Hendrix Headband: Alex Lowe and the Psychic Sniff Test
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today we are joined by actor, comedian, and impressionist extraordinaire Alex Lowe. Alex is best known as the man who summoned Clinton Baptiste into existence on Phoenix Nights and unleashed Barry from Watford onto the airwaves. He’s written for some of the UK’s funniest humans, and built a cult following through characters that feel like they’ve stepped in from another dimension.
Clinton Baptiste’s UK Tour 'Spectral Intercourse' will kick off next year on the 13th of February in Basingstoke and head all over the country through Summer 2026.
Host: Dan Schreiber
Guest: Alex Lowe
Producer: Cassie Merritt
Senior Producer: Ben Tulloh
Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell
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| 0:00.0 | Fog and Joanne here. |
| 0:01.3 | Our podcast by therapist Gautsme. Talks seriously about serious issues. Like, like seriously laughing at each other when we've both been idiots in the real world. Yes, that's it. That's the one. And this week, guess what? We are supported by Peloton. The brand new cross-training bike plus powered by Peloton IQ tracks your reps and corrects your form in real time, making the most of your workhouse. |
| 0:24.6 | And A new cross-training bike plus powered by Peloton IQ tracks your reps and corrects your form in real time, making the most of your workout. |
| 0:24.6 | And, seriously, listen to Myth Harpers ghost to me on Global Player. |
| 0:30.8 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | Warning! The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, |
| 0:40.6 | unexplainable experiences, and a clairvoyant caravan. |
| 0:44.4 | It may not be suitable for younger weirdos. |
| 0:48.8 | I do not know what I believe anymore. |
| 0:51.8 | I was with a woman and someone came into the room in old-fashioned garb and disappeared. |
| 0:59.0 | They disintegrated in a sort of cloud. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, ah, ah, oh, everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am coming to you today from my home at Roughway by Sea in Mystic Margs. And welcome to the show that believes that everyone, no matter how rational they think they are, most likely harbors a little bit of bat shit in them and that that is no bad thing. I really do believe that, |
| 1:47.1 | by the way. I think every single person has a little bit of bat shit in them. Case and point, |
| 1:51.6 | actually, I had a great discovery the other day, which was sparked off by my dad who messaged me |
| 1:56.8 | to say, have you heard the new Lexie Jones album? Now, I didn't even know who Lexi Jones was, |
| 2:01.9 | and it turns out it's David Bowie's daughter. She's just released an album. It's on Spotify, |
| 2:06.3 | if anyone wants to check it out. Then I happened to be just flicking through a David Bowie |
| 2:11.8 | biography that I have at home, which is called We Could Be. Dot, dot, dot, Bowie and his heroes, |
| 2:17.3 | and landed on a page where I then |
| 2:19.7 | was suddenly reading about the interesting method by which Lexi Jones was conceived. So it turns out |
| 2:25.6 | that David Bowie and his wife, Imman, were trying for a baby for seven years and not getting anywhere. |
| 2:32.3 | Now one day, I'm going to try out an old Somali tradition, |
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