Final Stats and Closing Remarks

Mm. Yeah. Hello and welcome to the final PubNote Disboard and the final episode of The Moon Underwater by Robin Ox, the outgoing Landlords and my outgoing regular who is outgoing in both senses of the word. Dan Troffer. Hi mate. How are you, Dan? Well I'm I'm fine. I just don't know what I'm gonna do with my life now. Because I I spend all my time in your pub. Now your pub is gonna be flats. I'll be honest, I have sympathy. That's kind of a you problem. Yes. So Yeah. Yeah. I was hoping you might you might gift me one of the new flats. I've sold and it's not up to me. Uh so yeah the moon underwater's been as for those of you who uh l been listening, uh has been sold to developers to be turned into flats. Uh such as the capitalist way. Uh but we are here in the moon underwater for the final time, but it's also merged with the Shortlands Tavern, which is a pub that was very dear to our hearts. Yes, we've met in. South East London. I used to live in Kent, Dan uh lives in South east y London. Yes. And this was where our two train lines met. We would come here regularly. Equidistant. Equidistant. And suck pines. I live in Norwich now, so it's not equidistant. No. It's gonna take me about four hours to get home. Yes. It's a really lovely pub though. It's really beautiful. It's uh Always got plenty of stuff on cask. There's always people here, whatever night of the week is a classic locals pub. You can see it from the railway line. And I think that's what First Attractors are. We've seen it and gone that that's a convenient pub for us. And all this went in there. And it's beautiful. Log fires Uh, they quite often have entertainment things on there's a lovely beer garden the summer. Many a drink in the really good pizza. Lovely pizza, good food in general and a very friendly vibe and stuff. So it's an honour to be here for the final Moon Underwater. For a long time on our on our little friendship group with some of our friends, if anyone passed the shortland tavern, they would take a picture of it from the train when it stopped and just text it round for everyone saying Tav. Tav, which is our thing, I'll take a photo of you now and I will send that around in a minute to the group saying Tav. Um but Dan, um emotional times for this final episode. But let's talk First of all, about our week's pubbing. Okay. Wha wh what have you have you have you pubbed? I have pubbed. I've done I've done well, I mean hopefully I'll do some more pubs kind of before the in the official end of the the actual year. But people can people can follow us on social media to find out what our final total is. What are you on what on your on the Instagram? I went to uh uh At Dan Trofer? Nice. I'm at Mega Robby. Yes. I didn't go for the mega. Mega Dan Troff. Yeah. Mega Dantrofer. So I am I'm topping out on fifty five at the moment. I went to uh the Georgian Soho this week. Where about is that? Probably is the answer. I don't know. Dubly Street and Wardle Street, corner of Darkness Street Ward Street. Probably. Yes. Uh little pub. I don't want to end it on a sour note. It's it's a really nice pub. But I went in there with my friend Greg because it's Shepherding uh uh pub and we're from Kent. Kentish boys. And so we went in and had a Christmas ale was really nice. Sheparding Christmas Ale was really nice. So we sat there, we had that drink, and then the bell went And And we looked at each other and went, can't can't be that late, can it? We had been out for some food first. It was like nine forty five. Oh no. So we sat there and we kind of went Oh well maybe it's something else. So we we sort of finished our drink. Maybe it's a tugboat. I was up at the bar Within three minutes of that bell going. No exaggeration. And I said, Oh, uh a couple of parts of Christmas ale. And they went, No, no, sorry. What? You just you then just rang the bell. And then went, No, we can't and then then they asked someone else behind the bar and said, Oh we can, but you need to be out at ten. It's like Are you joking? And the pub was full. Every it's a small pub, but every seat was taken in there. There were there were at least forty or fifty people. Who were willing to hand over money for bidding. Did you get any of it? I don't know. I don't know, though. No. I do not know. I was just scopsmacked. And we kind of went, Oh. And we thought, oh, we don't really want to just neck a pint in ten minutes. Did you go to another pub? So Well Greg had to go back to um Tunbridge Wells. Not the end of the evening you want, though, is it? You're ready for getting it. It was a disappointing Yeah, it was a disappointing end. And it's a shame because it was a really nice pub. And I don't understand. Alex Horn was talking about this when he was on uh the other day, wasn't it, about how early pubs were close. Yeah. But I had not in the middle of Soho, you're closing your pub at ten o'clock when your pub is full. Yeah. This is a normal weekday night. It was a Monday night. That's the it's the only thing. If if it was Sunday, I'd be like okay, maybe. Yeah. So Yeah. And if it was quiet, I could see like Exactly if we were if we were the only two in there and then going we're keeping it open just for you. But it was full. Well that is sad. It is sad. Sad way to what a miserable, miserable way. I will say it was a nice pub and the and the Shepherd name Christmas ale is delicious. Well we're having an ale at the moment. We are, yeah. This is a Christmas. I might just get up and leave, you can have to just talk for a bit. Yeah. It's very nice indeed. And always very well kept as well, I find. Yes. It really is a good pub. It is a great pub. I'm really glad we're here. Now I've done some pubing Dan I've been I've come here, you you'll see next to me my suitcase. I yes. Huge suitcase. It's huge because well there's there's two reasons. One my my wife bought it from Primark. It's awful. I Yeah. I I said for the three hundredth time, buy cheap, buy twice to her and it's cra it's it's it's a long running simmering dispute in in in my marriage. Um but so I was filming a a uh uh YouTube video that will be available on my YouTube channel where I went to visit the royal family's favourite ski resort. I thought you were gonna say you went to visit the royal family. Yeah, I went just me in I mean Chaz. Yep hanging out. Um We is that disrespectful to the king? Probably. It's fine. Fine. So I w I went out there to see why the royal family because they go to this resort most years and I remember it from as a kid. They do the photo up and then they just go for ski for weeks or something. So I went to try there where he said What was it about Nichol when he said something like Horrible Little Man or something? I think it might have been But they go back every year. Bear in mind they can afford to go wherever. There's a ver there's loads of wonderful scores what was the word. I wanted to find out what it was why it was why they went back. And the answer is I can't really understand because what I look for as he resort is never gonna be the same as what they do. But the issue is The in the ski resort of of closers where I went to There weren't any last night I thought I was on my own, but I thought I'll go and try and find some at Break Ski. I couldn't find a bar. I found one bar on the sort of bar. It was like a room on the side of a restaurant. But it was just full of smoke. 'Cause you forget that some place is So I thought, you know what, I can't just not not find any at Brisky. So I jumped onto the train to Davos, famous for the World Economic Forum. Yes. Um and went to a bar there called Tijuana Bar. It's a lovely little Apriski bar, something in the the city, lots of groups of People who imagine work in the resort there, chatting. I just sat in the bar, didn't talk to anyone, drank three pretty sizable beers over the course of two hours. Uh just bringing stuff on my phone, just chilling out, and then just left. It was wonderful. Really great. Yeah. So so um I don't I mean I did have to get I did have to spend twenty two Swiss francs on a train to go to get get the drink because nothing enclosed us, but I did manage a a pub there. So what does that put me on for the end of the year, Dan? So that puts you on Right. It's possible I could still hit the two hundred. It is. If you're if you're working hard. Oh it's Christmas. It is Christmas. I've given myself quite generous. I'm not working past day. No? It's one hundred and seventy six. Because of that one. Because we're in the shortlands town. We are. We haven't been this year, have we? We haven't been. Well I've certainly haven't. It's a very long way away from my house. Yeah. Oh. Wonderful. Okay, so that's that's that's good. Yeah. So I've only got twenty four to do to make two hundred. We've got a few little drink cups planned between now and Christmas. Okay. I'm just saying it's possible. Will you keep the spread sheet going despite the ending of the thing and then I'll tell you what I'll I'll um I'll I'll put it on social media somewhere when uh wonderful on the first of Jan or something. Yeah. Dan last year we named our pub of the year. And what was it? The Gladstone Arms. Yeah, the Desi Pub recommended to us by uh David Jididarson, our previous guest, and a terrific, terrific boozer. I think we both need to come up with our pub of the year. independently this year. I don't think we've done pubbing together. No. I think I'm gonna say a different one to you. Okay. It's quite tough, isn't it? I' I I'll quickly run through my favourite ones to the year. Uh The Mall Tavern which I went to with my friend Alex for a QPR game. Because they had Ansback and Hobday on draft, so that's my favourite, and really good fish and chips. The great exhibition in Dalitch. Excellent pub. I need to go back there. Yeldy Mitre, where we went after the show we went with Ben Bowdy Smith when he came on. Yeah. That was really good. Very nice pub that. Um The Montpellier in um Peckham. Yep. Lovely pub. And I I really loved um I really loved going to the bowler in Paris. Which is like an an English pub in Paris. Oh but my pub of the year out of that lot. Uh. I think I think my favourite pub it was really good. It was the end of a mini pub crawl. And we've been recommended it by I think by one of our listeners actually, is the great exhibition in East Dalich. Yeah. It's a really nice pub. And they let us stay late, I think. Lovely. I don't think there was any chasing us out at nine forty five. So you're going for the one pretty much closer to your house. Yeah, I'll have to get a bus. It's not walkable. Is it not? No, it's a good forty-five minute walk if I was going to. Oh, it's walkable. It's walkable but it's just completely. There's a lot of pubs between there, as well. Okay, alright. No, that's okay. For me, I'm gonna go I'm trying to think of the pub as of the biggest impact this year. And I'm gonna go for the pub that has our only confirmed Moonshlin star. Oh uh the Loriston in Glasgow the obviously the sixties sort of decor which is which is a fabulous great choice. Only had a half there because it only took cash, we had to just use whatever coins we had between us for it. But a lovely pub I look forward to getting back to next time. I'm in Glasgow because it is it's on the way to Hamden. And probably be the highlight of any evening. I'm gonna go for that as my pub of the year. That's and you've been to some incredible pubs, so Yeah. Yeah. Okay, well should we have another a last little rustle through the the post package. There's been a lot of a lot of people have measured us this week, but we're just gonna do as many as we can get through. Exactly. Yeah. Will you kick us off please, Dan? I will. Oh, it's from uh Oh no uh he told us how to say his name and I've forgotten. Is it Hepe? Oh it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter now, does it? It doesn't, you're right. Uh he's our death coast correspondent in Spain. He says that Rob B. He's the one who runs to pubs. And immediately negates all the good things he's done to his body. Yeah. High Robin seemed to be irregular, Dan. I guess that's the opposite of regular. Um devastated to hear of the closing of the moon underwater. Damn you, capitalism, why could you not leave the moon underwater be? Hey, as as the landlord who's pocketed the money from the flat sale. I think capitalism is our friend. Yeah, well your friend. I'm not minking anything from this sale. No, no. You made that quite clear. Okay. Sorry, can you just move your drink away from my mink coat, please. Uh surely there is great value in having a magical pub in your new built soulless apartment complexes. Your greed fills me with disgust, capitalism. Hopefully they're gonna open up a uh a flat roofed hungry horse just out the corner for it. I've been looking forward to reporting my findings along the death coast to the listeners of the Moon Underwater in the coming year. Yes, sorry about that. Reminiscent of a lawyer fat cat from a Hollywood crime drama TV show needing to repair their reputation with the public. I will, however, take on this game's pro bono. Not entirely sure what pro bono means, but I'll do it. It means you like the singer from YouTube. Yes. If any Moon Underwater listener should want to follow the case, I'll be posting updates of my twenty twenty five attempt of running to fifty-two pubs on my otherwise very dead Instagram profile. Oh God. Yep, yep, yep. That's J E P, J E P, J E P P E. Sounds like a football channel. J E P. J E P. J E P P E. Yeah. Uh He can now use that as his jingle that's the front of every video. As a final hooray from the Death Coast correspondent, I can inform you I will soon take the aeroplane to the Northern Realms. I love the way he's worded that the singular aeroplane The airplane and visit friends and family in Denmark. Here I plan to visit the pub in my hometown Ringer called Contouret. Contouret means the office in Danish. The pub is named with the intent that husbands brackets or wives but I'm pretty sure this is mainly intended for the husbands when Contouret first opens its doors in the late nineties or early two thousands can go for drinks after work. I think you're you're being very um I think the the tone that you're adopting in this letter. He might be just saying it or husband nicely and you're making it sound like He's furious at the woke. The woke lefty forced him to say husband. So well that's what happens. Um then called to ask where they were and why they were not at home. They would simply be able to answer without lying, Oh, I'm still at the office, honey. That's clever, isn't it? Very good. A little bit patronizing with the honey. I don't know your views on pre the place then they could go wrong. If what if the place you work, the business you work is called the pub getting hammered. Where are you? I'm at the pub getting hammered. he stayed in the pub afterwards. And he was supposed to go back to Leicester. Yeah. Even though he was injured. But he rang Martin O'Neill and got the whole bar to be quiet. So he could say, Yeah. It's a bit difficult for me to get back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was good. I think he was suspended because generally footballers if they're injured they're allowed The time off. If they were suspended, they had to go to the game just so that they couldn't get themselves sent off so they could have a weekend off. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I don't know your views on the And also Jerry Taggas who's always sorry to suspend it. Yes, definitely. I don't know your views on pre-pub visit reporting, but I thought best to write now about my future visit to Clontorette, as a later report may not make it to you before the bulldozer and it'll be too late. Merry Christmas to Robbie, Dan and its listeners. Thanks for wonderful podcasting. I'm hoping for a Christmas miracle of the moon underwater, keeping its doors open. At the very release for Dan, he's otherwise uncertain future prospect. Thanks, Yep. I really appreciate that. Yeah. It's not often that people think of my feelings and I am looking out of the window and I can see the construction people bringing in their diggers and stuff like that. So it's unlikely. Yeah and then tapping his watch. Yeah, I've just poured in a pint and he now seems calm and happy. Yeah. Okay. Which is good. Right. Thanks, yeah, but been a great correspondent. Okay, Jack's got an email here. Right. Good day, Robbie and Dan. Follow the news of property development, devastating for all but Robbie's bank account. I would like to commit all my time until closure. That's about half an hour. To fulfilling a moon underwater goal, covering the globe and beyond with correspondence. Whilst I'm aware that my four small towns are easier in comparison to the entire universe. I'm sure I can keep on top of it for the last few weeks. To clarify, not after any of my colleague's jobs since the unclaimed in my requested title. Nor am I being greedy as I happily release any jurisdictions upon request. This is purely to fulfill the dream of seeing the moon underwater achieved. One hundred percent pub correspondence coverage from Most ISD Cantina, from Star Wars, the drinking culture of uncontact contacted tribes in the Amazon. Many thanks for your consideration in advance. I would require my travel to put expenses. Uh no. Uh all the best lads clear and good luck in any future endeavors, Jack. I'm gonna miss letters like this. That's so good. Really good. And yes, Jack, you can be Correspondent of the universe. Like masters of the universe. Like Heyman. You're a pubbing Heyman. Yeah. Claimed Yes. In the world and beyond. In perpetuity. Yes. And in fiction, apparently. Yeah, and fiction. Any any real Imagined even pops up in people's dreams. Yes. That's you you cover all of them. I mean I don't know what sort of people make up made up pubs. I mean it's a bit pathetic, isn't it? But um Yeah. Super stuff. Okay. Okay. This is from Luke, the next one. Uh dear landlord Robbie and Pub Regular Dan. Greetings from the land of sunshine kangaroos and cheating cricketers. Any one place that can be? Lot of zoo? Yes. Uh as a devoted listener, it's been on my mind for ages to send this email, but the shocking news of the moon underwater's closure has finally kicked me in the back side. to pen this correspondence. I can't believe those meddling breweries have found their way to the correct realm and shut you down. How dare they enforce such tyranny over an establishment of pure imagination? Um I always suspected they were out to crush the finest pub that never existed, but I didn't think they'd actually pull it off. Just be clear, it hasn't been the Brewers, it's purely my decision. That said, better late than never. I humbly throw my hat in the ring as your official correspondent for Western Australia, with Perth's coastline stretching over a hundred kilometres, and countless pubs and bars to sample. I can't promise to cover all twelve thousand eight hundred and eighty nine kilometers. Now Dan, a friendly heads up. If you ever make it down under, our responsible service of alcohol laws might present a challenge for someone with your pub going frequency. I worry you'd be politely to ask to leave, or less politely escorted before finishing your first beer. But don't worry, I'll gladly act as your guide to keep you in the clear and your glass full. Why is that my surely you're you're a more frequent person. No, I think he's saying 'cause I've been to Australia. They like a drink. Yeah. He's saying you're oh you're pathetic. Right. Yes. So I'm oh I'm not drinking enough. Yeah. Right. I've been to Australia, nothing about my trip to Australia and nothing about any Australian I've ever met. She just they worry about drinking too much. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well I'll you know, I'll take on the challenge, I suppose. Yeah. I'm not very rugged, I will say. Quite scared of all these Azzy men. Oh, that's mental. What are we talking about? Serious note. I'm deeply saddened that the last orders have been called at the moon underwater. The world of imaginary pubs just won't be the same without your musings and the guidance of your twelve esteemed producers. I hope this isn't the final hurrah and you're returning some form to bless us with more pints of wisdom in the future. Until then, I raise a schooner, because Aussie's like to keep pint measurements unnecessarily complicated. To your both and the glorious institution that was the moon underwater. If ever you need a roving reporter to brave the Aussie outback. Cheers and best wishes, Luke, future correspondent for Western Australia. So unfortunately, um Jack's already had his universal thing But I've been a little bit more. To Perth. Yes. It's one of two places in Australia I've been to. Uh I went there with my daughters only f about nine months. I didn't I wasn't out on the time at all. Yes. Yes. Good good times. Yeah. I'm quite boring, aren't I? Um but I um I I only went to one pub in Perth. That was to meet my friend Blair, who lives in Perth. And we met in a shopping centre. Not Tony. His first name is Blair. Okay. Blair Parsons. If you really want to know. Um and it was in a shopping mall. And it's one of the worst pubs. It was one of the least inspiring pubs I've ever been to. It was like if you imagine shopping mall pubs in Evercraft. Yeah, but this is like a not an this is like a run down shopping mall. Imagine a imagine the a sort of run down shopping mall. Yeah. Or do you remember the shopping mall in Elephant Castle? We went in there and they just had a little bit there, we had a tree there. It's perfect present. But that's that's the only public space I've got from Perth. I really like it. Australia. Yeah. That was just an aside. Yeah, I've already I've only got a there is a pub that one of the one of the world's most remote pubs is like in the middle of Australia you have to drive to for like a day or something. So is under consideration. What way? I just imagine they'll they won't be very friendly towards Brits. Are you basing your knowledge from the film Crocodile Dundee? Yes. Okay. Um Fabulous. By locals I mean crocodile. Yeah. Uh right. Another letter? Yeah. So look accept it. Um enjoy your uh correspondents title for the next few minutes. Uh dear Dan and Robby, I hope this email finds you both well and very well, thank you. Dan are you well? I'm really well thanks mate. Enjoying this pint. I'm very close to the end. So I will be reading this email and then immediately go and get another one. But due to the power of editing People won't know. No. I've just told them. Dear Dan and Robbie, I hope that you might find you both. Well in response to your call out for Christmas pub stories, I wanted to share a few memories. Though I have plenty, only a handful are appropriate for the podcast. They all revolve around one pub which sadly closed its doors for good in October twenty twenty three. After years of closure rumours. Oh. Oh, look at this. Next line, thing. Nestled in the heart of Forest Hill, right by the station, just down the road from the Hornham Museum sat the capital, J D Weatherstone. I've been in there with you. Yes, we saw an England match. And that was it was very poorly received by our social group that made everyone go there. It was. Uh I I I I use it in Forest Hill, so this is this is familiar. The building itself has a rich history, originally constructed as a silent movie cinema in the nineteen twenties completely Complete with space for an orchestra and organ, and I just served as a bingo hall for many years, thanks to its striking features both inside and out and it's a grade two listed building. Ever in my lifetime. It was only ever a weather spoon, a legendary one. I first joined this tradition in twenty twelve, though I've no idea when or who started it. It's been blindly passed down for generations before mine. Every Christmas Eve all the real locals would head to the capital JD Weather Spoons. By real locals, I mean those who grew up in the south east London and still live here as adults. You know the type. You went to local schools, started mixing during those coming of age weekends, filled with the common tear activities. I wish I grew up in Forest Hill. Sorry, did I say that out loud? A little bit. Yeah, okay. Why you didn't stay friends with everybody, they're the kind of people you're bumping to randomly through life. The energy of the tradition was absolutely electric. A mix of the Euros final, England playing obviously New Year's Eve and Louis Louis Bonfinite all rolled into one. From two PM to one AM the place be heaving. It was so much fun. We risked sacrificing Christmas Day every single year. It was a star state event in its own chaotic way. Saidless from the apprentice mingling with someone you sat next to in the standard A levels. One year I got so carried away that an equally drunk friend put me in a neighbor home, except they forgot to clear my postcode, and up halfway to Essex before the error was realised, finally staggering through my front door at four AM on Christmas morning. And honestly, still worth it. You've both been locals in the capital at some point. Do you have any takes? We'd love to hear Honourable mention that Munch is starting a proper Christmas E pub worth visiting in the South East, Deptford, Dog and Bell. On a more somber note, I was genuinely shocked at the pool to hear the men on the water is being sold and turned into flats. What does this mean for me and other pub correspondents? It feels like we've been unfairly dismissed without so much redundancy package. Enjoy December of all months, most expensive time of the year in the middle of a cost of living crisis. See you in court. Only joking, but seriously, are you doing the podcast? Jenny made very sad. Alma. For attention. Just really bad attention. Yeah, no we uh we haven't though. It is real. Um we have been there as we've seen. We have been there a while uh many occasions. I remember going there with my daughter Kitty when she was very young In the morning. I think I went with breakfast with her. Well we just went never joined actually I just took her out the house so my wife could have some quiet. Yeah, we'll get some breakfast down here. I remember eating some breakfast and then looked round and she was stood by the fruit machine trying to press the buttons while a man was patiently waiting behind to have a go at it. I'm not parent of the year, am I? No. Um I know the England I can't remember which England game it was, but it was the one where Rob Green let the the um let the ball through the metal. Well that that sticks in my mind. USA. Yes it was. Yes, thanks. One of the producers just told me it was it was England be USA. Yeah. We have a producer dedicated to remembering World Cup goalkeeping errors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's weird that that's his one job. Yeah, it is, but he's 'cause we haven't tried that much. So so yeah, um that that's s that's quite a sort of familiar Christmas y thing, isn't it? Yes. People well his people who still live there, but I think of Christmas Eve more as people who've gone away and come back. Like when on the Isle of Shepee I'd go to the local pub and meet people from who've are off at uni or have moved away who've come back home for Christmas sort of things. So I think there's that that side of things. What about you? Do you any Christ have you ever had any Christmas local that you go to Christmas Eve? Not really. No. I don't think 'cause the where I grew up there wasn't the the local pub was not a very friendly place. It had four four regulars and no one else was really allowed in or welcomed. So it's such an odd part. that only those people went and no one else did. No, it's become something else. It's become sort of a type. Yeah, exactly. So no, but yeah, we're around eighteen to twenty one we did go I went to an uh another village further down. Uh my friend Greg and friends we used to we used to go there. Uh mainly to the Queen's Head. Yeah, for a few years we went there and you know, meeting people from s back from school, back from uni and all of that was always nice. Yeah. And one year me and my friend Morum, this I think was I think this was New Year's rather than Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve. And it snowed really heavily. And he somehow he got round he didn't near live near me, but he got round to me and then we walked. I think it was it's about three or four miles in the dark, in the snow, and there were no pavements, it's all got like country roads. It wasn't very safe. And we it was really cold. We wrapped up really warm and we took like uh hip flasks of brandy and had a really nice, quite magical New Year's Eve walk to see our other friends and go to the pub. It was really nice actually. It was really good. That's a really good memory. It was not quite Christmas, but New Year's, you know, same thing. Yeah. Wonderful. Well great. Well thank you thank you for your letter. Alma and um sorry but it is it is gonna be flat. Yeah. Some of them. Yes. Not the penhouses at the top. No. But um so uh well worth an investment uh if you fancy. So now not only have you sold them, you know your sh your shillings. I'm on commission. Um I might just get another pint. Alright. Thanks You brought us about a pint, Robbie, thank you. Uh yeah, I was gonna get something different just for variety, but I really enjoyed that Ruby from Dorking Brewery, so it's nice, isn't it? The same again. So yeah. Really um Terrific stuff. Um we've been asking our listeners for their favourite episodes of The Moon Underwater um on on the Instagram. Yep. So Pint's portrait says Mutton Mutton Mutton and Prime Mutton and SXM Smith, the same because he's a legend. Yeah, I mean it was great at Prime Mutton. I I hadn't been massively aware of Prime Mutton's work until we were doing the pod. And then I'd heard of the legend and started following him, so it was brilliant to have him on. He's a really interesting man, I think. Really interesting. I mean he he's got an incredible life. Yeah. And uh he came out for the pub of this afterwards, didn't we? We had a couple of pints of uh London Black. I just feel that that's not the last pint we'll ever have with prime mutton. No. I mean I feel it's something happening again. We're gonna be in some kind of Some kind of illegal um opium den in Morocco. Oh yeah. And he's gonna just be walking he'll walk in. Yeah. It'll be somewhere like that. Yeah. So but also in some ways it won't be unexpected because prime mutton is always in a pub somewhere. So I think we will at some point have another pint with prime mutton. Yeah, lovely guy as well. Yeah. Uh grumpy old Stu said Steve Stamp. He's an absolute genius. He was really good. Yeah. Re really interesting. Great stories. Yeah. I really enjoyed that one. Great, great. Hello, Adam says Drinks Maven. She was informed about booze and brought a unique female perspective to a sometimes laddie world. Jessica Mason that was, wasn't she? She was really lovely and go you know, talk to us about uh pubs in Brighton. I really like going to pubs in Brighton. So I think I've been to one or two of the ones that she suggested since then. I went down there to watch Ben Fold and I think I might have gone to a couple. So that's great. Yes. Uh really knows her stuff, put us to shame on on beer knowledge. I don't think I was ashamed. I was. I think she just told us some stuff. Someone can know stuff without you being ashamed. Oh, can they? Yeah. Oh. It's happened. So that's good. Okay. Who else? Matt Thomas. The Matt Thomas. Do you remember him? Hey, I p name rings about. He was he was the the first of the seven thousand producers that have been in the middle of the year. It was weird in those days, there's only one. Yeah. And then he left and then it needed like nineteen people to replace it. He says what did you say? Barry Glen Denning. Division one era, thank you, Matt. Um We took over this and I'd I'd listen to some of those some of John's And then I but I was looking at it and and and thinking, Well, you know, I'll I'll I'll give a few more a listen. And everyone was saying that episode and I listened to it, I was like, I mean, that was an absolutely brilliant episode. And I'd recommend if you haven't listened to that, go back and and have a listen. It's really good. And emotional and funny and just, you know, fantastic. And he says John Niven in the Premier League era, which's one of my favourites. I still think it might be my favourite. Yeah I still do. It was really it was really good. It was a lovely mix of Yeah. Of serious and fun and he w he'd been doing a book tour, hadn't he, for his book and I think he'd and he he was he was a little bit tired. But uh say he was tired, he wasn't you know, he was absolutely lovely. I'm not saying he turned up looking a bit weary or anything, but he'd been doing a lot of that and answering questions about his previous books. Yes. And then he sat down and we we just started talking about pubs drinks. And you could just see it within quarter of an hour he suddenly went, Oh, I can do drinking stories. Yeah. And he's just this incredible raconteur. It just felt like a privilege, didn't it? It's like one of those people who just like I could spend all night with you in the park. Yeah. And I'd be quite happy to never say a word. I just want to hear what you've got to say. And I've got so many mutual friends with him who know him sort of thing. We've sort of in many ways I may parallise it. We may mention marathon bar and cams and stuff like that. But I really I so I really enjoy really enjoyed that. Yeah that was great. Yeah. Uh Sam says What will he cook is up there? Remel too. Lots of good ones recently. Reverend Botley also fantastic. Two minutes in that yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I mean all three of those, I really enjoyed those. Romel I I didn't know very much about Romel before he came on. He is so beautiful. He's so beautiful, he's so funny. Lovely. Really like to. Paul Laps and Ron Sounds, both both nominating Kevin McLeod. Uh Kevin McLeod's passion for the drinkers pub was lovely to listen to, said Paul Lapis. And Ron Sounds said didn't think I'd like him, not sure why but proper good drinking knowledge and a top keys in the end. Mediocre tame design. Yes, he does famous. He was brilliant though, given McLeod and It's it it I think everyone that's come on has uh loves pubs and they've got a great view on pubs, haven't they? And then but then there were some that are You could tell. Really passionate about them and he was one of them. Yeah, really good. Lovely to meet him. That's been one of the best things about doing the pod, I think. We've met some incredible people. It's been a lovely. What I liked in the Division I era as well is the variety of guests from authors to film directors. Definitely. That's something I've really have enjoyed before. Yeah, listener. Yeah. So but it's it' and it's nice 'cause it's it's I've seen the bump into few I as mentioned um the other week I've bumped into E Sh and Actbar uh Chloe Pets around Sophie Duca and Saw Stevie Martin the other night. So it's nice it's nice having met all these people and and then being bump into them and go, Hello And it's great, I think I think I think we've I've I've found as well that, you know, we've since people people come on the podcast we don't necessarily know No, always know lots about them beforehand. But then you have a chat with them and you really like them and you end up going to see some comedy or reading a book that you wouldn't have maybe read before. Um and that's that's fantastic, right? I've really enjoyed that. Yeah. Sort of broadening horizons. Yeah. Uh Pete Finn says Pete and Luke from the Ramble because Pete is such a weird person. He's hilarious. That was really good. That was a really good one. That was a really good fun. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Jack Sims said Finn Taylor, he's just hilarious. Yeah, one of the very early ones in the Premier League era. One of my favourite comedians. Thanks to him for coming on that early. Um That he w that was incredible. Yeah. I mean he's really funny, Finn Taylor. Yeah. Yeah. Really, really good. I'd r highly recommend going to see him if you get the chance. Yeah. Tom Gilby, uh kind of says. David uh David Bann says as well. Yeah, I think a lot of people love Tom Gilby. Still getting likes on Instagram for the videos that went up for him, like hundreds and hundreds of of of uh likes on the videos he's put up for Tom Gilby. Yeah, he was he was lovely and I'd I'd love to Have an eye out with it, definitely. Sure we can make that happen. Ollie says William Hansen was great and so was Cheap Holly Expert and what will he cook? I'm in a video with Cheap Holly Expert. We went to see as many Christmas markets as we could. It's out now on the YouTube. Oh, I haven't seen it yet on YouTube. Is she that horrible? She's somebody joking. She's absolutely fine. She's alright. But it was just it was almost all on trains and occasionally you get Christian Market, you go, we've got eight minutes. The rule was it each one you had to have a mould white. It's not like getting a pint when you down it. You basically have to scald your throat. Okay. Um Yeah, William Hanson was fantastic, wasn't he? Yeah. What a man. Absolute gentleman. Um which is his sort of MO. Uh Holly Williamson, obviously the happy hour boys. Yeah, I mean and Stevie both excellent. We did them on the same day, didn't we? So we had a brilliant time. Yeah. And then um they both said don't bother getting out of the arm so we didn't. Yes. Yeah, well of course we will, but we haven't. No, I know, I know. It would have been bleak. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Sorry, so that's the thing. I really like C as well though. Genuinely. You're not that keen, are you? No. No he is. He's like in him. I am. Wonderful. Right, bit a couple of stats for you here, Dan, as we draw you doing the stats for once, Robbie, doing a bit of work for once. I've um I've been I basically but know the password for your computer. So I'm trying to find. Uh we've recorded sixty guest episodes and in the Divis one year, John Robin recorded one hundred and seven, I think. Harder working than us. Yes. Yeah. Which is is not it's not surprising. John's John's got a lot of friends in the celebrity world, I guess. very popular there, so maybe he just knows more famous people than us to come on the pod. Yeah, or just did it long longer. Or just did it longer. Probably. Yeah. No, that's true. So probably just that maybe isn't it? A total of one hundred and sixty seven guests have stepped inside the moon underwater. That's if all those cards really exist. I mean they do, obviously, but imagine if they did. Imagine if you got all those people being on out for one night out. A logistical nightmare. Yeah. Absolutely. Finding a day where everyone could do it would be quite tough. Imagine that you get stuck in the corner of his TV, why? All those people there and it's Stevie. So Dan, you're our drinks expert. What would the most popular drinks and why is it Guinness? Yeah, by uh by a million miles, it's been Guinness. One of our favorite facts we've been doing the show is that one in nine Pints poured in the UK uh or in England, can't remember which. Uh UK I think is pint of Guinness. And we have been actively discouraging people from picking Guinness. Yeah we have. We said we said Yes, exactly because we run out of things to say about it. Um but thirty one people across the hundred and sixty seven pubs. So that's one just shall I have one in five. Guinness. And if we hadn't have put people off. It it might have been much higher than that. Yeah. So that's uh so thirty one in total um chose uh Guinness, which is incredible. Yeah. Uh other than that, n not many really stood out. Peroni Got got uh six on draft, I suppose that's quite high. Uh neck oil lately. There's a lot of neck oil yes in uh that's true. Let me see, how many neck oils do we have? We've had uh five neck oils in total. Uh bottles and cans. Corona has got quite popular over over recent times. Red stripes had a lot. Red stripe, yeah, let's have a look. Red stripe. Uh You can do your pub database, you can do it. I'm in my pub database. But we de w uh I think it's six, but certainly John Baird Lloyd Griffiths Ben Bailey Smith, Alfie Templeman, I think we've had two more since then. I think the um football ramble guys might have chosen. I think we've had six red stripes. Very popular. Uh Spirits. La f la froig. Yeah. Whiskey been very popular. Uh Kate Botley, the most recent one, who's chosen that. And we always struggle, didn't we, when people chose whiskey 'cause Neither of the big weeds. Tequila Tequila, very popular. Alfrey Templeman, Kelly Shirley, Jessica Foster Q uh Rory Powers all in our you know I think nine or ten people have chosen that over the years. So But a massive breadth, you know. I mean uh spirits, 168 different spirits have been chosen. Drafts. similar, 153 b bottles and cans. Over two hundred different bottles and cans. So like it's incredible. You wouldn't think there are that many different ones. Different ones. But yeah, so it's a real real uh mixture. Yeah. Well thank you to all of the guests. Great stash. Thank you to all the guests who have um come and join us in the Moon Underwater over the years and in the Division one era as well. Thank you of course. Thank you. The Ensley League era. One for the over forty, sir. Yeah. Good little jokes there. Yes, thanks to the local correspondent. I mean it's been incredible actually. We we've we had this idea, didn't we, about the pub correspondence. Yep. And uh we've had lots of people apply. I don't think anyone was ever turned down. No. No, it's just very quickly Raddrim we'll we'll alternate as quick as you can. These are our correspondents uh for one final time. The Chiltern's Nick. Berlin, Charlie. Well in Hatfield, St Albans and Hartford, Jack. Bedfordshire. Patrick. Olymp in brackets resigned, close bracket. Ashby de la Zouche in North West Leicestershire, Ollie. Open brackets. He moved. Close brackets. Yes. Newcastle, Collins. Exeter, Central and South Devon. And Brighton, Lola. North West London, William. Washington, DC, especially Ward One, San. Uh South London South East Postcode, Alma. We heard from today. Yes. Smith Down Road, Liverpool, Alex. Um Melbourne, Australia, Alex. Different Alex. Yeah, different Alex. Uh Lincoln, Billy. Denver, Colorado, Gen Zuko. Yes, Hull Lucas. City of London, Harry. New York City, Bryant. Lead Davis. Horsham, Matt. Suffolk, D Liverpool Tom. Excluding Smith Down Road. Yep, of course. Um Dublin James. Uh Western Massachusetts, Michael. Edinburgh, Matt, Newcastle Newcastle, New South Wales, Dickey. Deathco Spain. Hepe, yep. So he said. And um we have a New new coup today, didn't we? We had Uh Jack who is in charge of the universe. Yes. Uh in fact yeah, that was the only new one today, wasn't it? And Luke in Western Australia. Luke, of course, yeah. Incredible. Thank you to all of you for sending in all your stuff. Yeah. Thank you very much to you guys. So thanks to the guests, thanks to all the correspondents. Thanks all the millions of producers that work on the particular to them over the years. Yeah, yeah. Uh, with all their niche niche jobs and everyone audio always who produced the podcast and have been great fun to work with. They did. It was very nice of them to hand it over. Um Thank you of uh to yourself, Dan, of course. And thank you to you, mate, for asking me to be your regular. Yes. It's been great. Mad how few people are free in the middle of the week. Yeah. Oh more than like your first time. No, no, no. Your first choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've said first choice, but only only real option. And then most importantly, thanks of course to all the listeners of The Moon Underwater who have listened to it. Since its inception before we were even A sparkle in the moon underwater's eye. Yes. Wonderful. Lovely. Dan for the final time But you know what? Why don't you just take the pub notice board home with you? Okay, I will. Bye everyone. All right. That's nice.