Episode 68
June 5 , 2019
68. Iain Lee; Eating Pig’s Vagina for I’m a Celeb in Australia, Getting Shot at In Pakistan and Carrying a Massive Roll of Sellotape Around Marrakesh
With a show on talkRADIO with the lovely Katherine Boyle – aka Flippin’ Kath, Iain Lee goes on tour, podcasts, has a TV show recorded from his bedroom and he’s a proper cult figure in radio. He’s eaten camel brains and a pig’s vagina for I’m A Celebrity in the Australian jungle, been caught in gunfire in Pakistan and wandered the souks of Marrakesh accompanied by the world’s biggest roll of Sellotape. With a delightful conversation about TV, radio, mental health and travel, it’s Iain Lee.
On this episode we cover:
Lisa and Iain’s history of online chatting
Iain’s love-hate (or rather hate-hate with twitter)
How twitter is like taking drugs
Speaking very open about mental health
Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive
How travel can help with mental health
Struggling with solo travel
Sitting in his hotel room in New York overwhelmed
Asking twitter what to do in New York City
Not being able to run away from your own thoughts
How social media and smartphones can help
Doing things abroad that you wouldn’t do at home
I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
Being in lockdown for ten days before going into the jungle in Australia
No phone, no internet, no TV!
Being thousands of miles away any disconnecting
Being confined to the hotel for the first week
Then being allowed to the city with a chaperone
How going into the jungle was a nightmare for his mental health
Faking the psych test to get the gig
Love Island and Jeremy Kyle and mental health issues
Suicidal thoughts
Being 13 years clean
Needing the money due to his divorce
The weirdness of being on the front page of the newspapers
Nearly walking out after three days
Stealing strawberries
The horror of the bugs in tropical countries at night
Lisa rather wetting herself than going to the loo in the middle of the night
The weight loss!
Why eating camel brains is worse than eating a pig’s vagina
Eating a big bag of fingernails (well, scorpions)
Worm and cockroach smoothies
The ethical issues of eating live bugs
Durian fruit smelling like vomit
Singaporeans wondering why we eat mouldy cows breast milk (aka cheese)
How fire ants can f*ck off and all die
The film with ants (or was it bees?)
Ted Danson getting drowned and coming back as a zombie
Killer bees and Michael Caine – The Swarm
A rubbish trip to Marrakesh
Being holed up in a cell-like room in some dodgy hotel
A hot air balloon ride at dawn over Morocco
Finding the biggest roll of Sellotape in the world
The dodgy guy trying to drag him to a back street pharmacy
Lisa taking a hole punch site-seeing in Florence
When Everest has stair lifts, we will go
William Sutcliffe’s Are You Experienced
Can hardship when travel make it more memorable?
Not liking camping, hostelling or anything uncomfortable
Travelling to Japan, Tokyo and the festival north of Hiroshima
Sharing showers, hearing people having sex and a miserable monk called Woody
Having a row with a Frenchman about how to cook a jacket potato
Working in Pakistan with his propsmaster Dad for a film age 24
Having daily suicide bomb threats
The locals being angry that Muhammad Ali Jinnah was being played by Dracula (aka Christopher Lee)
Fights breaking out and guns being shot during filming
Wanting to return to Pakistan
Lisa’s recordings with Lady Pamela Hicks and India Hicks
Poverty Top Trumps – Indian Partition
Honeymooning in India and the Maldives
How India is not always enjoyable
White Man Guilt
The awkwardness of having a butler
Playing pool with the butler
Did Lisa and Iain stay in the same place?
Lisa finally names the one hotel she would never write about in the press
How Iain can’t blag any freebies
Dodgy pregnancy tests in India
The incredible Japanese band that put on a special gig just for them
