The Peacock and Gamble Podcast - The Peacock and Gamble Podcast: Edinburgh Fringe 2012 Episode 4 (Rob Deering)

Episode Date: October 4, 2020

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Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Pickle and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble. Because it's not a Peacock and it's not a Peacock and Gamble, but it is Ray Peacock and it is a Gamble. Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble, here they are. Hello and welcome to the Peacock and Gamble Edinburgh podcast episode 4. I'm Ray Peacock. And I'm Ed Gamble. We did a brilliant show last night, really, really good fun, so the show's going fantastic and we're very, very happy with that. Yeah.

But you have the high of that, don't you? You're like, whoa! Everyone loves this show. This is a mega hit. Yeah. The buzz about this show is incredible, right? Oh, it's intense. Right?

And if you can't feel the buzz, right, then just, why not go on Twitter and just say there is one? Yeah. Then you will feel part of the buzz. If anything, that adds to the buzz. Adds to the buzz. So we're all happy and we're all going, do you know what?

We're really enjoying what we're doing. Yeah. We're having a bloody brilliant laugh on the stage. Yeah. Me and you together. Oh, we're having a giggle, mate. We have a right crack there. And the show we're very, very proud of,

and very, very pleased. We've worked very, very, very hard on it, and got a nice set. Yeah. And then we get home, and we have a lovely sleep. Yeah. We sometimes have a little bit of supper, just something light, maybe a bit of patty on toast. Something like that. We have a lovely sleep. Yeah. We sometimes have a little bit of supper, just something light, maybe a bit of patty on toast.

Something like that. We have a lovely sleep and that. Have a coffee in the morning and then we get up today. I'm like, oh, what have we got to do now? Got to go and do stupid Richard Bloomin' Aaron's stupid podcast. Yeah, that's true. So we've got to go and be guests on that today. Yeah, I've got to drag myself to go and do that.

I guess that'll be out tomorrow, but we're going to say now, don't download it. No, don't. Don't download it because that's probably beating us in the charts.

Right, okay, right, here it is. If you are a fan of us, you are not allowed to be a fan of Richard Herring as well. Can we call him

Richard Stupid Herring? Richard Stupid Idiot Penis Herring. And I'll tell you something else about Richard Herring as well. Richard Stupid Idiot Penis Herring, right? Something else about him. We did something else about Richard Herring as well. Yeah. Which is stupid idiot penis herring, right?

Something else about him. We did an interview with Richard Herring for this podcast ages ago. Yeah. We're going to put it out in the next week or so. Yeah. It's a two-parter as well. Yeah. He's only done a one-parter with us.

Yeah, just a one-parter. Just a one-parter, is it, Richard? Yeah, and he's done that with us. He's gone, oh, that was brilliant. Yeah. That was brilliant. Our Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble did a brilliant interview with me. Yeah.

I think I'll do an interview with them now and copy it again. And probably bring it out before. Yeah, bring it out before. Try and catch the wave. Yeah. Well, you're not, mate. Because we've just told all our fans to not download your podcast on Saturday. Yeah.

And one way or another. Also, if you think you're a fan of Richard Ehring and you think, oh, if I have to pick sides, I'll pick Richard Ehring. Here's a bit of information for you. Yeah. I saw Richard Ehring in Edinburgh yesterday, just down the road, right? He had a bag, right? And the bag was all

wriggling about and he dropped the bag. I saw a kitten crawl out of it. Yeah. He shouted at the kitten. I saw it. Pushed it back in

and ran off towards the river. He did as well with an axe and all. Yeah. I think he was going to hurt it and then throw it in. Yeah. So it was already dying

from the axe wound but then it would drown as well. So he made a kitten drown an axe. And he was laughing when he did that, actually. Laughing and giggling. And he had his penis out all the time he was doing it because he thinks that's promotion for his show.

Yeah. It's a good name for that, Richard Stupid Herring. Richard Stupid Idiot Penis Herring. Yeah, that'll do. That's his full name. Yeah, Richard Stupid Idiot Penis Herring. But if you want to shorten it to Richard Stupid Herring, you can. Yeah.

If you want to do it on Twitter, you can. Or just penis. If you want to shorten it to penis. Call him penis. Don't want to use up all your characters on Twitter, do you not? Aaron, you can. Yeah. If you want to do it on Twitter. Or just penis. If you want to shorten it to penis. Call him penis. Don't want to use up all your characters on Twitter, do you not? Yeah, just call him penis. I've been thinking I might change my name too. Really?

Yeah. Yeah, what to? I don't know. I quite fancy having like a one syllable sort of nickname. Okay. No, I don't know. Red. Red.

You can't call me red. I think it would sound quite cool if you got, you know, like call Hellboy Red, don't you? The Hellboy films. Yeah, but I'm Ed, so you can't be called Red. Red and Ed. No, Blue. Blue? Yeah, call me Blue. Blue Ray? Yeah, and't they? The Hellboy films. Yeah, but I'm Ed, so you can't be called Red. Red and Ed. No, I'm Blue. Blue? Yeah, call me Blue.

Blue Ray? Yeah, and that's what it's short for. And we're short on that to Ray. No, no, no. So it's just Ray. No, but listen. Ray, that's a brilliant, Ray, we'll just call you Ray.

Hello, Ray! No, listen, right? Yeah. I think it'll look cool if people see us about Edinburgh and they're like, oh, there's people who can gamble over there.

And they get a bit closer to them and to us. That's them, is us. Yeah. And they get a bit closer and they go, what that's them is us and they get a bit closer and they go what are they saying to each other and you're going

yeah the thing is blue the show was great last night wasn't it blue no hang on I'm going to stop you I'm going to stop you blue is an awful name green

if we start calling each other colours yeah I think people are going to start realising that our dynamic is very similar to the red and yellow M&M that come on at the beginning of films well no

because none of us is yellow you're red because that's close to red. And I am either blue or green. Blue, green. Turquoise. Turquoise. That's not a good one.

Turk. Turk. Call me Turkey. Turkey. That sounds like I'm Turkish. Yeah. Right. Ray.

I think Ray. No, colour. No. Come on, God. Because Ray is not even your real name. How many... And your name that I call you by... And it's not a joke name.

...is not even your real name anyway. Well, people say it's a real name anyway your actual real name people say it's a joke name can I stop saying that your actual real name blue or turquoise would be four name name layers back

to your real name green we're not calling you green what's my favourite thing that I like collecting Muppets what's the big famous Muppet called

Kermit Kermit the Toad and what colour is he green so that's the link there that's the link right yeah call me green it needs to be one word, one syllable.

Really cool. Slug. You're not calling me slug. Slug. That's a brilliant one. Slug. You're not calling me slug. Slug, that's it.

Because you're trying to introduce... You can't introduce your own nickname. It has to be organic. Someone else has to come up with it. How is that organic? It has to catch on. Slug. All right, slug.

How you doing? That's horrible. Little slug. I would call you pencil. Right. Slug and pencil No yours is better Yours is quite cool

Pencil is not a cool nickname Sick Sick Yeah Slug and sick Plate of sick Yeah no because I'm sick man No no

And you're a slug Plate of vomit Plate So are there nicknames for each other That we have to call each other Outside Are slug Yeah

And plate of vomit I've not really agreed to slug That's still fancy blue You don't have to No you don't have to agree with other outside our slug and plate of vomit. I've not really agreed to slug. I still fancy blood. You don't have to. No, you don't have to agree with it. It's an organic thing. It's going to catch on around Edinburgh along with the buzz. People are going to go, have you heard about their show Peacock and Gumball?

It's absolutely brilliant. Everyone's calling Ray slug these days. They'll be like shouting across the bar. Sugar. Oi, slug. I'm going to call you sugar. Call me sugar. Because you're diabetic.

Slug and sugar. All right. I can cope with sugar. Bit flirty, isn't it? Saline. Saline. I'm calling you saline. Right me sugar. Because you're diabetic. Slug and sugar. Alright. No. I can cope with sugar. Bit flirty, isn't it? Saline. Saline. Calling you saline. Right, okay. I'm calling you saline drip after an accident. But then we wouldn't go well together because anything salty

on a slug kills it, doesn't it? So that wouldn't be good for our chemistry. So I end up dying in this either way. You'll end up dying in it if you call me saline. How long does a slug live for? Ten years. You just made that up. Yeah. Green. Green. Green's not a compromise. It's sl Ten years. You just made that up. Yeah. Green. No. Green. Green's not a compromise. It's slug or red.

I still think red is good. Right. So our guest today on the podcast is Rod Dearing. Rod Dearing? What is his name again? Rob Dearing. Rob Dearing. You know Rob Dearing very well.

He's a friend of yours. I know. That's making a bit of fun about it. Yeah. Rob Dearing's on today. I've done a lovely interview with him. We have. You enjoy it. Yeah, it's good fun. Not heard it back yet. No. And he was I was making a bit of fun about it. Yeah. Rob Deren's on today. I've done a lovely interview with him. We have. You enjoy it?

Yeah, it's good fun. Not heard it back yet. No. And he was banging about in one bit, wasn't he? Yeah, we made a little bit of music.

Yeah, it might get cut, that, if it's too noisy. Yeah. And if I think it's funny because it's noisy, it'll stay in.

Yeah. But just bear that in mind if you're thinking, do you know what, I might go sleep to this one. Yeah. Because it'll probably wait you up towards the end of it.

Yeah. Our show? Yeah, our show, every night first the 26th of August forever some of them are gone now

until the 26th of August 9.40pm don't be making that mistake like it seems a lot of people have coming in the morning yeah yeah coming in the morning

9.40pm every night people can gamble don't even want to be on telly anyway at the Pleasant's Dome just the Dome the Pleasant's Dome

you go to the box office buy 10 tickets each yeah 10 tickets each and then just give them out to homelesses and they will all come in and have a nice time at the Pleasant Stone Dome. Just the dome. The Pleasant Stone Dome. You go to the box office, buy ten tickets each. Yeah, ten tickets each and then just give them out to our homelessness and then we'll all come in and have a nice time at the show.

Have a little kip. It's going well though, we're enjoying ourselves. We're loving it, mate. Yeah, we are. And it's then on tour afterwards as well. Yeah.

But I saw some people on Twitter the other day they were going, oh, I'm only going to see shows in Edinburgh that aren't coming on tour near me. Right.

So don't do that because the show that we're doing in Edinburgh is different to the tour show. Yeah. It's the same basic show but it is different the tour show.

It will be different. We'll be more tired. And there'll be no set. Yeah, there'll be no set. Because we have got the set just for Edinburgh. And we would have changed our names by then

to Slug and Sailing and Plate of Vomit. Red. Here's our interview with Rob Dearing. Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble. We're here with Rob Dearing.

Hello. Rob Dearing. Here. Rob Dearing. Here he is. I thought you were going to sing me. Isn't this nice? I'll sing you all you want, mate. Tell you what, mate, I could sing you under the table, mate. You do all your music and your comedy.

Right, hang on, hang on. Let's not make this massive right at the top. Do you know what? I could sing him under the table. Yeah, but let's introduce Rob Dearing. Let's find out what Rob Dearing's about, and then maybe you can challenge him to a sing-off. Is Rob Deering? Is Rob Deering?

I'm going to sing him under the table. No, no. No, hello, Rob Deering. Hi. Welcome to our flat. What a lovely flat. How did you find the stairs? I just went in the front door and there they were.

Yeah, straight away. Straight away. We're off. I knew that when Rob Deering did our podcast that he would gag it up. Which is just never like it were they alright for you upstairs

well yeah I'm much fitter than I used to be you are quite a fit man although having said that I ran yesterday and I've just come across the meadows to you

so I wasn't really ready for the stairs that's the problem I have with it it's a long walk and then the stairs and he started running up them I run up and get them

out of the way quickly I go up them like this just walking very slowly going all the way up and I'd go up them like this, just walking very slowly, going... all the way up and I'm still out of breath when I get to the top. When you get to the top,

basically you're living the out of breathness and you're pretending it's not. Yeah, it becomes real life once. See, I don't get out of breath on stairs anymore and it's always a moment of wonder for me. And you've been in our house now for about five minutes. How does it feel?

It's special. It's like when we lived together, isn't it? Well, exactly. It was my first thought because I wandered immediately into your fog. Thank you very much, thank you.

When we lived together, what year was that? Oh, okay. It was 1904, wasn't it? All black and white, Edinburgh back then, wasn't it?

I can tell you a few stories. I remember one day the coal fell out and he put our stuff underneath the house and we said, yeah, don't you know there's a war on? stories I remember one day the coal fell around and it fell out underneath the house and we said

yeah don't you know there's a war on it was 2002 it was exactly

10 years ago wow you haven't aged a day thank you you too but you're

a slim boy so that is a nice compliment from me to return to one

and you you were a slim boy it was fun there's three things I remember from that Edinburgh specifically So that is a nice compliment from me to return to one that I didn't. Oh, and you, you were a slim boy. Grown me out nice. It was fun. There's three things I remember from that Edinburgh, specifically, all related to you, right?

Do you want to try and guess them or are you just going to say? Do you want to try and guess them? I think one of them is my impression of the baddie out of Men in Black. Yeah, that's one. That's part of the other two. That's the main one, I think. Right. Well, there was that, that you, for some, and I loved it, and I still love it to this

day. You started doing the man from the original Men in Black. You bought it at FOP. Yeah. one I think right well there was that that you for some and I loved it and I still love it to this day you started doing the man from the original Men in Black you bought it at FOP yeah

that's why it started I thought I bought it after you were doing the impression no no that's how it began

oh I thought I thought that Rob had been doing the impression I'd gone I want to go and watch Men in Black again

it's an amazing impression I'll make you do it in a bit also the second thing I remember was Star Wars written in flowers

yes because there was a an exhibition at the City Arts Centre and they I remember was Star Wars written in flowers. Yes, because there was an exhibition at the City Arts Centre and they had a massive Star Wars written in flowers up under the Queen's Hall or whatever it was. Yeah, the Star Wars, the icon for Star Wars. Where the Olympics rings are now. Lovely. Right, okay.

It just said Star Wars all made in flowers. And I brought my car up that year and we'd drive to it every day and as we passed it, every day, Rob would go, Star Wars written in flowers, written in flowers written in flowers just over there so i could tell then that you were gonna be good at music and the first and the first major memory is when you when you made love in the sweet love in the star wars entirely is the man from men of men in black weird. It was weird, but stupidly erotic. And my third memory,

if you'll forgive me for saying, was your fucking toe. Yeah, yeah. You've got a weird fucking toe. Yeah, I've got a hammer toe. The last one hooks over. It's like the, stop, hammer toe.

Nice to be able to dust that off again. Yeah, no, it's horrific I agree it's horrible but you make no effort to cover it up well that's not true I cover it nearly all day long

no but not yeah but only because convention dictates that you have to wear shoes and socks yeah no I'm trying to be you know

I'm empowered if I'm staying in the house you're going to have to get used to my feet look at this put it in your mouth put it in your mouth put it in your mouth you've got it

you've got it out and shown it to me in Bath Bath Comedia but you were interested you wanted to know I did want to know yeah

but in the middle of a bar I thought that was quite just sock off it was lovely yeah but it's free that thing though isn't it it's like you're going oh I want to see it

I want to see it I want to see it and then you see it you're like yeah it's like the son of the same as execution yeah you can going oh i want to see it i want to see it i want to see it yeah and then you see it you're like yeah it's like the son of musain's execution yeah you've been exactly yeah you can never unsee it yeah the funny thing is it's tucked away very nicely right now but we're all picturing it very clearly on their minds and we all know it's in the room and also you know

you think i might lack of objectivity on this but actually particularly when i see it in a reflection so i've got like the angle another person would have yeah i'm exactly the same i just think oh really it's disgusting and now what caused it that like cellophane it's a birth defect a reflection so I've got the angle another person would have. I'm exactly the same. I just think, oh, that is disgusting. And now what caused it? That cellophane? It's a birth defect due to the fact that I'm the next stage of evolution.

Okay, so you're like the missing link with us and the X-Men. Yeah, exactly. It's a mutation. So you've no powers but your children will. I haven't discovered

any of my powers. You're good on a guitar. How long ago was it that you came to a first time 20 years because it's your 20th anniversary

yeah not as a comedian but as a coming to the fringe and I directed a Roy of the Rovers spoof called Jack in the Box which was better

than it sounds in 1992 20 years what year was that 1992 1992 what year are we now remember that

from when I said that just now what year are we now 2012 it's the Olympics year yeah so so that's 20 years 20 years that mate 1992. 1992? What year are we now? Remember that from when I said that just now? What year are we now? 2012. It's the Olympics year. Yeah, so... So that's 20 years. 20 years, that, mate.

20 years that he's been coming here every single year. What was the first year you came here as a comedian? 2001, the year before we had a flat. Was that the Comedy Zone? That was the Comedy Zone. My first service show was 10 years ago. So this is my... This is like a big anniversary.

Yeah, it's huge. And also, my goodness, how frickin' old am I? You don't look old, though. You can say fuck, right? No, I like saying frickin'. No, say fuck now. No, I wasn't editing myself. I was saying frickin'.

Say fuck now. Fuck off. There we go. See, that feels better, doesn't it? Yeah, I think we're just going to edit that down to, we're here with Rob Deering. Fuck off. Okay, we'll be back tomorrow with someone else.

Shut up, Rob. Now, can you say fuck off as the man from Men In Black? No. Can you say, where is it for me? Where is it? But he'd just wander around the house doing it. I don't know what he says before he says, looking for a cat. I'm looking for a cat!

It's very important to me. You need to be able you can't see the face and the putting of the chin on the show well look we took a picture at the end with us with our guests

so you can you can do it there we'll take one normal and one listen can I take my cardigan off yeah go for it here it comes

there we go do you often make that little noise no I thought we'd make it more entertaining just hang on is this

is it going to be cardigan shirt jeans pants and then if I was going for the time

it's going to be so there now my sock is the last thing it's only two degrees of Kevin Bacon horrible isn't it you're quite good

on films aren't you Rob I am you'll put up like quotes and things on Facebook that's pretty much

all I do now we tried to have a game the other day in the car didn't we Ray where you would give film quotes and then me Facebook that's pretty much all I do now we tried to have a game the other day in the car didn't we Ray where you would give film quotes

and then me and our stage manager Sophie would have to guess what film they were from and neither of us could do it it is a surprisingly

difficult game isn't it it's hard to find a context I knew them all but he knew them all I think you would have known them all Rob

I think you two might be more of a match hit me alright then one of the ones this is an easy one you'll get it

straight away, which Ed and Sophie didn't get, was, the flowers are still standing. The flowers are still standing. He'll repeat it until you go mad. The flowers are still standing. You've said it three different ways. Why don't you say it like it is in the film?

The flowers are still standing. Oh, is it Bill Murray? Yeah, it is, yeah. Ghostbusters. Yeah. There you go. I didn't know I got it from the impression it Bill Murray? Yeah, it is, yeah. Ghostbusters. Yeah, yeah. There you go. I didn't know I got it from the impression.

Bill Murray isn't a film, so... One nil to rape. Right. You can hear one now. That big one. Don't be silly about it. You can see her thinking. What? That big one.

You can see her thinking. Is that how they say it or not? Yeah. Is it from the last 20 years? Yes. Right. It's a famous film, isn't it? Yes.

That big... Oh, that big one. You can see her thinking. What is that from now? Come on, what is that from? We can edit all of this. That big one, you can see her thinking.

What is that from? Rita Su and Bob 2. No. You've taken my northern accent as a clue. Full money. But that will throw you off because he's the only

northerner in the film. Oh, and is he not meant to be a northerner either? Well, he's meant to be a northerner but it's a blockbuster with Americans is it like Ocean's Eleven or something

no I've not seen that if it's Ocean's Eleven then I can't get it because I've not seen it if that's Ocean's Eleven I can quote that for you I've not seen

any of the Bourne Identity films so if it's from that I can't get it let's not make a list of films you don't know and that it wasn't it's the sort of thing

you would like this is a really famous film that you've seen. Do you want a different quote from the same character in the same film?

I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! Do you? Jurassic Park. He's got it. Bob Peck as the kind of...

I went to school with his son. Yeah. Gregory. No, George. George Peck. George Peck. Peacock and Gamble.

Peacock and Gamble. Now I saw Run As Early As Early sort of work in progress of your show this year yes we did um double headed together

I genuinely loved it and I don't know if it's still in the show or not where you did a song which very early on where you listed all your other shows

that you've done yeah I've got it's a yeah it's a song I do it's uh alright I'm gonna reveal

uh show detail now do you want if you don't want to it's alright I'm going to reveal show detail now because it's do you want if you don't want to do that no I'm going to this song is called Scottish Pie

yeah and it's like American Pie yeah but instead of doing the history of rock and roll it has American Pie

dance yeah it's my history of coming to Edinburgh in those last ten years we've been talking about but it's really

it's a genuinely really nice song because it is all I did one about this and I did one about this yeah and it's really really nice I thought it was really impressive oh well yn y 10 mlynedd diwethaf rydych chi wedi'i siarad amdano. Ond mae'n ddiddordeb iawn iawn oherwydd roeddwn i wedi gwneud un am hyn ac un am hyn ac mae'n ddiddordeb iawn iawn. Roedd hynny'n ddiddordeb iawn iawn. Ac wedyn, doeddwn i ddim yn credu beth ddodd yn ôl. Yn ôl hynny. Nid ydym yn ei ddod yn ddod yn ddod!

Mae'n dechrau'n dda iawn. Ac nawr mae'n rhedeg am yr hyn mae'n ei ddweud. Mae'n teimlo ei fod yn panig a'i wneud. CHEW ON IT! Felly mae'r sioe'n enw'r un. Yn y cân hwn, yn ymwneud â'r un, and take this song to Onyx so your show's called The One The One now in that song again

it seems to it cumulates with The One because obviously that's your latest show cumulates cumulates it turns it into a massive cloud

cumulates at the end right cumulates at The One and then do you feel like is that a real thing or is it do you genuinely

think that this is a really important show? Well, that's one of the things. As usual with my shows, there's a kind of, certainly in the last couple of years, the title has a triple meaning. Yeah. Which I think sometimes people think is fudging, but it's not. It's three things, and specifically three things. It's gok.

And one is, gok isn't anything. Right, okay. Gok is one. Yeah, I thought gok would just go wrong. I thought it was just a look thing yeah it's really hard to keep the quiff up

in Scotland it's this soft water it's yeah it is the one so having been I mean it's the whole point of that song

which is that you know to come here loads and loads of times and do a show that's like bigger and better and more important

than ever before is quite a challenge and a good challenge yeah and also like again like every other comedian at some stage, it's, you know, it's to do with age. Yeah.

And this is a big year for me in terms of age. Yeah. What are you? Give me two decos for each eyebrow. Three, four. Okay. And is it hitting that? That's not till November.

But that's all part of the whole thing, you know. Yeah, yeah. So that's the one. It's the one. it's the big one but also it's I'm the one I'm a one man band

yeah so that's the but that's a bit of a I didn't want to say one man band because everyone would think oh but I am

so that's kind of a point and most basically the one is what James Brown called the first beat of the bar when he said

if you hit that you can play funk everyone can kind of funk off everywhere as long as they go bong on the first and I know I can say fuck

but I wanted to say funk and you know so he said hit that first beat of the bar and that's exactly the same as looping

or the looping I do so it's a looping it's the fact that it's the big one and it's the fact that I'm the only person in that band yeah it's very

I mean like I understand when you're saying one-man band will put people off. I mean, you're not like a tramp banging about a shop in some way.

No, there's no, I'm not like the guy We're never going to touch to your body. The guy I saw on the way here who was walking down

across the meadows wearing headphones and sunglasses, it's quite overcast and he was singing along to The Cure's The Walk really loud. I kissed you

in the water and made you dry lips and that's my show isn't like so for people who don't know you it's pretty

technologically heavy isn't it yeah but I try I've tried to take that as a jumping off point rather than it's not important but you know

basically it's a show with me and my band doing our songs but I'm the only person in the band but you've got all the instruments wired up to shit

all stuff on the floor that you can bang your horrible toe against that's right repeat stuff was it always like that or was it when you started bringing in

more pedals that the toe just sort of went I'm not having this and just shrunk up let me ask you this if I was here and I lacked a limb or something like that

would you be would you be bullying me about that almost certainly then we wouldn't have booked you because of the stairs then I respect you

what is music it is two lists right one is the notes and the other one is the beats and you put them together and then you're

but then what is yeah but then what it's like saying what is then what is the... Yeah, but then... It's like saying, what is sex? What is sex? That's another song in my show.

What is sex? Well, it's sex. Sex! I'm not going to sing it. I'm not going to sing it. All right, well, then answer that. All right, that's a bad question.

Rob. What is sex? No, we've got to talk about music. We would do music as well. There's no turning back. What is sex? What is sex music? What is sex? What is sex and what is music? And you've got to talk about music we do music as well there's no turning back what is sex what is sex music what is sex

and what is music and you've got around when a man and a woman love each other all men and men are a woman and a woman or several men and or women

yeah they all love each other or just have just met yeah we're not narrowing it down yeah it's there's rubbing

sometimes there's penetration sometimes there's penetration and there's hopefully there's liquid and consent yeah but then but then what what is it

I think Ray is trying to make this make this podcast more sort of philosophical I think music and sex bring people together as does percussion

and really that's the whole purpose of my show was it not was it not Shakespeare who said, if music be the food of love, and eating music. Well, if music be the food of love,

I am going to strum you up into a frenzy. Right, but what I'm trying to say is, what is music? Yeah, but you succeeded in saying that. Yeah, but I don't feel like I had a good answer on that. You've only had four answers. Right, is it guitar and drums? Just say yes, Rob. Is't feel like I had a good answer. You've only had four answers. Right, is it guitar and drums?

Just say yes, Rob. Is it guitar and drums? No, no. Right, well then what is it then? Well, it's not to do with the instrument in the play,

it's to do with melody, harmony, rhythm and experience, emotion. It's guitar and drums. Right. I honestly think if you've not thought

about this, then you shouldn't be doing a show all about music. It's not about music, what did I just say? It's got music in it. It's got music in it, then you shouldn't be doing a show all about music it's not about music what did I just say it's got music in it it's got music in it

so it's about your show is all about the music isn't it well it's funny because these days when I first started playing guitar and of course I started out without a guitar at all

I'm just a bit like the toe I'm just as anti this rubbish as everyone else but it's just snuck in over time and when I first started playing guitar on my set

people would so often get you kicked it just then it's like you love it really I put my leg out under the table but he's got his legs

all the way under the table and I can't imagine someone having legs that long and I just kicked his horrible toe right on it while he's talking

about all his shows I'm like dirty little thing dirty little thing under the table you can lip your shoe off and start I'm not doing it.

That made one of my balls go weird then. Yeah, people always used to say, I don't normally like musical comedy, but there's this kind of music comedy racism, which I think has died off over time, probably because of me. Maybe also to a lesser extent because of Bill Bailey and Flight of the Conchords and Tim Minchin.

It's been rehabilitated. And that's good because I understand why people get put off. You want it to be comedy first and foremost. That's all I was going to say. So you don't mind being described as a musical comedian? Or do you prefer comedian or just normal, just nice man? As long as I'm... Exactly.

I'm a comedian for... Comedy with music is how I think of it. But I've taken... You know, what's the difference? I've just taken a few years to accept that I am a musical comedian Is Edinburgh the thing you said before about is Edinburgh

the challenge that you said about having to do a new show that's bigger and better than the last one is that why you'd return to Edinburgh is that the reason

for coming back No I come back because I kind of did it I've done so many I went away and thought oh I'm a bit

sort of jaded about this and went away and did other stuff and then I kind of missed it and came back so this is this Edinburgh is part of I kind of missed it and came back. So this Edinburgh is part of the kind of new me Edinburgh. It's only the last couple of years.

I only really... Oh, that's the dog. Look at this. He won't come. Is that all right? A little burp, everyone. Sorry about that. Rubbed in. The pat on the shoulder isn't going to help.

I can't reach for that. I'm worried you've got a toe there. Something I've never seen before just growing a normal one to have grafted on but what is music? why haven't I got your guitar here? because I knew you'd be

all combative even if we even slightly mentioned music and that theory I like music you love music any kind of music who's your best singer?

who do I think is best at singing music who's your best singer who do I think is best at singing yeah who's your best one now yeah my best one I'm trying to rephrase your question

so that it's comprehensible you'll settle into the language that we're using who's your best singer who's your favourite singer yeah well

favourite or who's best at it who's your best who's your favourite right I'm quite big on Gorgas yeah Gorgas

the Greek mythological goat two heads one of those singing voices stereo arm lice Harry Housel's

greatest work I was going to say George Michael but you know the music is wussy and muesacky, but he has got a lovely voice. He has got a lovely voice.

And it's good for me to sing along to. It's a good range. Yeah. So sometimes I listen to a bit of Gorgas George. Gorgas, yeah. Gorgas George. I quite like George Michael. I like Gorgas.

I like Kissing a Fool. I think it's my best one. Yeah. But my best singer, my favourite one is Randy Newman. Oh, yeah? Yeah. So did you ask Rob that question so you could tell him

your favourite singer yeah what's your best band well why don't you tell me yours oh come on this isn't about me do you know

how I sang I used to close my set with Meatloaf for a really long time and that was totally inspired by you yeah because I used to sing it around the black well and then a really long time. That was totally inspired by you. Yeah, because I used to sing it around the flat quite a lot.

And then we'd listen to it in the car on the way back as well. Yeah. I had a thing for quite a long time where driving to gigs, I had to listen to it all the way through. And it felt like a good luck thing at that point. I find it a slightly rich pudding of an album. Shut up. I'm afraid so.

It's my favourite album of all time. I think it's perfect. Yeah. What's your best one? I think you could do worse than Bjork's Vespertine. Oh, yeah. Not if you try and get sleep. Oh, not if you've already got an headache.

Well, you can't get to sleep. You can't get to sleep with your loaf on. Because you're like, and all the band go, but you know, it's just a bit much. But that's comforting. That's comforting. I don't know, it's just a bit But that's comforting. That's comforting. I don't know, it's comforting in the same way

as someone slapping you on the face with both hands for 40 minutes. It reminds you of, do you not think the battle of How I Remind You

of Your Child when you used to go to Morecambe and you've got a very vivid memory of driving through like Forest and that and smelling the smoke

from your dad's cigarette. No, for some reason it doesn't. That's right. That is on the liner notes of the album. That's what it evokes That is on the liner notes of the album. That's what it eventually is.

It does say that on the sleeve. I went to Morecambe August 83. Right. And it was raining a lot. And we saw Octopussy. Really? Yeah. And when she got out of the swimming pool,

and just for a moment you saw her naked and they slipped her over her head, a little boy said, Say a bit of babe on there, Dad. little boy said, say a bit of babe on there dad. Pickle can gamble, pickle can gamble. Rob, in a film of your life, you like films, in a film of your life, why are you making that? No one's good guys.

But who would play it if budget wasn't an issue? Matt Damon. Matt Damon. Yeah, I fancy that. Yeah, that'd be good he'd have to chub up for the early years yeah

but that could be that's why it'd get him the Oscar because he'd go out there yeah he'd go full fat and do his Jake LaMotta and then he'd lose it

Jake LaFatta I prefer people fat do you know actually I prefer all of you that fat you know Matt Damon did that the other way did he he went skinny

for courage under fire because he was supposed to have left the army and got hooked on heroin so he starved himself and lost like two stone and he wasn't he wasn't overweight

and he did it himself he didn't have a train or anything he wasn't famous yet and I don't know if he has stomach problems to this day but he had them

for a long time but it was worth it because he got famous yeah hang on what sort of statement is that well in his case. But it was worth it, because he got famous. Yeah. Hang on, what sort of statement is that? Well, in his case.

It was worth making himself seriously though, because he got famous. If you want to give people a hard time for encouraging eating disorders when you're young that leads to fame,

I don't think I'm your most valid time. You are just giving something big away about yourself and your ethos there. It's because of people like you, Rob,

that the size zero generation is up. That's what's happening because of that sort of attitude. Can I rephrase? It's worth it. He probably thinks it's worth it. Going all Kate Moss on us there. Be cooking gamble, be cooking gamble. When you do your music.

What is it? Now, wait. Firstly, what is that? wait firstly what is that right listen this is a serious question I think I've got I think I've got my head around now what music is

but when you do your music right how long does it take you to write a song oh there's no there's just no answer to that are you improvisational can you just do a song

yeah I could do a song that would take you know I could be playing it and make it up as you go along it wouldn't necessarily be good no could you do the music as well oh yeah you haven't brought your guitar no because I Could you do the music as well? Oh, yeah.

You haven't brought your guitar? No, because I knew this kind of competitive pressure was going to come up. Yeah, but do you know what you didn't take into account? What's that? I'd just say, right, do it with things from the kitchen. Yeah. Here comes the kettle and the toaster Sitting just over your right shoulder

But you've got to use them as instruments. Right, I'll get some things. It's your aga, it's not an aga You bring me all your pots and pans, maybe some wood, and my pair of hands will bang them up and we'll make you a lovely song. Lovely. I'm done here. Here comes the kettle for Rob.

Don't bring electrical devices. Danger of death from this. Electrical boiling water brings something I can hit. Hopefully without breaking it. Glass was a mistake. So was metal. Right, see the wood? See the wood up there?

The wood. Anything wood up there. Okay, now we can use the glass. I'm going to hold the mic up so it's not... Right, here we go. Got a glass of a different size. Right, here we go.

There's a glass. There's a glass. Okay, let's just run... Is this a banana or are you just pleased to see me? That is a banana. That is a banana, but it's to show you that I am pleased to see you. So Rob's got a sort of scratchy thing like that. That's horrible noise.

What we've got on the table is we have got two glasses of different sizes, a nana, a scratchy thing which I think is some sort of strainer, and a pan. That's Rob doing it now.

And he's now going to do his Peacock and Gamble kitchen song. And it has got to be about us. You can't just do it about a general kitchen. What did I say about being aggressive? Sorry. Rob. You might have prepared a song in advance.

So the listener might be going. Oh that's just cheating. So with that in mind. It's got to be about me and Ed. Your flat. Is on the way up to the brain burn. Your flat. Got a.

No it's a Rayburn. Your kitchen. That was the banana. Your kitchen. I'm visiting it manana. Coming tomorrow. Because that's what manana means. I'm going to come here, cook you up some greens. What greens have you got? I know you've got a nana. It's a bit loud for you isn't it? You're winting quite a lot. I'm worried about people on the tube. It's been a genuine pleasure. Thank you.

And we wish you well for the Fringe. And I was going to say, long may you return, but I don't want you to feel you have to. Do you know what I mean? It's like, on your own terms, then long may you return. If you want to come back. I think it would always be in August. If I have a misunderstood.

Oh, no, this goes on. Have you never been to the proper festival? To the real thing. You haven't come in just in August? No, I've always said so. It's all year round. No, you need to be invited to the, you get invited to the main one that goes all year round. And then you've got, that's when all the TV people come and that's when all the people. This is tryouts. Oh yeah, no, I mean I know about that. Rob Dearing, thank you. Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble. There you go, lovely interview with Rob Deering. Lovely Rob Deering.

A lovely lad to have around the flat as well, wasn't he? Oh, great lad. He came up and then he was even funnier on his way out because he said, I don't know how to get out of this flat and he started climbing a wall near the door. Bit of fun for everyone, wasn't it? Great fun, mate. Yeah, enjoyed it.

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cock and cabble don't even want to be on telly anyway at the Pleasant Stone so Rob's going to sign off for us properly isn't he I guess it's time

to say goodbye from me plate of vomit and old slug slug sort of sitting sliming his way around there

we'll see you tomorrow and we'll just leave it to Rob Rob The Beacock and Gamble Edinburgh podcast is a ready production. I'm starting again. It looks like it says pot step.

It's really weird, you know. No one's able to read these credits. It could be because you can't write. Yeah. The Peacock and Gamble Edinburgh podcast is a ready production hosted by Chortle.co.uk. Today's guest was me, Rob Deering, and my show is The One. Pleasant's Courtyard, 8.15. Also, see me Rob Deering and my show is The One Pleasant's Courtyard

8.15 also see me Fridays and Saturdays in my quiz show Beat This also at the Pleasant's Courtyard we're doing that yeah except

the show finishes too late all music by Thomas Vandere see you tomorrow you Thank you.