Episode 340 – Permanent Space Between Christmas and New Year

Summary

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Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby on Radio X

Episode 340 – Permanent Space Between Christmas and New Year
Date: December 28, 2025

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode finds Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby (aka Crunch & Crumble) grappling with the unique limbo of the week between Christmas and New Year—a time they dub as "the most pointless and aimless week of the year." The show wends through personal Christmas stories, listener messages, silly new gameshow concepts, and culminates in their annual review of the year (albums, films, TV, podcasts, gigs). The tone is typically loose, absurd, and charmingly self-deprecating, with extended riffs on tiredness, festive mishaps, and the questionable logic of their own routines.

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Episode Structure & Key Segments

1. Radio Limbo: The Eternal Post-Christmas Fog

• Setting the Mood
  • The hosts joke about why they're live (“We could have pre-recorded this. Need a sleep, man. I need a rest.” —Ed, 09:15), noting how this week is like "the purge, but for doing sod all" (A, 08:00).
  • They muse on the existential weirdness of late December, where “calories don’t count and nothing you listen to shows up on your Spotify Wrapped.”

2. Post-Christmas Catch-up

• Fatigue & Festive Washed Outness
  • Matthew admits to feeling knackered:

    “I'm actively yawning during this bit. You're knackered, aren't you?” —Ed, 01:17

• Gifts & Family Fiascos
  • Ed recounts accidentally “Homering” himself with a Christmas ring gift for his wife, which ended up fitting him better (12:15).
  • Matthew’s haul: M&M-branded yellow socks (“Like an offender. A branded offender.” —Matthew, 13:27).
  • The perils of accidentally buying your partner gifts you like for yourself (“You bought me something you would like.” —Charlie via Matthew, 15:08).

3. Listener Emails & Quirky Segues

• Pitbull Concert Cosplay
  • Discussing fans wearing bald caps to look like Pitbull:

    “How would you feel as performers if fans started dressing up as you at your live gigs?” —Listener John G., 05:18

    • Ed: “I think I've got more of a look...You are just generic handsome.” —Ed to Matthew, 05:49
    • Matthew on lookalikes: “I get Buzz from Home Alone. You unfortunately get Elon Musk, which I think is really cruel.” —06:14

4. Christmas Disasters & Culinary Freestyling

• Festive Food Fails

  • Both hosts navigated illness or family mishaps, leading to unusual Christmas meals:

    “Our Christmas dinner was some burgers from the freezer, and a stir fry.” —Matthew, 19:52
    “I was also ill on Christmas Day…” —Ed, 20:56

  • Food influencer identity crisis:

    “I'm just gonna have to go on dry carrots from now on.” —Ed, 21:39

• Boxing Day Traditions (“Bangwangs”)

  • “Bangwang”—the show’s pet name for leftover food mashups.
  • The hosts invite listeners to share creative leftover uses (31:24).

5. Tangents, Toilet Humour & New TV Formats

• Toilet Broadcasting and Format Brainstorms
  • Fantasizing about a radio setup with “a plumbed-in toilet” (33:56) as Matthew’s stomach contents wage war.
  • The gameshow “Am I Pooping or Not?” (“It’s a fantastic idea...It’s five boxes, the opposite of Naked Attraction.” —Matthew, 35:00) with celebrities in “poo boxes” whose facial expressions must be analyzed by contestant panels.
  • Listener puns: “Mark Pooh Hatch,” “Big Nasty done a big nasty,” “Spray Burley,” etc. (39:39)

6. The Year in Review

• Top Albums

  • Ed’s Picks:

    • Crippling Alcoholism — Cam Girl
    • Architects — The Sky, The Earth, & All in Between
    • Viagra Boys — Viagra
    • Dinosaur Pile-Up — I Felt Better
    • Conjurer — Unself

      “There you go. There's my top five.” —Ed, 57:26

  • Matthew’s Picks:

    • Cheek Face — Middle Spoon
    • Martha — Standing Where It All Began (compilation)
    • Lemonheads — Love Chant
    • Dochi — Alligator Bites Never Heal (extended edition)
    • CMAT — Euro Country

  • Vin’s Picks (Spotify Rap):

    • Anthony Schmarrick — Universe
    • Radiohead — In Rainbows & A Moon Shaped Pool
    • Makoto Matsushita — First Light
    • Bow TAA — Stunt Doubles Pt. 2 (Indian electronica)

• Top TV

  • Ed: "Pluribus" (Vince Gilligan), “I watch a lot of TV.”
  • Matthew: “Traitors and Celeb Traitors,” “Righteous Gemstones,” “Will Kristen Bell Marry a Rabbi? Nobody Wants This,” “The Studio.”
  • Vin: "Adolescents," "Hip Hop Evolution," "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy," "Gogglebox," "Peep Show."

• Top Films

  • Ed: “One Battle After Another, probably my favorite film from the last five years.” (60:22)
  • Matthew: “Suitropolis 2,” “Gabby’s Dollhouse movie,” “Snowman and the Snow Dog,” “Amy Carlson doc: Lover’s 1.”
  • Vin: “The Truman Show” (first viewing, “top of my list”—66:47), “Us” (Jordan Peele).

• Top Podcasts

  • Ed: “Panic World,” “Hyper Fixed,” “Search Engine” (ex-Reply All hosts), “If Books Could Kill.”
  • Discussion about the unintentional comedy of “Jimmy Carr on podcasts.”
  • Matthew: “Just anything Jimmy Carr comes on and tells people how the world works. Sign me up.” (66:40)

• Best Gigs

  • Ed: "Battlesnake," "Bloodstock Festival (Machine Head set)," "Clutch gig," "Cheek Face & Martha double-header," "LCD Soundsystem," "REM covers by Jason Narducci/Michael Shannon."
  • Matthew: Missed Nearly Daphne (yet again).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Christmas-New Year limbo:

  “A week when calories don’t count and nothing you listen to shows up on your Spotify Wrapped. It’s basically the purge – but for doing sod all.” —Ed, 08:00

• Realizing the show’s energy:

  “That interaction sums up our show and the energy on our show – a load of old waffle for five minutes before you eventually find a punchline and move on.” —Matthew, 07:29

• On gifting gone wrong:

  “I've absolutely homered myself. Bowling ball with my name card on.” —Ed, 13:02

• On dietary misadventures:

  “My Christmas dinner was burgers from the freezer, kid’s burgers, and a stir fry... Sometimes you just roll the dice on Christmas Day.” —Matthew, 19:52
  “By the time you sit down to a big pile of stuff…it’s just a bit much.” —Ed, 26:52

• Re: inventing 'Am I Pooping Or Not?'

  “It’s a big box with five doors. We open them up and, sure, we’ve got a few celebrities. You just see the face – it’s the opposite of Naked Attraction.” —Matthew, 35:05
  “Let’s open the Mark Pooh Hatch.” —Matthew riffing, 39:43

• Defining 'Bangwang':

  “Your Boxing Day leftovers, or this week’s leftovers, all the food you chuck together—you call it your bangwang.” —Ed, 31:26

• On the remarkable uselessness of some gadgets:

  “It’s not a portable charger. You do port it...” —Ed about Matthew’s phone charger saga, 47:41
  “You're just generic handsome, which is why you get a lot of lookalikes. Unfortunately, I get the other end—Buzz from Home Alone.” —Matthew, 06:08

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Segment | |-------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:06 | Opening theme, Radio X context, show intro | | 01:10 | Fatigue and festive limbo discussion | | 12:00 | Christmas gifts/gifting mishaps | | 17:30 | Emails segment (Pitbull concert question, lookalikes) | | 19:47 | Christmas illness/food gone awry | | 31:15 | “Bangwang” leftovers traditions | | 33:50 | Toilet humour/concept: ‘Am I Pooping or Not?’ | | 39:30 | Listener puns/celebrity pooping panel game | | 56:13 | On-air Year in Review (albums, films, TV, podcasts, gigs) | | 66:47 | Vin’s best-of-the-year, classic films | | 67:33 | Closing banter |

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Tone, Energy, and Takeaways

The tone is trademark Gamble & Crosby: loose, meandering, and happy to chase tangents (“It always comes back to You Bet, doesn’t it?” —34:45). Tiredness, anti-climax, and the slightly deranged energy of post-festive torpor give the episode its uniquely relatable flavor. The playful, exasperated chemistry between the hosts is on full display, with personal Christmas mishaps yielding bigger existential laughs (“If anyone works for a charging company—wait, we can’t do that. That’s against the rules.” —Matthew & Ed, 52:43).

Listeners who haven’t tuned in can expect a rambling, self-effacing dose of comic relief—a mix of real life and nonsense, with year-end lists thrown in for good measure.

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Endnote

Despite slow moments and some toilet-related detours, Episode 340 stands as both a post-festive survival guide and a joyful salute to mediocrity, mishap, and the small pleasures of the in-between week. For podcast regulars and Radio X’s "12 listeners of Thickness," it's as comfortingly daft as a Boxing Day Bangwang.

Transcript

[A]

This is a global player original podcast.

[B]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X.

[C]

Hello and welcome to the Ed Gambler Matthew Crosby podcast of the radio show that's. We are currently doing. So was there some content for the podcast so far?

[A]

Some content for the podcast? It's been a good show so far. By the way, this poor. This poor unfortunate soul has just texted in. We're doing a. We're doing a New Year's cash call at the moment. And you've got to text in five. And they've texted in five with two eyes. You've got to feel sorry for those.

[C]

Nice to have an early entry for the 12 listeners of Thickness.

[A]

Absolutely. But anyway, yes, welcome. Welcome, everybody. So. So anyway, yes, it's. We shouldn't really be here. We've agreed that, as you'll realize during the course of the show, this is the 28th. Now, here's the thing. When we put this in the diary, right, Once I put it in the diary, we have to come into work. It's Sunday. That's how it works. But when we decided to do the show live, we were like, yeah, great, we're gonna be ready. We're gonna. Ready to get out and. Ready to get. And it turns out that's not the case at all.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

For reasons that you'll hear.

[C]

I mean, you can hear me yawning.

[A]

Actively yawning during this bit. You're knackered, aren't you?

[C]

Sorry, everyone.

[A]

No, no, no. Hey, listen, you don't need to apologize for being tired. You're just listening to your body.

[C]

I'm gonna have such a. Yeah, but my body's always telling me that.

[A]

Yeah, your body is always telling you it's bangs. But you know what?

[C]

You.

[A]

You've worked. You've worked hard this year.

[C]

I've had a hard. I've had a hard year.

[A]

No, I'm not saying you have a hard year. I'm not saying you've had a hard year. You've worked hard this year.

[C]

Yeah, sure, but only because the work's there, you know, Blessed.

[A]

Yeah, you're very lucky you're alive.

[C]

I ain't gonna find it if it goes.

[A]

No, no, that's true.

[C]

No, that's true. But.

[A]

But let's not talk. Let's not talk about the bottom falling out the industry. Yes, let's.

[C]

Let's talk about the bottom falling out of me.

[A]

Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're. You're. You're a total. You're a total, total mess in a. At the end of this, by the Way. I'm currently halfway through it at the moment trying to compile it. We're going to do our. Our review of the year.

[C]

Well, yes, we've settled on top five albums, top film, top TV show.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And we've thrown in Top Podcast for you because you listen to a lot of podcasts.

[A]

I listen to a lot of podcasts, yeah. I'm just looking at it and it really is. They're all of a type, really, aren't I? If you don't like. If you don't like choice one, you're not going to go. You're not going to. For 2, 3, 4 and 5. I've also got some of my top gigs.

[C]

Oh, top gigs.

[A]

Because I've got a. I mean, I've got.

[D]

I'm.

[A]

I'm not necessarily going to do five gigs that. Because, you know, I probably only went to about five gigs this year, but there is. There's definitely a handful of genuinely some of the best gigs I've ever been to. I've been to this year. So that's.

[C]

Have you seen me live this year?

[A]

Was the Palladium this year?

[C]

No.

[A]

Was it not?

[C]

No, it's last year.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

November 24th.

[A]

Where does the time go?

[D]

Saw Stevie Wonder this year.

[A]

You did see. That's actually, weirdly, that's made my list of top gigs of the year.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Just because of how you were afterwards. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Not well.

[D]

Photo of me.

[A]

That was bad.

[C]

Yeah. I've been sharing a lot this week.

[D]

Head in hand.

[A]

It's bad. Right. Well, I've just realized I haven't gone through any of the emails yet, so I've got no idea. It doesn't matter.

[C]

Does it really matter?

[A]

It doesn't really matter.

[D]

I think there's two emails. Shall I.

[A]

Was there three? Should I do one blind?

[C]

Yeah, do one blind.

[A]

I'll do the shorter one blind. Well, there's. There's one that says, why isn't the segment called My Goodness My Thickness? Yeah, and I like it.

[C]

I like it.

[A]

I do like it. But it sounds weirdly. I prefer. It sounds cruder.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

In a way, doesn't it?

[C]

My Goodness, My Thickness.

[A]

My Goodness, My Thickness. Merry Christmas, everybody. This is from John G. So that was from Rob, by the way. This is from John G. Who says hello. Crunch Crumble and Madam Morrible. Madam Horrible. Wicked Vinch. Just two general questions really, regarding last year's Pitbull concerts.

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah. We have. We are. By the way, if you only just start listening to the show, we are the foremost authorities on Pitbull.

[D]

He did the O2, didn't he?

[A]

That's right.

[D]

He's doing Hyde park this. This summer. Next summer.

[A]

Now, why was I. Because people were dressing as Pitbull for the concerts, weren't they? Well, I seem to remember being quite close to the O2 for some reason. Was it. What was I doing the O2?

[C]

Matthew, we literally can't answer that question.

[A]

I saw everyone. I saw everyone dressed up in. Anyway, yeah, the two general questions, really, regarding last year's Pitbull concerts. The uk, of course, started a trend of everyone wearing.

[D]

Really granddad, isn't it?

[C]

That's top Matthew. That's. That's top Matthew.

[A]

That is top Matthew. Well, I can't remember.

[D]

Do you know?

[A]

No, no. Okay, fair enough. It's bad, isn't it? It's really bad. Anyway, the uk, of course, started a home charger.

[C]

Matthew's phone chart. Oh, no. Let's talk about it on air. You want to talk about my phone charger?

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

No, don't shame me. On air.

[C]

Yeah. What do you mean? What are we gonna do in the show?

[A]

You were very. You were very rude about my phone charge the other day. And it was in a work situation. It was very embarrassing. Yeah, I thought I looked very professional or set up there. But we'll talk about it on air. Well, I'm gonna.

[D]

I'm gonna make a note that we'll definitely do that.

[A]

Okay. All right. The uk, of course, started a trend of everyone wearing bald caps and big suits to Pitbull concerts so as to look like him. Question 1. How would you feel as performers if fans started dressing up as you at your live gigs? And question 2. How would you feel if fans started dressing up as Pitbull to your live event? Thanks, John G. Cheers, John G. I mean, when.

[D]

For my.

[A]

For my stag, do people dressed as me? Yeah, they wore the same clothes I wore for my Edinburgh show that year and they. And everyone wore glasses. And that was good.

[C]

Yeah. You've got more of a look.

[A]

I think I've got. I think I've got more. Yeah, because you are just generic handsome.

[C]

Thank you.

[A]

Generic handsome man. Which is why, actually, weirdly, you get a lot of look alikes. People will often send lookalikes to the show of like, is this, you know, is this model. Is this model also Ed.

[C]

Yeah, but unfortunately I get the other end of the look alikes, which reminded of this festive season is buzz from home alone.

[A]

You get. You do get. You get buzz from home alone. You unfortunately get Elon Musk, which I think is really cruel.

[C]

My wife does not believe that when she said you don't look like Elon Musk. But she does admit I do look like Buzz from Home Alone.

[A]

You do look like Buzz.

[C]

And also generic model or cartoon? I get quite a lot.

[A]

You get a lot of just. Yeah. If a cartoon has short catalog model, not fashion catalog model, and a cartoon with short brown hair. Yeah, that's absolutely. Oh, is that.

[C]

I'm Buzz from Home Alone.

[A]

And of course, Curtis from Love island from a few years. From a few years ago. Yes.

[C]

You get a few. Because you're. You have a lot of look alikes.

[A]

Anyone with a beard.

[C]

Small nerds. Small.

[A]

Yeah, basically. Small nerds. Basically. Yeah. Anyone. And it doesn't. The thing that sort of bothers me is that when, when. And I know this isn't. This shouldn't bother me, but when people send me. Is this you? And it's someone with a goatee beard.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's like, I've got a goat like beard.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But not a goatee beard.

[C]

No, I wouldn't say. Because you have a lot of stubble around the beard.

[A]

Got a lot of stubble around the beard. Exactly.

[D]

Goatish.

[A]

A goatish beardesque. I looked a goes. Yeah, my, My face is absolutely goes. That's what my wife is always telling me. But yeah, I, I mean, I think.

[C]

That interaction sums up our show and the energy on our show.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Which is a load of old waffle for five minutes before you eventually find a punchline and we move on.

[A]

That's right. That's right. We got there in the end. We got there in the end. And speaking of getting there in the end, here is the show, folks. Enjoy it. We will see you on the other side with our review of the year.

[B]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[A]

Ray D. Thanks. What? It's Sunday. It can't be Sunday. Yesterday was Tuesday. Yes, here we are in the hinterland, the upside down place. The week between Christmas and New Year's. A week when calories don't count and nothing you listen to shows up on your Spotify wrapped. It's basically the purge. But for doing sod all. And what could be more perfect for the most pointless and aimless week of the year than its radio equivalent, the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby show on Radio X. A show that even on a good week, has you reaching for the Gaviscon and praying you can go back to work today on the show. No, we go for a walk. We go for a walk. I know. I mean, I know we said we'd clean the car, but there's absolutely no way we're doing that. Board game, board prepare, board game. And there's still the box of Quality street that Brian from next door gave us. So we should. That needs cracking into. Hang on. I have just remembered we haven't watched the Christmas special of Ludwig. Peace on Earth and Ludwig to all men. Apparently, this is the episode where Ludwig finally tells his sidekick a crossword that he loves her. Well, pop on the telly, Vin. The day has been saved. Here's the theme from Ludwig. Radio X.

[B]

Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[C]

Coming at you live.

[A]

We are live.

[C]

Why are we live, man?

[A]

We could have pre recorded this.

[C]

We could have pre recorded this.

[A]

Coming on Christmas Eve and pre recorded this.

[C]

Need a sleep, man. I need a rest. Rest.

[A]

You know what? You look great.

[C]

Oh, no. When I feel like I'm soup with. With skin wrapped around it.

[A]

You know what? If I looked as good as you look on a bad day, I'd feel great.

[C]

You look fantastic, Matthew.

[A]

Thank you. Well, I feel fantastic.

[C]

Pocket model.

[A]

Thank you so much. I feel very good. I feel. I feel very. Well, I've. I feel. You know what? I genuinely now feel quite rested after Christmas, which is pretty rare.

[C]

That's rare for you with. With two little. Two little tykes running around at Christmas.

[A]

But no, I mean, I. I actually got the rest, you know, the half hour before the show. Oh, that's what I did. I sat in an empty office. I sat. I sat in the branding room and just looked. Stared at a wall. And now I feel great.

[C]

If anyone's wondering. He didn't say branding room, he said brandy room. Things have really kicked off.

[A]

That's right, yeah. Yeah, I've sat in the brandy room.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a brandy room. There's a cigar room. It's a.

[A]

You know what it's like the gentleman's clubs of old.

[C]

Well, yeah, there is a gentleman's club room as well.

[A]

There is a gentleman's club room.

[C]

Not on a Sunday morning. They didn't come in that early.

[A]

If you. Into the gentleman's club room at Radio X, of course, you can see Moyles, you can see Johnny Vaughan. They're wearing smoking jackets. They're, you know, certainly some of the things they say, not strictly PC, sure, but it's, you know, they're reflecting a different time.

[C]

But then it turns into a proper gentleman's club. The music kicks in. Oh, the smoking jackets come off. Moyles is down the Pole.

[A]

I was gonna say Vin does the strip tea. We'd love to see Vin doing a striptease. Maybe later on in the show, if.

[D]

You play your cards right.

[A]

Oh, hope springs eternal in the human heart. So I'll tell you about my Christmas.

[C]

Please.

[A]

Because I did have a Christmas. By the way, did you get. Did you get nice gifts? By the way, did you get any. Any nice gifts?

[C]

No, I don't do gifts anymore.

[A]

Can I show. I've got my gifts on.

[C]

Have you?

[A]

I got my. I got my M and M socks.

[C]

I thought you got some new shoes.

[A]

No, not. Not the new shoes.

[C]

They're bright yellow socks.

[A]

They're bright yellow socks. And I'll tell you what happened. We went to.

[C]

They're Eminem branded socks. As in the chocolate, not the wrapper.

[A]

Absolutely the chocolate. We went to see the Gruffalo's Child at the Lyric, just around the corner from here. It was really brilliant. We had a really brilliant time watching the Gruffalo's Child. And on the way back, Charlie and I walked past the M and M store, said, should we take the kids in? And while we're in there, Charlie said, do you want these socks? They could be a Christmas present. I was like, yes, please.

[C]

Fantastic.

[A]

And it all worked out perfectly. Just a couple of days before Christmas. I've got my M and M socks. I feel on top of the world now.

[C]

Oh, I tell you what happened with one of my Christmas presents that I bought for my wife, Charlie. I went and bought a jeweler that we both like to do. Cool rings.

[A]

Oh, yes. H. Samuel.

[C]

Yes. Yeah. I saw a ring that I was like, she'll love that because it's sort of in the same range as another ring she's got. It'll go perfectly. It'll sit next to it really nicely. And then we both went into that shop a few days later and she went, I love that ring. Speaking about a ring that's also in that range. Oh, not the one I bought.

[A]

Right.

[C]

And I went, what about that one? Don't know why I asked.

[A]

No, she went. She went, no, no, of course not. Because she didn't say, I like all these rings. She said, I like that specific ring. And you went, what about the one that's a bit like it, but at.

[C]

Crucially, not the same ring. The same ring. And obviously I couldn't. Couldn't keep that secret. I went, right. I went, well, I bought that for you for Christmas. Right, okay, well, I do like the other one more. I'm like, yep, fine. Okay, I'll Just have the other one. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

[A]

You won't, because I know.

[C]

So let's talk to them about getting this one. Oh, it'll be an exchange. I'll have to bring in the old one after Christmas and get it changed for the new one. Christmas day I went, do you want to have a look at that ring just in case? She was like, yeah, I really don't like it. And it's too big anyway, I have to get it resized. So I popped it on one of my fingers. Fits perfectly. Happy Christmas, Ed.

[A]

That's great. I got.

[C]

Happy Christmas, Ed. I've absolutely homered, Homer'd myself.

[A]

You've homered yourself. You've disappeared into a hedge.

[C]

Bowling ball. Bowling ball with my name card on.

[A]

I also got. I got Charlie a jumper from the lady from the M and M store. You know what? She got me a lovely pair of shorts in the MM store. So I've got yellow shorts in the MM store and yellow socks and I look absolutely wonderful to strap around the house. Really nice.

[C]

Like an offender.

[A]

I do look like. I do look like an offender. A branded offender.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Oh, it's disgusting. Everything's sponsored these days, isn't it? It's absolutely disgusting. But anyway, I forgot the story I.

[B]

Was gonna tell Crunch and Crumble. This is radio.

[A]

I got my wife a couple of things from lazy Oaf. I got a really nice fleece, which she loves, and I also got her a jumper. I went on to buy the fleece and I saw the jumper was also.

[C]

Fleece and a jumper. You will do jumper. Anything to not put the heating on.

[A]

I'm saving money. Yeah, I really am. Yeah. It's a one time pay. That's the thing about it. It's a one time payment for a jumper.

[C]

Yeah, I'm not.

[A]

I haven't got a little smart meter to tell me how much my jumpers cost me every 30 seconds. Thank you very much.

[C]

Such a romantic, isn't it?

[A]

No, no, Charlie. Charlie likes to wear sort of around the house. She likes to wear big comfortable clothes. That's what she likes.

[C]

I mean, who doesn't?

[A]

I. Well, me.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I wear the tightest, least comfortable outfits.

[C]

Matty dresses down to leave the house.

[A]

That's right. I bet as soon as everybody else has left the house, I put on all my kids clothes, squeezing the life out of me like a. Like a boa constrictor. But yeah, so I bought her this jumper and then she really liked the fleece, the one that originally went on to Buy. And she didn't like the jumper at all. Really? I thought it was nice. I thought, it's two now. It's gonna sound bad when I say this. It's two cars crashing into each other on a jumper. It's like sort of cartoony cars, a red car and a blue car crashing into each other. Like the Milky Way advert, but ends badly. But yeah, you know JG Ballard's version of the Milky Way advert? So it's like these two things. And she said, what you've done is you've bought me something that you would like.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

And I was like, yeah, fair enough. Because that's kind of what everybody does, isn't it?

[C]

Well, you're together with someone for long enough, you're basically the same person.

[A]

You're melding into each other. Exactly. You're melding into each other. So I said, well, all right, well, maybe rather than send it back, I might wear it.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

And I put it on last night. So comfortable, so lovely. But Charlie says it's clearly a woman's jumper. Right. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is the thing, isn't it? Because, you know, there should be sort of like clothing. Clothing equality. Right. You should be able to wear anything.

[C]

I think there's, you know, there's a lot of crossover. If you go on their website.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

There's, you know, all genders of models are wearing each thing.

[A]

Shall I wear it next week and you can tell me what you think?

[C]

Yeah. What's it gonna have on it?

[A]

It's just got two. Two cars crashing into each other.

[C]

Yeah. But now I'm worried it's got, like, frilly sleeves or something. There's something you're not telling me.

[A]

No, no, no.

[C]

Even then, you should still wear it.

[A]

You should be able to. Exactly. You know, you just think, you know, if I was. If I was Tom Daly. Right. A big sort of.

[C]

That's a huge F, isn't it? It's a big F, yeah.

[A]

We're still waiting for the DNA test to come back and find out if I am Tom Daly, but I don't think I am. But if I were Tom Daly, you know, a big, flowy, possibly cut a little bit high on the neck kind of thing.

[C]

I can't wait to see this jumper.

[A]

Yeah. All right, basically, here's the thing. I cannot be bothered to walk to the post office, so I would sooner wear a jumper that doesn't really suit me and it's the wrong cut and it's the wrong Fit.

[C]

You don't just take it in to the shop.

[A]

Is there a shop of it?

[C]

Is there a shop of it?

[A]

Well, I don't know, do I?

[C]

There's a shop of it.

[A]

There's no ASOS, is there?

[C]

It's about 10 minutes round the corner from here.

[A]

Is it?

[C]

Is there a shop of it? What a stupid question.

[A]

I don't know. There's a. Listen, there's not a shop of everything.

[C]

No, there's not a shop of everything. But you can look online.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

You look online, you see the website and that's where I bought it from. I've looked online already. I didn't know there was a shop of it.

[B]

Scoop Daddy and Goujon Mustard Radio X. Hello.

[C]

Casting. During the weird bit between Christmas and New Year, Matthew.

[A]

Yes. Very strange hinterland. Between the wonderful time of Christmas and the wonderful time of New Year's. There's nothing. There's literally nothing going on at the moment.

[C]

No.

[A]

You go for a little walk, you think, I'll go to the cafe. Cafe's closed. Everything's. Everything's closed. Nothing's open. It's absolutely freezing.

[C]

You should live in London, man. Things are open.

[A]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[C]

Things are open.

[A]

That's a good point. I did come into London today and think, oh, you know what? This is living. Yes, this is living. In many ways, living in Beckenham is like being in a permanent space between Christmas and New Year. Nothing's really going on at any point, but. Yeah. Anyway, we'll talk about Christmases, because my Christmas was ever so slightly marred by my poor wife Charlie getting ill. Oh, no. So she was ill all the way through Christmas. Took one look at the jumper, threw up. Yes, that's what it was. She was. She was under the weather for the whole of Christmas. And it meant that our Christmas Day, which we were supposed to be having with her family on Christmas Eve. We were going to have our Christmas Day on Christmas Eve.

[C]

She was like, very European of you.

[A]

Very European. Absolutely, absolutely. But she wasn't able to go to that. She had to stay home. I had to go and do. I had to. I got the opportunity to go and do that with the kids.

[C]

And what an opportunity.

[A]

What an opportunity. It was. It was lovely. We had a really nice time, but obviously it's not. It's not great. The next day, a Christmas Day, we were supposed to be going over to her parents. We couldn't do that either.

[C]

So, hang on, what was Christmas Eve? You were supposed to.

[A]

Her sisters.

[C]

Her sisters.

[A]

Then on Christmas Day we're supposed to go over to her parents. Right, right.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Who were also at the Sisters as well.

[C]

But basically the Crosby's not in. With a sniff of being seen at Christmas.

[A]

The Crosbys have got out of Bromley. The Crosbys have all gone up north to see the northern relatives. But I was staying, crucially.

[C]

But they left you.

[A]

I don't like to leave Beckenham.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

If I could have. So the good thing about Charlie's family is they.

[C]

Scary, isn't it? Big city.

[A]

Very scary. Very. A lawless place. Yes, a lawless place, absolutely. I'm one of the few people who actually believes those Ricky Gervais adverts. I genuinely think I won't. Honestly. I won't leave it up without my stab vest on and without my phone in a locked up Fort Knox that's strapped to my forehead. There's no way, no way am I going out and about in Sadiq Khan's London. No, thank you very much. No. Anyway, yeah, they all live in Bromley, so it's very easy to get between them. So anyway, we're supposed to be going there, but obviously Charlie's not well. You know, her parents are older. You don't want to get them sick or anything like that. So we're not doing that. But it did mean that we were in the house on Christmas Day with no food in the house. Oh, no, because we hadn't been planning to have food at her Sisters and then train her food and all that.

[C]

You'd not done any work yourself.

[A]

Not done any work ourselves. Hoping to farm it out to everybody else.

[C]

Right.

[A]

That's what we were hoping to do. And so our Christmas dinner was with some burgers from the freezer. Some burgers that the kids had, some.

[C]

Cheeseburgers, some chips with some leodamma on top.

[A]

Well, it basically was that. And then it was stir fry. And so I had a stir fry, the kids had burgers. It was very nice. That sounds lovely, actually. It was very nice, the stir fry. Dried noodles, of course. You've got the dried noodles and some tofu from the back of the fridge. The vegetables that were just about acceptable, you know, when you're sort of really giving them a good old. How mushy is this? Is this gonna taste? You know, is this half a courgette from a week ago? Is this gonna make us definitely roll.

[C]

The dice on that one? Someone's ill already, you've gotta roll the dice. Definitely roll the dice on Christmas day. Stir fry.

[A]

Is this curled up bit of pepper gonna give us all the running trots or are we gonna survive? Actually, we did survive. But it was, you know, it was nice to have a fish finger stir fry and it's nice to have something different. Nice to do something different.

[C]

I speak as someone who was also ill on Christmas Day. Matthew.

[A]

I heard that and I'm so sorry, man.

[C]

Two years ago, you'll remember if you're a loyal list. Me and my wife got food poisoning on Christmas Eve.

[A]

Really bad.

[C]

Yeah. Spend Christmas Day just at home. This year it was just me who got some sort of food poisoning.

[A]

Oh, it's food poisoning again.

[C]

Well, it's some gastric thing. Yeah.

[A]

So considered because it sounds like the culprit is food. Now I know a lot. I know a lot of your earnings come from.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Eating and talking about food. But have you considered giving up maybe for as a New Year's resolution?

[C]

Well, yeah, I think maybe I've eaten enough food in my life to still be able to talk about it. I think you can still think about it. Now. I'm going to be seen as not a food influencer, but the memory of food influencer. I think I'm just gonna have to go on dry on dry carrots from now on.

[A]

I think that's what you're gonna have to do. You know what this is that you could write, you know, in the way that people who give up booze write very moving books about it.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

I think you've got. I think you've got a very moving book. Giving up food about your dad.

[C]

It just becomes less and less intelligible as I get more and more hungry throughout.

[A]

How can I say why is this page half eaten? Why is he chewed through? That's what it would be called. Hungry Hungry.

[D]

Ed Gamble. Hu.

[C]

Well, I've done. My first book was called Glutton and now it's called. It's called Hungary.

[A]

Now it's called Hungry. Then it'd be called Dead.

[C]

Dead. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Just written on a bit of Ryvita. This is Dead Gamble Radio X Ed.

[B]

Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[C]

Ah, look. Christmas Day. Maybe in the rear view mirror, but I like to keep things Christmasy here.

[A]

Oh yeah.

[C]

It's still Christmas morning for me. Me. We'll discuss that later. But I'm still very much in the grip of Christmas cuz I was little on Christmas Day. And what better way to make myself feel better? What sort of tonic do we need? More Christmas music from our good friends. Apparently the third time we've played this band.

[A]

Oh no.

[C]

In bro job.

[A]

Oh, all right.

[C]

Right.

[A]

I do like this. Oh, I. I really like.

[C]

Yeah, you like that one?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I don't know if they want me to say the bad name again. But you're a fan of them. In code. I'll say in code.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You're a fan of bj.

[A]

I'm a fan of Itchy.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Especially around the festive season.

[C]

Yeah. Police Never Dad. What other tracks have we played from those guys? Vin?

[D]

Let me look it up. We've played, I think, a Wham cover.

[A]

They sound like a really good band.

[D]

They revisit that.

[A]

They sound like a laugh. Oh, I remember this. This is great.

[C]

Is it every Christmas we play them?

[D]

I guess so.

[A]

It's a Christmas tradition.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

You get food poisoning. That was good.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You get food poisoning. And we play a bit of these games. This is good stuff.

[D]

Short of the vocals here.

[C]

No.

[A]

And that double drumming. Yes, please.

[C]

This should be a bed. This should be our regular Christmas bed.

[D]

BVs from BJ.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And it doesn't get. Because I.

[C]

What?

[A]

I was obviously doing BJ again, but it doesn't count now because it's after Christmas.

[C]

There we go. Yeah.

[D]

And then this is the other Bro Job song.

[C]

Yeah. And every time I find them, I go, whoa. I've never heard of them.

[A]

I've never heard of these guys before. It's the same thing every time.

[B]

Ed Gamble and Mother Matthew.

[A]

Radio X.

[C]

Snow Patrol. Have you been on Snow patrol this Christmas? Get in contact, let us know. 83936 on the text. Contact us on WhatsApp group global player.

[A]

Dangerously close to DJ Ed there. We're sailing on the text. On the text.

[C]

Well, you know, he does come around but twice a year.

[A]

He's a very festive month.

[C]

Or twice a week.

[A]

He's a very festive character. Yeah, he does come around when you have not written an intro. He's definitely there.

[C]

DJ Edd lives within me. DJ Ed is the easiest person for me to access. So when I'm quite tired and I'm not really feeling the show. DJ Ed. DJ Ed is there to help. I can go onto autopilot.

[A]

And how was your Christmas, D.J. ed?

[C]

Oh, Christmas. Christmas comes but once a year.

[A]

It does indeed. You know what? And it's aphorisms like that that have put you at the top of the broadcasting tree.

[C]

It's all the same these days at Christmas. You know, Christmas is finished and then you go into the shops and it's. All the Christmas stuff is out again.

[A]

So true. Christmas starts so early that Boxing Day they put out all the Christmas Stuff.

[C]

You go, and all the decorations are up and you just been Christmas and all the bloody decorations are up. Unboxing day.

[A]

Well, we're gonna have more from dj. That's his catchphrase.

[B]

Ed Gamble and Buck Fifen.

[C]

Gizzard Radio X wasn't very well on Christmas Day.

[A]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[C]

Still. Still. Went over to my mum's, you know, slapped a brave face on for about 10 minutes and then started complaining.

[A]

You were. Well, that's what you do at your mum's.

[C]

Even if you were. Come on. Exactly.

[A]

The thing is, you weren't contagious, were you? It wasn't like you give it to somebody else.

[C]

Exactly, exactly.

[A]

And I'm sure you're washing your hands plenty and all that.

[C]

Oh, my goodness. I never stopped washing my hands.

[A]

Well, you've got terrible, terrible ocd.

[C]

I wash my hands to Jingle Bells at Christmas rather than Happy Birthday.

[A]

That's right. You've got to mix it up.

[C]

Or Happy birthday to Jesus.

[A]

To Jesus Christ, our Lord, of course.

[C]

So, picked at the food. Very disappointing on Christmas Day. Barely ate anything.

[A]

A big old meal, like a Christmas dinner. That's great for you, isn't it? Are you a Christmas dinner fan?

[C]

Typically, I like a lot of the bits of Christmas. Christmas dinner. I'd say put them all together. Well, yeah. I mean, it's just a bit much.

[A]

It is.

[C]

It's what I'd say. I like. I like all of the fanfare around Christmas. I like the nibbles that come out. I like, you know, pigs in blankets. Yes, please. Love all of that. I like a bit of turkey, but by the time you sit down to a big pile of stuff.

[A]

I like. I like the fact that it's one of the few times I would say, in the year when you typically would have three courses. Right. And possibly even four courses. You know.

[C]

Know.

[A]

Possibly.

[C]

Are you having a starter on Christmas Day, though? Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Are you? Yes. We're not a starter household.

[A]

See, my. My. Both, in fact, both families. The family I've married into and my family would have basically dinner and then seconds later, another dinner.

[C]

Yes. Yeah.

[A]

So it was like. We had smoke, we had, like, smoked salmon on toast and, like, prawns and stuff and all that kind of stuff. And that, for me, is all I need.

[C]

Yeah, that's. You can't have meat. Right. So.

[A]

Well, that's the other thing as well. They didn't. My wife said, let's not make any concessions, let's not create more hassle. So let's just have let's just say we'll eat. We'll eat the meat. And I said, well, I won't, but I'll just eat everything else.

[C]

So your wife said, just eat them. Just for Christmas, just eat the meat.

[A]

Well, the kids eat meat.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Charlie occasionally eats meat and I don't really eat meat.

[C]

No.

[A]

At all.

[C]

So do you just have the veggies? You had a plate of veggies.

[A]

I had a big old plate of potatoes and parsnips.

[C]

Your gaffs must have been off the chart.

[A]

It was bad news. It was really bad news. I didn't have the sprouts, though, because they had bacon in them. But I did have. I had.

[C]

Now, look, I'm a meat eater, but I would say, and this is no shade on anyone's family, if you've got a veggie coming around and they're only having the veggies. No, no, no, don't pork him with one of the veggies.

[A]

That's not their fault at all because Charlie literally said, we'll eat meat. She didn't say, we'll eat meat, but Matthew won't. She just said, we'll eat meat.

[C]

Yeah. Your wife hates you.

[A]

She doesn't care about me, does she? I'm starting to suspect she wasn't ill. Yeah. I'm starting to suspect she had the best Christmas she's ever had. Oh, sorry, I feel. I feel a bit ill. You go, No, I. I loved it. The thing is, for me, the potatoes are the best bit. I love the potatoes. So a big old stack of potatoes, like it's Ferrero Rocher at the Ambassador's.

[C]

Receipt gravy.

[A]

Or was there? No, I couldn't have the gravy.

[C]

Dried potato.

[A]

But I did, I did get a prawn and squeeze it over each potato. So a little bit of moisture. Was there a little bit of moisture there?

[C]

Well, you had a worse Christmas Day than me.

[A]

No, no, no, I'm not going to say that because. Because Sarah did an amazing, amazing job. It was brilliant. We all had a big shout out to Sarah, who did it all herself.

[C]

Shout out to my mum and Amble. Yeah, smashed it. Great meal. And look, then Boxing Day, normally everyone comes to us and we have, like, leftovers and do more nibbles.

[D]

Bang Wang.

[C]

And I love that in the way.

[A]

Bang Wang.

[C]

I love Bang Wang at ours. But decided probably not worth the risk because I'd been ill on Christmas Day. Fine. So I didn't. I barely ate anything on Boxing day. So yesterday, 27th, okay, the family came to ours. We had the leftovers. I was back on fighting form. So I went absolutely bonkers on wine and food. But this is not ideal because we said, let's do it live. The show.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Because that's gonna be after that day where you don't really do anything and we probably will feel good.

[A]

You'll be chomping at the bit. Yeah.

[C]

Yesterday was my Christmas Day.

[A]

Oh, my God. So this is your Boxing Day.

[C]

Basically, I was, you know, seven o' clock yesterday evening. I was pairing Spatlaser Riesling with a slice of Colin the Caterpillar.

[A]

To be fair to you, would do that on a typical Saturday. Anyway.

[C]

I would do, to be honest.

[A]

That's just how I.

[C]

Everyone's like, oh, Christmas eating. I'm like, hello. That's just Wednesday.

[A]

This is just how I. This is just how I eat until I give it all up. But the thing about that is you're allowed during the Christmas period, you're allowed to kind of get a bit discombobulated with the time. It doesn't. Because after, as we were leaving my Christmas Eve, which was our Christmas Day, I unc. You know, Christmas Eve, we had our Christmas. Christmas Day.

[C]

My Christmas Day was yesterday. Yeah.

[A]

Ben, my. My spider man Ben, my soon to be brother in law, said to the kids, all different universes. Well, the multiverses. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, he. He said to the kids, are you excited about tomorrow? And I genuinely said, what's tomorrow? And he was like, what is Christmas Day? And I was like, oh, right.

[C]

Oh, grandma.

[A]

Oh, yeah, it is.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X.

[B]

Fire in the booth.

[A]

We're here to talk about your Bang Wang. Now this is something that a listener now lost to the mist of time. I'm sure we could find out. But a listener call. One listener.

[D]

Not gonna.

[A]

Not gonna. No way. Are we gonna. A few years ago, a listener got in touch, say that they call basically your Boxing Day leftovers.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Bang Wang.

[C]

Or, you know, this week's leftovers.

[A]

This week's leftovers, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of the food that you've got to get rid of, it's all about to go off. There's loads of it in the fridge. You've gotta. You've gotta. You sort of chuck it together and you call it your ban. Yes. What have been your bangwangs this festive season?

[C]

What are your hot Bangwang tips now?

[A]

What are your hot Bangw tips?

[C]

Tell us everything. Because sometimes you find yourself at the bottom of a pit of shame. With Bangwang.

[A]

No, there's no shame.

[C]

You're sandwiching things together that shouldn't be together.

[A]

There's no shame.

[C]

But I want to hear about those leftover sandwiches. I want to hear, how are you using the leftover turkey? What are you doing with that gravy?

[A]

What do you do with that gravy?

[C]

As a great sexter, does bread sauce make a good face mask? This is what I want to hear.

[A]

It doesn't have to be going in your garb. It could be going around your garb and all the rest of your eyes. Absolutely, absolutely. What are you doing with your food this festive season? What's your Bang wang? Get in touch 83936 on the text. Or you can, of course, WhatsApp us through the global player. We would love to hear about it. Ed, you were saying you were mixing wine with Colin the Caterpillar?

[C]

Yes. Well, my wife received as a present from her parents a Colin the Caterpillar Christmas cake.

[A]

Oh, they do a Christmas version.

[C]

They do a Christmas version.

[A]

What's the difference? Does the little face have a Santa hat on?

[C]

He's very Christmassy. He's got sort of Christmas colors.

[A]

Great.

[C]

And I would say the main addition you're looking at. She was very worried that it was gonna be like Connie the Caterpillar, where they add strawberry to it.

[A]

You don't need that.

[C]

Don't need that popping candy. Ooh. And we had it yesterday and everyone sat there going, there's no popping candy in this. And then I realized, because I was slicing the cake, I took the big badge on the top that said pop, and that's where all the popping candy was.

[A]

Oh, right. So you've got to add it yourself.

[C]

Well, no, no, no. You just. It's only in that bit.

[A]

What?

[C]

And I had the whole thing. That's like getting all in my gob at the same time.

[A]

It's like getting the penny and the figgy pudding.

[D]

Hang on. You had all of it in your. In your gob. Did your mouth not get rid of.

[C]

It wasn't. I mean, it was. It was not much popping candy.

[A]

They're not going to put a dangerous amount in skin.

[D]

Did your eyes pop out of your head?

[C]

It went very well with like a Woo. Splat. Laser Riesling.

[A]

Of course it did.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Do you know what actually popping candy wine would be really. Yeah, fair enough.

[D]

Sex in there.

[B]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X. Do you remember the High Street Honeys?

[A]

How are you feeling? Are you gonna hold it together?

[C]

Yeah, I think Think as part of this glow up that's happening in this building.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

We should have this chair replaced by a plumbed in toilet.

[A]

Yeah, that's true.

[C]

That's true.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

I would love to broadcast from a toilet.

[A]

Would I enjoy the sort of prison feel of that. Where are you? Where you're my roommates and I'm just watching you do a piece of.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Well, there is a desk in the way. There's a desk and a screen. So all you can really. At the moment, all you can really see is Ed's face. Face and shoulders.

[C]

Yeah. We could put me in like a Pope box.

[A]

Right. Every. Every now and then I'll be talking to my kids when they're in the bath and they will go a little bit quiet and their eyes will slightly soften. They're not quite cross eyed, but they'll go. And I'll be like, are you weeing in the bath? And they're like, yep, yeah. And that's. I don't think I could handle those moments.

[C]

I think I could really work on not showing on my face when I'm going toilet.

[A]

This, by the way, is a force format.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Now we're talking.

[D]

It always comes back to you bet, doesn't it?

[A]

It always comes back to you bet. But this is a format. Listen. And I know Mulhern. Are you even kidding me? This is a. This is a fantastic idea. Am I pooping or not?

[C]

Yeah. And it's five boxes. It's the opposite of naked attraction. Yes.

[A]

You just, you just see the face.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So it's like, it's a, it's a big box with five doors on it. You open it up and there's. And it. Yes, sure. We've got a few celebrities. Yeah, sure. We've got Cape Burley.

[D]

You would have Cape Burley, wouldn't you?

[A]

Yeah, we've got Cape Burley. We opened the door.

[C]

It's got to be soundproof.

[A]

It's got. Oh, it's got to be sound.

[C]

You can't hear.

[A]

Or are the, or are the contestants wearing sort of noise cancelling headphones? Yes, yes.

[D]

Like pegs over their nose as well.

[C]

Pegs over their nose, yeah. But I think they're in a smell proof box.

[D]

Noses, plural.

[A]

Yeah, pegs over their many noses. Yeah. So yeah, yeah. Opens it up.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You've got K. Burley. You've got, you've got, you've got, you've got, you've got, you've got Logan Paul, you've got Swampy. You know, you've got Logan Paul on there. You've got Logan Paul? Oh, yeah.

[D]

Be realistic.

[C]

He's a WWE Superstar.

[A]

That's true. You've got all of the top. The top.

[D]

Muhammad's doing it.

[A]

The top.

[C]

I think he's quite a high rent.

[A]

I think. I think. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

But he's into the idea and he's.

[A]

He loves the gameplay. He loves the gameplay. He's a strategist.

[C]

Strategist, yeah.

[A]

So he's happy because when. When. When you sit down with Bradley for your Gold Chat and they say, do you want to be a contestant or a pooper? It's like.

[C]

It's the brown chat.

[A]

It's the brown chat. Of course it is. When you sit down for your brown chat.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And you said you want to be a contestant or a pooper. Nick is obviously he's one of these people who's definitely going for contestants.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[A]

Because he wants to play the game. Yeah, exactly. He can't believe he's here playing the game that he's loved so much on the television.

[D]

All right, so Kate Burley, Nick Muhammad, Kay Burley.

[A]

They're locked up in Kay Burley.

[C]

Well, Kay Burley's a pooper.

[A]

Yes. Oh, yes. So this is. This is it. So you've got a panel of celebrities, and you've got a panel of. Okay, all right. Because we got absolutely nothing for your bang wangs. We've changed it. Okay, who do you want? Which celebrities do you want to see? Either watching another celebrity do a poo or sitting in a box with the. With the. With the flap open so you can see their face and doing a poo. Okay.

[D]

Self esteem's doing this, isn't she?

[A]

Absolutely. She's getting involved. Self esteem. Of course she is. 83936 on the text. You can what's up Tapas through the global player. Tell us, who do you want to see in the poo box? This is Fall Out Boy here on Radio X.

[C]

That could be the theme tune.

[B]

Mask, you crobly. And Radio Ed.

[A]

Radio X. I don't know. The idea behind our new format is it's poo box and the. It's called Pooh Pooh Bet. Sorry? It's Pooh Bet.

[D]

Oh, I've written down am I pooping or not?

[A]

You know what? Straight down the moon.

[D]

Because that's more sort of Netflix friend.

[C]

It's like, is it Kate, Am I pooping or not?

[A]

So we've got celebrities am I pooping brackets or not? There's a variety of toilets of all different sizes for all different celebrities. Inside a box, all you can see are their faces and the panel of celebrities. Also, celebrities have to work out whether or not. Not these people. They're just chatting away. Chatting away to them. Are they currently pooping?

[C]

Are they pooping or not?

[A]

They're currently pooping. A great one in our dear friend Kathy Rivet.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Sent in two absolute stonkers here. She said, Dylan as a pooper. I think he'd be good now. There was sort of chat in the bog. Dylan, as we call him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it. Is it Bob Dylan? And. And then immediately it was followed up by, sorry, autocorrect. Rylan.

[C]

Yes. I mean that.

[A]

Very different careers.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Very, very different careers.

[C]

I think both would be great.

[A]

I think they'd both be fantastic.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Rylan's the better singer.

[A]

I'd say that Rylan's the better singer. Yeah. Rylan can really. He's got a set of pipes on him, but those aren't the pipes we're talking about.

[C]

Speaking of calling him Bogdillan, James in Dartford said, I'm thinking that the poopers should have poo puns for their names. Okay. Burley could be spray Burley. Amir can't stop pooping and dress like a poosy.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

We can't be doing this.

[C]

We can't be doing this.

[A]

You're the one doing this here now.

[C]

You're the one.

[A]

I know. I started it. Listen, hey, just because I said a thing doesn't mean I agree with it. Yeah, let's not. But of course I said it might be now.

[C]

This is too disgusting. This is like when we set up the text that were smell. And within a minute we were like, we can't do this anymore.

[A]

Okay, Keep them coming in, guys. Who should be pooping.

[C]

Keep them coming in.

[A]

Keep them coming in. Okay, I've changed my mind. Radio X Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[B]

The Rock Will Wax.

[A]

And Wayne from Chris G. We've said he said Mark Pugach. Yeah, of course.

[C]

And then Mark Pooh Hatch could be the name of the thing that you open up to look at.

[A]

Let's open up the Pooh Hatch. Let's open the Mark Pooh Hatch. And then Kathy Rivett got back into touch to say Jason Manford. Jason, man, I need a poo.

[C]

And thank you, Kathy, for getting involved in the way that is correct.

[A]

Thank you.

[C]

Andrew Hindle suggests Paula Radcliffe. A big Nasty.

[A]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[C]

Has Big Nasty. Done a big nasty.

[A]

Big Nasty. Done a big nasty. Thank you very much. Yes. So keep those coming in. No, no, don't. What I mean is, don't keep those coming in. We still haven't really had any entries for Bang Wangs, if you'd like to tell us.

[C]

Well, that's. I mean, we can talk about food now after this.

[A]

Has everyone lost their appetite?

[C]

Yes, I think so.

[D]

Who's hosting the. The Sort of. The spin off. The Extra Slice.

[A]

It's got to be called Extra Slice. Pooh. Bit Extra Slice. Well, I mean, we. We'd love to throw our hat into the ring here. We would love.

[C]

Well, hang on, who's hosting the main thing, though? You can host the main thing, Matthew.

[A]

Can I host the main thing?

[C]

No one else is going to do it.

[A]

I think it's gonna. It's either me, Mulhern or Bradley.

[D]

Yeah, well, I thought Bradley's doing it. I thought Bradley.

[C]

All right. Bradley can do the pain.

[D]

Matthew could be the. The Osman.

[A]

How would Barney feel about that?

[D]

Who's Barney?

[A]

His son.

[D]

Whose son? Bradley's son.

[C]

Goodness.

[A]

This is like. This is like conversation in old people's home.

[C]

When you work for Radio X, you. You are only interested in the cool culture in the cool underground bands. You don't understand mainstream culture.

[D]

He's got a son called Barney.

[C]

Have you ever watched Gladiators?

[D]

No.

[A]

They co host it together.

[D]

Do they? Bradley Walsh hosts Gladiators.

[A]

Oh, my goodness me.

[C]

Right, we. Okay, the rest of the show is going to be educating Vin about mainstream culture.

[A]

Let's play some wet leg, then. This is Monge 2 on Radio X.

[C]

Leg can be on it.

[B]

Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[A]

It's just Matthew Crosby at the moment because we were recording the podcast, by the way, if you. If you haven't got the podcast, if you're not listening to the podcast, you really should. Loads of extra bonus funny stuff from us. Plus, in this week's episode, you'll get our reviews of the year, our top films, our top podcast, our top TV shows and all the rest of that. Our top music, of course. Well, you know what our top music is. We play it every day on the show. Yes. So during the podcast recording, a sort of look just went over like he. He went somewhere else, didn't he? He sort of like you could see he was physically there, but it felt like his soul had left his body and floated up. And then he said, how much time have we got? I need to go to the loo.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And you said, well, we've got a minute left on that. Kaiser Chief Soul suit.

[D]

He's just got up and he went.

[A]

On, I'm so sorry. I don't know.

[D]

He didn't say sorry.

[A]

No, he didn't say, I'm so sorry. He just said, well, I'm going to the loo. And he's gone. But poor love, he's been unwell. He's had food poisoning. And then he's come back from food poisoning with a full Christmas dinner and a load of wine and a. Colin, the caterpillar. I've got. You've got to feel sorry for the.

[D]

No, I think a sympathetic outlook here is dangerous because this is.

[A]

This is enablement. Do you think it's enabling?

[D]

I think fine. He was. He was unwell.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And it was his Christmas Day yesterday. But if we allow Ed Gamble to go to the toilet whenever he wants during the radio show, we're never going to see him again.

[A]

That's a good point. He loves the toilet.

[D]

He loves the toilet and he hates following rules.

[A]

It was a weird. It was a weird moment, though, because sometimes, you know when you. You know, like in a zombie movie, when you run up to somebody and you're like, hey, it's you. And they've got that glazed look on there, and you're like, oh, no, they've been bitten by the zombies or it's Body Snatchers or something, and you think you've seen your friend, but it isn't. It's the, you know, just the husk of your friend. That was the look on his face. Right. I didn't feel like standing in his way and saying, uh, you sit down and do a link of the show. Would have gone in. Well, he wouldn't be doing a link. Yes, exactly. It wouldn't have been. It wouldn't. That wouldn't have gone in our favor. I don't think. I don't think. I don't think. That has got Aria written all over it. The moment when Ed Gamble was desperate for the loo, but he stuck around to do a link of the show. I don't think that.

[D]

So when he comes back.

[A]

Yeah, we need to.

[D]

We need to. We need to give him. We need to punish him, really.

[C]

No, we do.

[D]

We need to make. Make him realize that this is a bad thing to do.

[A]

Do you think so?

[D]

So I think when he comes back, he has to do the next link by himself.

[A]

And I'll just be here.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah, but you can't chip in.

[A]

Oh, I don't want that. That's punishing me. That's punishing me. Not Punishing him. He'd, you know, he'd love that. What about to get to chat without me going, oh, by the way, Kenny Everett said something about that in the 70s.

[D]

What about? He has to do the whole link by himself with no help from you and no help from me as well.

[A]

Oh, he's got to drive the desk. Yeah, I'd love that. Okay, try that. Yeah, let's give it a go.

[D]

So why have I suggested that?

[A]

I don't know you. I mean, he can press. That's actually punishing you. Yeah. The problem with Ed is he's unpunish. Punishable. He's Teflon. The man is Teflon. Any punishment just bounces off of him and hits you back. So there you go, we've got it. We've got to practice a sort of radical love here.

[B]

The old man and the big baby.

[A]

Radio X.

[C]

Yes, it's Ed Gambler, Matthew Crosby on Radio X. Of course, I'm doing this link by myself to balance out the fact that Matthew and Vicky had to do the last link by themselves. I'm doing it by myself so much I've gone onto the radio production suite where I actually have access and I can do things myself. I've got the screen up here and of course, here he comes, left alone to do what he wants. D.J. ed is here. Vin, I'm gonna start pressing some of these buttons. What should I press now? What do we reckon? This could be great, actually. This would be a great radio show with just. I'm just hovering over buttons and just seeing what I can press. Should we give that one a go? Wow. I'm so tempted to start pressing stuff. Mad that this is on the air. Rob Beckett. Should I press that?

[A]

It feels a bit like, you know when you're up with your mates, when I'm working, because we are friends, if you're on a stag doer on a lads trip away, if one lad suggests something and you go do that, you go, no. Well, I'll do it if you do it. And it's that kind of where I think, do I want to lay on the floor with all my bits hanging out and be massaged by someone's foot? No. But do I want to watch Romesh do it? Yes. So do I have to do it in order to see Romesh do it? Yes. Get down, take your punishment and then you get. You get your treat.

[C]

Fantastic. So this is. I've got access to every clip here. Oh, we've got Ed Gambler, Matthew Crosby, show clips. I don't remember any of this. Let's hear what, what's this, this music festival now. I'm staying, Matthew. They've got a new thing. Well, no, I'm bored of that now. So how did that link go? Pretty good, I think.

[A]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[B]

This is the Radio X heyday.

[C]

Matthew, you've talked about the presents that you received. Your Eminem socks and your shorts.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

But I'm interested to know why you didn't receive a new phone charger. Because we've not talked about this on the radio station. You do need a new phone charger because your current phone charger is one of those ones that stick onto the back, but it's a stand, so it's not like you can just go in, charge your phone and just leave it there. You have to have a whole setup where you basically set up an office everywhere you go.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

And your phone's on a stand, so.

[A]

It'S a little sort of.

[C]

Because your phone won't. You can't plug anything to the bottom of your phone.

[A]

No, the little port at the bottom is broken. So I can only charge through the.

[C]

Magnetic back of my phone and that's fine. I've had that problem before. But you can buy just like plug in chargers that just clip onto the back. Back. Yeah, fine. But you just leave it there. Rather than a stand that holds your phone. It's massive, your charger, it turns it.

[A]

Into a sort of bedside table.

[C]

Yeah. It's not. It's not a portable charger.

[A]

No, it's not a portable charger.

[C]

You do port it.

[A]

I port it, Yeah. I carry it around in my rucksack.

[C]

And that's what I think of you when I see you with that charger. What, port it?

[A]

Yes. That's very. You know what? I really enjoyed that. That's really, really good. Once I got there, I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it.

[C]

But I don't want to shame you on the air. I do want to shame on you on the.

[A]

You do want to shame me on the air? Of course. But we're working together at the moment and you show me in front of the whole office when you said, look at this stupid charger you've got. Why don't you get a new phone?

[C]

I do not need to be there to shame you in front of that whole office.

[A]

No, because it was interesting. You said it.

[C]

You email in all the stuff, then you turn up, you set up a full office in the corner of a room, you eat all the snacks and then you leave before the episode's finished.

[A]

That's really exactly what I do. That is exactly what I do. And if you hire me, I can guarantee I'll do all of those things. Absolutely, yeah. I don't know. It's stealing a living. I'm stealing a living, but I'm very lucky to be doing it. No, but the other day I was in a cafe, you know, I had my laptop set up, I had my little special port.

[C]

You're eating all their snacks.

[A]

Eating all of their snacks. Crucially, I was paying for them, but I was eating all their snacks anyway. And, you know, very. A very interested young lady came and sat next to me and said, this is a fantastic setup you've got here. He genuinely did. Honestly, it was like something out of.

[C]

You've now hit an age where you just imagine. Imagine young ladies talking to you and then it becomes real in your head.

[D]

Was she filming it for content?

[C]

Was it a prank? And look at this, granddad. Was it? Was it? Was it at. Look at this, Granddad.

[A]

She said, what? Where? She said, where did you get that from? She said, where did you get that from? It's so cool.

[C]

Like an idiot.

[A]

No, she said, it's so. She said, it's so cool. Genuinely, I couldn't believe it. It was. But because, you know, I have very mundane dreams. It was exactly like a dream I would have. I think it was where I would. Where someone would come up to me and say, I think your phone charges. Cool. I'd wake up and have a great time. It's exactly the kind of dream I would have. But genuinely, she sat down next to me in the Flying Horse Cafe in White City and she said, that's. That's so cool. And we chatted about. I said, yeah, of course, the port on my. Is broken, but look at this. And I did the little thing because, you know.

[C]

Oh, you showed her more features.

[A]

I showed her the features, yeah. Because if you. If you. If you have it at portrait, then it just looks like a foam. But if you turn it. Landscape, right? Then a big clock appears with a calendar on it.

[C]

It.

[A]

Something that you can't do with your phone, right? You can't do that with your phone.

[C]

What are you talking about?

[A]

Right, so if you turn it around, this whole bit of the. The front of your phone, this whole bit of the screen becomes a big. A big clock pointing at the screen.

[C]

Yeah. No, no.

[A]

All right, listen, this bit I'm pointing at, the sort of two thirds of it become a clock.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Let me finish it. Two thirds Become a clock. The other bit becomes a calendar. So you. You literally.

[C]

Why do you need that in front of you all of the time?

[A]

So I know what time it is and what I'm doing tomorrow. Why else do you need a clock in a cabin?

[C]

I used to see that once.

[A]

No, you're not.

[C]

You need to constantly go, I've forgotten what I'm doing again tomorrow and forgot what day it is. This lady's talking to me anyways. And what did she say? I'm free tomorrow.

[A]

Do you want to hang out the Apple store where I got it from.

[C]

When you. When you said, look at this.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And twisted the phone around, what did she say to that?

[A]

Now, this is going to sound bad. She stuck.

[C]

She took her clothes off.

[A]

Yeah, she took. She took.

[D]

She took.

[A]

She grabbed cutlery, stuck him up her nose, and slammed her head on the desk. That's undisputed. When I started explaining. No, no. She said, oh, that's. That's. I can't remember what she said. She probably said, that's amazing. You're an amazing cool guy. I think she high fived me. And then she clocked the wedding ring.

[C]

And said, well, I just think the.

[A]

One that got away.

[C]

Yeah. It's good that you wear your wedding ring. Cause otherwise you'd be mobbed.

[A]

This is the. Yeah, it's the only reason.

[C]

Well, I lost my wedding ring in September. And let me tell you, nothing changes.

[A]

Nothing. Well, you know, I went to the hay festival without my wedding ring by accident. And not a sniff.

[C]

No.

[A]

Nothing at all. No bookish people winking at me. Didn't get any of that. Didn't get any of that caper. But, yeah. So that was it. Anyway, it turns out you're wrong and this girl is right.

[D]

You're gonna get a new charger.

[A]

It's incredibly.

[C]

You're gonna get a new charger.

[A]

I want a new charger. I like my charger. I think it looks good.

[C]

It doesn't look good. It looks mad.

[D]

And it's not practical.

[C]

No.

[A]

Yeah. It's a bit impractical. And I think from carrying it around, it's starting to slightly break. It doesn't have a 100% success rate of working.

[D]

Oh, my.

[A]

All right, you convince me I should get a new charger. Listen, my kid. All the stuff that my kids have works. I look after them first. I prioritize.

[D]

Get a hold of you.

[A]

What do you mean? If someone needs to get.

[D]

Your phone's out of charge, is this.

[C]

The same charger that didn't charge your Phone when you had to have a. Get a new passport.

[A]

No, that was a different one. I've got two of those. What two? I've got two slightly different chargers. That's one that looks like a. It looks like a hole hob. That's the one I've got. It looks like a double hob.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So I can charge my headphones. And, and, and one of the hobs has stopped working.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And the other one is 70.

[C]

Yeah, it's on the blank.

[A]

It's on. It's on the fritz. Yeah. Yeah. Basically I need to get a new phone, but I think I got one of those, like four year contracts.

[C]

You need a new charger, Matthew.

[A]

Yeah, maybe I do. Anyway, if anyone works for a. For a charging company.

[C]

Can'T do that. That's why we do the quizzes and what we are not allowed to do.

[A]

Okay, all right.

[C]

You're not allowed to invite people to be guests.

[A]

Well, you hadn't. I had a sentence. If anyone would like to send me one. You can't because it's against the rules.

[C]

I'm up for again.

[B]

Radio X Dead Boy and Soupy Ghost.

[A]

Jimmy World the Middle, everybody.

[C]

Sorry, granddad was playing a video full volume on his phone.

[A]

No, I wasn't playing a video. I'll tell you what I was playing. Listen, it's always funny when you do it, but it does make things. It does make it very hard for me to state my case here, to have a right of reply.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's why I thought I should have been a lawyer. Okay.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Where were you on the night of the murder?

[A]

No, I'm actually listening to a message from listener Carol Ann Bosom, who couldn't pronounce Monj tout. Yes, that's what I'm listening to. And she sent it to me on Instagram. Instagram. Although now I have been a bit like a granddad because I've sent her a message saying, am I going mad or did you send me an audio clip of you saying manjitout? But she had and it's right above the message. So here we go.

[C]

Said mangy tout.

[A]

Not the other thing. Okay. Mangi. Yeah, mangy tout.

[C]

Mangy tout.

[A]

Mangi tout. So this is. That's very apropos for this message from George from Norwich. Happy radio, lads.

[C]

Don't mind if I do.

[A]

You know what? That's absolutely right, because this is for the 12 listeners of Thickness. An early entry for 2026 is 12.

[C]

Listeners of Thick in there early.

[A]

I love It I see last week's correspondent who pronounced mangy tout with a hard G. And I raise when I was young, but not young enough to justify this stupidity, probably 14, I called the vegetable man, get out. I remember an occasion at a restaurant with my family around this time when I said it out loud, perhaps for the first time.

[C]

Yeah, man, get out.

[A]

And was politely corrected by my mum. I assumed the handful of it I'd seen. The handful of times I'd seen it written down. There was an issue with the space spacing. Yeah, they're just getting it wrong everywhere.

[C]

Yeah. That vegetable must be called man, get out.

[A]

Man gets out. I also recall knowing about ladies fingers okra and that the beans inside were the men wanting to get out. Writing this all down Now, I actually think it makes a lot of sense. Maybe everyone else is thick. Maybe they are. Merry 2026, George from Norwich. Thank you, George, and Merry 2026 to you. If you have a thickness you want to get into touch with or just any message at all, even if it is, just please do get in touch. Sundayadiox.co.uk well, guys, we've done it. It's been another year.

[C]

We did it. Well done.

[A]

How have we managed it? I honestly don't know.

[C]

See you next year, everybody.

[A]

See you next year. See you next year, everyone. Bye bye.

[B]

Radio X, Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[C]

Okay, that's the show. We're still doing the show. It's hit a low moment. You'll all know what that is.

[A]

You guys know what it is and you guys also know how it. How it ends. Does it end?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, boy. Anyway, sorry, folks. It's just tricky, isn't it? You know, the first day back at work after the Christmas holiday.

[C]

A week since we've been at work.

[A]

Yeah, I know, but it's the. It's also the first day back after Christmas.

[C]

It's not like we've been off, really.

[A]

I know, exactly. We have, but we have had Christmas in between. Anyway, let's do our review of the year. Our Beck.

[C]

Our Beck of the year.

[A]

Let's do our Beck, Rex of the Year. Come on. Let's just try and hold it together, guys.

[D]

It gets to the nub of what it is, really, doesn't it? Just that.

[A]

It really does. And that's. That's what this show's all about. Getting to the nub of it. Right, let's get to the nub of your year. Ed, do you want to. Do you want to do your albums first?

[C]

Yeah, I'll do my Top five albums. It's difficult. I think it's been a good year. But it's quite interesting casting albums. Okay, so I'm gonna go with. I mean, I've probably mentioned all of these albums on the show before.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

I'd say maybe one of them you'd like. Two of them. The Crippling Alcoholism album. Cam Girl.

[A]

I remember you recommended that.

[C]

Huge. I loved it.

[D]

I downloaded it. I haven't listened to it yet. It's got blue cover, right?

[C]

No, pink, I think. Oh.

[D]

Album Changing that.

[C]

Architects, the sky, the earth, and all in between.

[A]

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Kathy Rivett has sent in a message that has really made me laugh. Well, we'll read it on the show, of course.

[C]

The Viagra Boys album. Viagra.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Dinosaur Pile up. I felt better and Conjurer unself. There you go. There's my top five.

[A]

Fantastic. I've gone for some straight down the middle choices here. I've gone for Cheek Face. Of course I have. Middle spoon.

[C]

Yeah. That was nearly a mine.

[A]

I love that. I love that. Um, Bit of a cheat, this one. Cause it's a compilation, but Standing where it all began. The Martha album, I've listened to a lot of that this year. Uh, that's a sort of compilation of. Of early singles.

[C]

Now 67, another compilation.

[A]

Uh, Lemonhead's Love Chant. Uh, I think it's. I think it's a return to form. Uh, this is a bit of a cheat. But I'm gonna put. Because the extended edition came out the start of this year, I'm gonna put Dochi Alligator Bites Never Heal because she added anxiety to it and re Released it. But I didn't. I've listened to it a lot this year and it was right at the start of the year.

[C]

And Matthew, at no point do I think that anything that you're gonna talk about is actually from this year.

[A]

From this year. All the other ones are.

[C]

Yeah. So I'm actually. I'm blown away.

[A]

And cmat Euro country and. Yeah, I think she's absolutely brilliant.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

So I like all of those. Vin, do you have a top five?

[D]

Well, I think I said on the show that Spotify Rap told me I only listened to two albums this year.

[A]

That's right, yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So what's your top two? Well, it didn't tell.

[D]

It would only tell me what one of those album was.

[A]

That's AI for you.

[D]

So that one was. Was Anthony Schmarrick's album. Yes, of the universe.

[A]

So sorry. Why did I put that in there?

[C]

Right, hang on a sec.

[A]

Am I. Am I switching. Am I switching out?

[C]

God, we weren't on air.

[A]

That's bad.

[C]

Really. Actually, I would have loved.

[A]

You would have been delighted. Weirdly, I had. I had a. A real. A real worry on.

[C]

No producer should be laughing this much about a presenter swearing at an online studio.

[D]

Just nuts. Just a nuts thing too.

[A]

I had a real worry this morning in the. In the taxi coming here that I was going to swear on air. I really had a real premonition. Like a premonition.

[C]

That's what it was.

[A]

It's happened now. So, yeah, I'm all right. I got through it. I got through it.

[D]

I put down Radiohead, a moon shaped pool, because I was enjoying that again this year. Year. Makoto Matsushita, First Light. I don't really know much about them. My friend recommended this Japanese guy. Apparently he's very big in Japan at the moment, but it sounds like 80s easy listening music.

[C]

Oh, nice.

[A]

Oh, send it over to me. Yes, please.

[D]

Bow T with two A's. Stunt Doubles Part two. That's an ep, but they're like. It's Indian inflected dance music. Great electronica.

[A]

Like that new Ed cheering single.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

In Rainbows by Radiohead. That's number one.

[A]

Okay. Of course, of course, of course it is. Do you want to do your TV or your films?

[C]

Yeah, I'll say tv. Just because I'm in the grip of it at the moment or just finished it. Pluribus, the new Vince Gilligan show, I thought was absolutely fantastic. But there'll be loads more TV that I've just forgotten because I do watch a lot of tv.

[A]

You do?

[C]

And film one battle after another. I just thought it probably my favorite film from the last five years.

[A]

Really?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I've still not seen. I've not watched it. I've not watched. I mean, I watched. I watched Suitropolis 2, which I thought was brilliant.

[D]

One's good.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, phenomenal. Yeah, they're good films. And I watched Gabby's Dollhouse movie this year. I mean, it's basically. Just kidding. I watched the Snowman and the Snow. I watched the Snowman and the Snowman and the Snow Dog in the cinema yesterday. But, you know, does that count? Yeah, so. But the tv, I've got a few. I'm gonna put traitors and celeb traitors together and of course traitors. Uncloaks as well.

[C]

Yeah, sure, sure.

[A]

Throw that into the I didn't feel.

[C]

Like I could have traitors in there.

[A]

Which I think is fair enough.

[C]

Great telly, though.

[A]

It's really good. It's just. It is a show that even if we didn't work on it. Well, when we didn't work on it, we were big fans of it.

[C]

Yeah, huge.

[A]

So. So, yeah, even if we didn't work on it, we would still be huge fans of it. And crucially, we don't make the main show.

[C]

No.

[A]

So I think it's all right for me to put celebrators and traitors. I thought the sea. I thought this, you know, fake well, Charlotte from. I was just. I was absolutely obsessed with fake well, Charlotte to the point where at the. At the after party, I was. I was like, befriending her family.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

I had a really good chat with her brother. I thought, maybe I'm gonna be with fake Welsh Charlotte. Great. It didn't work out, of course, but. But then Celeb Celebrate is absolutely brilliant. What else have I put in that list? Oh, righteous Gemstones. Which you turned me on to. You turned me on to. But it finished this year and I laced through it.

[C]

I thought it was absolutely fantastic.

[A]

Phenomenal.

[C]

Really, really good.

[A]

Yeah. I watch. I then watch Vice Principles, which is not quite as good.

[C]

Still funny, though.

[A]

It's very, so funny. But it's. It's got slightly less of a kind of moral code. And I found it. I found the lack of moral code very uncomfortable.

[C]

Jarring.

[A]

But it was. It's a very, very funny show. But, yeah, really, really, really good about a kind of some Southern evangelical preachers megachurch in a Meg who run a megachurch. It's just a really, really phenomenally well crafted show. It's fantastic. So, so, so funny. Nobody wants this as well. Charlie and I are the two people in the entire world who are watching the. Will Kristen Bell end up marrying a rabbi? That series. Will she end up marrying a rabbi? Nobody wants this. It couldn't be more apropos, but Charlie and I love it. We absolutely love it. And the studio as well.

[C]

Yeah. Oh, God, I forgot the studio. Yeah.

[A]

It was quite early in the year, but I think the studio. I couldn't believe how good it was.

[C]

Every episode.

[A]

Every episode is just. It's just stunning. Really, really good. So Richard Gemso's traitors. Traitors 70 traitors. Nobody wants this. The studio. Those are mine.

[C]

Lovely.

[A]

Do you have. Do you have top, top TV shows?

[D]

I've written down Adolescents, of course.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

In particular, the first two episodes.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

Stunning. There's a hip hop documentary on Netflix called Hip Hop Evolution, which I think is very good. Stanley Tucci searching for Italy.

[A]

Maybe.

[D]

Maybe one of my favorite things of all. Just things of all time, I think.

[C]

The Diddy doc. Of course.

[A]

Of course the Diddy. Watch it?

[D]

Watched it yet?

[A]

It's. When do you. And think, yeah, I really want to watch this. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, go on.

[D]

Obviously, goggle box.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

There's an old Harry Kondavalu special that I really enjoyed with the mango in it.

[A]

So funny.

[D]

And peep show.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always, always a Christy peep show.

[C]

Right.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Sorry, of course. Do you want to do your. Do you want to do your. Your films or your gigs or your podcast?

[C]

I've done my films.

[A]

Oh, you done your films? Just the one. Just the one. Yeah, absolutely. Do you want to do podcasts or. Or gigs or anything like that?

[C]

Battlesnake was probably my favorite gig of the year. I loved Bloodstock Festival as well. The Machine Head headlining set at Bloodstock was incredible. I went to see Clutch not, Not one week ago. Well, just over a week ago. They were always fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. So yeah, I'm happy. Happy with mentioning those.

[A]

Happy with those. The cheek face, Martha double head header. Just incredible. I'm gonna put LCD in there because one of the best nights. Yeah, just a great night. Really, really, really brilliant. And seeing Jason Narducci and Michael Shannon at the Garage doing REM covers. I loved it. Absolute early IRS years. REM covers. Sign me up.

[D]

Oh, I heard a great. Not new. I heard a great REM song that was new to me the other day.

[A]

What's that?

[D]

That I'll look up. I'll look up and tell you.

[C]

Please, please do.

[D]

It's got a white cover on the album.

[C]

Have you seen Nearly Daphne this year?

[A]

No, I haven't. I managed to. Managed to miss them both times this year due to, you know, you've really. You've missed him every, every single year of your life. Oh, movies. I did watch a fantastic documentary which was the Amy Carlson documentary Lovers 1, which is absolutely brilliant and again, terrible. It's about, it's about. It's about the. The Mother God cult and terrible, terrible, terrible rabbit hole of. You can. You can still get in touch and have like one on one zoom calls with the members of the Cult. And I was. Honestly, I really had to stop myself.

[C]

That might nearly got you that for your Christmas.

[A]

I would have done it as well. That's the worst. That's the worst thing. And you would Never have seen me again. I would have gone off and joined him.

[D]

Living well is the best revenge by R.E.M.

[A]

Yes. Fantastic. Fantastic.

[D]

Great.

[A]

They're a good band, man. They're a really good band.

[D]

Very jangly.

[A]

That podcast, podcast. We've got Panic World, which is really good. It's all about the Internet, hyper fixed and search engine. So if you miss reply all, both the hosts went off and made their own podcast that's about the Internet. Of course. If books could kill, I started listening to this year, which is pop psychology books debunked. Right. So they go through like any of those kind of like free economics or whatever type of type books or Jordan Peterson's books or stuff. And they go here how they're getting stuff completely wrong. And it's not necessarily a podcast per se. Cause I've not listened to any full episodes of it. But anytime Jimmy Carr appears on a podcast and wants to tell you about how the world works. Oh, sign me up. Absolutely. Sign me up. Just the stuff he comes out with in the. It's unbelievable. He can do it with a straight face. He must come out of those interviews and absolutely himself. But yeah, so any of that. That's my. My bet Rex of the year. And we would love to hear yours. No, we wouldn't. [e-mail] if you want to get in touch.

[D]

Truman Show. Watch that for the first time this year.

[A]

Oh, what a film.

[D]

Great film.

[A]

What a film.

[D]

It's top of my list.

[A]

It's so good. So good.

[D]

I saw us. The Jordan Peele film. Hadn't seen that before. That's amazing. And I had one battle after another as well. I think that's incredible. But nothing's as good as the Truman Show.

[A]

Nothing is as good as the Truman Show.

[D]

Very I idea.

[C]

I.

[A]

You know what?

[C]

I think I'm gonna go to the toilet.

[A]

I'm gonna say this now. And I think this is.

[C]

Have I got time to go.

[A]

Of course you got time to go to the toilet a minute.

[C]

I.

[D]

We got to talk about Matthew's phone charger in a minute.

[A]

Oh, no. It's gonna be. That's gonna be a tough link. How Ed looks really Des.

[D]

Is he pooping?

[C]

I might go for a poop.

[A]

Do you want me to do a link on my own? Yeah, I can't do.

[D]

We can't do the phone charger link about.

[A]

I'll do something. It's all fine. It'll be fine.

[D]

I think, Jim, this was the Truman Show.

[A]

We just.

[D]

We'd have a camera in there.

[A]

I think Jim Carrey is. Is underrated, isn't it? Got to say, have a wonderful rest of your year, everybody. I will see you very, very soon. I've got to go and plan a link. Lots of love. See you soon. Bye bye.