Episode 350 – Sleepy Morrissey

Summary

Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby on Radio X

Episode 350 – Sleepy Morrissey
Date: March 15, 2026
Podcast Host: Global
Main Hosts: Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby (Crunch & Crumble)
Producer: Vin

Episode Overview

This episode marks Matthew Crosby’s return from his North American tour, reuniting the duo for a packed Sunday morning of comedy, listener emails, transatlantic tales, and lighthearted musings. From Morrissey’s latest gig drama to American stand-up audiences, bizarre listener anecdotes, and heated campaigns for the radio’s best British song, the show bursts with their usual blend of silliness, quick banter, and surprisingly sincere reflections on aging, loneliness, and the joys of travel.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Matthew’s Return & North American Tour Adventures

• Catch Up & Reunification: The episode opens with Ed welcoming Matthew back after “five weeks” away on his comedy tour.
  • “It gives me so much pleasure to say it is Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby back on the radio where we belong. It's been, what, five weeks away? You've been away for five weeks, Edward.” (09:37)
• Matthew’s Tour Experiences:
  • Friendly, enthusiastic North American audiences (“most enthusiastic audiences I’ve ever had” – 10:50).
  • Sometimes lonely and awkward moments—like spending Valentine’s Day solo in a Seattle dumpling restaurant (13:15), and getting mistaken for being on a date with another solo diner in Montreal (14:30).
  • Dealing with cultural humor gaps and unfamiliar American jobs, and discovering that referencing “heated rivalry” (a nod to hockey) always wins over the crowd in Canadian shows (12:28).
  • Unique tour project: only listening to music from the city he’s visiting—a diet in Seattle of Frasier’s “tossed salad and scrambled eggs” song (13:40).

Notable Quote:
"Because I was alone a lot of the time, I was relying on the gigs being good... Quite often, the first real conversation I had in a day was started with, what's your name? What do you do? Which isn't a great feeling..."
— Matthew Crosby (11:37)

2. Listener Interaction & Recurring Show Jokes

• Classic Listener Emails: The show relishes bizarre listener correspondence, often referencing show in-jokes and previously forgotten text topics (e.g., cats bringing owls into houses, mistaken song lyrics, celebrity lookalikes, and “lap-based” anecdotes).
  • "The jingle for the film review...I only just realized that Ed says minds of popcorn and not lines of popcorn. For years I've had a lovely image of Ed snorting a line of popcorn kernels.” — Email from Morgan (02:55)
  • Celebrity lookalikes as a teenager become a recurring self-deprecating theme: “So it's like this is what we're... Who do you used to look like as a teenage girl?” (04:33)
• Text-in and Topic Brainstorming: The trio riff on absurd prompts, like lap-related celebrity stories (“Have you ever given a celebrity a lap dance?”), discussing who has “the most famous lap” (Santa, from Lapland) and playing with the riddle “What disappears when you stand up?” (07:00).

3. Ed’s American Persona & Spoof Radio Format

• Ed returns from America with a “Captain Cowboy” persona, debuting a parody of US radio complete with new accents and prank plans (“Captain Cowboy and the Raisin”—08:29). The bit sets up the show’s tendency to gleefully mock themselves and British/American radio differences.

4. City Life, Steampunk, and Heavy Metal

• Quick Dives into Subcultures: Casual observations about steampunk’s fleeting trendiness (15:36) and the steampunk moment in Wild Wild West.
• Heavy Metal Chat: Later, they campaign for Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” as the greatest British song—failing when the song isn’t eligible for the vote.

Notable Quote:
"I mean, I just. I'm baffled by the fact that anyone ever was [into steampunk]." — Ed Gamble (15:36)

5. Historical Tourism & American Oddities

• DC Tourism: Matthew gets a private, Taskmaster-fan-led tour of Ford’s Theatre, sharing quirky details about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination (“Johnny Peanuts” the peanut boy holding Booth’s horse).
  • “...the person he got to hold his horse was the boy who handed out the peanuts at the theater.” (21:35)
• International Spy Museum: Matthew enjoys skipping the exhibits to do the kid-oriented “secret agent” assignments (23:18).

6. Banter about Aging, Health, and Birthdays

• Both hosts reflect on turning 40, physical ailments (shoulder injuries, “feeling 40”), and birthday celebrations.
  • “...I've not been working out at all, so I feel like an absolute bag of Blanche.” — Ed Gamble (27:43)

7. Producer Vin’s Turkish Adventure

• Vin shares his oddly practical Istanbul trip: getting the closest shave of his life at a Turkish barber but skipping the classic tourist dental work, and being transfixed by Istanbul’s abundance of cats (31:46).
  • “I’d recommend going to Istanbul. There’s cats everywhere.” (31:31)

8. Morrissey: The Sleepy Headliner

• The episode’s namesake: Discussion of Morrissey canceling a show in Spain due to sleep deprivation from nearby festival noise.
  • “It’s the first time I’ve agreed with Morrissey in a long time ... but I wouldn’t cancel a gig because I’m sleepy.” — Matthew Crosby (33:54)
• Ed recounts his own past experience having flown to, then missing, a Morrissey concert (“He loves cancelling, doesn’t he?” – 34:54)
• Morrissey’s notorious no-shows: fans have calculated more than 400 cancelled gigs in his career (36:05)

Notable Quote:
"Even Morrissey isn’t convinced by Morrissey anymore. Even Morrissey’s like, I don’t think I should be going to see Morrissey." — Ed Gamble (36:23)

9. Emergency Tape & Radio Mishaps

• A Kings of Leon track gets interrupted by Joy Division—revealing the existence of the “emergency tape” when there’s dead air, leading to playful speculation about whether it also activates when a show’s just “not good enough.” (37:09)

10. Mother’s Day Segment

• An irreverent survey of “top mothers,” from Mamma Mia, Mother Brown, The Mummy (from "The Mummy"), Mother Teresa, to band Stacy’s Mom.
• Tongue-in-cheek exploration of restaurant names and international cuisine (“Mamma Mia” Chinese restaurant), and discussing the weirdness of "Mamma Mia" being a Swedish band’s song in an Italian-named musical set in Greece.

11. Voting for Best British Song Fiasco

• The campaign to get “War Pigs” to number one in the Top 500 British songs is upended when it’s found ineligible; the show shifts support to “Paranoid”—in between listeners defiantly texting in “War Pigs” regardless (44:00).

12. Language Quirks & Silliness

• The segment on Ed’s pronunciation of “Charlotte,” “shallots,” and “culottes” leads to a surreal tongue-twister and rapid descent into nonsense.
  • “Charlotte’s culottes are full of shallots.” (48:08)

13. Recommendations & Beck-Recs

• Matthew shares in-flight and on-the-road film reviews:
  • “Final Destination: Bloodlines” (quirkily praised as a franchise highlight)
  • “There Will Be Blood” (first watch, deeply enjoyed by both)
  • “Ruby Roofman” (Channing Tatum’s real-life robbery flick)
  • “Nirvana the Band: The Show: The Movie” (wacky indie comedy discovery in Philly)
• Vin recommends the "Help 2" album (Warchild), especially Young Fathers and English Teacher tracks, and the Turkish dish “Gözleme.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• "I was relying on the gigs being good... the first conversation I had in a day was, 'what's your name, what do you do?'" — Matthew Crosby (11:37)
• "You know what disappears when you stand up and it's not your erection." — Ed Gamble (07:01)
• "It's got to be Santa. And he's from Lapland." — Matthew Crosby (06:52)
• "I drink your milkshake. I drink it up!" — Ed Gamble, quoting "There Will Be Blood" (54:45)
• "He snuck into the booth... killed Abraham Lincoln and then jumped from the balcony onto the stage to escape and did a performance. Broke his leg." — Matthew Crosby (20:38)
• "It’s the golden age of cellulite, just in case anyone was asking." — Ed Gamble (03:11)
• "It’s like, Quidditch from Harry Potter... since heated rivalry everyone’s out to play their fake sport." — Ed Gamble (12:56)
• "You celebrated with food, which is, of course, your big thing." — Ed Gamble (27:00)
• "Imagine a place and then imagine a cat's there. And that's what Istanbul's like." — Producer Vin (32:08)
• "More cat. More cats than dogs, of course." — Producer Vin (32:47)
• "It’s just a total washout… total washouts of paranoia. Again, thank you, Goddell. I will say we’ve had some very great, some wonderful entries here for the favorite mother…” — Ed Gamble (45:46)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:10 – Reunited: Ed welcomes Matthew back; open banter
• 09:37 – Matthew’s tour – US audience quirks; loneliness on the road
• 13:15 – Seattle Valentine’s Day anecdote
• 15:36 – Steampunk, subcultures, and Camden Market
• 20:00 – Matthew’s private Ford’s Theatre tour & “Johnny Peanuts”
• 27:00 – Aging and “feeling 40”
• 31:31 – Producer Vin’s Istanbul hair adventure and city of cats
• 33:38–36:23 – Morrissey’s “sleepy” gig cancellation, career of flakiness
• 37:09 – “Emergency tape” radio mishap
• 40:47 – Mother’s Day: irreverent “Top Mothers” survey
• 44:00 – “War Pigs” campaign fails
• 48:08 – “Charlotte’s culottes are full of shallots” tongue-twister
• 53:09 – Beck-Recs: film reviews and music recommendations

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Episode Flow & Structure

• Warm Opening: Banter, reunion, in-jokes
• Listener Emails: Wacky anecdotes, running jokes
• Tour & Travel Talk: Matthew’s North America tales
• Comedy & Satire: Parody radio formats, absurd text topics
• Cultural Dive: Steampunk, sports, Morrissey’s drama
• Life Talk: Dealing with age and injury
• Guest/Producer Segment: Vin’s Turkish trip
• Music & Campaigns: Heavy metal love, Black Sabbath campaign, “emergency tape” mix-up
• Mother’s Day Fun: Playful survey of “Best Mothers”
• Recommendations: Films, albums, Turkish food
• Gentle Closing: More Beck-Recs, mutual appreciation, goodbyes

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Summary

This rich, energetic episode offers a seamless mix of observational comedy, playful cultural commentary, and true podcast warmth. Whether poking fun at Morrissey’s flakiness, sharing vulnerable tales of loneliness on the road, diving into radio mishaps, or staging silly campaigns for heavy metal songs and “Best Mothers,” Ed and Matthew make the personal universal—and always hilarious. Regular listeners and newcomers alike will find laughs, familiarity, and surprising sincerity in the pair’s reflections and digressions.

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For New Listeners:
Start here for peak Crunch & Crumble—classic rapport, collective in-jokes, and the sense that even the silliest moments are somehow profound (and vice versa). Skip the sleep, but not the show.

Transcript

[Ed Gamble]

This is a global Player original podcast.

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello and welcome to the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby podcast of the radio show that we do. I do now and again here on Radio X. And I'm back. Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

He's back, everybody. Very, very exciting to have you back. It's been. I mean, I saw you this week. We worked together this week.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

We did.

[Ed Gamble]

You were a sight for sore eyes. It's so nice to see you.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're always working together these days.

[Ed Gamble]

We're always working together. Yeah. We're the few working.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're two of the workers.

[Ed Gamble]

We're two of the. We're two. We are two of the workers. Exactly. And I tell you what, this show's work, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, goodness.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, my goodness me, no.

[Matthew Crosby]

There's a lot of Ed's back chat.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, we.

[Matthew Crosby]

We don't. I mean, as with every show, I

[Ed Gamble]

talk about my life, Ed gives me back chat. Yeah, that's kind of how it goes. No, we will. You'll find out all about Ed's adventures in America.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

So that's very, very North America.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're saying North America because I was in Canada as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, of course you were in Canada.

[Matthew Crosby]

Even though they don't really like being referred to as part of America. No.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, increasingly.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're not like the police.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

They hate it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Do you say not. They're not like the police.

[Matthew Crosby]

They don't like the police.

[Ed Gamble]

They don't like the police. Well, I don't need to bring poor old Sting into this.

[Matthew Crosby]

The play, please. We got this email in from Morgan. I love hearing from people who are listening to the back catalogue.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Answering things that we obviously don't remember. No clue, dear Crunch, crumple and whistle down the vin. How are you?

[Ed Gamble]

Very well, thank you. How are you doing, man?

[Matthew Crosby]

Fine, thanks. Still working my way through your back catalogue. Just finished World cup of Fruit. That did not happen. In answer to your question, how did the cat get the owl in the house? Oh, do you remember this?

[Ed Gamble]

No.

[Matthew Crosby]

Did your cat bring an owl in the house?

[Ed Gamble]

No. Because I'm assuming it's gotta be Morgan's cat, right? Hasn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

So in answer to your question, how did the cat get the owl into the house?

[Ed Gamble]

How did the cat get the owl?

[Matthew Crosby]

So maybe this is an interaction with Morgan we've had in the past.

[Ed Gamble]

Morgan is answering the question, but I've got.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, I don't remember asking this question.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't remember asking this question.

[Matthew Crosby]

We were having work done on our fireplace and there was no cap on the chimney. And the owl flew down the chimney and into the front room just like in the Sword and the Stone cartoon. Thanks, Morgan, for answering that question. Finally. For years I've been worried about this. How did the cat get the owl into the house?

[Ed Gamble]

So what's. What's going on there? Could somebody else get in touch, please? Could somebody else who's listened to a lot of get in touch and tell us what's going on there with that, with Morgan's message? It doesn't need to be you, Morgan. We'd like someone else to tell us what's going on about that, please.

[Matthew Crosby]

It can't be you, Morgan. It can't be you, Morgan. Yeah, possible text to topic. What did you what?

[Ed Gamble]

This is a good one actually.

[Matthew Crosby]

What did. Used to you not know what it was?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. What did. Used to you know not not know what it was? Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

But now know what it is.

[Ed Gamble]

But now know what it is?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. The jingle for the film review. That's it. Answering the question you set up. What did Used to you not know what it was?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

But now what it is.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

The jingle for the film review review. This is what Morgan's saying. Despite having listened to this many times, I only just realized that Ed says minds of popcorn and not lines of popcorn. For years I've had a lovely image of Ed snorting a line of popcorn kernels. Oh well, Morgan. Thank you, Morgan.

[Ed Gamble]

Lines of popcorn. Yes. And it's the golden age of cellulite. Just in case anyone was asking. Yes, this is. We've had a couple of hooded used to look likes some. Some really strong ones. We've had one from Ken who says good morning Crunch Crumble in Good morning Crunch Crumble in absentia and associated who do you used to. Noel Gallagher. But only for a single day. I got a new haircut and didn't know how to style it and was apparently possessed by the spirit of Noel for that single day. As everybody told me I looked like him. Not what you want to hear as a. As a 15 year old girl. Best of luck in the charts this weekend.

[Matthew Crosby]

What a twist.

[Ed Gamble]

What a twist. The name Ken as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Really takes you. You're assuming it's Ken Livingstone.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I'm assuming it's an old Yorkshire man.

[Ed Gamble]

Exactly, it's Ken. But there we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's what I'm thinking of.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, Ken. This is from Megan. Hello, Ed. Or current host Matthew. And having fun isn't hard. And you've got a library card. I'm probably a bit late on the who day. Used to look like. No, never too late. Never too late. We were just doing the owl in the fireplace earlier on. But many years ago in high school, I was sitting in an early morning science class when a friend turned to me and asked, has anyone told you that you look like Mr. Bean? Maybe not the most ideal celebrity look alike for most teenagers, but there's the added level that I was a teenage girl at the time. So it's like this is what we're. Who do you used to look like as a teenage girl? Has become the new.

[Matthew Crosby]

I like to hear that we finally, after many years of the show, got some female listeners. But there's a theme running. They were all absolute uggos.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Yeah. It may have been a bigger blow. May have been a bigger blow. You didn't like that?

[Vin (Producer)]

I noticed it. Stop looking at me.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm making direct eye contact with you.

[Matthew Crosby]

So cheeky.

[Ed Gamble]

Giving you a bit of the old Dr. Zoidberg. It may have been a bigger blow to my self esteem, even if I was. Even if I wasn't a huge Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson fan. Also, I saw an Instagram ad for Ed's show in Seattle last week. So it's working, but it was too late to even think about going. So it wasn't quite working.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, it wasn't quite working. That was, I'd say mid Feb. Yeah. Is that a show? Yeah, Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I feel like he would appreciate that. We have a local burger chain called Dick's Drive Ins, so eat a bag of Dick's. Might not be the insult around here that it is elsewhere. Good luck in the charts this week, Megan. Thank you, Megan. Thank you, Beanie. We've got this from Steve here. Hi, Ed, Matthew and wall to wall Vindi Bangers. I haven't sat in a celebrity's lap. We didn't get any of those, did we? It's a real shame I haven't sat in a celebrity's lap, but I did sit next to Alec Guinness, I think on the tube once.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's not what we asked.

[Ed Gamble]

Have we asked at all?

[Matthew Crosby]

A celebrity sat in my lap.

[Ed Gamble]

Who's that?

[Matthew Crosby]

Can't tell you. Oh,

[Ed Gamble]

there we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

Can't tell you.

[Ed Gamble]

Can you tell me off mic?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, okay, I'll tell you off mic.

[Ed Gamble]

All right.

[Matthew Crosby]

But that's a good one as well. If a celebrity sat on your lap.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Any lap based celebrity anecdotes, we'll take them. Have you ever given a celebrity a lap dance?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, that's Good. I mean, I'm not sure we'll get many.

[Ed Gamble]

Listen, I'm just trying to broaden it out a little bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

Has a celebrity ever given you a lap dance?

[Ed Gamble]

Has nobody ever given you a lap dance episode?

[Matthew Crosby]

Does your lap look like a celebrity's lap?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Are you lap twins with any famous faces?

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, famous laps.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yes, of course, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, no, no, the face has to

[Ed Gamble]

be the famous bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

It needs to be. Are you lap twins with any famous faces?

[Ed Gamble]

Are you lap twins with any famous faces?

[Vin (Producer)]

I think that's harder.

[Matthew Crosby]

Or are you fine like this? Are you face twins with any famous laps?

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah. There we go.

[Ed Gamble]

There we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you. Y Happier now?

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah. It's good to work through these things.

[Ed Gamble]

Who do you reckon, and this is a question more for the listeners, who do you reckon's got the most famous lap?

[Matthew Crosby]

That's more. Santa.

[Ed Gamble]

Santa? Yeah. It's gotta be. And he's from Lapland.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Is it. It's only a lap if you sit down, isn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it goes away.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. It goes away when you stand.

[Ed Gamble]

That was the old, the old riddle of like what disappears when you stand up and it's not your erection.

[Matthew Crosby]

Certainly not mine.

[Ed Gamble]

Certainly not yours. It's absolutely huge. Are you sure you're 40?

[Matthew Crosby]

I can only get one when I'm standing up. It's an absolute nightmare.

[Ed Gamble]

Just because it's. Because it's a blood flow question. Yes. Family caravanning disaster. We were half a mile into a long journey from Somerset to the Lake District and the rear side wheel fell off the caravan. Regards, Steve. Thank you, Steve.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thanks, Steve.

[Ed Gamble]

Right, well, let's just get into the show, shall we? And we cannot. You're still thinking about laps, aren't you? You're deep. You're deep in. You're deep in a lap based reverie.

[Vin (Producer)]

That's fine.

[Ed Gamble]

What is it? What's the problem?

[Vin (Producer)]

No, you're right. Let's get into the show.

[Ed Gamble]

Would you want us to do more emails? We could do more. We'll do more on the other side.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, we have to stop now anyway.

[Ed Gamble]

And we've got a ton of Beck,

[Vin (Producer)]

Rex, we've got to do a link.

[Ed Gamble]

We've got to do the show.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, let's do this. That's the end of the intro.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's fine. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

There we go. End of the intro, guys. See you on the other side.

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

Well, what's up, suckers and howdy. It's Ed Gamble here back on Radio X with Matthew Crosby on Sunday. Morning until 11am and as some of y' all know, I've been in America, y', all, for the last few. And let me tell y', all, those cats really know how to do radio. I've been picking up loads of tips and tricks to make this radio show better. So now we're no longer called Ed Gamble and Magic Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ugh.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

Introducing Captain Cowboy and the Raisin. I'm Captain Cowboy because despite never being here, I'm in charge. And Matthew is the raisin because he lives in a tiny little box. But what about producer Vin? Well, Vin will be on air with a very important job. First of all, he will have an American accent, won't you, Vin?

[Ed Gamble]

Howdy. That's good.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

Also, he'll be in charge of the sound effects. Like when someone says something outrageous, he'll play this. When someone says something sexy, he'll play this. And when we want to pay tribute to our wonderful government, he'll play this. The raisin will be our prank victim. Later on today, I'll be waxing his butt. And then next week, one of the gladiators will be coming into the studio to punch him in the face and then wax his butt. Hope y' all like the new look show. Praise George Bush, but will the bosses like it? No one knows.

[Radio X Announcer]

Radio X. Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Ed Gamble]

It gives me so much pleasure to say it is Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby back on the radio where we belong. It's been, what, five weeks away? You've been away for five weeks, Edward.

[Matthew Crosby]

Toot, toot. I'm back in the building.

[Ed Gamble]

Toot, toot. He is back.

[Matthew Crosby]

I can't remember what were my catchphrases. It's so long.

[Ed Gamble]

Toot, toot, toot. I'm back in the building that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Toot, toot. I'm back in the building. Yes, I'm back from my American tour, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. And it seemed like because we had a few listeners got in touch to say they'd seen you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

People sent me messages on Instagram, said, I saw red last night. I said, I don't care. What are you telling me? Doesn't bother me in any way. Why have I unbricked my device for this? But, yeah, a lot of people got in touch like this. They saw you, they thought it was absolutely fantastic.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, I had a lovely time, Rhys. James.

[Ed Gamble]

Dad was there. He had a great time. He gave us a review a couple of weeks ago. He sent in a review. He said, you're very funny.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, I heard the review. I was sent the review. Before it went out on air, I loved it. It was like listening to a golden age sports reporter.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, absolutely. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

He had a real sort of reporting on what happened at the test match that day.

[Ed Gamble]

Feel it did have a cricket vibe.

[Matthew Crosby]

And let me tell you, he was a wonderful audience member, I assume.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, he was one of many wonderful audience members. I'm guessing you did. Did you have any. Any trouble with the. With the Yanks?

[Matthew Crosby]

No. I mean, honestly, the most enthusiastic audiences I've ever had.

[Ed Gamble]

They love it.

[Matthew Crosby]

They love it. They absolutely love it. And I was on stage, I said on stage once, I think. I think I said, I know why American comics have such a swagger now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Because they know they're walking out to you guys.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely. I know why so many American comics don't have punchlines, because the audience is just excited to be.

[Matthew Crosby]

They find their own.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. It's fantastic the number of Netflix specials you watch where they start with a standing ovation.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You're like, okay, what have they done?

[Matthew Crosby]

I know, I got a couple.

[Ed Gamble]

Did you?

[Matthew Crosby]

Not at the beginning, to be fair.

[Ed Gamble]

Right. You got a few at the end.

[Matthew Crosby]

I got a few at the end. Which I've never really had before and certainly wasn't deserved, but, yeah, very enthusiastic.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't do yourself down. You're a very funny boy.

[Matthew Crosby]

But because I was alone a lot of the time.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

I was relying on the gigs being good.

[Ed Gamble]

Cause that was all you had.

[Matthew Crosby]

Because that's what I had. And quite often, the first real conversation I had in a day was started with, what's your name? What do you do? Which isn't a great feeling, you know, There were some places across the tour where I knew people in the cities, but then there were great swathes of America where I don't know anyone. So, no, of course, you know, Portland, Seattle, D.C. chicago. I was completely alone, just being like, come on, here we go.

[Ed Gamble]

Did you have to sort of think about, you know, before you go and do some crowd work with Americans? Do you have to think about it in case. Because you know what? We know what British jobs are, you know, policemen, firemen, I work for the nhs. That kind of stuff.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's those three.

[Ed Gamble]

Those are the three. Three, exactly. But if someone says, oh, I run a dude ranch.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you say there?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. I'd be like, is that a. Is that some sort of club?

[Ed Gamble]

It does sound like.

[Matthew Crosby]

Is that a sexy.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, we're all going down the dude ranch.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. What I also found as well, key to. Key to gigs in America at the Moment. Just mention heated rivalry, they all go wild.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, really? Everyone's. Everyone's crazy about the. The hockey boys.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I did. I did Canadian shows as well. That was easy. Just say heated rivalry, everyone goes crazy.

[Ed Gamble]

I wish this stage was ice.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, Absolutely be.

[Ed Gamble]

I'd be doing all kinds of naughty stuff on it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, exactly. And what I started to claim that hockey was in is the sport from heated rivalry and that it's really taken,

[Ed Gamble]

like, Quidditch from Harry Potter. Since heated rivalry, everyone's to play their fake sport.

[Matthew Crosby]

Nobody's playing it. Said I went to the Hockey hall of Fame in Toronto, and, you know, there were two men going at it in there. But no, the shows. The shows are really fun. A lot of. A lot of loneliness, though. Awful day in Seattle, where I had a night off in Seattle.

[Ed Gamble]

One of the worst places, I would say, to be lonely. We know the music that's come out of Seattle.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not chirpy stuff. It's constantly raining.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, this is the other thing. I decided to keep myself going. My little project was, every time I arrived in a new city, was to only listen to music from that city.

[Ed Gamble]

Cause obviously, you've got a lot of Nirvana and your other grunge bands, but you do have. Yo, baby, I hear the blues are calling. Tar salads and scrambled eggs.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, that's the only one I could think of. So I just had that on a lo in Seattle for 48 hours, just listening.

[Ed Gamble]

And the blues really were calling for.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I could only eat tossed salad and scrambled eggs as well, which is disgusting. The eggs wilt the salad.

[Ed Gamble]

Your guts must have been a mess by the time you got on stage.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, I had a night off. I thought that'd be nice. I'll go for a meal, a little solo meal. Find somewhere nice, you know? So I walked out the hotel, walked into a dumpling restaurant down the street. I thought I'd have some dumplings, lovely packed in there. Only then that I remembered after I'd asked for a table for one, that it was Valentine's Day. Oh, no. And I got so panicked about how Dep. The server looked on my behalf that I left the restaurant. I just went, I'm all right, actually.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no.

[Matthew Crosby]

You was like, it's gonna be a big wait. I was like, it's fine. I'll go. So then I got an Uber Eats delivered back to the hotel. And the look the receptionist gave me was even worse.

[Ed Gamble]

It's really. That's really.

[Matthew Crosby]

So a lot of loneliness in Montreal. I Went for a meal by myself, sat up at the bar. I thought, this is nice. It's romantic. There was another man by himself, sat next to me at the bar. And I thought, it's fine. We'll just ignore each other. That's all right. And then the waitress came over and started explaining the menu to him. She said, actually, you're both alone. I'll do it for both times. He's like, right, we're on a date now.

[Radio X Announcer]

Fantastic crunch and crumble. This is Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Noah Kahn.

[Ed Gamble]

Noah Kahn.

[Matthew Crosby]

The Great Divide. A very cheery song for a Sunday morning.

[Ed Gamble]

Really is. Really puts a spring in your step.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, goodness me. As if I didn't have enough springs in my step already.

[Ed Gamble]

You're more spring than man. You're basically Zebedee now.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm wearing moon boots.

[Ed Gamble]

The moon boots. Did you ever. As a. As a rock and roll fan, did you ever have the. The big built up. The big built up platform shoe with the springs inside it?

[Matthew Crosby]

No, I didn't. I know that big. I had the big new rock boots with flames on.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

I did not have the springy shoes, unfortunately.

[Ed Gamble]

Sort of the kind of steampunk adjacent rock shoe.

[Matthew Crosby]

I was never into steampunk. You know, I liked.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, I just. I'm baffled by the fact that anyone ever was. It never had its moment, did it? It wasn't like, you know, like goth kind of had its moment. And there are still a few people still fighting the war. But with steampunk, there was never a big steampunk explosion, was there?

[Matthew Crosby]

No, but there are still steampunks out there. And I would say the amount of steampunk stuff you can buy from every shop in Camden Market does suggest it's the biggest craze of all time.

[Ed Gamble]

If you go to Camden, I mean, maybe that's it. It's very localized.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

If you go to Camden, I don't

[Matthew Crosby]

see anyone wearing it. I only. I just see people trying on spiky goggles, looking in a little mirror on a stand, and then putting them back.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, a lot of. A lot of bowler hats with goggles on the.

[Matthew Crosby]

But they've got bowler hats that you

[Ed Gamble]

can't detach from the bowler hats.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, I tell you, when Steam Bunk had its moment, I've just worked out when the movie Wild Wild west came out.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

That was the big steampunk moment. And we're still clinging on to it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Was it big for the community, though, or did they see that as a dilution of Their sub genre.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It was quite an indie thing. And this was when it went sort of stadium rock.

[Matthew Crosby]

Will Smith gets involved.

[Ed Gamble]

When Will Smith gets involved, it's no longer a movement. So we'll talk more about seeing punk. Apparently, it's been away for five, like, during the.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'll ask you some more stuff about America. We've only spoken about Steampunk for a whole length, so.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

Sorry, we're back.

[Matthew Crosby]

We are so back.

[Ed Gamble]

Anyway, yes, let's talk about America. What was the best place you went to? What was the worst place you went to?

[Matthew Crosby]

Wrap up.

[Vin (Producer)]

It felt like the end of the link, didn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, well, I thought so as well, but then I assumed at the end of the link, you go. And then we say radio X.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, you'd say, what's coming up next?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I don't know what's coming up next.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're gonna be talking about America.

[Ed Gamble]

Talking about America. All right, anyway. We're gonna be talking about America.

[Radio X Announcer]

Mask you crobley and Radio Ed.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X. I don't know. You've been on your tour of all 50 states?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. Some of the gigs were bad.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I bet. Well, I was gonna. I did ask you this before we. Before the last break. Where was your favorite place? What was the best place? If you had to go back there tomorrow, if you had to get in the teleporter and go back this moment, where would you like to go back to?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I'd like to go back to some of the places I didn't have any time in, really. Okay, so Seattle. Barely any time. Portland. I was there for 25 hours.

[Ed Gamble]

Very cool Portland, isn't it? Apparently very cool. You didn't notice it?

[Matthew Crosby]

I went to the hotel, I walked to the gig, which was down a straight, completely abandoned road.

[Ed Gamble]

Right. Very cool.

[Matthew Crosby]

Then straight into the venue, did the gig, walked back to the hotel, left the hotel, went to the airport.

[Ed Gamble]

Right, so. But you barely. You didn't see Portland.

[Matthew Crosby]

I didn't see Portland, so I would like to go to Portland. Amazing audience in Portland, though. Great club. I was in the clubs a lot of the time, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Were you.

[Matthew Crosby]

I was headlining the clubs.

[Ed Gamble]

You see. And these bespoke comedy clubs, or are these music venues that been kind of

[Matthew Crosby]

converted into a mix of both? In Brooklyn, I did the Bell House, which has a lot of bands there and stuff. Very good. Very cool. Sort of. I'd say maybe 30 to 40% of the audience is standing at the back.

[Ed Gamble]

What?

[Matthew Crosby]

And they were fine with it as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Even before the standing O. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Even before the. Well, they all sat down.

[Ed Gamble]

You've got to do something, haven't you?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And unless you brought a step ladder.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's got to be sitting down. You've got to. You got.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, but, you know, Portland. I did helium. You know, I did. I did Philadelphia helium.

[Ed Gamble]

All the places I hear about from, like, the end of podcasts.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. The DC Improv.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course you did. Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

You know.

[Ed Gamble]

And how much improv did you do at the DC Improv?

[Matthew Crosby]

Quite a lot. They were quite hard work, really.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. You had to really wear them down.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you think it's because of the proximity to Pennsylvania Avenue that's stressing them out there?

[Matthew Crosby]

Maybe. I didn't really mention it.

[Ed Gamble]

I think it's pretty best not to.

[Matthew Crosby]

Obviously, D.C. is good for tourism.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Because I sort of gave up on tourism. I'd say maybe three days into the tour. Right. Cause I was like, it's gonna be great. Cause I'm gonna be there and I can go and explore. I'll be by myself, but I can go and tick off all the big tourist hotspots.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course.

[Matthew Crosby]

Three days in. Absolutely not.

[Ed Gamble]

Forget it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Forget it, mate. Go and have a nice lunch and have a nap and go and do the gig.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But dc. Very good. I received a private tour of Ford's Theatre.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

Really?

[Matthew Crosby]

Because one of the people who worked at Ford's Theatre likes Taskmaster.

[Ed Gamble]

This is really exciting.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ye.

[Ed Gamble]

What did you see?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I mean, I saw everything that everyone sees, but just had one person showing me around. Of course. Ford's Theatre, for those not in the know. I know everything about it now is where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

[Ed Gamble]

John Wilkes Booth.

[Matthew Crosby]

By John Wilkes Booth, who was a very famous actor in his day. I don't think I realized quite how famous he was.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, he was. He was well known.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

That's wild, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. He was like the lady said, he's like Tom Hanks.

[Ed Gamble]

He was the Tom Hanks of the day.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's like the Tom Hanks of the day.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think. Now, listen, I love Tom Hanks. I'm not sure what his politics are, but I don't think he's gotten.

[Matthew Crosby]

Cadly's just texted in saying, who's the new guy?

[Ed Gamble]

Who's the new guy? We haven't had. Well, you're the new guy. Nathan, this is the first we've heard from you in about 18 months. I don't think Tom Hanks has an assassination in him.

[Matthew Crosby]

No. I don't either. And especially not this one, which. Here's something else I didn't know, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

What?

[Matthew Crosby]

He went. He snuck into the Booth.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Where?

[Ed Gamble]

The John Wilkes Booth.

[Matthew Crosby]

The John Wilkes Booth was in the Booth. He killed Abraham Lincoln and then he jumped from the balcony onto the stage to escape and did a performance. Broke his leg.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, that's what they say, isn't it? Break a leg, you break a leg

[Matthew Crosby]

and that's where it comes from.

[Ed Gamble]

Is that really where it comes from?

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I really thought it was for a second. That was your own joke. I thought I stumbled onto something. Yeah. But you know what? I'm constantly, constantly thinking I'm about to stumble onto something clever.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, I know.

[Ed Gamble]

And I never have.

[Matthew Crosby]

You know, it was just your stupid joke and I was going along with it. If you. Yes, and Matthew, he will believe that. It's absolutely true. So my favorite detail was that when he arrived at the theater, John Wilkes Booth, he got off his horse and he asked someone who worked at the theater to hold onto his horse while he went in and killed the President, basically. He didn't say that.

[Ed Gamble]

Sure. A sort of horse valet.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, horse valet. And the person he got to hold his horse was the boy who handed out the peanuts at the theater.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, Peanut Boy.

[Matthew Crosby]

Johnny Peanuts.

[Ed Gamble]

Johnny Peanuts.

[Matthew Crosby]

Johnny Peanuts.

[Ed Gamble]

Now, is this his nickname or is that nominative determinism that he was like, you've got to do?

[Matthew Crosby]

I believe it was his nickname. The lady giving the tour was, I think, quite annoyed by how many questions I asked about Johnny Peanuts, because it's the only thing she didn't really have an answer for. A lot of questions about the background of Johnny Peanuts. When we were talking about how all the co conspirators were dragged in and arrested, the people who owned the boarding house that they conspired in were pulled in as part of the conspiracy. And I was going, what happened to Johnny Peanuts? Did Johnny Peanuts survive?

[Ed Gamble]

Johnny Peanuts feels like we should know. We should know about Johnny Peanuts.

[Matthew Crosby]

We should know more about Johnny Peanuts.

[Ed Gamble]

And he sounds like as well, obviously my favorite competitive eater, Joey Chestnut. So all I'm imagining is Johnny Peanut's gonna eat a ton of peanuts.

[Matthew Crosby]

Maybe he went on to be Joey Chestnut. But my favorite thing about the tour was the gun is in the museum. The little gun that he used. Cause he left it there.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, once you've broken your leg, you're not going to wear my gun, by the way.

[Matthew Crosby]

And a couple of months before, this lady had toured with. Done the tour with Greg and Alex, when they were there doing the taskmaster. Oh, fun. And I got a message from James, my manager and also the manager of Greg and Alex, who was there saying, make sure you ask to touch the gun. Right. And we got to the gun and I was about to ask, can I touch the gun? And she went, please don't ask if you can touch the gun. Greg asked eight times.

[Ed Gamble]

But then Greg is a man of a certain age. And so the older you get, if you're a man, the more you get into just war and guns. Right. It's just what happens to old men. Isn't wants to rub himself on a gun. Yes, of course he does. He wants to rub himself on a piece of history.

[Matthew Crosby]

Then I went to the International Spy Museum, so it was a fantastic day.

[Ed Gamble]

Did you get to touch a gun?

[Matthew Crosby]

No, didn't get to touch a gun. But as part of that, you assume the identity of a secret agent. I think it's for kids. And then you go around, there's certain points throughout the museum where, you know, you've looked at all the stuff, you've done all the reading and then you have to do a test as the secret agent. And I'll be honest, within five minutes, I was skipping all the exhibits and going straight to the secret agent point.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, of course.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, of course. That's exactly.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh. Oh, it sounds like you had a really fun time.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that day was good.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that was one day.

[Matthew Crosby]

One day.

[Ed Gamble]

One day.

[Radio X Announcer]

About 60 radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, my breath absolutely stinks. Dear me. You shouldn't be able to see your breath like that when you wake up in the morning, should you? And I don't mean it's cold. You can see it. It's absolutely noxious. Oily, thick. Thick.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's like I'm spitting out crude oil. Oh, dear. You could say it's black breath.

[Ed Gamble]

Listen, if you've got bad breath, you shouldn't be singing like that.

[Matthew Crosby]

I absolutely love this band. They split up in 2019. But they're back.

[Ed Gamble]

They're back.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

They're back.

[Matthew Crosby]

20, 26. Apparently the second breath starting, they've taken one in.

[Ed Gamble]

Now they're breathing it back out again, finally. So they.

[Matthew Crosby]

They held their breath for seven years?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Didn't catch COVID Didn't catch COVID That was the way they said. That's a. If I was going to hold my breath for seven years. Start in 2019, guys. No water particles going around.

[Matthew Crosby]

Finally demasked.

[Ed Gamble]

They've popped off the mask and they're Back on tour.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

That was fantastic. Can we. Can we hear what called. Or is it too rude?

[Matthew Crosby]

It's called Black Sin. That song.

[Ed Gamble]

Black, Black, Black Breath. Black Sin.

[Matthew Crosby]

Brackets. Spit on the Cross.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, of course. Of course it is. Of course it's Spit on the Cross. And Happy Sunday to you all. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X.

[Radio X Announcer]

Fire in the Booth.

[Ed Gamble]

This week, wasn't. It was this week you had a birthday four days ago. Birthday, Ed, thank you very much.

[Matthew Crosby]

I share March 10th as a birthday with. With many fantastic members of global society.

[Ed Gamble]

Is that true?

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you never check what celebs you share your birthday with?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, actually, I think I share my birthday with Abraham Lincoln, weirdly.

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you?

[Ed Gamble]

12th of Feb, I believe, is Abraham Lincoln. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Wowee.

[Ed Gamble]

I think it might be Mark Hamill as well. Something like that.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've got Drew Barrymore, John Hammond, Osama Bin Laden.

[Radio X Announcer]

Whoa.

[Ed Gamble]

The Holy Trinity.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

My three fave peeps. I mean, I'm a fan of all of their work to varying degrees, but. But, yeah. And is there a personality type that they say if you were born on that day, you've got a particular Pisces, I guess, yeah. Tenacious.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, Tenacious.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

You've all.

[Ed Gamble]

You've all managed to sort of claw your way to the top of a particular tree.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're home buds.

[Ed Gamble]

Your home buds. Exactly.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're real home bodies.

[Ed Gamble]

How did you celebrate?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, my birthday.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, I didn't celebrate. It was awful.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah,

[Matthew Crosby]

I had a meal with my family on my birthday.

[Ed Gamble]

Lovely.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thought I'd get that done.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, absolutely.

[Matthew Crosby]

But it was very nice, actually. We went to Ambassador's Clubhouse, if you've been there.

[Ed Gamble]

Is that where they serve the Ferrero Rocher?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, it is. Yeah, absolutely. No, it's an Indian restaurant. It's the same people who own gymkhana.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, lovely.

[Matthew Crosby]

And delicious. I believe it was delicious. And I had a little. I had a little lunch a couple of days later with. With a few other peeps.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, of course.

[Matthew Crosby]

It was nice. Yeah. But nothing big.

[Ed Gamble]

You celebrated with food, which is, of course, your big thing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I simply don't know how to celebrate otherwise.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

What is the point of a celebration if you're not having a massive meal that you feel ill after?

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely. Yeah. And you know, you look fantastic.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, I feel awful.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, this is fine, though. It doesn't matter how you feel on the ins. You know, it's the substance, isn't it? As long as you look all right on the outside.

[Matthew Crosby]

I mean, I was like, well, 40, doesn't it? It's 40.

[Radio X Announcer]

40.

[Matthew Crosby]

40.

[Ed Gamble]

It's 40, by the way.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's 40, by the Way. I was like, it doesn't mean anything anymore, does it? Really? Like, it's, you know, I was 39 last week, so it doesn't matter, but I've. I'm really badly injured, so I've not been able to work out, so I genuinely feel 40.

[Ed Gamble]

You've been hobbling around.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, not hobbling around. I've done something to my rotator cuff. You'll be able to see that I'm strapped up.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've got loads of Kino tape on the. On my shoulder, so I really. And I've not been working out at all, so I feel like an absolute bag of Blanche.

[Ed Gamble]

So you can't do anything. You can't. You can't raise your hand above the.

[Matthew Crosby]

You can't put my hand above my

[Ed Gamble]

head and sometimes wave to people. You can't. If they say, who's dropped their freedom pass? You can't say, ah, it's me.

[Matthew Crosby]

I can with my left account. My left hand's doing a lot of the. My left arm's 22, mate. Is it my right arm? Very much 40.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, you've overused it.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's the problem.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, you really have. You've overused it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Tapped out.

[Ed Gamble]

Now it's gone.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've expired its warranty.

[Ed Gamble]

You're gonna have to become a lefty.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Now and again, I, like, have to put my bag down or something or open a car door and then twist it in slightly the wrong way and then scream in agony. So.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, man. Yeah, you're holding it together very, very well.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is 40.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you officially an old git now?

[Matthew Crosby]

I think so, yeah. I've been an old git for a while.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, you've always been in your heart. You've been an old with your heart. Health.

[Matthew Crosby]

Loved. Loved. Third. Loved. 30s. Thought that was great.

[Ed Gamble]

I love my 30s.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think I'm gonna enjoy 40s.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm having a brilliant time.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I think my 40s have been my favorite decade so far. They are nearly over. Yeah. And not just my 40s.

[Matthew Crosby]

Everything for me, everything.

[Ed Gamble]

It's nearly over for me. But I'm having a great time. My last hurrah. My last couple of years on the planet.

[Radio X Announcer]

The old man and the big baby.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X Ed. You've been on your tour of North America?

[Matthew Crosby]

I've been off on my little tour,

[Ed Gamble]

but, you know, Vin's been on a tour of his own have you been?

[Matthew Crosby]

I went to the Grand Tour. Are you the new host of the Grand Tour?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Which we shot in Turkey?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

I went to Istanbul and I got a haircut.

[Matthew Crosby]

What?

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, I came back with less hair.

[Matthew Crosby]

Wait, you got. You got a haircut in Turkey?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. You've gone the wrong way around. That was mad, isn't it? Is it preparation for going back and getting like a full on Barney?

[Matthew Crosby]

Turkey is mainly about the adding hair.

[Vin (Producer)]

I was just trying to balance it all out.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Did you also have some teeth extracted as well?

[Matthew Crosby]

Did you donate your hair?

[Vin (Producer)]

I did think about that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

I did wonder if that was possible.

[Matthew Crosby]

Just in case anyone's. As a listener, you've not seen Vin before. Vin, I would say, is bald. Is bald. Like it shaves his head completely.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm working my way down to upside down face.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

That's the goal.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

All you need now is, of course, the Abraham Lincoln beard.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

To keep the theme. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And a stovepipe hat.

[Vin (Producer)]

I wasn't as. It wasn't as closely shaven when I went.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, it's a. It's a very.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's very tight. It's the tightest it's ever been.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

He went down to numbers to zero.

[Matthew Crosby]

Zero.

[Vin (Producer)]

I've never had a zero before.

[Matthew Crosby]

You know they have Turkish barbers in London, right?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Why did you go on holiday to have a haircut?

[Vin (Producer)]

It was just one of the things I did when I was there, you know.

[Matthew Crosby]

What else did you do? You go to the dentist.

[Vin (Producer)]

Quite fun.

[Ed Gamble]

Just say on TripAdvisor, just say the top thing to do.

[Vin (Producer)]

I had the fire in my ears and all that.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

Did you?

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

How was that?

[Vin (Producer)]

I quite liked it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, it's quite good.

[Ed Gamble]

You felt.

[Vin (Producer)]

Felt really clean afterwards, really revitalized.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

I didn't get my eyebrows threaded. Or the nose.

[Matthew Crosby]

You didn't do the wax up the nose situation?

[Vin (Producer)]

That's too scary.

[Matthew Crosby]

So many. Any videos served to me on Instagram

[Vin (Producer)]

of that, you know, the videos I get, the videos I get on my feed that I wanted to see in Turkey is the Turkish ice cream guys.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, of course, the cheeky guys. Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

That was basically the one thing I wanted to see.

[Ed Gamble]

Tell me about the cheeky guys. I don't know about the cheeky guys.

[Matthew Crosby]

They'll put ice cream in, but they'll be like, with a paddle. Oh. They'll whip it away from you when you.

[Ed Gamble]

They're doing a little magic trick and

[Matthew Crosby]

turn it upside down and you keep

[Ed Gamble]

thinking you're about to get your ice cream and they don't.

[Matthew Crosby]

And it comes back out the cone.

[Ed Gamble]

I love it. I could watch that.

[Matthew Crosby]

I would punch them in the face.

[Ed Gamble]

I was just so. I just want to eat an ice cream.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm in goons. Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

But if it's happening to someone else.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, funny.

[Vin (Producer)]

I could.

[Matthew Crosby]

I like watching it happen to, like, kids and stuff.

[Vin (Producer)]

45 minutes of that, I think. I reckon.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

I reckon I'd be transfixed. But it was too cold, so no one was. No one was getting ice creams.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

So I'm gonna have to go back.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. Yeah. The hair will grow. You need. In five weeks or so. You'll need to go back for another flight.

[Vin (Producer)]

But it's a cool place.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'd recommend going to Istanbul. There's cats everywhere. Everywhere.

[Matthew Crosby]

All of them have got massive Brazilian butt lifts and huge human teeth.

[Ed Gamble]

Normal teeth. Imagine. And no hair up there. No whiskers.

[Vin (Producer)]

Just think of a place.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Like.

[Vin (Producer)]

What are you imagining? Imagining? Like a car or.

[Ed Gamble]

This is too. Wait, this has gone too abstract. Imagine a place and what you're imagining. Just like when you guys.

[Vin (Producer)]

There's a cat in there.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've got.

[Ed Gamble]

No, we've got a texter. We've got a texter. Imagine a place and what you're imagining. 83936 on the text. Or you can WhatsApp us. Open it out through Global Player. Imagine.

[Vin (Producer)]

Imagine a place and then imagine a cat's there. And that's what Istanbul's like.

[Matthew Crosby]

Right? Okay, okay, okay.

[Ed Gamble]

You can do that with AI.

[Matthew Crosby]

Now imagine Istanbul, I think is specifically on a motorbike.

[Ed Gamble]

A cat on a motorbike on a boat.

[Vin (Producer)]

On the stairs.

[Matthew Crosby]

Wait, Same cats.

[Vin (Producer)]

Different cats.

[Ed Gamble]

The stairs. I can believe. I think you should have led with stairs rather than worked up all of those things.

[Vin (Producer)]

All of those things, like, simultaneously in a bakery.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. It sounds unhygienic. It's great. It really is. So you're saying visit a city that's one big litter tray. No, thank you.

[Vin (Producer)]

Being chased by a big dog.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course. So there are dogs there as well.

[Vin (Producer)]

On top of a pillar.

[Ed Gamble]

There are sort of dogs and cats in the same city.

[Vin (Producer)]

More cat. More cats than dogs, of course. Of course.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. They haven't quite reached sort of the Tropolis.

[Matthew Crosby]

I don't know what I was expecting from this conversation.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, this.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think it was this.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it was this.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I've had a haircut and I saw some cats.

[Vin (Producer)]

Loads of cat. Man. So many cats.

[Matthew Crosby]

Anything else you. Did you have some nice food?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, cool.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. This is the Smith I'm not gonna

[Matthew Crosby]

get another link out of.

[Ed Gamble]

We can. We can talk about how many tagines you ate or whatever.

[Vin (Producer)]

Have you seen the news about Morrissey? We can talk about that.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, let's talk about Morrissey after this. This charming man on Radio X,

[Radio X Announcer]

Ed Gamble and mother Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X. The Smiths. This charming. What's wrong?

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm just reading this Morrissey thing.

[Vin (Producer)]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Ed Gamble]

That was, of course, the Smiths here on Radio xz, Gambler Matthew Crosby. Yes. What's he done now? What's he done now? He's released a new album. Make up.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's a luck. Yes, he has. Well, you don't need to promote that, I would say. The first time I heard about this story was the other day and it was a headline on Pitchfork, which was, morrissey cancels gig because he's too sleepy.

[Ed Gamble]

That was it, wasn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Which is essentially what's happened.

[Ed Gamble]

He had a rough night in a hotel. There was a lot of noise. We've all had that experience.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's the first time I've agreed with Morrissey in a long time that just. I'm sleepy.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But I wouldn't cancel a gig because I'm sleepy or have not slept in a hotel. But he's basically. He stayed in a hotel in Spain, in Valencia, near the festival he's supposed to be doing. And the noise from the festival kept him awake all night, so he cancelled the gig.

[Ed Gamble]

It says any form of sleep or rest throughout the night was impossible due to festival noise. Loud TECHNO singing. What is that? Robots?

[Matthew Crosby]

I'd imagine everything to Morrissey sounds like techno singing.

[Ed Gamble]

Everything that isn't jangly Indie pop is loud techno singing. Megaphone announcements. Yes, megaphone announcements. This experience has left Morrissey in a catatonic state. Before leaving for tonight's scheduled concert, please check that show remains possible under these circumstances. Of course. I traveled all the way to. Back when it was sort of just about okay to still like Morrissey. Probably 11, 12 years ago. I traveled all the way to Brooklyn. He cancelled then.

[Vin (Producer)]

He loves cancelling, doesn't he?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, we travelled to Brooklyn to see him. He said, I've cancelled. It was going to be Morrissey with very special support act, Cliff Richardson. Richard. So.

[Matthew Crosby]

So you're who, by the way, on the plane straight away for that?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, of course, yeah. Something for Charlie Morrissey. Something for me. Cliff Richard. Exactly. So we. We. Yeah, it was Charlie's 30th, so we. We we booked a. Booked a lovely weekend in Williamsburg. Thought, we'll go and see Morrissey at the Nokia. Very exciting. Cliff Richard, not a big star in the States either.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

So get to see him. Get to see him convince, you know, an audience of. Of mostly Mexican people.

[Matthew Crosby]

Convert a new audience.

[Ed Gamble]

Convert a new audience, exactly. Morrissey cancels because he had a sore throat or some. Some such, you know, and a month beforehand, but we're like, we've still got the flights and everything. Cliff Richard said, I'm not canceling. Yeah, we went to see Cliff Richard in Brooklyn and I loved it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Did he do the same venue?

[Ed Gamble]

No, he did a much smaller. No, he did about us. He did the Gramercy. He did the Gramercy in and. Yeah. Yeah, it was great. Oh, it was great fun.

[Matthew Crosby]

Happy birthday, dear. We're going to New York to see Cliff Richards.

[Ed Gamble]

Cliff Richards.

[Vin (Producer)]

Morrissey had a sore throat for a month to do.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, he said, I've got a sore throat. I'm just. I can't be bothered to do it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, according to this Guardian article, it says. The fanzine site We Heart Music calculates that over the course of his career, including his time with the Smiths before going solo, the singer has cancelled more than 400 shows.

[Ed Gamble]

I respect that.

[Matthew Crosby]

And almost half of the last 100. Basically, you're on 50. 50 if you book Morrissey tickets.

[Ed Gamble]

Even Morrissey isn't convinced by Morrissey anymore. Even Morrissey's like, I don't think I should be going to see Morrissey. You are Morrissey. But Doctor, I am Morrissey. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, this is

[Radio X Announcer]

the Radio X heyday.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I don't know what song that was.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I don't know either. I wanted to say it was used somebody by Kings of Leon, but certainly half of it. It also could also have been Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. We don't know what happened there. I mean, obviously Matthew and I don't know what's going on.

[Ed Gamble]

We never know what's going on.

[Matthew Crosby]

Vin, what happened? We're getting a lot of texts saying that Joy Division was playing during Kings of Leon. Someone said, is this the emergency tape? You know, there's lots of questions flying around.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, that says to me they've updated the emergency tape.

[Matthew Crosby]

Tape. Right. Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, there's a new song on the emergency tape.

[Vin (Producer)]

Nice to find out.

[Ed Gamble]

There we go. So something happened. Now they play the emergency tape ordinarily, when they're sort of dead air. Right. There's no one saying anything. The emergency tape Kicks in. Do they also play emergency tape when the show's just not good enough? Because I feel like that might have just happened.

[Matthew Crosby]

They're like, yeah, some gremlins in the system. So, I mean, apologies for that. But also, it's really kicked off the tape texts.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, here's the. Here's the frustrating thing. We had a texter, which was. Imagine a place. What do you see? 83936 on the text? So you can. What's happening?

[Vin (Producer)]

We did get a couple of them.

[Ed Gamble]

We got a couple. But we must have had about 45 messages in the last 30 seconds.

[Vin (Producer)]

Somebody said, Barcelona.

[Ed Gamble]

Somebody said Barcelona.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you very much. Anyway, are you all right? The main thing is, are you all right?

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm. Yeah, I'm fine.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bit of blood through the veins, isn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. He keeps saying that was like.

[Vin (Producer)]

You're like Holly Willoughby then.

[Ed Gamble]

Had to check. Yeah. But firstly, are you okay? Are you okay? We have this message from Alessia about seeing Morrissey in concert. Good morning, guys. I went to the Morrissey concert in Milan last Monday. Happy to go above the parapet. Alessia. Fair enough. And during the songs, he said some things, like in England, when you have your own opinion, they kill you. And bragged about his album, which came out three days before, being number two. It does, because they look. They look very similar.

[Matthew Crosby]

And that is a routine. He does.

[Ed Gamble]

Does very, very similar. When you have your own opinions, they kill you.

[Vin (Producer)]

He does say things like, sarcasm is illegal now. Yeah, he does. He's just. Basically just being.

[Matthew Crosby]

But is that sarcasm?

[Vin (Producer)]

No, it's very like. We all know what Morrissey's like.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, he's just being Morrissey. Well, he bragged about his album, Alyssa says, being number two in the UK charts without having done any press or social media coverage. Coverage. Then some. Some people requested. I know it's over it. And even though it was on the set list of the tour, he didn't play it that night. And I think it's because people had asked for it.

[Ed Gamble]

I've seen bands do that before where they go, if you shout it out, we won't play it. You go, come on, guys.

[Matthew Crosby]

We like it.

[Ed Gamble]

We were shouting out because we like it. I mean, I'm not shouting it out. And at the end, he played there's the Light that Never Goes out, but didn't finish it because some people stormed the stage. And he just left the stage before the last chorus.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think that's fair enough.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I think that's fair. But then that used to. It used to be the case. Right? It used to be the case back in the day that. That it would be all people storming the stage. The sort of. The security knew that was what was happening. People would run up on stage, they'd hug Morrissey, then they'd get dragged off and beaten up outside. But that was the thing. But now, God, he's really changed, hasn't he? I think it's fair to say that Morrissey fella, he's really changed. Quick, play Joy Division. Oh, no, let's play Gorillaz instead. This is rk.

[Vin (Producer)]

Let's see what happens.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah. Fingers crossed. It's going to be Gorillaz for the next three minutes or so. This is Radio X.

[Radio X Announcer]

Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

This the Day of Mothers.

[Ed Gamble]

The Day of Mothers. By the way, can I just very quickly read this because somebody has already. We said we'd like to vote for Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

War Pigs. Somebody's already said. Sorry, guys, I was so annoyed. There wasn't a single song by Mount Street Preachers in the list last year that I'm back in their. Why do listeners insist on. We ask you to do very few things. Very few things. One thing a year, which is vote for the song that we like. And you're back in the. I mean, I love the Main Street Preachers.

[Matthew Crosby]

Don't get me wrong. Don't shush. Shut up.

[Ed Gamble]

I hate the Main Street Preachers.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

I love Black Sabbath.

[Matthew Crosby]

I only love Black Sabbath. War Pigs.

[Ed Gamble]

I only love one song.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

I've got an ipod Nano with one song on it, and it's War Pigs by Black Sabbath. Because what else do you need?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ed Gamble]

What else do you need? We'll play that later on, of course. Anyway, we're here on Mother's Day.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

We're talking about our favorite mothers.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Who would be your number one mother? Okay, now, obviously you have your own mother.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, you've already. You've already mentioned Knees Up. Mother Brown.

[Ed Gamble]

Love Mother Brown. Love Mother Brown.

[Matthew Crosby]

Do get in contact, by the way, with your favorite mothers from the world.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Aren't your own.

[Ed Gamble]

Because we. A lot of people said, oh, could you please give a shout out to my mum? No, no, we're not doing that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And also, you know, it's a tough day for some people as well, acknowledging all of that. But we're talking about my. I think. I think Mamma Mia.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't you think? Mamma Mia.

[Matthew Crosby]

The mamma from Mamma Mia.

[Ed Gamble]

The mama from Mamma Mia. Exactly. Your mother.

[Matthew Crosby]

In English, if you don't speak Italian.

[Ed Gamble]

Mama Mia. You know what? A mama's so good.

[Matthew Crosby]

Here I go again.

[Ed Gamble]

That's.

[Vin (Producer)]

This.

[Ed Gamble]

That's my. That's my favorite. That's my favorite mother.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Mamma Mia. That's the name of. That's the name of my local Chinese restaurant. Very nice. Very nice. Mamma Mia. Chinese.

[Matthew Crosby]

Mamma Mia.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

That's confusing.

[Ed Gamble]

You think it'd be bad.

[Matthew Crosby]

You think it'd be Italian?

[Ed Gamble]

You think it. Oh, you certainly think it'd be Italian. But if. When you find out it's Chinese, you think, well, a Chinese restaurant's called itself Mamma Mia. That's bad. It ain't. It's good.

[Matthew Crosby]

Weird that the film Mamma Mia is set in Greece, isn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, there's a lot of weird things about it.

[Matthew Crosby]

And it's a Swedish band.

[Ed Gamble]

Swedish band. Italian name, set in Greece. Thank you, Andy. The Mummy from the Mummy. This is what we're talking about. These are our favorite mothers. We've had a few votes for Theresa as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, Patrick, she was a good one. Right.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I mean, there's.

[Vin (Producer)]

I think there's some differing opinions.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, there's been some differing opinions. I mean, I'm not. I'm not going to snag off Mother Teresa without the information in front of us. This isn't lbc. Who's your favorite mother, Vin?

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, your mother, obviously.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you. Thank you very much.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. We didn't want to turn it into this, Vin.

[Vin (Producer)]

Actions speak louder than words.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, dear. We've just found out War Pigs isn't an option. What? War Pigs is not an option within the search bar on radio x top 500.

[Matthew Crosby]

This has not been a good day for you, man.

[Ed Gamble]

What's going on here?

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, it should be. I mean, it's in the system. We checked twice.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, it's not Moz from Port Talbot.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's someone saying more stuff. The emergency tape's gonna kick in again. Mother Nature.

[Vin (Producer)]

Mother Nature.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Thank you very much.

[Matthew Crosby]

Tony Soprano's mum.

[Vin (Producer)]

Hang on.

[Matthew Crosby]

Look, if it's not whooping Soprano and she's back. She's back at the bottom prep.

[Ed Gamble]

She's back at the Pret as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

She works in the Pret again?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, absolutely. Raphaela at the Pret. Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, you know her name now she's

[Ed Gamble]

got a name badge.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've never heard that.

[Ed Gamble]

You've never looked at Rafael's name badge?

[Matthew Crosby]

Look people in the eye. I'm not looking at not looking at an old lady's chest when I'm buying a coffee.

[Ed Gamble]

I think the name badge. No, I think the name badge is fair game. I'm not giving. I'm not roaming around.

[Matthew Crosby]

Name badge is a loophole. That's what you say.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I'm not saying. Look, well, while I'm here, I have a little gander around the. The surrounding areas.

[Matthew Crosby]

Flick your name badge.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I never say that.

[Matthew Crosby]

You say that. I'm talking to her daughter.

[Ed Gamble]

I love Raffaello at the Brett.

[Matthew Crosby]

I love Levi Soprano.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course you do. Anyway, we're gonna have to pick something

[Vin (Producer)]

that isn't War Pigs in that case.

[Matthew Crosby]

But what do we pick? Because you're saying, how do you know what's on the system? You clearly don't know.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, it says it's on the system.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, Morrissey says it isn't. Morrissey from Port Talbot has said it's not Morrissey.

[Radio X Announcer]

It's true.

[Ed Gamble]

It's Morrissey. Well, I think.

[Vin (Producer)]

I think I'm gonna get. I'm gonna pull up global player during the ad, as we always do. We're gonna spin through and we're gonna pick something and we're gonna.

[Matthew Crosby]

Andy. I'm not saying that.

[Vin (Producer)]

We're gonna set the agenda. Andy. That's funny, though.

[Ed Gamble]

The wallet in Pulp Fiction. We will say that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Radio X Announcer]

Warm Egg and Matthew Crosby on Radio X.

[Ed Gamble]

We set a campaign up a couple of links ago to get War Pigs to the number one spot of the best of British top 500. And it has already fallen at the first herd.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's not available.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not eligible.

[Vin (Producer)]

Good idea.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's not eligible. It's a good idea. Paranoid is the only Black Sabbath song you can type in. And look, we should put all our weight behind that now.

[Ed Gamble]

But I love Paranoid.

[Matthew Crosby]

I can't help but feel we've missed the boat.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it feels like we had that big drive, that big campaign. Here we go, War Pigs, off we go. You know, generals gathered in their masses. That was happening. And then suddenly we get.

[Vin (Producer)]

Wasn't it good song?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, it's a huge song.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think now Paranoid is gonna get less votes than the Gareth Gates and the Kumar's at number 42.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, Paranoid's not even scraping in the top 500 now after what we've unfortunately done to it inadvertently.

[Matthew Crosby]

We may as well just go for Texas Hold' Em Again.

[Ed Gamble]

Let's just go for Texas.

[Vin (Producer)]

No, let's just go for Texas Hold' Em, guys.

[Ed Gamble]

In fact, you could just email.

[Vin (Producer)]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

What's Devo's email.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yes, guys, we'd made progress.

[Ed Gamble]

Had we made progress, though? Had we made progress?

[Matthew Crosby]

We were gonna do it properly this year.

[Ed Gamble]

Listen, we towed the company lying. We did it for one link and it blew up in our faces.

[Matthew Crosby]

And you can't just text Paranormal Connell.

[Ed Gamble]

That's not how it works. You've got to go to the global player and vote there.

[Vin (Producer)]

Keep doing that. Text War Pigs.

[Ed Gamble]

No, don't text us War Pigs. We don't need loads of people texting us War Pigs. Oh, boy. So paranoid.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, everyone's going for Paranoid.

[Ed Gamble]

Paranoid. We're going for Paranoid. That is our pick for the number one slot on the top 500 best.

[Matthew Crosby]

Total washout.

[Ed Gamble]

It's been a total washout. Total washouts of paranoia. Again, thank you, Goddell. I will say we've had some very great. Some wonderful entries here for the favorite mother, of course, from Kantus here. Necessity, the mother of invention.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, very good.

[Ed Gamble]

Very, very good. And this wonderful message from Colin. Thank you, Colin. Guys, if we're going with our mums, we've got to go with Stacy's mum. She's got it going on.

[Matthew Crosby]

No likey. No like. And Scott Wright has said Jackie Stallone.

[Ed Gamble]

Jackie.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, Bracky.

[Ed Gamble]

Brackey.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, Bracky.

[Ed Gamble]

A wonderful mother and.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I don't know if she's a wonderful mother, but I've got. No, genuinely, we don't know. But yes, that. That is one of my favorite TV moments ever.

[Ed Gamble]

I'd say, yeah, Jackie Stone saying.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, Jackie. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, final text is. Can you pronounce Your own name? 83936 to the 10. Or of course you can WhatsApp us through global Player, where you can also vote for Paranoid, but you cannot vote for this. This is Good Charlotte. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous on Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. Vroom, vroom.

[Radio X Announcer]

And Hong Kong.

[Ed Gamble (American accent persona)]

Good Charlotte.

[Matthew Crosby]

Or as Matthew would say, good Charlotte.

[Ed Gamble]

Good Charlotte. Do I. Hi. I think I say Charlotte. Right, Right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Did you say Charlotte?

[Ed Gamble]

Charlotte. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think it's acceptable. But it's funny, you say it in, I'd say, a way that maybe 1% of the world says it. And your wife is called Charlotte?

[Ed Gamble]

She's called Charlotte. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

She's called Charlotte. Yeah. Good Charlotte.

[Ed Gamble]

Good Charlotte.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

What do you call the little things that are like Onions?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, little things that are like onions.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Or garlic.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's what we meant.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I call them shallots, but not shallots.

[Vin (Producer)]

You don't call them shallots.

[Matthew Crosby]

You should call them shallots.

[Ed Gamble]

Shallots. Well, only say if there's loads of them. Yeah, say shallots. Shallots and lots.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's what I say.

[Ed Gamble]

What about those big shorts? Culottes or culottes?

[Matthew Crosby]

No one says that.

[Ed Gamble]

No one says culottes.

[Vin (Producer)]

No, but they are culottes, aren't.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I think Culottes or culottes. You can have either.

[Vin (Producer)]

No, you can't have culottes.

[Ed Gamble]

You can have culottes.

[Matthew Crosby]

No. Would you say that. How would you say Charlotte's culottes are full of shallots?

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, here we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

Go.

[Ed Gamble]

Charlottes. Culottes are full of shots.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Hard for you.

[Ed Gamble]

Hard. Really hard. Really had to struggle harder for you

[Matthew Crosby]

cuz you put too much back into the O.

[Ed Gamble]

This is the. Well, it's been said many times before. That's what makes me such a wonderful partner between the sheets. Coming up in just a little bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

Goodness me.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you mean? Listen. Come on. Come on now.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fine.

[Vin (Producer)]

It was fine without that.

[Ed Gamble]

Can I just say happy Mother's Day, everybody.

[Vin (Producer)]

Joke.

[Ed Gamble]

Can we just say happy Mother's Day.

[Matthew Crosby]

Happy Mother's Day, guys.

[Ed Gamble]

Happy, happy Mother's Day. Hope you're having Shalotta fun.

[Radio X Announcer]

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

[Matthew Crosby]

Radio Light on Razor X. It said gambler Matthew Crosby saying goodbye for another week.

[Ed Gamble]

Matthew, goodbye for another week. And you do promise it's a week this time? Because I know you've said this before and then I haven't seen you for a month and a half.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'll be back next week.

[Ed Gamble]

Back next week. Fan. Dabby Dozy. I can't wait to have you back.

[Vin (Producer)]

Wow.

[Ed Gamble]

What, you're not a big fan of a couple of things I'm trying to bring back in 2026. Fan. Debbie Dozy. I think it's, you know, I think this is the most fan. Dabby Dozy radio show on the whole of Radio X. Yeah. Toby Tarrant being a close second.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Debitosi.

[Ed Gamble]

Debitozi, as we call it.

[Vin (Producer)]

Wow. Do you think he's ever said that to him?

[Matthew Crosby]

Nope.

[Ed Gamble]

Next time I see him.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm gonna say fandom Toby to him. It's quite hard to say, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Anyway. Yes. Have a wonderful day, everybody. Stick around because the enormous man that is big Danny Wallace, he's downstairs already. Yeah, I can see.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're on his back like Kraken, right?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. He roams around all through Leicester Square stomping on Bill. If you're going to a premiere at The Odeon. He'll probably stomp on your head, but he's coming in.

[Matthew Crosby]

He probably will.

[Ed Gamble]

He probably will, guys. So go to the Empire instead. So you can't reach that with his big old toes. Anyway, his show's up next. Stick around for the that. We'll see you very soon.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bye. Bye.

[Radio X Announcer]

Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, there we are, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, Ed.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

There's the show.

[Matthew Crosby]

Another show. Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

It's great to have. It's good to have you back, man. It really is.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you. Why are you so quiet?

[Ed Gamble]

I just thought you would take it down a little bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, cool.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I can go back up to that level if you like. Yeah, it was. It was great. It's great to have you back. Got a few. A few more emails I wanted to read out here. This one is from Gavin of Peckham, which is very much like a sort of a character from like the first series of Blackadder, isn't it? Gavin Peckham, Yeah. Lord Gavin of Beckham. Dear Ed, Matthew. And you wake up just head and shoulders in a glass jar.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

As. What's that from?

[Vin (Producer)]

Everything.

[Ed Gamble]

Everything. Of course. As all texters are always in play. My dramalet is cheese and chives. Oh, chive what? You know, drumlets. Your dream omelette. What's your dream omelette?

[Matthew Crosby]

Did we do that? Or was that when I was away?

[Ed Gamble]

No, we did that about ages. Three years ago, maybe somebody said peas. Because I said peas and absolutely rinsed by not just. Not just you guys, but also the listeners.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I still not remembering things is. I just want to flame you for it again.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, well, feel free.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Peas and an omelette.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

You're mad.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't. I don't.

[Vin (Producer)]

You're crazy, man.

[Matthew Crosby]

Still doing that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that. In fact, you know, I'm bringing up a new generation of. Of people who think that peas.

[Matthew Crosby]

Peas going.

[Vin (Producer)]

But this is the ler guy, you know.

[Matthew Crosby]

Are you worried that your children are then going to go out into normal society and start talking about pee omelets and they're going to be castigated?

[Ed Gamble]

Do you think it's going to be very sort of socially debilitating? Yeah, it probably will be, but it'll. I mean, you know what? They're my kids. That's the problem is, like, you know.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. I mean, it's not just the p. Omelette.

[Ed Gamble]

All their references will be odd references like mine as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

Like, you know, the peas is the tip of the omelette.

[Ed Gamble]

The peas is the Tip of the omelette. They love George Formby, you know, like, they really love the song When I'm cleaning windows. So we play in the bath. But that's my fault.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, right, Donald. Wes matrizes. Have you played in that one?

[Ed Gamble]

You know what? They'd love that. The idea of someone not wearing trousers is so funny to them.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's funny to me. I mean, it's universally funny.

[Ed Gamble]

It's universally funny. No, okay. You know, I haven't really done it that much with other people, but when I'm with you, I have a thought and I go, no, that's not coming up. But that's the reason you should be here, you know? Anyway. Dear Ed Matthew and you wake up just head and shoulders in a glass jar. Yes, yes, yes. As all texters are still in play, words that don't sound like they mean sound like what they mean. Bucolic sounds like a Victorian disease, not an idyllic countryside vista.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, I agree with that. That's really good.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely right. I agree with that one. Keep those coming in [e-mail] please.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Have you got any. I mean, presumably you've got a ton of Beck Rex. Were you. Were you consuming culture while you're out there or were you just making it?

[Matthew Crosby]

I was consuming a bit of culture. I mean, I. I obviously a lot of films on the plane.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, what'd you see on the plane?

[Matthew Crosby]

Final Destination, Bloodlines, which I think might be up there with my favorite Final Destination films I'm a big fan of. I think they're just knocking out the park every time now.

[Ed Gamble]

Final Destination Bloodlines. What's the bloodlines bit about it?

[Matthew Crosby]

The little twist is it travels through the families.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah. But really, yeah, it's very, very strong. I mean, all you're looking for from Final Destination is Great deaths.

[Ed Gamble]

It's mad deaths, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

And there's some Great deaths.

[Ed Gamble]

Final Destination and Midsummer Murders.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

They're doing a very similar thing, aren't they? What's a mad way we can kill a person?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really, really good. I also heard of this film. Watch this on the plane. There Will Be Blood. Have you heard of this film?

[Ed Gamble]

Tell me about There Will Be Blood. It sounds scary.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, my goodness.

[Ed Gamble]

Is there blood everywhere?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, it's so good, man. And I've been. All of my filmy friends, I've been telling them I loved There Were blood and they are going mad that I've not seen it.

[Ed Gamble]

Had you not seen it before?

[Matthew Crosby]

Never seen it before.

[Ed Gamble]

Can I tell you? It was my first date with Charlie.

[Vin (Producer)]

Was it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Wow.

[Ed Gamble]

We went to see There Will Be Blood and she absolutely hated it, but she did like me. And fate played the straight man and we've been together ever since. So it's a happy ending, really. But you liked There Will Be Blood.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. And I've got a great new joke now. It's a bit. It's a bit out of. Out of the step of sort of modern society. Sure. Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, it's Oscar night tonight, so.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I saw. I watched There Will Be Blood on the plane, of course. And the lead character of There Will Be Blood is called Daniel Plainview.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

So it was that. It was my plane view.

[Ed Gamble]

My plain view was plain view.

[Matthew Crosby]

Daniel Plainview was my plain view.

[Ed Gamble]

That's great.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's pretty good.

[Ed Gamble]

That's really good.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I love. I've been quoting it ever since.

[Ed Gamble]

I drink your milkshake. I drink it up, I drink it up. I drink your milkshake.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fantastic. I wish. I wish people. More people had talked about it.

[Ed Gamble]

I know, I know. Yeah, it's.

[Vin (Producer)]

That was Paul Dano, though, man.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, this is. It was watching it through weak sauce, through the eyes of the weak source thing. He's so good.

[Vin (Producer)]

Of course he is.

[Ed Gamble]

He's amazing. He's great. I mean, I think. I think it's a brilliant film.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, there you go. An uncontroversial Beck rec.

[Ed Gamble]

An uncontroversial Beck rec. A wonderful movie from P.T. anderson.

[Matthew Crosby]

I also, on the plane on the way back, watched Ruby Roofman, which I enjoyed very much.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know what Roofman is.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst and it's Channing Tatum playing. It's a true story.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, I know. I do know what this is.

[Matthew Crosby]

To rob McDonald's by cutting holes in the roof.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And it's weird. It sort of. It felt like it was marketed as. And could have been like a caper.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Like an indie comedy type thing.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's much sadder than that. There is a comedy element to it, but it is quite sort of like a 24 filter and sad things happen. But. But I thought. I thought it was good. I also went to see a film at the cinema in Philadelphia. Always try and go to the cinema when I'm in the States because it just feels like a different experience.

[Ed Gamble]

It's really thrilling, isn't it? Well, firstly, what did you eat when you were there at the cinema? Did you have.

[Matthew Crosby]

I didn't eat anything.

[Ed Gamble]

You didn't have the squirty, squirty butter on the popcorn.

[Matthew Crosby]

I didn't have squirty, squirty butter on the popcorn. But you can smell that everywhere. So gross.

[Ed Gamble]

But so amazing. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But I went and see a film that I'm assuming you have either seen or you're aware of or you want to see Which Nirvana? The band, the show? The movie.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I know about it. Yeah, yeah, I've not seen it.

[Matthew Crosby]

You will love it.

[Ed Gamble]

Great.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's. It's really funny.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it?

[Matthew Crosby]

It's so silly. And I was not aware of the web series or anything.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah. But I didn't know there's a movie.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, there's a. There's. There's a movie out now and it was. It was very good. I think you'll like it.

[Ed Gamble]

Great. Fantastic. I will. Yeah, I'll definitely watch that. Oh, hang on a sec. Why are the. Why gorillas and Beatles playing at the same time? Some is having fun with. Yeah, a couple of things to. To Beck Rec. Is your. Is your wife Charlie a Tiny Tim fan?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Have you watched the Tiny Tim documentary?

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

It's brilliant. I found it on. It's like. It's an old documentary from a few years ago, but it's really. I really enjoyed it.

[Matthew Crosby]

What's it on? Where did you find it?

[Ed Gamble]

Daily Motion.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I could. I was watching it. I was thinking, well, I'm loving this but I know who'd love this even more.

[Matthew Crosby]

She loves Tiny Charlie Jameson. She loves Klaus, Naomi, any. Any sort of, you know, outsider.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Weirdo.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, they interview Wavy Gravy in it, so she'll have an absolute whale of a time.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm out of this.

[Ed Gamble]

That's part of the reason why I was asking if she was gonna go and see a gig tonight because I'd like to talk to. About the Tiny Tim documentary. If she hasn't seen it already, I should send it to her. If you don't know Tiny Tim, he became a massive like genuinely one of the biggest stars in America for about a year. He was a very strange sort of.

[Matthew Crosby]

Of falsetto voice.

[Ed Gamble]

Long haired. Yeah, falsetto voiced, ukulele player. He was so famous that he got married on the Tonight Show. He got married to his partner Ms. Vicky on the Tonight Show. It was the second most watched TV show after the moon landings.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh my God.

[Ed Gamble]

He was that level of famous. He was so insanely famous. And I was thinking. But also every song I Was like, I sort of knew him from, like, Ronan Martin's laughing and stuff that I watched as a kid. But I was like, I think I might really like him.

[Matthew Crosby]

Him.

[Ed Gamble]

I think his music might be really good as well. But, yeah, fantastic. Really, really good. Really enjoyed that. What else? Oh, I watched. I watched the first hour. I haven't watched the last half hour because we felt too sad of the Manosphere documentary.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yes. I watched all.

[Vin (Producer)]

It is sad.

[Ed Gamble]

It's really sad.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's very good. Obviously. Of course it is the.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, I don't think there's any need for it.

[Ed Gamble]

No, that's exactly it. If you don't know about it already.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You're better off not knowing about it, you know?

[Matthew Crosby]

And also, it's not. You can't catch those guys out because they just say, whatever.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, this is it.

[Matthew Crosby]

So it's not like you're going, well, I knew that. I knew I didn't like them.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I knew it was disgusting. I'm not learning anything new about them. And they're not, you know, you can't really pull the rug from them because they'll just be like, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Because what you're catching out saying is the stuff they're saying on microphone to millions of people.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. So I love Louis Theroux anyway. I'll watch anything Louis Theroux does. It's obviously entertaining, but it is.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, he's very good.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is very sad. Sad.

[Ed Gamble]

It's very sad. Although the bit that blew my mind, because I did. I wasn't familiar with HS Tiki Toky, but he says, oh, I didn't really know my dad. And it goes him.

[Matthew Crosby]

So, so this blew my mind.

[Ed Gamble]

I was like, it's Victor Abouku.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Who I, I interviewed.

[Vin (Producer)]

How do you guys know who I

[Ed Gamble]

interviewed for the Labs newspaper. So I, I, I. So I was like, that's wild.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, that is mad. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I just, I just didn't. Didn't realize. I mean, how would. I wouldn't. Didn't know who the bloke was.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But, yeah. Yeah, it's really sad and it's really upsetting, but I love Louis Theroux. He's great. So I'm gonna watch the last half hour of that at some point. No, we actually know what. I know how we watch television. We watch television for a bit and then we go. We've got the idea of this. We know what it is.

[Matthew Crosby]

Any Bitrax, Tony, vin.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah. The Help 2 album, Warchild album. That's out. Everyone should get that. It's really. It's good.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a brilliant album. Yeah. I've been listening to it loads.

[Vin (Producer)]

There's a lot on it. The Young Fathers tune on that in particular.

[Ed Gamble]

Particular Young Fathers is great. We're obviously playing the Arctics already.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah. Yeah. We're playing quite a few of them on. On Radio X. Yeah. Here and there. But, yeah, the Young Fathers is my favorite.

[Ed Gamble]

I really like the camera Winter.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I really like the English Teacher with Graham Coxson.

[Vin (Producer)]

The English Teacher one's very good.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

The Olivia Rodrigo cover is good. And I would also Beck Wreck the. The Gosleme stand in the Ferrocoy Antika market in Osman Bay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Lovely.

[Vin (Producer)]

Have you had Goslemi?

[Matthew Crosby]

You must have Goslarme. There's a few places near me that do. Good. Goslar. Lemme.

[Vin (Producer)]

I mean.

[Ed Gamble]

And for people who just eat cheese sandwiches. What is that? It's.

[Vin (Producer)]

But it's like a cheese sandwich.

[Matthew Crosby]

Is it?

[Ed Gamble]

Is it really?

[Vin (Producer)]

It's like.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, I love cheese sandwich.

[Vin (Producer)]

I thought it was like a pr. But it's like. So it's a. It's a flatbread with fillings.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Vin (Producer)]

And I mean, the spinach and feta one is like the most common veggie option. There's lots of meat ones as well, chicken ones and stuff. And you get. There's places in Soho that do them. But obviously like that. The one in Istanbul was.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Good God.

[Matthew Crosby]

I wouldn't stick to Soho necessarily, for the best Turkish food. No. Just. Just around here, I'd say go. You know, go Green Lanes.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Y. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But if I wanted to get one in the next 15 minutes, you could

[Vin (Producer)]

get one on Barrack Street.

[Ed Gamble]

Barrack street, right.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Well, it's great to have you back.

[Matthew Crosby]

Nice to be back.

[Ed Gamble]

We'll see you next week, everybody. Have a wonderful time. Look after yourselves. But most importantly. Bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bye. Bye.

[Ed Gamble]

Brady Box.