Episode 362 – For The Final Time

Summary

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Podcast Summary:

Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby on Radio X – Episode 362: "For The Final Time"
Air Date: June 7, 2026
Hosts: Ed Gamble, Matthew Crosby (aka Crunch & Crumble), Producer Vin
Running Time: ~1h 45m (excluding ads & music)

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Overview: The End of Crunch & Crumble

The final episode marks the close of Ed Gamble & Matthew Crosby’s uniquely chaotic, self-aware Sunday breakfast show after seven years and 362 episodes. Rich with nostalgia, in-jokes, offbeat features, and affectionate sendoffs from comedians, listeners, and Radio X colleagues, it’s equal parts emotional farewell and trademark silliness.

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Key Themes & Structure

• Looking back: Funny, clumsy highlights, recurring jokes, and infamous features.
• Listener and celebrity messages: A who’s-who of UK comedy and Radio X.
• Reflection: Ed, Matthew, and Vin process the impact and surreal journey of the show.
• Farewell gifts, final features, and genuinely heartfelt moments nestled in chaos.

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Show Breakdown & Timestamps

1. Opening Reflections & Nostalgia ([00:11]–[03:00])

• Ed and Matthew joke about “completing” radio and having their names carved into radio’s history.
• Immediate self-deprecation about their lack of radio experience.
• “We typed our initials into radio. It's over for us.” (Ed, [00:24])
• Hints that the episode will feature messages, memories, gifts, and a “truly special” surprise.

2. Messages from Friends & Fellow Comedians ([02:35]–[07:00])

• Chloe Petts: Praises the show as the best for press tours:
  “Usually what will happen is you’ll go into some dry radio interview... You guys will say, 'What's the biggest pig you could think of?'” ([02:37])
• Tim Key: “Saturday mornings will never be the same again... It never felt like I was coming on to promote something, it always felt like I was coming on and forgetting to promote it.” ([03:57])
• Ivo Graham: Brief and heartfelt, “These are sad times. Good luck, boys.” ([05:14])
• Fern Brady: “I have so many happy memories... always made to feel welcome.” ([05:58])
• Toby Tarrant: Self-deprecating roast, “Heard these incompetent, useless radio presenters... Over the following years, well, it didn’t really improve...” ([07:05])

3. Retrospective: Show History & Inside Jokes ([08:56]–[17:10])

• Announcement of show ending after 362 chaotic episodes.
• Comedic highlights, running gags (“A Zorb Full of Blood,” “World Cup of Fruit”), radio faux pas.
• List of made-up show features and characters (“Scoops for Daddy,” “Biggest Pigs,” “Catfish facts”).
• “Hired...to shed listeners for tax reasons—we thought we’d get better. We haven’t.” (Matthew, [08:56])
• Listener eulogies and jokes about their place as “standard bearers for the limits of the male brain.”

4. Radio X Family Goodbyes ([18:14]–[22:37])

• Chris Moyles & Dominic Byrne: “Nobody thought it would last this long...Your agents certainly didn’t.” ([18:18])
• Johnny Vaughan & Team: Comic academic over-analysis of Ed & Matthew’s “antioxidant effect” for lonely Sundays.
• Recap of in-jokes about celebrity guests and Johnny never having listened.

5. Seven Years of Chaos: Self-Roasting & Clips ([23:12]–[30:39])

• Reviewing their literal first links on air—which sound almost exactly as shambolic as the present.
• Delight in “beginner’s luck” or “staying consistently bad.”
• Montage of best bits (mostly guests, not them).
• “We’ve been rubbish, but the guests have been amazing.” (Ed, [30:26])

6. Signature Recurring Features ([31:20]–[47:39])

• Metal Alarm Call and heavy metal education ([31:20]–[33:09])
• Matthew’s final “Big Thing”—awkward stories about being DJ at a kids' street party and the notion “Blood is thicker than water but you know what’s thicker than blood? Road.”
  “That is gross.” (Ed, [36:01])
• Prank characters and “call-ins” by alter egos (e.g., Jerry Cinnamon, Chef Brian, DJ Ed, Bartleby Scrib).
• Metal Education Quiz ([43:52]–[47:39]): Callbacks to the show’s earliest episodes and the rollercoaster of false memories.

7. Listener Messages & The Legacy of Bad Listeners ([17:08], [47:56]–[50:19])

• Playfully reading unflattering listener texts:
  “What am I going to half listen to now when I need to fall asleep?” ([17:59])
• Kerry from Canada and the “Breathy Lady” voiceover both send creative, affectionate tributes:
  “No more Scoops for Daddy. No more World Cup of Fruit. I mean, who picks a grape?” ([49:16])

8. Emotional Goodbyes, Sentimental Gifts & Final Features ([41:01]–[54:09])

• Matthew gifts Vin a box of Pakistani mangoes; Vin is genuinely emotional.
  “I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy in this room before.” (Vin, [41:24])
• Ed receives “big trousers”—a running joke taken literal.
• Last “film review”: instead of reviewing Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Matthew performs a rapid-fire song full of in-jokes. ([73:04]–[74:58])
• Host and crew earnestly thank each other and the listeners for “being the thickest listeners in radio.” ([82:22])

9. Cultural Footprint: Messages from UK Comedy Royalty ([50:36]–[97:55])

• Anya Magliano, Josh Widdicombe, James Acaster, Nish Kumar, Stevie Martin, Stuart Laws, Kathy Rivett, Alex Horne, Ellis James, Izzy Suttie, and John Kearns (who originated “What don’t you know what it is?”).
• Clustered comic testimonials, in-jokes about using the show purely for PR, and recurring jabs at their radio ineptitude.
• “I hope genuinely that you’re okay, because I think it’s all downhill from here.” (Josh Widdicombe, [53:16])
• “They never really learned how to do it.” (Nish Kumar, [58:03])
• Alex Horne: “I never really knew what I was doing, why I was there or if I was being entertaining or if you were being entertaining. But we had fun and I was always hungover.” ([68:17])

10. The Spirit of the Show: Chaos, Honesty, & Friendship ([82:08]–[100:15])

• The hosts reflect sincerely—amid continuing nonsense—on how the show saw them through big life changes and lockdown.
• “You truly are some of the thickest listeners in radio...” (Ed, [82:22])
• Vin: “You have meant a lot to a lot of people...especially during shows over lockdown...” ([83:32])
• The trio repeatedly undercut sentiment with silliness, but the gratitude and affection are genuine.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “We are carved on the great big tree of radio.” (Matthew, [00:28])
• “I’m quitting Off Menu... Matt and James’s Dream Dinners!” (James Acaster, [53:32])
• “Our listeners: Just thick—so thick. And we love it!” (Matthew, [82:22])
• “Consistency...you start bad and stay bad.” (Matthew, [24:39])
• “Bye Kerry. Bye forever.” – The end of “Metal Education” ([47:40])

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Standout Emotional Beats

• Numerous shout-outs to Vin (Producer), whose now-legendary sabotage “ruined” the show, but who was central to its enduring cult.
• Gifts exchanged—mangoes, big trousers—played for laughs, but land as real tokens of friendship.
• Many comedians and listeners express that the fun, loose, unselfconscious nature of the show gave guests rare freedom.
• An overwhelming sense that, while the show “never got any better,” its community mattered to many.

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Final Feature Rundown

• Metal Education Quiz ([43:52])
• Matthew’s surprise “Goodbye to Crunch and Crumble” song ([73:40])
• Final round of “back-rex” recommendations ([87:34])
• Ongoing catfish facts, film reviews, and the “biggest pig” call-in

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Ending & Farewell ([100:15]–End)

• Each host picks a favorite show memory—bantering about life changes, running gags, and radio disasters.
• All agree: “This show has to end.”
• The spirit, warmth, and weirdness of Crunch & Crumble go out as they always lived: off the rails, self-effacing, and full of love for listeners, for each other, and for a job they never quite learned to do.
• “It’s not the end for us as friends...It’s just the end for you as listeners being able to hear the absolute pap we came out with.” (Matthew, [100:07])

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**Podcast Listener’s Guide:

If You Haven’t Heard the Show…**

This monumental finale encapsulates everything fans adored and more—gentle anarchy, recurring features built on nonsense, a parade of affectionate comic friends, and honest camaraderie beneath the jokes. Even if you’ve never listened, you’ll find comedy, warmth, and the charm of a true cult show ending on its own quirky terms.

Transcript

[Ed Gamble]

This is a global player original podcast.

[Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby, Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, here we are. It's the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby podcast of the show that we do on Radio X. Radio show that we did. That we did. We done.

[Ed Gamble]

We done it.

[Matthew Crosby]

We done it now. We finished it. All done. That was the last show.

[Ed Gamble]

We completed it. We've typed our initials into radio. It's over for us.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's over. We are carved on the great big tree of radio.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've.

[Ed Gamble]

We've chiseled our names into the, into the tablets that have been brought down by the, you know, modern day Moses and Chris Moyles from the holy mountain.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I've written mj. E G M C V J E G Forever.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right. You're a big fan of mj, aren't you? After seeing them? I've seen the movie, yeah. It's.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's Space Jam.

[Ed Gamble]

Space Jam, absolutely. Yeah. Big, big fan of him. I remember going to see Space Jam in the cinema and just. I don't know what I was expecting, but it didn't live up to my expectations. I thought it was gonna be a modern day Roger Rabbit.

[Matthew Crosby]

I suppose this is the best way to do the final.

[Ed Gamble]

This is the best way to do it, isn't it? Anyways, to be fair to Matthew, we

[Vin (Producer)]

didn't have a lot of space for actual show on the show.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, we didn't. And that is the sort of thing you'd say on the actual show and then we'd sort of rush to a song.

[Vin (Producer)]

My mum's just texted me.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah, what's next?

[Vin (Producer)]

Congratulations on completing seven years with the cr.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, I like the Crazy Team.

[Matthew Crosby]

Crazy Team. Is it too late? Can we come back as the Crazy Team?

[Ed Gamble]

We were the Wacky Boys for a brief period.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's still the title of our WhatsApp group.

[Vin (Producer)]

That's true.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

The Crazy Team. Well, the next seven years.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

The Wacky Brothers are dead. Long live the Crazy Team.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Final show. Yeah. It is jam packed with messages from friends of the show, memories, etc.

[Ed Gamble]

Some old features.

[Matthew Crosby]

Some old features.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

You do something fantastic towards the end, which I can't wait for people to hear. If you've not heard it, it's truly special.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Gifts. I brought some gifts.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Thank you so much. I'm so happy. Thank you. And if you're listening to this, you've got to check out Ed's Instagram because you can see some of the gifts on the Instagram. In fact, I'LL probably get both pictures. Cause we took a lovely picture with you holding up your gifts. And I'll put that on my Instagram as well, so please do check that out. Um, but we should hear some. We should hear some friends.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, we got so many messages from people that we've. We're playing some on the pod as well. Uh, so we've got some. Who have we got up first, then?

[Vin (Producer)]

Let's start with Chloe Pets.

[Matthew Crosby]

Chloe Pets.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. I'm so, so sad to hear that you will be ending your show because it is truly the best show to do on the press tour circuit that we as comedians have to do every year. Because usually what will happen is you'll go into, like, some dry radio interview and you'll say. They'll say, how did you get into comedy? Whereas you guys will say, what's the biggest pig you could think of? And it's always so much more fun than conveying the actual information that you need to convey about the show that you are touring. You will be severely and sorely missed. But obviously I wish you all of the best in your continuing ventures. Thanks for. I'm gonna say, eight beautiful years. I don't know how many years it was. I love you. Bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you, Chloe. Yeah, why not eight?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, let's call it eight. Yeah, sure, why not?

[Vin (Producer)]

Baker's eight.

[Ed Gamble]

If you're. It's a Baker's eight. Exactly. If you're a fan of Chloe, they're gonna be doing the next flatshare slam down to them and Phil Ellis.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fantastic.

[Ed Gamble]

A very strong lineup.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's very good.

[Ed Gamble]

A very strong lineup. Very excited about having them. So, yeah, get tickets now.

[Vin (Producer)]

Tim Key.

[Ed Gamble]

Tim Key.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hi, Ed. Hi, Matt. Look, Tim Key. It's a classic case of Saturday mornings will never be the same again.

[Ed Gamble]

Always enjoyed coming on. It never felt like I was coming on to promote something. It always felt like I was coming on and forgetting to promote it in the end.

[Matthew Crosby]

You're always a laugh.

[Ed Gamble]

Bloody decent half. Always mildly gutting, but never too bad and always very supportive and very warm and you'll be missed unless you have other projects.

[Matthew Crosby]

You may well be. A lot of the messages from comedians are, we love coming on to promote stuff because it's just sort of not proper.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. You're not a real show. Thanks for letting me promote my thing. It's never really moved the dial at all and didn't actually have to talk about what the themes are. Also, I'd like to thank Tim for recording that next To a waterfall that's also an open road.

[Vin (Producer)]

Where did he, I think, when he came on the show? Ages. And was it on this show ages and ages ago when he talked about riding a bike up on the waterway?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, he accidentally rode a line bike, I think, onto a dual carriageway.

[Matthew Crosby]

So it feels that's what he was doing there.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, in homage.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sounded husky as well, didn't he?

[Ed Gamble]

Very, very, very, very husky. Who have we got next?

[Vin (Producer)]

Quick one from Ivo.

[Matthew Crosby]

What?

[Ed Gamble]

Do I not know what it is? A Sunday morning without Matthew Crosby, Ed Gamble and producer Vin on Radio X. These are sad times. Good luck, boys. Seems like.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, that did end. That ended way quicker than I thought it would.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that's right. But of course, if you do record a message, you do have one of the prefects sat next to you to make sure you're not recording any messages saying, I'm having a horrible time here and please come and get me, Mum and Dad. So, yeah, they just. I think what happened there is the prefect whipped the phone out of his hand. You said quite enough.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, thank you, Ivo. That was a lovely message.

[Ed Gamble]

It was a lovely message. A lovely message. And crucially, he know. He knows what day it's on.

[Matthew Crosby]

He know what day it's on.

[Ed Gamble]

He know what they had done. Tim Key not know what they had done. Ivo know what they had done.

[Vin (Producer)]

Fern Brady. Hello.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello. Hey, Matt and Ed. I'm really sorry your show's coming to an end. I was out till 5am last night dancing at a music festival. But I have so many happy memories of being on your show. It always seemed like I was on it at the last minute or I would just get asked to go on when I was in the house. I don't know, it always seemed like a very casual affair. Nonetheless, I was always made to feel welcome.

[Danny Wallace]

So thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, thank you, Ferd. I mean, a lot of our.

[Ed Gamble]

Do we need to be sending out packs of strepsils to all of our regular. What's going on?

[Matthew Crosby]

They sound worse than they would on Sunday morning.

[Ed Gamble]

A lot of these recorded on like a sort of Friday afternoon. Also, I don't know how else we're supposed to communicate with you. We don't know when you're in your house. Fern.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

If I message and say, would you like to come on the show? I Could she come? Well, I'm in my house. How dare you? That's the nature of text messaging. It always seemed like you messaged me when I was in my house.

[Vin (Producer)]

Let's do a quick one We've got another message from someone who's got maybe better diction.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, here we go.

[Vin (Producer)]

Toby Tarrant, Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. I was heartbroken and crestfallen to hear the news the other day that you are leaving Radio X. Took it a little bit personally because I was on your show, and then

[Ed Gamble]

a week later you said, well, I

[Vin (Producer)]

can't do this anymore. Try not to take it as a personal affront, but just want to say that, you know, a few years ago when you started here at Radio X, I heard these incompetent, useless radio presenters. And then over the following years, well,

[Ed Gamble]

it didn't really improve, I would say, at times.

[Vin (Producer)]

Let's be fair, I think the show went backwards, but I sort of learned

[Ed Gamble]

to love you, and you were an important part of my Sunday mornings.

[Vin (Producer)]

And now there's an Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby shaped hole in my life, and I'm gonna miss it. So best of luck with whatever the hell you're doing next.

[Ed Gamble]

Ed, I know you've been struggling for

[Vin (Producer)]

work recently, and woe betide the two men or women who have to fill my hole next.

[Matthew Crosby]

Come on, Toby, be realistic.

[Ed Gamble]

Be realistic. It's not really two people. Be realistic. Tobes. Yeah. We're gonna miss you. Toby as well. Lovely messages. Crucially, he knows how to record audio.

[Matthew Crosby]

And we. Yeah. That is, we had you on the show and we decided it's time to go because we knew we would never achieve the level of broadcasting that you do.

[Ed Gamble]

Toby, he's just really good.

[Matthew Crosby]

He is really good.

[Ed Gamble]

He's really, really good. You can tell why he's been at, you know, he's been at the coalface for. Because he's really talented.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And we're not. So we're stopping.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

Anyway, here's the show. Hope you enjoy it, and there'll be more funny messages on the other side. Plus, we're all gonna have a big cry.

[Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Ed Gamble]

Ray D O X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, that's it. After 362 shows, the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby show is coming to an end. Personally, we never thought it would last longer than 300, but here we are. From episode one, A Zorb Full of Blood, through to episode 58, Wally Winka, episode 64, I wouldn't be surprised if Biba Doobie's on TikTok. And episode 345, warm egg. These two gown perverts have given six out of ten effort maximum from Biggest Pigs, Scoops for Daddy and the World cup of Fruit. No matter what, we've done. You thickos have insisted on listening. Hired in 2019 as a deliberate ploy by Radio X to shed listeners for tax reasons, we thought we'd get better. We haven't. But we're also proud to be standard bearers for the limits of the male brain. But you don't need to hear this all from me. We have a few messages from friends of the show. Oh, here's Jerry Cinnamon. Here's Jerry Cinnamon here. I'm very sad that Matthew are leaving the station a the show's going to. I got a lot of memories from the show, even though I blocked Radio X on Twitter that time, which is true, and nobody knows why. Especially I really got my hit song, Carrots for Tea off the ground.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And as you all know, it went to number one in Glasgow. And should we do a quick burst of it now, then? It'd be good. Let's have a look in the pan, Mum. What? Shaker.

[Vin (Producer)]

We'll get a full version.

[Matthew Crosby]

One to number one. Hey, and let's hear from. Let's hear from one of my favorite guys now. My personal chef. It's Chef Brian.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no. Hello, everybody. It's me, Chef Brian. Mamma mia. Zutalos. It's great to be here back on the radio where I belong, you know. Oh, my God, I'm sorry. Sad about this show finishing. I haven't been this sad since I woke up after a heavy night on the absinthe next to Salt Bay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, thank you, Chef Brian. Let's hear from D.J. ed.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh. Oh, great.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello, lads. It's your old pal D.J.

[Ed Gamble]

ed here.

[Matthew Crosby]

Seven years. Hey, as someone who's been broadcasting for 58 years, that doesn't seem like a lot. You know, I once interviewed Gandhi. But seriously, good luck with whatever you're doing. Tune in later and I'll be talking to a scientist about why we should all be drinking more butter. Also, what are crocs? And why are people wearing them? Little clue, they aren't crocodiles. Thanks, D.J. ed. Now let's hear. And we've not heard from him for a while. The naughtiest boy in radio. Oh, no. Oh, here he is, Bartleby Scrib.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello, everybody. It's me, Bartleby Scribb, the naughtiest boy in town. Sorry, I haven't been listening anymore. I'm into the Joe Rogan podcast.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bye. Thanks, Bartleby. And thank you, everyone. That really brings a tear to my eye. But today is not a day for sadness. Today is the day for us to finally do a Good show. And prove once and for all that we can do radio. So let's get it started. This is Ocean Color Scene. No, no, no, no. What?

[Ed Gamble]

No, must be.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's White Stripes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, right. White Stripes.

[Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Cr.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello, everybody. It's Ed Gamble and it's Matthew Crosby and this is our final ever show

[Matthew Crosby]

for the final time.

[Ed Gamble]

For the final time.

[Matthew Crosby]

Be nice knowing you, man.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

This would be the last time we see each other, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

All three of us is the last time we see each other.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, yeah. I'll never see either of you again, is that. Oh, well, that's the rules, isn't it? Have you not checked your contract?

[Ed Gamble]

I didn't realize that was it.

[Matthew Crosby]

We signed them in blood and mucus.

[Ed Gamble]

Right, Yes, I remember that bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah,

[Vin (Producer)]

the blood.

[Ed Gamble]

I had plenty of the mucus I was hogging for absolutely ages. It's just a bit dehydrated, I think, but yes. Never going to see you again. That's great. I never get to see Vin again. I'm a bit sad about that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Fair enough. Fair enough. He's a nice guy.

[Ed Gamble]

He is. He is a nice guy. How are you doing, man? How are you? How are you? Are you feeling okay about it, are you?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, I, I, I'm obviously very sad, I think, you know, it's, it's, it's sad that it's coming to an end. It's been a big part of our lives for the last seven years.

[Ed Gamble]

Seven years, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. I am looking forward to also not doing it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Having a little nap.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, absolutely. That'd be nice.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

The feeling you get on a Sunday morning when it's like 6am and you wake up and you go, oh, I can go back to sleep.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And sleep for the rest of the day.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. I probably won't, though. What I'll probably do is I'll probably wake up around 7:30 and just give you a call if that's all right.

[Ed Gamble]

I'd love that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Just to catch up.

[Ed Gamble]

I'd love that. Should we do it here?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Should we meet in Leicester Square?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, whoever's replacing us, we can just sit in the corner and we can catch up. Right.

[Ed Gamble]

That'd be really nice.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that'd be really nice. Because loads of bad stuff happens in your life and I love hearing about it.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, bad stuff's gonna carry on happening. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But I'll need updates.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's all right.

[Ed Gamble]

I'll send you some voice notes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you. Maybe I'll start a Broadcast channel.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Maybe that's what I should do. Maybe I should start an Instagram or WhatsApp broadcast channel.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I could just say, oh, this

[Matthew Crosby]

horrible thing happened to me, my kid was sick again and here's the Kaiser Chiefs.

[Ed Gamble]

I won't be able to play the Kaiser Chiefs. They're not allowed.

[Matthew Crosby]

But my shoulder's still bad. Have I told you about my shoulder?

[Ed Gamble]

You've still got frozen shoulder.

[Matthew Crosby]

I still got frozen shoulder, yeah. Talking of bad stuff.

[Ed Gamble]

That's really bad.

[Matthew Crosby]

Still can't get my hand behind my back.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you, what do you want to do with your hand behind your back?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, you've got yours behind your back right now. It's nice to have the option, isn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

It's very nice to have the option, actually. I didn't even realize I was doing that. But it's very relaxing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, it's very relaxing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You feel like an old fashioned PC, as you know.

[Matthew Crosby]

I went and got an injection for it and then passed out.

[Ed Gamble]

You did, didn't you?

[Matthew Crosby]

I did, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So they injected you in your shoulder and you said, oh, actually, I think.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think I'm fine. I sat up on the edge of the bed and then next thing I knew I was on back lying on the bed with the French doctor hovering over me with my legs in the air.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it because it was the first time that someone had held a needle to your skin and then not drawn a witch? You were like, this is very unusual. It's not. They've not drawn a.

[Matthew Crosby]

Where's my witch?

[Ed Gamble]

They've not drawn a skull. That's puking blood and snakes.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's a good idea.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not a bad one.

[Matthew Crosby]

I actually don't have any puke ones yet.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you have any puke ones?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's probably one of the ones I'm missing.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I tell you what, would you like to get some. Some tattoos of my kids in the

[Matthew Crosby]

back of the car on the way to Centrepear?

[Ed Gamble]

Little Gerry Cinnamon and little Noel Gallagher's high flying birds passing the basin to each other whilst puking into their laps.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Oh, also, because it's the final show, you're going to reveal the real name of your children, aren't you?

[Ed Gamble]

That's right, I am. Final link of the show. We've got Cindy V coming up. Say a very rude word and I'm going to say the name of my kids. It's an art show.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've got loads coming up though, haven't we? We've got loads of listener messages.

[Ed Gamble]

Listener messages. We've got. I've been talking to some friends of the show. We've got. Oh, we've got loads. We've got a quiz.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

We've got a film review. Loads of fun stuff up ahead.

[Matthew Crosby]

Vin's on holiday, so it's producer Harry.

[Ed Gamble]

We got Will back, funnily enough. No idea.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. If you check the website, we're broadcasting live,

[Ed Gamble]

so Vint.

[Matthew Crosby]

Vin is here.

[Ed Gamble]

We've also asked. We've made a compilation of all of our favorite songs.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

That Radio X have ever played. And we're playing them all in order. So this is. What is it? Third favorite song, second favorite song. It is, of course, Same Jeans by the View here on Radio X.

[Announcer]

The last show, Crunch and Crumble is

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X,

[Matthew Crosby]

the View. Same genes. Oh, how wonderful.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, that's gonna be. That's be the last time you ever hear that song, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

It's gonna be the last time I hear all of these songs. If you think I'm listening to any of these songs ever again, you are sorely mistaken.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I'm gonna keep it X. Locked in at home, as I do.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course. I'm a regular texter to whoever comes in to take this slot. I'm going to be texted in. I've got. I've got a big thing. I can tell you all about it

[Matthew Crosby]

and I'm sure the AI will respond.

[Ed Gamble]

So we've obviously, for the first time ever, people have said that they're sad the show's ending. Yeah, yeah. They think it's good. No one's seven.

[Matthew Crosby]

All you need to do if you want compliments is say you're finishing something and people you did not know existed will get in contact and say, I love this thing.

[Ed Gamble]

Such a strong argument for faking your own death.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Sitting at the back of the crematorium and just listening to people go, what a good man.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. What a good man he was. You can't then be like, no, I'm alive. So this. It does have to end now, but.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, that's right.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think it was worth it for the love. We got so many lovely messages. We certainly won't read all of them out and we certainly won't read out the ones that are genuine compliments and quite perfect personal, because. No, that's for. That's for you and us.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. And thank you for all of those, but who cares about those? Yeah, we got the ones where they're telling us how Awful. We are. That's the. That's the language of the show.

[Matthew Crosby]

K and Essex has texted in this morning. Can't believe it. What am I gonna half listen to now when I need to fall asleep?

[Ed Gamble]

That's exactly.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You are a listener. Yeah, you. You absolutely get that. You get the breath.

[Matthew Crosby]

Get it.

[Ed Gamble]

Speaking of listeners, should we start the eulogies? Let's start the eulogies.

[Vin (Producer)]

Now we've got two of the big hitters. Let's start with Chris Moyles.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, this will be lovely, I'm sure.

[Ed Gamble]

Hi, Alice. Hi, John. It's Chris Moyles and Dominic Byrne here.

[Vin (Producer)]

Hi, guys.

[Ed Gamble]

Apparently you're leaving us. Listen, all the best.

[Matthew Crosby]

How's that?

[Ed Gamble]

How long did you want? 20 seconds. Really?

[Matthew Crosby]

Is that too short? What?

[Ed Gamble]

It's Ed and Matt. Chris and Dom. Ed and Matt.

[Vin (Producer)]

Ed and Matt.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. All right. Hi, Ed and Matt, It's Chris Moss and Dominic Byrne here.

[Vin (Producer)]

Hi, Li. Hi, Li.

[Ed Gamble]

Hi, love.

[Vin (Producer)]

Hi, love.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hi, love.

[Ed Gamble]

You're right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sorry.

[Ed Gamble]

Who was that aimed at?

[Vin (Producer)]

I don't know.

[Ed Gamble]

All right, well, anyway, all the best, guys. Not. You'll need it. You're off. Clearly, the pair of you, going off to bigger and better things. Leaving us in the sinking ship that is radio. Thanks, guys, but all the best. Thanks for all your time here at Radio X. Nobody thought it would last this long. You didn't. We didn't. Your agents certainly didn't. No, but it was a hell of a run. So all the best. And enjoy having a lie in on a Sunday morning from me and Dominic Byrne, who just called you love.

[Vin (Producer)]

Bye, love.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, and one final thing, Alice and

[Matthew Crosby]

John, well, thank you so much to Chris and Dom for that.

[Ed Gamble]

It's nice to know they're worse than us.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. The thing is, this is good. We're kicking off big here because that is like we're getting out of prison and the big daddy has just said goodbye to us at the gates.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely. Yeah, he's gonna. You know, I am gonna really, really miss bending you over the bunk.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, well, speaking of prison, do you wanna hear from Johnn?

[Ed Gamble]

Of course.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hi, Ed. Hi, Matthew. I'm Radio X's Johnny Vaughan. That, unless I'm very much mistaken, is Dr. Cinder Templeton. You're right there, doctor. Hey, that's Gavin Woods. Professor Gavin Woods. He's here as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello.

[Matthew Crosby]

And can I just say we are a little bit miffed about your parting. I've enjoyed your show on Sunday. We all have, haven't we, Guy?

[John Robbins]

Absolutely right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Professor Gavin, you said recently in A treatise you wrote in. Well, a collection of essays for the University of Ontario that shows like that can have an incredible beneficial effect on people's brains.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right.

[Matthew Crosby]

As they face Sunday alone. Well, very similar to the use of avocado as a brunch meal.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

For many years I've been wagging on

[Ed Gamble]

about the antioxidant effect.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. Thank you, Doctor. What she's trying to say is we're gonna really miss Crosby Steel's Gamble and Proctor. We're gonna miss you very much, both of you. You really light up Sunday morning. And you make Danny Wallace looks so good. Oh, no, that's not flattering, you've gotta say. I mean, we're often cruel to ourselves for broadcasting. Nonsense. Come on.

[Ed Gamble]

Come on, Johnny. I didn't understand a word of that, but I loved every second.

[Matthew Crosby]

Loved every second of it. Thank you very much.

[Ed Gamble]

Crosby, Stills Gamble and props.

[Matthew Crosby]

Just talking.

[Announcer]

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

[Matthew Crosby]

Stereophonics on Radio X. They're leaving as well. Yeah. It's actually the last time we'll be playing Stereophonics on the station.

[Ed Gamble]

Ever. No, no, just for this hour.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yeah, we're playing the one about loads of trees later.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a lovely song. So many trees. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So many trees. One of my favorite ever links was. We didn't know what we were going to say. And. And, Vincent, what are you going to do in the next link? And we were like, we'll come up with something.

[Matthew Crosby]

Come up.

[Ed Gamble]

And. And you said, there we go. Stereophonics. A thousand trees. Now, that's too many trees.

[Matthew Crosby]

Anyway, brilliant stuff.

[Ed Gamble]

Brilliant.

[Matthew Crosby]

Crosby, by the way.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh. Ed Gambler, Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

We've forgotten how to do it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Does it really matter if you get how to do it now?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll never hear us again.

[Ed Gamble]

Never hear from it. Yeah. I tell you what, you know, people have to say, you've not heard the last of us. You have.

[Matthew Crosby]

You have.

[Ed Gamble]

This is the last of us in the show. Great show. Wonderful. Wonderful show, too. Okay, guys. Too scary for me. I think got. We've.

[Matthew Crosby]

If.

[Ed Gamble]

The problem is, if you listen to Johnny Vaughan once, this is what happens.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. By the way, someone. Someone messaged to say the suggestion that Johnny has ever listened to the show made me spit out my coffee.

[Ed Gamble]

Indy wrote that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Indy wrote that. Johnny. Johnny has listened to this show. Very complimentary to us earlier.

[Vin (Producer)]

Johnny loves radio.

[Matthew Crosby]

Johnny loves radio and this show.

[Vin (Producer)]

No, he's interested in radio.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

He's texted into the show to tell us how thick we are. So he definitely hasn't been listening. Texted it on a Sunday morning.

[Vin (Producer)]

He offered to call in today, actually, instead of recording that note, he said, do you want me to just phone in?

[Matthew Crosby]

It sent me a three hour show.

[Vin (Producer)]

That was my most.

[Ed Gamble]

Come on, Jolly, we simply don't have the time. Now. Vin has suggested we do something here which I don't want to do.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes. And I'm not wild about it.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I think it's a bad idea. But then, hey, that's never stopped us in the past. Vin, what's your bad idea?

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, since it's the final ever Ed Gambler Matthew Crosby show, I thought we should look back at the first ever Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby show seven years ago. Seven years ago. So this is just to get your thoughts? No, this is pretty much the first link that you ever did.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, no, we're doing this now.

[Ed Gamble]

Aren't we gonna have to do it now?

[Matthew Crosby]

We're gonna have to do it now

[Ed Gamble]

because every single time I've tweeted about the show and I've added you into my tweets.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

People have responded with, well, seeing as he's on Love island, you know, he's a very busy boy, all of this kind of stuff. So.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So let's talk about it now. You clear it up for the nation. You're not actually on Love Island.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm not on Love island. And I don't even vaguely look like the person everyone says that I look like.

[Ed Gamble]

You look identical to him.

[Matthew Crosby]

There is. There is a.

[Ed Gamble]

There's no ve about it. My wife and I were watching the show and she said, does Ed Gamble have that. That torso in real life? I was like, it's not Ed Gamble.

[Matthew Crosby]

I do not have that torso in real life. I would describe myself as having little. Little breasts.

[Ed Gamble]

Little breasts?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Little pudding belly, Little breast.

[Matthew Crosby]

Little pudding belly and little breasts.

[Ed Gamble]

Which also are our nicknames for this show as well. Listen to little pudding belly and little breasts on Radio X.

[Announcer]

Little pudding belly and little breasts on Radio X. Wow.

[Matthew Crosby]

That was actually. All right.

[Ed Gamble]

You know what? That was better than I thought it was gonna be.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, is it or is it bad? But we still do links of that quality.

[Vin (Producer)]

Now, I think that's the interesting thing is it's the same.

[Ed Gamble]

How is it possible to do a thing for seven years and do it pretty regularly? You know, like, I haven't got better at having sexual intercourse, but I don't do that regularly.

[Vin (Producer)]

So.

[Ed Gamble]

But. But I. I How have we done this basically every single week?

[Matthew Crosby]

Consistency.

[Ed Gamble]

That's it.

[Matthew Crosby]

People often chirp on about how good consistency is. What they don't consider is that you start bad and stay bad. That is not a good side of consistency.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, before we get ahead of ourselves, that was the first link, so I think actually it was maybe beginner's luck or maybe you were trying really hard.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no, it's a fluke.

[Vin (Producer)]

This link came a little bit later in that first ever show.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've been having some texts and tweets coming in from people about their stag do disasters.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a tricky one. How do you spell do's?

[Matthew Crosby]

Ah, he's gone with a double O.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I mean, how else would you spell do's? Otherwise it's stag dos.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's true, Ms. Dos.

[Ed Gamble]

Exactly.

[Matthew Crosby]

I don't think it's double O though, is it?

[Ed Gamble]

You've got to put. What is it? Apostrophe o. This isn't what the text is about. Let's move on.

[Vin (Producer)]

No, I think we should drill down into this.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

All right, Vin, it's a four minute link. Let's work this out.

[Ed Gamble]

I was moving on for Vin. I assumed he'd start doing the hand signal. That means move it on, but no, let's talk about it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Is that what that means?

[Ed Gamble]

That's what it means. It doesn't mean just keep, have a great time. So stag dew's gone wrong. Stag do, D O apostrophe s. I know.

[Vin (Producer)]

That was when I said that we should drill down into it. That was a comedic.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I'm so sorry, Vin. I took you at face value there.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sorry? We took you at face value there, Vin, because you're the producer of the show.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And we trust you.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. Didn't realize you were going to start doing some comedy. Right. Well, I think that paints you in a worse light than us, Finn.

[Ed Gamble]

It does.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's interesting seeing. Seeing. It's very formative, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, it's.

[Ed Gamble]

It's seeing you sabotage the show from day one.

[Vin (Producer)]

From day one.

[Ed Gamble]

This. Hey, this could have run for seven and a half years if it weren't for you.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's really interesting. It was interesting listening back to it and just thinking, wow, it's all my fault.

[Ed Gamble]

It's all your fault. You ruined this. You ruined this show.

[Matthew Crosby]

Kathy Rivet's got in touch. Thank you, Kathy. And thank you for all your texts over the years. And this is a good point. Stag do disasters is Such a normal thing to talk about on the radio. I can't believe this is how you started.

[Ed Gamble]

I know, that's. I tell you what, that is one thing that we have that has changed. The texters have got weirder and much, much worse.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Right. So we started very, very normal with our texters. Like, I think we know what's going. Where are you partying tonight, guys? That kind of stuff, you know. Why are you partying on a Sunday

[Vin (Producer)]

night as the 936, by the way?

[Ed Gamble]

That's still open, of course. Yeah, that's still open when you're partying tonight.

[Matthew Crosby]

And then it moved through to like, when. Have you got something in your eye? Have you seen Richard and Judy in America in the 90s?

[Ed Gamble]

That's right. What's the worst thing you ever smelled?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that was a bad one. Yes or no?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes or no?

[Matthew Crosby]

It was quite a bad one.

[Ed Gamble]

I think there was also is time egg.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Remember that is time egg was a low point.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. I mean, we have many low points. Is it a low point?

[Ed Gamble]

It's a single low point.

[Matthew Crosby]

Is it a low point if it consistently happens?

[Ed Gamble]

That's true. It's just a point. Yeah. Oh, let's play the Fratelli on the Fratellis. Yes, please. It's the Fratellis on the radio.

[Announcer]

Little pudding belly and little breasts on

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X. Vin, you said you have something else to sabotage the show with today. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, by the way, quickly before you do that, Vin, we had a text in from Siobhan, who reminds us that, yes, that was a normal texter in that first show, stag do disasters. But apparently later on in the show, the text did change to how do you get baby bell wax out of a carpet? So, yeah, so we very quickly became us. Sorry, Vin, carry on, mate.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, I wanted to play you something. We won't do a lot of this because I think it's a bit self indulgent. I think people don't need to hear us.

[Ed Gamble]

Have you heard the show so far?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, I think this is the limit, but, you know, it has been a fantastic seven years. I wanted to play you my favorite bits from the past seven years. So here's just a short highlights montage of your best bits.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X. Matthew's continued quest to baby

[Nish Kumar]

reindeer himself by giving out as many details about exactly where he lives as possible. Absolutely unbelievable stuff. I listen to the podcast every week and I think, why doesn't he just

[Ed Gamble]

draw them a map? Give over. Give over. If you had a kitchenette in your Cabin. I am writing to Scottish Rail. He pops himself off to the casino. So I think we know he's not

[Matthew Crosby]

on the straight and narrow.

[Ed Gamble]

Very fun. He meets up with Brad Pitt from Mr. And Mrs. Smith and says, listen, Brad, let's do a huge prank and let's do it on a casino. See, my mum was far more lax, very liberal. I remember the girl on the checkout

[Announcer]

saying, this one does have explicit content on it. And Mum went, oh, don't worry about that. She was all that.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm. Of course, yeah. This week I attended at the strong advice of my agent. My arm wasn't twisted, but hints were dropped that I should go with a few other comics in similar dire straits to a social media workshop.

[John Kearns]

I read a book about this Linst. Basically crystal meth. And they all work, hence why they could just do the worst. Most inhumane thing. I'm not accusing.

[Ed Gamble]

You're not accusing mother of any war crimes here. But, you know, do you misplace the car keys on a weekly basis because you have three gilets? Radio X. Hello.

[Vin (Producer)]

Just.

[Matthew Crosby]

We got the joke immediately that you were saying.

[Ed Gamble]

The second I heard Nish's voice, I'm like, I don't know what this is.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, it's just everyone. Everyone who's not us.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

But Fern at the end.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello.

[Ed Gamble]

So good. That was Fern, not. That wasn't Jerry. Cinnamon scene.

[Matthew Crosby]

I know. It's very similar.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello. I'm about to play carrots for tea. Oh, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

We've obviously we've had some good people on, haven't we?

[Ed Gamble]

I tell you what, we've been rubbish. But the guests have been amazing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Guests have been fantastic.

[Ed Gamble]

So many, so many. Wonderful.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you. So that's so Vin. That was. I mean, I've got it here on the list of things coming up on the show. That was Vin's highlights package. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

All the. All the best bits.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Got any. Got any best bits with us in it? No. Radio X.

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[Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, the final time I'm waking up in the morning on a Sunday, looking out, beautiful spring weather. Oh, what track could I possibly play for the final ever? Metal Alarm Call, or something classic, perhaps, that we played before? One of Matthew's favorites? Or do I dig deep and showcase another new band? Well, I can't believe I've never found these guys before. I'm not allowed to say the name of the band. Classic Demon F. Oh, no. But I can't say the name of the song. So, Matthew, for the final time, I hope this gives you more appreciation of heavy music. This is the song Bible Squirts.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, God, not on a Sunday.

[Matthew Crosby]

How are you feeling about that now? Seven years I've been. I've been playing you stuff like that. Do you now? You now feel a bit more sort of inured to it? You seem like you're not reacting awfully to that.

[Ed Gamble]

Can I shock you? I hated that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Not into Bible Squirts?

[Ed Gamble]

No, I don't think I'm gonna be bothering any Bible Squirt concerts anytime soon.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, Demon F is the name of the band.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh.

[Matthew Crosby]

The song's called Bible Squirts.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't want to be.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, well.

[Ed Gamble]

I'll not be enjoying Bible Squirt at a Demon F concert any time soon. That was horrible. You should be ashamed of yourself. This is David Bowie, Captain Cowboy and

[Announcer]

the Raisin Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

Every week you have a big thing every week. And it gets bigger and bigger and it gets. Well, this is the final big thing. So this should be the biggest thing. It's gonna be the biggest. Are you ready, Vin, with the sound effect?

[Vin (Producer)]

I think so.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matthew's big thing.

[Ed Gamble]

Hello, everybody.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay, we've said hello at the beginning of the show. We've been on for nearly an hour now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but I was sort of framing it as a little formatted bit in its own right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sure. Well, I did that with saying Matthew's big thing and then.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, you did, actually, didn't you? Hello, it's me, Matthew.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello. It's you.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, this is my big thing. Anyway, it was the street party this week.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yes. The street party in your local area, where, of course, there was the selfie station last year.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I'll say the oldest thing of all time, a selfie station.

[Ed Gamble]

The first year we did it, I built a selfie station. It's fallen apart. I had to chuck it away. I had to take it down the dump. So all I do at the Squid street party now is I run the kids disco. Yeah, that's right. Because, of course, as you know, currently not for much longer, I'm a professional dj.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So. So I play. I play music for the kids.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is the last. Also your last year running the kids dj?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, the guy who organized it said, how's it going at. At Radio X? And he said, oh, tomorrow's our last show. And I saw a little flicker go across his eyes. Well, we've got to get somebody else. And I guarantee I'm gonna show up. I'm gonna show up at the street party next year, and Moyles is gonna be doing it. Yeah, Moyles is gonna be doing his indie rock kids disco.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And it's gonna be great.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, God, that sounds brilliant.

[Ed Gamble]

It's gonna go off.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Anyway, basically, the way the. The street party, the way the kids disco works, is that I play a load of songs and we play games, sort of like musical statues or who can do the craziest dancing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I hand out sweets.

[Matthew Crosby]

You win that every year, don't you?

[Ed Gamble]

I'm such a good dancer. As I say. I say, kids, you stop for a second. Daddy's gonna take it. No, I. So I give them out sweets. And then, anyway, there's a bit of a hubbub going around amongst some of the parents and some of the kids that my daughter, little Jerry Cinnamon, has said, well, the DJ's my dad, so I get more sweets, right? This is. Then this gets reported back to me while the disco's going on. And I think I've gotta. I've gotta put pay to this, but I'm obviously not gonna stop the music. We're still playing, you know, Steve's Lava Chicken and Golden from K Pop, Demon Hunters and Baby Shark and all the big hits. I'm still playing that, but over the top of it, I'm doing my. You know, normally I say, okay, guys, now it's time for who can do the Craziest Dance? I do a kind of DJ Ed.

[Matthew Crosby]

You hate DJ Ed.

[Ed Gamble]

I like DJ Matthew, though.

[Matthew Crosby]

The kids like DJ Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, they love it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So I. I sort of. I try to do this in the most fun way possible, right? And I say. I say a phrase I think wouldn't be out of place on this show. So I say, listen, okay, there's no. There's gonna be no favoritism here just because some of my family members are here dancing. As far as I'm concerned, everybody who lives on this road is family. Oh, right.

[Matthew Crosby]

That is gross.

[Ed Gamble]

That really boys people up. And I say, yeah, yeah, people. Yeah. Because we are all family.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, you're not.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, we are. We are. There's a community spirit on our road. There really is.

[Matthew Crosby]

You sent me a picture of this street party. It's the saddest thing I've ever seen.

[Vin (Producer)]

Nobody there.

[Ed Gamble]

That was before people showed up. And then people did eventually show up a little. It was raining. It was quite rainy yesterday. Yeah, it was quite raining. And so I say we're all. We're all family here. Say, blood is thicker than water. But you know what's thicker than blood?

[Matthew Crosby]

Road.

[Ed Gamble]

What? Exactly. That was. That was the reaction. I thought that was gonna. I thought that was gonna make people actually go off.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, it doesn't make any sense, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

I haven't got better. Seven years.

[Matthew Crosby]

Seven years.

[Ed Gamble]

Seven years. I've not got better. Blood is thicker than water. But you know what's thicker than blood?

[Announcer]

Radio X, Dead Boy and Soupy Ghost.

[Vin (Producer)]

Here comes Red.

[Ed Gamble]

Got a hell of a set of pipes on it, wasn't he?

[Matthew Crosby]

We gotta get that remix.

[Ed Gamble]

It's the. Jerry, it's a good remix.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, it's a good remix.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, Jerry's here.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thanks so much for playing my song.

[Ed Gamble]

That was my. Oh, you know what? That's phenomenal. How did you. How did you manage to sing such a long note with all the vaping you do?

[Matthew Crosby]

I take a really big breath.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the secret.

[Matthew Crosby]

I huff it right in and then I let it blurt out.

[Ed Gamble]

That's amazing. So, Jerry, listen, it's great to have you on the show. How are you feeling about. Of course, Crunch and Crumble coming to an end because we've been your staunchest supporters for the last seven years.

[Matthew Crosby]

I wouldn't be where I am today without Crunch and Crumble.

[Ed Gamble]

Where exactly are you?

[Matthew Crosby]

I'm Scotland.

[Ed Gamble]

I sell Scotland. Okay, good. It's hard to tell from the accent.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, boy. Without Cringer crumble, I do the Wear a bee. I certainly wouldn't be selling out all my big gigs.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, you do sell out some absolutely enormous veggies. Okay. Have you. You haven't by any chance composed us a little song, have you? Just to say goodbye. I feel like you have.

[Matthew Crosby]

I. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, good. Tell us again what it's. What it's called.

[Matthew Crosby]

Carrots.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no, it's not carrots for tea. 2026, is it? No, no, go on.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's called Burger Man.

[Ed Gamble]

Burger Man. Okay, so it's. This is Burger Man. This is an exclusive. Okay.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's got a similar tune to Carrots for Tea, doesn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, this is Burger Man. And this is a little tribute to your favorite radio Show Crunch and crumble.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, no, it's about a Burger Man.

[Ed Gamble]

I was about a Burger Man. Oh, okay. Fair enough. All right, let's hear it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Who's that coming down the street? I can hear him from far away. I can smell the onions and the beef and hear his song. It goes like this. I'm the Burger man and I'm gonna cook you the burgers do you want a cheese or do you want no cheese? I can toast the buns or leave them roar. I'm the Burger Man. Burger man is happening right now.

[Ed Gamble]

Give us your famous long notes.

[Announcer]

Hench. Old and peculiar.

[Matthew Crosby]

Radio X. Lovely to hear from Jerry Cinnamon. But I said. I said during that song, if you don't like this, this show,

[Ed Gamble]

it's. Must have been really tough for the people who are Radio X fans, but just. All they want to do is just hear some good indie rock music, and they have to listen to us wittering.

[Matthew Crosby]

Badger.

[Ed Gamble]

Helen Badger, for example.

[Matthew Crosby]

Welcome back to Sunday, Helen. Badger.

[Ed Gamble]

Helen, we're doing it for you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Quickly, before we carry on, I've got a couple of gifts for you.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, that is so kind.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've got.

[Ed Gamble]

I haven't got you anything.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's fine. That's all right. Vin. This is. This is from me and Matthew.

[Vin (Producer)]

Oh, man. Thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

There we go. And tell. Tell the listeners what it is.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's heavy.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's heavy. It's three kilos.

[Vin (Producer)]

Oh, are you joking?

[Matthew Crosby]

No, for real. For real.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm actually emotional. It's a box of mangoes.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's a box of mangoes from Neelam in Walthamstow. What I would say is they are Pakistani mangoes. They're honey. They're honey mangoes.

[Vin (Producer)]

Oh, wow. I'm gonna sniff the mango, guys.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sniff the mango.

[Ed Gamble]

Sniffing the mangoes is alive on air. Sniffing the mango. Talk us through the mango.

[Vin (Producer)]

I don't think I've ever been this happy in this room before.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's near where I used to live. It's Neelam. Neelam in Walthamstow. That always have the. Whenever it's mango season, huge piles of boxes. They do. They do. Great trade. And. Yeah, pop there, they just had that delivery.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm so pleased. Thank you. Thank you both so much. That is. That has made doing this show worth it.

[Matthew Crosby]

I bought myself a box as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Delicious. Why not?

[Matthew Crosby]

Matthew, this is. This is big news. I think this is you for the rest of your life now. No, what I would say is I've taken some guesses on some element of these, but. Yeah, is this.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, here we go. Lovely. Lovely paper bag for starters.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Lovely paper bag.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, so it looks like. It looks like it's clothing.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's clothing.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a sweatshirt.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Josh Whitaker]

Oh.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, it's not a sweatshirt.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, it says here almost grown sweatshirt.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay. It's not a sweatshirt. That's the plastic bag.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no. Oh, my God. You've got me big trousers.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've got you a pair of trousers.

[Ed Gamble]

You've got me big trousers. And they are absolutely massive.

[Matthew Crosby]

They're ginormous. Yeah. So I had to text your wife for your waist size.

[Ed Gamble]

Did she?

[Matthew Crosby]

And then I went in to ymc.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I said, it's fun to stay there.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, that's the different place.

[Matthew Crosby]

Cause I've got big trousers from there.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I said, hello, I've come to buy my small friend some big trousers.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

And these were the ones they recommended to me. What I would say is they are women's. They're women's deadbeats. Because they are slightly cropped at the bottom because I didn't want them dragging on the floor.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, that's what I need. I think they are still going to drag on the floor.

[Vin (Producer)]

My legs are tight.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, it depends how high you wear them on the waist. I think maybe during a song you should go and try them on and then we can have a look at them.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Fantastic. Yes, I. Thank you so much. This is genuinely amazing.

[Matthew Crosby]

Most welcome. Welcome to the world of big trousers.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm going to be wearing big trousers. I can't. It's quite windy outside. What if I take off? What if I Mary Poppins all the way back to Beckenham. This is unbelievable. Ed, thank you. Genuinely. Thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

So, of course this, you know, it feels like a fitting. A fitting end.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, you know what? You changed my life seven years ago and you asked me to do a radio show and now you've changed my life again when you bought me some big crosses. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby on Radio X.

[Announcer]

Fire in the booth.

[Ed Gamble]

This is Metal Education.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, it's the fine lever. Metal Education. If you don't know what that is, I can't be bothered to explain it. This is from Kerry from Canada, of course. Oh, thank you so much. Kerry is one of our most committed listeners.

[Ed Gamble]

He's done more work on this show than almost anybody else, including us.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hi, Ed, Matthew and Vin. This is Kerry from Canada for the final ever Metal Education. I thought I'd take you back to your first six weeks of broadcasting. Obviously, it took a while for you to become the stellar trusted presenters you are now. So some of these might sound a little unprofessional. Either way, some of these really happened. And some of them are made up for the final time. Good luck in the podcast charts this week.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, Kerry. And good luck to you in the Canadian charts this week.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number one, in episode six, with Matthew on paternity leave, Ivo Graham speculates that a record has been set for saying penis flytrap on the radio.

[Announcer]

Number one, penis flytrap.

[Matthew Crosby]

And are we just doing the answers now, Vin?

[Vin (Producer)]

Let's get them now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I'm gonna say that's true.

[Matthew Crosby]

It is true. And we've got the clip of that, have we?

[Ed Gamble]

This has to be a record for saying penis fly trap.

[Matthew Crosby]

There we go. We've got clips for all of these true ones.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, great. Okay, here we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number two, in episode two, Matthew insists his impending fatherhood will bring out a new butch side to him.

[Ed Gamble]

I believe that to be true.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's false, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, that's Australia. But it has. It has. Yeah, it really has. See my trousers? Absolutely massive.

[Matthew Crosby]

Matthew's wearing his big trousers, by the way. And a lot of people saying they don't know what we talk about when we mean big trousers. We will post a photo on Instagram.

[Ed Gamble]

I will post a photo on Insta after this quiz. But they are absolutely enormous.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think you look fantastic.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you very much.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number three, in episode five, after a short debate about how Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed, Ed doesn't know what's next. He throws to a flustered Matthew who says music before asking producer Trav, is that true?

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, come on. That feels true. It's true.

[Matthew Crosby]

That feels true. Yeah. Let's have a listen. Was it a bomb or was he shot? What we got now, Matthew?

[Ed Gamble]

I believe we have some music. Is that right?

[Matthew Crosby]

Travel hospital pass from me.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I know.

[Matthew Crosby]

Had no idea what was going on. Still, that could be from Last one.

[Ed Gamble]

That could be from anything apart from Trav. Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Number four, in episode four, Ed asks listeners to text in if they've seen a goose.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, that feels. That feels real. That feels real.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's false. It's false, unfortunately. But do text in if you've seen a ghost. Please do 936 on the text through the global player or Radiox on the Twitter. Number five, in episode three, Vin asks Ed if he's going to back announce hypersonic missiles with the word whoosh every time. Ed claims he'll find a new method for each occasion it's played.

[Ed Gamble]

That's True.

[Matthew Crosby]

That is true, Matthew. Yes. Oh, it was Sam Fender. Everyone get in the shelters. There's some hypersonic missiles up above.

[Ed Gamble]

Whoosh.

[Matthew Crosby]

Whoosh. Indeed.

[Vin (Producer)]

Are you gonna do that every time we play?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, here's my question to you. How many times will we be playing Hypersonic Missiles by Sam Fender?

[Vin (Producer)]

Hopefully every day for the rest of my life.

[Matthew Crosby]

Right, well, then I'll have to come up with a new way of back announcing it every single time. There we go.

[Ed Gamble]

There we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

It happened. Number six. This is final question, Matthew. It's only a quick. Metal Education.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Vin (Producer)]

In episode two, I'm sorry, Gareth and Indy have both seen gooses.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, thank you. Gooses. We'll go with gooses. Yeah. In episode two, between them, Ed and Matthew claim they are making good radio on four separate occasions.

[Ed Gamble]

Four separate occasions, yeah. Feels more like we'd say it five or six times, but yeah, I think that's true.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. You've guessed true for all of them. That one's false. So. What a way to end.

[Ed Gamble]

What a way to end.

[Matthew Crosby]

How many did you guess?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I got 50%.

[Vin (Producer)]

Dan hasn't. Dan has not seen a goose. He's just texting. Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, Dan.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you very much, Dan. Yeah, yeah, well, you know what? If I'd done well, it just wouldn't be Metal Education.

[Matthew Crosby]

It wouldn't be Metal Education.

[Ed Gamble]

Wouldn't be Metal Education. Bye, Kerry. Bye forever. Radio X, crops and bobbers. We have some messages of condolence from some of our friends, friends at the show, and indeed friends, people that we've never, never even met before. So who have we got first?

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, since we just did Kerry from Canada's quiz, should we hear from Kerry?

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yeah, that'd be amazing.

[Vin (Producer)]

Hi, Ed, Matthew and Vin. Happy radio, lads. This is Kerry from Canada, albeit with a suspiciously British accent. Just to say thank you for such a fantastically silly seven years. There's nothing quite like your show, which I realize can be taken in more than one way. For instance, I've never listened to a live broadcast where a presenter forgets how words work, then mutters lover for no reason. Nor where the same presenter reads out a text about punching a turtle's head or tells a lengthy anecdote about how phlegm forms at the back of his throat. Similarly, I've never listened to a show where the co host invents an entirely new genre by presenting from the floor, nor where a producer derails the entire output, because Bowling for Soup might have been played twice. Cheers for all the penis Fly traps and good luck in whichever charts you enter next.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, what a lovely voice.

[Matthew Crosby]

What a really lovely voice.

[Ed Gamble]

Very gentle. You know what?

[Matthew Crosby]

It is funny that most placement. Most. Most of the really bad things are you.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, it's all me. It's all me. Honestly, there's no. Listen, let's not pretend. I've made way more mistakes on this show than anybody else, I'd say. And I include Vin in that, which is mad. Who else have we got messages from? Thank you, Kerry.

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, speaking of lovely voices. Oh, yeah, we've got a special message from the Breathy Lady.

[Announcer]

Hello, Ed. Hello, Matthew. AKA Crunch and Crumble. It's the Breathy lady here, AKA Gemma Bolt, the Radio X voiceover. It's hard to believe that after seven long years, it's your last show on Radio X. Although I can't say I'll miss any of the ridiculous, unprofessional things you've made me say over the years. Finally, no more Scoops for Daddy. No more Show 57 celebrations. No more World cup of Fruit. I mean, who picks a grape? At last, I'm free. What's that they want me to say? Little pudding belly and little breasts on Radio X For sake.

[Ed Gamble]

Breathy Lady, Wash your breathy mouth out with soap and water. That was fantastic. Thank you so much, Breathy Lady. Thank you, Kerry. Thank you, Breathy Lady. We've got more.

[Matthew Crosby]

Still refusing to use her name even though she said it.

[Ed Gamble]

Listen, you can't rebrand this late in the show, can you?

[Matthew Crosby]

Breathy Lady.

[Ed Gamble]

Breathy Lady. Of course it is. Breathy Lady. By the way, I was talking about Flem earlier on in today's show.

[Matthew Crosby]

You were?

[Ed Gamble]

It really is one of my things.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's in your head.

[Ed Gamble]

I love talking about Flem. I've got so much of it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Announcer]

This is the Radio X heyday.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yes, Muse on Radio X, it's Ed Gamble. It's Radio Cross. You're going to miss this a little bit.

[Matthew Crosby]

I'll miss. I'll really miss you. Just panicking after a song and not knowing what to say and saying.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah, there was no panic in there. I love Muse, man. What a band. Never gonna hear them again. Never gonna hear him again. It's a real shame. But this is our final show and we've got some lovely messages from our friends. Friends of the show. Scoops for Daddy. Many of them. I think the first one comes from Anya Magliano. Let's hear it. Hey, it's Anya Magliano here. I Am so devastated to hear that the Matthew Crosby and Rhys James show on Radio X is coming to an end. It has been on air, so it's really sad to hear that. The saddest thing of all is that my last text from Matthew Crosby says, I do want to get you back on the show. I've got a young person question to ask you, but it can wait. And I guess that's never gonna happen now. And Matthew is never gonna know where

[Danny Wallace]

to buy cat from.

[Ed Gamble]

Anyway, seriously, all the best. Good luck with the move over to GB News and see you soon. Bye. Love you. Bye. It would be very good on GP News.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, we'd be excellent. Yeah. What was the young person question that you had for Anya?

[Ed Gamble]

I assume it was WhatsApp in the club, but SNL got in the way.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Are the kids whatsapping in the club?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

We'll never know.

[Matthew Crosby]

We'll never know. And Anya's not in the club anymore because she's in the club too busy beavering away at snl.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely. Right. Well, thank you, Anya. We're gonna miss you, too. Never gonna see her again. So who have we got next? Is it our friend Josh?

[Vin (Producer)]

It's a friend of the show. Josh. Josh Whitakem.

[Ed Gamble]

Josh, Josh Whitaker, welcome.

[John Robbins]

Hello.

[Josh Whitaker]

Crunch and Crumpet. I'm gonna miss you deeply. Obviously, I'm a huge fan of the show. And after just seven years, you've decided to move on after you didn't get the move to Saturday that you were so desperate for. And I. I thought you deserved it, but there we go. Good luck. I. I'd say a lot of comedians will miss it as the simplest PR opportunity in the biz. I need to do some promotion. Don't worry, they'll take you. They've already got six guests. Don't worry. They don't want to do any themselves. They'll happily have you on. Who's on with me? Probably Annie Imagliano and Rob Walton. They seem to be on. It's going to be sad not to have you there. Obviously. I'm glad Ben's keeping his job. We won't hear from him now, obviously, but good to know he'll be pressing play on Foo Fighters until the end of time. It will be sad. So you go. What will some days be without Peach and Melbourne? But that, my friends, is life. All things must come to an end. And this lovely opportunity for comedians has come to an end. I hope genuinely that you're okay, because I. I think it's all downhill from here.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, thanks, Josh.

[Ed Gamble]

He's right.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you, Josh. That's lovely.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, Josh. A little too close to the bone, but thanks very much, Josh. Never see him again. Of course we never see him. We never see him again. Who is our final message from?

[Vin (Producer)]

For this section we've got James Acaster here.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a bit awkward. I've lost Ed's number so I'm just having a phone direct into the show. Hi, Ed, James Aaster here. I'm quitting off menu, mate, just to let you know. I quit.

[Josh Whitaker]

I'm done.

[Ed Gamble]

It's, it's, it's run its course. Pretty boring these days. So yeah, I'm out. And while, while I've got you guys, Matthew absolutely on board, let's start our new podcast together. Matt and Jamie's dream dinners. I'll see you then, mate. It's gonna be huge. Hi, Vin. Oh nice. He gave you a little shout out at the end.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Hi Vin.

[Ed Gamble]

Some big news there. Well, that's a trope is.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, I'll be back on Radio X next week now.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Gonna have to cover the shortfall, but looking forward to Matt and Jamie's dream dinners.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. I mean there's gonna be a lot of mentions of Leah Dammer.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I'll say one thing if we can. If we don't get an ad read from Leer Dammer, something's gone horribly horrible.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, your dream dinner is whatever the guest has left over with Leer Dammer on top.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, Just wait till the next day and eat it with some Leer Dammer on top. Radio X.

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[Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, it wouldn't be the last Ed Gambler match Matthew Crosby show on Radio X without a little bit from our lads. Oasis.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely. Those lovable boys.

[Matthew Crosby]

We enjoy them. We were the ones who brought them to Radio X, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right. We said you've got to check out this pairing that. Yeah, absolutely wonderful. They're actually Wonderwall.

[Matthew Crosby]

We said they're wonderful and we gave them the name Oasis. Of course. Because they used to be called the Cheeky Brothers.

[Ed Gamble]

That's right. And we said, name yourself after that lovely fruit juice that you're always drinking. That's what gives them all their energy. Yeah, or they're mad for energy. Anyway, folks, we are, we're wrapping up the show. It's the final show here on Radio X for Crunch and Crumble. We've got some lovely messages from friends of the show. This one comes from our dear friend, Mr. Nish Kumar.

[Nish Kumar]

So now the end is near and my name is Nish. Well, well, well. Seven years of crunch and crumble. They said it couldn't happen. They said it shouldn't happen. A lot of people said, is it happening?

[Matthew Crosby]

It's happened. Seven years.

[Nish Kumar]

Wow. I. I mean, good for those guys, I guess. I love you all. I love being a guest on the show. I love being a co host. When Ed was too drunk to broadcast or Matthew got trapped in that well, then my brother and Krishna pour a couple of mangoes down the hatch for me today. I think it's a wonderful show. Thinking back to all the good times, the awful things you made the breathy lady say, Little Jerry Cinnamon, Sam Fender recording that voice note, not really understanding what on earth is going on. All the more recent fun times, Ed's appalling Scottish accent, the borderlines on a hate crime. What do I not know what it is? I love to salute all of the people involved in the show. I'd love to salute the listeners, the thickest listeners on radio. What now for these paste eating church farters who now will lead them? Hard to say, but what I think we can all say, it's the tickets for my upcoming tour and Redeemer from a really nice guy available right now, but also producer Vin Crunch Crumble. I love you forever. See you on the visualized companion podcast In Heaven.

[Ed Gamble]

Had to get a plug in because he is at his heart a capitalist.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, he is. Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

He's obsessed with cash.

[Matthew Crosby]

He loves stuff and money.

[Ed Gamble]

He loves stuff, stuff and money. And he loves getting it from people much poorer than him. That's what he likes.

[Vin (Producer)]

He sent a P.S. actually, he sent a second.

[Nish Kumar]

I just listened back to the audio and you can hear at one point that I. I actually walk into a shoebox that I'd forgotten I left out. Why? Because I'm a listener to this show. What does that mean? It means I am damn thick. Once again, my best wishes to everyone involved. Vin, congratulations on putting up with these two guys for seven years while they figured out what A radio show was. And they still never really learned how to do it.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Have we got a pain, Nisha. Co host feed.

[Ed Gamble]

That was a lot. That was a lot of content from Nish. Also, people don't realize how small Nish is. He walks into a shoebox.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

He's. Actually, I. I heard from Amy. She threw out the shoebox.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

This is terrible.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's a hamster. He's the size of a hamster.

[Ed Gamble]

So somebody could go through the local tip in Brixton, see if they can locate Nish. He's in a box somewhere.

[Vin (Producer)]

You think you two are related?

[Ed Gamble]

What's that? Me and. Me and Nish. Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

You must be.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. We look so similar. I believe we're related. Yeah. We went to the. We went to the same school. We look identical. We're both tiny. Exactly. Yeah. It all adds up. Yeah. Just. Just call me Matthew. Kumar. Okay.

[Vin (Producer)]

More.

[Ed Gamble]

More guests coming up. Up later.

[Vin (Producer)]

Quick one. Here's Stevie Martin.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello.

[Ed Gamble]

Ed and Matthew Crosby. Stevie Martin here.

[Matthew Crosby]

I've.

[Ed Gamble]

I've come on to promote various tours. If I'm honest. Hasn't really helped sell many tickets. But thanks for having me on. I've heard that you're not doing it anymore and I'm not that asked. But my mom, Margie Martin, listens a lot. She's devastated. You've broken her heart. So I hope you. I hope you're happy.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, sorry to hear that, Margie Martin.

[Ed Gamble]

Love you, Margie. Heartbroken. I got a message from Stevie after that that said I've had a 0.5 pint of cloudy cider. I'm a lightweight. You can definitely. There's something. It's very loosey goosey from Stevie. Very loosey goosey in that message.

[Matthew Crosby]

Very corrie.

[Ed Gamble]

It's very Cory. Yeah, it's very Rovers is what it is. It's very. It's deeply corridor. Well, lots of love to Margie. Not so much love to Stevie, but do go and see her if she's coming to a town near you. Well, that goes for both Margie or Stevie. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Gonna say hello, Margie.

[Ed Gamble]

I believe she said Margie. Sorry. Sorry, Margie.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Anyway, plenty more to come on the show.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's doing all his catchphrases.

[Ed Gamble]

Doing my catchphrase. Anyway. Anyway, what's coming up next, Vin?

[Vin (Producer)]

I don't know.

[Matthew Crosby]

Another catchphrase.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it music?

[Vin (Producer)]

Not right now.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, let's play some adverts and we'll see you after this.

[Vin (Producer)]

Okay, then.

[Announcer]

Ed Gamble and Matthew CROs. On Radio X. What are you talking about, Dan? It's not a weird energy today.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm Sam Fender and you're listening to Radio X. Whoosh.

[Matthew Crosby]

There he is.

[Ed Gamble]

There he is. I thought for a second there that was a brand new message, but no, it was. No, it was vin.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

That was not a brand new message

[Matthew Crosby]

we've had since the beginning. But of course you have recorded a brand new message with Sam Fender. That was the thing that you were tasked for this week was to get a goodbye message from the Fender bender himself.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

So.

[Vin (Producer)]

Oh, you know. Yeah. I must have. Let me find it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, why don't you find it?

[Vin (Producer)]

I must have. I must have done it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, you must have done it because we asked you to do it and we know you've got loads of contacts with Sam Fender, so.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You work at a music radio station.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, it'll be in here somewhere.

[Ed Gamble]

Come on, let's hear it.

[Vin (Producer)]

It'll be. Be one of these. One of these.

[Matthew Crosby]

He probably labeled it Sam Fender a message.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, click on that one.

[Vin (Producer)]

Oh, I think this is. This.

[Matthew Crosby]

You probably labeled it main job.

[Vin (Producer)]

This is probably the one. This is. This is probably it. Hello, radio boys. And Vin under the painter here.

[Ed Gamble]

Seven years.

[Vin (Producer)]

What a ride. Crackers in it. Best memory of that time. Probably a kebab that I ate on a snowboarding holiday in Bansko. Bulgaria.

[Ed Gamble]

I think it was in Bulgaria.

[Danny Wallace]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's just good. Good memory.

[John Robbins]

Bye.

[Vin (Producer)]

Bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Perfect.

[Ed Gamble]

You know what?

[Matthew Crosby]

That's better than Sam. Much better to hear Andy the Painter's voice. It's heaven.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true heaven to me. That's wonderful. I wouldn't have expected that's what he sounded like, but I'm so pleased he does.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's exactly what I thought he'd sound like.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, He.

[Vin (Producer)]

He recorded that in the bath.

[Matthew Crosby]

You can hear that.

[Ed Gamble]

You can really hear the ambiance.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Washing all the paint off him.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm sorry I didn't get sound friend. I did try.

[Matthew Crosby]

I didn't expect you to actually be able to get Sam, obviously.

[Ed Gamble]

Just.

[Vin (Producer)]

Just blanks.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

I also tried to get Richard Madeley on the show.

[Ed Gamble]

Talk about his holiday.

[Vin (Producer)]

Talk about his holiday to America, 1997. Yeah. I'm still waiting for it. I got an initial positive response.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

And then it's. That's gone. That's gone dead.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's gone dead. Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah. I tried to get Richard Madeley's son

[Ed Gamble]

on the show

[Vin (Producer)]

because he was on the holiday, the same holiday.

[Ed Gamble]

The mad thing is Richard Madeley's son, Sam Fender.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's the same pattern, though initially positive and not answering my emails now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yep, that's how it should have been with us when you first emailed us and said you want to do a radio show. Okay.

[Vin (Producer)]

I've got a special message, though. I got. I've got a message from former producer Trav the Horse.

[Matthew Crosby]

Trav the Horse.

[Ed Gamble]

The Wookiees. Big weekend.

[Matthew Crosby]

Coming for a Pint Lad.

[Vin (Producer)]

Coming for a Pint Lad. It was his wedding yesterday last night.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Coming for a wedding.

[Vin (Producer)]

And actually the best. The best woman. She did a speech. Alicia. It turns out he was out with her on Coming for a Pint Lad that night.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, wow.

[Vin (Producer)]

She told the story of Coming From a Pint Lad.

[Matthew Crosby]

Amazing.

[Ed Gamble]

Great story.

[Vin (Producer)]

I mean, and if listeners know Chiquitos,

[Matthew Crosby]

they had loads of beers at Chiquitos.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, we went. You went through his wallet and there

[Ed Gamble]

was receipts in there because he couldn't

[Vin (Producer)]

remember where he'd been.

[Ed Gamble]

He basically bought out the entire Chiquitos.

[Vin (Producer)]

You can catch up on the podcast if none of this makes sense. Yeah, it's a long way back to go, but Trevor, Trav recorded a message, so do you want to hear from him?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, please. On his wedding day.

[Vin (Producer)]

Trav, it's your wedding day. Yes, but it's an even bigger day tomorrow.

[Matthew Crosby]

Tomorrow morning.

[Vin (Producer)]

Any messages?

[Ed Gamble]

I would say probably about time. Yeah, fair. I mean, some people would say that it went downhill maybe sort of four months in when someone of note left. No, you've done. Listen, it's been a great innings and Liam Gallagher never got back to me and I deactivated my Twitter account, so who's gonna know? Maybe he did get back to me. Also, if I ever see a pig, annoyingly, I'm gonna think of both of you two idiots and Vin, but I can't say that in front of him. Have the best show you have made. You've definitely made an impact on radio, let's put it that way. Whether that is positive or not remains to be seen. Is that the sort of thing you're after?

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, no, that's perfect.

[Matthew Crosby]

Lovely. Lovely to hear from Trav.

[Ed Gamble]

What a treat to hear from Trav. Congratulations. Well done, Trav.

[Matthew Crosby]

Coming for a Pint Lad.

[Ed Gamble]

Coming for a Pint Lad. Oh, God. Really has been absolute copies from day one. Absolute total nonsense. Do we have any more messages from any other. Any other friends and fans?

[Matthew Crosby]

This will be where he plays some Fender.

[Vin (Producer)]

Just go on, do you reckon?

[Ed Gamble]

Go on.

[Vin (Producer)]

It would be good if I pulled.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, go on. Here we go.

[Vin (Producer)]

Be good. Okay, well, look, listen to this.

[Ed Gamble]

Hey, it's Ed off of Last Slug here. Just want to say a massive thank you for featuring us on your show for a few weeks and for all the hate. We've sampled your Alarm Call skit for our live intro and we're going to be using it for our intro track on our next album as well titled Absolutely Vile, which we took from the incredible reviews for you gave us for our music. We'll see you on the 4th of July. We're when you play Norwich, Ed. Much love from the official band of the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby show. Cheers.

[Matthew Crosby]

The Vast Slug Boys.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, you know what? Better than Fender.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, better than Fender.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely. That was brilliant.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. This is so, so nice to hear from the Vast Slug guys.

[Ed Gamble]

I still. You know what? I still wear the T shirts they sent me. Yeah, I love them. They're great T shirts.

[Announcer]

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

[Vin (Producer)]

You know, we won't remember a thing.

[Ed Gamble]

That was, of course, Radio Light here on Razor X.

[Matthew Crosby]

One of the greatest moments of the show of all time. When you back announced Razor Light as Radio Light and then swore.

[Ed Gamble]

It was a good moment for everybody, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. There was. There have been a few. I mean, I'll mention the other ones on the podcast. I don't want to get in trouble now, but there are two other moments. Moments that I've. I've just seen Vin just hang his head. Yeah, what's go. What's going on here? Definitely dropping a. Dropping a swear bomb after radio. Like, that's bad. There was a couple of other ones as well, but they are for the podcast, so. Get the podcast. There'll also be lots more comedians messages.

[Vin (Producer)]

We've got so many comedians that we can't fit in the show.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. But we've got a few more. We. We can. And a few more friends of the show. So both a comedian and a friend of the show. This is Kathy Rivett, I believe. Hello. I thought you'd like this. So I got recognized the other day and I thought I was being recognized as a comedian, so I heard someone shouting Kathy Rivette at me and I turned around. Hang on. Crucial information. I need to say. I was wearing a hat with my full name written on it, and it turned out that they. They didn't know me as a comedian. They just knew my name from listening to your show, which is humbling. But, yeah, I'll miss this. Bye. Yeah, we'll Miss you too as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

We'll miss you too. Kathy Rivett. The sort of person who wears a hat with her full name on it.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely astonishing. Absolutely bonkers.

[Matthew Crosby]

Love that.

[Ed Gamble]

Why not?

[Danny Wallace]

Not?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, we'll miss. We'll miss you, Kathy. Who else have we got up next?

[Vin (Producer)]

Well, this is a very, very special message. I'm quite amazed that we got this.

[Ed Gamble]

This is little Jerry Cinnamon. I'm wishing Crunch and Crumble a very happy last show goodbye from little Jerry Cinnamon. Bye. Wow. Wow, what a coup.

[Matthew Crosby]

A better link than we have ever delivered. So professional, so well spoken.

[Ed Gamble]

Gorgeous tones as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

Such great tones. Oh, that's really sweet.

[Ed Gamble]

That's really sweet, isn't it, really?

[Matthew Crosby]

She didn't exist when we started this show. It's mad, isn't it? You got two kids.

[Ed Gamble]

I've got two kids now, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

And I'm in my third house and I've got a cat.

[Ed Gamble]

I can tell you now, three, three

[Matthew Crosby]

places I've lived while doing this.

[Ed Gamble]

I know, it's mad. Yeah. I've lived in two, two places but I've managed to have two kids.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

We recorded a message with.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, you get horny when you move, don't you?

[Ed Gamble]

Such a horny thingy. He's in a chow main so of the box. Oh, get your proper rod on. Anyway, we tried to record a message of my second kid, little Noel Gallagher's how flying birds. She wouldn't stop talking about her vagina. So we thought probably best not to broadcast a four year old chatting about them.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's not the way we want to go out.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not the way we want to.

[Vin (Producer)]

Can we have Alex Horn instead?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, why not?

[Matthew Crosby]

Hello, Ed, Matthew and Vinnie. It's me, Alex Horn.

[Ed Gamble]

I just wanted to say thank you

[Matthew Crosby]

you for having me as a guest

[Ed Gamble]

on your show several times over the years.

[Matthew Crosby]

I never really knew what I was

[Ed Gamble]

doing, why I was there or if I was being entertaining or if you were being entertaining. But we had fun and I was always hungover. Thanks, guys. Enjoy your Sundays.

[Matthew Crosby]

We'll miss you a bit. Well, thank you so much.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. Possibly our most. One of. Certainly one of our most regular guests.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, I know he dropped off towards the end. It'd be good to do the stats, actually.

[Ed Gamble]

Someone's gotta do the stats.

[Matthew Crosby]

I think Rob Orton's definitely up there.

[Ed Gamble]

Orton might.

[Matthew Crosby]

Rob would come on three times per tour.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And also his tours were long, weren't he? Would do a lot. You know, a lot of people want to see Rob Orton around the country

[Announcer]

and beyond, ed Gamble and MacFiefen Gizzard. Radio X.

[Ed Gamble]

Over the years we've been trying to get this guest on and they've always said no.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, Censored.

[Ed Gamble]

We've asked many, many times, would John Robbins come on show? And he's always said no. Not bothered. No, thank you. It's not really my sort of thing. But we've. We finally managed to convince him no. He's. This is. He's recorded us a lovely message here. Very long message. Very long, very long, very long.

[Vin (Producer)]

John.

[Ed Gamble]

He's taken full advantage of the fact he's back. He's allowed back on Radio X. So let's have it. Let's have a listen.

[John Robbins]

Well, well, well, well, well. Seven years, eh? Seven years of crunch and crumble and not one guest appearance from Johnny Jr. And then coincidence alert, you get cancelled by phenomenal public demand. Funny how things work out.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[John Robbins]

No Johnny J are on the show, not even to publicize Taskmaster or my best selling memoir, Thirst. 12 Drinks that Changed My Life, which Alan Davies is quoted as saying will help people. It's a shame, really. It's a shame Radio X doesn't want to help people. But I get it, guys. I know how the system works and that's why I had to get out of it. The pen pushers and the rule makers will always fight against the revolution. I knew I was never going to get on your show right from the start. Because I knew that they can't trust the man who puts the dark into Strongbow, Dark Fruits and the no into Arnold Clark. So farewell. I know the future's bright for you both. You've played the game like true company men. I'm sure you're going to see out your days with a suit cerning the big bucks. Gamble as a sandwich consultant for Big Meal Deal and Crosby filing the paperwork at the Catfish Farm or working with disadvantaged bottlemen. Well, it's not the life for me. Me, I'm just smoking a fag with some dilettantes and rolling dice with the hobos and dreamers. Where will I be next? Who knows? Maybe I'll be in Paris, maybe Rio, maybe riding the ghost train to San Bernardino. I will. I have to be in Farrington for Ellis and John on Friday and I'm also recording. How do you cope on Monday and Tuesday with. We are doing some stuff for Patreon, but Wednesday to Thursday.

[Vin (Producer)]

Whoa.

[John Robbins]

Can't say I've heard Cairo's nice this time of year. See you around, buddies. See you around.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, thank you, John.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you, John. More about you than it was about us. No, I love. I love that. And a big Beck wreck for John's book. It's absolutely sensational. I'm really enjoying it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. If you like a drink and a laugh. It really is.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's the 12 best drinks. There's recipes. There's is the 12 tastiest drinks.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

He's gonna go on Sunday brunch, isn't he? And make a few of them for the. For the hosts.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's the new cocktail guy on Sunday brunch.

[Ed Gamble]

Cheers. Cheers, guys. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Announcer]

Vroom, vroom, and honk, honk.

[Ed Gamble]

Wrapping up with a final film review. Here it comes. Radio X action cuts.

[Matthew Crosby]

Mine's a popcorn.

[Ed Gamble]

Steven Spielberg.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, I've left the lens cap on for the whole film.

[Ed Gamble]

The golden age of celluloid.

[Announcer]

The film review with Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Did we press record?

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry. So, yes, indeed. As you know, over the course of the last seven years, I have been reviewing the Twilight Saga movies. I. I didn't really want to watch the final movie.

[Matthew Crosby]

Because you loved. You loved it so much you didn't want it to end.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Which is very much how I feel about this show. Yeah. Except for the part about not wanting

[Matthew Crosby]

to end and loving it and.

[Ed Gamble]

And loving that. See the exact opposite of how I feel about the show. And actually, when I came to. When I came to watch the Twilight Saga, BREAKING DAWN Part 2, I just. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't sit down and.

[Matthew Crosby]

And accept that that's in the past. But you have now watched it.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I didn't watch it. Instead I decided. Matthew Crosby, Ed Gamble blowing out the seventh candle gown Pervert Sports desk Reef intro Coming for a pint trav 8th floor posh lab. My goodness, my trousers spin like spango.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, my God.

[Ed Gamble]

Kumars and Garrett's gates that one time when Ed was late Sindhu V said a word that wasn't very nice. Danny Wallace is huge D.J. ed film reviews Little Jerry Cinnamon Ben also likes rice bites a crunch and crumble Seven years together but we never got better Goodbye to crunch and crumble Chat and games and songs of poor man's Ellis and John Rage Our meetings Black beauty World cup made it fruity Richard and Judy's holiday in 97 Jungle Boogie Moyles cover Rhys James lover Bartlebee Scribb say it with me legs 11 breathy lady va slug kids what up in the club? Catfish fact Instagram's where Matthew gets his Fashion I of Osusi. Izzy, Kearns, Nishin, Maisie. Sick birds. Aye, aye, Captain. What's the biggest pig you can imagine? Goodbye to crunch and crumble. Wipe that tear from your eye, chap. No more penis fly trap. Goodbye to crunch and crumble. Bye bye, Beckenham Rex. We're leaving Radio X and X and X and X and X. So there you go. Did that instead. Wow.

[Matthew Crosby]

Absolutely incredible, Matthew.

[Ed Gamble]

Thanks, guys.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you. That was amazing. And I don't remember what most of that remains relates to.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I've got no memory.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah,

[Ed Gamble]

absolutely no memory of any of that.

[Matthew Crosby]

That was astonishing. Matthew, well done.

[Ed Gamble]

Thanks so much.

[Matthew Crosby]

So good.

[Ed Gamble]

I really thought I had that idea like three or four weeks ago and I thought, maybe I'll do it. And then last night I was like, yeah, yeah, why not? Better than watching the Twilight movies.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I assume it's got vampires, you know, somebody that lives or dies.

[Announcer]

Bill and Matthew, Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

What are you chuckling about?

[Ed Gamble]

Really laughing at Alex's message. Here, here. Don't cry because it's over. Be sad because it happens. Dr. Suits made me. Thank you, Alex. Thank you very much. Right, we've got some more lovely missives coming in here. Some beautiful tributes.

[Matthew Crosby]

Final show, by the way.

[Ed Gamble]

Final show, by the way, in case you haven't mentioned it. Final show, the crunch and crumble for Ed and Matthew here. This is. This is Rhys James, I believe. Matthew, Ed, Vin. Absolutely gutted to see the show disappear, partly because it was really propping up my diary sort of once a month, month towards the end. I think it was a good show. I think it really hit form six or seven times. I don't know if you check the forums, but they really lit up on these specific dates. I won't go into the detail, but there were a few episodes that really, they said that's what the show should always have been from the start. Actually, from 2019. I think where you went wrong with the show is that you had the radio show, you had the podcast of the radio show, but you never had the visualized companion podcast of the podcast. And that's a shame because I know the perfect host. I look forward to tuning into Matthew's new show on, I don't know, Rince FM with Andy the Painter. And I look forward to sitting in for Matthew on that show a few times. I guess I'll leave you with one word, lover. Thank you, Reece. You know what, Andy? If you're up for it, I'm up for it.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's so funny that Rhys assumes he'll have to sit in for Andy, that Andy the painter will just get too busy. I've got to go get some more Dulux.

[Ed Gamble]

Should we hear from our dear friend Lou Sanders? Well, broadcasting is hardly a word. I would associate you with touching the hearts and minds of the nation. Certainly is. Thank you for your service to the audio medium. Really, really good stuff, and you'll be missed. And by the way, it's. It's. It's Luly. Lots of love. Thank you, Lulu. Thank you, Lulu. Thank you, Lulu. We also had this message in from Guillermo, who says, I was sad that the show is almost over, but I remembered that the best feature is still coming. Can't wait for Danny Wallace. Well, you're not gonna have to wait very long. Here he is.

[Vin (Producer)]

Crunch and Crumble, silly and beanbag. Dr. Crazy and Mrs. Susan Harrison, M.D. ed and Matt from the important broadcast squad, this is Danny saying that we will miss you. Our quick handovers, our stern nods, our lingering gazes. As a man of more than 30ft in height, I look down on most people, but I could never look down on you. Although I do thank you for the music.

[Matthew Crosby]

Except the heavy metal.

[Vin (Producer)]

I didn't like that. We will miss you huge. Good luck and you're always welcome back.

[Danny Wallace]

Back.

[Vin (Producer)]

Just not to broadcast.

[Matthew Crosby]

Have a great last show.

[Vin (Producer)]

Bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bye. Oh, he's very good, isn't he?

[Ed Gamble]

So good.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's very good.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm gonna miss Danny. Yeah, I mean, we can still see

[Matthew Crosby]

him from my house. That feature will be staying, by the way.

[Ed Gamble]

That feature will be staying. And as a special gift, he said thank you for the music. He's gonna miss the music. You can have all the songs that we play and just play them on your show.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Welcome to do it.

[Matthew Crosby]

And you can have all our other features as well if you want.

[Ed Gamble]

If you want him. Yeah, yeah.

[Announcer]

Crunch and crumble.

[Ed Gamble]

Radio X.

[Announcer]

Is this a riddle or is this a nightmare?

[Ed Gamble]

Food fighters, we're having a nice time here.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're having a lovely old time with stuff we absolutely can't say on the air. So. Yeah, right, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yes, of course it is. It's a little bit of Skrillex to celebrate the final ever Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby radio show show on Radio X.

[Matthew Crosby]

The final link.

[Ed Gamble]

It's the final link.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is it. Saying goodbye.

[Ed Gamble]

There'll be more on the podcast, including many, many more messages from comedians as well. So many comedians wanted to send me

[Matthew Crosby]

a voice note and final backrex on the podcast as well. Yeah, Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I better think about Those. Well, I. I think I'm gonna recommend up off menu. It's very good. It's very good. Yeah. Thank you to everybody who's been listening. Let's hear a few more. Are we going to start with. We're gonna start with Stuart. You. Let's hear Stu.

[Vin (Producer)]

This is Stuart Laws, Crunch Crumble, and the Vindominus Rex.

[Ed Gamble]

It's Stuart Laws here, and I gotta say, I'm so sad that you're going to the big pig farm upstate. I'm gonna miss you so, so much staring into the vimpinite void over here. I do need to check in. When you ask people, what's the biggest pig you can imagine, why did you never ask? And how's the pig feeling? Because it must be pretty stressful to be the size of Godzilla and people turning you into a hog roast or. Or the size of the moon and stranded up there in space trying to catch your breath.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, love her. Yes. Fantastic. Thank you, Stu. The answer, of course, was 2 meters for the biggest pig that you can.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah. We found out. Yeah. We asked the top scientists, and just

[Matthew Crosby]

before we go, I'll quickly say that catfish have gotten. Like their hearing is connected to their swim bladder.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Is it?

[Ed Gamble]

Great. Final count.

[Matthew Crosby]

Something about that. Something to do with their bones. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Okay. This is bit. This is a big moment. This is basically what the whole show has been building up to.

[Matthew Crosby]

Sam Fender.

[Ed Gamble]

We're going to Sam Fender. Have Fenders gone. We're not. We're not getting Sav. Fender on.

[Vin (Producer)]

But imagine if I get an email tomorrow.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. We can put it on the pod, right? You can take the pod down.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm checking out, man.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, you checked out seven years ago. You never checked in.

[Matthew Crosby]

You got to check in, mate.

[Ed Gamble]

Right? Right. Mick Chen.

[Vin (Producer)]

Mick Chen's hero.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you Mick Chen?

[Matthew Crosby]

Andrew Hindle's message in saying, Is Vin McChen or not?

[Vin (Producer)]

Of course I'm not Mick Chen. I'm not funny enough to be Mick Chen.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true, actually.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, that's true.

[Ed Gamble]

Hadn't thought of that.

[Matthew Crosby]

He is so up your street, though.

[Ed Gamble]

That's why his humor is your humor. But crucially, you're not good enough to

[Vin (Producer)]

do his humor exactly right. But he has sent a message.

[Ed Gamble]

Chen, Chen.

[Vin (Producer)]

Do you want to hear from Chen?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, we do.

[Ed Gamble]

This is Mick Chen's dad, Father Chen. I'm just recording his voice note to let you know that my dear Chen, my dear sweet Chen, is very sick in bed at the moment after hearing the news of your leaving. It's Very poorly. Very poorly indeed. He's. He's crying, he's snotting, he's coughing, he's farting. Hang on, what's this? He's. I think he's trying to say something, but he. So. He's so poorly. It's only a whisper.

[Matthew Crosby]

One word.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you.

[Matthew Crosby]

This show's so weird, man.

[Ed Gamble]

Such an odd show.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's such a weird show.

[Ed Gamble]

It actually has to end.

[Matthew Crosby]

It can't carry on if that's the sort of thing that we're doing.

[Ed Gamble]

It's just not fair on people who like indie radio.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Next week, we've ruined this. Please tell your friends who like indie radio with straightforward links that that is back on radio. Okay. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, boy. Well, this is it. This is our final ever goodbye and what a joy it's been. You know, if we can be sentimental for just a moment. Please, we'd like to say. Please, we'd like to say you truly are some of the thickest listeners in radio.

[Matthew Crosby]

You really are. And we love it.

[Ed Gamble]

We love it. We've had a fantastic time. We're still gonna carry on working together.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, yeah. We see each other all the time.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm talking to me and Ed, Vin. I never want to see each other the rest of my life. No. And, yeah, I mean, you've got a new show coming on the television, haven't you?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Come on. We don't need to do plugs, do we?

[Ed Gamble]

A brand new show coming on the television. So do watch that. That should be very, very good fun.

[Matthew Crosby]

We're going to keep our passes as well, so we can use the toilets.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I need. I do need that. I mean, I literally need that right now. But it's a great place to come and drop a number two if you're in central London.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes, in the executive toilets. Vin, you're an incredible man. Not a good producer for us. We know you are a good producer. I can be, but not for us.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you very much for giving up your Sunday for free. He's not been paid.

[Ed Gamble]

Is he not being paid? No. Didn't get any extra money for doing this, did you? Six days a week. It's really.

[Vin (Producer)]

No, it's all experience. One day I'm going to apply to be a producer.

[Matthew Crosby]

And you know what? You won't get the job.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you so much, Finn. Thank you, Ed.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thank you as well, Ed.

[Vin (Producer)]

And we don't do much sentimentality and sincerity on this show.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Vin (Producer)]

But I hope you read all the messages. I'm Gonna keep sending all the messages that the listeners have been sending, sending in to us. You have meant a lot to a lot of people, I think, especially doing shows over lockdown. I think people. I was gonna say it stopped them going crazy. People did go crazy. This show is crazy.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is a stupid show. Made it way worse, I'd imagine.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, but you were part of their lives, so you should. You should really feel very, very proud. Proud.

[Ed Gamble]

Happy to be a super spreader.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's been really nice doing. Doing something fun with my friends for seven years.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's been really.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's absolutely.

[Ed Gamble]

It's been really, really fun. Here's to the. Here to the next seven years.

[Matthew Crosby]

This has not been on air. Is it any of this?

[Ed Gamble]

You're kidding me.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, my God.

[Ed Gamble]

This is really bad. Bye, everybody.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bye.

[Ed Gamble]

Bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

Stick around for Daddy Wallace.

[Ed Gamble]

Bye.

[Matthew Crosby]

We love you.

[Danny Wallace]

Bye.

[Ed Gamble]

TV's deep freeze and David Bowie Open All Games Gold Chains, Worst Names and Adipuss and Trevor Francis Tracksuits From A Mush and Shepherd's Bush Bush.

[Announcer]

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

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, that was the show.

[Ed Gamble]

There we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

There you go. Nothing we can do about that now anyway. Bet Rex and then we'll shoot off.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, well, I tell you what, we've got a. We've got a couple more messages.

[Matthew Crosby]

Come on. Brewmaster's open.

[Ed Gamble]

Are we having a sesh?

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, you're not, because over the course of the seven years, you've also given up drinking.

[Ed Gamble]

I've given up drinking. But you know what?

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you remember when we went to Brewmaster after a show?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's the end of drinking.

[Ed Gamble]

We had a few times we went for drinks after the show and it's just too early on a Sunday for me to start drinking. I did it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I did it all right. The worst one was the very, very hot day when we went out. We sat outside Jack Fuyu.

[Matthew Crosby]

Also gone now.

[Ed Gamble]

Also gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's London for you, isn't it? It's all AI now. But that's what wokes made it all AI. But they, they, they did a sort of like a bottomless tipple.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And you could pick whatever you want. I picked red wine.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. Very bad mistake.

[Ed Gamble]

Huge mistake. Push myself up against the window of Jessup trying to just steady myself listening to Dookie. Happy, happy, happy times. And we're going to replicate them today. Yeah. It's been. It's been, I think, think 640ish days since I last had a Drink? Yeah, Big old bottle of red wine. Come on, let's go down the hatch. Lovely, lovely. I'm gonna go full Sandro.

[Matthew Crosby]

He should take over.

[Ed Gamble]

Please give the gig to Sandro Ford. Do you know Sandro? You're familiar with him. Huge bet wreck for Sandro.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, actually, huge bet rep.

[Ed Gamble]

He does these amazing Instagrams.

[Matthew Crosby]

Worry about people too much.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah. You've got to switch off the part of your brain that's concerned.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You've got to. If you' any sort of empathy. Don't watch these. He's an amazing Welsh comedian who tells you what he drinks in a day and it's way too. It's dangerous what he drinks on holiday.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. The ones on holiday are my recommendation because the crew he has with him are each characters within themselves.

[Ed Gamble]

So there's one called Moonhead, is it? There's Moonhead, there's Richard Ragsy Reid and Richard.

[Matthew Crosby]

Richard Ragsy Hughes.

[Ed Gamble]

Richie Ragsy Hughes. That's sort of cool.

[Matthew Crosby]

Mayor of Neath pops up now and again.

[Ed Gamble]

Mayor of Neath is there as well. But these are great. They're great videos.

[Matthew Crosby]

I don't even follow him, you know, I just keep getting served his clips. I've got to follow him.

[Ed Gamble]

That's it. He's well worth a follow. He's fantastic. And one of his many catchphrases is down the hatch. Lovely. You know, and he's always on the star of Praman Double Park. Know what that means? Down the hatch. Lovely. It's great.

[Matthew Crosby]

He gets annoyed if he gets the wrong glass.

[Ed Gamble]

He gets annoyed. Star of Praman in a Guinness glass. Absolutely. Makes him spit tax.

[Vin (Producer)]

He's right.

[Ed Gamble]

Fair enough to be fair. Fair play to him. But you would think from everything else that's going on in his life, he wouldn't be a connoisseur of anything. But he's amazing. No, he's great.

[Matthew Crosby]

Did not expect that for our final show.

[Ed Gamble]

Didn't expect that as our final bet crack, but I think he's brilliant.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, no. I will quickly then, if we're doing a bet crack.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, do it.

[Matthew Crosby]

I went to see the film Obsession yesterday.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I.

[Matthew Crosby]

If you are a horror fan, I imagine this is well on your radar anyway and you might have seen it, but you've got. You've got to. I think it's going to be my favorite film of the year.

[Ed Gamble]

I've seen. I've seen lots of like sort of teaser y clippy bits on Instagram.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But it is.

[Matthew Crosby]

It. It really affected me. I was going to do A double bill yesterday and go and watch Hokum straight after. Couldn't help to go and have a little walk around. It's amazing. The lead. The lead female performance. One of the best things I've ever seen.

[Ed Gamble]

Can you tell us anything about it or is it all a spoiler?

[Matthew Crosby]

Just go and see it, I'd say. Just go and see it. It's about a wish, I'll say that much. Oh, about a wish.

[Ed Gamble]

Like the Disney movie wish.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's like, exactly like the Disney. It is affecting. Credit's brilliant.

[Ed Gamble]

Was it one of those films where you're like, it actually doesn't bother me that much. And then you've got to sort of walk to the loo in the dark.

[Matthew Crosby]

It's the most. I've been scared in a cinema, I think.

[John Kearns]

Really?

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I. Was it hereditary? What's the heredity or hereditary? Hereditary. Yeah. Where you were.

[Matthew Crosby]

Heredity is not a word, isn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

No, it's not a word. The reason why it can't be called that. That. But yes, that was the one where you. You said you were like in the fetal position in the. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

So it's. It's the scariest film I've seen since Hereditary. For sure. For sure. I don't want to see it. Yeah, you won't like it.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it scarier than Rivals?

[Matthew Crosby]

Scarier than Rivals.

[Ed Gamble]

I can't handle it.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm going to back wreck beef. I'm enjoying beef at the moment.

[Danny Wallace]

Yes.

[Matthew Crosby]

The second season.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, I've still not seen you the second season. Yeah. Yeah. That's good.

[Vin (Producer)]

I mean, it's. It's.

[Matthew Crosby]

Isn't Cary Mulligan brilliant? Brilliant.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah. In everything.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. She's so good.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, she's very good.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, It's.

[Ed Gamble]

It's big bet, Right, for Kerry Mulligan.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's very.

[Ed Gamble]

What is she drinking a day, though? That's what you want to know. I'm gonna.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm gonna betray myself as well.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yes.

[Vin (Producer)]

In a very embarrassing sentence. Me and Stephen Fernando from the Danny Wallace show have started DJing together.

[Matthew Crosby]

What? Of course. You didn't tell us this on air.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Why did you not mention this on air?

[Matthew Crosby]

Because we would have absolutely gone down on.

[Vin (Producer)]

And it's also very proud of him.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Good for him.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

On air, we can't decide whether we want it to be good or funny. That's the main.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, it can be both.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, hello. The last seven years.

[Ed Gamble]

Exactly.

[Vin (Producer)]

But anyway, so please look at Broccoli Sessions. On Instagram and YouTube.

[Matthew Crosby]

The broccoli. Funny.

[Vin (Producer)]

We've put some. Some. Some sets up, some mixes up on YouTube, and I think they're funny.

[Ed Gamble]

Where are you gonna. Where are you gonna be DJing next? Where can people come in?

[Vin (Producer)]

Generally around South London.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. You doing the boiler room?

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course I'm sure.

[Matthew Crosby]

Are you sure we're going to street party next year?

[Ed Gamble]

Would you like to come and DJ my street party?

[Vin (Producer)]

Let's talk.

[Ed Gamble]

Let's talk about it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, you know what section? Or do you want to see the kids picture?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, there's no way. Other mount will step aside for the main section. You've got to do the kids section

[Vin (Producer)]

at the street party. Would they enjoy hearing Idiotech? And then into Sam Campbell's Ricky Gervais song?

[Ed Gamble]

You know, my kids love that song.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, Good song.

[Ed Gamble]

So I think. Yeah, my kids really do like this sipping that body.

[Vin (Producer)]

It's.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, I think they would actually. Do you want to come and DJ the fireworks?

[Vin (Producer)]

Is that still gonna. You still gonna keep doing it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. Until they realize I don't have a radio show anymore. Can't promote it. But yeah, I'll keep doing it until they. Until they. Until they sack me. Yeah. Happy to do it. You can come along to that.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'll come along.

[Ed Gamble]

That's gonna be odd, isn't it? Because I still want you to record all the audio of it as well. My own records.

[Vin (Producer)]

Put it on your stories.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, put it on my. Exactly. It's always gonna go on the stories. Fantastic. The Broccoli Sessions.

[Vin (Producer)]

Broccoli Sessions.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, Broccoli Sessions. Great. We've got some more messages, some more clips.

[Vin (Producer)]

Should we do. Izzy was. She'd lost her voice, right?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, everyone has.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, clearly.

[Vin (Producer)]

But we should have.

[Ed Gamble]

Was there a big party that everyone went to that we weren't invited to?

[Matthew Crosby]

Obviously it was the party to celebrate the end of the show.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true. Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

You might have to crank it up if you're listening in headphones, but this is Izzy.

[Ellis James]

Sooty.

[Danny Wallace]

Hello, Matthew, Ed and Vin. It's Izzy Soti here, longtime friend of the show. So very sad the show's ending. The memories of presenting with Matthew when Ed couldn't make it were amongst the happiest of my life. And I think you guys are absolutely brilliant. I especially will miss doing my features, which I always designed especially for Matthew. Things like Matthew Crosby or Matthew Crosby asking if I'd be cross about certain things. Things like people not putting their Baskets back in the supermarket. Matthew Crosby or Matthew Crosby. Another one I'm sure you remember well, Matthew, about whether you'd leave if, for example, a friend forgot your birthday. Very revealing, very brave. I have got two, obviously, which blue. Matthew Crosby or Matthew Crosby with questions about crime. Crows and blackbirds and ravens. And the other one was going to be Matthew Crosby or Math Me. Crosby. Which is going to be questions about you and me. So I'll never get to do them, which is sad. So thanks a lot, guys.

[Ed Gamble]

A bit nasty at the end there.

[Matthew Crosby]

Such a quiet lady.

[Ed Gamble]

Such a quiet lady. Yeah. What is going. Yeah, Is there something going on, guys?

[Matthew Crosby]

Because it's not a new pandemic, is there? I mean, we've started the show at the right time because they haven't all got hantavirus. Straight on the zoom again.

[Ed Gamble]

Something. Yeah, we can't be doing that. You having to broadcast over in your Disney pajamas with your mustache. It was a funny time, wasn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

Funny?

[Ed Gamble]

It was a funny old time. I did enjoy driving into central London, though.

[Matthew Crosby]

Oh, you did?

[Ed Gamble]

I loved it. I never stopped talking about it.

[Matthew Crosby]

So Tim Vincent, when I drove in,

[Ed Gamble]

I thought it way I thought it was. I thought it was you remember? I thought I saw you cycling and I thought, I'll knock him off.

[Vin (Producer)]

Just.

[Ed Gamble]

I still think about that, genuinely. I thought, oh, that's Ed. I'll knock him off his bike with my car. That'll be funny. That was that. I mean, it would turn out not to be Ed, but even it had been you.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Bad thing to do.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. It was Tim Vincent.

[Ed Gamble]

It was Tim Vincent in the end. Of course, it's always Tim Vincent.

[Matthew Crosby]

You saw a crane and thought, imagine

[Ed Gamble]

if I was like, yeah, see, we do remember some of it, but it's just good stuff. It's a good, good show. If we've got any more messages, we've

[Vin (Producer)]

got Ellis, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, of course, of course. Ellis.

[Ellis James]

Hello, boys. Ellis James here.

[Matthew Crosby]

Lovely times.

[Ellis James]

Seven years over. I can't believe it. I've crunched, I've crumbled. Can't believe this is the end. When the Stone Roses called it quits the second time around after their reunion about 10 years ago, Ian Brown said, don't be sad it's over. Be glad it happened. I don't think that applies to you, if I'm honest. I think a bigger question, a more pertinent question, is for Radio X top brass, and it's not be glad it's happened. It's more, how did we allow this to happen in the first place. Mainly because of Matthew Crosby's extremely old fashioned references. He thinks that the Hitman and Hearst and Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan is a sensible thing to mention on hip and happening indie radio station. And Ed, when you actually get to know him, the only music he really likes is all called things. All the bands are called stuff like Carcass and Ghost Vasectomy. Anyway, I asked Izzy, my wife, what she thought of the show and she presented on it a couple of times, both times with Matthew. But really she would have preferred to have presented with Ed.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, thank you. It's nice to know that Ellis hasn't caught whatever Izzy has.

[Ed Gamble]

No, no, he's still not.

[Matthew Crosby]

He's still helping enthusiasm.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's because as a couple, we know this from knowing Ellis and Izzy very well. They never see each other.

[Matthew Crosby]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

They're literally never in the same room at the same time. They're always. They're often.

[Matthew Crosby]

They're offering to make children.

[Ed Gamble]

They've done that twice. And then that was it.

[Matthew Crosby]

They said that was it. And that was a.

[Ed Gamble]

We forget that, don't we? They didn't know. It was very much like the Pina Colada song. Ellis was popping his. His little John Thomas through the glory. Turned out his wife was on the other side.

[Matthew Crosby]

Don't write that down, Vin.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'm gonna beat one of the words.

[Matthew Crosby]

Okay.

[Vin (Producer)]

I'll be with different words.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, okay. Sure, sure. Well, I guess. I guess this is it.

[Vin (Producer)]

Oh, no. John Kearns.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, my God. How could I have forgotten John Kearns?

[Matthew Crosby]

We can't forget the originator of what do youo Not Know what It Is?

[Ed Gamble]

What do you Not Know what It Is? The OG himself. It's John Kearns.

[John Kearns]

Hello, Ed. Hello, Matthew. It's John Kearns here. And I'd just like to thank you for the past seven years for the support that you've. You've shown me over my career not to be sniffed at. Seven years, That's a long time. That's like. That's like secondary school, you know? And you change a lot in that time. So, Kerns, crucially, your show didn't change much. Much, which is what people like. On the radio. You played the same four songs. That's impressive. Look, when I sat in for Ed all those years ago, just that once. I haven't been paid for that. I. I created the feature. Which you still used. What is it? You don't know what it is? That's the title of the feature. Not entirely sure, but anyway, the Point being is that I'd like to have the final one. I don't know what a mirror is. I don't know what champagne is. I don't know really how a fridge works. I don't know much, but the one thing I don't know is a Sunday morning without Ed and Matthew on Radio X. That doesn't mean I listened. I just mean, you know, you're just not on the radio.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, thank you, John.

[Matthew Crosby]

Ivan did that one as well.

[Ed Gamble]

I would do that one as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great, Great minds.

[Matthew Crosby]

Thanks, John, though. Thanks.

[Ed Gamble]

Really, really, really lovely. Well, thanks to. Thanks to everybody who appeared on the show. Thanks to everyone who listened to the show, obviously. Thanks to everyone who sent emails in and thank you. We're gonna. We're gonna pour through those now. We're not, obviously not on the podcast because many of them are just straight up sentimental.

[Matthew Crosby]

We can't be doing that.

[Ed Gamble]

Can't be doing that. No. But thank you all. Thank you so much for being a listener these past seven years. And. Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Do you have one memory, Matthew?

[Ed Gamble]

No, I don't have any memories, no. I've got. What would be. What would be my top? Oh, I tell you what, I'll tell you what I think about a lot and I think, oh, he's a funny bloke. I. We were talking about what kind of a darts player I would be. Right. And I said, I would be. I'd wear a stripy top.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I was. I would wear. I'd be called the Crosby.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I'd be Matthew the Cross B. Crosby. And you said, yeah, but every time you threw a dart, you'd die. And I thought, what a funny man. What a funny man.

[Matthew Crosby]

That is good.

[Ed Gamble]

That is good.

[Matthew Crosby]

I could remember some of this stuff.

[Ed Gamble]

I know.

[Matthew Crosby]

I mean, Cruise missile for me.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. That's it, isn't it? That is it.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

A cruise missile. That was so smooth.

[Matthew Crosby]

A man threw up at the Imperial War Museum.

[Ed Gamble]

Imperial War Museum, yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Anyway, but I mean, that was about six years ago, so.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah, I actually found my favorite bit of the show.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Play it to you. It's very quick.

[Matthew Crosby]

Green day.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that was it. Yeah. You know what? You know what? This show has to end, doesn't it? This is. There are people who've worked for years and years and years. They've done like, you know, hospital radio, student radio, they've worked, you know, they actually know. And then we just waltz in and do that kind of bollocks.

[Matthew Crosby]

That wasn't week one. No, that was so late on.

[Ed Gamble]

That was probably about a month ago we did that.

[Matthew Crosby]

Never knew who was gonna say who it was back announcing the songs. So you just do it at the same time and then carry it on for ages. It's gotta. It's gotta end.

[Ed Gamble]

It simply has to end. Should we have some food?

[Matthew Crosby]

What a bang on.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, sorry, you're gonna.

[Matthew Crosby]

No, just say what a joy it has been. Honestly, Like, I will remember this time very, very fast.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

Such a pleasure working with my dear friends. And that's. That's how it feels. So it's just. And it's not the end for us as friends.

[Ed Gamble]

No, it's just the.

[Matthew Crosby]

The end for you as listeners being able to hear the absolute pap we came out with.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Matthew Crosby]

So thank you very much to both of you.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. No, thank you, Ed. Thank you, Vin. It's been. Oh, it's been. It's been absolutely wonderful. It really, really has. And yeah, I'm looking forward to. To my kids recognizing me.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

From being around on a weekend. And you know what I'm going to start doing? Have you heard about this? Looks maxing. I'm getting into that. So I'm off now to wicks to buy a hammer. I'm gonna smash my face in until it looks pretty.

[Vin (Producer)]

Alex Turner's current bouffant.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

My own lips.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Oh, I know what this is.

[Vin (Producer)]

Kano's beard and his genitals.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, my God. Yeah, this is it.

[Vin (Producer)]

Gaspit Bumrah's shoulders and his bowling action. The trunk from an unnamed elephant. Killian Murphy's eyes. Mark from series 11 of Bake Off's glasses. Do you remember them? They were good. Chris Moltisanti's eyebrows. Brackets. Not Michael Imperioli's. Little fat. What does that say? Little fat cat paw with black beans. Little black beans. Little black beans. The left hand of Graham Coxon.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Neo from the Matrix. The Matrix's right hand from when he's fighting Agent Smith in the subway. That was it.

[Ed Gamble]

Any more to add?

[Vin (Producer)]

What's left? The legs. How about legs from Toy Story? From the. The legs. Legs from Toy Story in Sid's room.

[Ed Gamble]

The legs from the toy industry.

[Matthew Crosby]

I thought you

[Ed Gamble]

evil Meccano. Legs from. Okay.

[Matthew Crosby]

This is the last thing that we'll ever do as a team. I thought you planned it.

[Ed Gamble]

Not even written it.

[Matthew Crosby]

You've not even finished writing.

[Ed Gamble]

What's next? What's next can't be the final.

[Vin (Producer)]

Like there was.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah, I think it came back.

[Vin (Producer)]

There was a cupboard from a. In a hotel room in Delhi. That had a really nice decoration on front. And then if you open, it'll be a big mango lasso.

[Matthew Crosby]

That's right.

[Ed Gamble]

That's in there.

[Matthew Crosby]

Yeah. I think that's sort of the drawer in your tummy. Yeah.

[Vin (Producer)]

Yeah. So then that's. That's it, isn't it?

[Matthew Crosby]

That's it, isn't it? Yep.

[Ed Gamble]

There we go.

[Matthew Crosby]

Well, that's it, isn't it?

[Ed Gamble]

There we go. It's been a Vinkenstein's monster of a show, I'll say that much. It's not really great than some of its parts. We've had a nice time anyway. Okay. Now we can just. We can play Don't Stop believing. And that's the end.

[Matthew Crosby]

Bye bye, Gray D O X Granger

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