Sloss and Humphries On The Road - Ep. 2.42 Four Guys, Two Mics
Episode Date: May 19, 2018An Englishman, an Irishman, a Scotsman and Daniel. After a work in progress show in Edinburgh practicing fringe material Ryan Cullen and Mark Nelson join Muggins and Cream in a late night drunk-cast ...recorded several hours and several pints after the previeous "Eugene" Podcast.Â
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Sloss and Humphries on the road!
Muggins and cream, creaming muggins, straight thuggin', living the dream
That's our intro
Fucking muggles!
Tickling the clit inside your head that makes you laugh
They said it can't be done!
Are we in the same seats?
That's hack
Aww, muggles!
Accidental rim job in the park
Kiss kiss kiss
Or am I just being cynical?
Just muggled it up on fucking Mugglepedia!
Where have you been since 9-11?
How do you like your muggins in the morning?
I like mine with a cream.
I hate every part of this.
I mean, it's pretty impressive now, 85 episodes.
Yeah, but first of all, 80 of them have been dog shit.
Not the episodes, just your start.
I think we have done 50 good ones.
80?
Yeah.
You said 90. 95, that means you have done 50 good ones. 80? Yeah.
You said 90.
95, that means you have done 50 good ones. 50?
You said 50.
I thought you were terrible at maths there.
We are back.
It's several hours after the last one, but for you, it's fucking like four days.
It is.
We have Uncle Snunky himself.
Ryan Cullen is back.
Hi.
Eugene.
And Mr. Marcus of House Nelson.
Hello.
He's back
There's nothing we didn't cover last time Nelson was on
We did everything for Madeleine McCann at Down Syndrome
Aye, yeah
But I mean, the Venn diagram, that's very sad
That's just the lad family
We just went down that porn search
Oh mate
I would fucking hate to see your hard drive, like, no search history.
Your hard drive would make me go soft drive.
So we've had a drink.
We've had a drink.
We've done some jokes.
We've done some jokes.
We did work in progress.
I got around calling for the first time ever as a one-line comedian.
Comedian?
Comedian.
Aye.
It's a female term for a comedian.
You did some stories.
Aye.
Basically the stories you told on the podcast
aye but it's like
doing my first gig
over again
was it
I had no idea
what I was doing
yeah really
aye
it's kind of refreshing
yeah just to
throw yourself
in the deep end
aye
because you did this
thing at the beginning
as well
because we'd done
notes off our phone
and you did the thing
where you were like
oh you're a one-night-and-comedian
95% of them don't work
and 5% of them do
and the other 95%
that don't work and you threw away some of your, and the other 95% that don't work,
and you threw away some of your jokes
that never made the cut,
they were fucking banging.
Yeah, yeah.
So there was a higher hit ratio
of your throwaway jokes
than Kai's idioms
at the start of this fucking podcast.
Hi.
Yeah, yeah.
He's actually,
he's not hand,
he's telling you to hold the mic
while he pours wine.
We only have two mics
between the photos.
Hey, look at us with two mics, who are we?
Gareth Waugh
I'm just pulling an alley
I'm assuming everyone
listens to this book, Gareth Waugh does a show where
he's got two mics, one of them he lies into
and one of them he tells the truth into
did he ever get to the bottom of
does he, because when you tell
true stories on stage they're not always
necessarily true, you try and get them as close to home as possible.
Are the ones that he told the true, Mike, 100% true?
Yeah.
Or was he a bit untrue to that also?
I think they were embellished, but in the same sense that whenever we do,
because some of his lie ones were just genuine lies.
They didn't happen.
Yeah.
My favourite part about going to Gareth's show was he does an excellent Nelson impression.
So when he does it in the crowd, nobody
this time knew it was a part of the movie.
And it was just me screaming,
laughing in the middle.
And that's the side of a true artist, the fact that he's like, nobody's going to get this joke.
I'm doing it for me.
I genuinely, I kind of remember
that weekend that he's talking about.
Because the story, most people
won't have heard
because nobody went to get a show
it's him, it was like the first weekend
he'd done a festival, a music festival
with comics and he burnt
his arm and then he took drugs
and then, but I didn't
take anything that weekend and you know
Darren Connell, you know Darren Connell
you know Darren Connell, Ryan it Connell you know Darren Connell Ryan
it's like
it's the scott squad
it's the scott squad
yeah yeah
and I came back to my tent
that night
and he was like
he'd done fucking ketamine
and he was like
crawling along the ground
like a fucking caterpillar
Darren was
Darren was
and I was like
what kind of fucking
caterpillar
like foam office
yeah yeah
totally totally
it was like
foam office
it was like it's like somebody locked him in a sleeping bag but nobody told him that there wasn't a thumb up yeah yeah totally it was like it was like
it's like somebody
locked him in a sleeping bag
but nobody told him
that there wasn't
a sleeping bag
yeah yeah
I was like
what world have I
walked back into here
and fucking
got us
whining about his
fucking arm
the whole night
oh yeah
because was that
like the one where
did he do material
about that
yeah so he did
about like
he thought his arm
was on fire
because he took something
yeah
and then it realised
he just had it out
the window
when he was driving.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was until the fucking next day.
There was that great story with, like,
you both did a gig during the Edinburgh Festival
and you were headlining,
Gareth was opening and you were running late.
So Gareth goes on stage, does that story
and does the impression and then says to the audience,
you're not going to laugh at this,
but when the headliner come on,
you're all going to lose your fucking mind
because this is a spot on impression.
Finishes the gig, you turn up,
walk on stage.
The second you say something,
the audience start laughing
their fucking asses off.
I've seen a video of that.
I genuinely thought my cock was hanging out.
It's the only thing I could explain it with.
See, when an audience starts laughing,
I don't assume they've seen my dick.
It's a real...
The only time
I've ever got a
standing ovation
oh fuck the cocks
out
yeah
yeah
yeah
we had a gig
in Punch Drunk
where Brendan Burns
was on second
and he got like
a groan
you know a response
that Brendan Burns
can get where
he gets a response
off the audience
but it's not necessarily
laughed at
and then Mike Wilmot
ran through
to see what was going on
because he thought that
Brendan was losing the gig
so he was coming to watch the car crash
but he realised Brendan had hold of the gig
and then just left
and went back to the bar
in the other room again
and Brendan clocked that that had happened
and he was like,
you see, he'd come in
because he thought I was going to bomb
and now that I'm not bombing,
he's not interested.
So what you've got to do
when he comes on stage
to close the gig,
as soon as his hand touched the mic,
everybody at once
stand up and say,
fuck off to back to Canada,
you cunt.
And sure enough,
I'd even forget about it
at this point, right?
Like, there's an interval,
I went on MC
and Mike Wilmot comes on
and he didn't touch
the mic at first,
he was just like
raising his hands
to get them to cheer
and the cheer,
as soon as his hand
touched the mic,
the fucker stood up
and shouted that at him
and he reacted like
he'd been physically
punched in the face
because he hadn't
seen the set up
alright
so if it was
most confusing
the only one I've had
similar to that
was when we were
in Cardigan in Wales
right
because when we
tour together
obviously I don't
watch his set every day
because I've got
things on
oh it's the velvet
alright
so you guys
might not know this
I cannot touch velvet
yeah yeah
we know
it fucking freaks me
the fuck out I don't know this are you done no yeah yeah we know it fucking freaks me the fuck out
okay
I don't know this
are you done?
no
I don't want to share
the mic with you anymore
the thing is
it's not
it's not
it's not like a fear
like the amount of people
that are like
are you skating velvet
I'm not skating velvet
but whenever I touch it
it's just a visceral reaction
is it some kind of
Pavlov dog thing
that's what I'm trying to work out
was I molested
via velvet man
do you like Prince?
eh no I'm not to work out. Was I molested via velvet, man? Do you like Prince? No, I'm not going anywhere with that stuff.
Thanks for chatting.
She's going to start talking about the royal wedding.
The segue.
Like a fear of heights I get
because you don't want to fall and die.
A fear of shocks.
Everybody should have a fear of shocks, right?
But it's not a fear.
It's not like if you're wearing velvet,
I'll fucking run away with it.
It's just like, I'm not going to touch it.
Just because whenever I touch it, it just, it's, I don. It's not like if you're wearing velvet, I'll fucking run away with it. It's just like, I'm not going to touch it. Just because whenever I touch it,
it just, it's, I don't know what it is.
It's like nails down a chalkboard for me.
That's exactly what it just feels like.
You know when you hear it
and your hair's on your arm stand up?
For some reason, that's what happened.
But can you not override that as a grown-up human?
Well, no, I do.
Like, that's the thing.
Like, if I'm with people in velvet,
I'm not fucking running away.
Like, yesterday when I was buying my fucking suit,
there was a velvet coat hanger. I was like, well, I'm going to ask for a separate coat hanger. But I'm also people in velvet, I'm not fucking run away. Like, yesterday when I was buying my fucking suit, there was a velvet coat hanger.
I was like, well, I'm going to ask for a separate coat hanger.
But I'm also not going to be like, oh, there's a velvet coat hanger in there.
I can't touch it.
Make it part of your identity.
Yeah, no.
I'm a velvet guy.
I'm very aware that it's a fucking weird irrational.
The fact that it moves.
Like, you know how you touch it and you can move it one way?
I don't know what it...
It just sends shivers down your fucking spine.
What about felt?
You play with felt?
It's the same with cotton wool balls.
You see, if you squeeze a cotton wool ball
down your fucking spine,
I can't...
It's the weirdest fucking thing.
Frosted glass is another one that for some reason...
I don't know what it is.
I don't know why it triggers me.
It just does.
We're doing this...
And you've known this about me
because it's a dumb fact
and it's a stupid fucking irrational thing,
but it's... Christ. Frosted's a stupid fucking irrational thing. Right.
Frosted glass?
Somebody once handed me a frosted glass and I dropped it immediately
because the second I felt it, my visceral reactions would go,
ah, smashed it on the floor.
Jesus.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe I was molested by an upper middle class man or woman.
Frosted glass.
He just came out from...
Yeah, in the bathroom.
Yeah, and his sidekick was a moth
Any fears Colin?
Nah
Sunlight?
So
He goes on stage
In Cardigan
Right
Gets on stage
Realises that the
Cover of the fucking table
Is velvet
And just says to the audience
Just so you know
Just
Explain the story
Watch Sloss freak out
The second he gets into this table
Sure enough I'm on stage Fucking 45 minutes later I walk over to the table Put my hand on it Right just so you know just watch explain the story watch Sloss freak out the second he gets into this table sure enough
I'm on stage
fucking 45 minutes later
I walk over to the table
put my hand on it
right
and just
impulse fucking back
and I had to deal with
two minutes of an audience
laughing being like
I'd called it
I'd called it
that he was going to react
yeah at least
yeah it was one of the few times
I'm like okay
at least you're all aware
of my rash
you know how you went
just internalised it
and went
oh that's velvet
I'm not going to touch it right I wonder if any of them would internalised it and went, oh, that's velvet.
I'm not going to touch it, right?
I wonder if any of them would have got home and went,
what the fuck was
Kion about at the beginning?
I really took a punt
on the fact you were
going to recoil
at the velvet.
Yeah, what a weird lie
to spread
because it's such a weird fact.
How did you get to Cardigan?
We drove.
You drove?
We drove.
Did you go listening?
What?
You said that like you're planning a journey?
No, no, no.
At any point did you pull over?
Oh!
Yes!
Yes!
We did!
We drove some old ladies.
We did.
So, Cardigan...
I wish I had that joke in the barrel at the time.
Cardigan is so...
In such a secluded fucking part of Wales.
So we're driving...
It's late at night and there's...
We drive past a car
and there's just two old ladies
beside the car
and Kai's like
it just looks like
the car's broken down
so he gets out
right
and he's like
I'm gonna help them
and I'm like
I'm not
fucking survival of the fittest
who gives a shit
Kai being nice
goes around
tries to communicate
and then
in Geordie English
they only fucking speak Welsh
and he's just like
actual Welsh accent
like they only spoke Welsh
so they were giving it their fucking cling on that's perfect only fucking speak Welsh and he's just like actual not Welsh accent like they only spoke Welsh yeah yeah
so they were giving it
their fucking
cling on
it's perfect
no
I just
man it was so easy
to hide the bodies
yeah
you'll never find them
you have a joke about
the Welsh accent
it's fucking great
thanks mate
thanks dude
I'm not going to take
a bit of the podcast
what do you think
this podcast is
watch your step
just plug for it didn't you you were podcast is watch this set just plug for a month
didn't you
you were at the back
of the laughter lounge
the other month
when I was in Dublin
and I was getting
into a bit
that you really liked
right
so I'd set the bit up
and you went
to his mate
fuck I love this bit
this is one of my
favourites of his
and I ducked out of it
and done something else
as if I was just like
fuck you Cullen
from the stage
yeah and it was a lot of comedian I was just like fuck you cull in from the stage yeah it was
in a little community
and I was like
Jim it's not going to happen
sorry
I got really excited there
do you
do you like the Welsh
wait
as a people
or an audience
and as an audience
are great
yeah
just as a general
kind of
I've got this
I've got this problem
with
just
it's the same
with people
that speak
going out in
Scotland
but occasionally
like when I'm
driving up to
Thurso
where my
grandparents are
the radio
station's cut out
and you tune
into one
and they're
speaking
Scottish Gaelic
and it's like
that's done
we're done
with that
stop it
it's no even
longer like
I don't think
it's cultural
heritage anymore
it's just
stubbornness
you can still speak it absolutely if I can still speak it but cultural heritage anymore it's just stubbornness you can still
speak it
absolutely
fucking still
speak it
but
and I hate
to say this
about white
Scottish people
fucking learn
English
my kids are
going to
Gaelic school
are they
yeah
no
will they learn
Gaelic
yeah
why are you
doing that
because it's
a fucking
great
my wife
Amy
she's
born in
Isle of
Lewis in Stornoway so she's born in Isle of Lewis
in Stornoway
so she's like
fluent.
Is she?
Gallic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whenever she's
pissing you off
does she ever just
like if she's
trying to insult you
she's just like
hold on I'm going
to insult him
in a language
he doesn't understand.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then there's
words they don't
have yet.
She's like
no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.
Cunt.
Right, I didn't
catch any of those
words but I did hear the word chode said seven times. I love it when I hear in London when you hear No, no, no, no, no. Cunt. Right, I didn't catch any of those words,
but I did hear the word chode said seven times.
I love it when I hear in London,
when you hear Chinese people speaking in Mandarin
and then they'll just say Starbucks in the middle of it.
It fucking gets us every time.
My friend Alex, in high school,
in first and second year,
his nickname was Turkey
because we were 11 and he was from Turkey
and we didn't really understand what racism was
we had so many teachers being like
you didn't understand how fucking nicknames worked either
he was the only one
from Turkey of course he's called Turkey
should have faith
but we started calling him Turkey because
in our close group of friends because we were just like
we'll just call him Turkey he's from Turkey we've never met someone called Turkey
and then and this is how
it worked we started calling him Turkey and then and this is how it worked
we started calling him turkey
and then everyone
who didn't like Alex
started using turkey
as an insult
for us it was just
a nickname
and then other people
misused it
and then
started spitting up
the same
dirty turkey
or they'd call him turkey
and then they'd go
gobble gobble
and just really
fucking shit racism
but because we'd started
the nickname
we were the ones
that were then reprimand nickname we were the ones that were
then reprimanded we were like you caught i'm like yeah but for us it was just a fucking nickname
listening to him on the phone with his uh mother or his grandmother was the funniest thing because
it was literally spoke fluent turkish it's just like how about a hamburger
like what was that conversation that happened with Troy who'd done all the camera work
for Muff. He
spoke Turkish on the phone of his family
and every time he'd come off the phone I'd crack this joke
a million times going, I didn't know you knew Geordie.
I've got
something to ruin for you, Kai.
So on the side of this...
You're an arsehole.
You're a wedding.
So it's six years ago when we were in Iceland
we had an amazing
Icelandic comedian
called Ali Elcharn
open for me
before Kai went on
but he did the whole set
in Icelandic
so me and Kai
went out to watch it
because it's just funny
to watch comedy
but he was getting
McIntyre responses
but we couldn't hear
what he was saying
we couldn't understand it
we were just like
looking at the audience
going you're killing that man
he's a celebrity
over there as well
his dad's the prime minister
ex prime minister
ex prime minister
proper political
such a smart comic
he's doing his gig
and he's ripping
we're just listening
to the rhythm of jokes
and we're laughing
because the audience
is laughing
because it's infectious
there's one thing
he said in English
and it got a round of applause and like two minutes of laughter right it's just
yo motherfucker i'm a flower right
and me and kai died laughing because we're like could we try to backward manufacture it there's
nothing there's no i've got it i thought i had the answer which so my answer was, because we wouldn't let him tell us what it was,
because we were like, we want to figure this out,
so next time we see, he can let us know, right?
So I think I figured it out for when I see him,
and I saw him at the Fringe, but I forgot to bring it up,
is he must have said to them in Icelandic,
those two English motherfuckers are backstage,
they don't know what the fuck I'm saying right now,
I'm just going to say something in English,
and you guys are going to fucking take the roof off this place
And then he went in English
Yo motherfucker I'm a flower
And they just went blah
Chris Rock responds blah
Allow me to tell you something that's not real
Ari was over in Melbourne
Doing his first run out there
And I went to see his solo show
And he did all of his material in English
And I saw the set up to that joke
it's been ruined
it's great
but not the response you got in Iceland
no no because it was like
because it's a joke about the Icelandic national anthem
right so it's like to the Icelandic
it's very funny because they know that
because their song is about a flower
what kind of fucking country would do that
right the flower Scotland that was the joke yes their song is about a flower what kind of fucking country would do that right
the flower Scotland
that was the joke
that's the joke
I'll take flower Scotland for a thousand
yeah so I've seen the set
still look Ari's a fucking brilliant comedian
but there was part of me when I saw
because I didn't know it was the joke
the second he did the punchline I was just like
aww yeah the magic's The second he did the punch, I was just like, aww.
Because there's nothing. Yeah, the magic's gone.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you know,
you know the Dark Tower series?
You aren't worried about spoilers
for the Dark Tower series, are you?
No.
It ends when he gets to the Dark Tower
and it's his, like...
What's the price?
No, no.
But it's about the journey.
Like, it's about the journey.
It's not about what's in the Dark Tower.
And then the epilogue's about
what's in the Dark Tower. And you go through it and he's like, why the fuck are you still here? It's not about what's in the Dark Tower and then the epilogue is about what's in the Dark Tower
and you go through it
and it's like
why the fuck are you still here
it's not about
what's in the Dark Tower
it's about the fucking
getting here
see before
like did I
I don't know if I told you this
Ryan
erm
this is weird
two
but two
two times ago
that I did
the Laughter Lounge
in Dublin
right
erm
now normally you do
like Thursday
Friday
Saturday
eh
and Peter who runs the club had asked me to come over on the Wednesday right so I'd flown over in Dublin now normally you'd do like Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
Peter
who runs the club
would ask me to come over
on the Wednesday
right
so I flew over on the Wednesday
and I did the club on the Wednesday
because there was a Swedish comic
and he was like
the Swedish
McIntyre
Morton Anderson
something like that
yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah
so
he was like
erm
would you open for him
I was like yeah
fucking extra extra cash another night in Dublin so I went in and there's like Alex so he was like would you open for him I don't know yeah fucking
extra cash
and another night in Dublin
so I went in
and there's like
it's rammed
it's fucking
like how many
does the last lounge
settle
oh 350 maybe
yeah you could definitely
ram 400
yeah
and it must be like
the entire Swedish
community of
Dublin
like gorgeous
stunning gorgeous
people
because like
they're all about
like Dublin
fucking gargoyly
fucking
and then
and then
it's just called
that whole city
yeah
stunning people
and then
like
he came on
and did about
five minutes
and then introduced
me on
and just their
faces dropped
and this
the genuine
confusion of
all these like fucking supermodels just looking going why and this genuine confusion of all these fucking
supermodels just looking
going, why is this man talking about
how he can't kill suicide anymore?
Why is there a medical
experiment on stage?
And then after it, why isn't he
Morton? It might not be, he's just
getting, there's a bunch of Swedish comics.
He was filming his European tour
and the camera
came up afterwards
and his agent
came up to him
and was like
would you mind
doing a bit
and I was like
yeah sure
was he Swedish
wasn't Danish
no he was definitely
Swedish
definitely Swedish
and there's a
tradition where
they give you
a gift
like as they meet you
they give you a gift
so he gave me
this small wooden
horse so I don't shove it up your arse there's a little man inside of it gift, like if they meet you, they give you a gift. So he gave me this small wooden horse.
Don't shove it up your arse, there's loads of little men inside of it.
Don't look it in the mouth.
That was so weird. It was a good night, it was a good day.
But he was getting fucking mad, like unbelievable reception.
Have you still got the wooden horse?
No, I've still got the wooden horse, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why does that phrase mean? From the the wooden horse? I've still got the wooden horse Why does that phrase mean?
It's from the Trojan horse
No I know the Trojan horse one
But what does don't look a gift horse in the mouth mean?
Why is that bad?
The sword just came out and started making trouble
Again still the Trojan one?
Yeah it's a gift
It was like oh look at this we've got a gift
Bring it in and look in the mouth
Surely you should look in it's mouth
Because that's where the bad things are
I don't know.
No but they
opened up their
mouth and then
all the cunts
came out and
fucking.
So the theory is
if they just
hadn't opened
their mouth all
the Greeks would
have been like
well I guess
we're staying
in boys.
We did not
think this through.
They are coming
out like look
it's either like
look at Gifford
over to the
mouth otherwise
it's coming out
the arsehole.
Like one way
they weren't
going to be like
no guys the
element of surprise
is they've got to.
I don't believe that story.
What?
It's a big if.
It's a big.
You don't believe the story of Troy?
Nah,
it doesn't make any sense to me.
Why?
How big is the horse after all?
Siri,
don't look the gift horse in the mouth.
What the fuck does that mean?
So,
don't give me toast.
There's no need for that.
I just got scolded
so the whole thing
about the
Trojan
it's like
it was like a gift
and they were in the
stomach of it
only
because only some of them
needed to be in there
to open the gates
of Troy
so they brought it in
that's where I went wrong
I thought the entire army
was in this magic horse
also it wasn't a magic horse
it was a wooden horse
no they didn't believe it
also it's mythology isn't it No, they didn't believe it.
Also, it's mythology, isn't it?
Like, anything Greek isn't, like... It's like hearsay.
No, no, this isn't pre-Roman.
This isn't mythology.
This is actual...
It's one of the ones where it came up in enough sources.
Like, obviously, it was in the Iliad by Homer,
but there was also enough...
Dope.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mark Nelson!
Yeah, I think it's one of the ones, it's up for contention.
It's probably a myth, but there's
Troy did get destroyed, and
there was all these wars.
It's probably what we were saying about truth
and comedy. It probably came from a
true thing, but it's probably highly embellished at this point.
What was it, Ian?
Do you want to know a little nugget that
I know that I don't know much about,
but I can tell you the source of where I got it from? It was from
Radiolabs, which do
information on just general topics
like the element of doubt, and talk
about the element of doubt for like half an hour,
or an hour, or whatever. And they were talking about the
colour blue, and they were
saying that back in the Greek days, there was no mention of the colour blue. When Homer talked about the colour blue and they were saying that back in the Greek days there was no mention
of the colour blue, when Homer talked about
the sea, he talked about the
red wine coloured sea
and shit like that, so the eyes hadn't
evolved to see the colour blue
in the days when, that we're
talking about with the Trojan horse in the Greek mythology
days, the colour blue wasn't a thing yet
Do you know the Achilles got shot in the
heel and then he died, do you know the Achilles got shot in the heel and then he died
do you know
where that comes from
obviously they can't
prove it
but the theory is
basically
in any form of
war and stuff
you get shot
with an arrow
arrows don't
fucking kill you
instantly right
they hit you
and the way you
go on is
you don't pull it
out because that's
when you're bleeding
the thing about arrows
is they'll just
immediately close the wound
leave it in
snap it off
leave it in
snap off snap one off just keep yourself busy snap one, snap it off. Leave it in, snap it off.
Snap one off.
Just keep yourself busy.
Snap one off.
Snap it off so you've still got the movement
to hold up your shield
and swing your fucking sword.
They reckon the reason
the myth of Achilles started
is because he was obviously snapping off
whoever this person was
was snapping off all the things
but when he eventually succumbed to the wound
the only place that he didn't
was from an arrow to the heel.
So he snapped off every other fucking thing but the one he's not snapped is the wound, the only place that he didn't was from an arrow to the heel, right?
So he snapped off every other fucking thing,
but the one he's not snapped is one of the heels.
So they see this guy with all of these fucking arrows in him.
Those are the wounds he succumbed to,
but the only one that's not broken is one of the heels.
And they're like, it was his Achilles heel.
That's the Achilles heel.
Did you stab, did you?
No, no, historians did.
This isn't my theory. I I was saying are you giving me
the Achilles heel
that's connected
to Achilles
fuck
yeah yeah
obviously that's
where the fucking
comes from
I wasn't like
what a coinkydink
up until then
I reckon when they
named Achilles
they were like
is this a gamble
like Jesus
this is real
like nobody's
nobody's gonna
it's a tempting fate
alright nobody's gonna
nobody's gonna say
anything McCann's gonna call the kid Madeline
for a couple of years.
So in the historical fucking folklore shit like that,
the reason you shake hands with your right hand
is to show you're not armed.
Most people are right-handed, so you shake hands.
But that's also why the British are correct
to drive on the left-hand side of the road
because that would be, when you're on your horse,
you want your right hand to be ready for oncoming traffic to fight against the other mondales and um that's
jousting it's jousting pretty much yeah but uh they they changed it in like in modern countries
like america and australia where like you wouldn't have a sword in your hand just because you want
your fucking gear stick in your right hand just much easier it's the same reason like uh you can
tell authentic uh was the spiral staircases you can tell authentic... What's the spiral staircases?
You can tell if they're authentic by what way they spiral.
If they spiral...
If they spiral anti-clockwise, they're authentic.
Anti-clockwise, not authentic.
Because if you're defending a tower on a spiral staircase,
you want that pole in the middle
so you can reach down with your right hand over and through
and get that person.
And that person who's attacking up with their right hand is and through and get that person and that person who's attacking up
with their right hand
is going to be hitting
that fucking wall.
But an Australian
goes the other way.
Yeah.
Take the bat.
Or if you're left-handed,
just...
No, no, no, no,
they killed them all back then.
Alright, sorry.
Like, and I honestly think
we should bring it back.
Left-handed?
Left-handed,
it's just...
Fucking, I'm left handed
yeah but you could
learn with your right
you could
oh it's belted
for fucking boxing
no
it's belted for sparring
because nobody
like
even me
when I get up
even though I'm a southpaw
when I get up
against a southpaw
I'm confused
because I train
every fucking day
with an orthodox fighter
so I'm used to
an orthodox fighter
I'm used to the kicks
coming from where
they come from
and then I train
with a southpaw and I'm like I never do this I never train to an orthodox fighter I'm used to the kicks coming from where they come from and then I train with a southpaw
and I'm like
I never do this
I never train with this
but then everybody
I fight against
is not used to that
they're always used
to the other side
right should we get
off our history lesson
we're just saying
southpaw country
southpaw I'm not sure
I'm not sure
em
it's not good
I know that
calm down
calm down
I've never seen you
this angry
tell one story
should we do Muggle Corner
Muggle Corner
because we didn't do Muggle Corner
in the last one
because Eugene
Eugene took us on that stage
for a long time
I'm going to send him this podcast
he won't even know what a podcast is
this is one that
I think I've put it in before
but it's happening
in fucking recent
so I've got to throw it back in.
Muggles talk during the cinema.
Oh,
you know what?
I don't even know if this mugglery
are just downright contrary.
And they're the same people
that talk through comedy,
and I think they talk about,
they feel like they're more exempt
from talking through comedy
because they've had a drink,
there's intervals and all that stuff,
right?
They're with larger groups.
But in a cinema?
But in a cinema, I always feel like the two are hand in hand, they're with larger groups, but in a cinema, but in a cinema,
I always feel like the two are hand in hand,
like,
why would you speak in theatre,
why would you speak in anything,
while you're watching,
it's even like,
watching a performance,
because I always,
so I went to see Infinity War,
right,
and I've been waiting for this movie,
for 10 fucking years,
I was so fucking excited,
and I said to Stine,
who's got a place,
I was going to see it,
if anyone talks during this movie,
I'm going to get into a fight
like it's just
the person behind me
they were just whispering
I was like shh
I'm whispering
there should be nothing just watch the fucking thing
if you don't understand something in the movie
just assume that they're going to explain it
the amount of people that just go
who's that guy
I'm watching the same fucking movie, cunt.
Whispers, I would sometimes argue,
are worse than actual talking
because they've always got that fucking hiss to them.
And it piques your interest.
At least with someone talking,
you hear what they say,
you process it and you go,
it wasn't worth saying.
But if someone's whispering
and you don't know what they said,
you're intrigued
as well
I always feel hostile
if anyone talks
in the cinema
I'm like
I'm ready to fight
but it always
winds us up
when it's girls
that are talking
because there's nothing
you can do about it
and the only thing
is if you do
confront them on it
they'll just get
louder and go up
well there was
Ready Player One
which I'd been
fucking looking
for it for like
four years
because I read
the book before
it was even
announced that
it was going
to be a movie
and I'm watching
it and these
girls are like
recording it
like I think
they were
snapchatting it
and shit
and they're
chatting
and I was like
of course I
wouldn't hit a
woman but
would it be
okay to rob
a girl
like if I
just fucking
robbed her
like would
that be alright
if I just
took her phone
and went like
and what, like?
Just don't rob.
Confiscate until the end of the movie.
No, no, I'm selling it.
Where do you stand on
see people weigh food
in a cinema?
Like, the rattling of the...
The rattling of the fucking necks.
Like, if you're rattling a sweetie bag
or you're...
Oh, I think, like,
because I've always found it so confusing.
Like, my standard position with cinema is,
you turn up
for the trailers,
you get food,
and you eat the food
before the movie starts.
I forgive people
for talking through the trailers.
I don't mind if people
are having a little
natter before the trailer.
Yeah,
I mark them,
I'm looking at them going,
they better shut up.
Yeah,
I've put a pin in you,
I've put a pin in you.
Like,
I,
I remember the first time
I went to the cinema
with someone
and I'm just shoving
the popcorn down my mouth
and like the movie's not started
I'm like
that's why I'm eating it
you don't eat during
the fucking movie
no the way
the way you should treat
food in the cinema
is the way you should treat
like drugs and alcohol
at a music festival
right it's all done
on the first day
and then you're like
ah
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we've got we've got you don't see that at all I like the cinema where I'm from it's got the it's them two seaters it's like a double seat
double seats
they don't do them
Eugene's always in one of them
on his own
oh yeah yeah
but like that was
that was my genuine
like
some of my
like proper
sexual awakenings
were at the cinema
like you're fucking
like
knuckle deep
watching Titanic
it's like
I don't know if you and a girl
have an orgasm
watching Mortal Kombat
but that's finish knuckle deep watching Titanic I remember hearing a girl have an orgasm watching Mortal Kombat finish
finish
I've got no problem with that
flawless victory
hadouken
who's hadouken
that's Street Fighter
oh sorry
but that's the thing
with that stuff I don't mind if you're getting your that's Street Fighter oh sorry god but that's the thing with with with
with that stuff
I don't mind
if you're getting
your fucking
menjelit
or a blizzard
or getting fingered
because
in that situation
you are trying to be
as quiet as possible
I've got no
like in fact
I encourage it
because that's
the last thing you want
is to draw attention
to yourself
so you're just fingering away
you're giving a fucking wristie through the fucking popcorn.
You are trying to be as quiet as possible.
You keep that up, I enjoy the movie,
you enjoy your wristie,
you enjoy your little fucking finger joust.
That's grand, I've got no problem.
But if you were bragging about how many fingers you've got in,
like, verbally...
Three!
We're on three!
I can't even remember the last time I got knuckledeep in the cinema
it was Men in Black 2
that wasn't even the film
it's who you were with
the only time someone's ever spoken
Jamal
the only time I've ever enjoyed
someone speaking to you in the movie
when the Titanic was re-released
me and Jane agreed that we'd go see the Titanic
but we get shit-faced beforehand
it was out in 3D, we're like fuck it, let's get absolutely cunted
and go watch Titanic in 3D
Titanic was in 3D
no no, they re-released it in 2011
in 2012 in 3D
it made you like let's absolutely absolutely get Canon and go see it
so we do
and there's a large
group of
two carers and like
six people with special needs watching the movie
so they're just down the front and
absolutely think nothing of it
because they're not talking through the movie except for one point
and it killed, because we were so
drunk, right, and I've grown because we were so drunk, right,
and I've,
I grew up with a fucking disabled sister,
I understand those fucking situations,
it's like,
why should I be robbed of this experience?
Grew up with.
Kinda grew up with.
I,
I,
I thought about,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
she did it alone.
Just,
like,
one of the saddest points of the movie
is that bit where fucking Jack's
on the edge of the fucking door, and Kate movie is that bit where fucking Jack's on the edge
of the fucking door
and Kate's like saying
don't let go,
don't let go.
Just some guy
and like,
we can hear people crying
and just someone
two rows in front of us
just yells out,
sad!
Right?
Just verbalised his emotion.
Just verbalised his emotion.
There was nothing wrong with it.
It's what he was experiencing.
Sad and horny.
I'll be doing the painting where you're sketching her naked
hold on
it was the one time
but it was just such a deep
everyone was so quiet
and it like
because they were quiet
for the whole movie
like
you can entirely forget
that anyone else in the cinema
it fucking decimated me
and Jim
for the rest of the movie
that we were the ones
that were ruining
the rest of the movie
I don't know
do you know when I was just in Portugal the movie I don't know do you know
when I was just in Portugal
last week
I was on the water
you know the lazy river
and we had that like
Jack
it's only called the river
when I'm on it
shut up
it's so can run
and Can was on my hoop
Can was just like
leaning on my float
like that moment
in Titanic
with Jack on the door
and I was like this is just like the on my float like that moment in Titanic with Jack on the door and I was like
this is just like the Titanic
you're fucking massive
because the big lad in it
so I'm assuming we're all agreeing that
talking to the civil
oh definitely
I actually agree
it's more like now in the muddle
it's just country
I got somebody answered
someone in front of me answered their phone
and talked during a quiet place
Jesus Christ which is a quiet place Jesus Christ
which is
a quiet place
like there's no
fucking sound
and the entire place
nobody even
everyone was so shocked
they just stared
at the back of his head
for about three minutes
did he answer it
and talk
oh yeah
that's a death penalty
absolute
like the
like the brightness
beaming off the side
of his head too
like the whole time
I see the episode
of Californication
where he just grabs
the guy's phone
and just fucking
huffs it across the cinema
exactly what you should do
remember
I've not seen A Quiet Place
Steve Raskopoulos
is his shirt
he told me the funniest
sentence I've ever heard
in my life
he went I've seen
The Quiet Place
and I was like
how was it
he was like
I didn't enjoy it
I was like why
he went
I went to see it
with Alex Edelman
he went to the cinema
with Alex Edelman
to watch A Quiet Place
and apparently
at one point
Alex Edelman who's been on the cinema with Alex Edelman's Watch A Quiet Place and apparently at one point Alex Edelman,
who's been on the podcast,
tried to high five him.
June.
Oh!
Is that Alex?
He said his name?
Hold on.
Just hang it up.
Sorry, that was
incredible comic timing.
Like, had you started
your story
20 seconds later,
that would have been
phenomenal.
So that's going to
muggle Conan,
but also with a vibe of like, you're not just a muggle, you would have been phenomenal. So that's going to Muggle Corner, but also with a vibe
of like, you're not just a Muggle, you're a bad
person. But
Mark, let's go on to your Muggle Corner next, because
this is something that came up in the conversation, and you
went, oh, this is what I'm going to put in.
It's cinema related as well.
It's people that get annoyed by
spoilers. When it's
too far gone.
You don't care enough about it.
Yeah, so, I reckon
now, I give
you that it's annoying
if you've not seen something
and someone spoils it
for you, right? However,
if you were that invested in it, you would have
fucking seen it by now. Yeah. Like, anyone
that's not, like, anyone that
can, I can't even remember, I put one up recently, like, just as a wee joke. have fucking seen it by now. Yeah. Like, anyone that's not... Like, anyone that... Anyone that can...
I can't even remember.
I put one up recently,
like, just as a wee joke.
It wasn't even about the film
and people were like,
spoilers, spoilers.
And I was like,
that was released 12 years ago,
you daft cunt.
Like, what the fuck?
If you've not seen Game of Thrones now,
right,
if you've not seen any of it,
then it's not...
And also,
what...
It's your job.
If you've not seen Game of Thrones,
it's your job to avoid spoilers. Exactly. It's your job, when you bring not seen Game of Thrones, it's your job to avoid spoilers.
Exactly.
It's your job, when you bring up Game of Thrones to me,
you've got to say,
I really like Game of Thrones,
I'm only on season four.
Exactly.
That's your fucking job.
And also, with something like Infinity War, right,
which is what came up during the gig,
even if you've not seen it now, right,
if you're...
You obviously know now that there's spoilers out there.
You can avoid them.
No one is ever pinning you down,
screaming the fucking spoiler at them.
If you're that concerned about it,
you can easily stay off social media.
You can easily avoid this.
It's not in the public domain that you're do you know the one time that
i had to avoid a spoiler like really avoid it was uh i traveled back through the through the night
from um estonia to the uk in the night that conor mcgregor was fighting eddie alvarez for the
lightweight title they fucking have two belts right and i had to fucking i landed i think i
went via amsterdam and i was like even first of Amsterdam. First of all, first of all, we did.
No, no, I went separate.
It was at the end of the tour.
It was like, I'd separately went back.
You got to stay in fucking Estonia and watch the fight.
No, I didn't.
I came back.
Did you come back?
We both, we left each other in Amsterdam.
Oh, okay.
So when I'm in Schiphol, I'm fucking eyes down.
I feel like even on the tube back from Heathrow, right?
I feel like if I look up and see anybody unhappy,
I know that Conor's lost because they'd be having a fucking very unhappy commute I just spent the whole time fucking avoiding it right and then I managed to watch it as live and
I got enjoyed as if it was live like 12 hours after it happened or something but that's however
it's your responsibility if like eight weeks later somebody went oh Conor won in the fucking
second round by TKO
I wouldn't have fucking
started losing
my fucking mind
to people
I'd be like
I clearly don't give
that much of a fuck
even 2 weeks later
like listen
with Infinity War
because they did
such a good job
of being like
don't do fucking spoilers
I'm like
that's fully great
after 2 weeks
you're not a fucking
real fan
like it's just
no
like I remember
when Infinity
because I was in Australia so I saw it a day
before the British people could see it. I did the
opposite of avoiding spoilers. I
was so shook by the movie. I went on Twitter
and just searched in Infinity War and just
read people's tweets about it.
Because I wanted someone else to have
fucking seen it, right?
If you're that invested in something
it's your fucking job.
Do you know I watched it without having watched a lot of it.
Speaking of which,
before you get to the end of your World War II book,
we win.
Oh, fuck off.
I'm sorry.
Fuck off.
Mate, it was like 70 years ago.
Aye, I'm catching up.
You know I'm catching up.
Honestly, I thought we lost.
It exactly depends who you mean by we.
I wasn't that fucking happy about the end result.
I wanted this podcast to be in German.
Yeah, so I feel like, I think being,
I do think if you, it's the same thing.
If you've seen, if you tell someone,
you do get those people, I've had people,
you go, I really want to watch this thing.
They're like, oh man, here's, and you're like,
no, no, I've told you I've not seen it.
If you're a spoiler ruiner, you're also a fucking...
There's also people, and we know one,
that even if you went, what a great film...
Smilers! Smilers!
I got really angry about that.
Yeah, just describing a film as great,
and they're like, no, you've ruined it.
It's like, I've just told you it's good.
I understand the argument, because it's like I've just told you it's good I understand the argument
because it's like
I want to go in
without any expectations
it's like
well why don't you
go in without any
expectations
two fucking days ago
and that is by far
the worst thing
that person's ever done
yes I agree
I concur
animal
that's your muggle corner
my muggle corner
I don't know how
to stick this
to an individual person
I don't know who
gets to stand in the corner for 30 seconds on this.
It may be very niche.
But anybody called Ryan Cull?
You know, like, hipster cafes that won't give out the Wi-Fi password
because they encourage talking to each other.
Oh, good one.
Like, fuck off with your little loophole
and not giving away your wifi password
and not having a decent
bandwidth enough
for your customers
just talk to each other
shut the fuck up
I'm talking to people
on like
I come into a cafe
so I can open my
fucking laptop
have a coffee
and fucking write some shit
and I want to do some research
on a project
that I'm working on
like you don't know
what everyone
we're not all here
on a social endeavor
on Tuesday afternoon
like we might be
actually fucking
actually physically
not everyone
is as lacking of friends
as you are
right
I want to talk
to them online
I'm a hundred miles
away from them
I'm a fucking
jobbing comic
I've got three
WhatsApp groups
with several comedians
and it's one in the
afternoon on a Tuesday
they're all free
it's fucking lit
right now
shut your fucking mouth
cafes like that
they do they do things as well.
Like, you know, they try to be hipster as well
when they say things like,
oh, you want soya?
Why don't you just put...
There's a cafe in Dublin
that literally has a thing outside
that says, oh, you like soya milk?
Why don't you just fucking go somewhere else?
Try real milk.
No, I'm not into the whole soya,
that kind of shit.
But when I read that, I'm just like...
You're a cafe.
That's a muggle on muggle crime. Yeah, yeah, yeah.'m just like you're a cafe that's a muggle
on muggle crime
yeah yeah
it's like you're
trying to think
like
this
Mike's how it
fucks up
your job is a
fucking restaurant
business owner
it's like
it's
shut the fuck up
I've had times
I've spoken to this
podcast
I've gone into
a coffee shop
I've ordered an
espresso
and I've gone
where's the sugar
and they've gone
you should really
try the natural
sweet
I'm like shut up
I'll put a dick in this I can fucking yeah i'll fucking i'll i'll take this
rightly i'll eat it with the fucking once i've bought it from you it's not your fucking you
don't get to tell me how i enjoy your fucking thing like what about obtuse wi-fi passwords
like i don't know it so they go what's the wi-fi password and they're like i don't know it
come on what's the wi-fi password i don't know it and then go what's the wifi password and they're like I don't know it come on what's the wifi password
I don't know it
and then they give
the joke away immediately
because they want you
to know that's the joke
and they want you
to have the wifi
so you call it
the good old
you don't really get it anymore
but the good old
answering phone message of
hello
oh
serious mugglery
and also
guilty
oh I'm 100%
I'm straight in the
fucking corner
I remember watching my friend phone me.
He didn't know I was behind him and he phoned me.
He went, yeah, hey, bud, where are you?
Sorry, where are you?
And I just watched him go, you fucking cunt.
And he turned around and I was there with a big fucking shit-eating grin.
I'm like, ah.
I was 14 and I will still stand in the corner for him.
But I do, I'll stand by that.
It's annoying that he had a phone when he was 14
we used to ring people
on the landline
no I
I will always argue
I am in the
transition generation
I remember
dial up wifi
I remember
I remember the dial up thing
and I remember going from
dial up to actual internet
and I remember going from
land
so you remember Dreamcast's
first ever online game,
Choo Choo Rocket?
Yes, yes, it was the first online game.
It was so...
So you play this game, Choo Choo Rocket, right?
Where basically it's mice running in a straight line
and you put an arrow left, right, up and down
and that changes the direction of the mice.
Now when you're playing not online,
it happens as you do it.
Boom, boom, boom.
You change the direction of the mice.
When you play it online, you press the arrow and the arrow comes up like three seconds later so you have to be
properly ahead of the game online gaming at the start was fucking whack it was awful do you
remember free like discs aol discs you get with oh yeah like magazines you'd get like fucking 72 hours free internet with AOL
and you had to load this disc and then...
I remember getting...
The try before you buy shit that won it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember getting demos in game magazines.
Oh, the best, man.
That was the fucking good...
They were excellent.
Those were so good.
They were excellent.
That was such a good way.
You don't want a game magazine to be like,
I've never heard this game, I might not play it,
but now that I've got a fucking free disc,
of course I'm giving it a fucking go. Oh, man this game I might not play it but now that I've got a fucking free date of course I'm
giving it a fucking
go man
and then you'd
play it over and
over and over again
oh you'd play the
same one level
that you're allowed
do you know what
I've started doing
I don't do this a lot
but I do
Strangle Wings
so I was going to
buy like
you know how there
was like the
SNES
the mini SNES
yeah
and it had
so I was just
I'll google
top 100 SNES games and it would come up always this I'll google top 100 SNES games
and it would come up
on YouTube
and I was going through them
and I'm like
right I had that
and I had that
and I was like
I was forgetting ones
I'd actually had
and I was like
so many you missed as well
what a fucking game
and then I would go on
and I'd YouTube them
and I'd just watch
a cunt playing them
like I'd just watch them
playing through the whole thing
and the floods
the floods of emotions
that were coming back
I fucking remember
I remember where
I was doing that
I remember my
childhood friends
who I've not
spoken to since
then
I remember the
posters I had
in my fucking
bedroom
do you know the
other day me and
Demus watched
the full walkthrough
of the Captain
Planet game
from beginning to
end
because what
happened with
that game
is there was
no save disc
so if you
start off with
a fire ring
it's a fucking really good game as well by the way like i even think that's probably the best
platform game i've ever played even when i was watching it back i was like what a great idea
everything was good ideas but if you got through the fire you're then on the ice and then if you
get through the ice then you're on the heart and then you forget the heart you're on the whirlwind
like the wind and then it's the earth and then it's captain planet now if you lost any lives
and died you're dead.
You start from the beginning. There's no save
point, so I've never completed this game.
That was Super Mario.
That's all Super Mario was.
Oh, by the way, there's 50 levels that you'll never
get to play, and you're like, what?
Also,
you've all listened to the podcast. This is like
for me, mate, under the bus, big time, but
whenever I care about that on this podcast. You've listened to the podcast. This is like for me, mate, under the bus big time, but whenever I care about that on this podcast.
You've listened to the podcast about Demas doing the marathon.
Do you know the outcome to that?
No.
So do you know the original story?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So hold on.
If anybody's just tuned into this podcast
and hasn't listened to the Marathon Man podcast,
which was about four podcasts ago,
my mate lost his tag during the marathon at halfway,
two and a half hours.
There are air quotes in the air
for that by the way that was to lost he didn't lose the tag right so uh he got two and a half
hours but then he finished it under four hours which meant that he'd done the second half marathon
in an hour and a half which like it's not happening right like he wasn't pulling the
wool over my eyes um so everybody was a bit awkward about conversing with him about it he'd done
this marathon so he could get the medal for his kid he got he he done a six he's done a six hour
marathon for his kid right and he got the medal and this was three year ago four year ago and then
he's got another kid now who's old enough to be aware that his older bro has got a marathon
medal and he doesn't so he's going back to get the second medal and then all of a sudden this
fucking discrepancy happens he loses the tag he doesn't scan through any of the barriers and then
he phones us at fucking three hours 56 like i've just knocked three hours off my time
nah i wasn't having it right everybody was no let's be fair to be fair uh eugene and his two
mates were in a pub somewhere right and they'd actually just they properly dosed them up so you
need to listen to the previous podcast
to understand that
because that wasn't a call back to this one
so
fucking Matty
listens to the podcast
I don't think Demas has listened to the podcast
I don't think he has
but Matty listened to it
and was in fucking stitches
spent time with fucking Demas
and Demas is still peddling the story
that he finished the marathon
but Matty's like
I've heard the podcast
I don't think you have
and then he left the house
and texted him
going
I didn't want to bring it up
because it's a bit awkward
but uh
Kai's on to you
Kai knows he didn't
fucking finish the marathon
in that time
he knows it's fucking
superhuman
like just
like
just shut him up
because he's got to
slander you to everyone
right
so fucking Matty tells us that he's got to slander you to everyone.
So fucking,
Matty tells us that he's did this
and the next thing you know
his phone beeps
and it's Demas.
It's a fucking really long message
of Demas going,
look Kai,
I know you're not stupid.
I didn't finish that time.
I was trying to help someone up
and I fucking hit my own knee
and it was like
at the 13 mile mark
and I was fucking gutted
and the medic
gives a lift back
to the finish line
and he was like, I rang Rachel and she was like, hey, you finished? And I just fucking, I just tried my luck. I was fucking gutted and the medic gave us a lift back to the finish line and he was like
I rang Rachel
and she was like
hey you finished
and I just fucking
I just tried to be local
like yeah I did
I finished
and then
before I even got a chance
to see you
you joined when Rachel was there
I got caught up in the lie
so this is a fucking
really long message
it was an escalating lie
he tried to lie
he tried to lie
to his wife
right
so his wife didn't have to
lie to the kid
so he could give
the kid the medal
right
and I had this
back and forth
with Demas
and I was just like
fucking
I was asking questions
right
I was like
fuck how did you
get the medal
like if that happened
you didn't get the medal
he was like
well the fucking
medic heard my
sub story
and he wanted me
to have a medal
for the kid
so I got
we had a back and forth
for about
maybe a dozen messages
right
started with a big
long one
explaining
and then a back and forth
with him like me apologising mainly like sorry for fucking picking at a hole i should have
just realized that you are being the nice guy then fucking next thing i know his wife names
flashes up on your phone rachel saws me he was a fucking good friend of ours and uh i'm like i'm
like i don't know if i can answer this book i don't know if i can answer it because i'm busy
having a fucking conversation with a husband who i know to be at work because of the time
and these office hours and shit, right?
And I'm like, he's just, he even signed off the messages saying,
don't tell Rachel yet, like if you speak to her, don't tell her.
Let me figure out how to explain it to her.
Second time she rings, I pick it up, right?
I'm like, fuck, I can't just keep ignoring her.
And she just went, Kai, I'm sat on the iPad
and that conversation's just flashed up in front of me eyes. up right i'm like fuck i can't just keep ignoring her and she just went kai sat on the ipad and
that conversation's just flashed up in front of me eyes the whole conversation i had with demons
just come up on our ipad she fucking goggle bought the conversation the conversation
and bless that she was really she was really uh it also she guys to me don't tell him i said this so
if any of them listen to this podcast,
I've betrayed their trust.
But hang on, hang on.
I can't be fucking kept in this lie, right?
There's lies within lies.
It's like fucking Inception.
I'm not having it anymore.
I'm not being part of it.
I'm glad you managed to rid yourself of that guilt
that's now going to ruin a child's gift.
I mean, I don't think any four-year-olds
are going to listen to this
and then get past censorship.
Hey, hey, I've got young fans.
So, she said to me,
don't tell Demas I know.
And if he asks you how he's going to explain it to me,
just tell him he doesn't have to.
Just say, keep me in the dark.
It's probably best if you just don't let her know
that you lied, so all of a sudden I've got Demis
saying don't tell Rachel
that I
like floated it
and Rachel's going don't tell him that I know
and I'm just like caught in between them in this
fucking mess can, oh god this is a fucking
treat. You're sad they've been like fucking this is a difficult
situation, I'm involved in a bunch of lies, tell you what
I'll do, I'll go on'll do I'll go on a podcast
I'll go on a podcast
and literally
nobody instigated
this story
we were discussing
something else entirely
and I've just brought
it up of my own
free will
but it was fucking
hilarious to be part of
and then I did a
road trip with them
the other day
we went to Sheffield
because they just
happened to be
going to see a band
did he get you there
three hours before
you thought he would
I ended up with
two hours off my
personal best at
the A1
I just phoned
in an ambulance
and you were
dying to spend
you up the
fucking road
oh no I'm
actually better
now
you know what
she was actually
because when she
realised that it
was a perpetuated
snowballed lie
she was really
pleased that he
got freed of the
burden that like
he got to talk to me
about it and get
like a little bit
of relief
from it
I love his chest
I love his belly
fucking lazy cunt
you've done a
marathon mark
haven't you
done two
fucking liar
how much
did I put up
you've done two
you've done two
today
you've done two
check your belly
right hold on we've got to go on to Cullen's mark recording oh fuck alright no we don't you've done two to your belly right
we gotta go
to Cullen's
welcome corner
oh fuck
alright no we don't
this is a bit
of a stab in the dark
I hate people
that keep talking
about how they're
addicted to diet coke
that's you
no it's not
do you know this one
no
okay it's just me
I've spotted a lot
of people now
who are talking about
how diet coke's really addictive
well because the artificial
sweeteners
no
because I can't live today
without a Diet Coke
and stuff like that
this is like you putting
energy drinks in
we agreed with that
and this is kind of
a similar thing isn't it
oh yeah yeah yeah
it's like
you're not going to
fucking turn up
to some
like
what do you call
the fucking rehab
you're not going to turn up to rehab like everyone's like oh yeah, what do you call the fucking rehab? You're not going to turn up to rehab,
like,
everyone's like,
oh yeah,
I'm coming off heroin,
like,
it's been seven years,
I've been on an alcohol addiction
for fucking 30 years,
now you're like,
oh,
diet coke,
I can't get enough of it.
Turn it up at your mate's kid's birthday
and be like,
can I get you a diet coke?
Nah,
nah,
I'm actually clean now.
Here's my sobriety chip.
Actually,
if you put this sobriety coin
in the dark coke
it gets really clean
coke zero for me
there's two
two weird
probably
lame addictions
you know the guy
from Keen
yeah
the band
oh Roy
big moon faced
Robbie
Tom Chaplin guy
he was addicted
to port
they're an Irish band
aren't they addicted to port port They're an Irish band, aren't they?
Addicted to port? No, they were proper public schoolboy English.
The drink or the location?
I love the sea.
He was addicted to port.
It's the most middle class addiction.
And even worse, do you remember
Lorenzo Amoruso?
In Italian football?
He used to play for Rangers.
He was addicted to anti-semitism
anti-semitism?
sectarianism?
no no no unrelated to his career
he wanted to bring down Hollywood
no he's bigger than that
he understands it's a football rivalry
he was addicted to
Baileys
and he was tanning he was addicted to Baileys right and he was
he was
tanning
he was addicted
to Amaretto
at one point
he was tanning
about three
bottles of
Baileys a day
we fucking
knew someone
that was
addicted to
balloons
oh yeah
I won't mention
his name
I'm not gonna
name them
what the
Knox
yeah yeah
yeah
actually Steve-O I read Steve-O's book'm not going to name them what the Knox the Knox yeah yeah yeah actually Steve-O
I read Steve-O's book
he was addicted to the Knox as well
you've got a proper addiction
me and Kai
both supported Steve-O
like a day after each other
me and Dublin
and him and wherever
read
and the difference
in the photographs
that we took of each other
showed what he thought
of both of us
oh mate
mine's you signed a book for
kai no but you see what he's saying on the book you're the best comedian i've seen while i've
been over here the day after fucking watching cullen i i was sitting there going like uh we
were a little like terribly like just both of us stand beside each other picture right and then i
was like all right grand that was grand next day come in. Guys, Instagram's all like, the best comedian of all time, blah, blah, blah.
About five photos, you both like going,
you both giving him big licks.
I knocked him off the wagon when he got livered
and he's been sober for seven years.
He just looks so sullen around you.
I'm sullen with Colin.
Let's quickly plug things before we go
into dad jokes
Mark
do you have
anything coming up
I have got a new
for anyone that
knows
News at 3
thing I did
with my daughter
we're filming a new one
90 million baby
90 million
yeah yeah
90 million hits
on YouTube
we're gonna
so the new one
should be on
BBC One
on Thursday night
BBC One BBC One yeah Thursday night. BBC One?
BBC One, yeah, and their one show.
Fuck aye.
It's about seven o'clock.
It's about their royal wedding.
Nice.
Do you know what blew my mind about the video
that he did in East that last year
that fucking everyone, fucking Ashton Kutcher
and all that shit shared, right?
It's on 90 million now, but it was on 70 million
when it kind of hit the peak of its momentum.
Alien Covenant was out at the
same time
and the trailer
for Alien Covenant
had less than
half the views
of your video
and this is Alien
this is like
fucking
you know
we grew up
that was the
blockbuster
of our childhood
you know
like that was
up there
with fucking
Terminator
and then
I was looking
at that guy
and me boy
fucking Nelson
just doubled
the figure
to be fair
like if the
Terminator
had been involved,
he would never have got to do News at Three anyway.
They would have been a much different clan.
What have you got coming up, Kai?
We're going to be in Brighton at the same time,
so you've got to pick your favourite between Muggins and Cream.
Aye.
By pick your favourite, you mean realise my show's almost sold out
and then go see Kai.
It's absolutely not almost sold out.
Mark's on the same bill.
Yeah, Mark's on the same bill. Yeah, Mark's on the same bill.
All right, pick your favourites.
And Colin will be there
in the back.
Hi, having a laugh, you know.
Colin's just coming
for the crack, aren't you?
Hi.
Jets at that?
Just FYI,
we don't do crack.
I've been a legend.
Do you have anything
to comment on, Colin?
If you're in fucking Ireland,
maybe.
Just, aye.
Laughter Lounge,
I run the comedy cellar
so it's on every Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Laughter Lounge, I run the comedy cellar. They're two different clubs. I'll be on the Laughter Lounge I run the comedy cellar So it's on every Tuesday and Wednesday Laughter Lounge
I run the comedy cellar
They're two different clubs
I'll be on the Laughter Lounge
And I have two Netflix specials
Coming out in September
Fucking on your birthday
I won't steal the fun at my wedding
Your Netflix special comes out
We don't have the Release date Confirmed yet
But I'm allowed to announce tomorrow
Which is Wednesday
But this podcast won't come out
Until after that
So I can finally announce
That both Dark and So
Which has been renamed Jigsaw
For Netflix
Which is the break up show
Will be available worldwide
On Netflix
And
And that's why I went to LA
Yeah
I secretly just skulked off to LA
You came to watch me do my
Why was it renamed Jigsaw? So because the way you name the show As we know And that's why I went to LA. I secretly just skulked off to LA. You came to watch me do my...
Why was it renamed Jigsaw?
So, because the way you name the show is, as we know,
you name the show in January and we write it in June, right?
So, Dark worked as a title for the show, Dark,
because it ended up being Dark.
Whereas the other show was just called Soul,
and it was like, so what?
Whereas the main bit of it is...
You've got to fix the title.
It wasn't like you had to rename it.
It was like, oh, I've got a second crack at the whip.
The title had a problem.
The bit that breaks people up in that show
is the jigsaw analogy.
So I just figured it would be much better
to call it jigsaw.
And it's one word and sort of stuff.
Hey, do you know this?
This is noteworthy.
When Danny got the news
he was getting the Netflix deal, right?
It was a fucking
it was a multiple deal
like fucking
he'd been holding off right
fucking I'd been releasing USBs
and selling them at shows
and Danny's like
I've got no outlet
for my fucking shows
every year
I don't record them
like fucking this isn't happening
and he got the news
he got the phone call
when Sofia
in Bulgaria
and he got the phone call right
and fucking Danny
with the phone rings by the way so I'm backstage Marlena I come off stage of just in two hours I've yelled at her
that morning because I've just seen everyone release all this great content and I'm not
I've been waiting for Netflix for four years he could have done on his own back for a while right
but he took his agent's advice to hold off we're gonna find the fucking platform to release it
right and he gets this phone call it was such a release for him to go oh I haven't waited four or five years for fucking nothing
no like
six years
since the 2012 thing
fucking six years
since he released
any content
on that scale
and he started crying
and I've fucking
never seen this dude
cry right
like we've been friends
since 2009
and I was like
I just like
like gingerly
put my arms around him
yeah yeah
gingerly
not the way he did it
just how he is.
And he went, don't tell anybody about this.
And I was like, what, the Netflix deal?
He was like, no, tell everyone about the Netflix deal.
Don't tell anyone about it.
I was crying.
Fast forward like fucking two months.
I record my fucking special,
and I'm going to sell it to the booties.
Just to point out, during this time,
you were rightfully constantly making fun of me
for crying at that moment. I was like, yeah, bring it up. And I did well not to bring it just to point out during this time you were rightfully constantly making fun of me for crying at that moment
I was like
oh yeah
and I did well
not to bring it up
on a podcast
to keep your contract alive
right
your contract
you couldn't mention it
I guess
I guess there's a chain effect
that comes from the top
so
when I recorded my DVD
it was about the boxing
about like the boxing
which you were part of
you were there to. You were there.
To save young Cain.
To save young Cain.
Which, like, even though it happened in 2016,
we couldn't talk about the show.
Like, I couldn't do a show in 2016
because Cain wasn't out of the woods yet.
2017, he's had the treatment.
He's back in school.
I was like, fuck, I'll do the show.
And then I'm recording the show.
This is, like, a fucking two-year journey I've been on
where this kid was, like, fucking on death's door.
And then the community in the comedy industry raised enough money to fucking rescue him. I do the show on is like a fucking two year journey I've been on where this kid was like fucking on death's door and then the
community in the
comedy industry
raised enough
money to fucking
rescue him
I do the show
on my doorstep
and then fucking
as a surprise
my brother
has got Cain's
family to
deliver Cain
to me on stage
right so fucking
this boy that
the whole community
saved right
is in my arms
and I'm lifting
him up like
fucking Rafiki
lifting up Simba
like this fucking
final moment if you haven't seen the videos online of the reveal I was in the room like fucking Rafiki lifting up Simba like this fucking final moment
if you haven't seen
the videos online
of the reveal
like I was in the room
for it
it was one of the most
like everyone in the room
was crying
it was one of those moments
I've never
the Kai's reaction
when the box
just slides up
people don't know
he's got
he had neuroblastoma
and the only treatment
was in America
and it was half a million pounds
to raise
in the fucking community
raise the money
like
and it's
he's got all clear
he's fucking back at school.
So there's this beautiful story, Kai does the show, he comes out of the box.
If you watch the video, it's the most genuine reaction.
Kai's thing of when he sees Kane in the box, he had no idea.
It's a really, really fucking beautiful video.
And he hit the deck.
Yeah, probably.
His fucking hands hit the floor and then he fucking collapsed.
It was one of those moments where it just like,
and I've never seen Kai cry before.
He was crying away, they do the thing.
And everyone's congratulating Kai after the show and I'm just like, this like i've never seen kai cry before he was crying away they do the thing and everyone's congratulating kai after the show and i'm just like this is absolutely his moment i'm
gonna see him for the rest of night rest of the weekend i'll just let him have this very proud
of him want to tell him i'm fucking proud of him but i'll allow him to have his moment and he's
sitting there hugging everyone doing all this crying and finally everyone wears away right and
we know how our relationship works as you insult each other on anything but in the moment
on Netflix
he was really nice to me
and sweet
he was like
really proud of you
I know you've watched this
really beautiful
so I realised
that I owed him
the same thing
so I just see him
I look at him
and he's just
wiping tears from his eyes
I go up and hug him
and I just whisper in his ear
one all cunt
one all
one all
mine was about
saving a kid
this was about getting this was about saving a kid. This was about getting a brook.
Yeah, equal.
Well, Dax was a reasonable.
See, I remember watching that clip
when Cian was brought on stage.
And it was amazing to be part of all that kind of thing.
But I was just kind of thinking, right,
see for a kid who's so
close to death, do you think it was a
good idea to put him in a fucking box?
That was something
I nearly said. Because I had to say
something into the mic at some point, and I nearly went
I never thought I'd be so happy to see this boy
in a box.
The best thing about that was when you were
talking there i looked at nelson and i seen like this mischievous blimp in his eye and i started
giggling i was like oh yeah basically he was touching cloth with that joke it was just picking
the wee turtle head out i'm gonna see when you're uh because you know you get recommendations with
the algorithms and netflix i'm gonna make him a mission to find the most awkward
shit to link to your
special.
That's fine. Watch it repeatedly.
Works well for the algorithms.
Right.
Let's move on to your dad jokes very quickly.
Mine aren't very good.
Yeah, neither am I.
People can just tune out now if they want.
We've hit the hour.
Nelson, your dad balls his feelings and by that i mean he whispers i love men into a ball and
then throws those balls at pifters um your guy your dad filters porn by the release date
slosh your dad bought porn by the release date.
Sloss, your dad bought a treadmill to walk the dog.
Ryan.
I like that guy.
Ryan.
Your dad still pumps up his Reebok pumps whenever he has to get a porno off the top shelf.
Colin, your dad's farts have a lisp.
Sloss, your dad identifies as a man,
which is weird because he just keeps saying it.
Nelson, your dad got a payday loan to play on the 2B machines at the Amusements.
Danny, your dad has a tattoo of Dodi Al-Fayed.
Colin, your dad lost a children's limbo competition
because of his erection.
Nelson, your dad got molested by watching 3D porn.
Colin, your dad was one of the prizes on the Generation Game.
Kai, your dad tried to join ISIS but then turned back
because he'd forgotten his sunscreen.
Kai, your dad's got incense in his arse and incest in his heart.
Kai, your dad's guardian angel's English, obviously,
because he keeps trying to kill himself.
Oh, mate. It doesn't kind of make sense, though. You don't know the game? dad's guardian angel's English, obviously, because he keeps trying to kill himself.
Oh, mate.
Hi, mate. Doesn't kind of make sense, though.
You say that, Cullen, but your dad coughs his lungs out smoking menthols.
Danny, your dad
thinks Jazzy Jeff is the best hype man
of all time.
Oh, yeah, Nelson. Wow.
Nelson, your dad started a Glasgow rap
group called Wiggers with Gratitude.
Daniel, your dad shouts your mom's name during sex with prostitutes.
And also, Danny, your dad keeps sandwiches under his hat like Paddington Bess.
Ryan, your dad had his stagged out a laser quest.
No spoilers for Kai Stagg too, for fuck's sake.
Well, Colin's dad's coming.
Kai, your dad checks the smell of his pits by dabbing.
You all good, Minchard?
I'm done.
Well, your dad works the door
the 24 egg rigs
Danny
your dad also
masturbates to
troops coming home
videos on YouTube
Andy chews stripsels
Andy's gonna wear a suit
watching the Royal Wedding
Andy swells his chewing gum
with a glass of water
are we done?
aye we're done
well then boys
see you next time