S3 - E2 - The Knee Club (feat. Mark Brewer)

Ever wondered how a simple misunderstanding could lead to a minute's silence for someone still very much alive? This episode hosted by Jack and Henry brings you a roller coaster of emotions as Mark Brewer hilariously recounts his recent health issues and the comedic chaos that followed. From a poignant surgical experience under the whimsical care of Mr. Knackler, who played Mark's own singing in the operating room, to the touching moments of his recovery journey, you'll find yourself laughing through the tears. Mark's story is a testament to finding joy and humour even in the most unexpected places, offering a heartwarming look at resilience and the power of a good laugh.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:22

Mark Brewer, how are you?

Speaker 2 0:25

Well, I'd like to say I'm back, but I'm not actually back.

Speaker 1 0:28

Well, you're alive. You're alive.

Speaker 2 0:31

I'm alive and I'd like to say thank you for my minute silence that you sent me. It was quite funny. Then I got people saying to me a bit of a bad taste because I was laughing about it. I'm going not really Well. The boys are taking a mickey.

Speaker 3 0:46

James decided to do this minute silence. I thought well, why don't we film it?

Speaker 1 0:49

and send it to him. And just for our listeners, a minute silence for Mark.

Speaker 2 0:53

Yes, who is as? You can hear alive yes, I am, but I found it hilarious. But I would find that I've got that sense of humour.

Speaker 3 1:00

My favourite thing is I send it to you, but you never responded. So I thought well, he's not taking that. Well, how did you take it, Mark?

Speaker 1 1:07

Well, my phone died on it, so I watched it, it nearly died, and then I was laughing and then I was like oh God.

Speaker 2 1:14

But then I sort of caught up with it. No, it's good, but by that time people were sending me messages, I mean messages saying that Saying they hated it.

Speaker 3 1:24

Bit of bad taste.

Speaker 1 1:26

People sent you messages saying it was in bad taste.

Speaker 2 1:27

Yeah, and even the couple that I met in the jacuzzi brought up saying, like I said yes, but I do find that hilarious.

Speaker 1 1:44

Obviously, you're all bandaged up.

Speaker 2 1:47

Well, I bandaged up on my surgeons, I took it all off.

Speaker 3 1:51

Sorry, say that again. You bandaged up on your surgeons, I bandaged up.

Speaker 2 1:53

Look, I've got a tubular. What do you call it? Double tube, tuber grip, is it? Thank you, you can explain.

Speaker 3 1:59

Is that what that is? Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:00

And I had taken it off after about three weeks and I had taken it off after about three weeks. And then, when I saw my surgeon only about a week ago, he says where's your tubular?

Speaker 1 2:11

Tubular grip.

Speaker 2 2:12

Thank you very much. And I said, well, I don't wear it. He says yeah, but it compresses, and he was pushing down on my knee and grabbing it and said he's healing really well, but you've got a little bit of liquid or whatever you call it in there and he said that that tube would compress it. So he says if you're going to go exercise which of course I'm now in the gym on my third day.

Speaker 2 2:40

I mean that's exciting. He was very happy with the knee, but the funny thing is I'm sitting in the waiting room to go in Now. For those who don't know, I'll have to explain the first point. When I had the operation, I was in the pre-op room and they'd give me an epidural and they knew all about me dying for 45 seconds when you nearly died when I nearly died.

Speaker 2 3:09

So they actually were saying, like we've seen it on records, we're going to give you an epidural. And so then he braced me and I'll tell you what this is a hell of a.

Speaker 3 3:19

It's like a lumbar puncture if I've ever had a lumbar puncture, I.

Speaker 2 3:23

if I've ever had a lumbar puncture, it just felt like there was a great big needle in my back when he put it in. And then, of course, he said, you'll feel a rush of warmth and it will go numb.

Speaker 3 3:35

Did you just wet yourself?

Speaker 2 3:36

No, that's what it felt it felt like that a little bit of rush. So, as I'm lying there with this, I'm hearing a bang, bang, bang bang, and I'm literally looking at the nurse who's saying to me no, don't worry, that's a hip replacement.

Speaker 3 3:54

You haven't got one of those.

Speaker 2 3:55

And it was going on, bang, bang, bang, and I was thinking that's a hammer, what are you doing to this poor person? It must have gone on for minutes. And she says, oh no, you only have a couple of taps. And I'm thinking so. When I then knew the theatre was ready, mr Knackler, my surgeon opened the theatre and announced to everyone Mark Brewer now welcome to my theatre.

Speaker 1 4:27

Is Mr Knack a frustrated entertainer? I think he's got to be. I think he sounds like he is.

Speaker 2 4:30

He's got to be, because he was giggling and he was laughing and I was being wheeled into the theatre but listening to the theatre video, the music.

Speaker 1 4:42

Why do they have music systems in there?

Speaker 3 4:43

Well, they do, because you obviously don't want to hear oh, it's going on with the banging but they've got a hip operation and everyone, everyone can hear it so now I'm hearing me singing hearing yourself myself singing.

Speaker 1 4:57

This is the moment how did mr knackler get a copy of this is the moment all through michelle miles, who actually works a little part-time in the hospital with physio.

Speaker 3 5:05

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:06

And said he'd asked Michelle, can I have that?

Speaker 3 5:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:11

But the fact was that the surgeon was chuckling. He was so chuckling at the fact that I'm, you know, walking into. This is the moment, this is the day Is that quite sinister.

Speaker 1 5:25

This is the moment. Sinister.

Speaker 3 5:26

This is a little bit yeah it is while you hear banging on a hip yeah just can we? Can we set that scene? Doors swing open. Begins to play in the background? In the background you can hear the metallic bang of a hip and then, over all of that, the droning of this moment yes, all droning.

Speaker 2 5:46

Is it really droning? I know this is henry, you'd look at it, but the reason why I'm telling you this part is the fact that I'm now going for my six week, my check up, my follow up.

Speaker 3 6:13

What song is he going to play for that?

Speaker 2 6:14

well, no he did it again to me. No, no, that's a follow up. I was talking about the follow up. Follow up. This is six weeks later.

Speaker 3 6:22

But let's go back to the operation again. Let's go back to when you woke up, so obviously you played this is the moment as you went into the theatre. That's right. And then what happened?

Speaker 2 6:29

Well then, literally, he gave me some local and he said this is just local Anesthetic.

Speaker 3 6:34

Local anesthetic Not like local fair trade honey or something like that.

Speaker 2 6:40

He said this is going to be like a triple gin or whatever. And I said well, I don't drink, who knows what's going to happen. You can barely say triple.

Speaker 3 6:47

I know I couldn't.

Speaker 2 6:48

So with that I don't remember anything. I mean, literally it knocked me out and it wasn't like anesthetic, that.

Speaker 2 6:58

I had to put me to sleep. It was just so strong I'd gone. So all I I do know about. And literally in about 55 minutes later, I'm being told wake up, mark, wake up. It's all over, all over. And then in the background I hear mr knackler's already now put another song of me singing back in the days of share, singing If I could turn back time, if I could find and again the surgeon was just chuckling.

Speaker 1 7:32

We should get Mr Knackers an entertainer at Potter's.

Speaker 2 7:35

Yeah, I said to him, you must come.

Speaker 3 7:38

Do you think that? Okay, so you went to sleep to this Is the Moment and you woke up to Turn Back Time. How many other of your songs do you think he was playing while you were asleep? Yeah, it could have gone through the whole. Well, it could have gone the repertoire, do you reckon he?

Speaker 1 7:52

got all of the patients in all the other beds to do umpapa. Yeah, everyone wise up with your new knees.

Speaker 2 7:58

If only, if only. But the reason why I was going to bring that up was the fact that in the follow-up, the six weeks later as I'm sitting there, he does it again. He literally in the waiting room, with all these guests, all these people.

Speaker 3 8:12

Not guests, not guests, but all these patients.

Speaker 2 8:18

Out comes me going. This is the moment. He can't hold it off and he's just chuckling at it Coming again. Mark, help me Come on.

Speaker 1 8:28

He finds this hysterical, doesn't he?

Speaker 2 8:30

He really did find it hysterical.

Speaker 1 8:31

I've just been reminded Of when I said All people with a new knee Wise up About our new favourite Bit of content.

Speaker 3 8:38

On Resort yes, we like doing the new knee parade or the hip parade For Brian. Oh, the hip parade yeah, I can believe it.

Speaker 3 8:49

No, I think it's perfect, but saying that you are right, I have found I am in a knee club that I didn't know I belonged to because you, you came in to watch one of the shows one night and we got everybody who had had a new knee, um to up, as you said, or wise up, and then we did the parade around the Atlas Theatre and then lined everybody up on the dance floor, didn't we?

Speaker 2 9:10

I know, and you suddenly find you've got certain people who really are familiar with you. And when I say that, I was trying to say, claire, I've had people stop me when I've walked down the road or when they say, oh, you've had a knee replacement, claire, I've had people stop me when I've walked down the road or when I've said, oh, you've had a knee replacement, yes, I've had my done, and they're showing me their scars. Part of a club, it's a real club. And after me sort of telling Claire about it, we went and had a meal at a local pub and as long as we're sitting there and we got there this whole table, this lady came across and brought up the fact that you've had a knee replacement, haven't you?

Speaker 1 9:49

I said, yes, I have, and then she's showing me that only happens to you, though, like no one else.

Speaker 3 9:52

Well, no, maybe that is just part of the knee replacement club perhaps it's an.

Speaker 2 9:56

It's what I call a knee club. I noticed you have no knee and people start showing you and and it's not just men who lift up their trousers and show me their scar you get women who are lifting up their….

Speaker 3 10:09

Have you gone round and seen other people's scars and gone? Oh, I've had a new knee as well. Has it reversed, or are you not at that stage yet?

Speaker 2 10:17

No, I can't have it, because I'm now putting my tubular grip on it.

Speaker 3 10:23

Yeah, it's hidden away. It's hiding away, it's hiding it away.

Speaker 2 10:26

So now, when someone talks to me, I then do reveal it, because I'm wearing shorts.

Speaker 3 10:31

You had a few operations over the years. Has that ever happened with any other of your operations? No, because obviously I mean you did do it with your hand.

Speaker 2 10:40

There was a few people who used to start just throwing their hand in my face.

Speaker 1 10:44

What other operations?

Speaker 3 10:45

have you had?

Speaker 1 10:45

Oh, no, please no.

Speaker 2 10:47

I don't mind talking about it. I haven't had many. I mean, I have last two years on a trot, but before that it was a gallbladder operation Gallbladder.

Speaker 3 10:58

Do you get many people going? You've had a gallbladder operation.

Speaker 2 11:00

No, because it's very unusual.

Speaker 1 11:13

We obviously have Summer of Fun coming up, mark, are we?

Speaker 2 11:16

talking about that.

Speaker 1 11:18

Well, apparently we are now yeah.

Speaker 2 11:23

I should be hopefully firing on all cylinders and hopefully my knees are as good as it can be, so I'm looking forward to the summer fun, and there's loads of extra things going on this year.

Speaker 1 11:36

Well obviously we've got the what's it called the.

Speaker 3 11:39

Olympics, the Sports Day. Right, let's just say something.

Speaker 1 11:44

Let's be honest, let's address something. Let's tell our truth. Let's just say something, let's address. Let's be honest, let's address something.

Speaker 2 11:46

Let's tell our truth.

Speaker 3 11:48

Let's tell our truth, tell the truth, we have what we're calling the Sports Day Challenge, which originally I mean everybody in this room feels like Well, this year obviously there is a big sporting event happening the Olympics.

Speaker 1 12:01

That's happening this year, major sporting event that everybody around the world knows about, and will be talking about, but that sporting event does not want their brand defaced by Mark Brewer so we're not allowed.

Speaker 2 12:16

I knew it was going to be my problem, so we're not allowed to call it by that famous name they've got some sort of injunction in against Mark us using the term.

Speaker 3 12:26

Olympic sport challenge.

Speaker 1 12:29

We had to sense that out, because we're not allowed to say it. No, we can't say it.

Speaker 3 12:32

So instead we're calling it a sports day.

Speaker 2 12:36

Day with a twist, but we want to make it very clear.

Speaker 3 12:39

I want to make it very clear, because some people will be like oh, that means it's for children, it's for everybody.

Speaker 2 12:45

Well, it's supposed to be. Oh, I can't say that word either.

Speaker 3 12:47

We literally just had that conversation.

Speaker 1 12:50

It's supposed to be a champion. You know podium gold, silver, bronze. So a bit like a world sporting event Like a world sporting summer games yes, like a famous summer games, but we're calling it sports day.

Speaker 2 13:04

Plus the fact we're going to provide our own team to take on everyone.

Speaker 3 13:09

So, yes, imagine there was a sporting event where all the countries around the world entered their own team.

Speaker 1 13:19

Is it going to be Paris themed this year? No, no.

Speaker 2 13:22

I want Mark to dress up. You know, Should I just come out as?

Speaker 1 13:26

Pierre Pierre, yeah, pierre Pierre.

Speaker 2 13:27

Yeah, pierre Brewer. Yes, with a beway.

Speaker 3 13:30

Pierre Brewer. Nice so yeah, that was strange, that could be yeah.

Speaker 2 13:38

That's as close as it can get.

Speaker 3 13:40

Basically us versus the guests in this Sports Day Challenge. That's right and that's the plan.

Speaker 2 13:45

I'm looking forward to it because we have got some great challenges.

Speaker 3 13:49

I'm looking forward to that as well. Is there anything else you're really really looking forward to for the summer?

Speaker 2 13:56

I always love having the families. It's just great. For me, it's one of my favourite times of the year when all the children and families are here.

Speaker 3 14:04

It's one of my favourite times of the year when all the children and families are here. But if there's a family that usually comes that hasn't booked on a Summer of Fun break yet, what is your message to them? What would you say? This is why you should come to Summer of Fun 2024.

Speaker 2 14:18

Why should they come? Because it's important to actually get back to the tradition of family get-together and finding things to do as a family, and there's plenty to do at Podstream. And there's so much and we'll be talking about it, aren't we?

Speaker 1 14:37

Today a live stream.

Speaker 3 14:38

Today a live stream.

Life, Theater, and Nostalgia

Speaker 2 14:39

And we are talking about all the things you can get up to. So, no, I like that. I'll always look forward to it, and it's lovely seeing the generations of people and I'm so old I'm actually catching up with the grandparents.

Speaker 3 14:55

You're now representing their nannies.

Speaker 2 14:57

Yes, I am. And then suddenly seeing the mum and dads who are now bringing their children, and the children are coming, are growing up, and then suddenly they sort of said you get children saying to me and they're not children anymore, they're showing their children. It's an incredible generation of people telling you I used to sit down there as a child. That's really sort of explaining how old I am.

Speaker 3 15:22

Does it make you feel old?

Speaker 2 15:23

I think that does make me feel old. I think that section when they go I used to sit down there now and look, and that's my child there who's coming up on stage with you I always find that sort of like how quickly has that time? And then the truth is, as we all know.

Speaker 3 15:39

well, you don't know because you two are young, but all the grandparents and the parents know how quickly it just goes I think that is the point, though there is something for all ages, from the very, very small children all the way to the nannies, basically and that is why people have been coming back for years and years, and years because it does?

Speaker 2 15:59

there's something going on over summer fun that appeals to absolutely everybody and, unlike you, jack, you know, used to come on holiday to potters, likewise with my, but, henry, you was one of those children.

Speaker 1 16:14

You used to come every year I wasn't one of the. I never went to kids club, though can I?

Speaker 3 16:19

this is an interesting question, yeah I would actually sit through bingo. What is? Yeah, but you are a bit sad like that, but what is the thing that we still do now that you used to do when you came as a child that you absolutely love?

Speaker 1 16:35

I mean obviously like all of the evening entertainment. So even Mark, getting the children up in evening, I know, is always actually a favourite for loads of guests because it is nostalgic and everyone those people who have been coming for many years were once one of those children or their children, and now their children are doing it. So that's one of those things. The street fair is always great fun.

Speaker 2 16:55

Yeah, yeah Cool.

Speaker 1 16:56

I'm devastated that we've stopped giving out the photos of Mark in the raffle.

Speaker 3 17:01

I think we can bring that back though. For this summer there is no reason.

Speaker 2 17:04

We can't keep doing that. Why do we need to For this?

Speaker 1 17:07

summer, let's bring back a friend. That was actually one of my favourite prizes as well. It was always the one that I wanted to win and I never did. Yeah, because?

Speaker 3 17:12

people do really want to win that, don't they?

Speaker 2 17:18

I always found it hilarious that people really kids, and you know, it's not even a glamorous picture, is it?

Speaker 3 17:24

And this year. To be honest, I'm not a glamorous person.

Speaker 1 17:27

I think you're full of glamour. What would you wear to the Met Gala? So, if the theme this year was Secret Garden, what would you wear? Secret?

Speaker 2 17:36

Garden. Yeah it's a book.

Speaker 1 17:39

I love the.

Speaker 3 17:39

Secret Garden.

Speaker 2 17:41

That's a great story. What could I be?

Speaker 3 17:48

A tulip Was be a tulip. Was it secret garden? Was it garden of time? Was it? That was that?

Speaker 1 17:51

what it was at the met garden.

Speaker 2 17:51

Yeah, or maybe it's garden of time so what was the how was the theme of time into a garden?

Speaker 1 17:58

no, so it was things like so there was a lot of floral stuff, um, but then also it's got something to do with time. So I think someone went as like a sand timer. It was really cool.

Speaker 3 18:12

Some of the costumes were great, would you not be a woes?

Speaker 2 18:17

Well, I was trying to avoid all the y'all words.

Speaker 3 18:21

That's why I went for tulip or lily. Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:25

But no, what would?

Speaker 1 18:25

you be, henry. That's why I went for Tulip or Lily. Yeah, but no, daffodil was a good one. I liked. Whose outfits did I like? Everyone said that Nicholas Galitzine wore a really boring outfit.

Speaker 3 18:35

Does anybody actually know who that is? But I thought it was really timeless.

Speaker 1 18:38

What does he do? Josh O'Connor was a little I like Loewe, but I think they went too far with that tailcoat.

Speaker 3 18:49

Will you do this podcast?

Speaker 2 18:51

Will you actually try and throw pictures of who these people are?

Speaker 1 18:54

Well, it's a podcast.

Speaker 2 18:55

I know, but how do we do this?

Speaker 1 18:56

because people don't know I don't have a clue. What is who you're talking about? Well, I mean, people can independently research I don't think we will.

Speaker 3 19:05

I don't think anyone will.

Speaker 1 19:06

I've got to pick an outfit for the jimmy awards are you going? Yeah, two weeks time expensive tickets. No, they were free. What's the?

Speaker 3 19:18

Jimmy Awards the Jimmy Awards for people who don't know is the basically on Broadway.

Speaker 1 19:24

It's the junior version of the Tony Awards oh yes, so it's all of the musical theatre high school programmes in the US. Send forward a representative to represent them. I, I mean the talent is absolutely. It is unearthly. My friends, kevin and Thomas have one of those foundations, the Majestic Empire Foundation, and I'm going as their guest, which is very nice of them. That's wonderful and, yeah, we're having a great.

Speaker 2 19:52

And when is the Jimmy's? When is it?

Speaker 1 19:54

Yeah, june the 24th, hosted this year by Josh Groban.

Speaker 2 19:58

That's good. Is it a long evening?

Speaker 1 20:01

It's no, actually it's like kind of two or three hours the actual awards, because it's not I mean, it's so brilliant to watch, because it's not like an award show where it's just, oh, the next award is. So they're competing live on stage. So you have these 100 teenagers who were, like I said, I mean just unearthly talent, who are competing in like kind of seven medleys.

Speaker 1 20:28

So they divide them up and then they do a medley of musical theater songs containing the songs that they have performed in in their high school musicals, and they then whittle it down to seven finalists who then do solos, or five finalists I can't remember how many and then anyway, then they announce the winners and they get a scholarship to a performing arts school and other prizes judging yeah, they're kind of judge, something like that they're all broadway professionals, so it changes every year. So it's casting directors, directors, you know choreographers, vocal coaches just people who know what they're talking about in broadway theater but it's a massive, massive event and the winners will go on instantly into a broadway show.

Speaker 1 21:10

I mean, even noble zada won it a couple of years ago. She then did kim in this saigon, uh played Eurydice in the original Broadway cast of Hadestown. I mean they just do everything.

Speaker 2 21:23

They always bag a lead. Do you feel that's what you should have done, Henry?

Speaker 1 21:26

Well as I'm not American or a high schooler.

Speaker 2 21:28

No, but that's what I mean. Do you not feel that, instead of saying I want to work at Potter's no?

Speaker 3 21:34

mummy, I want to go and become a high schooler in America and go to the Tony Hall.

Speaker 2 21:38

Do you not think you missed that opportunity?

Speaker 1 21:41

I would have to become a resident sorry, a citizen of the US first.

Speaker 2 21:45

But you could have done that. You would have found someone who was willing for you to do that.

Speaker 3 21:48

You'd have to get Kevin and Thomas to adopt you. Someone has sent something in.

Speaker 1 21:52

Have they.

Speaker 3 21:53

Yes, jamie Coleman. Jamie from the Met, not from sent something in, have they? Yes, jamie.

Speaker 1 21:56

Coleman yes, not from the Met.

Speaker 3 21:59

Not from the Met, but he sent me this picture on Instagram saying spotted in Verona. Does this not look like a member of? Let me save it so I can.

Speaker 1 22:11

What is it Mark?

Speaker 3 22:12

I'm going to show Mark and see who he thinks it looks like. Let me get that. They're in Verona, it's a statue Romeo and Juliet. It's a statue in Verona.

Speaker 2 22:29

Henry.

Speaker 3 22:30

I can't believe it. It's a statue of you in Verona.

Speaker 2 22:32

What are you doing in Verona? I think we need to blow that up.

Speaker 1 22:39

I mean that looks. Yeah, I think we do need to blow it up.

Speaker 2 22:41

That looks nothing like me no, no, Actually, just I think by looking at together. I mean, I guessed it straight away, Ash did obviously.

Speaker 3 22:54

Yeah, jamie. Well, he literally just sent it saying who is this? Spotted in Verona. Does this or does this not look like? Do you think it's an afterlife?

Speaker 2 23:04

I think you know like you come back again, you don't come back as a statue. Maybe you do, no, but that's they usually do a statue of, don't they?

Speaker 1 23:12

oh sure, I mean that probably is someone's it's got your hair posed for that, do you think you?

Speaker 2 23:18

have your life mark.

Speaker 1 23:20

Do, do I yeah, do you think you have a past life? They?

Speaker 2 23:23

call it an old soul, don't they?

Speaker 3 23:25

yeah, reincarnation, I think you've been called something else with an r.

Speaker 2 23:30

No, I don't think I'm gonna. No, I don't think I've been an old soul. I don't think so. So I don't think I'm an old soul.

Speaker 1 23:35

I don't think so, so you don't think you've been reincarnated.

Speaker 2 23:39

But you do spot it with people.

Speaker 1 23:41

And kids.

Speaker 2 23:43

Some children are so strong.

Speaker 3 23:46

Yeah, old heads on it and I believe Henry is one of those people.

Speaker 1 23:50

Who was I before?

Speaker 2 23:52

Well, clearly you was, in the Roman times, someone in Verona who posed for a statue in the roman times.

Speaker 3 23:57

I'm going to post this on the socials and people will go like we could get that to replace the atlas theater statue.

Speaker 1 24:05

Hey, yeah, that's gone. Now, though, the atlas, this now, it's outside now yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's, but it's not the atlas statue anymore.

Speaker 3 24:14

Zest statue well, it's outside, but he's still atlas and anymore no, but we can put it in. It's the Zest statue. Well, it's outside Zest, but he's still Atlas. And Jamie has also said best avoid him when I'm there on work experience next month.

Speaker 1 24:23

So you'll get to speak to Jamie. When's he coming next?

Speaker 3 24:26

month, I don't know Well, sometime this month, I think at the end of this month.

Speaker 1 24:30

I won't be here here. That's all right, all next convenient and very convenient. If you were to be reincarnated, who would you want?

Speaker 3 24:41

to be reincarnated into what would you like. Where? Where in the world?

Speaker 1 24:44

yeah, what would you like to do? What kind of life would you want to have after this one?

Speaker 2 24:50

um who could I trust to be, I think, reincarnated. Well, if you're a tortoise or a turtle, oh, so you don't want to even be human anymore. I think it's you know. You live forever, don't you? I mean those turtles just live?

Speaker 3 25:11

Have you had too many near-death experiences that you think, when I come back again, exactly?

Speaker 2 25:16

I think I just want to just be able to go in the sea.

Speaker 1 25:19

Wouldn't it be strange if you reincarnated as a human being and ended up being a Potter's guest?

Speaker 2 25:29

But you don't really know. No, but that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 25:32

So if, by coincidence, you became a Potter's guest and then you listened to this podcast, you know someone in however many years could be listening to this going this is weird, that's me. Would you like to describe yourself as a historical record for someone in however many years? Say you came?

Speaker 3 25:58

back in hundreds of years.

Speaker 1 26:00

How are you going to remind someone that they're you? That's a good thing. Speak to yourself, your reincarnated soul.

Speaker 2 26:08

You think this podcast has got a long longevity, don't you? You feel like in about 100 years time, people could be listening to it going like oh wow, brewer said this 100 years ago, maybe not 100.

Speaker 3 26:20

You never know what could happen with these things. Somebody could accidentally burn it onto a disc and it could be immortalized.

Speaker 1 26:26

And also, if your soul is also elsewhere, then you will put this into the hands of whoever it is that's you. You'll guide them towards it. So, mark, mark, this is your moment. This is the moment, as dr knuckler said, to speak to your future self. Speak to yourself what?

Speaker 2 26:51

no, I don't think, I think, I don't think, I think, I don't think, I think some people. I always believe that people should be unique, so you'd have to watch that uniqueness of some people. Now perhaps, henry.

Speaker 3 27:09

I am.

Speaker 2 27:09

Henry, what do you think?

Speaker 3 27:10

No.

Speaker 2 27:11

No, because Can I not be still alive? No, no, that's not going to work then, henry.

Speaker 3 27:16

But do you see yourself? What if every time he's?

Speaker 2 27:18

died. No, I haven't got the intelligence.

Speaker 3 27:20

Sorry. What if every time you have died and come back again?

Speaker 2 27:23

Perhaps I have died so many times Like a horcrux?

Speaker 3 27:26

Yes, Part of your soul has branched off.

Speaker 1 27:30

Yeah. When was the first time you nearly died? Was it 20 years ago?

Speaker 2 27:35

No, it was in the swimming pool as a child.

Speaker 1 27:37

Okay, well, did you nearly die 20 years ago on?

Speaker 3 27:42

January 15th 2004?. How long does it take to process a soul? Because, like no, because those people who think it's like To process a soul, well, people, well, I don't know, these things process, don't they? No, what I mean is when you feel like you've died and come back. You don't necessarily. It's not instantaneous, there's a little bit of, is there not like a buffer period?

Speaker 2 28:02

I don't know if I get many deja vus. I mean, I always hear people say, oh, I've had a deja vu.

Speaker 1 28:07

I get them every day.

Speaker 2 28:16

And that's when I think I'm not really someone from the past.

Speaker 3 28:18

But I think people who remember think, well, I've never been here before, but I know this place, I I I get deja vu quite frequently. I get very different sense of deja vu sometimes in that I'm relive moments, so it's like I will have a dream and I can some of them have been very vivid like I will have a dream about something, and sometimes it can be quite mundane, but in like a week, a month, a year or something like that, it will then happen and then you go what? What just happened?

Speaker 3 28:41

like it's weird, like it's a conversation with people, yeah or like things that you could never preempt or like, but sometimes really mundane things and then they just happen. It's really weird. But I read a. I read a really interesting theory about that once. Um that, and this is all getting weirdly spiritual whatever but it was like I read a thing. It was like when that happens, it's like life showing you that you're on the right path does that make sense?

Speaker 1 29:08

wow, I like deep, but so basically mark's on the complete wrong path because he's never had it no, never had it, it's just, and that's my point.

Speaker 3 29:14

and no, never had it, and that's my point. But you're unique and that's what you wanted to be.

Speaker 2 29:18

But that's my point. You don't see someone like that, can you?

Speaker 1 29:21

So you don't want to give your future self a message, someone who could be your soul, your future self could be listening to this going what a n***a.

Speaker 3 29:30

Didn't even want to say hello to me.

Speaker 2 29:33

He had an opportunity to say hello and he didn't so you don't speak to future self I don't think there's a something to say. I don't think it's very what. I don't think I can give any form of wisdom to anyone.

Speaker 3 30:00

A very important question for you.

Speaker 2 30:06

We are on the campaign to bring back omelettes, are we still? I thought we were not allowed to mention omelettes. Well, we are.

Summer of Fun Activities and Memories

Speaker 2 30:10

We're breaking that embargo and we're talking about them because we have listened to the people and we want to bring back omelets I think it's a great idea to bring back omelets good and I think it's, it's a lovely choice, especially when you look at, because, let's face it, you can have it quite light and when you've already had a full breakfast and you're going in for lunch. What would you have in your omelette? I always like the cheese and onions yeah, cheese and onions cheese onion might put some mushrooms peppers yeah but I don't have a big omelette. I'd only want what I would call equivalent half a homelette half a homelette.

Speaker 3 30:53

Half a homelette. Yes, please, yeah. But yeah, I think it's a great idea to go for the omelette half a omelette, half a omelette, half a omelette.

Speaker 2 30:56

Yes, please, yes, yeah but yeah, I think it's a great idea to go for the omelette. Let's bring it back let's are we? Going for anything else we want to bring back.

Speaker 1 31:05

Mr Whippy Ice Cream. Mr Whippy Ice Cream, oh the.

Speaker 3 31:07

Whippy.

Speaker 2 31:08

Ice Cream.

Speaker 3 31:08

I actually heard the real reason why we and this probably won. This conversation has been censored by the Department of National Omelette and Ice Cream Security. This audio file will now be deleted.

Speaker 2 31:27

Shall we not talk about the whippies? No, we're not.

Speaker 3 31:29

But it's really funny that our omelette thing has brought up a flood of people saying to bring back stuff. If you could bring back one thing for Summer of Fun 2024, what would it be?

Speaker 2 31:44

Donkey Derby. I thought that was hilarious. Well, it's great fun, and you just. Well, I don't think anyone does it now.

Speaker 1 31:52

My mum has a photo of her doing Donkey Derby at Potter's.

Speaker 2 31:55

No, do you know? We must have done it for a good eight years or plus. We must have done it for a good eight years or plus Might be more than that, but there was never any serious injuries. And the race would start and most children fell off the donkey. I mean, everyone fell off the donkey, but I don't ever remember, with all the years, that someone said, oh, he broke his arm or something's gone wrong for some reason. I mean, we were there. I mean, most of us were always there around to try and catch someone. If they look like they're going flying, but I thought the donkey derby was fun. I also think the blindfold driving was hilarious. You told me about this, yeah, Blindfold driving yeah.

Speaker 2 32:38

Well, we blindfolded people. They drove, but they had someone one of their as a partner would then guide them through a track, but they're blindfolded and of course, it was speed timed. So, people, it's a test of trying to get through these cones and around and back the circuit and reverse in while someone's just saying go left, go left, go right and so on, reverse, stop and um. We had a lot of fun with that. That was hilarious, until someone just drove straight into a chalet, didn't? I don't? We don't even know to the day why the mischief person yeah ended up literally hitting a chalet and went in.

Speaker 3 33:27

You know, it's quite funny though we talked a bit earlier about street fair. What do you most?

Speaker 2 33:30

we talked about, obviously, the pictures we think we should bring them back.

Speaker 3 33:33

Well, the cake in the face is going yeah well, we're changing apparently this we're getting a gunge tank, wow.

Speaker 2 33:40

I think that's going to be such. I don't want to do that. Of course you don't, henry. No, because it's going to be you, because think of the hassle we have with just getting cake in the face, although the gunge tank might be better for my hair, because it's not going to.

Speaker 1 33:51

The problem with the cake in the face, as all of us know, is it's the awful clumps that fall out in the shower of the cake and then the smell of the cream afterwards.

Speaker 2 34:02

For the next I'm actually and you have to shower again and I remember thinking I've showered three times.

Speaker 1 34:07

And it's still there and I can still smell, especially when you then do a show and then you sweat, yes, and then you can smell it even more. It's awful.

Speaker 2 34:23

You won't have this problem, but it's in your beard, especially under the moustache. Yeah, yeah, but it all depends what we're going to put in the gunge.

Speaker 3 34:27

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 34:28

But people are now going to be voting to put someone into the gunge tank at the street fair. So when you win all your waffle tickets, that you get Waffle tickets, thank you. When the people win, they are now committing some of your waffle tickets that you get raffle tickets, thank you. When the people win, they are now committing some of their waffle tickets to vote so whoever gets the largest vote will be going into oh, I see now.

Speaker 2 34:56

So we're saying, yes, you've got raffle tickets, but hardly anybody ever wins, I mean even though there's 20 or so it's becoming a populist thing, then it's now be going to become I'm doomed you are doomed, henry, but the interesting thing is, we can table it and we can say well, at this moment we have thousand tickets going for jack jenkins how do we keep track of that? That's no, because one of us will be on the ticket on a little.

Speaker 1 35:24

That's convenient, will it be you, mark?

Speaker 2 35:26

Yes, it is going to be me, Sorry. What do you mean? You say one of you will be on the ticket. Well, I'm going to be sitting at a desk with pizza. I'm off saying the gunge.

Speaker 3 35:36

Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:37

It's funny how all of Mark's tickets end up shredded.

Speaker 2 35:43

Well, I could find that it could be quite interesting to hear that Henry has 1,500 tickets and Jack Jenkins has 1,400. What have you got, Mark? I've got four.

Speaker 3 35:50

I'm sorry, let me just get. I don't understand this. You've got little buckets, say, with tickets in yes. And you can donate the opportunity. So if you put your ticket in there, you're not going to win a prize. No, but who's counting these tickets?

Speaker 2 36:06

Well, I'm quite happy to go one, two, three, oh, that's five, that's seven. Now I think I can do it quite easily. How high can you count to? And also, there's always guests who are happy to do things for you. Are we still doing the sausage roll?

Speaker 3 36:25

well, yes, the sausage roll challenge is. That's my favorite thing and that's what I'm saying. It's a staple of the street fair I cannot believe it.

Speaker 2 36:32

Even when I came over, I popped in with my knee during a street fair. I still couldn't believe how the respond of the whole room suddenly gets involved watching all of the attention goes and moves into the centre and everybody. It's just this incredible look like everybody's watching and it doesn't matter who it is it could be a child, adult, they're all waiting for it and the roar that comes up and I've did that at All Set. I don't know if I brought back.

Speaker 3 37:03

I did the Sausage Roll Challenge at.

Speaker 2 37:05

All Set. It was a family fun day for a children's charity last summer and it was a bank holiday, I think Sunday bank holiday. It was during the day, so I was rushing back from All Set to get back for the Simply the Best show.

Speaker 1 37:20

But you did the Sausage Roll Challenge.

Speaker 2 37:21

I did that and it happened again. I mean, it was really difficult. It's like anything suddenly the whole, the whole park and it was a big park people were just all swarming just to look at someone catch a sausage roll, it seemed it's lunacy really isn't't it, it is really it just, really it, just it's everyone's favourite, I think at the street fair. You can just tell. And I don't think it works well with a marshmallow.

Speaker 3 37:49

Oh, no, no, no, it doesn't carry, no, don't fly.

Speaker 2 37:52

It's aerodynamic. No sausage rolls are great.

Speaker 1 37:55

Yeah, baby, baby carrots would be lethal. Yeah, can you imagine doing it with that? I mean you'd have to give people goggles and all sorts of things Johnny Mac was doing, carrot tossing at five.

Speaker 3 38:05

I liked it yeah.

Speaker 2 38:06

I found it hilarious, but it was inside.

Speaker 3 38:09

We enjoyed it, didn't we?

Speaker 2 38:09

Henry, that was at Five Lakes. We went, we had a carrot tossing Some people were very good at that. Amazingly good Catching a cut-up carrot being thrown across the theatre, but literally no. And isn't there going to be a fruit machine?

Speaker 3 38:29

The human fruit machine. Wow, Human fruit machine, yeah, when everyone has to link up to be a lemon. The people who've made that, Ed and Dave and the boys and Martin in the workshop have done a really incredible job of what they've done with that.

Speaker 1 38:46

Yeah, it looks really good. I think we're on track for a really good summer of fun. And finally, what? Is the most, what? The single most exciting thing that you're looking forward to this summer?

Speaker 2 39:01

Silent disco.

Speaker 3 39:04

No, I am Really Never expected you to say that.

Speaker 2 39:06

No, I didn't think you were going to come up with that, but I've seen it work so well and it's just weird. It's actually funny not to be involved yeah, 100% and sit and watch people moving and dancing and also trying to guess what they're doing what the song is, yeah. Because you don't know what they've chosen. They have choices.

Speaker 1 39:27

What song would you be hoping to come up?

Speaker 2 39:30

Well, you get the easy ones, like the YMCA. So they're all the easy ones, but you know when you're doing what's that? When you all lie down on the floor, oops upside your head. Some are really easy, but then you just see people moving.

Speaker 3 39:44

Some are moving fast and some are doing I've just thought of a really funny game we could play with that, in that we could get people on the stage to guess what and then people have to guess what the song is. Yeah, before we do the silent disco, on the night of the silent disco, we do a little pre-show of uh, so we got put people with the headphones and then you open it up to the room and they have to guess what the song is.

Speaker 2 40:05

I love that idea. That'd be great, honestly.

Speaker 1 40:09

Just before you go, can we have a quick rendition of a Moon song?

Speaker 3 40:13

Yes, because we've not heard much about your album yet Fly me to the moon.

Speaker 2 40:18

Yeah, I was thinking of that one, but I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 1 40:21

I was thinking about it, but I didn't like it.

Speaker 2 40:24

But the thing is Fly Me to the Moon. Isn't my moon? Songs were really old songs I was trying to get across.

Speaker 1 40:30

For example.

Speaker 2 40:31

We were sailing along down Moonlight Bay.

Speaker 1 40:39

Moonlight Bay.

Speaker 2 40:41

See, really old songs, Really old. I'm talking about the old time musical songs that no one ever hears again. Shine on, shine on Harvest Moon Up in the sky. Yeah, there's loads. I'm going to put them all to an album.

Speaker 1 41:01

I mean, in September you're my warm-up for my concert. I might even do the Moonlight Songs.

Speaker 2 41:06

I've even talked to Kevin.

Speaker 1 41:09

Have you.

Speaker 2 41:10

Who's actually said that you tell me the songs? He? Knew the songs Well he's one of the strange first people that actually knew them.

Speaker 1 41:17

That was the weirdest day of my life, wasn't it? My band will refuse to play for you, though I've told them not to play. No, but Kevin's offered to play, but Kevin's going to play.

Speaker 2 41:24

I'll tell him not to. I'm going to say tell everyone no, but you're not there. Henry, you can't tell everyone, you're not there.

Speaker 1 41:31

Maybe I've made a bad decision.

Speaker 2 41:32

You are upstairs and I will be saying Kevin, the piano is yours.

Speaker 1 41:41

I look forward to it, mark. I know I'm really looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 41:43

Henry's lovely to talk to you and you, jack, and do you know it's been a long time not working. I am really gone very sort of not stale. I'm sort of biting biting at the bit now.

Speaker 3 41:54

To get back, to get back. When do you come back? July, july, yeah, wow, you come back.

Speaker 2 42:00

July.

Speaker 3 42:01

July.

Speaker 2 42:01

Because you're off on holiday now. I am off to Canada tomorrow morning at four o'clock in the morning. See you in a bit. Yes, I'm going to see the family Lumberjacks by the light of the silvery moon. Silvery moon, silvery moon, I love to croon Jack. I love to croon. I love to croon To my honey. You love to crew. I love to crew To Mahani. You started in the wrong key for me, oh sorry, no, no, I didn't realise that Start again, start again.

Speaker 2 42:25

You really do have a very strange. You know you're a much lower voice than me by the light of the silvery moon. I love to crew.

Speaker 3 42:39

I love to crew.

Speaker 2 42:41

I love to croon, I love to croon, I love to croon To my honey, I croon Love's tune Everybody by the light, by the light, by the light of the silvery moon. Goodbye everybody, bye.

Speaker 1 43:01

Mark.

Speaker 2 43:03

This is the moment, Moon. Goodbye everybody, Bye Mark.