July 19, 2023 • 43 mins
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Season 5: Episode Sixteen. Join Benji and Brad this week as they go from having a chaotic spontaneous night out involving rum tasting and a stairway stumble straight into jumping on a train to co-host the first ever pride in Hinckley! The boys share a bed (again!) in a hotel, much to Benji’s dismay, and hear how they got on with getting the My Big Gay Party started in Hinckley.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello and welcome to this week's episode of my Big
Gay Podcast with me, me Benji.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And me, brad, got the giggles already today.
Haven't ya Giving the life, theloves and loves of living in
London Two?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
gays one city what could possibly?
Go wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You really are up in a joker already.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Are you still drunk?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, I don't think so.
I don't want to see alcohol fora very, very long time.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Same.
I am on detox now for theforeseeable.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, I mean, I do feel like the last four episodes
we have started with talkingabout how recklessly we are with
alcohol, so maybe let's justboycott that bit for a little
bit.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I think so and talk about what you know upstanding
gentleman we are.
I agree.
This is not good for my image,your image.
What image is that, brad?
Well, everyone is just going tothink I'm this huge party boy
24-7.
I do have other sides to me,you know.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I could be a nice little gentleman at heart, you
could be, but I've known youquite a while and I've never
witnessed that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I need a quiet life.
Honestly, I can out with youtoo much.
It's killing me off.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That's the plan, but anyway, how are you feeling, you
all?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
right, yeah, do you know what I actually am?
Good, I woke up at nicebreakfast today fresh orange
juice.
I am living the real life rightnow.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Define fresh orange juice.
Chop a can of it's as fresh asyou can get at London.
To be honest, oh my goodness,hilarious, hilarious, yeah, no,
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling abit more energized and we have
quite a lot to tell you allabout.
Actually, today, on this week,on this week's episode, pop my
(02:05):
teeth back in one second.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh gosh, yes, because we were away this weekend.
It was actually our first roadtrip together, just me and you.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It was our first what we were calling tour life
experience and, my goodness, didit not start very well.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I mean Brad, I'll let you start the vibe.
Where do you want to start withthis sort of you know, car
crash of a story?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So we got invited to go and co-host at Hinckley Pride
on Saturday, which is the firstever pride they've done in
Hinckley.
It's a local pride and we'reall for that.
But yeah, you wanted to goreally early to like, check out
the town, because we've neverbeen there before and wanted to
get a super early train.
Well, it's fair enough, like,let's do it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So, listeners, as you've probably already guessed,
like you know, in most workingdynamics there is like the
brains, there is the brawn I amin fact both the brains and the
brawn and Brad is the deadweight and I feel sometimes more
like a child minder than aco-host.
(03:15):
But I suppose, before we talkabout the train.
They you should probably talkabout the night before.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So we ended up going on a spontaneous night out in
London on the Friday night,which was not in the diary at
all, because we were like wewant to be super fresh for
Saturday, like Friday is nothappening.
But we were with some friendsand we went for a little drink
and then, obviously it escalated, doesn't it?
You know, you get on the wavelike we'll just have one more,
we'll have one more, and I'msure you have all done that.
Where you've not planned to goout, you've ended up having the
(03:46):
odd drink and it's justescalated.
And it's spontaneous night andsometimes I think the
spontaneous nights are the bestnights.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
They are the best nights.
And listen, we ended up in oneof our favorite bars in Clapham
and let's just say we've beenspending the day with you, right
, because you just finished ajob and you got some like thank
you gifts.
And all I want to say is, atmidnight you were so under the
influence you thought that itwould be a good idea to pop a
(04:13):
bottle of Prosecco that you hadbrought in to the bar underneath
the bar and you were like I'mdoing it, get glasses.
I was like you cannot open abottle of Prosecco discreetly.
You just can't do it.
Please, please, do not do that.
And Brad just like, keptfixated eye contact with me.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I could tell he was about to go against what I just
said.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And then all we heard was this massive bang as the
cork fired off, as the managerwalked past with his earpiece in
and just stopped and looked andwe both just smiled like Hi,
are you all right?
He knew he knew that he carriedon walking, which is very, very
sweet of him.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, and they had loads of flavored rums in the
spa and I'm going for a bit oflike a rum phase at the moment.
I'm really into flavored rum.
And yeah, I was like, oh, whatflavors you got.
And they had all these quirkyflavors and I convinced the bar
guy to let me have a taste ofeach flavor so I could decide
which one I wanted.
So he was getting these.
(05:15):
Chocolate like pouring little,like taste is like that's quite
nice.
That's fruit oh, I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So this, this is completely after I'd left.
By the way, I was responsibleand left at about quarter past
midnight.
I would say it was it was soonafter the Prosecco debacle.
I was like I'm leaving.
And then I did leave you withone of our friends who kept an
eye on you and, yes, I did getupdates and one of the updates
was Brad has just asked the barman if he can try every single
one of the rums and how manyflavors they have like 20
(05:41):
different flavors.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I mean it felt like 20.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, and basically, apparently, once you tried all
of them, you then said, hmm, canI have another try of?
And then you went back to thevery beginning of the list and
then he said he's not evenconvinced that you ended up
buying any shots after it.
I mean clever.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I know right, You're welcome.
Stick with me and you'll nevergo thirsty again.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, but you may end up in prison.
That is true.
No joke, just effect.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But sometimes I do just get a bit wild and chaotic.
When I'm drunk, right, I'malways good times, good vibes
only.
But we ended up going to a club, yeah, and another club no
sleep, literally, yeah.
And what was upstairs about thetoilets?
And to go downstairs they hadlike a banister on the stairs
and for some reason I was like,oh my God, watch me be Mary
(06:30):
Poppins right now.
And I tried to slide down thebanister in a graceful manner
Because I thought that lookedquite fun, like arrive at the
bottom of the stairs by the bar,like off the banister.
And I did not slide down thebanister.
You did slide, though I didslide, it's not quite in the
graceful manner that I thought Iwas going to be doing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, so what Brad actually ended up doing was
sliding down the majority of thestaircase on his knees.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And then, face planted into a security guy who
was walking down the stairs.
Honestly, I couldn't stopmyself, like I kind of like fell
off the banister, was like thestairs Now, luckily he was on
the stairs, because I would havegone all the way down to the
bottom, right yeah and I fellinto him like face like squashed
up against him, and he was likeoh my God, what are you doing?
(07:19):
You're too drunk.
I'm like, no, no, I'm fine.
Honestly, I'm actually fine.
I was pushed, pushing likeblood pouring all down my knees,
battered, bruise, my legs allspindly on the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And podcasters.
Just in case this image was notenough for your head, our
friend actually managed to catchit on camera and it is on our
Instagram as one of our reels.
Please go and enjoy it.
It is hilarious.
We actually couldn't stopwatching it.
That train to Hinkley was acouple of hours and we were just
watching it and laughing andremixing it to different songs
the whole way.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I mean when I turned up to see you, albeit a
little bit late, not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Sorry, no, no, no, no , no, no.
Let's not just like brush overthat.
We had agreed to meet at well.
I had said quarter to 10 atLondon Bridge.
You kept on saying no, let's dohalf bus nine.
I was like great, half bus nine.
So there I was at the trainstation ready to go half bus
nine.
Where are you, mate?
I'm just walking to the cheap.
You hadn't even left your houseyet.
(08:17):
I know, and they turned up likelike that scene in bridesmaids.
You know, the sunglasses onwhen you're completely hung over
the next day.
You like morning.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Absolutely still drunk from the night before.
Oh god, what had happened wasmy alarm had gone off and I was
like I don't need this much timeto get ready.
Is fine, I'm just gonna go backfor five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't need this much time.
I do not put this much effortinto my appearance.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And I did that like really stupid thing.
I was still drunk and I woke up.
Not gonna lie when I was likefive minutes to be fine, I won't
set an alarm, I wake up.
Luckily.
I don't know what came over mybody.
I just woke up at half nine andI was like, huh, better start
getting ready.
And then looked at my phonelike, oh my god, it's half nine,
I need to be there right nowand I've not even got out of bed
.
Unbelievable, I'm sure we'veall been there, we've all been
(09:09):
there.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Also, something I felt to mention is, before I
left the club with you the nightbefore, I took your phone and I
set six alarms.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I think in my drunken state I was like I do not need
six alarms, one is enough.
So I've really un-set them over.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I know what was show, benji, I'm gonna uncheck all
these alarms.
Yeah, you sure proved me wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You didn't need all those alarms.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But no, then we, then we trained to Hinkley and
actually we had.
We ended up having a reallylovely day, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Beautiful day.
Checked to the hotel Gorgeous,went to the spa, gorgeous,
gorgeous.
Yeah, the hotel was nice.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Absolutely gorgeous.
I'm Cheryl Cooley.
I'm the nation's sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You've not done that impression for a little while
You've been gagging to get thatout again.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Gagging sure, not necessarily to get that out, but
yeah, I have been gagging a lotrecently.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I saw you as soon as we got into Hinkley, straight on
the grinder and the little lurk.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.
Well, let's talk about thisafter this short break.
This is a final call for Benjiand Brad travelling to Jersey
for Channel Island's pride.
Oh mate, hurry up, we're goingto miss the flight.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Benji, I can't run in these espadrilles.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Gosh well, what a shame it'll be for them to get
left behind.
Look, just put that book downand hurry up.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It says here that Jersey has over 30 beaches and
is the sunniest place in theBritish Isles.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yes, and we won't get there if you don't take those
shoes and sun hat off.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wait, how is my sun?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
hat slowing me down, it's not, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Whoa, did you know that Channel Island pride is one
of the most attended events inthe islands?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yes, and this year they're going huge, with a main
stage, a cabaret stage andperformances from Top Drag
Queens, local artists, silentdisco, dance tent and some
exciting headlining acts yet tobe announced.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Quick.
Do you need anything from dutyfree?
Have you packed protection?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Of course I have it's factor 30.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Not that kind oh come and pie with us at Channel
Island pride in Jersey Saturday,the 16th of September.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's only a 40 minute flight from most UK airports.
So pack your speedos, pack yoursunnies, pack your sun cream
and we'll see you at the beach.
For more information, head tochannelislandprideorg.
Okay, so, like we said, wefinally got to Hinckley pride.
(11:49):
After this prince has had aworkout and finally got her ass
to the train station, got toHinckley oh my goodness, we were
put up in such a lovely hotel.
We felt very special, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh, absolutely yeah, I felt like a Zedless celebrity.
I know literally very that.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, the hotel was so nice, we had this beautiful like
suite.
So of course we got upstairs,skipped into the room.
I was like oh my goodness, thisplace is huge.
You were like this is nicerthan my flat in London.
It actually is.
So they were skipping aroundthe rooms like, oh my goodness,
like a living room, a diningarea, there was a bathroom on
suite.
It was so nice.
Went back to the main room tobe like this is so cool, we
(12:27):
should do some filming.
Where was Brad Fast asleep onthe sofa?
Absolute pillow princess in thecorner.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I needed a little power nut, because you wanted me
to be on top form and I neededmy energy.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh-huh.
Yes, sure, this is my fault.
I don't know how, but yes, thisis what.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I do.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So I had to sit there for like 45 minutes whilst you
slept on the sofa.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, but you kept yourself entertained because,
like I said, you were straighton that grinder and then also a
new one which I've never evenheard of before.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yes, I don't know how that happens.
Okay, yeah, sure, and I'll findout about the download the app.
Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I love that.
You like said I downloaded theapp, like it wasn't already
downloaded on your phone, soanyway, I found this other like
similar thing.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Right, I think it must be new.
I've never seen it advertisedand I'll be honest, I went into
Safari just to sort of like seehow we get to the venue later on
and it was already like apop-up, like in my open pages on
Safari.
I was like, oh, this is weird.
What is it?
Clicked on it?
It's a new app.
It's called now.
The name of it I'm hoping is aworking title because I'm not
entirely sure it's going to godown well for the community, but
(13:38):
the name of it is calledSniffy's.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yes, sniffy's.
That suggests maybe like highand horny type stuff, right,
sniffing away, yeah.
Like poppers, yeah, or fetishstuff you like.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Sniffing underwear, sniffing socks, sniffing
trainers yeah, so I'm entirelysure if that's what it's about.
But anyway, it's like the otherapp that we were just referring
to, but it's all on a web, webbased platform and it's like a
huge map of the area you're inand it's got little drop points
of where other people are on theapp and what they're offering.
(14:10):
And I'll be honest, it is.
It's extreme.
Yeah, it's like you click onthe picture which is explicit.
It's not like other apps whereyou like have to have a little
bit of modesty explicit photosand then they've got different
options like door open orhosting or group.
I was like blimey and then Izoomed in further.
(14:33):
There you were come dump hotelroom door open.
Already got my profile sortedyeah, I'd never heard of
Sniffy's, had you?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'd never heard of that either, but also I've only
come across this thing thatpeople do that's like I don't
know how long it's been going onfor where, if you are a bit of
a cum dump, people leave like asharpie mark on your bum and
it's how many loads that you'vetaken that day.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm not saying that people that do that is.
For some reason, your voicegoes straight through me when
you talk about these sorts ofthings.
I don't know if it's like pgsdor whatever it is, but when I
hear you talk about this sort ofthing actually makes me like
quiver and not in a like a funway, makes me feel slightly sick
.
You make me feel sick, doctor,doctor, I feel nauseous.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Not your allergies, again, my allergies, allergies,
but also I love.
When we got to the reception,the hotel, you're like is there
a way to get a different roomwith just two separate beds,
rather than sharing the one bed?
I was like, excuse me, I'm anice little person to share a
bed with.
I don't take much space, I'm anice little delicate princess,
honestly.
But don't snore.
You do I do not snore.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, are you awake when you're sleeping?
You do.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It's not so much like a snore.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But it's like this.
It's like sleeping next toDarth Vader.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, that's why, because I was dehydrated from
the amount of gin that we drunkthat night.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No doubt you have an excuse as to why that happened.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You do.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You absolutely do, so don't let anyone tell you
otherwise.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But also I love this moment.
So we get into the hotel suite.
The bed was huge, like a bigking-size bed anyway, plenty of
space for like three or fourpeople.
So me and you would have beenmore than sufficient there.
And you were like, fyi, you'reon the sofa tonight.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
FYI, you're in the other room on the floor in the
corner I might give you a pillowif you're a good boy.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I was like why are you calling the shots on who
gets the big, fancy king-sizebed?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Because I was at the train station on time ready to
get the booked train.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's why, but we're still there.
Plenty of time to get out ofyourself.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Also, I remember on the front desk, wasn't I like
we're on our honeymoon, I'm solucky.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And there's me, like hungover, like my sunglasses on.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Literally hanging off your face.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
yeah, but anyway.
But after we checked in it wasall good, it was all grand, we
got ready, went for a little spadidn't we?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We did.
Oh, the spa was lovely,although two minute children oh
yeah, that was not the onesScreaming kids we were looking
around like can we just likedunk them to stop them?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
screaming.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Nobody can hear your screams underwater.
No, it was lovely had a littlespish splash, did a little bit
of aerial, it was nice.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, a little swim, feeling fresh, got ready, and
then it was time to get theparty started, weren't it?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, it was.
And when we rocked up to thevenue of England so originally
where we went to was going to beit was all booked and designed
as the after party we'd beenbooked to come and do the
hosting during the day.
Sadly, the day was cancelled bythe council, I believe, because
of weather disruptions and itwasn't safe.
But so the after-pride,after-hours party actually then
became like the pre-pride party,because they're hoping to get
(17:52):
another date in the diary reallysoon so that all their hard
work and all the people thatwere coming up to perform and
all the people of Hinckley inthe surrounding areas that want
and need that day to celebratethemselves and everything queer
still happens, absolutely.
So we rocked up and, as ourwhatever our Uber was, sco-dub,
(18:12):
whatever it was real fancypulled up, we were welcomed so
nicely like they would go outthe car and everyone was like,
oh my gosh, benz and Brad, likeit was just the most loving
feeling, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It was amazing, yeah, and they were just so grateful
that we'd come and like, no,we're grateful that we got
invited to come like it was sogood to get out of London and go
and support local prides,because I do think the big ones,
as brilliant as they are, andhow amazing is that there's this
huge, basically festival forall the queer communities to
come together.
There is that side of thecommercialism isn't there and
(18:45):
the corporations taking over,but these local ones it's just
all about the local communityand it's just so lovely to see.
For sure?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
yeah, what you're referring to is, I think, is
what we call rainbow washing,which is when, like big
companies, they're like oh quick, it's pride season and you know
there's lots of money withinthe queer community.
Let's look like we'resupporting and use it as a way
to level us up and make us seemlike we're accepting and a lot
of companies.
I'm sure you are, but I knowfor a fact that there are those
(19:13):
companies that don't actuallycare.
They just do it for the glory.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, they want the pink pounds, don't they Of?
Course they do because the gaymoney.
I saw this thing online.
Apparently in America the queercommunity spend three trillion
dollars a year.
That's not just on like billsand stuff, that is just their
spending money.
Yeah, so we do as a community.
We are quite rich people.
(19:37):
I guess most of us don't havekids and things right, so the
money we earn is the money thatwe just spend on living our best
big gay lives.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, we're dinkies.
What's dinkies?
Double income, no kids.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, that's cool.
I like that coined phrase.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, it's a thing Very much that Obviously and
wonderfully said there are lotsof sort of queer couples that do
have children but the majoritydon't.
So yeah, obviously kids areexpensive.
So yeah, more money.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
We have more money to spend.
Anyway, we've gone off topicbecause we're talking about the
lovely Hinkley Pride, and theafter party was sold out, wasn't
it?
It was held in this gindistillery factory bar venue.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, privately owned gin distillery.
It was stunning.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Beautiful free floors , massive, and they make their
own gin there and they madetheir own special pride gin as
well.
Yeah, they did so.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's called Bond Street Gin Distillery.
Just want to give them a shoutout because they were so
welcoming and the venue isincredible and if you are in the
area, they do little workshopclasses where you can go and
make your own type of gin, whichis super cool, and the room in
which that happens was our whatdo you call it?
A green room, sort of sit,relax and get ready, and it was
so nice, so nice yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I actually want to go back and make gin.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't want gin just yet and they're so kind of.
Actually they're sending us abottle of the gin so we can have
it live on the podcast whenthat arrives.
That'd be delicious, but yeah,so it was based over two floors
right, the very top floor andthe ground floor is where all
the venue is happening, and thenthe middle floor.
There was like photo booth andbits and bobs going on.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And basically our job was to get up on the stages, on
the floors and get the partystarted, and they gave us loads
of alcohol to give away for free.
So it was playing all likefunny games and like cheeky
competitions and all of that.
And we were just giving awayall the alcohol, weren't we
basically?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, shots after shots, after shots it was great.
Bar tabs it was so fun.
And do you know what I lovedoing any sort of gig like this,
but to do it somewhere wherethey don't always have access to
the clubs that we have, like inClapham or Soho, like throw a
stone and you can hit a gay barHinkley.
They were saying there is noqueer space for them to meet
each other, let alone like lettheir hair down and have a good
(21:46):
time.
And this was the first timethat that area had had anything
like this.
Yeah, and it was so good to seethat, as it was the first one,
it was still so busy, packed.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Absolutely packed.
So we basically asked can youjust get the party started?
And I feel like we hit thebrief.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, I feel like we did.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It was a great one.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It was so much fun.
So much fun.
And what else was really lovelyto see I said this actually to
the organiser Like the spectrumof people from the queer
community that came like therewas people from.
It wasn't just like the youngercrowd, it wasn't just the older
crowd, it wasn't just, you know, the gays, this gendered male,
it was literally.
There was such representationfrom all areas, absolutely, and
all getting on, all having agood time like meeting each
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other.
It was very special actually.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It really was, really was, but anyway we've got the
party started and then weobviously partied with everyone
and just had the biggest, gayesttime ever and we were there
when it all closed.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Now I'm going to be honest with you.
I got quite tired by likemidnight and I was like I don't
feel too drunk, I feel like areally good level of bars, but
I'm absolutely ready for my bed.
And then this one over hereBrad, we figured out his toxic
traits is ordering shots aftershots, after shots Every time I
lost him.
Like every couple of minutes Iturn around and he was back at
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the bar ordering more shots,like literally happened about
four times.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Look, you wanted me on full form that night, so I
had my little power nap, didn'tI?
And then I was ready to go allnight, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Well, should we talk about where we went afterwards?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh, yeah, so the evening took a turn.
Yeah, very much so.
So the night ended, basically,and we were there and we're like
, right, we're kind of still onthe wave, like where can we go
now?
And I said, well, there's notactually a gay bar in Hinckley?
I think they're trying to workon that though, aren't they?
They were saying, but as of now, there wasn't.
But there is this nightclubwhich goes on all night and
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that's where people tend to go.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So we're like cool, let's go there.
That's really great explanation.
So it's a nightclub.
It goes on all night.
Oh gosh, is that what anightclub is?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But they said in like a bit of like not sure you
might want to go, and I said,look, is it kind of gay friendly
?
And they're like, well, it'snot a gay club, but I guess like
it's the only place to go.
So maybe that was like weshould have taken that advice
and maybe not gone.
But I was like no, we're going,we're going, it's going to be
amazing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And we, we walked for 20 minutes and I was like where
is this place?
Like, oh yeah, it's just aroundthe corner, Walk, walk, walk,
walk, walk.
Then we turned up, which Iassume was like the town of
Hinckley, like in the middle.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, I guess so yeah .
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And all we could see were like yellow fluorescent
police jackets, and for somereason we still did not see that
as like red flags.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Well, you were a bit like I'm not sure, because I was
a bit drunk on the wave.
I was like it's going to begreat, we're going to have a
good time, yeah.
And yeah, we got up to theentrance, which was basically
just like metal railings, wasn'tit?
And they had like security onthe door, like fine.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But they were doing like like knife detectors yeah,
they have those like hand metaldetectors that you get like at
airports and stuff, and theywere scanning everybody.
Yeah, and you'd be like, oh,that's good, that's really safe.
And I was like, no, that meansthat this place has a problem
with people bringing in thingsthat they shouldn't and
therefore, to keep the venueopen, they have to do this sort
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of level of security.
Yeah, this is not a good sign.
Yeah, you're like, whatever,let's go, I'll pay for everyone.
You pay for everyone to get in,I know.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I know, tap, tap, tap tap tap tap Can you hear tap,
tap.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So we went into this.
I mean, what do we call it?
I don't.
I didn't want to call it a bar.
It was like it was the sort ofvenue where at school when you
had like discos, it was thatvibe.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But really rough and a bit of a dive.
Sticky yes, sticky, and justnot clean, not clean.
Like broken doors, smashwindows, like that type of vibe.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, I mean, I never trust a venue like a club if
they don't have things on draft,because that just makes me
sound.
It just instantly tells me thatthis bar is like a temporary
bar.
Yeah, yeah, do you know what Imean?
Because you have to haveplumbing to have the draft, so
there's no draft.
I'm like I don't feel safe here.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, and the music was just not really our sort of
vibe, was it?
And then the clientele maybenot quite our gay crowd vibe.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Well, within three minutes there was this guy that
started squaring up on anotherguy for absolutely no reason and
, like his friend, had to belike whoa, stop it, leave him
alone.
And I was just stood therewatching this happen, looked
over to you, you were gone.
You ended up by the bar buyingdrinks.
So you're like, okay, well,we'll just have these drinks,
Ben, and then we'll go.
And I stood there like it waslike that scene in Lion King,
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you know, when it's Beepprepared and all the hyenas like
marching around.
It was like that.
I felt like they were just likecircling us.
You were there dressed as Donnafrom Mamma Mia, in your denim
jumpsuit, with your rainbowheadband.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yeah, you were basically like the bullseye of a
dartboard and everyone was likethat's the only gay in the
village, but like very obviouslythe only gay in the village.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, I'm very verbal , because every time I said to
you, like listen, I actuallydon't really feel safe, I think
we should probably leave, youwere like I've got just as much
right to be here as anybody else.
I was like no, I get it, Ireally get it, and I preach the
same thing that you do, but nowis not the time.
Yeah, so that was interesting,so we left, didn't we quite?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
quickly, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it weren't quite our vibe, but you know, we experienced
these things.
It's all about life experienceand it's one for the memes.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, I'm just pleased I'm here to tell the
tale.
Jokes aside, listen, we'remaking light of a situation.
There's venue we did not feelsafe in and I fully agree with
you, mate.
We should feel welcome in anyvenue that we go into.
But at that time, if you'reever in a club and you don't
feel safe, leave.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But that is why it's so important that places like
Hinckley do have a queer space,so those people in the community
know that they can go there, besafe.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It is for those people and, yeah, it means that
they can go out and also have areally good night out for sure
in the right space For sure,like nobody should ever feel
like they're not accepted in avenue because of their sexuality
or actually for any reason.
However, we are like we as acommunity, we are still working
on things, and if you are livingin an area and you want to go
for a night out and you don'tfeel safe, just leave.
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I cannot stress that enoughBecause I know we're making
light of a situation, but Ithink that could have.
It could have ended up quitebadly, I think, for us.
Anyway, we'll push past it veryquickly because we don't want
to focus on the negative, wewant to focus on the good things
.
So we left the venue and we sawa lovely group of policemen and
you were like, excuse me,officer, officer, excuse me,
officer Krupke, where can we getsomething to eat?
(28:21):
And they were like where haveyou just come from?
And we were like, oh, thatvenue over there.
It was called Bounty.
Where are you from?
We're from London, and whatvenue have you just come from,
bounty?
Why on earth were you in Bounty?
Oh well, some men took us inthere.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We're not from here.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
He was like do not ever go into Bounty again.
And we looked around and therewas what like 12 police officers
.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, and like police wagons.
I was like okay, we made theright decision to leave, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And you were like, are you here because of Bounty?
And he was like, yeah, we'reall here because of that venue.
I was like, oh my goodness, getthat fire exit door.
Get me a pizza.
I need to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
No, fuck this, I'm out of here.
Get that fire exit door.
I'm off.
And we got all the pizza,didn't we?
And then we were sat eating iton upstairs in our hotel room.
Yeah Well, so tired I fellasleep on the sofa.
So you got your wish.
And then I woke up and I waslike, oh god, like where are my
kind of thing?
And I was like that littlebitch has gone like king size
(29:18):
bed all to himself.
So I marched in there and I waslike move over, make room for
me.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Marched in, stripped down to his tiny white ease,
hopped in that bed and snoredfor the entire night.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Every day is a fun day with Brad.
What's?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
that jingle from it's new.
It's an original.
I don't think it's going to goanywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So, benji, how did you feel the next morning when
all your dreams had come trueand you rolled over and you woke
up next to a hunk.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Are you referring to yourself as the hunk?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That is the role that I am playing.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
yes, Okay, well, if you really want to know, in the
morning I had woken up and I'dactually forgotten that you were
there, even though you'd keptme awake most of the night with
your snoring.
I woke up quite early, I waslike half past eight, nine
o'clock for me, which was prettygood.
Through back the DVA, I wentover to the window, just cracked
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open.
See what the weather was doingLovely sun, very Disney princess
, I'm going to go make myself acoffee from the Nespresso
machine.
It's going to be lovely, piro,whetted around.
And there you were, thisdrunken mouth, open tongues
spewed onto the pillow, hair onthe floor just like absolutely
(30:50):
like, and I was like not this.
I was like I'm going to the spaand then I tried to wake you up
and that was.
You are awful in the morning ofwaking up absolutely awful.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I have never claimed ever to be a morning person.
That's just not who I am.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well good, because you are not, I'm not a morning
person, you are absolutelyappalling in the morning.
You just can't get you out ofbed.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I'm a night owl, Always have been, always will be
.
Even as a kid I was up tilllike early hours of the morning.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You still can't get you out of bed.
Honestly, it's impossible.
I could like dangle, flip inlike a Hemsworth brother in
front of you and you still wouldnot get out of bed.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Heavy sleepers as well, aren't?
I Sleep for everything.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
No, even when I've woken you up, you're like yeah,
just five more minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I love an extra five minutes, yeah, and then what
happens?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You miss the train.
Honestly, I was like, well, I'mgoing to have a breakfast.
You're like, yeah, I'm nothungry, okay, fine.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You sleep then?
Speaking of missing the trainon the way back, the trains were
all delayed and so we was atthe station.
I'm like, okay, it's raining.
We had to keep ourselvesentertained, and we certainly
did that.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
What we actually ended up doing was reenacting
our favorite scenes fromBridesmaids.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I mean, it is our favorite comedy movie, we both
love it and we just had hours offun, didn't we?
Just reenacting all the scenesout, filming us Literally hours,
and actually Brad.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
let's share with them what our favorite scene is.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay, well, I mean, there's so many in the film, but
one of the favorites is, youknow, when she's given the
speech and then the other friendcomes along and she gives a
speech and then she goes backand does the speech again and
they just keep trying to outdoeach other the whole time.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yes, it's Annie and Helen isn't it, and they don't
know for Lillian and she's likeyou know, and my favorite is,
like you know, we cancommunicate simply with a look,
and then then Annie comes on andgoes, lillian just stares at
her soul and, like, cocks herhead to the side.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And then does that?
Keep shy, and then keep smiling.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
No, you can always film with me.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
But we were just reenacting that scene over and
over and like pretending to havethe microphone and like
fighting over the mic, like oh,we're got hours of fun, hours of
fun.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
People are looking at us like what is going on?
But don't worry, we're leaving.
We're leaving the town, we'regoing back to our time so funny.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
So funny, but we do actually have another busy
weekend coming up.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Oh my goodness, not another one.
Another one I know it's superfun because we have been invited
to go along to Impulse London'sfirst day.
That's what it's called poolparty.
Not only have they invited usalong, but they have also given
us six free tickets to give awayto our listeners, and we have
(33:40):
been running a competition onour Instagram.
So, for those of you that don'tfollow Instagram yet, sadly you
have missed out on thiscompetition.
But make sure you head over toour Instagram, which is at
BigGay Podcast.
Give us a follow and you couldbe winning something very, very
soon.
But Impulse London, if youdon't know who they are, well,
brad, would you like to tellthem more about Impulse London?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh, absolutely will.
They are a non-profitorganization and they put on
these events to create a bravespace to engage and support the
queer community.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yes, and, like I said , they are hosting a fantastic
pool party.
Now you don't have to get inthe pool.
There's loads going on.
There's drag queen performances, there's a bingo, there's all
sorts.
In fact, ginger Flappage we hadher on the podcast season one
or two she'll be there doing abingo.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
She will be there doing a bingo, and there's
singers and dancers and it'sjust celebrating all queer art
basically.
So it's going to be so much fun?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yes, but what I really want to focus on is the
question that we put out, thatyou had to answer to win free
tickets.
But the question was to win freetickets for you and a friend.
All you have to do is answerthe following question.
The question was which Pokemonhas Brad role played with during
a hookup?
Now, for you big Stan listeners, you will know the answer and
(34:51):
you'll know which Pokemon it is.
But obviously we did a poll.
So the poll was is itCharmander, pikachu or Goldeen?
And the reason why we'rebringing it up on this episode
is, I mean, obviously themajority of you guessed the
correct answer, which wasPikachu, obviously some people
(35:13):
got it wrong got Charmander.
That's absolutely fine.
Go back and listen to theepisode, but my real shock is
the amount of people that votedfor Goldeen.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I don't know why people think I want to have sex
with Goldeen Like sexy Goldeen.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I mean those of you that maybe they don't know
Pokemon Goldeen is essentially agoldfish, like a frilly tailed
goldfish with like a unicornspike.
I know what some of you arethinking like.
Well, to be honest, I'm notattracted to a mouse with a
lightning bolt tail either.
But yeah, just sexy Goldeenreally made us giggle, didn't it
(35:47):
?
Then we started googling sexyGoldeen costumes and they did
exist.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That's Halloween sorted.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh my goodness, actually we should do that.
Yes, of course, the answer wasPikachu, and we have reached out
to those that have won the freetickets on Instagram.
So do, if you did apply, dokeep an eye on your inbox and we
will have sent you a messageand you can come and party at
the Impulse London Thursday poolparty with us this Sunday.
I mean, maybe actually, brad,now is a good time for any of
our new listeners that haven'tgone back that early in the
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season.
Do you want to give them aquick recap on what actually
happened with you and Pikachu?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Okay, can we just say I'm not attracted to Pikachu.
I just want to get that outstraight away, because you are
giving me a very bad reputationright now.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I mean knowing where this story is going.
I don't know if that's fair tomake that statement.
Let's let the people make thatown decision.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Okay, here's the quick version of the story.
I was on Grindr a few years agoand I was chatting to a guy and
he was like, yeah, come round.
But basically he was leavingLondon, he was Australian and he
was going back to Australia thenext day.
So he was mid packing up all ofhis stuff and he was like, oh,
we can have a chat and I'll helpyou pack, like it'll be fun.
So we had a beer and all ofthat and he was packing his
(36:59):
clothes and he found his likefancy dress costumes that he'd
had over the years and obviouslyI love a bit of fancy dress.
I was like, oh, let's put themon, because he was going to dump
them more.
I was like put them on like onelast try and like give him a
final out in.
So he's putting on these funnyclothing and I was like getting
dressed up as well.
And then he put on this yellowonesie and I said, well, what
the hell did you have a yellowonesie for?
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And he told me the story aboutwhen he went to a party and it
was Pokemon themed and he wentas Pikachu.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Anyway, he was in this like Lycra, skin, tight
yellow onesie and we ended upjust started making out and
things got a bit heavy and hecouldn't get the onesie off
because the sip had then broken.
So he was kind of like stuck inthis onesie.
So we ended up like rippingholes in the places that you
needed to have access to and wecarried on and we did our thing.
(37:47):
So he did wear the onesiewhilst we were doing it, but he
was not dressed up in a fullPikachu costume.
Can I just say that?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But he doesn't have any sort of sexual attraction to
Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, I like the Lycra onesie that was.
You know that was getting megoing, but not the thought of
actual being.
It's not like you had like aPikachu face paint on Imagine.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Sorry, I'm just imagining that scene right now.
You rubbed up to his house he'sthere full Pikachu outfit and
he spent two hours beating hisface to look like Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
When you think of Pikachu and you see people
dressed as Pikachu, they're inlike full, massive skin costumes
, aren't they Like big MickeyMouse like costumes.
So it wasn't that at all.
Can I just put that out there.
I'm not attracted to Pikachu,but thank you so much for
painting that picture of me,benji.
Just letting everyone know forthe last three years because
even now we still get messagesfrom people They'll walk past
like a Pikachu thing and they'llsend a picture and slide into
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our DMs and be like saw this andthought of.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Brad, it's literally like a few a week, isn't it?
We get people sending us likegifts of like Pikachu's.
My favourite one is whensomebody found a Pikachu butt
plug.
They exist, they do exist Wowwhen somebody created Pokemon,
never did they think that therewould be butt plug merchandise.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
But there we go.
There's the Pikachu story.
Pikachu, well, what anaction-pack weekend we have had.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I know right, and I cannot wait for the pool party
this weekend too.
And actually, on that note, ifyou have any events going on in
your area, wherever you're fromif it's in the UK or further do
let us know if you would liketwo party boys to come along and
help you start the party,spread love and have just
generally a really good nightout, which hopefully won't end
up in the same sort of bar thatwe ended up in last time.
(39:40):
But podcasters, that is all wehave time for on this week's
episode of my Big Gay Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (39:58):
And don't forget, if you do have a spare 10 seconds,
then we are eligible for ourbest podcast award.
All the information is on thebio on our Instagram page, and a
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Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Certainly well, it takes literally five seconds of
vote for us and we would be sograteful.
But, brad, like I said, that isall we have time for on this
week's episode.
Until next time, see you next.
Wednesday Just a quick one,mate.
Yeah, they've just sent throughthe rules for the pool party.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Okay, yeah, cool.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
So just a few that I want to sort of bring up with
you.
So there's no diving Right,there's no bombing, okay, and it
also says no skinny dipping.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Oh what.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, at least they didn't say anything about no
water sports.
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I'm pretty sure it's a given those to be no weaning
in the pool.
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Oh, benji, you're not going to make me pop nudes, are
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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of my Big
Gay Podcast with me, me Benji.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And me, brad, got the giggles already today.
Haven't ya Giving the life, theloves and loves of living in
London Two?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
gays one city what could possibly?
Go wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You really are up in a joker already.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Are you still drunk?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, I don't think so.
I don't want to see alcohol fora very, very long time.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Same.
I am on detox now for theforeseeable.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, I mean, I do feel like the last four episodes
we have started with talkingabout how recklessly we are with
alcohol, so maybe let's justboycott that bit for a little
bit.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I think so and talk about what you know upstanding
gentleman we are.
I agree.
This is not good for my image,your image.
What image is that, brad?
Well, everyone is just going tothink I'm this huge party boy
24-7.
I do have other sides to me,you know.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I could be a nice little gentleman at heart, you
could be, but I've known youquite a while and I've never
witnessed that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I need a quiet life.
Honestly, I can out with youtoo much.
It's killing me off.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That's the plan, but anyway, how are you feeling, you
all?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
right, yeah, do you know what I actually am?
Good, I woke up at nicebreakfast today fresh orange
juice.
I am living the real life rightnow.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Define fresh orange juice.
Chop a can of it's as fresh asyou can get at London.
To be honest, oh my goodness,hilarious, hilarious, yeah, no,
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling abit more energized and we have
quite a lot to tell you allabout.
Actually, today, on this week,on this week's episode, pop my
(02:05):
teeth back in one second.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh gosh, yes, because we were away this weekend.
It was actually our first roadtrip together, just me and you.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It was our first what we were calling tour life
experience and, my goodness, didit not start very well.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I mean Brad, I'll let you start the vibe.
Where do you want to start withthis sort of you know, car
crash of a story?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So we got invited to go and co-host at Hinckley Pride
on Saturday, which is the firstever pride they've done in
Hinckley.
It's a local pride and we'reall for that.
But yeah, you wanted to goreally early to like, check out
the town, because we've neverbeen there before and wanted to
get a super early train.
Well, it's fair enough, like,let's do it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So, listeners, as you've probably already guessed,
like you know, in most workingdynamics there is like the
brains, there is the brawn I amin fact both the brains and the
brawn and Brad is the deadweight and I feel sometimes more
like a child minder than aco-host.
(03:15):
But I suppose, before we talkabout the train.
They you should probably talkabout the night before.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So we ended up going on a spontaneous night out in
London on the Friday night,which was not in the diary at
all, because we were like wewant to be super fresh for
Saturday, like Friday is nothappening.
But we were with some friendsand we went for a little drink
and then, obviously it escalated, doesn't it?
You know, you get on the wavelike we'll just have one more,
we'll have one more, and I'msure you have all done that.
Where you've not planned to goout, you've ended up having the
(03:46):
odd drink and it's justescalated.
And it's spontaneous night andsometimes I think the
spontaneous nights are the bestnights.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
They are the best nights.
And listen, we ended up in oneof our favorite bars in Clapham
and let's just say we've beenspending the day with you, right
, because you just finished ajob and you got some like thank
you gifts.
And all I want to say is, atmidnight you were so under the
influence you thought that itwould be a good idea to pop a
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bottle of Prosecco that you hadbrought in to the bar underneath
the bar and you were like I'mdoing it, get glasses.
I was like you cannot open abottle of Prosecco discreetly.
You just can't do it.
Please, please, do not do that.
And Brad just like, keptfixated eye contact with me.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I could tell he was about to go against what I just
said.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And then all we heard was this massive bang as the
cork fired off, as the managerwalked past with his earpiece in
and just stopped and looked andwe both just smiled like Hi,
are you all right?
He knew he knew that he carriedon walking, which is very, very
sweet of him.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, and they had loads of flavored rums in the
spa and I'm going for a bit oflike a rum phase at the moment.
I'm really into flavored rum.
And yeah, I was like, oh, whatflavors you got.
And they had all these quirkyflavors and I convinced the bar
guy to let me have a taste ofeach flavor so I could decide
which one I wanted.
So he was getting these.
(05:15):
Chocolate like pouring little,like taste is like that's quite
nice.
That's fruit oh, I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So this, this is completely after I'd left.
By the way, I was responsibleand left at about quarter past
midnight.
I would say it was it was soonafter the Prosecco debacle.
I was like I'm leaving.
And then I did leave you withone of our friends who kept an
eye on you and, yes, I did getupdates and one of the updates
was Brad has just asked the barman if he can try every single
one of the rums and how manyflavors they have like 20
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different flavors.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I mean it felt like 20.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, and basically, apparently, once you tried all
of them, you then said, hmm, canI have another try of?
And then you went back to thevery beginning of the list and
then he said he's not evenconvinced that you ended up
buying any shots after it.
I mean clever.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I know right, You're welcome.
Stick with me and you'll nevergo thirsty again.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, but you may end up in prison.
That is true.
No joke, just effect.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But sometimes I do just get a bit wild and chaotic.
When I'm drunk, right, I'malways good times, good vibes
only.
But we ended up going to a club, yeah, and another club no
sleep, literally, yeah.
And what was upstairs about thetoilets?
And to go downstairs they hadlike a banister on the stairs
and for some reason I was like,oh my God, watch me be Mary
(06:30):
Poppins right now.
And I tried to slide down thebanister in a graceful manner
Because I thought that lookedquite fun, like arrive at the
bottom of the stairs by the bar,like off the banister.
And I did not slide down thebanister.
You did slide, though I didslide, it's not quite in the
graceful manner that I thought Iwas going to be doing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, so what Brad actually ended up doing was
sliding down the majority of thestaircase on his knees.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And then, face planted into a security guy who
was walking down the stairs.
Honestly, I couldn't stopmyself, like I kind of like fell
off the banister, was like thestairs Now, luckily he was on
the stairs, because I would havegone all the way down to the
bottom, right yeah and I fellinto him like face like squashed
up against him, and he was likeoh my God, what are you doing?
(07:19):
You're too drunk.
I'm like, no, no, I'm fine.
Honestly, I'm actually fine.
I was pushed, pushing likeblood pouring all down my knees,
battered, bruise, my legs allspindly on the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And podcasters.
Just in case this image was notenough for your head, our
friend actually managed to catchit on camera and it is on our
Instagram as one of our reels.
Please go and enjoy it.
It is hilarious.
We actually couldn't stopwatching it.
That train to Hinkley was acouple of hours and we were just
watching it and laughing andremixing it to different songs
the whole way.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I mean when I turned up to see you, albeit a
little bit late, not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Sorry, no, no, no, no , no, no.
Let's not just like brush overthat.
We had agreed to meet at well.
I had said quarter to 10 atLondon Bridge.
You kept on saying no, let's dohalf bus nine.
I was like great, half bus nine.
So there I was at the trainstation ready to go half bus
nine.
Where are you, mate?
I'm just walking to the cheap.
You hadn't even left your houseyet.
(08:17):
I know, and they turned up likelike that scene in bridesmaids.
You know, the sunglasses onwhen you're completely hung over
the next day.
You like morning.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Absolutely still drunk from the night before.
Oh god, what had happened wasmy alarm had gone off and I was
like I don't need this much timeto get ready.
Is fine, I'm just gonna go backfor five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't need this much time.
I do not put this much effortinto my appearance.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And I did that like really stupid thing.
I was still drunk and I woke up.
Not gonna lie when I was likefive minutes to be fine, I won't
set an alarm, I wake up.
Luckily.
I don't know what came over mybody.
I just woke up at half nine andI was like, huh, better start
getting ready.
And then looked at my phonelike, oh my god, it's half nine,
I need to be there right nowand I've not even got out of bed
.
Unbelievable, I'm sure we'veall been there, we've all been
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there.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Also, something I felt to mention is, before I
left the club with you the nightbefore, I took your phone and I
set six alarms.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I think in my drunken state I was like I do not need
six alarms, one is enough.
So I've really un-set them over.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I know what was show, benji, I'm gonna uncheck all
these alarms.
Yeah, you sure proved me wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You didn't need all those alarms.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But no, then we, then we trained to Hinkley and
actually we had.
We ended up having a reallylovely day, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Beautiful day.
Checked to the hotel Gorgeous,went to the spa, gorgeous,
gorgeous.
Yeah, the hotel was nice.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Absolutely gorgeous.
I'm Cheryl Cooley.
I'm the nation's sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You've not done that impression for a little while
You've been gagging to get thatout again.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Gagging sure, not necessarily to get that out, but
yeah, I have been gagging a lotrecently.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I saw you as soon as we got into Hinkley, straight on
the grinder and the little lurk.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.
Well, let's talk about thisafter this short break.
This is a final call for Benjiand Brad travelling to Jersey
for Channel Island's pride.
Oh mate, hurry up, we're goingto miss the flight.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Benji, I can't run in these espadrilles.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Gosh well, what a shame it'll be for them to get
left behind.
Look, just put that book downand hurry up.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It says here that Jersey has over 30 beaches and
is the sunniest place in theBritish Isles.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yes, and we won't get there if you don't take those
shoes and sun hat off.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wait, how is my sun?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
hat slowing me down, it's not, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Whoa, did you know that Channel Island pride is one
of the most attended events inthe islands?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yes, and this year they're going huge, with a main
stage, a cabaret stage andperformances from Top Drag
Queens, local artists, silentdisco, dance tent and some
exciting headlining acts yet tobe announced.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Quick.
Do you need anything from dutyfree?
Have you packed protection?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Of course I have it's factor 30.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Not that kind oh come and pie with us at Channel
Island pride in Jersey Saturday,the 16th of September.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's only a 40 minute flight from most UK airports.
So pack your speedos, pack yoursunnies, pack your sun cream
and we'll see you at the beach.
For more information, head tochannelislandprideorg.
Okay, so, like we said, wefinally got to Hinckley pride.
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After this prince has had aworkout and finally got her ass
to the train station, got toHinckley oh my goodness, we were
put up in such a lovely hotel.
We felt very special, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh, absolutely yeah, I felt like a Zedless celebrity.
I know literally very that.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, the hotel was so nice, we had this beautiful like
suite.
So of course we got upstairs,skipped into the room.
I was like oh my goodness, thisplace is huge.
You were like this is nicerthan my flat in London.
It actually is.
So they were skipping aroundthe rooms like, oh my goodness,
like a living room, a diningarea, there was a bathroom on
suite.
It was so nice.
Went back to the main room tobe like this is so cool, we
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should do some filming.
Where was Brad Fast asleep onthe sofa?
Absolute pillow princess in thecorner.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I needed a little power nut, because you wanted me
to be on top form and I neededmy energy.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh-huh.
Yes, sure, this is my fault.
I don't know how, but yes, thisis what.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I do.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So I had to sit there for like 45 minutes whilst you
slept on the sofa.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, but you kept yourself entertained because,
like I said, you were straighton that grinder and then also a
new one which I've never evenheard of before.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yes, I don't know how that happens.
Okay, yeah, sure, and I'll findout about the download the app.
Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I love that.
You like said I downloaded theapp, like it wasn't already
downloaded on your phone, soanyway, I found this other like
similar thing.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Right, I think it must be new.
I've never seen it advertisedand I'll be honest, I went into
Safari just to sort of like seehow we get to the venue later on
and it was already like apop-up, like in my open pages on
Safari.
I was like, oh, this is weird.
What is it?
Clicked on it?
It's a new app.
It's called now.
The name of it I'm hoping is aworking title because I'm not
entirely sure it's going to godown well for the community, but
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the name of it is calledSniffy's.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yes, sniffy's.
That suggests maybe like highand horny type stuff, right,
sniffing away, yeah.
Like poppers, yeah, or fetishstuff you like.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Sniffing underwear, sniffing socks, sniffing
trainers yeah, so I'm entirelysure if that's what it's about.
But anyway, it's like the otherapp that we were just referring
to, but it's all on a web, webbased platform and it's like a
huge map of the area you're inand it's got little drop points
of where other people are on theapp and what they're offering.
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And I'll be honest, it is.
It's extreme.
Yeah, it's like you click onthe picture which is explicit.
It's not like other apps whereyou like have to have a little
bit of modesty explicit photosand then they've got different
options like door open orhosting or group.
I was like blimey and then Izoomed in further.
(14:33):
There you were come dump hotelroom door open.
Already got my profile sortedyeah, I'd never heard of
Sniffy's, had you?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'd never heard of that either, but also I've only
come across this thing thatpeople do that's like I don't
know how long it's been going onfor where, if you are a bit of
a cum dump, people leave like asharpie mark on your bum and
it's how many loads that you'vetaken that day.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm not saying that people that do that is.
For some reason, your voicegoes straight through me when
you talk about these sorts ofthings.
I don't know if it's like pgsdor whatever it is, but when I
hear you talk about this sort ofthing actually makes me like
quiver and not in a like a funway, makes me feel slightly sick
.
You make me feel sick, doctor,doctor, I feel nauseous.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Not your allergies, again, my allergies, allergies,
but also I love.
When we got to the reception,the hotel, you're like is there
a way to get a different roomwith just two separate beds,
rather than sharing the one bed?
I was like, excuse me, I'm anice little person to share a
bed with.
I don't take much space, I'm anice little delicate princess,
honestly.
But don't snore.
You do I do not snore.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, are you awake when you're sleeping?
You do.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It's not so much like a snore.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But it's like this.
It's like sleeping next toDarth Vader.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, that's why, because I was dehydrated from
the amount of gin that we drunkthat night.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No doubt you have an excuse as to why that happened.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You do.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You absolutely do, so don't let anyone tell you
otherwise.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But also I love this moment.
So we get into the hotel suite.
The bed was huge, like a bigking-size bed anyway, plenty of
space for like three or fourpeople.
So me and you would have beenmore than sufficient there.
And you were like, fyi, you'reon the sofa tonight.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
FYI, you're in the other room on the floor in the
corner I might give you a pillowif you're a good boy.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I was like why are you calling the shots on who
gets the big, fancy king-sizebed?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Because I was at the train station on time ready to
get the booked train.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's why, but we're still there.
Plenty of time to get out ofyourself.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Also, I remember on the front desk, wasn't I like
we're on our honeymoon, I'm solucky.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And there's me, like hungover, like my sunglasses on.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Literally hanging off your face.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
yeah, but anyway.
But after we checked in it wasall good, it was all grand, we
got ready, went for a little spadidn't we?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We did.
Oh, the spa was lovely,although two minute children oh
yeah, that was not the onesScreaming kids we were looking
around like can we just likedunk them to stop them?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
screaming.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Nobody can hear your screams underwater.
No, it was lovely had a littlespish splash, did a little bit
of aerial, it was nice.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, a little swim, feeling fresh, got ready, and
then it was time to get theparty started, weren't it?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, it was.
And when we rocked up to thevenue of England so originally
where we went to was going to beit was all booked and designed
as the after party we'd beenbooked to come and do the
hosting during the day.
Sadly, the day was cancelled bythe council, I believe, because
of weather disruptions and itwasn't safe.
But so the after-pride,after-hours party actually then
became like the pre-pride party,because they're hoping to get
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another date in the diary reallysoon so that all their hard
work and all the people thatwere coming up to perform and
all the people of Hinckley inthe surrounding areas that want
and need that day to celebratethemselves and everything queer
still happens, absolutely.
So we rocked up and, as ourwhatever our Uber was, sco-dub,
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whatever it was real fancypulled up, we were welcomed so
nicely like they would go outthe car and everyone was like,
oh my gosh, benz and Brad, likeit was just the most loving
feeling, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It was amazing, yeah, and they were just so grateful
that we'd come and like, no,we're grateful that we got
invited to come like it was sogood to get out of London and go
and support local prides,because I do think the big ones,
as brilliant as they are, andhow amazing is that there's this
huge, basically festival forall the queer communities to
come together.
There is that side of thecommercialism isn't there and
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the corporations taking over,but these local ones it's just
all about the local communityand it's just so lovely to see.
For sure?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
yeah, what you're referring to is, I think, is
what we call rainbow washing,which is when, like big
companies, they're like oh quick, it's pride season and you know
there's lots of money withinthe queer community.
Let's look like we'resupporting and use it as a way
to level us up and make us seemlike we're accepting and a lot
of companies.
I'm sure you are, but I knowfor a fact that there are those
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companies that don't actuallycare.
They just do it for the glory.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, they want the pink pounds, don't they Of?
Course they do because the gaymoney.
I saw this thing online.
Apparently in America the queercommunity spend three trillion
dollars a year.
That's not just on like billsand stuff, that is just their
spending money.
Yeah, so we do as a community.
We are quite rich people.
(19:37):
I guess most of us don't havekids and things right, so the
money we earn is the money thatwe just spend on living our best
big gay lives.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, we're dinkies.
What's dinkies?
Double income, no kids.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, that's cool.
I like that coined phrase.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, it's a thing Very much that Obviously and
wonderfully said there are lotsof sort of queer couples that do
have children but the majoritydon't.
So yeah, obviously kids areexpensive.
So yeah, more money.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
We have more money to spend.
Anyway, we've gone off topicbecause we're talking about the
lovely Hinkley Pride, and theafter party was sold out, wasn't
it?
It was held in this gindistillery factory bar venue.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, privately owned gin distillery.
It was stunning.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Beautiful free floors , massive, and they make their
own gin there and they madetheir own special pride gin as
well.
Yeah, they did so.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's called Bond Street Gin Distillery.
Just want to give them a shoutout because they were so
welcoming and the venue isincredible and if you are in the
area, they do little workshopclasses where you can go and
make your own type of gin, whichis super cool, and the room in
which that happens was our whatdo you call it?
A green room, sort of sit,relax and get ready, and it was
so nice, so nice yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I actually want to go back and make gin.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't want gin just yet and they're so kind of.
Actually they're sending us abottle of the gin so we can have
it live on the podcast whenthat arrives.
That'd be delicious, but yeah,so it was based over two floors
right, the very top floor andthe ground floor is where all
the venue is happening, and thenthe middle floor.
There was like photo booth andbits and bobs going on.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And basically our job was to get up on the stages, on
the floors and get the partystarted, and they gave us loads
of alcohol to give away for free.
So it was playing all likefunny games and like cheeky
competitions and all of that.
And we were just giving awayall the alcohol, weren't we
basically?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, shots after shots, after shots it was great.
Bar tabs it was so fun.
And do you know what I lovedoing any sort of gig like this,
but to do it somewhere wherethey don't always have access to
the clubs that we have, like inClapham or Soho, like throw a
stone and you can hit a gay barHinkley.
They were saying there is noqueer space for them to meet
each other, let alone like lettheir hair down and have a good
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time.
And this was the first timethat that area had had anything
like this.
Yeah, and it was so good to seethat, as it was the first one,
it was still so busy, packed.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Absolutely packed.
So we basically asked can youjust get the party started?
And I feel like we hit thebrief.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, I feel like we did.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It was a great one.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It was so much fun.
So much fun.
And what else was really lovelyto see I said this actually to
the organiser Like the spectrumof people from the queer
community that came like therewas people from.
It wasn't just like the youngercrowd, it wasn't just the older
crowd, it wasn't just, you know, the gays, this gendered male,
it was literally.
There was such representationfrom all areas, absolutely, and
all getting on, all having agood time like meeting each
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other.
It was very special actually.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It really was, really was, but anyway we've got the
party started and then weobviously partied with everyone
and just had the biggest, gayesttime ever and we were there
when it all closed.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Now I'm going to be honest with you.
I got quite tired by likemidnight and I was like I don't
feel too drunk, I feel like areally good level of bars, but
I'm absolutely ready for my bed.
And then this one over hereBrad, we figured out his toxic
traits is ordering shots aftershots, after shots Every time I
lost him.
Like every couple of minutes Iturn around and he was back at
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the bar ordering more shots,like literally happened about
four times.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Look, you wanted me on full form that night, so I
had my little power nap, didn'tI?
And then I was ready to go allnight, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Well, should we talk about where we went afterwards?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh, yeah, so the evening took a turn.
Yeah, very much so.
So the night ended, basically,and we were there and we're like
, right, we're kind of still onthe wave, like where can we go
now?
And I said, well, there's notactually a gay bar in Hinckley?
I think they're trying to workon that though, aren't they?
They were saying, but as of now, there wasn't.
But there is this nightclubwhich goes on all night and
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that's where people tend to go.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So we're like cool, let's go there.
That's really great explanation.
So it's a nightclub.
It goes on all night.
Oh gosh, is that what anightclub is?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But they said in like a bit of like not sure you
might want to go, and I said,look, is it kind of gay friendly
?
And they're like, well, it'snot a gay club, but I guess like
it's the only place to go.
So maybe that was like weshould have taken that advice
and maybe not gone.
But I was like no, we're going,we're going, it's going to be
amazing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And we, we walked for 20 minutes and I was like where
is this place?
Like, oh yeah, it's just aroundthe corner, Walk, walk, walk,
walk, walk.
Then we turned up, which Iassume was like the town of
Hinckley, like in the middle.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, I guess so yeah .
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And all we could see were like yellow fluorescent
police jackets, and for somereason we still did not see that
as like red flags.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Well, you were a bit like I'm not sure, because I was
a bit drunk on the wave.
I was like it's going to begreat, we're going to have a
good time, yeah.
And yeah, we got up to theentrance, which was basically
just like metal railings, wasn'tit?
And they had like security onthe door, like fine.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But they were doing like like knife detectors yeah,
they have those like hand metaldetectors that you get like at
airports and stuff, and theywere scanning everybody.
Yeah, and you'd be like, oh,that's good, that's really safe.
And I was like, no, that meansthat this place has a problem
with people bringing in thingsthat they shouldn't and
therefore, to keep the venueopen, they have to do this sort
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of level of security.
Yeah, this is not a good sign.
Yeah, you're like, whatever,let's go, I'll pay for everyone.
You pay for everyone to get in,I know.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I know, tap, tap, tap tap tap tap Can you hear tap,
tap.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So we went into this.
I mean, what do we call it?
I don't.
I didn't want to call it a bar.
It was like it was the sort ofvenue where at school when you
had like discos, it was thatvibe.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But really rough and a bit of a dive.
Sticky yes, sticky, and justnot clean, not clean.
Like broken doors, smashwindows, like that type of vibe.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, I mean, I never trust a venue like a club if
they don't have things on draft,because that just makes me
sound.
It just instantly tells me thatthis bar is like a temporary
bar.
Yeah, yeah, do you know what Imean?
Because you have to haveplumbing to have the draft, so
there's no draft.
I'm like I don't feel safe here.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, and the music was just not really our sort of
vibe, was it?
And then the clientele maybenot quite our gay crowd vibe.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Well, within three minutes there was this guy that
started squaring up on anotherguy for absolutely no reason and
, like his friend, had to belike whoa, stop it, leave him
alone.
And I was just stood therewatching this happen, looked
over to you, you were gone.
You ended up by the bar buyingdrinks.
So you're like, okay, well,we'll just have these drinks,
Ben, and then we'll go.
And I stood there like it waslike that scene in Lion King,
(26:23):
you know, when it's Beepprepared and all the hyenas like
marching around.
It was like that.
I felt like they were just likecircling us.
You were there dressed as Donnafrom Mamma Mia, in your denim
jumpsuit, with your rainbowheadband.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yeah, you were basically like the bullseye of a
dartboard and everyone was likethat's the only gay in the
village, but like very obviouslythe only gay in the village.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, I'm very verbal , because every time I said to
you, like listen, I actuallydon't really feel safe, I think
we should probably leave, youwere like I've got just as much
right to be here as anybody else.
I was like no, I get it, Ireally get it, and I preach the
same thing that you do, but nowis not the time.
Yeah, so that was interesting,so we left, didn't we quite?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
quickly, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it weren't quite our vibe, but you know, we experienced
these things.
It's all about life experienceand it's one for the memes.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, I'm just pleased I'm here to tell the
tale.
Jokes aside, listen, we'remaking light of a situation.
There's venue we did not feelsafe in and I fully agree with
you, mate.
We should feel welcome in anyvenue that we go into.
But at that time, if you'reever in a club and you don't
feel safe, leave.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But that is why it's so important that places like
Hinckley do have a queer space,so those people in the community
know that they can go there, besafe.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It is for those people and, yeah, it means that
they can go out and also have areally good night out for sure
in the right space For sure,like nobody should ever feel
like they're not accepted in avenue because of their sexuality
or actually for any reason.
However, we are like we as acommunity, we are still working
on things, and if you are livingin an area and you want to go
for a night out and you don'tfeel safe, just leave.
(27:59):
I cannot stress that enoughBecause I know we're making
light of a situation, but Ithink that could have.
It could have ended up quitebadly, I think, for us.
Anyway, we'll push past it veryquickly because we don't want
to focus on the negative, wewant to focus on the good things
.
So we left the venue and we sawa lovely group of policemen and
you were like, excuse me,officer, officer, excuse me,
officer Krupke, where can we getsomething to eat?
(28:21):
And they were like where haveyou just come from?
And we were like, oh, thatvenue over there.
It was called Bounty.
Where are you from?
We're from London, and whatvenue have you just come from,
bounty?
Why on earth were you in Bounty?
Oh well, some men took us inthere.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We're not from here.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
He was like do not ever go into Bounty again.
And we looked around and therewas what like 12 police officers
.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, and like police wagons.
I was like okay, we made theright decision to leave, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And you were like, are you here because of Bounty?
And he was like, yeah, we'reall here because of that venue.
I was like, oh my goodness, getthat fire exit door.
Get me a pizza.
I need to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
No, fuck this, I'm out of here.
Get that fire exit door.
I'm off.
And we got all the pizza,didn't we?
And then we were sat eating iton upstairs in our hotel room.
Yeah Well, so tired I fellasleep on the sofa.
So you got your wish.
And then I woke up and I waslike, oh god, like where are my
kind of thing?
And I was like that littlebitch has gone like king size
(29:18):
bed all to himself.
So I marched in there and I waslike move over, make room for
me.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Marched in, stripped down to his tiny white ease,
hopped in that bed and snoredfor the entire night.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Every day is a fun day with Brad.
What's?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
that jingle from it's new.
It's an original.
I don't think it's going to goanywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So, benji, how did you feel the next morning when
all your dreams had come trueand you rolled over and you woke
up next to a hunk.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Are you referring to yourself as the hunk?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That is the role that I am playing.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
yes, Okay, well, if you really want to know, in the
morning I had woken up and I'dactually forgotten that you were
there, even though you'd keptme awake most of the night with
your snoring.
I woke up quite early, I waslike half past eight, nine
o'clock for me, which was prettygood.
Through back the DVA, I wentover to the window, just cracked
(30:27):
open.
See what the weather was doingLovely sun, very Disney princess
, I'm going to go make myself acoffee from the Nespresso
machine.
It's going to be lovely, piro,whetted around.
And there you were, thisdrunken mouth, open tongues
spewed onto the pillow, hair onthe floor just like absolutely
(30:50):
like, and I was like not this.
I was like I'm going to the spaand then I tried to wake you up
and that was.
You are awful in the morning ofwaking up absolutely awful.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I have never claimed ever to be a morning person.
That's just not who I am.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well good, because you are not, I'm not a morning
person, you are absolutelyappalling in the morning.
You just can't get you out ofbed.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I'm a night owl, Always have been, always will be
.
Even as a kid I was up tilllike early hours of the morning.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You still can't get you out of bed.
Honestly, it's impossible.
I could like dangle, flip inlike a Hemsworth brother in
front of you and you still wouldnot get out of bed.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Heavy sleepers as well, aren't?
I Sleep for everything.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
No, even when I've woken you up, you're like yeah,
just five more minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I love an extra five minutes, yeah, and then what
happens?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You miss the train.
Honestly, I was like, well, I'mgoing to have a breakfast.
You're like, yeah, I'm nothungry, okay, fine.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You sleep then?
Speaking of missing the trainon the way back, the trains were
all delayed and so we was atthe station.
I'm like, okay, it's raining.
We had to keep ourselvesentertained, and we certainly
did that.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
What we actually ended up doing was reenacting
our favorite scenes fromBridesmaids.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I mean, it is our favorite comedy movie, we both
love it and we just had hours offun, didn't we?
Just reenacting all the scenesout, filming us Literally hours,
and actually Brad.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
let's share with them what our favorite scene is.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay, well, I mean, there's so many in the film, but
one of the favorites is, youknow, when she's given the
speech and then the other friendcomes along and she gives a
speech and then she goes backand does the speech again and
they just keep trying to outdoeach other the whole time.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yes, it's Annie and Helen isn't it, and they don't
know for Lillian and she's likeyou know, and my favorite is,
like you know, we cancommunicate simply with a look,
and then then Annie comes on andgoes, lillian just stares at
her soul and, like, cocks herhead to the side.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And then does that?
Keep shy, and then keep smiling.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
No, you can always film with me.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
But we were just reenacting that scene over and
over and like pretending to havethe microphone and like
fighting over the mic, like oh,we're got hours of fun, hours of
fun.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
People are looking at us like what is going on?
But don't worry, we're leaving.
We're leaving the town, we'regoing back to our time so funny.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
So funny, but we do actually have another busy
weekend coming up.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Oh my goodness, not another one.
Another one I know it's superfun because we have been invited
to go along to Impulse London'sfirst day.
That's what it's called poolparty.
Not only have they invited usalong, but they have also given
us six free tickets to give awayto our listeners, and we have
(33:40):
been running a competition onour Instagram.
So, for those of you that don'tfollow Instagram yet, sadly you
have missed out on thiscompetition.
But make sure you head over toour Instagram, which is at
BigGay Podcast.
Give us a follow and you couldbe winning something very, very
soon.
But Impulse London, if youdon't know who they are, well,
brad, would you like to tellthem more about Impulse London?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh, absolutely will.
They are a non-profitorganization and they put on
these events to create a bravespace to engage and support the
queer community.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yes, and, like I said , they are hosting a fantastic
pool party.
Now you don't have to get inthe pool.
There's loads going on.
There's drag queen performances, there's a bingo, there's all
sorts.
In fact, ginger Flappage we hadher on the podcast season one
or two she'll be there doing abingo.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
She will be there doing a bingo, and there's
singers and dancers and it'sjust celebrating all queer art
basically.
So it's going to be so much fun?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yes, but what I really want to focus on is the
question that we put out, thatyou had to answer to win free
tickets.
But the question was to win freetickets for you and a friend.
All you have to do is answerthe following question.
The question was which Pokemonhas Brad role played with during
a hookup?
Now, for you big Stan listeners, you will know the answer and
(34:51):
you'll know which Pokemon it is.
But obviously we did a poll.
So the poll was is itCharmander, pikachu or Goldeen?
And the reason why we'rebringing it up on this episode
is, I mean, obviously themajority of you guessed the
correct answer, which wasPikachu, obviously some people
(35:13):
got it wrong got Charmander.
That's absolutely fine.
Go back and listen to theepisode, but my real shock is
the amount of people that votedfor Goldeen.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I don't know why people think I want to have sex
with Goldeen Like sexy Goldeen.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I mean those of you that maybe they don't know
Pokemon Goldeen is essentially agoldfish, like a frilly tailed
goldfish with like a unicornspike.
I know what some of you arethinking like.
Well, to be honest, I'm notattracted to a mouse with a
lightning bolt tail either.
But yeah, just sexy Goldeenreally made us giggle, didn't it
(35:47):
?
Then we started googling sexyGoldeen costumes and they did
exist.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That's Halloween sorted.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh my goodness, actually we should do that.
Yes, of course, the answer wasPikachu, and we have reached out
to those that have won the freetickets on Instagram.
So do, if you did apply, dokeep an eye on your inbox and we
will have sent you a messageand you can come and party at
the Impulse London Thursday poolparty with us this Sunday.
I mean, maybe actually, brad,now is a good time for any of
our new listeners that haven'tgone back that early in the
(36:15):
season.
Do you want to give them aquick recap on what actually
happened with you and Pikachu?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Okay, can we just say I'm not attracted to Pikachu.
I just want to get that outstraight away, because you are
giving me a very bad reputationright now.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I mean knowing where this story is going.
I don't know if that's fair tomake that statement.
Let's let the people make thatown decision.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Okay, here's the quick version of the story.
I was on Grindr a few years agoand I was chatting to a guy and
he was like, yeah, come round.
But basically he was leavingLondon, he was Australian and he
was going back to Australia thenext day.
So he was mid packing up all ofhis stuff and he was like, oh,
we can have a chat and I'll helpyou pack, like it'll be fun.
So we had a beer and all ofthat and he was packing his
(36:59):
clothes and he found his likefancy dress costumes that he'd
had over the years and obviouslyI love a bit of fancy dress.
I was like, oh, let's put themon, because he was going to dump
them more.
I was like put them on like onelast try and like give him a
final out in.
So he's putting on these funnyclothing and I was like getting
dressed up as well.
And then he put on this yellowonesie and I said, well, what
the hell did you have a yellowonesie for?
(37:20):
And he told me the story aboutwhen he went to a party and it
was Pokemon themed and he wentas Pikachu.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Anyway, he was in this like Lycra, skin, tight
yellow onesie and we ended upjust started making out and
things got a bit heavy and hecouldn't get the onesie off
because the sip had then broken.
So he was kind of like stuck inthis onesie.
So we ended up like rippingholes in the places that you
needed to have access to and wecarried on and we did our thing.
(37:47):
So he did wear the onesiewhilst we were doing it, but he
was not dressed up in a fullPikachu costume.
Can I just say that?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But he doesn't have any sort of sexual attraction to
Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, I like the Lycra onesie that was.
You know that was getting megoing, but not the thought of
actual being.
It's not like you had like aPikachu face paint on Imagine.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Sorry, I'm just imagining that scene right now.
You rubbed up to his house he'sthere full Pikachu outfit and
he spent two hours beating hisface to look like Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
When you think of Pikachu and you see people
dressed as Pikachu, they're inlike full, massive skin costumes
, aren't they Like big MickeyMouse like costumes.
So it wasn't that at all.
Can I just put that out there.
I'm not attracted to Pikachu,but thank you so much for
painting that picture of me,benji.
Just letting everyone know forthe last three years because
even now we still get messagesfrom people They'll walk past
like a Pikachu thing and they'llsend a picture and slide into
(38:41):
our DMs and be like saw this andthought of.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Brad, it's literally like a few a week, isn't it?
We get people sending us likegifts of like Pikachu's.
My favourite one is whensomebody found a Pikachu butt
plug.
They exist, they do exist Wowwhen somebody created Pokemon,
never did they think that therewould be butt plug merchandise.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
But there we go.
There's the Pikachu story.
Pikachu, well, what anaction-pack weekend we have had.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I know right, and I cannot wait for the pool party
this weekend too.
And actually, on that note, ifyou have any events going on in
your area, wherever you're fromif it's in the UK or further do
let us know if you would liketwo party boys to come along and
help you start the party,spread love and have just
generally a really good nightout, which hopefully won't end
up in the same sort of bar thatwe ended up in last time.
(39:40):
But podcasters, that is all wehave time for on this week's
episode of my Big Gay Podcast.
If you don't already, pleasehead over to our Instagram it's
at Big Gay Podcast or you canvisit our website, which is
mybiggaypodcastcom, and remember, if you do follow us, you may
well be able to win yourselfsome lovely old prizes along the
way.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And don't forget, if you do have a spare 10 seconds,
then we are eligible for ourbest podcast award.
All the information is on thebio on our Instagram page, and a
little vote will go a long way.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Certainly well, it takes literally five seconds of
vote for us and we would be sograteful.
But, brad, like I said, that isall we have time for on this
week's episode.
Until next time, see you next.
Wednesday Just a quick one,mate.
Yeah, they've just sent throughthe rules for the pool party.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Okay, yeah, cool.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
So just a few that I want to sort of bring up with
you.
So there's no diving Right,there's no bombing, okay, and it
also says no skinny dipping.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Oh what.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, at least they didn't say anything about no
water sports.
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I'm pretty sure it's a given those to be no weaning
in the pool.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
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