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1:43

How did I ever lie here? You're

1:45

good.

1:46

Fantastic. I am

1:49

sat at my dining

1:51

room table and back home. for

1:53

a matter of hours. And I'm looking up

1:56

to the decidedly

1:58

gray and

1:59

grims guys

2:01

of Manchester. I'll just knock

2:03

the mic there because I'm a super pro.

2:07

So Craig, why is there

2:09

no gas this week. I hear you cry. Well,

2:11

there was going to be, but

2:15

sadly, myself and

2:18

the standard comedian, Josh Pew, couldn't

2:21

make a time work for which

2:24

is I'm gonna record it, but

2:26

we aren't gonna record it this week. So you'll

2:28

listen to this now, I think, on a Thursday,

2:31

we're gonna record when

2:33

I hot foot it back down to

2:36

Brighton, get set up.

2:38

Record with Josh before he goes

2:40

on stage. he

2:43

graciously

2:43

fit us in

2:45

on on his on his tour at the

2:47

moment. Josh is a great standard committee. You're

2:49

gonna really like it to be super well

2:51

down to a very, very funny,

2:55

and he's been on my radar for quite some time.

2:58

and it's not the case that, you

3:00

know, last week we had

3:02

the wonderful Nick Helm

3:05

who had known for years and

3:08

been a huge fan of this. It's

3:10

just comes to life that we've we've got a a

3:12

with double bank and standard comedians.

3:15

Maybe we'll just do a

3:17

stomachache, a special, as well

3:19

as the incredible strong

3:22

female representation we've

3:24

had this this

3:26

season. It's been it's been strong. And I

3:28

know it's been tough.

3:29

Probably as a listener,

3:32

but certainly as a host and a booker.

3:35

And I think I can speak for producer

3:37

graph as a producer. You'd

3:40

think after, you know,

3:42

five plus years, it would

3:45

be

3:45

easier, but

3:46

it's kinda not. It it it has

3:49

got harder. But

3:51

It's only because, you know, we pride ourselves

3:53

on not having

3:56

the same people on who are doing

3:58

the podcast rounds, therefore, having the same

4:00

conversations. We don't want that.

4:02

I don't want it, and we don't wanna

4:04

deliver that to you. So

4:08

yeah. apologies for

4:10

the inconsistency, but, you

4:13

know, as you're used to it now, when the

4:15

episodes come, they're gonna be great. I'm not

4:17

saying this

4:17

one's gonna be great because it's just me

4:20

talking to you. But we've

4:21

got a few questions from

4:24

you that we're

4:27

we're gonna talk to on the very

4:29

limited time I have it is gonna be much

4:32

short episode than normal, but how

4:34

are things you are

4:36

well. This is good, good news. It's

4:41

It certainly autumn was there. I

4:43

mean, I got back

4:45

to Manchester yesterday, and

4:47

it's is much grainier

4:50

than normal, but spirits

4:52

are high, people are

4:54

happy, which is good news. I'm

4:58

heading back tomorrow, as I said, down

5:00

to Bryant, and we've got another

5:03

six weeks of

5:05

filming left. on

5:08

on Grace. With

5:11

past TSP guest, John

5:13

Sim. I'm hoping to grab John

5:16

for a part two that we promised. We're gonna

5:18

do that. He's totally up for it.

5:20

So we might have to record that on set on

5:22

the host. Maybe I'll be interested.

5:24

Maybe let's see.

5:26

But John, he's

5:28

gonna come back. And we're gonna do that before

5:31

season ten is out. Before the

5:33

year is out Yeah. It's going so

5:35

fast. Let's just

5:37

slow

5:38

things

5:40

down.

5:42

Should we yeah. I've got I'll tell you.

5:45

I didn't think so. Yeah.

5:47

So we've got we'll

5:49

love this episode. This mini episode now.

5:51

Just me and you. having a little chat,

5:53

easing ourselves into the

5:55

Thursday. I've got the sunshine

5:57

on. It's just got back cold, so

6:00

cold. I won't feel for long though. It's

6:02

a dare do. And then we'll have

6:04

the wonderful Josh Pew.

6:08

So if you don't know who Josh is,

6:11

looking up on YouTube, there's some stuff on

6:14

there. I think

6:16

you'll kind of fall in love with him. He's very

6:18

lovable, really reliable,

6:21

effortless in his

6:23

delivery, which is one

6:26

of the reasons why he was

6:28

shortlisted this year. at

6:31

Edinburgh. It's not the for

6:33

the Edinburgh fringe, it's not the Perrier. I always call

6:35

it the Perrier, but that's because I'm forty

6:38

six. And it's now

6:40

probably someone to do with Dave. think he is something to

6:42

do with Dave. So whenever he's the Dave award,

6:45

you're probably shouting out now, Craig, it's

6:47

the this award. Anyway, he was

6:50

nominally this year. And when I went

6:52

up for a couple of days, I

6:55

missed his show because I

6:58

just couldn't fit it in. I was there for two days. I

7:00

was trying to see at least three shows

7:03

a day as well as some stand up.

7:05

And I couldn't fit it in, but I am gonna go and

7:07

say Josh

7:08

when when

7:10

half the time. You know, that's another thing

7:12

about the inconsistency of of

7:14

this podcast for season ten. It's

7:16

about finding the time It's

7:18

about finding the time to sit down

7:20

for a quality hour with somebody.

7:23

And

7:26

when you're busy and when you

7:28

do all the bookings yourself,

7:32

things can get pretty,

7:34

tricky. but

7:36

you know what? We get there in the

7:38

end. Don't we? So let's sum. Let's

7:41

dive in to

7:44

the mailbag. Naveedah,

7:47

Naveedah Hussein, hello. How

7:49

are you? Thank you so much for dropping

7:52

us an

7:53

email.

7:55

Now the video goes on to say

7:57

some very nice things which I'm not doing

7:59

to shout out, but

8:02

thank you to be there. You're very, very cognizant

8:04

of such nice things. Her

8:07

question is,

8:11

Would you do a live session

8:14

with an audience? She says, I'm sure

8:16

a lot of people would want to join

8:18

in That's

8:20

one question. She also asked, am I watching

8:22

anything that you would recommend? So

8:24

let's deal with the first part. of

8:27

Navidea's question first. Yeah.

8:30

Yeah. We would. We really

8:34

want to get out on the road. I

8:39

know personally,

8:41

I can't speak. for

8:43

producer graph, I know, the

8:45

next the first

8:48

three months of

8:50

next year, certainly the first two and a half months

8:55

are pretty free

8:59

with regards to a

9:02

filming for me. I

9:04

start again in March. So

9:08

maybe a

9:12

spring minitor could

9:14

be good, but, you know, it's a lot of organization,

9:16

but maybe if we got the win the bottleneckers,

9:19

we could we could kind of do that, that would be

9:21

good. But where would we go?

9:23

That's the thing.

9:28

gives a shout out where you think

9:30

we should go. We're gonna go

9:32

big cities. We're gonna go man just I'll be going

9:34

Birmingham. I'll be going Edinburgh.

9:37

I'll be going Glasgow. I'll be going nodding

9:39

them. you know,

9:41

I'd say, Blackpool. I don't know how many people listen

9:44

in Blackpool. My mom and dad might turn up,

9:46

but, you know, an audience of two.

9:49

And also you've got to think about getting

9:52

the guest. So

9:55

obviously, we do one in London.

9:58

Obviously, we do on in Manchester

10:00

and Birmingham, but where else would

10:02

you like us to talk if we

10:04

could I mean, we've been saying it for

10:06

a while, but it is all

10:09

logistics

10:09

and it's all about Simon.

10:13

So, yeah, I mean, I I mean, I think

10:15

I know what I can speak for

10:17

producer graph. We would love to do it.

10:20

It's always a joy. going

10:23

out and

10:24

then being

10:25

in the TSP family, having

10:27

a chat before and after. And

10:31

There's a different attitude. There's different

10:33

vibe. It's a really, really good

10:35

experience. It's

10:37

a nice night out. So, yeah, lot.

10:39

I'm talk I'm like, are they talking myself

10:41

into it? Yes. We would love to

10:44

do it.

10:49

let's let's put that on the Paris

10:51

notices live tour, TSB

10:53

mini tour, early

10:57

next year, obviously,

10:59

not promising, but certainly it's something

11:01

we're gonna look into.

11:03

let me get the next six

11:06

weeks out of the way and then

11:09

we can really dive into

11:11

it.

11:12

and look. But, you know,

11:14

it gives a shout on social media where

11:16

you think

11:18

we should go. and be realistic.

11:22

Also, a venue

11:24

with Dorothy in too big, Dorothy

11:26

in too tiny. So it needs

11:28

to be just right. Lots

11:31

of character. Lots of warmth.

11:33

I mean, you'll bring the warmth. You'll be there. And

11:37

Let's keep ticket prices

11:41

as low as possible look.

11:45

We do this with the help of you.

11:47

You support us on Patreon.

11:50

You buy a bit of merch. You support.

11:53

and it's what keeps us going,

11:56

you

11:56

know. So bear in

11:58

mind, what would you pay

11:59

for a night out?

12:02

with one possibly two guests.

12:06

Have

12:06

a think, see

12:08

what you would put your own in your pocket for.

12:11

Now

12:13

the second part of the question. Oh, and also,

12:16

with regards to that first part, yeah,

12:18

hit us up on social media about that.

12:20

venues, cities,

12:22

towns, villages, and

12:28

also what you feel would be

12:30

the right price to pay for a ticket,

12:33

you know,

12:35

especially with the cost living crisis

12:37

and what's going on.

12:39

It's, you know, it's it's a dare

12:41

do to go to the pictures now,

12:44

which

12:44

we love to do, go to fear,

12:46

go to the op or a

12:49

go to a gig. You

12:52

know? And also,

12:54

if you're a if you're a parent, you've got

12:56

think about childcare. So

12:58

every hour you're out,

13:00

you're paying for it. And

13:03

maybe you've been out for ages. So,

13:05

yeah, have a think. about about all

13:07

of those things. So what

13:10

what have I been watching of

13:12

late? Well, it's been a while since

13:15

I've actually had time to sit down

13:18

and pop the idiot box on. But

13:23

the last Saturday,

13:26

we

13:26

went to

13:28

the pictures for

13:30

the first time in a long time. and

13:33

we went to the wonderful every

13:35

man on Caesary in

13:37

Manchester. And

13:39

Now,

13:40

I don't do a lot of theater.

13:43

them I don't

13:46

know why. Well,

13:47

actually, I do know why. It's it's

13:49

it's slightly terrifying, and it takes up a lot

13:51

of time and a lot of energy.

13:53

And I don't know if we've

13:55

got it in me. But whenever I do,

13:57

I really want to work with

14:00

the best playwrights.

14:02

And one of the best playwrights

14:04

is Martin Waddler, one of the best screamwriters

14:06

and Directors is Martin McDonough. And

14:09

so we went to see his new

14:12

film which was reunite in

14:14

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. And

14:19

it was remarkable. I

14:21

mean,

14:24

Yeah.

14:24

I was trying to suppress.

14:27

I was well. I was. I was suppressing tears.

14:30

think, within twenty minutes,

14:33

it was quite the emotional

14:35

roller coaster. If you haven't seen it, please go

14:37

and see. the balance sheet of

14:40

in ish in

14:42

a comprehensive market

14:44

returns new firm with common firm and I can

14:46

go and see that indefinitely. But

14:50

as wickedly funny as

14:52

it is, the

14:55

I I did

14:58

find it desperately sad for

15:00

all sorts of reasons, but

15:03

I think you'll take away what

15:05

you take away. It's quite the personal

15:08

experience, astonishing performances

15:11

by all of them. There's a moment in

15:13

that first twenty minutes and

15:19

Colin Farrell's face goes

15:22

through about seven different emotions

15:25

whilst he sat outside this pub. And

15:28

that moment absolutely broke

15:30

me. It's it's a remarkable

15:33

remarkable piece of acting,

15:35

both of them and also

15:39

Barike Elgomer. who

15:43

could possibly stay on this film when Carrie

15:46

London was incredible pack

15:49

shorts as the landlord of the pub. I

15:51

mean, it's a it's a small

15:53

and stonkingly brilliant

15:56

cast. beautifully

15:58

shot by Ben Davis.

15:59

The score

16:01

isn't what you think it's gonna be. It's

16:06

it's stunning, but

16:08

as

16:10

as as funny. Yeah. As funny as it is, I

16:12

did I did Kayva. I didn't come

16:14

out fairly rather sad while we both did.

16:18

But we sat down to

16:20

the small screen in the evening and

16:23

I've been wanting to have

16:25

time to sit and watch the

16:27

bear on Disney plus which I've

16:29

been reading about since it

16:32

was released in the states.

16:34

I think, like, a year ago, it's taken quite

16:36

some time to get over

16:39

onto Disney Plus. So

16:42

the Bear Disney

16:45

Plus, it's eight episodes.

16:47

There are about sort twenty six, twenty seven minutes.

16:50

long each episode. So

16:52

it's it's

16:55

it's binging. It's what binging

16:57

was made for the not hours long

17:01

there there that time. There's

17:03

one episode which

17:07

is a remarkable feat

17:09

of television. It's

17:11

it's a one It's a one

17:14

take episode. I think it's episode

17:16

seven. I think it is episode seven.

17:19

The characters are strong, the writing is

17:21

incredible, the pace, is

17:25

up there

17:26

with the best I've seen in a long time.

17:30

go watch it. It's not if people

17:33

are saying it's stressful. I don't think it's as

17:35

stressful as

17:38

some people are saying. think it's funny,

17:42

relatable, intriguing,

17:45

and

17:48

morrish. So the bear

17:51

on Disney plus is

17:53

my sorry. It's still not bad. My

17:56

strat human recommendation to bear,

17:58

Disney plus Go,

18:00

feast on that. And

18:02

trust me, come back to me. You're gonna enjoy it.

18:04

Season two has already been

18:07

commissioned. And that

18:09

something

18:09

else I've started on Disney

18:11

Plus, it's an absolute crack at. I mean, not

18:13

sponsored by Disney Plus. I mean, we bloody Shopee.

18:16

because they're producing incredible things.

18:19

I watched the first episode

18:21

of Jeffbridge's new series

18:23

called The Old Man which again,

18:25

yeah. There's nipples.

18:28

And that is a

18:31

strong, strong intense

18:34

intensely violent first

18:38

episode of

18:41

of an e thriller. And look, it's Jeff Bridges

18:43

in it. It's gonna be quality. Isn't it?

18:46

Yeah. Well, it is. So

18:48

they are things that

18:50

I've been watching of late, which

18:53

I've adored. Let

18:55

me let

18:56

me just

18:58

give it a pause right there and

19:00

I'll be back.

19:02

innocent.

19:09

and we are back.

19:12

Hello. So, Navida, thank

19:14

you so much

19:15

for that question. I hope that was

19:17

answered.

19:18

thoroughly. think it was when

19:21

it was on this it was on this so one

19:23

more can get. Carmen

19:26

Gosh, dear. Thank you. So

19:28

much for such a lovely email. I'm

19:31

not gonna read it out, obviously, because I don't

19:33

do that, but you know what you said and

19:35

he's much appreciated. So

19:38

bless your consults. Thanks very much. Now

19:41

now interesting question this.

19:44

Carvin goes to say, imagine that

19:46

you were organizing a music festival.

19:49

What would be your ideal lineup? which

19:52

artists and groups passed or present?

19:55

What would they be would they be who would be performing?

19:57

What songs would they play? I mean, I

20:00

can't answer all of that. because

20:02

there's a lot to go on and got a limited time,

20:04

but I will I

20:06

will answer

20:08

part of it. But before I do that,

20:11

This question is one

20:13

that is posed on a

20:15

podcast by my friend Sean

20:17

Keaveney. It's called the lineup.

20:20

and he gets a guest on it every

20:22

week and it's it's

20:24

about creating your own festival. So

20:26

it is this Carmen, you would

20:28

love this. podcast, the lineup

20:31

with Sean Kevey, go find it where he go. He

20:33

podcast. He gets a guest on every week.

20:36

They look at location. they

20:39

look at, you know,

20:42

the aforementioned lineup. it

20:45

could, you know, it's people from the past,

20:48

people who are no longer with us.

20:50

They talk about the setting. They

20:53

talk about the name of the festival. They talk about

20:55

food they talk about who's going to the festival,

20:57

it's a great great lesson. And

21:02

one headliner that

21:04

I think would

21:07

bring the house down apart from people

21:10

who had won now, had won the kings. I

21:12

would want Fleetwood Mac original lineup.

21:14

But

21:17

but I

21:19

always think when it's dark

21:22

and

21:22

it's it's a balmy summer's

21:25

evening, we're waiting.

21:27

for

21:27

the headline is to come on. No one knows. It's

21:29

a complete secret. And

21:31

all the lights go off.

21:34

And

21:34

there's a hush from the crowd.

21:39

We

21:39

hear

21:40

organs in the background

21:43

people come. what

21:44

is that? And it's and it's fading out the music.

21:46

We can almost hear it. We

21:48

can't

21:48

really make out of the tune, but we know

21:50

it's organs and all of a sudden A

21:53

spotlight

21:54

shines down on stage in there

21:57

is

21:57

George Michael in all his glory

22:00

and he goes right into faith.

22:03

Come on. The crowd goes, wild. That

22:05

would be it. So, yeah, I would say George

22:07

Michael, all the hits.

22:10

all the solo hits.

22:13

All the wham hits. Special

22:15

guest stars, yes, Elton's comment

22:18

on. Of course, he is. Yeah.

22:20

I would say George

22:22

Michael the

22:26

would be there, Carmen. I hope that answers

22:29

your question,

22:30

jeez, I'm ready when I'm at the first

22:32

of all now.

22:33

Still not long till summer.

22:35

Okay. Let's

22:37

have another look.

22:39

I think we'll time for one more

22:43

question.

22:45

So it's last question time

22:46

because I've got to

22:49

I've got to go and cook dinner and then I've got

22:51

to finish back in and then bounced

22:54

on the train to Brighton. Katie

22:58

Braembridge. How are you, Katie? Long

23:01

time listener. and supporter

23:03

is is our Katie. So

23:08

Katie is talking about

23:10

Halloween because we've just had I don't know. I mean,

23:13

and

23:13

she says it.

23:14

Do you consider clowns a Halloween

23:16

thing? Okay. See, I do. And

23:18

let me tell you why.

23:20

why I've

23:23

never like germs. I've always found them

23:26

very scary. And this didn't help

23:28

when I was

23:33

Young. I was young. was far

23:35

too young to

23:37

be watching Halloween

23:40

three. season

23:42

of the witch, which which

23:45

is a is a funny one because,

23:47

yes, it's it's a Halloween

23:49

film from the Halloween franchise, but from

23:52

what I remember, and

23:53

I think it must have been too well for

23:55

some to you want to be watching such a

23:57

terrifying film on

23:59

on VHS.

24:02

Well, what's

24:03

VHS Craig Googler?

24:06

google it.

24:07

i'm And

24:10

that had

24:11

quite the

24:14

freakish of clowns in

24:16

it and scared

24:19

the life away.

24:20

Still, now I I wouldn't go back.

24:23

and watched that. So

24:25

I blame Halloween three season for the witch for

24:27

clowns. Obviously,

24:29

it

24:31

which my son

24:33

who is eleven has

24:36

just started reading and he's very excited

24:39

that it's a it's a huge big thick

24:42

Stephen King. No. Voluntary First Stephen

24:44

King. So he's gonna he's gonna

24:46

go through it and then he's gonna graduate

24:49

to the stand.

24:50

Say them's love. The shining. He's

24:52

going through all speaking of my son. He

24:55

was very, he loves Halloween.

24:57

so much. And

25:00

his mom always

25:02

creates a fantastic

25:05

Halloween pie because his mom

25:07

he's from Northern Ireland, as you may

25:10

know. And Halloween's

25:12

huge then in in Ireland. more

25:16

so than it is here. And

25:19

he got it

25:21

he got it in his mind that he wanted to make,

25:23

his Halloween. out for this year.

25:26

ah

25:29

And he'd recently watched the new

25:31

Predator film on Disney Plus as

25:33

another

25:34

hard recommend, by the way. And

25:36

then he wants to go back and

25:38

watch the original predator, which

25:40

which he did. Yes. I know. He's eleven.

25:42

Don't BBFC me.

25:46

Tanger changed. It'd be fifteen now

25:48

or twelve eight as well as you know it apart from the swearing.

25:50

Yeah. and we

25:53

in between myself and his

25:55

mom, we

25:58

got together and

25:59

and he made

26:01

most of his predecessor outfit from

26:04

cardboard. I went to Primark

26:06

and got some fishnets, tights, fish fish

26:09

net, fish net tights. That's

26:11

right. Never

26:13

bought them. Can't say it. And

26:15

then I found a company and

26:17

it was really cheap. It was like thirty quid

26:20

and they three d printed

26:23

the predator helmet.

26:25

and he got a light to stick on the side

26:27

with the three sort of red lasers.

26:32

And then he wanted to have the

26:34

sound of the predator.

26:36

So I said, well, I need

26:38

to record these things off his phone. I said, well, if

26:40

you record

26:41

off your phone, that clicky

26:43

click noise, that quite sinister,

26:46

eerie clicking that the predator does.

26:48

Almost, you know, it's it's quite like

26:51

I'm doing

26:52

pincer. That's made a

26:54

pencil shape because it's a bit like a

26:57

crab or some sort of crustacean.

27:00

And then we've got a little bag.

27:02

that little tiny

27:04

bag that I used, that I

27:06

had in blastingbury this year, and I

27:08

said, well, I had to repeat that. I mean, well, you can have that. and

27:10

we got a tiny little cheap Bluetooth speaker,

27:13

and he connected it to

27:15

to his phone. And he had

27:17

this noise of the furniture coming out. I mean,

27:20

I'm saying all this and

27:22

it is spectacular. I'm gonna try and edit a

27:25

video and

27:25

I'll put it on

27:27

the two shot page. So

27:30

you can see it in all its eerie,

27:33

glory,

27:34

but you had a job well done for eleven year

27:36

old boy kind of complete

27:38

Halloween. God knows what's gonna happen

27:40

next year. Well,

27:42

look, that's all we've got time for this

27:45

week. I didn't wanna just

27:47

leave you hanging and not have an episode for

27:49

your Thursday when

27:52

everything's getting a bit dark and gloomy

27:54

and rainy and sludgy and leafy.

27:57

So it's nice to check-in with

27:59

the community

27:59

and

28:02

will see you very soon

28:04

with a conversation, with brilliant

28:07

Josh Pew.

28:08

Okay.

28:09

Until then, I've been Craig Parkinson.

28:12

He's been producer Greff, and this

28:14

has been the

28:15

two shot podcast. You

28:16

take care of yourself. Alright. Let's

28:19

see soon.

28:19

The

28:23

two shot podcasts was presented by me, Craig

28:25

Parkinson, recorded

28:26

and produced by Thomas Griffin for

28:28

splicing block. The remix of our theme

28:30

tune is by stolen valour. Cheers.