Football Triumphs and Producer Farewells

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Oh yes, you love a foil's So I went in and uh today 'cause I pass it on my way to um we're at um Soho Radio again today. In London's glittering so hurt. Yes, uh London large conurbation in South East England for those of you who are not familiar with the and I went in and I bought a book and um I got the receipt and I got out my freedom pass wallet to put the receipt. That's where I keep my receipts. I don't know. And I realized I said to the blowcou serving me, I've actually become that old bloke who causes a cue because he has to put all the receipts and everything in his little wallet before that's who I am now. And I suppose I thought of it in a obviously when you look at me you know I'm not that, but I'm being self deprecating to show a certain human warmth. Actually I'm very very arnie and alert and smart and I walked off and he said, You forgot your book. Oh my but it what what softened it? He said you forgot your book, Frank. And I thought you know I almost still recognize if that had been the offer, I would have told you. Let's get you to the door. There you go. Take care. I find so often for you the cloak of celebrity can come in very useful. Oh yeah, yeah, it's it is like the cloak of invisibility. Did you what did you buy a nice book? Was it one of your little comics? No. Um it was it was a He likes action Williams Burroughs Reader. Oh you gone posh. And I've got a few of his novels, but this is one is like a bit a lot a little lots of little bits in one volume. So great for public transport. Do you know why I like that book? It looks like the sort of book my dad would have read on holiday and we used to say, Why can't you read normal dad books with a sword on the front or a silhouette of St. Petersburg. Well it's hard to read them. I think dads are a bit wary of reading those really big fantasy novels because they remind them of marriage . Something with you know, y where you keep forgetting the names and it's very, very long. Yeah. Do you read f are you a quick reader? No, I'm not actually. I'm I'm very I'm uh that's so adorable. That's like the first question you asked someone at primary school. Hello, my name's Stevie, you're a quick reader. I disped I'm a p I'm a real plodding reader and I wish I could read I uh there's so many books I've just accepted I'm never gonna get through it. I'm told you can learn, you can speed it Speed reading course. David Badil, who I lived with. Not like that. I showed I I thought didn't even cross my mind . I I show I there was a big article about me in The Guardian and interview and this was when I was red hot and I said, This is pretty good this article And he had a look at it, he went, Yeah it's good and I thought I said I th I thought you might actually fucking read it. He said I did read it. I said what in five seconds? He said ask me some questions. And he had read it. It was like phenomenal. He's really fast. Well he's ever so bright, your friend David. He is, he's the second brightest person I know . Oh . Anyway, so um No, we didn't do it, Stephen. I'm proud of us. No. Well well that cause. Anyone who knows me would have guessed who it was. It's gotta be the Archbishop of Canterbury. No, I'm sorry. I'm gonna put the ABFC up there, Frank. Oh no the new one or the old one. Well I don't know. That's up to Frank. He I don't know. I what does he pass the friendship on, like a b at on? When there's a new Archbishop of Canterbury . Do you have to say to the old one, I'm so sorry, it's been lovely knowing you. No, no, I just pretend it's the same person. I th I that's it. regeneration. Yeah, I think they had to swat up on previous conversations and stuff when they take over. I don't know. Nobody tells me anything, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah . What else? Well, I'll tell you what else. Oh, tell you some I'll tell you some when I arrived today. Yeah, go on. I arrived with um Sarah, our departing producer who's storming out to have a baby . And Sandy, our new producer, who arrived this morning. She's not actually called Sandy. But you've told you've christened her Sandy. Well it's because her first name's Emily. It's too confusing if there's two of you. Look, I can call her Emily, but you'll have to leave. Anyway, so um Steve Hall came in. Yeah. Steve's never late, let's make that clear. It's very reliable. So um that's because the elderly get up about five eight So Sarah says um oh I like your t shirt and he says I said I said uh but uh because I've got quite a natur ally miserable face, I often feel like no one jumped in at that point. Does Oh no this is this is an accepted truth, aren't you? Yeah, nobody nobody said no nobody said that. Absolute silence. I I always feel I have to wear a few pieces of flair, as it were, to sort of balance out for the natural stoniness of my own visage. Yeah. Are you so are you talking about a pop of colour? Yeah, a little pop of colour, yeah. Okay. So I always go I like I like I've got pink soc ks on in a similar way. Oh in a sort of eccentric landowner. Well that's the thing, it's a the balance is it's tra it's basically what I'm going for is not as miserable as I appear. Okay, that's a good idea. But it can tip over into wacky. Yes. That's the delicate balance. Yes, that's true. Yeah, Joe Swas h has to wear a medieval cast in fact to take the shine. Just otherwise he'd be too dazzling. Anyway. Frank, I need to share this with you. Does can you get stickers with Joe Swash on? What do you mean? Because you'd have to go into a shop and say have you got any swash stickers . I'm just thinking it could be disinterpreted. Who goes into shops and asks for swatch stickers in this day and age? Well let's not even go. Who doesn't ask for swash stickers? I bet there are swash stickers and I bet it's never occurred to him. That's my two bets for today. I only have two bets a day. I hope he doesn't. Since you know, since things went wrong with the betting. I hope he doesn't write an autobiography with that in the title somewhere. Well he but some one might write one on his bee half. Oh no, that'd be awful, Frank. I tell you what's not awful. Oh god, this could be a long list. That you Although I think Emily's a being shorter than most people . 100% . You have pushed the sitcom superstore right up to the top of the algorithm algorithm on Netflix. I think you are responsible for this. We since you rec ommended Superstore, you mentioned there's this great Superstore is in case you d didn't listen uh last was it last time? Yeah. I it is the greatest sitcom of all time. Worldwide. We have had so many people getting in touch this week. Chris from St. Albans, for example. I just want to express my complete agreement with Frank. There you go. You don't hear that often at home. For his shout-out about Superstore. Yeah. Such a brilliantly structured comedy. Fantastic. Sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle. I feel like um St Alban himself when he went into into the pal the pag an lands. Zero four seven got in touch. I've listened to your show since the dawn of time. Since your recommendation to watch Superstore, I dived in. I'm now totally hooked for it. Yes, well you will be. Anyway, they keep on coming. Darren Grimmer is obsessed with it now. Is he less grimmer than he is grim? Not as grim as Steve. No. Um we've also had Paul from Windy Ridge Farm. Oh, lovely . Yeah. And that is very nice. Isn't what's the name of that book? It's Rebecca of Sunny Farm. It's a weird from her. Yeah, Anne of Green Gables styles. And uh he it sounds a bit children's BBC, Wendy Rich mond. Uh but Paul says, I'm so happy that you mentioned Superstore, although during your build up to announce the greatest sitcom of all time, I was shouting Shane, Shane, Shane. Yes. Anyway, Frank, Steve really believes, don't you, that you've had an impact on the same thing. Well it's gone it's I'm s I've seen lots of people on social media raving about your comments. Wow. It's like the local councillor letter. Me as noise your farage . Well I'd I'd I'd watch bits of it, I rewatched the first episode. I've never seen it before. Steve can't possibly allow me to recommend comedy he didn't know. Well the the the reason that it it it it stuck in my mind is because the bloke who creates it the next thing he does after uh after that is called American Auto and it's got Humphrey Carr of uh Wrexham and excellent comedian fame. I don't I don't know. Is he related to Jimmy Carr? No, he's K-E-D. K-E-R, yeah, yeah. And he also works on S N L, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. But so basically Well it was an interesting story, but now it's been turned into paperwork. Oh for God 's sake, Frank. Can I just say what Paul from Windy Ridge Farm has added at the end? I'm also pig pig pig . He said, I'm also with you on David Attenborough. He's made a living from despicable I'm I'm afraid I I don't know if I can even say what he says about the films, but it's a certain type of awful film where people get pleasure from watching people's demise. Are you familiar with this kind of film? I don't want to say the word. I don't like it. Snoff movie. Yes. Yeah. Um I don't think we can say that of D.A. No. When he could Look, I I acknowledge that stay that he's much, much loved. I just don't like watchinging animals be ripped to pieces. I'm different like that. Attenborough was when when Attenborough was head of BBC two he was responsible for a lot of the junking of old TV shows. Was he? So so there's. okay The only one I ever um He was my dad's boss, thank you. Oh of course he was, yes . But there was it was it was the bloke who was the head of IT V, Greg Oh yes, Greg Dyke. Greg Dyke, he took the wrestling off. That that's something in our in our house. In our house, that was a big deal. The wrestling going off. Was it like was it on a Saturday the wrestling? Saturday afternoon and Wednesday night. Because um Kent Walton at the end of Wednesday night would say happy Thursday Frida Was that the thing that Big Daddy was on? Big Daddy was later stages. I'm talking about Mick Mick McManus, Jackie Pala. They all look like Big fat drunken blugs who you saw fighting outside the pub on a Friday night. And in fact now they look like heavy metal um workout fanatics. Oh yeah . It's all changed. Anyway, well done, Frank, on the superstore front. It's I'm really proud of you for being so culturally relevant. What I like about it is well it's it's a it's I mean it's it finished a few years ago. Oh that's a shame. But I if I see something really funny like that, I just want I want to share. I want more people to be laughing at There are some comedians who would think I must this is really funny, I must keep this quiet. Yeah. Like Steve's wife was a big fan of it, but he never made a fan of it. That's all I'm saying. That is all I'm saying. But this is the power like whenever you would play bands that know like like unsigned bands on the radio show, that w there would always be people who would listen to those bands because of that. But like I say, I um I didn't know they were on site. I they just arrived and I played them if I liked them. That's the way to do it. My son, God bless him, started a little like a Facebook or something with a list of all the the songs I played each week and then three weeks later I was sacked . Timing everything in this business. I've spoken to him . But that's great news because um I I like the idea of bringing happiness into people's lives. Oh do you? Okay. I do nowadays. I know you do. Um we've also Yes, darling. Um and this is again from Paul from Windy Ridge Farm. I know, but he's got a lot he's got a lot he wants to ask us. Email. Number one. Um he's also I I remember trying I tried Alexander Technique once. You ever tried that? Oh yes, my mother was a big fan. Of course she was actress from the 70s and 80s. Looking back on it's a Sherade. But I'm not Frank, you can't say that about things. I used to go and my teacher um phoned me up and said, I remember she began though, she left a voicemail which began three things. So you know exactly what's coming there. Three things. Anyway, Paul has a contact lens on the back of the bowl that's been there for eleven days. Oh and he's still and he has a question what are your rates for visiting Frank ? Do you want to explain to Steve in case he wasn't there for this? Well, and yes, so when I discard my I don't do it anymore. Um I don't do it anymore because someone uh someone uh emailed in and said it's bad for the environment.hat's that ? Anyway, um but what I used to do I would cast my discarded um disposable contact lenses into the toilet bowl and often they don't hit the water at the bottom, they they stick on the side. And then they'll keep you going for I it's like having an Xbox in the background. Trying to piss those off the side of the thing is such the pleasure of it. In fact, I took one out this morning . Oh my god. I'll be honest. But it's great. I love it. What do you think so? And when they fold up, they look like a little You're talking about the contact lens at the same time. You know they fold over sometimes. They look a little translucent, past y. I don't want to get involved with what's going on in your toilet bowl. Yeah, I admire a man who's still got the courage to wee standing up. I'm I'm getting I'm of an age now where I'd I prefer a sit down we really it eliminates the fun of that game. No longer you're we so you need to sit down for them. I didn't know men sat down to wear that right. Just like a shire horse. Why do they sit down? Do you sit down? Just to eliminate eliminate the potential for uh for drippage. Do a lot of men sit down? I don't know, this is I mean I may well have I may well have declared that I'm a sell of one here. I was having such a nice time . But now Well no now that I know that there's a game to play, I'm gonna buy myself some contact lenses. It was all windy Ridge Farm and Superstore And and pissing contact lenses off of the colour. You don't have to start wearing contact. Just chop one of your um two pie collection in there. It'll take months to rem ove it from the side of the mall . 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 . 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It's called Tiptoe. Thirty first of May it starts. He remembers these things. Uh Tiptoe. And it was a screening of the first two episodes and then a Q A, wasn't it, Frank, with the cast? Yes. And when we got there, um that guess who was in our row. Yeah, guess. I'd like you to. Russell T. Davis.. No No, he was on the stage. Ah . Yes, come on. He's saying Jack Thorne? I'm trying to think who no. Someone a person who's really at the moment very high profile He's very current. I would say he's having a pretty good spring summer. There's a good season for him. Pete Hegsef. Nigel Farad. No, it wasn't Mike. No it was. It was the other one. If Nigel Farad went to a Russell T. Davis um preview, uh he would be ripped to pieces. I literally spat my coffee out like Ronnie Corbett. It'd be like releasing a parrot into the wild torn apart by starlings, jealous of its plumage. Yeah. With it going help help me Oh so um yeah um it was um Zach Polanski. Yes he was on the end of our row. He was I. didn't speak to him. No. I wanted you to need another fucking egg timer for the shower . I wanted you to stri I think he was quite excited to see Frank. He doesn't know. You always say that. They don't know anything about the real world politicians. No, he does know who when they talk about football. Yeah. They do know some things. I looked at a Dave player. Cameron uh I I remember said um he said his team was West Ham, I think is what he said. And he everyone said, Well I thought you were Aston Villa fan. And he said, Oh, I get I'll get the colours mixed up. What? It's like when Gordon Brown Gordon Brown said he liked Arctic monkeys. He got himself into terrible football. But then I did when I thought you thought it was a species When I met Ed Davy yesterday. Oh you met Ed Davey. We'll be discussing that at a later date. I asked I demanded to see his playlist. Oh Frank, come on. His playlist. I just said give well that's the best way now, because they can't hide then. I said just give me your phone. I want to see what music are you into? And then I said just give me your phone. I'll be there's an easy way to find out. I went through all of it. Adele, ABBA . All the A's. Yeah, I just most you didn't see his most recently played or Yeah, I think it was Abba. Uh bit of ABBA. It's the most lib damn play He did admit, he said, is it a bit radio two, my playlist? I said, Yeah, but that's not bad. There was Coldplay as well. And some Billy Joel. Wow, I mean that is the Liberal Democrat Party. And it makes a lot of people feel very safe. I felt safe. Yeah. Anyway, when we got there, I'd invited Frank as my guest. But when we went to the man to get the tickets, we looked at zap plans because it was green Day. He had a green jumper. Professor Green . It must be a nightmare being the head of the green party because it's not easy being green. I know but you might have got to think I'm desperately. That should be a slogan, right? I'm desperately thirsty, but I can't get a fucking bottle of water from the shop in case somebody sees me looking at the bottle . I have to drink out of puddles on the pipe. It is so and people must be really watching you. He can't do anything, Zach. People were getting his photos and all that you know, photos. Of course they were, Frank. People love a politician. Well he was I mean he was on safe ground, wasn't he? Yeah. British Film Institute screening of a Russell T. Davis. He's got that vibration . Uh uh are all right in people's books, and because the Daily Mail it seemed terrified of him. So a lot of people approve of him because he's he's making the right kind of people angry. Mm . Well when I went to get my tickets from the man and I said, Oh, I've got the tickets reserved, it's Emily Dean and and Fran Frankk Skinner said no I'm just the plus one and I thought and I just said no I intentionally mentioned your name because I thought we get better seats. And I said this to the man and the man said Yeah. He just s smiled. He didn't say don't be silly or anything. We handed over the seats. They were the best seats I've ever had. We were in Roger. Honestly think that was a coincidence. No. And then a man came up from channel f like a senior channel four blog and said I've always felt that Russell T. Davis has done his best work for channel four. I thought What about what are you talking about? Was Doctor Who on channel four? No . What about wait after the QA? And the first thing Russell T. Davis said, I thought no wonder Frank and him get on so well. He starts the Q<unk>A. He starts it by saying, Well no one laughed as much as I'd hoped. Oh quite. I said Frank, this is you. We should say, by the way. Guess he was there. Guess who was there, Steve. Frank, we need to tell Steve who was there. Who you think you spotted? Who was it? I've never seen you so excited in my life. He said, I think that's Dick Fiddy. Oh yeah, Dick Fiddy was there. Oh no it was Dick Fiddy. Anyway, sorry Frank, you were gonna say we should say we should say it was Did they throw it open to the audience for the questions? There was two audience questions because everything had overrun. I love I love a QA after a screening because you get some truly extreme examples of lunacy from the case. Oh no, we had it uh one about the intimacy coordinator. Yeah, that was one one question. That was a quite one question wasted. Oh right, that's so mean. Now I tell you though, I I don't enjoy the QA's. Don't you why not? Because there's all what you always get . Like I went to a James Bond Q and a QA thing. there And was um Daniel Craig and someone else from the film and all that. And then Barbara Broccoli. And nobody was asking Barbara. And that's what I get. There's always a producer or something that nobody asks or a minor character. And I'll say, We've got another question for Dan and I think, oh please, just ask her anything. Ask her if I recall. Ask her what time it is. I've got a question for Barbara. What do you know what time um coronation is going to happen? Anything just to please involve this person. I was hoping you'd ask a question because I wanted people to I would have asked a question. Because I know you would have asked a good question and I would have felt proud. It was one of those things where uh there was a question I really wanted to ask. I wanted to and I don't want to say what it was, but the opening is such a big decision. The opening of episode one is a major writing decision to start a series with. Luckily I saw David Morrissey and I got to ask him about it and uh I said, what did you think when you saw that, the beginning of the first script? He said I thought that'll be that'll be cut out. I like David Morrison. Oh I like it. Frank was gripping my arms. So 'cause you know, Frank we won't give it away, but there are bits which really are seats of your pants, aren't there, Frank? I I've got bruises. It's what happened to the seats of my pants . And it was very it was very tense. Yeah. I mean it my stomach was like a clench for it. It wasn't just your stomach, you were going, oh this moment you were openly there's a moment where where that phone where a phone goes off and I'm going no I mean literally that loud because I I get so in Oh it gets very involved. He gets so emotional. I get very, very tense. Um you know I've told you many times about if someone's breaking into a a a cupboard in an office and then you you realize the person who was leaving the office has forgotten something. They're coming back. My stomach, honestly. If it's this is his nightmare, if there's a film, he's in the dark office rummaging for things, and then you see a torch in the hallway. Oh, Frank. What use this is? You get like frosted glass in the door and you see the person appear. Oh my w my new one, which honestly gives me oh even talking about it makes me tense. People fucking driving in films and chatting to the person, passengers, just looking straight at them for like eight seconds, not looking at the road. Oh God , I am literally oh I'm sorry. Look at the road I mean I d I'm not saying that for comedy, I am literally saying it. I understand. I told anyway, we loved it. It's called tiptoe and Frank gave the dates when it's there if you wanna watch it. Sounds great. I d my favourite ever weird question asked at a screening was there was a film that Jason there was a film with Jason Biggs from the American Pie movies and it's him and the director and I can't even remember the name of the film. But it was a decent enough of the eighty five percent of the people you know in conversations with me I've never met . I don't know Jason Biggs. He's only really known for the American Pie films. He is's the main That's quite depressing for your C V isn't it? Hey you're an actor, what have you done? King Leo or do you know uh American Pie? I think we l uh I think when I was growing up I think we like those. What American Pie? No, you didn't. Because um American Pie ver cleared that. You didn't when you were growing up because they only came out when were they? Two thousands. Yeah, early two thousands. I think you're thinking of a rude thing, one of th thoseose videos. I'm thinking of the Fatty Arbuckle films. Harold Lloyd American Pie Which he hasn't Fatty Arbuckle the first person to get cancer? Pretty much. Did he get cancer? Oh, yeah. It's pretty it's a pretty bleak story, yeah. Fatty Arbuckle, poor old sod. Oh okay. Well I'm glad you sympathised with the sexual . I thought it was all proved to be wasn't it all proved to be nonsense. Well I need to cancel him again then. Okay . Move on and cancel Fatty Arbuckle. Well there was a restaurant in Oxford that used to be called Fatty Arbuckles. But that's the reason you are canceling. That's official clearance. It's terrible what's happened. Yeah, exactly. Um the SOJS . I was in Barry Moore's wine bar the other night . He has been he has been reinvented, hasn't he? He was? Well he's very he's huge on TikTok. Oh yeah. He's all over the socials. Oh good good on him. Once again . Sympathising with the There must be an expiry date on these things. It depends on the series It was 1921. Something like that, yeah. Yes. I believe it said uh you are right, Steve. I've just checked and other things I never wanted to do. Fatty arbuckle a guilt. Um the first two trials, Frank, resulted in hung juries, but the third trial acquitted Arbuck Arbuckle. Oh. The jury took the unusual step of giving him a written statement of apology. Okay. Okay. I wonder who wrote that. Steve . Citation needed. Time travel. So he did he didn't do terrible sexual assault things. Well the jury I know you adorably believe in the justice system. Well and so I but I think that possibly in this third jury he got lucky potentially or you could say but it was a man who didn't worry about fat shape . On his list of things to be ashamed of . It's probably quite down there . Sorry, Fashion, I don't want to fatch you, no, don't worry about that. What would Zack Polanski call him? Yeah. Nice to meet you for f ull Mr. Arbuckle. Call him his real name, which was Roscoe. Oh, of course it was. Roscoe Conkling. Arbunkel. Arbuckle. Roscoe Conkling. I didn't ever tell you about when I was expecting a letter from her and it didn't come and I'd got all the carpet up and that's if it had gone underneath the carpet so tight. Anyway, that was her. But I remember when I met her, she sat down I had a mate who was a large man and I said, this is Steve, this is thing, and he was too far away to introduce. She says who's the R buckle on the end Different times . I won't bring it back. No, I won't. Especially with the unfortunate associations. Although you know what? Thanks for clearing that up, Steve. As an R buckle apologist. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. I I was w I was completely believing the whole uh thing. Have you seen it? I don't think I've ever seen any of his films. Is it is he's Oh yeah, I've seen some of his films. Are they are they decent? In case you're wondering, yes he is. The nickname wasn't on it . Yeah. And yeah, he's you know, he's funny. But he's a lot of the funniness is him eating eighteen pies and stuff. He weighed thirst. I think he was in American pies. The pl the plural. Not the sequel, the plural . Very good. He weighed thirteen pounds at birth. Is that a lot? Yeah, that's a big one. That is big. Yeah, w it was a sign of things. Anyway, that's enough for the uh our buckle facts for this week. I'm a little fatigued because I was ke kept awake um last night by cars blasting in the street. Yeah there's been a lot of celebrations. I was very happy, Steve. Yeah. I got my lovely email from Arsenal Football Club this morning. And do you know what's interesting? But I thought you didn't know. Exactly. I thought a bit late with the late run news. I still have to email them. They email all the members. Okay. But what's interesting is they say uh Arsenal football Well done us. T yeah, to Emily Dean, your Premier League champions. We are Premier League champions. This belongs to all of us. Do you think it's a few ? I won't get nothing for that membership. But did did anyone receive that email who didn't know? It's possible, isn't it ? Maybe someone just emerging from a coma. Yeah, that they just played the beach boys and pet sounds for the ninety eighth time it had worked. And they came out, they got an email. Fuck it, but I thought if you bothered to pay for membership and then di didn't notice when your team won the Premier League for the first time in twenty two years. I f I I phoned my dad up. He's a big Arsenal fan. Oh I didn't know that. Uh and he but he doesn't allow himself to be happy about anything at all. So if anyone said champions and he went, Yeah, but we're gonna lose a fucking champions league though, aren't we? It was straight away there was n not a nanosecond that he allowed himself to enjoy. Oh well that is uh that is the way of 'cause that happened for Arsenal and I'm a Southampton fan and we've just been kicked out of the party. Well there was a great thing that new I put the news on this morning and they had um Put in and Xi Ping. Xi Ping. Yeah, X i Jinping. Xi Jinping walking along and and then the next story said Spy Gate and it was about Southampton football club. And I thought there's a spy story. It's not most to. I I didn't see that coming. I think they didn't win any of the games that they spied on. It's so fabulously low level. I love that. Spied on a team's football track. Who was the last one, Frank? The leads manager. Yeah, Biel Bielsa. Yeah, Bielsa. That was it. Didn't he have the goggles? People used to get the goggles out whenever he was. But what are they are they getting a walkie talkie better saying that they wear these sort of bibs type things. Um what we need to get is some cones, some traffic cones, they're really helpful . What are they what are they seeing? They all drive quite tasteless cars and they're on TikTok a lot. Well the and the Saints players are now apparently going to sue they might sue the club. Really? 'C Roy Keene's son in law is one of the Southampton players and I presume. He'll sue the club. Yeah. I should think.. Oh yeah And Man City, now we're on football. We're ending soon if you don't like football. Man City's um iconic manager Pet Guardiola is leaving. What they've done is they've just replaced him with Enzam Rescue he 'cause looks like him . That's not gonna that's not gonna be oh well it'll just carry on we'll keep winning things. Just if we find someone else who looks like him . It's like the Labor Party replacing Kia with Hannah Gadsby. Oh my gosh . Do you know I've never thought of that before? But that's And rela x Oh no. No. Can we just do the radio page? Oh yes. Oh that's the see that she thought I'm gonna speak today on air 'cause it's my last one before I have my baby. I'm still on air. But I love it. No, I like to I like it used to be a thing, didn't it? On radios, you'd hear like a distant voice from a producer. But I tell you what they'd say, and we never liked it when they'd call them producer and then their name Frank. They'd go, oh producer John is in or something. Oh but that's a right uh thing. Yeah. I went to a a a show that David Badil was hosting and he's very against, you know, following convention and that and he said so uh what do um you Armando and Ucci think about this and I thought oh it's the radio for one speaking to people and using their name. I guess if it's Sarah's lesson we call a reproducer, Sarah . Oh Yeah, I can't know. Frank, why Frank, why do you pull a face? 'Cause I you're making her sound like a sorrogate and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. She's not some kind of birth mule. Someone who lists themselves as a reproducer. Only a second child. I mean she's not, you know, not a production line. The woman that lives in the shoe. A reproduction line. Is that what they call it? Anyway. Just read the thing. Okay . Just read the thing and then do your joke. The next episode of R Frank Skinner's Radio Days is out on Wednesday. We've reached twenty fourteen now. Uh this time I've had an incident with a nativity scene. Oh. I know what this was. It's the Frank Skinner Podcast . A new winter changes blow . It's the Frank Skinner Podcast . I'm not totally sure how it's going