Wolf and Owl - Mickey Drips, Paintball and Wedding Anniversaries

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Is it acceptable to wear clothing with your face on it? Do people still use handkerchiefs? And who invented Mickey Drips? Plus, this week we realise the importance of reading ahead and discuss how we deal with the grief of losing a member of your pack. Send your questions and thoughts to [e-mail] and don’t forget to like and subscribe friend! A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media. Chapters: 00:00 Intro01:07 Wedding anniversaries03:27 T-shirt role play08:34 Blooper09:18 Pets passing15:19 Mickey Drips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yeah, what you want? Beak or jaws, feathers or fur, sharp teeth or feet with claws, whatever's prefer. Just kidding every word in his songs about two grown men dressed up as a bird and a dog. Time for an email special of the Wolframed Out podcast. Here's our first one. Hi, welcome, sorry. Do you want to do the welcome? I'm always doing like the, I always do the like functional bits.

You do them now. Hello, friend. It's me. Tom Davis. okay the wolf and the owl okay romish rang an aathan and this is a listener email special brought to you by the wolf for now subscribe friend really good they're she much better than i would do it so well done here's our first one hi wolf for now my husband and i are avid listened to your podcast so much so that my husband even started listening to all of her episodes right from the very beginning last year and he's almost caught up i listen to your podcast most days when out walking for my six-month-old baby

sometimes i think you must think i'm mad on her and we start laughing in the middle of the the street when listening to you guys. As of the 12th of April, it's my husband and I's first wedding anniversary. I was three months pregnant at the wedding, but we didn't tell anybody until after us, and nobody had a clue. Wow. With it being paper for the first wedding gift, I decided to book Romish a stand-up for him and I in Newcastle in February next year.

I printed the confirmation off which class is being paper. Kind of heartbreaking that's my Newcastle shows are selling so badly, and it's a lot to do so. Anyway, if you've got any suggestions on getting for our second wedding anniversary, that we very much appreciated. Just for context, it's cotton. Peace out, you sweet, sweet souls, another fellow owl.

I've got another owl in the building. Wow. I would say a t-shirt with both their faces. Are you doing Newcastle? I am doing Newcastle, yeah. Yeah. I mean, that would, yeah, in October, November, I believe.

Okay. Yeah. And how's it going? Well, it sells. Actually sells are okay in Newcastle. It's one of the ones that is actually saying okay. What would you get? Did you do that with this with Cat?

No, no, I didn't go that with it. With like the paper and the cotton and all that. No. No. We still did gifts. We just had our 10 year wedding. I don't even do The Faithful. Oh.

Wang or, but if you're going to go, it's quite a cute thing to do. I think a t-shirt with both their faces on would be nice. Like a sort of t-shirt from the wedding, you know. What would you do with that? Wear it? Where?

I don't know, wear it out and stuff. I don't think people wear enough t-shirts with their faces on. I don't think if anybody does it it's too many really who the fuck's wearing a t-shirt their own face on

I think that would be although actually I do I have one Wolf and Al merchandise yeah but if you wore a t-shirt right with

yours and Lisa's Val and you're that nice picture you got that's really that photo of me and Lisa on a t-shirt yeah fuck off

if you walk past someone and go oh hello oh god that looked like a good day I just think actually we wear like

stuff with other pictures on and other, that don't really mean anything to us. Actually, you're having like a picture of someone, you know. No. I disagree. Right, okay. You turn up somewhere and, you know, so you're going from me.

Tom, if you came to meet me and you were wearing a t-shirt with you and Catherine and a photo on the front, I would ask you what the fuck is wrong with you. Okay, right. Let's do something now. Let's do a little roleplay, right? Okay, fine. Who's wearing a t-shirt with a face on? Me?

Okay, you're right, see what it brings, right? Okay. All right, where are we? You could design this one. Okay, fine. We are meeting. It's a friend's birthday party. Okay.

And this is something they've always wanted to do. They've always wanted to get their mates together to go paintballing. Okay, cool. So we turned up to the woods. Yeah. And it's like the little, you know, the area before you go in and you've got to get your equipment. The holding zone. The holding zone, yeah.

That's another thing I'd have to do, but I have a big wolf and our paint paintball. No. Why? I think it would be awful. Really? Yeah. Us two of a load of Wolf and our fans? I think it's me, you, John, J.T. and Ben.

And they've all got to find us. Yeah. And then, so we're not going to invite anybody we actually like. They're hunting us down. Okay. Okay. When I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice. I want to help my kids, and I want to give back to the community. Ooh. Then it's the vacation of a lifetime.

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Yeah, we do know each other. Well, okay. Okay, or we don't know each other. Let's do it we don't know. Okay. I'm a friend. I'll be, I don't know. Let's do it based on how you.

you do it. Dan Smith and you can be Archie Pothelswate or whatever the fuck. Okay, cool. Quite a poshoy. Pothelswite. Pothelstoy. Archie Puzzlethwaite. Archie Pustlethwaite. And what's your name? Dan Smith. Okay, Dan Smith. So you know Lee

from work? Yeah. Okay, it's Lee's birthday. Oh, good one. Yeah. No, for sure. Yeah, I know I've known Lee for years. Yeah, I know. His dad used to work for my dad. Oh, hey, man. How are you? Hey, guys. How's it going. It's... You've got to be Dan. I am Dan, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. How did you know that? What made you say that? Oh, no, I've seen a bit. Yeah. Okay. Can we just, can we just pause? What is going on with you?

I just find you so funny when you do this. I don't know what it is. It just makes me laugh so much in these role plays. You just do these little bits you do, yeah. Oh, no. All right. Yeah, you know. Oh, my God.

You've got to be Dan. Yes, I'm Dan. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a picture of you on it's dead. desk. It's so cute. Lee has?

Yeah. Yeah. He's got a picture of me on his desk. Yeah, you and the guys. Yeah, you Brad, Cliff. Okay, but I would say that's... Well, I know Brad and Cliff. That's not a picture of me, isn't it?

Oh, I see. I see. I've never met you. Okay. I'm, you probably heard of me. I'm Archie Poss off weight. Well, yes. I've heard of something like that, yeah.

Yeah. Cool t-shirt, by the way. Cool t-shirt. Who's that, the pretty lady with you on there? That's my wife. Oh, wow. That was when we did a varaniel to try and convince ourselves She's beautiful.

She's absolutely stunning. He's done well there. He's done very well there. That's a beautiful lady. Are you okay, actually? Yeah, sorry. No, it's just a nice thing. It's a bit of a flex wearing a cool t-shirt like that

but a pretty lady on. And you, of course, Dan. Yeah, that was a vournial thing. Yeah, yeah. It's a hell of a dress. That's a nice dress. You're okay, archie? Yeah, yeah.

Do you know what? I am just going to, um, Before we get ready for the paintball, I'm just going to go turn this inside out. Yeah, you don't want to get paint on that t-shirt. Maybe take it off entirely. Or I can wear it for you. Have you got copies of that that people could wear? No, I don't have copies of it.

It's difficult to know now whether you fancy my wife or me. Well, no, I just think it's a cool picture. Yeah. Oh, maybe I'll get a picture with me and my cousin, Martin. Is that how you fuck? No, no, no. My wife left me three months ago. Oh, that's sad.

It's sad, but unexpected. Yeah. So, yeah, cool. I noticed, by the way, your hair looks so nice in that picture. Thanks. Do you not lock my hair now? I think it was better than there. It's quite square now.

Okay, great. So see, it's straight away. All right. Okay, yeah. Like a nice thing. Yeah, I think it's awful. Okay. What should, what should, so you suggested T-shirt.

Or a cape? Yeah, cape's nice. Okay, too. I think maybe a nice little monogrammed handkerchief. What? Who's used the handkerchiefs? Once you've got bogies and stuff on it once. Yeah, but that's not...

Nobody's using the handkerchief, are that? What were they for? They're completely obsolete then? It's just cool to have one, isn't it? How often do you have a handkerchief on you? Never. Exactly there. It'll get squirrary away to the bottom of a drawer.

Yeah, you're at about 20 years time you're fucking going through stuff. No, you're right. You're right. Whereas with a t-shirt with your picture and you're going to wear every day. No, even if you don't wear it, you look at it. Yeah.

Well, you can look at the handkerchief, couldn't you? You don't look at Hagerjee. No, you're right. I'm getting up with a shit idea. Okay, anyway, good luck, Al. Or pillowcase. Oh, that's the one. Pillow case is a good idea.

Yeah, every day you sleep. Not with your photo on it. Yeah. What? Yeah, it's a little. Filocase of your photos on. Yeah. Yeah, fucked it, haven't you?

Yeah, okay. Because what happened there was a sentence is a lot longer than you're anticipating and you've run out of steam. Yeah. Try it. Okay, look, take a deeper. No, it's more actually, I've read ahead now

and I need to start doing that because I've actually... Christ. Oh, is that what happened? Okay. Dear Wolf and Al, I'd appreciate your whisper about how to deal with an overwhelming experience of grief

following the sudden death of our wonderful pet cat who he learned was not to over by a car earlier. Okay, can we do this all again? Because it's made me laugh, much that you were going to do it. Can we put that out?

Dear Wolf and Out, I appreciate your wisdom about how to deal with an overwhelming experience of grief following the sudden death of our wonderful pet cat who alone was not to be towed by a car earlier this week. The extreme feeling of grief caught me and my family by surprise and I found myself in and I'm embarrassed to show my feelings to others and try to be strong and hide it from my wife and kids.

To make matters worse, we were on holiday so we were expected to be happy and smiling while they're walking around miserable and upset. Is it okay to express these emotions publicly, and should I tell the truth if people see me sad and tearful or make something up? If you do have these strategies for coping with these powerful emotions, when generally it feels like fewer people recognize grief

over an animal compared with a family member and expect you to carry on normally with life soon after. We still feel quite numb and lost and aren't looking forward to going home to her house with no pet to greet us and memories that will bring back the feeling of loss again. Your podcast is one way of cheering us up. And these episodes this week have really been a welcome distraction. Many thanks for your thoughts, the tearful kitty.

Thank you so much for your email. I will say, quite honestly, like, the death of a pet is... Yeah, I didn't anticipate when a dog died. I didn't anticipate or fathom quite how much it ripped me apart. It was absolutely, you know. And I also, alongside... that you do feel like in a weird way like when you bring that up to people i think certainly people haven't got pets but even people who i don't think because even when people would talk about having a

you know a pet that passed to me before i could never quite get made around how upsetting that would be yeah and i think it's um yeah so but i i also think that you kind of have to be i i i think repressing any kind of emotion or anything you feel is is such a really, it's quite a dangerous thing to do. I think you kind of have to sit with a feeling and express it. And I'm not sort of, you know, to your loved ones, to your, you know, the people, right, I remember like when my dog died,

just sob into my dad and I was so upset. It was a very strange time because Grace had just been born and you're trying to get your head around it all. And, um, but I do think it's actually letting out those feelings. It's a thing weirdly in, in, in therapy recently, where I didn't realize how much I've repressed so much stuff over the last 30 or years, whatever. And talking to a therapist,

I realize it's quite that is, it's almost a default I have. And as much as I'm quite open, I'm quite, I chat about my feelings. There's a lot I sit with a repress. I don't want to bother other people. So I don't,

you know, I don't show a lot of that stuff. And actually just since talking to Catherine about it and talking to, I spoke to you about it and stuff that you well up and you build up, it can come quite a negative. So I think actually just doing that. And I think, you know,

I think as well, I think strangely, like, you know, this happening on a holiday where there's an expectation that you've got to be walking around, in like, you know, sort of grinning and feeling on top of the world just because you're on, I think life happens. And I think a lot of people will understand that.

Also, you know, you don't have to tell everyone why you're upset, the world doesn't have to know. I think you can, like I say, if your families know, you've discussed it with your kids and your wife and you all have a quiet together and you're all quite open about how you feel and, you know, you discuss that and I think that's a good place to be. But I don't think you have to, I don't think anyone, you don't know anyone the fact that if you're walking around feeling a bit, you know, down and a bit broken by it, you don't need to have to explain that to everyone.

I think it's enough that you explain it to be the people that matter and for the rest of the world, you know, walk a higher path and just don't worry too much about it. Typically, thanks for your email. I think it's totally reasonable to be upset about a pet passing away, and I don't think you should feel any kind of guilt or embarrassment about that. I do think it's like, I've been, without going into details, I've been going for it a bit recently. And then I've also been forced into lots of social, not forced into social situations, whatever,

because people can come around. It was my birthday recently said people come around. but I was feeling it a bit. And when that happens, people, you're expected to kind of, there's a lot, even if you've got close people around, there's a performative nature.

Yeah, you know, and you've got to like be on form or whatever. And so, I think it might be easier to sort of say to people, I'm feeling a bit down at a moment. I did that to a couple of people. I said, like, I'm struggling a bit. The downside of that is,

is that they then, keep checking in on you. And actually, I think it's a way of, like, you know, if you start to get quiet, they go, you're right, you're right, you're right. And I think, and although that's coming from a good place, sometimes you just want to be struggling. You know, you just want to be upset, or you're just dealing with being upset or you're not even upset. It's just that you haven't got the capacity to be all singing, all dancing. Yeah. So it's that thing of like saying to your people that are close to you're coming around or whatever, I'm going to, I'm feeling a bit down, but please don't worry about me.

If I'm quiet, I'm just being quiet because that's where I am right now. And I think it just makes it a bit easier because particularly, if not that I'm particularly the raconteur of a thing, but people were expecting me to be a bit more, I guess, bouncy than I was being. And then they're going, are you okay, what's going on, what's going on? And then you just have to go, look, I'm, I think I ended up, I actually end up saying, I'm knackered or whatever, just to sort of get over it. So I think it's

I think one you shouldn't feel guilty at all And two Just tell people I think it's fine to tell people You tell somebody if you're feeling ill Why not tell somebody if you're feeling down? Yeah You know

Hi Wolf and our laughing hyena here I mean we've got to do this quickly So I'm really quick Hi Wolf and our laughing hyenae I mean you listen to your awesome pod I can't get enough of your improvs and bandstand I'm currently working back through the archives under daily basis keep it up

I have a question about Mickey Drip Made famous by the hilarious King Gary series What's the origin of the phrase Was it created by the Wolf or is an existing phrase Is it possibly rhyming slang of a theory that might come from the fact an alternative way to say taking the piss is taking the mickey in so rather than saying piss trips the phrase comes Mickey drips

and inferring one way or another to help set an argument with me and the rest of my hyena pack cheers guys the laughing hyena so in summary Tom Mickey drips who did you rip it off of do you know who told me about it or I was talking about shoot unbelievable

you really are who's got two thumbs and invented Mickey drips this guy no I'm joking I was talking about about it. So the storylining... Tom often coughs when he's lying.

So the storyline that would be written. And Camille Cadourie, who played my mum in the show. Fantastic. Who's brilliant. Kate said, oh, you're talking about Mickey Drips. And as soon as she said that, it just made us laugh. And it was like,

yeah, that... Where'd she heard it? No idea. No idea. No idea. She could have well come up with it. She's genuinely one of... I mean, you know she's a sort of person who's sort of that slight a phrase with but yeah. Yeah. But yeah.

So that was, and we're very honest of you. You could have just claimed that there? Yeah, no, but that's not my way. Not the type of guy. Weirdly,

I will say, by the way, on the subject to Mickey Drips, in the last two months, Mickey Drips have become worse and worse. What, generally, or for you? Just, no,

for me. I'm like, yeah. I had a pair of trousers on the other day, and me and cafe were out for dinner. A nice little romantic meal, beige trouser, uh, Went to toilet, thought everything was secure,

rested my gun back in its holster, and it almost was like someone had left a tap on. It was literally like, I was having to text Catherine. You pissed yourself. Yeah, like I pissed myself. It was like a little stream down my leg. I was like, where's that even come? And I was in the, come to me, dick.

What did you do? I was in the toilet going, why are you fucking doing this to me? Why have you done this? What? And this is insane. I was like, what a stupid design floor. That's true. I think that's a fair point.

Yeah, but then, so now I'm having to go out and had to bandage my dick after every time I take a piss. A lot of people do that. Yeah, well, I can see why. I never did it. Now I'm doing it. What do you do about yours? I don't, I finish pissing before I put my dick away. No, but, no, I'm joking.

I know you've had Mickey drips. When? Because I've, like, touch your lap before it's been a bit down. Oh, no, I do think it is a real issue. Yeah. I do the, do you do that? What the what? You put your finger up your arseller.

No, you know when you, you know like, you do the thing. You push the perineum? Yeah. Yeah, but I've done that.

It doesn't always work. Well, it doesn't always, you have to really finish pissing. Yeah. Really finish. Yeah. I'd finish.

No, Tom. Really. Well, I'd finish, giving it out a squeeze, done that. Fine. Then you do the perineum.

Yeah. Then another shake. Yeah. Then the perineum again. One more shake. Then away. You're standing at your you're in your honor doing that.

It's about 45 minutes. but it's worth it listen it's yeah it's something I'm now just that's it base slacks are out for me it's a shame

yeah thank you so much for emailing in we will see you next time why did you just kiss the microphone I don't know I just got carried away if you want to get in touch

email warfare pod at gmailcom if anybody can help us with our quest to we've started talking about putting on a night haven't we yeah yeah get in touch and let us know

And also if you've got any, and there will be like a Mickey Drip zone at the night. So you can go and chill there if you've got Mickey Drips. Yeah, anybody's got Mickey Drips. We're just going to put a single hand dryer. No, get a dice in. Yeah, at waist. Yeah. And you can just come in and dry off if you've Mickey Dripped.

Take care of yourselves. Peace out. Like and subscribe. Bye. Please like and subscribe. Okay. Bye. Like and subscribe.

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