Wolf and Owl - S2 Ep 77: Space Food & Scandalous Seeds
Episode Date: November 1, 2023We’re talking… party Tom, old-school hotel rooms, lost light switches, catering in space and astronaut caretakers, moon tourism, asking a stranger the time, party icebreakers, round two of the gre...at fruit & veg seed debate, DIY successes, eureka moments, first day filming and looking good (or bad) in lycra. For questions or comments please email us at wolfowlpod@gmail.com - we’d love to hear from you. Instagram - @wolfowlpod TikTok - @wolfowlpodcast YouTube - www.youtube.com/WolfandOwlPodcast Merch & Mailing List - https://wolfandowlpod.com/ A Shiny Ranga Production For sales and sponsorship enquiries: HELLO@KEEPITLIGHTMEDIA.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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your friends i was about to say my mic sounds nice check one but it doesn't look at this
is that your what oh that's happened to my mic that's that's a common place with the
odd yeah it's a very very short little nib. Yeah, well, they're not, apparently this sort of expensive sound equipment
is not suited to being thrown in the bottom of a rucksack.
So I'm recording on the, apologies for my sound quality,
I'm using a laptop mic, but, you know, to give that some context,
Tom never apologises and his sound is...
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but required a follow-up and then i think you text me the words pod shaker and then you said
i'm lemmored in a pub or something and i i called you and i got to see for the first time i think the real sort of party
tom you know and and i would say very friendly very loving but with an edge is how i would
describe it you know you know what is i regressed into a place where i almost regressed to sort of my early 20s where I had a few beers
and then sat on my own in a Burger King
and had my dinner in a train station.
Yeah, I know, because you told me it like,
you said it to me like,
it was one of the weirdest brags I've ever heard.
I spoke to you when you were on your way home
and you went, anyway, mate mate I'll speak to you tomorrow
I called you like
three times yesterday
within about an hour
so
so excited was I
just to talk to you
yeah
and then on the last one
you went
anyway mate
I'll speak to you tomorrow
on the podcast
I'm about to smash my way
through a Burger King
and then head home
see you later
you know
because that sounds glamorous
in a lot of ways
but actually
does it
no it doesn't
but actually what i realized is i could have paid for the burgee king um and then kept you
on the phone and checked because actually what happened was i just sat on my own uh like on a
fucking platform uh yeah i don't i don't like being put on the phone while people are paying
for it happens to me a lot that a that. A lot of my mates do this,
where they call you on the way to something.
Actually, I think I might have even done this to you.
You've done it to me, yeah.
Being on the other end of it,
it's weird, isn't it?
I try and put the person off
during the transaction if I can,
which is fun if it works,
but if it doesn't,
it's just a bit...
You feel a bit thirsty
when you're full of liquor
and
you think that it's
you think everyone's having a wild ride
but I can imagine sitting
listening to me eating a
Whopper and chips
and six chilli cheese bites
isn't quite as
anonymous as
yeah you might think
yeah listen I think you're hungover
so we'll let Anonymous go.
Can I say, I think chili cheese bites are a dangerous game.
Oh, I've lost you.
You've paused.
Hello, I lost you there.
Your Wi-Fi is terrible.
Well, I'm on hotel Wi-Fi. I don you there. Your Wi-Fi is terrible. Well, I want hotel Wi-Fi.
I don't know.
Can I just say, by the way,
are you staying at a hotel or a nursing home?
Mate, I swear to God,
if you look at this,
I think we're redoing Fawlty Towers.
Like, it's fucking...
Mate, look how old school it looks, man.
It's so old school.
The curtains are a madness, aren't they?
Yeah.
To be fair, that lamp in the background,
for a while I thought was a bubblegum machine.
Mm, yeah.
I mean, I would say in a hotel room,
if I was going to take a stab in the dark
at what something might be,
my first guess would be lamp,
and then I'd go to bubblegum machine
sometime after about 10 other options but that was your that was your lead that
was your lead guest was it yeah i mean i know how bougie you are and i know that you're not
i could imagine that you would be the sort of person you turn up at a hotel and sort of say
have you got a room with a bubblegum machine could i have the bubblegum machine by the bed
because what i like to do is brush my teeth get into bed and then have a sugary snack just to let the decay set in um i had a last night
it's my first night at the hotel it's very nice do you mean like it's sort of uh
does the fire work the open fire or is that just a dummy yeah well there's wood in it so i see
me can use it oh i won't i won't be and there be. And there's a big fire down in the hallway downstairs,
a big open fire that crackles as you move your way through the book.
This is a bougie way of life for you.
It's not bougie.
It's not bougie.
It's sort of old school kind of like hotel.
But last night, so can you see where see where i am now right so the bed
can that that lamp is by the bed right that lamp is by the bed that's the bed there
were you joking what in the what is it like an alcove with the curtains around you in the windows
yeah yeah all right and um uh the the light switch is behind that headboard, the main light switch for the room.
So last night, I was, like, knackered.
I just fell on... I sort of got dressed,
brushed my teeth, undressed, rather.
I don't get dressed for bed.
Got undressed.
I love the idea of you wearing one of those night dresses
and a little hat.
And then I fell asleep,
but then woke up at one in the morning,
and the lights were on
and I sort of walked around here at like half one.
You know like in the middle of the night
how shit feels a lot more extreme than it normally does?
So I was just sort of walking around,
my boxers just go out loud.
Where the fuck is this fucking night switch?
I walked downstairs.
What, in your pants?
No, I put a t-shirt on
a t-shirt
you do
some tracksuit bottoms
as well
yeah yeah
some tracksuit bottoms
as well
and what I did
was I put a t-shirt
on tracksuit bottom
sliders
but then I just
had my dick out
sort of over the waistband
of the joggers
and then
the guy said to me
the light switch
is behind the
Did he come up to show you?
He went to come up to show me but I felt so bad
for him. I said don't worry about coming up man.
If you just describe I'll figure it out.
And switching
the lights off felt like a real eureka moment
for me.
You can't
be taking all the credit because he's done half the work
for you.
No, but I mean, it wasn't a eureka moment.
Like, I felt proud of myself.
I felt very ashamed of myself that I had to go down to reception
to ask how to switch the lights off in the hotel room.
When I say eureka moment, I felt like the euphoria,
like the joy I felt at darkness breaking in the room.
Yeah, because you can't, you're essentially there,
you're a bit like one of the
other fellas on the uh like spaceship that went to the moon like neil armstrong's done all the
hard collar and the guy who's driven it you're a bit like the fella who's just like made like
teas and coffees and stuff you can't take credit for actually driving to the moon
you could just like you've just basically just got there for other people helping you i mean as
as reaches go i'd say fucking thrown a rope and hook out there, mate.
No.
No, you know what I'm saying?
Like, if your name, you know, like Jeff Plum, right?
He's just like, oh, you know, Jeff.
Yeah, he'd go into the pubs going, oh, yeah,
I remember when we flew to the moon.
And someone would go, oh, Jeff, you didn't really fly there.
You just, you would, like, cater it.
You did all the catering.
I think the guy that does the catering. I think the guy
that does the
catering on the
rocket that goes
to the moon still
deserves some
credit Tom.
He could be doing
the catering on a
PR ferry.
It doesn't
matter.
No he's still
got to be space
trained.
You don't just
grab someone from
Greggs and go
you've had the
call up mate.
Put this fish
bowl on your
head and bring that trolley with you.
There's a bit more to it than that.
Yeah, but he's got the least amount of training.
Sure.
You're not going to let him press buttons and stuff.
Yeah, he's got the least amount of training
on a space mission.
Yeah, but they're basically turning around to him.
They're going, oh, can you use...
Let's put to one side
that you don't have catering on a space mission,
all right, at this current stage.
I'm sure it'll be in the future.
Are you joking me? I've made the mistake... What the fuck? Well, you don't have catering on a space mission, alright, at this current stage. I'm sure it'll be in the future. Are you joking me? Serious?
I've made the mistake. What the fuck? Well, you don't have catering
when you're on a spaceship. No. Of course you do.
They've got food on there.
Romesh, you're not going for a long weekend to the moon.
You could be out there for weeks.
Yes, I know, but they don't have somebody who's specifically
required to make sandwiches, Tom,
on the spaceship. Mate, if you go on a P&O ferry,
Romesh, you get catering. Yeah, that's
a P&O ferry. You understand the difference. go on a P&O ferry, Romesh, you get catering. Yeah, that's a P&O ferry. You understand the difference.
You keep using P&O ferry
as an example for space travel, okay?
They also don't have a comedian
who's on there dying on his arse every night.
So that's another difference.
In all fairness, mate,
I think maybe they should actually have,
like, I actually sometimes feel sorry
for the people on those space missions
and think, how boring is it?
Because, for example, right, I don't know about you.
This isn't, by the way, before you go into this little mini rant
that I'm sure you're about to go into,
there's another example of Tom Davis saying things
that I'm not convinced he actually genuinely believes.
No, this is, I swear I believe it.
Okay, fine.
The other day, for example, right, everyone's like,
oh, yeah, I don't know, like one of these star consternations
or whatever's coming out and everyone gets excited
or like there's a shooting star
or the moon's never been bigger.
One of these fucking things that,
you know,
the other week,
for example,
it was a blue moon,
right?
And everyone gets really excited.
For me,
the moon didn't look any different
and I'm not taking anything away
from the moon.
It's doing a great job,
but I didn't think it looked
What is the moon's job,
do you believe,
Tom?
Uh,
the opposite of the sun,
right?
Just,
I guess, he's like the night watchman in a way. Yeah, What job do you believe, Tom? The opposite of the sun, right?
I guess he's like the night watchman, in a way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's just got to make... He's just got to get a couple of runs in
before play stops in the evening
and then comes back in in the morning, yeah.
Does the moon actually have a job?
It's not actually got a job, is it?
I don't believe the sun or the moon have jobs, mate.
Well, the sun has, because the sun gives us light.
Yeah, but that's not his job.
That's just a happy accident.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I mean...
You really just believe so.
Well, yeah.
I don't even know.
I don't want to get into all that.
But my point being this, right?
Yeah.
Is you can look at the stars or the moon for about five minutes and go,
fucking hell, that's just pretty amazing, maybe ten.
If you've got to do that every day...
Do you remember that time?
Oh, bloody hell.
Catherine, you're right.
Yeah, Tom's inside.
I had to put the sunglasses on.
He'd been looking at the fucking sun for ten minutes.
Directly at it.
Mad bastard.
Yeah, he can't see out of his right eye at all.
He actually said, finally, I'll get to be a bit like Rom.
And he's just sort of laid down
inside but if you if you were up there for ages and all you had to look at right is nothingness
you would need like if you had a comedian there and you like that and and also like the fact that
you haven't like i don't know what even space food they have up in spaceships on the shoot
assuming it's not a fucking, you know,
I thought they'd at least have someone making them decent grub,
like, to keep their energy up.
They do have food.
I'm not suggesting they don't have food, but isn't it like,
I mean, I start to, I feel like it's two idiots here,
but one idiot is slightly more idiotic than the other idiot,
because I don't actually know.
But, like, isn't it like
you can get those
packets of like
dried space food
and shit
can't you
yeah but someone's
got to be in charge
of those
yeah but they just
take them up
don't they
it's like
you don't have
you're going to
have someone
who's in charge
of driving the
spaceship
Tom it's incredibly
expensive to send
people into space
they're not going to
have someone who's
just in charge
of sandwiches
no but there's going to be someone who's just in charge of sandwiches. No.
But there's going to be someone
who's in charge of cleaning up sandwiches.
No.
There's not a janitor.
There's not a catering person.
There's no matron.
Okay.
Yeah, but if someone turns around
and goes,
oh, Neil's cut himself on his space suit, right?
It's like, all right, come here.
Let me just get all these. I'll do the sandwiches and I'll have a look at his cut. Okay. Neil's cut himself on his space suit, right? It's like, all right, come here.
Let me just get all these.
I'll do the sandwiches and have a look at his cut.
Okay, so now you're opening the job up a little bit, aren't you?
Yeah, that's what I mean.
There's someone who's doing the odd jobs.
Yeah, I assume that those responsibilities are handed out amongst the astronauts that are already there.
I don't believe.
Mate, any money, right?
I'll bet you now.
Any money?
Well, not any money. I'll bet you right i'll bet you a dinner of your choice right that if you went through the astronauts you've got like top end captain i'm like driving it
then you've got his lieutenant or whatever you've got like people who are doing the sort of like
high-end stuff there will be a guy who's essentially like me like a laborer who's just
doing like the odds and odds and sods.
I think the space programme
has got to be opened up a hell of a lot
before somebody like you or me
gets invited up to sort of do the odds and sods
No, but there's got to be someone
who's going and making the bets.
On a fucking spaceship.
Yeah, but I think,
even if that's not a thing,
that's one thing,
if I ever get the chance
to meet someone from NASA,
I'll say,
hey, what's going on with,
it'd be nice if you could just open it up and get someone who's got less qualifications it could be like getting the food making the beds just so then it's someone who's a normal person
essentially and what do you think they'll say well uh do you know what we've been looking for
the insight of somebody that has absolutely no fucking idea what happens on these so yes please
it's one thing to get an outsider's take to get a fucking
idiot's take that's got no idea what actually does happen currently that feels like a maverick move
do you know what i mean also can i say it feels now like all this because people are going on
holiday to the moon right i don't i know they're sort of they're offering space they're starting
to offer in space like something richard branson's thing is like that's what they're moving to offer in space flights, aren't they? Richard Branson's thing is like, that's what they're moving to, isn't it?
And Elon Musk, right?
Yes, I believe so.
I don't know.
I know that, hasn't Richard Branson got,
is it Galactic or something like that?
Would you ever do that?
Listen, it would have to have a lot more years
under its belt of it running all right
before I sort of decided to have a go.
Yeah, but also, I can't see why you'd want to go
and that be your summer holiday.
Well, I don't, yeah.
I don't think you're doing it for two weeks currently.
I think it's just like up and down.
What do you mean?
So how long do you go up for?
The way you're talking is like they've put a butt lens on the moon.
It's literally, you just...
I realise it's that, but if you're spending half a million pounds, you're not going to be happy if you're literally going like they've put a butt lens on the moon it's literally you just i realize it's
that but if you're spending half a million pounds you're not like going to be happy if you're
literally going to end back you want to have a little pop about sort of see what else is going
on i think i i think part of the premium is the fact that you're actually going up into space you
know it's not like it's not like you like basically the prop i don't think it's for people like you
that would compare it to Tenerife.
Do you know what I mean?
No.
My point is this, right?
Why would you even want to go up there
when you can see YouTube videos and stuff of it?
It's not going to blow you...
Well, yeah.
My counter-argument to that would be
you can also see YouTube videos of Magaluf,
but you still do go everywhere.
No, but that's different because you get the weather, right,
and you get the heat, and you feel like you're on holiday,
and you actually get to relax your body and your mind.
I would argue anyone who gets on a spaceship and is going up to the moon
is the least relaxing thing you could do in your life.
Sure.
The idea of terror and thinking that out of spaceships,
I mean, I'm going to throw it out there,
this isn't like,
don't quote this,
like 90% of
spaceships fucking
fail and crash,
right?
There's probably
more that have
been crashed
and burnt
than have been
successful,
right?
Not true,
but okay.
Do you mean
with people in?
No,
no,
no,
fully.
Oh yeah,
I think that's
probably true.
They've probably
had more failed
attempts than
successful ones. I think that's probably true. So it's an arse-clenching time, right? Yeah, no, no, no, fully. Oh yeah, I think that's probably true. They probably had more fad attempts than successful ones.
I think that's probably true.
So it's an arse clenching time,
right?
Yeah.
When you're up in a spaceship,
you're not going to be sitting there
going,
oh,
this is quite relaxing.
You're like,
oh,
what's that noise?
Oh,
why did it shudder like that?
Yeah,
but that's my point.
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Wow.
See, this is why you'd be quite good if you went to the moon.
Yeah, well, normally when you see space films,
there is a guy that looks like me at some sort of computer screen,
but he's normally on Earth going up.
I don't really understand what's... He's moving into the wrong quadrant.
How far do you think we're going to be from like
you know like Star Trek
when they've got those big like cool fucking
spaceships that go around
and you've got like tennis courts and stuff on them
I don't
I think it feels like we're a way
away doesn't it
we're not even in a state
where you can take your helmet off up there are we
so I think tennis courts feel a while away.
Yeah.
But the point I was saying is
I don't think you're going,
should we go to Provence or Mercury?
Do you know what I mean?
Like, you're not doing it as a, like...
Yeah, but my point is why?
I just think it's just like...
Because it's an amazing thing to do, isn't it,
to go to space?
It's like...
If I was at a dinner party, right, and I was sitting there,
me and you were sitting there, right, we're having a right laugh,
some bloke comes over.
I imagine you've just had a shit in the downstairs toilet,
come back to the table, yeah, go on.
You're complaining about the lack of vegan food.
Oh, for fuck's sake!
Actually, we'll get on to that in a minute.
Well, well,
no, I've got a bone to pick with you.
You've got a bone to pick with me? Yeah, I'll
put it up in a minute. Don't let me forget.
And then someone comes
rolling over and we're like, oh,
alright, Tom, hello, Romesh.
I've
bloody just got back from the moon.
I think, oh, here we go. She's going to be a waste of 20 minutes. think oh here we go she's going to be
a waste of 20 minutes
I mean
this guy's just going to be
showing off
whereas if someone came over
and went
god bloody hell
I've just been
I don't know
the Canary Islands
or I've just been to
I've just been to
like Dubai
I'll be like how was it
because I can identify
and go I might do that
one day myself
the moon I think
it's just a show off thing
I think it's a statement thing
it's the statement thing.
It's the same as dropping a really flash pair of car keys.
You're right. Or wearing a watch.
No, you're right.
Like, you literally have a watch that's really expensive
that no one else at the dinner table can afford.
That's one thing.
If I see a flash watch, I'll never ask that person a time.
That's one of my life rules.
Well, I would...
The idea that you would ask someone a time in this day and age
feels insane anyway, doesn't it? No, but, you know, you'll never say the time in this day and age feels insane anyway,
doesn't it?
No,
but,
you know,
you'll never tell.
I'm sorry,
what time is it?
Yeah,
I feel like that's gone now,
isn't it?
Asking people what the time is.
I think sometimes it's a nice way
of making conversation.
Oh my God.
Okay,
let's just role play.
I'm just walking along,
I've got a watch,
you've not got a watch on.
What's the context of this?
I always wear a watch,
but I just...
Okay,
fine.
So you've still got a watch, but you're asking me the time so immediately i think this is this
guy this guy's sometimes this guy's so we're at a party we're at a party we don't know each other
but we've got a mutual freddy's party is okay hey man how you doing um cool dancing by the way i
noticed you're out there cutting some shapes oh thanks i get a bit nervous about dancing but it's
just i felt like i should sort of get involved in the party, you know. Oh, say what, man? You've got a really cool flex to you, bro.
Thank you.
Oh, I was going to ask.
Are you obsessed with the 90s?
Just unrelated question.
Yeah, kind of.
It was my heyday.
I'm just basing it on the way you're talking and what you're wearing and stuff.
Sorry, I was going to ask you, actually.
I know you've got quite a nice watch.
What's the time?
You've got a watch on, haven't you?
Yeah, I know, but sometimes,
I don't know if this one actually keeps correct time.
It's stuck on 3.20.
My joke is always,
it's 3.20 somewhere in the world all the time.
It's funny.
It's a Casio, though,
so it feels weird to just wear that for the hell's funny. It's a Casio, though, so it feels weird to just sort of wear that for the hell of it.
It's 25 past nine, actually.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
So I've probably got about another hour or two
and then I'm going to probably hustle home.
Where else do you live?
You'll be here for another two hours, will you?
Yeah.
Okay.
That's good to know.
That's good to know.
Could you keep time for me
and give me a shout about half past eleven
and then I'll probably just try and get the last train home.
Yeah, I don't, sort of based on what I've seen in the park,
I don't anticipate still being here at half 11.
Cool.
But sure, if I am here, I'll give you a heads up.
By the way, when I'm offering my hand,
that means a handshake and goodnight maybe?
Yeah, well, yeah, I will shake your hand and i will say good
night because i think i'm leaving take care okay good bye bye god bless you see that's that's
yeah that's really nice yeah it's good can i add you on facebook would probably be my last thing
or i might find follow you on instagram if you know you should put up a video of your dance moves
and then it's yeah and then you've made a new friend. Actually, to be fair, actually,
I do think that's one of the things that I think only sort of like
a certain percentage of the population should have had watches.
And then that's an icebreaker.
Because I think that we're running out of icebreakers in 2023.
I don't know if we are running out of icebreakers
or if just people are less inclined to talk to strangers now.
Do you not think that's the case?
And I always say this as somebody who's less likely to talk to people who than you are um but i do think that i actually wish i was a bit more like you in that regard i find um my kind of
i do feel like people take me as being rude but i'm just a little the truth is i'm a bit shy that's
that's the honest truth of it i am a bit shy i know that sounds weird coming from a stand-up
comedian but yeah i just i mean we can all feel shyness but i do think that if you've got
conversation breakers that's why i always think it's good when someone wears like a football shirt
or something that is yeah where you can latch on to okay, okay. Yeah. Like if someone's wearing a QPR shirt or bloody even.
No, I get it.
You'd have to give examples, yeah.
I understand what you mean.
So anyway, going to the vegan side.
Yeah, what's the problem?
No, no, no, not vegan food.
So we went out on a bit of a big one last week
with the whole vegetable chat, fruit vegetable chat.
And I literally came off the podcast.
Why have you got a bone to pick with me?
Because I literally came off it
and I was just like,
I sat here for about another five, ten minutes
and just went through like,
peppers have got pips in.
So that must be a fruit.
Aubergine have got pips in.
So that must be a fruit.
Has aubergine got pips in?
Yeah.
Has it? Seeds. It got pips in yeah has it seeds
it's got seeds in
has it
yeah
yeah but you don't have to
cut an aubergine open
yeah but it's got little
like bits in it
it hasn't got seeds in it
has it
yeah but they're little seeds
courgettes have got seeds in
have they
yeah
okay
you go through like
literally
and then you're like
that it just actually just wound me up I sat here I had to really like you go through that literally and then you're like that
it just actually
just wound me up
I sat here
I had to really like
I was going to call you back
and talk to you about it
but I was like
it's a shame you didn't
so basically
you've only got
cauliflower
broccoli
and potatoes
is all I can register
that is actual vegetables
courgette seeds
you're looking to see
if I'm eating
if you look at the picture
yeah I know courgette seeds right yeah but that's not what you find in a courgette seeds. You're looking to see if I'm eating... If you look at the picture of...
Yeah, I know,
courgette seeds, right?
Yeah, but that's not
what you find in a
courgette, that picture.
Is it?
Have you ever seen
that in a courgette?
I never have.
Is courgette a fruit
or a veg?
Small edible seeds
inside.
Holy shit.
Yeah, courgette's a fruit.
So my point is, right,
if you came to my house and I was to say,
oh, I've made you some Mediterranean vegetables, right,
with a little bit of pasta and some sort of, like, vegan cheese,
you could turn around and go, that isn't actually, it's fruit.
So what are we doing?
Everything is just an absolute fuckfest.
Yeah, it is a fuckfest.
It's really annoying me.
I'll tell you what the other thing that happened is that Flo got in touch with us after the podcast.
And she told us that a banana's a herb.
Yeah, again.
I mean, what the fuck?
What this is, right, is this is what happens
when too many people get involved with naming things
and putting a perspective on things.
It should have just been, if it's savoury, it savory it's a vegetable if it's sweet it's a fruit but some fucking clever clogs has
sort of added like seeds and shit to it oh yeah if it's got seeds if it's got pips
and it's like that doesn't fucking work it doesn't work um i'm just looking at what makes a fruit a
fruit i've just looked this up okay okay? Okay. And by the way,
you sort of were quite front-footed at the top of this,
as if I'm in charge of this classification.
I'm not.
No, no, no, no, no.
But you were very smug.
I wasn't smug.
Your exact words were,
I've got a bone to pick with you about this, right?
Yeah, yeah, because you were like,
oh, you don't even understand it, mate.
Okay, I didn't say any of that all right a fruit is the part of a plant that houses its seeds which are vital in
the reproductive function of the plant all right a vegetable on the other hand is about any other
edible part of the plant like the roots steam stems or leaves steams here uh a bean or a pea is a seed that grows inside a lagoon plot.
I mean, fuck that.
I can't even begin to process that.
Yeah.
Here are some fruits that you might have thought were vegetables.
Okay, you ready?
Yeah.
Peppers.
Yeah.
That's a fruit.
Okay.
Pumpkin.
Yeah.
That's a fruit.
All right.
Avocado. No, there's a fruit. Aubergine. Yeah. That's a fruit. All right. Avocado.
No, that's a fruit.
Aubergine.
Yeah.
That's a fruit.
In fact, aubergines are berries, apparently.
What?
Yeah.
Olives.
This is what I mean.
It's just such...
What's that noise you just made?
Are we getting all worked up for?
It's me getting annoyed because I'm like, it's just so confusing.
Okay. Olives so confusing. Okay.
Olives, fruit.
Yeah.
Courgette is a berry.
Okay.
Okra.
You know what okra is, right?
Yeah, I know what okra is.
Is a fruit.
Cucumber, fruit.
Green beans, legume.
Butternut squash.
Fruit. Yeah. cucumber fruit green beans legume butternut squash fruit yeah i don't know sweet corn sweet corn is a dry fruit oh fucking hell i mean look i'll be honest with you i'm starting to get
as annoyed as you are this is what i mean though if someone goes on yeah if at your veg it's like that none of it's vegetables literally
I'm like
someone's had an
absolute fucking
nightmare here
what you want
I know what you want
you want if it's
savoury vegetable
if it's sweet fruit
isn't it
exactly
but that's what I've
spent 44 years thinking
yeah
no I get it
I understand why
you'd be annoyed
and it's like
you know
it's all been for nothing.
What do you mean for nothing?
How I've thought that this is this and this is this.
Actually, it's far more confusing than that.
And it's more confusing than it has to be.
Yeah, I agree with you. Listen, I agree with you.
I'm not as worked up about it as you are,
because I'm trying to think of how much it's affected your life up to this point and i would argue if anything it's been a benefit because
it's given us some content for this absolutely unscripted piece of shit that we deliver every
week but my problem is it's like just the labeling of it going oh it's it's unfair one
if you're if you're i don't know if you're a pepper you're a
fruit right and it's pretty clear and i've many times like roasted a pepper and some aubergine
and some uh courgette and called it mediterranean vegetables right okay and actually that's
mediterranean fruit and it's my you know but if I was to say that, a dinner party,
you know,
I mean,
I'm using a dinner party a lot.
Yeah,
I mean,
you're really rubbing it in
because I've never,
as we know,
I've never been to your house.
Also,
I've never been,
I think in my life
I've been to two dinner parties.
So,
if I was to cook up
some Mediterranean vegetables
and pasta for a dinner party,
right?
And then, yeah, oh, this is right? And you turn around and go,
oh, these Mediterranean vegetables are absolutely delicious.
And I put my hand on your shoulder.
This is where it becomes very unrealistic
because I wouldn't have been invited.
But yeah, go on.
And I put my hand on your shoulder slowly and say,
rubbish, my friend, they're actually Mediterranean fruit.
And it was just fucking,
because it's not a main course then is it
no
it was so
fucking insane
yeah
I'm just
yeah
I'm just none the wiser
okay
but you being none the wiser
has it ever caused
any confusion
is I guess the point
I'm trying to make
apart from
for yourself now
has it ever
has it ever
caused you an issue?
No, but I just think for a long time,
I've been labelling something.
It should be taught in schools very early on.
This is fruit.
And fruit, don't get it dizzy.
Just because it's sweet,
it doesn't mean that it's fucking fruit.
Sometimes fruit can also be sour savoury
okay
well I do think
this is
I think this is a bit of
hungover Tom
coming into this now
because I think you're a bit
yeah I mean
it could be
you're a bit of a grump
this morning aren't you
I've got a grump
also I've had to
I've had like
chores to do this morning
so
what have you done
I've had to fix
a coffee machine
because I've been
putting that off and I've had to try to bleed have you I've been putting that off and I've had
to try to bleed have you ever bled a radiator yeah yeah it is difficult yeah
I get very nervous about saying what I've done because I know the Swan
listened to this actually had the experience the other day of getting in
the car for the first time in my life she's actually happened to have an
episode of all for now as opposed to parent in hell which she normally has
spinning yeah she's actually got caught up and episode of The Wolf and Owl. Oh, really? As opposed to Parenting Hell, which she normally has spinning.
She's actually got caught up and has gone back to the...
I spoke to Lisa on the phone last night.
Yeah.
And I said to her...
What was she...
She was talking about...
Oh, she was talking about Thursday,
because obviously the cat and the swan
are both coming to the Apollo show.
Yeah.
And I'm away for a couple of nights.
So I spoke to Lisa and I said,
and she said, I started listening to The Wolf and Owl
from the beginning because I sort of got caught up
and then I said, let me just go back to the beginning.
She's on episode three of the...
I said to her, what's it like?
And then she, this is her exact words,
right? If anything, it's got less
structure than it does now,
is what she said.
What?
Less structure? Yeah, it would have had, but it was now, is what she said. What? That's what she said. Less structure?
Yeah.
Yeah, it would have had.
But it was just, that was her main observation.
Wow.
Just think about the way she's phrased that, right?
She's not gone, you've actually got more structure now than you thought you did.
And it's actually, you know, it's interesting to see how you've got,
what she says is it's got even less structure than it does now,
is how she phrased it.
I can't even remember those early days.
Hmm.
I don't feel like we'd found a groove in those early days.
I feel like we were looking for it a bit much.
I mean, people would say that we're looking for it not enough now.
And I think that would be a fair criticism.
Yeah.
So you feel like you're going to listen to this?
Here's a question for you.
No, Lisa does listen to the parenting help.
Yeah, no, so she listens to this.
So she will catch you out for lying about this? Here's a question. No, Lisa does listen to the parenting help. Yeah, no, so she listens to this.
So she'll catch you out for lying about this. Well, the thing is, as I've said,
thank you for bringing me back on track, by the way.
I was off on a fucking meander there.
But yeah, she'll say to you that I once tried to bleed a radiator and failed,
and that would be an accurate representation of it.
You just stick the key in,
and then you have to put something underneath the end of it, right?
Yeah, and I've got to go back to it after this and try and do it because you know when you have you ever been in a situation where you've done like for example the other day right i drained and sorted out the washing the washing machine wasn't working so i drained the washing machine then i pulled out the filter clean the filter and then it worked it's been working perfectly since. How did that feel?
Incredible.
Like genuinely, I got a little insight
into how Lionel Messi must have felt,
like winning the world.
I felt like, oh wow, that's actually an achievement.
So I just want to put this into context.
Me sort of having a eureka moment
at switching the light on in my hotel room
is dickish and I'm taking credit for something
i don't i don't deserve but you fixing a washing machine is the same as lionel messi when in the
world cup is that what you're saying like in contact no you hold up hold up you went down
you didn't if you'd found the light switch yourself right i'd literally give you a pat
on the back when i saw you on thursday give you a hug and the back. When I saw you on Thursday, I'd give you a hug and go, fucking hell, smashed it, mate. Well done.
Amazing stuff.
You had to get dressed.
Go downstairs and ask someone where the light switch was.
Yeah.
I followed some quite clear instructions on the washing machine on my own
to clean it and fill it.
I've got no issue with that.
I'm not suggesting that me finding a light switch after being instructed
as to where it was is the same as fixing a washing machine.
I'm not, I don't want to say that.
What I'm saying is,
me saying it was a eureka moment
is less of a jump than you saying
you know what Lionel Messi felt like.
No, but you're completely,
like eureka,
if you go back to the eureka moment,
that goes back to the bloke
who invented the light bulb, right?
No.
That's why you have the little light bulb above your head.
Yeah, sure, but that's not eureka.
Eureka was when the geezer got in the bath he got him where he got in the bath and oh shit i just nearly knocked my laptop he got in the bath and discovered the theory of displacement
which was like the amount of water that like left the bathtub is equivalent to the weight of him
the mass of him i think or something getting in the bath that's what I think that's what Eureka is why are you getting
arsey
because it's just
all these things
it's just like
so
all your life
you see Eureka
and a little light bulb
goes on your head
no you don't
you don't
you see that
I swear
I'm looking it up
as well actually now
so let's be clear when it comes to now.
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Do you know like when people say,
I like to listen to podcasts
because they sort of tell you about stuff?
I actually think you might...
I think we should put a warning on this.
You might be dumber as a result of listening to this podcast.
Look, all there is...
Look.
There. Eureka.
Okay, but that's like...
What is that?
A fucking Google image that you just found.
Here's another one.
That actually looks a bit like Jamie Redknapp.
It does a bit, actually. Does that say
Eureka? Yeah.
Here we go, look.
Yeah, that says I get it.
Yeah, but still, it's like...
Okay, so apparently this...
Apparently, although Eureka is associated
with the bath,
it probably didn't actually happen.
Another one?
You don't have that on a T-shirt?
Okay, yeah, I get it.
What I'm saying, mate, is that for a long time... Yeah, but that's when people say...
That's not when the light bulb was invented.
That's like, ding, a light comes on in your head.
You've suddenly discovered something.
That's what you meant with the eureka moment, though.
Well, I wasn't literally referring to the light.
Look, can we...
We're getting a bit hung up on the fact
that I used eureka incorrectly.
And the fact that I'm getting...
Considering that that's been your fucking go-to,
that's been your special move,
like, you're throwing it willy-nilly
around the eureka thing, right?
Mm.
Saying, right, you know,
oh, that was my eureka. Like, literally sitting there in youry-nilly around, the Eureka thing, right? Mm. Saying, right, you know, that was my Eureka.
Like, literally sitting there in your fucking, like, leather jacket.
Oh, yeah, it was my Eureka moment where I'd proved the world wrong.
Oh, well, you didn't prove the world wrong.
You had to literally scurry around the hotel on your hands.
At what point did I imply that I'd proved the world wrong?
The point I was trying to make was I felt really happy that I'd managed to get darkness in the room.
Yeah, but that's not a eureka moment. A eureka
moment is a moment of like, wow!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.
I'm saying I misused it.
Yeah. And what I'm saying
is, like, in my house, where
I did that, I was like,
wow, I feel like an absolute champion here. Maybe
Lionel Messi was a bit of a reach, but I at least felt
like someone who's... It was more than a bit of a reach but at least it was more than a bit of a reach
Lionel Messi
winning the World Cup
is what you compared it to
fixing the washing machine
yeah but in
the contextualisation
of house chore
being done
like in the
smallest of my world
right
and the levels
that I have
oh by the way
I'll never win the World Cup
as a fucking
honestly
do you not think so
that's gone
genuinely is that on the record I just want to are you happy to be quoted I'm too old and I've yeah the way i'll never win the world cup as a fucking honestly do you not think so that's gone genuinely
is that on the record i just want to are you happy to be quite old and i've yeah i'm not good that
good at football right so i have to bring my parameters down i have to bring the bar like
right so what is success for me what is success where where do i sit like lionel messi wow
fucking hell i never in my life thought i'd be able to fix a washing machine in one go.
Okay.
Without Googling.
Sure.
But you did Google.
No, I didn't.
I followed the instructions on the washing machine.
All right.
So that's old school, man.
I look at that and think, that's an achievement.
And in life, maybe, we should all be a little bit more.
That's an achievement.
I've done something there.
And I can actually, you know, shake my own hand,
pat my own back
and say,
go out into the world now
and spread the word
that actually
nothing is unachievable.
Well,
you've just said
that you've never
won the World Cup.
Some things are unachievable.
No,
no,
but that's because
I'm not in the ballpark
of it,
you know.
That is unachievable.
No,
but what I wish is if
when you told us, you know, you're, you know, you're fuckingieved that is unachieved no but what I wish is if when you
told us
you know
your
fucking
ode to
the lights
in your
room
right
if that
story had
been like
you know
I was
standing there
looking around
like trying to
find the light
switch and then
I thought
it could be
because what
happened is
you probably
looked for
about a
minute
after
no I
looked for
ages
I looked
for ages
I looked
for ages just going downstairs and we're like oh please and i wish and i think i i'd have actually
thought if you'd look for another five to ten minutes you'd have found that i wouldn't have
found it i wouldn't have found it why even the guy said to me yeah you'll never find the guy
said to me at reception yeah you'll never find that he said it's you know what i'd guy said to me yeah you'll never find the guy said to me at reception yeah you'll never find that
he said it's in such
you know what I'd have said to him
and you think that's cool do you
you think that's clever
well I just wanted to go to sleep
it was half one
two o'clock in the morning
so
and I just
I actually
my heart went out to him
that he's doing the night shift as well
so I sort of
yeah I feel sorry for him
and I know he's probably
not been involved
in putting the light switches
where they are
no
no exactly
so I felt like
I just wanted to make the interaction as pleasant for him as I could.
Do you know what I mean?
Did he seem like you might see him again over the next...
I saw him again this morning.
Did you thank him again?
I went to the gym.
Well, basically, he sort of had a bit of a chuckle about it.
Not at my expense, but he said,
you won't find that light switch. It's a weird place, they put it. And he sort of had a bit of a chuckle about it. Not at my expense, but he said, ah, you won't find that light switch.
That's a,
it's a weird place they put it.
And he sort of had a bit of a laugh.
And then when I was coming out of the gym this morning,
he was like leaving.
I think his shift had finished.
Yeah.
And he just sort of,
he sort of gave me a chuckle as if it was like a little callback to our moment that we had in the middle of the night.
Oh,
he's told everyone there about you then.
Well,
I don't think it's that embarrassing.
I couldn't find a light switch.
It was essentially behind. Yeah. But you got like, when. Well, I don't think it's that embarrassing. I couldn't find a light switch. It was essentially behind him.
Yeah, but you've got, like, when, like, I don't know,
let's just call this guy Kevin.
When Kevin's, like, he's leaving, I don't know,
like, Daphne's taking over.
She says, oh, yeah, how was last night?
He's like, well, put it this way,
the guy in room 463 couldn't find his light switch.
So that was quite amusing.
And she was like
oh right
and then he was like
shh
here he comes
and you've walked past
and gone
you alright
humourous quiet
this morning
and then she was like
oh my god
is that him
and they were like
yeah yeah yeah
is that sort of
shit level of content
that makes you think
they should start a podcast I don't know. how's
did you start filming
the void
how's it going
well I
we did the first day's
filming yesterday
and
you put up a very
alluring picture
of yourself
yeah
well
that was sort of I don't know it's one of the I sort of very alluring picture of yourself. Yeah, well, that was sort of...
I don't know, it's one of the...
I sort of sent you a picture of...
Every other... I don't want to give any spoilers,
but every other member of the cast looked amazing yesterday.
Yeah.
As is the way with shows that we're in.
We always have to look the shittest out of everyone.
So I walked onto set,
and everybody's talking about how great everyone looked. And i walked on and it just went very quiet yeah but let me just say you
looked incredible in like you must have noticed the difference between how many you would have
looked before and how you looked in lycra now and also i will say this you have written that yourself
well that's the point that a lot of people made to me it's it's one of those things where you you
sort of know this it's like when you're trying's one of those things where you sort of know this.
It's like when you're trying to write the funniest thing
and you sort of think, I'll be funny if he's in this or whatever,
or if this is his new hobby or whatever, whatever you want to call it.
And you sort of detach yourself from the fact
that it's going to be you doing that thing, do you know what I mean?
Because you're just trying to write the thing.
And you almost sort of think about the character
rather than it's going to be me that's doing this and then then day one of the
shoot arrives and then you go oh yeah i wrote it so that he's doing this today and so it is your
it is my fault it's weird as well because that look of the lycra on cyclists i just think like
so many people don't look good in Lycra but yeah
you drive around
on a Sunday
and you see so many people
out riding
and you think
just put on a tracksuit
yeah
yeah
because I don't know
what Lycra
I mean I guess it makes you
go faster right
maybe
well I think it's
aerodynamics
and it's sort of easier
to move in
and stuff like that
I mean I'm assuming
there's a reason
because it's not for looks although some people i mean i did actually when i sat in
the trailer looking at myself feeling sad i just thought does everybody look like this in lycra
and so i googled it's a bit of a weird search history but i googled men in lycra and uh the
only images i could find were people looking incredible in it so I they all looked amazing
the people I found I think as well when it comes to things like that they actually should put more
pictures of people who don't look amazing yeah well actually I thought congratulations everybody's
looking for those images avoidance series two you'll find them something to look forward to
was it how how was the first day that did you find there was a banter on set that everyone
sort of well how how did you tackle it as sort of like well I wasn't in the first day? Did you find there was a banter on set? Did everyone sort of...
How did you tackle it?
Well, I wasn't in the first scene,
so I arrived after the stuff had started.
But Ben Green...
Did you go down to set?
No, I was travelling.
But I did turn up a little bit before I stood up.
But Ben Green green my mate what's what's what how do you describe
james defront he's your friend first colleague uh business partner yeah friend colleague business
partner ben you know what you could use is the word cohort yeah okay there you go cohort so my
cohort ben green he did a little sort of welcome speech that i missed but i've seen a video of it
now so oh wow it's very sweet yeah i'd have thought you a little sort of welcome speech that I missed, but I've seen a video of it now.
Oh, wow.
It's very sweet.
Yeah, I'd have thought you'd have done a welcome speech.
Yeah, I'm not really that guy.
People don't tend to go to me for pep talks, weirdly.
Really?
I go to you all the time for them.
Yeah, I know, but that's different on a one-on-one basis, yeah.
I'm not a big summoner, but sort of weirdly that kind of...
It's a weird thing.
I'm a stand-up comedian who doesn't, that kind of, it's a weird thing.
I'm a stand-up comedian who doesn't like public speaking,
so it's a weird contradiction.
You know what would be incredible, though,
on the last day of filming, if you do an amazing,
like humbling and really sort of sweet speech.
I did do last series, I did.
Yeah, I always try and do one of those. Because I do feel like we work the least hard
out of everyone on the show.
Oh, mate, on set, yeah.
Everything's done for you, and it's pretty...
I do feel like it's good to pretend you appreciate all of that.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
But Ben closed the speech by saying, go avoidance.
Oh, OK.
He said, on three...
On three, he got everyone to... on three on three
he got everyone to
yeah I mean look
yeah
he got everyone to go
I adore Ben
I love Ben
but that's
well yeah I know
when you say
I love somebody
that normally
I mean I feel sorry
for Catherine
I wonder if like
in your marriage
that she knows
when you go
Catherine I adore you
it's normally
proceeding absolute
leathering from you.
No, but,
do you know,
I don't know if I've told this story
on here before,
years ago I did,
like a read-through
of a pilot for a channel.
And,
it was like,
me and Paddy McGuinness
were the lead two ads in it,
and it was a really, really,
like, Angela Griffith, it was a really, really good cast.
And the script was funny, but then there's this producer, right?
And he did this speech before.
It was one of the hottest days of the year,
so it was really, really hot and sweaty in there.
And he came up to the front of the room and was like,
before we start, I'm just going to say a few words about this show.
And he did this whole thing about, you know, comedy at its very root,
it can make you laugh, but actually if it really pricks a moment,
it can make you cry.
What comedy's there to do is make you feel.
And he went on for about 10 minutes about what comedy was.
I'm not going to name him because it's unfair if i did so um and it just goes on and on and you could see people thinking this is just
too much now and then he um put his hands together and closed his eyes and looked around and he just
went um okay that's enough from me let's make a fucking movie and i was like it's not a movie it's
a tv show but like he like he had like this like a sports jet like you know not a movie it's a TV show but like he he had like this
like a sports
like you know
like a sort of
blazer on
with some
yeah
trainers and jeans
and sort of like
but that
yeah
that's a shame
I always remember
Paddy McGinnis
just lent over to me
and went
this isn't going to
get commissioned
this is fucked
and it was like
the most painful half hourhour read-through ever.
It was awful.
Everyone had felt disgusting after this speech.
It was really hot.
It was actually a really good script as well.
Ruined by that speech, you think?
Yeah, yeah.
Completely just marred by the speech.
And that's why sometimes speeches aren't as good as you think.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
Yeah, sometimes speeches can inspire,
but also sometimes they can actually take the tarnish off.
They can kill.
They can kill a project.
And I'm sure Ben's was good, but Guy Avoidance might be.
How did he feel about Guy Avoidance?
I think he sort of, it's one of those things where he didn't know
if he was doing it tongue-in-cheek or not.
Do you know one of them?
Yeah.
Where he sort of felt like he was being ironic
but wasn't entirely sure.
I think that's what that was.
Have you given it to him?
No, I haven't, because it was his first day sort of as director.
I didn't feel that was fair to do that.
Yeah.
I think in time, you know, he did a great job yesterday,
so it would be horrible at the end of the first day
to go by the way how do you feel about go avoidance
as a thing
that would feel weird in a children's
TV show
but I'll have
word with him about it down the line
you know what you should do
hold your fire and then get
t-shirts made
like a real humiliation like at the end when he
thinks he's done a great job and he's feeling really good about himself just to really fucking
no no but he's but no you know what going back to the spaceship man he's brought the fucking ship
home yeah absolutely no you're right so actually go avoidance goes from something we're all joking
about to actually being something that he's probably said to him every city ben's working
out every morning he's looked in the him every city Ben's waking up every morning
he's looked in the mirror
and gone
fucking go avoidance
go avoidance
I imagine he's saying that right now
he's about to leave
so I imagine he's saying it
in the mirror right now
is he at a hotel with you
he is yeah
yeah
that's pretty amazing man
is it
is that amazing
no no no
I mean the guy avoidance
it's not that easy
oh right
okay fine
I'm not that easily impressed
wow you're in the same hotel
that's incredible
wow
what an amazing story
I wonder if he
if I wonder if he found
the light switch
yeah I'm not
look
I would say
between go avoidance
and not finding the light switch
I think mine's the more embarrassing
I would say
yeah
right Tomo well we've got the big live show Thursday and not finding the light switch. I think mine's the more embarrassing. Yeah.
Right, Tomo.
Well, we've got the big live show Thursday.
Everyone, Thursday.
I think there's some tickets left.
Please, can you fucking sell this out?
I mean, it's just embarrassing at this stage.
So what is it?
Like some singles left?
If you, look, the way we see it.
I think there's like two and a half500 singles sort of dotted about the venue.
Look, me and Robert,
as you would say,
if you're going to come alone,
come alone,
because when you arrive
and you sit down in that audience,
we're all friends,
we're all family.
You're part of something big,
you're part of the pack.
And that's not something you'd say
to try and give it the last push.
Okay, Tom,
can you take us out, please?
Hey, friends. Ties that that bind it's a funny thing in life sometimes you can feel that you're being weighed down held down not by chains nor thick
rope that would hold a spaceship or a sea vessel like a piano ferry sometimes the ties that bind are ties as thin
as just the stuff that you put in your mouth to clear your teeth out otherwise known as
what's it called
what kind of stuff you do floss so yeah otherwise known as thin and as fragile as tooth floss
the ties of buying aren't physical ties
the ties that bind are actually mental ones
I can't do this, I'm not going to do that
I'm scared to break free
and just give myself another challenge
those challenges can be
simple at times, hey let's bleed
a radiator, let's clean a washing machine
unless I'm not just talking about myself
I'm talking about everyone let's start a conversation with. And that's I'm not just talking about myself. I'm talking about everyone.
Let's start a conversation with that person
and just say a general hello.
Let's go to a place that we've never been before.
Hey, that's Go Ape.
I'm scared of walking across from tree to tree.
Have you ever tried it before?
No, go and do it.
You've got this.
That's the thing in life
that you're not always gonna have someone patting your back
and saying new frontiers are easy accessible.
Sometimes that voice has got to come from yourself.
You have to look within yourself and know, yeah, have I achieved enough?
Maybe you have.
Maybe you're happy where you are.
And for that, I salute you.
But if you think there's a little bit more,
if you've got another little bit of the path that you can walk across and a little bit of the mountain you can climb,
then make today the day that you achieve something you never thought you would friends i adore you go forth
go free and smash your brothers and sisters and other people well done tom a little bit of a panic
at the end there i think we all know but um really really good yeah. I sometimes hear things, and I think that's so good.
It's inspiring.
And that's the song I'm choosing at the end of this.
Now, it sounds like I've overstated it a little bit,
but there's a track by Logic called Homicide that features Eminem.
And when Eminem comes in on this tune,
he is just so incredibly good at rapping on this tune.
It made me think like,
you know what?
I'm going to carry that attitude
into everything I do.
I'm going to be as good
at acting today.
I'm going to try and be
as good at acting today
as Eminem is at rapping
on the tune Homicide.
So JT,
can you play Eminem's verse
out for us?
Guys,
we'll see you,
hopefully we'll see you tomorrow
at the Apollo.
If not, thank you for listening.
Hey, thank you, friends.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Take care of yourselves.
Bye-bye.
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Like Red Rover, so you know what I meant
But I wrote over my opponents instead
Making dark sounds, cause I gotta keep breaking these bars down
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