Wolf and Owl - S3 Ep 20: Nightmare Fuel & Carb Loading
Episode Date: April 17, 2024We’re talking… kids presenter styles, the City of Crawley, ‘Owl Man’ the superhero, early stand-up routines, Rom's final marathon preparations, an update on Tom’s very painful toe, Insta Liv...es with Robbie Williams, being friends with Take That, watching the Amy Winehouse movie with Graz, managing cinema snacks and the scourge of un-popped popcorn kernels. Plus, email questions about some serious manspreading and how to maintain motivation after running a marathon. 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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["Beeck or Jaws"]
Yo, yo, what you want?
Beak or jaws, feathers or fur?
Sharp teeth or feet with claws, whatever's preferred.
They'll grant you all last requests to steady your nerves,
then podcast a body pass, get severed and served
Bring your weak shit, wear the wolf and owler
That ain't just a mistake, that's an awful howler
Both of them are known to pull up at your shows
Have the crowd witnessing the murder like they're rolling with a gang of crows
Fuck their censorship, let em 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's a huff a puff and a puff and expect killings red spilling and
flesh ripping impressive in it the death bringing its head spinning just kidding
every word in this songs about two grown men dressed up as a bird and a dog
yo yes hello welcome to the wolf and owl I hope you're having a great time
Like a kids TV person yeah, hey guys, how's it going? We're it's me the owl
Fuck up with me very the wolf
And we're having a we're having a bit of a funny body. We we got up early today. Didn't we wolf?
Well, you got earlier than me. I got up at 6.30 yeah I got up at 6 no yeah I did get up
gym session yeah I did do a little gym thing bro this is it this is a week
before the big the wrap big boys oh mate the the yeah I mean I'm looking forward
to to it being over I'm doing I'm doing my first Radio 2 show on the Saturday, which is nerve
racking enough.
You really like to step on for your anxiety, don't you?
Mate, mate.
When you're making an anxiety cake, it's very much modeled on a wedding cake. As many tears
as you can cram in on one.
So I said to, it's like I've gone, do you know what I'm running out of? Nightmare fuel.
So let me just get some of that stocked up on.
So this weekend I'm doing the first radio show.
Then I'm doing Brighton, which is Brighton Dome,
which obviously-
That'd be amazing by the way.
Brighton is incredible.
Yeah.
It's one of the best places to gig.
I know you've gigged it and you know.
Yeah, can I say shout out, shout out, shout out Brighton.
Shout out Brighton. Shout out.
So I'm like sort of six nights there or something.
I'm doing six nights at the dome, yeah.
My guy.
You're like Brighton's favorite son now.
That is a, that is a incredibly accurate shout.
I mean, my main issues with it, one, I'm nowhere near
the biggest person in and around Brighton,
two, I'm from Crawley.
Yeah, I know you're from Crawley,
but Brighton is like your nearest big city, right?
Yeah, I mean, you know, Crawley's quite a big town.
No, Crawley's a big city,
and yeah, Crawley was pretty set up for like 100 nights.
You do like Peter Cahill there.
Crawley, it asked me to get involved
with their bid to become a city.
Oh, wow!
They tried to become a city a while ago.
And they asked me to sort of not get involved,
but I had to like do a little supporting statement,
even though, well, I'm not sure how I feel about it.
What did you say in your supporting statement?
I can't remember, it was a while ago.
I've lived in Crawley Oak my whole frigging life.
I'll tell you, I've been to cities as a standing comedian and this
this gaff is as much a city as anything I've ever known in my fucking life mate.
So give us a city shit. Yeah I mean why am I calling myself a standing comedian?
I don't mind the voice, I don't mind the nerdiness. What I do mind is you making me sound like I've been in some sort of fucking accident
You know, this is Reagan 8th and first name wrong. Yeah
I don't actually think the statement needs to be that long. My name's from it's Reagan 8th. I think it should be a city. End of.
How did he did he get the seaship or?
No How did he get the seaship? No. Then there was a rumour going around that they were going to call it Gatwick City.
Wow.
Yeah.
What do you think of that as a name?
I actually think it sounds pretty fucking good.
It sounds quite marvellous.
Gatwick City sounds pretty cool.
Yeah, I know.
But what I would say is, listen, obviously I love Crawley.
I love here.
But if you were to say I'm heading over to Gatwick City and then you arrived in Crawley, I love here. But if you were to say I'm heading over to Gatwick City
and then you arrived in Crawley,
I think there's a mismatch between the name.
You know, Gatwick City implies
that there's some sort of superhero that oversees it all
and makes sure that crime doesn't get to her.
Yeah, well in a sense that could be you.
You could be that, you know.
The Al.
You'd be like the Bruce Wayne, yeah.
Al Man.
Yeah, like a comedian comedian stroke sort of philanthropist who every
Every night when this crime turns into a sort of like crime kicking ass kicking crime stopper. I could be quite cool
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be yeah
Fingless gloves like a sort of you know, let her house costume just sprinting around just doing stuff
Why don't we're fingerless?
You know leather house costume just sprinting around just doing stuff. Why don't we're fingerless?
Just good picture of you and fingerless gloves. Okay, but that's all defaced Yeah, I mean the reason they wear gloves is to not leave prints and stuff
It's a mad it's a mad idea
Oh, it's rubbish Reagan. I think he wears fingers gloves
His fingerprints are everywhere
Absolutely fucking everywhere and actually he's touching stuff.
We're finding fingerprints where we've got no record of him ever being, which is bizarre.
Mainly in and around the subway in town.
What seems to be happening here is the outmen seems to be sneaking into people's houses at night
and they pretend that there's a crime being committed there and just sort of walking around and touching things. know, like people stroke their hand down a wall, there's just a long sort
of like...
What I like there is you became seriously worried that you're making it seem like some
sort of sex offender and so backed out of it. It's very kind of you.
Yeah, but there's some places I'll go to with this. But sort of my vacant...
Yeah, you went, he's going to places he shouldn't be under the pretext that crime's been committed.
Straight away we both think, well that sounds like a perv. That sounds like a weird perv.
And then you try to back out of it. Which I appreciate you doing.
Yeah, no, no, because I didn't want to sort of, yeah. Yeah, but your our voice would be
like, yeah, you're speaking like that to your in a day, but your our voice would be like
that. Hello mate, you got a problem.
Yeah, I was here to solve it.
What am I first ever, I think we might talk to,
one of my first ever stand up routines was about
the voice that Christian Bell used in the Batman movies.
Right.
That was like my first ever,
I can't even remember what the joke was,
I just remember thinking the voice was weird.
It probably was nothing more than that. Have you seen the Batman films? What's going on with?
What's going on with Christian Bell's voice?
Oh wow yeah
Is that a bit dodgy isn't it?
I'm the Batman
What are you doing? Alright mate, alright mate calm down
I had a load of stuff
Just really surface level observations
I had a load of stuff from Peter Cratch's dance
Yeah
It'd be the moment for tall people that sort of really opened the door for us to be treated
normally.
When I think about some of the early stuff, like I remember writing a bit about why do
people have compost apes.
All right, mate, fucking hell.
And then I did a thing about, oh, god, it's so bad. I did a thing about, oh god it's so bad, I did a thing about, I don't know
what to talk about, I did write a bit about strip clubs.
Oh god, do you want to give yourself an edge?
Well I don't know if that was what it was, but I'm really...
If I write a bit about strip clubs, I might be invited to go to a strip club.
Just then, just go home and write a bit.
Have you heard about this dangerous new comic that
sort of just emerged on the open market? Everyone wanted to be dangerous. He's the only comedian
that's talking about both. Oh fucking hell, my series just activated on my... Because you're
talking about strip clubs. I think it might be, just suddenly got activated. He's out there on
the stage mate, he's talking about the things we care about, Cobb Bust Eats, Strip Clubs, does an amazing bit where he does
Batman's voice. Finally somebody's hit the Holy Trinity of comic topics.
So anyway I'm doing a radio show Brighton Dome marathon. I'm so excited for how I'm gonna feel,
actually, right now in a week.
This time next week, waking up Monday morning.
I know you too well.
Yeah.
Because I know what'll happen is you'll book
something in on Tuesday.
So the Monday feeling will be like really sort of like brief
and then you'll book a big job in for Tuesday.
Yeah.
Well, do you know what?
It's just gonna be so incredible to wake up on Monday
Knowing that I've smashed one of my knees to piece and I've been sacked from radio to it's gonna it's gonna be an incredible buzz
No, actually, I've already got something in on Tuesday. I think of course. Yes
Boy, are you how's the training going? How are you feeling, like body, mind, soul-wise?
Well, I'm in a bit of a, this is the,
I'm not supposed to be training too much.
I'm supposed to be carb loading.
What I would say is, I think I've put on my-
Sounds like my idea of absolute carb loading,
literally sounds like.
That feels like the thing I could do best in life.
Yeah, you're supposed to like stuff as much glycogen as you
possibly can into your muscles. Well glycogen, that's the carbs right? Yeah.
Healthy carbs or any carbs? Well theoretically it can be any carbs but the
problem is with carbs is oh god I'm sorry what the fuck has happened to us?
The problem is with carbs are we saying these words out loud? All I can see is you sitting on the edge of a bed, you know
when people do that picture of them on the edge of bed and they've got their sort of fists underneath their chin.
Well, the problem is you'll be doing like a Joe Wicks video about calves. Yeah, but he's got
himself into a bit of shit, hasn't he? Yeah, yeah, he's brought in old Joe. There's a lot of,
there's a lot of, for all this talk about people not wanting to cancel people and not wanting to,
like, you know, put people you pressure because as I said stuff
the pylons
Recently a fucking breathtaking. I mean, it's like
Well, I don't I don't want to say okay. Okay. There's been a couple recently
Which is a nice and I've bought it I like Wixie. I felt a little sorry for him
on that. I mean, look, I had some of ADHD and I don't, like, I think what he's said
has been taken out massively of how he meant it.
By the way, listen, yeah, I mean, it's difficult for you. You are someone with ADHD who does
eat a lot of ultra-processed food, so if anything, I imagine it's after he met you that he came up with this theory. But as a kid, I didn't really eat any processed
foods. My mum was like a health nut. So it's sort of like would argue. But then again,
that's your problem. My HD has got worse as I've got older. And I love processed food
and would live on it. When you say about carbs, I'm like, all I can think about is I'll probably My HD's got worse as I've got older. And I love fucking up to a process of food.
I would live on it.
When you say about carbs,
I'm like all I can think about is I'll probably have
five, six pizzas on the run up to a marathon a day.
Yeah, but that's the thing though, Tom.
I reckon I've put on my training for this marathon.
Because it makes you ravenously hungry.
Yeah, that's one of the big things about it.
And now I've got a carb load.
So hold up, so are you doing no running training at all in the like this week? So basically it's a bit of a double-edged sword. So what you want
to do is you do have to do a bit of training because what you don't want to
do is go into the marathon not having run for a week. Yeah. But at the same time
every time you do run you you're taking away energy,
you know, you're taking out glycogen from your muscles to say really, or you're supposed
to be it's a bit of a conflicting objectives. I mean, yeah, you thought about going to the
stretch lab, by the way, this week. No, but I am getting so I'm getting an apologies,
by the way, people that are finding this marathon chat boring after next week you won't hear about it
Well, no, we'll have the celebration episode
Or it would just be well
So it was a sad episode this week
I didn't have the minerals
Yeah, well actually
That that that those words you just heard from the owl there were his last words
He uttered into his interest phones are recording as he
fell dead on the mall
So we'll just be the end of the year. I think it's about the end of it. Yeah, I think so
Yeah, I saw a map of the rope. I don't really know I could get I mean I could be the first person
I'd say arguably getting lost at the Marathons worse and
like passing out what I'm gonna try and do Tom is follow the other people I
mean it's not you better than that you better what someone turns to you and
they're not right there from another country like an Italian guy sister hey
what's where do we go now and you're're like, I don't know, I'm just following everyone's bills. Yeah, I would go follow Los Athletos.
There's 40,000 of us.
Yeah, OK.
What bit of London is this?
And you're like, I don't know.
Listen, I'm not there as a fucking tour guide, all right?
No, but you're from London, nearly.
No, I'm not.
You're from Gatwick City that's just outside London.
You're in London all the time, Ron. You're in London probably more than 90% more actual London nearly. No, no. You're from Gatwick City that's just outside London. You know, you're in London all the time,
Ron. You're in London pretty much,
90% more actual Londoners.
Right? Someone turns
around and says, oh god, what is that
beautiful building? I don't know, I'm trying
to plan a tune of Marathon.
Tom, Tom, it's enough to prepare for the Marathon
without having to also prepare
for an open top bus tour so that I can
be a guide to people as they go around
Yeah, I'm just hoping to make you don't know me you've got but also what if what if right you twist your ankle?
Right you twist your ankle bad, right?
And everyone knows hanging around for you before you know it everyone else is cleared off, but you want to finish the marathon, right?
You've got finish it. So you limp the whole way right which actually I think is what happened in one fat boy run but you basically see the
last one to finish in one fat boy run yeah yeah so you're then just limping right
you can't rely on the fact that someone's gonna go hey guys where was
Reagan Atherton's ankle so we'll slow down a bit they all want to finish in the
best time right so you've then got to fucking know your route.
All right, fine.
In the event that that happens,
Yeah.
If in the event I twist my ankle, I'm last,
and I've got to try, and I want to complete the marathon
because otherwise the next episode of Wolf and I
will be bad.
I've got two options there.
One is that I rely on the memory I've got
of revising what the route is over over the last way or I Google it
Oh, yeah, we can have your phone on you. We're gonna put your phone. Well, I've got a running vest little running
You know, you have one of those little backpacks with the juice and stuff in it. No, I'm not carrying any water with me
It's all actually what you can say. Yeah, what was his dirty miles mate?
Well, it's twenty six point two.2 and they have water stations.
My big fear is shitting myself.
Oh man, that'd be the worst.
All shitting full stop.
So we'll see what happens.
Yeah, you know what would happen?
You know what I'd say is have big,
like have sort of something big the night before.
So you wake up and you need a big shit.
So you have that big shit, like in the morning. Yeah. Are you wake up and you need a big shit. So you have that big shit
like in the morning. Yeah. Are you traveling up or are you staying in London that night? No, I'm gigging in Brighton and then straight after the gig I'm heading up to London to a hotel
nearby. Wow, wow. I'm quite nervous about it. I don't know if you can tell I've got, they call it,
I think they call it maranoia. Sort of the anxiety anxiety you know what I'd say is enjoy it and ride the wave. Yeah, thank you
What you what you wearing by the way what now? No, no, no, obviously I can see you
I mean on Sunday when you come to the marathon
Oh, you know what I'm thinking is I'll probably just be lurking around the running stations and not the running said the water stations
I'd love everyone to go fuck it. I think it because up until? Because up until about two minutes ago you didn't know they existed so
I'm amazed that was your plan. You know I could go out with a plan quickness well I'd be great in the army right. I'm not
hand-aborted for these things right. I'd like to be like someone who can go fucking out of the marathon
and say oh did you stop at water station 8? There's a fucking guy there who's having such a laugh. Yeah.
That would be one of my dreams.
Unfortunately he just keeps turning up and smashing for all the water.
It's a bit annoying for the runners.
He's the most hydrated person there.
And then he's pissing everywhere as well because he's drunk so much water. I've drunk so much water.
Do you know what? One of the things I regret massively in life at the moment is
I haven't got the minerals to run that, especially with my tone now, run the marathon.
But what I do think I'd be amazing at is picking people's spirits up.
Like a water station or like a positive thinking hub,
like as people are going past and they're starting to feel like.
Yeah, I actually, you know, normally I sort of
listen to what you're saying and kind of pick holes in it.
I couldn't really take the piss out of that.
You are quite a motivational.
Yeah.
You'd be quite good at that.
Yeah, offering hugs, like sort of rubbing your head
and going, fucking, you've got this, bro.
Yeah.
Or like, come on, sister, smash it. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you're not this bro. Or like, come on sister, smash it.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you're not done yet.
You've got more fucking fire in that belly.
Let me tell you, here's another water.
That sort of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I get it.
I do think you'd be good at it.
The tide of goodwill is coming for you.
It's coming for you in the guise of a man called Tom.
Hmm, yeah, okay.
Yeah, that's good. So what's going on with your
time anyway?
Mate, it's it's been like I'm in agony. Well, not gonna lie.
Togay is like you've got a marathon. I was gonna be in a
very serious golf tournament this week. A very serious golf
tournament. It's inaugural shit golfers Tommy Powers birthday
week golf.
Are you not doing it now?
I'm not sure if I can make it. This is very much like Beckham or Rooney
before the big tournament where their metatarsals gone.
I've just done a month for the back of two gigs.
Aren't you supposed to be going away for this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But at the moment I don't know if I can play.
It's heartbreaking because I've been looking forward to this for months.
But like, I will tell you now, I had no idea how painful hurting your toes.
Right. But you know, when like these things happen to like footballers and
they're like, oh, it's a toe.
And then you're like, oh, man, like it's genuine agony.
And you know what? In the last three days I reckon my
cortex, I can't go my ice plunger which I feel quite, it's not great for my head
because I've got addicted to the feeling of cold water surrounding my body.
Mine's arrived by the way, I haven't used it yet but it's here.
Get in this week, just get your ill, restore your body.
I'm going to.
Can you do me a little video of you in it?
No, no I don't think so. That'd be amazing. Just a little video of you in it. No, no, I don't think so
Oh, but it'll be amazing. Just a little video of you
No, but what I don't want to do is you then stick it up on your stories
I do everything else in your life wrong wrong. I'm not gonna do that. Yeah, I would never do that
Yeah, that would just be for me and my thought of love. All right, okay. That's disgusting, but anyway, go on
So you said look you see you dropped the
weight on your toe, it was horrible. I mean you sent me the photo, I've now seen since
that you've shared that photo and it's not that photo. A lot of people have asked for
that photo. I would still have resisted to be honest with you, particularly after I saw
the photo, I thought that did not need sharing. Yeah but a lot of people have asked and a
lot of people were openly quite disgusted,
but people were messaging quite frequently
to see this picture of the toe.
I mean, if I'm honest with you,
it looks more disgusting now than it did in that picture.
It looks more disgusting than that?
Yeah, yeah.
Because it looked absolutely hideous in that picture.
Yeah, it's really not looking good.
And I'm genuinely worried.
It looks like you got a frostbite or something.
Yeah, yeah, that's the way.
Which, but mate, I feel cold the whole time.
It's like my body core temperature's just dropped.
I can't, I feel tired.
I feel like physically and emotionally drained.
I'm not sure I'm going today to see a doctor.
Hold on, have you been to a doctor yet?
No?
Yeah, yeah, I have, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, and what did the doctor say?
Well, he said it's broken down,
like I've got a fracture down the right side of it.
Okay.
But like now I'm like,
literally, like I've just done these two gigs,
Shout Out Oxford and Hayes, and in both of them,
before I was going on stage, like,
my tour manager, Ali, was like,
you're, you've, all of your,
I sort of chatted with him, sort of, I feel cold,, I felt cold and he felt my hands and they were ice cold.
Like, and he was like, and I just all the time,
I was like, I slept in like this last night in a hoodie.
Did you?
Yeah, I just can't get,
my core temperature's just gone.
Was your core temperature gone
when you spoke to your doctor?
No, no, no, this
has happened since probably... So it's a new symptom? Yeah. So are you gonna, who are you
seeing today? I'm seeing the doctor today, same doctor, I'm gonna say... Are you gonna
tell him? Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna show you something's going on here, something's amiss. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. I mean... Well as long as you get yourself sorted out little Tommy. The only thing that's
really hot in my body at the moment is my toe. You could fry an egg on my toe now.
Were you able to, I mean, that was absolutely disgusting.
I'm trying to move on from it.
Were you able to deliver your stand in comedy?
Yeah, I mean, the trouble is with,
I had painkillers just before.
Actually, last night in Hayes,
I'd say the opening five, 10 minutes were sort of like,
very like, I was in agony, and then the painkillers kicked in and
You know the show is a lot more fun after that as you're aware. It's got a physical show
I'm also we went to I went to the um
screening of bluey yesterday
Yeah, I saw that on your Instagram. Yeah, how was it? Yeah, I
Was I think it's by the way a genius show, Bluey.
It's just incredible. I was nearly crying at the end, but I just held it together.
It's a wonderful episode. The sign.
I think everyone in life should just be told to watch Bluey, by the way.
We'd have less problems as a society if we all sat around and watched episodes of Bluey.
I went to watch at the weekend
while I was in I spent the weekend in Sheffield. Lovely Sheffield. Shout out to Sheffield.
Great audiences for me this week Tom. Liverpool, Sheffield and then last
week Glasgow. Everyone's lovely. Yeah you're talking about three ultimate cities there.
I was in Sheffield at the same weekend that Take That were Oh, wow. Did you link up with Gary and the boys?
I didn't actually I didn't realize
Have you met Gary Barlow?
No, I've never met him. Have you met him? No. No, I'm a Robbie guy. Yeah, I actually once
Talked about this but when I was doing it still lives on, you know, we were all getting sort of desperate in the pandemic
This podcast. Yeah, so I did an ita Live and then I got a message from Robbie Williams saying,
can I jump on your Insta? And then I said, yeah.
And he just came onto my Insta Live and started having a chat with me. It's bizarre.
The numbers started like absolutely skyrocketing because Robbie Williams had jumped onto it.
And then loads of people started, in my fucking thing, by the way,
they'd been brought to the Insta Live by Robbie signing on and then going who the hell is this guy
I sort of trying to talk to Robbie while I'm just getting fucking absolutely hammered in
the comments yeah yeah but he was very what a nice bloke he's lovely so but was take that
fever still I mean which is in an actual illness I should say but take that fever still, I mean which is in a natural awareness I should say, but take that fever was a big thing when we were kids.
Was that like, was it still everestcent in that, in Sheffield that week?
Was it still what? Everestcent. What is that? Everestcent?
Yeah, was it still? Evident? No, everestcent is like, is it,
was it still like, yeah like evident but was it still sort of floating around and
could you still feel that, that feeling of? No, no, like evident, but was it still sort of floating around? And could you still feel that that feeling of no, no, no. Who's it say that now? Is it Howard? This is the third minute, Howard, Gary and Mark.
Who's the other guy in? Who's Robbie? Jason. Is Jason being ostracized now? He's been kicked out.
I think Jason's like, well, whether he's been ostracized or not, he's not in it. I mean,
I was under the impression he'd left, but they often say that, don't they?
Jason and Howard, it's such a strange thing, because neither of them really sang.
They just sort of like, I mean, Jason was phenomenally good looking.
I'd say Jason was probably, when I was younger, I'd look at Jason.
Howard's pretty, I mean, none of them are really not good looking, are they?
Yeah, I think Mark's cute.
Yeah.
Mark would be, if I was going to pick one of them, probably to be my best mate that
I confide secrets in, would be Mark.
So Gary's in because he writes his songs, right?
And he's a good singer.
And he's a good singer.
And he's not a bad looking bloke.
Look, the way I see it is, right, Mark is the guy you confide in.
Yeah.
Great roommate on a stag, right?
Howard, I think, is probably quite a laugh.
Sort of big, sort of sweet soul.
Probably me and him would clash a bit
because we've got similar in some ways, I think.
Are you?
Yeah.
Then you've got Jason, who's a good looking one,
handsome as fuck.
And then you've got Gary.
If I'm going to be honest with you,
I always think about it as a pub.
If I get there early and it's just Gary Barlett, get me and Gary there.
Conversation is not... I'll try my hardest, but I think me and Gary, I don't think we'd get on great.
Do you know what I mean?
Why not?
I don't know. I just think he'd look down his nose at me.
I don't think he'd... I try really hard. He'd know that I'd be trying too hard.
He's fucking quite...
You and Gary, I think would be quite cool together.
But you'd probably be a bit like me and yeah. You and Gary I think would be quite cool together. But
you'd probably be a bit like me and Howard, you'd clash because like...
It's, it's, what I would say to you is, what is impressive is how your sort of character
assassinations in me are getting more complicated as we move through. There was, there was genuinely,
there's a few moments there when I thought, oh we were having a real conversation, but actually no, it was once again, it was you manoeuvring
yourself into a position where you deliver a fucking dick slam to me. And they're getting
better, they're getting better. I was in the moment, I was listening to your conversation,
I was in there, and then what I did was I just basically exposed my soft underbelly for a fucking absolute gut punch from you
So
Take that It's sheffield and I had the wonderful experience of going so my tour manager the wonderful. Gracia. Bella
His niece Marisa Abella, is playing Amy Winehouse
in Back to Black.
So I had the honor of sitting with Grazio as he watched his niece in the movie for the
first time.
And also, watching somebody, and look, I was able to experience this with you. You know, watching you go through the process, you know, when you were in one car,
being at the premiere and all that sort of stuff and seeing you mixing it and doing the sort of Tide and Fury thing on the red carpet.
Yeah, yeah. She wasn't doing any of that on guaranteed.
No.
She's very cool. She's,. You know some people just slip into
being a movie star really naturally and she's amazing man but she is like, because I watched
her in what's it called Suits I think it was the thing she did before which was really
good I think it was Suits I don't remember now it was a long time ago but she's phenomenal
and now she's literally away. I haven't seen the film, everyone says she's phenomenal right?
Yeah she is great. And then watching Gratz, Gratz we were driving
through Liverpool and then Gratz saw her on like a massive billboard thing. It's
just so sweet. He's so proud and rightly so. Yeah yeah what I would say is I
did order a large, and this is bad for Marathon, obviously. I'm not really. I ordered a massive, not a massive, large popcorn.
As in the biggest they did.
And I had eaten it, most of it, before the film had started.
You must be roughing us.
No, but that's bad.
I mean, I'll be honest with you, part of me
was hoping you were going to say, yeah, of course you would.
But even you looked shocked now.
No, I'm sure you did.
Yeah, I mean, I try and ration it I like the fact that you can get halfway to a
three quarters for a movie if you've got popcorn left I think everyone in this
sort of and you're eating it then people like he knows what he's doing.
Have you ever gone for a second bag? Yeah yeah good mate I quite a lot of
time that I go to cinema I'll be sitting there I'll have
all of my popcorn my drink some pick-a-mix and I won't be able to relax
as is the way my break I'll sit there and go I should have ordered some nachos
and I say to Catherine I should order some nachos shouldn't I? She'll go oh for
fuck's sake and I'll go I need I need I can't watch this film without nachos and
she's like the film's about to start and I'll be like
No, okay. So then I just it's a sprint to the yeah
I've done it in Crawley cinema quite a few times as call you is where you go go down the stairs
Isn't if you're one of the more luxurious suites?
Sprint down get some nachos if there's a queue. I'm like fucking
Foot to foot just fucking anxious get my nachos and then
sometimes get a small popcorn so I'm like fuck if I get back and I don't
want to make this fucking journey again. The worst bit that can
happen in the cinema is when you go too heavy in on your drink. What do you mean?
Oh what early doors? Early doors. You're gonna need these two pisses taken in
there kind of fluid and also there's nothing worse than getting sort of three quarters away
And you still got popcorn left those horrible. I will say this actually about popcorn right when you're
2024 why are we still having the fucking horrible bit pithy bits at the bottom?
You know the bits that sort of just no good to man or beast
What you suggesting they do about that? I don't know, there's got to be a filter system. There has to be.
We've got to start thinking outside the box when it comes to this.
Well, the problem with your suggestion there is that that is going to make it more expensive for them to produce popcorn and they're not going to do that.
Yeah, but...
If you're filtering out popcorn, you know the pithy little bits?
Yeah.
If they stop including those, it becomes a lot more expensive for them, doesn't it? If you're filtering out popcorn, you know the pithy little bits? Yeah.
If they stop including those, then it becomes a lot more expensive for them, doesn't it?
I will tell you this, right?
I remember being in it, I'd ordered a large popcorn, I remember looking at the bottom
of my barrel of popcorn, right?
I remember looking at the bottom and there was, I reckon, 30 unexploded kernels in there.
30, what was it?
No fucking way.
Mate, there was loads of them, I'm right.
And then I just, I'm so ravenous for popcorn I just start putting
those in my mouth and sucking the salt or sweet off. That's the thing that's
well I mean first of all that was sad but second of all that's a dangerous game
eating the kernels. You're playing fast. I'm sucking them. I'm sucking them.
Just sucking them and then doing what?
Spitting them in my drink.
Spitting them back in the box?
No, no, it's my drink.
Fucking hell, what the fuck is wrong with you?
No, I spit it back into my drink holder.
I'm not putting them back where I want them to be,
because then I might put them back in my mouth.
You know, like, you have all these other things.
Sucking the kernels in the first place is absolutely...
It is hideous.
Mate, if I get to the bottom and I'm like,
I need to get my money's worth,
I've paid like 20 quid for a large popcorn or whatever it is, I'm insane.
And did you feel a sense of satisfaction that you got your money's worth when you sucked the salt off the kernels of popcorn?
Did you feel a sense of pride?
Look, I'm going to tell you now, I don't feel like I'm winning, I feel like I've broken even.
I feel like, look, at least I'm getting some flavour out of these kernels.
I mean it's just unjust and I feel sorry for the kernels that didn't explode because they, yeah, what a waste of a life. Me too. They ended up just being sort of gummed
and sucked by you before being spat into a drinks container. You know, if you're a little
popcorn kernel waiting to see what happens with your life, I feel like that might be
the worst way to go. Watching everyone around you just explode into a lovely fluffy bit
of popcorn.
The bits, how come the bits at the top are always so fluffy?
Because then it's not always the bits at the top, they just mix it and put it in, but the
small bits were obviously just settling at the bottom of the thing, because they're smaller.
It's one thing I just wish society, well, I mean there's a few other things, but it's
one of the things I just wish that we could deal with.
Yeah, and what is, I mean you try to cover yourself up there, but the truth is there
are some things that if people were asking you to rank them in terms of what you'd want
sorted out, sorting out the popcorn would be horrifyingly high to the point where you
might get cancelled for how high up on your list of priorities. At the sacrifice of other things
that other people would think is more important.
What's that, child poverty?
Yeah, no, sure, don't get me wrong, that's upsetting.
But, you know.
You have a set of cinema, mate.
Should we do an email?
Should we do an email?
Should we do an email, I would say? Hold on, Hold on one second, hold on one second, my G.
God, I can't get to it.
I can't get to it.
Is this one done, these?
Yeah, but I don't know where we are with these.
We need to get on top of these a bit more, actually.
It's the one format point we've got,
we've managed to let this get away from us.
Bear with me one second, my G.
I'll tell you what's happened at the moment. Theo, our eldest, We've managed to let this get away from us. Bear with me one second, my G.
I'll tell you what's happened at the moment. Theo, our eldest, has got,
and you've got this in your future with little Gracie.
Not for a while, though.
He's doing his mock GCSEs.
Well, I was once doing an exam, right?
I was getting dropped off to do the site exam.
I can't remember what it was for, and my dad was dropping me off,
and he was so nervous, I looked at him,
and he was like, just found it,
he looked really like distraught as he looked at me,
and my mum told me later on that the reason
he looked so distraught is because
he couldn't handle seeing me that nervous, right?
And I'd always thought that was a weird thing. It's a real sweet thing, that was well, it's a really sweet thing. My mom told me later on that the reason he looks so distraught is because he couldn't handle seeing me that nervous, right?
And I'd always thought that was a weird thing
It's really straight until this morning when I saw how nervous Theo was for his mock exams
Like he's worked his ass off the hallway through the holidays
I found myself in an unusual position of trying to tell my son
It doesn't it doesn't matter as much as he thinks it does.
I'm trying to just calm him down. Seeing your kids nervous like that is horrible. I don't like it at
all. And also he's in a situation where whatever you say you might have got to... but there's some
situations where they're in this situation and you're trying to calm them down and really nothing
you say is going to make it any better. That's quite horrible.
Anyway, that's quite a difference.
Literally, it's just a shout out to Theo. I'm sending my wishes and thoughts to him.
Okay, I'll let him know.
I've thrown it into the ether, but it might be there for him. If he says to you, like, oh, I felt like a real sense of positivity at like 753, it just
sort of came over me.
Yeah, maybe like, yeah.
It would be quite, you know what could be quite good if it was like an American high
school film is that you'd sprint to the school now, which is he's going in, you just grab
him and go, you've got this,
and even if you don't think you have got it,
even if you think you're up against it,
I'm going to be proud of you anyway.
And you give him a lot of massive kiss
and just let him go into the room.
That was what would happen in like a sort of,
it was crazy.
Yeah, it's a really nice idea.
Really nice.
Okay, this is from the Pistuff Puffin.
Well.
My husband and I were at Romesh's gig in Liverpool last night on a very rare date night
It was a great night. We laughed until it
Thinks it was great night. We lost it hurt the evening was somewhat marred though by the absolutely egregious
Manspreading on the part of the man sitting next to me for context
I'm pretty small so don't tend to tend to take up a lot of space
and For context, I'm pretty small, so I don't tend to take up a lot of space. Including my neighbour took that as an invitation to occupy the entirety of my seat in addition to his.
As the evening progressed and more beer was consumed, he encouraged further and at one point he put both feet together up on the seat in front of him
and let his knees fully drop to the sides, which meant he took up over half my seat and one of his knees was practically in my face.
The more I moved over, the more of my space he invaded.
I spent the latter half of the show
squashed against my husband.
But if he took that as a sign he was on a promise,
listening to my rant against the patriarchy
for the duration of the journey home
soon killed any passion for the poor man.
Do you have any experience of manspreading?
Are you guilty of it?
Or is this something men seem to only do to women?
My husband says he's never been a victim of it
If you'd like if you've been in my shoes, would you have said something?
Would you've done what I did and folded yourself like human origami just to avoid confrontation with a stranger?
I'd love to hear what you think yours are pissed off puffing Tom Davis
Number one, I think that's very uncouth and not good behavior and this person should be ashamed of themselves
Seems like they're really just, yeah, they're taking a piss really there and I
feel for the puffing, the pissed off puffing. I will say that I think there's times in my
life as a, essentially what is a giant, that I feel that I will sit on a chair and even
without manspreading I will take up probably more than my allotted room without
even, you know, just because I don't think chairs and areas are necessarily made for
myself.
Like I will never sit down on a tube anymore, just because if it gets busy, I know that
probably a certain parameter of my ass cheek on either side is pushing on to fucking the
next seat. Sometimes I like I try and check myself if I sit
down. I do try and check myself that I'm not spreading out more than I should be. A lot
of that makes me look like Will Ferrell and Elf when he sat at that little table and his
knees are really high up. I sort of tend to get that sort of feeling. I've also, at football, I've been in situations where it feels that
someone else is spreading out more than they're allowed time. I think sometimes that's a bit more
of a like, toxicality of like trying to sort of intimidate sometimes. I think that could be a thing.
But yeah, naturally I know that there's been times in my life though that I probably not
spread out but but my just sheer size has meant that someone sitting near me
or around me has gone off for fuck's sake I see people's heads drop when they
say I'm gonna sit next to them like you know and then I sort of look like I'm
gonna sit down and you know I've got a plane's coming to land but then goes back up I'm like that
I'm like oh yeah I don't want to ruin their journey and mine with them tightens I tend to sit that's really
sad no no but I see it from their side of you as well like I see it as a thing
what I do genuinely have a thing of like I look at it and be like I don't want
this to be a shit journey because I don't you've I'm very aware like in my
size that comes with a certain you, sometimes people can be quite just intimidated by it,
you know?
Have you, are you a man, I mean, you're not,
I'd say you're a very respectful sitter.
I've seen you sit in places.
You're almost like a snail when you sit.
But you just sort of huddle up into it.
Like. Yeah, well, I did think that about myself.
And one of the things that I did sort of start doing is, I kind of, I, look, I just, I did think that about myself and one of the things that I I did sort of start doing is
I kind of I like just I did I said how you've just sat that down there right one leg over the other which Theo
Pointed out to me is quite
He sort of said it's not it's it's not an attractive way to sit as we pointed It's me of a bit, sort of like nervous businessman. You know what I'm talking about?
Like that sort of.
Really sort of.
It's really bad for your hips and your back as well.
Is it?
Anyway, I did, the last time I did Jonathan Ross,
I think it was Jonathan Ross or something like that,
somebody commented on my photo that I was manspreading.
I'd always thought of myself as somebody
that wouldn't ever manspread because I I just don't it's not in my nature
I don't want to do it. It's something I feel horrible knowing that I had done
But I was guilty of it. It turns out somebody commented saying
That on this on the couch. I was sort of being a bit manspready
Imagine you manspread it well apparently I was
Really felt shit about it to minister there. Yeah, do I know any yeah? Yeah
I mean, I'm friends with manspreaders, you know, yeah, not exclusively, but you know, I know a couple of them and
Is it I do think it is a I don't want to general generalise, but it's sort of a gender thing.
Some men feel like it's, I believe,
some men feel like it's an assertion of masculinity
to sort of sit with your legs quite wide apart.
Yeah, I think it's almost like risk,
because you're at a board game risk.
Sort of like, you know, sort of taking over
other entities and properties.
Yeah, it's a bit, when I was a teacher, this is it, by the way,
I don't agree with this.
It's a very old school way of looking at things.
But you know, if you talked to a kid,
if you did something, one of the things that somebody told me,
like they've been teaching for years and years and years,
is if you're talking to a kid and you stand at their desk
and then you move something of theirs as you're talking to them.
So like say I come and stand in front and talk to your
Desk and then I move your ruler from one side of this the other
That message that's getting sent to you is that I own this entire space
right is that I am in control of this area that that's like a
Non-verbal cue that you are in my house. Do you know me? That's kind of what that does, right?
Which are you know?
I don't I don't know how convinced I am of that as a good, as a good thing to do to a kid that you're
teaching. But anyway, the reason I mention it is because I think that's kind of what
man-spreading is a bit like. It's a bit like pissing in the corner of the, yeah, it's like pissing on a
bush, isn't it? This is my area. Your brother's not a man spreader but your brother's very good at allotting space to himself.
He'll mark out his territory. Yeah, yeah, he's very like, we've shared like a lot,
you know, car journeys, you shared like dressing room. Like I think you and me, I'm very...
And he's doing that to the, I mean the fact that you've noticed that suggests that it's a problem.
I mean the fact that you've noticed that suggests it is a problem. It's not a problem.
You've noticed it.
I'm a reader of human people, like you know human people.
I know but I find it interesting because he's very, he's probably more like me than you in a lot of ways in the basis that
like I've done a lot of car journeys with you, I'd say you're probably one of the most respectful passengers I've ever been in a car with.
I think you're genuinely a credit to humanity
when you're in a car.
I think like, you know, you cheat the car.
Your brother, shoes are offered in seconds
of being in a car.
Shoes are kicked off.
No shit's given.
You're a liar.
No, I swear, I adore it.
I think it's amazing.
I think that is so comfortable.
I'm sorry.
No, you were poor opposites. You, it's amazing. I think that you would do comfortable. I'm sorry You you were poor up at it you right?
You will you in a car journey?
Well, I've done quite a few with you you in a car journey at the start of the car journey in the end of the car journey
Have the feeling you've just got in the car
Even if we'd be like you're supposed to drive
This is a friend you see you have the aura of a man who's never not number one been in a car before but also just got in at any point might have
to get out in an emergency right whereas your brother gets in and it is like okay
right I'm gonna have a little area here for some snacks my shoes gonna come off
it's like oh yeah even if you go in 15 minutes down the road just I'm gonna
relax here I'm gonna make the most of this 15 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. So you like that as kids? Were you like that as kids?
It's not something I've noticed.
But maybe.
But listen, I'm not as great an observer of human people as you are, so who knows.
But listen, Pissed Off Puffin, thank you so much for your, thank you so much for your, what I would say is
that bloke is clearly a dickhead.
Like, well no, he's not clearly a dickhead.
He might be, there might be other aspects of his life
where he's an amazing bloke, but in that instance.
But also I do think that it's up to someone that he's with
just to say, man, fuck you know, what you doing?
Look at the poor woman next to you.
He might be on his own.
Yeah, so good luck to you.
But I think you're in the right.
And yeah, it's just a bit shit, isn't it?
Should we do one more time, Odie? Let's do one more, let's do one more, Jay.
Okay, this is from the unassuming orangutan.
Dear Wolf, Owl, Cat and Swan, I'm a long time listener since back in the COVID days.
Without fail, your show is always laugh out loud funny, as well as genuinely heartwarming.
It helps that the impressions that Wolf and Owl do of each other are hysterical. In fact I suggest an episode
where each plays the other for the duration. I for one would love to hear that
either that or a detective spinoff show I'll have midnight caller from back in the
day where after the show the wolf and owl are out solving crime. Well I think
it'd be unusual for Tom to make the decision to rip off some of his own work
but I'm writing as like the owl I'm running the marathon this year also my first and also for
charity. Congratulations. Well, it's safe to say I've never
been close to athletic or sporty. But last year I signed
up to run the marathon as a way of saying thank you and raising
funds for Great Wall Street who helped my daughter come through
major heart and lung surgery when she was a baby. Oh, well,
that's great. Training has been a bit of a godsend in a way as
the past eight months my girlfriend and I split up I've
been made redundant lost my home, oh man,
and since had to move in with family to save funds
and keep supporting my children,
it has been harder for me to see now.
I've been at work for a few months,
savings have run out, and I've started to despair
in a so toxic environment where I'm staying
and I'm miles away from any friends and feeling very alone.
The marathon is something I've been looking forward to
in a perverse way, but also dreading,
as when I complete it, I just don't know what I I'll do next I've heard that runners can have a big emotional
crash after facing an event such as this and the thought fills me with dread I do
have bipolar and depression do all things I can to manage this it feels
like things are building to a head and it really scares me any thoughts the
Wiley wolf and all seeing Al could offer a much appreciated their friendship is
something truly unique and I wish I have something like that in my life many
thanks the unassuming orangutan Tommy Tommy Day. Well firstly sorry to hear about
your um yeah the spin of your mission and the turn that life has taken. Firstly I
think it's incredible that you're running a marathon and pushing yourself to do this. I will say that someone who, myself, and I know Romesh
struggles with certain elements of mental health, it's always very difficult not to,
but like not to try and, I myself and Romesh should have more idea about this, but I look
at like the end of my tour's coming.
It's not that far away.
And there's a part of me that looks at that.
And as much as like it's been like quite difficult
at times at all, and it comes at you.
So, yeah, I do look at it, it's become a very,
like I've spent 18 months now performing this
and making the show into what it is.
As a part of me that actually quite worries
about what happens
when the show is over and that thing that because it has there's been a lot of pressures
and mental sort of you know I worry slightly about you know what's going to be what's
it going to what's going to happen after that like you know I've got into a habit now of
of going out on stage and enjoying that and And it being and I think looking at what
what you yourself in the marathon and I guess that you've put
with everything you've been put through, you put more than it's more than a physical thing.
It's a massive emotional thing.
Number one, like you need to give yourself as much credit as you possibly can
on the basis that you're doing something incredible and you're doing something amazing.
You're doing it for a cause that really matters and everything that your
great woman, Street, have done for you and your daughter and your family is amazing.
I'd say that you need to make sure that you give yourself as much credit as you possibly
can for taking yourself from somewhere in through you know, in through all of this, this tough times and to see you've done
something really, really positive with it.
So make sure I think that you give yourself a pat on the back
and you're a good friend to yourself.
I think it's then trying to look for,
whilst celebrating that, another challenge and make that challenge something.
It doesn't have to even be massive.
It's sort of like, you know, just look at how you're going to get through a day and be like, you know, a
little bit happier day to day or find ways of just being a little bit positive. I've
genuinely been where you are. I've been in that situation of, you know, having to move
back in with parents and I know how hard that is and how that can almost sort of eat away
your soul just because it's just a very, very difficult place to be. And I think you've
just got to start in baby sets of rebuilding sides of your life. You're clearly a good
person and dealing with the mental health issues that you've got and you sort of have
bipolar and depression. yeah, they're
difficult but I'd also try and find yourself, and this is I think a thing that, you know,
me and Ramesh should both do a lot for mental health charities. I'm very proud to do stuff
for Calm or for the NHS and talk about this but I'm also aware that it's a bit, I'm blessed
that I have Ramesh in my life and without a say, I know that, you know bit I'm blessed that I have Romesh in my life and without a set line, I know that
you know I don't want to get too much but I know when that time comes and my tour's over and I
need somewhere to lean and I need someone there for me I know that you know the person on the
other end of this Romesh will be that person I lean to because he's always there for that and
hopefully I did that for him but I'm aware that we're blessed to have that with each other and
it worries me a little bit is me and Romesh
are very much at the forefront of open conversation
and opening up and talk to someone and speak to someone.
But it really saddens me at times when I actually,
you realize that not everyone has that in their life.
I'm lucky that I do in Romesh
and vice versa, hopefully, feels the same.
But I think what we need to try and do
is try and work out a way that
there is more support.
And I'm not talking about because therapy is expensive as well.
And it's a really difficult thing to go to people just go to therapy and talk.
But when you're in a situation, you can't afford that.
That's a really difficult thing.
So it's just try now to work out a place that we can actually go work.
Where's the safe space and people can be vulnerable.
And it is I look for a long time struggled
to go, oh, you know, just talk about how you feel. It's not easy just to walk into a pub
or some scenario when you meet up with your mates, you just go, oh yeah, this is how I
feel, bosh, because people aren't always going to be there and people aren't always going
to understand. So I just think we need to cultivate that a little bit more because it's
very easy just to go, well, this is a a cure for something but we don't quite know what the medicine is and I think hopefully as time
grows but look man if you are struggling and you ever want to reach out and I mean this like make
sure like when you've done a marathon stay in touch with myself or Rom like an email let us know
you've done and anything and I know Rom is incredible that, and anything we can do to help you afterwards, man,
just reach out, and good luck on Sunday.
Go smash it for yourself, for Graham on the street,
and for your little one.
Good luck, Ron.
I'll assume in orangutan,
I would echo everything Tom said there.
And over and above that, I would say that,
look, the truth is that you've gone for a
very difficult time, and I know it won't feel like that at the moment, but things will get
better.
They really, really will.
You just have to allow yourself to believe that.
But at the moment, I think when things go like that, you have to accept that you're
going to feel shit for a while, and that's part of your process.
That's part of all of our processes when stuff gets tough. But what I would say is, you know,
what you've said in this email is that
training for the marathon has been a godsend.
And so there isn't really a reason why
the marathon should signal the end of that journey.
I mean, there's no reason,
I'm not suggesting that you immediately sign up
for another marathon, but there's running clubs
and stuff like that.
There's, you know, there's suggesting that you immediately sign up for another marathon, but there's running clubs and stuff like that.
There's ways you can carry on doing that.
If this has been a coping strategy for you, then I think that's something you should be
doing more of.
It might be running, it might be you might decide you're going to take on another challenge.
You might decide you're going to do something else.
I'm not saying that's what you're going to do instead of having a relationship or whatever but I
Feel like that, you know doing that might be something that temporarily is a bit of a and maybe then the long term is like a coping
thing for you and something that you you start turning to so
Don't I wouldn't say that see the marathon as an end
You know the marathon running a marathon is a celebration of all the training that you've done
And then there's no reason why that has to be the close of it.
You can keep on running, you can keep on doing it.
Give yourself another target, give yourself another goal.
Maybe you want to do it again,
but get a faster time or whatever, I don't know.
But don't see these things as a close.
See these things as an opening to something else.
And look, both of us, very sad for you
that you've gone through such a tough period.
But things will get better and we'll wish you all the very best. Please do keep in touch.
So yeah.
You know, you feel like an emotional sort of like...
I feel very blessed there, that I got you there.
Because it is hard, isn't it, man?
I feel right for that guy there.
He'll find something.
I know he will, but you there. Yeah, he'll find someone.
I don't know who will, but you have that thing,
didn't you, when you realise quite how,
I think maybe that's what the end of the show is today.
But it's like taking stock in the smallness of it all,
isn't it?
Taking stock and realising that sometimes
when you have got a friend like that,
maybe you shouldn't be spending your whole time
constructing elaborate ways to insult
them, do you know what I mean? I do that through affection, because I adore you my lovely.
All right, Tommy, do you want to take us out of this, my G? Curtains and doors, windows.
Thing is, with a door when it's closed, unless you have one of those posh
glass ones with reinforced glass that cost a load of money, it's hard to see through
them unless you open them. But sometimes even though you have windows in your houses, you
don't even look out of them. Sometimes you're too consumed by the things in your house.
Televisions, Xboxes, phones. But actually one of the most refreshing things you can do
is just looking out the window,
looking at what the world's doing outside.
And then thinking, hmm, maybe I'll step out there.
Maybe I'll open the door.
Opening a door is a simple act,
but it can actually be a big move.
Walking outside, taking a hit of that sweet, sweet air
that's out there.
Whether it's that stagnant, rainy air that just sort of smells of wet dogs or is that hot air where you go, God there's
going to be bees and bugs and flies, nay less, nature could be a motherfucker. But the truth
of the matter is actually getting out and being amongst it is one of the best things
in life. And sometimes it's really easy to think, well, I'm out here just on my own, just a a voyage a bit like Neil Armstrong when he was on the moon and he was the only one who dared step out
But he wasn't alone the world was watching him and I guess that's the thing we need to do in society every time someone steps
Out of their home remind yourself that you don't want anyone to be alone remind themselves that a journey on your own
Yeah
Can be difficult can be difficult, can be
tough. So if you're running the marathon this week and you're out there and you
see someone struggling, make sure to give them a pat on the back and say you've got
this, we've got this, we're doing this together. It's a team effort, yeah, we're
all straddlers, individuals, all looking for the best time. But actually what
society needs right now is an hour around the shoulder
And you don't need to be running the marathon if you see someone struggling during the day whether it's work
It's a friend or whatever. Just remember to extend an arm a good word a
Caring smile because that goes a long way and don't be creepy with it because creepiness isn't going to place in society
My point is this we all need to do a little bit better at being us.
Let's let ourselves grow, let's open up, let's rock out and remember one thing. You've got a
friend doing a marathon, text him on Sunday morning and say, hey friend, you fucking got this.
Thank you very much Tom. Let's uh, in tribute to uh to Gracia and Marisa Rubella.
Should we do a little bit of Valerie, Amy Winehouse?
Oh man, and sing along to this baby.
Yeah absolutely, well I think we're only going to play 15 seconds but enjoy that.
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