I am hopping mad and I want something in the middle. Aha! Yabsolutely, y'y-absolute. Monkey tennis? Bring, bring. There's a new chat in town. I had the last laugh. Then! Monkey tennis? Little pierce my foot on a spike. With a chuckle, with a chuckle. No. Monkey tennis? Radical, awesome. Mega. Bunky tennis? Where's my assistant? I do not know. Okay. Monkey tennis? Edmonds is a total wasab. Yes, yes, yes and yes. It's hotter than the sun! They said, oh the hell is that? This is great banter. Yeah. Back of the net. Monkey tennis? The people who enjoy Alan Partridge will enjoy this podcast. The people who've never got it still won't get it. Hello friends and welcome once again to Monkey Tennis, the Alan Partridge fan podcast where we're making our way through Allens from the Oast House series two. I'm Adam Brooks and I'm joined by Tom Dark. Let's call him Jeff as I don't like his real name, which is Jez. Nick Older.

Imagine if he's shown an iPhone to King Henry the 8th. It'll blow his mind.

And Tom Stab. I don't know how to follow that, to be honest.

But I'll try.

I wouldn't say anything as cheesy as she completes me, but she certainly finishes me off.

It's good, but Nick wins that one, definitely.

Yeah, oh, absolutely.

So, yes, welcome to episode 142, believe it or not, of monkey tennis.

Well, we'll be talking about episode or chapter 7 and 8 of From the Oast House series 2, namely time travel and catarina.

But before we get on to that, we like to start each episode with a little tidst bit of the promotion that's been done around from the Oast House.

In this case, an interview Steve Coogan gave to Empire Magazine, which Tom Dark is going to talk us through the finer points of.

Yeah, I mean, this was a very interesting interview. It's about 20 minutes long. And what I thought

was quite funny is that the main thrust this interview was very much Coogan talking about

Oest House, even though it was the Empire Film podcast,

and he's got the film about Richard III that's just come out.

So he's done other promo recently, which has been focused around that film,

but not when doing the Empire Film podcast.

I think because we all know they're huge Alan fans

and have supported Oest House and this time and stuff in the past.

Anyway, so it opens with Coogan

talking about that he's either in work mode or down tools mode and he says to Chris from Empire,

I'm in down tools mode right now, which I thought was hilarious because surely you're in the

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