132: Sam's back in town and Pete's going on Love Island?

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2:00Welcome to Staying Relevant, the podcast hosted by two best friends, me, Sam Thompson, and Peter, James, Jonathan, Joseph, Jezariah, Jermiah, Wicks. Interesting. Thank you for that. This episode may contain swearing. If you don't like it, go f***. yourself. This is the main episode, which means it's Monday. When you're listening to this, you'll be able to watch this on Josh's YouTube channel on a Wednesday. And then we'll be doing the bonus episode, which comes out audibly on a Thursday, which you can watch on a Sunday, which means that you can catch us on a... Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday.

2:37Beautifully harmonised, boys and girls. Rate, review, do all of that sort of shit. Follow us on socials at Staying Redmond Podcast. Do all of that crap. You know the score by now. And if you don't, well, you are thick. We are now podcast superheroes. You might ask why. You might be sitting there being like, what about the green chairs? Well, for those who are listening to this, they won't know about the green chairs. Oh, that's a really good point. So if you want to know what he means by that, then watch it on Wednesday on Josh's YouTube channel, which is rising in subscribers. and it's good for Josh because Josh gets some more money when we win 100.

3:18And we're doing a plaque party. And we're doing a plaque party. Yeah. Actually, I need to bring that up with you because I've been reading some reviews about you going American for some reason. What, bro? Has anyone else seen this? Keep saying American words like Santa and elevator and trash. Trash. Stick to the trash, man. But, yes, we are or you are listening to this in the first record from the brand new Staying Relevant Productions HQ.

3:48A brand new set. Everything is new. Different area, different place. We've got a canteen. We've got a desk. We've got shit. And it's all ours. This is, we are now home. This is our home now. We own all of this. Most of it's on tick. Yeah, we've got no more money left. But this is the Staying Relevant Production Studio. This is where we're going to be for the foreseeable. And it's a lot of it is down to you guys listening. So thank you so much because we now are literally living our dreams. So thank you so much. And the set looks fucking sick. We've got a brick wall. Pete's got his goats. Pete's bought his goats in the old studio.

4:30And we've got a neon light saying Staying Relevant. Yeah, yeah. That was a new addition, actually, that because we didn't have it last week. and then something didn't feel right. So we got a light. And the jelly cat. That's a fucking disgrace. It's a private place up top as well. It's been a journey, but we are here. This is it now. This is our new kind of life and our new home. Lots of new changes. The team are now hybrid working. What does that even mean? It's hybrid working. You know that. What the fuck is hybrid working? Come on, Sam. You know I don't know what that means. What's hybrid working?

5:05The whole team has sat there. Isn't hybrid like some sort of mutant? Sorry, the team mutant. No, I don't understand. What's hybrid working? What is it? We'll take a guess. Okay, right. Working on the fly. On the fly. It was all American again. Just working on the fly. Working on the fly, man. Yeah, the team are hybrid working, mate. I don't know what that means. It's hybrid working. Does anyone know what that means? Were we just making this up? Annalise, you know what that means? Pippa, Josh, Kira and Ted, they're not here at the minute because they're hybrid working. I'm so confused. Am I hybrid working?

5:54Yes. Am I? I think for you, we call it barely working. Because you're too busy running. Oh, no, we finished that, which is fabulous. Actually, talking about hybrid working And actually the chairs, we specifically got chairs with lumbar support after you crippled yourself last week, which we'll get on to. You hopped in today. Hobbled, mate. But you did manage to hobble to the hairdressers the day after. It's the first thing I did. I know. It's incredible. I wonder what Sam would do after this incredible challenge that he's done. Finished on Friday after 260 gruelling miles with a torn fucking calf.

6:33I'll tell you what I'll do. I hop on a train to Woken and get my hair dyed.

6:40But what do you actually think of the studio? Because this is the first time you've seen it since it's been built because you've been training. Mate, it's absolutely beautiful. I love the brick wall behind us. Obviously, if you're listening to this, I'm going to give you a little rundown. We've got a beautiful carpet. We've got an amazing desk. What a rundown that is. If you're listening to this, let me tell you, we've got a lovely carpet. We've got a great cream carpet. Fuck me. We have curtains. We have lighting. Do you know what's crazy? is that we actually have a fully functioning, fully fledged adult studio that we can call ours.

7:09And do you know what? And I mean this, we've been bouncing from fucking studio to studio trying to figure it all out until we finally got to a place where we could do it on our own. And I don't mean to get a little bit soppy at the start, but I'm really proud of us. I really fucking am. I'm so proud of us. And, you know, who knows how the studio is going to evolve and whether we get another one eventually down the line as well. Whether we get evicted. You just don't know. That is wild because now we're here with loads of other people working. So everyone has their own sort of studio spaces and office space and stuff.

7:42So we're going to start making friends, I guess, in the, don't look at me like that. We're making friends. We're going to be making friends in the cafeteria. In the what? In the cafeteria. For sake. In the cafeteria. We're going to be making pals. Yeah. We're going to be having coffee. In the canteen. On our lunch break. We've got lunch breaks now. Salad bars. But yeah, I mean, this studio, because it's not just this studio, because we have been to work and there is some other surprises that will be coming very soon with Stay Ever and Productions, I think. Won't there, Sam? There absolutely will be.

8:13This isn't just a studio for one. Put it that way. But anyway, that's the housekeeping done. Our housekeeping. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's our house. Put the broom away. Because we own this shit. Who owns it? We own this shit. We actually own something! Look at what we've built! Whose house is this? This is our house. This is our house. Our house. Ow. Our house. This is our house and no one's allowed us. We've got a keypad on the door. You can't get in unless you know the code. Very expensive. I don't know the keypad. I still don't know the fucking code to get into our own office. You are not allowed it.

8:47No, that's mental. That is absolutely, that needs to change. Well, we're just, we're just, we're slightly worried for security reasons. I christened the loos just now as well. Well, you did. You even cut a ribbon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. despite the fact that you've been here for three hours. So the ribbon's been up for three hours, but you cut the ribbon and it was a big anti-climax. It reminded me of years ago cutting the ribbon on a doner kebab shop as a PA when things weren't going so great. But look at us now. Look at us now. Look where we are. Anyway, let's get back to the basics. Staying relevant.

9:24So each week from the start of this podcast having me years ago, we do Staying Relevant Moments. it was a struggle to think of one for you for this week what I mean what have you been what have you been doing you done much it's been a tough week been a tough week it's been a tough week man it really really well no but the past few days I've actually been resting relaxing recuperating oh all the R's yeah mate putting the leg up chilling out obviously went and got a haircut and dye which no one likes well let's get let's go on to let's just go let's have a little you know glance back at last week you fucking completed it We did it, baby!

10:01Yes! The man of the moment, the nation's sweetheart, Sam Thompson. You raised at Endpoint, which was on Friday, £1.5 million for UNICEF. And that's at the time of recording. We haven't found out what the figure is since then. I can't imagine if it goes up again. Well, I mean, it will definitely go up. We've still got a documentary to come out. So you've done incredible, incredible stuff. I mean, mate, like to raise millions of pounds for charity is incredible. But let's find out how it was for you. Didn't go to plan, did it? No. Wasn't the best start. Dude, day one, I've trained for this. Pete knows, the whole team knows this.

10:48And actually, you listeners will know this as well. I've been training for this for a while, like a good four months. and was feeling pretty good about the whole thing. And day one, I tore my calf. So there's three grades, right? There's grade one, there's a grade two tear, and then the grade three, which I didn't do, thank God, is a rupture. If you rupture it, you're fucked. That sounds bad, rupture. Yeah, rupture's like the worst one you can have. It means that you've got to go and immediately have like surgery and shit. Thank God it wasn't that. I was at the 40k mark for the first marathon and for the last 2k I just had to hobble it.

11:27But I will never forget feeling like I'd been shot in the back of the leg. Well, okay, right. So when you describe this, I watched The Moment this morning. Have you seen it? Mate, and it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I don't know how it came up, but it was on Instagram and I was looking into the bits last week just to pick out some bits to talk about. And I'm not joking you. Sam goes, he's running along and he goes, oh, mate, the moment is brilliant. Do you just describe it as being shot in the leg? And you're literally running. You go, oh, and then you stop and you, I don't know what's happened.

12:02I've never seen it. Dude. The adrenaline must've been pumping on day one. Adrenaline's pumping, but also I'm, I've panicked because I don't want people to panic. Yeah. So I, I, in my head, I know what's happened. Like relatively, you know, what's happened. I'm like, okay, I can feel something, something really bad has happened. What was going through your head? Pure panic. Cause I literally went, you know what it's like, man. Like I, everybody it's wild when people sign up for these challenges, right. Then no one's not completed them. Like everybody's completed them from, from Jamie to JP, my friend to Spencer, who went and did things in the dunes and the Africa guy, Russ Kirk, who ran the length of Africa.

12:43All of these people have smashed every challenge they've done. and I threw my head on day one I did that to my car I went I'm going to be the first fucking guy who lets people down and you know that's my biggest weakness as well so mate the fear and I immediately like had tears in my eyes I remember looking at my running coach Taylor who is such a machine he was doing the whole thing with me actually let's just do a quick shout out to Taylor and Tracy by the way they're such good people what fucking incredible people mate and they take none of the adulation as well no and they literally it's like they're with you every step of the way it was the three of you from day one to day five.

13:17From day one to day five, mate. And I look at Taylor and I've got tears in my eyes and I go, I can't put any weight on it. I feel like I've been shot in my leg and I could see, I'm looking, I'm trying to figure out what his eyes are telling me. And he goes, I'm like, am I going to be able to finish this? When someone's eyes get bigger. Mate, and he literally goes, he goes, dude, let's just get to the end and we'll go and see Gary LeFizio who again, big shout out to Gary LeFizio. He's fucking amazing. And I knew then that it was like quite bad and then i just started really panicking obviously you've got there's a van in front of us because they're filming the documentary so they're following everything they've come out of the van and they're filming me on the side of the street and i'm like no no no no this can't be happening this can't be happening anyway i don't want to bore everyone but fast forward to gary the physio he goes you've torn your calf and he goes mate you won't be able to walk in it for at least like you run on it sorry for at least like three and a bit weeks i'm now in floods of tears i'm being held by gary the physio i mean we were getting because we don't want to ruin because obviously a lot of this is going to be covered in the dock, won't it?

14:21But we were getting updates here. So it was, you know, Monday morning. So he's off. He's gone. About three hours later, something's happened. It's bad. And I think Pippa and I went outside and went, oh, dear, it's not good. He's only been going three hours. I know. Oh, shit. Oh, my. But listen, that was day one. you made it through four and a half days after that despite having a torn calf can i tell you why i and i mean this and this incorporates all of you guys here at staying relevant um and all the team but also everyone listening like mate this sounds so cringe and pete's literally gonna laugh at my face the only thing that got me through is the power of friendship and I know, I know how it's gagging.

15:11I know how it sounds, but I'm not joking, man. Like from day one, Ben Shepard turning up, right? If I had had, I would either have needed you or Ben because if I had had someone who Molly called on me on that first day. Yeah, Ben's not that guy. No, mate, he ain't that dude. He's brilliant. Mate, if I had, he gave me tough love and he went, dude, you will find, you must find a way to get through this. I'm panicking I'm crying on day one and he goes no shut up mate get on the bike and we're going go on Ben Shepard mate dude he's such a boy and I needed that so badly I needed that person he was just going to take me but like no let's not do if someone had been like oh that is bad mate I probably would have like completely crumbled you don't need an enabler you don't need an enabler I did not need that and then day two Ryan came along mate and I was really that was a really beautiful moment actually really beautiful moment and then obviously you had another one of your best friends Chris Hughes but no do you know i will say this i will give this to chris because i if i'm honest with you when i saw him and i came into the lay by where we were like where we were sort of like stopping and doing the this morning stuff i saw chris huso i went i don't know this guy that well i don't really know this dude mate he is one of the nicest guys and he came and did that i was in a really tough spot we just had sleet rain coming across and it was i was so miserable and i felt like I was letting everybody down.

16:33And he was such a joy. And I really mean this. He was a real joy, man. And I was really appreciative. I wouldn't have had anyone else there, to be honest with you, other than Chris, which is wild. And I will keep in touch with him. It was that lovely. And then day three, obviously the big day, you came as well as the rest of the team. And that, I fucking knew it. I knew. I was so not prepared. It was trying to work out what day would be a good day to come. Halfway through, you were either going to be, I can do this, or you were going to be, I can't do this. Number two. You were number two at that point.

17:13I don't know if you have listened to the pods where you left and I made a prediction of what your reaction would be. I haven't, no. Which was out this week. What was it? I mean, I was 100 % correct. Well, you've only got to explain it. Apart from I did say jumping up and down. I didn't realise that that wasn't going to be a moment. But, yeah, we all came, and we'll get into the story of our journey there, because it was a real teen day out that we had. I've heard something. Yeah, it was serious. But I think that is the most emotional I've ever seen you. Mate, I've never been so low, but also so high at the same time.

17:55and the word of the wheat was you're the guy. Well, I mean, it became the phrase. It became the phrase and the slogan for your entire challenge. I am that guy. You're the guy. It became the thing. And I don't know where that really came from. I don't really know what the fuck happens really, to be honest with you, in that whole moment. I didn't really know what to say to you. You said the right words. Because you can't prepare for that. I didn't know what state you were going to be in. and I didn't know, because, you know, we laugh and joke a lot, like you and I, but actually behind that there is an awful love, and a lot of the time I kind of take the piss, but I think at that moment that wasn't the right moment to be taking the piss.

18:43I mean, we did get that in as well.

18:48You can see the board up top. We made some boards and some signs, the you can moment. that seemed to do quite well um but um but mate i i honestly i i don't think i've ever been as proud of anyone as when i saw you that day because i i've i could genuinely see the pain you were in but not just physically mentally as well actually you know what the worst thing is i didn't think i knew you'd be coming maybe at some point but i thought it might be the end because you told me you couldn't come and i was like fuck's sake if he ever does come he'll be like at the very end well so i wasn't expecting that and i was i may i was running on no leg and i was fat and you know you know why i said i'm not the guy it's because i was in this headspace where i was like i they could have picked anyone to do this and all the other people who've done this have completed it and like they're the guys and girls and whatever and i was like i'm the person who's not and you know i'm failing this fucking challenge and i just felt like i was a failure and then when i turned that corner and you just gave me that pep talk and like there's this thing where i i noticed you doing it i watched it back and you i basically fell in you that sounds weird and inside you that didn't make the cut but i was like just give him a little uh a little pep dick in i was like i fell on top of you and you lifted my bag up for me and I remember that really well and I remember like oh he's lifting me up and like it just it it made me feel so good and it puts so much joy in my heart and then seeing the whole team and everyone and it was just it was just fucking beautiful man but I've never done anything and and look I know we've this challenge has encompassed a lot of some of our pods so I don't want to speak about for too long because there's a lot to get into I mean the team day out I really want to hear about as well but one of the things that I say is is mentally i don't think there was a better time weirdly for me to do that there was a day or a time on thursday and i haven't really said it to be honest with you but i left a lot on that road on between wednesday and thursday at the dot i left a lot there and it was one of the most mentally freeing times i've ever had in my entire life where we rode and ran for like the longest duration all the way down the up the the welsh border and i finished it in in liverpool and you know i'm a bit of a talker me and tracy were on the bike and it was so fucking hard the hills were so bad my calf was killing and you just had to channel something and i'm not just i'm not gonna say what it was but like there was i just left a lot of the year that we've had that i've had on that road and I didn't speak to her for an hour and a half and she I remember she said to me about 20 minutes into me not speaking she goes whatever it is that you're channeling right now I need you to keep doing that and I just started riding the bike whilst crying for an hour and a half just tears streaming down my face just riding like I've never written before and I got to Liverpool fell off my bike burst into tears and just sat on a bench and um and I've never felt so emotionally depleted but also so at peace i know that sounds really weird but i would i would say it's a weight isn't it it was this weight that lifted off my shoulders i think i've been holding for a lot of this year and it just let it go and it was just fucking beautiful and then to have you there and to have tony there i mean the tony carrying you um to the boat is one of the um nicest most beautiful and also hilarious things I've ever seen um because it looked like it looked like if it was in a film Tony had been to war he'd come back to his wife um as a surprise you know when you see them beautiful moments on Instagram when like they've been serving and then they come back and surprise the wife yeah and then you're going I've been thinking about you all day it was I couldn't work out if it was the start of a rom-com or just a really beautiful moment but whole thing mate was was was was genuinely really really beautiful and um you know we i can speak for for me probably everyone listening to this and everyone in this room that we're so incredibly proud of you but the thing that um before we move on that i want to know is something that you said before you went away and that's that you you wanted to do something that you're proud of and and that you wanted to make yourself proud um did you do it yeah i did i'm i'm proud of I'm really proud.

23:25And you know what's weird? She was really crazy actually about the whole thing. I wasn't proud for the entire thing until I got home and then felt really, really, really proud. And I've written it down. I journaled it, which is kind of lame, but like I wrote down the things that I did out there and the hurdles we had to come past and the friends that I have and the family that I have that turned up. And, um, and I'm so proud actually, not just to myself, but of, of the life that we've built and that we have the community that we have and the people that we have around us and it was fucking like the people who donated man people who turned up in the pouring rain like all of those people who we've never met mate as well like all of the family that we have that listen to this and stuff you get behind you no matter what even if their lives are really fucking tough but i know we get a bit deeper and we're going to stop now but yeah it was i i am really really proud actually of everything that that's been achieved i'm so grateful i'm so grateful for the fucking experience well it's a really good way to go into this is is we actually got a message uh pippa and i got a message when we were in the studio um it's thursday just after we got back um uh from someone who uh it was just the most beautiful message so i'm read that to you now um and and we've actually she's going to come to the o2 um we did a little video message pippa and i to her and we're going to send her some tickets but uh listen to this every thursday morning we budget into our monthly allowance that me and my 17 month old baby can go for coffee just me and some toast at costa this week we're going for a walk around the park because we're giving our costa breakfast to sam i didn't have any spare money but after watching the videos we had to find a way to give something.

25:08If you speak to him and he's struggling, please let him know how much we are all finding ways to support him, no matter how little or how much money we have, because he is amazing. See, that kind of shit. Give me goosebumps. I'm tearing up, mate, again. Like, that is... I don't think you've got any tears left. I know, man. But you hear that, mate, and it's the soul of people. Like, the people are just so fucking lovely. and to have, like, to not have much and to be donating to that kind of cause. That's why I kept on saying, like, the people. And I remember Pete saying before I did the challenge, he was like, remember, it's not about you.

25:47And you're so right. It's not about me. It was never about me. It's about UNICEF. It's about the cause. It's about the people who are donating. You're a vehicle for a cause. You're a vehicle to a cause, man. A glass vehicle at that. But, like. Well, you weren't. You didn't break down. I didn't break. We kept on going. You had a few mechanics along the way, but we didn't break down. There was a few flat tires, but we pumped you back up again. We pumped you back up. But you're right, mate. We were all vehicles for something that's far greater than ourselves, mate. But the people who donated are the heroes of this entire story.

26:13To hear that and to hear that someone is following and supporting the journey enough to alter their own life when they don't have much at all is, it's fucking the most humbling thing you can ever hear. And so that is the most beautiful. Whoever said that, that's just one of the most beautiful things I think I've ever heard. But we are going to meet you at the O2. And also, I know people have spoken to you because you are going to come backstage and actually meet Sam. Baby, come on. We'll have a couple of guineye, maybe a tequila. Well, talking about the old guineye, that's Guinness. I don't know why we're calling it guineye.

26:47In plural. Let me tell you about our day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I saw photos, but I haven't heard it. Well, I mean, so the team got a train up in the morning. Not all together. Pippa. Pippa missed the train. This is so staying relevant. This is so fucking staying relevant. Let me just point out, we've got a new member of staff, Hannah. If you want Hannah's nickname, it is Happy Hannah or Chuckles. Chuckles! Chuckles is so good! So we have a new character unlocked. But anyway, so Chuckles' first week in the office was to travel to Birmingham with the team. and her boss, Pippa, missed the train.

27:36So Chuckles had to sit on a train with Josh and myself. And I'll be honest with you, we're not particularly fun guys. So that was a struggle for Chuckles, but she kept us going. Chuckles turned up with a number of cardboard pieces of paper, bits of card where she'd made signs with Annalise the day before. They had a little arts and crafts session to make the signs for you that we were going to hold along the way. No one likes a quick finisher. that sort of stuff you can um that was that was wild so i saw that we'll get onto that so so so we had these signs and there's a lot of equipment and whatnot and we're waiting at the platform and there's me josh and and hannah uh well we're gonna have to jump on this train or else we're gonna miss it because it was tight to meet you at these at these kind of um checkpoints um because obviously you didn't know we were going to be there and we was trying to fucking work it out with everyone to get to the right places.

28:29We had to jump on the train. So we all had a coffee and a toasted bun. And then we got Pippa with laughing. Pippa, where are you? Where are you? The train is leaving. Laughing faces from Pippa. Oh, I missed you. Why has she missed it? Because she was petting dogs on the tube. That's just not you. That's just not Pippa. Yeah, I mean, it was tough. but we later uh after seeing you we all needed a bit of a wind down so from there um we went through a costa drive-thru um which was lovely and we all had a coffee together we then went for lunch because we thought oh do you know what let's go and see sam for lunch as well because we'd left you at the checkpoint that was fucking lovely by the way when you came to the second checkpoint that was so nice although i barely saw them because they were all having guinnesses outside well the main reason that we went to the second checkpoint is because on the way when we We were going through the drive-thru.

29:27It was, okay, right, well, we can get the trains back. I had to go to work and all that sort of stuff. Where's the next checkpoint? It's the pub. Or we could go and say hello. So we popped in and said hello. Sam was having loads of treatment. There's loads of cameras around him and all that sort of stuff. So I was like, guys, let's lean into it. We go to the pub. So we did have some Guinness. We had a lovely lunch. Pippa was over the moon with her lunch. She actually wants to go there for the Christmas party. It is in the middle of fucking nowhere. but it was great we had a lovely time we almost forgot that you were there well do you know what's interesting you say that because I remember hobbling off my fucking physio table with everyone around me going I swear I've seen Pete and I literally hobbled to the edge of the door and looked to the outside space it's the entire Staying Relevant team none of whom have come and said hello at this point all having knees up just literally about 50 fucking metres on a park on a bench outside I'm going to be honest I was there as a motivator um i felt like i'd motivated you um but it wasn't just you that needed motivating um so it wasn't just the staring redmond team because i did also sit down and have a pint of guinness with tracy and taylor she told me this tracy was like she had a booze up before she got back on the fucking bite so while sam is weeping in a corner tracy and taylor came and had a bit lunch and a couple of pints of guinness before the the next 30 miles in the afternoon which just goes to show what fucking machines they are.

30:55Oh, that's so funny. I didn't know Taylor was there as well. But anyway, so the whole thing, honestly, we're really proud of you. So that's, and you can see a lot of the content everywhere. I mean, Sam's everywhere at the minute. And make sure you watch the documentary, which is going to be on... It's going to be on Friday. So actually it will have just aired, but it'll be on ITVX as well. I hope you watch the documentary. If not, you can catch it on X. On ITVX. And obviously this is pre-soccerade. So fingers crossed Sam will score a girl sorry we've changed that fingers crossed sam will step on the pitch yeah it's looking real dicey at the moment i'm gonna be honest but we'll see but since then you got back um and and lots you know has happened we are in a new studio um it is a podcast hosted by myself and elvis now a little less conversation a little more action do you know what um you thought like i needed a change man yeah i mean you have made a serious change um you you've gone dark you're a brunette i have a brunette i'm a very dark brunette and i've got some would almost say black yeah i've got i've got very very dark hair and i did that on purpose by the way yes but i didn't realize i went oh it wasn't an accident no because the comments are suggesting it might have been an accident i know i understand that the reason was is that i went for a hair dye right and i went i I just want to change.

32:12And I didn't realise I was doing this morning, the day after I'd got this, two days after I'd got this hair colour, because it normally takes a couple of days to set in and go a little bit browner. And so I went and did this morning and the comments weren't very nice. I got absolutely fucking hammered. No one cared about the charity. All people cared about was the fact that I looked like a vampire. No, I mean, it's better now. It's better now. Yeah, I mean, I like it. It's not as aggressive in person as the pictures that everyone sent me when you're on This Morning, where, I mean, I'm not entirely sure who you were.

32:51I don't, honestly. Ben Shepard went, oh. I went to Target. I went to Target and went, oh, hello. That's not a good sound. You're going to love this. Guess who's replaced me at Soccer Aid? Oh, I know because I, well, Roman Kemp. Roman Kemp. I can't be fast. The original Moulet has replaced you. I'm not sure if that's down to the injury or if they saw your hair in this morning and said, oh, we can't have him in an English kit because they're white and all the dye all just run down and you won't be able to see. You'll end up looking like you're playing for the rest of the world by the time all the dyes run out because they play in black, don't they?

33:28They do. But yeah, Roman Kemp has got the call up. I saw that and I went, you fucking bastard. I messaged him. I went, of course. I went, it had to be you, didn't it? He went, no, mate, I was always going to do it. I went, you've been superimposed onto the fucking kit. You haven't even done the photo shoot. I couldn't believe it. Well, this is what happens, mate. Do you know what I mean? But you'll be there in spirit. You're still going to be at Socrate. I'm still going to be there. Because there'll be a lot of people there who want to say, well, it's already happened. So, very confusing now. I don't know whether we're coming or fucking going.

34:03I'll be honest with you. What fucking week is it? I'm hoping everyone's seen. is that I've asked if I can be assistant manager to Tyson Fury if I can't play. Stood on the touchline. Well, I mean, with the Sam T footy knowledge, why wouldn't they? 442 boys, get back, get back.

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35:26The start of this year has been slow for you. All we've had is sort of crying, emotional problems and running. But it's because you've been working in the background on loads of other things. So we have got a very exciting announcement. It's something that has kept everyone on the edge of their seats. Me, personally, I haven't slept for months. I haven't slept for months. We first announced this way back when. and honestly, I've been ready for an explosion. It's been like waiting for GTA 6 for me. See, you like that reference? Such a good pop culture reference. Thank you. I am learning. Slay Queen.

36:07Slay Queen. Yes, bitch. So it's been a lot, but I can finally reveal. We're going to find out if Sam's Jamaican this Thursday. DNA Journey is out. DNA Journey is out. So it has aired. Again, I don't know what planet we're on now anymore because all of this is in the future and in the past. So, Sam, if you haven't seen it, I don't want to do a spoiler because I know you're all on the edge of your seat like me, but was it you that was Jamaican or Marvin Jones? It was you. Both of us. No, it wasn't.

36:52No. Oh, God. It was Marvin. Who was it? It was Marvin. It was Marvin. Come on, guys. Who had bets on Marvin? I told you. Who had bets on Marvin? You said Sam, Pippa. I mean. I'll tell you what. It was. God, just ask. So do you know what's wild, though? I do have family. No, one of your, your granddad went on holiday there once. No, he was in the army there. Well, then you don't, that doesn't make you part Jamaican. I thought he was there. There is a moment Sam called me when they were filming this and he went, God, I got dicey for a minute because they said, I do have a connection to Jamaica around the 1800s.

37:33We all know what we were thinking. Yeah, mate, dude, they were what they were thinking. Sam, we all know. But luckily, his granddad, he just popped over there to be in the army for a bit and went on already. So you're not Jamaican, but you are Irish. He's the best man here in the pop and take. I've got Irish in me, man. Top of the morning to you. Yeah, Northern Irish as well. But amazing. So, I mean, I can't believe that's happened. You can catch that on ITVX as well, by the way, if you haven't already. Listen, I'll tell you what you should do. You should just have a Sam marathon. It is wild. It's all sort of happening at once, to be fair.

38:06But we've also got another announcement from Sam because you've got another show that he's been filming. Oh, yeah. So, you know, he's got the prank show, Impractical Jokery type thing that he's been filming. Celeb Sabotage. Yeah, he's got that. Just have a Sam Sunday. What better thing to do if you're a little bit hungover than get in bed and watch Sam cry, watch Sam find out his ethnic origin, and then watch Sam play tricks on unsuspecting people. I mean, there's something for everyone there. You've explained that so well. There is something for everyone. It's a real, we're going to call it Sam Sunday.

38:41I might even have a Sam Sunday, you know. I'm going to lie in bed in me pants at some point. I'll just be giving you a handjob.

38:50so that's so so relevant

38:55that is though that is very exciting so they've sabotaged it's gonna be great it's gonna I'm so excited for it oh we're all excited for it can't wait yeah I can't I mean it's it's definitely something that I I can't wait to watch I mean I may be watching it at some point because I I watch TV now yeah oh my god is that out yes Pete have we spoken about this no oh my god see this is what happens it comes in like waves right Right. One minute we're doing fuck all. The next minute. Look at us. So Pete Wicks is doing the show that I have always wanted to do with Pete Wicks. Not with me, but with Vicky Patterson.

39:34He's doing Celeb Gogglebox, everybody. And if there was ever a man that needed to be doing it, it was you. Are we allowed to know any of the things you've watched? Yeah, because one episode's already been on. Has it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So basically, so you film it weekly and it goes out on a Friday. Oh, fuck me. It's a good turn. So two episodes would have been on by this point. So what have you watched? You're just like, what the fuck? Well, I mean, it's tough for me because, as we all know, I don't watch an awful lot of TV. So the majority of it is explaining to me what is happening and who these people are.

40:06And the biggest struggle that I have is that, I mean, I watch Below Deck, for example. How is that for you? That's people fucking on a boat. What more can you say? to be honest with you I'm mostly there eating snacks I could just imagine you being like what's this blow debt right oh they're shagging right it's a basic show about fucking Vicky over to you yeah you just went for the popcorn but you know I mean we didn't you would have seen this I think I had some sort of malfunction because it's they're long old days to sit and film yeah it's quite you have to sit and watch this stuff and you do it over hours and hours and hours But it's loads of fun because me and Vic get to spend time together and it's great and she's got the dogs there.

40:48We do it at Vic's house because mine's a fucking nightmare because of glass and all that shite. So I watched Arnold Schwarzenegger talk about climate change. I didn't really pay it. The hell are you going to say to that on Gogglebox? Well, I'll tell you what I said. Just did impressions of Arnold Schwarzenegger for 15 minutes. Get in the chopper! I just, and everyone just was like, he's on the tin. I was like, put the plastic in the bin. That's all I did. And they're like, but Pete, what do you think about what he's saying? Get in the chopper! That's literally. So, you know. But, yeah, it's a fun show.

41:24So I'm watching TV now. I watched a film with Hugh Grant in. Do you know what I love? Heretic. That's a fucking good movie. Well, yeah. I mean, I got it completely wrong. Well, because we watched the kind of start bit of it and I didn't realise it was a horror and I just thought he had a lovely cardigan and he was quite nice to the girls. I didn't realise at some point he'd kill him so I what a lovely man well I just thought oh it's lovely it's raining outside he's invited him in isn't that nice he's made him tea he's brought him a little that's lovely he's even lit a blueberry candle a blueberry candle that's right he goes my wife's going to cook a pie for you it's lovely yeah I thought I don't understand the problem he's a lovely guy oh that's so funny that's not it for you though mate let's not just not only celeb goggle box Peter James Wicks we've also got this morning's Peter James Wicks as well let's not forget about that the man held the fucking cards do you know what I was really going through it emotional for Sam it was like bring your mate to work day mate it was but you know it was so wild I was in such a weird headspace but the moment I saw you holding them cards I just went straight back to this is fucking brilliant and you stood there with your cards right holding them and there was a producer who's a really nice guy actually who's like telling Pete write this what you do and Pete just turned around and went mate take my first rodeo he went he went he went let me fly and the guy went oh shit okay fine mate you fucking smashed it he was holding his cards it's so daytime as well no swearing and he was like they couldn't believe that I'd never swore before it was so good the panic of about six different people from this morning going I know tensions are high but this is this morning you can't swear like I'm some sort of moron that's gonna go he fucking did it to come morning morning Ben how are you big fucker Do you know what I mean?

43:12But yeah, there was blind panic where people just do not associate me with morning TV. Oh, you were so good. It's amazing. If I put my mind to saying, it's almost like I can string a sentence together. I see you holding the cards though, man. It's like morning TV and Pete Wicks going well so together. I don't want to blow me on trumpet, but obviously they must have seen that and thought, this guy, he can do daytime, he can do family. So let's whack him on the one show as well. So then I went and did the one show. That night. And it was so good to see you hosting that as well. Sorry, that was Roman.

43:46I get confused. But yeah, with Roman. But yeah, we did the one show. I'm just all about the daytime these days, mate. You know what I mean? I'm just there for the family. Slay bitch. Yeah, yeah. He's just slaying all the bitches. Yeah. That sounded rogue. I'm slightly tired today because last night I was hosting an evening with Pete Wicks. You love an evening with. my god do you like an evening with yeah um uh with dogs trust uh an incredible uh event kirstie gallagher was interviewing me and she is i'm i have to say this have you ever met kirstie yeah so she's just a wonderful wonderful wonderful person but she also she's beautiful fuck but she's great at what she does man like she's a really good broadcaster she's fucking incredible you know when you watch someone you think fuck you're good um uh so that was amazing there was a dog there there was a great day really really posh good yeah nice really posh venue in london in the middle of mayfair and there's like you know all these kind of wooden frames it was at the kennel club and you know we were doing like a fundraising thing for dogs trust um so they brought atlas in everyone's like loving atlas this is amazing um midway through the uh ceo speech atlas just went and then shit all over kirstie gallagher's shoes no way did it go on the shoot Oh, on the street.

45:05The fucking lots, mate. We're all in suits and all that sort of stuff. So that was delightful. We had to clear the room because you could choke a donkey on that fucking smell. It was tough. And I'm off to Cannes next week. See, this is the thing. Pete's just on his travels right now all over the country. I'm in my travels. I've been to Birmingham. I've been to the One Show. I've been to Mayfair and I'm going to Cannes. Cannes is a good one, though. Yeah, what are you doing to Cannes? It is myself, Liv Atwood, Martin Kemp and Kimberley Wyatt. We are off to do something. We have had somebody who's got in touch about Pete's gym journey.

45:49You were seen in the gym by a listener of this very podcast. No, I wasn't. Yes, you were. Pippa, someone has DM'd us. Is that someone in my building? Mate, mate, mate, this is... No, I wasn't. Yeah, you're getting stalked in the best possible way. Someone's DM'd us going, just seen Pete. Someone in my building. Mate, if you listen, someone's DM'd us saying, just seen Pete at the gym. He's on his third cigarette break so far. Right. Is this true? Do you go for cigarette breaks mid-gym? Yeah, absolutely. Third one. I whack out a 5K, do three f***ing back to back, go back in, go and do 20 minutes on the rowing machine, A few f***s after that.

46:32Go and do a little bit of f***ing stretching. Cut the f*** because that takes it out of me. Bit stretching. Sorry. No. No. What stretching are you doing? I need to know. What are you on the mats? Just trying to keep myself mobile, mate. You haven't got what you're doing. What stretches are you doing? Don't worry about that. I have to see furrows of you stretching. I'm going to be honest with you. That's the most worrying thing because it's someone in my building then. Because you can only get in the gym if you live in the building. That's why. So that means I've got a stalker. That can't be serious.

47:01We have a name from that person. That's not real. That is. No, you've made that up. No. That's frightening. It's fucking brilliant. Show me his face so I can avoid it. It's not as frightening as knowing that you're stretching. I just, I have to know what, is he doing like the groinal stretch? Do full groin stretch, yeah. A lot of the stretching I learned in Strictly with Yvita, and that is because I am of an age now where everything cracks and clicks every time I move. I'm not overly flexible. And because of all the broken parts of my body, they become stiff very quickly. So I have to kind of work on that and do a lot of sort of exercises.

47:42Oh, mate, that is so funny. I can imagine you like on your knees, like leaning back, trying to really arch that back. I mean, at one point the other day, I was doing the crab. Oh my God. If anyone, let me do a call out quickly. If anyone, which is Pete and I hate, Anyone sees Pete at this private gym doing stretching, don't feel like you can't take a photo. Take a photo, send it into a sustain relevant of Pete doing stretches because fuck me, am I so into that. We do need to wrap it up soon, but not before. We have got Pete's opinions on something that I know is going to blow his socks off. Are you ready for this, Pete?

48:22Can't wait. Okay. Love Island has returned.

48:31your favorite show is back on everybody's screens how are you feeling about it i mean like honestly mate buzzing

48:43it's not a summer without love island is it what's your like what's your actually you know i've got a better one for you there was a girl who described her ideal type and uh one of the girls described her type as a guy who looks a bit dead mate you often describe yourself as a woke up in a wheelie bin um and on death's door so do we think if we could just maybe look down the camera or something just say hello babe to her or something like that which gets booted out maybe not hello babe that's a bit but just, you know, you're her guy maybe. All right, darling, what's happening? Yeah. If you're looking for a corpse, hit me up.

49:25What's her name? I'm not going to give you one. I meant me. It's not like I've got a few. Shakira or Meg. I can't remember. Shakira or Meg. Shakira, Shakira or Meg. Shakira, Meg, whatever. One of the two. You're looking for a guy who looks a bit fucked and a bit dead. quite old but i'm your man send that into the villa now via carrier pigeon um i'm your man oh you worry about it you know when sometimes people go like they send a celeb facing right like joey essex obviously went in we've had other famous faces i can't remember i've gone in and um imagine you what would it take to get you to be one of those celebs who go and walk in around that corner.

50:10Hello, girls. You know where they go, hey, guys, who's ready for a bit of fun? Or like they always do like a catch line as they come around the corner and they're like, hey, guys, it's me. It's me you've been looking for. What would I do? What would you do? You'd shuffle around. Bear in mind, they're all about 22, 23. I'd walk around the corner and go, slay, bitches. Where's the booze? Apparently you only have one glass, so I'll suggest you all have a whip round. Whack it in a bucket and I'll finish that. Off you go. And then I'll sit by the fire pit and drink myself into a stupor and then whoever is up last, I'll crack on with that one.

50:52Whoever doesn't, hasn't got a partner. Is that what you'd say when they go, because you have to steal someone's, someone's girl, well, someone's girl. So you'd have to steal someone from another, another couple. Are you happy doing that? Oh, I don't give a fuck. Who's up for it? and then I'll just work out who I think looks, and I'll go on, yeah. Come here. And then what will happen is I'm sure someone will come in and then steal the obviously unhappy girl that's been left with me. And then when she gets stolen, I'll go, can I go home now? It is what it is. I'll come back out and get me PLT deal.

51:34I'll put on a bodycon. I'll go to a couple of events, revive the career. and then in a couple of years time, I'll be able to go and do a reunion show. You do the celeb special, the all-stars. Yeah. No, no, no, no. I'll be straight on the phone to Mike Spencer. All-stars, I'm your guy. And then I can go and do like that other fella that does four holidays a year via Love Island. And Casey. Yeah, that's the one, yeah. Yeah, that'd be it. I'm buzzing for it. Well, mate, just sort of following on for that, Shakira had 24 hours to get a boy to pick her or she'd be dumped. What would you do in that 24 hours that would like, you know, what would your sort of process be of picking someone in 24 hours?

52:19They have to, you have to pick them. No, he has to win them over. You have to win them over. So you have to win someone over in 24 hours or you get dumped from the island. I don't offer money.

52:37How much? Just for one week. I can't go first. How much? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything other than first is fine. Yeah, how much? I think that's probably the best way to do it, isn't it? Yeah? Or just tell them that I know a lot of brand owners. I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd say, I know someone that better. But you know brand owners, so that's maybe you go in and be like, I know the people who could get you a Boohoo Man deal. Tell me about yourself. Are you the one that likes dead people? That sounds like Sixth Sense, doesn't it? Oh, and do that be amazing because you come on After Sun again? Yeah, I can get her because that was loads of fun.

53:19So I'd be over the moon. I'd come out and get interviewed by Sam. How was it for you? Mate, just one of the best experiences of my life. You love it when he pretends to be serious. I'm just so lucky and grateful to have the opportunity. You know, I didn't find love, but I hope everyone else does. and there's the right person out there for everyone. Just wasn't my time. Do you know what? And you could make Maya's going to be there again on After Sun? Well, I mean, you're doing After Sun again, aren't you? So, I mean, is it going to be awkward with you and Maya? Why? Well, you snubbed her Halloween party.

53:55Still not being invited to the new one, actually. That's a good point. Yeah. It might be because it's June. Yeah, but still, I bet the invites go out quite early. Well, I think they probably already have gone out, but you know why would she invite someone who can't be bothered to turn up no it's not I can't be bothered a question for you if we do get invited again I wasn't invited last time I don't know whether if we get invited again I wasn't invited last time yeah but if we get invited we've got to do it this time um I don't think we'll be able to mate oh yeah oh yeah if Avios that's a really good point I don't know what I'm doing that was weird off to Vegas I went cross-eyed there but that eye's really fucking dishonesty it's like I've left that in the Love Island Villa Pete please please go and be a bombshell on Love Island I think we'd all really really appreciate it if not for yourself but everybody else because it would be fucking it'll be like DNA Journey fuck up you never know you never know Pete's catchphrase you never know you never know thank you so much for listening or listening to Staying Relevant with Peter James Wicks and me Sam Thompson it's been so fucking good to be back we're in the new studio having such good flipping time We love you so much.

55:06The artwork, the brickwork. You've got to watch this on YouTube as well, by the way, because honestly, just to get a look at the new studio and on the socials, of course, at Staying Relevant Podcast for everything. And we are just eternally grateful for you. We're in a new fucking era, everybody. We are all in our current era right now. Slay. Slay queens. This has been a Staying Relevant production. Hello Relevanters. We wanted to let you know that you can hear exclusive bonus episodes of Staying Relevant every month on Amazon Music. We are going to be playing Snog Marry Avoid, one of our favourite games, all with fictional characters.

55:48So prepare yourself for Sam to snog Woody from Toy Story and for me to marry Pocahontas. And possibly the genie from Aladdin. We don't know yet. We're sort of like undecided on that one. That's an avoid for me, that one genie. I don't know. I quite like it. Listen to monthly bonus episodes exclusively on Amazon Music and enjoy ad-free listening on Amazon Music for all episodes of Staying Relevant with your Prime membership.