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The Big Five

What makes a celebrity fish?

5/4/202657 min

Donovan Woods and Tom Power are joined by writer, podcaster and radio host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to scrap about the big five sea creatures, guys named John and email sign-offs. Also discussed: new ways to sing the birthday song, the birth names of various popes and whether or not mermaids really exist.

Clips

Testing Mom’s Ultimatum
Why We Landed In Kingston
PM’s Oyster Lesson
Owning The Spotlight
Email Sign-Off Identity
Octopus: All Them Legs
Sea Creatures Reveal Chaos

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Emmanuel Kyei Agyei0:00

    On Big Lives, we take a single cultural icon People like Jane Fonda, George Michael, Little Richard And we pull apart the story behind the image.

  2. Kai Wright0:09

    And we do this by digging through the BBC's vast archives Discovering forgotten interviews that change exactly how we see these giants of our culture. We're here for the messy, the brilliant, the human version of our heroes.

  3. Emmanuel Kyei Agyei0:22

    I'm Emmanuel Kyerchi.

  4. Kai Wright0:24

    I'm Kai Wright.

  5. Emmanuel Kyei Agyei0:24

    And this is Big Lives.

  6. Kai Wright0:26

    Listen to Big Lives wherever you get your podcasts.

  7. Tom Power· Co-host0:29

    Oh, guess what, brother? [laughs] [laughs] The NBA is, is bought and paid for, brother.

  8. Donovan Woods· Host0:37

    Dumb Mutombo, it's all scripted, baby.

  9. Tom Power· Co-host0:40

    Ask some Newton Ball, take a briefcase full of money, brother.

  10. Speaker 40:44

    [laughs] [laughs] [upbeat music] Big Five.

  11. Donovan Woods· Host0:53

    Welcome to the Big Five. It's so fun to be back. I'm your host, Donovan Woods, and I'm here with my co-host, Tom Power. Hello, Tom.

  12. Tom Power· Co-host1:01

    Donovan, I love your hat. It's yellow. It's a yellow hat.

  13. Donovan Woods· Host1:04

    Oh.

  14. Tom Power· Co-host1:04

    You usually wear a dark hat.

  15. Donovan Woods· Host1:05

    Thanks for noticing.

  16. Tom Power· Co-host1:06

    Yes.

  17. Donovan Woods· Host1:07

    It's sort of a summer feeling.

  18. Tom Power· Co-host1:08

    [laughs] Is it new?

  19. Donovan Woods· Host1:09

    Yeah, it is new, yeah. Well, it's nice to see you, Tom. We've- Oh, thank you ... we haven't seen each other in a while.

  20. Tom Power· Co-host1:13

    Yeah, you're right.

  21. Donovan Woods· Host1:13

    You've been away.

  22. Tom Power· Co-host1:14

    You've been on tour.

  23. Donovan Woods· Host1:14

    I've been on tour. You've been very busy doing your day job, interviewing... I heard you interviewed Tom Selleck. It made me think that when Tom Selleck has a thing going on and he's gotta talk to somebody from Canada, I always think if they were like, "Who wants to talk to Tom Selleck?" I would be like, "Well, not me, please." So I'm very thankful that it's you that

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