The Frank Skinner Show - 456 Quid for a Fox?!

Episode Date: June 1, 2026

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It's the Frankskinner podcast, don't you know Let's start from the very beginning That's a very good place to start Not according to Horace Who said, don't begin with the egg Come into a story halfway through Just saying This is, I haven't got me a bit of paper

This is Frank off the radio I'm joined by Emily Dean And Steve Hall is with us today Yeah. New star of the show. All the correspondences for him we get. Remember her. Follow the podcast on X and Instagram. You can email the podcast via Frank off the radio at Avalonukk.com. Yeah.

Hmm. Okay. Does it mean the podcast will take up a minute of your valuable time? That's how long you'll stay with it. No, it will take you a minute to message up. The act of, yeah, sending the WhatsApp. I'm with you. Okay. Can I say Steve was late today, by the way?

Why do you say that, Farmy? I say it, because I've wronged a lot of young comedians thinking, you know, that's what young comedians are like now. They're always late. Well, as we were discussing, I was early, and then I, there was a reason I didn't want to come in, so I did a circle of the block. Oh, dear. And it was then four months left.

We don't want to get caught up in your sleazy shenanigans. No. You know, um. Sleazy shenanigans, I think, well, you're. to run the Irish pub in... That's my drag name, Sleez, shenanigans. It'd be alright. Yeah, I quite like it.

But, you know, this is why... It could be Slease E as the middle thing. That's exactly what it is. But, you know, this is why Frank reminded me of Russell T. Davis. Because when we went to this screening, it's exactly the two first things he did. I know I talked about this last week, but it's just uncanny. The first thing he did was criticised the predictions of the... producer for turning up late and say, well, you didn't laugh.

The director. He said, well, he turned up late. And then when, well, no one laughed as much as I hoped, I thought, this is Frank Lynn Skinner. Oh, dear. What's happened to the world? Now, wonder you two get on so well, Frank? Ooh, listen, I went. That's why they're time lords.

I was out and about on Sunday. Is this a common sign in pubs? There was a, it said Sunday roast. And then it had a picture. Tell me this is around a lot. It was a picture of a cow. And then standing on the cow's bat, there was a pig. And standing on the pig's bat was a sheep.

And then on the sheep's bat was a chicken. And then there was three mushrooms just hovering in there. And it was like a pyramid of what was a for a Sunday roast. And the animals were standing on each other, as if they'd been converting into some sort of display team. Really? To wet your appetite.

Is this a normal thing? I don't know. But you know what? I enjoy hypocrisy when it comes to meat eating. I don't want to see evidence of the cute animals anyway. Well, remember, hypocrisy is the homage that voice pays to virtue. Very true. That's rather strange.

I didn't like it and I do eat meat but it made me think maybe I'll stop eating meat if they have to stand on each other's backs and also why mushrooms getting involved I also think at the top of the hierarchy as well

I all think slaughtering has a certain respect involved with it you slaughter somebody properly but not somebody but making them stand on each of those backs that feels like I once went to a place where they had a sockling pig

you know that was on the table and they'd put like a red pepper in its mouth. And I thought, no. Yeah. Have a bit of respect for the day before we eat them. Adding whimsy to a thing that you're about to munch on. No.

It's a bit Avengers assemble. That's the problem with her jazily. Oh, Frank, please. Not in front of Steve. We don't know where we'll end up. No, you're right. You know? I was a fool.

What's your favourite song with Fool in it? Probably Fool by Elvis Presley Oh is he got a song called Fool? Oh you didn't have to hurt her For you only had to love Yeah I like why do fools fall in love

That's a great Fool's gold Oh that's a good one I don't know I don't know You do If you hear that one You will know it Frank The Stone Roses one

Fall on the Hill I did think was the biggie Yeah yeah Yeah. We've gone, who was my one? Frankie someone? Why did Falls fall in? Was it Frankie Valley?

No. Frankie Lyman and the Tino, he was it? Very good. Is that O'Carroll? Is that O'Carol? We are sounding like three old men. Neil Fadarker. Okay.

Come on three old men. Enough now. God, we were five live last time and no way a capital goal. No, now we've gone a bit, Charles Brandreth, bless him. Oh, Charles Brandreth. I love a brandress. What the fuck does Charles Brandreth?

us wearing this heat. You can't wear a jumper to die. He's going to die. Do you think, does he wear a t-shirt that looks like a chomper? A knitted t-shirt. A knitted t-shirt with little cap sleeves. The wall just doesn't lend itself to the hot temperature. What does he wear in these conditions?

Does someone have to shear him? That would be a strange job. Yeah. Do you know, that's a great question. Maybe if anyone knows and has seen him, this man. I bet he doesn't leave the house. Maybe he goes... I know his house.

It's actually knitted. It's got a knitted house in Mayfair. It's got a picture of... It's knitted. There's a vintage car, knitted into the side wall. The posh do struggle in these hot temperatures. Do you know what to mean? Because the posh aren't...

They don't wear with respect, Steve. Coach driver's short sleeve shirt. What they wear is a tailored short. Oh, you've nailed it. Yeah, but the tailored short... It doesn't have as many pockets as... Do you know who wears a tailored short, lovely, Johnny Bowden, founder of Bowden, the high-end clothing.

Are you familiar with Bowden? I know John Bowden, the folk singer. I'm surprised to discover that he wears a tailored short. Surprised and disappointed. I'll tell you what they wear. Sometimes Alan Clark used to wear this sometimes. If you saw a picture, he'd wear a tailored short, absolutely right, Frank.

Almost like a Bermuda with a shirt, a long-sleeved, Savile Rochev just rolled up at the sleeves. Do you know that look? And then... And of Panama? Leather moccasins with no socks. Oh man. We have nailed their look on the Riviera. You see, I sort of...

When I see young people out in the hot weather that we've experienced of late, you were about your eyes. They look forward to be able to show off their bodies. They do. Because, you know, they've all... Not all of them, but a lot of them are like amazing. Boys and girls, both.

Oh, that blur. But they don't know that I look forward to confronting them with what they must face in the future. I like that. I like the idea of, yes. Don't look away. Don't look. This is coming. We are Christmas future, Frank.

Even the fairest flower shall wither. I am so... That's what my sing is. I'm inclined to agree with you. No, but you still look great. Oh, I love you. In the summer, because I'm so deathly pale. So my legs on display.

You are actually. But you can see people will look at it. And I'll sort of, so why is that person looking at me? I'll realise it's because they're upset by having to look at my legs. Yeah. I was like that when you came in. Frank, what are you doing? You can't just go, yes.

If someone goes, oh, my awful legs, people can't look at them. No, we're being up front now about who we are. Full acceptance. I know, but you've got lovely legs, Steve. Oh, no, they, I mean, they're prismatic. Do you know what? They're really not that bad. Prismatic.

Light passes through them. I was thinking in this hot weather though I do despair sometimes of the fashion out there there's some bad things going on don't you think does it not bother you in the same way well you're clued into this so you know trends

I think I just think it's not that hard come on people it's really not that hard to get your act together for the hot weather just you know some of the awful things The socks with trainers. Oh, I think it's okay.

I think in the summer it all bets are off. Like I said, there's a lot of beautiful people out there looking beautiful. So the rest of us can mock in. Isn't there a generational thing with this? I think Gen Z like wearing socks with trainers with shorts because they think it's like, oh, if your feet. It's anti-fashion. Yeah.

But it's also that they get horrid because they'll think, oh, your feet will be really gross if you're not wearing a sock. Yeah, but Frank, you look chic somehow with that. I don't like, I said before the trainer's sock. I don't like that. Ultimately deceit. No, that's dead now, isn't it, the trainer sock? It's pretending that you're not wearing socks when you are.

Deceased. It is. We could launch this as, you know, you get these Instagram accounts where it's people roving the streets. We could have you roving the streets. Attacking people. I'm sorry, but you look awful. Or like, have some dignity, please. How to become the most hated woman in Britain?

I'm sorry, but you look awful. And that's it. And then you just move on. That's just 10 seconds stings each time. That's it. To be honest, I'm astonished at how many good looking fit people there are. We've been hanging out in different places. I think they must all, you know, I suppose it's this going to the gym thing that some people do.

Yeah, they go to the gym. And you know they eat healthy as well these young ones. They don't eat healthy. Talk robin. Steve, what have been doing with you? your terrible week. Well, we were discussing previously about the feedback that I'd got from my last appearance.

I've had some feedback from my brother. Oh, yeah. He gave me two pieces of feedback. Is he nice, your brother? Yeah, he's a lovely bloke. I have two brothers, one of whom I'm not allowed to talk about. Oh, I understand. In public.

And my brother Lawrence is happy for me to discuss. He said two things. He said, first of all, he said, my teeth look terrible on the videos of this. Hang on, this is the nice brother. Yeah, this is my nice brother. He said, I've got to be honest, your teeth look terrible. Next to me, they look terrible. Because I've never had a single feeling.

Why do you think I like having Steve here? Look how good my teeth are. Yeah, yours look great. I mean, we are like the three ages. I've not had a single feeling. I've got a chipped tooth from the 13th of December 2005. Upon arriving at Aberystwyth train station, Greg Davis took his guitar case down from the train rack,

smashed me in the face with it, and I have a chipped tooth. that he's never offered to repair despite the millions that Taskmaster has paid him. So that's the only thing. But he said, he said, I don't know why they just look terrible. And I said, well, thank you for your lovely feedback. I think they look fine.

Mine look terrible. Yours look, you know, all right. And Emily's looked great. Yeah, yours look lovely. I don't think yours look terrible, but... Oh, well, you're going to say that. You've got to say that, to be honest. No one here's got great to you.

Even my dentist said they look terrible. Oh, he didn't. My dentist said... That's so accrual. The front teeth are so thin now. I can see your tongue moving about behind them. But in the second... You know when someone has a torch on in the tent?

It's like that. Little silhouette figures behind your teeth. I was in Bearwall. I did all the medieval stunt the teeth doubling in the film Bear Wolf. Hang. Every time one of the actors smiled, they cut to me. You could, well, yours would be addressed with a, but I don't think you need it. No, I tried whitening.

No, it did nothing. What, your teeth are impervious to whitening me? I tried, I tried whitening. They're very unpleasant, you know, trays of bleach and all that sort of stuff. Nothing, nothing happens. There's a system called Enlighten, which, not a shame there's a system called Enlighten, and that's what it's for. Teeth, whine. Because I, you know, more than ever now the world needs enlightenment, but not that.

Just the Buddha with a perfect set of an ears. Yeah, the Buddha opens his mouth, turkey teeth, a pair of Rylent teeth. Yeah. Yeah, Enlighten, it is depressing, isn't it, that it's called Enlightenment. It used to mean such a different thing. It's the age of enlightenment, but it means something very different now, Frank. Yes. I would work on you.

I've got a guy that could sort you out. But what I would say is I actually really respect you for keeping your teeth. Thank you, darling. Is that okay for me to say that? The dentist said, I don't want to make them like super white, just less green. That's what he said. I think Steve is fine. No, no, it looks fine.

What was your other feedback? And then the second piece of feedback, he goes, because a few weeks ago, we briefly talked about the band Half Man Half Biscuit. We did. And my brother is a big fan of them and knows way more about music than I don't. He chastised me. He basically said because we went to the thing that one of their songs was called All I Want for Christmas is a Ducla Prague Awakeet. And he said that that's...

I had seen my head. It was... I mean, at least you got it right, I thought it was St. Etienne was the Awakeet. So it's a good job I didn't say that. My brother's take on that is that's, but he considers that. That's the big moment of half man, half biscuit. and he thinks it's that they're one of our very greatest bands

and they sort of get remembered in this slightly kitschy way where it's like a reference to Subutio. And so he was basically saying, I need to correct the record to emphasise how good they're. He's intrigued as to how much you know them because there are so many things about Half Man, Half Biscuit that would coincide with stuff you love. So for example, they turned down an appearance on the tube in the 80s

because Tranmere were playing on the Friday night, and so they turned down the opportunity to be on telly so they could go and watch Tranmere. Brilliant. And they've got lots of references to... What about Marky Smith's contract when he did later with Diels Holland, saying under no circumstances, could he be accompanied by honky-tongued piano?

And then, so they've got lots of puns in their songs, but also lots of references to poetry. So one of their songs is called a Shropshire lad. Right. One of the songs is called A Pond, Westminster Bridge. They've got an album of sort of odds and sods that's called And Some Fell on Stony Ground. Oh, really?

So there are so many things that are sort of skinner adjacent. And he was basically saying, if you like the fall and you like the lovely eggs, they would sort of be a natural kind of bedfellow. There's no entry point for me here, just so you know. I'm going to check them out. That's it. I'm going to take them out.

You can tell Lawrence. Yeah. But it's basically, he gave me a proper bolivism. Why does he call Lawrence and you're called Steve? It's very different. Do you call him Lull? Because Lawrence, Lawrence, very Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence Fox.

Yeah, I think my mum was a big fan of Omar Sharif, I think. So I think that's, I think. Omer Sheriff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Steve. Oh, speaking of foxes. Oh, God. And he's made it so we can't cut that out.

Very clever. We found. Me and my son and my nephew were investigating some waste ground. No, I love a bit of waste ground. You never know what you're going to find. I love a sort of stick. I'm quite stick of the dump, romantic about that. We found four alcoholics.

I used to hang out here in the 80s. Yeah. You meet some of your old friends. Teets still the same, Frank. We found what I can only. describe as a mummified fox. Oh, that's sad. And it was, I think I was pretty sure it was a fox.

I've got a picture. I don't know if Emily will let me put it off, because it's a bit in the... You know I don't like animal cruelty. Tipton slash. There's no cruelty involved. There's no suggesting a foul play. The chickens weren't involved.

There was a chicken standing on his back. I don't like anything about animals upsetting. You know I don't. Well, but this is an interesting phenomenon, because I thought, this doesn't look like a rotten or decaying fox. Was it mummiff? It looks like, you know, the non-putrefaction of saints, have you ever heard of that? Oh, okay.

So sometimes they dig up saints, the Catholic Church, and they're in pretty good condition. Like taxidermy almost. It's like they just haven't properly rotted. Because of the celestial, is that what? That's the theory, right. The church nowadays keeps a sort of an open mind. The steer is like in the catacombs. There was a very, very, on the Rome, it was very, very dry.

Because I think the process is to do with the rate of dehydration being faster than the rate of bacteria. Oh, I see. And this thing, that's what it looked like. Really? So it's been almost unintentionally embalmed. Well, it looked incredible. It looked like one of these saints. Wow.

So, Kath, was amazed by it. and she went on the internet Googled mummified fox the first thing we saw mummified fox for sale 465 quid I don't think it was as good as the one on the waist ground I want to show you guys a photo of you

I'm going to be really sad I'm bracing myself we don't have to I'll show Steve well I want to see it might be so we might need to canonise or beatify this fox yeah well that's it's non-putrified there you go oh wow

yeah how about that for a response yeah that's hardcore but that is absolutely that's hard core I don't like the description

of hardcore when you're looking at content on Frank's phone it looks like something I see because it looks like Howard Carter could have discovered that yes exactly

exactly so yeah 465 quid that's how much it was so you're going to sell it this one No. Well, it's not, you know, it's on common ground.

No, but I thought we ought to, you know, it's a shame it's just lying now, that's all I'm saying. But this weather will probably probably. You know what you sound like, you sound like Mrs. Lovett when it first occurs to her, they can use the bodies for meat. She actually says seems an awful waste about the dead bodies and the meat pies. I'm just thinking this way. He'll eat that up. Go on, Frank. I was just saying this weather could.

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Okay, how are they? They were well Okay, good It was, I went Not satisfied to just go into the film on the first day I don't know what that is Steve Okay

It's the Star Wars thing Oh, here we go So it's I saw it not only on IMAX but in 3D On the hottest day of the year IMAX 3D In Roadie

really right. It was absolute whoa. Man it was mind blowing. It was like having a workout. Which one is this then? I get confused. There's about 25 of them. Pedro Pascoe. Oh, he's a nice boy. Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, Pedro. Except you very rarely see his face.

Who does he play? He plays the Mandalorian. Who's the Mandalorian? Well, have you ever... On the planet of Mandalore, there's a race of people who are human beings. But their religion means that they can't show their face. So they always wear armour and a big mask. Oh, I quite like that idea.

Maybe I'd like it. So Pedro wears a mask throughout. So I've heard. And on the very rare occasions, the Mandalorian takes off his mask, which is a great dishonour for him to be seen without him. But when he takes it off, is Pedro and he's got a fucking mustache. And you think, why would you have a moustache? Why would you get to the bother of grooming a moustache?

stash if you're wearing that all the time. Can I ask a good question. Do you go on your own to these things? No, I went with my son and our friend Molly. Oh, I love that then. I couldn't get my kids interested in it. Oh, have you seen it? I've seen it, yeah.

Oh, good on, yeah. It's it because I don't want to give spoilers, but there is... Oh, don't worry. I have no intention of ever seeing this film. There's a member of Jabba the Hutz family as a prominent character. and he's ripped. So the idea of a ripped hot hut

voiced by Jeremy Allen White from the bear who is a very beautiful man but seeing a ripped jabber the hut it reminded me very strongly of Darren Lyons from Celebrity Big Brother the one who had the bulk

but had done the fake six pack on his stomach he'd like I don't know if he'd had implants to give himself a fake Oh yes have you seen those fake those fake abs. Obviously, I haven't thought I would have got one. Can you imagine

a prank with fake abs if you took your teeth? I'd like a stomach I could grate cheese on. But what happened to me is we got invited to what I thought was the premiere

a few weeks back. Oh, yeah. Of Mandalorian. To Boz. Soz. I said to Boz, we've been invited to the Mandelorian and Grogu Premier, so it's very excited. So we got there.

Pedro was there. Sigourney was there. Oh, they're all there? Favro. John? Hey. But I thought, not many celebrities, because I got quite a lot of paparazzi action. And normally, you know, I had to move over for Cher.

And I'm thinking, the only celebs I said was me and Dan Walker. I thought that can't be it, can you? Really? Were you the only celebs? So I couldn't work this out. You know, loads of fans are getting signatures from Sigourney and Pedro and stuff. So we got in and, you know, I got Buzz really excited about a scene, that thing. And then I realised I hadn't properly read the invite. It was just the first 25 minutes as a sort of teaser.

So you only saw 25 minutes? Of course, at my age, I'm gotted. that I've let my son down. We're only going to see 25 minutes. But I'm thinking, oh, I'll be home for 9 o'clock. Which is always lovely. That's a win. So I'd already seen the first 25 minutes accidentally.

And then we went and we paid and saw it. I loved it. All right. Okay. Well, I mean, I might see it, but I've got a lot of catching up to do, Frank. Yeah, you need to see three series of the TV show. A TV show?

I thought it was film, Star Wars. No, it's a lot of Star Wars. no on Disney Plus. I can't be a The Mandalorian series was one of the few that wasn't bad so the series

was very popular That's Steve's opinion who criticises Introduced baby Yoda who now has the name Grogu but people went Oh I like baby Yoda All these ones like

Ewoks and Yoda's I like They really In this one they really lean into how much Baby Grogu loves eating They make it such a running They turn him into Joey

From Friends The amount of food The word The word in the amazing sort of company press is they've gone family instead of fanboy with this film. Oh, have they? Which they think there's more money

because fanboys tend not to have families. Well, the amount emerge, because it's a cute baby Yoda, the amount emerged that one character alone will shift. Apart from... I took my kid, there's a Lego store just open in Oxford. I took my kids there yesterday and just, you know, it's Lego Razor Crest and all that. Oxford have got Lego.

Wow, that's great news. Wow. Oh, I'm glad I live in London. Frank. Speaking of London, have we heard anything in from the world? We've heard from Georgian Norwich, which isn't speaking of London. No. I just meant outside of the studio.

I know. I understand. I love Norwich. I think if I had to move somewhere else, that's where I'd move. Would you? Mm-hmm. Okay. I like a bit of Norwich. Nippin and C, Julia.

Yeah. I like a bit of, he's his best friend, Julian of Norwich. She. Oh, is it she? Yeah. Oh, yes, the woman through the prison. In the little cubicle on the side. Oh, God. Yeah.

Go on. It makes me laugh. I'm sorry. Dear Frank Gemmeli and guest, I'm an English teacher and a colleague once told me that she broke up with an ex-boyfriend, partly because he often spoke in cliches, and she couldn't handle it. This in itself made me laugh. But even better than that, After they'd broken up, he texted her and said, It's a crying shame.

This really made me laugh. And for some reason, I thought Frank might like this too. That's from George and Norwich. Imagine Frank getting the text. It's a crying shame. I'm all right. I was waiting for it takes two to tango. At least he was nice.

You're right. At least he was sort of, you know, not offensive or aggressive. At the end of the day, it's been a good relationship. Yeah. That would have been Yeah Anyway I enjoyed that enormously

I thought you might enjoy that as well We've also heard From hang on Can you talk amongst yourselves While I find this please Yeah I got very annoyed I've got it

Oh you got it Oh Steve Just got a really Ripping anecdote coming now Well okay You choose Frank It's a big moment Can you

No No I couldn't possibly Over to Frank Skinner The choice is yours Are you going to go outside world Or are you going to go Steve's gold I'm going outside world Emily safe pair of hands

Next time Steve This is from Lex Oh okay He's got enough As to what he's done to my hero Lutheran Hi guys With the talk of Yuri Geller recently

I don't know if you were here When we were talking about Yuri Geller I wondered if as a comic book fan, Frank is aware that Geller once appeared in a Marvel comic teaming up with Daredevil. No. It was back in the 70s or 80s and Geller

had to use his psychic powers to help Daredevil fight a supervillain. I'm not quite sure how Geller's publicity team managed to arrange this appearance, but it must surely stand as one of the most bizarre comic book team-ups to ever happen. All the best

from Lex. Very old it's from Lex, isn't it? It is, really. It's making me suspicious. But there used to be a thing of putting real people in the comics. Is that right? I remember Mohammed Ali fought Superman and did pretty well. Two Spandau Ballet joined Melchester Rovers to play alongside Roy the Rover. I've actually just found a picture of it here, Yuri Geller and Daredevil.

And it's quite extraordinary. So any keys involved? I couldn't see any keys. It's showing him. What I should have joined is with the... He should have been... Peter. He's bending what looks like

a piece of lead piping. It's a very flattering comic interpretation of Uri. He looks rather more like Pauline Prescott, I would say. God rest of him. Yeah, it's a very

remarkable right because he appears on Johnny Carson is the thing that launches Geller. Is that right? James Randy was basically debunking him so they set him up to fail. And so he flops and he apparently Geller thinks it's all finished.

I like that we're calling him Geller. like he's really like he's sort of Einstein or something. And because he was like, he was like, I just haven't got the energy today. He wasn't like going, oh, the trick hasn't. He was going, I just, I feel weak today. So people embraced him also weirdly after that, even though that appearance went badly, suddenly he was in demand everywhere. So he has this run in the middle of the 70s where he's ending up in comic books.

No, he had a great, he did have a great run. He was hot property for a long time. And I always thought James Gam do just like spoils. But people are saying, oh, I know how he's doing it. I don't want to hate them. I wouldn't want to sit in front of James Gandhi at the theatre. Hang on, isn't it James Randy?

Oh, whatever his name. Well, it is important. Names are important, Frank. If you go, that bloody Gandhi, he's an absolute charlatan. Is he a professional debunker then? Is it Randy? Yeah, James Randy. Well, to be fair, he would change that now, wouldn't you?

Wouldn't you? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, his whole thing was, I know, it's dawn and stuff like that. And then we're supposed to like him for that, but I hate those people. Yeah, we don't like that. I don't want to know how anything's done. Including housework. Oh my God.

Not Terry in June. June! June! Go on next. Okay. Why doesn't Steve read one out? He can. But he won't.

I think you often have more than me and your list. Don't use these excuses. Steve, I'm sick of these excuses. Steve, is it based on the lady reading the letters in the secretary or what? So Big Jim. What am I, money penny? Big Jim says, firstly, thank you for reminding me of the Green Hornet and putting me on to Superstore.

This might be a me thing, but contrary to your wanting to tell the world about something brilliant like Superstore, I have a similar outlet to Emily, where I hate it when people discover something I've loved for years, like it's new. I'm wondering, is it normal to like love, connect with something so much? that you want to keep it just for you. Well, that's why we've got so many missing episodes in the Doctor Who world. Because some people have got the recordings and they don't want to share them with the same. Yeah, they love the idea of having them exclusively for themselves. It's not a good human instinct.

No, it's very selfish. Although, I tell you what I get a bit irritated is when I discover a series, like I like that you wanted to share a superstar with people. I think that showed you in a very good light because I, I get very irritated when I say to people, oh, you should watch Mad Men, or you should watch Succession. And those self-same people turn around to me three months later and say, oh, I'll tell you what's great Mad Men, have you seen that?

I say, yes, I told you two. And they say, no, you didn't. Oh, that's infuriating. I've got one friend, we'll discuss this person afterwards, who does it all the time to me. Oh, really? Yes, it drives me nuts. It's denial.

So this is the secret of not knowing that many people have I seen more than one is. I remember once having a conversation with Kath, and I didn't. You did? What? Is this going to lead it to something you really love? And then someone else finds out about how good it is. That's where we're going with this. I didn't know how good the Girouti column were until Kath raved about the Girouti column.

What is this? The weird thing you're talking about now. I don't know these things. Banned from the late 70s, early 80s, this bloke, Vinnie Riley basically is the Juruti. So a very good band. But he's just been, there's a gig in honour of him because I think he's not well enough

to perform himself, but there's a gig. Because it turns out Harry Stiles is a massive jurutie column with that. Right. And so as part of Harry Styles' meltdown, there's a tribute to Vinnie Riley. And I really love that.

That someone is as global as Harry Stiles. Has had a meltdown. No wonder in this heat Well he doesn't wear how much He should be all right Yeah Yeah what Cat likes many many

Alternative bams She is Yeah she's But she also likes Abba It's an odd contradiction But the point is you're happy The question being Wanting to keep it to yourself

I don't think that's true of you You're happy to share these things No it's like food in our house. Cath will say to me, did you have an orange at the basket? At the fruit basket? And I was like, yeah.

Oh. I was in the fruit basket. Yeah, I was really looking forward to that. Whereas I would honestly give them my last rollo. I think it's the term. Yeah, she's very careful on that stuff. But I tell you what she did this year. It was Boz's birthday at the weekend.

Oh, did he have a good one? You know, she always makes a cake based on his corin. It was stranger things. Oh, a lot of black icing or white icing? Oh, the red, of course. Was it an upside down cake? Very nice. You know what?

I suggested an upside down cake and she hadn't heard of it. Oh. So I think yourself lucky you did that. Did she have the red writing then? Yeah, I'll show you a picture. I'll put this off. I think we put them up every year. But Kathy's all.

She never realises how good her cakes are. Well, not just as you not realise, but we'll say it's absolutely shit this year is what she'll say. Oh, I bet it's a good. Oh my God, it looks amazing, guys. We're going to share, we'll share you this picture. It's a mummified fox. No, it's a lovely.

Well, there's icing on it. We put a bit of icing on the mummified. Do you know what I would spend? £240, I would spend on that cake. Well, she made that. It's extraordinary. Really good. Yeah, anyway.

So did it go down well? Well, it's half eaten. God then again, so was the mummified fox. Let's not even get started on the one orange. The mummy five fox doesn't have a tail, by the way. That's the one thing that's missing. But people often go for the tail first if they're taking a fox souvenir.

Do you know, I could have given that fox a loving home. What, the mummified fox? Yes. Well, it's still time. It will keep. That's the joy of the mummified fox. It's the pet that won't leave. Do you know, it sounds right on my strassette.

It's true, though. It's true. Who said as no such thing as the eternal? Walking the Mummified Fox. Oh, there. That would be good. You could have a small trolley for it. And then you could interview people of a dark, more macabre nature.

It's got got a sonly. This week, Helen O'Bondham Carter. Next week. Yeah, it's great. She would walk the Mummified Fox. And coming up next week, Robert Smith? Yeah, Robert. I'm all over it.

Tim Burton would do it. Thanks, Steve. Yeah, it could be a really great thing. The woman who played Wednesday, what's her name? Oh, yes. We know who she is. Sarah Michelle Geller would do it. Uri Geller, her dad.

Yeah, the Buffy, the vampire bender. I don't know if you remember that one. She bet Ben's vampire. pie us into all sorts of strange shapes as a punishment for their non-vegan lifestyle. Yeah, anyway, look, the next episode of Frank Skinner's radio days is out on Wednesday. It's another 2014 throwback. What about that?

This is the phraseology of our new producer, Sandy. And we're talking about female novelist dog dental care and talcum power. Okay. Do you remember the old talcum powder joke? Man walks into a chemist and says to the woman assistant, can I get some talcum powder? And she said, walk this way. She walks off and he said, if I walk that way, I wouldn't need the talcum powder. Oh my God. It's a classic. It's a Frank Skinner podcast. A new winter change is blowing. It's the Frank Skinner podcast.

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