Wolf and Owl - S4 Ep 26: Clooney Chats & Rom’s Album

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

We’re talking… double corporate gigs, Tom back at Buckingham Palace with The Kings Trust, chats and photos with George Clooney, not being competitive, Rom starting work on his album, Micky drips a...nd arguing with your penis, home Wi-Fi woes, WhatsApp groups vs knocking on doors and an email question about a gift for a retiring teacher. 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 Mighty Ranga Production For sales and sponsorship enquiries: HELLO@KEEPITLIGHTMEDIA.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:20 boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, I'll be very it's been a thirsty week in old days. Oh my god. I have been like so hard I've taken a long cool drink from your list selfies man, and I have drunk long a long cool drink of myself It's been a lovely week. I you know, I did a corporate last night. I was like and what you doing? I Did a corporate this afternoon as well. I don't think I've ever done a cool double double corporate in my life Well, yeah
Starting point is 00:01:49 This is this is this guy rolls. I'm I'm sorry. What are you doing? What are you doing? You having to borrow some soul from somebody else Very very number one shout out I did a lovely corporate last night, Money Facts Awards. Very fun, very, very nice people. Fuck. Very good people. There was somebody came up to me and said, I listened to The Wolf now, please don't make us all sound
Starting point is 00:02:14 like shit. And I went, well, genuinely you haven't been that. You've been a really lovely audience. It was, you know when you're in a corporate you don't want it to end? Yeah. No, I'm sorry. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I just agreed with that. I was just
Starting point is 00:02:27 trying to move the conversation on but now I've never found anyway that was another week. I was it was a King's Trust week this week you went to the palace went to the palace my guy. Bro. I touched base with George Clooney. You touched base? I, I, yeah, because obviously, yeah, we, we had Clooneygate on this podcast, right? Yeah, we did, yeah, yeah. And then you folded like a fucking laundry when you saw him, did you?
Starting point is 00:02:56 Did you mention Espresso? As is, do you know, Clooney has very Romesh tendencies. I'd say Clooney, I've never met anyone who's as like you as George Clooney. He's got the same piss-take-out. What an incredible thing to say. By the way, actually, you look as, you're in hot league with George Clooney now,
Starting point is 00:03:16 but hair wise, face wise, anyway. But Clooney has a very good way of, he holds the same, you know if you take the mick out of someone you joke and it's a real good bit of banter, and I'll laugh straight away just so it puts the person at ease, but you hold a bit of this serious face, so the person isn't quite sure. Yeah, it's one of my favourite things to do.
Starting point is 00:03:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it puts people immediately fucking on the back foot, right? So yeah, it's your part Blanche, carte Blanche yeah well you've struggled to pronounce the wrong term for this scenario but anyway go on anyhow any who I'm there yeah sort of King which is always a lovely affair yeah I saw the king which is always a very shut up He's such a nice guy Yeah, anyway, you must be okay just before you carry on this story you're angling for an NBA on you or something I'm not I'm generally not I'm gonna tell you now that the work that they do at Kings Trust and I mean this all right is I
Starting point is 00:04:23 Look, sorry enjoy it and every time I'm there you meet young people I find it quite a very humbling thing, the young people that you work and speak to are fucking amazing man and so look I don't know what difference that would make to my life, I actually genuinely enjoy it as a thing to do. Oh mate, the things you do, it's like the things you do for King's Trust are amazing, you email Kerb and ask them to put on a gig and then you get all your mates to do the gig for free and then none of us get invited to Buckingham Palace. It's sweet. No, you did actually get invited. When?
Starting point is 00:04:53 Ask Flo. Oh, don't... Yeah, you got invited along. And they did... Oh, that's my room service. Two seconds. Um... They, uh... They did invite you. I spoke to them. And they invited everyone along. You could make it. I don't know if you can do this. I was just trying to sign it to the room but there's no card allocated. Oh, it smells delicious. Anyhow. Anywho. There's a couple of was that chicken, chicken strips, Caesar
Starting point is 00:05:28 salad, a little bit of a little bit of egg for your face as you tried to put it on the road. That's very embarrassing because as I walked in the car, I don't worry, get some food and order it for I've been lied to again. Anyhow, that happens a lot. They just forgot. Yeah, it's not. I'm sure Yeah, I should completely mug me off. They pulled the idea. They pulled down my trousers on this one. Um, you can eat what I'm doing this if you like
Starting point is 00:05:50 I'll eat in a minute. I'm not paying. I'm gonna cut the strips in a minute Anyway, they then call for they're like I was gonna do a um a photo of everyone And everyone's all gaggle around and then a voice from the back of this crowd goes, hey, you big guy, you're the back man, you're the back. I'm gonna front, you come to the back. And I was like, I look and it's Clooney, and he's addressing me. I'm like, whoa, okay. So I sort of slide through into the back
Starting point is 00:06:18 and straightaway stand next to him. And he went, what's the story with you? What are you like, you're a Your best basketball player you play rugby some kind of basketball. Is this George Clooney? Yeah, it's George Clooney. You play sport? You're a sportsman? And I went No, no, I'm a comedian. And he genuinely looked me up and down. Like you would. It's like almost you see the
Starting point is 00:06:37 impression of Romesh and he went, God, what a waste. What a waste. Is that what he said? Yeah. And then I went, Oh, yeah. I guess waste. Is that what he said? Yeah, and then I went, oh yeah, I guess so. And he stared at me for another beat or so, and then he started laughing. He went, I'm joking, you're an actor, right? And I went, yeah, he went, I know who you are.
Starting point is 00:06:54 And I was like, oh cool. And then after that we started having a bit of a laugh, started chatting about stuff, life and such. And then Charles goes, who is it who's talking back there and the fucking photographer goes the big guy at the back the big bald guy at the back the photographer does not say the big bald guy at the back he goes big bald guy at the back and then Charles looks around and gives me a look of disappointment that I'm chatting and Clooney looks down like like you
Starting point is 00:07:21 were like a school kid he's doing a lot of the chatting he's egging me on and then looks down he's got yeah I've got to say in terms of clean he's performance I've got no notes really good yeah but of course you because he's got the same dick head tendencies as you I was so close to go in a house and espresso you didn't know did you no no I lost my ball because I didn't want him to was it any part of by the way just just to I'm gonna be honest with You I feel like I've come into this podcast quite front-footed and a little bit dickish, but what I would say is your way Yeah, well you include me by the way would be very it would be you know, like if you if you had a battery to acid ends Oh, I would I would go this is how far out of my league that George Clooney is okay
Starting point is 00:08:08 genuinely this is how superior he is in every single way if George Clooney was in it was doing a personal appearance and then they said George Clooney couldn't make it we've got Romesh Ranganathan right people would be devastated like devastated I think that's not right I'd say that was for the rest of the world yeah yeah there's no one could step in yeah but if you bought tickets to a Ramesh Ranganathan tour show right yeah and then they said Ramesh Ranganathan can't make it is George Clooney the elation the the do you know the absolute joy that people would is I will say this I will say this I would say that I don't
Starting point is 00:08:45 think George Clooney's just gonna stand up comedian as you I don't I don't know that to be true my base on what you've just said I think he's probably he's probably got a good show so he has a very very like he actually takes a bit of an interest I've got to say he spoke to most people in the room he was a quite it was quite an exact in a different way I spoke to a lot of people and they couldn't wait to get rid of me I can I also say by the way, I was there Do you know dynamo?
Starting point is 00:09:13 Steven Steven. Yeah, so I was there with him and outside When we left the gates me and him have known I've known him for quite some time Yeah, and people were coming up because he's wherever he is It would do cheese quite a phenomenal person to be a man because you just do tricks, right? Mmm, and people coming up to me I was standing next to Steven Chad I go I was all right if we we watch and I go yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah, and they go Is it okay if we get a picture and Steven went? Oh, I think that I think they think you're my buddy God And I went yeah, it's evident that they do and and people go to his own carefully film and I was like honestly
Starting point is 00:09:47 Yeah, and Stephen was going he's actually on TV and people are yeah And it was a people from all around the world of C's quite a famous person. It was very yeah It was quite it was quite a humbling experience after being in the palace not people and then I said at hotel after that It was like being in a prank show. I genuinely thought that Flo and everyone at Curb had actually done a prank. I get to the hotel, my room keys were not working. I go downstairs, I'm like, oh sorry, my room keys not working. The guy goes, what's your name?
Starting point is 00:10:19 I said, I was booked under another name. My name's Davis. I was booked under Bruce and I went, it could be. And he went, okay. I said, but it's not you know my name's David so he went I was it booked under Bruce so I went it could be and he went okay so but it's room 202 so he went okay 202 okay up back up to 202 press the card doesn't work I did this four times right the third time I wrote down 202 what's your the way you know how are you carrying yourself in this are you starting to feel rage at any point I'd say yeah but also i'm also i never like to be like angry i try best i can to to like even then with the guy with the car i tried to after how you behaved on king garrow you mean
Starting point is 00:10:57 you're such a little oyster you're so salty yeah an oyster. You're sort of idea like yeah, yeah precious as a pearl But a fucking so you don't have to taste So I go down a full anyway Finally get into my room I'm then sort of like a little bit like this is fucking bizarre, why would I, yeah, four times I've written down the thing, it's all a bit weird. Anyway, I'm then like, oh I just want to get a coffee, uh, pep myself up a bit for uh, before the I'm going to perform, so order a coffee and they bring up four scoops of ice
Starting point is 00:11:40 cream. So there's four scoops of ice cream coming, I was like, oh I just ordered like a double espresso, and they were like, oh no no, the order was for four scoops of ice cream coming I was like I just ordered like a double espresso and they were like oh no no the order was for four scoops of ice cream I was like really? That doesn't even sound like and the guy went shall I leave the four scoops of ice cream and I was like well they're here now it would feel like they're gonna melt. Yeah you're not gonna send ice cream. Yeah so then I'm Macaulay Culkin in fucking Home Alone 2 just eating fucking a big load of ice cream on my own And but thinking this is insane like yeah, how anyway, I digress slightly Yeah, and then I turn up to the green room that they put me in like they you know
Starting point is 00:12:15 When you do these gigs they put you in a little room little green room I turn up and there's this guy who's sitting in the room. I walk in I didn't really say anything I just assumed that he was another act. I went hey man And he just he just stared at me and nodded. And then I sat there for 15 minutes with this guy. And then someone from the event came in and went, hey Tom, I went, oh who's this? And I was like, I don't know, he's just sitting here. And this guy just got up and walked off. What? It's insane. It was insane. I thought sat there, I tried to sort of make conversation.
Starting point is 00:12:42 So the guy just was sort of in your green room? Yeah, and I sort of turned around, or dressing room, and. I tried to sort of make conversation in your green room. Yeah I sort of turned out or dressing room and I turned around and sort of asked my question He just took his phone and then uh, so stare at me for a bit and I just oh, yeah He obviously is a bit nervous. He's performing or he's doing something here He's you know, he's whatever and I was like, yeah, you know what? I'm not for show you've Been through that sort of ordeal. I'm quite an anxious person so I was like in my own little world yeah it was all very strange and I said to the organist who's he you know I don't know who he is there's no idea that's weird and then did you see him again
Starting point is 00:13:14 later on the evening so no no didn't see him again at all also he was interesting like he was just sort of like like I'd say he was dressed like he was going to go to the park for an afternoon where he might play football he might not he didn't know if someone had a ball. He'd have a kick about that would be exactly how it Do you think it's possible just as an aside because I'm just thinking about you talking about doing corporates and you did a corporate And you're looking very smart now, but do you think it's possible and I know you're loath to admit this But do you think it's possible that you are entering your sex era? No. Because I'm looking at you now, I'm looking at you now, you got the little little polo thing going on, and then yesterday you posted-
Starting point is 00:13:50 But this is far too baggy, it's, no, yeah, but, yeah. And then yesterday- I mean, I feel better about myself than I did, but I used to like, I still don't feel 100% comfortable. But you did the little before and after photos, didn't you? That was more of a, I mean mean I could have done three of those because I was in a suit before that and,
Starting point is 00:14:08 a little bit it was more, you're such a louse. No, I'm saying you could have done, I'm just repeating what you said, you could have done. But I feel nice about myself, I think you're still, Good for you, no I'm really good. And also I think if you look nice in clothes and you look nice, you feel good about yourself, what else are we gonna share?
Starting point is 00:14:24 Do you know what, I'm very open all the time, if I feel quite low about myself I'll share that. I try to be open. We've tried to stop sharing it on the podcast because what's clear is that people are fucking fed up to the back teeth of us sharing those kind of thoughts. So you just push it back down. Yeah, all the self-resentment. But no, I, I've got so it's been a nice been a good good way I've enjoyed this way. What about yourself from ski my darling my boy well, it's fresh back But I say kids from from Charlie sports day, which is very exciting. Yes, I'm just arrived from Charlie sports day
Starting point is 00:14:56 Yeah, you've got that ahead of you really haven't you but yeah, but I would say it's incredibly nerve-racking But I would say it's incredibly nerve-wracking. Arguably not, I'd say arguably I wouldn't. What are they supposed to be? What are they supposed to be? Strips, but they're nuggets, aren't they? They're nuggets, yeah. It's quite nerve-wracking watching your kid do Sports Day, you know. You don't want him to be upset or anything.
Starting point is 00:15:20 Not that Sports Day matters, but you want him to have a good experience over and above everything, so that was quite tricky. Where does he sit in the trio of Ranganathan's, because you've done it with Theo, you've done it with Alex, now it's Charlie's turn. Alex is a footballer, right? Alex plays a bit of football, but Charlie's on the plays for a team. They've got a little bit of me in them in terms of they're just not very competitive. That's a good way to be though. Is it though? I feel like if you want to be like...
Starting point is 00:15:57 Sometimes I look at the other parents and they're really like... I don't know. I feel like you need a bit of competitiveness in you in life don't you I mean life is arguably you know life back in the primitive days was competitive wasn't it you know you've got to get to the you've got to slay the mammoth first away I've seen you supporting us I've seen you like I've seen I've seen a competitive edge to you I'm sorry I'm not having that I was've known when we went to do the Gaelic football that time There was a competitive edge that you knew it was the two biggest fucking losers Head to head. There's no
Starting point is 00:16:34 No, oh, come on. Oh really? Well, look the truth is you actually seem to remember you turn around to me That's you went. I really wanted to beat you in this Did I say that? I swear you did, you said something like that. You said something like you're like I actually thought I'd have half a chance at this fucking thing off against you. I don't think I would have said that, even on my dickiest day I wouldn't say something like that. But I do remember you were good, you did say something but I can't remember. Well you have to be a bit competitive on those. What's the point? Two guys from our latest league of their own VT,
Starting point is 00:17:08 we sent Rom and Tom to have a nice day out. Who do you think won? That would be lovely by the way. That would be a joy I think. Even when you're doing Rom and Rom you're competitive. I remember when you played football, you and him were both playing. You could see he was fucking great here. I'm shit at stuff so when I go and do stuff and I'm not very good at it it's not I think maybe I would have been competitive if I showed any ability at anything it's very difficult to know how can you is it you can't say I'm competitive if you're shit because then you just go well there's no point this is like a
Starting point is 00:17:44 heart you want to hide into nothing. You're willing yourself to win, but you have no ability. Yeah, but all right. So when you did the marathon this year, you wanted to beat your time from last year. So though you'll be in competitive for yourself, that you're still going into a competitive competition and you still want to achieve something.
Starting point is 00:18:00 You still want to do well. I think you've been harshing yourself. No, but I'm not very competitive. Okay, let's call it that. So anyway, the kids are a bit like that. So Charlie's like, you know, he wants to have a good time, he gets a bit disappointed if he doesn't go as well as he hoped, but you know, he's not, he's not broken up by it, I don't think. But then arguably, you know, it's about who's most determined to win, I suppose, to a degree. Yeah, but I don't know when I spent time with your boys. When I spent time with your boys, they were very competitive over FIFA.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Yeah, but they're competitive with each other because they want to destroy each other. But that's more of it, they want to destroy each other mentally and emotionally. That's not like friendly competition. In life that will steer them in good stead yeah far more than any physical actually most of the kids of my school who are amazing at sports day haven't really gone on to have like prolific sports careers or any you know for the ones I've kept in contact with. I don't think that's a robust sample size I mean I imagine Usain Bolt did pretty well at Sports Day. Yeah, but what a chance of getting that far. No, because some people peak at fucking 14, 13, 14. I've got a friend who still talks about a goal he scored when we were all about 12. Yeah. In a little league game or whatever, like kids football.
Starting point is 00:19:27 He talks about that still as one of the finest moments. He's got two kids, he talks about that moment. Yeah. In conjunction is his greatest moments. Now I get that. Yeah. ["The Greatest Moment of My Life"] It was fun, it was fun. But I've had a great week, Tom. I've had a great week. What else has happened? I did I think I'm allowed to say this. I did Paloma face podcast. Well,
Starting point is 00:19:58 I said a little chat with her Monday and Tuesday of this week. love this you excited I was coming I was working on the album I was in the studio everyone when I dropped news of it on the one show everyone sort of thought I was kidding around but here it is coming but what did you I can't remember what you said it wasn't that you said there was an album coming out it was the nature of it you know what you did and in fact I can I thank I caught him in the name of the person But somebody commented on our last video that we put out that they like the fact That you look like the nice guy in this but actually you're the villain of the podcast that was kind of the gist of it
Starting point is 00:20:38 I don't think you know say by the way, I think this is like succession. There's no villains. There's no good guys It's just a pair of dickheads trying to get one off on each other. Yeah. So I worked on the album and then I started like, did a couple of new material gigs because my tour is- Oh, you skipped over the album. Let's focus in on the album. I'm very into, I think number one,
Starting point is 00:21:00 I think a round of applause. Yeah, thanks. You're doing something, you're stepping out of your comfort zone. You're doing something you've always dreamed of doing. I for one think everyone should do this thing. Actually you know what it's inspired me to do something. What is it you're going to do? Well basically insanely I've had I booked a couple of nights at a venue in London. I was going to just record some stand up and I was like just going to record a very boring just a normal stand. They're Just like the same thing I've done before like I did in my last tour, my next tour and I was like just gonna be very sort of
Starting point is 00:21:31 playing stand-up and speaking to you about doing your album and I was like actually I need to push myself to do something a bit more with this so I don't really want to get into it now but speaking to you and texting you I'm like fucking oh like this guy's doing following his dreams and doing something more than fucking These always wanted to do you're gonna have an album bro. It's fucking You put fuck it you're doing it you're fucking putting your heart into something I bet this is the thing that everybody but like this is a problem we have if you know it might be shit Yeah, but it might be fucking amazing. It might be shit, you know, Ramesh Ranganathan
Starting point is 00:22:05 Yeah, he's a fucking sick comic. Have you not had his album? It's fucking incredible Mmm, like yeah, it might be fucking shit. It might be fucking the best thing we've ever heard Do you know it could be an Eiffel novella? Don't look at it like oh, it's gonna be shit come into it go look We just stand by it. Will you fucking be proud of it? Of course you will and that's what you gotta do, baby Thanks, sir So you can't give us any clues as to what you're gonna be doing on those two nights No, no, no, I'll talk about to you said yeah, because at the moment I could bottle out of doing it
Starting point is 00:22:33 Okay, I'm that worried about it. Right it could be it could be I spoke to flow very quickly about it Mm-hmm, and she said okay. Oh, there's a lot going on here My favorite thing about flow and there's a lot of them but my favorite thing about Flo is the sound she makes on the phone where you're coming through with an idea and she's not a hundred percent brought into it. I mean Flo feels a lot of work for everyone else. Flo is she's very supportive but what she's had to deal with with both you and myself is that whenever we have anything approaching a little bit of time to ourselves we come up with a new Highfalutin idea for something we're gonna do and then we talked to flow and flows like you haven't got the time to do the things You've already got in your diary
Starting point is 00:23:18 What makes you think you're gonna do this? So she doesn't say it like that her face says it like the old voices it like that Yeah, you know what? Hmm Okay, you hear like Antonio someone giggle as she sort of raising her eyes Yeah, I was in the background You can sort of hear the click as she puts you on speakerphone so the whole office Can hear this insane piece of shit that you're delivering Yeah, and he leech jumping over deck desks just to get listens for that fucking idiot I mean, I'm not gonna lie to it did feel weird to say for flow to go we've had this coming for you and I go I can't do it
Starting point is 00:23:48 because I'm working on my rap album. I mean is it. Yeah but mate like I just think fucking credit to you. When you said it to me and I know that you there was a part I genuinely I said to Kaephin and Kaephin was like fucking good for him. Like genuinely like it's fucking amazing bro. I also did an interview with BBC South East to talk about Charlie's school situation. You should have merged them by the way, they had a song about it. Well, actually, at my new material gig, I spent half of my set talking about it, to be honest with you. But one of the things I noticed midway through the interview was that I had like a grease stain noticed midway through the interview was that I had like a grease stain just sort of beneath my coat. Do you know what it looked like as I'm watching you eat there?
Starting point is 00:24:30 It looked like I'd taken a chip out of a plate and then just rubbed it down my shirt and then and I noticed it midway through the interview and I thought well I'm doing this for the news so I can't really ordinarily I would stop and riff about it but yeah they're talking to me but yeah, they're talking to me about They're talking to me about you know the situation in West Sussex and and school provision and stuff So I felt like I couldn't so just thought well That's going out now. Do you mean so let's deal with that. Yeah But no, it's been a good wait a pair of green trousers actually
Starting point is 00:25:02 yesterday and Spilled a little bit of water on the crutch and it looked a lot like a Mickey drip and then spent the rest of the day even though I knew it had dried really like you know when you've got like can I just say I know obviously I've dealt with this I think we've spoken about it can I just say and it's getting worse like you know once you've urinated right I mean what's your protocol are you a shaker a shaker you dabber a dabber? Yeah, do you dab with you shake? I'm like I shake and shake Give it toilet paper
Starting point is 00:25:33 No, I don't So I do the I do the the gooch pipe Press go on what we talked about? Yeah, we talked about this doesn't work all the time. Well, I've got one fucking left in it. I've got one in the chamber at least every time I put my child. But one guy honestly, I started joking about this is I'm sure that I know it's your way. I turn up and I'm like, very on edge about the fact that Mickey drips could be a fucking
Starting point is 00:26:00 thing. Again, it could have in the trousers. So yeah, the trousers on it. It's a fucking bold choice. And I'm like chatting the trousers? So yeah, in the trousers. It's a fucking bold choice. And I'm like chatting and he said, oh, have you ever tried like wrapping a bit of toilet paper around your penis after you finish? So it's sort of like, it's like it creates the barrier. So it looks like your penis has had an injury. You just sort of constantly got this.
Starting point is 00:26:19 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like a sort of paper pocket for you to sort of put your penis in after. Like a holster, I guess. And he was telling me that's what he does, but he's in a pair of trousers. And this isn't my wording. He turned around to me and went,
Starting point is 00:26:34 this little thing, it makes your dick look bigger and all. Which I'm like, yeah, okay. So you tried? No, no, I'm not, yeah, okay. So you tried? No, no, I'm not trying it yet. I was still anxious. I don't think you're emptying yourself completely. Look, we're going to get complaints about this. Talking about this graphically again.
Starting point is 00:26:56 But I don't think you're emptying the tank properly. You need to go, go, go and go until you're completely done. You've got some sort of doing and it just feels like I just finished and I put my and it's like then try I get a white guy arguments with my penis in the fucking toilet. You must think I'm mad I don't fucking know what you're doing to me like that. I literally talked to it like it's a person I don't know what some time people are sometimes over the cubicle. I don't know whether you're making it's difficult to know I swear I swear on. I swear on my eyes I fucking get so enraged. Okay, fuck sake. What are you doing?
Starting point is 00:27:29 Do you ever do that? No, do I talk to my paint you ask him I've talked to my penis You never ever sort of talk to a little bit of you like, you know, but you're peeing like Feeling lonely it's been a while, isn't it stuff like that? I was feeling lonely. It's been a while, hasn't it? Stuff like that. I suppose you, I suppose you, last few months you wondered what you're actually for. Haven't you mate? You okay? Stuff like that. But I wouldn't have a go at it.
Starting point is 00:27:58 You're a lot more polite. Yeah, but I'm like that with a lot of inanimate shit. I mean, that's okay. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. You refer to your dick as inanimate shit. You mean all that fucking stuff around the house that doesn't work? Yeah, I do. I do that.
Starting point is 00:28:22 And arguably that's less logical, isn't it? But I do do that. Like, if something doesn't work. I tell you what's getting a lot of shit from it at the moment, our printer. Really? I just don't understand why we're pretending that printing at home is a simple and easy thing to do. No.
Starting point is 00:28:37 Well, you've got a wifi printer. Yeah, but it's like, it's just, honestly, anyway, I don't want to get into it. But the point is that genuinely anything, you could have something in the wrong position in a different room and the printer will go, do you know what, you've not met the requirements to print this single A4 sheet, it's a disaster.
Starting point is 00:28:56 The whole thing's a fucking disaster. And I actually think I'm gonna, as I'm talking, I'm getting angry. It's right next to me here. It's so annoying. like it's laughing at you Yeah, like it. We're on good In the mix of that my and this is by the way very this is incredible. I'm recording this in a hotel It's very nice to be doing because I have no worry about the Wi-Fi. Can I say and I'm gonna say this
Starting point is 00:29:21 fucking BT are And I'm going to say this fucking BT are an absolute bunch of slugs. Wow. Like the trouble I'm having with my Wi-Fi is fucking unbelievable. Like, and also again, like I call them and I'm always quite friendly and always quite chatty, always trying to sort stuff out and try. But my Wi-Fi can just drop out of my house for like six hours and like just not work. And for no real reason. And it sort of happens every other day at the moment.
Starting point is 00:29:49 And I spoke to my neighbor about it and he just turned around and he said, you know, it's just, you know, we've got to live with it, I guess. I was like, but why should we be paying for it? So is it happening to your neighbor as well? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's happening to three or four people down the road.
Starting point is 00:29:59 We haven't got fiber where I live. We haven't got like, we're not, you know, we're quite a regressive community. Can't you all, can't you, I've been to your house. Okay, I know what community you're living in. Okay. I don't want to give away your address, but if I was to make one up, it'd be Entitled Street.
Starting point is 00:30:17 But, but surely you guys can like club together, like you're an affluent bunch, aren't you, you lot? Can't you like, but you are though. Can't you club together and just're an affluent bunch aren't you you lot? Can't you like... Affluent bunch! But you are though, can't you club together and just go sort of set some fire? But also with that apart from my neighbour who I very much enjoy and he's a great guy and I love his fan, everyone else I've sort of talked to tried to sort of like commandeer into some sort of rattle. Trying to mobilise them. They don't seem like they care. In fact a lot of them by the way I have rang on quite a few of the doorbells around there
Starting point is 00:30:46 and people, I can see them in and they won't answer. So did you ring, did you ring, I don't, Tom, I really am starting to struggle to know whether you're telling the truth or not about stuff. I swear, I swear, I swear I'm like, like ring doorbell. You've rung the doorbells to what, to mobilize it, to get a group together about the WiFi.
Starting point is 00:31:03 Mate, this, I'm not exaggerating here. Our Wi-Fi is to the point where it's like, this sounds a mad fucking very first world problem, but everything in your house essentially runs off Wi-Fi. Like every night fucking thing, like the things that shouldn't have to run off Wi-Fi. Yeah, we get to run off Wi-Fi. So yeah, yeah, but my point being
Starting point is 00:31:24 is if your TVs aren't working, you got a fucking toddler, nothing works. You know, it does your head in when you're like this doesn't seem any rhyme or reason why this isn't working, right? And then also on top of that, I have no phone signal in my house either. So if I have to try and sort out something with BT, all joking aside, I have to walk up the road to call them and Catherine has to wait back at the house I can what's that to Katherine what to do with the router? Vice versa we do. Yeah, so the whole thing's insane and then I'm like so I might what is it It can't just be our house. So I spoke to her neighbor and the neighbors like yeah, I've had the same thing So I was like well if there's a few other people and we all contact BT who govern all of the
Starting point is 00:32:04 Wi-Fi and all this fucking stuff in the country, no matter which company you get through, essentially getting it through BT, maybe we'll get some sort of, that might be a result. And literally, anywhere I'm knocking on doors or sort of like ringing on doorbells, no one seems to wanna like talk to me. Yeah, but I feel like a politician that no one believes in,
Starting point is 00:32:23 which is like a lot of them. What I would say is it's annoying to have your doorbell rung, isn't it? Yeah, it is, but also, the door rings wide. It's quite true. Back in the day, people were ringing on doorbells left, right and centre, but now it feels quite intrusive, doesn't it, to have your doorbell rung. Yeah, but it's the same thing as calling someone. If you phone someone, someone's like, oh, fucking hell, what are you doing? I just fucking text me. Yeah, but on your mobile, you've got a a choice haven't you I mean first of all most
Starting point is 00:32:46 people's mobiles aren't making you have it a ring doorbell and like people can just go like oh we're not in or just pretend that you're not there I know but the point I'm trying to make if you've got what I'm saying is if you've got a phone on silent right and you're sitting watching a film with your family and somebody rings that phone if you've got your phone like out the way or you put it somewhere else you don't even know that call's happening. If you've got a doorbell, it's the same thing with the landline. That's why I don't think... Well can I just, if I'm going to add to this as well by the way... Please do. When I spoke to my neighbour as well he said oh you should bring this up on the WhatsApp
Starting point is 00:33:19 group for the street. I said I'm not on the group and he said oh I'll speak to them and get you put on it. This was like two weeks ago ago yeah it's weird that he hasn't prioritized getting you on the neighborhood WhatsApp group he's put no but he's almost certainly got nothing else going on in his life I can't believe he's not no there no but it takes two seconds to go oh I'm gonna put this guy on there he lives up the street he's probably said that and then someone's oh is that the big dingus who just been knocking on everyone's door oh yeah he's worried about his Wi-Fi oh Oh fucking we don't need it. We don't need that kind of you know
Starting point is 00:33:48 It's a quite happy group. We don't want any rebel rousers It's you know, what's really sad as well is that BT before I actually had so much faith in I dealt with them I thought they were great and actually really found a real in my last abode I was like, you know what these these they're great I felt like I've really found a company that really cared and now it just feels like yeah left to stray Well, I realized by the way, I feel very lucky that I'm sort of able to vent here And by the way, I've been venting to everyone I've met over the last month Yeah
Starting point is 00:34:18 But listen I get it it's hard, you know, I mean, it's like you I'm talking to somebody that's Having to do his podcast that he does for an hour every week from a hotel that the corporate gig that he's doing tonight is provided for him. So I get it, do you know what I mean? People out there often think- We're not far away from me actually having to hire a hotel
Starting point is 00:34:39 to do the podcast from. I mean, look, it's horrible, man. It's like, you know, people, that's the one thing I feel like people don't realize. They think's all glamour. But, you know, Tom's, Tom's ordered room service, they've not put a card in his room is being paid an extortionate amount of money to I assume present three awards and do 10 minutes. I heard about brackets the other day of what different people get paid on these things you are a significant bigger name than I am when it comes to this vibe you are very no I'm not you're very much mate you're a messy in this game I'm very much I'm not a messy in this do you know you're messy I'm Paul Mullen from Wrexham great guy brilliant player his level I just don't know you have to
Starting point is 00:35:24 needlessly that guy is like It's just an innocent guy that might be listening to the wall for now and that's something Yeah, Paul Mullins a great fucking football. He's not lying. Yes Yeah, but don't the same way that I'm not you in this auditorium I mean fucking oh, yeah, I do by the way the biggest inside of pay pay right fucking paid for well It is comparing himself to me. Yes But you're saying you're saying it in a negative way. That's what I'm saying to you.
Starting point is 00:35:49 No, Paul Mullins are fucking great football. I'm just saying that Paul Mullins himself was not going to turn around and go on the same level as Messi. I know I'm happy where I'm at. I know this is if I'm honest with you, I'm stable at the fucking where I'm at in this thing. Because I panic every time I do one of these that I'm not good enough to do it. I text you I think nearly before we're putting in another text this evening and I'm like I don't know how to do it. Yeah. I get very anxious about it. But you're getting regular works it must be. Look, if you compare yourself to me, how many call bridge do you think
Starting point is 00:36:18 I've done this year? Three really big ones. The fucking... Probably be played... The one you did for Greg's probably fucking surpassed the fucking ten that I've done this year. Don't fucking come here with that fucking violin, son. I'm still fucking scrubbing it. Sorry, Romesh isn't around. I even did one the other day and went went over my shoes here a couple of years ago It brought the house down absolutely killed it. I'd love to do a corporate together. That'd be fun. That'd be good I did one with Rob once. Yeah, how did it go? Yeah, we did we did Domino's
Starting point is 00:36:55 And did the Domino's corporate. This is what I talk about the big fucking stuff mate This is that that's Premier League at least a championship. I'm fucking in League one back here. Yeah. Yeah sure Listen, I'm saying is well, but all I'm saying is never in my career Have I done back-to-back corporate's never happened never ever we don't need to You do Domino's Greg's McDonald you do another big guns Fucking You're doing Domino's, Greg's, McDonald's, you're doing all the big ones. Fucking, fucking Apple, Google, you've done one for Google I believe. With you you fucking prick. Oh yeah of course.
Starting point is 00:37:37 But that is good man, it's really good. That you're, you know, it's difficult, the Wi-Fi thing is tricky man, but what I think is... I'm at a point now where I don't know what to do If you'd email the podcast with this advice I Would and I'm gonna take longer to say this is you've just smashed half a chicken into your mouth So I want to give you some time, but I would like post a note through people's letterboxes It's less invasive and you just go and just put your number
Starting point is 00:38:05 on there and go look I'm on I am my work relies on this working and so for that reason I'm gonna prioritize doing it. If you could just let me know what if you're having issues I'm happy to take this on board and then it solves all your problems because then they can get in touch you at a point of their choosing and then secondly if you then do sort out the Wi-Fi, you've made yourself a bloody hero of entitlement, straight. That's true. Do you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:38:30 I just say, um, entitlement's true. You fucking... Well, look, I've been to the place. It's such a... You're so clueless. You have your own road. I don't say so. Look, I'm saying stuff that's clearly a joke.
Starting point is 00:38:43 You're saying stuff that people might think is true No, but can I just say if I could respond to that the only thing I'd say because I think that's good advice Would you say it's best to get printed out? Sort of like just print out 20 of them or whatever 25 30 perhaps about 45 Yeah, I mean I'm glad to go up and down the whole strip. You're gonna rep rounds. Yeah, it's a rabble. But yeah, go on. Yeah. You're not rousing one rousing one rebel are you? You're rising the rubble. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:17 It's that rebels Luke Skywalker. You got half a chance. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Really good. Okay, very good really good So if I had my hey friend, but a boom boom, it's me having Yeah We need to draft this straight off the bat here, okay Don't start. Hey friend Okay, I would do you know I would do I would try and make it look like you've put less effort into it Okay I would, do you know what I would do? I would try and make it look like you've put less effort into it, okay?
Starting point is 00:39:45 What I mean by that is come up with a template and then have dear number and then just leave that blank and then write all the numbers in so they know that you're not doing some weird stalky thing just to their house. They know that it's a template that you're handing out to different houses. And then you just say,
Starting point is 00:40:00 it's come to my attention since I've moved in. So nothing like putting in there like, guy I haven't met you properly yet. Just move into the area I know you know you're trying. I know what's happening here. You're trying to get a reaction out of me, okay? right Don't put anything like that. Just be very matter-of-fact about it Okay, then also can you put a caveat in there which obviously I realize we're all a busy lives If this is not something you want to get you know you want to come back to me about don't worry about
Starting point is 00:40:26 it but I just thought I can but maybe think about the rest of us yeah okay yeah I'm gonna of that, mate. together to decide who the undisputed champions of the world are in the FIFA Club World Cup. The world's best players, Messi, Holland, Kane and more are all taking part. And you can watch every match for free on DAZN starting on June 14th and running until July 13th. Sign up now at dazon.com slash FIFA. That's d-a-z-n dot com slash FIFA. Have we got any emails, my friend?
Starting point is 00:41:28 Oh, that's the first time you've instigated emails. But yes, we do. I'm quite interested. Yeah, but I'm enjoying emails. I've got a love back for it. Okay, Dear Wolf and Al, this is from the Distressed Koala. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:41:41 Yeah. Dear Wolf and Al, okay, the nation's most chaotic guidance counsellors. That's quite a good tagline I hope you legends are doing well and that neither of you has been traumatized by another B recently That's nice, isn't that? So they're regular stuff. She got attacked by a wasp this week, but yeah Okay, that happened to me at a sports thatch though Ended up drafting in a couple of other people to help me out. I think was And yeah, and you were even defending him the other day.
Starting point is 00:42:07 Yeah, but I'm not angry with the Wasp. I mean, he was just like. Why? He's fucking literally trying to tell you to fuck you off in front of your whole family. I could have been gesticulating while I was talking and knocked him and then he thinks I'm the aggressor. I don't think, if they're left.
Starting point is 00:42:21 Number one, you're not a fucking big-handed guy when you're telling stories The other day had a lovely pizza Garage but what i'm saying is that you're not like a mafioso guy. Oh, yeah, I tell you what we're gonna get that guy You're like you You you at best you do this I don't do that. Even am I doing? Starting a duel. Right okay. You turn around and go oh yeah the day I was who is it I saw do you mean that's your hand motions aren't big and elaborate. Okay I think you've got me
Starting point is 00:42:56 wrong on that although but if you've watched any of the video clips of the podcast that probably backs your theory up. Hope you legend doing well and none of you has been neither of you been traumatized by another bee recently. I'm writing because I've got a mate who's about to retire after 30 plus years as a teacher. That's three decades of detentions, parents' evenings, and trying not to swear in front of year nine. The patience of a saint, the bladder of a camel, the emotional trauma of someone who survived 400 school places. Sorry, just doing the check there. By the way, are you, I've never thought about that
Starting point is 00:43:22 before as a teacher. You're not allowed to go to the toilet when lessons are on. No. Really? So what do you, there must be like a mad queue for the teacher's toilets before you go to each lesson. No, I don't recall that, no. I mean, I tell you what, I did find a secret toilet at the last school I worked at that none of the other
Starting point is 00:43:42 staff knew about and it's kind of- By the way, that sounds very creepy to have a fucking Well, just oil it's added enough. They've added another like little wing to the school And I've been to miss oranga Nathan's secret toilet But genuinely it was like nobody else knew about this toilet So I just kept it to myself and it's like a little private domain left magazines in there. Oh, wow Anyway, now this person is an absolute hero, the kind of teacher you actually remember. Oh my god.
Starting point is 00:44:06 Where did you find these pornos? Just in this toilet, just in the newings. Womish, we've looked on the CCTV and you're going to the toilet quite a lot and not only that, you're there for quite a while and then you come back and you've got sort of a little satisfied smirk on your face Now this person absolutely here the kind of teacher actually remember for good reasons not the one who smelled like damp toast and through Board rubbers. Did you have a ball drop of throwing at you as a kid? Yeah, I got me look at punch rather back ahead, but as a kid I've got a board rubber thrown it I got told there's an orifice in the middle of your face,
Starting point is 00:44:45 rangelating it's too big, can you try shutting it? Got told that. Oh wow. Somebody threatened to hit me. I mean it's good old days. I got clumped right in the back of the head but I tell you my mum had to come out to this girl. And I didn't even tell my mum,
Starting point is 00:44:56 I just thought it was normal practice. There was another kid who told her mum. They've made a huge difference to loads of students' lives and I want to do something genuinely decent to mark their retirement Here's the thing. I'm out of ideas Do I get them a gold plated red marking pen a year supply of chalk and Guinness? Do I fake of stead turning up on their last day as a prank and risk being disowned? This is where you to come in. Can you give me advice that's heartfelt and completely inappropriate in equal measure?
Starting point is 00:45:21 What would you do for a retiring legend like this? Appreciate anything? You've got life tips prank ideas are just a heartfelt shout out from the Podwoodby class. Thanks and big love to both of you. That's the distressed Kamala. I mean I would say it would be hilarious to get Ofsted to come in or all the police to come in and sort of say that there's been some kind of complaint against him. Well that's where you and I differ straight off the bat because I don't think that would be hilarious at all. Yeah, but obviously he's gonna know it's a joke at the end, right? Yeah, but that's okay, and there you go. There you've hit the nail on the head there with my issue of pranks. It's for
Starting point is 00:45:55 the person who's the recipient, it's horror horror horror horror horror horror relief. That is what the emotional sort of time like the timeframe for a prank is. So to my mind, the positive of discovering is a prank is massively outweighed by the by the negative. Have you been pranked before? You must have been pranked. I've been pranked. Yeah, I've been pranked. I've been pranked. Yeah. It's it's a day. But then I look back at some of those
Starting point is 00:46:22 pranks and generally they make me really chuckle. I've also been the proprietor of a prank here and there. So I'm quite pleased. Well, you know, without going into details, I think, to be honest with you, and I'm glad I got the opportunity to say this, I don't think you know how to stay on the right line between pranking and bullying. Oh yeah, by the way, I've pranked and it's gone wrong and I've felt an absolute piece of crap. Yeah, and I would say that one man's prank is another man's hate campaign, is what
Starting point is 00:46:49 I would say, based on some of the stuff you've told me. Right, yeah, I mean, I've done some... You know, a couple of your pranks, let's be honest, almost led pit to people leaving the industry. I haven't done anything that bad. I mean, some of the stuff you've said, it's pretty bad. But anyway, go on. Right. I've maybe have I pushed it too far? Of course. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:47:11 when I was young and impressionable, silly and yeah, you know, only a few few years ago, but am I proud of all of them? Of course I'm not. But some of that I do think a funny part anyway, I was slightly jesting with the pretty thing. My point was, I think actually actually it's always nice when I think in this scenario I think a prank is nice if you're going to see them as well again after if you're not going to see them it's his last day I think it would probably be the nice thing would be to give him actually I think joke gifts I'd arguably say joke gifts are almost worse than pranks. Yeah. I personally think, I think, I think, I think
Starting point is 00:47:45 it really heartfelt, like a gold plated pen for, you know, that he might get some, you know, he might be able to write his memoirs with, or he might be able to, I mean, it's hard to ascertain because we don't know this guy, whether he's got some hobbies or he's got things that he's into. But I suppose the thing for me would be just finding sort of like who the guy is, what he's into and getting him a nice sort of something, a nice gift that would mean something to him. So every time he looked at it, he'd feel what you're putting in this email, that he did some, he made a difference, he did some good and he meant something to the people he worked with and the people he, the other kids and the other teachers, that you respected him. kids and then the other teachers that you respected him and I think sometimes if you get a present that's a bit too jovial or you know if he's got something
Starting point is 00:48:28 you look at you can look at he can hold he can he can feel something from then that goes a long way. Really good advice Tom. I mean you haven't said if you work with this teacher that you're also a teacher or if it's just a mate who is a teacher separate to you. It. But insane to get someone a leaving gift if you didn't work with them. But you might be no, but it's a retirement present. It's actually a retirement present. Yes. When you were like when I retire in it like a year and a half. I'm hoping that you would get me some
Starting point is 00:48:56 sort of retirement. Yeah, but we work together. Of course, I get you a present anyway. No matter what I give you a present with buddies with you. We worked here. We've got a professional and a personal relationship It's a beautiful thing. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Yeah, but if for example If fucking I don't know if Dara bring like retired tomorrow I'd be gutted not to see Dara do stand-up again, but I wouldn't buy him a present. It'd be insane Oh, who's this from? You're mates with him. Are you? He doesn't even I don't even think he really particularly would like you But I'm talking about I'm talking about somebody you haven't necessarily actually to be fair in every social interaction. We've had you're probably right there
Starting point is 00:49:39 Probably I said the same outside 70% of the rest of the industry Yeah, that's not true. That's not true. It's not as high as 70%. Anyhow, I dig it. It's like mid-60s. But if, for example, I've not worked with him much, but if Sean Walsh retired, I'd get him a present. Yeah, of course you would, but you're really good mates.
Starting point is 00:49:58 Sean gave you a necklace at the beginning. That's what I'm saying, this guy here, but this guy's really good. But you've also worked with him. But even if I hadn't worked with Sean. But we're talking about people in our industry. But even if I hadn't worked with you. We're talking about people in our industry. So that's where it's difficult, because that's where
Starting point is 00:50:10 we'd be the same as teaching a teacher. So OK, just name one of your mates who's done something else completely different. Let's go Rahul, who works in finance. So when he retires, are you going to get him a gift? Yeah. What? So you're going to get all of your friends when they retire? Can I just stop? Be honest. Can I just stop a second? I don't think I would. I said it just to further my argument and I've got to hold my hands up here and say, I don't think I would. You've done it. You've
Starting point is 00:50:39 Boris Johnson yourself into a corner. Well, I wouldn't say that's what I've done. No, but maybe I was. You wouldn't because, number one, as much as you jest, we don't retire, this retires us, right? You're not gonna just go on with the retirement though. No, not true. You're not just, you're telling me that you're gonna retire from this game.
Starting point is 00:51:04 Correct. Completely. Yes. Stayed away from stand Right, you're telling me that you're going to retire from this game? Correct. Completely? Yes. Staying away from stand up, your wrap out, everything you do? Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, hold on, stand up maybe not, but like everything else, yeah, I'll walk away from it. Yeah, but then you're not retired, are you? That's like him going, oh yeah, I'm retired from teaching, but I'm still doing two days
Starting point is 00:51:18 a week as a fucking standing teacher. Do you know what I mean? He's not, if you're out, you're out. There's no fucking different measures, that's the game. Okay, well maybe I will get out, maybe I will get out. I don't think you're out, you're out. There's no fucking different measures. That's the game. Maybe I will get out. Maybe I will get out. I don't think you'll retire.
Starting point is 00:51:29 I don't think you will. I think you need it. I think you need it to fulfill what you want. How dare you? But what are you gonna do for the rest of your life? You go crazy. More importantly, Lisa would go fucking mental if you were just around the house burning pizzas all the time.
Starting point is 00:51:43 You need, we all need this no something no i'd i'd go do shifts at cufflins or something like that do you mean like uh that's me that you're not retired you're still fucking working aren't you well i wouldn't get paid for it you know i'll just rock up you know but you said but i retire from this game i know that's not what's on this game yeah no i would retire he's retiring my point is so you're going to get all of your friends retirement But every one of your friends you're gonna get a retirement present for I haven't got lots of friends first if you've got ten friends
Starting point is 00:52:13 Also, by the way, can I say you say you haven't got many friends? but it'll become abundantly clear who you like most that your friends and who you don't if you So and so is fucking retirement and you get a beautiful gift and then someone else retires ago What did we get you for your retirement? Nothing. Oh, yeah, we see what you sit in the fucking hierarchy of things. Okay first hierarchy Is not right. Okay Bearing in mind that you're always hanging out with the king. It feels mad that you don't know. It's a hierarchy second of all
Starting point is 00:52:43 I Think if you're in a conversation and somebody said what did you get them for a retirement present? I think that's a weird thing to ask somebody isn't it? You're an exceptional present-giver, right? You're gonna give the person a nice gift, right? I'd imagine a nice watch or a nice pair of shoes or something, right? So then everyone's going to expect the same. It's an insane, but look, birthdays I get,
Starting point is 00:53:08 I'm like, I'm just saying that if someone's retiring and like, look, this guy sounds like an incredible guy, but also it's like, you know, where does it stop? Okay. Distressed Koala, can you get back in touch and let us know, are you also a teacher? I'd love to know. Yeah. I think they probably are, aren't they?
Starting point is 00:53:26 I think, in answer to your question, I think you need to get them something heartfelt. I think avoid pranks, avoid anything jokey. Teaching is a hard game, and somebody that spent 30 years doing it, they deserve something lovely. Like a badge of valor. Yeah, teaching's one of the hardest jobs in the world,
Starting point is 00:53:43 I think. I agree. I have not done a single day as a comedian in any situation that even approaches as stressful and as difficult as teaching is. And it's thankless a lot of the time as well. It is thankless a lot of the time. You can't do right for doing wrong. Sometimes the kids give you a shit. Yeah, but I bet those little cherish moments but I bet those little cherish moments I bet those little cherish moments when something
Starting point is 00:54:06 does go right and a kid comes up and at the end of the class sort of is sitting at the back there and as they were leaving and you're dying for a piss in your own special toilet goes sorry mr. Manganathan I just wanted to say thank you thank you for helping me read or do maths or whatever yeah that's not really happened but you don't you're not doing it for the thanks, are you? You know, I say every kid I don't meet a lot of people who you taught because naturally that this from an area in which I'm from a lot of people for Always speak so fondly of you. They always say often say you're that yeah, you're their favorite teacher
Starting point is 00:54:39 I know there's some of that obviously is good. Some of that is really tinted hindsight, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, but also yeah, cuz you're like one of the your nation's sweetheart now, right? But you like but I do actually generally think it comes from a very like I can imagine as a teacher You'd be quite cool. You'd be fun So yeah, man, I think it's a rewarding thing I think you know what I'd love to do is we should send this guy a gift. That's a great idea Tom can I leave that with you? Could you? I will. Yeah. Okay. If you send us a gift to someone we can send this gift to, we'll get it to Tom.
Starting point is 00:55:11 A picture of me and you just laughing. I think it feels a bit ironic to spend the whole time talking about not getting him a joke prank gift and then offering him tickets to our tour. offering him tickets to our tour. Anyway Tom, it is about that time my dear. That time. So could you do this to your honours have taken us out, Mr Tintin? Bells and whistles, trombones and saxophones all make a noise. All different gradients of noise. Some loud, some settled, some harsh, some soft.
Starting point is 00:55:48 But what is the noise in the end? Something can startle you, get your attention, almost a break in the silence. That said, it can be an irritant, but actually it can be a warning. But should we look at the sounds in which we make and the things in which we say a little closer? Should we maybe look back and go, that screech wasn't really needed or that ruptuous laughter across the pool, that's something my friend did that seemed to disturb a sleeping baby. That wasn't needed also. It's very, very easy to get lost in your own sounds,
Starting point is 00:56:23 nay, your own world, and not think the world. I work wider world around you The other people they're impacted upon By your loud may resonant soundings What do I mean by all this I guess what I mean is it's not just always about sounds Sometimes it's about where you tread and how you tread and if you tread every move every sound every breath
Starting point is 00:56:53 Takes a reaction or makes a reaction That will have some impact on others. So be careful And be considered in each one of these that you do. Go well, be true, be you. Thanks for listening. Really nice. You sort of wrapped up quite quickly though. It was almost surprisingly. Like I didn't know it.
Starting point is 00:57:14 Yeah, I sort of got lost in a bit of a forest and then found a quick way out. Yeah, well done. Could we please, JT, take us out with Lord Karna has got a new album out, which is really good. It's called, oh what the hell is it called? It's called Hopefully, and there's a song on it called Time To Go which I absolutely love so could we go out with that? Guys, thank you so much for listening to what I would describe as an upper mid-tier episode of The Wolf and Al.
Starting point is 00:57:42 Tom is off to enjoy the rest of his chicken and to quite wilted salad. Bask in the financial rewards of doing a corporate gig for which he's undoubtedly being overpaid for. Look after yourselves guys, hopefully, listen I know if I could do a little bit of a mini final thought, I know that life can be a struggle, I know things can be hard and I know things can be tough but sometimes other people have got it as bad or if not worse. I would ask you to cast your mind across to somebody I know who tried to put his room service on the room but has found out that they haven't allocated a card for his corporate gig so you know
Starting point is 00:58:32 people are struggling left right and center so good luck to you guys take care of the struggle is real and as Lenny Fred of mine said the hustle is real too yeah very good very good thank Very good. Thank you guys. Take care of yourselves. Bye bye. Trying to find a way to ease the pain Pressure on my brain Killing the legend of my name Wonder if I'll ever feel the same I don't know where am I supposed to be today I don't know all I can do is take it So I feel like my world is changing The all that I know with age If you have a problem, opinion, feedback or anything at all, please email us at wolfalpod.gmail.com.
Starting point is 00:59:42 That's wolfalpod.gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you, mainly because we don't have any content ideas. Thank you. How do you know if you're worrying too much? How can you mend a broken heart? Does peaking at school ruin you for life? I'm Susie Ruffall, a stand-up comedian and someone who has always experienced anxiety. And I've written a book, Am I Having Fun Now? Considering some of life's big questions. Featuring bonus insights from the likes of Charlene Douglas, Sarah Pascoe, Elizabeth Day, and Dolly Auderton.
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