Al Murray
Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things
Avalon
4.5 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weight is over. Last One Laughing is back and it's even more brutal than last time. Share your biggest regrets. I don't regret this haircut. What did you ask for? The Shaggy Slim Shady? Joining us this series we have... Romish Wengrenner Nathan, Diane Morgan, David Mitchell, Mel Gedroich, Amy Gledhill, Alan Carr, Bemi Sola, Ike Melo, Sam Campbell, Maisie Adam and Bob Mortimer. |
| 0:21.6 | Anyone want a song? |
| 0:22.6 | No. |
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| 0:50.2 | Welcome to five brilliant things. |
| 0:53.0 | Who have you got today? |
| 0:53.8 | Well, you already know, because it's the title of the podcast, isn't it? |
| 0:57.3 | He's a drummer, a historian, a writer and much more. |
| 0:59.8 | But we all know him best for his shows as the pub landlord. |
| 1:02.9 | It is, of course, the mighty Al Murray. |
| 1:05.3 | And here are his five brilliant things. |
| 1:14.1 | How are you? |
| 1:15.1 | You've got very similar eyes to me. |
| 1:16.8 | They look red. |
| 1:18.4 | They look blurry. |
| 1:19.8 | You know what? |
| 1:20.3 | Where were you yesterday? |
| 1:21.3 | I was in Cheltenham last night. |
| 1:22.7 | We were in Aylesbury the day before. |
| 1:23.8 | Then I had a night off for bonfire night. |
| 1:26.3 | But the day before we were in, I can't remember. It's like that. You look like the kind of guide that knows where to get fireworks. Yeah, I am. Do you know what I mean? I am the kind of guy knows where to get fireworks. But that's part of the benefit. You know, I'm on my second family, as it were. So there's a real boom in the garden? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Although what we actually do is there's a, and I'm going to incriminate myself now, is there's a wreck behind where we live. So I, basically, everyone stands in the garden, I go around to the wreck and light the fireworks. Yeah, I knew that. Somehow about you, I knew you were the guy. When you buy them. the joy you feel from setting fire to things. Oh, I absolutely that. Somehow about you, I knew you were the guy. The joy that you feel from setting fire to things. I absolutely like saying, it really is. It's a core part of my personality is setting fire to things. Fire and noise. You look like they're real friends of yours. Completely. Yes, I mean, we'll probably talk about this some more, but yes, fire noise, loud, really loud noise as well. Not subtle, not subtle noises. I have no interest in being seduced by music. I want to be bashed over the head by it. |
| 2:28.3 | What a beautiful way of putting it. Do you think, you know when they test fireworks, there must be that thing where, that bit like sort of nuclear testing, when the bangs are too loud, or there's too, there's too much of a whimper? Well, yeah, maybe. I went to a French fireworks display last year. I mean, my in-laws have a place down in the south of France, and we went to like a thing to mark the end of the Olympics, down at this lake in the next village. And you turn up and you think, well, no one's coming to this. And then suddenly there's 5,000 people there, and they're all drinking hot dogs. We're eating their hot dogs and drinking their beer. And then they're this insane firework. Because, you know, France, it's France. the sort of rules apply up to a point and they go, no, it would blow up as much stuff as we possibly |
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