Funeral Music and Final Resting

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So Today's guests a rare creature, a man so unfailingly lovely, he could announce a national crisis and everyone would leave, feeling hugged He spent years guiding nervous contestants through the emotional roller coaster of tipping Point, somehow managing only a gentle smirk when a guest answered Liberal Democrats as a collective noun for moles Yes, that's a liberal Democrats of moles If you know you know. He's also, let's be honest, so bloomming fit that even the grim reaper would ask him for gym tips The nation's nicest man and annoyingly sculpted. Maybe it was his time to go after all You can already sense him gently, politely, beautifully. Shepherding us all into order before I've even played the jingle It is of course the noise that I want when open the fridge every morning Wouldn't that just be glorious? Pat beast or when you lift the loose seat? Oh That be The throne. The throne. Feels appropriate mough frridge door and throne I'm sure we can somehow make that happen. I think there should rem some novelty gifts. We should I should be leaving here with a novelty looose seat. does that And a noty fridge door. Have you got an EV by any chance? We used to. we've actually just beened there. I was going to say that would be quite good for your electric vehicle just having that plane. As you drive, it doesn't make any other noise It is quite unnerving actually. Yeah. So maybe that's why we need Yeah, the wrathphones. Yes. u Now listen, much more of this anon before we have some people try to sell us some things. Coming up my Daflings. I you've got a bone to pick with you because it was in the same place that I met you when you said to me you'd just ve been revealed on the masing and you said,en, have' done masing, you must do it. It's amazing Gest, Charlie, I've been thinking, right? When I joined this podcast it was already obviously a glorious chaotic death soaked machine. 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Joe Domt and I are on an adventure of a lifetime We are launching a skincare brand, a male skincare brand U via the medium of a podcast, which I do with your brilliant team here called the Businessmen But it's also gathering apace. How's it going? I was going to say? Yeah, it's going great. So we've built this community that are heavily involved. they've They decided on the name, they decided on the logo, they're deciding on everything So we now have a skincare range called for skkin by Joel and Ben Um, and I mean, you know as someone who loves Sincare now, why wouldn't you want Joel and my forekin on your face? I would absolutely love both. Both of your fourorekins. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah And so we are and it's been brilliant. It's been an amazing sort of journey so far, meeting lots of incredible business experts with the businessmen, not just in the skincare world, but in all sorts of different worlds, entrepreneurs and their journeys that they've been through but also the sort of the adventure that Joel and I are going on and everything that's involved because we know nothing about business, which may be a surprise Are you sure about that? Really, really Honestly. I think the pair of you would be pretty savvy. No. Okay. So there's good chat. it's good Mat D front of house. Gosh, absolutely. All the chat in the world. Everything up front. Okay, like me and Sue. L meow. Nothing It' a veneer scratch below the surf of our forkid. getet below the foreskin and there's issues. The good thing is, the good thing is The the team that we've put together U that are helping us on this journey are brilliant retail skincare experts as well. Also, can it please come in small bottles They're fuffy big You know, howolog be massive. no I want small. You want little sort of small foreskin. Yeah, I want d dididd foreskin. Do I donone want big foreskin? No, I mean, big foresin, I would imagine. No, That's quite a handful. Flappy. skincare is so great.. And what's been really fascinating is actually the amount of my friends and sort of broader circle of people that are saying, I love that you're doing this, Ben because I've been meaning to talk to someone about it and I didn't really feel confident enough about doing it Yeah. I'm in my fifties, Joel's in his forties. I've got teenage boys, actuallyually my oldest is nearly twenty one And they're so much more open about looking after themselves. They're open about bloody everything. I love them. They just they're incredible in a way that we weren't. Oh my God, they're so good like that, aren't they? And it's so sort of fantastic to see how open and willing they are to share. And we could learn so much from them in that regard because you know my mates sort of I've got one or two of them sort of do it secretly. Yeah. And so now think hopefully is happening is that Joel and I are talking about this. We're going to do it and see what happens Yeah. and that that will sort of open up the conversation a bit more with a few more people feel that they can sort of get engaged by it And it will starts with Joelan and Ben'sorekin. I love Joelan Ben' forekin. You know that? You know that now wasas that subtle enough Bug? No, it was very good. It was As I said, you are a very subtle plugger if you're under twelve, you won't be able to do this because it's PG Cy Gates, Oh, that was a terrible. H go We know you're exfoliated. We know you're smooth ben. We know you are unguent and fragrant But will you get through the purly gates? and what will you need to do to persuade them? them guys and gals that you should be allowed through? Not on skin alone, Ben. Oh not on skin alone.. Actually, baby. There's part of me now that feels like Uh, you know, I've spent vast amount of my for rare and life Doing all sorts of things chararitable endeavours, big, heavy physical endeavours to raise profile and money for people, which I'd like to think would work in terms of getting some sort of recognition. No one's been interested. I feel like Joel and I have got the chance of potentially being knighted for services to fulfill. And then with that regard, even though it's not necessarily about min, I feel like once we get to the Purly gate They're going to turn around and they're going to say Thank you becausecause of the effort that you've made Siran we are enjoying all these people that are joining us now because their skin is so much better. Right, okay. Also, here's a thought If it is St. Peter. Yes. and it might not be that's I know it's a bit Christiano focused. But if it is somebody like St. Peter, the dude is two thousand thirty, forty, fifty years old. He's desperate for a bit of hydration. The skin is going be Cragsville, isn't it? You guys tip up He's going to be the gates will just be like that. We will arrive with goodoody bags. That's. Well actually I've killed Joel with me. I'm not sure that's fair on Joel. He's become a dad again.s let's not doom in I you' both got two boys.'ve got two boys Yeah, ye yeah. Mor the other end though. So twenty one and nineteen and sort of barely even recognize this anymore My youngest is currently in Vietnam It seems like who's supposed to be on his year off. He's worked for a couple of terms at his old school as a teaching assistant. Oh That's a good That's a good break. Really good experience. Yeah. And now he's proceeding well you know, the idea was to have an adventure around Asia. I think he's essentially drinking his way around Asia You know, I've never been to Vietnam. Oh, that's where he is right now. Running a karaoke bar by all accounts. Well that was mean that was the footage you sent me last night. I mean, in that pidum in Hanaoi. What could be better? So good. That freedom of being nineteen. I think nineteen has got to be up there with one of the best ages all time. Do you know Tottally agree. You love being nineteen. You've done school. Yes. schoolchool's done. Yeah, and you're going on to whatever it is you're going to do, you know, and there's that just that v Freedom. So much hope. So much hope. So much joy, so much so much beautiful skin. So much beautiful skin. Yeahah. So much collagen Yes, so much. Do you do the collagen? I have been known to have a little gasp of collagen. Do you know what? I've just recently discovered. I haven't tried it yet. College and coffee. that you make yourself Yeah a little bit. Yeah, yeah. I've got some powder actually and I should put it near my coff. That's Put it in. It's a good shot. You don't really taste it, do you? Nah. Unless you have the fish collagen. Oh, that would be fishy coffee. No, no. no, no, not good U Talking a fish Now Ben, in your life and we're so sorry that you've gone, can I just say Can I just say a bit too soon. Way too soon. We're sorry that you've gone. but in your life We know that you did, you took care of yourself. I tried to. You look fantastic. Thank you. For the last supppper, however, you can go all gangbusters blazing. into all sorts of territory which is really bad for you if you so desire. Oh yeah. Don't worry. What are we doing? I've gone filth Essentially and I've never really understood why this is fair. You know When you're a parent and you have a child or you have a small person around whatever And they always go right, You've got to finish that before you can have your dessert. Yeah. I mean, it's the most cruel thing you could ever do because we all know The only thing anyone really wants is to desessert. Yeah I'm fifty one now. I still have a sweeter tooth now as I did when I was five. two ye. There is no way I'm fanning about withory. withith Saory Svory Smay We're going all in on the dessert. Are you? Straight away. I'm just having dessert. Oh, good lad. My friend Phil. who I've worked with for years. he's my stylist He, of an occasion, will go to a restaurant, he says very sweet to and start with dessert. She says, whyy don' I w want to wait? Why don' I w want to wait Does he does he then spall back into savory? Yeah Or sometimes not. Sometimes not,ll go he'll go dessert You might have a small savory plate and then go desert again They like, what are we farting about? That don't really want? Becauseuse all we really want is the dessert. Yeah. So I'm just all in on the desserts. And I mean any dessert. The creamier, the crunchier, the better So I'll have a syllabab. a lemon syllab. Oh now we're talking. I mean we're talking, I know that you had Lucy on the other day. I was listening to a one with the lovely Lucy S and you were talking about herer love of prwn cocktail And eightyies food is making a huge surge come back thanks to rivals. Yeah, of course, which starts at time of recording It starts on Yes, secondcond series. And there's been one hundred seford surge in eighties food Aarently. So I will go and lemon syllabub was all over the eighties. Yes. My mums Yes An amazing lemon syllabub. Yes, I think mine did well in the eighties. I'm going full dessert. I love a sorbe. I love any ice cream, a nice lemon sbe just to cleanse the palette halfway through before we bring out U I remember going to Wimpi. In the eighties S Having a burga a knicker orie in these Yes in the old, It's got to be that isn't it? The gl it's's afacious glass It looks like Jessica Rabbit. Great ye. I know. and the cream and the strawberry sauce and the ice cream Nuts, definitely. I love have nuts. You have to have nuts. loveove a crunch. Love a crunch. And I sw meringue You haven't even got into the meringues. All meringues ang. What about? bloody merangue. with hazelnut, chocolate Yes and cream. Yes, you know the one I'm talking about.. Just give it to me. That I'm all about the meringue. And I like it to have purchase. I like it to have o yeah, Sewness Punch the outside, you and the inside. Thankk you. I mean there's magic in every mouth I tell you, I think maybe it was like talking to Lucy about this. Lucy Porter was a guest on the pod of y. He's dead as well. He's lost a lot of great people. A lot of real, really good nuggets. Sorry After eights that have been in the freezer bin Frozen It' deious. Like I mean there's's so good. It's just magical. So so good. I think I have a thing for anything with crime. She drives any mad drink I need loads of ice in it. Yeah. justust conr. So I can sit and crunch a glass of ice. Oh really Oh. Yeahah. I just really enjoy the pleasure of texture in my mouth. Okay. I think it's why I like drrinks with bubbles So accompanying my array of dessert of dessert. Yeah. Champagne. Champs. Champagne. Champs is never not good. It feels glamorous, It feels elegance, it feels exciting And there's that sort of little partarty on the tongue, every mouthful. Do you O do you floute? I floute. And I think the reason I flute and I might be mistaken because I think it stays cold longer because there's less service area they love it being cold. Sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Considering this is my last supper though I'm willing to try both and to be honest, I'll be drinking it so fast nothing's getting hot When's the last time you had a glass of buubs? It was It would have been two days ago. Oh, he's good. dayaytime or evening time Every time' is a good time, but it would have been it would have been when's evening time, No? Oh that's good. That's good. I'd say after midday. Yeah. been evening time But I'm very happy having it in the morning as well. 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So essentially Having watched too many of these things and thought very carefully about how I would deal with the zombie apocalypse U But seeing as I know that I'm going to have to die, I feel like I will Twenty eight days later, they've just made the sevententh film. whichich is twenty eight years later, not seeen twenty eight years later iser than twenty eight days later They'll doad They'll do decades away they weeks, decades or whatever. Yeah And you'reking deead, I think there has now been seventeen thousand spinoff series. because everybody loves a way Like there was endless on I feel like someone needs to solve the issue of the zombie apocalyse I' the man if I'm going to go out I'm going to take them all out in one swoo Can I just say something? I've thought of a way in which you could do it Okay because zombies have terrible skin. They've probably got like the worst skin. That That's a good point. It's a really good point. So I can see on your back, like like ghostbusters. Yes, but full of productes of foreskin product and then you have a spray and you kind of spray them. This is it And the effect on their skin is so shocking. It heals their skin. sk The zombie dissolves. then and then there But they do die die with lovely skin. They die beautifully, fininally because they've been put out of their misery. The misery is they've got bad skin. Yes. the misery is because they've got bad skin. They can heal the skin, they can descend. They're betwixts life and death. They're not allowed to go in either direction, but this somehow like a The Savior of the world, endless zombie apocalypses would end because channel and charge around with a a hose of foreskin spraying my foreskin all over the zombies Joel will be with the in spirit because he'll, you know, it's his fore skin too. and at some point once all the zombies have gone, I will be consumed by the rush to heaven in an exaltation of glory to say thank you for putting us out of our misery You have no more fear of zombies because they don't exist I've saved you as well I mean it feels like a very generous way to take myself out. It's good. and the smell can be really good.s just fresh and clean and bright and best smell ever guys, best smell It's a certain product It's not fore skkin, I'm afraid, but she's a beautiful perfumier British perfume Oh my Godd, Freezer an English pair Fia Not like a Frizian cow? No, no. The Frizia flower. Frizia an English pear. My Godd, it's a haair's a nice fragrance too. Oh hair smell. fresh, summery fragrance. Yeah. An a freeure. An a f frzure. Yeah. Not to be confused with the freezion. Frion. Your favorite smell please Ben. What is it? Favorite smell I like something a bit more spicy. so cedary spicy Cedar wood, something maybe something a little bit more masculine. Yeah. M be bit musky. A bit of musk. Yeah, notot too musky though because muskyan can be a bit damp Yes. and once you start airing into damp, ye You don't want a musky forekin. You don't want a musk forekin. Do you? No, that was not one of the choices that we've put to the community. In terms of fragrance on the foreskin, what would you like? Citrus. Citrus is definitely better. Citrusy, fresh, bright, fresh, perky pear Pair for A nice pair. A nice pair Taglines. you should see what they' are com up with. Honestly, it's the gift just keeps giving skin so generous. I want to join the communian. No, I'm not a bloke I'm not a dude. that's okay. No, But by the way, we are not our skin is not exclusive to men. Yeah. Okaykay. eighty percent of men's skincare is bought by women. That's interesting. And undoubtedly bought for partners and sons and husbands and boyfriends and brothers or whatever Undoubtedly they will try it as well because women are very Pro cururious Yes. wayay more product cururous than men are as a whole my load stuff. I bought some stuff in today that I've just been given from the amazing Sarah Josle You and the team all over it. Oh God. like birds of prey. Oh my d. Hovering. Yes, what are these things? What can I tuck, what can I feel? So you are more than welcome to play with ourskin and see what he feels like. This day is just getting better and better. Not for you because you've died, but for me good I was around to really enjoy it Now Ben, what about tipping points We love it I think you love it. The viewers obsessed. I still to this day absolutely love filming one the summer And it's an absolute dream. Because you get the most amazing things happen, now on this show. Interestingly And it seems apt considering I'm dead now I get so many messages from people who have had a picture of me at someone's funeral. Because Tipping pointoint was something that stayed with them in their last few years and they loved. and they absolutely adored it. And I have had pictures of me sitting on coffins, saying Ben, thank you so much for bringing my mum, my grandfather, my uncle so much joy in their last few years. That's so nice. I've been in eulogies, peopleople have used my name and eulogies, tipping Point references and eulogies. That's very heartwarming. Isn'tordinary. Andings the other end as well. Have you ever shown up at a wedding? I've never shown up at a wedding We did have some propose on the show, which is quite complicated because it's pre recorded. And there's usually quite a time delay. but he proposed he got to the final propose. he said, so Sarah I said, A are you going to put it? Yeah, looks the camera Sarah, will you mry me? And then he had to wait eighteen months for the show to come out, but he filmed her watching the show. it's a long time. All sorts could have gone wrong between then and eight eighteen months. Something like that And he said, and then he filmed her as she as he asked her to marry him on the show She was watching the show with him and he turned around he had the ring out And then we had this lovely situation recently where a guy came on and he wanted some money for IVF for him and his wife. they had a little boy, but they wanted some small children And he contacted me sort of when the show went out and he said, Bam, I was on the show. justust wanted to let you know that the IVF worked. We had triplets They didn't just get the double jackpot. They had the triple jackpot. One of them was called Ben. I've had a Ben. someomeone's named a child. My middle name has become a Ben. There's a Benjamin out there. there's a dipping pointint Ben. There were three gorgeous little kids. it's It's joy, isn't it? It's sharing a little bit of joy everywhere. Yeah. And it's community. connection is everything. Yeah. And there is pared to the people that get on it and sort of It's' yes, it's an extraordinary thing to be able to do that and still do it Now you mentioned a Yula chap end. Oh You mentioned eulogy Have listen to this. Then Charrington. ir put. Holding that in secret. You will be missed, my friend. You really will Everyone. Woke up with you for twenty years and not just I guess yeah Big old Dirty hope act because you are An excellent TV host. you were you with a Nicest most normal guy in an industry Let's be honest, it's quite frankly full of c. , thank you. Thank you, Bad. You are dead now you are dead whichich is annoying because ye We've got a business I mean you were so healthy and it makes me you to think that working out doesn't make you live longer. C I cancel my height subscription? It doesn't matter. Anyway. It feels weird you being gone. I just It does. I keep thinking you're just going Return after the summer break, but you are not returning You are gone You can hear me up there. He's ragged on no sleep. Derma is absolutely raking at it I love to the best d. I mean Oh Joe. Thank you, Joe. How did you te me Um so we met Backstage ITV. I should got a bone to pick with you because it was in the same place that I met you when you said to me you just revealed on the masinger and you said Ben,' done the ming, you must do. it's amaz U so you're the reason that I ended up doing the Masinger. Did you enjoy? No, not really Why did you not enjoy it? Becauseuse I took it alloget too seriously now. I'm too bloming competitive And so I couldn't just sing the neighbor's team tune and a lovely time and think, isn't this ridiculously fun I was like, no. I' sing one direction. I've got to sound Harry Sttyles. And of course I don't I don't sound anything like Harry Sttyles. I sound worse than in Harry Hill. U but In the end I did. There was an embarrassing moment. I sang Uh jealous Um, everybody in love on the night that Marvin from JLS got booted out. He was can of worms. Oh, he was can of worms. He was of worm That's good. song that night if ever there was an example of a costume doing the heavy lifting. Y it was cononquers'. Yeah. Anyway, that's so where I saw you at the doors. So he Joel had just finished was promoting a series called Joel Eish versus the World. Right, which was an amazing series which I happen to discover. Not a lot of people watch it. I might have been the only person And it was the two of them going on these crazy adventures. Yeah. and by particularly I mean, I love both of them, but they're good men, man. They entthhusiasm, energy, positivity joy and naivety about everything he approaches and takes on in life It's so infectious. So I basically fanbooyed him quite heavily And u And then got his phone number and didn't stop bothering him. Oh, that's. I agree from there. That's so nice. So it was backstage there. I tell you what, in this crazy old world of Sbiz. It is bloody good to just have real like solid solids You know what I mean? Yeah, And I think that there's something important you know, I didn't know Joel before I randomly bumped into him and then forced him to be my friend by making him take my number. literally. And but we've become really, really close friends since and what's been lovely is that, you know been in the I've been doing what I've been doing for sort of a bit longer than him and his boys now are two and a few weeks, my boys are twenty one and nineteen. And there's sort of a correlation of experience and chat and advice that sort of settles between the two of us now And lovely. that's been really fun. It's really good. Yeah. Long may it last. Yeah. Long may it last. Thanks, Joel. Later in the show Sorry that's's amazing. Sorry Death too much And we're live on Match dayay as Doug reaches for a buffalo wing. He's got it. Oh and he's gone for a can of Pepsy too. What a finish! There's no doubt about it. It just tastes better. Match Days deserve Pepsy You thought this was your run club era Turns out, it was more of a thinking about run cllub era Good news Someone's marathon training is about to start Sell your workout gear on Dephop Just snap a few photos and we'll take care of the rest They get their race day fit And you get a payoff for trying. Someone on Dep hop wants what you've got. Start selling now Deepop, where taste recognizes taste We disgs death quite a lot in our house. We have done for years. I open about it, which is brilliant. My mom and dad argue most Christmases about my dad's funeral which hasn't happened yet fortunately. because my dad is insistent that he wants Pkal Harms. Wh shade a pale to be sung? and my mum is having absolutely none of it. she can't bear it. Okay. And her argument is he's not going to have to bloody listen to it, so he's not having it played at his funeral S seems a little harsh. Can I just say though, on that note If, you know, when the day comes and terribly sad it will be. Have a live, sing and not recorded. Oh yeah. I find recorded music at a funeral a little bit dull. Yes, there is that and a bit drought. I think it's got to be live. S a little bit of potency. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, so well my my my funeral, I feel like listening to your wonderful choir Bones who are just sensational. having sung a lot of chor music when I was at school. R The the boys my boys are got to it now That's what I feel like I need I need a big choir. Hell yeah. I need a big choir. pump and ceremony I want Yes, want I want noise, I want. too be honest, I want trumpets. I I I was just literally about to say for both my mum and dad's funerals. We've got a lovely pal of ours. We've got a lot of musos in our family, the generations below me. Pete Yard Martin, amazing trumpeter keyboard player, Pete It was R MD and he also played the trumpet. I love the fact you had a musical director for the funeral. But a funeral of course. Be we did a family choir Production. Oh, come on. And Ben, was it was such a good way to get through the grief because all we focused on betweenween the death and the funeral was the music.. So we had like, o, it was so, but it was so empowering. And we had Pete and literally Pete would be giving it, I mean, he's an incredible trumpeter. He literally would pick it up and just go, and do with this amazing stuff. and then he'd be back to conducting. Amazing. So one hand trumpeting one It was amazing. So I'm totally with you. choir, trumpets makeake the noise. I mean, if I can have beautiful organ or even an orchestra. You know, I just feel like U if in life been slightly humble, I think in death I should be anything but I think imagine Liberarchci going to town. Oh so good. Do we want a full requiem? Do we want like a full feel like that's only I think I think it's the only right thing to do. You know, just really understand P spirit Yeah, the joy Yeah and the musicality of those moments. there is there's an kind of way like Well, you've experienced it for your your family's funerals, but there is a magical thing if you create so we sang a lot at school and we used to do stayed up with the priest, of course whichich is an anthem that's sung tyypically at weddings, right? Yeah, or weddings or sort of when the king is they sang at his coronation Coronation. Oh I'm literally I'moosebumping just imagining the sound ofZadol the Breeze. If you haven't heard it Deathlings, stream it. It's incredible. in. and it's the amazing introduction that goes on forever And then I have sung every part through school from the age of sort of eleven. being a soprano, then going to an alto, then getting tenna and a bass so I can sing every part in my head, I still sing all the part. And I think that's a bit of Zidoc the priest. I mean, it's not traditionally sung at funerals, but I feel like You know what? Get it in. Do it. What about Parry, I was glad. You must have sign around. Lovely. Oh Yes. That is goosebump material No dry eyes, just power, just eny just glorious. bit a musical theatre? We could put some musical theatre in there as well justust a little A little sum and somethingming A little summ something My momum's great. Musical theatre ourur exponent. Oh bring him mine Imagine if somebody in the choir just suddenly stood up and gave a Alphie Beow. What about brring him home? What about something like sit down you rock in the boat? A. somethingomet a bit more. Yeah, lovely, lovely. Joyous and fun and jumping around I'm loving the sound of this funeral. Yeah J just a bit of everything. Yeah, okay, you know. Sounds good to me, Ben It's a little detailed but thinking you know buried. The problem is I don't know where to go. And he did have a couple of pots H a couple plots reserved, but we've moved house I don' think they really I think they Oh so she's booked. Oh, you have to book. I think Ben and I should as well. Yeah I'mly older than you are Yeah But you book if you want to gowhere nice, ye you can pres reserve them.'s quite. So J Annie found this space? She did take me there once. I felt a little bit too close to a hedge and a bush that was being used by foxes, but, you know. I wasn't massively conced. but I do what I really enjoy is sitting by a grave family members or friends that sadly have passed I really enjoy going and talking to them there and being there. And I know that Whatever you believe that you can talk to your friends and family that are with us or not with us all the time My uncle, Mark, who was a fisherman down in Cornwall in Port Isaac. Oh wow. Yeah, when he died, he was cremated and then we went out to sea and they sprinkled his ashes just around the cliffit one of his favorite spots and it was stunning. And I did remember thinking, oh actually that wouldn't be bad. W it be sprinkled somewhere? As long as you sort of St up wind of the you've seen those sprinkling things when it goes all over Yeah That's bad. Good for skin, Kevo. It couldould be. It's an explosion. could be something Sorry that's.'s amazing. Sorry Dath that's too much. Okay, so maybe hold on.'m thinking now I'm sitting, I' thin Maybe Because of course We want everybody. I mean, can imagine scenario for the mourners. They will be in floods of tears. They're going to have really puffy eyes. The goody bag that they will leave with, which will have some maybe if five being cremated turn into a bit of exelling. there'll be a little sprinkling of me in the foreskin. Foreskin ashes. Foreskin ashes that will not only reduce the swelling but also bring out a softer, warmer glow Maybe that's it. we're done Burn me, baby. There's some there's something in that and Now This was. Do you want to go out with something pithy probably something like I suddenly well If your death involved, as you said The zombie apocalypse Does it have to be something related to that in a sort of superhero type Well, it ye, it could be Or it could be something as simple as Nothing can't be solved Great lighting. G great full skkin Ben, can I just say It's been an absolute ruddy joy talking to you. It's felt like we've been chatting for about four seconds. It's gone so quickly. It's flown past, much like my life has. I didn't think it was going to end quite this quickly, Now. I'm going to be honest I was hoping for a few more years, but it was good though. It was good while it lasted. You packed a hell of a lot in, didn't I? Yeah. And solving the zombie apocalypse. I mean, that was the cherry with a hose of foreskin. Yeah, spraying across all those Rabid zombies. So good ne more little thing we have to do. before saying tutty Bes. Oh yes . So you sort of think, you know, it's all to do with what have I done on this earth that will allow me celestial foreveress, it's not. you've just got to spin the wheel and then find out where you end up. So if you wouldn't mind doing that, Ben, that'd be amazing. and thank you once again for coming on whereere there's a wheel is awake Always a joy to see you Oh he was hovering He was hovering He was hovering betwixt the hell and the hell Afraid you've ended up in hellb. Oh dear How dod you feel about that? But you'd turn any you'd turn everyone, you'd make them all nice, I think. you'd make them all lovely. power of your goodness. I run quite hot as it is. I don't really want to get hotter. My wife's always moaning about being why am I always so hot? Yeah.