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Frank Off The Radio: The Frank Skinner Podcast

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Historical Etymology and AI Concerns

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It's Frank of the Radio, Frank of the Radio, Frank of the Radio. It's the Frankskinner Podcast, don't you know? They say for every boy and girl, there's just one love in this whole world. This is Frank Off the Radio. I'm joined by Emily Dean and Josh Weller is with us. Hello. How often do people go well oh well oh well a lot? School girls used to go, oh well well o o well o instead of tell me more. Oh that's I was thinking of Wella Wella Wella from uh Ravon by Body Holly. Oh I was thinking of Greece. Oh well oh well o well uh wait which wave a w ella well a well a little things you say and do it's like a guttural aw I think it's well away. Anyway, follow the podcast on X and Instagram. It's getting a bit muso, guys. You can email the podcast via frankoff the radio at avalonuk.com. Also What I know you should know the number Oh seven forty five seven four seven three seven si,x dollars will win . Beautiful. Um Um Hello. Hello, guys. Hello, Josh. We've got Josh. Thanks for having me back. Yeah. I think what I meant to talk about last time we were on was the the I watched the BAFTAs. Yes, I watched that, Frank. You know when you watch something you think, who knew? What's that? Martin Lewis. He got lifetime achievement, didn't he? Exactly. The money guy. The money guy got it. I think look, can we give him his correct title? Money saving expert. Okay . But didn't he he recently went he was like I got I can't help anyone anymore. He was like everything's so can you swear on here? Yes. He was like everything so fucked. He's like I can't there's nothing I can do now. Even money saving experts. He said that. Well he 's all in trouble. So hang on, but I just got I couldn't I I mean God bless him. I thought he was the sort of bloke who said, you know you could get that cheaper on Timu . I thought that was his role. Well I know and he says get dope on. Don't buy wool from the wool shop, but get a jumper from Oxfam and on Ruby. It's nineteenth century. No, but what what he's doing is Richard Osman presented. He was in tears. He was close to tears. Richard Osman was crying giving the award. Yeah. It's a money saving expert. Hang on a minute. Has he got a TV show? Who? Matt Martin Lewis. He must have. Yes, he has one for ITV called Money Saving Expert, I think. Money Saving Expert. Oh, it's let me down No, but Frank, what he advises people a lot, because he's got the website. I'm not dissing him, but Lifetime Achievement BAFTA. Yeah. It's not Dame Judy, is it? No. That's the level we're used to, you see. Yeah, well I remember didn't Richard Attenborough got one, didn't he? Exactly. Richard. Well Dickie Attenborough, come on. Yeah, I was that I didn't because I watched the David Attenborough thing. Yes, so did I. And then I was like, I can't do two things. Is it in the Albert Hall as well, the BAFTAs? Yeah, which we've now established cost three million pounds for that box he was sitting in. We established that on the other population. Also I've all th a problem I always have with the BAFTAs and is the news award s. Oh yeah. You know what? It's when they play Channel Four news theme . When Krishna Garumurti and all the others are going up to get the award and they have to keep playing with news. winner is the Israeli ran war and they're going yes and hugging each other what we are the ch You think oh no this is just wrong isn't it there was one terrible one about abuse. There was something about abuse and they're putting this. Like, you know, it's um Well one documentary, did you see this? It's a mandal it's not a mandaland . It's a proper fucking war. I mean and the winner is abusing care homes. Woo! Oh no, I that really. I agree with you. They should get rid of that. And also I've got to tell you, I'm worried about Celia Imory. Why? She looked great. I love Celia Imry. She's fat I saw her gone around at the old Vic. Well, haven't we all dear? Yeah. Um She's brilliant. But because she broke wind. That's become all she is. That's all they talked about. And she's gonna end up like Ed Millerband and the bacon sandwich. Hang on a minute. Wait, who's Celia ? So Celia Henry is an incredibly incredibl y respected distinguished actress in the first word I draw the line at. Yeah. And then what happened she brought wind on the celebrity trait traitors? And it became a sort of meme. It was a big cultural moment. You can't . But it became funny. Yeah. But the problem is when she was previously going to these awards ceremonies, she was going and people were saying, Oh my God, whereas now I think someone could be sitting at the RSC and saying who's gonna play Gertrude in Hamlet and someone will say we can't really have Celia because people won't take her seriously. She's just a TikTok person. That can't be right. Seventy-three year old person could break when In this day and age you could make that a thing and be quite successful with it. Do you think as well? Oh she's she she's promised she'll fight in the second act. Oh no. Yeah, not at the national deal. Please. And you know what? Seth Rogan, who we love Seth, but it was a bit awkward. Seth Rogan was in he did a show called The Studio. I think we've all got a film or a TV show where we think no one else has seen this. Why doesn't everyone know that this was brilliant? I've got one. And he was in the Green Hornet film, which I've absol utely loved. It just seemed to pass. I'm just put Oh it sounds comic book, which puts me off a bit. Well it was one of the worst it's one of the worst reviewed and most hated comic book uh uh superhero movies in the topic. Okay and it's him and who's his Robin? No uh Cato. Cato no Catoato. K is. Isn't Kato Pink Panther? Probably, but probably named after the Green Hornet. Because Bruce Lee was in the the last T V uh adaptation. And then the casting people were like, who have we got currently on our books that's similar to Bruce Lee? Yeah. Seth Rogan. No, as Seth Rogan was the Green Hornet. Oh Bruce Lee was Kato. It's very complicated. What is your what is your. What's your film or television programme that no one else seems to appreciate everyone? It's called The Comeback and it's with Lisa Cudra. Is it a film or a TV? It's a TV show. People are discovering it and I feel irritated. Because it's now come back , literally, and I just feel oh go away. Where were you 15 years ago? That's our first. I hate it when it gets popular, Frank. Don't you feel resentful? Well, there's some that are so brilliant, I want to tell the. world Well, do you? What about you? Well, I felt when Jennifer Coolidge got big in White Lotus, that's how I felt. I was like, I've been how can you you can't start liking her now. Where were you for best in show, etc.? Uh yeah. Yeah, well, she's best in show. All the Christopher Gu est films. She's incredible in all of them. Anyway, my one is the best sitcom of all time. You name a sitcom, it's better than that. Terry and Jimmy. It's the m I it's the most perfe ct, properly funny, great plotted, fantastic characterization. It's called Superstore. Do you know it? Never seen it. It's an American sitcom. I'm not kidding you. It is absol ute TV. Oh, we'll get involved. And the most consistent, funny, every episode, funny, funny, funny. It's fantastic. Okay, I do trust you on these. And there's about a hundred apps on Netflix. What's it called? Superstore. Superstore. It's about a supermarket. I don't know anything about it. And is it live audience? No. You know what ? I laugh that much at it. I don't know if there's a laugh track or not. I'm going straight in. I love the sound of it. So much I laugh at it. I love the I genuinely care about the characters. It's absolutely brilliant. And it's uh how if it's on Netflix it's it's I don't know how old it is. It might be a bit more modern than that. It's it's um it's six series. There's about a hundred eps on Netflix and then it's not,. But wow I don't know how it I don't know why it isn't talked about like people talk about Seinfeld and stuff like that. Did you watch the Larry Sanders show when it was on? Uh yeah. That was one that I I'm I'm always amazed that that doesn't come up more. Because to me it's like you wouldn't get the office or Kirby because you have to be famous as a thing. Where a superstore I I never meet anyone who's heard of it. Yeah. Anyway. Can we say but Seth Rogan, which is how we got onto this, he made a comment saying I don't know who that woman in the green was. Right, I vomited at that point. Because he doesn't know that she's well known. Well it is fair enough, but she looked a bit mortified when he said that, because it cut to her face and she sort of grimaced as if to say hand back 'cause he went, I don't know who the woman in the green is, but all I know her as is the woman who farted on real she's a reality store. He said I must check out her other work. Yeah. He said and he was nice, he d he was very charming Seth Seth Rogan. He said, I'm sure she's remarkably talented, but you know, and respected, but I just know her as the woman that farted on a reality show and you cut to Celia and she looked horrified for the reasons that you're s mentioning, Frank? Well I worry for her. I think uh She's one of our greatest Shakespearean actors. I think I I met her and uh I did the uh Gloucester History Festival this year and she was there and she was really charming and funny and lovely. But I'd hate to see her go the Ed Miller band bacon sandwich route. I think we need to des tigmatise just fighting. I don't like it. Can you not start now though? No, we don't we're a bit funny about you. I've got I I've I need to all the time I don't like you, please. I don't like I'll talk about I'm quite sque I'm squeamish about it. Well I'll be squeamish about it. I don't know, I really struggle with it. I do with fart with talking about farting. Just the whole concept of it. I don't know. Of farting. Everything I don't even like the word. I don't even like the word. No I don't like it. Can we change the subject? All right. It's making me very Why do we find it uncomfortable? I'll take something completely different. All right, Monty Bye. Son as is on a duolingo streak, which is now coming up to a year and a half. Wow. Is that with Finnish? Finish he's learning. I love that he's learning Finnish. And I'm guessing they run out of ideas because I was looking over his shoulder when he did his duolingo the other day, and I wrote this down. The quit the thing they were translating is the Finnish for is that water or sweat . That's how far you get if you have a street that long . When you gonna use that in your finish holiday? Um You might use it if you're in some torture dungeon. Well, the reason he's into he's doing finishes 'cause there's a big death metal movement there. So he's he into his is very much into the book. We went to see Burning Ambition this week, which is the new um Iron Maiden document. Oh, what was it like, Frank? Well it wasn't a packed cinema. No, it's a shame. So it was there's only one screening, but yeah. But the people who were there were all Is that the man from Birmingham ? Iron Maiden. No. Oh. Who's the man from Judas Priest I'm thinking of? No, no, it's not it's uh Bruce Dickinson who uh No the other man from Birmingham who who Rob Holford? Yes, that's what I'm thinking of. Now Bruce Dickinson is uh there was he doesn't do it anymore, but he used to fly them around. He's a he's a qualified pilot. So he would fly the private jet. So he'd get he'd be in his uniform and everything, you know, like pilots wear. Get off and then he'd that night he'd be on stage rocking it. Are they rich Iron Maiden? Oh god, yeah. Are they? They're big enough. Quite rightly so. They're big everywhere. Okay. It was called Eddie Force One, the plane. Yes. Because that was their logo, is the guy called Eddie. And then they changed the flight name on the s you know you see your flight number. Six six six course . Oh course. So good. Who's who's bigger? Uh Metallica or Iron Maiden? Uh Metallica Metallica, but Iron Maiden I think are better. Okay, fine. Yeah. And they're having a big thing 'cause of the the bone temple, aren't they? They're having a bit of a they're they've they've been introduced to a a lot of people who didn't know. Well they're doing their birth day. Oh are they? Okay. Yeah. Big. Anyway, we've uh we've uh we've deviated. We've uh is what we've done. And I ate it when that happened. I thought to uh was human to forgive divine, Frank. Um to uh Yeah, to uh. Yeah. I my worst thing as I think I've said to you before, is when serious journalists say you know . And they say, yeah, so um Keir Stom uh uh you know, yeah, and I think no, no, if if you can't say it without saying you know, you shouldn't be a professional. How you with it? Like, who are you? Oh, it drives me nuts. I was like, and then she was like, and then and it was. I have a friend who's developed it and it's such a thing that I mentioned it out of kindness. It came from a place of Is it Jamie Carragher ? Like I just said, you are saying like a lot. And she said, Oh am I? Oh isn't that funny? I must have picked it up from the kids. I said, Yeah, yeah, you you said an awful lot. And I was like use it like that. Like like all the time, like when she's telling a story like so like I mean it's every three words. Cause it's easier when you're recounting what someone said to say You wouldn't do that from the likes of money saving extra. I don't mind, you know when they say and I was like, I think, oh great, this is uh this is a space for mine . Which I like I do enjoy in the conversation, but then they go and I was like and then they don't do the they don't show me what they were like . That's not true. So fine. Just to get Well they're gonna do that after, gonna do it in post the mimes . What kind of a fucking conversation is that? Yeah, and I it came in and there was the landlord and I was like Yes behind a glass wall. I mean what it's sort of half similes, terrible fractured similes with no payoff. This episode is sponsored by BT . You know when you watch a big show or a concert and all the attention is on the people on stage, which is great, but none of it would work without the people behind the scenes. The lighting, the sound, the cables, and the person quietly making sure the whole thing doesn't suddenly well, stop . Modern Britain works a bit like that. There are millions of things we rely on every day that we probably take for granted: businesses, running, services, operating, people staying connected, and behind a lot of it is BT . Their network underpinned some of the UK's most vital operations, connecting major institutions, small businesses and millions of homes. They're also working constantly in the background, protecting our homes and businesses from cyber threats. About million of them every single day. It's also why more homes and businesses trust BT than any other network. For 180 years they've built a legacy of engineering excellence. As a national champion of modern technology, they do more than just provide a network. They deliver the connectivity, security, and expertise that power modern British life. BT Behind Brilliant Things. Search YBT to find out more . Frank, just to go back briefly, just to summarise with the BAFTAs then, do you think also it's quite difficult I feel sometimes for the people giving the awards out. 'Cause there's sort of pressure to do a bit and not just go up and say the nominees are, but then it's difficult doing a scripted bit . You know with those award thing when you have to give out the award? Well I my worst thing is when they're giving out the award s is when it's at the Oscars and they refer to the moving picture industry . The moving picture how old are you fucking people? The moving picture. Is it Harold Lloyd? But it is a it's not a moving picture, is it? That's the most simple primal description. And now all these people who are brilliant actors can No. They can't, can they? Anyway, do you know what? Congratul ations to Money Saving Expert Yes and Hartley. Great that Money Saving Expert got lifetime achievement and one of our very finest actresses has been reduced to a terrible windbreakage so that my friends is show business. Did you see the did you watch the David Attenborough birthday? Oh god no. Really? No No, do you know what? Please don't. I'm not a fan. It's an awkward thing we have 'cause I'm obsessed with David Attenborough to a slightly unhealthy degree. And Frank doesn't like him because he thinks he starts fights with the animals. I don't think I don't start fights, but if I No, you do. You said before it's cruel what he does because he doesn't intervene. If I saw a bird in a garden and a cat was creeping up on it, my first thought would be, what up? Yeah. It wouldn't, where's my fucking phone? Where's my phone? I gotta get this on my phone. That's vi that's terrible. He thinks he's psychopath because he'll he'll allow these murders to Not just allow but film them and make money and snuff it's that's he thinks it's like snuff movies what's going on that we're watching because we're watching animals being killed, murdered. There was one . It was a whale and a whale mum. Not the seal. A whale mum and a child. When you say child, Frank, you're making it sounds supposed to be a little bit tiny baby whale, and followed by these orcas , yeah, and they kill the baby, but they don't even eat it, they have like two bites leave it floating dead with the mother there, and him saying, Oh, and the mother and you think what you could have fucking stopped this. So you think that David Attenborough diving into the sea in between an ything have a flare gun in the helicopter. Why is it nineteen twenty? Titanic. So you're saying he should shoot one of the whales now. So you know it's I mean read exactly the clue is in the title. Can you imagine if they're called killer whale? Hi, what sort of whale are you? I'm the killer. If you can kill a killer whale, then you're a have-a-go hero. Yeah. But he's not there in the he's in a room somewhere. Okay, well, he's not there, but he can tell the thing. He's the boss. Let's face it. He's not they're not on the phone going, okay, we think this antelope's gonna get this. No, but it's his name on the door in the same way that if I kill someone, it reflects badly on Frank. Because I work on the Frank Skinner show. Oh yeah, that's true. But um if if we one they come back with this footage of the penguins the whale being eaten by these you're gonna say what the fuck you just let the happen? Hold on, you actually let that happen and filmed it. And then you bring it to me thinking I'm gonna get out. Get out, right out ! Right now, right out and then but you get a new crew and you s you mate for next week you say can I just make it clear if you see an animal in danger, I just and a assume that your m inner morality that you will protect Well where to but humans you we'd do it, wouldn't they? Would he would he film humanly? Look at this bloke going down Stretomiro . He hasn't seen these five hooded youths round the corner. If he did that, it'd be an absolute outrage. That's for a mobile phone. No, but what he's saying there is animals doing it. He wouldn't be able to do a human. But he animals yeah, it doesn't matter. That's what he's saying. But that's the Life is cheap in the animal kingdom to Attenborough. Well it's all this stuff about Attenborough and So resentful. All his environmentalism. Yeah. He's that hundred years he's been alive has been the worst fucking time for the environment that the planet has ever known. That's why he's trying to help. That can't be a coincidence. Frank, that's why he's campaigning for the environment. Well, you know If I'm gonna interview uh people who are responsible for the last hundred years of the environment, he's gonna be up there. What do you think his carbon footprint is? No, because he's not gonna be a little bit He does now. But he was he was they were using fucking diesel when he was flying round the world. Smoking. He was part of the problem. No, I'm a big fan. Everybody's a big fan. No, but I really am a smoke. He's much loved . Did you think the bit when they were on stage at the birthday party? Well you didn't . And they went, they went, we just want to clarify there are no animals here. No . Did you not think I didn't need to know that information? I wasn't expecting that it'd be a panda. Oh wish someone had shouted. I I had the chicken. That counts. He doesn't well it's a yeah, and he just said you see him talking to his wife. Uh no, it's not his wife's daughter, who's lovely who, accompanies him, but but he says to his water should I to his daughter, Should I stand up now? It was a bit much. Yeah. And then he says, Should I sit down? He got about twelve standing ovations. Yeah. I'd say he's much loved. I mean, you know, I'm very much the voice in the wilderness, yeah. But it's in the wilderness where most of these crimes take place . I'm the I'm the man a man on the ground there . But you know, people people like cruelty, fair enough. . I'm sorry you can't leave it there. You can't say people like cruelty. Well you know, you pays your money, uh takes your choice. What you been up to, uh Josh. How do you feel about Steve Irwin? Um he's no longer with us. No, we he was more interventionist, wasn't he it? He'd get in between the animals. Well there you go, that's what I want. Well then he got killed by a sheer. Steve Backshaw well that's what happens you see if you're not self interested. You will get killed by the steamer. No, yeah he you know, he was a harpoon away from being a hero. No, yeah, that's tru e. Sorry, Frank, you were saying. I'm I haven't been up to anything. I just want to keep talking about David S. No, no, I want to know about your life, John. Uh what's going on? Nothing uh I um my my girlfriend's trying to get me to go on holiday. Does that is that does that count as a thing? Are you anti holiday? I just such a th Do you like travelling? No. Do you like travelling? Of course I don't. Yeah, within reason. I find the packing too stressful. My girlfriend packing is it she packs four hours before we go to the airport and the whole house becomes her clothes. Yes. Laid out everywhere. And it's the most stressful I went out with a woman who um took several carrier bags each one. If if we went for like four days, there'd be four carrier bags and the outfit for that day, the whole thing would be in that carrier back. That's smart either. She sh it's pre packing . She's packing. That's fashion packing. That's what they recommend you to do in fashion is that you lay out your outfit. But you've got to be somewhere where the weather is consistent. The whole touch bags. You have everything. You have to do it by outfits. I uh I bought a suitcase recently and it was uh in the shop the guy was like this is the biggest suitcase it's 123 litres what you're gonna fit it with fluid yeah imagine gallons of boats I'd love to take like a gallon of clarus on a pline in a massive suitcase. And we're gonna have to sorry we're gonna have to have a look at this suitcase. And I'd wanna fill it up. I'd wanna fill it through an hole so it filled to the top of the lid, not just like the lower level. So you couldn't really open it. You'd have to use a big straw really . Oh man. I um I took uh uh I don't do any more, but I I um I took a weed gummy in an airport. Oh yeah. Can I get in trouble? I can't get in trouble for saying that, can I? I don't know if they've any legal you do you love. Okay? You young people and your gummies. I don't want to get it. It was it was the worst experience of my life. I had half and nothing happened. And I had the other half. Right, you're not on 24 hours in police custody, it's my Yeah, I had the other half, and then the first half kicked in, and it was it was everything slowed down, and I called my friend and and she went, she was like, Hey, I forgot to tell you that weed gummy I gave you, it's not thirty milligrams, it's ninety. So whatever you do, don't take more than half. And we were in an airport going on holiday. Oh wow. And we got on the plane to Sardinia, unbeknownst to both of us, there was a drum and bass festival starting in Sardinia the day after we got there. So the whole plane was filled with these kids with the speakers. Alright. And it was the being that stoned. Yeah. In that and I've my girlfriend was like just go to sleep, just go to sleep. So I was trying to sleep on before we took off. And uh I was so every time she her knee touched mine I thought that our cat was on the plane with us. Yeah, I went to a Joe Jackson gig on mushro oms and I thought there was someone constantly looking over my shoulder. I kept looking around to see who it was and there was nobody there. And then I would have a laughing fit. I had spectacles on and my spectacles seemed to be filling up with tears like uh like you were looking into a a tank being filled. So very the thing is I don't know it is with the gummy things but with um with mushrooms it you can't you can't get out of it. You get up the next morning still I got on the bus and the bus seemed to be doing like a hundred and forty mile. know You that hand thing on the back of the uh chairs? I was holding that white knuckle. It's like you're on a roller coaster. Oh no, I don't do that anymore. Don't do drugs. No. No. Have you done uh um You're just gonna list drugs. Micro micro-dosing. I don't understand that. Just a little bit. You take a little bit of mushrooms and it makes you hyper focused. There's there's a movie about it where they go they they microdose and then they invent like Amazon or something. Yeah. It's a good uh promotion. No, no, it's about actually do a read for drive. I can tell you plenty of bad stuff, kids, if you wanna know. Alright. I don't I don't think I think we've certainly lost the kids. Yeah let's see it from the outside world. Um well I feel Carolyn of Worthing Oh yeah. Has slightly She shouldn't have married Richard II . That was her problem. Was she good friends of with uh Eleanor of Aquilda? Very likely. Um she's slightly made giving me pause. Is it true by the way about about the Enfant de Castile ? Oh, what is this? 3am gossip. There's there's uh there's a house on the Thames, which might be the house that Christopher Wren lived in later when he watched St. Paul's being built. I know the very house you mean. And a king, I can't remember which one, but he was he was gonna marry the rumour went round he was gonna marry the Enfant de Castile, and she was put in this house. And the locals couldn't say the Enfant de Cast So they called that the elephant and castle and that's how it got its own way. Well I don't that is the b if that if true that is the that's extraordinary . I need to believe that to be true because I absolutely love that. This uh Bethnel Green was Bethn Hall Green and it was the same thing. All the East Enders shortened it to Bethnel Green. But it was I think it was Bethn Hall. Christopher Wren And Bedleam, of course, was Bethlehem. Was Bethlehem. Oh, was it? Mm. Yeah. When they built St. Paul's, Christopher Wren was like, I need room and go. Christopher Wren literally lived across the river just so he could keep an eye on it. Yeah, I mean he went across as well, but it just meant they always knew that the boss He was always watching. That seems like a cheeky way to get a rent free apartment. It was a sort I think it was the prototype for C CCTV. Yeah. He's a bit of a nosy neighbour, Christopher Wren. Keep your bit mind your own beeswax, Wren. Let the workers get on with it. He sounds like a control freak. Well he would be. Don't you think? He would be. Yeah I know, but you can't just say, well, you know I mean y you've got to let people get on with it, Frank. I've that's really put me off it. No, no, you'd be you'd be doing a little bit of macery, look across and there be hold rain at the window. All right Alright. The net's going. We know you're there. Oh, Christopher's looking at us again. Exactly. Um with them holding up a blueprint like in the window. Mm. Or like tapping his watch. Yeah, exactly. When it gets to he sees them doing a tea break, uh or a mead break, I don't know. No, what did they drink back then, Frank? Was that when was it built? It was built. No, they all drank beer then, because water was so dangerous to drink. They all drank kids drank beer and everything. Yeah, that's how that's what 'cause the monks didn't get sick, right, when there was a a plague. And it was 'cause they were drinking it's 'cause they were drinking mead, yeah. Oh okay. Not water. Um Carolyn of Worthing. Yes, I remember. Where we where we began . Uh dear Frank, Emily and FP. What does FP mean ? Fine f fine something person. Yeah. I'll leave you to work that out, Josh. Oh all right. Unnecessarily aggressive. Um off the back of devastating news for Frank, the bitter end of Ars Jeeves, because Frank was a big Arse Jeeves fan and I revealed to him recently that Ars Jeeves was no longer operational as a result of AI. I offer some potentially devastating news for Emily. I don't know if Emily is aware of the negative AI impact on the environment, because I'm a big chat GPT fan. Uh particularly the consumption of water for all of the servers powering it. This is establishing itself as a major environmental issue and we may have to curb our AR use. I'm sorry to say combo of of that an Atomborough could finally turn this planet into a fireball . Oh listen . Sorry to say Emily may have to choose between her AI bow and David Attenborough. That's Carolyn of Worthing. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it as Simon of Sudbury, does it? But AI uses water. Yeah. It's the servers. You're you're young, you understand this. It's I mean I don't I don't know but I think it's a mil it's not it's cooling the servers, I think. Oh I see. But the consumption is is that right? You're not at your okay. I think you're right. A tech bro. Because we all want to know what the budget of Home Alone 2 was. Well that's not what I ask it. I say, why is my friend being so mean to me? No, you uh do you really? Yeah, I can find you. Do you use chat GPT or um Clod? Chat GPT. Clod. What is Instagram? It's like a better chat GPT, but you have to pay like a pound or each other. No, you don't that's crazy. Be careful what you're saying about chat GPT to Emily. Oh God, it's my best friend. How is it b any different to Google at the moment though? I mean it can't paint you a picture. Oh it can. No yeah chat GPT can but Google can't. No, Google's not specific enough. I like my relationship with ChatGPT and it's between me and Chat GPT. I've never got a solid answer off of Chat GPT. You're asking the wrong things, I do. I uh why uh can I just check though? Frank, why what do you think of this AI thing? Are you are you concerned now about 'cause Frank? No, I'm I love AI it's brilliant. Yeah, but in the lights of what Carolyn of Worthing has told us. Water, we've got plenty of that, haven't we? Frank, please don't be so blah that's ridiculous. It's absolute I c I got up this morning, it was bloody hail storm outside. I know, but Frank, you can't be so naive about it. What? It was hailing out sailing outside my place or outside. Six months, chat GPT, that storm it absolutely chopped it down Anyway, that's that is a concern to me, and I am gonna reflect on that. I'm not. You can't I I I saw um Garrett Millerick in Edinburgh. Yeah. And he was made a very good point that you can't worry about everything. You've got to have certain causes things that you feel strongly about. You know, like he was very he gave part of the show money to the homeless in Edinburgh, but he said he didn't really give a shit about the environment, which got a few ooze and oohs. But really, you can't care about everything. You've got to pick your favourites, I think. I didn't know it was Eurovision. Well, I'll tell you what, Frank. I do think that the the the uh elders, the village elders like myself and Frank, we should get a special dispensation for chat GPT and AI because we've got less time left. Well Yeah. Yeah, but I th I privilege elders get privileges. But so do you think younger people can use it more concisely and waste less water? How dare you? And also I mean I 'm not saying that I think that's what I think. I c I could get up and top up my um AI a couple of times in the night . That's what you're calling. Why don't we run it on urine ? Oh frank. How's that worse than talking about ts. Uh because there's something beautiful about urine. But there's nothing beautiful about farts. No, it's horrible. It's disgusting. That's wild. Absolutely disgusting. I I don't know why, but I feel the same. And I don't know why. Do you think urine is less gross than slipping one out? I I'll go further. I think urine is great . All right . I like the all right at the end. Well we could we could support I support your local AI with URI. It's not the worst idea I've ever heard. But then you can support um you can use cash it to uh pi power cars. Did they f have they found a way to that was the other the fifth And they found a way to use urine in a positive way. Actress was she called Sarah Sarah Miles. Sarah Miles used to drink it every day. That is worse than farting. Stop saying that word. But what's the right way to say ? Pop the F word. Yeah. Just I just don't even want to think about it existing. Would you rather wet yourself off or fart loudly and everyone hears it? I'd rather wet myself. So would I. So would I, a hundred percent. You guys know you're both. I'd actually rather poo poo myself. I'd rather poo myself. Done it twice during this podcast . Frank, I would rather foo myself. I have pissed and shit myself and had a fan some period And no one's done the wise that before the farty You can imagine one really loud one and you just see Christopher Ray knocking the window Sir ? Alright, accident I hate him. He can't hear you. He can hear you. Bloody Christy. He literally It's the Frank Skinner podc ast A new inter change is blowin' It's the Frank Skinner Podcast I'm not totally sure how it's going Thanks for listening to the podcast. Make sure to like and follow so you never miss an episode. And if you want to get in touch, you can email the podcast via FrankoffTheRadio at avalonuk .com Make this May half term legendary at Westfield Stratford City. Enjoy buy one get one free urban street golf at Gravity Max or try your hand at the Voice Karaoke. Level up with family packages at All-Star

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