Chat Hits The Fan

On this week’s episode - After Johnny’s takeover last week, it’s Barry’s turn this week with “Barry’s bits”. He’s got loads of stuff that he wants to discuss with the gang, but before that, Johnny does his Eastenders round up, then the bits include; Americans being paid to give in guns, why Jimmy Carr’s special was filmed twice, the band ‘3T’ and their signature dance move, a round up of future movie projects, cheating apps, the lyrics to Bananarama’s ‘shy boy’, Swarfega, Steve Bartlett and the ‘ZOE’ app, a very practical idea for an Escape Room and a very disgusting idea for a super hero, Greg’s ‘passport story’, Barry’s song about Britain, alternative National Service, getting hyped for mayonnaise? The return of TV shows like ‘Outnumbered’, The characters from the sitcom Bread, new words, Barry tries to read a made up supermarket story, methods for shoplifting (that we have never and would never use of course), impressions of Paula Vennells and Paula Venables? Letting kids ride jet skis? The return of our Radio soap ‘The Karchers’, the dark sides of Brad Pitt and Stephen Mulhern, A Vienetta advert by Ultravox, Barry imagines a conversation between Greg’s mum and someone else’s proud mother, a “guess how many people died of what?” (in 1632) quiz, regrowing teeth, Bubbles the chimp turns 40, Eurovision, David Attenborough turns 98, Barry’s concept for a new kids book and its characters, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

On this episode (18) - This week it’s Johnny’s turn to take control with a collection of hilarious observations, one liners and anecdotes that he’s been storing up over the past 3 weeks, that we like to call “Johnny’s Gems”. These include; working as a night watchman, Miss Me on BBC Sounds, Fortune Hotel, being one of the few people to have not watched Traitors, child poverty, Puff Daddy, talking to drunk people whilst sober, the Fury / Usyk fight, Johnny’s new “umbrella rental” idea, what would you do if your wife and kid got gunned down in front of you?, the best sports movie ever?, how the movie Trading Places has aged, Kill Tony in London, bionic limbs, shit life syndrome, actor turned insane mathematician Terrence Howard, Joe Rogan debating at Oxford, Rob Rinder & Rylan Clark, The real Baby Reindeer lady, Sean Walsh on the Where There’s a Will There’s a Wake podcast, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

A nice easy description this week. This episode is pretty much all about Greg and Mark's (G Dawg & Party Guy's) adventures in Cyprus and the accompanying YouTube video!

The chat hitting the fan on this episode (16) - More swimming pool changing tips, holiday plans, the origin of the phrase “it’s all Greek to me”, more of Barry’s exploits with famous movie Directors, drink fuelled creativity, improvised Bounty Bar adverts, Take That, Punch Burgers, amusing tradesmen injuries, eye patches, Gabrielle and other lazy eyed celebrities, a ‘guess the year of the Lynx deodorant scent release date’ quiz, Colin Murray on Countdown and other possible presenters, Jimmy Carr’s new Netflix special, impressions of people doing their “last crack pipe”, Mr Beast and how to create clickbait, an agony uncle letter, the 35th anniversary of GameBoy, imagining older versions of yourself, American nu punk bands of the mid, 90’s, Greg and Barry review the same movie to Johnny in ‘Review Wars’, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

The chat on this epiosode - Johnny gets an autograph from Duncan Goodhew, Greg tries a new technique for getting changed at the swimming pool, more film set stories from Barry, some exciting news about TOMIA (The Only Made in Aylesbury), Barry plays a new song he made with AI, we discuss the TOMIA Facebook page that claims David Bowie was born and bred in Aylesbury (amongst other things), a 'songs of Frank Sinatra' quiz, tales from Taylor & Mckenna (Beatties) toy shop, a dirty seance with OJ Simpson, the truth about The (Lemontree?) Fox, Ant & Dec doing pranks, the computer game Grammies, Barry takes a second lookat the lyrics to Rocket Man by Elton John, new ideas for St George's Day, Gino DiCampo breaking into Paul Young's, Greg's factoids, movie, TV and Music recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

On this episode (14) - Barry's speaking part in a Christopher Nolan film, the eclipse, Rishi Sunak and Adidas Samba, more screenplay ideas, The Amy Winehouse biopic, AI YouTube videos, Greg has a look at what's happening on X (Twitter), the TV show May to December, impressions of Bradley Walsh introducing the chasers, made up online business profiles, Hot Chocolate songs, John Wayne being racist, the University Challenge final, the quiz show 'Ridiculous', DJ Steve Walsh, a dead celebrity seance, Barry White in Concert on BBC4, J Lo's Movie /Album 'This Is Me Now', the TV shows 'Shogun' and 'Manhunt', Liz Hurley's new movie directed by her son, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

On this episode (13) - The 1% club, Barry meets Spielberg?, Greg reads some of his screenplay, some made up jokes, names for steakhouses or restaurants in general, the glut of BBC Sounds podcasts, the joy of physical media, Johnny rates Ghostbusters Afterlife, the entitlement of Millie Bobby Brown, impressions of racists calling in to Jeremy Vine, a tale of a heroic jump, a used car salesman improv, a seance with John Barden (Jim Branning), alpha males, Greg admits to watching Michael Mcintyre's best bits and a whole lot more!

The chat hitting the fan this week (ep.12) - More screenplay ideas, the fact that 80's movies are old movies to Gen Z in the same way movies from the 60's are kind of old to Gen X, the documentary 'Quiet On Set', Paedo Diddy, Prince Harry and Justin Bieber, TV show 'A Life in 10 Pictures', the new Roadhouse movie, the Bob Marley biopic 'One Love', Alan Titchmarsh in North Korea, Sacha Baron Cohen and Rebel Wilson, The Bee Keeper movie, TV recommendations, Shania Twain headlining Glastonbury, renewing wedding vows, the pegging pandemic, an interview with M.Emmett Walsh, alternative versions of the theme tune to Octopussy, impressions of a hard man who's had his kid taken away, business vs love, a clapping and whistling business, old torches, a new version of Tipping Point and a whole lot more!

The chat hitting the fan this episode (11) - Overly pedantic MOT testers, cyber flashing, Lenny Henry, Comic Relief and the other charity shows, some alternative and suspiciously AI sounding lyrics for the podcast theme tune, some more celebrity podcast name ideas, Greg talks about getting bored of his own voiceovers and finally making a start on a screenplay, movie spin offs, the movies 'Robot Dreams', 'Kill The Irishman' and 'The River', this year's Glastonbury headliners, Johnny makes a racial faux pas, an interview with Lenny Henry, new songs from George Formby, getting showered and changed with other men at the swimming pool, a new song about visiying Scotland, Rylan Clark and Judge Rinder, how to talk about mental health (literally), the podcast 'Nothing rhymes with purple', nicknames for Jim Broadbent and a whole lot more!

Chat hitting the fan this episode - Barry gets a letter from a "super fan", Greg gets ripped off by the gym, a 'guess who's on the front cover of Heat magazine' quiz, some celebrity mash up podcast name ideas, Lingo, Cat Deeley, The Great Escaper (movie), a 'guess the Tarantino movie from the quote' quiz, a look back at the movie 'Hackers', The Gentlemen (TV show), the documentaries 'We were kids' and 'To Kill a Tiger', The Wombles on House of Games, impressions of Jimmy Stewart, lockdown memories, builders' drinks, Christopher Nolan vs Denis Villeneuve, Greg from the future and a whole lot more!