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the whole show podcast. Thank

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you. Morning, everybody. Welcome along to

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your free podcast for today, it's

1:07

Wednesday. January the twenty

1:09

fifth can't believe it. I know, payday.

1:12

All very exciting. All very exciting. And

1:14

this, of course, you don't get paid and you get paid

1:16

weekly. In which case, it doesn't make any difference at all because

1:18

I won't be paying you today. But for for the monthly

1:20

people, It's payday. It's very exciting

1:22

time actually. We like it. I was

1:24

sort of because I got a tax rebate, I

1:27

didn't spend as much money last month as

1:29

I thought I did. So this month, I don't

1:31

have to put as much money into what I call my

1:33

spending account because I have a separate

1:35

account for spending. So when I go

1:37

and buy things, put them on the card, it comes out of

1:39

that account. So you can keep keep a track

1:41

on it. It's just called it's sort of money motivation.

1:44

I'm trying to sort of, you know, be very creative

1:47

with it and make sure we've got enough in here and then

1:49

here then such a

1:51

nightmare. I promise you it really is very stressful.

1:53

Anyway, guess what we're nodding now? Oscars,

1:56

never a dull moment at the Oscars. Although, normally

1:58

speaking, it goes it's just boring. It

2:00

just goes on and on. So when when you see it on

2:02

the television, you'll see all the stars,

2:04

the Bill Nies, the Colin Farrells, the Paul

2:06

Mezkel, and and then

2:08

then they go down to best costume

2:11

design, best best use of the color

2:13

beige and stuff like that. And they go on

2:15

for about another two or three hours. It's very

2:17

dull. But the Oscar nominations,

2:19

the full list has been revealed,

2:22

and they've got all sorts of people. You

2:24

know, quite a number of Brits are up

2:26

for best actor and actress

2:28

categories. And it

2:30

I mean, it I think this day has marked

2:33

Ireland's most successful year in the nominations

2:35

ever. Which is absolutely

2:37

brilliant. So we keep our fingers crossed for Bill

2:39

Nye, big fan of Bill Nye, I think

2:41

he's absolutely charming and lovely and wonderful.

2:44

And whicheverbody was like like

2:46

him. Robbie Williams has made a very strange

2:48

decision. And they say it'll shock his

2:51

fans. Most of Robbie Williams fans are

2:53

a bit simple. You know, they go. Can

2:55

you sing angels for us tonight? There

2:57

you go. No. I'm not singing it. But I

2:59

can now give you the voice

3:01

over for the Felix Cat food. So

3:03

that's what he's gonna be. And so he

3:05

has to to say it's great to be a

3:07

cat. You sleep all day, go wild at

3:10

night and everybody wants to sit next to you. Robbie's

3:12

got two cats called Elvis

3:15

and Priscilla, but that's when you're a prep

3:17

pop star. You come up with stupid names

3:19

for your cats. I mean, whoever called a cat

3:21

Elvis earlier, it's just the

3:23

most ridiculous thing. But

3:25

he said they have special things going on. So they've said

3:27

to him, do you wanna be the new voice of Felix Cat

3:29

food? And because he hasn't got anything else going on, he

3:31

said yes. And you sit in a studio,

3:33

you hear there are adverts all the time on LBC.

3:37

And and it's it's sort of it

3:39

it's quite interesting. In so much

3:41

as, you know, I use I know even

3:43

how much they get paid as well. It's not as much

3:45

as you think. It really isn't as much as

3:47

you think. I mean, I I know a guy

3:50

called EnriTel. Now,

3:52

you might not have heard of EnriTel, but

3:54

his voice appears on more adverts than

3:56

anybody else. He starts in the morning.

3:58

He's got a little scooter. He used to have a

4:00

little scooter, and he puke around

4:02

the west end going to all the different recording

4:04

studios. Where he'd be sent, comes

4:06

up on his telephone that go right now, go to

4:08

Dean Street, blah blah blah. Parks is when

4:10

he comes out of the recording studio, he can never remember where

4:12

he's put the bike. He's got no idea. He

4:14

loses more scooters in London, you know,

4:16

than anybody else. And he features.

4:18

And in fact, when we were doing an interview, there

4:20

was an advert. He went, I think

4:22

that's me. Is I can't remember

4:24

because what they do is they use actors

4:27

because they can do different voices. Sometimes

4:29

you employ somebody, you know, like

4:31

Dorm French. And so you

4:33

recognize her voice so that that is a

4:35

particularly targeted adverb. But there are lots

4:37

of voice artists going round

4:39

and they record loads of

4:41

things, and then Rytel will start in the morning

4:43

at about nine o'clock. And he just spent

4:45

all day going around doing voiceovers. They can

4:47

be for television, for radio,

4:50

for the cinema. And so

4:52

he he can he can whack up a bit of money.

4:54

Let me tell you a very clever boy. Well,

4:56

surprise surprise. Surprise,

4:58

surprise. Cheryl was

5:02

doing ghost story two point two

5:04

two over the weekend. And got rave reviews.

5:06

She's pulled out. Already,

5:08

she's pulled out. Apparently, she

5:10

had illness during the rehearsal. I wouldn't mind, but she

5:12

never does bloody it and anything. Just sits

5:14

at her own, trickling her thumbs going, oh, well,

5:16

she could work, you know. So they give her a

5:18

job now. And But,

5:22

you know, it's so it's

5:24

interesting that Hugo

5:26

Chegwick who starred opposite Cheryl has

5:29

withdrawn. I mean, Cheryl's not pulled out of this, by the

5:31

way. This is co star has

5:33

has pulled out. And so he's been

5:35

replaced by an Eastenders legend. I mean,

5:37

it seems a bit doomed this, but it's called ghost

5:39

story. So that's why. That's

5:42

why. So she's now gonna get used to working

5:44

with somebody else. Now I don't know if you ever

5:46

been in the theater or you've been in films,

5:48

but when you work with somebody, you build up a

5:50

bond, So she'd have had all the rehearsals with

5:53

him. And then they go on stage and

5:55

blah blah blah blah blah blah. But they only get a three star rating,

5:57

but but nothing. You know, in this day and age, it's not

5:59

bad at all. And then blow me down,

6:01

he pulls out Jude Wellness and she's now got to get

6:03

used to somebody else to

6:05

work with, you know, sort of proper she's the only

6:07

one who's not a proper actress. But

6:09

just not done too badly. So we'll wait and see

6:11

whether he goes back in again. Because somebody

6:13

who comes in has then got to learn the script.

6:16

Not easy.

6:19

James Corden. Now we showed

6:21

you a picture of what we didn't show it to. I described

6:23

it. His house, because he's been an American. The

6:25

house has fallen to rack and ruin. All

6:27

boarded up and everything else and he wanted

6:29

a a pool and

6:32

it faces being scrapped in a planning row

6:34

because it's quite near something

6:37

that the people go and

6:39

visit. This is working in district

6:41

council, and he wants

6:43

leisure facilities. He wants an eleven

6:45

point five meter long streaming pool, yoga

6:48

studio, gym and a bathroom, which would

6:50

open onto the terrace, but it's

6:52

too close. To the

6:54

historic collection of forty five vertical

6:56

granite megalithic stones

6:59

in the grounds. And we'd have something like

7:01

that in itself is just fantastic. You

7:03

know, you actually got something where probably

7:05

druid's worship tour. I mean, whatever it was, it

7:07

was a long time ago. It's like sort of living

7:09

next to Stonehenge. Get equally

7:11

excited about it. Aileen Grimshaw has

7:13

returned to the cobbles looking completely

7:15

different because she's lost so much weight

7:17

after she appeared you know, and I'm a

7:19

celebrity get me out of here. And so she's

7:21

gone back. And,

7:23

you know, she's she's doing very well. They've

7:25

got Anthony Cotton still in it. His grid

7:27

that didn't really take off actually Anthony

7:29

Cotton. He starred originally Quira's folk,

7:32

the British version, and then

7:34

he he did a couple others. He had

7:36

a sort of like a chat show on the television, and then they

7:38

didn't run any more of those. So that sort of finished.

7:40

So he's he's back making knickers, I think,

7:42

on the program. If indeed, they've still got the fact

7:44

tree that might not have done. And as we

7:47

reported, earlier on,

7:49

Rune Tanioli has finally been unveiled

7:51

as the new judge of Britain's got talent

7:53

much as though they they tried to over hype it.

7:55

It's just somebody sitting there in a glittery

7:58

jacket, which I am well familiar. And

8:00

he says, He was very nervous

8:02

and emotional. I mean, he's sixty seven.

8:04

He's mad as a fruitcake. Absolutely.

8:07

You're fantastic about passion and

8:09

did Easter. And we so we get all of that kind

8:11

of baloney. But so he'll

8:13

be sitting there with Alicia

8:15

Dickson and Amanda Holden

8:18

and Deakin Donnelly and Anne

8:20

McFarlane and Simon Cowell. I

8:22

have to wander actually because I've seen it

8:24

before in the past, it sounds a bit premature,

8:26

doesn't it? If one half of Antonette passed

8:28

on, or they fell out big time.

8:30

What will they do? Because to go

8:32

it as a solo person, I was reading

8:34

a thing the other day. Remember Cannon

8:36

and Ball? Well, Tommy Cannon is

8:38

still working. Bobby died

8:40

of COVID, and they were a double

8:42

act for many, many years. They had a big

8:44

falling out. Some years ago, and they didn't talk

8:46

to each other, they didn't draw. Then they got back together

8:48

again, and it worked, and it was great. And

8:50

then Bobby Ball died. And Tommy Cannon,

8:52

who is in his eighties, went

8:54

on to do pantomime

8:57

this year. Now eighty, I don't care what

8:59

anybody says. It takes its toll on

9:01

you. It's a bit it's a bit tiring.

9:03

Very tiring. You know, Panama is

9:05

is for sort of people who have a discipline,

9:07

which makes me laugh when somebody reported

9:09

to me and said, you know that Jordan signed up to

9:11

do Panama. I said, you must be joking. What can

9:13

she do? Got no talent whatsoever, just

9:15

come on stage and like sing, you know, like, you know,

9:17

because you can't sing either. So that's gonna be a

9:19

bit of a pepsi on mine. But anyway,

9:21

Tommy Cannon keeps putting. He's only just discovered

9:23

there's lights of tweeting, and he's gone,

9:25

oh, does anybody know of any sort of small

9:27

type venues where I could do my one man show in

9:29

all that know, you think, shouldn't you ask your

9:31

agent about this? I mean, if you start pleading,

9:33

it makes it sound bad. And then he

9:35

did one the other day when he was talking. He

9:37

said, oh, always been listening to this program.

9:39

And he said, you know, I'd I'd like to do

9:41

merchandise at my shows. Does anybody know

9:43

of companies who do it? Well,

9:45

there's thousands of companies who make

9:47

merchandise. You know, they make merchandise for

9:49

me, they make merchandise for everybody.

9:51

And I was amazed that he didn't know any

9:53

of these things because it had all been all

9:56

been done for him, you know, before,

9:58

didn't have to sort of worry about it. I see that

10:00

Heston Bloomington has split from his

10:02

wife whose friends say never

10:04

legally married him. And

10:06

I like Heston Blum. I've met him on a few

10:08

occasions. He came in one time. He's very passionate about what

10:10

he does with his food. And he came in and

10:12

he did he did a breakfast.

10:14

You know, if he goes, oh, did you have

10:16

snail porridge and egg and bacon ice cream

10:18

and all that kind of no. No. No. He

10:20

came in and he'd done this stuff and it looked

10:22

like eggs and bacon for breakfast,

10:24

but it wasn't. It was something completely different.

10:26

But I thought he was absolutely charming.

10:28

But he's split up with Stephanie

10:31

and people say she

10:33

never legally married him. I should

10:35

imagine he's worth a small fortune. That's

10:37

what he must be. He must be. But I

10:39

thought he was good. You know, he sort of took it

10:41

to a new direction. Mayor JAMA, loads of

10:44

publicity, very little action, I'm afraid. Quits

10:46

major BBC hosting role following the Love

10:48

Island success. It's just that nobody's

10:50

watching Love Island Love. You know, obviously,

10:52

you've been badly advised on this one.

10:54

And so she's decided against

10:56

returning to glow up Britain's next

10:58

makeup star, which was the biggest part of

11:00

doggy do's you ever seen all the television, another

11:02

one of these crap programs But so

11:04

she's she's quit a role there like that's of any

11:06

interest to anybody. I couldn't care less.

11:08

You could put a picture of her up and nobody would

11:10

know who she was. So she's not she's

11:12

not big enough. You might get loads of pictures in the

11:14

papers, but it doesn't mean anything in the stone age.

11:16

Prince says Eugenie is pregnant.

11:18

Oh, well, how that happened? They won't have the faith

11:21

idea, of course, it'll become as a big surprise.

11:23

And they're expecting

11:25

now their second child, Fergi,

11:27

who's completely crackers, She goes, I'm

11:29

in granny Evan, you know, because

11:32

she she talks like that. She said she's deeply

11:34

grateful. Her daughter is pregnant.

11:36

They unprotected sextia. What do you think was gonna

11:39

happen? You know, bunting in a new fridge

11:41

freezer, I don't think so. But

11:43

she's in granny heaven. Yeah.

11:45

Something odd about Sarah Ferguson.

11:48

Very odd. Moderna biopic

11:51

starring Julia Garner is scrapped.

11:53

As the singer prepares for a world

11:55

tour. I don't know why, actually. It's about

11:57

years of hard work on this project.

12:00

Madonna was planning and of course, she was she was

12:02

planning to direct to the most and picture

12:04

herself because the trouble is madonna. She

12:06

thinks she's ultra super cool talent in

12:08

and she can do everything. You know, she's

12:10

just just a bit of a pain, actually.

12:12

You know, I mean, I mean, I'm sure she's very good, but

12:14

you remember that she got into a big spat without John

12:16

when he accused of reminding for some of

12:18

the songs during her tours So

12:20

to give her a reshan. Holy day.

12:24

Like that. Which of it was very good. Tony

12:26

Christie, we love. Is this the way

12:28

to Amarillo the avenues and

12:30

alleyways, I did what I did

12:32

for Maria. Tony Christie speaks

12:34

out. He's had a dementia diagnosis.

12:36

He said it through he's seventy nine. He

12:38

said it threw me for a minute, but

12:40

he said he said he's struggling to remember

12:43

people's names. Unlike that? Unlike

12:45

that now. sit there. I went

12:47

to see some friends of mine who have a magic

12:49

shop. And we always every

12:51

time I go around there, we sit down and we have

12:53

sort of I was there for a couple of hours, and we

12:55

just talk you know, the

12:57

business and gossip and bits and pieces

12:59

like that. And it was really lovely. But in

13:01

fact, at one point, I was talking about

13:03

things for my magic circle show, and I said, I

13:05

couldn't remember all

13:07

the people who were working with me. It was

13:10

terrible. And so we had to sort of get it up on the

13:12

internet to find out who I was working

13:14

with. Because you do forget things sometimes. In it

13:16

strangely, I can remember car number plates

13:18

and telephone numbers from

13:20

fifty years ago. And yet

13:22

ask me what I did last Thursday. Not a

13:24

clue. Not a clue

13:26

drives me mad. Willie Nelson, it's

13:28

gonna ring in his ninetieth birthday

13:31

with a star studded concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

13:33

I think Snoop Dogg,

13:35

Cheryl Crow. Top of the bill

13:37

is Snoop fifty one.

13:39

And Casey Musgrave's as well

13:41

is gonna be there, and it's gonna be it's gonna be

13:43

very, very busy. Very, very busy.

13:46

And I like William Nelson. Very

13:48

unusual voice, very unusual voice.

13:52

Matt Healy, this is Denise

13:54

Welch's son, took a brief break from

13:56

kissing fans, He was back to his

13:58

crazy ways eating raw

14:00

meat on stage again. Nigel, I

14:02

think Denise Welch is a bit crackers. I've

14:05

seen her on loose women. Sometimes she gets

14:07

a bit over over excitable about things.

14:09

But anyway, Matti is no

14:11

stranger to cause in

14:13

controversy. He often kisses fans in the

14:15

audience. There you go. There's something perhaps

14:17

I should I should sort of

14:19

be be part taking of, I think. Love

14:22

Island's Will Will

14:24

Young, and he's

14:26

renting out a family farm cottage

14:28

on Airbnb for six hundred quid

14:30

and nights. So Love Island's Willy. I

14:32

don't know Love Island's Willy Young. I only know the

14:34

singer. Willy Young. I don't know. The wisdom Gymboree

14:36

told you about the one the other day. The love

14:38

island bloke who was caught in a fight.

14:40

Out of the show, they fired

14:42

him. They fired him. They decided they're not

14:44

gonna put up with this kind of

14:46

abuse. And he

14:48

was abusing somebody out on the streets,

14:50

laid them out, and so they've they've kicked

14:52

him off. He was a he was a patter the first

14:54

order, completely. Gartimen

14:56

Oaks Alcohol free sparkling

14:59

Rosé sells one bottle every ten

15:01

seconds. It's not bad. Is it

15:03

really? So she sold seven million

15:05

bottles. Got it. I mean, to be honest

15:07

with you, I don't wanna be rude about it.

15:09

But Khali Minogue, it's about the same

15:11

size as a model of her wife.

15:13

You know, you can get twelve Kylie's in a case, which

15:15

is quite sweet actually. But

15:17

she's quite I just never sort of got Kylie.

15:19

I like to, especially for

15:22

you, And I like Jason Donovan. Too many

15:24

broken, Hudson, I like all of that kind of

15:26

stuff. And then sort of Kylie went

15:28

because I mean, she's tiny. Which

15:30

really is tiny. She's

15:32

about five foot two, I think.

15:35

If if that big I don't know. She she

15:37

might be four ten I'm

15:39

not sure. Whatever

15:41

it is, it's tiny, it's very

15:43

little, like Bob Munkhouse used to be quite

15:45

small as well. In his own little way.

15:47

But what what does Kylie come

15:49

in at? Here we go. This is without

15:51

heels remember. This is

15:53

without heels. How tall

15:55

is Kylie Monogue we're having to type in?

16:01

She's five foot. Oh, there you go. It was in

16:03

between. Between the five foot two and the four foot

16:05

ten, she's five foot. So by the time

16:07

she puts the heels on, she could be five foot

16:09

six. But then the moment she takes them off,

16:11

she vanishes before your very eyes. One minute

16:13

she's there, next minute. Where'd she gone? Where'd she go

16:15

to? Nobody knows. But

16:17

bless her heart. So she's selling that

16:19

many bottles. That many bottles.

16:21

It's amazing. Absolutely

16:23

amazing. I love it. Anyway,

16:25

thank you very much indeed for downloading.

16:27

Thank you very much indeed for downloading. I'm

16:29

very grateful to all those people who

16:31

who download the program every day,

16:34

and you can do it. You just need to go

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to global player dot

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download all of the podcasts. You might not see

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downloaded them, they will pop up. You might just not see

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everything because there's eight thousand.

16:52

And I don't think it works like that either,

16:54

but you will enjoy them. And we've

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got the in conversations. There's

16:59

loads of those still up there, and

17:01

we've got balance a little bit extra, which you are

17:03

listening to at the moment. And it's all free,

17:05

which is very, very good news. Million

17:07

downloads a month, can't be wrong. I think last month,

17:09

it was one million one hundred and

17:11

twenty five thousand. I mean, even I can't believe

17:13

the numbers. That's all due to

17:15

you. That's all due to you so that I'm still not

17:17

gonna sing at any of my shows. But thank you very much indeed for your

17:19

company. Should we do it tomorrow? Actually, have you noticed as well?

17:21

One of my neighbors said to me yesterday, they said, is

17:23

it amazing, Steve? They said one

17:25

minute, it's freezing cold. And then all of a

17:27

sudden, the weather goes a little bit mild.

17:29

And yesterday, it wasn't cold.

17:31

There was still a little bit of a chip, but not

17:33

as bad as it was the day before.

17:35

And she said, how does that happen? I said, I

17:37

wish I knew. I've got no idea at all.

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I'm just always amazed that we seem to

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be they've said February is gonna be

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bad again. Hope not. Never

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mind. We have each other to keep each other

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warm. So have a have a

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good day, and I'll talk to

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you tomorrow at the same time. I say on

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all the best radio programs, please

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stay warm. Leading

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Britain's conversation, LBC.