S4 Ep 48: Celebrity Warhammer & A Birthday Cake Calamity

27:34it's so hard imagine imagine if we had to do something like this like well i'm gonna tell

27:39Romesh Ranganathan:me i would assume we do some fucking basic reading i mean obviously you can't freestyle it based on what shit that you thought you fucking thought that guy was biff tannon in home alone the timeline doesn't fucking work at all by the way what's that well oh yeah of course yeah maybe it's like his uncle or something they're very alike though yeah so the fact is biff tannon and the guy the kid from home alone one of his mates they look a little bit alike that's your fact yeah but they've both got that sort of like military flat top yeah okay they've got the same haircut cool have you heard that have you heard the you know the guy that plays biff tannin have you seen his uh back to the future song yeah it's amazing incredible yeah he he lived off that he didn't really do much else after that right no he did like three movies i mean i i don't know you know depending on what deal he again here we're just speculating but he i don't think he would have got back end off of that biff tannin doesn't get back end off back to the future No.

28:37I don't know. He might have taken points on it. I was feel sorry for him and the guy who played Sloth in the Goonies. Sloth felt like he could have had a spin-off.

28:48Romesh Ranganathan:Would Sloth have had a spin-off? Well, him going to live at Chunk's house, I always thought it was the bit that we never really got into. It sounds like a copy of Bigfoot and the Hendersons. Yeah, I know. It could have probably been that or anything really. But also he had the sort of fact that he's brought up in sort of gangland sort of like they'd had to go to witness protection to get away from the fratellis what did they ever sort of give you did they ever give you what the the backstories for the for sloth no not really i don't think there's much good yeah i think he but he was he had superhuman strength right yeah yeah yeah he's a strong guy yeah also he was quite compassionate and nice but i like the fact that he got to live with chunks family who actually seemed like quite a nice sweet family and then see actually like him going to get a proper job and sort of yeah but then the fatalities get out break out of prison and they're going to come and hunt him down so they don't witness protection yeah i just think something like that could you know they're doing a sequel yeah i hope it won't be the same actor by the way he's dead now the guy who plays sloth i suppose out of everyone he's the one that yeah because he obviously wears a sort of mask and stuff unless he looked like that which would be terrible to him yeah

30:07yeah yeah you're the guy who plays sloth no I'm not that isn't me I look like him but that isn't me yeah I look I'm literally the same

30:15Romesh Ranganathan:I don't think I mean I mean obviously R.I.P. the guy that plays sloth I don't even know his name but he was an American footballer I think of quite know some no some note but um but you know i i don't want to see a gooney sequel really no what are they all doing there anyway no i don't know i also don't know who that i mean i guess it's for us but i i think as well like ralph yeah but it could be quite dark because ralph the mouth you know he's just felt like he'd never get his life together and he was a sweet guy with all the best intentions what was the name of the kid with all the gadgets uh data data yeah yeah data of course is in everything anything all of the things yeah or everything josh brolian's obviously got an incredible yeah career as a brother and then you've got uh the um frodo's mate who's mikey in it yeah um what do you reckon we're up there with what went wrong in terms of

31:18Romesh Ranganathan:maybe we've got to go some it's really it's really it's really sad that basically it would take us such a lot so much effort and organization to get to where they are but also they have they would have to be shitter than they are now in order to be able to do our podcast yeah but they they do have notes and stuff yeah i know yeah but i don't think it's within our i don't think it's within our fucking the realms of possibility that we don't yeah yeah yeah i i'd pretty much arguably just do what we're doing right now and sort of like that's how my dad watches films yeah he he still struggles to know that tom hanks is not forrest gump what do you mean well his performance was like convincing in that movie but if he if he turns around and But say, for example, you go, oh, great, I saw a fucking great movie the other day.

32:09I was like, what film do you see? Well, Captain Phillips, fucking amazing film. It's got Forrest Gump in it. That's how he's made the film.

32:18Romesh Ranganathan:Do you must find it amazing that Forrest Gump was able to sort of play that emotional scene right at the end where he's crying after the examination or whatever? Yeah, but also it doesn't feel out of sort of Forrest Gump's wheelhouse to be Captain Phillips. To end up being a Captain, yeah. I mean, it would be cool if it was part of the same universe. And actually, you know, when you see all the pictures of Forrest Gump, like with the president and stuff, there's one of him sort of taking on Somalians on a ship. Yeah, yeah. Or him landing a plane, you know, because Tom Hanks played that big pilot.

32:48Yeah.

32:49Romesh Ranganathan:Yeah, or him being sort of a... If you break it down, like Forrest Gump could have done all the stuff that fucking all the other characters Tom Hanks did. Tom Hanks did, yeah. Yeah. yeah like maybe arguably i'd say the hoodie's probably the trick woody's probably tricky yeah actually even philadelphia i think could have been him voice come but obviously you know been the end of you know what i mean yeah and the spoiler alert but obviously the end of that movie is very sad yeah it's not really a spoiler is it well i'm saying if you haven't seen it you're gonna watch over the christmas holidays probably actually not a good question i would say actually if I was sitting down to think when is the best time to settle down and watch Philadelphia I don't think it'd be sort of it's one of my favourite ever movies yeah sure but it's not a mid to late December put the fire on and tuck into a mince pile watching Philadelphia is it it is heartbreaking yeah I still think about it it's a bit of a palette cleanser after that what do you think should we get put Shinnes this on yeah get that on Tom Hanks isn't in that is he he is he's right in the background on one of the scenes yeah playing Goebbels oh go wolves

34:02anyway how have you been uh good mate it's been an up and down week on the baby it's been great we've just we had grace's birthday party at the house yesterday which was an insane thing to be to have you know 50 old guests at the house um 50 it's yeah it's insane like the kids and parents i get that 50 yeah it was mad on the concert you know people coming and going throughout the day throughout the whole day yeah it was gonna start 11 people turned up at half 10 and it went on people left the house at about half six seven that's i mean i'm sorry but that's on you and that's no no it is yeah i mean yeah it was a very we hosting at your house essentially now I'm like the house is there's cake pops that have been trod so hard into the floor and they've almost become grout it's like it's yeah did you go all did you go big on the catering I imagine

35:00Romesh Ranganathan:you did well this is where there's a bone of contention wrong okay I I had one big job through this right I sort of took it upon myself but I was like I want to organize the birthday cake the centerpiece of everything sure I will be in charge of getting the cake Catherine was like okay i was very very excited to sort of begin what my daughter would probably the first cake that she ever remembers right so i got in touch with uh a person who'll go unnamed because and you'll see why because this story unfolds who who has a reputation for making incredible cakes right seeing the work always looks good so i i get in touch straight away i know this isn't sean coughlin because i can tell this i should have gone with sean coughlin uh i wish i wish i had yeah you don't know anybody that uh is involved in baking this the reason i went with this one is it was far away from where i'm working film wise for one film now i'm thinking about sean coffer will be better because my mom and dad live like five minutes from a shop and it doesn't matter doesn't matter we all make mistakes i know no this is the mistake that i'm gonna live i i i'm very much in a lot yeah it could have derailed the whole birthday this is what i asked for something along these ones.

36:08Can you see that?

36:09Romesh Ranganathan:Yeah, so that's sort of like a princess fairy kind of cake thing, right? With a sort of unicorn horn at the top, right? Donuts and sort of, yeah, cupcakes on the top of it. Yeah, got it. This is what arrives.

36:24Romesh Ranganathan:It's nice. It's nice. Is it? Yeah. What's wrong with that? Well, number one, it's nothing like the cake we'd all... No, let's get that out of the way. It's nothing like the cake you asked for. That's true. Yeah, don't get me wrong, but also... The colour palette is actually all a... I mean, I think that picture's actually far more... Just for people listening... It looks like a Halloween... If it had been a Halloween cake... You've ordered a cake with blues and pinks and yellows, and what you've got is a cake with oranges and browns. I find it insane that I'm at a place in my life where there's a theme, unicorn theme for the birthday.

37:02I was very clear to the baker that it was a unicorn theme. so talk me through that so when did you order this cake like two weeks ago two weeks ago and and what did you say what was the specification of it it's my daughter's birthday you know we're having a unicorn themed birthday party it'd be amazing to have a cake made like a bespoke cake made for this and where did you get that original photo from uh reddit i'm not reddit um i was the one you get pictures of god my brain's gone i don't know pinterest pinterest yeah there we go so see so this isn't and i'd run it past katherine and me and katherine had discussed it i'm like this is what i'm going you're getting a bit aggy now as you tell this no no no no because

37:43Romesh Ranganathan:i'm not but i'm saying as a friend you're just getting a little bit okay anyway go on it's very triggering because so i so i wasn't like the cake gets delivered right and i wasn't there right okay so i get i get a picture of the cake from katherine sure and what's what's what's the caption with the picture? Is this what you asked for? Simon? No, it is. I don't think there's even a cap caption. I don't think immediately. I see from my looks nothing like what we wanted. Can you send me her number? Oh, God. So she's taken this. She's actually taken this job off you. Yeah. I said, Oh, my God, this looks completely different.

38:23I said, What's the rest of it look like? And then she just goes quiet on that. And yeah. And then

38:29Romesh Ranganathan:basically the reason she's gone quiet is because she's partly blaming you oh no she's massively blaming it and then basically what katherine did because katherine's very incredible at these things is katherine then says i'm just gonna have to bake a cake myself and then bakes a cake that looks a lot better than than the one that we paid a decent amount of money to have a bespoke cake made for a fucking four-year-old which the con in the catapult i mean if you don't if you don't remember me saying there's a lot to unpack here generally but yeah but i think let's deal with the one issue that we're dealing with here, which is that the cake didn't look like the one.

38:59Romesh Ranganathan:I think the fact is, I wanted a nice cake, because she'd asked for a unicorn, and to be fair, we could have just thrown a unicorn on top of the cake. It's a strong argument, you could have just got a regular cake and put a toy unicorn on it, and she wouldn't have known any different. But anyway, I was, do you know what? You were lying 50 people around, and you wanted to show off to the neighbours, I get it. I think it's more of the fact that, and not to make you feel like a piece of shit, I feel very fucking guilty for the fact I've been away from the house for two weeks, and I feel like... I don't feel bad, it might surprise you to know it's not made me feel bad at all but anyway go on i felt very gutted that i'd not been around and i thought i'll wake up to a bye-bye or getting a really nice cake uh which will make to be fair she didn't really care about either of the cakes i know about the boys but when there's presence around us all she really cared about is open presence every 25 seconds yeah um and just go through anyway uh the cake then became a massive joke uh because katherine had told people about how bad the cake was i tried to hide the cake uh and then my mum who was drunk uh found it um where did you put it i i plugged it away in one of our in another room where you no one should have gone in it was just yeah so my mum's found it she's come in she nearly dropped it where she was so drunk um which actually had done me a favor and then people saw i said look you know yeah it doesn't look what i'd ask for i still think it looks okay and yeah it looks in the photo it looks quite nice yeah yeah yeah and then there's the pole i mean it's just not at all what we wanted no and then people tried to say cake and that's when another battery came because it tasted disgusting oh no it was absolutely vulgar it was it was like it tasted like someone said it has a consistency of cheese and tastes like off biscuits no that sounds all right it was just not a good look so now i think i've got one i'm down in one in the hole i need to really open like for for next year i need to be back bang on it really well i mean you know first of all if if you were sending this email in yeah i'd love to i'd love to proffer you some advice if that's okay hit me with some advice um the first thing I would say is the idea of I understand the reasons for you wanting to get a nice birthday cake for your daughter because you've been away.

41:17Romesh Ranganathan:And I understand that it's a totally normal human reaction. And I myself have been, you know, not guilty of that. But I have been, you know, somebody who's trying to compensate for being away with work. But you know, I think there's an argument that you should be kind to yourself. The reason that you're away is because you're trying to provide for your you know for your family and so you shouldn't feel a guilt what you know if you're feeling bad about being away then that's something you need to think about going forward in terms of how you achieve a work-life balance but you certainly shouldn't be turning up thinking I've got to compensate for that you're a great dad you do wonderful things the way you talk about your daughter is beautiful the way you devote your time to your daughter is beautiful so don't ever feel like you know she's very lucky to have you she won't realize she is because kids aren't supposed to, they're not supposed to walk around going, oh my God, I've been so blessed with these parents.

42:05Romesh Ranganathan:That's not what they're supposed to do. So, you know, first of all, I'd say that. The second thing is like you tried. You tried to get a nice cake and it didn't work out. And at the end of the day, did Grace turn around to you and say, that cake was horrible, it's ruined my birthday? No, but quite a lot of the people who tried it said... But that does... But they're irrelevant. they're irrelevant yeah but no no no and you know what she had an amazing birthday and she there you go so so you wanted your daughter to have an amazing birthday and she has had an amazing birthday so actually you're you're experiencing disappointment for something that you don't need to she had a great by the way i should say that this is like a prelude because it's not her birthday to the 14th of december but the way that the nursery works no can i just say that there was the way that the nursery has worked is there's we got in really late with when to have the birthday party so i don't know if you've had this situation where it seems like everybody's fucking got a birthday and they blocked him weekends yeah yeah we've actually you know i said fucking hell we've done exactly and then you're like oh shit like we need to give her a birthday party but so-and-so's locked in that weekend there is a weekend of her birthday someone else is locked in that weekend so the only available weekend was this one so she thinks that she she's four because we've tried to explain to her that she isn't but she's had a birthday party and we're like no because we didn't get in quick enough on your actual birthday so you're out there she's not gonna you can't expect her to understand she's yeah she now walks around like she's four telling people that she's she's a four-year-old which is well she's not drinking or anything is she no no but she started smoking okay yeah Yeah.

43:49Romesh Ranganathan:What are you going to do? I mean, she's only a couple of weeks early, to be fair to her. It is a bizarre thing. By the way, the woman with the cake, I messaged her, was very polite. I was like, this isn't what I've asked for. And she was like, I don't copy other people's designs. And I was like, I get that. I understand that completely. That's fine. But this is nothing. I was quite clear about it being a unicorn party. Can I just see the picture of the cake again, please? Do you mind? i've got to be honest with you i think you've been given a needlessly hard time about this i mean the cheese the cheese biscuit thing i can't really comment on but hmm i mean that's look i would say my biggest issue there is that i can't see anything unicorny about that cake versus that yeah yeah and i mean ironically that for the first one you show me looks easier to do yeah that's what i thought but and also just just yeah banging unicorn on it but when you say out close it does look like it was left over from halloween there's like well look waste not want not oh yeah i mean it has been wasted i mean unless i eat it all because i'm the only person who's sort of feasibly at the moment have you tried it yeah i've tried it yeah i tried i ate and how was it how was it that it was disgusting but i was eating it but no no sorry i i think you've got yourself into a bit of a narrative here no cake is disgusting Oh, it was a disgusting cake.

45:14Romesh Ranganathan:It's very hard to have a... Cakes are not disgusting. They might be mid. They might be a bit shit. They're not disgusting. It was low and mid. No, let me just say the texture of a cake, right? It was very unfluffy. It was very sort of like solid. It was a heavy old bit of cake. So it's a dense crumb. Yeah, hence the comparison to cutting cheese. Okay. Right? And then flavor-wise, it just tasted a bit... Eh. I will tell you. Like, if you had it side by side with the Colin the Caterpillar, and this is, I think, the Colin the Caterpillar, I mean, the inception bit of cake, Colin the Caterpillar. You'll not taste fast Colin the Caterpillar, is it?

45:53Well, up against this cake, it absolutely smashed it. Mm. Mm.

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47:31How are you, my brother? How are you, my G? Let's go.

47:35Romesh Ranganathan:I am pretty good. I've taken to doing a few pranks I actually Oh wow Well I've got a baker friend that was doing A kid's birthday No I'm really good man I'm trying to think I've been working on the play Rehearsing the play Do you want to do a shout out by the way Because it's nearly sold out by the play I've got no idea Woman in mind At the Duke of York's theatre Previews start Oh my god a week tomorrow no is it week tomorrow maybe yeah two weeks two weeks two weeks the 18th and then and then the actual thing starts in january we go through to whenever then we do a week in Glasgow week in Sunderland so um but yeah that's been really good fun um I went to see Nick Helm last night oh actually sorry sorry before before any of that I went to uh I did the Radio 2 show yesterday day tom fletcher was in oh he's lovely yeah he's written all the songs for the paddington musical yeah i saw him at uh the royal variety and uh well first of all i think i'm almost certainly going to see that musical i mean it sounds yeah i mean it may i saw a bit of it at the royal variety and it was also i had to follow it by the way it was the paddington musical ripping the room apart and then the hot ladling of tom davis crap well i can i can give you an insight into a raw variety, Tom, where when Rob Beckett and I were hosting, I was asked to do four minutes of stand-up to cover the stage people deconstructing and putting up some scaffolding for the next act.

49:14Romesh Ranganathan:So I sort of delivered four minutes of stand-up over some sort of drilling and some wood sort of being falling down and getting lifted. And I've got to be honest with you, I think if they'd have taken away the stand-up and just had the sounds of the drilling and stuff, it would have had a better gig. Bob Fletcher, by the way, he opened for Paddington, and he's a really lovely young man. He's a really nice guy. But it did make me think about, I then started talking to the team, and it made me very proud, because I always get this line wrong, but I talked about the fact that Paddington 2, I think, is one of the greatest films of all time.

49:49Romesh Ranganathan:And I'm not just saying that because you were in it, but isn't it, what is it your line when you're looking at the, do you remember what the line is when you're looking at it? What is it? Yeah, good luck, it was all bad. good luck little bear good luck little bear oh mate come on it's so good that bit's so good anyway we started talking about that then we went for the there we went to our team Christmas lunch wow early baby yeah yeah I don't know what because of the play it was meant I can't I can't do it any later than that yeah so um and we went to Tom Kerridge's Bar and Grill at the Corinthian your favourite beautiful lovely place delightful really good three courses of vegan fun for me they had steak and stuff but really good really good then finally after that i went to see oh no actually i did a couple of podcast bits and then i uh went to see nick helm live in concert he is uh he's an incredible way to go and watch live right yeah well i'm slightly loathe to sort of big him up on the podcast at the moment because his tour's just finished i went to see the last night of the tour i think i think it's done but um it was amazing like really good you know like um and i hope you don't mind me saying this but you know i'll stand up even though you and i've got different we've got similar humans in some way but different humans another way in terms of our stand-up is not yeah it's not the same is it um but it is the same in terms of like ostensibly yeah it's kind of nick helm's just like what what the fuck is that man it's like it's completely well he just it's just all he's always been like that yeah yeah it's amazing so brave and like incredible he like i remember like first seeing him so many years ago and just being blown away by like the energy that he just brings to when he said gig and also just the the choices he'd make creatively to sort of push the envelope it sort of made me feel very lazy every time that i'd pick up a microphone and go oh hello oh yeah i mean there's a place for that and look i loved your seat routine from back in the day but i i i just think it's like you you watch him and he's like he's very difficult to very difficult to follow why did you throw a ball across the room like something you know what you look like you know in the middle of a film where a guy's sort of reminiscing about how good things are then he skims the stone that's how i felt yeah that was the energy with which you threw that and he looks across the line a level life good life yeah you know what i think it has still get a great stand-up that's one of the best endings to a stand-up show i've ever seen um yeah that was fucking incredible that was an end of the blue my mind jt can you cut all that out please don't don't don't jt keep it uh but yeah apart from that i've been good i've been really good man although one of the things that i've i've uh got a little bit of problem with and i think it's like the drop in temperature or something like that my eating is out of control now yes i am in deep deep shit i mean as i speak to you now lisa the swan is putting together one of her infamous sunday roasts right i've already eaten so much food bro like what you're supposed to do is pace yourself and then know that you've got this big meal coming down the road no but you know what it is just relax a bit you're you're getting ready to hibernate mate yeah but i'm not gonna hibernate this is what i'm saying the cold is killing your cold is just popping away at your your your energy stores so you need that to get through a day baby i'm i'm nervous man i am eating like a animal are you working you know i've i've my i've since i've been doing this job i've worked out twice yeah it's it's it's i find it really hard because um obviously like i find the rehearsing for the play really tough and i know that your sitcom's quite not challenging but you know any sitcoms yeah but um and then you think i've got to you and i are both sort of people that need to exercise in order to stay on top of our kind of yeah mental stuff right but then when when you get up so i'm leaving a maybe quarter to eight in the morning to to to go to work right to go and do these rehearsals for this play and i and i'm trying to get up but it's cold and so in order for me to get up and then also have time to get ready i'm probably looking at getting up just before six o 'clock in the morning right to fit a workout in and then a couple of times i've planned to do it i've gone to bed thinking i'm gonna do it right yeah that's okay and then i've woke up in the morning i've gone oh fuck that i'm just gonna have another fuck that fuck that i'm gonna have another hour in bed and then i get up feeling terrible about i just go into work feeling really guilty about the fact i've already had a failure for the day and you shouldn't think like that it's the wrong way no but it's do you know what i'm getting picked up every morning at 6 30 so this week i was like you know what i felt quite you know we talked about mental health and me and you talked privately about our heads and i've struggled been struggling a bit here and there so i was like you know what i'm one of the things i'm gonna get up on monday uh but i'll get picked up at 6 30 so i'll get up at half five and do a workout in my room i got up at half five did a workout for 40 minutes showered yeah Yeah, no, but this is the thing.

54:58And then I've got like a very, very boring thing. You know, you picked up at 6.30, filming day finishes at 7 o 'clock in the evening, right? By half four, I'm fucked. I know, that's the problem. That's the problem. You're done. Yeah, I think people assume filming, filming certain things up, man, certain things you do is very easy. And then other stuff.

55:24Romesh Ranganathan:League of their own, for example, I wouldn't describe that as a challenging day. no it's yeah it's great but but this is this is a lot of dialogue and it's very very the pressure of it it's weather i mean i'm fucking loving it it's one of my favorite jobs i've done but it it's it's a push right so you get to that time and then i decided to do it on tuesday because i was then i thought oh maybe i'll just get up at court like quarter two and then just do a sort of 25 minute one and it felt the same so then i'm like i just need and then i'm then you got prioritized sleep it's a fucking insane yeah yeah i had that i worked out i got i got up and uh the swan very kindly got up with me um and joined me for a workout so we had a little workout together and then um and then i got into work and then i was sat watching one of the other scenes being rehearsed knowing that i was up next i barely was barely awake

56:16Romesh Ranganathan:they called me over and i've got to i've got to suddenly shake myself into the room and it's so counterproductive because then i'm like i've eaten that like i've trained so then like i'm hungry i'm at we're filming in the cold so i then eat like fucking biscuits crisps i know do you know what annoys me is that you sort of see these like um uh like hear these like junior doctors and like nurses and stuff and they're all banging on about you know teachers banging on how tough they've got it you just sort of think what you know like i tell you what try fucking doing a play rehearsal and not being sure whether you should work out or not.

56:55Romesh Ranganathan:And, you know, overeating slightly in your lunch breaks. Try that. Well, overeating slightly would be being kind. No, when I say overeating slightly, I mean overeating slightly for a hippopotamus. Similar diet. Smashing whole fucking watermelons and pumpkins down my fucking throat. See, but at least that's healthy. I'm eating like four bags of walkers in this thing there's a place next door to my uh next door to the thing that does like loads of vegan treats it's just disgusting oh wow that's almost like they picked up for you especially then i know well no i don't think they did it was just an unhappy coincidence but it's been an absolute it's been an absolute disaster um anyway luckily the rest of today will be essentially me gorging myself like a point where lisa looks across and says are you okay a lot of people after a roast dinner stay conscious I know you do it differently I'll eat that hug today hug it up right Tomo it's about that time IG would you like to wrap the ting up yo friends loved ones hmm what is baseball home runs wow incredible free throws yeah you got it looking for the stars sometimes hitting them in the base i got this no you don't i cut you out adulation moments of free spirits but in the end it comes down to something bigger comes down to being a member of a team that's where i fall apart sometimes let the name goes a wolf a lone one at that but sometimes you need to be bit something something bigger.

58:40Sometimes you need the warm consideration of a few team members going, hey, we've got you. We know what you're about. Hey, you can do this. Hey, we've got you. I guess that's the thing. Sometimes in life, it's good to walk alone. There's lonely footsteps across the sand. And other times, it's pretty great to look back across the sand and see that you've been running with a whole group of people that you needed at that time. Life can change. Seasons flutter from one to another. Autumn becomes winter. Winter becomes green. You know how it works. My point is this. Yes, sometimes you need some time.

59:18Just a little bit of quietness. A little break from the noise. But sometimes you need the noise. So what I'm saying is check in on yourself. Don't be concerned that when you need the noise, you need to go and ask for it. But also, don't be too worried if at times you need the quiet to ask for that too. Go well, friends. Be good. And remember, you're loved.

59:44Romesh Ranganathan:Really nice. JT, by the way, I know that a lot of people say that sometimes I pick really hard hip hop tunes. I'm about to do that right now. There's a group called Clips. The Clips. Clips? And it's not The Clips. it's Clips. And they put an album a while ago called Let God Sort Them Out. It's just amazing. But I was looking through like some playlist and there's a song that Pusha T and Malice from Clips did with Labyrinth. You know Labyrinth who did Earthquake? Yes. Yeah, absolutely. It's one of my favourite song ever, Beneath Your Beautiful. So crispy. It's called I Pray For You. So JT, could you play us out with a little bit of that?

1:00:21Romesh Ranganathan:No. Thank you so much for listening to The Wolf for now. It actually was, for you, an hour episode. For us, about an hour and a half because I've got to be honest with you, some of the pre chats on the Wolf and Owl are, you know what we should do, we should start recording those. Then one day when we're ready to bring this to an end, we should get to, to, to, to, to, to, uh, I've got very exciting news that I haven't, that Tom and I have been talking about that I'm going to deliver to you now. Next week's episode is an email special. So if you want your email read out on this podcast, wolfowlpod at gmail.com we are doing nothing but I bet there'll be a little bit of pre-chat probably won't it probably going for about an hour and then we'll have to close it off again but the intention is to do an email special if you've got a problem you want some advice you want to tell a funny story you want to give us some feedback whatever it is wolfowlpod at gmail.com and we will read badaboom okay thanks guys love you au revoir au revoir really do you see the phoenix rise from the ash

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