The Frank Skinner Show - Iron Thumbs

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

In this podcast the team discuss the BRITs and the Oscars. Frank's been watching daytime TV and had a mic drop moment at a theatre opening night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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oh, and the one with the French name, from South Africa came, they're all here, open brackets, hooray 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 frankofftherad at AvalonUK.com. You can WhatsApp us, I know, again on 07457 417 769. That number again 07457 417 769. All calls. Side effects might include this because of the dubia. Okay. I was watching daytime television today.

How is everything in your life? Well, it was lunch. I like to have summer on during lunch. You don't strike me as a daytime TV watcher. I only say that because you're a very industrious person with a tremendous work ethic. Yeah, but I can't work and eat at the same time. Okay. No I'm not. The Earl of Sandwich. Yeah or Gordon Ramsay. No I'm not in the hospitality sector. So there was an advert came on for Vintage Cash Co. Do you know this? Well, I do know about Vintage Cash Co.

So, it was an old lady, so, reading this advert and it said, put all your belongings that you think might be worth anything, wrap them up in newspaper for some reason. I know they're old, but you know what I mean? They've heard of tissue and stuff. Wrap them up in newspaper. Whatever. And you see her with these boxes and her daughter's helping her and they're wrapping up sort of silver goblets, carriage clocks and all that. You know, since George went, things have been a bit tight. Okay.

And the adverts like, old people, why not burgle yourselves? Old people? Old widows, or as we call you, vintage cash cow. Listen, you vintage cash cow. Anyway, I thought, is this alright vintage cash cow? Old people are bundling up everything, then you send it all away and then they make you an offer. They make you an offer. Well I can exclusively reveal, I've been approached by vintage cash cow.

Oh have you? What poster girl? How dare you? Just you in strategically placed newspaper coming out of a cardboard box saying, why don't you put your valuables in one of these? Send me your valuables in a paper bag. Yeah, guys! I'm waiting for your package to arrive. Yeah, I've been approached about working with them on, I don't want a commercial opportunity.

Oh well, I don't want to... Well, you're not, I mean, it says something for my branding now, doesn't it? It does. I think they... I've got an older demographic and I'm here for it. But you were right for what they called Arga. Is it Arga magazine? Oh yes. Saga. Saga. What they called? Arga magazine does have a similar but smaller Democrat magazine strap

line we are cooking. We're never off. It should be. Yeah. be Arga. No, you're right. No, it's this Arga. Forgive me. It's quite a, it feels like quite a risky thing to do if someone says to you, yeah, just post me a bunch of stuff you think's valuable from your house and I'll get back to you. I'll tell you how much I think it's worth, you know, when it's in my hands. Look, I can tell you, given that I have contacts there at VCC, as I call it, As I understand it, and by the way, I'm not

being paid to say this, no money has changed hands at this point, I'm just saying I have some information. As far as I'm aware... Can I say, imagine their offices. You know that bit in Harry Potter where everything they touch multiplies and there's all those gold goblets and that everywhere. That's why I imagine their offices have to climb through all this stuff. Is that true? Have you been to the office? No, I'm not that old. Do they have an office?

I've been to their offices. A grand vault. I'm guessing there's a bloke standing in a phone box, somewhere in rural England. I think it's a big dragon asleep on a load of old record players. Yeah. But the finals, who will win three? Do they still have the P.O. Box numbers? Do they still exist?

I was thinking about that only the other day. Is that just a 70s relic thing? Well, here's our world first. Well, speaking of 70s relics, let's get back to VCC. So VCC, I believe what happens is that they track it for you and they cover the insurance so that if it gets lost or anything happens, they will insure it up to £10,000 or something. However, I've not tested it myself, so I can't tell you. Well I was intrigued, so I had to look at the reviews on the internet. What did it say? Well it's one of the most unsettling things I've ever done because someone would say, yeah I'm not sure about this, you know these old ladies sending off and then the response

would be, no no we have vintage cashcow. I thought, hold on, I never knew you were in the room. And they respond to every comment I've seen. That's my absolute favourite thing, do you not do that? I go through reviews like TrustRate to see who the business is responding, it's brilliant. Are you not aware of this? I noticed on an old dentist of mine, I was looking up, they're saying, I note from our records that you are no longer a patient and we don't have you on our record. So I find it very strange that you're leaving this room.

When you say, am I not aware of this, I've done two series of a panel show that is just based on these things. But do you not do it as a pastime? I would regularly. No, I didn't like them. Listen, it was very Chinese spyware. I like it when people review stuff that is pointless to review, like the McDonald's near King's Cross station. Yeah, but is that pointless? Yeah, but when it's like a three, they go, yeah, three stars, you know, it was the same as every other McDonald's in the country. I left a complaint at Farmer J's because they...

Farmer J's? Yeah. Do you know Farmer J? No. Oh, I'm surprised at you. Farmer J? Yeah, the producer knows it because it's quite young. It's quite young and cool.

Okay. All right, vintage cash cow lady. I've never been young. Can I just say, the lady is not necessary. Okay. Yeah. The face of vintage cash cow. The lady is not necessary, just call me vintage cash cow.

I'm very happy with it. Still horny, strapline. Yeah, still horny. Yeah, Farmer J, I left a complaint because they don't do a salad without onion. I still haven't heard back. They didn't comment. No. Do you not leave complaints on? Do you complain ever to businesses? No, never. The only time I've ever complained was when Time Out magazine's a London listings magazine, now free I think, or

even online. Just online. My curse still has some power. A guy went to a Roman Catholic Church and reviewed it, reviewed the music and stuff, and went up and took Holy Communion and reviewed it like a food critic. This to me was a step too far. So I sent in and said, look, I like the jokey idea of reviewing a Catholic Mass. It was a good idea, clever and well done. But I think actually taking part in a religious ritual in a comical way was too much. And I got letter of the week in time out and won a guide to the best spars in Britain. Bit of a passive aggressive prize.

Yeah, I hate spars as well. Why don't you like spars? Oh, people in robes. After your complaint, here's a list of ways to relax, okay? Yeah, exactly. I don't understand why you don't like sports. I hate massage and all that stuff, treatments. Why don't you like it?

The first time I... It's like you don't like pleasure. I don't get pleasure from it. I had a massage... You're going to the wrong places, mate. I had a massage, I went to McDonald's after and literally sat with my face on the table. I felt so terrible. Was it kind of just drifty hands, kind of just a bit light touching or was it elbow

in the middle of your back? No, I had one in Japan where I was bruised the next day. That's what I want. Yeah. Iron thumbs. You're a bit specialist interest. Yeah. Iron thumbs would be a, that would be a good name for a gladiator. Yeah, it's a Bond villain. When people start really getting really into smithing. Yeah, exactly.

That is iron thumbs. Or a really dedicated hitchhiker. Call him iron thumbs. Anyway, I watched the Brits this week from start to finish. Not easy for me, obviously very triggering in lots of ways. Having once unsuccessfully hosted it. Do you know about this, Pierre? I don't.

Why was it unsuccessful? Oh, it was all wrong for me. I tell you what it was like. This was the level I was opera. Can I say I think Jack Whitehall is brilliant. He is good. He is good. I think he's the perfect choice.

He was channeling Novelli as well this year because he had the old velvet jacket. Well, they're too trendy now. I'm going to have to get rid of it. Yeah, so. Him and Joel Dommet clad in velvet, but so he knows he knows a lot of the Musicians and stuff and knows lots of you know stuff about their albums He's friends with a lot of them as well as I went on and I did the quick fit fitter song and then said I love I love a bit of garage

That was that was the level I was operating at. Where was it, Frank, you did the bridge? Oh, I don't know. It's been erased from my mind. Like severance. That's how I deal with it. So, I really enjoyed it, actually. I did. Did you watch it? I've seen All I Need to See, which is our friend, character of the show, Tim Swim. Oh, Tim Swim, yeah. Tim Swim.

Tim Swim was there wearing something that looked very unsafe for the water. Well, he wore three different big coats. He did. But he wore one that was completely made up of cuddly toy. Oh, I love that one. I imagined at any moment an enormous claw would come down Raise him up and then drop him at the last That could have been a lovely appearance for Ray on that coat. Yes, but he's one of the fancy dress

Stars he is very fancy dress. Loam of faith. Mm-hmm. It does seem John in his early days. Is that increasing? It feels like 10, 20, 30 years ago there was sort of a couple of people like Elton John and then now it seems to be sort of 50-50 chance that a musician is going to be wearing that. No, Elton John just wears the sarchie jacket and square glasses now. He's stuck with that 22 years. He went through... There was shell suit Elton. Do you know why I... Shelton as I like to call it.

Do you know I miss Elton Shelsoo era? It was very bad. Was that the tantrum and tiara spirit? I think it was. But it was very, it really was enjoyable. Did you see Tognolli's shirt? Well, see that was an interesting thing, is that it was alright for Jack Whittle to go on about Bruno Tognolli's nipples, showing through his see-through shirt. But then Charlie XCX gets up and says, I love the fact that this is the modern age. She said, ITV are getting complaints about my nipples, because she'd been up a couple

of times. And I thought, well, we've got rolling news now on the Brits getting nipple alerts. Or there's like a sort of vote count. It's on like election night. There's a lot of people in a sports centre tallying all the nipple complaints. But there's people actually watching what's being said about the show while it's happening. I find very exciting. Do you know, there was one category and it sounded so comically ridiculous. It sounded like some strange Ben Stiller movie about the music industry. It sounded so made up. They said

and the nominees are Amel and the Sniffers, Confidence Man, Fontaine's DC or Future and Metro Boomin. Yeah that was all, was it all rock? No that was just international art. These are just normal people, Frank. I like Emma Lynn the Sniffers. They're very good. DC. But Fontaine... DC.

DC. When they came on, they looked like really like they were going to say, yeah, we don't care about nor... And they were really like very polite and quite nice. They might be Welsh or something. They're from Dublin. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.

They were lovely. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, just sort of charming buys. I also was intrigued by Horse Girl, double R, double L, I believe. Oh yeah. The German DJ. Oh, is that who that was? I just saw a horse sitting at the table. You didn't think there was something odd about that? Nowadays, I think we don't judge.

Horse Girl is a German DJ? Yeah, I believe we don't judge. Horse girl is a German DJ? Yeah, I believe she is, yeah. I am horse girl. She's a German DJ. Really? But she does look like a horse. I mean, very full. Do you think she's got a mask, Frank?

No, I thought she'd been changed. Surgically. Surgically changed. Remember Catman? Yes, he tried to look like a cat. He had whiskers put in and he had Toxton whiskers, I think. His ears trimmed, I think. What happened to Catman?

You don't see him so much anymore. He came over our garden, the dog ripped into pieces. Well, he did keep spraying. He came over our garden, the dog ripped into pieces. Well he did keep spraying. Exactly. He probably did. He looked the time. Whilst watching vintage cash cow hands. Oh look at this one look at this mug but one of the highlights for me you know I love one thing I love in life is a notebook oh you love a notebook?

and chapel rhone had had a she had the you videos, but she got out this lovely pink notebook and read them from, you know, normally you'd think there'll be some device, but as she read them from her notebook, it was very nice. Oh, that's classy and old school. Was anyone a liability? Was there any kind of old school misbehaviour? Not really. Was anyone a liability? Was there any kind of old school misbehaviour? Danny Dyer swore so much that we didn't really hear anything he said at all.

No, and I wasn't sure how they did it. Presumably there was payment involved because I noticed KSI. He was sitting with the horse as well. That was his date, the horse. He's happily married we should say. But I believe Jack Whitehall joked about that being his date. Yeah, no, that was the person he was sitting with, that was his dining companion, was the horse. Yeah. KSI. She just had a bag on her face.

Not the first time in the dire household. You've got to go the whole... Bit of nose big. You were going to say hog? I was going to say hog, but it's the wrong animal. Yeah. KSI, I felt there was a bit of a strange thing because KSI has, you know about this Frank, I feel this is very much yours and Buzz's area, is it Prime that KSI?

It is Prime, yeah. Oh, that's why there was a big blue bottle of Prime next to him. So he brought Prime to stand on, to put on the table while he's being interviewed. Do they still like Prime young people? It's slightly off the boil. It's star has faded. Oh, it's not what it was. Yeah, it's like...

Oh, you don't want a boiler. There's some sweets now called nerds, I think. They seem to be very popular. Those used to be popular when I always said bye. Didn't they? They did. They did. So they've made a comeback, the nerds.

Really? I'd never heard of them before. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Frank, do you like Sabrina Carpenter? We chewed roots and leaves. Why did you grow up, for heaven's sake? Sabrina Carpenter. I was a bit surprised in 2025 when it opened with stockings and suspenders and all that. They got lots of complaints for that. Yeah, but that's because that's like empowering.

A pre-9 o'clock sex show? That's one of the complaints, which I quite like. I can imagine some manager saying, No, no, trust me, it's really empowering. Sorry, I have to do all time advice on you. Sure is empowering. Who's this old- Miss Lily.

This old prospector. There's sex in them dark hills. Realize what really sells. Why don't you get your little tush out there This lily. This old prospector. There's sex in them dire hills. Realize what really sells. Why don't you get your little tush out there and go and do me some empowering. Let the nice gentleman take a look at you. You'll feel awfully empowered afterwards. Do a dance with your bum out.

It'll make people impressed. Get these suspenders on it. Wow, independent you are. You know how the most powerful people have their bum out? Do that. I mean, we could be wrong. Don't get me wrong. I don't think we are, but anyway.

I mean, one could argue that it's been a great swerve for feminism in many ways. Well, great for you guys. When I was growing up, yeah, exactly. When I was growing up, you know, it swerved very much the other way. You could see their bras, but they were in the half! Frank Orloss says enjoy riding this wave, always while it lasts. If I'm going to do any riding, I'll be phoning Mrs. Horseface or whatever her name is. No!

I love the idea of a bra and a half. Well, no, I only saw her and feminist at minutes domestic for... Warm myself by a roaring bra! You can burn your bra, but you're not leaving this house. As long as it's under my roof and you keep us warm. Don't burn it outside, it's a waste. Oh Frank, did you notice though, what was nice was she went for the old sort of beef eater look, didn't she?

There was a sort of Brit theme going on. There was a bunch of sort of guardsmen she was dancing with. Yeah, but what I thought was a step too far, there was definitely a suggestion when she suddenly disappeared downward. Oh no, not the beef eaters. Yeah, there was a definite that she was doing a bit of beef eating herself. Oh, that is disgusting. Look, I didn't choreograph.

The blowing of the guard. Okay, I merely had an advisory role, which I got from Greg's, actually, which is their new thing. The pizza didn't work out. Oh dear. But you like Charlie XCX, don't you? Yeah. I tell you what I thought. This is unusual for the Brits.

There was a lot of very sensible and quite moving speeches about looking after. She's in a speech and I'll be fair, I didn't know many of the people she mentioned, but she talks about what dance music meant to her and rattled off about 15 names. And I thought, God, you are absolutely the real deal. You love this stuff. And I like that. Even if it's not my music, I love the fact that people love it. Do you think the pattern is now, it used to be that everyone would be dressed much more like kind of standard black tie and dresses, but then the content of the speeches would

be like mad or there'd be like a fight or the behavior would be worse. Whereas now everyone's either basically wearing nothing or like dressed like a big mad ice cream or as a horse. But then all the speeches are completely down the line professional. I'd like to thank my assistant. Yes, you're right. No one is drunk or high. No. It's rebellion via the wardrobe. Yes. And everything else is very much, well, it's a bed bedtime for me said the guy with his you know ball showing and a big mad ice cream 104 beanie

The dry cleaners nightmare that was a very garish blanket that the horse DJ was wearing I noticed when she's by the bar is that one foot was down and one foot was on its toe. What about when she went to the bathroom? Don't stand behind her. Exactly. You'd be waiting for ages.

It takes about 40 seconds to complete. Anyway, I thought it was, it was sort of heartening, I thought. I thought there was a lot of stuff and I thought that. Not my world, but you know, great. Yeah, it made me feel that young people are maybe a bit nicer than they were in our day, Frank. Yeah, exactly. Did you see the Oscars, guys? Oh no, I didn't see the Oscars. But I saw the red carpet stuff and it looked like people

turning up to a middle-aged dinner party, you know. Having Tim Swim turned up in his teddy bears. Did you say that? Everyone else has their bum out. I bet no one had their bum out at the Oscars. Well, you say that but Shalome never disappoints on the sartorial front. He came dressed as a banana. It was called a stick of butter. That's what he was being called.

He had a sort of buttery yellow... Leather suit. No, buttery by Shalime. That could be a scent. All of our roles come with Shalet Butter. Oh, this is fancy. I don't know what his fashion story is right now, but I'm actually loving it. He wears a lot of leather suits. What did he wear? A yellow leather suit, but it was slightly cropped bolero, I would say, the Jackito. And then a high waististed matching, it's being called butter I would say it was

more banana, more banana man. I heard that his plan was to go as bananas in pajamas and the second parcel didn't turn up till after the ceremony. What I did like, I think what is a shame you missed was Mick Jagger came on to present an award. Oh did they? And that surprised me. I don't know. And even the audience seemed quite surprised. He got a standing ovation. Can you guess what he was wearing, Frank?

Firstly on the feet. I would say he was wearing trainers. A platform, slightly raised black trainer. Okay. And then very tight trousers with no VPL. Well, no shirt, obviously the t-shirt with the suit, as you say, exactly as you described the suit. And then a lovely little touch and very Jagger, the Aunt Malik scarf, actor scarf. Oh, okay. He always goes for the scarf Jagger, doesn't he? Just to put it down and say, look, I'm

a bit informal. I'm not like these other guys. I always worried it might get trapped in his throat and he wouldn't be able to get it out of there. He was great though. I think he was coming on behalf of Bob Dylan. He said, I spoke to Bob and he said he didn't want to turn up. He didn't want to do it. Why was Bob there? Because of The Complete Unknown, the film that Timothee Chalamet was in. No, but it's about his life. So I believe he was invited. Bob don't show. Bob didn't show for his Nobel Prize speech. This is what Mick Jagger said. But Mick Jagger was saying he'd had a conversation with him about it. I don't know whether this was a bit he was doing or whether it was true. I like to think it's true that Bob Dylan said, I'm not

turning up to that. It sounds very much like- I don't want to go to the Oscars. To be a guy just like a banana. Is the horse lady going to be there? No I don't think she will. I don't think she's going to the Brit- The what? She's going to what? You know, like the Brits, man. You must have heard of the Brits, Bob. And so yeah, so we had this conversation.

You'd love to hear that phone call though, wouldn't you? I'd love it. My, my, my- I'm wrapping up a lot of my stuff. I've got to post it to a vintage Kashka. My friend Dennis Leary, do you know? Oh, yes. Dennis Leary, the American. He's a brilliant actor and comic.

Yeah. And he went, Bob Dylan invited him around his house. And he lives in like quite big, as you can imagine, quite a bit of land. And when he arrived, he's driving down the driveway, never met Bob Dylan. He could see Bob Dylan in the distance, like standing around. And so he went down the window and went, hey Bob, Bob, and he went, oh Dennis, come over. So he went over and said, I'm just trying to get in my dogs. I can't, hey, hi, how are you?

And then he was saying, no, they won't come to me. And they were there for like 30 minutes with Bob trying to get his dogs so they wouldn't come. Doesn't Bob have staff who can do it? Doesn't Bob have a sort of dog whistle? Like, you know, Monica, a dog whistle on one of those metal stats. So it's sort of not holding. It's the price of prediction. Exactly.

Hey, Ruby! The dog doesn't know his name is that. None of the dogs know what their names are. None of the children know what their names are. Not with Bob around. I thought the review was going to be that one Dennis Winton it was just a scarecrow. No, look I love Bob. Do you know I'm starting to love Bob. Later in life I'm starting to love him. I like his refusal to conform, I like that

he doesn't come to the ceremony. I respect him. He turned up for the Victoria's Secret advert that he did. Did he? Yeah. Was he wearing lingerie? He wasn't, no. It's about when it doesn't show. No, he came as a fox. I didn't like Adrian Brodie though, he did a five minute speech. Did he? You're only meant to do 40 seconds and poor. Did AI help him with that too? Oh, controversial. I don't get that. He won an Oscar for the Brutalist and it's been, well it's not been reported, it's factual information.

AI helping him with his Hungarian accent. Because his accent wasn't up to it. So AI fixed his accent in post. Oh, not that he learnt it from AI, it was men. It's an AI accent, yeah. And some people well that's unfair because for example Ralph Fiennes in Conclave he has to speak Italian and he just went you know. He just does. Oh natural. Oh no but Dick Van Dyke woke up bolt-up right the middle of the night. I mean just remembered that They'll be after Dick now. And relax. Oh my God.

I am, oh, I can't, hold on. I went to the theatre. What did you go and see? I went to see a thing called The Last Laugh. Have you heard of it? It's about, it's a dressing room and in it are Tommy Cooper, Bob Monkhouse and Eric Morecambe. And they basically talk about comedy. That's the show.

I mean, it's up my street. I'm interested. It's up comedy street. Did you enjoy it? I did. I enjoyed the audience in particular. When I got there, the first two people I met were Biggins and Davro. You're with your people. So I said, we're on the red carpet, I said to them, people

be thinking we're turning up for the sequel. And Biggins said, I believe you have to be dead. And I said, well, it takes six months to get it off the ground. Did Biggins like that? No, no, they didn't. Neither of them liked it. Oh, fine. They don't like the dark.

They like, they like, um. They like to keep it a bit lighter. They like colour. Um, um. Keep it panto. Lorraine Chase, I bombed it. These are all names I think mean nothing to Pierre. Do you know Lorraine Chase?

No, I don't think so. These are all names I think mean nothing to Pierre. Do you know Lorraine Chase? No, I don't think so. She was in an iconic advert. For Cinsano? No, oh maybe. She was a model and she looked like a model, tall, thin. It wasn't Cinsano, it was something else. Beautiful. Sorry. And a guy would say to her, were you wafted here from paradise? And she would say, nah mate, looting airport.

And it became absolute. And that is how she talks. What was that about for? It was either Shinzano or Quantro, but I think that was something else. Wouldn't be Quantro, would it? No, but I think it might have been Shinzano. So anyway. Or Martini Bianco, one of those 70s ones. I met her and she was wearing this hat like a sort of a Mexican bolero hat.

Sombrero? No, not one of those. You know a matter of... Oh, yeah. You know, there's Dom blah blah, Port or Sherry and it's a bloke in one of those black... Yes, I know exactly what you mean. Wearing one of those and I said, that's a very elegant hat. Is it Philip Tracy? It's had that look to it and she went, nah, Frank, charity shop and I thought, we've just recreated the advert. We've just done the advert in another form like 50 years later. Maybe that's she just always responds like that now.

But it was, oh man, it was one of the most enjoyable crowds. I sat, Vicky Michelle was sitting in front of me. Do you know who that is? She was in the thing called L.O.L.O. Oh right, was she the? Set in Nazi occupied me. Do you know who that is? She was in the thing called L.O.L.O. Oh right, was she the... Set in Nazi occupied France. Yeah, comedy. The sort of thing you'd have loved.

I've seen bits of L.O.L.O. The wife of the proprietor. No, no, not the wife. She was the sort of... Foxy lady. Yeah, the other woman. Oh, okay, yes, yes, okay. And Superlard was in my row row we embraced. Do you know her?

Yes. I've told you stories about her. Her um I think I can say this her my godfather was married to her husband Peter. Oh yeah what was weird for me is that the guy who did Bob Monkhouse was as close to Bob Monkhouse as you could possibly imagine. I mean, and I knew Bob Monkhouse. I did a series with him. I dined out with him. I did his This Is Your Life. And it was freaky. It was, I mean, there must have been a lot of people in the audience who knew the people on, you know, the original. But wow, it was a bit like seeing a ghost. It was really close. Yeah, and he sounded like him as well. Was he? That's what's impressive, not AI. Exactly. Yeah, Brody. We're going to do that now. I heard, I was listening to Six Music.

An official beef of Brody. I think it was Nick Grimshaw. Oh okay. Who I'd never really heard before. It made me think, when I was a radio DJ, I was a bit too full on. You couldn't play much more laid back. Really? He sounds, the links sound like a deathbed request.

Next song's going to be Kate Bush. I thought wow. Because he's transferred from Radio 1, he's gone time. I think he's transferred from vintage cash can but he that's a laid back guy. Really? That was Bob Dylan there. Really? Yeah. He's got a very unlaid back dog I mean lovely but he's called Stinky the dog. Have you walked with Grimshaw? Yeah I've walked with Grimshaw. I'll walk with Grimshaw from this day on. I've walked with Grimshaw and do you know Stinky really won me over. I was nervous about Stinky at first, Stinky's a handful. Was it the name that made you nervous in advance?

Yeah, it was all sorts of things. Tomorrow you'll meet Stinky. Spend 24 hours worrying. See I know I wouldn't be able to resist going Mr Grimshaw. It's because he's a Norman. We've had a lot of old stuff. Now when do we can't get the answer? We're not gonna have time to do this because we're running out of time. Can I tell you one last thing? Well it will be the last thing you say Mr Bond. This was a theatrical opening night mic drop. Go on.

Is that when I was outside, there was, I think it was Giles Corran and Big Ins again, and they were saying, well, the problem is, you see, young people won't know who they are. They were talking about the play. And I said, well, I saw Julius Caesar. I don't remember him, but I know who he was, and stepped straight into a cab and left.

It was so perfect. Good night gentlemen. Literally the door was opened. I got into a cab with the owner of NIMAX theatre group and left. That's when you need a scarf. You need a jagger scarf. A fedora. Sorry, have I? Well, I was just going to say, I think we should say this.

I was actually going to just flag up. We've had so many fabulous responses. Do you remember when you were talking about songs people sing to accompany sort of everyday activities? Oh, yes. And? Mine was when I go up or down a spiral staircase, I sing Ralph McTel's I'm going up a spiral staircase, I'm going to reach the top.

Well I think we should say, I'll just give people a teaser. Go on. For the quality of material we can expect. We've had Kath from Rise Slip, long time reader, first time texter. When I put the heating on, if it comes on automatically, I have to sing the heating's on to the tune of The Heat is On by Glenn Fray. My husband absolutely hates it. I'm going to leave you with one more and then you're going to have to wait if you want to hear the best of them.

Whenever a box of Miniature Heroes chocolates gets finished in our house I love walking into the room with the empty box singing whatever happened to the heroes. Well I look forward to the next 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