Michael Akadiri • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #207

week I but a special guests over. I tell them they've died. Then I get them to discuss their lives through the films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Hannah Waddingham and even Bled Crambles. But this week it's the brilliant comedian and doctor mister Michael Akadi. Get over to the patroon at patron dot com forwards last Brett Goldstein, where you get

next of fifteen minutes with Michael. We laugh a lot, we talk about big innings and endings, and there's a secret. You get the whole episode uncut and ad free and as a video who doesn't like videos? Lots of people, I guess so. Michael AKADERI is a stand up who's just starting his first Edinburgh Fringe solo hour today. I think so. If you're in Edinburgh, go and see it. He is also the very first real life doctor I've had on the show, and his thoughts on death and

film were absolutely brilliant. I loved hanging out with him. Go see a show in Edinburgh and I think you're gonna love this one. Okay, So that is it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode two hundred and seven of Films to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It is me Brett Goldstein, and I'm joined today by an actor, a writer, a performer, a junior doctor, a soon to be surgeon, and most of all, an incredible stand up comedian. Please work into

this show. I can't believe he's here in any of you. Yes, it's him. It's the one and the only theory is it's Michael, like a dare. What's an intro? I love that. That's that's very kind man, that's very very kind man. You introduced me better than I introduced myself, man, so I appreciate. Well, you can't introduce yourself like that if you're English, you'd sound like a prick. You have to let someone else do that. Then you have to come in or like, oh hey, it's nothing, I'm just all

these things. Stop it stop. It's nice to see you. I've been a fan of yours from videos, and we've never had a gig together, have we. We've not had the fortune of having a gig together, man. So yeah, it's a bit surreal meeting you in this circumstance, but it's very nice to do, to finally sit down and chat. Yeah, I'd love to stand up. And I really keep wanting us to have a gig together, and it hasn't happened, but I'm sure it will one day. Most often. Are

you about to do Edinburgh? Yes, yes, yes, yes, so August, I will be at the Pleasant Courtyard. I'm there for the whole month doing my debut out. So I'm really excited about it. What's it called, what's the sh It's called No Scrub. So it's called No Scrubs. It's about my life in it energes. You alluded to my life at the doctor. It's also about perceptions when I'm not in my scrubs and how I can be seen as a scrub. So it's a bit a player on the

words on the term scrub. That interesting now, unless you're sick of talking about it, I mean it is. It is your USPA, because it is fascinating. You're an actual You're an actual human doctor who does actually yes, yes, yes, that's what I do. Somehow, somehow I jaggle both. It's difficult, but I am. I save lives. It's weird to say, but that's what. And so how is your time split if I may, or do you just gig when you can? Yeah? Yeah,

so obviously we have a set rota. So on my rotar, I know when I can gig, I know when I can't gig, and I just basic dot gigs around the time when I'm available to two gigs, so to speak, and I squeeze things like this after shifts. So you know, it's a bit of juggling. It's a bit well, it's all important. I think if you want to do something

in your spare time, you'll do it. So, like I guess you're in this podcast you're a busy guy, but you still find time to do your podcast, so you know it's all about finding time for the food you want to do. Yeah, look, I don't think this is the same. But it's funny because people always ask me, like, you know, I do writing, acting, stand up wherever, and people always going what's your favorite? If you can only do one? And I'm always like, why do I have

to have one? Kind of do the bill? And I was going to ask you, is it the same with being like as in, does it become a point where it's like you have to choose one? Or are you having both forever? I mean, what does it become a Yeah, it's been it's been a nice struggle so far. But I think the stand ups picking up in terms of this demands and the more gigs I do, and I guess the better you do, if anything, the more in

demand will get you'll be. So I'm getting to the point now where it's like, oh, you know, do I have to decide or the sort of pick It depends on what edimurg edinmur goes really really well, then maybe I'll put in a condition I've got really decided because it's hard to juggle both. Don't you think it's it's it's different from me going oh, I'll just do stand up. It's no one's no one's dying. But if you go, people are losing their lives. I mean, your gigs better

be fucking amazing. That's the pressure that is. That is the pressures so wild because on the flip side, when I do a gig and I'm like, oh, it doesn't go well, Let's say people don't laugh. That's the worst that could happen at a gig people don't laugh. But my Harbor job, if if I don't have a good day, the worlst that could happen is it's kind of catastrophic. So it just it just shows the pressures of the two environments. But it's having you die or day die

on a bad day on the EVA job. Yeah, essentially essentially, And I don't like committed to suicide. So you know, there's a few like pulsing her in Harry Hill who were doctors in and now full time comedians. And I always think and imagine if you were there patients and then you're watching Harry Hill's TV burning like what the exactly exactly and maybe the people say about me too, you know, maybe don't say about I'll treat it. But

a guy, now you're on. Have you ever had the experience of a patient coming to see you do comedy and not necessarily knowing until you were on stage. No, not yet. I've had I've had people recognize me from gigs and see me at work if they also work in the same place. I've had that. I've had people say, oh, I'm adopted too, so I'll come to see your show. But I've never had a patient come and see me. I think that's the next level. What that's that's proper levels.

You treat treated me medically. Now you want to treat my I'll treat me to some laughter. That's double dose. Yeah. I guess the other way around would be horrendous if someone saw you do stand up and then the next day was in hospital and you came in to tell them bad days, and they're like, what this no punch line, no punch line? Yeah, but that would I think that would be a proper mind for them. No, No, not him, not him talking about all these rubbish on stages. They

not him. Can I ask how your shift was today? I don't know many yeah, it was. It was a bit critical because it's always hard to plan stuff after work because with anything, when you when you have a fooish time, it's like, oh, that's your finished time. But sometimes you can be sort of be dealing with an emergency sort of up to the time where you've gotta be like I've got to go and sort of hand it over. But it was steady, busy, but nothing I

couldn't sort of handle that. You know, people I do sort orthopedix of bones and joints, so people broken bones, to see people cutting their skin and stuff like that, and you know, but yeah, it's all rude, ementary stuff to me. I probably sound a bit glory to people that may be listening. It's part of your training, like how to handle that stuff emotionally, so so you don't take it home with you. You know it is there actually training for that or is it just do it?

If by doing it? I wish there was a trading. I wish just kind of like, you know, you see something, you can see something crazy today, but if a road to be back at work tomorrow, they need you back at work. So it's kind of like this, well, you know, drug it off. It's weird. It's so weird that you

have to carpon mentalize your sort of feelings. I think there's there, definitely is, in my opinion, lack of sort of pastoral support and the expectation is that you see something crazy and it's just well, that's just work, and if you get on about your business, you just jump back on the horse, you know what I mean. So there is that weird, and there's it's such an unspoken thing about it. Metal it's such a like, you know, oh,

that's crazy. Sometimes they do these formal deep bruce or something major catastrophic happening, but that's few and far between. You know, if you have a bad day at work, it's kind of like, okay, all right, man, we need you tomorrow. Can I ask you? I hope this isn't the question because I don't want you to tell me

if I don't want you to specify the thing. But are there like things that have happened that you find do haunt You might have been weeks ago, months ago that you're like, there was this one thing that stays with me or is it a general you can let it go at the end of the day. I mean, I don't want to get you back any demons. I

don't know. I'm pretty good. As cynical as that sound, I'm pretty good at probably sort of packaging stuff like I could have a bad shift and maybe the night after and I may think about during the night and stuff. Minute have a good sleep, but I think the following day I tend to strug struggle things off. It's not the same, obviously not the same, but I guess start having a bad gig, you have a bad my goodness,

it was terrible. My punt sanded land here or awkard punt auquitect clar and then you kind of sleep on it. Then the next day you're kind of like a new day sort of things. So you can't have to have the same attitude. You just wad to comparing the gig. And I was thinking when you said it, yes like challenge, Well, you know I had that plant like it or that heckler. I had a difficult heckler there. You know they at the office and then you kind of struggle move on.

I can imagine you're leaving a tricky day at work and go into a green room and hearing comedians complaining about their comedy and you there must be part of you. It's like, I'll come on, mate, I just watch someone give you like perspective. Like sometimes year it's weird because I guess I started comedy as a hobby and it's

now it's the probably that's got out of control. And I always tell myself, I don't I don't have to be doing this, if you know what I mean, not not in a copy sort of way, but more in a there are more serious things that life that are happening, and if you know what I mean. So I come with that sort of perspective to things. So sometimes when I hear people complaining, I'm like, there are real people suffering, you know, So you have a bad tepe of the gig.

It's really told in the comparison. But I feel like if I'm the one that's always saying that's I kind of like, oh yeah, fair enough, Yeah, bad child, I know. But then deep down times of them like yeah, man, i've seen someone leg chopped off. Man, this is nothing fascinating and so what so just tell me, So tell me. So, I know you started comedy as a hobby, you just wanted to try it. How did that happen? Yeah? Literally, people will be out during union people, Oh, Michael got jokes,

You're funny, You've got a good banner about you. And I was all right, you know, all right, and I have witty one liner. So sometimes I'll be in like it's I say, I'm a group of friends and I will just try always come up with one liner, funny one liner, and I would take pride and sort of making people there laugh. I would enjoy it. So I think is that the people tell me, oh, you should try it, and I think it's twenty seventeen. I kept

them thinking why not, you know, why not. Let's just see, let's just see the best way of finding out, in my opinion, because stand up, go in front of people that don't know who I am, don't have a scooby doo who the hell I am, and go in front of it. But I so I typed an open mic living in Ligernache at the time, and then I went

to up the Creek, which is in London. But I didn't realize it was their blackout, so I which is the Gong Show if you're not not aware of it, where you have to try survive five minutes on the stake. I only found out when I got there and the MC was explaining the rules, so it was like do I chicken out or do I just find out? And I didn't out. I stayed. I lasted three and a half minutes, and I was like, there's something in this.

And literally, that sort of desire to get a laugh from an audience is what I still chase all these years, Just that desire to make a whole room of rock from the laughter. That's essentially the bark I've got, and I still got it to this thing. Do you get nervous doing gigs during I still do. Yeah, I'll be lying,

I'll still do. You still get a few sort of you know, carpetations, especially during previews now and obviously I've gone from getting up to the place of doing the club twenties to preparing for the preview do a whole for an hour, so you know, it's like you're in control for a whole hour. You've got to remember everything for an hour, So you get nervous that you're gonna literally keep you want to keep the energy, you want to keep it interesting for an hour. You want to

keep me funny for an hour. And I guess that's the question in my comedy THREEO that I'm trying to answer. Now, can I be funny for a whole hour? And I guess in Edinburgh people will surely find out what time is your show in the court yard? Eight thirty five pm? So nice little evening time, So see see a few after you chose that's a little evening time. You're in prime time. You are the main event. That's it. Yeah, when they see the venue, it's a bit small, but

it's small but boutique. It's a boutique venue. Let's bring thee. I'm down in the cellar. I'm down in the cellar. So we're gonna make it the comedy celler. We're gonna make it a comedy five down there. Yeah, that's a lovely clina down there. I hope Edinburgh Web. It's what I think Scottish Webb plays this part. I need Scottish Web. I don't need no London on the ninth of July weather that's what I don't need. That's very exciting, man. I hope you guys, well, thank you. And so what

you've just taken a helmet to me? Yeah yeah, yeah, So it's like unpaid basically unpaid league. That's probably easy way of doing it. So, um, I just said told basically, we're gonna have to work. Look, no shifts, pay me and all like for dues. So it's kind of like going It's not a gamble, so to speak, but it's definitely like I'm giving it my all. I thought, but if you're going to do your debut, you've got to announce yourself. So to speak to the industry, you might

just give it your all. You might as well as much as you sort of physically and financially sort of cant. So I thought, you know, I'm gonna gave it everything I've got, all bells and whistles, and then go there and see what happened, see what happened, and just have fun time, just anything, have fun, everything else that comes from it. You know, you can't really control. But my actually have fun. I'm a better comic, and naturally opportunities

hopefully come from the Michael. That's great and everything, But I just realized that I forgot to tell you. Something hit me. I should have told you when you first came on the zoom. Actually, uh, and I've read about fifteen minutes in and I didn't take I'll just say it, and I guess we'll deal with it. Uh, you've died. Oh my goodness, you were dead. Dam was full of life and vitality. Oh my goodness, how is my bedside better? Horrific?

The day that was terrible. We didn't even give me a warning shot or nothing straight for the imagine that I forgot to tell you. Oh, by the way, did you know the broom Reaper has been around? I didn't. I didn't left work to tell you. Oh goodness, how did you die? Do you know what? I died doing something I really enjoy it, and I died. I wouldn't want like a death, which is sort of like an unfortunate a paint rice, which is horrific. I would like to die eating an in an out burger, just you

know what I mean. That's it, Yes, a good in an out burger, best burger ever in the world, in the world, it's the best burger in the world. And I think it's the best thing. Like every time I take a bite out of it, it's just like I just feel that Heaven has come onto my chest. But I can't explain it. Like when I went to la and hands some where, Where is this in London? What is going on? They're not like we like gluttony too love. How do they know? I don't know, man, it's it's

mesasically when he sets heaven coming on your chest. I think there's a secret religious element to in an outburger and whatever it is, I'm happy to join because they so you're what you're eating in an outburger and chokes on it. Yeah, there's there's always rumored that that's how it always fun. I don't know if you went with in and out, but I literally just want to be having a double cheeseburger. I take a bite and I'm like the part those that's it arty just gets fully

clogged and where we're just out of it. We're done. That's it. So it's not doesn't hurt much, not too much. I think I wanted to be a bike po then that's it, just my chest collapse. And if you want to be like him, do you want to down the toilet eating this burger? What circumstance you get where you're you're literally emptying your bottom but then putting more in? Like what what efficient system is that? Like? That's what I can't nderstand. Have you ever tried eating on the toilet.

No no, no, no, have you it feels against God, doesn't It doesn't. There's meant meant to be again, there's meant to be a gap between one thing happening in the other. There's a continuous leap. It don't seem right, you don't see at all. So yeah, I've not I've not done it, but maybe maybe now you mentioned maybe I try. It doesn't seem logical, but you know, life isn't all about logica. Do you worry about that? No? Not really, I think then what I do? You don't

you see it often more than a lapist. So I've kind of like I'm not prepared for death. Don't get me wrong at all, but I definitely I like to think I'm not as like, oh my goodness, death like because it's the cycle of life. I think in this country or in the world where we don't want to talk about it, we accept we're so happy to see baby born, but we never really liked to salk about death. Yea, and every time a baby's born were essentially guaranteed another death.

I know that's very simiple to think, but that's essentially what we're doing. We never like to think about, like that we talk about life, don't have the mother that when you're when you're meeting the new baby, that would be too late. Now, well kind of that's going again. You don't have to be specifics on this, but I'm assuming you've you've been there when people have died. Have you seen things that have made you think there's more as in, you know, a soul and etcetera and things

like that, or yeah, how do you feel bad? I'm definitely that I was. I grew up a Catholic background, I brought, brought Catholic and whatnot. Still still religious to this day. I definitely think there is an after life. How after life shape I do? I do hope there's a heaven. I hope I'm not being good for no reason, but like murdering, it should be good. Then let me let me go your serial killer, somebody do something, but get my name out there. That's one way to get

Netflix special. But I don't definitely feel like you. Yeah, your body stays on this earth. I do think your soul goes up and depending on how good you've been on in my head, in my opinion, determents where'll go.

It's just the finality when you when you sometimes see someone who's just passed away, they immediately they look like they're just sleeping, and it's just this weird sort of feeling of an hour ago you're with us, and then now I'm not, and it's just yeah, initially the first time seeing stuff like that, it's just a mind that's complete. Minds like wall like, I don't know if this is a question, and I don't even know if I can't ask it my last getting. If we don't like it,

we can cut it. Have you have you seen like a good death where you were like I liked that death. Perhaps they said everything they needed to say, you know what I mean, Like, did you see anything where you were like that was in the nice death? Yeah? Like I think I think a good obviously, I feel a good death is one where it's not a not a

complete shock to the family. I think those where the family can make it to wherever the hospital or predominantly hopefully it's probably someone like a hospice in time I'm working with dominate the hospital. I don't see the hospice of often, but I definitely think based like hospice is where it's planned. It's sort of people in an it's going to happen, and it's more because hospitals are quite

chaotic and stuff. I mean the worst sometimes the worst thing is you're telling a relative old you've got coming quickly because things aren't looking great and they're rushing in and stuff. Rather a case where everyone's had time to digest the information the person who's passing away is a where their families awhere, they're all around them, and then if they're holding their partner's hand or something like that as they go, that is they're not much. I don't

think there's much in terms of parson. There's not much poetic from that. So yeah, yeah, I think that's if you're gonna go one way. I think you want your your loved ones around, don't I appreciate you answering that, well, you aren't sure if there's a heaven, but you hope there is one. I got news for you, buddy boy, there isn't so and you are because you did. You were You were very good, even though you attempted to be bad. But you were heaven and it happened, and

it's filled with your favorite thing. What's your favorite thing, chick filo. It's filled with chick fil A. Woo, the seats made of chick fil A made a chick that you're rolling in chick fil A. You're just eating and rolling and there are there are chick fil It is chick it is. It is ram full of chick fil A. And everyone's there. They're excited to see. They're big fans. They loved your d they're huge fans. And they weren't talk to you about your life, but they weren't talk

to you you about your life through film. And the first thing they asked, what's the first film you remember seeing? Michael Joy was feeing about this man, and I think in my house I had a lot of vhs or videos sort of things in the night. He's grown up, and I remember we had the video of the Mask and I remember, yes, yes, right him, carry, yes, yeah,

what's the film and you'll see. I just remember the scene when he finds the mask and he's under some bridge somewhere and he picks up this mask and he puts it on and he can transform and then he goes all crazy stuff like that, and he's like this whacky sort of funny, sort of superhero sort of guy, absolutely hilarious. And I just remember then obviously the way the plot bowes, he's sort of fighting the bad I can't remember the bad guy's name is now, but the

bad guy. And then the bad guy gets the masks and he turns into the huge Yeah I don't. Then they're fighting over Cameron Diaz and it's like, oh, my goods, why are they why always ambout fighting over a woman? But anyway, they're fighting over Cameron Diaz and then he wins and said, oh my goodness, the wacky guy one, and yeah, yeah, I remember a lot. Yeah that front, I guess that don't taught me that maybe right, they're wrong.

You're gonna have to fight for your woman, that's what I took as like a five year olds And you're gonna have to be wacky doing it, that's whatever. Yes, it's not the cool guy that would. You gotta be whacky in silly whacky and silly wom all the time? Where we do you have siblings? Do you watch it with your siblings? And yeah, yeah, I've got two older brothers and one younger, so it must have been all boys, all boys. My mom tried for a girl and officials

gave up after my little brother. When the fourth one came out, was he like, the fuck's sakes? Yeah, oh my good, what is going on? Why is he DNA winning? What's going on? Four? Yeah? No, no girls, Yeah, just like my dad's DNA being being a female egg and stuff like that. Yeah. So four boys, So you did you watched this together? All four of you? Yeah? Definitely, definitely definitely that that was that. That was our finger in the Max manual putting that on that. That film.

I've watched it several times. It's one of the films where, you know, just a good, good old school Hollywood movie. Good guy, bad guy. They sort of compete. Good guy wins safety Day. It's a good film. I like to look at that film. I like the music of that film. I think it's a really it's quality that it's quality in a way it could have been quite average, and it's really it's got a style to it. What is the film that scared you the most? Michael Idea, Oh

my goodness. I don't think you could be a millennial without being absolutely terrified of final destination, well, especially in your job. Jesus good, Oh my goodness, that film was absolutely terrifying, Like every time I see it, every time I drive pasts on the motorway, a row of logs. It's just the thing that it's just like, I just think that it's going to become loose, come through my windscreen, take off my head, and that's it. That's how I'm gonna go. I'm like, I'm not gonna have to inter

and up burger. This log is gonna take me my film Outfall, and that is because of that film. That is because of that film. No, no chance? Yeah, yeah that's fair. Do you like being scared? What do you hate it? Oh? Good question. I don't go to theme parks as much as I used to Theme parks is where I go through that mental sort of barrow. You're going to thing about for me is battling my own demons.

How scared? I'm scared. I'm going to do it. But I've been a bit risk conversed as I get older, maybe because I don't make enough time to go and be silly. But queen parks and like stuff I want to do. For example, I would love to jump out of the plane. Have you done that? It's one hundred percent than the number one thing on my list things I want to do is jump out. I've got to do it before before I leave. I've got to jump

out of play. That is me battling my mental demons, like just being able to be like, you know what, this is crazy as help. I'm terrified, but let's just do it. Yeah, I love it. I love it. It's gotta be done before I leave this up. I got to do it. That and bundee jumping. Yeah, I'm more scared of bundee jumping than I am jumping out playing.

I'm not scared of jumping out. I mean, we'll see how I feel when I'm up there, But in theory, I sort of feel like, oh, it's fine, you're so high up that you're If it doesn't work, you'll you'll die. You'll be fine. But with bundee jumping, if that guy's wrong, it's like you might die, but you'd Yeah. What about crying? What's the film that made you cry the most? Now you are cryer. I'm not a big cryer. I think the last time I cried proper was when my parents.

When I graduated, my parents surprised me of a cart and I had no idea ran Aga. I'm not really serial sort of person, and I had the car. I had was happy with but then toprising me with like a Brandon car that so that was last one cry. I was quite a few years ago. But the film, I'm going to preface the film by saying that I was eight or nine, and that's very important context to what I'm going to say or nine and the very big film that came out essentially the End of High

School musical The End of High School. Oh my goodness. So it wasn't even the sad part. It was joy rather than tears a sadness, and I think again typical sort of movie, Oh my goodness, Troy or whatever, Zachfone who played he wants to play basketball, play, he loves singing, and then he's battling this demon. Then he meets Vanessa at the end. Then they would come to do this, do it, and then left her faring fine. And then I literally had that part. I broken tears. I was like,

it's so beautiful that true love, you can true love. Yeah, I was like literally crying. I kept from the nest and they made love. That's beautiful, man, That's really you know what. I don't think that's ever come up in this podcast so well, that that's try to be unique. So yeah, I'm ashamed to go watch it back because I don't know if those floods or tears would open again. Holds up. I'm pretty sure it helps her. Oh that that got me, that it caught me off. Card, I was.

I was a bit embarrassed, but'm like, noah, this this has caught me off. Card. We're watching it with your brothers. Oh no, no, I think I was alone. So that's why the tists even further though, like either de genuine like this is me. I don't think that was a target. Demographic wrote, what about what's the film that you love? Most people don't like it. It's not critics don't like it, but you think it's fucking brilliant. Everyone else is done.

Do you know what it's not? I know some critics don't mind it, but it's basically the French tried was going on for too obviously most film French tried to get to back free. Then you sort of slow it down. But I am a fan of the Fast and Furious franchise, and a lot of people give it a lot of stick. A lot of people say, oh, you know, they're they're dehydrating that cow, they're milking. It's right franchise. You know you don't want a bet action. You know, good guys,

bad guys. That's stop lot. You know. You know they're gonna get the bad guys in the end, and then they go on to a different mission. But it's good fun. You get you see some franc cars, you see some good action, you see some ship blowing up. What more do you want to learn about family? Every every week? Well, what's your favorite? First? And furious you have to pick mine? Oh, I mean one of the early ones. I think they

have a one or two. I guess maybe a bit in a style they were all walker passing away, but definitely like the earlier because you didn't know where it ll go at the point you didn't know what the formula was. But I think definitely I have one or two. Okay. On the other side of this, what is a film that you used to love, You loved it, and you've watched it recently and I don't like this anymore for whatever reason. If this is the weird one, it's not

actually the film that changed. It's my perspective of the animal of the film. So I didn't mind Ratter two when it came out. I didn't mind it. I thought, this is a cute little right you know, the rat to chef be cooking up in Paris. Only the French get away with making a rat chef like every any other country like that. This is a bullshit. Why we let this rodent r around? And then I guess I've been to New York. I went to New York just upon the pandemic, and I've seen the rats over there.

I can't these rats will be on the subway checking your tickets. I said, I can't now see our rat now when we checking out tickets as this cute little rattitude chef. So now I can't attracted to the same way because I just buyse all right. So you you're happy to have to be a doctor and a comedian, but you won't let rat have two different jobs because they stay rodent, stay aroad. You can't be out here cook, but don't both exactly. You have a Gordon Ramsey or

you're a rodent. You can't. You can't mix it up. That's really funny. Yeah, that's a fucking terrified when you see him. They are big, big old units. They you what put in those sewers that they're you're so like you just had them done time in prison? Like it come up? They wants me some rappers in some way down in the New York sewers that they all well, that's where Splinter came out of, isn't it. We've got

us their leader and trained them out. I imagine they're all just fucking Hence, Now, what's the film that means the most to you? Necessarily the film itself is any good because the experience you had around seeing the film will always make it special to you. Michael, Oh, good question again. You rolling them out? Man? I think iron Man Free. I think it came out twenty thirteen, and this is specially to me. I think it's one of the first dates me and my now wife went on congratually,

thank you so much. So we went in building Nottingham with us. How at UNI, there's a really sort of quiet, sort of budget student cinema called the Some Voice Cinema, and we put tickets there. But I think that four

point of ticket very very cheap, quite good. But I put on all that fun with films and whatnot, and I remember we went there and then there was another couple who I think we're on their first date that we knew, and I remember she pacifically didn't want me to call them over, but obviously, me being me, I called them over and we sat next to each other the whole film. She was so pissed off and she

hated the fact that put them oment. She felt so uncomfortable, And I'm happy they did because there that couples also now married, and we're now married to Kennedy. I did something. I sat up a marriage train. I don't know what I'm gonna pull it, but I don't marry train, so's terrific. But I sat up something. Did you enjoy the film where you stressed? Because she was stressed. No, I was on cooring the film that started a great film. Yeah, I was applorded the film, so I think I was.

I was like, no, we're here now, paid the money, let's enjoy the entertainment and we could do all the ramifications of my stupidity later. So that was kind of like my ruster that I have to say. I don't want to you know, Pylon on this one. But she

was absolutely in the right. If I mean, there's another person with you at the cinema, bringing two more into it Jesus Christ, she married you, Where did you get clearly she saw She's also thinking my stupidity in my you know, not doing the right things at the right time. When did you get married? Twenty twenty which is obviously the best, the best year to do anything of a large function, So we were planning this whole big where

they got decimated by COVID. So we've done a little sort of registry sort of thing, and they were meant to be one in twenty twenty one, but then that's when they brought out the tear sort of system. So we literally missed the cutoff quite a few months. So we don't know when or if we'll do a big function, but that's on the to do list. But I spent all the money on Edinburgh, to be honest, but we need weddings off, babe. I'm going to the cool Yeah, go into the cool. Yeah, Yeah, come to the Yeah.

It's quite nice. So yeah, that money's all up in jokes in Edinburgh. I's on a doorable somewhere out of that. So I still love you. I love you very much and I really want to celebrate I love but can I do it on stage with a paid audience. That's great. What is the film that you most relate to? Michael Aca theory. I've got to answers to this my film. When I saw the first Okay, I'm gonna first day get out, but I don't really relate to get out.

I've not been in the gut situation. But the honest truth, the honest truth, And obviously I know that the creative

person in this film, it's very much disgrace now. But I think when Kidulthood came out, I definitely thought that was probably one of the first films that I saw and I thought, Okay, this has probably been made with me in mind, or people that look like me, or people from a sort of background similar to me, be mine, because obviously I'd very much used to the sort of American big block, bust, Hoywood films and stuff like that. And obviously I'll go I enjoy a Hollywood film as

much just the next person. But it's I thought that the first film that I've written like with someone in London, someone that's young from London in mind, which at the time just think you guys. In the sixth Day came out, I hadn't seen many films designed like that. I obviously I've seen Johnny English and stuff like that, but I don't think Johnny written with me in mind. So the first film that's this is this is actually I've been in the full process here, you know what I mean?

Oh yeah, for sure, that makes that's a good answer. I would also, I'm sure if you asked to make the Johnny English they would also say they were thinking of exactly. We were thinking of everyone exactly. A good film like that. What is the sexiest film you've ever seen? I don't think this film actually a setsy sort of film, but I think set to the big feeme in it, and definitely watching it when I was younger, I think it came out to you as the ones are still

sort of eight nine or something like that. When it came out, I was like, is this what? Being a teenage?

Just like because I'm ready to be one, and I had that's to say, American pie, American pie obviously typical frat boy sort of colleagues, sort of American sort of style humor, and I always remember that stiff La scene when he's moved the two young ladies and he just resumed they were lesbians and then they played on that fact that they made him kiss with his friends and they were just egging him on, and I just kept you know, when I saw that, I kept book kid,

this is his fantasy? And is this what every teenage point folks about? And I was just looking, is this one's gonna be a teenager? Let's see what I'm like? You know that, Let's I'm like eight or nine year old, I'm gonna be like that when I'm just saying, there's all this freedom, all this crazy stuff you'd be doing. And what happened when you became a teen edge? Were you like, yeah, right, I was in books, starting to become a doctor. It was nothing like that. Contrast like

I'm living by Charister who That's what it was. A very different film, very different film. That's the different FLM. The next question is troubling bynus worrying why I don't what's the film you found a rousing that you weren't sure you should learn something odd and there's there's a method to the madness here, but I age and the reason there's gonna be there's answer. Please explain every This isn't sound a big graphic. I don't know what the

age rages on. This podcast is adults everything anyway. So I think every man when they're you know, doing the business, they've got an image that they use when they don't want to finish. Yeah, every man's got the image. Every I'm not gonna talk, but every man's got their image. My image is a is a penguin, wasn't it. So I've got an image of a penguin. And when I see that, that makes that gives me an extra minute. So every time I see I sage, I just see

the penguin. I think that's me giving myself an extra minute. So that's why it gives funny. So you are always associating it with sex, even though it's it's to make you sort of well, to make you stop finishing sex. So it's your lengthening of it's it's literally socially, but it's the elongation of it. This is that that's an extrament. I don't if I think of a penguin one thing, because there should be anything sexual about a penguin walking. But for me, so I use that, I'm like, okay,

an extremnute. Just think about that, don't about nothing. Don't think about American. No America no American pack waddle. That's really good to me. But also technically, penguin is keeping you hard. So love that. That's what these penguins do to me. That's what they do to me. That's maybe in Antarctica. Oh you know, I'm mad that's going down. You've got a copy of Merchant the Penguins hidden under your bed. They fucking keep on, Martin, you love me penguins?

What what is objectively? Thank you for answering that question very properly. Not many people do. What the film that is objectively greatest film of all time? Oh? Oh objectively? This is a difficult one because even though I'm answering all these questions different films, I wouldn't say that I might. I'm a crazy film goal. I don't go to say I'm not like money people. I go sitting my every sort of month. But I the film I saw and I was like, this is amazing. This. I stood up

and applauded. It has to be Avengers End Game. I saw that, so I said, this is amazing that they had everyone. You can see all the Marble characters from here then everywhere, and everyone's trying to defeat for this guy got when he got all the all the stones, all the infinities. Oh my goodness, it's done. It's done. And then and then obviously in that he kills them to kill the Iron Man, that Rob Downey man, he had to go. And this is the film that brought

me and my wife together. That sad the way my marriage look like the film. But like he's yeah, I was like, yeah, this is this is amazing. It is amazing, and it is amazing as a culmination of everything they've done out steps. It's it's it's quite a feat that film. And it is very moving. It's it's very moving at the end. It's quite something. It is quite something. What is the film that you could or have watched the

most favor in? Dav Condan again? Oh this this this ball Brad good memories man, And I'm gonna have to go watch it again soon. Big film in the late nineties, blockbuster film, Harmedy Duo, Clash the Cultures, rush Hour, Absolute rush Hour. It's our banging, banging, banging, banging film. Oh my goodness, just hilarity from start to finish. And I love it because a lot of stuff now like I'm like that you can't say that, but it's funny as hell, and it's like, I love it because everyone got it,

you know what I'm saying. Like it's it was not one of those ones where, oh, you know, that group got a lot more than another group. Everyone was getting everyone's getting their mud slang in different sort of places. So that that's why I really like it. Yeah, it's funny, the accent is great, it's good stuff, good stuff, good banner, good good banner. Lots of rumors and more more Russian. I'll take it literally literally, like them to the hilaric art,

just chef kiss banging. We don't like to be negative on there, so we'll do it quickly. What's the worst film you've ever seen? The worst film? I just you know what it is. I'm gonna I'd like to think I'm an intelligent guy. I do. I do a high pressure job. Comedy got me intelligence, do comedy, all that type of stuff. But every when it comes to films, give me a simple plot. Give me you know, good guy, bad guy, they fight, someone wins the d That's how I like my films to go. This film was too

intellectually challenging for me, and I zough. Now this film is called inception. I did not understand what Suage was going on in this foom then did you dream one? Dream too? But then he got lost and dream one to no dream four? What are you talking about, Leo? What the hell he is caring on cut explaining to this day I don't understand for me, but was from too confusing. I just want to I want to see some guy punching up, beat up the bad guys. Leave it as that none of this, man, have you ever

tried Tenant? Did you see Tenant? No? No, don't manage Tenant to me not so longer when I Preparnah. But if it's anything like that, Nah, it's like twice as hard to follow, if not more, I need to film that. It's just A to B. Well. Tenant's like beta a A to b B to A to B, So you're having to follow something backwards and then forwards and forwards and backtars at the same time. It's so complicated. My poor little brain was melting, and I was like, I'm

sure this is excellent action, but my head hurts. It hurts much chinning. Just it shouldn't it really shouldn't been like that isn't mind boggling, absolutely mind boggling. What about you're in comedy, you're a comedian, you're an excellent one too. What's the film that made you laugh? I hate, I hate to go back to something I already mentioned, but I couldn't ask wrap him my brain. I want to be you know, keep everything individual and separate stuff, but

I have to go rush hour. I think, are you were reminiscing a joke that other day, Like there's a bit where Chris Stucker's running down the stairs and then there's obviously a Chinese lady that rushed him and says, move out the way, Kobe, And it's like, what what it's so wrong? But I find it's it's literally, it's basically. But I still just lines to that everywhere, and I thought to us, I was searching. I was like, nook,

let me see who who who wrote this film? So if there's all these jokes here, let's see you wrote this film, and let's see the screenwriter. And it's just now he's a bit older, obviously some middle aged white guy. I said, this guy had all these Chinese and black jokes. This some white guy that wrote it. Absolutely that was

very funny. That's what I was also funny that that made the foot very funny to be well, great, do you think he was unset and Chris Tanger would be really reading the day's scene again looking at him you write this, Okay, yeah, okay, you twenty million dollars, Michael, you didn't have been wonderful. I'm thoroughly enjoyed this very much. However, when you were in La you went to your favorite restaurant in and out Burger quite rightly, and you got

double double animal cheeseburger protein style burger. You would just come from the airport. You hadn't had a toilet in the airport, so you wait. If you you got your burger, but then you're also desperate for the toilet, so you

nip into the toilet. You sit down, ready to expel the day's work from the but also you can't wait for you and an outburger, so you open it up and you you take a bite and it's like heaven coming hard on your chest and as you swallow it, you it fills your arteries completely, close the fully and for about four seconds it's not very nice, and then you collapse dead slightly into the toilet. Now I'm in in an outburg. You're also a big fan. And I'm also trying to find out what what the religion is.

That's that I can join it, so we can eat in and outgers. Let me know, let me know, and probably won't get struck by that. You'd be fine anyway. So I so I are you go in and I eat my burger, sat at the table, and then I'm like, where's Michael. I heard Michael like this place? Where's he? And I'm looking around. I can't see you anywhere. I've got my coffee with me, you know what I'm like, And head into the toilets and the like the cubicles like a lot, and then I see someone's in a bit.

They're very quiet in there, surprisingly quiet. A bang and You're like, oh, Michael, you're in there? Nothing, Michael, are you in there? Nothing? You're like, is that Michael? Which is not Michael. It's be embarrassing anyway. I kick in the door like a like an l a cop, and there you are. You're in the toilet bowl, your legs, your legs are folded into your arms. You're squashed right

into the bowl. You're now sealed into it. And I'm like oh no, this is awful, and so I get a few people can come help and pull them out, and you're like sealed into to the toilet. We all pull you out and there you pop out of the thing. But you are a mess. You're a messmate, It's a disaster. So I end up getting some knives, have to chop you up because there's not enough. There's too much of you. Now there's water retention. I don't have to chop you up anywhere. I put all the bits of you into

the coffin. But there's more of you than I was expecting. And the coffin is absolutely jam packed, and there's I mean, it's so full, there's only really enough room in the side for me to slip one DVD into the side of you. You just take it across to the other side. And when you're there, it's maybe night every night. What film are you taking to show the people of heaven

in Chick fil a Heaven? When Heaven? This is a good one because the first thing I wanted to fruit Russia, But then I think, imagine if I would fill a heaven and showed them passion of Christ. Mind fuck for everywhere there heaven he got to the back of the screening room going. I said, I didn't like this. I tried to make it clear, but they kept making it. I really really watching what he tried to stop and Jesus is there guy, And this isn't how it was, This is not right. That would be maybe I would

definitely take practice christ in my coffee. That's great, that's really good. I thought you've been wonderful. I fairly thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with you. Thank you for your time, you're here, Thanks for having me on. Is there anything you would like to tell people to watch and look out for other than your Edinburgh show which is coming soon. Yes. I also do a podcast with one of my friends, hopefully to restart it very soon. It's called You Sho

No Better. It's where we look at topical news story from an antagonist shoe and ask ourselves should they have known better? So check out for that. That's where you get all your podcasts, and yeah, look up for the Edinburgh show and hopefully there'll be something a bit interesting to do with that, weather touring it, weather taking it other places after Edinburgh. So yeah, if you're an Edinburgh come saylo. If not, hopefully it comes to the town

near you. Good man, all right, I hope you have a wonderful death, and I hope you have a good day your shift to thank you, and then they healthy people comes to visit. Maybe that's an annoying day. I don't know. Maybe anyway, is that a good day if it's just a leader hypermiact coming and then there's nothing, Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't grind. You get one or two you can. I think I've got one or two hypochondract

limits per day. Like person, what it starts grinding, you get one or two, you do another another, so oh what are we doing here? It becomes like a kind of a bit frustrating. But you know, everyone limits in a way you want there to be a problem because then you've got ship to do. Yeah, exactly, exactly you want.

That's why people like pediatrics a lot, because children genuinely don't want to be ill or don't have musually, don't have any or three remote when they're unwell, they're unwell, and they're a problem that you've got to tease out. Obviously they may not always verbalize it too, but you know they're all but adults. Sometimes there's sometimes in all two remote, so you know, they may not always be genuine.

There may be another reason why they're in hospital. They're trying to get off work, so that's why there is. I don't work with children a lot, but I do miss that affect of working with kids, so I've been infective in it. I guess, oh, that's all meant to new being a detective. We're just trying to solve what what's the diagnosis. It's all like comedy. You're trying to solve what's the best way to get to the laugh?

And you use punchline you try and gettin so it's all kind of like, how's the best way to get to laugh? It is the best way to get to the diagnosis? Love it. Congratulations and thank you. Congratulations to you man. I see I see another nomination. Man, So you know, you're doing your things, and I'm very proud of rey time I see something like, yeah, that's my guy. Man, he's doing these things. So I pick you up. Man. That's a good look. Good, good look. Much you got

you got a good look, all right, have a wonderful time. Yeah, good no, thank you, thank you. That was episode two hundred and seven. Head over to Patreon dot com. Forward aspect, I was team for the extra fifteen minutes of chat, secrets and video with Michael. Go to Apple Podcast. Give us a five style rating. But right about the film, it means the most of you and why it's a lovely thing to read. My neighbor Maureen reason she cries every day banks through the waves. I've read another nice one.

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