Chatabix

David and Joe get excited about the possibility of Joe getting his hair cut live on the pod by Nicky Clarke. Joe's been sent a Dry Robe after his visit to the Wave because he got so cold. David and Joe struggle to find anything to talk about and find themselves talking about the next ep as they can't find anything to talk about in the current ep. Clutching at straws, David shows Joe how he rides h...

Joe and David have another lovely little catch up with Fenners. Joe is still not comfortable calling him Fenners because he did it too early last time but David is very comfortable with it. Fenners updates Joe and David on his latest charity shop finds. And they all try and work out what Fenners eps can be about if he still wants to be a regular guest. And then they hit on an idea!!! Fenners is go...

It's Joe's turn for a surprise guest and he doesn't have a clue who is coming on. After a slightly anxious start, Joe turns away from the screen so he can't see who the guest is. When David tell's him to spin around in the spinny chair for the big reveal Joe doesn't recognise the person in front of him. This is understandable as the guest is not someone you'd recognise but is someone who started a...

Joe opens a flat looking parcel, it is a present from the Battle Of The Chatabands winner Mezz Coleman. Mezz has sent Joe her album so he can play it on the retro record player his wife Petra bought him for Christmas. He goes downstairs to play it but things get a bit awkward because the cleaner is in the kitchen. Joe beats a hasty retreat back upstairs to his office. Then David takes Joe on some...

At last it has stopped raining so David can take Joe metal detecting. David goes to his his usual field and fires up the kit. Joe is loving it but to say its a slow start is an understatement. They realise they don't really know how the Garrett Pro Pointer works so Joe tries to read out the instructions for David as they go. Excitingly they get a hit and David digs and digs and digs and digs and d...

Comedy actress Lolly Adefope is on the pod. Joe and David are delighted to see her and they talk about popping round to her house unannounced and what that would be like. After chatting about what it was like all working together on David and Joe's discontinued sitcom Rovers they ask Lolly what it was like working on Ghosts, a sitcom that did get recommisioned multiple times. Lolly tells them how...

David is 5 mins late for recording this episode as he's busy eating scrambled eggs so while Joe waits he chats to the listeners about Davids 50th birthday present possibly arriving live on the pod. When David turns up he is concerned that this episode is going nowhere, that is until the present arrives and the whole ep is turned on its head. Joe has bought him a Garrett Pro Pointer which is a tool...

David has bought a metal detector and was going to take Joe out to experience his new found hobby but it’s pissing down and apparently the machine doesn’t work very well in the rain. So instead David tells Joe all about how much fun he had yesterday when he went metal detecting with the family. David tells Joe that he couldn't pluck up the courage to ask a farmer for permission to use the detector...

David and Joe are delighted to chat to old comedy pal Alex Lowe. They insist he does some of his characters including Barry from Watford. David and Joe then give it a go themselves, trying to copy Barry's mad voice with not much success as they are laughing too much. They ask Alex where he gets his ideas from for his fantastic characters and then discuss his time on the brilliant Phoenix Nights wi...

Joe shows David his magnet fishing set and David shows Joe his metal detecting apparatus. They are very excited about their new bits of kit. Joe imagines what it would be like to magnet fish a blue metal teapot out of a river and discovers there are regulations about where you can and can't use a magnet. They both worry about where they are going to do their new found hobbies and how embarrassing...

Joe is off an adventure and zoom's David to show him where he is. It takes David a while to cotton on to where Joe is and what he is doing there. He's in the west country and near what looks like a big mass of water that isn't the sea. David thinks he can see canoe's in the background but Joe points out some waves and a wave making machine. After revealing where he is, Joe changes into what can on...

Joe and David chat with Tommie Trelawny (who they've nicknamed Puzzle man) about his new bonkers podcast The Worlds Hardest Puzzle which follows his year long investigation into the complex and mysterious Cicada 3301 puzzles . He tells the lads all about the mad adventures he went on trying to find out who was behind the cryptic post that appeared online seeking 'highly intelligent individuals'. T...

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...

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 ir...

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...

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...

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 com...

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 t...

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 f...

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....

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 hungove...

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...

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 peo...

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...

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 ea...