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Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

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From S10 EP23: Brian Molko (Video Edition)Jul 3, 2026

Excerpt from Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

S10 EP23: Brian Molko (Video Edition)Jul 3, 2026 — starts at 0:00

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Because I cannot stand airport And I don't like flying very much, which is probleatic problematic for me. Okay, this is going be a very short episode. No, but I mean, I don travel without a plane, can't you? Well I've flown everywhere, I suppose, everywhere apart from Antarctica. so it's just something I have to do and I just have to get over myself, you know. It's so lovely meeting you, though Well, I'm very glad you said that L I've got a story, you've got a story. I've got a story too and it might be the same story because we've actually met before. Airport Y in London. in London Is it was it two thousand eight? Something around that Yeah maybe ten years ago and you No it was not ten years ago. I was on Friday night project D this is This is got be two thousand eight, two thousand nine. I've been in a band too long, so like you know time time in memory doesn't really work anymore, you know. So I remember it being about ten years ago. and I used to live in Barcelona. Yeah. so I used to commute backwards and forwards quite a bit. Yeah. And I was flying back to Barsa and I was stood in the queue to check in. And then all of a sudden I saw out of the corner of my eye two very flustered Gentlemen rushing in Yeah, obviously late for their flight and jly. I spoke to the ground staff very quickly and then were moved to the front of the queue No, no, no. No Wh was Which was fine because I understood that you guys were late. and you need the people remember,. And you needed to make your flight. And I thought to myself, oh, I think I recognize this gentleman. That's Chatty Man from the tellelly. Yes. There was a bit of a kfuffle as there sometimes is when you're trying to check in and it was taking a little bit too long And And I was going, that's fine. And you don't say, G carry off. And then you just turned around and started talking to the person who was in the queue behind you, which happened to be me. Yes And you were just apologizing about it taking so long and explaining, you know that you were late for your flight and that they were trying to get you ono your flight. And I thought to myself, wow How polite, how wonderfully polite and how wonderfully gracious and I didn't think you recognized me at the time. I did because I said to Justin, I said, I think that's Brun Okay, well, I didn't think you recognizeed me. so I was just kind of like, well, Obviously he doesn't know me for Adam, and I did I could be I could be very flustered. Oh, well, you spoke to me with such kind of kindness and politeness and I was embarrassed. At that point, I thought to myself, Oh, that's a real testament to this man's character. You know, you spoke to me with real dignity Oh you know And I thought, well, I could have been anybody. No I didn't It was only when I was f, I'm so sorry. And then you know when you you werere walking or I obviously being We go push through theIP on on my buggy as I'm whizzing through waving at all the poor people joking And then I thought I said, Justin, that's Brian. But when you turned around to speak to the person in the quebe behind you, you weren't expecting to see a rockstar. No I wasn't No, no No, I could have been anyone and you were prepared to apologize and and be extremely polite and explain and explain what was going on. And I just thought, wow, what a testament to this man's character You know, And obviously I knew of you. Yes. But that's when I really started to like you very much. And in fact, in that moment, you reminded me of David Bowie. becausecause David Bowie you know what? I hated this anecdote when I first started. Now I love it. This is my favourite one because Because been I could have been anyone standing behind you. And David was like that very much as well. And I learnt that from him. I learnnt how to be with people from him. He treated everyone with the same amount of dignity. It didn't matter if you were the waiter or a world famous rock star. He spoke to everybody the same way. And that reminded me of David. Well that's so sweet becausecause we had the comedian Jack Whiteole, and he said, I've got a story about you And I was in the back of a cab. apppparently drunk, doesn't sound like me at all, and I demanded a kebab. And I left the man's kebab as a shithole. Apparently there was chili sauce smeared up. I mean, I think he was exaggerating. but yeah, isn't it n s have a nice anecdote? for that. But you know where I was heading to I was filming Friday Night Project to show back in the day And I was going to meet Mel Cie from the Spice Girls And we sang, you know, baby when you're gone, you know the Brian Adams one. I sang that in an East Enders pub. And there was a photo of Well Aard, Jo Well Aard? Well Aard the do. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. And you know, I was at the beginning of my fame there. and you know when you just I'm this boy from Northampton and I'm singing with Mll C, and there's Wellard with his tongue hanging out looking down at me. and I was like, what the hell is it going on Well then I speak to you in the queue. What a holiday that was? You know, but memory is kind of like it's quite a fickle mistress because we don't when we remember something, we don't remember the actual event. We remember the last time We remembered the actual event And in my mind my in my mind, you and your companion were dressed in very colorful stripy suits. Yeah. Like and I'm sure at least one of you was wearing a boater hat. That' be Justin. Yeah. D you guys Yeah, D you guys used to travel a lot with boater hats? So I didn't make it up. You guys looked like you were heading to Port Marion to be not pork mary. I think it was more maggaloo. Isn't that strange? because they say memory is a bit like when you put a red jumper in the wash. It loses its colourors and everything Eactly time it has a spin and that's what memory is like is? Yeah, so we do a kind of a director's cut. So I was wondering if if those stripey suits and the boata were something that I invented, but in fact have you ever heard about that experiment they did with a load of people? They put a photo album and they put them in a hot air balloon, the family. E though they'd never been on the hot air balloon and nearly every family went, oh my go, you remember that trip tricking their mind how the memory does play games. Yeah, v That's interesting. Oh my Godd, I remember that. They never did. they were just seeing whether you could fool them. I think that's called the Mandela effect, isn't it? Isn't it? Yeah, yeah, I think so because it's like a shared delusion, a shared delusional memory that people have of something that never happened But hundredundreds and thousands of people actually believe that it did. L it comes from, I think that some people believe that Nelson Mandela actually died in jail when he didn't and became, you know president of South Africa. But it's like the Mandela effect is kind of like a a shared delusion to do with memory, you know, It's kind of crazy. it was we were getting on that easy jet flight, That was a dilluded memory. No. I think we're definitely dilluded, but But not in that moment. No. Well listen, speaking of memory, you're going back to recrereated. Let's talk about that new album. Now you said What did you say? love? You said you're not improving it, you're completing it. Explain. Well, R tell everyone, you're going back to your first album. I went back to the first album because our thirtieth anniversary was coming up and I decided that I wanted to make a new version of it because when we did it thirty years ago it was probably The second or third time we've been in a studio U so we didn't really know how to use the technology and we didn't really know how to kind of realize the sound that we had in our heads. All that we knew how to do was just kind of play in the studio like we played on stage. you know, so The album always felt a little bit incomplete to me And as a consequence, I sort of developed a kind of dysfunctional relationship with her. And I saw this as an opportunity to mend my relationship with all of these songs. in order to be able to go out and do a really big thirtieth anniversary tour. Yeah, focusing on our earliest music and, you know and do it with joy Instead of, you know, dysfunction and O I think that I had convinced myself that I didn't do as good a job on that record than That funny. Yeah, they were first iconic, you know exactly. When you look at it, you know, and you were placelbo was so before its time and it's almost like you're from the future Lyrically, sonically, asesthetically I mean You know, you were doing stuff that people are doing now and this is thirty years ago. Exactly, exactly. And I think that's what basically, you know, it really, really worked in our favor because at the time, The mainstream music scene was just filled with Bit pop. Yeah. it was quite latty it was very, very mo a bit like going to a football match, you know going into a gig in those days, you know, kind of thing. and Stefan And and I used to just even when we went out, we used to stand out, you know, kind think from the crowd and we used you know, people used to react quite negatively towards us, you know, sort of thing And that's just kind of became fuel for us on stage and it kind of became fuel to kind of be who we were, you know? And but we were very much influenced by a kind of a bowie Lou reed Iggy pop kind of tradition, you know, kind of thing. and The first time I saw Bowie, it was the Ashes to Ashes video, you know, which melted my brain, you know. And so It kind of worked in our favor because we sort of stood out You know, like sore thumbs everywhere we went socially and on stage. Yeah. And so we were able to garner a lot of attention at the beginning because we were so different, you know. Um And I don't tend to think really very much about the fact that we may have influenced a lot of bands these days, you know, but there were definitely less bands playing around with gender fluidity. Oh my God, here you were sad at that time. Yeah, you know that's a fact. Of course, of course. Yeah. So how did you feel going back to the al? W you scared? or are you proud? I mean You know, when I look back at some of my old routines, sometimes you're like,, that's a bit cringe Did you ever forget about any of your songs or you proud? or youre like, Oh God, that's a good bloody song? Well, is there any of you bit like Oh dear? It was only when I went back and listened to the album for the first time after ten years. And I kind of did it in a strange order because first I made the decision I was going to remake the album And then I called a producer friend I asked him if he could produce it with me And I called Stefan as well and I told him what I wanted to do and he laughed at me, you know, like, you lunatic, go ahead. It was only at that point once I'd enlisted people to work with me that I went, o, Maybe the professional thing to do would be to go back and listen to the album itself. Yeah, I think you should do that. music prod, but yeah. So I approached the computer with a little bit of trepidation, you know, and put the album on And by the third or fourth song, I realized that this kind of dysfunctional relationship that I had with the record was just a creation of my own mind. Yeah, you know. Yeah. I had a feeling once And I decided it was the truce and then that feeling haunted me for twenty five years. And listening to it again, I just went, okay, I understand why people think this is a classic record because it's full of Euberance, you know, lots of Ls of youthful energy, you know, it's very it's extremely cheeky. It's quite licentious. Yeah. And yeah, Nancy v is almost like grinder before grinder happened, isn't it? the way you' work through it? Well, yeah, I was trying to describe the most kind of debauchched night that a quote, unquote Nancy boy could have in London, you know, because it was all still very, very fresh for me. And I wanted to take all the kind of abuse that we would get socially when we went out. and I wanted to reclaim it. Yeah, you know And I was probably at one point called an ani boy by somebody in a bar You know, can they happened to me? I can't imagine. Yeah I'm lucky I've dodged all that. And I'm quite straight acting. I just thought I just thought I'd be able to straight to the next cock. you definite you definitely pass. Not Oh I'd love to be You're not fooling anyone. How rude But I wanted to reclaim those kind of homophobic insults Yes and take the power away from the people who were hurling them at me Yeah you go, yeah, okay. And this is what an Nancy boy gets up to. Yeah. And in your dreams, you'll never be able to get up to what we get up to. Yeah, you know, thing. So it was a celebration of kind of Dbauchery and licentiousness, really. This is another bit of a tangent, but you know you're saying about how when you went with trepidation just to see what it was like. Have you ever seen that Kathy Bates clip where she said she never thanked her mum Yeah at the Oscars. And she went, I never thanked my mumy. She said, you did. She went, No, I didn't It did and showed it back and then you could see the relief. She went, Oh, I did. her mind had played tricks on her. It's crazy. Isn't that weir The mind is such a fascinating thing. Yeah how we fill in all the gaps. Yeah, you know, with with And I think it's because our brains to They want us to feel safe. So if there's a gap somewhere, they'll fill it in with something that's familiar which is I guess why we can have kind of hallucinations. Yeah, yeah yeah you know, on a daily basis, you know Without withithout the help of any mushrooms or anything We don't advocate magic mushrooms on this show. I know it feels like a lot of the time I'm on them, but that's not true Can't prove anything. in the I would have loved this wall. Back in the nineties. I would have stared at this for hours. And listen, I've got an idea to recreate the recreated album. Okay How are we gonna to do that? Well listen to this and I got this is all on tape, so I own half of this idea You know, you're called placebo. placelbo You do a duet with Subo With Subopl Subo. I mean is that amazing Subo singing Nancy Boy. I thinkarsal, but it could work. If stars in your eyes. Yeah. Celebrity stars in your eyes still existed Pubo is placubo. That's a new one. Normally we get called pllacenta. which I think is quite nice.. Yeah Yeah. coming from the womb. Have you ever eaten placenta No, I haven't love. Have you? Well, I wanted to when my son was born. Okay, you know, but it's meant to be full of nutrients. Yeah, and I wanted to kind of have a placenta party and, you know, invite my friends and everything. but My son's mother point blank refused. No, no that is You are not eating something that came out of my body. No, no. I can understand that. Is that Is it cannibalism? Is it? No, you have to eat your No, what's cannibalism? Yeah, it's cannibalism. To a degree, it is kind of cannibalism. It is just saying. justust saying Okay, apparently we apparently we are Our flesh tastes like bacon Which is why we're so attracted to bacon to the smell of bacon.. And that's why cannibals used to I feel like you're looking me now like I'm a hog roast. Well, cannibals used to call us long pigs That that's where the phrase No comes from. Yeah, it comes from the old days when the white man went out to explore and spread Catholicism, et cetera, and would encounter cannibals. And they loved a human because they reminded them of pigs. I bet you're good at a pub quiz BeCause you have this very eclectic mind, lots of ination. Are you one as people that knows all this knowledge but can't remember your pin? Exactly O where you live. I'm like that. Oh, I know there's this building's from there. Who am I? Yeah. Exactly. you I mean, do you ever walk through the threshold of a door and then just have to stop and go, Why am I here? Oh yes, yes, yes, yes. It happens all the time I yes, I do forget my pin and I spend way too much time looking for my phone. yeah you know. Y. So now I have an orange one You know, so now the anxiety attack lasts three seconds instead of thirty. That know So good. I lose my keys, wallet, passwate it literally all the time, all the time. So strange, isn't it? I think you got one of that you've got the same mind as me, I think, a bit all over the place. Yeah, we've got a lot a lot of useless information in our brains. Dolly Daydream that's what my dad used to call me. Here's Dolly Daydream That's a compliment. Yes. Thats a compliment.. Great dg name as well. Exactly. Without daydreaming, where would we be, you know? Yes, Brian, That's right Listen, we've got to talk about travel. Okay. Now I've got this quote here. You love going for winter sun. You said your bones are porous. Is up Did I say that? Is that a medical condition I think it's called I think it's called osteoporosis, isn't it? Oh Chorus So which doctor told you this or you self diagnosing? I think it was just because I found out that our bones become more porous as we age. Yeah. So if you're planning to murder someone, it's always and hide them in a river, it's always better to murder an older person because they will they will sink That's good to know. And how this is a travel story? I have no idea. has get a bit dark with you. Oh, you know cannibalisms, they'd love you So listen, you're born in Brussels, Is that right? That's correct. You have lived everywhere. and you love a tour bus So it is traveling in your blood? Does it feed you? I don't know if it necessarily feeds me, but it's definitely in my blood I'm kind of a reluctant traveler because I don't enjoy the process of traveling, but I love arriving. Yeah. Arriving is one of the best things ever Yeah I'm old enough to remember when you were able to smoke on planes, when Flying was a lot easier and it was a bit more glamorous. I know. And now it's kind of stressful every time every time we go to an airport Yeah ye. Also airports have turned into these kind of massive cathedrals to consumerism. Yeah you know so it kind of An airport marries the two things that I like the least, which is kind of flying and shopping. of. So it's just kind of I don't really enjoy that, but I have to do it so I have to get over myself. And I've been traveling nonstop for thirty years. but the arriving is the best part of it Be what people don't understand about smoking on planes, I remember that. What you would do is people would just smoke at the back of the plane Becauseuse then the smoke wouldn't come to you, would it? Because it's at the back And we all know smoke loves to just stay Where it's pod It's so weird. You look back at it now you go are you crazy? D you know that since they've banned smoking on planes, the airlines have realized that it's cheaper to give us less air because they don't have to So now they When you get on a plane, there is sixty percent less air. Does every have to go bleak. I'm finishing it. It's gonna to get bleaked. Oh my God. o. And that's why we have deep vein thrombosis and air rage. Is that why your legs are porous? Eactly. Because you're being denied air on anage jed. Exactly You can go back and check, but deep fvein thrombosis and air rage didn't happen when we used to be able to smoke on planes. so I think we should bring it back. Bring smoking on. abbsolutely. Yes. you know Right Did you smoke? Yes. I'm wearing a patch right now. Oh. Did you do the vaping? No, no, no, no no. I can't sing If if vape, you know, it has some kind of oil in it that dries out the the old vocal chords. Yeah it' not good for you anyway. Is it really? No, I don't think so. No And wait, where are you going on your tour? You festivals or is it? No, it's our own tour. So we're starting in Portugal, We're going Spain, France, Germany, Italy Yeah You know, you must be so excited. I am, I am, you know. And now that I've mended my relationship with these songs, you know, I can go I can go and do this with real joy. Yeah, you know, because I know the audience have been waiting for this. Cbo fans have really been waiting us to focus on our early work and finally we've come around to that. so ye and their joy is it feeds us, you know, and then our joy feeds back and then you get this kind of sense of synergy and collective euphoria, you know And that can lead to kind of like a transcendental experience. Yeah whichich is what I'm always trying to create when you forget yourself and you forget time and you're in a bubble universe. Yeah, you know things. So that ye. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping to be able to create this time and feed off the joy of the audience. But I need to bring my own, you see, in order for it to work. You need to bring your own joy. Absolutely. Yeah. don't start on stage talking about cannibalism and bloody running out of air. Try and keep it light. Do you find it hard to conjure up joy What makes you laugh? For me, it's like dogs we werere worms. Ifave you see me like a dog drags its ar across the floor?' never not funny. Well farts make me laugh. Yeah, You know I mean, you know, they're really funny.. Celia's fart was possible it's not funny because I was attached to it. Oh, you remember Celia F? Yes, I couldn't move. But that's an iconic moment on TV. I know it wasn't it? It was I mean we didn't know whether it was going to stay in and the producer said, lookook it's funny and Cela who is absolutely amazing went, keepeep it in. She's such a good laugh. But at the poor BaFs, everyone was mentioning her far. And then and then Jennifer Saunders said, Celia Rimise is amazing, iconic actor. everyveryone's just making out she's a bag of wind. It was like poor Celia. It's iconic. that smelly. Imagine having a fifty year career. What you're you know in acting, you know Numerous awards of what you're remembered for is one form. I know know That show is Let's see Have you ever had a holiday nightmare Oh. Holiday nightman What is your idea of a nightmare Well, you mentioned it earlier, and we were doing a gig in Mall Yorka and we stayed in Magaloof. And Shagam muff as I like to call it. But there aren't very many women in Magaloof. There's just you know, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, it's mostly well when I went it was mostly filled with drunken young men in their early twenties. Stag And but I noticed that there were hardly any women around, you know, so I did wonder why it hasn't turned into a gay resort yet. Yeah're not going say there's nobody but men to shack. you know I had to stay in Magal rebrand Magalo first ye. I think that would be controversial. Yeah. but perhaps with a little bit of thought of a pun but I don't know it's a bit Maga Pof. that's good I don't know if that's homophobic. Is it can I say it, Maggapoof? You can Other people can't, but you definitely can. H a hoof. I'm going to stop now Man aloof. Oh wow, there's a man aloof Cry on sounds like Davon Norman. So yeah, I think you know if you read Dante's Inferno, there's nine circles of hell. Yeah. But that's because Magal Louf hadn't been invented yet. and it would definitely be the tenth. I U But thankfully we weren't there for very long. No you know No was it was quite close to the festival that we were playing. so o in and out in and out you know. I do like going back to New York but I avoid that part of of the island. I really likek the Balarics Oh we have you ever had a holiday romance holiday romance, not since I was a kid had a couple of romances in rehand And that is very, very, very naughty. Yeah, that is naughty. Yeah. that's very much frowned upon. No, no But no, that's latest on on holiday. Tick a bunch of like minded people, you know, in a room together. Eventually something's gonna happen. Do you know what I mean? Think about it, Yeahah, and you know youre like you're think you have so much in common. You already, you know, because you're all messed up. Yeah You know what I mean? and you I never thought of that. It is rife, isn't it, really You know? I think it's unusual that people haven't done that more. No, no. Okay. kind of thing. That would actually be a good you wouldn't that be a good player or feel? You have to be devious about it because you have to do it all in secret. so you know, it takes a lot of planning. Oh o, you know What is it like see you on the bike? Well, yeah, well this is the way that we can avoid security, you know, kind of think. So take the long way round and coming through the back door, you know, kind of thing. That thats sort of thing. Well, excuse me. Cing my back door. Don't tell anyone Well No It depends on who you're having a romance with course love love. Oh, thans for You know, my auctions are open and very equal opportunity. Yes, good for you I believe in that.. Good for you. What makes you complain when you're on holiday? Do you hate like a smoky room? J, a noisy room? Is it rudeness And That makes me complain The thing is do you complain? Some people don't complain. I used to complain. And then I realized that it gets you absolutely nowhere. And then people just slag you off. In fact, it makes it gets you worse service. Yeah, you know. And the same thing with like on a flight with cabin crew and people at reception, you know, they have too many people to deal with So they will end up prioritizing the people who treat them with humanity and treat them you know with friendliness and kindness. Yeah. So there could be somebody who's really entitled and rude in the presidential suites and you could just be staying in a normal room Yeah. But the way that you speak and interact with the staff is going to get you a better service than the rude guy upstairs.. You know And that's what I've learned over the years. never complain. If there is an issue tryry and bring it to but what gets you go, what gets you go? is let's say you found a I've put on one of those hic hairs in the shower Oh disgusting. That gets my go. Yeah, disgusting. Checking in and not having an internet code You know Yeah and having a call down, can you please give me the Y, you know, sort of thing Just little things like that after a long trip, you know, about a smelly robe smelly rope but they don't wash the rope, they put it up and you put it on and you can smell like, you know, like those Tesco value beef burgers You know, Yeah And you're like, have they put a beef burger up this rope I don't know what kind of hotels you've been staying in, but you know No they don't clean the robe. You know, you get a robe and the slippers Yeah Let me have a moone. You've had a moone. Give a mo only about everything then. You turn' right, Karen What's the male equivalent of gar? The misogyny because there isn't a Male Karen is there? That's misogyny because men moan Nigel. Nigel, Oh right, Nigel Which Nigel are we talking about? Oh yes, we're just trying to think of a name that's a bit like a Karen is quite. Heo, what you doing? You can't park here? Oh God, yeah. Well I think I don't know, I think that happens to I think equally men and women behave that way. Oh you know, kind of thing. It's just that we live in a Slightly misogynistic world still that way. I know love. I hear your system Where's been the fanciest hotel you've ever stayed in where you've pinched yourself and go, o my Godd, this is amazing. I guess it's gota be the Maldives. Everyone says the Maldives. you know, but it's also board there No, not really because I stayed on an island where at one point somebody had this is not. It's not dark. This is really nice, you know? There's a cannibal next door At some point somebody haden brought a pair of rabbits to this island. Oh okay And so when we arrived, it was just everywhere you turned, there were bunny rabbits. and it just seemed very, very strange. You're in this island in the middle of nowhere, you know miles away from home. and you're expecting something a lot more Asian. and you're met with just like bunny rabbits You know, so that was that was really smuggled the rabbits on. I think so. And then they, you know, the rabbits escaped and now there's a massive population of rabbits on this island, you know, whichich was really fun. to see a rabbit a pet in zoo And then old Daisy, a rabbit. They have soist dool. They have small reef sharks as well which which come up to to the beach and they will just sort of swim past you and rub and rub themselves up against you. which really brown. That sea would be brown If I look down and I see a shark basasically. But the thing is when you go to on to me. when you go to the Maldives, they have you they because you're staying on an island, you know, they have you by the balls, really. You have to you end up paying For absolutely everything because there's nowhere to go. Yeah. So by the end of a week youre what you know, you have to buy the water, you know, for example. You can't drink the tap water. I know I know. And so it's overpriced water. So by the end of the week, your water bill is already in the thousands of pounds. I know what I. Yeah, yeah, yeah what can you do? Yeah, you know, you gott in the rabbit. Yeah, kill a rabbit and eat it. Make a bonfire. Yeah, you know and make a rabbit stew Are you adventurous when you go abroad? Where do you have the street food and stuff? Oh yeah. you find the locals eat and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that can be dangerous. I mean, I did that once in Thailand in Bangkok. I went to this food market where for lunch where all the Thai workers went, you know, and I was literally the only white guy in the place, you know? And I didn't really know what I was ordering, you know, So I went around and ordered a few things that look quite nice And all the locals started laughing at me You know, before before I'd even eaten a morsel, you know, they saw what I was ordering and they were all chuckling to themselves. You know, look at this ferangue. because that's what they call in Thailand, it's what they call tourists, they call them ferangs Look at this foran. He's in for for a big surprise you know. I took one mouthful of whatever I had ordered and it was the hottest thing I'd ever tasted in my life and I ended up running around this market trying trying to find a can of sprite, you know? and nobody understood me, you know, sprite That'ight that made them laugh even more. you know? So I've definitely been that sort of you know, idiot tourist abroad trying to trying to eat like the locals and failing Okay. Well, listen, we're about to start our des scents. We've got time now for the quick fire round. Oof, okay You ready for this? Sure Adrenaline junky adrenaline slunky? Slunky Beach or pool Beech window or aisle Ohio Yeah no window. becausecause I got I'm told that having a got you've got a statistic here. I'mld There's a statistic brewing. I can feel it. I'm told that having a weak bladder is a sign of intelligence. So I need to sit on the aisle You know, kind of thing because, you know, I need to visit the toilet this person someone's asleep and then you sort of got to go over them and then you end up doing like a magic mic routine. Exactly. with like someone who's sleep they wake up they I'd rather be the one who's inconvenience than inconvenience someone else, you know? So that's What star sign are you? Sagittarious Half man, half horse. in all the right places. Oh Nay Mile high or I'm too shy what about the smoking bit, would you? You might need a cigaret out after the a Yeah. You might ye, I'll got out the back It's u I've done many, many things in my life, Adam. You know, Aam Adam, Allan, sorry Wow I've been calledld some things in my time, but never Adam. I'm sorry. No, I first man to walk the earth. Yeah., the original man you're right. You're right. I'm sorry about that. I've done a lot of crazy things in my life, you know, as you can imagine. but the Mile High Club is something that I've never done Maybe on this next tour. Maybe What about on a tour bus? Oh, on a tour bus all the time. Okay. you know, there are beds on a tour bus There are many. What could you call it mile high? What can you call on the m Would you call it anything The motorway club. The motorway club? I'm going to write that down ask someone next Motorway club You remember the motoray club There you go, everyvery day's a school day, isn't it? I know about long pigs Long pigs in motorway Clubs. Are you a cannibal Doid you have a weight bladder? You might be intelligent? I do load of questions. How's your bladder? I have I went through a very weird psychological thing where I thought I was weing on stage and had to go and see a specialist. and they gave me these massive We proof pants that they said so when you we on stay, and I wasn't weing, I thought I was. And I said, I'm not wearing. I'm not weing, but they gave me these pants that are like basically like zip tied around my legs. if I did wee, they'd slowly inflate. But I said, that's gonna make me more anxious. And I was like like, wait a minute. I'm getting an erection And I said, no, I said I'm not pissing. I said, I am thinking I am And that's why people are laughing. They're not laughing at the jokes. They're laughing because I wet myself It was really weird. I had to go see someone And know it's all right now, but I mean I have to just think of something. It's adrenaline, it's not urine Aout Aout ten years ago we started oversare quite a bit on this show. Carry on. About ten years ago, placelba started doing quite long shows. that would last about two hours. and we'd have to build a pee break into the show You know, which was kind of annoying U So after that, I decided that I would train my bladder You know, so I remembered this thing that I sa I that career alcoholics down the pub used to tell me. and that is just basically if you just hold hold it for as long as you possibly can. You know, you'll stretch it Oh u And you'll stretch it enough. The bladder or the penis. There's bladder. Okay. You're stretchking. peopleople are watching one I know You'll stretch your bladder enough so that you can make it through like two, three hours without having to go to the toilet. you know So now I'll show up at a gig and I won't and I'll only have a pee five minutes before the show and I will have held my held it in for about three hours beforehand. Yes. And now I don't need a pee break anymore. This is what I'm going to do before I go on. Train your bladder. Yes, hold it in for as long as you possibly can. I'm gonna b burn my pants. I'm going burn those pants. Try not to break the sealnt until the very end. Yeah, I'm like Mr. Pringles once your papa cs. And then last but not least, tip 'em or fuckem. Are you a good tipper Yes. That's what I love.ve I believe in tipping. I think and I'd like to say this very clearly. I think everybody needs to tip their delivery drivers. I do I do. it's essential. You That' enough money for me, the amount of deliveries that come in. And hello, Allan. Yeah, these people don't, they don't make enough. No, you know, unfortunately. And so you know, Tape your deli driver Yeah, you know, because they they're providing you with sustenance. You know, they're they're helping you stay alive. Yes, you know? and uh And you know, cycling around. Oh yeah It's only a takeaway, Brian. I think you get Please, thank you. You save my life. Ns please ust. Thank you so much for flying Alanir. Oh it's been a pleasure and I've loved the free champagne. Oh my God, course, please fly again. and if you'd like to go and collect your emotional baggage from the carousel. Oh, there's a lot of that. I might be there for some time twowo hours later. I Thank you. We hope you enjoyed your flight. Don't forget to like and subscribe Don't ever forget. Lve Sabby

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