Sloss and Humphries On The Road - Quarantine 15. Hashslag
Episode Date: May 21, 2020Taking a brief break from the sun muggins and cream discuss the influence their childhood toys may have had on them and briefly chat like a pair of pervy dads before roasting their mates. ...
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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.
Woohoo!
Ha ha ha!
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 fuckin' Mugglepedia.
Where have you been since 9-11?
Welcome to Sloss and Humphreys on the Road.
Episode 1 million of the quarantine.
I mean, it's been a fair few.
I think we're at...
It's been nine weeks?
Aye, this is episode 14.
Sweet.
So there was...
We doubled up for a lot of it
We've done two until it got impossible
Aye
I'm getting a second wind now
I think it may be the sun
Fucking lovely
Aye
In what form did your second wind come in?
Oh no it wasn't drugs
No no that was not what I was asking
But I'm glad to hear that's where you were going
In what form?
I just had a bit of get up and go
it's Wednesday the day
isn't it?
so every day I've had this little mental checklist
that I do
I do 8 minutes of sit ups
I do 100 press ups
I do 50 pull ups
I go for a run
I do some yoga
and I floss my teeth
that one's less strenuous
and I read 10% of a book
and that's my mental checklist for the day
and I am not in a rush to do any of it
I just potter through them
and it just hasn't brought a good headspace
I've just done it for three days
and it's good
I've just been enjoying every bit of it
instead of seeing them as chores that I've got to get out of the way I think it's good. I've just been, I enjoy every bit of it instead of saying it's like chores
that I've got to get out of the way.
Aye,
just little,
I think it's good to say
I used to have achievable things
because that was something
that in the first couple of weeks
where I felt fucking useless
just because there was nothing to do
so I felt like
I should be doing something
and then I wasn't
so I was feeling guilty
about those things
and then this past week,
I don't know what's happened,
I don't know if something
personally has
changed in my inner
mantra or whatever voodoo
bullshit Milo would say
I've become really good at doing fuck all now
aye
this week zero
guilt zero guilt because
every other time I've been doing nothing like there is other stuff
that I could be fucking doing
whereas this week I've been doing nothing, I'm like, there is other stuff that I could be fucking doing. Whereas this week,
I've just fully embraced being a lazy piece of shit
and just allowing myself.
And then occasionally,
if something pops up that needs done,
I'll just do it as it arrives.
And that's what makes me feel productive.
It's like fucking whack-a-mole productivity.
We're lazy at all times.
If I've given you a sell if you do,
fuck all.
Not begrudging yourself a couple of whiskies in the evening
well I mean I just had
my chore for the day
what was it
I took all the chores to do the service
I'm about to
get a conversation with you
where we are essentially
both just dads for the next five minutes
you ready?
get a shite moustache on, right?
I'll go wear some fucking tighty-whities.
In where?
Turn the thermos.
What, are you going to say we're going to be dads for a minute?
Yeah, yeah, I'm about to.
The topic of conversation,
the conversation I'm about to instigate
is probably the most middle-aged dad conversation
I think you and me will ever have in our lives.
Hold on, I'm pulling my belt up to my ribs.
Right. Mate, I'm tucking my shirt in.
Hold on, I'll put my fucking
slippers on but with socks. I've put my hair into a
parting. I'm ready.
I'm looking through the top
lens of my bifocals.
Aye, right.
So,
got a power washer the other week.
Nice.
For getting the bits out between the patio stones, the moss.
Aye.
Does that bring you joy?
Oh, well, I mean, it's just, it's a chore that is the most menial,
but it's brain chewing gum.
Like, it's just purely a visual fucking stimuli because you've just got to aim
it and at the dirty bit you know and then it's not dirty did i ever tell you that when the pool
shut uh for cleaning i used to have to go in with a scuba gear on all the scuba gear in the jet
washer and get like there was like the kind of green algae there just developed on the white
tiles like on the tile cracks and it's just like the tiny tiles like, the kind of green algae that just developed on the white tiles, like, on the tile cracks.
And it's just, like, they're tiny tiles,
and it's a massive pool.
And I just had to go around the pool
just with a scuba gear on
and just, like, fucking,
just clearing the green away with a jet washer.
And it was, like, like you said, brain-chewing.
Do you mean scuba or snorkeling?
No, no, like, with an oxygen pack.
In the fucking...
To anyone on the outside,
you must have looked like the fucking... To anyone on the outside, you must have looked like
the fucking biggest wimp in the world.
Oh, there was a lassie I worked with as well.
I probably shouldn't own up to this,
but she was doing it as well in the pool,
just doing breaststroke legs,
and she was right in the areas,
and I kept glancing up.
Oh, just underneath?
You know, it was just like a good day at the office,
you know what I mean?
I wasn't staring to see what she had for her dinner, but it was just like a good day at the office you know what I mean I wasn't like staring to see what you had
for our dinner
but it was
like it was just
something that was there
in my periphery
and when I looked around
I would say it
it was just
it was just dead nice
and I was just there
like underwater
like
just a view
that you didn't expect
just getting
absolutely prick teased
well back
so
when I was in
when I was in New York in
January
fucking a friend of a
friend of a friend of a friend's birthday sort of
thing so basically my mate just was like
I'm going to a birthday party tonight do you want to come and I was like I don't know
whose birthday it is and they're like it's fine it's you know it's New York
nobody gives a shit but it was like
an Instagram person so I immediately
fucking hated the concept of it because
I mean that just sounds like,
that's just the most American thing in the world.
And just part of me coming from,
growing up in Scotland,
it's just one of those things that it dismays me
that it actually exists.
Just the same way you got absolutely furious at me,
like nothing I've ever seen when I introduced it.
Oops.
It has cut off.
Hopefully he's kept it
hopefully he's kept it running
and I don't have to do much editing
he'll be talking as well at this point
I've realised that we talk over each other
at this point
did we talk over each other again?
no I've no idea what happened there
because what happens right is
we're cut off and then I think we both
just keep talking and then when I edit it together it's just us both can't hear each other we're cut off and then I think we'll both just keep talking and then when I edit it together
it's just us both
like can't hear each other
we're talking over each other
oh well I mean
I know where I cut off from
so let's just go from there
I don't know
you're still recording though
because I haven't stopped recording
I'm still recording yeah
yeah great
that's fine
that's totally fine
what I was saying there
there fucking
this is why
this is why it's free guys
this is why there isn't a Patreon
this is why you didn't subscribe pay any money need donations please buy my show um yes i was saying
when i introduced you as an influencer to somebody in japan oh yeah because uh they were they were
gay they photobombed you which is muggly anyway and then i went oh you're being seen you're being
seen in that photo by a hundred thousand people or something and sure how's that and i went oh it's just an
influencer if you're fucking furious i was jane i just wanted to fucking thing to accuse to accuse
anyway but like my eyes light up as i realized i'd get into you man i don't i do not you know
i don't necessarily i don't begrudge anyone
that fucking gets their money from being an influence i mean that's not true i mean i
absolutely do deep down but for the sake of sounding nice on a podcast i don't begrudge
anyone from making money from being a fucking influence but i absolutely do resent being
compared to someone that has actual no fucking talent wow yeah that Yeah, that's fair, because that's fair, because
you've got your following because
of another thing. You haven't just got your following
because of the photo that you're about to take
in Japan. Aye.
That said, Piggy could become an influencer,
I think.
I mean, who would want to be
a fucking influencer?
Well, influencers are never good influencers,
are they?
No, some of them are.
Some of them are fucking, you know,
they go to the gym and they, you know,
they're trying to influence you to be healthy.
Like, there's healthy...
There's vegan influencers.
Piggy's also always the heaviest on Instagram,
when she's on the sesh.
That's almost addictive to watch
when you're watching someone fucking getting on it.
So you're saying she could be like a booze influencer?
Well, yeah, she could get her own following
without using skill or talent to get it.
I'm sure she does have skill and talent in the job that she's got.
She does. She absolutely does not.
That's not where she's...
She doesn't dare be presumptuous.
Well, you know, she might have skill and talent in the bedroom.
No.
She might have skill and talent keeping cats alive.
Well, I mean, no, not this year.
No, no, no.
That's why I said it.
Yeah, but she could be one of them people that develops a following
by getting the critical mass from your following
and then people just enjoy watching her sesh.
I mean, if people want to follow her and watch her get pushed by all fucking mates,
it's just...
I mean, it's what I do.
It's how I recollect about what I did the previous night.
Anyway, my point was, the fucking influencer.
So, go to this fucking Instagram party house.
And it was in like a hotel.
So clearly they just rented out the penthouse for the birthday.
And it was a two-floor penthouse.
And on the upstairs was a pool.
And on the bottom floor of it, you could look up into the pool from the bottom.
Okay.
Which, obviously...
It's very quagmire.
It's very quagmire. But you walk in there you go i mean i'm not gonna look if there's if there's if there were the girls in
their fucking bikini in there they know this is there they have to walk through this room to get
in that tub so for me to be looking up they know the deal that's why they're in there uh look up
sure enough just six guys in trunks yeah hi hi they knew what they're doing
i think i think when the person made the room they were like i bet girls use this all the time
but it just put girls off from ever using it and rightfully so rightfully so like it's i think and
it's it's the it's the most instant form of justice i'd ever seen for perverts in the world
because you just watch people come in,
men come in,
make the same connection.
They'd look over
and they could see it.
They'd be like,
that looks like a pool.
That's feet up there.
That means we can look inside a pool.
And they'd always slowly
but casually walk underneath
and then they would try
and sneak a glance up
and then go through
the same disappointment
that the rest of us did
while we were filling up our drinks.
Yeah.
I've got a feeling, I don't know if this filling up our drinks. Yeah, I've got a feeling,
I don't know if this is right or not right,
but I've got a feeling that most girls like being in bikinis,
but not that many girls like being seen in them.
They don't like being looked at in them.
I think that's fair.
I feel the same way about G-strings.
But men think that girls are putting bikinis on
to show their bodies,
so they feel like they're
entitled to a look?
You know, Jean
when I was living with Jean, the first time
I'd ever lived with a girl, absolutely ruined
thongs for me.
How's that? Because one day I was washing
all of our clothes together
and I was hanging them up
and she had so many
g-strings, like thongs and I was like, fucking Jean is an absolute many G-strings, like things, like thongs.
And I was like,
fucking Gina's an absolute slut.
Like more than days in the week
in a week's wash.
More than every single thing
she has as a G-string.
This absolute fucking slut.
She's out there
looking for dick every single day.
And I,
I was about to say,
I confronted her.
What do you call this young lady?
Yeah, if you went to do my washing
And you found 14 J-strings of mine
On a one week wash
Aye, I'd be like
You'd know I was a slut
Aye, but not the type of slut I thought you were
I'm like, okay
Looks like me and Kai need to have two conversations
So I confronted her
I was like why are you such a dirty slut
why do you have all of these
and she was like do you honestly think the only reason
that thugs exist are for guys amusement
and I was like
are they not
I was like aye
I'm like there's no way that's a comfort fucking thing
yeah because men's
Thongs are only for men's amusement
Aye
It wasn't necessarily
I wasn't being a pervert in the sense
Everything women do is for men
But I'd be like I only wear things
For comfort therefore these
Or to appear sexy
So that's the only reason
So does she wear
Do lassies wear J-strings for comfort is that what I've just learned appear sexy so that's the only reason so so does she wear do
do lassies wear
g-strings for comfort
is that what I've just learned
no not
not just comfort
but it's also like
with the type of
the type of work clothes
they have
because have you ever
heard of a VPL
VPL
aye
visible panty line
apparently
that's a fucking no no
on the old girl circuit
ah
because we never have
that problem
with VPLs I guess I probably do when we run in no that's not true we run circuit. Because we never have that problem, do we, with VPLs? I guess I probably
do when we run in joggers.
I probably have a bit of a VPL going
on in my running joggers.
If it knew you were, I would think, oh god,
that's a no-no.
I better
wedge my arse so nobody
sees my trousers.
But we wear belts
so people don't see our underwear
is that why we wear them
I mean
aye
because otherwise
because we're not wearing belts
to keep our pants
our pants stay up normally
our trousers don't stay up
because even with a belt
like I hardly walk around
like a fucking jailbird
or like a fucking
gay
a hoodlum
erm
but I generally
even with a belt on
have me boxers
slightly above me
belt line
and that's not like
to show off
the brand or out
it's just that's
where they kind of
sit
well even then
we're wearing jeans
even then we're not
going to have a VPL
if we were wearing
something that was
bulging through
our trousers
maybe
like
because I think
they just don't like
the fact that
if they're wearing
figure hugging
clothes like there's no mystery left you're like oh she's got I wonder what Because I think they just don't like the fact that if they're wearing figure-hugging clothes,
there's no mystery left.
You're like, oh, she's got us.
I wonder what she's wearing.
Oh, a thong or tighty-whities or a strap-on.
But you know, it's quite nice, though, when you can see white linens
and you can see French knickers or something slightly translucent through them.
That's good.
Hmm.
Well, just saying
white instead of white.
White linen, because they're just a bit more
see-through, aren't they?
Oh, okay.
So it's like VPL isn't always a bad thing, is it?
I think,
I don't know, I think it depends on the
slut.
I love I love
that he went
right
we're going to have
a dad conversation
and then we'll just
become 90s perverts
oh yeah
well I love the dog
and then we just
we just paved
like dads
it was meant to be
about a jet washer
I just expected
you to have more
to say on it.
I did.
I ended up talking about it.
No, no.
I'm referring to this one.
I found it very cathartic, jet washing.
No, no, no.
I enjoyed this part of the dad conversation.
So what we can do now is you just tell me which of your 15-year-old daughters make you fancy.
Or son.
Or son.
Or sun Or sun
When
When is it like
Inappropriate
To just have a look
At something
Always
When is
Is it
Is it appropriate
To have a look
At something you like
You know right
I
I like women in bikinis
That's something
That is kind on my eyes
It's like
It's to my eyes
What a nice smelling dinner Is to my nose It's like Oh that's nice that is kind on my eyes it's like it's to my eyes what a nice smelling
dinner is to my nose it's like oh that's nice it's a joy but i know it's intrusive so you'll
try not to look it's like you know if you smelled someone else's dinner and you just had to go oh
no i'm not allowed to smell that and you block your nose i don't have that with smelling nice
smells right but with seeing i'm not but you wouldn't. But with seeing nice sights, I have to take it upon myself not to look at the nice sight, just to be a decent guy.
Even though I like the view.
It's lovely.
I think you're confusing.
I think you'd rather just smell someone else's dinner
if their smell wafts into your nose.
But if you lean over their fucking plate to take a sniff.
So you mean
you mean just be discreet about smelling someone else's dinner i think i think that's what it always
is like i think and i don't obviously i'm not going to speak about it but i think that my
personal view on it is look i don't give a fuck if somebody is like staring at me perving out or
just staring at me
because they recognise me or whatever,
just be conspicuous with it.
Just don't make it obvious.
I don't like the feeling of being looked at,
and I don't think people enjoy
the feeling of being fucking perved on.
I don't think the thing is,
don't look at me.
Don't fucking look at me and enjoy this.
I think it's just,
don't stare gop and take photos. Just make sure that I don't look at me like don't fucking look at me and enjoy this i think it's just don't stare gop and take photos and if you just make sure that i don't catch it i think that
would be do you think it would be upsetting for some girls if they spent ages getting ready finding
the right dress doing the hair putting a bit of cleavage on display and all that right and making
themselves look absolutely mint and then just every man was just too decent and they thought
they were gonna get out and turn heads they thought they were going to get out and turn heads.
They thought they were going to walk into the club
and a bunch of lads would look over at them.
Like, this is how tired I am with people in their 20s here.
I'm fucking coming up 37.
This isn't my world.
But do you think they would be gutted if they just got note?
Absolutely zero.
Or do you think they'd be like,
oh, finally, I live in a world where I can dress how I want
without getting ogled at?
I genuinely think that the answer
to that question differs from women to women.
I think you've got some women who'd walk in there
and they wouldn't be able to deal with it. It'd be the first
time they'd ever experienced what it's like to be like most
men.
Just absolutely invisible.
Absolutely.
I could put in loads
of effort into your entire picking out the right shirt, right invisible. Absolutely. Loads of
effort into your entire picking out the right
shirt, right clothes. That's why, I think
that's why girls are like, why do guys take so
why can guys get ready
so much quicker? And you go, because there's
no point putting in fucking effort.
No one's going to look at us however I dress. Honestly,
I am so invisible. I've developed such a good
sense of humour, I get paid for it. That's how
invisible I am.
But I have,
because I do find,
even when I'm just talking about stuff like that,
I feel so fucking ignorant
to what their world is like.
I've actually,
today,
picked up the book Power,
which you recommended ages ago,
and it's been sat in my house since Natalie read it. And I've just
downloaded an audiobook called Everyday
Sexism,
which I don't know if you've read that one.
I have.
I don't want to say I wrote it,
but I was quoted in it a lot.
I bought a book
called Everyday Sexism because I feel like I'm
pretty good at it, but I just want to step up to the next level.
I just want to see if there's any hot tips
that I've missed out on.
I just thought I'd step into the community, you know,
after speaking again and just tell me what I called.
Like, I worry that.
I worry that I'm going to find out that, like,
that's not a joke
because it probably is like if it's everyday sexism
it's just like the
like what's it called
you don't even know you're doing it
it's just there
it's just something that's part of you because you haven't had the light
chained on it yet like I'm really worried that I'm going to read it
and go oh no
subconscious yeah subconscious yeah
or just like ingrained into you,
like just stuff that you've picked up from your own parents,
not just your dad, but your mom as well,
like just the gender roles.
And it's just like, it's something that like,
it would be hard to shake because it's so ingrained into you.
And then you'll find out and go,
oh God, that is how I think.
Yeah, I do think female doctors are nurses.
But I think the thing to progress is catching those moments
and going, OK, yeah, look, it's shit that you think that way,
but catching it is part of the positive thing.
I can't tell you how much ingrained sexism I definitely still have in my system
when it comes to any form of competition and
and Piggy
anytime she beats me at anything
I am beyond shocked
in real life
I'm like, I'm just, I'm a bloke
I'm just
I'm just
naturally
I'm just naturally better at this
than you are, and then we'll play a game
and she'll beat me
and I'll just go
yeah no I mean
there it is
alright
what's that game
the one with the cards
where you move fast
not snap
spit
have you played spit
I don't think so
it's like
it kind of feels like
a two man solitaire
but you've got to move them fast
otherwise you lose the card
if you don't take the card
you want they'll take the card they want and it's gone so it's like a fast-man solitaire, but you've got to move them fast, otherwise you lose the card. If you don't take the card you want,
they'll take the card they want,
and it's gone.
So it's like a fast game,
and at the end,
you just shout, spit, and tap the deck.
I can't really remember how to play it,
but Natalie smashes it every time,
and she smashes it.
Like, if I ever played Snap,
which I often refuse to play,
because it's the most fucking...
She loves playing it.
She loves playing Snap.
What a fucking weird fucking shit game
to love playing.
But she'll bat as it is every time, right?
Her reactions are so much better than mine.
Yet, I feel like I could demolish her in every computer game, right?
All she would have to do is learn the controls and she's better than us
because she's clearly got better reactions.
Yet, in my head, I'll just go,
nah, she could never, ever, ever beat me in a computer game. Whereas I know she's got the better reactions yet in my head I'll just go nah she could never ever ever
beat me in a computer game
whereas I know she's got the ingredients to do so
I think it's more than me
I agree
had she played computer games for the same amount of time
that you'd play a computer game
she would absolutely
trance you
I don't think you can just fucking pick up a game
and then 360 no scopes
even Waitai
to have her reactions
from Waitai
get hit a lot less
she could be better at that
which doesn't explain
how you managed
to keep hitting her then
how's that?
that's the everyday sex
that was the bit
that we were talking about
that was the bit that were talking about yeah that was
that was
that was the bit
that was yeah
oh my god
do you get that
yeah
the computer games
is one
like every day
even though
even though we play
switch together
every time I see
Piggy with her switch
I'm like
ha
girl playing a computer game
just never experienced it
growing up
yeah
aye
I don't know why
is that just because
like
computer games
are for boys
and fucking
putting plaits and hairs
for girls
and make-ups for girls
is that because
that's
they've been
or is it because
they couldn't give a fuck
do you think they got
the same opportunity
to play computer games
but just like
so disinterested
well no I think
like I think it's the power
of fucking
as much as
I think it's the power
of marketing
so as much as like look these things are for boys and these things are for fucking girls.
And there are people out there going, hey, you know what, I don't think this is specifically for boys or specifically for girls.
My kids can play with whatever they want.
They don't take into account that also a lot of the time the kids are the same on the watch, the fucking adverts.
And I do, in the same way that, I guarantee you try and give a lot of boys a fucking Barbie doll and they'll say no
not because they're sexist kids
but because
they've only seen
girls playing with Barbie
on the fucking TV
that's where the association comes from
so maybe
it's
maybe the reason girls
don't have a fucking interest in it
when they're younger
is just because it's genuinely
not marketed towards them
don't fucking see it
like unless you're
the reason I started playing
computer games
is because my dad
bought me a computer
game console
like and he plays them I going back to the The reason I started playing computer games is because my dad bought me a computer games console.
Yeah.
And he plays them.
Going back to the Barbie dolls thing,
I had a little rant on me knitting a few weeks back now,
but it was about,
I did play with dolls when I was a kid.
I had He-Man figures,
Thundercats figures,
all of these figures, right,
were dolls in the same way that me sister's Barbies are dolls, right?
Except hers are um like
society's expectations of pretty for a girl and mine are society's expectations of uh hot for a
boy which is fucking ripped to shreds big muscles big biceps and all that right so i had my dolls
right but mine had a lever on the back that was the only mechanical bit that it had it was a lever
that made it fucking whap and uppercut.
Now, when you talk about intrusive thoughts in your life,
how as a child are you meant to not pull that fucking uppercut at any point?
So even if I'm playing like my sister would play with her dolls, right?
Making an imaginary cup of tea for my dad.
And my dad gets the empty cup and pretends to drink it, right?
And I've got her cabbage patch kid going,
did you enjoy your cup of tea kevin and then all of a sudden my left hand's got fucking lionel with a finger lever on the back i've just made me dad a cup of tea right i've just had a nice time in the
kitchen with the cabbage patch kid and then all of a sudden now the only thing left to do is just
bam bam bam bam and just knock the fuck knock the fuck with the cabinet. No wonder I've got a history of violence.
It was the only I don't think
I don't think
here's the thing
the game didn't
the toy didn't teach
how to do that.
You did that with the toy.
Oh it was the only
robotic part of it.
The only mechanical part.
It's a fucking
inanimate object.
No it was an uppercut
but this
you put the fucking
teacup in his left hand
and he could have
uppercutted that
straight into his own
fucking mouth.
He could have been
drinking tea very
I don't know
with a lot of passion
uppercut's such a
fucking brutal
like not even a jab
or a cross
or a hook
like the
the punch that
connects under your jaw
do you know how
violent that is
to punch someone
underneath the mouth
upwards
I won't be able
to hear what he's doing
with bad guys
I was I was six there's doing it with bad guys I was
I was six
there's no
I mean
I know he doesn't
say the boss
but I think that's
specifically why
they do not like
Superman and Barbie
that's why they don't
sell them together
just for the
the temptation for
childhood domestic abuse
is just too
and then you're like
you're like
dad dad
can I have an action man
not being able to
punish isn't enough
I want my
plastic figurine to fire hot lead through its enemies,
rip holes in them.
Wait, a gun?
A gun, action man, G.I. Joe.
Do they not have guns?
Oh, they do, yeah.
I mean, I don't know if they do anymore,
fucking PC brigades and whatnot.
They probably don't but like that's
I mean they definitely do
that was a
that was a proper
boomer
fear
there
but action mans
don't even have guns anymore
and you go
I mean
they probably do
what with them being in the army
I've turned out just fine
I've been in like
fucking 30 fights
looking to be alive
or not have murdered
someone with
fucking head
hitting the pavement
alright did you have what dolls did you have as a kid was it just action mans Lucky to be alive or not have murdered someone with fucking head hitting the pavement.
What dolls did you have as kids?
Was it just Action Mans?
No, I didn't have Action Man, actually.
I remember asking for them, didn't get them.
But I was kitted out with He-Man figures,
Thundercats figures,
and I had some Star Wars ones where they had the lightsaber.
So they're holding on to the lightsaber so they're holding onto the lightsaber
and they had like
this kind of
plastic red or blue
or green rod
in the arm
and it had a little lever
that like when you
pull the lever
the lightsaber comes up
so it was retractable
so I had them
and then I had
a stuffed mushroom
called Fergus
that I took everywhere
I think you've told us a little bit
about Fergus. I have, haven't I? And I told you about Gavin's
monkey called
Rutherfudge, where you could put
your thumb in your nose and your finger
in your ear and all that, and it had little slots
for its finger. Yes, man, this is like
I'm pretty sure... A little rerun.
This is... Throwback Thursday. A rerun from
season one of this fucking podcast that
that's from. That was a throwback Thursday. Thrown back from season one Of this fucking podcast That's from That was a
Throwback Thursday
Thrown back to the time
We threw back to me childhood
Aye
Erm
Speaking of Throwback Thursdays
Did you see Tom Horton's
Erm
Instagram post today
Erm
Of
Another topless one
He's looking really good
I don't want to take that away from him
Erm
Have you seen his hashtags
On his
On his Instagram posts
No I don't know.
I'll check them out now.
Right.
Can we read them out?
Yeah, let's do them one by one.
Let me just find the...
I'm quite...
Right, so that...
Honourable Tom.
No, let's plug...
If we're going to mark him, we'll plug the fuck out of him.
So it's Honourable Tom on Instagram, and it's another topless one.
I mean, it's not as impressive as the original topless one.
I mean, he's in really good, Nick.
He's putting a lot of effort in.
He is.
Because I'm working hard and I'm not looking like that.
So he's working harder.
Right.
I'm looking at it now.
Shall we read out all the hashtags together one by one?
Yeah.
Do you want to go through them and then we'll go back to any that take we fancy?
Yeah, absolutely.
Go ahead.
Right.
Hashtag lazy dog.
Hashtag tan.
Hashtag photo of the day. Hashtag pic of lazy dog. Hashtag tan. Hashtag photo of the day.
Hashtag pic of the day.
Hashtag happy.
Hashtag me.
Hashtag sun.
Hashtag Insta daily.
Hashtag fashion.
Hashtag shades.
Hashtag photography.
Hashtag nature.
Hashtag friends.
Hashtag girl.
Hashtag style.
Hashtag fun.
Hashtag selfie.
Hashtag dog. Hashtag selfie. Hashtag dog.
Hashtag TBT, which means throwback Thursday.
Today is Wednesday.
Long hashtag.
Hashtag insta-like.
Hashtag smile.
Hashtag see.
Hashtag insta-mood.
Hashtag holiday.
I'm not seeing the next one.
All right. Hashtag ig I'm not saying the next one Alright Hashtag eggers
Egers
What does that mean?
I don't know
But don't pronounce it eggers
Whatever it is
It's spelled eggers
Look
There's not two G's
It would be egers
If that's a word
I'm just telling you
Egers
Alright
Sorry
Egers
Oh sorry
Hashtag sunshine
Hashtag Hashtag art Has hashtag sunshine. Hashtag art.
Hashtag sunset.
Hashtag summer vibes.
Hashtag cool.
Right.
So it's a photo of him on the grass beside a dog.
Yep, it's a photograph of him on the grass beside a dog, right,
with both of his arms by his sides.
Yep. Right? Not at arm's both of his arms by his sides. Yep.
Right?
Not at arm's reach,
taking a photo by his sides.
No, no, no.
Lying down like vampire sleeps.
Yes.
Right?
Hashtag selfie.
Impossible, right?
Veto.
Right, so not a selfie.
Already wrong.
Scratch that, right?
The dog's also paying attention,
so I'm going to nick lazy dog right in the bud.
Oh, yeah, that dog is in the...
Hashtag holiday.
I don't think you're on a holiday.
You're forced into retirement.
You're on the dole.
So we'll take holiday out.
Hashtag fashion.
You are shirtless.
Yeah, but is the birthday suit fashionable?
Or are you talking about those fucking
lucky, lucky man shades that you've got on?
Right.
Hashtag throwback Thursday on a Wednesday.
We're getting rid of that.
In the same way, hashtag sunset.
It is, this is posted today at,
oh, it doesn't say the time it's posted,
but I mean, even now, hashtag sunset would be wrong.
Even if you took this photo and posted it now,
I know this has been up for hours.
Hashtag sunset.
Nah.
Do you think maybe what's happening is we're just explaining the joke?
Do you think the joke is the fact that it's too many hashtags?
Hashtag girl.
The one he got right
who is peruses in the hashtag girl
and do they want to find
Tom Topless
you know what those are actually two very important
questions and let's discuss them
who is searching hashtag girl on Instagram
second of all are they on a list
so I have discovered so um he uses a hashtag
generator because he wants to get more followers how do you feel about that is that a muggle corner
oh yes yeah I would say it's a necessary muggle corner like I understand where he's coming from
with the fact that you know during quarantine we're all comedians
we've all got social presence
and you know you've got to
have fan base to be able to do and
perform so his argument which
will be valid which is I need to be better on social
media so I can get more fans so I can do what I
want to do which is to and perform
so I would say it's valid
but what does that do to
fans who like you
and follow you
and they're like
they're
they want to connect with you
they want to have that authenticity
that comes with like
following a comedian online
and then they see this like
fucking massive string of hashtags
that's got now today
with a photo to the guy
and they're like
this guy's a bot
well I think it depends
some of them want
some people want like
it depends each person wants their celebrity in Some people want, like... It depends.
Each person wants their celebrity in a different way.
Like, they want their person to be, like, genuine
and then sometimes they want them to be fucking...
Does Tom want to be an influencer?
What?
That's Tom...
That's influencer style, isn't it?
He's an influencer.
But there are many comedians that become influencers.
I mean, fucking Starlin Ramsey, bro.
Yeah. but there are many comedians that become influencers like I mean fucking Starlin Ramsey Ro yeah so let's go back
to one more thing
to cover before
we move on from this
what the fuck's IGAS
what is that
shall I google it
that's pretty
that's pretty ballsy
to just let this
generator
like
because like
the hashtags are obviously ones that are like...
If it's generating them, that means...
Wait, wait, wait.
So he uses an app that generates these?
Yeah, and he's clearly not checking them.
Otherwise, he would have maybe took some of these fucking weird ones
out like girl and fashion and that.
So what if it fucks you?
What if it's like...
What if the algorithm runs
and it's got like
some fucking
like Nazi
like type
oh no
the IGers
everyone
I've followed it
and a lot of people
276
276
million posts
with the hashtag
IGers in it
we're missing something here
I'll google it
hold on
aye what does it mean
it's gotta be a are you googling it mean? It's got to be a... Are you
Googling it? I am. So I'm just
getting a bunch of people who look like they've just used
a random fucking hashtag generator.
Oh God.
Are you ready for it? It's going to make you very
angry. Right. Is it an acronym?
No.
Yes and no.
Right. So does the IG stand for Instagram
yes
ERS
right how about then hit me with it
that's it
you just
you nailed it
it's only the IG
is the anagram
Instagramers
sorry
so it's Instagramers
Instagramers
hashtag Instagramers
and that's a community of 270 million
270 million hashtag Instagram because that's a community of 270 million. 270 million.
Hashtag Instagram.
Yeah, hashtag Instagram and then ERS.
I've got to do something
right now. I'll probably
get back on it in the future, but
I'm unfollowing Tom.
Whoa, live on air?
Live on air.
The photo refreshed
the stream to Mark Nelson's child,
and I just clicked on Mark Nelson
and nearly unfollowed Mark Nelson as a Tom.
I'm not going to search for Tom to unfollow him.
I'm going to stick with him.
I want to...
I enjoy his songs.
I enjoy his songs.
I like his posts.
I just had a query on a
hashtag distribution
I also do like
his topless photos
he's looking mint like
he actually fucking
in the last one
not that one
that one just looks
great right
but the other one
he looked like
fucking Chris Hemsworth
like actual fucking
like Avengers level
fucking buff
well I mean
I'm looking at it now
and you're being very
he looks amazing, but it's
100% not even close to
the Avengers. Like, they are
ripped beyond shreds.
Ah, okay. So if you could put that
next to a picture of Chris Hemsworth, I'd be
like, fat.
No, but he looks like Chris Hemsworth
as Chris Hemsworth does normally, I'd say that.
Yeah.
Do you reckon
his mum took the photo
100%
because he's
on lockdown
with his mum
and dad
right
and his dad's not
his dad is not
taking that photo
his dad is the
ex-head of the military
so it's not
yeah there's no
yeah there's no way
he's got his dad
to do it
like he's not
going to take a photo
of his 36 year old son
fucking flexing
in the garage
like that's
I didn't feel like
that's the relationship
we've got
he's got his mom
to take that photo
didn't he
aye
oh while
while we're on the podcast
just calling out
people for their
I mean
we might as well
we've
we've dobbed Tom
in it now
erm
what's Elliot done
to his hair
oh man fucking amazing this is the worst right We might as well. We've dobbed Tom in it now. What's Elliot done to his hair?
Oh, man.
Fucking amazing.
This is the worst, right?
Like, I am fucking loving roasting him.
I'm loving fucking getting, like,
he went blonde yesterday, wasn't it?
But it came out like a kind of gingery.
Aye.
And then he put, like, a purple shock in it.
Like, I'm sure you described him as using hair colour as a personality instead of a personality.
Like, he's went like that emo chick.
He's got that K-pop look, hasn't he?
It's almost quite well.
Yes, he's got...
Yeah, it was originally blonde, which was dye blonde just to get the...
I imagine that was to allow the new colour to be more pronounced.
The base.
Right, so he is clearly...
This is where I'm holding back on rinsing him, right?
Because he's clearly just fucking...
He doesn't have to be on stage.
He's having a laugh during fucking lockdown.
He's done something wacky with his hair.
He's locked down on his own for the most part,
and he's getting a bit of attention online from it, right?
And people are rinsing him.
And for him, any attention is good attention. So he's getting a bit of attention online from it right and people are rinsing him and for him any attention is good attention so he's just he's embracing it he's
went fishing for attention he's got it there's nothing wrong with that right that's why he's
doing it and i'm holding back on roasting him because i used to bleach my hair at that age
because i thought i looked good
but but but so what you're saying
is your argument
because he knows
it doesn't look good
that he
is worse
aye
no I'm worse
I'm worse
I don't actually
I'm not sure
if I agree with you there
because yours
you thought
yours looked good
and yours was shite
in the same
way with my
like
tribal tattoos as well
it was very much like
of the style at the time
for people of that age
you know what I mean
like I was
I look back
and fashion's changed
and left me behind
in a photo
a lot of people
put fucking highlights
on their hair
back then
Beckham started it
it kept going
for a little while
but you you I mean
I was
usually if you
go out of a pub
I'm one of about
20 people in that bar
that have got some
like blokes
that have got some
kind of fucking
highlight in there
Fran Crosgrove
fucking bleached
through their hair
right
so I was like
the same way
as if I look back
at a photo with curtains
Elliot's doing it now
like against the grain
isn't he
so that's probably
why he's getting
a lot more stick than I did.
What I was going to ask is
how old is Elliot? 23?
24 maybe?
How old was I when I attempted
that fucking top knot? Was I 24?
That wasn't that
long ago, was it? 28, 29?
No, fuck off
no
29 now aren't you
yeah I'm 29 now
I mean it's getting
it's getting longer now
but no
it was altitude
it was four altitudes ago
I think
yeah
can you put the top nut in now
if you want to do it
no I could
turn my head into a
fucking like shrunken
onion head looking thing
I could probably
get like I could get it the way
that you do a two year old girl's hair
just up the middle, just getting all in one place.
But it wouldn't be anything
as sexy as an actual top knot.
I've not
thought off. I've definitely got the longest hair
that I've ever had.
We're getting back to Elliot's gone purple.
Elliot's gone purple. Just, Elliot's gone purple.
Just to let people know, the only two people
I know who have ever gone purple in
my entire life with their hair is
both my Auntie Alison and my mother
and it was both when they turned 50.
And that's why they dyed their hair purple.
So he's now in a
unique group of three.
Midlife crisis ladies.
Just going in and just being like,
you know what, I'll just get my hair done purple.
Just fancy it.
I mean, would you be tempted,
are you not tempted to like go bald at all?
Have you ever seen yourself bald?
Oh, no, it's not, it doesn't work for me.
I look like Gollum.
I look like Schwiegel. It's not like, because it's, you know, the hat joke. I look like Gollum. I look like Schmeagol.
It's not like...
Because it's, you know, the hat joke
where I look like I've got cancer
when I've got a hat on.
Aye.
Which, by the way,
someone fucking bought a cameo
and asked us to do a cameo
and went,
we saw you with such and such,
loved that joke
where you said you look like
a Down syndrome with a hat on.
The whole cameo was me
going, fucking Down syndrome.
Who said I could wear
fucking Down syndrome?
I showed them again
I'll get my hat
on
I'm a blonde
eyebrow
so it looks like
I've had chemo
because it looks
like I've got
any fucking
hair on my
face at all
when I've got
a hat on
it's this
fucking
doubt syndrome
shit
sounds like
they were just
laughing at
disabled people
I love that
when he said
he looked like
a mong
what
so yeah it just pulls off the same I look like a mong. What?
So, yeah, it just pulls off the same effect as, like, putting on a hat.
It just shows that I've got no eyebrows and fucking just... Aye, I just... I didn't look well.
I didn't look well.
Well, in that case, for the first time ever,
allow me to sincerely say let's hope you never get canter then.
What, because I look like i've got cancer
because if you if you look as bad as you do when you got a hat on oh boy well i think like you know
you know when somebody like you know if you know me made fenn he's just looked old all his life and
then all of a sudden he now is old and he just looks the same and you're like oh finally your
face matches your age like if i get ill like i'll just eventually like same and you're like, oh finally your face matches your age. Like if I get
ill, I'll just eventually like,
oh now you just look like you're meant to look.
You always
have looked ill, now you're just, oh.
He's finally aged into his
he's finally
joined his age bracket. His looks have finally
caught up with his actual timeline.
I'll deteriorate how I look. I'll finally
look as ill as I look.
Here's something. Kind of on the basis that I found out caught up with his actual timeline. I'll deteriorate how I look. I'll finally look as ill as I look. I'll finally...
Here's something.
Kind of on the basis that I found out,
I can't remember what it was,
I was reading an article a while ago,
one of the very few productive things,
I was just during the quarantine,
and it was talking about the psychology of attraction
and whatnot,
and especially like social attraction
and how it changes.
Over time it used to be the
biggest and strongest and now uh you know people have genuine choice at this time because security
is no longer a fear in or if it is a fear it's not in the way of like i need the biggest person
protects me protection comes in many forms um yeah it could come in financial security
yeah yeah or it could just be somebody who makes you feel secure in yourself so it's got nothing to do with finances somebody that's kind and sweet yeah that's intellectually
superior and can think that way problem rather than fight their way out of it all right so
there's all these there's just a wide range attractions become the biggest uh thing in
uh the world but they were saying a lot of the time it's socially we kind of have some self-knowledge
of how attractive we are or how attractive we're perceived to be um by the rest of the world and
our own brain automatically sort of makes us fancy people in our own range is that right yeah but i
mean yeah yeah i mean i mean i'm obviously fucking paraphrasing here
but the the what i got from the papers is essentially going your brain sort of develops
a value of itself like how attractive you are as a human being and changes your expectations
from people uh appropriately so what my question to you is what went wrong with natalie
and is is is it worth like a do you reckon it's a tumour
pressing down on something?
Do you think she's unwell?
Aye!
In the same way that whatever tumour
is pressing down on your half-clan.
You're saying security comes in different forms.
Maybe it's just a life hack.
Maybe it's just a life hack for a guy.
Well, he's not going to go anywhere, is he?
Maybe she's just found the most security isn't going for
the big strong guy or the smart guy
or the really attractive guy that's gonna have
better genetics to pass on it's just
somebody that's gonna feel like they've locked out
the whole time
that's good
so her security is just
the fact that not only
you know
that you'll never do better
you know
it's nuts about it though
like when I
she feels
like she's the lucky one
well
even though
she's an excellent liar
that's what's retarded
oh shit
I'm fucking
on to dad jokes
did we have anything
more to say about
about Elliot's hair
no no I think
I think it's good
what does his
what does his girlfriend
think of it
oh
I messaged her earlier
because she posted
a video of him
him taking a photo outside.
And I said to him, I was like, why did you let him do this?
And she said, because I like imagining I'm fucking a teenager with emotional issues.
And I said, that requires imagination, does it?
That's literally what's happening.
I love how Elliot here
just started to betray him now
because his whole shtick used to be like,
oh, I'm 19, give us a break.
I'm 20, give us a break.
I'm 21, give us a break.
And then as soon as he turned 22,
he's like, I'm 22, give us a break.
Me and you both went,
I had a mortgage.
I could drive a car.
I could like,
you had like all of these things.
I was fucking self-employed. Like we started, you start raving off all of these things I was fucking self-employed
like we start
you start raving
off fucking shit
I suppose he is
self-employed though
um
you start raving
off shit
where you're like
nah you're aging
it ain't an excuse
no more
but however
I did have bleached
hair at that age
so I'm gonna
fucking be good
I mean I
I had blue hair
when I was younger
and only for like
three days
because I'd be
letting mistakes
so maybe
but he does keep
doing shit like that
you know like
when he tries to
wear his mam's clothes
and all that
like it's
he raided his mam's
house like it was
a charity shop
just started
whacking one
like a fucking
mackerel
walking into
the thrift shop
he just fucking
ended up wearing
a big mack on
with like a fucking
big eyeball on the back
and some like
kind of
neat little
sewing stitching
like what do you call it
embroidery on it
and that
and he's just walking around
dressed like
a Final Fantasy character
alright
wearing a couple of
wearing a couple of
strap-ons around his neck
like they're fucking chains
and then he started
he started wearing
highlighter
right
because he thought like
oh this will get us
a bit of attention
literally it's a conversation
start
I'm peacocking
I'm in 2005
and I've read a
Neil Strauss book
puts his fucking
highlighter on
of course Elliot
was far too lazy
to commit to that
tiny chore
every day
it lasted a bit
a week
so anyway
that's my mates
roasted
anybody else
queue them up
no well just your dad I reckon I haven't hit him so anyway that's my mate's roasted anybody else queue him up no
well just your dad
I reckon
I haven't hit him
your dad has one toenail
longer than the others
so that he can do
cocoa off it
your dad
your dad told your mam
he was gay for the stage
during lockdown
because he didn't want to shag her
your dad says your mum's was gay for the stage during lockdown because he didn't want to shag her.
Your dad says your mum's pussy has an underbite.
Your dad dislocated his own jaw so he could blow raspberries on his neck.
Your dad and I zoom each other much more often than you and I podcast.
That makes me really sad your dad
stabs his foot
like a wrestler
when he hammers
nails in
while he's
making a
birdhouse
your dad
named his
toes after
each month
of the year
which one's
the coke
toe
Friday
months of
the year
sorry months of the year Oh right sorry
Months of the
Friday
When were you born?
The 10th of Saturday
You fucking idiot
It's a leap year this Wednesday
Right
I walked in on your dad watching porn
and he quickly slammed his laptop shut
hoping I wouldn't notice,
but he completely forgot to stop hanging.
Your dad uses his selfie stick
to film himself crying at the bus stop
so that he can watch it back later on
to see if he can work out
why the bus driver won't stop for him.
Your dad
is an absolute train wreck and we should probably stage
an intervention.
Fuck you, you're not my mum.
Is that her line?
No,
you can't make me stage an intervention
until she decides there's a mess
imagine
I stepped in before your mum
on your dad's
behaviour
look I've been watching from afar
this is going to stop your mum's in the neighbour for anything
I think he's got a
lever
you stage the intervention with your dad and I'll stage it with your mum right we'll keep the I think he's got a lever.
You stage the intervention with your dad and I'll stage it with your mum.
Right, we'll keep that.
This is the opposite of the movie The Parent Trap.
Do you have anything to plug?
You got your book coming out?
No, no.
You're not ready to plug that yet?
Well, you know, I mean, the book is always available for pre-order on Amazon.
It's available on the 3rd of November and it's called Everyone You Hate Is Going To Die.
And obviously the pre-sales make me feel good about myself.
So, yes, please help.
Are you doing a day drinking on Friday?
I am.
I don't think you're going to say not.
I'll have to pause for it
you are doing it
cool so I'll see you for knitting
so at 12 o'clock on Friday
day drinking with Danny
at 1 o'clock on Friday
knitting with me
and
aye
see you all next week
see you then
right see you later cunt
bye