[00:00:00] Speaker A: Jen, do you think you're superstitious?
[00:00:02] Speaker B: A little bit, yes.
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Yeah. In what respect? Are there certain things where you go, oh, I think I'm superstitious about that, yes.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: Whenever the loft ladder's down and there's no other way around it apart from underneath it.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: Always feel slightly uncomfortable.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: Very good, very good. That's part of my intro for this very delightful cold open, is that I was walking down the road the other day. I am highly super vicious when it comes to three things.
[00:00:27] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: First is walking under a ladder. Never do that, which you just mentioned. Second one is if there's three drains in a row, then I only walk on two of them, and then I skip over the third.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Hang on, hang on. Is everyone else at home laughing about what I'm laughing about?
[00:00:45] Speaker A: What are you laughing at?
[00:00:46] Speaker B: I'm laughing about the fact that from the minute you asked me if I was superstitious. We've already covered this in the other podcast.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: Have we?
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we've done it loads. Annie told everyone about your drains.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: All right, well, that's all right.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: So what's number three?
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Well, that will test certain people's memory of fantastic episodes of years gone by.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: However of year gone by.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: This situation is different because the third one that I'm superstitious about in a positive, like, lovely way, is when I see 1111 on my watch.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: I like that. You like that? It's a nice feeling, isn't it?
[00:01:22] Speaker A: I love 1111 because I see it and I go make a quick wish, and I make a wish and I look up to the sky and I do that. Well, what happened the other day was I saw a ladder, I skipped round it, and immediately there was a drain. So then I stepped on the two drains, jumped over and went, whoo. Looked at my watch, 1111. It was the most bizarre physical comedy that I'd ever done.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: Walking down a road, going bonkers for superstition.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Bonkers for superstition. Should we call today's episode that? Probably not. She's shaking her head. Anyway, welcome to the show.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Welcome to the show.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: It was quite funny, though.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: I wish I'd been there to see it, Chris.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: Well, I know, because you've got to imagine the kind of, oh, got to miss that. Got to jump over that look. Oh, make a wish.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: Does anybody see you?
[00:02:24] Speaker A: Yes, but I'm kind of used to it because being an actor, especially when.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: I was an actor, yeah.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: When I was living in London and I lived in south London and all my auditions were in central London, so I used to get the train or the tube or whatever, and I'm on there, and of course, I'm learning my lines for the audition, so I'm kind of used to people looking at me going, why on earth is he talking to himself like that?
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yes, I get that in the shop sometimes when I forget that I'm actually a singer and I'm singing along and people actually sort of double take and they go, oh, what a lovely voice you've got. And then I'm always like, oh, thanks, but I always pretend I'm not a singer.
[00:03:10] Speaker A: I bet you're the kind of person that, like, fully belts along with a song in a shoe shop.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: I'm the kind of person, I don't know who else. I don't belt. Don't belt.
I just hum along. Chew, baby.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that's exactly who you are.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: You know, I love a sing through a sneeze. Yeah, sneezing.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: You do love singing along to commercials as well, I've noticed.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: Do I?
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: Trust body form.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: I knew you were going to do body form.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Did you? Well, it's not even on telly anymore.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: It's just a big vocal one, isn't it? Anyway, right. Welcome to the show, everyone. I'd like to start off by saying that we've had an incredible response to the competition to win a mug. So far. So far, it's been amazing that we've had so many emails to thegears
[email protected] with people saying mug me off that I've decided to leave it open for another week. Another week just to see whether we can get a real gathering of superfans together so we can send you one of our free mugs.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: So what do you have to do, Chris, to get a free mug?
[00:04:16] Speaker A: Oh, I just said it. You have to send an email to
[email protected] with the subject title mug me off.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: We will pick your name out of a hat and then probably not a hat.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Metaphorical hat.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Metaphorical hat. And then we'll send you a mug. That's it.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: But it's our mug, so it's special.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: It's a very special mug. But to be honest, I mean, people might not want it. People want it because they'll be like, I love the show.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah, of course.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: But people might not want it because I was looking through our mug cabinet earlier, and you have certain, like, oc.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: You want matching cups.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: You want matching cups, which is great. You always buy a set of four, don't you? Yeah. At least, right? Set of four. So we got like three sets of fours and then we have the plethora of kind of random mugs.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: One off mugs. Yeah, stuff like world's best dad.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: World's best dad, bought by Fred in 2007 for Father's Day and stuff like that.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: He's minus five.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: He hasn't been born then.
But this mug is going to look fantastic in your cupboard. So what have we got on the show today, Jen?
[00:05:25] Speaker B: I thought it was a while since we've done random International Day.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: It is. It has been. Shall we do it?
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Roll the jingle.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Roll the jingle.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: What shall we celebrate today?
Alligators, astronauts or hay?
Start the day with dancing with a peppermint crab and ended making table merch.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: It's a random international day of any old random shit.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: So, you know, for weeks and months we've been banging on about who's responsible for making up these days. What I've realized is whatever is recommended and observed.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: Observed, that's a great word.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: What did I say?
[00:06:11] Speaker A: Observed.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: Oh, dear. Anyway, the international days are usually observed and recommended by the United Nations, I. E. Today, as we record, is the world day of social justice.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Okay, well, that sounds a bit more serious.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: It sounds like they're taking it a bit more seriously. But then there's other international and national.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Days that are obviously butterscotch pudding day.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:06:43] Speaker A: Who makes that up? That can't be the United Nations.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: I don't know. I think it's like people can write in to vote for their know subjects to create a know. So these are a little bit less serious than the know approval.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: So today, would you like to know what day it is today?
[00:07:01] Speaker A: I would love to. I woke up this morning and I said, I wonder what the international day is today? Well, you're driving in your car, you're doing cleaning around the house, you're going for a walk wherever you listen to this poddo. You had no idea that it was in fact International Day of Jen.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: National Handcuff Day. Yeah.
So get your handcuffs out.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: My dirty mind. That goes straight know.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Yeah, well, of course it does. I think everybody's mind would go there. You don't go, oh, it's International Handcuff Day.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: I must get arrested.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: I must go and get arrested. You go, oh, kinky. I must go down on summers and get a plastic pair of handcuffs to tie my wife up.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: Well, but people probably, if people are purchasing, there's a lot of peas there, wasn't there? People are purchasing, thank God I have a pop shield.
People are purchasing the handcuffs for Valentine's Day. Obviously, they'll use them once as that novelty associated with Valentine's Day. But the following week, which we're at now, people go, oh, do you want to get those bad boys out again? Let's give them another run out. The old plastic cuffs.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: I mean, there's a really good one here. International pipe smoking day.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: There's also.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: Hang on, hang on. Don't move on from that.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: Pipe smoking. Right. When I was younger, I always imagined, like being an old man sat in a chair watching snooker with a pipe.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: You're practically there.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not far off, to be honest. When I'm not working, that's basically who I am.
But I think. Have pipes gone out of fashion? A little bit.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: But pipes are vapes now, aren't they?
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a certain word for it, but you sound like a fish. Pipes. It's a circular thing, secular thing, isn't it, when it comes to trends.
But cigars have always been pretty cool. They're always associated cyclical.
[00:08:58] Speaker B: Circular, cyclical.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: Observe. I don't know. It goes around in circles.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: So I think pipes will probably come back into. Because that was like people playing cricket back in the 1920s. Horace had a pipe. Popeye. Sherlock Holmes, did he have a pipe?
[00:09:15] Speaker B: My granddad?
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah, stuff like that. But not really popular these days.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: No. It's weird when you think about them stuffing the tobacco in the end of.
[00:09:22] Speaker A: It and then stinky.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Really stinky. And like being around my granddad while he's just smoking a pipe. Random.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: I'm waking up. I've realized it's international day of dot, dot, dot. I've now got my handcuffs on, smoking a pipe. What else am I doing?
[00:09:37] Speaker B: It's also national day of being comfy.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Very well. That aligns with me sitting in my chair with my pipe.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Exactly. And the last one is national whistleblower reward day.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: What, so if you've dobbed someone in, you get a little pat on the back for that?
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Yes.
How are there that many whistleblowers that need to be congratulated? I do not know.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: All right, so I've just grasped someone up. So I'm going to sit back in my chair, light up my pipe, pop your handcuffs on. Pop my handcuffs on and be cozy.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: But also make sure you don't talk about any politics.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Oh, is that another thing?
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah. International, no, politics day.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: I think every day should be, let's not talk about politics day. If anyone agrees with me, please say yahoo.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Yahoo. I quite like a bit of politics every now and then. But not today, Chris.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: Not today.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Not today.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: So a couple of things have been frustrating me recently in terms of my enjoyment of viewing sports.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: Okay?
[00:10:47] Speaker A: So I am going to roll the jingle on grinds my gears and I will tell you why. Roll the jingle. Tell me what's grinding your gears, mate.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Tell me what's grinding your gears. Tell me what's grinding your gears, mate. All right, tell us what's grinding your gears.
[00:11:09] Speaker A: So I'm watching international football. I'm watching AFcOn. Okay, so it was the african nations competition between all the african clubs competing for the AfCON trophy. It's huge, okay? It's mega. It was set in the Ivory coast this year and they ended up winning it. Wonderful. For the home fans. I thought that was great. You got sellout stadiums of like. It appeared to be like 90,000 people per match. It's just massive. But there was one common denominator that just grinded my gears. People who bring instruments to football matches, okay? Now I like to go and watch a match. I like to cheer, I like to chant, I like to clap, I like to scream. Sometimes to either shout at the team or encourage the team or do something.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Are you a swearer, though?
[00:12:00] Speaker A: No, not a swearer.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: No. I've been to football matches with you. Very polite.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I'm not like, yes, jolly good part.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Come on, shearer.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: I don't sit there with my family going off, you massive. I'm not playing like that.
Throw the ball in, you waste of space.
Which some people do. I'm assuming that you're going to beep all of that out.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: I just have to go back there to say, did you notice that I referenced Alan Shearer as playing in the team?
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Yes. He retired about 20 years ago and.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Played for Newcastle, if I remember rightly.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: He did, yeah.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: There we go.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Obviously, once you notice this sound in the crowd, you can't unnotice it.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: And I don't know my instruments.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: It's like a car alarm going off.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: Yes, exactly.
[00:12:48] Speaker B: In the background. And somebody goes, have you heard that car alarm?
[00:12:50] Speaker A: And then you go, no. And then you go, now I have.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: So this instrument, which seemed to be the instrument of choice for AFcON, was only to be described as a kazoo.
Now, I don't know whether you've heard a kazoo before, but can you just insert a kazoo for me here? Here it is.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Kazoo coming up.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: So that everyone is a kazoo.
Can you imagine that in the mouths of 90,000 people for 90 minutes, that's going to get on your tits. Isn't it awful? You see what I mean? And it made me think. It's not just that.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Is it a national instrument, did you say?
[00:13:35] Speaker A: It can't be a national instrument, the kazoo? I don't know, it's just people have gone, oh, I'm going to a very important football match. I'm going to take this really, really annoying mouth organ with me.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: Unless they hand them out of the grounds. Which led me on to thinking of the english national football team.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: Now, I am super duper patriotic. However, watching England football matches has become a little bit insufferable because of this band, who are very patriotic as well.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: But I've heard of them.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: Yeah, they have drums and drums, awful. At football match, please don't bring drums. Can you imagine being sat in front of the people who bring drums?
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Rubbish, in my opinion.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: Are they good musicians, though?
[00:14:20] Speaker A: Well, they play this song which you go, I'm at an England match. This is great.
Don't play it all, match that one, basically. Torture. Do you agree with my grind?
[00:14:38] Speaker B: Do I do? Yeah. I think if you're right next to them, that would drive you insane.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Bonkers.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Grind accepted.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Thank you very much.
Jen's given me a thumbs up. What do you mean by thumbs up?
[00:14:50] Speaker B: Well done. That was a good section.
[00:14:52] Speaker A: Oh, right. Because sometimes you don't know this, because you can't see us right now, but sometimes Jen will do this thing where she wipes her hand across her neck, like, as if to say, don't talk about this, it's shit.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: This is true. Have you had any useless purchases recently, Chris? Did you buy a useless thing? Did you waste your money? All your useless purchases. Don't you think it's funny? We don't think it's funny.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: It's not funny.
Don't waste your money.
Tell me.
Useless.
I do have a useless purchase, actually. I looked at it just before I came up to record. And that is the noble apple Cora.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Okay, so an apple cora. I don't know.
I don't know what percentage of households own an apple Cora, but if you do, you're only using that tool to core an apple.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: You can't really use, obviously.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: Yeah. You don't really go, oh, I'm going to cut some holes out of bread. Let's use the apple core. You don't do that, you just use it to core an apple. Now, if you do have an apple.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: You just eat it. You actually core it.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: You're not coring it well, the funny.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: Thing is, I have an apple nearly every day and pop it in a bowl with some yogurt and I chop the apple up.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: Why aren't you coring it, mate?
[00:16:13] Speaker B: I cut around the core with a knife.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: What on earth are you doing?
[00:16:17] Speaker B: What an absolute.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: That utensil in the cupboard is going, Jen, that's why I'm here.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: I don't think I even knew we had one, but, yes, totally useless purchase.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: Because I forget all about it along those lines. But I haven't actually bought one yet. But I've seen them and I've gone, maybe I'll ask for that for Christmas. A mango slice.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: Will you never have mango?
[00:16:39] Speaker A: No, an avocado slice. This one. Toast tongs. Right.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: Well, that's a silly. Oh, I thought you mean to stop your fingers from getting burnt when you take this. Oh, my God.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: But same thing. Say if you have an apple and a piece of toast for breakfast, you're not getting the cora out, giving it all that and then going, I'm just going to get my little wooden chopstick things and get the toast out like that. You're just going, aren't you?
[00:17:05] Speaker B: But I do remember when I was little, my mum had.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: Long time ago.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: Thank you. My mum had a. It was an egg slicer, boiled egg slicer. I mean, do you remember? It was. It went in a little sort of scooped out dish and then it had like, wires.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: Wires. Like a cheese slice.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:17:23] Speaker A: Four eggs.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: And you pulled it down and it just sliced the egg beautifully.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: That's it.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: What happened? Now, that wouldn't be a useless purchase.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: I've also in the cupboard got an onion dicer. Oh, okay. You pop the onion on the top, but you have to peel it and halve it first. So you're doing half the work. You put it on top of this thing, you press something down and the onion goes through these wires like a scene from saw, right into little nice diced cubes at the bottom. But then you have to wash up the thing that you did.
[00:17:54] Speaker B: Rather just chop it.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: Chop it up. Time saving, useless utensils. Write in and tell us which ones you have in your drawer.
So, Jen, we've had a couple of letters in this week, haven't we?
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Actually, this was from almost a year.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: Ago, so I think we should have a new segment just because I want you to write another jingle. And we've had so many emails in, not just for the competition, just for people telling us about their experiences. Adjoined with our segments.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: We have got a segment for it.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: What's it called?
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Fan feedback.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Oh, well, we could do fan feedback, but I was thinking of switching it to letters from home.
You like that?
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Fan feedback. All right, let's do with that because we've got Chris's jingle.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: Chris, you're going to start getting royalties for this soon. Roll the jingle.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Roll the jingle.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: Fan feedback.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Can you just. I don't want to use any of that.
[00:19:04] Speaker A: All right, well, you can edit this and see what one is more interesting. But I'm going with.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: I know, but you were like, I want to create a new section and all of that. And I'm like, so you just don't.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Want to do another jingle?
[00:19:13] Speaker B: No, not right now. No, because we're going away tomorrow. Can you just behave yourself?
[00:19:17] Speaker A: All right, well, I'll make one up here from home.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: No, it's called fan feedback. Stop it. You're really annoying me now. Can you just call it fan feedback, please, for me?
[00:19:30] Speaker A: All right, fan feedback. Jen, who's been writing in, so we've.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: Had a couple, and this one's from Cindy Phillips.
She sent this a few weeks ago, actually, now I think it was back in 23. I haven't got to it yet. Sorry, Cindy. So she sent it and it's called I love you, but nightmares.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: Hello from Ohio.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Love the podo, ohio to you, too.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Hi o, Cindy, Ohio. Cindy, I heard your story about Jenny's dreams and Chris's agony of having to listen to her retelling them every morning, daily. It made me think of my own husband's agony, and I had to share my own story.
I typically remember my dreams, and they are often certifiably nuts.
Example, flying to another planet because they have the tastiest lemonade, but you have to hide behind the toilets to get away from the dinosaurs.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: Brilliant. Yeah, that's a standard premise.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: The strangest part is I don't even like lemonade or dinosaurs.
But several times a week, I also have extremely disturbing and often violent nightmares. I scream in my sleep. Oh, God, I hate that. That's awful.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: Like, waking up, like, proper screaming or doing that open mouth. Kind of.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: Must be terrifying for a husband as well.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: Well, if you see that, if you wake up in the middle of the night and I saw you going.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: You have seen me do that.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: I have seen you do that. But I'm more inclined to grab my phone and video it because it's funny.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Thanks, mate.
Anyway, she's put here. Not tiny screams and not medium screams. Blood curdling. Sometimes someone is trying to kill me. Dreams.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: Oh, bless her, that sounds awful.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: I scare the absolute shit out of my husband, who wakes up in a frenzied panic only to find me peacefully sleeping.
So what?
[00:21:40] Speaker A: He's having his lovely man sleep and wakes up to, oh, my God.
And then comes over and then she's just asleep again. He's going, oh, my goodness, what have I entered into here?
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Once he woke up to hear me screaming, my shoes.
The next morning, he asked me what in the world I had been dreaming about. I relayed my latest nightmare to him. Our daughter had been kidnapped in Walmart, and I love Walmart, and I was trying to rescue her. And then some old lady stole my shoes.
[00:22:17] Speaker A: No. Yeah. That warrants a massive scream.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: My shoes.
My husband just stared at me for a second and then says, our daughter was kidnapped, but you're screaming about your shoes.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: He sounds funny.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: They were my favorite shoes.
The pink ones with the little flowers on. I love those shoes. Needless to say, he did not comprehend why my agonised screaming had been so necessary and no longer seemed interested in asking about my dreams in the future. He now gladly survives my regular middle of the night freak outs with a no questions asked policy. I love you guys and hope Chris appreciates Jen's lack of screaming nightmares. Cindy Phillips.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: Cindy from Ohio at Cindy the hot mess mom. Yeah.
[00:23:04] Speaker B: Thanks, Cindy. That was brilliant.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: That was really cool. And yes, I sympathize with the husband there very much.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: I'm pretty much quite a peaceful sleeper on the whole, though, aren't I?
I do have my little moments, but most of the time I don't move in bed.
Pause as Chris says, I'm going through the genopause at the moment. I love that.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: Before. She's doing very well.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Chris mentioned training. How's your training going, Chris?
[00:23:42] Speaker A: It's going all right. It's going all right. I'm bulking up. Bulking up.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: Still bulking. How's the washboard stomach coming along?
[00:23:49] Speaker A: It's coming along.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: So we've had another email from Cherry Hamilton.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: Oh, hello, Cherry.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: And she said, hi, Jen, Chris and Freddie. My suggestion for a section is behind the scenes at I love you, but I don't feel like we really need to do behind the scenes. I don't feel that there's any sort of. In front of the scenes, really, is there with us?
[00:24:08] Speaker A: What she wants to see behind the scenes, we should do behind the scenes. We should do a video, really.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: I'd love to know how much prep you do, whether you fall not a lot. Whether you fall out about it all the time. What? The editing's like nightmare for Jeff, nightmare for me. But the editing's great in the end.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: Yes. I'm busy downstairs watching the football.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: And how you come up with the jingles.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: Well, I think that's a good question. Thank you.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: Thanks, Chezaroo.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Thank you, Cherry, for that. Yes, I think behind the scenes there is. The prep that we come up with is usually authentic. Well, it is. It's authentic stuff that's happened during that week.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Yeah. We literally don't have any material if we've not got up to anything.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: We just don't do a show if we've got nothing to talk about. Hence the massive gap between December and January. Do we fall out? Yes, of course. We've been married for 17 years. We fall out all the time. But we love each other.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: Good at sorting it out, though, aren't we?
[00:25:04] Speaker A: I've said this before. We have a quick recovery time.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Recovery. We get frustrated, but then we're best mates, so it kind of blows over quite quickly.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: And what was the third thing?
[00:25:13] Speaker B: What the editing's like.
This is sometimes what we fall out about because I have to think ahead. So I have to say to Chris, look, if we want to put an episode out next week, we need to record it this week because it might take me three or four days to edit the whole thing. And then if he goes right, a jingle in the middle, it takes even longer. So you can understand how that can rile me up a little bit because there's other things going on in our lives, of course, as well as a.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: Side note, cherry, I am always trying to encourage Jen to write music because she's brilliant at it. She's a great lyricist. She's a great musician. But I think you don't write music as much as you should. Would you agree with that?
[00:25:53] Speaker B: Totally.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: So I think you writing jingles is an opportunity for you to flex, spread your wings a little bit.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: But you're right. I do need to write. I need to write a bit more music. I've been a bit slack recently, but the process of writing jingles is quite like Chris says. It's good for me because it's kind of enforced. It needs to be done. So it's like somebody giving you a job. So I go and I do it. And usually I've got to be honest, Chris is great. He will come up with, like, he'll go, I think it should go something like this. And he'll sing a little silly ditty and I'll get it in my head and then I'll go and build around it. Or sometimes I write a backing track and then I literally make up the words that go over it.
It's not rocket science, but it is bloody working logic, I tell you that.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: I genuinely think that we should bring out an album of the jingles.
We've spoken about this before. It will only be like a.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: It'll be one track.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: It'll be one track which lasts about 4 minutes with continual, maybe put a generic beat behind it and just roll them all out together like a mega mix of jingles. But we've heard from you guys that it makes you happy to have us just waffling on to you for 20 minutes. And it's fun for us to do.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: It's fun for us to do. I love listening to podcasts. You can just sort of go on a run, you can clean the house. You just feel like you've got a bit of company and yet you don't have to sit down and stop your day.
[00:27:22] Speaker A: We like to help you switch off. So there you go. Not through boredom or tiredness, because you can switch off of regular stressful life.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: And horrible, horrible news that's always around us the whole time.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: So thank you so much for tuning in for another plenty in 20. I do sound like a radio. I love it from the 90s, don't I? Hello there. But that's what it's meant to be, this show.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:27:49] Speaker A: That's what it's all about. I am packing my bag for New York very soon. Off to start this new job. I'm working on a movie with some comedy greats. I'm really looking forward to it. But I'm going to miss you, jen.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm going to miss you too, darling. But I'll see you out there soon.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. And looking at my schedule, I might be filming one day and then have a day off. What am I going to do in New York?
[00:28:11] Speaker B: Oh, I know exactly what you're going to go to do in New York.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Eminem World?
[00:28:15] Speaker B: No, the other one. Lindor world.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: Lindor World.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: They've got every single type of Lindor flavor.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: It's not actually called Lindor World.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: No, it's just called Lindor Shop.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: Isn't it called the Lint shop?
[00:28:28] Speaker B: No, it's just Lindor's.
[00:28:30] Speaker A: If you're a massive fan of Lindors like us, especially at Christmas time, and you go, oh, I love the red one, know there's a black one and there's a white one. And I grew up thinking they were the only three flavors. I laugh in the face of three flavors. When you go to Lindor World in New York, which I'm going to do, there's at least 50 different flavors.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: There's more than that. I mean, you can get anything, literally, licorice, cherry flavor and all that kind of shadazzle. Right.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: I'm going to buy you some of that, and I'm going to go in and I'm going to observe it all. So we're going to say goodbye for now. Send us your email. Goodbye for now. Hope you have a wonderful week.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: Send your emails in. We love hearing from you. We love your feedback. Remember, get in contact with us and enter our competition to win a mug. Mug me off.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Mug me off.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Bye bye.
[00:29:24] Speaker A: What's the weather like in New York around this time of year?
[00:29:27] Speaker B: I think it's quite nice.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Is it?
[00:29:28] Speaker B: Thanks.
[00:29:28] Speaker A: So is it not this time of year where they get blizzards and things like that?
[00:29:31] Speaker B: Well, that was more December, January time, I think.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: Right. Okay, I'm going to keep my eye on the weather app. Do you ever keep your eye on the weather app?
[00:29:38] Speaker B: I just get on with my life.
[00:29:39] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Do you ever do the seven day forecast thing on Alexa? When we're in Manchester, it's like Tuesday rain, Wednesday rain.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: La sun, baby, sun, baby. Here's some more sun. Chucking some more sun in your bag for today.
[00:29:54] Speaker A: Is that what Alexa sounds like these days? There should be a different voice for Alexa. She should have a choice, is a.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Choice of a voice. That'd be nice.
Close.
