Chatabix

It’s the second part of Joe and David’s mega-chat with last week’s surprise guest Lee Mack. Picking things up again, the talk turns to game shows, Lee’s brilliant 1% Club, Joe and David’s Pyramind idea and pitching new shows. Then it’s back to sit-coms with learning lines, script read-throughs, viewing figures, the challenges of recording with a live audience and casting David as a policeman in Not Going Out...

It's the run up to the surf lesson: Joe's been on holiday to California and David wants to know all about it. Joe confesses he struggles to say LAX as it's embarrasing and babbles on about the Hollywood Sign, seeing Jared Leto's house and the 9 lane traffic on the freeway. Eventually they get to the meaty bit when Joe reveals he's had a surfing lesson at the end of the holiday. David is all ears. The discussion turns to mid life crisis's and Joe's surfboard being akin to David's new guitar...

It's the second part of Joe's surfing story but before they pick up where they left off the lads have a little romanticise about what life would be like doing the pod if Joe was a surf dude and David was a muso tinkering with his guitar all day. Joe tells David about nervously walking along the beachfront in Carlsbad with a rolled up towel under his arm to meet Rusty who he has booked the surf lesson with...

Todays guest is a special surprise for Joe. It's someone he's wanted to talk to after watching a tv show. When the guest arrives Joe doesn't recognise them at first as they look very different from how they looked at the end of the TV Show. When the penny drops Joe get overexcited and flaps his arms around. He;s possibly more excited than when Roachford came on. There is so much Joe wants to know. They settle in for a lovely chat...

We're back in SoCal and Joe's yet to stand on the surfboard. In today's ep Joe has his wetsuit on and begins the lesson on the beach. After putting their boards on a flat bit of sand the instructor Mark demo's how to jump up. Then it's Joe's go. David's draws parallels with how he felt about playing Cricket. Joe get's told to ping up to his knees, he talks David through step by step how hard this was for a 48 year old man...

Extra drivel today as we are joined by comedian and illustrator Henry Paker. He has a brilliant brain and is one of the Beans from the Three Bean Salad podcast. Henry did the illustrations for Joe's book 'My Autobiograpy' and is here to talk about what it was like making the book with Joe. However instead of talking about the book they reminisce about the heady days of stand-up. Henry has a lot of stories about cake, Russell Howard and comedy...

Comedian Iain Stirling is in his home studio which David & Joe are very excited about as this is where he records Love Island. Before they settle down Iain has to sort out his burrito delivery. They talk about ordering food in the day time. Joe asks Iain if he's ever had hemorrhoids. Iain thinks David is ripped, they discuss weight gain and Joe's concave chest. Moving on to comedy, they talk about the Chortle Student awards and being on the sold out board at Edinburgh Festival...

Joe's struggles to finish the surfing saga as it's been too long and he can't recreate the life changing moment when he was surfing in California. They quickly move on to how a bookcase stuffed full of books makes you feel intelligent. Joe's bookcase is cluttered with untidy books much to David's disgust. They talk about what it's like to retire and being free from the daily grind at a young'ish age but Joe worries about running out of money by retiring too young...

Joe does a shout out for his mum who wants a Chatabix mug and they talk about nice sounding surnames. David opens a package that he got from Weetabix. They are not really sure why they got sent a hamper of fourteen different types of weetabix but hope it's one step closer to getting a sponsorship deal. Joe is feeling his age at his 5 aside football as there are some new younger players. He decides to write a song with Eyes on Legs about being nearly 50...

Comedy actress Natasia Demitriou (What We Do In The Shadows & Stath Let's Flats) comes on the pod to give us a good talking to. Tash helps pin point why some of Chatabix makes absolutely no sense and suggests we at least number the eps. She calls David & Joe the Del Boy & Rodney of podding and highlights exactly what eps don't work telling them they need to focus...