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Dan
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Phil
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Phil
Dan slept to the other bed last night.
Dan
Excuse me?
Phil
You didn't think I was gonna bring.
Dan
This up for bringing this up on a podcast?
Phil
Look, I wanted your pure reaction. Why did you not want to join me?
Dan
What is this, public exposing? Yeah, okay, I'm sorry, everybody on the Internet. I slept in another bed last night.
Phil
Why?
Dan
There are so many valid reasons why someone might do that.
Phil
Yeah, like what?
Dan
You could have been gassy. Yeah, you could be spread. I need more space.
Phil
Spreading what?
Dan
I think sometimes people say in relationships. Oi. That a bit of space is healthy. So maybe I did it for you.
Phil
Okay, so what was it? Gas? Were you gaming?
Dan
I'm not gas.
Phil
No, you were snacking without me.
Dan
Oh, yeah. Phil wouldn't care if I was cheating on him. God forbid I make toast at midnight without involving him in the butter spread.
Phil
You've gotta say it now.
Dan
Well, I didn't want to do this, but you've put me on the spot now. So we had a couple of drinks last night. This isn't going where you think it was. And I don't know how to tell you this, Phil.
Phil
What?
Dan
You're a wine snorer.
Phil
No, I'm not.
Dan
When you drink, you snort like a goddamn hog.
Phil
What?
Dan
Yeah. You are so, like, not like little snort me, me, me. Like, no. And I'm sorry. You are not a whispering angel. You are a screaming pig.
Phil
Oh, my gosh, you are Pumbaa. Okay, I regret asking now.
Dan
Up in the marital swamp. So, yeah, I'm sorry that you forced me to say that. But, yeah, I did it for space, so that I could turn up today and be awake and coherent.
Phil
I'm never drinking wine again. I'd rather you were cheating on me. Welcome to Hard Launch, where we introduce ourselves, don't we? Who are you?
Dan
I'm Dan.
Phil
I'm Phil. See? How hard was that?
Dan
Strangely hard. I don't know why that came out so forced.
Phil
And welcome to the show we've had.
Dan
That is called Hard Launch.
Phil
Yeah, we've had a little bit of theme in the last five episodes, which has been piss.
Dan
Oh, no. Yeah. In case anyone's thinking, is it relationships?
Phil
No.
Dan
Is it authenticity? Is it living your truth? Is it the power of. No, no, no. The theme of this podcast is piss.
Phil
We keep talking about piss, and I don't know how it's happening.
Dan
It's the Pisscast.
Phil
We had a comment from 1D Spaghetti, who said their ability to continuously circle back to piss is honestly astounding.
Dan
I think it's our superpower. And what a one to have. Everybody, would you agree?
Phil
So we're gonna give ourselves the hashtag no piss challenge.
Dan
No piss challenge for the next however many minutes. Yeah, no piss.
Phil
No piss.
Dan
And I'm mainly pointing this at you.
Phil
It's you as well. You are a piss fiend crossing streams. Oh, my God, that doesn't count. Now, now.
Dan
Oh, did you see? Someone else left a comment. They got a pigeon tattoo.
Phil
I've not seen this.
Dan
Here you go. Alec in San Diego got Don't Cry Craft with Steve, the rehabilitated Tolus pigeon.
Phil
Oh, my gosh.
Dan
On their leg. At least I assume that's a leg.
Phil
That is the most beautiful pigeon tattoo I've ever seen.
Dan
Hauntingly beautiful.
Phil
If you're listening to the podcast, it is like a photograph of a pigeon with a stump with don't cry Craft written in beautiful text with two quirky stars. Yes, it's us.
Dan
We are two quirky stars.
Phil
It's a piece of art.
Dan
It's Dan and Phil who's gonna get the piss tattoo. That doesn't count.
Phil
You're not.
Dan
It was a back reference to the topic, not about.
Phil
If you even say piss, something bad's gonna happen in this room.
Dan
Fucking hell. Yeah, okay.
Phil
The alarm's gonna go off. Richard's gonna explode.
Dan
Divorce.
Phil
Divorce.
Dan
Hard pivot. What else is happening in the world?
Phil
Thanksgiving's happening. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the uk.
Dan
I'm not thankful for anything.
Phil
I am not either. I don't know what it means. What do we do?
Dan
It's when people try to whitewash the history of colonialism.
Phil
Wow. But what else?
Dan
And be grateful for gourds. Didn't we have an American friend once and they were like, let's do Thanksgiving dinner. And we. Well, actually, I'm gonna continue dragging Phil today. Thanks. Phil hates Thanksgiving food. Americans. He's coming for you.
Phil
I don't hate all Thanksgiving food. The one that I was given that people were excited about was a green bean casserole, which turns out is green beans in mushroom soup. And I don't like it.
Dan
That was incredibly philophobic.
Phil
It was very Phil phobic.
Dan
And you're a texture guy. Yeah. Slop is not the vibe.
Phil
Mushy slop. There's quite a lot of, like, mashed yams. Gloop. Gloop. I don't do well with gloop. But like the turkey and all that is great.
Dan
You're just more of a crunchy consistency kind of fella.
Phil
And I would fuck with a pumpkin pie or a pecan tart.
Dan
Wasn't that in a movie? Who are you calling the tart?
Phil
You. What? That was weird. We once had a Thanksgiving and I made a cornucopia out of tinfoil. It was a sci fi cornucopia.
Dan
Was that one of those craft projects where you do something that's kind of botched, then you tell everyone it's ironic?
Phil
No. It was beautiful work of art and I'm gonna search through my Instagram to find it and put it on the screen.
Dan
Wow. Talent. My God didn't build this podcast set though, did he?
Phil
I feel like people are gonna be sad that I said I didn't like Thanksgiving food.
Dan
Phil loves it. We love cats and slop.
Phil
But is it not a bit weird to do if you celebrate Christmas, have all of your family around for Thanksgiving and then do Christmas three weeks later?
Dan
I don't want to see these people.
Phil
I think that's a lot of family hangout.
Dan
You get all of your chats out and then what do you do on Christmas?
Phil
Do you have turkey at Christmas as well?
Dan
Way too soon. People can have like the Christmas ham or the Christmas vegan pig.
Phil
Vegan pig?
Dan
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Dan
You're quite. I was about to change topics again. I was gonna say shy even in our own home.
Phil
Yes.
Dan
Talking about me leaving beds to go to other places. You will go across the house to relieve yourself when we have guests there.
Phil
What the fuck?
Dan
I think that some people.
Phil
Well that sounds like when you got friend that sounded like I go have a wank in the corner when our friends are over.
Dan
I don't know what you're doing in there. What are you talking about? You could be. You could be.
Phil
What is this?
Dan
Some people when they've got friends over are like I'm gonna just hop into the WC right there and if you hear it, you hear it.
Phil
Dan, you are talking about.
Dan
No, I'm not. I could be talking about what you just said instead.
Phil
I'm not doing any body sneaky wank when you're having.
Dan
You come dine with me with your friends. Anyway, we've had builders over and whenever. This is making it sound so much worse. What is this guy is when Jerry comes in in that tank top, Phil needs to lock himself in a corner of the house. You know what I'm saying? Honestly, I'm talking about the other thing. Phil will hide from the men imposing in our space.
Phil
I just don't want them to hear anything or be aware that I am through the wall.
Dan
You're so scared of the builders.
Phil
I'm scared, right?
Dan
What's up with that?
Phil
Here's the thing. We had builders, as you probably know if you know us in our house for two years because we moved into our house when it wasn't finished. So we thought no, we wanna live in this house. Cause we've bought it.
Dan
We shared a studio basement that we used to film videos in with all of our belongings during the pandemic and we nearly ate each other.
Phil
It Turned, I think, not like that.
Dan
In like a sad, cannibal way.
Phil
It turned into probably the closest to the fevorse in that year.
Dan
I think double murder would have happened before. Double murder, like legal proceedings.
Phil
We had one sofa which was the size of these two.
Dan
Cheek to cheek.
Phil
Cheek to cheek all day. It was so claustrophobic. And we were living with every box of our stuff in one room. So we were sleeping in the tiny, amazing Phil fake room that we'd made that was meant to be my room. When we pretended we had two apartments because we didn't want to get stalked.
Dan
Anyone new is like, what the fuck did you just say? Welcome to Dan and Phil. Don't worry about it, baby. Anyway, so we bought this house. And then they were like, we're not done building it. And we said, we don't care. We're gonna move right in. But what about this bathroom? We don't care. You're gonna have to do it around us. And they did. And so we lived with sleeveless men for many, many months.
Phil
They were very sleeveless. They were very nice. Yeah. It wasn't like the fantasy of, you know, leave them alone. The Diet Coke advert where they are all, you know, sexy.
Dan
I mean, how did you want them to see you? Because I don't think you interacted with them much.
Phil
No, I didn't interact with them much. And when I did, I was wearing Minecraft pa. So I don't think I was like.
Dan
I think that asserts dominance.
Phil
The hot guy answering the door, you.
Dan
Know, like, nah, you're like weird Hugh Hefner. You are Minecraft pajamas. I don't know what message that's sending.
Phil
I don't know.
Dan
Gotta be careful with Minecraft as well.
Phil
But we were finally done with the builders. We said goodbye to their greasy arms, and then Dan's invited him back.
Dan
I'm not done decorating.
Phil
Oh, my God.
Dan
I've got this thing which is a white wall is unforgivable now. And now I know that every rental apartment and house that is built just comes with white walls.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
But for so many years, I've been like, we need to do something more interesting than that. And look, we've been busy with various hard launching agendas. And now I'm like, no, I want to decorate. And so just when we were free, I want to get the men back. And maybe this is all because I just want to have an excuse to gaze at people that aren't Phil.
Phil
Gaze.
Dan
Phil's just jealous because I think that the builders saw Phil as The wife.
Phil
Now, this time I don't want people to think I'm the wife of the relationship.
Dan
And we're not being negatively stereotypical here. I think we both just really understood that whenever the builders had any questions, they would always come to me. No. And then they would walk up to Phil and they'd just be like, how you doing? Having a nice day? Great.
Phil
And they'd even be like, is Dan home so I can talk to him about something? Now I feel like I had loads of answers and I think a wife would have loads of answers. And they might know about the walls.
Dan
Absolutely.
Phil
So what was that about?
Dan
They just knew that you were the himbo. You were there to just serve Minecraft pajama.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Be holding your buttered toast and mug of coffee at three in the afternoon, chew my Cheerios. Living that lifestyle. You just gave that aura.
Phil
I know. And how do you feel this time? I'm gonna be gruff. I'm gonna answer the door like, alright, lads, where's the Spanners at?
Dan
I think that's a slur. You can't. What, no spanner? Yeah.
Phil
Drill bit.
Dan
Be very careful, my friend.
Phil
Drill.
Dan
So, yeah, Dan, just inventing more reasons to keep men around because we don't really leave the house to have any friends. And so this is my way of escaping our toxic, codependent relationship.
Phil
There is one builder that Dan does like talking to about stuff. They've kind of bonded about technology.
Dan
Ooh.
Phil
Streaming games.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
And I'm like, why doesn't one want to be my friend and talk about Buffy?
Dan
Aw.
Phil
What could I bond with them about?
Dan
Um. What can you talk to a straight man about, Phil?
Phil
Not a lot. No. This is the struggle, I find. Because here's the thing.
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Phil
I don't feel like I fully fit into the stereotypical gay culture.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
And I don't want to go on.
Dan
You don't want to go into the Circuit Party hot tub.
Phil
We talked about this last week.
Dan
The Twinks and the Bears.
Phil
The Twinks, the Bears, the Circuit Party hot Tub, the nightclubs, the stuff like that.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
But also, I don't fit in with kind of the straight guy football.
Dan
This is what the Dan and Phil community is about. Yeah. It's where all of the miscellaneous others.
Phil
The others come together, the middles.
Dan
And if you sat there and you're watching this and you're like, actually, I'm super normative. I'm just a straight person, that's fine. No, no, no, it's not. No. I'm saying there's something fucked up about you that you might not have clocked yet. If you're here, unfortunately, you do have a severe personality defect, and you just might not have realized it yet. Either you're into something freaky, or there's something about your visual appearance you just have not realized yet.
Phil
Are you saying they need to put a streak of pink in their hair?
Dan
They've already got it, and it might be internal. Do you know what I'm saying? But this is a safe space, so you're welcome.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
What skills can we teach Phil to make him feel more capable and confident? You could just go do a carpenting.
Phil
Course and get some wood in my hands.
Dan
Nope. Let's pivot. Build a space. Electrician, Plumbing also. Plumbing's now. We're gay. We can't talk about that.
Phil
Do you trust me to be an electrician?
Dan
No, I don't, but, yeah. No, absolutely.
Phil
I've already zapped myself on this studio twice. I don't know why this is a.
Dan
Bit electrified because your shoes are the most decrepit form of. Sorry, Sorry. We're going to expose Phil right now. Phil, can you put your left foot on your right knee? Other way, babe.
Phil
This is.
Dan
No, no, no.
Phil
Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, listen.
Dan
His eyes don't work, and neither do the decline.
Phil
Listen. For anyone listening, my shoes have seen better days.
Dan
For anyone listening, the entire bottom of his sole is flapping up.
Phil
Can you see the flap? I wore these shoes for terrible influence, and they basically fell apart because I wore them too much. But I like them.
Dan
We know that we shouldn't throw away clothes and that where we're trying to be more ecologically conscious, we should wear things until their lifestyle. Phil, you've worn those shoes out. This is the moment. It is okay to let them go.
Phil
No, I'm super glue them.
Dan
I stomped on them. Super glue?
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Phil, you're not allowed to go near super glue.
Phil
I'm not going to put that for.
Dan
Anyone new to the pod. Anyone listening on Apple Music because they like the color purple. Phil once ate glue. Always happy to remind people of the law.
Phil
Look, I didn't eat the glue.
Dan
You need to stop saying, look, people are listening. Phil needs to start being like, listen, smell.
Phil
I accidentally inhaled the glue. And producer Layla is saying, they make shoe glue. So I'm gonna glue my shoe.
Dan
Is that more or less edible? I don't want him knowing about other types of glue. Stick to Pritt sticks. You've licked enough. That's why you are the way you are.
Phil
Shooper glue.
Dan
Phil's new business In.
Phil
There we go.
Dan
Podcast over.
Phil
They have gone slightly pink, though. I feel like they've developed.
Dan
No, that's the light of the sign.
Phil
Babe.
Dan
There's a sign here and you're wearing a silver shoe. Your face is pink. You haven't. Phil's like, guys, I drank all that and I'm pink now.
Phil
Oh, my go.
Dan
Listen, I can't hear anything over the sound of your fucking out of the pink magnitude 10 nose.
Phil
There's a suspicious stain on that one. I feel like it's from Chicago Airport.
Dan
And what happened there?
Phil
You don't want to know. But this has been all over the world, this shoe. Yeah, all over the world. Think of the microbiome that's on that.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
Have you seen the tiktoks where they put a little swab on things, then see what bacteria grows?
Dan
I'm a big believer in never swabbing or blacklighting anything. Ignorance is bliss. We got a vacuum that had a light in the end. And the idea was it points a light out of the front of the nozzle and it shows you how much dust is on your floor. And I saw it once and I went, I don't wanna know. I thought the floor was clean. And it is. It's so clean now. Because I saw the truth.
Phil
The truth.
Dan
I saw the truth.
Phil
No one needs to go into that much forensic detail about what's on the floor. Also, they sell Hoovers now that have got a little computer in them and they'll tell you how many dust mites it's eaten.
Dan
Get that, Eldritch. Norwich away from me.
Phil
Norwich.
Dan
Shut up.
Phil
Norwich.
Dan
Get Norwich away from me, you disgusting dirt bugs.
Phil
Do you remember when we went to norw?
Dan
No, I forgot it.
Phil
We filmed a show called Nightmare.
Dan
Yeah, I repressed that drama.
Phil
You sagged so hard on that TV show, your ass was out.
Dan
And thank God you're listening to this right now. People that wake up just to listen to it. Thank God you're not seeing the side of Dan's ass.
Phil
Yeah.
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Dan
I think the number one thing you could do to reclaim your sense of power.
Phil
Power Is learn to Dr. Are you kidding me?
Dan
No. You got driving lessons.
Phil
Yes.
Dan
You passed your driving test and then you have not gotten in a car once. And I think that taught yourself a dangerous psychological lesson. But I can't. And Phil, people that are just so bad are just driving all the time and you could just be one of them. Listen, Phil, what do we say?
Phil
I'm allowed to say, listen, smell, smell. Taste, taste this knowledge. I'm gonna be real for a minute. I think I have driving anxietyphobia because I was so stressed during the driving lessons that I would have mild panic attacks whenever I got behind the wheel.
Dan
Well, we just saw you fail to identify your left foot. We do not want that happening on a five lane. But for real, extremely real. If you have whatever. This kind of totally. A lot of people have it. Slight dyslexia around directions.
Phil
Yes.
Dan
Giant 3 ton murder tank is not the location for you to be in.
Phil
Here's the problem with me.
Dan
Can you literally start a sentence without saying look or here's the thing or here's the problem?
Phil
No.
Dan
Okay, yeah, that's fine. That's valid.
Phil
This is it. When I put. When I'm put into a stressful situation like this, like this, I get a brain lag which is like three seconds long. So today, for example, we were leaving the house, there was a truck coming towards us. Oh, my God.
Dan
He has no survival instincts. You know, you say deer in the headlights, rabbit trying to cross the street. Oh, wait, Rabbit, move, move. Car's coming and you're fucking dead.
Phil
This is what happened, Rabbit. The truck's coming towards me. We're about to cross the road when then Dan goes, oh, fuck, Phil, we've got to go back. I've left the phone charger in the house.
Dan
Forgot my phone charger.
Phil
Dan's going, come back. But I was already in the line of the truck. So rather than just moving back, Phil.
Dan
Could have just stepped back once onto the safety of the street. But Phil was like, I've started walking and now I need to go all the way around the truck. I Can't stop. And this truck was going beee beep. I was like, phil, pass the keys. Phil. Phil. And you just looked at me like I, it was slow motion movie moment, like I've committed to this and I can't turn back. And you were looking over your shoulder and you just kept going. I kept going for about 10 seconds. And then you did a full. You went around. I went around the truck, across the street again. Why?
Phil
Because I have the brain lag when I'm in a stressful situation.
Dan
The panic induced. Yeah.
Phil
And so I'm driving on the motorway, it's raining, there's trucks coming this way. You say we need to take the next junction on the left.
Dan
No, Phil.
Phil
And then I'll be like, what? Oh my God. And then suddenly we're dead.
Dan
And then you go, you know what? Over the roundabout.
Phil
And you know what? People die in cars. And I think if you're not confident enough behind the wheel, you shouldn't be behind the wheel.
Dan
More people should be like, that's my hot take. I think that more people in the world should go, I shouldn't be behind the wheel.
Phil
Yes. And I don't trust myself to do it well enough. And I think I do have like a feedback loop of anxiety where I should probably have tried harder once I'd passed my test to drive a little and put myself out of the comfort zone.
Dan
So it's a middle ground between reinforcing self destructive anxieties and accepting that you shouldn't be a menace to society.
Phil
Yes. I'm gonna wait for self driving cars. But also London has public transport. I can get on the tube.
Dan
Tube's right there.
Phil
I don't need a car right now.
Dan
But girl, I'm so lazy. I got on the bus to a dentist which is 300 yards away. So please don't judge me. Is this relatable or am I weird?
Phil
Speaking of relatable, I don't do. Hey, so you know relatable sent us a load of games.
Dan
Sorry. The lava lamp is doing something super phallic. I am so sorry.
Phil
Don't do that.
Dan
Exotic.
Phil
Yes. Get the game we played let's get deep friends edition last time and questions for couples. They've sent us the couples edition now.
Dan
With 50 activity cards. I'm scared.
Phil
Thank you for sponsoring us and sending us all of these games. We love you lads. And people are gonna get the real tea on our relationship now with 50 cards for date night.
Dan
Because we're not volunteering the information, we're being prompted it we Are great.
Phil
Should we get inside? Oh, this one has icebreaker. Deep, deeper, and activity.
Dan
Let's go down the rabbit hole.
Phil
All right, let's start with an icebreaker.
Dan
Okay, Icebreaker. Oh, are you jerking? Would you rather help your partner with the dishes or help with the laundry? Is this just the Attack Dan episode?
Phil
Dan still doesn't know how to do the laundry. You've learned a little bit. You're not putting the socks on 80 degrees anymore. And I've taught you about the wonders of scent balls.
Dan
Next. What is your favorite way to eat a potato? Well, like, anally. What does that mean? Oh, like. Sorry. The way that you cook a potato. That's what that I was like. How else do you eat a potato with your mouth? Well, yeah, I understand it now. Phil Fries. That's the only answer.
Phil
Fries is the best fries. I love a roast potato with a roast dinner. That's pretty up there when they get a roast potato. Crispy edges.
Dan
Double crispy and fluffy.
Phil
So they're my 2s tier ones.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
Does a sweet potato count? Sweet potato fries.
Dan
Oh, we're going rogue now.
Phil
I love that. I don't.
Dan
What? Potatoes can fuck off and die.
Phil
I have a texture issue with mashed potato. I'm sorry. Especially one with lumps in. If there's a lump in there, I am out of there. I can't do it. And you know that TikTok that's really famous with the spud people where they, like, covered them in beans and tuna and sauce? Can't do it.
Dan
No.
Phil
Can't do it.
Dan
No. I don't.
Phil
Can't do that.
Dan
Okay, well, the ice is broken, and I'm now scared.
Phil
Yeah, that's not very sexy talking about a potato, but we're gonna get that.
Dan
Okay, here's a deep one. We're getting deep. Here we go. Gu. Get ready for the real drama.
Phil
Be ready for Dan and Phil. Get deep.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
If you were to brag about your partners, your friends, what would you say? I like this one. Brag about me.
Dan
His ability to be loud and start every sentence with here's the thing really commands your attention.
Phil
You calling me loud? The gaming channel people have broken their headphones with your screams.
Dan
At least you didn't say breaking the sound barrier.
Phil
Okay.
Dan
No, for real. I would say Phil is very thoughtful. I don't know if it's altruistic or if It's a weird MrBeast kink, but the way that he will gift Labubus to people is quite wholesome. He will think of a nice Christmas present for everybody. And I remember people's birthdays and you remember people's birthdays.
Phil
June, the 11th.
Dan
So that he could enjoy. Oh, you bet.
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Wow.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Wow, Phil. Clap, clap, clap.
Phil
When's mine?
Dan
Compliment me. January 30th.
Phil
One time I actually said 31st.
Dan
Eh, compliment me. Hello, Dan. Yes, Phil.
Phil
You have a magnificent mullet. I'll be like, do you know this guy? He's got a great mullet.
Dan
Who have you said that to?
Phil
So many people, you wouldn't even know them.
Dan
Who the fuck are you talking to?
Phil
People in the streets.
Dan
I feel like that wasn't a real one.
Phil
I know.
Dan
Phil had his chance and he did not. He literally. 16 years. He can't think of something.
Phil
Dan is very funny. And also, why do I feel like.
Dan
There'S a buck coming?
Phil
No. And you are a great holiday planner. Whenever we go on holiday, you do a banging itinerary.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
You know, when we're on tour, all the best restaurants.
Dan
I resent that. It is my job to plan every restaurant, every activity.
Phil
And I appreciate that.
Dan
Book every hotel.
Phil
You're great at Google Maps.
Dan
Yeah, that's it. That's my skill.
Phil
And you've got a slight woodland creature energy, which I appreciate.
Dan
Oh, okay. I'm a squirrel, you're a hog. And yet we must go deeper.
Phil
Delve Phil.
Dan
Imagine I had a long and exhausting day. How would you help me unwind? Slow your roll. Everybody shut up. Okay. Answer this sincerely.
Phil
Okay. If Dan's had a really stressful day like today, I'll say, dan, tell me about your favorite roller coasters or what's.
Dan
That game you're playing? Do you want to talk to me for 25 minutes about that game you're playing and what you're doing in that game?
Phil
What's your favorite class in Elden Ring Night Reign? And why do you like the bird? And then I'll say that to him. And you love having a, like, 10 minute little chat about your interests.
Dan
That is so true. I would change the colored lights in the living room to something fun, like a purple. And I would make you a little bowl of crisps and an icy Ribena.
Phil
Oh, I love this.
Dan
And I would play some lo fi, and then I would just leave it there, but I wouldn't interact with you. So you could just sit down in your sofa crease. And then, like, the crisps and the Ribena would just be there.
Phil
And then I could play a game and just, like, chomp down on some cross crisps.
Dan
Yeah. And I would never take credit for it or. Well, you'd never like, acknowledge or thank me, but it would just be that.
Phil
Thank you, I appreciate you. That's nice.
Dan
Oh, what? How are you gonna ruin the only nice moment?
Phil
No, it's a nice thing. Do you know fancy crisps are given or you're not gonna spend three quid on some crisps? Unless they're good, like the Torres ones sometimes peak. Yeah, they do one that is egg flavour. No, don't.
Dan
Fuck off. No. Yeah. Congratulations. You made an egg flavored crisp. And it's disgusting, you nasty bitches.
Phil
But. But there's a brand called Brett's which are French and. Holy shit. They're French fried dipping sauce crisps.
Dan
If you're wondering what Phil's extravagances are other than buying his friends Labubus, Phil likes to import snacks from other countries. So he will find sodas, cordials, and crisps from Europe and be like, oh, look, I found this thing. And they've got like chip sauce flavored crisps.
Phil
This specific flavor is the best, best crisp I've ever had.
Dan
Fry sauce.
Phil
Not a flavored. Flavored, not a flavour. Yeah, I don't even know what fry sauce is.
Dan
If we can get the potato chip sponsorship for the podcast, that'd be great.
Phil
That's my favorite potato in my mouth. What's next is an activity. I wanna read it.
Dan
An activity that is deeper than deeper.
Phil
Let's find out. What's our date night activity?
Dan
I'm scared.
Phil
Taking turns. Say one word each. Tell the story of your first date.
Dan
Okay.
Phil
Yeah. Oh, wow, he's here.
Dan
And real. But.
Phil
Not real hair. I just roasted myself with that one. Do we not want to say more about the date?
Dan
No, that's it.
Phil
Manchester man.
Dan
That is the vine version of the first day we met.
Phil
It is, y'. All.
Dan
That's a wig.
Phil
What else we got?
Dan
What the fuck?
Phil
What?
Dan
You complete the sentence and your partner acts it out. Kiss blank. Blow blank.
Phil
Lick blank.
Dan
Oh, no.
Phil
Is that really a card, guys?
Dan
But we did an activity. It was a one word story game and we had a great time. So that. Thank you. We did one of each.
Phil
Kiss, elbow. Lick, elbow. Blow, elbow.
Dan
I've seen a lot of stuff on pornhub. I have not seen that.
Phil
I'm making a new niche.
Dan
You have to go on a VPN to see that in the uk. Yes, Kiers, Lord that out.
Phil
I know. So if you have a significant other or you get freaky with your friends, you can play let's get Deep for couples. Ooh, thanks for sending it. To us. You can click the link below if you want to grab it. I'll put the Friends edition there as well if you just want to do it with your mates.
Dan
Thank you. And also where I am expecting an apology for reading that card.
Phil
Oh, what's the sexiest thing about me?
Dan
We're done. Okay, we're done with the game. Hard pivot to Richard.
Phil
Quickly, Richard.
Dan
I'm gonna need a speedy Richard to cleanse my mind after that filth.
Phil
Cleanse me, Richard. Bonk. If you're new to hard launch Richard.
Dan
I haven't been turned off by the.
Phil
Last Whatever is our conversation topic generator when things get a little bit.
Dan
Emergency topic ball dispenser.
Phil
Spin him. Oh.
Advertiser/Caller
Oh.
Phil
A hefty turn.
Dan
Not a red one yet. This is a tiny, scrumpled piece of paper.
Phil
It's a scrumply one.
Dan
Shh.
Phil
Oh.
Dan
What in the nub? It's just a piece of paper that says children.
Phil
What?
Dan
What?
Phil
Children, Richard, you're not on your best form today.
Dan
Is Richard preggers?
Phil
I don't know.
Dan
Are you boivulating?
Phil
He's boivulating. If you want to actually fill some questions for Richard, we've got a thing on Patreon where you can.
Dan
If you want to put better things in our balls than the word yes, go to patreon.com Dan and Phil, you don't have to join. Free members. Sign up. Leave a comment.
Phil
Do it.
Dan
We do live streams. It's great.
Phil
It's fun. Children.
Dan
Nah. I will say right now, I don't feel like I want them. I'm not ready for that. Let me finish building a fish tank or have a dog successfully once. So ask me this question in 15.
Phil
Years, but do you feel the maternal paternal urge to procreate and redistribute your.
Dan
No. I've still got so much more of a selfish agenda I need to achieve before that's even on my radar. I will say something spicy for the pod because that's what we should be doing right now. Spicy. Red flag alert. When someone said they hate kids, is that weird?
Phil
I mean, hating kids is a bit weird.
Dan
Yeah. I mean, kids are loud, smelly, dirty, strange and stuff.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Babies, they cry on planes. Is it annoying? Yes. Get over it. Yes.
Phil
The thing is, we've all been a kid, and if you hate kids, you wouldn't be existing yourself.
Dan
Also, kids are the only people that aren't horrible adults in the world.
Phil
Yeah, they're innocent.
Dan
They're just innocent, normal men. They're just normal men.
Phil
I agree. Like Children can be annoying. Valid criticisms all around. But saying you hate children is a bit weird.
Dan
Saying you hate anything is maybe just a bit spicy.
Phil
Being an uncle, apart from Nigel Farage, I'm an uncle and it's fun. Like that's probably Funkle.
Dan
I'm a Funkle, not a Hunkle.
Phil
I have the best life of getting to hang out and playing games. And also being like this is coming back to my.
Dan
Phil is not an altruistic gifter theory. Phil wants all the praise of being the fun uncle with none of the responsibility of hardship.
Phil
I like to do a jigsaw and play a game. You never play Scrabble with me. My niece does.
Dan
I fucking hate Scrabble.
Phil
Exactly. Where am I gonna get that from? Otherwise I hate things.
Dan
Do you know what I hate? I don't hate kids. I hate Scrabble.
Phil
Yes.
Dan
Let's have some hard launches from the listeners of this pod. Because just when we want to be saved from continuing noises that come out of our mouth, this is when you experience the power of hard launching. If you want to have the nerve of Phil Lester, you need to get that thing off your chest.
Phil
Get it off.
Advertiser/Caller
My name is Sarah.
Dan
Hi.
Advertiser/Caller
I'm from Australia. Victoria Melbourne, if you will. I'm hard launching. Pissing in the shower. It is fabulous. It is the best experience ever.
Phil
Fuck sake, Sarah.
Advertiser/Caller
Two types of people in the world. People that piss in the shower and people that are lying. Everyone pee in your showers now.
Dan
Fabulous.
Advertiser/Caller
I'm serious. I'm not even taking the piss.
Dan
We came so far.
Phil
We came so we got so far, so far without saying piss.
Dan
But in the end it doesn't even matter.
Phil
Sarah, what have you done? We've spread our gospel of piss far and wide. Now people are sending in piss notifications. We might as well call this hard piss.
Dan
How did we do such a good job? And then you fucked it up right at the last second. But we're here now, pissing in the reality of death. Pissing in the shower. It's good for the environment.
Phil
It saves the environment. Apparently.
Dan
Yeah, Phil. Sane, apparently. Like he doesn't enjoy a hot stream every morning.
Phil
No hot stream.
Dan
Yeah, that's what you do when the builders come in. You just don't want to loose.
Phil
No, I don't. I don't piss in the shower. The toilet.
Dan
Oh, we're doing judging. Phil. You're wasting all that flush. Cancel.
Phil
Phil, look.
Dan
Cancel? Yes.
Phil
The toilet is work.
Dan
Feel, Phil. Feel the pit.
Phil
The feel pisses in the shower.
Dan
No, Fae, don't.
Phil
Fay, look. The toilet is right next to the shower.
Dan
Welcome to the Hard launch drinking game. Every time Phil says a sense before speaking, do a full shot of tequila and you will fucking die.
Phil
What can I say, Dan? 1 Episode what can I say?
Dan
Play the montage of me saying what can I say on this pod?
Phil
Oh my God, bitch. Do you piss in the shower every day? Every morning?
Dan
Not every morning, but I have a couple times.
Phil
Have you know.
Dan
It's fine. Why not? Next. What's up fam? My name is Taylor. I'm from Philadelphia and I am a veteran Fanny clocking in 13 years of service who you're entitled to compensation today. I am hard launching my ageism.
Advertiser/Caller
Yes.
Dan
I hate old people. Specifically old people driving, making me late to work. I just feel like if you can't see your newspaper 2 inches in front of your face, then you should not be in front of me on the freeway.
Advertiser/Caller
And you should also have your license revoked. Mm.
Dan
Literally a safety hazard. I think that's a spitting fact.
Phil
I feel like beyond the age of 85, it's kind of risky to have someone behind a wheel. Like my granddad was driving age 93 and I was like, no, this feels like too old.
Dan
Absolutely not.
Phil
And we had to be like granddad.
Dan
Is it ageism? If you're making a valid point about the safety of other members of society.
Phil
Phil, Lester and 95 year olds should not be on the motorway. I agree.
Dan
And they also have the same hair.
Phil
I'm not co signing the full ageism though, because I like old people. I think my grandma was my best friend. She was amazing.
Dan
Did you go on joyrides together?
Phil
Yes, we did.
Dan
Yeah.
Phil
Grandma Theft Auto.
Dan
Next.
Advertiser/Caller
My name is Gabrielle.
Dan
Hi.
Phil
Hi.
Advertiser/Caller
And I am taking this moment to hard launch asking my partner to marry me. My partner and I have been together for over 11 years and we've been.
Dan
Watching Dan and Phil videos. I'm so sorry.
Advertiser/Caller
I think before that. So I think it's lame, but also on brand. So. Yeah.
Phil
Oh my gosh. Will you marry Gabrielle?
Dan
You gotta do it now.
Phil
Gotta do it.
Dan
You've been in this, Phil. I think we're matchmakers.
Phil
We are. Look at this.
Dan
Give me some skin, brother. Yeah, let's bump ring fingers as a sign. Phil, that's your little finger. Nevermind.
Phil
I don't know what people do with their fingers.
Dan
Show me your index finger.
Phil
What's that? I know.
Dan
Show me your middle finger. Oh, that came out fast. Funny, isn't it? Real funny.
Phil
Who named the fingers? What the fuck is an index? Oh, I'M just gonna get my index.
Dan
Out for the lads.
Phil
Yeah, show me that index finger.
Dan
Anyway, about your beautiful proposal.
Phil
That was great.
Dan
You've got to say yes now. Thank you for watching all these years. It's been a horrible, disgusting podcast episode and you saved it.
Phil
Yeah.
Dan
Yes.
Phil
Layla has told us that there's another fully disgusting one that we cannot play on the YouTube.
Dan
I think some of you people are testing what the limits of censorship are. You know that there's certain messages we can't play on YouTube, which is why we made a Patreon to post these.
Phil
Uncensored podcasts or Spotify even, anywhere people are listening. So if you go to patreon.com danandphil we'll do more yapping and listen to your filth submissions.
Dan
I'm scared.
Phil
Well, there we go. Another week.
Dan
We succeeded the piss challenge. I doubted myself as a liar.
Phil
Sarah failed the piss challenge.
Dan
You love to look.
Phil
I've learned something about how I speak and it's disturbing me. If I say look before everything I say.
Dan
And the moral of the story is, bullying works. So thank you all for your time. Stay hard.
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Date: November 24, 2025
Hosts: Dan and Phil
This episode of "HARD LAUNCH" brings Dan and Phil’s signature brand of raw, comedic oversharing to the topic of their sleep arrangements, navigating relationship quirks, and continually circling back to bodily functions—prompting both laughs and the threat of a self-imposed "no piss challenge." The duo reflect on their domestic life, societal expectations around sleep and relationships, awkward home renovations, mashed potato textures, anxieties about driving, and answer hard-hitting (and lighthearted) questions from listeners. The episode seamlessly bounces between earnest moments and surreal banter, ultimately offering an honest dive into intimacy, boundaries, and everything in between.
Dan and Phil—irreverent, self-deprecating, and gleefully honest—provide a blend of comedy, real talk, and pure chaos. Whether owning up to snoring habits, celebrating oddball community moments, or earnestly talking through anxieties and boundaries, they make even the most mundane domestic moments into community touchstones. It’s a must-listen for fans of chaotic couple content, oversharing, or anyone questioning if their quirks are really that strange (spoiler: in this space, they’re not).
Stay Hard.