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jason i'm third love

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salute radio we real music

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matters good morning years the jason mumford

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show all absolute radio hope

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you very well this sunday morning

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here from life from stockport

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we're not lie about their prove coded maps and liar

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but sir steve edge who is

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has been all over the place isn't the recently film

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in the madam blonk mysteries

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channel five over and gozo

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and that shooting schedule this week he

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wasn't able to a duck out for

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the even a couple of hours to

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do the show so thankfully

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step in in his

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the brilliant angela bonds morning

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angela

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good morning j said i

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am alarmingly available on

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a sunday morning a gets a fair

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world good world although

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it's lovely swabi you aren't many you are super busy

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though i'm a busy all the person

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what do a lot so different you

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got the radio still for yourself you got the

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utah you you're a lot place

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well

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i am a month so the minute so i'm

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i'm glad we got that in early thanks a lot and

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then yes but i know people

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at five plus they initially the thinking you

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know what i want to bought tickets for some that an evening

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at a perfect while they're like

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escaped by website they can do a

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good idea that it will really

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appreciate you are jordan and where

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are you this morning any oh more i'm

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is sunny bright and at home yeah can

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result of opposite ends of the country this morning

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or now on i'll who i a so

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well i'm appear him in stop or it

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is a miserable day have

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been out this morning already a

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bit a school reduction of

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will prove called this in the weeks of those

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the other day is on their them

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and then i've been playing paddle tennis this morning been

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outplayed game a puddle what

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is this i keep they have enough

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one fan and f one drivers are going

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crazy for paddle. What is

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it? I don't even know what it is. It's

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people who are, it's

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people in high octane jobs,

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you know, F1, football,

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Sunday

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morning on the radio. Like, you

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know those guys at the top level? They're

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really pushing it. They're really.

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Yeah, they're like, look, I'm getting all my excitement

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at work, how can I carry that on at home?

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I know, paddle tennis. I feel

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like when you first hear the phrase paddle tennis, you,

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like my dad, for example, was like, what

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on water? I was like, no,

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no.

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Although I think you might be onto something there,

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like paddleboard tennis.

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How good, what a game that would be. Imagine the

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two fellas holding the net. Yeah.

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But yeah, so we're not playing that, but it's sort of just,

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it's like tennis and squash together

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basically. So it's a game of tennis,

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but you don't have to keep getting your ball because there's a glass wall around

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it. So it's win-win, I think. So it

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just sort of bounces back to you without getting the middle

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of the pitch. Bouncing back and off you go. But I tell you what, what's

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good about it is you can play quite a good mix game

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because it's, in tennis, like if

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someone's good at serving, game over. Yeah.

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There's nothing you can do. So when you come up against like alpha

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men, they don't smash these

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balls at you. Like whether you're a bloke

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or a woman, they don't care. Yeah. Whereas

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in this game, you can be a bit delicate and have a little

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soft shot back and win it. So I quite like it. It

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fits into my beta male. Personality.

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You have to have good,

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I've not got the hand-eye coordination. That's

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the thing. I don't think.

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Okay. Yeah. It's not the

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sport for you actually. It's not for me. It's not for me, no.

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important things about the game.

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Yeah. I'm going to stick to roller skating.

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Oh yeah. No, there's no danger in that at all. Yeah. That's

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fine. Do you not need a bit of eye

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coordination for that? Foot, foot. It's

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just sort of a hope gets me through.

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When I was a kid, I used to do figure

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skaters and my dad said I was more steady on

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the ice than on land. So

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I think maybe there's something about adding

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a bit of jeopardy just sort of gets

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my brain fired up into keeping

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me upright.

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I like it. I feel like a very Brighton

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thing to do as well. Yeah, it really is.

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And of course I bought roller skates during the pandemic.

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I'm such a cliche Jason. I

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was going to say a walking cliche,

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but I am a

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rolling cliche. No, rolling. Do you know

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what? There's nothing wrong with it. I love an all

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the gear no idea just going forward. We

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cover that on the radio a few times on the show where people

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have just picked up a new hobby and then just spent hundreds

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of pounds on the equipment.

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Oh, by week two of lockdown

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one, I bought roller skates, boxing gloves

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and a sewing machine. Wow.

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And then I got diagnosed with ADHD.

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It's weird, isn't

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it? Get out of town. We

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had a fun weekend last weekend,

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actually, Anj. We had a German

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exchange student staying with us.

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Oh, look at

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you. Well, you certainly speak more German

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than the whole of the Manford family, including

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the three girls who were doing GCSE. Brilliant.

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Did your German exchange student

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speak

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English well? I mean, incredibly,

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embarrassingly well. It is so embarrassing. Oh,

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it's so embarrassing. Because

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I spent a lot of time in Germany.

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I speak all right German and

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I love Germany and I'm a bit obsessed with German

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history and stuff. So I go there quite a lot.

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And even though I can speak

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fairly well in German, they still

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just speak

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back to me in English. It's so embarrassing.

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I know. It's funny, isn't it? I

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mean, she was just brilliant. We

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were I mean, we got to a point where we were playing

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just like parlour games and stuff, having a

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bit of fun. And and

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she ended up playing guess

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the German word in English, like

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with a whole family. I was like, are we being

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patronized here? What

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do you think this means? She's 14.

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She's teaching us all. Yeah,

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but no, we had a lovely weekend. I've never done it before.

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It wasn't a thing we got to do when I was at school.

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I think mainly because nobody in Europe wanted

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to come to our school. Right, fair

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enough, yeah. Do you know what I mean? It was like,

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yeah. Dad, you're all right. Exactly,

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it was kids in Kosovo going, do

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you know I'll leave it. Yeah. I

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might actually just stay here in this one torn city

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with half a science lab. I've

6:23

heard about scallies. I'm all right.

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I'm not going to a school in Mosside, no thank you. It

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was really, and then my daughter

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goes there to

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Germany in February on the flip

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side of it. So yes, it's a big deal,

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but it was funny because she

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brought lots of German

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sweets and snacks as

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gifts to sort of sell, you know, and

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Stalin. Basically

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she brought half a Christmas market with her.

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See, that's what I love. I go every year to

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the German Christmas market. I don't feel

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like it's Christmas till I've been because we

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try to do it here, but it's not the same,

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is it?

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What, so you actually fly to Germany? I

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do, yeah. To go to their German

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markets, even though there's one in every city center in the

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country. Yeah,

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but they're not the same, Jase. I know

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we try to do a German Christmas market here,

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but when it's gray and drizzly,

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it's not

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the same. What would be great is if they did an exchange and

7:21

they actually got like an English market.

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Four lighters for a quid.

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Yeah, exactly. Come on, roll up. Here,

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lad. Do you want a couple of pairs, you know what I mean? Oh,

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lovely. Like just in the middle of Berlin. You

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want some of it, mate. English

7:35

market. Wow, so you go out there. Do you know Steve,

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funnily enough, not to talk about the person who's

7:39

usually here, but Steve has a little

7:42

tradition every Christmas where him and his

7:44

wife go to German markets,

7:46

but just around Europe because they're all over the place

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now. Oh, yeah. Scandinavia and all sorts

7:50

of places. So that's quite a good thing too. So which ones have you

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been to? Which one's the best one you've been to?

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The best ones have been to Berlin

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so far, but we're going again this year. I

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think we're going to go to Munich. Nick this year, because we haven't been

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there yet. Actually I went

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to a really good one in Zurich once. I was

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doing gigs in Switzerland with, you know,

8:07

Sean McLaughlin, brilliant Indian. And

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we were doing gigs together in Switzerland and we went to

8:12

this Christmas market in

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Zurich and we got, it was so big,

8:16

we got lost. We just thought, well, we live here now

8:18

and actually we were all right with that. I

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could live in

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a Christmas market, no problem. Wow,

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that sounds good. What a good, that's a fun hobby, that. I'm

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excited for it, I do love a Christmas market. Come with

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us, we're

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going to Munich in December, come along.

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I will be climbing a beanstalk in Manchester.

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I can't compete with that. No. This

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is Jason Manford

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This is Absolute

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Radio Where

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real music matters. And there's a

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story in the paper this morning. UK

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Airport Weatherspoons has been named

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the top restaurant in the world.

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Right,

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sorry, can you say that again? Did you say it?

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A Weatherspoons has been named a top restaurant.

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In the world.

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And what's going on? There's so much to unpack. Okay,

9:10

let me read you the story and let's see if we can

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get to the bottom of this. Okay. I

9:15

mean, you, obviously someone who travels the world, you

9:17

must have been to some absolute cracking restaurants.

9:19

I've been to some great Weatherspoons, yeah.

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Yeah, Weatherspoons, fuck it. Right,

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here we go. It says a Weatherspoons

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has made it into a top 10 list

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of best, hang on. They've already,

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the headline has pulled us in.

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Right.

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But the story is top 10

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list of the best airport

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family restaurants.

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Ah, well that's just because there's only

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Weatherspoons

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then, right? I mean, what have you got, giraffe?

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You got giraffe occasionally. Yeah.

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You might be lucky, you might

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get a prat if you're lucky. Jamie's Italian

9:55

on occasion. Yeah, there's not,

9:56

I was gonna say Weatherspoons best restaurant,

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that's like a wheelie.

9:59

you get your best hotel, that's like,

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that didn't sit right with me at all.

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It's the windmill at

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Stansted Airport that makes the list. The family vacation

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guide analyzed reviews of airport restaurants

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posted on the likes of Google and TripAdvisor with three

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key questions in mind. What the food options

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are, is there a children's menu, and is it good

10:18

value for money? None of those are

10:20

the quality of food or service. They are.

10:23

Exactly what I looked for in a restaurant,

10:25

all those things, yeah. It found that

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Stansted spoons, even in the paper it's gone,

10:30

remarkably, it found... LAUGHTER

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It's come with a real helping of snobbishness

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here, and I'm on board with it.

10:40

Remarkably, it found Stansted spoons is

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the eighth best in the world with a score of five

10:44

out of... A four out of five, sorry. It says a lot

10:46

about airport restaurants globally, someone

10:49

has mentioned. And then underneath,

10:52

of course, everyone's waded in. Nope. Horrible.

10:55

Went last week. Service and food was rubbish.

10:57

They don't even have standard spoons menu

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option. They have airport spoons menus,

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which excludes so much of the normal menu

11:04

and combos. Another commented, wouldn't

11:06

set foot in there if it was the only one left and

11:09

all the other toilets were out of order.

11:11

Oh, my... But you would, though,

11:13

because we all do. We all go to an airport

11:15

and we've got an early flight and we go and have our

11:17

breakfast beer and weather spoons, because that's the

11:20

only time that's allowed. That's fine, yeah. We

11:22

all go... I can see how it's happened.

11:25

I suppose it's a bit like WH Smith's

11:27

winning best shop in an airport, because it's the only

11:29

shop in all the airport. Yes, exactly, yes.

11:31

You know. Best bookshop, yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah.

11:34

I tell you

11:35

what, the things that really sort of

11:38

confuse me at airports,

11:40

it's those shops that sell luggage. Like, who's

11:43

going, sorry, I'll pack at the airport.

11:44

Yeah, if you've just like... And you're just carrying them

11:46

in carrier bags. Yeah, that's just the

11:48

arm fulls of bikinis. And that's

11:50

what you get there. Well, they're saying that I have, on

11:53

occasion, I think maybe once or twice, I

11:55

think just once, I have actually bought a piece

11:58

of luggage at the airport.

11:59

You've got to the front and

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you've made the mistake because you've gone, we've

12:03

got 60 kilograms a year spread

12:06

over how many? And then when you get there they go, you know that

12:08

one is too heavy, but

12:10

you've got a bit more time. So I've gone and bought one

12:12

to unpack it just

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so I don't have to pay, I've spent 60 quid

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on a new suitcase so I didn't have to pay 40

12:19

quid. For the end, yeah.

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For the end, yeah. It's the principal answer.

12:24

It's the ego, you're the person, there's

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shops to fall. Well, I've kind of got the answer now.

12:29

Yeah, I know. But it's

12:31

also like, we'll play

12:33

a game later on called Hit Me With Your Best

12:35

Fact. But we had a fact, a

12:37

little while back, which was about the wheelie suitcase.

12:42

And I'm trying to remember it. I remember

12:44

the wheelie suitcase fact. Adam, do you remember the wheelie

12:46

suitcase fact? I don't, we've had about 20,000

12:49

facts. I know we've had loads. Basically,

12:52

it was something stupid. Like

12:54

the wheelie suitcase was invented after, I

12:58

don't know, something. I'm just guessing. I

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remember, like when I was a kid, they weren't a thing.

13:03

That's basically what I'm getting at, yeah. With

13:05

massive suitcases, and no one

13:07

thought to put wheels on. Nobody. He

13:09

was like 90 and 85. Yeah,

13:11

somebody was like, do you know what would be easier?

13:14

Wheels. We'd need

13:16

all these trolleys if we just cut out the

13:18

middle man and put the wheels on the luggage.

13:20

I found a fact for you guys. Aw, he's a

13:22

legend to them. Go on, son, what is it? We

13:25

put a man on the moon before we put wheels on luggage.

13:27

There you go. Wow. The man on the

13:30

moon before wheels on luggage.

13:32

Some people really hate them though, don't they? They really,

13:34

like I know it's a bugbear

13:35

for a lot of people, the wheelie case, but honestly,

13:37

I love mine. Well, I've got one stage

13:40

further. My son's suitcase is

13:42

a scooter.

13:43

Oh, oh, that the kids can ride on. I've

13:46

seen them. Why don't they do those for

13:47

grownups? Ask me that. That would

13:50

be one level of, I

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don't know, I would hate those people. You know, it'd be some fella on

13:54

a top knot. It would, wouldn't it? You

13:57

know what I mean? It's proper cams and hipster. Yeah.

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Do these suitcases, yeah, no, you're

14:01

right, terrible idea. Mind you, I

14:03

reckon I could make a fortune because those people would buy

14:05

it.

14:06

Oh, for sure. And they live where you live, so.

14:08

They really do. Jesus.

14:14

Manford. Now, Friday just gone,

14:17

absolute radio, not to make you feel old,

14:20

but absolute radio turned 15.

14:23

Wowzers, happy birthday.

14:25

Happy birthday, Google turned 25.

14:28

I can remember the first time I heard

14:30

of Google, I was working in a bar in Brighton,

14:32

I was a student, and somebody was trying to explain

14:34

to

14:34

me what this new thing was. You're like,

14:36

that'll never take off.

14:38

Nah,

14:39

what's that, I don't search engine, what's that for?

14:41

I've got a library, I've got.

14:43

Not me, mate, I still write www. That's

14:48

the sort of person I am. But it felt like a bit

14:50

of a week of big birthdays,

14:52

and I've also been

14:54

thinking about birthdays because my mum and dad

14:57

have just used my mum's birthday present,

15:00

she had a big birthday this year, and I

15:02

got them tickets to go and see

15:04

Dex's Midnight Runners in Dublin.

15:06

Oh, wowzers,

15:07

I bet that was fun. Oh, they loved

15:09

it, they went over and had a great, well, as my

15:11

mum said, when she came back, she went, oh, we

15:13

loved it, it was great. They went with some friends and stayed

15:15

at the Hard Rock Cafe Hotel,

15:18

which they loved. It was right near the venue. So,

15:20

it was a lovely time. And I said, what was the gig

15:22

like? She went, oh, it was great. Well, the second half was.

15:26

And I said, what happened in the first half? She went, they

15:29

played the new stuff.

15:30

Oh, my, oh, nobody wants

15:32

to hear Dex's new stuff. We're

15:35

all here for Come and I Lean.

15:36

Just crack on.

15:39

I know, but you can't play that for two hours. They've

15:41

got a new summer, haven't they? I

15:44

was trying to support the artists in

15:47

my conversation with them, but it

15:49

must be a real double-edged sword when

15:51

you're Dex's Midnight Runner.

15:54

Everyone's come. They must dread that song. They

15:56

must dread playing it. Go, here we go,

15:58

let's just

15:59

bang this.

15:59

I know I know I know

16:02

it must be awful but anyway and

16:04

interestingly my parents went with Kevin Eileen

16:07

Two people Kevin

16:09

and Eileen which I was like all I can hear now

16:11

is Kevin But

16:15

they had a wonderful time Well,

16:19

you know it was a I knew they'd love it it was there

16:21

you know, they used to love all that music when they were Younger

16:24

and and then my mum was like, oh we met Aidan

16:27

Gillan the Irish actor who's in Game of

16:29

Thrones and queers focus I was like amazing

16:31

and she sent me a selfie. I was like, that's

16:34

just an Irish guy that That

16:37

is

16:37

not who you think it is. This is a bloke

16:39

He's got along with it though bless him I

16:41

mean Bareblades took a selfie with my father She's

16:44

like it's a guy from Game of Thrones Like

16:46

it's not it's not the guy from Game of Thrones

16:49

I Feel

16:52

like You I feel like your

16:54

partner probably has had some good presence

16:56

in the past

16:57

He's my partner's pretty good like

16:59

awful. He's just

17:00

very thoughtful. He wants did for Valentine's

17:02

Day He was actually away and and

17:05

I'm not really a big Valentine's Day person, but he

17:07

left me in the house He left a treasure hunt

17:10

and like these cryptic crossword clues

17:12

I love a cryptic crossword And to

17:14

where my president was hidden in the house while he was

17:17

away and I tweeted about it And it went a

17:19

little bit viral and of course all his

17:21

friends were just like well, thanks mate. You really

17:23

showed well Yeah, cheers for that.

17:25

Yeah, when one of your mates goes above and

17:27

beyond you're like, oh well

17:30

Yeah,

17:33

no, he's been pretty good I did have an ex once

17:35

whose parents bought me

17:38

for my birthday they bought me a Sort

17:41

of season pass What's

17:43

the word like season ticket I guess for the

17:45

sea life center in Brighton. I live

17:47

all year

17:48

Except I've got a really bad phobia

17:50

of fish like the worst present you could get

17:53

and I felt so bad I couldn't tell this every time

17:55

I saw them. They were after me if I'd been yet, you know

17:58

Yeah Yeah that's not a good

18:00

gift. That's not a good gift. Well Crystal Davis

18:03

has messaged in and she said, my

18:05

birthday is New Year's Eve.

18:08

Oh that's not good. That's not good is

18:10

it? No. For my daughter whose

18:12

birthday is day after boxing day, we

18:15

have a little day in the middle of summer where we

18:17

go at this is your like, like the queen she

18:19

has like another birthday.

18:21

That's really nice.

18:22

Yeah just to, not necessarily, we

18:24

don't go presents necessarily because obviously

18:26

she can't have two lots of presents. Nice.

18:29

But we just make a day where it's about her and we do

18:31

stuff for her. Yeah that

18:33

bit between Christmas and New Year, no one wants to do

18:35

anything. No it's awful. It's awful. So

18:38

Crystal says, I went to visit my mother-in-law a week after

18:40

my birthday. She wished me a belated birthday

18:42

and handed me an open bottle of wine. She

18:45

said she opened it New Year's Eve. But

18:47

didn't like it so she thought she'd give it to me for my birthday.

18:50

That's not a present.

18:51

Not only is it open, it's a

18:53

bottle of wine she didn't like. She

18:55

didn't like, yeah. I tell you who liked this though, Crystal.

18:57

Yeah he liked it better than. Oh,

18:59

you'll drink anything that one. Yeah, oh

19:01

my God. Nikki

19:04

Bell says, I moved into a block of flats in 1993. An

19:07

old couple off the ground floor came up to bring me

19:09

a housewarming gift of a humongous

19:12

teddy dressed as a beef eater emblazoned

19:14

with Queen Elizabeth II, silver Jubilee 1977.

19:18

That's just someone getting rid of

19:20

their tat.

19:20

Go and give it that new woman.

19:23

She won't be able to turn it down. Yeah.

19:25

It's a good idea. Yeah, I'm just

19:28

looking

19:28

around my house and thinking of all the stuff

19:30

I can get

19:30

rid of. I know, although that has actually just reminded

19:32

me that I borrowed

19:35

a, I borrowed a strimmer the other day from

19:37

number 65 and I'm not taking it

19:39

back. I know randomly, but that's what

19:41

popped into my head. I was like, right, as soon as I finished this,

19:44

got to go and drop that strimmer off at

19:46

number 65. I don't wanna be one of those neighbors. Oh, they'll

19:48

be

19:48

knocking on the door. You don't want them knocking

19:50

for it. Then you feel bad. I know, well he did

19:52

actually text me. Have you finished with that strimmer yet? Oh

19:54

no. That was two days ago. And I said, I'll drop it first

19:57

thing. And

19:59

I didn't. What I've just scumbag.

20:01

I am

20:02

I just remembered a gift my

20:04

mom got once her mom my nan

20:07

But I ran. Oh, what you call it that

20:09

slow cooker? Oh, yeah, that's one my

20:11

mom had bought her the year before

20:13

Yeah,

20:15

you've got to be Because we've

20:18

got my re-gifting we've got a re-gifting

20:21

like cupboard almost in our

20:23

room where stuff comes in you go stick it in there

20:26

and after that

20:28

exact faux pas About three

20:30

years ago. There's now a sticky

20:32

on every single presence. They knew it was This

20:40

is a good name I'm a bit obsessed with surnames

20:43

because obviously I see so many of them when the messages

20:45

come in And I'm

20:47

me and Steve like usually we'd like to play a little

20:49

game of like Where

20:52

did it come from? You know when you go back to ancestry?

20:54

Oh, yeah, like why like I've got

20:56

we've got a name in a minute Michelle chatters, I

20:59

mean already, you know what their ancestors. She never

21:01

showed up Oh

21:03

god issues. What about this for a name

21:05

Jennifer brace girdle? Brace

21:08

girdle brace girdle Working

21:11

in some sort of surgical implement. I don't

21:13

know what's going on there. Whoever their ancestors

21:15

were they sounded like a laugh There

21:20

was some rumors about them in the village let me

21:22

tell you all brace girdle Wow

21:27

You got the big he got the breeze brace and

21:29

her girdle together Liz

21:33

trough really saying exactly Right,

21:37

so Jennifer says went to Jamaica for my 21st

21:41

Sounds good so far.

21:42

What a treat. This is worse

21:44

gifts Jennifer My ex-husband

21:47

wrapped and took

21:48

all the way there in his hand luggage the

21:50

Lord of the Rings board game for me

21:54

Just because I'd watched the films was

21:56

very disappointed as I thought it was gonna

21:58

be something fab jewelry It

22:00

was my 21st and he'd gone to such

22:02

an effort. You can imagine on the way there he's giving

22:05

it. Tapping his hand luggage. Look, I've

22:07

got it right here. Just you wait. Oh my God.

22:09

Just you wait till this bad boy gets opened.

22:12

Oh, that's not a 21st birthday

22:14

present, that isn't it? No. That's a

22:17

23rd or 24th. That's

22:19

a no

22:19

meaning number. It's just a nothing. It's just a,

22:22

I saw this in a charity shop. Remember

22:24

when we watched the films at that time, should we play the game?

22:26

That is not sat there giving it. I

22:28

think you'll enjoy this. My precious. Clue,

22:31

clue, wink, wink.

22:32

And he carried

22:35

it. It had luggage all the way to Jamaica.

22:37

That's how sure he

22:38

was. That was a good present. Yeah,

22:40

I think the telltale

22:43

sign there is ex-husband. Marie

22:48

Black says, a wedding gift of

22:50

six pastry knives in a box. That

22:53

said your, and it actually said, your

22:55

free gift from Little Woods catalogue.

22:57

Amazing. See there's

22:59

a re-gifting. It's sustainable. That's

23:02

how we're supposed to look at it, isn't

23:03

it? I'm all for it actually. Well, I

23:05

remember one year going up to my nan, we used

23:07

to walk to my nana's house, it was about a two mile walk. We

23:09

all walked all the way there and it was a birthday. And

23:12

mum and dad brought a clock.

23:14

That was her birthday present. That's

23:16

not what you get old ladies, isn't it? Just like a

23:19

clock, a new clock. And

23:21

she wrapped it up and he gave it to her. Said,

23:23

there you go, happy birthday. She opened it. She actually looked

23:25

like she quite liked it. And then my brother, who was about seven

23:28

at the time,

23:29

went, mum won that, bingo. Brilliant.

23:33

Oh, that's just reminding me. But I don't

23:36

think, I have to

23:38

be careful how I tell this story because it

23:40

involves Father Christmas.

23:41

Oh yes, the legend.

23:43

He once

23:44

brought me a present and

23:47

Father Christmas obviously is into recycling

23:49

and sustainability because

23:52

it was my, I think I was about seven

23:54

or eight and it was Christmas and I wanted a tape

23:57

recorder so I could make my own little radio

23:59

shows.

23:59

and tape myself.

24:01

And look at you now, full circle. Look at me now!

24:04

It obviously

24:04

paid off. But Father Christmas brought

24:07

my little tape recorder and then my cousins

24:09

came round that evening, Christmas evening,

24:12

and my cousin went, oh, that used

24:14

to be mine. And then turned it over and

24:16

there was a sticker that was his that was on the

24:18

back of his. So sort of

24:21

left-clipped that Father Christmas had done a bit

24:22

of recycling. That's fair enough. He's

24:24

got a re-gifting covered as well. That's what's happened there. Yeah,

24:27

there you go. Julie

24:29

says, size 18 pajamas

24:31

every Christmas off my ex-mother-in-law. I'm

24:34

a size 10.

24:35

Oh, that's the passive

24:37

aggressive that isn't it? That is awful.

24:41

Oh,

24:41

that is, I

24:42

mean, I'm almost impressed

24:44

with the mother-in-law there. Every

24:47

Christmas. Every Christmas size 18.

24:50

Debbie says, a set of pans for my

24:52

husband. So I got him the matching wok

24:54

for his birthday the next month. Needless

24:56

to say, I have not been given any

24:58

household presents since. No,

25:00

too right. Good show. I

25:02

think genuinely my dad bought

25:04

my mum a hoover one year. Yeah,

25:06

I think my dad got my mum an

25:09

ironing board cover. Like

25:12

a flowery one. But she didn't want it.

25:14

She was actually all right with it, but I just remember

25:16

going, ouch. Ben Turner says,

25:19

my granddad got me steel toe cap

25:21

trainers. Football was interesting.

25:23

But it was.

25:25

It even counts as a foul, I don't even know.

25:27

Yeah, they're loud.

25:30

I don't think so. I don't think so. Michelle

25:32

Chatters, who we mentioned earlier. Hedge

25:34

trimmers. Hedge trimmers for my birthday from my

25:36

husband. I was 28 weeks pregnant at the time.

25:39

Cheers. Yeah, that's not

25:41

a present for a pregnant woman, is it?

25:43

No, I mean, that's one hell of a hint,

25:45

that, isn't it?

25:46

Yeah, by the way. You've seen that, you just get

25:48

out there. I've heard about this thing where pregnant women

25:50

start sorting the house out. You

25:53

know. I'm going to front the energy and start

25:55

being ideal. You can start with a mensch. Next,

25:58

it's.

25:59

What do you call nesting?

26:02

What do you get at? You've got black to deck of work, mate. Yeah,

26:04

why don't you get that front guard and sorted look? Amazing.

26:09

Shona Crawford, a pair of white sports

26:11

socks, I mean, Nana on the 18th birthday, with

26:14

a zip in the ankle, so the house

26:16

key would be safe if I got drunk and lost

26:18

my handbag.

26:19

I mean, I think that's a practical gift.

26:21

That's pretty good, that. Socks with a pocket.

26:24

Socks with a pocket? Yeah, pocket.

26:27

Sock it, look at that. That's already a thing, though.

26:29

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's

26:31

go back to the drawing board, that one. Sarah

26:34

Marie, I once got a toilet seat for my birthday

26:36

and an ironing board for Valentine's Day. 30 years

26:39

in, he has learned that the way to a woman's heart

26:41

is not with household items.

26:43

I mean, well done, because I

26:45

don't think I would have made 30 years with that guy.

26:47

No way. I think you get one chance, but

26:50

then if an ironing board

26:51

followed, or whatever, I can't remember what he did. Toilet

26:53

seats. Toilet seat, go. That must

26:55

have been a joke. He must have had a little wry

26:57

smile. You can't genuinely

26:59

give a toilet seat as a present. That's got to be,

27:02

he's lasted 30 years because he's got a sense of humour,

27:04

I think. I hope you're right, because

27:06

if that was done genuinely,

27:08

did it have a big bow on it?

27:10

I mean, who knows, who knows what happened. Yeah.

27:14

Let's just hope it was a new one.

27:15

Okay. Secondhand toilet seat for

27:18

your birthday. Yeah,

27:19

I love it. I'll miss it a bit.

27:21

It was from the pub where we first met.

27:24

And there.

27:26

There's some things that shouldn't

27:28

be

27:28

in the re-gifting cupboard. Gillian

27:31

Campbell has once given towels

27:33

for my birthday for my mother-in-laws. Ria

27:36

says my brother wants bought scented

27:39

bin liners and wrapped them up for me, Mum's birthday.

27:41

That was a thing for a while, the old scented bin liner.

27:44

Yeah, but they never smelt nice because

27:46

it's just sort of rubbish and air freshener

27:49

is what it's not. Yeah, not. It

27:51

just reminded me actually that I, you

27:53

know, I'm a woman in her forties now, Jason. I know it's

27:56

mad, isn't it? Yeah, get that, Tay. I know. But

27:58

I have realised that I think once you... If you turn 40

28:00

as a woman, people don't know what to buy

28:02

you anymore.

28:03

And at some point in my life,

28:06

I must have said that I like scented candles.

28:08

Oh, never.

28:11

Never mention anything.

28:12

Oh my, I've got drawers full of,

28:14

I just save them for power cut. If we have a power cut

28:16

now, it's going to smell like Gwyneth Paltrow in

28:18

a pine

28:19

forest in my house. I don't, it's,

28:21

yeah. It's,

28:24

yeah, no, it's not worth mentioning anything

28:26

that you, my dad

28:28

bought me a didgeridoo one year. Did

28:31

you ask for one? Nope. Nope. I had no inclination.

28:35

Not particularly music or

28:37

in settings when it comes, I don't play any instruments, for example. And

28:40

there are

28:40

difficult instruments to play.

28:41

I mean, really tough.

28:42

You've got to do that circular breathing

28:44

thing. And he said,

28:46

well, you know, you're at an age now,

28:48

you've got a job, you're doing well for yourself. If

28:51

you want something, you just go and get it, don't you? So

28:53

I just thought, what would he never buy himself?

28:56

That's not how you think of, what

28:58

should I get someone? What would he never buy himself?

29:01

What does he definitely not want? Keep

29:05

it with your best back, there he

29:07

is, fire away.

29:16

It's too

29:19

long.

29:19

I'm here doing the sort of, that

29:22

rock symbol, you know, the kind of horns, I'm feeling

29:24

it.

29:25

That's what I should hope so. I should hope so. Let

29:27

me explain, hit me with your best facts, Angela.

29:30

This is a feature that we play each week. It's

29:34

not

29:36

avoided controversy, shall we say. Over

29:40

the years, over the last two weeks, to

29:42

be honest, we've got the odd thing wrong. But this week,

29:44

I'm feeling confident. I'm feeling very confident.

29:47

Essentially, what we're after is a fact

29:49

that is so good, it makes

29:51

me or you want to Google

29:53

it and find out more about it.

29:56

Right, okay.

29:57

Or, and

29:59

or, should I say. the sort

30:01

of fact you you can sort of slip into conversation

30:04

and just like use it as part of your new

30:06

knowledge. Make you look clever. Yeah

30:08

that's what I think. So

30:10

if you want to get involved you go email me Jason at absoluteradio.co.uk

30:14

and you win yourself a Jason Manford

30:16

show mug.

30:18

Ooh! There you go exactly

30:20

that is correct response. I'll

30:23

be good practicer. Let's

30:25

see if we can wow Angela with your facts this

30:27

week. So Stuart Tucker has said

30:30

the person who invented the stop

30:32

sign, the pedestrian crosswalk,

30:35

the traffic circle, the one-way

30:38

street sign, the taxi stand

30:40

and the pedestrian safety islands

30:44

is a guy called William Phelps Eno

30:47

and he never learnt to drive.

30:50

Wow so he invented all that road

30:52

furniture. Yeah. But much

30:55

a lot of it is for pedestrian safety

30:57

isn't

30:57

it? That's true. So I suppose he's looking

30:59

off the number one there. Yeah I mean pedestrian crosswalk

31:01

he's gone right how can I get across here now?

31:04

Yeah I'm stuck here I don't have a car to get over there.

31:06

What

31:07

we're gonna do? William Phelps

31:09

Eno what a name. So there you go that's a good one. That's a

31:11

good one. And Mike Gallagher says in 1967 David

31:15

Attenborough had to help introduce color

31:18

TV to the UK when watching tennis

31:20

he found it hard to spot and then

31:23

the then white ball especially when the ball

31:25

got near a white line on the court so he suggested

31:28

the ball was changed to a fluorescent

31:30

yellow color that it still is

31:32

today.

31:33

So hang on tennis balls are

31:35

yellow because David Attenborough

31:38

couldn't see the white ball.

31:39

Yeah even in 1967 he carried that much

31:42

sway.

31:43

I mean he is

31:45

you know the national treasure isn't he?

31:47

Yeah. I was working at the BBC

31:50

once and in

31:52

the comedy radio comedy department and

31:54

suddenly everyone just rushed to the other

31:56

end of the building to the window and it's because David

31:59

Attenborough just stood up.

31:59

outside yeah you

32:02

know he's I mean once

32:04

the Queen went

32:05

yeah he's the top like

32:08

if he said look I'm gonna run the country for a few

32:10

years get us all back on track we'd all go

32:12

yeah all right

32:15

I don't think there's a person in this country who wouldn't

32:16

vote for him absolutely I

32:18

sat next I said that behind him at Wimbledon

32:21

oh wow one year funnily enough a tennis

32:23

David Attenborough tennis still into it now wow

32:26

and he was we

32:28

were sat quite a fight fair back at

32:30

fair back at Centre Court and

32:32

he had those little binoculars out and I was sat next

32:34

to Harry Hill at the time

32:36

randomly and Harry said is

32:40

he

32:41

is he watching the tennis with those or

32:43

is he spotted a little bowl I

32:45

love the idea that

32:47

he's just there to check the

32:49

balls

32:53

are

32:57

still yellow

32:58

yeah yeah what's

33:00

funny is he didn't mention it because

33:02

let me tell you Angela if I got

33:05

tennis to change the colour of their balls as

33:07

it was I would be like you know them

33:09

balls I was me that I did that

33:12

I'm telling everybody Martin

33:17

has messaged Bingo

33:20

was originally called Beno yeah

33:23

well it's because

33:26

players use beans to mark their

33:28

card it only changed when pencils became

33:31

more common

33:32

in households

33:33

so hang on so you're telling me people were

33:36

playing Bingo before

33:37

they had pencils

33:38

well in their house in their house

33:41

oh oh yes silly me of course

33:44

I mean I don't know why people are like pencils

33:46

in the garden but if you're down the middle of the house

33:49

are you mad what's going on here

33:51

what sort of newfangled idea is this?

33:54

La di da get in it, stop

33:56

with their pencils in their house you know

33:58

we're at number 27

33:59

a couple of pencils in her house. Yeah, a little

34:02

town. Oh my God. Yeah,

34:04

she told me last night at Beano,

34:06

not Beano, Bingo. Whatever

34:08

you call it. Beano, I'm

34:11

a mad idea. That's someone's like, Beano!

34:13

And

34:15

also, beans move. It's not the ideal,

34:18

you know, they can slip around a bit.

34:19

I don't think they mean, like, baked

34:21

beans from a, like, wet from a town. From a tin, not Heinz.

34:24

I'm hoping they're going dried. Dried

34:27

beans, yeah. You

34:29

can't use spaghetti hoops instead. No. That's

34:32

what you're telling me. Okay, good to know. Gary

34:34

Morale says, peanut butter

34:37

is one of the most controlled foods

34:39

in the FDA list. An average

34:42

of one or more rodent hairs and 30 or

34:45

so insect fragments are allowed

34:47

in every 100 grams, which is 3.5

34:50

ounces. The typical serving

34:53

size for peanut butter is 2

34:56

tablespoons. Wow. So.

34:58

Hang on. Yeah, go on. I

35:00

feel like you've got questions.

35:01

I've got a few questions because

35:05

they're allowed a rodent hair per 100

35:07

grams. Surely a jar of

35:09

peanut butter is a couple of hundred. So

35:11

there's a couple of rodent hairs in every jar.

35:14

Yeah, but it's only a hair, isn't it? Yeah, that's

35:16

the right name. It's all right. Yeah,

35:18

a little bit of rodent hair. Never heard anyone, did it?

35:20

It's fine, isn't it? Whoever died from a bit of rodent

35:22

hair. You mean more people died from the peanuts?

35:25

Well, that's true. Isn't it amazing? Maybe

35:28

we should be all eating rodent hair.

35:30

Rodent hair and insect fragments. Good

35:32

protein, I guess. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

35:35

Tucker's messaged in with his, hit me

35:37

with your best fact this morning, the

35:40

producers for Mork and Mindy had

35:42

to have a few translators on hand to

35:44

check what Robbie Williams said as

35:47

he had a habit of slipping in a few foreign

35:49

language swear words. Oh, he's a

35:51

naughty one, wouldn't he, Robbie Williams? I love that.

35:54

Yeah, you would do, wouldn't you? Yeah. Are

35:56

you telling me Shazbot is not a swear

35:58

word somewhere in the world?

36:00

Yeah, definitely. I

36:02

love the idea that they have a few translators

36:04

though, get as many languages covered as possible.

36:07

Yeah.

36:11

And Mark Clayton says, in France,

36:13

they call the walkie talkie a talkie

36:15

walkie. Well,

36:17

they do things a bit backwards, don't they,

36:19

in French language? I suppose you put your adjective. I've

36:21

got an interesting walkie talkie fact, actually. Oh,

36:23

come on then. Because I

36:25

do a history podcast, Jason. I don't know if you knew that. You do. Tells

36:27

about

36:28

it. Tells about it. It's called We Are History,

36:30

and it's me and John O'Farrell, the comedy

36:32

writer. And it's a very silly, funny

36:34

history podcast. So we're not historians,

36:36

but we're just nerds.

36:38

And an

36:40

early version of the walkie talkie was

36:43

used in World War II. I'm trying to get this right

36:45

now in my head. It was like

36:48

the OSS, which was the old CIA,

36:50

named for the CIA during World War II. And

36:53

it was called the Joan Eleanor,

36:56

this sort of prototype walkie talkie,

36:59

because it was named after the wives of the

37:01

two guys that used it. One

37:04

person had the Joan, and the other person had the Eleanor.

37:07

And they used them from Operation

37:09

Red Stocking, that's right. And they would

37:11

speak to spies behind enemy lines

37:14

from

37:14

airplanes using the Joan Eleanor walkie

37:16

talkie.

37:16

There you go. When you're not laughing, you're learning,

37:18

Jason. I love that. World

37:21

War II, they were called the Handy

37:22

Talkie as well at one point. The Handy

37:24

Talkie. The Handy Talkie. But walkie

37:26

talkie's a bit more fun, isn't it? Yeah, we like

37:29

things that rhyme, don't we? Yeah, I think so. I

37:31

think so. Some good, good facts

37:33

so far. We'll have two

37:35

more, and then we'll start having to think about

37:37

a winner. James Hedgecock

37:39

says, again, where's that surname come from?

37:42

Mmm, well... Don't

37:44

go near his garden. Don't go... Not

37:46

with the hedge trimmers, anyway. Don't Google

37:49

that one. Treadmills

37:52

were originally invented 200 years

37:55

ago as a form of punishment. Well,

37:57

they're still a form of punishment, aren't they, really?

37:59

Quite right, now you've just got an American person

38:02

going, you can do it man! Oh no! In

38:04

the little screen, come on! Come

38:06

on, be the best version of yourself. You can be

38:08

a work of art and a work in progress

38:10

at the same time.

38:12

Jason, are you the voice of

38:13

treadmills? I am very

38:15

much a peloton guy. I almost

38:17

just got up and started pacing, you've

38:20

really got me there.

38:20

I'm inspiring aren't I? Yeah. I'm

38:23

inspiring. Clara says there

38:26

is a town where 60% of residents

38:28

live underground. Wow.

38:30

Is

38:31

she thinking of Wimbledon? Is it Wimbledon?

38:33

Is she thinking of Wimbledon? Is she thinking of Wimbledon? Is

38:35

that what she's thinking of? Some

38:38

good facts this week, some strong facts, we're

38:40

going to have a little think and we're going to pick a winner after

38:42

this.

38:43

Absolute radio. Manfred.

38:45

Where real music

38:48

matters. And we've

38:50

got to come up with a winner for

38:52

our Hit Media Best Facts. I'm going to rattle through the ones

38:54

that we've had. And then

38:57

as you're our guest this morning, I'm going to let you help

38:59

choose a winner of the Jason Manfred Show

39:01

mug. If you want to join in at any point, all you've got to

39:03

do is email me, jason at absolute radio dot co dot

39:05

uk. Here is the selection of this

39:07

week. We had Stuart who told us about the fellow

39:09

who invented the stop sign and the pedestrian crosswalk

39:12

and the one way street and all that sort of stuff. Never

39:14

learnt to drive. Mike Gallagher told us that

39:16

David Attenborough helped

39:19

essentially turn the tennis balls from

39:21

white to yellow, the ones we use still

39:24

to this day. Bingo was originally

39:26

called Beano, according to Martin. Gary told

39:28

us about the rodent hairs you can find

39:31

in peanut butter. Every jar apparently has got a

39:33

couple. Mork and Mindy.

39:35

Robbie Williams had a habit of slipping foreign

39:37

swear words into his script

39:39

and they had a couple of translators on set. Mark Clayton

39:42

told us that in France the walkie talkie is called the talkie

39:45

walkie. Old James Hedgecock

39:47

told us that treadmills were originally invented 200 years

39:50

ago as punishment. Angela quipped

39:52

that they still are. Clara

39:55

says there is a town where 60%

39:58

of residents live underground.

39:59

of all those facts that have come in Angela

40:02

and thinking of the criteria of what

40:04

can win this game which is

40:06

which one do you know want to know more about which ones tempted

40:09

you into Google and which one

40:11

do you think you'll be using

40:14

I mean for me it's got to be Attenborough isn't

40:16

it I'm dying to find out more about how

40:18

we change the colour of tennis balls

40:20

yeah

40:21

good shout good shout you

40:23

can't go wrong really when you throw an Attenborough fact in it

40:25

on this show we love we love Attenborough facts

40:28

we love octopus facts

40:30

that's another random thing we quite like

40:32

and we like Lego facts these are different ones that

40:34

we get we get we sort of go through themes

40:38

every so often and did

40:40

you know for example Angela

40:42

that one of the legs of an

40:44

octopus one of the eight

40:46

legs is its penis

40:49

no mm-hmm so

40:51

if you have a shaken hands we want just be careful well

40:56

I mean only we've called it a leg

40:59

yeah the octopus is giving it I mean I've

41:08

got seven legs mate I know what you're talking

41:10

about but thank

41:13

you I'm honored right

41:19

so that's a winner for us Mike Gallagher

41:22

told us that David Attenborough when

41:25

watching tennis found it hard to spot the

41:27

then white ball when the so

41:29

he suggested a ball was changed to a fluorescent yellow colour

41:32

that is still used to this day so a mug

41:35

winging its way out to you fella

41:36

come

41:43

on in you listen to the Jason Manford show

41:45

on absolute radio now one of the best

41:48

I feel bad say new comics

41:50

because he's not new he's been going for a long

41:52

time but he may be newer to

41:55

you selling out gigs all over

41:57

the place just smashed a tour got a podcast

42:00

which is tens of thousands of listeners.

42:03

One of the best, hottest things to come out of Liverpool in

42:05

recent years, Adam Rowe. Good morning

42:07

Adam. Hiya mate, you know what I like? Very

42:09

well mate, very very well. 70 shows

42:12

on sale all over the country,

42:14

including the major cities. But the big

42:16

news, yesterday I was following

42:18

on socials of course, not only

42:21

have you sold out a night

42:23

at the Liverpool Empire in your home city,

42:25

you've put an extra show on sale.

42:28

Yeah, we're doing two on the same night, so

42:29

that's not until March next year,

42:32

that's scheduled at the minute to be the

42:34

last night of the tour.

42:35

But I do know that there's

42:37

a couple more going to be added just after that,

42:40

at least. But at the minute the plan is to

42:42

finish at the Liverpool Empire and we're going to film it for

42:44

the special two shows one night. Like

42:47

that's always been my bucket list venue.

42:49

That's the first place I ever

42:51

see in comedy live ever,

42:54

which was Ross Noble in 2009. So

42:56

to get to do it myself

42:59

was mad enough as it

43:02

is, but to get to do two shows in one night and

43:04

film it is going to be pretty

43:07

special. Mate, it's absolutely incredible.

43:10

I know sometimes when you're in the middle

43:12

of it, you think gosh this has taken

43:14

a while to, you know, I've done that, I've done the comedy

43:17

store, I've done bits of TV, live at the Apollo,

43:19

everything takes ages. But from the outside looking

43:21

in, it's been meteoric

43:24

your eyes. It's been pretty rapid,

43:26

yes. So it's quite funny, like obviously

43:28

we're people like yourself and those who are

43:31

a bit more experienced than me. I am still

43:33

a newer comic to you guys, but

43:35

it's 13 years now and I don't think there's another

43:38

industry in the world where you

43:40

can be 13 years in and considered

43:42

one of the new kids. It's an overnight success. 13

43:46

years. Well the

43:49

first sort of eight years you're trying to learn,

43:51

I was to be funny, aren't you? You can be doing well at gigs,

43:53

but you're not necessarily good at stand up for the first

43:55

year and then it's

43:58

the podcast that starts up with Dan Knight. Gail

44:00

just before Covid hit. That's

44:03

what sort of propelled everything because I've gone

44:05

from doing you know small tours,

44:07

doing the odd things, comedy clubs that I get to sell

44:09

my own tickets to now like you

44:11

know. Tell us about the podcast then, what separates

44:14

that from the other millions of podcasts

44:16

that are out there?

44:18

I think first of all when me and Dan started

44:21

looking to do one, Dan wanted

44:23

a niche and I was like he was like being

44:25

funny is not enough and I very cockily

44:27

and adequately said yeah but being the funniest

44:29

it's like if we could be the funniest

44:33

one. I think all of the

44:35

podcasts are trying to you know think about what

44:37

people at home are going to laugh at. I said

44:39

to Dan I was like you know you're the top shelf

44:41

comedian, I'm a good comma. If

44:43

I can make you laugh and you can make me laugh

44:45

because it's harder to make comedians laugh then

44:48

imagine how much people are going to be laughing at home so let's

44:50

not even think about the people listening.

44:52

Let's just try and make everyone in the

44:54

room that we're recording it laugh. And

44:56

that seems to be working when we had like

44:59

my best mate was out of the bizarre producer and

45:01

he then got put on my because he's so funny. And

45:05

the team we've built around it like Will is

45:07

our camera king, Matthew

45:09

is our fixer and Jack is our photographer.

45:13

The team we've built around the podcast like people

45:15

do just see three of us sat in a room talking

45:17

but like we recorded a special day

45:20

today to go on our Patreon page and

45:22

we had a crew of 17 people coming

45:24

all around the people with us because amazing. We've

45:27

got your full product and everything now haven't you? Yeah

45:30

we're right in the middle of the pool we started in Runcorn

45:32

because it was cheap but then once we start making abilities

45:35

because like you came and did the one in Runcorn

45:37

with us and Jimmy Hart came and did the one in Runcorn

45:40

with us and like when Jimmy turned up Jimmy's

45:42

dead sound but as he turned up I could see him looking

45:44

at the place going what in god's name am

45:46

I doing on this industrial

45:48

estate in the middle of Runcorn and

45:51

it was the day Jimmy Carr was in and he left

45:53

that day Dan turned to me as

45:56

Jimmy left the room and Dan said we

45:58

need to look for the property and let the person move. there

46:00

because as the podcast gets bigger

46:02

and it becomes valuable for these big names to

46:04

come on and promote their books and their tours, he's

46:06

like I want them to come and be blown away. I don't

46:09

want them to be coming to this industrial stadium.

46:11

We're the only restaurant

46:13

in the KFC half an hour. So

46:16

quickly tell us what the podcast is called so people

46:18

can find it. So the podcast is

46:20

called Have a Word. You can get full

46:22

episodes on YouTube and on every podcast

46:25

platform. There you go. And where can people

46:27

get your tour tickets? Come

46:29

Rope.co.uk. I'm literally going

46:32

to everywhere all over the UK.

46:34

There's not many places that haven't got a show

46:36

within like, you know, half hour

46:38

to an hour's drive. Yeah. And

46:40

if you live in one of the major cities, especially like Manchester,

46:43

we're doing the Apollo, Newcastle City Hall,

46:45

Glasgow, the Pavilion, London, Leicester

46:47

Square Theatre, and then the two biggest

46:50

shows, the Liverpool Empire. So very

46:53

exciting time. Mate, I'm so pleased for

46:56

you. I'm glad it's going really well. I'm guessing you're going

46:58

to be too busy to support me now on tour. So

47:01

with your own with your own one going on. But

47:03

I'm glad, give me a text if you want me to come down and

47:05

do one, especially if it's in any of the ones I've got. I'll

47:09

do 20 minutes and then give it a go plug. Don't you worry

47:11

about that. But

47:13

no, it's great. It's just great to see how well you do,

47:16

mate. I'm really pleased for you. Brilliant comic. And

47:18

if you get a chance, have a

47:20

little look at Adam's stuff online. Occasionally,

47:23

his stuff goes viral because he's

47:25

on the pulse and he's saying

47:28

things that needs saying as well as being

47:31

very funny. So have a little look at Adamrow.co.uk

47:34

and grab one of those tickets while you still

47:36

can. Take care, mate. All the best. Nice one.

47:39

I really appreciate that. Thank you. See you soon,

47:41

mate. Good morning.

47:45

Eight and eleven. Jason Mansford on

47:47

Absolute Radio. Where real music

47:49

matters. Thanks for joining us this morning

47:51

here on Absolute Radio. Thanks to Angela

47:53

Barnes for stepping in last minute as well. Oh,

47:56

thanks for having me. Always a joy, Jason. I

47:58

know. It's lovely. Really lovely to speak to you. and we'll

48:01

see you soon because you're on tour.

48:02

I am, I've got my show Hot Mess is

48:06

going around the country so come

48:08

and join me I'm on tour right up to the end of November

48:10

so yeah plenty of time.

48:11

Brilliant and your podcast that you did with John?

48:13

A podcast is We Are History you

48:16

can get it where you download your podcasts and

48:18

we've got a little patreon as well you can join

48:20

for extra bits and bobs.

48:22

Fantastic stuff so that's all the info that you

48:24

need. They're lovely

48:26

to, for us to join us this morning

48:28

please listen to our podcast as well which

48:30

will be up very shortly and we'll see you same

48:33

time next week here on Absolute Radio. Hopefully

48:35

Steve's back next week

48:38

have a lovely Sunday have a

48:39

lovely week take care.