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00:08The End
00:35Happy Friday, everyone.
00:36Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:39All right, all right, all right, all right.
00:41Coming up, why is Damien Lewis doing this?
00:45And I should have here, just a bit.
00:48Is Michael Fassbender the new Bond?
00:50What do you mean you're waiting to hear?
00:52Well, I mean, this is breaking news, by the way.
00:56And what is John McNally's favourite tipple?
00:58Is Pinot your one of choice?
00:59It's a fine of choice, because it doesn't taste of anything.
01:02Yeah, it's like toilet milk.
01:05All right, all still to come, but now it's time for It's Your What's Up.
01:07Yay!
01:09It's your WhatsApp, it's your WhatsApp.
01:13It's your WhatsApp, it's your WhatsApp.
01:18Yes!
01:20It's your WhatsApp.
01:23OK, OK, OK, OK.
01:25Here I have a WhatsApp.
01:28And this is genuine, it's from Gwen in pen.
01:32Dear Chris, as much as I love pub genius, I can't help thinking, Will has been playing
01:36it a little safe this year.
01:40Any chance you might be able to get him to up the stakes?
01:44Well, let's give it a go.
01:44Here's Will!
01:53Will!
01:54Will!
01:56Let's just turn into booing.
01:58This is not...
01:59Gwen in pen says you're playing it safe.
02:01Yeah.
02:01Well, I mean, I've got the power of slow-mo.
02:04How's that sound?
02:05Well, you mean you'll do it and then we'll slow it down and then we'll show it?
02:07No, no, I've genuinely got the power of slow-mo.
02:09You mean you can do slow-mo?
02:11I can, yeah, of course I can, yeah.
02:12What, you can actually do slow-mo?
02:14I can do anything you like, anything you like in slow-mo.
02:16All right, go on then.
02:17OK, I'll prove it, hang on.
02:18What do I do?
02:19I'll toss a coin in slow-mo, how about that?
02:22Just a coin?
02:23OK, just a slow-mo.
02:23I just, oh, all of these are countdown.
02:25OK.
02:26Three, two, one!
02:34It's the best one Tricky's ever done.
02:37And that's all we've got time for this week.
02:40All right, I mean, now that I've seen you do it, it's quite easy, that kind of slow-mo.
02:44OK, all right, I'll tell you what, I'll jump off the desk in slow-mo.
02:47For Gwen in pen?
02:48Yeah.
02:48OK, the wrist factor keeps on going up, Gwen.
02:52In slow-mo.
02:53In slow-mo.
02:53All right.
02:54We're not slowing it down, you are.
02:55Yeah, I'm slowing it down.
02:56Because you have the power of?
02:58I have the power of slow-mo.
02:59OK, go on.
03:01Three, two, one!
03:11And we're back.
03:13All right, but you have, obviously you need to now do the pub trick in slow-mo.
03:19OK, what I'm going to do, Chris, is I'm going to put this pint over my head without spilling a
03:23drop.
03:23Can we don't?
03:26Oh, fire!
03:38Would you like a drum roll?
03:40I'd like a drum roll, please.
03:41OK.
03:42Oh, oh.
03:50All right, like never before, let's hear it for Will.
04:00Excellent work from Will there.
04:02Right, our next guest bewitched us in billions and Band of Brothers,
04:06and now he's swapped treading the boards for strumming the chords.
04:09His new album Sweet Chaos is out now, and his tour begins in October,
04:12so let's get to it.
04:13It's the dashing Damien Lewis.
04:20Damien, final.
04:21We've got some final going up, man.
04:23I brought you a record, Chris.
04:25There you go.
04:26How cool is that?
04:27There you go, record player.
04:28We've got to get a record player just so we can, you know,
04:30just put the record on.
04:33It's your second album.
04:34I thought it was like your fourth or your fifth.
04:36It's your second, my friend.
04:37Yes.
04:38It's very good, honestly.
04:40Well, I'm glad.
04:41You said, I said, well, we're improving.
04:42They were trying to improve.
04:43You try to improve each time, don't you?
04:45Oh, would you class yourself as a musician?
04:48Yes, always.
04:49Always been a musician.
04:50Yeah.
04:51But obviously only just released records in the last three years
04:57and had done quite a lot of acting before that.
04:58So people know me as an actor.
04:59Yeah, no, we know about the acting.
05:00Yeah, you've done that.
05:02But yeah, ever since I used to take my motorbike around Europe
05:05with a tent and a guitar on the back in my 20s
05:08and I used to play all over Europe on the streets busking.
05:11So I've always done it and I suppose acting took off
05:16and I went that way and I didn't.
05:17And anyway, now I'm making records,
05:20which I sort of feel like I should have been doing earlier.
05:24Yeah, no, good for you.
05:24Is the way I feel about it.
05:25Why the heck not?
05:26You only live once and all that kind of stuff.
05:28Sweetcast tracks for you.
05:29I'm not just saying it.
05:29Title track.
05:30I think it's an absolute banger.
05:32Album launch signings.
05:33Leeds, Liverpool, Marlborough, London, Brighton, Kingston.
05:37And that's, you've already done a couple of them.
05:38So I've done a few, so we're at Rough Trade East
05:40down in Brick Lane tonight.
05:41Great, isn't it?
05:42What a laugh.
05:42Which is brilliant.
05:43And what's the vibe at these signings?
05:45What's going on?
05:46You know, do you...
05:47I just play, I play with...
05:48Take the guitar.
05:49The legendary David Catelyn-Birch, who is in World Party.
05:52Wow.
05:52Remember World Party?
05:53Of course I do.
05:54Love World Party.
05:55So I just go out with him.
05:56He's on the bass and he's got a beautiful voice
05:58and I'm just on my acoustic.
05:59So we do a little stripped back sort of unplugged,
06:02but plugged set.
06:04We stick them into some amps.
06:05This is us.
06:05We're TFI unplugged, but plugged.
06:07Unplugged, but...
06:07And also plugging.
06:09And also we're plugging, aren't we?
06:10You said it slightly differently.
06:11Unplugged, but plugged.
06:13And that is...
06:14No, excuse me.
06:15And that immediately gave it a whole different feel.
06:18You heard it differently.
06:20You hear what you're listening for.
06:22No, no, no.
06:23All I'm saying is I'm nicking it for tonight.
06:26Does your acting help you in that situation?
06:29Because it's all performative anyhow, isn't it?
06:31Yeah, I love...
06:32I love...
06:33Yes, I love playing on...
06:35I love playing with other musicians.
06:36That's the amazing thing.
06:37I love writing the songs.
06:39I love recording the songs.
06:40But I love playing with brilliant musicians
06:42and making music.
06:43It's that incredible thing where, you know,
06:45we have music around us all the time.
06:47Don't get me...
06:48No one likes going to a theatre or to a cinema
06:51or an art gallery or a museum more than me.
06:53And I love going with other people to do a thing
06:56and rub shoulders with other human beings.
06:58Get out of...
06:59Just get away from your telly or off your phone.
07:02I love that.
07:03That sort of communal shared experience
07:05is critical for all of us, I think, to keep going.
07:09But making music with wonderful musicians
07:13and hearing the thing take shape
07:15and then harmonising with someone like David on stage
07:18and hearing that is so pleasurable.
07:21And people liking it.
07:22It's so fun.
07:23People liking it so far.
07:25That's the bonus.
07:26People liking it so far.
07:27So when you said before, you know,
07:28you were doing music and you were touring around
07:30and you were busking and all this kind of stuff
07:31and you were acting as well,
07:32then the acting took off.
07:34Yeah.
07:35Was it neck and neck?
07:36Was it...
07:36If the music had taken off,
07:37could you have gone that way instead?
07:40I am a musician as well as an actor
07:42and I just hope that...
07:43I hope...
07:44You know, there's lots of sort of chat about sort of...
07:46Oh, actor makes record
07:48and everyone gets...
07:50And then...
07:51Yeah, just a bit...
07:53I'm going to do six and sevens for my daughter.
07:55I'll see some...
07:57By the way, that's great for the trail.
07:58Can we just...
07:59Coming up later,
08:00find out why Damien Lewis is doing this.
08:04That's literally how we'll start TFI on Friday.
08:06Do a bit...
08:07But, you know, I just hope people...
08:09Anyway, I just...
08:10But I hope...
08:11And then he did it the fifth time.
08:13But I...
08:14Anyway, the point is,
08:15you know, just hope people listen to the music
08:17and take it at face value
08:18and don't worry too much about...
08:20Well, Kiefer Sutherland was in last week.
08:22He's got his fourth album.
08:24Great album again.
08:25Really great album.
08:26Genuinely, genuinely great album.
08:27Why the heck not?
08:28The last time I saw you in America,
08:29you were on the Today Show,
08:31on The Breakfast Show there,
08:31talking about a film
08:32that they've already enjoyed or are enjoying
08:35and we're not...
08:36We have to wait till September.
08:37What is that film?
08:39It's called Pressure.
08:40Yeah.
08:40And it is a film...
08:41It's a very British film
08:42because it's a film about a weather forecast.
08:44It is, isn't it?
08:45And what Brit doesn't like to talk about the weather
08:48or go and see a movie about it?
08:50But it's the most important weather forecast of modern times.
08:52It is very exciting.
08:53I will say it's about the 72 hours
08:55where Eisenhower has to make a decision
08:57when to launch D-Day.
08:58Right.
08:59And this man called Captain Stagg,
09:01played beautifully by Andrew Scott,
09:03is sent by Churchill to go and give the weather report.
09:07And he says,
09:07Oh, no, no, no, you can't go on June the 5th.
09:09That would be terrible.
09:10And Eisenhower, played beautifully by Brendan Fraser,
09:13is like, Oh, you want to go when I want to go?
09:15But I don't know when to go
09:16and why are you telling me different things
09:18from my own weatherman?
09:19And then Monty, who I play,
09:22is jumping up and down in the background
09:24like a terrier, sort of going,
09:25Well, we've got to go when we go
09:26because all the soldiers are ready
09:28and we must attack because I'm ready with everybody.
09:31And he couldn't say his R's.
09:33I'm not taking the piss out of Monty
09:34because obviously he was our great hero
09:36and we love it.
09:36But he had a problem with his R's.
09:39And anyway, so this was made into a beautiful play
09:43by David Haig and then adapted into a screenplay.
09:46And this is the film.
09:48When do they go?
09:49When should they go?
09:51What's the risk to life?
09:53And got 300,000 people ready.
09:56Some of them all ready in the boat, eating, sleeping.
09:59How do you keep it a secret?
10:01And it ratchets up attention.
10:02Yeah, I've seen clips.
10:04It looks amazing.
10:04And it's gone.
10:05People are loving it.
10:07It's here in September.
10:07There's a bit of a gap.
10:08I think, I think they didn't want to release it
10:11in Europe and the rest of the world
10:12because everyone would be watching the World Cup.
10:13Well, presumably you'll be doing
10:14the round streaming interviews again
10:15and you don't need to come on our show
10:17not because we don't want you
10:18because we'll just use that bit.
10:19Yeah, you can save it.
10:21Let's hear it for Damien Lewis.
10:24And Damien's album, his new album Sweet Chaos
10:26is out now, right?
10:27Our next guest, once dreamed of being
10:29a heavy metal guitarist,
10:30became a Hollywood A-lister instead
10:32and somewhere in between it all
10:34raced sports cars at Le Mans.
10:36He's here to tell us all about season two
10:38of the brilliant agency on Paramount Plus
10:40which hits the screens on Sunday, June 21st.
10:43Please welcome, in all his splendor,
10:45it's Michael Fassbendor!
10:52Yes, my God!
10:54Hi!
10:57How are you?
10:59Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
11:02You know how much I love your show.
11:04Yeah.
11:05Don't you?
11:05I'm really happy to hear that.
11:07Do I love it too much?
11:08No, I think you can't love it enough.
11:10And you know what was great was that,
11:12you know, you said that in the first season.
11:13Yeah.
11:13And it was, you know, it is a show
11:15that had a sort of slow burn in the first season,
11:17kind of like reading a book.
11:18You get to know the characters slowly
11:20and then it starts to really sort of amp up
11:22around episode four or five.
11:24But this second season now,
11:26it just doesn't let off where it ended.
11:28Oh my gosh, it's so good.
11:30It's feature film.
11:32It's five-star feature film level super television.
11:35And you can't draw breath.
11:38I've watched eight one-hour episodes of the season two.
11:41I haven't seen my family for like a week because of it.
11:44So your direct boss is Geoffrey Wright.
11:47His boss, and therefore your next bigger boss
11:49is Richard Gere.
11:50Yeah.
11:50Richard Gere's boss is Dominic West.
11:52And all of you, your actual boss is George Clooney.
11:55Yeah, no, I've had a good few interesting bosses.
11:58Yeah.
11:58Ridley Scott.
11:59Yeah, of course, of course.
12:01David Fincher, you know, some amazing bosses.
12:04Yeah.
12:04And then maybe some not so amazing.
12:06We won't talk about that.
12:07Let's not go there.
12:07It's Friday.
12:08Exactly.
12:08And you've got a hit show on your hands.
12:10Oh my gosh.
12:11Yeah.
12:11When you got the job with Tom Hanks,
12:14your boss on Band of Brothers,
12:16you also auditioned for Pearl Harbor.
12:18That's right.
12:18And you narrowly missed out to that.
12:21Some other guy.
12:22Ben Affleck, I think it was.
12:24Yeah, it was a close one though.
12:25Okay, so what happened to him?
12:27How close were you to getting that job over here?
12:29I don't think I was close, to be honest.
12:30But I might have got one of, you know, the smaller parts.
12:33Right.
12:33Because usually, you know, when you go in and audition,
12:34it's for the big part.
12:35And they might give you a smaller one.
12:37But they did send me a nice letter and said that they liked the audition.
12:41Yeah, I heard you.
12:42Not this time.
12:42I've heard you say that before.
12:43And they don't bother doing that unless they sort of mean it,
12:45because why would they?
12:46It's never happened to me before or since.
12:48All right.
12:48Well, you've done all right since.
12:50Yeah.
12:50No, listen, I got lucky.
12:52It was a very interesting time because I was working nights,
12:54like unloading these lorries.
12:55And it was like, it was eight to seven in the morning.
12:58So I didn't really have the energy for auditions.
13:00There weren't many coming up.
13:01But I said, okay, enough of the night work.
13:03Started working behind the bar again.
13:04Yeah.
13:04Monkey Chews, which was placed down in Queen's Crescent.
13:07And then those two auditions came literally the next week.
13:11It was almost like sort of, you know, put sort of the energy out there.
13:14And then I was lucky enough to get, you know, the Band of Brothers gig.
13:18In various interviews that I've watched and read about,
13:22you have said about the Band of Brothers prep that you went to a boot camp.
13:27Yes.
13:27In some interviews, I don't know if you know about this.
13:30In some interviews, you say it's 10 weeks.
13:32In others, you say it's 10 days.
13:34It was 10 days.
13:35Was it?
13:35Okay.
13:36I'm confusing it with 300.
13:38300, we did 10 weeks.
13:39Okay.
13:40I mean, you've been to...
13:41Depends on the day.
13:42Depends what happened the night before.
13:43I know, but when you say 10 weeks, I'd go with the 10 weeks because I bought it.
13:46Yeah, yeah.
13:47You were like, wow, that was real...
13:48Okay, so this is...
13:4910 days.
13:50So 10 days was the first real physical, you know, you're in...
13:52We went out to like a boot camp.
13:54Yeah, in Hatfield and with Tom Hanks.
13:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:56Was that the fittest you'd ever been in your life up to that point?
13:59At the end of that?
14:01I'm not sure.
14:02You know, it's more about like what you can do with lack of sleep.
14:06All right.
14:06I suppose, which now I'm learning with children.
14:08Tell everyone how come you and Alyssa got together.
14:11There was nothing else to do.
14:13We were on a peninsula together in New Zealand.
14:16This is a true story.
14:16And we were living in like caravans.
14:18Why, why, why?
14:19The director wanted us there.
14:19What were you making?
14:20We were making a really beautiful film called Light Between Oceans.
14:24Which is a great film.
14:25Yeah.
14:26And the director is Derek Cienfranc.
14:29And he likes, you know, to immerse you in the world.
14:31So we were staying where, you know, he wanted us actually living in the house where we were
14:34living in, you know, as the couple in the show, in the film.
14:39But, you know, we were like, we don't want to live there.
14:41And so we got like these small little caravans.
14:43We were all sort of lined up beside each other.
14:46And I was here.
14:47The director placed his in the middle.
14:49Which I thought, hmm, he likes to watch.
14:51I mean, he's a director.
14:52I don't know.
14:53But he sort of set the scene, you know.
14:55And so I was like, you know, Alessia and I started, you know, well, I'd met her on
14:58a dance floor a year before in Toronto.
15:02Right.
15:02And I thought I was a pretty good dancer.
15:05Which sounds terrible.
15:06And then she started dancing.
15:07And I really felt like, you know, Steve Martin in The Jerk.
15:10I was like, wow, I was so out of rhythm.
15:12And then I met her again on another dance floor.
15:14And then we sort of ended up doing this film together.
15:18So we sort of, you know, chemistry happened.
15:20We started to sort of get together.
15:21But I would sneak to her trailer at night.
15:25And then at 4.30 in the morning, I would sneak past his trailer.
15:29Oh, my gosh.
15:30So we tried to keep it secret for like as long as we could.
15:32In case the grown-ups were watching.
15:33That's so funny, man.
15:35Yeah.
15:35And then we got married on screen.
15:37And then, you know, we got married in real life.
15:39People have talked to this morning.
15:40And it's not the Bond question.
15:42But it is Bond adjacent.
15:44Yes.
15:45Because they've just, they've watched that and said, oh, my God.
15:47It's exciting to find out.
15:48I'm waiting to hear.
15:48Yeah.
15:49Everyone's waiting.
15:50What do you mean?
15:51You're waiting to hear.
15:52Well, I mean, this is breaking news, by the way.
15:56Can you imagine?
15:57You know, that who is going to be, you know, the next Bond.
15:59And I always think that the bookies must be like, don't tell us yet.
16:02Don't tell us yet.
16:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:03Because they must have been making a fortune through the years of people going, you know,
16:06betting on various people.
16:07What have you had?
16:08Nothing.
16:09Honestly.
16:10You're doing that Martian lion thing again, aren't you?
16:12I feel like I'm in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
16:15See, pretty.
16:18Yeah.
16:19So, of course, you're a mate of Tom's, aren't you?
16:22Tom Hardy.
16:22Yeah.
16:23Yeah.
16:23We went to drama school together.
16:24And you were a band of brothering together.
16:25Band of brothers together.
16:27I haven't seen him in a while.
16:28Last time I saw him was on a flight.
16:31But I don't, you know, I don't know.
16:33I have a feeling they're going to go younger, you know, because we had Daniel Craig's sort
16:37of bond and the evolution of that.
16:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:39I would always be curious to see what was he like coming out of Eden.
16:43I think that's what they're going to do, isn't it?
16:44I think that's interesting.
16:45They sort of have to, I suppose.
16:47Yeah.
16:47When you, you just mentioned Tom Hardy and getting on a flight there.
16:50Do you still do the thing?
16:51You know, when you, and you, you've go back and forth over to America more than most people
16:55would, I imagine.
16:55Maybe not as much.
16:56Not as much these days, you know, actually.
16:59But, but the odd time, yeah.
17:00Do you, do you, did you, do you still get excited about who else is on the flight?
17:04Yeah, it's always nice, you know, when you're sitting in comfortable seats as well.
17:08You're like, whoa.
17:10Best ever other people on the same plane as you.
17:12Christopher Walken.
17:13Come on.
17:14Seat behind me.
17:16And it was, it was a small flight.
17:18It wasn't like one of those lounge back ones.
17:19It was a small flight from Montreal to New York.
17:22Just, just by chance.
17:23And he was behind me in one of those single seat aisles, you know, or maybe two maximum.
17:28And yeah, just by chance.
17:30And I was sitting there the whole time.
17:31I was like, God, I say something.
17:32Don't want to go.
17:33And, you know, annoy him and annoy him.
17:35And then on the way out of the plane, I was like, excuse me, Mr. Walken.
17:38And he's like, yeah.
17:40And I was like, terrible impersonation.
17:42Can you go and do him, do him.
17:43I'll try and do one.
17:44I'll say, today I'm going to cook a dish.
17:49What is it?
17:49Chicken with popcorn shrimp.
17:52Very good.
17:53That's not good.
17:53That's terrible.
17:54That's pretty good.
17:55Damn.
17:56Michael Fassbender, a.k.a. Christopher Walken.
17:58Yeah.
18:01All right.
18:01And don't miss, whatever you do, season two of The Agency on Paramount+.
18:04Still to come, Richard Baker.
18:07Ed Gamble, John McNally.
18:09And the legendary Lioness, Beth Mead's going to be here.
18:13But first, into the break, it's Jack Savaretti with the brilliant We Will Always Be The Way We Were.
18:18Don't let go, don't ever think that you are on your own.
18:24I hear you falling.
18:27I hear you falling.
18:32I've got you now.
18:34You've got to know I'll never let you down.
18:39I hear you falling.
18:42I hear you falling.
18:46I hear you falling.
18:50I hear you falling.
18:54I hear you falling.
18:57When it feels like you're falling.
19:01Welcome back to GFI Unplugged.
19:07By the way, that was Jack Savaretti and his new album, We Will Always Be The Way We Were, is
19:11out now.
19:12Love Jack Savaretti.
19:13Still to come, Richard Baker, Ed Gamble, John McNally.
19:18And the legend, the Lioness legend is Beth Mead.
19:21But Will's back.
19:22Hey, Will.
19:26Never gets boring, does it?
19:28Calm down.
19:29You're all adults.
19:30Chris, yes?
19:30There's been an outcry.
19:31OK, tell us why.
19:32The nation is not happy.
19:33How come?
19:35Because we didn't do TFI Trumps last week.
19:38You mean these?
19:40OK.
19:43All right.
19:43I'm going to go for the theme tune to one of our favourite items.
19:50Chris and Beck chuck chickens into a massive tank of mushroom soup.
19:56And then Delia Smith blows it up.
20:01Beat that.
20:03Impossible.
20:03Roll the tape.
20:05Now, what's the betting that I can't get a chicken, right, from my desk here, throw it and land it
20:09in the soup?
20:10What's the betting?
20:10Can I have a drum roll, please?
20:13The betting that I can't do is probably pretty good.
20:16See if I can.
20:17OK?
20:22Number two.
20:27You've got to help us out now.
20:28We're going to explode this fish tank.
20:30It's half a ton.
20:30It's got 400 gallons of chicken and mushroom soup in it.
20:33We've got no idea what's going to happen.
20:35At five.
20:37Four.
20:38Three.
20:39Two.
20:40One.
20:51Oh, the fun we had.
20:53I don't make TV like that anymore.
20:55God bless Delia Smith.
20:55Delia, if you're watching, you're the best ever.
20:58All right, round two.
20:59OK.
21:00OK, so I have got...
21:01Oh, God.
21:02Chris and Will pose naked for a calendar.
21:06Not that old chestnut.
21:08Hello.
21:08You should talk about your old chestnuts.
21:10LAUGHTER
21:12I didn't say those old chestnuts.
21:14I said that old chestnut.
21:16All right, I've got for Drew Barrymore throws herself at Will.
21:20CHEERING
21:22What have you got?
21:23Er, 91.
21:24Fun factor, 92.
21:26CHEERING
21:27Roll the tape.
21:28You've got a picture in your office, Will.
21:29I've got a picture in my office.
21:30Oh, hi, Will.
21:32Hello.
21:32I was wondering where you are.
21:33CHEERING
21:37Look at Will's face.
21:40CHEERING
21:42I've been waiting to meet you.
21:43I didn't see you there.
21:45OK.
21:46CHEERING
21:47You know we were married for three years after that.
21:50Oh.
21:50Well, you kept that quiet, didn't you?
21:53OK.
21:53So, Drew Barrymore, Drew Barryless.
21:55Yeah, yeah.
21:56All right, this is a sider.
21:57I'm going for All Saints Sing Under the Bridge at the Death.
22:00Yes, they actually sang it out of the death.
22:02Very good.
22:04I've got Chris sticks his head into a giant tub.
22:07You don't know what yet.
22:10A giant tub of marshmallows.
22:13OK, fun factor, 71.
22:15Fun factor, 93.
22:18I will never want to feel
22:22Like I did that day
22:24Take me to the place I love
22:28Take me all the way
22:37That was amazing.
22:40Will's been amazing.
22:41That was Will!
22:45Stop!
22:46Our next guests are two fab comics
22:50Who host two fab podcasts
22:52And have joined the forces now
22:54To make a fab new TV show
22:55It's called Unacceptable
22:56It begins on Sunday, July 5th
22:59And it's on TLC and Discovery+.
23:01So let's get pally right now
23:02With Ed Gamble and Joanne McNally
23:08Hello, Ed.
23:08Hi, Chris.
23:10Nice to see you.
23:11Long time.
23:15Oh, my gosh.
23:16Yeah, Ed, it's like you're a co-host.
23:18I know.
23:19I basically work here permanently now.
23:20Do you mind having Ed back on again?
23:21Not at all.
23:22I mean, you know, why not?
23:24You're good at collaborating, of course.
23:26You both podcast at Kings and Queens.
23:29So it's going to work.
23:30It's got a hit written all over it.
23:31This cannot fail, can it, this show?
23:32I don't think so.
23:33That's why we're here.
23:34Yeah, it's impossible.
23:35We wouldn't be on your show
23:37If we thought it was going to fail.
23:38Yes!
23:39Might be the opposite.
23:40Oh.
23:42So you're hosting and you're captaining.
23:44Yes, I'm a team captain.
23:46Let's talk all about it.
23:47Over to you, Ed, first of all.
23:48So the heart of the show
23:49Is we have brilliant comedian guests.
23:52Genius comedians.
23:52No pressure, Joe.
23:53The lineups are amazing.
23:56This is like old school royalty panels.
23:59Come on now.
23:59They're fantastic.
24:00Is it traitor's level?
24:01It's beyond.
24:02Beyond?
24:03Woo!
24:04It's beyond.
24:05Wow!
24:06I can say that
24:07because I don't host
24:08the Visualize Companion podcast
24:09for this one.
24:10I host the main thing.
24:11Okay, all right.
24:12Joanne's a team captain, of course.
24:13We have Rich and Iwadi
24:14as a team captain.
24:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:15And we have amazing guest comics.
24:17And a comic will bring in
24:19an unacceptable opinion.
24:20They read the top line to the audience.
24:22Yeah, yeah.
24:22The audience vote
24:23on whether they think
24:24it's unacceptable.
24:25Uh-huh.
24:25And then the comic
24:26has a chance to argue there.
24:28Yeah, and it has to start off
24:29pretty unacceptable, doesn't it?
24:30Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:31Panel shows.
24:31What is the secret sauce
24:32for a good one?
24:33Because you've both done loads,
24:35haven't you?
24:35You've done...
24:36I've done loads.
24:37I've done none.
24:38Really?
24:39No, this was an absolute
24:39baptism of fire for me.
24:40Isn't that weird?
24:40I just think you have.
24:41No, I've done none.
24:42Well, why the heck not?
24:44Well done.
24:45I was never...
24:45Yeah, I know.
24:46Yeah, well, I mean,
24:47no one else was trying
24:48to bag me, so...
24:50I was an easy booking.
24:51Oh, you were too busy
24:52doing all your things
24:53around the world.
24:53No, no, not at all.
24:54Breaking America.
24:54No, I was sitting at home
24:55waiting for Mock the Week
24:56to call, never Ryan.
24:58Mock the Week.
24:59Mock the Week.
24:59I love it.
25:01Dara, as a fellow Irishman,
25:02still no call.
25:03Yeah.
25:03And then, so I'd never...
25:05I'd certainly...
25:05I'd barely done a panel show,
25:07let alone been a team captain
25:08for one.
25:09So it was an absolute
25:10baptism of fire for me.
25:11Can you please tell everybody
25:13about your amazing
25:14London Palladium record?
25:15Yes.
25:16I held...
25:16This is so good.
25:17I held the record for...
25:20Most Alcohol Purchased
25:21in the London Palladium
25:22of any show ever.
25:24Ever.
25:24That's amazing.
25:25And that's been around...
25:26I mean, I don't know
25:26how old the Palladium is.
25:27I know, yeah.
25:28What's that?
25:29116.
25:30116 years.
25:31Thank you, Tilly, by the way.
25:32That's amazing.
25:33116.
25:34You lead them into it
25:35with the titles of your tour.
25:36I know.
25:36Well, I put alcohol
25:37in the titles.
25:38Was that the Prosecco Express Tour?
25:40The Prosecco Express Tour.
25:41That was the one.
25:42Yeah.
25:42I think in Leicester Square
25:43they were drinking wine
25:45out of cups and stuff
25:46because they ran out of glasses.
25:48Tour names.
25:48Can you beat Prosecco Express?
25:51Absolutely not.
25:51No.
25:52I like the fact
25:53you just go, nope.
25:54No, mine's...
25:55What's your one called?
25:55What's your last one?
25:56Fresh Hell is my new one.
25:58Fresh Hell, yeah.
25:58That starts in January, yeah.
25:59Yeah.
26:00I just pick names
26:01that I think are cool.
26:02Yeah.
26:02Joanne knows how to do a tour now.
26:04You really do.
26:04Do you know my one now?
26:06No, go on.
26:06Am I allowed to say it?
26:07If I say it really slowly?
26:08Well, hang on a second.
26:10Have you written a tour show
26:12that you can't say the title of?
26:14Do you not know the name of this one?
26:14I know the name.
26:15I can say it.
26:15You can say it
26:16because it's too with alcohol.
26:17Sound it out properly.
26:19Pinot file.
26:20Pinot file.
26:21Is it Pinot Grigio?
26:22Yes.
26:23I file Pinot.
26:24Because you love wine.
26:25Yes.
26:26Yeah.
26:26Is Pinot your wine of choice?
26:28It's my wine of choice
26:28because it doesn't taste of anything.
26:31Yeah.
26:31It's like toilet duck.
26:32Yeah.
26:33We're very different people.
26:34Yeah, we are.
26:35Which is why this works.
26:37Or does it?
26:38Yeah, we don't know.
26:39Yeah, let's see how it goes.
26:40Do you still drink?
26:41Yeah.
26:42Okay, so what would you...
26:43I like to taste my wine.
26:44Right.
26:45Yeah.
26:46Okay.
26:46Okay.
26:47A friend of mine used to only buy wine she didn't like
26:49so she didn't drink as much.
26:50What?
26:51Cheap warm white wine from Aldi or Lidl.
26:54Yeah.
26:54And that was her way of not becoming an uncle.
26:57Yeah.
26:57She might have been.
26:58Yeah, I like that.
26:59When the reels get that extensive.
27:01Yeah, that's a red flag.
27:02Yeah, it is.
27:03Yeah.
27:03Unacceptable begins Sunday, July 5th on TLC and Discovery+.
27:06Who else is on it?
27:07Who else comes to join the fun?
27:08Oh my goodness, we've got...
27:09So, Ramesh is doing it.
27:11Rhys James is doing it.
27:12Maisie Adams is doing it.
27:13Fatty Errol Gurry is doing it.
27:14Roisin Conaty.
27:15Tom Davis.
27:16Roisin Conaty.
27:17Catherine Ryan's doing two episodes.
27:18This is panel show royalty.
27:20Oh, Chris McCausland.
27:21It's like every guest is a winner.
27:23All right.
27:24It's high end.
27:24Who's been your favourite team member?
27:27I couldn't say.
27:27I love them all equally.
27:28No, but you could say...
27:29No, if I asked you to vote one off, that would be unfair.
27:31But to say your favourite, that's fine.
27:31Well, I'm a big Catherine Ryan fan.
27:33And when we were on the team together, it was very...
27:35And me, Catherine and Fatty did an episode together and it was very Spice Girls coded.
27:41I saw Catherine on one and she was on Richard's team.
27:44So, she did one on each.
27:46She's done two episodes.
27:47Okay.
27:48I forgot that.
27:48She did two episodes.
27:49Who's app was she best on, do you think?
27:51Your app or Richard's app?
27:52When she was on Richard's team, her opinion, her main opinion was all men should have vasectomies.
27:58And I think it's a real highlight of the show.
28:00Okay.
28:01And then...
28:02What was her?
28:02I can't remember what her argument was on mine.
28:04She didn't have the main opinion.
28:06She was arguing against...
28:07Fatia did.
28:08And Fatia says that all marriages should be arranged, which is well worth a watch as well.
28:12Okay.
28:12So, can you just give us some of those...
28:13It's not a spoiler, is it?
28:14Nobody really minds.
28:15No, I don't think so.
28:15Give us some of those unacceptable premises.
28:17So, the royals should be paid more, there's the vasectomies, there's the arranged marriages,
28:23there's the Olympics is a waste of time.
28:25That was Chris McCausland.
28:25Yeah, yeah.
28:26These are things that genuinely would get a gasp from the audience as well.
28:30And one of the ones I saw that you led the charge on was only men are funny.
28:34Yeah, women aren't funny.
28:35That was hilarious.
28:36So, that's a round called the Stitch Up.
28:38I believe it.
28:39That's a round called the Stitch Up.
28:40That was hilarious.
28:41We give someone a card and they don't know what the opinion is going to be.
28:44They've not prepared this in any way.
28:45Right.
28:45And they have to defend this opinion, even though it's something they definitely disagree
28:48with.
28:49So, Joanne had Women Aren't Funny.
28:51Harriet Kemsley had All Single Mothers Are Lazy.
28:54Yeah.
28:55And that, for me, this is BAFTA winning television.
28:59How's North America going?
29:00The plan would be to squeeze a Netflix special out of somebody.
29:04Netflix, I assume.
29:08I'd go to them first.
29:09Yeah.
29:09I'm going to go straight to their office with a shank when I get to LA and just demand
29:13one and just sit in the lounge.
29:15They give me one.
29:16No, the tour is, you just have to keep tipping away.
29:19You just do this.
29:20You just have to keep tipping.
29:21Yeah.
29:21There's nothing you can do.
29:22Ed, how are you in America?
29:23Yeah, I went out there beginning of this year.
29:25How many dates are you?
29:26I toured.
29:26I did maybe 20, 22.
29:28It's hard.
29:29So, have a little chat about that.
29:30It's hard.
29:30Because some places you sell really well.
29:33Go on.
29:34I actually, when I look.
29:35That is ninja level radio hosting.
29:38Get two guests on and go, just have a chat about that.
29:42Off you go.
29:43When my American agent gave me my sales, because I'm going to Salt Lake City and stuff, which
29:48I can't, I'm like, why?
29:50You've got a huge Mormon audience.
29:51I have a huge Mormon audience.
29:52I know, I know.
29:53I need to please them.
29:55Yeah.
29:55I was looking at the, what I thought were the sales.
29:58And I was like, Las Vegas, three.
30:01Salt Lake City, one.
30:02I was like, Denver, three.
30:04This is so depressing.
30:05And the major was like, no, they're the number of nights you're doing.
30:07I genuinely thought.
30:08But no, no, no, no.
30:09Sorry, no.
30:09No, the sales were no much better.
30:13Then it was like, oh, Salt Lake City, eight.
30:15Oh, fab.
30:15But it was like, that's how bad I thought it was.
30:18And that's pretty much, like, it's tough.
30:19Like, it's a slog.
30:20So, it's probably like, I was like, put me in a cozy 30s eater.
30:23And I'll sell it out.
30:25And I'll look fantastic.
30:25Would you be nervous ever?
30:27Oh, God, yeah.
30:28You seem like the least nervous person ever born.
30:31A hundred percent.
30:32What do you think?
30:32Yeah.
30:32I think, I...
30:33Well, I think Joanne, like, exudes this amazing confidence.
30:37But I'm sure, there must be nerves.
30:38Yeah, I'm a sensitive little Sally deep down.
30:41I remember I did a...
30:41There we did some...
30:43It was a charity gig in the Albert Hall.
30:45And it was maybe after lockdown.
30:47I can't remember.
30:47I was so...
30:48I won't tell you what I took, but it was a lot of medication.
30:51Just to get me out there.
30:52Was any of it legal?
30:53I was.
30:54Well, I didn't get it legally, but I think it's legal if you have a prescription.
30:57Yes.
30:57Okay.
30:58If you're a horse.
31:02If you have a neck, I'm a prescription.
31:04If you're a horse.
31:04If you have some hooves and a suggestion of a tail.
31:07Maybe even a mane.
31:09It's illegal in a way.
31:10Yeah, yeah.
31:10I just kind of...
31:11If there are other people...
31:12A lot of other people are allergic to you.
31:15If you're a horse.
31:17But no, I would suffer.
31:18I would suffer with the nerves big time.
31:20It depends what's at stake.
31:21But even when you're talking about suffering with the nerves, you've become more relaxed.
31:24Yeah, I know.
31:25Yeah, I know.
31:25I'm enjoying myself.
31:26I think this is really nice.
31:27It's so funny.
31:28I've been wanting to meet you for ages.
31:29Well, it's great to meet you.
31:30Honestly, so many fans at the top of the tower.
31:33People absolutely adore you.
31:34I listen to you most mornings.
31:35Do you actually?
31:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:36I've tried to get on the show several times.
31:38Well, you should...
31:38Thank you, Ed.
31:39You just pop in.
31:40You're my access point.
31:41Yeah.
31:42He doesn't listen and he comes in anyway.
31:43Yeah, I listen.
31:44You can come in any time you don't want to listen.
31:45Honestly, you just turn up downstairs.
31:46They'll let you in.
31:47You're always welcome.
31:48It's Gamble.
31:49Show up with me.
31:51And don't miss that brilliant new TV show, Unacceptable on TLC.
31:55Still to come, Richard Bacon and the legend that is Lioness,
31:58Beth Mead, with a huge announcement.
32:01But first, take this in the break with their brand new single,
32:04Summer Forever.
32:04It's dodgy!
32:06Yay!
32:08Summer lasted forever, with a day of our day.
32:14When we thought about the future, it seemed so far away.
32:21It seemed so far away.
32:27Let the future shine.
32:32Oh, yeah.
32:34Let the future shine.
32:39Welcome back to TFI Unplugged.
32:43And that was the brilliant Dodgy and Summer Forever from the latest album,
32:46Hello Beautiful.
32:47Still to come, Beth Mead, and something very special from Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.
32:51I wonder if you could possibly guess what that's going to be.
32:55Our next guest is a telly top dog who's been lighting up our screens for over 30 years.
33:00His new podcast, Why Are You More Successful Than Me?, is out now.
33:04It's brilliant.
33:05With new episodes every Thursday.
33:06So we'll bring the breakfast and he'll bring home the Richard Bacon.
33:15Hi, Richard.
33:16Hi, Chris.
33:17How are you, mate?
33:17I'm terrific.
33:19I love it here.
33:21Come on!
33:22Come on!
33:23So hang on a minute.
33:24Several times a day, a tunnel is formed out there and people are applauded into the studio.
33:29Yeah, and also sometimes we're not even on the air.
33:30Do you remember I did an edition of my Radio 5 live show from my living room
33:34and the two guests were you and Alan DeBotter.
33:37No, I forgot about that.
33:39Oh, yeah.
33:40No, it was brilliant, man.
33:41It was brilliant.
33:41Wasn't it your last show or something?
33:43It was.
33:43It was my last night time show on 5 live.
33:45For some reason, I did it from my living room.
33:46Probably inspired by when you did TFI from your house.
33:48It was great.
33:49In the same street.
33:51In the same street.
33:51That's where you did TFI.
33:52Yeah.
33:53Absolutely, 100%.
33:54And he said, and he started, so I said to him, Alan, why are you more successful than me?
33:57And he said, anyone who's successful at some level is unhappy.
34:02That success...
34:02That's such an Alan DeBotter.
34:03I know.
34:04But do you think there's anything in it?
34:06That people who are really driven at their core have some unhappiness about them?
34:10Well, there's drive, isn't there?
34:12There's push and there's pull.
34:13But then there's natural creativity.
34:15And I think, you know, it's like, how do you be happy?
34:19Well, happiness comes and goes, but you can always be happier.
34:21Even if you're really depressed, you can be happier in that moment.
34:24If you're really happy, you can be happier still.
34:26So you can always be happier or unhappy.
34:28What I thought after we had that brunch with Jimmy Carr, is I walked away from that thinking,
34:31because I've known you for a long time, I thought you seemed like the happiest I'd ever actually known you.
34:36Okay, there's a reason for that.
34:37Her name's Natasha.
34:38I know.
34:39You have one of those.
34:40You're a score, Rebecca.
34:42Let's hear it for the go.
34:46So exciting, though.
34:47Right, let's talk a bit more about America.
34:49Yeah, go.
34:50Okay, so you're in America.
34:51You land in America.
34:52I mean, it was a strange one, because I quit my radio show to move to L.A.
34:56I hadn't really thought it through.
34:57You just went for it.
34:57I just went for it.
34:58And I went, I had a show commissioned, and it was an interview series where I was going to interview
35:02British people doing well in America.
35:03My first guest was Ricky Gervais.
35:05And my visa got held up by the embassy, and I couldn't get my passport back.
35:09So I'd quit my job.
35:10I'd got a show commission that I was hosting and producing.
35:13And Ricky was waiting for me in New York.
35:14And I had to call him and say, I can't get on the aeroplane because the embassy will not give
35:20me my visa or my passport.
35:21Right.
35:22And the whole show collapsed.
35:23And it cost so much money to collapse it, they wouldn't put it back on its feet again.
35:27So I moved there without a job.
35:29So I had a year without a job.
35:31God bless Rebecca at this point.
35:33I know.
35:34Yeah.
35:34I know.
35:35And never since, by the way.
35:36But it was all, I love her.
35:37I mean, she absolutely is the core of my happiness.
35:39She's wonderful.
35:40As is Natasha.
35:41But I had no job for a year, and I was about to come back, and my agent's CAA got
35:47me a job in New York, hosting a show for National Geographic.
35:50And my first day's filming was I went for a hike with Barack Obama.
35:53Right.
35:53Who was still the president.
35:54I'm so glad you got on to that.
35:56Yeah.
35:56Sorry, that's where I was going.
35:57Oh, was it?
35:58Yeah, you've just cut to the chase there.
36:00How the heck did that happen?
36:01I just, I got a job hosting a show on National Geographic that has a big reputation, and I was
36:05in New York, and I got a call from the head of comms at Nat Geo, and he went, just
36:08be careful.
36:09And I went, why?
36:10And he said, you're being monitored by the Secret Service.
36:13And I was like, standing in this hotel room, having had a big night the night before, and I was
36:17like, yeah.
36:17Oh, my gosh.
36:18They weren't, are they monitoring from now?
36:21Just as long as they weren't monitoring last night.
36:23And then a week later, I interviewed him in Yosemite.
36:27It was the dying month of his presidency.
36:29He arrived in Marine One, and we're walking through these redwood trees, and if you look at a photo, it
36:34looks like it's just the two of us.
36:35And I can see behind the cameras, and there were just, the Secret Service brought machine guns because they thought
36:40that assassins might hide behind the trees.
36:42So there's a load of, so we're walking through, we're celebrating the centenary of America's Park Service, but behind the
36:47cameras are just people with machine guns tracking backwards the whole time.
36:50Wow, we're on a bear hunt.
36:52Yeah, we're on a bear hunt.
36:53But seeing him arrive in Marine One for an interview with you was quite something.
36:57And that's a high bar, isn't it?
37:00And that's got to help with future guest booking.
37:02Yeah, yeah.
37:03I can imagine.
37:04It helps enormously, and it also just, it helps you personally, doesn't it, when you land an interview like that?
37:09I wouldn't know.
37:09Well, you've got me.
37:12Yeah, exactly.
37:13I've got the guy who met, I've danced with a man who's danced with the girls who's danced with the
37:17Prince of Wales.
37:18That's where I am.
37:19That is basically it.
37:20You like it because it's high energy.
37:22You once said to me about presenting and making shows, it's all about energy.
37:25Of course it is.
37:26It's definitely about, but life's about energy, isn't it?
37:28It's actually not what you say, it's just how you say it.
37:30Yeah.
37:30You know, that's it.
37:31That's why you're so gentle and so beautiful and so lovely.
37:34This is completely apropos of nothing, but I just remembered, my wife Rebecca reminded me of something,
37:38which is when we got engaged, it was like 18 years ago, we went to the Groucho to meet you,
37:43it's a members club in London, and Rebecca said to you, oh, we got engaged,
37:47and you said to her, you said to her, you can go out with Richard Bacon,
37:52you can hang out with Richard Bacon, you can kiss Richard Bacon if you want to,
37:56but you do not marry him.
37:58Well, I was wrong and Rebecca was right.
38:00Do you know why?
38:01Because Rebecca knows everything, and you will confirm that.
38:03Yeah.
38:04And if Rebecca doesn't know some things, Tash will know those things,
38:07and if Tash has done some things, Rebecca will know those things.
38:08They're similar in ways, those two, I think.
38:10I think they have a similar kind of energy.
38:12Because they're married to two absolute nurses.
38:13Exactly.
38:14Richard, great to see you, man.
38:15Great to see you, thank you.
38:16Richard Bacon, Why Are You More Successful Than Me is out now,
38:18it's a podcast that's available on Apple.
38:20On Apple.
38:21And?
38:21And it's on Spotify.
38:23Wherever you get your podcasts.
38:24Wherever you get your podcasts.
38:24Wherever you get your podcasts.
38:24All right, let's hear from Richard Bacon!
38:25Yeah!
38:27Smiling!
38:31All right, still to come, the legend that is Lioness,
38:34Beth Mead is going to be here.
38:35Plus a very special treat from Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.
38:40Guess what that might be!
38:42But first, take this into the break.
38:43It's Hard Fight with their brand new single,
38:45Looking for Fun.
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38:50I'm just looking for some.
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38:56Boy, dear, and I'm not hurting no one.
39:01I'm just looking for fun.
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39:27All right, that was Hard Fight with Looking for Fun
39:29from their new album, Burn Like The Sun.
39:33Our next guest is a legendary Lioness Arsenal icon
39:36and as of a few hours ago, a Man City superstar!
39:42And she's now got a top podcast,
39:44the Beth Mead Show with the episodes dropping every Tuesday.
39:46You'll never guess who it is.
39:48Oh, yeah, we feel the need, the need for Beth Mead.
40:01Wow.
40:02We're going to get you to come on the show.
40:04This is so exciting.
40:05You've got big news as well, and you've got your podcast out.
40:09So Beth Mead, the Beth Mead Show.
40:11How are you finding it?
40:12How are you finding hosting the show?
40:13Yeah, I don't know about the name.
40:14I feel like it's a bit about me, but no, I'm enjoying it.
40:17It's fun.
40:18I'm getting used to it.
40:19All right, so you've got a studio,
40:20but you've already taken it on the road, haven't you?
40:22I have taken it on the road.
40:23I've taken it to the Lionesses already.
40:24It looks so cool, that set-up, honestly.
40:27Yeah, I mean, it's not bad.
40:28Okay, so where is your studio?
40:30Where are you doing it mostly?
40:32And then tell us about when you took it to the camp.
40:35Yeah, I'm doing a lot of it here in London.
40:37Yeah?
40:38Yeah.
40:39I've never really done this stuff before.
40:41I've always been on the receiving end.
40:42You're really good at it.
40:43Yeah, well, you're being polite, but it's fine.
40:46No, honestly, you are really good.
40:47It's a good show.
40:48I mean, I'm glad you enjoy it.
40:50Yeah, because people who you've invited on want to talk to you.
40:53Maisie Adam was amazing.
40:54Yeah, true.
40:55George Stanway and GK Barry and Ella Rutherford as well.
40:58And when you took it to camp, you put sofas on the pitch.
41:02Now, only you would be allowed to do that.
41:04Right in the middle.
41:05I know.
41:05Right in the middle.
41:06No offside on them sofas.
41:08That was so cool.
41:08So that's a full-size pitch, indoor full-size pitch.
41:13The indoor 3G.
41:14How mad is that pitch?
41:15They just let me put a couple of sofas in there and a couple of microphones.
41:18Because you're Beth Mead.
41:19Apparently so.
41:20Apparently so.
41:20Wow.
41:21So a couple of weeks ago, we all heard the news.
41:24You announced you were going to leave Arsenal.
41:26How long have you been there for?
41:28Highlights.
41:29Just give us a bit of that, and then we'll get on to today's massive news.
41:32Yes.
41:34Nine and a half years at Arsenal.
41:36Legend.
41:37Legend.
41:37Come on, guys.
41:38Come on, Arsenal.
41:40What did you win while you were there?
41:42I've won a league.
41:44Yeah.
41:45A league cup.
41:47Yeah.
41:47And my favourite Champions League.
41:49Come on.
41:50A bit of a purple patch or a red and white patch, wasn't it?
41:53Well, yes.
41:54Okay.
41:55Now, did you know what you were going to do next when you announced you were...
41:58Look at that smile.
41:59Well, when you announced you were leaving, because today it's all over the news.
42:05I had a few options.
42:06I wasn't sure on what it was going to look like, but yes, it is very much cemented right now.
42:11How does that work?
42:12Okay, we'll get on to the big news in a second, but how does that work when you say,
42:15I've got a few options?
42:17You know, do they come through your agent?
42:19Do they come through your friends or your partner?
42:21Do you hear whispers?
42:22How do those few options manifest themselves?
42:25I mean, I think when you become a free agent, clubs obviously come in and ask questions to
42:31your agent.
42:32Your agent obviously brings them to you, sees if they fit with you as a player, if it's
42:36something that you would like to do.
42:38And there was a few that I was excited about.
42:42I think, obviously, the thought of leaving Arsenal, I'm thinking of somewhere new.
42:45It never ever crossed my mind for a long time.
42:47So, to start to have to think about that was a little bit weird.
42:50But, yeah, I'm happy with my decision.
42:52Good for you.
42:53And so, the club, she turned down.
42:57I couldn't possibly see it.
42:59I couldn't possibly see it.
43:01Her reps are there going, don't ask that.
43:02And I was like, I didn't expect her to answer it.
43:05Don't worry about it.
43:06In fact, if she had started, I would start to.
43:06Do you know what?
43:07I did it respectfully.
43:08Yeah, of course you did.
43:09Of course you did.
43:09As always.
43:10All right.
43:10So, the big news is a deal with Man City has been agreed.
43:15Yeah?
43:16Rumour has it.
43:17More than rumour.
43:18By the way, if you don't know, nobody does.
43:21So, I mean, people said Man City is probably favourites to get to.
43:26You're part of a place for Man City.
43:28And it says the deal has been agreed.
43:32Has it been signed?
43:34Possibly.
43:35Okay.
43:36Did you get a pen in your hand and put it to a piece of paper?
43:39With a fake piece of paper, yes.
43:40Did you?
43:41Okay.
43:42So, has it happened then?
43:43We'll find out.
43:44We'll find out very soon.
43:45All right.
43:46It's, yeah.
43:47I mean, it's football.
43:48There's no secrets anymore, is there?
43:50All right.
43:50Okay.
43:50Oh, so it's not officially been announced then?
43:52No.
43:53Officially, no.
43:54Should we officially announce it now?
43:59Okay.
43:59Hang on a minute.
44:00I told you.
44:01Rumour has it.
44:02Rumour has it.
44:03Boom.
44:03Boom.
44:04Rumour has it.
44:05Boom.
44:05Boom.
44:07So, what are we waiting for exactly?
44:10The official announcement.
44:12What's the decision there?
44:13Is it the club or...?
44:15Just timings of figuring stuff out.
44:18Got to get your ducks in a row.
44:19Exactly.
44:19Get stuff sorted.
44:20You go to...
44:21Don't know if that's ever possible, mine.
44:22You go to Manchester, there's a photo thing and it's all official and...
44:26Yeah, pretty much.
44:27All right.
44:28Are we talking...
44:30Do you want me to tell you the contract, the details?
44:32No, no, by the way.
44:33The salary.
44:34No, please.
44:36I'll back off in a minute, I promise.
44:38No, I just wonder, is it a matter of days or weeks?
44:41Days.
44:42Days.
44:42Today?
44:43Tomorrow?
44:45Saturday, let me see.
44:46Right, tomorrow?
44:47Go on, see.
44:48Saturday.
44:50It might be Saturday.
44:52Who knows?
44:52Who knows?
44:53I don't know, I don't know.
44:55And then there's the quiz.
44:56You do the quiz with people.
44:57Yes.
44:57What's the quiz about?
44:58Quiz about themselves.
44:59All right.
44:59Not many people know stuff about themselves.
45:01Okay, we've got a little one for you.
45:02Oh, gosh.
45:04You know where this is going to be?
45:05Go on, give it to me.
45:07All right, well, look, you can either do the quiz, right, three questions, or just tell us
45:11when the announcement for Mansees.
45:14Let's do the quiz.
45:15Do the quiz.
45:15All right, okay.
45:16How many clubs has Beth Mead played for so far?
45:20Two.
45:21Okay, and can you name them?
45:23Is that including just professional clubs?
45:25Yeah, professional.
45:26And can you name those clubs?
45:27What?
45:28Sunderland and Arsenal.
45:30Is the correct answer.
45:33Not being funny.
45:34Can't we come up with a better question than that?
45:35Two.
45:36She's not going to forget the two clubs we played for.
45:38It'd be embarrassing if I did.
45:39In 2023, who did Beth Mead say was the worst singer among the Lionesses?
45:46Oh.
45:47Ella Toon?
45:48No.
45:49Beth Mead said Beth Mead.
45:50Well, that's also right.
45:52Dead right.
45:53I was being polite that far.
45:55Okay, quiz number three.
45:56Beth Mead won the Golden Boot at the...
45:58Beth Mead won the Golden Boot at the UEFA Women's Euro 2022.
46:04How many goals did Beth Mead score during the tournament?
46:08Six.
46:09These were the easiest questions in the world.
46:11Beth Mead, you have won the Beth Mead quiz.
46:13Yes!
46:15Let's hear it for Beth Mead.
46:19All right, guys, guys, guys, have a great weekend.
46:22Playing us out is the Lightning Seeds.
46:24Guess what they're playing us out with?
46:25Go on.
46:25Why is it?
46:25Happy World Cup, everyone.
46:27Back to 1996.
46:28It's Three Lions.
46:31Three Lions.
46:33Three Lions on a shirt.
46:35Jules remain still gleaming.
46:39Thirty years of us.
46:42Never stop me dreaming.
46:47So many jokes, so many fears.
46:51But all those awesome fears went down through the years, but all those awesome fears went down through the years.
47:13Joe's parents.
47:14Joe's friends, Joe's friends.
47:14Joe's friend, then he's still gleaming.
47:17But as he gives advice, never stop me dreaming.
47:29Joe's friend, now he's still gleaming.
47:31But as he gives advice, never stop me dreaming.
47:31Never stop me dreaming.
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