Wolf and Owl - S2 Ep 78: Wardrobes, Coffee & TikTok Tom
Episode Date: November 8, 2023We’re talking… messy wardrobes, high-level hygiene, a very strange dinner table, the errors of hanging up T-shirts, loud irons, cap collections, Tom’s new TikTok videos, social media food revie...wers, Pret problems, bogus baristas, a very dubious story about cronuts and some calorie confusion. 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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Yum. Yeah, what you want? Beak or jaws? Feathers or fur? Drinking Edge. That's an awful howler. Both of them are known to pull up at your shows. Have the crowd witnessing the murder like they rolled in with a gang of crows.
Fuck the censorship.
Let them see the whole thing.
They stay dressed to kill.
Never sheep's clothing.
Dark enough to turn the sun to the moon.
You'll see nothing.
All you hear is a huff, a puff and a... Expect killings.
Red spilling and flesh ripping.
Impressive in it.
The death bringing, it's head spinning.
Just kidding.
Every word in this song's about two grown men dressed up as a bird and a dog welcome once again to the wolf and meow how are you tom you
know what i'm looking i'm looking at your room like we've talked about this off i say off air
that sounds like we should sound like fucking jamie thingston but um uh um but that's an
incredible
bedroom
I think that
might be my
favourite room
you've ever done
I find that
actually really
really like
I'm not even in it
and I find it
really like
inspiring
well this is
I'm in Charlie's
bedroom
and
right in that
connection by the way
oh is it better
yeah it's really
wonderful
well I have
I'm having internet problems at the moment.
I don't want to do what you did,
which is basically moan about it
until somebody from the company listened to the podcast,
then fixed it,
and then you sort of started singing the praises of the company
because they helped you out as an individual.
I don't want to do that.
But I'm having some internet issues
that I'm hopefully going to sort out today.
I've also done a really stupid thing.
Are you at home all day today? So you're doing as you know i'm doing i i well i'm glad you said that
because um i've got monday we're filming because we're filming saturday yeah and um
i decided to do some okay i'm all over the place here because i've had a coffee
but um i went to the gym with Sweet Sweet Lisa this morning.
Nice.
And I went to grab my gym T-shirt.
And I wanted to get a T-shirt from sort of out the back of the T-shirts.
And there was a bit of disruption.
And Lisa went into the wardrobe and she looked at my stuff.
And she sighed.
It was like a really fed up.
I know the sigh.
Catherine does.
It was a really fed up, like,
I can't believe I've got to deal with this every day of my life,
sort of sigh.
Do you know what I mean?
That was what I took from the sigh.
And so we went to the gym and I said,
well, I tackled it.
I said to her, I could not notice it,
that you had the flawed look of a woman that was in a prison.
Wow.
And she said that, she just goes, oh, it's just because I,
because the thing is, 45 years old, I'm untidy.
I've just got to accept that.
Yeah, I'm the same.
I'm an untidy, I would just got to accept that. Yeah, I'm the same. I'm an untidy.
I would say fastidiously hygienic to the point of an issue.
Yeah, but I'd say your hygiene is exemplary.
I'd say your hygiene is incredible.
I'd say, genuinely, I'm going to say this now and fucking put this on record.
You can quote me.
You're the most hygienic male I know.
There's no...
You rate highly in human beings
I know more
I wasn't expecting a compliment from there
but look I'll take it
so then I said
I thought to myself
so basically there's one of two ways that could go
just quickly on the hygiene thing
I'd eat
I would eat food from your armpits.
As it went on, I was so delighted
that you didn't go where I thought you were going to go,
which was just sort of...
No, no, no.
...split my cheeks and eat a fucking meal off my arsehole.
Sort of a little hot dog propped up in the kisser.
That wouldn't be fun,
because, number one, I couldn't see your face when I was doing it.
Well, I'd try and look round as much as i could yeah but that would just be just distracting the way i think the way i would
do it i think if you were to be in for my ass is i would sort of bend my body over like you know
one of those little step ladders having clothes shops to get up to the high stuff i'd sort of i'd
sort of hinge my body over that so my arse was sort of presented.
Like a table.
Like a table, yeah.
Like a table that you could sort of prop stuff up in.
In many ways, better than a table.
I could stand and eat like that.
Yeah, you could do.
I don't know what the meal would be.
Because I'd have to be careful, obviously,
because of you.
Obviously not soup.
be because i'd have to be careful obviously because of you obviously not soup but yeah i wouldn't want to do meat because obviously because ethically for you so
maybe some sort of like yeah just sort of like i don't know like a vegetable lasagna
vegetable lasagna off my ass i i i what the one thing I would ask is that you put the serving,
sort of,
the dish
somewhere else.
Yeah.
What I don't want is you taking
a hot lasagna dish
straight out of the oven
and putting it
onto my crevice.
I was thinking
there was not a plate.
I was thinking the lasagna
rests on your back.
Well, yeah, of course.
Otherwise, what's the point
of doing this whole exercise?
Yeah.
Otherwise, I'm just a guy eating off... It's a race against time, well, yeah, of course. Otherwise, what's the point of doing this whole exercise? Yeah. Otherwise,
I'm just a guy eating off.
And then what do you,
it's a race against time then,
because I guess you're losing lasagna to the,
to the valley.
It's quite,
if it was quite a thick set of lasagna,
quite a heavy set of lasagna,
vegetables in it.
My only,
my only,
it's a knife,
big,
big job for a knife and fork on lasagna.
Actually,
it's probably better to go with like a penne, like a penne, penne arrabbiato or something like that. just sort of a knife and fork, I can assign you. Actually, it's probably better to go with a penne,
like a penne arrabbiata or something like that.
Yeah, just sort of a mound of it.
Yeah.
It's not like I can eat with my fingers.
So, anyway...
I don't know if we can leave this in,
but usually when I'm eating pasta...
I imagine that's what you'd be saying over the last bit of penne I usually like to mop up my bowl with a piece of
garlic bread
I can't think of anything I'd enjoy more
than feeling the sort of
tender mopping of a
soggy bit of garlic bread as you get out that
bit of spicy tomato
just you mopping
it up going
do you know what
Rob I don't even
think you need to
clean yourself up
after that
I've done a pretty
decent job with
that garlic bread
it's actually
a lot of people
sort of
I've started to
wonder why they
don't use that
instead of like
general towels
and stuff like that
it's got such
great absorbent
qualities the
old garlic bread
and it leaves a nice
aroma behind afterwards
yeah but Tom
now my bloody
arse stinks of garlic
so anyway
the point is
I'm untidy
right
and Lisa isn't untidy
she's a very tidy person
this is literally this is my life.
Yeah, and I would go as far as to say that she sees mess where I don't.
And it's only when she, do you know in Men in Black,
when after he becomes one of the Men in Black,
he suddenly sees all this stuff.
That's what it's like with Lisa every time she goes,
the bedroom's a mess.
And I go, no, it isn't.
And then she goes in and it's like she puts on a pair of glasses
and I go, God, it is fucking bad goes in and it's like she puts on a pair of glasses and I go oh god
it is fucking bad this
do you know what I mean
like
this isn't
like yeah
so
do you think like
then this is a really lazy observation
because we might just be messy people
and I have got friends
male friends
who are incredibly tidy
the frond is fucking insane
the frond
the frond looks
just everything
I have never seen that guy
not be immaculate
I mean he's a neatulate he's a neat freak
he's a neat freak
he's got that vibe
do you know what he said
the other day
he's just
he was saying to me
in his new house
he's looking at a sofa
and I sort of said
oh I sort of
started showing him
some sofas
and he was like
Tom Tom Tom Tom Tom
I've done a floor plan
and I've done a mood board
I was like
oh my god
like he's so
fucking incredible
I mean he's a director
so I imagine that he's sort of incredible i mean he's a director so
i imagine that he's sort of used to yeah he's a director but he's also like like in the office
he is like literally it's like i leave this house with my wife and i go to the office with james and
if i leave a cup or like a sort of container where i've had some takeaway he'll be like come on mate
come on i was like i literally finished that 10 minutes ago let's just let it sit there it's yeah
let it sit there for how long?
Just the idea of you bent over a table
and I've just finished my lunch.
Just to front...
Police to front, at least.
He's out there.
His arseholes are out there for everyone in the office to see, Tom.
Anyway, so there's one or two ways this could go right lisa was obviously pissed off
but but she's very sweet like she she wasn't i it almost makes me feel worse that the part of her
is i feel like she's accepted her lot in life and that is that her husband is messy do you know what
i mean but but this morning it got to her right like you know i basically she i think she tidied up and then i've gone in in 30 seconds
sort of undone all of the good work that she'd done right so yeah so fair so there's one or two
ways that this can go because i'm very childish man as well as well as being untidy is that i can
get on the defensive and say something like yeah which i did think about i thought about saying
something like well i'm going to be away next week
like filming
so you'll be delighted
with your tidy house
you know I thought about
saying something childish
like that
you know
I'm not proud of it
you know
it's a sort of
you get
I've said things like that
I was going to look
at school
that's the sort of thing
yeah
but then I thought
do you know what
I'm actually going to
do something here
I'm going to take action
so I took all my t-shirts out and I'm in the process of rearranging the whole
system.
Right.
So before I got into this podcast,
I've been ironing all my t-shirts.
So they're moving from a folded wardrobe situation to a hanging wardrobe
situation.
Cause
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whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Please. I adore you. Please don't. Please don't ruin this system. No, I adore you.
No, can I just say, yeah,
you're biting off a lot there with the hanging system.
I've tried it, mate.
I've been there.
Tom, don't.
Try the hanging system with T-shirts.
Tom, I'll be honest with you.
I don't know if I can, genuinely,
I don't know if I can handle what you're about to say.
Just get it out.
What's the problem with the hanging system?
I'm going to say, I've done the hanging system right the hanging
system is a lot more tricky to keep on top of than the folding yeah but the fault and also can i say
no no can i just say as well right folding is for fucking idiots right like rolling you have to
that's the fucking that's the thing a nice roll t-shirt right then you can see them all you're
not you're not picking them out from the bottom you don't have to pull them up to go through which one you want you have them rolled nice thick roll
what's wrong with the hanging system the hanging system just a lot for lisa and you to keep what
you've really got if you're you've got to be that you know have you seen the david beckham document
how he is that's who you've got to be that's what that's what it requires to be a hanger
do you know what i mean like it's an insane amount it's that's a life that's a dedication
and i'm going to tell you now right because you're saying a lot of stuff i can like i associate with
myself a lot of your traits are some similar to mine i tried hanging when we first moved into
this house it was one of the worst things i ever did well might say as well because then then i'm
making more work and you'll be making more because me and you are very like you know at the moment
and you're exactly when you're saying, right, you've taken action.
One of Catherine's pet hates is me going, actually, you know what?
I want to do something about that.
And I pull everything out of the wardrobe.
That's what I've done.
That's what I've done.
That is what I've done.
I'll do this now.
And she's like, yeah, but you know what?
We had a day planned today of doing nice things because you had a day off.
And now our day together is me watching you make more work over the next six months for me because that like she will be
really amazing and katherine will hang up the t-shirts and then i'll just be like oh thanks
yeah jumpers hang cardigans hang jackets hang jeans i'm 50 50 on well jeans are moved from hang to fold now
oh my god this you literally it's like you know what this is this is a very martin mcfly situation
you're me a few months ago i did that i put them back i put i folded i rolled the jeans right
rolled the jeans that lasted for about three months and then it's just like a nightmare trying
to yeah why is it a nightmare mate you know you know when I looked at
let me say like
David Beckham documentary
very much enjoyed it
I like Big D
what the fuck
I forgot his initials
I forgot his initials
I love Big D
so that's not something
you'd say while you're
eating your penne
out of my arse
I love Big TV
right
but
when I look at that wardrobe
I've got to say
I looked at it
I was like
fucking hell
that's the dream right
what he's got there
that is the dream
but
the requirement it takes
it's like
hold on
I assume that once you've set the system up
then
what are you shaking your head for?
Because me and you are naturally messy people.
Look, look, I don't know if this is you.
I will do things to the point where I'm like,
oh, actually, I'll take action.
Like, I'm out of the house a lot.
I'm going to do, like, washing.
I'll do a load of washing.
I'll do washing.
I'm into the small...
Catherine's out.
I'll do some washing.
What will happen there is I'll put the washing in the washing machine,
put the washing on, go and play with Grace
play a game of FIFA
watch something on television
and by the time
Catherine gets back
and
you know
we'll have a bit of dinner
then the next morning
she'll go
I might do some washing
she'll open the washing machine
and there'll be just a load
of stinking washing in
because I forgot
that I put the washing in
because I set off
with the best intentions
I was like that's going to be I want this to be I want to be a better version of myself
as around the house but then I just didn't follow it through and it requires like they're like to
organize a wardrobe right like I used to I used to mock the thing like people go I've got someone
who's coming around to organize my wardrobe and give me a system I used to take a mick out of
them now I look at and go if you could afford to got someone who's coming around to organise my wardrobe and give me a system. I used to take the mick out of them.
Now I look at it and go, if you could afford to do that,
what an incredible thing to do.
Like my wardrobe, Catherine at one point, when we first moved in,
we went for it.
It was like literally watching us teaching Grace letters and numbers at the moment.
She was like, how do you want your card?
Maybe you should have them right here.
This will be your sort of woolies.
These can be your crew neck, whatever.
This will be your jeans.
These will, you know, and go through it all.
And Catherine laid it out impeccably, right?
It lasted for about two weeks.
And now it's like, if you look to my wardrobe now,
it's just all over the place.
It's a shit show.
Do you know what?
I came on here thinking this can be some sort of triumphant
kind of Romesh has taken action.
And now I'm more, I mean, the other thing is, i'm balls deep in it now i'm halfway through look look look you
know what you know what there's a part of me that if you could do this i could do it and i kind of
want it's a bit like you know like you're you know it's an underdog story you versus a wardrobe if
you can get into a situation one right we're in like two three months you go to me hey
hey wardrobe systems working i will look at you as an inspiration i'll follow you into that battle
and go you know what he's done it i can fucking do it and before you know it we you know everyone
starts having wardrobes at work you could be you could you know be the guiding light what i would
say is i'm finding ironing very therapeutic you know i hate it i thought i hated it until this
morning now i think i love it i can never have you seen they've got these new full displays i had to
put music on because uh i started to be alone with my thoughts as i was ironing and that was a
horrifying place it was like the end of event horizon i i had to get i had to put something
on to drown the noise out of my own brain it's was awful. Yeah, it's a killer, that.
I like hoovering.
I find hoovering quite therapeutic.
Because the noise of the hoover sort of cancels out the imposter syndrome.
Yeah, it's that white noise.
Yeah.
If anything, I'd like a vacuum cleaner that's really fucking loud.
It absolutely tunes out your throat, like, completely.
You can't even hear your own voice.
You just, like, carry it around on your back the whole time,
like a fucking ghostbuster gun. I just screamed at the around on your back the whole time like a fucking ghostbuster gun.
I just screamed
at the top of its lungs
the whole time
I was using it.
Just running your tap
as you're doing it.
Just to break the monotony.
What's your favourite
thing to wear?
Jeans?
Absolutely not.
Jeans are the least
favourite thing to wear.
T-shirt's great.
It's quick.
Do you know what I mean?
I want a quick payoff. Do you know what I mean I want a quick payoff
do you know what I mean
which is great news for Lisa
you know what I find really tricky
is the
is anything that's got
sort of stitched in label
and you go over the iron
and it'll do that shrink thing
that it does
yeah
I've ruined quite a lot of clothes
from my inefficient ironing
you know when you feel
the iron stick
and then you look down
and it's got a little wrinkle
like a nana's pouch
do you know what I mean You can feel the iron stick and then you look down and it's got a little wrinkle like a nana's pouch.
Do you know what I mean?
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Nice.
What's it taste like?
It's like barefoot water skiing while dolphins click with glee.
Whoa, let me try.
Nah, it's like gliding on a gondola through waving waters as a mermaid sings.
Nah, it's like Coca-Cola with a refreshing burst of raspberry and spiced flavors.
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in spiced flavours.
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I'm loving the fact you've got the Wolfenau.
I've lost my Wolfenau cap.
I'm really devastated by it.
Is that a new one?
It's not a new one, no.
Speaking of Wolfenau,
by the way, this is disgusting.
I wore a hat to the gym and it's got like a salt line on it.
Yeah.
Disgusting.
A few hats.
Yeah.
But also not just,
no,
but there's a part of me that shows you've been putting in the hat.
What'd you do?
How'd you clean your hat?
There is actually a,
like,
okay,
we're going to have to get into this now.
You've got,
actually,
but just before there's a little digression here.
Let's put a
we'll come back to this but it just reminded me yeah uh thank you to everybody who came to the
wall for now at the apollo it was an amazing show not i'm not saying we were amazing i'm saying the
vibe in the room was amazing it was like it was a great but the the reason i mention it is because
and thank by the way from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much. You were part of a really special night.
And Tom and I were talking about it afterwards,
and it's like we love doing this podcast so much,
and then to meet people that listen to the podcast,
we don't take it for granted.
It's amazing.
But the reason I mention it is because it's yet another example
of how I'm not that convinced
that Catherine and Lisa should spend time together
because what we essentially had to deal with
when they both turned up
was before the show,
Barry and I were about to go out
in front of three and a half thousand people,
a roast, a joint roast,
two-pronged attack by Lisa and Catherine
on our professional integrity integrity on our mental state
on the way that we keep our stuff on our general level of negligence I mean it was insane the fact
that we had a dressing room a sort of safe space which was sort of then turned into a essentially
what was sort of a social space for well it was a nando's eating chamber because
everybody turned up inside it they wanted to yeah um what i did notice as well as as we both did we
both adore flow it brought quite a sort of like uh bantery side of flow out where sort of like
she wanted to be queen of the banner so she was sort of almost going two-footed in there
oh there was people coming in i think from the audience at one point just to sort of see who
could roast us the best
realising there was
quite a vibe going
what I knew was going on
was when Gratz
slipped out the door
and then sort of
came back and said
oh you two will need
to get changed
which would have been
something that you'd do
in your shared dressing room
usually
we had to go to
Gratz's changing room
we'll leave that story there
because that was
I feel rather bad
about what sort of...
What transpired in that dressing room, yeah.
Well, I had to use the toilet and I didn't want to go...
Look, Catherine is sort of like...
Already sort of knows what a disgusting beast I am
before showing that I'll need to go to a number two.
I didn't necessarily want Lisa having that opinion on me.
And look, let's ignore the fact that there's six dressing rooms at the Apollo
and you could have used
any of the other ones
but you chose to use Gratz's.
Yeah.
It was actually
a really lovely toilet,
I'll say that much.
And yeah,
and I was very thankful
as always to Gratz.
But I would say,
yeah,
it was an amazing night.
It was very incredible.
But also,
like,
Catherine was like,
oh yeah,
you know,
whenever you and Ron
were sort of taking a mick out of me and Lisa, me and Lisa would look at each other and give each other a look and I was like, oh, yeah, you know, whenever you and Ron were sort of taking a look at me and Lisa,
me and Lisa would look at each other and, you know,
give each other a look.
And I was like, oh, God.
I'm not too sure that we're that far away from an actual
Cat and Swan spin-off podcast.
I actually spoke to Lisa.
I actually spoke to her about, first of all, I mean,
I don't know if you suggested to Cat, but I suggested to Lisa
that she comes out on stage.
Yeah, I said, yeah, on stage. The anger in her face
at the very suggestion that she'd come out on stage
was enough for me to not suggest it again.
But the other thing
was, is that
Kat mentioned your
hat collection.
So apparently you've got 200,
is it over 200 caps you've got?
I've got a lot of caps, yeah, yeah.
Which is not, I've got a problem with, I mean, I'm on your side,
but does that require maintenance, that hat collection?
I've got, yeah, I've got, yeah, but then I've got,
these have been collected, by the way, since the age of about 22, 23.
I've been collecting, they've moved houses with me,
it's not like I've, but yeah, I mean,
also there's quite a lot of them have been put in the loft now. but that's so i've got quite a few i've got nice ones that you
know the worst thing you can do when you talk about that salt mark is you've got a cap that
you really really like and you wear it on a sort of hot summer's day and you'll go somewhere and
that's all my will kick in and then like there is you know we'll get into this in a minute because
also lisa and katherine one of the other things was the training collection they jumped yes the clothes yeah that both of us
had brought new clothes for the war which i don't think is mad it's a big show it's a big moment we
both brought new outfits you know but there's a lot of eye rolling about the new outfits and
yeah well one of the things that i do slightly resent and uh i know she's going to listen to
this because actually i've got a big announcement to make the last three times i've got into the car lisa's had the wolf on our lawn
wow so been a real turnaround and i don't know if it's because she's been listening to me
going in on her on this podcast but um well i doubt she has because she listened to parenting
help but um but anyway she started listening to it with my dad uh yeah my mom listens to it
on her own but katherine and my dad have now,
whenever they're together,
sort of go back through the sort of back catalogue a bit.
My dad's been picking out pointers
and sort of giving me one-liners
that I can sort of throw into the mix.
There's not really that kind of thing.
He actually genuinely tried to give me
a bit of material for Bournemouth last night.
I was like, I can't open with that joke.
Well, the thing that I sort of find slightly uh irritating is lisa talking about my clothes
shopping as if she doesn't receive loads of clothes as if she doesn't buy loads of clothes
herself i mean oh yeah the hypocrisy yeah it's quite a step i mean i didn't do it then because
it's a bit you're very much playing away from i felt a way i was playing away from home at the
fucking den yeah and so I just felt
like any sort of
retaliation
would have been
absolutely seized upon
do you know what I mean
because Flo
Lisa and Catherine
both really warmed
to their theme
yeah
and they're all quite
they're all very
fiery characters
when they want to be
they gave us
a proper shoo-in
basically
if it was a three on three
like sort of
tag team match Gratz ran out as quickly as he could leaving me and you and me and you were very much Proper shoo-in, basically. If it was a three-on-three, like, tag-team match,
Gratz ran out as quickly as he could, leaving me and you.
And me and you were very much, yeah,
it was very much like Crawley Town versus, like,
Prime Man City at fucking Yetiat.
We were done.
And we'd had a man sent off.
What was that about going to your sweat thing, right?
Yeah, go on, yeah.
Because there is...
So, look, I've given you a lot of stick
about your obsession with TikTok.
And, you know, when you come on here and turn around and go,
oh, yeah...
Well, not only have you given me a lot of stick, Tom,
some of your stuff that you've said to me in this podcast
has led to me getting heckled on social media.
So, yeah.
So, for example, I posted aok the other day and somebody just went oh
tiktok roms back or whatever that was one of the first comments on the video then another thing is
i posted up on instagram somebody said make sure you include this as a story as well romesh you
know how you like to do that all these little things that you're these little wool vine followers
have started to latch on to oh please let's get it as a t-shirt and start and
started throwing it at me so so thanks for that but anyway go on well we were chatting about
because obviously i'm just getting to grips with tiktok now i'm just sort of uh probably one of my
funniest uh well actually actually while we're talking about tiktok i'd love to draw the
listeners attention to tiktok you did let me I just want to make sure that I tell everybody how to find this
because it really is worth a watch.
It was...
I would say... Hold on.
Just by now.
Just bloody... Hold on.
This...
This TikTok by Tom...
Now, obviously, when you're friends with comedians you do you
do posts and stuff that you're not proud of because you're promoting stuff right
and sometimes you just go well that's just the nature of the base as I click
onto your tick-tock now first of all I see you've changed your profile picture
I've also seen that you've done a Harry Potter TikTok for some reason. But that's not the TikTok that I want to draw attention to.
Which, hold on, let me find it.
Okay, that's...
That's the music from the TikTok,
and it's accompanied by sort of jumping photos of Tom on...
It's one of the most incredible things I've ever fucking seen.
When I saw it, I thought, this can't be Tom's account.
But that is your account. Can I just...?
So imagine...
This music... But that is your account. Can I just... So imagine...
This music...
Alongside animated photos of Tom on stage.
But bearing in mind that, Tom,
you're not the most animated when you're on stage,
if you don't mind me saying, do you know what I mean?
Like, it's so...
Can you talk me through the origin story of that post, please?
Well, so I'd seen someone, right,
had posted a number of pictures with what I thought at the time...
Look, I'm going to actually live with you.
I didn't hear the music of that.
I just thought there was music to it
because I was in the car with Gratz and we were chatting.
I thought, actually, I want to put something
a bit edgy and a bit cooler.
And I saw someone had done that.
And it was one of my first times
putting one of these montage things up.
So I stuck up a couple of pictures.
I was actually, do you know,
this is a sad thing, right?
I sort of was quite proud of it at one point.
I just thought, you know,
you've learned a new skill.
You know, you'll keep getting those fucking Instagram things going,
oh, how to be a better person, use a new skill, learn something new,
learn to cut videos, YouTube accounts.
So I thought, oh, yeah, I've learned something new.
I've sort of, it's a collage kind of vibe.
And I forgot it was even there until, and it was easy to forget it was there
because I think like 300 people have watched it um and then you mentioned it backstage um and then uh you know
antonia uh what i loved actually because uh again not to sort of like you know but uh i adore
antonia she's one of my favorite people antonia quickly you know there was a lot of roasting going
on about the video and Antonia made sure
to go
oh by the way
I was nothing to do
with that video
I was nothing to do
with that
she literally
Antonia's across
social media
yeah both of our
social medias
so she was like
no I was nothing to do
with that
he's gone rogue
he's done that
on his own
and I was like
literally like
what was the guy
who worked with Trump
Spicer
she couldn't wait
to get a fucking
oh nothing to do with me nothing to do with me, nothing to do with me.
I was like, it's insane.
I respected her for it, to be honest with you.
Yeah, I respected her for it, because I wouldn't,
there's nothing, I can't run.
I'm fucking, I've gone out to bat on this thing.
Yeah.
So the picture, yeah, that was,
but now I find it probably actually,
I would say since, look,
you've roasted me in the room about this,
and I would say arguably it's one that I couldn't breathe.
I think Antonia's actually got the video of you roasting me.
It's one of the funniest things you've ever done.
You rinsed me in front of the whole room.
I couldn't breathe.
I was laughing.
It was genuinely genius.
And I think you've actually been very diplomatic.
You've not gone in as hard today as you did then.
You've used all your gun fat.
But now, because you made it so funny
what i it's become my favorite video or anything i've ever put up on any social media i find it
just very it's so shit but anyway you're talking about tiktok for tiktok right so i've become so
you you know i've never really used it because if i'm going to like i think i talked about it
i found it a lot of that you know that
family who dance that really annoying family yes you always go in on this family yeah yeah but i
find them really like i know i hate doing this but i find them really over because i'm a bit like
it's just a constant straight and like i'm like yeah i'm like what even is this and i guess there's
a little bit of talent i don't know anyhow i digress um but i've always been just sort of like thought tick to that's what tick tock is
then recently on on you know going to tour shows i'm in the car quite a lot uh instagram's
instagram i think it's you know i enjoy instagram but then i just like to go through tick tock and
you know like when you've turned around me and you'll be like, oh, what's really interesting TikTok about this?
So I've become obsessed, like, to a really worrying level.
I'm watching a lot of spot being, or ingrained hair videos.
Oh, God.
And blackheads.
Oh, God.
Like, genuinely, right?
I'm sitting there, like, Gratz had to go to me,
I can't, you can't be watching that.
Because he can see the phone. Yeah. Like, he's see he's like they're just like and like they'll put
like yeah you sent me have you watched many of these no because they're just they're absolutely
fucking disgusting but they'll put on like adele like hello it's me and grats will go oh what's
that is that down you look down and it's a fucking
massive great
fucking cyst
being burst
but I
like the other day
we were coming home
I think it was from Ipswich
it was like a three hour drive
I must have spent
at least an hour and a half
just watching spots
and ingrained
why
I don't know
I find it really therapeutic
I find it like
when they get like
an ingrained
really long ingrained hair
and it's got
I don't know
it's got fucking
like Ed Sheeran in the background fucking getting pulled out.
I'm like, I don't know what it is.
So I've become obsessed with them and also I've become really obsessed with Marty Pello from Wet Wet Wet.
Have you watched his TikToks?
No.
What does he do?
He is.
So he sings, he does his songs,
and he does covers, right?
I find it really...
I don't know, I find it quite uplifting watching him, right?
Oh, my God.
Because he's so...
Like, what's great, right,
is he's, like, one of the best singers in the 80s and 90s.
We're a great pop band, right?
And now he's trying to sort of bring that to TikTok, He's one of the best singers in the 80s and 90s. Wet, wet, wet, wet. Great pop band, right?
And now he's trying to sort of bring that to TikTok.
But he's still got that sort of old showmanship of the 80s.
So he does this sort of thing where he does... He'll start the track.
I'd say just if there's one thing...
He won't listen to this.
I did Sunday Brunch with him once.
Lovely guy.
And if I could say to him any one thing,
probably he's up on the blusher
because he looks a bit like
sort of my nan
at her fucking birthday
right
but he does the thing
where he'll just sort of go
the tune starts
and he'll just look at
he'll look at
sort of down the camera lens
and then he'll just look off a bit
and go
well look off a bit and go
well look at it as if he's talking as if he's at a gig yeah like he's looking at someone he's clearly on his own but he's sort of that i'm so much championship and it's just be like
sort of like looking around and then he'll just go my love has taken a tumble but i'm
still standing and then yeah uh and then he does a thing where he just goes,
standing, and he'll just look off camera.
And I just find it really, it's genuine.
I find it really uplifting.
Your algorithm must be absolutely disgusting.
Marty Pello insists.
You know what, if they could get Marty Pello singing
over spots getting picked, that would just literally be my whole,
that and I get a lot of the maths stuff.
I watch quite a lot of the maths.
There's a lot of beef in maths.
Maths.
Not maths.
I'm not a fucking geek.
No, no, go on.
You're really cool.
You're going to get married at first sight.
You're such a little girl.
You're so happy with that.
You literally...
Sometimes I just open myself up.
Sometimes I'm like a centre-back slipping
and you're on the centre-forward going,
he's not got the fucking footwork here.
There's a lot of beef on maths this year.
On the UK one, you're talking about?
Yeah, it's spilled over into social media.
Is the UK one worth watching?
Because I just...
Yeah, I just yeah I mean
I love the show
I'd say my only
criticism now
is it's just
everyone just wants to be
there's no
it doesn't feel anyone's there
for a marriage now
at all
like everyone's just now
just
you know what as well
it's
there's like people
from last year's show
what I find really
I always find the harshest
thing is people like it's really difficult because
those shows are big.
And then they,
all of a sudden you've got a load of people that start following you on social
media,
but they're following you because of that show.
And then you try to find your place a little bit within the world.
And I get that's really difficult,
but there's,
there's people from last year that there's one guy from last year.
I find really hard to watch because he's clearly just
halt right like so he'll do adverts but adverts he's not he'll advertise stuff that he's not
been paid to advertise for but he shoots it quite well but it'll be like um uh hey guys um how are
you you're right uh so today's a big day it's the launch of the pret christmas menu and i'm gonna go along and i'm
gonna have some of the treats so he's clearly going to buy himself and he's also hired a
like cameraman and they look like actual adverts and it's like he has to put not an ad um but yeah
he's done a few of those actually you you have just mentioned something i do enjoy on tiktok
which is watching people try stuff
from local food places
oh mate
yeah yeah
I'm all for that
but I'm
you know what
and it's
the more gritty of that
the better
I like it
you know when they go to like
somebody's recommended to them like
Charlie's Van
or whatever
and they rock up there
and then they
they get the
the grease fucker
or whatever
do you know what I mean
eating with Todd
I love he's, I love.
He's amazing.
I love all of that stuff, man.
And even though I can't eat most of it,
but I do just love watching.
I like the more rubbish they're shot.
If they're shot as a selfie,
then it's someone eating.
I enjoy that more than someone's paid
a whole camera team to go out.
And also, it's like,
I like when it's somewhere like,
you say, like Charlie's Van or it's somewhere like like you say like charlie's
van or it's a fucking book like when you're doing it for prep yes yeah there's a slightly different
world what's this place hello like you know they've completely hijacked every fucking ice
tree with six fucking pretz on like any good fucking ice tree um so i don't want to go in on
prep but and i and i i sort of if you do mate i'm here for it because i think prep's a
dickhead well i um i can't figure out and this happens to a few places i can't figure out if
it's because i've got used to it or because it's genuinely dropped in quality but i couldn't tell
you now the last time i've had a decent thing from prep do you mean and like like it used to be i
used to look forward to like going
and picking up
one of those
like falafel salads
or whatever
or like
the falafel wrap
there used to be
incredible
or their sandwiches
or whatever
I've got to say
over the last
I don't know how long
it's always been
it's dropped now
in a tier to me
it's now like
something you go
if there's absolutely
nothing else about
and you're just
desperate for something whereas it used to be something I'd actually kind of i wouldn't look not look forward
to that's a bit of an exaggeration i used to get nervous going in there i used to get nervous going
in there because it was quite high end and i used to think like it felt like you were going into a
place that sort of like you had to sort of order something it was a little bit edgy when you
ordered your coffee that you know what i felt with it that i felt like the baristas there had been actually trained like because let me do i
said this to kathleen over there we had a bit not a squabble about it but you had a squabble about
prep no not about prep we had a squabble about baristas right right we were uh we were driving
somewhere together as a family right as we always do we quite stopping off, grabbing a little coffee for the car and,
you know,
having a coffee together in the car.
We stop at Costa.
Uh,
we get a couple of,
uh,
coffees from Costa.
I'd say it was probably at least half an hour,
35,
40 minutes before we could drink the coffees.
They were so hot.
Now you're a coffee head,
as you call yourself,
you've got a fucking tattoo on the t-shirt,
right?
Right?
It's,
it's a slam based on no evidence i'm i don't even
think it requires a response but i don't go yeah but i've heard you say i'm a coffee head
i've never said the words i'm a coffee head no but you have to have said i love my coffee i'm a bit
of a coffee nut i'm a coffee head i've never said i'm a coffee head well i do like i do like coffee
yeah yeah we both like coffee.
But I swear, like, you're a...
So you know the temperature that coffee should be served at, right?
Yeah.
So it shouldn't be burnt.
It shouldn't be too hot, right?
Because it kills the flavour.
So I think the least you can expect
when you spend, like, four or five pounds now on a fucking coffee
is it to come out...
And, like, so I said to Catherine,
this really annoys me because I can't drink...
We're going to be at the destination we're going to
and I'll just about be able to drink my coffee
and then we'll probably go in there
and have another coffee.
Yeah.
Right.
This is almost just a way,
this is just now just a hot cup of waste
just sitting next to me
because it's like,
it's undrinkable.
Yeah.
Right.
I was like,
these people,
if they're trained to be baristas
and Catherine,
they're not trained to be baristas.
They just, there's a barista there who just sort of shows them roughly what they've got to do. You can't expect them trained to be baristas and Catherine they're not trained to be baristas there's a barista there
who just sort of
shows them roughly
what they've got to do
you can't expect them
to be proper baristas
but if they're working
in a coffee place
making coffees
so people in Costa Coffee
are not baristas
apparently not
no
I mean what's the
difference between a barista
and someone who's been
shown by a barista
what to do
well this is the thing
Catherine's a lot more
learned in this situation
there is a difference
they're called something else
right
like
barista team
or something like that
I don't know
they're not trained baristas
so this is what I meant
about PrEP
there was a time
where PrEP
prided itself
on the fact that
the people serving coffee
were baristas
that's gone now
they're not
they're the same
like
you know
it's
you get in the
I put up a post
the other day
I got a lot of heat for it
about
I brought a coffee
and sat
and I was chilling
waiting for it
I was actually
I think I was meeting you
I can't remember what it was
and I sat
I was early
for once
and I couldn't drink
this fucking coffee
for about an hour
because it was so hot
an hour?
well I might be
exaggerating slightly
but
for about 40 minutes.
Nonetheless, my point being, right,
the joy of coffee is being able to go in somewhere.
That's why, like, mum and pop stores
and fucking cell phone places,
they pride themselves on it.
They know they're in a fucking big...
They're in a dogfight up against these big places.
How often are you in a mum and pop store,
just out of interest, would you say?
Sort of on a week-to-week basis?
Well, mum and pop... and pop I'm using some of
my American slang
even though I've
never really been
to America
I would go as far
as to say you've
never been in a
mum and pop store
what I mean by that
is a self-owned
place
right okay
little individual
you prefer to get
coffee from what
a corner shop
no no
like a small
individual sort of
rather than a big
chain because I
think they pride
themselves on it I think they pride themselves on it
I think they pride themselves
on giving away coffee
if you decided now
you're going to start
choosing individual
independent coffee places
I think this is a healthy
thing to decide
yeah no but this is
what I think
if I could
and this is what we're
talking about with Pratt
and Costa
because sometimes
it's the easiest option
right
it's a drive through
it's quick
they've invaded
and taken over
our high streets
but I will say if there's a
place i'm going to that isn't one of those i'll try and go there but then sometimes they don't
really you know sometimes they don't sort of meet the standards that you require i mean what you've
really got to find is somewhere where there's a barista who's incredible and if you do that just
hang on to them like it's good uh you can sort of say that you want the coffee not as hot can't you
yeah but then yeah I mean you can
but then I think
I always worry
will they spit in it
or will they sort of
do something to your coffee
why would they do
I mean they're making it
right in front of you
it's not like they go
to a back chamber
it'd be pretty ballsy
move to fucking
hot one in there
you could dribble in it
without someone seeing
it still feels like
quite a high risk strategy
to me
the only reason I know this
is because
your mate Big DB
I watched something
with him in it
and he used to ask
for his coffee
super hot
because he would
put it in the car
and not drink it
until he got to training
which is like
half an hour's drive away
that's fine
if you don't want
to drink it at a time
what I'm saying to you is
he asked for the
temperatures to be
a different temperature
so I'm saying
I think it's easier to do it super hot because you're just doing it as you do it
because it's always fucking super hot in those places.
Whereas I think if you go into a place and go, hey, can I have it sort of like mildly hot?
They go, oh, for fuck's sake, that means we've got to let it cool down.
Like we've got to use a different milk system or something.
It's why literally now I'm pretty much just drinking espressos.
I think that's a good move a good move I love an espresso
yeah double espresso I know they can't really fuck it up
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I always say this, and I don't want to go
fucking all in on all the coffee places, because we've
had a past history with coffee on this before.
With an espresso gate. I always say this starbucks can fuck itself okay uh you want to qualify that i really hate stuff i i think starbucks is actually i whenever i have their
coffee i'm done for for about two or three days of heartburn their coffee's just like just not
the same quality as other ones um i'd say that I've heard some pretty shocking...
You know the story about,
as you talk about mom and pop stores,
you know about the Cronuts story?
No.
So there's this old couple in New York
in the 80s and 90s
who basically invented Cronuts, right?
You know what a Cronut is?
Yes, I do, yeah.
Cool, cool, okay.
Cross-up slash donut.
Yeah, beautiful.
If you've never tried one i say now don't do it
starbucks because you'll hear this story just do it find a sort of local fucking retailer that
might do them um anyhow basically before you carry on with this because i just want to in the interest
of protecting you you're about to go in two-footed on a company who I'm just at a guess has more of a pool of money for legal resources than you do.
Okay, right.
Can I say this?
Allegedly, this is true.
I've been told this allegedly from someone I know from the coffee business.
So someone you know from the coffee business has told you this story.
Yeah.
And now you're paying them for it.
I know very well, right?
It's quite a big in a coffee UK business, right?
I'm not going to give his surname just because I don't want him found.
Is that his first name?
Yeah.
Okay, well, that is a fucking insane thing to do.
Yeah, no, but I want to give you context
so you know that it's someone I know, okay?
Yeah, fine, but I didn't need to know his first name.
And, in fact, I'd go so far as to say
that for the benefit of your friendship,
I think we should
beep it out
but anyway go on
ok we'll beep
JT beep out his name
ok
but if he listens
to this podcast
he'll know that it's him
and he'll be quite proud
that he's got my
ok
well I imagine
he just shat himself
a minute ago
and he thought
he was about to
give his fucking name
but anyway go on
allegedly
yeah
allegedly
so this mom and pop
store in the
80s and 90s
are making cronuts
they're the people who invented Cronuts.
One afternoon, each evening as dusk falls in New York City,
somebody who works for Starbucks goes in, has a coffee,
and also tries one of these Cronuts because he's heard of their legend.
He finds them so delicious.
He chats to this old couple.
They don't know he works for Starbucks.
Finds out how they make them and, you know, how proud they are
and goes back to Starbucks and says,
look, I've got a big idea for us now, right?
They then basically start selling cronuts, right?
And they buy the patent for cronuts.
So then they basically go to the mom and pop store
and say, you can't sell this anymore because we've got to pay.
Is that true?
This is what they told me.
So is Starbucks now the only place you can get Cronuts?
I think, yeah.
Because I think that's bollocks.
Hold on, let me just look this up.
You're telling me that I cannot get a Cronut anywhere apart from a Starbucks now?
Well, apparently now they call them Duffins.
Why would they call them Duffins?
I don't know either.
I'm seeing a lot of Duffin chat,
not a lot of Cronut chat, mate,
to be honest, online here.
Yeah, there's not a lot of Cronut chat here.
No.
Cronut Mania spreads to London.
Dominique Ancel is exposed to the story behind the Cronut.
Okay, go on.
Dominique Ancel has made a name for himself
as one of the
greatest creative food
craziers ever
to hit the country
so this doesn't feel like
it's his mum and pop star
in New York does it
well yeah
now we chat about him
being involved in
alright okay
oh this is one of those
annoying things
I've got to listen to it
I haven't got that
fucking time
so Dominic Ancel
made croissants
cronuts
in 2013 right you can get cronuts all over london
i've just looked up here um in fact there's loads of places you can get cronuts i mean listen it
doesn't feel like there's a lot of supporting evidence for your story does it well no but this
is something i was told in the pub and I'll say his name
and we can beep it out again.
He told me that.
He said,
not in confidence,
he said,
look,
this is what I've been told.
I mean,
that sounds like
a sort of thing that,
I mean,
now,
look,
I'm going to say now.
it sounds like
the sort of thing
that if you wanted
to go in on Starbucks
you'd find that story
quite satisfying.
But the fact of the matter
is you can get
cronuts everywhere.
Yeah,
no,
but also,
it does feel a bit like
he may be...
The first question I'd have asked,
had **** please bleep it out,
told me that story, would be,
does that mean, you mean to tell me
that you can't get cronuts anywhere apart from Starbucks?
Because that's what that means.
Yeah, but this is the difference between me and you.
Because he told me that.
We were like three pints deep.
He's told me that.
I've gone, fucking hell, man, arseholes, bruv.
And he's just like,
I mean, I might not have been
that sort of vocal
but um
and he was like
so yeah
he was like
oh yeah
so yeah basically
you're in a situation now
where Starbucks
have completely
that mum and pop store
just closed down
in like 1993
because they couldn't
compete with Starbucks
and the Cronut
was their biggest seller
so I mean
to be fair
to
right
that is a very imaginative story that he's come up with it's almost like Cronart was the biggest seller. So, I mean, to be fair, to ****, right,
that is a very imaginative story
that he's come up with.
It's almost like,
it actually reminds me a lot of,
I say imaginative,
essentially he's just taking the plot
from the Father Christmas movie
with Dudley Moore.
Hmm.
Isn't he?
It also sounds a lot like
the story of the origins
of McDonald's as well.
Yeah.
Maybe he's sort well yeah maybe he's
sort of what
he was sort of
slowly doing
was just
pitching
sort of
because he's
in the coffee
what I think
might have
happened is
somebody said
to the
****
are you
meeting Tom
today
yeah
do you know
you can get
him worked
up about
****
anything
honestly
yeah
just have a
go
alright
I'm going to
try and get
him worked
up over
pastries
and he's managed
to get you
for the whole
afternoon after that
just walking out
and going
I'm trying to have
a fucking good time
but I just can't
fucking relax
knowing that's
happened to that
man what's
happened to them
sort of sending
them a go fund
me account
it wouldn't surprise
me if you hadn't
looked for them
well that's a
that's a great
story Tom
yeah
but what I would
say is
I'm not a fan
of Starbucks
I mean I couldn't
tell you the last
time I went into
a Starbucks
I'm out of the
Starbucks game
but when you go to
America
have you been to
America yeah
not for a long
long time
not for a long
time
Starbucks is the
thing
I mean like
I know Starbucks are everywhere here,
but Costa's bigger here, isn't it?
I think.
I like Costa.
I like Costa.
Yeah, but Starbucks,
I couldn't tell you the last time I went into a Starbucks.
There's nothing about Starbucks that appeals to me, really.
I don't like the vibe.
Café Nero, I don't mind.
I think Café Nero's got a nice vibe.
Yeah, the Starbucks vibe is shit, man.
It's a shit vibe.
Café Nero's a good vibe. Costa coffee, all right vibe. I prefer the Café Nero vibe to't mind I think Cafe Nero's got a nice vibe yeah Starbucks vibe is shit man it's a shit vibe Cafe Nero's good vibe
Costa Coffee
alright vibe
I prefer the Cafe Nero
vibe to the Costa Coffee
you know what I'm
really like
you know what
I'm going to say it
you know
let me just stop you
there
let me just stop you
there
okay
lean forward
like you're about
to fucking
unmask the president
or whatever
you
you couldn't have
been more fucking
edgelord
as you leant forward there.
That was horrible to watch.
I'm just going to fucking say it.
I don't give a shit.
Let me tell you this.
No fucks given us, I'll tell you this.
Come on then, what's this tell you this what's this big reveal
it won't
sound as big
now but I'll
tell you
yeah
I like a
Greg's or
Wenzel's
I'm having a
Greg's or
Wenzel's
for coffee
yeah for
coffee and I just chill like a donut and I find that the banter actually I will say Greg's what? Greg's or a Wenzel's. For coffee? Yeah, for coffee
and I just chilled
like a donut
and I find that
the banter actually,
I would say actually,
yeah,
I like the staff
in Greg's and Wenzel's.
I find them really endearing.
I do like Greg's.
This is mental,
this podcast.
This podcast has
fucking gone so out of control
but anyway,
I do like Greg's
but they do slightly worry me.
I know it's a good thing but you know the calories being everywhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And have you noticed that at Greggs, because their stuff is so high calorie,
they've constantly got adults should have 2,000 calories,
like all over the place.
They've not even just got the calories.
Well, how many calories do you think a sausage rolls?
I'm going to guess 400.
But let me have a look.
And how much in a normal one?
I wonder.
Why don't you look that up?
Why don't you look up your crew and I'll look up mine.
302 calories in a vegan sausage roll.
319 in a normal Greek sausage roll.
It's actually less than I thought.
I mean,
obviously it's less than I thought.
I said 400.
Yeah,
but you know,
this is the,
this is the worst thing. Yeah. Yeah. yeah we talk about you know we've lost weight
there was a time in my life when i used to work on building sites and stuff um i'd finish uh for
the day around three four o'clock and before going to the pub i'd usually walk past greg's and i'd
probably do this at least three maybe four times a week and i'd have two sausage rolls and like a
steak bake it's just a snack not
for my tea that was just like a snack between work and the pub that's probably nearly 1500
calories isn't it i'm still doing that when i was doing stand-up that's why i think like
now i look at it i had no idea about how calories worked at that point in my life
no i didn't either and like i i when i was was in America and I was at my very biggest,
I would drink caramel lattes quite a lot.
Yeah.
And then I reckon I was having two or three of those a day.
And then I looked it up.
Yeah.
But I would say two.
Like one in the morning.
So somebody on the show would go to a coffee run.
I'd go, can you get me a caramel latte?
Same in the afternoon.
I don't know why I'm explaining that.
But anyway, that is about 800 calories.
Yeah, that's a lot.
And I didn't even notice that.
So I wasn't even like mentally including that in my calorie intake.
That was just like a beverage I had while I was doing other shit.
And I wasn't even engaging in it.
That's 400 calories that I wasn't even savoring.
I was sort of like taking sips of in between doing stuff. I mean, I know that's 400 calories that i wasn't even savoring i was sort of like taking
sips of in between doing stuff dude i mean i know that's how you drink a drink but you know what i
mean like if you if you're getting a high calorie item yeah you've got to really enjoy it yeah you
should you've got to cherish it yes correct you've got to make those calories worth it right yeah
do you know what i mean yeah i mean if you're indulging i don't want to get those calories worth it right yeah do you know what I mean yeah really if you're indulging you've got to do that I don't want to get obsessive about it
because the truth is
I don't believe in
cutting anything out
I think you have
what you want
I think she's living
a healthy lifestyle
having what you want
is fine
but
if you are going to
have something like that
if you're going to
have a cake
fucking enjoy it
yeah yeah
save for a free bite
with um
the first year
I did the
Liga on Road Trip
we went to Holland
and uh
Reddits was obsessed
with um
these
like a coffee
and it had
what was like
whipped cream in
it was like
but it was called
Slagram
over there
Slagram
yeah
that was the name for it
and it was like
like Jamie would like
literally
Jamie, Fred
you know the other people
on the show
would have like two of these
I enjoyed them so much
I was having them like
I was drinking like
now me and you
were drinking espresso
I was almost drinking
like it was water
like that was like
you know
and they'd sort of be like
are you having another one of those
and I'd say oh they're so delicious
and then eating all the cream
out the bottom
yeah
sounds delightful
yeah
and then like
but also you've got to remember
at this point in my life
I was doing no training
or working out
we were talking about
doing a road trip
with a load of athletes
every morning
burning like a thousand calories
and then I was just
sort of sitting there
going oh no one else
was at breakfast
and they were like
no no we were all in the gym
and I'd sort of eaten
a full fry up
with like four danishes
I can relate to this
so hard uh and then yeah it was like jamie pulled me aside and was quite worried and he was like
you know how many calories in those drinks that were like they're a treat for like the end of the
day and you're you started to have one before work before lunch after lunch and then when we finish
and then like usually after we finish filming,
you're going to have about six or seven pints.
And I was like, yeah, but, you know, it's just coffee.
And he went, but it's not.
It's like a shot or maybe two of coffee.
And then it's like this, like, literally a pint of fucking thick cream
and caramel or fucking toffee sauce.
You have four of those a day.
He said, like, Jamie was, and I love Jamie who's like this.
I adore him. He was like, that's like, would you have four ice those a day Jamie was, and I love Jamie he was like
would you have four ice creams in a day
and I was like no, of course I wouldn't
that would be insane
that's the first surprise in this conversation
I mean actually to be fair
I'm lying there
would you have four ice creams in a day
yeah I would, what's your there would you have four ice creams in a day yeah I would
what's your point
yeah I've had
four ice creams
today
and the four
fucking slag room
drinks
yeah
but I mean
but I get nervous
about talking like that
because I don't want
you know
I don't
I feel like
calorie counting
is dangerous
it's not dangerous
but I mean
it can be
if it becomes
obsessive
it's dangerous
do you know
I mean
this whole thing of life
my thing is
the difference
from my head now
is
if I walk past a Greg's
and I fancy a sausage roll
I'll go and get a sausage roll
if I fancy it
I don't now rule it
I try to be healthier
and exercise more
but I've never
I've never
I'll never be able
to not eat
food that I enjoy
I think food's
one of the biggest joys that I have in my life.
Delightful.
Delightful.
I'm saying it now, right?
I'll guarantee today I'll have a sausage roll of yum yum
at some point from Greg's.
Because this conversation or that was in your plan?
Yeah, because this conversation, that's all I'm thinking.
Look, usually at this point of this fucking show,
I'm sitting thinking, oh shit, I'm going to fucking sum it up.
At the moment, all my up at the moment all my
thoughts
process is
where will
I get
a yolk
because what
annoys me
is if I
buy four
yum yums
right
I'll have
two and
I'll save
one for
Catherine
and then
one for
me the
next day
well done
for throwing
that in at
the end
there
to hide
the fact
that you'd
have three
yum yums
yeah I mean you
struggle to do the
maths on where the
four yum yums are
going there
I'll probably just
give one to some
birds and stuff
yeah but I know
you hate maths
you're not a
fucking geek
Tom
we've come to
that time
please could you do us the honour of taking us out Tom, we've come to that time.
Please, could you do us the honour of taking us out?
Sometimes it's hard to sum up a conversation.
Sometimes it's hard to sum up life when your mind's distracted thinking about something flavoursome and delicious,
something that's just almost knocking on your brain saying,
hey, you're going to enjoy me later.
But maybe that
is a lesson in itself sometimes it's really really difficult to just focus on the here and now
to focus on the moments that actually matter you know maybe when it's raining instead of
complaining about the rain maybe just let a few drops just hit you on the face and give a sort of
small silent smile and just think that was refreshing maybe when the sun beats
its beautiful gaze upon the world you can just skip for a while and just think hey you know what
they're doing a great job up there the truth of the matter is the truth of the matter is easy
to long for things that aren't quite within your grasp always always thinking about this could be
the thing that will make me or this will be the thing that will make me or this
will be the thing that will truly make me happy but never actually just thinking in the moment
you know what life's pretty sweet life's pretty good and of course it'll be sweet ever still with
the glorious taste of a greg's yum yum but with keeping the mind on dreaming and always being aspirational,
never ever lose fact of that you're lucky right in this moment,
standing where you are, being who you are.
Just treasure that just for a second.
Thanks, friends.
I'll see you next time.
That is beautiful.
Never lose fact.
That is advice for all of us yeah but what we've learned really from here is that um yeah uh probably to sort of leave food trapped at the
beginning of the show because actually if we sort of like we're dabbling around it too much uh it's
um yeah uh well look um i sent a song as you know it's my i often send songs to lisa that i've fallen
in love with this is one of them it's by, I often send songs to Lisa that I've fallen in love with.
This is one of them.
I'm hoping I've got the pronunciation of this right.
It's by Ruga and it's called Asiwaju.
It's beautiful and I loved it.
I sent it to Lisa and she said,
well, I don't think she's replied yet anyway,
but it doesn't matter.
JT, could you play us out with that?
I have got, I would say rough estimate
two hours of t-shirt ironing ahead of me
I'll keep you updated
on my ongoing journey
versus the wardrobe
take care of yourselves
peace guys
Tom's done a weird
he's done a weird peace sign
yet again
ignoring the fact
this is an audio format
take care of yourselves guys
see you soon
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