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It's Frank of the Radio, Frank of the Radio, Frank of the Radio. It's the Frank Skinner Podcast, don't you know? Hey there you with the stars in your eyes. This is uh Frank Off the Radio. I'm joined by Emily Dean and Steve Hall is with us today. Follow the podcast on X and Instagram. You can email the podcast via francoff the radio at avlonuk.com. And on the WhatsApp. Uh Seven four five seven four one seven seven six nine Oh seven four five seven four one seven seven six nine Absolutely tremendous. And that was um from David Thorpe. Okay. Or maybe he's from a place called David Thorpe, which sounds like a place. Okay. Um but who knows that's my favourite one, I think. Who's your favourite thought the jingles. I want to think about your favourite thought. That was the least AI thing. What about Robert Maplethorpe, the uh homo photographer. Why you don't like it? What kind of a bigot are you, Steve? I like it. Oh yeah. I interviewed Ian Thorpe. You didn't? Yeah, Thorpedo. Yeah. Did you interview him, Frank? Would I have liked him? What's he like? Thorpedo, Robert Marple Thorpe. You can't say a comp It's not a competition. He wore a leather jumpsuit when I uh interview him. What's it like size seventeen feet or something like that? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yes he had. Lucky then. Which was um Lucky, lucky, lucky. That was an aid to his uh swimming. Which came first, the feet or the swimming in terms of Does he a good swimmer and then thought hey my feet are getting bigger. Well look I don't want to get controversial, but when Casta Smena is told to take To take down uh um Oh yeah. What's that man thing? Human growth. Yeah, testosterone. Testosterone. You know, you could just say some people just are born physical advantages. No one said he had to have his feet made smaller. Well I'm glad he's saying how what was Thorpe like? He was very nice, a m very torn. He had a a fin brilliantly, you know the fin haircut. He had one he was doing everything to swim faster. He had a proper shark fin hair cot, which made him about eight feet tall. And he's Aussie, isn't he? Is he an Aussie? Yeah, he's Aussie. Oh, is he? Okay. Can't remember, to be honest. Yeah. Okay. Sorry, Steve. I think I tried to. No, that was all just coming from the compliment to Dave Thorpe's jingle. Okay. And it's sort of a five four three two one vibe to it. Yeah. Yeah, I think you're right. So I um Weirdest interlude you two have ever had. Yeah. I'll tell you what's something that happened to me this week. I was watching the um Almost religious post per guardiola celebrations. Yeah. And he said in his in his moving message to the uh you know people can't say fucking anything nowadays without a bit of music under it. Yeah, yeah. I imagine that um Sandy, our new producer, will be putting music under everything we say. She she comes from the world of radio where you can't talk unless there's something happening underneath. Anyway, he did this uh message for the City fans and it's all Mm. I uh you know, I miss you know, this is the family I love and all this stuff. And at one point he says, uh Nothing is eternal. Oh, I've gone off here. Oh. I didn't know anti anti religious. He's a non believer. Damn atheist. But I mean that's not predictive that's not nothing is eternal because the fight the hundred and fifteen FA charges are finally gonna get answered and they're gonna get Stripped of things. That's a bit political. But yeah, it could be that. The thing with him he's now got I thought Fair play to him, he's done ten years. And he's achieved so much. And now he needs a new talent. That's what he's thinking. You know, you need a new talent. But what he's done he hasn't gone to manage You know. PSG or something. When he's done, he's gone the David Beckham route. He's become a fucking global ambassador. He's become an ambassador. Which means nothing. It means I'm gonna do nothing now. It is the most, as they say in football, the most golf clubs in the boot job you could possibly have. But you know. When you think of what he's done. Um just to change you know, technical area she No one has had more of an influence on the look of managers. Well, one thing that hasn't caught on is the You know how jazz saxophonists have these things, circular breathing? So they are able to breathe in while they're breathing out. Oh, that's fascinating. And so they can just There's no gaps in their play. It's really astonishing. You can't believe it's being done. Yeah. He does that with spitting. So he has a perpetual uh he rolls the spit around. So the spit coming out, but you can see spit being formed at the same. If you watch him on the bench, he's like a little spit fountain. It's horrible. It's it's perpetual motion, sort of sputum's cradle that's total spitball. It's the It's the Mediterranean tax, really, isn't it? 'Cause the Mediterranean the romance language is this will happen. Well, I've never seen any other manager who who does that. Circular spitting. It's it's revolutionized the game in so many ways. The fashion, the football and the phlegm. He's conquered them all. That is his autobiography. The next one will be called The Ambassador Files U Oh man, the ambassador. Which I hope we get I there's a phrase I only just learned recently, 'cause I did like a corporate thing. I know. I gotta wait. And um It was it was the phrase I'd never heard before mission creep. W Oh yes. Do you know it? It means you sign up to do something and the people who've signed you up e do the contract necessity. They slowly move it around so you're doing a bit more. I hope I hope he ends up to it. I hope having to put the cow in the south. It's mission creep, so it's to do with will you just do this? And then it's oh could you do this video on social media. Will you just do this? But it's it's you've signed to do stuff and they just But if you Yeah, and if you say, No, no, that's not in my contract, then you are a monster that that everyone hate difficult to work with. Yeah, exactly. Which was 'cause he was quite a dower in interviews. He he didn't give away a lot as a manager. He was infamously, if particularly if City had lost, he i they they were toe curlingly awkward interviews. But now as a global ambassador, you've got to be a fusive and a darling, how I wonder. Well there'll be no loss now, it's just game. That's all he's got now is a global ambassador. Oh. He's gonna have a great old old time, head. But all managers tend to be utterly vile when they've lost. Yeah. Anyway, maybe that's enough about football. We've like to be able to turn it into five live here. Um I am worried about it. Sorry, love. Actually my t shirt's turned into a checkered Ben Sherman. Steve was about to say to me, Could you give me a coffee, love? Anyway. Thanks darling. My neck got a bit thicker. And you smell of uh Davidol. Interesting, and Nigel makes a few good points. Mm. Um Frank, I need to tell you. I meant to tell about my trip to Buckingham Palace. Oh God, yes. Do you remember this? I went to a party. You promise to tell him. Well I went to a party thrown by the King. It was the anniversary of the King's Trust Garden Party. I was the guest of The Incredible Heart. You're familiar with the incredible. Oh, Connie Hawk. Can I tell you something about the the Prince the King's Trust is called now? Yeah, now King's Trust, yeah. Did I ever tell you that I um Many not that many years ago, but several years ago was the anniversary, I think it was the Four hundred. Maybe the maybe more. Of the uh King James version of the Bible. King James Bible, yeah? So um Prince Charles as he was then was the patron of of the uh the the trust that was formed. Strange party Yeah to celebrate. No, so there was a trust to celebrate um this the anniversary, and he was the patron of the trust. So there was a party to launch the trust. And my PI put in my a diary. Uh I looked it up and it said uh King James Bible launch party. I thought that's gonna that's gonna confuse uh anyone who digs me up and find that. Who was DJing that Tony. Yeah Um I love that. Well, this was just a regular thing. You may Timothy West um read a section from um Matthew's gospel. Yeah. And there was like two teenagers behind me looked like they were angry about having to wear suits and stuff like that. And anyway, he finished he finished uh his Bible reading from the King James version. One of them said. That was a bit retro. Anyway. Four hundred years, right. Um so well you'll be familiar with this then, and that you do have it that I've got to say I don't think there's quite so much pressure on men, 'cause with women it's like oh the hat, the shoes, all this stuff. I decided not to go hat. Um, instead I went pearl headband. Wow. Yeah. A bit uh a bit Tory MP. Yeah, I think it sounds like a flapper. Yeah. It's a bit Tory MP's wife. Oh, is it? Yeah. I quite like the Pearl Headman look. Yeah. So It also sound terribly it sounds like a pawn too. Of course it does, and that's why I was reluctant to bring it up in front of Steve. I was slow on it, but Steve was grinning so evilly, I thought Memories of time goes back. Oh no. I couldn't look at Steve when I said those words. That's why I looked at you, Frank. I can't look at everybody. Anyway, I went pearl headband, Frank. Right. Sh shut up, Steve. And uh I met up with the uh the incredible heart, Corny Hart. Outside we met. At a nearby hotel. I always think that's a good thing to do. Yes. And she looked fabulous, she always does. But she had a baseball cap on. I said, I don't think you can wear that. I only use that name when I'm working, but thank you. And I said, You can't wear a baseball cap, Connie, to the King's to Buckingham Palace. She said, Oh, I just had a I wear a baseball cap for travelling. So I said okay. Oh interesting. So I said, Okay, fine. But I said you must take it off. Well I forgot, we went inside and we're looking round the gardens and she still had the baseball cap on. We got approached by security. There were lots of police. They didn't explicitly say Who are you and why have you got a baseball cap on? Yeah. But I think from afar they must have thought that looked odd. Yeah. So and they were armed and everything, they came over. Luckily, when she turned round, it was awful that the celebrity worked. They went, Oh, it's you They were almost like you should have said. I mean if she if she'd have had gone back to front, she'd have been shot before they got this close. It is on s I presented some um Duke of Edinburgh wards. And there's all these kids there, and it's a very joyous little thing. And I looked up and on the roof of Buckingham Palace there's about six snipers. Just Just a little bit. Yeah, but I suppose they're gonna have it, you know. We saw um lots of familiar faces. I saw Sam Ryder and his partner Lois and w they're big fans of you and Vars. He loves you and Vars. He's such a nice bug. Where had he seen you at a festival or something? Well Do you know Sam Ryder? Urovision very good. Very good. Don't mention Eurovision. He's moved on since then. He saw me at um That's a It's hard to it's a long story. But it was an event. I'm I'm I'll probably tell you about it later, but I'd I'd I'd made a bit of a mistake. But anyway, I made you and he recommended um Burning Ambition, which is the new documentary film about Iron Maid and he'd been to see that. He'd been invited. first night, that's all I'm saying. Um and he was right, we went and saw that and it was great. But he's he's one of the there's some people in show business it was so nice you think they shouldn't be in show business. Well he's a huge Odie Whitaker, that's about it. He's a huge fan of Buzz's. And when I told him he didn't know Buzz was learning Finnish. That made a lot of sense to him. He said I said it's so it's so brilliant. He said it's a music thing. I didn't I didn't but anyway, he was very impressed by that. Um I did have one slightly awkward incident though. Which I knew I thought will be so pleased something about happening. Oh, that was nothing compared to this. There were three Grad of tent. There's Um the royal tent. We didn't make it in there. The royal tent's a bit magnified. That's the potions. That's where the king is. I looked who was in there 'cause Rob Bryden said to me, he said, Oh, we're not in the royal tent, are we? I said no. The royal tent was Idris Elba. Helen Mirrin, Damian Lewis. You would I think you would have made the royal change. No, I wouldn't have made the royal change. No, you would 'cause you're um MBE, aren't you? So I think you would have. But me and the likes of Bryden uh we're not quite good enough. I'd I'd I'd rather be in with I'd rather be in with them. Oh I feel so much better about us now. Well they even they wouldn't even know where was those people. Well we were in Golden Legacy tent. Golden Legacy What does that mean? It sounds like a retirement home. Uh I'll tell you who was in there. It was a bit more coming up this autumn on ITV 'cause Simon Call was next to was sitting next to us. Simon Call didn't let the royal chair he was Golden Legacy. He's got quite a legacy though, I hear. See, people don't recognize him. Since he's gone for the slipknot look. Yeah, what what would the police what would the armed police say to his face? We had Holly Willoughby. Uh um and uh yeah, you're getting the picture anyway. It was a bit ITV. It was a bit ITV. Who don't really have a golden legacy, Um so Connie and I were when we were queuing to get into the Golden Legacy T 10. Yeah. There was could of a beef eater or someone checking off my pass. A beef eater at Buckingham Palace. I quite fancied them. I thought they were at the tower. We had about fifty of them. They turned up special. It was so nice. They t I think they turn up to the for the guests. I don't know. I've got a picture of them. I took loads of pictures. I don't doubt yet. I took evidence. Had they not have been roasted. I feel sorry for them. Roasting? Roasting baby. Anyway, as I'm cueing Frank, I hear I say oh thank you and I give my pulse and go through and I hear a very posh woman. Say behind me. to her husband, I presume it was her husband, she said, Well I don't know. I was trying to get in, but these people have just pushed in in front of me. Oh so you'd hear it, presumably. So I'd hear it. And I'm hoping you tell my one. You fucking what? You fucking I could have left it. Yeah, but you didn't. You know me, Frank. I can't leave it. That wouldn't be me. So I turn round. And I was very polite. I said, I'm so sorry, is there a problem? Mm and I went a little bit posher. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? I thought we'd have a posh off. You've got the pearl headband on, you weren't suitably dressed. I thought let's have a posh off here. And I saw her husband looking a bit embarrassed. I didn't think it was his first time at the How Dare They rodeo, but anyway. So I said, I'm so sorry, is there a problem? And she got a little bit surprised when I turned round. And she said, No, no, no, it's quite all right. It's quite all right. Let's not dwell on it. I remember she said, Let's not dwell on it. No, that means there was an eye. Yeah. Yeah, that I don't like that. Well that's where you go. I think we're gonna dwell. Yeah. I think your point there was nothing to dwell on. Exactly. She was saying let's not dwell on the thing that obviously happened. She was acknowledging there was a transgression. And did did you uh just made a podcast? I said, No, no, no. And I I decided to call it I said, I'm just mortified that you think I've pushed in. I said, I I honestly didn't push in. She said, No, no, no, as I say, let's move on. Let's move on. She kept using language like move on. Yeah, so the still wasn't it. I was still guilty. Why the Jean Maljean? You know. And so eventually it got it actually got quite awkward. And I could see her husband. He seemed quite a meek, nice man, and he was sort of trying to help. Never goes to work. And eventually he sort of said, Look, it's fine, it's fine, we're in. And I and I and I kept apologising. And you know, she suddenly turned. And I don't know what happened whether it was her husband trying to help or I was sort of being quite a pot relatively sort of apologetic. She said, Look, I think we got off on absolutely the wrong foot. Shall we start again? My name is Annette. This is my husband, Nicholas. I said lovely to meet you. And do you know, I said it I'm really glad we've resolved this, because it would have been very awkward. We're all at Buckingham Palace trying to have a nice day. And do you know what? We ended up chatting. I spoke to Nick for a while, who seemed very charming, humble man. We had a nice conversation. Anyway, later A friend's husband came over to me and said, I'm so jealous. Why were you chatting to Nick Mason from Pink Floyd? Oh, it was Nick Mason. And it was his wife and her. You see, I've had an you know, I had an it mason thing, I was talking with him at a party. I didn't know who he was. He lo he doesn't look like a rock. Well doesn't look like he had an anarch on. Well when asked me he had a denim shirt on. Yeah. I mean, unless he was in bewitched. I wouldn't recognize him as a pop star. And and I started telling him about Turing and what it was like. And you've done the same thing with him. With him? Yeah. 'Cause I thought, you know, he's everyone doing touring you can tell me about Barclays. And then so I um He said, What do you do? And he said, I'm in a band and I think even then I didn't get the warning. No. And I said, Oh will I have heard of them? He said, I don't know they're called Pink Fly. But this is interesting. We've both had a similar experience. Why is it? Why is it always Nick Mason this happens to Because um He doesn't look like a rock star. That's what it is. Is that what it is? Yeah, definitely. Because I think yes, you're right. Because if if someone had come over looking a bit more like Roger Daltrey or Mick Jagger I would have probably I hate to say it, probably thought oh, they're married to someone who looks like he's important. Maybe I better shut up and run away. Anyway. But it's quite nice if Nick Mason's remained a nice bloke. Despite all that from 'cause certainly. Well, we don't know that. But you see he seems humble and balances out the fact that other members of Pink Floyd are. I think he went on to tell me that he'd bought the house. I think he bought Camilla's Oh, did I good friends? Yeah. Um I said, I bet that's a nice he said, Well I bought it mainly for the stables. I thought I'm in a different world. Where's your entry point? Um can I say it was it was a fabulous state. There was I mean it was just slightly mortifying that Nick thing, but I would at least I wasn't Damien Lewis. Because Damian Lewis I felt for him, he was presented to the king alongside Helen Mirrin. And Helen Mirrin sort of curtsied and then he goes to kiss her on the cheek. You'll be familiar with this protocol, Frank. It's his w the King's way of saying at the palace a lot. Yeah, you've done the palace. But it's the King's way of saying, It's all right, we're friends. I'm going to break protocol and kiss you on both cheeks. And as he's kissing her on both cheeks, Damien then thin it's my turn. He sticks his hand out. Yeah. King leaves him hanging. Oh in front of all of us. It was I don't know. I've never seen a hand retreat into a pocket so quickly. Mm. It was awful. Of course the king can't get his hand in his No, he can't get his hand in anything. No. Helen Mirrin being there, isn't it? You see, if I'd have been the king, I'd have called her mummy. He liked doing that, didn't he, mummy? Yeah, but I mean the fact that she played the queen, it's perfectly. Poor Damien though, Frank. Oh wow. I don't think it can. Yeah, it feels like it's it feels so an in so much an insight. You wonder if Charles has mumbled I thought Homeland was shit and all the fan. I don't know he's it can't you know, he's not like the queen. The queen never missed a hand in Sixty years. I didn't like they started DJing though, Idris Elba is a lovely talented bloke, but he was DJing and I didn't like hearing the rave music at Buckingham Palace. I always say he wears the n he's got the nicest collection of varsity jackets I've ever seen Idris Elba. I am the thing, he might only wear them once, what does he do with it? Why does he have all the ones? I don't know what it is, but honestly, he looks like he's in he's been in a deluxe version of Greece. So what you where you suits you got treated well with suits over the years. Yeah. So that's his equivalent. He's got the var well he obviously sees the varsity jacket as his look. I I don't doubt he would have had one on that day, but um That's little thing. Anyway I do you know what I would go again, Frank. I loved it so much. Yeah, I don't know if it's optional. I think you have to get involved. That's the problem. I'm working on it. I think you're my best next bet. No, I think uh I think you're with your people. 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No, I think you would like this not too. Actually made life on earth. God. Can I tell you why I think you like this? A hundred years ago he made life on earth. Is he an uh American uh religious figure? And apparently he said it was good. Um It's a deep dive into how that show was created. Why I think you'd like it. is that and it had me at this. There was lots of nineteen seventies footage. Of sort of BBC meetings in those days, where there's women in knee high boots bringing in coffee and papers. Oh brand. So lots of men in Paisley shows going, Thank you very much, Cheryl. Yeah. And lots of interviews with producers now in their seventies or eighties, are all all called almost exclusively Martin and Geoffrey. Hm so well of course I mean Admiral is numerous and everyone's smoking everyone's smoking. But I tell you what was genuinely fascinating was to see how they captured all that footage before all that camera technology existed. There was a poor cameraman who said, I had to stay awake for fifteen days. David made me stay awake. To catch a a Darwin, a male Darwin frog giving birth out of his mouth. Don't ask me to explain the biology of that. I really recommend watching it. It's on BBC i player. Well I've been watching the Eurovision Song Contest and I'm damned if I just mean the final, I mean both semi finals as well. You went deep. And um I chose Belgium from the very beginning. I absolutely knew that was gonna do well and it did very badly indeed. But we do that, me and my family, we sit and we we have uh scorecards and we score every person and at the end we you know, it's a proper It's an event in our house. I people are so cynical about it. And I love, you know Music of a of a more um I suppose a more respectable kind. But I don't people who look at that disparagingly, I just don't get it. It's it's joyous. What did you think of the UK entry, Frank? I r I like that. I thought that was classic Eurovision. Yes. U a blow singing I Einstein Dry. It was it was uh I liked it. There was a blog sitting behind me who kept making comments that really got on my nerves. And you're h look at the cinema, you know, and then I realised that was Graham Norton. But it was overall a fabulous contest and I have to say I was quite pleased with the winning song. You like bangaranga? I love bangaranga, none of your business. Yeah. I absolutely loved it. Did you like it? I was relieved when she uh when she overtook it. We were all relieved. Let's not lie. I think the word that describes this year's Eurovision was relief. Yes, it was it was good. And it would have been spoiled if the thing had ended in a terrible riot. So um It's great though. It's I I think it's so easy to be cynical about you, Rovish. It it's I wish it was on every week. And also if you miss Eurovision and you're thinking it's no good telling us now. It's on iPlay with you know, with so many other marvelous things. 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They swim in the pond. There are swimming ponds, but the swim in in the pond which is for the swans and stuff. And I watched a a thing today and it was people Well using the nest to climb onto their island and stuff. There was there was eggs, unhatched eggs floating on the water. And I really thought Oh, it's a shame vigilante justice. And I would have happily sat with a rifle. It's gonna be anything floating on the pond. Let's make it close, people. I found it earlier. No, I totally agree. I saw that close to tears. So was I. It was vile. And there was a swan desperately trying to sort of protect the air. It was awful. Terrible. Anyway, I'll just mention that as As a little palate cleanser. Before we go to our outside world. Have it just established large portions of the outside world are ours. No, it is a large portion, so it's not a select privileged few. Steve, we seem to have had a lot of correspondence for you this week. I don't know why that would be. Aren't complaints? No, not clear. Can I see the handwriting or from Steve. Steve's been really popular this week with our with our business. Well I knew if we waited long enough. Fourteen years. We've had yes, Emily, men sit down to we. Do you remember Steve saying I'm sorry. But do you remember Steve saying he sat down to wait? It's broken through. And it made us both feel a little illly. Yeah. I I didn't like it at all. Neither of us liked it. But Steve was adamant. And he's this this character continues it's something my wife has encouraged me to do for many years. I don't want to get involved. She can see in the mirror, I suppose, cleaning her teeth. Very busy busy family. And it's especially appropriate in the middle of the night. Why is it appropriate in the middle of the night? Well, because men miss, you see. Oh, I see. I think it's missing. Logan Roy did a wee on the carpet. It's also less noise. Slightly less noise. Okay. Um As Steve said, it saves any oh. Have you regretted reading this? You don't have to read it all. It's not bad. It says it saves any fallout from poor aiming. Okay. I um I I I I won't be doing it myself. I also there are some men who, if there are urinals available, still go into the cubicle. To you, Renate. And I always think Who do you think you are? What are you why are you doing that? Oh really? So if you're using the urinal and they don't want to stand at the urino. Is it sort of like they're saying I'm a VIP when they go and if they're saying I'm so ashamed of my terrible penis. I don't want to stand next to anyone with it. I don't know what the thing is. Do they look at the other ones, Willie's? Why men look at each other's willies, be honest. It's you know, peripheral. It's not deliberate things. I I try I look straight ahead. Okay. I used to a thing of of of a full Marty Feldman. Oh, you stick so yeah. Slow is called. I would find it so awkward. And I don't mind it at all. Well I've got a memory of you saying when you'd been drinking Barocca. Try to remember if this is if this is a story you were telling me. Oh no, it wasn't Barocca. It was um When I became fifty, I was given uh as a gift these fifty plus vitamin Um but they uh they made your urine transl I mean, not translucent. What's the word when it glows in the dark? Glowed in the dark, anyway, that was what it did. Uh it's like a bright orange high vis urine that I developed. And from walking to and back the um to the On sweet. It meant that in the darkness it looked like a runway they stopped flowing in the dark. And when I got to the actual toilet mat, it had so much, so much drippage on it. It was like flying over Vegas. But I don't take those anymore. That's why I sit down to to avoid Okay. I can remember you being on um Graham Norton. Telling that story. And I was so proud of you because you had a lot of these Hollywood guests on. Right. I love it when the British the plucky British comedian makes the Hollywood it's my favourite thing on Graham Norton is I think they come on thinking, Who's this? And then when they make them laugh, I almost cry with pride because I think, see, we're better than you. I had it once with Greg Davis. When he made them laugh he made Ryan Goldsling laugh. And you can see him thinking, Oh, English people English comedians are really funny. They're fun and I saw it with you with an actor called Zach, he's in a hospital drama, he was famous for and he's very famous. Breath. Yeah. I think it was him. It's this man here. And Zap breath. And I can remember him looking at you would eat no chaff And I remember him looking at you. It was like he was reevaluating you and you told this story and the whole audience just go, Whoa clapping. It was like he's quite funny. I thought he was just a Birmingham man. And then he loved it. Yeah, but then I my low ebb of mentioning Flying Ant Day. None of the Hollywood people knew about it. And I broke the ultimate Graham Norton rule, which I've never forgotten. forgiven for and I said, Oh well, maybe the big Hollywood stars that kept away from it. You know, and he said we don't want any of that. He did, yeah. So it's obviously a bit of a no go area mentioning there. Oh well that hasn't come up. When I Google my YouTube searches, English comedians making stars laugh, that doesn't come up. Yeah, it's been snipped. But yeah, it's a difficult when if they don't know what that is difficult to sort of go. You you you won't understand, but your gardeners are gonna love that. Yeah, there was uh but Graham Norton uh said he'd never heard of it either. But I don't know whether he was trying to be more Hollywood than Albridge. Yeah Um we've got another one for Steve. Goodness me. This is from suspiciously Steve in West Midlands. This is like when you're on a panel after a film and the star is there. And and you're the second I D, and no one asks you a question. They just ask the star. Go on. This is from Steve in West Midlands. You could have made more imaginative on the location, Steve. For goodness sake. Um Hi team. Uh listened to your pod and was delighted to hear Steve Hall has a cat named Bonnie. Yes. As have I. Mine was named after the triumph of Bonville? Motorcycle which Brian Bonneville Bonneville, sorry, which I used to own. I would love to hear how Steve's Cat got her name. This is extraordinary. it was named after the infamous American outlaw Bonnie Parker. All praise redacted, good day to you. Over to you, Steve. Uh no well sh so she was a rescue and uh told me she had sex with a thousand male cats. Oh, please. Really, Frank? Bonnie has stolen the name Monnie Blue in the UK on a feline bang bus. And uh not the not the pussy wagon. Oh, Frank, please. I don't want to know about the pussy wagon. No. Unless there's actual cats on it. Unless there's actual cats. Is it Kill Bill where the blog's car is called? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, carry on. I've had an idioti i idiotic Eureka moment. I've only just realised why she's called Body Blue. Why? Well because it's blue. I thought it was just the colour. What did you I thought it was just a colour, nice name or something. I didn't know. Circulation issues. Anyway, Steve. Uh yeah, so they were she had a brother who sadly is no longer with us, who was Bertie, so they arrived as a pair, Bonnie and Bertie. And they were their rescue names. And so Uh were unable to look after them. We wanted to do something nice for them, so they were very touched that we kept the original names. So uh that's it. And then we were we were going to be able to do that were unable to look after them. So they were rescued and then there was a family that had taken them that weren't able to look after them for various Seasons. So we then stepped in. And you and your act of kindness towards that family was to retain the name. That was it. Yeah, yeah. And then there was no hand in the birthday. And then her and then her brother was dead within a year as well, that cat. So we won't ask her that. But um and that's right, so the new kitten was potentially gonna be call Clyde. Oh don't do that. Frank so we've talked about this, never name them after a partnership because it will be very sad. Then you don't want to be just left with chips, do you? Or Costello. I've seen a lot of Costello's and chips over the years. What goes with chips, Wiza? Fish. Oh, okay. I was thinking the comet was a chip. Fish and chips. You see it a lot. It's when you see and I've I I I've heard people I think I might have because I meet a lot of animals in the course of my work. And you will often hear this is Clyde and we all know what story that's telling. Well it it could have been uh based on the orangutan from Every We Play But Loose But probably not. I've never seen Every Witch Way But Loose. What role did Clyde have in that film? He was assistant, and Assistant. He drove a look like he was driving. I don't think he drove, did he? I think it was made to look like he was driving and then he would Clint East would say right turn Clyde and he'd punch some of the things. Clint he's for the detective, any Was he hanging around with an iron? Time then. Well that's the long arm of the law. How did Clint Eastwood meet Clyde? I don't know if you have I don't know if there's an origin story. Well the origin of the species. I hope so with Clyde. Or an origin story. But they never explain how that how they got together. I don't think but that's true of lots of partnerships. When you watch a Laurel and Hardy film, you don't have a big show in how they met. Well they should have.