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You're right, mate. I think we're on Facebook Live. We thought we would do this on Facebook Live as it is going to be the last one for a while. Episode 199.
Welcome one and all. Welcome one and all. Yeah, I mean, if anybody's watching, thank you very much if they're not, then it doesn't really matter. But hello to everybody also listening.
Nicely done, Neil. Very nicely done. I can crack mine open as well. Yeah, so Episode 199.
Before we do start, it's a very good idea, Neil. Um, Bea 52 is a wonderful thing. Oh, it's amazing. It's amazing.
I've got to say it genuinely is. A little surprise when I open the box to see all sorts of different ails and beers and then also added bonus for a fatty like me. Crisps. Yes.
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I've got the Columbus 1492. And I've got the Peninsula Hop on American Payalale, but the problem is I've just noted it's really high percent alcohol. Oh, well, you need to be careful then. Yeah, so watch out.
Yeah. So just go to www.bef52.com forward slash wtf. And all you have to do is pay $5.95 postage and you get this crate of eight craft beers. Um, and also it's a beer club.
So you get things every month and then you can cancel at any time, you can change your plan and all that kind of stuff. Mm. I know they're doing us a favour and everything, but it really is a great product. When it arrived, I didn't know what to expect.
Oh, you actually feel you. I know, but it is a great product. It is. I'm a summit.
I mean, you know, I'm not a drinker. I'm not a mine. But it is very nice. I'm a summit.
Yeah. But the way it rocked up in the box and how it was all posted, I thought it was fantastic. There you go. Yeah.
You're not going to be for $5.95, it's a bargain. I completely agree now. I completely agree. So anyway, we're here.
We thought after a hundred and well, all cards on the table to start with. Although this is episode 199, we have done over 200 episodes, because there was a few episodes that never had numbers. We didn't actually put numbers to them. They were like added extras.
They were. They were. And the OCD in me didn't want to finish WTF on a really odd number, especially if it was 199. The live show in November will be episode 200, will be the final one.
And this one is going to be episode 199. We're going to look back over the last four and a half years, nearly five years. It's crazy. And cricket's not as hard.
It is crazy. And how things have changed from that first, from the very first time we had Daisy in the said. Yeah, well, let's go all the way back and just remind the listeners, if they didn't know, we used to do another podcast called Movie Heaven, when we were under a different umbrella. And bless her, Daisy was just enough and coming.
And she'd only just done the pilot for Kerry, which nobody had ever seen and filmed in Science Sister. And she came to us. I always remember this and it's always amazing for a picture with us. That's right.
And then we got to the Phoenix Festival. It was the Phoenix Festival. And then we managed to get. She actually came to one of the live shows that we used to do at those little comedy shows we did.
She came to one of those, didn't she? When Mr. Sext won? Yeah, anyone the, the third of the year or King of the Nerds?
Is that where she got the idea for King of the Nerds? Oh, maybe we should put a hard thing in at the BBC. Maybe we should. Maybe we should.
Yeah, we got her into the shed to do our podcast, which was called Movie Heaven first. And she was an absolute joy, wasn't she? You could tell from there she was a great record. So she was fabulous at what she was saying.
She was fucking hilarious. Yeah, very foul now. Very fast change, doesn't it? No, you can actually, if you go on to the WTF feed, the podcast feed, you can see that or you can hear that.
Episode of Daisy Cooper in Movie Heaven. So you can hear her where she's talking about Keri, about this TV show that she's doing with ITV. That's it. And yeah, so there's so much there that you can delve into.
And a little did we know then, you know, that what we would be doing, what would happen to them. So I saw it back then, if we go back, we hadn't even decided to do the WTF when we got Charlie and Daisy in to do a quick podcast with us. It wasn't even under WTF then the very first one, was it? I can't remember it.
No, it was a Pankar special. Is that what it was? Yeah. And then we obviously, we took that off and put it as a WTF episode once we decided to do that.
Yeah, so, so weird how things were back in the day. It is. So long ago yet. It is.
Well, so far away. I mean, in our heyday, we were doing lots and lots of different podcasts. And I think we decided, I think you both decided to streamline it a little bit. And we rebranded.
Yeah, and we rebranded and all of that stuff. And then slowly the dream of us becoming famous, died and went away. And we realized, like, okay, why the best thing for us to do is to stand on the shoulder of geniuses. Just try and sort of like get their sloppy seconds, basically.
I think that's what we were hoping for. Hang on those coattails. Hang on those coattails. Yeah.
So we sort of came up with the idea of doing a podcast. And I think even to this day, I haven't seen another this country podcast. No, I think maybe we made everybody run scared. Yeah.
I think we kind of blew everybody out of the water in regards to the guests. Especially the first three guests we had, I think were apart from the special that we did that wasn't originally going to be WTAF. We had Portia-Hidi, Ashley Maguire and Paul Cooper. So straight away, you've got three other big hitters there.
And Joyce to talk to. Yeah, all of them. And to me, fair, all the members of the cast have been exceptionally good to talk to. There's no, I don't think one awkward interview with any of the stars on the show, is there?
No. No. We've been so welcoming to us. No, we've been very lucky in regards to guests, whether they, people in front of the camera, people behind the camera, super fans, you know, dumb gang members, other little special episodes that we've done, very, very lucky to get the people.
Absolutely. No, I agree so much. So, I mean, how many guests have we actually had on the show? I don't know.
I really should have done some kind of research in it. There's not been meant, well, we've done the look backs and the commentary. So if we take 18, 19 times three off of it, the rest have been guests, pretty much, haven't they? Pretty much.
Well, if you look at it as well, we've had, so, Sally use, the lovely Sally use we've had on at least three times. Well, Paul Cooper has been a, like a series regular, Tim Downey was a series regular, Giles, Jarl's, Bailey Phillips, a series regular, so that he has now appeared on our new podcast, the Top 10 of anything. So please come and subscribe to that. He's a guy, they were wonderful, but Giles always makes you feel comfortable.
Does that make sense? He relaxes you. He is a wonderful presence. Without a shadow of the day he is.
I'm trying to find, just keep talking a minute, Glennie. I'm sorry, yeah. Well, I was going to say, let's go at the beginning, when we were doing the first series. What were the highlights from you from the first series, would you say?
I mean, not the episodes, because we've been through the episodes so much. I mean, from the first recording through the first series. I mean, obviously we've just spoken about who getting Ashley and Paul and Paul and all the cast and that. The thing is with the first series, if nobody knew, I think even Daisy and Charlie didn't know what was going to happen.
And I think, well, I can't speak for them, but if it ended up being just that one series, no one can take that away from them, can they? They can say that they've done a series on the BBC. And there's not many people that can say that they've done that. I mean, there are plenty of people that could say that they've done one series and it wasn't a success.
If they did it, they did it the best they could. Obviously they didn't have loads of money, but they've done it. And to come from somewhere like Sirensesser and do that and create something and be able to do that is amazing. Yeah.
So the fact that we were the same, and the fact that this podcast can end up running for 10 episodes. That's what we said. You know what I mean, because we wouldn't know. We always get to speak to everybody in the cast, if you're lucky, which we managed to pretty much.
Just the one that we didn't quite manage to get. So for me, the highlight was that it blew up. It's exactly what I was going to say that we got from C. Yeah.
And the thing is, we didn't get a second series. No, no, but basically, again, yeah. Yeah. The reason they got a second series was because of us, obviously.
Well, it could have been. But no, I mean, in essence, we got a second run out of the podcast. It's if it had have ended, we probably would have done a few more after it had ended, spoken to as many of the cast members as we could, and that probably would have been it. Whereas when we found out they were doing a second series, boom, we could get more people, we could get started getting the celebrity fans involved, wasn't it?
It was fun. Exactly. Well, that to me was, it wasn't, the thing is, it's like, and I've said this before, that first episode, Scarecrow, for me, is very rare that you get even the great episodes of like Parks and Rec, in my opinion, the American office, the first episodes are pretty weak. Yeah.
Because they know they've got 20 episodes, even for the first series, although the office, we both had like six or 10 episodes, they've got a bit more time to be able to sort it out and find their feet. Well, with British sitcoms, you have six episodes in a series, they got to hit the ground running. And Scarecrow is one of the, I think, one of the best pilot episodes of a comedy I've ever seen. Yeah, it's right up there with, it's, well, it made a massive stamp, didn't it?
Yeah. And it's rare that you're going to get a pilot episode that some fans would say is their favorite episode of the whole series. So which we've spoken to, like Helena said, that's a scary episode. Yeah, so it's very, very rare that that happens.
So, I mean, when we spoke today's and try to when they came into the shed for the first, I mean, that was just before series two, wasn't it? Yeah, it was before the first episode of the fact. Yeah. Or at the first episode, maybe it was right on the very first episode.
Yeah. So it was great with the fact that you sort of felt like, okay, the podcast can have a bit more legs because they've done a series two. Yeah. And if there was going to be a series two, pretty much sure that if they didn't try to do it, there would be a series three.
Obviously, things like the aftermath and the comic relief and all that sort of stuff came in as well. And then in the end, it is just then trying to work out ways of giving the podcast a bit more legs. That's right. I think that's why doing things like the superfan episodes, you know, meant you could get that because everybody has a different story of how they got to this country or why they love it or why they respond to it.
So it's, I mean, I don't know, what about you for the first series? Well, it was nearly the same. I was going to say the same sort of thing. When it exploded up when everything became sort of big and bigger, I always remember that the standard run and article saying we did the first interview with Daisy and Charlie and I think both of us might have put up on their need.
Yeah. It is our interview, done a couple of weeks ago, which always made me laugh. That was one of the funniest things. But the opportunity then that it rose for us to be able to go on and do like, you know, the first live show.
And when we first first talked about it, I mean, we were, I'm in an ironup at the end of the series one, weren't we, whether we should do one. And we were actually thinking of doing it at the local pub. That's right. We genuinely were, we said, you know, maybe not charge and do a free show.
But it was only the following that we got through the likes of the dump gang and people that listened to the podcast, which we're certainly grateful for. We managed to put it on our big theater in sign assessment. Well, it's big to it. Well, one of the big theaters.
Yeah, one of them. Yeah. But yeah, it's, it definitely feels to me that it was in a smaller scale that we, on that same kind of momentum, like Daisy and Charlie were, we sort of, again, it's all it is like slipstreaming behind them, kind of hanging literally hanging onto their coattails. I think it definitely feels, feels like that for probably the whole thing.
Really? It took a long for our listenership in our eyes to grow considerably. Yeah. Well, and again, if you look at the fact that we've been podcasting six years, maybe, no, no, no, probably five years, five years before we started doing that.
And then this podcast, right from the start was by far the biggest podcast we've ever done. And again, that's not because anything that we've done, it was because of everything that Daisy and Charlie had created. Exactly. You know, it helps when you can tap into already made fans of a certain thing, a certain IP, if you want, we're finding out that now because we have started another podcast and that you can see when you're starting from a completely flat ground, how hard it is to get known and get seen.
Do you know what I mean? Whereas, whereas when you've got this country, it's an in with, okay, it's a certain section of fans. Yeah. And you get put in that bubble that you think everybody is watching this country because you get devoured by it.
You know, it becomes, I'll admit, for the last four and a half years, it's literally become my life because I'm looking at it every single day. And it becomes a little bit like it takes you over it. Definitely takes you. Yeah.
So, but everywhere I look, even to this day in my house somewhere, there's this country, something, because of the series, you know, something we've either been given, something we've, you know, well, I don't think we've bought anything with this country by everything we've been given is all around the house, you know, and it's a joy, it's a joy to see and it's there for all time now, isn't it? And especially our podcast, not where everybody, they will be there for all time for you to enjoy along with the TV series. Yeah. I think it's, I mean, we've said it before, I'm a probably say it loads and we've been so lucky with guests we had.
Well, the pandemic helped, don't you? The pandemic definitely helps in regards to booking certain guests. And we, on booking guests, there was a purple patch, there was definitely a purple patch during spring summer, because I'm assuming because you know that actors and people like that are at home because they like to go anywhere, they haven't got any work. So to get the likes of Tom Davis, yeah, Ruth Bratt, Rebecca Front, yeah, Armando Ianucci, which is still one of the highlights, no disrespect to any other guests.
No, it was absolutely crazy. We went through Jeremy Vine, Jeremy Vine, Gabby Roslyn, it's crazy, it is absolutely crazy. It's just not, it's, I think also the thing is that you've also then you've got a common thing that both you and the guests love. That's right.
You know, if you were, if you were doing a normal, say, you know, what they called when they promote the film kind of, it's the junkie. Yeah, like a junkie interview. They're the same kind of things that are being told, you know, every day, and I, I'm very rare, I blow our own trumpet. But I think one thing that we've learned from, from nine and a half years ago, over long is we started podcasting, when we had no training on interviewing, we had no way of remembering what to do of, you know, coming over naturally.
But we always said we wanted the person that we're talking to to have fun. We don't want it to be serious. So to get these kind of people that have either had millions of questions, asked them, or they've been the ones asking loads of questions, to come away saying that they've had fun after the chat. I mean, they might just be saying it to say it.
Well, it's still, it's very nice words, isn't it? It still gave you the confidence to keep going, doesn't it? And I think genuinely we had fun with people. I mean, take the likes of Jeremy Vine was having so much money, invite his daughter on.
That's right. That's right. Yeah. I think it's, well, I think I'll say it all the way through this.
We've been very, very lucky. And also to say in regards to being very, very lucky, I think the whole this country, fan community, the dump gang with Ross, Kim, Helena, Sarah, Amy, the whole lot, you got Paul Barnes, Sarah Barnes. Oh, there's so many to mention. I mean, there is, I'm going to, I know that I'm going to forget.
Laura, she was a Patreon as well. Yes. Yeah. Paula.
Yeah. There's, there's everybody that, yeah. Those two ladies that bought so much merch are live show, bless them. And then we saw them in the cafe the next day.
Oh, I can't think of the name. Nicola was one. Remember they bought loads of our merch and they came into the cafe? Yeah, when we went to the cafe after the live show and met up with everyone, they were there.
I can't remember the names. I'm so sorry for forgetting. See, I can't remember. I'm terrible with names, but I can't even remember going to cafe.
Remember the cafe in Siren? The next day? I met everybody. My brain has gone.
When was that the first show? No, the first, no, the first show we went with, what do we call it with Dan? Didn't we? Dan, Jimmy Walker.
Right. We're having a real problem with names and we bumped him today. He went with their dad. Oh, yeah.
That was the first one. Well, the second one, we met the dump gang in the cafe. We wanted to be there. We put the breakfast with them.
Then I apologize to everybody that was there because I can remember the first one. I can't, I thought we only went to the cafe once. No, no, we went with Jimmy and then we went with the dump gangers. We arranged the same morning breakfast and a farewell with them.
And Nicola and her friend who I've completely forgotten, she can crank me at the live show. She, they were wonderful. They were so, I just got so much time for them. Yeah.
But like that's what I'm saying. It's like having a fan community where, again, we all love the same thing, but everybody is there for everybody, which is a fantastic thing. So as much as speaking to the written famous and the huy puloi of entertainment and music and whatever, I think those moments with the fans and getting messages from people saying that the podcast that we do help them and make them feel happy. All of that kind of stuff means so much more.
And the people that are on our Patreon, it's again, it's not massive, but every single one of them are amazing to me. And it's without them, and we've said it a million times, we can't do what we do. And I will stress that although the podcast is finishing, the bi-weekly Zoom get together as we do every other Wednesday, we'll still be carrying on. Because it's, I don't really want to give that up.
I want to be able to see Kim or Helena or whoever wants to come and join us, Amy or Ross. You know, and if anybody else wants to come and join us, please do. There's no reason that you can't come and sign up. Even if you sign up for one pound a month, it means that you can come and join us on our bi-weekly Zoom.
But I mean, I was going to say, even if we haven't mentioned you by name or anything like that, you do mean the world to us. There is so, I mean, we'd be over an hour if we had to mention everybody. Every single one of you that comes to our shows, downloaded a podcast, been a Patreon, you're all special to us. You're all very, very special.
And we thank, I thank you from the bottom of my heart because it's without their loyalty, we wouldn't have been carrying on really. Yeah, yeah. I think one of the, not, I don't mean memorable, but one of the craziest weeks through the whole of the WTAF was when Michael passed away. Now I was off work at the time because that's when I had my kidney stone.
And then I can remember, I don't know if I was in the shed or I'd seen it somewhere, but it said that Michael had passed away. I think Camilla put it up. And then I put our tribute upon Facebook and Twitter and stuff like that. And I think that for us was the nearest that we've ever gone to go and viral.
It was because for some reason, everybody, like all of the newspapers on their, their websites took our, took the, the tribute that I'd done and ran with it. Yeah. And it was really, really strange. And once the dust had settled by the following day or the day after, I was, I was absolutely, because I, like I listened to ship just like I went through the roof.
And I was so racked with guilt. I was absolutely wrapped with guilt because I was looking at like the, we got to number three in the Apple podcast charts and not just the TV and film chart, but the Apple podcast chart, the top one for the UK. And I was so like, like the inside my insights was like, rax, because it was amazing that we got to number three, but such a shitty, shitty reason. And I really, really felt, I felt guilty.
We had the conversation, didn't we? Yeah. I felt awful. And then somebody, and I can't remember, I apologize for whoever it was.
Because I think I put out online saying I didn't know how to feel. And I didn't know whether or not to take the podcast down or something out of a market respect. Well, I remember we had the conversation, we weren't recording it. And I said to you, you know, remember that Michael loved this and it's a way of celebration, not a way of, you know, we're not earning money from this.
It's just a way of celebrating. Yeah. And that was one of the conversations we had. Well, I'm not sure.
Yeah, because somebody sent me a message. Honestly, I can't remember who it is. Apologies for whoever it was. But they said that, you know, exactly what you just said, that Michael will be loving this and be laughing his head off.
But you're getting all this stress because of what's happened. And it was just, it was so strange, you know, press association phoning me up for a quote and things like that. And I'm thinking, I honestly, don't know what to say. All you can say is, well, I suppose in the end, all you can say is what you meant to us.
And then that following weekend was the this country charity football match, which was so much fun. But it was just like, shrouded in this, this sort of like, I mean, we know from seeing Daisy afterwards, I think the emotion was inside her and she was such a trooper during the day. So yeah, that was July, wasn't it? That was in July.
Yeah. And then because we did the football match on Sunday, wasn't it? And then it was Michael's memorial on Monday. That's right.
Yeah. It was beginning in July, I remember it as well. Yeah. And then, and then they did a, I put together a like a memorial video, which they very kindly said that we could play after I'd done at the Phoenix Festival.
So that was played in front of vinyl, every minute, three, four thousand people, which was, which was just again, it was a lovely, lovely way to, to sort of celebrate. Yeah, front of everybody, like everybody in the time. Because, you know, so many people knew him, everybody knew him. And again, we've said a million times, you know, he never said no to us.
When we asked him to do stuff, you'll hear on some of the fan quizzes, probably me, him being the quiz master and that's right. And going right back to the video for one of our old live shows, he kindly came into carpool karaoke with us. Yeah, it was, it was great. It really was it's, yeah, it's that was an odd time.
Like he said, it was like a joyous time, yeah, very somber time. And he will be for obviously forever missed, but immortalised now. Yeah, he really is. I'm glad he got a little bit of what he wanted.
So at least yeah, there is that but yeah, he will be missed and gone far too young. And again, coming to help us on the live shows, you know, and we knew that he was sort of in pain on that last one, didn't we? He was having trouble with his legs and stuff, but he still got up there. And again, listen to WTF3, like this, I can't remember what he did, like James Bond, wasn't it?
We're getting to do James Bond stuff. And he was talking about his book in that show, everything, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, it was, it was again, it was one of the beauties of doing this was to be able to spend a bit more time with him. So we're talking about the live shows then.
Let's, you know, I mean, we'll always miss Michael, but let's talk about the live shows. So the first one we did after series two, we did. What do we call that one? Just WTF live, I think.
And we were lucky. It was the first time we was there, we have Michael, yeah, Paul, Paul, and then Jimmy, yeah, he plays down. Yeah. And well, we couldn't have scripted that night, good way, how well that went.
I mean, was that an exam night night or was that live to? Honestly, to be fair, they all roll into one. Yeah, I'm trying to remember, I know the guest list, but I was going to say the highlight of that, if anybody was at that first show, even us watching it was Paul and Jimmy recreating the sponge in the case. Yeah, yeah.
How perfect did they do that? Yeah, we couldn't have asked for anything better there on the first one. But again, we didn't know, no, because that's right, I think that episode, we didn't we go through one of the episodes of the series. We did the, Oh, was that it?
No, no, no. I can't remember. I know we went through because we did slap that drink out of the new, we did all about slap that drink out of his hand. Yeah, yeah.
The Screw Fix book. That was the first one. That was the first one. And I'll tell you what, as much as ideas for jokes went, it was a great idea for a joke, but such a pain in the ass.
I mean, we must have, how many seats have we sold in 300? Well, it's about 240, 250. So we wrapped up 240 through Fix catalogs, put one on every seat or under every seat, whatever it was. Yeah.
And then most of the people never took them. I was going to say, and then one of them had a really special gift in. No, there was two. Two.
And they didn't somebody say that they had one in the end. One did. And we always wondered whether Lee had one or not. Wasn't he going to open at the last show?
And he didn't. Yeah, that's right. I don't know. Yeah.
So then go on, then who was the guests in the second live show? The second one was double dinners. Yeah. And the guests in live two was Paul again.
Yeah. And it was slugs again. Yeah. And then it was Trevor.
Because this was the Christmas, wasn't it? Yeah, we did the end of the year. So we did at the end of the year. We sang 10 Black Spiders.
Remember that? Trevor stole the show. Fantastic. And then we also did the Fairy Tale in New York.
Oh, that's right. Yeah. And I think I started the night with the, like, we will rock you thing as well. You did.
Yeah. And then which was the one that you came in on the bike? That was that one. I spent the whole night in a hoodie that's too small for me.
That's right. Now, was that you made me wear a high V is that's right? No, that wasn't. That wasn't Satan's fingers.
That one was it where I made the Satan's fingers jacket that no, it was because then sang the 10 Black Spiders song. Right. And that was when the aftermath. So it probably was.
So it was, yeah. So we had, yeah, because he wore it to the third one, didn't he? That's right. Yeah.
So I just just, yeah, because we went back to the Golden Farm to the volts afterwards. And I gave that was the day after we went for breakfast. Right. Right.
Right. Yeah. And then the third one, we had Paul and Slugs again, because they were just legends. We had Jimmy, no, was it James Moore, and Jimmy Moore's a singer, James Moore, and Mark Kempner.
Mark Kempner, yeah. With the four this time. And that's when we really paid homage to Mr. Sligs.
We closed with the chair. That's right. And the spotlight. And we, and we auctioned off his cover jacket.
Yeah, which raised an awful lot of money. We were worried because it was Lee that was doing the, yeah, and he kept going up to like 250 pounds. We thought, no, because he was, he got that money. A rich man, wasn't he?
Yeah, it was. Was there because obviously Eric played for us and everything. That's right. Yeah.
They've all the live shows have been fantastic fun. We really barely laughed through them. Jill, still, Jill, of course, we did Mr and Mrs at the third one. We did.
And she also crying this as well. And so it was it was double dinners that the bathroom made the appearance, wasn't it? Jill still didn't tell us till near the end that she brought the bath to the wither. Yeah.
And I'm sure this picture somewhere up online about the bath. But yeah, we, we got to hold the bath there and she knighted us as well. She did. She did.
And then she also sold the show by standing in the, standing behind the screen. And it was like Austin Powers, right? It was just silhouette of letter. That's right.
That was so fun. But yeah, all the live shows were amazingly funny. And what great times we had. Indeed.
People have been commenting on Facebook live, but apologies if I haven't been reading the mic because obviously we've been trying to just chat about what we want to. Yeah. So, yeah, we're going back to the, yeah, the final live show. It was, you know, we've got the fourth one, which will be the next podcast.
The final, final podcast, unless the American series comes to the British shores. We might, we might read. As with anything, you never say never. That's the thing.
The way that we look at it is that and obviously if Daisy and Charlie decide to come back and they're going to do another series or do a special, we'll do an episode or two on that. That's no problem that we will do that. The podcast like on the feed is never going to go away. We're still going to keep that up.
I mean, to be fair, that's sort of why we need the Patreon to pay for that to carry on going basically. Because one thing, not all of us podcasts are on Joe Rogan, many kids. I'll tell you that for a fact. And especially with the fact that we're trying to get another one sort of up and running and going, it's sort of like, that's by the bike.
Many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, talk is, we don't do it for the money. We do it for the joys and the fun. But I mean, I don't know, I know that we've got about 20 tickets left for the live show, as I've recorded. The one thing I don't know, obviously now this, the date has changed, I think twice now, for the third time, I think it's changed.
I'm kind of hoping that the people that bought tickets for the original dates knows that it's changed. I believe all the emails went out to everybody that bought tickets. So I'm hoping that they will know about it and we'll turn that for the date. That's what I'm hoping for.
Well, when I spoke to the theatre when I was there a couple of weeks ago or a few weeks ago, they'd have no returns. Right. Okay. That's good.
But of course, it's also, I think that the trouble we, I see for the live show is when we did the first one, was it the first one or was it the second one that Daisy was very, very close to coming to? I think it was the second one, wasn't it? Literally on the day of the show, on the Friday, I got a message from her saying, don't tell anybody, but I should be able to see you there. I was so excited because I thought everybody is going to lose their shit when Daisy comes out.
And then in the afternoon, I got a message from her saying, sorry, I've been caught doing a voice over or something in London. I'm not going to be able to make it. I thought, well, what's saying? It would have been so good.
So as much as as soon as her and Charlie's sort of fame has risen, makes it much harder for us to get our hands on them. Yeah, hold on. Well, they're just so bloody busy now. That's half the problem.
They really are busy. You know, they're not the success they deserve. You know, I mean, you know, Daisy's on most comedy shows now. Yeah.
And again, that's no disrespect to the guests that will be there. Now, who knows? Who knows? We still have a few weeks ago.
And we still have feelers out there. The offers are always out there. So then strange things can happen. The one thing I will say is that no one will know about it until the night of the show.
Yeah, we won't. We won't let anybody know if something like that amazing, like that would happen. We're just going to let you know that just to get rid of those last 20 tickets, who knows? Maybe they're never known.
Well, you know, like, you know, I've spoken to a certain member of cast and they have said, if they can, they will. Yeah. But they said, you know, they are very busy filming. That's the problem.
And they won't know until literally that week, whether they cannot, can't. Yeah. So, obviously, the people that the other people that we love to be there, they're all actors. So they're all working.
And they probably don't know what they're going to be doing. No, they don't end of November. So, you know, it's it's especially after the long lockdowns that we've had, like last year and this year, they need to work. Yeah, they've got no choice.
They've got to go out and work. So as much as we'd love them to be selfish and just come to us, we're completely understanding what they got to do. Yeah, why did you say that like a like a I don't know. It's because they got to go anything hop on.
Yes. Yeah. So how is your beer 52 beer going down? Mine's strong.
Is it Mike, my Columbus 1492, which of course isn't particularly politically correct these days, because all in terms of purposes, Columbus was the right bastard. Allegedly, how would they know? Allegedly. I don't maybe watch Carrie on Columbus.
They saw the last in the night, Jim Dale. I like Jim Dale. So do I look like my uncle David spitting image? Really?
Yeah, genuinely. I'll try and get a picture and I'll show you. Yeah, thanks. That'd be great.
There you go. Shout out to my uncle David. There is also my uncle father. You look like Jim Dale.
It's not that I told you this before. Yeah. Well, if you look when you listen to this podcast, the link to get tickets for the live show will be in the show notes. If there is a quick way of me doing it on Facebook Live, I could see if I could do it.
Let me see. Just bear with me. It's fine. Carry on, Neil.
Yeah. So obviously one of the a lot of people as well, well, I want to say a lot of people. It's nice to get recognised to the work we've done on a podcast, the WTF podcast. Throughout the time, where I work, and even recently at the weekend when I was away, somebody came up to me and went, you do WTF?
I had no idea who they are. I said, oh, you were listening, you subscribed and everything. I thanked them and they walked away and I thought, fuck, I never asked anything. Too busy being flattered to move in recognised.
So that was really sweet. Yeah. It's always nice to get that kind of reaction. It is.
It is. And also, I'm going to give a big thanks to Rob Grace for the live shows because he did our very first two. He's an up and coming comedian. He's just started on the road really.
Now, the first live show, he went down really well and everything went well. Second show, not so great for him. I thought he was so funny. He got a bit of flack from the audience afterwards, didn't he when people asked.
But I think you learned a lot from that, though. I think he went a lot like that. It's like he said, you know, it was good to challenge himself like that. And I just thank him so much because I think the guys are legends.
I know we've got Kerris, but she's a complete professional doing this community and shit. Whereas Robert, you know, he's pretty new to the game. And I thought he did really well. But see, I mean, and I completely agree with you, but I'm really looking forward to seeing Kerris do his stuff.
There's just something about Kerris that I just find like hilarious and he's a lovely, lovely person. And she's been with us so long. Oh my God. She was one of the first, like she's a coming.
That was the thing. And again, I don't know whether it's because people feel sorry for us or whether just people like doing things for us. But she used to come and do those like comedy nights that we used to do with the old podcast. Literally just for a petal money.
And she is a, her job is to be a comedian. Yeah. Like that's a job. And she dressed up in all sorts of Oh my God.
Every time it was so funny, but she was, she was, and she does a sort of comedy that I like where it's that, you're picking on the audience, you know, and it's just that reactive comedy to who use and sometimes as we find when we've tried writing comedy, the natural stuff that comes out that's funny is much better than anything that you lock yourself away in a room for 20 days trying to find something funny, a natural thing, you know, the stuff that we've done, you know, that we picked, picked on Ross with his snake hips and stuff we said when doing some of the commentaries and stuff with Ross that we done on when he got up and wore a day's shoes. Yeah. Days is hilarious. Yeah.
You know, it's, and it's those kinds of things that just little nuggets of gold that you, that you know, and again, we've been very lucky that we've had people, we've had people that, that, not only that we can make laugh, but they will make us laugh. Yeah, absolutely. I think, I think Ross and Amy together, when they come and done their commentaries and stuff, they work so well together. Yeah.
They're a lot of fun. But that's, that's what I like doing the, the Patreon, soon calls because we don't have a lot of time. Sometimes we don't even need to be talking about anything specifically, do we? We just start chatting to each other and it just becomes just a half hour, 40 minutes of just chatting.
I know. Well, we got very used to that, didn't we? I think we've become quite natural at it there. And hopefully people enjoy our rambles and chats.
Well, ramble chat. I think that's a ramble chat. Yeah. So the other highlight for me was when we went to the day that we went to the second series screening.
So first off in the morning, we went off to Northleach. Yes. Yeah. The tour around Northleach and we did our little bits there and, you know, even recreated the run and we did all bits there.
And then we went back and we went, they, the BBC, kindly on the second one, invited us in on the first screening, didn't they? They did. Yeah. And then the second one.
I must admit, the, the experience we had for the series two, private, what's, you know, pre-screen is what I'm going to call it. And the series three pre-screen, private screen is were completely different. Absolutely. They were completely different.
Yeah. And it's no disrespect to the BBC as such. But apart from the fact that we got some cracking interviews of people in the, in the queue, waiting. And then the, the bloody SD card got corrupted and we lost everything.
I'm going to put it on my phone. We had great phone walking up there as well. Yeah. And again, there were people there that were like, listen to the podcast.
They were, which was great. But then the first, the second series screening, the first showing was only about half full because they only did it for students, didn't they? Yeah. Whereas this time they did full, two full screenings and they were full both times.
So it's understandable that we couldn't get into the first one. But we were left out in the cold rather a long time. Yes, rather. Who we were.
That's the thing. I've never ever wanted to be that person. Yeah. Do you know what I mean?
I mean, like, I don't, you know who we are kind of thing. I, yeah, I kind of feel that there was a little bit of a personal thing there. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I think possibly. But yeah, I mean, I know we can't really say it, but any particular favorite guests? Well, well, we do like it's always going to be our man, though, in nature.
I'm really sorry to all the other guests. You've, I love your water pieces equally, but to get somebody who doesn't, always do interviews. No. To interview for us.
All right. You only gave us an hour, but I think it's a perfect hour. Yeah. And it felt like to me, you would have carried on.
And also it was the fact that he was not doing bits with us, but it was sort of like that. Sometimes it went off on little tangents that he rolled with. That's right. He's a comedy genius and a comedy natural and all that stuff.
But that was the thing that I really enjoyed was the fact that we sort of went off on little tangents, so he said something that we latched on to and it just naturally became it was like a funny thing. That's true. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I won't regret was you missing poor feet.
I know there was just nothing I could do. I mean, I nearly sobbed my heart, knowing that you were doing that. But what could I do? And I was trying to think back.
Have we ever had it where we've done a podcast? We said, if you remember, I said to you, it doesn't matter who does it, as long as it gets done. That was the only time we've never done a podcast together. Yeah.
Excuse me, especially an interview. And like I said, I really wanted to be on that. I so wanted to be on that and cast work. Yeah.
I mean, I have to say, I'm doing that interview on my own. I did feel like it went hell of a lot better than it does when it's the two of us. So just to let you know, Neil, this is, this is your last ever. You're firing.
You're fired live on air. You're fired live on air. Good. Right.
I'm going to go get pissed with being a bit of 52. Fuck you. I'm joking. I just know it's like, it's like, I remember when you were having technical or some problems that when we, this is years ago before WTF, we were doing some comic cons and we were doing the Q and A stage and I accident Q and A stage.
I don't mind doing it or anything like that. But it does feel like you've lost your, you know, one of your arms. Yeah. It's bizarre feeling.
If you work in a partnership, it must be why I haven't been back carrying on doing what they do. When you work in a partnership, it is weird when you have to do something on your own. It's very bizarre. I think the thing is when you've got somebody else there and like my mind does sometimes, my mind might wander while we're having an interview with someone.
And then, but so then when you finish asking the question, you kind of got some, someone's got your back. Yeah. And you know that the next question is going to come from someone else. So by the time I finished with my mind wandering, I'm back again.