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you. Morning, everybody. Welcome along

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to your free podcast for today, January

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the twenty sixth, have you noticed? The

1:09

weather's changed again. One minute goes

1:12

mild and I'm thinking great and I want

1:14

to see some friends of mine the other day.

1:16

And then you know what we were talking about the other day when

1:18

this person came on and said, oh, you know, if you live in

1:20

flats you know, you can set up your own

1:22

management company and all the rest of it.

1:25

And he made it appear as though you just wandered

1:27

into it. It doesn't happen like that. He was misleading

1:29

you badly. I'm afraid Road because

1:32

I I was prompted to tell you that today,

1:34

because I'm the director of where

1:36

I live. So I sign off

1:38

the accounts, I approve of everything. Today,

1:40

I've got meetings with two contractors. One

1:43

could be between nine and twelve, so you can't

1:46

go anywhere. You're stuck in. And

1:48

this is to do the window.

1:50

We're getting an estimate for window where the

1:52

natural frame that needs a repair,

1:54

not the frame, so the internal mechanism

1:56

of the window. And also because

1:58

we've got the fire alarms tested. And that

2:01

happens twice a year. So you've got

2:03

to me with them. You can't just let them come in. And

2:06

this is just an average day. There's

2:08

always so, in fact, it's gonna take up most of my

2:10

day waiting for the contractors to

2:12

turn up. I mean, Lynn and I will do it. They will probably go

2:14

for a couple coffee. So,

2:16

you know, not the easy ride that this

2:19

old boy was going, oh, yes, you can do this

2:21

and all the rest of it. And and he

2:23

as I say, he was wrong, I'll point it out to you again

2:25

that if you do set up your own company as

2:27

a limited company, You

2:29

have to get accountants You've got

2:31

to file accounts. You've got to they

2:33

got to be paid. They don't do these things for free.

2:36

If you've got to lift in the building, You've

2:38

got Lyft contracts. They've got to be maintained.

2:40

They're not cheap. And if you're

2:42

leasehold, which of course they are, you

2:44

have to get insurance. But it's not up to you

2:46

to decide the insurance company. It's up

2:48

to the free holder. He decides

2:50

the insurance company that you go for. He probably

2:53

makes money out of it. But you don't

2:55

pick it because you'd be picking the cheapest one and he's

2:57

going, no. Wait a minute. This is my building. So

2:59

very misleading information there. But there you go.

3:01

Happy to put the the situation right because

3:03

I've been doing it now for thirty years. So I'm

3:05

well versed in how much things

3:07

cost, although sometimes it still knocks me

3:09

a little bit. So I watched Love Island yesterday.

3:12

I didn't sort of watch all of it. And I began

3:14

to wonder, perhaps they fired Maya JAMA

3:16

because she didn't feature in my episode at all.

3:18

And in theory, it was all the voice over by

3:20

the bloke who married the woman

3:22

who got pregnant. Yeah. Ian

3:24

Sterling. But nothing from Maya drama. So

3:26

obviously, it's one of these piddly little jobs

3:28

where you just sort of pop in, pose, have your picture

3:31

taken, and then bug her off again. But

3:33

having pointed out, that

3:35

this TV salesman called Harris,

3:38

Nemani, was caught punching

3:40

the lights out of somebody. They got rid

3:42

of him. They've decided, now he's broken

3:44

his silence saying, It's not a reflection of my

3:46

character. Unfortunately, love child,

3:48

I think it is a reflection of your character

3:51

because we've seen your nasty little temper

3:53

on love island. And he said, no. Because

3:55

they they didn't the camera didn't show you everything. We made

3:57

up afterwards. I don't really care actually.

3:59

I'm not really gonna show you a thug. And

4:02

you have to remove yourself from

4:04

the building. And so they did. And

4:07

it was, you know, he was landing blows on another party

4:09

go in the street. And so he didn't

4:11

get not like the a jaw.

4:13

We think, yes, you are. You are.

4:15

We've seen the evidence. You know, it's like we we've

4:17

seen how boring you are on Love Island.

4:19

And I I just thought it looked like I

4:22

don't know. I was sort of watching it, and I couldn't quite

4:24

work out. There was one girl go. Oh, it's so

4:26

awful. I haven't got anybody to go out with. And

4:28

I thought, yeah, because you're like this. You're a drip.

4:30

Would you want to go out with somebody? Go, oh, we'll go out

4:32

with somebody. I never really wanted to go

4:34

out with it because they all realized exactly

4:36

what they were picking up on. But anyway,

4:38

Paul Little Harry said it was a heat at the moment incident.

4:40

It doesn't matter what he was. You

4:43

did it. You committed the crime.

4:45

Now you're doing the time. He's a TV

4:47

salesman, then what that is. What's the TV salesman?

4:50

Does he sell televisions or does he sell

4:52

advertising? He sells TVs. Or

4:54

you're at your depth to love on you. You

4:56

start becoming a thug in the street. You pay for

4:58

it, so you've screwed your life up. Mind

5:00

you, There's also another bloke in

5:02

the love island who's a farmer.

5:06

And the papers have got a picture

5:08

of him holding a little

5:10

packet of Well, let's

5:12

on the side of caution and say it looks like talcum

5:14

powder. That's all I can tell you

5:16

because, I mean, these people are so stupid.

5:19

So stupid. It won't really is just absolutely

5:21

ridiculous. Pamela Anderson, you know what? Is

5:23

she got a book out or something? Because she's

5:25

droning on the woman is only famous for

5:27

a rather average porn film I'm afraid.

5:30

She claims Celestas Delone offered condo

5:32

and Porsche to be his number one girl.

5:34

He actually has said this is absolute

5:36

rubbish she's telling lies. So who do we believe?

5:38

Do you believe Pamela Anderson who's

5:40

obviously trying to sell a book? Oh, she's got a

5:42

documentary? Pamela, a love story.

5:45

Yeah. But she claims Celestas alone

5:47

offered a condo, which is a flat, and

5:49

a car, and she went no. And he's going she's

5:51

lying. But there again, she's selling a

5:53

book, you know, let's face it a bit like

5:55

Harry, isn't it? You know, most of the stuff

5:57

in Harry's book was written long

5:59

before Meghan came along, long time

6:01

before, you know, Harry's obviously been a miserable

6:03

child for ages and ages. Bill

6:05

Murray, Seghornie Weaver and

6:07

Dan Atroy to reuniting for the next ghostbusters

6:10

movie. They're as old as the hills. What

6:12

did I watch the other day on the turn? I was watching sort

6:14

of the end of it, and it was an Indiana Jones

6:17

thing. And they're very exciting

6:19

films. You know, they're all put together and the special

6:21

effects are very nice indeed. But at the end of

6:23

it, I kept thinking how old Harris on Ford done is

6:25

in his seventies. It's in the

6:27

seventies. You tend to be getting the original ghostbusters.

6:31

We're last seen in nineteen eighty

6:33

nine. This is how long

6:35

ago these things are. So whether or

6:37

not it's it's going to sort of

6:39

work out and people go and see it won't know. People

6:41

like that that that sort of thing. Which

6:43

is very good.

6:46

Meanwhile, the Fraser Sequel

6:50

has cast Anders Keith as

6:53

Nile and Daphne's son.

6:55

So Anders Keith is gonna be the college student

6:57

son of Niles and Daphne as he joins

6:59

Kelsey Gramma for the paramount. I interviewed Kelsey

7:02

Gramma. I just kept thinking, he's he's been

7:04

married a few times, I think, but he had

7:06

this fabulous house in Beverly Hills. I mean, it

7:08

looked like a hotel. It was

7:10

all white marble and everything. And he obviously

7:12

makes a fortune, but it's

7:14

interesting. And I think they've also got

7:16

I think David Hyde, Pierce, play

7:20

Niles, and and then they're

7:22

gonna be looking for sort of other people. And I think

7:24

also cast Nicholas

7:26

Linthurst. Nicholas Linthurst

7:29

and Jack Cutmore Scott of Fraser

7:31

and Lintyre's son, Freddie. So

7:33

Kelsey is starring in the sequel, but none of

7:35

the original cast members are. So

7:37

I don't know. John Mahoney, who played the dad,

7:39

died. In twenty eighteen. I quite

7:41

liked him actually in the dog. The dog died as

7:43

well in Fraser. But

7:46

he must make a fortune. Absolutely

7:49

make makes a fortune. Jemma Collins

7:52

shares a clip of Jedwood, landing

7:55

in England as she teases potential projects

7:57

with them. Oh my god. Wow. This is actually the

7:59

blind leading, the terminally stupid.

8:03

Gemma t's new filming project shares a

8:05

clip of them. You know, I mean, Jemma

8:07

Collins who clutching

8:09

at straws now. I mean,

8:11

the the, you know, she says can't wait, you

8:13

know, for jeppy pics

8:15

and all the rest of it. And so she

8:17

shared a picture of a camera crew at her house.

8:19

The trouble is she's in the picture.

8:21

She won't be happy with picture her face looks

8:23

all bloated and have you seen the picture?

8:25

I mean, it she's almost unrecognizable.

8:29

It's it's almost as if she's sort of perhaps she's

8:31

had fillers Well, perhaps she's

8:33

had loads of fillers. But, I mean, whatever it

8:35

is, she's she's, you know, she's gone the same

8:37

route as Jordan, which is she's had too

8:39

much done to her, and now she looks magicJack would

8:41

just look like to old men. I

8:43

remember seeing them the very first time. I think home

8:45

Britain's got talent to what everyone's doing.

8:47

Hey, we're Jedwards and jumping up and

8:49

down, everyone's going, what the hell are they?

8:52

And they were just two overexcitable boys

8:54

and they put them on children's

8:56

television. Whatever it was, I meant by somebody saying to them

8:58

once, can you just calm down? Okay? Just

9:00

calm down. And then they

9:02

appeared on big brother. And

9:04

it turns out, not only do they share a

9:06

bedroom together, but they share baths.

9:09

Together and everything. I mean, really peculiar,

9:11

very, very old. There is another brother

9:13

who doesn't want anything to do with it

9:15

at all. But Jemma

9:17

Collins and Jedwood the match

9:19

made in heaven. Absolutely. That's

9:21

that's really a winner on that one, isn't it? But

9:23

what she's done to her face, I've got no idea.

9:25

Very, very old. Kim Marsh

9:28

has accidentally dropped a huge hint that

9:30

Waterloo Road has been renewed. I've

9:32

never seen Waterloo roads. I don't

9:34

I don't really think I want to. She played

9:36

a dinner lady, Nikki Waters,

9:38

and raised questions if filming

9:40

had already begun. Why do these

9:42

people just not just tell you the truth? I'm

9:44

sorry. It's mostly road coming back.

9:46

I couldn't say. Yeah.

9:49

So are you filming at the moment? I

9:51

don't know. I don't know.

9:53

You know, it's it's been like that.

9:55

They said, well, why can't they just go, yeah, we're filming at

9:57

the moment in the series of becoming back. Hopefully, you know,

9:59

we've done a pilot and all the rest of it. As

10:01

opposed to this sort of pathetic way of

10:03

trying to sort of make out, you know,

10:05

that, oh, it's, you know, Katie

10:08

Price. That that career is just about grinding to

10:10

a halt. She's now selling

10:12

old socks and even offers a

10:14

framed kiss for die hard fans.

10:17

This won't work. The die hard fan sheets

10:19

got of generally got sort of gray max

10:21

and raincoats and things like that. They haven't got this

10:23

sort of money. She's selling her old underwear.

10:25

If indeed, she could prove it was her old

10:27

underwear. She might have just been out and bought

10:29

it, you know, for like a couple of quid and put it

10:31

in a frame for three hundred and fifty quid.

10:33

And so she's launched this fan store.

10:36

I suspect like every other thing she

10:38

touches, it will die on its proverbial

10:40

ass, I'm afraid. Because, you know, the

10:42

only thing that works is her books and she has nothing to

10:44

do with them. She goes, got a

10:46

story. Alright. Got a story. Okay. The

10:48

story is like

10:50

fashion on glamour model, meets

10:52

man, faulted, loving it by riding stables.

10:54

And so the ghost writer goes, there we go.

10:56

Another pallet crap. And they have to write this thing

10:58

up for her, but she doesn't write. She can't.

11:00

She can't. She certainly couldn't spell anyway.

11:02

And she's now forty four, but

11:04

she just ridiculous by the day. So she's

11:06

selling pictures of her socks. And

11:09

she kept mentioning some blokes, so I suspect there's

11:11

only one person who's actually parted

11:13

with money. To buy this stuff. Why don't we keep it out

11:15

quarter, quarter, quarter, of course.

11:17

We talked the other day about this

11:19

squid game. And apparently, some of the

11:21

contestants are suing because of the way

11:23

they were treated. It's on Netflix, isn't it?

11:25

I don't know what it is. But

11:28

two contestants were kicked off the show before the

11:30

filming began. After having sex in a hotel,

11:32

there's four

11:34

fifty players staying in

11:36

this particular hotel and

11:38

they saw each other at meal times. But

11:40

as I don't really know, you

11:43

know, what squid game is, it didn't mean anything

11:45

to me at all. I mean, it's as bad as love island. And

11:47

then they argue, and then

11:49

the boys argue, and then two of the

11:51

boys look like they're definitely getting on together. I

11:53

was watching, yes, it was all like bro bro,

11:55

there's some bro that. Piers

11:59

Morgan takes a swipe at Susannah Reid

12:01

on a new podcast, so as a

12:03

shame, We like Susanne Reed,

12:06

but he appeared on a

12:08

podcast talking about his mission to cancel

12:10

culture. He's also offered to do an

12:12

interview with Harry and Meghan. He said, then we

12:14

then we can clear the air. Yeah.

12:16

They're not that stupid makes. They're not gonna be well,

12:18

after everything you've said about them, the no way

12:20

they're gonna be appearing with you. Are they?

12:22

just have to suffer. Ross

12:24

Kemp is making an acting

12:26

comeback. After seven years,

12:29

he's gonna start in a drama for Channel

12:31

five. He's gonna play detective. You

12:33

see? Kind of stuck with it. Tony Walden,

12:35

it's a four part thriller called blind

12:37

spot. And It

12:40

it should be quite good actually. Most of his sort of

12:42

stuff is is really good. My one

12:44

of my well, the father of my god children is

12:46

the spitting image of Ross Kemp. The amount of

12:48

people used to go I know you are.

12:51

You got shot and they got oh, do you think

12:53

Ayanna get your Ross Campania? The

12:56

sesame Street creates a Lloyd Morrisett.

12:59

Has died at the age

13:01

of ninety three. I

13:03

was I sort of watched Cesamie

13:06

Street. Because it's still quite big in

13:08

America. The Americans love things like this,

13:10

but he leaves an outsized

13:13

an indelible legacy among generations of children

13:15

the world over. I always wanted to see what

13:17

the bloke looks like who played big bird.

13:19

That's what I wanted to see because

13:21

such a big big bird is sort of such a big character.

13:23

I mean, it it's a giant among

13:25

all the other sesame Street characters. And

13:27

I have to wonder thinking, I wonder really.

13:30

You who that person is because we all we

13:33

know after a while, don't we? People who did

13:35

this role with that person. It's like when

13:37

we did the teletubbies, they went, well, actually, hear

13:39

all the teletubbies. Without their

13:41

character bits on. And

13:43

and people then sort of go,

13:45

alright. Because you've got to it's it's not easy,

13:47

but I think people that you just put the costume

13:49

on and you do it. So big

13:51

bird is another show designed

13:53

by Jim Henson and So

13:58

Carol Spini was big

14:00

birds. Is that a woman, do you think?

14:02

Carol Spini?

14:04

Yeah. Oh, it's a man. It's a

14:06

man. Big bird nineteen sixty nine to

14:08

nineteen eighteen. Matt Vogel did

14:10

an understudying and then

14:13

became full time performer in twenty eighteen.

14:15

Wow. Amazing, isn't it?

14:17

Because it's very clever. It's very clever.

14:19

It's like all the Ronald McDonald's that they've

14:21

had over the years. They don't have that character

14:23

anymore. But then you get so many new thing.

14:25

That's quite difficult. I don't know if you've ever seen the

14:27

Muppet show being filmed. You might not have done.

14:29

You can find bits and pieces on

14:31

on the internet. And they're working

14:33

with the characters above their heads and they're

14:36

watching on a screen so they can see that it's

14:38

very clever. It really is very

14:40

clever. You know, we used to watch the Muppet

14:42

show every Saturday evening because it

14:44

used to have big name celebrities on.

14:46

Anthony Toppam has died one of the original

14:48

yardbirds Guitarist. I

14:50

should imagine, actually. No rain

14:52

will know exactly what Anthony top top of

14:54

his. He was the first guitarist. He

14:56

died two weeks after Jeff Beck. He

14:59

had been fighting dementia. He

15:01

was seventy five years

15:03

old. So Sanderson,

15:06

Rashid, born Anthony Top, Topham,

15:08

passed away surrounded by his family.

15:11

Michael Flackley has broken a silence, as

15:13

you know, after his surgery to

15:15

treat the aggressive form of cancer,

15:17

and he's gone home to recuperate. Isn't it

15:19

funny? He must be about the fittest person. I

15:21

know. I don't know anybody's fittest Michael Flat,

15:23

the dancing and everything else. You

15:25

know, if you're a dancer, you don't get overweight

15:27

dancers. You really don't

15:29

because every night is a workout.

15:31

Every single night and all the West End

15:33

shows that I've ever known about over the years and

15:35

I've covered and I've been to the first night before

15:37

every performance. I think it

15:39

was when Bonnie Langford was in

15:42

a show at the Adelphi Theatre,

15:44

and I think it was me and my girl, she

15:47

would insist every

15:49

night Before the performance, there'd be a

15:51

full workout. You were on stage.

15:53

They brought all the cars together. On on

15:55

the Monday, they would all

15:57

shake hands and go Nice to see you

15:59

back after the weekend. And then they would do a full

16:01

workout so that when you came to go on

16:03

stage, you were fired up. You know,

16:05

she's that professional. Some might call

16:07

it obsessive. But it's called professionalism.

16:09

It's where, you know, otherwise, you go and say,

16:11

no. No. No.

16:14

No. No. No. She she really pushed it.

16:16

Felicity Kendall admit she doesn't care what she looks

16:18

like at seventy six. I'm not

16:20

totally convinced by that because I've known

16:22

over the years Felicity

16:25

Kendall, she didn't do interviews. She

16:27

wasn't interested because people go, oh, you've

16:29

aged. Like, you know, the stuff she did

16:31

was was years ago. And I

16:33

think she made headlines in

16:36

twenty one because she'd

16:38

she she's used Botox and everything

16:40

else, but the trouble is inside She's

16:42

still seventy six. You know, you

16:44

can look fantastic in the mirror,

16:47

but inside, you're

16:49

you're you're seventy six, whichever way you

16:51

look at it, Betti White was in her

16:53

nineties when she died. She was just approaching a

16:55

hundred, I think. And she looked

16:57

good. She looked good. Like Joan

16:59

Collins looks good. But

17:01

inside, she's still an eighty plus year old

17:03

woman. And for that, you can't do anything about it.

17:05

You can't halt that aging process. You

17:07

can eat properly. You could eat you're not

17:09

bumped into somebody today. Wait for

17:12

this. I won't tell you who it is. And

17:14

and I said, would you like some dates? And

17:16

they went, what did I do? And

17:18

I said, you've never heard of dates and

17:20

I'm like, no. I

17:23

I thought they were joking because

17:25

and they and they said, are they dried plums?

17:28

I don't know. I don't think so.

17:30

No. They're dates. They grow on a date palm and

17:32

they sell them. In fact, in the Middle East, you

17:34

can't move for shops

17:36

selling dates I mean, all over the place. I

17:38

don't think they're I don't think they're very good for

17:40

diabetics because they're sort of quite

17:42

sugary. But I did say there's a stone in the

17:44

middle, just be a whag. So I mean, some of

17:46

them you do find that have

17:48

been depicted, but mainly they have

17:50

the stone in there, and you get medallion

17:52

dates, which are very expensive. And

17:54

then you get sort of the versions of date. But whatever it is, it's,

17:56

you know, it's like the amount of caviar as they are. You

17:58

get a cheap caviar and then you get

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the light really pence. You

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know, a thousand pound pot easy, easy, and people

18:04

are willing to pay for I hated it. I never

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liked it at all. People people give

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me caviar in the past and

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I thought, Not really,

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Steve, and not for you. Is it? Not for you. I

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think you should stick to the Venizom. I'm

18:17

very good with the with the Venizom. And chilli

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con I like chilli coni actually.

18:21

But I should have put it with cream.

18:23

Some people get double cream and they just do a swirl in

18:25

the middle. That kind of adds something.

18:28

Greek yogurts. I've never had Greek yogurts. Perhaps I

18:30

should I should go and sort out. I I

18:32

know that they do it in m and s, but as I

18:34

say, whether I'll find the time today between the window

18:36

and the fire alarm testing. So he's gotta

18:38

go round every single fire

18:41

alarm and test it, and there's gotta be somebody in

18:43

the hall to turn the fire

18:45

alarm system off. So he he then the

18:47

button and all the rest of the ring.

18:49

We've got the whole building because

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we've got about thirty fire alarms all over that

18:53

you have to have. And and

18:55

then we push the button, it's reset, and then

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it goes to the next one and does the same thing.

18:59

It's very time consuming. But

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don't mind, we shall we shall

19:04

cope, which should cope. Have a have a lovely

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day, everybody. Keep warm

19:08

because it's another blooming cold one, I'm

19:10

afraid, and to my driver, Tom,

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this morning. Who was sort of, I mean, now

19:14

he's surviving financially. I've got no

19:16

idea. He was waiting forty five

19:18

minutes. For my job, he was

19:20

literally a minute around the corner

19:22

from me. And it took them forty five

19:24

minutes to go, oh, you can have that job now. He

19:26

said, what a waste of forty five minutes? And

19:28

I agree with him. I agree, but it's all on

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the computer. There's nobody else

19:32

around there. And my car got and later. It was still, you

19:34

know, on time. They said, oh, because

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you're an account holder.

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We give you preferential treatment.

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Yeah. I don't know, a cobbler. I'm asleep. And

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so he'd been sitting there for forty five minutes waiting

19:44

for a job. And then he

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gets my one. He said, I'm around the corner.

19:49

He isn't living ridiculous. Anyway, enough of

19:51

moaning. We don't do moaning. We do

19:53

have a nice day, and I'll talk to you tomorrow till

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then. Download as much as you

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can. Stay warm. Leading

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Britain's conversation, LBC.