Please Keep Me Anonymous with Greg James and Alice Levine

20 May 2026 · 43 min · 23 chapters

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In short

Greg James and Alice Levine (hosts of Bad Chat) discuss podcasting, listener interactions, awkward internet controversies, and a listener email about swinging where the writer’s father may have matching tattoos on a swingers site (“Please Keep Me Anonymous”). They also plug the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival in Sheffield (July 2–5).

Guest backgrounds

Greg James is a UK radio presenter and prolific podcaster. Alice Levine is a UK podcaster/radio host and comedian, known for podcast work and for being “fairy pod mother” to others.

Key claims

“You don’t have to do your dad” (swingers don’t require family involvement). The “horse legs are fingers” evolution clip caused backlash online. Podcast success comes from listeners sending in the best material.

Notable examples

Big Weekend in Sunderland; “cloud clap”/beep-clap during COVID; auntie Pam interrupting a show; the “moles” bit about Greg’s dad; the swingers-profile tattoo dilemma and advice to block the father.

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Chapters

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First Impressions of Guests

1:00 to 1:30

Hosts share their experiences and thoughts about meeting Greg and Alice.

“I've known Greg loads, known Greg for years.”

Banter About VPN and Subscriptions

1:30 to 2:30

A light-hearted debate ensues about VPNs and podcast subscriptions.

“if you're watching on YouTube and if you're just listening.”

Reflecting on Big Weekend Events

2:30 to 3:50

Discussion about a recent event called Big Weekend and its significance.

“And then we're going back next week to do the build up for Big Weekend in Sunderland.”

Charity Bike Ride Fundraising

3:50 to 5:30

Hosts discuss the charity bike ride and the funds raised during it.

“It's so, for everyone listening, it's the little hand, little finger clap.”

Awkward Clapping and Comedy Experiences

5:30 to 7:00

Conversation about awkward clapping trends and unique comedy moments.

“and we go to the toilet in a comedy club.”

Auntie Pam's Comedy Show Incident

7:00 to 9:10

Story about a mishap involving Greg's aunt during a comedy performance.

Starting a Podcast Together

9:10 to 11:10

Hosts discuss their experiences and thoughts on launching a new podcast.

“No, a buffer of we'll do it Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday and we'll see what day we'll feel.”

The Evolution of Podcasting

11:10 to 12:20

Exploration of how podcasting has changed and evolved over the years.

“Yeah, but she was doing it before it was even a thing, really.”

Listener Interaction and Engagement

12:20 to 14:00

Discussion on how listener contributions enhance the podcast experience.

“Yeah, well, that was when there were three podcasts.”

Listener Contributions in Comedy

14:00 to 14:22

Discover the value of listener contributions in comedy and media.

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The Power of Audience Interaction

14:22 to 15:42

Learn how audience interactions enhance storytelling and humor.

“The listeners always have the best stuff because they're truly engaged in what you're doing.”

The Controversy of Horse Evolution

18:55 to 21:28

Dive into a quirky discussion about horse evolution and public reactions.

“And so the first thing that I've said on the internet since like 1994.”

Humor in Everyday Injuries

21:29 to 23:10

Explore the humor behind everyday injuries and relatable mishaps.

“Well, I think you're a liar and I think you're two-faced.”

The Humor in Viral Moments

23:11 to 25:12

Discuss the entertaining aspects of viral videos and societal reactions.

“I'm still working with an egg dropped on the floor.”

Reading an Anonymous Listener's Dilemma

27:32 to 28:00

Hear a listener's adventurous dilemma and insights on relationships.

“You sound like the reviewers who reviewed our live tour.”

Celebrating the O2 Sellout

28:00 to 28:20

The hosts discuss their recent success at the O2 Arena.

Exploring the Swinging Lifestyle

28:20 to 29:20

A listener shares their experience with swinging and a surprising discovery.

“He claims he hasn't seen them, but he has.”

Dilemma: Dad on a Swinger Site

30:20 to 31:35

Listener's shock at seeing their dad on a swinger website.

“And if you hadn't already guessed, we've already guessed.”

Navigating Awkward Family Dynamics

31:35 to 33:40

Discussion on how to handle the awkwardness of a parent’s sexual life.

“Any advice you can give would be much appreciated.”

The Unspoken Reality of Parents' Sex Lives

33:40 to 35:08

Hosts reflect on the uncomfortable reality of parents having sex.

“I just feel like she's going to be, if they're within the same sphere, she's going to be looking over her shoulder.”

Moles, Tattoos, and Family Revelations

35:08 to 38:00

Funny exchanges about family moles and their implications.

“My suggestion would be to block her father.”

Podcast Festival Insights

38:00 to 41:00

Discussion about an upcoming podcast festival and its atmosphere.

“Parties, after parties, meet and greets.”

Nostalgic Conversations About School Days

42:01 to 42:54

Explore humorous anecdotes about school experiences and old technology.

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Transcript

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0:57It's Alice Levine and Greg James. We had a right good laugh. Really, really, really good laugh. I've known Greg loads, known Greg for years. He's a great guy. Alice, that's the first time I've had a full-on chat with us. Me too. She is unbelievably funny. Well, as a diehard porno, my dad wrote a porno fan. Yes, and fan of just porno in general, but carry on. Obviously. Not since you got to put your email in. No. But that was great. Really, really nice to meet her. And she's so funny. Loved it. Loved every second of it. Brilliant. Both of them are great. You need to get a VPN, by the way, but I'll tell you about that later.

1:26I'm not getting a VPN. You need to get a VPN. I'm fine. I live without it. I'm fine. Great. So, yes, please subscribe if you're watching on YouTube and if you're just listening. Enjoy. Miss Prawn. We had a fight about the jingle. We couldn't settle on a jingle. Jing-go. So this is the jingle. Jing-go. We hope you like the jingle. Jing-go. Babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, ba Jingle No, but you just did a thousand kilometres on a bike I did And you were Were you in Sutherland for the big weekend? We're doing big weekend I'm going to Sutherland next week for a whole week, yeah Right, so you know what was really weird?

2:07I was on the school run, right? And Rosie rang us and she went I've just been a seminar Greg James is in Sutherland He's in that middle bit And they said, are you driving past it? I was like, I think so We'll just pop in and say hi I don't think that's how it works You could have popped in Hello, mate Hiya, mate That would have been great I popped in and said hi. Yeah. We were in Kiel Square. Yeah. So we've been there. So we launched Big Weekend in January. We did finish one of the legs of the challenge in Sunderland. And then we're going back next week to do the build up for Big Weekend in Sunderland.

2:34Harrington Park. Harrington Park. Yeah. But he hates talking about the ride. Please don't talk about the ride. He hates about how much. I didn't bring it up. All the money he raised. He hates talking about it. I didn't bring it up. I didn't bring it up. He's a national treasure, but he would never say that. I didn't bring it up. I didn't bring it up. Will he get a knighthood? we don't know but he doesn't want to talk about it let's be honest that's the only reason he's doing it absolutely what I will say is the reception in the North East best best place in the world it is I love it I came fourth and strictly just because of the North East just because of the North East people and those hips and those hips the hips they don't lie you know why you came fourth he's still dancing though no I can't you can still do it I can't you not really I can still do a bit of Charleston I can do the little the foot swivel of the Charleston I'll throw it in a stand-up show now and then would you do it like from you know hob to fridge would you just do a little I think do you think our house is yeah we live in the north it's massive I'll be knackered I can't dance from hob to fridge it's two postcodes and I was just thinking there's not enough distance between mine to do a move so yeah I'll tandem bike it that was actually that was going to be one of the legs one of the legs was going to be from your front door to your back garden Yeah, you wouldn't survive it.

3:46That would have been 90 miles. 90 miles in a day would have been my longest day. How much did you raise? I can't remember. It was like 4.6 million. That's amazing. That's so good. It was a cool week. It was eight days in the end. Well done. Should we give them a clap? No, I don't need any more praise. It was a mad thing, though. Also, quiet claps for the mics. They're really pathetic. Have you seen this, by the way? We've seen this recently. I hate it so much. Is that a clap thing? It's so, for everyone listening, it's the little hand, little finger clap. It makes us want to vomit. I like, do you remember in school, you used to do that, two finger on the little...

4:24The cloud clap now, you've not seen that? Oh, they just waved, don't they? It's like cloud clap in schools. They, big cloud clap now. And for the purposes of audio, we're pretending we're holding a beach ball. Just holding it, yeah. And like sort of tapping it gently. Why is this? I think it's for children who are a bit sensitive to like loud noises. Yes. Yeah, no clapping. So it's quite eerie. you do something amazing in class and it's just silence. I remember when COVID happened and people started doing stand-up comics, started doing gigs, drive-in gigs. And I heard that if the last, I never did one, rather die, rather catch COVID.

4:59And I heard that if you did well, they would beep. And I was like, I'm not having that. I can't. I was like, I'm not having that. That's so sad. So for like a clap, everyone would start beeping. A beep's a heckle. In my opinion, a beep is a heckle. A beep is a hecko in traffic, isn't it? You're heckling the traffic. And where were they? Surely people have an economy. On stage, like a drive-in theatre. Well, it'd be like a big field somewhere, drive-in, everyone does the drive-in. But like, I find it... Are you telling me that doesn't put you off? I wouldn't do it. Yeah, I wouldn't have done them.

5:25I was very lucky we had the podcast and I didn't have to do one. But I remember thinking, I get distracted when someone gets up and we go to the toilet in a comedy club. Imagine if... Oh! Beep! Beep! My auntie! Oh my God! Yes! Auntie Pam? He phoned me one morning when I was on tour. I forgot all about this. Go on, tell everyone. Well, I don't know this story. Well, my auntie interrupted your comedy show. Yes, yes. At Weymouth Pavilion. Weymouth Pavilion. And we got you on the radio the next day because she got up and did she drop some drinks? She was like, you know, the person who, well, she was working there, wasn't she?

5:54Yeah, she was working, yeah, yeah. Selling like the ice creams and stuff. She dropped a full tray of them while I was on. And I was like, what the hell? And I was like, obviously, not nasty, but give her a bit of grief. Well, I gave her a lot of grief. Then I realised she was a nice lady who worked there. So the grief got reined in quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, next morning, Greg James is ringing us up on the... Yeah. You've been shouting at my auntie. It was Aunty Pam. All my cousins are like... Oh, Aunty Pam. Chris Ramsey's had a go at Pam. I know. I also love the grief backpedal.

6:20Bastard. Where you're like, what the... Hey, Ben. Hi, you work here. Yeah. I tumble. It's my screams before they defrost you. Oh, get out of here. Oh. You look a bit like Greg James. Yeah. Did she not say it at the time? She didn't. She was very cool, but it was the phone call the next day. Imagine immediately she went, leave me alone, I'm Greg James' auntie. I will drop as much ice cream as I want. He's the goddamn breakfast host of Radio 1. I can't remember. Did someone get in touch with us or did you just ring us or message us off the bell? I think my cousins might have let me know. Yeah, but I'm saying, I don't think me management got in touch.

6:58I think you just rang us off the bell. I strangled you, yeah. Get me Ramsey. Yeah. Not much content today. Ramsey's been heckling me, auntie. Are you joking? that is the content we all want yeah waking up to that is like the dream Chris Ramsey's had a go at my auntie yeah we cancelled Timothee Chalamet Taylor Swift Taylor Swift back in your jet tell Margo it's done there was no music that day it was just that it turned it into 5 Live yeah fam having a moment yeah big moment you guys are doing a podcast together yes oh yeah nice about time yeah isn't it we really feel like we're joining at the people aren't doing many of them so we thought it's about time you of all people dipped your toe in the podcast yeah I just thought you're doing really well I like the sound of these yes we are any advice?

7:47get married? it's on the cards I think I'm your third wife third wife third wife down not at the same time you mean down the line no not my third marriage yeah third not collecting them no like a third my third marriage could be Alice that's frustrating what happened how many what who's getting married I think Greg's suggesting his current wife would die or you'd get divorced then there'd be another wife and then he would consider marrying me which I think I think there'd be a buffer yeah it'd have to be a buffer okay listen it's good to have a friendship Paul would kill to be third wife that's a win in my book yeah I know I can't hope for more yeah do you feel like it strengthened your marriage because I did a podcast with my actual wife Bella and we hated it by the end oh right it's a lot of that well it's just I know but I know you've cleverly put it into the show but actually there's also like a real thing behind it sometimes where you're like the last thing you want to do is just sit and chat with them all day but on mic as well and laugh at the jokes oh well sometimes I mean there's days I just don't and I don't just pipe in the laughter yeah I think our listeners know and they kind of get it and it's like but there has been times when we're having we give ourselves it's the most ridiculous thing ever we give ourselves a buffer of like three days to do the podcast Yeah, right.

9:05Genuinely, because it's like, if we're not speaking, we can't do it. A buffer of not talking to each other, so you have chat. No, a buffer of we'll do it Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday and we'll see what day we'll feel. We'll have to keep all three days free. So people will, you just sit down and talk for an hour. It takes three days to do. It's a lot. But has it, honestly, I think about this quite a lot actually because we don't know any different. We were married obviously for a little bit, but that was the really happy you know when you're really happy at the beginning but also pandemic though as well we did it in the pandemic so stressful we were married before then we were married before then that was when we were that was like that was nice that was the good times well no 2015 pandemic happened 2020 they were good times yeah but I don't know anything else yeah because you're institutionalised into the podcast institutionalised great words to talk about you're like in you're in I know nothing else is quite strong as well.

10:06Am I happy? I don't even know. Who knows what happiness is anymore, right? I think that sometimes on The Breakfast Show where me and my producers will just go, what do we actually like? Because I've spent so many years just watching and listening to loads of the, kind of all the listeners love. I'm like, what's my actual personality? Do I like this? Oh no, it's good. No, it is good. I don't know what I like anymore I'm with you but also yes I think we do it really well and I think we're still happily married but also we learned one of the things is that our marriage is genuinely more important than all of this you'd hope so well I think that more than you Chris doesn't agree I see them as one and the same thing no quite with the cost of gas right now which one's more important yeah that's true that's that's your face so just to sum up we're not married but we do have a podcast yeah it's called Bad Chat Bad Chat yes and I hope that it will be a podcast marriage of many years yeah yeah we're only on episode one yeah let's see I've known Alice for so long and I've wanted to do we've never actually done a work thing together but we've been friends for in the orbit you were on the orbit yeah and she would always I'd be on we'd do radio stuff together but it would never be like official and obviously Alice is like the fairy pod mother of podcasts.

11:35Yeah, I was a big porno fan. Yeah, but she was doing it before it was even a thing, really. I invented them, yeah. Invented podcasts. Yeah. You did world tours. It's a burden I have to carry. You're welcome for your livelihood. Listen, you very much paved the way for us. Like, yeah, we were, yeah, definitely. We'll copy that model. Thank you. When we were coming up with the name of the podcast and we said Shagged, someone on our team was like, ah, shagged, it's a little bit, and we were like, it should be fine. They went calling it shagged. They went, my dad wrote a porno, you know, porno that gave them, that was hard for them.

12:07We were like, oh, it's done them. It's terribly, they've suffered so badly. Can you imagine if we had a better name? We would have flown. But no, people did say that back then. They said that we wouldn't, we wouldn't become anything. Look, we showed them. Yeah, well, that was when there were three podcasts. So yeah, you either listen to our podcast or the other two, whatever they were. I was talking about serial yeah exactly serial on the radio yeah and then we got channel four didn't we more podcasts came along yeah it was a it was a long time ago but we were saying that we have done obviously we've done radio we've done Greg has 13 podcasts and one for every day of the year and we were just like we want to do one where we kind of like you chat like we would chat you know we don't have to hit the news or, you know, be on topic or have a theme.

13:01Play Alex Warren. Exactly. Play Alex Warren three times an hour. So I feel like what we've struggled with is telling people what it is because it's kind of whatever we want. It's free. It's free. Yeah. But that's the joy of your podcast is like stuff. Yeah. Just chatting. Stuff and listeners and emails. And I mean, dare I say it, radio. Oh. You know, you did radio. Yeah. You've both done radio. You did loads of radio. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just that sort of, let's run with that bit now. Let's take that tiny little idea and go, where could that go? Nowhere. Maybe the next one. And that's sort of how, I mean, like any good friendship, you exchange just bits the whole time.

13:43And it's just either piss taking or sending each other ridiculous stuff that makes us laugh. So that's sort of what we want it to be. We want it to be a podcast that people just go, oh yeah, we're going to send that to Alice and Greg. They'll love that. They'll love that. a kind of club those are the best sorts of radio shows and podcasts aren't they the stuff we get sent it's unbelievable like our listeners the stuff they've sent us I thank them all the time like and I've said this before when I first got on to telly and we were like because you do comedy you do stand up and you chat to the crowd and you get loads of good stuff from the crowd and then you start doing telling and you go oh the crowd and TV people go oh no not the crowd don't bother with the crowd it's funny isn't it and you go what the heck and then we started doing this and we're like oh we'll get the people to send stuff in and they're like god man they're still to this day unbelievable stuff it's phenomenal but it's the sort of it's the Terry Wogan trick back in the old days where he just did sort of three or four years of that breakfast show that he did on Radio 2 and then he just said I think it was in his book he just said then the listeners just write the show for you every day really you just have to be the person in the middle to bring it all together and just like throw in the funny little bit and that TV thing I find so interesting because if you watch a show like Graham Norton obviously he's the best in the world at his job but it's so funny how the stars the A-listers are like the main thing and at the end they're like let's put that funny listener in the chair and then flush them away if they do a shit story yeah yeah well you've just had some guests on have told pretty shit stories i've got to get rid of fucking tom idlston or whatever you know but but you've tried that that's i find that so strange and i've always kind of gone with radio it's always the listeners have all the good stuff yeah and they actually make the celebrity way funnier because they're the interaction between a listener called darren who's just like on his you know just driving around or whatever yeah talking to The Rock, that's way funnier than just hearing from The Rock.

15:28The listeners always have the best stuff because they're truly engaged in what you're doing. I think you're going to get some really good stuff. It's sort of like, do you ever go and look at all the comments under like an annoying video? That's all I do. People are so funny. People's comments are so funny. And I read them and I'm like, if I could have come up with that one liner. And your job is being like a pediatrician or like a builder or like a lawyer. And yet you've done the best zinger. I've seen all day. 6 ,000 likes on an Instagram thing. Honestly, they kill me. They kill me. Starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times.

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18:40so through evolution they have they have turned into legs but they are fingers and they're the there's disgusting it's disgusting it's quite disgusting it's chilling and there's more to it than that and it's more complicated than that of course we we didn't realize that or do that so now everybody on the internet is really mad at me and it's been clipped up and it's got it like wildfire and i'm i like every two to three years i'll post something on instagram you know Like I'm, I'm a social media guru. And so the first thing that I've said on the internet since like 1994. It's gone mad. There's a pylon.

19:15There's a major pylon. What, are people not happy or something? I think there's... Oh, people aren't ever happy. What? It's really united. I've got questions about this horse. Okay, sure, sure, sure. And I'm definitely the person to answer it. But the funny, the funniest comment that I saw, which I might even steal for the next episode without crediting the guy. Yeah. He was like, so that makes, so that essentially makes the entire horse a hand. Yeah. So my question is, is that four fingers or is that four legs where one finger took over on each leg? Thank you for your question, Chris. So just to explain this in terms you'll understand.

19:54I don't know. I don't know. I'm so out of my depth. Were they at one point just like a carcass being dragged along with little nubbins? No, they used to roll them. Yeah, little lobs. Horses used to just roll horses. At one point they were a fist, and then they just sort of...

20:12Who was this friend? Are they a doctor or a vet? Well, this is the thing. The comments are like, your friend should be struck off. Oh, for God, people are so angry. But what's really funny about it is... And he has been. He has been. We had so many times in that. He's been arrested. He's in front of a tribunal, as he should be. but we said so many things on that episode and it's the stuff that you don't even think about that really catches people's imaginations and people, my favourite comment was, you absolute Brit, and I didn't know that that was an insult, but people are, you absolute Brit, because a lot of Americans in the comments are very livid, people just loving to have a sense of humour bypass about it as well, because people are like did she not learn this at school, I'm like, learn this, this is not my, this is, I didn't learn that about evolution What was that?

21:00What was that in? I learned about the... Don't pay no attention, just give them the horse's leg. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But that's the stuff. Very good. And also when... It's actually excellent. Very good. That is excellent. Lovely. Actually, all four of us make up a horse. Yes. There it is. I've got a horse on my own. Oh, my God. Yeah. So now I'm never posting anything on the internet. No, I would stick away from, like, religion, evolution, all that kind of stuff. The big three. religion evolution horses equestrian legs as soon as people as soon as you put a different opinion on the internet that's it they're just like well we're obviously fighting now and you're like but you know what my problem is though I don't know whether it's because of where I was brought up or just I just want to fight them sure so part of me wants to go alright then babe come and let's come and we'll meet up and we'll have a fight so that's why so that's why I can't I can't look because I will message them and go where'd you live that's why I find the traitors I find the traitors amazing but I find it to be a tough watch because I'm not from a place where you sit around a table telling people what you think of them and it doesn't end up in the fucking car park.

22:08Shouting that someone's a liar. Well, I think you're a liar and I think you're two-faced. I'm like, right, well, this table's getting flipped over and we're going in the fucking car park. Like, do you understand? I would love this. You just write on the little board and it just goes...

22:24They're busy filming now, aren't they? Yeah, they're doing the new one now. Would you? surely yes oh I would love to I'm a fan of it we'd get voted out straight away for being a couple they'd be like no you're a couple no one would trust but they'd get rid of I don't think it's because you're a couple I think it's because you're untrustworthy car park now please don't even the mime I was like I'm not committing what have you done to your back oh I don't know I woke up and it was oh the worst way to injure yourself sleeping wrong I know isn't it pathetic it's so sad it's so so sad and I feel so sorry for myself and I also feel delighted because I'm on Cocodomol I don't know what any of you are saying I'm like hey yeah good one this is going to very quickly turn into what it's like when my mum and dad see some of their friends and all they talk about are ailments the whole time you wouldn't believe it oh well his knee is getting better but the shoulder needs attention but Marion's wrist is still it's not back to normal yet and she just slipped up the step could happen to any of us The most pathetic ways of hurting yourself Biting the inside of your mouth Literally eating yourself Devastable, yeah Sleeping wrong Your body's gone Stubbing your toes up there Stubbing your toes up there I broke my toe Stubbing it?

23:39By stubbing it I've never heard a noise like it It sounded like an egg hitting a tile So we've got like an island And I just turned round to leave the room And I just whack Like on the Pure marble On the thing It was awful Pure marble Wow He's dancing around with us Didn't I? Can you take this seriously, please? It's all going on. I'm still working with an egg dropped on the floor. The noise was egg. An egg being dropped on a tile. Like a raw egg, like a crack. I've never heard a noise like it in my life and she just dropped to the deck. Sorry, it's not funny. Was it a bit, not a bit funny? No, no, not.

24:19No, the noise made it not funny. I don't laugh that much when people get, when they're hurt. If I'm with them and they get hurt, I don't laugh that much. In video form, quite nice. Video form, if I don't know. Front scrolling. That's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Face planting on a concrete slab. Have you got CCTV in the house? Oh, pump it in my veins. What did you say? I was only CCTV in the house. That would have gone viral. It would have. Now everyone just wants to go viral. That's how they make their money, 250 quid. Alice is not on the internet, so thinks that every clip is like you've been framed still.

24:51Was that what your reference was there, from the 250 quid? It was, 250 quid for every clip we show. So many people will not have got that at all. Sorry for being really young. We won't return your tapes. I used to think 250 quid was a lot until I worked in telly and then I worked out how long an episode of You Being Frame was. And I'm like, they were making episodes for five grand. Yeah. And it was voiceover. And it was voiceover. So there's no presenter. And that's with, oh no, Beedle. Well, yeah, Beedle, then Lisa Riley, then Harry Hill. That was Harry Hill, yeah. Are we alienating everyone?

25:22That's the real era's tour for me. you've been framed it was it was Beedle Lisa Riley from Emmerdale then it was Harry Hill yeah God I love to put it you've been framed oh yeah our kids still sometimes watch programmes like that there's there I think they're called like what are they called on YouTube just laughing or something what are they called no but the kids love it oh it's the mime one it's the French one is it it's the one they do like little mime tricks these sound like different things no oh no I know what you're thinking of it's not that this is just you being framed but on YouTube I love you describing you being framed and you're like yeah I think I know what it is Is it a subtitled film set in the countryside in France?

25:57Yeah. It's about a young woman who has a difficult relationship with her father. And I think by the end, it's different. It's different. We're talking about different things. I really wish it was that highbrow. It's basically a man like prilling a hanky out of someone's ear. I wish it was highbrow. Honestly, you've changed since you've wrote that book. Babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, ba. This episode is brought to you by Netflix. The Four Seasons is back for season two, starring Tina Fey, Will Forte, Coleman Domingo, Marco Calvani, Carrie Kenny Silver, and Erica Henningsen. After a difficult year, your favorite group of friends continues their tradition of vacationing together, now with a baby in tow.

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27:32You guys have got a story. Yes. To read out. We have no idea what this is. Okay. So really though. No, genuinely. Promise. You know what it is? You're sorry. We're too lazy. Sorry, sorry. No, I'm going to have to say it. You sound like the reviewers who reviewed our live tour. and it literally I am the reviewers the reviewer it literally said he claims he doesn't know what the emails say but he clearly does and I didn't every single night I didn't know what the emails say it's called acting darling I just riffed it's called being a god damn comedian didn't you sell out the O2 we did sell out the O2 fuck those guys that is mega fuck you O2 Wembley Palladium on the same run same night same night same night the taxi driver was loving it okay guys right 20 ,000 people over the road we're going to Wembley to do this all again And it's new emails.

28:19New emails, I promise. He claims he hasn't seen them, but he has. 45 minutes ago. Does he think we're thick? Okay. What are we doing? Are we reading one word each? I'm going past I believe. Okay. Okay. Ready? In harmony. Don't look at mine. Is it the same one or a different one? You've got the second half. Oh, right. Oh. Dear Chris and Rosie. Hello. Please keep me anonymous. Always. Let's dox them now. I'm writing to you with a dilemma. My partner and I have always had a very adventurous sex life. Good. All right, show off. and have recently got into the lifestyle. For those that are unaware, it's swinging.

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28:50Swinging. We get a lot of swingers writing in. They call it the lifestyle. Sounds like a leisure centre, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. It's a David Lloyd Centre initiative. It's called the lifestyle. You do paddle, you do tennis, you do swimming, you do shagging. Dogging. Yeah, dogging and paddle. Doggy paddle. Thank you. Well done. Oh, for goodness sake. Sorry, wait, okay, sorry, the lifestyle. Start again, start again. Is that again? No, no, no. No, just from the lifestyle. Let's start on again. Everything from the top. Let's do 10 more minutes on the word lifestyle. And sit down. Greg and Alice, nice to see you.

29:24Okay. We both enjoy watching the other person receive pleasure from others. It might sound strange. No. But it works for us and our relationship has dramatically improved since starting. There is a very popular website for those involved in the lifestyle and you can search for profiles near you. You can search for profiles near you. Imagine my shock horror when, whilst browsing the site, I saw someone with tattoos that I recognised. And in said photo, they're in, let's say, a compromising position with another person. Important to note that on this website, you can see the people who have viewed your profile.

29:59To be fair, to be clear, that says it here. I'm not just telling you that. So people can view your profile. You can view theirs. Is that card blank? And then you see. This is actually an advert. Is that card blank? I'll just say, it's important to note that on the website, if you go on someone's profile just for future reference they can see you've been on it okay they can see that you've been on tattoos anyway what would you do use the code Alice for 15 % off Alice 20 hashtag yes with this in mind and to limit any potential awkwardness I didn't view the profile and scroll past it so it's like sexy LinkedIn where if you click on them they can they can see that you've been there oh they can see okay okay right that would be a good name sexy LinkedIn I thought nothing of it until a few days later, I was going through photos on my phone and I saw a photo from a few years back of myself and my dad on holiday.

30:54My dad is shirtless in the photo. No. And if you hadn't already guessed, we've already guessed. Yes, the tattoos were on show. This is in capital letters. The same tattoos I saw in the profile on Alice Levine's website. Should have redacted that bit. I really regret typing this out at all. Yeah, go on. My parents split when I was young and he hasn't had a relationship since. I was absolutely mortified and now I have no idea what to do. So I guess what I'm asking is, what do I do and how do I approach this situation? I'm pretty sure he hasn't viewed my partner and mine's profile. However, I'm scared he may come across this.

31:32It's obviously not something I want to discuss with my father. What should I do? Any advice you can give would be much appreciated. Leave the website. Leave the country. why should she she's having a nice time first of all first question it's a website she doesn't have to do her dad I must make clear she doesn't have to do her dad that's one of the founding tenets of the website you don't have to do your dad right okay so first of all good podcast title yeah you don't have to do your dad welcome that's like a mash up of all of the podcasts yeah that have ever been made just remember and remember you don't have to do your dad see you next week we should do a podcast together We should do another one together, Paul, that.

32:12Yeah. Just about. You don't have to shag your dad doing a porno. It says that her dad, the Obama dad broke up. So then it said the dad hasn't had a relationship since. Yeah. So she forgot he's had. No, no, but he's on a swingers website. How? Surely, do you not have to, this is going to sound really bad. Do you not have to bring. No, but he's not had a relationship with him. No, he's not had a relationship. No, it says he's not. But I think you can join a couple that swing. You're just a solo player. Oh, you'd have to bring your own merchandise. I don't know if it's a team, if you have to be in a team.

32:44They've got names. Women are unicorns. Yeah. Because there's not many single women. Oh, they want to be shagged by strangers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, I believe that. And men, they've got a certain name. And I've totally forgot. It's something like, it's like cowboy or something. It's pigs. It's probably pigs. But so there's obviously like the couple. And then if you want to just be, you know, like a rogue, the plus one, that's what he, the dad might just be that. He might be the sort of a gun for hire, a cock for hire. There are no stupid questions. This is a safe space. Yeah. Anything more, Chris?

33:14I'm just like, we're... We want you to feel comfortable. Are these all in the FAQs on your website? They're all there. And we also offer a kind of one-to-one mentoring session before you, you know, proceed into the community. Absolutely. Good, thank you. Thing is with this, I would... I feel like they're all open-minded enough to just talk about it. Do you know what I think? Fair. Fair. Swingers accept swingers, I think. I just feel like, you know, just say it. But all... It's all your profile, Dad. I guess. Welcome to the community. I just feel like she's going to be, if they're within the same sphere, she's going to be looking over her shoulder.

33:46Quite literally. And hopefully he's not there. Oh God. Hopefully. This has gone disgusting. This one's gone south. Squimming it. Quite literally. Here's my thing. You don't want to, and obviously I've done a whole podcast about dads and pornography. You don't, and actually documentaries about swinging, but you never want to think about your parents having sex. I would say, especially with your parents, other parent. Yeah. I think that's worse than thinking of a parent having sex with a stranger. Right. But you also have, no, I think it is, isn't it? I don't know. I think it's all quite bad. It's all quite bad.

34:20Everyone's thinking right now. Everyone's like, I don't know what's the worst. Everyone listening now, think about your parents having sex. Now swap out one of those parents for a stranger. What's worse? Please let Rosie and Chris know. What's worse? But I do think on some weird level, you also want them to be happy and right? You want them to be having a nice time. Is it just me? Yeah, no, no, that's absolutely. No, yeah, that's very, that is very open-minded of you. I love that. It's great. Very modern. It suddenly feels like we're on this morning. You're so modern. It's why I should phone in this entire game.

34:50Have I lost everyone? I lost the room. No, I think, no. I've lost the room and I feel very exposed. No, because parents deserve a good sex life too. I don't want to be on the same website as them. One of them's got to leave. End of. One of them's got to leave. Can you block people on this website? Maybe. That would be my suggestion. Especially on a dating app. Right? My suggestion would be to block her father. Yeah. Block him. Block him. Block him good and hard. But I'm kind of with what you're using. Did not need the good and hard. Sorry. Question, how don't you know what your dad's tattoos look like?

35:21That's weird, isn't it? I mean, that's the real troubling thing about this story, isn't it? Yeah, I guess. But you would... You'd know them off by heart. Maybe if you saw them off by heart. No, say malls. I have to tell you where my dad's malls are. Could you? Where are they? Okay, wait. Weirder thing. On his wider thing. Map it. let's draw him and we'll map him now sorry weirder than being on the same spot so I didn't think this would come up but we actually don't ever play at kids parties we don't play playing the tail on the donkey we put them all on the dad put them all on your dad just have a big photo massive A3 photo of our dad's back and we all put moles on it and then he comes out takes his shirt off and we'll see how many it's like the night sky there's the big dipper kids doing a dot to dot on his back sorry you think you know where all the moles are on your dad's back.

36:09It's the fucking weirdest thing anyone's ever said. You need to be arrested on the spot. Are you moley? No, okay, so in my defence, I'm not moley. Not moley. My dad used to get really hot. Do you know like Friday night dinner when the dad's always got the top off? You're not making it better. You're not making it better. It's getting worse, isn't it? It's getting worse. So your dad's hot, yeah. Yeah, you think your dad's hot, you love it when his top's off. Come on. Come on, moles. Let's have a look at those moles. In the summer, you'd look forward to it. You see what you've done yourself. Can I press them?

36:33You see what you've done? Dad, can I track your moles again? Oh my God. Answer honestly, how many photos on your camera roll are of your dad's back? There it is. Camera mole. Camera mole. Camera mole. Yeah. Listen, good luck with your podcast.

36:50Good luck with your mole muffin. All right, love you dad. Thank you. Can I just ask one more question before we move on from the moles? Is it about my dad's back? No, it's about your dad. I just want to know, what's his name? Derek. Great. this is a great dad name I wanted to check I can imagine Derek's moles does Derek feel happy that you're telling everybody that he's incredibly mole-y he'll be fine yeah he'll not be arsed I never said he had a lot I just said I've been telling you where they are how many how many estimate what just a it's like a fairy all the sweets in a bowl got one on his arm how many you said back tell us the back ones and how low does back go shall we do a test I've got a mole-y arm I'll flash it quickly and tell me how many there are he's brought his microphone and he's so excited.

37:31It's a three. Look, that's at least 15. What have you done with your microphone? Slide it back down. What's happened? So excited he got the top of his microphone. That is the best claim I have ever heard. To be honest, it's put this in context. I'm like, oh, this is by accident. This happens. You know, people end up on the same dating websites. You. This. I don't care about this guy anymore. I don't care about this. You need to be on one of these cards. I'm talking about Derek. And I'm not keeping you anonymous. That's for damn sure. You should be outed. Disgusting. I don't believe that. wipe the whole thing the mole molester I'm just mortified mortified mortified

38:11you married into it you chose it yeah it's bad it is bad well done thank you you've also got the crossed wires festival the podcast festival tell us about this we've put all of our eggs in one basket well I was tricked into it by I was tricked into it because I went and did a show with Alice the first year that they started the festival and actually I loved it so much and you two will love it because it's very much like the Edinburgh Festival in terms of its spirit and it's sort of it's the reason it exists it takes over venues in Sheffield and puts on big podcasts and then the fans of that podcast can stumble across it or they can just they can actually book tickets for it so it's more it's less like a you can have like a podcast like expo which is like welcome to like lanyards on welcome to the podcast show where we'll talk about the best way to optimize audiences going forward into 2027.

39:02It's not that. It's more of a sort of fun thing. Parties, after parties, meet and greets. Like a lifestyle thing. Yeah. It's a lifestyle thing. It's a swingers podcast festival. Oh. Actually, that is true. There's like crossovers from certain podcasts to others. Their podcasts do swing. Brilliant. Yeah. There's cross-pollination. We tried to book you two. Yeah. Didn't get that email. We got a very promising out of office. So thank you for that. You're so welcome. any day getting a reply. Second to the 5th of July in Sheffield. Apparently you're on holiday until February 2028 and you're going to get back to us then.

39:38Yeah. Busy. It was one of those, oh no, I can't. When is it? I think maybe Rosie's stubbing her toe that day. We'd be lucky to have you. No, between the 2nd and the 5th of July. This year? Is that this year? This year. No, that is the annual, we're counting mores on your day. Count me down to her. I knew there was something yeah that's the stock take it takes a while that's the stock take yeah that's the stock take it takes a while so yeah would you say it's larger much like you Greg I got robed into this you see I counted them once got robed in I'm now I'm a creative director of the malls as much as you and both of them definitely not Ponzi schemes to be clear to be clear please please do a video where you're counting your dad's malls oh my god we're done please but you can blur his back to protect his anonymity oh he's got it Imagine he doesn't have a single morning's back and you've done this.

40:30He's definitely got one. No, we get it. He's got them. We get it. You're like, he's definitely got them. I've seen them, actually. I've seen them every year with my own eyes, so I know he's got them. From birth. And some of them are blood blisters, so I know, actually. Why do dads have those weird little blood blisters? Do you know what I mean? They're like little red moles. On their veiny white hands. Mr Burns, basically. This is terrible. That's going to be you, aren't you? Nah, it's going to be me, Anna. Can I just say, that was a great plug for the podcast festival. Well done. That was a fantastic plug.

41:01I don't even know who's on. You do? I do, but we know we haven't said it. You're Alice and Jameses. You're Uncannies. You've got me and Greg doing a show. Brilliant. Bad chat. You've got Elizabeth Day. You've got all the big names. All the big ones. Great. It's dead good. You should come do it. But you won't, but you should. We don't do too much together. That's the only thing. That is a lie. We hate each other. Unless we hate each other. This is how many times. We don't do any extra stuff. We don't do any extra stuff. We can only keep it up for one day. We're going to separate hotel rooms. Come on, guys.

41:32Actually, quite nice, though, when you've been married that long to go to a different hotel room. Just chill. Oh, no, we have kids at home, so we don't sleep in the same bed at home. Yeah. In a hotel is the only time we sleep in. This is the only time we actually sleep in. Really? Yeah. When Bella was ill recently, I went into the spare room. Had the night of my life. Yeah. Don't need to know about that. It's really healthy. Not in that way. It's like a teenage boy all over again. I've been out of my life four times wheeled a big telly in it's like a telly at school like a brown one big brown grundig downloaded some great pics school telly brown school telly when I was with a dance when I was with a dance I got wheeled in my mate Paul Turner have one of those watches sorted my mate I was just about to tell that exact story he had a watch that you could programme to turn the telly off if you knew it was a grundig he could be like 048 and you could turn it up and down and whatever yeah my man Chris did the same thing in science he kept turning it off and the teacher freaked out because also those old tellies you used to turn it off and it would go yeah yeah yeah I did that nobody at my school had that oh it was really good had a cuss you or cuss you there watch it a big red button on the side for doing the telly sick what a life if we hadn't lost them with You've Been Framed we've definitely lost them with Wheel the Telly in and the remote control one I think your listeners will love Grundig chat you know how important 15 to 25 is and you've just lost them Guys, if you've enjoyed this episode, you pick up that needle, you put it right back to the edge and you listen to this LP again.

42:59Thank you for coming on. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Cheers, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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What happens when four chatty broadcasters sit down in a room together? A whole lot! They discuss Greg and Alice's new podcast, Bad Chat, Greg's family member at Chris's gig and the pros and cons of doing a podcast as a married couple! They also chat about the joys of listener interaction and what makes the audience really angry!

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