Pod Insights Joe Marler Will See You Now Joe Lycett Can't Escape the Chaos About this episode Joe Lycett enters Dr Marler's office and it doesn't take long to work out what he might need help with.
Known for pushing things to the limit (usually at the expense of a big corporation), Joe digs into why he’s always been drawn to chaos, and whether there’s a part of him that struggles when things get a bit… beige.
He also opens up about becoming a dad, and the unexpected way it made him look back on everything he's done so far in his career.
Plus, there's talk of Celebrity Traitors, with Joe Marler doing his best to squeeze out any hints he can from Joe about the new series.
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1:00 Speaker 01 Ugh, I hate Mondays.
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1:30 Speaker 05 When did you get your ears pierced?
1:31 Speaker 02 When I was 16.
1:32 Speaker 05 Of legal age?
1:33 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:34 Speaker 05 Did you get permission from your parents?
1:36 Speaker 02 Uh, no, I think I did it.
1:38 Speaker 05 Hmm.
1:38 Speaker 02 Would you ever get one done?
1:40 Speaker 05 Oh, I used to have them done, yeah.
1:41 Speaker 02 Did you? Both of them?
1:42 Speaker 05 Yeah, it was only for a night.
1:44 Speaker 02 What do you mean?
1:45 Speaker 05 Was in they chucked a needle in my ear at a mate's house.
1:48 Speaker 02 Did they?
1:49 Speaker 05 Yeah, it was like I was trying to impress some girls. Didn't work. I ate loads of crisps instead. But...
1:56 Speaker 02 Oh man. That was your, that was such a sort of like picture, a snapshot into your teenage life. Tried to impress some girls, didn't work, ate some crisps, went to bed.
2:07 Speaker 05 That's what happened.
2:08 Speaker 02 Man, I used to try and impress, um, this, I used to try and impress this, uh, girl I fancied in year seven on, on the bus to school.
2:18 Speaker 05 Hmm.
2:19 Speaker 02 And I had a Walkman, so I would have ABC by Jackson 5 on and I'd like sing it like a little bit too loudly, hoping that she'd look over and be like, wow, that guy's, maybe he's singing about me.
2:31 Speaker 05 Hmm.
2:31 Speaker 02 That was, that was bad.
2:33 Speaker 05 Did it work?
2:34 Speaker 02 No. No, I didn't see her talk to me. Yeah, what did you do to impress girls?
2:39 Speaker 05 Showed them my inverted nipples.
2:41 Speaker 02 Yeah, are they inverted?
2:42 Speaker 05 They used to be.
2:44 Speaker 02 What, did you get them sucked back out?
2:47 Speaker 05 No, they just came out.
2:51 Speaker 02 Really?
2:51 Speaker 05 It's like when your balls drop, isn't it?
2:54 Speaker 02 No, I don't think it is.
2:54 Speaker 05 What?
2:55 Speaker 02 What?
2:57 Speaker 05 Everyone has inverted nipples and then they come out after puberty.
3:00 Speaker 02 Guys? No? George is shaking her head.
3:04 Speaker 05 It's not a thing.
3:05 Speaker 02 No, Yarns, no. Guys, it's gonna go down the line. For the audio listeners, there's, there's, there's.
3:09 Speaker 05 Is that a thing?
3:11 Speaker 02 There's six other people here, um, none of which.
3:13 Speaker 05 Have they got nipples?
3:15 Speaker 02 Guys, can everyone get their nips out quickly, just to have a quick check on. Quick nip check, guys, can we get a quick nip check?
3:24 Speaker 02 Welcome any new listeners who've decided to tune into this podcast after we've interviewed Prince Harry. You may have thought, what an interesting point in chat with, um, a very high profile figure. I'm gonna go and check out this podcast more. Thank you and welcome. We're here for you now. This is what it's about.
3:40 Speaker 05 But that's what we do, mate.
3:41 Speaker 02 I know, that's what I said, welcome.
3:42 Speaker 05 We keep it real.
3:43 Speaker 02 We actually filmed this before Prince, the Prince Harry interview, so we're now having to guess what we talked about with Prince Harry. Um, weirdly, I'm getting a haircut before the Harry interview, so if you're seeing this, my hair's quite long, but, um, uh, it didn't grow that fast, it's before, it's before the thing. Um, we're very excited.
4:01 Speaker 05 I'm utterly lost.
4:03 Speaker 02 About what, the timeline of this?
4:04 Speaker 05 Yeah. How, like, it's wild, isn't it?
4:09 Speaker 02 What, the Harry thing?
4:10 Speaker 05 To come from Haza.
4:13 Speaker 02 Hmm.
4:13 Speaker 05 Which I think we can call him now.
4:15 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, he loved it, I think, I imagine he will. Sorry, I was getting so lost in the timeline, but yeah, yeah. He loved slash will love it being called Hazard. Yeah.
4:26 Speaker 05 I'm finding it really hard to talk about it as if it's happened.
4:29 Speaker 02 Today is the 30th of June.
4:31 Speaker 05 No, this episode.
4:32 Speaker 02 And this episode.
4:33 Speaker 05 Is this the Joe Lycett episode?
4:35 Speaker 02 Yes.
4:35 Speaker 05 And this will go out.
4:36 Speaker 02 This all needs to stay in, by the way.
4:39 Speaker 05 This, this will go out after.
4:42 Speaker 02 There's so many things that like try to preserve the magic of television or the magic of podcasts. We don't do that here. We will get you into the mess of our minds with us at the same time.
4:51 Speaker 05 So this is before or after Joe, so Joe Lycett, this, we're doing Joe Lycett.
4:56 Speaker 02 Yeah, so today's, today's 30th of June.
4:58 Speaker 05 We've done the Harry episode.
5:00 Speaker 02 And we, we in real life, I don't believe I have to explain this to you in real life. In real life, we've not met Harry yet.
5:06 Speaker 05 No, I have.
5:08 Speaker 02 Please don't confuse it with that.
5:10 Speaker 05 What do you mean?
5:11 Speaker 02 Please, and I know, but for the sake of just trying to work.
5:13 Speaker 05 But you're saying in real life, I've met him twice.
5:15 Speaker 02 Okay, fuck. Now, so we're gonna have three real lives. We've got a podcast life, recording podcast life and your life outside of the podcast. Great. Oh, brilliant. Okay, in your real life, you've met Harry how many times?
5:26 Speaker 05 Twice.
5:26 Speaker 02 Okay, that's parked.
5:29 Speaker 02 Now, in the podcast world.
5:31 Speaker 05 Haven't met him yet.
5:32 Speaker 02 In podcast recording world, we've not met him yet.
5:34 Speaker 05 We've not met him.
5:36 Speaker 02 In podcast transmission world, we have met him and he loved the podcast. Or, quick other option, he wasn't too keen. Let's do two options. Wow, he loved that, didn't he?
5:47 Speaker 05 Oh, how good was, how good was Harry? It was amazing. Proper like some, um, robust conversation, back and forth, lovely energy, really enjoyed you.
5:55 Speaker 02 Yeah, very generous as well.
5:57 Speaker 05 But, you know, generous, very generous, gave us a gold bullion at the end.
6:01 Speaker 02 Second option. So, um,
6:06 Speaker 02 do you think, I mean, are you happy with what you did last week?
6:12 Speaker 02 But this week is, after the amazing or not so good week with Harry, this week is almost as equally, I mean, I love this man that we're about to meet so much, but, you know, you've got to give credit to Harry, almost as exciting as Harry. He is someone who you've also met in the past, I believe. He's someone who was my boss before you were my boss, and I think you're going to enjoy him very much. It's Joe Lycett!
6:40 Speaker 05 Yeah, it's Joe Lycett. I like him.
6:44 Speaker 02 Shall we get him in?
6:46 Speaker 05 Janet, please would you send Joe Lycett in? Thank you, darling.
6:55 Speaker 02 Joe Lycett, everybody!
6:59 Speaker 02 Yeah.
7:02 Speaker 06 Hello. It's really sad what's happened to Janet Street Porter that she's been reduced to being your receptionist, isn't it?
7:09 Speaker 02 But she's getting work, though, that's the main thing.
7:12 Speaker 06 What a career low for Janet Street Porter.
7:15 Speaker 05 Oh.
7:16 Speaker 06 Whoa, okay.
7:17 Speaker 05 You okay?
7:18 Speaker 06 Whoa.
7:18 Speaker 05 Are you, are you feeling uncomfortable?
7:22 Speaker 02 The audio listener, the chair has gone very far back.
7:25 Speaker 06 Really comfortable, actually. I mean, I'd like more space here. Have you got a spare pillow that I could...
7:32 Speaker 02 Yeah, there we go.
7:33 Speaker 06 Lovely. Yep. Brilliant. That's great. Oh, I feel ever so relaxed.
7:41 Speaker 02 We've established a very interesting power dynamic early on.
7:43 Speaker 06 Yeah. What is the power dynamic?
7:45 Speaker 02 I don't know, I don't know, I'm sort of observing it.
7:47 Speaker 06 Is this disrespectful to the podcast format?
7:50 Speaker 02 No, this is lovely, it's wonderful.
7:51 Speaker 06 I'm now regretting it as a decision.
7:54 Speaker 05 Not committing?
7:55 Speaker 06 Not committing. And I'd also like to make it clear that Janet Street Porter wasn't the receptionist, that was just a joke. And she does have a thriving career as a journalist.
8:10 Speaker 05 Welcome. I believe you know Jake as well?
8:13 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:13 Speaker 06 Yes.
8:14 Speaker 05 How do you know Jake?
8:16 Speaker 06 How do I know Jake? So, before he insisted on becoming, um, what we know in the business as talent. He was not talented. He was behind the camera where he belongs.
8:29 Speaker 02 You mean he was off-screen talent?
8:32 Speaker 06 No, no, you don't. If you're off-screen, you're not talent.
8:35 Speaker 02 No.
8:35 Speaker 06 In the, in the business.
8:37 Speaker 02 If you're off-screen, you're at work.
8:38 Speaker 06 You're, you're like a producer or something, just something. But, but producers, directors, none of these people are talented. People on camera are talent. And I knew Jake before he was talent, basically.
8:49 Speaker 05 Okay, and, okay, on that talent scale, does the amount of cameras pointed at you tell you your scale of talent? So, for ex- so for example, one, two, three, four. We both have five cameras pointed at us.
9:05 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
9:06 Speaker 05 Jake, how many have you got at you?
9:09 Speaker 02 I've got my laptop camera on as well.
9:12 Speaker 02 So webcam plus, plus this, so one, one, one, but one I've brought myself.
9:19 Speaker 06 But also, no, I would, I would argue no.
9:22 Speaker 05 Oh, it doesn't reflect?
9:23 Speaker 06 Because like comedians kind of want, always want to be the person at the back of the room going, this is silly, isn't it? So it's about what you do with that one camera, not about the volume of cameras.
9:34 Speaker 02 Wow. That is a lesson for life as well, guys.
9:37 Speaker 06 Yeah.
9:37 Speaker 02 Really is.
9:38 Speaker 06 Obviously Jake wastes that opportunity.
9:42 Speaker 06 He could, he could be the most important person. Why have you got an inkwell for a pencil?
9:49 Speaker 05 Anyway, enough, enough nonsense, enough silly buggers. With every guest, um, we do intake questionnaires.
9:56 Speaker 02 Okay, fine.
9:57 Speaker 05 Okay. Full name?
9:59 Speaker 06 Joe, uh, Harry Lysit. It's not Joseph, it's Joe.
10:03 Speaker 05 Any former names?
10:05 Speaker 06 Hugo Boss.
10:06 Speaker 05 Occupation?
10:08 Speaker 06 Uh comedian, yeah.
10:11 Speaker 05 Hmm, why was there a pause?
10:13 Speaker 06 Well, cause I do lots of things really, so I'm like, yeah. But comedian is like, you know, my main trade, I would say, but you know, I'm an artist, so I paint and I host television programmes, um.
10:28 Speaker 05 Do you do any drama?
10:30 Speaker 06 Not really, no.
10:31 Speaker 05 Do you want to do drama?
10:32 Speaker 06 Uh, if the right role came up, I would.
10:34 Speaker 05 What sort of role would give you a go?
10:36 Speaker 06 Well, I have been in one American series as a, as a voiceover artist where I play a talking foreskin. So that sort of work, I think, fits with me.
10:48 Speaker 06 Hmm.
10:49 Speaker 05 What?
10:50 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah, it's a show called Bird Girl.
10:53 Speaker 05 Is it a foreskin on a dick?
10:55 Speaker 06 Uh, it's off a dick, actually.
10:57 Speaker 05 Oh, it's a cut, it's a cut foreskin?
10:58 Speaker 06 It goes off on its own and.
11:00 Speaker 05 Is there circumcised foreskin?
11:02 Speaker 06 Yeah, I, I mean, it's been a long time since I recorded, but um.
11:06 Speaker 05 Star sign.
11:07 Speaker 06 Cancer, cancer.
11:09 Speaker 05 Cancerian.
11:10 Speaker 02 Wow, all three of us.
11:11 Speaker 06 Are we?
11:12 Speaker 02 How interesting.
11:13 Speaker 06 When's my birthday?
11:14 Speaker 05 When's your birthday?
11:15 Speaker 06 Fifth of July.
11:15 Speaker 05 Oh, it's soon, even though it makes no difference to this, cause we don't know when we're putting it out. But I would like to celebrate the fact that it's Joe Lycett's birthday on Monday, Sunday, Sunday.
11:28 Speaker 02 Joe, it's your birthday recently.
11:29 Speaker 06 Yeah.
11:30 Speaker 02 How was it?
11:31 Speaker 06 God, what a day.
11:33 Speaker 05 What did you do for it?
11:35 Speaker 06 I think I went to the pub. I haven't actually got anything planned.
11:39 Speaker 05 Fair enough.
11:40 Speaker 06 Oh, no, I tell you what I did do, cause I can't, on my actual birthday, I know exactly where I'm gonna be or where I was. Um, I went to see Metallica at Wembley Arena Stadium.
11:51 Speaker 02 Wow. I didn't know you were a Metalhead fan. Are you Metalhead?
11:55 Speaker 05 Metallica?
11:55 Speaker 06 Metallica, yeah.
11:56 Speaker 05 Can you do one of their songs for me? Love that one.
12:01 Speaker 06 Mm.
12:02 Speaker 05 Sounds a lot like corn.
12:04 Speaker 06 They're very similar, very similar.
12:06 Speaker 02 Have you always been a metalhead or was that new?
12:07 Speaker 06 It's new. Basically, I went to Ozzy Osbourne's final gig, Back to the Beginning in Birmingham, and found it really moving and also was surprised at how much I loved the other bands, particularly Metallica. And so, once they announced a tour, which was quite soon after that, I snapped up tickets. Um, I've got one of the vinyls and I've been listening to that with my son and he loves it because he can just sprint around. So, um, so I'm now a metalhead. And I think the thing that I was intimidated by, I thought sort of metal was very aggressive and I, I thought people would be moshing and sort of herfing each other, but everyone's really nice.
12:49 Speaker 05 What?
12:49 Speaker 06 Yeah, everyone's sort of quite cuddly and sort of teddy bear-esque and.
12:54 Speaker 02 And with the moshing as well, they go, if someone falls down, you pick each other up. They were very serious about that as well.
12:59 Speaker 06 Exactly, yeah, they're very, very supportive, yeah. There's an amazing clip of Metallica playing Moscow and uh, doing Enter Sandman. Is it Enter Sandman?
13:09 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
13:10 Speaker 06 Um.
13:10 Speaker 05 Oh, it's Enter Sandman?
13:11 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah.
13:12 Speaker 05 It's not Enter the Sandman?
13:13 Speaker 06 No, because then you're fucking a sandman, aren't you?
13:23 Speaker 05 I, I would.
13:25 Speaker 06 We've all been there.
13:26 Speaker 05 I would really struggle.
13:27 Speaker 06 It's a chafing nightmare.
13:29 Speaker 05 That is actually.
13:31 Speaker 02 Think you're having a nice day at the beach, next thing you know, oh my gosh. So abrasive.
13:35 Speaker 05 It's, that's so hard to do.
13:37 Speaker 06 I imagine.
13:38 Speaker 05 But you chuck a load of lube at it, it makes no difference whatsoever.
13:41 Speaker 06 Yeah, it makes it worse.
13:42 Speaker 05 Yeah, it's like gloopy and then scratchy.
13:44 Speaker 06 Yeah, stick the sand to the bellend, yeah.
13:47 Speaker 05 Fucking hell.
13:48 Speaker 06 Maybe that's where the, um, the inspiration for the song came from is like that sort of
13:56 Speaker 06 it's like that sort of feeling of like.
13:58 Speaker 05 Because it's quite a.
13:59 Speaker 06 It's not a.
13:59 Speaker 02 So I just imagined I was, you would be the one entering the sandman, but actually it's more of an invitation, enter sandman. It's more that, yeah.
14:07 Speaker 06 Yeah.
14:11 Speaker 02 Lovely bit of Nirvana there.
14:15 Speaker 02 Lovely bit of.
14:23 Speaker 05 Whoa, not the nameplates.
14:25 Speaker 06 Sorry.
14:26 Speaker 02 So what happened in the clip in Moscow?
14:28 Speaker 06 They, uh, what, uh, it's just, I think it's like a hundred thousand, half a million. It's a ridiculous amount of people.
14:34 Speaker 02 It's quite a difference, huh?
14:35 Speaker 06 And they're all moshing to enter Sandman or The Sandman. Um, and it's just like, the energy of it is, you can just feel it's like, you can just, it's like an organism, just sort of all the people moving to it.
14:48 Speaker 05 Best outfit you've ever worn?
14:51 Speaker 06 I did love the outfit I wore to the BAFTAs where I was dressed as Queen Elizabeth the First. Um.
14:59 Speaker 05 Like from Blackadder?
15:00 Speaker 06 It was a bit like the Blackadder, but it was like.
15:02 Speaker 02 It was better.
15:03 Speaker 06 It was better and it was like modernised, but it had all that shape and stuff and it was really annoying for the people sat behind me. But I did, I felt like we didn't have a lot of time to pull that together and Krishan, my stylist, really nailed that.
15:16 Speaker 05 What's your most cringe-worthy quality?
15:18 Speaker 06 So, uh, getting real now, uh, I, after my son was born, I had a year off to raise him.
15:28 Speaker 05 Hmm.
15:29 Speaker 06 And then handed him over to, um, the authorities after that year.
15:33 Speaker 05 Hmm.
15:34 Speaker 06 Um, but, uh, in that year, I had a lot of time to reflect on my career and my life and what I've done. And for whatever reason, in that year, I really, uh, not regretted, but I had a real cringe about pretty much everything I've done in my life. I watched clips of myself doing stand-up and I was like, this is just shit. All of this is shit. All of everything, like I had a real, like, I went on a real spiral.
16:01 Speaker 05 Hmm.
16:01 Speaker 06 And I'm out of it now because I wouldn't be here if I was in it because I've just lost all confidence. And I think that's just because like, when you have a bit of time to reflect on stuff, you do kind of, so I, at one point, I would have said, everything that I've ever done is cringe. Now I would say I bite my fingernails and I think that's quite cringe.
16:19 Speaker 05 I appreciate you being so open.
16:20 Speaker 06 That's all right.
16:21 Speaker 05 About that year.
16:22 Speaker 06 Yeah.
16:22 Speaker 05 Of reflection. I think if we're honest, we all look back at stuff and go.
16:26 Speaker 06 Yeah.
16:27 Speaker 05 Fucking hell, what were we doing then?
16:29 Speaker 06 Yeah.
16:29 Speaker 05 Why'd we say that? What we, why did we do? I look back at some picture, there was a picture of me in a, a big like faux fur,
16:40 Speaker 05 like pimp jacket.
16:41 Speaker 06 Hmm.
16:42 Speaker 05 That I'd got from the, um, charity shop.
16:46 Speaker 06 Hmm.
16:46 Speaker 05 And a Zimbabwe flag hat.
16:48 Speaker 06 Hmm.
16:49 Speaker 05 Like a proper cap. Wasn't just like the thing, it was the whole thing was the flag that had been made into a cap.
16:54 Speaker 06 Yeah.
16:54 Speaker 05 And it was at the time that Mugabe was still president. So I look back at it and go, it looks like I'm supporting Mugabe there.
17:00 Speaker 06 Hmm.
17:01 Speaker 05 And I cringe at that a lot.
17:02 Speaker 06 I haven't done anything as bad as that.
17:03 Speaker 02 No, that's awful. That's horrific. I can't believe you've done that.
17:06 Speaker 06 Hmm.
17:07 Speaker 02 Yeah. I like that you, you, you were at a point where your entire life might be cringe, but now it's biting your nails. It's got to really zoom straight in, hasn't it?
17:15 Speaker 06 Yeah, well, I think what, reflecting back on it, I think when my son was born, I, the first six months I was just caught up in the bubble of it. And then I think I went through a grieving period for my old life.
17:29 Speaker 02 Oh wow.
17:29 Speaker 06 And was suddenly like, oh, that is gone. Like this, and I sort of reflected on lockdown was a lovely time for me weirdly, because I didn't have anything to do. And I woke up whenever I wanted and I gardened. And from this distance, it just seems like a lovely, simple life. And, uh, I think there is an element of like, almost like an element of death involved in becoming a parent, like you kind of, the old you has died. And so I think I was sort of thinking about my legacy and going like, if that's what my son has to sort of view of like what his father was, do, am I proud of all that? And for whatever reason, I was proud of none of it. So I don't know why. Cause actually when I look on it back now, I go,
18:15 Speaker 06 there's loads of stuff I am really proud of and, but in that time I was, I found the whole thing very cringe.
18:25 Speaker 05 Joe Lycett, I've come to a diagnosis. You've got what's known in the trade as chronic chaos and civil disobedience disorder.
18:36 Speaker 06 Oh.
18:37 Speaker 05 Triple C, double D for short. I think you're addicted to causing chaos.
18:42 Speaker 06 Okay.
18:44 Speaker 05 My mission today is simple. I want to help you overcome your fear of the mundane.
18:50 Speaker 06 Right.
18:51 Speaker 05 We're going to gently walk you towards the life where you can sit still, fill out a form correctly, and not sue a major corporation for five minutes. Is that okay?
19:00 Speaker 06 Yeah, fine. I'm sort of in a legal battle with Harry Styles.
19:03 Speaker 05 Are you? Are you? What's happening? What do you mean?
19:07 Speaker 06 He owes me a Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter. Legally. He's, um, he asked, he bought a painting off me for six pounds and a Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter, and he's paid the six pounds, but he's still not paid the Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter. There was an invoice with the painting when it was sent. So he's received, I know he's received the invoice because he's paid the six pounds, but it's outstanding and it's a, I might take him to a small claims court.
19:33 Speaker 05 Do you need any heavies?
19:35 Speaker 06 Yeah.
19:37 Speaker 06 Honestly, if you ever see him, I'd please remind him because I think it's important that, like, it's bad for his reputation that he's not paying invoices.
19:48 Speaker 06 I think.
19:49 Speaker 05 Sure.
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23:05 Speaker 01 Ugh, I hate Mondays. King's wine and cinnamon swirl bite? Taylor Hanson? Sure, I'll try one. Mmm.
23:14 Speaker 03 Hey, let's get back to work, please.
23:16 Speaker 01 But Taylor Hanson's making my day way better with these new soft and swirly King's Hawaiian cinnamon bites.
23:20 Speaker 03 Taylor Hanson? Nice. Try one. Mmm.
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23:35 Speaker 05 Right, let's begin with where you call home, Birmingham.
23:38 Speaker 06 Birmingham, yeah.
23:39 Speaker 05 How did the best city in the world, Birmingham, shape you into the human you are today?
23:45 Speaker 06 So Birmingham is a, is an industrious city. We've got a lot of, used to have a lot of industry. But with that kind of industry comes a lot of hardworking spirit, a sense of justice, a sense of justice particularly for working people and, and people not being exploited. And I grew up with a mother who worked at Cadbury and my father used to design shop fronts and then became a teacher. And we had a very normal sort of middle class, I'd say, upbringing.
24:30 Speaker 05 Your mum worked at Cadbury?
24:31 Speaker 06 She worked at Cadbury, yeah.
24:32 Speaker 05 Oh my god, how was that?
24:35 Speaker 06 It was quite good. She would get, they had a policy where when you were working there, you could have anything off the, off the line that you wanted. But there was the chocolate shop where they had all the kind of slightly off green eggs and all that. So sometimes she'd bring those back, so that was nice. And Bournville, where the Cadbury factory is, does smell of chocolate, so, you know, if I ever went to sort of her work, it was just wonderful.
25:00 Speaker 06 So yeah, I think it's shaped me in all sorts of ways. One thing that I'm not, I don't do that a lot of Brummies do is, I don't... Uh, keep quiet about the city. So Brummies are often a bit sort of like, yes, all right, I'll come if you want. But I'm like, it's a great city. You should all be visiting Birmingham. And that isn't without any uh level of facetiousness. I do think it is a wonderful city to visit. And has amazing culture and we should shout about ourselves more. But there is also a Birmingham spirit, which is just like, come if you want, but like, we actually don't care.
25:33 Speaker 05 And you, you still live there now, don't you?
25:34 Speaker 06 Still live there now.
25:35 Speaker 05 Is that because you love it so hard?
25:37 Speaker 06 Yeah.
25:38 Speaker 05 Or is it, is there part of you that goes, I've like shouted so loud about it for so long? If I was then to see, be seen pitching up a tent in Notting Hill.
25:49 Speaker 06 Yeah.
25:50 Speaker 05 You'd sort of also lose that credibility of, oh, well, you're full of shit, Joe.
25:54 Speaker 06 No, I, I think it's, I um, I love London. I love coming to London. But um, I don't feel relaxed here in a way. The minute I get off the train in New Street, I suddenly go, ah, I'm here. Also, there's a thing where, when I get off the train in Birmingham, I go, ah, these are my people because everyone's about thirty percent less attractive. And we're like in London, you go, oh, there's quite a lot of hotties here. There's very few hotties in Birmingham. So I sort of fit in with the sort of blob people that, you know. I like to Brummies, I'm like a seven, whereas in London, I'd say I'm sort of four, five-ish.
26:29 Speaker 02 Wow. I think you're a six anywhere.
26:32 Speaker 06 Just a six.
26:35 Speaker 02 A six anywhere?
26:36 Speaker 06 Any, that's, no, that's good.
26:37 Speaker 02 A six, I mean, like, you could be a six in, in, in Beverly Hills or Milton Keynes.
26:42 Speaker 06 Yeah.
26:43 Speaker 02 I think that's amazing.
26:44 Speaker 06 Yeah.
26:46 Speaker 06 Yeah.
26:49 Speaker 05 So you're a comedian, entertainer, delightful human. But did you ever consider maybe like a normal career? Was that ever on the horizon?
26:59 Speaker 06 Yeah, I think um, when I first sort of emerged from university, I was doing graphic design and I was re, I love graphic design. So I was well up for, I, I actually quite like the idea of setting up my own design studio and working on different branding stuff. But stand-up, I got a bigger dopamine hit from it basically. So just pursued that. But I loved working. I sold ice creams and worked on a bar and a theatre and I loved that. I'd happily go back to that job. It was a very simple. Happy life, watching shows and serving drinks. I can serve drinks fast, I can restock a bar quicker than your average. And I'm an affable chap, so you know, I can speak to most people about anything. So, you know, when you're sat on a bar, easy enough.
27:46 Speaker 05 You talk about chasing that dopamine hit.
27:48 Speaker 06 Hmm.
27:49 Speaker 05 That's what stand-up gives you. You're going on tour again, are you?
27:53 Speaker 06 I'm going on tour again, yeah.
27:54 Speaker 05 Next year?
27:54 Speaker 06 Next year.
27:55 Speaker 05 What's it called?
27:56 Speaker 06 It's called, Do You Really Like It? Is It, Is It Wicked? We're Lovin' It, Lovin' It, Lovin' It. We're Lovin' It, Lycett.
28:04 Speaker 06 Do you want me to say it again?
28:06 Speaker 02 What was it again, sorry?
28:07 Speaker 06 Do you really like it?
28:09 Speaker 05 Is it, is it wicked? We're Lovin' It, Lovin' It, Lovin' It. We're Lovin' It, Lycett.
28:14 Speaker 06 Yeah.
28:15 Speaker 05 Legally, are you all right with that?
28:17 Speaker 06 We'll find out.
28:21 Speaker 05 Are you hoping there's gonna be something that comes through the post that says, um, liturgy?
28:27 Speaker 06 Well, um.
28:30 Speaker 06 Well, all it's, it's, uh, all of my shows have titles like that. So I've done, the last show was called More, More, More. How do you like it? How do you like it?
28:37 Speaker 05 More, more, more. How do you like it? How do you like it? Please don't leave me hanging like that.
28:42 Speaker 06 Wow, that was really nice.
28:43 Speaker 05 We've come together all the time.
28:45 Speaker 02 And we sing together as well. But that's.
28:49 Speaker 05 That's the way.
28:54 Speaker 06 If Joe likes it, then you should have put a ring on it.
28:59 Speaker 06 They're great.
28:59 Speaker 02 Yeah.
29:00 Speaker 06 You know?
29:00 Speaker 05 What can we expect from this new tour then?
29:03 Speaker 06 Stand-up comedy.
29:04 Speaker 05 Or fully stood up the whole time?
29:06 Speaker 06 Probably, yeah.
29:07 Speaker 05 Anything else?
29:07 Speaker 06 I might sit down. Sometimes I sit on the edge of the stage. I like doing that.
29:10 Speaker 05 Hmm.
29:11 Speaker 06 Um, I, uh, previous, the last show definitely was like a story show. I sort of told a big story with jokes and I want to return to, and there was a screen and all that. I'd like to return to just doing stand-up and the, cause I loved, uh, what I fell in love with as stand-up is, I'd go to comedy clubs and I'd go to late shows after working in the theatre. And I, it was before the show, just a mic in a stand and just looking at that and going, that's all it is. There's no set, there's no nothing, just somebody is gonna come out and entertain me with that. And I just thought that was so beautiful and simple and.
29:48 Speaker 05 Pure.
29:49 Speaker 06 Pure. And. For whatever reason, I've got into like, here's a screen and here's some props and whatever. And actually, I would like to just remind myself that I can do just pure stand up and I can.
29:59 Speaker 05 Refine it back to the old school, back to the roots.
30:02 Speaker 06 Because that is the job, really. But I'm not promising that because if I can't do it, then I'll whack a screen in and just do a few screen based jokes. Just silly pictures and stuff.
30:17 Speaker 05 We are just taking a quick break to deliver an important message from our friends at the refund club.
30:25 Speaker 02 Joe, I've got a theory that you can get a lot done in a minute.
30:28 Speaker 05 Oh.
30:28 Speaker 02 A lot done.
30:29 Speaker 05 Did you?
30:30 Speaker 02 Agree or disagree?
30:30 Speaker 05 Did you come up with that?
30:31 Speaker 02 Agree or disagree?
30:32 Speaker 05 Yeah, no, I agree.
30:33 Speaker 02 Agree, agree?
30:34 Speaker 05 I agree.
30:35 Speaker 02 Good, I'm glad you agree.
30:36 Speaker 05 I don't want to talk about it.
30:37 Speaker 02 Okay, well, let me, I want to put it to the test then. I want to put it to the test. How many pints of water do you think you could down in a minute?
30:45 Speaker 05 Don't like water.
30:46 Speaker 02 What do you prefer?
30:47 Speaker 05 I prefer milk because water would hydrate me and I prefer to be chronically dehydrated.
30:53 Speaker 02 You tolerate lactose, big time?
30:55 Speaker 05 Yeah.
30:56 Speaker 02 Big time?
30:57 Speaker 05 Yeah, big time and I'm proud of it.
30:59 Speaker 02 Okay, fine.
31:00 Speaker 05 But it's also not knocking anyone who.
31:01 Speaker 02 No, no, I'm not knocking anyone. Altering the question then, how many pints of milk could you get down you in a minute?
31:07 Speaker 05 Loads.
31:08 Speaker 02 Put a number on it.
31:11 Speaker 05 Between one and five.
31:13 Speaker 02 Four?
31:16 Speaker 05 Yes.
31:17 Speaker 02 Four pints of milk in one minute? Bring out the milk, everybody! And just like that, the milk has appeared magically on your desk, my little goodness me. You're gonna drink those four pints of milk. Meanwhile, I'm gonna talk about our wonderful friends at the refund club. Are you ready?
31:33 Speaker 05 No.
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32:18 Speaker 02 This is, this is incredible. I feel like you're gonna need a wee quite quickly. I'm worried about your bladder. You used to play for England. Look at this man's career. He's just finished the final pint of milk in one minute. Unbelievable. Joe, bring it home.
32:37 Speaker 05 Go to refundclub.co.uk/mala. That's refundclub.co.uk/mala to do your free cheque.
32:48 Speaker 02 For the audio listener, that was four pints of actual milk.
32:50 Speaker 05 I feel a bit sticky.
32:56 Speaker 05 I think it's important we address the elephant in the room. I've been really looking forward to this. Um, because you did a show that I did of before.
33:06 Speaker 06 Yeah, that you did of before.
33:07 Speaker 05 And I did of before it.
33:09 Speaker 06 Yeah.
33:09 Speaker 05 And I just wanted to know.
33:12 Speaker 02 The Wheel. You're both on The Wheel.
33:14 Speaker 05 Have you done The Wheel?
33:15 Speaker 06 No, I've not been on The Wheel.
33:16 Speaker 02 Not on The Wheel?
33:17 Speaker 05 Poor reference.
33:18 Speaker 06 Is that Michael McIntyre's The Wheel? To give it its full title.
33:22 Speaker 05 Michael McIntyre's.
33:24 Speaker 02 He doesn't like it when you miss that off, actually.
33:25 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah.
33:26 Speaker 05 The Wheel.
33:27 Speaker 06 Have you been on Tipping Point?
33:28 Speaker 02 This is interesting. What is the Venn diagram and stuff you guys have both done? Have you both done Weakest Link, surely?
33:34 Speaker 06 I've not been on Weakest Link.
33:35 Speaker 02 Joe, have you been on the telly? What have you?
33:38 Speaker 05 He does his own shows, mate. He doesn't do any co-pros or appearances, does he? He does his own thing.
33:43 Speaker 02 Pointless, pointless. Surely you've both been on Pointless.
33:45 Speaker 05 No. We don't do telly, do we?
33:47 Speaker 02 Huh?
33:48 Speaker 06 I haven't done a lot of game shows.
33:49 Speaker 02 Gogglebox.
33:50 Speaker 05 Gogglebox.
33:51 Speaker 06 Not been on Gogglebox. I've been, I've been a clip on Gogglebox.
33:53 Speaker 02 Can we just please, there must be something these two have been on at the same time.
33:56 Speaker 06 They've been watching me on Gogglebox.
33:58 Speaker 05 So the only thing me and you have done is Traitors? Traitors. Yes. Traitors, yeah. I forgot you did Traitors, yeah. You were, you were sort of quite, you sort of didn't really make an impact really on that show, did you?
34:13 Speaker 06 It's not like you got a podcast off the back of it.
34:17 Speaker 05 How was it?
34:17 Speaker 06 Well, you know.
34:18 Speaker 02 What can you say? You're allowed to say stuff?
34:19 Speaker 05 Hmm.
34:20 Speaker 06 Well, you know what it's like. You sign NDAs all over the place, so I can't. What I could do, tell you what I'll do. They sent me an email. Um, the, the, uh, Plank PR, they're called. Who do the PR. Was it Plank PR who did, did it?
34:36 Speaker 05 No idea, mate. I don't know what you're talking about.
34:39 Speaker 06 In an ideal world, nothing would be said at all.
34:45 Speaker 06 But of course, this may not be realistic, given how much attention there will inevitably be. So, and there's an arrogance to that, isn't there?
34:54 Speaker 06 If avoiding the question is not possible, is it possible to avoid the question?
34:59 Speaker 05 The question is, how did you find the traitors?
35:03 Speaker 06 The best response would be brief and simple. We've put together some suggestions of what could be said below to help as a guide.
35:08 Speaker 05 Okay, well, let's role play all of them. Oh, Joe, I've been meaning to ask you, how was the traitors?
35:13 Speaker 06 Well, as you can imagine, I can't say anything, but I am excited.
35:20 Speaker 05 Right. That was just one suggestion, was it?
35:22 Speaker 06 Yeah.
35:23 Speaker 05 Joe, talk to us. How was the traitors?
35:25 Speaker 06 I loved the first series, so it's the dream to be in that castle.
35:31 Speaker 05 What?
35:32 Speaker 06 This is what they've sent me that I can say. Thrilled to be involved.
35:36 Speaker 05 Well, I've got to ask the question.
35:37 Speaker 06 Sorry, yeah.
35:38 Speaker 05 Joe, I honestly know, I know what it's like, so I won't ask. Um, let's move on.
35:46 Speaker 06 Thrilled to be involved. Can't tell you anything more at this stage.
35:51 Speaker 05 Joe, come on.
35:52 Speaker 06 Please don't discuss the following. Reference the rest of the lineup or other players. Say whether you'd prefer to be a traitor or faithful.
36:00 Speaker 05 We know the lineup.
36:00 Speaker 06 Describe how you would play the game. Mention timelines of filmings or filming or locations, et cetera.
36:05 Speaker 05 Were you allowed to wear watches?
36:07 Speaker 06 Uh, I, as you can imagine, I can't say anything, but I'm excited.
36:13 Speaker 02 It's giving lobotomy.
36:15 Speaker 05 Who won?
36:17 Speaker 06 As you can imagine. Thrilled to be involved. Can't tell you anything more at this stage.
36:23 Speaker 02 Did you do well at the challenges?
36:25 Speaker 06 I loved the first series.
36:33 Speaker 05 I'm interested to know how you're one of the most well-known entertainers in the country.
36:39 Speaker 02 Terrific.
36:40 Speaker 05 And yet, um, I know very little about your private life.
36:46 Speaker 06 What do you want to know?
36:47 Speaker 05 No, is that important to you? Like, your private anonymity?
36:53 Speaker 06 Yeah, well, it is called...
36:55 Speaker 02 Anonymity? Was she on The Traitors this year as well? Anonymininy?
36:59 Speaker 05 I can't say the word.
37:00 Speaker 06 Anonymity.
37:01 Speaker 05 Pardon?
37:02 Speaker 06 Anonymity.
37:03 Speaker 05 Anonymity.
37:04 Speaker 06 Um, I have foregone, for, I've given up my anonymity by the very nature that I am in the public eye and I come on podcasts and I go on television and, you know, I'm a public figure, I understand that. That the people around me haven't made that decision. And so I see it as a responsibility to protect them as much as I can from my public life, essentially. And my partner, my son, my partner doesn't want to be in the public eye. And my son hasn't had a choice in that. So I just feel like until he's old enough to make that decision,
37:44 Speaker 06 then, you know, we can, we can go full Bradley Walsh and do a game show together if he wants. And my partner, I don't see a world where she's going to want to be in the public eye because, um, she just doesn't want to be.
38:00 Speaker 05 Sounds slightly different and similar to my wife, Daisy, who she says she doesn't want to be known as my wife.
38:12 Speaker 06 Yeah, I think that's sort of how, um, my partner, she sort of keeps a, you know, a suspicious level of distance from me. We don't live together or communicate at all.
38:25 Speaker 06 I've never met her.
38:29 Speaker 06 It's very odd, very odd.
38:30 Speaker 05 Is the, is the Joe?
38:31 Speaker 06 I don't know how we had a son.
38:33 Speaker 05 Is the Joe we get? And everyone else get the same as the Joe they get at home? Is it, are you as chaotic at home? Are you as naughty at home?
38:43 Speaker 06 I can be very silly and naughty at home, particularly with my son. Cause I love silly, but I'm not like in full stand up mode, cause that would be unsustainable and annoying. It'd be really annoying to have stand up Joe around. So, um, yes and no.
38:58 Speaker 05 You touched on earlier about your legacy that you wanna leave. And you've spoken about your son indirectly.
39:04 Speaker 06 Yeah.
39:06 Speaker 05 How has becoming a father changed your approach to work? Is there like jokes or stories you do now?
39:15 Speaker 06 Yeah.
39:17 Speaker 05 That you do differently from the ones you used to tell based on, oh, I'm a father now.
39:22 Speaker 06 Well, I think.
39:23 Speaker 05 I need to be a little bit more.
39:24 Speaker 06 I think it might have cured my CCCDD.
39:27 Speaker 05 Triple C, double D.
39:28 Speaker 06 Triple C, double D. Cause I am way more risk averse now. Not as much as I was when he was first born, but I now do think twice about doing stuff and go, well, how will this affect him? Short term, long term? And what level of risk does it put me under in terms of like being able to sustain a family going forward and all that? So I do think it has probably changed my priorities in terms of like, it's, it's narrowed my focus into like protecting the family. And less about being like a kind of social activist, which I can still do in other ways, but not in like maybe as quite as noisy a way. So I don't think I'll do as many sort of stunty things as I used to. Or if I do, there'll be more.
40:10 Speaker 06 I kind of, I really like this, um, a therapist that I saw who is a proper therapist, not whatever you're doing. And, um, she said that rather than be against something, be for something. And I really like that, you know, rather than be like, that company's terrible, I'm gonna take them down. Just sort of ignore that and go, well, what are they doing that you can counter and do a nice thing? That they're not doing. So that's sort of how I'm approaching life going forward is like, be for something and, you know, rather than attacking something else. Obviously I'm gonna attack things.
40:38 Speaker 05 Interesting that you brought that up actually, Joe, cause that was gonna be my next point I was gonna put to you.
40:42 Speaker 06 Oh, yes.
40:43 Speaker 05 I, I was gonna say, Joe, I think is important. For your own health and your family's health and then moving forward that you should be more for something than against something.
40:54 Speaker 06 Oh, you were gonna say that, were you?
40:55 Speaker 05 That's, it was literally written on my notes.
40:57 Speaker 06 Wow.
40:58 Speaker 05 Look, it was before, look, see there? Before, rather against.
41:02 Speaker 06 Rather again, it says, yeah.
41:04 Speaker 05 Rather again.
41:05 Speaker 06 Rather, before rather than again.
41:07 Speaker 05 Everyone's got their own way of.
41:08 Speaker 06 Writing.
41:09 Speaker 05 Writing.
41:09 Speaker 06 Yeah.
41:14 Speaker 05 Right, well, I've got you here to help you conquer your fear of the mundane, remember that?
41:18 Speaker 06 Oh, yes.
41:19 Speaker 05 To help you with this, Jake.
41:20 Speaker 02 Hmm.
41:21 Speaker 05 He has prepared one final exercise.
41:25 Speaker 06 Oh.
41:26 Speaker 05 For Mr. Joe Lycett.
41:27 Speaker 02 I want the two of you to go head to head now. We're gonna find beauty in the boredom.
41:31 Speaker 05 Oh.
41:32 Speaker 02 Majesty in the mundane, we're having a bore off. It's a bore off, everybody, it's a bore off, everybody. It's a bore off, everybody. Round by round, I want you two to present the almost boring offering to the category.
41:44 Speaker 06 Yep.
41:44 Speaker 02 Um, and then we're gonna decide who is most comfortable with accessing the most boring part of their life.
41:50 Speaker 06 Mm-hmm.
41:50 Speaker 02 Um, it's first up. Please display for us. Sorry, audio listener. The most boring photo on your camera roll.
41:59 Speaker 05 I don't think you've got any boring things in your camera roll. Oh, my, okay, I've got my most boring, yeah.
42:04 Speaker 06 I mean, there's a few different things here and there, there's like a picture of a a plug from a drain that didn't fit that I was gonna get.
42:11 Speaker 02 That sounds quite, like, beautiful.
42:13 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah. I've got a picture, oh, this is boring.
42:18 Speaker 02 Okay.
42:18 Speaker 06 This is a picture that of me in, in Italy. Uh, in an Airbnb. And on the wall, there's a, like a fern, and it says, you are going to be great, keep going.
42:31 Speaker 02 Yeah.
42:33 Speaker 06 That's boring, isn't it? That is, that's a boring bit of art.
42:35 Speaker 02 Joe Marlowe, it's gonna be tough to follow.
42:38 Speaker 05 I've got, um, I've got this, Joe.
42:43 Speaker 05 Okay. Say what you see, mate.
42:45 Speaker 06 There's something brown on a finger next to.
42:48 Speaker 02 What's that?
42:48 Speaker 06 A light switch.
42:50 Speaker 02 Right, I sent you that in, that is out of order.
42:56 Speaker 02 Right, this is, this is completely out of order here.
42:59 Speaker 06 Is that your finger, Jake?
43:01 Speaker 02 I text him, I said, look what I found. I put my, I had a little wiggle in my ear and that came out. That is, that is a clump of dark wax.
43:08 Speaker 06 Why did you hold it up against a light switch?
43:10 Speaker 02 Scale.
43:12 Speaker 02 Oh, I was so-
43:13 Speaker 06 Yeah, because the finger wasn't giving enough scale.
43:19 Speaker 02 Winner has to go to Joe Lysit.
43:21 Speaker 05 Right, yeah.
43:21 Speaker 02 1-0. Um, round two, most boring WhatsApp group you're in.
43:25 Speaker 05 No.
43:26 Speaker 02 Joe Lysit.
43:28 Speaker 06 The name isn't boring, but it is boring. I'm in a WhatsApp group called James Loves Cock.
43:36 Speaker 06 But funnily enough, there's two James in the group, so I don't actually know.
43:41 Speaker 05 Were you one of the, um, admins to set up the group or were you added?
43:46 Speaker 06 Uh, I was added, I was added.
43:48 Speaker 05 Okay, so-
43:49 Speaker 06 And basically they're arranging a, um, a holiday that I can't go on. So like all of the chat at the minute, uh, is just about like the logistics of this holiday, which is just incredibly boring.
43:59 Speaker 05 Yeah, but the name-
44:01 Speaker 02 The name is great and also the, like, the two Jameses just keeps it with sort of like, it's like a whodunit.
44:07 Speaker 06 Hmm.
44:07 Speaker 05 Oh, now that, now that you've got me in, on my groups, I am in at least a hundred groups that I forgot I was in.
44:14 Speaker 02 Hmm.
44:15 Speaker 06 Hmm.
44:16 Speaker 05 This one. Um, the Lendsbury Head Start Camp 3.
44:24 Speaker 06 Right, what's that?
44:25 Speaker 02 That sounds fucking dull, that.
44:27 Speaker 06 It's really dull, yeah.
44:28 Speaker 05 It's just a logistics, um, group for when I used to play rugby and they'd say-
44:34 Speaker 02 On reflection, do you think the crescendo of the entire episode should be something where we try and be as boring as possible?
44:40 Speaker 06 Hmm.
44:41 Speaker 02 It's sort of only dawned on me now as a format point that that is what the, the big, the big finale is. Let's do the most dull thing we can do.
44:48 Speaker 05 Hmm.
44:49 Speaker 02 Yeah, I'm gonna give, I'm gonna give it to James Loves Cock.
44:53 Speaker 05 Hmm.
44:54 Speaker 02 Final one, who is the most boring person in your phone?
44:58 Speaker 05 Oh, fucking it, this is a bit harsh, isn't it?
45:02 Speaker 06 How do you spell bardwash?
45:06 Speaker 05 That's unkind. That is unkind.
45:10 Speaker 06 I don't know who's, um, I don't really have boring people in my phone.
45:13 Speaker 05 I'm gonna ring them, see if they pick up.
45:15 Speaker 06 VW Garage, that's boring.
45:17 Speaker 02 Yes, lovely.
45:18 Speaker 06 That's very boring.
45:18 Speaker 02 Lovely. You've got a VW, interesting.
45:21 Speaker 06 Hmm.
45:25 Speaker 06 Oh, I see.
45:26 Speaker 02 Hello.
45:30 Speaker 05 Oh, mate.
45:30 Speaker 02 Right, okay, that's brilliant. So, I'm gonna give the... I'm gonna... I thought someone had rung. Haven't saved your number.
45:37 Speaker 06 I think that works, what happened there.
45:40 Speaker 02 Do you think it works?
45:41 Speaker 06 I think the audience at home might not, but I personally...
45:45 Speaker 02 I think...
45:47 Speaker 06 Let's see, let's see.
45:49 Speaker 02 Let's see, let's see what happens.
45:49 Speaker 06 Text in.
45:50 Speaker 05 I've just lost it.
45:51 Speaker 06 Text in, you could text Jake. His number is... Where is it now? Bard beha- is it?
45:58 Speaker 02 I think what we watched...
45:59 Speaker 06 Oh, double seven...
46:03 Speaker 06 Six...
46:06 Speaker 06 And then...
46:06 Speaker 02 Oh, just bleep it.
46:08 Speaker 06 Do let Jake know.
46:09 Speaker 02 Um, congratulations, Joe. You are in touch with your mundane side. Round of applause for Joe, everybody.
46:15 Speaker 06 Thank you. Thanks, everyone.
46:17 Speaker 02 Always get out of these things with a big round of applause.
46:20 Speaker 06 What an extraordinary experience.
46:26 Speaker 05 Joe, that is the end of our session today. I suspect you're happier than I am about that being the case.
46:34 Speaker 06 Do you know what? I came into this thinking, uh, you know, it's a bit of press. I'll just sit and bear it. And that's been about right.
46:45 Speaker 02 Spot on.
46:46 Speaker 05 We've made you a badge to remind you of the progress that you've made in today's session.
46:51 Speaker 06 That's nice.
46:52 Speaker 05 Jake, what have we gone with today?
46:54 Speaker 02 Every guest gets a badge. Every guest doesn't always get one so beautifully made, though. It says, "Always look on the beige side of life."
47:01 Speaker 06 Lovely.
47:03 Speaker 02 That's for you.
47:03 Speaker 05 It makes no sense. No, I think like...
47:07 Speaker 02 But does.
47:07 Speaker 06 It feels sort of counterculture in a way that, um, you could catch on.
47:12 Speaker 05 Ah, before you leave? You also get a lollipop.
47:17 Speaker 06 Have you asked Claudia to be on this show?
47:18 Speaker 05 Which one?
47:19 Speaker 06 Winkman.
47:19 Speaker 05 Not sure she's gonna speak to me ever again after what I did to her.
47:22 Speaker 02 What did you do to her?
47:23 Speaker 05 I picked one of my nose hairs and sneezed in her face without covering my hand.
47:27 Speaker 06 Hmm. Yeah. Luckily, that fringe will catch a lot of that.
47:34 Speaker 05 Joe Lycett, everybody!
47:37 Speaker 05 Joe Lycett, everybody!
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48:22 Speaker 03 Taylor Hanson? Nice. Try one. Mmm.
48:29 Speaker 04 King's Hawaiian Cinnamon Bites. There's nothing like it.
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