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Jason Manford.

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Absolute Radio. Where real music

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matters. Good morning. It's the Jason

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Manford Show on Absolute Radio.

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Hope you're very well. This Sunday

0:54

morning, Steve Edge is here.

0:57

He's there. He's everywhere. Well, I'm just

0:59

here at the minute. Just there, aren't you? Where

1:01

are you? Well, I'm

1:03

in my son's bedroom. He's

1:06

got like a bunk bed. So I'm in the bottom bunk.

1:08

Oh, so you're like sat on the bunk bed? I'm on the bottom bunk.

1:10

And I've got a giant teddy bear wrapped

1:14

around the microphone. You sound like you're doing an ASMR

1:16

thing. Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

1:18

I've got a teddy bear in my arms. Autonomous.

1:21

What is it? Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.

1:24

That's what it is, isn't it? Is it? I don't know, mate. Something

1:26

like that. Sounds like a good pub quiz question.

1:28

Well, yeah, I always get it. Anyway, yeah,

1:31

that's where I am. I

1:33

can see the solar system hanging

1:35

down. We've hung up some little planets.

1:39

Lovely. It's very cozy. It does

1:41

sound cozy. How come you're in there then, in that usual

1:43

room? Well, it's just easier than walking

1:45

up another flight of stairs. I

1:48

hear you, brother. I

1:50

hear what you're saying. I'm in my office.

1:53

Yeah. I'm in my office. Oh,

1:55

I had a mad thing that happened

1:58

this morning. What

1:58

happened? this morning so

2:01

I was just

2:03

a busy on I did the I was

2:07

doing the school run this morning then I was filming then

2:09

I'm back to do this so this so obviously

2:11

we record this in the week

2:15

for anybody who's wondering why there's a school run

2:17

on a Sunday and anyway

2:20

on the way to school this morning there

2:22

was a like a car just went up on

2:24

a up on the curb

2:26

and flips over on the side oh wow

2:29

I know and I

2:31

was like 30 seconds ago so I didn't see the actual

2:33

that I just saw the last bit of it yeah and

2:37

as I sort of look you know for a second you'd like

2:39

you're looking you think I don't know I'm looking at you yeah

2:42

I mean it's just so mental that

2:45

yeah the world has just gone on its side you

2:47

don't you don't see that outside of a computer game normally

2:50

no exactly all films and stuff and

2:52

then I looked and this and the door

2:54

the driver's side door was opening and

2:56

this girl was trying to like get out so

3:00

I said I pulled up I said jump

3:02

out the car run over leave all the kids

3:04

in the car and then like lift

3:07

this car door up I

3:10

tell you what Steve you don't know how heavy a car door

3:12

is that way around yes yeah because you got gravity

3:15

again you've only ever done it outwards and

3:17

back well it's built like that isn't it waited

3:20

to hinge that way isn't it heavy mate

3:22

is it what's up car was it I mean it's not important

3:25

but what sort of car was it just like a white Honda

3:27

or something okay so I had to

3:31

lift this door and then this girl

3:33

thankfully she was obviously a bit of a jim bunny

3:36

she was on the way to the gym to be fair um

3:38

clap uninjured absolutely fine managed

3:41

to climb out and and

3:43

she was okay and she was obviously a bit of shock and

3:47

didn't know how it happened and we rang the police and you know

3:49

all got sorted and her dad came all that

3:51

sort of stuff but my and

3:54

she's fine I actually drove back past

3:56

on me way back from the school run to check

3:58

she was alright she was sort of a bit calm But

4:02

the last thing thought since

4:05

seeing that was would

4:07

I have the upper body strength? Yeah,

4:10

to be able to get out

4:12

from the inside. Because she was inside

4:15

the car and she used her arms,

4:19

her upper body strength to get herself

4:21

out. Steve, I don't know if I would. No, and

4:23

also, you know, it won't lock will it? You

4:25

know like when you open the door, it's a certain point.

4:28

It locks, doesn't it? It

4:30

stops it coming back on you. That won't happen, will

4:32

it? If it's gravity and all that. No, but

4:34

I just thought to myself, I need to start doing some more

4:37

upper body work because you don't know when one of those real

4:40

life situations is going to happen and you're going to need it.

4:42

And only generally it'll only get you so fast, Steve. So

4:44

that, so when someone asks why you're in the gym, on

4:47

the weights, that's what you're going to say. I'm

4:49

going to say look. I saw this, no

4:51

one was there so we can smile about it. But

4:54

would I have the upper body strength or would

4:57

I just use the wind the winder down? I

5:00

mean I'd have gone through the boot, I think, in hindsight.

5:02

But I don't know, is there a button on the inside

5:04

of the boot to open it on the inside? No, I don't

5:07

think there is. Has kidnapping

5:09

films taught us nothing? No, that's in

5:11

every sort of gangster film I've ever seen. If

5:13

there was a button on the inside, they'd go, right, oh where's

5:15

he gone? Oh, press the button. Can we stop for

5:17

that little patient? There must be a

5:19

button on the inside now. No, I think

5:21

you can put one in. I've got one on my camper

5:24

van that I've put on the inside, you know. I

5:26

feel like my car has got those two,

5:28

like a red button to close it. That must also open

5:31

it, I think. Oh yeah, yeah, sometimes

5:33

there's a button inside, isn't there, on the drop by

5:35

the driver's bit, yeah. So that's,

5:37

kidnappers have really limited their options there with that

5:40

invention. Mmm, they have, they have. That's a really overthink,

5:42

things crikey. Do you think

5:44

you've got the upper body strength? Because you're, I

5:46

mean you don't strike me as someone with...

5:49

With what?

5:51

I don't, and this is not an insult, I'm not saying... It turns like it's

5:53

going to be an insult. No, no, that's why I stopped talking because

5:55

I found it's like... I don't like quiet, do they? Yeah.

5:58

I guess what I'm trying to say is, you're not someone... someone who strikes,

6:00

because you're so long. Yeah. I

6:03

don't think you, your arms... Yeah.

6:11

Let's just play a song or something. I feel like... No,

6:13

I know what you're saying, but I won't say it. I don't think

6:15

your arms are strong enough to get the rest of your body

6:18

out of a situation like that. I think the two

6:20

things you need to know about me is I'm long

6:23

and I'm powerful. Okay.

6:27

So, I think it's like when

6:29

people see me dance, they tell you someone that

6:31

long and they go, well, that can't be happening,

6:34

but it is and it does. Right.

6:36

That's funny, because I have seen you dance. Yeah,

6:39

but you haven't seen me dance properly. I've just been,

6:41

you know, showboating for the room. So

6:48

you reckon you've got enough strength to get out of a car

6:50

in an accident? Just using your

6:52

upper body strength? I mean,

6:54

I'd like to think so, but I mean, you

6:56

know, I hope I never have to find out. No,

6:59

mate, look, I don't wish it on anyone. Nobody.

7:02

Especially if that happened to me and then,

7:04

you know, you drove past, you'd go, Told you.

7:08

You can't part that there. Yeah. Yeah,

7:11

told you you didn't have the upper body

7:13

strength. Long and powerful.

7:16

At your funeral. Yeah.

7:19

You knew the gym. Yeah, it was a part of that. Right,

7:21

you said to him. Yeah. And

7:23

I feel bad now. I

7:25

said you wouldn't have the upper body strength, but you know what? He

7:27

didn't, because if he did, we wouldn't be here

7:29

today. Yeah. Blah, as I about it,

7:31

he was. Right, I'm going to go and do some press ups. He

7:34

said he was powerful.

7:37

That's what's going on in his great stove. Long

7:39

and powerful. Long and powerful.

7:43

Long. Yeah. Yeah. Again.

7:47

Question. The day. The

7:49

day. Question. The day. The

7:52

day. Question. The day.

7:55

The day. The day. Beautiful.

7:58

I'm not

8:01

going to say it again because I said it every week but it

8:04

just makes me laugh. Right,

8:07

I've got some questions for you Steve.

8:11

Some quite simple ones actually. Pete Morris just

8:14

said, hi Steve, do you prefer a cherry bakewell

8:16

or a slice of Battenberg? I

8:20

think just because of the tension

8:23

around the bakewell, you know the tension

8:25

around the bakewell don't you?

8:27

You can go to a bakewell. There's

8:29

two very different 300 year old recipes. They're

8:33

totally different but none of them have

8:35

a cherry on. Giplins just come in,

8:38

he's stoked the fire to an unbelievable

8:40

level so I'd have to go with a Battenberg

8:43

just because I don't want any part of that. Yeah,

8:46

I mean it's almost like a cultural

8:49

appropriation from that area isn't it in a way? Yeah, I

8:51

mean one end of the street thinks

8:53

the other end of the street is doing cultural appropriation

8:56

so you then come in, Mr Kipling,

8:58

I mean I've never even seen a picture of this fella. I

9:00

mean I've seen what Aunt Bessie used to look like and

9:02

Uncle Ben but what does

9:05

Mr Kipling look like? Yeah, Mr Kipling, who is he? I've never

9:07

seen a picture of him. I've seen Phileas Fogg as

9:09

a picture but I've never seen

9:12

Kipling. French fans says he

9:14

can do it all. I bet the French

9:16

go, I've never seen that guy before in my life.

9:18

You know what I

9:21

mean? Is he a real person?

9:23

I don't know, maybe it's

9:25

like a, you know, it's dance or something. Cakes.

9:28

Go off. I

9:31

don't know, I already did it, see it's not a case. It's already

9:33

wrong. It's already wrong, yeah. Maybe

9:36

it's, you know, maybe it's, I don't know, maybe there was a

9:38

Mr Kipling. I hope he wasn't from Bakewell. I

9:41

also don't think, I

9:44

don't think Uncle Ben's really the guy with

9:46

the picture. I don't think any of those people are real. Aren't Bessie?

9:49

No. I don't believe in any of these people. No,

9:51

I've just Googled that he's not even real,

9:54

see, he's never, he never, there's a fictional character

9:56

invented by marketers. So he

9:58

was never, there was never a Mr Kipling. They didn't even dress

10:00

somebody up once. It's not a Ronald

10:03

McDonald, is there really? But at least they

10:05

dressed him up a fellow. Yeah, at least they went for it, yeah. Unbelievable.

10:10

I guess Rudyard Kipling. But

10:12

it's not the same. No.

10:16

Well there you go, that was a question. Battenberg.

10:20

Is that what you're going for? I

10:22

don't mind a Battenberg. When

10:24

I did Celebrity Bake Off, I made a

10:26

green Battenberg. It was

10:28

for Sport Relief, it was

10:30

when it was on BBC, it was when it was proper, not this one now. I

10:34

should joke about it. And

10:36

yeah, I made a

10:38

green one to be like a cricket

10:40

pitch. Oh yeah, I know. I

10:43

made a little Ash's trophy, real size Ash's

10:45

trophy made out of Ash's. Did it taste alright

10:47

or did it look good? It looked better than

10:50

it tasted. It looked lovely actually. The

10:53

only thing I didn't do was put gloves on. So my hands

10:55

were green for about two weeks. Yeah,

10:58

you should have put cricketers gloves on. Yeah,

11:01

that would have made it harder but it would have been more in

11:03

keeping. Still, it's authentic isn't it, to keep it. I've

11:06

got some more questions for you here, Steve. Okay. So

11:09

we'll crack on with these. This

11:12

is from Louise, she says, Hi, I'm Louise, I'm

11:14

from Wolverhampton. Oh, good lass.

11:17

Is there a greeting if

11:19

you meet someone else from Wolverhampton? Yeah, alright,

11:21

something like that. Is that what you'd say? Yeah,

11:24

alright, I don't know. No, that's not a greeting,

11:26

not a specific greeting. You know that A up, you

11:29

know, you've got that, and you're alright mate. You're

11:31

alright, just you're alright. We'll go you're

11:33

alright. Fair enough. Well, she's

11:35

from Wolverhampton but she now lives in France. Oh, very

11:37

exotic, very different. I

11:40

wonder if you could say hello in

11:42

French but in a Wolverhampton accent. Bonjour.

11:51

Yeah, I mean that's exactly what I thought it was going to be

11:54

and yet it still seems to be my surprise. Yeah, that's

11:56

exactly what it would sound like. Yeah, it made me laugh.

11:59

What was the name again? Louise. Je

12:01

m'appelle Louise. Isn't that same? Her

12:03

name is Louise. Yeah. Yeah, so

12:05

that's her. Oh, wait, another. I

12:07

was going to introduce

12:10

herself in rural France. Well,

12:15

she lives in France. I've got new neighbours that

12:17

have been here for two months. First they had chickens,

12:19

ducks and chicks, which is really

12:21

noisy and smelly. And now they've added

12:23

two dogs, which they leave

12:26

all night barking and the people go to sleep in

12:28

a house up the road away from the noise. Should

12:31

I leave a note on the door in French

12:34

to say their animals wake us up and

12:36

keep us awake or do I go to

12:39

the mayor of the village?

12:41

It's

12:42

tricky, isn't it, really? I

12:45

feel like even if you went to the mayor of the village,

12:47

they're going to side with the French people.

12:49

With the French. You know what I mean? It's

12:52

just so we keep the chickens here. You know what I mean? If

12:55

you do not like it, go bet your petting him or wherever

12:57

you are from. She's probably from some of my posh in Wolverhampton.

13:00

Cudson. Somewhere like that. I

13:04

don't know what you do there because if

13:07

it's a rural village, then that's what happens, isn't

13:09

it? You can't really complain about that, can you?

13:12

I mean, you can't really complain about that in Wolverhampton,

13:15

if I'm honest. No, but I think in

13:17

the middle of Wolverhampton, someone's got to go to chickens

13:19

and geese. No, somebody just boot the chicken,

13:21

probably. Shut it up. That's what would happen

13:23

in Wolverhampton. Well, hopefully. I'm not saying

13:25

she should do that because it's wrong, but I

13:28

don't know what the answer to that is. I

13:31

think you've chosen to live in this. Yeah,

13:34

but she was there first. I

13:36

know. I mean, as in she wasn't. She's

13:40

from Wolverhampton, but the neighbours

13:42

have come to say. The other option, because if

13:44

you go to the mayor, I think you'll side with the French. I think if

13:46

you put a note through, because I think you're being condescending,

13:49

just go full-on Wolverhampton and

13:52

then they might just back down. You

13:55

know what I mean? Just charge, oh, he's good, I am.

13:58

Just really go for it. There's

14:00

chickens everywhere, horses, and

14:03

dogs really lose it and

14:05

then they might just go hong kong padong

14:08

padon, mouche de gocarral. Just

14:11

goc it. That could work. Yeah, worth

14:13

a go. Worth a go. I'm on

14:17

Google Translate, I'm trying to get Wolverhampton to

14:19

French... Denon that. It's

14:21

not on there, no. It's got everything else. That's

14:24

weird. That is weird. Vous

14:27

animus sans brianse le

14:30

nuit. Your animals, something

14:32

in the night. Nuit. Nuit?

14:35

You say nuit. You say le nuit,

14:38

yeah, I guess so. Let me see what she... Oh, it

14:40

doesn't play, does it?

14:42

Brianse

14:43

le nuit. Vous

14:46

animus sans brianse le

14:48

nuit. She just turns her radio

14:50

really loud now and this will solve

14:53

the problem. Yeah, I would actually. You can do the layer, right?

14:55

Yeah. Shut

14:58

your animals up,

15:00

you French... No,

15:04

I'll leave that be. What's

15:06

this one? Tezivo animu... Shut

15:09

your animals up. Shut your

15:11

animals up. Tezivo

15:14

animu... Grab that. Yeah, there you go.

15:16

Salt.

15:17

Salt. Salt. Salt.

15:20

Salt. Salt. Salt.

15:23

Salt. Salt. Salt.

15:26

Salt. Salt.

15:28

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15:30

Salt! Salt. Salt.

15:33

Salt Salt. Salt. Salt.

15:36

Salt. Salt salt Salt. give

16:00

your yes the great your garden

16:02

to you take your grapes then everyone does it there's

16:04

next door neighbors have got very similar grapes I

16:07

think they are the same grapes there's a little you

16:09

know local grape and

16:11

we send it down there and they they

16:14

do the wine stuff tread on it whatever they

16:16

do I don't know they did that anymore and

16:18

then we get it back next sort of March April I

16:21

think I think that's how long it takes Wow

16:23

so yeah first year we were here didn't do anything

16:25

on the vines had enough grapes for like

16:27

I think we had nine bowls the

16:30

sheer did it while I was away Malta 44 bottles

16:33

all so I want to name

16:36

this year didn't bother to label for nine

16:38

bottles no no but now but

16:40

now it's got a label it's

16:43

got I've got a register at company's house this

16:45

stuff to do you know I mean I

16:48

am as this what's gonna be all our Christmas presents

16:51

could be what you will know it no one be it over

16:53

for Christmas it be Easter presents he's

16:56

the present so yeah that actually works

16:58

all right so we've got some we've got a lot

17:00

of suggestion got some good on

17:04

the emails Jason absolute radio dot co.uk so ideally

17:07

I want I want you know I want what Rose

17:10

because it is a mate would you can use

17:12

to make your pod Rose wine I

17:14

live in st. Lander Zaunce or you can use hasten

17:16

to that helps mm-hmm me

17:18

names edge all of these things

17:21

could be part of the the new

17:23

brand you could be an influencer

17:25

if you play cards right you could be an influencer on this and

17:27

bottle of Hastings you said no to did yeah well

17:29

there is there was a wine shop in town called

17:32

the bottle of hey Phil said what about battle of tastings

17:35

I mean yeah yeah it's

17:37

not wise it doesn't sound like it's gonna be a

17:39

nice wine if it's a bottle with

17:41

you know

17:44

what a big up a little bit and

17:47

he says battle of tastings sounds a bit too much to

17:49

like a plot of Midsomer Murders where a wine

17:51

judge from the local wine society is killed by

17:53

an amateur wine producer and you know what I'd watch

17:55

that I've got that's brilliant in

17:57

it Phil

18:00

also says, what about drinking on the edge? Drinking

18:03

on the edge, again, it just sounds a little bit like

18:05

you're on a pier, you know, with

18:08

your legs dangling down on your fourth

18:10

bottle, just shed the sea. That's what

18:12

that sounds, that'd be the picture I'd put on the bottle

18:14

actually. Yeah, that looks good

18:17

though, I quite the sound of that. Martin

18:19

says, what about edge rose wine? I

18:21

play on words of like hedge rose, so

18:24

like edge rose wine. I can see where he's going

18:26

there, yeah. Hedge rose. That's all right, yeah.

18:29

Sarah Appley says, what about edge

18:31

of heaven?

18:34

Edge of reason, I think,

18:36

more than anything. Edge of reason, edge of fantasy. These

18:39

are the possible biography titles, depending on

18:41

how it goes really, innit? Yeah,

18:44

of course. Yeah, yeah. Has any come

18:46

up in your family and friendship groups? No.

18:50

No, no, no, nothing. Solely counting on the listener

18:52

here. Yeah, I am, I've put my eggs

18:54

in one list of baskets. Malcolm

18:57

says wine should be called Saint

19:00

Eve's wine. Like Steve's.

19:03

Yeah, that's not bad actually. Not

19:05

bad, is it? The problem with a lot of

19:07

them, if you have to explain it, right,

19:09

I'll give you an example, right. In

19:11

my camper van, I used to have a little box that I kept

19:13

a couple of bottles of wine in when I went away camping,

19:16

right, and on it it said van du van,

19:19

right? And obviously I've spelt the first one like Vin,

19:21

like wine. But again, see, if I have to

19:23

explain it, it doesn't work. If you see the

19:25

box, you go, oh, that's clever. But if I have to

19:27

go, that like Vin, do, you

19:29

know, and it's a van, it doesn't work.

19:32

So I want one with it, I want the one, that

19:34

is good, Saint Eve's wine, I like

19:36

it. Okay, what

19:39

about this one, John Peeper, he says, hi Steve, I

19:42

suggest cutting edge to the

19:44

edge and back. Two

19:47

different ones. Yeah, so he's, yeah, for

19:50

some reason he's, Well, now there is two, though, isn't

19:52

there? Because there's a rose and there will be a white. So,

19:54

you know, we could play with this. Cutting edge

19:56

is good, because that used to be the comedy, comedy that

19:58

we used to do in the comedy store. back in the day but

20:00

it might give you bad memories yeah

20:03

cutting edge it's all right I've

20:05

just started having a found I don't even found it yet to

20:08

the edge and back no it's not quite right is

20:11

it yeah if I had my

20:13

own bacon I'd call it to the edge and back yeah

20:16

yeah he says why not why

20:19

not yeah like why not

20:22

it's good yeah all right or

20:24

grape find okay

20:27

this is a great find grape find

20:29

yeah yeah hmm

20:33

I feel like I said these are not these are not landing okay

20:35

no we've got luckily we've got a little

20:38

more thing that we've got not

20:40

filtered them we've just reading them all out no no no we're not

20:42

filter them these are roll they

20:44

come I think oh they are as the

20:46

grapes are now just I'm emptying exactly

20:49

and I'm gonna be ready for next was to

20:52

make a great wine out of this and Lisa

20:55

Parsons says pergolas edge

20:58

hmm I can see because it we did say they're growing

21:00

over a pergola yeah yeah or

21:02

the pink pergola mmm that's

21:04

nice because it is rosy that's quite nice

21:07

the pink pergola is quite good that's quite

21:09

cute it's quite good I'm liking that

21:11

one yeah Lisa's doing well

21:13

so far right well I'm gonna

21:16

have to come back to this Steve because yet

21:18

again so many I

21:20

feel like we've not quite got the right one and I know

21:22

already people are on going oh so you

21:25

know that you know the the

21:27

bits we want we want something maybe something to

21:29

do with edge the surname Steve you've got

21:31

Steve's back catalog on IMDB absolute

21:34

radio Leonard's

21:36

on say Leonard's Wolverhampton originally

21:39

can I turn the air canic yeah any

21:41

of the black country any of those yeah

21:43

so just just call it black country

21:45

plug sounds good as well Jason

21:49

absolute radio that could UK

21:53

Manfred okay

22:00

Right

22:00

we can only spend one more link on this

22:03

Steve we can't talk about it all morning You

22:05

know what you want to know I

22:07

could So it's not fitting

22:09

to found it yet. It's an easy winning so far.

22:11

I like the pink the purglar panther But

22:13

yeah, I think that's pretty good as well. Okay,

22:16

here we go then So what about

22:18

so we've got edge of st. Leonard's? Mm-hmm.

22:21

I'm Wayne St. Leonard's edge

22:24

Yeah, so same thing, but that's good edge of life

22:26

homemade wine effort Eddie says

22:30

Chris says a vino edge nice

22:32

with a pie and veg Jude

22:38

says what about plonk le blanc Plonk

22:41

le blanc like yeah whites well, that's it's got

22:44

it madam blanc as well. Well, that's it I

22:46

think the white might be called madam blanc.

22:48

It's the rosé. I think the right Well

22:52

Stewart said what about this edge?

22:54

Benny Blanc noir And

22:57

he says it covers Benadorm madam blanc

22:59

and Phoenix Knights Own

23:02

why yeah, of course. Yeah, I thought yeah Benny

23:05

Blanc noir no, I know noir's just black

23:07

isn't it? Yeah, but I guess he's gone

23:09

for night night Nui

23:12

Nui he probably he probably says yeah, they go Any

23:16

block and obviously Benadorm's on the cast of Blanca

23:18

as well. So Mmm Well

23:22

when you said about explaining things that is a lot to explain

23:27

What about edges hedge Yeah,

23:33

that feels like bargain basement if

23:35

you saw that Edges edge

23:38

I feel like that would come in one of those plastic

23:40

things that the antifreeze comes in You know those

23:42

five litres at the side of come in

23:44

from somewhere in Somerset Yeah, Adam

23:47

says Tiffle from the edge And

23:50

he says about Leonard's edge Leonard's

23:53

edge. Yeah, so it works and Samantha's

23:57

just gone. Why don't you call it Billy Dawson? It's

24:00

a bit too on the nose and it's really... Yeah.

24:03

That was... Just a big picture of your Benadon character

24:06

on there. Not your character on Benadon, was it? Yeah, the little...

24:08

Edge of the Sea, the sea's edge, says Andy. Edge of the

24:10

Sea's alright. Edge of the Sea's quite

24:13

nice. Edge of Reasoning. Mmm. If

24:15

it comes out pretty strong, says Phil. Living

24:19

on the edge, Rose, Ellie. I

24:21

think this is the winner. This is from Keen. And

24:24

I think you're gonna like this. Go on. Vin

24:28

Chat. Oh,

24:30

that is good. So you mean Vanchat?

24:32

Vanchat, really. Oh, is it, yeah, Vanchat, yeah, sorry. But

24:35

it's now Vanchat. Yeah, Vin Chat, Vin Vanchat. You let

24:37

your face... Vin, Vin. Is that how you

24:39

say, why are you doing?

24:40

Vin.

24:41

Yeah. Vin. Oh

24:43

yeah, like Hotel de Varn, yeah. So, okay. So, with

24:45

his German... Is it hashtag? Is it

24:48

hashtag Vanchat? Hashtag Vanchat. Oh, it's gotta be hashtag

24:50

Vanchat, hasn't it? I think... Got

24:52

to be, hasn't it? And chat. Hashtag

24:54

Vanchat. Hang on, chat is cat, isn't it? So I could

24:56

have a little picture of me cat on it. He's

24:59

good. So he's got... Yeah. Does

25:01

cover a hashtag? And your van, if you want. No,

25:04

I'll just go with a vin. No, it'll be just...

25:06

I'll have a bin. A cat in a bin, like that

25:09

woman from Coventry. Yeah, get that woman from Coventry. A cat in a

25:11

bin. I'll get a picture of her on the... I don't

25:13

understand what this is. Vanchat.

25:16

And the pictures of that woman's face is through the cat in

25:18

the bin. Yeah. There

25:20

you go. Smashed it. Got

25:22

the name. Hashtag Vanchat. Yeah, perfect.

25:24

Very good. Very good. Well

25:26

done. Well done, hive mind. We're

25:29

very impressed. Very good. Keep it with your

25:31

fans back. Fire away. All right. So...

25:35

Before

25:45

we start, can I just say before we start, have you

25:47

noticed on Twitter there's two people who've

25:49

got two mugs. What's

25:51

that about? I know. I

25:53

have no one actually. That is unfortunate, isn't it? But

25:55

two people have won twice. Yeah.

25:59

Somebody had two mugs. and a egg

26:01

cup. Egg cup? Yeah I saw that. I

26:04

know it does feel like you know because we're

26:07

here thinking we're playing this game and hundreds

26:09

of thousands of people. Are they using the same name or are they using the same

26:11

name and we haven't remembered? I

26:13

think it's probably more likely that. Yeah I think

26:15

so too. Mad here. Well

26:18

what I'll have to do now is whatever one I think I'm gonna

26:20

choose I'll choose the second one just

26:23

to throw up. Nice

26:25

I like it. Hit me with your second

26:27

best fan. If

26:30

you want to join in please email

26:32

us jasonabsoluteradio.co.uk.

26:35

Scott Collins starts us off with Antarctica

26:37

is the only continent without spiders.

26:40

Well

26:41

I'm not surprised. Not

26:44

daft are they? No. It's cold isn't it?

26:47

Thank you. Very good

26:49

one. I feel like that's one of those facts that could

26:51

be about a lot of things though.

26:53

Mmm yeah.

26:54

A lot of animals are insects.

26:56

I can't imagine there's many bees there

26:59

is there? No yeah.

27:03

Danny Berkman my fact is that

27:05

according to research there are four accents

27:07

in Greater Manchester. Four? Mmm.

27:11

Manc, Lancashire,

27:14

Posh and Wigan. That

27:18

can't be true. You missed out

27:20

Scally. That's Manc.

27:23

No is it more Salford? You

27:26

know what I mean? Yeah. Well

27:28

Greater Manchester

27:30

yeah. I'm not sure that's true. I

27:33

mean technically Greater

27:35

Manchester. Yeah. Greater

27:37

Manchester. Salford's it's own city. He said Lancashire

27:40

hasn't he? But

27:42

then that's more like that isn't

27:45

it? But is that part of Greater Manchester? Bolton

27:48

I guess. He didn't say Bolton though but that's an accent

27:51

to Wigan isn't it? And Burnley and Chorley.

27:53

Why is Wigan the only town?

27:56

Also even like here where I am in Stockport

27:58

as well has got a slightly different accent. Obviously it's

28:00

that one, isn't it? Aren't I? How's it going? Yeah,

28:03

that's... That's Arnold. Like, that's that one. Yeah.

28:06

And there's Lang... What would you say? Mine?

28:10

Mine was posh. Mmm... Yours

28:12

is... Yeah, I'd say yours is like stop port. I know you're not from there, but

28:14

I don't think you've got a full-on Wally

28:16

Raine Jackson. No, I think my

28:19

accent's changed because of me job,

28:21

I suppose. I'm having to talk to people all over the place, so...

28:23

Yeah. Can't go, alright, I'm going to have it

28:25

in the middle of... Well, you say that, but remember when we were in the bank

28:28

once and there was a fella. Stop port.

28:31

And he's like on the phone

28:33

and he's like, I just thought you credit card

28:35

out for your now mate. And me and you were

28:37

about to sat there and he rang somebody and he went, yeah, he just... He... Card's

28:40

not working, so I... Hang on, I'll just ask him, what's your PIN number,

28:43

mate? And I was like, no, not telling him. Not

28:46

a chance. He had the uniform on, he

28:48

had a little badge saying Barclays, happy to help.

28:50

I was like, nah, not giving it. We were like... What's

28:52

your PIN number? And that's when the B went past. Yeah,

28:55

that's when the B... He punched him. He punched

28:57

him. I thought he said... No. He

29:00

just punched the B at the end. I think there's more.

29:02

Yeah, I think there's more accents than four. So

29:05

I'm going to put a little question mark next to that one.

29:08

But I mean, the Dem will have researched it. No, I'm not

29:10

getting caught out again. We've got a question. No,

29:12

no. That's the problem. No, we've got to

29:14

start using our own... Yeah, just

29:16

say, oh, now it's fun when you get it wrong, it's content, then

29:18

you'll have a good old chuckle, rub his hands together.

29:21

But it's us getting thrown under the bus, isn't

29:23

it? So no, no, no, no. David Monroe

29:26

did exactly that. And he said, the

29:28

highest known score that a player can score

29:30

in one turn of Scrabble

29:33

is 1,780.

29:37

Okay.

29:38

It includes the words pre-qualified, awakeners,

29:42

and brainwashing. Simply add letters on

29:44

to make longer words. Oh, I see. Okay.

29:47

Well, that's very good. That's good to know, isn't it? Mm.

29:50

You've got to have those letters, haven't you? You do, yeah, but... Yeah.

29:54

I mean, I've got to say, I've never

29:56

been good at Scrabble. Now, do you... I make

29:58

a deal really early on. We do

30:01

over on playing and going put down

30:03

like half words as well. And

30:06

then... It's the

30:08

last time I played it, it was with you. We

30:10

played it and we tell Bart, didn't we? Yeah, we did.

30:13

We played it in the Londoner in the square. That's

30:15

right, that's the last time I played Scrubbler as well. And we

30:17

did start doing it. And we did start doing it. And

30:19

we did square words in there, names.

30:23

Yeah, just like, you know, nicknames, all

30:25

sorts. Just enjoy yourself. Hard game.

30:28

No, I suppose if he's played properly, it's good,

30:30

isn't it? It's mind expanding. I

30:32

guess so, yeah, it's probably a good one to play with the kids maybe,

30:34

but... Yeah, patience, I imagine

30:36

that. Patience of a saint. No,

30:39

no, because you don't spell pepper like that. That's

30:42

no pepper pig. Yeah, I know,

30:44

but that's different. Yeah. No, it's not

30:46

lello, is it? It's not lello. You

30:49

don't spell honey like that. Well, when is the poo? He's

30:53

not known for his spelling, is he? That's the thing. Kids

30:56

book and he's spelling honey like that. Bang it, I've ordered.

30:59

Exactly with the kids. Wendy

31:02

says, if you manage to line up... Oh, we've got a Lego

31:04

fact, Steve. Good. Love a Lego

31:06

fact. If you manage to line

31:09

up all the Lego sets sold

31:11

in the past ten years, they would

31:13

stretch from London to Western Australia.

31:16

I feel like that's not enough. I thought you were going to

31:18

say... I feel like that's not enough. Around the world ten times.

31:21

Around the world ten times. Then to the moon and back. I

31:24

feel like it's more. Yeah. I'm

31:26

underwhelmed with that. I thought it would be more. I

31:29

feel like the Lego sets I've bought in the last ten years... Could get to

31:31

Australia. Could get to Australia. That's

31:35

unbelievable. James

31:37

McDonald says, elderly pedestrians

31:39

in Singapore get more time

31:41

to cross the road at traffic lights by tapping

31:44

their concession card on the crosswalk button. The

31:46

green man stays lit for an extra 13 seconds.

31:49

That's very clever, isn't it, that? They're

31:51

clever, them Singaporeans, aren't they? That's

31:53

Singapore, that's very good, I like that. And that's clever.

31:56

That's nice. That's good, I like that. That should

31:58

be everywhere. That's

32:00

a thing to say. It should be everywhere when you start to talk to people

32:03

from all over and you go, oh no, we should do that. We

32:05

should do that, but we don't.

32:07

Jason, Alfred.

32:11

Absolutely. We're real music

32:14

matters. We've had some good facts this morning,

32:16

Steve, but have we had a winner yet? I don't know. I'm

32:18

not sure. I don't know.

32:19

That Lego one was nearly there, but then we were underwhelmed.

32:22

Yeah. If

32:24

you want to listen back to all the facts over

32:26

the years and be like, just

32:28

just armed with facts after facts after

32:30

facts, just get our podcast, download the podcast,

32:33

listen to the last 20 minutes.

32:35

They laughing.

32:37

My God, imagine how clever you would sound.

32:39

Yeah, I bet all the chasers have listened

32:42

to them, haven't they? They have. The

32:44

chasers have listened. I can see them sitting there

32:46

going, well, I'll have that. In fact, the other

32:48

in fact, the other week, I think I heard one

32:50

of them getting the Mozambique one wrong. Yeah,

32:53

you've got to be careful. And they're very clever and

32:55

they still get it wrong. It's easy to do, isn't it? Steve,

32:57

you know, like they're doing quiz books. Every

33:00

in every quiz book, there's a couple of questions a bit

33:02

wrong. Is that why? Yeah, because

33:04

some people don't copy them. So then they

33:06

know then if you've copied their quiz book. Good.

33:09

That's clever. I mean, yeah, but you're

33:11

always thinking, is this? Yeah. Are these

33:13

thousand facts correct? Yeah. One

33:16

is wrong. Yeah. 998 true facts. Yeah.

33:21

Right. Because Steve's a garden guy

33:23

and a wine guy. Yeah.

33:26

Tana says, on average,

33:29

a UK garden is home to over 20,000

33:32

slugs and is estimated that

33:34

an acre of farmland can support over 250,000.

33:39

Wow. That's a lot of sluggage.

33:41

A lot of slugs.

33:43

That's 20,000 slugs. I

33:45

remember that can't be. I know on average

33:47

garden, not everyone's got.

33:49

That means obviously some people got a yard and all that. Yeah.

33:52

Do you remember your garden in Lebengine?

33:54

In Lebengine, right. 20,000 slugs in that, was it?

33:57

It was about four, fifth that. Fifth

33:59

that. I mean there wasn't room for them. 20,000 slugs.

34:03

Yeah. Pretty good? Pretty

34:06

good. Well, we've started strong here, I've got to say. If

34:09

you want to join in, Jason at absoluteradio.co.uk.

34:13

Win yourself at Jason Manford's show.

34:17

Yes, yes. Jason

34:20

Manford. Yes, yes, yes.

34:24

Absolute Radio. My

34:26

real music man.

34:27

Good morning, Jason Manford and Steve Edge at absolute

34:29

radio. Last couple

34:31

of facts, Steve, before we have to start thinking about winners.

34:34

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

34:37

Graham Tubbs simply says, skyscrapers

34:40

are made of seashells. Is

34:43

that all he said? That's all he's given us, five words.

34:46

What does that mean? What does that mean?

34:48

How can they be made of seashells? I don't, I don't,

34:51

it, it, it sounds

34:53

like a weird sort of neuro-romantic song. Gas-drapers

34:56

are made of seashells. It's hard,

34:58

isn't it? Yeah, they're all like those sand

35:01

is sand, like. Is that where they're getting?

35:03

It can't be sand, like rock though, isn't it? It's

35:06

a bit of seashells, but. You can't be. I

35:09

wonder if you put your ear to a skyscraper

35:11

so you hear the sea. You can hear the sea, yeah.

35:14

Dem, have you actually researched this one? Because

35:16

that seems light on information. I've researched

35:18

them all, mate, honestly. Yeah, we know what your

35:20

research is like though. It's not a producer of Dem, by the

35:22

way. I've researched all of these. I

35:25

can say, I can show you the evidence. I

35:27

can show you the receipts. Where

35:30

have you researched skyscrapers are

35:32

made of seashells? I think this one I watched a really informative

35:34

documentary on YouTube. I can get you a clip if you

35:36

want. Go on then. All right. Skyscrapers

35:39

are made of seashells. Skyscrapers

35:44

are made of

35:45

seashells. Skyscrapers

35:48

are made of seashells. There

35:54

you go. See, what's happened there? It's combined a

35:56

Dem's two favorite things, which is nonsense

35:59

facts. And Mad Jinkles.

36:02

So that's why he's been swayed by that. That's

36:04

his two favourite things. Right.

36:08

If it's only in there I'll believe it. Mmm.

36:10

Okay. So are they actually made of seashells

36:13

or is it just from that song? No,

36:15

no, they are made of seashells. Oh. Are

36:18

they? Hmm. Okay.

36:21

We'll come back to that one. Well, yeah. Yeah. Well,

36:23

as some skyscrapers. Mmm.

36:26

As some... Here we go. It

36:29

was on Reddit as well. Oh,

36:31

it was on Reddit. Oh my gosh.

36:34

Worse than, I mean, Wikipedia. Right.

36:38

Alright. Let's crack on. But by

36:40

and fact I'm Gumtree next.

36:41

Hahaha.

36:44

Cassie Alfano. That's a good name, isn't it? Cassie

36:47

Alfano says, The idea for the name of Scooby

36:49

Doo came from the ad libs of

36:52

Frank Sinatra. Frank Sinatra, yeah, yeah.

36:54

Only some strangers of the night. Scooby

36:56

Dooby Doo. I

36:59

didn't know it came from there. Yeah. I

37:01

just thought he was a big fan of Shaggy

37:03

and Scooby. Yes, I did, yeah. Scooby Dooby Doo. He's

37:06

just flying the family stones at it as well, doing so

37:09

on and so on and Scooby Dooby Doo. And,

37:12

hmm. There's like a little jazz. Big

37:14

day people. Jazz phrase. Mmm. I

37:17

like that. That's pretty good. And Darren

37:19

Knobbs says, The

37:22

phrase breakfast is the most important meal of the day, surprisingly,

37:25

comes from an article by Kellogg's

37:27

in 1917. So it's not then?

37:31

Well, if it not, it was going to be them. Is

37:33

it? The most important meal of the day. They

37:35

made it up! But the word breakfast, you're breaking your fast.

37:38

That sounds like that's good for you. Don't

37:40

get me wrong, I think it's important, but the most

37:42

important meal of the day? Well,

37:44

you've been asleep, haven't you? Just one of them. You

37:47

need to wake up, don't you? You need some nutrients

37:49

inside. But they may as well have said breakfast

37:51

is one of the meals of the day. That's

37:54

not going to sound like a ring. No, well

37:57

it's as factly correct. Breakfast is a meal. It's

38:00

much more factually correct than

38:02

it being the most important day. What about people who, you

38:04

know, what about the dinner people? Lunch people must be thinking,

38:07

we've done it. Do you reckon the brunch

38:09

people are the people who went, I don't believe

38:11

that breakfast is the most, oh, I'm

38:13

dead tired and dizzy, I need someone to eat. Do you

38:16

reckon that's how brunch was invented? Yeah, I think

38:18

so. Yeah. Let's rattle through

38:20

the facts that we've had this week and then

38:22

pick a winner. So we had Scott telling us that

38:24

in Antarctica, the only continent is without

38:27

spiders. Danny told us that Manchester

38:29

only has four accents, Lancashire, Pox and

38:31

Wigan, we're questioning it. Dave

38:34

Monroe says, in Scrabble,

38:36

the highest score that a player can score

38:38

in one turn is 1,780. Wendy

38:42

Brimicombe told us that LEGO sets

38:44

sold in the last 10 years would stretch from London

38:46

to Western Australia. We were underwhelmed, as good

38:48

as the fact is. Not even around the world. Not even around the

38:50

world, three times. I'd take to Denmark and back

38:53

a certain amount of times, you know what I mean? Yeah, that'd be

38:55

better. Then it'd sound more impressive, wouldn't it? Yeah. I'm just

38:57

thinking. Elderly pedestrians in Singapore

39:00

get more times across the road at traffic lights, tapping

39:02

their concession card on the crosswalk button. Tarna

39:05

told us that UK gardens

39:07

are home to 20,000 slugs on average.

39:10

Skyscrapers are made of seashells, according

39:13

to Graham. They then found a little

39:15

song. Yeah, some skyscrapers.

39:18

Some. They'll probably end up one. Yeah. And

39:20

it's just... And you can tell. Yeah.

39:23

Yeah, just go with in barnacles. Just loads of

39:25

seashells on the outside. Just go all over that one. Yeah, I

39:27

know that one is. Yeah, that one. I didn't

39:29

say all of them, did I? Didn't say no, I didn't say

39:31

that one. And

39:34

Cassie told us that the name Skooby-Doo

39:36

came from the ad libs of Frank Sinatra, any songs,

39:39

strangers of the night? Skooby-Doo-Goo-Doo. And

39:41

breakfast is the most important of me of the day. It was a phrase

39:44

that came from an article by Kellogg's in 1917.

39:48

So. OK. Some good ones, Steve.

39:51

Yeah. What are you thinking? I'm thinking.

39:54

I'd like to know about the skyscrapers, but I think

39:56

I'll be disappointed. So I

39:59

think the one that's... made me go, ooh,

40:01

the most is the Singaporeans with

40:03

getting extra time to cross by

40:06

tapping their card. I think that's a very good thing. I think

40:08

it should be everywhere. I think also when you're having a

40:10

walk with somebody, a

40:12

couple of times a week I go for a little walk. Yeah, you're

40:14

gonna cross the road at some point. Yeah, and you could flip

40:16

that into the conversation, couldn't you? Well,

40:19

especially if they're walking really slowly. Yeah,

40:21

or old. Hey, you know, you should move to

40:23

Singapore. Yeah, yeah. Because

40:26

you get longer to cross, you know

40:28

what I mean? I'm 52. I know,

40:30

but you're not fast on a pedestrian

40:32

crossing. That's all I'm saying. You

40:35

won't like that. I mean, I did like the Scooby-Doo

40:37

one as well, to be honest. I think I knew that one though.

40:39

Right. But I mean, that doesn't mean anything. No,

40:41

that was a good one. All right, well,

40:44

let's fire it over to James MacDonald, brother

40:47

of Jane. Elderly pedestrians in

40:49

Singapore get more times across the road at traffic

40:51

lights by tapping their concession card on

40:53

the crosswalk button. The green man stays

40:55

lit for an extra 13 seconds. Let's

40:58

get that going. Good idea. In

41:00

the UK, but for everybody, not just for old people. Let's

41:02

all have one. I'm into that. If

41:05

you want to join in next week, jasonabsoluteradio.co.uk.

41:07

Send us your facts. Good

41:12

morning, 8-11, Jason Manford

41:14

on Absolute Radio. Good

41:18

morning, it's the Jason Manford Show

41:20

on Absolute Radio. Hope you're very, very

41:22

well this Sunday morning. We're joined now by, I mean,

41:26

is legend too strong

41:29

of a word for Richard Herring? Is

41:32

there a point where you've just been doing it so long, you just get

41:34

into legend status? Maybe,

41:37

maybe so. I mean, I've been going, I have been going

41:39

a long time. Or heritage. Are you a

41:41

heritage guy? I mean, it sort of goes veteran,

41:43

and then I think it goes legend after veteran, doesn't

41:46

it? So yeah. I think so. I'm going

41:48

to say legend. Okay, cool. I'll take it. Do

41:51

it, do it. Super legend, I'd like. Super legend. You

41:53

think you can use it as a quote then? From Absolute Radio.

41:56

I would not. Richard Herring.

42:00

is taking his multi award winning interview podcast.

42:03

Is it all one word this? A re-elastaper?

42:06

A re-elastaper, yeah. A re-elastaper. It

42:08

used to be Richard Haring's Leicester Square Theatre podcast, but

42:10

now we do it at different places as well as the Leicester

42:13

Square Theatre. So we just have

42:15

faded acronym all the time. You're a victim

42:17

of your own lack of ambition. I guess

42:19

that's true. I

42:22

couldn't have really anticipated it becoming such a bit.

42:25

We've been doing it for like 11 years, so I didn't really think, oh,

42:27

this'll be something I'm still doing. One day, this'll

42:30

be touring the country. Yeah,

42:33

I can see that. That's fair enough. That's

42:35

fair enough. For people who have not heard the podcast, because there's a lot

42:37

of podcasts out there. There are. How

42:40

would you describe it? I mean,

42:42

it's just a chat between

42:44

me and usually a comedian or a funny

42:46

celebrity. I do have some academics on sometimes,

42:49

and I think they'll be funny. It's usually

42:51

a funny chat. I ask some slightly

42:53

weird questions and often some slightly rude questions,

42:56

but it can also get quite serious.

42:59

There's been some revelations on there,

43:01

and we talk about some serious stuff. Because

43:03

it's a long-form interview, and you don't get many of those

43:05

anymore. So even if you've

43:07

got the funniest person in the world,

43:09

I mean, you've been on there, Jason. So we know

43:12

what it's like when you have the funniest person in the world

43:14

on there. Even

43:17

then, there comes a point, as with the Edinburgh

43:19

show, sort of 40 minutes, you can't just

43:21

keep the last going. So it comes more philosophical or

43:26

revelatory sometimes. So yeah, it's

43:28

a lot of fun, but it can get serious

43:30

as well. And have you got some

43:33

favorite famous people that you've spoke to on the show?

43:35

Anyone that sort of jumped into that? Yeah,

43:37

I mean, Michael Palin was the kind of old

43:39

to him, I think, because he's my sort of absolute

43:42

hero out of everyone. But you

43:44

know, loads of people like Harry

43:46

Sheeris and The Simpsons and Spinal Tap, and

43:50

Bob Mortem has done that a few times. And just, you know,

43:52

when you make Bob Mortem a laugh in

43:55

a conversation, it's the best

43:57

feeling in the world, because he's absolutely up there. one

44:00

of the greatest human beings. I think he's put a

44:02

tremendous amount of comedy. Hey, when you had Harry

44:05

Shearer, would he

44:07

do any of the voices? He

44:10

did, in fact, yeah, he wouldn't let me introduce

44:12

myself because he thought that was embarrassing. I usually introduce

44:14

myself, and so he did that for me, but he didn't

44:16

do it as a character. But I think he did some of

44:18

the, yeah, he did a few of the voices. I did

44:21

what I liked you, and he sort of refused to

44:23

do with the birds. I did. Ha ha

44:25

ha. And he never even made like. Well, maybe he did refuse.

44:27

I feel like he did do a couple of

44:29

them. You know

44:31

why you've been bought? Do they, George? But

44:34

you know, I always know a lot about the game.

44:36

I always research the game quite carefully. And the amazing

44:38

thing about him, he was in an Abbott and Costello

44:41

film. You know, it doesn't

44:43

feel possible that those two worlds would cross over.

44:45

But hey, you know, he was a kid, obviously, but

44:47

he's a bit older than you think he is as well. So,

44:50

you know, I think when they realize

44:53

you know a lot about them, I think that people do sort

44:55

of calm down a bit and

44:57

suddenly, I mean, Michael Palin was doing

45:00

bits of his sketches. He was, you know, he, No

45:02

way. Backstage improvise the

45:04

new scene in life of Brian McKing Herod in

45:06

it, which we did put out for subscribers.

45:08

So, you know, he was absolutely delighted

45:11

to talk about. And I think that's the way you got to be. Yeah.

45:14

If you've got something that was. You want to do your research. Yeah, but if

45:16

you get something that's a huge success in your career, I

45:18

don't think you can start being, oh, I'm not going to do that.

45:20

You know, I think you have to say, I think you have to say,

45:22

this is why people like you. Ha

45:25

ha. Stick around, Rich. We'll come back to you

45:27

and chat more about your podcast. Thank you.

45:31

Absolute radio.

45:34

Message. Where real music matters.

45:36

This is Jason Manford's show on Absolute Radio.

45:38

Joined this morning by Richard Herring, who's taken

45:41

his huge multi award

45:43

winning interview podcast, Reheal

45:45

of the, around the UK

45:48

this autumn. And it's a, it's a, it's

45:50

a great, I've done it myself. It's a great chat. He

45:52

does ask questions that nobody

45:55

else has asked you. Yeah. I

45:57

don't mean that in like a, yeah. I don't mean that in

45:59

like a. Oh, like Larry King,

46:01

like he always really got to the heart of

46:03

this. I mean, it's

46:05

just weird. There is a weird one. I

46:07

think, you know, as a comedian and as an interviewer

46:09

as well, and you know, people get asked the same things over

46:12

and over again. So if you can find a

46:14

question that they've never been asked, I think it opens

46:16

up the part of the brain which is inventive

46:19

rather than the bit that's, you know, telling the stories

46:21

that is told a thousand times. Yeah, I think it, you know,

46:23

even though some of them are weird and it's sort of like, would you like

46:25

a ham hand or an armpit, the dispenser, sun cream,

46:28

things like that. Some of

46:30

them are a bit ruder, but I think once people

46:32

want to entertain when there's an audience there. So the audience

46:34

is such a big part of this, I think, because

46:36

you get somebody who's funny on stage and they want

46:39

to make the audience laugh. So if you ask them a tricky question,

46:41

they won't just go, I don't know, they'll come up

46:43

with an answer and hopefully be entertaining.

46:46

So it's, you know, the audience

46:48

and those sort of weird questions are accidentally

46:51

the thing that I think makes this podcast

46:53

stand out because most of the podcasts just do them in

46:55

a studio or whatever. Yeah, of course. I

46:57

guess the other thing I was going to ask you actually was because

47:01

over the years, when you first did it, you know,

47:04

you'd ring up your comic mates and say, oh, you come on my

47:06

podcast and yeah. And that's how it starts. And then

47:08

when it becomes such a juggernaut like this and

47:11

such so many, you know, hundreds of thousands,

47:14

if not millions of listeners, then it becomes

47:16

part of the PR trail. People go, oh, we must get

47:18

on Richard's podcast to plug the new book or

47:20

the new movie or whatever it is. Have

47:23

you had anybody who's come on the show

47:26

to essentially plug something and then been a bit surprised

47:29

or shocked by the format? Not

47:32

too much. Sometimes I think like maybe the American

47:34

guests that I've had when remotely,

47:36

I think Mike Birbiglia,

47:39

who's a great comic, I think was a bit confused

47:41

by me recently. But,

47:44

you know, I sort of even if it is, you know,

47:46

obviously, you do get some people are plugging stuff, but it's

47:49

not really a pluggy. No, it's not. So,

47:51

you know, people do come on and say, I've got to book

47:53

out, so can we just talk about the book?

47:55

But but yeah, you know, I'm

47:57

booking people that I like. So it's, you know,

47:59

I.

47:59

I very, very rarely have someone, I

48:02

mean I don't know a lot of people, I'm not a big sort of show

48:04

busy person, I haven't got loads of showbiz friends,

48:06

I obviously with comedians we all sort of know

48:08

each other, so that's one thing. But

48:10

like if I see someone like, oh I think they'll be really good,

48:13

like Mary Beard is coming to do the show again.

48:15

Oh yeah, saw that. You know, she's

48:17

done it for me, she was amazing, but I just thought I know she's

48:19

gonna be great, because she's got a sense of you. Colchester,

48:22

Night to Feb. That's right, so you know, it's

48:24

great to get something like that that's a bit interesting and a bit different,

48:27

but maybe, and someone else wouldn't book, but also

48:29

I book it all myself, so you know, it's the

48:31

worst thing about it really, especially

48:33

when we're touring, because it's really hard to find someone

48:36

who lives in a specific place

48:38

on a specific day. And have you

48:40

had a Meg Ryan situation, you know that famous

48:42

Parkinson Meg Ryan, where it just was a bit awkward

48:44

or they fell out? There's been a few, I mean I've

48:46

had a couple of guests who've maybe been

48:49

at the bar a bit too long before the show and

48:51

things have gone a bit wrong. I think with Steven

48:53

Merchant early on, because actually I did

48:56

a double bill with Simon Pegg and Steven Merchant, I was

48:58

really worried about offending Simon Pegg by being

49:00

too cheeky. And I know Steven Merchant,

49:02

so I thought, oh great, now I can relax and mess around with

49:04

Steven. And then I think I messed around a bit

49:06

too much with Steven and he got a little

49:08

bit nocked with me, but it turned

49:11

a little bit weird, but we got

49:13

through it, we're still friends. It's

49:15

always when you're not expecting it. Yeah, of course,

49:18

of course. Well it looks fantastic,

49:20

the range of people you've got, we start,

49:23

well it's on at the moment. Yeah, we're going well,

49:25

yeah. And we've got tomorrow

49:27

in Leicester Square Theatre, so back to the

49:29

original place there with Davina.

49:32

And then we're off to Norwich, you've

49:34

got Joe Pasquale over in Norwich, Jeff Innocent.

49:38

Then back to Leicester Square Theatre, Northampton.

49:41

Chorley Little Theatre, which sold out, but you can join the waiting

49:43

list. Nottingham Playhouse with Scott and Gemma Bennett, we've

49:45

had Scott on the show a number of times, very funny. Yeah,

49:48

he's great, he's really good. Great couple, very funny podcast themselves.

49:50

Lowry, Justin Morehouse, sorry I wasn't able to

49:52

come down to that. Yeah, that would have been fun,

49:54

but yeah. I will come and do it definitely soon, because

49:57

I only ever did a little one in Edinburgh. Yeah. one

50:00

and then you are in Edinburgh yourself in

50:02

December Brighton Comedia

50:05

Mercury Theatre in Colchester with Mary Baird as

50:07

we said we've got Bedford Bristol, White

50:09

Theatre Leicester, Gilbachean in

50:12

Canterbury, Dublin with Tommy Ternan

50:15

yeah pretty good it's a big old venue

50:17

that one as well so it'll be lovely if we get to see him. Yeah

50:20

the Olympia yeah. Tommy did one in

50:22

Edinburgh with me and he really liked it I think

50:24

but we really got on. I don't, weirdly I don't know him

50:27

I've bumped into him a few times but I've only been passing.

50:29

I don't think any of us really know Tommy even

50:32

though again I've similarly bumped into him many times

50:34

and but wouldn't say oh yeah Tommy

50:36

yeah I'll just give him a ring. Yeah yeah but

50:38

we had a really good chat and he's such

50:41

a, I mean he's a genius

50:43

as a comedian. Well he's like a preacher

50:45

now isn't he he's just gone to another level he's so funny

50:47

so brilliant. He's just a very gentle man as well he's a great

50:50

man. Sheffield Memorial Hall and

50:52

then you've Leicester Square Theatre dotted

50:54

all the way through this you've got Adam Buxton which

50:57

will be great and then Warwick, Warwick

51:00

Arts Centre, St David's Hall in Cardiff up

51:03

to Glasgow and then Hull City and that stretches

51:05

all the way to the end of March so get on richardherring.com

51:10

and go and see it's just a really funny,

51:12

funny night you might learn something you'll definitely have a laugh

51:15

and it's I can't recommend it highly

51:17

enough. Oh thank you Jason that's very nice. No

51:19

worries mate thanks for joining us this morning thanks for taking the time.

51:30

Thanks for joining us this morning here

51:32

on Absolute Radio what have you

51:34

got planned rest of the day Steve? I'm

51:37

napping because last night my

51:40

one-year-old had a bit of something earache, throat

51:42

ache, something ache. Oh yeah. I've

51:44

had one of them nights. Itchy bum he had. It's

51:50

fine when I can tell you though it's fine when I can go. Yeah

51:52

that's true. Well is it? No

51:54

it is because Hull did that. He's got this pain

51:57

in the side of like when was the last time he had a period. Four

51:59

days ago. to poop you know

52:01

me if I could tell you it's easier

52:03

in it I

52:05

I went back to bed yes was it day for yesterday

52:08

the school run and then went back

52:10

to bed for two and a half hours Steve

52:14

oh my god I've not done that for years it was lovely dream

52:17

of that life I was really I was buzzing

52:20

rest of the day kept telling people about it I

52:22

slept for two hours this morning did the morning feel like a different

52:25

day when you tell me that this morning gorgeous and

52:27

I what am I doing I've

52:33

got a bit of press for I'm still plugging the tour of course

52:35

which goes up on goes out next year

52:37

but you can grab yourself tickets at

52:40

Jason Manford calm come on my website

52:42

you'll see two links tickets that takes

52:44

you direct to the website of the venue

52:46

ticket means to take your ticket master have a look at both because

52:49

weirdly I don't know why there's loads different prices for stuff

52:51

so come along and see us on

52:54

a man for door seasons next year but

52:56

before then we will be back this time next

52:59

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