The Frank Skinner Show - Back Seat Gymnast

Episode Date: November 1, 2024

Today's podcast gets exercise heavy when Frank shares the details of a recent conversation with Gabby Logan and Pierre reveals the kind of characters that frequent his gym. Frank also reflects on his acting career and reports back the results of a recent medical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Frank off the radio, featuring him and thatbing it in. I'm joined by Emily Dean and Pierre Novelli. Follow the podcast on X and Instagram. You can email the podcast via frank off the radio at affilonuk.com. Oh I love, I do enjoy the housework of doing all that. Oh do you like that? Do you feel like Freddie Mercury and I want to break free with your vacuum? Did I tell you, I once did that, it used to be a live show called Singing and Dancing for Comet Relief or something of that nature. Do you remember it? I do.

It was a Saturday tea time show and I was a George on it a few times. That was when you kissed Greg Davies. Was it? That must have been the bad show. Why did you say that was the bad show? You know if you're desperate you do something like kiss her. Anyway. Must have needed a step ladder. I know. Do you know I was talking to him at a party, a birthday party recently and I broke off mid conversation. Luckily he didn't hear it. No, I broke off mid conversation luckily didn't hear it. He's too high up. It would never reach him. I broke off.

It does rise of course. I broke off. It was honestly hurting my neck. I thought I can't talk to him. I couldn't and he was being perfectly entertaining and interesting but it was uncomfortable to talk to him. You have to talk to him from about three meters away maybe? Yeah, but that'd be awkward at a birthday party. There'd be people going in between, one imagines. We couldn't rope it off. Anyway, where was I?

You were on a Dancing for Comic Relief. It's just that you mentioned in that Freddie Mercury video, Jordan was on, aka Katie Price. I don't know what she was probably called Katie Price by then. She never underestimated the pricey. Oh yeah. Well, she, isn't that what they're saying? Lidl. Anyway, they, she was doing that, rec, I said one thing that you don't need to worry about in old age, bear in mind this is live on television at like 5.30 on a Saturday night. I said one thing you don't need to worry about in old age is if you grow a moustache because it actually really suits you. She said, oh no, no, no, I'm completely smooth all overhead to foot. It's 5.30 on Saturday afternoon. Yes. So that's my, whenever I see

that video, I think of Katie Price and her- And her dolphin-like body. Yeah, exactly. Smoothness. What a terrible way to take a compliment. I know, yeah. You know, she's very, what I liked about Katie Price is- You really sewed her mustache, you know. I haven't got any pubes. Yeah, that's what it said on the subtitles. That was the sort of a match of the day summary clip. I don't know if you remember this Pierre, but we're both on the road at the moment, me and Pierre. Go and see Pierre's show. What's it called?

Why Are You Laughing? Why Are You Laughing? And come and see my show, Why Aren't You Laughing? It's not called that. It's called 30 Years of Dirt and it's absolutely brilliant. And it's still all over the place. I've seen it twice I think now. God bless you, Governor, for your kindness. I brought along JR.

Yes, you did. That was before he was shot. It wasn't. It's not that J.O. Even during it a while. So we were in Manchester doing a gig, Pierre and I, with Omar Khan. How does Omar Khan feel about this? He said to me that his friends when he was young used to call him Omar Gosh. So it's a theme that's run through his life.

Long history. Anyway. So we're leaving the hotel to go to a gig or we were just arriving at a hotel and we saw the popular presenter Gabby Logan standing outside the hotel. Lovely. I'm gonna say, oh my friend of the show, can we please call her? What about this show? Oh that's rather rude. Friend of the old show until he qualifies. I think this show is still at the acquaintance level. Okay, speak for yourself. Go on. Any road up, so I said hello to her and we've, you know, we have worked together. She hosted a show that I team captained on many years ago, one series. Yep. The great thing I remember about that show is David Walliams was presenting it and then

he pulled out after the pilot. Oh, did he? Yeah. But the way the schedule had been put in, we still had to have a day off for his wife's birthday. Like you're in a dictatorship. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Yeah, Kim Jong-Walliam. So anyway, it didn't happen. But she was great, honey. And I love her. Let's say loved. Why? Because when we were in Manchester, she came very lovely. I said, come to the gig.

I'm on tonight. And she said, oh great, because I'm doing show tomorrow. Right. And so I'm free tonight I said look come to the gig, you know, we'll stick your ticket on the door and after the show She was at the stage door. God bless it because she wanted to say thank you She might just wanted a lift. I offered her I offered her a lift anyway So we were you in the car? Yeah. No, I think I had to go to do some other show or something the next day or there was... I missed this. Okay.

So, I'm in the... Omar's driving and I'm in the car with Gabby Logan. She says to me, what exercise are you doing at the moment? I said, honestly, I was just cleaning my spectacles. I was just making dinosaurs underneath this hangar tree. I said, I'm not doing any exercise, I don't really do exercise. And she was like, there was a, I remember in darkness, so I can't see her face. Yeah.

She said, what do you mean you don't do any exercise? I said, well, every time I think about doing it, there are so many more interesting things to do than exercise. I do those. And she said to me, yeah, well, do you want to live long enough to carry on doing those interesting things and to enjoy them. And I said, the thing is, I wouldn't enjoy those interesting things if they were part of a life which included exercise, because that would poison the well that the interesting things

inhabited. I mean this is just who I am. I love each spangle and each feather. Yeah I do not like it. Sam I am. Did Will I am get his name from Sam I am in Green Eggs? They're brothers aren't they? Frank of the radio at Avalon UK. You told me they were brothers. Yeah, now I said he got a brother from Yorkshire called Will.i.am's got a brother from Yorkshire called Will.i.Ekka's like. So how did it resolve itself with Gabby? Did you agree to disagree on the exercise? I think we're just very different people she was you know she was a Commonwealth

Games athlete. Yes. Her dad was a footballer. Her husband was a very successful rugby player. To me there's two chairs in the room and one of them is Joe Wicks and on the other one is WH Orton. And I'm with with Whiston. Oh are you? I thought you were more with Pete Wicks because he also does an exercise. Well he'll be with his brother obviously. Yeah. But that is just a different... there was a period where I ran eight miles a day. I was going to say I remember a period there was a period when you got very obsessed by it. I mean I would call it, you did become obsessed with it didn't you? Well I remember running on Christmas day in ice because I couldn't possibly miss a day running.

Yeah, but what happened to that? Well because... Alright Gabby! Yeah exactly, don't you start on me! So eight miles a day I've seen pictures of myself from that period. I look like Nosferatu the Vampire, right? There's no meat on my face, it's just totally skeletal. I felt great but I looked like, you know, I was day in the dead. Was this around the time you had the strange crush on Zola Bard? Yes, well she was partly my inspiration.

Okay. Does it occur to you, maybe Gabby was a nice thing because you do look very svelte, I would say. I'd say you're almost Jagarian in your slimness at the moment. And that is sometimes, I take that as a real comp- Even if someone says, oh, are you exercising? It's a nice way. It's not an overblotting way. No, she's an evangelist of exercise. She is.

She is an evangelist of exercise. Was she revolted by your answer? She was, I think, frustrated at the idea that I thought that was okay. She wants you to live longer. And she'll be here at one o'clock. We've just been told by the producer, because she's been in touch and says, do you use? Well, she can make her own way out. Oh, thank.

I thought I could have improved the quality of your life by not offering you a lift back to the hotel. I could have walked. It would have also eased my life a little. I wouldn't be nagged. Someone I'd just given a free ticket to a gig for. But so when, was there a moment where you threw your running shoes in the bin specifically or did you just gradually run less and less and go, oh, screw this or? I hurt my knee basically. And then because I had this obsessive running thing, I started to try and run on my knee before it got better.

And then I really made it very bad. But I couldn't explain anything, like I'm in this tirade of people. What's that tirade? You are touchy muck touchy face. Looking back, I wish we hadn't dropped Claire Balding off at the coach station. Gabby wouldn't have her in the car. We left Claire Balding, I could see her brutally thumping of vending machine on the platform as we drove away. I overheard something at my gym that I found surprising.

He's very into his gym. Did you see when he came in today? He was sweating like the world's strongest man. I'm not saying don't do exercise. I'm saying I don't. Leave me alone. But also you were saying to Gabby that if you did do some exercise in the morning then that would poison the well of WH Orden in the afternoon. Yeah it would. It would ruin the whole day. I might as well do it later on. It would ruin the whole day. It did because I used to go to the gym. I was in a play where I had to be more or less naked.

Was that art? No, definitely not. What was the one where you had a tortoise in front of you? That was cooking with elves. Was that the one where you had to be naked? Yeah. Okay. Well, I had to show my bear behind, at least. That was the one where I got covered in tomato puree and

I had this very nice gay dresser, he used to have to help me get the tomato puree off my body and I went below the Y-Fronts and he did the rest and I said to him, I'll tell you what on the last night you can do the rest. And I said to him, I'll tell you what, on the last night you can do the whole thing. I said, it's better than a card. He was an hilarious man, I must say. Anyway, where were we? Yeah. So you're at the gym. I was at the gym. Now there are three blokes who are always at my gym. They are there when I arrive and they are there when I leave. No matter when I go, they live there and they are in the sort of 40s or 50s but they're massive. They look like they're made of walnuts. They're terrifying. They just live there and they're real

geysers. Do they have sort of like those Turkish white teeth? Yes. You're imagining exactly the right kind of geyser. Yes. I haven't seen their cars. I imagine they're needlessly large This I've overheard a lot of chat over the years from these men about Dubai and boxing matches Oh and box fresh white trainers Yeah, see I found everyone at the gym who had a personal trainer just talked about when they were going to a betha next Yes, these guys are similar. You know those women that wear baseball caps and they pull the ponytail through the gap between the measuring plastic strand.

You know if you count those little, how many bubbles they've used. Yes, the snapback. Yeah, if you count how many they've used, you can tell how intelligent they are from their head size. Oh for God's sake. I do it on buses all the time, men and females, don't get me wrong. I love how egalitarian you are. Yeah, if someone's used them all, the summary completely overlaps. I'm surprised they even got on the bus on assisted. Are these men that you see in your gym, are they the type to wear, oh I can't even say it, Pierre, a white platform trainer?

You know the men with the white platform trainer? The big sort of walking on a cloud. You wouldn't, I bet they're the guys with the slip-on trainer. Oh, when they go out. They're in the boat shoes. They go to a match. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. the slip-on trainer When they go out A match He's thinking of a whole different thing that that's a very I know someone But you I mean a man if I those people would obviously terrify me Yeah, but you I mean you are a man mountain for those of you haven't seen

Pierre he can handle himself. Yeah. They're probably saying that these monster guys, every time we're at the gym, they say, what do you think Claude? Claude? Yes, I agree, he is a momentous character. There's this bloke who goes to my gym, he's on his own mattering about medieval history. Exactly. No, they're cool things like Louis, that's what they're cool about. No, I think they might be post-sensitive. Do you? And he's misjudging them. I don't No, they're cool things like Louie. That's what they're cool. I think they might be post-sensitive Do you? I don't know they sound like geezers when they take their mysterious. Are they bros? They're always there They're always there. I cannot fathom it and they're often taking quite suspicious phone calls in the weights room I think they might make I think they might all be freelancers

Well, I think they might all be freelancers. Well I was at the... Oh I see, you mean they might have complicated tax arrangements. I think they work from home. Yes, I understand. Well I was at the gym and there was a bloke doing something, some admin, like paying his next round of things. And he said, and she said, your middle name is Bedlam. And he said, yeah, that was like a bet I got involved with

and I thought this is not my world. Get me out of here. I'm amazed again that, you know, Baza or whatever was like, if you lose this bet, your middle name's got to be Bedlam. Bedlam. What? Off to the 18th century mental hospital. It's insensitive to a policy. This is like some... How do you know about this?

Bedlam, that's like a friend of Bill Sykes or something. Yeah, Jimmy Bedlam. I find sometimes at the boxing gym, which I do frequent. Do you? Yeah. But I get, I feel judged because I have pink boxing gloves. Oh. There's something of the never underestimate the pricey about it, isn't it? Let's be honest.

But you do like pink. I do. I'm wearing pink today. I'm wearing my Raymond jumper. Yeah. OK. But you feel like they sort of wish you would have traditional red ones? Yeah, I just feel there is something a bit apologetic about them. I don't know.

It's quite... Do you think it's a... What would your bros make of them though? I think they'd applaud that kind of personalised care. Have you encountered, have you spoken to these three men? Not only in... You sounded like very like 24 hours in police custody. Have you spoken to these three men? I just want to make sure they absolutely exist if they're in there every time, could it be the Holy Trinity you'll see? The Holy Ghost is shredded, huge biceps. I've only talked to them in passing to sort of get, you know, go past them or watch out for that weight or whatever.

They're nice enough. They're not rude. I mean, they're quite grunty. Well, they would be. Yeah. There was a guy said to me once, he was doing, you know, when you lie on your back and push like a bench press, what are those things? Dombells are they called?

A barbell. A barbell. Isn't that a fish? Yes. I mean it's been a while since you've been in the gym my friend. It's been so long in Birmingham we use fish. They weighed them out for us and we held them a lot. What are you lifting now on the trout front? Yeah I'm doing about three pounds of trout on either side. I don't know why there wasn't a cockney in the gym back in Birmingham. We wouldn't have stood for it. Anyway, I was so this guy said

Will you help me get this up on my chest? Yeah Yes, okay, I said, yes, okay. So I had to help him on with this incredibly heavy thing. I could hardly, like my whole body was saying, why are you lifting this? And I got it into his hands and he was all right. And then I got it back onto this like a stand. I watched him do about 20 of these things with his big heavy

thing. And then he said, I'll give you a hand if you like. I said, no, no, you're all right. He said, no, come on. And I was about to do this one where you're taking off like a shoulder high stand and raise it above your head. So he put the weight on that and I said, I don't use this much weight. He said, okay. So he went to one end and he took one off. I took one off. So every time I took one off, he took another one.

I couldn't tell him that I lifted it without any weights on. I just lifted the bar. Just do the bar. Yeah, and at the end, he kept, every time I took one off, he would look down, really, and take another one off. Taking them off was the most exercise I've done in there. And then he left me just with the bar, just lifted the bar.

Oh, wow, Frank. He shouldn't have judged it, though. That's not good Jimbrow etiquette. I'm not saying he judged it. I'm presuming he judged me. OK. I'm not saying he judged, I'm presuming he judged me. These grunting men were doing some grunting exercises and shouting oi oi and talking about Dubai. And then I overheard one of them, he finished it set he really threw the weights down because they're those kind of guys

And he paused for a moment, and I think he looked at his his phone or maybe his Apple watch And he frowned and then he said to one of the other guys What year is it? Something I stopped midway and went what? Was it Doctor Who? Just arrived. Wow! I know and this is not January the 1st. Is he some sort of time traveller?

It was April. And what did the other one? I just told him. They knew. They asked the brains of the group. They googled it. Oh, let's get the old. You're the brains of this operation. Let's get the old.

You're the secretary. What year is it? Oh, what do you think that was like exercise hurting his brain? I don't know. What year is it? I just thought, imagine being that. I mean, that's fairly basic knowledge, isn't it? Yeah.

The year of our Lord. Imagine being so dedicated to your gym routine that just years, they blend. Yeah. Months become years and you haven't left the gym for so long. But I'm worried about the other bros who are normalizing that question. So I mean, just by responding, if you said to me, what year is it, I would be on the phone to Kath. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, if you'd lifted enough weight. I just don't remember if Gabby Logan asked me what year No!

Oh my god Yeah, what year is it and I had to resist the urge to go what do you mean? No, walk over and say see I wouldn't have had any urge with the three three big men No, but they can't they can't murder you in the gym for just chatting. No, but you know, they sound like the sort of men who put people in the ground. Yeah, I do wonder about their, I'm gonna say careers. Anyway, can I say, I do really like Gabby Logan,

but I didn't like her much that night. I felt bullied. She wasn't bullying you. Couldn't get the smell of embrocation out of your upholstery. Oh God, she was not bullying you. You're so touchy. We both go to the gym. Nagging me. There's no other word for it. She was being a real backseat gymnast.

Yeah. But Kath likes the gym, doesn't she? Kath doesn't go to the gym anymore. Yeah, but she runs and things, doesn't she? Yeah, she runs and she does stuff on the internet. Oh dear, I won't ask about that. I'm talking online poker. I had a medical, me and Kath went for a medical.

I sort of bought her a medical, you can go to one of these places. It's a lovely Valentine's. Yeah. I want to see if I needed an upgrade. Can you imagine, as a birthday gift, a medical. You keep asking me what year it is, so I thought I'd buy you this. I was making plans for maybe going to some test matches in the future.

Oh. Trying to work out a timetable. Oh wow. Where did you go to the medical then? Was it a nice one? It was in Soho. Oh, bit sleazy. Normally it's Harley Street. I have to tell you that's the worst bit. Ring the bell and ask for Kevin. I was lying on this... Your medicals are in here. No, I was lying on this

like a medical bed, you know those beds you get when you go into the doctors. I get given a chair but anyway. The unsettling bit of paper on. So I was, yeah, I was exactly and I was lying on my side and he was putting his fingers into my bottom. Yeah. What? That escalated! I was doing a nice story about medical and now... And I said to him, I wonder how many people have paid for this in Soho over the years. Oh my God. You could have given us a ramp. He said nothing, this guy. And also I couldn't see his face expression obviously because he was behind me. It was the first time that's happened in so long. But I think it was a real case of, you know, that's a non-professional area of conversation. I'm not going to go down. No, you won't go down there.

You're not looking at that who won't go down a dark pathway. Frank. Did it feel too risky to just sort of turn over your shoulder, snap your head backwards? Well, I wouldn't have dared turn. Frank, do you remember when you were getting the testicular examination for a medical and you said something, didn't you start saying something like that? No, I felt I wanted to, I had a desk. This man, I don't know about this. When I've ever had, it was a medical for a TV series.

So as you can imagine, it was in the 19th century. Now, when you got medicals for TV series, they honestly say stick your tongue out, they look at you and say that's fine and then they get paid 250 quid by the doctor. Yeah, it's like carry on doctor examination. This guy, there was a bit, I'm going to explain, he was quite a short man, he wedged his hand in between, I mean wedged, in between my hanging gardens of Babylon and my inner thigh, really wedged. You know when there's not quite enough room on the bookshelf for one more book, but you think, that's what his hand was like. I have no idea what he was checking.

Just trying to greet you. Oh yeah. He wrote down, he wrote down... Everyone has different customs, get used to it. He wrote down a thigh gap, three centimeters point two, he wrote. Now I don't know what, that was, didn't like that one. And you wanted to sing sometimes when we talked, didn't you? Yeah, although, yeah, no it was... What was it?

Move closer. I really care every part of my body apart from my hanging guns at Babylon, which had their own business to look after. I once had to have those ultrasounded. They put the gel on. Oh, yeah. They scan them with an ultrasound. And put the gel on like Silence of the Lambs. They put the lotion on.

Like when they put the magic gel on on a pregnant woman's belly. Oh yes, I know, I know. So they ultrasounded your hanging arms at Babel? They did, yeah. And as they would put... You didn't keep the recording. I'm really uncomfortable about being on this podcast. If you kept the recording, that could be our new opening title.

Or just the sort of little video that plays on the Spotify. Yeah. Just that. But when they... We're throwing it all in now, let's face it. I don't know about you, but I broke a nail on the bottom of the barrel last podcast. So they put the gel on and as they were ultrasounding it, I thought I'd be funny. I said, is it a boy or a girl? That's a nice joke.

What did they say? I don't think they... I feel they don't like jokes in medical settings for some reason. It's almost like it's quite a serious environment. Do you think they worry that if you do a joke and it's good and they laugh and they go, oh no, and then they see something bad? And they have to tell you bad news then. The gear shift. They're afraid of the gear shift maybe. Hang on. I just want to get back to what to you

you are currently lying on a chaise long I'm imagining. No it's one of those those you know those beds when you go and see a GP there's like a bed as you say we like like paper. Very thin. Yeah but it is sort of a chaise long design it's just a bit more medicinal. Yeah it doesn't feel very shabby. I wasn't seeing Dr. Watson. It was a modern experience. Sherlock Holmes didn't say this is a two finger problem. Was this genuinely a doctor? Yeah I'm looking back and saying hold on is that a pipe? Was that a pipe? And you're sure you're a detective? Well look, when I went, this was probably, no not that long, I was 67, right, that's my age. Oh, I thought that's when you went, 1967, no wonder so early, so sleazy.

No I'm 67, people are switching off their podcasts all over the place. How old? Oh, disgusting. So when he finished the medical, this guy, he said, I said, okay, do you tell me stuff now? He said, I can tell you. He said, it's, you know, it's positive. What is? Great. My medical results.

He said to me, he said, you've got the body of a 56 year old. I thought, well, if only I had a party popper with me, I would fire it ironically into the air. The body of a 56 year old, thanks. Oh, man. I think you should put that on your, like you know on X and Instagram for your bio. Yeah. You have Frank Skinner, body of a 56 year old. Exactly. You should be really proud of that Frank. Yeah I am really proud of it. Anyway I got to know how sooty he feels

that day. Oh to your app, because Kath had a medical as well, so Kath was saying, so what was your results then? I said, you know, good. He said, I said, you know, he said I have the body of a 35 year old. And she said, she asked me for some exercise. Yes, I lied. She asked me for some of the results of the various things we had to do yeah she said what was your grip score because she had to do this thing where you squeeze this thing yeah and it measures a grip thing and I said six which was true she went you are joking I said no she said I can't believe that you know that any exercise and you beat me in the grip school. And did you beat her or was it another one of your lives? No, I had beaten her.

And I said to her... Don't take that out of context by the way. Why? I had beat her. No, no, no. I said to Mrs Beaton, I said that... she said, oh, how can you win the grip thing? And I said there was a period when I lived in student accommodation in the 80s that I moved around the flat almost exclusively on monkey bars. And she said, what kind of a flat? I said, no, it's a joke, no one ever did that. Oh man, that's how convincing I am. I should have had an acting career when I looked back. Well you had darling, you did that lovely Perkins in the Doctor Who series. Yes, I got my bomb out in Cooking with Elvis.

Yes, and you've done some other little bits haven't you? Oh I've done. You auditioned for that part you were telling us about the other day. But I realised I shall never play the day. Sandy Toxvig? Yeah. I turned that part down. The Sandy Toxvig.

QI the drama. Is there a Sandy Toxvig biopic in the works? Definitely. Could be. Well, call me, we'll shoot it. Fine. If they made a biopic of your life. Definitely. Well call me it will call me it will surely talk. Frank if they made a biopic of your life who would you like to play you? Well I went out with a lady who said to me she'd only been out with me because I looked like James Woods the American. You do look like James Woods. Yeah. Who I think turned out to be some sort of fascist character.

Well he was on the cover of Cigar Aficionado which is never a good sign. No, no, that's so. I think the two were. There's a lot of overlap there. It's very, if you're on the cover of... No one remembers him now, does it? Well if you're on the cover of Cigar Aficionado you have said the words in my cold dead hands at some point in your life. Yeah, I've never, that's one cover shot I haven't had. Tom Selleck, you know. I've done, what's he called? Arga, not Arga, what's the old people? Oh yeah, you did Saga. Saga, not Arga. Arga's the posh version.

Arga's the hot version. And I do beauty for Saga, as you know. know. Oh yes. I was about beauty for mature ladies. But Buzz said to me the other day, oh have you seen this on the internet and it was saga and put up a sort of a montage of my face to music. I think it was the Glenn Miller Orchestra. And I thought, normally I'd like this sort of thing, but look, I've done the interview, let's just let it drop now with the saga connection. Oh, really? No, I'm sort of a meme, a saga. I didn't even think they went on the internet. Oh, really, do? Yeah.

Oh, there you go. So you should look, so Ciara is doing faces. Doing faces? Exactly. Aging, gradually aging. The last one, they're putting a sort of a mouldy beetroot with a shirt and tie on. No, but who'd have thought that? Why have they done this? Zagar exploded my image. No, maybe it's because of our connection. Because I do the beauty, you see? Maybe it's that. Yeah, they do the beast, is that what you're saying?

It's a story all this time. Story all this time. That's a good song about herbs. What about if that was a thing? There's like, it could be in Ratatouille. They start talking about seasoning. Oh, I don't like that one. Story old as time.

I don't like Ratatouille. Also includes basil. That's what the Americans call it, isn't it? Basil. Basil. Basil. And they say herbs. They do say herbs. Yes.

Oh, the Americans speak differently from the English people. Why hasn't it been remarked upon before? We've hit a rich vine of comedy here. Sidewalk, The only difference is that we are the same except the language. What did Oscar Wilde say? About Americans being British. I'm not letting you in, I think he said. Two countries divided by a common language. That's what he said. He was there for us. A well remembered. first. Well remembered.

Yes. Well reme... Well remombode. Well remombode. Well remombode. Have we got this the wrong way around? It's the people listening who are supposed to be laughing. I think that's an optional, that's a bonus. We haven't had a chance to read out any of the outside world, but should we do that in the next podcast? Let's do it in the next. I think people have had quite enough

of this. Really? Oh god, here's Gabby. Quick do push ups. All that'll do for now. Take that glove off. It's the Frank Skinner podcast. A new winter change is blowing. It's the Frank Skinner podcast. I'm not totally sure how it's going. Thanks for listening to the podcast. Make sure to like and follow so you never miss an episode. And if you want to get in touch, you can email the podcast via Frank off the radio at AvalonUK.com. Shopify doesn't just meet you where you are. We meet you where you're going. We challenge the status quo so that your business can do bigger, better, and focus on building

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