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0:55

on Bro, bro, bro, bro There's,

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there's not, let's not fucking wrestle, let's not fuck

0:59

about We need to

1:01

fucking hail the king

1:03

Bro, I, you know what,

1:05

you know you said you'd never run a marathon

1:07

Yeah I never thought I'd sit

1:10

and watch a whole fucking marathon Do you

1:12

know what, Catherine was out, she

1:14

had to, like we had some families Quite

1:16

horrible family stuff that happened But, so

1:19

me and Grace were in together, we went

1:21

shopping And, yeah, brought

1:23

some snacks And then I sat down, I

1:25

thought, oh quite exciting And then at the age

1:27

of two and a half, I was like, Uncle Romesh is running a marathon And

1:31

we were, I, so, mate, it was, I,

1:33

like, I was texting Flo for the whole thing Yeah,

1:36

she told me I was so, she told me I was so

1:38

fucking proud, man I can't, and

1:40

do you know what else, what really made me happy is It's

1:43

the amount of people I got messaging and videos of you

1:46

Running around, waving at people and just Like,

1:49

you look like you're having a time of your

1:51

life You're doing this incredible fucking endurance thing And

1:53

also, man, it was, even now, get tingles, bro

1:56

I'm so proud of you, man Thank you, bro You're

1:58

so proud, man That's an incredible you've done

2:00

right there. Thanks man. Well I don't

2:02

want to go

2:05

on about it too much but just

2:07

that weekend, like

2:10

doing the, I

2:12

did the first radio t-shirt, thank you everyone

2:14

that misses me about that and then like

2:17

went and did Brighton that night. Yeah. I

2:19

mean I got to the hotel, I was

2:21

staying at the hotel next to the O2

2:23

and I've got to be honest with you

2:25

man, I've never felt nerves like

2:27

it. I woke up the next morning and

2:29

obviously because I've not stayed at home. I like

2:32

being at home and like having Lisa and the kids

2:34

doing good luck or whatever so obviously I didn't have

2:36

that. They put a card in my bag which is

2:38

very, very sweet and then I

2:40

got up in the morning, I

2:42

felt sick man. I felt so sick.

2:45

I went down to do it, went down to

2:47

the thing, jolled on

2:50

it was there, you know, seeing all these

2:52

people like the nerves start to go up

2:54

and up and up to the point where

2:56

people were commenting like going are

2:58

you alright? Yeah. Yeah. Because I was like.

3:00

I saw it as your power, saw it

3:02

when you were all getting interviewed. Yeah. I

3:05

was like bless him. I was feeling it.

3:07

He doesn't need this right now. No, my

3:09

anxiety was through the roof and then I,

3:12

so then I, then we started and I sort of,

3:14

they all went off and I just, I held back

3:17

for a bit because I thought I'm just going to,

3:19

I tried to find a mate of mine actually, Chrissie,

3:21

who I did high rocks with but we got separated.

3:23

Anyway, I started doing it and

3:26

I was so nervous about,

3:30

about going too fast early on and then like

3:32

hitting the wall or not being able to finish.

3:34

I really got in my head about it. So

3:36

every time. This is how deep you are going

3:38

to be. This is how deep, because your first

3:41

two hits, you could see

3:44

that and then you had like, then you banged out

3:46

like I think the next three stages,

3:48

your time like halved almost. Yeah. From

3:50

like 11 minutes, 12 minutes to eight,

3:52

four, eight. This is how geeky I

3:55

was watching you. I've watched you like

3:57

an eight bit spectrum by the way.

4:00

I watched the whole thing. I had it on our

4:02

iPad. I was just sitting there watching this

4:04

little thing. I saw a couple of the

4:06

updates that you put on. It was

4:08

really touching. You put a little screen

4:10

grab or something on your Instagram. Yeah, I watched

4:12

that. That was on the house. But

4:15

bizarrely, I ended up getting faster as

4:18

the race went on. And

4:20

then to the end I was really blowing a bit. But

4:24

the people on the sides, via

4:26

the road sides or whatever, it

4:28

was unbelievable. I

4:32

look at them as well and think,

4:34

they're there for six, seven months. There

4:38

were people with Romish signs. Wow.

4:43

As I was going past, it

4:45

was just

4:47

so wild. Loads of people

4:49

were stopping for selfies and stuff like that. But as

4:52

I was running past the noise and everything, it

4:55

was one of those things where

4:57

you go, it felt like being in

4:59

a film or something. It was incredible.

5:01

It just felt so good. The

5:05

issues I had were, one, I was

5:08

so scared of not finishing that I went so

5:10

slowly in the first section. The

5:12

other thing I did was I was so nervous about

5:14

not hydrating properly. I drank so much that I ended

5:16

up needing to take about four pisses in

5:18

the first 10 kilometres. And

5:21

then other people are going, you're only supposed to go

5:23

once per half or something. Because every time you stop

5:25

to go to the toilet, it's like 10, 15 minutes.

5:28

Because obviously there's a queue or whatever. And it's rank.

5:30

And also I got about three or four messages from

5:32

someone saying, Romish's time has been

5:34

a lot longer because he was stopping. He

5:37

was getting constantly stopped and asking himself, even

5:39

videos for people. They were like, no

5:41

one else was doing it. Everyone else was

5:43

like, head down, running. I guess that's why people

5:45

wear costumes, right? They were like, yeah, Romish was

5:48

really kind for this time. He was literally getting

5:50

stopped and mobbed all the way round. I just

5:52

sort of thought, as I said to you, I

5:54

don't give a shit about the time. I

5:57

just want to get round. Well, you finished it. I

6:00

mean, Kevin got home in time, right? And we were

6:03

watching it. This is like where we were at, right?

6:05

We had your little finger, you hit the 40K mark,

6:08

and then I'm like, it's a home straight. I

6:11

was literally like, and I said, you've got these

6:13

three pictures, right, of you, like

6:15

the finishing line, and we're sitting there going,

6:17

is that him? And like, in the distant

6:19

one going, now it's just someone, and loads

6:21

of people were orange, by the way. We

6:23

should appreciate it. Yeah, I know, yeah. And

6:25

then you're like, and then, like the moment

6:28

we saw you was fucking, yeah. Well,

6:30

mate, thank you. And Becky was doing the same.

6:33

He said that he's like acting like dating, he thought I

6:35

hadn't moved for like two hours. He said, he said, Yeah,

6:37

there's a lot of speculation on that. He said, at one

6:39

point, he said he went for a nap, and he got

6:41

up and he said, you hadn't progressed at all. And he

6:43

goes, he texts

6:45

Flo and goes, I think Rommage

6:47

has collapsed, you need to go and find him. But,

6:50

you know, man. Well, that is me and

6:52

Becky have the same sort of vibe on

6:54

the basis that I was coming down on

6:56

some fucking four-day bender in Malabeya. Yeah. And

6:59

she was like, what are you up to? And

7:01

I've had luck at McDonald's and the Domino's. And

7:03

I was sat watching Romm on Madame

7:06

Alsons, you know, like an absolute fucking piece

7:08

of shit. No, man, it

7:10

was, it was, it

7:13

was, it was like people talk about

7:15

the atmosphere and stuff. I mean, again, I don't want

7:17

to become one of these people that's like, you know,

7:19

one of these people that like, they've come back from

7:21

traveling, they start talking about it nonstop. But the both,

7:23

I would say both the support I got online and

7:27

the support I got while I was running the

7:29

thing, it was pretty amazing.

7:32

It was pretty amazing. You mean

7:34

you're doing good? Well, that's the only thing I

7:36

was gonna say to you. I am in fucking

7:39

pieces now, man. Like my- Have you been in

7:41

a cold plunge yet? No, no, okay.

7:43

Just hold on, don't get angry. I'm

7:46

cold plunging tomorrow morning first

7:48

thing, okay? You gotta do it, okay?

7:50

I haven't had time to set it up. But I did

7:52

have a massage yesterday and the

7:54

massager said to me, your legs feel

7:56

very dead. We try and put

7:58

some life back into them. and she

8:01

gave me a nice, but I'm in bits, and

8:03

my toenails, I've never experienced anything like it. They

8:05

feel, every time they make contact with a shoe

8:08

or anything, they feel electrified. It's horrible.

8:10

I think I might lose them all. I

8:12

mean, they're pretty. What, all of them? Even the little ones?

8:15

They all feel pretty dinged up, to be honest

8:17

with me. So somebody sent a photo in. Mate,

8:20

I'll post a photo on Instagram. Somebody

8:22

emailed in, one of the Wolf and

8:25

Owl listener, and they sent a

8:27

photo of me. And it looks

8:29

like my train, my trainers felt totally fine,

8:31

but that photo makes it look like my

8:33

trainers are three sizes too big. It's

8:35

like my feet are in the front, there's like

8:38

a massive gap between the back of my foot

8:40

and the shoe. Yeah, but that's why you're in

8:42

shape now, so your feet will start looking massive.

8:45

They start looking more and more like a big girl. They

8:47

can pull out. All right, by the

8:49

way, look, do you know the

8:52

person I just was fucking blown away, by

8:54

the way? Fucking, why is her

8:56

grin? She'd be like a fucking Olympian. I

8:59

was saying. Three and a half

9:01

hours pushing someone. Bro, it's like,

9:03

look, you're too new, he was looking at the app, and

9:06

I was like, what's that, how to watch you? And

9:08

I just thought, I'll see how, like the others get on,

9:10

I'll see how I both get on. Then I said,

9:12

I'm going to finish. I was like, what the fuck? They

9:15

showed a picture of him at one point, and I

9:17

was like, he was sprinting. He was like two and

9:19

a half hours in, and he was absolutely like just.

9:21

It's mental. Yeah, and

9:23

then I came home, and

9:25

had a big dinner with Lucian the boys.

9:28

And then one of the

9:30

kids goes to me, oh, do you know what position he

9:32

came? And I said, no, what position? And he goes, he

9:34

came 64,000th. I said, well,

9:37

there's only 50,000 people running this thing. And

9:39

then thank God I realised that he was reading

9:41

out my actual race number. But for, it

9:44

was a horrible, it was a

9:46

horrible fucking moment. Did

9:49

I start you at different times, by the way? How's it

9:51

work, you said that? Well, basically, because

9:53

I was doing a bit of, because

9:55

I did that Gabby interview, you,

9:58

like, they can't guarantee. So

10:00

you get waves, right? So you get waves and

10:02

then within that wave, they've got paces. So

10:05

I got given a wave number and stuff, but then because

10:07

I was doing press, they said you

10:09

can filter in whenever you want. But so

10:12

I waited around for a bit and then I just

10:14

went whenever I felt like. I was trying to find

10:16

my mate, and when it became obvious, I wasn't gonna

10:18

find him. I just went. But

10:21

I did see him halfway around. But I would say

10:23

that when he hit Tower

10:25

Bridge, there is somebody

10:27

actually, I think his name's Sam. I

10:31

was running with him for a bit and then I

10:34

lost him. And I was trying to encourage him the

10:36

whole way around. And I basically lost him. If he

10:38

happened to listen to it, or any of his mates,

10:41

he was saying it was running me for a bit, please get

10:43

in touch, because I just want to know that you made it

10:45

round. I couldn't get, I didn't know his number or anything, like

10:47

his race number or anything. So I didn't find anything out about

10:49

it. But anything out about it. You know

10:51

what I love that I never really, because I've never, if

10:53

I'm honest with you, I've never said I've never watched. What

10:55

I love about it, like obviously the physical feat is incredible,

10:59

but the actual camaraderie of it is

11:01

insane. Like it's genuinely like, actually

11:04

like, it's

11:06

just like, I was feeling a little

11:08

bit, like hell over

11:11

a bit down. So I was watching it

11:13

thinking, this is just so fucking beautiful, like

11:15

how everyone's there for each other. Like,

11:18

I don't know if you saw the video of AJ. AJ

11:20

was fucking hanging, had it at Lucas A. I know. Fucking

11:22

sweet, sweet soul that he is. I

11:24

thought he was like, you know what? This is just all about decency.

11:27

This is all the people's stories that you hear all the way around.

11:30

You just feel like fuck man. This is just, it's such

11:32

a nice thing. And I, you know, I've

11:34

met, I was very, yeah. So I

11:36

just think bro, fucking, I

11:38

hope you're walking on clouds all this week man. Not

11:40

with your broken toe nails. Well I would be, if

11:43

it wasn't so agonizing. But, and also,

11:45

yeah. Like right now I

11:47

feel fine. When I go to get up,

11:50

it will be horrific. But

11:52

it's good man. But genuinely, every single person

11:54

that's like donated, every single person that's, I

11:56

feel wanky saying this, but every single person

11:59

that's sent support. like

12:01

it was amazing, it was incredible. Yeah,

12:04

unbelievable. But, listen, I'm

12:06

not the only one that's completed a marathon

12:09

this week because Tom Davis,

12:12

you had your own four day marathon, didn't you?

12:17

Tom Davis on a sort

12:19

of stag do, but for...

12:22

It was a 40th birthday, it was

12:24

a golf trip. What I'd

12:27

say is it's insane. I haven't been

12:29

on a trip like that for quite

12:31

a time. And I forgot

12:33

that as soon as, essentially, as everyone gets

12:35

to the airport, they essentially become fucking 16

12:37

year old boys who've never left the fucking

12:39

house before. Everyone just became... It

12:42

was like, yeah. And it

12:45

was kind of heavy days of drinking,

12:47

which was quite a lot. Yeah, which

12:50

I sort of quite enjoyed the first one. The

12:52

second one felt like a marathon. The first one felt like

12:54

the first half of the marathon. I

12:57

was like, I'm in this, this is incredible. The

13:00

second half felt like, oh man. And then we

13:02

had a couple of days of just what was

13:04

sort of trying... The thing is,

13:06

I would realise, a lot of my friends are

13:08

in a situation where it feels like drinking is

13:10

like... We

13:12

need to finish this by boozing. And if

13:15

you haven't finished on the Friday with a drink in

13:17

your hand, you would essentially not finish the marathon. I

13:20

wouldn't have finished the marathon. I was done. I was like...

13:23

I was gigging in Leicester on a Saturday night. I was

13:25

like... Yeah,

13:28

like insane, just a level of... You

13:30

know the banter that sort of... I

13:33

don't like banter. But I forgot what it

13:35

was like of... having

13:38

to make sure you're not the sort of part of the

13:40

joke. Yeah. Yeah, that

13:42

is... It's a horrible realisation,

13:44

isn't it? When you sort of... It sort

13:46

of turns on someone else. And

13:49

you think this is horrible, but at the same time, I

13:51

am going to join in so that it isn't me. What

13:54

a horrible... Because I have been that

13:56

guy on numerous trips. I have been

13:58

that guy who's become... And what's

14:02

insane is it's someone always right

14:04

who like necessarily

14:06

is like you get other people who do things

14:09

that are quite embarrassing but can still sort of

14:11

hold themselves in sort of quite a fucking like

14:13

highbrow manner that in sense that they're sort

14:16

of still quite high status and you get

14:18

someone who's actually quite a genuine nice person.

14:21

They somehow sort of like and this happened

14:23

to me on numerous lads holidays.

14:25

I think one of the biggest mistakes

14:27

on a lads holidays to be genuinely

14:29

nice. You basically are like the

14:31

slowest gazelle. If

14:35

you can't have a kind of like bloke that

14:37

goes, oh, do you reckon we should get him some

14:40

food? Like, because I'm just worried he's had a bit

14:42

too much. Oh, really? Oh, look at

14:44

this. Oh, look, a fucking mother Teresa over here.

14:46

Then that's it. You're done. That's

14:48

right. And there's one guy and he's sort

14:51

of, he's a very sweet guy, I won't know, but he

14:53

had a thing

14:55

where he was

14:57

just very sweet and like understandably and

14:59

if anyone said something like about

15:02

him, like he just his view

15:04

on the world would change. It's insane as a

15:06

social thing. His view on the world would change

15:09

automatically. Like literally someone would turn around and go,

15:11

um, so I'm ready

15:13

to think about him having quite yellow teeth.

15:15

He didn't have yellow teeth, but someone said,

15:17

oh, I got yellow teeth. Oh,

15:20

I've got yellow teeth. I haven't got yellow teeth and

15:22

then someone like, you know, a little bit yellow and

15:24

then he turned around and he went, yeah, fair enough.

15:26

Yeah. What you should see a

15:29

white number. And I was like, bro, you're killing that

15:31

up so quick. It's like, you're like, you're

15:33

just like, you've got good enough teeth. And it's

15:35

like, then that became the thing of like, every

15:38

time someone sort of say something about him, he just

15:40

go, well, oh yeah, fair enough.

15:42

Actually, you're pretty right. I was like, this is insane. No,

15:45

but you know, do you know what I've said about

15:47

that is that sounds like the

15:49

ways behaving and sounds like the sort of thing that

15:51

people tell you how to deal with bullies. Like

15:54

somebody goes, if you're, if you're

15:56

school, if people at school say

15:58

you've got a big nose, I

16:00

probably need to sort that out. Hello,

16:17

just thinking, Sten started sort of, because I was trying to

16:19

be quite, and I didn't really know him as well as

16:21

everyone else, and I'd sort of tried to

16:23

have a bit of a chat with him. So I

16:25

do, I think, just think that I

16:28

was probably the sort of closest sort

16:30

of rock to him in the sense

16:32

that he wasn't going to undertake other people, but

16:34

there's a good chance that he can overtake me. So

16:38

when I was like, I'm not going

16:40

to drink now, I'm sort of done

16:42

with the boozing, that became his way

16:44

in of trying to sort of push

16:47

me down into the place where he was. On

16:49

the third place, I don't think you can blame

16:51

him for that. No,

16:54

no, it was quite, yeah. But

16:59

yeah, it was very full on then. If I'm honest with

17:01

you, I still don't think I'm quite over it yet. How,

17:05

did you feel like it

17:07

was something you wanted to do again? No,

17:10

I don't like that. You know

17:12

what, it was a real eye

17:15

opener to me going, you know what, that was probably

17:17

the last dance. I sort

17:19

of just, I didn't, I had a

17:21

laugh, it was a fun enough times, but

17:23

I just don't think I've got the minerals now. I

17:25

don't really enjoy drinking like I used to. I like

17:28

a beer, but I don't, that sort

17:30

of like, you know, started drinking at six in

17:32

the morning and finishing at about 1am is

17:34

like, fucking, that's just so long, man. And it's

17:36

just like, you get to a point where if you're trying

17:39

to have a conversation, like you look around and everyone else

17:41

is in a place and I can't even, you know,

17:43

and I can handle my boozing, I'm pretty

17:45

good drinking. But I'm

17:47

like, this is now feeling quiet. Do you know what I mean?

17:49

And I just think, yeah, you

17:51

changed, didn't you? I mean, if I would be

17:53

really, I really miss home as well. I miss

17:56

Grace and I miss Catherine quite a lot. And I

17:58

just thought, for fun as well. 24 days,

18:00

man, you know, you start off. I

18:02

think it's been, in the nature of our jobs,

18:04

we're on the road anyway, so sort

18:07

of, yeah. I don't, man, it's, I felt

18:09

like, well, this is a sheriff's badge on

18:11

my hand, it's had this

18:13

a long, I can't just that, man.

18:16

Yeah, I don't even know, I don't even

18:18

know if like, there's

18:21

certain pubs and bars now

18:23

that are like, quite like lively.

18:26

And I just feel like, not

18:28

only should I not be going to them now,

18:31

but I should not be going to them

18:33

as a sense of duty to the other

18:35

people who are like young, who

18:38

are still sort of enjoying that sort of thing. If you look,

18:40

if you think you're in quite a cool place, I mean, if

18:42

you then look across and see a bloke in his mid-40s, just

18:45

sort of looking like he's gonna rekindle something.

18:47

You actually, there's actually an argument that you're

18:49

ruining it for other people. Do you know

18:51

what I mean? You know, the bit that

18:53

really showed me, I was like, on the

18:55

second night there, I went to the

18:57

toilet in this, we were in like a restaurant bar thing,

19:00

and there was two lads having a fight in the toilet,

19:02

and I broke it up. And I

19:04

was like, what did you do? And they were like, we're

19:07

not gonna stop going for each other. And then I was like, well,

19:09

yeah, it's just sort of stood between them. And then they were sort

19:11

of, quite clearly mates who

19:13

had fallen out. And then

19:15

I started trying to reason with them. And

19:17

like, you know, we used to be quite falling out and

19:20

whatever. And that's off. It

19:22

was when we were doing the toilets, I'm talking to them

19:25

both, and they're sort of like calling each other stuff. And,

19:27

you know, I think it was more working. As

19:29

I said, he's one of them, and lots of drugs that

19:32

they brought. Yeah. And I was sort

19:34

of like, yeah. It's really not worth it. We all

19:36

give up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You

19:38

know, you're carrying around the packet, and you

19:40

drop it in the toilet. No,

19:42

where's the fucking bagel? Fuck!

19:45

You're putting it in my fucking pocket. I was

19:47

a fat child, I just sniffed it mate. I

19:50

made a boot boy. You got a fucking

19:52

straightening out here, mate. I'm

19:56

full of your parts, Steve. I can't go

19:58

on. Shit myself. I was like,

20:00

okay. Then I was sort of

20:02

going, there's no point falling out and chatting to them

20:04

and best as

20:09

I can trying to read them with them. And then

20:11

I sort of caught a look at myself in the

20:13

reflection of the toilet mirror and these two sort of

20:15

blads in their early twenties and I sort of stood

20:17

between them. You know, would you just go, I look

20:20

really old. I look like, it's good. Look

20:23

who reflected in yourself. I'm

20:25

like a fucking sad old bouncer.

20:27

You know what's so toxic is

20:30

the toilet mirrors man, right? In

20:37

a pub or a bar. And what

20:40

I mean by this is that you can convince yourself

20:42

you're looking at sometimes, you know, you get dressed up

20:44

and we both like our clothes, right? So you get

20:46

dressed up and you think I look quite dapper. You

20:50

go out and as long as you

20:52

sort of don't see yourself in context,

20:54

you sort of all right. Right. It's

20:56

when you're stood at the sink in

20:59

a toilet and there's like a bloke

21:01

that's of the proper age to be in a

21:03

place. So that's the next year and you just

21:05

look across and you're wearing similar stuff, but your

21:07

face looks like it's hanging off your skull a

21:09

bit more than it does. Do you know what

21:11

I mean? And you'll just, this

21:13

stuff's not sitting quite right on you like

21:15

it is. And then you just sort of

21:17

go, Oh fuck. Like that. Right.

21:21

I stood there and I'm like, I thought

21:23

I'm in pretty decent shape. Right. Yeah.

21:26

And I looked at like I was wearing the quite like I brought

21:28

a nice top and I could see like myself. I had a

21:30

couple of drinks. I had a big pair of tits. I

21:33

looked like you know, like home and Simpson body and like

21:35

everything on the show I had left

21:40

with. I was going, Oh, this is hanging nice. Yeah. Now

21:43

just hanging off like bits of fucking fat flesh.

21:45

I just sort of like, look to

21:47

myself. I look like, yeah, you know, like Tony

21:49

Soprano and this is big, big guy. I'm breaking

21:51

up a fight. I was just like, and I

21:53

sort of was, and then

21:56

we're both in white t-shirts, but really

21:58

nasty tans, fucking shorts. And

22:00

I was sort of standing, you know, come

22:02

on lads, it's not worth it. Oh fucking,

22:05

I'm like pathetic. No, listen, you did have

22:07

a good thing man. Oh yeah, no, but

22:09

you know what, I walked away and neither

22:12

of it... You know what, I think that

22:14

actually... I'd love to think that my old

22:16

wise sage words were the thing that sort

22:19

of called the situation down. Actually I think

22:21

it was like a sort of bonded experience

22:23

of like, this fuck's his dickhead. He's

22:25

a silly old prick. He's

22:30

never had a friend letting on a fight. He's

22:32

like... I

22:35

was just like, I'll see you both later. In a

22:38

way they sort of made

22:40

up in their united kind of feeling stuff

22:42

about you. It's quite a great story.

22:46

You know when me and Brad left here, we were

22:48

having a fight. You know we were having a fight,

22:50

right? So we were in the toilet, about to fucking

22:53

kick the fuck out of each other. These fucking big

22:55

stupid idiots came in. He's crying because he's talking about

22:57

his mate running the marathon, right? Saying

23:00

he shouldn't fall out of friends, right? And we

23:03

were like, what the fuck? Then we were just

23:05

laughing at him, like, you know. He's got all

23:07

his shorts and stuff to have his past. I'll

23:11

tell you what we should do, right? Do these shots and let's

23:14

kick the fucking granny out of him. Let's

23:16

all do another long time, man. Let's

23:19

do another long time. Nah, don't do

23:21

that, mate. Don't do that, mate. Nah,

23:23

nah, fuck him. Fuck him. Try

23:25

hitting an old woman, Brad. Try hitting

23:27

a... Oh, mate. I

23:32

think I might have... This is quite a lack of a myth you're saying

23:34

this, but I think I might

23:36

have moved on to my restaurant. Restaurants

23:39

is my evening out phase of my life

23:41

now. Yeah, a restaurant's a nice thing. Yeah.

23:45

I think a vibe in a restaurant is a sweet

23:47

thing. I think a cut of glasses of wine, a

23:49

bit of a laugh. I think when you're trying so

23:51

hard to... Look, look, I can tell you, it's just

23:53

nothing. But it's also like when you go to a

23:55

restaurant and it's sort of... We went to

23:58

a restaurant over there. We went to a restaurant over there. And

24:01

it's owned by David Bentley and

24:03

Stephen Karff. The ex-pumplars. What type

24:05

of food is that? It's

24:09

a fusion cooking of

24:11

stuff that's popular in

24:13

the zeitgeist at the

24:16

time. It

24:20

was, you know, but then you're in that other mix where

24:22

it's a lot of people in sort of blazers. Can

24:26

I just say, I cannot

24:28

fucking believe you went to this restaurant. What

24:33

made you go to that restaurant? That

24:37

was two of the guys we were in a massive

24:39

top of pants. So they

24:41

wanted to go. Yeah, fine. Fine. I'm

24:44

a massive Arsenal fan. I don't want any of them to cook

24:46

for me. Don't you know that

24:48

in the fucking kitchen. Yeah, but

24:51

what did you know about a

24:53

fucking restaurant? I think they've

24:55

invested. But yeah, look, mate, you know, when we

24:57

were out there, by the way, someone told me

24:59

as well, sort of cover that tight on someone

25:01

shot this place up with a machine gun the

25:03

other day. Jesus

25:06

Christ. I can't say that. That's not a story

25:08

to go on an unexpected turn. Yeah, no, you can't be

25:10

rough. I'm like, this is the okay way. This is, you

25:12

know, I live in a world of paranoid state. So

25:16

we were sitting right in front of this place. And

25:18

then I'm just thinking what if that person comes back?

25:20

Yeah, but I mean, yeah, fine. But

25:23

isn't isn't there's an argument that it's

25:25

a lower probability that's gonna happen again, isn't it? I

25:28

mean, it's incredibly unlikely, incredibly unlikely for a

25:30

restaurant to get machine gun. Yeah, I would

25:32

say even more of the

25:34

likelihood of it getting machine gun twice. Also,

25:37

by the way, while the star of King

25:39

Gary's in there and the

25:41

director really, really, can I say, yeah,

25:44

I forgot about bounces as well. I

25:47

forgot like, the different like nice bounces bad, bad,

25:49

like, so the guy first told me it was

25:51

being machine gun was he worked there, he was

25:53

chatting to him and he was like, what a

25:55

fella. And then I sort of turned

25:57

to one of the other doorman who's working here and I

25:59

was And it's been, you

26:02

know, it's been written that rapture sort of black

26:04

conversation around it, and it's my friends. And I

26:06

sort of looked at this dormitory where I

26:09

said, oh, I said, I'm kind of

26:11

suppose it was scary, you know,

26:13

in this place, you know, with the machine gun attack. And he said,

26:15

who told you about the machine gun attack? And

26:18

then I was like, what? And he told you, and I looked around

26:20

at the other guy and I thought, I don't want to drop him

26:22

in there. Yeah. Because, you

26:24

know, because he might be like, yeah, he could be the

26:26

most common denominator. And I was like, oh,

26:28

no, no, someone was just talking about it. And he

26:30

said, who said, he was really, and then he just

26:33

said, you don't talk about the machine gun attack. And

26:36

I was just like, and he was really angry. And

26:38

he just screwed me out for like my homemade course.

26:40

I mean, my steak, he's just staring at me like

26:42

I was a tear my head off. And he was

26:44

like a Russian guy. He was like, what the fuck?

26:47

What? So listen, I know that does

26:49

sound bad, but what made you open with mad

26:51

about what happened with the machine gun attack? What

26:54

incredible thing to say? What do you mean? No,

26:56

I just tried it. I thought, no, I thought

26:58

like, I was actually giving him some credit. Forgive

27:00

the reason why. Well, right, right. I'm going to

27:02

tell you that, right? I can't

27:04

leave it. I wish I could. If you work at

27:06

that restaurant. I had to make conversation at times. Sure.

27:11

And it angers me that I do that. But he walked

27:13

past and he sort of looked at me. I looked at

27:15

him and I thought, like, the only thing I know about

27:17

his life is he's probably here for the machine gun attack

27:19

or he wasn't there for the machine gun attack. And

27:22

he's sort of like, holds himself accountable.

27:25

Just just just answer this question. Why

27:27

is that better than saying nice places?

27:30

Why is why is that better? Just

27:32

if you give me if you give me any

27:35

reason why that's better? Because I bet

27:37

he hears that every day and also if I'm going to be honest

27:39

with you, Ron, I was more

27:41

interested in the machine gun attack. Sure. Now

27:44

we go against the bottom of it.

27:46

I did also I didn't want to

27:48

say me to become friends. Right. So

27:52

you might stop shutting up. Yeah. He

27:54

thinks I'm a piece of shit. But if I go on

27:56

a nice basis and he's like, oh, yeah, you know, cool.

27:58

And we start chatting alone. And he said, oh, you

28:00

know, you love the place so much you should come back like wherever

28:03

you're in my bag And I then I'm

28:05

like, well, you know what? It's at all the

28:07

restaurants I went to tonight. It's a nice restaurant

28:09

But I want to try the restaurants because I've

28:11

read our fucking relationship started beat with me saying

28:13

oh, this is a lovely place Is

28:15

it been like do I get some place where I have to go

28:17

in all the time just to hang out with this guy? What

28:21

the hell is it so what what the hell are

28:23

you talking about? I Don't

28:25

even know if you followed the load you

28:27

just said a lot of what what just

28:30

Every conversation. Yeah the idea that this

28:32

conversation could be the birth of a

28:34

new friendship, right? Yeah,

28:37

I'm not my bae I look out for

28:39

Stefano right where his name is right? Oh,

28:41

yeah Oh, I'll say to Catherine right.

28:44

We're going my way and when we get out there

28:46

will be better pause I hope you'll meet up Stefano

28:48

a bit later who's Stefano. He's a doorman. I told

28:50

you how to laugh me Who

28:53

works? Yeah, right so Basically,

28:56

if I turn around to him and say I'm not Let

28:59

me get that cats on holiday with you and you

29:01

said you've got to meet this guy Stefano that works

29:03

the door of this Yeah, yeah We'll

29:08

just go to the coffee and What's

29:11

so good about I was nothing nothing particular about the

29:13

place just I know the doorman, okay So

29:17

if I know anyone who works in a restaurant, I'll go

29:19

down show off Okay Me

29:24

definitely tomorrow what did you go? Okay. No, well, like

29:26

you know, sort of like here and I'm like, yeah,

29:28

yeah, I might you're That's

29:31

first of all that I know what cats

29:33

like and if she's anything like Lisa what

29:36

happened is this is what happened? I'd walk in I go right

29:38

so far now. How's it going? I mean, I

29:40

go. All right, Romesh. How's it go? We're gonna sit down and let's

29:42

go to me. That was really fucking

29:44

sad and I know And

29:49

then probably the starters would be quite quiet and

29:51

then eventually by the time the mains arrived she

29:53

let's all go over her sort embarrassment

29:55

and what I just behaved So

30:00

anyway, just explain it to me. So you

30:02

start off with some Stefano. Yeah,

30:04

so I don't want to start off with sort of

30:06

a name chat about something that he has all the

30:08

time, oh nice place this. I

30:12

want to get into the meat quite quick. Right.

30:14

So like, yeah, go, hey, as he walks past

30:16

I go, like, you know, stopping him sort of

30:18

like... You're raising your hand there so you're touching

30:20

it right? Oh yeah, I

30:22

touch his, like gently touches it, oh it's not

30:24

confrontational because he's a dormanter, he's not trying, he's

30:26

probably been in the army. So it's

30:28

a sort of like that, as he passes slowly like

30:30

that, I go like that. Yeah,

30:33

that's horrible. That's horrible. I would

30:35

never ever touch anyone like that.

30:39

That is bananas, that is the

30:41

way that you initiate fucking interaction

30:43

with somebody. No, it's like that.

30:45

I'm sorry. No, I know, it doesn't matter which way

30:47

your head's tilted, you're still putting your hand on him

30:49

before you say anything, right? Yeah, but otherwise he's just

30:51

going to walk past. Yeah, good. Let

30:53

him walk past and throw his way somewhere. Why

30:56

do you just naturally or mechanically wait until you

30:58

actually see each other? Yeah, but then I've got

31:00

to say, well, what would be better, me standing

31:02

up and letting him think something's confrontational? So let

31:04

me just get this straight. So he's walking off

31:07

to do something. You put your arm... He's walking

31:09

past a table. Yeah, to go and do something.

31:11

So you put your hand on him, he turns

31:13

around and then you go, what about that machine

31:15

gun or something? I mean, what the

31:17

fuck do you think that you expect him to do? I

31:20

thought he'd probably just go, come

31:22

on, that was crazy. Yeah, right.

31:25

It's insane crazy. I

31:28

was terrified and then he'd pull up a chair and

31:31

I'd sort of go, oh, yeah, pass him a little bit

31:33

of water because he can't drink his own duty. Do

31:36

you want one of those chili prawns? And

31:39

we'd sort of just go, oh, you know, I haven't

31:41

seen you here before. I was like, oh, yeah, it's

31:43

my first time here. And we sort of start

31:45

having a bit of a cough and a bit of a laugh. I'd say, oh,

31:47

how do you get into being a doorman? Or are

31:49

you used to being an army or something? Christ.

31:55

I don't even think this is the stuff in fantasy.

31:57

I think this is genuinely what you think. I

32:00

genuinely think this is you envisioning it

32:03

happening. Yeah, no, no, that's what I thought could happen. And

32:05

then literally like as like, you

32:07

know, I probably will go back to my day, I've been

32:10

there before and then I sort of walk past the bar

32:12

and he slapped me on the back going, hey, big guy.

32:15

Yeah. How are you, man? And I'm like, oh, fucking,

32:17

I forgot about you, you know. You

32:20

say forgot something, you walked past him eight times. When

32:31

he said to you, who told you that?

32:34

Were the others the thing listening? Were they

32:36

in on the conversation? My

32:39

pals. Yeah. No, no,

32:41

no, no, no. They were at the trunk. They

32:45

were quite out. Yeah, they were sort of chattering about

32:47

it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I

32:50

would have loved to have just been sat there

32:52

and see you like, just

32:54

talk to you. It

32:56

was quite embarrassing. I've flown quite a lot. Also,

33:10

well, I've got a new

33:13

TikTok addiction. Go

33:15

on, tell me. Mate, number

33:17

one, my new prime and new favorite person on social

33:19

media is angry ginge. Why is

33:22

your favorite? Theo is going on about

33:24

him. I watched him, young Philly, shout

33:26

out young Philly, absolute H. And

33:28

they've got this FIFA teams. Yeah.

33:32

What's the cause? Gert

33:34

and tough. Yeah. So Gert and tough. Did

33:40

Yeah. And way Rudy.

33:43

Right. Right. Like

33:45

this is an insane thing. I yesterday

33:49

was I watched quite a bit of it. I was going

33:51

to find it quite funny. The better that I have. I

33:53

find it quiet. I was in the midst of that sort

33:55

of bad myself. You've not got a lot of

33:57

time. You sort of track. marathon

34:01

app on Sunday, spent all day

34:03

doing that and then yesterday you were on Girth

34:05

and Turf all day. Well if you want to

34:07

talk about how bleak and pathetic my life is,

34:09

I sat eight in Takeaways on my iPad I

34:12

had you running a marathon which is probably one

34:14

of the most fucking incredible things a human thinks

34:16

of, fucking physical prowess you could do. So

34:19

I had the marathon on television, you

34:22

on a fucking app running round right, on

34:25

my fucking phone I was looking at TikToks all the

34:27

time, my daughter was looking at me going what the

34:29

fuck is this guy? Who is this?

34:32

What a lesson for young G. Just

34:35

laying on a 1994 Roy

34:38

Keane Island shirt and a

34:40

pair of cropped on the

34:42

old shorts. I was like

34:45

yeah. It's good for as you know.

34:47

I was going to say after you finished the

34:49

marathon by the way, I had this sort of

34:51

retrospective look at myself, I

34:53

said to Gavin I need to fucking get back in the

34:55

gym again. I literally feel myself snipping back into a world

34:57

where I can get back. Tom, let

35:00

me just stop you. Okay, alright.

35:02

For the last God knows how long you've been eating

35:05

care, so you've been going to the gym. You

35:09

have one week in mobs and

35:11

then like a couple of days of it in takeaways and suddenly

35:13

you think you've fallen off the wagon. This is bullshit. This is

35:15

bullshit. Yeah but

35:18

I'm obsessive, if I let myself fall into

35:20

a trap of that becoming my

35:23

life and like that sort of

35:25

you know, lagged about. I

35:27

would be like oh man. I mean I will say

35:29

it's like you know, yeah just in sort of way.

35:32

I took breaks. We had a nice time at the

35:34

park. We took a park. I still had you on

35:36

the app as we

35:38

went to the park. Yeah. Guys,

35:40

she's quite fearless as well. She's

35:43

quite like she's trying to go and ride far too

35:45

big for her. She's got this new

35:47

thing. She used to sort of kick off a few and

35:49

said like she wanted a lolly or something or like something

35:51

and you're like no they can't do that. She's just have

35:54

a massive tantrum. She's got a new thing she's doing and

35:56

a few kisses. She just goes please, please

35:59

dad, please. And you're like, it's literally

36:01

like an adorable thing, she stands right at you.

36:04

And it's so cute and so funny that you end

36:06

up just going, alright, yeah cool, alright. And now, Kathy's

36:09

like, she's doing a policing all the time,

36:11

I think because now I'm relentless. Yeah, no,

36:13

isn't that, yeah, yeah, there's no, you're not

36:15

Poirot for working that out. You've basically shown

36:17

her that that works. Yeah,

36:20

yeah, it's so cute and adorable that you, I just,

36:22

yeah, I thought that. Yeah, it's cute and adorable but

36:24

it is manipulation, you realise that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

36:26

And also I'm proud of her that she's got that

36:28

in her mix. Yeah, yeah. Oh

36:30

actually, I forgot to say this, so imagine

36:32

this, right, so, Saturday I

36:35

do the radio

36:38

show, then Saturday night, Show out the radio show.

36:40

Yeah, thank you for everyone that got in touch,

36:42

it was pretty mad. Then Saturday night, I

36:44

do the show in Brighton, alright, so, and

36:48

then after Brighton I'm getting driven

36:50

straight to London to start the hotel to do

36:52

the marathon the next day. So

36:55

I am, I'm sitting in

36:57

the dressing room, I get

36:59

a knock at this about quarter past seven, no, five

37:01

past seven, I get a knock on the door, grats

37:04

to the manager, he goes, Romish, he's decent, I go,

37:06

yeah, and he snaps to one side,

37:08

Leesha and the kids come. He's mostly asked

37:10

about decent, by the way. I know, well,

37:12

it's because I'm naked, I'm always naked, so

37:14

yes, the double check. He never knocks. Oh,

37:16

Leesha and the kids come. So,

37:19

so, so, he knocks on the door, he goes, he's

37:21

decent, I go, yeah, he steps to one side, Leesha

37:23

and the kids surprise visit. I

37:26

mean, I was buzzing,

37:29

man, it was so fucking lovely, you

37:31

know, like, it was just incredible, it was

37:33

so nice to see him. That's the last moment,

37:36

bro. But, for the problem, well, not the problem,

37:38

Leesha and the kids, they're absolutely hideous to

37:40

walk around the venue, because

37:42

they've got no idea that that's my

37:45

wife and kids, most people. So, it

37:47

looks like a woman has brought three

37:49

young children to watch my stand-up show.

37:52

Apparently, one of the venue staff went up to her and went,

37:55

you're not supposed to bring kids to this. And

37:57

then, Leesha just went, so here's kids. I

38:00

think it'll be all right. I

38:03

don't think she said it in that, I made it sound

38:05

like she said it quite aggressively. I think she felt quite

38:07

aggressive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

38:09

yeah, no, no. She said it was quite aggressive. I

38:12

don't know Lisa. Lisa's on that vibe. She kind of,

38:14

I've got to be honest with you, my

38:17

respect and admiration for Lisa, she had said it like

38:19

that. She had said it like that. She said it

38:21

like that. Because basically Lisa almost told her that if

38:23

we made a film of our lives, Lisa was going

38:25

to be played by Julia Roberts. That's

38:28

the sort of vibe that Julia Roberts was doing that.

38:30

No, she didn't know yet. She didn't know yet. They're

38:32

his kids. They're his fucking kids. Have

38:34

I told you this story about when she did actually get a

38:36

bit like that? I

38:43

shouldn't really tell. Anyway, well I'll tell the story

38:45

anyway. I was doing it in the quarterfinal. It

38:47

was Lisa's birthday, right? Can I say by

38:49

the way, I found a

38:51

horrible bunch of fucking breaks. Okay, well that's

38:54

much worse than anything I'm going to say.

38:56

I think if it's who

38:58

I'm thinking, maybe I'm wrong actually. Let's

39:01

not name them. Let's

39:04

just say, I was in the

39:06

quarterfinal. I took

39:08

a heavily pregnant Lisa with

39:10

me to the gig. On her birthday.

39:13

I had to say it. A

39:16

terrible, terrible birthday.

39:19

So she

39:21

comes with me. The organizers of the

39:23

competition say that she can't sit with me

39:25

because I've got to be in an acts

39:28

area. So I get taken on. So

39:31

she goes and sits in the venue. Like

39:34

we arrive together because acts have got to get

39:36

there early. She goes and sits in the venue.

39:39

So she gets moved from the front.

39:42

So she sits at the front and they go, you can't

39:44

sit. Or nearish the front or whatever. Oh no, sorry. That's

39:47

the life. She sits at the back. She would never sit there.

39:49

She sits at the back and they go, can you move near

39:51

the front? Right. She's like, I

39:54

don't really, I mean, I'm the wife of

39:56

one of the contestants. I don't want to

39:58

put him off by sitting in the front. front and

40:00

they go well you need to move a bit more to the front. She

40:02

said it was quite firm how

40:04

they spoke to her. So bear in mind

40:06

she also didn't get a free ticket, she

40:08

paid for a ticket right. So they're quite

40:11

firm with her. She moves a bit further

40:13

forward and

40:16

the organisers then again come over to her

40:18

and say you can't sit in those seats,

40:20

those are industry seats and

40:23

she says look I'm not being funny, I'm heavily

40:25

pregnant, I was sat over there you've moved me.

40:27

I've moved over here, you moved me again. And

40:30

then they said to her, bearing

40:34

in mind that you've got a

40:36

connection with one of the contestants it doesn't reflect very well on

40:38

them. To which

40:41

Lisa said, well

40:44

I'm not that bothered how it reflects on him to be. She was

40:46

obviously fronting up, do you know maybe because she was a bit like

40:48

a bad guy. Yeah, she goes. Yeah, she goes. Yeah, she goes. Well,

40:50

Lisa, you

40:52

don't push Lisa into a corner. Absolutely, nobody puts

40:54

Lisa into a corner, particularly not. Then

40:57

Lisa said, Lisa said,

41:00

well I'm not that bothered about how it

41:02

reflects on him, it's just her being moved. And then they said,

41:04

you wouldn't do this if this is a comedy store. Right,

41:07

so Lisa said. They said that, let's

41:09

be aesthetic. That's the worst fucking thing,

41:11

you wouldn't do this if it was

41:13

a better corner club. And

41:16

then they're so tragic. And then Lisa

41:18

said. That's almost like a

41:20

fucking, that's exactly what

41:22

my fucking mate on the fucking, what Stagner

41:24

would do. And then Lisa

41:27

goes, well it isn't the fucking comedy store is

41:29

it? And then. Wow. I

41:31

know. It's so. And also it's like don't

41:33

get, don't gaslight me. Yeah. Don't make me

41:35

like I'm the fucking aggressor in this. But

41:37

anyway, as soon as Lisa said that, so

41:39

they left her there. As soon as she

41:41

said that, she

41:43

felt horribly guilty. But she was defending

41:46

herself. She was like, and I don't

41:48

blame her at all. But she still

41:50

felt guilty regardless. So I will

41:52

tell you. If I was her, I'd have just looked

41:55

for the other acts and just gone, well I'll tell

41:57

you what, an incident. I don't know. Fuck yeah.

42:00

Yeah. Oh, no. Barry

42:02

Dodds is fucking like... We're here

42:05

with Barry Dodds. Yeah. Yeah.

42:08

Yeah. No, it's that kind of

42:10

quickness of thought that could have saved her at the

42:12

moment. Anyway, she

42:14

goes, I go over to her

42:17

and I said, are you okay?

42:23

And she said, she told me what happened.

42:26

And then in fairness to... Well, I say in fairness

42:28

to Lisa, this doesn't reflect great on me. I

42:31

said, are you all right? And she said,

42:33

yeah, she said, I just don't think you're going to get through because

42:36

I'm really sorry I don't think you're going to get through because of what's just

42:38

happened. And I said, it doesn't matter. And then

42:40

I said to Lisa, should

42:42

we just go? Let's just go. I don't mind. You

42:44

know, because if your wife's been sponging to you like

42:46

that, you get to fucking write a comedy competition. Yeah,

42:48

yeah, yeah. So I just go, let's just go. And

42:50

she goes, Rom, if you go off, you'll feel too

42:52

terrible. Just do the thing and then let's just go

42:54

straight afters. Which is what we did. But

42:56

that's one of the only times I've ever known

42:59

Lisa to kind of... Did you... How did you

43:01

do? Did you go out and get round or?

43:03

No, I went through. Obviously I'm a fucking ranganate.

43:06

Whoa, wow. Sweaty

43:08

fucking arse is round the marathon.

43:11

Self defecation is gone, baby. I love joking on

43:13

it. I mean, I did go through, but it

43:15

was... Yeah. But you

43:18

were true. Yeah. Well,

43:20

that's spanking, boy. That's spanking. I think

43:22

it's because Lisa did show you with someone else. Just

43:25

talk about heartwarming moments, sorry, Matt. When

43:29

I came back, by the way, Heathrow, I didn't get

43:31

this guy's name. I was

43:34

in a very bad state, but I

43:36

was waiting for my baggage and a guy

43:38

came up to me and he'd flown over

43:40

from Australia, I believe, and said he'd listened

43:42

to this podcast. But

43:44

he came up to me and he said, like, you know,

43:48

he's flown over and he's a family member. He's

43:50

been on well. Yeah. He'd

43:52

flown back to see them. It's quite a sad story. And

43:54

then he just said, can I have a hug? Yeah. And

43:57

he looked quite down. So I gave him a cuddle and

43:59

I gave him a hug. And I

44:01

just wanted to just say, I hope

44:03

everything turned out okay. I

44:07

hope everything's alright. Because when

44:09

you meet someone, I was nice, I was

44:11

a bit under the weather myself. But he

44:13

was like, I can see that, I

44:16

just hope that he, I hope that everything was alright.

44:18

He was very worried. And

44:20

I could see that he was feeling

44:22

quite down. And yeah, it

44:25

was quite, I was sort of, yeah. But the only,

44:27

just sort of, as he walked off, I just sort of wish

44:29

I'd, I had more of a chat. But

44:32

like, he was just, yeah. I

44:34

came with kind of a little, he just walked off and he

44:37

was quite a swing. So I just hope that the person he

44:39

was going to see, I don't want to talk too much. Just

44:41

because, like, yeah. But I just

44:43

hope everything was alright. Well, hopefully this will make you feel a

44:45

bit better. Hi guys. I

44:47

met Tom and James briefly at the airport on Friday.

44:50

And I just wanted to say thanks for saying

44:52

hello. I've loved all of your stuff from the

44:54

Morgana show to Successville, Gary and the Curse, and

44:56

of course the institution that is the podcast, so

44:58

they miss you. In a split

45:00

second when I saw you, I thought I'd just

45:02

sweep past or a Cluny S.K. man. I love

45:04

your work, maybe a cheeky wink, and we'll both

45:06

be on our way. That plan went to shit,

45:08

didn't it? I came banding over uninvited, panting like

45:10

a nervous and excited Labrador, making a beeline for

45:12

a cat on the wrong side of a motorway.

45:15

Then Chewdee were off what was probably felt like

45:17

a longer than a three minutes or so it

45:19

was. I've been on a flight back from

45:21

Sydney via the States, which turned out to be a 40

45:23

hour journey, and you guys were the last people I expected

45:25

to see. I'm sorry if it was a bit weird, but

45:27

honestly, it made my day. I think I said

45:29

the reason for the trip is to see my dad. What

45:32

I didn't mention is that he's terminally ill with a few days

45:34

left. I managed to get there and make contact. And

45:36

while it's going to get harder over the next couple

45:38

of weeks, saying hello to you lads was a really

45:40

nice surprise. It made my day after a bloody long

45:42

journey. I know I was probably not making much

45:44

sense. And sorry for forcing a hug on you, Tom.

45:47

It really was an absolute pleasure that I won't forget.

45:50

Thanks again so much. Keep on doing it. I felt quite

45:53

emotional. I didn't want

45:55

to say that. Yeah, exactly. I

45:58

didn't realise. He was really good. very sweet,

46:00

and sorry, yeah, for that.

46:02

He's been nice. And actually, you

46:04

know what, I needed some of that as well, because I

46:07

was coming off the back of that, and it was a

46:09

very sweet moment. So, my son. I

46:11

love this, though. Do you know what, I read the email,

46:13

we were gonna do that email as part, like, if we

46:15

got to emails, which you sometimes do, sometimes don't. And then

46:17

as soon as you said it, I thought I know exactly

46:19

who's talking about it, so I pulled it out. How mad

46:22

is that, man? Yeah, man. But, that's

46:24

Matt, by the way. Thanks, Matt, for getting

46:26

in touch. Cheers, man. Yeah,

46:28

thoughts and prayers are with you and your

46:30

family, bro. All

46:34

right, my G. It's

46:36

about, you've got to go, haven't you? Yeah,

46:38

mate. I've got to slip. Listen, I know JT

46:41

always edits this out, because he's worried that we're

46:43

not gonna do it. We have to do, we

46:45

have to do a bonus, like, have to do

46:47

a bonus this week. So,

46:49

I'm committing, JT, leave this in the edit. So,

46:51

we are. Someone like, are doing, we are doing

46:53

a bonus. And there has to be an email

46:55

bonus, because I'm worried that we're sleeping on the

46:57

email today. Yeah, and I actually spent a long

46:59

time going through the emails last night, because Lisa

47:01

was a bit hectic. So,

47:04

there's like theme tune emails. If

47:06

you've got, anybody's got theme tune ones,

47:09

you can get them into us in the next day

47:11

or so, that you've got a chance of getting them on the pod,

47:13

because we're gonna do theme tunes, and

47:15

we're gonna do film pictures. We've got loads of both, so.

47:18

Cool. Why am I going to this level, bro? But

47:20

anyway, Tommy D., can you do the thing?

47:23

Yo, friends, people. Hmm.

47:27

What is friendship? It's

47:29

a weird thing, friendship. See,

47:31

the other day, me and my

47:33

wife brought some flowers for our house, and

47:35

the flowers were beautiful. Blooming

47:38

and galleon, and they

47:41

smelled delicious. After a few

47:43

days away, however, we came back to

47:45

the house, and as we opened the front door, we're

47:47

like, oh, what's that horrible smell? Something

47:49

stinks. As we walked through the

47:52

house, we realized it was the flowers. They

47:55

got past their cell by day, and

47:57

the moment of them blooming and feeling incredible.

48:00

had gone and they were now

48:02

quite brown and disgusting and

48:05

their leaves had fallen off and they got

48:07

me thinking flowers vegetables fruits

48:09

can be a little bit like a friendship

48:12

you don't tend the garden if you don't

48:15

look towards it they can quite quickly just

48:17

turn and they can go a little bit stale and

48:20

then they go past the point where you can ever save them the

48:23

truth of the matter is to keep

48:25

something going flowers and such you've probably got to

48:27

dry them out and then they've got a far

48:29

longer life span potpourri and such let's not get

48:31

back there and that's that future

48:34

sometimes you've got to see it bloom like a

48:36

flower enjoy the moments it sits

48:39

in the sun and it shines

48:41

brighter than ever and then you've

48:43

got to go wow I want this thing to

48:45

last for attorney I'm gonna try this

48:47

shit out I'm gonna put it in

48:49

a bowl and it'll be there forever and evermore

48:52

and that's what I'm saying about life people find

48:55

the flowers in your life that you want to

48:57

keep dry them in an air

48:59

and covered and keep them out forever because they're the

49:01

flowers that when you need the most you

49:04

could sniff smell and remember life

49:07

is all about good flowers people

49:09

fruits vegetables and such love

49:12

you man keep doing you what

49:14

a lovely vegetation

49:17

based thank

49:20

you so much about compost

49:22

heap in there but I love trying

49:24

to yeah I mean let's not get

49:26

back into it but I'm really good

49:29

I've been getting into old school sailing soul and

49:31

stuff so there's a great stuff called see gets

49:33

thought about Duran Jones in the indications JP

49:36

could you give us a bit of that thank

49:38

you once again for all your support regards the

49:40

marathon and the radio show and everything thank

49:43

you so much to you Tom Davis for getting

49:45

in touch with flow it was so sweet you

49:47

didn't know I find out about it but she

49:49

told me that you were checking in on me

49:52

the whole way around you're wonderful person love

49:54

you guys take care of yourselves peace

49:58

one love bye. If

50:40

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50:42

anything at all, please

50:44

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50:46

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50:49

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50:51

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