S12 Ep 602 Listener’s Mailbag: Chatabiscuit Jingles and Ronnie Barker’s Letter

S12 Ep 602 Listener’s Mailbag: Chatabiscuit Jingles and Ronnie Barker’s Letter

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S12 Ep 602 Listener’s Mailbag: Chatabiscuit Jingles and Ronnie Barker’s Letter

S12 Ep 602 Listener’s Mailbag: Chatabiscuit Jingles and Ronnie Barker’s Letter

S12 Ep 602 Listener’s Mailbag: Chatabiscuit Jingles and Ronnie Barker’s Letter

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it hasn't got a little quote from you. Is

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for someone like that. I

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know. It's like being asked

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to do a panel. What do you mean? Well,

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like a writing panel. Oh, yeah. Oh,

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God. I want to know your

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thoughts. Oh, my

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God. Do

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know what would be worse if I had to do one

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or you had to do one and the other was in

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the audience? What,

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accidentally? No, I'm going

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to come to your writing panel

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thing tonight. You are? Yeah.

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I'm going to come and... Well, it's

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in brighter than that. So me and Patrick...

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Welcome to Mailbag, by the way. What

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would I think? Why is

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he going? Well, I wouldn't have told

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you I was doing it. No. No, I

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would have told you for the pod.

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I'm not talking about... I'm coming. Why are

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you coming? Oh, for fuck's sake. Little

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extra anxiety. No, loads

4:39

more anxiety. That's

4:42

a tight rope, isn't it, that night? Because

4:45

you'd have to be present and

4:47

give stuff, otherwise you're not. But

4:49

also thinking, fucking

4:51

hell, what's the other person

4:54

thinking? Also, what are you thinking?

4:58

I don't know, I haven't been there yet. I

5:01

thought if you actually took us another way.

5:04

Fucking hell, really. It's

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really interesting. The

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panel about Poddick, that'd be good.

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Oh, God, we've done it. I know

5:16

what that's like. God,

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we have! Yeah, we know what

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that turned into. Lots of

5:25

giggling. It

5:28

did! Anyway,

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welcome to Mailbag. Happy

5:36

weekend! Right,

5:38

so I went into our mail bag, had

5:40

a little sniff around at the top of

5:42

the mail bag. It was a letter. And

5:45

I had to have a little look at

5:48

because it was entitled. I was

5:50

entitled. I'm not going to tell

5:52

you. Do you want to hear it now? Do

5:54

you want to save it? Now? I can't. I

5:56

can't wait. OK. Shall

5:58

I give you the title? Yeah. Now. And then

6:00

we'll wait. Yeah. I think it'll be nice to let

6:02

me see. I don't know about waiting,

6:05

but give me a title. Ronnie

6:07

Barker letter. Wow.

6:09

See? Told you it was good. Stick

6:13

around to the end of

6:15

the episode to hear what that

6:17

email is. Wow. OK. Yeah.

6:21

Well produced, David.

6:24

Yeah. OK.

6:26

Right. Here we go. Do

6:29

you want to tell us what do? Stop. Bollock

6:33

operation quip from John

6:36

Freeman. Right. Are

6:38

we doing quip

6:41

only ones or? I

6:43

just don't want people to get

6:45

tired of quip. I want it to

6:47

be like a chocolate. OK, you

6:49

want a pepper with quips. I don't

6:51

want to tire of quip. That's

6:53

my issue, full stop, with me. Now

6:59

you're saying you can't sustain 20

7:02

minutes. How do you think I feel with

7:05

a lifetime? Yeah. I

7:08

like him so much. I just don't want

7:10

to... Done away. Let's have a

7:12

bollock operation quick. High chaps. A few

7:14

years ago, I had a minor operation

7:16

on one of my bollocks. And I

7:18

think serious. Just a little exploration on

7:20

the general anesthetic. Would you prefer if

7:22

he said testicle on his testicle? I

7:24

like bollocks. It

7:28

does lighten it. God, sorry. As the

7:30

day the operation approached, I started to

7:32

feel a little nervous, not due to

7:34

the operation, but because I convinced myself

7:36

that upon regaining consciousness, there would be

7:38

an ideal opportunity to make a quip

7:40

about my bollocks to the first member

7:43

of the hospital staff I saw. That

7:45

sounds a bit weird now, I think about

7:47

it, but even... No, at all. But at

7:49

the time, I was under a kind of

7:51

quip spell. Did I?

7:54

I became a little stressed. Would

7:58

I be able to speak, let

8:00

alone deliver a quip under such circumstances?

8:03

Would I even remember the quip I'd

8:05

planned? Would it be appropriate? Unique? Would

8:08

it raise a smile? Would we

8:10

met with stony silence? Given

8:12

that there would be no

8:14

quip set up, you

8:16

had to be quite sure, one sentence

8:19

only. As the anesthetist counted down,

8:21

I remember thinking, say the quip, say

8:23

the quip. It'll feel like

8:25

only a few seconds from now until

8:27

quick delivery. Darkness. I

8:30

came to a nurse, I came

8:32

to with a nurse standing over

8:34

the bed, groggy, struggling to think

8:36

straight. I whispered, are they both

8:38

still there? The nurse

8:40

smiled, or at least I think she did. I

8:43

was still off my head and said,

8:45

yes, they are. And then walked off.

8:48

I had succeeded. I

8:51

know you had. Although

8:55

I had succeeded.

8:58

What? I have to

9:00

say that minutes later as I fully

9:02

regain consciousness and in fact to this

9:04

very day remember remembering this makes me

9:06

feel a little empty and regretful. I

9:08

learned a hard lesson that day. Quips

9:10

must never be pre -planned. No

9:12

matter how alluring the circumstances. Since

9:14

then I've quipped, sure, but only

9:16

spontaneously. And if the moment

9:18

has passed, sorry mate. they

9:22

so still there? Yeah, but that

9:24

feels like they're both still there. She

9:26

says yes and then the

9:28

quick. He's

9:33

thrown the ball up. She's

9:36

responded and then you

9:38

walked away. What would you have

9:40

said? I don't know.

9:42

Would you mind checking? There

9:50

you go, top of your head. See?

9:56

You would have been great in the 70s.

9:59

I think you would. Couldn't

10:02

get away without now. What

10:05

about would you mind checking but something

10:07

to do with your teeth or something? Make

10:10

it blue. If you were to go

10:12

down the blue. We'd

10:14

just pop a love at the end. Would

10:19

you mind checking love? There

10:22

you go. Immediately grumpy. Yeah,

10:26

I can't do

10:28

it. That's not

10:30

my ballpark. Yeah, I do want

10:32

to. Well, there you go. There's

10:34

something in there. Very, very attractive.

10:38

Trust me. I'm

10:41

hanging on for dear life. I

10:43

love the bland Monday. Some

10:45

are so... So empty and

10:48

nothing. He's like, whoa. He

10:51

did worry me with the build -up. No,

10:54

I wasn't worried. I was like,

10:56

God, he's a good little storyteller.

10:58

Yeah, he's a good... Yeah, so

11:00

you think... He's pre -planned it, so

11:02

it's good. Yeah.

11:06

Yeah. Blimey. Right.

11:09

Next one. Yeah, just up there.

11:15

It's from Mike. Dear

11:17

Chatterbecks, Crunch Crunch. This was

11:20

sent a month ago. Congratulations

11:22

on your mutual wives hobby of

11:24

pot making. I'm just writing because we

11:26

actually have a lot of soap

11:28

dishes in our house. So

11:30

happy to receive them. We'll

11:33

not exchange any money for them because

11:35

I'm a tight ass. Actually, I live

11:37

in Finland and postage which will cost

11:39

an arm and a leg. So

11:42

just forget about this whole thing. I

11:45

do have an addressing bath. Next

11:48

time, David's there, he could drop them off.

11:51

It's an addressing bath. I

11:54

cannot necessarily guarantee that it will be

11:56

put on eBay, but I can't necessarily guarantee

11:58

that it won't go on eBay. Anyway,

12:01

have a nice weekend, every weekend, forever. Best

12:03

regards, Mike. Thank

12:05

you for your email. Good

12:08

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from Daniel Lavattie from Back in

12:12

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celebrity childhood catcher. Crunch, crunch, gentlemen,

12:16

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sweet. My childhood experiences of fame

12:20

being taken to work with my

12:23

friend by his mum, who was

12:25

a cleaner, found a pretend cut

12:27

off finger with fake blood on

12:29

display and picked it up to

12:31

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12:33

a shout of put it down.

12:36

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12:38

and only Keith Cheggwin. Simple.

12:44

Keith Tegwin told you to put a

12:46

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12:52

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David and Joe, this is from

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Sarah Swift Stafford, way back in October

16:18

last year. Hello to you both. I've

16:22

just listened to one of your mailbag

16:24

episodes and hearing your sheer excitement at

16:26

the thought of a chatterbox get sending

16:28

a musical sound bite inspired me to

16:30

put something together for you. I

16:32

used an AI voice because I

16:34

wanted a male vocal. I'm a 48

16:36

year old woman. Little

16:38

about me, I'm a private music tutor. Tutor,

16:41

I run my own music

16:43

school. Caster Music Tuition. I

16:46

also have a YouTube channel, the same

16:48

name. During COVID, I offered free

16:50

online lessons for students struggling financially or

16:52

mentally. And I wanted to keep that

16:54

spirit alive even after things would turn

16:56

to normal. I play through

16:58

various learning books across several instruments,

17:01

compose songs of various genres and

17:03

create rossy free instrumental music for

17:05

anyone who needs it. And

17:07

I created a little theme

17:09

tune for your guests, a celebrity

17:11

age game. It sounds

17:14

like a game, didn't we play that? Yeah,

17:16

the one you nicked off. Maybe.

17:21

But just in case it slipped under the radar,

17:23

I've concluded it here so you can ever

17:25

listen whenever you like. Now, in

17:27

three years or never, whatever happens, I'm still a

17:29

fan of the pub. Hope you enjoy the tunes. Have

17:34

you sent

17:36

it to me?

17:40

Or is it? Should I? Not worry. I

17:42

don't know. Well, I've

17:44

only listened to three

17:46

seconds. Okay,

17:50

here we go. So

17:52

this is for the celebrity

17:55

age game, I think. It's

18:06

Joe and Dave, they're born

18:08

again, chatting up life's daily spin,

18:10

From dentist to pop jokes,

18:12

cheers a laugh chat spills our

18:14

ears, Crush, crush for the

18:16

chatter bits boots, tune in daily,

18:18

get your fixit campus nods

18:20

far trips, life's more fun with

18:22

chatter bits Emails read guests

18:24

in tow stories flow, the laughs

18:27

just grow A toss of

18:29

the plectrum, who can say, Crocodile

18:31

play, suit, cut to play? let's

18:42

all listen, can't resist, it's hard

18:44

to miss, that's what she said,

18:46

with laughs and tales that never

18:49

quit, crotch crotch, we're all in

18:51

it, crotch crotch for the chatter

18:53

bits, tune in daily, get your

18:55

fixit, campus pubs and far off

18:57

trips, life's more fun with chatter

18:59

bits. If

19:03

there's third verse, I'll be over the

19:05

moon. Let's

19:09

all listen, can't resist, it's hard

19:11

to miss, that's what she said,

19:14

with laughs and tales that never

19:16

quit, crotch crotch, we're all in

19:18

it, crotch crotch for the chatter

19:20

bits, tune in daily, get your

19:22

fixit, campus pubs and far off

19:24

trips, life's more fun with chatter

19:27

bits. I

19:36

felt like I had to get to the end. It's

19:43

one forty. Fuck.

19:46

Well, I guess my jingle's a fucking long

19:49

as well. Fuck,

19:51

no. It did remind me

19:53

of something that could be in a, I

19:55

don't know, a

19:57

bandy. It's quite bandy. Yeah. Grunch,

20:00

grunch, just janna bits. Did

20:02

it, did it, it? Oh, it's a

20:04

game show thing. What?

20:10

She's done the theme tune to How Old

20:12

Celebrity Game Show. Another

20:14

one. Fuck him out. It's

20:17

going to take up nearly five minutes of

20:19

the pod. Do you want this or Roddy Barker?

20:22

I do obviously want Roddy Barker, but

20:24

I feel like I'm sort of

20:26

trapped now. Is

20:37

this the second one? I

20:39

like it. How

20:45

old? How old? How

20:48

old? Can

20:50

you guess? Can you unfold? Get

20:52

a right to win the gold.

20:55

So how old? How old? How

20:57

old? How old? So

21:00

let you know and love so dear.

21:02

Can you tell me, tell us their

21:04

birth year? For TV and film from

21:07

near and far. You know how old?

21:18

God, this is like a real lesson

21:20

learned for me. James,

21:26

don't... anything I make,

21:28

don't play it for longer

21:31

than 25 seconds. Oh,

21:34

my God, I feel low. The

21:38

old skip button. Thank

21:40

God for the skip button. Oh

21:43

my God, I feel really empty. Well,

21:46

do you think that's what you've been doing? Yeah.

21:50

Well, there's obviously some... That sounded like

21:52

a game show. No,

21:54

thank you for that, by the way. But

21:57

why are you feeling so low? Well,

21:59

I'm just thinking about my shit that I

22:01

churn out. I'm

22:03

not saying that was just

22:06

saying... Well, well... Seems

22:09

the timing seems like it's

22:12

got something to do with

22:14

it. Hello,

22:17

hello. How

22:20

are you? Sometimes

22:23

you think it's really hard, I

22:26

think, to make music that not just

22:28

you go, I like that because

22:30

you've created it. It must be hard

22:32

to get to the next level. But

22:35

people go, I like that.

22:37

Other people like that. What's

22:39

your point? Well,

22:41

what's your point? You're feeling low. I'm

22:44

just riding the wave. Do

22:50

you want this fucking Ronnie

22:52

Barker letter? Not with that

22:54

attitude. Here

22:57

we go. We got a

23:00

message sent in. I don't know what... I

23:02

haven't read this at all. I just

23:04

saw the... This is from Raylene Webb, sent

23:06

a couple of days ago. Hello,

23:08

Joan David. I just finished listening

23:11

to Joe's 50th birthday pot. Happy

23:13

birthday. Thank you. Attached

23:15

is a copy of the

23:17

letter Ronnie Barker sent me

23:19

in 1986. Wow.

23:22

I wondered if Joe would like to see it.

23:24

Yes, please. He and Ronnie Colbert

23:26

were in Australia to film a series of shows for

23:28

television. Ronnie Barker was on a

23:30

chat show and said he collected old

23:32

postcards. I had some old

23:34

postcards and sent them to him. He sent

23:36

me the attached thank you letter, which

23:38

I was not expecting. I

23:40

cried like Joe did with his brother, gave him

23:42

the signed photo. I hope Joe likes

23:44

it. I also don't live at

23:46

that address anymore. I had a tear

23:49

when David Jason wished Joe a happy birthday

23:51

too. So.

23:56

Dear Miss Webb. It

23:59

was very kind of you. 30th

24:02

of June, 1986. How

24:05

old would he have been? I

24:07

would have been 11. What about

24:09

him? Oh, it's

24:11

interesting how old I was. No,

24:15

I was just thinking about being 11, that's

24:17

why. I think

24:19

he's 57. What was

24:21

that noise? Just thinking

24:23

of him alive. Oh, yeah. Dear

24:26

Miss Webb, it was very kind

24:28

of you to send the cards

24:30

and I shall be pleased to

24:32

add them to my collection. Thank

24:35

you, yours, Ronnie

24:37

Barker. Wow.

24:40

Has it framed in her? Has she found

24:42

it? She's got

24:44

the little...

24:46

Wow. She's

24:49

got Oh, wow. Just

24:51

got the little envelope

24:53

with his writing, her address

24:55

on the front of

24:57

his writing. Send

24:59

it to Australia. Amazing

25:01

thing to do though. Send it.

25:03

Yeah. No

25:06

one else is ever gonna get one of those. That's

25:08

what's going on in my head. God,

25:10

have you ever received a Ronnie Barker? No,

25:13

actually. I'm talking about. How would he

25:15

do that? Keep fucking nose out of

25:17

it. Show us.

25:21

What? What are you

25:23

on about? Well, I just felt like

25:25

I was asking people to show us

25:27

their underwear. Shall

25:30

I show Ronnie Barker letters? What? Well,

25:33

I just thought, like, you know, some

25:35

things are private and there's me going, I'll

25:37

put it... I don't know what you

25:39

asked and then... If you've ever been sent

25:41

a letter, a private letter for Ronnie

25:44

Barker, can we read it out on the

25:46

board? Also, don't think you're going to

25:48

get loads of them. Have

25:51

you ever read a thank

25:53

you letter from Ronnie Barker

25:55

between the years of 84

25:57

and 87? When

26:01

you, when you like to use the part

26:03

of the way of sort of reaching out to

26:05

any Ronnie Barker. I

26:08

don't know what way I want to reach out

26:10

to them. No. Then

26:13

it's nice to have little surprises rather than

26:15

go send me. Imagine I get bored of

26:17

seeing Ronnie Barker letters. That be horrendous. thought

26:19

when I said that thing. I was like,

26:21

oh, shut up. Oh, someone else has sent

26:23

me a letter. I'd hate that. Oh,

26:26

fucking hell, I've got pretend to like it. Just

26:29

keep the one keep it

26:31

one and magical. Do not send

26:33

any. Into this

26:35

pod. But just I

26:37

don't want a mass

26:39

of them. One

26:44

every six months. Yeah.

26:49

Another letter? Yeah. Littering.

26:52

Yes. Amy. Alright chaps,

26:54

as a long time listener the pod, I was

26:56

delighted to hear you're asking for littering stories,

26:59

as I have a pretty good one. I

27:01

was 19 wandering through my

27:03

hometown of Oldham, and to

27:05

give you a bit of backstory, my car had just

27:07

broken down, I'd just been dumped. I

27:09

bought myself a lovely cheese savoury

27:12

sandwich to try, and

27:14

chewed myself up. And

27:16

just as I was

27:18

about to take my

27:20

last bite, I dropped

27:22

it on the floor. I'd

27:24

never usually litter, but

27:27

as it was also chucking it down, I

27:29

left it. And it was food, right? Yeah.

27:32

I got a firm tap on the

27:35

shoulder. And a voice said,

27:37

excuse me, young lady, I

27:39

am a law enforcement

27:42

officer, and you have just

27:44

committed a crime, which

27:46

holds a 50 pound penalty.

27:49

I've been busted. As

27:51

I gave them my name and address,

27:53

a pigeon hopped up and ate the

27:55

evidence. And

27:58

the fine came through a few

28:00

days later. Wow, she got fined. Yeah,

28:02

but it's also food and animals

28:04

can eat it. Fuck

28:06

me. I'd

28:09

love to get that law enforcement officer

28:11

on. Charges are slim.

28:15

When the fine came through a few days

28:17

later, I sent a letter explaining the circumstances. As

28:20

I didn't hear anything for a few

28:22

months, assumed I got away with it.

28:25

God, I feel like bloody, that's

28:27

life. Yeah,

28:30

it's good. What is that?

28:32

What's her name? Esther

28:35

Anson. Felt like she's just passed on,

28:37

passed this over to Chris Searle. I

28:41

then received it, of course. A

28:44

few months later. Well,

28:47

I had to attend court.

28:49

I pay a 200 pound fee.

28:52

Dropping a bit of pasty. Sandwich,

28:56

save me cheap sandwich. Sure. The

28:59

most embarrassing thing about the whole event

29:01

was that I was also working at

29:03

Older Mathletic Football Club at the time

29:05

and had gone straight to work after

29:07

the original event. The

29:09

press guy from the local paper was in

29:11

there. And as my news was obviously

29:13

more exciting than whatever the latex had got

29:15

up to that weekend, he convinced me

29:18

to do a tell all scoop. Not

29:23

convinced that local girl drops

29:25

bread crust on floor would make

29:27

the press. I told him

29:29

the story, but politely refused

29:31

to do the frown at a piece

29:33

of bread photo. Much

29:35

to my mate's

29:37

amusement. It was on the

29:39

front of the paper the next day.

29:41

cheese, butty, Amy in a pickle. And

29:45

meant that I was just known

29:47

as cheese for the next 10 years.

29:50

Anyway, thanks for the lolz, crunch, crunch,

29:52

Amy, cheese, butty, best. And

29:54

she sent in the front

29:56

page of the Oldham Chronicle. She

29:59

sent in? Yeah. I've

30:01

seen that. Cheese, butty, Amy

30:03

in pickle, student fine 50 pound

30:05

for dropping sandwich crust. Well,

30:11

great email. That's amazing. Yeah.

30:14

You can drop food, can't you? There's

30:17

no one else fixated on this. You

30:19

can drop food. What, you mean me? Well,

30:22

yeah, you. I

30:25

like you drop food all the time.

30:27

You don't to pick food up. Well,

30:30

if someone, if you were walking in

30:32

front of, behind someone, someone just

30:34

dropped half a sandwich, deliberate or not,

30:37

because you don't know them. I

30:39

was just on the pain, would you

30:41

go, fucking hell mate? I would, but I

30:43

would be, but like, it decomposes. Like...

30:46

It's been a right quandary! Plastic

30:49

doesn't... Cork on, cork on! But

30:56

like, plastic don't go anywhere. That's

30:58

got to I know what you're saying, but... what

31:00

would you think? If I was walking in front of

31:02

you, you didn't know me, and I just dropped

31:05

half a burger on the floor. You wouldn't like that.

31:07

No, I wouldn't like that at all, no. Well,

31:10

it decomposes, sir. I

31:14

think I've imagined it's a

31:16

small edge of a sandwich.

31:18

Yeah. Anyway, one

31:20

more for luck, and then... One more for

31:22

luck. Quipping

31:27

about my dead dad.

31:29

Wow. Christopher. Shall we try

31:31

a quipping mailbag? Fully

31:33

quipped. Yeah. Okay.

31:36

Oh, someone said you could call

31:38

it Wikipedia. Yeah.

31:46

Hi chaps from Chris Fuchs.

31:49

I bumped into an old friend and his

31:51

dad a few years ago. The

31:53

conversation went as follows. Friends

31:56

dad. Hi, Chris. How are

31:58

you? Me. Fine, thanks. Friends,

32:01

Dad. I was talking to

32:03

your Dad last week. He seems well.

32:05

Me. Fucking hell. How? He's been dead six

32:07

years. How are you talking to him?

32:09

Weed your board. Stunned

32:14

silence. Oh,

32:17

so why does his mate... Well, more importantly,

32:19

why does his dad... His mate's dad think

32:21

he was talking to him? I don't know. To

32:23

make any sense. Can

32:30

we have one more, please? If

32:32

it's as good as that, yeah. Stun

32:35

silence. Stun silence, great

32:37

podcast, good work, Chris. I

32:41

do like you, you just type away

32:43

a little thank... You tap him thanks

32:45

for your email, doesn't even break you,

32:48

you're still chatting as you do it

32:50

now, don't you? Oh,

32:53

God, I love it. Another

32:56

one? And then I've got to go. Pick

32:59

anyone? Yeah, just quit it. A

33:01

quip that didn't land from Brad. Love

33:03

it. Brad

33:05

Garethley. Fresh out

33:07

of college whilst at my first job

33:09

at a high -end department store. I learned

33:11

that quips don't always land. I

33:13

was working alongside my colleague when I saw

33:16

an older gentleman come up to them and

33:18

asked for help. I overheard

33:20

him say, I think I've

33:22

lost my wife in the store,

33:24

which I piped up with. Have

33:28

you tried lost property, mate? Yes,

33:31

yes. That sounds like one of

33:33

yours. Absolutely do

33:35

not be ashamed of that. Which

33:38

definitely didn't land with the

33:40

man. Oh, my golly. All

33:43

the best, Bradley. I thought that was good. That's

33:45

a good quit. Don't ever, yeah, don't

33:47

ever back out of that one. Yeah.

33:50

Yeah, he tried lost property. Good,

33:52

that's good. That's solid. Right.

33:55

That's it. Cheers, everyone.

33:57

Cheers, everyone. Bye. I'm

34:45

Max Rushton. I'm David O'Daherty. And we'd like

34:47

to invite you to listen to our new

34:49

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34:52

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34:54

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34:56

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34:58

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35:01

the stress. Is it what did you do

35:03

yesterday? What did you

35:05

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35:07

I mean? What did you do yesterday? I'm

35:09

really downplaying it. Like, what did you do yesterday?

35:11

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35:13

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35:16

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35:18

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35:20

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35:22

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35:24

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35:26

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35:29

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35:31

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35:33

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