The one with Ben Shephard

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Virgin Radio UK

Comedy, Unknown

4.4 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Brilliant Ben Shephard chats about his brand new podcast, 'The Business Men' that he presents with Joel Dommett. The podcast follows them creating a men's skincare brand from scratch.

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0:00.0	Enjoy great music, enjoy great interviews.
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0:14.3	And relive incredible music performances from the top of the tower.
0:21.9	Find interviews, live music and so much more.
0:25.6	At YouTube.com slash Virgin Radio UK.
0:29.9	Our next guest has been a staple on our TVs and in our hearts for nearly 30 years,
0:34.6	and now he's taken over your ears.
0:36.8	His new podcast, The Businessmen, is out now with new episodes out every Tuesday.
0:41.1	So please welcome to our flock, the 10 out of 10, Ben Shepard!
0:44.7	All right, man.
0:46.8	Well, what a laugh.
0:50.0	What a laugh.
0:51.2	Oh, Chris, it's so lovely to see you.
0:54.0	I just want to give you a bigger hug.
0:55.3	Well, we just gave each other the biggest hug. I've been on your show loads, on your shows loads. Yes. You've always been so nice to me. And Joel's great. You and Joel are great. Your best mate's on Tallienoff, tell you. Two of my favourite people on the Telly and Off to Telly. what the heck is going on?
1:09.3	Is this not?
1:10.4	Is this not the longest ever episode of Dragon's Den
1:13.3	with one contestant that you've somehow managed to massage into a podcast? Got to drag it out. So essentially, yes, what we are doing. So the business main podcast came about because Joel and I wanted to do something together. We decided that we wanted to try and launch a skincare brand. Yes. But the premise of the podcast is us going on this journey to launch a business. Yes. The highs, the lows, the fails, the nonsense, us being idiots and having no idea what we're doing, surrounding ourselves with experts. And you're absolutely right. Essentially, it is the pitch for the funding. But that that bit that they do in the Dragon's Den is when you've got a business plan, you've got the idea, you've done some, you've already done some pre-sales and you're looking for money. We're way, way away from that at the moment. It was episode two. It wasn't until episode two that you got a pen. This is a true story, everyone. You're absolutely like, And it became apparent that we might need to write some stuff down.
2:02.9	Yes.
2:03.8	Because we work in a very digital virtual world, Christopher.
2:06.7	But actually writing things down and remembering them has become an important part of what we're doing.
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