EP.279 - Q&A 1

Adam answers questions from the podcats about how he selects guests, whether he'd interview Elon Musk, misheard lyrics to the Like And Subscribe jingle, where the Entertainer jingle comes from, getting kids into music, the best gifts he's received and given and whether his hugs are 'creepy' or not. Recorded face-to-face with Diggory in London on 18 June, 2026 Thanks to Diggory Waite and Claire Broughton at Hattrick and Séamus Murphy Mitchell for production support. Podcast illustration by Helen Green https://helengreenillustration.com/ ADAM BUXTON PODCAST LIVE WITH MAWAAN RIZWAAN https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/adam-buxton-podcast-cf/ @ Roundhouse, London, 5 August, 2026 (Roundhouse) JOIN ADAM'S PATREON https://patreon.com/AdamBuxton and find out about playing your Patreon content through you existing podcast app HERE https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-gb/sections/360011948952-Audio-RSS THE ADAM AND JOE 30th ANNIVERSARY LIVE SHOW https://www.axs.com/uk/events/1517768/the-adam-and-joe-show-tickets/promopage/83396?skin=aegpresentsuk PRE SALE (Wednesday 29th & Thursday 30th July) THE ADAM AND JOE 30th ANNIVERSARY LIVE SHOW http://aegp.uk/AdamandJoe GENERAL SALE (10am, Friday 31st July) SEND IN PATREON JINGLES AND QUESTIONS mailto:[email protected] ADAM'S MUSIC FOR CHILDREN PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6KzNfh41RkoHV5FMVL3HS5?si=7b2e5706ba384493 (Spotify) BACKBEAT LEATHER GUITAR STRAPS https://www.backbeatleather.co.uk/collections/canditates COLLAPSIBLE STOOL https://www.dunelm.com/product/small-sage-step-stool-1000235030?defaultSkuId=30658224&branchCode=0535&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Utility_Cleaning-PMax_%5BGOO-LIA-HOMEHYGIENE-CLEANING%5D&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20599969652&gbraid=0AAAAADGqyX1vsbN4mWi_NikFoi_f6kGCZ&gclid=CjwKCAjwpqHTBhAcEiwAj2AfugmP--45yseMliQdx7c-4kjdrKzAHr2gHqDFvSxD5ja1_wvsJrZRChoCGzEQAvD_BwE (Dunelm) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:00Adam Buxton?

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• 0:41Adam Buxton?

  does look great. Videos of you airing your views, members' areas for your mad fans. You've even got a merch store, I see. That's right, the Union Jack top hat is a big seller. But they constructed it all so fast with Squarespace. They did most of it over one lunchtime, Steve. Well, you wouldn't want to spend much longer on it, would you? Shut up, Steve. But here's the thing, anyone listening to this can start a free trial right now at Squarespace.com/Buxton and see how easy and versatile Squarespace is. And when they're ready to launch a new website or domain, they can save 10% off their first purchase by using the offer code BUXTON at checkout. Right, well, maybe I'll visit Squarespace.com/Buxton and start a new website just to refute all the nonsense in your new book. Oh, don't do that, Steve. I will. Oh, shut up, Steve. Uh. Shut up. Now, back to more depressing matters on Newswind.

• 1:26Adam Buxton?

  I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin. Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening. I took my microphone and found some human folk. Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke. My name is Adam Buxton, I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan.

• 1:58Adam Buxton?

  Hey, how are you doing, podcats? It's Adam Buxton here. I'm reporting to you from a crunchy Norfolk farm track towards the end of July 2026. I'm here with my best dog friend, Rosie Buxton. How are you, dog?

• 2:17Speaker 01

  It's too hot.

• 2:18Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, tell me about it.

• 2:20Speaker 01

  Well, it's 29 degrees today. It's gonna get even hotter tomorrow. It's the latest in a series of heatwaves caused by heat domes, high-pressure systems, and human-caused climate change.

• 2:33Adam Buxton?

  I didn't mean literally tell me about it, but thanks.

• 2:35Speaker 01

  You're welcome.

• 2:36Adam Buxton?

  It's not even sunny, that's the thing. Just now, it's quite cloudy. Out here in Norfolk, cloudy and hot, but at least there's a little bit of a breeze. There's a lot of flies. It's party time for the fly community in Castle Buckles. Also, the cows are back in the field, as of a few weeks. And when the cows come back, the fly population seems to shoot up. I mean, I guess they love all them pets. Who doesn't love a pet?

• 3:08Speaker 01

  I like a pet.

• 3:09Adam Buxton?

  Sure. Hey, podcats, I'm sorry this episode has taken longer to appear than I said it would in the previous episode. I've had a very busy couple of weeks getting ready for shows with the band at Latitude and Deershed Festival last weekend. I'll tell you a bit about how they went in a minute, and then I will share details of an Adam and Joe Show anniversary event later this year. And of course, there will be info about the new Adam Buxton Podcast Patreon page and the exciting bonus content that you will find there. I have to stop thinking of bonus every time I say the phrase bonus content. But

• 3:51Adam Buxton?

  first, please don't forget that I will be appearing at the Camden Roundhouse next week as I speak on Wednesday, the 5th of August, as part of the Roundhouse Comedy Festival. I'm gonna be fooling around on stage, and then I will be talking with BAFTA award-winning actor and comedian, Mahwan Rizwan, currently getting rave reviews for his performance in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uy, a new production from the Royal Shakespeare Company starring Mark Gatiss. But Mahwan is one of the people that critics are singling out for praise in that show. He's so hot right now. Come and see myself and Mahwan getting

• 4:32Adam Buxton?

  to know each other in Camden next week. For the under 30s, let me tell you, tickets are only £5 across the Roundhouse Comedy Festival. Sickeningly, I just. And next week, I will also be recording a podcast, though not in front of a live audience, with one of America's funniest women, Kristen Schaal. You know, she plays Mel, the obsessive fan in Flight of the Conchords, and she stars in The Last Man on Earth. She's in What We Do in the Shadows, provides voices for Bob's Burgers, Gravity Falls, BoJack Horseman, and too many other shows to mention. But she is also a brilliant and hilarious live performer. You'll be able to hear my conversation with Kristen later in the year.

• 5:15Adam Buxton?

  But if you're at the Edinburgh Fringe between the 12th and the 16th of August, you can see Kristen's new comedy play, The Legend of Crystal Shell, about, quotes, "an extraordinary soul hiding from the world because of a fantastic secret." It's at the Pleasance Courtyard in Edinburgh, and you can also catch it in London as part of the Roundhouse Comedy Festival on Monday, the 17th of August. But I hope to see you next week at the Roundhouse. It was great to meet lots of you at Latitude when I was there on Friday and Saturday last week. The Adam Buxton Band was the first act to play in the big tent there, the second

• 5:54Adam Buxton?

  stage. And it was big. That's the biggest crowd I've played in front of. 3K, 3.5K, I reckon. A lot of K, anyway. And it was really fun. We had a great time. Might have been one of the best shows we've done, even though I wish I hadn't made the decision

• 6:15Adam Buxton?

  to put my sticky performer pass on the front of my hat, dangling down over my forehead for the entire show. I stuck it on there in the dressing room just beforehand and thought it was funny, so I thought, yeah, leave it on there. And I wish someone had said to me beforehand, "Oh, yeah, don't go on stage like that, though. It'll just confuse everybody." But there you go. Sometimes I despair of my instincts. Oh, well, live and learn. Over the last few weeks, I also spent a lot of time preparing for the Bug, David Byrne, and Talking Heads special that I did with comedian Ivo Graham at the Listening Post at Latitude. Thank you very much to everyone who came along to that as well. As with a lot of festival

• 6:58Adam Buxton?

  shows, especially if you're doing something you haven't done before, it was occasionally shambolic, but in a fun way, I hope. And there were some wonderful sing-along moments, culminating in a full tent of people standing and singing Psycho Killer, while a small band that included my son Frank on guitar played on the stage. It was a very happy moment. That is a good song to sing along with. Hard one to sing on your own, unless you're super confident, but in a crowd, great fun. Then, of course, we got to see David Byrne himself, performing at Latitude that night on the main stage. Had a little bit

• 7:38Adam Buxton?

  of a cough at one point. It was very dusty over the whole of the weekend. Maybe some of that festival dust got on his tonsils, but he turned in a beautiful set. Nevertheless, I sang along with pretty much every single song. I was in the crowd with my family, and we made good use of the little plastic collapsible stool that Ivo Graham had distributed to various people at the Bug Show earlier, intended to give the more vertically modest festival goers like myself a better view when watching your favourite performer. And it really worked.

• 8:17Adam Buxton?

  My wife, my wife, didn't need it, because she is a person of more flamboyant stature. But the shorter Buxtons took turns standing on it and getting to experience the high life. That's pretty good up there with the Tallies, isn't it? Can see a lot better. Even the sound is clearer. Seriously, if you're a fellow short person, I recommend the collapsible stool for your next gig experience. I'll put a link in the description to something similar. Not sponsored, I should add. But I'm very grateful to Ivo for the thoughtful gesture, and indeed to everyone who came along to that show and the show

• 8:58Adam Buxton?

  with the band, and then the Deershed show in Yorkshire on the weekend. There's a lot of young children there. Couple of them had made flags out of shorts and decorated the shorts, and I got them on stage. While we played shorts and they waved them around, it felt like a beautiful moment, but it's possible that it looked incredibly creepy.

• 9:25Adam Buxton?

  I hope not. Okay, The Adam and Joe Show 30th Anniversary Live Show is happening on Wednesday, the 11th of November 2026. Joe Cornish and I are going to take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall. No, that is not a joke. And there, we will waffle nostalgically about making The Adam and Joe Show for Channel 4 back in the late 90s and early 2000s. That's right. Our silly homemade show that we made at the end of our misspent 20s gained enough

• 10:03Adam Buxton?

  of a minor cult following for us to have gained entry to one of the UK's best loved and most legendary live venues. I saw Pixies playing there a couple of months back and was reminded what an extraordinary place it is and what a good atmosphere you can have in there when a bunch of like-minded enthusiasts get together to watch something they love. And I hope that's going to happen on the 11th of November. There'll be a big screen there. Joe and I will play some favourite clips from the show, including seldom seen and never seen behind the scenes nuggets. We'll perform some classic music from The

• 10:44Adam Buxton?

  Adam and Joe Show with the Adam Buxton Band, who are going to come along. Let us know which ones you'd like to hear. You can either email me, address in the description, or get in touch with Joe on his Instagram. General ticket sales for the show will start at 10am on Friday, the 31st of July via the Royal Albert Hall website. However, exclusive pre-sale tickets will be available as I speak tomorrow morning, Wednesday, the 29th, at 10am via the link in the description. You'll also find it on the front page of my website, adam-buxton.co.uk and on the new Adam Buxton Podcast Patreon page. So yes, I am launching a Patreon page,

• 11:26Adam Buxton?

  in case I haven't gone on enough about it already. A subscription of £3 a month will enable you to access two extra episodes a month. One of those episodes will be a Q&A with me answering questions that you have sent in, a taster of which you're about to hear in this episode. The other monthly episode will feature bonus content. I've done a new jingle for that. Here's a little bit of it. B-O-N-U-S-C-O-N-T-E-N-T. It's time for some bonus content. Bonus.

• 12:11Adam Buxton?

  The bonus content will consist of either whole interviews that have never been heard before, or they might be compilations of excellent sections that, for whatever reason, were cut from previous episodes. This month's bonus content episode is already up on the Patreon, and it is a previously unheard conversation with best friend of the podcast, Louis Theroux, in which myself and Louis talk more about staying abreast of podcast trends and also some of the horror films that we've been watching recently and the general enthusiasm

• 12:52Adam Buxton?

  for horror in the culture. There's a very short section of that bonus episode conversation in the Q&A later by way of a tease when I'm answering a question about how we select the guests for the podcast. Patreon subscribers will also have the option to listen to the podcast without ads. There's also access to group chats with other Patreon subscribers. Plus, you will be the first to access any experiments, outtakes, bits of video nuggets from my audio archives, et cetera, that I post on the Patreon page from time to time. It will also be the place to find early or maybe discounted live show tickets like The

• 13:35Adam Buxton?

  Adam and Joe 30th Anniversary Show. And at some point, we're hoping there'll be some merch available there, too. To sign up for the Patreon page, go to patreon.com/adambuxton or follow the link in the description. Now, I would recommend signing up on a browser first, rather than via the Patreon app if you're on iOS, as Apple add a cut, which will make it more expensive for you. And it's important to note, you do not need the Patreon app to listen to ad-free or bonus episodes. If you subscribe to the Patreon, you can link your existing podcast app- As long as it is one of those that is supported.

• 14:17Adam Buxton?

  And get the bonus and ad-free episodes there. If you want to know exactly how that works, I will leave a how-to link in the description. Also, for people who are not going to sign up to the Patreon, please may I assure you that nothing is going to change about the main podcast. It'll still be there and it'll still be free. So anyway, we'd love your questions for future Q&A episodes. Please do keep sending them in. You'll find the email link in the description. By all means, send in a voice note of you asking your question. Please keep it concise. And also, if we answer your question on the Q&A,

• 15:01Adam Buxton?

  Diggery, who is managing the Patreon page, promises to give you your first month for free. That's generous. Also, as I know we have a lot of musical listeners, if you would like to, please do send in jingles for the Q&A episodes. Nothing too long, 30 seconds max. And if we get some good ones in, we'll play them on the Q&A episodes. Send those to the same place as the questions. Okay, that was a lot of info. So for the six of you remaining, let's get on with Q&A episode number one. By the way, this was recorded with podcast production support assistant Diggery Wait a few weeks ago, back in June 2026. Today, I will be back at the end, answering another couple of questions that a few of you have been asking recently.

• 15:46Adam Buxton?

  But right now, with the brand new Q&A jingle, here we go. Yes, I invited you to send in questions. I said, "Ask anything you want." We read every single one and picked some that were fun. And then I bollocked on and on and on. In the Q&A, the Q&A, in the Q&A, the Q&A, in the Q&A, the Q&A. Hooray, hooray, it's the Q&A. Here it comes.

• 16:30Speaker 02

  So, the first one's from Mark, and Mark says, "I wondered what your process is for selecting guests for the show. I know you've had a number of guests who you've already had some connection with through comedy, but do you just get interested in a particular person and then invite them on the show?"

• 16:44Adam Buxton?

  It's a combination of factors. Certainly originally, when I started doing the podcast, I just thought, "I'll just talk to people I know. That'll keep it simple." Easy to track down because half the ball ache of doing a podcast, more than half, is securing guests. And it's really tough and quite humiliating-

• 17:04Speaker 02

  No.

• 17:05Adam Buxton?

  -in a funny way. Because you're begging people, "Please, come on my podcast. Please, it'd be so nice." Anyway, how do we select them? Well, it is a combination of people being dangled, just the treadmill of promotion that people are on for books, films, music, whatever. And if it is someone that I am interested in or like already, then yeah, great. Sometimes it'll be someone who just seems interesting. And then it's just lucky that they've come along, like, oh yeah, I guess Harry Enfield had a tour.

• 17:41Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 17:42Adam Buxton?

  And that's, that's one thing that happens quite a lot, is people say, "Yes, but not now." Because they're in the middle of doing other things or whatever. And they say, "Can we do it like when my book is finished or whatever?" And then a lot of the time, you know, there are returning guests, friends of the podcast, the Louis Theroux's, the Tash Demetrius', the Tim Kees', the people who I just always love talking to. And if it were up to me, it would just be them, I think.

• 18:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 18:12Adam Buxton?

  All the time.

• 18:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 18:14Adam Buxton?

  But no, it's nice to keep it varied. And actually, I do meet people quite often who say, "I really like the podcast and I particularly like discovering new people that I wouldn't otherwise have known about." So that's always a nice compliment. And I do too, you know, it's really nice to be able to check things out and slightly broaden my cultural horizons.

• 18:36Speaker 02

  I do have a follow-up question-

• 18:37Adam Buxton?

  Yep.

• 18:38Speaker 02

  -from Dan from Chester, who says, "How long does it take you to prep for a guest? You always seem to have to read their books, a few interviews and other materials. When it comes to a guest like, say, Patrick Raden Keefe, this is no mean feat. His books are not short."

• 18:53Adam Buxton?

  No, that's true. It takes a while, especially with someone like him. I think the most prep I ever did was Colum Tobe and ended up reading, in inverted commas, I think, three or four of his books. But you know, the, the big thing here is audiobooks.

• 19:10Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 19:11Adam Buxton?

  And so that is what I use most often.

• 19:15Speaker 02

  Of course.

• 19:16Adam Buxton?

  But I don't put them on like triple speed. I'm enjoying them. I'm, I'm munching them properly, but it means that I can do other things. It means I can listen to them on walks or on the train or, you know, there are parts of my life where I probably wouldn't be doing anything else. And in those moments, I do stuff my brain with audiobooks and it'll usually be prep for a guest.

• 19:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 19:42Adam Buxton?

  So that's very useful. Sometimes you don't get the audiobook option and you end up having to read with your eyes, like in the olden times.

• 19:51Speaker 02

  It just takes so long.

• 19:52Adam Buxton?

  It takes ages.

• 19:53Speaker 02

  It takes ages.

• 19:54Adam Buxton?

  But also, the bad thing is that sometimes you just get a PDF and you have to just read with your eyes on a PDF. And that's kind of a pain in the ass. But on the other hand, you can copy and excerpt things more easily than you can with the audiobook. But yeah, so it's, it takes a while. Certainly if it's a writer and certainly if it's someone who's done a lot and is kind of legendary, Ian McEwan-

• 20:24Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 20:25Adam Buxton?

  -people like that, Kazuo Ishiguro-

• 20:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 20:29Adam Buxton?

  You do think like, "I do not want to be caught looking like an absolute tool here and not knowing some obvious stuff about your back catalogue." But obviously- See, there's no way I can read everything.

• 20:41Speaker 02

  No.

• 20:41Adam Buxton?

  So you read the latest thing. And I think most people, like, no one's ever gonna call you out, like, have you not read my early trilogy?

• 20:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, but if they did, that'd be great radio.

• 20:52Adam Buxton?

  It probably would. Yeah, yeah. I just have to say, no, I'm sorry.

• 20:55Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 20:56Adam Buxton?

  Your PR people assured me that I didn't need to.

• 21:00Speaker 02

  Okay, we've got another one here from Sasha from Germany.

• 21:03Adam Buxton?

  Hmm.

• 21:04Speaker 02

  Which person would make you too starstruck so that you would decline an interview, even if it was offered to you?

• 21:10Adam Buxton?

  I don't think anyone would have that effect on me. I mean, the thing is that there are people who are so famous and you feel so anxious around. And that you really don't want to humiliate yourself in front of, that it paralyzes you. And I, I, I felt that with Paul McCartney and I felt very viscerally anxious and nervous. And I was starstruck. I think if you're not starstruck by a Beatle, then you're not gonna be starstruck by any other human being. But that was something which just, you know, I just had to do loads and loads of prep and boost my McCartney knowledge.

• 21:52Adam Buxton?

  And in the end, he made it fine because he's a charming guy and he, you know, put me at my ease.

• 22:00Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 22:01Adam Buxton?

  And I think it worked well in the end, but that, that was as starstruck as I've ever been, I think. I mean, I was quite starstruck with Jeff Goldblum, actually.

• 22:11Speaker 02

  Really?

• 22:11Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, because he's like, I really like a lot of Jeff Goldblum films. The Fly is one that made a huge impression on me when I was younger, uh, but also The Tall Guy.

• 22:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, I haven't seen that.

• 22:23Adam Buxton?

  Oh, it's really good.

• 22:24Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:25Adam Buxton?

  There's a couple of very, very funny scenes in it. Anyway, we liked that movie when we were younger, when I say we, me and Joe and our pals. But he also has a fairly impenetrable firewall of charm. A lot of very famous people you meet, either they're standoffish.

• 22:45Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 22:45Adam Buxton?

  Or they're charming, but it's a protective veneer. Because everybody wants something from them and everybody's trying to connect with them and get through to them and it's not practical really to exist in that way, day to day. So you, you do have to just screen people out to a certain degree.

• 23:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 23:05Adam Buxton?

  And he was a bit like that. He was a bit like, um, charming as a defence, I would say.

• 23:13Speaker 02

  Was it helpful with Paul being on Zoom? Did that make it, did you, were you less or starstruck or did that?

• 23:20Adam Buxton?

  I think it makes it worse if they're on Zoom, because if they're in the room, you just have to kind of get over it. And also, you know, human beings generally, as, as, as long as you're not a total psychopath, part of what you do when you're meeting someone is you send out physical cues to relax them and to indicate that you're friendly and you're not gonna hurt them and it's all gonna be fine. And so generally, that's what would happen in a kind of friendly interview environment. I don't really end up doing the kind of interviews that, for example, Louis does, where he is perhaps talking to people who are, well, he does it in his docs, I guess, much more, who, who are perhaps not well disposed towards you and who are defensive or even aggressive.

• 24:04Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 24:05Adam Buxton?

  And I would find that very difficult. The physical tics that would show on my face when I get anxious would, would have a chilling effect on the interaction, I think.

• 24:15Speaker 02

  Was it Louis you talked to about, um, he asked you if you'd have Elon Musk on your podcast?

• 24:20Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, we were talking about that and.

• 24:24Speaker 02

  That's a no.

• 24:25Adam Buxton?

  No, I don't think so, because obviously there, there's a kind of curiosity value

• 24:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 24:30Adam Buxton?

  in having someone like that, in having a public figure who is so extraordinary in a way, whether you approve of them or not. Would you have Elon Musk on?

• 24:41Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 24:42Adam Buxton?

  Would you?

• 24:42Speaker 02

  Wouldn't you?

• 24:43Adam Buxton?

  No.

• 24:44Speaker 02

  Why not?

• 24:44Adam Buxton?

  Because what am I gonna say to Elon Musk?

• 24:47Speaker 02

  What are you not gonna say?

• 24:49Adam Buxton?

  I feel like every time I stray into any fairly serious political area on my podcast, I feel totally out of my depth and that I'm not really contributing much of value to that conversation. Do you know what I mean?

• 25:01Speaker 02

  Well, that's fine. I mean, I think Joe Rogan would say the same. Like Joe Rogan, when he was doing, I remember one of his first or second Elon Musk interview, there's a bit goes, I don't understand, it's making my head hurt. Like, he sort of owns up to how confusing.

• 25:18Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, but isn't that generally seen as being part of the problem with his style of podcasting, is that he's just?

• 25:24Speaker 02

  He's just platforming people and.

• 25:27Adam Buxton?

  And not properly cross.

• 25:28Speaker 02

  Not interrogating.

• 25:29Adam Buxton?

  Not interrogating them, yeah.

• 25:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's, that, that, there's, I can see why people would say that, but, you know, on the other side, you get some on for three hours and so you kind of learn about them.

• 25:40Speaker 03

  Perspective? Uh, no. Reproduction? Uh, no. Silence? Uh, no. A dog shit? Uh, yes.

• 25:49Speaker 02

  Uh, this is from Isabel and Isabel says, my question for Adam is about the age of his listeners. I am 24 and started listening to the podcast last year at 23. And I'm very interested to know if Adam knows the average age of Adam Buck's and podcast listeners. I'd like to imagine I'm amongst the youngest, but I could be mistaken. From the way he talks, I often feel Adam imagines he is speaking to listeners close to his own age. But I want to fly the flag for young listeners like me. Hello?

• 26:14Adam Buxton?

  Hello, Isabel. How are you? Gosh, you've grown. Look at you, gosh, standing up on your own. That's great. Well done. Thank you so much for writing. I bet that took a long time, didn't it? That's a joke about talking to young people. Thanks so much for that message, Isabel. I'm very flattered that you would listen. I do feel like there are younger people that listen, generally because their parents listen. And they grew up listening in the car or whatever and being forced to hear my stupid voice. And maybe they responded to some of the sillier bits or the jingles or whatever and formed a relationship with the podcast in that way. Um, so yeah, there are some younger listeners

• 27:00Adam Buxton?

  in that mould, uh, which is fantastic. I mean, there are times when I feel I have to explain some of my references, but on the whole, what you're getting is my perspective as a man in his late 50s with a family.

• 27:40Speaker 02

  This question is from Carol Green from New Zealand.

• 27:43Adam Buxton?

  Hello, Carol.

• 27:44Speaker 02

  That's, New Zealand, that's pretty cool.

• 27:46Adam Buxton?

  Beautiful.

• 27:47Speaker 02

  Question, says Carol, what is the line in your like and subscribe song after give me a little smile and a thumbs up? All I hear is the egg corn, nice sycophant with me bums up, and I know it can't be that. Similarly, Paul asks, in your podcast end song, when you sing, give a little smile and thumbs up, nice sycophant when me bums up, who is the sycophant you're referring to and why are they being nice when your bum's up?

• 28:12Adam Buxton?

  I mean, it does make sense as a lyric, but that's not what the lyric is. It is.

• 28:17Speaker 02

  Isn't what the lyric is?

• 28:18Adam Buxton?

  No, it's no, nothing about being a sycophant.

• 28:21Speaker 02

  This is gonna, this is, this is exclusive, by the way.

• 28:26Adam Buxton?

  It is like classic albums now. I've pulled up the session for like and subscribe. And isolated the vocals.

• 28:34Speaker 04

  Like and subscribe, like and subscribe, like and subscribe, please like and subscribe. Gimme like a smile and a thumbs up, nice like a pat when me bums up. Gimme like a smile and a thumbs up, nice like a pat when me bums up.

• 28:51Adam Buxton?

  A nice like a pat. That's what it is. A nice little pat.

• 28:54Speaker 02

  Ah, the, honestly, this is massive. This is actually massive. And you know what? I'm just gonna ask another question off the back of this. This is from Dan, who says, I'd like to know if the pops on the two and four in each bar of like and subscribe are samples of you making the noise yourself or something already in GarageBand, et cetera? Well, I imagine that's logic.

• 29:16Adam Buxton?

  Uh, this is logic.

• 29:21Adam Buxton?

  Trying to find it.

• 29:25Adam Buxton?

  There it is.

• 29:27Adam Buxton?

  You can hear me breathing. That, that's me doing the pop sound. There you go.

• 29:38Speaker 02

  This is. This is genuinely crazy.

• 29:41Adam Buxton?

  Uh, and how did I do? I can't remember. I may have just been very close on the mic, just going like that.

• 29:47Speaker 02

  I think that's it. Cause I'm not gonna lie, I feel like going like.

• 29:52Adam Buxton?

  There you go, that's exactly.

• 29:53Speaker 02

  Over and over again is crazy.

• 29:55Adam Buxton?

  Really?

• 29:56Speaker 02

  Uh, well, maybe not crazy, but I, I mean, I think understanding, like, like, like Dan says, I think that's the kind of thing that you might just think, oh, I found that in GarageBand, I'll just go on.

• 30:03Adam Buxton?

  Well, a lot of stuff I have done like that. Like, I'm, I'm not always finding homemade solutions. Listen, you know, the theme tune is a piece of library music.

• 30:13Speaker 02

  Really?

• 30:13Adam Buxton?

  Yeah. I added one more podcast, that's a piece of country library music.

• 30:18Speaker 02

  Ah.

• 30:19Adam Buxton?

  And I just sang over the top of it. That was like ages ago when I was trying to think of theme tunes and what would work for a new podcast and I think I was up quite late and I'd had some wine.

• 30:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:33Adam Buxton?

  And sang over that one and that worked quite well. Yeah. I mean, you know, that's how me and Joe, actually, we didn't use, um, library music that much. I don't think it was mainly loops.

• 30:43Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 30:44Adam Buxton?

  But every now and again, you find a nice bit of library music.

• 30:47Speaker 02

  Why not?

• 30:48Adam Buxton?

  You've paid your subscription.

• 30:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:50Adam Buxton?

  Have some fun.

• 30:50Speaker 02

  Exactly. Okay. I feel like for the music people out there, we loved that.

• 30:55Adam Buxton?

  Okay.

• 30:56Speaker 02

  We love that. Uh, this is a question from Rachel. I absolutely love your musical interludes between your chats. My favourite is the school band rendition of The Entertainer.

• 31:05Adam Buxton?

  Oh, yeah.

• 31:47Speaker 02

  It's brilliant and it makes me chuckle every single time. My question is, is it a real band? If so, where and when is it from? Or is it you and your hugely talented musical skills? I really want it to be real.

• 31:59Adam Buxton?

  Yes, it's real. Of course it's real. It is a concert from one of my children's schools. I won't say which one, but yeah, it was when they were very little and I went along and taped the concert, which my dad used to do as well. He used to come to things I did at school with his dictaphone and he would tape stuff. So I got into that habit and that one was so sweet. It really made me laugh. I like a album that Brian Eno did with the Portsmouth Symphonia. Do you know that? About the Portsmouth Symphonia?

• 32:35Speaker 02

  I don't.

• 32:36Adam Buxton?

  Founded by students at the Portsmouth School of Art in 1970 and it was open to absolutely anyone, but it ended up having a lot of people joining it who didn't actually know how to play music or couldn't really play the instruments that well. So they was, maybe they knew a little bit, but they were by no means top notch. And so they were just, you know, rank amateurs who were just having fun, having a go at sort of approximating what they thought they should do for whatever they were playing. And like, let's see if I can call one up. This is them

• 33:17Adam Buxton?

  doing Alzo Sprak Zarastustra, AKA the theme from 2001.

• 33:46Adam Buxton?

  He's nailed it, the tympani man. Everyone else.

• 33:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, everyone else, eh.

• 33:50Adam Buxton?

  Couple more goes, but so it's often thought of as kind of a comedy novelty thing, but actually it's really quite cool that, you know, you get some much more interesting, refreshing sounds sometimes out of people who don't necessarily know what they're doing. And I'm not saying it's better than a trained orchestra. It's just different and it's just a sort of fun alternative. And I don't think by the way that my kids orchestra that I recorded

• 34:30Adam Buxton?

  was in the kind of Portsmouth Symphonia category. They were very talented young players, but there was a sweet wonkiness to it. And I really loved it. And when I put some beats on it.

• 34:44Speaker 02

  Of course.

• 34:45Adam Buxton?

  It worked really nicely. Plus the entertainer by Scott Joplin, ragtime genius from the early 20th century. You know, that's a pretty uplifting piece of music, I think. Thank you, Rachel. I'm glad you like it. I really like that one too.

• 35:55Speaker 02

  This one's from James and James says, I've listened to your podcast since before I had children and now I have two boys, aged nearly four and nearly nine. Your musings on getting your own children into listening to your music tastes warned me a lot. Do you have any advice in how to get children receptive? What should one avoid? What's the most obscure? You've tried to push it. Do you buy the music as gifts? Have they started listening to anything now that you just downright disapprove of and you wonder where you might have gone wrong?

• 36:24Adam Buxton?

  Well, I remember when they were very little, my kids, I did not want to listen to those kind of cheesy kids CDs that you get, which is like kids music that drives you fucking nuts. And there was also a lot of things that were like the Ramones done as kids music and things like that, you know? I didn't like any of that really. I thought, let's just listen to the Ramones, shall we? That's pretty good. And I think if something's really catchy and fun, you're going to respond to it, whatever age you are really. I mean, there's some music that's quite downbeat or a bit scary that I wouldn't necessarily play for kids.

• 37:09Speaker 02

  Can you expand on scary?

• 37:10Adam Buxton?

  Scary music. Have you heard the song Frankie Teardrop by Suicide?

• 37:20Speaker 02

  No. I mean, already the title is.

• 37:22Adam Buxton?

  Yeah. I don't know if I would play that in the car with some toddlers.

• 37:26Speaker 02

  Right.

• 37:27Adam Buxton?

  Stuff with screaming or very extreme swearing or, you know what I mean? Like stuff like that I would generally avoid. I mean, I did a sketch about all that for a show called Rush Hour, a sketch show on BBC Three years ago that I was in, in the early 2000s, I think. And it's me and Kerry Godleman in a car and we did a few as me as rock dad, trying to shape the tastes of his children by playing them difficult and challenging music on the school run, including in one sketch, NWA's Fuck the Police. But the sketch was about

• 38:09Adam Buxton?

  me riding the volume knob so that every time there was a swear or a bit of, you know, problematic language, I would replace it with something kiddie friendly.

• 38:20Speaker 02

  Did you do that live?

• 38:22Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, it took ages.

• 38:23Speaker 02

  I was gonna say, the timing had to be, wow, okay, I've got to check this out. That's amazing.

• 38:28Adam Buxton?

  It took a long time.

• 38:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 38:30Adam Buxton?

  But yeah, we did several sketches and it was all about what do you play to your kids in the car? But it was so important to me, you know, I had a sketch as well where I was trying to teach my kid all about, you know, I was quizzing him about Bowie's career or, you know, who did Brian Eno produce? I can't remember exactly what it was. And getting very angry with the kid if they got any dates wrong and stuff like that. And I think there's definitely a part of me that is that person, but I would never get angry with them. You know what I mean? All I ever wanted to do was introduce them to this stuff. And like, I remember my parents' friends playing the Beatles. I remember going around to their groovy friend's house in Scotland and I think their friends were a little bit younger than

• 39:15Adam Buxton?

  my parents were, certainly quite a bit younger than my dad, I think. And they were playing Sergeant Pepper and it must have been, you know, about five years after Sergeant Pepper came out. And I was digging it, you know, I can remember being beguiled and intrigued by the music and the sound and their voices. And when music's really good, you get it. You just want to hear more. You're like, what was that? I want to hear more of that. Anyway, I write in my book, ramble book about connecting with my son Natty when he was in the depths of teenage unreachableity. On the school run, when he was pretty grumpy and I always used to have this thing with the kids, like of saying, how was your day? Almost

• 39:59Adam Buxton?

  to antagonize them really, when they, because I knew they were just going to go, fine. It's like, what did you do? Nothing. Go on, you must have done something. Tell me about it. What lessons did you have?

• 40:10Speaker 02

  English.

• 40:11Adam Buxton?

  How was that? What did you learn about?

• 40:13Speaker 02

  I can't remember.

• 40:14Adam Buxton?

  You know, it's just that every fucking day until I learned how to just shut up. And then one day it was just so depressing, me driving along, just total silence in the car. This was before they had phones and things like that. So they, you know, they were just staring out the window and I was just driving and feeling sad. And I put on Green Onions and I watched my son listen to Green Onions for the first time. I just thinking like, this cannot fail. I remember the first time I heard Green Onions. I think maybe it was on, maybe it was being played on TV or something. And I just thought, wowee, that's mad. That is the best thing I've ever heard. Just, it's just primal. Everything about

• 40:58Adam Buxton?

  it's great, you know? And I thought this, I can't go wrong with this. He's got to respond to Green Onions and he did. And I looked over and he was smiling. I was like, what do you think? And he's like, yeah, this is good.

• 41:13Speaker 02

  Oh my God, that's amazing.

• 41:14Adam Buxton?

  Yeah. I was like, yes, I fucking got through to you.

• 41:18Speaker 02

  I did it.

• 41:18Adam Buxton?

  Thanks to Booker T and the MGS. I mean, I've had lots of moments with them, with all of them like that. I had another one playing, I Want You, She's So Heavy from Abbey Road.

• 41:34Adam Buxton?

  And that was one maybe where I just thought I'm I'm going to intimidate you with how good this is because that's scary.

• 41:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, that is a scary song.

• 41:40Adam Buxton?

  I wouldn't play that to young kids.

• 41:42Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:43Adam Buxton?

  Because it ends in this wash of feedback and scary, like it's like the end of the world.

• 41:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:50Adam Buxton?

  But that was that was a good one. He had to admit that was pretty epic when I when I played him that one. But, you know, my happiest moments at home are when music is being played and when people are taking turns are calling up songs. My daughter's got tastes that are quite different from mine. She listens to much more hip hop and she has got really good taste and plays me lots of good stuff there. And uh now my eldest son plays even more obscure indie rock than the stuff I got him into. Plus, he went off on a whole psychedelic Brazilian music jag during the lockdown, made a really good playlist, actually.

• 42:34Adam Buxton?

  It's the gift that keeps giving. I don't know if I've answered the question like, what should I play people? Well, you know, I tell you a good thing to play people is Bugsy Malone. The music on Bugsy Malone is by Paul Williams, who wrote a lot of stuff for The Muppets as well. He did the Rainbow Connection and uh he's a really interesting musical figure, Paul Williams, and the music is not exactly kids' music, but it's so appealing and tuneful and wonderful and funny and inventive. I don't know if Bugsy Malone has stuff that has aged very badly.

• 43:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm not. I don't know.

• 43:13Adam Buxton?

  Or not, but I don't think it has. I think it's pretty great. Like, we loved, I was obsessed with that film when I was little. All these kids playing gangsters and having these splurge gunfights and running around in these sedan cars and and the music was just phenomenal. So, you know, I grew up with The Muppets and Bugsy Malone. And I think as an introduction to great music, because all that music is very muso-literate, like all the stuff on The Muppet Show. They were huge music fans, Frank Cars and Jim Henson, and they were steeped in the whole world of groovy seventies music and and they fed all that into The Muppet Show and the kind of music that The Muppets would cover.

• 43:58Adam Buxton?

  Mississippi Mud and Bean Green and all these lovely songs that they would do. Fantastic versions of, anyway. The Muppets, that's a good way to inspire children with a love of music.

• 44:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:14Adam Buxton?

  And Bugsy Malone.

• 44:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think that's great. Also, I think, I have to be honest, when I read this question, the first thing that came to mind was I was just thinking, like what you said, it's in the car. That's when it will just naturally come through.

• 44:27Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, listening to music in a car is pretty good. I don't drive very often. I'm always on my bike. So when we do find ourselves in the car on long drives, and especially if the family's together, it makes me sad if everyone's listening to their own thing.

• 44:42Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:42Adam Buxton?

  And and it's more fun if everyone is listening to the same thing. That's why I like the sessions where we're stood around playing stuff at home. But yeah, if everyone's jamming on something in the car, life doesn't get much better. That's why that scene in Wayne's World cut through so much, you know, because everyone has had a euphoric moment like that, which is like, this is the fucking best. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll post a link to a playlist on Spotify. I apologize if you hate Spotify. You can just look at the list and play the song somewhere else. It will be a compilation of songs that used to be big hits in the car when my kids were little. Bit of Bugsy Malone, some Muppets, but also

• 45:24Adam Buxton?

  bit of Perey and Kingsley, early electronic pioneers and Aphex Twins, some of that stuff used to go down quite well, the more tuneful moments and a song by Robin Hitchcock called The Man Who Invented Himself that my son used to really love when he was little. And anyway, I'll put a few fun things that you might be able to play with your kids, listeners.

• 46:19Speaker 02

  So how am I pronouncing that name? Alice, Alisteri?

• 46:22Adam Buxton?

  Alistari.

• 46:23Speaker 02

  Alistari. Um, this next one's from Alistari. I'm so sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name.

• 46:29Adam Buxton?

  A L I S D A R I. Maybe they misspelled Alister.

• 46:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, oh.

• 46:34Adam Buxton?

  Could be a typo.

• 46:35Speaker 02

  Could be a typo. I wonder if that was part of their email, though. Maybe they mistype it all the time.

• 46:40Adam Buxton?

  Too late. You are now Alistari.

• 46:43Speaker 02

  Alistari says, what's the best gift you've ever been given?

• 46:49Adam Buxton?

  Wow. My wife gives me some great gifts. She gave me a big framed poster of The Man Who Fell to Earth, an original Man Who Fell to Earth poster. Nick Rogue film starring David Bowie. I love that one. That was pretty early on in our relationship and then I really thought, ah, yeah, you're great. I'm gonna marry you. Um, and she always gives me good gifts, actually. She got me a neon sign as well, like when I was not aware that you could get neon signs. Now you can get sort of LED signs fairly easily. Every podcaster has them in the back of their podcast set. But anyway, she got me an amazing proper neon sign of a design that I had like a heart

• 47:32Adam Buxton?

  with a cog around it that I used to put all over the place when I was at art school. So those were pretty great and she still smashes it out of the park gift wise. I get some lovely gifts from listeners sometimes and someone sent me a few years ago, she's called Barbie, a leather guitar strap. I'm going to give her a plug. It's called Backbeat Leather and she's based in Brighton. But it is one of the nicest things anyone has ever given me and she, you can get her to do custom uh designs on these guitar straps and she will sort of decorate them with things that are very particular to the person that you're giving it to.

• 48:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:13Adam Buxton?

  So for my one, it's covered in like ticket stubs from gigs I would have gone to and images from the Adam and Joe Show and like the Young Ones and tiny references to the things that she knows I like, Alien and Talking Heads and Bowie and like, pretty much all my interests are represented in this very intricate design on this guitar strap. It's so beautiful and I feel a bit of a wally. I mean, I wear it when I'm playing with the Adam Buxton Band.

• 48:47Speaker 02

  I was gonna ask, yeah.

• 48:48Adam Buxton?

  Even though I do feel a bit of a jerk because I feel like the artistry that's gone into making my Godan A6 guitar that I play and this beautiful strap so far out strips anything that I could ever do musically that it's a bit mad. But anyway. So there you go. That's my favorite thing.

• 49:08Speaker 02

  And is it just really comfortable as well?

• 49:10Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, it's great. It's all, everything about it is good. I mean, it deserves to be framed. After I have expired, I hope that it'll go to a good home or just be displayed for all to appreciate. It's so fantastic. I love it.

• 49:24Speaker 02

  Love that. What's the best gift you've ever given?

• 49:27Adam Buxton?

  Oh, blimey, now you're putting me on the spot.

• 49:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:30Adam Buxton?

  Uh, I thought I did a good job with Joe at Christmas and I gave him the buttons, the dog buttons.

• 49:36Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 49:36Adam Buxton?

  With the designs on them. I thought they were pretty good. And next time I've got some more time on my hands, I'm gonna do some more buttons. So if you didn't listen to that episode, listeners, well, you can find it on my website, on my blog, adam-buxton.co.uk and you can look up the blog posts for each of the episodes and for the last one with Joe at Christmas, you will see a photograph of the buttons I gave him with the, I'd drawn like the faces of the people whose voices were on each button. You press the button and you have a little recorded bit of audio that comes out. It's supposed to be for training dogs.

• 50:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:16Adam Buxton?

  But I've been using them as gifts. So there's a bit, you know, there's like a little sample of Werner Herzog. And I did a little cartoon of Werner Herzog on the front. Anyway, so there you go. I thought that was a good gift.

• 50:28Speaker 02

  That's a seriously good gift.

• 50:29Adam Buxton?

  Thank you.

• 51:02Speaker 02

  Tom says, I have a complaint.

• 51:04Adam Buxton?

  Here we go.

• 51:05Speaker 02

  A serious one.

• 51:06Adam Buxton?

  Oh geez.

• 51:07Speaker 02

  Why have you stopped playing the blog jingle when you say blog?

• 51:11Adam Buxton?

  Phew, I'm glad it was, I'm glad that was the nature of the complaint.

• 51:15Speaker 02

  You hardly say blog that often, so I refuse to believe this is some sort of anti-repetition measure. Frankly, every time you say blog and then don't play the jingle, it's such a letdown. The blog jingle is my favourite of all your jingles. That's a surprise. These days, I'll be happily enjoying an episode, you'll say blog and then continue talking like normal? I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. Anyway, love the podcast. Love you. Bye.

• 51:41Adam Buxton?

  Who's that?

• 51:42Speaker 02

  That's from Tom.

• 51:42Adam Buxton?

  Thanks, Tom. Does anyone say blog anymore, apart from me?

• 51:46Speaker 02

  I don't.

• 51:47Adam Buxton?

  No, they don't do that.

• 51:48Speaker 02

  I don't think so. Does anyone have a blog?

• 51:50Adam Buxton?

  A blog.

• 51:51Speaker 02

  The blog remains.

• 51:52Adam Buxton?

  What are you call, is it not a blog? Like what I've got, my website? Is it just a website?

• 51:57Speaker 02

  I guess it's a website.

• 51:58Adam Buxton?

  Is a blog what people used to call, you know, kind of like Substack back in the day?

• 52:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:05Adam Buxton?

  A weblog?

• 52:06Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 52:06Adam Buxton?

  Is what it was. And you would go on there and it would be like a sort of public diary and list of things. That's sort of the way I think of my website and that's why I call it the blog. And everyone, for a while, everyone just called things like that blogs. I swear to you, I'm not just imagining it. They did, they said blogs. So I still say blogs. And yeah, I did have a jingle. I do have a jingle.

• 52:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:30Adam Buxton?

  Which I did while we were on XFM, I think.

• 52:33Speaker 02

  One, two, three.

• 52:34Adam Buxton?

  I've got a blog, I've got a blog, ruddy, ruddy, shmuddi, ruddy, blog, blog, blog. I've got a blog. Here's the address, here's the address. It's adam-buxton.co.uk. So check it out. I'll try and play it more. I mean, it might be that they're being ironic and they they are driven mad by me saying blog and that the last thing they want to hear is the fucking blog jingle.

• 53:03Speaker 02

  I think they're being deadly serious.

• 53:05Adam Buxton?

  Okay.

• 53:05Speaker 02

  Um, that makes me, do you have a favourite of your jingles?

• 53:10Adam Buxton?

  Well, currently, my favourite is, this is deep level stuff, isn't it? When you think about what's going on in the world and we're talking about my favourite jingles that I've made.

• 53:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:23Adam Buxton?

  Uh, but no, this is good. This is what we need.

• 53:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:27Adam Buxton?

  Uh, I like this one.

• 53:39Adam Buxton?

  You know that one?

• 53:40Speaker 02

  No, wait, this is, when was the last time we did it?

• 53:44Adam Buxton?

  I think I used it in the last episode with Cathy Burke, maybe.

• 53:54Adam Buxton?

  I felt like that, that was almost an album thing. I felt like, oh, this is, I think this could be a song.

• 54:00Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:01Adam Buxton?

  And I did try and turn it into something, but nah. Some, some things should just stay as jingles.

• 54:06Speaker 02

  Stay as they are.

• 54:07Adam Buxton?

  But I've got a long version of that one that's like, well, longer than it should be.

• 54:13Speaker 02

  How, come on, how long is it?

• 54:15Adam Buxton?

  About four minutes or something.

• 54:16Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 54:17Adam Buxton?

  Oh, 320, okay.

• 54:19Speaker 02

  And is that how, so with, with something like that, do you, do you build the mute, the, the, the sort of music out first and then add lyrics or does it work the other

• 54:27Adam Buxton?

  Well, that one never got any lyrics. I did try lyrics for that one, I think, and they just didn't happen. Usually, I try lyrics and then I end up stripping them off. That happens sometimes.

• 54:40Speaker 02

  That's interesting. So you, you'll start, but you think, oh, that's a funny line.

• 54:44Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, like, there was one called, uh, there was one that was, that ended up as the holiday, holiday, holiday time. Um.

• 55:11Adam Buxton?

  So there was a lot of, there was a lot of waffle at the top of that one. I just thought, nah, less is more.

• 55:16Speaker 02

  Fair enough.

• 55:16Adam Buxton?

  This is usually more.

• 55:18Speaker 02

  Yeah. Okay. So your favourite one, does it have a name?

• 55:21Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, yeah. They've all got names. Yeah.

• 55:22Speaker 02

  What's the name?

• 55:23Adam Buxton?

  The, the one, the one I played, the favourite one, that's called Back to Bright.

• 55:27Speaker 02

  Back to Bright.

• 55:28Adam Buxton?

  Yeah. Maybe I was going to Brighton or something and I was feeling happy.

• 55:31Speaker 02

  That's nice. I love that.

• 55:33Adam Buxton?

  Now, Diggery, I did say to you and Claire, like, yes, filter the questions as far as what are the most fun ones or whatever. But also I did say, like, don't necessarily screen out critical stuff, right? I'm happy to engage with people with genuine criticisms or beefs or whatever like that, as long as they are engaging in a respectful way. But you haven't presented any of those to me at this point.

• 56:02Speaker 02

  No. If I can be completely honest, the messages have, I think all of them have been very positive. I, I also, I've read out the complaint.

• 56:11Adam Buxton?

  Yeah.

• 56:12Speaker 02

  We've had the complaint.

• 56:13Adam Buxton?

  That's my favourite kind of complaint about jingles.

• 56:15Speaker 02

  Exactly. And what I will say actually is, we did have someone, actually Isabel, and this wasn't just Isabel that said this. She said, I wish Adam wouldn't call them creepy hugs. They're not creepy, they're lovely.

• 56:28Adam Buxton?

  Come on, they are creepy. I'm a creepy old guy.

• 56:32Speaker 02

  No.

• 56:33Adam Buxton?

  That you don't know. I mean, you do know me. You know me in the, in the way that really matters. You know, you know, the edited version of me, the heavily edited version of me. No, I mean, it's only a joke. I'm just joking. It's a creepy hug. I'm acknowledging the fact that these days you can't hug anyone without someone making a complaint about it, can you? I think that was the joke really was, that it was just, uh, obviously, it's not creepy because not only is it, um, you know, it's, it's not physical. I'm not physically touching you. I don't know if you realise that. But it does feel physical. I think maybe partly I was acknowledging the fact that Joe Cornish teased me about it. He was

• 57:16Adam Buxton?

  like, oh, I switch off before you start doing that.

• 57:19Speaker 02

  Really?

• 57:20Adam Buxton?

  Yeah, he doesn't like it. I appreciate that some people don't like it. I mean, I think it started in the lockdown when I was like everybody else, feeling genuinely like I needed a hug and I wouldn't mind giving people a hug. But, you know, I think for some people, it's a bit of a turn off and for some people, it's sort of indefensibly soppy and, do you know what I mean? Like, it's like, oh, is this, is this what we've come to?

• 57:48Speaker 02

  Yeah. Honestly, genuinely, from all the emails that we've had, the ones that have mentioned it have all said, please tell Adam it's not creepy. And then also, a lot of other people have said similarly, that that, and I love you, bye, is always my favourite part of the episode, which is quite funny because it's the ending.

• 58:04Adam Buxton?

  Yes. Well, maybe what we've done here is filtered out absolutely everybody else and just kept the soppy listeners who like all that stuff. I'm just kidding, listeners. You're not the soppy. You're the best listeners.

• 58:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 58:18Adam Buxton?

  We've got to think of a name for these guys. The, the, um, Sop Cat sounds horrid. A little bit depressing.

• 58:27Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 58:28Adam Buxton?

  We'll think of something.

• 58:35Adam Buxton?

  Wait. This is an ad for Squarespace. Okay, we'll return to the AI apocalypse in just a wee wee moment, but first I wanted to talk about Squarespace. Do you know about Squarespace, Steve? Uh, yes, Monty. I think I might even be a little bit more tuned into modern tech, websites, et cetera, than you. I don't know, just guessing. Oh, Steve, I love this dynamic. I'm old and conservative and you're young and progressive and that's what makes the Newswind podcast such great listening. But yes, you're right. I must admit, I didn't know much about Squarespace, but because my new grumble book, Hell in a Handcart, is out this month and I look forward to getting enraged by that, so I should hope. Um, um, um. Anyway, the publishers, Bluestar and Dogwhistle, made a beautiful website for the book using Squarespace. I know, I got the newsletter that you sent out using Squarespace and the website

• 59:18Adam Buxton?

  does look great. Videos of you airing your views, members' areas for your mad fans. You've even got a merch store, I see. That's right. The Union Jack top hat is a big seller, but they constructed it all so fast with Squarespace. They did most of it over one lunchtime, Steve. Well, you wouldn't want to spend much longer on it, would you? Shut up, Steve. But here's the thing, anyone listening to this can start a free trial right now at squarespace.com/buxton and see how easy and versatile Squarespace is. And when they're ready to launch a new website or domain, they can save 10% off their first purchase by using the offer code BUXTON at checkout. Right, well, maybe I'll visit squarespace.com/buxton and start a new website just to refute all the nonsense in your new book. Oh, don't do that, Steve. I will. Oh, shut up, Steve. Uh, shut up. Now, back to more depressing matters on Newswind.

• 1:00:03Adam Buxton?

  Continue.

• 1:00:14Adam Buxton?

  Hey, welcome back, podcast. Thank you so much for sending in those questions. Obviously, we've had a lot more sent in since then, and I've already recorded another session with Diggery, answering more of those, which will be available to Patreon subscribers next month. But before I go today, I wanted to address a couple of very important questions that several people have asked recently. After talking to Rob Orton. On the last episode about feeling ignorant when I was asked by a electricity engineer whether we had three phase in Castle Buckles.

• 1:00:57Adam Buxton?

  A lot of people were saying, so do you have three phase? I kind of left that mystery hanging. Yes, we do have three phase. Hair transplants. Obviously, there's been a fair bit of hair loss chat from me over the last couple of years in the podcast. After the Harry Enfield episode recently, on which I was talking to Harry about whether he regretted not getting a hair transplant back in the day. I had several people wanting to know who the celebrity was that I had bumped into that recommended a particular transplant service.

• 1:01:39Adam Buxton?

  And I'm not going to say the name of the celebrity because I haven't asked if I could. I don't really want to, but I would say all of you, I think, pretty much guessed correctly as to who that was. Jamie, if you're out there listening, he sent in one of the questions. Yes, you had the right person. But I can tell you that the actor James Nesbitt, who has been entirely open about his transplant and where he got it, went to the same place. So Google that and you'll find out. Anyway, if you're one of the people affected by that situation, good luck on your journey. Either of becoming comfortable with your retreating hair.

• 1:02:25Adam Buxton?

  That's the route I'm currently on, though never say never. Or alternatively, going for the procedure if you have the means. The main thing, I believe, is to love yourself, but not too much. Spotify playlist. I made a playlist, as I said I would in the Q and A, filled with songs that I think kids might enjoy.

• 1:02:50Adam Buxton?

  Although I think people of any age would enjoy them. There's a link in the description to that.

• 1:02:57Adam Buxton?

  Guitar strap. My beautiful guitar strap. I'm not sponsored, by the way, by the person who sent me the strap. And you can see a picture of me with my strap either on my website or on the Patreon page. And there's a link to Backbeat Leather Guitar Straps in the description of today's podcast. Okay, I think that's pretty much it. Thank you very much once again to Diggery Wait and to Claire Broughton at Hat Trick for all their help setting up the Patreon and general production assistance. Thanks as well to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for his production support. Thanks to Helen Green for her beautiful podcast artwork. Thanks to all at Acast for liaising with my sponsors.

• 1:03:42Adam Buxton?

  Okay, non creepy hug time. I was thinking the people who like the hugs could be the hugonauts, like juggernauts. And the people who skip the hugs could be called the huga nose, like the huga nose. You know, the 16th century French Protestants who followed the reformed or Calvinist tradition. I think they preferred a more formal side hug so as to maintain strict physical boundaries between the sexes and avoid any hint of impropriety. Although now all the Calvinist podcasts are going to be saying, no, that is not correct. We love hugs just as much as anyone else. That's how Calvinists speak.

• 1:04:26Adam Buxton?

  Anyway, come here Calvinists and everyone else. Good to see you. Thanks for listening to all of that. Really appreciate it. There's a lot of info to lay on you. But hopefully now we're up and running with Patreon and I hope that it'll be a fun bonus area for people who feel they need more from the podcast. Let's see how it goes. Until next time, we share the same sonic space, which for the main podcast will probably be sometime in September. Please go carefully, try to stay cool in every conceivable way. And if it's of any help whatsoever, please bear in mind that I love you.

• 1:05:12Adam Buxton?

  Bye.