David tells Joe about his flirty window cleaning client that he had to deal with in the 90s who kept stroking his hands. They discuss whether this was appropriate behaviour for a client and what they would do if their wives held hands with the window cleaner. Then they introduce a new section called 'Leg Up' where they help promote a new venture or anyone that needs a leg up. Joe's friend has just started a jock strap business called Sticky Beard and secretly sent David a sample so they talk abo...
Mar 05, 2024•45 min•Season 10Ep. 378
In the 2nd episode of our Rising Star mini series Joe and David catch up with The Traitors Paul Gorton about what he’s been up to since they last spoke. It's insane how much he’s been up to and Joe and David really start to believe Paul has a future in telly. Paul has chosen his agent and this guy sounds like he has a plan for Pauls career. He’s having loads of meetings and there are a multiple irons in the fire, ideas for podcasts and TV Shows for the big man are flying in left right and centre...
Mar 03, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 10Ep. 377
David takes Joe out for a supposedly scary trip along the remote roads of Dartmoor looking for the spirits and ghosts that are said to inhabit the county of Devon. Annoyingly it's not very dark but David still hopes they will come across the legendary 'Hairy Hands' on the B3212. Joe and David discuss that Josh Widdicombe has spoken about the tale of 'Hairy Hands' on quite a few different tv shows so they text him and he kindly joins them for a quick chat about it all. Josh goes on to tell them a...
Feb 29, 2024•44 min•Season 10Ep. 376
Joe and David meet Rock'n Rolls favourite magician Ben Taylor, a brilliant and funny magician who is also a mod hence his name 'The Magic Mod'. The wonder of magic never fails to enthrall and it's not long before they've regressed back to being excited children delighted to see Ben's magic tricks up close. Joe tries to narrate the tricks so listeners can enjoy them too, however this is harder than it looks so you might just have to listen to the lads enjoy them instead. The Magic Mod's love of m...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 10Ep. 375
David and Joe start worrying about their interviewing technique so David has the idea to listen back to some snippets of old interviews and see how they are behaving and its not good. They start opening up about how they feel while they are interviewing and all their insecurities pour out. David worries he says 'yeah' too much and Joe worries he giggles unnecessarily. After much squirming they come to the conclusion that Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett are much better at it cause they are really...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 10Ep. 374
David does some impressions for Andy who then does his best woody woodpecker impression. They talk about their first crushes, age gap love and fancying their mates mum. Joe discloses his first crush was Helen Mirren which they are confused about as figure if Joe was 8, Helen would have been about 30. Talk turns to toilet habits and they time how long it takes Joe to go for a wee. Other topics in today's Andyathon include being embarrased at the doctors, getting told bad news but having to get on...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 10Ep. 373
David are Joe are very excited to talk to the well known Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay and pick her brains about her amazing career. They want to know how she dealt with being in the centre of the worlds longest running television soap opera, what it was like to walk on to the Royle Family set and how she wrote herself her dream job with The Madame Blanc Mysteries. They also share some fond memories about the wonderful, kind and hilarious Bobby Ball. Joe and David worry they have offen...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 10Ep. 372
David & Joe try to do a Peloton based pod (which David's been dying to do for ages as he's bought one) but David’s feeling poorly and it falls flat. Despite feeling ill David manages to talk through the features of his Peloton bike but as he's not very close to the mic it becomes frustrating for Joe. They agree this isn't making the most of the Peloton ep and decide to try again another time. Moving on they discuss a YouTube video that takes the piss out of podcasters but decide that they ar...
Feb 20, 2024•55 min•Season 10Ep. 371
David and Joe have an even cosier chat than normal with regular guest, Eastenders actor Natalie Cassidy. Nat talks about her recent juicing experience before revealing she has two kitchens. This blows David's mind who thinks having multiple kitchens should be celebrated. Nat analyses some previous pod episodes saying that TV Joe didn't offend her at the Chatabix Christmas party when he was hungover and David shouldn't have walked out of the Spa Day. They have a go at doing some accents but Joe d...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 10Ep. 370
Joe and David have planned a lovely surprise for their wives for Valentines Day. Naomi and Petra are very surprised at the surprise. David's written a song for them but is too embarrassed to play it so he reads out some of the lyrics. While waiting for Naomi to get home, Joe asks about David's Peleton. David wants to keep this for another episode so the conversation becomes quite frustrating. You can hear the song 'We Love Our Wives' song David has written at the end of this episode even though ...
Feb 14, 2024•46 min•Season 10Ep. 369
David is worried they have nothing to talk about until Joe reveals that an old ‘pathetic’ tweet he put out has come back to haunt him. Hearing this, David is in heaven. Joe opens up to David, admitting that he fancied going for a dance after hearing a remix of a song by Lionel Richie in a beach cafe-bar. They delve into why Joe can't show he is enjoying music and why they become such different people when they go on holiday. Questioning why they can't be more free and easy (like they are on holi...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 10Ep. 368
This is the second part of David and Joe's chat with former Soccer AM presenter John Fendley 'Fenners'. The ep starts off more football heavy and Fenners tells them what it was like working on Soccer AM with Jimmy Bullard. David continues with his quick fire questions starting with 'the footballer that surprised you most at how good they were' ? Then they get derailed when John tries to sell them an iphone 12 case for £10 including delivery. They decide Fenners would make a great sales man for t...
Feb 09, 2024•56 min•Season 10Ep. 367
WW2 Historian and bunker expert Andrew Chatterton is back. David and Andrew go on a hunt for an undiscovered WW2 bunker while Joe watches via zoom. They have some clues to work from and try to peice together the intel as they search the countryside. They know the name of the woods and that the bunker is near a zig zag in a road. It's not much to go on but will they get lucky and find it? In his eagerness David has a couple of tumbles . Joe finds it all genuinely and utterly fascinating. If schoo...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 10Ep. 366
Joe and David chat to TV Presenter John Fendley (the artist formely known as Fenners) about all things Soccer AM and all the footballing legends he has met over the years. Joe can't believe that John has a signed shirt from Pele and has also met his hero Glenn Hoddle. Fenners tries to sell them a phone case and a pair of his shoes. David drops in a series of not so quick fire questions for John including which footballer smells the best. John tells them how his wife got a sniff of David Beckham ...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 10Ep. 365
Joe is opening up to David about how he gets annoyed with himself for getting annoyed when he is on holiday. Then unbeknown to Joe, their friend Lizzy pops up on the zoom to discuss how she saw Joe doing the park run two and half years ago. This is David's pay back for Joe arranging Adam to come on the pod a few weeks ago to discuss David’s body when he spotted him on the beach in Antigua. Lizzy and David dissect Joe’s running style and more importantly, discuss whether the way he runs is a deli...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 10Ep. 364
Rising Star is a new Chatabix segment, a monthly spin off that follows a contestant after they've been on a reality show like Traitors, The Apprentice or Love Island. David & Joe want to find the next Mark Wright or Alison Hammond and document their journey to (hopefully) fame and fortune, discussing what happens next and how they'll approach stardom. From getting their first TV agent, to deciding if they should they go on I’m A Celebrity, the rising stars will hopefully spill the beans on h...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr•Season 10Ep. 363
Everyone's favourite, TV Joe is back on again after the spa episode fiasco. This time he get's to do the special January TV quiz he's prepared for Joe and David. They get cross if he doesn't have one so are very happy today. Joe gets over competitive again but David seems to know his stuff. Disapointingly TV Joe hasn’t been watching Traitors so they can't natter about it but they do wang on about the old and new Gladiators show. A few bits and bobs have to be honked out because of potential repe...
Feb 01, 2024•48 min•Season 10Ep. 362
While they are waiting for David to come on the zoom, Joe and TV Joe plan next years christmas party. TV Joe apologises for snapping at Natalie Cassidy when he was hungover at the last Chatabix christmas party. As they continue to wait, it becomes clear that David has forgotten they are podding. When David eventually appears he is outside a not so luxury spa that he has walked out of because he felt too uncomfortable. It transpires he went to the spa for the day with his wife Naomi and got the d...
Jan 31, 2024•41 min•Season 10Ep. 361
It's so good to have Paul Gorton back in the bosom of Chatabix once again after his appearance on BBC1 show The Traitors series 2. Joe and David try to think of some questions that Paul hasn’t already been asked in the hundreds of interviews he's done since leaving the show. David is overwhelmed by the weight of what to ask. Paul tells them how he’s coping with his new found fame. He's actually loving it. They ask Paul the million dollar question everyone wants to know, 'is the turret real' ? Af...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Season 10Ep. 360
Joe is a guest on Off Menu Live at The Dome Brighton. In this ep Joe experiences what it's really like behind the scenes at a live pod event. Taking David on the journey, he leaves his house and walks to the venue. They have a look around backstage and eavesdrop on James Acaster and Ed Gamble smashing it on stage. Watch a clip of this ep on You Tube www.youtube.com/@chatabixpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/chatabix1 Insta: www.instagram.com/chatabixpodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/chatabix M...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 10Ep. 359
Joe and David chat to two elite American comedy writers, big wigs Kevin Bleyer and Doug Abeles. They ask Kev & Doug what its like to live in New York City cos they think it sounds great. This is a dream come true for Joe as he gets to ask them what its like to write on the Daily Show and Saturday Night Live. He desperately wants to know how stressful it is. Our American friends are happy to go into great detail of what a week in the life of a top comedy writer in America is like. Joe and Dav...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 10Ep. 358
David is late to the record and nearly misses the surprise guest which Joe has arranged. Joe has managed to track down Adam, the guy who spotted David on the beach in Antigua. Adam walks us through all the times he spotted David while he was on holiday including the beach, the airport and back at Heathrow. He also tells us what he was thinking when he saw David in the sea and the first time he took his top off. And it turns out Adam can tell what David is thinking at all times as he correctly de...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 10Ep. 357
The lads are gutted. Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! Gutted! And it comes across in the ep. They admit they are waffling and they temporarily hater Harry for killing their Paul. It feels like being knocked out the world up. And they have already forgotten about Sonja. SPOILER ALERT: If you've not watched Ep 8 The Traitors UK then watch it before listening to this ! Traitors (S2) contestant Paul Gorton...
Jan 19, 2024•39 min•Season 10Ep. 356
David and Joe are gobsmacked by what they have seen in ep 7 and it takes them a while to be able to speak. They decide Paul Gorton is a magician like no other they have other seen. Joe get's distracted by some fireworks that appear on his zoom background. After composing themselves they get on with dissecting the ep and come up with their own theories about what they think is going to happen ! SPOILER ALERT: If you've not watched Ep 7 The Traitors UK then watch it before listening to this ! Trai...
Jan 18, 2024•39 min•Season 10Ep. 355
It's the grand final in the Battle of The Chatabands series. David and Joe are joined by music producer Steve Baker and guest judge, music journalist Simon Price as they decide who will be crowned the Chataband of the year. Steve kicks off the ep by playing the guitar and Simon is wearing a Simon Cowell mask. They listen to songs from Lisa Osborne, Seadog and Mezz Coleman before casting their votes. We play all the songs in full at the end of the ep. The lucky winner get's a pair of bespoke Chat...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 10Ep. 354
Comedy actor Jon Pointing, best known for his roles in Plebs and Big Boys, takes a break from his trip of a lifetime to come on the pod. Unbeknown to Joe and David he is in a villa in Thailand. The episode starts with the usual wifi issues and then they settle in for a chat about being actors, the longest distance they've ever walked in the nude and how young Jon looks. At the end of the pod David & Joe get Jon to jump in the pool (trunks on !) Watch a clip of this ep on You Tube www.youtube...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 10Ep. 353
David has a heavy cold and is not sure he'll make it to the end of the pod. He's too tired to talk about his new Peloton and is not finding anything funny. They discuss laughter and analyse how they giggle. Joe says he uses his laugh to cover embarrassment and give himself thinking time. The pod hits an all time low when David see's if he can drift off for a nap while Joe watches. David tells Joe about getting recognised in a supermarket and how he dealt with it quite badly. Then they have a sem...
Jan 16, 2024•41 min•Season 10Ep. 352
David and Joe discuss the latest episode of the Traitors. David has noticed a contestant in a black vest that he's never seen before. He wonders what the chances of getting Claudia Winkleman on the pod are and tells Joe he loves it when she shrieks 'run' at the constestants when they are doing a task. They list all the contestants that have left and can't wait to get Paul Gorton on the pod when the show has finished to find out all the juicy gossip. SPOILER ALERT: If you've not watched Ep 6 The ...
Jan 15, 2024•37 min•Season 10Ep. 351
David and Joe delve in to last nights episode of The Traitors UK. They are joined by Maddy Smedley a contestant on the show last year. They ask Maddy how Paul Gorton might be feeling based on her experience and what the pressure is like sitting around the round table. Maddy tells them loads of insider information which they lap up before making a prediction on when Paul may be out. SPOILER ALERT: If you've not watched Ep 5 The Traitors UK then watch it before listening to this ! Traitors (S2) co...
Jan 12, 2024•50 min•Season 10Ep. 350
David and Joe discuss whether Paul Gorton needs to keep his head down a little bit and whether he can slither himself out of the hole he’s dug for himself. They wonder if the turret set is real and talk about how they will feel when Tall Paul is eventually out, which they worry will be soon. David receives an unexpected surprise which leaves a nasty tasty in his mouth. SPOILER ALERT: If you've not watched Ep 4 Traitors then watch it before listening to this ! Trairtors contestant Paul Gorton is ...
Jan 11, 2024•35 min•Season 10Ep. 349
