Episode 358 – Don’t Soak, Just Wash

Summary

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Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby on Radio X

Episode 358 – “Don’t Soak, Just Wash”

Date: May 10, 2026
Hosts: Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby
Producer: Vin
Podcast Timeframe: 8am – 11am

Episode Overview

This episode captures Ed and Matthew at their comedic best, presenting their chaotic, witty, and off-the-cuff approach to a classic weekend breakfast show. With shameless puns, tangential discussions, and listener interactions, the pair bounces between surreal humour and actual useful content, ranging from band quizzes to household tips, all with their signature nonsense and warmth. Main topics include: a debate on whether you should soak dishes, a “Japan edition” of their “Metal Education” quiz, amusing listener stories, and a special focus on names that are commonly mistaken for duos.

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Key Segments & Discussion Highlights

1. Start-of-Show Banter & Listener Email (00:32–03:43)

• Ed and Matthew playfully bemoan having to record three shows in a single day.
• Listener Emails:
  • Sandra writes in about losing her "ass" ("Hope your ass grows back, darling." – Ed, 01:35).
  • Ewan shares a story about vomiting out of a car and losing his new glasses. Both hosts riff on the absurdity and misery (02:41).
  • Andrew Stafford describes being stung in the eye by a bee stuck in his safety glasses, which the hosts find hilariously ironic and terrifying (03:09).

2. The Morning Show Vibe & Household Chat (04:12–07:15)

• Matthew slips into DJ mode, talking up "roast radio" and referencing “Love Hearts” sweets going "woke" (05:20).
• Household tips:
  • The episode’s quasi-title advice appears:

  "Should I soak that? Don’t soak, don’t soak, just wash." (Matthew, 04:43)
  The message: it's better to just tackle dirty dishes rather than let them soak.

• Discussion escalates to golden eagles being reintroduced in the UK and anxieties about outdoor cats vs. indoor cats.
  • "It's proper prisoner cat." – Ed (07:33)

3. Topical Nonsense & Name Mix-Ups (07:15–14:40)

• The hosts improvise about vaping kids, eagles snatching children/vapers, and the weirdness of British wildlife control.
• Segment on names that are mistaken for duos:
  • Listener Jack in Woking mistook “Skunk Anansie” for “Skunk and Nancy,” thinking it was a punk duo (12:21).
  • Previous listener confusion over "Grayson Perry" as Grace & Perry (14:02).

4. Metal Education: Japan Edition (15:35–31:29)

• Quiz Introduction (15:35–17:12): George, a listener, sends in this week’s “Metal Education” quiz, which asks: Is the name a Japanese band or a supermarket product?
• Quiz Play (17:12–30:31):
  • Hilariously desperate attempts from Ed to guess the right answers, revealing that he owns many of the products featured – and still gets them wrong.
  • Quotes:
    • "I love any music that sounds like a panic attack." – Matthew (16:04)
    • "If you think it's a product and you know it's a product, just say it's a product." – Ed (29:41)
  • Standout choices: Bandmaid (a band dressed like maids), Mrs. Green Apple (a band, not an apple brand), and Spontex Wash Ups (definitely a product, but could also be a punk band).

5. Listener Stories: Petty Crimes & Silly Disasters (32:01–40:28)

• Theft Confessions:
  • Nathan from Montana recounts drunkenly stealing 150 mailbox name tags on mushrooms and storing them in a broken toaster (32:05).
  • Colin from Aberdeen describes friends stealing a bale of adult magazines, leading to an awkward first meeting with his brother’s girlfriend (33:01).

  "They walked straight back out and they broke up within the month. Good luck in the charts this week, Colin in Aberdeen." – Matthew (34:04)

• Names Confusion Redux:
  • Rachel from Andover shares a story about mistaking the Proclaimers for a single person, hilariously serving both twins room service thinking it was the same guy (34:12–36:29).
  • "It's sad that they're getting separate room service." – Matthew (36:37)
• Silly Disasters:
  • Kirsty from Devon writes in about accidentally solidifying her blocked sink with caustic soda and giving the plumber a cupcake, leading to inappropriate late-night calls from "Dave the plumber" (38:21–40:17).

  • "No thanks Dave, I'd rather lick the caustic soda." – Ed (40:17)

6. End-of-Show Shenanigans (40:45–43:40)

• Meta-banter on whether anyone could listen to the entire three-hour show:

  “We simply can’t. Frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself and so should we.” – Ed (40:58)

• Requests for listeners to help their ratings by saying they listened, whether they did or not (41:22).
• A running gag: “Don’t give Dave a cake.” (41:49)
• Brief “Back Recs” (Beckenham Recommendations): minimal as they've been too busy packing and watching Wrestlemania.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Should I soak that? Don’t soak, don’t soak, just wash.”
  – Matthew (04:43)

• “I love any music that sounds like a panic attack.”
  – Matthew (16:04)

• “If you think it's a product and you know it's a product, just say it's a product.”
  – Ed (29:41)

• “No thanks Dave, I'd rather lick the caustic soda.”
  – Ed (40:17), following Kirsty’s disastrous plumbing/cupcake story.

• “We simply can’t. Frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself and so should we.”
  – Ed (40:58), rebuking the notion of listening to the full show.

• “Don't give Dave a cake.”
  – Matthew (41:49), soon to become a show catchphrase.

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Topic/Segment | Timestamp | |----------------------------------------|---------------| | Listener Emails Round 1 | 00:54–03:43 | | Don’t Soak, Just Wash Advice | 04:18–05:20 | | Love Hearts & Things Going ‘Woke’ | 05:20–06:29 | | Golden Eagles, Cat Chat | 06:29–08:13 | | Skunk Anansie Name Mix-Up | 12:14–13:41 | | Band or Brand: “Metal Education” Quiz | 15:35–31:29 | | Listener Crimes (Mailbox, Mags) | 32:01–34:08 | | Proclaimers Room Service Story | 34:12–36:29 | | Silly Disasters (Caustic Soda) | 38:21–40:17 | | End of Show / Listener Ratings Plea | 40:45–41:49 | | “Back Recs” (Very Brief) | 43:40–43:56 |

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Final Remarks & Tone

The show swings between surreal slapstick, honest domesticity, and meta-jokes about their own uselessness and lack of conventional radio polish. Ed and Matthew’s banter is equal parts self-deprecating and delightfully absurd, with running gags (like “Don’t give Dave a cake”) likely to stick with listeners. The Metal Education quiz is a perfect encapsulation of their style: earnest effort, willful misunderstanding, and genuine laughter.

Listeners are encouraged to send in their stories, band/brand quiz ideas, and Beckenham recommendations — especially as the hosts admit to running out of material after recording three shows in a day.

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For New Listeners

If you’re after structured information or practical advice, this show is an acquired taste, but if you love freewheeling improv, listener participation, and off-the-wall British humour, “Don’t Soak, Just Wash” is an archetypal episode — full of nonsense, community spirit, and genuinely funny digressions.

Transcript

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[Ed Gamble]

This is a global player Original podcast Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby Radio X well, you're not going to believe it, but we've recorded three shows in a day. Yeah, I can't believe it. We've done it. We've done it. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the third show that we've recorded in a single day of the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby radio show on Radio Access, the podcast of that

[Matthew Crosby]

show and we hope you enjoy it. It's here it is.

[Ed Gamble]

We rid night. Ed. Ed, listen, we said we, we said we record till 3:30.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, we didn't say we did. That was the cutoff.

[Ed Gamble]

No, it's 2:30 now, which means we're gonna do a 50 minute.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've got to pack my house up to move house.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I know you have and we are going to get you out of here very soon. But first I'd like to read a couple of emails just because it feels right and that way we're pretty much on.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, hello, I am. Oh, I'm Sandra and I listen to the show. Great. Well, you read it already.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you Sandra, for if you'd like to be like Sandra, you can Sunday@radioact

[Matthew Crosby]

co.uk do you remember your text that Wednesday your ass fallen off? Well, my ass fell off.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry, Sandra. Hope your ass grows back, darling. This is, this is from you. I was doing. I was doing my little Michael Ball there.

[Matthew Crosby]

I don't know.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm sorry to hear that. Sandra, good luck with your, I think I'm actually going to say sign off all. Yeah, this is from Ewan. Thanks for your email. Good luck with your ass. Hi Krobmeister Egg. And before it felt like a vin, a few years ago, I ordered a new pair of glasses online. After having worn them for a week or two, I decided that I wasn't keen on the shape. It felt like quite a shame because I spent a bit of, quite a bit of money on them. But I figured I would just put up with not being happy with my look for a while. And hope I got used to them. Later that week, I went for dinner at a friend's house in another city about an hour away. After the dinner, we ended up drinking quite bit. Eventually, the designated driver took me and another friend home. I was sat in the backseat as we drove along the motorway and began feeling queasy. I asked the driver to slow down, but it was too late. I opened the window, leaned out and threw up. Not only that, but my ugly expensive glasses got caught in the wind and flew off my face as well. The shame and embarrassment of having thrown up mixed with the relief of being freed from those glasses truly was quite something.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's amazing. He threw off all of the poison from his body.

[Ed Gamble]

All of the toxins just gone. On the motorway, Completely purified. Was that on the motorway out the window? On the motorway. On the motorway as we drove along the motorway. Quite queasy.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's straight back in the mush for me.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, or if you're behind that car.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Christ.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's bad.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, anyway, Ewan, thanks so much. Bad news. Good luck with your ass. Good luck with your ass.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, it wasn't that as well, was it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Must have been a small car.

[Ed Gamble]

He's very long. The poor person sat next to him, holding up his knees. So this is from Andrew Stafford, or possibly Andrew and Stafford. Happy radio, lads at work. Not looking at what I was doing. Put my safety glasses back on. Glasses contained an angry bee, the exact opposite of the job they're supposed to do. Danger.

[Matthew Crosby]

The danger is in the glasses.

[Ed Gamble]

Be stung me in the eye. Could no longer look at what I was doing, even if I wanted to. Andrew, AKA photo booth boy, Andrew Stafford. Thank you very much, Andrew Stafford. And thank you, Andrew. And good luck with your ass. Thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Good luck with your ass.

[Ed Gamble]

Good luck with your ass, darling. So we're gonna play you the show now, folks. Oh, it's so much cobblers. I can't. I've got no memory of anything.

[Matthew Crosby]

I don't know. Hope you've got to go and edit it.

[Ed Gamble]

We blasted through it and so will you guys have a wonderful time. We'll see you on the other side for some Beckenham recommendations. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Good morning. It's DJ Ed here with my little friend Harry, Matthew Crosby.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello.

[Matthew Crosby]

DJ Ed Gamble in the house. Of course, we got producer Vin with us as well, rocking the ones and twos. We're with you until 11am it's the perfect way to start your Sunday morning out there in radio land. Maybe you Had a big Saturday night, big dinner, couple of glasses of vino. Now you look feeling a little bit bleary eyed. You're looking at the dirty dishes and you're thinking, how am I get that done? Should I soak that? Don't soak, don't soak, just wash. We're going to be getting you through those next three hours. We've got some fantastic, fantastic roast radio to come, some brilliant tunes. Also the big news story of this week. Love hearts have gone woke. They used to be a bit of fun, bit of cheeky fun for the adults, but now we've got to be thinking of the Gen Z's. They all, all the love hearts asking for consent apparently. A lot of. Anyway, I'm fascinated to hear where this

[Ed Gamble]

is going to go.

[Matthew Crosby]

We'll be going through the love hearts. I might pop a few in my mouth, cheeky. But I'll be asking them first, what other things have gone woke? Cockfights. Cockfights have gone woke.

[Ed Gamble]

They have, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

They've got to ask the cocks now.

[Ed Gamble]

Unbelievable.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, cocks fight, of course. Hope that doesn't happen on boat race day. The two little men at the front of the boat having a fight. Plenty more to come where that comes from. Listen to that live in the studio. Yeah, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

I got the house band in here today.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, house band are in combined age of 892. The house band. Have you ever seen a man that looks dusty mad?

[Ed Gamble]

Thing is there's two of them, two

[Matthew Crosby]

guys, 892 years amongst them. But listen to that, listen to that sax. Anyway, we'll better get on with the show. Let's have a little bit of our old friends Kasabian

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X. Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. Fantastic start from djed.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, some good stuff from DJ Ed. And then he did just keep talking for a little bit, didn't he?

[Ed Gamble]

No, I love it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Genuinely, I've done a complete 180 on DJ Ed. That's the only thing with DJ Ed. Because it's interesting, you know, you obviously have to produce different presenters differently.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I'm, I'm after spending more and more time with DJ Ed.

[Matthew Crosby]

You just let DJ Ed run?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, no, it's about when you cut him off.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

He's full of ideas and you don't want to hinder that.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

You don't want to clip his wings.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

It's just knowing when it's run its course, you know, what a pair of

[Matthew Crosby]

wings they are, what a gorgeous Pair of wings, golden eagle.

[Ed Gamble]

I can imagine that.

[Matthew Crosby]

They're coming back apparently.

[Ed Gamble]

Golden eagles are coming back?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

They haven't gone woke. What do you mean golden eagles are coming back?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, are they reintroducing them to the uk?

[Ed Gamble]

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Because I sort of worried about like, you know, leaving the cat out in the back garden. Do you not feel like it's.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, we got an indoor cat, so. I don't care about yours.

[Ed Gamble]

Does your cat not go out in the garden at all?

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

You wouldn't let your cat out into the back garden?

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

Stretch, little roll around in the sunshine?

[Matthew Crosby]

No, no, no.

[Ed Gamble]

It's proper prisoner cat.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's not prisoner cat. He doesn't know any different.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but there's that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, but it's like the film room.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Perfectly happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I let Cosmo have a little roll around in the, in the sunshine.

[Matthew Crosby]

If you're sure that Cosmo's not going to jump over the fence and.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh yeah, she does. She jumps over the fence and she begs the neighbours, please, please don't send them back. Please, please don't send me back. Then they do awful stuff with me and the neighbours go, sorry, we don't speak out. And then there we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm looking forward to the golden eagle coming back. Yeah, maybe you can.

[Ed Gamble]

It's very metal.

[Matthew Crosby]

Snatch some of these blooming kids, these little wretches.

[Ed Gamble]

What kids?

[Matthew Crosby]

The vaping kids.

[Ed Gamble]

You're a vaping kid. You've been spending too much time with DJ Ed.

[Matthew Crosby]

Stop them.

[Ed Gamble]

Where does DJ Ed end?

[Matthew Crosby]

Give us a call. Give us a call on the U.S. when the golden eagle comes back. Who do you want them to snatch first? You see what I mean?

[Ed Gamble]

I don't want to clip his wings. Yeah, because you don't want to lose. Dude, your head. But. But it does, it's problematic.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Hey, what's the biggest baby that a golden eagle could pick up?

[Ed Gamble]

That's not a bad one actually. How do we. Do we know how big like what, what an eagle can carry?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Because could they. Could we. Could we know that?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Could it carry a three year old and if so, could it?

[Matthew Crosby]

It depends on the three year old. A lot of three year olds very fat nowadays.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely. Get them on the vapes, slim em down, suppress the appetite a little bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that doesn't work, by the way.

[Ed Gamble]

Does it not? No, no. If anything, speaking as a.

[Matthew Crosby]

Speaking as a vapor.

[Ed Gamble]

Speaking as a fat vapor. Yeah, actually, I actually am a fat vapor. So I'll tell you right now, that's wrong.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Please stop appropriating my culture.

[Ed Gamble]

Skinny pig and Satan's kingdom. Radio X. Now we have, I would say, only the most tenuous gras on this show.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not really our show in any way. So as that song was finishing, Vin said, oh, by the way, can you say, coming up, a story about Skunk and Nancy?

[Matthew Crosby]

Which is not either of us, I don't think. Unless last week we promised that and we're both forgotten.

[Ed Gamble]

I once met the drummer. It's not much of a story. Hey, I've told worse. But that wasn't a story I was planning to tell. But do you have a story, Vin? Coming up in just a bit about Skunk and Antsy? No, I don't, but we're gonna play some Skunk and Antsy and I think two weeks ago you said there was an email about Skunk and Antsy you wanted to read out.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ah, so this something you've said.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, it's an email. Yes. It's not a story, though. Well, an email is a story in a way. Okay, well, let's find out. A wonderful story goes on a journey, doesn't it? Let's hear a wonderful story in just a little bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

So that section is going to be called Matthew's wonderful story.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, yes. Okay, do that. Do the. Do the voice then.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Matthew's Wonderful Story.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, fantastic. My wonderful story coming up in just a little bit. Stay tuned. Bill and Matthew, Radio X. Oh, yes, please. The wonderful Skunk and Antsy.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, that reminds me.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

You've got a wonderful story about them.

[Ed Gamble]

I do have a wonderful story. Okay, folks, are you ready to start? Yes. Here we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matthew's Wonderful Story.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, indeed. Yes. Last week I. In fact, it might even been two weeks ago, I promised that I would read out an email all about Skunk and Nancy. Vin believes that emails are stories.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

They have beginnings, middles and ends. Yeah. Yes, but so does a sandwich. Yeah, yeah. Sandwich is a story. Sandwich is a. I mean, is that

[Matthew Crosby]

when you think of sandwiches, you think of the bottom piece of bread is the beginning, the filling is the middle, and the top is the end of the sandwich.

[Ed Gamble]

I was thinking more the process of eating.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ah, okay.

[Ed Gamble]

It's like I'm in the middle of my sandwich right now. I can't talk to you now, kids. I'm in the middle of my sandwich.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm at the beginning of my sandwich.

[Ed Gamble]

I am at the beginning of my. Yeah, it's quite ceremonial when I eat a Sandwich.

[Matthew Crosby]

How do you eat a sandwich?

[Ed Gamble]

How do you eat a sandwich? That's not it. It's.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hey, not bad.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not bad. We're not setting textures up here.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

How do you do you go. If it's a triangle sandwich, assume it's like a pre packed sandwich you're eating. Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you going in corner? You're going corner.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I like that.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm not going big bite out the middle.

[Ed Gamble]

No.

[Matthew Crosby]

Because I'm not four.

[Ed Gamble]

I might be four. I might be four. The thing is, it's so good that.

[Matthew Crosby]

But it's all in your mustache as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. And you know what I have as well is I have our best ever prawn sandwich.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You know, Marks and Sparks, the M S, they do a prawn sandwich and right next to it they do our best ever prawn sandwich which is not in the meal.

[Grainger Announcer]

Deal.

[Ed Gamble]

And it's a five. Yeah. And that's the one I have.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And it goes all in my mustache.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I Radio X money coming through.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, absolutely right. Yeah. We'll do any, any day soon. They say.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And they do, they do promise. They do promise one day to start paying us for this show. And. Yeah. And then it goes all in my moustache and I eat it on the train and I make direct eye contact with anyone else who's on the train. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're a pervert.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm a prawn pervert. Anyway, we've got a story here from

[Matthew Crosby]

Jack in Fancy is a wonderful story.

[Ed Gamble]

I think it's a wonderful story. It is from Jack in Woking who says, dear crunch, crumble and beat a cud. We forgot, forgot about that. We've forgotten that for a few weeks now. But of course, Finn's new nickname is Beta Cuckbot. Of course. It sounds like a character from Coronation Street. If you say it. If you say it. Yeah, I suppose if you say it. No, but I read it.

[Matthew Crosby]

If you say it sounds like a character from Coronation street.

[Ed Gamble]

But I read it and it didn't sound like it. And if you say it out loud, sounds like a character of Coronation. He beat a cat pot.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. She runs the corner shop.

[Ed Gamble]

She runs the corner shop. Of course she does. She starts on the corner as well. When she eats a sandwich, Jack in Woking says, just saying everything until. Yeah, what do you say? Let's have the email.

[Grainger Announcer]

Come on.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, here we go. Let's get to the end of the email. Only until recently when I saw her name written down. I always thought Skunk and Nancy, by the way, that's the name of the band, it's not the name of the singer. But still, fair enough. When I saw her name written down, I always thought Skunk Nancy was a punk duo called Skunk and Nancy. Isn't that so funny? God bless you. Warm regards, Jack in Woking. So, folks, we promised you.

[Matthew Crosby]

We promised you something.

[Ed Gamble]

Courtesy her name. Skin. Yeah, yeah. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X. Every wall's a fart wall in this studio. Thanks very much to Jack in Woking for sending in that story, that wonderful

[Matthew Crosby]

Skunk and Nancy story.

[Ed Gamble]

If you've got a story, by the way, Sunday at radiox.co.uk, we'll receive your stories and you may. You may even get them read out on the air eventually. Now, the reason. Eventually, yeah, six or seven when we get round to checking our story story mail. So the reason Jack sent that in is because we had another listener who thought that Grace and Perry was two people.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Grace and Perry, like Grace and Frankie. Streaming now on Netflix. If you want to watch Grace and Frankie, it's a very. It's a very funny show. You're thinking of Will and Grace. No, no, no, no.

[Matthew Crosby]

There is a show called Grace and Frankie.

[Ed Gamble]

Grace and Frankie. What's Grace and Frankie? Jane Fonder in. So the premise of it is that they're two sort of frenemies whose husband.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, stop. We're not describing Grace and Frankie.

[Ed Gamble]

They're husband.

[Matthew Crosby]

Stick on what you were talking about.

[Ed Gamble]

I've forgotten what I was talking about. Okay. Yes, stories.

[Matthew Crosby]

How many do you not know what they is was the new feature of Times you've thought someone's name was actually two people.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, that's right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Grayson Perry.

[Ed Gamble]

Grayson Perry. Now we've got Skunk and Nancy.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, and the other way around as well. Anton Deck.

[Ed Gamble]

Anton Deck, yes. Anton Du Deck. That's right. Yes. So, yes, if you've got more of those, sundayadiox.co.uk, send them in and they may get read out on the show. But I mean, I'm not a good reader, so don't send too many. Radio X.

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[Ed Gamble]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is the bit where I pretend like I'm waking up and it's the morning. Yeah. And then I play some horrible heavy metal to upset Matthew. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Sometimes it actually doesn't upset me.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Sometimes I think you quite enjoy it. I mean, I'm trying to go more extreme.

[Ed Gamble]

You've got to go a bit more extreme. You can't have a lovely jazz piano like we had last time. Time. It's just too. It was just too spilly Dan for.

[Matthew Crosby]

See now I'm. Now I'm finding things that are like less than 400 listens per month, you know.

[Ed Gamble]

Right. Okay. I not heard of this really abusive stuff on the.

[Matthew Crosby]

Anyway, this band's called Defect Designer.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. Trying to find something you like. I love this. I love any music that sounds like a panic attack.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very much like. It's very much like the bit in Crazy Frog. You know, he's going,

[Matthew Crosby]

you're waiting for the frog.

[Ed Gamble]

You're waiting for the beat to drop.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It felt like I was back at Pasha. Really did. Really did. It felt like I was back at Pasha having it absolutely large. Yeah. So no, I. I thought that was disgusting. I. I think every member of that band should be in prison. The old man and the big baby. Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Now, Matthew, it's time for a little bit of metal education.

[Ed Gamble]

Goody Radio from the Lacerin Disguise.

[Matthew Crosby]

Radio X. It's a good one. Today this has been sent in by George, Matthew. And this is of course a quiz.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Which has a category. I will list many things from that category that George has suggested. Some of them are real and some of them George has made up.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, Georgie, for sending it in.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. Quick bit of housekeeping. George says.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. I like that. Someone's got to do it around here.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. The following are either a Japanese band or a brand name or product name.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Or both. Okay. Of a product you find in a supermarket. Basically it's band or brand.

[Ed Gamble]

Band or brand. I like that a lot.

[Matthew Crosby]

Japan edition.

[Ed Gamble]

Japand or brand.

[Matthew Crosby]

The Japanese band bit is pretty self explanatory. Although worth mentioning. Some bands may have now changed their names or may not be making music anymore. I don't think it matters. George, thank you for covering that.

[Ed Gamble]

That's okay. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matthew's not going to pick us up on that.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm not going to know the answers, so it doesn't really matter. You can make it all up.

[Matthew Crosby]

An example for the supermarket product would be the yoghurt Yo Valley. Little Yo's, which is both the brand name and the product. But it could have just been Yo Valley. All just little Yo's. George is very concerned that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, yes, I get it.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's completely covered here, but here we go. Are you ready?

[Ed Gamble]

I'm ready.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number one. Inke Hattori.

[Ed Gamble]

Number one, Penis flytrap.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, we're gonna have to take it.

[Ed Gamble]

We'll take that one. Trust.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, and I pronounce it wrong. I apologize.

[Ed Gamble]

In K. Hattori.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number two. Band Maid.

[Ed Gamble]

Band Maid.

[Matthew Crosby]

M A I D. Band Maid.

[Ed Gamble]

Now we know about Band Aid, but it's not that. No, it's Band Maid.

[Matthew Crosby]

Band Maid.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Is that Japanese? Is that a Japanese band or is that a prod.

[Matthew Crosby]

It could be a product.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course it could be a product.

[Matthew Crosby]

It could be a band. Could be either. What sort of product? Are you imagining there's something.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, what would you. What would you ban a maid from doing? Really?

[Matthew Crosby]

No, it's not banned.

[Ed Gamble]

No. I'm only messing around. I'm only having a little bit of fun. I don't know what. For some reason, it makes me think of a biscuit.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

You know something biscuity. I think.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number three. The collective suckies.

[Ed Gamble]

Ooh, a nice little sucky.

[Matthew Crosby]

The collective suckies.

[Ed Gamble]

The collective suckies. I think I've had a sucky, actually.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're thinking of sake.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yes, that's right. The sort of hot booze.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Sake.

[Matthew Crosby]

Lark on Ciel. Lark on Ciel.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. I've got no idea what any of that means. Sounds French from your accent.

[Matthew Crosby]

It. It's. Yeah. Lark on Ciel.

[Ed Gamble]

Yep.

[Matthew Crosby]

Regina Blitz.

[Ed Gamble]

Regina Blitz. And the man in the back said,

[Matthew Crosby]

everyone attack Mrs. Green Apple.

[Ed Gamble]

Good name for a band.

[Matthew Crosby]

Mrs. Green Apple. I don't see Mrs. Green Apple.

[Ed Gamble]

But then I also, you know, I do enjoy a green apple once in a while.

[Matthew Crosby]

Mr. Children.

[Ed Gamble]

Mrs. Green Apple. And Mr. Children.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. Fragata.

[Ed Gamble]

Excuse me?

[Matthew Crosby]

Fragata.

[Ed Gamble]

Fragata.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fragata.

[Ed Gamble]

Fragata. Okay, see, Mr. Children. Fragata. Okay, all right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Green People.

[Ed Gamble]

Green People.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Again, these are good names for. I don't see Green People supported by green apple. Mr. Green apple. Mr. Green apple.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you, Mrs. Green apple. Actually, sorry.

[Ed Gamble]

Please don't. Mischievous.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm sorry.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm sorry.

[Matthew Crosby]

How dare you. Sexy Zone.

[Ed Gamble]

Sexy Zone.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sorry, that's not one of the questions.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, guys, are we going to the Sexy Zone?

[Matthew Crosby]

You know, I always like to mention when we enter the Sexy Zone, play

[Ed Gamble]

the theme music for Sexy Zone.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, that was a. That was a question. Spontex Wash Ups. Spontex Wash Ups.

[Ed Gamble]

It would be. It would be mad if Spontex Wash Ups was a band name. Yes, but it could be. Oh, no, they could definitely be a band name. Crucially, punk band. Yeah. Bancle the Spontex Wash. We have the spontex wash ups. 1, 2, 3, 4. Yeah. I love it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matey Max.

[Ed Gamble]

Matey Max.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matey Max.

[Ed Gamble]

This is a good quiz, man. Yeah, George has nailed this one.

[Matthew Crosby]

Final one.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, please.

[Matthew Crosby]

P Lander Z. P Lander Z.

[Ed Gamble]

Could you spell that for me, please?

[Matthew Crosby]

P, E, E, L, A, N, D, E, R. Dash the letter Z. P Lander Z.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, the Rock Will Wax and Wayne.

[Matthew Crosby]

Radio X. Yes. You may remember I sent Matthew a quiz. I gave him a list of things from George, our listener, who sent this quiz in. And some of them are Japanese bands. Some of them are Japanese brands. Okay, so, Matthew, we're gonna run through them now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number one.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm not feeling in any way confident.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, good. That's how I like. Yeah. Number one, Inker Haitori.

[Ed Gamble]

Number one, Penis fly trap, I believe.

[Matthew Crosby]

Japanese translation of penis flytrap, apparently.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. I believe that George has popped that through Google Translate. I don't think that it's either a band or a brand, so I'm gonna say no.

[Matthew Crosby]

No. Okay. No. Is that correct? Half a point, I guess.

[Ed Gamble]

Why make it half a point?

[Matthew Crosby]

It wasn't either of this. Oh, come on.

[Ed Gamble]

Give me the. Come on. I've only got one guaranteed point. Give it the guaranteed point. Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bandmaid.

[Ed Gamble]

Band Maid. Now, it sounds a bit like Band Aid, of course, which is both a band and a product.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Bandmaid.

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you think it's a band or a product?

[Ed Gamble]

I'm gonna stick with my original answer and say it's a product and it's a biscuit product.

[Matthew Crosby]

Biscuit. Incorrect. It's a band. I think I've actually heard of this band. They're a rock band. They dress. I mean, it's a very sort of like J Pop look.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sort of dressed as, like.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sort of idol.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Idol look.

[Ed Gamble]

I like that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Band made. They are a. They are a sort of rock slash metal band. You are incorrect, apparently.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry.

[Matthew Crosby]

Definitely the Collective Suckies.

[Ed Gamble]

The Collective Suckies, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Now, are they a band? Are they a brand?

[Ed Gamble]

Now, little yogurts in a pouch are called Suckies.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Because we've had those before in our house. Yeah, but the Collective Sucker. Like a fruit. A bit like A froob? Yeah. Okay, a bit like a froob in a little pouch. But does the Collective Suckies. That feels more banned, doesn't it? Because you hear the word collective, you think a bunch of them together. There aren't many prods that are collected. Like the Polyphonic Spree. Yeah. Or the Ezra Collective. You know, that's exactly. Imagine a big group of them. So I'm gonna say that the Collective Suckies are rocking the house because they're a musical act.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matthew, not only are you wrong, I've actually.

[Ed Gamble]

It's the product I've used, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

It's yogurt.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot. It imagine. Imagine going, oh, I've seen this in real life. So I'm going to say it's the other thing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Idiot. Absolute idiot. What's it like being me, eh?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, well, you should know. That's the problem.

[Ed Gamble]

The problem is. I don't know.

[Matthew Crosby]

Luck on Ciel.

[Ed Gamble]

Now, I've actually. I've actually used this Lark Conceal. I'm actually in a band, actually. I think that's. Yeah, Lark on Ciel. Are they? Okay, I am gonna say Lark Enciel is something to do with an arch, isn't it? Like Lark Triomphe. So I'm gonna say it's. Oh, I've got it. It's a product and. Oh, hang on a sec. No, he's looking him up on Spotify.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, I'm not on Spotify.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. All right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Don't get distracted by what I'm doing.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, you're just checking your email, Just checking your stories. Yeah. I'm gonna say that it is a. This is a product and it is a bread type product.

[Matthew Crosby]

So close. It's a band.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, almost. Almost. Right. Though if I'd said the other thing, I would have been right.

[Matthew Crosby]

They're a rock band from Osaka, Regina Blitz.

[Ed Gamble]

Regina Blitz is a band.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's not. It's a supermarket product, I think that's available in the uk. What does it do? Kitchen towel. Oh. Oh, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah, I use that. Get those ones. They're really big.

[Matthew Crosby]

I didn't think this would be the one. Yeah, it's kitchen Rol.

[Ed Gamble]

That.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's that stuff. Well, you can get it in the uk.

[Ed Gamble]

I've got it. I've got it in my house at the moment. I keep it. I keep it there. To the Suckies.

[Matthew Crosby]

But also next to your record collection, which is why you're confused.

[Ed Gamble]

So confusing. Pop that on the turntable. They were Fantastic sound.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're always wiping yogurt off your vinyl.

[Ed Gamble]

That's for other reasons.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, now we. We'd like to find out about the. The Mrs. Green Apple. Now, Mrs. Green Apple, this feels like a trap, right?

[Matthew Crosby]

So I'm gonna say, how is it a trap?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, because green apples are a product. Right? And I've eaten green apples. Right. And you could imagine there's not a cold green apples, though. Yeah. But Mrs. Green Apple could be an apple making company, an apple growing company,

[Matthew Crosby]

an apple making company, an apple manufacturer.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Apple factory.

[Ed Gamble]

An apple factory. Yeah. And I think. Then I think Mrs. Green Apple is a band or a musical act.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're correct. A rock band. Mrs. Green Apple.

[Ed Gamble]

I really needed that. I needed that in the wor. I swear, I do that like I need a sucky.

[Matthew Crosby]

Right, Next up is Mr. Children.

[Ed Gamble]

Mr. Children is a. Mr. Children is a product and it is a games manufacturer.

[Matthew Crosby]

Incorrect. It's a bad.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, never mind that now. Okay?

[Matthew Crosby]

It's 50. 50. You should do better on 50. 50.

[Ed Gamble]

If I just said it was a product every single time, I would have done better. Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fragata.

[Ed Gamble]

Fragata is a type of pasta and it's real. It's real. It's a real.

[Matthew Crosby]

There's no. There's no sense that anything might be fake here.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm sorry. I've forgotten the rules in the game.

[Matthew Crosby]

So what do you think it is?

[Ed Gamble]

Stick is a type of pasta. I think it's a product.

[Matthew Crosby]

And you think it's real.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think it's real.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is a supermarket product, but it's for olives and antipasti, I think.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fragata might.

[Ed Gamble]

That's close enough.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, I don't think it is.

[Ed Gamble]

No, no, take that away.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think. I think I might have those Olives. Yeah, Yeah, I think I might have those. You might do. I'm looking at them now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Show me the olives. Show me the olives right now.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, you got those?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I've got those in the house. This is mad. Honestly. You got a link to my fridge.

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you have a smart fridge?

[Ed Gamble]

I've got. No, I don't. That's the mad thing. I don't even have a smart fridge.

[Matthew Crosby]

Green people.

[Ed Gamble]

Green People is a band.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, Green People's a product. It's sun cream. And I'm just looking at it now. It is available in the uk. I don't even think it's a Japanese product, to be fair. I think a lot of these. A lot of these aren't even Japanese products.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think they are Japanese.

[Matthew Crosby]

They might be available in Japan.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But they're also available in the uk.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, well, that. Can I. Can I start again with this new information? Now that I know their products, I

[Matthew Crosby]

own in my house Sexy Zone.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know the answers. I don't know what Sexy Zone is. I don't know what it is. I think so. Band. I just. No, I'm gonna say products.

[Matthew Crosby]

And what do you think it is?

[Ed Gamble]

I think it's a pro. I think it's a product. I think it's. I think it's a type of lubrication.

[Matthew Crosby]

You think there's a.

[Ed Gamble]

There's a product that's available. It's called Sexy Zone. It's Durex Sexy Zone.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think this might be your lowest moment. It's a band, Matthew. It's a Sexy Zone. Of course it's a band.

[Ed Gamble]

They should be ashamed of themselves.

[Matthew Crosby]

They're not called that anymore. They're called Timeless, but with a Z on the end.

[Ed Gamble]

It's good.

[Matthew Crosby]

Spontex Wash Ups, please, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Spontex Wash Ups are Wash Ups.

[Matthew Crosby]

What. What are Wash Ups?

[Ed Gamble]

You know, like if you'd be a phone.

[Matthew Crosby]

Your phone.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

You've hit rock bottom, mate. You're never coming back from this.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm destiny. Oh, they are the. They are the little spongy things you clean up your. You use scarves? Yeah. Do you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're washing up sponges. They are.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, they are. Well done. It's a product. They're washing up.

[Ed Gamble]

I have those. I have those in my house, as you know.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Because my wife is pathologically addicted to buying them. I've got 40 of them.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Do you not have the face ones? No, we don't have scrubber or whatever.

[Ed Gamble]

We don't have the face ones. And I think that'll be a great way to get the kids to do the washing up. There we go. So what. What?

[Matthew Crosby]

Matey Max.

[Ed Gamble]

Matey Max. Now, I know about Matey's Bubble Bath, so I'm just gonna say it's that. It's that a really big. It's a really big bubble bath. Matey's bubble Bath. And it's. It's. That's a. That's a product.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is, Matthew. It's bubble bath.

[Ed Gamble]

Well done.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's two points.

[Grainger Announcer]

Wow.

[Ed Gamble]

You know what? I've realized the secret to this game is if you think it's a product and you know it's a product Just

[Matthew Crosby]

say it's a product if you know the right answer.

[Ed Gamble]

I should have realized that on question three when I said it's I use suckers. How many have we got?

[Matthew Crosby]

Last one. It's the only quiz you've ever done where you have physical evidence in your home for the right answer and you've been ignoring it.

[Ed Gamble]

Apply that logic to this last one. I really thought I was thrown by the notion of them being Japanese products, but I don't know why I was thrown by that. Okay, the last one. P Lander Z. P Lander Z. P

[Matthew Crosby]

Lander Z. Matthew, I'm just going through

[Ed Gamble]

my cupboards right now. I'm just going through my mind cupboards and I can't see P Lander Z anywhere. P Lander Z.

[Matthew Crosby]

Anything in there?

[Ed Gamble]

Anything in there?

[Matthew Crosby]

Maybe pads to soak up your errant urine?

[Ed Gamble]

I'm gonna say P Lander Z is a band.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is a band.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X, Crops and Bobbers.

[Matthew Crosby]

We just did the answers to Metal Education.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, I got every single one correct. Don't listen. Again.

[Matthew Crosby]

The final answer was there was a band, Japanese. Turns out Japanese American band, Matthew, called P Lander Z.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

They were formed in Austin, Texas in 1998.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[Matthew Crosby]

They bill themselves the Japanese action comic punk band hailing from the Z area of planet P Lander.

[Ed Gamble]

They sound good.

[Matthew Crosby]

While the founding members of P Lander Z were all born in Japan, they first met and formed their band whilst living in Buffalo, New York. The original three members of the band were billed as P Lander Yellow, P Lander Red, and P Lander Blue. Later, members of the band have adopted the same naming structure with mostly different colors, although one name, P Lander Green, has been used by two different drummers.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, it's a bit like the Wiggles in that respect, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I like that. That's really good.

[Matthew Crosby]

You like that?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, can we play a bit of P Lander Z later on, Vin?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, of course. Sure.

[Ed Gamble]

Let's play a bit of P Lander. Let's do a double play let's do a double play. Let's do a double play of P Lander Z next. Coming up after this, Radio X. When you manage procurement for multiple facilities, every order matters. But when it's for a hospital system, they matter even more. Granger gets it and knows there's no time for managing multiple suppliers and no

[Matthew Crosby]

room for shipping delays.

[Ed Gamble]

That's why Grainger offers millions of products in fast, dependable delivery. So you can keep your facility stocked,

[Matthew Crosby]

safe and running smoothly. Call 1-800-GRAINGER Click grainger.com or just stop

[Ed Gamble]

by Grainger for the ones who get it done. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Now Matthew, we always ask our listeners, don't we send in times they've stolen things?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, absolutely right. And one day we will catch one of them and send them to the police. This is from Nathan in Montana. Too far away for us to catch unfortunately. He says, when I was a wee little teen in Colorado, my friend and I got drunk and took mushrooms.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh dear. Straight to the police.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't do that. That's already illegal. We then went through his entire suburban neighborhood and stole all the little name tags from inside every single mailbox. Oh, that's how annoying.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's funny though.

[Ed Gamble]

It's funny. Funny but annoying stuff there. I kept them all 150 maybe in a broken toaster in my bedroom until I moved out when I turned 18. Hey, Nong Man. Nathan in Montana. Well, hey, long man to you as well, Nathan.

[Matthew Crosby]

What a life. Broken toaster full of stolen name tags. Yeah, says a lot, doesn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

Youth is wasted on the young, isn't it? It's absolutely wasted on the young.

[Matthew Crosby]

What?

[Ed Gamble]

Captain Cowboy and the Raisin Radio X. We're talking about stealing stuff. We are stolen the hearts of the nation. Yeah, that's good. The old dog noise. So you've got one there. From Colin.

[Matthew Crosby]

Colin in Aberdeen. Hello, Ed, Matthew and vinyl destination bloodlines. About 20 odd years ago, two of my drunken friends stole what can be only described as a bale of adult magazines from outside a local shop.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh no.

[Matthew Crosby]

Later that evening we were sat around my flat with the reading materials stacked high on my sofa. It is at this moment my brother, who I shared a flat with, brought his new girlfriend home to introduce her to me.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh no.

[Matthew Crosby]

With one of my friends deciding he did not want to be the guy, sat next to the pile of nudie mags, proceeded to push the whole pile into the middle of the room in a panic.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think that makes it, but can I just say, like, just sorry to interrupt you there, Colin and Aberdeen.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm not next to it.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think that makes it better if you're all sat around it like it's a shrine. That's. That's every bit as bad.

[Matthew Crosby]

My. Well, this is what happened. My brother walked into the room with new girlfriend to find four guys surrounded by various top shelf classic scattered all around the place. They walked straight back out and they broke up within the month. Good luck. In the charts this week, Colin And Aberdeen. Thank. Thanks, Colin, your big perv.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, Colin. I mean, as we get the listeners, we deperv.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X, Dead Boy and Soupy Ghost.

[Matthew Crosby]

We were talking about when people think one person is two people because of their name.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right. Grayson Perry.

[Matthew Crosby]

Grayson Perry. Grayson Perry. Grayson Perry and Skunk and Antsy and Skunk and not a person. Skunk and Nancy. Someone thought that was a duo.

[Ed Gamble]

It was a punk duo. Yes. We've had this message in from Rachel, Sid and Nancy.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'd imagine they were getting mixed up.

[Ed Gamble]

Sid and Nancy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rachel from Andover writes, after hearing the message from the listener who thought Grayson Perry was two people, I wondered if I had a who. Do I not know how many there is? And the first thing I thought of was this memory. I used to work in a hotel in my hometown of Southend and we had two suites for our special guests. Normally people that were performing at the Cliffs Pavilion. Lovely venue. The manager of the hotel came to me personally and asked me and asked me and only me to deliver room service to both suites. As in her words, you'll love it. Side note for Ed, I once served stone cold Steve Austin when he stayed there.

[Matthew Crosby]

Why is he in Southend?

[Ed Gamble]

He must have done the Cliffs Pavilion.

[Matthew Crosby]

What's he doing at the Cliffs Pavilion?

[Ed Gamble]

Surely he did a sort of. Did he not do a spoken word talk?

[Matthew Crosby]

Probably. I'm sure he did the Broken Skull Sessions. That's the name of his podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

I think he might have toured his

[Matthew Crosby]

podcast to flogging his beer.

[Ed Gamble]

Cliff Pavilion. He might have done.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's pretty exciting. Oh, thank you very much.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a good Austin.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's not that good, but some people can really do an Austin.

[Ed Gamble]

It's something quite asthmatic.

[Matthew Crosby]

God damn.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. Excited and nervous. That was potentially about to meet one of my favorite comedians. I took the first tray up to the first suite for the door to open to see a bloke in glasses and someone that instantly didn't recognize at all. Confused and a tad disappointed. What's that?

[Matthew Crosby]

Have you stayed there, Tommy?

[Ed Gamble]

It was me. And then the next room it was Edgam. But I was delighted, confused and a tad disappointed. I went back down to the kitchen, got the second rate to deliver a suite number two. Only for the same bloke in glasses to answer. That room too.

[Matthew Crosby]

You'll love it.

[Ed Gamble]

I then thought, oh, they're clearly just pranking me with the same bloke running through the interconnecting door. Not the funniest prank ever. But I came downstairs and the manager was smiling away and excitedly running over to me to ask, so, did you enjoy meeting the Proclaimers? Whoops.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's great.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a great story. Yeah. Meeting both. Both Proclaimers.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thinking it was one bloke and not knowing who they were.

[Ed Gamble]

Having no clue. Even when you meet the other one.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's so funny.

[Ed Gamble]

Two of the most famous twins of all time.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's sad that they're getting separate room service.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I think that's normal if you were staying with your brother. Right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You wouldn't know. Yeah. It's the Proclaimers. You expect them to be lady. And then tramping it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Really? Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Every meal.

[Matthew Crosby]

Surely. Spaghetti underneath the interconnecting door.

[Ed Gamble]

They've been on tour for. They've been on tour for close to 40 years. There's no way. Lady the.

[Matthew Crosby]

Trust me.

[Ed Gamble]

Up for ages. That's true. That's true.

[Matthew Crosby]

One pair of glasses, though.

[Ed Gamble]

Never goes out. That's the mad thing about.

[Matthew Crosby]

Pass them. My room service is coming in. You pass me the glasses again.

[Ed Gamble]

Very, very good. One of them.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bloody lazy to get room service when you. The claims they make.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true.

[Matthew Crosby]

They can't even go downstairs.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Turns out they would walk 500 miles, but not. They don't do stairs, do they? Divas Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X. We're a show. That's the back of the sewing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Another case sold by Lugwig. It's gonna be good. I meant to say another case solved by Ludwig.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a hard thing to say.

[Matthew Crosby]

Another case sold by Lugwig.

[Ed Gamble]

And I believe that is a product.

[Matthew Crosby]

Am I right?

[Ed Gamble]

I believe I am. We can get an extra bonus point so that we've had a message in from Kirsty and Devon talking about. Now, I don't remember asking for this, but I believe we did. Silly disasters.

[Matthew Crosby]

Silly disaster.

[Ed Gamble]

Send us your silly disaster.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think I. I said it by accident, but you weren't. That's good. Silly disasters. Because whatever I say, and this is a compliment, you go, that's a good idea.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a good idea. I think. I think selling a gig by looking is a good idea. It's great. Kirsty from Devon writes in. Good morning, lads. Happy radio.

[Matthew Crosby]

Don't mind if I do.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't mind if I do a silly disaster for you. I had a block sink in my kitchen and one afternoon. I had a block sink in my kitchen one afternoon. So Googled solutions on how to unblock it. I found Caustic Soda was a good Unblocker and actually had some in the cupboard. No idea why now, but I think it was from a previous tenant. I didn't read the instructions properly and poured hot water down the sink with it, causing it to expand.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh God.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh no, no. And solidifying the pipe. Well that's the disaster bit. Certainly. Duh, she's written that, not me. If I'm editorializing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, we got a stupid email. Duh.

[Ed Gamble]

No, she did that herself. I tried. That's another good feature by the way. You send us an email if you do something stupid and I'll read it in a stupid voice and keep saying dirty all the way through.

[Matthew Crosby]

You know what it's reminded me of so far, Matthew? It's that picture of the old lady sat in. In A and E. Yeah, with. Apparently the story is she put hair mousse in, but it was actually expanding builders foam.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know, she's got like a kind of big. A big afro. Oh my God. Amazing. Yes, that's exactly it. But unfortunately Kirsty put it down her pipes. But not her pipes obviously. Even worse, I tried unscrewing the main pipe from the sink and learned that caustic soda also burns skin. Ouch. After calling the plumber brackets Dave, he came and sorted the mess out for me. I was so grateful for his help. This is not going where you think it is. I offered him one of the cups.

[Matthew Crosby]

Did you say that?

[Ed Gamble]

No, no, she said that I offered him one of the cupcakes I'd recently baked. He took it and went on his merry way. Apparently Dave thinks that a cupcake means more than it does and at approximately 2am started drunkenly calling me and my then partner.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh no, Dave.

[Ed Gamble]

No thanks Dave. I'd rather lick the caustic soda. Stay safe kids. Don't give Dave a cake. Kirsty in Devon. Thank you very much. That is exactly the sort of. That is the sort of silly disaster we were after.

[Matthew Crosby]

Give Dave a cake.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X. You could equalize Lover. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Lover.

[Ed Gamble]

Lover. Radio X. Well folks, there we go. That's the show for yet another week. We would love to thank you for joining us for the entire three hours,

[Matthew Crosby]

but we simply can't.

[Ed Gamble]

We simply can't. Frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself and so should we. You think anyone else joins us for the whole three hours? Yes, there must be people who listen to the whole three hour show.

[Matthew Crosby]

People is like fallen asleep or something or left the room.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Does that count as joining us? If You've left the room. People that have turned it down.

[Matthew Crosby]

Counting the ratings.

[Ed Gamble]

It does count in the ratings. Of course he does count in the rager. You don't even have to listen to it for it to count in the ratings. Just say you did.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yeah, that's true.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, come on, everyone, could you please say you did?

[Ed Gamble]

Could everyone please say they listened to this? Yeah, and if you. Obviously there's quite a lot of people who didn't listen to this that we need to get to. Could you also tell your mates to say you listen to this? Yes, we really need that. And don't forget, you can always message in Danny's show to say you listen to our show. Feel free to do that. 83936 on the text or WhatsApp us through the global player. But for now it's Ed and I saying goodbye for another week. Goodbye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Don't give Dave a cake.

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[Ed Gamble]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, there we are. No idea what happened there.

[Ed Gamble]

No idea.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

But we've done a very good job.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've done a very good job.

[Ed Gamble]

I think we could just be coming in in one day a month, basically. Just looked lasting up. Yeah, that was. That show. The one that we just did was the one that had the Japanese band or supermarket product. No, I didn't. That was my. That was ages ago. It doesn't feel like that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Miles away.

[Ed Gamble]

That was miles away.

[Matthew Crosby]

In my mind, looking at it right there in front of me on this.

[Ed Gamble]

That was many, many mind. Miles away. Felt like that was like three years ago. Yeah, it does. That wasn't. I don't think that was this year. That was. I think.

[Matthew Crosby]

Were we talking about Pies one also? What you're on a.

[Ed Gamble]

Was the pies one that one or the last one? No, pies was.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, God. Pies was the last one because that was Tom Neenan. Yes, that was Fingers and the pies. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Anyway, let's not worry about any of that now. We've done it. Golden Eagles. They're back. They're back.

[Matthew Crosby]

They have to pay us.

[Ed Gamble]

They have. They simply have to pay us. And this. We found a loophole in the system. If they don't mind the shows being then we could churn them out. Three in the morning.

[Matthew Crosby]

We found a great loophole at work.

[Ed Gamble]

Work.

[Matthew Crosby]

And you get the same money.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, well, thank you very much for listening. Any. Any back recs because we didn't actually do back wrecks at all, did we?

[Matthew Crosby]

I. I've not. All I've been doing is packing and Wrestlemania. Yeah, well, yeah, maybe Wrestlemania, but it was fine. Yeah, but the main event of the second night was great. CM Punk, Roman Reigns was very good.

[Ed Gamble]

Fantastic. Vin, have you got a bet wreck for us?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oberfemi versus Broken.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love us. I think an apricot fruit. Delicious. If they could. If they could send me some apricot fruits and some ramonas from us. Some jalapeno hummus. Happy guy. Yeah, absolutely. Well, and I think. Oh, just a lovely glass of water for me, thank you. Okay, Everybody, don't forget sundayadiox.co.uk we need some emails because we basically read them all out over the last three shows. So we need some new emails. Get in touch. We'll speak to you very soon. Bye. Bye.