Episode 345 – Desiree Burch / Warm Egg

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby on Radio X

Episode 345 – Desiree Burch / Warm Egg
Date: February 1, 2026
Duration Covered: 00:02–1:00:23

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Main Theme & Purpose

In this episode, Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby (Crunch & Crumble) bring their trademark blend of improvisational comedy, listener interaction, and cultural commentary to their Sunday breakfast show on Radio X. The show features playful banter, listener emails, anecdotes of professional mishaps, a musical quiz, reflections on celebrity encounters, and an engaging guest segment with comedian Desiree Burch. True to their style, the conversation is chaotic, self-deprecating, and peppered with running gags, all wrapped in a tone that's affably irreverent yet oddly heartwarming.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Listener Emails & Haircut Discourse

[00:29–06:15]

• Random Email Roulette: Matthew reads out an email from Olive in Somerset, leading to a humorous exchange about feeling overwhelmed meeting Ed and Matthew and admiration for Matthew's hair.
  • Olive's praise for Matthew's hair ("my husband keeps saying how gorgeous Matthew's hair looks") turns into running jokes about his supposed "beta personality."
• Matthew’s Hair Secrets:
  • Reveals he goes to Headmasters (a chain ladies salon) in Beckenham, on his mum’s recommendation.
  • Admits to taking in AI-generated pictures of “handsome men” for haircut inspiration at his wife Charlie’s behest.
• Self-Deprecation & Marital Jibes:
  • Ed teases Matthew for letting his wife choose his haircut:

    "It's pretty weak to get your hair cut the way your wife wants it, isn't it?" – Ed [05:58]

  • Matthew defends himself:

    “…like she gets to see it more than I do.”

2. Opening Chaos & Failed Introductions

[06:25–09:03]

• Matthew’s Scrapped Intro:
  • He came unprepared after producer Vin vetoed his planned intro for being inappropriate.
  • The hosts riff about the perils of “flying blind” on live radio, with listeners guessing what the first intro was about.
  • Matthew’s last script line—Vin may be getting “cosmetic surgery”—serves as a non-sequitur punchline.

3. Listener Interactions & Early Riser Antics

[08:08–09:15]

• Early-morning listeners text in, some repeatedly asking the hosts to say “potato,” showcasing the show’s quirky following.

  • “We really get the early risers, the go-getters, the true winners in life.” – Ed [08:44]

4. Weekend Antics & Board Games

[11:19–12:47]

• Matthew recounts a night at friends’ playing board games and eating Indonesian curry, which led to his croaky (albeit “sexy” per Ed) radio voice.
  • “Hello, mummies. This is Daddy Broadcasting.” – Matthew [10:29]
• Explains the Top of the Pops board game—describing, humming, or “kazooing” famous songs.

5. On-Air Top of the Pops Game

[12:53–15:45]

• Live musical quiz: Matthew suggests songs (“Bohemian” = Queen, “tried to make me go to rehab” = Amy Winehouse, mouth-trumpets a 90s tune).
• Listeners text in guesses for the 90s song; answer: “Mysterious Girl.”

  • “So was it sort of like the covers of Mills and Boone novels?” – Ed, referencing Matthew’s AI haircut inspiration [05:29]

6. Uncloaked Party Anecdotes

[16:09–25:27]

• Ed and Matthew describe attending the Uncloaked (a Traitors companion show) final and afterparty. Matthew’s goal: selfie with every cast member.
• Clapping Mishap:
  • Matthew sits in a “reserved” seat for production, claps above his head (to Ed’s jokes), and blocks the camera during a pivotal wide shot.

  • “There are just two hands… two big old yams in front of… It's so bad. It's insane.” – Matthew [23:35]

• Matthew’s infamous “car crash jumper” gets discussed; Charlie, his wife, still hates it despite positive feedback.

7. Mucking Up at Work – Listener Texts

[25:27–35:41]

• The main listener topic: embarrassing work mistakes.
  • Stories range from screwing a foot to a saw-stool [26:25], evacuating a theatre due to a false alarm [26:44], to a delivery driver scattering frozen goods all over the road [29:25].
  • Producer Vin shares calling Marcus Mumford “Mumford” straight to his face.

  • “If you ever wanted to change topics, just mention the Wimbledon Brewery.” – Matthew, on Vin’s tangents [29:13]

8. Musical Diversions & Heavy Metal Banter

[30:47–32:09]

• Ed references Necrophagist (extreme metal band) music as a breakfast show motivator. Ed and Matthew riff on “fermented offal discharge” and band nomenclature.

9. More Listener Gaffes

[32:15–35:41]

• A BA employee accidentally pays a $7m fuel bill to the wrong company, costing £100k in charges.
• Zookeeper accidentally hurls a chicken into a visitor’s face.
• Andy the Painter evacuates a household from “carbon monoxide” that turns out to be paint fumes.

10. Interview: Desiree Burch Joins the Show

[36:07–50:53]

• Desiree plugs her tour “The Golden Wrath” (or "Roth," depending on pronunciation).
  • Show covers perimenopause, middle age, and “medical misogyny”:

    “You have to figure out an entirely different game plan… all the stuff that got you into adulthood is not the stuff that’s going to get you through.” – Desiree [37:22]

• Advice for those approaching middle age:

  “Start working on just a starter personality because you’re gonna need it when your body starts falling apart.” – Desiree [39:22]

• Discussion on men’s midlife crises, testosterone, “making things great again,” and breath work.
• Desiree’s take on not knowing how rich people make money or how luxury cars and speed cameras work in London:

  “There’s a lot of really rich people here… I don’t know what anyone does for this money.” – Desiree [45:28]

• Quickfire:
  • Biggest pig she can imagine: “He’s running my country right now.” (Satirical swipe at Trump) [48:00]
  • What shouldn’t be embarrassing but is: Being out of breath after running for the bus/tube [49:14]

11. Show Wrap-up & Recommendations

[50:59–59:57]

• Ed previews going on tour in North America, Matthew promises to do the next shows solo.
• Final listener story: restaurant worker dumps tartar sauce in patron’s lap, then walks into a pillar while trying to flirt with a customer [52:06].
• Backs-and-wrecks (recommendations):
  • Ed reviews new films (Marty Supreme, 28 Years Later: Bone Temple), praising their performances and intensity.
  • Music: Ed recommends Nine Inch Nails’ “We’re In This Together” and Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast”; Producer Vin shouts out the new Harry Styles track and a Gogglebox parody sketch.
• Playful speculation about the Winter Olympics involving dangerous animals and nostalgic love for Crash Test Dummies.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I’m one of life’s great alphas. …I’ve got a lovely life.” – Matthew [02:24]
• “If you do see either of us in the street, please leave us alone. We were absolutely livid at that guy taking a photo.” – Matthew [03:39]
• “I went round to my wife and I went around to our friend’s house last night… we played the Top of the Pops game.” – Matthew [11:21]
• “Alexander Armstrong is the detective.” – Producer Vin [18:34], spinning a crime novel plot for Matthew.
• “Have you ever followed through at work?” – Ed, linking musical humour with workplace blunders [32:09]
• “It’s insane… two big old yams in front of… the camera.” – Matthew, on accidentally blocking the finale’s wide shot [23:35]
• “It’s that moment after you’ve run for a tube or bus… all you can hear is your breath.” – Desiree Burch (on embarrassing moments) [49:14]
• “There’s a lot of really rich people here… but I don’t know what anyone does for this money…how does money keep making more money?” – Desiree [45:28, 47:35]
• “The Winter Olympics should be all the same events as the Summer Olympics, but they have to do it in snow and cold… with wolves and bears.” – Ed & Matt [53:44]

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Timestamps – Highlighted Segments

• 00:29–06:15 – Email roulette, Matthew’s AI haircut backstory, marital banter.
• 11:54–15:45 – Board games chat, live Top of the Pops musical quiz.
• 16:09–25:27 – Uncloaked party, “blocking” the camera shot, jumper discourse.
• 25:27–35:41 – Messing up at work: listener stories and show anecdotes.
• 36:07–50:53 – Interview: Desiree Burch on tour, perimenopause, midlife, inequality, and embarrassing moments.
• 50:59–59:57 – Final listener stories, tour previews, media/film reviews, and hosts’ recommendations.
• 53:44–55:14 – Speculating about dangerous Winter Olympics events; Crash Test Dummies nostalgia.

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Structure

- Opening banter & audience emails

- Haircut and personal grooming routines

- Board games, friendship, and music quizzes

- Reflections on showbiz parties and TV tapings

- “Messing up at work” listener stories

- Desiree Burch guest spot, comedy tour, and Q&A

- Show wrap-up, recommendations, and comedically off-task digressions

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Takeaway

This episode encapsulates everything listeners love about Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby: playful ribbing, absurdist flights of fancy, emotional honesty about creative failure, and unpredictable digressions. Desiree Burch’s appearance adds both insight and an irreverent, candid perspective on life’s big transitions, with standout honesty about aging and social inequality. Amidst the japes, the episode manages—almost accidentally—a meditation on personal growth, embarrassment, and the joy of shared mess-ups.

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[End of Summary]

Transcript

[Matthew Crosby]

This is a global Player original podcast.

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello and welcome to the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby podcast of the radio show that we do, which is of course on Radio X. Nobody else would have us, Matthew. Yes, it's a good show today so far. We're about an hour in.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, my voice gets. It was started very croaky.

[Ed Gamble]

It's still pretty croaky.

[Desiree Burch]

Who knows?

[Ed Gamble]

Who knows what it's going to be like by 10am?

[Matthew Crosby]

Who knows what it's going to be like? Yeah, I haven't. I just realized I haven't read any of the emails, so should we pick one at random and see how it goes?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, dear.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, let's do that, shall we? Well, that's embarrassing. Not embarrassing. So we can do that somewhere else. Okay, here we go. I don't know who this is from, but it doesn't really matter. Happy radio, lads.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't mind if I do.

[Matthew Crosby]

Where does Matthew get his hair done?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I'm glad you picked this one.

[Matthew Crosby]

My husband and I saw you both walking past the Wigmore on Friday afternoon. I froze in overwhelm and embarrassment while my husband and went and asked you for a photo. We've been admiring the photo and my husband keeps saying how gorgeous Matthew's hair looks and wondered where you get it done. What you ask for at the hairdressers. Many thanks. Oh, it says Ollie from Somerset, but there's such a long P.S. i couldn't spot it. Many thanks, Ollie from Somerset. P.S. after the. Oh, sorry. Olive. Apologize. Olive from Somerset. P.S. after the photo, my husband was asking me why I froze and didn't want to say hello as you were just people. We are.

[Ed Gamble]

We are. Little you are.

[Matthew Crosby]

I explained that I had the same.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm a superstar.

[Matthew Crosby]

You are a megastar, aren't you? Walk Soho with you. Honestly, it took us bloody ages. It really did. I explained I had the same reaction when you previously read out my email on the podcast. I felt so overwhelmed by delight and embarrassment I had to stop the podcast. And then could I listen for a couple of seconds at a time? Oh, sorry. Well, sorry. We're doing it to you again, I'm afraid. Olive, do all listeners listen like this when they get their messages read out? Pps. I also thought. I'd say. I also thought about what I'd say to both of you. I hadn't been too embarrassed and I'd say thank you and I hope you know your silly nonsense really helps people. Also, Matthew's beta personality.

[Ed Gamble]

What? I don't Think you should ever check the emails before you read them again?

[Matthew Crosby]

Just read them all.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Blind. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Matthew's beta personality.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matthew's beta personality. Makes me feel better about myself. Well, Olive, this is.

[Ed Gamble]

Great.

[Matthew Crosby]

Very strong reason to listen a few seconds at a time. You should be embarrassed because I'm not a beta. I'm one of life's great alphas. We've just done it. Makes me feel better about myself. I've got a lovely life.

[Ed Gamble]

We've got 10 rounds of the show to do. Olive, you've absolutely got in his head.

[Matthew Crosby]

More proud to be me. Oh, okay. She's sort of brought it around.

[Ed Gamble]

She's saying she's a loser as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, she's a total loser, but she loves her life. That's how I'll accept that.

[Ed Gamble]

Totally.

[Matthew Crosby]

I hope that came out right. Well, almost. And good luck in the charts this week. Thanks, Olive. We appreciate that greatly.

[Ed Gamble]

Thanks, Olive. Yes, we just done the Uncloak finale, hadn't we?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, we've just done the Uncloak finale. We went for a little bit of food and as we were walking through Soho, we laughed at a shop that sold T shirts, basketballs and coffee. And then on the way back, we went into it and bought some coffee.

[Ed Gamble]

Bought some coffee. And they gave us a free. Free electrolyte protein bar.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, it was a. It was like a Rice Krispie cake, but health food.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, let me tell you, Matthew, I took a bite of that. It's absolutely disgusting. There's a reason why you gave it to us for free.

[Matthew Crosby]

I know. They can't shift. Gross, £2.99. No, thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely awful.

[Matthew Crosby]

I turned mine down.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

He was like, do you want that free biscuit? I was like, no, no, thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

He went, it's quite salty. Okay, leave that to the air. Thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's selling, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, of course, you know, we should say, if you do see either of us in the street, please leave us alone. We were absolutely livid at that guy taking a photo.

[Ed Gamble]

I wasn't.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, you were completely constantly confused. That was the entire meal.

[Ed Gamble]

Now, where do you get your hair done?

[Matthew Crosby]

Where do I get. Oh, yes. Where do I get my hair done? Well, I can tell you now that.

[Ed Gamble]

You just let the wind blow it out.

[Matthew Crosby]

I get my hair done at Headmasters. Beckenham Headmasters. That's where my mum goes. That's right. She recommended it to me.

[Ed Gamble]

Like, she goes to the one knot in back of the.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, no, no. She said, if there's a Headmaster's near you. Get yourself there.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's a chain. It's a chain ladies hair salon.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's a chain ladies hair salon. And I have a lovely time. I regrazia magazine. I chat to the other ladies there. We have a great time.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you sit under those big hair dryers?

[Matthew Crosby]

Big shampoo and set? Yeah, I have that. The enormous hair dryers.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you have the same person every time?

[Matthew Crosby]

I normally have Jackson. Yeah, yeah. Jackson's my boy. But I had Celia this week. Celia Emory. Celia Emory, of course. Felt it on your head, blew the little gown up. But no, Celia. She was. She was absolutely brilliant.

[Ed Gamble]

Shout out to Celia at Headmasters Beckerham.

[Matthew Crosby]

I used to. What is this show I used to take in. I used to take in some pictures that Charlie had got me of, like, handsome boys from AI.

[Ed Gamble]

What?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, Charlie found a bunch of photos of AI. Well, yeah, but she'd gone.

[Ed Gamble]

You said, can you cut my hair like AI?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, I said, here's some pictures.

[Ed Gamble]

It's in the middle of hair.

[Matthew Crosby]

But she said. She said. I said, right, what should I be getting? And she said, I'll find you some pictures. And a lot of them were like, AI generated. I don't know if she generated them herself, but yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. All you need to do is type in the prompt. The husband. I wish I had.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, that's exactly what she did. It was handsome men with beards and flowing hair.

[Ed Gamble]

So was it sort of like the covers of Mills and Boone novels? Is that what she's up to?

[Matthew Crosby]

It's very. Body stripping.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah. So she. Yeah, she basically wants Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. And she's got.

[Ed Gamble]

Is she happy with the. With the results of the haircut?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You're such a cuck, man.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, she's very. Charlie loves you.

[Ed Gamble]

Get your haircut based on an AI picture your wife has generated.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Get your hair cut like that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's. That's what's wrong with that because it doesn't really bother me. What's weak? Is it weak?

[Ed Gamble]

It's pretty weak to get your hair cut the way your wife wants it, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, it doesn't. Like she gets to see it more than I do.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true, actually.

[Matthew Crosby]

So it is. You know, I'm doing. I'm doing it for my lady.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

You know, the reason I look this good is to keep my. Is to keep my. Keep my lady sweet.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's bad, isn't it? Even I couldn't really commit to that. Let's just play the show. That was. Yes, just do the show. Sorry, everybody.

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby Brady.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show. Now, as you know, we normally start with a fun little intro and I think I made one of the cardinal. The cardinal mistakes you can make when it comes to this radio show is that I came in this morning and I just. I had a sort of slight little niggling feeling in the back of my mind. So I said to producer Vin, Vin, is this okay? And he said, well, absolutely not. So I don't have an intro now. I don't have an intro.

[Ed Gamble]

This is Ed Gamble style.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, exactly. I. I'm going. I'm flying blind.

[Ed Gamble]

So it's not working so far. I'm gonna let you know that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Working currently. I mean, I think the fact.

[Ed Gamble]

What did you. Well, we, we can't. Can we not say what Matthew wanted to do as his intro?

[Matthew Crosby]

You can guess if you like. What do you think it might be?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, a lot of bad thoughts are running through my head, Matthew.

[Matthew Crosby]

I can tell you now, it's not a current news story involving the Royals.

[Ed Gamble]

Right, okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Not that I didn't go.

[Ed Gamble]

That's more of a visual story. Anyways, it's quite work.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Although that was what Vin thought it was initially.

[Ed Gamble]

So it's an old story involving the Royals.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, no, no, it's not one. It's not.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it the toe sucking?

[Matthew Crosby]

I thought now's the time to revisit it. Anyway, I can do the ending because the ending bit's fine. I' that's all right. It doesn't really reference the story. Anyway, finally Vin tells me that for reasons he can't go into, he can finally afford to have the cosmetic surgery he's always wanted. He's having a transplant of a rather intimate area. In fact, he's currently flipping through the surgeon's catalogue to pick a part that's new.

[Radio X Announcer]

Radio X Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X Matthew, lovely intro from you. A total disaster, I would say overall, some people trying to guess what your written intro is about. That Vin banned you from saying Matthew's been soft cancelled in the studio. No, it wasn't about Matthew's other technique and no Adam Johns. It wasn't that. Nope. So please stop guessing now, everyone. Mr. Will keeps texting in, saying, are you live? If you are, can you say potato? And then he's just texted that word over and over again. So it's good. We really get the early risers, the go getters, the true Winners in life. Join us at 8am live.

[Matthew Crosby]

I say this many times, but you get the audience you deserve, don't you?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, absolutely.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you, Mr. Will. Colin has just sent from Colin in Leeds. Oh, he actually sent another message.

[Ed Gamble]

He did send a very message. Dean, please stop. Dean, that's disgusting. Right, so, I mean, this is it. We never get people who are up early. We get people who are up late.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, absolutely. The people who haven't slept for seven. Yeah, yes, look, we get it. Can you block. Is there any chance you could block all of our listeners? In fact, I'm just gonna shut that window down anyway. Ed, how are you doing? How are you?

[Ed Gamble]

I'm good. I'm okay. I was in Norwich last night. I came back. I like Norwich, actually.

[Matthew Crosby]

I like Norwich.

[Ed Gamble]

I do like Norwich. Yeah. I was doing a gig in Ipswich on Friday night, and last night. Ipswich. Less of a brag, I would say. A bit of a rivalry between those two places, really. Well, it's a situation of if you mention Norwich and ipsw, everyone boos. If you mention Ipswich and Norwich, they sort of go, all right, I don't care. Yeah, don't really care. But no, they were fun gigs. But yes. Traveled back from Norwich last night, so little bit tired, but I think we're gonna get through. I think I'm feeling good. Good. I've got a little buzz on you. On the other hand, I sound so bad.

[Desiree Burch]

Don't.

[Ed Gamble]

I smoked 60 cigarettes yesterday.

[Matthew Crosby]

I had a curry and I had three small cans of Lucky Saint. And that, for me, is a huge night.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the Tom Waits technique. That's what he did. It really is.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's either that or gargle some as. But this is. I. I do sound really croaky.

[Ed Gamble]

You sound really croaky and may I say, rather sexy.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I'd imagine we'll be getting some texts from some ladies today, which is unusual for us.

[Matthew Crosby]

Very unusual for us. But hello to all the ladies out there.

[Ed Gamble]

Me, hello to the mums.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello, mummies. This is Daddy Broadcasting.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, you just ruined it. They've all signed off again.

[Matthew Crosby]

Potato.

[Radio X Announcer]

Matthew Crosby and Edward Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Kings of Leon. Oh, to space here on Radio X.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm gonna sit on the speaker in a minute.

[Matthew Crosby]

The best of Howard, sir.

[Ed Gamble]

Shout out to the film Private Parts early bet right there.

[Matthew Crosby]

Early back wreck for Private Parts. So we've got a hell of a show for you, folks. It's. We've got our one scoop for Daddy and she really is a fantastic comedian.

[Ed Gamble]

If she's listening now she's happy.

[Radio X Announcer]

Skinny pig and Satan's kingdom. Radio X.

[Ed Gamble]

Why you husky, mate?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I went. I went round to my wife and I went around to our friend's house last night.

[Ed Gamble]

Party time.

[Matthew Crosby]

I know we had a babysitter and everything. We went round for.

[Ed Gamble]

You took a babysitter with you? Yeah. That's crazy. You want to leave them there. That's the whole point of them.

[Matthew Crosby]

That was the mistake we made.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've got no idea where our kids are, but, yeah. No, we left the babysitter. Babysitter with the kids. We drove around to Sydenham to see my dear friend Clarkie and his. His partner Megan. We played board games. We ate a lovely Indonesian curry. It was really, really fun. We played the Top of the Pops game. I don't know if you've ever played that.

[Ed Gamble]

No. Matthew Young.

[Matthew Crosby]

Not for long, mate.

[Ed Gamble]

My 30s.

[Matthew Crosby]

Not for long. You've got a birthday coming up.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm keep saying I'm in my 30s until that birthday happens.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's right.

[Desiree Burch]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

You just enjoy it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Enjoy the final, final month and a bit of your birth of your 30s. But I know I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get you the Top of the Pops game.

[Ed Gamble]

Cause it is a. Oh, is it a board game, is it.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's a board game. Yeah. It's a big potato board game. It's an. Absolutely.

[Ed Gamble]

They make good board games.

[Matthew Crosby]

They make great board games. They know what they're doing. It's really fun. So basically you've got a collector's cards from, like, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the one hit wonders, the all time chart toppers. It's really, really good. So you've either got to describe the song or the artist in one word.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Or by just giving some lyrics from a song or by playing on the kazoo. You've got to do all three in 30 seconds. Oh, my goodness.

[Ed Gamble]

Can we play it now?

[Matthew Crosby]

Can we play it now?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

I tell you what, we could play it in the next leg, give you a bit of time to prep it, but we could absolutely do it.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. No, I wanted to play it now.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, let's play it now. Okay. All right. I'll just do one of the. Okay, here we go. Okay, you've got 30 seconds on the clock. See if you can guess who the artists are. And I haven't got a kazoo, but I'll just do the old mouth trumpet. Okay. All right.

[Ed Gamble]

You sound like you've swallowed a kazoo.

[Matthew Crosby]

I do sound Like a kazoo. It's absolutely fine. Okay. This is from the 80s. It's one word. The word is bohemian.

[Ed Gamble]

Queen is correct.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. This is. Oh, tried to make me go to Rehab. I said no, no, no.

[Ed Gamble]

Amy Winehouse is cor.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. And here's the Kazoo song, and it is from the 90s.

[Ed Gamble]

I wish you could see how Camp Matty goes when he plays kazoo.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, you ran out of time. Any ideas from producer Finn? Any idea what song from the 90s that was?

[Producer Vin]

Oh, I know. I was focusing on the buttons over there.

[Matthew Crosby]

Radio X, Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Radio X Announcer]

The Rock Will Wax and Wayne.

[Ed Gamble]

Ooh, call me a warm egg because I've just been laid by James. It's Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby here on radio.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, it's Warmeg and Matthew Crosby.

[Ed Gamble]

It's Warmeg and Matthew Crosby. It's Egg Gamble and Matthew Clucksby on Radio X. Of course, before that, we were playing a game of Top of the Pops, Matthew.

[Matthew Crosby]

We were indeed. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You riffed a whole quiz under pressure from me.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

I got two out of three rights. But you performed a fake kazoo version of a 90s song.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Which I didn't get, but the listeners have been texting in to guess.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'll do it again. Just. If anyone's just joined us, I'll do it again. Could I just. To G me up, could you do your old catchphrase about kazoos?

[Ed Gamble]

My old catchphrase?

[Matthew Crosby]

You used to do it on the radio adverts. Do your old catchphrase about kazoos.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yes, of course. Yeah. Kazoo. Yeah, you can.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you very much.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Now I'm hearing what it is based on some of the guesses.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Now I can see what the correct answer is, but was it this? Matthew, the song sounded just like Millennium by Robbie Williams to me. Good job, Tina.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm afraid that's a bad job, Tina.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's not.

[Matthew Crosby]

Millennium by Robbie Williams.

[Ed Gamble]

Sounded like a job to me. No, we've had some other guesses. Matthew, Andy and Catherine and Chester have guessed. Mysterious Girl is correct.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's the correct answer. One point to Andy, one point to Chester, two points to Warmeg. And of course, no points to Idea what a round that was, eh? If only it hadn't been invented by somebody else. We could play it again.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, we'll play it again in the next hour. We'll do one round an hour.

[Matthew Crosby]

All right, fine. Yeah. Okay, great. Fantastic. We'll keep playing it. You've got to do the next one though, right? Oh, no, come on, you've got to do it.

[Ed Gamble]

I shouldn't have thought so.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think you will, actually.

[Ed Gamble]

I wouldn't have thought so. Why not? Well, no, I think it's time to finish Pop Stars now.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

All right. Top of the Pops.

[Matthew Crosby]

Pop Stars. The rivals. The game.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Okay.

[Radio X Announcer]

Radio X Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Quite an exciting week last week because.

[Ed Gamble]

It's always an exciting week, Matthew.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's always an exciting week because we love our lives. But especially so. Especially so last week because we got to work on Uncloaked.

[Ed Gamble]

We were working on it for. All month, Matthew. We've been working.

[Matthew Crosby]

You know, in fact, we were working on it before Christmas.

[Ed Gamble]

We were. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Tinkering away. And it was the. It was the live. It was the live show. The live final. Very, very exciting. That bit is obviously very, very exciting.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

The party afterwards, even more so. We get to hobnob with the cast.

[Ed Gamble]

You have the time of your life at that party.

[Matthew Crosby]

I had such a good time. Cause my. My aim is to get a selfie with every single member of the cast of Traitors.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. And you do it.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I do it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, my God.

[Ed Gamble]

Scurried around that party like a little rat.

[Matthew Crosby]

I am like a little rat. I'm the selfie rat. I'm scurrying up people's legs. But I have a lovely chat with all of them. And what a nice gang. Every year they pick a nice gang. But I really. I had some. Brilliant, brilliant. I loved meeting Stephen. I adored meeting Harriet. Yeah, we had a great chat.

[Ed Gamble]

She's great, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Two writers just chewing the fat about the process.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm not sure.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're not sure I'm a writer?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, no, I'm sure you're a writer. I think you're different sorts of writers. Yeah, but different process, maybe.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, no, no, no, no, no. We still.

[Ed Gamble]

She writes sort of quite involved crime novels.

[Matthew Crosby]

We still put one word in front of the other. That's what we do.

[Ed Gamble]

And then you write something. Vin tells you you can't do it, so you riff something instead.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true, actually. That's true. She is a proper writer. But, you know, I learned a lot from her. Anyway, she told me what it was like, so.

[Ed Gamble]

Will you be writing a crime novel in the future?

[Matthew Crosby]

She assured me. I don.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you? Well, let's. No, I think. I think you do. I think right now, or maybe in the next link, we're gonna riff a crime novel.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

That you're Gonna write. And you're gonna make billions.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is great. Yeah, this is really good. So obviously you've got to write what you know.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

I don't know all that much, but I'm assuming it's gonna be set in a radio studio.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Somebody's murdered. Well, yeah, it has to be. That's on it. An on air murder.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But yet they still. Despite the fact it was on air, they still. And the cameras were rolling and everything. They've got no idea who did it.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, this now feels like a Jonathan Creek episode.

[Matthew Crosby]

It does, doesn't it? Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Who's the detective, though? Because it has. Is it a dj?

[Producer Vin]

It's Alexander Armstrong, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you know what? If you're thinking of the TV addict.

[Ed Gamble]

You know how books work, Finn. You can't cast a book.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think you can. Are you telling me that. If so, hang on.

[Ed Gamble]

In your book, the detective is actual Alexander Armstrong?

[Matthew Crosby]

That's what it's called.

[Ed Gamble]

He's on classic.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's called actual Alexander Armstrong. Whenever he's referenced at any point in the book, he's called actual Alexander Armstrong.

[Producer Vin]

Aaa.

[Matthew Crosby]

Exactly.

[Ed Gamble]

And then you can write just aaa.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, triple.

[Ed Gamble]

And that's easier to type it out, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

By the way, you know the AAA franchise? I feel like the next book in the AAA franchise, it rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Are you reading the AAA books?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. And then obviously there's a murder in the pointless studio.

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you know, this is it. He goes to a lot of exciting places, Alexander Armstrong. You know, he does those little. Those little supper club cabaret shows. You know, he got distracted. Did a dog go past?

[Ed Gamble]

Tiny little dog went past.

[Matthew Crosby]

Dog went past. Ed got distracted. I felt like I lost you for a second. I could just see you go somewhere else. There's a dog. There's a dog. There's a dog next door. Yeah, but yes. Anyway, we've also got to talk about the show itself. The Rumpastica. Yes, I know. Okay, I tell you what. What? Let's play Just a Girl. We'll talk more about the.

[Ed Gamble]

I can just see it running back.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, well, you look at a dog, we'll play no Doubt.

[Ed Gamble]

We'll text it in. Mr. Potato. Great name for that dog.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's a very good name for a dog. Oh, what a cute name for a dog.

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X. We have the thickest listeners in radio.

[Matthew Crosby]

It was the uncloaked final. It was the traitors final. And the traitors uncloaked. Final.

[Ed Gamble]

You had a lovely time. A little fan running around getting tropos.

[Matthew Crosby]

It was so fun. And Stephen and Jade recorded videos for my niece Martha, who does her own version of Unprofessional.

[Ed Gamble]

It's so unprofessional.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is unprofessional.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's hugely unprofessional.

[Matthew Crosby]

People have lost their jobs over stuff.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, let's talk, we know a few of them.

[Matthew Crosby]

Let's talk about unprofessional, shall we? Should we talk about unprofessional? Anyway, I obviously wanted to watch the show in the live audience. I wanted to be there for the.

[Ed Gamble]

Show, which is very supportive of you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Very, very supportive.

[Ed Gamble]

Because normally for the rest of the episodes of Uncloaked, you go home, I.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sit upstairs and I eat some, I wait till the lunch comes out, obviously eat all of the. L do some admin and then I go home.

[Ed Gamble]

And then you go home and I go home. Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But the thing is, once, the second.

[Ed Gamble]

You do some work on some other projects.

[Matthew Crosby]

Listen, let's not talk about that now. You write your novel, my crime novel. About Alexandra Armstrong. Of course, one day it's gonna take me out of it because of course, you know, the, the, the production manager on the Armstrong and Miller show wrote.

[Ed Gamble]

This is a great anecdote, wrote 50 Shades of Gray. Yes, I did know.

[Matthew Crosby]

And was working on it while she was working on the Armstrong and Miller Show.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And then became obviously, you know, know the person that we don't know today. So, so anyway, yeah, so I, I, I, I was, I was there in the audience watching the show. By the way, one of the most exciting days, I think, in both of our years, right, is to watch the Traitors final with the players themselves and a sort of select audience of friends and family.

[Ed Gamble]

We love it.

[Matthew Crosby]

So tense, so nerve wracking. We can't make it through a full episode.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, we're not footy boys. No. But I've said many times before, I think to watch the Traitors final in a big crowd of people, including the players, must be like watching a World cup game at Box Park.

[Matthew Crosby]

Absolutely right. Although they do complain when we throw pints. It's limbs. It's absolutely limbs. It's so, yeah, yeah. It's so exciting. So thrilling. So nerve wracking. We hold hands and then we both rush off to separate toilets to do a big poo. It's just, it's that level of tension. It's very, very, very tense. Anyway, for the, for the final of Uncloaked I snuck in at the back after the show had started. I found in the back row there was a couple of reserved seats. But I thought, well, the fact that.

[Ed Gamble]

They'Re reserved, they're pretty reserved for you.

[Matthew Crosby]

That means they're probably reserved for production, Right? So I should sit in those reserved seats. So I sat in one of the reserve seats. I really enjoyed it. I thought everybody was brilliant. I thought you were brilliant. I know you hate to hear that sort of thing, but you were absolutely fantastic. It was really, really good. And the jokes were good, right?

[Ed Gamble]

It was great. Well written.

[Matthew Crosby]

Beautifully written joke. I thought it really, really worked. And then at the end of it, I was so sort of ged up. I was, like, really whooping and cheering as people were applauding at the end. And I did that thing where, you know, where you clap above your head. You applaud above your head. Yeah, clap, clap, clap above your head. And as I.

[Ed Gamble]

Why do you think the seats were reserved? I see.

[Matthew Crosby]

And then as I did it, I felt a little whoosh behind me and I thought, oh, no, I think that was a camera going behind me, like literally two inches from behind my head. I'm sure it's fine. Fine. I'm sure they've got options. Anyway, cut to the party.

[Producer Vin]

The party.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're all having a. You know, we're having a lovely time. I'm running around getting with my selfie stick. I'm having a really, really great time. And then they show the traitors. We all watch it and it's very, very intense and exciting. They show traitors uncloaked. And we will all watch it as it's going out and it gets to the final shot, and it is a big wide shot of the entire room. And there are just two hands.

[Ed Gamble]

Two hands. Focus right in front of the camera.

[Matthew Crosby]

Two big old yams in front of. It's. It's so bad. It's insane.

[Ed Gamble]

The seats were reserved to not be.

[Matthew Crosby]

The seats were reserved so no one sat in them.

[Ed Gamble]

It's called blocking.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's called blocking. And I was doing some very good blocking.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

I was blocking everybody's teeth.

[Ed Gamble]

I am surprised when no one gave you a little squeeze on the shoulder when you sat down and said, don't sit there. That's our shot. But they also probably didn't assume that you clapped above your head.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, they thought, he's a little boy. Yeah, he's a little boy. We can shoot straight over top of his head. You know, he's five' five. There's no way he's gonna get in the way.

[Ed Gamble]

You're lucky. It wasn't so good that it got a standing ovation because also you were wearing the jumper.

[Matthew Crosby]

I was wearing the car crash jumper.

[Ed Gamble]

A special jumper that we've spoken about on air many times before. A jumper that Matthew bought for his wife. She didn't like it, so he started wearing it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Can we talk about that, by the way? I got so many compliments and I rushed home and I said to Charlie, I got so many compliments of people saying, that is a lovely jumper. And she said, sometimes when a jumper looks like that, people can't not comment on it. And they're not. What they're saying is, I've noticed the jumper. Not that I like the jumper.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I like the jumper. I genuinely do like the jumper.

[Matthew Crosby]

I genuinely like the jumper.

[Ed Gamble]

And a lot of your comments on Instagram from your carousel of you with all the traitors players, a lot of people going, yeah, I don't like the jumper.

[Matthew Crosby]

It doesn't matter.

[Ed Gamble]

He wore the jumper. Also, everyone making the point of everyone's in their glad rags. There's a lot of black tie at that event and you were wearing a jumper with a car crash on it.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's my nicest bit of clothing. It's my only. It's my only smart clothing. And it's a woolen jumper that I bought in the sale anyway. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yes, indeed. Well, let's. Let's turn this into a texter. Why not? What's your favorite jumper? We'll turn this into a texter. When have you messed up at work? I think that's it. Because, you know, I own that. That was a mistake. I ruined the show for everybody.

[Ed Gamble]

When you did the last leg and dance onto the set.

[Matthew Crosby]

I danced onto the. Yeah, I danced onto live television. That was bad.

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X. We're a show. That's the back of the sewing.

[Ed Gamble]

When have you messed up at work? Because Matthew decided to clap all over my moment of glo on the traitors uncloaked Final Arrogant just had to thrust his hands right into the shot to go. These are the hands that wrote the words.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, it was. You know, I was gonna be on the credits anyway. I don't know why I did it. My name is on the credits.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, Colin. Colin says I've never messed up at work because I'm perfect. It is my employers and employees who have let me down. Ed knows what I'm talking about.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. Cause I did Say just before, as we were playing away, he said, ed, have you got any stories where you met up with? Wouldn't know.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm perfect.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're a hero. We had lovely message in from Chris from Easington. And of course, by lovely, I mean absolutely horrifying.

[Ed Gamble]

Check this out.

[Matthew Crosby]

I once screwed a lad's foot to a wooden saw stool by accident when I was an apprentice.

[Ed Gamble]

That's amazing.

[Matthew Crosby]

I don't remember that series. Thank you for the opportunity, Lord Sugar, as he drags his. Drags his stool out. But yeah. Oh, my God. It doesn't have to be horrifying.

[Ed Gamble]

No. Well, Kathy Rivets got in contact. Say, I once started evacuating a theater at my front of house job because we had an alarm. Turns out someone had just leant on the elevator alarm and it made a slightly similar noise to our fire alarm. And another steward had to run through the fire escape route to call those customers back.

[Radio X Announcer]

Cabbie, the blueberry and the cake skin. Radio Air.

[Ed Gamble]

This is from Andy who lets us know. When I was a police officer, I pulled a Bentley over as the driver was on his mobile phone. It was only while speaking to the occupants I discovered the Bentley was a left hand drive.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fantastic. That is exactly good. Exactly what we're after.

[Ed Gamble]

Kate, I must have told you about when my cousin told me he was on holiday with some friends and they were all in a cab. There were four of them in the cab, three of them in the back, one of them in the front and one of them in the back. Thought it would be funny to put his hands over his friend. Eyes sitting in the front, forgetting that they drive on the other side of the road where they were. And put his hands over the driver's eyes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, God, please don't do that, folks. I can't stress that enough. Please don't do that. Oh, my God, what a stressful story. We are of course talking about times you've messed up at work, so keep Those coming in 83936 on the text or you can WhatsApp us through global Player.

[Ed Gamble]

Do we save bills for a bit?

[Matthew Crosby]

We'll save bills. Bills. Finn, do you want to do yours?

[Producer Vin]

Well, I mean, there's obviously there's loads people have heard.

[Matthew Crosby]

Listen, regular listeners to the show will know you've messed up.

[Producer Vin]

Although I didn't play Bowling for Soup twice.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, no, that's true.

[Producer Vin]

I did all the other ones. The one that came to mind when you just asked me was when I. I called Marcus Mumford Mumford to his face.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, that is also his name. Yeah. I mean, the guy, you know, we went to public school. He's used to being called Mumford.

[Producer Vin]

I was going around the room and it was like, thanks, John. Yeah, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, Iver. Yeah, thanks, Mumford. I mean, Marcus.

[Ed Gamble]

Who's John and Ivan?

[Producer Vin]

Iver.

[Ed Gamble]

I thought it was for.

[Producer Vin]

No, it wasn't. Wasn't comedians.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Producer Vin]

It was for an AFC Wimbledon promotional campaign. Because Marcus is a Wimbledon.

[Matthew Crosby]

Of course. Of course he is. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And you love Wimbledon Brewery?

[Producer Vin]

Of course I do. Oh, yeah. Wimbledon Pale.

[Ed Gamble]

That was my nickname.

[Matthew Crosby]

I can get distracted by anything. But Vin is mainly distracted by the thought of Wimbledon Brewery.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

If you ever wanted to change topics, just mention the Wimbledon Brewery. Anyway, keep those.

[Ed Gamble]

Vin's distracted by Wimbledon Brewery. I'm distracted by small dogs. You are distracted by things from the past.

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Buck Fifengusset. Radio X.

[Ed Gamble]

We're gonna do bills. I worked as a home delivery driver for a supermarket once. After I'd finished a delivery, I didn't close the freezer door on the van. So when I pulled away and drove around the first roundabout, the door flew open and all the crates flew out onto the side of the road. There were Yorkshire puddings everywhere. A lovely jogger helped me pick up the crates and stuff, though, which was nice. Bill.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's also said the only problem was that because all the crates are numbered for each customer, I'd had to randomly shove the frozen stuff and crates back into the freezer. Spent the rest of the afternoon having no clue who ordered what. Just say it. Substitutions, Bill. Yeah, it's Just say it. Substitutions. I'm sorry, we didn't have anything you ordered. It's all substitutions.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, and for some reason, there's an old pram.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is from Jen, who says, I used to work at a pub restaurant in the Lake District. A customer wanted a table in the restaurant, which was through a large set of double doors. I intended to say if you'd like to follow me, but what I actually said, if you'd like to follow through. Boss said I couldn't breathe.

[Ed Gamble]

Can highly recommend the beef chili.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X. Hat.

[Radio X Announcer]

Hat.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, lovely. What's that? I can smell. This will get me up in the morning.

[Matthew Crosby]

What can you smell?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, normally it's the smell of freshly baking croissants. It'll get me up. Maybe Sicily and bacon. Maybe fresh coffee.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hey, beautiful pronunciation.

[Ed Gamble]

The smell that's getting me out of.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bed.

[Ed Gamble]

Thanks to the guys from Necrophagist.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, God. Oh God.

[Ed Gamble]

Is the smell a fermented offal discharge? Oh.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ooh. Well, I wasn't expecting that. And you know, now I think they are good musicians.

[Ed Gamble]

I knew that would make you go.

[Matthew Crosby]

It'S like the little breakdown in Call me Out.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. When Vin was editing it. When Vin was editing it earlier, he was going, oh, I like this.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's that bit now. I think they are. I think they're. Well, I think they're definitely losing fans because of the name.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's a terrible.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think they're around anymore.

[Matthew Crosby]

Disgusting.

[Ed Gamble]

I think they probably quit in the late 90s.

[Matthew Crosby]

They're not dead and covered in poo, are they?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, that's not what that means.

[Matthew Crosby]

Is that what it means? It's not phage necrophage. Well, we'll google it while we play Wet Leg. We know what that means. And this is Pokemon. We also know what that means here on radio.

[Ed Gamble]

When have you followed through at work?

[Radio X Announcer]

Mask you crobley and radio Ed.

[Matthew Crosby]

Radio X. I don't know.

[Ed Gamble]

Can we read this one from Dean and Simpson? Yeah. Because this is huge. I mean there's not going to be a worse mess up than this, I don't think. But the rest of them are very funny too. I used to work for Bruce British Airways paying their fuel bills and I mistakenly paid $7 million for the wrong company.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, that's a horrible feeling. You know like if you accidentally book flights for the wrong day or the wrong train and you have that horrible sinking feeling for a second.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

That I can't imagine what must have been going through.

[Ed Gamble]

Seemed to mind. I mean he even texted under a pseudonym and then made sure to text his real name and where he is.

[Matthew Crosby]

His real name and location.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. You're presuming the company was another fuel company. Yeah.

[Producer Vin]

It wasn't just like Gregg's or something.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. So they probably were fine to be like, okay, we'll transfer it back straight away. We understand.

[Matthew Crosby]

Would they though? That's not how I am saying energy companies to work. They sort of go, we've got the money, we'll keep it.

[Ed Gamble]

Actually you're in credit now.

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you know what?

[Producer Vin]

Actually.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah. Congratulations. Yeah. This is from Andy in Brighton who says hi. I once misset my alarm for an early start. I woke up thinking it's bright for 5am then to see it was 6:30. I rushed into work and made the flight. I'm the pilot. Really buried the lead there, Andy.

[Ed Gamble]

What a twist.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm the pilot and we left pretty much on time. I got home later that day, made a cup of tea, sat down and my alarm went off. Well done, Andy. That's what we're after. 83936 on the texter. Of course you can WhatsApp us. WhatsApp us through global player. What's up?

[Ed Gamble]

Do you use WhatsApp?

[Matthew Crosby]

Guys, is anyone on the WhatsApp application? If you are, then you can WhatsApp us through the globe applier. Any more for Any more there?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. This is from Cassie. I'm a zookeeper and once, when throwing a whole chicken to a cheetah, I accidentally threw it at the wrong angle and hit a visitor who was watching the feed from a viewing area in the face. They were shocked. I was mortified.

[Matthew Crosby]

I love that. Yeah, Zookee. What a job.

[Ed Gamble]

Someone threw a chicken at me, I'd bite it out the air, I think.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, you'd be delighted, wouldn't you?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I'd be so happy.

[Matthew Crosby]

You would. Basically, you would unhook your jaw like a big snake, Swallow it whole.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Just spend the rest of the day digesting it, then cough out the bones.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Nando's fatigue.

[Matthew Crosby]

Nando's fatigue. You can't have too much chicken. Keep those coming in. 83936.

[Producer Vin]

We've got to do Andy, surely, Andy the Painter.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, actually, yeah, we had a message from. From Rob saying, I think Andy the Painter must be having a lion. He's got enough content on this texture for two shows. But, yeah, Andy the Painter has of course got in touch. Let's do this one. My most recent one, of course, he's always fouling up. My most recent one was when I was painting at my mate's mum's house. The carbon monoxide alarm was going off. I like the way it's like, what's going on? It was going out for ages. Going off for absolutely ages. The carbon monoxide alarm was going off and after some panicked Googling from both me and the customer, we were convinced we had to evacuate the house. So me, her and her two dogs were sat in her car on the drive for about an hour, frantically with all the paint tins open. Sat on the drive for an hour, frantically calling other family members for advice. Some more Googling revealed it was just the paint I was using. That can set off the alarm. Andy, the paint.

[Ed Gamble]

What paint are you using? I mean, don't have Andy come around to paint your house. He's using carbon monoxide paint.

[Matthew Crosby]

Why do you not know? Also, why do you not know anything? About paint. You're a painter. That's all you've got to know about.

[Ed Gamble]

Dean from Siptons got back in contact. Say it did cost BA about 100 grand in charges, but it's their fault for not giving me any training. I quit after getting a dressing down from the bosses.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think they were in the process of firing you during that dressing down. I don't. Yeah, but if you talk to me like that, I'm out of here.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, we've literally already. There's your stuff in a box.

[Radio X Announcer]

Radio X Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Ed Gamble]

We are delighted to be joined by our first and only guest of the day. Matthew would have it that she is our only scoop for Daddy. But I don't like saying that because it's a disgusting phrase. It is the fantastic comedian Desiree Burch. Good morning, Desiree.

[Desiree Burch]

Oh, my goodness. Good morning. What kind of scoops does Daddy like?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, whatever you got, Desiree. Whatever you got. Absolutely. I'll take any scoops.

[Ed Gamble]

You?

[Matthew Crosby]

I honestly, no.

[Ed Gamble]

Matthew, you are a horrid little worm.

[Matthew Crosby]

I, you know, obvious. I've. I've seen Desiree live many, many times and what she's scooping, I am buying.

[Desiree Burch]

Amazing. Well, it's been potatoes.

[Ed Gamble]

We should talk about your new show. Desiree, you are on tour with a show called the golden wrath across the UK from now until the 14th of March. What can you tell us? What can you tell us about this show? And I'm sorry. Cause I know that's an absolute hospital pass of a question for any comedian.

[Desiree Burch]

Yes. So look, I feel as though it is a show for everyone because either you have experienced middle age, are experiencing it, or about to and need some attention, advice. It's generally. I think a lot of it is perimenopause because I am a woman. A lot of it is just sort of the changing of the guard in some ways in terms of being the kid and then just sort of getting older and realizing that you're supposed to be in charge of things now and, you know, you've got parents. I don't have kids because I like nice things.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Desiree Burch]

But other people. Other people do and, you know, good for them, you know. And I just kind of wind up in this place where all the stuff that got you into adulthood is not the stuff that's going to get you through and you have to just figure out an entirely different game plan. And I think that some people are better at lying to themselves than others. I think when you have like a massive hormonal crisis in the Middle of it. It's really difficult to pretend it's not happening and that you have to change absolutely everything and you wind up like, just really livid. I think particularly as a woman, when you realize that you've experienced so much medical misogyny and everything else that, that like you're going through something that people have done forever and nobody knows anything about it, including your doctor.

[Ed Gamble]

I wish when someone asked me on an interview, what's your show about? I had an answer like that.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think if you did a show about medical misogyny, it'd be a very different thing.

[Ed Gamble]

Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Desiree Burch]

If you'd be like, ladies, step right up, I got some gloves and a coat.

[Ed Gamble]

Let's go. If I did a show about medical misogyny, it would be a character show called Dr. Lovin.

[Matthew Crosby]

Dr. Desiree, I've got to ask you because you said there's advice in it for people in middle age or approaching middle age. One day I'll no longer be in my 20s. What bit of advice do you have for me? Is there any advice?

[Ed Gamble]

And I, of course, will never be middle aged, so we don't have to worry about me.

[Desiree Burch]

Well, you've made the correct deal with Satan in order to pull that off, because the rest of us didn't get that off ramp and we are suffering. I would say this. I know about you hail him, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Desiree Burch]

Ways.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[Desiree Burch]

So I, I feel like it's. It's the one. Start working on just a starter personality because you're gonna need it when your body starts falling apart.

[Ed Gamble]

You know, we've told him this so many times, Ezra, he's on the radio. He needs to have something get.

[Desiree Burch]

Get an interest or an opinion, but not too spicy of one. Because everything that you think you know will be wrong by the time you get to 40. Anything. And you will become the person that you always pointed your fingers at. So, like, take a good hard look at the things that. Because you will go through all the stations of being those things.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, well, from your lips to Satan's ears. But this really makes me feel that I've got QAnon in my future because I'm obsessed with the. I'm obsessed with QAnon from a sort of left wing point of view. But how, you know, how far left do you go before you suddenly go? Actually, they've got some good points.

[Desiree Burch]

Well, it's interesting to me because I feel like we talk about women and menopause, we don't talk about the fact that men lose testosterone and then they start, like, not in the same way way, but just enough for them to start freaking out that they don't have the same vim and vigor. And then all of a sudden, they're like, I want to make anything great again. Let's go out into the streets. And it's not unrelated to a physiological change of just being like, hey, man, start doing some breath work. Read a book. It's okay to put on a cardigan and have some tea.

[Ed Gamble]

We need to take all of these men to one side, Desiree, and say, do you think this might be about something else?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Desiree Burch]

And they're like, I don't know what you're talking about.

[Ed Gamble]

I, of course, have never had any testosterone, so I'm not worried about losing mine completely hairless. I have no get up and go. I have no.

[Desiree Burch]

But as a man, you could just be like, hey, can I get some more? And a doctor be like, hey, which color pills do you want? Take your pick.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, God. If I was on the test, goodness me, I wouldn't fit in the blooming studio.

[Matthew Crosby]

You've got enough stuff coursing your black coffee and insulin coursing through your body, baby.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Powered by insulin and black coffee.

[Matthew Crosby]

Absolutely. So, of course, the show is. Is the Golden Roth. It is across the UK from now until.

[Ed Gamble]

What's that? Roth, is it? We're going with Wrath.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, the Golden Wrath is. You like it Wrath?

[Desiree Burch]

Yeah. Are you Wrath or Roth?

[Matthew Crosby]

What do you prefer?

[Desiree Burch]

I'm wrath because that's what I would say in my American accent. But then, you know. And also the gold. It's very British to say the Golden Roth. But then I think it's like, comma, David Lee, like the Roth, you know, But I don't know. That's just because I'm a weird person.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the next show.

[Matthew Crosby]

Whatever you say, the next show is.

[Ed Gamble]

All about David Lee.

[Desiree Burch]

Please kind of be sick.

[Ed Gamble]

Amazing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Me and David Lee Roth. I absolutely adore it.

[Desiree Burch]

Wouldn't it be amazing if I came on here, was like, it's just me as David Lee Roth. Picture it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Honestly, every ticket would be sold immediately to two people, me and Ed. Yes, it's across the UK from now until the 14th of March. Not long. Not long. Left Desiree birch.com for tickets. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Desiree Burch]

Vroom, vroom.

[Matthew Crosby]

And honk, honk, Desiree. Today we're talking. We're talking with our listeners about times you've messed up at work. Caroline has written in to say, my husband's colleague went to A posh lawyer's office to repair their photocopy machine. He ended up blowing up the fish tank with their expensive tropical fish. His nickname is now Fishy.

[Desiree Burch]

Thank you, Kat.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you, Caroline. That's the sort of thing we're after. Are you competent at work? I mean, obviously you are on tour, but were you competent in your previous employees or on stage?

[Desiree Burch]

I was competent enough with all of my previous employees, you know, like, to be basically get by with, you know, usually just have to have a couple of things under lock and then. But my thing would be, like, being late to things. And one time it completely bit me in the butt because I had missed a train. You know, I was a teaching artist. I was like traveling with the show to do the facilitation. I missed that train and it was like a seven hour drive away. So I miss the train. I'm calling, I'm panicking. I have to go and, you know, rent a car separately out of my own money. Go, drive there to make it there late that night to do the show the next morning, which I thought was pretty sweet, right? Like, that I had, like, definitely gone over and beyond to, like, make up for what I had messed up. But then I wound up getting fired the next week by the boss who was never in the office, and the office manager that I had helped to hire because I used to have his job. So it wasn't even the people that I worked for who fired me. It was like the big boss who was there like four times a year, who, like, it was like, we're gonna go to the ice cream shop. And I was like, I'm lactose intolerant. And then it was him and the office manager. And I was like. But later on I realized I had was also the senior person there, so I was the one making the most. So it was probably good that they found a reason to fire me then, you know what I mean?

[Ed Gamble]

Because it's great. We've given you an opportunity to get that off. Honestly, I felt like, like that has been stored up for a long time.

[Matthew Crosby]

You were hanging onto a lot of that. You really were.

[Desiree Burch]

Yes, yes. I just had to let that go. And the thing is, it wasn't as bad as, like, you know, whatever, destroying someone's exotic fish tank.

[Ed Gamble]

No. And it doesn't really sound like your fault, to be honest. This is from Daniel Smith and Aberdeen. Daniel says, I'm an accountant. I left my desk with the Skype chat open with my manager, came back to continue working, typed my password in, and hit Enter. Little did I know, I was still logged in and inadvertently sent my password to my manager. Manager. Thankfully, it wasn't anything embarrassing, like, I hate my job. One, two, three.

[Desiree Burch]

That's amazing.

[Matthew Crosby]

So we've got to ask you another one of our favorite questions. One of the biggest questions in radio. Desiree Burch. What do you not know what it is? Now, this is a question we ask all of our guests. Okay. I'll give you a little bit of thinking time by explaining what the question means. This is something you might seen many, many times, but the more you think about it, the less you know what it is. Like, what is a mirror? What is paint?

[Ed Gamble]

What's the Internet?

[Matthew Crosby]

What's the Internet? Desiree Burch. Is there anything that you can think of right now that you don't know?

[Ed Gamble]

You see it every day, maybe, and you think. You take it for granted, and you don't think, well, how does that work? And what is it even?

[Desiree Burch]

Yeah, I, I, I mean, I guess I don't know what comes to mind is, like, sometimes when I'm walking around the city of London, just. Or just generally in London, I'm like, there's a lot of really rich people here with, like, a lot of fancy cars and cool stuff, but I don't know what anyone does for this money because I don't know what we make or what, like, how anyone's making, making it. Also, I don't know how you just drive a Ferrari around in the center of town and not get the wing mirror clipped off all the time, you know, because they just drop the car anywhere they feel like it and leave.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, because if you're that rich, the parking fine is nothing. Right. So you just.

[Desiree Burch]

Well, these are the same people who are going 100 on the motorway, through every speed camera and, like, not slowing down. And I don't know if they just get a bunch of tickets and don't ever pay them or if they're going so quickly the camera can't even find them. Like, I don't get what's happening, but they just plow through everything in, like, a luxury automobile.

[Ed Gamble]

So what do you not know? What it is, is their jobs, cars and money.

[Desiree Burch]

What their jobs and how traffic cameras work. Because it seems like they work selectively.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. They often just flash. They don't have any film in them. That's true. Yeah.

[Desiree Burch]

They just have a light.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Desiree Burch]

To make you feel weird. Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

That is true. Though I do find myself in situations where I'm looking around at people and go, well, you've clearly got money. Why are you doing it?

[Ed Gamble]

I bet they don't know, though.

[Matthew Crosby]

In the middle of the day, I'm sitting. You know, I'm sitting in a cafe because it's all I can do. I'm working in a cafe. I'm sitting.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, I know. I know what I'm doing. What are you guys doing? Where's it coming from? And don't say I work in. Like. There's lots of people who work in money.

[Ed Gamble]

What is that? So they just get. They work. They work in money. They get free. Free merch.

[Desiree Burch]

Free money.

[Ed Gamble]

Free money, yeah.

[Desiree Burch]

Bags of money. Well, also, how rich could people have been that they're still rich from, like, their family name, like, hundreds of years later?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yeah, my family own. Owned a bit of eland, and now I'm rich.

[Producer Vin]

How.

[Ed Gamble]

How.

[Desiree Burch]

How does money keep making more money?

[Matthew Crosby]

How does money keep making more money? And how can I get involved?

[Ed Gamble]

You know what? I don't know what it is.

[Matthew Crosby]

What?

[Ed Gamble]

And don't know why it is. Inequality.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, beautiful. Beautiful.

[Radio X Announcer]

Crobby J and the Machine.

[Matthew Crosby]

Radio X. Desiree, we've got a few questions we want to ask you. Firstly, what's the biggest piggy can imagine?

[Desiree Burch]

The biggest pig I can imagine.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, please.

[Desiree Burch]

He's running my country right now. I don't have to imagine. He's on TV all the time.

[Matthew Crosby]

Slam. Some early morning satire.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I imagine that'll make him back down.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Desiree Burch]

Are you down?

[Ed Gamble]

He listens every Sunday.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're normally very complimentary about it.

[Desiree Burch]

He's got one quivering tear right now. I mean, what a pig.

[Ed Gamble]

As someone who is about to tour the United States of America, I would like to say I don't endorse.

[Desiree Burch]

Endorse that in any way, shape or form. I'm not body shaming, by the way. I'm just talking about morality.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, of course.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But again, I don't necessarily endorse.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's right. Trump fans enjoy buying tickets too, don't they, Ed?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I enjoy having my visa.

[Desiree Burch]

I mean, he agreed that he was probably a fascist, right? The new mayor of New York was like, oh, yeah, you called me a fascist. He's like, yeah, I've been.

[Matthew Crosby]

You could call me.

[Desiree Burch]

That's fine.

[Matthew Crosby]

I like you. I like you.

[Ed Gamble]

Some people say bigger than a bus.

[Desiree Burch]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Crosby]

Let's move on to this next question. What is something, Desiree Burch. What is something that shouldn't be embarrassing but still is embarrassing? What's an embarrassing thing that shouldn't be embarrassing?

[Desiree Burch]

Oh, okay. So, okay. It's that moment after you've run for a tube or a bus in particular, like you've legged it, you know, and you're just, you've made it it. The doors have shut and people should be like jumping up high, fiving you, chest bumping like you made it. We saw you run from the last stop, yo. But instead everyone's silent and all you can hear is your breath. Like, and then like the more around.

[Ed Gamble]

Looking, looking for that high five basically, pretty much.

[Desiree Burch]

And also like the more you try to not sound like you're dying from having, like, the worse it gets. And you're like, you're trying to keep it under your brother and like, so you just have to, have to like breathe like you've just run a marathon even though you've run 50ft. And everyone's like, yeah, you should have been able to make that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, someone should be, should be wrapping me in a big tin foil sheet, feeding me a protein bar, giving me a medal is what they should be doing.

[Desiree Burch]

The other thing, that's the shower of Gatorade.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, the other thing that happens is you sit there and you go, oh, it's funny, I'm not even sweating all that much. And then suddenly. And you're completely drenched.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

And then you're like, oh, I've got to go to work now. Yeah, just going to be absolutely drenched.

[Ed Gamble]

We're used to Wet Matthew at work.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's right.

[Desiree Burch]

Wet Matthew is going to be in my show after the David Lee Roth.

[Matthew Crosby]

One, by the way.

[Ed Gamble]

I love it.

[Matthew Crosby]

I love it. Well, listen, the show is of course the Golden Wrath, the Golden Roth. It's your choice, guys. So long as you buy tickets@ Desiree Birch.com. it's on tour till the 14th of March.

[Ed Gamble]

Desiree Birch.

[Matthew Crosby]

Desiree, however you like to pronounce as.

[Desiree Burch]

Long as you find me. I would love to see you there.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

That's amazing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, always brilliant. Thank you so much. Desiree, it was a delight having you on the show.

[Desiree Burch]

Absolute pleasure.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X.

[Radio X Announcer]

Fire in the booth.

[Ed Gamble]

Ed Gamble and Matty Crosby saying goodbye for another week and for me another month.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, you're off.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm off to Canada and America.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

If you do happen to be living in one of those places and you're living near a large metropolitan city, I may well be visiting you with a stand up tour show.

[Matthew Crosby]

Go and see Ed Gamble, one of the best in the biz. Oh, yes, one of the best in the biz.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a big fan though, to be fair. Yeah, Best is real.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's a big best as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's a big biz.

[Matthew Crosby]

I just. I just love the biz so much.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Oh, you love the biz, don't you?

[Matthew Crosby]

I absolutely love the biz. So we're talking today, of course, about messing up at work, which we often do if we consider this to be work. Helen is gonna. Is gonna round it off with this one here. Hi, Ed and Matthew. When I was a student, I had a holiday job in a posh restaurant. Will, we're not doing one more potato. Block him. Hi, Ed and Matthew. When I was a student, I had a holiday job in a posh restaurant. We had to serve people sauces from silver gravy boats. Well, it was the 80s. Anyway, I served a lady some tartar sauce and she said, oh, no. I panicked. Did she not want tartar sauce? Yes, but not in her lap.

[Ed Gamble]

Whoops.

[Matthew Crosby]

Another time, a good looking bloke came in, a very rare event. But as I tried to flirt with him, I walked straight into a pillar. Lots of love, Helen in commercial. Smile and thank you, Helen. That's exactly what we're after. I'm gonna be back next week, Sunday. I'm gonna have to do all the shows live as well, aren't I?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, crikey. Okay, well, I'm gonna have a tough old month. You're gonna have a holiday. Potato, potato, everybody.

[Ed Gamble]

Not a holiday, Matthew.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is a holiday.

[Ed Gamble]

It's an international comedy show. I'm going on tour. I'm gonna be alone. It's not gonna be fun.

[Matthew Crosby]

You were talking about all the nice restaurants you're gonna go to.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I'm not. I've just convinced myself out of it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. All right, well, it's. Have a. Have a wonderful tour.

[Ed Gamble]

I'll send you a voice note or something.

[Matthew Crosby]

Very proud of you. Yeah, can you send me an hour long voice?

[Ed Gamble]

I'll send in all my responses.

[Matthew Crosby]

It also throws ahead to the Kaiser. Have a wonderful week, everybody. We'll see you very soon. Bye.

[Ed Gamble]

Bye.

[Radio X Announcer]

Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, there we are, Matthew.

[Matthew Crosby]

There we are. What a show. It was.

[Ed Gamble]

Another one laid to bed.

[Matthew Crosby]

Another one. Another one laid to bed. I mean, we haven't chatted to Desiree yet. I assume she's brilliant. She always is.

[Ed Gamble]

Seem she turned up.

[Matthew Crosby]

Assume she turned up. Yeah. I hope she turned up. Honestly, we're coasting on fumes here. We've got what we've got. I've got. I've Got one and a half anecdotes left.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And they're. But they definitely both make it into the show.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Producer Vin]

We've still got to talk about the Olympics. That might make it on air.

[Ed Gamble]

Jesus Christ. God.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've got to talk about the Olympics.

[Ed Gamble]

We've got to.

[Producer Vin]

We've either got to do it off.

[Ed Gamble]

You've got to say. Say winter.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, we've got to talk about the Winter Olympics. Yeah. Okay. Well, great. Well, hopefully that will have made it into the podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

The Winter Olympics should be all the same events as the Summer Olympics, but they have to do it in snow and cold.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, that's exactly what it should be.

[Producer Vin]

And there's like wolves and bears and stuff.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Or yeah, on the other team.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

You should be competing against a bear.

[Ed Gamble]

The wind, a dangerous winter animal.

[Matthew Crosby]

A dangerous winter animal. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You could probably beat them at your gavelin, though.

[Producer Vin]

What's the one where the. Where there was that Turkish guy with a pistol shooting?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

You could have worked that out really, couldn't you?

[Ed Gamble]

No, I think. Is it the one way, like you're on cross country skis and then you have to stop and shoot and.

[Producer Vin]

Oh, that is.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, is it some sort of triathlon of some kind where it's like ride a bike, ski a bit?

[Ed Gamble]

I think Vin's right. Does have another name. Skin a bit that cool. Yeah, he was cool, man.

[Producer Vin]

That guy was so cool.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. And wasn't there a. Was it a South Korean lady as well who was like super cool.

[Producer Vin]

He was just like doing it one handed.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Producer Vin]

Badasses.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that was cool. Actually, bet Rex, apart from the Winter.

[Matthew Crosby]

Olympics, have I told you what I've been listening to a lot recently? I can't remember if I told you this already.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't know.

[Matthew Crosby]

Charlie got into the car and I was playing some. Playing some music and she. This is the singer of this band, has a very deep voice and she went, what are you listening to? The Crash Test Dummies. And I was like, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[Matthew Crosby]

So I've been listening to that album, God Shuffled His Feet by the Crashed Dummies. But by the way, why is that not on our playlist? It feels like we should have a Crash Test.

[Producer Vin]

We occasionally do play that song.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, great song you did. One, two with the ums there. Anyway, that's my big bet.

[Ed Gamble]

Wreck. So that's it.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that's it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Crash Test. Love it.

[Ed Gamble]

Because I'd spent the day in Norwich yesterday, I went to see two films.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yes.

[Ed Gamble]

You scheduled it perfectly. Had the full day in the summer.

[Matthew Crosby]

I thought you said because Ed spent the day in Norwich yesterday, which I thought very cool. He's referring to yourself in the third place.

[Ed Gamble]

That's my new thing. That's Ed's new thing. Yes. I did a double feature. Matthew of Plumbing planned the whole day.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fantastic.

[Ed Gamble]

So, because I haven't really been. I haven't been to the cinema this year. I haven't seen many films in Jan, so I went to see Marty Supreme.

[Matthew Crosby]

How was it?

[Ed Gamble]

It was good, I would say. A lot of people have been like, oh, it's really stressful. It's like uncut gems. It's nowhere near uncut gems.

[Producer Vin]

It's not as good as uncut gems.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not as good as uncut gems. It's not. It's nowhere near as stressful as uncut gems. There's very, very good parts of it, I would say some very stressful parts. Performances are great. Charlemagne. He's good. I thought Odessa is. Iron was fantastic, actually. She's underused in it, but yes, I thought Tyler, the creator is very good.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's great. Oh, fantastic.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I mean, it's. It's a lot of. A lot happens.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, even Kevin o' Leary is very good. And Kevin o' Leary is one of the dragons in Shock Shark Tank. Yeah. He's not an actor and I get a lot of him because. Because he's also a watch guy.

[Matthew Crosby]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

So I get a lot of him on my algorithm and he is total plum, really. So I was a bit worried about him being in it, but he was great.

[Matthew Crosby]

Great, Fantastic.

[Ed Gamble]

The Safdies are very good at using non actors and bringing a good performance out of them.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So I thought. I thought he was good. There's so many good elements. I didn't really like the end. No spoilers, but I thought the end was a bit wonk.

[Producer Vin]

Just quite boring.

[Ed Gamble]

I didn't think it was boring already. I don't.

[Matthew Crosby]

I can't imagine the Safety Brothers making it.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think they didn't. It's not. It's not boring, but it's just.

[Producer Vin]

I just don't care.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sorry. No, it's not Safdie. It's Josh Safdie, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Penn Jillette's in it and he's good.

[Producer Vin]

Everyone in it is good.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Just don't care. It's not boring so much. Literally, so much stuff happens.

[Matthew Crosby]

No Teller.

[Ed Gamble]

No Teller.

[Matthew Crosby]

Gutted not to get the.

[Ed Gamble]

He had loads of lines Imagine. Then I went to see 28 years later, the Bone Temple. I loved it.

[Matthew Crosby]

I know a friend who fainted during it. So gory. They fainted.

[Ed Gamble]

There is a moment. There's a pretty. Pretty horrific. But so up my street. Really funny as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, just. I mean.

[Matthew Crosby]

Cause I'm thinking of taking the kids.

[Ed Gamble]

This afternoon about how much you know about what happens in it and if you know about the jimmies and all of that stuff. But it's brilliant. And there is one scene towards the end of the film which I. I think is my favorite scene in the history of cinema. I'm gonna have to see it a few times, but I was, like, almost on my feet, like, applauding. It was fantastic. And to link to that, I don't think this is a spoiler. I'm gonna backreck two songs that I've started listening to a huge amount.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

One of them is. I won't say which one's connected to the film. One of them is Nine Inch Nails. We're in this together.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Which was on the Fragile. It's one of my favorite Nine Inch Nails albums. And that song is just. I've just almost like a ritual just been playing that every day.

[Matthew Crosby]

Great.

[Ed Gamble]

And the other is Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden, which is obviously perfect.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fantastic. Are you gonna go see Maiden at Nebworth?

[Ed Gamble]

I might try.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I might try. I've seen them a lot. Maiden.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. I've never seen them, I feel like.

[Ed Gamble]

And they're always fun.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I would to love.

[Matthew Crosby]

Like to see them. That would be fun. Vin, what you got?

[Producer Vin]

I think the new Harry Styles song is brilliant.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is good, isn't it? Yeah. Let's just admit it's good.

[Desiree Burch]

It's.

[Producer Vin]

Well, it sounds like LCD sound system. That's why.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, it's. LCD sound system is hot, Chip. It's that kind of thing, isn't it?

[Producer Vin]

Yeah, it's like. It's like the new.

[Ed Gamble]

The.

[Producer Vin]

The new Ben Howard stuff. It's really good. Sounds like Metronomy and I finished things that you should have done the cheese.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Producer Vin]

And in the last episode, it opens with a Gogglebox parody.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Producer Vin]

And I think that's the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, great.

[Producer Vin]

It's so perfect for me. It's her playing all the Gogglebox people.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, well, that's.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course. That's your sew up your stream, and.

[Producer Vin]

Then it's those people watching Gogglebox watching the show.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, wow.

[Producer Vin]

It's like yeah, It's a couple of minutes long. She's put it on her socials as well. It's so much.

[Ed Gamble]

Great. I've watched it now. Brilliant.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fantastic. All right, well, have a lovely week, everybody. We will see you next week. We're live, of course, at 8:00am on a Sunday, but you can, of course. Listen, I won't be there, though. Oh, you're not?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I'm off on tour.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's right, you're off on tour.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm off to Canada in America. Yeah. So I'll see you in March.

[Matthew Crosby]

See you in March. Happy birthday.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

All right, well, will I see you just after or just.

[Ed Gamble]

You'll see me after.

[Matthew Crosby]

Happy birthday. I don't see you before.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, thank you. You won't see me before.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I won't see you before. Happy birthday. Yeah, thank you and happy birthday. Thank you very much. There it goes.

[Ed Gamble]

You.

[Matthew Crosby]

You haven't seen me before. Have a lovely week, everybody.

[Producer Vin]

Bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bye, Ray.