The Frank Skinner Show - Big Gold Coin

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

On today's podcast the team discuss a new commemorative coin, Frank's visit to The Irish Embassy, and the problem why Frank has an issue with the term 'mansplaining'. Email the podcast [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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name, who from South Africa came. They're all here, open brackets, hooray! Close brackets today. Oh, this is Frank off the radio. I'm joined by Emily Dean and Pierre Novelli. Follow the podcast on X and Instagram. You can email the podcast via frankofftheradio at AvalonUK.com. It's a mouthful. Frank, what do you think about the new ambassadors? The American ambassadors? Sylvester Stallone, John Voight and Mel Gibson.

That isn't true. No it is. He's made them ambassadors. You're kidding. He's made them, I don't know, he said they're going to be doing a special ambassadorial role. Yeah, but that's like... And Gibson said... That's like when Jerry Hall. Well was a UNICEF Said in a statement Gibson 69 said at the set I heard the set of the 60 nights one of my favorite

You six strings as well Carry on Gibson 69 said I heard the news at the same time as all of you and I was just as surprised. You know, he announces these things on X or whatever. Nevertheless, I heed the call. Can't you say no? He said, my duty as a citizen is to give and help and insight I can. Who's this John Voight? No, that was Mel Gibson.

It didn't really make sense. My duty as a citizen is to give and help and insight I can. Who's this John Voight? No that was Mel Gibson. It didn't really make sense. My duty as a citizen is to give and help an insight I can. Mel Gibson rambling incoherently. It's not like the Mel Gibson I. No he said it in Japanese and that's the translation that was on the packet. And then John Voight 86 had called him the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. So they've, so Stavessa Stallone, Mel Gibson and John Voight, they've all been given a special ambassadorial role. All you have to do is be nice. Mel Gibson to the Vatican, where he can upset even more people than normal. I don't think he'll be accepted in the Vatican. We've kept our door policy fairly strict over the years.

Stallone to Russia, like Rocky. I read someone saying, which I like, who's he going to make Netflix head of movies? He just makes Bautista heads of things. His ambassador to South Africa was a South African-born woman who he met playing golf at Mar-a-Lago. Just like a rich lady. He's like, you're from Africa?

Yeah. Come be the ambassador to there. Okay. Because by the time this goes out, we might have been decimated by nuclear attacks. So as long as we've got titchmarsh between us. He's our only hope. Between us and Fionnette. Maybe he said ambassador, we don't know.

Yeah. Ambassador to the soil. God, that is our only hope. Between us and John, yeah. Maybe he said ambassador, we don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ambassador to the soil. Oh, I'll tell you, speaking of great leaders, I was, before I left this morning, my home, I was, I put the telly on and had three pieces of cold pizza. And while I was eating them, there was an advert, Nicholas Owen came on, do you remember him? He was one of these newsreader type guys. And he's gone into the gold business. No, no.

But it's coinage. It's just in gold. It is coinage as well. And he said, he did a speech, he said said in World War two one man etc etc I thought it's a toss of a coin it's not gonna be that one and he said Finally Hitler will be commemorated on a coin Hitler sovereign Celebrate Every top Nazi once a month

Immortalized on a coin. And then you see like the presentation case with all the empty circles waiting for like gerbils. Hitler's the last one. No, he's in a slightly bigger one in the middle. They come off him like rays of the sun. There's a smaller bronze coin of his dog Blondie. Yes, yes. And then there's just a plain old copper lord, Hor Hor, for the traitors. No, no it wasn't, it was Churchill. Right. And he said, he talks about Churchill, he said when he died in 65 he was given a state funeral as a sign of a grateful nation. And so we have decided to create the Churchill Sartre.

Who's we? Well, I think he spoke on behalf of some mint. Is he employed by the mint? He said, because he's so important in British history, we've made this sovereign 24 carat gold. He said, the usual sovereign is only 22. And I never knew that. I didn knew that. He said, so this one, what about this, he's 99.99% pure. Really? It's impossible, that would just be really soft wouldn't it? I like that they always picture this and we thought it's about time someone threw some respect on Winston Churchill. Proper respect to Churchill. I think they're slightly late for the train. Everyone hates

him now. What I was going to say, isn't he a bit problematic now? Well, the great thing is the kite has got a picture of him for sovereign. It says Winston Churchill on the top, just to jog the pensioner's memories. And then underneath, just to help more, it says, war leader. Right? Oh, that Winston Churchill. Like a sheriff's badge. Yeah, I thought you meant that Jamaican guy

I knew back in Smethwick in the 70s. No, no, it's that, the Prime Minister one, the cigar guy. Oh, him? Oh, man, but it's all done with such and then they say is he behind a desk Nikko in guess how much no no he's standing standing respect sign of respect guess how much the the 24 karat gold yeah the sovereign yeah Churchill sovereign is this This is more your area, South African.

Yeah, exactly. I'd have to weigh it. A solid gold sovereign, of course the value added by Mr Churchill's presence. Yeah, exactly. I don't know. You're going to have to start the bidding. Two hundred and fifty nine pounds. Well, I'm going to go instalments.

Seventy nine quid. No, it can't be in total is that instalments? No this is introductory offer. What do you mean? Yeah. So it's like the Park magazine thing. Like the Dalek. Episode 1, £1.99. So what happens it it says after, I think you only get to April, it says they double in price, so buy now, and what they're going to do with the ones that they sell, if they don't sell all of them, they'll melt down the ones they don't sell. What, they'll melt Churchill's face? Out of respect. Then he says, thus your suffering becomes even rarer.

Oh. How do you get this gig I wonder? What email do you get saying, we can't help but feel you'd be perfect for the face of this ludicrous gold coin. What if I get one? Then he tells you how many they're minting. How many? And then he, it's like, I don't know, but it ends 999 I remember. And another helpful, I remember half the page now, 999, oh yes! But it says, helpfully it says we're making something like 7,000 and 9,000, 9,000.

He said, which means that's only one household in 7,000 in this country can own one. There's so many stats. Yeah. Sort of trying to blind you with pointless statistics. Yeah, and all... It's like Strictly Come Dancing. Actually, yeah. Every household's won one.

I think it's very cruel because they're trying to confuse the elderly into panic buying. Going, oh, Churchill, he's back and he's on coins. No, the war leader won him 7,000. They've got to melt him down if we don't save him. Exactly. Oh, Hitler will win. Oh, make a great Iron Man plot. Oh, God. So, what was it like? So you ordered it I presume? Yeah, what I don't

like is on the reverse side of it he's giving you an actual V sign because they've got like the back of his head on the other side. Oh that's not nice. It's like he's swearing to someone who he's walking away from. Yeah exactly. Hitler I suppose. Well, Atlee. It's like he's giving a V sign to Hitler's smoldering remains as he walks away from the bunker. Which for me don't kick a man when he's down. Or indeed coke. Don't kick a man when he's cold. Strange person to be an apologist for, but there you go. I know, but you know, respect the dead. No! No? No, not in his case.

Do we not respect the dead anymore? Lying me. Not all the dead. I don't know what's happened to the world. Listen I've got something to tell you. I was in, I was at an exhibition of contemporary Irish art at the Irish Embassy. Oh, was Ambassador Stallone there? What about Mel Gibson? Ambassador, you're swearing at us. And this guy came up to me and said, are you Irish? And I said, no. And he said, how did you get in there? And I said, oh, my mate's in the exhibition, she's Irish. And he went,

no, no, I was just kidding with you. And I was very Irish opening to a conversation. So we talked for a bit and we were chatting away. And I said,, are you at the art exhibition or at the embassy? He said no I work here. I said oh what do you do at the embassy? He said I'm the ambo. And I thought it was an Irish word. What's the ambo? He said yeah the ambassador. He called it the ambo. The ambo. I just thought that's what the Aussie ambassador was calling it. Well, that's what Mel Gibson will call it. Yeah, is the AMBO coming?

But, hold on. I love the sound of this ambassador. Yeah, so he said... Playing pranks at his own exhibit. Also, he sounds so casual. So I was talking to the AMBO at the AMBO. And I said, you know, it's an interesting job to have and he said, he used to be the secretary of the Irish cabinet.

I mean, he's quite a, you know, a hotshot. And he said, anything you want to ask me. And I said, okay, so if my partner is here now with Kath she gave birth at this moment on the carpet here to a baby boy would he be Irish? What does the Ambo say? What do you think? What in the embassy? Well I believe. You're not on Irish soil but maybe you technically are. I don't know, I think you are. Well we need to ask Titchmarsh the soil related question. Exactly and also is that involved a lot in espionage? Are you technically on Irish soil?

Well I'm interested in the AMBO's response. Well the AMBO said you'd have to stay five years before he qualifies. Well in that room. Yeah I mean it was alright. Not all countries have a birth clause, whereas in the US they do. That's why both parents could be not even legal immigrants and if they have a kid, the kid's American, no questions asked. Yeah, but it's just that part about whether the embassy is Ireland.

You know me and Lee Mack had breakfast with the Crown Prince of Yugoslavia? Sure. In that dream I had. No, we really did. We were in Serbia. And then a shark came and ate some bubble gum. No. It really did happen. I know this is true. It did happen. It did happen. I had three lions and they're not going out. Big fan, come to my palace. What was the ambassador of the, is it former Yugoslavia? Former Yugoslavia. Former Yugoslavia.

No, he wasn't the ambassador, he was the Crown Prince. Oh, what was he like, the Crown Prince? He was alright. I've told you this when he said his... No! I don't think you have! Tito lived in the place when he was in charge. And his mistress and his horse are buried on the ground.

His horse? Yeah. Oh God, thank God. That, you pronounce that properly please. Imagine burying a horse, that's a big job isn't it? Eh? What, does it feet down or feet up? I don't know, I've never done it. The coffin would be shaped like a sort of obvious Christmas present, like when you wrap the bicycle up. What's buried there? Take a wild guess. Probably a horse, I think, judging by the silhouette of the grave. You'd most of leave the legs sticking out the ground and you could throw up a hammock.

That's what he would have wanted. stick it out the ground and you could you could throw up a hammock. That's what he would have wanted. Anyway, so this was when I said, did the wife know about the mistress? It's odd the mistress is buried. I mean there's a lot of mistresses buried near to people's houses, it illegally. Well, sometimes. I mean, how did Inel Gwynne, Waterloo Park was a house built for her, wasn't it? Yeah, but anyway, I said, you know, did the wife know about the mistress and the crown princess of Yugoslavia was sitting next to us, held my forearm and said, a good wife never knows. And I think you need to consciously take that attitude if you're a royal wife, because if

your husband is openly building properties for his mistress, it's not exactly under the radar. Well anyway, that happened. And what I was going to say is that you have to be born in Yugoslavia, this is when Yugoslavia existed, you have to be born there to be the king. And so they were living at the clareges, the king, because he was in exile. So he got in touch with, I think it was Churchill, in fact, good as gold. And he got in touch with Churchill and said, can you make a room, Yugoslavian territory

for a couple of weeks till the babies born. There's a story, this is what the prince told me, he said they took soil in, in a box so that he was literally born on Yugoslavia. Well now as I said that's what was in the briefcase. Titchmarsh. Titchmarsh is doing the Lord's work out there. So they had a sort of Dracula birth. Yeah exactly.

Has to be on the soil or he's soil or the magic doesn't work. It was an unusual night out. But yeah, apparently for a child born in spirit land you have to have jazz at the Krishna. Them's the rules. tools. This episode is brought to you by Samsung Galaxy. Ever captured a great night video, only for it to be ruined by that one noisy talker? With audio erase on the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, you can reduce or remove unwanted noise and relive your favorite moments without the distractions. And that's not all.

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Quite friendly you say? No, do you remember I offered him a nut and I said would you like one of these, a cashew nut? He went, not really. And I liked, so I filmed a nut really for a while. I mean surely it's either of us, he wentered not really for a while. I mean, surely it's either way, but not really. Well, the exhibition was one of those, it was very modern art.

You had to be careful, you weren't staring at a wall fitting. You know that, you have to be. But there was some, I have to say, my friend. It was like some too Ronnie sketch. But my friend's stuff is amazing. What she does, she opens up milk cartons, which is one of the things she does, and then it's like silver on the inside, which I didn't realise. The paper's got a silver interior to keep it, whatever they keep it, and she scratches away the silver and creates these amazing portraits and stuff. Anyway, it wasn't all like that.

And then I met this woman on the stairs. I met that woman again today. I wish that woman would go away. I'm thinking of yesterday up on the stairs. Anyway, this woman, I didn't care for. And she said to me, are you looking at that as if it's a piece of art? I was looking at this painting I liked and I said, yeah I like it. She said, oh well that's why you're a comedian I suppose. And I said, no I do actually like it. She said,

what do you think of those paintings there? And I said, well, I think she said they are absolutely terrible. And it made me realize the great thing about modern art is if you like it, it gives you great joy. But also, if you're the sort of person who wants to prove that no one fools you and that you won't take any nonsense. It also brings you great joy as well, because you can be cynical and horrible about it and feel that you're making yourself look great.

So in many ways, it's ideal for the best and the worst of humanity. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, she was... How did you end the encounter? I said something like it's been a tremendous... it was a bit like talking to the world in motion guy. I said it's been a tremendous thrill talking to you. Did you say it like that?

Yes, of course. But I think what it reminded me of... I wonder what country she was the ambassador from? She was Irish. I think she might have been from the North. Okay. Anyway, it reminded me of the naked bike race. Yeah, naked bike riders. I saw, I was crossing, I've told you this, I was crossing Waterloo Bridge and a naked bike ride. I'm talking about three

or four hundred people naked, male, female and all the others, old, young, fat, thin, all the races, you know, it wasn't just models sadly. For God's sake. And there was a bloke behind me standing with his wife and two kids and he just went, weirdos. And that's where I felt when I was on the stairs with this woman, you've either got like a bomb crack full of bike saddle or you're worshipping at the altar of the great God normal.

You've got to make your mind up. Good night. No, that's not the end. It's not actually the end. I love your TED talk. No, I do genuinely, I agree with that. In fact, I often quote the naked bike riders story to people. Do you? Mm. Thank you. Good. The retort, if someone says about modern art, I could have done that. The retort is you didn't. Yes. No, but this woman, I'd like to think she'd come. Is what I say. Could you have thought it? She'd come to slide it off.

Frank, may I ask a question? What on earth are you drinking? Frank has mixed two smoothies to create a drink that looks like it's from the set of one of the more niche Star Trek series. Can I tell you what it looks like? What's that thing you always say about original Star Trek series? That thing about when they meet the beautiful woman and she's always, she doesn't like it, she goes, what is this water coming from your eyes? When he starts crying.

But pretty soon it goes to, and they call this this kissing and you think you're taking advantage of someone who knows nothing. I'm afraid that the consent has not been confirmed. Consent wise it's problematic. It's just a lovely coincidence that all aliens look like us but green. Yes and they also, and all aliens seem to have a giant beehive and black eyeliner No, but the women are eyelashes. We're not green usually are they not green? But they've always got a green one. They look like Priscilla Presley. Yes, can I ask a question about your drink though? Yes, I think what it looks a bit like a clean on juice

No, yeah, it looks like in those kids shows that I hate when they get It looks like in those kids shows that I hate when they get... Oh it's Gungem! Let's Gungem! Yay! Oh yeah, no it does look like Gungem. Are you drinking Celebrity Gung? This could be raining down on Joe Swash. Yes.

And it's also, you've mixed green and sort of deep crimson smoothies. What are you playing at? Yes. I want it to look like, it's what I would call battlefield green with great smears of red across it. Good night. All right Wilfred Owen. So can I tell you another art story or do you want to talk about something else?

You are but before you do I'd just like to interrupt you briefly with a retail question. Retail? Yeah, from Selena Collins. Frank sweatshirt, wear how much, love it. This was a sweatshirt you wore on the last podcast and it had some sort of a, was it black Sabbath or something? Oh yes it was, it was a black Sabbath. Well I'll tell you, it's a question I cannot answer because I interviewed Ozzy Osbourne for the second time. So there's your answer, interview Ozzy Osbourne for the second time. So there's your answer, interview Ozzy Osbourne.

There you go. Available at all. Steal his hoodie. So the first time, he arrived with Sharon, this is for the second interview, and at the end of it I said goodbye to them. And I said the first time I interviewed you, you gave me a beanie hat, an Aussie beanie hat. I said, and the interview went great, and then this time, nothing. I said, I thought I'd get more this time, not nothing.

And the next day, a cardboard box arrived. The next day at my house, I'm in a massive cardboard box that you could have got, I don't know, let's say a goat in. And it was just full of Aussie merchandise. I mean everything, bandanas, belt buckles, boxers shorts. That's a class act. Including that hooded top. So I don't know how much it would cost, but it's a class act. But including that hooded top. So I don't know how much it would cost. But it's a sab of top rather than an Aussie. But you know. I recommend, I recommend finding some website or account that does, they track down things that are on screen. Yes. And movies

and stuff that where you can buy them for real. So there's maybe someone can do the research. What's that second and clothes thing that everyone goes on about? There are loads of them. There's Vintner. Vintner, is it? Is that what it is? Vinted. Vinted, yeah. Vinted is where you buy wine. Yeah, Vinted is where you buy wine. It shows you how much I've had alcohol. Vinted. Yeah, Vinted. Yeah, previously loved. Do you know what I like? Frank, can I say something?

Yes, aren't we all? In the entire time we've been doing this podcast, the fabulous days it's... Previously loved this the time that my men was. Previously loved the decline in career of Frank Skinner. Daisy has never reacted, she's never expressed a utterance in the entire time she's worked on this and when I got the name of Vintedrox she went, no! She exclaimed! She said it as Barbara Windsor. Yeah, she did. She went, no! Strange what moves people. There's no point in me going on Vinted unless it's sort of massive bloke. Well, they're all big people.

I don't know. What do you mean the big people? Well, he's very big, isn't he Pierre? They're not. He's a big unit, as they say. He's pinched. I just, I scan the papers and see if any people are there. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What do you mean the big people? Well he's very big isn't he Pierre? He's a big unit as they say. I scan the papers and see if any famous local bouncers have passed away. Then I go to Oxfam. That's what you want yeah. Well regarded for his 40 years at the door of the... You know when they get those... You know those clinically obese people who die while they're

being craned through their own roof to be taken to hospital. You want to be in there and fast. Yes, I'm rubbing my hands. That is so bad. Well you know, I'm not saying it's, I feel sorry for them obviously, but I'm just saying that would be an opportunity for Pierre. Yeah. That's a lovely thing to say. You had a story about, a little art related story you were

going to tell us. Well, I was in London town late at night. In fact, I remember on the last podcast I talked about my immersive theatre experience. Well, I left there about, I don't know, half ten, and I went across to the National Gallery. There was a Van Gogh all-nighter on. Oh, a rave! Well, not exactly a rave, but it was because it was the last week of the very successful Van Gogh exhibition, they decided to run it through the night. You don't often get to see light art. What a lovely idea. Story night at night. Yeah they should have used that. So I turned up, there was like

200 people outside and I thought I don't think I have to queue, I've got like a timed thing. What time was it then? This was about 11 now, on a Friday night. And I couldn't work out, they weren't in a queue, they were just milling. And then this woman said to me, you a member? And I said, no, she said, you won't get in if you're not a member.

And I said, I've got a ticket? And she a member And I said I've got a ticket and she said to a friend He's got a ticket and I thought she's like a zombie What what it was like a really long? You know started to go through the crowd. I thought I need to get in they were Got ticket they were just milling. I don't know what they were hoping was going to happen. They just showed up. So hang on. You'd got your ticket but it didn't specify what day it was for. No, no. Yeah, I was in the right.

Oh, okay. No, it was, I was all, these people were just... You were fully paid up. They were hoping that, I don't know, someone would come out and say, people, your loyalty has been rewarded, come in and see this thing. I'm not going to do that. So anyway, I went in, it was brilliant, but there was, I went into a room, there was two sunflower paintings. You know everything he did, he did like 25 off. And you're thinking to yourself, is this one of the premier?

You know when people buy what I would call a suit bag souvenir, so they buy a shirt that Elvis probably didn't wear in Blue Hawaii, but it would have been in a suit bag in wardrobe. Yes. I'm not yours, which I think we have evidence it was worn. Well, we'll never know. We'll never know. Do you remember when they bought the ruby slippers?

Yes. Of, from Wizard of Oz from Judy Garland. Yes, Judy Garland. And it's said she wore several pairs in the film and four still exist. Yes. said she wore several pairs in the film and four still exist. So you buy a pair for 28 million dollars they might never have been anywhere near her. And it was like when Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe's dress from Some Like It Hot. Oh.

Yes, there was damage afterwards apparently. It puts the Churchill point numbers. What is the dress from? That red sparkly one? Yeah, there's a dress she wears famously when she's singing I'm Through with Love on the stage. Anyway, but I always think... Because I tell you what costs five and a half million, the dress that gets blown up by the subway in Seven Year Itch. Yes. But the thing is I similarly think with the wardrobe on those films, I don't know if that have just been one. I think they might have had a couple. Of course. Anyway, he knocked them out a bit, Van Gogh.

What a lovely review. It was a very crowded... A strange art review. I meant he did a lot until I suppose he got it right. Well also he had issues as we know. Oh, we did. Bless him. But he was great in Doctor Who. Oh, I loved that., you know, he had issues as we know. God bless him. But he was great in Doctor Who. Oh I loved that. Do you know that was the first time I decided to give Doctor Who a chance. It actually made me cry then.

I've watched it about eight times and I always cry at the end. In case you don't know, they take Van Gogh into the future. Oh don't, I'm going to cry if we talk about it. Bill Nye is an art critic doing this too and he says, yes, Van Gogh, probably the greatest painter who ever lived and Van Gogh gets to find out that he makes it in the end. I'd love to take Pierre into the future just to see. Frank and I are both Brian, not Pierre. How much bigger clothes could be?

Yeah, exactly. I actually... Yeah, we were going to the future to check his career but then we saw this guy being craned out to his own roof and thought let's stop off here, be ashamed to miss this opportunity. It's always, ironically, it's always sportswear. That's what I don't get. Why do they wear sportswear? Anyway. Van Gogh.

So I went to look at the sunflowers. I felt slightly embarrassed looking at this. It feels so rude. I would feel very embarrassed. It's like looking at Mona Lisa. And then there was a couple looking at the sunflowers and the woman said, right, what's your favourite sunflower? And this guy was going, I like that one on the left. She said, what the one turned away? Not the one turned away, the sort of red, they were very upfront picking their individual favourite one. I did that, that made me happy. But it was, it was, I've never heard so much mansplaining in my life as I heard it at that exhibition. So what sort of thing, what sort of art are you men telling women? Men saying to women, yes of course this was the period when Fankar, I mean it was fantastic.

And then you later find out the woman is the head of the Courtauld Institute. Well you know I hate the word mansplaining because it doesn't work as a pond. Yes. Because man is nothing like ec or ex. Yes, what should it be? So mansplaining. What would be better actually? I think it really lets feminism down.

They couldn't come up with a really good pond. What should we, well let's improve it. Let's do the Lord's work here at some stage. What about manalizing? Yes. Oh yes! Yes. You've nailed it.

You can have that. Although... You can have that girls! Manolizing... If you're listening, Jermaine Greer. Yeah, exactly. Or whoever we decide is in charge. She's penciled at the moment. Oh god.

But, manolizing, it doesn't quite... Just one little note here. We need... Because we still need to sum up the sort of explaining. Yeah, don't give me your manalysis. Yeah, but the fact it's got man in it... We need, because we still need to sum up the sort of explaining. Yeah, don't give me your manalysis. Yeah, but the fact it's got man in it suggests that it's analyzing being done by a man. Yes, I think it's...

Probably unnecessarily. It's infinitely preferable and I will start using it myself. But it made me laugh, I must say. These paintings are all of sunflowers. Things that are visually obvious. Yes, and sunflowers, you see, the thing with them is they look a bit like the sun. They are yellow, but not the middle. That would be the deep analysis.

Spreading all the light all around. What are you singing? It's a sun theme. Yeah, please don't. That would be the deep analysis. Spreading all the light all around. What are you singing? It's a song. Yeah, please don't. Okay. You're not even singing the songs anymore. No.

Blimey. It's very strict, isn't it? I'm very strict. What about Chris who's got in touch with us? Hello. I was about 40 when I suddenly realised that Ray-Ban sunglasses weren't in fact manufactured by a gentleman called Raymond Ban and that the name refers to the lens's ability to ban the sun's rays.

Does it? I haven't- No, it doesn't. Ray-Ban. Will you let Chris finish? I haven't bothered Googling this and if wrong, many apologies to Raymond and his company. Ray-B Ban. I suppose where else does it come from? Ray Ban. It can't come from banning the Sultans rays. They're not banned are they? I think it does it's the kind of thing that would have been dreamt up by someone like Don Draper. When advertising was at its, I

appreciate he's a fictional character but you know exactly what I mean, when advertising was at a, let's call it a Fairly primitive stage. It's not it's evolution. It's not realistic is it it didn't come out of Natural it didn't arise naturally. No one was on a sun lounger going guy. I wish I there was a way I could Ban these rays From the Sun you go. Yeah, there was a simple way to from the sun. You go, yeah, there was a simple way to talk about it. What, are you going to use some sort of legislation? How do you get some sunglasses?

Wow, keep out rays. It's quite Bond villain. Found a way to ban the very rays of the sun. I reckon ban will turn out to be some short, short, the first syllable of a longer word. Pretty words Mr Bond, such a shame they will be your last. Enjoy the sun's rays while you can. Mr Bond. Imagine if someone just always talked like that, it's so irritating. Yeah exactly.

Could you speak normally for just a second? It's weird enough. It's quite surprising that I'm gonna put on my son Vito's. 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 frankofftheradio at avalonuk.com