James Pulled At The Club?

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0:59Right, we get it. I'm not saying we did anything because we waited until we got married. I mean, explain that to Harrison. Harrison was at the wedding. Baby, if we went swinging, I'd be losing out. Like, whoever we're swinging with, like one of my mates or something like that, yeah, he's winning. Why? What one of your mates wants to do me? I'm just asking. Why? No, I'm just asking. I'm just asking who? Get your hands off me.

1:24Hello and welcome to the Buckleys, the podcast where we sit down, have a chat, moan a bit and invite you into our lives. Are you right, Claire? She's run out of beer. She's run out of beer already. I've not even said the first sentence. I ran out of beer. Did you say that? I was trying to do it. She's pointing and saying, I need another beer. Yeah, no, I know you try. In your head, I think what you were doing was subtle. But when you're trying to read an intro. The camera would have been on you. Nobody would have saw that if you didn't point it out. I saw it. But carry on. What's your fucking professionalism?

1:54Before we get into it Claire hang on just a second if you could just wait if you could just hold off of not having to have a beer right this second um we just want to remind you that you can get in touch with your stories and questions for us by emailing thebuckleys at platformmedia.uk or you can message us at the Buckley's pod on Instagram and TikTok and make sure you do follow and subscribe to the show on Spotify or whatever podcast app that you like to use and if you do enjoy the show if you do enjoy the fucking show. Give us a review, a nice one, please. Because I don't like not nice ones.

2:28Just quickly. I've got one done there. They gave me one. Just quickly, this episode of The Buckleys is sponsored by Co-op's new meals range, Served. So thank you very much, Co-op. Anyway, Claire, have you got your beer? Yes, look at me. Fresh. How are you? I'm fine now. You're okay now. That was close. You were sort of shaking a bit and stuff. I'm fine now. Vomiting and stuff, didn't you? Yeah, I'm okay now. Now that you've got your beer. What have we been up to this week? Oh, did you hear that glug? It's been a bit of an action-packed week, especially for me. I'm fucking knackered. Oh, especially for you?

3:02Go on, what are you doing? Well, no, only because, like, I mean, you're always, you're action-packed. You're always sort of quite busy, isn't you? But this week, I've left the house quite a lot. Yeah, yeah. Been out of the house quite a lot. Well, we both have together. and then you as well. You've been extra busy. First of all, during the week there, I went to see a comedian. You did, yeah. Called Jack Skipper. Yeah, shout out. Can't recommend him enough. Genuinely, really, really funny. Yeah, because you met him at Feastival, right? Yeah, yeah. And I was supposed to come with you. You did book a ticket for me and you and then we couldn't get babysitter and dog sitter and stuff like that.

3:43Someone had to go. Someone had to go, obviously. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. You replaced me with C Bartlett again. C Bartlett, yeah. But did you have fun? Was that good? Really good. It was well funny. Like genuinely really, really funny. However, right, it started off, it was a bit of a disaster. That's right. Because he was playing in this town and I know that there is a theatre in this town and any time that we've been to see someone, it's always at this theatre. We've been there a couple of times, yeah. And I thought, oh, I'll just go straight there. So I did. I went straight there and I'm walking into the building and it's like a mob, like a crowd of old people.

4:25And like, not just like middle-aged people. I mean, like... Old. There was middle-aged people helping the old people get into the building. They're really old. Like, not to be rude, it was like The Walking Dead. No, no, no, no. James, that is rude. Is it rude? Yeah. But just, you know how they walk and stuff where they can't quite walk and everything? Like they were ancient. They were really, really old. And I was thinking, ancient. Fucking hell, he brings in an old crowd. And also I was like, he's sort of off the back of TikTok. Yeah, Instagram. He did a load of TikTok sort of sketches and stuff like that.

5:00And that's how he sort of managed to build a platform. And now he's on tour as a live stand-up. And I was like, fucking hell, old people. Good for them. Fucking. Enter the doc. Proper into TikTok and like going to see their favourite TikTok comedian and stuff. like great then i got into the building and then it was just a sea of white hair like in the in the lobby and in the in the bar and stuff and i was like they must they must have something else going on in a different room or something like that i went to the box office to get my tickets and i was like yeah have you got comedy on tonight and you knew and they went oh no you want the other theatre it was literally exactly a mile and they even gave me a map to get to a mile up the road and they were like we've got Riverdance on tonight and I was like that makes sense and they went do you not fancy a bit of Riverdance do you not fancy a bit of Riverdance now we know that you do I love a bit of Riverdance I love a bit of Riverdance unfortunately I had to go and see Jack Skipper do comedy no but it was well good he was brilliant You came home and I did say to you, how was it?

6:11And you did say he was genuinely just funny. He was just funny. Like there was nothing too political or too clever or too this or too... He was just funny. I've got a big problem with the current generation. I don't want to slag anyone off, especially if you're making comedy. I want to encourage you and I want you to be as funny as you possibly can be. And God bless and I wish you the best of luck in the world. I do think though That this current generation Of stand-up comedians especially I just feel like they're making material For other comedians They're not making it for me or you Or the people in the street They're more obsessed with being the most intelligent person In the room rather than being the most funny Yeah and it's always got to be Off of And if you don't get that Then you're stupid Thanks for making me feel shit I get what you mean Not only did you not make me laugh, but you made me feel like an idiot.

7:07Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I know. I'm not educated. I didn't pick my Jesus E's up. Thanks for reminding me. Yeah. But he was just like. He was just fucking funny. So funny. He was absolutely hilarious. Yeah. Love it. My favourite comedian about right now. Wow. There you go. Jack Skipper. Yeah, he's really, really good. Go and check him out. And that wasn't all the live, you know, that wasn't my fill of live entertainment over the course of the week, was it? No. Because me and you were special guests for the Staying Relevant Live at the O2, by the way. Yeah, how the fuck did they do that? Live at the O2.

7:43We had such a laugh, didn't we? It was a great night. Really good night. Sam and Pete did the O2, their podcast. They did one night and they got some special guests in. Yeah, might have to apologise to them slightly. I feel like we were all right and we did what we were supposed to do. Yeah, we were fine. Yeah, but we were more interested in the fact that there was beers and we were just hanging out on a couch, just drinking beers and having fun with Patterson and her fella. It was just a night out for us. They invite the Buckleys. They don't want us to sit on the couch and drink beers and fucking read the room then.

8:18That was good, wasn't it? No, that was fun. That was really fun. And what was interesting for us, of course, is that we were about to go on tour. We were about to do Out with the Buckleys. So we were a bit like... Not at the auteur. No, of course not. But we were a bit like, let's have a little look, see how this sort of fucking works, see what they do. Is there anything we can nick or anything like that? Right, they were running around on stage, full of energy, screaming and shouting. There was pyrotechnics. There was, fuck it, like they had Sam. They did a Guinness World Record. They had a Guinness World Record at one point.

8:53They had Sam. Pete did a dance. Pete was dancing. Sam was on a broom, a Harry Potter wizard broom at one point. and we were just like, well, there's nothing we can take from this. So just so you know, there'll be none of that fucking going on. No, it'll be us on the couch. Drinking beer. Drinking Stella. Complaining. But it'll be live. It'll be in front of you. It'll be in front of you, but that's about it. Yeah. Yeah, none of that. Because we did say that. We were like, let's see what they do. There was quite a good joke, actually, because they did have pyrotechnics just for the fun of having pyrotechnics.

9:26There wasn't like a big moment where there was an explosion. there was just a bit where Sam went and now we've got pyrotechnics and these pyrotechnics went off Yeah, it reminded me of when we were at Danny Dyer's wedding and he said that to you because Pete was gone, well that costs money Yeah, we were at Danny Dyer's wedding and it was a big old lavish dude Yeah, it was a great wedding and there was a huge fireworks display at the end of the evening and Danny just turned to me that's 50 quid, that's 100 quid It was just counting how much each firework cost. And it went on for about 10 minutes or something.

10:05Yeah, you're all laughing. Yeah. No, there'll be none of that. None of that shit. No, absolutely not. I think if we came out on brooms and things like that, people would go, what the fuck is this? Sit down, talk some bollocks, relax. Like our crowds, our listeners. People might freak out if we smile. Yeah, they'd be like, hang on. I mean, we get it. This isn't what we're putting on. You're putting on a show. Yeah, this isn't what we paid them for. Yeah. No, ours won't have any of that. Don't worry. And also, it does cost money. And we don't have any. Claire. Yes, James. I need to have a moan at you.

10:39Okay. Not about you. Just at you. Obviously. It's a really simple one. Real quick one. Quick one this week. And I'm going to say two words? No. An abbreviation and a word. Okay. and what do you want from me here you're gonna go and everyone listening is gonna go TV remotes no you're not with me this is why we can't do a fucking live show like Sam and Pete because one of them would have gone oh yeah yeah yeah like they would have helped them out so you want me to fake it you want me to fake it maybe fake it we are trying to entertain people a little bit what's the problem right when I was a kid yeah You were a kid too Yeah Our TV remote Is about the size of a shoebox Right okay Well I was going to say You're talking about The Apple TV remote Well I'll get onto that In a second Okay right okay Hold your fucking horses there Right see this is what happens When I join in You fucking tell me Shut up I know that's right I've got to stop Getting you to join in You can't You couldn't lose Our remote down the couch No not those big sky ones It was really thick at the top Yeah you could use it As a couch You could like sit on it If you wanted to Also if the batteries ran out on the remote or something like that.

11:54Also, they didn't because it was always solar panelled. They had little solar panels in the remote of your television. Right. That you could just like, and it would just charge itself all the time. Okay. But say you did lose your remote when you were a kid, what would you do? What would you do, Claire? Checked on the couch cushions? No, you can't find it. Can't find it. But I just need to change the channel quickly. Go up to the telly. Yeah, go up to the TV. Go up to the TV. flip a panel down press the button channel up okay I'm with you you got me I'm in so nowadays first of all it's so easy to lose TV remotes these days I don't know what's the matter they're all aerodynamic they can squeeze in things they must stop being solid at one point and turn liquid so you lose a TV remote these days yeah you can't find the thing at the back where's the buttons on the television now where's that option you can't find them we've got a television that has like a little joystick Yeah, it's a little, I was going to say, it's a little round thing.

12:50It's a little sort of fucking analogue joystick. It's like a little sort of... Oh, all right, careful. Do you know what I mean, right? But that's it. You're turning me on. But that's it. So we need to work out all the different moves and to be able to control just putting the channel up one or the volume down a bit, we need to work out. You need to get it to volume mode and then... It's bollocks, Claire. It's driving me fucking nuts. Who are you texting? Jude. Dad's having a breakdown, Jude. Yeah, I said we might be a bit late today, bud. We might be a bit late. But anyway, and this is a bit niche, but we have an Apple TV box in our house.

13:30Yes. Those remotes. Those remotes are crazy. Are so easy to lose. They're tiny, tiny little things. They're a bit that long, that thin. They are crazy. Also. No, I'm thinking of the silver one. The new one, the black one's a bit that thin. No, the silver ones are a bit thicker. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, yeah. Yeah, that's the newer one. Oh, okay. So they've opted. Yeah, they've obviously gone. It's like a credit card. Yeah. How can you keep hold of a credit card around your couch? It's fucking insane. Yeah. Anyway, with these Apple TV remotes, Claire, not only am I pissed off about losing the fucking thing all the time, but if you just brush it or just look at it, suddenly the whole, like you're in the middle of a film or something, you just move your arm and it's like, oh, you've tapped the remote.

14:14The whole TV just fucking shuts down. Yeah, because it's a sweeper. Yeah. It gets on my tits. But listen, the whole reason why I'm talking about the TV remote and what made me think about it, because it's an ongoing problem. It's something that us as people are going to have to battle for the rest of our lives. We just need to accept it. Sometimes the remote will be there. A lot of the time you're going to have to find it. Yeah. Right? But the reason what made me think about it is because, and we only just know this, our kids TV the kids have got their own TV in their own room right yeah they can't find the remote no they've lost it for weeks yeah they didn't longer than that they didn't even tell us that they'd lost the remote because of the way remotes are these days now we remember the era where you where it's difficult to lose the remote yeah we appreciate being able to have the remote they've accepted that the remote goes for weeks we've been saying right go to go and chill out in your room for a bit, like after the homework and stuff.

15:15Right, you've earned a bit of chill out time. Go and relax. You know, go and watch a bit of TV or whatever. And they go off to the room and they've just accepted. They've just accepted. They've just gone. They've got a great big fucking television there staring at them. They've just gone, well, that's the end of that then. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I genuinely can see them both talking to each other going, well, this was always going to happen, wasn't it? Because, and they did tell us, because eventually they told us, that they couldn't find the remote. And I was like, well, did you check down the bed?

15:45And they were like, yeah, no, we've looked everywhere. It's gone. Yeah, no, it's gone. And we were like, okay. And I was going, what do you mean? It's got, like, it is somewhere. But they were so zen about it. They were so just sort of like, easy come, easy go. But do you know why? Do you know why, though? Why? This is the big difference. Harrison connected his phone, which has also got Disney Plus on it, to the TV. How does that work? He put on Disney Plus on his phone, So they were watching whatever they were watching And he pressed Apple Play onto the TV They found a way around it Yeah, they can do it So they just turned the TV on How do they do that now?

16:22Well, there is a button There is a button And then they just stream whatever on their phones On the television Yeah, yeah Fucking brilliant, genius But I love it They both were just like Oh yeah, no, that's gone Yeah, no, I know No, that went, that went I was going, what do you mean? Like, you've lost a remote They were going, yeah, ages ago. Ages ago, mate. We haven't seen that for fucking years. Yeah, no, that's true. But I do think we've gone too far. It's another case of technology going too far. With a small remote. Make the remote a size again. Fiendable. Yeah. And just quickly, Claire, right, and feel free if you're listening to comment wherever you're listening, because I feel like this is quite a good discussion.

17:07What did you call the remote when you were growing up? Yeah, see, because people have got different names. It's like different families had different names for it. See, mine's just really boring. Go on, what did you call it? The remote control. Called it the remote control. But we didn't just call it the remote. It was always remote control. Was the remote control. That seems like a bit long-winded, but I feel like that... You said it was the doofa. No, so that was a... I knew Scottish people who called it the doofa. Right. But we always said remote control. What about you guys? What did you call yours?

17:41The dinker The splodger That's mental That doesn't make any sense I was actually quite self conscious About what I called Remote control in our family When I was a kid Because all my friends were like It's not called that But if it's between splodger And what I called it And dinker I feel like mine was quite normal. We just called it The Buttons and I still call it that, don't we? You do say that. You're like, oh, pass me The Buttons. Can you pass me The Buttons? Yeah, you do say that, yeah. We just called it that. I think there are so many names, nicknames for the TV remote. I think there is, yeah.

18:21I think everybody's got a different one for that and yours always makes sense. And then when you tell somebody else and they go, what? You go, all right, you get quite like... A bit defensive. Yeah, you get defensive about it. You're like, well, it is a fucking splodger. I don't know what you're talking about. Splodge, of course it is. Splodge, splodge. Let us know. Let us know in the comments what you liked to call your remote when you were growing up. This episode of The Buckleys is sponsored by Co-op's new meals range, Served. Today, we have got chicken and mushroom Alfredo, your favourite.

18:56Oh, don't get me started. On what kind of pasta? Fusilli. We've also got green vegetable selection, which I will make you eat with it. Yum, yum, yum. regular listeners will be familiar with our instagram algorithm updates where we share the weird and wonderful mostly weird content that we get served up on our individual feeds served up hacks is a spin-off of that where we share the internet's most questionable life hacks that we and our producers have discovered online so first up is need a new knife block for your kitchen Claire? Yeah, I don't actually have one. Yeah, we don't have any block.

19:34No, we don't. I made a knife block once. At school? No. Oh. At work. I had loads of cut-offs of bits of oak that I wasn't using. This is when I used to fit kitchens and stuff like that. So I had all these blocks and it was like a sort of checkerboard. It looked like a chessboard. Okay. It was about an inch and a half thick. You thick, yeah. Beautiful. Oiled it all and everything. It was all smooth. Like glued all these blocks together. Nice. I should have That was when I was supposed to be working. Right, yeah. You made a little knife block. My mate was fabricating some stuff and I was just taking the bits that he wasn't using.

20:11And playing? Yeah, basically. I was playing with all the tools and things. That sounds about right. So what's the knife block hack? Well... If we're not all as handy as you, obviously. It wasn't a knife block that I made, it was a chopping board, I should say. Right, yeah. I got knife block and chopping board mixed up. I was trying to make a knife block. But you forgot to put holes? It turned into a chopping board. Anyway, just tie some old books together and then you can store your knives in between the tightly bound pages of your favourite book. I'm not having that one. I'm not having that one.

20:45No. Just get a big sponge, a big piece of sponge. Yeah. And just stab the knife through a big piece of sponge. Just get anything then. That one was rubbish. Yeah, that was. Well, let me ask you a question, James. Go on. Are you worried about packing dirty shoes in your rucksack or suitcase and getting muck all over your clothes? I absolutely am. I genuinely am. I was away. Festival. Yeah. And it got quite dusty. And I had a white, plain, crisp white T-shirt that I needed to put in a suitcase with some dusty trainers. Wow. And I was thinking, shall I wrap up the trainers in tissue? Well, here you go.

21:24Why don't you think about wrapping them up in shower caps? Oh that got a good That got a good little reaction there Yeah Is that genius Or would a plastic bag work just as well Plastic bag would work just as well obviously Plastic bag would probably work better Because you could tie it tight Yeah The shower cap I mean the ultimate You want to take the little blue booty things The shoe covers Yeah Yeah Because they're in the shape of the shoe already Don't take up extra space Don't take up extra space Yeah I might buy some of those Okay I don't think that's a hack though Well we've turned it into not a hack Because there is something that exists for that If you don't have the little shoe covers A shower cap would probably be Third best So are you more likely to have a shower cap than shoe covers?

22:14Yeah I don't have either So it would be a plastic bag Hey Claire Sticking with trainers Have you scuffed your brand new white trainers? Well don't fear Because you can use toothpaste to cover those scuffs and revitalise your sneakers? I have seen that, actually. I've seen that on Instagram, people using toothpaste. Do they use it like filler or something? No, I don't. No, because toothpaste can actually... I've seen people using toothpaste to clean sinks and stuff. Right. It has got stuff in it. I've heard you can even use it to clean your teeth. Is that versatile? There's an idea. I do actually genuinely watch lots of videos of people refurbing trainers.

22:59Yeah. And it is genuinely amazing what they can do. They can take trainers at like decades old, white trainers. They look like shit. And then they bleach them. They put them under like a UV light and all this. And they look absolutely incredible. I'm not sure toothpaste is going to do the same thing. No, I have seen that. I have seen that. And also it might make them smell a bit nicer. Minty fresh trainers. Yeah. Just saying. I might start cleaning my feet with toothpaste. Okay. Just go straight to the root cause. Well, you don't have smiley feet. No, I don't really... Use your feet. Yeah, we established that.

23:39I don't really ever work up a sweat, do I? No, that's because you don't do anything. But anyway, get on with us before we end up arguing. Some of those hacks were questionable at best. Yeah, unlike co-ops, new meals range served. Now that is a hack that actually works. What have we got this time? This is chicken and mushroom Alfredo. That's right up your street. Can I ask you a question, Claire? How are you pronouncing this pasta? Fusilli. Okay, good. Why? I say fusilli. Yeah. I've heard some people call it fusilli. No, fusilli, fusilli. Anyway, we have chicken and mushroom Alfredo with fusilli and green veg.

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25:37Hey, Claire. Yeah? We've had some listeners get in touch. Thank God. I've got a message here from Mike. Mike, hey! His message is called a podcast first question mark. He says, hi, James and Claire. Just wanted to send a quick and slightly sleep deprived message to say thanks. My girlfriend and I just had our first baby. Congratulations. And weirdly, you were kind of there for it. Wait, what part? Hang on, Mike. James. She had your podcast playing through most of the labour. Oh, my God. No pressure, but your voices are now forever associated with contractions, screaming and gas and air. Claire shouting at James, let me fucking speak, man, was a particular highlight of my...

26:31That was the first thing your little baby heard coming into this beautiful world. Well, no, it was during the labour. I don't know if they... Hopefully you turned us off for when your baby's ears came out. During the epidural, she was trying to breathe through the pain and when the doctor asked where it hurt, she blurted out, in my back, epidural wanker. Nice. Anyway, we had a little boy, Parker. He's loud, hungry, and already looks a bit judgy. So basically perfect. Now, the big question, are we your first podcast baby? Because if so, we're expecting a certificate or at the very least, a shout out.