Sloss and Humphries On The Road - Tree Surgeon’s Guild
Episode Date: August 25, 2022What was supposed to be a short episode got interrupted by a tree surgeon that happened to be the creator of Troy Hawke and the Greeters Guild, Milo McCabe. Milo joins Muggins and Cream to discuss hi...s recent surge of notoriety and a medical emergency.
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Hi, I'm Milo McCabe. Welcome to Sloss and Humphreys on the Road.
Danny said it was going to be a short episode. He is full of shit.
It's ended up being a long one. I jumped in. We had a lot of fun.
We talked about Elliot Steele. We talked about Emmanuel Sanubi.
And we talked about brain hemorrhages. 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.
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 much too cynical.
Just muggled it up on fuckin' Mugglepedia.
Where have you been since 9-11?
Welcome to the podcast. Just like you know, it will be a bit of a shorter one today, about 45 minutes, and that's Where have you been since 9-11? No. No? No. You said we start at 12. Mm-hmm. And it is?
5 to 12 right now.
I did suggest we start at 12.
However, if you hadn't woke me up.
I didn't have a lie in, but I was gonna.
So what you're saying is, you were drunkenly walking to your cars
swinging your keys around your finger
being like can't wait to be home in 15 minutes
and a police officer came and went
are you going to drunk drive
not anymore
not anymore now that I know you're here
are you leaving soon
well no I'm going to follow you home
well you might as well drive me there since I can't drive
look at you you're like the fucking Minority Report
trying to pin us down on a precog.
Man, I tell you what.
I have watched Minority Report five times
and I've never made it to the end.
Not because I think it's a bad movie.
There's no minorities in this.
I've just, every single time I've watched it,
I've gotten too high and fallen asleep.
I have a fun
golf story to tell you and I hope everyone stays and listens to it even though it's boring about
golf so obviously we've taken it up a bit more I play when I was younger you got your membership
yeah you know and stuff yes did all that um during the fringe we've been playing golf every
Monday with some comedians it's been really good like and I keep I know I've said this before
but I'll say it again
I've always said to Cara
I'm like it's really good
for my mental health man
just me
couple of my friends
walking around
in fresh
having a laugh
and she was like
why do you come back
so angry then
I'm like I hate to do it
because I'm shite at it
but that's not
the point is
it's still good
so this
this Monday right
we've got some people in the group who are really good.
For example, Sam Taunton's from Australia.
He's a fucking class at it.
Stu McPherson.
Stu McPherson's really good.
Like, I think he almost went pro,
but they couldn't play because they were off to Glen Eagles,
which is like a real course with Gareth.
And they had a lot of fun there.
So we put the invite out.
You couldn't do it just because you had to get home.
So we thought it was going to be six of us,
and it turns out it was just me, Ryan Cullen,
our good friend Duck,
and comedian Hannah Fairweather.
Now, it was the first time she's ever played with us,
but she's been in the group for about two weeks.
And Hannah's also someone that, like,
she almost went pro.
Like, she got a scholarship in America for golf.
That's how good she was, right?
But she got bored of it because, I don't know if you know this,
but there's fucking heaps of sexism in golf.
Oh, God.
Aye.
I can't even imagine.
Aye.
Well, man, do you know in Edinburgh, there are three clubs,
in Edinburgh in 2022, there are three clubs in this city
that still don't allow women to be members or play.
Like, don't allow?
Because I've seen ones that go,
ladies, welcome here.
And I'm like, oh, well done.
Oh, can blacks come?
Yeah.
What about my dogs and my Irish?
Yeah.
So, like, I'm aware of that.
Like, look at us moving, kicking and screaming
into the 21st century.
Yeah, look, we're here and screaming into the 21st century yeah look
we're here
and we're gonna let you
be part of it
you're like
man this is progression
from 40 years ago
you don't get to act
like this is progression
anymore
tell us something
you know the ladies'
tees
why are they such a
patronisingly
small
advantage
why
you know
because they go like
this is the men's
tee here
this is the ladies tea
like
and sometimes like
you can spit at it
yeah
I'm not
I'm not
that's why
no no
you've nailed it
oh right
that's
you take your swing
and you go
how's that bitch
eh
further than you
anyway
that's that
it's raining
it's raining,
can you feel it?
Speaking of sexism in golf,
I do have to admit,
our hypocrisy here,
I'd say,
there is a little bit of sexism
from us.
It wasn't a rule I made up,
I'll not say who made up the rule,
but it is a rule we all abide by,
which is,
if you're on the men's tees
and you don't hit the ball
further than the ladies' tees,
you have to show everyone your cock. And it's maturees and you don't hit the ball further than the ladies' tees, you have to show everyone
your cock.
And it's mature
and it's stupid
and it'll get thrown
off a golf course one day.
And now I say that
out loud on a public forum
it's really sexist.
Yeah, hugely.
But like,
oh,
are you a man?
Get cocked with
Jose, man.
Trust me,
we all get our
fucking comeuppance
in this story.
This is
slow justice.
I've had my cock go once or twice on the golf course.
Aye, aye.
Nothing to do with the game.
Just any holes a goal.
That's the way he sees it.
So we get to the course.
Now, I'm going to sail Cullen down the river here.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Our Cullen.
He must be protected at all costs. We drive in and Duck
and Hannah are on the chipping green, just practising their chips. And it sounded like
Cullen said, who's the skirt? I nearly slap on the brakes and I'm like, hold on, hold
on. Like one of my friends who's,
you know,
no,
I wouldn't say Cullen's woke,
but he's like the wokest of all of us.
Like he's,
he's very conscious about,
you know,
he says horrible things,
but this didn't sound like a joke.
He was just like,
who's the skirt?
And I went,
what the fuck did you just say?
And he went,
what?
And I went,
it's Hannah,
if not for ages.
He's known her for ages.
And he was like,
what do you think I said? I went, you said, who's the skirt? He's like, you've known her for ages. He's known her for ages. And he was like, what do you think I said?
I went, you said, who's the skirt?
He's like, you're close.
I said, who's in the skirt?
Like, as in...
Ah, the part of the green.
Yeah, yeah.
No, no, no.
Is that a term?
No, no, no.
Hannah was in a skirt.
Oh, right.
I thought it was like...
Oh, the skirt around...
Ah, it could have been a term.
No, no, no.
I think he just went, who's in the skirt? I think I hadn It could have been a terminology No no no I think he just went
Who's in the skirt
I think I hadn't told him
That Hannah was playing
Because it's me that organises
The fucking group
Right
But I knew he didn't mean it
Because of the shock in his face
When I told him what I thought he said
He was like
No
No
He lost more of his hair
It was very sad
So
We get there
My first time meeting Hannah
And I'm just like
Just
I'm like how good
are you
like I know
you used to be
you know nearly pro
but for a woman
is that where you're
going with this
no no no
I know you used to be
nearly pro
but like
how good compared to
a nearly pro man
is that what you did
no no
sounds like that's what you did
I asked the same question
to Stupid Fierce
when I filmed with him
and Sam taught
because man
we're shite
and I just want to know how much I'm slowing down someone else's game yeah yeah like it's have i have i
invited you to like five a side and you're ronaldinho and i'm making you play with my
fucking pub team like is it is this going to be less fun for you because you're so far ahead of
us and she was like no no no like i've not played it in like
six years i think i did a driving range about two months ago and maybe of course i'm like okay okay
that's not bad just um because i lose at golf all the time i've got no problem with losing but it's
you know speed of play and then also just diminishing someone else's enjoyment if they're
that far better than you he didn't know if it was just like asking Tim Renkow out for a run.
So, no, no, no.
Because that would mean Hannah was disabled
in this analogy.
No, you would be.
Oh, I'm Tim Renkow.
Yeah, yeah.
Understood, understood.
Guy, you're not in the group
so you don't know this happened.
I swear to fucking God on hole one,
she steps up, she tees it up
and she gets a hole in one.
I have
never... I've heard
about this.
Doc told us I had a hole
in one. I didn't put two and two together when you started
telling that. Man, I swear to fucking
God, right. I think I stepped up. I think Doug
stepped up first. he got it just
over the green
hit it a bit
too hard
I'm shite
so I hit it on
I hit it on
the other green
this was the
talk of love
bar
aye
people are
chatting about
this
she steps up
right and
she's just
I mean like
we were all
watching and
being like
right okay
so that's
how your posture
is meant to be
right she's not
that far from the
ball and we're
all just watching
this and she
does it and
after she hits
the ball she's
like I fucking
duffed that me and Doug are just watching this. And she does it and after she hits the ball she's like, I fucking duffed that.
Me and Ducker
just watching this ball
just go straight.
I think it didn't get
like the height she wanted
but fucking straight as an arrow
and then it bobbles
before the green
and then it rolls onto the green
and then it disappears.
And I'm like,
there's no way
I've just seen a life hole in one.
Especially on the first fucking tee.
There's no way.
Yeah, because you could
go your whole professional career
and never see a hole in one, right? They're like there's no way yeah because you could you could go your whole professional career and never see a hole in one
right
they're like hen's teeth
you've not seen
a fucking royal flush
like I've seen a
royal flush
in a casual game of cards
once
and it fucking blew
everybody's mind
because we probably
won't ever see one again
what are the odds
what are the fucking odds
right
so it drops in
and duck goes to me
that's it
and I'm like
is it there's no way
that's it right
I start fucking
sprint I'm so excited that I start sprint no way that's it right I start fucking sprint
I'm so excited
that I start sprinting
down towards the green
I can hear duck
like five feet
behind me running
and in my head
I'm like
Hannah must be
five feet behind duck
it's hard to run
in a skirt
I imagine
but
right
so we fucking run up
we get to the hole
it's in
it's fucking in there
and I turn around
and Hannah's just back
on the tee
and I'm like
it's in
it's in and duck's like it's around and Hannah's just back on the tee and I'm like, it's in! It's in! And
Duck's like, it's in! And she's like, just a thumbs up and I'm like, I thought...
She's not losing her mind. She's not like that Libby sketch where she thinks she's in the meat
rigs.
So I mean, and then I'd be, and Duck just have to do this really like weird like walk as
you don't pick up
somebody's hole in one
but all that
so you leave it in there
for them to pick up
so you kind of take off it
is that the rule
do you have to pick it up
so she has to go
and pick it up
and then fucking come back
no no no no
eventually
no no
in a normal game
we would have just
waited for Cullen
to hit his shot
and then all got into green
but because we're children
who've never seen a live
hole in one before
me and Duck
just lost
our fucking mind
you start doing
roly polies now
can I have
glitching guys
you've done like
24 roly polies
you're knackered
you've got a stitch
you're sweating
can I
can I stop doing
forward rolls
someone call help
I start rolling
around the hole
just
I want fit
I want to go
in the cat you're doing like you know the happy baby yoga pose and you're just tumbling happy baby I start rolling around the hole I'm one foot I want to go in back in
You're doing like
You know the happy baby yoga pose
And you're just tumbling
I can't stop doing this
I know you've clenched the meat Ricks
Get your ball out of the hole
So I can stop
Me and Duck
Have to just walk back to Hannah
And I'm just there
And I'm just like
Have you
Have you had a hole in one before And she's like Yeah three or four And I'm just like have you have you had a hole in one before
and she's like
yeah three or four
and I'm just like
so is that not
she's like yeah it's nice
and I'm like
it was
hang on hang on
she's done
like she's racking them up
she's done a bunch of hole in ones
I'm using this podcast
to call out
Hannah Fairweather
liar
liar
you done one
and you played it cool
and went oh yeah
just another one
scratch it off
like
I'll give her it
I'll give her it
I swear
I fucking
I'm sceptical
I fucking promise you
me
Duck
and Cullen
have told this story
more times than Hannah
and I guess
when you're telling the story
she's done more
and more holes in one
every time you tell it well as I said story she's done more and more holes in one every time you tell it
well as I said before
she's done 17 holes in one
yeah
yeah
all 27 holes
yeah yeah yeah
well here's
here's a question for you
I love the idea
of you just glitching
like a FIFA player
like your legs
are underneath the green
you're like
Hannah
what have you done
you've broken my understanding
of the game
like
Doug's like 12 feet off the ground
and he's just like,
get us down.
Get us down.
So,
I mean,
obviously,
Hannah wins the entire round anyway.
She goes off and,
she didn't need to do much after that.
It probably took you seven shots.
She griped about the shot.
She was like,
I daft it.
She was like,
I caught it wrong. And we're like, it went in the hole. She's like, I daft it. She was like, I caught it wrong.
And we're like, it went in the hole.
She's like, yeah, but it's not the swing I wanted.
I'm like, what?
That's a strange one.
She's like, I was actually aiming to, like,
go on the left of the green, and I got there.
She got the hole in one, but, like,
is she not allowing herself to celebrate the fucking class shot?
Because, like, she felt she didn't mean it.
She was laying herself up for a point.
If so, if so if so Jesus Christ
that's leagues ahead
of what I'll ever be
I know that's the
best case scenario
but it's not what
I wanted
and as a player
I have to be honest
with myself
and that was a failure
yes I'll pick up the ball
you know like
have you ever seen
a player where
he scores a fucking
worldie from outside
the box
and it loops in
with a curl
from the outside
of his boot and you're going I think he just hit a cross there and it just ended up being fucking worldie from outside the box and it like loops in with a curl from the outside of his boot
and you're going
I think he missed
hit a cross there
and it just ended up
being a worldie
do you think he gives a fuck
no
no
and I guarantee
he would have celebrated
more than Hannah Fairweather
did as she just
wiped her club a little bit
and went
how long's the next hole
it's like
bitch we got a putt
like I got a chip in
from another green
like so you got me putt I got a chip in From another green So
You got me thinking right
I need you to
Follow me on a
Little mental journey here
You go for a game of golf
Right
You step up to the first tee
And
Somehow you just hit
The cleanest shot
Of your life
Bob was
Just like Hannah's shot
Front of the green
Rolls on
Drops in
You obviously lose your shit
yeah
you lose your fucking mind
you've got a hole in one
we probably don't calm down
for about ten minutes
I'd do that billywhack
all the way up to the green
dick out
I know I go past
the ladies tees
but this is for the men
you step up
to the second one
unlike hole one
which is a par three second one's unlike hole one, which is par three,
second one's par four.
It's round some corners and trees,
you can't even really see the green.
You fucking slice the ball.
It's not what you meant to do,
you meant to sort of hit it straight,
but you end up just fucking slicing it,
it disappears behind the trees,
roughly to where the green is.
You're like, oh, maybe that's nearby.
You look in the bunkers, you look in the rough,
it's not on the green.
Who the fuck is it?
I'm at the hole, and I'm like,
is yours a tit list?
And you're like, it is.
I'm like,
it's fucking second hole in one.
We lose our shit.
You obviously lose your mind.
Two holes in one in a row.
This is what happened though, right?
No, no, no.
No, no.
This is you.
This is you doing this.
All right, now it sounds more plausible.
You calm down, right?
You're fucking shaking.
You step up to the third tee.
You flick it up
and it just drops straight into the hole.
What hole do you kill yourself
because you're clearly in a simulation
and somebody's fucking with you?
Like, how many holes in ones in a row do you have?
Because two, you'd be like,
oh my God, unbelievable.
No, no, no.
Two, I quit golf., oh my God, unbelievable. No, no, no, two,
two I quit golf.
I'm not taking another swing.
But then they don't count
if you don't finish the hole.
That's fine.
That's fine,
me grandkids will believe it.
Like I just,
I think for me,
if I get the third hole in one,
I've still got enough like
narcissism and ego to be like, all right, two of those were luck, I think for me, if I get the third hole in one, I've still got enough, like, narcissism and ego to be like,
all right, two of those were luck, but one is me.
There's got to be one point where you go, that was a par five.
They're going to need to make up a bid to tell me what score I got.
I think I got a pterodactyl on that fourth hole.
I mean, we're going to hole oh I mean we're gonna go
I reckon
we'll go
do you not remember
do you not remember
when Cara got a hole in one
on Mario Golf
and we all lost our shit
for 45 minutes
aye
game's broken
like
maybe that's why
they don't like women
in the golf house
because they're too good
well man I fucking
I tell you what
like you know
after Hannah got that
well there wasn't
there wasn't a clubhouse at
Nelville unfortunately
so we couldn't get her
to buy us all
drinks to
celebrate
so Hannah
if you listen to this
you do owe us all
a pint
you're a brilliant golfer
but you're a round dodger
and I know
which rep is going to stick
they don't cancel
each other out weirdly
aye aye
because I am going to
stop telling the hole in one story
So why did Hannah owe you a drink?
Just because I'm dead sound actually
She's got a show on at the festival
Which you can go and see and watch her
Because if I got hole in one
That's my show
That's the full
fucking hour
and then afterwards
I'm meeting and
greeting fans
and I'm telling them
the story
we're sitting down
over a whiskey
and I'll be like
it was a windy
par three
coming in
east to west
where you going
come back
come back
so if you go to
our show
you should make
a round of
applause
and get a round
of drinks
should I have
a round of golf but you'll not have a round of drinks she'll have a round of golf
but she'll not have a round of
there's only so much
I can book that
so I've been doing
a couple of late shows
which is why I had to
get us out of bed this morning
late live last night
the night before
I hosted Spank
it was very funny
because
you know Aaron McCann
yes
he supported you
on tour in Belfast
so I saw him in Belfast a couple of years back.
Aaron was in the crowd,
front row.
He's made to our eyes,
he's a class comic,
but he was just front row with his pals.
Aye,
he's also a diehard comedy fan.
Aye,
and it's such a good show to bring your mates to
if it's their first time at the festival,
right?
And you know,
at the beginning of Spank,
right,
it's a party,
so we'll get them up on their feet
at the minute we get on stage,
we'll have a shot,
we'll play a jump around
by fucking House of Pain,
and then we'll start the show
when everyone sits back
down but the fucking
atmosphere is fizzing by
the time we've done
that and Aaron McCann's
jumping around right and
I just fucking got up
with him and I can
Aaron and Michelle
Shaughnessy hasn't shown
up yet I don't think
she's got a
confirmation she's
probably not going to
be here she's third on
will you get up if if
she's not here?
And he was like, aye, absolutely.
I went...
Mental.
I went, can I get you at the crowd as a punter?
And he went, let's do it.
Right, so Michelle hadn't turned up.
So like a fake, like, you think you can do this?
Aha.
Yes, mate.
And because he was in the audience and the show was about to start and Michelle hadn't turned up, I couldn't like really get to him until I was on stage.
So I fucking, I got him to agree to that while every cunt in the audience was jumping around right, and then when everyone settled, first couple of acts on, and I come back on I was like, oh there's two acts left in this section, but there's only one of them here.
So if there's anybody in the audience that I'd like to give it a go, we'll put it out in the audience, right?
And we're just, instead of going straight to Aaron.
Imagine like seven different hands went up and you were like,
sorry, Aaron, I need to create a car crash.
Yeah, but I...
It would be the best thing for the gig is you coming on,
ripping this gig, because everyone would love that.
But the better story is some drunk cunt comes up and bobs i
nearly let that happen right because we're like me and evan were like weighing everyone up and
our co-host was evan demarais and uh there was a group of lasses who would clearly not get up
right they were just there for the night for the night out right and um and i chatted to them i
was like would any of you like to give it a go and they're like, oh fuck, like shitting us up, at the idea,
and then there was this lad,
who had been like,
keen at the beginning,
you know when you shout spank,
we love it,
like he was like,
out of cue,
shouting it early and that,
and we got him up on stage,
and he was making them do spank,
and everything,
so we'd done that earlier on,
and then I pointed at him,
and he went to stand up,
and I went too keen,
too keen like that,
and like pied him,
and then I like,
eventually fucking get round to Aaron
and ask his name
and go oh you're Irish
I saw you laughing
at the dead queen bit earlier
and we were absolutely
fucking enginy at it
so it looked like
we just happened upon Aaron
and I was like
would you like to give it a go
and he was like
acting a bit bashful
about it
it's so good
and the cunt gets up right
if
if he bombs.
Like, if the end of this story is he plays it perfectly
and then it just happens to be one of the few gigs
where Adam McCann just eats shit and dies,
please tell me that's it.
Please tell me he bombs.
Sorry, mate.
Sorry, mate.
He just fucking went on it because he's, like,
getting anecdotal and he's, like, saying funny stuff
that, like, happens in his life
and all that shit, right?
The first joke he did,
absolutely annihilated, right?
And then he had this like
body language
of like somebody that's like,
ooh, I can get into this.
It absolutely fucking rattled the gig.
And then at the end,
like, because you know what?
I think because he'd done so well, a lot of people just went,
well, he's a comic, right?
But the production value of planting him in the audience,
even if it was just by design from the beginning,
that's what they meant to do.
That's just Spank being Spank, doing something fucking unique.
But some people just wanted to buy him drinks and suck his dick.
It was fucking outstanding.
I just, I would love if there was, like, any other joke.
Like, the worst, more evil, but higher stakes version
of that fucking prank, right, is you're a surgeon.
You're a world-class surgeon.
You're doing open-heart surgery on this guy.
They've got to be unconscious for it, obviously,
so you put them a bit under.
You put that thing up there
so that they can't see anything that's going on,
even though they're unconscious.
And it's in the theatre,
so you've got all the fucking medical students
watching what's going on up there.
Greatest version of that is what you do.
You say to the anaesthesiologist,
you'll be like,
just wake him up, just a bit,
just for a couple of seconds.
Just so he's round.
He can't move,
but just enough that he's conscious.
Slap him with a fish.
That's how you wake people up, right?
Yeah, and especially in the hospital.
I mean, that's the reason
the podcast started on time.
And then just as he's coming to,
as the lead surgeon,
you just go,
you know what?
Fuck it.
Do any of the students want to try
putting him back under?
And then,
oh no!
Or just have his wife up there
and she'll be like
I'll do it
I love him
I should be the only
woman inside of him
the surgeon's passed out
can we have a volunteer
no
the guy doing the bins
takes
takes office gloves
he's like
can't use this
it's been binges
here we go
surgery time
night night
so also
also in that gig
right
in the second section
there was a fucking
there was a guy
fast asleep in the audience
and I just
I just put the mic
in the stand
and I just spoke
like spoke to the audience
off mic
just so like
it was quiet
and so in the middle I was like there's a dude spoke to the audience off mic, just so, like, fucking it was quiet and zoned them in.
Listen, I was like, there's a dude asleep over here.
Can everybody see him?
If you can't see him, like, stand up or turn your chair around
or whatever, just make sure that all eyes are on him, right?
And everybody just, like, the whole gig shifts from facing the stage
to just facing this guy who's asleep, right?
And I just sat on the fucking speaker and really, like,
just started going, twinkleinkle twinkle little and fuck the
whole crowd just joins in with this fucking eerie low fucking uh lullaby and the guy woke up and it
must have been the fucking biggest fear in your life is just wake up just eyes everywhere fucking
hundreds eyes and the minute his eyes open i went shock me in your two-blade fucking murder. He nearly died.
Did you...
Go on, just sing me all the words to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, please.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, what you see is what you are.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.
Up above the sky, the world so high.
Like a diamond in the Sky,
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are.
If you want to subtly annoy people, it's been a weird,
because Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is my song
that I just sing to Cale all the time and gets him to sleep.
So I've sung that song 15,000 times in the past six months.
But do you ever break anyone's shock to the heart?
Like Bon Jovi?
No, no, no.
But you will now.
He just says he's off.
Shut do that rock out of what? That's what the schwa's, the schwa's, I was building up to it.
If you sing the words to something slightly incorrectly there is a level of pedantry that
exists in all people that just makes
them go, but if you don't
want to try to get a baby to sleep, they can't
correct you. Who the fuck is that?
Oh, fuck, it's the
tree guy. Hold on, pause this.
It wasn't the tree surgeon at all.
Hey!
Hey!
Hello, how are you? Good, how are you?
I'm not bad.
Yeah, I mean, you're having a great French.
I'm having an alright French.
Yeah, busy?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, a little bit.
How's your stress levels?
It's weird, because I don't have any of the normal stresses about selling out.
I've been touring the show, it's been ready for a year, I didn't have a few adjustments at the beginning.
So all the normal Edinburgh stresses aren't there, year I didn't have a few adjustments at the beginning so all the normal
Edinburgh stresses
aren't there
but that doesn't mean
there aren't stresses
because what happens is
you start getting
mega stressed
about tiny shit
that doesn't matter
because the
Edinburgh equilibrium
it's got to be
a fucking emotional
rollercoaster
even if everything
is going your way
so it's tiny little things
that are just
spinning me out
and turning me into
an absolute fucking idiot, basically.
I clocked you a few times because you've been getting approached by people
that break your conversation away.
And you've been impatient with them.
Was I?
Stuart Calvato.
Oh, yeah.
I kind of recognised him, but kind of didn't.
But he came up drunk, didn't he?
He came up drunk, and I was sober. And he came up drunk and just straight in my eyes going or male or sugar everything and i
was just a bit like like i haven't even got my head around it like and yeah and then you you were
you you picked me up on it which is i appreciated and then i just sort of had to go oh yeah and i
went out and gave him a hug nice yeah but it must it must i understand it must be such a fucking head fuck because i mean
you've been you've been putting in the graft so fucking long and i mean all the success
you've been going the extra mile graft that like others haven't like you've been fucking in full
character flyering yeah sure shit you must be enjoying not having to oh is it like two hours
or whatever it's a it's a yeah it's it's a long like it's only a couple of years ago that i was
in the the three sisters courtyard getting started on in character by drunk people from glasgow do
you know what i mean by the way stephen bailey yeah right as this guy stephen bailey the you know
you know you're right so these guys come up, Stephen Bailey's sense trouble,
and he's twisted his body sideways and sort of shifted towards us, right?
And got all close, and eventually it diffused and went away.
And I said, did you just get in a fucking karate stance?
They went, yeah, I'm a black belt in taekwondo.
So his first fucking instinct was to shape up.
Like, yeah. Like,
like,
like Ryu.
Yeah,
he had this like,
beautiful pastel suit on,
this perfect,
immaculate foundation,
and then he's just
squaring up,
like fucking.
Takes,
takes off his
bedazzled leather belt,
and like,
and underneath is the
most important one,
let's fucking go.
Is, is there go is there a film
where the guy
is it old school
where the guy's doing
blowjob lessons
and he's sucking off
a carrot or something
to all the wives
it was like a hen party
and then the husband
sees it through the window
and thinks it's just
hitting on his lass
and then the gay guy
kicks shit out of him
imagine making up
a scene from a film
that doesn't exist
I'm sorry
I had a dream about
a guy sucking off a carrot in front of my wife.
I'm lost there.
You're the Ljubljana banana story guy.
The carrot one, of course, you're like...
I got caught sucking up a banana by an Asian European guy.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was just seeing what it was like.
Oh, can I...
Emmanuel's going to kill me.
I'm going to say this.
He's going to fucking kill me. Yes, on the say this. He's going to fucking kill me.
Yes, on the public podcast.
We were in the sauna.
We just had a workout at the Pleasance Gym.
You know, you're in the sauna.
You're relaxing.
You just start to...
You've got your jorts on.
Yeah, but proper.
You've got your jorts on, you know,
for your post-workout jorts,
your sauna jorts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
And we're just talking about how...
I was just talking about how
you know
we were both dogs in our 20s
and Emmanuel
right
just he went
yeah
in my 20s
I was ruled by penis
and I went
huh
and he went
no no no
and I went
no no
no
in your 20s
you were ruled by penis
that's what you just said
yeah but I didn't mean
he missed the word
my
and it changed
everything
and I promised him
I wouldn't tell anyone
yeah
but then we went
to the bar
that night
we went to the bar
that night
and I think Taylor
was there
and I went
can I tell Taylor
and he went
oh go on
so I told Taylor
and then because
I told Taylor
I fucking told
everyone in the bar
and now he's like
wearing it like a badge of honour.
In my 20s, I was ruled by people.
He was?
Like, ruled.
Dominated.
You've just told 100,000 people?
Sorry, Emmanuel.
Oh, no, what numbers we did?
Oh, Emmanuel Snooby, by the way.
Like, check him out.
Incredible comic.
He's very, very good.
Lovely man.
Very funny, lovely man.
Emmanuel's been on this podcast.
We,
we,
we go to the gym every morning and he's like getting his Coke fix.
He's just twitching.
Do you know what I mean?
He's,
I was two minutes late coming out of my flat and it was like 500 feet away.
And when I came out two,
three minutes later,
he was still 500 feet away.
And I was like,
how the fuck you manage that?
You're just constantly walking.
And he was,
he's so hyped up.
He did a loop.
So he wouldn't have to stand still.
Like he's honestly,
I call him Pablo Escobar bell.
Cause he gets,
he's,
he's twitching.
He's just fucking,
but he's got me into weights now because the first couple of days,
cause always normally do cardio or boxing.
It's like,
let's go. There's like, oh, this is shit is shit i don't like this but day four or five there's
something weirdly rushy i mean you you used to do a lot of weights yeah so weirdly rushy about it
and i'm sort of into it now i do i do a lot of weights but i look at emmanuel and gan i don't
know how much weights you've got to do to get like that the amount the amount dude oh it's disgusting
when he's doing press-ups it's not his body weight that he's lifting up he's pushing the
world down
oh my god
but seriously
the amount of
the amount he like
presses and starts
what's he like
saying
because one thing
I'm just in there
at the gym
is like
my body to weight
ratio is good
like when I
bench press
I get
I get
like
the dumbbells
are about equivalent
to my body weight and my deadlifts are about dumbbells are about equivalent to my body weight.
And my deadlifts are about, like, time and a half on my body weight.
But, like, is Emmanuel good like that?
No, he's shit.
He can't do, like, chin-ups or whatever.
Can he do chin-ups and that?
I can't even talk.
So I'm looking at him going, I'll never be that strong.
But pound for pound, I'm murdering him.
Yeah, he actually, and, like, he's good enough to say that as well
when we're working out.
He is good enough because he's so enormous and intimidating. He's good enough to sort of as well when we're working out he is good enough because he's so enormous
and intimidating
he's good enough
to sort of go
well you weigh this much
and so
according to your weight
you're doing better
than I am
or whatever
he says
he's really just such a lovely dude
he's such a big dude
like I fuck
sometimes I'm tired
I'm not even listening
I'm just looking at his arms
I know
just in awe
it's insane
how do you get that
it's insane
he just charms everyone
as well through the gym
everyone knows him now
if I was gay
he'd be
I'd love to be
in a relationship
he'd be one of the penises
that ruled him
I would
but if
like if
if I was with him
I would love to
you know
just have
you'd be in a relationship
where he
he spoons me
and he looks after me
and he's a good cook as well
and he's really into his cook
and I reckon he'd treat me like
right but
I'd have to let him cheat
oh yeah
I'd have to
go and out and do you Emmanuel
I'm not going to try
and keep up with your money
so you've added
you've added extra shows
which were already sold out
and now you've added
the McEwan Hall
yeah
is that the
biggest room you've done solo?
Solo, yeah.
More than double.
Amazing.
And it's half sold already?
It's half sold already.
Oh, fucking boy.
Yeah, which is nice.
A bit of a head spin.
But yeah, the biggest previous one I did
was Leeds Carriageworks,
which I think is like 300 odd.
So yeah, it's like triple.
You know how we were talking
almost a week
into the fringe
and you said like
you hadn't been doing
the Cretas Guild
at the front of your audience
you fucking idiot
and then just like
the penny drop
and you're like
oh fuck I feel like
I'm short changing them
they're going for that
and they haven't been
getting that
so it's so obvious
when you've realised
it really is
how are you going to
be able to do that
en masse at the
McEwen Hall
this is what I've got to work out
because I'll probably have to just
verbally fly at the queue
or something like that
I'll have to just probably
just do a walk
I haven't scoped it out yet
I haven't like
looked at the venue
if there's one door
have you ever seen a show there
yeah
I have
I think I saw a kids show there
years ago
I haven't seen like a
yeah I saw Jim Jeffries there
yeah how was it have you played it I think I've a kids show there years ago I haven't seen like a yeah I saw Jim Jaffee's there yeah
how was it
have you played it
I think I've only ever done it
like
I think it was like a live
radio five thing
that I was on with
with Chris Harrison
and
oh
oh really
no he was spitting on me there
that was completely unrelated
my life
he does not
I don't mind bringing this up
because I've had heaps of years to think about it
and I'm like no he was definitely a cunt
I was about 18 or 17
years old and it was like Radio 5 Live
and it was like one of the biggest gigs I'd ever done
before in an audience and obviously nobody knew
who I was, I was just very excited to be on the panel
and Chris Addison who's very
successful, he was on like Mock the Week, he fucking
wrote whatever that, the Thick of It
show he's a phenomenal actor he's really really
funny and then like it finally gets
to like my part of the interview and like the
host goes to me it's like so you've got to be like one of
the youngest comics to have ever
done it which is a question
I was always asked when I was 17 I was like oh you know
I started when I was 16
but you know I know
people that have started
about the same age
and just spoke about
and Chris Harrison
fucking overrides
a 17 year old
he's just like
no no no no no no
actually
and they just listed off
like a bunch of comedians
like Ross Noble
yeah
Ross Noble
fucking Adam Sandler
and all these people
Seth Rogen
who I know
started younger than me
but he acted as if
I was the one
that was like
I'm the youngest comic ever.
And he was like, uh-uh, no, you're not.
I'm like, motherfucker.
He asked the question.
Yell at him.
Don't interrupt a fucking 17-year-old
to have some weird sort of power trip of...
Anyway, it didn't affect me.
Did you get the sense that it was some sort of umbrage
that was coming out passively, aggressively at you personally?
Or do you think he was just a little bit fucking just
trying to dominate the situation i'm genuinely not sure and also my perspective as a 17 was
probably wrong but i do just remember just in my head at the time going you're a fucking wanker
you like you you've got such a long memory for revenge stuff though like you're just such a
revenge uh-huh uh-huh and i will happily yeah i've never seen anyone get so much out of revenge absolutely
and long and there's i would happily i would happily fuck someone over 15 years later after
they fucked me over and the best type of fucking revenge is where you can just privately behind the
scenes ruin their fucking life and have them never know it was you like there are there are i have
lists of people,
I'm going to fucking do it.
There is a concept called forgiveness.
I don't know if you,
not something you've ever...
What's in it for me?
Clean a soul?
Yeah.
In a peace, like...
Harmony?
Yeah.
No, this is like all the people that go,
you know,
your head's filled with,
hey, don't let hate rule your mind.
My mind's fucking infinite.
Even, like, you know,
even if I hate so much, there's heaps of space in there for other things i'm not walking around every day
being like rage rage rage straight i'll just be making a cup of tea and i'll be stirring my cup
and then occasionally i'll just be like oh i hope that person dies and i'll just and i'll will it
into the world like a vision manifest you're gonna manifest your hatred yeah it's healthy
yeah it's good she just gets out and you go i really hope something's got a vision board manifest you've got to manifest your hatred yeah it's healthy yeah it's good
she just gets it out
and you go
I really hope
something bad
he's got a vision board
etched in blood
Karma's behind you
going mate
I've been doing this
for ages
just let me get over
the fuck's sake
yeah
Karma's getting snooty
I've been doing it
since I was younger
so the
McEwan Hall
I saw Foil Arms
and Hog in there
last week
I've seen them
play there every year
it's a really
really good room
I think you'll
enjoy it
and me and Cara
I was so excited
because I was like
that's the show
we'll go and see
like I can't wait
to see Milo
do his fucking
biggest gig
and just like
get fucking
buzzed off my mate
doing well
even though
in my first year
you did tell me
at the end of the
Fringe run
that it wasn't
your cup of tea
I never forget but I too complained at the end of the Fringe run that it wasn't your cup of tea I never forget
but I too can play
at the revenge game
I fucking never forget
is this your revenge
it's like I'm playing
the McEwan Hall
now motherfucker
yeah yeah
success is the best revenge
the whole thing's
going to be a slideshow
of embarrassing pictures
of him
just like
well no no
I mean I've even
admitted it
when you
it's because Phil Burtle
you're such a good
not only writer you've got a phenomenalurtle, you're such a good, not only writer,
you've got a phenomenal work ethic and you're such a brilliant performer.
Phil Burtle was just so good.
And I remember how impossible Phil Burtle was to follow.
And then you did something that I think at the time
I would never have the strength to do,
which is to go, even though I know I can get more out of this.
Completely reinvent yourself?
Yeah, and just go, I'm bored of this and this isn't a challenge anymore.
So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to create something new
and entirely different.
And Troy was so,
so very different to Roberto.
And at the time when I was young,
I just could,
it was like giving up
like a really,
really nice car
to cycle to work.
And I'm like,
what are you,
you owned a,
like you owned a Tesla.
That was dead cool.
I mean, and now, a hundred percent fucking dead cool I mean and now 100% fucking wrong
I love the way he used
his own car
ah
you're wearing Lamborghini's
car
do you know why
excellent cars
because my brain went
for some reason
the only car
that was in my head
was a Subaru
and I'm like
you're not
14
I'm like don't show your age
also Milo
just to put it in perspective
you know when he says
it wasn't my cup of tea
his cup of tea
is milk in first
with the tea back
I don't
I don't
take that ever so personally
I don't drink tea
I just make tea
I bet you don't
I make tea wrongly
for other people
but no no
I
well we spoke about this
the other day
and I said to Cara
afterwards
I felt so guilty
because I definitely
did say to you.
No,
but it's not,
it's good.
You should be honest like that.
Like as mates,
you should like the whole,
one of the reasons I changed from Filberto is because Nick Doody,
um,
which is dead is getting going to smash that.
And,
uh,
you know,
we'd gone for a drink afterwards.
He's like,
why are you doing this sort of Portuguese character?
I was like,
yeah,
but it works.
And he goes,
yeah,
but would you find it funny?
Do you,
do you think it's artistic?
And like, he took a risk
could have possibly offended me
and I think he told me that
because he decided he liked me
so he was going to give me
this bit of information
and I found
you know
then I was a bit like
I'm fucking
just went
and I took it away
and I digested it
and it's like
would I laugh at that
is that the kind of thing
that gets me
no it isn't
like some of it maybe
but predominantly
it's created to generate a reaction because that was what I wanted it isn't like some of it maybe but predominantly it's created
to generate a reaction
because that was
what I wanted
it wasn't expressive
it was to work
in a club room
which it did
and then I couldn't
you know
the jungler's hero
like it was fucking
it was essential
it got you through
it got you through
a time where the comedy
circuit was ruled
by stag and hen parties
but now we're
playing theatres
it was a friend making a hard comment to hear like a good excellent piece of constructive
criticism that you know if something if a friend gives you a thing like that and it hurts you a
little bit that's because it's true so fucking digest it and that was one of the things that
sort of really got me going right time to yeah with the mistake i made and it
wasn't until you and i had the conversation last week and i told car about it because i'm really
really good at expressing negative emotions and they just fucking flow out of me like in my head
i'm like oh yeah no i definitely said to milo it's not my cup of tea because i was honest at the time
like i saw the show i didn't i just didn't see where it was going because i was too uh narrow
minded and then i think it was two years later
you did The Tales of the Unexpected show,
which I absolutely fucking loved.
But being me just didn't tell you that.
No, you didn't tell me.
So I had that the whole time.
I watched that one with you.
But I fucking loved it.
You did a preview the day before we started.
Yeah.
And Paul By Paul burn was there
So yes, I remember being in there with you and you fucking loved it, you know tell him
So it's just a thing you're like, yeah, yeah, cuz I said you i love the tales of unexpected you were like you've never heard that before i'm like fuck that that does
sound exactly like me i'll only tell you the negative and then privately in my head i'll be
like i love you god how are you with positive praise though because if it tends to be that
what what you give whatever is also an indicator of how you receive so when people give you compliments maybe they give you good oh if it's from
fans
I can
take it
because
you know
this is going to sound
shaky
because it's shaky
I don't respect
my fans as much
as I respect
comedians
and I think that's
true across
comedians
comedians laughing
at the back of the room
is
and it shouldn't be
as more important
than the laughter
of the audience
so when my audience
is like we love the show, I take that feedback,
and even if it's negative, to try and work out what I can change to,
well, if I want to change it, if the reason people are upset is valid,
maybe I'll mix that around.
But no, I mean, from friends and stuff, I'm not good with positivity.
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
I love when friends come to the show
and then
like their whole thing
is here's a line
that would work for you
here's a line
that would work for you
all the constructive
criticism
but if it's just them
being like
oh it's brilliant
I'm like
I've also just said
to friends
it's brilliant
but I don't know
it feels like
there's more engagement
and there's more
respect
if what they're doing
is criticising it
because it's going
hey this is brilliant
yeah but we can
make it better. I think there's no better
sound in the world than one of your comedian friends
coming backstage after a show and going
I've got a couple of notes for you. I love that!
I love that but some people
don't. The hardest
thing is if there's a comedian that
you don't know well enough but
you know you've got a piece, you've
seen something that you know will help them but but you know you've got a piece you've seen something that
you know will help them but you're not quite sure how they'll process it so it's sort of like do i
go up and go look i i've got something if you want it right but it's a bit weird that because
then 10 times out of 10 everyone whether they want to hear it or not will go yes i'll put
footprints on it i'll always yes i'll always go in with like, oh, this might be useless to you.
It might just be like,
I just wrote it down at the time
because it seemed like it might be a good idea.
You'll know better than me
and I have material better than I do.
But if you did this and this,
and then sometimes they'll go, meh.
And sometimes they'll go, oh, fuck yeah.
That really links with that.
Yeah.
And for the times you get it,
it's worth it for the times you don't.
Oh, I love getting notes.
From everyone, anyone.
Tom Horton came to my show. Who? Sorry, can you do your Tom Horton the times you don't. Oh, I love getting notes. From anyone. Tom Horton came to my show.
Who?
Sorry, can you do your Tom Horton impression?
I can't.
Danny, Danny, Danny.
Right, right.
No, Julia.
I walked into the abattoir.
I do it too much, though.
Literally, I do it to Tom, and Julia's like, that's amazing. But then I'll turn around, and I'll do it to Tom and Julia's like that's amazing
but then I'll turn around
and I'll do it to some people
Tom's just met
and Leslie caught me on this
and she goes
look you've got to stop that
she goes
you turn around
to some other
YouTube guy
or TikTok guy
I didn't even know
who the fuck he was
but apparently
he's a big guy
and they were talking
and Tom just met the guy
and I'm going
Tom wants to jam a tonic
does he have to go to the bar by himself what the fuck right just met the guy. And I'm going, Tom wants to jam a tonic.
Does he have to go to the bar by himself?
What the fuck?
Right?
And Leslie said,
Leslie said,
Tom's face just fucking fell.
And I'm like,
yeah,
just because I can doesn't mean I should
all the fucking time.
And the amount of times
I've apologised to him,
it's like...
But in his voice.
I'm really sorry.
And the forearm grab to make the point.
You know Tom, best to stop you talking.
I'm about to say something.
That's what it is.
That camera's blinking at him half the time.
No, but I love Tom's a bit and I've got to stop it. I just can't.
He came to my show on Sunday and gave me a note because Tom's a bit and I've got to stop it I just can't I have to he came to my show
on Sunday
and gave me a note
because Tom's really
really good at
looking at the
show as a whole
and then sort of
going
right you don't realise
that there's this there
and these things
actually link
and he's really able
to like watch your show
take a step back
and tell you how
it should be formed
and I shouldn't be
gutted by this
but like
he gave me a call back and it was you know when a joke's so fucking obvious but when you're in the joke
and when you're in the show you're only thinking about five minutes in front of you two minutes
behind you he gave me a call back which fucking murdered yesterday like one of the ones i was
just i i did it once and it just fucking blew up and i, God damn it. I wonder how long it's going to be
before my ego and narcissism
deletes Tom telling me that call back
and just me being like, I'm a genius.
Oh, he won't let you forget.
Did you tell him?
No, no, I haven't.
Oh, you absolutely did.
It's a positive thing.
I can't do it.
Text him now.
He'll love that.
Yeah, you're going to tell them.
Fuck's sake, Tom gave me an excellent note, right,
which I initially resisted because the show had been like the best.
He came to one of the best ones of the run so far.
And he gave me this note.
And I went, and then he went, no, I'm fine.
And I went, and I thought about it.
And I was like, fuck, he's right.
And I turned to him and said, do you know what, Tom?
You're right.
Like, yeah, I resisted then.
And thank you for telling me a second time.
You're absolutely right. I do need to change that and do it a bit more like this
thank you because he was drunk he then told me another 28 times direct in my face over the next
couple of hours so it did get nailed in but he's right he's good at that shit yeah he gave me one
of the best lines of my 2018 show yeah it was massive lines and it like fucking really made the bit pop as well and then someone
tells us he's
been dying it
no
no
shut up
oh my god
god aye
he's such a
funny man
like he fucking
kills it
I whacked it
I whacked it
here mate
just so you know
I know you
needed a car
and I've just
I happen to have
one going
because I'm living in London
I don't need it anymore
So here's the car
Here's the keys
No of course it's free
Yeah of course
I've got a car
Hi
Can you drive me to my gig tomorrow
You're my chauffeur now
I whacked it now
We're talking right
And he's just sat at the
Bar stool
On the fucking bar right
With his fucking
Sirloin steak
And he had like a napkin
Tucked into his finger right
And he's just like
Fuck off
Then he had the actual fucking He had the thing tucked in so he was tucked in he was elbows open he was just
if no i'm trying to wait now that's doing impression that's the that is that is the
posh version of holding your nose going down the slide i actually i deserve this
this was late this is not how i wanted it i kind of do this
yeah they know man man, mad. Sad.
Next to him was his girlfriend, Julia,
eating mac and cheese out of a cardboard cup.
Just out of the orbit of the elbows.
She was having a bobbin weave
with her wooden fork
and fucking cold macaroni.
She's like, you know, Tom,
in America, macaroni, cheese and steak goes quite well together. Goodi. She's like, you know Tom, in America,
macaroni, cheese and steak
goes quite well together.
Good point.
Yum, yum, yum.
He's spent so much
of this podcast
over the years
under the bus.
The listeners must be like,
why are you friends
with this man?
Should we talk about Elliot Steele's ball? Oh yeah. why are you friends with this man oh erm
well wait
should we talk about
Elliot Steele's ball
oh yeah
oh god
he dealt with that
really well
he did
I'd have been traumatised
well because I think
he said to me
so he put in the group
the other day
for those who haven't
been paying attention
we've all also been
DMing him right
yes
the standard shit
so Elliot was
sparring with someone
and they just
kneed him
in the groin
it was Jiu Jitsu
you should wear a cup
but like
it's not an impact sport
so like
you're not expecting a strike
like I would never
have done Muay Thai
with a cup
I'm just going to get
fucking hurt
preface to this story
he will have been told
to bring a cup
people at Jiu Jitsu
predominantly wear cups
yeah
because even if
you're not kneeing someone,
you're still moving your knees and legs and past things.
Yes, 100%.
So really bad.
I mean, he went home, was in a lot of pain about it,
and then went into the doctors and they were like, it's fine.
And then he went in on Monday and then just put in the group.
He's like, lads, they're going to do surgery on me.
And I'm really scared.
So obviously, we all fucking
annihilated him for about night
it was one of the funniest days we've had
he's got a competition coming up
but the standard thing
which you touched on which is the way I think
friendship groups that are
you know abusive to each
other in that way have to be which is
in the main group it's a roast
it's an evisceration and then very privately
without acknowledging it with each other you all slide
into his DMs and you're like hey mate here for you
are you alright and even after he came out of the surgery
you know classic abuse
yeah yeah yeah
abuse them privately and then publicly
be like no hey we're friends it's ok
well then he came out
of the surgery
and is thankfully
still alive
still has
two thirds of his bone
he's got one and two thirds
of his balls left
yeah
he had a portion
of it removed
he kept it overnight
one of the bits
he was like
I'm due up next
I'm in theatre next
if nobody gets
stabbed in South London.
It looks like you're getting up
written on by Christmas then.
That's funny.
He texts this guy,
I've lost 500 pounds worth of work.
And I was like,
what, you're off till December?
He's coming on so much as a comic though.
His ideas,
his writing,
everything, it's all, you can just see it all start to really crystallise. Well, yeah, he's coming on so much as a comic though his ideas his writing everything
it's all
you can just see it all
start to really crystallise
well yeah
he's finally finding
his own voice
as opposed to doing
what so many of us do
at the start of our career
which is just do an impression
of a comedian
and your favourite comedian
if you watch any of my earlier shit
it's just Ed Byrne
it's just Ed Byrne
with a Scottish accent
but his actual ideas
and stuff
they are
they're like unique
they're
I don't know
just the way he thinks
yes
he's got a good juxtaposition
of how like
intelligent he sounds on stage
and how stupid he sounds off
actually sounds
yeah
yeah
like I do always love
the podcast listeners
reactions to whenever
they go and see
Elliot live
and like
you could have given me
a million chances
to draw
what I thought
Elliot Steele looks like
and then he walks on stage
and you're like
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
just all black women
so I think
I think he seems to be alright
about like
yeah he dealt with it
brilliantly
yeah
and man I've never...
Have you ever had a major surgery?
Just my eyeball.
Aye.
Yeah, just a squint surgery.
Apart from that, no, you?
I had brain tumour.
Oh, shit!
But I had, like, the nicest, most benign type of...
Not brain tumour, brain haemorrhage.
Oh, I made that.
Yeah, yeah, 2016, I had a non-aneuristic subarachnoid hemorrhage right which is where basically
subarachnoid is a subarachnoid so an arachnoid if you picture like a spider's legs and i think
that that's all the veins going out okay right so that's when it's like a proper bad hemorrhage
because it's it's spreading like a spider's leg i think subarachnoid is when it doesn't do that
right so it's when it's only a tiny bit so basically i was boxing i was skipping and then suddenly it was like it was a brick in my head and i stopped and
i couldn't look at anything the guy goes oh you're having a migraine have you ever had them before
no so went to hospital load of strong painkillers they're like just go rest up came back and again
it was just the worst pain a and e the next day and um basically they're like we've got to do a
spinal tap i'm like the fuck because we need to like, we've got to do a spinal tap.
I'm like, fuck, because we need to see if you've got a brain hemorrhage.
And I'm like, Jesus Christ.
I got in.
Have you had a spinal tap?
No, but I've heard they're brutal.
So basically, she said, look, this is either going to be.
It's taken to spinal fluid, so they go through the bone.
Yeah, so they basically get this needle, and they put it in, into your spine.
And she goes, here's how it works.
You can't call that a tap.
Ha!
What a horrible way.
You can't call it a spinal stab, though, can you?
That's what it is, but.
Yeah, but I'd be more,
you're just going to feel a little tap there.
There's a blade in between.
You're tapping a keg, aren't you?
Basically, she goes,
it's either going to feel incredibly odd
right
or
it's going to hit a nerve
and it's going to be
a jolt of electricity
that goes through
your whole body
and I'm like
fuck
alright
can I have neither
oh yeah
so they put it in
and it felt incredibly odd
it's like this enormous
fucking cylinder
just going straight
into your
how it feels
it feels like a massive
cylinder going into
your body right
and then it came out I was like oh that was all right i mean it was a bit
weird but i think i got away with it and she goes oh no we didn't get the flu we gotta go again and
i'm like cunt and then the second obviously she did that i hit this nerve and i screamed you
fucking fuck out someone in the next thing went mind your language i screamed fuck you the nurse was laughing so much she had
to like stop for a second to come back and so they do this and they came back and i was like right
mark hunt is fighting tonight we're gonna get a takeaway that's all good so we're in the hospital all day it was a saturday and she came back and she goes
oh no you got brain fluid in you you got blood like from your brain in your spine you've had a
brain hemorrhage you've got to go and i'm like fuck i've had a brain hemorrhage yeah so you've
got to go immediately to this hospital so they've got me in go right chance i got a brain hemorrhage
we have to cut your skull open we'll have to and i'm gonna sit there going you're fucking kidding me i like my skull in one piece yeah exactly and then
and then basically i went into this weird state of total calm because it's like a situation where
you've got no i had no control there's nothing i could do and so i didn't worry because there's
nothing my actions nothing or any choices i could make were fucking totally superfluous and it put
me in a really lovely zen like sense of
calm I just went this is what's going on
I'm really glad I reacted like that
but then they came back
a day later basically and just sort of went
yeah you've had like the nicest
possible fucking outcome for this
instead of a vein bursting
and then my brain getting starved of oxygen
and then it being a bit like a stroke
or whatever essentially I'd like a capillary go, right?
So it's just a tiny little bit of blood,
but obviously it feels like a brick.
So what happens then, yeah?
It travels down your body until you shit it out.
But the weird thing is, I felt it.
You shat a bit of your brain?
I shat out of my brains.
Ah, man, I do that all the time.
But you literally
I literally
felt it like
a lump
travelling down
my
until finally
it went
but what if
that was like
positive memories
what if those
what if those
yeah
the first time
you held your
daughter around
a bike
first time
I did a pill
so
did they have to cut
like into your head
no they didn't
so what they did
basically
so they gave me a thing
where they had to
inject
some
I don't know what it was
something into my groin
and I thought
they meant my dick
right
they said
we're gonna
we're gonna put a thing
in your groin
and I was like
why do you have to put it
in my dick
to get to my brain
and they were like no no it's not it's your groin. And I was like, you know, why do you have to put it in my deck to get to my brain? And they were like,
no,
it's not you.
It's your groin muscle.
So,
so what they do,
they send this thing up.
Because it rules by penis.
Rules by penis.
Yeah.
It sends this thing up where it activates different areas of your brain to register activity.
And it's so weird because it gives you these impulses.
And she goes,
oh,
in a second,
your right side is going to go flush and you'll,
you'll see electric things. And then they're just this thing and i'm like i'm like this is incredible and i
actually really enjoyed it and she came out and i said that was great and she's like really
i'm like yeah like she goes your whole left side's gonna go numb and then there's gonna be rainbows
just because they're triggering it's so weird
they're just like have you ever had any gay thoughts?
No.
How about now?
Fucking hell.
Sorry, but that doctor,
I didn't know this before,
his eyes are unbelievable.
What about now?
You're like, put it back.
Put it back.
That was the happiest I've ever been.
You imagine as science develops
and they start to get more and more awareness
of what you can do with the brain,
it's actually quite
Unnerving
Terrifying
Would you take augmentations
If they could give you them
Oh fuck yeah
All about the evolution
100%
If you could do what
Like a wee chip
That they can just put in there
And you can finally
Be a good dancer
If I could have
The rhythm chip
I'd take the rhythm chip
I remember Tom
Really earnestly saying
No Kai is a horrible dancer I stopped dancing When was that I'll take the rhythm trip I remember Tom really earnestly saying no
Kai is a horrible dancer
aye
I stopped dancing
when was that
it was in Brighton
yeah that was it
it was in Brighton
while I was dancing
and you were like
why are you so ugly
when you dance
and I just like
slumped my shoulders
my tail between my legs
I was like
you put us right off
my boogie
oh god
funny
I'd take a bit
of graphics card
as well
I'd tell you
I've got the graphics card
you've got no
visual memory
or what
nah
I can't memory wank
I think I can
let's try still
you just have to do it
in text
I just
I remember
that last
down to zeros
and ones
out of ten
that's the girl
from the movie
right
so when is your
extra show
at the McEwan Hall
so our extra show
is 27th of August
Saturday 27th of August
5.30
5.30
so I cannot come
and see it
you bastards
yeah I'm gonna
I'm gonna come in now
watch you start like a proud proud mother at the start line of the fun run 5.30 5.30 so I cannot come and see it you bastards yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna come and now watch
you start
like a
like a
proud
proud
proud mother
at the start
line of the
fun run
that's my girl
yeah
yeah that'd be
cool
yeah so please
do go see
the show
please do
when's this
going out
this is going
out on Monday
Monday night
so it should
and it's a
public episode
as well
so
nice
and
I'm I mean we have to go now
because
a man's cutting down
two trees in my garden
and that'll be
fucking loud
which is why we merged
with two
podcasts that were
going to record today
in one podcast
but that happened
it's out now
who was part one
who was the appetiser
part one was going to be us
and then part two
for the patrons
was going to be
but I think this actually
works out better
because this is the public episode
and they can all come
and see you
and
sweet
but yeah there's a tree
surgeon just said
come in just went
right we're going to just
absolutely ruin any idea
of doing a podcast
fine
is that how we put it
anything that you want to do
that recorded audio quality
is being absolutely kiboshed
so thanks for tuning in
go see Milo
thanks for coming to see our shows
love you lots
bye