feed myself. That's how poor I was. Anyway, so I sat down at the table, and then this is like midday, one o'clock, whatever. And then it gets to about seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Mike's been crying, as he often did when he drank. And he was like, I'm a bad, I'm a bad, I'm a bad, I'm a bad man.

You're not a bad man, Mike. And then I was like, right, he went, okay. I'm going for a smoke. Right? I'm going up for a smoke. And I was like, right, okay. You want, you want to come? I went, yeah, and honest to God, in my innocence,

I genuinely thought we were going to go and have a B and H in his room and talk about Boone, right? And we got up to his room and he starts rolling this fucking baseball bat spliff like that. And he goes, right, that's yours. Oh, no, my. He hands me a fucking like baseball bat spliff like this.

I've never had a one in my life. Never had a spliff in my life. Hands me this thing. And I puff it up like it's a Benson Edges bag. And I'm like, think it is, mate. When I was a kid, I remember like, and he's like, oh yeah.

Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. And I literally suddenly goes, fucking Jacob's ladder. And I go, ah. And I go, I look back on the bed like this. I go, Mike. Mike. He goes, what?

I went, I'm so stoned, mate. I'm sinking through the bed, mate. And he goes, oh, he went, you better go then. And he kicks me out of his room. I got into the lift, went downstairs. When I was in the lift, it had a mirrors in it, and I was a full lizard, right, in this lift. I had a tail and everything.

Oh, shit. Out of it. Got to the concierge, and I said, listen, really sorry about all this, referring to the tale that didn't exist. So I'm really sorry about this person. I said, I can't have forgotten what room I mean. I don't know my card key for my room. And she was like, it's all right, it's okay, no problem,

I get your cat key. And I gave me a car key. It went up to the floor that my room was on. I'm out on the third floor. And I'm walking along and I just pass out in the hallway and I get sick and it was just peanuts. Because that's all I had. Just peanuts on the floor.

And I can hear these Americans going, don't touch him. Don't touch him. Seriously. He can bite you. Seriously. I could just hear like that they were stepping over me, right? That's all I remember.

Right. Then I wake up, right? It's like November. Yeah? And I wake up like this. Ah! Ah! Fucking.

Ah! Ah! On my back feels like it's broken, right? And I sit up in these bins outside the Leamington Spa. Oh my God. In some bins, right? How did you end up in the bins? Well, this guy is opening his car right in front of me in the car park, right?

Because I'm in the car park bins, right? And he goes, you know what mate? And I went, oh, my thanks. Then he went, all right, drove off. And I looked around to try and piece together what the hell was going on. And I saw the trousers that I'd washed in the sink three days before in the hotel hanging over the third floor on a balcony. And so I reckon I'd come into my hotel room. You'd fallen off the balcony?

You'd fall off the balcony. Oh my God. Three floors of a hotel into the bins. You catch a team. Into the only bins that were there in the whole place. Jesus Christ, Kevin. Anyway, if it happened to me now, I would be dead. And so I got a bad fall now, like just, just.

die of pneumonia and so I went into work the next the next that day and I saw Mike and I said Mike um he's talked to you about something he's like oh all right yeah what what's what's matter what's all you're all right Mike um you know what I left your room yesterday I don't actually remember what happened and I got sick in the hallways peanuts and it was a lizard and his American people was stepping over me and I just just don't know what I was going to do anyway I woke up in the bins and you go oh yeah I went yeah But I was in a lot of pain. And I think I fell out of my...

I think I fell out of my balcony, Mike. And he just looked at me and he went, You been elphicked. Fly the seven-time world's best leisure airline champions, Air Transat. You know what's better than the one big thing? Two big things. Exactly. The new iPhone 17 Pro on Tullis' five-year race.

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You hold in a skateboard. Can you skate? Could you skate? Now, look closely at the skate. Look closely at the skateboard and tell me, oh, yeah, tell me if you notice anything about this skateboard. It's got no wheels. Yeah, it's got no wheels.

Wow. Wheels are key. I wasn't sure because what side of that skateboard it was, you see. Was that like the underside. Yeah, no, that's totally fair enough. Yeah, the other side is normally the decorated side. Because you do look like, it's a great gesture. Your fingers just slightly as if you're choosing which slope to go down.

Yeah. So we used to do a lot of photo stories. my sister and my mates. Like in those comic strips? Yeah, because I used to love my guy magazine. You guys ever used to get that? I mean, I know, I am aware of my guy,

but it wasn't as a, you can imagine. I used to go out with a bloke who was a picture. Wouldn't have been my choice of. Or high magazine. I remember high magazine. Yeah. And I remember looking. I remember looking.

La la la la lookin. You're looking good. That was happening now. That was an advert for looking magazine. I don't remember that at all. And then you'd get pictures of like double, you get like a poster in the middle. and it'd be Billy Ocean and you'd be like, why?

Every week. It was always Billy Ocean. Yeah. No explanation. That's all it was. The same picture every week. I used to go out with the bloke who was one of the models, actors, whatever in those photos in my guy. What was his name and who was he?

I'm not going to say because this is a public thing, but I will tell you. I'll tell us after. You can offer him an aggressive coffee if you ever see him around. Well, I will because I recently googled all the ones who were, there was a girl called Fran and there was a girl called Chantal. They weren't their real names in the photo stories. Yeah. And I was obsessed with their hair.

I just wanted them. Fran had quite curly short hair. I was always wanting a perm. I had up hair like Franz. And Chantau had this really thick hair. I've got really fine hair. Anyway, I googled them recently. I couldn't really find anything about it.

Where are they? What's happened to them? I'm on a postcard. Oh my God. Fran, if you're out of those. Yeah. Where did you get your perm? It's impossible to find any information about them.

Was it always the same? So sorry, like, forgive me, because I never read it. So I'm trying to catch up with who these people are. Well, they did these same stories every week, but there were different stories. Just different love stories. Sorry, Kerry. That's not actually true. I'm sorry, go on.

There were different love stories, but the ones that I'm talking about, it was actually a running thing, a bit like a soap. Oh, really? That makes sense. So that's why it would be the same people? Because if it's a different love story, why are they always in it? Well, there were ones that you recognise. So, Kerry, I'd love to know whether your ex was actually in, like, the continuing thing, which Fran and Chantale were in, or in, like, pop to talk. Yeah, please.

I really do. So they were like soap stars They were stars in the story It was a bit like neighbours or something And like it was a bit Do you know what it was like? It was like this life But I suppose more of

More of a simplified version It wasn't like this life was it It really wasn't But I like it was in their head And that is the main thing Two women with a perm It's just like this one And an incredibly seminal piece

Of 90s TV writing No It wasn't like that one It was exactly like line of duty. Exactly. They just lived together and they, you know, and they had great hair. And they shared Alice band.

And really complicated love life. No police. But apart from that, it was like line of duty. So in this picture, you're doing one of those poses? So yeah. So we obviously meant to make a photo story because underneath there's one of my sister kind of looking sad.

And then we used to do lots and lots of these photo story type things. Did you put speech bubbles on them like after you? Absolutely. And we used to do them with Sylvania. families or speech rules and our rabbit we used to get the rabbit involved the rabbit would talk but there was never really much of a plan i don't think we like drew out what we wanted beforehand no we used to sort of go with it you're just having fun yeah you don't need a plan you're just having a good time yeah it's true so this was so that swayed photo the first photo probably was

from a photo story because you're right it does look like i'm choosing which slow to go on yeah yeah and i never skated i just used to carry it around so i'd carry it on my shoulder just this deck on its own I'd carry it under my arm. So I'd carry it as if I was a skateboarder and I'd sit and watch the skateboarders with my skateboard. Only when you were doing these photos, or just generally in life. No, just generally I carried it around Matlock Park.

What was going on there, Issy? Were you like... Did anyone ever question you? Like, what are you up to do? I don't remember anyone questioning it. No, I certainly wasn't in character. I was trying to look like the... I was trying to go a step further closer to the skateboarders.

wasn't enough for me that we'd sit and watch them. Right. I wanted to be sort of like, I'm like you. Yeah, but I guess not have any jeopardy because I wasn't, I had a go on a skateboard a few times. That is so eccentric. I can't believe, you must have been, like, other people must have been like, have you seen that girl that she hangs up, she's got a deck, but it hasn't got

real. And the first time you'd be like, look, she's just not put the wheels on yet, but by like week six, they're like, what the what's going on? Do you know what I think I used to say, I can't afford the wheels at the moment. I've just got the deck at this point. I'm going to get, wow. And everybody just humoured you. They don't think the wheels are that expensive.

Yeah, I've only got the really expensive hoodie, the trainers, all the other gear, but I can't stretch to the wheels. It's like, I've just got the lead at the moment. The dogs, I'm going to save up for the dog. In the meantime, I'll just walk around the park trail, the lead after me. And it was because they were, like, you wanted proximity to the cool people, but you didn't want to risk twisting your ankle. Yeah, and also I wanted to stand out amongst the girls, I think. I wanted them to think she's cooler than the other. others because she's a skater.

Did it work? Well, I already knew them all anyway and I was going out with one of them at one point, but we're sort of like a small town to everyone knew each other. I think it worked in a sort of subliminal way maybe. Like, and what is sometimes, like anyone taking in the sea, would just go, oh yeah, you know, without really thinking about it, like she looks like one of them. But look closely and there's no wheels. It's the big clue.

But sometimes she'd put the deck down. So you're not even near your skate deck. So you're just a skate girl standing with other skate boys. I get, I do get, you basically like this. You were the best of the skate. What are you bringing to this band? What's this picture here that we're looking at? That is, yeah.

That is the Ryan family show band. Okay, talk to us about this. So my grandparents came over from Dublin in the 50s and they were in a little folk duo, just the two of them and the guitar, and they played their sort of pubs and clubs in the North West. And then they had 11 children. Oh, my God. And my nana then taught them all instruments and how to harmonise.

And that's what they did, you know. Wow. And so by the sort of mid-70s. It's like the early cause. Yes, it is. It is, actually. and they yeah,

taught them all how to play instruments and drink and sing and So all these people in this band are siblings of each other All one family Oh my God Ancom Mormon situation

It is I mean especially because they're in the same outfits as well And also the haircuts They're all look like Lego Yeah It's got culty vibes It was definitely like

If you said And two days later They all killed themselves In a pack you would go I can see that I can see that I love that wallpaper

in the background. I swear to God, that's the wallpaper we had in our kitchen when I was growing up. That is like the most 70s. That's like peeling. There's like tobacco stains. It's a proper venue. Where is that? I mean, I couldn't tell you, but I imagine it is either it's probably the Little Western,

which was a little pub in Moss Side, or the big Western, which was about a mile up the road. And that's where they were pretty popular. That's where they did. Big and Little Western. They nailed it. Yeah, but it was weird because, like, what's funny was, I remember going, and back then as well, you know, Moss Side was, you know, it was mainly sort of Afro-Caribbean and it was like a big area. And they're right in the middle of this big neighbourhood. Yeah.

Was this little Irish pub where this country music was like coming out of the, you know, country and Western and Irish folk music was just coming out of the windows. You know, it was great. Sounds brilliant. That's where I spent most of my childhood, really. I feel like we spent, you know, I have a real. You know when you get a smell of something? Like a packet of crisp or something? Prawn cocktail crisp for me.

As soon as I smell Prong Cotel Chris, I'm sat under the pool table in the little Western pub with my brother and we're in the next room and we can hear the drums and the bass of the music. It's a visceral memory. Yeah. As soon as I smell it, I'm like, oh, I'm back there again. Yeah, yeah. Why were you not in this band? I was about six.

And you never recruited you to get involved? Well, that was a great thing about. So my nana Nora, the first half of their show would be like an hour, an hour and 20 or something, and they would just be hercing and all the classics. And he's country classics. Country, Irish. Irish folk music, yeah. A bit of Celtic sort of rock stuff as well.

She'd throw in there. She was really cool, like glittery beret and a little glass of drambuey. Oh, I'm loving everything about this. And then there would just be these like widowed old Irish men with sort of glassy eyes just staring at her, like just in love, like absolutely besotted with her. Even now, on occasion. She was the Vera Lynn of the North. Oh, big time. Not Vera Lynn.

Vera. Who's the one I think of the country star? Oh. Oh, rhinestone. Like just a... Rhinestone cowboy. Oh, no. She was called Vera.

Anyway, scrap that. Oh, you're thinking of... No, not Vera Lynn. You're thinking of Loretta... Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn. Yeah, I forget it. Anyway, she was there.

But yeah, I sort of have images of that. Like, even now, occasionally, even now, like in the, you know, in 2023, I'll be in a poor borerer. somewhere in Manchester, Levin Jume or somewhere with like a big Irish area and somebody will go like a really old man I'll be like are you, are you Nora's grandson?

And then he'd be like, I love Norma. Oh my God, they loved her. She's still single. It loved her. So yeah, so that was our and so we'd go on a weekend and that first half was them and then the second half of their show after the break, after the,

and they'd been on the beers would be just a free-for-all. It was just like any. anybody, Johnny plays the mandolin, he'd come up. It was crazy. Everyone would come up. Where's one eye to Tommy? One eye Tommy would come up and he'd be on the drums. It was great. It was absolutely crazy. And we'd be like seven or eight. And then we got to an age, I think, sort of, I think about nine or ten where I'd obviously shown a talent for being able to sing, I guess, at that age.

And so then I was included then. I was included. So I'd be able to get up and do a song or two. What were your songs? Well, my first choice, and I think just because I had like a, I guess even then I was always thinking, what's the funniest thing to do here? So you're off to be laugh. Always, yeah. But I would sing in the ghetto by Elvis, which is not a funny song. But it is, when you're a child in the ghetto, we were like literally in the ghetto as well in Manchester.

That's a good gag. And there was just something about it that I always thought, this is funny. And because it's Elvis, you know, so you can do a whole, you can do a bit of that. So yeah, I sing that. And then I do a duet with my nana on occasion as well. God, you started early, Jason, didn't you? I mean, that's the thing when people say to me about, like, being a comedian or something. I never had to say to my parents, I'm thinking about going into showbiz.

Yeah, it was like, it would have been the opposite. I figured it would have been an accountant. Yeah. Not under my room. Get that microphone and get on stage. So this was their job? So that was, so that's the great thing about it, is it was their job, as in that's what they got. But of course, they, well, didn't.

pay enough to be their full-time jobs. So in the week they would do their normal jobs. And this was weekend income. And this was their weekend stuff, yeah. But some of the gigs they would go to, you know, I remember, and like just in this dilapidated van, I remember being on the... It sounds like the commitment. It was going to...

It's so many vimes of the commitment. Yes. But you know what? It just shows it like it's so not glamorous. Any side of like... No. But that's true. I remember on the M-62 going over or maybe coming back from Leeds and I'm about 14 and

I'm sat in the passenger seat. is my Uncle Mick, who's the drummer, and then my other uncle, Gary, is sat there, and I'm on the left here, and in the back is just everybody, with the equipment, nobody's fastened in, just in the back, like, just on a motorway. And it is hammering down so hard, like, it's so hard. And the window wipers have stopped working, right? And we're, like, midnight, and it's pitch black, and it's cloudy, and the window wipers are not working.

So my uncle, Mike pulls over. He manages to find, like, some string or some something like that. And he ties the window wiper. The windows open. And me and him have to, he's driving, pulling the window wipers. I ever say, well, the windows open, just pulling these window wipers on the way. And I'm like, I just want to go into show business. But to be honest, I think that sounds like everything I love about show business.

Yeah, exactly. Just so much fun. Yeah, the laughs, man. Yeah. Also, you can't make that stuff. You can't contrive that. No, exactly. That can only happen on the road.

Can you make this film? I know, I need to, don't know. It's like the commitments and shameless. You know, like it's got an element of that as well, you know. I meant my uncle, my uncle Michael was just like he was a real lethario, you know. He'd have to be. He's a show biz man. Yeah, exactly.

And he was like, he was dead good looking, really funny, Irish accent as well. Really charming. On the lead guitar and he sang beautifully. And, you know, and he's like tells stories of like being on the, I think he was on the bass guitar once. He was like, just singing in the background, my grand singing. And then he spots this, like, woman who he's sort of seeing at the time. and he's like, giving a little wing. And then as he looks over it, he spots another one.

And there's about four of them. And they're all in different areas of this. Oh, my God. And he's not gradually, on stage, just feeling the anxiety. Oh, my God. Right. I need to keep them away from each. And it's like a story of him sort of like,

my uncle's there sort of on the, you know, the tambourine or whatever. He sort of gives him the eye. He's like, take this off me. And he's playing the guitar. And he like hands over the guitar to my uncle who takes it over. And then he's just gone. Like, just out the back door, God.

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Again, it's a cracker. I mean, this is quite something. To God, it's me. We'd have no way of knowing, we'll have to trust you. So it's me in an inflatable Mr. Blobby costume. Right, so it's not the real Mr. Blobby, it's you. No. And that is people's princess.

Mrs Rosie Jones dressed as an inflatable blobby. So this I can't surprise several different reasons. One is sometimes my first love with kids. Mr. Blobby? No. Fancy dress. Really? Not another one.

We've had a fancy dress. Yeah, clearly this is a theme. I really. You challenge me to a bit of FD. I will. See, because Jen is not a believer. No, I love it. She said she'd willfully turn up to a fancy dress party just in her jeans and t-shirt.

No. Yeah. No. You can't. Absolutely can. You can't. You can't. You're having these fancy dress parties.

Everyone, but they're not inviting you. Why did you choose Mr. Blobby? So that was at uni. That was from the 21st birthday. So by then, I'd have three years of epic fancy dress. And to that point, my PS to resist dawn. was we went on the Lady Gaga night because it was when Gaga had just blown up

and do you remember her outfit where she wore nothing? I think this one before me. Pre-mate, pre-mate. Pre-mate. She wore nothing about. from police tape. Oh yeah. I went out in Huddersfield Town.

In that... In police tape. What, you mean naked apart from police tape? Yeah. And why did you not offer us that picture? And you offered us Mr. Blobby instead. Because that was not pretty. Okay.

I'd like to see it. I bet you want. So your whole uni days was dominated by planning fancy dress outfits. Like every Saturday. It was like Saturday? I feel stressed. Where did you go to uni? Did you get a degree?

Or was it just dressing up for three years? What was your degree in? Fancy dance. You get a BA and FD. You wanted to explain your Mr. Blobby. Can I tell you. about my 21st night out.

Was it wild? In Huddersfield. Yeah. So, like I said, about three hours of big time FD. Yeah. I'd already been out naked.

You've done Garga? Yeah, so I had to go big. Yeah. Go big or go home, isn't it? And I never go home. That is the fact. Sometimes I get made to go home. I've taken you over a couple of times.

So, because I'm born in 1990. All right, I'm sure. We did... We had poems like your mum in, you know. I was 35 in 1999. We did the 90s Topps. Yeah.

What is it? Theme. So we had a few brownies. We had a few... Brownies have been going well outside the decade of the 90s. Well, it felt quite. I was a brownie in the 80s. I love that you think that's the 90s.

Because your mate's word brownies in the 90s. But anyway, keep going. Anyway, there's things fall in the part already. So that's hot. It's just dress up, in it? Just dress up, in it? Just dress up with one. So, well, great. I spent 200 pounds on this blobby outfit.

See, a purist would have a bit of pushback with that because sometimes FD means make your own. Don't go to a shop and bailout. No, actually, actually... Don't chuck money at the situation. Fisd is whatever you want it to be. Jeannie a cheery. You're defending it all for. You're not even into it.

I'm like, look, I'm just defending every aspect of FD. One of which is jeans and a t-shirt. The other rich is my. You've got as an angry lesbian, Jane. What is price? Guys, it's always on brand. I told you that. I've got a brand I've got to keep up.

suddenly look like I'm enjoying myself. You could do a Jones and come as Mr. Blobby next time you get an invitation. All right. On that thing, just really quickly, somebody forwarded me. She does a lot of buying and selling gear. Anyway, it doesn't matter. She said me that sounds really dodgy. She's a good.

She's a good. You know, tights and that sort of thing. Blankets. DVDs. A lot of FD. She's got a lot of FD in the back of the cup. You want some FD? I've got Mr. Blobby and Gargo in the back of the car.

She sent me this link to an original Mr. Blobby outfit. It was a spare outfit. How much? Guess. Not 200 quid because she was done. No. How much? Go up.

400. More. 8. More. What? 64 grand. No. I'm not joking.

That's what it's on for. I'll show you the least. But it's the real one. Yes. Well, it was never used. It was a spare one. But it's not made from this sort of cheap crap. No.

Why is you sending you there? I said a possible birthday present for me. I was like, sure, invest. What? Why would she bring that for you? Did she love you? Kerry, it was a joke. It was sent to me as a joke.

I was like, I'm not genuinely going to spend $64,000. Hello, am I in the room with two comedians? Because I'm starting to feel like I'm with like two manners. It's really hard because sometimes we're doing sincere boy in bits and they're been pissing about. Always and I'm not very good. And navigating it out. Well, you did smash that outfit.

Did you get, did you throw up in it, Rose? Well, this is the thing. They were sick in there by the end of that. Because it was so much money, it was inflatable. It couldn't get out of it. Oh, my God. All night. You can't.

So you didn't piss. All night. You can't not piss. So, wait. I love how your first concern was in person. 100% of the middle-aged. I'd like to introduce this to my pelvic floor. It's given up.

My first concern was how do I get drunk? Oh, you couldn't get liquid in? Yeah. The one you didn't piss, you couldn't take anything. Yeah. So what I... What was it in the mouth hole? No.

I can't even believe my mouth. Because it's fucking inflated bookerick. Oh yeah. I get it. I get it. This is a health and safety nightmare. So what I had to do, I drank a bottle of vodka before I got in. At home and then I went out.

And I thought. This will be brilliant because everyone will think it's a legit Mr. Blubby. And I got into the club and Hudders appeared in such a small town. Everyone was either like, oh, have you seen Rosie in the problem? or I ever heard a guy going, why did me so blah, I got cerebral podcast? I'm Max Rushden. I'm David O'Darady.

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