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Jason Manford. Absolute

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Radio. Where real music

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matters. Good morning, it's

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the Jason Manford show on Absolute

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Radio. Hope you're well. Steve Edge is here.

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Morning my boy. Good morning.

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How's

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it going? Oh, all right. I've

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broken into the production office. Nice.

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Where we film because it's got good Wi-Fi. But

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we're filming today so they're going to come in at any

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point. I don't know when they're going to come in. I don't know

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how loud they're going to be. I don't know how surprised

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they're going to be.

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Do they know you're there? No, they don't know

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I'm here. I went to reception and they gave me the wrong

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key so I just strolled in here. Just

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do it with confidence. Also, when you're on a

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big production like that

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you're on,

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as long as you do it with confidence, they will just presume

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someone else said you could. Yeah,

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I'm going to go with that. If that sounds good. I

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won't worry about it. I'm in Malta now

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though. Oh yeah, you're a Malta guy now.

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I'll never be a Malta guy, I'm a Gozo guy. You're a

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Gozo guy.

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Yeah, I'm not going to change my spots.

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This is nice, this bit's nice. We're in

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a place called Golden Bay. Well

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it sounds amazing. Radisson Hotel.

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Yeah, but when they come in I'm going to have to go outside

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and the second half of the show you'll be able to hear aqua

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aerobics in the background.

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Well I'm fine with that. Bit of colour in it.

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I think that's absolutely fine. That's

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the thing about this show. I'll tell you what, I'll get her to do it to like

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Stereophonics or Liam Gallagher or something and then it'll sort

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of... Yeah, then it'll match up. Yeah, because it'll probably

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be Tina Turner.

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Yeah, I don't think that's one of... Yeah, no.

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That's an absolute 80s. Might

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be alright on there but... I'll get her to do one for

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every decade station, shall I? Put

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the shed down. Do the 90s! That'd

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be amazing. That'd be amazing. I've

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occasionally on holiday joined in with the aqua

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aerobics. I saw a lot of people join. It

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looks fun, doesn't it? Yeah, you just think,

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well it's underwater, so

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how hard can it be? Exactly.

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It's not that hard. I've hurt

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my knee and... Oh,

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Steve. Paddle tennis. Paddle tennis. Right,

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I knew this was, you were going to come a cropper, you were overconfident.

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I knew this was going to happen. I

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was. Paddle tennis guy now, one day you never mentioned

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it, next minute you're in the World Championships, this was

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always going to happen. Did you warm up? I

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didn't, it was an early game. I'd also

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injured it at work, running at work

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and filming something. The film was in the workplace. Yes,

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I should have put, I should have pursued it. I didn't

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realise. Running, running filming when you were filming. I was filming,

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yeah, but you know obviously when you're running and filming,

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you don't just do it once, do you? You do

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it like 20 times from different

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angles and also I had shoes on.

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Sleepy ones. Yeah,

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they weren't great. Anyway, what I'll say

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is I've got a new found respect for Tom Cruise doing his

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own stunts. Because

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I was just running a little bit

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and it hurt itself. I don't know how he's sticking

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himself to a side of an airplane and what not. It's

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the insurance on the right as I feel sorry for. Yeah,

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I'm sorry. Did you hear that interview that he did? Who

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was doing the interview? It was like some other,

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I think it was Matt Damon who was saying,

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he was talking to him about like why do

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you do your own stunts, even Matt Damon who's

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been in a porn identity. What

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are you doing? You're mad at, why

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are you doing your own stunts? And he said

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on one of his films, he

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had this safety guy and the safety

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guy was like, yeah look you can't attach

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yourself to a side of an airplane that's about

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to take off. Like it

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can't be done and Matt Damon

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said. He used to call this. Yeah,

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exactly. And Matt Damon said, well

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what did you do? Because that scene's in the film

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and Tom Cruise says, he's got a new safety

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guy. Like

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that's how nuts he is. That's how

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it works, isn't it? You can't do that, that's

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too dangerous. Well, I'll not do the film

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then. Yeah. You can do that. Alright,

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you can. Yeah, I wasn't having that argument

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on my job. I was just... I

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was just running down corridors. I was just running

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down corridors. He looked at me and I hit him.

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So um yeah, it's alright. I thought

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it was much more serious than it was. Well

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I didn't. I thought, I'll be alright. And then when I went

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in to see the specialist he said, ooh, you know,

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at your age. Is that saying

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things like that? Your age! I'm

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not tired of fall. Did he

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look after you, the shoulder? He's

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looking at my age. Same age as

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you. I

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said um, so what was that? Anyway,

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it's a, I've like taken, your

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cartilage is like an onion. And

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I've taken a layer of cartilage

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off my knee. Have you? I don't know.

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It's not good is it? It stinks. Oh

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it's sore man, sore. And like

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an onion it made me cry. So it

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was, it is sore. But I'll be

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alright. I'll be back to the paddle championships in no

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time. What have you been up to Steve? We're

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filming every day but we moved from Gozo

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to Malta so we had a day off. So naturally

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in a day off and in the spirit

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of Tom Cruise I went to the scheme. Of

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course. And you're giving me a lecture on dangerous

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things. I know. But why don't we Robin Asquith,

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he's 17. He's 75. He's

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not that hard of a thing. I don't know. No,

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I think he's about 72. Right.

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But he's great on him and yeah we had a lovely time. Just

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shot off into the sunset. It was like that episode of

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Phil's and Orson's you know when Delboy gets someone. Which

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is interesting because too old aness was there. Marlene

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was in the beach bar so it was all a bit

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weird. Yeah. It was a few

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kilometres an hour I got up to. Crikey.

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Well there's nothing to stop here. Stay out there. No

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there is, when you get out, this bay is beautiful

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golden bay but when you get out into the sea, the

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jellyfish here man. Or it

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looks like, there's one, it's not harmless at all. It

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looks like a massive

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Victoria sponge that's gone off. That's

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the best way of describing. It's

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just floating on the top of the water. There's

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like brioche. They're like, gosh, bun shaped ones. These

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are the ones you can pick up, and they've got really small tentacles.

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They don't hurt yet, but. Pick up! You

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put your hand on it and turn it over, and

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yeah, Robert did that, and you can feel it a little

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heart beating. I mean, I'm sure there's facts about, I'm

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sure there can't all be tentacles, can there? We know this.

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Although there's not, they don't have a brain, do they? No brain

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or heart. I thought

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you could feel it pulsating, you said, rather than

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that. Right. Anyway,

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they're not, everyone said, oh, they don't hurt yet, but they look

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horrific. But when you're on a jet ski, plowing

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into 40 of them in a row, you feel bad. Well,

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apparently it's sort of air propelled, so

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there's no propeller. So not getting caught.

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Right. Oh, I think that's the production of that. So they're just all

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right. Yeah.

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Well, some jellyfish are more. Literally

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the line producer's just walked in and just sort of,

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I'll put your hand up in the air and walk

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out again. There you go, you see. Stay there with confidence.

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He's probably the most powerful look in his office,

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and he's walked in. There you find it,

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just say, he said it was all right. Yeah, come

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on. I think I read a thing where jellyfish

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are immortal. Are

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they? Not all of them, but

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like there is one. Not all of

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them. That didn't mean the one who isn't. No, don't

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mean just one. But I mean like, didn't

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they find one? No, you've been here. I knew when

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jet skis were coal powered, mate. I

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ain't scared of jet skis. Imagine

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jet skis I used to work with. So

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you've got to sting off one of them at you. I've

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been weed on by Albert Einstein himself.

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Yeah, nothing. Absolutely

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nothing, mate. I think they're all

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sort of... What do you mean you can't kill them? No,

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they just don't die. I've

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seen a couple of them deflate and sort

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of float upside down on the top. So

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I don't know about that. But maybe, I don't

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know. I think there's one that

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we're regenerating. Jellyfish facts, aren't we? Jellyfish

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facts. Yeah, maybe we should offer that out. I

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don't know the name of any of them. Like

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this one, like I said, looked like a victorious one. The

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only one we know the name of is the Portuguese

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man o' war isn't it? And that's the

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one that's really bad. Well, I don't know

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what it looks like. I think it's pinky. No

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clue. But where it got its name, what a

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name. Yeah, I mean as well when you were naming

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them, yeah. That's clearly the dangerous one isn't

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it? Yeah, but why Portuguese?

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They're not known for their... Maybe

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it's from Portugal. Maybe that's

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all it is. Or it speaks Portuguese. Maybe

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it speaks Portuguese. They're not really a warfaring

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nation are they, the Portuguese? No, but

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maybe the jellyfish are. I don't know. Maybe

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the jellyfish are. Have you learnt from

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the jellyfish and went nah, that's not a good way

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to be. No, but it got no idea. Lies.

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From Malta. He's a Maltese. From

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Mahia. I don't know where I am actually, Golden Bay.

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Golden Bay. Lovely beach. I

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mean, so good. Fort Chambre named a beer after

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it. Very nice. Very nice. We've

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got ourself a little... Question for Steve.

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Question for Steve. Question

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for Steve. Question

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for Steve. Question

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for Steve. And this is from Lisa

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Floss-Turney who

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says, Hi Jason and Steve, A two-parter

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question for Steve. Oh, we're two-parter,

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okay. First one... turned,

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okay. It depends whether you like Marmite, doesn't it? I

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think when you throw Marmite into stuff, if you like Marmite,

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it works. I've had Marmite hummus, I've had Marmite

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cheese, I've had Marmite spreadable cheese, I think. I

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think I've had Marmite

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butter,

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Marmite cashew nuts, Marmite

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crisps, it works, I think. Right.

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I think with cheese, it's really good because if you were making

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cheese on toast, I'd always put a little sub-layer

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of Marmite underneath the cheese. I don't have to do that anymore.

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Oh, I see. Yeah,

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very good, I'm happy with it. There's a right

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range now, aren't there, of Marmite things? I know,

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I think M&S, I think, they've really gone for it. They've

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really embraced the Marmite. I don't like

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peanut butter. And yeah, I don't like

10:02

peanut butter particularly, but I imagine that would work if you

10:04

did. There's a dynamite,

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chili, marmite. Ooh, I've never had

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that. Yeah, and there's a truffle marmite

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as well. Yeah, the truffle marmite's too much. You can't

10:13

mess with it. Is it? That's the thing, don't mess

10:15

with the original formula. I've had the chili one actually, I've just

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remembered, and the truffle one, it's over-pairing

10:20

with truffle. Too much truffle. Really?

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That's interesting. What about marmite ale? I

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don't know if you've ever had that. I remember a few years ago,

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doing some cricket world cup. I'd say about 12

10:31

years ago, there was like a special Marston's

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marmite, and it looked like a cricket ball, and

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that was very nice. I don't know what they did different, but

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you know, that's marmite. I'm not bothered about

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marmite. I'm the one, I break the advert. I

10:43

know, you have to ruin it there, you know. I

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love it, I hate it. I'm

10:48

not bothered. Take it or leave it. Yeah,

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all right, I don't think you can take it or leave it. I'll

10:52

take it sometimes, but I'll leave it at others. Oh,

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come on, mate. Who is this guy? You

10:57

know what a Venn diagram is? Yeah.

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Lisa's second question. I

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mean, imagine we'll get sent some marmite stuff now, because

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we mentioned it, so fingers crossed. Feel

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free to ask us questions about products

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that we then might be able to get our hands on. It

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sounds less like desperate, doesn't it? If you ask.

11:16

Yeah, exactly, they don't do a Christmas. They don't mess about a Christmas,

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do they, marmite? We've never had a taste

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in sessions. We've never had a mad Christmas marmite. No,

11:23

that's a joke, there's something to think about. What

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would your ideal food or drink combo be

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that you've not tried already? I found a recipe

11:32

which added dark chocolate to a chili, and it changed

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my life. I've done that, actually, dark chocolate

11:36

to a chili. I think that's the proper Mexican

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way of doing it, isn't it? You put a bit of, I think

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the Mexicans crumble a cigar into

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it as well.

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No, they don't. I

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am, I'm sure they do. And a sombrero

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around the edge. Maybe not anymore. Maybe.

11:54

Maybe not anymore. But

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I think that's one of the, just a, you know,

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a piquito. Singadas, you

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know, pop that in there.

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Wow, OK. Like a hamlet or one of

12:05

the little ones. You

12:08

know, probably one of the big, you know, Mexican,

12:11

Cuban sort of things. Right, fair enough. All

12:13

right, well, I'm going to have a little look online for

12:16

delicious, weird food pairings and we'll see

12:18

which ones we go for. OK. We

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had a question for Steve and it was from Gaz

12:24

and he said, he said,

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do you or any of your listeners do this? He says,

12:28

when I hear certain songs, I always

12:30

want to sing the long, the wrong

12:32

lyrics. The long lyrics. Yeah, the

12:34

long lyrics. He said,

12:36

it's not misheard lyrics, you know, like

12:38

Peter Kay does and stuff like that. It's not misheard deliberately.

12:41

These are done like deliberately. He's perfectly changing them just for

12:43

his own amusement. Yeah, he just

12:45

does it just to smile to himself. He

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sings, don't wash it away, don't

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look at it like it's gone septic. For

12:55

Elton John's, I guess that's why they call

12:57

it the blues. That was his one. Quite a lot

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of people have emailed us in to Jason at absolute radio.

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OK. They deliberately

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change lyrics to song. Richard

13:08

Horton says, made up lyrics for songs.

13:11

Even though I no longer live there, I always

13:13

changed some of the lyrics of Cheryl

13:15

Crow, her song All I Want to Do,

13:18

from Till the Sun Sets Over

13:20

Santa Monica Boulevard to Till

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the Sun Sets Over Crawley County

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Mall and Queen Square. I don't know

13:27

if it really is. He's

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gone for it, yeah. Over

13:34

Crawley County Mall and Queen Square. Oh no,

13:36

it does that to me. Yeah, it does that to me.

13:39

You've passed it there. Kim

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says, whenever the Boys Own song, When You Say

13:44

Nothing At All comes on, my idiot husband always

13:46

sings, because you look

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like rubbish when you wear nothing

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at all. When you wear

13:53

nothing at all. When you wear nothing

13:55

at all. That one, yeah. Yeah, he thinks

13:57

it's hilarious, so I just laugh along with him. goodness

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I can escape for a couple of hours on a Sunday morning and

14:02

listen to your show. Well that's what we are, we're like marriage

14:05

counselling aren't we as well. Yeah well we're venting

14:07

the boiler so you can. Exactly,

14:10

exactly. Scotty McGee says

14:12

I like to sing, whoa my

14:14

socks are on fire. That's

14:17

what that help me say. My

14:19

wife heard it as your sexy's on fire,

14:21

like it was a part of you. Whoa whoa whoa look

14:24

at you sexy's on fire. Whoa whoa. You

14:26

know what I mean. Sexy. Your sexy's

14:28

on fire. Could be, if

14:30

you act didn't it. Or you

14:32

think it's like a warning. Yeah, yeah

14:34

like you hadn't noticed. You know your bottom's

14:36

burst into flames or something. Whoa whoa

14:39

whoa your sexy's on fire. Ben

14:41

likes to sing we built this city

14:44

from sausage rolls.

14:46

Yeah that's yeah, yeah. That's

14:48

the Christmas one, bring out those solstice bells

14:50

that you're all singing. Bring out those

14:52

sausage rolls. That one. No

14:55

that one? No I don't know that one. No

14:58

you will. It'll come through. It's the house.

15:01

Is it? Right. Hi Jason and Steve, I always, this

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is from Ian, I always sing Norman Whiteside

15:05

is then a Mr. Brightside. That's good, that's

15:07

very good. I think I'm

15:10

Norman Whiteside. I

15:13

wonder if

15:15

he changes all the rest of the lyrics of it.

15:20

I'm going to definitely do that from now on. I think

15:24

that's, I don't know much about Norman

15:27

Whiteside. Coming

15:30

out of a cage and I'm doing just

15:32

fine. Does that sound like Norman Whiteside,

15:35

what he would be up to? Yeah I

15:37

think so. But she's touching his chest

15:39

now. He takes

15:41

off her dress now. This

15:44

could work you know. It works.

15:46

There's Danny, he's calling me.

15:49

Open up my eager eyes. I'm

15:52

Norman Whiteside. I'm

15:54

in.

15:55

Perfect. I've never seen Mr. Brightside ever

15:57

again. We

16:00

had a little email from Lisa Floss who

16:03

asked us about food combos.

16:05

Food... does it go together? Does

16:07

it not go together? She's adding dark chocolate to chilli

16:09

and it's changed her life. It does work. Yeah.

16:12

It does work, yeah. So I've had a little look, Steve,

16:14

for weird food combinations.

16:19

See what you think of... I mean,

16:21

my kids know a few, to be honest. My

16:24

kids do a few like... You

16:27

know, the McDonald's

16:29

chips dipped in the milkshake. If

16:32

somebody really mentioned the siesta the over here, yeah,

16:34

there's a new one on me. Same.

16:37

My wife does this thing with it where she has a cheese

16:39

sandwich with lime pickle on it.

16:42

Lime pickle?

16:44

Yeah, I feel like you're in a... God, does

16:46

she keep that little

16:47

tongue? Nobody eats it and you get a curry. Loves

16:49

it. She's got, you know, the little pot of... You've

16:52

got your own lime pickle. Yeah. What

16:54

even is that? It's not

16:56

for me, that one. No, it is all about it in the...

16:59

In the three dips, it would be the one I'd leave. I

17:01

don't even touch it. No, I don't know what it

17:04

is. It's like getting a punch

17:06

in the tongue. Yeah. What even

17:08

is it? You've got someone dropkick your

17:10

tongue. Someone's

17:12

gone, hey, empty out all

17:14

them batteries and put it on these onions. Put

17:17

it on them onions, right? Now dropkick

17:19

it. Now he'll taste it in his mouth and he'll go, that's a bit weird.

17:22

And then suddenly, someone will come up from the back of his nose

17:24

and it's weird. It's horrible.

17:27

I like that. Put that on the proper dough, mate.

17:30

No, thank you. No, thanks. Right,

17:32

here we go. Here's Buzzfeed's weird food combos.

17:36

Cheetos and milk. She's eating them like you'd

17:38

eat cereal. What are

17:41

Cheetos? What are they again? Cheetos,

17:43

you know, like What's It, basically. Oh, okay, right.

17:46

But she's having them... With milk, I suppose. The milk.

17:49

Because like What's It, you've got this cheesy milky dairy. Cheesy

17:51

milky dairy thing going on. Not into that... or

17:53

anything weird. Peanut

17:55

butter and pickle sandwich. You don't like peanut butter?

17:58

No, but that's a red flag in it. You see someone eating

18:01

a bowl of milk in it. Morning,

18:03

morning, morning, happy just met. Alright,

18:06

get your stuff and go. Yeah,

18:09

it's not gonna work. Peanut

18:11

butter and pickle, well you don't like peanut

18:13

butter but I can see how that would work. Yeah,

18:16

they do it with like apples, don't they? Yes.

18:20

And pickle is, you know, there's a lot of apple in a pickle,

18:22

isn't there? Yeah. Frosties

18:26

with cheese. What are you on about?

18:29

Like grapefruit cheese over the top of it, like a pajachos.

18:32

Weird. Salami

18:35

and grapes, well I can see that. You get them together anyway,

18:37

don't you? Yeah. On a mini platter, whatever.

18:39

Yeah, you like that. Chocolate on a pizza, well

18:41

that, they serve them now. Do

18:43

they? I tell you what I had the other day from Domino's. I

18:45

know you're not a sweet tooth guy. Yeah.

18:49

But they've got these new chocolate cinnamon

18:52

swirls. Not

18:54

on the pizza, it's like a side. No, no, just as

18:56

a side. Oh my gosh,

18:59

I was only gonna have one. Smashed

19:01

it. Okay. Peanut butter

19:03

on a hamburger, yeah that's fine. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

19:05

with a Dorito, with a cheesy Dorito in the

19:08

middle. Just one. Just

19:10

one, looks like it is just one as well. Salt

19:13

and pepper on apples. Oh,

19:16

I'm not sure, I mean I'll give it a go,

19:18

that doesn't sound like it. I'll give it

19:20

a go. I'll give it a go. Oh, wait, it's

19:22

like somebody's just saying sugar on an onion and

19:25

eating it. You've just gone again.

19:27

Yeah, it's not a thing. Yeah. A peanut

19:29

butter and onion sandwich, a lot of peanut butter based.

19:32

Oreos dipped in orange juice, well that's just chocolate

19:34

orange, that's fine. A vanilla ice

19:36

cream with soy sauce, Steve.

19:38

Oh no.

19:40

What's happened there? I don't know about

19:42

that, it might work that.

19:43

Could work. Yeah. Could

19:46

work. Ketchup on popcorn, no. No,

19:49

it's just too messy more than this, isn't it? No, exactly,

19:52

that's just stupid. What

19:55

else have we got here? Some mad ones here. Avocado

19:57

with honey, well maybe. Salted.

20:00

crisps with Nutella well I can see that because you

20:02

get salted chocolate now anyway don't you? salted

20:04

caramel and all that yes that yeah that would work

20:07

yeah ice cream with fries there we got that the McDonald's

20:09

one there Marmite

20:12

with pasta and cheese well that's fine that's just

20:14

normal I think your Marmite and

20:16

your peanut butter they're just bases people

20:18

are putting underneath stuff and that I think yeah if you like

20:20

it well there's someone here dipping fish fingers in custard

20:22

Steve so I don't know what's

20:24

going on here how's that even happened?

20:27

just sat round a dinner table and he's

20:30

just there he's got one fish finger left and

20:32

just bought out the pudding got jam rolly-polly and

20:34

he's gone pass that jug! what

20:37

are you doing? people have gone

20:39

mad! have a go at that! no! let

20:42

us know if you've got any food combos

20:45

that we've not we should try I'm up for

20:47

it I'm up for it so send us in an

20:49

email Jason at absolute radio dot

20:51

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20:58

we wanted to

21:01

ask you Steve actually I found a moment the

21:03

other day where we had a day off

21:05

and we went you know when you just realized that

21:10

there was stuff when you were a kid that

21:12

you thought was really posh that only posh

21:14

people had yeah like

21:16

and then you get when you get there and you get to

21:19

become an adult yeah

21:21

SETI! Vionetta!

21:25

Vionetta! remember Vionetta? no that wasn't

21:27

posh that wasn't posh I thought Vionetta

21:29

was well posh I thought yeah

21:32

I think with I was the age of BMX's so

21:34

people who had like a silver Fox or

21:36

a whatever they were called a diamondback

21:39

there was a wheel like rally burners yeah

21:41

yeah posh kids the barrels

21:43

up the road they

21:45

had a turn they were twins oh

21:48

yeah they were posh rally

21:50

burner yeah I think there's always something that's

21:52

just like and also sometimes it's

21:54

the way things are marketed because Vionetta was marketed

21:57

in a certain way same with your you're

22:00

Ferrero Rocher. Yeah, I feel

22:03

like a lot of things, because, yeah, but also

22:05

because, at that point in time,

22:07

they probably were quite posh. What

22:10

do you think? No, but do you remember when Thornton's

22:12

were the best chocolate you could buy? Yeah,

22:14

that's true, yeah. Like, what's a shop called Thornton's? Thornton's?

22:18

No, you like Thornton's.

22:20

Yeah. So,

22:23

that's chocolate,

22:23

hey? Surely, that's chocolate.

22:25

Yeah. A million other artisan things that have

22:28

popped up. Yeah, there is that. The

22:30

rebellion, no one's listening. No. Yeah,

22:35

I definitely remember there being, because,

22:37

like, I mean, if you think about the

22:39

Ferrero Rocher advert, they had it like, it

22:41

was all like, the ambassador's reception, wasn't it?

22:44

Yeah, exactly, oh, with this, you are spoiling

22:46

it. I never, so, no, the ambassador's reception,

22:48

which I would imagine would be quite a swanky

22:50

ball anyway, wouldn't you? Yeah, yeah. Champagne,

22:53

lobster, caviar, all that. All that.

22:55

And for these Ferrero Rochers, this was just

22:57

spoiling us. Yeah, I know. On top

23:00

of all that. I know, and yes. They're

23:03

like, they're like £1.50 for about 40 from

23:05

B&M. I expected

23:08

the caviar and stuff, but yeah, you shouldn't

23:10

have gone to all these. You've gone really over the

23:12

top here, pal. If you get out

23:14

of miniature Eros now, I'm gonna explode. Oh.

23:20

So, yeah, I was thinking about these things, these things

23:22

that were posh when you were a kid, but

23:24

as you've got older, you think, actually, that they're

23:27

not quite so posh. Not quite so posh.

23:29

I tell you what, I was tempted to buy the other

23:31

day, it was a Soda Stream. I was literally

23:34

just about to say Soda Stream. No way. One

23:36

of the things, I swear I nearly interrupted you. The

23:39

flat, I was saying in Ad1. No way.

23:41

Yeah, you didn't have any of the, you know, whatever it's

23:44

called. Yeah, because you get all sorts now. Yeah,

23:47

but I was quite impressed looking at it. I

23:49

was in the room with one. Yeah. And

23:51

you know, if I could bought the stuff, I'd technically

23:53

have a Soda Stream for five weeks. There was a kid

23:55

up the road who had a Mr. Frosty, I remember

23:58

thinking that was the other one. Oh, Mr. Frosty. I

24:00

never had one. Yeah, no, I never have

24:02

one somebody bought one recently and I said for

24:05

their kids, you know Because you're trying like, you know vicariously

24:07

go. Yeah Enjoyed it as

24:09

much as I would and apparently it's a bit of a nightmare

24:11

breaks down all the time It's not great the frosty

24:14

or the solar stream the frost. Yeah,

24:16

I can imagine actually I can imagine the solar

24:18

stream now though and because you can

24:21

get Fanta and like all official

24:23

and I was tempted to

24:25

get one, but you can only get Pepsi and

24:27

I'm I'm I'm a coke zero guy Yeah,

24:30

everyone tries to sort of like put bubbles

24:33

in into what's it called? What's

24:36

the process called carbonation carbonate

24:39

milk? Yeah, everyone tries to do that and it just explodes

24:41

doesn't it? Oh, we're seeing so you've

24:43

got your own carbonating machine. You go. Oh,

24:45

what fizzy milks like then it just So

24:52

you're allowed to do I mean I'm

24:54

looking here now and they've got all sorts of syrups

24:58

and Stuff that you can

25:00

get Pepsi max cherry Come

25:03

on, they just do Pepsi. Yeah, they don't do Like

25:06

with the soda string guy. Yeah, I don't know what's

25:09

happened, but they won't they don't do coke I'm like

25:11

I can't get one of them. Yeah, you you

25:13

like what you like that. Yeah. Yeah, they

25:15

do vinto They

25:18

don't do it so to be honest It's

25:22

really not for me seven do seven up But White

25:28

lemonade or something just buy a bottle. Yeah,

25:30

just buy a bottle. It's like yeah Why

25:32

am I go? Why am I making it harder for the stuff? It's

25:35

like buying a boat if you if you want to go narrowboat

25:37

for a week one year. Yeah Don't you

25:40

don't need your own? Yeah Yeah,

25:42

we like the it's like the toasting machine

25:44

like we everyone's got a toasting machine, which

25:47

is in the cupboard for 48 weeks

25:50

of the year the back behind the chicken brick and

25:52

the slow cooker in it Yeah,

25:54

but there and then every so often by

25:56

the way bit of rotten cheese are still left on

25:58

the toast. Yeah, it's always a bit of

26:01

that and then when you

26:03

one day you go oh I might just get it out you get out

26:05

and then you use it every day for

26:08

every meal for about two weeks and

26:10

then it's always back in the car

26:13

back in the cup of toasting machine nothing like it I

26:16

missed white side of

26:18

something about normal white side

26:21

Jennifer Barrow says dining rooms what

26:24

yeah a dining room yeah my friends

26:27

at school are two reception rooms separate from

26:29

their kitchen and me and my mum lived in a two up

26:31

two down couch house now I have a house with a separate

26:33

dining room and I'm desperate to knock it through

26:35

to make it one yeah

26:38

sometimes you know another

26:40

room for eating

26:42

in but you never went in that room no you weren't allowed in

26:44

it in the cupboard didn't it they never use

26:46

a dark room a crisper in the cupboard and

26:49

the crystal ready salted yeah it was like summer

26:52

it was like where she kept a crystal

26:54

from a wedding yeah yeah

26:57

like a personalized frog

26:59

that kept a young who

27:03

knows Lisa Jane

27:05

this is true this is definitely why

27:07

I used to think she says I remember my friend

27:09

came round once and she thought we must have

27:12

come from money because we had Ribena in the

27:14

cupboard I've been always pretty

27:16

much you know it's possible of him

27:18

so many it's more expensive than Kia

27:20

ora you know yeah yeah definitely

27:24

passionate Kia ora yeah well they had

27:26

the advert didn't they they did

27:28

have a good advert I was famously

27:30

what see what if you're now doesn't it yeah

27:32

was it when I used to stand up only a

27:35

thing isn't it now that like no

27:37

company now he's go let's advertise

27:39

our squash no one's got enough money I'm

27:43

trying to advertise and to go animate no

27:45

dew frogs just

27:48

throw yeah let's do that

27:51

I'll be your dog oh yeah

27:54

all that mad and also to waste

27:56

that sort of money on I mean it is a memorable advert

27:58

don't get me wrong but that was a risk when they

28:00

came up with it. I've got this

28:03

idea. Nobody went, what are

28:05

you talking about, squash? Yeah,

28:08

no one's gonna, no one's gonna go, oh, give that

28:10

squash a go, or. I might try drinking

28:12

squash now. But he makes

28:14

too orangey for crows. Not a crow,

28:17

I know. Well that's why you should have some. Crows

28:20

will be right annoyed with that. Angela

28:25

Kirby says, Marks and Spencer's. That

28:27

was always like war. I mean that is still, I

28:29

think, a bit posh. Yeah, it's

28:31

not on a level of like your weight throws, is it, but

28:34

it is. No. It's only just a bit there, and

28:36

if you've got a little, I've had a little Marks and

28:38

Spencer's shop, it's a bit posh. Oh,

28:40

I remember when. I don't think it is. Yeah,

28:42

I do, actually. I remember once at uni,

28:45

because I, I mean, obviously I had nothing,

28:47

but I was doing stand-ups, so every so

28:49

often I'd just have a couple hundred quid, like, because I'd

28:51

done some gigs. And

28:54

I remember in halls, and

28:57

I'd done a Marks and Spencer's shop for myself.

29:00

And these lads come back in, they were like, who is this

29:02

guy? Who is this guy? Everyone

29:04

else. Oh, and I said, Michael, how

29:07

are you, my friend? Kerry

29:11

says, Lego. Lego.

29:15

Lego was, all my rich kids had it, and we

29:17

didn't, now I'm a parent, I definitely know why, 30 quid

29:20

a kit. Well. Oh,

29:22

the rest. Yeah, I mean, and the rest. Well, like, I suppose,

29:24

I suppose now it's a thing that builds Hogwarts

29:26

or something, isn't it? Whereas when we were kids, it was just a bag

29:28

of random. It was just a bag of bricks, wasn't

29:31

it? Yeah, yeah, there was no, there's no colour

29:33

thing. You couldn't build anything out of it. You could, but it

29:35

wouldn't, you know, you only got three yellows.

29:37

Well, you had to use your imagination. Now it's

29:40

done, it's done for you, isn't it? It's done

29:42

for you. Yeah, now you're like, I need a little square bit with two studs

29:44

on it, where's that, oh no. Yeah, you know. Now

29:46

they've added stress to

29:48

the game of Lego. That's

29:50

what it costs so much, that's a secret of creativity. Yeah.

29:54

We went to buy some the other day, and

29:58

my son's five, and he's like, oh, can I have a Lego? I

30:00

was like yeah, okay, no problem, and then he's

30:02

picking one that 30 40 quid. I said

30:04

no oh Look up

30:06

the shelf there Look up the shelf

30:08

to them, but even then the 17 quid No,

30:12

there's only about there's only about five of them as well.

30:14

I know and they're rubbish ice cream van

30:17

now They're rubbish them

30:19

ones are they because you've got like

30:21

a Porsche bit like a Porsche You

30:23

can see behind him, and he's I'm

30:26

just gonna buy his ice cream on but still yeah they

30:28

need to sort out Lego they need to come out with a bit

30:30

of a range which

30:32

is like Sort of

30:34

about a tenner, but it's still

30:37

gonna take you a couple of days You know like waitrose essentials

30:40

or what yeah exactly just be basic

30:42

stuff But just to make

30:44

it so you can go and actually

30:46

get one as a instead because at the moment legos

30:48

become well You'll have to wait for your birthday

30:52

Yeah, or Christmas whereas

30:55

It should be one of them where you're out and about and

30:57

you know your kids sort of has been good And you

30:59

go do you know what course you can have one

31:02

you know this man 70 quid just because they've been

31:04

good Yeah, no or like I said

31:06

have a look on one of those Chinese sites

31:08

online You can get some of that Lego stuff around

31:11

the price

31:13

I mean I was aiming for you go to

31:16

my son's Lego Titanic is not a

31:18

Lego Titanic It looks

31:20

like one Snide

31:24

Lego didn't even know that was a thing. Oh, yes.

31:26

No, you Lego. It's great. It's Lego Been

31:31

through customs come away from China like

31:33

a weird spider inside that could kill the entire

31:36

nation Did

31:39

you get the same instructions are they not in Chinese Yeah,

31:41

now you get the instructions exactly the same but

31:43

some reason they've just blocked out the bit in the corner It says

31:45

Lego that's been that's been got right.

31:48

There's no legos on the top of each

31:50

store either, but you know, right No,

31:52

that's all right. This kid's okay. Did it? Yeah,

31:55

he's gonna smash it anyway I'm gonna get back and finish

31:57

that and then he's gonna crush it. I was a tiny tiny

31:59

can he's gonna crash it at some point. Yeah he's bet

32:01

so. Do you get sent the iceberg

32:04

as well? Build that, loads of white Lego.

32:06

Yeah blood the white Lego we'll build it that next. It's

32:08

meant to be that like museum Lego you know you put

32:10

on a stand and you put on a shelf and go right there you go

32:12

built that that's amazing but I know he's just gonna go iceberg.

32:15

I know that's what it took us like

32:18

four months to build it but I know that's

32:20

what's gonna happen so I won't be annoyed when it happens

32:23

because I know it's gonna happen. Mooj

32:25

says Sky TV I mean gosh

32:27

well I remember the first person on our road we

32:29

got Sky and we went in to watch

32:31

The Simpsons and the wrestling.

32:34

Oh my gosh

32:36

what a treat. Yeah that's a big

32:38

thing in it. I suppose in my generation it was video

32:40

recordings as well people had a video recorder.

32:43

Yeah. He came round he like do you

32:46

want a video recorder and you go oh I don't know

32:49

I'll tell you I have this for three days try it out

32:51

and I'll come back see if you want it. Nice.

32:53

We have one for life. There was one called

32:57

Phillips video 2000 or something

32:59

they were very mushy but obviously that wasn't the

33:02

format that took off sadly. Luckily we went

33:05

with VHS but it couldn't be you know there

33:07

must have been somebody going no no this is better.

33:09

This is the one. This is the one signed

33:12

up to have the next two years. I know

33:14

the video shops only got VHS and B2Max

33:17

but I'm telling you this

33:19

is better. The man said they must have

33:21

done all that. Well didn't they say wasn't

33:23

the fork in the road between VHS and

33:26

B2Max. Yeah it's

33:28

mucky films isn't it. And it was porn wasn't it. Yeah

33:30

it was the fact that VHS were like go on

33:33

then. Not yourself out literally. Do

33:37

whatever you want that's fine. I

33:39

like Dave I'll get what's

33:42

that new Mad Max film I get that and get

33:44

porkies on the top shelf. That's

33:48

what happened. That's exactly what happened.

33:51

B2Max were like no absolutely not you must

33:53

stay fully dressed all the time. Yeah

33:55

but obviously they learnt that on blu-ray they

33:57

didn't make that mistake again. No they

34:00

I learnt that the hard way. They won. Quite

34:02

literally. Yeah, yeah, Blu-ray. Yeah.

34:07

Things for posh people when you were kids. Deborah

34:12

says university. Yeah,

34:15

I could do that. Seemed like something only posh people

34:17

did. Thought it was just for doctors and lawyers. Now

34:19

you can do all sorts, can't you? Crikey.

34:22

Elizabeth says duveys. We just had sheets

34:24

in a blanket and a bedspread. No,

34:27

we did, but I remember on the candle week, I used

34:29

to candle week bedspread. But then when the,

34:31

I remember they were called continental quilts.

34:34

Oh yeah, that's right. Ooh,

34:37

she's got a continental quilt. Quilts?

34:40

Like not the continental, like everyone

34:43

in Europe was going, whoa. I

34:45

mean, you all know when you go abroad, you never even

34:47

kick that off straight away. Just to

34:50

save your dignity, just in case somebody walks in. But

34:52

the continental, I remember when

34:55

they came out and going, ooh,

34:56

yes. This is easier than

34:59

one sheet, then another sheet, then a sheet in a blanket.

35:02

Fancy, fancy. I just remembered

35:04

actually, just when we were talking about video plays, then

35:06

I was talking the day at work,

35:10

and nobody believed me. But when I was a kid,

35:12

we used to hire a telly, to

35:16

rent a telly from, I don't know, Rumbelows or one of these

35:18

sort of places, that you used to have to

35:20

put 50p's in the back of. Yeah, I remember

35:22

you used to have, we had one as well. You had like, they

35:24

were three 50p's on the top. Mad,

35:27

the madness of it. Imagine halfway

35:29

through a programme now and you're running 50p's.

35:33

I got on more money. We

35:37

had, because on a Saturday morning, we'd just be

35:39

sat, you know, most of the time your parents would have watched

35:42

all of the telly on the Friday night, so Saturday

35:44

morning it'd be off. Yeah,

35:48

and we'd try and go to my mum and dad's room and

35:51

go from my dad's jeans pockets. I'm

35:54

trying to find 50p's. And then my

35:56

brother realised that the toy 50p

35:58

worked exactly the same. just a shape it wasn't

36:01

the weight or anything the

36:03

toy 50p were the same so when the guy came a

36:05

week later it's just full of toy 50p's

36:07

yeah the guy from ron blanche live it or did you

36:09

live it well done lads and shake around he

36:11

should have really should be looking

36:13

back he really should have

36:23

all right so now before we play this Steve

36:26

I didn't mention this last week because

36:29

we had Angela in filling in for you thought wait for

36:31

you to get back but you know what I'm gonna

36:33

talk that's why I had the week off I just thought I ain't

36:36

facing that deal with the flat I wasn't filming

36:38

I just I just thought it's Mozambique

36:41

in it which is gonna be Mozambique all week I'm

36:43

leaving I can't believe basically

36:46

the fact I mean he's not here is he he's not here

36:49

so no a dems not here either he's not a week

36:51

off now so I've had the flack for two weeks yeah

36:53

but what point is it was his fault

36:55

and he's not here and we had a we had a Facebook

36:58

chat about we had a little check then we on whatsapp yeah

37:01

and we all said come on

37:04

and he just kept saying it's content it's content

37:06

you can talk about it but it just makes us look

37:08

like idiots sounds like we're

37:10

idiots yeah the question

37:13

the fact that came up the other week was which

37:15

did you definitely read it right I read it right

37:17

I actually went back over the email to make

37:19

sure cover yourself to cover myself

37:21

yeah before I kicked off which country

37:25

has all five vowels in

37:28

its name what it I think what it should

37:30

have probably been was with

37:32

one word country because

37:35

Mozambique was the answer and

37:37

we were like wowed by that but of course

37:40

there's lots of America

37:43

the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland yeah

37:45

public of China there's millions of Democratic

37:47

Republic of Congo Dominican Republic

37:50

I mean there's low what is the one word was the important

37:52

thing was there's the one word that separated I think

37:54

when you put your trust in your producer sometimes

37:57

you know you know I mean I mean if he was

37:59

on the Tom Cruise film, Tom Cruise would be dead now.

38:02

That's all I'm saying. And he'd say it was content

38:04

or something. That's exactly what had

38:06

happened. He'd go, well no, but you know, it's

38:08

gone viral, innit? And he'd go, yes, yes,

38:10

but we're idiots. If we look like idiots,

38:13

then Tom Cruise is dead. So

38:15

that's, you know, that's the problem. You never accept the responsibility

38:18

for it. I think so. I think so.

38:20

I agree with you. Two in a row. Two big...

38:23

Two in a row. We had that 48, 2... Nightmare.

38:28

So we've got to be on it this week, Steve.

38:31

We've got to be on it. We've

38:33

got Nick covering this week. Nick's our

38:35

cover producer. I trust him.

38:37

I trust him.

38:40

I feel like he's probably the boss probably.

38:43

He doesn't do as much day drinking as Adam. I

38:45

think that's

38:46

it. So

38:48

if you want to play Hit Me With Your Best Facts, all you've got to do is email

38:50

me, jason.absoluteradio.co.uk. We've

38:54

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38:56

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38:58

I still feel... I mean,

39:01

even though I'm apologising, am I

39:03

apologising for me personally, Jason

39:06

Manford, or for Absolute

39:08

Radio and its lack of attention

39:10

to detail? Yeah.

39:13

I apologise on behalf of

39:16

Absolute Radio. Feels like the right thing

39:18

to do. It's a birthday

39:20

year as well, isn't it? So maybe you've been to a

39:22

party and you've had a bit too much. That's

39:24

what's happened, but that's what... I don't know. Yeah,

39:26

I think so. I think so. So if you want to win yourself

39:29

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39:31

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39:33

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39:36

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39:38

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39:40

like a fact that we can use currently,

39:43

like at this time of the year. Yeah, slip

39:45

it in. I think the ones... when somebody

39:47

asks you, things like the crisp one is

39:49

the one I'll always throw out, you know, or the Lego

39:51

tyres. Yeah. Yeah. Always

39:54

facts. All you've got to do is email us, jason.absoluteradio.co.uk.

39:58

Sarah did just that. Sarah!

39:59

Sarah Little Flop. Wow. What

40:02

a... I mean, again, this

40:04

is something we come back to,

40:06

Steve. His people's surnames. What

40:09

was happening in that village?

40:11

Yeah.

40:12

Little Flop. I think we probably know. It's

40:14

a brilliant name. It's a great name. Sarah

40:17

Little Flop says... I mean, every time on

40:19

the phone she must go... Shall

40:22

I say that again? Little Flop. Sorry, what

40:24

did you say? Little Flop.

40:26

F-L-O-P. Little Flop. Little

40:29

Flop. Little Flop. Little

40:31

Flop. Sarah says there are more than 200

40:34

Kit-Kat flavors available

40:36

in Japan.

40:38

200, Steve. Oh, that's

40:40

too many. Have we had this before, I think? I feel like that's

40:42

come up. I feel like we went through

40:45

them all. Oh. I do... You

40:50

know me, Steve, I love a limited edition.

40:53

Different flavor of something. I think we had some sort of...

40:55

Mm. I feel

40:58

like we've had a Kit-Kat fact before. But a good

41:00

one, making me want to know what they all are. Yeah.

41:02

Bet these are like a wasabi flavor. There was a wasabi.

41:04

That's the word I was looking for. The director just walks in

41:07

and then walks back out again. I sound

41:09

like that. And people keep walking over the room. Going

41:11

to my own room. Steve, I... Obviously

41:13

Steve's radio room. Shouldn't Steve be on set in 10 minutes?

41:16

Fine. I'm the director. I'm

41:18

sure I'm going to go and ask somebody. That's a good one. That's

41:21

a good one. Kieran

41:24

Will says, so please find criminals

41:26

through their thinking. They're fingerprints, but there's also another way

41:28

you can track someone down. Arm mouths.

41:31

Humans have Tongue prints too.

41:34

Really? That's disturbing, isn't

41:36

it? I want to give that a... You know,

41:38

put ink on that and lick a bit of time. I

41:40

keep getting your tongue out and putting it in that black thing. Come

41:43

on. I need you to do it. Uh-huh.

41:45

Uh-huh. I wouldn't do it. Yeah, come

41:48

on, mate. That's what they all say. Add exactly

41:50

in that voice. Yeah. Anthony

41:54

Marshall says, IKEA rugs. Oh, IKEA. IKEA

41:56

rugs. Well, you know, isn't it? Yeah.

42:00

Ickier they say on the advert so I guess that's what it

42:02

is. Ickier rugs were used

42:04

for the Night's Watch cloaks in

42:06

Game of Thrones.

42:08

Wow. No

42:09

way. I loved the

42:11

first person who noticed that when they were wandering around

42:13

a gear like was

42:15

he wearing that the other day? I

42:19

think someone on the costume department's

42:21

getting sacked for that. Yeah definitely as

42:23

well. You spent all the budget, yeah all

42:25

gone, all the millions. Hang on. Why

42:28

does that say Bilbot on the back? On

42:31

the Bilbot range? I don't know. I

42:35

wonder if, yeah maybe they just like they

42:38

all had different, all the furniture and that. If

42:40

you look in the background. Yeah correct it's all Ickier. They've

42:43

got Billy Botcase in the background. That's

42:47

where he meant the seven heads. Because it's perfect

42:49

for me isn't it? Yeah that's where

42:51

they put them yeah. Chloe

42:54

Grimes says vacuum cleaners were originally

42:57

horse drawn. Its giant hoses

42:59

were popped through the windows of customers. A

43:02

gas powered motor generated the

43:04

suction that pulled the dirt and debris

43:06

into a glass container where onlookers could gawk

43:09

at the volume of filth coming out of a neighbour's house. Imagine

43:12

a horse drawn vacuum cleaner. Well it's

43:15

a gas powered though I'm confused by the definition.

43:18

Gas powered motor. Yeah but

43:20

what's the horse doing? Just moving it from S to S? Yeah

43:22

yeah yeah yeah. Oh okay. Yeah it's not

43:25

like on a treadmill. You know what

43:27

I was thinking didn't you? Yeah

43:29

it did. On a treadmill and then that is

43:31

made like a dynamo to

43:33

generators going. Keep going keep

43:35

a bit faster. Do a fun gallop. Oh that's

43:38

it that's it it's all coming up now. That's what

43:40

I thought was happening. That does sound

43:42

more interesting to me there. I did actually.

43:46

Ellie says a woman who lost her wedding ring

43:48

found it 16 years later on a carrot

43:51

in her garden. Oh that is

43:53

very good. That's good isn't it? So she lost it. I

43:56

can see what's happened there she's been dibbing a little dabbing a little

43:58

hole to put her seed in. fell off into

44:00

the hole, the sea landed exactly in the middle

44:02

of the ring, she covered it with water, years

44:05

later, there it is. But

44:07

why has it taken 16 years for a caliper? No,

44:09

it's been 16 years, maybe it wasn't the first one coursed.

44:12

Maybe, yeah. Did she marry the carrot? Did

44:14

she say? Okay, she'd have to. She'd

44:17

have to, wouldn't she? Yeah. Ben

44:19

Carmichael, Jason,

44:21

Steve, did you know it would only take

44:24

one hour to drive to space? What?

44:28

Like if you were going to drive to space? What they

44:30

call space, that's just above the Earth's atmosphere. Yeah,

44:33

that space. That space. What

44:35

they call space, what are you talking about? Everyone

44:38

calls space. No, I know, but

44:40

when you think of space, you think of the planet,

44:42

don't you? Like the moon. Oh, I see, like deep

44:44

space. Yeah, they mean just outside

44:47

the Earth's atmosphere. Yeah, yeah, just as you peer the

44:49

boat. How close to space does your

44:51

average flight go? You know what I mean?

44:54

Yeah, it must be pretty close. Mustn't it? It'd

44:57

be great because you just dipped up a little bit. Ladies and gentlemen,

44:59

we're just entering space. And

45:02

we're back. Back in the high-end. Does

45:04

your Pringle start floating out of their box? Whoa!

45:07

Oh, hey! Did it

45:10

get way, bring it back down? A

45:12

woodclap. A woodclap when we landed

45:15

that one. I just thought we'd do that

45:17

to a music because there is a bit of turbulence coming, so hold on to your

45:19

feet. Molly Seek

45:22

says, I know you love a beef act. Oh

45:24

great. I love

45:26

a beef act. I love a beef act. I love

45:28

a beef act. I've started watching this beekeeper

45:31

on TikTok who, she

45:33

doesn't have any like, perceptive

45:36

clothes. They just love that, so they won't be ever dancing.

45:38

They just love her? I don't know what's going on. The

45:40

other day she went, I noticed that they

45:42

didn't have a queen. So luckily

45:45

I had one in my pocket and I was like, whoa,

45:47

whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on, you got a queen in your pocket?

45:49

She's got a queen bee in a matchbox

45:51

in her pocket.

45:53

And then they just all fought with madness. Anyway,

45:56

she says, here's mine. Bumblebees can fly

45:58

higher than Mount... Everest. Wow

46:01

this is good. I mean that's a good one. We

46:04

don't know where they fly but they can fly higher than

46:06

Mount Everest. I love that. Love

46:09

it. And Creed Williamson

46:12

says sumo wrestlers make babies cry

46:14

for good luck. Also

46:16

they say. Yeah of course they say that.

46:19

Do that thought. It's

46:21

good luck mate. Who for though? For the sumo wrestler

46:23

not for the baby. I don't know. Yeah must be. That's

46:25

kind of the look after it all day after it's cried its eye. It's a

46:27

fellow with pants on. Just share it with him. Alright

46:31

so we've had some good ones this week. Hit

46:33

me with your best facts. Let's have a rattle

46:35

through Steve. Have you got a winner already do you think?

46:38

I'll remind you of the ones for this week. Sarah

46:41

Littleflop told us about the 200 KitKat flavors

46:44

available in Japan. Police can

46:46

use tong prints to identify

46:49

the criminals. Ikyo rugs

46:51

were used on the Night's Watch cloaks in

46:53

Game of Thrones. Vacuum cleaners were originally

46:55

horse drawn. A woman who lost a

46:57

wedding ring found it 16 years later in a carrot

47:00

in a garden. Ben told

47:02

us that it only takes an hour to drive to space. Bumblebees

47:05

fly higher than Mount Everest according to Molly and

47:07

sumo wrestlers make babies cry for good

47:09

luck. Steve is there a winner

47:12

there? For me the

47:15

one I want to know more about not necessarily the facts I

47:17

can use more. I like the tong fingerprint but the one

47:19

I'm gonna go I want I want to see the picture of this carrot on

47:21

the wedding ring. I

47:23

just want to know where that like you said 16 years.

47:25

How did it take 16 years? I want to know where

47:27

it was in the UK or wherever it was in the world.

47:30

I want to know the carrot ring story. Yeah

47:33

I like that oh I've just typed in wedding ring carrot

47:35

and obviously it's just said like 24

47:37

carat. Oh

47:40

yeah we've not been had again. We've been

47:42

from a Jim Waterman. I'm

47:44

gonna check this. What

47:46

do you idiots? He said carrot and wedding

47:48

ring. How did you not think that was fake?

47:51

Oh no. It can't

47:54

happen again. Where's

47:56

the story? Hear it. Steve is he up

47:58

looking at the picture? Is

48:00

it a wedding ring on a carrot? It's a wedding ring wrapped

48:03

around a carrot. Mary Grahams

48:05

was devastated when she lost a ring on

48:08

her family farm in Alberta in 2004. But

48:10

she had kept the ring's lost secret from all

48:13

but her son for more than a decade. On

48:15

Monday her daughter-in-law discovered the

48:17

secret and the ring when she pulled

48:20

up a lumpy carrot. And

48:22

there's a picture of literally a diamond ring. She

48:25

kept the secret and then... Yeah, the carrot's

48:27

actually grown through it. It's

48:31

welling in the side. Yeah, it looks

48:34

like Prince Charles' fingers. With

48:37

a ring on it. Yeah, he put it on when he was 12.

48:40

And his fingers have grown around it. That's

48:43

amazing. That is absolutely brilliant. So

48:45

there you go. What a find. Great

48:48

story and great facts this

48:50

week. So, winging its way to

48:53

you Ellie is the Jason Manford Show mug

48:55

for your amazing facts. If you want

48:57

to join in, all you've got to do is email

48:59

us. jason.atabsoluteradio.co.uk Now

49:02

one of the, I hate saying newest,

49:06

hottest newest, best newest, I don't

49:08

know how to phrase it. I love

49:09

one of those adjectives.

49:11

I like those adjectives as well. But

49:13

it's because I'm old now. I realise that

49:16

I've been doing this job

49:18

so long that I'll say, oh this person's really

49:20

new. And then they're like, I've been doing it for 10 years Jason.

49:23

I'm like, okay. But

49:26

you've certainly blown up in the last couple of years. Certainly

49:28

in people's minds. Live at the Apollo, we were just

49:30

talking about that off air. You were

49:32

on Series 16 and that. You absolutely smashed it. And

49:35

of course Taskmaster, people have seen Sophie

49:37

Duker on there as well. What's

49:41

the show for you that you thought,

49:43

do you know what, things have changed?

49:45

Oh, I mean, I feel like

49:48

Live at the Apollo sort of feels like the final, not the

49:50

final boss, because there are so many bosses in comedy.

49:54

But I think there's always a thing where

49:56

comedian isn't a real job.

49:59

people what you do they're like oh

50:02

yeah would I have seen you on anything lying at the Apollo

50:04

and you're like if you're like yes then you're like

50:06

okay I've

50:09

done it I can say I've done something

50:11

I mean like yeah that was really

50:14

cool obviously it's

50:15

such an iconic show it's quite big you can

50:17

invite the whole family which

50:19

I did because I was like we

50:21

all got to be laughing as hard as we can and

50:23

it's a weird one isn't it because it's I

50:25

don't know if you were the first record or the second record but

50:27

there's no like warm up for

50:29

it it just sort of happens like these

50:32

people also yeah they sort of

50:34

coming from work and then yeah I did

50:36

the first one as well

50:37

but I really like that I quite like getting

50:40

in and like smashing it and being like here

50:42

I am and then you get to go and process for the rest

50:44

of the night so I don't you mean

50:46

or worry worry did it go well when I found

50:49

out that I got it I mean it's quite like once

50:51

yes that's happening you're meant to be

50:53

pleased about it which I really am but

50:55

with like a show that's quite high stakes like live

50:57

at the Apollo or being on Taskmaster my

51:00

agent will tell me that I've got the job and I'm like

51:02

okay but

51:04

Taskmaster champion no less

51:07

I know! Unbelievable!

51:09

How did it happen? Yeah,

51:11

Taskmaster Champion is a

51:13

show that is definitely based on objective skills

51:16

and I have just skilled my way

51:18

to the top

51:19

and it is massively

51:21

joyful being a Taskmaster Champion mainly because

51:23

I get to do it again that's

51:25

a big takeaway it is the silliest show

51:27

I've ever been a part of. It's so much fun

51:29

I love watching it it's great fun. Absolutely

51:32

dreamy

51:32

so yeah I basically

51:35

I've made it my emo

51:36

to like conquer Doro

51:38

Brienne which is a weird sentence I've not said out loud

51:40

before

51:41

but he is one of my competitors

51:44

in the champion a champion show that

51:46

was coming up later so like that's the next

51:48

Everest that's the next boss to defeat. It's

51:50

called the Biggest Man in the show business.

51:56

Wow! All right well that's good that's and we'll keep

51:58

an eye out for that.

51:59

But you are going on tour, that's the thing that

52:02

you're talking this morning about. I am. Well

52:04

you're on tour at the moment aren't you? I'm

52:05

on tour at the moment, I've already started but it's my

52:07

first ever time, my

52:09

first ever time, peddling whatever

52:12

this is all around the country. And

52:15

yeah again it was like a big thing where I didn't

52:17

know if I would love it and I really, really

52:19

do. My tour's called Hag and

52:21

I'm taking it everywhere and it's kind of like,

52:24

yeah, I think a big, messy,

52:27

silly,

52:27

hot and new? Hot and

52:29

new. Hot and new? Yeah

52:31

it's hot, it's new, it's fresh.

52:34

But

52:34

it is, like what's great

52:36

about getting all those people in a room just for you

52:39

is that you get to be as like

52:41

silly as you like. So I do

52:43

like a whole show but I also do stuff where I play games

52:45

with the audience, I love talking to people, I love,

52:48

like basically I love getting out of London. It's

52:50

just unashamedly fun. I want people

52:53

to be like, I had a great time. That's

52:55

what we want. I feel like quite like

52:57

cheeky about it because obviously I talk about, maybe

52:59

not obviously, I do talk about stuff like,

53:02

that just comes up, like race and sexuality and stuff but I

53:04

never want to be teaching people a lesson,

53:06

it's just talking about my life which is. Yeah it's just

53:08

your experience, yeah, you're not lecturing.

53:11

Yeah and I'm not a good role model so some of

53:13

the stuff that I talk about or some of the

53:16

experiences that I've had might be

53:18

slightly racy or but

53:20

I think it's stuff that everyone can enjoy.

53:22

Brilliant and you're going everywhere on

53:24

this tour, you're all over the country.

53:26

I'm all

53:27

over the country, I'm also going to Dublin, so I'm

53:29

going to Ireland for the first time ever which

53:31

is super exciting. I'm going to be in London, yeah,

53:33

I'm going Coventry, I'm going Norwich, I'm going Birmingham,

53:36

I'm going Manchester, I'm

53:38

going, yeah, everywhere. Amazing

53:41

and where can people find tickets? This is

53:43

very important because people listen

53:46

and they're like, nice speaking

53:48

voice that lady had and never,

53:50

never go to sophiejuka.com and

53:54

yeah it's duker.com,

53:57

all my tickets are there both for my

53:59

tour which I'm doing and I'm doing a massive show

54:01

in London at Hackney Empire called Wacky

54:03

Racists. Wacky Racists?

54:06

Yes, disclaimer it is not a

54:08

show for actually kooky actual

54:10

racists.

54:10

Okay, I'm just checking that. A few people's

54:13

ears pricked up like oh mate that's the right for me.

54:16

This is my niche. Yeah

54:18

I think when you're doing stand-up you do have to have some sense

54:20

of like you know this is a show with

54:23

a beginning and a middle and end but Wacky Racists is a show

54:25

I started in 2018 in sort of what

54:27

was like a tiny basement under a pizza place

54:30

with about 40 seats and now it's in

54:32

Hackney Empire which is over a thousand.

54:34

I've got some of the best comedians the country joining me,

54:36

we play stupid games. What's really nice

54:39

about it is that it's so gleeful and silly

54:41

and again it's like creating

54:43

a platform for obviously

54:45

comedians of colour, people who might have been marginalized but

54:47

it's a show where everyone can get stuck in and

54:49

it's not politically correct it's just a big you

54:51

know it's just a kind of a big loving

54:54

free-for-all.

54:55

Well it sounds fantastic. What date's that on?

54:57

That is on the 26th October.

54:58

So coming up very soon and as Sophie mentioned

55:03

you can get tickets for a tour as well sophiejukie.com

55:05

and you'll also be performing at Absolute

55:08

Radio Live for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Yes

55:11

I will I'm very excited about that.

55:13

That's

55:13

a moment, what a place to be. That's Sunday

55:15

26th of November

55:19

you can and there may be a few tickets left

55:22

for that as well. Yes I think people should be

55:25

quick for all

55:25

these things because winter is coming and people

55:28

want to be watching comedy.

55:30

Absolutely, absolutely so come along to those. Thanks

55:33

for joining us this morning Soph, good luck

55:34

with everything. Thank you, you too, have

55:36

a lovely morning.

55:41

Thanks

55:44

for joining us this week here on Absolute

55:47

Radio. Steve what you got planned this week? Is

55:49

it your last few days? This is the final

55:51

week of filming so I'll be back in

55:53

St. Leonard's next week. Well

55:56

we've missed you, Blighty has missed you Steve. Well

55:58

my kids, one of my kids had no... teeth when

56:00

I left he's now got six and the

56:02

other one's lost his two front teeth.

56:04

That's ironic isn't it? Yeah, it's a tale of

56:06

teeth. They've all gone and come and gone while I've been away. A

56:09

tale of two sets of teeth, yeah. Gosh, it's all

56:11

changed. It's all changed in the Edge household. We'll

56:15

be back next week of course. As always the podcast

56:17

is up very shortly. Steve

56:19

is, if you keep hearing us talking about where Steve

56:21

is and why is he in Malta and you just joined us,

56:24

he's in a show called Madame Mysteries.

56:26

Madame Mysteries, third series, it

56:28

starts probably around Christmas so we've got a Christmas special.

56:31

I don't know if the other ones are on, they're on Acorn

56:34

if you're abroad or wherever you get Acorn

56:36

from. I don't know if they're on My Five, I don't know. Have

56:39

a Google. Google's your friend, they'll tell you. But it's

56:42

very good and very funny and obviously Steve's brilliant in

56:44

it so have a little watch of that when

56:46

you get a chance. We'll see you next week here on Absolute Radio.