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Welcome to your Friday bonus ball.

It's the Wolfman here, Gordon Smart.

I'm in Tisney Studios today doing a little bit of work, so I thought I'd spend some time preparing an introduction for the bonus ball, because the bonus ball today has got some extra Trailer park boys, which must have been baffling for anybody who's never watched it, because it was quite an in joke, the whole thing.

But I've been watching it a lot recently to try and get caught up and it's very, very good.

So if you're looking for something to binge get yourself into.

Trailer Bark Boys, as recommended by Robert de nearly, Fanny DeVito, the waistcoat wear and TV detective himself, Mr.

Martin Compston.

So brace yourself for.

For another dose of the shopping cart repairer, the criminal, the assistant trailer park supervisor, the musician, the businessman, the hockey player, the amateur porn star, the professional wrestler, the cat herder, the pizza sauce manufacturer and seller, the mayor of Sunnyvale.

It is, to give him his rest, a name.

The Green Bastard.

It's Bubbles, AKA the actor Mike Smith, alongside Charlie Lightning, videographer and friend to some of the best bands and musicians on the planet.

Sir Paul McCartney, no less.

What a man he is.

So, Charlie and Mike, AKA Bubbles, here's a little bonus ball.

And by the way, you've got a bit of Turbo banana as well, Mr.

Martin Compston.

Enjoy.

Bubbles, I hope you don't mind me.

Being cheeky and asking you a naughty question here, but, you know, with all.

That mischief where Axl Rose and rock stars, there must be temptation, you know, for a few little bubbles to appear around the world.

You know, groupies, Bubbles, groupies.

No, I don't think so.

No.

No, sir.

E.

Bob.

Have you.

Have you found yourself in a position, Bubbles, where you've had to sign anybody's body parts?

Oh, yeah, we've done that before.

You know, me and Ricky and Julian have all signed boobs, several boobs over the years.

How many boobs do you think Julian.

Signed a fella's arse one time because he wanted to.

The guy backed him into a corner and had his bare earth, so he was not leaving until.

So Julian just kind of signed it and got rid of him.

But he.

Yes, he signed an arse and he signed an Egg McMuffin the same night.

Wow.

An Egg McMuffin.

Somebody wanted their Egg McMuffin.

Signed a man's arse and a boob all in one night.

Bubbles, have you.

What's the weirdest bit of merch that you've appeared on.

Biggest wire piece of marriage.

Oh, because me and Martin are in the merch game.

Martin is.

I don't know if you know, he's a gnome entrepreneur.

He's in the gnome.

I'll tell you what, Trailer park gnomes would.

Yes, Bubbles, gnomes.

Yes, gnomes would be cool.

We have those Funko Pops.

Yes, those, those are cool.

And we just have these things just come out called U2s or something.

The Big Stuffy.

They're all the rage on the, on the tech talk machine.

We have a new series of drinks coming out in Canada.

Yeah.

With a company called Coldstream.

I have one called Orange Tabby Creamsicle and it is unbelievable.

You wait till you drive this in your face.

Can I ask you if Bubbles, like, I mean, for instance, like I remember you went to get your tooth out at the vet and it ended in a shootout.

Can I, can you what?

Is there one incident that sticks out that went fucking hell, that got out of hand?

Oh my God.

I don't know.

I have to think hard about that.

There's been so many of the goddamn things every time.

I mean you can just get in the car with Ricky just to go down to the gas station, you're just gonna get gas and, you know, maybe your bag of chips and you end up in, you know, a 10 person gunfight.

I don't know if there would be one, you know, one specific one.

But always with Ricky and Julian it's just you never know what's gonna happen.

Because you're so close as well.

Because, I mean, you forgave him after he bugged in the caravan and he blamed you, didn't he?

Yes.

I always get blamed for everything that those guys do.

You know, I had a whole shed and breakfast set up one time and Julian got the whole place infested with crabs and then all my kitties got crabs.

That's not right.

Gary Laser Eyes was infested with crabs.

Do you ever get yourself in a.

Do you ever find yourself in a genuinely tricky predicament where people don't understand what's going on and tempers free?

Has there ever been a dust up?

Oh yeah, several of those too.

I mean, again, it's all, you know, if I was not with Ricky and Julian, nothing like that would ever happen.

I would just live my life and, you know, look after my kiddies and haul shopping carts.

It's those guys that, you know, when the guns come out and you know, the, the drinking and driving and the blow like Ricky's blown things up.

He's caused many explosions by accident, you know, just because his brain doesn't work.

Right with them as well.

Like obviously Bubbles as you say user just talking yous are just living your life.

But Charlie see you coming at your show keep.

Because one of the.

The daftis things and the fucking funniest things is Julian always having a drink in his hand.

Yeah.

And it's.

At first I went what is this running joke?

And it just gets funnier and funnier and funnier the more it gets on.

Like he's getting battered with bats, shootouts and he's still holding that drink.

How do you like see when you're coming into that stuff?

How do you do you got to look for little moments to keep like spirit of that alive.

Yeah, well you.

But.

But it's just so natural they do it.

It's not even.

He has always got drinking.

It's like the, the thing that, the thing that made me laugh was when, when we were shooting the scene and and and Randy, when Randy gets in a fight.

Yeah.

Takes his trousers come off.

Oh, he's done that.

I'd forgotten that.

You know and we were doing the scene and.

And he did it the first take and it was like he's taking his trousers down.

And then I was like, oh yeah.

But he never takes them.

He only pulls them down to his ankles, which is a terrible disadvantage when you're fighting.

He never gets a leg out that' on.

Is he still on the cheeseburgers?

Oh yes, Very, very hard on the cheeseburgers.

He says he is.

Because the funniest thing is because it's sort of backwards genius that Ricky.

Can he talk?

But he somehow gets through a sentence.

But it always gets words mixed up like I know I've got to swallow my prize guys, but you know.

But it sort of makes sense in a Ricky world.

Oh, Ricky's always.

He.

I just two days ago I was talking to him, we were talking about our favorite movies and he said Pump Fiction.

I think I've seen that actually.

Yeah, maybe it's good.

Bob was going to say we've got certain bits of furniture in the podcast that would.

Would appreciate you taking part in.

Right.

So we always talk about Martin as an actor when he goes to the cinema.

It's quite upsetting for him because he just sees the parts he didn't get like Oppenheimer and Kelly and Murphy, you know.

Oh yeah.

Oh, I wasn't.

Believe me, I wasn't up for the Kelly and Murphy apart In Oppenheimer, I was way down that nuclear list.

I didn't get.

It's above.

We call it the corridors of rejection.

But, you know, have there been any moments in your life that have led to real disappointment where you felt like you were close to, I don't know, taking a big step in another stratosphere in the shopping trolley game?

Not really.

I mean, everything's worked out perfectly for me.

Axle knows.

Isn't bad going, is it?

Just perfect.

Everything been just perfect.

I couldn't have did it better.

That's a good answer.

That's a good answer.

Is there any other strange ones?

Like, obviously, I mean, that's probably the pinnacle, Axl Rose, but is there any other weird ones that you found out people are fans like any other mad.

Celebrities other than nuns?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, there's.

There's been tons of those too.

I'd have to think about it.

Any really serious people?

Tarantino was about to tell you.

Oh, yeah.

I met Quentin Tarantino at the pub.

Fiction fame.

Yeah.

At the Oscar thing one time, and I was waiting to meet him, and then he was finally, you know, finished who he was talking to.

So they said, oh, come here.

And they brought me over and they're like, hey, Quentin, want you to meet.

And he goes, oh, yeah, Trailer park boys, you know what?

And then right as he said it, somebody goes, quentin, we gotta go.

And they grabbed him and they ran him.

There's the corridor of rejection.

That was the moment.

I don't know what the fuck he was gonna say, but what Jingy could have said, he might have been gonna say, you know what?

I want to put you in one of my movies.

I could pump fiction too.

Bubbles.

Martin always asks.

I don't know.

It's.

Apparently it's the ultimate sign of vanities when you plan your own funeral.

Right.

But as an aside to that, Martin's been talking recently about his death plan.

Oh, yeah, We've been talking about bamboo coffins and getting.

I forgot about that, though.

Going back to the earth one sounded pretty good.

Going back to earth?

Yeah.

So being turned into a tree and all this, but.

But I mean, Bubbles.

Would it be a natural envy on a trailer park to be sprinkled as ashes, or is there an extravagant way.

For you to go?

No, I mean, I've.

I've always wanted to sort of be shot out of a cannon.

Yeah, I would like to do that.

Or I would like to be just sprinkled on some cat food or cat litter.

Oh, no, cat food.

Cat food.

Preferably I mean, I wouldn't want to be littered.

Well, if you wouldn't.

On.

And then you just get scooped out and thrown away.

But then if you went on the food, you'd eventually get shat out.

True, but that part's fine because then you've already gone through a whole kitty's intestinal.

Intestinal tract.

I think it'll be a great journey.

Yeah.

You know, to die and then you go in a kitty mouth and go right out his arse.

Who else can say they went through a whole kitty system?

Do you ever think.

Is that, like, you've got the film coming out and that's a lot, but do you ever think you'll get.

You'll get tired of the cameras following you around?

Or do you think Sunnyvale will just run and run and run?

No, I think.

I think the camera guys will just keep showing up because Julian will keep making deals with them.

So I think, you know, and apparently we have a.

We're gonna have our own streaming service launching this month called Trailer Park Boys plus, where you can watch all of our shit on there.

Wow.

Fair play.

Did Julian strike a decent deal with Charlie Lightning?

I don't know.

Charlie won't tell me the specifics.

But normally Charlie works for free.

You don't get into the details.

Julian won't tell me.

Right.

I.

He, you know, I get paid in cat food, like I said, and I don't know if there's actual cash.

Yeah.

That exchanged hands or not, but I got paid in cat food.

See, I see Charlie when he's not with you boys.

When he turns up at work, he's in black.

The famous.

The trademark hat.

But when away, he wears fur coats.

Mainly when you boys aren't around.

Fur.

Yeah, yeah.

Cuban heels, fur.

How's he affording that?

It's off the trailer park.

It's minking Martin as well.

We always ask about words of wisdom, and I reckon Bubbles has got some great words of wisdom for our regular listeners and the 47 who listen to us in England.

Words of wisdom, Jesus Murphy.

I mean, I like Viv Savage from Spinal Tap who said, have a good time all the time.

Yes, that's pretty nice.

That's good.

And I guess just, you know, just be nice to each other.

Don't be arseholes.

Yeah, that's a good point.

There's too much fighting and bullshit in the world now.

So, you know, I think just, you know, listen to kitties and take them, you know, take the lead from the kitties, because they know to just hang out and purge and chill out and be nice to each other.

Yeah, it's true.

And we should ask Charlie as well, because, you know, Charlie, having traveled the world, are there any pieces of wisdom that you could impart that you've learned on the road with all these amazing artists, including Bubbles?

It's the.

The.

The.

The line at the end of the end.

And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make.

Give us that again.

The end of.

No, at the end.

Like, the love we make is equal to the love we take.

And in the end, the love we is equal to the we make.

It's like being back on the road with Charlie singing that in the back of the room.

It is in.

In Cologne.

Oh, mate.

Charlie.

Martin.

Bubbles.

Charlie's.

Was this a fire engine incident?

Yeah.

Charlie was witness to the.

Charlie has the footage somewhere, don't you?

No, you don't.

No.

Because you ran off, you went off, you disappeared.

Oh, my God.

And then you turned back up at the hotel.

Yeah.

And played the piano.

And I missed about six flights the next day.

I'd be back to Germany since.

And because Paul.

Paul was meant to fly out.

He did a whole fucking TV show.

Germany this summer.

That's what I mean, Martin.

It's the first time we've gone back.

Because Paul was flying out, but then he couldn't take off because of the weather.

Yes.

Or something.

So he came back to the party.

Oh, and you were there and like.

Oh, no, no, it was all right.

I mean, Bubbles.

Is there footage of Charlie that any of the boys have taken that I could get involved in the business of taking off your hands.

Have you ever turned cameo in the movie?

I was gonna say, have you got a Hitchcock?

Has he done the Hitchcock?

I have got a Hitchcock, yeah.

Oh, brilliant.

Yeah, yeah.

Keep an eye out.

So there you have it.

That was your Friday bonus bot.

I really hope you enjoyed it as we did.

What a brilliant thing having Bubbles on the Green Bastard, also known as Canadian actor Mike Smith, remaining in character all the way through, which can be a bit of a challenge, but on this occasion, it seemed to work quite nicely.

If you weren't a fan of Trailer Park Boys, go and check them out.

There's some brilliant stuff nestling in the rabbit hole of the Internet.

Go and look for it.

Really, really good.

And thanks to Charlie Lightning.

Great to see him again.

If you're not familiar with Charlie's work, well worth spending some time getting down YouTube.

Rabbit holes in that as well, because he is a talented boy.

The rapport he has with artists is something special.

You just need to ask Sir Paul McCartney.

He's been on the road with him for years now and I know for a fact he's got footage I would rather disappeared somewhere on a hard drive of my shenanigans in Germany with a fire engine.

We went to Paris, you know, with Red Hot Chili Peppers and made some stuff with O2 priority ticketing.

And if you like different types of music, you might even find some N dubs magic in there as well with Dappy and Talisa.

Good lord that was a while ago and the bow of my old business in tabloids.

Thank you so much for listening.

Leave us a little review and we would be very grateful for that because it does make all the difference.

We're back on Wednesday with more nonsense but as you know regular listeners Friday, the goodbye is not Kenny Ho.

It is indeed this.

Fuck the gas.

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