The Frank Skinner Show - You've Been Warned!

Episode Date: July 24, 2026

Frank and Em are joined by comedy writer Ruth Husko. Frank’s got thoughts about Ole & Steen, a listener’s got a problem with the word ‘fiancé’, and the team try to guess what Everybody Loves Raymond is actually about. If you want to message the show, email us at [e-mail] or WhatsApp us on 07457 417 769 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Frank off the radio. It's the Frankskinna podcast, don't you know? Dare to sing bees. Mama sang Tanner, me and little brother join right in there. Come on, everybody. In the sky, Lord, in the... Okay, this is Frank off the radio. I'm joined by Emily Dean and Ruth Hosko.

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We took ages to get going this morning, didn't we? The whole... Why did it take us so long? Oh, I don't know. Okay. Why that was? I arrived. We're not at Spiritland this week.

We're at Soo Radio. It feels like a more sort of media outfit, whereas Spiritland's more catering. I think that's right. Yeah. It's a cafe with a booth, whereas this is all booths. People are shocked. You know, I showed some friends recently. Oh, that's where Frank and I do the podcast.

They went in there. I said, yeah. This was Spiritland. Yeah, I showed it. It was actually, Jonathan. and Ross and his family. And they went, you record a podcast with everyone staring at you through a glass. I said, yes, we're just thinking it's normal.

They were so horrified. I've done a few. In Australia, they have a lot of radio stations where they're in like shopping centres and stuff. And they used to have, I seem to remember Radio Top Shop in Birmingham, which was a man sitting in a sort of glass booth in the middle of Top Shop. You're right. In fact, I think Paul McKenna might have started his career. on Radio Topshop. Yeah, what about that?

Yeah. I didn't know that. Where was the hypnosis there? Couldn't get yourself out of that. No, I don't think there was any hypnosis in that one. He was just hip. He could have called himself that, couldn't he? DJ, hip. He was one of the earliest self-help books.

Do you remember? What was he helping people to do? It was something that I can change your life. It's somewhat vague boast. Yeah. And doesn't necessarily suggest it's for the better. but he did say I can change your life. No, someone with an axe could say I could change your life.

HMRC could change my life. Well, when I arrived, I never feel, whenever I arrive it, there's a sense of an old man has wandered into a building in Soho, which can happen. They think I've come looking for arms. And the two women on reception seems to be doing a good cop, bad cop. What did they say to you? Well, they didn't, they need to watch. some local news.

You know the thing is on local news. Or indeed on the one show, one of those, you get the two shot of the presenters. And while one's talking, the other one is like smiling and looking interesting. Are they called noddies, Frank? Yeah, they hadn't done that. So the one was talking to me and smiling

and the other one looked like she was thinking, get out of my fucking life for you. Get away from me. She didn't, Frank. Yeah, she did. I didn't know which I was supposed to be responded to. Friendly, genial or a deep loathing. But I managed to get in once I'd given my name and my purpose. I just got ignored. So I think what it is to do with, I think over 40, forget it.

And you have a very youthful energy, Ruth, so you were straight in. Yeah, I shouldn't. She couldn't hear what I was saying, and I couldn't hear what she was saying. She could probably hear it, but she couldn't understand it. Let's be honest. I'm not doing my best, guys. Yeah, you can't understand me and also I'm a bit deaf, so I couldn't hear it back.

Oh, you can be an argument. How did we ever get in here? Should we even be in here? Do you know what? We're terminally uncool. We have no business being here. No, it's right. We made it through, Frank.

Speaking of cool, how would you rate Ollie and Steen the cake shop? Is that an exclusive? extraordinary question Is that an exclusive sort of cool cake show? Ruth, this feels like your area because it's a bit more than,

I consider that quite a sort of young cool people. Yeah, and they're not in Birmingham. But they don't eat cake. It's not in Birmingham, they must be cool. Well, they've only just got a Gales in Birmingham. Did you know this? That gals has come, yeah.

And you have that one here called Paul. Cafe, I don't think that's, I didn't know Paul's call, but we never had one in Birmingham. I thought it was weird that the name... That's Paul at number 42 in Harbourn. No, Frank. Yeah, that's the one where I went into it.

I've been in there a few times. Paul runs a place. It's a really nice bloke. Well, he's actually called Paul. It's not the Galeck-themed chain, galic-themed chain. I thought you were going to tell me it's called Polay. I've been saying it wrong. He's actually caught Paul.

And I must have told this before. I went, I got there to have breakfast, and someone's car had driven into the front of the car. have they smashed the whole front big pieces of wood had fallen off and there was these two women who'd been sitting in the window were like in shock somebody was talking to them and then there was a copper outside interviewing the driver who again looked very shaken and apparently I'd just sort of blacked out and driven into the shot it was absolute chaos so I walked up to paul at the counter and he said right what could I do for you as if nothing happened at the time

It's the most Birmingham thing ever. What I was thinking about Olly and Steen. Did you go there recently? No, I just passed one and I thought they must have had a meeting because it looked quite cool. I didn't think cool people at Kate, though. No, but they don't. But what they do is they like to pretend that they eat.

Or they buy a stankuze for people who've looked after their dog or stuff like that. Well, surely they would have a croissant. Yeah. No, they like to have meetings there with all their tech bros. But they don't actually eat much. They might buy a pastry, but they're not going to eat carbs, these people. But I just wondered if they'd had a meeting at Ollie and Steen at the beginning and said, look, we need to call it.

Like Steen was saying, I think my name should go first. And Ali said, no, look, because it's Steen and Ollie. So that's too much like Laurel and Hardy. And if it's called Steen and Ollie, people won't take the shop seriously. Have you been that Steen and Ollies? Why, I certainly have. Yeah, Olly got his way there, didn't he? And he always did.

He always did, Frank, in this series. Once he met the Laurel and Hardy point, Steen was lost. He couldn't really fight back. You're right. I feel a bit for... I say he, they could be two ladies. And I've been calling it Olinstein.

Oh, I've been calling it O'Leay. Oh, no. Well, maybe it's... Who knows what it's called. Yeah. If you own... Olae and Steen sounds... I don't know, it sounds, it begins very spectacular.

And then it sort of settles down before you've got to the end of it. Then it goes a bit regional solicitors. Yeah. Yeah. And I liked it when it was Olo. So you wouldn't go in... It might be Stein. Yeah, could be.

Maybe no. I think with Paul, whilst we're on the chic iron bakery... I'm not aware of Paul. Have you not come across Paul? What I like about Paul is you're absolutely, It's high-end French. The whole idea behind it is, you know, you almost expect the person's... So will it be Powell?

Is that what it should... Is that what a friend so poor? Yes, you're right. They would have... But you would almost expect them to say, good evening, sir and madame. You know, it's got that real sorts of French energy. You had one near you, Frank. I went there with you once.

It changed hands. Did I? Yes. And they gave you a big bowl of hot chocolate to drink. I remember that. The French love to drink out of a bowl. They love a bowl. They like a dog.

What's wrong with them? Do they not fancy a handle? Does that love to... No, they love a bowl of hot chocolate. A bit too artisan. And you're meant to cup the bowl in both hands, aren't you? Yeah. And sip on it.

I'd hate that. That was what Paul was like. I always struggled because I don't think they'd done their research and they realised that Paul, it's a lovely name, perfectly respectable. I wouldn't describe it as a sort of high-end aspirational name. It just seems hard to call a shop a name. A man's name. Yeah, as if it was a, yeah.

And quite a 70s man's name. Well, I don't know. I think you still get Paul. No, I suspect if we put it, if we put it into the list. In London, you get Paul. Paul. Well, if you think Paul, who do you think of? I go Hollywood.

Oh. Who do you go? Paul. Young. Okay, so we're not dealing with people in their 20s. From that look in your eyes. Who do you go, Paul? We've already got mentioned items with him, McKenna.

So there you go. It's an old man's name. It's interesting because that's why I went. Paul Young, I think. Because I had a couple of meals out with Paul Young and Paul McKenna and their partners. No mention of Hollywood there. Yeah. Have you met Paul Hollywood, Frank?

Wherever I hang my hat, he hypnotises it. That was the theme of the evening. I think you'll find he laid his hat. He laid his hat. I thought he hanged his hat. No, he didn't say it was wherever I lay my hat. Oh, I don't understand. Why?

It sounds like he's shagging his hat. That's why. Well, I didn't like... We're all, Donnie. I'm not judging him. I didn't like the sentiment behind that. There's terrible men going around saying, oh, wherever I lay my hat, that's my home.

I wouldn't mind. Wherever I lay my hat, I'm happy to, you know, stay there the night or sleep. But homes, such a big concept based on head gear. That seems way over the top. I mean, not home is all about, you know, warmth and love. Also, how often are you? you wearing this hat? I mean

presumably, I don't know what's, he was a Trilby merchant I think. Oh, was it? Well, I don't know if he ever verified the type of hat. Oh, okay. Fedora maybe? I like the idea that it could have been a wimple. Turns out it was an old medieval ballad.

Written by a woman. Wherever I lay my wimple. That's my house. That's my version of it. Oh man. Anyway, how did we get to this? Paul's, yeah. Someone said it to me in a job interview

once. What did they say? I've only done two job interviews in my life. Well, I need to know what they were both for, don't you, Ruth? Oh, yeah. This was for a sort of teaching job in a college, not in a proper teaching thing. Like a technical college. Technical college. One of those. A college of F.E., as they used to call them.

Oh, yeah. And I I didn't get it, but this guy I said to him, so where are you from? We're sitting in the room before we went in, which is always an awkward conversation because you're thinking, is he your rival? Is this bloke better than me?

Yeah, he was my rival. No, he wasn't my lover. Oh, goodness, make you. Although he did. I said to him, so where are you from? He said, well, wherever I lay my hat. He actually said that. And I said, what hat?

Just to deliberately scopper him And he said, no, it's like a saying thing That made it even more awkward But I ended up working with him eventually And I never got to like him No, I don't like that thing When you're pitted against people You have to pretend to be civil

It's like when I was a child And I'd go to auditions And you're sat outside With the mother, the pushy stage school mother of the other child And you're sort of weighing each other up thinking who looks younger you know well I was I did a an online I listened to an online talk from Samuel Johnson's house in Goff Square oh is he still with us is he's doing online his house is still with us and it was it was the curator there talking about Samuel Johnson and at the end they had some questions

from the people on the thing. And they said, who would play? Who would you like to play Samuel Johnson in a film or a television thing? And somebody said, the first thing was Stephen Fry. And then the second one was me. And I thought, you can't imagine me and Stephen Fry sitting in many audition waiting rooms for the same part.

But they said Stephen Fry would be perfect. be great and I thought yeah yeah and then they said what about frank skinner he's he's a big johnsonian they said and they said well he'd need a lot of padding i thought yeah listen to that fry i didn't hear of padding in your case oh in fact they said they never mentioned pat they might have to swim down of it they actually said you'd be perfectly physically suited to it might have to switch the stir fry Robbie Coltrane played him didn't he in black other he did did he and that's how I thought he didn't tell yeah he's no longer of I'm afraid.

Oh, it's a shame. I work with Robbie Coltrane, and we were walking down the road, and a bloke asked him for his autograph. He told him to fuck off. I said, wow, that was full. He said, I do it all the time. I can't cope with it. Have you ever said that to someone?

No. What's the rudest you've ever been? I don't think I've ever been rude to anyone, but a bloat once at a football match, just grabbed me by the shoulders. and spawn me around so his mate could take a photo

Oh, I don't like that. And I told him to fuck off. Yeah. And then I'd probably pose for like 40 pictures and then this thing happened and I said, no, that's not right, I'm not doing that. Yeah. And then at the following match the next week,

I saw a woman who I sat next to it regularly and she said, oh, I urge you to refuse to do someone's photo last week. Wow, bad news. You were so kind of unpleasant when me and my friend met you Frank at the lovely eggs. You were so...

There you go. Is that when you met Frank before you knew him? Yes, it was. Everybody likes Raymond. Yes. We've been talking about it. There's a programme called Everybody Loves Raymond. Comedy show.

Which I've never seen. And I haven't either, but the reason I'm familiar with it, you'll know, Frank, is because my dog is Raymond. So every time I take my dog for a walk and someone asks his name and I say Raymond, they say, oh, everybody loves Raymond. And I have to pretend that I've seen it because I don't want to harsh their mellow and spoil the moment. I go, yes, and they talk about the show. I have no idea what happens.

It could be about a serial killer as far as I'm aware. I don't know what it's about. I only know it because obviously I don't have any Raymond's. Well, not obviously, but I don't have any raymonds in my life. Why would that be obvious? Do you not have any? It's not like I come in and say, still no Raymond. Why would we know that?

Why? Hey. Can we set up a Raymond's alert? In fact, I was on the phone to Ruth the other day saying Frank's still not got a message. There was a Raymond who worked at my management company doing IT, but he left years ago. Well, they do. Yeah. The name is being phased out. I don't know if everybody liked him or not. I thought he was all right.

The point about this sitcom, this is what I think it is. Have you seen it, Ruth? I've seen many episodes of it. Oh, well, don't tell us. Okay, can we tell you what we think it is? Yeah. I think, Frank, it's a very 90s American sitcom. So there's...

Isn't that old? Well, I'm just telling you what I think. Okay. She can tell us. I think, therefore, there is a slightly sort of fundamentally good-natured, but slightly domestically hopeless husband. His DIYs may be always going wrong. His wife, who's a little bit too attractive for him,

the actress playing her, perhaps goes... Off and the way on that. Oh, it's the way. blonde highlights, it's punching. And I suspect... Mrs. Colombo, that's a young, very... Respectable, but sexy knitwear. And I think, this is what happens, she goes,

Raymond! Yeah, but why does everybody love that person? Because they love him in spite of him being a little bit disastrous and chaotic and hopeless. I don't know what he does. I don't know anything else. They have two children. Over to you, Frank.

What do you predict? Well, I'm unable to think of anyone who everybody loves. So I imagine this man is some sort of scamander type of figure who's constantly... I love that you know scamander. I only know scamander from seeing that. All these things, I just... To my wife's chagrin, I spend a lot of time just looking at those listings. I could do that for hours, looking at the...

Programs I'll never see. And I think, look, there's some programs with titles, And I think that can't just be it, Kenny. Dr. Pimple, Popper, can't just be. That can't be the format of the show. Come here. Ow, out, out. No, it's coming.

It's coming. It's coming. You know, when you lie to someone when you're bursting a spot on their back. And you say, it's coming. It's coming. It isn't coming at all. I love doing that. So tell me about your idea for everybody.

So I think he's a scam and a catfish gas lighter. And thus everybody loves him because. sees all things to all men. And women. And I think, yeah, it turns out that he's someone who's just, that's what he does. He pretends he just, he just sucks up to people. He's a friend to everyone, friend to no one.

Yeah, and almost no personality at all, because he has to be all these different things. Okay. Well, that's a lot more interesting, Frank, than what it actually is, which is you're pretty much bang on the money. Oh, well done, him. Oh, so I'm accurate but not interesting.

Thank you, Ruth Asco. So Ray Romano, it was a stand-up comedian and this is a vehicle for him with his family. He's got a wife who, yeah, henpecked. He's a bit of a hen-pet husband. He's got a brother who's a policeman who's quite funny who keeps coming in and his dad lives with them, I think, or his mom and dad live next door.

So I think the title, Everybody Loves Raymond. It's like they're always coming round to his house. But I don't think it's like they don't really love him. They're just always like hectoring him for sort. stuff. I don't really associate Hectoring with love. Oh no, actually, now you come to mention.

Everybody loves Hector. Now that I would watch. Yeah, everybody keeps Raymond in him. Well, that sounds wrong. I don't know why that sounds wrong. You're all right. I got drunk, went back to this guy's house and got Raymond. Oh, don't say that.

Anyway, I might watch it now, Ruth. I think I should. I don't think you ever will. I think I feel like I've seen. No, I think you have when Emily described it It was spot on Okay

It's the kind of thing they show 7 o'clock 7.30 in the morning on Channel 4 Wow Like Fraser Yeah Yeah yeah yeah Yeah

I wonder if there's ever been a review That said everybody loves Everybody loves Raymond Oh I reckon so yeah So it's gone now Dead? Dead is he Ray Ramonda?

No it's still alive They're never gone now because they play them throughout the day always on, you know, the streaming sites will pick them. We'll never get away from these shows. I know. On the bosses is still on in the daytime. Is it at that okay that shows? No, not at all.

Is it not edited? Have they not done a sense sensitivity change? No, there's a thing that says, sorry, some of these attitudes might not be acceptable in the modern world, but we're showing it anyway. Well, we have that on T-shirts, Frank and I. We are legally obliged to wear T-shirt saying some of our attitudes on those. It's all, it's the whole dark side of the 70s is on the bosses. Is it bad then some of the stuff in that?

Well, I mean, it's very, very unfunny, in my opinion. Is it? I mean, there may be big fans of On the Bosses, listen to this saying, yeah, you're very unfuny. Okay, you're not massively racist and sexist, but you're still unfunny, whereas On the Bosses has all three, the hat trick. You haven't even got that to make up for it. It's astonishing, really. I imagine it's very sexy. And it's also like about 4 o'clock.

So the kids can grab a bit as well. Who were the men in it? Is it Reg. Reg Varnie? And who's the other man? I think he played. Remember that was in the time? And this is a bit like, right.

Well, for some reason, if someone got a sitcom part that was like, they would give them the same name. Yes. Why did they do that? Was that like Terry and June? Because Terry and Scott was called Terry. So was that like that? Yeah, it was like, yeah, you just gave them that name.

Why didn't they change their name? Were there people who couldn't cope with the idea of playing someone with a different name? I suppose when they were on set, they'd be going reg, reg, reg. Well, no, but that happens to every actor. You know what, you're an actor. You spent three years at Rada. People play fucking Dracula. They don't say, well, we're going to have to find an actor called Dracula.

Or it'll be too confusing. We can't someone just pretending that's their name. Who's going to remember that? We'll just be calling him Steve all the time. As if it's an impossible task. So Reg we'll have to call him, Ray. Maybe he's not called Reg. Oh no, I think he's called Stan.

After all that, I think he's actually called Stan. We can cut this out. We'll find out. No, we never caught anything. No, but you're right. That was a real thing in the 70s. Isn't Tony Hancock called Hancock? Hancock's half hour

And his character was Tony, you're right Yeah It's so lazy, come on I know he's no longer with us And to some extent he led a somewhat troubled life Well But you know On the Buses

On On On The Buses, OTPs The weirdest thing You know, you see those videos Where it's an actor Sort of going through time aging You know, there's AI ones Oh yeah Cruise when he was in Cocktown and whatever

I saw one for On the Buses where it's each member of on the buses, going to the next one, putting their arm around them and seeing them like age, like putting them all together now. How did it look? Idius, like every half a deal. So it's passed on. Yeah.

You walk out, that's great because it's like you've got sort of speedy ageing and you've touched someone else and they've caught it as well. They've deliberately aging the rest of the cast. Yeah, I'll send you a link. You can have a look. I never thought that there'd be that on the busses AI crossover. Well, there was one, all I remember from one of the men in it, he had a slightly longer grey 70s hair.

I think that would be Bob Grant. And he had a sort of jaunty cap and a tie a bit on Dantor show. He was the slightly more rebellious figure. That's what I took that to me. He, he was a conductor to Stan's driver. So Stan was the driver. But they were both, I would say 50 and not. attractive people, even, you know, taking that into account.

And they would be with a couple of clippies, and there'd be these girls who were about 20. And there was no questioning if it had happened. But which one was I Ate You Booker, Blakey? Yeah, that was the inspector. Right, okay. Oh, good. Oh, good, I out you back there.

Yeah. You should do that at Edinburgh, Frank. Yeah, I should do that for an hour. I would pay money to see that. 40 minutes soon. Oh, cool. I'd pay 15 pounds for that. And not even get the uniform on the moustache.

Let's go on a t-shirt. I was in Catholic Church once in Covent Garden. And he this bloke in front of me turn around and shaped my hand, and it was him. It was blakey. That's amazing. Do you know what I love, though, is that you didn't get turfed off TV when you were in those days. They loved you if you were. They loved the old, because they were all.

all pretty ancient, like they, to be in a sitcom. But normally you'll look back and they'll say Blake, he was 27 when you film. Oh, that's true. Well, probably, that's why I've seen pictures of Charles Hortry and he was like 32. He looks like so frail. Somebody told me they saw him in Deal in Kent. This is Charles Hortry.

And he was hanging onto a lamppost with grim life. He was so drunk. He was trying to give up right. It's holding on really tight as if it was. like as if he was dangling from a helicopter. You're allowed to say that because, you know, you have sympathy. I think I'm allowed to say anything. You are allowed to say anything.

We don't know that he had. He might never have been drunk before or after. I thought you were going to say it was a really windy day and he was going to get blown away. You know, my first, when I first started in comedy, I was billed as the rockabilly Charles Hortry. Where you really? Who built you that? I used to wear little round glasses and do like comedy songs. I can think of worse things to be called.

Yeah, I did like that. Name four of them. Well, I don't know if I should on this lovely podcast. They're a bit bleak. And as you know, I've been watching documentaries on Albert Speer. Yeah. So, you know, I don't want to go down that road. I saw a picture, speaking of that period in history,

which is very popular on TV documentaries. Men of my age often live on the Nazi Germany documentary. Why? I don't know why. I can't see. I don't like, I'm not very interested in the world wars.

No. Who cares? It's funny you say that because every time I go home, my stepdad's got a Channel 5 documentary about. Well, a lot of men... Oh, Channel 5, that's an interesting choice. A lot of men are fascinated.

Hank of all the channels, he goes for Channel 5. It's just that. They have a lot. Yeah, it's that. But when I say, who cares, obviously loads of people care, but it's not my area of history.

No, it's not something you're obsessed with. But, I saw a picture the other day. I've been doing gigs this week, warm-up gigs, trying out new material. They're going well? No. Oh, that's a shame.

I don't believe it. No, honestly, it's been tall. Why is it bad? I, fuck knows. Anyway, I saw a picture from Nazi Germany and it was like shot from Hitler's car and it was all these people like doing the salute and cheering and going ballistic.

There was one woman, blonde-head woman in the middle, looking like, not for me. And I thought, oh, God, even he, there are these people, were still in his craos, even though it was fucking dangerous for her. She's still known, I don't like him. Because I see 20 of those people in the audience every night, but the idea they were operated in those dangerous circles. I mean, fair play, she stuck to her gone. Yeah, even in Nazi Germany.

So. I think they all stuck to their. gotten to if I remember right now. Oh, don't, Frank. So with these gigs, have just been,

you don't have to go into it, it might be triggering, but just can I ascertain, is it that there's just a few, too many of those people in the audience? No, it's just I've, the material needs. Sometimes you do a gig

in a very friendly, warm-hearted environment and think, oh, well, this is going brilliantly. I've probably got two hours of material. I've got the tour. I could do the tour tomorrow.

And then you go into a, what, one might call the real world and you realise you've got about 17 minutes. Oh. But, you know, it's all part of the process. But they've bought a ticket to see Frank Skinner, right? Yeah, but work in progress.

So they've been fucking warned. Is that how you greet them? Something like that. You've been warned. Do you think that's maybe not helping the atmosphere? I'm warning you with peace and love. Can you imagine if they came in? Hello, everyone.

You've been fucking worn. Oh, I swore. I never do that. That was a bit like when Richard Madele swore on this morning, when Frank and David were on, and he was trying to be cool. Oh, no. Oh, no. And he said, you know, I mean, this whole lad isn't thing. You get blamed for it all. Doesn't him really piss you off?

And David went, Richard, you swore on this morning, which so undermined him. It was so patronising. But they had had a naked man on there, and they all looked at his testicles and talked about how to. do a test on yourself. Yes, they did, didn't they? They had a lot of stunts back then,

funny stunts. They recently had the man with the world's smallest penis on. Did they? No, to see my ex again. Boom, come on. Pardon? I said nice to see my ex again. Do give him my best. But they really did. They had the man with the world

smallest penis. On this morning? On this morning, quite recently with German and Alison. Was he hosting it or just a guest? It's just outside the window. It was just the caption that came up as he sat there. No one told him.

He's just said he'd been out with this woman on the captions thing and she's really bitter. And she just put it up when he came on. He thought he was there to talk about Brexit. Exactly. The man with the world's smallest people. Yeah, and she's thinking, fucking, I don't stop me. He fucking deserves it.

Oh, it was Dermott and Allison, not Cat and Ben. Who'd you like, Frank? Cat and Ben or Dermott and Allison? I'd, um, I'm sitting there. Both fantastic. Okay, when I say both, I see them as like a pant of my horse. And Holly and Phil pretended to be drunk on this morning. Did they?

Frank never liked that. No, they used to do that. We didn't like that, Frank. It was after the Brits and the TV awards. They'd go, oh, we're so hung over after the Brits. Oh, Holly's still got the same dress on. Schofield's hair's a bit messy off. I didn't know they did that.

Yeah, they used to do that. They go, oh, we're right. really hanging this morning. That's something that makes me feel sick. People pretending to be hung over. I thought you meant being hung over. Oh, yeah, and that. That always meant me feel sick.

Can I share this with you? Can I tell you what makes David of Bolton feel sick? Yeah. I like it. It's somewhat grand and medieval, David of Bolton. Is it to do with the show? Yes. No.

Recently, Frank spoke about his dislike for certain French words that are rudely. routinely used in the English language. Well, it was the use of extraordinary. And I don't like. And I'm with you on that. I absolutely detest the word fiancee. Someone is either your girlfriend or boyfriend

or even partner is acceptable. But I cannot and will never accept fiancé. When I hear this word, I just see a chap in a Ralph Lauren polo shirt with the collar stood up and a pair of boat shoes on. Regard to David of Bolton. What say you, Frank Skinner? I don't mind fiancé,

especially if she's wearing a negligent. Oh, which also fits into that. I also thought if I was Jay-Z, I would have loved going out and saying, this is my fiancé Beyonce. I wouldn't have been, I would have got engaged to just to be able to say that. Was Kath? Was there a period when Kath was your fiancé?

No, no, we never got. We only just about got, got, married. The day we got married, we went for a walk that morning and said, shall we not bother? We honestly did. You decided to go, what my mother would call the whole hog. So you went straight in, didn't you? We went straight in. I, yeah, I don't really know wanting. Engagement used to be a declaration to stop in and save money. What? Stop in? Stop in and save money, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, so people had a bottomed. draw where they used to put things ready for their first home. Oh, I see.

Oh, yeah, I used to work with a woman who was still living with her mom. She had a boyfriend and she'd keep buying things like mugs and plates. She was putting them under the bed ready for when she was moving in with her partner. She'd been with him for about 10 years, so I don't know how many mugs was under the bed, yeah. Well, I know someone at the bloke, the fiancé disappeared and took all the stuff out of the bottom drawer. Oh no It was like really Shitt nasty plismat

Was that? The Fottnick's Plicemat You're going to do with that Captain America What's the point? It's a sad story That she was very upset Well shit Frank also I have to update you

I think more about losing The Fiance than the Placemax It's a bit like clear Andy from Solihull Isn't the only one who's been in touch From that area To tell us that Shirley, there's a restaurant called Shirley Temple.

Yeah. Shirley, we talked about it recently. A lot of people wanted to let us know. Firstly, it was a Chinese restaurant. Oh, sorry. It closed down. Oh. It's now a steakhouse.

That's sad news. Shirley Temple, a state house. You could still call it the Shirley Temple, could you? Yeah. If it was a steakhouse. Could you really? I don't know if you could. No, maybe not.

It doesn't really work. I'm sad to hear that. Okay. All the old ways. And finally, we've heard from Kelly in Portugal. Hmm. She's from Plymouth and Devon, but she's currently in Portugal. I get it.

People move. People move around. All right. I don't mind Frank drinking his tea on air. Wow. But the discussion of the toothbrush buildup is making me feel sick. This is when Frank and I talked about the scale on our electric toothbrush. What do you describe it, Frank, grey film, essentially?

Well, it's more than a film. I say mine does look like one of those candles in a wine bottle that you get in hysteria. Yes. I've been a domestic cleaner, and I simply won't allow this of my clients. I put their toothbrushes in the dishwasher before I leave. Oh, my God.

Laughing face emoji. People think it's weird, but we eat off forks that have been in the dishwasher. So why not? Will you be trying this at home and Frank and Emily? Well, I had a friend who worked in a hotel and she was told that when someone was moving out to use the towel to clean out the inside of the kettle

to keep the live scale down. Okay. Lovely. So that's the world we're living in. That's all I'm saying. I won't be putting it in the dishwasher. Absolutely not. I quite like it.

I'm somewhat wrong about putting a toothbrush in a dishwasher, isn't it? I know. I know. It's serious. Besides, as I said, it's there for people to criticise. So then they talk about the house. Displacement of disapproval. What about when David Bedil came to Frank's house and said, will it always be like this? Well, I think we've answered them.

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