158: Sam Got a DM From WHICH Celebrity?!

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1:54This is the main episode, which means it's Mondays. You'll be able to watch this on Josh and Kira's YouTube channel on Wednesday from 5pm. And then we'll be doing a bonus episode, which comes out Thursday, audibly, which you'll be able to watch visually from Sunday at 5pm on Josh and Kira's YouTube channel, which means you can catch us on a... Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday. This episode will contain swearing. And if you don't like it, then go fuck yourself. Piss off. Yeah, slag. We are joined by a very special guest today. My dog Eric is here. So if you hear some snorting in the background, it's not Pippa.

2:29It is a 12-year-old French bulldog who struggles to see and hear. It is very sweet and hasn't taken a shit in the studio yet. He won't either. Will he not? Nope. Really? Nope. But I have just handed a shit bag to Annalise, just in case. Just in case. He's got a very sweet wiggle of his back hind legs as well when he walks. There's a lot of junk in that trunk. He's got a lot of chunk. He's a chonky boy. Chonky. He is a chonky boy. Chonky little man. Make sure you rate, review, follow, do all of that crap. Thanks. That would be great. Sam, have you been on the reviews recently? I haven't. Oh, God, no.

3:03Are they bad? I don't know. Still do keep leaving reviews because we will eventually get to them and give them a good old read. You never know. We may make a song out of them again. Oh, my God. Do you remember when we did that? I do remember. Years ago. Anyway. Diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea Yes And if you don't know What we're talking about That Sounds weird Yeah it did Yeah there's a reason for that Anyway We have seen a lot of each other This week This is the third day On the bounce The actual team Have spent a lot of time Together this week as well Because we've been In full Christmas mode We have baby This is it It's Christmas Yep Whether you love Or hate Christmas I believe what we did On Monday will tickle your fancy.

3:49It involved donkeys. And bald caps. Yes. With little wrinkles. Are we saying what we did? Just a tease. A tease. Just a tease. It's a nativity. And there may have been a little song at the end. Yeah, we filmed something very special for you to get in the Christmas spirit. As you can imagine, I hated every fucking minute of it. You're going to love it. But that's done. How did you find Monday? Oh, I enjoyed the shit out of it, man. I'm not going to give away which character I was. Well, we don't know what we're doing yet. I'm not going to give away which character I was in the thing that we might or might not have done.

4:29But it was very up my street. And I've got to be honest, we were a lot more talented than I thought we were. Which is funny because I actually had the exact opposite review of it. Do you not think that we smashed that? No, I think it was talentless, amateur, and to be perfectly honest with you, diabolical. Even the song? That was one of the worst bits. Half the team remembered the song, half the team didn't. You were just nodding along. I mean, it was just the whole thing was just a bit of a fucking mess, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Anyway, we haven't had a chance to catch up since you've been back from Oz.

5:11Australia. Australia. Good on, mate. Neither of us are doing one Australian accent. How was it? Let's just start with the main bits. How went Deck? And Deck were fucking great. The only reason that you went. Oh, they were phenomenal, Pete. I went for another lunch with Deck and his wife. This one was invitational, actually. Oh, well, that's nice. Which was really, really sweet. It was me, Deck and his wife. We all had a burger together. And me and Deke had a couple of bevvies, which was really, really cool. And I spoke about you quite a bit, actually, with Deke. Why? Because I wanted to get some advice.

5:53On me? Not on us, as a duo. Who better? It's like asking Ronaldo how to play football. I literally was like, and, I'm sorry, Deke. But what that doesn't do, what that doesn't do is give you any talent. Yeah, but we got some real good advice. Because that's sort of the main thing kind of missing, really, isn't it? It's like saying to Ronaldo, so how do you, Eric, stop now. Oh my God. VD likes Josh. Very odd. But it's like, you can ask Ronaldo how to play football. It's not going to make you any better. You can ask them how to be a duo. It's not going to make us any better. I asked them to come out in our next show.

6:30I'm sat in front of a Christmas tree that says **** on it. And that's where everyone starts. I don't think they do. That's where everybody starts. That's what Dech told me. they told me you always got to start somewhere and that's where we are i said how do we take over from you eventually and he went don't even try it well there you go then um but it was nice it was really really nice man it was so good you know i got a massive hug off hand as well and he and he said and i quote he went we've really missed you and he wasn't joking because he went and i'm being serious we missed you well listen we missed you we missed you here No, you didn't.

7:08We did. It was, we had a busy, busy week, which we'll get onto in a minute. But more importantly, we need your kind of thoughts on Nice Orange winning. Oh, Angry Ginge. Oh, bloody hell. Because we're trying to get Ginge on this podcast. So congratulations to Angry Ginge. You absolutely smashed it, mate. 60 % of the votes, I believe. I think it was the highest winning margin, is it? So higher than... high in the mind by quite some quite some way actually as well i think yeah but we should give a special shout out to tom reed wilson who we know very well and we love very much ah did very very well oh he was so so brilliant tom and actually i didn't get a chance to see him annoyingly because he obviously got to the final i was gone home by then but he was so i messaged him before he went in i was like mate good luck and he was so nervous and i think he's done himself so fucking proud i I think we can both say he's done himself so fucking proud.

8:02And like that person you saw in that jungle is quite literally Tom Rie Wilson to a T. He like doesn't pretend to be anyone that he's not. He is just that lovely in every aspect of his life. Yeah. I have to second that. He's a fucking really lovely guy. We love Tom. I met Eddie Caddy for the first time because he got binned off when I was there. So he's in the jungle. He was in the jungle. He was in the jungle and he was in the canteen and they were filming him sort of getting his first meal. And I just happened to be at the canteen. And he was like, oh, Sam, like, so nice to see you. He's really lovely.

8:35And they clipped it up and they put it out there. Most of the comments, why the fuck is Sam out there? Why is he clinging on to it? I'm a celeb. Like I just flown on my own out to the jungle to just be there. Did you not? Some people genuinely thought I just decided to go out there and be like, yeah, I'm just going to be amongst it. Well, I mean, yeah, you should probably address that. You could do it on one of your TikTok Lives. I knew this was going to come up. So really trying to stay with it. TikTok Live. As someone that doesn't understand TikTok, explain to me TikTok Live. I imagine it's like Instagram Live.

9:16It's like Instagram Live. It's like Twitch streaming. It's basically live streaming yourself. Yeah. When you're just doing anything, it's fucking amazing. So what have your TikTok Lives consisted of? I did four hours live on TikTok. oh grow up mate no honestly let me explain to you the mindset sam sam sam sam sam you're 34 years old 33 whatever you're in your 30s you're mid 30s you've been in four hours on fucking tic i'll fucking get a girl i was on a beach you sad sack of shit i was on a beach in australia sat there on my own on a little on a little chair in the middle of nowhere there wasn't a soul there and there was just one little beach chair on the beach and i went well sit there i went you know I don't really know what I'm going to do.

9:58I felt a bit lonely, if I'm honest. So I was like, I'm just going to get my phone out and have a doom scroll on the beach. And then TikTok went, go live. And I've never gone live on TikTok before. I went, okay, fuck it. Pressed it. I was like, I'm not going to get many. Because, mate, it was like 3M in the UK. So I was like, no one's going to fucking see this. Oh, we know the sort of people that are on TikTok at that time. I had about 300 people. And it was like this real community feel. Like everyone was just like, yeah, no, no, Pete, it was lovely. Is that your word of the year? The family feel.

10:28Community. I'll tell you what Sam's learnt this year. Community and ADHD. Which is autism and ADHD put together. We know. We've just seen your fucking Instagram. So, all right. And what sort of things were you discussing for four hours? It was only meant to be like an in and out situation. Was it you doing a Q &A, were you? I was doing a Q &A. We were talking about the jungle. They were like, who do you want to win? They were like, who do you think is going to win? They were asking me about you. The many people were asking Pete about where he's going to do the jungle. that's a conversation for maybe later on in the show.

10:58Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a conversation for later. I can give you the answer and then no. Yet. Yet. But there were loads of people asking me about you, about the podcast. And so I just, an hour went by and I went, you know what, I'm just going to stick this out. So I went to the pool and then went from the pool to my room. Then I went for a piss on air and I didn't realise this. They could hear me pee, which is weird because apparently that's against the rules. Also, the way you're saying on air, like you're on telly. So you pissed on your TikTok. Pissed on my TikTok live, yeah. We ended up having 4 ,000 live viewers, which I think is quite a bit.

11:31Which is amazing. So now 4 ,000 people know who you've got for Secret Center. Oh, you know?

11:41So. How do you know about that? When we explain what Secret Center is, which is that it's a secret, it's not just sort of... People here have TikTok in this room, you know? when you explain it to 4 ,000 people, Secret's kind of gone at that point. It just becomes, I'm getting a present for Kira.

12:07It's because they were talking. So for the second year running, Secret Santa is ruined.

12:16Don't say it like that. It sounds like I've ruined Christmas. Well, you have. You've ruined it for Kira. and you've ruined it for the office. Now you know, do you know what I mean? It's hardly going to be, oh, I wonder who got Kira. Well, it's Sam. He told TikTok. Do you know what it was? It was, I got asked on the live, who have you got for Super Sandra? I was like, I don't want to lie on my TikTok live. But it's a secret. I know, but I was like, I've got Kira. So, okay, I'll tell you. No, listen, I'll tell you what you can't do on TikTok live. Lie, but I'll tell you what you can do. Have a piss.

12:48Well, now it's out of the open. Fuck it, who have you got? No, no, no, no, no. Because it's a secret. All right, fine, but still playing. Yeah, well, the rest of us are. All right, cool. Have you actually got anything for Kira? No, not yet. No. Well, that was actually part of the reason I spoke about it, because I was like, maybe I'll get Kira something from Oz. And then I asked the live what I should get you. Well, based on the fact that he hasn't got you anything, he got nothing there. Those people said a pair of kangaroo bollocks, because you can buy kangaroo balls from the shop. It's a tough one to get through customs, I imagine.

13:20No, you can buy it in the airport shop. how mad is that yeah kangaroo not real ones yeah genuine kangaroo balls oh yeah what a lovely thing to get you know fucking your employee your fucking chief creative executive officer or whatever they were filmmakers whatever they wanted to call themselves it is a set of fucking kangaroo nuts happy christmas i am sorry about that because i didn't think it get back to you no no no no it's amazing that when you do things live on a public forum how they do get back to you but hey ho it is what it is um but that's not all you mentioned on TikTok Live. I feel like you should probably stop with the TikTok Live because you also declared that we're on tour next year.

13:59When are you going to do Belfast? Wait, we're doing another tour, I think, next year. Probably shouldn't have said that. But hey, on TikTok Live, we talk about everything together. Oh, also, come to Sheffield on tour. We are doing Sheffield soon, I think. Not being discussed. So what are the dates for this tour I'm going on? because I'll have to check the diary. I don't know. I just kept on getting asked, you going on tour again next year? Yeah, yeah. And I just wanted to make people happy. So I said yes. But you don't need to answer questions like that. We're off to Sheffield. Well, this is exactly it.

14:37Specifically Sheffield. So now we've got the town of Sheffield. The mayor's been on the phone. When are you coming? Why specifically Sheffield? Because someone kept on asking, you coming to Sheffield? And I was like, yes, we're coming. You know when the vibe is up? This reminds me of when we were in Birmingham and you told a press reporter that we've always had a kind fondness for Birmingham. We've never discussed... I remember that. Birmingham means a lot to Pete and I. Does it? Pete and Paul have a special place in our hearts. We love popping down the ball ring. Yeah, it's one of our favourite things to do.

15:12The Midlands holds a close place in our heart. I remember doing that. And Pete looking at me. Like, when the fuck has Birmingham ever had a fond place in our hearts? Well, yeah, it's just, I literally was like, do we? So anyway, so you might as well say it now. We'd be off to Birmingham as well on this non-existent tour that's not been discussed. Do you know what it is? Do you know what it is, man? Sheffield first date, Birmingham next. What's that? You want us to go wet? None eaten. We'll be there. Don't you worry. Doncaster, there. Donny. Aberdeen, fucking two dates. Because I'll tell you why.

15:54We love the Highlands. Mate, can I just squeeze? It's only because I was trying to get people, we were trying to get to two million likes. And the vibe was like... Who was trying to? When you say we, who's the we? Me. Me. It's the royal we. Yeah. Trying to get to two million likes. So you sat on a beach, we're trying to get to two million likes, and you thought, I'll tell you what I'll do, just agree. Yeah, that's exactly it. Because I'll tell you what else, what's topical at the minute? Oh, I know Lando Norris. Oh, no! So the new F1 fucking World Championship. Yeah, I know him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

16:27Yeah, big house. You're a fucking prick. We're like that. So between, I mean, is he going to be coming to Sheffield? He's a special guest at Sheffield, actually, Lando Norris. So that'll be exciting for you all. We're not sure we can get him to Doncaster. So the Lando Norris one, crack on with that. it's only because again on the live I think I can't remember how it happened someone was like you excited for Landon Norris to probably win and so because he hadn't won at that point but he was looking like he was going to win and I was like yeah actually I think I said we're mates yeah I think on the live I said did you text him and congratulate him no but he does follow me on Insta well there you go I mean you are just fucking pals we've met him I'm well aware but I certainly wouldn't tell people that because it was a brief encounter or in a nightclub and if I remember rightly you were in a vest I was in a singlet yeah so I mean look all I'm gonna say is we should get Lando on the pod absolutely I mean listen he follows you on Instagram you do very well at messaging your mates on Instagram how did Tom Hiddleston Hiddleston reply did he reply he fucking replied he fucking replied what did he say stop messaging me no I think this is actually quite bad so just for a bit of backstory for this when Pete was going away for his week off which may or may not have been the jungle we um but it wasn't we know and i i don't know why i mean i did soccer with tom hiddleston and and we got along really really well and i just thought for some reason i had like a rush of blood to their head and was like do you know who we'll get we'll get tom hiddleston and people's like you know i remember i was on the train and you went he loves me he'll do it and i don't know if anyone's watched harry potter before but it's the perfect analogy of this is that I messaged Tom Hiddleston on that train and I was like hey man like I'd love to have you on the pod if you have some spare time and then as the days went by with no reply and he'd seen it he'd read it and hadn't replied I went you know when you start like really realizing how inferior you are to someone's life I don't know if you ever watched Harry Potter I know you haven't people people listening you know when Ron Weasley in Goblet of Fire asked Fleur Delacour to the Yule ball and uh and then get sort of like ushered into the Gryffindor common room with a look of disgust on his face as what the fuck did I just do that's how I now feel and I've realized why the fuck did I think that Tommy Edelston would ever reply and be like hey man would love to but he has replied he actually has and I haven't read it because I've been too embarrassed to even read it oh well this is an exclusive news just in breaking tom hiddleston has messaged us should i click it legit that's the only one i haven't pressed oh i don't need to put i don't care but show us oh my god it's really long hello mate this is such a lovely wonderful message george shall i read you mine to him first oh fucking just it was just supposed to be a quick Fucking doozy this one Oh my god I said doozy So I messaged him going Hi mate, hope you're doing well Just saw the night manager trailer, can't bloody wait I know you're probably not allowed To do this kind of stuff and obviously At late notice but would you be up for Coming on my podcast next week I'm sure you're busy but it would be So much fun and very above board Much like the Hits Radio interview We did, would be such an honour No worries if not I'd just like to point out this was about six weeks ago.

20:04Oh, God. Yeah, and the response? I don't want to read it. Okay. Hello, mate. This is such a lovely, wonderful message and I'm so sorry for the delay in my reply. I've been buried in a project in Pompeii and unforgettably having another baby. I'm so excited by your excitement about the new series of The Night Manager. I remember our soccer conversations about it well. I've obviously missed the window, but I'd love to come to the podcast at some point if you'll still have me. Oh, my God. Oh my God! Oh my God, I didn't see it coming! I didn't see it coming! Oh my God! You've got incredible, incredible...

20:40Sorry, Eric. You've got an incredible... Look, he's celebrating. Oh my God! He's come to celebrate. Look, look how happy he is. We're getting Tom Hiddleston! All I'm going to say, all right, all I'm going to say before you burst another blood vessel because you've got an incredible cerise colour is Maya Jammer also said yes to this and it's been two years. Let's see. We've got some interest. We've got fucking... I can't believe that. I was just expecting a really light letting down. Well, listen, it's a Christmas miracle. I'd love to come on to the podcast at some point if you still have me, possibly in the new year as we're all in the countdown to Christmas.

21:24Hope you're really well, mate. Happy, fit and thriving. All the best as ever, Tom. Well, that is, that is, he sounds like a wonderful man. Is he not the nicest human being? We don't know. We've not met him, but we'll all decide and review it after we've met him, after he's been sat in that chair. Do you think he's going to come? I don't know. You don't think he will? I don't know. As in, you don't know or you don't know? No, I don't think he's going to come. No. Not, I don't know, like, oh, could be. Oh. Could we get Loki? Oh. No. Tom fucking sorry okay what I imagine is going to happen is come to January and hope your Christmas was great blah blah blah you'll send another message following on from that message you know you said you'd be interested in the new year I imagine he's going to be buried in another project you know somewhere as equally fucking random as Pompeii in Timbuktu and maybe next year so well done we'll see they will have whenever you want Do you know what?

22:24You never know. You never know. Eh? We just two guys trying. We'll have a go. We'll have a go. We'll have a go. Me and Pete's tagline for everything we do, we'll have a go. You never know, we'll have a go.

22:37That is literally the... If you had a tagline for our lives and our careers, you never know, we'll have a go. He's farted. Oh, yeah, no. Bro, he's fucking farted. I taste that in my mouth. I'm not even joking. But leave him. Mate. he's listen that fucking stinks he's a bulldog right I'm just gonna oh my god he's actually just fine yeah no he stinks he's a bulldog that's disgusting I'm kind of immune to it at this point but because I also just on a sad note because I know people will ask and it's not the point of this the reason Peggy's not here is because I lost Peggy recently which is why Eric is now with everyone here and in the office because he's a bit lonely so because I haven't mentioned that publicly but everyone will now ask, I know.

23:24So yeah, about a month ago. Anyway. Condolences. Thank you. Let's move on. I can't believe Eric just farted. Yes, he does stink. Mate, I can't believe it. I actually, that went down my throat. Yeah, but it doesn't bother him because he's asleep now. That was one of the worst farts I've ever smoked in my life. Oh mate, they're quite brutal. But he's got a very varied diet. You know, like you're like, we're on a comedy podcast. It's like, oh, he's farted. He's genuinely just farted down my throat. Do you know what the difference is, though? Because it's kind of no different to you, but the difference is he doesn't do it on purpose.

23:55It's just natural for him, whereas you will hold it specifically to do it openly and publicly. I'll save it to the car journey in. Yeah. But, yeah, well, this is exciting. What a start to the pod. As far as your Staying Relevant week goes, listen, mates with Lando Norris, learnt TikTok lives, lied on TikTok lives, pissed on TikTok lives, revealed your secret centre, and got us a guest for fucking an A-list fucking Hollywood guest. It's been a fucking good week for you. Do you know what? When we're off the pod, I message Lando. We've got a real good, I feel like we're in a really good vibe right now.

24:28Do you know what? This is a lucky streak's go. I think we're on it. I think we're on one now. I think I'll do it when we go off air. So in contrast to that, my staying relevant week was Strictly Star left with a smashed up face and broken tooth after Nasty Fall. This is marvellous because... We've got Tom Hiddleston, a Green's come on the pod for Sam, and we've got the press discussing my fall. Can I just interject ever so slightly? When I saw this, I went, I genuinely, I was with my sister when I saw this press song, I went, oh, fuck, Pete's had another fall. Mate, you're like a granddad. You know when someone goes, oh, God, granddad's had another fall.

25:08Yeah, how is he? Well, each one just chips away at him a little bit more. Just chips away. It keeps happening. And actually talking about chipping, you chipped your tooth. Yes, I did, yeah. Because I... How are you recovering? Yeah, I've got a temp tooth in at the minute. How did you fall? How did I fall? Like, what were you doing? Just walking downstairs? Yeah. No, it wasn't. Yeah. I just felt a little bit dizzy. I missed the step. And I didn't... For some reason, I didn't put my hands out.

25:42Some guy should laugh. I'm glad you're still here with us. But all I can imagine is you landing like a drawbridge. So it was like this. I tripped and sort of stumbled to try and think, didn't put my hands out and just went. On your head, on your face? Face, yeah. Where? Because I've broken my nose a couple times, so I've got no, there's nothing in my nose anymore. So that just flattens. By the way, that was gasps from the team when he just pressed his nose in. Yeah, so that just fucking goes. So what happens, it just went on the teeth. And then I don't know. Where were you? Where were you? Where were you?

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28:11I was in a hotel. I just had a drink. It was in public. Did anyone come and help you up? Did you go, I'm fine, I'm fine. Yeah. And then went to the... I was saying I was fine and didn't realise that... Blood coming from your mouth. And the tooth was gone. How many people were gathered around you? Just two. just the two what hotel was it worse than that they were quite orderly we know how it feels that is literally that is literally ah we've been there so and it was so then I had to get an emergency appointment because I had an event that the following day in the evening to have the temporary tooth made so they can refit the new one but can I just sorry I don't mean to like really like hone in on this but you're going to I'm going to I am I'm really sorry go on give him another one, Eric.

29:03But I, I can't believe I've had that smell, but it, do you, I can imagine, again, this is like, it does exist. Did you like let out a little, a little like, oh, as you were going? There was no sound. No sound, just silence. Did you try and correct yourself? you know, and like sometimes you slip and you're like, oh, yeah. And you still went. But not, but even at that point, I don't think I put my arms out for balance. I think I just sort of went, and then sort of got up and went, no, don't worry. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm good. Went to the toilet. I'm like, fuck it now. Jesus, that's your third fool of the year.

29:38I know. I've been counting. He's had three fools this year. Yeah, it's a bit. Someone said to me, why do you keep calling it a fool? And I was like, because I can't. I didn't fool over anything. I just, I had a fool. That's literally what you said about my granddad. It happens. You know what I mean? What can you do? So, yeah, but I live to tell the tale. I'm still here. It's all good. You know what I mean? Should we get you a wheelchair? I think that's maybe excessive. I don't know. Well, talking of health, there is an update. I have booked in to see an eye specialist to try and correct the wonder of that.

30:22The lazy eye, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. I was talking to Pete about this a couple of days ago and because Pete I don't mean to tell the story for you, he has cataracts No, I don't have cataracts What have you got? Macular degeneration Nice, thank you And in his eyes, it does mean that surgery might not be possible, which may mean that we're lucky enough to be graced with the eye patch again. And as much as this oh, how funny, how funny, this is true To correct my lazy eye as a child, I had to wear an eye patch and it may be that the patch returns for a period of time just to strengthen the eye just so that it can control itself.

31:02He wants laser, but there's a chance that they can't give him laser because of his eye disease. So that means that they might... Why are you saying that so smiley? There's a chance he's completely fucked and they'll remove the eye. They can put a glass one in there. I just... No, no, no. We hope the laser is an option. And if it's not, I'd wear one with you. In solidarity. All right. But that would be weird, wouldn't it? Couple of eyepatch legends. Yeah, but... So, if I was in a wheelchair, would you get one yourself? Oh, no, no, no, sorry. Move on to something about you again. Sorry. This is how...

31:37We've been laughing at... What a shock in my section. Yeah, no, no, sorry. But I just don't feel like this is right that you talk about this yourself. This is... As a good co-host, I should really be bringing up. Pete Wicks, for the love of dogs... No? As a good co-host, I think you get the name right that's written in front of you. Yeah, your best friend's award-winning fucking three-series show. It's on the iPad. I was trying to do it without looking. Not for Love of Dogs, which is a completely different show. Alison Hammond's show, which we also love. Well, yeah, we do. Pete Wicks' For Dogs' Sake Chris' special was on our screens last week and still available to stream on you.

32:16It was on Monday night, the Christmas special. Did very well, apparently, as well. It did well. It was, Pippa, did you watch it? Did you? I just the whole way through was obsessed with the fact you filmed it in August and like watching, knowing how seething he'd be. Right. So this is the thing. As we all know, not a big fan of Christmas. But yeah, we filmed series two, Christmas special and series three, which is at January the 5th, all at the same kind of time. So we had to do the Christmas special because it takes a while to edit these things and whatnot. So you always have to do it a little bit.

32:47It was August when I filmed the Christmas special. Knitwear, Christmas jumpers, Christmas hats, Christmas trees, presents, and 34 degree heat. It's gone again. It's gone again, mate. Honestly, that is so bad. That is so bad. What I am. Oh, my God. What I am happy about, though, is that Eric knows that I'm not a big fan of bodily functions. So he never points it towards me. It's in my face. Yeah, I know. This is what we call. This is. I've warned you before. I've warned you. Mate. Not to do these things to me. Not to do these things to me because this is what we call retribution. It's so bad. Karma.

33:28He keeps farting. I've weaponised my dog. It's happening every five minutes. His arse is literally pointed right at me. It kind of blended into the carpet as well. Don't step on him because he does look like a rug. Anyway. So, yeah. Filmed in 30-odd degree heat. Do you want a minute? No, we're good. It's just catching me off guard. And you know when something goes up and you go, I swear I could, ah. And it takes you a while to register what it is. Yeah, no, that is bulldog shit. It's so pungent. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's good. Like I said, varied diet. He's done it again. He's done it again. Mate, I'm not even joking.

34:09Can you smell that one? No, I'm immune to it. Mate, he's fucking done it. People come over here. No, thank you. Josh, come here. Listen, guys. Mate, can you smell it over there? It's right there He's having a kip No mate He keeps doing it You've woken him up now Three times Fucking hell Don't embarrass him Mate that's so intense My eyes are warring You're alright buddy You chill Yeah but he's not doing it In your face He's doing it in mine Good boy So anyway Yeah It's the fucking 35 degree Very very hot Not a big fan of Christmas Very very lovely Made Christmas dinner Did presents met loads of puppies that we hadn't seen since series one reunited with Theo big Theo do you know what when originally we said we were going to do a Christmas special I was like I don't really want to do a Christmas special I don't like Christmas and it's all a bit fucking cheesy but it was very heartwarming I got a little bit emotional towards the end so I hear tears yes which we don't see very often on this podcast well I don't know I'm an emotional peach.

35:19You're not, though. When you walk through them doors, you're not an emotional peach. I don't know. I think – who do you think's a bigger crier, me or Sam?

35:31I'd say I'm a bigger crier. Yeah, I've seen you cry more recently than Sam. Well, like heard about you crying maybe. I would say you're more emotional than me, definitely. Yeah, I'd probably actually agree with that. But I would say I have overwhelming feelings of tears more often. A bit of despair. Yeah, I would say it catches me by surprise. A little bit like him. Catch me by surprise and then I get a little bit upset. You can catch Series 1, Series 2 and the Christmas special to stream on you, available now. And then Series 3 will be out on the 5th of January on UNW. But yes, it was nice. But yeah, filming Christmas specials, it's the problem with Christmas really though, isn't it?

36:11Everyone wants to put out TV until we take so long to do that. have you done like a Christmas special filmed at another time? Like or a Christmas thing? There is nothing less like Christmassy than sort of - Summertime filming. Than taking off your Christmas jumper and going to sit in a beer garden. Do you know what I mean? Like it's just why I hate Christmas. Everyone builds it up so fucking much and it's just, it's just not - Well, talking about beer gardens, you were a networking dinner last week with Dipper and Josh. Well, he was in Australia and I was unavailable because I was filming something.

36:49But Pippa went to a sort of a networking dinner. So I told her to take Josh. And I thought... It's like take your brother. Well, I just thought, listen, it needs to have a staying relevant. It's a podcast type dinner with one of our kind of partners, if you like. Lots of different people there, lots of different production companies. is it wasn't kind of like us, the face type thing. It was the production side of stuff. So Pippa went along as the MD and she took along our filmmaker, Josh. What did Josh do? Well, I wasn't at the dinner and I'm not saying I was checking up, but ordinarily, you know how kind of things work.

37:33You're the kind of face and the content and stuff. I do all the boring crap at the back. I would normally have gone to that. I wasn't available. I did pop in on the way back through. Just to make sure the kids were behaving. Just to make sure. And I wish I hadn't, but also glad I did. I sat down at the table and they'd just finished dinner and all the rest of it. And I sat down to questions from other production companies, MDs of other production companies. The first question was, so we hear you like dressage. I don't even know what dressage is. Right. So it's the horses that sort of do the dancing.

38:08Do you? No, but Pippa and Josh had explained to them that I was a big... Ah, nice. And then someone pulled me aside and asked if I really wanted to beat up Josh. Yeah, this is a penchant of Pippa's. If you don't know, she likes to lie about things and then just like... Actually, sorry, no, it wasn't do I want to beat up. It's do I know that Josh wants to beat me up? Sorry, I got that wrong. He literally says it all the time when Pete's not around. So I don't really know whether or not they will be going on these sort of meetings again. Well, are you and Pippa going to be going again? Because from what I understand, you got papped leaving the dinner together.

38:50We did, yeah. Is this going to be Pete Wicks and mysterious woman caught leaving sort of swanky dinner venue? Yeah, I mean, listen, who hasn't been papped with me? but yeah Pippa is the current mystery woman. Oh wow. So she's made it but it's not a mystery woman because as we know Pippa has been working on over the past year becoming a name in her own right. Well of course. As an influencer so. Well Love Island's calling. Luckily. A bit beyond that are we? Luckily it was. It's a seven year relationship I paused on. Yeah I think that would probably be the big thing. It was Pete Wick's scene with influencer Pippa.

39:34So, yeah, so I'm not sure that they will be attending these things together. I'm slightly disappointed, not so much in Josh, if I'm honest with you, but in Pippa. As MD, I just feel like she should sort of grow up and represent us better. I don't think she should be good. We were building connections because they liked dressage, so I said you did as well. Yeah, I like that. You've done the Sam Thompson TikTok Live. You've done the Sam Thompson TikTok Live. Yeah. any of them from Sheffield because you should let them know that we're going to pop up this I'm so here for that if you need to lie to get in the room you do it I'm just making connections and networking so what we've worked out then is that staying relevant if you are unaware is just an office full of fucking liars yeah well let me tell you something just to end this episode or well not end this episode but just to finish off this little bit also whilst you're away some things we've been looking into of kind of potentially materialised, we may be expanding.

40:31Yes! Come on! As you will know, as a production company, we set up a year ago and, you know, we built these offices, didn't we, Sam? We did. And the studios and all the rest of it, but we may be outgrowing quicker than we thought. We need more space. And Sam is very, very keen on this idea. It was actually Sam's idea to find another space. One has become available and we may have a swanky office. we're swanky bastards. We are swanky bastards. Yeah, go and sit in the swanky office. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It will include a waiting room and there'll be a coffee machine. Yeah. We can have water cooler chats because we're going to get a water cooler.

41:11Yeah, yeah. Who's getting with who? No one here. No, but I know, but you know what I mean? Like when the team grows even more and it's like, when we have our Christmas party and our team grows even more, like people are probably going to start getting with each other. And just on that note. As in like, not me and Pete, obviously, but as in like you guys will probably start getting with each other. No, no, no, No, no, not encouraged. No, no, no, absolutely not. Probably fired. Are we allowed to do that? Don't worry. It's fine. Just on that note as well, just while we end this on a little staying relevant note, Christmas party is booked.

41:42Christmas party is booked. So keep an eye out. Friday the 19th of December is the Christmas party. Is this going up before then? Yeah. Friday the 19th of December is the Christmas party. It has been organised by the social secretary. Peter James Wicks and it isn't just going to be Stringfellas I just because I know there's been some complaints about the fact that there may have been a few few anonymous letters put into the we have a stay and read of a suggestion box and the only suggestions this year is there are other places in London other than Stringfellas now are we going to be arriving there at some point?

42:22yes but we are going to be doing some other things first don't worry I suggested bowling, got shot down pretty quickly. That got shot down, absolutely. Ice skating was also on my agenda. That got shot down also very quickly. Golf. Again, we had that in Vegas, and what that consisted of was us watching you play golf. Before we go, there is one more thing that I wanted to sort of like, just get a little tester from you, Pete, if that's okay. I think you're going to quite like this one, actually. May have cost a bit of money, but you know all the right things do that's not a great start trust me you're gonna like this one Harrods Fruit lots of talk going around online at the moment about Harrods Fruit departments and it's extortionate prices and we thought as a team that we should go to Harrods pick up some of these items and review them on this pod yeah we thought as a team Harrods would be great yeah we need to expand we need to diversify the content right and you know when people do on TikTok they like they you know they'll eat food no I don't know or try different products on their faces and they'll be like, you know, this is my new skincare routine.

43:28We're going to do that with the new Harrods really expensive food. What, we're going to see if they work on their skin? No, we're just going to just do a little review session. Excellent. Wonderful. Oh my God, we've got the Harrods cherries. Pete, you've got a bag next door. Oh, fucking hell. All right. What have we got in here then? So, fuck me. So how much has this cost me? Well, it's part of the game is you have to guess how much the fruit is and then I'll reveal. Well, I'm going to be honest with you. We went last night You've got a cherry? No, you've got different Well, I've got a fucking couple of bananas and a couple of kiwis I'm going to shove this cherry in my gob That ain't arids, that's Sainsbury's, mate

44:12That is, to be fair, that's delicious What is the point? Sorry, can I just... Right I'm going to be really... I'm going to be really honest with you here No way. Shot. I know you've got an Arrods bag. This ain't from Arrods. It is. We went yesterday. So what am I paying for then? Because, I mean, they're not even that fucking big. They're just Arrods bananas. No, don't be the fucking... Where's my tissue paper then? Are these peeps? No, those are yours. Two punnets of grapes. Are they grapes? On a serious note, don't put them in. They're incredibly toxic to dogs, grapes. Just don't let him eat any.

44:56Okay, I will very carefully put this in my mouth. Now, I've heard about these Harrods grapes. Well, I've just got a couple of fucking bananas. Wow.

45:07That is absolutely delicious. Couple hundred quid. What? What? No, so now you just have to guess how much each thing is. Okay, this punnet of grapes, 30 quid. More. What? Well, that's a fucking banana, 20 pence. It's not even that nice. 50 quid. That's just a normal banana. More. More than 50 quid for these grapes. Yeah. Fuck off. 60 quid. More. 70 quid. Tiny bit more. 75 quid. Yeah. For that. 75 pounds for that. As in like, not even a box. It's just that. That's about two quid a grape. Japanese muscat green grapes. I couldn't give a fuck. Where did... Oh, well, that's fucking 20 quid that you just swallowed.

45:56Well, that's just a fucking banana. Banana, 40 pounds. What? What, for one banana? What, for that? Yeah, so that's 80 quid. So you put 80 quid's worth of fucking banana? Yeah. Are you fucking all right? Yeah, but that's from Harrods. Peach, I could banana. No, I need to have a taste on that. Mate, it just tastes like a fucking banana. To be honest with you, it's a fairly tasteless banana and all. That's not, no. And then what is this? The fucking kiwi. Yeah, just bear in mind they're imported. What? The kiwis. They're exotics. They might just be a bit more. That's not even a nice banana. He's actually right.

46:38That's a bad banana. And that just tastes like a kiwi. Not even a nice one. Price tag? No one eats kiwis like that. That's fucking psycho. That's psychopath work, what you're doing there. Mate. Why? that you're eating it just like an apple. It's a kiwi. Yeah. With the skin on. I do that with oranges as well. What? You're a nutter. Why are you all fucking looking at me like that? You are a psychopath. It's good for you. No, well, it actually is. It's fiber. It means you shit more. But like, that is, that is, I've never seen anyone eat a kiwi like that. That is, you're getting all the fur in there.

47:17I don't think that's weird. So how much is that kiwi? How are you supposed to eat kiwi? Sorry, what? £100. What in the fuck's name are you doing there? That kiwi pee. Ready? £100. No, it's fucking not. Yeah, it is. No, it's fucking not. Yeah, it is. So you give me£280 worth of fucking fruit, right? Two bananas, a couple of queefs. I used to get that. Couple of queefs. Couple of bananas and a couple of queefs. Taste that. Is that£100 worth of fucking... I can't eat it like you do. That's just disgraceful work. What is wrong with you all? I can't do that. I'm sorry. That's just not right. Don't be so fucking stupid.

47:54So that, right, in all honesty, that's a packed lunch. If you throw a cheese string in and a packet of fucking chick sticks, that's what I used to go to fucking school with, all right? And it didn't cost 300 notes. So a question for you. Yeah. All of this fruit together, how much does it cost? Well, your grapes, your bananas, kiwis and cherries, 630 pounds. You are some sort of fucking idiot, you. We spent 600 quid on that. Are you joking? Yeah, but it's from Harrods. Mate, I'm normally with you on most things, but that is mental. That can't be true. That tastes no fucking different. He got tissue.

48:32I didn't even get tissue paper. No. Well, yours had skin on. What? So you... I don't understand. You could get that, or I could fuck off down Romford Market and get exactly the same thing for about three quid. Well, not from Harrods, but yeah. No, it'd be from Romford Market, and they'll get me a nice little fucking bag and I can write on it, Romford fucking market. It wouldn't make a difference. With the fucking in there as well. Okay, I'll do that next time. You're in, genuinely, right, based on this pod, you're in real danger of having your company card taken away. What? I've been there. You don't want it.

49:08You're in real danger of not going to meetings with your dressage and fucking Josh will beat you up and then spending 630 quid on what is, to be quite honest with you, quite tasteless food. No, I'm going to be honest. No, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's actually quite unfair. The grapes. The grapes are fucking nice. Delicious. Give me a grape. The cherry. Give me a grape. Let me get something for this fucking 600 notes. Mate, the cherry. Don't throw it, Sam. I won't. The cherry. Don't throw it. I won't. Quite nice. Well, it's a fucking grape. I like grape. No, no, no. That's a Harrods grape. It's not just any grape.

49:46That's a Harrods grape. I don't give a fuck if its name's fucking Christian. That's a 75 pound grape you just put in your gob right there.

49:57But it's all going to come out the same fucking way. It's not even that great. I'm disgusted. I'm actually quite proud of us there. Yeah. Do you know what that is? We've just done some research. Yeah, I'll tell you what. Here's the research and here's the fucking final review. Don't buy your fruit from Aaron's. Well, you don't really taste them much. It's too fucking expensive. Not even that big. Grapes are amazing though. No, no, no. I'll tell you what the grapes taste like. Nice, ripe grapes. And I'll tell you when I've had them before. Sainsbury's, Asda. Listen, you can get good grapes fucking anywhere.

50:37You don't need to go and spend 75 quid. Iceland? Eh? Iceland? No, they're Japanese. No, I think you get them from Iceland. Iceland? Yeah. Yeah, not Iceland. Yeah, you can get them from... Yeah, probably get them from Iceland. Iceland. That does sound weird, doesn't it? Co-op? Yeah, you can get... Co-ops sell grapes. Yeah? Yeah. Like them? Like the Harrods ones? Well, yeah, they're fucking grapes, yeah. A nice, ripe grape. Well, that's all you want, isn't it? Do you know what? If you're having fruit, I'll tell you what you want. You want some good taste. Yeah, yeah. Right? And you want it ripe.

51:18You do. You don't need to spend a fucking mortgage on a couple of grapes. They ain't that good. How do you like your bananas? How do I like... I'm not a big fan of bananas. Okay. In all honesty. But really, I quite like them hard. Like, I don't like them mushy and weird. I quite like them pre-ripe. How do you like your nectarines? Nectarines? I like them soft. Yeah. What about your peaches? Soft. What about your kiwis? Just like that. I mean, they were fine. That was an all right kiwi. What about your plums? I'm not a big fan of plums. How long is this going to go on for? I don't know, I'm just learning a lot about you.

51:53Are you? Yeah. Right, well, just, here's your research. Don't go to Arids. Go to Arids to buy your Gucci's. Don't go there to buy fucking grapes. It's ridiculous. Have you really spent 600 seconds? That is fucking madness. No, it's all from Tesco Express down the road. Ah, you got us. You got us. You did. They got us. Look at that. Not really. Pete called it before he even opened the bag and said, there's no way this is from Harrods. And my heart just sank immediately. The problem is, I don't know how many times you lot think you're going to be able to do this to me. Definitely got me. I mean, if you were going to, listen, in all honesty, if you're going to try, I'm just going to put it out there for you as a team, all right?

52:33If you're going to try these fucking pranks, just bear in mind, I'm not an idiot, all right? So you just whacked them in like I'd literally, That, that, that looks like a school dinner, like a school packed lunch, right? The way you just whacked them in there like that. Good one, though. Why didn't you go and wrap them up all nice like they do in Arads? Because I'll tell you what, if I went and bought a couple of bananas from Arads, what they'd do, they'd have some lovely bird behind the fucking till, wrap them all up nice and put a little bow around it and an easy fucking hundred pound banana.

53:03And I'd go, ooh, that tastes lovely. It's in a bow. Right? What you've done is just whack it in a bag. Where'd you get the bag from? Arrods. That's from Arrods. We did go to Arrods for the bag. You went to Arrods and just bought the bags? Yeah. Fuck that's going to happen. You bought the bags. You didn't buy anything from Arrods to get it? Hannah got some grapes to try. What did you get to try? Lychee. I love lychee. I would love those little strawberry coated in chocolate. Oh, delicious. But I'll tell you where you can go for that. Tesco. Do they? Just go and get some fucking strawberries and a bit of...

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