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Best of TalkBox: Year One Highlights & Classic Moments — Looking Ahead to 2026 | Rich Fulcher's TalkBox · Rich Fulcher's TalkBox

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  Party with my bum bum. Oh hi everybody.
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  Welcome to Rich Vultures talk box 2026.
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  I have a brand new awful jumper. So what we're going to do today
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  is a year long clip show over 2025.
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  It's not going to be boring. It's not.
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  It's going to be all the fun things of 2025, so you can
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  appreciate what we've done and then look forward to the future.
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  So let's go, I say, to the future.
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  It's pretty good. Rich Vultures talk box So
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  welcome to the clip show. This is a casual conversation
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  I'm having with you, the people Kenny, do I look into the I know
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  that I'm a professional. So anyway, what I just wanted to
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  say was this was just a gleam in my grandfather's eye when it was
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  2025 January, right? I thought I would do this
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  podcast and I got Kenny to help me out.
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  Thanks, Kenny. How are you?
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  We never show him horrible disfigurement.
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  No, no. If you're lucky, we might see
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  him. But what I'm trying to say is
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  there's so many things that go into doing a podcast so that by
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  the time we did our first one in May with Dan Clark, yes,
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  comedian, actor, writer, director, Dan Clark, our first
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  guest, we didn't even have a name.
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  Yeah, I, I, I. Think I need to get used to the
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  notion that there are no segways in this podcast, right?
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  Do you want to say like there's Bob Dylan?
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  What's the first rule of? What's this podcast called?
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  It we Why did you have to do that?
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  It's called the 9/11 Memorial Podcast.
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  You don't have a name. OK, OK.
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  But based on this conversation, maybe we'll find something.
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  Yeah, it's, there's some really obvious themes coming up in this
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  note. Kenny Tambourine.
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  That's what I got is yeah. You know what I find too is you
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  write better when you're travelling.
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  Have you ever noticed that there's something I can
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  concentrate more like the the hum of the engine or the train?
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Well, they're calling that like white, white noise or yes, I
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  heard some somewhere. Yeah, I heard something like
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  they called it brown noise, which, well, that's the next the
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  podcast. Oh, welcome to Rich Vultures.
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  Brown Noise. Take it away, Dan.
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  I mean, we, we're getting more and more appropriate titles,
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  aren't we? So, yeah, more.
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  Yeah, yeah. Actually, if you call it brown
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  noise people, all the people brown noise wanting to Metallica
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  will get in touch. No, but all the people searching
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  for a noise to go to sleep to or something will stumble across
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  this very calming podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, Detroit,
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  welcome Brown noise. Oh man, I for some reason
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  thought this was going to be like the rest is politics or
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  something. Oh sorry, sorry about the EU Yes
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  and of course we decided on what name did we decide on talk box
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  Rich vultures talk box, which you can find on all your major
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  streamers. Another thing that happened
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  during. I often forget things, that's
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  it. Sometimes during the podcast, I
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  forget things. So in the second episode with
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  Lucy Montgomery, this is a case in point.
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  But this is the thing, though, that gets me because having
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  moved over here, you know, we moved during COVID.
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  Yes. That was fun.
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  Was that fun? So, yeah, it was fun.
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  Did you drive? Yeah, We drove over from across
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  the city on a, on a ship. We just kept driving on the
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  ship. Oh nice.
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  Did you hit any cars? I didn't encounter cars, but
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  what happened was when we came over, what was I going to say?
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  Oh shit, I don't know, because it was in your head and I'm not
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  in your. Head No, but what were we
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  talking about? This is basically a podcast
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  recording my eventual dementia. This is so people would go, oh,
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  in this podcast he's clearly descending.
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  Yeah, it's the early onset this is and they'll show it in Med
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  schools and stuff. That's what I'm hoping to get a
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  grant for the science. Yeah.
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  Where am I? This is the last podcast, the
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  end. Then I I do myself in me.
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  It is dementia in action. So hopefully in 2026, I'll
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  forget a lot more things. Now our third podcast, I'm not
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  going to go in order. We've done about 34 so far this
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  year since May. But what I'm trying to say is
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  we've had a lot of adventures along the way.
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  And one we had to record in another studio.
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  That's not the studio, right Kenny and it the sound wasn't
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  quite as good, but it's still fascinating to see what went on.
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  Here I am talking to Steen. Rosticopolis.
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  Rosticolis. Rosticolopolis.
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  Rascopolis. Sorry Steen, I messed your name
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  up big time. I'm an idiot.
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  Here we are talking about poop. How is the work going?
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  Is it good it? Works all right.
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  Just as you know, I've got two small children, so you're going
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  to have like. You didn't tell me you had kids,
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  Jenny. No, you have kids.
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  Yeah, kids, it's just, it's just hard, you know, you've got two
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  boys as well, Two boys, two boys, two boys.
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  It's hard to to make the decisions of, you know.
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  Life like when you have to go into town, right?
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  You want to go, let's go crazy tonight or do you go?
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  We got to be back by 10. Well, they both don't sleep, so
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  there's this expectation of we just have to get them into bed
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  and then when I do, that's when I go into the town.
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  Plus they're both under 3, right?
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  Yeah, one just turned 3 and that was like 17.
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  Months. They can still poop and stuff.
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  They yeah, I hope that continues.
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  I hope they still. No, they're going to stop at
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  five. Yeah.
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  Have five yeah, we're going to have the tears to get to the
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  others. Normal, OK, but it's just hard.
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  It's just hard. And then like you put them to
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  bed and at 7:00 you're like, I could go to bed also.
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  I know, this is so nice. I know, and I never thought I'd
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  be that pert. I'm big.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's 8:00.
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  I'm shutting my eyes now. But I went out.
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  I tried to go out there about that age where the kids were,
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  and the babysitter called us. I was taping a show, actually,
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  and they said the kids have literally wiped their crap on
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  the wall. You've got to pick them up.
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  Like she didn't even want to clean it up or anything, which I
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  understand but come on, I had to leave early.
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  So as in like, were they at your place or at that her place?
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  Like you have to come. And pick them out at her place.
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  OK. No, no, it was at our place.
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  But you have to come pick them up at your own house.
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  No, no, I said it wrong. OK, can we do this over?
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  Keep it in. Keep it in.
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  But OK, so I went there, yeah. And.
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  You went back to your house. I went back to you have to go
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  because I want to leave. Yeah, gotcha.
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  Basically babysit's come. I've never had a babysitter go.
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  I want to leave. Tapping out.
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  OK, Yeah. Well like I can understand if
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  like someone smidge shit on the walls on on their watch like
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  that. Really, Because we were arguing
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  this is it in a babysitters. Like, I wasn't saying you got to
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  clean it up and you know, but you know, just go with it.
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  I mean. So they're shit throwers.
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  No, but I think if they were like if they sold themselves in
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  their pants, like that's like a like a Julian like a thing that
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  a baby said would have to kind of cover.
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  But if if your kid like smeared shit.
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  At all. I don't think they they spelled
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  anything with it. They just, you know, with a nice
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  schmear. Nice schmear.
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  Was that schmear easy to get out?
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  Yeah, it eventually came. We painted it brown.
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  We painted it brown. Oh, poop.
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  So another thing I tend to do in some of the episodes, Kenny is
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  what? Yeah, mime.
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  He doesn't like it. I do a little bit of mime.
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  And this is a case in point when I interviewed Reece Darby from
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  Flight of the Conchords, and I did a little robot.
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  And there's some other episodes we might stick in as well, but
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  let's just take a look. I think we're definitely a way
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  off from the humanoid robots resembling us.
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  OK, definitely. But they are going to come out.
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  They're going to come out as robots.
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  There's about a dozen companies that are going to be mass
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  producing humanoid robots to help to work in factories, but
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  then to work ultimately in our houses.
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  Right now it's just like an arm coming down, yeah.
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  Now we've moved on from that, now we're a bit, I mean, I'm up
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  to speed with it all. Really.
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  Yeah. They're they're, they're pretty
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  good now. They're robotics.
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  But every year you always see something on the news where in
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  Japan, it's like the new robot. Yeah.
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  And they start looking more and more realistic.
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  Yeah, it's the movements. Yeah.
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  I mean, that's that, that was a few years ago.
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  Now those movements are gone. Now it's just it's like a human.
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  The the hardest thing is to try and get the the hands to be as
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  good as ours. Well, that's with acting as
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  well, is it? No, no, no, 'cause they're,
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  they're real robots, so it's good for us to impersonate them
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  Very easy. And I've, I've had a lot of fun
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  with that. But now I'm getting scared
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  because one of the last things that they'll nail is the.
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  I can't think of the word now, but.
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  Us. They'll nail us, yes.
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  And do you like to bake or you are you a Baker?
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  Love to. OK.
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  Haven't done it for a while, but yeah, I love to bake.
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  When's the last time I baked? Too long ago.
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  Yeah, I love to bake. Do you?
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  I like to, I'm not so much bake, but I do we we got a bread
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  maker, so I know how to do that. You pour the bits in.
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  Yeah, you pour it. Yeah, it's kind of cheating.
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  You can still get it wrong though, can't you?
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  It can be. Too.
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  Like a little brick. Sometimes when you don't put the
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  yeast in, it's like a flat brick.
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  Yeah, it's like. We still eat it.
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  I I do too. Because it's a waste.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  When you grew up, did you like waste?
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  Because you started comedy quite young when you were like 6,
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  right? Yeah, really little, really.
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  Performing. Yeah, well, my first gig, first
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  gig, I was 16 or 17 and my dad took me to the gig and I had to
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  like, argue that I was over 18 to get me in.
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  And then you. Did or your dad did?
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  My dad argued to get me in because I was.
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  Economically. No, just like in a like man he
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  was like she is off age and she is my daughter and she is booked
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  to play but in an. Artistic show that her height is
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  the yeah. And he managed to blag to get my
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  friends Fish and Paul into the gig as well 'cause they were
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  both. Anytime you can get a fish in.
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  Yeah, you know what's for Amnesty International, and he's
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  doing quite well, but he doesn't like being called fish anymore.
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  Okay, no, no what? Is he like being called?
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  Oh, he's. Like a short name.
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  Oh, OK. Which is carp?
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  What is it? Joshua.
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  Joshua. Joshua.
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  But fish was what we used to call him.
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  I don't know. Why nice name, Fish.
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  Yeah, but will he let you call you Fish?
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  No, when I saw him, I was like, hey fish, he went.
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  I'm Joshua now. I don't like that because a lot
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  of my friend or some of my friends, they change their name
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  like midstream. Sometimes it's to get into SAG,
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  you know, because you can't have two of the same name.
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  So they go, I'm Julian now, not Julie.
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  Yeah. And you know, you can't fault
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  the other person for saying Julie no.
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  Yeah, would you ever if you had to change your name?
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  Is your name the your real name? Yes, but I would call myself
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  fish if he doesn't want it. I would.
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  OK Fish. Vulture fish.
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  Hey everybody. Yeah, that would be really good.
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  Oh, you did that. Oh.
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  Yeah, welcome. That would be the that's the
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  improv way way of doing fish. Not like my hand is the fish.
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  Oh, sorry, yeah yeah, the mime is actually pretty good.
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  I should have gone to clown school anyway.
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  Maybe not, but what I do during interviews is sometimes annoying
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  to people. One time or sometimes people
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  have a go at me for having, what is it, Kenny?
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  Whiskey. I'm drinking whiskey, right?
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  So I have a little drink. I try to get the guests
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  involved. A lot of times they do OK, but
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  here's one in which they were actually surprised and taken
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  aback. So let's let's take a look.
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  The thing about it though, is, is it feel like you're on a
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  treadmill now or do you feel like it's fun and it's.
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  So fun. I love it.
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  I love it because I'm not getting in my own way.
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  I'm not getting in my own head. And generally people are there
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  because they want to see you. And is that whiskey?
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  Is that? Whiskey is it?
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  Is it actually? Let me smell it.
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  Fucking hell it is as. Well, sure.
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  You live your life. You live your best.
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  Life. No, no, I It's just something I.
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  Do yeah for daily. It's just, it's just something I
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  do every morning. When I'm out of the house.
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  I just I just wake up in a house and whiskey.
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  Have you got a problem with that?
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  No. Kenny makes you.
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  Drink. Kenny makes you drink.
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  Yeah, I'm looking at him thinking.
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  That's true. Look at him.
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  I know he's. Should we describe Kenny for the
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  listeners? Yeah, describe him.
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  Massive. He's massive.
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  He's got size 16 feet. They have a hole in the ceiling.
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  For his head, for some reason, he's wearing a sunflower hat.
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  I don't know why but. I don't know, you know.
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  He. Loves Mrs Doubtfire.
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  Oh, he does look. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, that's just what people do, right?
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  You have a little drink, you have a little sip, you have a
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  little wine, you have a little dip, Right.
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  Right. Kenny, That was not bad, right?
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  OK, good, Kenny validates me. Or you know, castigates me,
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  whichever 1 he feels like doing now.
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  Sometimes I have friends from my previous gigs or you know, from
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  my past. As one does when you get guests
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  on shows and this one is no exception.
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  Rocky Thakurar who I worked with on Wonka.
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  Here we are talking about me sneaking into an Oscar's after
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  party. I'm not bragging.
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  I tried to get into an Oscar's after party.
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  It was just one Oscar. I was with somebody and we said
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  let's go try to crash a party. Any party.
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  Well. There could have been like
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  someone's Christmas party. There's a big one at the Beverly
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  Hilton. Right.
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  Actually went there. Yeah.
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  And I think I said I was somebody like Boris Becker or
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  something because you. Because some people don't really
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  know what some people look like. Exactly.
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  I get it. So you say Boris Becker and then
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  they go I don't know. And you hope 1st, that he was
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  invited to the Oscar party and he's on the list.
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  Yeah, he's not dead. And. 2nd that he's not dead, no.
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  Then he hasn't arrived yet. So but the problem was we got in
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  right and then he. Oh, no.
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  Yeah. And then what happened?
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  They were looking. I didn't know Becca.
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  Liked the Oscars? But then were people looking for
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  you? Were they, Were there people
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  going where is the fake Becca? No, I assume not fake.
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  Backer I don't care if there's a sniper on the other building, I
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  want the fake. Backer, What did you?
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  What did when you saw him, did you, did you approach it?
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  No, we did a whole Harpo Marx thing where we were like mirror
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  each other and then I drop my hat and it bounces.
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  OK, this meant yeah. And his falls flat, right?
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  Yeah. I, I did not get into that
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  party, by the way. I didn't get one of those five
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  layer dips, which I love so much to dip the chip into the Oh my
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  God, take the tray and lick it. Oh my God, what are you doing?
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  Nothing. I take the tray outside and I
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  just stick my face in it and rub it all.
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  Hold it, secure it. So a lot of times people say,
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  Rich, why don't you get more bouche people on?
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  I have had them on. If you look back in our
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  archives, I've had Danny Wallace, who was the producer of
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  our radio show, Dave Brown, none other than Ballo and Mike
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  Fielding. So we've had quite a few bouche.
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  We've discussed it quite a lot throughout the show, as is
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  evidence. By these clips, OK, this is
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  great. This is 991999.
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  And then something happened in the year 2000 which brought us
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  together. Yes, the Mighty Boosh radio
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  show. Brought it around.
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  Brought it around. You did.
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  So, well, what did Trump say? It's like you're well.
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  Yeah. When you bring the wave, the
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  weave, the weave, the weave, damn it.
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  Good God, you weave. I've never seen anyone weave
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  like the the weave. Yeah, so, so.
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  Well, the guy that I was talking about, the editor, he was so key
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  in that happening. Because Radio 4, you'll be
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  pleased to know when we pitched the Bush as a radio show, I
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  think their exact words were the mighty Bush are 1,000,000 miles
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  away from what we want here on Radio 4.
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  That was the phrase. It's there wasn't a good phrase
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  to hear in a meeting. Yeah, it's.
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  Were you with the boys in the meeting?
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  No, it's just you. Yeah, No.
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  It was, it was. Yeah, it was.
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  It was John Pigeon. And had he seen the stage?
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  Oh no, Pigeon loved it, right? OK.
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  And he really wanted it. Yeah.
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  And so he worked some magic and managed to find some money.
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  Not very much money. About as much as you might take
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  to a newsagent on a Sunday morning to buy some fizzy pop
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  and some crisps, right? So that was the budget that they
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  had to work with and it was put on 1st, not on Radio 4 but on
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  local radio on BBC London and they put it on.
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  This is the mighty Bush they put it on.
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  You were back in America by the time they went out.
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  They put it on. Yes, I know.
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  At midday on a Saturday between the sport, so you had like
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  people talking about football and stuff which?
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  It's a similar, yeah, you know, and.
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  Then they take 1/2 hour break for the whimsical adventures of
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  two zookeepers, at which point there are white vans blowing up
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  with men. Furious races.
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  Just go, what the hell is it? And then back to the sport.
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  So, and it was just a way of getting it broadcast because
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  once it had been broadcast once, it could be repeated on Radio 4
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  for free, meaning they got a free show and then when it went
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  out. It took to.
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  Discover it. Yes.
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  And then they really changed. Their tune?
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  I told you, Kenny. Yeah.
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  So they changed their tune and then suddenly, you know, that
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  was. That was.
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  Were you surprised? No.
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  No. No, not what?
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  Surprised by people liking it? Yeah, I was surprised.
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  I was surprised more people didn't hate it.
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  I wasn't surprised that loads of people found it and, and and
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  loved it because it was for a whole new.
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  The problem with Radio 4 tends to be that every year it sort of
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  gets closer to dying out because it loses through nature a lot of
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  its listeners because it tends to be an oldest.
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  Nation, Yeah. Yeah, so dying unless it makes
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  new stuff. You can say dying.
• 23:02
  Yeah, they were dying. Yeah, all the people that heard
• 23:04
  the Bush and hated it and are dead.
• 23:05
  So. What?
• 23:06
  That's another victory for you. But a lot of kids are never
• 23:09
  mind. They're revisiting, Yeah.
• 23:11
  Yeah, it was just great and my kids love it.
• 23:14
  Really. Yeah, my kids are having some.
• 23:17
  Started speaking like Vince Noire, which was.
• 23:21
  My kids are having another view. They they had a wave when they
• 23:24
  were really young. Yeah, we watched.
• 23:27
  They watched the booze and then now they're really understanding
• 23:31
  all the jokes. Yeah.
• 23:33
  Well, that's good. Yeah, the wave is good.
• 23:35
  Unfortunately. Yes, yeah, there's that as well.
• 23:38
  What's a pocket cup? But it was always crazy seeing
• 23:45
  on a stand up night, everyone doing 10:15 and traditional
• 23:49
  comics standing up doing joke, joke, joke, joke.
• 23:52
  Next one joke, joke, joke, joke. You know, there was people like,
• 23:55
  you know, I think like, you know, some big comics who were
• 23:58
  like known for their one liners. And then and then Nolan Julian
• 24:02
  turned up dressed as zookeepers singing Alla little deer and
• 24:06
  doing some real Brooks. And people were just like, what?
• 24:10
  I remember. Oh fuck is this.
• 24:12
  But it was brilliant in a way. It was just so.
• 24:14
  Initially it was like, 'cause I remember the first time we did
• 24:18
  it, like when I, I was involved and I came out and did this kind
• 24:23
  of monologue like, hey, what you doing out in the woods?
• 24:27
  And I just remember these people going slowly, their jaws would
• 24:31
  open, they'd. Go am I in the?
• 24:33
  Wrong, Martha. Should we be going?
• 24:39
  But that was the most brilliant thing.
• 24:41
  I mean, some, I mean, I then did Auto Boost, right?
• 24:43
  Because then they did Arctic Booch together, just the two of
• 24:46
  them on the second Edinburgh show they did.
• 24:49
  And then the third Edinburgh show was Auto Booch, which I did
• 24:53
  with them. So it was the three of us and we
• 24:55
  did all when you're doing those warm up gigs and you're going to
• 24:58
  some of these little theatres, like remember Winchester Arts
• 25:01
  Centre and stuff like that where you're doing, you're trying to
• 25:03
  do like a 2 hour show about a a hitcher and a road trip.
• 25:08
  Yeah, you've just got 4 Nanas in the front row because they
• 25:11
  haven't advertised it and people thought it was.
• 25:14
  A different. Night and you're just getting
• 25:16
  feedback I remember 1 show there was only four people in the
• 25:18
  crowd and they were all above 17 you.
• 25:20
  Get nothing from those shows about how you're doing.
• 25:24
  Or anything. We were getting feedback mid,
• 25:27
  like one of the old women put her hand up in the middle of the
• 25:30
  show and we stopped and she's like, I don't really understand
• 25:34
  what's going on. Is that character one of those
• 25:37
  like And we had to sit and explain it to her.
• 25:40
  That's a great though. Great night.
• 25:42
  And then you. Julian just punched her in the
• 25:44
  face. What is the most haunted city in
• 25:50
  the UK? York is pretty haunted.
• 25:52
  Edinburgh. Edinburgh.
• 25:54
  We're going to definitely. Because they sealed off areas of
• 25:57
  the city. With the city, you know there's
• 25:59
  a city underneath the city. Yeah.
• 26:01
  There's you can go to some, it's called Mary, Mary King's Close.
• 26:04
  It's basically it's a city, a whole city underneath Edinburgh.
• 26:08
  How do you get permission to stay down there?
• 26:10
  You can go down there, They do tours down there.
• 26:12
  I went down there. When I went oh, and just sort
• 26:15
  of, yeah, sneak off and things down there.
• 26:17
  So that's where they used to go and hide like well, when the
• 26:20
  plague was around and that. And steal bodies.
• 26:23
  Yeah, yeah. That's great.
• 26:26
  Fire's Cemetery. Because if you wanted to be a
• 26:29
  Med student, right, you had to get a cadaver and they would
• 26:32
  have cadaver Steelers. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:35
  Well, yeah, there's the, there's the.
• 26:37
  The legendary back and hair that used to back in the day, they
• 26:41
  were like known body stealers weren't they?
• 26:44
  Body. Snatchers.
• 26:45
  And what about that song Abracadabra?
• 26:48
  I want to reach out and grab her.
• 26:56
  You've just ruined that song. For me now, I'm sorry.
• 27:00
  Those guys, they are fun and funny.
• 27:06
  Now, a lot of times I have guests that are about to do
• 27:10
  something they're about to do. It's a tour, a stage show, a
• 27:15
  puppet show, a knife fight they're about to do in the
• 27:19
  alley. What?
• 27:22
  That's not right. So what is going on is this show
• 27:28
  is a bit of a conduit to get the word out.
• 27:32
  And around August of this year we did a kind of Edinburgh month
• 27:38
  for shows going out to the Edinburgh Festival.
• 27:41
  And I really enjoyed it because they were all going up there and
• 27:46
  they were all ready to fight. Do you know what a venue?
• 27:51
  Jack Dime, Jack, Jack Dime in the Pleasants Dome.
• 27:55
  So go to the Pleasants Dome in the Jack Off area.
• 28:01
  Is that it? Yeah, that's exactly it.
• 28:02
  And buy a ticket to Luke McQueen.
• 28:05
  If you're going up in advance, just go to.
• 28:09
  Is it under McQueen or Luke? I think probably, yeah, I think
• 28:13
  Luke. I think, well, why don't you
• 28:14
  just put Luke McQueen in to be safe?
• 28:15
  What's the title of the show? Comedians.
• 28:17
  Comedian. OK, so look up Comedians
• 28:20
  Comedians and check it off and buy a ticket.
• 28:25
  I'm yelling, right? Absolutely.
• 28:29
  Thanks. If I were you, I'd be.
• 28:31
  That would be the first show I'd see.
• 28:33
  Yeah. Should I see it first or?
• 28:35
  Yeah, Absolutely. Come, come.
• 28:36
  What time is it, 940? I think that's a good time.
• 28:40
  It's a competitive time, it's a good time.
• 28:43
  There's other. There's other.
• 28:44
  People on at that time. Yeah, but you know what?
• 28:46
  It's audience. If you've got some say who who
• 28:50
  else is out there at that time? Harry Hill?
• 28:53
  Yeah, Harry Hill's on. No, but if you if there's a
• 28:55
  popular comic that's on TV, you can watch them on TV.
• 29:00
  Yeah. You can't see Luke McQueen on
• 29:02
  TV. No, I mean on a Tisha Blank is
• 29:08
  the weirdest hackle I ever got. Someone shouted Michael McIntyre
• 29:13
  at me. So I've had Phil Wang a lot.
• 29:16
  People use people shout that at me a lot.
• 29:18
  What? I did.
• 29:19
  You just walk on stage and they're like Phil Wang.
• 29:21
  Like they'll just shout that out.
• 29:23
  What as a joke? I think, yeah, just to be like,
• 29:25
  you look like Phil. Wang, right.
• 29:27
  But which? Which I can see more than
• 29:30
  Michael McIntyre. Someone shouted Michael McIntyre
• 29:32
  at me as I walked. Up on stage, maybe they want you
• 29:34
  to do an impression on Michael McIntyre.
• 29:36
  I was. So lost.
• 29:37
  I was like, do you think I look like him?
• 29:39
  Do you think you want him here? And I I couldn't really make
• 29:42
  sense of it because I. Was like I don't know, do you
• 29:43
  know he hires people to Heckle and say his name in shows?
• 29:48
  Does he gets them out so that he.
• 29:50
  That's a new strategy. He gets to come on.
• 29:52
  Stage Michael McIntyre. Spread the word.
• 29:54
  You just get it in people's heads.
• 29:56
  Yeah, yeah, he's he's kind of on the ground right now.
• 29:58
  Have you ever been killed by the elements?
• 29:59
  No, I mean, I always thought when I was little, then it when
• 30:04
  it rained, that was going to be it.
• 30:06
  Every time it rained. No, this is also what happened
• 30:09
  when we go over a hill and a car.
• 30:11
  I thought we're going over a Cliff.
• 30:15
  Oh really? Couldn't.
• 30:16
  See the other side of? It wow, so a very literal
• 30:19
  imagination you had as a child. It's, some would say, stupid.
• 30:23
  No, I think that that's really sweet because it shows that you
• 30:26
  you really believe in things you really believe in, you know,
• 30:29
  angles and perspectives well, and death.
• 30:32
  That would make me a flat earther, right?
• 30:35
  Hey, I I ain't got a problem with it.
• 30:37
  If you ain't got a problem with it, let's get real.
• 30:39
  Let's have the real chat. I mean, joking, I'm not a
• 30:41
  flatter. I can't.
• 30:42
  See the other yeah. You really can't.
• 30:45
  And The thing is, that's what they're not telling us.
• 30:47
  That's what the I can't say. It's something they're not.
• 30:49
  Have you seen it? Have you seen the other side of
• 30:51
  the earth? No, I haven't met one person
• 30:53
  that has so answer that. Who listen to this show are flat
• 30:57
  earthers. Of course they are.
• 30:58
  I have deep respect. For any comedy podcast listener,
• 31:02
  kind of massive fan base would obviously there's going to be a
• 31:05
  a huge percentage of flat earthers in there.
• 31:07
  I would like to know what they listen to.
• 31:10
  Yeah, yeah, of course. Well, of course.
• 31:12
  And Joe Rogan, I imagine a lot. Joe Rogan?
• 31:16
  No, surely. Yes, I don't know.
• 31:19
  Wasn't that good? Yeah.
• 31:22
  And every one of them did really well.
• 31:24
  And a lot of them are now at the Soho Theatre and touring their
• 31:28
  shows. So this is the spark that lights
• 31:32
  the fire or something like that. The fire that some the water
• 31:38
  that turns the widget. One of the things consistently
• 31:42
  we have are comics. And a lot of the comics that
• 31:46
  come into London are Australian. Yeah, they're Australian.
• 31:53
  That means they come from the country of Oz.
• 31:57
  And here's a little clip just showing you some of the medley,
• 32:03
  the panoply of wonderful Australian comics we have at our
• 32:07
  disposal. No, but some movies are perfect
• 32:13
  perfect to watch on the plane. Yes, and Conclave is 1.
• 32:17
  I would never watch it otherwise.
• 32:19
  On land you wouldn't watch it. On land I would.
• 32:21
  What about in the water? Maybe conclave.
• 32:26
  That's my thing. I do that.
• 32:27
  Yes, yes. Can you do that voice and
• 32:29
  review? Gee, I don't know.
• 32:33
  I'm trying to think what? What?
• 32:34
  What's just come out? This reviewer thinks that F1 was
• 32:38
  a slow paced film even though the cars were fast.
• 32:45
  You would kill it. You should play him in a biopic.
• 32:48
  Bob Roddy. I'll teach you some Italian.
• 32:52
  That's no, that's a compliment. Like did you?
• 32:53
  Oh, wait. Do you think that's a read?
• 32:57
  Do. You compare.
• 32:59
  That is and that's can we can we, can we make sure we cut?
• 33:02
  That's actually the audition tape.
• 33:04
  You got something, kid. Yes, you got something, kid.
• 33:07
  I don't know what it, but you got it.
• 33:09
  You're going to be *. That's you.
• 33:11
  I'll be in it and I'll play Luciano's agent.
• 33:15
  Yeah. That's.
• 33:16
  Lucci you got to get out there. Rucci, I came to God.
• 33:22
  Lucci, you got to get out on the stage there waiting for you.
• 33:27
  You're the best opera singer this side of Milan and you're
• 33:31
  not going to get out on that fucking stage.
• 33:32
  I. Have a diabetes?
• 33:36
  I don't give a fuck about the diabetes.
• 33:37
  Get on that fucking stage. I need the insulin.
• 33:42
  No, sorry, I've met him once. What?
• 33:46
  What was the context? Well, it was we were at a bar, a
• 33:52
  group of that I was in and then he was kind of near a by.
• 33:57
  And what happened? One of the people in our group
• 34:00
  went and talked to him. And and then did he chat too?
• 34:04
  And then I sort of went like this.
• 34:06
  When was this in the Matrix timeline?
• 34:08
  I think it was just after, yeah. And, well, was he lovely?
• 34:14
  Everyone says he's lovely. Everyone says he, Yeah, he
• 34:19
  seemed nice, yeah, but I don't like that.
• 34:22
  What the when? People have this, you know.
• 34:27
  Like assumption or or like the reputation?
• 34:29
  People are considered so nice because I I'm almost thinking it
• 34:34
  can't. It's too good to be true.
• 34:36
  And also, it'll be so much sadder when he gets caught being
• 34:40
  yeah. So yeah.
• 34:43
  He's famous for not touching. While he goes through with the
• 34:47
  picture. That's his biggest nice thing.
• 34:49
  Maybe he's just like a germaphobe.
• 34:51
  Yeah, maybe he thinks everyone is disgusting and beneath him
• 34:54
  and he doesn't. Yeah, that's it.
• 34:56
  He's so nice. He's the best.
• 34:59
  He didn't touch me at all. He just spat at me from afar.
• 35:05
  He's like Jesus. I'm.
• 35:07
  His wife and he won't touch me. He's so respectful.
• 35:15
  He's so respectful of. Me.
• 35:17
  If I come near me, he goes. He.
• 35:20
  Puts a sheet in between us. We're Mormon.
• 35:24
  Did I read? Yeah, I forgot to tell you, is.
• 35:27
  That Mormons that do that? Or is that mediaeval?
• 35:31
  Oh, Mediaeval, Yeah. Someone where there's a hole in
• 35:34
  the I'm? Going to go mediaeval on you.
• 35:43
  Oh, it was really respectful touch.
• 35:45
  Thank you very much, Kiana. I I didn't know you had it in
• 35:49
  you. You're young.
• 35:51
  In Australia, you always get these weird jobs.
• 35:55
  Yeah, that's true. Like people work very young.
• 35:58
  Yeah. I started when I was sort of 13.
• 36:00
  Yeah. And I worked on these paddle
• 36:02
  boats. There's a river in Adelaide.
• 36:05
  Would that you stand or. No, They're like, you push them
• 36:08
  with your legs. Oh yeah.
• 36:09
  Like you get in them and push. And I was like the paddle boat
• 36:11
  guy. Yeah, honey.
• 36:15
  And and that was one of my teenage just sort of helping and
• 36:19
  all the paddleboats were fucked. They all had holes in them and
• 36:22
  like I'd have to rescue people all the time.
• 36:24
  They never repaired. It was like a, you know, I don't
• 36:28
  know. Anyway, any drownings?
• 36:30
  Well, one time one of the one of my customers found a dead body
• 36:36
  shit. And so that was quite full on,
• 36:39
  but they didn't, it wasn't someone that had drowned in my
• 36:42
  paddleboats. That's why he never returned the
• 36:44
  boat. Shit.
• 36:47
  Yeah. That's who was yelling
• 36:50
  yesterday. Now, some of my guests have not
• 36:54
  just been comedians. They've had other skills.
• 36:58
  Indeed, one of them was a magician, Pete Heat, and a
• 37:04
  mystery writer, Victoria Dowd. Let's take a look.
• 37:08
  See. Feel bad about asking you, but
• 37:10
  do you have a magic? Have a magic.
• 37:13
  Do you have a magic? I have AI can do some.
• 37:15
  You do? Yeah.
• 37:16
  Yeah, sure. So I I by the way.
• 37:18
  The cards here at. Rich port, though, I didn't
• 37:19
  bring no listen, I just brought them just for a display.
• 37:24
  Yeah, yeah, look good. They look.
• 37:25
  Great ace of hearts. Yeah, incredible.
• 37:29
  Yeah. Should we try a couple of
• 37:30
  tricks? We can do one for now and then
• 37:34
  close with one. OK.
• 37:36
  Yeah, yeah, sure. All right, so let's try this.
• 37:38
  This might not even work. We'll give it a go.
• 37:40
  Well, if it doesn't work, we keep it in.
• 37:45
  Imagine that you hand. Me a random card from there from
• 37:48
  that pack. OK.
• 37:51
  And I put it in my oh, wait, can I can I change a different one?
• 37:54
  Yeah, yeah. OK, perfect.
• 37:57
  And I put it in my trouser pocket.
• 37:58
  Right. That's gone.
• 37:59
  But what what card was it? 5 of diamonds.
• 38:02
  Are you sure? Yeah, no, it was the eight of
• 38:04
  spades. So what was it?
• 38:06
  5 of diamonds. Are rate of spades up to you?
• 38:08
  5 of diamonds. Yeah.
• 38:10
  OK. Because I do have a card in my
• 38:11
  pocket. No effing way. 5 of diamonds.
• 38:20
  Yeah. What?
• 38:23
  Get out of here now. It's not magic.
• 38:27
  It's witchcraft, yeah. Have you ever had fans that sort
• 38:33
  of critique your work? Oh, all the time.
• 38:36
  Yeah. Really.
• 38:36
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they're very, they
• 38:38
  kind of they go. Through and they bend down all
• 38:39
  the pages where they think the clues are or they put post it
• 38:42
  notes in. 284. The page where the chest is
• 38:49
  opened. That's it, and they go.
• 38:51
  Through it and then they'll show little videos of them doing it
• 38:53
  and going and this. Bit leads this bit.
• 38:56
  I think probably the best slash. Worst review I have was.
• 39:01
  For my first book where it. Just said this was a.
• 39:05
  Fiction book, one star and it's called The Smart Woman's Guide
• 39:10
  to Murder. They they were hoping.
• 39:13
  For an actual guide, well, that's their problem.
• 39:17
  That's like reviews of products. They think it's something else.
• 39:21
  It's like I couldn't fly with my towel.
• 39:25
  So one star, it's like deluded or or some people would one
• 39:31
  star, the audio wouldn't play. I tried.
• 39:35
  I shoved it in the tape player. Now that stuff I find very
• 39:43
  interesting and I find comedians interesting as well.
• 39:47
  But if you have any ideas of guests that I should have, like
• 39:51
  people that do art, maybe people in the music industry, maybe
• 39:56
  people that speak French, I will interview anyone and make it
• 40:01
  halfway interesting. I know I will, I swear.
• 40:06
  Give me some chocolate, please. So this last clip assemblage, I
• 40:14
  think capsulizes my intellectual curiosity.
• 40:19
  Of course that is. Me belching so are you doing
• 40:25
  stuff now? Are you doing like Instagram and
• 40:28
  all that? Yeah, I I put up some stand up
• 40:30
  clips and I've started doing stuff that's like looks it's
• 40:33
  model after like 90s a point and click adventures.
• 40:37
  Remember those? Oh yeah, yeah.
• 40:39
  So I've started telling a story through these point and click
• 40:41
  adventures. The is this the burp cast?
• 40:46
  No, no, I just when I drank the coffee, it just went through me.
• 40:51
  I'm it's not a reflection on you.
• 40:52
  No, no, sorry. The beforehand I heard Rich say
• 40:55
  to Kenny if if the interview is going badly, I'll burp.
• 40:58
  That's. Like you, that's like, you'll
• 41:00
  know. And then we play music.
• 41:02
  Yeah, in in Edinburgh, I was doing the Fringe Festival and I
• 41:09
  bought AI forgot to take this off.
• 41:12
  Oh, can I take this off? It's going to be so hard to
• 41:15
  edit. OK.
• 41:16
  Like, what if I say something and then you're like, that would
• 41:19
  go better here. And then I just realised that
• 41:23
  I'm supposed to wear a different shirt every podcast.
• 41:26
  Oh, So it seems like time has passed.
• 41:28
  Yes. Yeah.
• 41:30
  Do you want to trade shirts? How how good are you at?
• 41:40
  I know this joke works in a room with us.
• 41:44
  I've got to make it work on stage.
• 41:46
  Will you tweak and tweak it and tweak it or will you just say
• 41:50
  fuck it, I'll do another joke. I end up just.
• 41:53
  Forgetting about it, I don't. Even have a conscious decision.
• 41:55
  I'll end up just after. And not working a couple.
• 41:57
  Of times I. Just go and.
• 41:58
  I just don't think about it ever again.
• 42:01
  Right, so I've gone. Back through notes and like.
• 42:04
  Audio record. Pardon me, audio recording.
• 42:09
  I never do that, do I, Kenny? No, there's a couple of episodes
• 42:14
  where I'm belching. There's no guest.
• 42:18
  It's just you doing that 30 minutes of you belching.
• 42:27
  That's where the clown the clown school comes in.
• 42:31
  They'll like your class will be like today is belching La Bouche
• 42:36
  and there's students taking notes.
• 42:46
  So you're from Glasgow? Wow.
• 42:55
  I have a theory too. Loads of people.
• 43:06
  Loads of people are funny, right?
• 43:09
  But and you know, you hear people, they go, you ought to do
• 43:14
  stand up. You know, people have friends in
• 43:17
  school, but they never do it or they they don't succeed because
• 43:22
  you've got to be natural on stage and not laugh.
• 43:31
  Yeah, that was fun and very heady stuff.
• 43:36
  You might not have gotten it, so you might want to rewind it and
• 43:40
  break off into some discussion groups about what I just did
• 43:45
  there. So listen, that's the last of
• 43:48
  our clips. And I just wanted to say thank
• 43:52
  all of you for watching, for pressing subscribe down there.
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  Please tell your friends about this.
• 43:59
  I want to make it the best show possible for you guys.
• 44:03
  So send in any thoughts and ideas.
• 44:07
  Non threatening, of course. I've had enough of the other
• 44:11
  stuff. No, And I want to thank
• 44:15
  everybody for making this show what it is.
• 44:19
  Kenny, you're the bestest and laugh around studios for helping
• 44:25
  us use this place and everybody. That guy in the bar that's in
• 44:30
  the credits coming up and just wanted to say bye.
• 44:36
  Happy 2026. We're going to have the best
• 44:39
  show ever, Pizza party. Rich vultures talk box.