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Phil
Following podcast contains scenes of a sexual nature. No, it doesn't.
Dan
Why are you saying that?
Phil
People excited. Strong language.
Dan
Is that gonna make them excited? I mean, that is true. We just wanted to say that we kind of unplugged the microphones a little bit this week.
Phil
A lot of it.
Dan
It sounds a bit strange. Like it sounds quite strange at the start. It gets a bit better as you go along.
Phil
After the cake, I say it starts sounding better.
Dan
Spoiler.
Phil
After the what? Mystery item.
Dan
Birthday episode, in case you didn't know. So, yeah, if you're wondering, wow, did I take something or is it. Yes, but also, it's us.
Phil
Yeah, sorry.
Dan
Have fun and enjoy Phil's Sugar Crash in real time. That was the worst party blower.
Phil
If you're listening, we've got a very ill duck with us. I've got one. It's my birthday.
Dan
I try it. Happy birthday, Phil.
Phil
Yay. Woohoo.
Dan
Happy 23rd birthday.
Phil
Thank you, Phil.
Dan
Lester.
Phil
I'm so excited to be youthful.
Dan
How are you?
Phil
I am very confused by this mysterious box that is next to me.
Dan
For anyone listening on Spotify, we're wearing party hats.
Phil
I've got a purple one on. Dan's got a blue one. It's quite erect. On your head. Straight off. Mine's a bit sideways.
Dan
It's a lopsided party. It is representing your emotional state.
Phil
My personality.
Dan
I'm sorry that I got the world's worst party blowers. That was quite upsetting.
Phil
Such a bad blower.
Dan
It's way too early. Can we. We've planned all these things for Phil's birthday.
Phil
Can we remove them?
Dan
No. But, Phil, it's your special day.
Phil
What is in the box?
Dan
Now, as you know, I have got a tradition of giving Phil novelty cakes, which is usually just a vanilla buttercream cake with something offensive written on it. But I just knew that that wasn't good enough.
Phil
What have you done?
Dan
And it's been the January Twunk era, watching heated rivalry.
Phil
Oh, my God.
Dan
And so, Phil, this is gonna be you. Are you ready? This is the manifestation cake. Phil, whip off that cardboard.
Phil
Here we go. Yes.
Dan
Happy birthday. Oh, my God. It's lit off the face. It fell off. It's supposed to Be supported by six fingers. Okay, so, Phil, I got you a cake of your face on an immeasurably henged marble bust.
Phil
That's amazing.
Dan
And it's supposed to be stood right and supporting its own waist.
Phil
Right.
Dan
It appears to have slidden off.
Phil
I'm slouching down.
Dan
Oh, it's you sliding into the sofa crease.
Phil
So is it so pale because it's made of marble? Is that the point of this?
Dan
Bro, did you just roast yourself? No. That's not supposed to be your skin tone.
Phil
Oh. It was supposed to be a marble.
Dan
Busk like you're carved out of.
Phil
Can I eat my own nipples?
Dan
I mean, can you? Here we go.
Phil
Whoa. It's beautiful. What body part of me do you want to eat?
Dan
That's the worst thing I. Okay, I now regret buying you the cake.
Phil
Do you want to either nipple my abs or my head?
Dan
Out of context? That's gonna sound horrible.
Phil
Decide.
Dan
People on Spotify are crying right now.
Phil
What do you want to eat?
Dan
I will have Phil's right nipple. Stumpy right nipple short.
Phil
Thank you.
Dan
Can we have some plates and a knife?
Phil
Are you gonna chop my head off?
Dan
Maybe. Thank you.
Phil
Thank you. I'm gonna bite the face. You ready?
Dan
Okay. Oh. Oh my God. Oh. Oh. Horrifying scenes of auto cannibalism.
Phil
I taste good. On the mail podcast by Rennieble. Chew it. Eat it.
Dan
This was supposed to be a pack on you. And now I'm so scared. Holy fucking shit, Phil, your nipple tastes amazing. Oh, that is creamy.
Phil
What flavor is it?
Dan
Vanilla buttercream.
Phil
Wow.
Dan
Which, you know, I think if anyone said what flavor is spill the curate him. You think? Vanilla roast. But accurate. Happy birthday, Phil.
Phil
Thank you.
Dan
I've ate your nipple. You've eaten your own face. These are your goals for the year.
Phil
Are you happy? I could not be happier, Dan.
Dan
Excellent. And now the sugar's gonna go to your head.
Phil
Good luck.
Dan
Three, two, one.
Phil
Oh. I just ate my entire arm.
Dan
Yeah, I was about to say you interrupting that noise I made scary business. That was the satisfied I just ate cake noise.
Guest or Additional Speaker 1
Woo.
Dan
Terrifying episode for the Spotify people.
Phil
Prepare for me to get very annoying in about 10 minutes time because I can already feel the sugar coursing through my veins. What's your excuse?
Dan
Every other week.
Phil
Hey.
Dan
What?
Phil
I'm perfectly calm.
Dan
Phil's birthday week. Why am I saying week? Because Phil likes to drag out this thing for as long as possible.
Phil
I feel like a birthday needs to be at least a week.
Dan
A month and a half. This is Phil going. It's my birthday from January 1st until March 20th.
Phil
Wave to me, sing to me, Buy me a meal. I want to split all my friends and family into the smallest group possible. You know what? So then I could get as many meals out of it.
Dan
This is a Phil strategy. And I actually think it's so smart. Why have one party where you try to get everyone together to know how cool you are? Oh, look at all of my friends. You are all going to. No, no, no. Separate them. Gaslight them. Split them up. Sow seeds of drama. Betray them. Split them into as many different factions as possible.
Phil
Yes.
Dan
So they can pay for a dozen dinners.
Phil
Even a couple. Split them up. Get a meal off pj Get a meal off Sophie. You know what I'm saying?
Dan
That is so fucked up.
Phil
Phil, you didn't sing for me.
Dan
Can I get a little Happy birthday to you?
Phil
Wow. Separate your birthday to elongate your birthday.
Dan
Yeah. Stretch it out.
Phil
That's the advice.
Dan
What are you looking forward to this year?
Phil
This year off your birthday?
Dan
Not of your life.
Phil
Oh.
Dan
Well. What. Okay, Phil, what are your goals for your 23rd year on Earth?
Phil
I'm excited to eat more of this cake.
Dan
Okay. That's very short term. What's going to define this year of your life?
Phil
This is going to be the year of the twunk, which we've already discussed.
Dan
Which starts. We buy eating a half a meter long cake. Yes. And the year was that macrobiotic.
Phil
I don't know what that is.
Dan
What Hollander would say.
Phil
I don't know what.
Dan
What the fuck does that mean?
Phil
Shut up. Just drink the Yakult.
Dan
Exactly. My protein cake is just 57 chicken breasts stapled together. It's not worth it. No.
Phil
At least add some seasoning. Meal prep. I see those people. It's just like, why do Jim Bros.
Dan
They're like, here's my salmon steak and. No, it's just a massive bowl of plain rice. You don't have to live like this.
Phil
My other goal for the year is to have more fun with you.
Dan
Oh, are you being sarcastic?
Phil
No, no.
Dan
I have balls up.
Phil
You can tell, can't you? Last year we did loads of work.
Dan
And it was which we love the Hollow Bastard. We love the set for a podcast. We love the giant Bomberland.
Phil
I'm in an inflatable chair. Inflatable.
Dan
We had so much fun doing it.
Phil
I want to go on a few more trips with you. Oh, yeah. Play some more games, go to more cinemas, eat some more restaurants. 100% eat restaurants.
Dan
Eat the whole restaurant. I want an Edible building. I've had edible male talk. Now I want edible restaurants.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
I just noticed that your shirt is holographic, and it changes from being eaten to uneaten.
Phil
Is that holographic? I don't think that's the right term for that.
Dan
Is that not. It's a.
Phil
No.
Dan
What? Lenticular print.
Phil
It's a lenticular shirt. I call this a sleezy. I'm wearing a holographic shirt. It changes from cape to Eton cake.
Dan
It's a lenticular illusion.
Phil
The problem is the Eton cake was a green pistachio, so it was mouldy when I made it.
Dan
It's like a jump SC to a zombie cake.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Do you have any iconic birthday memories from your time? Any gifts that stand out? They better be something that I gave.
Phil
What you gave me. What, like seven lamps?
Dan
Shut the fuck up. I think that was Christmas.
Phil
That was Christmas.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
One time I really wanted a Tamagotchi, and I got given. I must have been, like, 14, but I was one of those kids that was obsessed with Tamagotchi.
Dan
People are like, what do you want when you're 14? Weed. Phil's like, I want a Tamagotchi. And good for you, Phil. Foxy while still here eating nine years later. What's the kind of edgy shit that people say? What do you want? Sex boob? It sounds like cool meth.
Phil
Yeah. No.
Dan
100%. Yeah, but you said, no, I want the Tamagotchi.
Phil
It wasn't just a Tamagotchi, though. It was a Pikachu pedometer that you put on your leg. And then Pikachu would get more and more treats the more you.
Dan
Well, that Pikachu was sad as fuck, because I know you ain't walking.
Phil
And I was like, in year nine, taking this to school, strapped to myself. So I was a Christina Cooler fucking or.
Dan
Good for you, Phil.
Phil
They're all doing the weed. I'm exercising my Pikachu.
Dan
Well, I need to get my stepson from my Pikachu.
Phil
The more you walked with the Tamagotchi, the more coins it gave you to spend on a slot machine.
Dan
Fucking Nintendo. Trying to get children to be healthy.
Phil
And what if you got 777? You got 500 coins? Like, buying a bed or.
Dan
So they're like, we're gonna encourage the kids to walk so that ultimately they can gamble.
Phil
Yes.
Dan
Okay. You almost did it there, Nintendo.
Phil
And if you got, like, 500, you could, like, given a date with a Jigglypuff or something. I don't remember oh, Jesus.
Dan
So isn't it weird of Pokemon that you can just put any two Pokemon in the breeding center and they'll shag like an onyx and a Jigglypuff. What the fuck is happening? I need an egg. Oh, that sounds intense. What? Exactly.
Phil
Maybe they reproduce asexually by just rubbing saliva into each other's eyes or something.
Dan
You know, there's a Pokemon manga that is really like graphic and violent.
Phil
Yes.
Guest or Additional Speaker 2
Yeah.
Dan
Is it like deeply sexual as well?
Phil
I feel like they're so animal adjacent.
Dan
Dodrio and Mr.
Phil
Mime anyway, picturing it now listen.
Dan
Three heads, three beaks, no beaks. Two sneaky golf hands. Stop it. As you were.
Phil
I believed that if I held onto this Pikachu and really believed that I was going to get seven, seven, seven.
Dan
That a slot machine would say shove.
Phil
It would happen to the point. It got spooky that whenever I had this believing thought, it happened. And then I googled it and other people on a forum were like, I swear, if I believe I'm going to get 777, it happens with this Pikachu.
Dan
So there's a community that psychically forced their Pikachu pedometer to win a slot machine?
Phil
Yes.
Dan
And you didn't think, well, I can use this power in Vegas and actually achieve something meaningful.
Phil
I would use that power now.
Dan
Right now.
Phil
You're manifesting something.
Dan
Oh, my breasts are growing exponentially.
Phil
Why would you keep referring to his breasts?
Dan
I just think it's.
Phil
It may not be hard. Pecs are growing sideways.
Dan
Shane Hollander's boobs are two round round. They are mounds. They are beefy.
Phil
You mean Ilya. His are even more beefy.
Dan
No, no, these are square. Oh, the other ones are like let the telly of your house.
Phil
Are you manifesting that for me? Boof.
Dan
Boof.
Guest or Additional Speaker 3
Yeah.
Dan
The sounds of your breast enlarge.
Phil
That's a noise when my abs knock over a door.
Dan
Oh, wow. I look forward to that.
Guest or Additional Speaker 2
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Dan
I'm continuing to be a clumsy bitch.
Phil
So bad.
Dan
We talked last week about how I'm butterfingers, but it's actually getting worse. I have done an Two weird things this week.
Phil
You've reached a new echelon of clumsiness.
Dan
You were trying to pass me my phone while I was sat at a table, and I just couldn't lift my arm high enough and I punched a pint of Ribeno.
Phil
You punched it across the room.
Dan
I punched a glass.
Phil
I've never seen so much Ribena all over your laptop. All over my eyes.
Dan
It was a fucking catastrophe.
Phil
And then last night, a whole milkshake on our cream sofa.
Dan
How did I do that again?
Phil
Because I said, pass me the blanket, I'm cold. And then you just, like, boffed. Oh, yeah.
Dan
I struggled to lift the blanket and then I tickled it over the milkshake and I knocked it all.
Phil
And then you just stared at it.
Dan
You didn't even move because it was one of those spills that's so traumatic that you're like, it's already over. Oh, it just happened. It's already over.
Phil
You just watched that milk just seep into the crease of the sofa.
Dan
Yeah, I was a deer on the headlights. Except it was vanilla, so I poured.
Phil
Water all over and gave it a scrub. Still crusty this morning. I thought I got us all out, but.
Dan
Smells nice.
Phil
Yeah, I think vanillary.
Dan
I will say it's quite good that you've managed to book so many social events at a time of year that is historically. People don't give a shit.
Phil
No one gives a shit. And our friends actually said they'd come to the my birthday meal at least. So that was good.
Dan
Good.
Phil
I'm not really a winter girl anymore. I used to be like, oh, I love it. I want to be cozy and hold my hot chocolate and just look at the snow.
Dan
I'm sure when I was an edgy teenager, I was like, what's your favorite season? Winter.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Cause it's dark and cold. No, my friends, winter is the bum.
Phil
You're expecting London to go, like, crisp. A frozen leaf. Snow falling slightly, and it's just raining or windy.
Dan
It is bleak as shit.
Phil
Mega bleak. So I think I'm actually a stark. A spring lad. Why? Just as this game, the cusp of summer.
Dan
Oh, yeah, you're a May girly.
Phil
I'm a mega. Also, I own. I'm not a maga. That always sounds like I'm a maga. I'm a mega girly.
Guest or Additional Speaker 3
What?
Dan
She was too stunned to speak, but I'll go with here, please.
Phil
I like my arms to be out. I think all my fashion is in T shirts as well. I don't own Any fleeces, right? I don't own any fleeces.
Dan
No, Phil, it's too late. It's too late. Your gifts are locked in.
Phil
Okay.
Dan
Yeah. Have a water, please. It is annoying hanging out with our friends sometimes because they may just feel like very silly billies. A lot of our friends are what we would describe as real people with real jobs.
Phil
Yes. Omi just saw my other friend as well on Wednesday, who works in crime.
Dan
Solving crime for very serious, important crimes.
Phil
Guess the crime.
Dan
Bad crimes.
Phil
Crimes.
Dan
Like, how was your day at work? And then we're like, holy shit. Wow. Life sentence. Jesus. And I went to court. It was heavy, but we got them. What about you, Dan and Phil?
Phil
Well, I like. I'm like, oh, my Twitter algorithm is now Jake Sully's ass for avatar. It's just.
Dan
Yeah, no, sorry, we need to hard pin that. Phil, can you explain that to the people listening?
Phil
I don't know what's happened.
Dan
Your Twitter algorithm. Yeah, which whatever the fuck that would.
Phil
Be, it's shifted from which is mainly just Dan and Phil tweets about us to Jake Sully's.
Dan
It's just avatar objectification.
Phil
And I think it's because I saw one and it said, hey, look, it jiggles. And I opened it to see if it animated.
Dan
No, Phil, if you click it, you're reinforcing it because you liked it. It's now going, oh, you want to see blue ass crack.
Phil
Here you go, buddy. Keep it coming. I was just curious if James Cameron had edited a jiggle, and he has edited a jiggle, but now I'm getting it. Like, every four tweets is either fan art of Avatar, fan art of Avatar, having sex with their weird, like, tail machine.
Dan
Is that sex or is it like an emotional bonding thing?
Phil
I think it's both. But is that sex also usually a bit of emotional bonding as well?
Dan
It doesn't have to be. There's just a lot of slamming.
Phil
No, you release chemicals into each other. I mean, you know, like, even I.
Dan
Would now like to join the asexual community and comment section. I get it.
Phil
You're valid. We're not.
Dan
What?
Phil
It's all of the endorphins and the serotonin and stuff makes you bonded in more of a way. So even if you're having a grinder hookup in some kind of deep avatar.
Dan
Sense, you have impressed upon them, you've.
Phil
Impressed upon them psychochemically. There's also a scientific thing that's like, when people are horny and they're ready to go at it. They find some things more attractive than they would when they're not. They'll be like, oh, yes, the clarity. That person is a four out of ten. Well, now in my horny state, there are seven.
Dan
And here I am 16 years later.
Phil
I'm at least a six and a half.
Guest or Additional Speaker 1
Phil.
Dan
What? Phil's fishing for compliments in the comments.
Phil
Salvi Ammon. Nine.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
Early. I'm a nine. Why are we talking about sexual chemistry?
Dan
We were talking about how our friends have serious no job. And then you just started talking about avatar sex habits.
Phil
Another thing we noticed is our friends have lots of workplace drama, which sounds quite stressful messes.
Dan
And they love coming to Dan and Phil to moan about all their problems. And we love listening.
Phil
They'll be like, janice is hogging the coffee machine. Oh, my God. I can't speak to Rachel because she's fallen out with the other group that work in finance. Can we relate to that?
Dan
Absolutely not. Well, I think that when we have work grievances, we air them out on the podcast. That's literally what this show is, relationship therapy, isn't it? Yeah. We're not moaning to someone else. We're just doing it at the camera. It's you. Everybody listening. You are our therapists. Thank you.
Phil
Imagine if we did fully full out and we had to keep on doing a podcast.
Dan
That happens so often with celebrities. They're like, I got a contract. Now we gotta turn up and do the pod dafuk.
Phil
I wonder if we'd be able to fake it.
Dan
Oh, yeah. I mean, we faked being straight for like 16.
Phil
Maybe it's already happened. Oh, my gosh.
Dan
Oh, wow. The way I pulled that mic from this model for a second there, well.
Phil
That was a bit weird.
Dan
It was. Do you believe it, guys? Dan and Phil, they haven't even been friends for the last five years.
Phil
Not bad, sir.
Dan
You, sir blonde twat.
Phil
I called you a splinter. Do we all believe that conviction? I think.
Dan
Well, that I'm a slut.
Phil
No, that I said it. We like, I meant it.
Dan
Shut up, you silly billy.
Phil
Oh, yeah. On my birthday with my twin.
Dan
That's the most fucked up thing I'm saying about this is my nightmares.
Phil
Is it?
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
Is this not your. Would you f your clone? That is two of me.
Dan
No, it's 100% a nightmare, you know? I mean, yeah, for some people, it's like two Phil Lesters. Wow. Wow. I'm like, shut up.
Phil
Shut up.
Dan
Oh, my God.
Phil
I feel like if we had a large office that wasn't just full of lovely people. I would try and make everyone be friends.
Dan
You would try to make everyone be friends?
Phil
I'd be overwhelmingly annoying, like, nope. Janice, come over here, sort out your grievances. The coffee machine's fine.
Dan
Greg, stop bringing in the tuna sandwiches.
Phil
Yeah, yeah. I feel like a lot of it is also. Like it was at our other workplace, Radio 1.
Dan
There's been no other Dan and Phil workplaces. Why are you even trying to censor it? I think at this point in our lives, there's some things that we shouldn't keep trying to censor. Everyone knows that I worked at asda.
Phil
Everyone knows.
Dan
Everyone knows that you worked at WH Smith.
Phil
WH Smith.
Dan
We can't keep code naming it. There aren't that many stores in the uk.
Phil
What if they come for me?
Dan
Who is they? Big Smith?
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Haven't they totally fucked themselves as a business now they're just like Air Force sandwiched.
Phil
They says it's TJ Jones, which is a worse name.
Dan
Well, exactly. It did. A Focus doesn't even exist anymore, so I sold an axe to a child. What are you gonna do about it, Wicks?
Phil
It was a horrible place to work.
Dan
Wsmith.
Phil
I can't say that next time you.
Dan
Do a book, you ain't gonna get the WH Smith signing opportunity.
Phil
No, wait, wait. I feel like in those workplace environments, a lot of the drama was because someone is, like, hooked up with someone and then it's awkward and then they're gonna hook up with someone else and.
Dan
Then it's don't shit what you eat. That's the phrase.
Phil
Shit.
Dan
Yeah. It's not a nice phrase, but it works. Yeah, exactly.
Phil
It's not a very sexy phrase.
Dan
Well, it's not. And so it should make you feel bad about what you've done.
Phil
Could we reimagine that? Don't cuddle where you puddle huddle.
Dan
Phil, go.
Phil
Oh.
Dan
Don't cuddle where you huddle.
Phil
Don't cuddle where you have your business huddles.
Dan
Yeah. No, Phil, wait. Rewind, rewind. What were you going to say about our last job that we had together in office drama?
Phil
It was obvious some people didn't like us and I didn't like that. I thought.
Dan
Wait, wait, wait, wait. It was obvious that some people didn't like us. No, you didn't like that. Is that workplace drama?
Phil
I've got this thing where I need to be liked by everyone and if someone doesn't like me and in life.
Dan
It'S an invalid opinion that must be rectified by God. If necessary.
Phil
And I will be more annoying to try and make them like me as well.
Dan
Yeah, I agree. People had a problem with Danfil back in the day. It was probably because we had too much whimsy and face people sad that they killed their inner child.
Phil
You're not businessy enough for me.
Dan
Yeah, exactly. Why are you pretending to be cool?
Phil
Yeah. Why aren't you manly? Why don't you like football? Yeah, but I have this need to be liked so much that even if I know someone doesn't like me, I'll try extra hard to be nice to them. But I don't think you should give people that energy. Like, you don't.
Dan
But are you doing it for you? Because sometimes in like a petty revenge way, being pedantically polite to someone that's trying as hard as possible to give you a stinky attitude is kind of just like torturing them in a front lane.
Guest or Additional Speaker 2
It's true.
Phil
I'll just keep doing it.
Dan
So you're like, I don't need that energy. I'm like.
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Phil
Do you know what? I'm feeling a tingle for coming here? Some news.
Dan
Oh, my God. Weird stuff is happening in the world. Thank God that Phil is here to tell you.
Phil
Here's the thing. Yeah, Chipwreck. Thousands of chips have washed up on a British beach.
Dan
As a fry lover, this was devastating to me.
Phil
Are all of those chips going without dipping?
Dan
Exactly.
Phil
Oh, my gosh and sad.
Dan
Apparently, a shipping container that was full of frozen fries just exploded on a British beach.
Phil
24 containers of the things.
Dan
What the fuck are people doing?
Phil
Think about the seagulls, though. They would have been on the best day of their lives.
Dan
100%. I mean, the SOG factor would have been real. If you need your chips to be crispy, then this is not what's happening.
Phil
Talking about calling out our friends, William said he loves the soggy chip.
Dan
Oh, yeah. No. Oh. He was like, oh, yeah. When you get fish and chips, you're the soggy ones on the bottom Oh, I want all of those ones.
Phil
What?
Dan
Fuck.
Phil
It's a common occurrence in bad weather. As last year there was banana carnage. Yeah, yeah.
Dan
Stuff washes up. And if it's going to be an environmental disaster, at least it's biodegradable.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
And delicious.
Phil
Old law library vlog's birthday show. No, this is older than me. A library book has been returned up to 46 years.
Dan
Was someone laying awake at night thinking, I stole this book and failed to make it right? 46 years. Is the library even around anymore?
Phil
Apparently it is in California. It was returned. Imagine the fine of that. That'll be $49 million.
Dan
Well, I think they actually changed the law so they were no longer penalized. Increasingly over time, I think that encouraged people to not to bring the books back. Whereas someone this time was like, I think we'd given up on that book coming back. But thanks, I guess.
Phil
It should have been returned on May 20, 1980.
Dan
Bloody hell.
Phil
It was the Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford.
Dan
Classic Sheila.
Phil
Hard to read, takes that long.
Dan
Yes. And the person who the book was returned to said, I got to open it and enjoy the old book smell, which was quite powerful in this particular item. You freak.
Phil
Wow thing.
Dan
You're like huffing that dust.
Phil
Bucksmith.
Dan
Old book smell. They should sell that as a cologne. They should. Yeah. You want a dark academia boyfriend. Well, he smells like musty tome. Have you thought about that?
Phil
I'd quite like it if he smelled of a musty book.
Dan
Nope.
Phil
Next. Hop into traffic. Excuse me, you wild bunny in col. Colorado has just been getting to people's cars. I think it's jealous of all of the pet rabbits. It wants to be one.
Dan
Oh, I was saying it was yearning for death. That's a much nicer way to put it.
Phil
Take me with you.
Dan
A lot of people were just thinking, why does this rabbit keep hopping into the middle of the street?
Phil
Some people thought it was ill, but apparently not. It just likes human company. I've let it come home with me.
Dan
Maybe it's one of those things that's attracted to cars. There's people like that.
Phil
Oh, my God. There are, aren't they?
Dan
Yeah. And from Bunny pov.
Phil
Damn car fuckers is what they call him. Motorheads, Engine enjoyers.
Dan
Are you making this up?
Phil
Yes, but here's okay. No.
Dan
You looked at me with complete seriousness and I was like, is there a Tumblr tag for car fuckers? Let me know if the answer's yes.
Phil
They go in the exhaust.
Dan
What other holes are there?
Phil
The door handle.
Dan
Okay, it depends which one? Well, thank you. That was very important. Glad to know about the chips and the old books and the bunnies.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Do you feel that you've done your service to the world now?
Phil
I have. Now, you know, they pour news.
Dan
Exactly.
Phil
In other Dan and Ville news, we went to the London Palladium, went to.
Dan
Go see Josh Johnson. You know him, American comedian. Funny.
Phil
Very funny. One year since we were there doing our show, which is weird.
Dan
The anniversary of tit, I wanted to.
Phil
Be like, I could go backstage. And they were like, who are you? And then I remembered, we live here.
Dan
We've done this eight times.
Phil
Only for one day. You are special. After that, you're just everyone else.
Dan
Yeah, absolutely. So our friend gave us two tickets and they ended up being on the front row of the top balcony, the.
Phil
Highest of balconies, because they had a.
Dan
Thing on the ticket that said, warning, if you're short, you're not gonna be able to see over balcony.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
And we thought, how low is this balcony? Because that seems terrifying.
Phil
That seems like a lot. So I nearly died.
Guest or Additional Speaker 3
Yeah.
Dan
Because we were going to our seats and there were like four people that we were gonna have to make stand up. We both said, no.
Phil
I didn't want to make them do it.
Dan
They were squeezing.
Phil
They had coats.
Dan
We're not interacting.
Phil
So Dan said, why don't we go to the seat row behind, which is so far empty, and step down into our seats.
Dan
We are so long. Of course. We can just step over the row. Now if you're on the balcony, maybe that's not a good idea. Maybe the infamously low balcony is perhaps not the wisest idea.
Phil
I didn't judge how deep the step.
Dan
Was to step into the hole from.
Phil
One seat layer down into the hole.
Dan
As the next one was so long, guys. We really thought that we could just step over the seat and reach the floor comfortably.
Phil
That did it quite well. I tried to do it. I had one leg up on this row, one leg in the other. And I got stuff.
Dan
Phil kind of got caught. He was like trying to do the detach. He was like this. So we're just going for them.
Phil
I saw how hard.
Dan
Which is funny. Imagine that there's a 75 foot drop right in front of you onto other people.
Phil
I would have dropped onto someone else.
Dan
That would have been in the news. It would have been very tragic. So funny for two seconds. And then very sad.
Phil
I got trapped in the most painful groin stretch of my life. And I thought I was gonna fall off the edge. Dan had to steady me with his arm.
Dan
I almost grabbed him by the ha. If someone took a photo of that, it would spread very virally.
Phil
And then one butt cheek went onto a lady's knee and I steadied her with that side and I kind of got myself over.
Dan
Well, this made it even more devastating is that they were reduced leg room seats. So we had no idea. But apparently there was like 30cm of.
Phil
Room and I actually couldn't fit. I was sat there, like sat with his knees up.
Dan
I was like a T. Rex.
Phil
I was like, we can't sit here.
Dan
So I said, hey, look. And guys, I think this is fine. I said, there's a box over there. And no one sat in it. Phil, let's just go sit in it.
Phil
I said, no, we're gonna get in trouble with the police.
Dan
Confrontation. The theater police are gonna come and eject us.
Phil
Those boxes cost like 200 quid.
Dan
Yeah, but I guess what, guys, are you proud of me? I asserted myself. I went up to an usher. I said, I'm too long. Can you please move me into that box that's empty? And they said yes. And we went to sit there and the view was fucking shit, really bad. Oh, yeah. If you go to one of these theaters and there's a box seat, they are facing the crowd, they're not facing the stage. They were designed for members of royalty to be seen. They're like the influencer seats where you're supposed to be pretty. So I was sat there, I couldn't fucking see a single thing.
Phil
But you had your legs that were able to.
Dan
I was Dan spreading that fan all over the place.
Phil
Do you want a bit of advice? When you're speaking to someone else, don't describe yourself as long because you went to the night and very long. I don't think I said that.
Dan
That's funny. I'm just trying to break the tension.
Phil
Sure.
Dan
You think me walking up to an ashram being like. Like, hey, I'm very long.
Phil
I'm long. Yeah, yeah.
Dan
That's a child.
Phil
Sounds a bit weird.
Dan
Richard. Richard, help. The timer. Oh, Richard with the party hat. Girl, you look great.
Phil
She looks festive.
Dan
Go on, Phil, crank it.
Phil
Oh, you crank it. It's my birthday. I'm not doing any manual.
Dan
Oh, he ain't doing the manual wing on his birthday.
Phil
Okay.
Dan
Here we go.
Phil
Oh, help.
Dan
We got the half lid of another question.
Phil
Uh oh, interesting. It's a loose question.
Dan
But wait, I can see it. It's right there. We'll fix you later. Are you ready for this? Oh, that Tastes a crispy one.
Phil
Egg. A crispy egg.
Dan
Thanks, lass.
Phil
I'm sensing this is gonna be a good one.
Dan
There's a lot of text. Okay, if you could pick five liquids to dispense, one from each finger, which would they be? This one comes from one of our listeners. Can you fucking tell that came from. From one of you? Wow, thanks, Esther. Well, Phil, if you could secrete five liquids from your fingers, what would they be?
Phil
Liquid gold.
Dan
You and the golden pig should go on a honey ring together.
Phil
Gold is worth a lot at the moment. I could just pour a pint of that on my thumb and I'd be loaded.
Dan
You go straight to that.
Phil
What, what else?
Dan
Ah, disease, curing, magic elixirs.
Phil
Okay, that's your first one. Does it cure?
Dan
Oh, that was very performative of me, wasn't it?
Phil
Go on.
Dan
Oh, well done, Dan. You said the nicest thing. Deliciously perfectly heated coffee.
Phil
That'd be good.
Dan
Imagine when you're in bed, because it's like, who's gonna make the coffee? Imagine if you could just wake up and go and just shoot that fang right down the dullet.
Phil
Would you put your finger in my mouth and feed me the coffee like a bird?
Dan
Esther, is this exactly what.
Phil
Is this what you wanted? Are you gonna suck the coffee out of you?
Dan
Should it seem like the Dan and Landfill coffee finger fit.
Phil
What if it was too hot?
Dan
Nobody needs.
Phil
Can you change the temperature on your knuckle?
Dan
Oh, you rotate the nipple like a dial.
Phil
Okay.
Dan
And then it increases the temperature. Okay, we've got the nipple. Harry Styles third nipple.
Phil
The knuckle nipple.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
My next one is panna cotta.
Dan
That's not a liquid as it is.
Phil
I guess it's a semi liquid solid.
Dan
That is so disgusting. Why would you.
Phil
Why the best dessert? Why should I just go.
Dan
I imagine it's sputtering out like jelly. They just gotta hear that horrible spot onto a plate. Yeah, it's a solid.
Phil
It's a solid.
Dan
Piss.
Phil
Not piss.
Dan
For fuck's sake. This is how it works now. We're supposed to name a liquid against the solution. So right now we've got liquid gold, a thing that cures all diseases. Room temperature coffee, piss, piss, mud, calacotta.
Phil
We're not allowed to panic off doors of solids. Okay.
Dan
Save the day quickly.
Phil
The final one.
Dan
Little finger. How are you doing? Nanophil.
Phil
It's gonna secrete old Ribena.
Dan
You could have just said water or something. Why old Ribena?
Phil
Before the sugar taps, it was full sugar. Oh, my God.
Dan
Fill in the sugar tank.
Phil
60 grams of sugar per squirt.
Dan
Yeah, that good shit.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
If you see a sad bee on the floor, get some raw IV and 100%. Yeah.
Phil
You could have said super glue.
Dan
We could have felt helpful.
Phil
Too late. That's it. That's decided.
Dan
Wow, Esther, what a fucking rollercoaster. Well, if you like that, look forward to the other viewer submitted Richard Ball questions that are now threatening us every week.
Phil
I'm feeling threatened by that one.
Dan
Hell, yeah. Well, shall we involve someone else?
Phil
A third, a fourth, a fifth, A fifth.
Dan
They're also sixth if we're lucky. Who would like to send in a stimulating, controversial opinion to the podcast? First up.
Phil
Hello, it's Jess.
Dan
I'm from Virginia. Hi. Today is my 20th birthday. Happy birthday.
Phil
But the happy birthday song needs to be stopped.
Dan
It's just slightly too long and I don't like it.
Phil
It is a bit too long.
Dan
When you are the receiver of the happy birthday song, it's a bit like. Okay. And we're doing it again and I am staring everybody, and it's all about me. I don't like it. It makes me freak out.
Phil
Lots of pressure to remember whose name it is as well.
Dan
Oh, my God. The number of times you're like.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Should it be banned, though?
Phil
No, I don't think we should ban it. We could come with a new one.
Dan
Go on.
Phil
There's one they used to buy a restaurant I went to called Nino's. Happy birthday to ya. That's the royalty free.
Dan
Yeah, I like that. But they've improved it.
Phil
Yeah, it's well improved it. Yeah. What about a kind of mournful one?
Dan
Happy birthday.
Phil
You're older but wiser.
Dan
You came out vagina.
Phil
I can't do that.
Dan
The new one.
Phil
Yeah. I don't think we should ban it because I do enjoy the moment, but I do relate.
Dan
It can be excruciating to experience and I don't like it.
Phil
Unless, as you know, I like to clap other people in restaurants, but no one likes to clap. Not me.
Dan
We're just moving on.
Phil
Next.
Guest or Additional Speaker 3
Hi, Phil and Denan. I am Arela from the Philippines, and I want to hard launch that. I don't think Bluetooth devices should automatically connect to your phone because I was watching heated rivalry. I was trying to get the sound to work, but it wasn't. And then I started hearing it outside from the speaker that my dad was using to play music for him and his friend while they were.
Phil
Not down these prince.
Dan
Oh, my God. The barbecue.
Phil
The slapping Hollander.
Dan
Spread those cheeks. Oh, no. That's what's this song? I don't know. That was Bad Bunny. That makes sense.
Phil
Yeah. I kind of agree with you there. Also, not that I go on porn websites, but why is there. Why is there a cast to TV option?
Dan
Why the fuck is there a. Okay, I get. Like, some people, they got the Goon Cave. They got the Chrome Pass. They're all on the 42 inch plus plasma. That should be an extension. This shouldn't just be there.
Phil
Another button that's there. I would know this, but there's one that says share. Share to Twitter.
Dan
Do you want to link up your Facebook? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Phil
So I agree with you. I feel like we need more confirmation on Bluetooth that's not just automatic Bladonk.
Dan
Dangerous Game. Next. Hi, Zan and Phil.
Phil
I'm Bunny from Melbourne, Australia. Good night.
Dan
I'm hanging. Banning the phrase we're trying for a baby. Like, I don't need to know that y' all having hardcore sex every night. That's the first day my head's going.
Guest or Additional Speaker 3
To go to when you say, I'm.
Dan
Trying for a baby. Like, what am I supposed to say?
Phil
I can see both sides of this.
Dan
Like, it is nice, but the moment you say that, it's like, okay, you're all talking.
Phil
I do.
Dan
Congrats.
Phil
That is what you're gonna picture, isn't it? When someone says that, you're supposed to.
Dan
Be like, oh, but it's not. If a gay person said, we're having unprotected sex, you wouldn't. Oh. Oh. Good luck. Good luck. Well, thank you.
Phil
We might need it. Maybe it's the word trying. Trying is like repeatedly repeated squirt.
Dan
We are leaving that thing in.
Phil
Oh, my God.
Dan
So, Phil.
Phil
Sorry, I didn't hear that. I was thinking about the finger Came in.
Dan
Esther, this is what you done?
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Your head starts to go. So what? You're holding your knees up. You're leaving it in. You're just lying there for two hours. Gosh, you're flipping. You're dipping. He's eating the pineapple. Magnesium. What's good? I just like. He has a whole world of imagination that you'd rather not know.
Phil
I think pineapple is just about the flavor. It's not about making a mayo.
Dan
I made that weird. Moving on. Next. Ban it.
Phil
Hi, Dan.
Guest or Additional Speaker 3
Hi, Phil.
Dan
This is Ashlyn from Canada. What up? And my hard launch is that after 10 years of keeping it a secret. Oh, yeah. Something I know you can relate to. I told my conservative Mormon father. Oh, yeah. I'm a lesbian. I've been like, really? Anyone can know because he was really the only person. I was keeping it a secret front of this blank. So hello to anyone listening. I am so, so, so gay. Oh, we love that. Hey. Oh boy.
Phil
Boy, I love it. Congratulations.
Dan
That can be hard. Hey, look, you ripped the plaster off. I did. Via an email. It sounds like you actually did it in person. So you beat Dan Howell.
Phil
And even if the person that you were telling was not accepting, it's important that you did send to yourself and did it for yourself. Now you can send the free in the lesbian life.
Dan
That is the nicest possible way you could have entered that terrifying sentence.
Phil
Phil. Thank you.
Dan
Thank you. Now Phil Dan, you've been what? It's not hard to say your name.
Phil
It just feels weird.
Dan
Now Phil.
Phil
Now down.
Dan
I don't like that.
Phil
Okay, well, why'd you get back?
Dan
You're a nice surprise.
Phil
I want a surprise.
Dan
Okay.
Phil
Yeah, yeah.
Dan
You've been good, have you?
Phil
I've been good.
Dan
Tell me why you deserve another gift.
Phil
What do you mean? Tell me, why do I not deserve it? Because you like me. Yeah, okay, whatever. All right.
Dan
Okay.
Phil
Phil, what is this?
Dan
This is your main birthday gift. For me.
Phil
Really?
Dan
I'm surprising you with in person.
Phil
Oh my gosh. It looks like something that came from an ancient shipwreck.
Dan
It does, doesn't it?
Phil
It has serious. It has some twine around it, a bow.
Dan
It looks like a tome.
Phil
Oh, you're undressing that.
Dan
Wearing some lingerie.
Phil
I have no idea this was going to happen. I'm very excited. What is this.
Dan
Phil? Oh, it's Steve.
Phil
A pigeon.
Dan
I got our very talented friend Sylvia who does handmade rugs she spent weeks spoiling by hand to make you a photorealistic Steve the feature.
Phil
Oh, I love it so much.
Dan
Decorative rug.
Phil
Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Sylvia. That's so sweet.
Dan
How fucking amazing is that? So good readers for the camera appreciate Phil rehabilitation. It had a gammy toe and so he got the pigeon's foot removed by a vet.
Phil
Yes.
Dan
There you can see the beautiful hand stitched detail. The one footed Steve, the stubby foot on that pigeon.
Phil
Oh, it's beautiful. Thank you, dad.
Dan
And we can hang it on a wall somewhere.
Phil
I'm going to.
Dan
Because Steve the pigeon may no longer live at our house, but now he can join us in the Faust.
Phil
Yeah. Oh, what a great day. Thank you.
Dan
You've had the cake, you got to yap a lot. You talked about Avatar Bum and now you've got a pigeon. Rug.
Phil
What more could I want?
Dan
No fucking pressure for June.
Phil
Oh my God.
Dan
Well, thank you for joining us and enabling Phil's nonsense. Yes, his 23rd birthday.
Phil
Yeah, thank you for all the birthday wishes that I'm hoping happened on my actual birthday.
Dan
Back to regular programming. Yeah, no Red Bull. Dan has to wear whatever I want. No. Surprise me with a cake and birthday presents.
Phil
Next week's gonna be a normal one.
Dan
Slamming back to earth.
Phil
Slamming. Are we ever normal though? That's the question.
Dan
Absolutely not.
Phil
If you want some bonus yapping, we're gonna be on patreon.com danandphil where the.
Dan
Sugar prash will probably happen where you.
Phil
Can witness that sugar crash. Also, we're watching Heated rivalry still on the fan tier if you want to watch along with us. Those butts and that drama. I'm going to go eat more cake.
Dan
What body part are you going to target next?
Phil
I'm going to eat an AB.
Dan
Yeah, Phil AB. Okay, I might go for the Phil left shoulder taste 80. See you next week.
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Release Date: February 2, 2026
Hosts: Dan Howell & Phil Lester
Studio71
This special birthday episode is a chaotic, high-sugar celebration in honor of Phil’s (allegedly) 23rd birthday. True to HARD LAUNCH’s promise of unfiltered, unafraid oversharing, Dan and Phil dive into cake-based cannibalism, questionable birthday traditions, and existential cake-flavor debates. The pair spiral from personal stories and workplace drama, into surreal hypotheticals, unhinged listener questions, and Phil’s sugar-fueled antics—all delivered in their signature deadpan banter.
Timestamp: 00:30 – 01:03
Dan: “If you're wondering, wow, did I take something or is it... Yes, but also, it's us.” (01:00)
Timestamp: 01:16 – 04:22
Dan: “Phil, I got you a cake of your face on an immeasurably henched marble bust.” (02:50)
Phil: “Can I eat my own nipples?” (03:13) Dan: “Holy fucking shit, Phil, your nipple tastes amazing. Oh, that is creamy.” (04:10)
Timestamp: 04:27 – 07:20
Dan: “Why have one party? ... Separate them. Gaslight them. Sow seeds of drama. So they can pay for a dozen dinners.” (05:23) Phil: “Stretch it out. That's the advice.” (05:59)
Timestamp: 07:20 – 07:56
Timestamp: 07:58 – 10:29
Timestamp: 11:43 – 13:13
Timestamp: 13:00 – 14:16
Timestamp: 14:20 – 21:02
Timestamp: 21:44 – 25:02
A quickfire segment of absurd real-life news:
Timestamp: 25:02 – 28:29
Timestamp: 29:01 – 31:31
Phil’s quick picks: - Liquid gold - Panna cotta (rejected for being a “solid”) - Old Ribena
Dan’s: - “Disease-curing magic elixir” - Perfectly heated coffee - Piss (jokingly):
Dan: “You rotate the nipple like a dial... and then it increases the temperature.” (30:11) Phil: “If you see a sad bee on the floor, get some raw IV and 100%.” (31:21)
Timestamp: 31:47 – 36:38
Notable submissions:
Ashlyn: “So hello to anyone listening. I am so, so, so gay.” (36:13) Phil: “Now you can send the free in the lesbian life...” (36:32)
Timestamp: 37:01 – 38:21
Phil: “Oh, I love it so much.” (37:47) Dan: “Steve the pigeon may no longer live at our house, but now he can join us in the Faust.” (38:14)
Timestamp: 38:23 – 39:22
On Eating Cake of Each Other:
Dan: “I will have Phil's right nipple. Stumpy right nipple short.” (03:35)
On Birthday Week Philosophy:
Phil: “Stretch it out. That's the advice.” (05:59)
On Workplace Pettiness:
Dan: “Sometimes, in like a petty revenge way, being pedantically polite to someone that's trying as hard as possible to give you a stinky attitude is kind of just like torturing them in a fun way.” (20:50)
Listener Wisdom:
Ashlyn: “So hello to anyone listening. I am so, so, so gay.” (36:13)
Happy Birthday Song Remix:
Dan: “Happy birthday. You're older but wiser. You came out vagina.” (32:52–33:00)
Expect irreverence, inside jokes, operational chaos, and more mention of body parts (both edible and functionally hypothetical) than you’ll find on any other birthday podcast. Beneath the chaos, there’s genuine affection, offbeat advice, and the sense you’re always being let in on the joke.
Next time: No birthday hats, maybe fewer nipple cakes. But, as always, never normal.