Episode 347 – Special Prosthetic Shoulder (with Ivo Graham)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby on Radio X

Episode 346 – Special Prosthetic Shoulder (with Ivo Graham)
Broadcast Date: February 15, 2026
Guests: Matthew Crosby (Host), Ivo Graham (Guest Host), Producer Vin

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Episode Overview

This week's episode is a lively, laughter-filled Sunday breakfast show featuring comedian Ivo Graham stepping in for regular co-host Ed Gamble (off due to an unfortunate BMX accident). The show is a comic whirlwind covering listener emails, outrageous anecdotes from weddings, embarrassing moments, quizzes about news headlines, musical digressions, and an ongoing campaign to save Swindon's Oasis Leisure Centre. Key themes include camaraderie, public embarrassment, UK comedy subculture, and the surreal nature of live radio.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Why Ed's Absent: Goochgate & BMX Stunts

• Ed Gamble is absent, and Matthew gleefully reveals in a song parody ("Willy Wonka" style) that Ed bruised his perineum trying to do a wheelie on his BMX.
  • Memorable Quote [11:56]:
    Matthew: "Ed's not here. He's in bed. Cause he's bruised his perineum. Oh, Ivo, you're in for such a treat!"
• Running gags follow about the risks of adult BMXing, with Ivo (soon to buy his daughter a skateboard) grimly imagining her future radio career involving similarly mortifying injury anecdotes.

2. Swindon's Oasis Leisure Centre Campaign

• Ivo obsessively campaigns to revive Swindon's Oasis Leisure Centre (the namesake for the band Oasis), even planning a gig where locals sing Oasis songs rewritten for Swindon Town FC, aiming for viral Gallaghers-approved notoriety.
  • Memorable Quote [00:52]:
    Ivo: "They're named after a leisure centre in Swindon, which I'm intent upon helping reopen."
• Amused speculation about local campaigners harassing the Gallaghers, and Noel perhaps regretting ever mentioning the Swindon connection.

3. Comedy & Listener Emails: The Joy of Embarrassment

• Email segment brings confessions of mortifying work slip-ups, like a lecturer accidentally telling students to "spread your legs" instead of "stretch your legs" [04:31].
  • Notable Moment [05:57]:
    Matthew: "That's really, really bad, Oliver... When I was, when I was a teacher...I just said really loudly, I have come."
  • The group openly share and laugh about their own awkward teacher moments and mishaps, warmly affirming the listeners for having the courage to share.

4. Weddings, Lifting Rituals & Prosthetic Shoulders

• Ivo returns from comedian Pierre Novelli's vibrant wedding with tales of Manx groomsmen, dancefloor lifts, and elaborate "risk assessments" for hoisting the bride and groom [16:08].
  • The conversation veers into the practicalities and comic indignity of short pallbearers being issued "prosthetic shoulders" at funerals.
  • Memorable Quote [18:18]:
    Matthew: "I had to have a special prosthetic shoulder...my other siblings were there."
• Matthew urges listeners to share niche prosthetic stories, sparking giddy laughter.

5. "Have I Got LOLZ For News": The WhatsApp Emoji Quiz

• Matthew invents a surreal quiz based on BBC WhatsApp news updates, where the number of "laughing face" emoji reactions to real headlines is guessed "higher or lower" style. Hilarity ensues as the trio speculate wildly about public sense of humor around Brexit, Brewdog, and Nazi Olympics merch [29:19–43:42].
  • Memorable Quotes:
    Ivo [32:22]: "I'm saying the idea of a machine loving you...that's a laugh."
    Matthew [43:21]: "It's no laughing matter. 0 LOLs. Ivo Graham takes the game."
• This segment perfectly encapsulates their shared bewilderment with modern engagement metrics, and their delight in making comedy from the inanities of technology.

6. Who Did You Use To Look Like? Doppëlgangers & Listeners

• A new theme emerges: listeners text in about whom they used to resemble (from Gok Wan to Tweety Bird), with the team riffing off the oddity and randomness of such associations.
  • Memorable Quote [44:11]:
    Matthew: "Did you ever have a teacher who was so easily distracted you could just derail the lesson? That's me."
• This section elicits a flood of contributions and playful teasing about childhood and adult resemblances.

7. Birthday Gifts & Orange Obsessions

• It’s Matthew’s birthday: Ivo gifts him a Steely Dan “Aja” T-shirt (in orange) and gives producer Vin gourmet carrots plus hummus, tying into the "Orange Crush" theme of his stand-up tour [49:20–57:47].
  • Memorable Moment [54:50]:
    Matthew: "Is this a Steely Dan 'Asia' T shirt in orange?... This is remotely Asia. This is absolutely wonderful."
  • Warm, sincere discussion about parenting, breakfast in bed (courtesy of Matthew's daughter), and ongoing "Ed would hate this wholesomeness" jokes.

8. Beck's Recs & Musical Chat

• The hosts and Ivo trade music recommendations:
  • Ivo: Nothing Rhymes with Orange (new band, Wiltshire/Bristol-based, fits the Radio X aesthetic)
  • Matthew: Remember Sports’ new album “The Refrigerator”
  • Vin: Chains of Love (Charli XCX) & April Skies (Jesus & Mary Chain)
• Random musical and pop culture digressions abound, drawing links to their own lives and favourite Radio X tunes.

9. Studio Life: Global Mugs & Football Trivia

• Amusing post-show banter about radio studio mug uniformity and a football anecdote involving an Arsenal cup at a Tottenham press conference, displaying their persistent, gentle lampooning of office and fandom life [61:08].

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Ed’s BMX Mishap

• [11:46] Matthew (as Wonka):
  "Even more amazing than when Ed Gamble attempted a wheelie on his new BMX earlier this week, slipped, landed on the top tube and tenderized his gooch."

Lifting at Weddings

• [20:02] Ivo:
  "You want [the robust men] to be the lifters rather than the liftees."

Prosthetic Shoulder Anecdotes

• [18:18] Matthew:
  "I had to have a special prosthetic shoulder when I was a pallbearer from my dear departed Iris Crosby..."
• [18:33] Ivo:
  "If there are any prosthetic shoulder or other niche prosthetics—you know, we wouldn't say no to it."

Surreal WhatsApp News Emoji Quiz

• [29:41] Matthew:
  "I’m going to play a higher or lower game called 'Have I Got Lolz for News!'"
• [43:21] Matthew:
  "Arctic blast on the way for UK with snow and ice warnings... It's no laughing matter. 0 lols. 0 lols. Ivo Graham takes the game. That is how you play 'Have I Got LOLZ for News.'"

Parenting & Birthday Breakfast

• [51:27] Matthew:
  "She got me a cup of half semi skimmed milk, half oat milk... Shreddies, Rice Krispies and Porridge oats all in one bowl."

Radio Family Vibes

• [59:54] Matthew:
  "We went off just a moment ago to go make some coffees, right. And Ivo, like a tr. gentleman, started unpacking the dishwasher and putting the mugs back on the shelves."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:10: Ivo Graham introduction & Oasis Leisure Centre campaign
• 04:31: Embarrassing workplace slip-ups & listener emails
• 11:46: The "Wonka" intro parody reveals Ed’s absence ("bruised perineum" incident)
• 16:08: Ivo’s account of Pierre Novelli’s wedding & Manxmen on the dance floor
• 18:18: “Special prosthetic shoulders” and funeral anecdotes
• 29:19–43:42: “Have I Got LOLZ for News” quiz
• 44:07: Who did you used to look like? – listener story time
• 49:20–57:47: Matthew’s birthday, gifts, and wholesome family stories
• 61:08: Discussion about the uniformed mugs at Global and a football blooper
• 65:45–67:34: Beck’s Recommendations (new music tips)

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Takeaway & Tone

The tone throughout is irreverent, self-deprecating, and gently anarchic, with warmth and affection between hosts and guest. Recurring motifs include the absurdities of adult life, nostalgia for childhood (and childhood embarrassment), the joy of giving (and receiving) small unusual gifts, and an underlying celebration of community—be it among comedians, listeners, or football fans.

Listeners are repeatedly welcomed into the in-jokes, with stories and mishaps mined for both relatability and laughter—making the podcast a weird, inviting, musical, and intercultural hangout for anyone who loves British comedy in its loosest, most human sense.

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Transcript

[A]

This is a Global Player original podcast.

[B]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X.

[A]

Hello everybody and welcome to the podcast of the radio show that Ed Gamble and I usually do. But this week, again, it's the wonderful Ivo. Graham Ivo is in for Ed Gamble. You'll find out why Ed's not here in just a little bit when I do my intro. But for now, what a joy to have you here, Ivo. We're halfway through the show. As you like to do with your life. You're packing a lot into your day, aren't you?

[B]

It's been one of the busier weekends, undeniably. And it's, you know, it's in a way being here just listening to Pulp and Jake Bug with you both is a little oasis of calm.

[A]

And like almost we could have played Oasis. If you want a real oasis of calm, that would be the. Yeah.

[B]

What a missed opportunity that is. Especially given that I'm constantly trying to work Oasis into any of my material because they're named after a leisure centre in Swindon which I'm intent upon helping reopen. And I'm going to be doing a gig in Swindon in a few weeks where I'm going to get the crowd to try and sing Oasis songs with the lyrics changed to be about Swindon and Swindon Town football club in the hope that they will become popular sing alongs at the county ground. That will lead to a viral moment that will lead to the Gallaghers finally taking notice and coming to do a gig in the. I'd love to say in the city, in the town where it all began.

[A]

So the Gallaghers have been tight lipped in a year when they've been, you know, like the previous year. They've been gigging a lot.

[B]

Yes, exactly.

[A]

They've been in the news.

[B]

They're match fit. You know, the reunion's been a fantastic success. Of course they can just play Wembley and Heaton park ad nauseam, but wouldn't it be lovely given that they are named after a leisure centre in Sweden? Of course that doesn't oblige them to fundraise for the reopening of that leisure centre, but I do think that would be a nice touch. So they're getting a lot of tweets from Neil at the Safety Oasis campaign to win.

[A]

He's been blocked. He's been. He's been muted. He's been blocked. Liam Gallagher's called him a. All of that kind of stuff. As I'm sure.

[B]

As you were, lg.

[A]

As you were lg. What? I didn't. I didn't know that bit of Oasis lore.

[B]

Yeah, it's. Well, I wonder whether Noel regrets mentioning it now given that he's now under such pressure from local leisure centre campaigners in Swindon. But it's. The oasis is or was a swimming pool, a leisure centre and a concert. And Oasis never played there. But the Inspiral Carpets did.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Noel was a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets. Like the name. And the rest, as they say, is justice which is yet to be served.

[C]

I don't think it was even like.

[A]

Is that the first time he'd heard the word oasis?

[C]

Well, I think it was just that he saw it on the poster and.

[A]

Thought, looks good on a poster.

[C]

That's a good word. Yeah.

[A]

Looks good in a poster. I love fruit juice. I love this leisure centre.

[B]

Don't bring fruit juice into it. That confuses it. It's all about Swindon.

[A]

It's purely Swindon. And they. Well, I mean, good luck. It's a fantastic campaign.

[B]

Well, that's very good of you to. Delighted to be talking about it on radioact.

[A]

And I'll just say this is the one show that has absolutely no connection to any bands. Most other shows can get a band on to do a track by track or just. Or to do an interview. We. I mean we. I think the closest we ever got was you wants our Sam Fender to record some words that he didn't really understand for us.

[C]

Wasn't. Wasn't thrilled about it.

[A]

He wasn't. No, he wasn't thrilled about it.

[B]

Doing the Whoosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I talked about this last week that I, you know, I've enjoyed this show since the start to guest on it in one of its first episodes, 2019. And at that point Sam Fender was just the guy from that funny bit that Ed and Matthew do about Whoosh.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And now he's become such a.

[A]

Well, he's world beating, isn't he?

[B]

I adore him. I saw him with my dad and some friends last year. It's become so important to my family. I also think he's. I think he's the very best of us.

[A]

People don't realize as well that he was a roadie for a band that played a mechanics in Swindon and it's just been closed and he thought, Fender, I'll put that on the. I'll put that on the poster. Yeah, it's the kiss of death to.

[B]

Name your band or something from Switzerland.

[A]

It really is.

[B]

Please be careful.

[A]

Well, fingers crossed for. Fingers crossed for the Leisure Centre.

[B]

And thank you. As I say, for this genuine, if not oasis, period of calm in between a frenetic wedding, which I've been very glad to bang on about on the show, and then some. Some delicate family birthday business. I'm still hoping midway through the show that we could. That we can talk about some of your. I mean, I basically brought you a couple of things, Matthews, I'd love to give you on air.

[A]

Oh, great. In which case, well, stick around folks, because that is still to come on.

[B]

And it's also a monstrous qu.

[A]

Yes, right. We've got a lot of things going on. There is a frantic energy to today's show and that's in no small part to a quiz where I. I mean, it's the right bed, but it really gives, you know, the music underneath really gives it an extra bit of. Extra bit of power. Let's read some emails. Anyway, this is from Oliver east from Manchester. He doesn't say which section of Manchester, but I'm hoping. Hiya, folks. Re messing up at work. I'm a 47 year old male illustration lecturer with a class of 31st years who are 90% female. You know what this already sounds like. This sounds like a GCSE question. There's just too many numbers in that already. My sort of numerical dyslexia is kicking in. I'm a 47 year old male illustration teacher with a class of 35 first years who are 90% female. Okay. During a session that included two long slide presentations, I wanted to offer the students a short break to stretch their legs. However, at the end of the first slideshow, what I actually said was, okie dokie, folks, if you'd just like to take five minutes and spread your legs. Okay, yeah, yeah, that's not, that's not ideal. Oliver is. It still haunts me to this day. I know that if you were to read this out, at least one of my students will hear this, as I know they're a massive UK comedy taskmaster slash Gamble and Crosby fan, so you may help me claw back some clouts. Oliver east from Manchester. I. Yeah, that's. That's really, really bad.

[B]

Right?

[A]

That's really, really bad, Oliver. When I was, when I was a teacher, I, this is. I, I was trying to sort of say to the class, I've not come here to be insulted or some sort of version of that. And I just said, I just said really loudly, I have come. And that was not what I intended to say. And I was like, what am I? What, how do I, how do I finish this sentence? And I, I Paused so long after the. After the last word of it to think what's. How can I turn this sentence around? I was just. Anyway, I'm so angry.

[B]

I'm sorry. I'm not coming to be insulted, which is such a sort of haughty, like on the back foot thing to have to say.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Y.

[B]

Well, the clout has been clawed back on both counts, I would say.

[A]

I'd say so. Yeah, yeah. Well done. Well done, Oliver. We've got this one in from Neil in Scotland who says, hi, guys. This is a lot of text. There's a lot of big features in one. Hi, guys. Walking into the living room with a pint glass of iron brew in my hand. What a picture that paints. With a pint glass of iron brew in my hand. Tripped over the cat, threw the iron brew all over the telly and chipped my tooth on the TV unit. TechEd is out. You can't handle the tooth and spilling. In the name of thank you, Neil from Scotland. Of course it was a Neil from Scotland. Who else is, I mean, really living up to the stereotype that they drink iron brew, you know, in Scotland? A pint glass of it.

[B]

It's an inelegant time to plug my tour show about all my favorite orange things. But there's some solid iron brew based material in there. Great. And I'm well aware of the flavor change and all of the controversy it caused and is that too niche a topic to do stand up comedy about in England? No, it absolutely isn't that. And the Oasis stuff. And we're away on Tuesday, so could I read one from, from, from David and Devon, please?

[A]

Yes, please.

[B]

From the topic. Things that are embarrassing but shouldn't be great. I love this. Sitting in the backseat of a car as a grown adult. It just looks sad.

[A]

I think it's tricky, isn't it? Because if you're, if you're, if you're getting a lift from somebody, you want to be passenger seat, right? Yes. I don't think there's anything, I mean, unless it's, you know, unless it's a taxi or an Uber. I think if, if it's an Uber or a bolt or whatever you. You might get sitting next to the passenger seat feels weirdly presumptuous and it feels like you're expecting more than you're probably going to get, you know, in conversationally, I'd say rather than anything else. Are we going steady? It feels like you're kind of think, you know, this is gonna be great for both of Us, Right.

[B]

This is your last ride of the night.

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

My daughter now sits. She likes to sit up front in the car. And so occasionally a friend will be sat in the car behind my daughter. And even I, much as I love having my daughter up front, I feel like that's a little bit patronizing to the adult in the back of the car. You think it should always be adults first up front? Hard to say.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, it's not like leaving the Titanic.

[B]

No. Always your reference point.

[A]

Always my reference point. Is this like leaving the Titanic. I'll say as I leave the house every morning in my says. Yeah, it is a bit. Thanks a lot. I know I am disguised as a woman, so, yes, that is. I mean, I'm going to accept it, but I think there's plenty of situations. I mean, I traveled in an Uber today and I felt I was sat in the back seat and I didn't feel.

[B]

It's okay. You didn't feel sad?

[A]

Didn't feel sad. Didn't feel embarrassed, didn't feel infantilized. I can handle it.

[B]

But it's a lovely shout out from David in Devon, who also says people I used to look like David Badil or Elvis Costello.

[A]

Great. Two people who don't look like each other.

[B]

But.

[A]

No, but that's great because you will be. He will be. In the Venn diagram of those two.

[B]

That's how to make David from Devon. Cool.

[A]

That's absolutely, absolutely fantastic. Yes. If you'd like to send us a message, then, please, of course. Sunday at radiox.co.uk. it's a fantastic show, even if we've only done, you know, two of the.

[B]

Things we meant to do.

[A]

Two thirds of it. And. Yeah, and none of the stuff we were meant to do. But, yeah, enjoy it, folks, and we will see you on the other side. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[B]

Brady O X.

[A]

Big news. Ivo Graham is the latest lucky kid to find a golden ticket and win a tour of the Radio X Dream Factory. Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure. Ivograham. Ed's not here. He's in bed. Cause he's bruised his perineum. Oh, Ivo, you're in for such a treat. Look over there. That's the three Shine albums we use to compile the playlist. You like rock, you're in luck. We're the greatest indie radio station. Wombats, Kooks, Fratellis and Kir Sabbath. No one ever plays Spin Doctors, but we have got the guts to do it. Want some hard Fi. We will cue it. We are not afraid to blink 18 to it. Oh, Ivo, my dear boy, Guest hosting the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby radio show on Radio X is gonna be the most amazing three act hours of your life. Even more amazing than when Ed Gamble attempted a wheelie on his new BMX earlier this week, slipped, landed on the top tube and tenderized his gooch. Sure, I warned him that trying to master the stunt bike at his age was a one way ticket to a purple taint. But would he listen? Would he? Wonka. Oh, Ivo, I'm so pleased you're here. And oh, Edd, I hate to say I told you so.

[B]

Radio X.

[A]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby with Ivo Graham. Radio X. Hi, Iva, how are you doing?

[B]

Hello, Matthew. All the better for hearing that absolutely stunning intro.

[A]

I made a promise last week, last.

[B]

Week there would be more Wonka because.

[A]

I've done over the course of this show, we've been on for about nearly seven years and I've done, I've twice done an intro which has been based around the. The wonderful world of Willy Wonka. I've not got so much as a free Wonka bar to show for it, but I've done two intros. The first one very deliberately. The second one, I didn't realize I'd done it before. Did it again. This third one very deliberately.

[B]

You've taken ownership of the situation? Absolutely.

[A]

And it's gonna be Wonka from here on out.

[B]

Oh, if I tune into Radio X and there's a different co host and I'm hearing about a world of pure Rhys James, I won't be able to contain my jealousy. Matthew, that's gotta be just me. Did my grandfather get stopped by the global security team for nothing this morning? Wasn't allowed to bring him in. Heartbreaking.

[A]

Did you honestly bring your granddad here?

[B]

Well, no, I just was trying to run with the, you know, obviously the delightful.

[A]

Oh, that's right. But you know what the thing is, because I, I know, I know you're very close to a family. I just, I genuinely would be like, yeah, it does seem like that Ivo would do that. He would show up with his granddad.

[C]

Props in.

[A]

You said I've got. Got some props. They're emotional props. I've got to give him a cuddle every time a joke doesn't go well.

[B]

I'm so. My grandfather, he just loves Kings of Leon so much.

[A]

Who doesn't? Listen, we appeal to both the young kids and of course the elderly. And we try to appeal to the Middle. But it doesn't always work out well.

[B]

Actually, listening to Kings of Leon for my granddad made him appear very forward thinking.

[A]

Absolutely. Yes, very much so. Very much so. Yes. I loved doing that. It's a sort of comedy. Whenever I set myself up, the challenge of singing on the radio, which by the way, you didn't ask me to sing a song.

[B]

Of course not.

[A]

You know, I just said, I'm gonna do a Wonka intro.

[B]

You said, I'm gonna stand up for this. I knew something special was coming.

[A]

I. To stand up for energy's sake. And I think, I think, I think I nailed it. But yeah, from about sort of. Well, I got, I got up about 10 past 6 this morning. I've been so nervous.

[B]

Okay. Because why does rock rhyme with luck? Is there a world in which I can sell that?

[A]

Absolutely. Station in Kasabian? I mean, we're really, we're really working hard here, aren't we? We really can. But no, no, I wrote that. I wrote that last night. And when I went to bed I was delighted, but in fact, I could barely sleep. I was very much like Charlie Bucket, you know, could barely sleep. I thought, oh great, I get to sing on the radio tomorrow morning. And then when I woke up in the cold light of the morning, in the cold half light of 6:00am, I thought, why have I done this to myself?

[C]

Yep.

[A]

I'm not a talented singer. Right. You know, I can't really hold a tune and I can't really. My scansion's all over the place. But yeah, I constantly.

[B]

It was a beautiful performance. I thought it was beautiful scansion. It included a lot of references to Ed, a particular injury. Is that true about Ed?

[A]

Yes, that's absolutely true. There's a big cover story that he's doing a tour of Canada and the U.S. but no, he attempted a BMX stunt and he's absolutely tenderized himself. Wow, he really has. It's bad news. And Ed, Ed, we wish you well.

[B]

Oh no, we do. I'm picking my. It's my daughter's birthday and I'm picking her up as skateboard later today. And horrible to think that, you know, in 20 or 30 years time her radio co host could be singing a song about her bruised perine.

[A]

Well, you know what, normally with gags, I like to pick up the ball and run with it. But seeing as she's seven, I don't think I'm gonna, I'm just gonna leave it there, actually. Wet leg and stuff. Just play wet leg. Yeah, it's not Ideal. But there we go. What? From Ivo Graham after this, Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby with Ivo Graham, Radio X. Ivo, where have you been? You've. You've rushed to the studio from a wedding in Gloucestershire. A wedding in Gloucestershire. Wowee.

[B]

It's not the furthest county from global studios, but it's not the closest to either, say.

[A]

And did you leave this morning or.

[B]

Did you leave last night?

[A]

You left last night.

[B]

You've got. Yeah, bank the drive, I would say. I did not back myself to get up this morning.

[A]

No way. So tell us about the wedding. Are you allowed to say whose wedding it was?

[B]

I think I absolutely can. It's the superb comedian Pierre Novelli, friend of the show, friend of the show. And his wonderful wife Jo, who probably less a friend of the show, but now by law, not an enemy of a friend.

[A]

Yeah, I think let's not sort of work out who's the most friendly to the show. You know, it's, of course, Chloe pets. But let's not work out who's the most friendly to the show and who's the least friendly to the show.

[B]

It would be great to get a leaderboard up in the studio.

[A]

This is exactly the sort of thing that you would adore.

[B]

That I would create.

[A]

You would create, Exactly. Yes. Yeah, very much so. So tell us about the wedding. Who was there?

[B]

It was a beautifully executed occasion featuring, you know, some fantastic. Well, some fantastic friends of the show from the comedy circuit, of course, and also some absolute legends from the Isle of Man, whence Pierre Hales.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

Some of the finest Manx men who were involved in, I would say that certainly the physical peak of the evening, which was lifting the bride and groom on the dance floor.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Which I think is essential. I think ideally that happens at a wedding.

[A]

It's essential. But. But let's be honest. Yes, Pierre, by his own admission, is a robust man.

[B]

Pierre has some absolutely phenomenal stand up about his robustness and his inability at times to utilize his robustness in his life. He's got an amazing bit about playing rugby at school, but only being used in the rugby team in the way that horses were used in the war.

[A]

So were you part of the. Were you part of the. Whatever the wedding equivalent of pallbearers is. Were you part of.

[B]

Yes, I was. I was very keen. I was aware it was one of the heavier coffins we would ever carry, so we had to. But she got quite a. Quite a. No, let's not.

[A]

Let's not go down.

[B]

But.

[A]

Because I. Well, we can. If you Want to talk about it. But I. I was a pallbearer and I didn't realize that they give you, like a sort of built up shoulder if you're very short, because obviously it's very rare you get. You get all pool bearers to be the exact same size. Especially if it's, you know, if it's. If it's siblings, you know, they're very rarely all just uniform size. So, yeah, you get a special shoulder.

[B]

You'Re given a special sort of pathetic shoulder.

[A]

Yeah. When I was a pallbearer from my dear departed Iris Crosby, my Grandma much missed 99 years, so, you know, had a fair old innings. But, yeah, my other siblings were there. I had to have a special prosthetic shoulder.

[B]

Incredible. I think, you know, we've got a lot of texts already coming in on topics from last week and we've had someone who's texted in just saying, good grief, in response to your intro, which, as a compliment, thank you. But I suppose if there are any sort of prosthetic shoulder or, you know, other niche prosthetics, you know, we wouldn't say no to it.

[A]

You know, I sort of do that gear on Friday nights on. On Channel 4, really. But. But yeah, if you want to send in. If you want to send in your prosthetic addict notes, I'll pass them on to the. To the people. Yeah, I'll pass them on to hq. Exactly, yeah, yeah. Adam, hq.

[B]

It's a shame, obviously, to pivot back to after that. Very moving story about your. Thank you, congratulations and commiserations to her on the big nine. Nine.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So close.

[A]

So close. So close.

[B]

And I'd be a fool at this point. Not to mention we're only three months away from Attenborough hitting 100. Really. Getting lottery now, 8th of May. That's all we want and need in this life. Anyway, Pierre Novelli is very much alive, but we wanted him to stay alive and not, for example, to tumble onto the dance floor of his wedding because his ushers and groomsmen were buckling under his very impressive stature. And of course, let's not forget as well, his wife must be carried with great dignity. And Ilan. Yes. So I proposed this on the dance floor. I could see the end of the wedding was in sight and there'd be no lifting. And as I say, I think it's important and I've been, well, sort of taught in this way. Your partners in Sketch and in Life, Ben Clark and Tom Parry, are great lifters of their comrades, also robust men.

[A]

Also, that's what you need.

[B]

Yeah. You want them to be the lifters rather than the liftees.

[A]

Whereas I'm rummaging around for my fake shoulder. Don't worry, guys, I've definitely brought it. Oh, no, I left it in the Airbnb. I'm so sorry.

[B]

He's wallet shoulder. So I said, I think Finn Taylor was the first person I engaged on this. Finn would be a fantastic prop for this. And I said, finn, I think we need to lift Pierre and show.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I. And I was.

[A]

And not just emotionally.

[B]

No, no, no.

[A]

They're having a lovely time already.

[B]

They seemed very confident in their decisions, but I knew that I was going to be driving back that night, so I was in a good, sober position to be the leader. I'd done a bit of a risk assessment on the lino. It was a bit. But it wasn't too. But that's something you need to bear in mind. That's essential for any indoor lifting. But I wanted to have a good full discussion with settled crew to do a bit of a risk assessment to plan, possibly a song, maybe tee something up with the dj. But what Finn basically said was, right, let's do it right now, let's do it. Three men nearest him. So they took Pierre. And I was very much offering to help on Pierre, but actually you can only have so many. And being the bass. So actually, like a lot of group lifts in my life, I was sort of near it, but actually not taking part in it at all.

[A]

You're just sort of gently touching a thigh, really. Then if you moved your hands away, there'd be no impact whatsoever.

[B]

It was a privilege to genius die.

[A]

Of course. Of course.

[B]

But then, actually, no one was stepping forward to lift the bride. So having checked the whole thing with her, that was the role that I took, which is, again, a huge honor. And so for about, I would say 30 seconds of yeah. By Usher, not the song I would suggest for this moment, but again, as soon as I suggested it, it started happening. So sometimes you just gotta wait until the right song before you suggest it. And. And it was. And it was great. And my face was right in Finn's face and Finn was. Finn was yowling in my face at the. At the cardio he'd subjected himself to.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'd say the whole thing lasted about 30 seconds and it was. It was pure magic.

[A]

That's all you need for the photo. That's all you need for the photo. You've created a wonderful moment there. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby With Ivo Graham, Radio X. What time did you leave, Ivo? What time are you. What. What is a sort of reasonable time to leave a wedding, do you think?

[B]

Well, I mean, I think ideally you stay to the end, even if you've.

[A]

Got an early start the next day.

[B]

Well, I didn't really want, you know, as proud as I am to be here when an Instagram reel about this went up a few days ago, I saw that Pierre had liked it. Oh, that's saying Ivo's on air at 8am on Sunday.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And it's a delicate one because I'm going straight from here to some lovely birthday celebrations for my daughter. A very wholesome day for which I would have wanted to be back in London fairly promptly. Anyway. So, narratively, at the wedding, I was leaning quite heavily on, I'm getting back for my daughter's birthday, rather than we're playing Jake Bug and calling him a bugaboo before it's even light in Leicester Square.

[A]

Okay, so you stayed all the way to the end?

[B]

Pretty much. I would say, yeah. I think I left half an hour before. And in my mind I was like.

[A]

And now you feel bad about it?

[B]

Yeah. Now you've set the possible ratio, I would say, of sleep to guilt.

[A]

Really? Yeah.

[B]

To do. To do.

[A]

What's happening in those final 30 minutes? Nothing.

[B]

Yeah. Well, it was a classic case of the band finished at about 11, 1115, and that would have been a perfect point. And I was like, what I need to do and no one else is involved as well. I'm driving home alone. I don't. You know, I'm free to go. A lot of people recommend an Irish goodbye in these situations, so it can be so quick and so smooth. But before the band had even stopped playing, they'd queued up. Gala's Freed From Desire. So there was just no opt.

[A]

No, no, you can't. You can't be freed from the party during Freed From Desire.

[B]

You know, it was. You know, I had my tie around my head within seconds. So it was then a case of, like, waiting for a song that was a song you could leave on. And astonishingly, I left during I Bet you look good on the dance floor by the Arctic Monkeys, because I've hosted two Arctic Monkeys club nights in the last month.

[A]

It's a busman's holiday for you. Exactly. I just loved it when they play Arctics. Do people not look to Ivo Graham to sort of get the people think? Well, listen, there are two people I think of when I think of the Arctic Monkeys. One is Alex Turner. And the other one is Ivo Graham.

[B]

No, I wasn't required to stay. And bless the monkey. Radio X, Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. This is Matthew Crosby and Ivo Graham on Radio X. And that was Royal Blood, a particularly painful band for me to listen to after I was teased at a wedding yesterday for not recognizing a portrait of Oliver Cromwell. Matthew, that's my wit.

[A]

Say what you like about Pierre Nivelli, he knows how to run a wedding based parlor game.

[B]

And how are you, Matthew?

[A]

I was just. Can I. Very quickly. I feel like there's so many questions around that and I'll talk about how I am in a second. But was that the bit where, you know, the bit in the wedding where possibly the father of the bride might make a speech and say, we've got to remember the people who can't make it here today. There's obviously Iris Crosby, 99 years. David Attenborough's too. He's too old to travel. And let's all raise a glass for Oliver Cromw.

[B]

No, Cromwell was not referenced elsewhere in the wedding, as far as I'm aware, but it was in one of those, you know, nice sort of rented wedding houses.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And it was full of portraits. And as we walked into the ceremony room, Fin Taylor did a sort of course, I couldn't tell whether it was an ironic sort of nod of respect to Cromwell, but I made the fatal mistake of saying, who's that again? To one of the country's foremost history podcasters at the wedding of one of the country's foremost. Like history? Just men. Men of history.

[A]

I think it's fair to say that I can never tell when Fintel is being ironic. No, that's very much part of the problem for me, actually. But there we go.

[B]

In this exact moment, undeniably, I just wanted to impress myself.

[A]

You just wanted to. Yeah, absolutely.

[B]

I just wanted to be part of the history banter.

[A]

Do you think that's the reason you were excluded from the lifting Pierre gang? Yeah.

[B]

I would have to say that everyone lifting Pierre knew who Oliver Cromwell was. Of course, because I then went into that ceremony. I sat down next to Alex and Mari and Alex. I looked, I think a bit miff. And Alex said, everything okay? And I said, yes, I've just failed to recognize Cromwell.

[A]

And Alex said, is he here?

[B]

Alex said, which Cromwell? And I said, oh, I think Oliver. But of course, now we're in a more than one Cromwell situation. I would say we're less than a minute from the start of the ceremony. And I said, I'll just pop out and take a picture of the portrait. So I ran out of the ready photographed. Cromwell gave back in just so the rest of our group could confirm it was Oliver, not Thomas. You're.

[A]

The inside of your head is a haunted house.

[B]

So is this wedding venue, of course, haunted by revolution's past. And Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[A]

This week with. Ivo Graham. Radio X, we're gonna do a quiz. Now, I promised this last week, but we didn't deliver on it. But I think you're gonna enjoy it. So, basically, the reason behind this quiz is. I have WhatsApp on my phone.

[B]

Right, I've got.

[A]

You use the. What's the WhatsApp application.

[B]

Well done.

[A]

Thank you very much. CLANG I think it's just. It's just a way I like to communicate with people, you know, using. What's WhatsApp? That's right.

[B]

We were talking last week about how you were one of the first people on Gmail and you're telling me you've got WhatsApp as well? I know if a shark stops swimming, it dies.

[A]

I'm a tech pioneer. And in the update section, I'm sure you all know the update section. I'm following the British Bias Corporation news. Right, right, the news. Now, it gives you news updates from their. From their website. You know, every sort of hour or so tells you what's happening in the news and it allows the.

[C]

Hang on, I actually. I actually am lost now. Right, so whatsapps you with the news every hour?

[A]

Yeah, that's in the update section. You can follow a bunch of different things. You know, you could follow the New York Times, you could follow Sky. Whatever you want to do.

[B]

Though I don't follow any. No.

[C]

Why would anyone want to do that?

[A]

Because that's where I get my news.

[C]

Don't you just look at the news?

[A]

No, no, the news looks at me.

[C]

But you only get. Then you're only getting what you're being sent.

[A]

Yes, that's right. That's all I need. If anything. That's too much.

[C]

That's a terrible idea.

[A]

Well, right, let's not criticise, because this isn't even the quiz yet and you're already criticizing the idea of me receiving news via WhatsApp.

[C]

Why are you receiving news?

[A]

The quiz isn't question one. Is this a good idea, Vin? Hang on a second. All right, let's just accept that me, I'm actually flummoxed as an old man.

[B]

Let it not be said that you're putty in the paws of big Tech. It's just the easiest way. It's all there.

[A]

This is. We had the same thing when I got a DVD player. And look, we still use them to this day. So I'm using the update section to follow the British Buyers Corporation's news service. Okay. They send me news all of the time. Right. And because it's sent as a WhatsApp message, everybody else who's following them is allowed to. To. You can't comment, but you can put an emoji. Right? It's an absolutely insane system.

[B]

Everyone else.

[A]

Everybody else who's following them. So if I wanted to, I could give it a thumbs up or a crying emoji or whatever I like.

[C]

Does everyone else see that emoji?

[A]

Everybody else sees that emoji.

[C]

Are we talking about what, millions of people?

[A]

Well, let's find out, because I'm gonna play a higher or lower game called have I Got Lolz for News? It's a good theme tune. We forget because the show's been on for so long. This is a fantastic theme tune. Lovely work from Philip Pope there.

[B]

His favorite thing does happen to the show that it can just transfer straight across to have I Got Lolz for News?

[A]

Of course. Of course. We'll still be using it anyway.

[B]

Philip Pope. We're giving a shout out to Philip Pope.

[A]

Giving a shout out to Philip Pope because he's famous for two theme tunes. Of course. Number one, have I Got News for you? Number two, battles. So I've got a lot of time for Phil. He's a lot.

[B]

Did that get a WhatsApp news update?

[A]

No, sadly, I'm still waiting for the WhatsApp news update for series three. Any day now.

[B]

Any day now.

[A]

We'll see series three commissioned. Anyway, have I Got Lolz for News is the round. I'm gonna read you the headline, and you're gonna tell me how many people gave it the laughing emoji.

[C]

What?

[A]

Okay. How many people gave it the laughing emoji? Well, no, we're gonna do higher or lower. Okay. Basically, we're higher or lower. Sort of play your cards right. Okay, here's what we're gonna start. Okay, I've realized I've got to start with. I've got to start with. Here we go. Here we go. So we'll start with this one. Britney Spears. Okay, who wants to start first? Let's start with Iver, because he's our guest. Okay, we'll start with Britney Spears. Now, I'll tell you now. Britney Spears sells rights to her entire music catalog. I'm just going to tell you what it got. It got a whopping 97 lulz. Okay, okay. Britney Spears sells the rights to her Entire music catalog. Got 97 LS now higher or lower? The next headline. Can a machine ever love you? It's about the rise of AI.

[C]

Of course it's not a headline.

[A]

Can a machine ever love you? It's a. Yes, it is.

[C]

It's not. That's an opinion piece.

[A]

All right. Okay. That's not news.

[C]

That's 100% not news. So they're messaging you with a news story that is not news.

[A]

Can I just remind you, Ivo, this is what I have to deal with on a weekly basis. I say, I've got a quiz. I reckon it can do two links. He says, no, I reckon it could do four or five links. If I stop every 30 seconds to tell you how it doesn't work, the.

[B]

Sooner VIN is replaced by a machine that loves you, the better.

[A]

I know. Can a machine. All right, okay. Let's call it the strap line then. Okay. In this instance, okay, it doesn't matter. It's the.

[B]

So has that got.

[A]

Britney Spears sells entire. Sells rights to her entire Music catalog. Got 97 lulz. Ivo, you've got control of the game. Can a machine ever love you? More or less, More or fewer.

[B]

It's got to be more because, I mean, the Britney story is obviously not the least funny story in the news, may I say. But I wouldn't say it's an inherently. That's not the main emoji response.

[A]

So you're saying more.

[B]

So I'm saying the idea of a machine loving you, which I do think is a laugh, that's def. Or at least it's debatable because it's a strap line, not an opinion piece, not a news. Never mind. It's more.

[A]

It's more. You retain control of the game. It is, of course, 916 LOLs. 916 LOLs. The next headline is.

[C]

Wait, so that's 10 times funnier.

[A]

Yes, 10 times funnier. Listen, I don't. I don't make. I don't make the LOLs. As has been told to me many, many times. I don't make the luls. I just report the luls. Now, can a machine have love you? 916 LOLs. The next headline, Scottish craft beer brand brewdog put up for sale. That is.

[C]

That is a headline.

[A]

A headline. Thank you. But does it have.

[C]

And that is funny.

[A]

Are we talking higher or lower LOLs than 916 LOLs? Is it higher or lower LOLs. Scottish craft beer brand Brewdog put up for sale.

[B]

That's difficult, isn't it, Vin? Because people are going to have emotional responses to the this. Because Brewdog are so cool and, you know, and popular Fimbing. So cool.

[A]

Yes, of course they are.

[B]

So people are going to worry that are they going to be sold to people who are going to run it in a less cool way?

[A]

What do you think? Higher or lower? Higher or lower than 916 LOLs?

[B]

I don't think the sale of Brewdog is cracking the 1000L. I don't think it's beating the machine that might love you.

[A]

You're going lower.

[B]

I'm going lower.

[A]

It's four LOLs. It's only four LOLs. It's only 4 LOLs. Okay, you've still got control of the game, Ivo. UK PM Keir Starmer says Europe must be ready to fight more LULs or less LOLs. Higher or lower than 4 LOLs. UK PM Keir Starmer says Europe must be ready to fight.

[B]

It's more than four, surely.

[A]

It's 190 luls. Of course it is. 190 luls.

[B]

Okay, full headline. Must be ready to fight for the future of Brewdog.

[A]

Absolutely right. I'll do two more here because we do the five and then we'll do round two. But Vin is still yet to play. Iver has control of the game. 190 Luls for Keir Starmer says Europe must be ready to fight. How many luls are we talking higher or lower for Matt Weston wins gold and secures Team GB's first medal at the Winter Olympics.

[C]

Radio X. Listen to Matt Weston.

[A]

Big shout out to Matt Weston. Yes.

[B]

And it's not a LOL, it's less LOLs.

[A]

It's 68 LOLs. It is lower LOLs. Yes. And then finally, finally, Friends to return to UK in March. Now that's the TV show Friends, not just a couple of pals who've been out, who've been interrailing. Oh, I'll tell you something about that in a second. In the next link, I'll tell you something about that, because Friends to return to the UK in March. Is that higher or lower than 68 LOLs? It's a tricky one. Higher or lower?

[B]

Finn, would you like to come in? I feel I've dominated.

[A]

No, no. He can steal if you lose, but you've got so far, you've got four out of five.

[B]

Yes. And what a fun game this has. And how increasingly mad this theme tune right now.

[A]

It's really frightening. It's giving a frantic energy to things.

[B]

It's more. I think French return to the UK is getting more than Europe being ready to fight.

[A]

Ivo Graham retains control of the game. It's 91 lolz. We'll play more after this. This is Pulp Babies here on Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby with Ivo Graham.

[B]

Radio X.

[A]

We're still joined by Ivo Gray. Oh, I've got a really croaky something about. Something about our main. Within. I think it was. It was trying to do the. Trying to shout over Philip Pope's fantastic theme tune. We'll have more. Have I got Lolz for news in just a little bit. I will say that. That headline Friends to return to the uk. When I was touring with Pappy's the sketch team I'm part of. We got. We got an exclusive. I don't know how I'm gonna do this, actually. My throat. My throat's just. My throat seized up. Up.

[B]

Matthew, I'm so sorry.

[A]

I tell you what, you. You, you just tell a. Tell a quick story and I'll. I'll cough and drink some water, okay?

[B]

Wow.

[A]

It's all happening now.

[C]

That happened.

[A]

It's catching.

[B]

I'd like to say one more thing about the wedding, please. That, that the bride's speech about the Danish King Harald Bluetooth was one of the most superb bits of wedding history. I just. You can't be talking about Cromwell and not mention the Bluetooth speech.

[A]

You've got to. You simply have to. Anyway, I'm back. I'm back. When we were touring around, we got a. We got an exclusive interview with the Wolverhampton Express and Star, right? And it was going to be a half page article about Tom and Ben, who were from Wolverhampton and they had a photo shoot and everything. We were really, really excited. And then when the article came out, the headline was Friends Return to City, which is just not enough to sell. It really is. Some people moved to London, they've come back to Wolverhampton, but at no point was there the comedy show gig. Many, many tickets still available. Please come and see it. It was Friends Returned to City and they were just them stood, stood in the street in Wolverhampton, kind of giving the double defos. As if that's enough of a story. Hey, listen, one of the people who left Wolverhampton came back. Not just one, two of them did Friends Return to City.

[B]

It's one of the laziest headlines.

[A]

There's nothing going on there.

[C]

Wilverhampton's a city.

[B]

Yeah, that's the main Takeaway.

[C]

That's a surprise.

[A]

Yeah. Wolverhampton is a city. Yeah. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby with Ivo Graham. Radio X have I got lulz for news. Here we go again. Oh, my God. Right, there's the theme tube. Can you bring it down ever so slightly to be. It's a little bit. A little bit loud?

[B]

I agree it's a fantastic theme tune, but I do already associate it with Dragons dread from my appearances on the show.

[A]

Of course.

[B]

Now, this is a new level.

[A]

It's stressing you out even more, so I'll explain the game. I am one of the few people in the world who uses the Updates feature on WhatsApp, and I use that to follow BBC News. Now, what the way this works is I get a WhatsApp message probably eight or nine times a day with a. With a news story, perhaps an editorial, a news story of some kind. And because it's sent as a WhatsApp message, it means that anybody else following the BBC news can do one of the. One of the classic six emojis along to it. So the heart, the thumbs up, the crying emoji, the shocked emoji, the praying high five. It's the shocked emoji, isn't it? Oh, are you telling me Friends is returning to the uk? I'm shocked. Who's doing well, I can tell you, loads of people, absolutely loads of people are doing it. And of course, the. The laughing emoji, the. The LOL emoji. Now that's what, that's what this is all about. The LOL emoji. This is round two. Now, Ivo still has control of the game. We ended with Friends to return to the UK in March. 91 LOLs. Okay, in round two. And Vin, of course, still yet to play. But if you steal and you get the. You could still win. This is the crazy.

[C]

I don't have to answer a question. I could still win.

[A]

This is the crazy thing.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

About this game. Yeah, that's. I mean, you know, nothing crazier than the news. Apart from, of course, this game. So round two, we're going to start with. Remember, Friends, return to the UK in March. 91 LOLs. Margot Robbie ate my giant strawberries on Wuthering Heights.

[B]

That's gotta be.

[A]

Is that more? Is that higher or lower?

[B]

Lower.

[A]

Greater number of lulls.

[B]

It's higher for me.

[A]

Ivory, you're absolutely correct. It's 286 lulz. Now this, this might be veering into the world of editorial, but it's. This is. This is the. The strap line.

[B]

Here.

[C]

That last one was like a Facebook status. It's not a news.

[A]

No, it was like a WhatsApp message. And it was a WhatsApp message. Anyway, this. This, this girl creates these sort of special drivers. I read all the stories. This girl creates these like special giant strawberries. And it was. It very, very close. Very, very close. That's why I gave it the shocked emoji. I thought, BBC, come on, you're better than this. So Margot Robbie ate my giant strawberries on Wuthering Heights. 286ls, but higher or lower. The new places that could become official bathing spots in England. It's about wild swimming here. The official bathing spots in England. The new places that could become official bathing spots in England. How many lulls higher or lower than 286 lulls for the giant strawberries in Wuthering? Wuthering. Wuthering Heights.

[B]

And is there a. Do you get even a glimpse of what the place is being proposed as bathing spots are?

[A]

Listen, I'm not gonna suddenly give you the whole story.

[C]

I read it and you do. Yeah.

[B]

You read that one.

[C]

I read that one.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

One of them was in West London. Thames.

[A]

How are your sides after reading it?

[B]

Come on, give me nothing away.

[A]

He's giving nothing away.

[B]

Of course he'd be mad to. I'm gonna say that's less LOLs than Margot and Robbie eating the giant strawberries.

[A]

It's correct. It's 104 LOLs. Okay. IOC criticized for selling Nazi era Olympics T shirt.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Is that more lol? This is where the game gets tricky. Is that more LOLs or less LOLs than 104 LOLs? Okay. This was because of the Berlin Olympics. You could buy a T shirt that of course not. I was gonna say promoted the Berlin Olympics. It happened. You know, it was just. And commemorated is the wrong word as well. But it just. It acknowledged it had happened. It acknowledged that the Olympics have made a few mistakes in where they've hosted the Olympics. But yeah, in the 30s Berlin Olympics, they were selling the T shirt.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Are we talking higher or lower lulls than 104Ls for the new bathing spots?

[B]

I think that's higher.

[A]

It's 304 LS. You're absolutely correct.

[B]

Who knows what those LOLs mean? But we.

[A]

Yeah, we have. We have two more to go. This could be. This could be yours. But equally, it could be. It's nail biting stuff.

[B]

You revelation that Vin's reading a lot of these news stories as well. That's. That's got into My head, I think.

[C]

Only one so far, to be fair. Just.

[B]

Just bathing spots.

[C]

Only bathing spots.

[A]

Yeah. You have to think, where can I get my kit off? Legitimately, UK. UK economy grew by 0.1% in the last three months of 2024. Figures show. Is that higher or lower than 304 lulls? It's lower lulls, it's lower lulz. It's 152 Ls. But the final one. This is for the game. This is for the game. Arctic Blast on the way for UK with snow and ice warnings higher or lower lulls than 152 lulls.

[B]

Well, Arctic blast on the way for the UK was when I announced my clothes club a night. But this is. Oh, right. We're in real tents.

[A]

Oh, yeah, big time.

[B]

And what's it against again? It's against the UK economy's slow growth.

[A]

So it's 152 lulls.

[B]

What do people. What do people find funnier? The budget or the temperature? I think it's. I think this is getting less lulls. It's. I'm locking in less.

[A]

You're locking in less?

[B]

I am.

[A]

The UK economy grew by 0.1% in the last three months of 2025. Figure show had 152 ls. Arctic blast on the way for UK with snow and ice warnings. It's no laughing matter. 0ls. 0ls. 0ls. Ivo Graham takes the game. That is how you play. Have I got LOLZ for News Radio.

[B]

X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[A]

Who did you use to look like? Now, this. This popped up on the podcast last week. Somebody an email to say, oh, off the topic that you were talking about, who did you used to look like? And we read the email and we chatted about it and then he said, oh, I think I might have made that up. It's not actually one of your topics, but it could quite easily have been, of course. Who did you use to look like?

[B]

That's how easy it is to control the topics on Radio X. Oh, you know what?

[A]

Did you ever have a teacher who was so easily distracted that you could just derail the lesson? That's me.

[B]

That's you.

[A]

That's absolutely me. He's distracted, he's easily distracted and he hasn't done quite enough preparations. So if somebody says, oh, why is there like censorship in. In movies but not in books, sir? Right, great. This is what we're talking about today. This is what we're talking about.

[B]

Anyway, it's just come as well.

[A]

Which doesn't that was on the podcast. Ivo. That was on the podcast. Ivo's done it again. He's. He's reft a thing that no one has heard the show yet. Will have.

[B]

Sorry. Not an ideal thing without context. Not an ideal thing with context.

[A]

No say so. If you'd like to hear a. If you'd like to hear an off color story from my teaching past, then don't forget to get the podcast available via the global player, or global player as they like to call it these days. But we are asking, who did you use to look like? 83936 on the text. Or you can WhatsApp us through the global player if you'd like to get in touch. But Vic has said one month in the late 2000s, I got told I looked like Gokwan three times by strangers that I was interacting with. Not being even remotely Asian did not seem to be a barrier to my doppelganger status. Remotely. Not even remotely. Not even a whiff of it.

[B]

Great use of remote.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Not boxes you can tick, I think.

[A]

Not even not being even remotely Asian did not seem to be a barrier to my doppelganger status.

[C]

Occasionally.

[A]

If the mood takes me, I will be Asian. Since then, I've avoided wearing oversized rectangular glasses. There we go. Which did immediately stop the comparison. I rarely have something to send in to you boys, so I'm very happy that this time I have a gokwan anecdote. Happy radio. Don't mind if I do, Vic. Thank you, Vic. Please, you know, keep those coming in. We would love to hear. Who did you used to look like? We're not asking now who you looked like. And by the way, we don't need to see a photo. We're gonna take this all on trust.

[B]

Just who do you see look like? And then what are you not remotely as well?

[A]

Absolutely save that. I'd say this is from. Well, this is from Glenn from Japan. We don't know about his Asian status.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

We do not know.

[B]

Not Asian status. Asian status.

[A]

Asian status. Yeah, yeah. Not his status. We don't know. We don't know about his age. We don't know his. Anyway, let's stop.

[B]

I'm Beau Graham, Asian status, born in Japan but left when he was one.

[A]

Were you born in Japan?

[B]

Let's not get sidetracked. I was just giving my Asian status as an example.

[A]

Are you remotely Asian?

[B]

Then.

[A]

It'S another good text.

[B]

Pop me in a pocket for a pair of big square glasses and we'll see how it goes.

[A]

Happy Radio lads don't mind if I do, says Glenn. When I was a toddler, I had a large head, big blue eyes and very blond hair. And my family said I looked like Tweety Bird from the Looney Tunes cartoon. Isn't that so funny? God bless you. Well, God bless you as well, Glenn. And God bless all of our listeners. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby with Ivo Graham.

[B]

Radio X. An absolute stream of texts from people saying who they used to look like. By far the most popular of today's top. We can't read them all, but I'll give you some examples.

[A]

Yeah, give us a few.

[B]

We're talking Simon Le Bon, we're talking Justin Bieber, we're talking Nicholas Lyndhurst. We're talking not the young, good looking Elvis Presley, but the old, fat, bloated Elvis Presley. Horrible specification there. High profile Australian rugby league player Paul Fatty Vortin. Sorry if I pronounced that wrong. And another Simon Le Bon, potentially. And the actor, Daniel Brocklebank. Yes, the Daniel Brocklebank in the film the Hobby.

[A]

You're not going to give anybody credit for who these people are?

[B]

No, I'm just going to give a blast through them as quickly as we possibly can.

[A]

You don't need to do that. We've got. We've got a whole hour of this, of the show left.

[B]

I do apologize. And Matthew, have you seen the one about you playing in the. In the Winter Olympics?

[A]

Is this. Someone's got. Somebody's got the Crosby on the. I think it's just. It's just Crosby on the back of the. Of the shirt. Sadly not. Although I do. I mean, I do get all of the time someone with a beard and glass is. Is it you? And I always say, yes, it is. Of course it is. It always is.

[B]

That's the only respectful thing to do.

[A]

It always is. Ivo, are you gonna ask me how my week was?

[B]

Yes, I absolutely am. Thank you very much.

[A]

Because that's what we agreed before the link. We didn't say we're gonna do. We didn't say we're gonna do.

[B]

Today become so formal. I'm trying to din you out.

[A]

No, no, no. Let's play some Foo Fighters. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby with Ivo Graham.

[B]

Radio that was rescued by the Foo Fighters here on Radio X. I am Ivo Graham and I'm privileged to be here with producer Vin and Matthew Crosby.

[A]

Hello.

[B]

Thanks for having me. It's been a long time.

[A]

What a pleasure having you on the show. It's always a delight.

[B]

And I've been desperate to Ask you about how your week speak, Matthew, of course been one of the recurring themes. We've been waylaid by lots of chat about people like Oliver Cromwell. We've had some fantastic tech set about a different Cromwell's. But we're not going to get waylaid again, Matthew.

[A]

We're not going to get waylaid. No, no, of course we're not going to talk anymore about Pierre Nevelli's wedding.

[B]

No, no, we don't need to.

[A]

No more anecdotes from that.

[B]

Listen, never mind that, Matthew. What I'm here to do is actually.

[A]

Don'T want to talk about your tour. You're not just a low priority.

[C]

We should talk about your tour, Ivo.

[B]

But I.

[C]

You're on tour at the moment.

[B]

I'm doing a stand up comedy tour called Orange Crush where I talk about my favorite orange things. And it's occasionally more serious than that sounds. But ideally it is funny. That's all we need to know. However, I have brought in some orange items for you.

[C]

I mean, where are you playing?

[B]

Hartpush, Stamford, Brighton, Cardiff and beyond.

[C]

And where would I get tickets for that?

[B]

The Internet, of course. It's absolutely fantastic type Ivan Graham tour into it. I'd like to think that's. But of course I don't want to underplay it and I appreciate. I appreciate the opportunity, Vin. Thank you.

[A]

I did hear that he's got me some things. So actually I'm quite into talking to Iva about these things.

[C]

Matthew. Iva's talking about his tour right now.

[A]

I know, but please, this is tour adjacent this week.

[C]

Ivo is a guest. Ivo is a guest and he is on tour.

[B]

Matthew. Here's a birthday present for Matthew later on.

[C]

Think about the tour now.

[A]

You're not going to let me open this birthday present on the air? Oh, X. Ivo has very, very kindly. Now, it was my birthday this week.

[B]

Yes. Was it a good one?

[A]

It was a fantastic birthday. There were a couple of things that were sort of suboptimal. My wife was away for work so she wasn't around for the two before or the one day after my birthday or indeed my birthday.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Crucially. Crucially, that's the big one. But the kids were there and I had a lovely. It was really, really sweet. But all the time it was happening, I was thinking, you know, I love you Ivo, I genuinely do. I think you're a wonderful person. But I was thinking, this is such a nice day, right? If I tell it to Ivo, he'll say, oh, what a nice day. If I tell it To Ed Gamble, he would tear it apart. And so when Ed messaged me on my birthday to have you had a nice day? I said, yeah, yes, but, right, what I really need is for somebody to go, well, that day sounds rubbish. Whereas I'm going to tell it to you and you're going to go, that sounds so sweet. I woke up, I woke up to the sound of little Jerry Cinnamon going down the stairs. And so I said to her, you know, do you want to get your breakfast? She went, no, no, no, go back to bed, Go back to bed. She wanted to make me breakfast in bed. Absolutely adorable. She showed up by herself. By herself. Herself.

[B]

She.

[A]

No, it was absolutely. She gave, she gave me. She got me a cup of half. She told me very proudly, half semi skimmed milk, half oat milk. So that was, that was very nice. Very nice start. Gorgeous. Loved that.

[B]

Then you haven't really decided your principles.

[A]

No, I haven't really. Some cow, I say, some cow. But then she, she got me Shreddies, Rice Krispies and Porridge oats all in one. All in one bowl with, with, with milk on the top. She'd made me a jam sandwich in which she tried to write with jam, I love you on the, on the actual sandwich. And then she said, I've made this. I've tried to write I love you. Can I eat it? Yes, of course you can. I'm not, you know, not eating a jam sandwich. I'm not a 6 year old. You are, of course.

[B]

How did. Was it recognizable as I love you in sham.

[A]

I'll show it to you and you can, you can make the decision. But I, you know, the sentiment was definitely recognizable. Yeah, yeah, but, but, yeah, so then that was the morning, basically, I ate some of the cereal, sort of porridge oats, you know, you leave them overnight, you've got a wonderful thing there. But immediate, immediate oats.

[B]

What about the bacon and corn sandwich?

[A]

No, that was very, very nice. I then got to see little Jerry Simmons performing in her school play, which was brilliant. She was absolutely wonderful. She was actually. She was. She was so good in it. I mean, she was, she was by far the best person in it, right, that everyone on the WhatsApp group, not the BBC News WhatsApp group, but everyone on the. On the WhatsApp group, the parents, WhatsApp group was saying how fantastic she was. And apparently she told me on Google Classrooms, people are talking about how good she is. And I was like, are you blowing up on Google Classrooms? Have you gone viral on Google Classrooms? So anyway, we've we have possibly created a monster who's believing their own hype. Early doors. But she was brilliant.

[B]

Any details on the play or the part?

[A]

Jungle Book. She was playing Car the Snake. Very, very good performance. Genuinely hypnotic, which is what you want from Car the Snake. That was really good. Had coffee with my mum, did therapy, went to Pizza Express. Wonderful day.

[B]

Absolutely amazing. So what's Ed Gamble tucking into us then? What's he.

[C]

I mean, so I'm trying to channel Ed a little bit.

[A]

Bit, yeah.

[B]

Do you think lunch with your mum. Come on.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

That's that sort of thing.

[A]

Mums are rubbish. That sort of thing. Yeah. Of course. My mom is absolutely wonderful on the.

[C]

WhatsApp group when the parents were being nice about her performance. They were only doing that because it was your birthday.

[A]

They didn't know it was my birthday, so. Damn. No, but I thought, I thought you were going to say this would have been it. Ed would have said they were being sarcastic.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Actually, everybody thinks.

[C]

They didn't mean that.

[A]

Everyone thinks you and your entire family are totally rubbish.

[B]

They think your wife's left you. That's. That's maybe in another angle anyway as well.

[A]

All of you, you're small. You're all small. With you with your built up shoulders. You're so small you can't even carry your grand's coffin. That's that kind of. That kind of caper. Absolutely. Anyway, Andy said. Sounds awful to be fair. Thank you, Andy. That's exactly what we were after. But I'm going to unwrap the present now. I'm going to unwrap the present because this is. This is so unbelievably kind of you. Now, you said it was orange related.

[B]

It is. Well, it's an orange. It's an orange item.

[A]

It's an orange orange item. It's looking like a T shirt. Oh, my. Oh, my goodness me. Is this a. Is this a Steely Dan Asia T shirt in orange?

[B]

It's a Steely Dan agent.

[A]

Oh, my God. This is. This is remotely. Asia. This is absolutely. This is absolutely Wonderful. Oh. Oh. IPhone.

[B]

It's not official merch. It's a piece of fan art. I love it and I, I. Oh, this world in which I'd love it to be a slightly higher quality quality cotton.

[A]

No, but this is. This is absolutely beautiful and I, I cannot. Well, you know what, we'll take a photo. You've got your.

[B]

I've got my. Nothing rhymes with orange.

[A]

Nothing rhymes with orange. Your new favorite band. Yes, my old favorite band. Let's do a photo shoot. Let's take it to the Gram guy. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby with Ivo Graham, Radio X. I can tell you now that when I went to Pizza Express, I had a Fiorentina and it was the classic bass. It was the classic bass. Of course it was. And I'm now a gold member at Pizza Express. It was a great day and the pizza was free. Cause it was my birthday half price on the piccolo meals. So one of my kids ate for free. It was fantastic.

[B]

Did you pick a favorite and tell them which one it was?

[C]

What does a gold member mean?

[A]

It means even more. Well, listen, this is getting dangerously close to spon ad, but it means even more discounts, even more deals via the app, even more, let's face it, dough balls. Yeah, that's the bit that Pizza Express are not afraid to chuck away. You know, if you go. If you go to Pizza Express, they ask you do a server, they chuck you some dough balls. They basically can't, you know, I love dough balls. I absolutely adore double walking.

[B]

Slap down your gold card and say doppio min.

[A]

At the very least, fiverr.

[B]

You're a bit.

[C]

You're a dough ball aficionado, aren't you?

[B]

I. I think so. Sorry. Yes. I enjoy them. It's a bad thing of being like, when have I said that to Vin? But I think I have.

[C]

I think, I think you've either said that to me or I've heard you say that.

[B]

So. Okay.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

No, I think they're absolutely fantastic. Yes.

[A]

I'll say one thing about it. In the piccolo meal, you get a little sort of sliced cucumber and sliced tomato on the side. You don't get that in the adults meal. I'd like the. I'd like the sliced cucumber. I like the sliced tomato. Why are you not giving us that as well?

[B]

But surely you're in a position now where you can kind of make these demands. That's what, you know, that's what, that's what the membership's for.

[A]

Listen, don't tell anybody. I bring mine from home in a Tupperware. That's what I do. That's what I do. Now, you said you had a gift for Vin.

[B]

Well, it's actually starting to feel very relevant to the world of crude because I wanted to bring Vin something a bit closer to your gift, which hasn't arrived, Finn. So there's a better present in the post. In the meantime, it's just a classic orange thing for Vin. It's some carrots And I'm afraid I've gone with taste the difference British sweet spear carrots.

[A]

Because it's so easy just to go.

[B]

With the cheapest carrots. But these are long and thin and proud and what are you dipping them in, Vin?

[C]

These are enormous.

[B]

Don't you worry, it's the hummus and we don't need to haul out the brand again. But you said last week this was your fave. It's mine as well. I'm throwing it to you. He's caught it. And it's a beautiful thought that within minutes of us being off air, you might be dipping some very, very long carrots into a very, very spicy hummus.

[C]

Within a few minutes, this tub could be empty.

[B]

That's huge. I'm delighted for you.

[C]

I can do that. I could do that in a minute, I reckon.

[B]

I mean, do we have a minute now?

[A]

No, listen, sadly, sadly, we've got to make way for big Danny Wallace. I'm tempted, but do you want to try and. Do you want to try and eat an entire tub of hummus? I mean, you know, if we could turn it into sort of gonzo zoo radio.

[C]

I do want to do that.

[A]

Of course you do. But you know what, do it in the privacy of your own life.

[C]

I'm just thinking that one day we're going to have a pre record and we're going to need a link.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

So don't waste this now.

[A]

Yes, absolutely. Well, it's great to have Jack. Absolutely. There's your birthday card.

[B]

Matthew. Vintage from a selection that I brought in. It's been a pleasure to be on. Can't wait to hear about Vin's one minute hummus challenge. Of course. And Matthew's got a card saying with a dinosaur on saying, have a Rawson.

[A]

Have a Rawson birthday. I absolutely love it. Ivo Graham, it's been a total delight having you come in and co host these last two weeks. Remind us again where you're gonna be on tour. What's the name of the show?

[B]

From February till June with my tour, Orange Crush starting in Hartford on Tuesday. Thank you for very much. Good luck with you, Vin, with the biggest minute of your life, whenever that should happen.

[C]

I don't need that luck.

[A]

Okay, it's nailed on. You've been rehearsing for this your entire life. Stick around for the big dw. Danny Wallace will be joining us or not joining us. I mean, I'm off. I'm going home. I'm going home anyway. But Danny, the opposite of what's going to happen. No, you know what? I'm off home. You do what you like. If you want to listen to Danny Wallace's show, fine. I don't care.

[C]

I'm off.

[A]

I'm out of here. No, Danny Wallace's show is absolutely brilliant.

[B]

We're one big family here at RadioAct. Of course.

[A]

Yeah, exactly. I'm just gonna be satisfied in the corner, chuckling away like the rest of them. Have a wonderful week, everybody. See you very soon. Bye bye. Radio X Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. So, folks, that was the show. Ivo, it's been an absolute joy having you here the last two weeks. It's been great.

[B]

I've had a lovely time. Thank you very much.

[A]

Oh, it's. It's always. And just to tell you what, What a nice boy Ivo Graham is, we went off just a moment ago to go make some coffees, right. And Ivo, like a tr. Gentlemen, started unpacking the dishwasher and putting the mugs back on the shelves. What a nice guy.

[B]

Good of you to say, Matthew.

[A]

Really, really.

[B]

I think what it actually shows is my lack of, you know, respect for the priorities of being literally on air.

[C]

They did come into the corridor to find you.

[A]

Well, I take seconds before the song goes, I'll tell you what was happening there. I was getting confused by the taps. I'd made four cups of coffee with cold water already, even though I was like going, oh, made it with cold water. Chuck it away, make it again. Still cold. I don't know why. It's very clear. The red button is the hot, the white button, the blue button is the cold. It's very clear. But, yeah, I made a load of cold coffees and then I came back and started tidying up for us, which.

[B]

And also it's slightly sort of passag as well from a guest. If someone comes to your home and starts tidying up, it can be a bit shaming as well. And this is your home.

[A]

This is very much. Well, it is my home on a Sunday. And I'll say on a Sunday it's at its worst because the people whose job it is to keep the home tidy, right, they don't work as much on a Sunday, I think it's fair to say. Well, there aren't as many people to tidy up for and everything here is in great order.

[B]

But there's a bit of a log jam mug wise in the Global Sink at the moment.

[A]

There often is at this time on a Sunday morning. But it really is. That's a Saturday night problem.

[B]

And all the mugs without exception, are Global branded. They're identical mugs.

[C]

There was a big clear out a few years ago because people had. People were bringing their own mugs. Plus there were, you know, there was just other branding. There was disgusting. And it's. It's really like. It's really stark now. You open the cupboard and it's all. You're just hit by a big, big block of blue.

[B]

Yeah. I've never seen as many of the same kind of mug in my life.

[A]

I don't think it's very severance.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

What it is, it feels, you know, it feels slightly dystopian.

[C]

I understand it because I think the point was if. If you're then getting a cup of tea and you're coming into a studio and you may be caught on camera, of course the company want you to.

[A]

Have Global on your mate.

[C]

Of course they do. But it does make me sad. It was. It was nice when you. You didn't know. It was a bit of potluck.

[B]

But there's a great story in the world of football, Matthew, but I think a story that you might be able to find some enjoyment in. The recently sacked Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank has not been popular at Tottenham Hotspur because results were very poor. But also he showed too much deference to Arsenal for the liking of spurs fans, who. We want everyone to hate Arsenal and really sort of imbue that. And Thomas Frank. Somehow they'd played at Arsenal and Finn, if you can provide any specific details, detail here. But somehow Arsenal had left. Almost like they planted it, some Arsenal branded cups. And at a later fixture, Thomas Frank gave a press conference where he was holding an Arsenal cup. Not even when they played Arsenal. Such an insane mistake to have made.

[C]

He was drinking a cup of tea, wasn't he?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Presumably it's just somebody's made him a cup of tea and given. Just given him a cup of tea. He hasn't thought about it.

[A]

Do you think the person who made the cup of tea thought, this will be funny and he'll have a good laugh when I hand him the ice.

[C]

I imagine my assumption is it's just somebody. Somebody hasn't thought that all this matters at all.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which it doesn't.

[B]

No.

[A]

Let's be honest.

[C]

And he's just. He's just gone with it.

[B]

But it's the sort of thing you don't want to happen when you're already. When your neck is already on the line.

[A]

Absolutely.

[B]

You're not leaning into the tribal loyalties of the Derby enough to then be wielding Opposition branding disaster.

[A]

The next press conference where he dressed as Gunnasaurus. That was on him. That was on him.

[B]

Great knowledge, Matthew, of course.

[A]

Well, you know what? I don't enjoy the beautiful game, but I love a beautiful Landico and that certainly was. So we've had a message in from. Who is this from? Just says love you, bye. Da da da da da. Does it say well, we'll fight? We'll find out as I carry on reading it. Hi Ed. Matthew and Vin. And I'm sure they would have said. I both knew. Just wanted to let you know that I'm. What I'm up to as someone born in 1997, living in Chicago. Okay, here we go. This is for our sort of regular youth. Youth correspondence. Yeah, yeah. So we've got here.

[C]

Are they using WhatsApp updates in the club?

[A]

They use. Are they getting a BBC update on WhatsApp in the club? Of course. Knitting a sweater. Hoping to hear back from a job I interviewed for. Writing about my ex for a friend's zine. As friends citizen's back. That was what I was up to in the, in, in the late 90s.

[C]

Like vinyl. Is it like. Cuz it's like an old tattoo.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Medium.

[A]

Photocopied. C. I used to make photocopied zines to try and impress the members of bands I fancied. You know, like local bands. I wasn't trying to, you know, I wasn't trying to chirp Justin Frischman. I was like, you know, I was trying to. Trying to get girls who went to Newsted Wood and had a band to go out with me.

[B]

It's great. When the younger end of the demographic is 28 year olds writing zines. That's as close as we're gonna go.

[A]

Rating movies on letterboxd, going to concerts, microwave soon. I don't know what that means.

[B]

Is that a band?

[A]

Is that a band? Is there a band called Micro? I mean, presumably wondering if the last person I hooked up with is ever going to text me again or if I should make a hinge profile. Fast walking to bus stops, complaining about the lack of vegetarian options in restaurants. Getting to the airport so late I'm in danger of missing my flight. That feels like one of yours, doesn't it?

[B]

Very much so.

[A]

That's it. Best of luck in your research on the youth. Hope I could help as a 28 year old. Who forgets they're not still 26. Love you. Bye. P.S. see you soon, Ed.

[B]

The heart bleeds.

[A]

I know. This is what happens Isn't it? Every year you get to. You go, well, that's it, isn't it? You know, I mean, it was my birthday this week, I turned 46 and, you know, you've got to really sort of fight against the world.

[B]

You're not 44 anymore.

[A]

You're 44 anymore. Not 44 forever. Pull yourself together. Update from our friend says update. I got a text back then, colon ppp, which I guess is tongue out. But like happy tongue out.

[B]

Happy tongue out.

[A]

Happy tongue out.

[B]

To a few news stories, haven't you? Absolutely.

[A]

I'm happy you gave the budget the happy tongue. Happy to give the budget a happy tongue. So have you got any? Have you got any Beck reqs Ivo Graham.

[B]

If you'll forgive the relentless pursuit of my orange agenda, I would like to recommend a new band from Wiltshire as well from devisors, currently Bristol based, I believe, and they're called Nothing Rhymes With Orange. And they very much, I would say, in the Radio X lineage, like they. I mean, to give you an idea of who their influences are, the four band members favorite albums are Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf, Sports by Modern Baseball, oh, lovely. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.

[A]

Oh, my goodness.

[B]

And huge news for me in May 2027, favourite worst nightmare by the Arctic Monkeys club.

[A]

There we go. Yes.

[B]

Two members of the band came to the Arctic Monkeys club night. They were a fantastic energy. I believe they took their tops off of the rubble. So I'm a huge fan of them. I would particularly recommend my favourite of their songs, which is called Friday Is. And I'm hoping to do some more stuff with them in the greater Wiltshire area. So I'm in today wearing a Nothing rhymes with Orange T shirt. I've committed in full and I really think it's a strong rep for people who enjoy the Radio X playlist.

[A]

Fantastic. Well, when we take a picture at the end of this, I'll make sure your T shirt is on, is on full display. Good of you to say Matthew Beck's Rex from you, Beckrex from me. The band, remember Sports, have a brand new album out. I think they're absolutely amazing. They're not a million miles away from that kind of Americana grunge energy thing that Rat Boys I recommended last week. But I think their new album is fantastic.

[B]

I love Rat Boys album.

[A]

It's good.

[B]

I was listening to it within one minute of saying goodbye to you and it was. I think I texted you immediately. Yeah, it was instant pet crack.

[A]

Yeah, well, you check out, remember Sports. They've got a Chaucer quote on the front of their up for some reason, for about an American band. I've got no idea why they've got a Chaucer quote, which is. I'm gonna. Let me. Let me find it for it. Let me find it for you now. It's about, you know, the light. The light. I think it's like the life is. The life is so short and the craft so hard to master. Or something like that. Along those. Along those lines. And did you look it up or.

[B]

Did you recognize it?

[A]

No. The life is so short, the craft so long to learn. Written in, like, oldie English. But the album's called the Refrigerator, so, you know, the modern and the classic, you know. But it's a really, really fantastic album. Remember, Sports, the Refrigerator. That is my big bet. Rec. What about you, Vin?

[C]

Obviously. Check Chains of Love. Charlie xcx.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

I haven't listened to the full album.

[A]

I love Chains of Love.

[C]

I think it's so. I mean, it's Billions by Caroline Polachek.

[B]

Okay. Yes.

[C]

Which is brilliant. So you know, both of those. And April Skies by the Jesus and Mary chain.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Just think that's good.

[A]

Fantastic. All right. Brilliant.

[B]

I don't know. April Skies, but Just like Honey is, of course, the iconic final scene of Lost in Translation.

[A]

It is, yeah.

[B]

Set my birthplace, of course.

[A]

That is a move I describe as remotely Asian. Yeah, yeah, it's a remotely Asian movie. Okay.

[B]

Well, problematically so at a couple of.

[A]

Points in the film. I'd say so. I'd say so.

[C]

I watched the Dodge Ealing Limited this week.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Never seen that before.

[B]

Great.

[C]

And Bill Murray's very good in it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

For the 30 seconds he's in it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The Bill Murray remotely Asian filmography is a fantastic catalog.

[A]

Actually.

[B]

Don't have a third, love. The dodgy Limited do.

[A]

Get in touch Sunday at radiox.co.uk, and I'll WhatsApp it to Iovo with a news story. Have a wonderful week, everybody. And again, massive. Massive. Thanks for coming in and doing the show. We'd love to see you back again very soon.

[B]

Thank you very much for having me, guys. It's a big pleasure.

[A]

One final big plug for the tour.

[B]

The spring tour of the Orange Show. Orange Crush will start in Hertford and move swiftly to Brighton and then to Stamford and then to a few more. More places. If I had to shout out one more. Aberdeen, please.

[A]

Aberdeen, Absolutely right. Ivo, Graham, wonderful having you on the show. See you very soon, man.

[B]

It's been like can.

[A]

It's been like can. All right. Have a wonderful week.

[B]

Bye. Bye.