Dick and Dom in da Bungalow

[00:00:00] Stoke on, Tran. I've been to Stoke on.

[00:00:23] Good evening! Good evening. So where do you think Kate Middleton is?

[00:00:30] You sounded so very much good morning, Vietnam!

[00:00:34] Well, I did my show today. My radio show, Riverside Radio, big things are happening.

[00:00:41] Okay, we were great at Riverside on the podcast but you don't put the podcast on Riverside.

[00:00:46] Well it's a low-volunteer radio.

[00:00:48] We're local content. I'm volunteering right now, mate.

[00:00:52] What do you care? What do you care? Where have you been?

[00:00:56] Well, I've been all over this week but you know at my fairyt place I've been to Stoke on Trends.

[00:01:04] Oh yeah! To Stoke on Trends!

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[00:01:44] So what we do today?

[00:01:46] Um... Dick and Dom end up in Gle.

[00:01:50] I always felt such a prick saying that.

[00:01:52] What? Dabongal. Dabongal.

[00:01:54] As a Northerner, I find it. Dick and Dom in the Bungal.

[00:01:56] I find it really difficult to say Big Nasty.

[00:02:00] Big, Big Nasty. Yeah, I just don't do it.

[00:02:02] Just so big Nast, no? Because his name is N-A-R.

[00:02:07] It's Nasty.

[00:02:09] I can't say that. He's trying to disquiet you Northerners.

[00:02:13] Big Nasty. Big Nasty.

[00:02:17] How has our week been? I know how our week's been.

[00:02:20] Fucking hell. We had a bit of a nightmare.

[00:02:22] It's my birthday week and you'll say it's only Wednesday for a start.

[00:02:26] Yeah, it's been rough.

[00:02:27] We're going out on Friday night.

[00:02:29] We're going to Dishy and Monsaturday night.

[00:02:31] I know. We get to spend time with each other.

[00:02:34] Isn't that so lovely me and Laura going to play tennis tomorrow?

[00:02:37] Would you like to come with us?

[00:02:39] I'm gonna be sleeping in the lit.

[00:02:41] I'm gonna be raining as well.

[00:02:43] Little Meg is turning 25.

[00:02:45] Being 25, you'll all be delighted to know that I am HPV negative.

[00:02:50] Woo!

[00:02:52] As am I. Meg is yet to know.

[00:02:54] I messaged Alicia about this the other day and she said,

[00:02:57] don't worry, being 25 is just as fucking horrible as being 24.

[00:03:02] In other life or date.

[00:03:04] It just doesn't stop me.

[00:03:06] I owe the department of work and pension 700 odd quiz.

[00:03:09] Yeah, so a mistake was made and Elsie was accidentally paid more than much universal.

[00:03:15] Too much you see two years ago and is only now finding out about it.

[00:03:21] So if you want to donate on coffee because Elsie owes the department of work and pension 700 pounds.

[00:03:30] Listen, for no fault of her road.

[00:03:32] Say fuck the government, give me some of my plays.

[00:03:35] I'm gonna send them 20 quid a month and they can fuck off.

[00:03:39] For 36 months?

[00:03:41] Yeah.

[00:03:42] I can't believe you're on finance to the government.

[00:03:45] I know!

[00:03:46] It's actually worse than tax.

[00:03:48] I was using that money to live.

[00:03:51] I know.

[00:03:53] Ah, scumbags.

[00:03:56] One of I teachers is for two different modules.

[00:04:00] One of them is Experian-Montz Methods.

[00:04:02] They're doing an experiment about charitable giving.

[00:04:05] And one of the, they give them a thing and then they ask them,

[00:04:08] you want 100 pounds in the lottery, how much are you giving a charity?

[00:04:13] You need to change the amount because I do not care what you show me before that.

[00:04:20] I'm not giving any, I need all of that money so much.

[00:04:25] Like you need to do a higher amount for me to be giving because I can't spare any of that.

[00:04:32] At all.

[00:04:33] Not for how much was the amount ago?

[00:04:35] 100 pounds.

[00:04:36] Oh, fuck off.

[00:04:37] Yeah.

[00:04:38] I'm not donating any of that.

[00:04:40] And the thing is in that you were saying through they've been looking at how...

[00:04:44] It's the same experiment they've done for a few years now.

[00:04:47] And it's been decreasing how much people are giving to charity.

[00:04:51] Here's what I will say about that.

[00:04:53] The people who are saying that they will give some of a hundred pounds to charity

[00:04:57] are just saying that so they don't look like pricks.

[00:05:00] All that says is that people are so needed of money that they're all right

[00:05:06] with looking like more of a prick.

[00:05:08] So as the years go by, slightly wrong.

[00:05:12] Just because it's worse.

[00:05:15] What is it?

[00:05:16] So they actually have real charities involved in this project.

[00:05:19] So they can...

[00:05:20] At the end of this project...

[00:05:22] They then give the money that they raise.

[00:05:24] So there's an opportunity to give money at the end of this project

[00:05:26] so you can genuinely give money.

[00:05:28] And three years ago they raised over a thousand pounds and then it was 750.

[00:05:34] And then last year it was only 300 quid.

[00:05:37] And I literally said to the people that...

[00:05:40] So the course convenes, I was like,

[00:05:42] I think you should take the results from these studies

[00:05:45] and do...

[00:05:47] Like make an pop science about it.

[00:05:49] Do a study about the...

[00:05:52] Like you can show in theoretical charitable and genuine charitable giving

[00:05:58] the effect of the cost of living rights.

[00:06:01] Just say it's a lot of people are not even willing to be pretend charitable.

[00:06:05] Yeah, fuck it.

[00:06:06] It's cost of living in action guys please give us some money.

[00:06:09] It'd be real charitable.

[00:06:11] Yeah, like it's theoretical charity.

[00:06:13] But even theoretically...

[00:06:15] I feel bad for the students a little bit because it's such a small sum of money that they're winning.

[00:06:20] It means that the manipulations they're testing out, I don't think they're gonna work.

[00:06:24] I mean I'm glad that we're talking about this because the show we're talking about today is part of a just a better tie.

[00:06:33] Oh my god, Vera.

[00:06:34] I mean the new Labour years let's go back now and talk about Dick and Dom and Abungal.

[00:06:40] Talk about how much hope you had when you were a child.

[00:06:43] Shall we jump into it?

[00:06:45] Yeah, let's jump into it.

[00:06:50] Don't forget out of bed.

[00:06:52] Catch yourself stressed, there's a crazy day ahead.

[00:06:54] There's a brilliant thing to do and lots of people to meet.

[00:06:57] It's a problem I want out of the street.

[00:06:59] Oh, Dick and Dom.

[00:07:01] Oh, Dick and Dom.

[00:07:03] It takes you so long you've seen the tide.

[00:07:05] The kids were all here at 20-9.

[00:07:08] So don't be surprised if you're in the shot.

[00:07:11] Oh, you tried to throw me some dogs.

[00:07:14] Oh, Dick and Dom.

[00:07:16] Don't forget out of bed.

[00:07:18] Don't forget Dick and Dom.

[00:07:20] Don't forget Dick and Dom.

[00:07:23] Don't forget Dick and Dom.

[00:07:26] Who's excited?

[00:07:28] I'm so excited.

[00:07:30] Who's pleasantly surprised me?

[00:07:32] Yeah, me too.

[00:07:33] I know you two are.

[00:07:34] I always knew it was brilliant.

[00:07:35] All right, because you're just joined in.

[00:07:37] Really?

[00:07:39] I was.

[00:07:40] Well, no, we couldn't do anything.

[00:07:42] I was nervous to do this episode because I was like,

[00:07:46] how do you make a really funny show?

[00:07:49] Like, how do you talk about it in a funny way

[00:07:51] when it's already funny?

[00:07:52] You say this with every other episode we do.

[00:07:55] I know.

[00:07:56] I'm always nervous.

[00:07:57] We never have a problem.

[00:07:59] So what's your wish?

[00:08:01] I always nervous all the time about everything.

[00:08:03] Do you not have faith in me and Meg?

[00:08:06] Of course I do.

[00:08:07] It doesn't sound like you have faith in me and Meg.

[00:08:10] No, it doesn't, doesn't it?

[00:08:11] So with this one, because I until about yesterday,

[00:08:15] you two of the opinion that you wouldn't be mad about Dick and Dom.

[00:08:19] I was two months ago.

[00:08:21] Oh, sorry.

[00:08:23] And I was worried because I know that all of our listeners love it.

[00:08:30] So I was worried that I would have to defend, you know,

[00:08:33] Dick and Dom on behalf of everyone against you two,

[00:08:37] but turns out we all just love it.

[00:08:39] So I don't remember liking it as a child.

[00:08:42] I remember my mum very vehemently disliking it,

[00:08:46] which is probably where I've got him.

[00:08:47] I had that I didn't like it from because,

[00:08:49] as you know, as we were watching it,

[00:08:51] I knew a lot of the words to a lot of the songs, didn't I?

[00:08:54] You did.

[00:08:55] Yeah, so I did.

[00:08:56] I imagine I did watch it.

[00:08:58] Yeah, I thought I'd never watched it,

[00:09:00] but then when we watched some of it, I was like, oh!

[00:09:03] Right, yeah, no, I did.

[00:09:05] I do remember this.

[00:09:06] I remember for whatever reason the little, you know,

[00:09:09] them and the copper dick and Dom.

[00:09:11] Did he dick and Dom?

[00:09:12] Did he dick and Dom?

[00:09:13] That is the range.

[00:09:14] Oh, Larry!

[00:09:15] I can't wait!

[00:09:16] The kids are at sea.

[00:09:17] They're paparazzi.

[00:09:18] The spaghetti ball and A's after the show!

[00:09:20] Oh!

[00:09:21] Let's see if you can take it.

[00:09:22] Okay, there it is.

[00:09:23] Look at it.

[00:09:24] That's not an invitation for MTV.

[00:09:27] That's a fucking...

[00:09:29] Oh, oh yeah.

[00:09:31] Yes.

[00:09:32] I have such strong memories of that.

[00:09:36] For no apparent reason.

[00:09:37] Yeah, because it wasn't a segment on...

[00:09:40] in the bungalow.

[00:09:41] It wasn't, but then...

[00:09:42] It was a little segment.

[00:09:43] Then they made it into its own...

[00:09:45] Like, they took those clips and played them

[00:09:48] on the CBBC in...

[00:09:50] Yeah, they did.

[00:09:51] Little small gaps that I had.

[00:09:52] Absolutely.

[00:09:53] In the gaps.

[00:09:54] Yeah.

[00:09:55] In the gaps. Yeah.

[00:09:56] Like, for a little tiny five-minute segment of them.

[00:09:58] So, dick and Dom broadcast between 2002 and 2006.

[00:10:04] There were five seasons, and then...

[00:10:06] A lot of people think it got cancelled

[00:10:08] because it was too controversial or something.

[00:10:10] But they just decided to end it before it got to stale.

[00:10:13] That was...

[00:10:14] Which is what they say.

[00:10:15] Well, that's what they say.

[00:10:16] A more common feature of British TV than American TV.

[00:10:21] So, Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood, they're the presenters.

[00:10:25] They were presenters separately on Kids TV

[00:10:28] and then a producer introduced them

[00:10:30] and the chemistry was instant.

[00:10:33] And they wondered why are you laughing?

[00:10:35] What are you doing? Why are you copying?

[00:10:38] Come here.

[00:10:39] Stop!

[00:10:42] Don't high five, you've done nothing to deserve it.

[00:10:45] So, a few years ago, they did a kind of...

[00:10:48] They've done a bunch of interviews and sort of looking back

[00:10:51] and how we made this sort of things in various publications

[00:10:55] because they've been on tour a few times.

[00:10:57] So, something they said is that they would go to

[00:11:01] in the early days, they would go to parties like big industry

[00:11:05] and poor people parties.

[00:11:06] And they would just be hiding behind each other

[00:11:08] because they both were both really shy

[00:11:10] and they shouldn't really...

[00:11:11] They felt like they shouldn't really have been there

[00:11:13] but they had each other.

[00:11:16] And they lived together for five years.

[00:11:18] They did say in the bungalow.

[00:11:23] I don't know.

[00:11:24] Probably not.

[00:11:25] Yeah, they had loads of kids there as well.

[00:11:27] So, BBC loved to do that.

[00:11:29] Something that mag, something that...

[00:11:31] Oh no!

[00:11:33] I love in the bungalow that there's this idea.

[00:11:37] Stop popping your mouths!

[00:11:39] I don't know what this is!

[00:11:41] Stop your mouths!

[00:11:43] Stop it!

[00:11:44] Oh my god, it sounds like a game on the bungalow.

[00:11:49] Me and Bumming Mouth.

[00:11:50] Me and Muck have created a duet sound effect for sucky-funky.

[00:11:56] You ready? Let's do it.

[00:11:57] Let's get a clean one, you ready?

[00:12:04] And that's what we're good for.

[00:12:06] He needs speed and seed.

[00:12:08] Normally trucks.

[00:12:09] It sucks fucking cuck.

[00:12:11] It sucks fucking cuck.

[00:12:13] It sucks fucking sucks.

[00:12:15] It sucks, it sucks.

[00:12:16] What?

[00:12:17] What is a joke in the Sims?

[00:12:19] It probably cut that anyway.

[00:12:22] What were the games on the bungalow?

[00:12:24] It was...

[00:12:25] Don't go daddy.

[00:12:26] Don't go daddy, that one's fun.

[00:12:29] On the backs of these cards are some of our favourite bungalow games.

[00:12:33] Find a pair and we're going to try to see that game all over again.

[00:12:37] It couldn't be simpler.

[00:12:38] Righto?

[00:12:39] Off we go!

[00:12:40] Let's have a look down here first.

[00:12:42] We've got bungalow battle parts.

[00:12:44] We've got marvellous game.

[00:12:45] All you'll never do that with a carcass on your hands.

[00:12:47] All my favourite.

[00:12:48] Over here.

[00:12:49] We've got this famous face in my bucket.

[00:12:52] Rachel Stevens, very good show for his friend.

[00:12:54] We're going to hear all the crying game of lovely game with Christ.

[00:12:58] So sad, so sad.

[00:12:59] Small change hunt.

[00:13:00] I mean there was fantastic fucking really one.

[00:13:03] Pumpy rumpy there.

[00:13:04] What have we got here?

[00:13:05] No, that's not a pair.

[00:13:06] We had to head shoulders, knees and toes.

[00:13:08] No, what a very funny ear.

[00:13:10] A fat on your back.

[00:13:11] What was it big sweaty flap or something?

[00:13:14] I don't know.

[00:13:15] I don't remember the names of any of them.

[00:13:17] Yeah, because so the way you can watch it now

[00:13:20] is not whole episodes, so I don't think it's necessarily clear what the game is are.

[00:13:26] There are a lot of episodes on YouTube.

[00:13:29] Well why didn't you direct us to?

[00:13:31] Because no, no, she did whole episodes of the diaries.

[00:13:35] No, she, that's what you did.

[00:13:37] Well, you know, YouTube is there at your disposal.

[00:13:41] So I mean literally you can do some of the work yourself, Laura.

[00:13:45] It is possible.

[00:13:48] All right.

[00:13:50] So, so Dick and Dom into bungalow follows a rich relationship addiction.

[00:13:58] Turn boy, shut up!

[00:14:01] I'm trying to educate the listeners.

[00:14:04] They probably already know.

[00:14:06] Do you know?

[00:14:07] Do you know?

[00:14:08] There's a couple of bros hanging out doing a couple of shows.

[00:14:12] We live in together.

[00:14:14] Going to parties together.

[00:14:17] Relying on each other.

[00:14:18] Baby sitting loads of kids together.

[00:14:21] They're heating with each other.

[00:14:23] Getting covered in creaming.

[00:14:25] Moved to go away.

[00:14:26] Laughing together.

[00:14:27] Having kids together.

[00:14:30] Settling down together.

[00:14:33] Enjoying a chess match together.

[00:14:36] Tiring together.

[00:14:38] To their mansion bungalow.

[00:14:40] Embaraged in a joint coffin.

[00:14:42] In hands forever.

[00:14:44] Does it disappear into the universe?

[00:14:46] To be referred to as just good friends by historians.

[00:14:50] Together.

[00:14:52] That was needlessly emotional.

[00:14:54] Did you enjoy it?

[00:14:55] I did!

[00:14:56] We didn't rehearse.

[00:14:57] I know.

[00:14:59] It didn't sound like you did, either.

[00:15:03] If you'd like us to be more serious, you can ask.

[00:15:06] No.

[00:15:07] This isn't the episode for us to be more fucking serious.

[00:15:10] Everything we recorded so far is being cut straight out.

[00:15:13] Well, the last two episodes we did were fairly serious ones.

[00:15:18] Oh, that's... yeah.

[00:15:19] So this is like a nice reset for us.

[00:15:23] So the dick and dumb in the bungalow as I was hanging is following in a rich tradition

[00:15:34] on British children's TV of Saturday morning, sort of three hour long extravaganzas held together by presenters.

[00:15:43] So they take up the entire morning.

[00:15:45] There's game segments, there's callins, there's sketches, there's quizzes, there's cartoons, skits in the wild.

[00:15:54] Skits in the wild?

[00:15:56] So things like smile with Barney Howard and Never The Bird.

[00:16:00] Do you remember that?

[00:16:01] Yeah.

[00:16:02] I remember I watched a lot of Smile.

[00:16:05] It goes back to the 80s so there was going live and live and kicking and swap shop.

[00:16:12] And you've heard it, though, sorry?

[00:16:14] Yeah.

[00:16:15] I mean, no.

[00:16:16] You know they're a swap shop.

[00:16:17] That's one of the most famous ones.

[00:16:19] Multi-colored swap shop is that way it was called.

[00:16:21] I think so.

[00:16:22] So if you're an older listener and I know that there are quite a few listeners that are older than us,

[00:16:27] I'm sorry for being not extremely educated on all of these shows.

[00:16:32] You can't help being born when you were...

[00:16:34] I can, I can.

[00:16:35] You try really hard but you can't help.

[00:16:37] I do, I do try really hard.

[00:16:39] So I was actually trying to do a bit of research into how this sort of format came about.

[00:16:43] And there wasn't too much information about it.

[00:16:48] It sort of is something that seems to have just existed with no explanation.

[00:16:53] It feels like they didn't necessarily have anything ready and they wanted to test out the charisma of people who thought they could do it.

[00:17:03] You had a lot of live Saturday night TV for adults and families.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:09] So when they actually started doing...

[00:17:12] Because the kids' tunnels obviously haven't existed forever.

[00:17:15] There's always been like morning segments or, you know, that kind of thing for kids.

[00:17:21] So it makes sense that they would be like, oh, let's see what we can do.

[00:17:25] Yeah, no, that's true.

[00:17:26] The kids stuff on adult channels before kids channels existed.

[00:17:31] It often was in the morning.

[00:17:32] Yeah.

[00:17:33] So what we say is, Laura, sorry.

[00:17:34] No, sorry.

[00:17:35] Because it's on Saturday mornings, right?

[00:17:38] It starts quite early Saturday mornings, right?

[00:17:40] The American equivalent of this is the cartoon segment which is not as whatever.

[00:17:45] I actually think that maybe to some extent...

[00:17:47] Because there are a lot of them are live, right?

[00:17:49] Would they always live or...

[00:17:50] Yes.

[00:17:51] What a good way to engage kids while your parents are still sleeping.

[00:17:56] That's kind of part of the reason you're worse, apparently, right?

[00:17:59] Yeah.

[00:18:00] Because it's Saturday morning, I've just worked five days.

[00:18:03] I don't want to wake up at seven o'clock in the morning to take care of my kids.

[00:18:07] Oh my God, thank God there's a live broadcast that they can engage with.

[00:18:12] Yeah, it's a really good way of patting out two and a half hours as well.

[00:18:17] It's kind of like a magazine show for kids.

[00:18:20] It's like the one show for kids.

[00:18:22] A magazine show, Laura, is like this morning or good...

[00:18:27] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:18:28] Why are they called magazines?

[00:18:30] Because it's like a magazine bot.

[00:18:32] Tell me, you find out like pop gossip and news.

[00:18:38] It's not really news, right?

[00:18:40] And entertainment news.

[00:18:42] Like heat magazine, but in...

[00:18:44] You know how we were telling you about Dermot O'Layri and Alice and Hammond doing the sex toy segment on this morning?

[00:18:49] Yeah, yeah.

[00:18:50] I have watched.

[00:18:51] You don't get that on News at 10.

[00:18:52] No, that's so...

[00:18:53] I have watched these things because my...

[00:18:55] Well, as soon as Jeremy Kyle got off the air,

[00:18:57] what else is my grandma gonna put on in the morning?

[00:18:59] Who would like to see Przettler on 10 o'clock News though?

[00:19:03] Hew Edwards?

[00:19:04] Yeah.

[00:19:05] Clive MyRate?

[00:19:06] Clive MyRate?

[00:19:07] Clive MyRate?

[00:19:08] Yeah.

[00:19:09] You have the newspaper shows and the magazine shows.

[00:19:12] Right, right.

[00:19:13] Well, that's a good way to get that if you're blind and can't read magazines.

[00:19:17] Yeah, suppose it is.

[00:19:18] Yeah.

[00:19:19] Then you're blind and you can't see telegrams.

[00:19:21] Or if you're a literary.

[00:19:22] You can listen.

[00:19:23] You can literally...

[00:19:24] You can listen.

[00:19:25] You can listen.

[00:19:26] This is going up to all those illiterate out there.

[00:19:29] Or blind we got you.

[00:19:31] Lea Michelle.

[00:19:32] In fact, this show is perfect for...

[00:19:34] If you're illiterate.

[00:19:36] Yeah, clearly.

[00:19:37] You should be.

[00:19:38] You should be.

[00:19:39] You should be.

[00:19:40] Yeah.

[00:19:41] So, Dick and Dom was one of those.

[00:19:45] And I was talking to my parents recently.

[00:19:48] They were visiting London.

[00:19:49] And what are you laughing at now?

[00:19:50] So we just basically called Dick and Dom a show for the illiterate.

[00:19:53] Well, when you're that age, you can't really read and write that well.

[00:19:58] What's that?

[00:19:59] You still not...

[00:20:01] What is that?

[00:20:02] Have you read a story by a 10-year-old?

[00:20:03] They're not brilliant.

[00:20:05] Let's do this to the batteries, right?

[00:20:08] Yeah!

[00:20:09] Yeah!

[00:20:10] Yeah!

[00:20:11] Yeah!

[00:20:12] Yeah!

[00:20:13] So the show...

[00:20:17] The whole idea was by Steve Wright, the producer.

[00:20:22] Yeah.

[00:20:23] So the whole thing is kind of his crazy brainchild.

[00:20:27] Yeah.

[00:20:28] Yeah.

[00:20:29] Yeah!

[00:20:30] Yeah!

[00:20:31] So the show...

[00:20:32] The whole thing is kind of his crazy brainchild.

[00:20:36] So he...

[00:20:38] Kind of the script for the bungalow was just bullet points, basically.

[00:20:44] Ah!

[00:20:45] So funny.

[00:20:46] Yeah.

[00:20:47] I mean, they're obviously incredibly talented presenters because what they've got is...

[00:20:53] You never see these, but I assume they have earpieces and they're taking...

[00:20:58] They do.

[00:20:59] Yeah.

[00:21:00] And they're taking instruction from...

[00:21:02] I heard one thing I read that they had their earpieces were actually really loud.

[00:21:07] Oh, really?

[00:21:08] You can hear it on set.

[00:21:09] Oh, okay.

[00:21:10] Didn't you say that one-on-one time they accidentally said the wrong thing out?

[00:21:14] No, so they said the right thing out but the kid heard the earpiece rather than what Dick said.

[00:21:22] And repeated what the earpiece said.

[00:21:24] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:21:25] And it absolutely fucking killed Dick.

[00:21:28] Dick's laugh is one of the best things about the whole show.

[00:21:31] What?

[00:21:32] Eat!

[00:21:33] Ah!

[00:21:34] Ah!

[00:21:35] Ah!

[00:21:36] Ah!

[00:21:37] A lot more than that.

[00:21:38] That...

[00:21:39] They're all very good presenters.

[00:21:40] They are not good at keeping it together for live broadcasts.

[00:21:44] Not that I think they need to for this show, but it's not a skill that they have about it.

[00:21:48] I love Dick so much.

[00:21:51] Quote that.

[00:21:52] Just looking at people on the street going, I...

[00:22:01] Screaming at people's faces.

[00:22:03] I relate so hard like, sorry, he is so meh-coded.

[00:22:07] That is what I do.

[00:22:09] You make it so dick-coded.

[00:22:12] Oh, what?

[00:22:13] No, I don't want this to become your catchphrase.

[00:22:19] So they've got to control a bunch of hyperactive kids, and they did give them like sweets and fizzy part before fizzy parts are...

[00:22:29] What is your area, both of you's areas chosen word for fizzy drinks?

[00:22:39] I actually don't know.

[00:22:40] Pop, yeah.

[00:22:41] But do you not call him the popman?

[00:22:44] The guy that drives around selling pop.

[00:22:48] It was like the milkman, but...

[00:22:50] I don't think we had a popman.

[00:22:51] No, this was... I don't know if the popman still exists, so it's...

[00:22:54] If anyone has a popman in their area, is the guy who drove around like the milkman or the extreme man?

[00:23:00] Yeah, and you bought fizzy drinks from him, but then you returned the bottles and they were refillable.

[00:23:05] Oh, yeah.

[00:23:06] Sustainable pop, popman.

[00:23:08] Yeah.

[00:23:09] We just caught it.

[00:23:10] Fizzy drinks where I'm from.

[00:23:11] So they've got producers yapping in their areas.

[00:23:14] They've got to control these kids.

[00:23:16] They've got to be entertaining.

[00:23:18] They've got to keep the timing right?

[00:23:20] They've got to remember everything that's happening.

[00:23:23] They've got to interact with the other, you know, actual actors so it's...

[00:23:26] It's a lot that they're doing.

[00:23:28] They've got to improvise as well.

[00:23:29] Because they make it look easy.

[00:23:32] It is very impressive.

[00:23:34] And I don't think they'd...

[00:23:35] They've done sort of life things before they've been.

[00:23:38] So one of them was Brume Cupid, I think.

[00:23:41] Dick, Richard McCourt was Brume Cupid and Dom was on a magician show because he's a magician.

[00:23:48] He's a magician.

[00:23:49] Yeah.

[00:23:50] So yeah.

[00:23:51] So there were four other people who were regulars on the show.

[00:23:57] And they were Dave Chapman.

[00:23:59] I'm not a chap or a kev or a trev.

[00:24:02] I'm not a thoth or a grab or a gong.

[00:24:06] I'm not a scally or a brownie or a townie.

[00:24:09] How am I hoodie and this is my hoodie?

[00:24:12] Um, he plays various but mostly the cap next door.

[00:24:20] The cap from next door.

[00:24:22] Lee Barney who is the prize adeer.

[00:24:24] Lee Barney, that's it.

[00:24:25] So lovely mobile phone.

[00:24:26] And what prizes have you got for this morning?

[00:24:28] Well, I'm going to come to your house and I'm going to home a very annoying noise in your ear.

[00:24:32] Melvin O'Doom.

[00:24:34] How dare you do that to me?

[00:24:36] Do not lie, I am.

[00:24:40] I'm a dancer.

[00:24:43] And Ian Kirkby who is Harold.

[00:24:47] Harold Bar, Harry Bar.

[00:24:49] Harold Bar.

[00:24:50] I'm not so crazy about Harold.

[00:24:52] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the most prestigious awards in television.

[00:24:56] The 2004 creamy muk muk awards.

[00:25:00] I was working with these two lads here at the time, young muckers.

[00:25:03] And they gave me a wonderful piece of advice.

[00:25:05] They said, Terry, always be good to your muk muk and your muk muk will always be good to you.

[00:25:09] Dave Chapman, are you familiar with his career?

[00:25:12] No.

[00:25:13] No.

[00:25:14] Oh my god, I'm going to read out some of his highlights on this.

[00:25:18] Okay, I'm going to copy it.

[00:25:19] So I know Dave Chapman as the person who is the best at it.

[00:25:22] I'm going to go to the pub.

[00:25:24] I'm going to go to the pub.

[00:25:25] I'm going to go to the pub.

[00:25:26] So I know Dave Chapman as the puppeteer from the slammer.

[00:25:32] That's where I first became familiar with Dave Chapman.

[00:25:36] He was Melvin O'Deam's bunk mate, actually, Selma.

[00:25:40] So he is a graduate of the Jim Henson company.

[00:25:45] Oh really?

[00:25:46] Yeah, so he's a puppeteer.

[00:25:48] He's Otis the advac.

[00:25:49] He's the puppeteer and voice behind CBBC's Otis the advac.

[00:25:53] So he was in Muppet Treasure Island.

[00:25:58] He was in 2014's Muppet's most wanted.

[00:26:01] Great film.

[00:26:02] You were going to say it's space, honestly.

[00:26:04] I don't know why.

[00:26:05] Yeah, 2014 is space, obviously.

[00:26:07] Muppet and it's just...

[00:26:09] He was in the dark crystal, not the 80s film, probably the current Netflix one.

[00:26:16] Yeah.

[00:26:17] He was one of the puppeteers for BB-8 in Star Wars.

[00:26:21] Really?

[00:26:22] He's got kind of a huge...

[00:26:24] It's a puppeteer.

[00:26:25] You can't really get bigger than that.

[00:26:27] Yeah.

[00:26:28] How the fuck was BB-8 poppin' it?

[00:26:31] I don't know.

[00:26:32] I don't know.

[00:26:33] But he's got a really impressive career.

[00:26:35] I mean, I think his highlight was his work with Steve Wright

[00:26:41] because that's everyone that was in Bungalow

[00:26:44] kind of worked on other things together.

[00:26:47] So you've got the slammer,

[00:26:49] all the character actors in that also appeared in the slammer,

[00:26:53] which is also deranged.

[00:26:55] Oh my god, we are going to cover the slammer, don't you worry.

[00:26:59] And also the legend of Dick and Dom.

[00:27:02] Yeah.

[00:27:03] Which is a very funny show.

[00:27:04] Yeah, it's quite funny to be fair.

[00:27:06] So I was... sorry, this is something else I wanted to talk about.

[00:27:09] I was speaking to my parents.

[00:27:11] They were visited recently

[00:27:13] and we were talking about Dick and Dom.

[00:27:14] I was like, yeah, next episode is going to be a Dick and Dom.

[00:27:16] They were like, you know they weren't the first to do it.

[00:27:18] There was Trevor and Simon.

[00:27:21] And I...

[00:27:23] A Google Trevor and Simon.

[00:27:24] So they were a comedy double act that were kind of

[00:27:28] Reeves and Mortimer-like in their comedy sort of surreal sketches

[00:27:33] and characters.

[00:27:34] So they did going live.

[00:27:36] So they were the presenters on some of these earlier Saturday morning shows.

[00:27:42] And they're very funny.

[00:27:43] They're really funny.

[00:27:44] I mean, swing your pants. Do you know swing your pants?

[00:27:46] Yeah.

[00:27:47] That's them.

[00:27:48] We don't do duvets.

[00:27:51] No, no, no.

[00:27:53] You shouldn't have said, don't keep cool.

[00:27:55] You shouldn't have said that.

[00:27:57] No, we don't do duvets!

[00:28:02] That's one of the catchphrites.

[00:28:04] You know, Trevor and Simon.

[00:28:06] And I was like, okay fair enough, my mum and dad.

[00:28:08] I know Trevor and Simon

[00:28:12] And all of these are the like instant stars that presented

[00:28:15] the Saturday morning TV shows.

[00:28:17] Like it made stars of everyone that said there was Cat Deely

[00:28:22] who has been mentioned on the podcast before.

[00:28:24] Yeah.

[00:28:25] There's Philips Go field, of course.

[00:28:27] Bani Howard was already kind of massive.

[00:28:30] Who else?

[00:28:31] There's a lot of them.

[00:28:32] No, not Antonin.

[00:28:34] So you're thinking great chill love.

[00:28:37] What?

[00:28:38] Biker Grove.

[00:28:39] What?

[00:28:40] You don't know Biker Grove?

[00:28:41] No, okay.

[00:28:42] That's what.

[00:28:43] And then they did originally.

[00:28:45] And they wanted to see...

[00:28:47] Yeah, on a CBB...

[00:28:48] Was it CBBC?

[00:28:49] Oh, I don't know.

[00:28:50] I think I'm just...

[00:28:51] I think I'm just...

[00:28:52] For CBBC but it was a kid show called Biker Grove.

[00:28:54] Thinking of them because they did the Saturday night version.

[00:28:57] Yeah, Saturday night take away.

[00:28:59] Yeah.

[00:29:00] I'm so sorry to my older listeners that are listening

[00:29:02] and just hearing us get everything wrong.

[00:29:04] So I was like, yeah, okay.

[00:29:06] I know that this wasn't the first thing.

[00:29:10] Like they didn't invent this genre.

[00:29:13] Yeah.

[00:29:14] But I don't think my parents are aware of quite how ridiculous

[00:29:19] to bungalow was.

[00:29:21] Yeah.

[00:29:22] Like creamy muck muck.

[00:29:24] Creamy muck muck, dirty norris.

[00:29:26] Dirty norris.

[00:29:27] Dirty norris, what is it?

[00:29:28] So funny is what it is.

[00:29:30] Like I get it but like Trevor Simon didn't do anything

[00:29:35] that got complained about in the houses of Parliament.

[00:29:38] Buzzums and we put him ahead and then we put him...

[00:29:41] Oh, sorry.

[00:29:42] Oh, buzzums.

[00:29:43] No, no, I don't need repeat it. No, no, shut up.

[00:29:44] All right, okay.

[00:29:45] So where are you at?

[00:29:46] The ending piece.

[00:29:47] Okay, you've got the nose in the wrong place.

[00:29:49] He's got nose growing out of his armpits.

[00:29:50] No, that's his boob.

[00:29:52] No, I'm sure it's not.

[00:29:53] Say that!

[00:29:54] Good least.

[00:29:56] Right, no!

[00:29:58] Oh, yeah!

[00:30:00] Sorry, that was too rude to broadcast.

[00:30:02] It all went a bit rude so we had to put the beat machine on.

[00:30:04] Such an achievement.

[00:30:06] Honestly, yeah.

[00:30:07] You should be pissing off Parliament.

[00:30:09] Yeah, if someone in Parliament isn't annoyed that you exist,

[00:30:13] why are you doing with your life?

[00:30:14] Honestly.

[00:30:15] I wasn't aware of this at all until some of the stuff you showed me

[00:30:18] but the name is based on Sasha Baron Cohen's...

[00:30:23] What is it called?

[00:30:24] Ali G?

[00:30:25] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:30:26] I don't actually know what the thing is called though.

[00:30:29] Into house.

[00:30:30] Into house.

[00:30:31] Which I didn't watch and had no concept of until I went to Union Agon,

[00:30:36] which is next door to stains.

[00:30:38] Yeah, someone...

[00:30:39] I think it was Dick in one of these interviews.

[00:30:43] He said that they were trying to come up with a vehicle for the two of them as a double act.

[00:30:48] Because it is the first thing they did do together.

[00:30:51] Yeah.

[00:30:52] Because the producers could see they had really good chemistry.

[00:30:55] Yeah.

[00:30:56] All right.

[00:30:57] Okay, for the listeners.

[00:31:00] Meg's doing the slurping, Laura's doing the popping.

[00:31:03] Just if you want to picture that in your own head.

[00:31:06] Would you like us to stop?

[00:31:07] No.

[00:31:08] So yes.

[00:31:11] So apparently there was some party with a bunch of producers and they were like...

[00:31:16] Well, we want to do something like into house but it's not funny enough and someone just shouted into Bunker.

[00:31:24] Oh, I remember because probably because of this show.

[00:31:27] Everyone when I was a kid was so...

[00:31:29] Like everyone really wanted to live in a fucking bungalow and I don't know if this is showing how middle class I was as a kid.

[00:31:36] I didn't know what a bungalow was.

[00:31:38] I was so confused.

[00:31:40] Well, for flat isn't it?

[00:31:41] You take a house and you bungalow roof on it.

[00:31:44] Ah!

[00:31:45] Life.

[00:31:46] Thanks dad for that.

[00:31:48] Thanks dad.

[00:31:49] I was so confused.

[00:31:50] I was like, how could a house only have one floor?

[00:31:53] I don't know if my dad has been lying to me my whole life but he's an architect and he told me that was why they called bungalows.

[00:31:59] So dad, if that's not true you've had me on my entire life.

[00:32:04] That's incredible.

[00:32:06] I hope that is why.

[00:32:08] The house coming from an architect is it?

[00:32:10] Yeah, but he does like to fuck with me.

[00:32:12] The only alley you have ever seen was when he interviewed David Beckham.

[00:32:17] You've not seen Borat?

[00:32:18] No, I mean the... in the house.

[00:32:20] Oh, okay.

[00:32:21] That's the only... I've only interviewed David Beckham because someone showed me, because they were like,

[00:32:25] do you not know what David Beckham sounds like?

[00:32:27] This is when everyone learned.

[00:32:28] No!

[00:32:29] And then he's on.

[00:32:32] He's in the awards ceremony on Dick and Dogg.

[00:32:35] It's not here, obviously.

[00:32:36] Yeah, they've got a David Beckham look like it's so funny.

[00:32:39] You just see one of the episodes just hanging around being kind of like a feminine.

[00:32:42] Yeah, he really sounds like him as well.

[00:32:44] Yeah, he does look really impressive.

[00:32:45] So let's get into it.

[00:32:47] We've been watching a lot of Dick and Dogg in the last few days.

[00:32:52] I know that you weren't a huge fan before.

[00:32:57] What tipped it for you?

[00:32:59] Maybe I just don't have a very sophisticated sense of humour anymore.

[00:33:05] Little Meg was too grud for a Dick and Dogg again.

[00:33:11] Yeah, I feel like that might have been what it was.

[00:33:16] Like I said, Mum doesn't like it.

[00:33:18] She thinks they're morons.

[00:33:21] My little vulgar.

[00:33:23] But you know how we've talked about how a lot of kids TV has jokes and stuff peppered in

[00:33:31] for adults in the grownups?

[00:33:35] It's very rare I laugh out loud at them.

[00:33:38] They're a bit amusing, a bit entertaining but I was like honking at this.

[00:33:42] It is so funny.

[00:33:45] It is ridiculous because you can tell that they're all having the best time.

[00:33:50] Yeah, no that's what I love about it.

[00:33:53] At no point do you feel like the kids are being condescended to or in contrast J. Comforts

[00:34:01] who doesn't really know how to talk to the kids in Bamsiqi.

[00:34:06] You're going to lose that's a simple fact.

[00:34:09] How are you feeling about that and the kids are like a bit disappointed.

[00:34:14] Alright so let's go on to the final.

[00:34:17] J. It's just boys being boys in a really wholesome way.

[00:34:21] This is like the things that your ridiculous ADHD boyfriend and his best mate get up to

[00:34:30] or would like to get up to in their spare time and they're being paid to do it.

[00:34:35] They're having a fantastic time.

[00:34:37] They're on the same level as these kids.

[00:34:40] They're not one of the kids, that's what is so great about it.

[00:34:45] One thing I noted in watching it was like they're both so good with the kids.

[00:34:50] They're ridiculously unpretentious about how they've approached this in a way

[00:34:54] that's really earnest and genuine and like you said they're just having so much fun

[00:34:58] and it makes you enjoy watching it because you're like also there's just nothing

[00:35:03] that we watch like this anymore that is just unpretentious, unstructured fun.

[00:35:09] Now without any further ado, let me in the bunker hand.

[00:35:12] Each week we're joined by six little people.

[00:35:14] They are the brothers, the brothers, the brothers, the brothers and the brothers.

[00:35:17] Oh!

[00:35:18] We are the team members of our team that he bit.

[00:35:22] Who's the first?

[00:35:23] Come on my friend and watch your name sir.

[00:35:26] Oh!

[00:35:27] There's no need for a battle of games.

[00:35:29] Are you nervous?

[00:35:30] Yeah!

[00:35:31] All right name!

[00:35:32] You bit nervous mate.

[00:35:33] Right okay we'll be nice to you.

[00:35:34] What a lovely little bunker hand you are.

[00:35:36] What's your name?

[00:35:37] Luigi.

[00:35:38] Ed, Louis, hit the ceiling.

[00:35:40] Luigi, hey Luigi did you wake up this morning with a horse's head in your bed?

[00:35:45] Come on, you did it.

[00:35:47] They just want to mess about so Steve Ride would have an idea the night before Friday night

[00:35:55] and then the next morning 7am he would say something to one of the actors like do this

[00:36:00] and they would do it.

[00:36:01] And often Dick and Dom didn't know it was going to happen.

[00:36:04] Like so many of the reactions are completely genuine.

[00:36:07] Like I love when I'm reading like trivia about show and they're like they didn't know this is going to happen.

[00:36:12] Yeah yeah yeah.

[00:36:13] The reaction is genuine.

[00:36:14] Like Stoke on trend.

[00:36:15] Yeah.

[00:36:16] Like the Stoke on trend.

[00:36:18] So I did the Stoke on trend.

[00:36:21] I went to uni with someone who was from Stoke on trend and like first conversation we had I was like

[00:36:26] do you know what she went yes.

[00:36:29] And she said we love it.

[00:36:31] I said what after we heard that I have heard it before it did not know it was from Dick and Dom

[00:36:36] and then I was like singing it.

[00:36:38] Yeah yeah.

[00:36:39] And I think I was like wow the Stoke on trend tourism board must have been like fucking yes this is amazing.

[00:36:44] It's not the only town in the UK he does as well because he does wet Wang too.

[00:36:49] Here I am in wet Wang.

[00:36:52] What is a Wang?

[00:36:54] Oh I am in wet.

[00:36:56] I'm here to find out just for you.

[00:36:58] Wang.

[00:37:00] I picked up a copy of the wet Wang tanner to find out what's happening in wet Wang.

[00:37:08] Not much.

[00:37:11] But then again I can't read onwards and upwards.

[00:37:16] Wet Wang is a hive of activity and I think I found the nerve center of it all.

[00:37:22] It's wet Wang community hall and today is bingo day.

[00:37:27] There's nothing inherently funny about Stoke on trend but they have made his derrickal

[00:37:33] whereas wet Wang.

[00:37:34] I lost my mind when I saw this because and if you don't know wet Wang is a specifically right?

[00:37:43] If you grow up where me and LC grow up.

[00:37:46] A humbicide region.

[00:37:48] The humbicide north into region and you're going on a family trip to Whitby.

[00:37:53] You're going to drive down the road with a sign for wet Wang on it and you're going to show out wet Wang.

[00:38:00] A point at the sign with your dad's going to lose his mind right?

[00:38:04] And generally you see it better when you're coming home from a trip.

[00:38:09] Wet Wang wet Wang.

[00:38:10] And when you see the wet Wang sign it's like oh half an hour till home.

[00:38:14] And yet I've never been to wet Wang.

[00:38:16] I know on stop sign.

[00:38:17] No one stops in wet Wang right?

[00:38:19] But you always see the sign, you point at it, you have a little giggle to yourself because it's called wet Wang.

[00:38:24] And LC when she went to uni met someone from wet Wang.

[00:38:30] Oh I lost my fucking mind.

[00:38:31] He didn't know what was going on.

[00:38:32] I was like really?

[00:38:33] You're from...

[00:38:34] I yeah!

[00:38:36] The thing you need to know about LC is that during the course of her time at uni we didn't go to the same uni

[00:38:42] although we almost went to the same uni.

[00:38:44] That would have been sulphur, shout out sulphur, shout out the crying in the comments.

[00:38:48] I would never have met you.

[00:38:50] Maybe your life would have been better.

[00:38:52] Like I doubt it.

[00:38:54] So yeah during the time when LC used to like ring me we used to be on the phone for like hours

[00:39:01] and she'd tell me about the people that he needed, that she fancied.

[00:39:05] But she'd never tell me their names.

[00:39:08] Like a fucking columnist like what do you do?

[00:39:11] It was easier to distinguish between them.

[00:39:15] Yeah because it's that one.

[00:39:17] Yeah it was wet Wang Canada an improv.

[00:39:20] And to this day I don't know the names of improv and Canada.

[00:39:25] I only know the names of improv and wet Wang.

[00:39:30] I do the name of Canada.

[00:39:31] Even I know the name of Canada.

[00:39:33] Yeah well something materialized from Canada so...

[00:39:36] Canada if you're listening.

[00:39:38] Yes it is you.

[00:39:39] But wet Wang and improv if you're listening get in touch.

[00:39:42] They won't know who they are.

[00:39:44] Wet Wang will.

[00:39:46] Wet Wang will.

[00:39:47] Because people won't be able to wet Wang.

[00:39:49] Something that is missing from current TV because we're never going to go back to it obviously

[00:39:56] like the advent of streaming has changed how people watch TV.

[00:40:00] We've talked about this before but there's less of a community sense when you're watching something these days

[00:40:05] especially if it's on Netflix because everything releases at the same time and you can watch it at your leisure.

[00:40:09] That's why the latest season of the Traders was such a wonderful thing

[00:40:14] because everyone watched it at the same time.

[00:40:16] Yeah, like everyone was forced to watch it at the same time.

[00:40:19] Or the last series of line of duty.

[00:40:22] Yeah, yeah.

[00:40:23] So obviously there's like Disney Plus does this Amazon Prime does this.

[00:40:26] Like every other one except for Netflix releases weekly so it has more of that vibe

[00:40:31] but the community sense of a weekly live show

[00:40:35] that if you didn't watch it that was fucking it is kind of gone

[00:40:40] because I know you said there is one that is currently happening right?

[00:40:43] There's a version of it today.

[00:40:44] Yes, so it's called Saturday Masha.

[00:40:46] I've not seen it but I know that it's good because it's presented by Hackety Dog.

[00:40:50] So it's gonna be good.

[00:40:52] Like, film it, you're killing it.

[00:40:55] You are, Phil, oh my god, you are.

[00:40:57] I've actually met Phil, have you?

[00:40:59] Yeah, I have.

[00:41:00] So this was before Hackety became viral

[00:41:04] and so me and Betty said can we get a picture?

[00:41:07] And he said, I'm really sorry, no.

[00:41:11] It's a bit weird isn't it?

[00:41:13] And because I think he didn't want to show his face because he's a puppeteer.

[00:41:16] Oh yeah.

[00:41:17] Now his face is all over social media.

[00:41:19] Yeah, he's got it.

[00:41:20] Really successful Instagram and TikTok.

[00:41:22] Congratulations Phil.

[00:41:23] But yeah, so whereas with Dick and Tom,

[00:41:25] like in watching it I actually had memories of people going to school on Monday

[00:41:29] and everyone talking about what happened on the show.

[00:41:31] People really wanting to be the kids on the show.

[00:41:34] This sort of country wide,

[00:41:36] I would argue community aspect of this show

[00:41:39] that does not exist now because I can tell you for a fact

[00:41:42] that my nine-year-old cousins do not engage with that show

[00:41:45] because I know they have swimming lessons on Saturday morning.

[00:41:48] So that's the thing for me,

[00:41:49] I don't think I ever really watched a lot of Dick and Tom and DiBongalo

[00:41:52] because I had a swimming lesson Saturday morning.

[00:41:55] I watched a lot of the diaries of Dick and Tom

[00:41:59] which we are very lucky that that show exists

[00:42:02] because it's basically archiving the best moments.

[00:42:05] Right.

[00:42:06] And like the actors are sort of looking back on it in character still.

[00:42:11] And also the Saturday mashup is the same format

[00:42:17] but it's the same format as that type of show

[00:42:20] but it's the first one of its kind for 10 years.

[00:42:23] Oh so after Dick and Tom, there wasn't anything for you?

[00:42:26] That's right, shit.

[00:42:27] Yeah.

[00:42:28] I was saying another thing, I mean I know this isn't like a linear show

[00:42:31] but there is continuity obviously you watch each week.

[00:42:33] Firstly in jokes get created in the process of making this kind of show.

[00:42:37] Yeah, there's the book dance.

[00:42:38] There's the Rachel Stevens.

[00:42:41] Yeah, the running jokes in Dick and Tom are really fun

[00:42:44] so basically for series one to four they didn't have celebrities on it.

[00:42:50] Which I think is the great choice.

[00:42:52] They kind of just when we don't need it, it's better without

[00:42:56] and then in series five they did have like minus celebs

[00:43:01] who were up for a laugh on it

[00:43:03] and sometimes that was really fun

[00:43:04] and the first one ever was Rachel Stevens

[00:43:07] and she is she by the way?

[00:43:09] She is from S7.

[00:43:10] Okay, she walked out halfway through it.

[00:43:13] I don't know if she walked out or her management walked her out

[00:43:16] but they were like we can't have you getting messy.

[00:43:19] I don't know if she had like an event later on

[00:43:21] but they were like we're not having you getting creamy look.

[00:43:23] This is the thing, watch the show before you go.

[00:43:27] Know what you're getting into.

[00:43:29] You cannot go on Dick and Tom unless you're Dick's mother

[00:43:32] and not get covered in fucking gunk

[00:43:34] like that's just knock it and it's not gonna work

[00:43:36] unless you come in that full like

[00:43:38] I front with the CSI people are calling the UK

[00:43:40] but CSI people, you know they have that full P.P.

[00:43:43] Yeah, full like zip top to here

[00:43:46] unless you come in that you're getting messy

[00:43:48] you're gonna need a lot of shampoo.

[00:43:50] I want to talk about

[00:43:52] I've been wanting to talk about this for days now

[00:43:55] the actor known as Ian Kirkby.

[00:43:58] Yeah please.

[00:43:59] I love him.

[00:44:01] I have an exciting

[00:44:04] fondness for why do you keep calling him Harold?

[00:44:08] It's a respectful name.

[00:44:10] It's like why I call him.

[00:44:12] It's a respectful name mate.

[00:44:14] I call her teddy bear Mr. Cuddles because he is due respect.

[00:44:17] I have a teddy bear called Cuddles and she insists on calling him Mr. Cuddles.

[00:44:21] It doesn't matter how many times I say his name is Cuddles.

[00:44:23] She says no Mr. Cuddles, I respect him.

[00:44:26] So Ian Kirkby is a rather trained actor.

[00:44:31] You can tell.

[00:44:32] He's amazing.

[00:44:34] He's a brilliant.

[00:44:35] That was one of the clips that made me go hang on a minute.

[00:44:39] I think I'm gonna like this show.

[00:44:42] Was the song one?

[00:44:44] I'm an investigation.

[00:44:45] The song one.

[00:44:46] Yeah when he sings private investigations.

[00:44:58] It's a mystery to me.

[00:45:01] The game commences for the usual thing.

[00:45:07] Plus expenses.

[00:45:09] Confidential information.

[00:45:12] It's in a diary.

[00:45:15] This is my investigation.

[00:45:18] It's not a public inquiry.

[00:45:31] I called checking out the reports.

[00:45:35] Digging up the doors.

[00:45:38] You get to make all sorts in this line of work.

[00:45:43] Traturey and treason.

[00:45:46] A foot.

[00:45:47] There's always an excuse for it.

[00:45:49] And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it.

[00:46:01] Sorry about that.

[00:46:02] That must have been a play by mistake.

[00:46:04] Right.

[00:46:05] My parents love that clip because they're massive diastrates fans.

[00:46:10] Kids would have no fucking clue who diastrates were.

[00:46:13] Literally.

[00:46:14] But it works so well in context that it doesn't matter of you now who diastrates.

[00:46:17] I'm sorry, I must press play.

[00:46:20] I must press play by mistake.

[00:46:23] Near the demon.

[00:46:25] Near the demon.

[00:46:26] The book of the year.

[00:46:27] We were watching it last night and with every line he said we just repeated it.

[00:46:32] All of us love trying to accent because I'm haught.

[00:46:37] I'm haught.

[00:46:40] So Ian Kirkbe got involved because so I was listening to if you're listening to this podcast,

[00:46:45] chances are you've listened to Chris Johnson's podcast called out of the broom cupboard.

[00:46:50] So he was a broom cupboard presenter.

[00:46:52] He now has a podcast where he actually he's not released an episode since 2020,

[00:46:57] but he talks.

[00:46:58] He had a podcast.

[00:46:59] He had a podcast.

[00:47:00] And Ian Kirkbe is one of the guests and they were talking about his career in his life

[00:47:06] and Dick and Dom and all that stuff.

[00:47:09] And he was going through a period with not much work,

[00:47:12] but he was friends with Steve Wright and he got a call.

[00:47:15] And he said, do you want to come in tomorrow on a Saturday morning to play a talking sausage?

[00:47:23] And he said he looked around his room and he was like,

[00:47:26] ah, fuck it.

[00:47:27] I've got nothing else on.

[00:47:29] And then it led to one of the best jobs for an actor where you just turn up on a Saturday

[00:47:35] and play a million different characters.

[00:47:38] So Harry Bat was like a one-off character.

[00:47:43] Why I said I'm so glad he wasn't because it's so good is why I'm laughing.

[00:47:47] I'm just remembering.

[00:47:49] So yeah, how many is a one-off character?

[00:47:53] And then there was a there was a segment called that's the stuff.

[00:47:57] I don't know why I'm explaining this because everyone already knows if you're listening to this,

[00:48:01] but basically Dominic Wood, Dom had to eat a spoonful of garlic mayonnaise.

[00:48:09] And he had to work with one of the producers and he was like,

[00:48:13] swap it for yogurt and they did.

[00:48:16] And the next...

[00:48:17] No, no, wait.

[00:48:18] Hey, hey, didn't Dominic ask for it to be vanilla custard or vanilla pudding?

[00:48:22] And then it wasn't.

[00:48:24] No, no, no.

[00:48:25] He asked for it to be swapped for vanilla yogurt and he would pretend that it was garlic mayonnaise

[00:48:30] so it looked like he passed the segment.

[00:48:32] Right.

[00:48:34] And he thought no one knew about it, but the producer's song to now.

[00:48:38] And so Steve Ride said to Ian Kirkby,

[00:48:43] we're going to bring back the character of Harry Bat.

[00:48:45] You're going to burst in because he always used to enter by bursting through the door like breaking.

[00:48:49] No, not Warren.

[00:48:50] Oh yeah.

[00:48:55] I'm listening to him too.

[00:48:57] I think you have a bit of it.

[00:48:58] Near body moves.

[00:49:00] Near body moves.

[00:49:02] Near body moves.

[00:49:03] And then week after week after week he would carry on trying to get Dom to eat garlic mayonnaise

[00:49:09] until finally he did.

[00:49:11] He would just terrorise him.

[00:49:12] Garlic mayonnaise squad.

[00:49:15] Mr Wood, we meet again, Durnwick's son.

[00:49:19] I know what this is about.

[00:49:21] Shortyx, right now, shortyx.

[00:49:24] We've got reason to believe that you weren't eating garlic mayonnaise.

[00:49:30] Yeah, that's right.

[00:49:32] It's wine, white Walker, I'm going to throw him.

[00:49:35] I'm sure it comes down, son.

[00:49:37] I'm in charge here.

[00:49:38] Do you know this?

[00:49:39] No, short off.

[00:49:40] Nothing to do with it.

[00:49:41] I've just watched that bit of VT with you secursedly eating garlic mayonnaise.

[00:49:46] I've been to rather, son.

[00:49:47] That was Rubenshack then.

[00:49:49] Yeah.

[00:49:50] Right.

[00:49:51] Well, I think it's about time you cleared your penance.

[00:49:55] And you add a little bit of this, sunshine.

[00:49:59] You have got 45 seconds on the clock.

[00:50:04] So get that, dolya gulet.

[00:50:07] Right?

[00:50:08] All right.

[00:50:09] Straw a cloth.

[00:50:10] That's it.

[00:50:11] That's it.

[00:50:12] That's it.

[00:50:13] That's it.

[00:50:14] That's it.

[00:50:15] That he got his own section which was...

[00:50:18] Investigation.

[00:50:19] Yeah.

[00:50:20] I can't do the accent unless it's like right in front of you.

[00:50:23] Investigation.

[00:50:24] I can't do it really.

[00:50:25] But the way that that character came about in the first half

[00:50:28] of the chapter came about in the first place is that he was helping Steve decorate his apartment.

[00:50:34] And he said on this Christ Johnson podcast, I was stood there with a paintbrush in my hand

[00:50:40] and they were like, yeah, we want a copper.

[00:50:44] Do you get Jordy?

[00:50:45] It's quite good.

[00:50:46] Your Jordy is quite good.

[00:50:47] Where's he originally from?

[00:50:48] He's not in him.

[00:50:49] I don't know why.

[00:50:50] That's super unexpected.

[00:50:51] I thought he was northern, I know.

[00:50:53] Well, yeah, not in him is kind of...

[00:50:55] No!

[00:50:56] No, that's not it.

[00:50:57] That's not do this.

[00:50:58] Okay.

[00:50:59] And he was like...

[00:51:01] Okay, but let's do this as a sort of 70s kind of TV detective.

[00:51:07] I love that there's a different decade for every character.

[00:51:10] I love it.

[00:51:11] Yeah.

[00:51:12] So he's got this curtain hairdo, he's got this mustache.

[00:51:15] Beautiful hair.

[00:51:16] He's a sexy hairdo and the sexy mustache.

[00:51:20] He keeps sounding sorry, moustache reminded me of your dad.

[00:51:25] Yeah, he does, he sounds like your dad.

[00:51:27] He sounds like he does sexy hair, dude, he does sexy, what he does.

[00:51:31] Okay, so last night...

[00:51:32] We were watching the show and I was like...

[00:51:37] Who agrees with me?

[00:51:38] The dad's going to...

[00:51:40] No, he doesn't listen.

[00:51:41] His...

[00:51:42] Whatever.

[00:51:43] I thought you guys' parents were stupid.

[00:51:46] So we were watching, I was like...

[00:51:49] I don't know about you, but...

[00:51:52] Young, Gary and Kirk being kind of any era Harry Bat is kind of sexy.

[00:51:57] We were all in agreement and then Meg said that he looks like my dad, which sort of confused me.

[00:52:01] I know, I don't think he does look like your dad.

[00:52:03] I think he sounds a bit like your dad and acts a bit like him.

[00:52:07] Yeah, he sounds a jordy.

[00:52:09] He's...

[00:52:10] No, but the thing is your dad's got like right...

[00:52:12] Hey, if you're listening.

[00:52:13] He has been on the show to be fair so people...

[00:52:16] He's quite northern in a way that I didn't think he was originally from Hall.

[00:52:23] We've had this conversation before.

[00:52:25] I thought he was from Mornaw and...

[00:52:29] Deep in the West.

[00:52:30] Your dad's just got a lot of very recognizable telephone mannerisms that I think are similar to...

[00:52:38] Oh, else.

[00:52:39] Oh, else.

[00:52:40] It's not every single sentence.

[00:52:42] It's every so often a phrase will come out and I'll be like, oh, that just sounded like...

[00:52:47] Can I name him?

[00:52:48] Yeah, it sounded like Adrian.

[00:52:50] Sorry, I don't know.

[00:52:51] There's an element of mystery about some people on this.

[00:52:55] He goes, eer elves, listen to this.

[00:52:58] He's nothing like Harry Bat.

[00:53:00] Don't be ridiculous.

[00:53:01] It's a compliment, I'll see.

[00:53:04] Well, I suppose it is.

[00:53:05] Harry Bat.

[00:53:06] Bat.

[00:53:07] Harry Blatt.

[00:53:08] Why do I think it's Blatt?

[00:53:09] Harry Blatt.

[00:53:11] All the actors are such good sports.

[00:53:13] Oh yeah, you have to be.

[00:53:15] I wonder how much caffeine they fucking had to do that.

[00:53:18] I don't know if you guys have been up that early with fucking children.

[00:53:21] They really throw themselves into everything that is asked of them like, don't go daddy.

[00:53:26] Oh my god.

[00:53:28] So don't go daddy is one of the many, many, many, many, many games.

[00:53:33] There's hundreds of games that they play and all of them are ridiculous.

[00:53:37] I want to try.

[00:53:38] Don't go daddy.

[00:53:39] The three main actors, Dave Chapman, Melvin O'Doom and Ian Kirkby.

[00:53:44] They were in like suits and had briefcases and they had to get from one end of the room

[00:53:50] to the other with the kids hanging off their ankles and that was it.

[00:53:53] You daddy's, where's the daddy's?

[00:53:55] There they are.

[00:53:56] It's your daddy's bun.

[00:53:57] Oh my god.

[00:53:58] You're right.

[00:53:59] You're right, darling.

[00:54:00] I want you some there.

[00:54:02] Someone like that.

[00:54:03] I don't know who you know actually.

[00:54:04] Good morning, daddy's.

[00:54:05] Right, let's get your daddy's a victory.

[00:54:07] This is your birthday.

[00:54:09] Yes, yes, yes.

[00:54:10] Where do you guys, where do you work?

[00:54:12] North London.

[00:54:13] South End.

[00:54:14] South End.

[00:54:15] South End.

[00:54:16] Class of Oxford.

[00:54:17] Now the bugleheads, your daddy's a late for work.

[00:54:20] They're late.

[00:54:21] They've got to leg it out of there through the beaded curtain.

[00:54:24] But you don't want them to go.

[00:54:25] You want to stay with them.

[00:54:26] You're right.

[00:54:27] You're right, darling.

[00:54:28] Yes, I'm a little late.

[00:54:29] To bugleheads, you've got to hold on to the daddy's legs there just at the bottom,

[00:54:33] just at the shins.

[00:54:34] And when the, when the clacks and goes, the game begins.

[00:54:37] It's a race.

[00:54:38] The winners will be the ones that daddy is still here at the end of the race.

[00:54:42] You've got to keep hold of him.

[00:54:43] That's the last one through the curtains is the winner of 86.

[00:54:47] 86.

[00:54:48] No, 186 point.

[00:54:49] No, 186 point.

[00:54:50] Right, then daddy's coming out.

[00:54:52] Time for a night.

[00:54:53] Yes, yes, yes.

[00:54:54] Go, go, go, go.

[00:54:55] That's great, girl.

[00:54:56] And that'll be our day.

[00:54:57] I'm sorry about Alex.

[00:54:58] I must go.

[00:54:59] I really must go.

[00:55:00] I'm not going anywhere.

[00:55:01] No, no, no.

[00:55:02] Sorry, I got to meet Rosy.

[00:55:06] Take it now.

[00:55:07] Sit, sit, sit.

[00:55:08] I'm going to go out.

[00:55:09] I'm not a five-footer in the race.

[00:55:11] And it ended up taking about ten minutes.

[00:55:15] The set was really destroyed.

[00:55:17] Oh, it was destroyed.

[00:55:18] And it was just three adults and six kids riding around on the floor while Dick and Dom sat

[00:55:24] on the sidelines just walking and laughing, pissing themselves.

[00:55:28] And every so often, when a particularly deranged thing happened, the national anthem would

[00:55:33] play and they would all stand up and salute until it finished.

[00:55:37] Until it finished.

[00:55:38] And I think it was Steve Ride who voiced this and once again, I'll just play it.

[00:55:44] It's another great fun game!

[00:55:46] No, no, no, no.

[00:55:49] No, no, no.

[00:55:50] No, no, no.

[00:55:51] No, no, no.

[00:55:52] No, no, no.

[00:55:53] No, no, no.

[00:55:54] No, no, no.

[00:55:55] No, no, no.

[00:55:56] No, no, no, no.

[00:55:57] No, no, no.

[00:55:58] No!

[00:55:59] No, no, no.

[00:56:00] No, no, no.

[00:56:01] No, no, no.

[00:56:02] No, no, no.

[00:56:03] No, no, no.

[00:56:04] Who is getting that?

[00:56:05] Oh, no.

[00:56:06] Can you be challenging?

[00:56:12] Answer once again.

[00:56:14] Dick and Dom strike another blow for quality children's television.

[00:56:21] Oh, we've not yet.

[00:56:22] We've not spoken about those kids.

[00:56:23] The most famous games of bogies and the sticky games.

[00:56:28] In the wild games.

[00:56:29] In the wild games, yeah.

[00:56:30] I love Ian Kirkbees' Northern Irish commentator voice for Snooker.

[00:56:38] Yeah, is it the sticker one or the bogies?

[00:56:41] Absolutely, cherry-overly.

[00:56:42] That one's really...

[00:56:43] I think that one's more like golf and the bogies is more like Snooker.

[00:56:47] Snooker, okay, yeah.

[00:56:48] Yeah, you're right.

[00:56:49] To cut it fine.

[00:56:50] Sorry.

[00:56:52] Do you watch a lot of golf?

[00:56:53] Everyone has a kid.

[00:56:54] Oh, I played golf when I was a kid.

[00:56:57] Oh, my gosh.

[00:56:58] Like proper golf or mini?

[00:57:00] Proper.

[00:57:01] Oh, pinning.

[00:57:02] She's never told us this.

[00:57:04] No, this is new.

[00:57:05] And not because I would remember if you told me you played golf as a child.

[00:57:10] Touch me.

[00:57:11] Oh, he's getting better.

[00:57:13] And now, whereabouts?

[00:57:15] Oh, look at that.

[00:57:17] Look at that.

[00:57:18] That is an absolute cherry-overly.

[00:57:21] Is to open your eyes and look me straight in the eyes.

[00:57:24] Where do you think I'm about to touch you now?

[00:57:27] Come on back.

[00:57:29] Exactly what I said.

[00:57:30] Well, his eyes are wide open but he hasn't even noticed.

[00:57:33] That block has got absolutely no idea.

[00:57:36] Good stuff.

[00:57:38] Like that.

[00:57:39] It's good to like his trick.

[00:57:41] Yeah.

[00:57:42] He's good trick, wasn't it?

[00:57:43] But it didn't really work.

[00:57:44] Oh, is that a possible rumbling from a court?

[00:57:46] What are you trying to do?

[00:57:47] You're trying to put a stick on his back on you.

[00:57:50] I'm not trying to put a stick on his back.

[00:57:52] On that block still hasn't noticed the size of woods number 10 on his chest.

[00:57:57] No!

[00:57:59] Ah!

[00:58:01] Ah!

[00:58:03] The commentary is really impressive.

[00:58:06] It's so funny.

[00:58:08] I don't know how much of it would have been like...

[00:58:11] ...the fact that it is a parody of sports commentary.

[00:58:15] I don't know how much of that would have actually been registered by the kids.

[00:58:20] But it's very funny as an adult.

[00:58:22] It's very funny as an adult but still even without that meta-ness...

[00:58:25] Yeah, I didn't register it.

[00:58:27] That, even without that sort of meta aspect of it,

[00:58:29] I think it was still funny as the kids.

[00:58:31] I think I never spoke.

[00:58:33] When I was a kid watching bogies, I actually didn't realize just how painful it can be to watch.

[00:58:40] So the one where they're in the library.

[00:58:43] You don't have a concept of shame when you're in the answer.

[00:58:45] Yeah, they are killing themselves laughing because they're so embarrassed.

[00:58:48] It's actually painful to watch.

[00:58:50] I didn't even notice watching it.

[00:58:52] I don't think I could bring myself to do that.

[00:58:55] Like the one where they're in the lecture theatre...

[00:59:01] ...I don't know if I could call for help if I was dying.

[00:59:05] Like I don't know if I could make my voice that loud.

[00:59:08] If I was having a heart attack and needed someone to call an ambulance.

[00:59:11] Yeah, not an elect.

[00:59:12] I would just die in shame.

[00:59:15] I'm good by...

[00:59:17] Sorry, I'll do this quietly.

[00:59:20] Well, though, what you know what killed me about that one is the amount of like...

[00:59:25] ...people in that who are looking at them like,

[00:59:29] What the fuck are you doing? You look so ridiculous.

[00:59:31] I'm like, get over yourself.

[00:59:33] It's so funny.

[00:59:35] You are not better than this.

[00:59:38] No one is better than this.

[00:59:40] I guess the only thing that if I was in that circumstance,

[00:59:43] I'm like, this is an important lecture and it costs £9,000 to be here.

[00:59:47] Can you please require it?

[00:59:49] There's one girl who's looking around like...

[00:59:51] You just thought he was interrupting a University of Oxford lecture.

[00:59:55] It's a media study.

[00:59:57] It's a former university.

[00:59:59] The former media study.

[01:00:01] The former media study is getting home for yourself.

[01:00:03] And it's in 2002 or something.

[01:00:06] It's like, you're barely paying anything.

[01:00:09] Bokees.

[01:00:10] Nice, Bokey.

[01:00:11] 2.5.

[01:00:16] Should be very pleased with that effort.

[01:00:22] So a moment to compose themselves.

[01:00:26] We're caught now with 2.5.

[01:00:30] To beat.

[01:00:35] Bokees.

[01:00:38] It's there.

[01:00:39] It's a 3.5.

[01:00:43] Some surprise on the face of wood.

[01:00:46] But McCourt, justifiably proud...

[01:00:50] ...of his last effort.

[01:00:57] All around them, the duede decimal system.

[01:01:02] And 2 million volumes approximately here

[01:01:05] at one of Europe's largest reference libraries.

[01:01:08] Built in 1877 by a wealthy tobacco magnate.

[01:01:19] Now...

[01:01:22] ...the serious business in hand.

[01:01:28] Bokees!

[01:01:29] That was a brave Bokey.

[01:01:31] It's a 4.2.

[01:01:33] The crowd getting to their feet delighted with the audacity of wood's tactics there.

[01:01:38] So Laura said something about the neighbor's cat.

[01:01:42] The other day she said,

[01:01:44] what did you say?

[01:01:45] Kids need to...

[01:01:46] ...kidsTV needs more...

[01:01:48] ...scary...

[01:01:49] ...rap kids.

[01:01:50] Because hacker...

[01:01:51] ...a funny hacker is...

[01:01:53] ...no, to look at him he's quite wholesome.

[01:01:56] So what did you say about the puppet's loro that kids need to know fear or something?

[01:02:01] I think it was like...

[01:02:03] Yes, it needs to not be perfect or accountable what I was saying.

[01:02:06] But I think it's good to have ugly things.

[01:02:10] I do think it's good to have ugly things.

[01:02:13] I don't just look in the mirror guys.

[01:02:15] If everything on TV is perfect, everything's really polished.

[01:02:18] This happens on social media.

[01:02:19] It's very polished or a presentation of reality.

[01:02:22] I think the gritty realism where things are ugly and not quite done fully correctly.

[01:02:29] Just rough around the edges or intentionally ugly.

[01:02:33] I don't know what that was.

[01:02:34] I think it's great because you should have that.

[01:02:37] Not everything should be perfect.

[01:02:39] Yeah, the neighbor's cat is ratchet.

[01:02:40] Their whole set is ratchet.

[01:02:42] Yeah, the whole thing.

[01:02:43] I mean by the end it's ruined.

[01:02:44] They probably have to burn it after every broadcast of rebuild.

[01:02:48] It's like a flat pack set.

[01:02:50] It also really adds into the vibes that now you can't watch it in any kind of quality whatsoever.

[01:02:57] Yeah, I think we're shout out to CJ.

[01:03:01] Oh yeah!

[01:03:02] The best quality ones on YouTube are a friend of the pod CJ's uploads.

[01:03:07] God bless these YouTube archivists honestly.

[01:03:09] Thank you so much.

[01:03:11] Yeah he's one of our early followers and friends and supporters.

[01:03:17] And like we love his TikTok account and we were watching Dick and Dom and suddenly we saw the icon for who to upload it.

[01:03:24] We were like, oh look at CJ!

[01:03:28] Just follow up a point with that while Meg went to get the wine.

[01:03:32] The generally speaking all media we consume has been like perfected and beautified to the level where you can't be successful and famous if you're not extremely attractive.

[01:03:46] Whereas fucking really popular bands from the past century have been fucking munters.

[01:03:53] But it didn't matter what the fuck.

[01:03:56] What are you talking about?

[01:03:58] Name the munters.

[01:04:00] I don't think any of the Beatles were that attractive.

[01:04:03] Ian Curtis was not attractive for joint division.

[01:04:06] I know who Ian Curtis is.

[01:04:08] Look he came and not everyone does.

[01:04:10] It's quite a jump from the Beatles to joint division.

[01:04:13] I don't think they are munters either, that's very mean.

[01:04:17] I don't think today they would have been as successful because they are not pretty.

[01:04:23] Sorry but all of one direction of munters.

[01:04:26] No, yeah.

[01:04:28] Oh yeah.

[01:04:30] You might think they're munters.

[01:04:32] Munty!

[01:04:33] But they were viewed as a big munster.

[01:04:38] They were flexed coin.

[01:04:41] It means the opposite.

[01:04:43] I think have a picture of the Neighbors Cats serving munters.

[01:04:49] Oh no, I got wine on my friends.

[01:04:52] Speaking of the Neighbors Cats, I love her every time he sticks his head through the letterbox.

[01:05:00] At the end of the segment, Dick, like, kill him.

[01:05:04] Just kind of smashy to that in.

[01:05:07] Someone commented on one of the things we uploaded that was like what a dick?

[01:05:10] You didn't have to do that.

[01:05:12] Yeah, they forgot the thing.

[01:05:14] Do you like that?

[01:05:16] It was singing.

[01:05:18] I just think today you need to be very attractive to be successful when I don't think that's necessarily as a meaner.

[01:05:27] You want to be successful in the entertainment industry when you're public-face.

[01:05:31] Yeah, in public-face music.

[01:05:34] And do you think we'll ever see again the kind of TV where basically ridiculous things would happen and the two hosts would just sit on the sidelines laughing it up knowing what would happen next?

[01:05:47] I'd love to get a show like that for us.

[01:05:50] Me too.

[01:05:51] I think me and you are Dick and Dom.

[01:05:53] They had the dream job.

[01:05:55] Yes, they looked like they were the most fun.

[01:05:57] Because I would be momentarily fucked off without waking up early just to be honest with myself.

[01:06:03] I don't think that we'd be so good at that.

[01:06:05] I do, I'm making that pitch now.

[01:06:07] Yeah, I think we should pitch ourselves.

[01:06:09] Give a little show!

[01:06:11] I love to fuck about!

[01:06:13] Yeah, I just...

[01:06:15] I mean, I'm glad that the show got made.

[01:06:18] I don't think it would get made today for innumerable reasons.

[01:06:22] I can't believe people thought it was controversial about it.

[01:06:26] What I think some of that comes down to is two things.

[01:06:31] Because I was trying my hardest when we were watching it going, what would I as a parent have a problem with?

[01:06:36] Like really genuinely sat there thinking about it.

[01:06:39] The only thing I could come up with is if your kid comes and asks you why is Dirty Norris funny?

[01:06:45] And even then you just go funny words in it.

[01:06:48] Yeah, because it actually doesn't mean any big thing.

[01:06:51] The second thing here is that what adults are doing is projecting why they think something is funny,

[01:06:56] on to why a kid thinks something is funny.

[01:06:58] Yeah, exactly.

[01:07:00] Yeah, it might be in a new endo, but the peak of the humour of this flat is laughing at words that sound funny.

[01:07:08] It really is that is egg.

[01:07:11] Egg.

[01:07:12] Egg.

[01:07:13] Like so funny!

[01:07:16] It's so funny.

[01:07:18] Things don't have to be complicated or like high brow to be funny.

[01:07:25] It can just be a funny sound.

[01:07:27] I mean, one of the games was called puppies that lick their own vases.

[01:07:32] That's funny.

[01:07:34] It's meaningless, but as an adult you project a meeting with a seven year old.

[01:07:37] Isn't sat there going, I think creamy muck muck is funny because sperm.

[01:07:41] They're not doing that.

[01:07:43] They could just look to each other like.

[01:07:46] So there was a costume designer on this show.

[01:07:51] Undoubtedly.

[01:07:52] Look at how Harry, Harry, Harry about, look at how he's dressed.

[01:07:56] Is that a wig?

[01:07:57] Laura.

[01:07:58] I'm joebie silly.

[01:07:59] Maybe he's got that luscious of locks.

[01:08:04] No.

[01:08:05] So the costume designer was Stephanie, no sorry, Persephone Lour.

[01:08:11] Oh my god, what a name.

[01:08:13] Yeah, Persephone Lour.

[01:08:14] Wow.

[01:08:15] She also was the costume designer on Barbie 2023.

[01:08:21] What a girl.

[01:08:23] Wow.

[01:08:24] I know.

[01:08:25] So this is according to IMDB.

[01:08:27] I wonder if she had to design costumes that were like really washable.

[01:08:32] Didn't they say one of the things I watched that the costume for?

[01:08:36] Oh, it's a name of the character that dick play that was like O'Ela dealer.

[01:08:39] All right, me darling.

[01:08:41] All right, me darling.

[01:08:43] All right, me darling.

[01:08:45] Tom Dick and Harry was cool.

[01:08:47] Yeah, yeah, that costume was just like an old thing that had been found at the back of the costume.

[01:08:52] Yeah, just couple together and thrown on.

[01:08:54] Yeah, the low fineness and the improviness is just so low money, do what you can.

[01:09:02] It's just glorious.

[01:09:03] It really is.

[01:09:04] They always used to refer to Melvin O'Dame as Star of Tomorrow, Melvin O'Dame.

[01:09:09] That was their nickname for him.

[01:09:10] And what did you call him?

[01:09:11] What?

[01:09:12] You called him Star of Today.

[01:09:14] Did I?

[01:09:15] Yeah, and when we were watching it, you were like, well he's the Star of Today now.

[01:09:18] Oh, well, yeah, he is.

[01:09:19] Well, you ruined that bit really, didn't you?

[01:09:21] Oh, my mum's calling me.

[01:09:22] Cut off that.

[01:09:28] Hey, sugar, I hate me, ma'am.

[01:09:29] You just had a call that was ignored by Elsie.

[01:09:32] Well, we're recording. I'll call her back.

[01:09:35] She'll get back to you as soon as she can.

[01:09:37] So leave a message after the beep.

[01:09:39] Yes.

[01:09:42] Dom said if Bogey's is trending on Twitter,

[01:09:45] you'll know that we've snuffed it in a horrible accident.

[01:09:48] Because that's the catchphrase and brilliant expressions.

[01:09:51] And they do everything together.

[01:09:52] And they do everything together.

[01:09:53] They live together for five years, remember?

[01:09:55] They did.

[01:09:56] And a book.

[01:09:57] They said that when they have a quiet evening, they're on their own.

[01:10:00] They just go round to each other's houses and watch YouTube together,

[01:10:03] like still to this day.

[01:10:04] They've got kids.

[01:10:05] I know they do.

[01:10:06] Why?

[01:10:09] Well, they said they are the women.

[01:10:11] They said they message each other on WhatsApp more than they message their wives.

[01:10:15] Oh, I feel sorry for their wives.

[01:10:18] I don't know.

[01:10:19] I bet they're great dads and husbands.

[01:10:22] Yeah, I...

[01:10:23] Yeah, jealous.

[01:10:24] Well, I'm going to quote something from this article where they're looking back.

[01:10:30] There were times during the filming of De Bungalau where I can remember lying on the floor holding my sides

[01:10:38] because I was laughing so hard.

[01:10:40] Once we'd finished our Saturday afternoon,

[01:10:42] we go to the pub for a couple of beers and laugh about what happened all over again.

[01:10:46] We haven't laughed like that since.

[01:10:48] Oh!

[01:10:49] Why? What's wrong?

[01:10:51] And they also said...

[01:10:53] The Tory government came into power.

[01:10:56] Oh.

[01:10:57] Well, yeah.

[01:10:59] So this is Dom is saying here.

[01:11:02] My mum was... No, sorry, this is Dick.

[01:11:05] My mum was diagnosed with dementia during our last series and it became tough to look after her at the same time as trying to be high energy as Dick on BBC One every weekend.

[01:11:15] It's when I needed Dom the most and he was so great at supporting me and stepping up when I couldn't handle the mental load.

[01:11:22] Then if I scroll down to Dom's point of view...

[01:11:28] As well as the good times, we've always been able to make sure that the person who's having a bit of a tough time doesn't have to just try and motor on.

[01:11:35] My dear father-in-law, one of my greatest mates was very ill in hospital while we were in the middle of filming a show with a full studio audience and contestants.

[01:11:43] A told rich, I can't do this.

[01:11:45] I've got to be with my family and he was just fantastic.

[01:11:48] He said, make concentrate on life.

[01:11:50] I'll host the show on my own.

[01:11:52] So he loved it.

[01:11:54] He'll finally all the intentions on him.

[01:11:58] Sort of going back to why the important thing...

[01:12:01] The importance of this show.

[01:12:02] This show had such an impact on people our age and like a little younger and a little bit older that they have a successful post-career touring duties.

[01:12:11] Yeah and they had a 20 year anniversary tour last year.

[01:12:15] I thought it was coming up and I...

[01:12:17] 2002, right?

[01:12:19] No, it was last year.

[01:12:21] No, I mean, yeah well I did the tour last year.

[01:12:23] And I thought it was this year and I'm so disappointed.

[01:12:27] I've seen them live.

[01:12:29] Alright, so...

[01:12:30] I love them.

[01:12:31] Yeah you talk about meeting them.

[01:12:34] You didn't give a shit at the time, did you?

[01:12:36] I wish that I'd given it more chance to give a shit because at the time I was very light when you were a kid but like thinking you were a bother.

[01:12:43] I remembered it not fondly because I think I was being...

[01:12:47] I think I was a pretentious little fuck and that was the memory that I was...

[01:12:51] What?

[01:12:52] Hey, I fucking enjoyed it wholeheartedly.

[01:12:55] Okay.

[01:12:56] I wish that I had maybe revisited it to check if I enjoyed it because I met them very briefly.

[01:13:02] They were performing at our uni, my name is Maxi uni.

[01:13:05] And I was working security at the student union at the time and they were like setting up and we were doing walk around and I met both of them.

[01:13:13] They're both really nice.

[01:13:14] It was brief interaction but I was the one who'd been like oh I don't care.

[01:13:18] I'll go do security where they're not.

[01:13:21] So I didn't actually get a chance to see them perform at all because I had put myself out there as not giving a fuck where everyone else was like great.

[01:13:28] We really want to be in the room when they're performing.

[01:13:30] I'm not making them like I'm sad that I missed it.

[01:13:33] So I went in 2018 to Edinburgh with Sulford Unites on a comedy show.

[01:13:41] Sulford Unites if you're listening, bring back the comedy course.

[01:13:44] They've recently axed it even though it's the only one in the country.

[01:13:47] Oh!

[01:13:48] It's a real shame.

[01:13:49] That's fucking tough.

[01:13:50] There were some amazing modules on that.

[01:13:53] I learned so much and they took us to Edinburgh and it's very upsetting that it doesn't exist anymore.

[01:13:58] But we're trying to bring it back anyway, yes Laura.

[01:14:01] Are there anyone who got axed entirely from the uni because they got rid of that course?

[01:14:05] I don't think so.

[01:14:07] So me and my three friends, Macy Bethshan, love you.

[01:14:13] We heard the...

[01:14:14] It sounds like one person, Macy Bethshan.

[01:14:16] What a lovely lady.

[01:14:17] And Dom were performing.

[01:14:20] And we went in the daytime to their live show and it was brilliant.

[01:14:24] And at the end of their show, they said by the way on this one specific date on this one night

[01:14:31] we're doing an adult-only show.

[01:14:34] And we immediately booked tickets.

[01:14:37] Oh!

[01:14:38] I'd look dick and dom after dark.

[01:14:41] Yeah, we booked it.

[01:14:42] We were like, we're getting tickets for that.

[01:14:44] We managed to get them.

[01:14:46] We turned up on that night, Front Row seats.

[01:14:49] And this was with the rest of the group that we were with.

[01:14:53] So all of us were there.

[01:14:54] And we sat on the Front Row and it was the same show they did in the daytime but unfiltered.

[01:15:01] Right.

[01:15:02] It was brilliant.

[01:15:03] I've got to say I do think I prefer the pantologic of watching something with kids in the audience

[01:15:09] and knowing there are bits that are flying over their heads.

[01:15:12] When it was just two adults, it was an amazing atmosphere but it was not the same.

[01:15:18] It felt less.

[01:15:20] It was like in some ways more exclusive and in other ways less exclusive.

[01:15:24] Yeah.

[01:15:25] But Barney Hard was in the audience.

[01:15:27] They brought him up on stage.

[01:15:29] Andy Plank from Bear Behaving Badly was in the audience.

[01:15:32] Really?

[01:15:33] He got up on stage and by the end kind of the entire audience was up on stage.

[01:15:37] We got pictures with them.

[01:15:38] It was amazing.

[01:15:40] Oh another thing about me in the Dominic is shorter than me which I didn't expect when I met them.

[01:15:45] Oh yeah.

[01:15:46] Oh sorry.

[01:15:47] It's possible.

[01:15:48] Men can be short.

[01:15:50] Not much but a little bit and I was wearing dogs so quite a bit at that moment.

[01:15:57] But it's her I meant the sticker.

[01:15:59] What's the sticker game actually called?

[01:16:01] It's not something that any of us are going to be able to pronounce famously.

[01:16:04] It's like a long ridiculous name.

[01:16:06] Cool.

[01:16:08] That one is the pinnacle of dick screaming at strangers.

[01:16:14] And they can't figure out why.

[01:16:18] What are you screaming at pregnant women?

[01:16:20] Actually there were some complaints when they were playing bogies one time.

[01:16:23] I can't remember if it was dick or that.

[01:16:24] I think it was dick.

[01:16:26] Went up to a guy scream bogies in his face.

[01:16:29] This guy was holding a baby and the baby's like.

[01:16:33] Oh yeah.

[01:16:35] That brings us on to the controversial.

[01:16:37] Oh yeah, yeah.

[01:16:38] So don't don't pregnant women.

[01:16:41] So what are the most famously controversial moments are make dick sick and dick giving birth?

[01:16:51] So make dick sick that would be callers so dick would be in a chair someone would call in until a disgusting story.

[01:16:58] And dick would have something in his mouth and he would either spit it out or not.

[01:17:01] And when he did, a beautiful woman would like dance on stage and wipe his mouth and kiss him on the dick and walk off.

[01:17:09] There is nothing inherently wrong with that.

[01:17:12] Where are your nurses outfit Laura?

[01:17:15] That's your idea of a dream.

[01:17:17] Between you and me, do you know what's going on?

[01:17:19] Because I have no idea.

[01:17:21] You've got to tell a horrible story to make him bath.

[01:17:25] Do you understand?

[01:17:27] Stop trying to make my life difficult kids.

[01:17:30] Three, two, one, make dick sick. Tell us all you go.

[01:17:36] Tell us all you want.

[01:17:39] Tell us all you want.

[01:17:41] Okay.

[01:17:42] Oh no now.

[01:17:43] No, I just got rid of it.

[01:17:45] I've already been sick.

[01:17:47] So I like the place to say my story after the music.

[01:17:55] I'm not moving.

[01:17:57] When I say three, two, one, make dick sick. Tell the story.

[01:18:02] Okay.

[01:18:03] Right. Wait, wait, wait.

[01:18:05] Are you ready for this?

[01:18:07] Yeah.

[01:18:08] Come come to me.

[01:18:10] Three, two, one.

[01:18:12] Make, make, make some soup because we're going to be in a car while.

[01:18:17] No, three, two, one, make dick sick.

[01:18:19] Hello.

[01:18:21] And the other famously controversial bit was when Dick gave birth.

[01:18:25] So he spends...

[01:18:26] Again, why is that controversy not real?

[01:18:28] There's nothing wrong with birth.

[01:18:29] Well...

[01:18:31] There's nothing controversial about birth.

[01:18:34] He spends the whole episode, the whole weekend,

[01:18:37] all two days with his bump.

[01:18:40] Yeah.

[01:18:41] And then at the end, the entire...

[01:18:43] The logical conclusion.

[01:18:44] Everyone's...

[01:18:45] Of a pregnancy is squirted with like 50 baby dolls.

[01:18:50] With horrendous eyes and custard.

[01:18:54] And custard?

[01:18:55] Yes, so at the end of every episode,

[01:18:57] there would be a skit that would end with Dick shouting,

[01:19:00] go, go, go, and then it would end in like the way that bugs him alone,

[01:19:03] end basically.

[01:19:04] Yeah.

[01:19:05] Okay, because we didn't...

[01:19:07] I didn't watch this nurse.

[01:19:09] I didn't watch any of make dick sick.

[01:19:12] So I can't...

[01:19:13] But this...

[01:19:14] Or make Dom Varn sometimes.

[01:19:17] I think this is again, this is another case of adults projecting onto this.

[01:19:21] What they think of this going on.

[01:19:23] I get a seven year on eight year old.

[01:19:25] There's nothing wrong in their mind.

[01:19:27] In the very final episode of Dick and Dom,

[01:19:29] it ends with Alan Yentob waking up like it's a horrible nightmare.

[01:19:34] I love that.

[01:19:36] That's amazing.

[01:19:37] Usually I hate it was all a dream,

[01:19:40] but that's brilliant.

[01:19:41] I'm so good.

[01:19:44] And we were watching the final bits of the final episode yesterday,

[01:19:51] and Megan Laura who had seen sort of the highlights I picked out for them,

[01:19:59] and various little games and sketches and stuff.

[01:20:03] And Meg turned to me during the final song where all the cast,

[01:20:08] all the contestants, all the celebrities,

[01:20:10] they were all on screen singing a song about the ending of Dick and Dom.

[01:20:13] She said, why am I feeling emotional when I've been watching this for two days?

[01:20:19] It was a moment.

[01:20:20] It was because they obviously had the best time making it,

[01:20:23] and it was sad that it was finishing,

[01:20:25] and we all know watching it now that nothing like that has happened since.

[01:20:36] 15 tons of munchies and munchmuck.

[01:20:41] No risk, cackle-ack and poopy wool.

[01:20:45] They really loved us in the House of Commons.

[01:20:50] We had a weekly spot on points of view.

[01:20:55] It's been a rollercoaster ride of Madness.

[01:21:00] We've loved every second of the show,

[01:21:06] but now the end is finally upon us.

[01:21:10] It's time for us to leave the bungalow.

[01:21:17] Two hundred sixty three shows have finally come to an end.

[01:21:24] It's quite incredible that we have gone around the bend.

[01:21:30] We've got to stand up and set it against all parties.

[01:21:35] We've been to museums and we shall end for them.

[01:21:39] We want a million views on your life and see everybody now.

[01:21:45] Go go to Cancels!

[01:21:48] Go go to Cancels!

[01:21:52] Go go to Cancels!

[01:21:57] Seven hundred and fifty four.

[01:22:00] I peracted bungalow heads.

[01:22:03] A fifty four.

[01:22:06] Roller is your good for a last breath.

[01:22:11] We're supposed to round in my mouth,

[01:22:15] but here, apart from the girl from Esmer Salad,

[01:22:19] good clean family, from the BBC.

[01:22:24] Everybody lay go go to Cancels!

[01:22:29] Go go to Cancels!

[01:22:33] Go go to Cancels!

[01:22:36] The lights will dim and the curtain will fall

[01:22:41] on the bungalow.

[01:22:44] A million thanks to a million fans

[01:22:48] for getting up to watch the show.

[01:22:52] For great years of my and her,

[01:22:56] but some awards in theory of that.

[01:22:59] But no more arrests from Harry's best.

[01:23:03] For rather be arrests from the Labour's hat.

[01:23:07] Well done, Mr. Tom, I'll eat it yet they buy

[01:23:11] sending that dick and starting to lay for them.

[01:23:15] For us that has been to the show

[01:23:18] are crossing the mountain and the deep war

[01:23:22] are going on setting up on rock and beat.

[01:23:26] The lava lava came as rock and rock, please.

[01:23:30] To us we go with the flag in the sky

[01:23:33] a long life down in the building of Christ

[01:23:37] to walk together now, go go to Cancels!

[01:23:43] Go go to Cancels!

[01:23:45] Do you remember Gina's laughing gear?

[01:23:48] Oh yeah, that was so deranged!

[01:23:51] I think that was my distance!

[01:23:53] Gina's laughing gear Laura was Gina Yashmeer.

[01:23:57] Was that her name?

[01:23:58] I think so.

[01:23:59] So she is a British comedian.

[01:24:02] She's now based in the US.

[01:24:04] So Gina's laughing gear was she would present an open

[01:24:08] excitement then there would be an entire pilot

[01:24:13] and then she would do the outro.

[01:24:16] So there was about ten episodes

[01:24:18] and this was on CBBC.

[01:24:22] So they would basically showcase a pilot

[01:24:25] for a new kids TV show and it was

[01:24:28] in trod and out trod by Gina Yashmeer

[01:24:31] and basically all of these pilots

[01:24:34] never went to series.

[01:24:36] Parts as they were all really, really good ideas.

[01:24:39] They all were made on the cheap.

[01:24:43] They could have been really good

[01:24:45] and everyone involved in these

[01:24:48] was sort of fucked over

[01:24:49] and it was sort of a vehicle

[01:24:50] for testing out different things.

[01:24:53] And I remember liking a lot of them

[01:24:56] and then never getting any more of them

[01:24:59] because anyway one of these was

[01:25:02] a pilot for a Harry Bat spin-off.

[01:25:05] So it's a half hour purely Harry Bat comedy drama.

[01:25:10] We were fucking robbed.

[01:25:11] We were absolutely robbed.

[01:25:14] I would love to see him deal with actual

[01:25:17] presumably made up crime.

[01:25:19] Oh my god, every time I think about this pilot

[01:25:22] it's full body convulsions.

[01:25:24] I mean I'm so upset

[01:25:27] that we don't have a full Harry Bat TV show.

[01:25:31] I love that man.

[01:25:34] He was so good.

[01:25:37] He's so greatest comedy creations I believe.

[01:25:41] He is so in character.

[01:25:44] The only moment he ever even comes close to slipping character

[01:25:47] is when he couldn't get that one word or...

[01:25:52] Yeah the word guessing.

[01:25:54] He's like, he's so fresh

[01:25:56] because presumably from the seams of it

[01:25:58] he usually gets it right.

[01:26:00] And then I think this is one of the few times he didn't

[01:26:02] because he looks so frustrated he actually breaks character.

[01:26:05] So Ian Kirkby, he was acting since he was about...

[01:26:10] I don't know, 18 years old and you can see on YouTube

[01:26:13] he was part of a sketch show called

[01:26:14] Your Mother Wouldn't Like It.

[01:26:16] He's really...

[01:26:17] I'm sorry, but your mother will love it.

[01:26:19] The alternate title for Dick and Tom.

[01:26:22] Yeah, no exactly.

[01:26:23] Your MP wouldn't like it.

[01:26:26] But it is a shame that this doesn't happen

[01:26:29] so much anymore.

[01:26:30] So basically it had a huge student following

[01:26:33] because...

[01:26:34] Who's that awake at 6 a.m.?

[01:26:35] Yes, sat in the openings.

[01:26:37] Everyone's hungover and you would switch on...

[01:26:39] Or coming down.

[01:26:41] Or coming down.

[01:26:42] And you would switch on Dick and Tom into Buggler now

[01:26:44] because of streaming.

[01:26:46] There is not so much of that.

[01:26:49] People just put on what they want

[01:26:52] at any point in the day.

[01:26:54] And I mean, if Hackety Dog had existed 20 years ago

[01:26:59] he would be touring universities now.

[01:27:02] He might in 20 years.

[01:27:04] He might, yeah.

[01:27:05] And it doesn't happen now.

[01:27:07] There's a cotton willing around anything

[01:27:10] even remotely possibly inappropriate on kids' stuff

[01:27:14] and it's like...

[01:27:15] Again, the kid doesn't know that it's inappropriate.

[01:27:19] Yeah, people get very offended by really harmless things.

[01:27:24] I don't.

[01:27:25] I don't care.

[01:27:26] It's not true because it's not been a while

[01:27:28] since I've actually watched current kids TV.

[01:27:30] No, but I'm referring to this kind of thing,

[01:27:34] not currently.

[01:27:35] But it does...

[01:27:37] Like you're making into something that is not right?

[01:27:41] The thing that I know...

[01:27:43] Because I mean, you have less contact

[01:27:48] with your cousins than I do.

[01:27:49] Like you spend less time with your younger cousins.

[01:27:51] No, but I do spend time with other children.

[01:27:53] Oh no, that's true.

[01:27:54] But how much time do you...

[01:27:56] You know, you do sit down and watch TV with them, don't you?

[01:27:58] Yeah.

[01:27:59] So my cousins are slightly older than those children

[01:28:01] that you hang out with.

[01:28:09] Explain.

[01:28:12] No.

[01:28:16] Go on Laura, what were you saying?

[01:28:18] So because I'll sit and I'll watch stuff with my cousins

[01:28:20] and they'll talk about what they watch.

[01:28:22] Most of it's very, very...

[01:28:24] Most of it's very, very above board.

[01:28:27] The only thing that isn't...

[01:28:30] Like my aunt's partner was like,

[01:28:33] I don't think you'll like it.

[01:28:35] It's not very PC.

[01:28:37] Is there's this...

[01:28:38] Like parody of Spider-Man?

[01:28:40] I forgot when it's fucking cold.

[01:28:42] I don't remember.

[01:28:43] But apparently it makes a lot of

[01:28:46] off-color jokes that are not above board.

[01:28:50] But my cousins fucking love it.

[01:28:52] Like really, really love it.

[01:28:54] And it's just...

[01:28:56] In the same, I think Vayne is like Dennis,

[01:28:58] the men is kind of high jinks.

[01:29:00] And they're not negatively affected by it.

[01:29:03] They just love it.

[01:29:05] What's wrong with that?

[01:29:06] What's wrong with that?

[01:29:07] Something that's been said about

[01:29:09] Dick and Dom into bungalow

[01:29:11] is that the reason it was the way it was

[01:29:13] is in kind of tapped and ridiculous

[01:29:17] is that it didn't have the calming presence of women.

[01:29:21] I don't know if that's true.

[01:29:24] I actually think that's almost sexist.

[01:29:26] It is.

[01:29:27] I could well do that, actually.

[01:29:29] You're literally turning around going,

[01:29:31] women can't have fun like men.

[01:29:33] Yeah, fuck off.

[01:29:35] I do think that...

[01:29:37] I also think there were women directors,

[01:29:41] producers, involved in that.

[01:29:43] You can hear women laughing on the crew.

[01:29:45] If I knew I didn't have to clean it up,

[01:29:47] I would fuck that place up.

[01:29:49] I would fuck like...

[01:29:51] I'm fine being militant if I have to clean it up.

[01:29:54] But if I have to clean it up,

[01:29:56] I hope the best moments were when you could hear

[01:29:58] the crew laughing and laughing.

[01:30:00] And there were women involved in that.

[01:30:02] It is a shame that there aren't more influence of the camera.

[01:30:05] What I need you to do now

[01:30:07] is give me the number of the first box

[01:30:10] you'd like to eliminate.

[01:30:12] I've got cramps so be quick.

[01:30:14] Number five.

[01:30:16] Claiming that is just really,

[01:30:19] really disingenuous because

[01:30:21] you're saying that women just couldn't be that fun,

[01:30:24] which I think is a horrendous image to pay.

[01:30:27] I understand the role that mums usually take

[01:30:30] that is the less fun parent,

[01:30:32] the less messy parent.

[01:30:33] Yeah, yeah exactly.

[01:30:34] Oh yeah, we've definitely had this conversation.

[01:30:36] A hundred percent Dick and Dom

[01:30:38] were when it was required of them

[01:30:41] a calming presence to that they had to manage the energy

[01:30:44] of the children,

[01:30:45] which meant hyping them up

[01:30:46] and calming them down.

[01:30:48] I remember several clips where Dominic is doing stuff

[01:30:51] that is essentially maternal

[01:30:53] and like bringing the kids down

[01:30:56] when they've gone too far.

[01:30:58] Try to have a quiet word.

[01:31:00] Can you please back off?

[01:31:01] No!

[01:31:02] We try to have a private tour.

[01:31:04] Yeah, yeah you tell me.

[01:31:05] Yeah, you tell them.

[01:31:06] Yeah, white feet each other.

[01:31:07] You've been there because of the white feet.

[01:31:08] Oh, I'll set the misses on you.

[01:31:10] Yeah, there you go.

[01:31:11] I'll show you that.

[01:31:12] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:31:13] Just George around the ball up,

[01:31:14] put the ball over there.

[01:31:15] I can't get the ball to the point to eat and then we'll go.

[01:31:17] Oh, I'm going to punch him in the face.

[01:31:21] Yeah, where are we?

[01:31:23] Um, we're just talking about,

[01:31:25] do I want more points?

[01:31:26] What?

[01:31:27] No.

[01:31:28] Do you not understand?

[01:31:29] Go away!

[01:31:30] I'll try it.

[01:31:31] I'll have to punch my points and then I'll go away

[01:31:33] and then I'll go up.

[01:31:34] You lose all your points.

[01:31:35] Yeah, you know, I'm distracting you!

[01:31:37] Come on in there, distraction!

[01:31:39] Disraction!

[01:31:40] Disraction!

[01:31:41] Disraction!

[01:31:42] Disraction!

[01:31:43] Come on in there.

[01:31:44] George, there's distraction.

[01:31:46] Yeah, distraction!

[01:31:47] Jake!

[01:31:48] Hi!

[01:31:49] Hatch!

[01:31:50] Hatch!

[01:31:51] Yes, you're a shudder!

[01:31:53] Yes, sure!

[01:31:54] Hello!

[01:31:55] This is like a circus torture.

[01:31:58] We apologize for the massive dick and onion of Angelo.

[01:32:02] Normal service woman was used once the bungalow heads

[01:32:05] belt up in the meantime.

[01:32:07] Here's some music.

[01:32:11] Which, he's...

[01:32:13] like, you don't need a woman to do that.

[01:32:16] You also don't need a woman can't do the opposite.

[01:32:19] It's...

[01:32:20] Sorry, a woman can do the opposite.

[01:32:22] I do wish that one of the sort of bit actors in it had been a woman.

[01:32:27] It's a very male show.

[01:32:30] And I don't think it needed to be.

[01:32:32] Yeah, I know you said it earlier, like, warmly.

[01:32:36] The boys will be boys thing.

[01:32:38] Ah, I don't mean that in the horrific way.

[01:32:40] Yeah, I mean it in the like...

[01:32:42] You know, the videos you see on Instagram are like

[01:32:46] this one's for the boys and it's a man.

[01:32:48] It's a man.

[01:32:49] It's pulling a big piece of ice off of a park bench

[01:32:53] and smashing it on the ground.

[01:32:55] And then like,

[01:32:56] this is what I imagine, Menga.

[01:32:58] Well, like the ones of the guys...

[01:33:00] I don't remember the name of the account.

[01:33:02] There's the ones of the guys where they're like,

[01:33:04] buried neck deep in the sand and they've got a little like

[01:33:07] ac capella group.

[01:33:08] I love those.

[01:33:09] Oh, I think he's cheating.

[01:33:11] This is what he's doing here.

[01:33:13] And it's stickin' dom in the bungalow.

[01:33:15] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:33:16] And there's no version of that of girls will be girls

[01:33:19] that's like not just like fucking shopping,

[01:33:21] but it's like,

[01:33:22] I made a lot of mess when I was a kid.

[01:33:24] If it had been my job to make a mess,

[01:33:26] it would have been awesome.

[01:33:27] I'd love that.

[01:33:28] If you don't have to clear it up.

[01:33:30] Exactly.

[01:33:31] I would like to see a female version of Dick and Don,

[01:33:34] but the reason I think we won't is because I think...

[01:33:39] because women are seen as caretakers,

[01:33:43] it would be seen as more...

[01:33:46] Subversive?

[01:33:47] ...subversive because it's...

[01:33:50] It's scary when a woman does that sort of thing.

[01:33:53] It's like, oh my god, what's happening to the downfall of society?

[01:33:57] That's why I think I really enjoyed that very brief clip

[01:34:00] of Carol Vortamont's super getting into bogies

[01:34:03] because she's a very put together woman.

[01:34:05] Is she?

[01:34:06] I don't know about that.

[01:34:08] Her television appearance is...

[01:34:10] She's got a reputation as being a bit...

[01:34:13] I think I only know her from Canada.

[01:34:16] Very fun woman.

[01:34:18] But yeah, I wish...

[01:34:20] I'm with you.

[01:34:21] There's been more women.

[01:34:23] There's quite a bit of cross-dressing, but no women.

[01:34:26] Oh yes.

[01:34:27] More cross-dressing conversations in the next episode.

[01:34:30] Yes.

[01:34:31] There was so much cross-dressing in the 2000s kids shows.

[01:34:36] Yeah, really?

[01:34:37] Because I didn't want to...

[01:34:38] Hi, I have women.

[01:34:39] Yeah.

[01:34:40] I mean, to the point where they got Don to...

[01:34:42] Sorry, Dick, to give birth.

[01:34:44] Yeah.

[01:34:45] Okay, it would have been a bit weirder

[01:34:47] if it wasn't female actress giving birth.

[01:34:51] Yeah, it's like... I agree with that.

[01:34:53] Yeah, okay.

[01:34:54] Did that hurt?

[01:34:55] No, so not for me because I'm...

[01:34:57] Horde!

[01:34:58] Horde, Horde.

[01:34:59] You died right off you go.

[01:35:01] Yes?

[01:35:02] I've got my eye on you, son.

[01:35:04] Every move you're made, every breath you take,

[01:35:06] you know who signed up the police.

[01:35:08] It's a yes, Bill!

[01:35:09] You're like Bill to you.

[01:35:11] That's another 80s dream, right?

[01:35:12] Please, then, Jason and five of the girls hit some pugilaries!

[01:35:17] This episode is just compilations of us laughing at different things.

[01:35:21] I genuinely wished that this episode had been more structured

[01:35:25] and genuinely, I'm...

[01:35:28] Sorry.

[01:35:29] I'm sorry.

[01:35:30] We're a structure.

[01:35:31] You say it, what's wrong with what we're doing?

[01:35:33] Nothing's wrong with what you're doing.

[01:35:35] I just...

[01:35:36] Mum is telling us off.

[01:35:37] I'm telling you off!

[01:35:38] We are a structure, does it Dick and Don, my episode?

[01:35:40] Yeah, sure.

[01:35:41] Did you want this to be really structured?

[01:35:43] I mean, the show right?

[01:35:45] Yeah.

[01:35:46] It's just sprawling two and a half hours in a Saturday afternoon

[01:35:50] with no direction.

[01:35:51] The first clip of this rewatch for me was shown to us by...

[01:35:57] We name Henry, friend.

[01:35:59] Henry, friend, and Paulin.

[01:36:01] Yeah, this is a really famous moment, actually.

[01:36:04] And again, I was so ready to not find it funny

[01:36:08] that when it was funny, it was hysterical

[01:36:11] because it's something...

[01:36:12] Do you want to explain it?

[01:36:14] Yeah, it's a famous moment where a kid calls in

[01:36:18] and he's not even watching the show

[01:36:21] and he doesn't know who he's talking to

[01:36:23] and his nanagets on the phone

[01:36:25] and Dick is losing it.

[01:36:27] They don't even have access to the channel.

[01:36:29] Yes.

[01:36:30] Hello.

[01:36:31] Hello.

[01:36:32] Charlie, hello.

[01:36:33] This is a man.

[01:36:34] What man?

[01:36:35] Oh, we've got some manor of those.

[01:36:37] It's Manny.

[01:36:38] She did, she wanted her.

[01:36:40] Oh, no, no!

[01:36:41] No, no!

[01:36:42] No, no.

[01:36:43] Sturring the phone, Nanny.

[01:36:44] Say you like Nanny?

[01:36:45] Hello.

[01:36:46] Can we play the game with you?

[01:36:47] Adam?

[01:36:48] Can we play the game with you?

[01:36:49] No, I don't think so.

[01:36:50] Oh, god.

[01:36:51] It's Nanny.

[01:36:52] Is it Nanny Nobluff?

[01:36:53] It's not Nanny Nobluff?

[01:36:54] It's not Nanny Nobluff?

[01:36:56] Is that an Nanny Nobluff?

[01:36:58] Nanny Nobluff?

[01:36:59] Nanny Nobluff, no Nanny Nobluff,

[01:37:01] no Nanny Nobluff.

[01:37:02] You must know Nanny Nobluff, she knows a couple of doors down.

[01:37:05] Anyway, put Charlie on the phone.

[01:37:06] Right, right, Charlie.

[01:37:07] Like you, put Charlie on the phone.

[01:37:10] Hello.

[01:37:12] She's trying to get her sweet and hands over the bean.

[01:37:15] She wants you on the phone, so...

[01:37:17] Hello?

[01:37:20] Hello, eh?

[01:37:21] Hello!

[01:37:22] Hello!

[01:37:24] This is Simon. Who's this?

[01:37:31] Why is it that he's that idiot?

[01:37:33] No, no!

[01:37:34] Hello! He's Tom!

[01:37:35] Hello!

[01:37:36] Hello!

[01:37:37] They're getting the phone call!

[01:37:39] What's your sign? What's your name?

[01:37:41] They're watching Simon. They're watching us. Hello!

[01:37:44] Hello!

[01:37:45] Hello!

[01:37:46] He's Tom!

[01:37:47] He's Tom!

[01:37:49] Can we try it down with that one?

[01:37:51] What are you watching?

[01:37:52] Hello!

[01:37:53] Charlie!

[01:37:54] What?

[01:37:55] He's Tom from Deakin Island in the Velo.

[01:37:57] I don't know what they're saying!

[01:38:00] No, right.

[01:38:01] In a minute.

[01:38:02] No, no, no.

[01:38:03] Charlie, Charlie.

[01:38:04] I don't know what they're saying!

[01:38:06] Hello! Hello?

[01:38:08] He's calling it one, Charlie.

[01:38:10] I don't know what they're saying.

[01:38:12] Bring your nanon.

[01:38:13] Charlie!

[01:38:14] Put my nanon on.

[01:38:15] No, no, no, no.

[01:38:16] It's Tom here from Deakin Island in the Velo.

[01:38:22] He's Tom from Deakin Island in the Velo.

[01:38:24] It's Ant from Ants and Decks.

[01:38:26] Hi.

[01:38:27] Oh, you're not here!

[01:38:29] Oh, you're not here!

[01:38:31] Charlie!

[01:38:32] No, Charlie, Charlie.

[01:38:34] Charlie!

[01:38:35] Charlie!

[01:38:36] No!

[01:38:37] Charlie!

[01:38:38] Charlie!

[01:38:39] Hello?

[01:38:40] Hello, Nan.

[01:38:41] Nanny.

[01:38:42] Charlie phoned up to play a game on a project with Deakin Don...

[01:38:47] How is that possible though?

[01:38:49] I don't know.

[01:38:50] Because it didn't used to be free of you.

[01:38:53] In the early 2000s, you'd have a TV that only had six tunnels.

[01:38:58] So you enjoyed that, did you?

[01:39:00] Yeah, that was very funny.

[01:39:02] Because again, I love live TV.

[01:39:05] Not faux-pars but like...

[01:39:07] When it doesn't go quite according to plan,

[01:39:11] I really enjoy that.

[01:39:13] The underbelly of stuff is always more interesting than the polished version of it.

[01:39:17] How are we gonna round this one off?

[01:39:20] BOOM!

[01:39:21] BOOM!

[01:39:22] Yay!

[01:39:23] So again.

[01:39:25] Of course, we do need to do the social stuff.

[01:39:29] And...

[01:39:30] Fucking hell!

[01:39:32] So yeah, socials.

[01:39:35] Yeah, alright.

[01:39:37] So you can find us on Instagram at thoughtstvdozer0.

[01:39:41] Our Discord is linked on all the socials.

[01:39:44] Come on over.

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[01:39:48] We are on the ethernet.

[01:39:49] We love the ethernet.

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[01:39:57] Thank you for listening.

[01:39:58] Ah!

[01:39:59] Oh, we have a Patreon now.

[01:40:00] We do.

[01:40:01] Yeah, we do.

[01:40:02] Yeah.

[01:40:03] Yes and we're about to record some content for the Patreon.

[01:40:06] I've just got a calm down to talk more serious.

[01:40:09] So yeah, we all do need to calm down a little bit.

[01:40:12] Subscribe to us there and hopefully see you.

[01:40:17] Thank you for listening.

[01:40:18] This has been...

[01:40:19] It's been real guys.

[01:40:21] It's been real.

[01:40:22] It's been real.

[01:40:23] It's been real.

[01:40:24] Yeah.