The Frank Skinner Show - French Tuck

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

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Follow the podcast. Went a bit high but it's fine. Follow the podcast on X and Instagram. You can email the podcast via frankofftheradioavalonuk.com. I have in my hand... Alright Neville! Yeah, I've met this morning with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler. I didn't like him. I found him to be volatile. Anyway, I've got it in my hand.

I'll forgive him for the dog. I don't know if you remember, but on the last, maybe not the last podcast, maybe the one before, I don't know. But it's all a swirl. I said that the laminate that I normally hold with the details on that I have to read out, the housekeeping as I like to call it, has gone missing. And I suggested, well I say I suggested, my producer Daisy said it's one of these thieving gits at Spiritland.

She didn't actually say that. But it's a godmissing, we thought someone had took it maybe as the lower interior of a bodgerigar cage. It's an A4 laminate, be perfect. I think you could use it as a chopping board if you didn't press to end on the lower crust. Did you accuse anyone at Spiritland? No, I think I suggested not cool but not too cool to steal, was what I said I think. You know crime can be very cool in a killing Eve kind of a way oh, do you say you think someone in a sort of cool leather jacket came and

Did a kind of Deren Brown mind distraction the great Frank Skinner podcast laminate height Yeah, anyway after after Lammy gate so I like to call it which would be we might be glad if David Lammy gets involved in a big in a big controversy. It's turned up it was at Daisy's house all the time. How did it end up there? I mean... Resting in her account. Exactly.

So, I... Well, I feel awful about the whole thing now. Anyway, it's back. The laminate is back. It's good because I spit a lot when I'm reading out loud. So we can just sponge it straight off. I have a J-cloth at my side. LAUGHTER

I have a J-cloth at my side is the title of my memoir. Can I tell you, you know I'm a big poetry enthusiast. Oh he loves his poetry. I was watching the Aldi ad this morning, you know Aldi. Oh yes. Oh okay. How do you say it? You're looking at me like you don't say it like that. I don't. Do you say Aldi? There's a lot of things we say we say differently. Oh Aldi, let's call the whole thing a super one. No, you're saying Aldi. Aldi then. Okay. And it's a poem, it all rhymes.

And I thought, oh that's lovely. Because even like Doggerill, I still like the fact that there's still someone's enjoying rhythm and rhyme. You know what I mean? And there might be someone listening to that who thinks, you know what, I'll go away and read some proper poetry. I mean, it's a slim shot that you might get to John Don from an Aldi advert

but this was the last two lines and Christmas pudding that will soon disappear all from the Quality Food Awards Christmas retailer of the year No Christmas Retailer of the Year. No, too many. Gosh. Do you know what? Too many silver balls. You've got two corporate as well. Don't go that corporate. Don't show off about your awards.

No, I know. What was the full title there? Christmas Retailer of the Year. No, the Quality Food Awards, Christmas Retailer of the Year. God, yeah. It doesn't roll off the tongue. And also, it's a rubbish thing to be, isn't it, Christmas retailer of the year. It's like, you know, what's that, a month? A month you're turning it off. You're awful the rest of the year, but you're the only person you can get.

For Christmas, you're great. The only person you can get that many pigs and blankets together. Yeah, the fact they've had to call it the Quality Food Awards. Surely it should just be the Food Awards. Yes, you'd think. Yeah but Quality are probably the name of some company or something weren't it? Quality Inc. Anyway there you have it. Okay. I was talking to Daisy our producer who I've known for many many years and she was telling me that... I didn't even describe you to his kids.

I think I can say this. Can I? That she's using hair botox, which I had never heard of. What? What? Yeah. Hair botox, which makes the hair really... gets rid of the split ends and all that. What do you mean? I don't understand how it works. Well I don't understand how it works. I didn't... it works. I don't want to go into the chemistry. You don't want to pry. The chemistry, have you? I like the idea that the inventor of Botox might be a German man

called Heer Botox. Botox, how are you today? Well, pretty smooth. You will never know how I am. He's a bit of a smoothie. I do not reveal my emotions. Hard man to shock. Yes. Oh dear.

And then... Very shiny. You know they say you learn one new thing every day. Hang on, I'm going to have to go back to hair botox. I thought you'd have heard of it. I haven't. So she doesn't get injections, does she? No, you don't

Can you imagine having to inject hair? Yeah, he doesn't like it I think he's I saw my met him at a German a German moguls conference once with hair b&b the father of the bed and breakfast industry yeah the germans know that they're running the shop oh they really are yeah but that's why i was seeing a hitler okay don't bring him into his middle name middle name is Botox, it turns out. Okay, I'm less keen on him. No, his hair. Frank, let's not split hairs. He is one of my least favourite.

No, exactly. Anyway, I said, I was trying to be helpful. I don't know if I tell you once, I saw a sort of goth girl in the street. And she had a dot martin sign I said oh excuse me your shoelaces are undone and she went huh huh. And I thought well I said

I want you to fall over I mean for a goth to fall over is very difficult because it's hard to keep that sort of image if you fall over. I would find it really annoying if you said that to me. Isn't that a nice kindness? It's odd that a goth would think so directly of such an old fashioned prank. But it wasn't a prank. I know, but the idea that a goth would think... I realised that because both boots were undone, it occurred to me that that was a deliberate...

It wasn't just one. I think she was trying to look stylishly... I believe the French word is desaubier. Yes. She was looking... Well... Sort of I don't care aspect. You called her out. If it was both, then yeah, that was... She obviously, yeah, she... You've done the equivalent of going up to her and going, You look a bit pale. You will. Exactly, exactly. You've done the equivalent of going up to her and going, you look a bit pale. You will.

Exactly. You look tired. How do those holes get in your jeans? Yeah. Do they wear jeans? They don't wear jeans. Oh, sorry. No, just as a general sort of misinterpretation.

Oh, I see what you mean. Frank, that's a great question. Do goths wear jeans? Well. I don't think they do. Not blue jeans. Oh, of course they don't wear blue jeans. They're a boffler.

They love a black jean though. Anyway, I was trying to be helpful with our producer Daisy and I said, Oh, your cardigan is partly tucked in and part not, you see. And she said to me, yes, it's a French tuck. Yes. Which I've never heard of before and sounded so suspiciously like Cockney rhyming slang. I blushed like a 13-year-old girl. Oh, you're not familiar with a French talk?

I've never heard of a French talk. Have you never had a French talk? No. Oh, okay. Everyone's doing it now. I know Friar talk, which is Robin Hood's spiritual counselor. Which, also not the style you see on Runways, but yeah, the French tuck is huge, Frank. I'd never heard of that before. It's the idea of sort of, oh, this whole thing, I don't care what I look like.

You know, it's that sort of chic. Is it, it's sort of front of shirt or t-shirt or whatever? Jumper specifically as well. Jumper tucked in a little bit at the front and then hanging down at the back. I've got one a little bit to myself today. Is it a bit, you remember Billy Connelly used to wear those tops that were like a tiled t-shirt? Do you remember that? Ah, like it's a singlet thing. No, but it was a t-shirt. Do you remember that? It's a singlet thing. No but it was a t-shirt. I know what you mean. It went way down and at the back it scooped downwards. Do you not remember? You're looking at me like you don't remember them. I do remember exactly. It looked like you should have arrived in a room with two page boys holding his train, his t-shirt train behind him. Frank, have you ever worn a t-shirt with a

tuxedo print on it? I never have but I interviewed Cliff Richard and he was wearing one. Really? Yeah. That's a little bit of spicy fun for Cliff Richard isn't it? Oh don't worry he's got a skittish side. My favourite is a tuxedo baby grow. Because I believe Gazza had one at his wedding. The baby. I love a tuxedo baby grow. Yes, very formal. Talking of clothes, Frank's shirt.

Yes. Now this is difficult on a podcast. I know, but we can describe it, Pierre. They'll have to go on the Instagram. It's a thing of joy and beauty. It's a sort of oak acorn themed kind of cowboy shirt embroidered cowboy shirt yeah it's stunning Frank it's um I saw this originally in liberties you know that shop probably one of the poshest shops I do because you got vouchers there do you know well I got vouchers when I worked in radio.

They gave you as a... Was that as a leaving gift? It makes it sound like I was... Before I came on it went, this is the BBC from London. And then I would come up. Hello everyone, this is Rex Skinner. Did they give you the vouchers to soften the blow, do you think? They gave...

No, no, this was before I was kicked out? Okay, I used to host the charity event and they were a gift of vouchers Well, you and I encountered this shirt together, but it didn't fit into your scheme. That's right It was it didn't it was too much for my voucher So I actually said today's it's all over this podcast like a Like daisies on a grave mound. Have you seen Stanley Spencer's thing about the judgment day when all the graves are covered in daisies and some people are actually wearing robes with daisies on them. Why don't you like to go over the exact amount of the voucher, Frank? Well, it's just that it's like putting, you know, I used to do that thing with the petrol and doing it on the nought.

But when I'd had sex with 21 people, I thought, well, that whole system right across my life has changed now. Oh, for God's sake. Erm, that's a long time ago obviously. Yeah. Erm, what was the question originally, what was I talking about? Your shirt. Oh yeah.

Because we loved it. I couldn't afford it, so I dropped the hint to my sister when I saw this shirt. When I said I couldn't afford it to Daisy today. She laughed in my face, but I meant with the voucher. How did you drop the hint? I said, oh, I saw this shirt and liberty, this cowboy shirt. I really, it was so good. So imagine I'm her, oh that sounds lovely, why don't you buy it? It was so good, I'll send you a photograph. Why didn't you buy it, Frank? I didn't say, yeah, she didn't say why don't you buy it. Anyway, I like it all the more that it was bought by my lovely sister-in-law. It means I've got a little bit of her with me, which is nice.

It's a thing of beauty. Now listen, I'm no stranger to rejection as you know but here's the thing that happened to me. I was contacted by Children in Need. The organisation? The organisation, yeah. Not just generally. Hello is that Frank Skinner? Yeah I was walking through Dickens in London. Hello is that Frank Skinner? I was walking through Dickens in London. Did I tell you I met a man? I thought Dodger would cut your pass. Did I tell you that story that I met a man, I think at Clapton in the audience,

who'd been a Bernardo boy as they used to call them? Ah yes, Bruce Orville the designer was one. What is it? An orphanage. It's changed a bit now, but it was, Dr. Bonado started his orphanage. And he said, yeah, I was a Bonado boy and now I own 81 suits. I thought, thus we measure progress. And I said, were you an urchin originally, you know, a street urchin? And he said, well, I was really.

So I got him to sing like an urchin. Oh, thank you. Well, you'd think to make someone do. But anyway, imagine me describing the press as former urchin. Wasn't it? Exactly. Can you imagine saying, I went to Dr. Bernardo's, it's? Can you sing like an urchin for me? I know, but as an orphan myself, I felt it was alright.

Yes, that's true. I don't know, what's the cut-off point for age for calling yourself an orphan? Well, we are both orphans, aren't we? We're not orphanannies. We are. We're adult orphans. But not urchins. No. Any road up...

Go on. Any road up. Mmm. Go on. So, yeah, Children in Need. Which is, I think, have you seen the new Reese Marge reality show? No. I'm keen to try it. But I thought that could have been called Children in Tweed. Actually, maybe that should be our homework.

I think we should all watch it. I'm happy to check it out. Okay, let's do it. Check in with Jacob. It's a bit like, I think for people who aren't posh, it's a bit like watching a David Attenborough thing about what goes on beneath the ocean. It's so alien and different. I'm keen to see. Anyway, I had a contact from Children in Need saying, would you floss for us?

Oh no, I thought that was just the end of the email. Frank, I beseech you, would you floss? You're frightening the children. We saw you on TV the other night. Would you floss? Yeah. If you were going to speak to our urchins, they kindly request it. They said it looks like cabbages wedged in railings. Anyway, so they said, would you floss for children in need?

Now, the floss they're talking about is the dance. Oh, of course, yeah. Now, I was edgy about that because in case you don't know what flossing is, I first saw it, it was a striptease technique. Was it? Yeah but the ladies would wear like a feather boa type thing or any clothing they took off they would then pull between their legs. Oh I don't like that. You know with one hand behind the back and one at the front and then they would like floss as if removing detritus

Floss you do look as if you're doing a thing goes side to side now You're thinking of... Well, anyway. It's not that 70s striptease. But what is it supposed to be in my mouth? We're on a podcast, but Pierre can do it. I think it got popularized by Fortnite, didn't it? Yeah, Fortnite.

A video game is a sort of character- But flossing still suggests that you're removing detritus, does it not? No, not well. I suppose. But isn't it not based on dental flossing? I think you've said no to this. Is it or is it not based on dental? And I never said I'd said no.

Don't jump the gun, madam. I haven't got that far yet. Frank don't dance until the children need him to. I'm on about people used to do it like on to... this is pre-Talcom powder. People don't do that anymore though Frank. You're thinking of old strip clubs aren't you? But that... well what are those... why is it called flossing? Yeah.

I mean I guess there's a kind of pulling back and forth action. It's because it's to do with flossing your teeth. But it's not through the crotch, the modern flossing dance. Well it depends how it's folded. It doesn't. Well it's called flossing. It's a crotch free dance. Anyway, I did it. So I filmed myself on stage flossing. You didn't do it through the legs, did you? I didn't do it through the legs, no. How was it? I don't know if I could. Even if I tried.

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what, why's he got a feather bow in between his legs? Why's he not doing the Fortnite dance? Children like. Couldn't they not see his development? Why are there not trombones in the bang bang? Do vein tromboses. Some sort of brass instrument. Anyway, I sent it in, I gave it my back and they sent back and said, that's great, we love it. And then it never appeared.

Who did they use? That's a big question. Well, they had a lot of Strictly dancers. Oh, that's the thing. And Bluey was on it. Do you know Bluey? Oh, everyone goes on abouty. Yeah, isn't it a cartoon? No. No, it's a man with very bad Circulation issues Frank, you know my views I don't mind him being indulged

It's an Australian I have you know, I've got a friend called Janet McLeod who lives in Melbourne. It was a woman I love very much and she wears Bluey earrings. She was the one, do you remember I told you that we met in a cafe accidentally and I was with a woman and I said, oh, it's her birthday today and Janet immediately took out bobbles and blew them over her. That's what she's like. And she had blue earrings on that day. Anyway, Bluey made the cut. But you know my views on that, cartoons, dancing, it makes me feel sick. So I didn't make it. It reminded me when I was dropped from when I realized I was no longer being asked to do comic relief. And what I should have thought was, I can now I don't have the opportunity to help people.

But what I actually thought was, I'm no longer in the Premier League of comedy. So I actually thought, I think I fell into the grey saviour category as I got older. I used to do, do you remember this? I used to do a joke. It's actually in my prayer book. Not a phrase you hear on that many comedy podcasts. And I said that in St. Matthew's Gospel, he says the point is that if you do charity, don't do it publicly, because then you're doing it for the wrong reasons. And this is where the phrase, don't let your left hand know what your right hand's doing. So if you give, if you help people do it secretly, you'll get your thank yous in heaven. If you're doing it for credit now, you're undermining the generosity you're doing it to show off. Anyway,

as I was saying, comet relief. My joke used to be, it's great advice from St. Matthew but it's it's cost me an MBE. But then I got an MBE yeah and when I got an MBE the Princess Royal said to me it's such a lovely change to give an MBE to an entertainer based on them being entertaining rather than buying it by doing charity work which was insincere. I said thank you Your Highness. Can you floss? So I made some of that up. Can we just clarify, I think you did make a lot of... I haven't looked at my Wikipedia, because I can't face it. Why can't you face it? It's quite nice, your Wikipedia. What's my philanthropy and activism section looking like? The dance section is very short.

I actually like your Wikipedia. Never danced, it says in the dance section. You know what, I might put my floss in on our thing so I could at least get one public outing. I'm so sorry they didn't use it Frank. Wow that's what they're like isn't it. I like this picture they need to update the picture on Wikipedia though. I've never looked at my Wikipedia page ever. Can you imagine what it would be like? Yes I can. I've read it many times. Every time it's your birthday I look at it.

But how is my philanthropy and activism section? Well I'm just having a look here and I'm afraid you don't... it has a long section on your personal life. It doesn't... no, do you know what? Most entertainers know our philanthropy and activism and all the courses. Okay, fine, calm down. If I was a celebrity activist, like a career activist, like Swampy, man, I'd be sick about celebrities. These guys have called themselves activists because they've retweeted two things about water in Sri Lanka. Whereas I've been living in a tunnel for two days trying to stop a bypass.

The thing is... I'm at that one. It'd be like the kids authors. It's the celebrity invasion. I grew up, my dream was to be a kids author. Now people are doing it. Look at them. Oh, it's like when the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s.

And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And the next generation of the Cane Tones was introduced into Australia in the 30s. And it's like when the Cane Toads was introduced into Australia in the 30s and the native population was swamped by them. That's what's happened. Frank, I don't know how to bring this to you but I've had a brief

peruse and there is nothing at all about your charitable work, your activism. Yeah, I should say my Wikipedia page was put together by St Matthew. Verses and chapters, it's very oddly formatted. Oh, this is another thing. I got contacted by the Movember. Oh, do they want you to grow a tash? Well, they did. This was obviously... I'd say they probably contacted me late October. I thought they worked very far ahead and this was for this 2025.

ICI, today... not ICI, I don't know why I brought that up. Today I'm about as hairy as I ever get. I don't know if I can signify this. That was me rubbing my chin but I don't know if I can come over on the part. I don't like, I'm not very keen on facial hair. And they said to me... Frank? That's very rude. Well, you know. No, I don't think Piers got a beard. Oh, sorry. I thought you were... Oh, you.

That would have been rude. I don't... They said to me in the letter, as you know, you are... It said something like, as you're one of the few clean shaven comedians. Really? Is that what it said? I thought, oh, okay, thanks for asking me then. Oh. Who are we?

You know Beckett's got a beard now. Yeah, I know, they've all got one. Does he? Everyone's got a beard. There is, I would say- Widowcombe's clean shaven. There is a thing with the, I think he's like me. He probably couldn't grow one.

Oh, charming. I mean, Movember, my terrible wispy couldn't represent a whole movement like that. I can't grow a mustache. I have a massive... The gap in the middle of my mustache is when I grow one. It's massive. It looks like... You know where they took the sycamore tree down? It's now that terrible, terrible absence in the middle. That's what my mustache looks like.

I really, really, I really want you to grow a mustache. I've got a strange feeling. No. No, because I think it would give you quite sort of a fish-ish man on public transport in the 1940s British Rail map. I can see it working for you. I think there's a... Don't you? Is the gap such that it's a sort of inversion of Hitler? Yes. Sort of if you mirror flip it. But even the stuff on the outside is very wispy. I'm not, you know, I just don't have the hormones. You could get extensions maybe.

Oh, what? Have you tried hair botox? Yeah, maybe I could just, I could grow my nose hair. Yes, and plait it. Yeah, that would be good. Like an extension. But I don't, I don't like, I don't like the modern, the modern comedian, no disrespect, Pierre, but the modern comedian is plagued by the need to be taken seriously.

And that's what I think, it's right across the board. Now, so that's why I think they've said, okay, we're doing knob jokes for a living, but look at us, we look like Victorian sages. And so that, I mean, Manford's grown a beard. Now Manford, I would say, is one of the modern comics least troubled by being taken seriously. He's a song and dance man. He's funny. And he can, does he dance? He can sing anyway. Oh, Manford can dance. Can he dance? Yeah, because he's a musical theatre star.

I know, but I'm thinking he can definitely sing. He can sing, he can dance as well. He can sing, he's funny. He's a triple threat. I don't know if he can dance. Bit of panto, bit of panto as well. I think he can dance. Can Manford dance?

That's the take... Frank off the radio at Avalon UK. Well anyway, he's a modern...'s like like Bruce Forsythe used Yeah, he's that even he's grown a beard Even though he may have Yeah, I think you might find that penicillin What I'm saying my god Frank. There's a definite move. I wanted to be taken seriously.

I did a poetry podcast. I didn't just stop shaving. Yeah. What about both? Don't you think that having a little 1940s slightly spivvy mustache would lend an air of- Listen, Pierre showed us photographs of him only the other day when he was a young man in CCF. You were in training weren't you, doing your cadet force.

That's why I was wearing an army uniform. Because I was a cool soldier child. He just went running at the weekend with a knapsack full of house bricks, like people that go on to kill people. No, he wasn't young. He was on mass. You always find out they've been running around in combat gear for a few weeks and no one local thought to report it. They started buying a lot of things online. Yeah, exactly.

But he had no beard. So it was Pierre Soir's beard. 15 or 16 I was. Comedians shouldn't have beards. What about mustaches? Nothing. Groucho Marx. That was painted on. Yeah, but he needed it.

Look, I was- Pierre looks much better with a beard. I've got to say, I much prefer you with a beard. I was tall. I'm not about making sacrifices for your- To look sillier. Profession. I would look sillier with that beard.

Your face is one of your tools. You want to see as much of your face revealed. That is why I've never laughed at Zorro. You need the whole face. I don't understand the bearded comedy thing. He's never been very silly though Zorro. Very serious. No, well he was dry.

That's his comedy, very dry. Bon Mo. One line. The Spanish Bon Mo. Was he Spanish? Oh, he's got to have been. He spoke Spanish. Well, he spoke Spanish.

Let's not split hairboats. Frank, I'd like to share some of your stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. I've got a lot of stories. He spoke Spanish, well he spoke Spanish, let's not split hair boat off. Frank, I'd like to share something with you. I'm afraid the curse of Frank, it's a thing.

It's definitely a thing. I was talking recently about two things I've spoken about on the podcast. Hard Talk, the hard-hitting chat show that I did. Which interviews everyone from Robert McGarvey to Colonel Gaddafi and Frank Skinner. Yes and then Dave, Dirty Dave Dennis retired from wrestling just after I discussed his wrestling career. Well, Frightwig has got in touch to say hi Frank, Emily and Pierre. She has, I don't know if Frightwig is female or male, but Frightwig says the Isle of Wight Dole Museum is actually called the Lilliput Doll and Toy Museum. Oh, okay.

I see where they're coming from. However, please note below, as of now, the museum is now temporarily closed. Oh Mike, maybe they're standing up. We're going to have some time for standing up the dolls. Well, Frightwick continues, maybe after Frank's comment on that recent podcast the closure could be due to the time-consuming rearrangement of the six wives. Maybe they'll be adding the trip top goth exhibition So if someone could get in touch from the Isle of Wight Dole Museum I just want some reassurance that this is not to do with Frank. You've closed the museum, Frank. You know what? That would be a public service.

What if they're maybe they're expanding their Tudor range and they're making a sort of Thomas Cromwell doll. There might be a Cran there. A Francis Drake doll. Yes. They're just doing all the Tudors. Very obscure Tudor figures. No, that would be great.

I might go, they all look exactly the same. I'd like Cardinal Wolsey's illegitimate child. Please don't take that sentence out and use it as a trailer. They all look exactly the same. No, please don't. I'm talking about the dolls at the Lilliput Doll Museum. The Lilliput Doll and Toy Museum. What if I go there and they tie me down with little individual strands away? The Lilliput Doll Museum. The Lilliput Doll and Toy Museum.

What if I go there and they tie me down with little individual strands to my hair? It won't happen. Watch out children in need. What if that's the next victim? What? What do you mean? Of the curse. Oh, God, yeah.

What if, gluey? Gluey? The circulation finally backs up. I think it was Pudsey still involved. Oh god, yeah. What if Bluey? Bluey, the circulation finally packs up. I think it was Pudsey. Is Pudsey still involved? I think they got rid of Pudsey. No, I think... It's considered inappropriate. I think it was considered inappropriate. Because they're the one, I think.

I don't know, yeah. Is the bandage? I don't know. There was something... They got rid of Pudsey. I think perhaps Pudsey was let go. Perhaps. Do you remember that that there was that story at Disneyland that a kid needed a drink of water because he fainted and his mom took him behind the scenes and Saw Mickey Mouse smoking and they sued I bet it was Disneyland Paris, but anyway Told you when I went there and there was maybe it a Mickey Mouse ashtray in one of the bedrooms at Disneyland Paris. That's great.

Yeah, maybe Blue Eats. Cendrier pour les enfants. That way? Yeah, maybe. I don't know about Podzie, but yeah. But yeah, Podzie, I think you can imagine seeing him with the eye sash off, just some black bubbling crater. Yeah. I can't now.

I can't child see that. That would be terrible. When I moved here, I was interested in just how many bears are in sort of public life if you're a British child. There's Pudsey, there's Winnie the Pooh. Especially in my life if you grew up with my family. Yeah. The art scene of Northland.

There's a lot of bears. Different kind of bearnie the Pooh. Especially in my life if you grew up with my family. Yeah? There's a lot of bears. There's a different kind of bear I saw. A lot of bears in public life. Winnie the Pooh, Padzee, Paddington. And every time I see a gay bear man, I always say the same thing. What? Can I pet that dog?

Can I pet that dog? And sometimes I'm alone and sometimes I aren't. I like I aren't. I might stick with that. Yeah. Could be a great sort of website for aunts. They need one, let's face it. It's the Frank Skinner Podcast. A new winter change is blowing.

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