September 25, 2024 • 33 mins
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What happens when two fabulous hosts take on London with dazzling white teeth and a penchant for musicals? Get ready for an uproarious episode where we unpack the scandalous, the hilarious, and the downright chaotic adventures from our city escapades. From Brad's unexpected nap during his whitening session to a backstage rendezvous during Wicked, we cover it all. We also dive into the eternal question of why some gays are drawn to musicals while others can't stand them, and share our excitement and Benji's unfortunate absence from the Broadway Rave due to a nasty salmonella bout.
But the fun doesn't stop there! You'll laugh along with us as Brad recounts his impromptu solo performance at a Broadway rave night, much to the amusement (and embarrassment) of everyone involved. We chat about our touristy endeavors in London, including Benji's comedic misadventure with a Dyson fan and our ongoing love for tour bus experiences despite being city veterans. Expect tales of glamorous chaos and the unique ways we enjoy our vibrant city.
Lastly, we venture into the wild world of alternative online communities, revealing jaw-dropping adult toys and the intriguing dynamics within these groups. From traffic cone-shaped toys to the implications of Instagram's "close friends" feature, it's a journey you won't soon forget. We wrap things up with stories from a rowdy fancy dress party, featuring heartwarming friendships and unexpected discoveries. Don't miss out on a minute of the laughs, shade, and fabulous chaos that only the Big Gay Podcast can deliver!
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello and welcome to this week's episode of my Big
Gay Podcast with me, Benji.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And me, Brad, giving you the life, the loves and lols
of living in London.
Two gays, one city.
What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I was waiting for your fake laughter.
That normally happens.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Sometimes I look at you and can't help but laugh at
the misfortune.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wow, the shade of that.
Thank you so so much.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Let me just put my sunglasses back on I feel like
you stole those from a dragqueen.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
They're not your sunglasses shout out to this
page three thank you for yoursunglasses.
Um no, but the real reason I'mwearing these today is because
we got our teeth whitened.
Your mouth is brighter than thesun thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You definitely need the sunglasses to look at my
teeth.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I love them it also reduces, sort of like, the
complexion of your skin.
The bags under your eyes, thankyou.
They're colored so I can't seehow bloodshot you are.
You had a wild one last night.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Did you darling?
Uh, I might have done, but youknow me, I like to party, party,
party no, we did get our teethone.
They look great oh, thank youso much yeah your are looking
good too well.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Thank you, we had them done next to each other
actually fun story.
We went in to get our teethwired together and they were
like oh yeah, don't worry, we'llget it all up.
You'll be in here for like anhour.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll just have a nice little catch up, the two of
you then they put these tryingto have a bit of a gossip, bit
of a convo, and I was like look,we can't have this conversation
.
I can't tell you the story.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You can't hear what I'm saying no, and we weren't
allowed to laugh or like reallymove or anything, so it's like
light strap strapped onto ourmouth.
Um, so we just sat in silenceand what happened?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
brad fell asleep and was snoring it was a great
opportunity for a nap and Iwasn't going to turn it down.
Thank you so much, but he is asnorer, you uh little miss piggy
over there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Anyway, how are you?
Yeah, good, I'm loving the newteeth um like you're jerry,
essex or some sort of flippersput in.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, it's just a bit of gel just a bit of gel, just
a bit of whitening.
Yeah, no, the new teeth aregreat.
Um, I am in recovery mode, asyou can realize.
Apologies if I'm a little bithung over today, but you did
send me to go to an event andyou couldn't make it, so I was
left to my own devices that'strue.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Don't underplay why I couldn't make it.
I really wanted to go.
Podcast is we were invited toan amazing event actually called
broadway rave.
Now, as you know what I wouldhope by now, we are partial to a
musical or two, right?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
can I just say I feel like gays love musicals, but
why is that?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I think it's like Marmite in the gay community.
I think gays are either like Ilove a musical or they
absolutely detest it Really.
But I think those that love itlike us two.
We love it because it'sescapism and you get.
It's dramatic, it's's you know,there's poise, there's big
moments, there's fun storylines.
It's normally about love, whichI don't have in my life, so I
(03:09):
like to watch on the stageinstead um, it's just like the
theatricality, the glitz, theglam.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's so camp I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I love it.
I mean not mean lemiz.
Is that camp?
Not so much, I don't know, butmarius would get it on.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
On that barricade.
I would barricade him.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Literally.
Have I slept with a Marius inthe past?
Probably have.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Didn't you sleep with the wizard from Wicked at one
point?
Was it the wizard?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Right, you know fully well, it was not the wizard.
I actually I didn't have.
I told this story.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
I don't know, if I was allowedto, you were shagging someone
backstage in a dressing room.
That is camping itself.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I had sex with Bach whilst he was in his Bach
costume in his dressing roomduring the show Scandalous.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So, so, so scandalous yeah, wow.
I'm not sure if we should sharethat but anyway, we'll put it
out and see what happens thesmile on your face as you tell
that story.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I can just see you looking back in your memories.
It's in the memory box.
That's a happy memory for you,isn't?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
it it is.
I'd like to point out that Iwas actually happily in a
relationship at the time.
It was my boyfriend of like ayear and a half, who is no
longer my boyfriend, and uh yeah, yeah, wow that's not going to
do much, because actually I'mreally I really hate the fact
that relationship ended becausehe's lovely.
He probably doesn't listen tothis podcast, but he was a
beautiful soul, um, but yes,anyway, going back to that and
not my atrocious dating profile,um, we went well.
(04:28):
We were invited to broadwayrave and it is exactly what it
says on the tin it is.
It starts very late at night.
I think it was started at 11 pm.
11 pm, yeah, the one that wewere invited to was somewhere
near camden.
There is one coming up,actually, which we're hoping to
go to again.
So if you, if you want to gettickets to what we're about to
talk about, please do.
Um, I sadly couldn't go yeah,you weren't feeling your best
(04:48):
that day don't you want to playwhat I was feeling podcast is I
honestly no joke side.
I thought I was dying then youhave food poisoning.
In the end I had full-onsalmonella.
Now I thought you were likefood poisoning benji only lasts
like 24 hours, blah, blah.
Not true at all.
If you actually google it, itcan last up to three weeks and
longer, depending on how bad itis in your system.
It was my own fault.
I know exactly where I got itfrom.
(05:09):
I went for a night out, got amcdonald's I got two mcdonald's
actually.
I got a, a chicken wrap and aveggie wrap.
Stumbled home, ate the veggiewrap I thought I was eating the
chicken wrap anyway ate theveggie wrap, left the other one
in my room because, on a zenthing, not very hungry.
The next morning I woke up andI needed food and I thought it's
not been out the fridge thatlong, so I ate it.
(05:29):
Oh, I know, why would you dothat?
You fool, no, and I honestly Ifelt my whole stomach was like
swollen under my t-shirt, likeif sorry, if you looked at me
whilst I was wearing a t-shirt,it looked like I had like a
rubber ring.
Everything all the way aroundswelled.
It was like it felt like it'dbeen bruised.
I felt like if I'd looked downon my stomach, it should have
been like black and purple andblue.
(05:50):
Yeah, just horrific Headaches,sweats.
I then got tonsillitis throughit.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Do you remember when you said you couldn't go because
?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I know, and we'd even , we were even like doing some
recording beforehand and we weresupposed to go straight from
the studio and I was like I'mjust going to go home have a
shower change, and I was walkinghome like I don't know how I'm
going to do this.
Yeah, I literally don't know.
I was like I'll have a quicknap and then.
So by the looks of it, you hadthe time of your life.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I don't really want to talk about it, can we not
talk?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
about that.
You don't want to talk?
Oh, are you all right?
Yeah, oh, sorry, darling.
Oh, gemma, we're so sorry, wedidn't realize.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, we're talking about it, so podcast is here.
Here I am like on my deathbed.
11 pm they're going off todoing the entire.
Which song was it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
uh if you are you know, into your musicals you may
have come across legally blonde.
The musical which guiltypleasure love it, absolutely
love it, and when we were goingthrough our lawsuit it really
helped us, oh god it's so good,so good, um and I just know the
words of that musical because Ilove it so much and um, that
nine minute track they put on,that mega mix track which, uh,
(07:10):
yeah, I forgot actually how longit was in the moment and you
did the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I lip synced for my life, honey he did the whole
thing on the stage in front ofthe entire venue who were loving
it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Just to point out, yeah, the whole thing, and there
was bits where he was coming inas different characters and he
would hide behind the curtain,jump out as a new character and
then there was a questionablepoint where you did some irish
dancing yeah, I forgot this,like this irish dancing moment
towards the end of the track andI was like, oh my goodness, I
can't irish dance, but you haveto like wing it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
For the moment it can't stop now, in the moment
you thought that you could, andI think right now is a really
good time to do a public apologyfor anyone who is Irish or who
has done Irish dancing.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, I am so sorry that was not Irish dancing in
the slightest, and I was justtrying to make up as I went
along and, yeah, the end resultwas not great.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It wasn't, but you gave it your all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Energy, effort, commitment 10 out of 10.
Talent minus 10 out of 10.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, Instagram versus reality, yeah definitely
one of those.
But what I will say is you weredefinitely doing your networking
that night because we got wegot lots of messages come
through in the podcast andpeople who had tagged you in
videos which you would not letme share.
So one day, podcasters I willtry to put out, maybe even just
to our close friends, to oursubscribers, we'll get a copy of
it.
But, um, yeah, he was like, ohmy god, that was amazing.
(08:24):
How do you know all the words?
Oh, my goodness, you must beprofessionally trained.
That's a joke.
I was like how much have youhad to drink?
But no, all in all, how was thenight?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
do you know what broadway rave was?
It was so much fun.
As I say, if you're intomusicals, you will love it.
They are an american company,aren't they?
They do them all across america, obviously, particularly new
york broadway, um, and they comeacross to the uk every now and
again for like pop-up raves thatthey and this is one of them
and the whole night the music isjust musical theater, whether
(08:55):
that's um high school musicalmovies, disney, the classic
shows, your hamiltons, yourwickets, all of that, uh, it was
great.
And they invite people up tolip sync and kind of all lip
sync as a group.
So when they were doing thelegally blonde mega mix, I was
lip syncing with lots of otherpeople on stage.
It's just then, I know, liketurned and they all like stepped
(09:17):
aside to let me have the roomso I could lip sync for my life.
It was like, you know, do I ownit or do I shy back like a
little wallflower?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
so I thought I'd own it do you think you all started
on the stage and they saw yourtalent, thought I can't compete
with this and left.
Or do you think you were justso violently dancing around the
stage they thought it was easier, just to let you have it?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
in my deluded memory.
The first one yeah, they werelike we cannot compete with this
.
Your face right now, I know, um, and I kind of blame you
because you should have beenthere as my you know carer,
basically my chaperone.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I sent you with a chaperone yes, and he went to
the toilet and then came out andthere you were, so he filmed
the whole thing.
Now I don't know if you knowthis, but our friend I'm gonna
name him his name's connor hesent me a voice note the next
day.
Uh, about your performance.
Did you know about this?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
no, I did not know about this.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
This is even more embarrassing, yeah, so I know
you won't let me play the videos.
However, there's nothing youcan do about me playing this
voice note, so sit back andlisten to what connor had to say
about your performance at thebroadway.
Rave to legally blonde.
Here we go benji.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh my god, broadway rave was amazing.
It was such a bloody good night.
Um, please, can we talk aboutyour friend brad?
Let's just say it with acapital.
I?
I went to the bathroom, cameout, he's solo on the stage
thinking he's laura bell bundyhosting the tonys to the legally
(10:42):
blonde mega mix.
Not even joking, it was like aseven minute long number.
Ick, ick, ick.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
So you were Laura Bell Bradley over here.
Those of you that don't know,Laura Bell Bundy played Elle
Woods in the Broadway version ofLegally Blonde.
But yeah, how do you feel aboutthat?
What can I?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
say A lip sync for my life, and that's all you need
to know, but against nobody.
Well, it was a solo lip syncfor your life.
God, I actually cannot show myface at that broadway rave ever
again.
Thank you so much.
You've ruined that for me.
I had a really great night.
I can never go back.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Thank you well we have to go back.
So if you fancy coming along toa broadway rave, if you like
musicals, uh, come along tobroadway rave, we will be there.
Whether or not you're seals ornot, I don't know, because we
may be hiding from the securityetc.
Who will be looking for Brad,but we will be there.
So, yeah, if you feel like youstop your street, come and join
us.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So podcasters.
One of the things that Benjiand I love about living in
London is all the fun adventuresthat we can get up to in the
big city.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That is very, very true, and since we've been on a
little break, we have been doingdifferent things, going to
different experiences that wecan talk to all you lovely
listeners about.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Now, one thing that I always like to do when I'm on
my holly bobs is go on thosetour buses.
You know you can just like geton a bus.
Tour buses, you know you canjust like get on a bus.
It takes you to all the sites.
I did one last year in New York, saw all the big buildings, et
cetera, et cetera.
In the big city, in the big cityand I will 100%, when I'm in LA
next year, be doing that LAtour bus and going up to the
Hollywood sign and all thosetouristy things.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I can imagine on holiday you are the biggest.
If you could see the actualpassion and enthusiasm in the
glare that he just gave me.
I love it, I love it literallyI know he went to.
He went to disney and he cameback with like a jumper that
says paris on it, yeah andmickey mouse is the lot he's so
serious.
(12:45):
You, we were talking about thisat the house party.
You are like a gullibleperson's dream.
Oh, you like a salesman's dream.
Sorry, I should say yeah, youwill buy into anything yeah,
that dyson fan, I've got my roompodcast.
No, so it's obviously been quitehot recently, and at brad's
house he has this dyson fan.
So yeah, but look at it,where's the air coming from?
It's amazing.
(13:05):
It literally just blows thesame warm air around about.
And how much did it cost you?
300 pounds.
And I was like, well, at leastit does hot air as well, right
for the winter, does it?
No, just cold air, not evencold, just recirculates the same
warm air.
300 pounds.
And not only that.
You then bought an air purifier.
How much was that?
100 pounds, 400 pounds.
(13:26):
He spent on cleaning the dirtywarm air and circulating it
around his room.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Love it, but that Dyson one.
You can't see the blades.
You know it's like that oblong.
Is that the right shape?
Oblong, rectangular shape thing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's not oblong, no.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And it just blows out the air.
I don't know how it's doing it.
It's like magic.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
This is what I mean.
You're a sales doing thefunction that actually you want
it to do.
It just looks cool.
Yeah, oh my gosh, look at thecolors.
I love it, like the colors ofthis thing here.
Oh, it's all those flashinglights.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I just love it I love it, but anyway, back to being
on the tour bus yes now I'vealways wanted to do the london
ones.
Now I know I've seen, obviously, a lot of the london sites, but
I think what's really goodabout the tour guides?
They tell you little funstories like oh, this is here,
etc.
Yeah, now we were very lucky,we got invited to go on a tour
bus around london, but not justany old tour bus, yeah, the drag
bus and that is exactly what itis.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It is a bus.
It drives around london, doesall the things you want it to do
uh, on a tour bus around london, but it is hosted by incredible
drag queens all the way frombrighton.
Now the drag bus has beenrunning in Brighton for a little
while now and has just startedlaunching its dates in London,
and we were very lucky to go onthe very first date Now on this
(14:37):
bus as well.
Before you go to your booking,a couple of days before they
send you a link and you get topre-order your drinks, there's
no bar on board.
So if you're thinking, oh, mygoodness, I would do this, but I
couldn't be getting up and downto go to the bar and get drinks
, you don't have to.
You sit in your seat and theybring you a little goodie bag of
all the drinks that you'vepre-ordered straight to your
seat.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And it's so fun because you can go on the
obviously the lower deck or theupper deck.
We like to call the top or thebottom, and which one were we on
, Benji Well?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I was on the top and you had to come on the top
because there's no room on thebottom, but you definitely
should have been on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But what's good about being on the top is obviously
you can see all the sights.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Girl, where do I start?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
What is good about?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
being on the top.
Well, girl, where do I start?
What is good about being on thetop?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Wow, no seriously.
But yeah, we saw the sightsaround London, we had a little
drive around and we gotentertained by four different
drag queens.
Now they rotate, don't they?
They do so.
If they start from the bottom,you get your top queens and then
they switch over and then getvice versa, so you get to hear
all the Versa queens as well.
(15:42):
You got the tops, tops, thebottoms and the verses so you
get to hear all the cabarets,all the entertainment they sing,
they host, they do jokes.
They obviously point out allthe sites as well.
If you want to do a tour busaround london but you want to do
it in queer fashion, then thedrag bus is for you and not that
we want to bring the mood down,but we do feel like it's really
important to bring this up.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
when we went on the tour bus for the launch, one of
the drag queens was the mostincredible Miss Jason, who is an
absolute icon in Brighton andin London as well, and it was
very sad that it was actuallythe day after, I think.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, two days after.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Miss Jason tragically passed away.
Now, look, we don't want tobring this up and sort of put a
dampener on what we're talkingabout, because we had the best
time on the drag bus and, if I'mhonest, Miss Jason was on top
form.
We were crying with laughterand she was'd want from a drag
bus.
Then the drag bus is definitelyfor you and so they do it in
(16:46):
brighton.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Obviously that's where it originated.
So if you're heading down tobrighton for a little visit, we
highly recommend that anyway,because we love going out in
brighton, but also in london too, and I think they're starting
to launch different ones in theother big cities around the uk
so if you feel like it's time toget all aboard the drag bus for
a birthday, hen do, stag do orjust you know on yourself and
make some friends, because youdefinitely would do Brad, where
(17:07):
can they go to get tickets?
Well, the best place to go is onthe website, so you can see
where they're going to bestopping around on the drag bus.
It is dragbuscouk.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That dragbosscouk, that's dragbosscouk.
Gosh, all the events this week.
We are booked and blessed.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
This is why I love living in London, because
there's so much to do all thetime Like it is an amazing city,
some might say the greatestcity in the world oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So I don't understand how you're now Suddenly allowed
to be the one that does Musicaltheatre references.
But I can't.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I think I'm in my Musical theatre era right now.
Somebody stop me, because I'mabsolutely Loving it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You're like something has changed within me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Something is not the same oh, my goodness, I feel
like I can just keep going on.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I mean, I feel like I'm dreaming a dream right now
yeah, because at the end of theday, you're another day older.
No, we must stop we must umcomplete juxtaposition.
Did I tell you that I was addedto a fisting group this week?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
okay, how, what, where, when why?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
so I genuinely, hand on heart, I don't remember
asking to be added to this group, genuinely didn't.
I'm not saying that I'm fullycomplaining about it, but I
definitely wasn't asked.
And then my phone just likebuzz buzzed.
I looked at it.
It was like you've been joined,it's called like well, actually
I won't give away the name, butin the name is the word london
and the letter is ff.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So I knew what it was oh yeah, because this is
something we spoke about before,isn't it?
Ff is a thing on grinder, whichmeans fist in fun no fist in
fist fuck.
Yeah, I mean it could be fistfun.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That's slightly more pg yeah, slightly more, yeah, oh
god um, yeah, I added thisgroup.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I was was like, oh okay, Left it.
Then my phone for like the nextcouple of hours so I muted and
archived the group because I wassick of getting so many
messages come through.
A couple of hours went by, wentback, opened it.
There's like a hundred messages.
There's now over 230 people inthis group, Some people who I
know because you know when yougo like who's in the group you
(19:16):
can see their name.
Oh yeah, I know some people inthis group and it's just filth
so can I ask a question?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
who added you?
Was that a contact?
Do you have to be a contact toadd someone into a group?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
well, apparently not, because there's someone called
cedric I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I don't know his number, so he's never messaged
me before when it came up waslike the number has added you to
this group, not a name he alsosent me a message straight away
like hi, I'm Cedric, I've addedyou to this group.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Blah, blah blah.
I hope you enjoy yourself, havea good time and maybe we can
meet soon okay, cedric, how didyou get Benji's number?
Literally I don't.
I'm like did something drunkenhappen, which is possible?
Maybe I gave my number away onGrindr I am I know that I'm very
quick and Grindr to if I feellike it's a good chat, to give
(19:59):
my number out quite quickly.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
When I'm drunk particularly, I'm really really
bad for that because I hatethose apps.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I'd much rather on WhatsApp.
Yeah, Because then voice noteseasier to send pictures, videos
like you can see their face.
It saves it easier.
I'm always on WhatsApp.
I don't want to keep opening updating profiles, so I'm
wondering if I maybe did itdrunk and then he added me to it
.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
So what are your first impressions of being part
of the FF group?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, I've seen some things that you wanted to see,
that you know I don't.
I don't sex shame ever, and Ilike to think of myself as quite
wild actually, but I'm learningnew ways of being wild, let's
just put it that way Wow, yeah,like we wow, yeah, like we know.
We know that I've done itbefore as as the top.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I've never done as the bottom would you ever do it
as the bottom?
Well, I don't do anything as abottom maybe this is going to
open up your imagination andopen up other things well, you'd
have to open up quite.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean literally, I don't, I don't, I guess I before
I don't really think you get aneedle up there.
It's not happening, right.
It's just not for Right.
It's just not for me.
No disrespect, it's just notfor me.
But yeah, some things thatpeople can put up there is quite
impressive.
There are some toys that Ididn't know existed, ah yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Like what.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, like I can only describe it as a traffic cone.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh, okay, that just made me squinch my bum a little
bit oh yeah, because you are abottoms, but you couldn't do
that there is no way I'm sittingon a traffic cone I mean it's
not an actual traffic cone, butit does.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It does look like that.
It's.
Um, I mean, if on one hand it'sit's very impressive, on the
other hand, I have an awful lotof questions of like how you go
about your day-to-day business Ihave the same question like
does it?
Does it go back to normaleventually?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Do you sit on the toilet and it just like Vanishes
or falls out.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh, I think you meant like the toilet vanishes.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, that too.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, I don't know and they're not questions that
you really ask in this group,but like there are people on
their profile pictures that it'slike LinkedIn profile pictures
it's just like they're in officegear, like very professional.
And this so other than thetraffic cone.
Is there anything else wildthat you can share about that
group?
(22:03):
Yep, there are some people thatenjoy, like double-ended dildos
.
Wow, yeah, somebody obviously isfilming, is holding this up
into dildo and these two bottoms, let's just say, are like
biting to see who gets the fairshare of it no, I want to sit on
the dildo more.
I want more.
No, I want more.
I mean, this whole thing islike 18 inches in length and
they take the whole thing.
Yeah, I mean there's peoplewith like two arms in them.
(22:25):
There's people with like a legin them, oh my goodness, they
did a poll.
They were like, if you're thebottom, what's the furthest
you've taken?
It's like up to the fourthfinger line, which is obviously
just not the thumb, and thenit's like up to the fist, up to
the elbow, up to the shoulder,the shoulder Some people have
voted up to the shoulder.
Yeah, quite wild.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
The only time I've ever seen someone's shoulder up
an arsehole is on those vetdoctor programs when there's a
cow given birth and they've gotto like reach out and get the
calf.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's literally like that and they've got those big
gloves on out and get the calfit's literally like that and
they've got those big gloves on.
I mean, yeah, no glove, no love.
You could do that.
But I mean, these people aren'twearing gloves, but wow, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But also look at the length of my arm, yeah, and then
look at, like, my body, wheredoes it go, where does it?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
go.
I know it must go.
Uh, honestly, I don't know, Ithink it must go in and bend
around.
I don't know, I genuinely don'tknow.
Uh, I think that's a little bittoo extreme for me.
But yeah, I mean, I've been, myeyes have been opened to a
whole new world of things.
A what new world, a whole newworld.
Have I left the group?
no, have you posted any contentin the group.
So I did post in the group, butI just posted a picture of my
(23:34):
face in a vest.
I just introduced myselfbecause I knew other people in
the group and I felt quite weirdjust people sending all these
videos and me not havingintroduced myself.
So I just put a little pictureof myself looking cute and I was
like hey, my name is benji, I'ma top, I live in southwest
london and then did all thosethirsty bottoms hit you up yeah,
there were some people thatthen jumped into like private
(23:56):
one-on-one messages, which wasfine I've.
I've like carried on chattingwith them, and then people like
react to the photos.
Yeah, but I mean, that was it.
It's a very friendly group.
People ask me like advice, uh,like lube products, toys, like
how to keep them clean, likeit's actually quite an
informative group I'm.
I actually am quite enjoyingbeing in it dream.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, well, look, the thing is, if everybody is
having their lovely time, ifeveryone's being nice, if
everyone is being safe, great.
Yeah, who am I to stand in theway of people having fun?
Yeah, is it for me?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
probably won't see me in that group but the thing is
I could leave at any point.
I mean, this kind of brings meon to something else, like on
instagram.
You know close friends, thegreen circle oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah I feel like instagram isgonna have to do something about
that soon, because I couldchoose, for example, to add
anybody to my close friends andthey have no way of taking
themselves off it right so I'min, I'm on quite a few people's
close friends.
Now I have girls that postthings about like just
(24:50):
day-to-day life that they maybethey haven't got makeup on, they
don't want everyone to see it.
And then I've got like gays whoare just first day, yeah, yeah
but like I've got some people onthere that post full body naked
pictures of themselves thatperhaps I don't really want to
see, but there's no way I canremove myself from it that is so
true because I have had thatbefore.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
where I've been, you know, just on the tube or
whatever, on the train, flickingthrough instagram stories, you
know, passing the time, and thenthings will pop up.
I'm like I wasn't even lookingto do that.
Now, if I were looking for thatthen I might choose an app, say
like Grind or whatever, andtherefore sort of maybe
expecting that, but I'm on thatapp for that reason.
Instagram's like afamily-friendly app.
(25:29):
I know you weren't expectingthat on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No, I know.
So.
I think Instagram needs tochange that so you can remove
themselves if you want, andremove myself from this ff uh
group, but I find it quiteinformative and, quite frankly,
when I'm driving, I now look attraffic cones in a very
different way.
Well, podcasters, it's now timeto move on to our brand new
(25:52):
segment, which is called queerdiary that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
It's our favorite time of the week.
It is time for queer diary, andthis week's queer diary is as
follows hey boys, tell us moreabout Benji and the paddle.
Would be great to have anepisode about this type of kink.
It's great fun from Charlie inManchester.
Well, first of all, charlie,that paddle is actually mine.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That's not Benji's, it's mine, it was yours.
It's in the bin now.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh my goodness, I mean that whole evening where
that story came from wasridiculous.
So if anyone has missed thatstory along the way, we were out
with a lot of our gay mates inClapham and I was like, let's do
After Party, back of mine wentback to mine.
It was all a bit tipsy, all abit merry.
As I'm sure you know if youlisten to the podcast, I love a
fancy dress, whether that'sHalloween or dressed up for
festivals, whatever, so,whatever.
So I just have a trunk full offancy dress costumes and benji
(26:47):
and I in our sort of tipsy statefor a great idea to whack out
the trunk and make everyonedress up as well as gays.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
We actually refer to it as the box of ick because it
is so.
Some of the costumes are justso atrocious and there is a
video of me yeah, about itwasn't just me and brad, there
was six, seven, eight of us yeah, yeah in your room because
you've got a big room.
And, um, I was dressed as, Ibelieve, a space invader.
You were with mickey mouses, ofcourse.
Why not?
(27:14):
Why wouldn't you do that?
And then there was I think itwas a cruella de vil walking
around oh, there was all sorts.
It was all sorts but anyway,somehow that evening changed up
and we started grabbing out hisother box of ick, which involved
a paddle so you found my sexdrawer, basically I found your
sex drawer and I found a paddlethat hadn't even been taken out
(27:34):
his packet yet.
So I thought this poor paddlehas been in this bedroom
listening to the boring sex thatgoes on and hasn't been used
once.
I'm gonna give it a run for itsmoney.
So I cracked out this paddleand our friend was like go on,
you can do it on me, go on allfours on the bed.
And I smacked his ass, hispaddle.
Now I was quite gentle to startwith and he was like go on
harder.
(27:55):
He was loving it.
He was having a bit too much.
This is before he was in arelationship.
Now he wouldn't.
Yeah, yeah, maybe he would notwith me, um, and I was going for
it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But he kept like egging you on, like harder,
harder.
Arching his back.
All of that, all of it.
And I saw your dumb top sidecome out that night.
Yeah, I was like, wow, this iswhat he's like in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It did start to come out a little bit.
I was kind of enjoying it, I'mnot going to lie.
So there I was like holding thearch of his back, like just
smacking his ass.
He was loving it.
And then what happened?
Paddle broke.
I smacked him so hard, thepaddle which, bearing in mind,
is what wooden, yeah snapped.
You broke my sex toy and I brokehis ass, I think it's what I
(28:37):
did the next day he messaged mewas like I am bruised.
Yeah, yeah, he loved it.
Wow, yeah, was that not thesame night that I wanted to have
a little lie down?
And everyone went upstairs andI was like, mate, can I just
have a quick lie down?
And everyone went upstairs andI was like, mate, can I just
have a quick lie down your room?
You're like yeah, yeah, yeah,go for it.
So I go down, pass out on yourbed, starred out.
Then I woke up and there waspeople sat between my limbs,
like someone between my legs,two people either side of me,
(28:58):
people between my arms and myhead.
And would you like to tell therest of the story, or shall I?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Are we even allowed to talk about this on the
podcast?
This is very adult content,thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Well, let's just say, on my chest there was a plate
and everybody was holding strawsand taking it in turns to enjoy
the substance off my plate.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah.
So if you, if you do that sortof thing, or maybe you don't at
all, but if you're gonna, let'ssay, sniff something, you want a
hard surface to sniff off.
And because we were all sataround on the bed, I was like,
well, let's put it on a plateand we can pass the plate.
But like, pass the parcel, butfor adults and except I was the
plate you then became the plate,because like, hang on, instead
(29:39):
of just passing around, we'lljust leave it in the middle and
we can just like go for it whenwe want to have a go.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And so you became basically like the table and the
plate was on the table and Imid this woke up like drowsy,
drunken state and this one bradwho was sat next to me, just
straight my head and just wentshh, you're safe.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And I went back to sleep I mean I love that you
just didn't care and was justlike I don't care.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I couldn't care less, I mean I don't.
I mean I've never done any sortof drugs in my life, ever, ever
, ever.
But I have no qualms beingaround them, it's absolutely
fine and what I love.
I think what we should takeaway from this story other than
the fact that we have chaosparties and no, I was not still
dressed as a space invader whata safe environment they to have
some recreational fun.
I was asleep and instead ofmoving or waking me, they just
(30:26):
let me be involved.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah, happy days.
We were there to share the love, and that is friendship it
really is.
So.
That night went from going outto back to mine getting the
fancy dress box out.
You dressed as a space invader,smacking someone really hard
with my sex toy, breaking my sextoys, and then becoming a
coffee table.
Whilst we snorted things off,you get the bag get the bag.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Get.
Oh my goodness, this is wild.
I feel like we should probablywrap this episode up.
So, podcasters, that is all wehave time from this week's
episode of my big game podcast.
If you don't already, pleasehead over to our instagram.
It's at big game podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Or you can head over to our website and sign up to
our party list and if you have aqueer diary that you would like
us to talk about on the podcast, slip and slide into those dms.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
We would love to hear from you yes, we would, but,
like I said, podcasters, that isall we have time for in this
week's episode.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Until next time, see you next wednesday well, benji,
when you were looking through mysex drawer that night, did you
find a few of my favorite things?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
oh, my goodness, I know what you're doing.
Okay, yes.
And then I looked over and Isaw Arme arching his back on the
bed saying God, I hope I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And then afterwards, do you think he had been changed
for good?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh my gosh, it's a hard-knock, life for us, oh my
gosh.
Hello and welcome to this week's episode of my Big
Gay Podcast with me, Benji.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And me, Brad, giving you the life, the loves and lols
of living in London.
Two gays, one city.
What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I was waiting for your fake laughter.
That normally happens.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Sometimes I look at you and can't help but laugh at
the misfortune.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wow, the shade of that.
Thank you so so much.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Let me just put my sunglasses back on I feel like
you stole those from a dragqueen.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
They're not your sunglasses shout out to this
page three thank you for yoursunglasses.
Um no, but the real reason I'mwearing these today is because
we got our teeth whitened.
Your mouth is brighter than thesun thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You definitely need the sunglasses to look at my
teeth.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I love them it also reduces, sort of like, the
complexion of your skin.
The bags under your eyes, thankyou.
They're colored so I can't seehow bloodshot you are.
You had a wild one last night.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Did you darling?
Uh, I might have done, but youknow me, I like to party, party,
party no, we did get our teethone.
They look great oh, thank youso much yeah your are looking
good too well.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Thank you, we had them done next to each other
actually fun story.
We went in to get our teethwired together and they were
like oh yeah, don't worry, we'llget it all up.
You'll be in here for like anhour.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll just have a nice little catch up, the two of
you then they put these tryingto have a bit of a gossip, bit
of a convo, and I was like look,we can't have this conversation
.
I can't tell you the story.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You can't hear what I'm saying no, and we weren't
allowed to laugh or like reallymove or anything, so it's like
light strap strapped onto ourmouth.
Um, so we just sat in silenceand what happened?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
brad fell asleep and was snoring it was a great
opportunity for a nap and Iwasn't going to turn it down.
Thank you so much, but he is asnorer, you uh little miss piggy
over there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Anyway, how are you?
Yeah, good, I'm loving the newteeth um like you're jerry,
essex or some sort of flippersput in.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, it's just a bit of gel just a bit of gel, just
a bit of whitening.
Yeah, no, the new teeth aregreat.
Um, I am in recovery mode, asyou can realize.
Apologies if I'm a little bithung over today, but you did
send me to go to an event andyou couldn't make it, so I was
left to my own devices that'strue.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Don't underplay why I couldn't make it.
I really wanted to go.
Podcast is we were invited toan amazing event actually called
broadway rave.
Now, as you know what I wouldhope by now, we are partial to a
musical or two, right?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
can I just say I feel like gays love musicals, but
why is that?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I think it's like Marmite in the gay community.
I think gays are either like Ilove a musical or they
absolutely detest it Really.
But I think those that love itlike us two.
We love it because it'sescapism and you get.
It's dramatic, it's's you know,there's poise, there's big
moments, there's fun storylines.
It's normally about love, whichI don't have in my life, so I
(03:09):
like to watch on the stageinstead um, it's just like the
theatricality, the glitz, theglam.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's so camp I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I love it.
I mean not mean lemiz.
Is that camp?
Not so much, I don't know, butmarius would get it on.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
On that barricade.
I would barricade him.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Literally.
Have I slept with a Marius inthe past?
Probably have.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Didn't you sleep with the wizard from Wicked at one
point?
Was it the wizard?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Right, you know fully well, it was not the wizard.
I actually I didn't have.
I told this story.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
I don't know, if I was allowedto, you were shagging someone
backstage in a dressing room.
That is camping itself.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I had sex with Bach whilst he was in his Bach
costume in his dressing roomduring the show Scandalous.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So, so, so scandalous yeah, wow.
I'm not sure if we should sharethat but anyway, we'll put it
out and see what happens thesmile on your face as you tell
that story.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I can just see you looking back in your memories.
It's in the memory box.
That's a happy memory for you,isn't?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
it it is.
I'd like to point out that Iwas actually happily in a
relationship at the time.
It was my boyfriend of like ayear and a half, who is no
longer my boyfriend, and uh yeah, yeah, wow that's not going to
do much, because actually I'mreally I really hate the fact
that relationship ended becausehe's lovely.
He probably doesn't listen tothis podcast, but he was a
beautiful soul, um, but yes,anyway, going back to that and
not my atrocious dating profile,um, we went well.
(04:28):
We were invited to broadwayrave and it is exactly what it
says on the tin it is.
It starts very late at night.
I think it was started at 11 pm.
11 pm, yeah, the one that wewere invited to was somewhere
near camden.
There is one coming up,actually, which we're hoping to
go to again.
So if you, if you want to gettickets to what we're about to
talk about, please do.
Um, I sadly couldn't go yeah,you weren't feeling your best
(04:48):
that day don't you want to playwhat I was feeling podcast is I
honestly no joke side.
I thought I was dying then youhave food poisoning.
In the end I had full-onsalmonella.
Now I thought you were likefood poisoning benji only lasts
like 24 hours, blah, blah.
Not true at all.
If you actually google it, itcan last up to three weeks and
longer, depending on how bad itis in your system.
It was my own fault.
I know exactly where I got itfrom.
(05:09):
I went for a night out, got amcdonald's I got two mcdonald's
actually.
I got a, a chicken wrap and aveggie wrap.
Stumbled home, ate the veggiewrap I thought I was eating the
chicken wrap anyway ate theveggie wrap, left the other one
in my room because, on a zenthing, not very hungry.
The next morning I woke up andI needed food and I thought it's
not been out the fridge thatlong, so I ate it.
(05:29):
Oh, I know, why would you dothat?
You fool, no, and I honestly Ifelt my whole stomach was like
swollen under my t-shirt, likeif sorry, if you looked at me
whilst I was wearing a t-shirt,it looked like I had like a
rubber ring.
Everything all the way aroundswelled.
It was like it felt like it'dbeen bruised.
I felt like if I'd looked downon my stomach, it should have
been like black and purple andblue.
(05:50):
Yeah, just horrific Headaches,sweats.
I then got tonsillitis throughit.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Do you remember when you said you couldn't go because
?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I know, and we'd even , we were even like doing some
recording beforehand and we weresupposed to go straight from
the studio and I was like I'mjust going to go home have a
shower change, and I was walkinghome like I don't know how I'm
going to do this.
Yeah, I literally don't know.
I was like I'll have a quicknap and then.
So by the looks of it, you hadthe time of your life.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I don't really want to talk about it, can we not
talk?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
about that.
You don't want to talk?
Oh, are you all right?
Yeah, oh, sorry, darling.
Oh, gemma, we're so sorry, wedidn't realize.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, we're talking about it, so podcast is here.
Here I am like on my deathbed.
11 pm they're going off todoing the entire.
Which song was it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
uh if you are you know, into your musicals you may
have come across legally blonde.
The musical which guiltypleasure love it, absolutely
love it, and when we were goingthrough our lawsuit it really
helped us, oh god it's so good,so good, um and I just know the
words of that musical because Ilove it so much and um, that
nine minute track they put on,that mega mix track which, uh,
(07:10):
yeah, I forgot actually how longit was in the moment and you
did the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I lip synced for my life, honey he did the whole
thing on the stage in front ofthe entire venue who were loving
it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Just to point out, yeah, the whole thing, and there
was bits where he was coming inas different characters and he
would hide behind the curtain,jump out as a new character and
then there was a questionablepoint where you did some irish
dancing yeah, I forgot this,like this irish dancing moment
towards the end of the track andI was like, oh my goodness, I
can't irish dance, but you haveto like wing it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
For the moment it can't stop now, in the moment
you thought that you could, andI think right now is a really
good time to do a public apologyfor anyone who is Irish or who
has done Irish dancing.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, I am so sorry that was not Irish dancing in
the slightest, and I was justtrying to make up as I went
along and, yeah, the end resultwas not great.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It wasn't, but you gave it your all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Energy, effort, commitment 10 out of 10.
Talent minus 10 out of 10.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, Instagram versus reality, yeah definitely
one of those.
But what I will say is you weredefinitely doing your networking
that night because we got wegot lots of messages come
through in the podcast andpeople who had tagged you in
videos which you would not letme share.
So one day, podcasters I willtry to put out, maybe even just
to our close friends, to oursubscribers, we'll get a copy of
it.
But, um, yeah, he was like, ohmy god, that was amazing.
(08:24):
How do you know all the words?
Oh, my goodness, you must beprofessionally trained.
That's a joke.
I was like how much have youhad to drink?
But no, all in all, how was thenight?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
do you know what broadway rave was?
It was so much fun.
As I say, if you're intomusicals, you will love it.
They are an american company,aren't they?
They do them all across america, obviously, particularly new
york broadway, um, and they comeacross to the uk every now and
again for like pop-up raves thatthey and this is one of them
and the whole night the music isjust musical theater, whether
(08:55):
that's um high school musicalmovies, disney, the classic
shows, your hamiltons, yourwickets, all of that, uh, it was
great.
And they invite people up tolip sync and kind of all lip
sync as a group.
So when they were doing thelegally blonde mega mix, I was
lip syncing with lots of otherpeople on stage.
It's just then, I know, liketurned and they all like stepped
(09:17):
aside to let me have the roomso I could lip sync for my life.
It was like, you know, do I ownit or do I shy back like a
little wallflower?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
so I thought I'd own it do you think you all started
on the stage and they saw yourtalent, thought I can't compete
with this and left.
Or do you think you were justso violently dancing around the
stage they thought it was easier, just to let you have it?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
in my deluded memory.
The first one yeah, they werelike we cannot compete with this
.
Your face right now, I know, um, and I kind of blame you
because you should have beenthere as my you know carer,
basically my chaperone.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I sent you with a chaperone yes, and he went to
the toilet and then came out andthere you were, so he filmed
the whole thing.
Now I don't know if you knowthis, but our friend I'm gonna
name him his name's connor hesent me a voice note the next
day.
Uh, about your performance.
Did you know about this?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
no, I did not know about this.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
This is even more embarrassing, yeah, so I know
you won't let me play the videos.
However, there's nothing youcan do about me playing this
voice note, so sit back andlisten to what connor had to say
about your performance at thebroadway.
Rave to legally blonde.
Here we go benji.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh my god, broadway rave was amazing.
It was such a bloody good night.
Um, please, can we talk aboutyour friend brad?
Let's just say it with acapital.
I?
I went to the bathroom, cameout, he's solo on the stage
thinking he's laura bell bundyhosting the tonys to the legally
(10:42):
blonde mega mix.
Not even joking, it was like aseven minute long number.
Ick, ick, ick.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
So you were Laura Bell Bradley over here.
Those of you that don't know,Laura Bell Bundy played Elle
Woods in the Broadway version ofLegally Blonde.
But yeah, how do you feel aboutthat?
What can I?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
say A lip sync for my life, and that's all you need
to know, but against nobody.
Well, it was a solo lip syncfor your life.
God, I actually cannot show myface at that broadway rave ever
again.
Thank you so much.
You've ruined that for me.
I had a really great night.
I can never go back.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Thank you well we have to go back.
So if you fancy coming along toa broadway rave, if you like
musicals, uh, come along tobroadway rave, we will be there.
Whether or not you're seals ornot, I don't know, because we
may be hiding from the securityetc.
Who will be looking for Brad,but we will be there.
So, yeah, if you feel like youstop your street, come and join
us.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So podcasters.
One of the things that Benjiand I love about living in
London is all the fun adventuresthat we can get up to in the
big city.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That is very, very true, and since we've been on a
little break, we have been doingdifferent things, going to
different experiences that wecan talk to all you lovely
listeners about.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Now, one thing that I always like to do when I'm on
my holly bobs is go on thosetour buses.
You know you can just like geton a bus.
Tour buses, you know you canjust like get on a bus.
It takes you to all the sites.
I did one last year in New York, saw all the big buildings, et
cetera, et cetera.
In the big city, in the big cityand I will 100%, when I'm in LA
next year, be doing that LAtour bus and going up to the
Hollywood sign and all thosetouristy things.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I can imagine on holiday you are the biggest.
If you could see the actualpassion and enthusiasm in the
glare that he just gave me.
I love it, I love it literallyI know he went to.
He went to disney and he cameback with like a jumper that
says paris on it, yeah andmickey mouse is the lot he's so
serious.
(12:45):
You, we were talking about thisat the house party.
You are like a gullibleperson's dream.
Oh, you like a salesman's dream.
Sorry, I should say yeah, youwill buy into anything yeah,
that dyson fan, I've got my roompodcast.
No, so it's obviously been quitehot recently, and at brad's
house he has this dyson fan.
So yeah, but look at it,where's the air coming from?
It's amazing.
(13:05):
It literally just blows thesame warm air around about.
And how much did it cost you?
300 pounds.
And I was like, well, at leastit does hot air as well, right
for the winter, does it?
No, just cold air, not evencold, just recirculates the same
warm air.
300 pounds.
And not only that.
You then bought an air purifier.
How much was that?
100 pounds, 400 pounds.
(13:26):
He spent on cleaning the dirtywarm air and circulating it
around his room.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Love it, but that Dyson one.
You can't see the blades.
You know it's like that oblong.
Is that the right shape?
Oblong, rectangular shape thing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's not oblong, no.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And it just blows out the air.
I don't know how it's doing it.
It's like magic.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
This is what I mean.
You're a sales doing thefunction that actually you want
it to do.
It just looks cool.
Yeah, oh my gosh, look at thecolors.
I love it, like the colors ofthis thing here.
Oh, it's all those flashinglights.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I just love it I love it, but anyway, back to being
on the tour bus yes now I'vealways wanted to do the london
ones.
Now I know I've seen, obviously, a lot of the london sites, but
I think what's really goodabout the tour guides?
They tell you little funstories like oh, this is here,
etc.
Yeah, now we were very lucky,we got invited to go on a tour
bus around london, but not justany old tour bus, yeah, the drag
bus and that is exactly what itis.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It is a bus.
It drives around london, doesall the things you want it to do
uh, on a tour bus around london, but it is hosted by incredible
drag queens all the way frombrighton.
Now the drag bus has beenrunning in Brighton for a little
while now and has just startedlaunching its dates in London,
and we were very lucky to go onthe very first date Now on this
(14:37):
bus as well.
Before you go to your booking,a couple of days before they
send you a link and you get topre-order your drinks, there's
no bar on board.
So if you're thinking, oh, mygoodness, I would do this, but I
couldn't be getting up and downto go to the bar and get drinks
, you don't have to.
You sit in your seat and theybring you a little goodie bag of
all the drinks that you'vepre-ordered straight to your
seat.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And it's so fun because you can go on the
obviously the lower deck or theupper deck.
We like to call the top or thebottom, and which one were we on
, Benji Well?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I was on the top and you had to come on the top
because there's no room on thebottom, but you definitely
should have been on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But what's good about being on the top is obviously
you can see all the sights.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Girl, where do I start?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
What is good about?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
being on the top.
Well, girl, where do I start?
What is good about being on thetop?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Wow, no seriously.
But yeah, we saw the sightsaround London, we had a little
drive around and we gotentertained by four different
drag queens.
Now they rotate, don't they?
They do so.
If they start from the bottom,you get your top queens and then
they switch over and then getvice versa, so you get to hear
all the Versa queens as well.
(15:42):
You got the tops, tops, thebottoms and the verses so you
get to hear all the cabarets,all the entertainment they sing,
they host, they do jokes.
They obviously point out allthe sites as well.
If you want to do a tour busaround london but you want to do
it in queer fashion, then thedrag bus is for you and not that
we want to bring the mood down,but we do feel like it's really
important to bring this up.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
when we went on the tour bus for the launch, one of
the drag queens was the mostincredible Miss Jason, who is an
absolute icon in Brighton andin London as well, and it was
very sad that it was actuallythe day after, I think.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, two days after.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Miss Jason tragically passed away.
Now, look, we don't want tobring this up and sort of put a
dampener on what we're talkingabout, because we had the best
time on the drag bus and, if I'mhonest, Miss Jason was on top
form.
We were crying with laughterand she was'd want from a drag
bus.
Then the drag bus is definitelyfor you and so they do it in
(16:46):
brighton.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Obviously that's where it originated.
So if you're heading down tobrighton for a little visit, we
highly recommend that anyway,because we love going out in
brighton, but also in london too, and I think they're starting
to launch different ones in theother big cities around the uk
so if you feel like it's time toget all aboard the drag bus for
a birthday, hen do, stag do orjust you know on yourself and
make some friends, because youdefinitely would do Brad, where
(17:07):
can they go to get tickets?
Well, the best place to go is onthe website, so you can see
where they're going to bestopping around on the drag bus.
It is dragbuscouk.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That dragbosscouk, that's dragbosscouk.
Gosh, all the events this week.
We are booked and blessed.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
This is why I love living in London, because
there's so much to do all thetime Like it is an amazing city,
some might say the greatestcity in the world oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So I don't understand how you're now Suddenly allowed
to be the one that does Musicaltheatre references.
But I can't.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I think I'm in my Musical theatre era right now.
Somebody stop me, because I'mabsolutely Loving it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You're like something has changed within me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Something is not the same oh, my goodness, I feel
like I can just keep going on.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I mean, I feel like I'm dreaming a dream right now
yeah, because at the end of theday, you're another day older.
No, we must stop we must umcomplete juxtaposition.
Did I tell you that I was addedto a fisting group this week?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
okay, how, what, where, when why?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
so I genuinely, hand on heart, I don't remember
asking to be added to this group, genuinely didn't.
I'm not saying that I'm fullycomplaining about it, but I
definitely wasn't asked.
And then my phone just likebuzz buzzed.
I looked at it.
It was like you've been joined,it's called like well, actually
I won't give away the name, butin the name is the word london
and the letter is ff.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So I knew what it was oh yeah, because this is
something we spoke about before,isn't it?
Ff is a thing on grinder, whichmeans fist in fun no fist in
fist fuck.
Yeah, I mean it could be fistfun.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That's slightly more pg yeah, slightly more, yeah, oh
god um, yeah, I added thisgroup.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I was was like, oh okay, Left it.
Then my phone for like the nextcouple of hours so I muted and
archived the group because I wassick of getting so many
messages come through.
A couple of hours went by, wentback, opened it.
There's like a hundred messages.
There's now over 230 people inthis group, Some people who I
know because you know when yougo like who's in the group you
(19:16):
can see their name.
Oh yeah, I know some people inthis group and it's just filth
so can I ask a question?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
who added you?
Was that a contact?
Do you have to be a contact toadd someone into a group?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
well, apparently not, because there's someone called
cedric I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I don't know his number, so he's never messaged
me before when it came up waslike the number has added you to
this group, not a name he alsosent me a message straight away
like hi, I'm Cedric, I've addedyou to this group.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Blah, blah blah.
I hope you enjoy yourself, havea good time and maybe we can
meet soon okay, cedric, how didyou get Benji's number?
Literally I don't.
I'm like did something drunkenhappen, which is possible?
Maybe I gave my number away onGrindr I am I know that I'm very
quick and Grindr to if I feellike it's a good chat, to give
(19:59):
my number out quite quickly.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
When I'm drunk particularly, I'm really really
bad for that because I hatethose apps.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I'd much rather on WhatsApp.
Yeah, Because then voice noteseasier to send pictures, videos
like you can see their face.
It saves it easier.
I'm always on WhatsApp.
I don't want to keep opening updating profiles, so I'm
wondering if I maybe did itdrunk and then he added me to it
.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
So what are your first impressions of being part
of the FF group?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, I've seen some things that you wanted to see,
that you know I don't.
I don't sex shame ever, and Ilike to think of myself as quite
wild actually, but I'm learningnew ways of being wild, let's
just put it that way Wow, yeah,like we wow, yeah, like we know.
We know that I've done itbefore as as the top.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I've never done as the bottom would you ever do it
as the bottom?
Well, I don't do anything as abottom maybe this is going to
open up your imagination andopen up other things well, you'd
have to open up quite.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean literally, I don't, I don't, I guess I before
I don't really think you get aneedle up there.
It's not happening, right.
It's just not for Right.
It's just not for me.
No disrespect, it's just notfor me.
But yeah, some things thatpeople can put up there is quite
impressive.
There are some toys that Ididn't know existed, ah yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Like what.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, like I can only describe it as a traffic cone.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh, okay, that just made me squinch my bum a little
bit oh yeah, because you are abottoms, but you couldn't do
that there is no way I'm sittingon a traffic cone I mean it's
not an actual traffic cone, butit does.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It does look like that.
It's.
Um, I mean, if on one hand it'sit's very impressive, on the
other hand, I have an awful lotof questions of like how you go
about your day-to-day business Ihave the same question like
does it?
Does it go back to normaleventually?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Do you sit on the toilet and it just like Vanishes
or falls out.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh, I think you meant like the toilet vanishes.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, that too.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, I don't know and they're not questions that
you really ask in this group,but like there are people on
their profile pictures that it'slike LinkedIn profile pictures
it's just like they're in officegear, like very professional.
And this so other than thetraffic cone.
Is there anything else wildthat you can share about that
group?
(22:03):
Yep, there are some people thatenjoy, like double-ended dildos
.
Wow, yeah, somebody obviously isfilming, is holding this up
into dildo and these two bottoms, let's just say, are like
biting to see who gets the fairshare of it no, I want to sit on
the dildo more.
I want more.
No, I want more.
I mean, this whole thing islike 18 inches in length and
they take the whole thing.
Yeah, I mean there's peoplewith like two arms in them.
(22:25):
There's people with like a legin them, oh my goodness, they
did a poll.
They were like, if you're thebottom, what's the furthest
you've taken?
It's like up to the fourthfinger line, which is obviously
just not the thumb, and thenit's like up to the fist, up to
the elbow, up to the shoulder,the shoulder Some people have
voted up to the shoulder.
Yeah, quite wild.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
The only time I've ever seen someone's shoulder up
an arsehole is on those vetdoctor programs when there's a
cow given birth and they've gotto like reach out and get the
calf.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's literally like that and they've got those big
gloves on out and get the calfit's literally like that and
they've got those big gloves on.
I mean, yeah, no glove, no love.
You could do that.
But I mean, these people aren'twearing gloves, but wow, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But also look at the length of my arm, yeah, and then
look at, like, my body, wheredoes it go, where does it?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
go.
I know it must go.
Uh, honestly, I don't know, Ithink it must go in and bend
around.
I don't know, I genuinely don'tknow.
Uh, I think that's a little bittoo extreme for me.
But yeah, I mean, I've been, myeyes have been opened to a
whole new world of things.
A what new world, a whole newworld.
Have I left the group?
no, have you posted any contentin the group.
So I did post in the group, butI just posted a picture of my
(23:34):
face in a vest.
I just introduced myselfbecause I knew other people in
the group and I felt quite weirdjust people sending all these
videos and me not havingintroduced myself.
So I just put a little pictureof myself looking cute and I was
like hey, my name is benji, I'ma top, I live in southwest
london and then did all thosethirsty bottoms hit you up yeah,
there were some people thatthen jumped into like private
(23:56):
one-on-one messages, which wasfine I've.
I've like carried on chattingwith them, and then people like
react to the photos.
Yeah, but I mean, that was it.
It's a very friendly group.
People ask me like advice, uh,like lube products, toys, like
how to keep them clean, likeit's actually quite an
informative group I'm.
I actually am quite enjoyingbeing in it dream.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, well, look, the thing is, if everybody is
having their lovely time, ifeveryone's being nice, if
everyone is being safe, great.
Yeah, who am I to stand in theway of people having fun?
Yeah, is it for me?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
probably won't see me in that group but the thing is
I could leave at any point.
I mean, this kind of brings meon to something else, like on
instagram.
You know close friends, thegreen circle oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah I feel like instagram isgonna have to do something about
that soon, because I couldchoose, for example, to add
anybody to my close friends andthey have no way of taking
themselves off it right so I'min, I'm on quite a few people's
close friends.
Now I have girls that postthings about like just
(24:50):
day-to-day life that they maybethey haven't got makeup on, they
don't want everyone to see it.
And then I've got like gays whoare just first day, yeah, yeah
but like I've got some people onthere that post full body naked
pictures of themselves thatperhaps I don't really want to
see, but there's no way I canremove myself from it that is so
true because I have had thatbefore.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
where I've been, you know, just on the tube or
whatever, on the train, flickingthrough instagram stories, you
know, passing the time, and thenthings will pop up.
I'm like I wasn't even lookingto do that.
Now, if I were looking for thatthen I might choose an app, say
like Grind or whatever, andtherefore sort of maybe
expecting that, but I'm on thatapp for that reason.
Instagram's like afamily-friendly app.
(25:29):
I know you weren't expectingthat on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No, I know.
So.
I think Instagram needs tochange that so you can remove
themselves if you want, andremove myself from this ff uh
group, but I find it quiteinformative and, quite frankly,
when I'm driving, I now look attraffic cones in a very
different way.
Well, podcasters, it's now timeto move on to our brand new
(25:52):
segment, which is called queerdiary that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
It's our favorite time of the week.
It is time for queer diary, andthis week's queer diary is as
follows hey boys, tell us moreabout Benji and the paddle.
Would be great to have anepisode about this type of kink.
It's great fun from Charlie inManchester.
Well, first of all, charlie,that paddle is actually mine.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That's not Benji's, it's mine, it was yours.
It's in the bin now.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh my goodness, I mean that whole evening where
that story came from wasridiculous.
So if anyone has missed thatstory along the way, we were out
with a lot of our gay mates inClapham and I was like, let's do
After Party, back of mine wentback to mine.
It was all a bit tipsy, all abit merry.
As I'm sure you know if youlisten to the podcast, I love a
fancy dress, whether that'sHalloween or dressed up for
festivals, whatever, so,whatever.
So I just have a trunk full offancy dress costumes and benji
(26:47):
and I in our sort of tipsy statefor a great idea to whack out
the trunk and make everyonedress up as well as gays.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
We actually refer to it as the box of ick because it
is so.
Some of the costumes are justso atrocious and there is a
video of me yeah, about itwasn't just me and brad, there
was six, seven, eight of us yeah, yeah in your room because
you've got a big room.
And, um, I was dressed as, Ibelieve, a space invader.
You were with mickey mouses, ofcourse.
Why not?
(27:14):
Why wouldn't you do that?
And then there was I think itwas a cruella de vil walking
around oh, there was all sorts.
It was all sorts but anyway,somehow that evening changed up
and we started grabbing out hisother box of ick, which involved
a paddle so you found my sexdrawer, basically I found your
sex drawer and I found a paddlethat hadn't even been taken out
(27:34):
his packet yet.
So I thought this poor paddlehas been in this bedroom
listening to the boring sex thatgoes on and hasn't been used
once.
I'm gonna give it a run for itsmoney.
So I cracked out this paddleand our friend was like go on,
you can do it on me, go on allfours on the bed.
And I smacked his ass, hispaddle.
Now I was quite gentle to startwith and he was like go on
harder.
(27:55):
He was loving it.
He was having a bit too much.
This is before he was in arelationship.
Now he wouldn't.
Yeah, yeah, maybe he would notwith me, um, and I was going for
it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But he kept like egging you on, like harder,
harder.
Arching his back.
All of that, all of it.
And I saw your dumb top sidecome out that night.
Yeah, I was like, wow, this iswhat he's like in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It did start to come out a little bit.
I was kind of enjoying it, I'mnot going to lie.
So there I was like holding thearch of his back, like just
smacking his ass.
He was loving it.
And then what happened?
Paddle broke.
I smacked him so hard, thepaddle which, bearing in mind,
is what wooden, yeah snapped.
You broke my sex toy and I brokehis ass, I think it's what I
(28:37):
did the next day he messaged mewas like I am bruised.
Yeah, yeah, he loved it.
Wow, yeah, was that not thesame night that I wanted to have
a little lie down?
And everyone went upstairs andI was like, mate, can I just
have a quick lie down?
And everyone went upstairs andI was like, mate, can I just
have a quick lie down your room?
You're like yeah, yeah, yeah,go for it.
So I go down, pass out on yourbed, starred out.
Then I woke up and there waspeople sat between my limbs,
like someone between my legs,two people either side of me,
(28:58):
people between my arms and myhead.
And would you like to tell therest of the story, or shall I?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Are we even allowed to talk about this on the
podcast?
This is very adult content,thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Well, let's just say, on my chest there was a plate
and everybody was holding strawsand taking it in turns to enjoy
the substance off my plate.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah.
So if you, if you do that sortof thing, or maybe you don't at
all, but if you're gonna, let'ssay, sniff something, you want a
hard surface to sniff off.
And because we were all sataround on the bed, I was like,
well, let's put it on a plateand we can pass the plate.
But like, pass the parcel, butfor adults and except I was the
plate you then became the plate,because like, hang on, instead
(29:39):
of just passing around, we'lljust leave it in the middle and
we can just like go for it whenwe want to have a go.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And so you became basically like the table and the
plate was on the table and Imid this woke up like drowsy,
drunken state and this one bradwho was sat next to me, just
straight my head and just wentshh, you're safe.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And I went back to sleep I mean I love that you
just didn't care and was justlike I don't care.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I couldn't care less, I mean I don't.
I mean I've never done any sortof drugs in my life, ever, ever
, ever.
But I have no qualms beingaround them, it's absolutely
fine and what I love.
I think what we should takeaway from this story other than
the fact that we have chaosparties and no, I was not still
dressed as a space invader whata safe environment they to have
some recreational fun.
I was asleep and instead ofmoving or waking me, they just
(30:26):
let me be involved.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah, happy days.
We were there to share the love, and that is friendship it
really is.
So.
That night went from going outto back to mine getting the
fancy dress box out.
You dressed as a space invader,smacking someone really hard
with my sex toy, breaking my sextoys, and then becoming a
coffee table.
Whilst we snorted things off,you get the bag get the bag.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Get.
Oh my goodness, this is wild.
I feel like we should probablywrap this episode up.
So, podcasters, that is all wehave time from this week's
episode of my big game podcast.
If you don't already, pleasehead over to our instagram.
It's at big game podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Or you can head over to our website and sign up to
our party list and if you have aqueer diary that you would like
us to talk about on the podcast, slip and slide into those dms.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
We would love to hear from you yes, we would, but,
like I said, podcasters, that isall we have time for in this
week's episode.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Until next time, see you next wednesday well, benji,
when you were looking through mysex drawer that night, did you
find a few of my favorite things?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
oh, my goodness, I know what you're doing.
Okay, yes.
And then I looked over and Isaw Arme arching his back on the
bed saying God, I hope I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And then afterwards, do you think he had been changed
for good?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh my gosh, it's a hard-knock, life for us, oh my
gosh.
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Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.