My Dad Wrote A Porno - Footnotes: George Ezra

Episode Date: June 8, 2017

Singer-songwriter George Ezra joins the gang to chat about Book 3 so far and give his critique of a fan-written song, 'Pomegranates and Rivets'... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...mation.

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Starting point is 00:00:46 We have our first guest of season three on today. He's been on SNL, he's been on Ellen, but I think we'll all agree that his biggest achievement today is coming on My Dad Wrote a Porno. It's George Ezra. Hey! How's it going, man? You all right? Yeah, really good.
Starting point is 00:01:02 Thanks for joining us. Not at all. Thank you for having me. Did you enjoy your tea? Loved my tea Thank you very much Alice made you a little frittata I know But the thing is
Starting point is 00:01:09 I was talking too much So you guys had seconds And I was finishing my first portion Did you want seconds now? No it's alright I'll have them after Okay I think I'll need it
Starting point is 00:01:18 After all of this You're going to go through the ringer You need sustenance It's true Interesting fact for fans George is quite a slow eater I'm because i listen and i engage it's very polite very polite also another fact is that you bought a nice little bottle of red there didn't you my darling i did well i was in the studio today and i was like guys if i'm going to something and i need to take red because i would
Starting point is 00:01:41 get the and i never know how to pronounce it, but the yellow labelled red wine. Sure. Ryoja. And they said to get this, so I got this. They are those sweet first album bendermans. Thank you, Budapest. It's got a cork and everything.
Starting point is 00:01:55 It's so posh. You've also brought a little notepad with you. I know, well, I didn't know if this was over egging it, but I thought... Yeah. Well, the thing is, before I get into this, I feel like the best way to introduce these
Starting point is 00:02:06 is to explain how i got into my dad wrote a porno because since the first episode there's been like one or two questions i've been like i really want to ask that george when you were the woman yeah are you as knowledgeable as James Cooper? Because he's not always blue My favourite thing about the notepad Is he's written a little title in the date Like it's an exercise book Like it's an agenda for a meeting So it must have been
Starting point is 00:02:37 The summer of 2016 Cast your mind Many moons ago No probably just before summer right so my sister so i was introduced to the world of podcasts before this i had no idea and then my sister was like oh you should listen to my dad wrote a porno and obviously you don't like go okay i'll get that straight away you know when someone recommends something you're like okay yeah i'll get on to that so that was jess's recommendation
Starting point is 00:03:09 and then a few nights later i arranged to go and have dinner with a friend of mine brianie and we met at the pub and we were gonna have some food conversation must have dried up because i said hey brian i'm joking but i was like i've been getting well into podcasts at the minute and she said oh you should listen to My Dad Wrote a Porno so once two people have suggested something the double penetration of recommendation I love it so then I got but then I had the luxury
Starting point is 00:03:36 of the fact that there was a whole series already out yeah you could binge and I'm a binger so I was yeah it was perfect we can tell that's not your first run of the evening I did a binger. So I was, yeah, it was perfect. We can tell. That's not your first run of the evening. I did a little bar crawl before I got here. And what did you think when you first heard? I think there's something that I think people have touched on once or twice,
Starting point is 00:03:55 but not enough for my liking. I admire the fact that your dad has written this thing and gone with it. Well, he retired. So he just had the mind space to finally make his i feel like it's been in him for a long time so that's my mentality is i assume that it's something he must have thought about and then put to bed and then thought about and then gone yeah fuck it i'll give it a go do you think he has a similar process to you as a fellow creative no because he churns it out quicker than i can say where's our was going to say, where's our second album? Well, exactly.
Starting point is 00:04:25 So I started listening in the middle of writing and recording the second record. Oh God, there's a song called Pots and Pans, isn't there? So I think he can get them out a lot quicker. The thing about Rocky is, like you say, he churns them out. He puts pen to paper and doesn't waste any time checking or worrying about what the reaction is going to be when you pen a song how often are you revisiting that even for
Starting point is 00:04:50 just a casual spell check what the song that i've written yeah once or twice am i like that's the thing that i find most amazing is it doesn't to me it doesn't feel like he's run it by anyone like he's not gone no shit i can confirm that could you read this before i send it out um so what's the uh first question on your list george the first question i've got written down is the one i'm most intrigued about because i can't quite grasp it and i don't know if i've missed something where you've said it but when is it set like i try like in time i try and picture because in my head it kind of looks like a blurry VHS. Like that question kind of leads on to a lot of the other ones.
Starting point is 00:05:31 Like she got on the DLR, which is fairly modern. Right. But then... But then she uses a fax machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's like some of the other, a lot of the other details kind of don't... The sexism feels 80s.
Starting point is 00:05:45 Well, this is what I was going to say. The regular sexism definitely makes me think, oh, this must be set, you know, way back when. It feels 74-ish, doesn't it? Well, I think because obviously my dad is in his 60s, so he has a very different perspective on life. A man of the world. Well, he's lived a life, clearly. Not that I know anything about it. But I think he's trying to be modern.
Starting point is 00:06:08 I mean, he's writing about the Millennium Dome building. Yeah, so that's... After 2000. But also, the Millennium Dome building. It's called the O2. It's not even called the Millennium Dome building. To be fair, you guys started taking the piss out of it, but I was like, I'm fairly sure I would call it that.
Starting point is 00:06:20 And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. It's the O2. You're a musician, mate. You should have called it the Millennium Dome building. The Millennium Dome. Three nights. call it that and I was like no no no it's the O2 you're a musician mate I'm playing the Millennium Dome three nights yeah because
Starting point is 00:06:29 people go hello O2 they don't go hello Millennium Dome Dome Dome I mean they
Starting point is 00:06:37 should happy Y2K everybody oh my god can we like start a campaign to get every person who plays the o2 just say
Starting point is 00:06:46 hello the millennium dome please please when you headline when you headline the o2 when when when please i think belinda's got more chance there's more chance of that becoming a reality she's just done it what did you think of the love eggs by the the way? Did you know? That was an education to me. I didn't really know what they were. No. I knew about them. Oh, did you? Yeah, of course you did. Not from first-hand experience, but I remember...
Starting point is 00:07:13 Don't say first-hand. Second-hand's worse. Second-hand love eggs! He knows from first-ass experience. But I've heard... I remember there being a conversation on tour, which started a lot sweeter, which is you can buy a pillow if you've got a loved one,
Starting point is 00:07:30 that when you buy two and you travel with it, and when you put your head on yours, theirs lights up so they know you're in bed, which I thought was really cute. That's quite cute. But then everyone was like, you could just put bricks on it and be like... Just off to bed.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Been a great gig, just off to bed yeah been a great gig just off to bed but then it got onto the conversation of someone said you can get knickers that do the same they're underwear that your partner can control from the other side of the world which was what that kind of I think I think and then it got onto
Starting point is 00:08:01 the love egg so when you say control I think they vibrate I think there's like some kind of start walking you to the shop I said I want lasagna it's like the wrong trousers what I mean is with all these things I'm just like
Starting point is 00:08:19 firstly how long are you away from home for that it's like wear the love eggs that I can control. Yeah, a half dozen love eggs and I'm away for another week. Anyone want a love omelette? Yeah. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:08:32 How do you like it? Yeah, so I was aware of them. Okay, cool. Sure. And you've got your own merch pillow. Come see me at the merch desk on the next door. George Ezra love eggs. Available everywhere.
Starting point is 00:08:52 So, wait a sec. Which point was that? That was only the second I got to... Yeah, we're going to go in hard. We've got some good ones. The next thing, especially in this this is and i think it's a hangover from some of the earlier series right is words i'm convinced i've never heard before like in certain like so smallish the smallish man with the smallish voice yeah no one's ever
Starting point is 00:09:18 used that before i'm just sorry the smallish man dressed in black there you go right so it's the so it can't like i heard oh the smallish man and you kind of feel you go, right? So it came, like I heard, oh, the smallish man. And you kind of feel a little bit like, I'm sure I've never heard that. Like, I can't remember having ever described something as, and then I was like, oh, maybe I like, oh, you know, smallish. Like, do you see what I mean? I can't remember ever having used that word. So you think he's coined it?
Starting point is 00:09:42 So then I got to thinking, not Roald Dahl, who was the other one that came up with a lot of words? Shakespeare. Roald Dahl or Shakespeare. No, no, Spike Milligan. Yeah. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:53 So then I was thinking, no, fair play. Because there's all these things where I go, that's ridiculous. And he'd go, people have done it before. This isn't like,
Starting point is 00:10:01 he's entitled to. This is the thing. And you know, as we go through the books, we realise that actually a lot of what my dad has... Don't mind us. Sorry, I had to relieve myself. Ezra's just like pouring a vat of red wine.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Whatever. But yeah, no, we are discovering that actually what he writes is not only finding its way into common parlance, but so many things that we've mocked him for are actually real. Yeah. Like the bees, you know, in like the plane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The spiral staircase.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Right. I'm fairly sure I've seen it. So I can't. You've seen it. When you guys were, well, not up there. Behind. Not up the pearly gates of. Little visit to BT.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Coming up the pearly gates of... Little visit to BT. No, but when you guys were ripping it out of the Spire Circus, I was like, well, actually, I think I've seen it. Do you know what? One of my friends from home is an air hostess. I should ask her. You definitely should ask her. I should ask her whether that is a thing or not.
Starting point is 00:10:59 All right, so come on. What's next on your list? Next on the list, I've just written, pots and pans, so huge on, what's next on your list? Next on the list, I've just written pots and pans. So huge with a question mark. Which I think what I mean is, from episode one, I remember going, oh, let that slip.
Starting point is 00:11:16 Like, they definitely just said that she worked in pots and pans. And I remember thinking, like, that's a bit odd. Why is it a bit odd? Mate, we can't all be international music stars. Yeah, sorry. No, as in... Someone's got to sell a skillet, all right? Pots and pans, I'm about.
Starting point is 00:11:30 If you're going to go into business, go for something everybody needs. Toilet roll. Go into that. Go into something that every house needs. Catchy ditties. Yeah, catchy. Non-offensive.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Daytime radio pop songs run of the mill melodies so I get that but surely it's not that big an industry so like I've always thought that
Starting point is 00:11:54 and then this one where it's like well we're going to the Millennium Dome and then that bit about giving away a free stainless tin wok
Starting point is 00:12:03 or whatever it was I had to get my phone out and do the math. So I Googled how much... What are they retailing at? They're one of those things I found out that you can spend as much or as little as you want. So if you want a decent non-stick wok... You can get a Ken Hom, I guess, for like £30.99. The average, I would say, was about £20.
Starting point is 00:12:23 You know when you go on Google, it has the top bit. None of them strayed over about 35 quid. How long did you spend on this? Well, I'm just... This is the kind of thing that I want to... What are the ins and outs? So if there's 20,000 people... Oh my God, you've done a calculation.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Well, I think I'm shit at math, so I don't know. Okay, go on then. But if there's 20,000 people, and you're spending 20 quid on each of them buy my iPhone it says your iPhone special calculator that's 900 million
Starting point is 00:12:53 400 grand yeah which is an investment that's mental it's not enough to book because that must cost a lot to have the space of the O2 and then like you've got to get the rigging so this is something I've learned
Starting point is 00:13:11 if you book a big venue you have to take your own speakers so we wanted to know this so she would have had to pay for the lot or Steeles would have done but I don't know I think most venues have like a base level PA but you probably take your own
Starting point is 00:13:25 if you want it a bit better. So like I was just thinking that this, I know this is killing the joy of fiction writing, but I was like, that's a bit outlandish. No, please kill it. Kill it for everyone. But then to spend just shy of half a million pounds on giving everyone a utensil.
Starting point is 00:13:39 Would you not do that then? No way. And your album was really successful. i did that one of my gigs like and by the way you've all got a walk but the other thing is like because she was part of a bigger it wasn't her show like she was part of a bigger end so she spent like 400 grand on about a five minute set yeah wait it wasn't her show no it was a conference that the dutch had put on or something like someone else was like one this is like a ted talk but like a lesser version or a greater
Starting point is 00:14:12 version depending on your perspective a much better version rocky would probably call it an edward talk for copyright reasons special Special J all over again. And the smallish man is totally like, comes with the venue. I don't think they've... He comes at the venue. Comes with the venue. Oh, with the venue.
Starting point is 00:14:33 He works at the O2. With, at, during the venue. But then this is the other thing I was thinking. So far, there's been two episodes of this new series. Yeah. For Belinda, it's been pretty low key. Lying, yeah. I mean, i mean it is you can say it's underwhelming no no no but like i just need to mic you up babe and then just like give us a second
Starting point is 00:14:52 just getting down to you to nothing obviously that's very belinda i like that it's also quite desperate isn't it like he wasn't asking to see her tits she just like proffered those breasts to him quite openly maybe she's got to a point where she just assumes she's losing her touch I think maybe oh
Starting point is 00:15:09 she's less classy well I don't know like she's losing her mind in book one book two you know people want to have sex
Starting point is 00:15:17 with a you know chapter one through to 17 now she's literally just like show her tits just to get noticed please
Starting point is 00:15:24 you know me Belinda Blink exactly she's literally just like show her tits just to get noticed. Please. You know me, Belinda Blinked. Exactly. She's become a celebrity. That no one wants anything about anymore. You say that, but he did mic her up in a very unorthodox manner. Oh yeah, like went all round. Bit of twister. Like before I mic you up, let's get the twister mat out.
Starting point is 00:15:42 I'll just hang this here. Your right leg over there you must have been mic'd up many times how often do they go under the pegs and loop around them and then around the neck do you know what is quite funny is they do like it goes up your top and there's always that awkward bit where you kind of go like it's all right mate like i'll just i'll do it i can feel it like that oh as girl, there's always that moment where you do the joke about like... Where you rip your top off.
Starting point is 00:16:08 Come on! Yeah, that's what I was going to say, actually. There's always that bit and they're either shocked or you're marrying in the spring. Did we answer your question? Have we answered any of your questions? No, clearly.
Starting point is 00:16:23 Well, no, I've realised, sorry, there's like an arrow so i've put pots and pans so huge question mark then an arrow and in quotation so i assume belinda said this you will want to know about the new range i don't get so i understand like i said everyone needs a pot or a pan or both. But not many people I come into contact with are following pots and pans vlogs going, shit, when's the new one out? It's not like an iPhone, is it?
Starting point is 00:16:52 Yeah, yeah. It's not like a... Hang on. Sorry, George. I hate to do this to you, but I will defend my father. Yeah. And this was an industry event, actually.
Starting point is 00:17:01 These women who sell door to door with their coffee mornings are selling pots and pans this is their business alright for Betty
Starting point is 00:17:09 this is a big ass deal Betty Wilkes Vicky Woods this is their livelihood if you're there you're there
Starting point is 00:17:14 for a reason exactly I get it it's not like your fans they'll take a walk I'm sure mate get some in
Starting point is 00:17:23 you'll need them just in my face on the oh my god on the concave yeah oh my god could we do like
Starting point is 00:17:31 a merchandise raid together could we do a kind of partnership what merch have you guys got so far yeah merchandise is a funny one
Starting point is 00:17:38 my dad's taken it upon himself to create some of his own merchandise I'm going to give you one one
Starting point is 00:17:44 I've never seen this oh it's signed from the desk of Rocky Flintstone. And then on the back it says, Belinda Blinked. The cheeky minx. No, it doesn't really. It says, Belinda Blinked. When you get what you want, you feel great. Yeah. It's basically a postcard of all of the quotes of Belinda Blinked. I see. It's got the flesh of mankind. I feel like that one should have been bigger. He should have said, Rocky, the flesh of mankind. Because I feel like that's his, you know, like garlic bread. You know, like the flesh of mankind is definitely Rocky's go-to.
Starting point is 00:18:18 He also asked me to give James Ellison petty cash vouchers as well. Oh my God. Very useful for the business well you can claim back on these are legit petty cash vouchers literally yeah and he's written your names on them how sweet just on the topic of the um of the postcards what i love is that he's gone for different fonts different sizes different colors he's thought i have got an up to the date edition of Word and I am going to use it and also
Starting point is 00:18:46 why is the biggest font I love Rocky Flintstone of all of them the biggest one is the faux quote I love Rocky Flintstone right what's next
Starting point is 00:18:57 come on I'm not sure I can get through this whole agenda right so this leads into the pots and pans massive industry I know I'm hung up on this but like when she's
Starting point is 00:19:04 off to the Ritz spot how realistic is that how many industries are there where you're like i've got a really busy week but there's like a loose contact i have that i met months ago that just so happens to be in a mud steam room i better go and hook up with them and the next thing you're at this woman's house I don't know if I move in the wrong circles but I don't get invited to many orgies and I don't right many but what I mean is the whole base of the book for me, I know I'm hung up on it, but is this idea of it being pots and pans, but then this outlandish lifestyle,
Starting point is 00:19:52 it would be more... Believable? If it was like a different job, like, oh, they worked in, you know, nightclub booking. I was going to say the music industry must be more like this. Well, you would think so. This is what I was kind of like, maybe I'm in the wrong industry. Because the reason I got into it was for spa days at the Ritz.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Was the Potspans and rock and roll. That's the t-shirt, Potspans and rock and roll. George Ezra got into music to get a huge big black dildo from the Duchess. I can't believe it. What a scoop. No, it's the love eggs since I caught wind of them. Well, you knew all about them, George.
Starting point is 00:20:28 Don't try and play dumb now. I think, and I'm not suggesting this will happen, say the music stuff goes down the pan, excuse the pun, I think the new thing
Starting point is 00:20:36 could be Kitchenware for you. I'm happy. If like, you know one of those, what are they called? You've got an RSM written all over you. No,
Starting point is 00:20:44 I could see you on reception at Steeles oh my god hey you're the Bella Bella is she the train wreck one that's like
Starting point is 00:20:51 excuse me I don't want to talk about you George but I'm actually really really classy yeah that is so accurate
Starting point is 00:21:00 to a lot of people I've met so like in the sense of like that kind of tear away, like I just say what I think, mate. You know, that kind of thing. I don't care what people think about me.
Starting point is 00:21:11 What's nice about this is you're helping us kind of take a step back on, like we're so in it. Sometimes I think we forget how ludicrous it is. And I think series three, it's a good time.
Starting point is 00:21:20 The start of series three, let's take that step back. Let's realise why we're doing it and should we just stop? I think this is a good time to draw a of series three. Let's take that step back. Let's realise why we're doing it and should we just stop? I think this is a good time to draw a line in the sand. All right. George Ezra,
Starting point is 00:21:29 our last guest ever on My Dad Wrote a Porno. Can you imagine if you just really shook us awake with your comments? You have single-handedly destroyed this whole podcast. Get Mocky on the phone.
Starting point is 00:21:40 He'd be furious. Mocky mate, it's over. He's just printed all of these. For a second then, I thought this was you wrapping up the podcast I was like oh that was abrupt I just remembered
Starting point is 00:21:51 what we were going to show to George oh yeah that we've completely forgotten oh my god it's not top shelf Rocky I've literally totally forgotten about it
Starting point is 00:22:00 yeah okay right this is a bit weird okay and you're a musician so we want to get your professional opinion on it these amazingly creative people in Sweden right James Yeah, okay, right. This is a bit weird, okay? And you're a musician, so we want to get your professional opinion on it. These amazingly creative people in Sweden, right, James? In Sweden.
Starting point is 00:22:11 I'm going to get the email. They wrote a song based on Belinda Blink. And they produced it up and everything. Yes. Amazing. It's proper. When you say produced it up, what do you mean by up? Well, as in like, if they started, I imagine they would have started with a little acoustic guitar number.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Nice. And they were going... Is that how you do it yeah yeah flintstones rocky flintstone and then they go hang on we're printing our own money here get to the studio get a few synths on it drum beats this freeware has an 808 let's get that on i I mean, if you were, hypothetically, to write a song about my dad or Belinda or the universe... I think my approach... This might be a weird reference, but do you remember Up Pompeii? Or, like, Carry On films, where the music's like...
Starting point is 00:22:56 Like, you know, like, kind of deliberately comedy. And then I'm like, it's like, ooh, ah! That kind of thing. Do you know what I mean? I'm like, i don't know what era that would be from i don't know but i'm kind of like a big fan the equivalent of like a for four minutes it's funny you should say that because that's very similar to the style of this song well shall i i'll read you the email we had from these people. So, my name is Spoke, and together with Peter, songwriter, producer,
Starting point is 00:23:29 I've penned a song in your honour, or rather in the honour of Rocky and Belinda. It's called Pomegranates and Rivets. I get it. We don't believe that the title needs further explanation. I would agree with that. Definitely not. And you'll recognise one or two of the references throughout the song from the first season. And Jamie, my apologies for the chorus. The bard in me had to make the rhymes work. What does that mean? would agree with that and you'll recognise one or two of the references throughout the song from the first season and Jamie
Starting point is 00:23:45 my apologies for the chorus the bard in me had to make the rhymes work what does that mean? I think you've got a reference in the chorus and perhaps a bit shoehorned in I've always wanted
Starting point is 00:23:53 to be included in a song here we go George there's still time forget who invited you onto the podcast who made you frittata huge second album.
Starting point is 00:24:06 One song, what did it be called? Jamie Lee is great. It's a true labour of love and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. I've taken the liberty of printing out the lyrics
Starting point is 00:24:14 for you, George. Thank you very much. So you can, let's sing along. No, don't we be reading it? I'm based on a screwed story. Seriously. Are you ready for this?
Starting point is 00:24:24 Are you ready? Ready. This is going to blow your mind. If you ready? Are you ready? Ready. This is going to blow your mind. If you comment while it's playing, we'll kill you. Okay, nice. Hold all your thoughts. Maybe write it in your pad. I've done your little paddy pad.
Starting point is 00:24:35 There you go, my darling. Make a whole new page. Do you want a little pen? Actually, George, do you want to intro it? Next up, ladies and gentlemen, we have Pomegranates and Rivets by Spoken Peter. Next up, ladies and gentlemen, we have Pomegranates be freely with river to talk come into my world come into my dream come fill my lips so completely moist from the steam i'm in the mud i'm on a roll give me a tickle, baby, show me the vault
Starting point is 00:25:26 Amaze me Amaze me Arouse me Arouse me Come hold me Behold me I mean, where to begin? George, initial thoughts, initial feelings? I'm going to go in with my favourite bit, which is that I'm in the mud.
Starting point is 00:26:06 I'm on a roll. Give me a tickle, baby. Show me the ball. Yes. Yes, George Ezra, yes. That's my favourite bit, which I guess would be the pre-chorus. Is that what it's called?
Starting point is 00:26:17 I think that's what that would be. Is that not the bridge? I thought they called that the bridge. No, I think I would always call it the pre-chorus. I love that we're arguing with George Ezra. You're like, actually, I think it's called the bridge. Yeah. When would always call it the pre-chorus I love that we're arguing with George Aspern you're like actually I think it's called the bridge
Starting point is 00:26:26 yeah when is Eurovision it's soon we've just missed it but there's next year so next year should we lobby for this to be the
Starting point is 00:26:33 Swedish entry I think if we take to Blinkers I'm sure they'll make that happen once they've heard it yeah exactly my only from a
Starting point is 00:26:40 commercial perspective I think they're kind of doing themselves an injustice by ending the chorus with the lyric, I'm truly fucked. I think that might jeopardise their kind of daytime radio airplay. I think it's super catchy.
Starting point is 00:26:55 That chorus, it's a bit Gaga. Like you say, it's a bit Eurovision. I would buy this song. You've been singing it for weeks since you received the email. Do you know who has been singing it for weeks? Rocky. rocky rocky and my mother is honestly at her wits end every time she goes into the pavilion slash garden shed she's truly fucked she's truly fucked she just goes i'm truly fucked 90s sitcom you're truly fucked papers right there. You can keep the shed. But doesn't your dad get obsessed with songs as well? He does. He just plays them over and over again. And we once drove
Starting point is 00:27:33 from Manchester where we grew up to Spain, Malaga. It's a long way to drive. Over two hours. And he made a CD for the journey and we were like yes summer holidays can't wait the CD consisted of the angels carol which is a Christmas carol and he put it on seven times
Starting point is 00:27:57 on one CD and just played the same CD over and over again oh so there was seven tracks every track
Starting point is 00:28:03 every track was the angels carols of a dangerous car, I've a dangerous voice. Every single three minutes. And we just played the CD. That was literally it. It was like,
Starting point is 00:28:14 God, I do love this song. Let's play it again, shall we? Wait for the drop. That pre-chorus. My mum was like, is there no Simply Red in the car? Is there no Annie Lennox? No MP Paul? No? Okay, cool. If mum was like, is there no Simply Red in the car? Is there no Annie Lennox? No MP people?
Starting point is 00:28:26 No? Okay, cool. If there was a radio edit where the word fucked wasn't in it, George, could you see this, I don't know, number one? Where do you see this in the charts? I'd say a steady climber. I think it would go in with a comfortable top 20. And over the weeks, it would climb up to number one.
Starting point is 00:28:45 Yeah. Steal the nation's hearts. Yeah. Christmas number one. So if we release it now, it will be Christmas number one. I'll find it's supposed to be number one by Christmas. Good. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:56 I would love to see a race between me and Spoken Peter. George, I hate to say it. It wouldn't be a race my darling no definitely not we should talk about your live performance which I came to you've seen us live in the church and I don't go to as many gigs as maybe I should
Starting point is 00:29:16 but it's been a long time since I've seen a queue that big so we got there and we were like genuinely not no offence but I was like are we at the right place? At first, right, George? What are you trying to say? No, but it was like proper fandom.
Starting point is 00:29:31 There was like costumes, banners, everything, and a queue round the block. What were they dressed up as? Front row, there was like someone dressed up as the Fence. There was some trellis. Yeah, someone with the trellis. And their friend was handcuffed to them, dressed as Belinda. Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:43 I feel like a lot of people listening feel like it's like their thing with you guys. We have the best listeners on the planet. They're amazing. But that's so amazing that you've been a catalyst
Starting point is 00:29:53 for these people joining in. I bet people have met people through the podcast. People have met people on the tube. People have been laughing on the tube in headphones
Starting point is 00:30:02 and someone says Belinda and they've been like, yes! And then they've got chatting and they've become friends.'s amazing did you enjoy the show loved it we really did i bought cam who's producing the record and um there was one bit when you got up to do the science lesson just to contextualize alice does a bit of a presentation during our live show where she explains exactly what the cervix is and in fact all of the reproductive elements of the vagina i kept
Starting point is 00:30:31 quiet because i was like i shouldn't there was like the audience participation i was like i don't want to slip up here cam started shouting them out and shouted a wrong one and so i was like oh gee that's why I didn't get involved yeah so we're actually going on tour in Australia I don't know if you heard about that
Starting point is 00:30:49 I heard about it at the end of episode two yeah yeah yeah so we've sold up the Sydney Opera House for one night which is amazing
Starting point is 00:30:55 by the way thank you very much congratulations they've added a second night which we're yet to to sell out so please do come to the Sydney show
Starting point is 00:31:03 on Sunday book three seats if you just want some room like if you don't want to spread out like with your snacks and they've listened now they're aware
Starting point is 00:31:10 that in London there was costumes so you expect costumes you expect silly string it's a brilliant show I loved it maybe to help sell tickets we should put walks
Starting point is 00:31:18 under all the seats oh my god definitely especially in like because we're not just playing Sydney and Melbourne we're playing all over Australia we're playing like Brisbane and Perth and Adelaide
Starting point is 00:31:27 and even in New Zealand in Auckland. You're doing New Zealand? Yeah. And my best friend lives in New Zealand, lives in Auckland, so I'm really excited to play there. So yes, come to Australia and New Zealand, come and see us live.
Starting point is 00:31:37 George, it's been so good having you with us. Thank you very much for having me. Oh no, it's our pleasure. This has been a hoot. It really has. As probably Rocky would say. And to play us out is Spoke and Peter with Pomegranates and Rivets. Woo!
Starting point is 00:31:51 Number one. Number one. Christmas number one. Release it now. Christmas 2019. I've got my parts. I've got my pants. I've got my Rocky to rock me.
Starting point is 00:32:04 That's where it began. I'm all that you need, I'm all the good stuff, I'm here when Bella and Donna won't be enough. Let's get undressed, let's never stop, let pomegranates be freely, with river to talk. Come into my world, come into my dream, Come fill my lips so completely moist from the steam I'm in the mud, I'm on a roll Give me a tickle, baby, show me the wall Amaze me Amaze me
Starting point is 00:32:43 Arouse me Arouse me Come hold me Behold me And if you leave me like Jamie I'm truly fucked Show me some gin Show me some trust Show me some masses and donkeys
Starting point is 00:33:24 With a leathery thrust. Keep up the good faith, keep up the good work, keep up the youngish illusion and give it a jerk. I'm in the mud, I'm on a roll, give me a tickle baby, show me the vault. The wall Amaze me Amaze me Amaze me Amaze me Amaze me
Starting point is 00:33:54 Amaze me Amaze me Come hold me Come hold me Keep me holding And if you leave me like Jamie
Starting point is 00:34:07 I'm truly fucked the shape of a naked lady that's sadly what you see
Starting point is 00:34:18 when I'm giving you something else and that something's inside of me. I'm in the mud. I'm on a roll.
Starting point is 00:34:43 Give me a tickle, baby. Show me the fall Yeah Amaze me Amaze me Rouse me Rouse me Rouse me Come hold me
Starting point is 00:35:10 Behold me And if you read me like Jamie I'm truly fucked And if you read me like Jamie I'm truly fucked.

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