Sloss and Humphries On The Road - He-Man with Cats
Episode Date: March 9, 2022After taking a crushing blow to his perceived age by a younger comedian, Muggins revisits his favourite childhood cartoons. Mark Nelson witnesses a couple break up during his gig on the weekend sparki...ng the conversation of best walk outs and complaints at gigs. The pair poorly navigate a minefield of a conversation about shagging your school teachers.
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Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for choosing Sloss and Humphreys on the road to accompany you on your long drive or while you're baking cakes or while you are trying to ignore your friends at work.
However you take your podcast, you have chose the right one. This is not Sloss and Humphreys. Sloss is raising a child.
As you know if you've been listening to the Monday episodes where he does like 45 minutes of rambling about his parenthood and their fun.
I've really enjoyed listening to them.
It's nice keeping up with the speed.
With me godson.
I don't think Danny's going to have godparents
because he's an atheist.
But you know, I could be his Dawkins father.
I'll be his Dawkins.
I'll be Caelan's Dawkins father.
Anyway, Daniel's not on this one.
He's been flying solo.
Mark Nelson's been stepping in it's
just me and him this time we don't have a guest it has been fun having tom horton on and glenn
wall those episodes were banging but me and mark just this time talking about he-man and talking
about thundercats and talking about being molested by school teachers just nostalgia you know classic
nostalgia episode and we'll also talk about the weekends of gigs that we've been doing and best walkouts we've had
a lot of industry chatter which is always
nice to show you behind the curtain
when we do that
small announcement that's actually quite big
is that we are going to do a
live podcast
at the Fringe Festival August the 20th
2.30
at Just The Tonic, one of the just the tonic venues all the information
is on the patreon you know it already you probably already got your tickets and if you can't come
because i know i'm speaking to some of you in australia and in america we are going to try and
live stream it for you on patreon and and we're going to try and put on other shows if this one works like i feel like going we're going to put on other shows we're going to try and put on other shows. If this one works, I feel like going,
we're going to put on other shows.
We're going to just come to New York
and we'll do one in Melbourne and stuff, right?
But you know, if this one's a flop,
it's not going to be a flop.
And we've actually done one in Melbourne before.
We know it works.
We'll get guests on.
We had Nick Cody and Luke Heggie on back in 2019.
This one, no doubt, will be joined by Mark Nelson.
Maybe it's Elliot Steele
that'll be in town.
Let's see who's at the Fringe.
We might even get a girl on
or a person of colour.
You know, this diverse podcast
that you love.
So that's very exciting.
Please sort out your tickets
for the live show
before they're all gone.
My Fringe show is also on sale
and if you're at Glasgow Comedy Festival
this coming 13th of March, this coming 13th of March,
that's how I'm going to word that plug.
Come and join me for my work-in-progress solo show, where I know 30 minutes of it definitely works,
and the other 30 minutes is busy being written.
So you've got to come along and guess what's the solid bits that I trust
and which are the bits that have just been jotted down
on a scrap of paper on my bus to the gig.
I am a very homework on the bus kind of guy.
Look, I'm keeping you for too long.
There's too much stuff to plug.
Just unwind.
Listen to the podcast.
Enjoy.
Sloss and Humphreys on the road.
Muggins and cream, cream and muggins.
Straight thuggin', livin' the dream That's our intro
Fuckin' muggles
Ticklin' 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
Ah, muggles
Accidental rent job in the park
Kiss, kiss, kiss
Or am I just being cynical?
Just muggled it up on fuckin' Mugglepedia
Where have you been since 9-11?
I do that all the time, Mark.
I feel like my whole life is in the fucking, you know, that Gooch of the Year.
It sounds like an award.
It sounds like an award for the Gooch of the Year.
Kanye's already won this year.
Kanye's already won this year I saw you take the piss
With them people on social media
The ones that
Act like they don't know what day it is
It's the most annoying thing
Let's put it in context
It happens around a bit
You call the Gooch
Period Between Boxing day context um it happens around a bit chris is that that you call the gooch period the period between
a basically boxing day and hogman a new year's eve and uh people always going oh god if you if
you'd have gone to my head i couldn't tell you what day of the year or what day of the week it
is and you're going you're typing this on the phone it tells you in the front of it, you stupid cunt. Stop trying to fucking
create this maniac
fucking crazy lifestyle you have.
I'm mad, mate. I'm absolutely mad.
I don't know how my head works.
So, we just did that one.
It's Monday, isn't it? And you were like, ah, it's Monday.
And then I was about to start the podcast.
And then just before we pressed record,
I'm like, it's fucking Thursday.
I just live in a perpetual state
of a muggle june gooch yeah it's because we don't have well you'll have less of a structured life
than me especially when you're not on tour because you've got the school route actually
tour is a bit more um it's hard to engage on tour because the it's weekendless it's every day is like it's an event even the
people that are on tuesday fill in the venue it's an event i suppose you're just going by dates as
well you're not going by the days so yeah so i i get a lot more discombobulated then but now that
i'm just back doing the clubs they came up up right on weekends. Yeah. And I'm back home where my wife's at work during the week.
Yeah.
So I can differentiate easier between the weekend and the midweek.
I can.
But, like, days of the week just blend into one.
Like, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, they've got a real difference.
But I was at the Glasgow stand this weekend, just gone,
and I had a real fucking moment
where they've come at me fast,
where,
do you know Thomas Elgin?
Thomas Elvin?
Thomas Elvin.
Big lads, aye.
Scottish comic,
he's on doing the short spot
in the stand,
he's class,
he was banging on that spot, right?
And he walked in on the second night, so I gigged with him on the first night, the Stanis class he was banging on that spot right and he walked in on the second night
so I gigged with him
on the first night
the second night
he walks in
and he just
does a big stretch
and when he's stretching
he goes
by the power of Grayskull
right
and I went
how the fuck
do you know
the power of Grayskull
right
and I was just like
how do you know
he man
and he just went
oh me mum loves it
oh no oh Jesusesus oh man it was
just like you could just see the bullets hitting me chest spread against the well like fucking
it fucking it hit us like gunfire because it doesn't seem like that long ago at all since i
was with tom stayed and he asked me
if I knew Rush
the band yeah
and I was like
oh my dad loves Rush
and I watched
I watched the bullets
hit Tom
yeah
and I was like
oh that fucking
bullet fire
came back real
fucking quick
yeah
there's a hell of a
difference between
your dad
and Tom liking
Rush though why the fuck does his
mum like he-man like it's such a bizarre fandom to have like because because my dad still plays
rush around the house it's not like it's not like my generation just still periodically put he-man
yeah yeah i and his mum was she constantly getting He-Man on in the house?
Like, it's like,
what, it seems my sister's called Battle Cat after.
Green and yellow cat waxing
with a saddle on.
Oco's running around
and Chul's running around
the house.
Oco?
Oco, where's Oco?
Oco's up the wee
furry thing.
Ah, yeah.
Fairy? You're thinking of Snarf from Funeral Cats? I'm thinking of Snarf, aye. was Ogre Ogre's that wee like wizard furry thing yeah fairy
you're thinking of
Snarf
I'm thinking of
Snarf
sorry I am
so I am
which is actually
like the fucking
like the
drawn parallels
with each other
with that weren't they
yeah
they were like
oh we need a little
fuckwit that's gonna
kick around
yeah
because Mumra
was Thundercats
Mumra was the
Skeletor
fucking hell they're the same show they're the same show yeah they're exactly the same show Because Mum Ra was Thundercats. Mum Ra was the Skeletor.
Fucking hell, they're the same show.
They're the same show, yeah.
They're exactly the same show.
Pat Throws Man At Arms.
Yeah, it's exactly the same show.
Wait, no.
Wait, what a fucking rip-off.
Which one was first?
I'm going to say He-Man was first. He-Man, I'm fairly certain He-Man was first.
And then somebody was like,
I've got a better idea. He-Man was first. He-Man, I'm fairly certain He-Man was first. And then somebody was like, yeah, I've got a better idea. He-Man
with cats.
Here is who, here is who,
He-Man with cats. Instead of Oakwood,
we'll have Snarf. Man-at-Arms is going to be a panther.
Not the panther
as you think of it, bald and grey.
You know, nothing like a panther.
You know, nothing.
You know, the panther, the black, sleek animals. Nothing like that. Grey. You know how they're panther? They're black, sleek animals.
Not like that.
Grey, spiky shoulder pads.
Nothing like a panther.
Why do we never query the fact that Panthro wasn't a panther?
Yeah, that's true.
Panthro was, at best...
At best, he was one of them like kind of Egyptian cats
that I've got
yeah what's the
ones with no eye
what are they
called
sphinx
is it sphinx
cats
um something
I don't know
they've probably
got like a
more sophisticated
name
but I think we
just got an eye
sphinx cat
eye
the ones that
look like ornaments
they're weird
those things
Marlena had two
remember that
yeah
our agent had two
of these sphinx cats
and they used to
used to just cut
cut about the house
like they were haunting
the place
because you can't
stroke them
because you're just
stroking skin
you can but it's like
it's like stroking
a bald head
yeah
yeah
yeah
you can stroke them
but it's like using
an eight ball
yeah yeah weird looking fucking things I think they were Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can stroke them, but it's like using an air ball.
Yeah, yeah.
Ah, weird looking fucking things.
I think they were going to make a He-Man,
because they did make a He-Man film with Dolph Lundgren.
It was He-Man.
So they did.
It was going to be Schwarzenegger, though.
I felt like it was a sci-fi.
Did it have spaceships in that?
Yeah, yeah, I was fairly...
But was He-Man not quite sci-fi? I can't imagine. My that? Yeah, yeah, that was fairly. But was He-Man not quite sci-fi?
I can't imagine.
My lack of knowledge of He-Man, I thought it was
a lot stronger than that. Because I'm nothing like
Thomas Alvin's man. I left it in the past.
I'm even still
wheeling out, you know.
I've got guests around. Come on,
watch He-Man.
Because he must have,
she must have used
that expression in the house
at some point.
Oh, the same way
my mum would have went,
give me strength.
Yeah.
Give me strength.
By the power of Grayskull,
will you two stop fighting?
Oh, that's funny, man.
Hi.
How were the gigs?
Were they good?
Class.
Hi.
Really good.
A couple of chatterboxes, but no offensive.
I remember seeing Nick Revel do a line before
where I couldn't tell if it was his line off,
it was he was using stock.
But I haven't seen it enough,
I haven't seen it like since to know that it was stock.
So I'll credit Nick Revel, but it might be stock.
Where he said to somebody,
you're just enjoying yourself too much.
It's like, it's not that the way,
the way in the field, you know,
when they respond to a talk or a thing, he's like, it's hard to put way the way you know when they respond yeah yeah yeah he's like
it's hard to put you down
because you're just
enjoying yourself
but you're enjoying
yourself too much
it's like
you know if I was to have
a shit in a public
swimming pool
I'd really enjoy it
but everybody else
would have to get out
yeah that's nice
and I thought
it was a fucking
delta lake
yeah that is good
and it was that
it was that level of like I kinda it was this lassie in Yeah, that is good. And it was that level of like,
I kind of, it was this lassie in the front row
that was with her daughter.
And her name was Terry.
And I had a bit about pedo Terry
that used to live on me estate.
You heard us do that bit.
It's fairly new.
It's a new bit.
I'll tell you the bit.
It's a bit where I'll tell you the bit it's it's it's a bit where I talk about
the word estate
is a different word
depending on
your class
depending on your class
right
so if I said to a posh person
I started hanging around
with some lads
on the other side of the estate
they'd be like
oh well you're hunting guinea fowl
yeah
it's abundant this season
yeah
you've got land
and I'm like
nah mate I've been pelting eggs at pedo terry's kitchen window
and then and then uh you know what's what's actually funny about this joke right
the only thing that's a joke about it is i've changed his name from jerry
to protect the innocent to protect him because I didn't think
he was a pedo
that's where the joke ends
when I look back
on my childhood
we called him that
but I didn't think he was
and I've got more on that
I've got more on why
we called him that
which I'll not
which I'll not
yeah fuck it
all episodes
they'll have to come
to me Glasgow Comedy Festival
show on the 13th of March
for the rest of that joke
but
I changed his name
to Terry
this last one was in the
front row it was called terry and she like it was almost like saying her name activated her yeah
yeah yeah oh my name is terry i'm on i'm part of this show so it just meant that i had like i had
to use the like the gig was kind of classic for like for the rest of the audience no it didn't
derail in any way but it just meant that you had to be using
different gears in your head all right you're going through the bit going right this might
not have the momentum that it needs to get the end of it all right because i'm gonna have to
put out this little fire that keeps coming yeah if i pour too much on the fire that they they
take credit for the laughs that's the thing yeah if you can get a big laugh off shutting them up
they're like look what we did we we got a big laugh. Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
it's a team effort.
It's a team effort
and they get cocky
and they put it in
so there's like
that fine line
between like
putting them down
and getting a laugh
off them
and making them know
they're not part of a team.
Aye,
aye.
So it was,
there was a bit of that
but aye,
the gigs were lush.
Ah,
nice.
Because you didn't get
much of that opening
for Danny.
No.
In theatres. You don't, you don't get, no, you don't get anybody. that opening for Danny no in theatres
you don't
you don't get
no you don't
get anybody
do you compare it
you don't really
get drunks
like I haven't
dealt with drunks
in a while
fuck aye
it'll be a different
skill
people will have
a drink
yeah
but they're not
drunks
yeah
yeah because
especially even
you're good on
the airwaves
in the show
often it's like
a seven o'clock
kick off
and I'm on
first
so like
in Israel
this is the stand as well
so it's not even a hard one
in Israel
skills I developed
when I was coming through
doing junglers
in the hyena
remember the hyena
oh Christ yeah yeah
holy shit
like that was the bear pit
yeah
so you develop them skills
but it was like
when I was on
I was like
oh I'm gonna need
the old tools
aye aye I know let's get the van I know you know you're measuring up a job you're like i didn't bring them tools let's just go back
chipping concrete off it just i wonder if that still works i think you're feeling the weight of
it and i remember this old thing like i was good with this used to know me where i run this see
when you're doing gigs in like i mean I imagine I know the answer to America
but when you're doing gigs
in Europe and stuff
do folk
do you notice a difference
in the drinking attitudes
of the audience
em
you know what
because I've never
done club gigs
I've never done club gigs
out there
but even like
even like the tour shows
would tour audiences
here
drink more
than they would
in like Latvia and fucking
It's hard to say, it feels like
it feels like the Americans
are a bit more drunk but not
because they interfere in anything like that
Because they can't drink
They've had one beer
You know what, I've got a bit more respect
for the Americans drinking now
now that I know what they constitute as a shot.
Right, because they get three pours.
The three pour, the shots, and you get like a full,
like normally you would be like, wait,
that would also be with a mixer.
Yeah.
To give you like a, so.
Ah, right, right, right, yeah.
Whereas we have shots, we'll have like a certain measure of a shot,
which means that you could go out and you go,
oh, I had fucking 10 shots last night.
Right. And it feels like a lot of shots, but if you out and you go I had fucking 10 shots last night and it feels like
a lot of shots
but if you go out
to America
and had 10 shots
last night
you're like
you absolutely
didn't have 10 of them
I had 15 pints
of vodka
you've spunk
your load
super early
with the shots
so I've got
I think it's a myth
that they kind of
drink because
their portion
control is wrong
and I mean that counts for everything drink because their portion control is wrong and I mean that
counts for everything
with America
your portion control
is wrong
yeah
you do everything
in abundance
I'm going to
I'm going to
Liverpool this weekend
and every
every year my brother
comes away with me
for one weekend
so it's a different city
to pick Liverpool
and it'll probably
good choice
it'll be the first time
I think that I'll
I'll do shots
in ages
because it will be
one of those nights
where you go
you didn't already do shots
we'll just fucking go for it
nah
because it's not really
I don't know
because I will take
sometimes you've got
audience members
will come up
and give you a shot
after the show
and I'll take them
as a
as a courtesy but on but uh and i don't
want to be rude yeah yeah i think i've got to drive back to glasgow six and a half hour drive
for the road yeah the kids are in the car it's on fire the kids are in the car and i forgot to
crack a window but okay but it is winter we winter but I know I wouldn't
I wouldn't normally drink shots
in and out. Are you actually going for it?
Probably will aye
Aye and is your brother a big drinker?
He can be aye
aye when he's
we've had some clack like we've done other cities
we've done we did Cardiff the last time
just pre Christmas before
pandemic. That's a a shout that was a fucking
belter
that's a city where
I've lit up the beacon
and took friends before
where I've like
went and been
jolly mates
I've been there with
Ricketts
I've been there with
Matty
I'm like look lads
I'm at Cardiff
this weekend
it's absolute
class
this is the one
you're going to
want to jump on
the gig's fucking
exceptional
the nightlife's mint
it's a different
game
it's a different game
Cardiff on a night out it's It's a different game, it's a different game,
Cardiff on a night out.
Like,
it's just,
it's fucking feral.
Aye. Like,
it's proper.
Yeah,
the people come in from the valleys and that.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
You can always,
you can always see them like marauders,
just,
and you get,
you get absolute fucking,
story junkies in Cardiff as well.
Yeah,
yeah,
you do,
You can always look around the barn and go,
what the fuck,
there's panthro,
there's panthro?
Panthro's here?
I guarantee you can go out on a night out in Cardiff and spot panthro.
Oh, aye.
Absolutely can.
The skinhead with the neck and the fucking
head muscles.
Spiky muscles.
Spiky muscles, aye.
I guarantee you're going to spot them on a
night out in
Cardiff
aye
oh there's
some absolute
beasts
and they're
just the
women
the valley
girls
they'll hit
your legs up
against the
wall
shaggy
against the
chin
oh
but the Liverpool's another one
It's a good night out
Aye
It should be good
Working class cities
How you notice the theme?
The theme?
The theme of like
Where's a good night out
Aye aye
It's the cities
That are a bit more industrial
Oh of course
Aye
Aye
Because folk know
How to enjoy themselves
I've got a theory
About
Pavements In different cities Right industrial. Oh, of course, aye. Because folk know how to enjoy themselves. I've got a theory about pavements
in different cities, right?
Do you know, you see when you're walking along in certain
cities, and it's been raining,
and the ground's really, really
slippy, I've noticed in
like, what would be
seen by some as
shittier cities, like more
working class cities, more drunken cities
it's a lot more slippery
than the rest of them
I've never noticed this but I'm listening
Right, Glasgow
and Newcastle are two perfect examples, right
you walk along the street
trainers with very little grip on them
fucking all over the place, like Bambi
right, whereas if you go
to a place like Oxford fucking, you could honest to god you could run like you're stuck to the ground because it's
like the rubber and i don't know of a racetrack i don't know whether it's just then you got the
end brand it's cobbled yeah yeah exactly i don't know whether it's i don't know if it's it's just
the lack of facilities like i don't i don't know if they're not cleaned as well
because not enough money's been put in it.
Or if...
Or they make it easy to wash vomit off.
Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What, the streets are laminated?
Or they might make it, like, it might be like a police measure.
If, like, some people can't make you get away.
Can't run away
police have got
like special shoes
that they wear
that they put
little plungers
on them
little sticky
like thousands
of little tiny
little sticky
plungers
on the bottom
of their boots
you can hear them
like
when they're running
everyone else
jockeying on the spot
like a Looney Tunes
character
little little little character legs just fucking
circling around
trying to outrun the law
and yeah
you're going to go to
a Liverpool match as well
trying
yeah I put out a desperate
desperate plea
this morning
to all scousers
to say
activate the lids
from the have a win
the lids
yeah
because I don't
I don't even know
it's been so long
since I've been
to a premiership game
I don't even know
how easy it is
to get tickets
for those kind of things
so Newcastle tickets
at the minute
like the fly off the shelf
like it sells you
in every game
regardless
just because
there's a fucking
it's buoyant
because since
Mike Ashley's gone
and especially
now we're hitting
winning ways
I had to sign up
to a membership
because I don't have
a season ticket
so I didn't get
the privileges
but I signed up
to a membership
and you get 24 hour
early access
and I have to be there
at like 10 in the morning
when it comes out
to like get
online
tickets
sat together
I think that's even
going to change
where
I'm toying
with getting a season ticket
even though
because of my job
I'll not be able to go
to every game
and
sell me tickets
on a weekly basis
that I can go
just so that I don't have
to join a shit fight
to get a seat
for the match
I'm thinking
about doing that
me and my pal
are looking at it
but
I know that
I'm going to get
the Wolves on the 8th of April
and I'm going to have to be 10 o'clock in the morning
there on the dot on Tuesday coming.
Yeah.
So I don't know if you've got any Scouse mates who are a member.
It might just be as easy as that.
I know.
I mean, I've got a good couple of feelers out now.
Yeah.
So my brother's got a couple.
He's found a couple of links as well
contacts
and I was got reduced to two per person
so I can only buy two tickets
it's not like I could buy a bunch of them
so there's four of them going
so two are going to be there looking for the same block
at least getting the same
so we can have a pint together at half time
do you remember that
buying tickets for concerts
and that was always
what you had to do
I'd be on at nine
in the morning
fucking
I used to do that work
all the time
it's a fucking buzz
when you get them
oh god yeah
doesn't it feel class
if you like
oh absolutely
because I've
I've gotten M&M tickets
in the past
when like
in the fucking
2003
yeah
yeah yeah yeah
when I've gotten a hold of them tickets,
I've just felt like a fucking god.
Oh, you're this year, weeks.
I would say, like, you know,
especially when you're younger as well,
like other people's jealousies currency.
Yeah.
And you know it.
That's me.
Is that you?
That must be me, aye.
Aye, because mine's not.
It's Dean, I'll ring him back.
Fucking, I forgot I had that turned up up I had that turned up from when we
talked to Gav about his
belly button
corned beef
I'll get him back
that's
one of what many agents
were in there
we're so popular we've got nine fucking agents one of what many agents were in there yes what agents are going through a merger
at the minute
yep
we're so popular
we've got nine
fucking agents
it's like
Molly and I
passes on to Dean
who passes on to me
the details from your
flight to Dublin
yeah
I was thinking about
like I've just hired
a PA
could you pass them
on to her
and then she'll hand
them to me wife
and then I'll get them
Dublin is another
class city to take folk to.
Aye, I'm going there next weekend
and Ryan Cullen's on the same bill.
Oof.
So, fucking ruined.
Are you both staying in the flat?
Aye, which I think is funny
because I'm not giving up the bed.
No.
Right, the Dublin flat.
Let's talk about the Dublin flat, right?
It's got knee-natural light. No. It's fucking slap- talk about the Dublin flat, right? It's got knee-natural light.
No.
It's fucking slap-bang in the city centre, right?
So class.
You're right in the middle of the city.
Yeah.
But it's on, if anybody...
I shouldn't give away the destination.
No, I wouldn't as well, I know.
But it's down a back alley.
Yeah.
A proper dodgy.
A proper dodgy as fuck.
I've never walked through it and not seen like people shooting up
yeah yeah yeah
yeah
like you walk through it
it's just
it's got activity
in the doorways
ah day
anyone's bothering you
on out
but every
like I didn't feel right
when we last stayed
I know
I didn't feel
I wasn't okay with that
no
it was one where
one of the nights
where she stayed
in the flat
and I went to the game
ah it's not
and I felt deeply
uncomfortable
like it's
it's it's prime real estate that you're close to the game and I felt deeply uncomfortable it's
prime real estate
that you're close
to the bars
you can't out drink
in your file back
in your flat
you're close to the club
but it's just this
little dark corner
of Dublin
that you don't want
to shine a light on
I bet it costs a fortune
as well
I bet it costs
fucking loads
I had to phone the police
one night
one weekend
I was in it
I saw a guy
getting fucking mugged
outside
like
like directly outside
the bedroom window
wow
I heard commotion
and I saw a guy
just basically getting held up
oh
that's a grim excuse
you don't want to get out
phone the guard
yeah
that couldn't have been
any less of a fuck
they couldn't give a shit
do they have
do they have the same number
or do they
because they're like fucking Americans,
aren't they?
So are they 911?
I don't know what they are, actually.
911.
No, that's Northern Ireland.
I was going to do that.
What is Southern Ireland?
That was white.
Oh, the hill.
911.
0800 911.
Just call any number.
333.
333.
0800 911 just call any number
333
so yeah
they can't
through the phone book
for the police
yeah
I feel like
it's quite degraded
that they call the police
guards there
because you know
when like
you take the piss
with the security guards
it's like
oh they're wanting
to be cops
whereas
they just carry on
calling them guards
yeah
they're just like
ah the guards
whatever
aye
they carry guns though
they do
overcompensate
for being called wardens
park
park and wardens
aye aye
but you can stick
because
but you shouldn't
give up the bed
because Colin Colin I've got here I've got here I'm going to put him in a little basket in the corner and when it's time for him to get up But you can stick But you shouldn't give up the bed Because Colin
I'm going to put him in a little basket in the corner
And when it's time for him to get up
I'm going to play the flute
He's going to pop
He's going to pop
Like one of those dancing sunflowers
The sunflowers that you clap in the start
Give them the beans
Because the size of Colin
You could stick him in the cupboard Right next to this ironing board because it looks icicle and you could
literally I mean you
could stick him in the
cupboard
like next to this
ironing board
and just prop him up
like he's not
going to
next to the boiler
yeah yeah yeah
I just I just got
to open the door in
the morning
he's just coiled
around a broom
shank
he's shed a skin
I'm like
oh
fucking
you've laid eggs
out of our floor
that's the thing
and some of them
are still bubbling
out of his neck
and landing on the floor
so I mean
cold
I was in that flat
one time
I was
I was in that flat
and
I went
I went outside
for a smoke
and I was
I was shit faced
did I talk about this recently
I can never remember if I've pressed record
one thing I hate the most is when
we tell the same story twice
on the podcast
it doesn't matter if there's years between it
but if it's in quick succession
we went through a spell there where
Danny just kept saying the same shit about Joe Rogan
I might as well have just put it on a button
now we're going to have Daniel same shit about Joe Rogan I might as well have just put it on a button aye now we're going to have
Daniel Sloss' Joe Rogan break
Rogan
I think man
we're losing followers
yeah
but I went out
out for a smoke
and
when you're
a hamad
and you take a drop
of a cigarette
and you just heave
and spew it up
on me feet
right
that's where I was
no I was
I spewed it up on my feet and this guy come up and he just fucking asked if I had any feet right I was that that's where I was no I was I spewed up on my feet
and this guy
come up and he
just fucking asked
if I had any spare cigarettes
I was like
I ain't need proper mate
I'm fucking spewed out
on my feet
I'm trying to fumble
I give him a cigarette
like that
and he's like
oh cheers bunny lad
I was like
yeah I'll have another one
I'll have a couple
I'm not gonna need them
and he just
hands on his way
and then I just saw him
stop and he went
yeah mate
do you want a lane
that'll sort you out
I was like
mate you fucking champion
I'm in this fucking
crackhead alley
this guy's coming
I don't know
I was in the bag
it was definitely coke
yeah
it was definitely coke
I fucking took a lane
I picked right back up
I went back in
next thing you're
sucking him off
hate that alley I'm like that Dave Chappelle routine when I come back in there Natalie's like how was Dublin I'm like that Dave Chappelle routine
when I come back in there
and Natalie's like
how was Dublin
and I was like
I was out fucking women
what's Danny's
why's Danny got such a beef
against Joe Rogan
I think it was just his fucking
misuse of his
platform to fucking stir up the
right. It's like fucking
selling it to the QAnon cunts, isn't it?
I think it was just that. I mean,
you could listen to any episode from circa
six months ago. Just pick
an episode out of like a full three-month
range and you'll hear all about it. I'm not
going to go back over it.
I've got no beef with some man
there i don't really know much of his his work i get my right wing stuff from a lot of other people
i'm old school right wing i go to the classics you know what's funny you know how you've got
these right wing comedians that are just kind of like acting as if they're stepping out but
they're actually like they've got an audience
and they know it
there's an audience
for right wing out there
you can tell by the way
people have voted
yeah yeah yeah
so they're always going against
whatever the left are saying
and some of them now
are like
just to be contrarians
going like
pro Russia
that's incredible
on the invasion of Ukraine
I saw it last night
yeah
I've seen these fucking, like,
guys that have made a whole, like,
they've made their whole identity online
going against what the left has said.
And now, like,
you're too far gone now, mate.
You're on the wrong side of the war.
You're ready to be a comedian
and now you're on the wrong side of a fucking conflict.
Yeah. I've seen a few
pro-Putin things.
Like, I saw something last night
talking about how much better it would be
if Trump was in charge during all of this.
I like...
You're like, going, what, the guy that was pals with Putin?
How the fuck would he be there?
You're like, we don't know what side he would have been on.
Yeah.
No one can say.
Yeah.
Because I wouldn't be 100% sure that he'd be On his side
Exactly
Aye
Because there's still
There's still that
You remember that video
That existed of Trump
When he was in Russia
And he had the prostitutes
And they were pissing on him
Like
Apparently that video
Does exist
Does exist
So
That's the last thing you want
If a guy
Like
That's pretty much
One of the
That's one of the biggest things someone can hold over you.
A video of you doing something dodgy sexually.
You don't want that.
I feel like he was at the point, in his pomp,
he was at the point where a video of him pissing on prostitutes,
it would have just got him in Sarah Pascoe's book.
prostitutes like it would have just got him in Sarah Pascoe's
book
you want a little paragraph
hit the better button
bitter
I don't think
I don't think it would be that
bad
like
because I mean it's not like
he's not already
hated by
people that don't
support him anyway
so like you say
what difference
would a video
of him being
with Russian
prostitutes
really have made
he had
the like
he had the support
where like
nothing's gonna
rock this
the only thing
that I believe
like knocked him off the top
really was
they get activated
to people that were against him
that might not have voted
I just think like
I don't know the vote figures
I'm just speculating here
I don't know
don't get your news from me
but I feel like
people had to go
oh fuck
he's got critical mass here
he's got people
he's got people
that'll follow him
blindly into the war
for Russia
alongside Russia right
so everyone's like
fuck we've got this mental cunt in charge
we now need to vote to get him out
and I feel like it was more of an uprising of like
fence sitters that
that outed him
because anybody that sticks by him
probably still sticks by him now
yeah exactly aye
if you're that much entrenched then
have you heard word of him since
erm
I saw
he said the other day
that Putin was a genius
he does
because he does
press conferences
now and again
does he
because I've never seen
they've done a really good job
of just deplatforming him
from any fucking
like I've never seen
anything about him
on Twitter
I've never seen him
come up on any
like Facebook videos
he gets kicked off
he gets kicked off Twitter
aye but he said there was like a new but I still thought right wing social media I've never seen him come up on any Facebook videos. He got kicked off. He got kicked off Twitter.
But he said there was a new right-wing social media platform that was starting that he was going to rule.
So he's the king of the shit heap somewhere.
Yeah, basically.
Keep an eye on them, though.
Keep an eye on them cunts that are in their own little forums.
There's enough of them to be a problem.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
You can't just go,
out of sight,
out of mind.
I don't,
I don't ignore the weirdos,
Lex,
because,
there's too many weirdos.
Weirdos find weirdos,
and then,
do you see the,
that's how it all started,
it was like 4chan and stuff.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Yeah,
I listen to a documentary about all that.
Was it the BBC Sounds one?
Yeah, it's fucking amazing. Yeah, I listen to that. Yeah. Shout it out the BBC sounds one yeah it's fucking amazing yeah I listened to that
yeah
it's called
it's called The Coming Storm
it's amazing
it's absolutely amazing
em
do you see the
did you see that thing in the
it was reported over the weekend
in the Ukraine
there was like
he was getting called
the ghost of Kiev
he was a fighter player
that had apparently
shot down like
nine Russian MiGs I love shit like that man and then and then it turns out like all the footage
was taken from like call of duty and shit like that oh good fucking like it wasn't real it wasn't
even real the ghost of ukraine was a fucking yeah it's just for the hell just boost the spirit
it's like because i love shit like love you know like the red baron
oh yeah yeah yeah
I mean he was on
the opposite side
yeah yeah yeah
he's a good guy
but that
mythical
like
that mythical soldier
or the mythical
guy you can't
it's just like
yeah you heard about
because it's almost
like it gets to the
point of like
greek mythology
yeah
achilles like
where there's
somebody there's somebody even the ghost of k mythology. Achilles. Where there's somebody out there.
Even the ghost of Kiev.
It's a cool fucking name, that.
If you're known as the ghost of Kiev.
Fucking hell.
I went through a little spell of studying World War I.
And I loved the little stories.
There was a guy who was in the trenches
for the Allies right
and what had become was
this unspoken ceasefire
when smoke was coming
from the trenches because that's when you're
cooking and having your dinner
so it's the smoke coming from
your trenches right
because you're sizzling bacon or whatever
the Germans wouldn't chill you and then it was reciprocated by the allies so there was just
this like they would shoot them when they're eating let them have that dinner that's right
and this had developed over the course of like a patch of the war yeah this particular part of the
trenches right and then um and then one of the lads who must have been fucking suicidal
walked over the trenches sat down had, had dinner with the Germans.
And they were like, we're kind of kill him because then the dinner time ceasefires over.
Fucking hell.
So they fucking had dinner with him.
The balls.
And he whacked Bakawa with a belly full and had his dinner Bakawa here and there.
Whether it's true or not not the fact that story reached
it reached books
the story
like I was reading
I think it was like
the guns of August
or something
that's amazing
but the fact that
like that story
is now in literature
whatever the story
spawned from
like the fucking story
that we're telling now
came from
whatever the fuck happened
that's class
and I love shit like that
there was another one
where there was this
young scouse lad
right and there was a fucking there was a one where there was this young scouse lad right
and there was a fucking
there was a soldier
on leave
like he'd been sent back home
and he was due to
get back out
right
and this young scouse lad
who was like
13 years old
and his brother
and now his fucking mates
were old enough
and they were out
fighting in the trenches
and he gets this kid
this actual soldier
drunk in a bar
this 13 year old
gets him fucking mullered
right texts his fucking shit his papers and all that and fucking gets this actual soldier, drunk in a bar, this 13 year old, gets him fucking mullered,
right,
texts his fucking shit,
his papers and all that,
and fucking gets his cell all the way out there,
Germany,
or Belgium,
or wherever the fuck he was going,
and just walked down the trenches
until he phoned his brother,
he fucking sorted his salute,
to get to war,
from home,
as a kid,
Jesus,
imagine,
he got sent,
like apparently, like the fund who, like the fund him, and realised he was like too young to be at war, from home, as a kid. Jesus. Imagine, you got sent, yeah, but like,
apparently like,
the fund who,
like,
the fund them,
and realised he was like,
too young to be at war,
and all that,
and sent him back.
That's amazing,
man.
But imagine,
you're just fucking at war,
and all that,
and you're passing,
and you're like,
stish.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
The fuck are you doing here,
funny lad?
Thought you were at school.
Fucking hell, man man I'm fairly certain
my grandparents
my
both my granddads
were too young to be
what then
what was it
was it 16
no idea
probably
fairly certain
most of them
were too young
either way
even if it was 16
right
that's
that's kids that
oh christ
you know
I think people,
when they think about, like,
oh, war heroes and all that,
they think of, like, fucking Willem Dafoe,
whatever.
Aye, exactly, aye.
Like a grizzled old vet, right?
They don't think of just, like, scared young'uns.
No, no.
And when they're like,
oh, these war heroes and all that,
like, I bet a lot of them
didn't come back feeling like heroes
because I bet a lot of them
were actually just curled up in the mud,
crying, shitting their pants.
Aye, totally, aye.
And they made it home and everyone held them a hero
and they're like, I fucking never even fired a bullet.
I was scared and all that.
Aye.
I bet there's a reality, like, obviously, like,
the hero's for even just fucking being there.
Like, you don't need to take that away from them.
I'm not trying to take away what happened.
But I...
You pussies.
I bet you it wasn't the fucking bite down on the gun shield
march forward fucking shoot-outs.
No, it wouldn't be the Hollywood war.
Yeah, yeah.
They're not whacking around
like fucking me at Lear's Equest.
They're shit scared
because they're going to die
if they get hit, right?
And the kids...
The kids, like,
I think the fucking reality...
The reality of war
is fucking cold, man.
I bet you none of them
are coming back
and getting their medals
and all that kind of stuff. I just shot myself in, man. I bet you none of them are coming back and getting their medals and all that kind.
I just shot myself in the field.
I shot me bullets out of the head to the enemy
because I didn't want to kill anyone.
There you are, there's your medal.
That's why you're coming back alive.
My son did Laser Quest for the first time last weekend.
And you've got to pick a name at the start of it
so there's like
suggested names
you can put in your own names
so there's like
fucking
there's like
all of them
the ghost of Dumfries
yeah
so there's like
there's all the Star Wars names
there's all
Iron Man
all that kind of shit
and then there's
various
all Marvel characters
and all that kind of stuff i was so
tempted to just shagger just to see just just to see sex just to see fucking even even if he wasn't
even close to the top just for them to read around and go skywalker chewbacca, Shaggar. Just him standing there.
That would be so funny.
Bottler,
didn't do it.
What,
right,
okay,
if you put that,
what kind of trouble do you think you'd be in?
What would be the real world ramifications of putting Shaggar?
I think,
six year olds.
I think the other,
some of the other dads would find it funny aye
but then
it's mostly
it was mostly mums there
aye
and then you're just
it's deeply inappropriate
oh like
that means he's been
he's been a victim
of a sexual assault
yeah
how else could he shag
it's not like
it's not like
even if he shags a woman
then that's it
that means he's been
assaulted by the woman
that was always that's always a weird
it's always a weird debate that
where
if it's a teacher
if it's a
if it's a male teacher
and a 16 year old
lassie at school
that's deeply wrong whereas if it's a female teacher and a 16 year old lassie at school that's deeply wrong
whereas if it's a female
teacher and a 16 year old lad
meh
that's a bad
this hypothetical debate me and Mark
are going to have is deeply
covered in caveats like we know
it's all wrong it shouldn't be done
it shouldn't be wrong
just to assume that half of the course if i was 15 and mrs stevenson decided that she was
gonna shag me and then buy me an xbox to keep me quiet i would murder the snitch who stopped it
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah is mrs stevenson she was that made up yeah that was
she was quite a
hot teacher
oh right
I didn't know whether
you'd changed her name
like you did with
Pedo Jerry
she did
she changed it to
Mrs Hall
fucking cow
I thought she only
had eyes for me
and she went
she either got married
or got witness protection
either way
either way
that means she fucked somebody else.
But the teacher, and this is the thing,
I think there may be a little bit of,
there may be a little sexism, a little bit of sexism
towards our attitude towards that,
which is such a fucking laddish attitude to get on.
If it happened to a boy, that lad's a fucking gangster.
The girl's a victim if it's happened to a girl
but I bet you there's a lot of girls
that are like 15
that like
fucking use their mind
a lot better than boys
know that
oh Christ I
where the boys
girls are a hell of a lot more mature
the boys like the fucking
like the one that
is
is more childlike
in their ways
than the girl
the girl would have
like
like
there's probably a lot of sexism
in that
in that we find a difference that we go the boy's a legend and the girl's have like there's probably a lot of sexism in that we find
a difference that we go the boy's a legend
and the girl's the victim yeah yeah yeah
oh that's massive sexism yeah
and it definitely is wrong
like neither of us are advocating this
we're just saying there's different
attitudes between if it's a female
teacher or if it's a male teacher and it's true
there's different attitudes yeah
and there shouldn't be it's all wrong and if it's a male teacher and it's true there's different attitudes yeah and there shouldn't be it's all wrong
and if it's a male teacher
and a male boy
fine
absolutely fine
they're just having
a great time
coming from
a catholic school
absolutely fine
nothing wrong
with that whatsoever
so we'll manoeuvre
through that
totally fine
we'll say
we're like the ghost
of Kiev
there
I military manoeuvred when we were. We're like the ghost of Kiev there.
Aye, military manoeuvre.
We're way through saying that it was okay to molest a child as long as it's a boy.
We're not saying it's okay, deeply low in cowlats,
but we are saying we feel like society views it differently.
Yes.
Which it shouldn't.
Still.
But if it had been made at 15
yeah
but then there's also
that
it's very much
laced in
and dressed up
in like
that kind of
American Pie
type
deal of
a older woman
seducing a younger
do you know what I mean
it is that kind of
telling your pals
you're a fucking legend
whereas
in reality it's probably quite of telling your pals you're a fucking legend whereas in reality
it's probably quite horrific
yeah
and you
you probably
like let's
let's unpack it
to its reality
you're probably like
gonna have like a really
jarred view of
sex
and
yeah
yeah
you're being accelerated through
awkwardly kissing a girl
at the school disco
and then fumbling
together both figuring out
while you've both still got spots
that the
like figuring out simple stuff like
when I first
when I first
think of the girl
I was expecting the vagina to be on the front
and I ended up like rubbing a hill for the front and I ended up rubbing her hill
for a bit before I realised
Rubbing her what?
The hill? The mound?
The hill?
The mound?
The pitcher's mound?
The grassy knoll?
Fucking hell.
Fumbling the grassy knoll?
You get accelerated past all of that
like you don't even get
you don't even get it going
through your
your fumbling arc
of discovery
yeah
you're getting thrown in
you just get fast tracked
by a fucking
someone in a position of power
that's exactly what they're doing
you're getting thrown in
with a legend
it's like your first
your first fight
being the undertaker
I don't know
fucking
I don't know what I'm doing
not prepared for this
yeah
and then like
and then
all your relationships
are probably
going to be a bit
more fucked up
after that
I'm not a
psychologist
I'm just
saying you're
probably getting
robbed of a little
bit of the
innocence of
discovery
if you get
molested by a
grown adult
I'm new with
these ideas
nobody's even
thought of this before
it's definitely wrong though
I love that we go
I think we manoeuvre
through that main field
and then I just
ran back through it
yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah
we got through it
forgot my keys
someone else is new
what have you been up to
I was in Glasgow
I went to
I was near
I was in Teesside
on Thursday night
oh nice
a place called
Stainton
Stainton
aye
do you know it
nah
sounds like Teesside
rough
rough as fuck
it was
when I turned up
at the venue
the venue
was in a hotel
and it had
two ambulances
outside
and it's never a good sign
when the ambulances
are already there
already at the hotel
and eh
you haven't even had
a heart attack yet
yeah
it was fucking mental man
couple split up
while I was on stage
oh nice
which is nice
were you complicit
was it happening around you
or was it happening because of you?
I wasn't...
I didn't cause it,
but I didn't help.
Ah, nice.
I kind of commentated
and goaded it.
Well, if you're going to say it publicly
when someone's got a mic.
But the guy was a proper bail-in,
so...
And they also pissed me off
by calling me Irish
as soon as I went on.
Do you get a...
Do you not like that
if people call you Irish?
Nah, because it's not
I don't think it's
it's quite
it's quite common
in em
in Australia
for people to mistake me
for being Irish
because me mam
you know like
the same things
give us that
like I
I think
I think em
there's certain things
I'm never offended by that
yeah
but yeah if someone was to like
say are you from
yeah Birmingham yeah yeah fuck off ah yeah yeah so as a scottish man i'm not i mean i don't to
be honest i don't care it's just a it's a funny bit at the start because you can immediately
play off the fact that they're racist so so they did that and then I commented on that
and then I think very much
like you were saying the guy at this
point had then taken that and
run with it and gone alright this is
a wee double act we've got going now
and then we shut the fuck up
you were going to laugh that he thought it was his
and then it was a back and forth
and then she started getting mad with him
for constantly talking and then he
was a prick to her
and then at one point he fucking
slammed his pint down and just stormed
out. Smash it I think.
No, just like fucking launched down.
They don't give people glass
and paper.
I'm mad.
But it was mental man.
Did she stay?
She stayed.
And then it's awkward
because
she's then
on her own
and everyone's going
how long
left is this
and there was almost
like 10 minutes left
but
it was a long 10 minutes
for everybody
I had a lassy
I had a lassy storm
out in hot water
once because
I was taking
another bit of day about the lads shouting
punching when I'm in the taxi queue and they shout punching to us.
And the lassie was like, like him, with her boyfriend.
And I leaned in, come under the light, looked at them and went, nah.
Because she'd called us a lot.
Yeah, exactly.
I didn't even take a look at it
I was like nah
because that's the funny thing to be
she didn't have no fucking storm route
I was like what fancies this
I had somebody
walk out
a proper commotion as well
complaints and shit afterwards at hot water
and I thought it was me
and the staff thought it was me as well
and I was fucking shitting and the staff thought it was me as well and i was fucking
shitting myself because i was like that's not like the bit i do about um there's a bit i do about
teaching my son to swim and how i would come up under the water and grab him and like a shark
attack right and uh i grabbed the wrong kid and then i only realized and then i apologized to
parents and the punchline is i couldn't even claim it was a genuine,
understandable mistake because my son's got blonde hair
and he's not Chinese, right?
So that's the joke, right?
When I go up, the bouncers and the,
I can't remember who was in charge that night,
were kind of going, oh, yeah, folks.
I could see commotion fucking storming out.
And they were, people had left and they were like oh it's because that because the chinese bit you do i was like what chinese bit and i end with the swimming and i was like all i said was the
word chinese like i had to pick yeah i had to pick something that is so far away because my son is so
pale and so blonde haired i was like right
like so it's not racist to say that your son doesn't look chinese exactly yeah so uh and they
were like yeah they were they were chinese as well so um they were proper furious about it like
complaining i was like right i'm really sorry like i didn't i didn't understand and then i went
downstairs for a drink and then they came down and went, oh no, no, it wasn't you. Some guys, some guys from behind them
were giving them fucking shit for something else.
And I was like, well, thanks.
I mean, I could have walked away tonight
thinking I'd committed a fucking hate crime.
And all it was, was the guy behind him
had bumped into him and spilt his pint.
So they'd been arguing all the way through.
Wouldn't buy him a new one.
And I was like, what the fuck, man?
That's the worst.
Yeah,
you don't want to feel like
you've hurt anyone in the crowd,
especially like that.
No, God no,
especially if it's completely,
like if,
trust me,
if I want to offend people,
I will.
I had,
you know when I used to do the bit
with the hat,
where I was like,
I can't wear a hat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it looks like I'm terminally ill. And I like, I put the hat on in order like I can't wear a hat yeah yeah yeah because it looks like
I'm terminally ill
and I like put the hat
I put the hat on
I'm terminally ill right
I'd done that
it was at a
it was at a ski resort
it was like
in Courchevel or something like that
I was out doing the
taking the piece to gigs
and they do like
a kind of tour
of different resorts
and then there's like
kind of older
older British bloke
I can't remember where from
but he'd just come up
and he was just like
good set mate,
but,
didn't,
didn't do the cancer joke,
like,
my friend died of cancer,
and it's just,
it really,
it's really inappropriate
to do jokes about cancer
and all that,
and I was just like,
hello mate,
like,
do you think you're the only person
that's been affected by cancer?
No,
I know,
I know.
Is this like a really unique
to you situation?
Like,
I'm fucking,
do you think,
I've never in my life
ever had anything to do, like, it's you think i've never in my life ever had anything
to date like it's just been something that completely off the table for me yeah like to
just assume that cancer hasn't affected my life yeah exactly yeah yeah fuck man like you can't
you can't just take the thing that was like offensive to you there in fact it wasn't even
offensive like i wasn't making fun of people with cancer no of course you weren't no you can't you can't you can't pick and choose what you find acceptable you either
don't like at all or you can't you can't just go that's that one that's the one thing that's too
far for me well fair enough if it's too far for you then i'm sorry but it's not I'm not going to stop it because there's something that you
laughed at a minute ago
that's too far for someone else
I remember when I first discovered
that was
about like people getting offended
about their thing
it was
Gary Delaney was on
at Punch Drunk
2009 it would have been
so I'd like not long since started
and just started running these gigs
and there was a lassie I worked with she was drunk and I like and she just started crying and just kicking off at the
back of the room and all that and there's just this crying lassie she's like you just done a
joke about diabetes my dad's got diabetes I was like fuck he done a joke about blind people
like if you go to Gary Delaney'saney they're jokes and they're quite clearly jokes
because they're fucking structured
jokes there's no room for
ambiguity with Gary Delaney's stuff
it's not like he's telling you his opinion
and then fucking one of them happens to be a hate crime
like these are just
jokes about different things
and she took umbrage to the diabetes
and I'm like I saw you laughing
at the jokes about the people's ailments.
Yeah.
But because that one's very loosely involved with you.
Like, it's not like.
Yeah, that's how he got nine toes.
Just made me start fucking crying your eyes out about that bit.
Don't you take the piss out of the left-handed.
To like really laser point the thing that affects you and then get upset about that while throwing your head back
better than other people's shit
is the most fucking egotistical bullshit
that I've ever seen.
And then it does happen with people in the crowd.
See, I heard people talking on the radio about this
and it was after the Jimmy Carr thing
and people going on about how,
is this offensive, isn't offensive,
all this kind of shit.
And then basically kind of saying like,
I don't think comedy and jokes deserve this amount of scrutiny
and this amount of in-depth analysis
because one of the funniest things, right?
Now, whether you like it or not,
I do quite find it funny.
My kids find it fucking hilarious as you've been framed, right?
People falling off
shit and slipping and all that kind of stuff is funny slapstick's funny somebody falling over on
the street is fucking hilarious like when it's slippery outside you see somebody going up on
their arse it's hilarious man i was walking alongside barry castanola in amsterdam and he
fucking disappeared out my eye lane he went down like that right he didn't fall but he managed to
stop himself and come back up, right?
And we're both looking off our shoulder at the same time,
and there's a fucking banana skin there.
Yeah, I mean, God almighty, that's...
My fucking God, did we die laughing.
I was expecting him to step on an upturned rake.
Yeah, yeah.
I was like, that's like a fucking cartoon fall
you just had while we're chatting.
Yeah, yeah.
But in those scenarios,
someone genuinely does get hurt
like actually physically get hurt
wouldn't you see
you see like a
somebody
somebody that's
like
there'll be an
an American backyard
right
and somebody will come
and bounce on the trampoline
and the fucking trampoline
will give way
and it'll throw him
rather than throwing him
into the pool
it'll throw him
straight through a fence
right
and the guy's fucking
lying there crippled.
Studio laughter, next video.
Yeah, everyone's pissing themselves.
It's taking the video.
The guy that's holding the camera can barely fucking stand.
Everyone's laughing in the studio.
Move on, right?
There's a good chance that guy's going to hospital for stitches.
That would be funny if just like 10 minutes
through you've been framed, right?
Like one of the videos,
just the studio laughter
just dissipates and dies down to nothing
and then the video keeps running
and the guy can't get him and like half the fence isn't built
so he's coughing and he's fucking
screaming and they're like they're calling the paramedics
and they're like wrapping stuff around and trying to
stop the bleeding like
we're now like 45 minutes into
you've been framed and half an hour of it's just been this
guy like fucking losing blood and he's getting IV.
Getting his leg amputated.
Yeah.
But is that, so is that acceptable?
Like if you're going to dig down into humour that much,
is it acceptable to watch someone physically hurt themselves
and laugh at it as opposed to someone presenting an idea
it is funny when you see a slapstick moment in real life and you'll you'll check before you laugh
you're like the laughter will come and then you'll be like are you all right there mate like i'm
chris ferguson who listens to the podcast yeah one of my pals you know chris yeah no chris yeah
um we're walking along and he fucking slipped on the ice we're just going to go back on so the dog
slipped on his ice and he fell, right?
And the instant reaction is like,
one of my mates just fell out of a laugh.
But like, this is a grown man
who's fell over onto the pavement.
We're not kids anymore.
You don't get back up from that sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you're like, all right, mate, all right, yeah.
I just scuffed my hand and lost a bit of my dignity.
I hope you didn't mention it on the podcast.
You fucking tet, Chris. Then you check his heart rate and podcast you're a fucking tet grist then you
check your tar eight and then you're like why my wife does it she's got like a proper nervous
whenever anything like she should go that kind of laugh at a funeral kind of thing because it's such
a nerve-wracking experience and there is the silence and the nervousness. So laughter is the natural kind of thing to do.
And so she does that whenever you hurt yourself.
And see when it's you that's hurt yourself,
it's the most annoying fucking thing in the world.
I remember one time.
You're trying not to get too serious about it.
Aye.
You're trying not to go,
babes, my fingers sore.
I know, I know, I know.
I can't remember what we were doing.
We were mucking
about something
and we were in
our old flat
before we had kids
and she fucking
I think we were like
throwing different
bits of felt
or paint
or something
at each other
and then at one point
she just took it
too far
and grabbed like
a can of deodorant
and fucking
sprayed it in my eyes
right so my eyes
are like stinging
I'm like a fucking
attacker and I'm going to be like this and she's pissing herself laughing and i'm gonna i'm actually
lost my sight here you mad bastard what does it say on the bottle if you get in your eyes
then she's lighting a match and just fucking i laughed at a funeral thing i was at a funeral
on on monday and um a lot of comedians there
it was somebody
within the industry
and Elliot Steelgate crashed
yeah
he didn't know anybody
but he was like
a couple of my mates are there
he didn't
he knew the guy as well
and because it's all comedians
and because it's that tension
and because there's so many
funny memories
and happy memories
like people were having a laugh
but like it was such a weird feeling
because like it was that jarring,
it was that jarring thing of like,
I'm laughing with these people
who I haven't seen,
it's the fact,
you know,
sometimes you haven't seen people for three years
because of the pandemic.
You're instantly feeling like,
oh yeah,
how are you doing?
How are you being?
And then it dawns on you like,
why is all coming together?
Why?
And you feel like shit for your reaction
and you're like,
you're just in this fucking pocket
of not knowing how to act.
You literally don't know how to act
because you're genuinely grieving
and feeling sad
and you're genuinely happy
to see people lit up
by their presence
and that fucking just,
like an included front
just makes you have this fucking
like cauldron of like emotion
that you don't know how to process, right?
But everybody's processing it by just like fucking inappropriately laughing instead of cracking the emotion that you don't know how to process right but everybody's processing it
by just like fucking inappropriately laughing and stuff cracking the jokes that you shouldn't crack
like yeah just comics being comics being deeply inappropriate but every time elliot had a like a
proper from the belly laugh i ticked him off for it like quietly i put it on the side i was like
me and his parents are here man you can't be but everyone was doing it
his brothers were doing it
but every time Elliot did it
I was like Elliot
whoa Elliot man
I went
better respect Elliot
for fuck's sake
better respect
he didn't even know the man
what did Elliot wear?
shouts it
because he
I told him
because he was like
I don't have a suit
and I was like
well I'm just wearing
a black jumper
aye
I'm just wearing
a black sweater
like erm
just do something
like that right
and then he was like
you wore a black sweater
and he was like
fuck
I've left my black sweater
on the tube
the only thing
that he had
I was expecting
but he did have
a dog shirt
underneath it
looking like he
didn't have one
we asked him
on the whatsapp
asked him on the
whatsapp
what did you have
on underneath it
and he just put
an up arrow
the man
and then it's down
out of the legend
rocking up at a
funeral with a
man and legend
yeah you know that funeral as well right I watched because there's so rocking up at a funeral with a man that lets him go yeah
you know
that funeral as well
right
like I watched
because there's so many
fucking good speeches
like his brother
his sister
his best mate
his ma got up
and like
his ma crying
talking about losing
her baby
like it was the
fucking hardest shit
to watch right
but I managed to like
stay stoic
and like listen to
everything without
fucking breaking down.
And then right at the end, Tim Fitzhiam played the bugle.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Out of tune at the end, right?
And because it had like such a comedy element to it,
it fucking knocked me god re-doing it.
It was clean in the face.
I'd fucking sat through all these emotional speeches from family
and I ended up like fucking hicking in my seat like this
at a badly-tuned bugle.
Yeah.
Like, it's amazing the fucking, the way a shit can hit you.
Aye, aye.
Aye, totally, aye.
Aye.
And then, because the lad,
I don't want to be too candid about it at all,
but the lad was a Liverpool fan,
and Andrew Maxwell got up and done a speech,
and he was a Liverpool fan,
and he talked,
he talked through the words
of You'll Never Walk Alone.
Oh, nice.
And like,
fucking so emotional,
like, you know,
like the words just laid down.
And then he was just like,
it's so fucking hard
to say that
without singing it.
And then he started like
banging the desk
and everybody in the room
started singing
You'll Never Walk Alone.
And me and Danny,
we were just like,
nah.
Nah.
Love the man, but I'm not gonna, it were just like nah. Love the man but I'm not going to snort him.
Love the man but nah.
I'm not singing another football
team's fucking... It's too far, Maxwell.
It's not what he would have wanted.
He had
respect for people.
Imagine you just start singing your own songs back.
We are the Johnny's.
The Johnny Boob Boys.
Your support.
Your support.
Your support is fucking shit.
Singing who's the pedo in the black.
To the guy conducting the service.
the pedo in the black to the guy conducting the service
I would love
like a fan base
to respond to your supporters
with just like no it's not
no it's not
our support is really good
we have actually organised ourselves really well
we're really get behind
the lines
I'm here every week
sometimes get the bus
out of the way
from the bottom of the country
on a weird day
even though I've got work
in the morning
because they put it
midweek for TV coverage
and that
and I just like
you know what
I've really put me
back into
supporting this
club
well anyway
we've done
we've done
now our
ride ready
Margaret
flies by
Sydney
at night
it really does
but that does
not stop your
dad from
getting
getting the
truth some
about to say
that's dad jokes yep yes right stop your dad from getting the truth some about to say.
That's dad jokes?
Yep.
Your dad takes poo bags every time he goes for a walk, but he doesn't have a dog.
It's for his own shite.
Your dad shaved eggs only into the hair
above his arse.
Your dad got a semi watching the
school nativity
but he's not a
pedo he just
loves sheep
your dad dressed
up as Jeremy
Clarkson for
world book day
the fact my dad's
getting dressed up
for school book
day just to drop the kids off at school
sweet jacket and t-shirt
pair of bully jeans
go on there Hammy go on James
your dad eats his soup with a knife and fork
your dad won't drive away unless a petrol counter finishes
on a multiple of three
another driver one Your dad won't drive away unless a petrol counter finishes on a multiple of three.
Another driver one.
Your dad always goes out for a drive just so he can wave people out to junctions.
But not to be kind, specifically to piss off whoever's behind him.
Your dad refuses to shop at the supermarket in case he's mistakenly caught with a paedophile hunter when your dad when your dad dropped you off at school he wouldn't stop the car he'd make you
jump out like john mcclain john mcclain he doesn't jump out of a car he doesn't
he never jumped out of a moving car in any of his movies fuck off he can juke a hazard or something like that john mcclain's never jumped out of a moving car in any of his movies fuck off he can juke a hazard or something like that
John McClane's never
jumped out of a moving car
in any of the Die Hard movies
no definitely
shut up
no
because he's not even
in a car in the first one
nor the second one
did he not jump
out of a car
onto the wing
of a Harrier jump jet
man I'm fucking astonished
if John
McClane's never
jumped into a car
that's like how
funny that day
you know
you know Bob
Iffett
he only had
something like
six minutes of
screen time
in the whole
trilogy
and only said
four lines
yeah yeah yeah
and he felt like
such a massive
he's a proper
cult character
to the point that
I had to make a
spin off of him
yeah
right last one
your dad did
karaoke last night
but changed the
word of his
favourite song to
it's ukrainian
men
it's ukrainian
men
your dad rewinds
films on netflix
after he's watched
them
yeah I've got
another one
your dad makes all of his cups of teas at the beginning of the week
and microwaves them as he needs them
and that's the podcast cheers Mark
plug your show at the
12th of March
the day before Cais Saturday 12th of March
I have five work in progress gig at the stand
class and then
mine's the same venue
in Glasgow
the next day
in Glasgow
so and also
Elliot Steele
Gareth Moore
and Ryan Cullen
all doing the festival
going online
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and I think
we're going to have
Danny again
doing the
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