Musicals

[Music] Hello! Hello! And welcome back to 3 Beans salad. We've been away for all of August, but we're back. Oh, yes. We are so back. Not really. Happy September, everybody. Yeah, happy September. To be exact. To be exact. To be exact. To be exact. To be exact. To be exact. To be exact. I've got something to apologize for early doors. Oh, yeah. So I'm in a recording studio in Edinburgh. Yeah. Henry was up one of these early this year. You kind of rent a little room. They give you a code you can go in. And there's lots of other little rooms. And the man in the room next to me is recording his. I don't. I'm not hugely into, like, aware of all the genres. But I think it's called Screamo Metal. Oh! Oh, God. Oh, wow. Proper kind of Nordic Ragnarok. Kind of. That's the stuff. Yeah, the aesthetic is very viking. I would say. Yeah. I imagine he's got some kind of platted beard going on. Yes, very good. Everything's platted. Is he still going now, but. I can't hear from in here, thankfully. I can hear there's a bass player who's practicing. Yeah. It's not great to be honest for our purposes. I was thinking sort of like. Yeah, it's sort of not doing what it says on the tin in a way, is it? As a sound recording studio. If you can hear here and have conversations with your fellow podcast. There's a lot of different sounds that you're hearing and how. They're one interesting sat and complex soundscape. Yeah, if it's closer to sort of barrack's toilet cubicle than it is to have you old. Yeah. And maybe that is testament to the power of his Metal Scream that it might be through the studio wall. It must be quite hard to lay down the screen separately, isn't it? Because you think about like Thrash Metal or whatever that kind of. There's always a new Metal sounds more extreme than the last one, isn't it? You know what I mean? If it's Thrash Metal, Scream Metal, then they'll just be like. Pain Metal. Hurnier Metal. Exploding Face Metal. They'll have to see something, yeah, exactly. And I'm actually just like. Stop trying to sound all scary and stuff. We all know now that anyone with any link to Metal is the. Just the most mild-mannered. Sweet. Gentle. Oh, this one's called Horror. This one's called Horror Death Murder Metal. Oh, yeah. That you're an incredibly soft, sweet-natured person. That I saw weeping, weeping openly when someone told them that Bumblebee's anti-mortal. (laughter) It's interesting to say that. Inperiled. And I should get off an inperiled. And their band is called Immortal Bumblebee. (laughter) But anyway, you're right, because you know like when Metal came along, whenever that was, maybe it's Black Sabbath and that kind of thing. When you listen to it now, it sort of sounds quite quaint. Like it doesn't sound heavy to our ears. And now, because there's like a new. There's all these new generations that sound heavy and heavy and heavier. And now it's just kind of screaming in noise. Yeah. But even the modern like whatever genre it is now, like sort of pig death metal over it's called. Yeah. We'll sound quaint to us in 50 years' time. But how is that possible? Because they're literally like pouring pigs blood onto a drum. Well, the drummers, I feel sorry for the drummers, because they've got to get faster and faster. The drummers of the vocalists who really suffer. Yeah. Because the bassists and the guitarists, they can just crank up the distortion. They just get more and more distortion and just set fires at the amp or whatever. But those guys. So really should just be called. The lead singer needs to buy a lot of not-loss-ing is metal. Sooth is core. It might be. Or maybe they just have to cast their own wider and get some sort of Mongolian deep throat guys. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But just singing it with a bit of pace. Yeah. (humming) That's cool. So if you ever see a heavy metal gig, they've always built, they've always built like. They'll have built a hedgehog super highway under the gig. (laughing) They'll have built like a. There's a bat tunnel. (laughing) A bat tunnel. A creepy crawly hotel. They'll be like a stout chillout area. But like, if any stouts are getting stressed in the air. Yeah, the stout can go and do some collages with pastor and glue or whatever it is that they want to do. Yeah, the stout can talk to its problems with Chris Packham. (laughing) Such a good listener. It's such a gentle scene. And also, all of the shops in the air, it's well known of a heavy metal gig. They always sell out of band-aids and stuff because everyone's so concerned that anyone else at the gig might get scratched. Yes. By one of the stouts. (laughing) (laughing) We want to be anxious stouts. We want to be anxious stouts. It's a kind of like a sort of like arms racing because every year everyone comes more aware of how soft nature and sweethearted heavy metal fans are. They have to invent a more awful sounding heavy metal to try and desperate market claw back. (laughing) She's great on the nipple's net metal. (laughing) Isn't it? So that guy's doing screen metal. I bet that guy in there is the just the nicest guy you've ever met. Oh, I'm sure. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I'm good luck to him. Now, I've got three things on the agenda today. Okay. It's a bit of a pump. It's a bit of a pump-a-due session. It's a bit of behind the curtain stuff. Okay. If you think that's appropriate. Yeah, right. (music) And now it's time for. Pump-a-due session. Pump-a-due. Pump-a-due. I'm not sure what order is there. I think the first one is a bit of a sad tail. Do you want a sad tail? Yeah, don't mind me. Yeah, don't mind me. Are we pump-a-due? How are you going to pump-a-due? It's double pump-a-due. You pump-a-due. Pump-a-due. Pompadoo! It's Dumpadoo! It's Dumpadoo! Dumpadumpadoo! Dumpadumpadoo! Dumpadumpadoo! Dumpadumpadoo! Dumpadumpadoo! Dumpadumpadoo! Dumpadumpadoo! Make the jingle now. Ben has to make a jingle of that now. Thank you, Henry. Dumpadoo! Dumpadoo! Dumpadoo! Dumpadoo! Dumpadoo! Dumpadoo! Dumpadoo! Now this was a bit of a roller coaster for me yesterday because I was walking along and on my phone, I have the. Doesn't sound like a very good roller coaster. Does walking along? Yeah. It's a metaphorical roller coaster. Oh, sorry, you should have said, what's the hype restriction? I'm just being impish. And we love you for it, Henry. Alright. Thanks. Cheers. So, I've got just. I've got just. I've not been able to be fully impish for a month. So it bottled up, is it? I've got so much imping me right now. But I'm going to put a little bit in it. Okay, sorry. I've got the three bean salad Instagram account on my phone. Yes. So I get a little like bings and bongs when things happen. Okay. I don't think I get a bing every time someone follows us, but I get a bing for some reason when anyone with a blue tick follows us. Now, are you aware of what a blue tick means? Oh, yes. We have got some big big blue tickers, haven't we? Bigger sandbags. Sarah Ferguson. Sarah Ferguson. All the good happy children. So it came up and it said, you've been followed by Ben Fogel. Now, that's big. That's big. That's big. Can you give it a quick explainer to the listeners who weren't afraid of Ben Fogel, but maybe if they're from Broad. National Treasure Broadcaster Explorer. Yeah. I think he rode the Atlantic, maybe? Yes, he's done that. He's done that. I think he's done it. He's done an arctic thing as well. Yeah. He is the nation's first choice husband. Yes. Yeah, very much so. He was once trapped in a crevassant eight icicles for three years and actually came out and better shaped than he went in. He's that kind of guy? No, so I was pretty excited by that, to be honest. And then there was another little bing about five minutes later. Ben Fogel has tagged you in a reel. Now Mike, I know you're not very tech savvy. A reel isn't a fast-paced folk music played on the violin. Oh, it's also not a, it won't have a large trout on the end of it. Well, it's not a way of bringing in lobster pots. But it's also not hemp string that you've tied one in round a frog. You've tied the other one round a little bit of wood and you've given it to your daughter as the main gift on her wedding day. But it can be. But it isn't in this case. And Ben Fogel would make a decent one. Because that's the famous extra backup husband, isn't it? If the marriage doesn't go well, frog on a string. Yeah. He's no trouble. He brings over the bacon in the form of half a master case flies. Yeah, which you can fall into a sort of bacon. So a little bit with everyone, don't necessarily accept a BLT from Mike Wozniak. And this is one that he's pre-bought at M&S. And not the extra M&S because everything in the extra M&S has made that semi-mastigated flies. It is a short video on Instagram. Okay. I was like, okay. So I press play on the video. Now it's good news and bad news, my friend. So Ben Fogel is in front of his, he's got a big nice pond in his garden. Great. And he's showing everyone all the ducks he's got in his pond. Yeah. And he says, here I've I've got three new ducks that I've called the three bin salad. Oh my God. And then he says, "I've named them after my favourite podcast." No. No. I was delighted with this. Big smile on my face. Yeah. It can't go wrong from here, can it? Yeah. Oh, no. Is it going to go wrong from here? Can't build us up this high. So he says, "I've never done some favourite podcast, three bin salad." Yeah. Well, it was my favourite podcast, but then they said something mean about me, so I don't listen to it very much anymore. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. And I felt absolutely outbroken. Oh no. Oh my God. What did we say? I was racking my brains. Well, I remember a man once came up to me in the street and London and said, "You look like Ben Ferdinand." Yeah. And then he walked off and I was taking the component and felt like good about it and then it is his trousers weren't correctly up in the right way. Which, and that's at the under mine, the compliment, unfortunately. I forgot this. Well, so the waist of his trousers was round his ankles. Well, no. And it wasn't as bad as, Mike, have some nuance trousers there. They're not just fully on or totally off. There's somewhere in between, Mike. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. But the legs were up his legs. So he was just upside down. Is it legs? It's basically, if someone pays you a compliment, like you can take it, it's a good compliment. But, well, all I know is I thought the compliment wasn't coming from someone that was able to fully pull up his trousers properly and therefore maybe he's not the best person to judge who's like Ben Ferdinand. Anyway, that's the only thing I can think of. Well, I was thinking about that. Then I did some internet searching because we have, there's a couple of websites where people kind of summarize the episodes and you can search through them, which is a great thing somebody does. I did find a bit. Again, I don't think it was offensive to Ben Ferdinand, but Henry, you mentioned that you look like Ben Ferdinand. Well, Mike pushes back against this idea and says that you look like somewhere half between Ben Fogel and Nosferatu. Well, I mean, that's more offensive to me than Ben Fogel. Exactly. Which we end up the Nosfoglatu. That's great. That's great. This is good stuff. So, basically, I can't find a bit where I mean about Ben Fogel. It's possible that we may have been just friendly. It's not a friendly fire instance. I want to say, if you're a listening Ben, I'm sorry if we were genuinely hurtful. A thousand apologies. Yeah. I don't think we'd be nasty about Ben Ferdinand. I've got, I don't have anything else to say about the man. So, I did, I felt generally a bit gusty that actually we made Ben Fogel sad. Yeah. Bang on, but he's joined, he started following us since this incident. True. He's called the ducks this since the incident. True. So, I think everything's fine. He's got a good sense of humour. You know what? It might be nice thing to do. Yeah. Send him some sort of gift basket. Why was thinking? Send him a nice hamper. Just with a bit of soil and some pigeon shit in it. And say, "Make a meal out of that. You're fucking supposed to be a survivor, are you?" Henry's stopping me to Ben Fogel. He's named a duck after you, Henry. What's wrong with you? I was so. Before you ask the question, Ben, yes, we have pissed in the chutney. Henry, this is most unbecoming. In fact, we've taken the chutney out of the chutney. He'll catch that. And all there is in the chutney is piss. And we're eating the chutney while writing this. Or saying something about a medium we've decided to use. Oh, no, I can't stop myself with Fogel. But Fogel clearly likes a bit of this stuff. I wondered whether he was slightly saying it in jest. I couldn't work it out really. I think, can we just officially say that we love Ben Fogel? I like Ben Fogel. We're probably Ben Fogel. We like Ben Fogel a lot. I mean, that's, you know, as illustrators by the industrial to Fogel spectrum. It's very clear what gender is the good end. The nostalgality. Yeah. And very exciting about those ducks. I'm going to see if I can find that. Next point of order, please. This is an apology from me. Oh. So, like I have the three-been side Instagram on my phone, I also have the three-been salad Gmail address. Yes. Three-been salad [email protected]. I had an email from a woman at Patreon. Yeah. That I sort of neglected to read or did read and didn't think about. And I'm going to read it to you. And I just want to apologise for the opportunity that I have kind of unwittingly turned down. Oh. Okay. Cool. This is from a woman at Patreon. I won't give her name. Hi, Ben. I hope you're doing well. I'm reaching out because we'd love to explore featuring three-been salad in an upcoming Times Square Billboard that will be going live this June. This is catfishing. Surely, this is catfishing. Henry, that was it. In case you're wondering when it was or will be or the moment, that was it. Yeah. That was your moment. I've been waiting for this my whole life. That's from the 28th of May. Yeah. I neglected to reply or forward it to you to or think about it or do anything about it. Yeah. You had one job, Ben, which was to make my dreams come true. And you've taken some of them instead. Yeah. You'd be in Jersey Boys on Broadway now. They'd have changed its name to Jersey Boy. Yeah. We don't need the other boys. Yeah. They're distracting from the main boy. Well, they'll be Jersey, Jersey Vita. They're the few. There's Jersey Vita. Yeah. Yeah. The Vita's sponsored by Rye Vita. Yeah. You know, the Rye Vita, the brand tie-ins, obviously. Of course you would have done. Yeah. And Jersey Potatoes. And then in the theatre next door, Mike could be doing his one-man show, "Gernzy Boy." And then on the theatre next door to that, you'd be. And Ben, you're doing "Sark Toddler." That's right. "Sark Toddler." Yeah. And then the old and the lads is on the next theatre. That's the three of us doing a sort of thing together. Yeah. That reminds me. My main memory of Time Square is I once went into a Starbucks there because the billboards told you to. You do what the billboards tell you to do. What the billboards tell you to do. It's at that simple, Ben. Yeah. Ah. I'd be the face of Ryman. My legs would be on all the underwear models, sort of mannequins and uniclo. I wanted it to be that way. That could be the other way around. John, some details of what we've unwittingly turned down? Yes, please. The billboard will run on rotation in Time Square for one week, appearing every few minutes, with projected visibility of over two million impressions. I would be the richest man in Britain right now. Yes. Because I'd have managed to use this. You guys would have. We'd have squandered it. Yeah. You'd have fretted it away. Yeah. So would it have just been us? Would it have been like us and like a million other like. You know, not wanting to slag off any other podcasts because it's not something we'd do. But asking things like the rest is bullshit and the rest is lit. Here's some hot piss coming out here. I don't know. I suspect we would have been one of very, very many podcasts. Yeah. Maybe even unintelligible to the naked eye, maybe. I'm not sure. Yeah, you tell yourself that, Ben. You tell yourself that. Yeah, yeah. And actually, do those things work? I mean, think about Piccadilly Circus. Have any of us ever actually bought a can of Coca-Cola? Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Yeah, so sorry, that was it. Mike says that was our chance. That was our big time chance. It's over. It's nice in a way to know. In any way, in many ways, I feel more relaxed knowing that it's been and gone. Yeah. I know I'm holding on so tight all of a sudden. Yeah. I can feel the weight lifting off my shoulders. It's a bit like. The last chopper is disappearing over the horizon being piloted by Ben. Yeah. And we're going to be. You just turn around and face the mob. And it's. Face the mob. Just go floppy. And it's not. Yeah. Yeah, go. This is the cum middle. Yes. Yeah. And you actually find the meat will come off the bone actually quite nicely potentially, because you do relax enough. Yeah. Yeah, just a serious point of order. Have you replied to that in the poll? No. No. No. I think you should reply and go maybe, you know, maybe stick with someone next one or whatever. Henry. Henry's interest. Henry's interest. Henry. Henry wasn't Henry's fault. Henry's interested Henry. I am actually meeting this woman tomorrow. Oh, really? And she's going to sell you the rights to a sandwich board in fish guard for three days for 80,000 pounds. And she's also going to. She's also going to need a pamphlet in a Chinese restaurant in Derby. Okay. This is another pump, dude. Do you have any things you'd like me to say to the woman from Patreon when I meet her tomorrow? Apart from profus Apologies. Profus Apologies. I don't want to dwell on her, but I'd be interested to know who it is that got the slot and how they're doing now. Yes. Do you want to mean? Was it Prince Harry? Who got the springboard? Yeah. Or was it just a blank space? By the time this podcast comes out, of course, Prince Harry will be safe fully back on these shores. Oh, what a relief. What a relief. I had a huge sigh. I sighed. I did one of my biggest ever sighs when I read that news. But be careful, cos we. We might end up seeing a reel in a couple of months' time where he's. He's naming his falcons after us, but a little bit wounded. Do you want me to just be careful? Yeah. Okay, so for the third point. Yes. We have kind of run out of time, so stay tuned and hear about it next week. That's called a cliffhanger, baby. I see, done. Let's sit on the big machine. Yes, please. Yes, please. Now, if you want to submit your own things to the bean machine, an idea for a topic, you just have to go to enter the bean machine dot boats. I've had a message from someone called Johnny, he says, "You have an issue with the security certificate for enter the bean machine dot boats. This browser's flash up a warning advising people not to proceed." Oh, really? Yeah, because why is there a website called "Dot Boats"? It doesn't make any sense, but I still don't get the joke. I've never understood why is it called "Dot Boats"? Are we the only person with the dot boats domain in the whole world? Have we put "Dot Boats"? When you finally get it? How much is it costing us? When you finally understand. "Dot Boats"? On that moment, the podcast is over. I'll breathe my last happy breath. It's not really a joke. Don't explain it to a man. Don't explain it. He has to arrive at the understanding of himself. Oh, it's a joke to do with the RNLI. I'll die happy. And then you'll be at my death bed going, "No, no, it wasn't that. I'll be honest to let him die, I don't let out on that." And I'll be really, really irritated. Really irritated as I go to the next realm. Anyway, I see that security message coming up as a kind of balancer that just keeps out that people aren't dedicated enough to it. Yeah, yeah. Is it really worth it? Is this suggestion? Exactly. Yeah. I think going into the beam machine. Are you saying that we're not a trusted browser? No, I think that's actually kind of a reassuring element. People worry about taking control, but here the tech has worked out. This is going into the beam machine. I don't just put any old thing into the beam machine. You need to risk your online safety. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like any plumbed toilet in the UK. You can't just throw anything in there. Toilet paper. Correct. That's our right. And it's in Magna Carta. It's in Magna Carta. Throw anything into a plumbed toilet in this country. Stopper pistols, musely bars, wet wipes, dry wipes, any which way you like it wipes. I do just want to say don't put a wet wipe down your toilet. Even when it's the same fashion. It's always a lie. It's always a lie. That's the exception that proves the rule. So can we have a conversation about this? Because again, it feels like what we were talking about heavy metal bands earlier. Heavy metal bands here to keep on coming up with heavier names to describe the fact that they're actually quite soft nice people. Yeah. Andrex wet wipes, keep on coming up with more and more stuff on the front saying you can flush it. It's 100% guaranteed. Seven scientists have put their names to the document stating that you can flush it. Seven clean ass scientists. And they've got 12 GCSEs between them. Between them. And so the more that the signage and the advertising says you can flush these, put them down your toilet now. You can take them out of the pack, put the whole lot down the toilet. If you want them just flush them, don't even use them, just flush them. Yeah. The message is you can, but you will get a fat bug. But the word of mouth is fat bug. So the word of mouth. So I'm out on the street. I'm meeting people in the bars. I'm talking to people. You're talking fat bugs. Yeah. From saying fat bugs. Yes. Every other person, I want the fat bugs and the fat bug, fat bug busting industry. I mean, I'll walk into the problem with the fat, I'll say people whispering fat bug, fat bug, fat bug. It's one of the few AI-proof jobs that AI doesn't want to touch it. What fat bugs? Yeah. Fat bugs. Both. It's a growing industry, because it's not true. What's a which bit it's not true? Yeah. The flusable bit. Flusable wipes. Yeah. It's interesting that there's two, there's just two schools of thought on it. There's the public. There's the street. Yeah. And there's the packaging. What's the truth? Hello? This is reading from the, yeah, from the truth ball, I think, reading from the idea that we might be being misled by a big bug girl. But yeah, so enter the bean machine dot boats, right? Yeah. I've just gone in my browser. It says this site can't be reached. That'll happen. That'll happen. I mean, so that means I just, if I was going to put a topic in, well, the internet sense deal. So your topic idea was bullshit. Can you get nose that I'm, because obviously if I was, if any of us were to put something in the bean machine, that'd be the worst, that'd be one of the worst portrayals of trust in history of our nation, wouldn't it? If one of us was putting topic in the bean machine, it'd be shattering for the confidence of the nation, wouldn't it? I think so, yeah. It would be the Westland helicopter affair of, of, of 2026, wouldn't it? Yeah. Thanks. Play the jingle. So, I have got a jingle, I have. In 1986, a dramatic political crisis unfolded around the survival of Westland helicopters. Britain's last independent helicopter manufacturer, which faced financial collapse. The cabinet split into two war infections. England Secretary Michael Hesseltine, championed a European led rescue consortium, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and trade an industry secretary Lee and Britain favor the U.S. led take over by Sikorski aircraft. This was the Westland affair. So, Jenny, if it was me, I would not know how to, it just says it can't be reached. Is it proxy firewalls stuff? Yeah. It rewards tenacity. And people who've got, you know, using servers in Polynesia. Yes, I think I don't know where the dot boats domain is based. It's not on above board website. And is it true that by putting a topic into the bean machine, your, your, your risking massive, massive data breaches and your mortgage? Yes. Compromise your mortgage made big risk is where it says somewhere, your mortgage made risk. If you enter a topic into the bean machine, don't, don't be logged into internet banking at the same time. I'll just put it that way. And don't have your wallet in your pocket, even. I put one in a drawer on the other side of the house. You need to put your wallet in a Faraday cage, Bluetooth off yourself and your own Faraday cage. Yeah. Probably a waterproof one. And you can now buy Faraday cages. You can't, you're at the three bean salad shop three bean salad shop dot com. That's not a dot boats soon release our Faraday kennels watch this base. Sophie went to enter the bean machine dot boats and she had no problem in entering this week's topic. Well, I'm not surprised hearing that about Sophie gone, what we got, which is musicals. Is it? This is the story of potatoes. Is that from Jersey boy? That's from Jersey Royal boy. The costumes are something else in that show. You've seen the act of don't she plays the King Edward is, I mean, it's just absolutely. Yeah. If you've ever seen a potato, then try and forget it because it's very, very hard to get a human sized potato because what you're looking at is a very large papier mache vaguely in the color of the day. So being worn by some very skilled dancers who aren't able to do their usual moves because of the restriction nature of the potato costumes. Yeah. And also creatively with issues with the fact that potatoes don't actually dance or move in real life and we've had a lot of big arguments, well, Ben got, you got in a fist fight with Tim Rice, didn't you? My problem with Tim Rice was that he kept using the lyric, obviously there's the love story between the Jersey Royal and the King Edward. And the Jersey Royal play by Henry would call the King Edward my sweet potato. Yeah, right. And I say no, no Tim, there's a whole other genus of potato called sweet potato. He's not heard of him. Well, he's been living in a bubble, isn't he? He's not heard of any food since the introduction of country clay pastor into Britain in the '96, which is when he fled the UK. Also, one joke that he did not appreciate, third-ever households, my phone, I dropped my phone down the toilet and I run into the house room and I shove it up his ass and I'm, he's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? I said, are you supposed to put it in? I'm right. And when that's happened, three times in a single lunch break, that joke is going to get old. Yeah, because I thought, is it one of those ones where the more European eventually Tim Rice will get on board? There's diminishing returns from the absolute get-go. Now, Henry, you have worked on a Western musical, but I don't know if we can talk about it. I reckon. Surely. Did you sign some kind of NDA? You must have done. You won't have known you were doing it, but you must have done. No, I've not signed shit, but I've done a bit of work on a Western musical. We can talk about it euphemistically, if you like. Well, I worked on a big one. There's an absolute whopper, oh, yeah. Yeah, after a night with my whopper, people are walking out in tears. Oh my gosh. Is that what you meant? So I've worked on a Western. Yeah, I've touched a little bit of the star dust. I've had a bit of it sprinkled on me and I've sprinkled a bit of it on other people. Can I just, you didn't find the way to make me or Mike stars through the musical? No, we thought that was the way in back in the day before we knew about the Times Square Day cycle. Yeah. So, yeah, I did a bit of, I did a little bit of my broth into a little bit of writing in musical. I don't think the musical's still going as far as I know, or not in the UK anyway, but one of those ones is probably still going somewhere. It's a gag punch up. I did a gag punch up. So I wrote a few jokes in a musical, right? What's kind of interesting is, essentially, if you write lines in a musical, there are various different ways you can get paid. I got paid a small amount, like an amount every year it was on, which is good. But what I tried to get my agent to fight for, which we couldn't get, was that sweet percentage? You're on the merch, but it's not happening though, isn't it? The day-to-day costs of staging Robocop The Musical is not like I said we weren't going to come It was gaggy than I thought it'd be A lot of people thought my prime directive is to love you So yeah, what you want because basically if you're if you're a naive person cover your ears Yeah, and remain so and I tell you to uncover them yet musicals are just Sort of financial bear moths. They're just these things that these huge machines That that have a lot of money invested in them and then if they work they can just generate income forever Yeah, and they can be like you know, they could be like 200 You know concurrently running phantoms or whatever around the world. They're just like massive financial machines Yes, they somebody told me that the biggest selling cultural products of all time Yeah, so in all films is nothing. Yeah, it's been a Rama. So that's the first Three-bean salad jigsaw puzzle Three-bean salad shop. Yeah. I know it got pipped. No, it was pipped wasn't it. What was it the pipped it? So it was pipped so it was been around with the first Three-bean salad jigsaw. Yeah, but apparently the biggest ever cultural product of all time is the Lion King musical There's made more money than any movie any book anything. I don't know how true is I put wasn't that pivotal to the whole Spider-Man thing have we talked about the spider-Man thing on the portal just that amazing book about the guy who wrote the book There's that amazing book about it, and I think a lot of people involved and that had Had been touched by the golden wonder of the Lion King So so fill fill people in was was on that it was a spider-Man musical with With you two doing the the songs sounds great, and obviously it's a pre-sold franchise right who doesn't like spider-Man And who doesn't like you too? This is it But they also they wanted to be a spectacle, right? Yeah, they wanted to be sort of rigging and just as in like the Joseph potatoes Musical you've got the potato matter of damacles hanging over the cast throughout the entire thing and out again There's an accident. So they had various sort of massive stunts With you know genuine spider-Man jumps and all and people getting injured and all the rest people were getting injured and and then it just wasn't Successful right it kept getting remade and rewritten and it was it was previewing for months while they continued to tinker with songs and scripts and Just became this incredible money pit and then they made it like creative mistakes like the first act Opened with a giant papi mash a bono Stuck to the ceiling birthing 2000 live spiders onto the wall onto the store But they've forgotten about the clear-up job I forgot about the clear-up job And the man hand would be writhing with spiders for years to quickly writhing with spiders the whole island They're to bring in a million starlings, isn't they? That was really spicy Yeah, and then four thousand peregrine falcons Yeah, and it turns out that the the edge is allergic to peregrine falcons, so then They started kicking off and also because this all these emails were sent from accounts linked to musicals They actually accidentally ordered a thousand starlets. Oh, yes, yeah, and then you got chorus lines clogging up the freeways and the highways The bridges are blocked. That's right. It's awful. Yeah, and eventually they well the planet came up with was to encase the whole of Manhattan in one giant Multisa, wasn't it? I just rolled into the Atlantic which they've been looking for an excuse for for years But that was a that was an example of yes of the Lion King mega success, right? And someone's saying, but clearly everyone lots of people could say, oh, I want to do that again, but I think these guys because they They had the right they had you to they had the Spiderman rights They had to maybe it may be a producer who'd been involved in the Lion King They thought this is I think that's what stopped them from stopping. Yes for a long time because I like okay any day now And this is basically like an oil well I think probably most of them fail, but when they go right you just print money for years. Is that kind of thing? Yeah, yeah, so you think say you couldn't be safer than Spiderman plus plus you too Do you well I don't know That sounds dreadful to me It does sound dreadful, isn't it? Maybe a different band would have been better do you think or maybe someone who's written a musical before that's a good point And also maybe do something on stage which doesn't involve flying through like skyscrapers and stuff Which is very much a kind of CG How are they gonna replicate that always you're just gonna keep on coming through a door again coming home going bloody hell You don't believe what happened But it's but in song with some with some choppy edge guitar I went up and down and up and really really fast really really fast and straight to the left Then ducked on the right and missed like I'm over my head over my head and then punched a massive octopus guy in the face face face face face And then who went up really really faster knows in space and stuff and you realize that the domestic life of Spiderman is probably quite hard work That's what he's like every time he gets in So this musical you worked on they were trying to do to lay a golden egg basically they're trying to lay a golden egg So it was with a pre already opened it had happened in America they're moving to the UK And they wanted to know okay to UKify some of the jokes and stuff So it was it was based on a pre existing IP. Yeah, it's a bit of jargon there. Yeah Let that hang yeah, just let that hang in the air So yeah, so essentially the way you want to try and get paid because it's this huge It's a bit like a gold mine or something like everyone's investing in it So people are getting on board because they're hoping if this works and finds gold I hope they'll be well out of it their family is financially set for generations to come So so you there is a way of getting paid apparently where if you've just written a few lines a few jokes They add up all the words In the contract it's our in the Divide that by the number of punch lines Times it by the age of which you're projected to die And divide that by Michael Crawford's inside leg measurement And that's musicals maths Was so basically yeah, it's the add up all the words in the script How many there are so you say you know Yeah, one number per word How many words are there in the script how many words did you write so you're incentivized to your jokes to be as long-winded You're as anti-pethy is what you like and if that's where I developed my anecdotes Yeah, and then and then as a proportion so in theory you can be paid like as a proportion Then then it's like alliguinness on star wars or whatever then you know you've you've you've You've substituted your fee for a percentage even if it's a really tiny percentage it could be really good They just said no to that Fortunately for me and Mike that's not how we work out the three been silent money We don't do it per word said because no, it's another thing. I've been sitting for that So yeah, no, but it was kind of as an experience It's so it's interesting like there was previews that was kind of interesting with the writers and all the people going to See the show and then tweaking the jokes trying to get them to work I think I think one I think maybe like one or one point five of my jokes ended up in the show Yeah, yeah, and then when my bit was done I was just that was it was just like I was just cut off and the machine moved on What did it what did you want to happen a special box is left empty for you every night Why wanted was yeah a little box at the theater a little bit seen just be seen for your frozen Elsa just to be seen Yeah, yeah, yeah, not expecting the part I'd have to be seen just to be seen to be in the conversation even if the conversation is going We're definitely not going to hire Henry Packer for this or work with him ever again And if I see him in the street I will punch him But to be in that conversation is still better than to not be in it Now all I've been wanting was to get a little box to be reserved me every night with a seat in it and a little spotlight on it And that just a single red rose sat on the sat on the seat And a few tears dripping dripping onto it the light news up It's my face Packer and I do the first song that's all I wanted all about my experience writing on the show Got a meta experience then it's a bit it's a bit meta yeah And then when I climb into the papier-mache spider with bono's face Scurry scurry across the ceiling And scurry out through the fire exit that that was also seen as two matter Yes That they're just financial BM off they are sort of investment projects that are dressed up You know the final bit of the process is you spray on like some patting turn or what is some pre-existing IP but onto a huge metal machine Yeah, that is devouring the planet people's lives So yeah, like for a lot of the investors it was the choice between investing in you know the new beach in the beast musical or a port in Shanghai Exactly infrastructure projects exactly is infrastructure or it's a minions musical Yeah, why haven't they done that Henry that's so obviously a billion that must be in the mix must be surely Yeah, I think it's um because they instead they decided to build a tunnel from Chongqing Hong Kong It was really really close but actually if you if you go from that tunnel from Chongkong to Hong Kong, you'll notice that there are a lot of massive fibreglass minions scattered throughout the tunnel. Because the start of the investment process is the same, whichever way, whichever route you go down, you're always going to start by commissioning thousands of minions. Costumes made out of fibreglass and reinforced steel, and one of them looks a bit like bono in its full of tiny spiders. Every thread always causes a lot of traffic jams at that point, which is actually a lot of times easy just to fly from Chongqing to Hong Kong in a massive hover minion, which is the other project, you know, huge hovering minions that go from Shanghai to Hong Kong. Or just go and see blood brothers. It does feel like these days, I mean, maybe this is, or ever thus, but is it quite, it's all IP now, isn't it? Well, this is the point I was going to make, but that's why so much of it is preexisting IP because that's a safer investment. But I guess that even like Laym is Robler's IP, right? That's based on a novel. Yes, I suppose, yeah. Preexisting IP. Yeah. So, so the big ones lately have been on films, is it back to the future? Yes. Groundhog Day. Yes. I guess there's some historical ones that aren't, like you can't say Operation Minsmed is IP. I mean, I know there's been a book in a film, but- No, that's, no, that's not preexisting IP. That's okay. Okay, okay. I'm going to have to make a thing. So, everything's IP, the issue is preexisting IP. I'm awesome. History's like the original IP, isn't it? Yeah. World War II is the biggest IP project. It's one of the biggest IP successes of all time. Yeah. It's an absolute triumph of IP, World War II. Yeah. If you're going to pick a war, you're going to pick the second one, well, you're not going to pick the 100 years war. No. You're going to pick the second one. You're going to pick the first one, right? Yeah. You're going to pick the second one, right? You must give thanks to the postmasters that came before. Good morning, postmaster. Anything for me? Just some old shit. When you send an email, this represents progress. Like a robot, shooting a horse. Get me your horse. My beautiful horse. This is from Jess. Hello, Jess. I live in Portland, Oregon. I listen to your podcast while driving for my job as a sales representative. The company I work for distributes speciality beverages and snacks all around the Portland area. Nice. Jess describes themselves as outraged. Oh, my outrage stems from the lack of concern shown when one or more of you speak English that no American can understand. What? It seems obvious to me that three well-educated gentlemen, such as yourselves, would know when an idiom is unknown outside of the Commonwealth. Since you obviously do not, I have compiled a list of idioms and expressions used on your podcast that would leave any American perplexed. I think we're surprised whether it's just because we assume that, you know, British cinema is so dominant for old whites that has been for decades that people are just familiar with all of these things. And they're cares. Exactly, isn't it? Most people in the United States, you learn English from watching cares, don't you? There which explains the pervasive Northern accent across most of the world that one's speaking English. Welcome to the Philippines. That's manila for you. Some of these phrases I'm really surprised by, actually, because I think these things just make sense, but that's because I am myself a British English speaker. But some of them are like, I don't think they are idioms that do exist. They're just things we've said. For this first one, you've left some egg on the spoon. Is this something that we say or something that Americans say? Something that we've said and that the American has not understood. So we have said, you know, that's not a commonplace idiom. That would have been anecdote to do with the egg on the spoon, presumably. Yeah, that's context dependent. Yeah, yeah. Then this one I think they may have got wrong. Sorry to sound patronizing, Jess. They've written courses for horses. Okay, it is, of course, horses for courses. But Jess, to be fair, probably still doesn't understand horses for courses either. No, what does it mean, though? I know what it means. I know, but I couldn't describe it very well. Go on, Henry. Well, I've always found it a phrase that's a bit like what? It's a bit nothingy because horses get on people like different things. Different things to different people. You know, you're putting mayonnaise or ketchup on your chips. You know, it's horses for courses. Yeah. But why does, what does the phrase horses for, why does horses for courses? It's because you can eat horse in any, any course of the meal. You can have a nice, you can have a nice meal. That's the Frank Barter take. You can have a hoof starter. You can have a horse moose for dessert. You can have a horse moose dessert. And you can have a nice snouty, a nice snouty stew. Or maybe some horses just like different courses. Yes. Yeah, okay. No, so I know, I know. Tell us. It's because in the betting world of horse racing, certain horses, suits, certain race courses better than others. I see. Is that what you were saying, Mike, anyway? Yeah. But you explained it better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it added a bit of advice. Just nice, nice. Just nice bit of flavor. I guess people get people to lean in. So yeah, horses for course. But it's a bit of a nothing phrase in the sense that it's sort of saying, yeah, things are different for different people like that. I mean, yeah. Who needs that as a phrase? It freaks poorly on us that we've used it. Yeah. Perhaps. Because it's kind of like, who needs that as a phrase? Yeah. Well, the next one is swings and roundabouts. Which is the same thing. Which means the same thing. Yeah. Doesn't mean quite the same thing. Does it? It swings and roundabouts. Half a dozen of one, six of the other. Mike, don't use another idiom to define an idiom. The swings and roundabouts. I find that swings and roundabouts is a phrase you can kind of stick onto the end of pretty much anything. Because it's so vague. It sort of just means life, eh? Yeah. Does it mean you end up back where you started? Like on a swing or a roundabout. No. I think so. No. Now I'm beginning to think about it. I don't think I know what it means, but I've been using it throughout my life. I don't know what it means. Mike, what does it mean? I think I've always used it in the same way that I've used horses for courses. No, it doesn't mean different things for different people. No, it means like we could say the premier in, but it does smell like eggs. Or we could say that travel lodge, but there's that horrible receptionist. Yeah. That swings and roundabouts. It's like, yeah. It adds up to the same. Yeah. In the end. Bad example, though, because premieres and travelogues are often near around an actual roundabout. Okay, the next one I can't believe is one that Americans don't understand. Yeah. Past the time of day. Yes, surely. But actually, when you think about it, past the time of day is a bit of a weird phrase, isn't it? Because what does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean? Past time. Past time. Past time, isn't it? But what does past the time of day mean? What, how did you pass the time? It's like me and Henry passed the time of day. It's like we just chatted and didn't do anything in the time past. So, can you use it in a sentence, please? Either of you. We were paragrating. From and outing. What a nice way to pass the time of day. It's simply passing. No, exactly. You're both wronged. What? The English you didn't pass the time of day means to exchange friendly greetings or have a short casual chat with someone. Yeah, that's what I said. It implies. It's not about passing time. To pass the time of day is to talk nothingy to each other. Yeah, not about passing time. Time passes when everything happens. I proved that in the last series. [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] What was the name of the book you were reading last series? The Order of Time by Karl Aurovelli. Have you finished it? I've much furthered it through. I have finished it. I won't say I've understood all of it, but I have finished it. Oh, well, well. Well, up for it. Game, keen. Yeah. You're about to say up for it, weren't you? It's enthusiastic about the. I was about to say up for it. Well, up for it. Does it imply a certain sort of. There's a sexual context. It can be. It can really. Yeah, but it might be that you're about to go and see the big game and you well up for it. That's true No, you're well up for the big game. You're not well up for sex, Ben. Oh, well up for it. Well, it's just not the phrase. I don't know. Well, some people put a bit of effort into the love-making handrail. No, everyone's just transactional. For me, it's like self-check out, and then it's just me by myself and I put on a woman's voice. God, I'll get out. Quickly, Ben. Next one. Quickly. Let's get out of the hole. Tosser. Tosser is a pejorative term. A dickhead, a wanker. It's sort of, it's a wanker type thing, but they don't have wanker. A wanker is another wanker is a one that famously America is. A jerk off. A jerk off. You're a jerk off. You're a jag off. You're a jerk off. Meet pasty. A meat pasty is a savory dish. A meal you can hold in a single hand, so it'll be pastry-covered miscellaneous meat. Can be served hot or cold. I think of a savory pie, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think of a cow's owny, but not as big as that, and instead of, in a pizza thing, I think of like just some miscellaneous mints and anuses and bits of spine and some onions. We need to do some speed ones. Okay. Ice lollies. Succometic freeze balls. Yeah. Okay. Sotted roll. What? Come on, Jess. No. Okay. No, maybe they didn't have them. Similar to the meat pasty, similar miscellaneous meat this time wrapped in pastry, but more similar to a cylindrical, like a sort of slightly squashed cylinder shape, and you're likely to see meat anuses at either end. It won't be completely closed off by the pastry necessarily. Mike, are you on a day to say meat anuses? There's many past times we've had you're on an episode. Another day, a brand deal. It's puff pastry just for a bit of, to add a bit of any touch. Not always. Really? Another nice touch. If it's not, if it's not puff pastry, you're basically looking at a sort of dangerously fucked keish, aren't you? What is a piss take? Well, they don't have to take the meat either today. It's a mockery to make a mockery somewhere. Something which is making a mockery game. Yeah. Slag off. To denigrate to bad mouth. Blood like billio. Well, blood a lot. Billio just means a lot. It takes you into the superlative. Does it not? Cold as billio, hot as billio. Yeah. Blood like billio. Okay, for the next ones, what it wants to do is I want you to translate directly into the American. Okay, I've got your accents ready. Yeah. Dosh. Cashola. Greenbacks. Good, like it. The greenbacks did really well in the world series, but they didn't know this. Yeah, it's really good. To the second round playoff. Sourcing, I think the context was you're sourcing my wife. You're a rodeo dickstickin. Doin the two pony pillory pony challenge with a pony. Having sex with a pizza pie. Okay, lovely. The next one is something that I had a conversation with somebody about recently. Apparently, this is a concept we only have in Britain. And it was a German person saying we just don't have this as a concept. And I wonder if Americans are either the concept of something being naff. That's a good one. Okay. Yeah, naff is a very specific thing. It means uncool, basically, doesn't it? I think. If something's naff is not cool, it can be not cool, but it's sometimes it can have very specific sub meanings, right? Because sometimes it can mean something that someone thinks is cool, but isn't cool. Right? There's things that aren't cool. Like cagoules aren't cool, right? But no one's trying to pretend cagoules are cool. Whereas someone who thinks like a 58-year-old man who's got himself a kind of like a sort of drop top, Audi TT. Yeah, I mean, that's been painted gold. That is a bit naff, isn't it? Yeah, he thinks that's cool, but it's not cool. That would be naff. Or it's like when Ben had that tricon denim hat. Yes, that's a classic example. And it was made extra naff by the tricon three-piece suit of the tricon. Yeah, the tricon tricon tricon tricon tricon. Yeah. Because as soon as you've got as soon as you're having to order a sort of false tweed leg to be made, to insert into one of those tricons on the tricon, you know, you made a mistake. Yeah, so that was naff, wasn't it? Yeah. Right. I want one word answers for these. Let's go quickly. Pass the passor. You can't do that in one word answer? No, that's fair. Children's birthday game, a present is wrapped, but wrapped many, many times. So it passes around a circle of children until they don't have a go to one wrap. There'll be a suite in the layer, another layer of suite, and then the person who gets the present gets the present. And the music stops. And this will be the anecdote that probably came up. But the music stops. And when the music stops, you unwrap it. So generally speaking, it's like, it's like the World Series in 1938, when they broke through a banana. It was fixed. Normally, it's fixed like the World Series was fixed. Normally, the penultimate layer wrapping has been clearly such that the music operator can identify what way they are and let the birthday boy or girl open the final layer. That's right. And it didn't happen to me on my birthday in a cry. Yeah. I didn't win pass the passor. And for most of the children, it kind of operates as a kind of lasagna of disappointment, basically. Get up someone's nose. Irritate. Yes. A cat amongst the pigeons. Song by Bross. That's actually. It is a song by Bross. Get amongst the pigeons. An axon provocateur, a thing that complicates or creates chaos. You're an agent of chaos, movie. Clagged. It's sort of bunged up in quite a sort of meaty way. Good clobber. Nice threads. Fly tipping. The illegal dumping of garbage, usually large items, e.g. sofa, fridge freezer, in a public space. A beans on toast lunch. That's quite pretty. That's pretty soft in the bathroom, isn't it? A midday meal consisting of toast and heated up, tinned beans in a tomatoy sauce. Yop. A yogurt drink. Squash drink. A cordial. Shagged bandy. I don't know what that means. Shagged bandy. To have enjoyed sexual intercourse to the point where walking may be problematic. Off my own bat. Myself. Done by myself. My own initiative. My own funding. The sun has passed the yard arm. It means it's getting towards twilight. It's normally used in terms of drinking. Like, is the sun low enough in the sky that it's okay to have an evening temple of drink? Inflatable session. At a swimming pool, particularly municipal swimming pool, there'll be large inflatable toys that you can throw, jump on, jump off. Big fun. And finally, doing it for Blighty. Blighty is Britain, world or two term, referring to Britain. You could do anything for Blighty in the name of, you know, queen and countries. It was then okay and countries was then and then queen and country now, king country again. But sometimes it is again used in sort of sexy times. Is it? Again, but yeah. What do you mean? God, I never knew you were such a jingoistic lover. Sort of lie back and think of Britain type thing. Yeah, like that sort of like, you know, this sort of sailor on shore leave or whatever. Go on. Do it for Blighty. Oh, God. You have to remember, if you're listening, you don't understand the context, especially if you're American, might grow up in Portsmouth. Yeah. The things I've done for Blighty. Britain's naval home. Well, thank you, Jess. And I hope that has helped out, you know, our many American listeners who, it turns out, don't really understand anything we're saying. Welcome to the plug zone. Back. I still haven't done a plug jingle though. I feel like, it's been too, I should have done it by now. We've been plugging, I feel a fair bit. But that's because we have things that we're passionate about to plug. And so we want, we want you there. Yes. So I'm about to kick off my tour. What? Yes. What? I'm getting on the road with my brand new show. It's called Pencil Case. It's a fusion of sort of stand-up comedy and live illustration. It's a lot of fun. I saw it only yesterday. You did an Edinburgh preview. I saw it. I'm sure. And it was very, very good. That's very, very kind of you both to say. Yeah. So I previewed it in Edinburgh, which was fun. It's kind of ready to rock. I've got dates in September, selling fast, but there are still tickets available for Manchester on the 18th, Birmingham on the 23rd and Liverpool on the 30th this is September. But lots of other places besides have a look at the website, isn't it? HenryPacker.com because there's also Northampton, Guildford, Bristol, Plymouth, Leeds, Exeter, Lancaster, Newcastle, Leicester, Brighton, Cardiff, Glasgow, all the way through to May. It's good stuff. Give yourself a treat and maybe just get yourself a couple of tickets, even if it's just you going. Stretch out. Stretch out. Stop putting things off and actually buy 10 tickets to the show. Isn't it? Because it's about living in the now, isn't it? HenryPacker.com for all the details. Again, it's a full colour website. You can scroll up and down and just enjoy the website as well. I shall also be back on the road with the bench and similarly from September through to May, many, many dates, MrMiteWasnick.com to do come and there's some that are sold out but there's some with tickets so come along like Swansea, Camarvan, Southport, Kalani going all over the place. I also have a little mini plug, this place, my other podcast which is called Beef and Dairy Network. We're doing a live show at the London Podcast Festival, we sold it out which was quite exciting and so we put on an extra show and that's on the 12th of September at 9.30pm. It's a late night, slightly late night, slightly loose. It would be a little bit, a little bit of blue, won't it? A little bit of blue for the dads. It could be a bit of tasty. Yeah, a little bit of jazz for the mums. Yeah. Brilliant. Is there streaming stuff as well for any? You can stream it as well if you can't get them. Yeah, it'll be fun. So do join me. It's time to pay the ferry money. patreon.com Thank you to everyone to sign up with our Patreon. Thank you. It's the place to go for your bonus episodes, you do a monthly bonus episode and on our months off we keep the fun going every week. So thank you to those of you who listened to us throughout August, what fun we had. If you'd like to have a check and out go to patreon.com/threebeansallard there's two tiers to sign up at. If you sign up at the Sean Bean tier and not only do you get video episodes, you also get a shout out from dear Mike from the Sean Bean lounge. You better believe he's last night. Yeah. And it was quite full on, wasn't it? Because last night it was the harrowing of the Sean Bean lounge. It's only once. Thank you Benjamin and here's my report. It was the harrowing of the Sean Bean lounge last night at the Sean Bean lounge. And to be clear, harrowing, harrying, haranging, harassing and hard arcing were all permissible. Indeed Alice Wilson and Joe Fury were found harrissering the Sean Bean lounge, specifically by applying the hot chili pepper paste to all the Sean Bean medical-applicated loves. And this was deemed by Gliggy McSquire, helmet coals, Laura, Henry and the goblins to be acceptable, albeit not encouraged. More traditional rebellion and pre-rebellion crushing style harrying was carried out by Dom White and Colby Blistering Barnacles, who first declared Becky Lee's Lord of the most north easterly section of the lounge, using Alan Love's Slater as an intermediary disguised as a baptised Viking. Becky then placed Tom Thrale, Richard B. Saddington and the amazing Sheffield band Duck under the yoke of feudal rule, forcing them to farm that section of the lounge for Barley, Parsnips and Pigs. Despite the unsuitability of the Linnolium terrain, Alex the administrator was demoted to Threshing Donkey and James Cage was promoted to Harvest Administrator and produce for the cold seasons was stored in a water and door barn made from the sticks of Jeff with three F sand sesters and the turds of Barry Paul Clark's office squash ladder. This process took the best part of three years, at which point the harrying architects dispatched a group of armed raiders, including Fritha Powell's, Pennyersa, Anna Mari, Nova and Tum, to ride into the previously peaceful settlement and rough it up Norman style. The barn was burnt to the ground with the hapless Parsnips still inside. The barley was forced to pay capital gains tax and the pigs were given long turgid reading lists even though they were technically on holiday, to celebrate the successful harrying and to create a warning for future generations. Adam Streeter, Morton Gayrel, Will O'Brien and Stu Smith all put their heads on spikes. Thanks all. Right, that's the first episode of this new series. Don't thank you for listening. Well, I mean, how nice to be back. Thank you very much. Yes, it is nice to be back and we're going to finish off with a version of our theme tune sent in, by one of you lot, and this is from Filthy the Bear, from Coffs Harbour Australia. High beans started listening to the podcast a couple of months ago and I'm making my way back through the back catalog. Great stuff. Thought I'd have a go at making a theme and as I woefully enacted any instrument, I thought I'd let the whales do it for me. This actually took longer than it probably sounds as I had to go through an hour of whale songs to get anything close to the right notes and then pitch shift to the mones here and there. I can't believe I'm sending this, but here goes Filthy the Bear. Thank you Filthy. Thanks Filthy. And thanks everyone for listening. Cheerio. See you next time. Bye-bye. I really like that. It's so serene and relaxing isn't it. But also horrifying at the same time. What was the horrifying? Classic Filthy. Classic Filthy.