Please Keep Me Anonymous with Ed Gamble

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1:21Yeah, no. It's just a chat. Because he hosts so many things, so many podcasts. Incredibly funny guy. Just really good chat, really nice, chilled chat. Talks about his new tour, which he's got. Yes, he's got a new tour, Fresh Hell, which we'll see him perform more than 60 dates across the UK, starting in Ipswich on the 30th of January 27. I'm sure he's going to add more all over the place as well. He's also on talking about his new panel show on TLC. Starts July 5th at 9pm. It's called Unacceptable. He explains what it's all about. It sounds great. It does. Again, I was supposed to go on, but I couldn't.

1:52fit in my schedule. If they get a second series, I'll be well up for it. I think you'd be good at that. It looks fantastic. Yeah, it sounds great. So enjoy. And if you're watching this on YouTube, please subscribe. It'll be very, very helpful indeed. Enjoy, guys. We had a fight about the jingle. We couldn't settle on a jingle. So this is the jingle. We hope you like the jingle.

2:23When did you turn 40? In March. So you were 1986, baby. 1996 all the way. As are we. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Good year to be born. When are you guys? August. August. Both of you? Both of us. God, it turns out you're twins. That's terrible. August the 3rd. And it's 27 days. Yeah, yeah. August the 3rd and August the 30th. So it's 0330. But we're different star signs. Really looking like that means something. Oh, yeah. No, there's a very sort of little thing in my head that often goes, oh, we could be related. We grew up really close to each other. Yeah. Imagine. And that's how it works up there, isn't it?

3:05Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. Keep it in the family. You just sort of put it in the bucket and share it out. And you do look, a lot of people, when we first met, thought you were like looked a lot like my brother yeah yeah yeah the plot thickens exactly that's it yeah what star sign are you pisces nice oh you knew that do you you should you'd strike as a man who doesn't who doesn't know what you strike me as a man who doesn't believe in any of no i don't believe in any of it but you didn't everyone knows you know what it is oh my god what age do you know your star sign that's interesting like my kids have never asked i really i think early doors i I think I had some sort of framed picture that someone bought me when I was born.

3:45Ah, yeah, I remember. I had a book thing of it all. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's just something, you know, before iPads and that, it's just something to just run them through. Do you know what I mean? Oh, there's a thing about star signs. Have a look at your book again. Stop trying and look at your star sign book. I used to have a star sign book. Every day. Did you? It was every day. What star signs are you? I'm a Virgo. And what does that mean? I'm a bitch. Oh, perfect. I'm a bitch. Actually, hold on. There might be something to do with this. but I'm very loyal fiercely loyal Virgo is like top serial killers of the world are Virgos but also like well weird that you're led with that I know it is weird that I'm led with that just like not horrible people but we'll get shit done so you're saying serial killers aren't horrible people no they are the horrible people say it again for the microphone are serial killers horrible people yes or no I think they're misunderstood depends who they're killing if you think about Dexter.

4:39Yeah, Dexter's a good one. He was killing other serial killers. Yeah, he's doing the good ones. Do you have never seen Dexter? If you're not, it's good. Series four is very good. It goes downhill after that. Yeah. I just remember thinking, I am on series two here and I know it still goes to nine series, so I know they don't catch them, so I don't care. I think he gets off with his sister towards the end as well. So it'd be perfect for you two. Happy days. Happy days. Weren't they married? I think they might have been, actually. They got together, got married and got divorced in the full stretch of that show happening, if I remember right.

5:07His sister? Not his sister in real life. He's acting sister. His on-screen sister. His on-screen sister. He married his sister? Fuck me. In real life? In real life. It's just in the show. In real life they got married. In the show they were brother and a sister. Oh, God. But also in the show I think they end up getting together as well. I like the idea that that was his note to the director. You know, I'm married now. Why don't the characters just... I don't like that at all. Why don't the characters just fuck each other as well? But that's disgusting. Yeah, but come on, it'd be easier. I don't like that at all.

5:36Have you got brothers and sisters? I've got half brother, half sister. Nice. Yes. So I've got one complete sibling if you put them together. Aww. Yes. But I normally just say brother and sister. Yeah. Because it sounds harsh, doesn't it? Yeah. I've got, so my cousin's children, they're like half sisters, but I would never, ever call them half sisters because they're just sisters. And your cousin's children are your half siblings? No, half cousins. They're my half cousins. Half cousins. Okay. But I just call them my cousins. Yeah. But they're younger than me. But also cousins don't mean anything anyway, do they?

6:09Oh. Wow. Well, they talk with cousins. It's like... You've not got cousins? I've got loads of cousins. I've got... But I'm not like, oh, I better phone my cousins.

6:23I see him and like, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fine, you know, I got on... You've not got a group chat with your cousins? No, I don't have a cousins group chat, no. No, okay. I'll see him at family events and I get on with him very well, but I'm not like... Oh, I've got cousins that might as well be strangers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've got like, yeah. Honestly, I'm really close to my cousins. Yeah, I would walk past some of my cousins in the street and I wouldn't have a fucking clue. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They know who you are though. Yeah. That might as well. Yeah. Because they're all bragging, aren't they?

6:49Do you think? That's my cousin, they're saying. How do you know? That's really sad that you're not close to your cousins. Oh, fucking who cares, man? God almighty. Me? I've got like 25 cousins. Name them. Do you want me to? Yeah. Oh, Jesus Christ. I want to hear all 25. There could be more than that now. So I'll go from the top. Are you going oldest? I'm going oldest. Jimmy, Philip, Dean, Kate, Nina. There's me. Sophie. You're counting yourself as one of your friends. 24. She's got 24. And then there was Sophie. Not my brother. Then there was Jacob. We're on seven for anyone keeping count. So there's Luke, Millie, and then people started having children.

7:35So then there was Lacey, Layla. Kate. Kate. Poppy, Ruby. Poppy, Ruby. Anna. Anna. He's part of the family now, he's in the group chat. Then there's Tommy, there's Sonny. And then, what am I up to? 15. Did I exaggerate the 25? You exaggerated by nine, which is really, really embarrassing. No, because I'm not done yet. This is a great podcast, by the way. How often does this happen on podcasts that you're on? I think Guess the Cousins is a whole new format.

8:14Well, we all do it, don't we? Also, when I see 25 cousins, it is also including me and my brother and sister. So there's three that I've had to miss off. But they're definitely not your cousins. They're definitely not your cousins, but they're in the cousin family. they're in the cousin family yeah and i've missed some out that i can't think of i've got the new format welcome to the dream restaurant cousins or siblings josh i've missed people you've missed josh yeah yeah that's nice though that chris knew the name of some of your cousins in the correct order oh they're always hanging about charlie can't remember the name of anyone in my family excellent when we go to family occasions i have to like basically do flashcards before we get yeah like veep and then we came away from a family occasion once and i said um can you remember anyone's names she's lovely she gets on with all of them but just names yeah names just don't stay in her head right and i was like tell me some of the names and the only one she could remember was wolf which is my uncle's dog i love the idea of someone was called wolf yeah it was the fucking dog.

9:19Alright, okay. Made an impression. Made an impression. I struggle with names. That's something I do. I'm really seeing. Not just then. No, they've been in my life for a long, long time. But I struggle to remember names. You're good though. Where do you play the game? You remember names of people you've worked with and you're the man. You know how to do it. Chris. Rosie. Yeah. Well done. Daisy.

9:45You're here to talk about stuff that you've got going on. Thank you. You're so good at this. And what a lot of interviews don't do is they don't have that smooth transition from general chat into the plugin section. And a lot of people won't sound really annoyed when talking about it and look at their cards at the same time. I'll be honest with you, Ed, because let's all be honest here, she just wants you to name your cousins. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've already upset us the fact that you don't speak to any of them. Yeah. I do do it now and again, but we all live differently yeah and that's fine something i'm coming to this makes you sad doesn't it it makes you really sad you hear it when people are in each other's pockets but i often wonder if that's an unhealthy way to live because do we still we always say we live in our hometown because it is beautiful we love living there but do i live in my hometown because i'm addicted to my family addicted to my family it's a good jeremy kyle episode type yeah i'm totally addicted to i just addicted to saying me nana like i'm just i can't move away because i would like miss everybody so much but is it holding us back i wouldn't be going to rehab for it anytime soon because you're going to be very embarrassed when you have to stand up and say my name's rosie and i'm addicted to saying me nana heroin addict sat there what the fuck yeah heroin addict sat there who actually sold his nana i haven't talked oh can i tell you something really quickly okay ed's here but I can't wait to talk about my stuff though.

11:16Will you shut up about your stuff? We're talking about how Rosie's a dick to her nana. How fucking selfish. Are you coming here to talk about yourself? Disgusting. Do you think you'd go cold turkey with your nana? It's going to come one day. Oh God. The problem is, right? You should start weaning yourself off now. Do you know what the problem is? The problem is we get people on sometimes who we know very well. We've all worked together. That'd mean you go back very long. And Rosie's worked with you multiple times. So the professionalism has just disappeared. Out the window. And that's fine. And that's what people want to hear on podcast.

11:51You know? I didn't think that was that bad. Rosie, you literally went... There was a very implied... You almost went... Fucking hell. What are you doing? No, I need to tell you. I haven't told you this. Okay. Oh, it's going to sound really shit now, but I'm going to tell you this anyway. It might get cut. I'm obsessed with watching Real Housewives. Yes. Which particular place? Any of them? I'm up to date on all of them. If there are women with fake tits screaming, she's watching it. You didn't come to my event! Because I'm a Beverly Hills head, personally. Yeah. Because that's the best. I would disagree, but that's fine.

12:27Are you Orange County? No, still no. She looks like Lanta. New Jersey. Ruffa. Potomac, Atlanta, yeah. If there was a Real Housewives of, like, you know, local shitholes should watch it. No, because you need the wealth in there. I'm not going to watch shitholes. Right, okay. I like to look at the houses. The UK ones I'm not. Okay. Chester I was not into. No, not totally, no. I like the America just seems that little sort of bit. What's the word? Exotic. It's foreign. It's just, it's not like. It's foreign. Is it foreign? No, it's removed. They talk funny, don't they? They do talk funny. Do you know their steering wheels?

13:08Their steering wheels are on the other side. no what you mean is it's um it's it's far enough removed where you don't get any kind of personal shame from watching it yes yeah but i understand the language yes yeah um this is my story is shit by the way but on just talking about like cousins and and trauma and stuff like that on an episode recently didn't mention trauma but um of real house fires royal island which is really good yes i've heard it's good really good um one of the ladies um they were doing this thing about when they were talking about what upset them and one of them was like, I was homeless when I was younger, blah, blah.

13:43One of the ladies got really, really upset because she hadn't had any sort of trauma in her life, but she knew that something was coming. Like, she started crying and getting upset going, nothing bad's ever happened to me, but I know that one day, one day it will. Wow. So getting upset about nondescript future trauma. Yeah. Because that's scary if you don't know what it's going to be, right? You don't know what to watch out for. Could be much worse than being homeless. Yeah. well the rest of the group did not enjoy it it seemed very that's the kind of thing I would say I really enjoy that it's such a good telly that's great I just love it I need to get back to where it's fucking stuff you can't have Beverly Hills you need a different one well I started Atlanta from the beginning I need to go back to that because I was enjoying it and I like Nini Leakes Nini yeah she's not in it anymore she's just recently suing Bravo there's no problem watching it then she's suing Bravo yeah they all end up suing them at some point wow or they don't want to film the show anymore was it Denise thingy who Denise Richards when they were filming it didn't want to be in any of the edits so she just kept saying bravo over and over again because if you say the name of the if you say the name of the network then they won't put it in the edit because it takes you out of it but they did keep it in they've started over the last like five years to break the fourth wall because they never used to but now they break the fourth wall and they kind of like talk about there's a similar hack if you're ever doing live at the Apollo and you only want them to use the 10 minutes that you want them to use.

15:12Make the other 10 minutes completely unbroadcastable. Yeah. Yeah. So you go, here's my 10 minutes about, you know, my dog and my car. And here's the 10 minutes about, you know, that time I got my fist caught up in my own arse and they're not going to put that out. Yeah, they might. I thought we were going to say, just say Apollo, Apollo, Apollo, Apollo, Apollo. Oh no, they love that. They love that. They love it. They've got it written in 40 foot high letters behind you, man. what I was tempted to do was you know when they used to have celebs in the in the audience and you could be like oh chat about them was just to do that even when the celebs weren't there exactly yeah Linford Christie's in tonight see if they'll cut to an old an old footage of Linford

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18:17Speaking of the Apollo. Yes. And performing live in comedy. You're going on tour. That was so much better. That's how it's done. Yeah. I'm looking at the camera. I really know what I'm doing. I am going on tour. You're going on tour. Thank you, Rosie. Yeah, congratulations. I'm doing a brand new show called Fresh Hell starting in late January 2027. It's a lovely title and I did enjoy the video you put out promoting it as well. With the hat. Yes. Thank you very much. I have not seen it. Were you at a bar? Were you standing in a bar when you did that? Yes, it was in a dive bar called Blondies, which is a really fun dive bar.

18:51I'd only ever been there at like probably 1am forward from that. 1am and later. You went during the day at the phone, but it was sad. Oh God, it's miserable when you go to those places in the day. It's horrible. Really gross. You're like, this is where I hang out? You're killing me? Do you still go out at one o 'clock in the morning? No, it's on the rare occasion that my wife's like hyped up after like a night out. She's like, come on, let's go for another drink. Nice. Fine, I'll come and have a white claw at Blondin. I can't have a full beer. It's going to unsettle my stomach before Betty buys.

19:22yeah 40 this year man it's grim it all goes down what what's it about we're not doing what's it about we can't be doing what's it about what's it about we can't do what's it about I want to know what stage of life that you're at you both know that if the show starts in late January it's currently June I don't have a fucking clue what it's about oh right okay well I don't know that I've got at the moment it's about turning 40 in toilet brushes but that's surely you know you start writing a show and you're like that if that's what it's about by the time i got on tour i'm in serious trouble ed have you learned nothing from our early years together invent a word remember my first two ed got so much enjoyment out of the fact that we first was called agrophobic agrophobic invented word second was oh which one was it affirmation affirmation of course can you remember what you told me i had to call me third one brolly pop brolly pop so that was in my head as a genuine show that you did was it the second or third show that you did Broly Pop you've gaslit yourself what's it the Mandela effect Mandela effected yourself I've Mandela effected myself into thinking you did a show called Broly Pop what was the first word of it I never saw that agro-phobic what was it about it was about how I didn't like avoid confrontation oh thanks it's actually very clear from the title yeah agro-phobic yeah how dare you why are you pulling faces it's a really good title no it when you explain it but I wouldn't just think yeah aggro you are scared of are you scared of confrontation?

20:53used to be hard as fuck now mate Brazilian J2 Blue battle fight anyone I couldn't give a fuck oh yeah we had a chat about that didn't we? that's so much to prove he used to be quite sort of fey and weak did he met me? yeah that's it that's what did it do you know what it was? it was the self-confidence that you get from having so many cousins in your corner

21:17I mean like Tyler, the creator. They love you. He's got like 60-odd ones. He's got 60-odd people in Wolfgang. Yeah, they're your D12. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They are my D25. Yeah. What was it we were talking about recently? Oh, I'm going to... Sometimes I go a bit dark. Oh, she tries to kill comedy. No, I don't. Sometimes she tries to kill comedy. No, I just sometimes talk about life. Come on, edgambled.co.uk for tickets, by the way. Oh, nobody cares. They know who you are. Oh, look, you don't want to tell them what it's about, Ed. You don't want to tell them what it's about, Ed. You can't write that, man.

21:47You're right. look if people are watching this they know I exist yeah and they've probably seen that I'm going on tour so just we're giving them a nudge this bit isn't going to get clipped up we're giving them a nudge we're going to there'll be the funny bits and then we'll write underneath Ed Gamble comedy so it'll be the cousins it'll be the cousins stuff won't it it might be the cousins or the Real Housewives stuff I think he's trying to get it in before you get dark I think that was the point yeah that was it I just wanted to before you bring the mood down I just wanted to get the plug in I don't have to bring the mood down come on I obviously want to hear what you're going to say now just talking about recently And now sometimes can't remember if it's been a conversation in our house or in the podcast studio.

22:22Okay. And that's where we're at. That's dark.

22:31That's one of the saddest things I've ever heard in my life.

22:37Was this a monetised conversation or was this a real conversation? Was this a wasted conversation or was this one that went towards the bills?

22:52do you ever say to each other in your own house as a married couple do you ever use the phrase save it for the pod yes so all the time so bleak all the time it's not though it's good it's not that bleak because it's we've got a really nice house and if i just have to save a little bit of content to share with people i don't mind you see you never have to talk to each other anyway because you're in separate wings. Do you know what it is? Yeah, exactly. It's the, we'll be seeing something or someone will do something and the other one just goes... Right, and you go, all right, you're fucking, you're weaponising that one, are you?

23:27But I don't know marriage any other way. Yeah, we don't actually, to be fair. It's been nearly the entire time now. We've been married as a podcasting couple longer than we've been married as a non-podcasting couple. Do you know that? Oh God, that's, have we? Yeah. We've been doing this seven years and we've been married 11 or something. So yeah, more than half Ed, maths. Wow. Come on then, what's your... I think we've been married, I think we've been together and married like 13 years. Okay, well, even then we've been podcasting together. Again, we'll talk about this afterwards. Other guests must have said, this feels like I'm the counsellor and this is probably the counsellor.

24:02Other people must have said this. Maybe. Yeah. No, the dark conversation. Come on then. you said that you now just because you do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and because you're like a man or whatever you wish that somebody would start on you yeah sometimes I invite it so that you can just fight so toxic Chris really toxic but I said as a woman that's absolutely the complete opposite of what we think yeah but I mean this is like he's watched the Louis III documentary and gone that's a good idea yeah yeah but I've never looked for it Ed and I need them to come I need them to start They need to be possibly infirm, definitely at least double my age or a child.