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Episode Date: May 18, 2026

Frank and Emily are joined by Josh Weller! Frank has been watching the BAFTAs and is worried about Celia Imrie. He also has an issue with Attenborough and shares his favourite sitcom. We're currently sponsored by BT - behind brilliant things! Search 'Why BT' to find out more or click on the following link: https://www.bt.com/broadband/why-bt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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They say for every boy and girl. It's just one love in this whole world. This is Frank Off the Radio. I'm joined by Emily Dean and Joshua. Is with us. Hello. How often do people go, well, well, well, well, a lot. At school girls used to go,

Oh, wella, wella, wella. Oh, instead of tell me more. Yeah, yeah. No, instead of... I was thinking of weller, wella, wella from... Greece. Rave on by Body Holly. Oh, I was thinking of Greece.

Wella, wella, wella. Wait, which rave... Awella, wellah, wellah, I learn all things you say and do. It's like a gutter or a... I think it's well or... Anyway, follow the podcast on X and Instagram. It's what they call a musical interlude.

It's getting a bit muse, though, guys. You can email the podcast via Frank Off the Radio at Avalonuk.com. Also... Beautiful. Hello, guys. Hello, Josh. We've got Josh back. Hi, thanks for having me back.

Yeah. I do what I meant to talk. about last time we were on was the, I watched the BAFTAs. Yes, I watched that, Frank. You know when you watch something you think, who knew? What's that? Martin Lewis. He got lifetime achievement, didn't he?

Exactly. The money guy got it. Look, can we give him his correct title? Money Saving expert. Okay. But didn't he, he recently went, he was like, I got, I can't help anyone anymore. Did he? He's so... He's swearing on her.

Yes. He's like, everything's so fucked. He's like, I can't... There's nothing I can do now. Even money-saving experts. He said that. Well, we're all in trouble. So hang on, but I just...

I couldn't... I mean, God bless him. I thought he was a sort of bloke who said, you know, you could get that cheaper on. T-Moo. I thought that was his role. Well, I know, and he says, get group on. Don't buy wool from the wall shop.

Get a jumper from Oxfamman. He's not advising about wool. It's not the 19th century. No, but what he's doing is... Richard Osman presented. He was in tear. He was close to tears. Richard Osmond was crying, giving the award.

Yeah. It's a money-saving expert. Has he got a TV show? Who? Martin Lewis. He must have. Yes, he has one for ITV called Money-saving expert, I think. Money-saving experts.

Always let me down. No, but Frank, he advises people a lot, because he's got the website. I'm not dissing him. But lifetime achievement, BAFTA. It's not Dame Judy, is it? No. That's the level we're used to, you see.

Yeah, I remember Richard Attenborough got one, didn't he? Exactly. Richard. Well, Diffie Attenborough, come on. Yeah, I didn't watch the BAFTAs because I watched the David Attenborough thing on Sunday. And then I was like, I can't do two things. Is it in the Albert Hall as well, the BAFTAs? Yeah, which we've now established cost three million pounds for that box he was sitting in.

We've established that on the other podcast. Also, a problem I always have with the BAFTAs is. The News Awards. Oh, you know what? It's when they play Channel 4 News theme, when Christian and Gerimerti and all the others are going up to get the award and they have to keep playing with news. But I can't cope with them saying.

And the winner is the Israeli-Iran war. And they're going, yes, and hogging each other. Whoa, we are the... You think, oh, no, this is just wrong, isn't it? There was one terrible one about abuse. There was something about abuse and they're playing this... But they're punching the air. Like, you know, it's...

Well, one documentary, did you see... It's a mandaland. It's a proper fucking war. And the winner is Abusing Care Homes. Whoa! Oh, no, I'm that really... I agree with you. They should to get rid of that. And also, I've got to tell you, I'm worried about Celia Imrey.

Why? She looked great. I love Celia Imreis. I saw her gonorrho at the Olvec. Well, haven't we all dear? Yeah. She's brilliant. But because she broke wind... That's become all she is. That's all they talked about. And she's going to end up like Ed Miliband and the bacon sandwich. Hang on a minute. Wait, who's Celia Inri? She's an actress. And she farted.

Incredibly, incredibly respected, distinguished actress of the second generation. That's one F word I draw the line at. Yeah. And then what happened? She brought winning on the celebrity traitors. And it became a sort of meme. How old was she? How old was she?

How old was she? Oh, you can't. But it became funny. But the problem is when she was previously going to these awards ceremony, she was going and people were saying, oh my God, that Celia Emery. Oh. Whereas now... I think someone could be sitting at the RSC and saying,

who's going to play Gertrude in Hamlet and someone else, we can't really have Celia because people won't take a series. She's just a TikTok person now. And that can't be right. 73-year-old person could break wind at any time. In this day and age, you could make that a thing and be quite successful with it. Do you think? As well.

Oh, she's promised she'll fight in the second act. Oh, no. Yeah, not at the National Day. Please, no. And you know what? Seth Rogen, who we love Seth, but it was a bit awkward. Seth Rogen was in... He did a show called a studio.

I think we've all got a film or a TV show where we think no one else has seen this. Why doesn't everyone know that? that this was brilliant. I've got one. And he was in the Green Hornet film, which I absolutely loved. It just seemed to pass. I'm just put off a bite.

It sounds comic book, which puts me off a bit. Well, it was one of the worst, it's one of the worst reviewed and most hated comic book, superhero movies and it's him and who's his Robin? No, a Cato. Cato? Cato. Cato is it?

Cato Pink Panther? Probably, but probably named after the Green Hornet. Because Bruce Lee was in the last TV adaptation of Green Hornet. And then the casting people were like, who have we got currently on our books that's similar to Bruce Lee? Yeah. Seth Rogan. No, Seth Rogan was the Green Hornet.

Bruce Lee was Kate. This is very complicated. What is your... It's a bit Bruceke's in the Man, Kay. What's your film or television programme that no one else seems to appreciate, Emily? It was called The Comeback, and it's with Lisa Kudrow. There's a new season. Yes, I know.

Is it a film or a TV? It's a TV show. People are discovering it. And I feel irritated because it's now come back, literally. And I just feel, oh, go away. Where were you 15 years ago? That's our first. I hate it when it gets popular, thank.

Don't you feel resentful? Well, there's some that are so brilliant I want to tell the world. What about you? Well, I felt when Jennifer Coolidge got big in White Lotus, that's how I felt. I was like, I've been, how can you? You can't start liking her now. Where were you for Best in Show, etc? Yeah.

Yeah, well, she's best in show. All the Christopher Guess films. She's incredible in all of them. Anyway, my one is the best sitcom of all time. You name a sitcom, it's better than that. Terry and June. It's the most perfect, properly funny, great plotted, fantastic characterisation. It's called Superstore. Do you know it?

I've never seen it. It's an American sitcom. I'm not kidding you. It is absolute TV. Oh, we'll get involved. And the most consistent. Funny. Every episode, funny, funny, funny, funny. It's fantastic. Okay, I do trust you on these things. And there's about a hundred Epps on Netflix.

What's it called? Superstore. It's about a supermarket. I don't know anything about it. And is it live audience? No. You know what? I laugh that much at it. I don't know if there's a laugh track or not. I'm going straight in. I love the sound of this. That's so much I laugh at it. I love the, I genuinely care about the It's absolutely brilliant. And it's how, if it's on Netflix, it's 90s? I don't know how old it is. It might be a bit more modern than that. It's, it's six series.

There's about 100 Eps on Netflix. Okay, I love that. But wow, I don't know how it, I don't know why it isn't talked about, like people talk about Seinfeld and stuff like. Did you watch the Larry Sanders show when it was on? Yeah. That was one that I'm always amazed that that doesn't come up more.

Because to me it's like you wouldn't get the office or Kirby. But it was famous as a thing. Whereas superstore, I never made anyone who's heard of it. Yeah. Anyway. Can we say, but Seth Rogen, which is how we got onto this, he made a comment saying, I don't know who that woman in the green was. Right, I vomited at that point because he doesn't know that she's well known.

That's fair enough, though. Well, it is fair enough, but she looked a bit mortified when he said that because it cut to her face. And she's sort of grimaced as if to say how I'm back. Because he went, I don't know who the woman in the green is, but all I know her as is the woman who farted. She's a reality star. He said, I must check out her all the work. Yeah.

And she was nice. He was very charming, Seth Rogen. He said, I'm sure she's remarkably talented, but, you know, and respected. But I just know her as the woman that farted on a reality show. And you cut to Celia and she looked horrified. For the reasons that you're mentioning, Frank. Well, I worry for her.

I think... She's one of our greatest Shakespearean actors. I met her and I did the Gloucester history festival this year and she was there and she was really charming and funny and lovely but I'd hate to see a go the Ed Miller Bandbaken sandwich route I think we need to

de-stigmatise just fighting I don't like it can you not start now though we're a bit funny about it which is very rare for me I've got I need to all the time I don't like you please I don't want to I don't want to talk about

I'm quite squeamish about it why I'll be squeamish about it I don't know I really struggle with it. I do as well. We're talking about farting. Just the whole concept of it. I don't like you. I don't like you.

I don't even like the word. I don't even like the word. I don't like here, Josh. Can we change the subject? It's making me very... Why do we find it uncomfortable? We just do. As I say, I don't want to talk about it.

We keep it in the bathroom. I'll take something completely different. All right, Monty Python. My son is on a duolingo streak, which is now coming up to a. year and a half. Wow. Is that with Finnish?

Finish, he's learning. I love that he's learning finish. And I'm guessing they run out of ideas because I was looking over his shoulder when he did his duelinga the other day. And I wrote this down. The thing they were translating is the finish for, is that water or sweat?

That's how far you get if you have a street that long. When are you going to use that in your finish holiday? You might use it if you're in some torture, Well, the reason he's into, he's doing finish, is because there's a big death metal movement there. So he's into his, he's very much into metal. What a great language to learn, though.

I love that he's learning finish. We went to see Burning Ambition this week, which is the new Iron Maiden documentary. Oh, what was it like, Frank? Well, it wasn't a packed cinema. Oh, it's a shame. So it was. There's only one screening, but yeah. But the people who were there were all.

Is that the man from Birmingham? Iron Maiden? No. Who's the man from Judas Priest, I'm thinking of? No, no, it's not. It's Bruce Dickinson, who... No, the other man from Birmingham, who... Rob Holford?

Yes, that's I'm thinking of. Now, Bruce Dickinson is, there was... He doesn't do it anymore, but he used to fly them around. He's a qualified pilot, so he would fly the private jet. So he'd be in his uniform and everything, you know, that pilots wear. Get off. and then that night he'd be on stage. Are they rich Iron Maiden?

Yeah. Oh, God, yeah. Are they big in America? Quite right, Lisa. They're big everywhere. Okay. It was called Eddie Force One, the plane. Yes. Because that was their logo.

It's the guy called Eddie. And then they changed the flight name on this. You know, you see your flight number. The 6, 6.6. Of course. Of course. So good. Who's bigger? Metallica or Iron Maiden?

Metallica, but Iron Maiden, I think, are better. Okay, fine. Yeah. And they're having a big thing because of the bone temple, aren't they? They're having a bit of a... They've been introduced to a lot of people who didn't know. Well, they're doing Nebworth. Oh, are they? Okay.

Yeah, big. Anyway, we've... We've... We've... We've... We've... Yes. ...is what we've done.

And I ate it when that happened. I thought to err was human to forgive divine, Frank. To err. Yeah, to er. Yeah. My worst thing, as I think I've said to you before, is when serious journalists say, you know. And I say, yeah, so, Kirstom, you know,

and I think, no, no, if you can't say it without saying you know, you shouldn't be a professional TV. How you would like. Who are you? Oh, it drives me not. I was like, and then she was like, and then everyone was like. I have a friend who's developed it, and it's such a thing that I mentioned it. Out of kindness, it came from a place of love.

Is it Jamie Carragher? Like. Like. I just said, you are saying like a lot. And she said, oh, am I? Oh, isn't that funny? I must have picked it up from the kids. I said, yeah, yeah, you said an awful lot.

And I was like, it's like that. Like, all the time, like when she's telling a story like, so like, I mean, it's every three words. Because it's easier when you're recounting what someone said to say that than to be like, and then I recounted. I don't agree with that. and then they said back to me. You wouldn't hear that from the likes of money-saving expert? I don't mind. You know, when they say, and I was like,

I think, oh, great, this is a space for mime, which I like, I do enjoy the conversation. But then they go and I was like, and then they don't do the, they don't show me what they were like. That's not. So, Frank. Well, they're going to do that after. They're going to do it in post the mimes.

What kind of a fucking conversation is that? Yeah, and it came. and there was the landlord and I was like, yes? Stuck behind a glass wall. I mean, what? It's sort of half similes. Terrible fractured similes

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do you think also it's quite difficult, I feel sometimes for the people giving the awards out? Because there's sort of pressure to do a bit and not just go up and say the nominees are, but then it's difficult doing a scripted bit. You know with those award thing when you have to give out the award? Well, my worst thing is when they're giving out the awards is when it's at the Oscars and they refer to the moving picture industry.

The moving picture. How old are you fucking people? The moving picture. Is it Harold Lloyd? It isn't, I mean, it's not a moving picture, is he? That's the most simple, primal description. And all these people who are, brilliant actors can't read bloody

AutoCube. No, they can't, can they? Anyway, do you know what? Congratulations, well done to money-saving expert. Yes, exactly. Great that money-saving expert got lifetime achievement and one of our very finest actresses has been reduced to a terrible

wind-breakage sound. That, my friends, is show business. Did you see the, did you watch the David Attenborough birthday? Oh, God, no. Really? No. It was good. Oh, Frank, no, do you know what?

Please don't. I'm not a fan. It's an awkward thing we have, because I'm obsessed with David Atmerer. I'm not a fan of DeA. And Frank doesn't like him because he thinks he starts fights with the animals or something. I don't start fights, but if I...

No, you do. You said before it's cruel what he does, because he doesn't interview. If I saw a bird, if I saw a bird in a garden and a cat was creeping up on it, my first thought would be, what's up? Yeah.

It wouldn't be. Where's me fucking phone? my phone. I've got to get this on my phone. That's terrible. He thinks he's psychopath because he'll allow these murders to play out. Not just allow, but film them and make money out of those. He thinks it's like snuff movies. What's going on that we're watching because we're watching animals being killed, murdered. There was one. It was a whale, a whale mom and a child. I don't say child, Frank. You're making it sound much. I'm supposed to Tiny baby whale

and followed by these orcas and they kill the baby but they don't even eat it they have like two by table to leave it floating dead with the mother there and him saying

oh and the mother and you think what you could have fucking stopped this so you think that David Attenborough diving into the sea in between an orca and a whale have a flare gun in the helicopter

But they're in the water What is it 1920s titanic A whale So you're saying he should shoot one of the... We're talking killer whales now. So, you know, it's like... I mean, read, exactly. The clue is in the title.

Can you imagine if they're called Killer Whale? Hi, what sort of whale are you? I'm the killer. If you can kill a killer wild, then you're a have-a-go hero. Yeah. But he's not there in the... He's in a room somewhere with SM-508. But he can tell the team.

He's the boss. Let's face it. They're not on the phone going, OK, we think this antelope's going to get this thing. No, but it's his name on the door in the same way that if I kill someone, it reflects badly on Frank because I work on the Frank Skinner show. It depends who you kill.

Oh yeah, that's true. But if if we won, they come back with this footage of the whale being eaten by these, you're going to say, what the fuck you?

You just let that happen. Hold on, you actually let that happen and filmed it. And then you bring it to me thinking I'm going to get out. Get out, right out. Right, no, right out. And then you get a new crew and you're, mate, next week you're like,

can I just make it clear? New crew! If you see an animal in danger, I just assume that your inner morality that you will protect that animal. Don't film it and bring it to me. He doesn't want to interfere with nature's law. This is how it works out there. It's a tough world out there. But humans, we'd do it, wouldn't we?

Would he film humans? Look at this bloke going down Streatomira. He hasn't seen these five-huded youths around the corner. If he did that, it'd be an absolute hour. That's for a mobile phone. That's different from lunch, isn't it? But what he's saying there, animals don't really count. I'm actually crying at the idea of the bloke's going down straight-mire.

He wouldn't be able to do it with humans. Animals, yeah, it doesn't matter. That's what he's saying. But that's the... Life is cheap in the animal kingdom to Attenborough. Well, it's true. There's all this stuff about Atta. Brat.

So resentful. All his environmentalism. That 100 years he's been alive has been the worst fucking time for the environment that the planet

has ever known. That's why he's trying to help. That can't be a coincidence. That's why he's campaigning for the environment. If I were to interview people who are responsible for the last 100 years

of the environment, he's going to be up there. What do you think as carbon footprint is? No, because he sits at He sits at home now. He sits at home. But he was, they were using fucking diesel when he was flying around the world.

Smoking, he was part of the problem. No, I'm a big fan. Everybody's a big fan. No, but I really am. He's much loved. Did you think the bit when they're on stage at the birthday party? Well, he didn't say much, did it is.

And they went, we just want to clarify, there are no animals here. No, did you not think, I didn't need to know that information. I wasn't expecting there to be a paper. Hander. Oh, where someone shouted. I had the chicken.

Oh, God. He doesn't, well, it's it, yeah, and he just said, you see him talking to his wife, no, it's not his wife's daughter, who's lovely, he accompanies him, but he says to his daughter, should I stand up now?

It was a bit much, isn't it? Yeah, and then he says, should I sit down? He got about 12 standing ovationes. Yeah. I'll say he's much loved. I mean, you know, I'm very much the voice in the wilderness.

Yeah. But it's in the, a wilderness where most of these crimes take place. I'm there, I'm there a man on the ground there. But, you know, people like cruelty, fair enough.

Oh, great, I'm sorry, you can't leave it there. You can't say people like cruelty. Well, you know, you pay your money, you take your choice. What you've been up to, Josh? How do you feel about Steve Irwin?

He's no longer with him. He was more intervention. wasn't it? He'd get in between the animals. Well, there you go. That's what I want. I mean, he got killed by a Stingray. Steve Baxhawlet. Well, that's what happens, you see, if you're not self-interested. You will get killed

by the Stingway. No, you know, he was a harpoon away from being a hero. Oh, yeah, that's true. Sorry, Frank, you were saying? I'm not up to anything. I just want to keep talking about David Hatt. No, no, I want to know about your life. What's going on? Nothing. I, um...

My girlfriend's trying to get me to go on holiday. Does that count as a thing? Are you anti-holiday? I just such a thing. Do you like travelling? No. Do you like travelling? Of course I don't.

Yeah, within reason. I find the packing too stressful. My girlfriend packing is it, she packs four hours before we go to the airport. And the whole house becomes her clothes laid out everywhere. And it's the most stressful. I went out with a woman who took several carrier bags,

each one, if we went for like four days, we've four carrier bags and the outfit for that day, the whole thing would be in that carrier bag. That's smart. I like that. That's pre-packing. That's fashion packing. That's what they recommend you to do in fashion

is that you lay out your outfits. But you've got to be somewhere where the weather is consistent. You have everything down to pants, jewellery, accessories, clutch bags. You have everything. You have to do it by outfits. I bought a suitcase recently and it was in the shop the guy was like this is the biggest suitcase

it's 123 litres What you're going to fill it? What is it? Imagine nine gallons of clothes. I'd love to take like a gallon of claret on a plight in a massive suitcase. Sorry, we're going to have to have a look at this suitcase. And I'd want to fill it up.

I'd want to fill it through an hole so it filled to the top of the lid, not just like the lower level. So he couldn't really open it. You'd have to use a big straw, really. Oh, man. I took a, I don't do any more, but I took a weed gummy in an airport.

Oh, yeah. Can I get in trouble? I can't get in trouble for saying that, can I? I don't know if they're illegal. Look, you know what? You do you, love, okay? You young people in your gummies. I don't want to get involved.

It was the worst experience of my life. I had half. and nothing happened and I had the other half You're not on 24,000 police custody it's fine I had the other half and then the first half kicked in

and it was everything slowed down and I called my friend and she went she was like I forgot to tell you that weed gummy I gave you it's not 30 milligrams

it's 90 so whatever you do don't take more than half and we were in an airport going on holiday oh wow and we got on the plane to Sardinia unbeknownst to both of us

there was a drum and bass festival starting in Sardinia the day after we got there. So the whole plane was filled with these kids with the speakers. All right. And it was the being that stoned. Yeah.

In that. And my girlfriend was like, just go to sleep, just go to sleep. So I was trying to sleep on before we took off. And I was so, every time she, her knee touched mine, I thought that our cat was on the plane with us.

I thought it was my cat touching my knee. Yeah, I went to a Joe Jackson gig on mushrooms. And I thought there was someone constantly looking over my shoulder. looking around to see who it was and there was nobody there. And then I would have a laughing fit. I had spectacles on and my spectacles seem to be filling up with tears like you were looking into a tank being filled. The thing is, I don't know it is with the gummy things, but with mushrooms, you can't get

out of it. You get up the next morning still, I got on the boss and the boss seemed to be doing like 140 miles. You know that hand thing on the back of the chairs? I was holding that white knuckle. Like you're on a roller coaster. Oh no, I don't do that anymore. Don't do drugs. No.

Have you done... You're just going to list drugs? Microdosing. I don't understand that. Just a little bit. You take a little bit of mushrooms every day. And it makes you hyper-focused. There's a movie about it where they micro-dose

and then they invent like Amazon or something. Yeah. It's a good selling point. No, no, it's a bad thing. I can actually do a read for drugs. I can tell you plenty of bad stuff, kids, if you want to know. All right. I think we've certainly lost the kids.

Yeah, let's see her from the outside world. Well, I feel Carolyn of Worthing has slightly... She shouldn't have married Richard the second. That was her problem. Was she good friends with Eleanor of Aquitaine? Very likely. She's slightly made, giving me pause. Is it true, by the way, about the Enfons de Castile?

Oh, what is this? 3am gossip. There's a house on the Thames, which might be the house that Christopher Wren lived in later. Oh, I know the very house you mean. He watched St Paul's being built. I know the very house you mean. And a king, I can't remember which one,

but he was going to marry, the rumour went around, he was going to marry the Enfant de Castile. And she was put in this house. And the locals couldn't say the Enfant de Castile. So they called her the elephant and castle, and that's how it got its name. No way. Well, I don't know. If that, if true, that is the story I heard.

I need to believe that to be true, because I absolutely love that. Bethnal Green was Bethan Hall green and it was the same thing. All the East Enders shortened it to Bethanel Green. I think it was Bethan Hall. Right. Christopher Wren... And Bedlam, of course.

Was Bethlehem? Oh, was it? Yeah. When they built some pools, Christopher Wren was like, I need room and board. Christopher Wren literally lived across the river just so he could keep an eye on it. I mean, he went across as well,

but it just meant they always knew that the boss. He was always watching. That seems like a cheeky way to get a rent-free apartment. I think it was the prototype for CCTV. Yeah.

He'd a bit of a nosy neighbour, Christopher Wren. Mindreone B's Wax, Wren. Let the workers get on with it. He sounds like control freak. Well, you would be. Don't you think? It would be. Yeah, I know, but you can't just say, well, you know,

I mean, you've got to let people get on with it, Frank. That's really put me off it. You know, you'd be doing a little bit of mace for it, look across and there'd be on. It's rain at the window. All right. All right. The net's going.

We know you're there. Oh, Christopher's looking at us again. Exactly. With them holding up a blueprint like in the window. Or like tapping his watch. Yeah, exactly. When it gets to, he sees them doing a tea break. Or a mead break, I don't know.

No, what did they drink back then, Frank? When was it built? They probably drank the river water. I wouldn't be surprised. No, they all drank beer then. Because water was so dangerous to drink. Kids drank beer and everything. Yeah, that's disgusting.

Because the monks didn't get sick, right, when there was a plague. Is that right? It's because they were drinking mead, yeah. Oh, okay. Not water. Carolyn of Worthing. Yes, I remember. Where we began.

Dear Frank, Emily and FP. What does FP mean? Fine. Something in person. Yeah. I'll leave you to work that out, Josh. Second person. All right.

I'm necessarily aggressive. Off the back of devastating news for Frank, the bitter end of Alst Jeeves, because Frank was a big Alst Jeeves fan, and I revealed him recently that Alst Jeeves was no longer operational as a result of AI. I offer some potentially devastating news for Emily. I don't know if Emily is aware of the negative AI impact on the environment because I'm a big chat GPT fan, particularly the consumption of water

for all of the servers powering it. This is establishing itself as a major environmental issue and we may have to curb our AI use. I'm sorry to say... The combo of that and Attenborough could finally turn this planet into a fireball. I'm sorry. Listen, Frank, sorry to say Emily Mayhem.

to choose between her AI Bo and David Attenborough. That's Carolyn of Worthing. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it as Simon of Sudbury does it. But AI uses water. Yeah. It's the servers. You're young, you understand this. I mean, I don't, I don't know. Is it like a mill? It's cooling the servers, I think. Oh, I see. But the consumption is, is that right? You're not. Yeah, I think you're right. She knows Sarah's brothers in a tech, bro. Because we all want to know what the budget of Home Alone 2 was. That's not what I ask it. I say, why is my friend being so mean to me?

No, do you really? Yeah, confide in it. Do you use chat GPT or Clod? Chacepti. Clod, what is it? Inspector Coozo. I'm not going down that goat. It's like a better chat GPT,

but you have to pay like a pound. I pay 20 pounds a month for chat. That's crazy. Be careful what you're saying about chat GPT to Emily. Oh, God, it's my best friend. How is it any different to Google at the moment, though? I mean, it can't paint you a picture. Oh, it can.

Yeah, chat GPT can. Google come. No, Google's not specific enough. I like my relationship with Chat GPT, and it's between me and Chat GPT. I've never got a solid answer off of Chat of GPT. You're asking the wrong things, I do. Can I just check, though?

Frank, what do you think of this AI thing? Are you concerned now about it? Because Frank? No, I love AI. It's brilliant. Yeah, but in the light of what Carolyn of Worthing has told us. Water, we've got plenty of that, haven't we? Frank, please, don't be so blah. That's ridiculous.

It's absolutely, I got up this morning It was bloody hail storm, I know, but Frank, you can't be so naive about it. What? It was hailing outside my place. Yeah, that's all right, one of people moaning about it. That's like four questions. That's six months chat, GPT, that storm.

It absolutely chocked it down. Anyway, that is a concern to me, and I am going to reflect on that. I'm not. You can't. I saw him Garrett Millerick in Edinburgh during a show. He's a comic, isn't he? Yeah.

And he made a very good point that you can't worry about everything. You've got to have certain causes. Right, Nigel. Things that you feel strongly about. You know, like he was very, he gave part of the show money to the homeless in Edinburgh. But he said he didn't really give us shit about the environment, which got a few ooze and ooze. But really, you can't care about everything.

You've got to pick your face. I think. Hey. I don't know. It was Eurovision. Well, I'll tell you what, Frank. I do think that the elders, the village elders,

like myself and Frank, we should get a special dispensation for a chat GPT and AI because we've got less time left. Wow. Yeah, yeah, but I... Village elders get privileges. So do you think younger people

can use it more concisely and waste less water? How dare you? And also? I mean, I'm not. I think that's what I think. I could get up and top up my AI couple of times in the night. Is that what you're doing?

Why don't we run it on urine? Oh, Frank. How is that worse than talking about farts? Because there's something beautiful about urine. But there's nothing beautiful about fern. No, it's horrible. It's disgusting. That's wild.

Absolutely disgusting. I don't know why, but I feel the same. And I don't know why. You think urine is less gross. then slipping one out. I'll go further enough. I think urine is great. All right?

Right at the end. We could support your local AI with urine. It's not the worst idea I've ever heard. You can use Kachit to power cars. Have they found a way to... That was the other... The fifth version was the power of Kau Shit.

It was a slight development on the power of love. Have they found a way to U.S. use urine in a positive way. Oh, that actress, what's he called Sarah? Sarah Miles. Sarah Miles used to drink it every day. That is worse than farting. Stop saying that word.

What's the right way to say? Stop the F word. I just don't even want to think about it existing. Would you rather wet yourself or fart loudly and everyone hears it? I'd rather wet myself. So would I. So would I? 100%.

You guys... I'd actually rather poo myself. I'd rather poo myself. I'd rather poo myself. I've done it twice during this podcast. Frank, I've rather rather poo myself. In this podcast, I have pissed and shit myself and had a phantom period. And no one's not the wise happened if I'd have farted. I'd have been so embarrassed I would have died on the spot.

You can imagine one really loud one and you just see Christopher Ray knock in the window. Sir? All right, accident. I hate him. He can hear you. He can hear you. Bloody Chris again. Eliprate.

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