Clair's Oasis Shock

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3:17I don't know, there should be though Maybe if Dagenham's got a museum, you should have a little plaque Tell you something, baby There has been a couple of times where I needed people's help and then know where they'll be sent. All right? Friends, overrated. Get rid.

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4:01Thank you. Claire, you all right? Yeah. Dribbling a little bit. Go on. What's up? How are you? Fine. It's happening. Hot. It's hot, man. Boiling in it. It's hot. That's it, man. It is hot. It is hot as balls in here. Yeah, in this room as well. And we had a conversation earlier about, because there's a big air con unit up there, but we can't have it on because it interferes with the sound. Yeah. And they'll complain, so we're sweating for you. Yeah. I think they appreciate it. Better. I think they appreciate it. How are you, Claire? What's going on? What's been going on? What the fuck's going on?

4:36What are we doing here? What is going on? You tell me. Well, usually we talk about what we've been up to this week. Yeah. What have you been up to, Matt? Oh, come on. Tell everybody. Well, I went to see Oasis, didn't I, with Joe Thomas there? Who? Oasis. And it was brilliant. Was it? It was absolutely brilliant. I'm not being I'm genuinely being objective I know I'm the world's biggest Oasis fan Yeah It was really really good A good gig Liam sounded great It was just a great big sing along Right It exceeded the hype Did it? Yeah I didn't go did I? No you didn't Because we got a couple of those What do you call them That you need to look after?

5:16Children That's right yeah Yes You've got the old children there Only one of us could go So I went with Joe Thomas. You went with Joe. And my brother. JT and your brother Stephen and my mate Mark. Yeah, four years. Mark was brilliant. Mark was on top form. You're not going to try and describe Mark to a listener? I can't. I think we might have to get Mark on the podcast at some point. Mark's someone who I've known since I was a teenager. He owns a recording studio and rehearsal space and things like that. He likes his music as well, doesn't he? And when I was in a little indie band after I left school.

5:50What were they called? I'm not saying that at all whatsoever. When I was in a little indie band. No, don't. Seriously, don't. It's impossible to embarrass me, but that's a blotch on my otherwise perfect CV. But he used to own that. And I've just been mates with him for, God, 20 odd years now. But he's nuts. He's absolutely insane. We were in a box. We were in a posh box. Of course you were. Yeah. And we were with other sort of brands and companies and stuff like that. And my mate Mark was going, yeah, you do a podcast, don't you? How's that podcast going? I was going, yeah, it's all right. Yeah, it's good.

6:27He was like, I'll get you sponsorship. I'll get you sponsorship. Was going around. Everyone. We Buy Any Car was there. A shoe company was there. So just like big brands. Yeah. And Mark was just walking around going, yeah, you want to sponsor a podcast? He was literally just going up to people. And a couple of them were going, yeah, no, we'd be interested. All right. Get them on the phone. And he was going, see, see, I told you, see, I told you. See, you've got to ask, you've got to ask. If you don't ask, don't get it, do you? Yeah. And he is like that. He sleeps about two hours a day. Yeah, he's a special one.

7:00When I first met him, I was like, Jesus, what are you on? Because he was like, he owned a recording studio and it was all music. And I was like, there's obviously some drugs going down here, right? And then after getting to know him and stuff, he's completely teetotal. Yeah, imagine him on drugs. that's when I was like Jesus yeah that makes sense actually but it was great it was absolutely brilliant it was such a great night didn't disappoint no did not disappoint not even close to no and you told me that you Carst were great Richard Ashcroft was great yeah you told me that you and my brother were hugging me and Stephen were hugging each other at one moment singing along to the music we've never done that before no no no we're not really a huggy family No, it was just a good moment in time.

7:50Little do you know, James Buckley, that while you were having the time of your life that weekend, I was at home with the children, as you know. When you came home, you were nearly served divorce papers. Is that right? What for? What have I done there? You nearly died, son. You don't even know it. Someone took a video of me and Joe. Someone's took a video in the crowd of you and Joel watching Oasis Yeah Have you watched it? What was I doing? Have you watched it? What am I doing there? I look cool, I look alright I've got my little Oasis Adidas t-shirt on Have you watched the video though? Yeah Can you not see what I see?

8:30What do you see? Look

8:36For people who aren't watching this somebody in the crowd is taking a video of James and Joe watching the Oasis gig and there's a woman and a man in the row in front of James and her boyfriend's arm is rounder but because you can only see up to James' elbow it looks like his arm is rounder. I look like just some creepy bloke behind some girl just putting her arm around her. Yeah, it just looks like you're cuddling some woman in the crowd. We were just all very excited, cuddling everyone your brother some women got cuddled sure it's somebody else's arm but it looks out i saw i do have long arms i do have weirdly long arms you see the perspective she's actually in front of you and you then see her husband or boyfriend or whoever she's with but when i first saw that video i was like what the then i watched it again always double check people always double check do always double check by the way yeah no that is good advice so i saw that really really quickly yeah and when i tell you what you thought for a second well you can see it you can't deny it i don't know i think it's clearly it's clear perspective thing it's clear once you look at it again but when you first just glance at that i was too busy just looks like you took some women to an Oasis gig left me at home and was cuddling away in the stands.

10:05I got, I got, listen, I was too busy fondling your brother, mate, so she didn't get a looking. Oh, it was such a good gig though. Yeah. It was so good. Would it have been worth the divorce if you'd got a bit carried away with some woman? No, of course not. Okay, not that good. Well, hang on, I don't know what you're asking me. It's fine, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. But, I just wanted to let you know that you nearly came home to all your clothes Listen I'm always nearly getting divorced Yeah but not for not for like an actual that's just me like getting to me and to my tether I keep telling you do you think do you think I would make it that easy for you?

10:47Do you think you're getting out of this? You'd love it Oh I've caught him cheating Well that's it Soz Yeah I was a little bit You gotta go I was a bit excited Do you think I'd give you a fucking open goal like that? Don't swear at me. Do you think I'd make it that? No, mate. Till death do us part. And I'll tell you something. If you're very, very lucky, I might die before you. Oh, you will. You will. 100%. Then you can feel the sweet air of freedom. But until then, mate, you're not getting out of this. Okay. I'll tell you something that was annoying, though. I've seen a few videos of me and Joe at the gig.

11:30And a lot of comments are like, typical. Fucking celebrities just getting... Those tickets could have gone to real fans. And I'll tell you something. I saw them in 2002. I saw them in 2005. I saw them in 2009 just before they split up at Wembley. I've got Live Forever tattooed on my fucking arm. I've got this haircut. How the fuck can you turn around and go to me that could have gone to a real fan. You're just there. You're just there because you're jumping on a bandwagon. Jumping on a bandwagon. I used to get beaten up for liking Oasis when I was at school, when everyone was listening to fucking Sweet Like Chocolate Boy.

12:09Everyone was going to me, fucking Oasis. Oh, you fucking... They kept calling me a grunger. Oh, he plays guitar and he likes Oasis. Fucking grunger. I deserve to be there. You absolutely did. Go fuck yourself. Joe's more of a Blur fan, though. Joe looks like a blur fan Joe's a classic Why does that make sense? Because he's a Cambridge student Right so that's what I got up to this week Oh just one quick one as well I saw something this week And I thought That is the most grim image I think anyone could see And I think we've all seen it at some point But I saw it and I was like That's really fucking gross it was a used plaster in the street and I was just like it's not as bad as in the swimming pool that's a bad one isn't it when you see them floating when they get like when they're floating near the filter or wherever it is just constantly yeah yeah that's gross I just wanted to bring that up okay I just wanted to bring that up and just ask if any if anyone if any of our listeners could top that something just a grim thing that you see and you go that's fucking rank I mean it doesn't have to be obvious it doesn't have to be like oh I saw someone gobbing gobbing or they were cutting their toenails on the train or something like that like not that you I can't imagine you would say I just mean those little things that are quite common yeah if you really think about them for a second you go that's grim yeah well chewing gum on stuff oh god never touch the bottom of a table no never ever touch the bottom chewing gum on stuff my mum always tells a story which embarrasses my brother.

13:53When they were redecorating his room when he was a teenager, they moved his bed and there was just a lot of bogeys on the wall behind his bed. I had it on the back of my headboard. I used to call it the bogey graveyard. That is grim. I told my kids about that. That is grim. On the back of my headboard, it was just years of me lying in bed, going like that and just wiping on the back of my headboard. Then when it came to us, I'd had that bed since I was about 11 years old or something. Then we moved when I was sort of 16, 17. and then we pulled the bed out and looked at the back of that and it was just all smeared up the back.

14:26It was years. Oh, that makes me feel ill. It really does. Years and years and years of wiping bogeys on the back of my life. Yeah. I've had to say to the boys a couple of times, don't start this. I see a few strays. Because they flick them. No. They do. I've seen... One of them wipes. Jude. One of them wipes on the wall. Yes, Jude. Or on the wee ledge bit of his bed. Harrison is as annoying as he is And he's well annoying He's way less annoying than Jude Harrison's very He's more annoying than Jude Do you mean? Yeah Yeah He's way more annoying than Jude Sorry Jude's less annoying But Harrison's very like Again this is annoying But like he won't share a water bottle with you No He gets freaked out by that kind of stuff He does with me But Jude does Wipe his bogies in places doesn't he?

15:14Wasn't there one on the iPad screen or something? Yeah Harrison was gone mental Yeah That was a few years ago to be fair I was wondering if it was about six. They had a shared iPad. And Harrison was so furious. And Jude, to be fair, must have been like a sort of just coming out of being a toddler at that point. Well, I think it was about six, five or six maybe. Oh, Jude was. Yeah. Yeah, and Harrison was furious. He was just like, why have you done that? Why have you done that? We both have to use this iPad. Yeah. I had to scrape it off. How did we get onto this? I don't know. I can't remember.

15:45Gross stuff that you see. Yeah, gross stuff that you see. Let me know. Just those little things that are very common and you're like, oh, I don't want to be a part of this anymore. Hey, Claire. Yo. It's time to have a quick moan. Okay. Quick one this week. And it's just a moan at you. That's okay? That's all right? Can I moan at you? See what happens? Stop agreeing to shit that our friends ask us to do. All right? Just stop it. To be fair, they didn't ask. Just stop going. All right. Well, that's even worse then. Stop offering. But I felt bad. I know what this is. Because you offer stuff, and I offer stuff all the time, but it's an empty gesture.

16:27I don't mean it. I don't mean it at all whatsoever. Don't take me up on it. Yeah, we'll catch up soon. It's me. Unless you're going to come to my house, I'm not going to see you. They were in a bit of a pickle, though. They were in a pickle. I did the right thing. and help them out. Yes, it was hard work. Listen, don't get me wrong. There's always like, there's helping friends and then there's looking after a Doberman puppy for a week. Yeah, he's so cute though. I love him. I fell in love with him. You didn't. You just don't have patience. No, I don't. I've got, I do have patience. You don't. I do have patience.

17:07They're taken up. My patience allotment is taken up. All right. I don't like. By what, yourself? I don't like, no. No, not at all. I don't like anyone else's kids. I've got two of my own. They take up all my allotment for kids. Don't care about anyone else's dogs. I've got one of my own. And they're all annoying. They're all irritating things, right? Yeah, Cosmo's very annoying as well. Yeah, right. And that's it. He takes... There's no more patience left. Yes. There's nothing left to spread. The problem was that our Cosmo is still a puppy. Yeah. So they were both... If Cosmo had been like three or four and he was grown up, it wouldn't have been as stressful.

17:43They were both puppies. The Doberman was only three, four months old. Cosmo's only eight months. Yeah, Cosmo's nine. Nine months old. Yeah. So it was hard work. It was a Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy and a Doberman puppy. Yeah. Having to live together for a week. Yeah. And they would not leave each other alone. No, they were hard work. They were, at some point, I kept saying, when they're fine, they're absolutely fine. They chilled out a lot. But when they're not, when they were going at it, it was hard work. Yeah, it was really hard work. It was really... I'm absolutely shattered. It only went yesterday.

18:18Yeah, I miss them. I'm absolutely exhausted. This is why I've gone for years without having friends. Because you get roped into all this shit. You don't. I do. You rope me into shit as well. You need to stop that as well. You didn't do anything for those dogs. No, but the other stuff. The other stuff that you get... Like, I hear you on the phone sometimes. It's like, oh, you need that move, do you? Yeah, no, James can do that for you. I'll send James round and it's always a fucking dining table that's made out of marble or something there's been times where I've moved stuff yeah there's times I'm going to my mate John are you sure this is not fucking nailed to the floor or something mate?

18:58I know well listen you've got to be helpful you've got to do it you help him I do I'm right there that's fine stop bringing Doberman puppies to the house stop sending me out to move fucking dining room tables that weigh about eight tonne. You did that once. Get over it. There's a table. There was a telly. Giant telly I had to move. A giant green egg thing. I didn't ask you that. He asked you that. Yeah, he did, yeah. But this is my point. You shouldn't have friends. I don't ask anyone else for anything. That's the thing, though. One day you might need somebody's help. No, I'm making sure. If you keep saying naughty fuck, they're not going to help you.

19:36I'm making sure that I don't need anyone's help. Because I tell you something, baby. there has been a couple of times when I needed people's help and then nowhere to be seen alright friends overrated get rid get rid you know all these friends you're talking about listen to this podcast I know but they understand that I'm just doing this as a joke I'm just I'm just trying to be funny it's just content it's content it's content it's material it's material that's why you should never be mates with a stand up comedian no god no because you'll always if you do something it'll be one little story and they spin it into this big thing yeah it becomes embellished which I've done I've embellished all those stories in fact I made them up and they're not even true so if you think that I'm talking about you and you're one of my mates and you're listening it's not you I'm joking and I made all that up just then John who did actually actually move a table and Cam who did give you his Doberman puppy that's just coincidence just coincidence right got you don't get me wrong there's always like I always take inspiration from stuff.

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22:24We're at war. Sorry, I was like, I mean, I don't keep up with the news, but Jesus Christ, how have I missed that? No, war's been declared. You might have missed it in the news. War has been declared. Oh, no, I'm at fucking... Oh, I'm right there where you met. War has been declared. We have been sent a little video. I will describe it for our listeners, but I'm sure that we can play it for our watchers. Now we share a studio space with the goalkeeper Joe Hart, ex-goalkeeper Joe Hart. Is he still playing? Surely not. Not that age. And he did break our set a little bit. He did. We called him out on it.

22:57And so he sent us a little video. I think it's like an apology video, is it? Or is he? Supposed to be. Supposed to be an apology video. And he picks up the little J doll there and boots it across the room. Very hard. Very, very hard. Very aggressively. Very aggressively. And I just thought, all right, let's go. Let's go there. Yeah. Let's go there. And I'll tell you something, Joe Hart. If you kicked like that while you were at City, Pep might not have dropped you. All right. War's been declared and we will keep you updated with how that goes because we've got some, we're going to do, we're going to brainstorm.

23:37We are. We are. We're going to put some thought and money into this. That's it. Never mess with James or stuff like that. He's so petty. Spiteful. Spiteful. But I'll tell you what. First thing, number one, see that shelving unit? Stop using that in your podcast. That's us. We bought that for our set. It's not just for you to come in and go, oh, yeah, let's take all their stuff off it and use it on us. So you're done with that. I let that go. That's over. Don't touch that again. Maybe just as a joke, we arrange someone to tie him up and chuck him in the back of a van and drive him out in the middle of nowhere.

24:16Yeah. Or something like that. Just as a joke. Casino style. For Bantz. Does he have a teddy of himself? Obviously not. No. War. Just letting you know and we'll keep you updated. Before we do get into today's... That's confused me. Keep that in. Before we do, before we get into today's thing. I know we're going to have to keep it in to explain how it ended up like that. We've had quite the request from a couple of listeners. It's from Anon. They wish to remain anonymous. Okay. The subject is name our baby. Yes. No, we're not good at this. We were talking about this the other day. I know. How we couldn't think of names.

24:58This is why this is going to go wrong. I hope you don't mind. we're not writing to contribute to your podcast regular features but to ask for some advice instead. We are expecting our first baby later this year. Yeah. And we're super excited and also a little bit scared. Aww. You should be. It's fucking horrendous. Recently we found out that we are having... I'm just kidding. Great. Recently we found out that we're having a little girl and couldn't be more thrilled. The thing is we are deciding to keep the gender between just us. Okay. That's why they're anonymous. That's why they want to stay anonymous.

25:29Okay. Two of our favourite names for boys are Harrison and Jude. So we know that you guys will be on the same wavelength as us. So my question is, do you have any name recommendations for a little girl? Something that is effortlessly cool and perhaps a little bit rock and roll. And if you don't mind me asking, what girl names did you have in mind before you had your two boys? This is so weird that we've got this email. We were literally talking to the boys. We spoke about this a number of times over the years. Yeah. We have no girls' names. Harrison was always my name since I was 12 because I'm a huge George Harrison fan.

26:07And I always knew that when I had a baby, well, I hoped it was going to be a boy, and his name was Harrison. And then when you came along, you were like, absolutely, I'm on board. George is your favourite. So that was it. Harrison was Harrison before he was even conceived. When I got pregnant with Jude, we then wanted to keep the Beatles theme. So we were looking at both boys and girls' names. Jude became Jude because, I'm sure I've told this story, but when I gave birth to Jude, we had the Beatles playing and Hey Jude kicked in literally seconds after he was born. Past Masters Volume 2, I believe.