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know as we for the next show that we do make sense okay cool well visiting joining us today live is all the way from London England UK one of the hottest DJs in the world right now and our dear dear friend and first runner up for hottest gay I know hottest well maybe gay hottest gay guy in Great Britain DJ Robbie D of his website DJ Robbie D.com are you there Robbie I am hey there you are welcome welcome welcome how you good good great how is how is everything in good old London UK oh it's doing good pop on the weather as always we're on the weather yeah you guys have been having wacky wacky weather we're having a gorgeous day we're having a gorgeous day here we were having a cold front actually it went from 90 degrees yesterday to 60 degrees or 70 now but it's nice there I finally got you I guess you can't say the same can you see the chat room over there I little challenge once we start taping then I have to fiddle with it until I get you stream working and then yeah see let's see the chat room and see if you got the video over there but make sure it's muted so anyway mm-hmm you got it mm-hmm where's the where's the video let me see you stream no I don't have the video okay yeah bring it up make sure you got video so anyway so you're headed here soon to New York sure I am can't wait counting down the days oh yes yeah cool pretty cool it's it that's cool what are your plans for when you're I know you're coming in you're staying with us so but where are you what what all have you planned that you haven't told us about well let's go and check out the gay scene the club in scene as you know over here in the UK I like to host my own gay events I host one of the biggest gay events in Essex so it's always good to kind of get some ideas from you guys and then steal them take them back to the UK you mean from New York or New York clubs right or you asked in general the US in general but so what's um have you made any contacts here that you're gonna see why you're here I've made a few friends on Facebook and I've not messaged him about meeting them up with them yet but a few guys it's splash mr. blacks in New York there's a few venues but I'm sure you guys were showing me about all the news stuff that's going on over there yeah for sure for sure I'm sure you have plenty of time for that cool so the click on the chat room there and see if we've got the chat room up I want to see the video I'm gonna make sure our you stream is working so um anywhere yeah you know what I wanted to ask you okay good we can see now click on the chat room let's see if it's working chat right there the tab this is chat on the right yeah there we go all right now we can watch the chat room so if you're on you stream you see us and you can hear us type into the chat room and we'll be able to read your comments right here on the air you've been I live yeah we're getting we're getting the bugs worked out you know the do you use in your mixing and all that do you use a mixer an actual hardware mix oh sure a lot of DJs in London now it's time to use laptops but I kind of class that as a virtual to DJ virtual virtual yeah basically a laptop cheese doesn't it with your own CDs it's a bit more complicated more challenging oh okay and and when you when you I mean see the reason I'm asking is because for our show we're trying to figure out a way to if we wanted to use lavalier microphones the kind that clip on your collar you know when we have guests sitting here we're right now we're using one studio condenser microphone and we you know it works great it sounds great as long as we kind of lean into it we're like four to six inches away as it says right from the front and all that right but if we wanted to have multiple microphones either multiple studio microphones or multiple lavalier microphones or a combination their USB I'm told that we would have to have a hardware mixer so we plug in each of these microphones into this mixer thing and then they'd all go into that which is the switches and mixing and all that and then there'd be one USB that would go plug into the computer so the computer would record it and stream it and all that with just one USB is that is that what you have is that what you use we only use them well yeah we do we have a mixer it depends on how many things we have plugged into it like the CD decks your record decks so you got a channel per you know one for the deck one for the CD one for CD to a one for you know and so are they USB or the analog or what kind of signal wow anything right you have so many different mixes do I mean like okay well anyway that's what we're trying to figure out so if anybody in the audience is an expert on this I mean I'm not a musician or you know I'm not even you know my background is not even in in this sort of audio so what we want I guess what we need we're using flash this program called Adobe flash media encoder and it needs pretty much one input for audio so the USB microphone works great with just one but we want to have multiple so I'm told we need to have a mixer probably with USB microphones it would make sense to have USB inputs into a mixer and then one USB going into the computer so anyway if anybody knows about that get get back to us and give us some feedback on that so tell us about what your gigs are what you've been doing lately with with the music scene well well I've left London now I'm purely concentrated in on the southeast basically as you know I run one of the biggest game nights in Essex it covers around 800 to a 1200 on a bank holiday and what's it on it's called it's called jay sunday and that is that the website also sure it's just a letter here we have a website that gsga ys sunday dot com with an s okay that's right dot com or dot co UK both both okay so it's easy oh so g sunday's dot com works okay cool and how's that going it's been good it's been awesome actually um lately we've had some great events on obviously we have the xfax that are and you have it over there lady I've been booking all the xfax artists we don't I don't think we have heard of it I just don't know we have x I mean I don't think we have it here no no no xfactor is in is you have it but we don't have it I think it's like America's Got Talent Britain's Got Talent isn't it yeah yeah it's a good same thing yeah we don't have it here but that's really huge in the UK but it's kind of like America's Got Talent mm-hmm okay okay I thought there's a sporting event that's called xfactor there is okay that's different no this is like America's Got Talent Britain's Got Talent isn't it like a direct competitor Britain's Got Talent well as you know Simon Cowell he launched Britain's Got Talent we do have that over here it's just finished actually brilliant gymnastic it's called Spellbound won it xfactor's coming up in the next few months on TV I think they're auditioned to that soon what else we've got coming up big brother the final the last one that's huge over there too yeah they love xfactor big brother those are the biggest what about lost did you do you guys follow lost that's huge yes yeah it is as far as it is huge over here as well but I'm not very keen on that myself okay yeah I say it's perfectly named because every time I watch it I'm lost if you don't see every episode I'm just completely lost but yeah I'm more a Gleek fan oh yeah yes please awesome awesome awesome we were just watching this morning there that what's her name the lady who plays the coach the coach she's like the therapist on two and a half men the therapist and she's the coach the girls coach on Glee what I don't know her name what's a look look it up there but anyway she did a video spoof of an iPhone ad you know where they it's like I'm I'm mad oh yes I've seen it for the iPhone yeah for the iPhone 4 exactly and it's hysterical I love that what's yeah it's great because she's you know they don't actually mention Android but it's obviously Android it's like you know I love that my favorite line was oh I miss the 90s like you know wow does it have copy and paste yet gain Lynch is her name Jane Lynch that's her she's so what a name Lynch they say you live up there down to your name so she's she's why she lynches you with that tongue what a tongue like a sword that lady and so you're doing the G Sundays which is every week every Sunday right that's right I'm really concentrating on the moment as I'm putting in a lot more money towards it bigger acts I mean we've got a refuge girl group called the Saturdays and they perform in him September 12 a girl oh okay you mean what do you mean a girl a girl act or yeah yeah singers oh okay yeah they're a big girl group out over here they've just been touring and they're gonna be forming at my club where the 12th of September what's the name the Saturdays oh that's I thought that's what it was the Saturday yeah okay and they're from the UK they are indeed and what kind of music they're they're very pop commercial they've got a huge fan base in the gay community I mean they've just been touring a few concerts charity at Constance I mean it should be very good now that when you say you're concentrating on the southeast is that is that as Essex in the southeast it sure is I mean Essex is a big place I was gonna say because I thought it was north I mean I'm all mixed up but it's like east and south of London but you're not talking about all the way down to Brighton that's not no no no okay that's a six that's right there oh that's right that's right so basically when you say the southeast you mean Essex and that's a huge area yeah that's where you're focusing on as opposed to before you were in London and Brighton so now you're so you're so busy with these huge venues these huge events that you don't have time really to do you were spread so thin traveling everywhere right that's right I mean when I first started going in Essex I mean the scene was quite poor so I just wanted to give them what what I gave London into a smaller town and it's works yeah yeah yeah at one point no one knows about me and everyone knows sorry I was gonna say at one point weren't you in like a whole bunch of the top ten big biggest clubs in London like what was that's right how many clubs were you in in London at the peak at you know when you're at that's right I was at Shadow Lounge heaven DTPM I mean but over the time I mean they started shutting down and you guys may have the same issue where people stick to their one club I mean you have flash flash story and I mean we have heaven you know which just got taken over by GA Y and I mean everyone goes there and the other clubs the struggle GST sort of shut so which is a shame yeah that is because of the economy but I guess everybody in business that I talked to is telling me basically the same thing that's kind of it's kind of like hit bottom so like like an alcoholic or something the economy has hit bottom and now it's in recovery and it's still bad but it's clickety clinking back up the tracks it seems to be improving slowly yeah well I mean yeah I actually I've my friend in the bar did that the this is because they're really so depressed they're drinking I kind of depressed and you know I don't think our business actually gets hurt much because people drink they always drink whether it's good or bad good or bad they always drink that's like the drug business you know it's like it is a drug so they're gonna they're always gonna be busy but I think the luxury things like vacations and travel and things like that tell you more don't you think well over here in the UK I mean we've get a lot of pinch drinking I mean the younger underage children trying to drink trying to get onto booze sorry booze as in alcohol yeah yeah I mean government has started to put prices up of alcohol so less people coming out spending more I mean second afford it I guess that's the flip side of that that's one way to control it yeah yeah just recently on the news they've decided they want to have a set price on alcohol in shops so you're looking about no less than ten twelve dollars a drink you know no cheaper cheaper than that you know pounds or pounds or dollars that's in a pounds twelve pounds for a drink yeah yeah they want to kind of stop setting single single drinks and go on to you know setting in crates you know wow you know sticking to that so kids can't you know afford them that's interesting interesting strategy so isn't 12 pounds is it still like what is that is that $20 yeah about that's around twenty four twenty six dollars for one drink no that would be like you know a box you know they're not selling single drinks anymore a box how many drinks are in a box usually fall oh okay oh so if they just sell well kids are gonna get around that they just chip in they'll chip in their money and buy a box like they can't buy cigarettes they get their uncle you know or so the guy on the corner to give them that's just the government's excuse to tax everyone maybe oh yeah that always that always in the guys of you know let's prevent those young people from drinking so one thing we're really looking forward to is I know we're planning to go to Cedar Point which is in all the you know I don't know if you know but in all the amusement park magazines which I don't know really how many amusement park magazines there are but whatever they're always rated the best amusement park in the whole world they they call it the rollercoast because it's famous for its roller coasters but they have all kinds of rides and all that but have you been there did we go there before no no okay well I'm from Ohio or Columbus Ohio originally so we've been going my family's been going since I was three like almost every year and it's it's so much fun so we're really looking forward to that taking you guys to Cedar Point that's gonna be a blast I'm ready to go to to bring your son or your parasol or something it's gonna be you know long lines and Sun where I want to hopefully we can go during the weekdays Monday through Friday because then we'll avoid those the lines will be like 20 percent as long as the weekend so that's gonna be a blast yeah it'll be fun actually a friend of ours met the CEO of Cedar Fair which is the company that owns Cedar Park Cedar Point and a whole bunch of amusement parks so maybe she can give us a hookup and we can I don't know I don't know what the CEO is gonna do maybe he'll treat he'll give us the celebrity treatment because we're coming with we're bringing DJ Robbie Dee from London and we'll get you know ahead of all the lines or something we'll get anything would be good a free balloon and a teddy bear anything you know whatever do you guys over there to let the queue jump on pass you know where you can go in the front of queue you know you can get ready spans etc oh no they don't well they don't they don't sell that but oh maybe a Disney but no not a Cedar what Cedar Point the last time we were there what what you could do is you could go and it wasn't it was free but you go there and like schedule a time like you could say I'm gonna be here at 2.15 and they give you a ticket for 2.15 all right and then you go back at that particular time and then you you don't get to the head of the line but you you get into a shorter line right I don't know it's kind of hard to be cool about the bus ticket yeah fast yeah like a fast pass or something and I know Universal Studios and maybe Disney they do one where you they give you an assigned time or something like that I think that's the same point yeah but do they do you buy them over there in Orlando yeah everything yeah everything's extra yeah that's the thing I don't think they don't charge you anything for Cedar Point when you do they they just have so many and then they run out right remember haven't been there in years yeah it's been a while yeah yeah last time you were here you we went you guys went to six flags which I haven't I've never been to you but I think you're gonna you're gonna really love Cedar Point it's a blast sure really look forward to it yes yes yes yes and we are you gonna buy more Muppets minds in the cupboard last time Robbie was here he went to where did you go is it you get that in Times Square I don't know I fail short oh I feel short and it Muppet like the Muppet puppets from the Sesame Street style Muppet puppets were all the rage and are they still all the rage in the UK yeah yeah that's still popular yeah the tourists are all over there I love that video you made he made it used it would you use a camera phone or a flip camera or something some kind of video camera and he made a video of himself talking to the puppets and Times Square and stuff that was great yeah I wanted you to oh yeah we need we need you to make a montage video montage of us you know like that like something like Mary Tyler Moore crossing the street and throwing our hat in the air you know something just acting goofy around Times Square in Central Park well we'll have lots lots of very New York so we can put we have we need a montage for the beginning of our show yeah one of well Robbie's multi-talented you know music is just one of his passions and but he's really good at like video editing and publishing and and then recently you have gotten into a new trade tell us about that because I really haven't talked to you in person about it except shared pictures my amazing cake your amazing cakes yes that's what you should call it Robbie's amazing cakes well I've been asked by loads of customers is what's the company called and I mean I'm only doing for a hobby at the moment but the fascinating thing about it is I'm using American ingredients I'm making American sponge cake you know American frosting and they seem to like it and they're asking what these ingredients are and I'm saying they're American they're not British are they the ingredients of the recipe it's a lot more sweet you mean the ingredients of the recipes now the ingredients and the recipes I've kind of created my own recipes now so they taste more you know more lush yeah because our our our everything here is sweet very very sweet every you know like we our desserts yeah that's right we like everything to extremes in this country for sure I mean I miss the super size I mean I stopped that in Britain you know after that the film about the guy in all the burgers and almost haven't had a lot of tech super size yes right yes that's true yeah I mean we're number one in obesity also but you know I mean Burger King still do it but nowhere else oh the super sizing yeah you know whatever it's blaming the restaurant for what you eat is a little bit ridiculous it's like blaming the gun when you shoot yourself with you know come on you get it it's not like anybody handcuffed you and dragged you in there put a gun to your head to eat this you know so what's the most creative cake you've made so far because I know you've made a whole bunch the I've made one I made a full-size hoover oh and you got to explain what it is because in the US people barely know what that is we know there's a president a former president named Hoover and there's a vacuum cleaner company but over there you have you explained it there's a there's a an actual vacuum cleaner model called the Hoover and it looks like a cartoon character so is it like yeah that's right is it as famous as SpongeBob SquarePants would be here well you got a helly over and Henry so and they're really heli and Henry heli and Henry see they're even British names that we don't we don't know anything about this over here like what the hell is he talking about I don't get it but they're they're they're characters they look like to me they look like a round yellow SpongeBob character but they're actually vacuum cleaners made by the Hoover vacuum cleaner company that looked like a character what do they dance and sing on TV commercials or what how does people how do people know about this they're just so smiley this is fine is it just a product or do they have TV commercials with them in it no it's just the product everybody recognizes yeah I've never been around for years have you seen them I mean they're really pop I might have seen pictures of it I don't I think he's talked to me about it I know but you've heard him from him but I don't think we've ever seen that in the United States it's just a is it did they make a cartoon yeah he's got a smiley face on it I mean it's no it's just a who's a pipe it's just it's just seeing the product on the shelf in the store I think that's a vacuum cleaner yeah but it's one of those ones with a long like a canister right and the ones yellow and the one yeah that's red or something right it has a smiley face on it or something yeah you have to be in England to get it you made a life-size version of which one the boy or the girl at a boy of course yeah three days took me three days three days yeah so how many how many how many cake where recipe like you have to double quadruple how many cakes are in this all I think I put in I think it was 96 eggs oh my god 96 what 96 eggs oh oh my god wow a lot of flour and sugar did they eat it all yeah yeah still have it all you should have lacquered it and saved it put it under glass and make a museum as well I've probably from America actually and you guys have rice crispy cakes yeah yeah well there's a guy in America who runs a cake store called ace of cakes and I mean he creates rice crispy cakes and covers them in icing frosting so you mold from rice crispy cake the mold is from rice Chris oh nice what do you mean yeah it's really cool rice Krispies into a mold and then he creates a cake around that or something a cake around it yeah so you think of it if the heads really complicated make you'll make that from rice crispy cake and just stick it on the top but the rest of it be your sponge oh have you tried it have you tried making it I have it's a lot more solid you can sculpture it a lot more easier compared to sponge because sponge just breaks off yeah so people complicated oh my god it's like an architectural science in engineering degree that's amazing that this is something rather new for you and you just dove right into it to make a life-size vacuum cleaner cake I know well I see this guy in America and I thought I'm gonna do something big as well we'll call it Robbie's amazing cakes service so the acronym is racks did you send the picture to you guys sorry did you send any pictures to the Hoover company yes oh yeah company you might get some business yeah you should you might also submit it to like what is it Guinness for the world record you might have the world's largest vacuum cleaner cake it could be the world's only vacuum cleaner cake yeah yeah and why the vacuum cleaner what did you use for the hose well just because it's a popular oh I didn't have a house I had a hose well that's not authentic you should have put a real hose on it you know the reason that he picked a vacuum cleaner is I think to correct me if I'm wrong is because it's a really popular character it's like SpongeBob square pants it's just goofy and everybody knows it so right isn't that kind of well for the adults mums and dads mums love it I mean they love that hoover yeah cuz it's really bright it's really bright yeah yeah I mean compared to like the other hoovers you know black hoover you know quite boring I mean they think they're bright yeah yeah the other rage here in vacuum cleaner is this new type of technology suction system called and it's the Dyson have you guys heard of that oh yeah yeah we've got them over here but this they're quite expensive I hit yeah they're very expensive and they're not as bright yellow they're not pretty no they roll on a ball though yeah that's right if they make it into a cartoon character they'll sell twice as many in England make it into a hot dog dog or 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key thing we could make you like like with the what is that the first London the London wheel behind you or or you could have the paleo Eiffel Tower you were how are you you were doing something before with your face or something on what was it that you were using his special effects with your webcam software he's talking about it's software that comes with the webcam some of them oh I'd like throw something in front of your face or some yeah yeah show show us some of those effects that he's talking about can you do that you know what I'm talking about the web can you hear us okay the he's talking about the webcam effects you know the the special effects you do with the webcam oh sure yeah yeah yeah that's from our soft magic is that did that come with your webcam that software I showed it okay yeah I've never seen that guess I was gonna let them do yeah so anyway we were talking about what was it before the the break don't remember but you know speaking of webcams the one of the things that we want to do is we want to be able to have multiple guests because obviously this works really well you can see yeah you can see what it looks like because we you know you're like bigger than life right here and we can hear you crystal clear like you're sitting right here so having a guest to be a Skype is phenomenal but what we'd really like is having multiple guests on at the same time so we could actually have a panel if it would be ideal as if you know if I get alt tab and switch over to the the person who's speaking at the moment and have like four or five different people on Skype at the same time but it's not it's not as easy as it sounds to set up there you know technically so what some people have done is they'll have like four different computers each one with a version of Skype running on it and then use some sort of a switcher but that like there's this thing called a tricaster is very expensive and we're trying to do it you know on a shoestring budget without investing $10,000 and a little piece of hardware so can you hear me okay sure again so anyway Skype now Skype has announced recently that there's that they are in beta testing of a version that has multiple video conferences at one time but I haven't been able to get it to work I've tried it on several computers and several different webgams and I haven't not been able to get it to work I mean I couldn't even get it to work on a one-to-one call so I think it's very it may be like closer to alpha than beta now there's a product called UVO which is OOVOO and it it works okay and you can you can if you pay a fee a monthly fee you can do multiple callers but it doesn't do full screen it doesn't do this the simple thing of just having you full screen on the thing it only brings it up into a square you know pretty much kind of like that so it would have you know just that's like full screen as far as it's concerned which is you know as you can see it's okay but it's not as good as being able to really see you like this yeah like I mean you it almost looks like you're right here with us practically yeah so that's kind of like for what we want to do that's almost like a deal-breaker for for using OOVOO so anyway if anybody has an idea what one of the things we were doing is we were having multiple computers we were using trying to use a KVM switch and now that's a I don't know if you know if anybody knows what a KVM switch is but it's a keyboard video monitor KVM and you it's a special switch that switches your monitor between multiple computers and that sounded like a really good idea but in practice it didn't work very well and then it wasn't always reliable and now it stopped working all together I don't know maybe it's just the the switch I have I don't know but it might be that we need to have identical like four identical hardware computers because if it switches the heart the computer and this big monitor switch from one computer to another to another it might really screw up the signal because it's coming in at a slightly different resolution yeah it's like too many variables if anybody is technical and has some suggestions definitely send us an email about that so I think you had mentioned earlier before the broadcast about you wanted to share something about the gate pride or say something about that oh sure I was just asking about you guys I mean you're due your pride very soon isn't it oh it's in June it's this month yeah I'm not sure when actually I think it's the last weekend of the month and what they're talking about is gay pride gay pride for those who are not in the gay loop and the gay fruit loop but gay pride is June it's usually the end of June yeah I would probably be like the weekend of the 25th of June it's in New York City that's the weekend we're so out of it but we've been several times it's in New York City it's you know enormous have you have you been here for that no I've never been are you gonna are you gonna be here is that the date are you gonna be here over that date or no because it's in New York has many gay pride the big one in Manhattan the thing is at the end of the month but they have the Brooklyn one and yeah but when's the big one in Manhattan that are you gonna be here for that I don't don't think so yeah what you're gonna be here the first two weeks of July is that right well I'll get you guys on the 30th and yeah it's on the 27th oh no you gotta come a few days early you get it won't be gay without you it won't be gay enough and Ricky Martin is asking already where is Robbie gonna be there because if Robbie's not there I'm not gonna be there how's he doing anyway Ricky and Elton I don't know you guys got Elton but we got Ricky I'm sure he's happy now that he's come out yeah lifted that weight off his shoulders can you imagine yeah well I like the I like the way he always answered those questions he always said you know basically not in so many words he would say what difference does it make he never said no he never said yes he never said no because he never said no we kind of knew it was a yes but but I love that he never said no he never denied it and I love the way he answered was like why I went you know before I was out I would I used to say things like that if someone would ask me are you gay I'd say why are you asking me on a date you didn't matter who was asking you know like why are you interested in dating me because if you're not interested in dating me it's not really that relevant especially in the workplace yeah exactly yeah that's a great comeback I forgot why you want to date me or who somebody wants to date me why would someone want to know you know mm-hmm what happens in in that figure regards to that as well although I've always been up front you know I've been always gay proud if they wanted to be me up at school you know it's their choice but no I was always gay happy and proud yeah I mean the girls used to always be around me for it protecting me the girls the big I'm lucky the big muscle girls well you have always been very very yeah what people as what it like in chatter something else they'll say if somebody says they're gay I'll say how gay are you that always throws them off they're like what oh are you very very gay it's just like just to throw them off they're like what what does that mean but we're talking about that subject I mean what was it two days ago I mean some students went to a bar I mean they worked for the the government but they were all gay so they decided to go to a bar and they basically put posted up about winning an award and everything regards to the gay community and the bar manager come over and said could you take the poster down I mean some of the straight people started you know saying nasty words to them and they ended up basically been refused to serve you know being served their food so they were told to leave basically wow I mean it was shocking yeah there was 60 of them in 2010 60 people 60 people yeah at a party you know booked paid deposit and the manager turned around said I'm afraid we're gonna have to take the prices down and you know stop the party I mean it was spin over the news I mean you can imagine it's already hit Facebook yeah I was gonna say that is if that's on the I mean on the news on Facebook that that manager is probably no longer employed oh yeah yeah definitely he's been like a yeah and the restaurant might not be around for long either because that's going to be a damage control we're going to have to those days are over that they can get away with that kind of stuff and I say sometimes it's better for that stuff to come out and because that way I know I'm not going to go there you know and neither will he for other restaurants they'll say oh no you can't treat people like that because that'll kill our business you know the owners are aware look what happened to that place you know you do not mistreat anybody any group so that's right and you know it's talking about our subject as well sorry oh I was I was gonna go ahead go ahead and say what are you gonna say and then what I'm saying about a subject as well and me as a promoter in Essex I mean I I decided to launch a again I at this venue because they wanted me to at that same time I read it sorry not the same place a different place no no no no okay okay I mean in some area in Essex I mean they wanted me to do a game night and I said sure you know but you need to be in it with me you know and they decided well we don't want nothing to do with it we want you to do it all so I said what you know you got to be part of it as well you got to be behind the gay community provide you know gaming community we've everything you know and they weren't willing to do to do that you know they want me to do it you know just bring the customers in Apple well it's not worth it then because I know you want to make money out of us but you've got a you know accept us for being a gay community and accept a miss in your club they didn't want to mean they were funny about that yeah like well like they want to gain night that packs the place on a Sunday when it's dead but they don't want to promote it to any of their other customers because they don't want to hurt the Monday that's right Saturday crowd yeah they want it both ways good well let them lose let them lose let them be the dead one and then across the street is promoting it you know so yeah because I mean you have to set the standard and you have to say this is this is the way it works we have this is our money you know you want our money then you better treat us with respect as any other group I mean this great thing with who I work with I work with the Chicago rock cats I mean we have a quite a few over the UK and they're always wanting me to launch gay things you know gay nights for the gay community you know they accept us all their venues accept us I mean that everyone I've launched with them you know they're willing to put in money you know putting acts and I mean it's perfect I mean they're great and that's why the one I'm doing in Chelmsford in Essex has been running for almost eight years wow that's great now sort of on a slightly different tangent but similar similarly on the gay thing we came up with an idea for another show that we're going to launch we're going to work on launching it's going to be very easy to do but it's going to be I think it's going to be really really good and really compelling because what has happened is we've had fun playing around with Skype and on Skype you can just talk to random strangers kind of like that chat roulette thing you've heard of that where you just chat with a random person you just connected to a random person but we've used Skype for years and actually it was like maybe four years ago we when we started really playing with it intensely and like every morning we just turn it on while we're having breakfast and we play with it and we met all these contacts because we put the word gay and if you put the word gay anywhere in your profile they're going to find you because the first thing a gay person does is they search on that word so they find you and then if you put yourself in Skype me mode they call you so we would just talk to all these random people all over the world so we ended up most of them are like young gay guys in their 20s you know 20-somethings and but you never know they could be in North Korea or Cuba or Qatar or is it um you know anywhere Morocco Turkey um Russia yeah uh what is it called Saudi Arabia you know all over the Middle East Iran North Korea did I say that everywhere I mean just unbelievable stories and these are this is not like London is not like New York it's very very different and you hear the stories of what it's like to be 24 and gay in Morocco and their stories are unbelievably compelling that's why when he saw you with the the webcam effect that blacks out your eyes he's like that's what we knew that would be perfect actually for these guys you know because we probably will not be able to put them on video sometimes but anyway the the bottom line is we want to actually have them on as guests via Skype and interview them about what it's like to be in your 20s and gay in your country and it doesn't have to be necessarily Iraq it could also be Moscow you know in Russia I mean there are places where you know it's better it's worse what's good what's bad they may have you know maybe there's a lot of gays and they're not necessarily persecuted or murdered but they might not have any gay bars or they have the only underground clubs even places like like Russia like Singapore and there's it's I think it will be very very interesting for a gay audience to hear it first hand from a 24 year old what it's like to be gay in your city so it's called we decided to call it gay life now so it's going to be called gay life now and we we registered the domain so it will it's not there yet it's just an idea in development but it's going to be called gaylifenow.com will be this the website well the reality is that in most places with the exception of London New York Paris maybe you can't walk down the street holding hands with your partner and so it'll be interesting to hear people's I'd you know views on the stories yeah the stories about what it's like sure and I think it'd be very enlightening too because not only do we have to enlighten the world about you know what's what's right like you're talking about that restaurant and the story about how it's right to treat people properly but also what's not so right you know what's going on because people and not just a gay audience this is for anybody anybody who cares about human humanity and human beings and human rights to realize that oh my gosh I never knew they did that to gays in Jamaica you know I had no idea in fact I might not go to Jamaica I might cancel my trip to Jamaica after hearing what they do to gays in Jamaica or whatever you know as an example I don't want to go to Jamaica personally anymore yeah I've been there many times and I love it that's just one example but it's it's not necessarily to boycott countries necessarily but it but just the idea of making people aware of it because you never know what audience you're going to reach they could be straight or gay closeted or out and they may be people in a position of influence whether it's corporate or government or tourists or whatever people can actually influence things for the better if they know what's going on but there's this huge culture of hush hush hush keep it secret and nobody knows how bad it is and and they also say crazy stupid things like there are no gays in Honduras there are no gays in Afghanistan or whatever that just nonsense what was it what was the country where the the the president is iraq iraq iran i'm sorry iran yeah the president of iran so there are no gays here yeah yeah he's wrong because i've talked to a lot of his gay countrymen right there and they'll tell you but they don't want their face on camera and or their name or city or anything because they will probably get murdered yeah well we've talked to people from iran i think it is yeah that are gay and um yeah like he said they're very compelling stories and um i mean they told us candidly so we would have to figure out a way to and even in also places their identity but the opposite can be true too where it's not nearly as bad as it's made out to be that's another story you know like there are gays in china and there's you know well yeah i mean there are obviously the opposite tiley in amsterdam you know it's like okay whatever uh they persecute you if you're not gay no just kidding no but like in china you know it's actually maybe more open than some people think so there's you know it'll be very very cool reality check reality check that's what you should call it gay reality check yeah well i think that it'll bring into light the the differences in the culture itself and why they act and do the things that they do so for many different views it'll be fun to listen i think it's gonna be a great idea to do something like that anyway i mean basically going back to when i i mean i didn't really come out until cool i must have been about 20 21 i mean obviously i was talking to you guys back then you know but really no one knew about you know my sexuality and then to go to london you know so who was the only place really you could hold a hand as soon as you walked out of soho i mean for people that don't know so i mean it's one of the gayest places to go in the entire of the uk i would say so whole neighborhood of london not not the soho in new york the original soho that's right yeah i mean um to do that to hold someone's hand i mean and be accepted for it was amazing but as soon as you left soho straight away you'd leave you know let go of hands there won't be no gay contact whatsoever but i mean you know we are slowly being accepted in you know uh basically london i mean i've read i've read quite a few reviews still in new york i don't know it's true i mean recently uh regards to a boy that got attacked you know leaving a nightclub i mean stupid enough leaving on his own i mean just stupid people straight people not no offense to straight people i mean i love them i mean i've got i mean i have hundreds of them come to my clubs they accept the customers for who they are but i mean you get these random people that get drunk you know that they think they're all that hard lads and they you know they start picking on someone and it ends up you know leading to abuse yeah i know it happens here often i mean one of the famous drag queens uh avianz she was uh mugged because she was she's a drag queen and she leaves these clubs late at night and they attacked her but the most uh the one that really sticks to my mind happened maybe a year or two ago and it was these two guys walking i think it was either in queens or brooklyn hand in hand and uh one of the brothers they were both mugged because of they were holding hands and one of them actually died but the the compelling part about it was that there were actually brothers walking together yeah they were brothers brothers holding hands and that's just sad you know that you're talking about yeah there's a different story a different story where they're just brothers from a different culture they weren't even gay they were holding hands it reminds me of the days went in detroit when i went to school in michigan and and uh they were all these redneck factory workers who were anti-japanese because the japanese cars are taking away our jobs and they wanted to beat up some japanese and they they found some guy in a bar and he was asian but he wasn't even japanese i mean not like it would matter but he wasn't even japanese that's the irony you know they're just so retarded they just want to they just anger and hate and there's no sense at all and it's just no i think the website you're going to be doing i mean it's going to be amazing i mean it's not just that as well i mean people that live in the uk you know it's good to i'll advertise it as well probably get onto your you know your website in america i mean for going everywhere in other countries and they're looking at gay you know it's like elsewhere i know so your parents are like saying oh what's that yeah yeah and it's global i mean it's the it's the web it's going to be the website for the show of course it'll be a show we'll do it on a regular basis but it'll be educational for people gays in every single country it might be interesting because somebody might somebody who's gay in um vietnam might uh learn about what it's like to be gay in the neighboring country right next door you know berma or thailand or something so people i think it's going to educate gay people and straight people all people all over the world about what it's like and this is a topic that you know it's not like racism it's it's the invisible minority you don't know when someone's gay unless they're going to tell you or unless it's obvious but anyway we have got i hate to cut it short because this conversation is so great but we're out of time yeah so thanks for joining us yeah thanks so much for joining us probably can't wait to see you yeah we're gonna have so much fun so um all right thanks everybody bye bye see you tomorrow take care stay tuned ciao