S12 EP10: Ray Bradshaw

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This episode is presented by Vauxhall.
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So Josh, News UK have voted the new Vauxhall Frontera
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as the value car of the year 2025.
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Rightly so. Do you know why I can say that, Rob?
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Why?
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And you know this, I've test driven one.
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Oh yeah, and I've been test passenger.
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I got to drive the Frontera. Fools. A, the tech
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was so good, right, that it was just simple and...
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I felt like it was my car the moment we
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were moving.
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Yeah? We had loads of boot room. You saw that. Oh,
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I had a little peek in the back. I was thinking,
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this is perfect for a family. It was spacious. It
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was easy to use. And do you know what as well?
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No offence. I wasn't too near you.
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No.
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No, exactly.
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There's so much space in the front. I didn't feel
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like I was touching you. I couldn't smell you.
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It was great.
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It's available in electric. It's available in petrol hybrid. The
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electric is cheaper. It is available from... £ 23, 995. Ah, that
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sounds like.
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Value to me, Josh. That's great value. Great value, top value.
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Do what I did, Rob. Test drive the new Vauxhall
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Frontera today. Discover more by searching Vauxhall Frontera online. Hello,
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you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Roman, can you say
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Rob Beckett? And can you say Josh Widdicombe?
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Good effort good effort even she knows it's not I
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mean that is a baby just snuffling though in her
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defence and the baby's defence.
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Gobble gobble Rob Josh and Michael this is my four
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month old four months come on Roman attempting to say
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your names the tiger mum in me what does that.
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Mean No idea. Shall I Google it? Thought it was
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never too early to start. It's going to be like
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a really pushy mum.
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Is that like sort of Project Mbappe where you're just.
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A for effort, but D for achievement, I suppose. Some
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improvement required. I've been listening from the start, BC.
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Do you want to hear what it is? What?
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A tiger mum or tiger mother refers to a strict
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disciplinarian parenting style popularised by Amy Chewer's book, Battle Hymn
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of the Tiger Mother, characterised by extremely high expectations... Intense
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focus on academic and extracurricular excellence, like music or sports,
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and pushing children to succeed through vigorous practice and discipline,
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often at the expense of social life or emotional expression,
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aiming for top achievements.
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David Beckham's dad on that documentary. Well, to be fair,
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I think most high achievers do have parents like that.
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I've been listening from the start. This is good. We
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should use this. I've been listening from the start. BC,
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before children. That's nice. Yeah, that's not been used before.
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We could call it that.
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And thank you very much. And now we have Roman,
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who also seems to love listening to you to go
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to sleep. Not sure what that says about the content,
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but we enjoy it nonetheless. Keep being sexually relatable. Thanks
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for keeping me entertained during lockdown and now into motherhood.
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Just... I said, like, Justine, and I suppose Roman's dad, Mike. Jus,
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but she's named Justine. I think so, yeah. I think
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me and Justine would clash. I think she was joking
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about Tiger, Mum. Many a true word said in Jus. Oh,
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here he is. But the Justine, just say your name's Justine.
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Why not be Justine? I couldn't call someone Jus. No?
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It's not a full name. It's almost my name. Jus.
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I'm all right with Josh.
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Josh.
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I can say Josh. Juss. Juss. Juss. So we've got
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to do a shorter intro here. Don't have to. No,
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we don't have to. But there's a man on the
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other side of that curtain that fucking wants us to.
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That little pervert twitching his way behind the curtain. So
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we've got Ray Bradshaw on.
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Yeah.
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Very good interview. We've done it. We loved it.
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There was a lot of back and forth between me
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and you at the end.
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He's got deaf parents.
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He talks about sign language, talks about IVF, talks about Scotland,
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talks about gigging.
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I enjoyed the chat. I did. And what was I
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going to say? I'm buzzing. You're buzzing because we did
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something different today.
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We got the train up this morning and you are
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full of beans.
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Full of beans because I didn't stay in a hotel.
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I feel great. This is the new me. Yeah. Deborah
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Meaden got on my train at Taunton. Oh, really? I'd
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love to see you on Dragon's Den. Oh, I'd go
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to pieces. Maybe you're too tired to invest in anything.
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Do you know what? You've already told me you've got
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your train fare back because you've got to switch trains. Yeah,
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why not? Delay repay? Absolutely. Claim it. But you shouldn't
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be so happy about it in your face. There's a difference.
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There's a difference between going, oh, that's handy.
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I'll be able to reclaim that back. Oh, yeah, I
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got it. Got it back. So this is the question.
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Do you think Meaden does delay repay or is she
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too rich? But she's a businesswoman, so she's not going
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to like it.
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Meaden will do delay repay, but she'll keep it low key.
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She wouldn't bounce into the room to tell someone like
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you did.
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So excited, I nearly had to change my pants. And
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now it's a callback. Oh, that's a callback from the future.
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From the future. Enjoy that.
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Yeah, let us know about what you think about the
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pants change. You'll hear about it at the end of
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this episode. I enjoyed this. I had a real laugh.
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It was good fun.
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He's brilliant. Go and see him on tour?
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Yes.
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It's called Coda? Coda.
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Yeah, I'll go and see him at Glasgow, Armadillo. Make
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a weekend of it.
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Yeah. Why not? Enjoy yourselves.
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And you never know, the train might be delayed before
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you know it.
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You can't see that. Can you hear it? Josh is
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rubbing his little fingers together like Bunsen Burn, a nice
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little learner. Yeah.
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It's a horrible image. I don't know if video is
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going to help us or make people go, do you
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know what?
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I don't like it. They are vile. I don't like
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watching them. They're disgusting. It's very fragile.
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It's like having sex but catching a reflection in a mirror.
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I'm enjoying this, but now I've seen it, I hate it.
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It's very fragile. So you've come to them today. Yeah.
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What time is your train? I've got the half-five train.
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Have you started the show? Yeah. I like to talk
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my way in.
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No, but you've started the show like you're a lonely
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pensioner on the train next to a very busy man.
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I wouldn't say he's very busy. No, I'm not that busy.
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He's travelled down from Glasgow to do a fucking podcast.
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He's a busy man. He doesn't give a fuck what
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time train you've got. One other thing. We know what
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it is. You're not busy. It's weird. It's weird, isn't it?
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He's very busy. He's going to sell out the Armadillo
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in Scotland. How many tickets?
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3,000 tickets, is it? Yes, 3,000. It's mad.
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I'm mainly doing it because my mate's daughter was slagging me. Yeah,
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because of money, of course. Why do you think I'm here?
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My mate's daughter... was slagging me because she did her
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dancing display there.
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And I'd never done a gig there. Amazing. So I
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was like, I think I could do the Armadillo. So
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you're going to finish with a dance? Do you know...
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Get her out. I thought about it, but I've got...
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Do you know how, see, when you do a tour show,
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you need a big ending?
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Yeah.
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I'm struggling for that just now. Yeah, I've struggled for
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that for five tours. I'm not even saying it right.
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I've just accepted I don't have a big ending. Yeah.
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What do you do? Oh, I just... Can I scurry
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off ashamed at every tour show? I don't bow. I
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don't bow. I tried a bit and I felt I
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was such a prick. No, I do a kind of.
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a substitute that's maybe coming up, you know, like a
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guy coming off.
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Cross yourself.
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Maybe a player that's come back from injury, but he's
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been brought off after 60 minutes.
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So you're applauding the crowd. Are we with? Do you
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know what I might do? That's Degnafate. I might do
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the clop. You know the clop? All the football managers
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do that now. They run up and they go, duh, duh, duh.
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Imagine doing that after you've died at Cambridge Corn Exchange.
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Imagine. That was two months ago. Anyway. That's exciting. Have
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you got kids? Yes.
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I've got one boy who is six and my wife
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is pregnant just so I've got another one on the way.
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Congratulations. When's the baby due? This is horrific timing.
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For someone who works extensively in Scottish football, the baby
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is due on the first day of Scotland play Haiti
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in the World Cup.
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Oh, wow. And were you planning on going out there? Yeah.
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Are you going out there? My wife is very sound,
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but I don't know how much. Can I... Basically, one,
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I'm going to break it down. You can't go to
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the World Cup. Yeah. I'm not accepting that yet. So
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this is the bar. Maybe if you got to the
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latter stages. Yeah, come on, Josh. We'll have a laugh here.
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Well, yeah. That you're going to have to deal with
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when the time comes. If the baby comes early, you
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can maybe... get to that stages but i think the
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baby coming sooner may be more likely than scotland's getting
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to the later stages.
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Yeah yeah well if you want an idea of how
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soon my wife is on her due date with her
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son alex i was supporting frankie boyle in aberdeen and
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i phoned her and i was like do you think
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the baby's coming she's like no i think i've got
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another couple of days so you can stay tonight and
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do the gig the next night and then i drove
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home and then she went into labor no coincidentally but
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Italy is like sound so maybe get away with it
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but you're not going to America no I don't think
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so but I'll say I'm abstaining on human rights reasons
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that's what I'll.
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Do just take the moral standpoint to.
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That and is that with America or Haiti both of
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them can I ask on that if you had to
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watch the World Cup you can take shifts with the
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baby yeah yeah late at night this is what I'd
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suggest Say, why don't you, I go to bed now
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and get up a couple of hours and then you
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hand the baby to me at about 11pm when the
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second game kicks off. I think it'll be very obvious.
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And then you do the night, it's going to be
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the greatest period of night feeds of your life.
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But it's going to look suspicious when I've got William
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Wallace face paint trying to feed the baby.
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Get the baby on formula straight away.
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Breast is best, but not if there's an opportunity to
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bottle feed a baby during a World Cup.
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My wee boy's got it because he's a huge football fan.
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But were you going to take him? He was asking, yeah.
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He's been to a few Scotland games. Can I ask,
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when you... I don't want to get too graphic. Did
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you think about it when you were having sex? No,
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we did IVF. So we did five rounds of IVF.
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So this was like a Hail Mary throughout the week.
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The pregnancy is a lot more important than the football, Josh.
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Sorry about that. How do you feel now, actually? It's
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been around five rounds of IVF, actually. I feel like
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that's something he could have timed even better. Yeah. Well,
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they delayed it. They delayed it by two months. Oh, no. So, eventually,
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it was going to be in the middle of my tour.
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And mentally, I was like, that's great. I can pull
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something off. shows. Yeah, ideal. Whereas now.
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No one can complain you pulled a show when you... Sorry,
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my IVF baby's being born. You want me to still
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come to Cambridge Corn Exchange?
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It's always Cambridge Corn Exchange. It's always Cambridge Corn Exchange.
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But yeah, my wee boy. How old is he now, sorry?
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He's sexed.
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Oh, that would be an amazing trip if you could
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do it.
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Yeah, he's right. You're not doing it. If the baby
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comes early. No. So I was talking to my dad
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about this.
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I would push an elective cesarean.
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Is that too much? Sorry. You're not on the have
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a word pod, Rob. What's going on? Should I do
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the public apology now? Yeah. That was a joke, actually.
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That was definitely a joke. It would be Andy.
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Then you could take the six-year-old away for a week
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and let her time to bond with the baby.
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Rob, you've not experienced the aftermath of a cesarean.
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Me, no. No, yeah. No, no, so actually that's worse.
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It's so bad. Okay, so you want to somehow.
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So basically, what you were suggesting there is someone undergoes
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a major operation and then you leave them.
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With a baby even though they can't stand up. Well,
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I tell you what, well done, one-one, after the argument.
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You just scored that. I'm a fan, did you walk off? No,
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that would be too much. So I was born... Squirming. Squirming.
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I was born, so my mum went to Glasgow Garden Festival,
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it was a big cultural thing, and there was a
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fireworks accident and a guy got his leg blown off.
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So this is how you were born? Yeah, so my
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mum saw it and went into labour. Oh my God.
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I was born 26 minutes later.
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Wow. So my dad was like, why don't you buy
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some fireworks? Let's see what you can do. And I
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was like, no, let's rate it a little bit. So
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have you ever met the guy? No, so I've actually
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never talked about it on stage, I'm talking about it
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in this tour.
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And I was like, trying to Google to find him,
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I don't know. Is he okay? No, he's lost, well,
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he lost the last leg.
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Oh God, so you were born in trauma?
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Yeah. At least we know why you're coming here. Am
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I right? Come on. No, come on. Come on. I'm
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not taking that from the South West. The man that's
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travelling up from Exeter at 6am. 754, thank you very much. Luxury.
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No, I had tons, I was speaking to my mum
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and dad about, so my mum and dad were both deaf,
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so I got learning sign language, I'm fluent in sign language, so,
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I was speaking to mum and dad about my childhood
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because the weirdest thing is I don't remember any of it.
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Because it's so normal.
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Whereas like now my son is going to my mum
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and dad's house and he's learning sign language.
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Yeah, yeah. So you're both your parents deaf? Yes, my
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dad's born deaf. He only signs. And then your mum's
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hearing went with the fireworks as well. Yeah, yeah. Is
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that okay? Thank you.
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I would have been born quicker if she could have
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heard them.
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So that's the rumour.
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So she, no, she lost her hearing when she was
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14 months old through measles. So my mum lip reads
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and speaks. So I would get that.
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So how did they end up together? Mad story.
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My mum was at a deaf club, like deaf social club.
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My dad's an identical twin.
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Come on, mate. I swear to God. We're not here
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for like some Ross Noble thing. I didn't think he
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was a fucking whimsy.
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My uncle was chatting her up and went for a
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piss and my dad took over.
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Wow. And where's your uncle now? Both are deaf. Both
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born deaf.
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The only way you can tell apart, this is what
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my dad always said, so you can't.
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Throw me shit on it.
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Monko they're identical twins Monko lives in Essex he's got
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half a thumb he fell off a roof and he
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lost the top of his thumb fucking hell these stories
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it's like 999 Michael Burke but my dad always says
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Monko's got a speech impediment because of his half a
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thumb which is such a nice line thank you for
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explaining it.
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Some listeners wouldn't I just basically scraped that across the
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line across the line I booed it in.
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The net so your mum and dad Was there any
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thought that you might be deaf?
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No, because mum doesn't have deaf DNA. But your dad?
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My dad does, yeah. So you kind of need, this
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is a generalisation, you need both of them to be.
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They thought I was, so I'm the middle kid, I've
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got a brother and a sister. They thought I was
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deaf for like the first few days.
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Yeah. But I just wasn't, I was just lazy. Yeah, yeah.
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My mum went home and smashed plates next to my
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head and I would cry. Oh my God, like a
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Greek wedding. And she was like, he's not deaf and
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they took me back in. And then that's why.
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So how did you learn to speak? So I was
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actually talking to my mum about this. My mum told
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me a story. the other day that is the funniest
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thing she's ever said to me so I generally when
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I was a kid my gran and grandpa's my mum's
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side of the family they're all hearing so I spent
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a lot of time there and then I went to
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speech therapy annoyingly my brother and my sister didn't it
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was just me and then my mum was saying I
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was like was there anything else you did to help
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me develop and my mum was like oh the speech
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therapist recommended that we put a radio in your bedroom
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each night so you could hear language skills all that
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kind of stuff And I was like, oh, did you
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notice a difference?
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And my mum went, oh, we couldn't tell if it
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was on a station.
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She was like, we were just putting it in each night.
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So it was like the original My Homie, just white
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noise or something. So that was, yeah.
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Because it must be hard for them as parents to
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go like double checking the kind of stuff you're watching
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or listening.
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To if it's appropriate or not. They've got to just
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trust you.
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Yeah, I remember being able to listen to tons of
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rap and stuff like that when I was like 19.
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Must be funny having that full blast all the swear
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words your mum and dad just pottering around doing the.
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Dishes doing the hoovering cutting them out not even noticing
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and I've pulled the plug out of the hoover so
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they can't hear.
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It so I can hear the music and so with
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the sign language because when you a kid's brought up
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bilingual if they've got they'll just pick both up straight
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away did you just yeah.
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I don't remember learning signing I remember being about 7
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or 8 and going into school and signing someone they
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didn't sign back I remember thinking that's weird whereas now
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watching Alex my son so he was born end of
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2019 so all the way through lockdown he couldn't really
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see mum and dad so when lockdown stopped he would
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go to my mum and dad's one day a week
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just so he could spend time in the house and
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pick up sign language and it was amazing watching it
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he picked it up you.
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Still gesticulate quite a lot when you're not signing you
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look like a sort of an Italian defender so.
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Many similarities just like that the whole time well you're
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not signing obviously but you're just so your hand's been involved.
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In the conversation yeah so I've started using a headset
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mic on stage okay alright McIntyre I know I know
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because you finish with a dance don't you yeah yeah
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my river dance I've got to keep my hands down
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obviously it's because I just move my hands one show
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I did I signed my whole show and that was
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really difficult like signing and speaking at the same time
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so how did that work it didn't really it was
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like is the timing different yeah so like the first
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20 minutes was like a voiceover and I would sign
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along to it and then so if I got heckled
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I was fucked right and then the second 20 minutes
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I filmed myself interpreting myself so I had to stick
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to like a script.
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And then the last 20, 30 minutes, I can sign
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this week. It's like when Phil Collins used to play
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the drums and sing. Just pick one back.
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Did you read my chart overview? You performed in a
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full gorilla suit. And so your son's just picked it up? Yeah.
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So he'll go down and... He could sign pretty much
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before he could speak. So he would sign a lot
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of them. Because kids do sign language before speaking.
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You can do that thing where the kids will pick
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up sign language before they go.
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Tumble's all over, isn't he? I hate Tumble, man. You
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hate Tumble? Stepping on your fucking territory.
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Imagine watching a guy signing who's more successful than you
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every day.
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It's brutal. Don't watch TV late at night. There's loads
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of them. You talk to John Bishop, he can do
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it as well, can't he? Yeah, so John was learning
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when we were on tour together.
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And it was fascinating watching him because he made it
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look harder than anyone I've ever seen.
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So his son is deaf? His son is losing his hearing, yeah.
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So there was a documentary that he did on ITV.
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Yeah, so he was learning sign language. We did a gig.
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So it was me, him, and like four deaf stand-ups
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and we did a gig on ITV. It was really
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good fun. I saw that, yeah. It was a brilliant documentary.
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It was mad to do. And what's the sound like
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in that? Because like.
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When we have Rose Elling-Ellis on.
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Last Leg A Lot, and when she... That's clapping, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So you're waving your hands for the listeners. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, sorry, yeah, sorry.
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are the people still listening to this? What is it, 2023?
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Everyone stop listening, we just do this to keep you
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out of the house. Rose is paying me and Bray directly,
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Spotify just do it as a favour.
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It comes under their charity work. So is there, do
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you get laughs in the same way? Yeah, there's time
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delays as well.
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So now I've got an interpreter every show I do,
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so they will get laughs maybe slightly ahead of you,
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slightly before, because.
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They know the show. The weirdest one I ever had
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was in Bedford where, don't know how, What was that?
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The Quarry Theatre or something like that?
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So all the deaf people sat on one side and
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all the hearing people sat on one side. Just coincidentally,
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because we were all chatting, it was unreserved seating, so
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they could just go and sit wherever. And it was like,
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you know when your headphones will make a noise on
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one side and that way, so you were getting laughs
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at different points. You were doing it in stereo? Yeah,
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that's the word I was looking for. It was so
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hard to do. So hard.
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Yeah, so I had someone doing sign at my Bristol gig.
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Is it called doing sign?
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Yeah, they do it. Was it a vulgar? Yeah, the guy, Ramesh, yeah.
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Ramesh used to teach, I think. Yeah.
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So funny, people come up to me and go, Romesh
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used to teach me, and it is like an old man.
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And I'm like, fucking hell, how old's Romesh? Or how
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young was he? And yeah, so you could see different
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pockets in the crowd. There was a slight different energy
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because when you're doing it, some are watching the sign
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language and some are listening to you and stuff like that.
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So it's hard to sort of gauge. And I imagine
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a direct spit down the middle is.
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The worst for me is because I know sign language,
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sometimes a deaf person will heckle me.
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How does that work? They'll just sign at me. So
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do you have the lights up?
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Relatively, not as pitch black as I usually would, but
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maybe a bit more.
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And the worst one is.
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But that's so hard because no one else knows they're
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doing it.
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So I repeat back to the hearing audience what they've
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done and they deny it and it looks like I'm
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bullying a deaf person.
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It's so annoying. It's happened quite a few times.
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Do you know what I saw once, which was like
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one of the strangest situations there was this I was
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in Butlins on a stag do and there was a
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group classic Beckett story and there was a group of
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deaf lads right which I don't know if they were
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like a social club or whatever.
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Or if it was coincidence or a sports club All
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just got on at the bar inside.
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Anyway, there's about eight of them and they're all getting on.
488
00:20:02.970 --> 00:20:04.170
And then one of them started having a row with
489
00:20:04.190 --> 00:20:06.650
the other one. And obviously, basically, there's no volume. So
490
00:20:06.690 --> 00:20:09.589
in a pub, normally, a row is louder. You want
491
00:20:09.650 --> 00:20:11.779
all that and stuff. So they were signing quicker.
492
00:20:11.970 --> 00:20:14.500
I saw that. That was because they were frustrated. Faster
493
00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:15.359
and bigger. Faster and bigger.
494
00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:16.680
And I was like, oh, hang on. This feels like
495
00:20:16.700 --> 00:20:19.019
it's kicking off, but it doesn't in the traditional sense.
496
00:20:19.380 --> 00:20:21.099
And then they started having a fight. And then they
497
00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.359
got thrown outside. And then I was outside at that
498
00:20:23.420 --> 00:20:26.099
point when they were all just fighting, just lads drunk.
499
00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:28.519
And watching a fight in silence.
500
00:20:29.579 --> 00:20:35.109
There was no screaming and shouting. It was quite sinister. Yeah,
501
00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:37.910
it's almost more visceral and raw. You know when Batman
502
00:20:37.950 --> 00:20:39.450
beats people up in silence.
503
00:20:39.109 --> 00:20:41.150
Down an alley? It was like that. And it was like, wow.
504
00:20:41.269 --> 00:20:43.809
I remember playing, so my cousin is deaf and I
505
00:20:43.829 --> 00:20:45.309
played for his football team a couple of times and
506
00:20:45.329 --> 00:20:47.369
the dressing room is silent apart from farting.
507
00:20:47.730 --> 00:20:49.089
That's all you hear.
508
00:20:49.269 --> 00:20:49.890
All you hear.
509
00:20:50.069 --> 00:20:51.390
And they're ultimately getting away with it.
510
00:20:51.470 --> 00:20:51.589
Yeah.
511
00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.380
It's mad doing it but my dad see if my
512
00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:58.049
mum and dad are arguing so I thought my mum
513
00:20:58.109 --> 00:21:00.250
and dad were like happily married and then I had
514
00:21:00.269 --> 00:21:02.490
my son and you find out those wee passive aggressive
515
00:21:02.529 --> 00:21:04.210
things like if my mum and dad are arguing my
516
00:21:04.230 --> 00:21:06.569
dad feels he's losing he just shuts his eyes he's
517
00:21:06.609 --> 00:21:09.809
like I really can't see the sign and it's genius oh.
518
00:21:09.670 --> 00:21:12.460
Brilliant and so do they have a totally different social
519
00:21:12.539 --> 00:21:16.000
life to like they kind of exist in almost a
520
00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:17.599
different social circle.
521
00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:18.339
Mum and dad are different.
522
00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.369
So my mum is like a social butterfly. She teaches
523
00:21:22.390 --> 00:21:23.930
people who've lost their hearing how to lip read.
524
00:21:23.950 --> 00:21:24.609
She teaches sign language.
525
00:21:24.650 --> 00:21:26.309
She's done all that kind of stuff. So she has
526
00:21:26.329 --> 00:21:28.299
lots of hearing and deaf friends. My dad mainly has
527
00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:28.740
deaf friends.
528
00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:31.200
So he's 73 now. Every Thursday he goes to the
529
00:21:31.220 --> 00:21:31.579
Deaf OAP club.
530
00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:34.839
And he goes and hangs out with like six of
531
00:21:34.859 --> 00:21:38.430
his pals bingo's big bingo is huge is it?
532
00:21:38.470 --> 00:21:40.490
Yeah what was your dad doing or in the deaf community?
533
00:21:40.509 --> 00:21:42.170
Deaf community not just my dad yeah yeah yeah he's
534
00:21:42.190 --> 00:21:44.710
the foxy bingo guy but he just does the voiceovers
535
00:21:44.730 --> 00:21:47.859
in sign language but yeah so there's that and then
536
00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.660
I love watching my son interact so like my wee
537
00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:55.690
boy is frighteningly clever like he's got we think we're
538
00:21:55.710 --> 00:21:57.670
his teachers and we think he's got a photographic memory
539
00:21:58.130 --> 00:22:00.009
so he is really confident and.
540
00:22:00.349 --> 00:22:02.289
So what does that mean that he's got a photographic
541
00:22:02.309 --> 00:22:02.930
memory so he.
542
00:22:02.890 --> 00:22:05.210
From the age of four if you show him any
543
00:22:05.369 --> 00:22:08.450
country just a shape he'll name it woah wow.
544
00:22:08.230 --> 00:22:10.789
So like I've ever and did part of you go
545
00:22:10.950 --> 00:22:12.029
what the fuck is going on here so you only
546
00:22:12.049 --> 00:22:14.049
have to show him once and it's lodged kinda yeah
547
00:22:14.170 --> 00:22:15.990
and like he remembers everything.
548
00:22:15.710 --> 00:22:17.170
I don't think I could do any except for it
549
00:22:17.210 --> 00:22:17.430
so he.
550
00:22:17.410 --> 00:22:18.950
Was slagging me off the other day because I didn't
551
00:22:18.970 --> 00:22:22.380
know how to spell Kurdistan we do worldo so it's
552
00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.759
like worldo no worldo so it's a country shape every
553
00:22:25.779 --> 00:22:28.579
day right so you get six guesses to go yeah
554
00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.400
so like it comes up so the first one we
555
00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.980
ever did I put it on a story online because
556
00:22:34.019 --> 00:22:36.170
it came up and he was like Gabon I was
557
00:22:36.190 --> 00:22:39.130
like wow he's four right how do you know that
558
00:22:39.150 --> 00:22:40.950
he was like oh because that's the gap for Equatorial
559
00:22:40.990 --> 00:22:42.730
Guinea And I was like.
560
00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:44.779
What the fuck? You used to eat coal out the fireplace.
561
00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:48.740
What is happening? And yeah, so he remembers things all
562
00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:51.019
the time. So tell me what's going on there then.
563
00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:53.400
So I think he watches a lot of YouTube. I
564
00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.519
love that question. Such a loaded question, isn't it? No,
565
00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.539
but like, I just like, what does that mean?
566
00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:02.440
So he, like, he was reading a poem for school
567
00:23:02.460 --> 00:23:04.150
because it's coming up when we record this, it's coming
568
00:23:04.170 --> 00:23:04.890
up for Bernsday.
569
00:23:05.269 --> 00:23:06.289
And if he reads it a couple of times, he
570
00:23:06.309 --> 00:23:09.609
just remembers it. He's got it. Yeah, and like, he now...
571
00:23:10.029 --> 00:23:13.630
He's really into football now, so he's memorising old footballers. Yeah.
572
00:23:15.029 --> 00:23:17.559
So we do World... The weirdest one we did, right?
573
00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:19.619
And has he got other things that he's really good at?
574
00:23:19.819 --> 00:23:21.619
Or is it literally like he's just got this one thing?
575
00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:23.420
It's stuff he's seen. It can read really well. It's
576
00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:26.920
stuff he's seen. And we were.
577
00:23:27.140 --> 00:23:28.990
So it's been 1st of April last year.
578
00:23:29.009 --> 00:23:31.569
So my brother lives in America. He was back with
579
00:23:31.589 --> 00:23:33.950
his wife and their son. and we were doing world
580
00:23:34.029 --> 00:23:35.769
and Alex likes to show off he's like look what
581
00:23:35.789 --> 00:23:37.029
I can do because he realised I.
582
00:23:37.269 --> 00:23:40.829
Remember he's got your DNA yeah he's a showman we
583
00:23:40.849 --> 00:23:42.730
were in a pub and the guy next to us
584
00:23:43.930 --> 00:23:45.200
our local pub the guy was like oh I'm really
585
00:23:45.220 --> 00:23:46.500
good at geography as well because we were playing like
586
00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:50.099
a card geography game and Alex went okay and the
587
00:23:50.140 --> 00:23:51.880
guy went oh we'll have a flag competition and the
588
00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:54.140
first flag came up and my wee boy went Eswatini
589
00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:55.740
and then the guy was like yeah we'll leave it
590
00:23:55.779 --> 00:23:56.440
there that's.
591
00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.160
It that's done but yeah.
592
00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:00.740
So it's the first week but he was like world
593
00:24:00.779 --> 00:24:02.109
will come up and he was like that's weird that's
594
00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:04.640
the Roman Empire And I was like, no, no, it's countries.
595
00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:07.400
And he was like, no, that's the Roman Empire. And
596
00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:09.839
then we clicked it in. And it was like, April Fools,
597
00:24:09.859 --> 00:24:11.119
you got us. That was the Roman Empire.
598
00:24:11.460 --> 00:24:13.759
And all of us in the room were like, we
599
00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:15.059
need to monetize this.
600
00:24:15.579 --> 00:24:19.599
Yeah, that is incredible. And so what do his teachers
601
00:24:19.660 --> 00:24:22.460
say about stuff like that? Does it make it so
602
00:24:22.539 --> 00:24:23.200
easy for them?
603
00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:25.619
He's pretty quick at reading and maths and stuff like
604
00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:28.059
that just now. Were you good at school? I was
605
00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:28.500
all right.
606
00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:33.480
Your family, they're either missing something or they've got something extra.
607
00:24:33.569 --> 00:24:36.690
Every story you tell, someone's got a different.
608
00:24:36.730 --> 00:24:40.569
Maybe it's like, what's that, Smallville, where everyone's got a
609
00:24:40.609 --> 00:24:43.589
super power and we don't know it yet. Again, you
610
00:24:43.609 --> 00:24:45.190
don't realise how weird your family are until you speak
611
00:24:45.210 --> 00:24:48.309
it out loud. Does that help him with sign language then?
612
00:24:48.470 --> 00:24:50.269
A little bit.
613
00:24:50.470 --> 00:24:52.609
Sign language is kind of similar with anything that the
614
00:24:52.710 --> 00:24:55.920
less you do it, the harder it gets so if
615
00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:57.740
he doesn't see my mum and dad for a bit
616
00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:00.039
because you know what kids are like he's got football
617
00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:02.539
he's got all that kind of stuff so swimming so
618
00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:04.519
he needs to kind of go see them and do
619
00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:07.410
it and he would always come back like when he
620
00:25:07.430 --> 00:25:09.029
was younger from mum and dad's with maybe three or
621
00:25:09.049 --> 00:25:10.390
four signs from that day and he would.
622
00:25:10.289 --> 00:25:12.369
Remember them all it must be frustrating for them if
623
00:25:12.430 --> 00:25:14.569
he can't remember certain words to sign at them and
624
00:25:14.609 --> 00:25:17.099
he knows the shape of the Roman Empire Are you
625
00:25:17.130 --> 00:25:18.430
putting your art into this?
626
00:25:19.420 --> 00:25:23.119
Yeah. He's not picked his battles there, has he? Very
627
00:25:23.140 --> 00:25:26.660
much like the Roman Empire. There we go. We don't
628
00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:31.660
really know what that meant. It made sense, though. Yeah,
629
00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:34.000
rhythmically we like it. Well, I think it's a different
630
00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:36.609
world now. I thought you were about to explain it. No, no, no.
631
00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:38.640
I do it that way on podcasts, but on Not
632
00:25:38.660 --> 00:25:40.039
The Week, I would have gone, a bit like the
633
00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:41.259
Roman Empire. Yeah.
634
00:25:41.460 --> 00:25:43.680
And then stare in silence and wait for applause. And
635
00:25:43.700 --> 00:25:47.859
would it come? What's that? Would the applause come? Yeah.
636
00:25:47.940 --> 00:25:48.799
And you plant the seed.
637
00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:49.759
Nice.
638
00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:50.259
Nice.
639
00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:51.259
Yeah.
640
00:25:51.339 --> 00:25:55.240
But I'm like heavily. So I gag a lot.
641
00:25:55.789 --> 00:25:57.549
And then the rest of the time. So like, because
642
00:25:57.569 --> 00:25:59.009
I've listened to other episodes of podcasts, people talk about
643
00:25:59.029 --> 00:26:01.230
their father life. I coach my son's football.
644
00:26:00.990 --> 00:26:02.910
Team oh do you?
645
00:26:02.930 --> 00:26:04.769
Well like occasionally so it's like 10 or 11 of
646
00:26:04.849 --> 00:26:06.509
us and I'm away so like it's on tonight so
647
00:26:06.529 --> 00:26:09.220
I'm not there and I'm not there on Saturday because
648
00:26:09.420 --> 00:26:10.759
oh no it's not on because it's still winter have.
649
00:26:10.700 --> 00:26:11.640
You got an assistant manager?
650
00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:14.400
No one of the other coaches a kind of Michael
651
00:26:14.420 --> 00:26:17.640
Carr I'm not the top one I'm there for like
652
00:26:18.019 --> 00:26:18.579
aura putting.
653
00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:20.309
The camera back I'm there to kind of big the.
654
00:26:20.230 --> 00:26:23.529
Kids up one of the coaches his dad was a
655
00:26:23.549 --> 00:26:26.740
very famous manager so he's good for that who's the manager?
656
00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:30.019
I don't think he'll want me to say I would
657
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:31.680
say hand on heart it's the worst hour and a
658
00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:34.660
half of my week every week oh really?
659
00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:37.619
29 kids just running around so what's your son's level
660
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:38.680
of ability within the squad?
661
00:26:38.700 --> 00:26:41.740
Because that's difficult I'd say there's 29 players.
662
00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:44.539
He's too big a squad Pep Guardiola talks about stuff
663
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:45.200
like that doesn't he?
664
00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:46.799
We've just put a bid in for Mark Guay so
665
00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:49.619
hopefully we're going to go he's I'd say he's between
666
00:26:49.619 --> 00:26:51.660
10 and 20 in them so he's not the best
667
00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:53.099
he's okay he loves a celebration.
668
00:26:55.029 --> 00:26:57.869
Loves Elbeck remembers all the other players' names does.
669
00:26:57.549 --> 00:26:59.910
That when he scores he's actually pretty good at that
670
00:27:00.460 --> 00:27:04.440
and then knows all the kits I was in Rome
671
00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:08.819
90 corner flags at the weekend and he was like
672
00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:11.519
you need to get me a Dybala Roma top and
673
00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:12.559
he was like if you can't get that you can
674
00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:13.339
get Totti.
675
00:27:13.819 --> 00:27:15.400
And I was like okay well as soon as I
676
00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:16.980
get home I'll go on a Chinese website and you'll
677
00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.539
have it in a week to 10 days.
678
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:19.819
I did buy him a fake one because the roboshop
679
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:23.220
was 95 euros so that's not happening you'll have.
680
00:27:22.980 --> 00:27:24.099
An 8 pound one that gives you a bit of
681
00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:26.980
a rash and is it are the parents as awful
682
00:27:27.019 --> 00:27:30.160
as you imagine sometimes yeah there was one it was
683
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:32.259
awful one of the first few games I was at
684
00:27:32.859 --> 00:27:35.140
with Alex and one of the dads for.
685
00:27:35.059 --> 00:27:37.220
The other teams was shouting behind the goal just shouting
686
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:39.819
constantly and it was relatively constructive to his kid but
687
00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:42.500
also his kid is five like chill the fuck out
688
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.079
and then in my head I was like this guy's
689
00:27:45.099 --> 00:27:47.019
a dick this guy's a dick and then the minute
690
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:49.000
full time finished he came up and went I've seen
691
00:27:49.019 --> 00:27:50.079
you on tour I'm a really big fan and I
692
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.279
was like this guy's class man.
693
00:27:52.049 --> 00:27:55.490
So quick can I ask because you've got two.
694
00:27:55.369 --> 00:27:59.890
Daughters who Aren't, like... One of your daughters is into football?
695
00:27:59.950 --> 00:28:03.829
Yeah, so she's 10, but she plays at school and
696
00:28:03.869 --> 00:28:06.609
for the school, and she's... Do you know? I've been
697
00:28:06.650 --> 00:28:08.910
a couple of times, yeah. It's very hard not to.
698
00:28:08.930 --> 00:28:12.119
Because I can't imagine you keeping your counsel on a touchline.
699
00:28:12.220 --> 00:28:15.599
Oh, really? No, do you know what? I have to
700
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:17.960
work really hard because... I've been on a panel show
701
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.240
with him.
702
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:21.960
Yeah, no, but I've... I'm only ever encouraging, but even
703
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:22.809
that's too much sometimes.
704
00:28:22.829 --> 00:28:24.789
Do you take flares? So I'm like, well done, well done, but...
705
00:28:26.609 --> 00:28:28.369
So you'd never say push up?
706
00:28:28.509 --> 00:28:31.390
No, but I might go, I want to go, there's
707
00:28:31.410 --> 00:28:33.759
a bit of space. If I see space, I'll find
708
00:28:33.819 --> 00:28:35.140
it so, and I'll tell about space. I'll never be
709
00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:38.480
critical and stuff, but it's quite toxic to shout there's space.
710
00:28:38.539 --> 00:28:40.809
Just let her get on with it. But I find
711
00:28:40.849 --> 00:28:42.450
it really difficult. I do find as well, I don't
712
00:28:42.470 --> 00:28:44.170
know if you get this when you're at the sport, right?
713
00:28:44.789 --> 00:28:47.309
people will say stuff to try and make you laugh
714
00:28:47.329 --> 00:28:49.589
because they know you're a comedian. So it'll be like,
715
00:28:50.089 --> 00:28:52.740
if a kid scuffs it and it goes wide and
716
00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:54.700
they're 10, I'm like, well done, don't worry about it.
717
00:28:54.859 --> 00:28:57.200
But then I'll be like, oh yeah, that was close.
718
00:28:57.960 --> 00:28:59.900
And I'm like, no, you're mugging off a kid here.
719
00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:00.640
Comedian laugh.
720
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:06.029
And I give them nothing, like a fucking statue. And
721
00:29:06.089 --> 00:29:08.250
if they are, oh, I've said before, I was like,
722
00:29:08.269 --> 00:29:11.319
I don't think you should say that. and it gets
723
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:13.720
really I'm happy to sit in the awkwardness yeah the
724
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:16.039
phase you're mugging off a kid just wins every time
725
00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:18.779
like you can't yeah you're mugging off yeah anyway.
726
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:20.519
So have you had to confront anyone.
727
00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:24.940
Yeah two two times one was like just a football
728
00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:27.470
argument and one another team was shouting we've got a
729
00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:30.549
very good player who'd tackled someone quite firmly and they
730
00:29:30.569 --> 00:29:32.470
were shouting do him do him though and I was
731
00:29:32.509 --> 00:29:35.410
like fucking hell he's five or six I was like
732
00:29:35.430 --> 00:29:36.970
what the fuck are you doing so yeah that was
733
00:29:37.490 --> 00:29:39.710
how did you deal with I went and argued with
734
00:29:39.730 --> 00:29:41.250
him straight and said you can't say it and it
735
00:29:41.269 --> 00:29:42.170
was parents at the side.
736
00:29:42.029 --> 00:29:43.089
Arguing with him and then.
737
00:29:44.390 --> 00:29:46.059
They were I was standing in an ice cream van
738
00:29:46.099 --> 00:29:47.930
queue after the game and they were raging behind us
739
00:29:48.130 --> 00:29:51.460
and it's really hard like that awkwardness afterwards and also I.
740
00:29:51.460 --> 00:29:53.019
Wonder like you can't have a row with someone older
741
00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:55.279
than a flake 99 on your nose.
742
00:29:55.119 --> 00:30:00.190
Yeah If you were to stab someone with an ice cream,
743
00:30:00.210 --> 00:30:00.940
which would you choose?
744
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:05.019
Maybe the bottom end of a cornetto straight out of
745
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.420
the freezer yeah absolutely spot on I don't think I've
746
00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:10.859
ever felt I don't think I've ever felt more Glaswegian
747
00:30:10.900 --> 00:30:13.180
in my life that came from somewhere inside.
748
00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:15.799
Me what about what about getting a calippo out and
749
00:30:15.900 --> 00:30:18.480
using that to slash someone like a javelin I think
750
00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:19.019
you could.
751
00:30:18.859 --> 00:30:21.240
Batter someone to death with a frozen calippo and then
752
00:30:21.259 --> 00:30:22.279
eat the evidence but you'd have.
753
00:30:22.220 --> 00:30:25.069
To yeah but you'd have to the rapper's got the
754
00:30:25.089 --> 00:30:27.029
board you'd have to eat the rapper's that's what he
755
00:30:27.049 --> 00:30:29.250
does Do you not eat the wrapper?
756
00:30:29.269 --> 00:30:29.769
No, no, no.
757
00:30:29.829 --> 00:30:31.490
It's like the apple core. No, I feel like a
758
00:30:31.490 --> 00:30:33.690
big vasco, mate. A clipper's going to grow out you.
759
00:30:33.710 --> 00:30:34.950
I'll tell you the thing about a clipper, I don't
760
00:30:34.970 --> 00:30:35.529
like the skin.
761
00:30:35.809 --> 00:30:39.420
Josh licks it outside until it disappears and then he
762
00:30:39.460 --> 00:30:40.380
gets to the fruit.
763
00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:43.720
It's worth it once you get in. Treat yourself. It's good.
764
00:30:44.380 --> 00:30:48.559
Do you... How much do you... put winning as a
765
00:30:48.619 --> 00:30:49.509
thing or how much.
766
00:30:49.670 --> 00:30:51.859
None I don't a lot of time when we leave
767
00:30:51.900 --> 00:30:53.720
I don't know the scores I'll know how many Alex
768
00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:55.779
has scored probably if he scores one or two because
769
00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:56.940
he'll talk about it the whole way home he'll be
770
00:30:56.980 --> 00:30:59.400
like do you see my goal but no I could
771
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:04.539
not I'll rotate fairly like they're 5% I used to
772
00:31:04.579 --> 00:31:06.589
run I used to run an amateur team for years
773
00:31:06.609 --> 00:31:08.630
playing football and I've played football all my life and
774
00:31:09.579 --> 00:31:10.380
Some people take it seriously.
775
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:13.019
That's never been, because we're not. That's what ruins it.
776
00:31:13.069 --> 00:31:16.490
I love playing football. You pay to play. That's what
777
00:31:16.509 --> 00:31:17.390
I always think.
778
00:31:17.730 --> 00:31:20.089
Some people just, that's what put me off Sunday League
779
00:31:20.130 --> 00:31:22.869
and when I got about 17, 18, it's just like, geez,
780
00:31:22.910 --> 00:31:25.049
like just booting, you're trying to have a fight and
781
00:31:25.069 --> 00:31:28.380
just frustrate. I played in this Marks and Spencer's father
782
00:31:28.420 --> 00:31:30.980
side tournament. We played other Marks and Spencer's team. There
783
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:34.380
was a geezer playing and he was playing football off
784
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:36.579
his face, drinking a rum and Coke, but it was too.
785
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:39.589
Hard for anyone to say anything. And you went for
786
00:31:39.650 --> 00:31:43.799
M & S? Yeah. Probably the warehouse. Tell us about
787
00:31:43.819 --> 00:31:44.579
your tour.
788
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:46.160
Can I ask about Scotland quickly?
789
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:46.440
Yeah.
790
00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:49.460
I said the other week, I think Scottish... This is
791
00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:53.609
a worry. Scottish bakeries... a 10 times better than English bakery.
792
00:31:53.630 --> 00:31:55.710
Yeah. And I don't know why, but I think it is.
793
00:31:55.849 --> 00:31:57.690
Macaroni pies? Is what he said.
794
00:31:57.730 --> 00:31:57.890
Yeah.
795
00:31:58.750 --> 00:32:00.349
And then what did you say? You said macaroni pies.
796
00:32:00.369 --> 00:32:00.900
What was the other one?
797
00:32:00.930 --> 00:32:03.569
I think scotch pie. Scotch pie, yeah, yeah. It's such
798
00:32:03.589 --> 00:32:05.490
a good meat for a pie. And what was that
799
00:32:05.529 --> 00:32:06.190
donut thing?
800
00:32:06.710 --> 00:32:10.079
A yum yum? No, it was like a fudge donut. Oh, yeah,
801
00:32:10.099 --> 00:32:11.859
fudge donut, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so it was St. Andrews.
802
00:32:11.950 --> 00:32:14.119
And then what did you say 10 minutes later? I
803
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:16.559
don't know why I'm not really fit and healthy. I
804
00:32:16.579 --> 00:32:18.539
don't know why I'm not losing weight. I'm going on ruts.
805
00:32:18.599 --> 00:32:20.619
I did eat a scotch pie with beans and mash
806
00:32:20.660 --> 00:32:23.220
on top and then had a fudge donut.
807
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:26.019
That sounds class though. Yeah, of course.
808
00:32:26.059 --> 00:32:29.420
He's happy. Actually, that scotch pie mince meat is a
809
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.329
bit like pie mash mince meat where it's just loads
810
00:32:31.369 --> 00:32:31.890
of sort of mince.
811
00:32:31.950 --> 00:32:34.269
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where you get the football. That's
812
00:32:34.289 --> 00:32:34.910
the go-to one.
813
00:32:34.930 --> 00:32:37.690
So I don't like in a pie or anything the
814
00:32:37.730 --> 00:32:39.549
big chunks of the meat because sometimes.
815
00:32:39.569 --> 00:32:40.509
It's like a steak pie kind of thing.
816
00:32:40.529 --> 00:32:42.789
Yeah, I think the big chunks, sometimes the meat's a bit.
817
00:32:43.289 --> 00:32:43.769
dodge well if.
818
00:32:43.769 --> 00:32:45.369
It's mint you know what you're getting yeah and it's
819
00:32:45.410 --> 00:32:47.390
smooth it's hot it's tasty.
820
00:32:47.190 --> 00:32:49.829
This podcast is so versatile like it really is i
821
00:32:49.869 --> 00:32:51.990
love the men's meat or.
822
00:32:51.890 --> 00:32:54.490
We just don't have enough to talk about do you
823
00:32:54.509 --> 00:32:54.849
know why so.
824
00:32:55.170 --> 00:32:57.710
I've been listening to episodes how do you manage to
825
00:32:57.730 --> 00:32:59.599
do it by the way i love that you call
826
00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:03.160
it versatile you've made our biggest weakness our strength.
827
00:33:02.859 --> 00:33:05.599
Well i just i think this couch is incredibly neuro
828
00:33:05.619 --> 00:33:09.259
spicy We know what it is, but we don't want
829
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:10.400
a diagnosis.
830
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:11.880
Because it will be too much. Don't lose the magic.
831
00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:12.180
Yeah.
832
00:33:12.900 --> 00:33:15.140
So why do you think this podcast is? What was
833
00:33:15.180 --> 00:33:18.599
the word you used? Versatile.
834
00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:20.980
I listened to one on the way down and it
835
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:22.980
was essentially you having a breakdown for 40 minutes.
836
00:33:23.009 --> 00:33:23.829
Yeah, yeah.
837
00:33:23.869 --> 00:33:29.279
It's difficult to narrow that down. You can pick any
838
00:33:29.299 --> 00:33:30.420
from the last five years.
839
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.700
Well, the thing is, most of the time, Josh is
840
00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:35.339
having an existential crisis and I'd be talking anyway.
841
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:37.619
They just cut the mic off.
842
00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:39.559
I'm no different from here than I would be just
843
00:33:39.579 --> 00:33:40.819
sat near someone on a train.
844
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:44.009
We're both a bit much when we're not on mic. Yeah.
845
00:33:44.170 --> 00:33:47.289
It works. It works. So, as a parent, how are
846
00:33:47.309 --> 00:33:51.950
you feeling about the one to two? Oh, worried. Worried.
847
00:33:51.970 --> 00:33:52.369
Worried.
848
00:33:52.670 --> 00:33:53.089
Because.
849
00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:57.289
like we've done like five rounds of IVF so over
850
00:33:57.309 --> 00:33:58.829
the last like four and a half which your first
851
00:33:58.869 --> 00:34:00.150
bowl not yet no no no so it was like
852
00:34:00.210 --> 00:34:02.809
second day so how does that well we did all
853
00:34:02.829 --> 00:34:05.309
the tests they don't know so we did four rounds
854
00:34:05.349 --> 00:34:07.869
up in Glasgow and then we were so lucky we
855
00:34:07.890 --> 00:34:11.739
got this amazing doctor who was in Spain because who
856
00:34:11.780 --> 00:34:15.059
was Spanish but in Glasgow because he'd married a Scottish
857
00:34:15.099 --> 00:34:15.800
lady and they were having.
858
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.219
A kid so he'd moved to Scotland for a bit
859
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:20.389
how's she won that debate he'd He was from, was
860
00:34:20.449 --> 00:34:22.469
it like Valencia or something like that? I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
861
00:34:22.489 --> 00:34:27.210
That kid's accent. Yeah. That'd be amazing. That'd be Galateta.
862
00:34:27.570 --> 00:34:29.570
From his one year in Glasgow.
863
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:32.960
And then, so he essentially took us on as like
864
00:34:33.380 --> 00:34:36.300
a project because scientifically it didn't make sense why we couldn't.
865
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.800
So he took us in. Is this NHS or private? Well,
866
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:41.969
because we had a baby, we had to pay for NHS. Oh,
867
00:34:41.989 --> 00:34:43.969
so is that how it works? If you've already had
868
00:34:44.030 --> 00:34:45.889
a baby? Yeah, yeah. So we did four paid rounds
869
00:34:45.949 --> 00:34:46.309
in Scotland.
870
00:34:46.329 --> 00:34:49.500
Then we did one fancy privately down here with a
871
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:51.119
big thing and he it was down to the thing
872
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:54.639
where when they put everything back in he was like
873
00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:58.199
no go with this female doctor over the male doctor
874
00:34:58.219 --> 00:35:00.929
because she's a 92% success rate compared to 80 it
875
00:35:01.130 --> 00:35:02.369
was like we got.
876
00:35:02.170 --> 00:35:04.989
So lucky so what percentage were you looking at like
877
00:35:05.010 --> 00:35:05.909
did you know what's.
878
00:35:05.730 --> 00:35:09.269
Your XG what's the XG on pregnancy we didn't know
879
00:35:09.289 --> 00:35:13.570
so like over the first few we were like not
880
00:35:13.590 --> 00:35:15.269
getting eggs to kind of go in so we're kind
881
00:35:15.309 --> 00:35:17.110
of just giving up and not really working so this
882
00:35:17.130 --> 00:35:19.230
was our Balls to the wall, throwing money.
883
00:35:19.110 --> 00:35:21.590
At the problem. Final Hail Mary pass. And it worked.
884
00:35:22.650 --> 00:35:26.800
So when we're recording this in five days' time, it's
885
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:27.840
20 weeks, so we're going to find out if it's
886
00:35:27.860 --> 00:35:31.280
a boy or a girl. And even then, it doesn't
887
00:35:31.300 --> 00:35:34.139
feel real because we've been... Yeah, of course.
888
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:37.760
It's so stressful. Yeah, it's weird. Because we're so versatile.
889
00:35:37.780 --> 00:35:39.920
Do you want to cry? No, maybe. I'd be great
890
00:35:39.940 --> 00:35:41.179
for the clip.
891
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:43.380
We'll do all the deaf stuff with you crying.
892
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.289
I talked to all my friends about it because... Hayley,
893
00:35:46.309 --> 00:35:47.670
my wife, was a bit more private about it, but
894
00:35:47.690 --> 00:35:52.309
that's her choice. Whereas now, because it's... And what I've
895
00:35:52.329 --> 00:35:54.219
realised is the more I've spoke to my mates about it,
896
00:35:55.050 --> 00:35:57.969
the more they're saying... Because some of them were like, oh,
897
00:35:57.989 --> 00:35:59.659
we did that. Or some of them were like, we
898
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:01.760
did a couple of miscarriages and stuff like that. But
899
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:03.019
no one was wanting to bring it up.
900
00:36:03.019 --> 00:36:10.059
Has it made this pregnancy feel more perilous? Yeah. Do
901
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:10.780
you know what? It just.
902
00:36:11.510 --> 00:36:13.880
we just don't think about it that much because it
903
00:36:13.889 --> 00:36:15.699
still doesn't feel that real.
904
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:17.739
Like we were away for the last couple of nights
905
00:36:17.820 --> 00:36:18.340
in Rome.
906
00:36:18.539 --> 00:36:21.199
So we did, so Alex, my wee boy, Hayley's mum
907
00:36:21.219 --> 00:36:21.940
took him for a couple of nights.
908
00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:23.599
We did like just the two of us away. We
909
00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:24.969
tried to do that once a year because otherwise you
910
00:36:24.989 --> 00:36:25.909
lose your fucking mind.
911
00:36:26.550 --> 00:36:29.010
So we're in Rome and awful choice to go to
912
00:36:29.050 --> 00:36:30.630
because it's Aperol spits and wine everywhere.
913
00:36:31.059 --> 00:36:32.980
Oh god and she's pregnant yeah so it wasn't good
914
00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:35.599
but she started to show a little bit and that's.
915
00:36:35.380 --> 00:36:38.139
When it started to feel a bit more real yeah
916
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:40.909
but the rest of the time because also I was
917
00:36:40.949 --> 00:36:44.030
a young dad I was 30 and now I'll be
918
00:36:44.030 --> 00:36:45.789
30 it's mad that's a young dad these days yeah
919
00:36:45.829 --> 00:36:47.769
bloody hell I was the first one of my mates
920
00:36:47.809 --> 00:36:50.449
to have a kid and now they're all most of
921
00:36:50.469 --> 00:36:52.380
them have it somewhere kind of getting there.
922
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:53.860
And they're all from Glasgow as well yeah and you're
923
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.619
still there Just saying. Life expects it. Life expects it.
924
00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:01.960
The versatility of this podcast is unbelievable. It's because of
925
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:02.679
our food.
926
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:08.340
You've heard it. I think with two, our lives are
927
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:09.570
very nice just now.
928
00:37:10.210 --> 00:37:13.250
Alex has grown up. He's really fun. He's cool to
929
00:37:13.269 --> 00:37:14.409
hang about with. Is your wife working?
930
00:37:14.710 --> 00:37:14.869
Yes.
931
00:37:14.989 --> 00:37:17.309
What does she do? She does sports marketing.
932
00:37:17.670 --> 00:37:19.469
So how do you split up the childcare then? Because
933
00:37:19.510 --> 00:37:21.760
at the moment you're super busy. You've got these commitments.
934
00:37:21.780 --> 00:37:23.340
You're down here and then you're off touring.
935
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:23.800
Just basically.
936
00:37:24.849 --> 00:37:28.070
Ad hoc just kidding so this is a similar set
937
00:37:28.090 --> 00:37:30.630
up to me me and Lou she took time off
938
00:37:30.690 --> 00:37:32.289
work when we had the two kids and now she's
939
00:37:32.309 --> 00:37:34.130
sort of going back to work it's a bit like
940
00:37:34.170 --> 00:37:36.110
we have to have like planning meetings like on a
941
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:38.320
Sunday like right what's happening next week and then we
942
00:37:38.340 --> 00:37:41.780
have to bring in childcare or grandparents where we've moved.
943
00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:44.000
We're like that but without the planning meetings.
944
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.860
Yeah yeah yeah ours is very much a Thursday into
945
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:49.519
the Friday so Hayley's mum and dad are like a
946
00:37:49.500 --> 00:37:50.840
10 minute walk and my mum and dad are a
947
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.000
10 minute drive so there's lots of stuff like if
948
00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:54.820
I get a last minute thing you can chuck them
949
00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:57.159
can you go pick them up because you walk to
950
00:37:57.179 --> 00:37:58.579
school in like 5-10 minutes so we.
951
00:37:58.449 --> 00:38:00.760
Got all that oh that's great and then back in
952
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:03.550
the when Alex was at nursery I did a fundraiser
953
00:38:04.289 --> 00:38:06.489
for his nursery they needed a new garden so I
954
00:38:06.510 --> 00:38:09.170
did a fundraiser so sometimes I was on tour with
955
00:38:09.190 --> 00:38:11.289
John Bishop for 7 months and sometimes it would be
956
00:38:11.309 --> 00:38:13.369
like I can't get back but his nursery days are
957
00:38:13.389 --> 00:38:15.460
set we can't get my nursery I would email the
958
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:17.159
nurse and go, hey, remember that garden I paid for?
959
00:38:17.179 --> 00:38:20.809
How does this frig do look? And then that would work.
960
00:38:20.909 --> 00:38:23.349
Any chance he can stay in the garden that I've
961
00:38:23.389 --> 00:38:25.849
pressed money for for an extra hour, actually.
962
00:38:25.909 --> 00:38:28.050
So yeah, the one to two thing is going to
963
00:38:28.090 --> 00:38:30.269
be the biggest bit. So Hayley's going to take about
964
00:38:30.289 --> 00:38:32.320
a year off. When she was on her mat leave,
965
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:36.219
the last time I went and did Adelaide Fringe, so
966
00:38:36.300 --> 00:38:37.039
we all went out.
967
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:38.980
And it was great. So this time, It's more restricted.
968
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.050
Did you fly with the kid?
969
00:38:40.090 --> 00:38:42.139
Yeah, so we took him to Spain when he was
970
00:38:42.219 --> 00:38:44.170
three months old and then Australia when he was five
971
00:38:44.190 --> 00:38:44.530
months old.
972
00:38:44.909 --> 00:38:49.389
How was that? Fine. If they can't walk. Yeah. Between
973
00:38:49.409 --> 00:38:51.889
that period, they're probably sleeping in your arms.
974
00:38:52.130 --> 00:38:53.809
The worst, I think, on the flight is when they're
975
00:38:53.869 --> 00:38:55.949
toddlers and they can't sit down.
976
00:38:56.090 --> 00:38:59.750
That 18 months up till four is killer.
977
00:38:59.949 --> 00:39:01.269
So my brother lives in America, so we went out
978
00:39:01.289 --> 00:39:05.329
there when Alex was three months. and we instead of
979
00:39:05.510 --> 00:39:07.699
he's like next to Detroit Ann Arbor so we should
980
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:10.179
have gone like Glasgow Amsterdam Amsterdam but like we're not
981
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:12.440
doing a change we'll fly to Toronto stay a couple
982
00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:14.559
of days and then drive four hours because and time
983
00:39:14.619 --> 00:39:16.500
around naps and stuff like that but yeah.
984
00:39:16.420 --> 00:39:18.400
So lucky when you live near London everything goes from
985
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:20.400
London so like you know when you it's like a
986
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:24.260
night everything's a connection flight public exit international directing it
987
00:39:24.260 --> 00:39:25.579
to America don't want.
988
00:39:25.329 --> 00:39:27.900
To go because of what Donald Trump's up to actually
989
00:39:27.900 --> 00:39:28.900
yeah yeah yeah.
990
00:39:28.650 --> 00:39:37.469
Yeah when Scotland win the Euros I missed my wedding
991
00:39:37.510 --> 00:39:40.000
anniversary so in Germany I missed my wedding anniversary Hayley's
992
00:39:40.019 --> 00:39:43.860
birthday and Alex's nursery graduation to watch Scotland lose 5-1
993
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:44.300
to Germany.
994
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:46.739
Well, I've got good news. Nursery graduation's not a real thing.
995
00:39:46.780 --> 00:39:49.719
But the best thing was... You should see their garden.
996
00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:53.670
It is three acres of woodland. For the gig I
997
00:39:53.690 --> 00:39:55.530
put on, not a chance. Do you know, up until
998
00:39:55.550 --> 00:39:57.030
the day before, Frankie Boyle was meant to be doing
999
00:39:57.050 --> 00:39:57.329
that gig.
1000
00:39:57.449 --> 00:39:57.840
Oh, did he?
1001
00:39:57.869 --> 00:40:00.590
Can you imagine Frankie doing a nursery fund... No, it
1002
00:40:00.630 --> 00:40:03.110
was never signed up. Because I toured with Frankie a
1003
00:40:03.150 --> 00:40:06.690
few times, so it was very much... Someone had pulled out,
1004
00:40:06.710 --> 00:40:10.030
I can't remember, and I was backstage with him. and
1005
00:40:10.070 --> 00:40:11.150
I said oh I need to get somebody who's like
1006
00:40:11.170 --> 00:40:12.860
I'll do it if I can make stuff and I
1007
00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:14.139
was like you know what.
1008
00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:16.059
Because he's a really sweet guy but he's got quite
1009
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:18.260
a presence so if he's in a he can look
1010
00:40:18.340 --> 00:40:20.719
when he's got his like resting face he's quite intimidating
1011
00:40:20.739 --> 00:40:21.960
but he's quite sweet.
1012
00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:24.139
He's so soft isn't he he's a lovely man and
1013
00:40:24.179 --> 00:40:28.849
he's so clever and he's so just fun to be
1014
00:40:28.889 --> 00:40:31.650
around because like we would do the Edinburgh stand work
1015
00:40:31.690 --> 00:40:33.690
in progress me and him so I would he's on
1016
00:40:33.710 --> 00:40:34.769
the drive so I would pick him up and we'd
1017
00:40:34.789 --> 00:40:37.449
drive through and I would just say one day, because
1018
00:40:37.469 --> 00:40:38.929
it's an hour drive, I'd be like, tell me about
1019
00:40:39.030 --> 00:40:41.190
the roots of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and all
1020
00:40:41.210 --> 00:40:43.170
these rumours. And then an hour later, you're there and
1021
00:40:43.190 --> 00:40:46.320
he's still talking because he knows everything. Yeah, remind me
1022
00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:47.280
not to do his torso, Paul.
1023
00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:51.659
I could have an hour of that for the fucking island.
1024
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:53.460
Whereas a lot of times, a lot of times it's
1025
00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:56.199
just his shite Celtic. Because I don't have a support, right?
1026
00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:57.760
Because I have a sign language interpreter. So do you
1027
00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:00.079
hang out with your sign language interpreter? Yeah, sometimes, yeah.
1028
00:41:00.099 --> 00:41:02.539
And do you speak in sign?
1029
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:03.000
Sometimes.
1030
00:41:03.539 --> 00:41:05.639
They will alternate.
1031
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:09.449
So I remember last time I did London, we did
1032
00:41:09.489 --> 00:41:11.949
Leicester Square and they went, oh, is there a pub
1033
00:41:11.969 --> 00:41:13.110
in Soho called The Coaching Horses?
1034
00:41:13.230 --> 00:41:13.650
Yeah.
1035
00:41:13.670 --> 00:41:16.909
So we'd stand outside there and then my mate Paul
1036
00:41:16.949 --> 00:41:18.429
was like, why the fuck is your sign language interpreter
1037
00:41:18.449 --> 00:41:20.570
keep talking and moving his hands? And it's because he
1038
00:41:20.590 --> 00:41:22.989
was pissed he was still naturally signing because.
1039
00:41:22.730 --> 00:41:23.500
He was so used to it.
1040
00:41:24.610 --> 00:41:27.679
So yeah, I would hang out with them and sometimes like,
1041
00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:29.980
so I would use regional ones. So when I'm in
1042
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.960
the South West, the one Adrian who you use, I'd
1043
00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:35.960
use him. Different ones in different areas. Because signing's different.
1044
00:41:37.630 --> 00:41:41.309
of accents yeah like you'll get colloquialisms so I had
1045
00:41:41.489 --> 00:41:44.030
a yeah I had a joke that shafted me that
1046
00:41:44.110 --> 00:41:46.159
same gang in Bedford that was horrible when they sat
1047
00:41:46.219 --> 00:41:48.360
either side I had a joke that generally true when
1048
00:41:48.380 --> 00:41:49.360
I was a kid I thought my dad was a
1049
00:41:49.380 --> 00:41:53.159
spy because everyone else could hear and he couldn't so
1050
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:55.500
I was like so I used to set traps for
1051
00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:57.900
him and I would shout like help so you thought
1052
00:41:57.920 --> 00:41:59.900
he was a spy because because I was like six
1053
00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:01.360
years old so everyone else can hear so I thought
1054
00:42:01.380 --> 00:42:03.480
my dad was just pretending right right because.
1055
00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:05.239
He was a spy yeah so.
1056
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.019
He was shouting I would go behind him and shout
1057
00:42:07.059 --> 00:42:08.739
like help help help when he was washing the dishes
1058
00:42:08.780 --> 00:42:10.369
and nothing would happen and I told that joke in
1059
00:42:10.389 --> 00:42:13.730
Bedford and I lost every deaf audience member and the
1060
00:42:13.769 --> 00:42:15.369
worst thing is right see.
1061
00:42:15.289 --> 00:42:17.070
Oh because they go like that's not funny actually you
1062
00:42:17.110 --> 00:42:17.409
can see.
1063
00:42:17.329 --> 00:42:19.389
Them signing so if you're a hearing audience member you
1064
00:42:19.409 --> 00:42:20.730
whisper to the person actually I don't know what you're
1065
00:42:20.789 --> 00:42:22.449
saying if you're deaf you sign and I can see
1066
00:42:22.469 --> 00:42:24.909
deaf people saying that's horrible that's disgusting what's his problem
1067
00:42:25.469 --> 00:42:27.139
and I was like what the fuck is happening So
1068
00:42:27.179 --> 00:42:28.679
I stopped to show him what's happened. There was one
1069
00:42:28.739 --> 00:42:30.639
Scottish guy and he went, the sign you're doing for
1070
00:42:30.699 --> 00:42:32.840
spy is different here. So I was doing like a
1071
00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:35.130
round circle around my eye, which my dad had taught
1072
00:42:35.150 --> 00:42:37.230
me was spy, but that's the English sign for pervert.
1073
00:42:37.940 --> 00:42:40.519
So every deaf audience member had seen me sign, when
1074
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:42.159
I was six, I thought my dad was a pervert.
1075
00:42:42.179 --> 00:42:45.079
Oh, wow. And I used to hide behind him shouting, help, help, help.
1076
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:48.320
And I'm like, fuck, that is a different Joe. Wow.
1077
00:42:48.739 --> 00:42:51.510
So why is it so different? Just regionally, it's a
1078
00:42:51.510 --> 00:42:52.510
lot to do with kind of... I suppose you get
1079
00:42:52.530 --> 00:42:55.170
that with words, generally, don't you? Yeah, and deaf schools.
1080
00:42:55.570 --> 00:42:57.989
So pervert, that's a spy, it's like you're looking for
1081
00:42:58.010 --> 00:42:59.309
a pervert looking for a paper.
1082
00:42:59.329 --> 00:43:01.449
Yeah, we're spied in England, and we magnify in glass,
1083
00:43:01.590 --> 00:43:02.969
which is much better. Right, and then that's how I'm
1084
00:43:02.989 --> 00:43:05.119
looking for an owl. And like days of the week,
1085
00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:08.050
In England, they do two M's for Monday, two T's
1086
00:43:08.070 --> 00:43:11.199
for Tuesday, two W's Wednesday, TH for Thursday. In Scotland,
1087
00:43:11.219 --> 00:43:13.739
we just use one hand and just do Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
1088
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.980
Much easier. Let's go through your tour dates. Do you
1089
00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:18.780
know I'm off my heart, right?
1090
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:19.239
Nope.
1091
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:21.119
I know I start in Inverness and then I go
1092
00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:23.760
to Skye, which I've never been to. Do you do
1093
00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:26.630
loads in Scotland? Yes and no.
1094
00:43:26.829 --> 00:43:28.909
So more this time. A couple of tours ago, I
1095
00:43:28.929 --> 00:43:30.849
did tons and tons and tons, all this stuff. These
1096
00:43:30.889 --> 00:43:33.670
are all kind of bigger ones. So it's called CODA. CODA,
1097
00:43:33.710 --> 00:43:34.550
Child of Death Adults.
1098
00:43:35.329 --> 00:43:39.710
Oh, that's cool. That's your government name. Yeah, pretty much.
1099
00:43:39.730 --> 00:43:40.010
Yeah, yeah.
1100
00:43:40.469 --> 00:43:42.449
But it was also the film that I hated Coda
1101
00:43:42.469 --> 00:43:45.260
which won the best picture at the Oscars I hated
1102
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:46.320
the film so I'll talk about that in the show
1103
00:43:46.659 --> 00:43:48.659
is it about that? no that's a part of it
1104
00:43:48.679 --> 00:43:50.280
but it's all about no no no is the film
1105
00:43:50.300 --> 00:43:52.679
about yeah yeah the film's about a girl who's played
1106
00:43:52.699 --> 00:43:56.460
by Alan Jones's daughter what? yep fuck off her family
1107
00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:58.460
her mum dad and her brother are deaf and she
1108
00:43:58.820 --> 00:44:00.739
it's a thing you'll notice this now I've said this
1109
00:44:01.260 --> 00:44:04.449
see anytime you watch CSI or NCIS those kind of
1110
00:44:04.469 --> 00:44:06.840
things Anytime there's a hearing person in it and their
1111
00:44:06.860 --> 00:44:08.739
parents are deaf, they always want to be a musician.
1112
00:44:09.260 --> 00:44:11.010
It always happens because it's like, oh, the thing my
1113
00:44:11.070 --> 00:44:13.750
parents can't hear, that's what I want to do. So
1114
00:44:14.090 --> 00:44:15.510
she wants to be a singer in this, and there's
1115
00:44:15.550 --> 00:44:17.250
a scene in it where she starts singing and the
1116
00:44:17.289 --> 00:44:17.889
dad comes.
1117
00:44:17.809 --> 00:44:22.570
Over and feels her vocal cords. It's all... Oh, fucking pervert.
1118
00:44:22.650 --> 00:44:25.980
Fucking one of them, mate. Get your fucking hands off
1119
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:27.159
of it, I'll sing.
1120
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:29.619
Accept it, you're not involved in this because you can't hear,
1121
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:31.000
all right? I'm going to be doing this, you crack
1122
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:35.360
on it, bingo. LAUGHTER Just accept what's going on.
1123
00:44:36.059 --> 00:44:41.340
All right. Ibanez, Portree. That's Sky. Yep, that's Sky. Stockton,
1124
00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:45.250
Barnard Castle. Oh, yes. Don't do any Dominic Cummings jokes.
1125
00:44:45.289 --> 00:44:49.690
That went down very badly. I can imagine. Newcastle, Dundee, Aberdeen,
1126
00:44:49.730 --> 00:44:52.360
St Andrews. He can imagine because he's a professional. We
1127
00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:52.909
couldn't imagine.
1128
00:44:53.010 --> 00:45:00.659
Liverpool, Coventry, Salford, Chester, Cambridge Junction, Birmingham Glee, Maidenhead, Southend, Chelmsford, Luton, Guildford, Winchester,
1129
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:02.460
Chipping Norton, Glasgow, Norwich.
1130
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:03.659
Oh, that's going to be a come down, isn't it,
1131
00:45:03.659 --> 00:45:06.539
going to Norwich after the Armadillo? Yep. Oh, Norwich is
1132
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:09.599
a good one, though. It's no Armadillo, mate. There was
1133
00:45:09.619 --> 00:45:15.000
a couple we had to rearrange. So after that, there's Norwich, something, something, Maidstone, Melrose.
1134
00:45:15.139 --> 00:45:21.139
There's three Soho theatres. There's a Leeds. Yeah, there's still ones. Belfast, Dublin, Chorley, Leeds, Maidstone, Melrose.
1135
00:45:21.179 --> 00:45:25.349
Nothing in the South West. What's your problem? So, I've
1136
00:45:25.369 --> 00:45:27.449
done Bristol the last couple of times. That's not in
1137
00:45:27.469 --> 00:45:29.730
the South West. Does that not count? Do you know,
1138
00:45:30.489 --> 00:45:32.320
that's the most requested one I get all the time.
1139
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:34.099
It doesn't seem like you listen to the people.
1140
00:45:34.139 --> 00:45:36.719
It's fucking miles away. I don't book my own tour.
1141
00:45:37.059 --> 00:45:38.400
I know, I know.
1142
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:40.420
But yeah, it's always there because I did... When I
1143
00:45:40.420 --> 00:45:42.280
was supporting Jordan, I think we had three nights in Plymouth.
1144
00:45:42.699 --> 00:45:45.559
Quite possibly. That's far enough down, isn't it?
1145
00:45:45.579 --> 00:45:47.059
You've got to meet in the middle. You fucked off
1146
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:48.929
to the bottom bit. Have you done all your Scottish
1147
00:45:48.969 --> 00:45:51.889
dates in this tour? Yeah, I didn't do that many, actually.
1148
00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:54.489
I've got Glasgow to come, and then I did Aberdeen
1149
00:45:54.750 --> 00:45:56.010
and Edinburgh.
1150
00:45:56.250 --> 00:45:58.250
So that's all I did. I've done Inverness on the
1151
00:45:58.289 --> 00:46:03.079
last tour. I'm doing Inverness this tour. They all argue
1152
00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:06.280
about bridges. You'll do His Majesty's maybe in the theatre?
1153
00:46:06.820 --> 00:46:09.630
For the arena Aberdeen you do the music hall oh
1154
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:12.570
the music hall yeah I once when I was supporting
1155
00:46:12.590 --> 00:46:15.869
John there I watched the old firm on a screen
1156
00:46:15.889 --> 00:46:17.010
at the front while.
1157
00:46:16.789 --> 00:46:18.530
I was doing my gig while you were on stage
1158
00:46:18.550 --> 00:46:20.050
just down there yeah in the thing in the timer
1159
00:46:20.070 --> 00:46:21.849
did anything was there a goal or anything no it
1160
00:46:21.889 --> 00:46:24.719
was no and then John went on and then there
1161
00:46:24.739 --> 00:46:26.480
was deaf people signing to him so he called me
1162
00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:28.500
back out but I'd already got changed so I was
1163
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:30.340
wearing like joggies and I came on watching the football
1164
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:31.489
and I looked Like a slob.
1165
00:46:31.860 --> 00:46:33.650
I just remember thinking that stuff. And then I change.
1166
00:46:33.929 --> 00:46:36.030
How quickly do you get changed when you come off stage?
1167
00:46:36.190 --> 00:46:38.710
Fucking hell. Do you not? No.
1168
00:46:38.730 --> 00:46:42.769
I always think if I get... It's a mental question, but... Yeah,
1169
00:46:43.050 --> 00:46:44.570
I take it off and put on clean clothes.
1170
00:46:44.590 --> 00:46:48.949
Straight away? Well, maybe it was like... Normally you're leaving. Yeah.
1171
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:51.340
Yeah, so yeah, I'd say within five minutes of getting
1172
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:52.780
back to the dressing room, I'll take off all my
1173
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:54.280
dirty clothes and put clean clothes on.
1174
00:46:54.300 --> 00:46:57.219
How dirty are your clothes? You are just a grubby bastard. No,
1175
00:46:57.239 --> 00:46:59.420
I'm not. I'm just in an hour and a half.
1176
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:02.079
Right, after a run, right, if he's gone for a run,
1177
00:47:02.099 --> 00:47:03.780
he wakes up in the morning as a shower goes
1178
00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:05.199
out for the day, then he'll have a run in
1179
00:47:05.219 --> 00:47:07.260
the afternoon, come home, take off his.
1180
00:47:07.219 --> 00:47:09.780
Clothes and just go to bed. No. Not naked. No,
1181
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:12.900
put your pants on and go to bed. That's wild. Yeah,
1182
00:47:12.980 --> 00:47:16.250
I am wild. Deal with it. That is mental. I
1183
00:47:16.349 --> 00:47:18.909
am wild. That's grubby. I am wild. So when do
1184
00:47:18.929 --> 00:47:21.809
you take your clothes off after a gig? So... Do
1185
00:47:22.550 --> 00:47:26.519
you drive home in your clothes? Say yes. Yes. No,
1186
00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:29.400
not the T-shirt. Not the T-shirt. But the dirty, sweaty pants. Yeah.
1187
00:47:30.340 --> 00:47:32.579
What are you doing on stage? Under a duvet.
1188
00:47:32.940 --> 00:47:36.199
I'm not changing pants every day, but you change your pants.
1189
00:47:36.219 --> 00:47:38.820
You change your pants. You're the weird guy. Mate. What's
1190
00:47:38.860 --> 00:47:41.789
happening to you downstairs during a gig? I'm selling a
1191
00:47:41.789 --> 00:47:45.010
lot of tickets and treating myself to pants. I know
1192
00:47:45.050 --> 00:47:47.889
you're selling... So what does your dick do for an
1193
00:47:47.909 --> 00:47:49.389
hour and a half that means you need a new pants? No,
1194
00:47:49.389 --> 00:47:50.230
I get a sweaty arse.
1195
00:47:50.409 --> 00:47:52.010
I'm giving it some up there. I'm not just sat
1196
00:47:52.050 --> 00:47:54.309
there like a fucking flaccid dick wanting to be tickled.
1197
00:47:54.329 --> 00:48:00.980
No, this is going in. Keep that in. Keep that in.
1198
00:48:01.340 --> 00:48:02.480
Like a flaccid dick.
1199
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:05.340
No, look, I will change. I'll put a fresh pair
1200
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:06.550
of pants on when I come off stage.
1201
00:48:06.590 --> 00:48:10.969
That's weird. I'm sorry. I think that's odd. That's odd. No, no, no.
1202
00:48:11.050 --> 00:48:14.150
Hear me out. You've got to tell me. Hear me out.
1203
00:48:14.590 --> 00:48:17.030
If I'm just going to the hotel and I'm staying
1204
00:48:17.090 --> 00:48:19.530
up there, I'd maybe just wear the clothes straight back
1205
00:48:19.550 --> 00:48:20.889
to the hotel and get changed in the room if
1206
00:48:20.929 --> 00:48:21.679
I'm going off quickly.
1207
00:48:22.500 --> 00:48:24.579
If I am going on a three-hour drive, I will
1208
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:26.019
put a fresh pair of pants on. You've got to
1209
00:48:26.039 --> 00:48:27.559
change your pants. You've got to change your pants. What's
1210
00:48:27.579 --> 00:48:29.480
a weird thing to do? I don't think that's weird.
1211
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:33.059
I think that's... We'll ask every comedian we interview if
1212
00:48:33.219 --> 00:48:34.760
they change their pants after the gig.
1213
00:48:34.780 --> 00:48:36.550
For a three-hour drive home, you're going to wear the
1214
00:48:36.590 --> 00:48:38.090
same pants you've had on all day and during the
1215
00:48:38.130 --> 00:48:39.349
gig when you can have a nice little fresh.
1216
00:48:39.389 --> 00:48:40.789
Why aren't you changing your pants for the gig? But
1217
00:48:40.809 --> 00:48:41.829
you've still got the sweaty arse.
1218
00:48:42.230 --> 00:48:42.530
What's that?
1219
00:48:42.809 --> 00:48:45.150
Your arse is still sweaty. I'll give you a wipe
1220
00:48:45.170 --> 00:48:46.860
with a bit of tissue in the toilet. You're wiping
1221
00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.579
your arse with a... One ply. How sweaty is your arse?
1222
00:48:49.659 --> 00:48:52.260
When you're giving it some up there, mate. It's hot
1223
00:48:52.300 --> 00:48:54.619
in my rooms. I don't think it is that you're...
1224
00:48:56.760 --> 00:48:57.960
all your clothes.
1225
00:48:57.739 --> 00:48:59.679
No don't try and turn it back on me mr
1226
00:49:00.260 --> 00:49:01.539
mr skid marks.
1227
00:49:02.469 --> 00:49:04.289
Well i'm quite frankly not mr skid marks i'll change
1228
00:49:04.309 --> 00:49:06.929
it oh but i'll what if i've got clean like
1229
00:49:06.949 --> 00:49:08.690
so i'll have my clothes have been worn during the
1230
00:49:08.710 --> 00:49:11.769
day get changed into my tour clothes and i'll probably
1231
00:49:11.789 --> 00:49:13.610
wear the same pants then when i get off stage
1232
00:49:13.710 --> 00:49:14.949
i'll put a fresh pair of pants on and the
1233
00:49:14.969 --> 00:49:17.000
clothes the other ones just go in an incinerator. They
1234
00:49:17.019 --> 00:49:19.059
just go, they go in my bag, my dirty washing
1235
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:21.369
part of my bag. And then we drive home.
1236
00:49:21.969 --> 00:49:24.440
Right, that is a weird... So watch... That is weird.
1237
00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:26.179
I tell you what, take a spare pair of pants
1238
00:49:26.219 --> 00:49:29.420
off your gi. I'm going to try it. Slip them
1239
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:31.900
on and tell me you don't feel renewed. I don't
1240
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:34.059
want to feel renewed. I know you don't. You're dirty.
1241
00:49:34.099 --> 00:49:37.769
Why not? Because it's 10pm. Can I read something someone
1242
00:49:37.809 --> 00:49:38.769
messaged me on Instagram?
1243
00:49:38.789 --> 00:49:41.469
Yeah, if you want to defend yourself because you're feeling
1244
00:49:41.929 --> 00:49:44.030
raw because of your weird pant thing.
1245
00:49:44.309 --> 00:49:46.050
I put a video up of going through what's in
1246
00:49:46.070 --> 00:49:47.630
my tour bag, yeah? And it's got lots of pants
1247
00:49:47.670 --> 00:49:48.139
in there for.
1248
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:54.760
for skid marks no someone said this is someone messaged
1249
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.730
I really enjoy how clean you are yeah fine Josh
1250
00:49:58.769 --> 00:50:01.349
doesn't shower at the end of a sweaty day wears
1251
00:50:01.389 --> 00:50:04.030
a smelly watch in bed and has the audacity to
1252
00:50:04.070 --> 00:50:04.949
say shaving your back.
1253
00:50:04.869 --> 00:50:07.380
Is gross it's not by the way okay I have
1254
00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:08.159
to shave my back.
1255
00:50:08.019 --> 00:50:10.989
Right yeah he doesn't shave his back he goes into
1256
00:50:11.010 --> 00:50:12.650
the garden and gets his wife to shave his.
1257
00:50:12.590 --> 00:50:14.909
Back in the garden yeah in the garden yes because
1258
00:50:14.989 --> 00:50:17.750
I haven't got three elbows no I can't get to
1259
00:50:17.829 --> 00:50:20.030
it how big is the garden well.
1260
00:50:19.849 --> 00:50:22.329
It's fucking huge he's smashing it round the world but
1261
00:50:22.349 --> 00:50:24.969
I'm seeing how close are neighbours come on no neighbours
1262
00:50:25.010 --> 00:50:26.340
can't see have you seen the size of rooms he's
1263
00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:27.420
playing he's got a huge garden.
1264
00:50:27.340 --> 00:50:29.280
I'm in the countryside I'm tucked round the corner no
1265
00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:32.059
one can see okay and why do you feel like
1266
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:32.699
this right.
1267
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:35.119
Josh no no no let's stay on.
1268
00:50:35.059 --> 00:50:37.579
Josh wears his watch and he's got like a dress
1269
00:50:37.619 --> 00:50:39.949
watch like a smart watch yeah to bed at night
1270
00:50:40.090 --> 00:50:42.269
has it on all day and night I don't think
1271
00:50:42.289 --> 00:50:45.539
that's a bad thing oh dear oh dear you wear
1272
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:47.960
your watch to bed do you I've started I've only
1273
00:50:47.980 --> 00:50:49.719
recently got a smart watch so you wear a smart
1274
00:50:49.739 --> 00:50:51.900
watch yeah but that watch no but Rob and then
1275
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:52.460
he takes it off.
1276
00:50:52.380 --> 00:50:53.579
To go running he doesn't think it's that weird why
1277
00:50:53.619 --> 00:50:54.840
do you take it off to go running though thank
1278
00:50:54.860 --> 00:50:57.420
you we're back in we're back in yeah yeah.
1279
00:50:57.039 --> 00:51:00.039
You've got to come back in really off we go
1280
00:51:00.059 --> 00:51:01.820
I think you need to go all or nothing no
1281
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:03.250
because this watch is.
1282
00:51:03.219 --> 00:51:06.389
Worth too much money to go running in I don't
1283
00:51:06.409 --> 00:51:08.329
want to I don't want to get the strap sweaty
1284
00:51:08.369 --> 00:51:10.900
what But you sweat, yeah, you sweat.
1285
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:11.179
I don't.
1286
00:51:11.380 --> 00:51:13.440
Do you wear it on stage? Yeah, because I need
1287
00:51:13.460 --> 00:51:15.099
to check the time. But you're not sweaty on stage?
1288
00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:15.420
No.
1289
00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:18.559
Because I'm cool as a cucumber, because I'm in control.
1290
00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:22.380
I'm not panicking. All the listeners will agree with that.
1291
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.469
He's cool. Josh Minicombe, first words that comes to mind,
1292
00:51:25.769 --> 00:51:26.570
cool as a cucumber.
1293
00:51:26.690 --> 00:51:30.349
Once I'm on stage, where I feel like me, I'm
1294
00:51:30.369 --> 00:51:33.869
as cool as a cucumber.
1295
00:51:34.090 --> 00:51:36.710
When do you feel like you? Never when I'm on stage.
1296
00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:43.280
Quite happily never go on stage again. Now he's being real.
1297
00:51:43.659 --> 00:51:47.010
I'll be honest, I enjoy this more. Do you actually?
1298
00:51:50.070 --> 00:51:53.230
I certainly don't need it as much as Robb. Oh,
1299
00:51:53.250 --> 00:51:59.280
back to me then. This has been the weirdest 10 minutes.
1300
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:01.320
Us both going to rage and trying to get him
1301
00:52:01.340 --> 00:52:03.460
to tell the other one they're weird. It does feel
1302
00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:05.119
like that. Because I remember we conked you at the
1303
00:52:05.139 --> 00:52:06.289
seat as well. I was just talking to you.
1304
00:52:06.300 --> 00:52:09.010
But we've been, they completely threwed us and turned the table.
1305
00:52:09.789 --> 00:52:10.909
He's interviewing us.
1306
00:52:11.010 --> 00:52:12.789
How did we get on this? Oh, because of your pants.
1307
00:52:12.809 --> 00:52:14.769
We're going to rename it Podcasting Hell. Oh, no, I
1308
00:52:14.769 --> 00:52:16.550
wish I had known. Do you know what?
1309
00:52:16.570 --> 00:52:19.210
When I asked how quickly you get changed after coming
1310
00:52:19.250 --> 00:52:21.679
off stage, you thought that's a bad question.
1311
00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:24.920
Little did I know. Great question. So how quickly do
1312
00:52:24.940 --> 00:52:25.840
you get changed off stage?
1313
00:52:25.900 --> 00:52:28.940
I would say within five minutes, I'll be changed.
1314
00:52:28.980 --> 00:52:31.239
What's your stage wear? Very.
1315
00:52:31.260 --> 00:52:32.900
So when I was doing... When I was signing it
1316
00:52:32.940 --> 00:52:35.269
all myself, I had to wear black because if you
1317
00:52:35.289 --> 00:52:37.840
wear like... Pattern drain flat It's hard to see the
1318
00:52:38.219 --> 00:52:41.000
hands So it's all black So it was always like
1319
00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:43.639
A black Levi's t-shirt And then Now it just kind
1320
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:46.489
of varies As I go T-shirt and shirt probably Just
1321
00:52:46.590 --> 00:52:48.469
M & S Yeah So I have I get a
1322
00:52:48.469 --> 00:52:50.369
lot of free M & S And I wear a
1323
00:52:50.389 --> 00:52:50.670
lot of that.
1324
00:52:50.690 --> 00:52:54.010
I have three jackets that are all exactly the same
1325
00:52:54.309 --> 00:52:55.690
and about six white t-shirts that are the same.
1326
00:52:55.710 --> 00:52:57.750
You're wearing a jacket? No wonder you're hot. And two
1327
00:52:57.809 --> 00:53:00.829
pairs of, three pairs of trousers are all exactly the same.
1328
00:53:00.849 --> 00:53:03.130
You got lucky pants? No lucky pants, just clean ones. No,
1329
00:53:03.139 --> 00:53:05.300
they're not lucky. He takes them off after every show.
1330
00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:06.920
I don't know if he's got the same ones. He
1331
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:09.219
hasn't got time to launder them before the next gig.
1332
00:53:09.239 --> 00:53:11.199
They're all exactly the same so that I can, I
1333
00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:12.400
take them with me and I wear one and then
1334
00:53:12.420 --> 00:53:12.840
I get.
1335
00:53:12.699 --> 00:53:14.050
It laundered while I wear the other one.
1336
00:53:14.059 --> 00:53:17.360
You did three gigs in a day in Bromley the
1337
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:17.820
other day.
1338
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:20.760
Yes. Did you go through three pairs of pants? I
1339
00:53:20.780 --> 00:53:23.420
went through three pairs of pants and I also... That
1340
00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:26.280
is weird. That is insane. But I wore the same.
1341
00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:28.260
I went three pairs of pants, three T-shirts and wore
1342
00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:29.199
the same jacket and trousers.
1343
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:34.050
That's so weird. I feel fresh and renewed. What's going
1344
00:53:34.110 --> 00:53:37.070
on in your underwear? I'm moving about and I'm sweating
1345
00:53:37.090 --> 00:53:39.429
and getting hot. No showers in between. What's that shout
1346
00:53:39.449 --> 00:53:45.050
at the end? Arseholes smell. Yes. Let's agree. Are we
1347
00:53:45.070 --> 00:53:46.170
agreeing with that? Arseholes smell.
1348
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:52.019
Smell versatile arseholes stink yeah Michael's getting so.
1349
00:53:51.969 --> 00:53:53.510
Annoyed that we've done over an hour by the way
1350
00:53:53.530 --> 00:53:55.730
we've done over an hour I can see how annoyed
1351
00:53:55.769 --> 00:53:56.269
Michael is.
1352
00:53:56.190 --> 00:53:57.590
Through that little gap what about I'm onto something here
1353
00:53:57.610 --> 00:54:01.210
let's not cut it arseholes stink and it seeps into
1354
00:54:01.230 --> 00:54:02.409
your pants.
1355
00:54:02.210 --> 00:54:06.500
Sorry I'm onto something here arseholes stink that's your big takeaway.
1356
00:54:06.119 --> 00:54:09.760
Yeah so if I'm gonna I wanna also let's smell
1357
00:54:09.860 --> 00:54:12.320
each other's arseholes you'll get a rash of smelly arse
1358
00:54:12.460 --> 00:54:14.460
you'll get a skin infection sat there with your sweaty
1359
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:15.039
little arse.
1360
00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:17.260
Well why haven't I got a skin infection I don't
1361
00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:19.960
know what's going on with you, mentally and bodily.
1362
00:54:20.019 --> 00:54:20.179
What?
1363
00:54:20.570 --> 00:54:23.369
Because I don't change my pants after a gig?
1364
00:54:23.630 --> 00:54:24.170
No, I'm not.
1365
00:54:24.489 --> 00:54:26.789
I think I get that people think that's too much.
1366
00:54:26.809 --> 00:54:28.690
I like doing it because it makes me feel clean
1367
00:54:28.769 --> 00:54:31.590
and fresh and new. Going to sleep after going for
1368
00:54:31.610 --> 00:54:34.349
a run is fucking serial killer mentality.
1369
00:54:34.849 --> 00:54:38.289
Ray, it's been great to have you on. I know
1370
00:54:38.309 --> 00:54:41.469
you get asked when you're on the ropes. Thank you
1371
00:54:41.489 --> 00:54:44.690
very much. Good luck on the tour. Oh, let's do
1372
00:54:44.710 --> 00:54:46.190
the final question. Do we need to? Michael, have you
1373
00:54:46.949 --> 00:54:51.369
got a final? I think that's a funny end. Final question. Right. Yes.
1374
00:54:51.630 --> 00:54:54.460
What is the one thing... Are you married or partner? Married.
1375
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:54.920
Married.
1376
00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:58.769
Have you got kids? I can't remember. It's all right.
1377
00:54:58.789 --> 00:54:59.409
I don't know what is it, okay?
1378
00:54:59.429 --> 00:55:00.969
We might stick the finger up the arse, smell it now,
1379
00:55:01.260 --> 00:55:02.300
and tell me you don't want a new pair of
1380
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:03.000
pants at the end of this.
1381
00:55:03.300 --> 00:55:06.260
Why don't we bring Michael out, blindfold him, three of
1382
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:10.340
us pull our trousers down, he's got to do a blind, basically.
1383
00:55:09.940 --> 00:55:12.110
A blind smell test. Sniff all our arses and tell
1384
00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:14.130
us which one smells better. But we've both got long
1385
00:55:14.190 --> 00:55:16.389
train journeys. Yeah, and checked the bungling pressure. He's come
1386
00:55:16.429 --> 00:55:19.650
from Glasgow. Yeah. Well, you need a new pair of pants.
1387
00:55:19.690 --> 00:55:21.550
I do. I jump into the hotel after this and
1388
00:55:21.570 --> 00:55:22.289
we'll show up. We will.
1389
00:55:22.690 --> 00:55:25.880
Also, I'm doing more on stage than you anyway. You're
1390
00:55:25.900 --> 00:55:27.880
only doing one half. I don't have a support.
1391
00:55:27.900 --> 00:55:29.320
I do two halves. Yeah, but you're not doing the
1392
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:32.400
full time. Do you not have a support ever? No.
1393
00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:35.039
I do the same length as you, but with plus support.
1394
00:55:35.699 --> 00:55:38.769
No wonder you're stressed. Not stressed. You're creeping into ten o'clock.
1395
00:55:38.949 --> 00:55:40.869
How long do you do? You do 90 minutes? Yeah.
1396
00:55:40.989 --> 00:55:42.070
You're doing two full days. And the support?
1397
00:55:42.570 --> 00:55:42.710
Yeah.
1398
00:55:42.730 --> 00:55:45.570
That's too long a show. What's that? Put it on
1399
00:55:45.590 --> 00:55:48.130
the ropes to change the rules. I would agree with that. Yeah,
1400
00:55:48.210 --> 00:55:49.840
I'm not doing 90 minutes. There's no way he's doing
1401
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:53.090
90 minutes. When you were telling me I was 9
1402
00:55:53.090 --> 00:55:54.639
and 12, I was like, no, he's doing 9 and 12.
1403
00:55:54.630 --> 00:55:56.369
I'm not doing 9 and 12. I'm doing 8 and 12. Right,
1404
00:55:56.389 --> 00:55:57.269
your wife. Yes.
1405
00:55:57.409 --> 00:56:00.260
Can't wait till I go out of there.
1406
00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:02.780
By the way, bad news. I don't know. You're not
1407
00:56:02.820 --> 00:56:07.719
selling any extra tour tickets off this. Make it a pint, deal.
1408
00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:08.920
Your wife. Yes.
1409
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:10.880
What's the one thing she does as a parent that
1410
00:56:10.900 --> 00:56:12.929
makes you go, oh my God, she's amazing, I'm so lucky?
1411
00:56:12.949 --> 00:56:15.289
And what's the one thing she does that frustrates you slightly?
1412
00:56:15.329 --> 00:56:17.980
And if she heard this episode... she might go he's
1413
00:56:18.019 --> 00:56:19.780
got a point there you.
1414
00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:22.650
Don't want to bring it up to her she she's
1415
00:56:22.670 --> 00:56:25.630
just class she's really good at everything and also like
1416
00:56:25.769 --> 00:56:28.250
if I go listen I've been offered this I need
1417
00:56:28.269 --> 00:56:30.860
to be away like we got home from Rome last
1418
00:56:30.900 --> 00:56:33.880
night like six o'clock went and picked Alex up spent
1419
00:56:33.900 --> 00:56:36.570
him She's working today. She's got to take him to football.
1420
00:56:36.610 --> 00:56:38.230
I was like, oh, I might need to go to London,
1421
00:56:38.250 --> 00:56:38.750
do this, do this.
1422
00:56:38.769 --> 00:56:40.170
She's like, yeah, that's cool. It's just great.
1423
00:56:40.369 --> 00:56:40.550
Yeah.
1424
00:56:40.730 --> 00:56:42.050
She's relaxed. She's so sound.
1425
00:56:43.380 --> 00:56:47.079
What annoys me? Parenting-wise, not much. She moans at me
1426
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:50.780
a lot for, like, leaving, like, jumpers downstairs. I'm bad
1427
00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:51.119
for that.
1428
00:56:51.460 --> 00:56:52.179
Yeah.
1429
00:56:52.579 --> 00:56:54.500
I always overestimate that. I think I'm cold, and by
1430
00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:55.840
the time I've put it on, I'll get downstairs and
1431
00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:56.179
I'm all good.
1432
00:56:56.579 --> 00:56:58.300
Before you know it, Rob's left some pants on the
1433
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.050
sofa because he's got chances to another pair.
1434
00:57:00.409 --> 00:57:02.050
So I walk out to school, come back, and it's,
1435
00:57:02.329 --> 00:57:03.670
I've put like a t-shirt or jumper and a jacket
1436
00:57:03.730 --> 00:57:04.449
on so I'm too hot and I'll.
1437
00:57:04.389 --> 00:57:08.050
Leave the jumper there. But that'll make its way upstairs eventually.
1438
00:57:08.070 --> 00:57:09.289
Sometimes with me it could be a few days.
1439
00:57:10.050 --> 00:57:12.469
She'll get pissed off at that. Yeah, Lou's wading through
1440
00:57:12.510 --> 00:57:13.340
pants in my arm.
1441
00:57:13.909 --> 00:57:15.239
I'm laying on the kitchen side. Why is there a
1442
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.500
pair of pants in the fridge? It makes me feel
1443
00:57:17.579 --> 00:57:19.699
good to put on a cold pair. Pants in the
1444
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:21.760
fridge is a shout, by the way. He'd love that.
1445
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:25.260
You get a fridge in every regional theatre.
1446
00:57:25.510 --> 00:57:27.230
Put my clean pants in the fridge.
1447
00:57:27.269 --> 00:57:29.230
Could I have an ice bucket for my pants, please?
1448
00:57:30.630 --> 00:57:33.170
Straight to bed after running. That's all I'm saying. You
1449
00:57:33.190 --> 00:57:35.690
could put... What you could do, Rob, you could put
1450
00:57:35.710 --> 00:57:36.630
your pants in.
1451
00:57:36.630 --> 00:57:40.550
A waterproof bag and then put them in the bucket
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00:57:40.570 --> 00:57:40.949
of ice.
1453
00:57:41.449 --> 00:57:44.110
Right. And they would be so... Just know it's fine, Rob.
1454
00:57:44.179 --> 00:57:46.400
One final question. Your wife's laying in bed. You've been
1455
00:57:46.420 --> 00:57:48.760
out for a run. You come home, take all your
1456
00:57:48.780 --> 00:57:50.800
clothes off and get to bed. Sometimes, Rob, sometimes you
1457
00:57:50.820 --> 00:57:53.099
just have to... She would say, get to bed, you
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00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:53.679
smelly bastard.
1459
00:57:53.860 --> 00:57:56.980
That's what she would say. Yeah, but you've got to remember, Rob,
1460
00:57:57.360 --> 00:57:58.639
I'm currently not in the bed.
1461
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:00.719
Oh, to be fair to Josh, he does sleep on
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00:58:00.739 --> 00:58:02.960
the floor every night. And that's not banter.
1463
00:58:03.699 --> 00:58:06.010
What? Situation with our kids.
1464
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Oh.
1465
00:58:07.429 --> 00:58:09.269
Yeah. So he sleeps on a mattress on the floor
1466
00:58:09.329 --> 00:58:11.570
next to the cats. No, not next to the cats. Oh,
1467
00:58:11.650 --> 00:58:13.610
one got in with me last night. It was so good.
1468
00:58:15.050 --> 00:58:18.130
Perhaps they could smell me. I'd had a shower, though,
1469
00:58:18.170 --> 00:58:19.949
because I went out for dinner last night. So you
1470
00:58:19.969 --> 00:58:22.809
had a shower after dinner? No, before. Okay. Just checking.
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00:58:23.050 --> 00:58:25.349
And then kept my watch on, which Ray thought was
1472
00:58:25.389 --> 00:58:27.809
completely normal, and then you moved on because you were worried.
1473
00:58:27.829 --> 00:58:30.599
It's not completely normal. Watch for sleep, I don't mind that,
1474
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:32.719
but if you're taking it off for running, there's no consistency.
1475
00:58:32.739 --> 00:58:35.679
I've got a Garmin for running. Okay. You've got a Garmin?
1476
00:58:36.099 --> 00:58:36.360
Yeah.
1477
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:39.920
You don't have big Garmin energy. No. I think your
1478
00:58:39.940 --> 00:58:40.980
wrist looks too small for it.
1479
00:58:41.260 --> 00:58:43.849
Have a look at the cover of Runner's World in
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00:58:43.889 --> 00:58:45.170
March and come back to me.
1481
00:58:46.989 --> 00:58:49.570
That is the best main drop-off ever right thank you
1482
00:58:49.590 --> 00:58:58.750
very much thanks guys.
1483
00:58:55.260 --> 00:58:58.360
Ray bradshaw ray braddy bradshaw that was good wasn't it
1484
00:58:58.619 --> 00:59:00.500
i loved it he done well to switch it back
1485
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:02.659
on us at the end yeah yeah he really got
1486
00:59:02.699 --> 00:59:04.929
us in position there we go i know what's coming.
1487
00:59:04.909 --> 00:59:07.090
Well you've moved seats because that's how we do the
1488
00:59:07.150 --> 00:59:10.309
intros and outros After a discussion about being a bit
1489
00:59:10.329 --> 00:59:12.599
dirty and that you think I'm too cleanly.
1490
00:59:13.449 --> 00:59:14.559
You've got some sort of... I've got some mud on
1491
00:59:14.579 --> 00:59:16.800
my jeans. It's human shit slash mud on your jeans.
1492
00:59:16.900 --> 00:59:18.920
It's mud. How do you know? Because I know where
1493
00:59:18.940 --> 00:59:21.420
it's come from. Where's it come from? I took my
1494
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:24.699
daughter horse riding last night. And you're wearing the same
1495
00:59:24.739 --> 00:59:26.159
dirty clothes from last night? Well, I put on a
1496
00:59:26.179 --> 00:59:28.340
pair of wellies over them. So I don't know how
1497
00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:30.260
the mud's got there. So you got it from the
1498
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:32.909
horse riding? I don't know if I could, could I?
1499
00:59:32.940 --> 00:59:33.699
It's too low.
1500
00:59:33.780 --> 00:59:35.949
It's below a welly level because I'm a welly wearer now.
1501
00:59:36.550 --> 00:59:38.639
Oh, hello. You gave me shit for being a welly wearer.
1502
00:59:39.030 --> 00:59:41.150
I love wearing a welly. It's fun, isn't it? I
1503
00:59:41.210 --> 00:59:44.190
think the feeling that you can just walk through a
1504
00:59:44.210 --> 00:59:47.869
puddle is incredible. It does make you feel powerful. It does.
1505
00:59:47.909 --> 00:59:50.429
You're like, fuck it. That puddle's there and I'm taking it.
1506
00:59:50.590 --> 00:59:52.409
Do you know what I hate about shoes is putting
1507
00:59:52.429 --> 00:59:54.010
my little finger at the back bit to get my
1508
00:59:54.050 --> 00:59:54.449
heel in.
1509
00:59:54.590 --> 00:59:54.789
Yeah.
1510
00:59:55.329 --> 00:59:57.010
Don't need to have a welly. Don't need to. Have
1511
00:59:57.030 --> 01:00:01.719
you considered a shoehorn? No, but I have thought about waders.
1512
01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:05.460
Have you? Because if you like wellies, you're going to
1513
01:00:05.500 --> 01:00:07.559
love waders. Yeah, you're going to love waders. You just
1514
01:00:07.579 --> 01:00:09.599
pull them over your shoulders. Oh, my God.
1515
01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:12.059
Slipping over the shoulder. I've always wanted to go in
1516
01:00:12.079 --> 01:00:13.920
a lake up to my waist and get something out.
1517
01:00:14.900 --> 01:00:17.059
Yeah, I bet that's nice. I bet the feeling of it.
1518
01:00:17.300 --> 01:00:19.239
But I haven't got a lake or waders, so I'm
1519
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.360
really at a crossroads. Give it time. Give it time.
1520
01:00:22.409 --> 01:00:26.269
We'll probably film that. I'll still do it on TikTok.
1521
01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:29.260
And at some point we'll freeze our pants and try
1522
01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:30.840
them on and see how that goes. Pop the pants
1523
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:32.659
in the fridge and see how we go. Yeah. Let
1524
01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:33.929
us know what you think about the pants thing.
1525
01:00:34.429 --> 01:00:37.269
I do think maybe you might think that's excessive, but
1526
01:00:37.469 --> 01:00:39.449
I like it and I feel fresh and clean.
1527
01:00:39.829 --> 01:00:41.289
Josh, I'll see you next week. See you next week.