We Speak To A Chimney Sweep! | And Working Class Problems

After William Hanson and Jordan North delved into your most middle-class problems, they thought it was only fair to cross the tracks and see what G&Diva’s most WORKING CLASS woes are. And let's just say, the struggle is very real. Plus, the boys get a VERY exciting LIVE phone call from our resident chimney sweep, Tommy, who's spilling the soot on exactly why chimney sweeps are considered so lucky. Want more Sexted in your life? Join Help I Sexted My Boss Out Of Office for exclusive episodes every WEDNESDAY on Patreon! Just head to sextedmyboss.com/patreon -- Want MORE Help I Sexted My Boss?: https://sextedmyboss.komi.io/ -- FOLLOW Jordan North Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordannorth1 William Hanson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/williamhansonetiquette TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@williamhansonetiquette If you want to get involved you can email us mailto: [email protected]. You can follow us and DM on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sextedmyboss/ and TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@sextedmyboss, and watch the latest episode every Tuesday and Friday on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/SextedMyBoss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:17Speaker 02

  Hello and welcome to our Friday episode, where we can see how much extra content we can squeeze into your week. Random things that have been sent in, extra bits that have been going on and how our advice has gone down with you, our wonderful GND-verse.

• 1:32Speaker 03

  Oh, we're almost at the weekend.

• 1:33Speaker 02

  We're almost at the weekend.

• 1:35Speaker 03

  Yes, which is lovely. I've got a few dinners this weekend.

• 1:38Speaker 02

  Have you got a few dinners this weekend?

• 1:39Speaker 03

  Two, actually. And then my brother is coming over on Sunday because we're going to watch Titanic ahead of me going back into Titanique, which is next week.

• 1:48Speaker 02

  Is that for research purposes?

• 1:49Speaker 03

  Well, he says so because I actually saw a clip a few, in fact, literally about two weeks after leaving the show the first time around. And it was the dinner party scene, or not the dinner, you know, the dinner scene, the restaurant scene. And Ruth DeWitt-Pacater, my character, was talking to Jack, Leonardo DiCaprio. And I went, oh my God, I say exactly that line in the show. I didn't realise that was lifted from the film.

• 2:12Speaker 02

  What was the line?

• 2:13Speaker 03

  And you find that sort of rootless existence appealing. And I went, oh my God, that's my line. No wonder I didn't get a laugh because I didn't realise it from the show.

• 2:21Speaker 02

  So in, in that scene, it's a brilliant film. It gets better every time you're watching that film.

• 2:26Speaker 03

  It does.

• 2:26Speaker 02

  As well, if you get the DVD, there's loads of bits that got cut out.

• 2:29Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 2:29Speaker 02

  Loads, but I think it's about half hour, 40 minutes bits that got cut out. And it's a three and a bit film. They're all mocking Jack of it because he gets invited down to the meal.

• 2:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:40Speaker 02

  Because.

• 2:41Speaker 03

  Oh, he gets invited.

• 2:42Speaker 02

  Invited to the meal because he helped Rose when she was looking over.

• 2:47Speaker 03

  Well, she was going to take her own life.

• 2:49Speaker 02

  When she was looking at the propellers is what he told her.

• 2:51Speaker 03

  Because of her hair.

• 2:52Speaker 02

  They'll take the piss out of them and stuff. And then actually Cathy Burke.

• 2:57Speaker 03

  Cathy Bates.

• 2:57Speaker 02

  Cathy Bates.

• 2:58Speaker 03

  Yeah. Cathy Burke's not in it.

• 3:00Speaker 02

  Cathy Burke's not in it, but she would have been good.

• 3:02Speaker 03

  She would have been, yeah.

• 3:03Speaker 02

  Kind of sticks up for a bit because she's new money.

• 3:05Speaker 03

  She is new money, whereas my character's old money. I'm so excited to go back in. Thank you, you are, as I said to you on Tuesday, you're coming.

• 3:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:13Speaker 03

  Again, which is very nice. What are you doing this weekend?

• 3:16Speaker 02

  I'm going to be packing on Friday and I'm heading away to the old annual trip to Skeggy.

• 3:21Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 3:21Speaker 02

  Which will be good.

• 3:22Speaker 03

  You'll come back expensively bronzed.

• 3:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, get a few sunbeds and whatever, but I'm looking forward to it. It's nice.

• 3:28Speaker 03

  Don't endorse sunbeds.

• 3:29Speaker 02

  Yes. No, I'm not actually going on sunbeds.

• 3:31Speaker 03

  Have you sorted all your reading material?

• 3:33Speaker 02

  Yes, I have. I've got, I can never remember the name of the books, but I've got a good one on two journalists who were in the Trump White House.

• 3:42Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 3:43Speaker 02

  That'll keep me going. Is it Sunset or Sunstroke or something? One that everyone's been going on about. I will, I will put a list up.

• 3:51Speaker 03

  Ah, do you have room for one more? Times you've heard that.

• 3:54Speaker 02

  Go on.

• 3:54Speaker 03

  Do you have rooms for one more?

• 3:55Speaker 02

  No.

• 3:56Speaker 03

  Well, Jordan North, you are the first person to receive a copy.

• 3:59Speaker 02

  Oh, oh, mate, oh.

• 4:03Speaker 03

  All right, it's not that exciting.

• 4:05Speaker 02

  It is. I'll read it.

• 4:08Speaker 03

  This is the proof copy.

• 4:10Speaker 02

  Oh, mate.

• 4:11Speaker 03

  A Fatal Forking, May 27. It's not called Murder is Never Good Manners. For various reasons, they do a proof paperback.

• 4:17Speaker 02

  Is that for me?

• 4:18Speaker 03

  That is.

• 4:19Speaker 02

  I'm so proud.

• 4:20Speaker 03

  I have been sent one copy from my publisher. That is it. I now no longer have a copy of my own book.

• 4:25Speaker 02

  Is that just for me?

• 4:26Speaker 03

  That is literally just for you.

• 4:27Speaker 02

  I'm so proud of you.

• 4:29Speaker 03

  You haven't read it yet.

• 4:30Speaker 02

  Because, no, I know you've got, oh, genuinely, honest, come here. Genuinely, like, I know first take piss, and I know you've got your other books, but a novel, to write a novel is not easy. So I will read this on holiday and I'll get back to you.

• 4:49Speaker 03

  And we do need a quote.

• 4:50Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 4:51Speaker 03

  That ideally is more than riveting.

• 4:52Speaker 02

  Look at that. That's, I will take that on holiday with me.

• 4:57Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 4:58Speaker 02

  Missed my order because I had a few other books.

• 5:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, sorry.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  But.

• 5:01Speaker 03

  You, I don't think it'll take you long. The.

• 5:04Speaker 02

  Can I read the back?

• 5:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, yes, the back is not what will be on the back.

• 5:08Speaker 02

  The highly anticipated debut novel by Britain's leading etiquette expert and Sunday Times bestselling author, William Hanson. One royal murder, two regal newlyweds.

• 5:20Speaker 03

  Nearlyweds.

• 5:21Speaker 02

  Oh, nearlyweds, sorry. Maximus Glide is the etiquette coach and primary suspect caught in the middle. Can he clear his name and solve the mystery in time for the wedding? If not, he's royally forked.

• 5:34Speaker 03

  Jack, my publisher, wrote that. He was very happy with that.

• 5:36Speaker 02

  This is, oh, mate.

• 5:38Speaker 03

  Oh, bless you. That's so kind. Thank you. I'm very excited. It arrived, Literate arrived yesterday. And then I, because I wanted to have it for your holiday.

• 5:47Speaker 02

  This, I'm so excited to read a, to read a friend's novel.

• 5:51Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 5:52Speaker 02

  Okay. I will read, I'll.

• 5:55Speaker 03

  And then we need the jacket quote by January.

• 5:58Speaker 02

  All right, I don't have to read on holiday then.

• 6:00Speaker 03

  You don't have to, you could do.

• 6:02Speaker 02

  I will do, actually.

• 6:03Speaker 03

  But we need it by January.

• 6:04Speaker 02

  Okay. Well done you.

• 6:06Speaker 03

  Thank you very much.

• 6:06Speaker 02

  I'm so chuffed.

• 6:07Speaker 03

  I think they've done a nice job of the, it looks nice.

• 6:09Speaker 02

  Is that how, is that going to be the actual cover?

• 6:11Speaker 03

  Similar. It'll say A Fatal Forking, it'll have that strawberry, it'll be those.

• 6:14Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. Murder is never good manners.

• 6:17Speaker 03

  That's going to be the, that's the sort of the byline.

• 6:19Speaker 02

  Oh, okay.

• 6:19Speaker 03

  Not the byline, the subtitle.

• 6:23Speaker 02

  Oh, wow.

• 6:25Speaker 03

  Well, don't read it all now.

• 6:26Speaker 02

  A fleet of perspiring porters closed the doors to the Queensby penthouse inside. Can I do the thing?

• 6:32Speaker 03

  The audiobook, well, you can, you can do, you can do the character from the Philippines.

• 6:36Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 6:37Speaker 04

  What's the first word?

• 6:39Speaker 02

  Oh, the first word.

• 6:41Speaker 03

  Of, of chapter one, not, or the prologue.

• 6:43Speaker 02

  Prologue. She, how very fitting. One, putting on the rits. You've missed a G on.

• 6:50Speaker 03

  Putting on the rits, no, because quoting the Fred Astaire song.

• 6:53Speaker 02

  If I see any spelling mistakes, you want me to underline them?

• 6:55Speaker 03

  Yes, but putting on the rits, there is not a spelling mistake. That's a deliberate, that's why you put the, the apostrophe to show that you've missed a letter.

• 7:02Speaker 02

  Maximus Glide.

• 7:03Speaker 03

  Glide.

• 7:04Speaker 02

  Glide. Right. Okay, that's a good start. Was under medical instruction to avoid afternoon tea. His friend Gordon South had sat through one. Who's Gordon South?

• 7:20Speaker 03

  You've made that up. You are, you, there is, there are a couple of references hidden.

• 7:26Speaker 02

  Friend Gordon South, a tall, handsome northern man.

• 7:31Speaker 03

  It's fiction.

• 7:33Speaker 02

  Who could charm the back legs off a donkey? Oh, I'm genuinely, I will read that.

• 7:40Speaker 03

  Oh, well, thank you. Thank you for, I really am very touched at your enthusiasm.

• 7:44Speaker 02

  I'm buzzing for that. I'm proper buzzing, thank you.

• 7:47Speaker 03

  Good, well, I hope the rest of my copies arrive because I'd quite like it back.

• 7:50Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 7:51Speaker 03

  Now, look, a couple of weeks ago, there was quite the discussion around my etiquette etymology jingle and the lyrics.

• 7:57Speaker 02

  Sign it for me.

• 7:58Speaker 03

  Oh, okay.

• 7:58Speaker 02

  Oh, no, do it after.

• 7:59Speaker 03

  Okay, fine. Let's not waste everybody's time. Chairman Emeritus Stew was adamant that it was he'll give you manners a subtle tweak, two separate statements, whereas literally everyone else in the audio always office said, he'll give your manners a subtle tweak, which is a line continuation. You're hearing goes as you get older. Well, we've had a voice note back from Stephen, who wrote the jingle, who is going to put the record straight. Let me play this to you now.

• 8:26Speaker 05

  Hello, William and Jordan. It's Stephen here, composer of the Sexted Jingles. Sorry that I don't sound quite as squeaky in camp as I do on the jingles, or maybe I do. That's for you to decide. Anyway, I hear there's been a bit of a lyric debate with William's etiquette etymology jingle. Well, I can confirm that the correct lyric is, he'll give your manners a subtle tweak. Your manners are what William is tweaking. I'm not sure it makes sense any other way or what he'd be tweaking in that case. Also, while we're on the subject of lyrics, I just wanted to say that back when I first sent this jingle in, William said he loved it, but apparently Mikey did criticize it and say that you can't be quite unique.

• 9:01Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 9:02Speaker 05

  Because there aren't levels of uniqueness. You're either unique or you're not. Well, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say that I was using the word quite in the more old fashioned sense, meaning completely or truly. Like you might say, that's quite perfect or he's quite dead, in which case it is perfectly acceptable and grammatically correct. That's been bugging me for a few years, so I just had to get that off my chest. Thanks, boys.

• 9:24Speaker 03

  Well, I'll pass it on to Mikey.

• 9:26Speaker 02

  I bloody heard him. Just because I work on a bloody site, I don't know my grammar. Gob shit. I know exactly what I meant. That is lovely.

• 9:34Speaker 03

  That is lovely. Thank you, Stephen.

• 9:35Speaker 02

  Thank you, Stephen.

• 9:36Speaker 03

  For taking the time.

• 9:37Speaker 02

  It's, just to clarify, it's, he'll give your man, your manners.

• 9:41Speaker 03

  He'll give your manners.

• 9:43Speaker 02

  A subtle tweak.

• 9:44Speaker 03

  Which is a line continuation.

• 9:45Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 9:46Speaker 03

  He is amazing with all our jingles that he does.

• 9:49Speaker 02

  He's lovely. I didn't know he sounded like that.

• 9:51Speaker 03

  Yes, no, I know.

• 9:51Speaker 02

  I've never met him.

• 9:52Speaker 03

  Yes, he came to, I've met, the only time I've met him, Stephen, correct me if I'm wrong, is, I think, at the Moth Club.

• 9:58Speaker 02

  I think.

• 9:58Speaker 03

  When we did shows.

• 9:59Speaker 02

  I think we did meet him.

• 10:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he brought his girlfriend. I'm not sure. I can't remember.

• 10:06Speaker 02

  Maybe it wasn't him then.

• 10:07Speaker 03

  Uh, carrying on.

• 10:08Speaker 02

  Did he have a girlfriend?

• 10:09Speaker 03

  No.

• 10:10Speaker 02

  Oh, right, I'm with you.

• 10:12Speaker 03

  Stephen will find that funny.

• 10:13Speaker 02

  Anyway, we.

• 10:14Speaker 03

  I hope.

• 10:15Speaker 02

  He will.

• 10:16Speaker 03

  Carrying on from this, we asked our wonderful GND-verse what some of their own misheard lyrics from songs, very Peter Kay of us.

• 10:23Speaker 02

  Oh, I love this. Even now, it's funny enough, I was hearing it the other day and it goes, what's that song? Can't go on, pork pie. Drive by the cars.

• 10:34Speaker 03

  All right.

• 10:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, I always think it says pork pile. We're making love in a femidom.

• 10:38Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 10:39Speaker 02

  Peter Kay.

• 10:39Speaker 03

  Anyway, go on. Well, this first one is from at Good Vibrations Wellbeing. I thought in Wonderwall by Oasis, the line was, you're gonna be the one at Sainsbury's. Let's hear it.

• 10:53Speaker 02

  Tom, I'm never not gonna hear that now. You're gonna be the one at Sainsbury's.

• 10:59Speaker 03

  No, it is saves me, I believe.

• 11:01Speaker 02

  And after all.

• 11:04Speaker 03

  Next one up, Out of Reach by Gabrielle. She with the eye patch.

• 11:07Speaker 02

  Oh, Wendy loves Gabrielle.

• 11:09Speaker 03

  Sounds like she's saying, batteries.

• 11:17Speaker 02

  We gotta do this again. This is class. We gotta do this again. Batteries.

• 11:23Speaker 03

  For years, Ellie thought in Abba's Super Trooper, it was when I called you last night from Tesco, another supermarket one.

• 11:30Speaker 02

  Supermarket theme.

• 11:31Speaker 03

  Didn't realise they have Tesco in Sweden. Here is the clip.

• 11:41Speaker 02

  What did he want? Was he white bread or brown? That's brilliant.

• 11:46Speaker 03

  Next up, Lindsay in Ariana Grande's Thank You. Next, oh, sorry.

• 11:54Speaker 02

  You messed up.

• 11:57Speaker 03

  I'm so in touch with the kids. In Ariana Grande's Thank You, next song, she is absolutely saying, according to Lindsay, I'm so fucking grateful for my eggs.

• 12:11Speaker 03

  Well, you should be.

• 12:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:12Speaker 03

  Wherever you get your protein content.

• 12:15Speaker 02

  Do you know what?

• 12:15Speaker 03

  What is she saying?

• 12:16Speaker 02

  Eggs.

• 12:17Speaker 03

  Oh, eggs.

• 12:17Speaker 02

  I had two boiled eggs the other day. Can I just say?

• 12:21Speaker 03

  How many eggs do you have?

• 12:23Speaker 02

  A week.

• 12:24Speaker 03

  Two.

• 12:24Speaker 02

  Quite a lot. I had two boiled eggs the other day with just a bit of toast and proper butter. Treat it myself to President's Butter. It was not half a.

• 12:34Speaker 02

  It is not better. There is no better than just egg and dippy soldiers.

• 12:39Speaker 03

  Oh, no, I don't like dippy soldiers.

• 12:42Speaker 02

  What's the one where it goes, a pooed on the floor? A pooed on the sheets. There's one that sounds like pooed. Anyway, go on.

• 12:48Speaker 03

  Well, our final misheard lyric is from Evie. Okay, this one you won't be able to unhear. Listen to Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys and tell me that they're not saying wet dream tomato. Or tomato, the American pronunciation.

• 13:09Speaker 02

  Oh, that song is ruined.

• 13:11Speaker 03

  Yeah. Also, that song really annoys me.

• 13:14Speaker 02

  Wet dream tomato.

• 13:15Speaker 03

  For future. I don't want to hear that song.

• 13:17Speaker 02

  Wow, it's a great song.

• 13:19Speaker 03

  I just find it.

• 13:20Speaker 02

  Wet dream tomato.

• 13:21Speaker 04

  Do you not like going to New York?

• 13:23Speaker 03

  I love going to New York. I just don't want to hear that song. You hear it in Leicester Square all the time on those stupid things where you stand on the camera whips around you and you do like, oh, I'm in York and Times Square. Oh, get a life.

• 13:34Speaker 02

  So if we would like. Leicester Square then.

• 13:36Speaker 03

  Do I mean Leicester Square? The same thing. Times Square.

• 13:38Speaker 04

  Times Square. So if we ever go to New York or anything for some reason.

• 13:42Speaker 03

  For some reason, I don't want to hear that song.

• 13:44Speaker 04

  You won't want to hear that song. Good to know for the future.

• 13:46Speaker 03

  Good to know for the future. And let's also not fall into the stereotype of doing an Englishman in New York, which is this, people don't realise there's a song written about Quentin Crisp. Quentin Crisp, I'm here for. Some of Sting, I'm here for. Together, no.

• 14:01Speaker 02

  Quentin Crisp? Is he a This Morning contributor?

• 14:04Speaker 03

  That's Quentin Wilson, who's now dead. Who did Cars.

• 14:09Speaker 02

  Who's Quentin Crisp?

• 14:10Speaker 03

  I need to educate you on quite a lot of.

• 14:13Speaker 04

  He's best mates with Gary Lineker.

• 14:18Speaker 03

  That's such a bad joke.

• 14:19Speaker 02

  Who's Quentin Crisp, quickly?

• 14:21Speaker 03

  He was a, well, a writer and a sort of, what's the word?

• 14:27Speaker 02

  Ah, he's Roald Dahl's illustrator.

• 14:29Speaker 03

  No, that's Quentin Blade.

• 14:32Speaker 03

  A raconteur, yes. He was a wit.

• 14:34Speaker 04

  A what? What is happening?

• 14:37Speaker 03

  Jack and I are on the same web, well, Jack's on the right webpage, anyway. Right, we'll move on. I will tell you all about Quentin Crisp. In fact, if we ever do an etiquetology live from New York, hmm, I will do Quentin Crisp.

• 14:52Speaker 02

  All right, okay. Right, moving on. We recently discussed Gene Devoe's most middle class problems. So we thought it was only right to give the other side a go and find out what really keeps the working.

• 15:02Speaker 03

  One of the other sides, we should say, because there is another side.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  Okay, that keeps the working class up at night. So William, we want some working class problems, please. So we've had middle class problems before. Now it's time for some working class problems.

• 15:17Speaker 03

  This first one is from Amy. Scraping the outside of your car on a cold and frosty morning. Yeah, I guess because you don't have a garage.

• 15:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 15:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:26Speaker 02

  And yeah, that is, you can get that stuff that you put on it.

• 15:29Speaker 03

  De-icer.

• 15:30Speaker 02

  You used to put it out like.

• 15:31Speaker 03

  Don't keep your de-icer in the car. Keep it inside. So otherwise it gets cold.

• 15:35Speaker 02

  Oh, and don't put hot water on it.

• 15:37Speaker 03

  No, crack that screen.

• 15:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, but sometimes you'd put the car on for five minutes when you had to warm it up.

• 15:43Speaker 03

  Jessica, I'm going to argue with this, says, when the steam from the dishwasher is the only facial I'll ever get. If you've got a dishwasher, are you working class?

• 15:52Speaker 02

  Right, that annoys me. Yes, working class people, most people have dishwashers this day and age. You're so out of touch. But yeah, you're right.

• 16:01Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 16:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:03Speaker 03

  Yeah. Star with two Rs.

• 16:05Speaker 02

  That is true though. That little fresh air, you think, ooh.

• 16:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, you just don't do it with glasses.

• 16:09Speaker 02

  Sometimes I do it and think, I won't get me blackheads after this.

• 16:12Speaker 03

  Oh, the oven, the oven's sometimes when you've taken you.

• 16:15Speaker 02

  Be careful with that.

• 16:18Speaker 03

  But you could get a bit of a, you know, steam mist.

• 16:20Speaker 02

  Not sure we can advise that. I don't know if this is going to go down William reading working class problems, but let's go.

• 16:24Speaker 03

  I'm quoting Star saying, having six siblings and two parents and only one bathroom.

• 16:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:30Speaker 02

  Oh, God. Got to tell me that. That's why I now I told you before.

• 16:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:34Speaker 02

  Have to have warm towels. I never grew up with a warm towel.

• 16:39Speaker 03

  Deprived, Jordan.

• 16:40Speaker 02

  I weren't deprived. We were all right.

• 16:42Speaker 03

  We made do.

• 16:43Speaker 02

  We didn't make, we were all right.

• 16:45Speaker 03

  Reece says, getting school uniform from Asda.

• 16:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, all ours. Ours were never proper. My mum had sold Bad John. Yeah. Or use Wonder Web.

• 16:55Speaker 03

  Wonder Web. Oh, the sticky bit here.

• 16:57Speaker 02

  Iron it on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:59Speaker 03

  Karen saying, being told there's choc ices in the freezer when you hear the ice cream band jingle. You've said this.

• 17:04Speaker 02

  Hundred percent. And I still love a choc. I had a choc ice the other day.

• 17:08Speaker 03

  Jess, having to go to the local shop to top up the electricity meter.

• 17:13Speaker 02

  I, yeah, yeah.

• 17:15Speaker 03

  When grandparents can't babysit, so you have to rely on your oldest child. That's from Jay.

• 17:19Speaker 02

  Oh, Christ, our Ryan brought us up. I mean, no, but yeah.

• 17:24Speaker 03

  Demi, opening a.

• 17:25Speaker 02

  Did you have the number for the pubs next to the phone?

• 17:28Speaker 03

  No.

• 17:29Speaker 02

  No?

• 17:30Speaker 03

  No.

• 17:30Speaker 02

  That's just me. Did you not? So you'd be like, right, we'll ring Red Lion. Mum there? No. Ring next one. Yeah, there you go. This generally happened. I'm not joking. Our Ryan and Martin were wrestling. He cracked his head open. So you had to ring up pubs and then they came. They came home, took us to casualty and I think we're fine.

• 17:54Speaker 02

  I'm not joking.

• 17:56Speaker 03

  George says, the sports drink mug is too big to fit in the cupboard. I'd say sports drink mugs are very impractical. They're not nice to drink and mugs aren't nice to drink from.

• 18:04Speaker 02

  Working class problems.

• 18:05Speaker 03

  But a sports drink is too much. Lyn, when the key breaks on your corned beef tin.

• 18:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, that was always a fucking nightmare.

• 18:12Speaker 03

  Libby, not getting a middle name because it's quote unquote, too middle class.

• 18:16Speaker 02

  No, we've all got middle names.

• 18:18Speaker 03

  I have too. And Beck says, mum shouting, it's tea time at the end of your drive when you're playing out.

• 18:23Speaker 02

  Yes. Ryan, she used to do it in order. Ryan, Jordan, Dominic, Bradley, your tea.

• 18:30Speaker 03

  Oh, not in favourite order.

• 18:32Speaker 02

  Come on, wash your hands and face. Had to wash your hands and face. I don't know why. She'd shout us in.

• 18:38Speaker 03

  Would it be reverse if it was an order of favourites?

• 18:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 18:42Speaker 03

  Yeah. But I think that's an age thing. Because I always think parents prefer the youngest because it's like the baby.

• 18:47Speaker 02

  And they ever tell you, our Brad, we'd have tea and for the first 12 years of his life, he just had Wheat Bix for tea.

• 18:55Speaker 03

  Well, you don't want to go near his nappies.

• 18:56Speaker 02

  Honestly, I think he only had proper food when he was about 13. He just had Wheat Bix every tea time.

• 19:03Speaker 03

  And Lily, this is perhaps the best one, having to borrow a potato peeler.

• 19:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 19:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:07Speaker 02

  That's true.

• 19:08Speaker 03

  We've got more of your emails, messages and letters.

• 19:10Speaker 02

  Having a staffishable terrier called Clarrot.

• 19:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, I could go on.

• 19:16Speaker 03

  We've got more of your emails, messages.

• 19:17Speaker 02

  Having a shower curtain under your sheets because you couldn't afford a proper wet sheet from Argos.

• 19:22Speaker 03

  Right, we're going to the break.

• 19:23Speaker 02

  You know.

• 19:24Speaker 03

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• 19:27Speaker 02

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• 19:29Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 19:29Speaker 02

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• 19:30Speaker 03

  Of course, yes.

• 19:31Speaker 02

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• 19:32Speaker 03

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• 22:04Speaker 03

  Welcome back, G and D. Jordan's still thinking of working class problems. Are we going to do upper class problems at some point?

• 22:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, do it. Do upper class problems.

• 22:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:12Speaker 03

  We'll be inundated, I would imagine.

• 22:14Speaker 02

  Got any upper class problems?

• 22:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, send them in.

• 22:17Speaker 02

  Let us know.

• 22:17Speaker 04

  Yeah, I bet they're going through fucking trenches.

• 22:19Speaker 02

  My brother's is the ultimate one is there's a nightclub in Blackpool called The Syndicate. Right. And anyone will know this and he, he still really didn't like to talk about it. And it was like a massive nightclub in Blackpool. This is a work, I don't know if it's a working class problem. And it had a massive revolving dance floor.

• 22:41Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 22:42Speaker 02

  Everyone used to go, you'd queue up for ages. And my brother's like, just turned 18, he's dancing away on there with his mate revolving that dance floor, bumps into this woman and says, oh, sorry, love. And it was my mum.

• 22:58Speaker 02

  In a nightclub. Bear in mind, she would have only been like 30.

• 23:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly. You can go to a nightclub when you're 30.

• 23:03Speaker 02

  So, yeah.

• 23:04Speaker 03

  Um, now, look, we've recently heard about your chimney sweep debacle, Jordan. When the man who turned up looked more like he was there to rob the place than to clean your chimney.

• 23:11Speaker 02

  Nah, I mean, he just didn't look like I expected.

• 23:13Speaker 03

  He didn't look like you wanted to. He didn't look very Disney. Well, thankfully, Tommy from Tine Valley Chimney Sweep came to the rescue with a video response, proving that the classic chimney sweep tradition is still very much alive. But he also asked us a question we couldn't answer. Why are chimney sweeps meant to bring good luck? So, Jordan, we're going to go straight to the source. We have Tommy, we're going to phone him anyway, and we will then have Tommy live on the line. Here we go, voice call.

• 23:41Speaker 06

  Hello.

• 23:41Speaker 03

  Hello, Tommy. It's William and Jordan from Help, I Sexed My Boss.

• 23:44Speaker 02

  Hi, Tommy.

• 23:45Speaker 06

  Oh, my God. How are you doing, lads? You all right?

• 23:48Speaker 03

  Yes, we're all right. How are you? Where do we find you? Paint us a picture. Are you up a chimney at the moment?

• 23:54Speaker 06

  I am not up a chimney, unfortunately, no. I am at my other job as we speak.

• 23:59Speaker 03

  Oh, so what's your other job? Are we allowed to ask?

• 24:03Speaker 06

  Eh, I can tell you, but I can't divulge too much. So I'm a firefighter by trade, so there you go.

• 24:08Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 24:10Speaker 06

  Too much more than that.

• 24:10Speaker 03

  You're not in a burning building, are you, at the moment?

• 24:13Speaker 06

  No, I'm standing next to a, what we'll call a drill tower.

• 24:16Speaker 03

  Oh, tell us more.

• 24:18Speaker 06

  A rather large tower. It's a rather large, erect tower, which you can stick ladders up next to, basically, and do a few drills inside.

• 24:25Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 24:26Speaker 03

  Lovely. What are you doing at the weekends?

• 24:30Speaker 06

  I'm coming to sweep your chimneys, I think.

• 24:31Speaker 02

  Oh, oh.

• 24:35Speaker 03

  My chimneys are immaculate.

• 24:37Speaker 02

  Tommy, thanks so much for your video you sent the other week. We really appreciate it. It was great.

• 24:42Speaker 06

  Nah, that's absolutely fine, mate. Do you know what it is? I'm, eh, I just really appreciate you guys reaching out in the first place. Honestly, over the past week, lads, it's, um, it's been, you know, just like even just the, the video to start with, I was like, yeah, I don't mind doing that. It's great. And then my mum, my sister and stuff, my wife thought it was amazing. So it's just, just a big thanks to you guys to start with, because that was a, it's been class A.

• 25:02Speaker 02

  Oh, that's great. Izzy, wife. Sorry. Anyway, um, right, we've got, we've got a question for you. Here you go. William, wife.

• 25:12Speaker 03

  Well, yes, you, you, uh, never stop me. You, um, no, it has. You were talking about sweeps shaking hands and why that is good luck. We don't, we don't know the reason. So could you tell us, we'll do Tommy's etiquette etymology. What is the reason?

• 25:29Speaker 06

  There's quite a few versions of the story, but I think the, the better story is a story that started in the, in the 1700s, so please, um, it was basically King George the Second. It was the king at the time and there was a royal, there was a royal procession, um, and the king was there on his horse and there was a dog basically spooked his horse. Um, so that the horse at this point is basically trying to book the, book the king off, I suppose, and, eh, and basically trying to get him off his back. But out of the mist came a chimney sweep, basically. There was a bit of soot on his face. He turned up, he was a brave chimney sweep, blonde hair, green eyes, big arms, and he had an eight inch torch in his pocket, basically. Um, because that's a vital bit of kit, Jordan. I know your chimney sweep turned up with an iPhone torch. This was a proper chimney sweep with an eight inch torch in his pocket.

• 26:14Speaker 06

  He turned up with a torch and he basically took the reins of this horse and he calmed the horse, like the horse whisperer, basically. Um, he calmed the horse down. The king then dismowed his horse, shook hands with the chimney sweep. He offered the chimney sweep gold, silver, jewellery, whatever it may be, just to say thanks, but the chimney sweep was too humble, um, and just basically said, you know, as long as everyone's okay, that's good enough for me, basically. Personally, I would have took the money and retired the next day.

• 26:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's what I would have done, definitely. Um, I think, look, he probably regrets that a little bit.

• 26:43Speaker 03

  Well, he's probably now dead.

• 26:46Speaker 06

  Quite possibly. Um, but yeah, so I think basically from that day, the king then declared that as like chimney sweeps being good luck and to be treated with like utmost respect and stuff. But the story doesn't stop there.

• 26:57Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 26:58Speaker 06

  So the following month, the king's daughter was to get married, basically. Um, and the king invited that particular chimney sweep to the daughter's wedding as a symbol of good luck to, you know, kiss the bride and shake hands with the groom. And, and that is basically the legend of why a chimney sweep is good luck and why chimneys are taken away to weddings these days. So there you go.

• 27:16Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 27:17Speaker 02

  I will shake a chimney sweep's hand.

• 27:19Speaker 03

  And if you were here with us, we would shake your hand.

• 27:22Speaker 06

  Yeah, absolutely, yeah. You can shake my hand, 100%.

• 27:25Speaker 03

  Oh, well, a metaphorical handshake to you, Tommy. Thank you very much for telling us that. Now we know.

• 27:31Speaker 06

  Yep, no worries at all. That's, eh, that's absolutely fine. It's been, eh, I've been looking forward to telling you.

• 27:36Speaker 03

  Now, we're not.

• 27:36Speaker 02

  That's amazing.

• 27:37Speaker 03

  We're not the radio, but do you want to do any shout outs whilst you're here?

• 27:40Speaker 06

  Obviously, I've already gave Gemma a big shout out, but honestly, Gemma's a legend for that, so that's obviously the first one. But I want to give a massive shout out to mental health. Honestly, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be sat here talking to you guys now if it wasn't for a friend of mine who got us into the industry in the first place. Um, he sadly took his own life last year. Um, but like I say, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be sat here. And it's just, you know, if there's anyone listening in terms of like mental health, just, just talk to somebody, friends, family, whatever it may be, um, some arons, whatever it may be, if anyone's struggling, just because the world is just a better place with you in it, I suppose it's, um, and that's the only shout out I sort of want to give, basically. Um, but yeah, just my friend, just mental health.

• 28:21Speaker 02

  What was your friend called?

• 28:22Speaker 06

  He was a guy called John Carslake.

• 28:24Speaker 02

  Oh, mate. Well, honestly, you don't get much more of a diamond bloke, do you? Look at that. Thank you so much.

• 28:30Speaker 06

  He was the, the sole reason I sort of got into this in the first place. It's, um, he got some stoves installed and I went up his house seating them and I was like, oh yeah, these were amazing. So I went and got the same company to do mine that did my sister's. And then it came to me and they swept, basically. So I rang my friend, asked him who he used. He said, I used this guy, charged us this much, took this long. Um, so I was like, oh, stuff, there's not many in my area. So I thought, you know what it is? I'm going to give it a go. It's been a canny journey.

• 28:53Speaker 02

  I bet. And Tommy, give your, um, company a shout out. So if you need your chimney swept in the, in, in the north east area, what's your company?

• 29:01Speaker 06

  Uh, my company's Tine Valley Chimney Sweep. So, eh, if you need your chimney swept, I give us a shout. And Jordan, if you want yours done next year, mate, I will come down and do yours if you want someone who looks the part, mate.

• 29:11Speaker 02

  You're a gem. You're a diamond. We'll hold you to that.

• 29:15Speaker 03

  And when you do come, if you do come to London, let us know and come and see, see us in the studio.

• 29:20Speaker 06

  Oh, that'll be amazing. Yeah, absolutely, guys. I'd, I'd love it. That'll be, that'll be amazing.

• 29:24Speaker 03

  Well, have a lovely Christmas when we get there. And thank you so much for telling us the etymology of shaking hands with a chimney.

• 29:30Speaker 02

  Nice one, Tommy.

• 29:31Speaker 06

  No problems, guys. Thank you very much for letting us on.

• 29:34Speaker 02

  Tommy, everybody.

• 29:38Speaker 03

  Thank you, Tommy.

• 29:40Speaker 02

  That was great.

• 29:41Speaker 03

  Bye, bye bye.

• 29:43Speaker 02

  What a diamond.

• 29:44Speaker 03

  Can I just, I was holding Jack's phone there and there were messages from Izzy coming up with why is he so fit, FML, just as it was going through. So Izzy, we, eh, we saw you.

• 29:52Speaker 02

  He's married, but oh my God. You don't get a better bloke than that because he's really good looking, just in his picture.

• 29:58Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 29:59Speaker 02

  He's a nice guy.

• 30:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:00Speaker 02

  He's articulate.

• 30:01Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 30:02Speaker 02

  What's the catch?

• 30:03Speaker 03

  I know.

• 30:04Speaker 02

  What's the catch?

• 30:05Speaker 03

  Well, he's covered in soot.

• 30:07Speaker 02

  Right, let's finish with our comment of the week. This can be a comment from Spotify, Patreon, YouTube or any of our socials, William Hanson.

• 30:14Speaker 03

  The honourable mentions, Lisa M. point 107, which sounds like a radio station, on YouTube said, I think our Jordan and beautiful Izzy would make a very sweet couple. Have you considered going on a date?

• 30:26Speaker 02

  We're just very good friends, me and Izzy. We cannot, cannot stress that enough. Very good friends.

• 30:32Speaker 03

  Well, maybe we should do a Patreon where the team gets matched up and goes on dates with each other.

• 30:36Speaker 02

  Right, you can set Ben on a date then.

• 30:38Speaker 03

  Not again.

• 30:39Speaker 02

  Izzy's not here right now because she's got flu, but I can, I can feel her physically retching at the thought of her going on a date with me.

• 30:47Speaker 03

  No.

• 30:50Speaker 03

  Izzy picked this comment?

• 30:51Speaker 02

  Izzy did pick this comment.

• 30:52Speaker 03

  A Jordan Izzy date, a Jack and Stu, Zoffir and Joe.

• 30:58Speaker 02

  Well, look, this is turning into an HR-ish, you know. We're all just very good friends.

• 31:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 31:05Speaker 02

  Why, we are.

• 31:06Speaker 03

  Well, yeah. Yeah, we are. Zoe8844, hyphen QR, Q5R. I'm reading what it says.

• 31:14Speaker 02

  You could just say Zoe on YouTube.

• 31:15Speaker 03

  She's on YouTube, says, listen, I was never against Ben Campbell. It's been four weeks and no sighting of Diego. Forgive me if I'm losing interest in what Ben's saying.

• 31:23Speaker 02

  Yep. When's I getting my camera?

• 31:25Speaker 04

  He's just off camera, just down here.

• 31:28Speaker 02

  Is he here?

• 31:28Speaker 03

  No, he's not.

• 31:29Speaker 02

  He's here this week.

• 31:30Speaker 03

  Then bring him up.

• 31:32Speaker 02

  I don't want to come, I've got my makeup done and I've had my nails up so many arses this week on the park. You don't want to say, Joel, it's all right.

• 31:40Speaker 03

  But our comment of the week goes to Gazmook1978 on Spotify, saying, I love TV show recommendations. Thanks, guys. If Jordan starts watching things, does that mean it'll get cancelled? Or does it just happen if he stars in it?

• 31:52Speaker 02

  Just if a star in it, which by the way.

• 31:54Speaker 03

  And well, the TV industry in Britain arguably isn't doing very well. Have you considered stopping watching?

• 32:01Speaker 02

  By the way, there's loads of TV shows I've been on that are still thriving.

• 32:04Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 32:05Speaker 02

  Yes. Loads. I'm a celeb.

• 32:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:09Speaker 02

  All right.

• 32:10Speaker 03

  Um.

• 32:11Speaker 02

  Blanket your blank.

• 32:12Speaker 04

  I'm a celebrity in Wales, obviously.

• 32:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm a celebrity in Wales.

• 32:16Speaker 02

  There's, there's loads of TV shows that I've been on that are still going on.

• 32:21Speaker 03

  Ganging on.

• 32:21Speaker 02

  Here you go. I was on Bullseye recently.

• 32:24Speaker 03

  Has that gone out?

• 32:24Speaker 02

  Hmm, not yet.

• 32:27Speaker 04

  Oh, no. Oh, enjoy, enjoy it whilst it lasts.

• 32:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:32Speaker 02

  If you want to get in touch about something that isn't a dilemma or a problem, drop into our DMs or send us an email to [email protected].

• 32:39Speaker 03

  And if two episodes a week of us is not enough, then why not check out our Patreon channel, Help, I Sexed My Boss Out of Office for ad free listening and an extra brand new episode every Wednesday.

• 32:48Speaker 02

  We also love hearing back from you guys, the guys that we're offered advice to. So if that's you, get back in touch. Speak to you on Tuesday.

• 32:54Speaker 03

  Goodbye.

• 33:01Speaker 00

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