Wolf and Owl - S3 Ep 48: Rangaball & Getting Caught Naked

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

We’re talking… podcast admin issues, chronic hat-hair, Rom returning home from his Portugal trip, making holiday friends, a new game called ‘Rangaball’, playing padel with Jason Manford, getting caught naked at the ALOTO studios, a bit of a backtracking on wasps and 250 conversation starters. For questions or comments, please email us at [e-mail] - 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: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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 expect killings Red spilling and flesh ripping, impressive in it the death bringing his head spinning

Just kidding every word in this songs about two grown men dressed up as a bird and a dog Let me just say something though, but when you say I'm just doing the audio recording what that means is Ramesh Can you record it and send it? It's very easy for you to say, sorry welcome to the Wolf and our podcast. We've just started recording. Last couple of these we've screen recorded on QuickTime right? Which has been an absolute fash if I'm honest. Well we've had to upload it to this Dropbox or whatever, just Dropbox. All right, great. And I've had to buy extra storage for the Dropbox. Well, I didn't have to. So I don't know why that's happening.

I don't know why I've had to. Dropbox obviously hates me. I've never even used Dropbox, by the way. So anyway, and then just now, before you joined us, Animal Pack, Tom just said, well, you caught the end of it, I'm just going to record audio. Which makes it seem like there's nothing for me to do what that then means is that I have to record the video right you said it like yeah what you're

saying is you want to do less but indirectly means I have to do more you know that right no no but right that I think we had a good thing going right as a team with the audio records in the zoom you've been fucking amazing at sending over those zooms man shout out to you for that I've probably not given you enough fucking shout outs for doing that over the last three years right you fucking know that certainly like Tom Pacman right anyway go on you've smashed it right look I want everyone actually who's listening to this now just to tap your shoulder and just go shout out Ron for fucking nailing those zooms y'all

right um but I just think that we fiddled around with this extra sort of just to tap your shoulder and just go shout out Ron for fucking nailing those Zooms y'all. Right? But I just think that we fiddled around with this extra sort of like slice and we've not quite, and we look, we're in the studio for next week. That is exciting, man. That's very exciting. And do you know, I wanted to say this by the way, and I say this a lot when we get in the studio,

just get ready man, cause you're getting a hug. Just get ready. Are you talking to me? Cause I haven't touched you, yeah. I haven't touched you, I've felt you're getting a hug. Just get ready. Are you talking to me? I haven't touched you. Yeah, I haven't touched you, I've felt you for ages, man. I want you to smell all nice, get your hair done all cool. I was gonna, if you've got a cap on, I'm gonna flip it off just so I can see that mane of hair. I was gonna say, bro, I fucking missed you.

The boys have been commenting on the fact that, you know, like, my hair's got quite long now. Yeah, I like it, I like the length. Well, it gives me really bad hat hair, all right? have been commenting on the fact that you know like my hair's got quite long now or is Yeah, I like it. I like the length. Well, it gives me really bad hat hair right and When we're flying back from Greece Well, in fact the whole holiday every now and again, I was wearing a cap The boys would go dad

Can you take your hat off because you want to see what your hat hair looks like and then they start laughing and then when we're Going through the airport We obviously you've got to take your hat off for the thing I mean the kids started freaking out that I was gonna get arrested because of how bad my hair looked when I took the Hat off and then like they were going like just put it down like just calm it down a bit calm it down dad Come you're just gonna stand there like that with your hair like that Like it looks a little I don't know if I've not been wearing a hat for long But let me just see if I could like I think it was quite nice

I like that. I like it like that. It looks kind of wild though I said every time you make comments about your hair. It just breaks my heart Well, it doesn't really What does cuz I haven't got hair. I could I could put a cap on it. You know, there's no change to everything I do. There's no issues for you. Equally. know, there's no change to everything I do. There's no issues for you, are there? Equally. No, there's none. How was the flight back, by the way? Yeah, because you're back to, yeah,

the sunglasses have gone, holiday rom has sort of crept under a rock until this time next year, or probably three months' time, because I know you like a holiday. But, um... Um... because you like a holiday. But yeah, how was the last few days? Did you have a big meal to end it? Yeah, we did. Yeah. Yeah. It was nice, man. It was a flight back was all right. Because

this time last, well, last year when we did this, that was when the air traffic control went down if you remember I'll certainly I'll settle the runway for four hours and then went back into the airport. It's very stressful But this flight back was it's pretty good. Actually, it's weird isn't it? I for that existential thing of like when you're on holiday You can't remember a time when you weren't on holiday. You just go this is my life now. And then when we got back, we'd been filming League of their Own, and I got back and I was straight, I basically landed for an hour and then I had script meetings for League of their Own. Midway through the script meeting,

I'd forgotten I'd ever been on holiday. Really? Yeah. I'm fine, because I'm away at the moment. I found that it's taken like this is a penultimate day of our holiday. And I found it took me four days to get into the actual idea of one holiday. So that means I have two days that I really enjoyed on one holiday and then I come home. Yeah. Like, I've got to say family wise, you've got it two weeks is I've done a week and it's not been we did a week earlier

Like in the in the summer day, which wasn't a proper say wasn't great because of one thing and another This has felt like a nice summer holiday. Grace has been in the pool every day. Shout out to the holiday You know what? I love his holiday friends Fucking adore meeting you people. It's one of the things I enjoy a lot I can adore meeting new people. It's one of the things that I enjoy a lot. When you say holiday friends, are you talking about people that you bump into and have a chat, or are you talking about people

that you then arrange to meet again regularly? I'm telling you now, there's people, I think I've, actually it's taken me back to being, like when I was sort of late teens going on a lads' holiday and you'd meet sort of a couple of lads from Leeds or some girls from Basingstoke and you'd be like, oh yeah, fucking let's hook up and then you'd all meet in London or whatever.

Or you'd travel up to Leeds and have a bit of a beano with them. Like this is, I think, you know, you've had this, you know, because you've got the three boys. Grace is now at an age where she started playing with other kids, right? So that means all of a sudden I'm like, oh wow, like she's over there, she's like now become, she's like a little me by the way, she's still a social

butterfly. So Catherine will be like me and Grace will just go off for like a couple of hours and Catherine will just chill and then we'll come back and we've made like three or four new friends. I'm friends with the dads, she's friends with the kids. I'm just going to warn you as a friend, this is you're starting to enjoy the smell of your own brand there a little bit Okay, would you make sort of let me just I'm just gonna recreate for you what you just did So, you know, we just live we just leave cats chill for a couple of hours We head off and we've come back and made three or four new friends

You know, I mean she's friends with the kids something you're starting to do. You know, I mean it's not sound like you Well, it's sound like you're giving a fucking Oscar's acceptance speech or some shit. I mean you're getting a little bit... I enjoy meeting new people. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's nothing into myself. I enjoy the feeling, right, of that new friend. I forgot what it was like to sort of like break off the rust and just go, yo, wow, do you know what I mean? Yeah, what do you do friend? Where are you from? And then just, you know, get a bit of a download about what their story is. I've enjoyed that part of it. And, you know, can't speak highly enough of this hotel.

It's been very, very nice. People here are amazing. It's and it's, you know, it's you know what you say was a sad day. A lot of people left because people are going back to school. Just just a random question, was it all exclusively people that you talked to and made holiday friends with? Yes. Yeah. Thought so.

The people that we get. There's one family that's at places. Can you find out if there's any earlier flights? No, the hotel's great. It's great. It's just it's actually proving to be more stressful than being at work. There's been a guy who sits with us for two hours every day.

Sits between us with his daughter, who just shouts at us. That's been a guy who sits with us for two hours every day She's between us with his daughter who just shouts us That's been nice man. It's been a it's been a vibe I'm sort of like you know, I'm literally flying back to my straight into work So I'm like, yeah, this is this is that last day but a pool is kind of sacred, right? Yeah, I'd say so and Grace is in the big pool now. So she is being... We discovered a sport, not discovered a sport, but we bought like one of these. We bought like a little American football.

And then we started playing kind of, I guess, water. Basically the aim of the game is it's like netball. You've got to get to the other end of the pool with the ball, touch, touchdown. All right. So we've been playing teams as a family going to each other. We discovered the game, agreed the rules of the game two days before we were due to leave and then pretty much we were getting up, getting into the pool and that was hours of it.

Like it became our new thing. Hours and hours of it. And now, so then when we were playing on... Just as a family by the way. Just as a family. No, just as a family. Just as a family, by the way, or did any other people join? No, just as a family, just as a family. Well, did you take the whole pool up doing this? No.

We went to like a little quiet pool to do this, right? So... How many pools did your hotel have? Like, it's count, I mean, it's like... It's... Oh my God. I thought we were ritzy, we've got two. Anyway, we got addicted to the sport.

Don't go over there, the Ranganathans have booked that pool out. Come on, kids. We want to go in there, Daddy. No, no, no. Big Chedd has booked that one out. We just put some light signs out. We actually asked the hotel to put signs out and stuff like that, just to keep this area free. But then it was quite sad when we went in to play our last game of it yeah yeah that moment is that's gonna that's gonna smart yeah sort of ready for the final game of we couldn't we never figured out a name for it was Lisa playing yeah Lisa's

playing yeah we sort of mixed up the teams a little bit but it was uh obviously it's always three on two because it's five yes uh can i grass as the dad where you always the Light in the in the two because you sort of saw yourself as or Theo sort of become that sort of I was always in The table I didn't put myself up in the table. Let's just say yeah skills got recognized. Okay Wow, and so well, you're like the Brady of this the rank Rangible rankable. It's not bad to. Rangable, Rangable. Rangable is not bad. It's a bit narcissistic though to name it after yourself though, isn't it?

Yeah, there's a part of me that really wants to come next year just to sort of like, I'll bring Grace, Catherine, do a week with you guys, just play Rangable. Rangable is, it was so good. I like the sound of the game as well. I think as well, by the the way that more new sports would be invented like that. It's like we've just stopped inventing sports for like for people to watch. Look at paddle for example. Everyone loves paddle. What's going on with paddle? Paddle's like... Can I say by the way paddle went through, I think paddle went through

a cool phase with quite a lot of people I respect who were playing it and now a lot of people I don't respect have jumped on the back of it. And it's now become a little bit eggy for me. How's it become eggy? I just think it's a little overkill at times, do you know what I mean? It's like anything in the world, right? It's like really, really fucking... By the way, I've never played paddle, but I like the look of it.

And then I watched some people play it and thought, this is just going to be another thing I'm not going to be very good at. What I love, by the way, but I like the look of it. And then I watched some people play it and thought, this is just gonna be another thing I'm not gonna be very good at. What I love, by the way, is something like rangle ball. I listen to you talk about rangle ball, I go, that is a fucking game that Charlie can play, you can play, everyone probably feels that they're quite good at it, right? I think that there should be more sports like that

where everyone feels like, oh mate, anyone can score a point, anyone can feel that they get an assist. Yeah. So that's a beautiful, no, but that's a beautiful thing. Whereas paddle, I watched someone play paddle. I'm like, that's another thing for someone to go, Oh, God, you should like big guy playing paddle. Why is he even bothering? Well, I pretty much my sporting career from as kid,

well, I tried to get into paddle because I I I I've not played paddle just to start the story. This is like golf all over again It is a bit like golf all over again But like but I got excited by paddle because a few people spoke to me This is this sound derogatory, but I don't mean it to be a few people spoke to me about playing and enjoying paddle who I would not describe as the most Coordinated and athletic right like if Jamie Redd that comes up to you and says have you tried paddle? So yeah, yeah, Jamie, but unfortunately it seems like it's for your species and not mine, right?

Whereas I've had a couple of like regular people, right? Say to me, paddle's really fun. So I looked into it and there is a paddle club near me. I was going to take Lisa, but you do need four people, apparently, to play paddle. I... I think so I know Jason I know Jason plays and Jason is the reason I if I'm honest you I saw Jason playing and I thought I actually maybe because like Jason's like

myself in you I think he's not a necessary very sporty person yeah yeah and I think Jason's like that gave me a little bit of hope, if I may say so. When I saw that he was playing, I thought, oh, he's probably of a sort of similar sort of level as us. And then I went to the local club and watched. And I was like, oh, no, this is, I will, it should be ridiculed.

So you went to the Paddle Club to watch? No, I went to the Paddle Club to see if I could play. This is a while ago and saw Just a level there was like four people in their 60s playing and they were more effective than me and you and Jason probably And they were like taking so seriously This I think it's a little bit unfair on Jason Manford who's not part of this podcast It's not asked to be mentioned. You've said that you said the word Jason 15 times in the last minute, by the way. And then on top of that, you've then gone, I've seen four six year old people

playing at a level that you may find so far and Jason could never even dream of. He's done nothing Jason. Okay. Absolutely nothing. Jason. Okay, absolutely nothing Yeah, no, no, no, I'm speaking I was speaking positively of Jason on the basis. I actually respect the fact he's doing this Just summarize the points you've made one Okay, you thought to yourself there's no way I could access paddle Then you saw Jason being able to play it and you thought okay that your exact words were that gave me hope Right if someone is somebody like Jason Manford was able to play that gave me hope then you saw

461 it's not me turning bad and saying look if Jason can play it Yeah, I look at Jason and like myself and somebody loves sport enjoy sport and he's brave enough to go and do it And I look at that. I played golf with Jason. It's Right. I've played golf with Jason. We're very similar sports people I'd say. We're not like, you know, I wouldn't look at him and go like what my point was when I looked at the people playing at the club local to me I was like this would be reminiscent of every fucking sporting endeavor I've ever done in my life. What I will be doing that other people will be going oh for fuck's sake this is a waste of an hour for someone else to be on the court. That's how I felt when I was watching.

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Prices exclude delivery. I'd love to do that with you, but let me tell you now, what I was getting from all the other people watching Paddle is people clapping and going, other people are waiting for the Paddle board. That's the problem. No, this is what I'm saying. And this is why I respect Jason, he's gone out to do it.

Golf's different. Golf, you can go out, in the four-hands. You can go high. Exactly, exactly. Paddle isn't hiding. People stand and watch and Jason's probably an amazing paddle player but I've seen Jason plays paddle quite a lot now right. My point is for him to when he started paddle like he was not that he was not at that level right and he had to probably go through that. That's what what if me and you were on there together, I'm telling you now, Paddle felt like, you know, like I used to go to the sports centre and watch my dad play squash. And I remember my dad was got a good squash player and we'd go there and like we'd go there, we'd go for a swim, my dad would play squash with a mate. We'd sit there and you know, we'd have a, you know,

play hide and seek in a, you know, at a sports club, like at a fancy sports center. OK, keep it light. Right? Right? And I used to remember people, if my dad was playing against someone who wasn't very good at squash, my dad would be like, oh, fuck it, I've got to play against this guy. He's like, it's just a what, you know. And that's what I, then I became that guy.

My dad would try and take me and get me into sport and then I'd be, I could see my dad going, I've got to play that guy who's also my son. He's got no coordination. Yeah, I don't like the spectator thing about it, but there must be some reason. Paddle has become like running in terms of, you have to tell everyone that you're doing it, right? It seems to be a thing where like-

Yeah, yeah, but the thing I was told about paddle is it was more accessible than tennis. It was more fun. And like I say, there's people that I really like who I was watching going, oh, look, they're doing it. And that's really, that seems cool. Then there's like what we're talking about, the species of who overtake things

who are just naturally good at everything. Yeah, it's like, for example, when I've played golf with Blake, I've been playing golf since I was 12 12 and then you got to play with them and they fucking literally wipe the floor of you. It's just an absolute clusterfuck for fucking four and a half hours and they're going, oh you're really picking it up and you're like, I played every day for fucking six months. You haven't played in 30 years and you've just beaten me. That's just fucking embarrassing.

Do you know what I mean? So I look at now and go, when people are just naturally good at stuff, like me versus you, me and you, I'd go, if it was just me and you and we had a blacked out paddle arena and no one else could see in it, it was just me and you, and we'd have a laugh together and try and pick up the game, then I'd literally, that'd be one of the things I'd adore most of the world. I would love it if there was like an underground paddle club, just in a basement somewhere, like a fight club, we go down there, you have to say a code word at the door, you go in,

and it's like a sex dungeon in terms of like, they keep it completely locked off, completely private area, then you and me could play paddle, and maybe fuck afterwards. But the point is, is that we could play paddle in a safe environment We're not worried about people seeing us. That would be wonderful And it's made that is exactly I think what we should invent. Well, that's what we should do. I don't know about inventing it I was my thought process was find one Okay. Well, you know, I don't think there is such a thing at a moment. I think it's become such a peacock in sport

Mmm, okay Like even like the other shots is playing it's become such a peacock in sport. Even like, obviously Andrew Schultz is playing it and people like that and you look at that, people become obsessed and you've got a sort of, like me and you start playing paddle and me and you, look, I've played quite a few sports against you over the years for league, right? Me and you, the smallest of the victories

of me and you, right, when it comes to playing sport, are like literally kicking a ball in a straight line. I mean you're almost rejoicing, right? So well if we were videoing each other playing paddle other people go. Oh my god, he scored a point It's not like I know that with very non-alpha. We're very beta Yeah, I would say you're slightly more alpha than I am. You've just reminded me when you, when you were talking about the sports week a bit, because once you spot a little kind of chink of light that you might be better at something,

you do, there is a transformation in you. Do you know what I mean? Like what I'm saying is there's different, well, in different, there's different levels. Like you know, you know how you're sort of saying the guy that hadn't played golf since he was 12 years old and then he plays against you and actually hammers you and it's a horrible experience. in different, there's different levels. Like, you know, you know how you're sort of saying the guy that hadn't played golf since he was 12 years old and then he plays against you and actually hammers you

and it's a horrible experience. I would say if you found your equivalent level of somebody that was, you would be that person. Like you wouldn't, you would not be gracious if the tables were turned is what I'm saying. I'm gonna tell you now, you've got some front because I think you'd be the same. I think you would be the same. I know for a fact, I'm gonna tell you now, you've got some front, because I think you'd be the same. I think you would be the same.

I know for a fact, I'm going to tell you now. I'm going to tell you now, if I came on a holiday with you, and we played rangleball, and you wiped the floor with me, you'd be going, you'd be turning out to Theo, Charlie, and Alex, and Lisa, and going, sorry, guys, he's not played before. Like, it just feels, it feels a bit bad having L Doofus on someone else's team.

Tom, you better catch it, right? Which direction are you scoring in? Yeah, you would, I think sport naturally does that to people by the way. I don't care who you are. You could be as beta as you like or whatever. But I think as soon as you feel like, especially for the likes of me and you,

but if you feel you're good at something, because do you know how small the pool is of things that me and you are good at when it comes to physical like endeavor you didn't need physical endeavor at the end of that do you know how small the pool is of things that we're good at yeah i do and even the one thing that i'm sort of supposed to be good at i get abuse about um so yeah i'm fully aware i know we should try i mean look i'd love to play rankable with you i'd love to play paddle with you Yeah, we can make it one of those social we can make it one of those social media videos. We package it up

I mean, it's like me going to camera So a few weeks ago if you listen to the wolf in our podcast You will know that Tom and I started talking about paddle and then we started thinking Why don't we start talking about it on a podcast and get down and play each other so here we are at Beckham Underground Paddle Club Tom and I are gonna have a couple of games we're gonna see who's got what it takes follow me that should be quite cool yeah yeah I was gonna carry on with the whole I was gonna have the whole video sorry gosh yeah yeah I know you're about to get into me god Yeah, we're here. I'm about to what this floor in Romesh

I Actually think of it. You have a stick. Look if mean you're playing. I think we go for it I just think we literally just go for it. Yeah, I think we play with that tops off So then we can that's a great idea and then we go and people are laughing to put our tops off I'm glad you said that I was gonna say I was gonna say travel with our tops off like the whole the whole day is topless. I love that video. That would literally be my favourite bit of social content we could do. Just having to get public transfer on the bus and just me and you just wear tops off. People are going what the fuck is going on there? Yeah we're supposed to play paddle. Yeah of course yeah naturally yes. Yeah we're playing topless paddle. Yeah. Oh, of course, yeah, naturally, yeah. Yeah, we're playing topless paddle. Is that a fucking problem?

You have to play topless paddle topless. I saw Jim for the last time, for the first time, in a long time, a couple of days ago, and he was telling me a little bit about you guys being in Scotland together. He said that he played golf with you and helped you a little bit about you guys being in Scotland together. He said that he played golf with you and helped you a little bit with your swing. But the reason I mentioned him is he was witness to something pretty horrific and that is this.

After league we filmed it the other night. Jim was coming to pick me up so that's the first time I'd seen that day and he said I'll see at the end of the day I said, yeah at the end of the show. I got quite muddy and filthy right in the end game Yeah, so then I went and had a shower And I was walking around Sort of getting to you pretty we played no, but they just like I just got like a friendly fire away Yeah, very much how it be, you know, the issues that you're talking about a paddle tournament with people watching That's what happened to me. I was very severely bullied. I would say Anyway, I was covered in shit

so I went to have a shower, wandered around the dressing room sort of looking for my stuff and then I pick up my phone at the end of sort of getting dressed and There's a message from Jim saying you might want to close the blinds Oh no! Oh, not exactly the dressing rooms. Oh my god! Oh no! Basically everybody that had come to watch League of the Rage. Oh! You see how all the audience walk out past those windows. How? No, you've recorded that right? I recorded that the first time I recorded that I walked out and because that lead basically that end game you always get dirty or

messy or wet or yeah, so you know you've got to get changed. I remember walking in the first time and I'm a top off and literally was about to pull my shorts off and then look down and saw the whole audience walking out pulled down the blind and I was like, why the fucking blinds open here? Tom, I didn't see my phone until after I'd got dressed. I saw the thing and Jim said, it's not just me that's seeing it. Of course, right.

So for context, everyone listening, right? So as an audience member, you leave from the front of the building and you walk past all the dressing rooms. And what people have started doing, and I've noticed this for the times I haven't had to get changed, people always look up at the dressing rooms because they'll see. And oh, fuck, you know, you're in like the floor where you like it's proper, like bigger windows. Tom, I came out and I thought, let me look back to see how bad it is.

It's like a fucking viewing screen All of the changing area is right by the window Well, I said there's a whole bit of the dressing room that you can't see through the window that bit It's just to sit and chill out the actual getting change bit is right by the window. I Was butt naked. Oh man people People will be like oh how was legal around it was alright I mean the best part of it was we saw Ramesh's penis. Yeah it got very dark at the end. I was bent over to pick something up and I lost sight in one of my retina. It's like all the cones have fallen out. How long were you up there parading around

naked? A long time. I'll tell you why, the other embarrassing thing was that I couldn't find my clothes that I'd come to the show in, like, that I'd arrived in. Oh my God. So I got you, I got you. You couldn't find your knickers? Couldn't find my knickers, couldn't find my T-shirt and trousers.

Oh Jesus. Looking around, so I'm walking around like, disrobed for quite a long time, right? Wow. I then, this is so embarrassing actually. I then text Lindsay, who does costume on that show, right? And I said, has anybody, cause sometimes they take your clothes down to the studio floor, right?

So you can get changed then and there. So I'm thinking maybe somebody's taken my clothes. She goes, let me come in and have a look. So I get like, I go around the corner and wait. What, Nate, so you're hiding around the corner? I've got a towel and stuff, right? I've got a towel. So she comes in and-

Don't come in, don't come in, wait, wait! I'm just fixing. I'm not dinkin'! I'm not dinkin'! All the time, there's a thousand people standing outside just watching. I usually call out to you, oh, is there someone else in there? He's got someone else in there. Anyway, she lifts up a t-shirt and all my clothes are there. I've just basically not looked properly.

So then there was that embarrassment. That also, because Lindsay's a friend of both of us, but if she goes downstairs she'll go, that's weird, like Robish called me up to his dressing room and like so said he couldn't find his clothes But then he sort of parading around naked and the clothes were clearly there So, you know, it doesn't really add up does it I Mean on paper that's bad, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah my god it's so creepy what was he doing he was just like sort of hiding around a corner. And then the worst thing was he'd kept the blinds up

as if he's trying to put on a show. And he was sort of quite visibly shaking I don't know if he was nervous or excited. Yeah. Anyway so that happened. Man that's awful and also Jim would have sort of, there's a part of Jim that's I'm so excited. Yeah. Oh, God. Anyway, so that happened. Man, that's awful. And also Jim would have sort of, there's a part of Jim that's like one of the most God-honest people you'd ever meet, but there's also a part of him that would have found that ridiculously funny. Yeah, he did find it funny, but he also couldn't believe that it hadn't occurred to me that

bit. Like, he genuinely was like gobsmacked that I'd allowed that situation to happen. Do you know what I mean? It's like... I'm going to be honest with you. I'm sort of gobsmacked. Like, all jokes aside, you're one of the most intelligent people I know

and you've been making that show for a long, long time. I, like, it was the first thing that came to my mind and like fucking all those years ago when I did my first show, I was like, oh, fucking hell, I do not want to be the guy fucking standing naked with people looking up at that window. Well, I can, got some good news. You must have done it before you you must have paraded around there before like sort of Well, I don't think I don't think I've been in that dressing room since I've been hosted and when you're hosting you don't you're not Involved in any of the games. There's not a thing Jim. It's something thought about it. I mean like I just ran in

I was all the dressing rooms face out that way. Yeah, but that one's the worst one actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one is easily the worst one. It's quite funny isn't it, if the thought of someone going oh we're just going to go and see League of the Roan down in London. Or, do yourself a favour, when you're leaving have a little look up, usually

Ramesh Ranevan, he puts a little post show shirt teeth. If you fancy seeing Ramesh's cock, I know it doesn't happen in the show, but afterwards he puts on a little bit of an extra, he calls it an Easter egg, rightly so by the way. You're like Primedemmy Moore, just sort of like naked at a window, just staring down.

And also I was just like, it must have just not really, like I was putting on some sort of, doing some sort of sketch, cause I was just like, it must have just looked really like I was putting on some sort of, doing some sort of sketch, because I was just like throwing stuff around, trying to find my clothes. Oh, God. Jesus Christ. Yeah, it was bad.

I wonder if anyone filmed, if anyone filmed it, please, just send us over the materials. Yeah, or just put it straight onto your socials, that would be the idea. Also do you know we're talking about wasps last week? Yeah I've had a bit of it. Yeah well I've had quite a bit of abuse, not abuse, but my inability to use Google. It turns out that wasps are incredibly useful. Yeah, basically from what I can work out, if the world of insects and bugs was a prison,

wasps are essentially like the prison wardens. Anyone who steps out of line, they're basically fucking killing and beating up. Yeah, yeah. That sort of like that. They're keeping the pest population down. So can we just say shout out, can we take this opportunity to say shout out?

No, no, no, I'm still, by the way, I'm still... What do you mean? I get that they're doing something, but let me just say that what I've gathered from this, unlike you, is not only do we as humans find wasps absolute pricks, but all the other bugs and insects are like fucking out, like, out. Yeah terrified of them. They're basically just fucking horrible bullies No, but then if they didn't keep those numbers down it would hold on somebody's I've had this message sent to me loads of times actually Oh

Hold on look into it. Sorry. I've just stumbled Okay, right. First of all wasps keep the pest population down, right. But I've stumbled in looking at the emails. This can't be true. Okay, I'm just gonna read the email. Okay, this is from the mountain goat. Hey, yo, shout out a man go shout out a man go just a quick one to let you know that the angry wasps are pissed. When the fruit on the trees ripen and fall to the floor in summer, it starts to ferment. The wasps drink the fermented juice, get pissed and angry, and that's when they start stinging us.

Well, they're worse towards the end of the summer when the fruit has been ripening on the floor the longest. So they're not just drunk, they're drunk bullies, basically. Well, I'd say that based on what the mountain goat is saying, their kind of behaviour and alcohol is similar to yours. They get sort of quite aggy and... Just they're drunk bullies. That's a worry, isn't it, with the wasps? Actually, I will say this. We've got wasp candles everywhere

because Grace is terrified of wasps. Yeah. She likes bees, but she's terrified of wasps. She's surprised that, bearing in mind the way her dad talks about them. I'm amazed that she's developed some sort of issue with them They are like needless though, aren't they like you having a nice meal outside They spread pollen as they drink nectar and also eat the parasitic insects and a nature's insecticide There you go. Okay. I mean that when you put it like that, that's actually quite cool. Yeah. Yeah So what I'm saying is can we give the humble Wasp a shout out?

Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm not saying that. Shout out wise at the moment, man, like, after Patmongate, right? I mean, are you slightly nervous we're going to discover that a Wasp actually got you one of your first gigs? Look, man, I don't think Mike can strike twice. What I don't want to be doing though is running around.

Tom Patman, for me at the moment, right, is still like, a very sensitive subject to me. Yep, we've messaged, yeah, yeah, we've messaged. Yeah, there's been a little DMing going on. It feels at the moment like it's, we're both, you know, he's a very kind, a very giving man, and we're, yeah, and I'm messaging, we're messaging, yeah.

But I've got a lot I'm making up to do. I feel a little bit like dirty den back in it Yeah, when he cheated on hands back in East East end. Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, I've broken his heart and I've taken his name and I've been quite sort of like flippant about him and he didn't deserve that So, yeah, I need to regain that trust in Tom Batman And yeah, and at some point that you know We'll be laughing in the bar in New York and my hand will be on his lower back and it'll be friends. Are you planning? Have you made arrangements to meet up? No, no, no, no, but we're good

Yeah, we're gonna do it at the moment man. I if Tom Patman never wanted to see me again. I go fair enough, Tom That's fine, but he's too gallant and too strong of a human being to do that. So So, do you know I don't know if you remember this but after the last podcast. Yeah, I am I said to you Is there any argument that? We should We should start thinking about things to actually talk about before we get on here. Yeah, and so I Started looking looking into this and I found this website called 250 conversation starters. Oh, nice. Okay. And I wondered if you wanted to try some of these see if it gives us you know,

something approaching this try some mystery. Yes. Okay. Yeah, let's try some. I like that you've actually brought something to this this this today. Yeah. Well, you know, it's I thought I'd give it a go. Okay Okay To be fair. I quite enjoyed you. Yeah what? Conversation start is oh god, but if you were at a bar and you didn't know anyone like you was your first day at work And it was like I'll show you invite. Yeah, Ron the new guy to come out for a drink. Yeah I wonder if he's got any funny stories if you were like Christ you want a funny story I used to present league of their own. Yeah, I know, you wear the t-shirt every day.

And one day I was getting changed and you told that anecdote. That's a great conversation to start. Yeah, that's true. It's not bad. It's not bad. Yeah. Should you be teaching? And should you put some clothes on if you do do that? The kids were saying you've been going into shower with year eight. Mr. Ranganathan, just a quick one. Fully aware that you used to be a comedian and a host of League,

is it true that you told the kids the story about you getting changed by the window? Yes, there's nothing wrong with that story. But is it true that you also sort of started to physically act out the story? To demonstrate to them how embarrassing your nudity was? Yes, there's nothing wrong with that story. But is it true that you also sort of started to physically act out the story to demonstrate to them how embarrassing your nudity was? Well, I just wanted to convey the reality of what was going on. I wanted the kids to visualize what was happening.

Also, some of the parents have been complaining about when they're picking up the kids from school and you're getting undressed as they're leaving. is it true that you took a shower after parents evening and then Got yourself changed by the staff room windows. Is that right? Mr. Anglathan? Yes I Got to say like conversations does I mean some of these is sort of like straight out the bat dead. Okay, okay There's 250 days. I think we should only do the first half

Okay, here's one what's the one thing you can't live without She's probably my family friend Conversation star was that I Let's actually try as well by the way can we to be into context right and we two guys now We don't know each other because I think at the moment like Everyone even above my wife and other people I do a conversation with you is never something I worry about no me neither But let's just pretend we're two guys But it does make it weird you lost this question, pretend we're two guys but it does make

it weird you ask this question but we're trying I'm Mark Schierslak my name is Mark Schierslak and I and you are Chandika Rajasthan okay okay hey man how you doing oh look Chandika's here hey man how are you hey man you can call me Chandi if you want nice yeah how's it going you can call melack. Oh you know me I'm fucking paddling most of the days now. I probably paddle four times a week. Yeah how good are you? Decent enough that no one else in my club can beat me but that's Shearslack. What do you wear for paddle? Probably just a pair of Nike shorts and my high tops. You've got to stay cool got to you got to stay cool. Haven't you? Which brings me to the question. I don't know, like just if you had to have a choice,

would you rather be really hot or really cold? Oh, wow. That's a good conversation. Star friend. The trouble about old cheers like is I'm always pretty hot. I have a immune problem where my temperature runs higher than it can. So during COVID, it was an absolute nightmare for anyone around me. They constantly thought I was having COVID. Cold wise, I cold plunge three times a week. So I like the feeling of cold. I like it absorbs my body and sort of overtakes my mind. So I'd probably go cold. Thank

you, friend. What about yourself? I seem to be more of a monologue starter than a conversation starter. But um... Oh sorry about me. I always answer every question like I'm on a chat show. Yeah. I tell you, I do like chat shows. I also like documentaries. Have you watched any good ones recently? Yeah, I have seen some good documentaries recently. I just watched Blackfish you just watched blackfish You just watched the decade-old documentary blackfish did you

Yeah, if I'm honest with you, I'm a big fan of fish, and I couldn't put myself through watching that until now. And then I've watched that and now regret. Blackfish, of course, the documentary about the orca, which is actually a mammal. You son of a wise guy Cheddar. So did he call me Cheddar? the other guys give you back that's pretty good we should we should bring that out yeah what's nice is I've invented a character who's maybe more stupid than I am. Oh, that was good, that was good. That felt great. Yeah, anyway, I think we should try and do some conversations.

Maybe we can meet to do some conversations. We could maybe do one when we meet up in the studio. Shall I, I'll tell you what we should do. Should we bring some food to the studio next week? This week. What, so what do the, it's the, the mukbang stuff. I guess so. I mean, people don't, I don't know if it's like a good idea

or a bad idea. Well, Spotify were quite disgusted about the thought we might eat. They were open to it, weren't they? But the question is, people have misophonia, don't they? Which is where you don't like hearing people eating. Well, can I say, by the way, there was one of the listeners who got quite aggy with me about my constant interruptions of you of like, which I found quite strange

because we've been recording this podcast for three years and I think I've been interrupting you like everyone else in my life. And certainly, Catherine, by the way, said to me last night, we were sitting on the balcony having a little chill and a drink and she said, I know you have ADHD, but sometimes you think that you interrupting people is just so you can fucking tell a story. Which I will say to this person, I'm not having a dick, because it is something I'm conscious that I do and I try to hold back on. Under this episode, I've made a considerable effort, but I do find the things that you say so funny, I don't want to jump on them. Well, I got a similar message,

but it wasn't about you interrupting, it was about us interrupting each other. Oh really? It was sort of about us cutting across each other. And I sort of, well, I don't have ADHD, I don't think, although I've been told by a number of people I do have, but not anybody that's giving an official diagnosis. But I I guess we get I guess we get overexcited don't we so should we try it should you find you think no but then that's just what I

think maybe a poll is needed but that is just what our conversations are like as mates even in text we do that to each other that is true but there's an argument that we never finish a topic because we're constantly jumping around. Yeah, that's true. Well, I think with your naked story, we got to the nub of it today. Yeah, we did get to the nub of it, and so did about 800 people leaving the league of their own recording. Oh, man. Look, I think, by the way, the food's a good idea. I think in the studio, though, I think chat shall be rough and chat shall be fun.

And I'm very much looking forward to it, friend. Yeah. Okay, well look, Tom, it's about that time. Okay. Do you think you can do us the honor of taking us out? I do, I do. I've been thinking a lot this week, huh? Thinking about here, sitting, looking out at the sunny, mountain rides, the beach, the sea lapping at your toes. Holidays are

incredible just getting away and getting that headspace, some you time. But it's not all about you time. Sometimes it's about a little bit of time to meet someone new. A warm arm around your shoulder of a guy you've never met and a cold, clear beer that's shoved into your hand, the clink of a glass and the snigger of a laugh about a joke about someone else at the other side of the pool. It's inoffensive, but fun nonetheless. I guess that's the thing about life. People are the buffet in which we dine and which

we eat. People lay there, bare on their sun lounger, just staring over thinking, I wonder what they do, I wonder what they are. Quite another time you're worried about asking. You know what? Sometimes when you dive into the chis-glistening blue pool and you pop your head up and that person you've been staring at is sitting there and you say, hey friend, this water sure is cool. And they go, I know it is. It's been a enjoyable holiday. My name's Eddie, I work in reassurance. And then you make a friend you never knew you needed.

And that people, well that's the lifeblood that we all need. Go forth, remember that new friends aren't just for holidays. They're for life. Go forth remember that new friends aren't just for holidays different life that is so beautiful Thank you. Thank you JT could you play us out with a little bit of childish Gambino, please redbone? I would love that

Thank you so much. This is a podcast the next time you hear from is it right the next time they hear from us It'll be studio face to face studio. Yeah, okay, and also we're gonna start the the Christmas the Christmas show is starting to gain a little bit of Is it momentum? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah And also, you must have been having conversations I've not been involved in because I've also excited thing is potential Christmas merch. We've really let the merch fall off a bit and we need to get back in the merch sort of Christmas merch vibe. I think Tom, Tom, Tom, I'm sorry to sort of do this. But the Christmas merch thing, I don't want to throw you under the bus here live on the podcast, but all that's happened with the Christmas merch is you've sent a message on the WhatsApp group going, should we think about Christmas merch? To which there's been no response from anybody.

Yeah, but look, the way I see it, you see that as a cynical thing, I see that as that everyone's just considering their response to that and they're going to get back to us this week. Okay, fine. But I would say that's not momentum. I can't wait to see you. I miss you so much. All right, guys. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you soon. Love you. Big love, people. All right guys, thank you so much for listening. We'll see you soon. Love you big love people I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping

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