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Lucy & Sam's Perfect Brains

Planning Session Unbrained - Perfect Brians and James Acaster

Lucy & Sam's Perfect Brains

Plosive

Improv, Lucy Beaumont, Sam Campbell, Comedy, Taskmaster

4.7646 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Perfect Brains is coming back. Ahead of its return, Lucy and Sam hold a very important planning session so that they can both emotionally, physically and spiritually prepare for weekly podcasting.


Recorded and edited by Ben Williams, Naomi Parnell and Aniya Das for Plosive. 

 

Artwork by Sam Campbell. 

Theme music by Paul Williams and Sam Campbell.


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0:00.0

Hello Lucy.

0:06.5

Hello, Sam.

0:08.0

If I could say that you reminded me of any oil, it would be a sunflower oil because you are effervescent and very brightly colored.

0:17.4

Oh, Sam, that's lovely.

0:19.2

If I could say you reminded me of any washing up utensil, I would say

0:24.7

a briller pad. Thank you. We are, today is not an official episode. So don't worry, if you only

0:31.4

want to listen to an official episode, sign it, or you don't sign out of a podcast, but turn,

0:35.9

you toss away those headphones because this is we're just planning for the next series.

0:40.8

Because I wanted to say rapeseed oil, but obviously then I thought, I can't say, I can't say,

0:44.9

I can't see, I can't see, I remind me of rapeseed oil.

0:47.0

That's why, so then I changed it to washing up.

0:49.7

It's actually, yeah, all the oils are kind of bad, except for sunflower.

2:01.6

You what do you got, vegetable oil? You can't say that. You remind me the vegetable. Olive oil, olive oil, oh, yeah, olive oil is all right. Extra virgin as well, that's probably the oil I'd be. Okay. So we plan for the next series of Perfect Brains. Sorry, we haven't done episodes for a while. I had nervous breakdown. Lucy was, was... I had a club foot. I had a club foot. She had a club foot. That's, you could start a Patreon called Clubfoot with pictures and you'd make a lot of cash. Not a club foot. Don't mean club foot. I mean, I had an ingrowing toenail. Did you actually? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. To go and get it, like, looks at professionally. Did you have to get it lanced? Yeah, all I'll say is you do have to cut your toenails straight. Really? So you were doing zigzags, you were messing around. Yeah, so what's going on here. Oh, wow. I heard you bite your toenails. Is that true? No, I can't get down there anymore. No. Anymore. We have a fantastic series coming up of Perfect Brains. And so this episode, we're planning what we will get up to. But yeah, good to see you again and can't wait for series two of Perfect Brains. Yeah, yeah be good to wait with you again sam yet here's my tip for the french you don't need the bread to be really long if you just have it a bit

2:11.8

wider do you know what i mean they don't need this long ass bread just have it wide and then you don't

2:17.3

have to it won't fall out of your backpack when you were cycling.

2:20.4

You're right, but do you know where they have baguettes, like long baguettes?

2:25.5

Do you know what it harks back to?

2:27.6

I don't know it harked to anything.

2:29.1

Yeah, oh yeah, it's a tradition.

2:30.9

I mean, obviously it's ridiculous shape for bread.

2:34.0

It's because of them in the war,

2:37.0

the French war. The revolution, maybe. Yeah. It was a war. And basically, you know, when the

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