Pod Insights Joe and James Fact Up A Cigar Thermidor and A White Christmas? About this episode This week Joe Thomas confronts James Buckley about him stealing his scent, they reveal Joe's most dangerous scene from The Inbetweeners and how James almost ended his marriage with one silly statement...
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1:06 Speaker 02 You don't, I just love how when you're at show, you don't have to really know anything about what's happening. Like, if they, you get texted so many times the day before you're gonna get picked up. You're just like, they're gonna be there, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten?
1:17 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:18 Speaker 02 And then if you are late to your car, the driver gets in trouble.
1:22 Speaker 03 Yes, the driver's fault.
1:23 Speaker 02 Because he rings up and says, I'm so sorry.
1:24 Speaker 03 He could be.
1:25 Speaker 02 And you can hear him apologizing. He's like, I'm really, really sorry.
1:27 Speaker 03 He could call you.
1:28 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:29 Speaker 03 And you're just like, huh, hello?
1:30 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:31 Speaker 03 And he'd be like, I'm outside. And you go, oh, no, I've forgotten to wake up.
1:34 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
1:35 Speaker 03 And then you take about half an hour to wake up and then get in the car. And then it's like, the driver gets, that's why I'm not late, to be fair.
1:42 Speaker 02 No, I know, yeah, I mean, yeah.
1:45 Speaker 03 The driver gets.
1:46 Speaker 02 He gets in trouble.
1:47 Speaker 03 Why was he late?
1:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
1:48 Speaker 03 Like, you're just not responsible for anything.
1:50 Speaker 02 You're not responsible for anything. But you're right, the thing about the acting is that like, when I did a play... And on a play, you're treated like an adult, like, so you're treated like a teacher at a school. So they'll send an email and in that email will be contained quite a complicated schedule about what we're doing in the week ahead. And they tell you once, you gotta work it, yeah, you gotta do your own travel. At one time, they were just all, they were in Bristol or something in a rehearsal and they were like, where are you? I was like, well, I'm in London. They're like, why are you in Bristol? I was like, why would I be in Bristol? They were like, well, did you not read the email? I was like, of course not.
2:22 Speaker 03 No, I don't read, I don't read emails.
2:24 Speaker 02 A whole email?
2:25 Speaker 03 Yeah.
2:25 Speaker 02 I've read a whole email for about fourteen years. What the fuck are you talking about? No, I scan it. I see if there's any pictures. If there's anything that's in size eighty-eight font, I might respond to that, but.
2:36 Speaker 03 It's a culture shock doing the play, isn't it?
2:38 Speaker 02 You're treated like an adult. You really are treated like an adult. You have to, you have to organise your own accommodation sometimes, your own food. There's all this stuff, you're not, you're not meant to, you had to be in the theatre half an hour before curtain up. And they really answer about it.
2:50 Speaker 03 I think it's longer than that, surely.
2:54 Speaker 02 Well, no, I know on the night, and once you're into a run, you have to get, you can't get there five minutes before.
2:59 Speaker 03 No.
2:59 Speaker 02 They don't like it.
3:00 Speaker 03 No.
3:00 Speaker 02 Five minutes before is your call time. Five minutes before is you've got to go to the stage. So, but, but.
3:06 Speaker 03 Have you ever turned up five minutes before?
3:07 Speaker 02 I used to always go and get a burger or something and I'd turn up like fifteen minutes before. And I'd be like, what are you looking at me?
3:13 Speaker 03 Before, so you've got fifteen minutes to get dressed and then go on stage?
3:17 Speaker 02 Yeah.
3:17 Speaker 03 Wow.
3:17 Speaker 04 Do you brush your teeth after having a burger before you go to stage?
3:20 Speaker 02 You know, I do brush my teeth. I'm quite smell bait. Well, I had to do a play and I was like, I was playing an estate agent and I was like, I couldn't get into character and then I got this, I had this one million, you know.
3:31 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah. Pakaraban.
3:33 Speaker 02 Pakaraban. What's amazing about that, it's shaped like a gold block.
3:35 Speaker 03 Yeah.
3:36 Speaker 02 I've genuinely had it since twenty ten.
3:38 Speaker 03 Yeah.
3:38 Speaker 02 It's never run out. It's fifteen years old. It never runs out. It's fucking unbelievable.
3:41 Speaker 03 I've got the same one.
3:42 Speaker 02 You had mine from it as well. You had some of mine. You got the same one. I remember you, you got hold of mine once on set and like you coming in smelling, smelling like me.
3:51 Speaker 02 Weird sort of hazing. I was like, why am I over there when I'm here?
3:57 Speaker 02 John James.
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6:09 Speaker 03 Right, Joe. Now, let's get fact up. You nearly left me hanging there, haven't you?
6:15 Speaker 02 No, I'm not, I'm never gonna let you hanging.
6:19 Speaker 03 How are you mate, you okay?
6:20 Speaker 02 I'm fine, thanks, yeah. Just had a sort of kebab thing. It was really oniony.
6:25 Speaker 03 Oh, that wrap?
6:25 Speaker 02 It was really, really oniony. I don't mind a bit of onion, but this was like-
6:28 Speaker 03 Where did you get it from? On the street?
6:30 Speaker 02 I went down, I went down the food market.
6:32 Speaker 03 Oh my god.
6:32 Speaker 02 But the queues, but the queues were so long for all of them, that in the end I went into basically a kebab shop.
6:37 Speaker 03 Yeah.
6:38 Speaker 02 And I was like, well, it's near the food market, so maybe it'll be a bit like getting it from the, and it was just, basically I've just gone to the kebab shop for my lunch.
6:44 Speaker 03 Brilliant. Nothing wrong with that at all.
6:46 Speaker 02 No, there's nothing wrong, well, I used to get kebab at lunchtime at school, actually. It was, yeah, yeah.
6:50 Speaker 03 I bloody love it.
6:51 Speaker 02 But it was, it was nice, but it was too oniony. I don't mind, I mean, I think red onion maybe, just, just brown onion in a salad, that is, that's too much.
6:59 Speaker 03 Brown onion?
7:00 Speaker 02 You know, well, you know, brown, you know, a regular, no, not brown, as in just a re-
7:03 Speaker 03 A white onion?
7:04 Speaker 02 White onion, yeah. Well, no, I think there, there is a white, well, yeah, basically what I mean is raw onion. Regular, regular common or garden onion, just raw, that's too much to me.
7:12 Speaker 03 Can I shop you?
7:13 Speaker 02 I'd have about 10 Haribo's to try and get rid of the taste.
7:17 Speaker 03 Can I shop you?
7:18 Speaker 02 Go on.
7:18 Speaker 03 I like onion.
7:19 Speaker 02 Raw onion?
7:20 Speaker 03 I can, I'll take onion in any form.
7:23 Speaker 02 I think that's-
7:23 Speaker 03 I love a raw onion, I love a grilled onion, I love your ring.
7:28 Speaker 02 Do you like a pickled onion?
7:30 Speaker 03 No.
7:31 Speaker 02 No.
7:33 Speaker 02 But the thing is, is that, so a raw onion is, no, no, but a raw, yeah.
7:39 Speaker 03 Apart from the pickled onion.
7:40 Speaker 02 Not the pickled onion, that's all right, um-
7:42 Speaker 03 I like pickled onion crisps. Is that the same thing?
7:45 Speaker 02 Um, yeah, yeah.
7:47 Speaker 03 I'll tell you something, if I went vegetarian, that's all that would be left for me in my diet.
7:52 Speaker 02 Pickled onion crisps?
7:52 Speaker 03 Just crisps.
7:53 Speaker 02 Crisps, yeah, don't, I wouldn't, yeah, don't go vegetarian.
7:56 Speaker 03 No, I can't.
7:56 Speaker 02 No, you can't, no. Hannah says I always say with a look of the philosopher on my face, like a vegetarian.
8:03 Speaker 03 Yeah.
8:04 Speaker 02 And then I order, the other night we went out for dinner and I had, I had steak tartare. Followed by steak frite and even the tartare came with these little pom. Alumet, I think they're like straw fries, really, really thin fries, really, really nice, yeah.
8:18 Speaker 03 Shoestring fries.
8:18 Speaker 02 Shoestring fries. So basically, I basically had steak, steak and chips twice.
8:22 Speaker 03 Nice.
8:22 Speaker 02 And, you know, people around the table going, he's mental, he won't do it. And I was like, I will do it.
8:26 Speaker 03 Sit back and watch this.
8:27 Speaker 02 I was like, yeah. And they were like, whoa. And like all the women were going like, who's that guy? And like, it was, and yeah, and I was like, don't worry about it.
8:34 Speaker 03 They'll try and take your top off.
8:35 Speaker 02 Yeah. And I just, I just walked out. I said, I've got to go, baby.
8:37 Speaker 03 See you later.
8:38 Speaker 02 Yeah, I've got, I've got my, um, I've got. I vomited it all up.
8:42 Speaker 03 Remember when you did that, um, challenge?
8:44 Speaker 02 It was awful. That was awful, the eating competition. That was awful. And I ate loads of like chips to begin with.
8:49 Speaker 03 Yeah.
8:50 Speaker 02 I had a starter.
8:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
8:52 Speaker 02 I had a starter.
8:53 Speaker 03 Everyone at the table was going, this is over already.
8:55 Speaker 02 It was an eating competition. I was like, well, I have something to begin with.
8:59 Speaker 03 We were in Australia and Blake and Joe did the, uh, this sort of massive steak food challenge.
9:05 Speaker 02 It was horrible.
9:05 Speaker 03 You eat the steak, you get it for free.
9:06 Speaker 02 It was actually just obscene.
9:08 Speaker 03 They both had to run off to the toilet.
9:10 Speaker 02 I was ving, I was vomiting up then. And stuff was coming out of my mouth. I was like, that's going to rip, a bit like with you. It's going to rip a hole in my face. It's too big and I can't come up. Like, like box shaped stuff was just coming up, like completely undigested bits of. It was honestly, it was horrible. It was horrible.
9:26 Speaker 03 Have you done a food challenge since?
9:28 Speaker 02 Um, no, uh, no. And, and, and actually it, it just, it put me off.
9:35 Speaker 03 Yeah.
9:36 Speaker 02 It was by the end, you're like, this is actually horrible.
9:38 Speaker 03 Yeah.
9:39 Speaker 02 This is just, it feels.
9:40 Speaker 03 I've done the hot chip challenge. I did it on mine and Claire's podcast. It's the, it's this thing called the hot chip challenge. It was in America. Uh, and it's a, like a sort of nacho chip, like a Dorito, but it's, it's incredibly spicy.
9:58 Speaker 02 Okay, yeah.
9:59 Speaker 03 And I was like, cause I like spicy food.
10:02 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:03 Speaker 03 And I kept saying. I think I'd be able to do it.
10:07 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:07 Speaker 03 Like you, it became like a sort of.
10:09 Speaker 02 So it's just one, is it, is it a crisp?
10:10 Speaker 03 It's just one crisp.
10:11 Speaker 02 Just one crisp.
10:12 Speaker 03 It's just one crisp. And it became like a sort of viral internet thing.
10:15 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:15 Speaker 03 And everyone was like, oh my god, like, you know how people react on the internet and stuff?
10:20 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:20 Speaker 03 And I was watching, I was going, alright, I'm sure it's spicy, but.
10:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:24 Speaker 03 Do you know what I mean?
10:25 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
10:25 Speaker 03 Like, I was like, I'm sure I'll be like, oh, fucking hell, that's hot.
10:28 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:28 Speaker 03 Like, I wouldn't just go.
10:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:30 Speaker 03 Do what you did with the, and then just walk off.
10:32 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:33 Speaker 03 Right?
10:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, not just like.
10:35 Speaker 03 I'm sure, I was like, I'm sure I will.
10:36 Speaker 02 Well, sure, it's a, it was a bit hot.
10:37 Speaker 03 I'm sure I will find it spicy, I'm sure I'll go, fucking hell.
10:39 Speaker 02 You were like, I've had, you were, I've had like nice and spicy knickknacks.
10:43 Speaker 03 Absolutely.
10:44 Speaker 02 Or the, what, the flaming hot monster munch.
10:46 Speaker 03 Yeah.
10:46 Speaker 02 You would think it'd be that, but, but like having like, a little bit more.
10:49 Speaker 03 How spicy can something be?
10:50 Speaker 02 How spicy, really, how spicy can it be?
10:51 Speaker 03 I was so fucking ill.
10:53 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
10:54 Speaker 03 I was, um, throwing up at the tube station.
10:57 Speaker 02 Oh, mate.
10:57 Speaker 03 Then I got to the train station and I was on my hands and knees, throwing up into a drain.
11:03 Speaker 02 Oh.
11:03 Speaker 03 On the platform. I had my son with me, he had the, I did it for mine and Claire's podcast.
11:10 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:10 Speaker 03 And my son was off school that day, so he had to come in with us. And, uh, and my other son was still at school.
11:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:16 Speaker 03 So Claire, I couldn't run. We were like, we were pulling up to the train station on the tube to get our train.
11:22 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:22 Speaker 03 And I said to Claire, I can't, I'm not, I can't run. You're gonna have to get on this train to get Jude from school.
11:28 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:28 Speaker 03 I'll get the next one.
11:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:30 Speaker 03 Harrison stayed with me.
11:31 Speaker 02 Was this in London?
11:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
11:32 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:33 Speaker 03 And, uh, Harrison was like, I was at the train station on the platform.
11:38 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:38 Speaker 03 Vomiting into a drain. Harrison was rubbing my back.
11:42 Speaker 02 Oh, god.
11:43 Speaker 03 And I was just like, I'm gonna have to go to the hospital.
11:46 Speaker 02 And.
11:47 Speaker 03 So that hot chip challenge.
11:49 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:49 Speaker 03 Don't do it, don't ever do it.
11:51 Speaker 02 Yeah. Yeah.
11:53 Speaker 03 Cause it's, it, it is really hot and awful. But then about twenty minutes later, it ruins your life for a day or two.
12:02 Speaker 02 Hmm.
12:02 Speaker 03 And when I went for a piss.
12:04 Speaker 02 Oh, god, yeah.
12:06 Speaker 03 My, it was stinging.
12:08 Speaker 02 It was sting, yeah.
12:09 Speaker 03 My penis.
12:10 Speaker 02 Yeah.
12:11 Speaker 03 There was obviously like chili chemical in my urine.
12:15 Speaker 02 It's the, um.
12:17 Speaker 03 What's it called?
12:17 Speaker 02 What's the scale, Kevlar or something, um.
12:20 Speaker 03 Scovilles.
12:21 Speaker 02 Scovilles.
12:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:23 Speaker 02 But it goes up.
12:24 Speaker 03 I don't understand the Scoville scale because they're always like, this is 80 billion Scovilles.
12:30 Speaker 02 I know.
12:30 Speaker 03 Like, there's no like, well, how do I, it should just be one to 10.
12:34 Speaker 02 It feels like it's a logarithmic scale or something. It can't be 80 billion times.
12:38 Speaker 03 I don't know, I might be, I might be exaggerating.
12:40 Speaker 02 No, it is. No, I've seen it. Some of them have got absolutely loads of zeros and then some of them have got like, it's just one. And you're like, well, is it really that, is that the difference? What's funny, I'm still not buying it, even though you've told me about the bombing into a drain. I'm like, how could it be?
12:55 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:56 Speaker 02 How could it, oh, how could it be?
12:58 Speaker 03 I know, yeah, it can't be that bad, sure. Nothing's that bad.
13:01 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:01 Speaker 03 No, but it was, I was very, very ill.
13:03 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:04 Speaker 03 Joe, that was a.
13:06 Speaker 02 Well, I enjoyed that.
13:07 Speaker 03 That was an all right conversation.
13:09 Speaker 02 It was okay.
13:09 Speaker 03 What do you reckon? Four out of 10, I'd give that conversation, to be honest, below average.
13:12 Speaker 02 How many Scovilles was it?
13:13 Speaker 03 It was probably, it was probably only about four million.
13:17 Speaker 02 Yeah. What I enjoy is the Scoville thing is that nobody knows what they are. So it's like, well, if it makes it easier, I'll put it into a number. Well, it doesn't, it doesn't make it easier.
13:25 Speaker 03 I think it was John Scoville.
13:27 Speaker 02 Is that actually true?
13:28 Speaker 03 That, um, he grew his own chilies and stuff like that. I think it was in the 1920s when they started, when he started sort of documenting and through his experience would write.
13:39 Speaker 02 Yeah. What are the other ones?
13:41 Speaker 03 I don't know if that's true at all. Do you like that?
13:43 Speaker 04 Yeah, I'm not gonna fact check that. That sounds, that sounds great.
13:47 Speaker 02 You've done the cinnamon one? Is that cinnamon?
13:49 Speaker 03 Oh, where you just take a spoonful of cinnamon?
13:52 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:52 Speaker 03 No, I've not done that.
13:54 Speaker 02 Um.
13:55 Speaker 03 I think I just choked it down.
13:56 Speaker 02 There's loads on there.
13:57 Speaker 03 You've done it.
13:57 Speaker 04 Yeah.
13:57 Speaker 03 Queen Lily May's done it.
13:58 Speaker 04 I can't have cinnamon anymore.
14:00 Speaker 03 You can't have cinnamon anymore?
14:02 Speaker 02 It really put me off steak and chips, that eating challenge for a while. Because by the end I was like, I can't get it in. Like, I could feel it backing up. It was a pile. It was like a pile in my.
14:10 Speaker 03 I did a Doritos advert.
14:12 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:13 Speaker 03 With Hannah.
14:14 Speaker 02 Yeah, actually, yeah, I know this. Yeah.
14:16 Speaker 03 I think we were 16.
14:17 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
14:17 Speaker 03 And we went to Amsterdam.
14:20 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:20 Speaker 03 Through this advert.
14:21 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:21 Speaker 03 And I didn't have any lines, um, in this Doritos advert.
14:25 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:25 Speaker 03 That, so this is so weird, right? The advert was, was that Doritos were giving away like a, a giga pet or something, like a sort of virtual pet.
14:34 Speaker 02 Oh, like a Tamagotchi.
14:35 Speaker 03 Yeah, like a Tamagotchi. And, um.
14:37 Speaker 02 They were weird.
14:38 Speaker 03 And I'm holding a packet of Doritos.
14:40 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:40 Speaker 03 And Hannah brings me in to her parents.
14:44 Speaker 02 Right, okay.
14:45 Speaker 03 And says, hi, this is, um, mum, dad, this is my new boyfriend.
14:48 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:48 Speaker 03 And we're having a baby.
14:50 Speaker 02 Oh, I see.
14:52 Speaker 03 And that was the sort of joke. And they're like looking at me going, who's this idiot that's knocked up our door essentially, right?
15:00 Speaker 02 Yeah, absolutely.
15:00 Speaker 03 And I'm just eating Doritos, right?
15:02 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:03 Speaker 03 Two days it took us to film that ever.
15:04 Speaker 02 That's amazing.
15:05 Speaker 03 I spent two days eating cheesy Doritos.
15:07 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
15:09 Speaker 03 And for years, I've only like, it's only been the last couple of years I've had a cheesy Dorito again.
15:14 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:14 Speaker 03 For years I could not have another Dorito.
15:17 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:18 Speaker 03 And it was really weird, because we, me and Hannah were there, we didn't know each other.
15:23 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:23 Speaker 03 And then we were just doing that thing together. And there was a bit of, like, in the evening, there was a bit of downtime, so we went to dinner together with the parents.
15:34 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:35 Speaker 03 And there was a bit of a, I don't know, I can't remember, I can't remember, he's never gonna hear this, is he? I don't know who he fucking was. He was a bit of a fucking know it all, right? He's geezer. And he was like taking us on a tour.
15:46 Speaker 02 Well, he's reached the top, so he should be.
15:48 Speaker 03 Well, he was like, he was literally like the dad of the, of like, of everything.
15:52 Speaker 02 He was like, he really was your dad.
15:53 Speaker 03 Yeah.
15:54 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
15:54 Speaker 03 And he was, he took us on a tour through Amsterdam and I remember, and then he took us down the red light district.
16:01 Speaker 02 He did, okay.
16:02 Speaker 03 Yeah.
16:02 Speaker 02 So he did, yeah, right, yeah.
16:04 Speaker 03 And I just remember, I remember feeling really embarrassed.
16:07 Speaker 02 Hannah's never told me about this, this day in the red light district.
16:10 Speaker 03 It was great, no, honestly, it was like.
16:13 Speaker 02 I'm sure she enjoyed herself.
16:14 Speaker 03 It was like ran through it.
16:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
16:17 Speaker 03 Like, it wasn't, I was sixteen, I was a sixteen year old boy.
16:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:22 Speaker 03 So I wasn't like, I might give one of them a gag.
16:27 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
16:27 Speaker 03 Terrified.
16:28 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah. Me and Hannah went to his taxi and the guy was like, I'll probably, I'm gonna treat myself to someone tonight. It was horrible, it was grotty. And I thought, that is fucking horrible that someone's gonna have to have sex with him. I just thought, that's, I genuinely, I honestly thought, being a sex worker.
16:45 Speaker 03 Sure.
16:45 Speaker 02 Must be shit, because then comes this dickhead and he was a dick.
16:50 Speaker 03 I think they should be allowed.
16:51 Speaker 02 And I was like, you shouldn't be allowed to, he shouldn't be allowed to go, you should have to be.
16:54 Speaker 03 Everyone should be allowed to go, come one, come all. It's absolutely, for want of a better word, right? Everyone should be allowed to go.
17:02 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:02 Speaker 03 But, should be allowed to price them up.
17:07 Speaker 03 Anyway, Joe, give us a fact.
17:09 Speaker 02 Okay, here we go. So, last week, this actually got you down as reading this.
17:14 Speaker 03 Okay. We'll wait until we get to my fact, but I might have misunderstood. Last week, we were talking about jellyfish, bees and wasps. So I thought we could fact up on things that sting today. Shit. What have you got for me, Joe?
17:29 Speaker 02 Right. I was looking into nettles and dockleaves and things.
17:33 Speaker 03 Good, yeah.
17:34 Speaker 02 So I've done a bit, a bit like you told us, I've got a few facts here, so.
17:38 Speaker 03 Yeah.
17:40 Speaker 02 Basically, dockleaves don't work. That's, that seems to be the.
17:44 Speaker 03 No way.
17:45 Speaker 02 They don't work. They.
17:46 Speaker 03 They do, I've done it.
17:48 Speaker 02 Well, there's a sense that maybe.
17:49 Speaker 03 I fell into a whole bush of stinging nettles once.
17:53 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:53 Speaker 03 I was on my bicycle.
17:55 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:55 Speaker 03 I must have been about nine years old.
17:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:57 Speaker 03 I, I think it was a new bike. You know, when they're a new bike, they're slightly too big for you. So you're a bit sort of like wobbly on them anyway. And I wasn't even going anywhere. We were all just stood around.
18:07 Speaker 02 You were just.
18:08 Speaker 03 Just hanging on our bikes, just chatting for a second. And then I just went.
18:14 Speaker 03 Straight into a bush. My whole body, it was the summer. I was in shorts and t-shirt.
18:19 Speaker 02 Oh.
18:19 Speaker 03 Like, almost every part of my skin was touched by a, by a, um, stinging nettle. And my mates went, we've got to find a dock leaf.
18:28 Speaker 02 Yeah.
18:29 Speaker 03 And there was a river nearby. So we got like, and they were like, my mates all helped me and I ripped loads of dockleaves out and we're like, what do you call it? Bruising them?
18:37 Speaker 02 You bruise them. You, you've got to get the.
18:38 Speaker 03 And I'm convinced it works.
18:40 Speaker 02 The theory is that there's a kind of gel in there, like aloe vera or something that's supposed to be good. From what, from my research.
18:48 Speaker 03 Yeah.
18:50 Speaker 02 Which I did on the toilet before I came, which is basically my, my office, essentially.
18:56 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
18:56 Speaker 02 I might as well just call it, it's the off, I mean, that's where I work.
18:59 Speaker 03 I fucking love the toilet.
19:00 Speaker 02 That's where I work. I mean, it is, it's like, you've got your computer, the door's locked, that's where you can actually get something fucking done.
19:08 Speaker 03 I've got the toilet and walking the dog.
19:10 Speaker 02 Yeah.
19:11 Speaker 03 And that's when I go into like a sort of zen mode.
19:14 Speaker 02 Yeah.
19:15 Speaker 03 Where my brain stops thinking about all the fucking nonsense that it wants to think about.
19:18 Speaker 02 I don't know what I'd do without the toilet.
19:20 Speaker 03 And it goes, right, remember you've got to come up with a fact for Joe tomorrow and da, da, da, da. And that's when I sort of get my thinking done.
19:28 Speaker 02 Yeah, me too. Well, I haven't got a dog, but I am.
19:33 Speaker 03 Child, whatever.
19:36 Speaker 02 Exactly.
19:37 Speaker 03 Children are are easier than dogs.
19:40 Speaker 02 I am.
19:41 Speaker 03 Can't get, you can't get a dog on a plane.
19:44 Speaker 02 I was at my parents recently and they have a dog who's near the end.
19:50 Speaker 03 Yeah.
19:52 Speaker 02 And I kept coming back into the room after I said goodbye to, because I'm going in, I'm going to New Zealand quite soon.
19:57 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
19:58 Speaker 02 And I was honestly thinking, I probably won't see Gus again.
20:01 Speaker 03 Right.
20:03 Speaker 02 And I kept patting him and going, well done, boy, well done, boy. And then leaving the room and then worrying that he could see me looking worried.
20:11 Speaker 03 Right.
20:12 Speaker 02 And then I kept coming back in and being like, don't worry about that, don't worry about that. See you soon, everything's gonna be all right. And then I go and be like, oh, my face fell again. And then, and I went back and be like, hey, I'm back again, back again, well done. But I've never called him boy before.
20:25 Speaker 03 Yeah.
20:25 Speaker 02 Well done, boy, well done, boy.
20:27 Speaker 03 Well, um, did you live with Gus?
20:29 Speaker 02 No, he just lives with my, he lives with my, my.
20:31 Speaker 03 No, did you live with Gus though? Or had you moved out by the time your mum and dad had gone?
20:34 Speaker 02 I'd moved out by the time, by the time he was there. But I, I've seen his whole life.
20:38 Speaker 03 Yeah.
20:38 Speaker 02 Went from being a puppy and up to, and it's only just occurred to me that he's.
20:42 Speaker 03 How old is he?
20:43 Speaker 02 I think he's about twelve.
20:46 Speaker 03 Yeah.
20:46 Speaker 02 Yeah.
20:47 Speaker 03 Twelve, fourteen.
20:47 Speaker 02 Yeah. Um, so.
20:50 Speaker 03 I'm sure he'll still be there.
20:51 Speaker 02 I hope he's still be there, but basically I got, I got into a real loop. I kept coming back.
20:55 Speaker 03 Hmm.
20:56 Speaker 02 It was like, why's this guy keep coming back? Um, anyway, but I hope Gus is still there when I get back from New Zealand, because he'll be, he'll be there. But, um, anyway, so I, but so I did this on the toilet. So basically I did a bit of that. Um, some people think that it's because dot leaves are alkaline and nettles are acidic, but actually they're both acidic. So it's not that. But what's interesting is that we, that they're not quite sure why nettles sting you. There are a few things in them that could cause it.
21:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
21:23 Speaker 02 And I suppose that the, the thing that I've alighted on is kind of like the fact that I've kind of highlighted is.
21:29 Speaker 03 Yeah.
21:29 Speaker 02 One of the things that they contain is serotonin, which is interesting because in another form serotonin is obviously what we need to feel happy.
21:36 Speaker 03 Yeah. Oh, I was gonna say antidepressant.
21:38 Speaker 02 It is. Yeah, yeah. Serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
21:42 Speaker 03 Serotonin.
21:43 Speaker 02 Uh, is something.
21:44 Speaker 03 Sertraline. That was what I was on.
21:46 Speaker 02 Uh, yeah, me, I'm currently on it, mate. Love, I mean, that's the only, that's the only thing I've got to do is that I've got to check I've got enough sertraline for New Zealand.
21:54 Speaker 03 Right.
21:55 Speaker 02 Because if you get caught short without your antidepressants, you need to find any other actor and then voice someone there, so it'll be fine.
22:01 Speaker 03 Yeah.
22:01 Speaker 02 But it's, but, um, uh, I need to make sure I have enough sertraline, but, but, but, because then you can't get it from nettles. It doesn't work. You can't inject it.
22:11 Speaker 03 No.
22:12 Speaker 02 Into, it'd be like.
22:13 Speaker 03 You could crush it up, mate.
22:15 Speaker 02 It'd be like rubbing heroin on or something. Blend it, yeah.
22:18 Speaker 03 Can't you eat stinging nettles?
22:20 Speaker 02 You can eat stinging nettles, but I don't know whether that, yeah, you've just got to boil them, I think. Cook them and then.
22:24 Speaker 03 Yeah, stinging nettle soup, that's what they do, isn't it?
22:25 Speaker 02 I think they're probably quite good for you. Um, my mum says any green veg has loads of vitamin C in.
22:29 Speaker 03 That's it.
22:29 Speaker 02 And, you know, who am I as a 42 year old man to look into anything my mum says other than just accept it is totally true.
22:35 Speaker 03 I'd accept that.
22:36 Speaker 02 Yeah. No, so, so, yeah, essentially, yeah, they've got serotonin in, they've got a load of other stuff, histamines, uh, this is nettles.
22:42 Speaker 03 Well, that'll be it then. Oh, no.
22:44 Speaker 02 Cause, you know, histamines, yeah, cause, and, yeah.
22:46 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah, and, uh.
22:46 Speaker 02 No, yeah, yeah, no, the antip, yeah, dockleaves do not have antihistamines. So it might be a placebo. I, like you, believe that they have helped.
22:54 Speaker 03 Just through anecdotal evidence, like.
22:56 Speaker 02 I believe they have helped.
22:57 Speaker 03 And, and I've used, like, as a kid, I used it constantly.
23:01 Speaker 02 It may be that we just rub when we put a dockleaf on and that that helps to kind of get rid of it, the rubbing. Or just the fact that they're cool, just a cool leaf, but it's.
23:10 Speaker 03 We used to be thinking beavers. You used to have to, um.
23:13 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:14 Speaker 03 Be able to spot a dockleaf.
23:15 Speaker 02 Yeah. I used to have a little, um, film case, um, you know, a roll of film, a little black chew. And in it was a bandage.
23:24 Speaker 03 Yeah.
23:25 Speaker 02 And a 50 pence piece for going to the public telephone box.
23:28 Speaker 03 Right, just in case.
23:29 Speaker 02 To call for help. And they were like, just stick that in your pocket. It's really convenient. It was like, that's quite uncomfortable for you.
23:34 Speaker 03 Yeah.
23:36 Speaker 02 Shut up your arse and, um, and that's Cubs.
23:39 Speaker 03 Was it in the, was it in the Inbetweeners film?
23:42 Speaker 02 They said it had to go up the arse for some reason. I don't know. It was weird. I was like, why does that have to go up my arse? They were like, it has to go up your arse.
23:47 Speaker 03 It's got to.
23:48 Speaker 02 Has to. Baden Powell said it had to go up the boy's arse.
23:50 Speaker 03 You're not gonna get your, put it up, put it, put it in my arse badge.
23:53 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:55 Speaker 02 Oh, why are we doing this special, uh, why are we doing the sausage sucking badge again? Oh, it's just awful. Just awful, awful stuff.
24:07 Speaker 03 No, but there's.
24:08 Speaker 02 I was not abused at Cub Scouts. It was fine.
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24:48 Speaker 05 I'm Claire Buckley and this Halloween on my podcast, Pretty Scary, we are going to cover the stories that keep you up at night. Real crimes, ghosts and aliens. Plus, the scariest movies to watch this spooky season with the lights off. So, as the nights draw in, the pumpkins are carved and somewhere in the dark, something is scratching at the window. It's probably just the cat, right? Get the candles lit in search for Pretty Scary with Claire Buckley.
25:30 Speaker 03 So the dock leaf doesn't work? It's bullshit.
25:33 Speaker 02 The dock leaf doesn't work, but nettles do... Well, no, there's no reason that we know of that it should work. If it works as a kind of placebo effect, or for some reason we don't understand, then fine. But basically, there's no reason that it should work.
25:48 Speaker 03 Insane.
25:48 Speaker 02 And also nettles, the nettle sting has serotonin, but not in a way that could really help you.
25:54 Speaker 03 Right.
25:55 Speaker 02 So it's just all a lose-lose, really.
25:57 Speaker 03 It is, yeah. I'm disappointed with that.
25:59 Speaker 02 Basically, plants are shit. Everyone goes on about them, but actually it turns out they're fucking useless.
26:03 Speaker 03 Yeah. I think moderation, innit?
26:05 Speaker 02 I think we should just get rid of all the plants and just replace it with...
26:08 Speaker 03 Pills. You can just put all that in pill form, can't you?
26:11 Speaker 02 Put it in pills. I just want to live in a completely... Plastic room and have all my food in hills.
26:19 Speaker 03 Yeah, freeze dried. All right, I'll work on that for you, Joe.
26:22 Speaker 02 Thank you.
26:22 Speaker 03 We do have to do fact check. This is where you send in something that feels like a fact to you that you'd like us to confirm.
26:28 Speaker 02 Yeah.
26:29 Speaker 03 So we'll be reading a fact or a question that you'd like us to get to the bottom of. And then we're going to have a good old think during the break and we'll come back and discuss it and let you know how true it feels to us. And then we'll decide whether it passes our fact check. We are also gonna throw, then throw it over to Queen Lily May to um actually verify it. Because it is, it is unsatisfying.
26:53 Speaker 02 Well.
26:54 Speaker 03 If you, if you listen to the podcast and, and.
26:56 Speaker 02 No, what will happen is we're gonna go to Lily May and then the mainstream media will have its say.
27:01 Speaker 03 Oh.
27:02 Speaker 02 Do you know what I mean? Like, so then like, then um basically, then we'll get an answer from the metropolitan elite. Based on what they say is true. Is it true?
27:12 Speaker 03 Is that one of your truths? Is that one of your Truth Social?
27:16 Speaker 02 That's one of my Truth Social. I'm trying to get onto Truth Social, so I'm, I'm trying to, trying to get in that way.
27:21 Speaker 03 All right, Joe, I believe you've got this week's fact check.
27:26 Speaker 02 Uh, yeah, I have. So this comes from Belinda and she said.
27:31 Speaker 03 Will's mum.
27:32 Speaker 02 Belinda Stuart Wilson.
27:33 Speaker 03 Yeah.
27:33 Speaker 02 Uh, Will's mum. Polly McKenzie?
27:36 Speaker 03 Polly, that's all right. Yeah, good one. Good for you.
27:39 Speaker 02 Thank you. Good for me for remembering.
27:42 Speaker 03 Cause they are like, the, the boys only ever say hello, Mrs. McKenzie and stuff like that.
27:46 Speaker 02 They have all got, they have all got names, the, the mums and dads, but you don't often.
27:50 Speaker 03 Hi, Mrs. Cooper.
27:51 Speaker 02 Mrs. Cooper. I don't know what my parents' names are. Have they got names? Probably.
27:55 Speaker 03 Robin.
27:56 Speaker 02 Well, no, that's the actress, Robin Weaver.
27:59 Speaker 03 Yeah. And Martin.
28:00 Speaker 02 Martin Trenman. But in terms of their first names, Jay's dad, I believe, is called Terry.
28:07 Speaker 03 Terry, yeah.
28:07 Speaker 02 Played by the great David Charles. Oh, great. The first series, cause he'd been in the office, we were like, hi, David. Hi, David.
28:15 Speaker 03 You and Simon Bird?
28:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
28:17 Speaker 03 Like, we're just staring at David Charles.
28:19 Speaker 02 Yeah, it was really weird and freaking him out. Cause he plays Glynn. Tuffy, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:26 Speaker 02 Yeah, and um.
28:28 Speaker 03 That's just my dog shagging his dog.
28:30 Speaker 02 Brilliant. You'll be next. You like some posh?
28:33 Speaker 03 Yeah.
28:34 Speaker 02 David, a word now.
28:35 Speaker 03 Yeah.
28:36 Speaker 02 That was disrespectful in a way.
28:37 Speaker 03 What she needs is a bloody good shagging.
28:38 Speaker 02 Might have to now.
28:42 Speaker 04 I have got the names of um the Coopers if you wish.
28:46 Speaker 03 Yeah, what are they called?
28:47 Speaker 04 So they're Pamela Cooper.
28:49 Speaker 02 Pamela.
28:49 Speaker 03 Not, no, did not know that at all as well.
28:52 Speaker 04 And Alan Cooper.
28:53 Speaker 02 Alan, that's Alan of all things. Uh, well, he rings a bell.
28:58 Speaker 03 Because they were either just dad or Mr Cooper.
29:01 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah. Or in my mum's case, a bag of shit was what she was constantly being called.
29:06 Speaker 03 What was Neil's dad called?
29:12 Speaker 02 Don't know.
29:13 Speaker 03 Don't know.
29:13 Speaker 04 I have the answer.
29:14 Speaker 03 Oh, you got it? Yeah, go on. I feel like we know this.
29:17 Speaker 02 Well, it hardly ever comes up.
29:20 Speaker 04 It's Kevin.
29:21 Speaker 02 Kevin.
29:23 Speaker 03 Kevin Sutherland.
29:24 Speaker 02 Sutherland. Okay.
29:26 Speaker 03 Right, we gotta, we gotta do Belinda. She's blessed us. She wants us to.
29:29 Speaker 02 Sorry, Belinda.
29:29 Speaker 03 She wants us to do a fact check.
29:31 Speaker 02 Here we go. My friend Becky told me years ago that if you eat nine bananas in a row, you will die.
29:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, I heard that. I heard that.
29:38 Speaker 02 I've heard, I've heard versions of this. She says that every banana contains the same amount of potassium regardless of size and if you eat nine, you will die of potassium poisoning.
29:45 Speaker 03 Yeah.
29:46 Speaker 02 I've repeated this fact to many people over the last 25 years, but I'm still not sure if it's true. I have challenged her over the validity of this fact a few times, to which she replies.
29:57 Speaker 03 She throw a glove on the floor.
29:58 Speaker 02 Yeah. Dammit, it's not true. To which she replies, well, if you're quite a good reply, well, if you're also sure you're eating nine bananas there.
30:05 Speaker 03 Yeah.
30:06 Speaker 02 Fucking hell. What do you reckon? Thanks, Belinda.
30:10 Speaker 03 Well, we could.
30:12 Speaker 02 Do it.
30:13 Speaker 03 Well.
30:13 Speaker 02 Jackass, Jackass is back.
30:15 Speaker 03 The thing is, right, we could either have a discussion during the break and come back and do our thoughts. Or I don't like bananas, so I'm out.
30:24 Speaker 04 I don't like bananas.
30:25 Speaker 02 You got that and fucking quit, didn't you?
30:28 Speaker 03 We could get Joe.
30:29 Speaker 02 Convenient.
30:30 Speaker 03 To eat nine bananas.
30:32 Speaker 02 Oh god, am I doing that?
30:33 Speaker 04 Yeah.
30:34 Speaker 03 And find out if he dies. Although we might have to fact check it. Because just in case he does.
30:39 Speaker 04 Yeah, that'd be.
30:40 Speaker 02 When am I gonna die? If I do die?
30:42 Speaker 03 I had, um.
30:43 Speaker 02 Cause as long as it's within, as long as it's after we finish. Cause we're in three today, aren't we?
30:47 Speaker 03 Yeah, that's right.
30:48 Speaker 02 Well, not really. We're doing one of them in the new year.
30:51 Speaker 03 No, but we'll try, we'll, we'll try. Yeah, we're, we're, we're, for those just.
30:55 Speaker 02 By day, I mean in the next two months.
30:57 Speaker 03 Peaking behind the curtain here, we are shooting three episodes in one afternoon.
31:01 Speaker 02 Yeah.
31:01 Speaker 03 Of this podcast, right? But what we'll do is we'll do, when, when we did the in betweeners.
31:06 Speaker 02 Yeah.
31:06 Speaker 03 Where you had to fall into an icy, um.
31:11 Speaker 02 Lake?
31:11 Speaker 03 Not lake, was it? It was a, it was a.
31:13 Speaker 02 Pond, river?
31:14 Speaker 03 No, it was the, it was the sea, pretty much, wasn't it?
31:17 Speaker 02 You should have the, um, the, um, the episode, um.
31:20 Speaker 03 Small trip.
31:21 Speaker 02 Field trip. Yeah, the, the one to Swanage.
31:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, field trips to Swanage.
31:25 Speaker 02 Yeah.
31:25 Speaker 03 What's that called? Port? That's the word I was thinking of. It was a port, wasn't it? It was a little port. And we were.
31:32 Speaker 02 I'd say it was a harbour.
31:33 Speaker 03 Harbour.
31:33 Speaker 02 Yeah.
31:34 Speaker 03 The important bit is, is that it was, um, filmed January, something like that, February.
31:39 Speaker 02 Fucking freezing.
31:40 Speaker 03 And, um. The day before, we shot that scene of Joe falling off the boat into the sea. Uh, before there was a huge storm.
31:51 Speaker 02 Yeah.
31:51 Speaker 03 Uh, in Britain.
31:53 Speaker 02 Wow.
31:53 Speaker 03 And that was the last day of the shoot, when you fell in that water. And they did that because they were, because they were genuinely like, in case he dies. So we've still got a TV show that we can put out afterwards.
32:08 Speaker 02 Yeah.
32:08 Speaker 03 It was left to the end of the shoot, on the last day of the shoot, that's when Joe fell in the water. And for everyone else, it was like, anyway, anyway, that's a wrap, guys. We'll see you all soon. Good luck, da, da, da. And like, I went away and I was like, I wonder if Joe's died. Like, maybe like a week later and I was like, I wonder if Joe, I wonder if Joe's still with us, I haven't heard from him.
32:30 Speaker 02 That's fucking weird, isn't it, they did that? Well.
32:33 Speaker 03 Sinister.
32:33 Speaker 02 I'm still here, yeah.
32:34 Speaker 03 Like.
32:35 Speaker 02 It was fucking freezing. You know when it just like kicks the shit out of you?
32:38 Speaker 03 Well, no, because it's.
32:40 Speaker 02 And then I remember Ben Palmer, who's a director, was going, okay, and just bob back down. I was like.
32:44 Speaker 03 He kept saying, bob back down.
32:46 Speaker 02 Fuck you, fuck you, mate.
32:47 Speaker 03 That was making me angry.
32:50 Speaker 03 He was like, right, we're gonna go again. Joe, can you just bob back under? Like just saying it like that.
32:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
32:56 Speaker 04 Wild swimming's quite trendy now though, so did you not feel the.
32:58 Speaker 03 That wasn't wild swimming, man. That was, that was, uh.
33:01 Speaker 02 Yeah.
33:02 Speaker 03 Cause, cause you've got a line where you go, holy fucking shit, that's cold.
33:06 Speaker 02 There was.
33:06 Speaker 03 And they used.
33:07 Speaker 02 Yeah.
33:08 Speaker 03 The.
33:08 Speaker 02 Holy fucking shit, that's cold, yeah.
33:09 Speaker 03 Like you can, there's no acting going on.
33:12 Speaker 02 Wild swimming, my parents are quite into wild swimming and like, and um. They used to go wild swimming in a river near where they live in Essex.
33:22 Speaker 03 Nude.
33:23 Speaker 02 No, not nude, they're just like.
33:25 Speaker 03 Definitely nude.
33:27 Speaker 02 Like, they were, they were, they wore costumes, but.
33:30 Speaker 03 Cause your mum and dad are quite sort of hippie, and they.
33:32 Speaker 02 They're quite hippie.
33:32 Speaker 03 Yeah, they're definitely nude.
33:34 Speaker 02 They'll swim in, they'll swim in very, very cold water. My, my family are quite into like cold. My brother in, in, he lives in Glasgow, he will swim in water that's like three degree, like he'll swim like, he loves it.
33:46 Speaker 03 Is that the neuroscientist?
33:47 Speaker 02 Is, no, this, no, Greg is, he, well, he's, he works uh for, he actually works for the Scottish Humanists.
33:56 Speaker 03 Right.
33:57 Speaker 02 But he.
33:58 Speaker 03 The Human Fund.
33:59 Speaker 02 But I would also say to that, but he, he does have, I also think Greg is also like basically an artist, like he, he actually, he makes and sells art.
34:07 Speaker 03 Right.
34:07 Speaker 02 And he also writes about art.
34:09 Speaker 03 Yeah.
34:10 Speaker 02 Uh, and he's also got an interest in music. All my brothers are quite musical as well, but like, but yeah, his, his um day job, I suppose, is that he, he works for the Scottish Humanists. Uh, trying to sort of promote, um, you know, issues that, that humanists care about, like human rights and, you know, things like, you know.
34:27 Speaker 03 Yeah.
34:27 Speaker 02 Stuff like that. Um.
34:29 Speaker 03 But he's contributing to sci.
34:30 Speaker 02 He's contributing, he's contributing and, and, and.
34:32 Speaker 03 Your other brother runs a school or something, doesn't he?
34:35 Speaker 02 Adam is, Adam's a primary school teacher.
34:36 Speaker 03 Yeah.
34:37 Speaker 02 And then George is.
34:38 Speaker 03 Molding young lives.
34:39 Speaker 02 Molding young minds, and if you like molding young minds.
34:42 Speaker 03 Go on.
34:42 Speaker 02 George is a neuroscientist. I mean, he's, he's literally got like, he's literally like fist deep in brains, like going around, uh, yeah.
34:48 Speaker 03 Yeah, we were talking about this the other day.
34:50 Speaker 02 They all contribute, two, two of them have got PhDs.
34:52 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
34:53 Speaker 02 Two of them are doctors.
34:54 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
34:54 Speaker 02 One of them's, the other primary school teacher's got a masters or something.
34:57 Speaker 04 Yeah, but are you gonna eat nine bananas?
34:59 Speaker 03 But I was, I was telling, I was telling Joe.
35:01 Speaker 02 I'm playing for time.
35:02 Speaker 03 I was telling Joe, like, when he was telling me about his brothers and stuff and what they do.
35:06 Speaker 02 They're all very impressive.
35:07 Speaker 03 I was like, that must be really awkward at Christmas. Cause like, one of them's like, brain surgeon or whatever and.
35:12 Speaker 02 Yeah.
35:12 Speaker 03 And they're like, teaching kids.
35:14 Speaker 02 Yeah.
35:15 Speaker 03 Human, humanist. And I was like, yeah, well, have you ever got your bollock out in front of them?
35:20 Speaker 02 Yeah.
35:20 Speaker 03 Like on the television.
35:21 Speaker 02 My family, they're quite, um, they're all very educated and, and I'm literally like, they must be like, what's happened to him?
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36:07 Speaker 02 We've been on many a road trip. Do you remember the one where we had to drive to the middle of Australia together to film?
36:13 Speaker 03 Yes, I remember that road trip.
36:15 Speaker 02 And, um, we had an Australian crew with us and, uh, we were all in the car, all the British actors. And we decided to get out, cause we all needed to go to the toilet.
36:24 Speaker 03 We went to nature's toilet, didn't we?
36:26 Speaker 02 Went to nature's toilet, the outback.
36:28 Speaker 03 Yeah, huge, the outback, isn't it? Huge and empty.
36:31 Speaker 02 Huge, huge and empty.
36:32 Speaker 03 There's no one there.
36:33 Speaker 02 No.
36:33 Speaker 03 It's, it's absolutely massive. There's no one there. You look around, you go, this is a safe place to have a little tinkle.
36:39 Speaker 02 But we thought it'd be funny if we all just stood in a really, really tight row, like we were at a urinal. And then this road that had no other cars on it for like, days at a time, one other car drove past and we could see their faces out the window being like, what are those guys doing? And then when we got to the set, we realised that in that car had been the entire Australian crew. And that night in the pub, we could hear them all talking about us being like, yeah, they were, they're really weird. We saw them doing something on the way here. We don't know what it was.
37:09 Speaker 03 We together guys, come on.
37:12 Speaker 02 Oh, come on. I thought they liked banter.
37:14 Speaker 03 Exactly.
37:15 Speaker 02 They're men who love that stuff.
37:16 Speaker 03 I went on a Christmas trip once as a kid. My family went away for a few days for Christmas. I don't remember where we went and I don't remember who we saw. All I remember was that it was a long journey and my dad just had Chris Rea Road to Hell album playing over and over again. It was on tape. It was on a tape deck.
37:37 Speaker 02 Road to Hell. Merry Christmas.
37:39 Speaker 03 Yeah, it wasn't like nowadays you can just connect your phone and you can listen to any song and it will just shuffle the music for you and you don't have to worry about what's coming up next and your playlist. It was the days where when you put something, one album in the car, that was it.
37:55 Speaker 02 Yeah.
37:55 Speaker 03 That's the only album you can listen to. So, once that finished after, I don't know, 45 minutes or something, I think we were in the car for about six hours. I must have listened to that album about seven times.
38:04 Speaker 02 Yeah.
38:05 Speaker 03 Just sat there listening to, "We're on the road to hell."
38:10 Speaker 02 That is my favourite Christmas hymn though.
38:11 Speaker 03 Well, it does have driving home for Christmas. He's obsessed with driving, Chris Rea.
38:15 Speaker 02 He loves driving.
38:18 Speaker 03 He's always singing about being in his car. He's either on the road to hell, he's stuck in traffic trying to get home for Christmas.
38:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
38:24 Speaker 03 What's the matter with the guy?
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38:49 Speaker 03 Right, welcome back to Joe and James Fact Up. Before the break there, we would just fact checking on behalf of Belinda, who wanted to know if you eat nine bananas in a row, you will die. Now, that is, Joe, a fact because I have heard the same thing and it is about potassium. And let me tell you something about potassium, right? Uh, I didn't know what it meant when I was a kid and I used to play, when I was in primary school, I used to play a game called WWF SmackDown 2 on the Playstation with my mate. And we created our own characters and we were in a tag team together and we were called Ultimate Potassium.
39:25 Speaker 02 That's funny, you just thought it was an impressive word?
39:30 Speaker 03 Yeah.
39:30 Speaker 02 Yeah. That's good.
39:32 Speaker 03 So, I know that it's dangerous, you don't wanna mess with that kinda shit.
39:37 Speaker 02 It's a, um, it's actually quite a volatile, is it K? In the, I think in the, in the periodic table, it's K.
39:44 Speaker 03 Oh, don't.
39:45 Speaker 02 So, so.
39:46 Speaker 03 Oh no, I used to hate the periodic table so much.
39:49 Speaker 02 I know, they don't make any sense, they don't make any sense. It's quite useful for like cryptic crossword and stuff.
39:53 Speaker 03 What's gold, A U?
39:54 Speaker 02 Yeah, I know, I know, it doesn't, they don't, they've, there aren't enough.
39:57 Speaker 03 I suppose it's Latin, is it?
40:00 Speaker 02 I don't know why potassium's K.
40:01 Speaker 03 Queen Lily May, what's Latin, what's the Latin word for gold?
40:05 Speaker 04 One second.
40:07 Speaker 03 I reckon it's, it's got to be Latin, everything's Latin, isn't it?
40:10 Speaker 04 Yeah, it is, it's, uh, it's, well, I don't know how you'd say it, but it's A U R U M, Alrum?
40:16 Speaker 03 Alrum.
40:17 Speaker 02 So that's A U, that's gold in the periodic table.
40:19 Speaker 04 Mm-hmm.
40:20 Speaker 02 There's quite a lot that don't make sense. The thing is, they, the, the, the, the ones that.
40:25 Speaker 03 Sorry.
40:25 Speaker 02 That's right, yeah, I like it.
40:26 Speaker 03 We touched toes.
40:27 Speaker 04 Nice.
40:29 Speaker 02 Oh, sorry, sorry.
40:29 Speaker 03 Oh, sorry about that.
40:30 Speaker 02 Oh, sorry, sorry.
40:31 Speaker 03 Here's to, uh, news.
40:32 Speaker 02 Here's to, um, well, it's, um, here's to, um.
40:35 Speaker 03 We used to do this all the time, we already spoke about this.
40:37 Speaker 02 Yeah, no, it was just, it was the sort of game that we just played with ourself that no one else knew we were playing, where we'd pretend we were in the early stages of getting off of each other.
40:45 Speaker 03 We were like cheers and just going, here's to saying yes.
40:48 Speaker 02 Yeah.
40:49 Speaker 03 To, uh, to new, to new possibilities.
40:55 Speaker 02 Let's see where the evening takes us, I guess.
40:57 Speaker 03 Yeah.
40:58 Speaker 02 It was good, it was good. And then, of course, there was two pens. We're allowed to talk about two pens?
41:03 Speaker 03 No, we're not, we're not allowed to talk about that ever. It was a weird game that we used to play on set of the in-betweeners.
41:07 Speaker 02 We, I, I, I mentioned it to Jonathan Ross's researcher, didn't I?
41:10 Speaker 03 And even Jonathan, Jonathan Ross's researcher was like, we can't talk about that.
41:13 Speaker 02 Jonathan Ross, he's a man who likes quite a lot of homoerotic stuff. Even he was like. That's fucking weird, mate.
41:19 Speaker 03 Yeah.
41:19 Speaker 02 There was an interview that ended where with, I think the NME, it ended with a quote from Blake that was like, they were like, what are you like around each other? And we were like, oh, we're pretty, you know, we're pretty full on with each other. And then Blake said, and then we were like, so then I said, it gets quite weird. And then Blake said, it makes other people uncomfortable. And that was the end of the interview. The last word from the interview was Blake saying, it makes other people uncomfortable. What do you mean? What is that joke?
41:45 Speaker 03 My favourite interview, oh, what was it? I think it was like hello or okay or something like that. It was one of those sort of like, um, what are they called? Glossy mags, right?
41:55 Speaker 02 Yeah.
41:56 Speaker 03 And, uh, you know, like, they'll have like, like the headline and then we'll do a photo shoot.
42:02 Speaker 02 Yeah.
42:02 Speaker 03 And the headline will be in conversation with the in-betweens or something like that. And then they will take something that someone said and that'll be like the sub-headline.
42:10 Speaker 02 That's right. The kind of pull quote or something. Yeah.
42:12 Speaker 03 And the pull quote was,
42:14 Speaker 02 I remember that. Yeah, I remember this.
42:16 Speaker 03 Joe, I'd quite like a white Christmas this year. James, well, I can arrange that for you.
42:25 Speaker 02 Oh, God. It was so good. It was so homoerotic. It was brilliant. It was as homoerotic as like the fucking Greek army in ancient Greece. It was brilliant. It was just brilliant. It was like, it's the culture. The culture of the show is the, is homoeroticism. And not really in a jokey way, just in like, that's what we find productive. We find a homoerotic atmosphere productive. We find it intellectually productive. We find it calms us down. We like it. It's what we like.
42:49 Speaker 03 Yeah. Anyway.
42:50 Speaker 02 What's wrong with that?
42:51 Speaker 03 Belinda, you are, um, I'm gonna go yes, cause I've heard the same thing.
42:54 Speaker 02 I think they have got to pass him in.
42:56 Speaker 03 If you eat too many bananas, you die.
42:57 Speaker 02 I'm sure it's not, what did she say? Seven?
43:00 Speaker 03 I've heard it was seven. She's saying nine.
43:02 Speaker 02 People would have died. If, if it was seven, every freshers week, there would be a story about a student dying.
43:10 Speaker 03 What are they doing?
43:12 Speaker 02 They're shoving bananas out their eyes, aren't they?
43:13 Speaker 03 They're shoving up their eyes, of course they are.
43:15 Speaker 02 That probably actually, do you hear, I too, on a similar vein, have you heard the thing you heard at school where they were like, if you shove a cigarette out your bum, you die? Cause you get such a rush of nicotine.
43:24 Speaker 03 Oh, it's too much.
43:25 Speaker 02 Cause the skin is so thin.
43:26 Speaker 03 Right.
43:26 Speaker 02 It all, it goes in your.
43:30 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
43:31 Speaker 03 It's like a nicotine suppository.
43:33 Speaker 02 Right, really quit Novella and then you die. Um, but it's like a nicotine suppository. But if it was a cigar.
43:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
43:39 Speaker 02 Cause it's got thicker leaf.
43:40 Speaker 03 Right.
43:41 Speaker 02 That's good for anesthetising you.
43:43 Speaker 03 I was looking at cigars online.
43:45 Speaker 02 I'm sure, I bet you were.
43:47 Speaker 03 Thinking about becoming a cigar guy.
43:49 Speaker 02 Get a Thermidor, will you?
43:50 Speaker 03 Well, a humidor.
43:51 Speaker 02 Humidor, oh yeah, Thermidor's a lobster steak.
43:57 Speaker 02 No, this doesn't work. This Thermidor's no good for cigars at all.
44:02 Speaker 03 Really?
44:03 Speaker 02 I thought this is.
44:04 Speaker 03 It really makes your cigar soggy, doesn't it?
44:06 Speaker 02 This Thermidor's have his bollocks, go without, go without.
44:09 Speaker 03 All soggy and cheesy.
44:12 Speaker 03 No, a humidor, I was looking at humidors. That's another thing that I was looking at just last night.
44:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
44:17 Speaker 03 I was thinking about. I didn't even bother with Claire with this. I ca- I was like, this is a conversation that, like, cause she was sort of.
44:25 Speaker 02 Yeah, there were, there were times where you just.
44:27 Speaker 03 And I was like, I know, I know for a fact, and I love annoying Claire, I live.
44:30 Speaker 02 Yeah.
44:30 Speaker 03 To annoy her, and I was like, even, I, no, even this will blow my mind. But I was just thinking about observing Lent next year.
44:42 Speaker 03 I was like, maybe I could give something out. And I was looking up the dates.
44:47 Speaker 02 Oh. God almighty.
44:51 Speaker 03 It was like, I might have, you know.
44:52 Speaker 02 Might do it.
44:53 Speaker 03 It might be like something spiritual and it might, you know, I might be a better person because of it.
44:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
44:59 Speaker 03 It's forty days, I think it's forty six days is Lent next year, cause that includes, it's forty days but not including Sundays. I think you're allowed to have, at Sundays, you're allowed to sort of.
45:09 Speaker 02 Oh, and what's the thing where-
45:11 Speaker 03 But I was this close to just like, imagine, imagine lying next to me and you're just dropping off. And then you, I'd touch her on the shoulder and go, I think I might observe Lent next year.
45:22 Speaker 03 Even I had to stop myself and be like, no, I think, I think this will, I think this will end.
45:27 Speaker 02 Imagine if it in any way affected your like family life. You couldn't, you couldn't, you couldn't put the kids out because you're like, I'm just a bit knackered Claire because I'm, I haven't got my gender because I'm observing that. Fucking, you're about to be important. It's important to me though babe, it's important to me. You know, like you know, you said it was good for me to have a hobby. Like this is really important to me.
45:44 Speaker 03 That will, that will be how my marriage ends by the way. It won't be like a big, it won't be a big dramatic thing. Um, it will just be like the final straw. It'll be the constant little annoying things that I'm constantly doing. She'll go, I've got to stop, I've just got to stop now because it's, it's not healthy.
46:03 Speaker 02 Yeah.
46:04 Speaker 03 I've tried so hard, James.
46:06 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like, yeah.
46:09 Speaker 03 But I did, I did stop myself. So if you're listening, if you're listening Claire, and I know for a fact you don't.
46:17 Speaker 02 And you showed the kind of restraint that actually will see you through Lent when you do observe it. So you were actually quite-
46:24 Speaker 03 That's the one thing I wouldn't be able to do.
46:25 Speaker 02 Yeah.
46:26 Speaker 03 Not annoy Claire.
46:27 Speaker 02 If you, if you, if you told her you were going to observe that, she'd be bang up for it. She'd be like, yeah, do that. Yeah.
46:32 Speaker 03 I'd have to not talk to her.
46:34 Speaker 02 Yeah. I go to Hannah, just as we're falling asleep, um, what's your favourite thing about me?
46:41 Speaker 03 Really?
46:42 Speaker 02 Yeah. And if she won't answer-
46:43 Speaker 03 I don't want to pull at that thread. That's a scary question.
46:46 Speaker 02 And if she says, she'll say something like, like you're nice. And I'll be like, no, come on. Think of something, think fucking think. And she's like, I'm trying to go to sleep. And I just, something specific.
46:56 Speaker 03 I call Claire baby when I know I'm winding her up. My whole thing is I always go, what's wrong baby?
47:03 Speaker 03 What's wrong?
47:03 Speaker 02 It's good to see how much you can get away with.
47:05 Speaker 03 It's really fascinating. It's so much fun.
47:08 Speaker 02 Because yeah, you've got to be like-
47:10 Speaker 03 Bless her. Oh, that's her life. I'm lucky.
47:15 Speaker 02 Well-
47:16 Speaker 03 What are we saying to Belinda? Are we going nine bananas?
47:20 Speaker 02 Did she say nine or seven?
47:21 Speaker 03 She said nine.
47:22 Speaker 04 Nine.
47:22 Speaker 02 Oh yeah, nine. Because I've got to do my fact as well.
47:25 Speaker 04 Yeah, we've got.
47:26 Speaker 02 Okay.
47:27 Speaker 03 And I fact stacked and also fuck my fuck up, fact up. Shit.
47:32 Speaker 02 What the hell?
47:32 Speaker 03 I fact my fuck up.
47:34 Speaker 02 What the hell?
47:35 Speaker 03 Right, what are we saying? Are we saying fact or no fact?
47:37 Speaker 02 Um.
47:38 Speaker 03 Are we saying it's fact or fact up?
47:42 Speaker 03 I'll go with whatever you. It's not true. Right, we're going, we're.
47:45 Speaker 02 It's not true.
47:46 Speaker 03 So it's fact up.
47:47 Speaker 02 You have to, you have to eat.
47:48 Speaker 04 It's all we're doing now.
47:49 Speaker 03 I think so, yeah.
47:50 Speaker 04 It's fact or fact up.
47:51 Speaker 03 Yeah.
47:52 Speaker 04 And this is.
47:53 Speaker 02 Fact.
47:53 Speaker 03 We're going fact up then.
47:54 Speaker 02 Fact up. It's too lit, it's too few.
47:57 Speaker 03 You must be able to eat nine.
47:58 Speaker 02 It can't be nine, that's madness.
48:00 Speaker 03 I, I feel like they'd ban bananas.
48:01 Speaker 02 Of course they would, it's mental. So you like apples, do you? Fine. Oh, I don't have three. Oh, he's gone.
48:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
48:09 Speaker 02 Yeah.
48:09 Speaker 03 You give kids bananas and stuff, don't you?
48:11 Speaker 02 You certainly do.
48:12 Speaker 03 Yeah, no, we're gonna say that's fact up. Queen Lily May, what's, what's the, what's your ruling?
48:18 Speaker 04 Uh, so upon my research, uh, you are correct. This is fact up. It is to do with the potassium levels. That's where this, um, common understanding comes from. However, apparently experts say that you would have to eat roughly 400 bananas in a day.
48:36 Speaker 03 Right.
48:36 Speaker 04 To potentially have a lethal, uh, level of potassium. However, they. They say that's to do with being like a generally healthy person. So if you are someone who perhaps has certain health issues.
48:49 Speaker 03 Yeah.
48:49 Speaker 04 That actually, a lower amount of bananas could impact you and have a lethal.
48:54 Speaker 03 You're still gonna need about 250 or so.
48:56 Speaker 04 You're gonna need a lot of bananas. Yeah.
48:58 Speaker 03 Well, that's the thing. Where are they putting them?
49:00 Speaker 02 Well, yeah.
49:00 Speaker 03 Because I reckon 400 of anything.
49:02 Speaker 02 Well, that's the thing. I mean, if you had 400.
49:05 Speaker 03 Gonna finish you.
49:05 Speaker 02 Yeah, it would kill you, wouldn't it? It'd be, so you, you basically, i- it's an amount where you would die from just being, having an exploded stomach before you actually died of the potassium poisoning.
49:18 Speaker 03 Yeah, it wouldn't be, you couldn't, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to physically.
49:23 Speaker 02 Yeah.
49:24 Speaker 03 Ingest 400 bananas. There's not, there's no room there, is there?
49:29 Speaker 02 There's not enough room.
49:31 Speaker 03 How much does 400 bananas weigh?
49:34 Speaker 02 It's, yeah, I mean, so much.
49:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, there's no way you're getting 400 bananas in your body.
49:38 Speaker 02 I reckon an unpeeled banana.
49:41 Speaker 03 What do you reckon? Half a pound?
49:43 Speaker 02 I reckon it's about, I reckon, I reckon a peeled banana weighs 50 grams. Lily May, what do you think?
49:50 Speaker 04 Well, I've Googled it.
49:51 Speaker 02 Okay, but what do you, well, you're still, you're still thinking it.
49:54 Speaker 04 Well, it tells me about different sizes of bananas.
49:56 Speaker 02 Okay, well, okay, so let's say a medium.
49:59 Speaker 04 A medium.
49:59 Speaker 02 A regular, an average banana, I think average.
50:01 Speaker 04 Well, so they say a medium banana is seven to eight inches long.
50:05 Speaker 02 Yeah.
50:05 Speaker 03 Yeah.
50:06 Speaker 04 And, um.
50:07 Speaker 03 Why are you laughing?
50:10 Speaker 03 Let me tell you something right now, that is not an average sized.
50:13 Speaker 02 No.
50:13 Speaker 03 All right?
50:13 Speaker 02 No.
50:14 Speaker 03 I'm not having that at all whatsoever.
50:16 Speaker 02 Whoever told you that is lying.
50:17 Speaker 03 Yeah.
50:17 Speaker 04 Yeah, and.
50:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, what's that, what's that, what's that Tinder profile?
50:20 Speaker 03 Yeah.
50:21 Speaker 02 Please, please.
50:23 Speaker 04 So, so a medium.
50:24 Speaker 02 I want to see a photo. I do, I'm, for a different reason, but yeah, just I'd like to see a photo.
50:29 Speaker 03 Sorry, Lily May, go on.
50:30 Speaker 02 Of a penis. I'd like to see a photograph of a penis.
50:34 Speaker 03 Carry on.
50:36 Speaker 04 And, uh, an average or medium banana would weigh 118 grams, which is 4.2 ounces.
50:44 Speaker 02 Is that with the peel though? I bet it is. I think that's with the peel.
50:50 Speaker 04 Includes the peel, yes it does.
50:51 Speaker 02 Of course it includes the peel, because that's so high.
50:57 Speaker 03 Right, well, anyway, we've got to move on, because I've got a fact and I've.
51:00 Speaker 02 Haven't done your facts yet.
51:01 Speaker 03 Our facts stacked again. Now, here's my fact for you. What are we talking about? I, right, I got.
51:09 Speaker 04 Interesting.
51:09 Speaker 03 Yeah, so I got slightly confused with this week's fact.
51:12 Speaker 02 Okay.
51:13 Speaker 03 Um, our facts stacked, so I'll just rattle through them.
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53:03 Speaker 02 Go on.
53:04 Speaker 03 Fact number one: He used to be a schoolteacher.
53:10 Speaker 02 Very good.
53:11 Speaker 03 Did you see that coming?
53:12 Speaker 02 Very good.
53:14 Speaker 03 Before joining the police, Sting taught English. He was a schoolteacher in England. He's famous for claiming to practice marathon-length tantric sessions.
53:26 Speaker 02 He is famous for that.
53:28 Speaker 03 He once joked in an interview that he and his wife could make love for seven hours straight, thanks to yoga. Boring.
53:36 Speaker 03 It's all the end bit, isn't it? That's the best bit.
53:38 Speaker 02 Yeah, I don't know what.
53:39 Speaker 03 Let's just get to the end as quickly as possible.
53:40 Speaker 02 I don't know what they're doing there. You don't need exposition, do you? You don't really like, well, that's... anyway.
53:46 Speaker 03 He once, here you go, this was the one that I really liked.
53:49 Speaker 02 Maybe some people wouldn't like that.
53:50 Speaker 04 To be fair, what you guys are doing with your toe touching, that's kind of tantric.
53:54 Speaker 02 That's tantric, yes it is, isn't it?
53:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, here's the fact that I did like about Sting.
53:57 Speaker 02 Yeah.
53:58 Speaker 03 He once kept real bees.
54:00 Speaker 02 Very good.
54:02 Speaker 03 He's been an advocate for bee conversa- uh, conversation.
54:09 Speaker 03 Conservation.
54:12 Speaker 02 You can advocate all you like, mate.
54:15 Speaker 03 He's always trying to encourage them to talk.
54:17 Speaker 02 He's an advocate for bee conversation, but no one's got back to him yet.
54:22 Speaker 03 He's just trying to open up lines of communication for the bees.
54:25 Speaker 02 Every day he checks that website to see if he's had any hits, any bees have logged on.
54:29 Speaker 03 He's been an advocate for bee conservation, conservation, and has actually had hives on his property. And he lives in a 16th century Tuscan villa, and he makes his own wine and olive oil. That's facts about Sting.
54:48 Speaker 03 Well, I don't know about you, Joe, but I'm all fact out today.
54:51 Speaker 02 I'm fact out.
54:52 Speaker 03 What have we learnt? We've learnt that doc leaves don't work. We've learnt that you can, you can eat up to 400 bananas until it starts to affect your health. And that Sting wants to talk to bees.
55:07 Speaker 03 We hope that you've learned something, or at least had a nice time. We'll be back next week, armed with more facts, chats, and soothing, you keep doing it in your accent, Lily, mate.
55:17 Speaker 04 I know, but it's my voice that's in my head.
55:20 Speaker 03 Facts, chats, and soothing masks. I'd say masks, of course. Don't forget that you can get in touch with us if you'd like us to fact check something that feels true to you, or whatever nonsense, anything, any, anything you think, oh, get those idiots to talk about it. Our email is [email protected] , our WhatsApp is 07822 034330, and our social media.
55:45 Speaker 03 Handle is at Joe and James Pod. And you can find all that information in the podcast description if you've already forgotten those details. There we go, there's a podcast. See you next week. Bye.
55:57 Speaker 02 Bye.
56:02 Speaker 02 Joe and James Fucked Up.
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