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#202 - With Doug - Hot Water’s Green Room w/Tony & Jamie

October 27, 2025·55 min·3 clips

Doug designs a pub with Guinness, Prava, Carlin, Black Sambuca, Baby Guinness, and tequila.

1. Hot Water’s Green Room Podcast #202 with Doug centers on Doug’s return to Hot Water Comedy and the running jokes around his nickname. 2. Tony and Jamie are the hosts, Doug is the returning guest, and he matters because he used to work at Hot Water and still gets recognised as “Doug.” 3. The episode is built around reunion banter, a custom pub-draft game, and personal stories about work, pub life, and moving in with a girlfriend. 4. Tony and Jamie keep bringing up how Doug left Hot Water Comedy and how strange it feels for him to be back without working there. 5. The conversation keeps circling back to the nickname “Doug,” including jokes about his profile picture, his name being better than “Ben,” and people still shouting “Doug” in public. 6. Doug explains that he used to work at Hot Water so often that coming back now feels weird, like visiting an old office after leaving the job. 7. The hosts compare that feeling to municipal offices, call centres, and old workplaces where former staff pop back in to say hello. 8. Doug says he used to be shy as a child and that he started going to the pub around age 17. 9. He says he drank “dirty pints” and told his parents he was drinking lime and soda. 10. Doug describes being battered once at school after defending a girl whose pencil case was thrown across the room. 11. Tony and Jamie push him on whether he was trying to be a hero, and Doug insists it was mainly because he disliked the boy involved. 12. The episode also includes a long pub-design game where Doug drafts his ideal venue from scratch. 13. His draft starts with Guinness, Prava, Carlin, and then moves into spiced rum, Smirnoff, and Aperol. 14. For shots, Doug chooses Black Sambuca, Baby Guinness, and tequila. 15. He wants the pub to feel like “the Rovers,” with a circular bar, darts, live sport, and music kept quieter than conversation. 16. Doug also wants a small courtyard, a secret toilet for regulars and staff, and no open mics or unwanted customers like recruitment consultants. 17. Tony and Jamie keep the pace fast, using interruptions, callbacks, and insults to turn ordinary topics into a running joke. 18. The energy stays loose and conversational, with a lot of Liverpool-specific banter and improvised back-and-forth. 19. People who like pub chat, scouse banter, and guest-heavy comedy should enjoy it. 20. People who want a structured interview or minimal swearing may skip it.

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