Podiots - In Conversation With Brian Butterfield

Episode Date: September 17, 2023

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or sitting with our moms while they were doing their makeup and it became really personal for us. Maybe it's Maybe it's Mabelaine. Maybe it's Mabelaine. Podiat's Presents In Conversation with Brian Butterfield. Your microphone may be muted, by the way. Oh yeah.

I think it is. On mute. There we go. Hello. I always thought it was demute. No, un-mute, apparently. Oh, is it surreal? This is an absolute honour to be in the room with you.

Well, for me too, for me too. It's a tiny little room, isn't it? Yeah, sorry, we couldn't put anything grander on for you. We did intend to host you in a beautiful venue, but sort of we ran out of money and we couldn't really do it in the end. Right, right, okay. What is this room normally used for?

The sort of storage of pots and pans, general cleaning detritus, that kind of thing. We've moved most of it out, but obviously you're still sat on some boxes there. I'm sat in a pan. I'm sat in a pan. It sounds like you're sat in a pan. I can't move out of this.

Oh, sorry. I'm stuck here now, so it's fine. I'm actually comfortable. Well, that's good. We're hopeful that when we've been to your show and we've learned a bit more about business and how to make money, that we'll be able to afford a better room in future

when we have prestigious guests. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So have you stayed in a battlefield hotel before? Oh, man. I wish. Unfortunately, I haven't had the privilege. I made a booking, but when I,

when I arrived it was there was some sort of issue and I don't it was I don't really know what had gone wrong there was some kind of crossed wire and there wasn't a room available it was not why expected to be honest I thought it was going to be a really smooth yeah yes there was a there was a crossed wire it was the the the power cable of a vacuum cleaner and I think one of the staff was electrocuted Oh, no, no, not fatally, but, um, but all, I mean, almost. I think he wishes he was dead. Oh, goodness. What sort of state is he in now? I'd say he looks very sort of, um, zingy sin. Okay, okay. Yes, a bit like, um, Artu Dito after he's, when he's, you know, trundling through the

little cavern. and the javas give him a zap. And all the blue bits are running around sort of the contours of his... All the blue bits, yes, exactly. He's a bit like that, yes. And also, his brother comes to see him every day, and his brother looks like Cithropio, I think. Does he?

Did he have an accident as well, or has he always looked like that? No, no, no, no. He likes this fake tanning. this bronze it's a it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's a it's a tanning gravy that you would drink oh oh wow yes and he's he's a fan of the the the the golden gravy the golden tanning right well I think if there's anywhere to sell tanning gravy it has to be the northeast because isn't it's an area of gravy lovers that's true Yes, yes.

Was gravy invented in the northeast? Is gravy's end here? Am I thinking of the right place? Yeah, well, that's what? Gravy Bay. Is Gravy Bay here? It's very close to gravy. That is actually the reason we've got you here, Brian.

I suppose we should talk about your amazing tour that's currently ongoing and coming to Whitley Bay in just a few days' time. Yes. At the Whitley Bay Playhouse. If you go to Playhouse Whitley Bay.co.uk ticket's still available. Wednesday the 20th of September at 7.30 p.m. Peter and myself are going to be in attendance, and we can't wait to learn all about what you've got to show us. Wonderful. Just try and, you know what my advice is just empty your mind. Everything you've learned about business, every life lesson you've learned,

even every little, even very basic things like. like walking or walking even or you know basic communication basic language just forget it forget everything right go with a complete blank mind okay what will we leave with well you'll find out you well yeah we will you will find out but you will be if you'll if you stick through the entire course, which is one hour, 45 minutes, you will have graduated by the end of the

seminar and you'll become a graduate of the Butterfield University. For one thing, that's only one thing. Oh, only one thing? Yes. Are there other things? There are plenty of other things. I can't remember what they are but there are other things.

That's why you need to come to the show and find out what the other things. are. What inspired you, Brian, to go on this tour in the first place, would you say? I'm in an enormous amount of debt. Oh, no, Brian. Oh, no. Yes. Oh, I mean, even more than usual. Right. Okay. Yes. Yeah, that's the reason. That's unusual for someone so successful in business. Yeah, you would have thought you'd be minted. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I don't know. You see, maybe there are other agendas at play I just don't know you see that's what people

could be saying you know who knows maybe it's a concerted effort against me I don't know listen I'm not saying I'm not saying that I believe in these conspiracy theories but um

yes this is big business keeping you down and you're here to fight the good fight and we respect it yes yes I'm little business You are And you deserve our support Which is why we're going to come and see you in

Gravy Bay Whitley Bay next week Baby Bay Gravy Bay Bravey Bay I can taste it I can taste it already I've been trying to

learn the Northeastern Jordia accent Okay You won't get that from us unfortunately A little bit from Michael But not from Peter and myself We're not from the northeast

You might be able to tell Yeah Yes, well, who was just speaking just now? That was Ben, that's me. Hello. Yes, Ben. Well, you know, you found a little bit like Adam Buxton. Do I?

That's a great compliment. I'm a huge fan of his thing. Yes, yes. You could probably, you know, you could probably catfish somebody or... Maybe I will with the lessons I learned at your show. I'm not saying, of course. I'm not recommending anything like that, you know. but yes no it's just it's curious you do remind me as voice reminded you of our

unbuckston yes i was i was trying to do the uh northeastern accent and it's very it's it's very CPU intensive right yeah well a non uh a non jorda in i a norder i don't know um it could be it is um it's it's quite a difficult accent to to do because you have to make so many thousands of calculations every second. There is kind of a cheat code to the accent, and it's three magic words. It's Y-I-Man. And once you get those down,

you'll become part of the Jordie Crew, and everyone will take you with. Way-I-Man, Y-I-Man. Very good. That's really good. You do that at the start of the Whitley Bay Show. I had this. This was told to me by an expert.

in this area, these two words, this little phrase is the key to their jolly accent, in his opinion, personal automatic, personal automatic. Right. So, one more time? Personal automatic. What are those words individually in a non-Northeastern accent? The first is parcel, the brand of watering powder. I see. Okay. The second one is the word automatic, as coined by the pointer sisters. Right. Yeah, that's right. To be fair, to be fair, it did exist before they discovered it, but they did point out. I mean, the accent is beautiful.

They can't help it. They can't help it. That's automatic, isn't it? Yeah. The accent's a thing of beauty, but I'm curious, Mr. Butterfield. Is there anything else you like about the Northeast, any other favorite things? Well, let me see, Newcastle brown ale, I think it's very tasty. And I recently learned about the chilly star, and it's turning blue when it reaches a certain temperature.

I have no idea of it was so high tech. Oh, yes. The Jordies are truly in the space edge. It's a marvel. Yes, yes. Yes, anyway. Brian, one of my questions was going to be what people can expect from the tour, but we've already done that organically because you're such a good interviewee.

So perhaps if we talk a bit about your business experience, perhaps your most famous, a venture of all, is your ingenious diet plan. Everyone knows about it. Thank you, thank you, yes, yes. It's been in the papers a lot, hasn't it? Yes, yeah, all sorts of reasons. you're right

but I've a sort of a two-part question for you the first is do you still adhere to the diet plan or are you now very much happy with your physical fitness and secondly we all know how you keep a healthy body but how do you keep a healthy mind yeah

sorry what were those questions again I think I can sort of get the just of one of them about the battlefield do I find follow the yes do you still stick with that um you know it's hard it's hard isn't it to to um it's hard to stick with things i think you shouldn't beat yourself up about um about when you know when you when you when you slip and uh you you know you fall off the uh wagon wagon wheel

what is that phrase? Or you get off the wagon wheel. Yeah, the wagon, the dog wags the wagon. Is that what I'm trying to say? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I understand, yeah. I, yes, I, but, you know, but still, I'm still trying to, you know,

try to develop new ideas um they uh i'm one of my new innovations is a uh it's a uh my diet vape which uh condenses uh whole meals into a into a mist that that's practically wonka-esque i was going to say it's very welly wonka off you yeah yes thank you thank you well you know he's he is. I suppose Wonka for me is my biggest inspiration. I would call myself a wonkhan. Would you?

I'm proud to be called a won't. Brian Wonka, if you will. I won't, actually. Oh, okay, sorry. I overstep. Nothing personal. I just won't. No, it's okay. I went too far. And a healthy mind, you keep a healthy mind, do you? Is that easy to do when you've got all those business ideas running around in there?

You know, I've never thought about my mind having a state of whether it's, I've never really thought about it having a health. Right. It's so, it's just a sort of constant apocalypse, really. It's hard to discern like whether it is healthy or, I don't know. I've no idea. I've no idea. Well, I don't know where to start.

Your mental focus goes entirely to all your enterprises. So, of course, there's no time there to think about yourself when you're so busy keeping all these plates are spinning. Yes, yes. I wish I hadn't started this plate spinning business. Honestly, I thought it would be spectacular on the high street as a pop-off shop. and nobody seems to be really interested. I don't know.

What's the name of it? Is it a branding issue maybe? It possibly is. Yes, yes. I've called it Gucci. Oh. Oh, okay, yeah. I would have thought that would do great.

Yes, Gucci. And so I'm spinning these plates. And, you know, I really can't afford to drop a single plate. Should you be talking to us right now? Shouldn't you be? Oh, really? No, I should probably go back and jack on them. Well, we're best story along, I suppose.

And I'm also, at the same time, I've got my, I've got my pie temperature gauging business. We're on the way to a deliver road or Uber, each delivery person will drop off by my service. and I will, I put my finger in a pie and tell them if it's ready to carry on the rest of their delivery or if they have to wait for it to cool a little. And I've got my fingers in a great many pies. So many pies. While I'm spinning these plates.

So very literal. I heard that you're doing something with ironmongery. You're sort of warming it within a furnace. You've got irons, something, I don't know. I heard words about irons in a fire or something along those lines? Well, I did have to destroy a batch of ions that we manufacture. Yes, because of the, well, these were extremely hot ions, and they were actually producing,

too high levels of magma which would burn through the ironing board and into, you know, through the earth's trust and really all the way down to, you know, the mantel. Wow. God, like a lightsaber sort of situation. Well, yes, but real.

Real? Sorry, yeah, of course. Mr. Butterfield, I would, if you could indulge, could you tell us how you indulge could you describe your perfect treat day how do you reward yourself after a week of intense dieting um well let me how do i kick back and uh relax i like to i like to go into um my studio which is it's actually uh the uh it's the room where the boiler is and I like to freestyle to some bits

and you know I could just kind of be as loud as I like or just kind of you know freestyle and then what do I do I suppose I like to I like to walk I like to walk I like to I like to sort of sorry I'm I've just I've just realized I'm getting a call through, which I sort of need to kind of stop this interview here because I've realized I need to go. I hope that's okay.

That's absolutely fine. You're a busy man. You're a busy man. We don't want to delay. I assume it's about the pies or the plates and so on. Well, it's not of your business, actually. Oh, God. Brian, I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry. We just have enough time then to say go and see Brian Butterfield's wonderful tour in the Whitley Bay Playhouse, Playhouse Whitley Bay.com. Wednesday, the 20th of September. Go and get your tickets now. Yes, go get your tickets. There are only a few left. And going

and get your ticket now, like. Absolutely spectacular. Thank you. Thank you. Come on so far. Thank you for joining us, Brian. We'll see you next week.

See you next week. Look forward to meet you guys. Had great fun on the podcast. Great fun, guys. Okay. Bye, Brian. Bye, Brian. Bye, Brian.

Bye, thank you. I don't know. I don't know if Brian managed to get out of that part either at the end. Oh, no. I think he's stuck. Oh, well, we should have got him a bigger part. That's our bad. The important thing is, though, guys, that people go and see him on the Wonderfield.

The Wonderfield, the wonderful placeholder name tour, which is going all over the UK. But the Whitley Bay Show next Wednesday, Peter and I are going to be there. We are. Go and go and flippin' see him. I dare you. Yeah. And I'll be at one of the bath showings not long after. So, yeah, come along, join the fun.

Witness the magic of Brian Butterfield's business expertise in the flesh. Yes. All right. We'll see you on the next. It was weird, wasn't it? Anyway, we'll see you on the next podcast, everyone. Thanks for listening slash watching. Bye.

Bye. Bye-bye.