The Frank Skinner Show - Possible Nuisance

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

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It's time for Tim's. It's Frank off the radio featuring him and that posh lady-o and the one with the French name who from South Africa came. They're all here, open brackets, hooray! Close brackets today. Da da da da da da da da da da da. This is Frank off the radio. I'm joined by Emily Dean, and guess what?

Zoe Lyons is with us today. Where's the lion roaring on the jingle board? Don't have it. I'll do this one. Oh I'm a gummy bear. It's an animal, isn't it? They roar, don't they? It's a monkey sound.

They roar. Follow the podcast on X and Instagram. You can email the podcast via frankofftheradioatavalonuk.com All one word, as far as I can see. There's some big letters and some small letters. I'll be straight with you. You can WhatsApp us on 0745 7417 769. Too many sevens, I'd have changed it. That's a big number. 0745 7417 769. I'm not that you'd have changed it. Yeah, you can change your number, can't you? Well, they have a lot of services and I don't like this, I have to say,

because I suspect it's mainly used by sinister businessmen where you can get all sorts of different numbers on the one phone. Is that right? I know what you're up to my friend. I've never heard of that. Yeah my phone now pings up when it's a number coming in that doesn't recognise it goes possible nuisance. Does it?

Yeah possible nuisance and then possible nuisance and then I thought my spectacles to that with everyone who approaches warning possible nuisance but when you came in this morning potential nuisance I think that should be your next tour possible nuisance yeah I'd go to that I did have to think that whether I'd put somebody in my phone in the contacts has possible nuisance. I did once have somebody in my contacts as do not answer. There used to be a signage in the early days of people stopping dogs from shooting on the pavement where it was referred to as dog nuisance. So possible nuisance is, what is that on your trousers? Oh, possible nuisance, I'll be honest

with you. Here's a thing. Here is a funny thing. I was walking in this morning. This is in the grand tradition of a funny thing happen to me on the way to the theatre, and there's a man actually at the bottom of our road holding up a big sign saying Jesus is coming in 2031. I love they've been so specific. Yeah, I thought, I'm worried we might miss each other. I'll be honest with you. He'll just be coming in and I'll just be like those restaurants where the two doors you know where the waiters go in. Yeah very precise though. Six years from now. And why bring it up this early?

I don't know yeah that's maybe set to book in advance. I can see why they've gone for that though because it feels soon enough to inspire interest which it did in you let's be honest. It did but I mean Taylor Swift wouldn't have announced the two of that early. I mean you know get the album out first. What do you think would have been the ideal date to put on that sign? Well, I always liked Is Nye. I always thought that was enough for me. Keep it simple, keep it old school. Sometime in the future. 2027 seems like a good messiah. Well, you know, I didn't, I didn't, it wasn't, it was handwritten, the sign, it wasn't like, there wasn't a dial where you could change it. I didn't feel I could reason.

They're always handwritten. It wasn't digital. It's like a countdown, you know those countdowns to the Olympics, one of those things. I mean, you know, I don't know where he's got his information from, but there was a website and something you could contact. Oh, he's online, is he? I think he's online, yeah. Oh wow. He's combining the online stuff with the, what's the word for stuff that's not online?

Analog. Analog, yeah. His analog announcement. Well, maybe he sort of cleverly timed it, he said Jesus if you are coming best not do it on like a World Cup year or Olympics or Winter Olympics. But there was no if about it. It's just definitely. I don't think this bloke picked the date. I think he's got the information.

Oh, okay. He's just a messenger. Yeah, exactly. And I was on the bus, yeah? Good for you. Yeah, and I'll be honest with you, I was listening to Oedipus Rex on my headphones, and I heard an announcement on the bus. Now, I don't know if you get the boss much you guys But there's a habit where and I've moaned about this on air before where they just say the boss is stopping at the next stop And that's it. What permanently stop you well stop it. Yes, you get off and get another

This boss will terminate or does the man just say I'm sorry everyone? No he never apologizes at all. Does the man not say it? It's always come from afar the instruction, it's never his thing. I told you I'm doing it once and a bloke stood up and said don't get off anyone, don't get off, we made a contract with this man when we got on the bus and I thought he's right. So anyway I took my headphones out because I thought I don't want to miss this and then it was in one of these announcements and I thought oh no he could be saying you know we're about to explode. So I couldn't go back to Oedipus. We've all been there do you know. So I'm sitting waiting for the next announcement, because I'm thinking, oh, I don't have to get off the bus. And it was an act of fate, because there was a group of sort of older people behind me talking.

And the woman said, she was on about this meal and they said was was your own name but the daughter it's clearly the daughter and she said oh well she said she wouldn't have ate it because she's got a black belt in vegan and I thought that's a line you are you've used many times with great pride. So I thought that was good. I wrote it down on my phone. I thought that's great. But she went on, are you vegan Zoe? No, people always put Brighton, flat shoes, lesbian and vegan together. And it's not, I'm a massive meat eater. But you know what? Don't preach yourself down. Speaking of meat remember two out of three in there.

So she said of course I was I used to be vegetarian she said obviously that was a very long time ago, but then Bacon was all right and chicken salad I don't remember that period of vegetarianism Bacon was allowed. Bacon was all right was what she said. Bacon was alright. Bacon caveat era. Yeah, and also chicken salad, like not chicken obviously, but once it's been, vegetables have been added to it. It's late to rest on a bed of lettuce, it's alright. There must be a balance thing where as soon as the vegetables overwhelm the meat you can

eat it. But nobody questioned it in a group. Could it possibly be true? Was there an early days when in this country we didn't really know what vegetarian was, we were groping in the dark? Possibly, when red meat was considered proper meat. Yeah, maybe. You know, that's it, like I'm off the beef. I'm still nibbling chicken obviously, I'm off the beef. I'm still nibble a chicken, obviously, but definitely off the beef.

Like when a man offered me a free glass of wine at a posh wine shop and I said, I've been refused in about three different ways. I finally said, look, I'll be straight with you, I'm an alcoholic. He said, maybe a sparkling way. So it's that. People think there's like grey areas. Yeah, no I think that's true because I think sort of spirits drinkers, they will, I've seen that where they say oh well I'm not really drinking I'll just have a

beer. They think beer doesn't really count as... Well I think there used to be a time didn't there, where they wouldn't advertise spirits on the telly but they advertise beer so there is clearly people do categorise. Yeah but the bacon and chicken crew are having an absolute laugh. I've never heard of that before. That shocked me to the very core. Frank, may I compliment you on your shirt which we have to take a picture of this because how many compliments in this I would say in the last 20 minutes have you received? Well, you Zoe and the lady who owns Spiritland. Three ladies.

Twiddly diddy diddy. They like it. Three ladies. They like it. But independently. It wasn't a group compliment because I don't want anyone to think that two were keen and the other one felt forced into it. Although two out of three. Stop saying that, it's creepy. I came in and quite unprompted I said what a marvellous shirt and you said the same Zoe. Very nice. I don't know what it is

about you but you found your look. Oh really? Yeah. Isn't it a bit American sitcom shirt? Oh what do you mean a bit home improvement? Yeah. Yeah it's got an element of that but is that a bad thing? No I don't know I've never seen home improvement. You vented your dad era. Both in television form or in my own life. Well in your home. Yeah exactly. I believe David Baddiel walked into your vestibule one day and said Frank... Do you know this though? He said to me, how long are you going to live like this? Why what was wrong with your vestibule? He said well it always goes like this. Their house is a tip. I'm still getting around that. Anyway, that's that. But thank you, I'm glad you like it. It's pretty green. What do you mean? That's why it's so good.

Is it made out of old windbags? It's pretty green. It's in the sort of chicken salad area of environmental. Liam Gallagher and Noel were associated with that brand? Not Noel. Not anymore? Just Liam? Just Liam. I know, but they're friends now. They've put that business behind them. No, they haven't put this business...

anywhere. No, it's very much a Liam girl. There'll be other people. There'll be nameless people. No wonder it's so nice. Can I ask, did you purchase it yourself or was it bought for you? No, I think... I know what's happened here. This is an awkward question for me. Do you want me to answer it for you because I'm guessing I'm a woman of the world. I think perhaps it's what we call in the trade hashtag gifted. Oh it was it was hashtag

gifted I gotta be honest. Well you wear it well my friend. Well that's because I'm hashtag gifted too. Oh dear. It makes you look broad. Yeah, which I'm not of course. But it gives you a... Maybe I should have took the hanger out. I should have took the hanger out. I knew it. Take the hanger out. It's like you're with one of those, your former SAS instructors.

Oh I know. Well, of course Zoe is... Partially SAS trained. She's actually wearing... Is that camo do we call that? No, it's a gentle camo. It's an essence of camo. It's hint to camo.

It's camo if you were hiding in a Rousseau painting. Yes. French impression is camo. Yeah? Yeah. No, it is, you wear it well. Thank you. And then we're just going through the outfits.

Emily's wearing a cardigan I've always loved. Oh that's cruel. That's like that friend of my mother's used to say, I love that dress. It's been such a good friend to you. Anyway, it is a fabulous cardigan with Kermit the Frog. I would say top three muppet. Oh definitely. Really? Premier muppet. Who's your top three muppets? Um well he'd be one. He'd be number one. Yeah Kermit's got obviously the best one. All right. Um I kind of say my son this is I I live in a place called Hampstead in North London. I'm aware of it. It's very nice. I'm just saying it's very nice. And just to give you an inkling, my

son... Sorry Zoe, who says that about their area? My area is very nice. So my son got into the Muppets via a blue plaque for Jim Henson which is on a nearby house. That's not most people's kids introduction to the Muppets. No, it's not how they get into the Muppets. No, and I met him when I was a child. Did you? Yes. He was staying at my showbiz neighbour's house.

I didn't spend as much time with him as I'd have liked to. I didn't know he was anybody really. My mum said he, you know, he's... Did he have his hand up an animal's backside or was he...? No, that was James Herriot. Oh, right. He lived on the other side. I'm always getting them confused.

Yes, exactly. Come on, I'm Minister, I really must press you on this. Your top three muppets. Well, I'm struggling. I can tell you my bottom of all time by quite a long way, and that's Miss Piggy. The way I always thought was a terrible mistake moppet. Mistake moppet? Why? Yeah. Oh no, I just, I'll go as far as to say I hate Miss Piggy. Really? Yeah, she doesn't fit in at all. She's just

wrong. I've never said, never laughed at Miss Piggy. And as I've said to you before, Emily, Miss Piggy being interviewed by human beings as if she's a person is absolutely untenable. Oh, well I think I've... I wouldn't mind but bacon. It's alright. Yeah. What a bit of salad, she was fine. The thing that Frank doesn't like, if I may speak for you, when she's being interviewed,

there's a sort of knowingness and a self-awareness to everyone sort of in on the joke. What you hate Frank is when they flirt with her. But there was a thing that started in the 70s and which has been somewhat carried on, I'd say, in the drag tradition and that is talking of yourself as a superstar you know that thing and I never liked it I never thought it was that funny a concept yeah and she very... Kenny Everett did it brilliantly didn't he with Cupid stunt yeah there you go but at least that was a character but with with Piggy that's it I like the Europhone to host Piggy like some sort of England International or something. Yeah, yeah. Come on, Piggy. Come on, Piggy. I like, I like mop it. Piggy.

I like, my favourite mop it is Kermit to the point where my second favourite would probably be Robin, his nephew. Oh, do you like Robin? I don't like Robin. Half way up the stairs. Oh no. You don't like Robin? No. I wouldn't swerve to avoid him in a, like, I only say that because I was driving some a recent, there was a frog on the road and I wouldn't swerve to avoid him in a like I only say that because I was driving Some a recently there was a frog on the road and I had to swerve to avoid it And I thought I nearly ended myself trying to avoid a frog. It was weird. Anyway None of your choices

Don't like Kermit really. No, I'm not fond of Kermit. I find him a bit nerdy. He's a bit nerdy Yeah, see that to me is not a downside He's a bit nerdy. Yeah. He's a bit nerdy. See that to me is not a downside. No. I'll tell you something I did at the weekend which might put that in perspective. Do we do it now or do you want to give me your top three?

Top three. Animal, Gonzo and... Is it Pepe? The prawn. The prawn. I don't even know what that is. I've never even heard of that. It's like, he looks like he's been made up of bits of muppet that they had left over and then what can we do with this and we're like, just about got enough for a prawn.

I think it's ruining the whole concept of having a prawn. You can't have food as muppet. I think it's that thing that people do when they go for an obscure choice to make them sound more discerning. Look, when people used to say that David Baddiel was better looking than Rob Newman. What are you trying to prove by saying that? He was very good looking David. Yeah but Rob Newman was astonishingly good looking. Okay, each to their own. Yeah I'm still not buying that prawn business though and FYI Don't like Fuzzy whatever his name is Cookie Monster. Oh, I love Cookie Monster. Are you okay with Cookie Monster? He doesn't say much. He's a man a few words. He's quite bokeh-tion in some ways. Yeah, I

worked with animal Yeah, I worked with Animal. Did you? I did like six singers with Animal. Did you? Well I did. That's very good. David Baddiel's been a lovely friend to you. I worked with Ronnie Verrill, who was a jazz drummer who drummed for Animal.

Oh my god. Wow. God! Yeah. Wow! I went to Ronnie's funeral and there was all these guys there and they played a number by the Sid Lawrence Orchestra who Ronnie Verrill used to drum for because it featured a big drum solo and stuff and they played it. And I looked round the church and you could see some people were like doing double bass fingers and some people were Trompeting and all these musicians all twitching their way Playing them an invisible keyboard. It was really amazing Now streaming.

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Choose from a world of destinations, if you can. Air Canada, nice travels. Frank, what were you going to say? Oh yes, on the nerdy front. On Saturday, I went to Shepherd's Bush. How was it? Well, I've always liked her. Even though I could see that coming, I'm still laughing.

Can I say I saw Sybil Shepherd live at the Jazz Cafe and she did that too. Well she just sort of said, is there really a place in London called Shepard's Bush? Did she know about Cockfosters? But she did claim to have taught Elvis Presley or something. Yes, I've heard about this. She had a relationship with him. That's how I put it anyway. Well back to Frank in the studio. It's very pedagogic by the sounds of it. So anyway, I went to Shepherd's Bush and now Shepherd's Bush

I don't know if this is I don't get to London on our regional listeners on our regional listeners. But is Westfield an international, is it, well it's a national phenomenon, is there a Westfield in Manchester or Leeds? Westfield's a massive shopping centre in case you don't know. There's one in Stratford isn't there? Oh it goes that far north. No not on Avon. Oh there's one in Stratford in London. It's in London. Not Shakespeare country. Yes but it's not all out, it's one in Stratford in London. It's in London, not Shakespeare country. Yes. But it's not all out, it's a London thing. Yeah, I believe so. Anyway, it's an absolutely massive shopping centre that people go to.

But there's another shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush, which people locally called Not Westfield. Oh no. So I went into Not Westfield. And I went there on I was on a mission I was with my son Boz and we were seeking out a place called Darksphere. Oh I don't like the sound of that. What on earth? Well Darksphere, we went underground. We went down the gladiators. Yeah. We went down these stairs and there was about, I would say, 200 people sitting at tables playing, well, sort of, they're like board games, but they involve cards and

with lots of fantasy type characters. Like roleplay, like sort of roleplay game. Well I wasn't quite sure, I'll tell you what it is because I bought a couple of cards just to give you a taste for it. Would you like me to read something from the Elspeth Tyrell card? Okay. You know, aren't you like a strong woman? Women? What's what is the plural again? Just read the card. Elspeth joined the team of planewalkers attempting to stop a multiversal invasion of new Phyroxia, but it was too late. Destroying the realm breaker tree while it was connected to other planes

would mean disaster. You get the picture don't you? With the Silex about to deteriorate, Elspeth seized it and planes walked away sacrificing herself to save countless lives. You see I was with you up until that Ssylax stuff. Right. Because that sounds a little bit sci-fi to me in fantasy. Well there's a tip on one of the cards, search your graveyard and library for any number of red instant. There you go. Oh thank you for keeping your nose out of my graveyard. So all these people, they were mainly men I'll be honest with you, some were building citadels as part of the game like gothic citadels. Out of what? Out of plastic wall sections. So is this an online community and this is that?

Well there weren't, there was no online. No I know but I'm saying is this that IRL meetup? It was a tournament, we'd stumbled into a tournament. I spoke to one of the judges actually. Yeah. Who said I started playing, let me guess, let me get the right name, Magic the Gathering. I started playing Magic the Gathering in 97, he said, and now I'm a judge on the tournament. 28 years of playing. Yeah but I've got to tell you something and this is my point it looked great. Did it? It looked great I thought oh man this what a brilliant thing to come down here people are shopping at Westfield and even people shopping above in not Westfield

and you're down here in the dark, it probably wasn't that dark but I'm imagining it, I'm remembering it as very dark and cave-like down there and it just looked like a fabulous secret world. Little community, I'm sure they'd let you in if you asked them. Well, erm, but I've bought a... And that shirt as well. Yeah. But I've bought, I know I think this... You look a bit cool. Yeah. I might have to not wear this. You have to get something black. That's alright, you've got plenty of other things. I've got my International Rescue t-shirt. I can find some things in a heartbeat that you could wear. Anyway, so my son bought a starter pack for

Magic the Gathering and I'm thinking I'm gonna join in a bit. So is Magic the Gathering a sort of World of Warcraft type game? I think they're called MMPGs or something? I have no idea. I don't know much about it. I mean they're lovely the cards there. It's a beautiful thing. Look look at Elizabeth Tyrell They actually are so really interesting documentary on this and they're incredible friendships form from these kind of games like all across the world Yes, and they're not on computers. They're playing with their analog Learn a name username Woo! Learn a name, use a name, that's my motto. How is this character?

Yeah, so it was great and I just thought if there was a nuclear attack, as I began to melt, I could gain some joy from the thought that those men were underground and they're all, you know, very experienced in building cities and waging warfare they would take over wouldn't it be a better world if those guys were in charge do you think a lot of them were single well I think they're stereotyping the very worst oh he likes you of all I know I'm sorry I know what that means now because I'm doing my Latin at the moment on Duolingo. I'm level 17, Frank.

Et tu brutai? Oh, no, thank you. Oh. You're doing Latin on Duolingo. Yeah, I'm enjoying it. Pater est severus, sed mater es benigna. With a Spanish accent? Yeah, it's a bit Spanish. It's so Latin American. Just watch this happen. Sed mater es benigna. With a Spanish accent?

It's a bit panicked. It's a bit panicked. It's so Latin American. Just watch this happen. I've gone a bit Alex Baldwin's way. It's a bit Paddington in Peru. That's what I've gone for. What is the Latin accent though?

That's the problem isn't it? Well, there's not many recordings of the original. I'm deciding it's slightly JLo. That's what I'm going for. Okay. You tried that anyway. Et tu Brute? You can't just keep saying that. That's the only thing I know. It won't get you far in ancient Rome. I have something for you, Frank. You've changed, whereas I'm still Jenny from the block. But in a very nice area.

Oh yes. Frank. Hanson country, what do you call it? I brought something in for you today. Yes, very cruelly you brought in some chocolate and I've given up all sweet things for Lent. Not just any chocolate. I brought in, so I was talking to Buzz about this the other day. Buzz is my child for anyone who doesn't know. Buzz and I, we get on well. And we were chatting about do you buy chocolate? Frank hadn't heard of it.

Well I thought you said do you buy chocolate? Do you buy chocolate? Yeah, which I do. Unless it's gifted. This wasn't a hashtag gifted, I bought it myself and can I say it cost me a pretty penny because one of the USPs of Dubai chocolate is its price. I think I explained to you, there's a bit of a tulip fever scenario going on with you buy chocolate It was discovered by the influencers have made it popular right and it now sells I mean it sells for an absolute fortune. This wasn't too bad. This one was seven pounds. I think are you kidding? Seven quid really yeah, you won't be cheap getting a flight to the bar I should say that this this bar of chocolate is the size of, I would say, a queen-sized duvet.

A queen-sized duvet! No it's quite small. What would you say it was? Kit-kat size. Four by four? It's a four finger Kit-kat size. Yeah. Yeah.

But anyway, it's the real Dubai chocolate you can only get in New York. It did sound much worse, didn't it? It was completely harmless remark. It did sound much worse, didn't it? It was completely harmless remark. It did sound a bit weird but... But we both looked at each other and you know, I can't believe you said that kind of a word. How odd. Sorry, tell us about Dubai chocolate. This is a completely new phenomenon to me.

So, it's... The thing is the real, the OG Dubai chocolate you can only buy in UEA, That is for both of them to import it, export it. So what we get... Why? What I'm going to call this is the sort of Dixie Fried Chicken of Dubai chocolate. So it's not actually from Dubai? I don't know. It's not the original Dubai chocolate company who made it.

OK. And that's the chocolate that's but these are all versions so it's all taste of Dubai. That's alright though. Inspired by Dubai. So you get the chocolate but without the homophobia. And sinister businessmen. Yeah I think it might be better. It's a better option I would say. Is it made out of camel's milk? No. Is there such a thing? I suppose there has to be. Yeah, yeah. Because you can get camel's milk chocolate. Can you? No. Is there such a thing? I suppose there has to be. Yeah, because you can get camel's milk chocolate. Can you? Yeah. Please tell me it's like a not very pointy toberrata.

It's like a toberrata with... Spitachio is the camel milk. Yeah. Pistachio and something... Canaffe. Canaffe? Mmm. I've never heard of that. That's you.

Canaffe, yeah. What is canaffe? Canaffe is like baklava. It's that sort of... Oh, yes. Oh, I see. Should we just eat this thing? Well, you guys eat it. I can't have it because it's lent, as I say.

This is a very valuable commodity you're about to give me. I mean I could have waited five years, as it turns out. I do quite respect that you have done lent Frank. Thank you. I think that's impressive. I'm just thinking about you. It's nice to give up something for lent that I can actually tell people about. So I'm about to put this in my mouth. I would say it

resembles... You know there'll be people who sample that and use it as a ringtone. Oh don't Frank. Why do you spoil? Let's face it they're out there. Spoil a nice day. Come on then. So they are about... I'm one in. Zoe's... Sorry. It's a bit of a... I really went in sorry! I wasn't hanging about. It was a false start at the indoor athletics. She was away on the do-by. What's it like Zoe? Oh my god it's incredible Frank. That is really good I think. It's honestly one of the best things I've ever had in my entire life. I can't believe how good it is. One of the best things I've ever had in my entire life and the terrible thing about this

Is that we're not getting paid for this Yeah, but Frank we might get a hashtag gifted a nice free trip to Dubai Well, what's your verdict Zoe? Very good. Very good the chocolate surprisingly creamy and smooth. Why surprisingly? Because when I think of Dubai I don't think of chocolate. No. No, you think of soulless shopping malls.

Yeah, and that has got a bit of depth to it. Mmm. Mmm. Oh, I don't know what to say. Oh, these two, honestly, it's orgasmic. Yeah. I think what it's done there is combine the delicious taste of the Middle East, i.e. the pistachio, with a slight smooth silkiness of a Swiss Alp chalet.

Not being paid again or a peak. More than a peak. Very different from the sourdough toast that I had pre-show. Why did you not like that so much? The sourdough, to be fair it's hiding in plain sight. It is sour. The bread I had was, I mean I don't remember ever not enjoying toast. Toast is such a universally liked thing but sourdough and also very brittle you know what I mean? Do you know what another...

Another... Another... Robbery hole. Oh you've got a soft mouth. You know those rubberized holes that you get in sourdough. Why do they have the holes in them? Why is that... But why is it made of such a...

Why is it like a monkey's ring? It is, it is like a monkey's bum ring. I didn't mean the bum, I meant the tyre in the enclosure. You meant the air hole in the back, did you? I didn't mean the tyre in the enclosure, you're disgusting. I think you've got to mix it up with the dolphin. The monkey's ring, that's what it breathes through, just between the shoulder blades. I didn't mean that. No. Oh I see, yes. I meant the tire in the enclosure. But I think, I blame it on this idea of artisan bread. Because I think when they made the first stuff and it was nice, somebody said, oh I don't like the idea that the artisans are eating anything this bloody nice. Can we make it, can we rubberize the holes and

very brittle crust and then just nasty taste. The crust Frank, it's like bark. It's hurt my mouth. It's literal bark. Oh my god. Anyway. Do you know what I think it is? It was Bart that overpowered my bite. You'd never survive three minutes in Brighton with this level of anti-sourdough I'm getting from you, you would starve to death within weeks. Now you strike me as someone who might make breath. No. I tell you, no. Oh God. No, no. I can't put the other points on the Brighton guy. I can't find the third point on this triangle. You can't nail me down. No.

I tell you why I find, I enjoy the taste of sourdough, but there is something slightly sinister about it, in that it has to come from like a mothership, doesn't it? What, the scoby? The, it's... The scoby? What's this? You know the scoby? The scoby? That's what it's called. You know the scoby? That strange sort of breathing fungus that you make sourdough from.

And I just find that unnerving. To have that living in your house somewhere. Like bubbling away in a jar somewhere. I imagine a slight glow. If you got up in the night and went into the kitchen There'd be quite a glow coming off it. Yeah That as it crawled across the floor I'm surprised hasn't been like a sort of them Sort of like a B movie horror movie made out of sour dough

Yeah, you know the dough. Yeah, scoby. The scoby dough. Scoby dough. That is a horror movie. We watch a lot of Scooby-Doo in our house. I bet you I'm watching six episodes a week. You know it's 2025. They're still making it. So with these new Scooby-Doo's, Scooby-Doo's. Oh, I thought they stopped making it in the 70s. Well, no, no, they mess about with it. They introduce Scrappy-Doo. In some of the

series, Scooby-Doo is verbose. You know, he used to just go, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,, woof, woof, woof, now he's saying, woof, woof, woof, what's going on, what's happened, what's happened, the dog's talking, the dog's talking everyone. Wilma's got contacts and the dog's talking. Who? Was it not Wilma? Wilma. I was the only boy at our school who fancied Wilma, all the rest like Daphne. I love you for that, Fang. But I saw her book once and I thought, that's a very good motto for life and it was, what

would Velma do? Because you know, Velma, no matter how frightening the situation, she's able to stand back and just think, I've got a really good brain. I'm just going to take a breath and use that and then that will get a sound. So that she lives somewhere between fright and flight. Also the confidence. Bright, I'm calling it. You've got the security of a turtleneck as well.

Yes, well exactly. Did we mention that she's a turtle? She is now, that's one of the changes they made. No, not really. So hang on, the dog talks? Well they've backed off on that a bit. Remember they had a nephew, they went robbing, curming. Oh yes, hang on, Scrappy Doo.

And Scrappy Doo just spoke like I'm speaking now. We didn't have a Smithic accent. He wasn't that Scrappy. But yeah, so they've experimented with various things. I thought the whole point was Mr Bean can see. One thing they did is they slightly azem-picked to Velma. Oh I didn't like that. No, I didn't like that.

Because you don't want two like you know thin women in the team. Daphne and her permanently folded arms. Who Daphne? Oh I never noticed that. Oh that's her stance. It's very flattering. That's the one I watched her mum was in. She looked exactly like Daphne had made it at all. Same hair. Is Scrappy still wearing that weird almost tunic? It's like a doctor's scrubs tunic. I'm afraid Scrappy was hit by a smart car crossing the road in Illinois. Not Scrappy, who's the owner? Who's the owner of Scooby Doo? Shaggy. Yeah Shaggy. Oh I need to work on that these days.

He was almost like a Dr Scrubs tune. Yeah, I think he's like an artist you know. I think he's probably been a student during the Vietnam years. Okay. Anyway I think we better jump ship there but I bet you by the time we do this show, next time around, I'll have seen at least five Scooby-Doo Eps. ["It's The Frank Skinner Podcast"] It's the Frank Skinner Podcast. The new winter change is blowin'. It's the Frank Skinner Podcast. I'm not totally sure how it's goin'.

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