Pod Insights The Romesh Ranganathan Show Shanthi’s Suspicions, Monkey Bites & Stage Names About this episode What is the weirdest thing Shanthi has ever Googled?
In this Thursday episode, Romesh and mum Shanthi reveal their most embarrassing Google searches, discuss holiday disasters and give their advice on finding the love of your life at university.
Shanthi shares her theories about a suspicious fan encounter on a train and reacts to the production team's suggestions for her new stage name.
Plus, we answer your listener dilemmas, from monkey bites to dating advice and weirdly, ducks' anatomy.
From bizarre internet searches to relationship wisdom, it's another classic Thursday episode with Shanthi.
A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:50 On Judi Love
07:06 Shanthi’s stage names
17:06 Weirdest Google search
23:20 Holiday disasters
31:23 How to find the love of your life?
39:17 Outro
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Transcript 0:00 Speaker 00 Hello and welcome to the Thursday edition of the Romesh Ranganathan Show. What do you think?
0:07 Speaker 01 It's nice.
0:08 Speaker 00 Oh, we'll get complaints about that.
0:09 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
0:10 Speaker 00 I don't know.
0:11 Speaker 01 I mean, it's a kind of song.
0:13 Speaker 00 Yeah, it's a kind of song.
0:15 Speaker 01 It is, it is. You are not singing it properly.
0:17 Speaker 00 Yeah.
0:18 Speaker 01 You are not welcoming them either.
0:20 Speaker 00 Let me try again. Hello and welcome to the Thursday edition of the Romesh Ranganathan Show. Is that better? No.
0:29 Speaker 01 No, taking the mick out of them.
0:31 Speaker 00 I'm not taking, how am I taking the mick out?
0:32 Speaker 01 You are, yeah. Ranganathan Show, what's that?
0:36 Speaker 00 Okay, how should I do it then?
0:37 Speaker 01 Sit right.
0:38 Speaker 00 Yeah. Okay, give me some direction, I'll do it. Okay, go.
0:41 Speaker 01 Hi, guys.
0:42 Speaker 00 Oh, right, so not a song, not a song.
0:44 Speaker 01 That's not so.
0:45 Speaker 00 Hi, guys. Welcome, hi, guys. Are you okay? Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Romesh Ranganathan Show. It's that part of the week where we chat about Monday's episode. Surprised even me. And answer your questions and dilemmas. As always, I'm joined by my mother, Shanti Ranganathan.
1:12 Speaker 00 And the animals.
1:19 Speaker 00 That's us.
1:23 Speaker 00 Mum, how are you today?
1:24 Speaker 01 I'm fine, thank you.
1:25 Speaker 00 Okay, great. Do you want to do, do you want to introduce the show with some jazz hands?
1:29 Speaker 01 What does it mean jazz hand? Hi, everybody, welcome to the show, Ranganathan Show. Look forward to hearing from you and love you all.
1:40 Speaker 00 Welcome to the show, like, do the intro, because then we're going to do the theme, then we'll drop the theme tune in. So you've got to like.
1:47 Speaker 01 Hi, guys, welcome to the Ranganathan Show. What's it?
1:53 Speaker 00 It's just, it's getting, you're getting a bit gro- it looks groty.
1:55 Speaker 01 It's like holding a book, isn't it?
1:57 Speaker 00 Yeah, yeah. Your sort of jazz hands is like that, that's.
2:02 Speaker 00 Okay, go again, go again.
2:03 Speaker 01 Yeah, okay.
2:04 Speaker 00 Okay, go for it.
2:05 Speaker 01 Hi, guys, like that, oh, sorry. Hi, guys. Hi, guys. Come on.
2:13 Speaker 00 Yeah, it's good, it's good. Welcome to the Romeshana.
2:18 Speaker 01 Ah, right. I was holding a boobs, isn't it?
2:22 Speaker 00 I don't know what you're doing.
2:23 Speaker 01 But you never did?
2:24 Speaker 00 Just maybe do it at the end.
2:26 Speaker 01 Hi guys, welcome to Ranganathan's show and I love you all.
2:33 Speaker 00 Okay, theme tune.
2:46 Speaker 01 With me, Shanti.
2:49 Speaker 00 On Monday, we had my friend, comedian, TV presenter, Judi Love on the show. Mum, you asked if she could think of a stage name for me. Do you remember that was your question?
3:00 Speaker 01 Okay.
3:00 Speaker 00 Uh, let's have a little clip. Originally, I thought about just going by Ranga.
3:05 Speaker 01 No, no, no.
3:07 Speaker 00 No?
3:08 Speaker 01 Because you'd have them going, Tanga.
3:09 Speaker 00 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:12 Speaker 01 Tang.
3:13 Speaker 00 Raga, Raga Tanga, yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:15 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, oh.
3:16 Speaker 00 Do you know, do you know that, have you ever seen that comedian? I can't remember his name, but he's something Cheeseburger something.
3:22 Speaker 01 No.
3:23 Speaker 00 And he does, he'll go like, hey, I notice, um, this, but he just kept saying Cheeseburger. During his, like, he keep, just would keep saying Cheeseburger. So he'd go, oh, my kids, man, feel like clipping upside the head. Cheeseburger, like that. He did that the whole time during his act. He just kept saying Cheeseburger.
3:42 Speaker 01 He's still around now.
3:42 Speaker 00 I don't know. I only saw one.
3:44 Speaker 01 I think we know.
3:46 Speaker 00 I need to find this Cheeseburger comedian because I, I, if this Mandela effect, Alonso Hamburger Jones, oh, he maybe says hamburger. It's mad. He just says it all. I might start doing that. What do you think I should do?
3:59 Speaker 01 Okay.
3:59 Speaker 00 What if I did this? Oh my God. How, where are you from? God to Rati.
4:06 Speaker 01 Or Martin Roll.
4:07 Speaker 00 Yeah, Martin Roll. Uh, where are you from?
4:11 Speaker 01 Martin Roll.
4:12 Speaker 00 Okay, this role play's not gonna work. Shall we hear the rest of the clip?
4:16 Speaker 02 Your name is your name and it was given to you for a reason.
4:20 Speaker 00 Yeah.
4:20 Speaker 02 And it just, there's nothing else I could. You do have a look of a Steve. You've got a little look of a Steve.
4:27 Speaker 00 What do you mean by that?
4:28 Speaker 02 I don't, I don't know if it's the glasses or what. There's a little Steve in there.
4:32 Speaker 00 Steve?
4:32 Speaker 02 Yeah, I could, I feel like I could have seen you in an office job.
4:36 Speaker 00 Do you know, do you know, uh, this thing about me looking like a Steve. Rob Beckett said to me that if I wasn't brown, that he thinks that I would just be like, he thinks my ethnicity is masking the fact that I'm just a fucking nerd. But I don't think brown stops that, does it? I mean, there are brown nerds. But what he's saying is it's given me an edge that I don't deserve. Actually, I am a Steve. Do I have a Steve vibe to you?
5:05 Speaker 03 Me?
5:06 Speaker 00 Yeah.
5:08 Speaker 03 No.
5:09 Speaker 00 Will? Steven, maybe.
5:12 Speaker 03 Don't.
5:13 Speaker 00 No, no, no. No. John? No, sir. Mum? Do you think I've got a Steve? Georgie?
5:19 Speaker 04 No.
5:20 Speaker 00 No, genuinely?
5:21 Speaker 03 Definitely not.
5:21 Speaker 04 No. No, you're way too cool.
5:24 Speaker 00 That's the, that is the only answer that's actually a good one. You only answered because Ben sort of looked at you and you were scared.
5:34 Speaker 00 Anyway, am I, am I a demon? What do you think? Shanti, what do you think?
5:38 Speaker 01 What's the calling him Steve?
5:39 Speaker 00 Hmm.
5:40 Speaker 01 It doesn't suit you at all, no.
5:44 Speaker 01 Steve. Jonathan?
5:46 Speaker 00 Jonathan, yeah, yeah. I don't think that suits me either, really.
5:49 Speaker 01 No. John?
5:50 Speaker 00 John, yeah.
5:51 Speaker 05 Good name.
5:52 Speaker 00 It's a really good name, really good name. Um, but doesn't suit me either, I don't think.
5:56 Speaker 01 No?
5:57 Speaker 00 No.
5:59 Speaker 00 We know you like Sylvie, don't we?
6:01 Speaker 01 I hate Sylvie.
6:04 Speaker 01 Where did you get that idea from? Call me Sylvie.
6:08 Speaker 00 Can we get, can we get?
6:11 Speaker 00 If you could have any other name, Mum, what would it be? Like, cool name?
6:14 Speaker 01 For me, Sylvie.
6:26 Speaker 00 There's nothing wrong with that name, but it's just so mad how quickly that came to you. What was the exact question? What name would you have if you weren't Shanti? And you said Sylvie straight away, before I finished answering the question. Now you hate it.
6:38 Speaker 01 I don't like the name Sylvie, but I use it. That's all I could think of at that time. Doesn't mean I like the name. You got it wrong.
6:47 Speaker 00 Well, I said to you, what name would you like to have? And you said Sylvie.
6:50 Speaker 01 Sylvie, doesn't mean I like the name.
6:52 Speaker 00 No. So if somebody says to you, would you like this name? And you say Sylvie? That doesn't mean that you like that name. So do you understand how that makes it quite difficult to interact with you? So you don't like Sylvie?
7:03 Speaker 01 No.
7:04 Speaker 00 Okay.
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8:06 Speaker 00 Now, the team have come up with a few stage names for you, Mum. What do you think about that? Is this for Mum?
8:13 Speaker 03 Yeah.
8:14 Speaker 00 Okay.
8:15 Speaker 01 Oh my god.
8:16 Speaker 00 See what you think of these, Mum. Yeah. Radiant Light.
8:22 Speaker 01 No.
8:24 Speaker 00 No, why not? Radiant light.
8:27 Speaker 01 I like the sound of it.
8:29 Speaker 00 Yeah.
8:30 Speaker 01 But who is going to call me radiant light? Come here? No.
8:33 Speaker 00 Well, you're not a dog in the park.
8:35 Speaker 03 You could just go like radiant.
8:37 Speaker 00 Yeah, or light.
8:39 Speaker 01 If everybody calls me radiant, oh, look at her. She has, it's gone to her head, radiant. So, no.
8:46 Speaker 00 Okay, uh, how about Wise Velvet?
8:51 Speaker 01 Bloody hell, where did you get the name?
8:53 Speaker 00 What's the team have come up with that?
8:55 Speaker 01 Okay, oh, no.
8:57 Speaker 00 Proves the old adage, adage?
8:59 Speaker 03 Adage, it does prove the old adage.
9:01 Speaker 00 Proves the old adage, I'm not gonna finish that.
9:05 Speaker 00 Uh, Wise Velvet?
9:08 Speaker 01 I'll stick to that.
9:10 Speaker 00 You like it?
9:10 Speaker 01 I like it.
9:11 Speaker 00 Fucking hell, this is such a rollercoaster. How about this one? Hera the Intelligent.
9:17 Speaker 01 No, I don't like it. I'm not intelligent.
9:20 Speaker 00 Okay.
9:21 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:21 Speaker 00 Also, your name's not Hera.
9:23 Speaker 03 So you are intelligent, Shanti, I think we should.
9:26 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah, you are intelligent.
9:30 Speaker 01 Do you think so, man?
9:31 Speaker 00 Mum, what's happened to you? Have you taken a sedative?
9:34 Speaker 01 No.
9:35 Speaker 00 What's happened? Are you tired?
9:36 Speaker 01 When, I'm not tired. I'm not tired. Listen, my son, when I wrote the list, Christmas list.
9:43 Speaker 00 Fuck me.
9:46 Speaker 01 What did you do?
9:47 Speaker 00 Okay, I cannot, I cannot believe, I can't.
9:51 Speaker 01 Now, you are sitting there, you plonk yourself and asking me.
9:56 Speaker 00 Asking me. In the big two six, the list has come up again.
9:59 Speaker 01 Yeah, you couldn't even believe that I did the list. Now you are saying, you are intelligent. Why are you?
10:06 Speaker 00 First of all, I only said you're intelligent because Ben asked me to.
10:09 Speaker 01 All right.
10:10 Speaker 00 I do think you're intelligent. Secondly, being able to do a list is not, on your phone is not a sign of intelligence. You are intelligent.
10:17 Speaker 01 I've given the instruction to do that list.
10:20 Speaker 00 Okay, now that you brought it up, who helped you with the list?
10:24 Speaker 01 Why don't you go and fuck yourself? No, I won't tell you. Listen, man, you are, you are acting like a lawyer.
10:31 Speaker 00 All I wanna know is, did somebody help you?
10:33 Speaker 01 No.
10:34 Speaker 00 So, I was on the train today.
10:36 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:36 Speaker 00 Somebody asked me.
10:37 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:38 Speaker 00 To find out from you, a fan of the podcast, a big fan of yours.
10:41 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:42 Speaker 00 Said, I'd love to find out who helped your mum with the list.
10:45 Speaker 01 That's what I'm asking. Why does he want to know?
10:47 Speaker 00 He's interested.
10:48 Speaker 01 He, no, if he wife written the list like that, will he be interested?
10:54 Speaker 00 I don't know.
10:55 Speaker 01 Yeah, why is he asking this stupid question? This is a lie, Romaine.
10:59 Speaker 00 It's not a lie. What, all your, your comeback.
11:01 Speaker 01 When did you go in a train?
11:03 Speaker 00 I had to come here today.
11:04 Speaker 01 Why did they ask you?
11:06 Speaker 00 Because I all, I don't know if you were, I'm also on the podcast.
11:11 Speaker 00 Mum, he's watched the podcast.
11:13 Speaker 01 Okay, good luck to him.
11:16 Speaker 00 This is, even, even the chimps have got to accept, this is quite difficult to navigate.
11:21 Speaker 01 Listen.
11:21 Speaker 00 Yeah.
11:23 Speaker 01 He wants to start a conversation.
11:25 Speaker 00 Right.
11:25 Speaker 01 He knows I'm your mother.
11:27 Speaker 00 Yes, correct.
11:28 Speaker 01 So.
11:29 Speaker 00 Correct. Yeah, good.
11:31 Speaker 01 Just to please you, he asked you the question.
11:34 Speaker 00 No, that's not the only.
11:35 Speaker 01 That's what it is.
11:36 Speaker 00 It's not.
11:36 Speaker 01 That's what it is, Romaine.
11:38 Speaker 00 I was on the train today. The guy gets on the train, he says.
11:41 Speaker 01 Okay, man, was he carrying a bag?
11:45 Speaker 00 I don't fucking know.
11:46 Speaker 01 So he came with a bag, sat down.
11:48 Speaker 00 I didn't say he had a bag.
11:51 Speaker 01 Did your mum write the list, really?
11:53 Speaker 00 No, that's not, that's not how the conversation.
11:55 Speaker 01 Then what happened?
11:56 Speaker 00 What sort of bag was it? Yeah.
11:57 Speaker 01 What bag was that?
11:58 Speaker 00 Exactly. Okay. Oh, now it's a rucksack.
12:01 Speaker 01 Backpack?
12:02 Speaker 00 A rucksack? He didn't have a bag. Okay. Oh, okay. No bag, there's no, so it's a no bag man.
12:10 Speaker 01 No, suspicion, yeah.
12:11 Speaker 00 He had one of those zip up like leather. So now he does have a bag? It's not a bag, it's like a folder, wallet thing.
12:16 Speaker 01 Wallet thing?
12:16 Speaker 00 Yeah.
12:17 Speaker 01 It was an old man then?
12:18 Speaker 00 No. Why did you do that?
12:21 Speaker 01 He's not up to standard then, with his opening this really thick.
12:24 Speaker 00 Fucking, they should make a detective show, centered around you, where you just jump to fucking wild conclusions. It's not, it's not actually deductions. He's got a leather wallet, says, I'm on a run.
12:38 Speaker 00 He was eating a sandwich, he lives in the Sutton area.
12:42 Speaker 00 None of these things are fucking connected.
12:44 Speaker 01 Who does, who does put the thing on the lap?
12:48 Speaker 00 He didn't put it on the lap. I never said he put it on the lap. He was just holding it.
12:51 Speaker 03 Where's he, how is he opening the bag then?
12:53 Speaker 01 Opening the bag?
12:54 Speaker 03 Which is in mid-air.
12:55 Speaker 00 There's no bag!
12:56 Speaker 01 No bag?
12:56 Speaker 00 No.
12:57 Speaker 01 Okay.
12:58 Speaker 00 Okay. He must be vegetarian.
13:06 Speaker 01 What I'm trying to say, he's not very stylish, is he?
13:09 Speaker 00 Mum, you didn't, you didn't see him. You've got no, you weren't there, Mum.
13:14 Speaker 01 Why didn't he talk to you?
13:16 Speaker 00 Because, Mum, he recognised me. He's a fan of the podcast.
13:19 Speaker 01 Ah, he's starting a conversation.
13:21 Speaker 00 Yes!
13:21 Speaker 01 Did she really like the?
13:23 Speaker 00 That's not how it went.
13:24 Speaker 01 Uh, then?
13:25 Speaker 00 The guy gets on the train.
13:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
13:26 Speaker 00 Right, I was sat, I wasn't really in the mood to chat, to be honest with you, I was a bit tired.
13:30 Speaker 01 Always, you are like that, yeah.
13:31 Speaker 00 Fine, okay, so I did, I did accept that for the sake of getting through this. So I'm sat there, I'm a bit like, sort of half asleep on the train. He walks past me and then comes and sits on the seat opposite. So now, immediately I can clock, he's recognised me, he wants to chat, right? So he says, I don't want to bother you too much. He says, but I am actually listening to your podcast right now.
13:53 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
13:54 Speaker 00 I said, okay, cool, because I really, really love it, big fan of your mum, um, I think it's a great podcast. Then he said to me, who's your favourite guest been? Right, so I said to him, some of the people that I thought, well, crap, I'm not going to name them here because it'll offend the other people.
14:05 Speaker 01 Of course, yeah.
14:07 Speaker 00 Then, he said to me, um, what, what was it? He said, um, oh, he said, say hello to the Uggos for me.
14:14 Speaker 01 Uh-huh.
14:15 Speaker 00 Talking about these guys.
14:16 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah.
14:17 Speaker 03 He did not.
14:17 Speaker 00 He did!
14:20 Speaker 00 He did say that. He said, say hello to the Uggos for me. And he said, I'd love to know who wrote, who helped your mum with the list.
14:26 Speaker 01 He's a pedo.
14:30 Speaker 00 Final deduction, case closed.
14:34 Speaker 00 And that brings us to the end of another episode of Poirot.
14:41 Speaker 01 Man carrying, he's not carrying a bag.
14:43 Speaker 00 Yeah.
14:44 Speaker 01 So he's travelling in a train.
14:46 Speaker 00 Yeah.
14:46 Speaker 01 He has nothing on him.
14:47 Speaker 00 No. He's got a wallet on him.
14:51 Speaker 03 Can you one conclusion?
14:54 Speaker 01 Go.
14:54 Speaker 00 Why, it's suspicious, but why does that make him a pedo?
14:57 Speaker 01 I don't like the way he came and looked at you and sat next to you.
15:01 Speaker 00 You weren't there, Mum.
15:02 Speaker 01 I wasn't there, I'm just imagining.
15:04 Speaker 00 Okay, well that's.
15:05 Speaker 01 The conversation, conversation.
15:07 Speaker 00 Yeah.
15:08 Speaker 01 And the question, like the question he put in.
15:11 Speaker 00 Yeah.
15:12 Speaker 01 Doesn't add up mine, to me, because I have got very suspicious mind.
15:17 Speaker 00 I'm beginning to think that, yeah.
15:18 Speaker 01 I am, I am, I investigate, okay? When I look at a person, I, I told you before.
15:24 Speaker 00 Well, you didn't even have to look at this person, you were saying that.
15:26 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, I, I, with the zip bag, what the hell is that? No.
15:32 Speaker 00 Okay.
15:33 Speaker 01 Nobody travels in the train without any belongings. You know that, don't you?
15:38 Speaker 00 No. Loads of people travelled on the train without any belongings.
15:44 Speaker 01 They just come in?
15:45 Speaker 00 Yeah.
15:47 Speaker 01 Sit there.
15:47 Speaker 00 Yeah. This is not as ridiculous to imagine as you seem to think it is. I've done it, I've done it loads of times.
15:57 Speaker 01 Swing their arm.
16:01 Speaker 01 Get, get into the train. Oh.
16:07 Speaker 01 I recognise this chap, let me talk to you.
16:12 Speaker 01 Me, my list, is it import, why is it important to you?
16:15 Speaker 00 It's not important to him, we were talking about the podcast.
16:18 Speaker 01 God. I can't believe it.
16:21 Speaker 00 It's just so unreasonable. Anyway, uh, to the guy that I met on the train today. Thank you. It was a lovely chat.
16:27 Speaker 01 That's all a made up story, okay? There's no such a thing.
16:29 Speaker 00 Mum, there is.
16:30 Speaker 01 No. What Ramey said, literally, listen to him.
16:33 Speaker 00 Yeah.
16:33 Speaker 01 No belongings.
16:34 Speaker 00 I didn't say no belongings. I didn't say no belongings.
16:40 Speaker 00 At no point did I say no belongings.
16:44 Speaker 01 Anyway, cut it off, man. I'm not interested. You made up the bloody story, you know?
16:48 Speaker 00 You've interrogated me about it for ninety minutes and you're not interested. I'd love to see if you were intrigued by a story. What would happen then?
16:56 Speaker 03 Genuinely, twenty minutes in.
16:59 Speaker 00 But you're not interested.
17:00 Speaker 01 I tell you a story, man.
17:02 Speaker 00 I'd love you to. And I'd love to pick it apart and make you feel sad about yourself like you did when I told one.
17:06 Speaker 01 My, my, my husband told me once.
17:08 Speaker 00 Bullshit. You met a husband? Have you ever seen a husband just telling somebody something? Never, just swinging his arms, "Sit down, let me tell you something." Have you ever seen it? I haven't. Bullshit, Santa.
17:27 Speaker 00 It's horrible, isn't it, to be on the other end of it? Anyway, the reminder that you can send us a WhatsApp message or voice note to 07731623355 or email [email protected] . And don't forget, if you haven't already, please like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It genuinely helps us. And it means we're one subscriber closer to getting that million. Uh, how many, how far close are we to a million subscribers, guys? We're currently at a hundred and eighty-six thousand.
17:55 Speaker 01 Uh huh.
17:55 Speaker 00 That's actually gone up quite quick, hasn't it?
17:58 Speaker 03 Eight hundred thousand.
17:59 Speaker 00 Eight hundred and fourteen thousand to go. We're not that far off, are we?
18:04 Speaker 01 No.
18:04 Speaker 00 Yeah, okay.
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20:02 Speaker 00 Mine is a duck's penis." I won't spoil it, but I highly recommend giving it a search. Uh, please keep up, we absolutely love you guys, even Ben.
20:12 Speaker 01 Even Ben.
20:17 Speaker 00 And that's from Georgie.
20:21 Speaker 00 "B S, Shanti, I'm genuinely happier now you're in my life." That's from Chelsea, that's very nice. Can we look up duck penis, please?
20:29 Speaker 05 Yeah. Okay, yeah, here it, here it is then.
20:34 Speaker 00 Oh my god, oh my god!
20:37 Speaker 05 Yeah.
20:39 Speaker 00 So it's corkscrew?
20:40 Speaker 01 Corkscrew, yeah.
20:42 Speaker 00 I'm never gonna wait for silly again.
20:49 Speaker 01 I'm understanding that Chinese duck goes in the pancakes, really.
20:54 Speaker 00 Chinese duck that goes in the pancake?
20:55 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:56 Speaker 00 Yeah.
20:58 Speaker 00 I don't think it goes in willingly. Um, you're, you're, you're a big fan of Chinese duck in a pancake, aren't you?
21:08 Speaker 00 Skinning up a fat one?
21:09 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:10 Speaker 00 You like it, don't you?
21:10 Speaker 01 I like that.
21:11 Speaker 00 That's everyone's favourite, all the Rangadathans, I think they're favourite. I know, Ben, you're a bit snobby about this, aren't you?
21:16 Speaker 03 How do you know that?
21:17 Speaker 00 I just know because you don't think, when, when.
21:21 Speaker 03 This is like, oh god, yeah, go on, no, go on.
21:23 Speaker 00 Well, that is true, what I was about to say, isn't it?
21:24 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's weird that you know that, because I don't think we've ever been, even been to a Chinese.
21:27 Speaker 00 So, obviously, when people think about duck from a Chinese restaurant, they think of the plum sauce and the pancakes, you know, skin it up.
21:34 Speaker 01 And the vegetable, spring onion.
21:36 Speaker 00 Spring onion and stuff.
21:36 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:37 Speaker 00 Anyway, that really upsets Ben.
21:39 Speaker 01 Why?
21:39 Speaker 00 Because there is a Chinese, there's a Chinese duck that isn't that, isn't it? What's, what's the duck that you like, Ben, that actually offends you when people think of?
21:46 Speaker 03 No, it's not that.
21:47 Speaker 00 You think it's, you think it's, what do you say, what did you say? That's the Chinese duck of the working classes, is it? What, what?
21:55 Speaker 03 No, they're from different areas of China.
21:57 Speaker 00 Okay, so what's the Chinese?
21:58 Speaker 03 So that's, um, as I, I think that's Peking duck is what we, is like the crispy.
22:03 Speaker 00 Yeah.
22:04 Speaker 03 Crispy duck that you would then put into a pancake.
22:06 Speaker 00 Yeah.
22:07 Speaker 03 But Cantonese roast duck.
22:08 Speaker 00 Cantonese roast duck, okay.
22:09 Speaker 03 Has a nice sweet soy on it and you just have it, ideally off the bone, it's really good. I think this is why Chelsea used the word even, Ben.
22:17 Speaker 00 And you don't, you don't, uh, put it in pancakes?
22:20 Speaker 03 You don't put it in pancakes.
22:21 Speaker 00 No, okay.
22:22 Speaker 03 I think people really like the plum sauce. That's my take on why.
22:26 Speaker 00 Can I tell you, I, I totally agree with you. The plums, I'm not the I eat duck, but the plum sauce is so addictive.
22:33 Speaker 03 Plum sauce and cucumber and the, I think you could almost put anything in the middle of that.
22:37 Speaker 00 Agreed, agreed.
22:39 Speaker 01 The way they call it, presentation.
22:41 Speaker 00 Yeah, beautiful presentation.
22:43 Speaker 03 Quite happy with that.
22:44 Speaker 00 What?
22:44 Speaker 03 You, you've actually backed me up on something, it was nice.
22:47 Speaker 00 Yeah, I agree with you. Uh, okay, well, thank you so much for your, what's some, oh, here's a que, what's the most embarrassing thing you've ever Googled? Can I tell you something, I, a bit embarrassing that I put into Gemini? So I've got, I think I. Grazed my leg without realising in when I was in away filming in America. And I was a bit worried about and then I didn't realise I'd grazed my leg. And then one morning, a couple of months ago, I got up and looked in the mirror and there's like a dark patch on my leg. And I started freaking out. So I'll give you the exact wording of my question to Gemini. Last, and I've sent a photo of the patch as well. So I uploaded a photo of my leg. Last night I felt like a drop, what felt like a dry patch on my leg. And now I've seen this, like a dark patch I can't wash off.
23:31 Speaker 00 What the fuck could it be? And it said, this is for informational purposes only. For medical advice or a diagnosis, contact a professional. It can definitely be startling to suddenly notice an unexpected dark mark on your skin, especially when it doesn't wash off. Because many skin changes can look similar on camera. It's impossible to give a definitive diagnosis. But here are a few common reasons, and then it gave me some suggestions.
23:51 Speaker 03 What was it?
23:52 Speaker 00 Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, friction or minor injury or a developing bruise. It's still there. Suggestions, moisturise, monitor, check for symptoms. So I'm currently monitoring that.
24:08 Speaker 03 Do you want me to have a look?
24:09 Speaker 00 No, thank you.
24:09 Speaker 01 Can I have a look at your leg?
24:11 Speaker 00 Not now, thank you. I don't want to, I don't want this to be.
24:14 Speaker 03 Can Will have a look?
24:15 Speaker 00 Yeah, Will can, I don't mind if Will has a look, yeah, yeah, that'd be great.
24:18 Speaker 03 Do you know, I just Googled.
24:20 Speaker 00 What?
24:20 Speaker 03 And we were all right, you can say peaking duck. I was a bit worried you couldn't say it, but you can say it.
24:25 Speaker 00 Oh, okay.
24:26 Speaker 03 You can say it, can't you?
24:28 Speaker 05 Yeah, so this name of a dish, it's Beijing now, isn't it?
24:31 Speaker 00 Right.
24:32 Speaker 03 That's the name of the dish, I think we're good.
24:33 Speaker 00 Yeah, yeah, okay, fine.
24:34 Speaker 03 I think so.
24:34 Speaker 00 Yeah, okay.
24:35 Speaker 03 No one else was worried?
24:36 Speaker 00 No.
24:37 Speaker 03 Okay.
24:38 Speaker 00 No.
24:38 Speaker 03 Cool.
24:38 Speaker 00 Okay, well, thank you so much for, we didn't really, is there anything embarrassing you've Googled?
24:43 Speaker 01 Yeah.
24:43 Speaker 00 No, okay. Thank you so much, Chelsea. Take care of yourself.
24:47 Speaker 01 Thank you, darling.
24:48 Speaker 05 She also wants to know what to do with the rest of her listening time.
24:51 Speaker 00 Oh, okay, look, I don't want to, I don't want to be disparaging about our podcast. But it's possible, oh, well, okay, well, look, they've been, is this you, Ben? Or is this Georgie that's written?
25:04 Speaker 03 What's happened?
25:05 Speaker 00 Well, if you like me and mum, this is such a. This is such a corporate response. If you like me and mum, you can catch up on Parents Evening, available on ITVX and Asian Provocateur.
25:21 Speaker 03 Oh, wow.
25:22 Speaker 00 It's actually quite good.
25:23 Speaker 05 And of course Wolf and Owl podcast.
25:25 Speaker 00 Yeah, but mum's not on that.
25:26 Speaker 05 Also good. Might like it though.
25:29 Speaker 00 Yeah, you might like it. Wolf and Owl. Thank you so much, Chelsea. There's lots of things that I've done that you can watch and I hope you enjoy them.
25:42 Speaker 03 That's great. Well done, Mum.
25:43 Speaker 00 Thank you.
25:46 Speaker 00 Okay, go on, what were you gonna say?
25:48 Speaker 03 You made it seamless.
25:50 Speaker 00 All right, thank you. Next up, we've got a voice note from Holly.
25:53 Speaker 06 Hello, Romesh and Shanti. My name's Holly. Massive fan of the show. Absolutely love you guys and I genuinely look forward to the episodes every week. Love, love, love. The reason I'm getting in contact, so I've just got back from a trip to Sri Lanka. I went with my family, so my husband and our two kids, my son is four and a half, my daughter's two, and we were there for two months. We decided to do it before our son starts school. And it was honestly the trip of a lifetime. We absolutely loved it. Everyone we met out there was just incredible. So great with the kids, just made them feel so comfortable
26:36 Speaker 06 and happy. The things we got to see, like, the beaches were beautiful, the food was amazing, the people, like I said, were just incredible. The kids got to ride around in tuk tuk's, we saw amazing wildlife. It was literally the best. Until we got to Ella and I got bitten by a monkey who ran up my leg, stole some mango from me and bit me. So I ended up having to have my rabies treatment out there, which is all a bit scary, but actually ended up going to the hospitals, which were incredible. I was so well looked after, got to meet some really lovely people. So I was going there every few days. I loved it in the end. So
27:19 Speaker 06 every cloud has a silver lining. So my question to you guys is, have you ever had an absolute disaster on?
27:27 Speaker 01 Holiday, what was it? How did you deal with it? And did you manage to turn it around into a positive at all? Um, interested to hear. Anyway, sending lots of love and looking forward to if this is being played, what you're gonna say, bye.
27:45 Speaker 00 Uh, well, thank you so much, Holly, for your message. Um, glad you had such a wonderful time in Sri Lanka. That's exciting, isn't it?
27:51 Speaker 01 It is exciting.
27:52 Speaker 00 I would say, Holly, I'm sure you don't mean it in this way. I don't think you should refer to the locals as monkeys.
28:06 Speaker 00 I know you probably didn't mean it like that, and it's all your bloody little monkey, you know, but you shouldn't. That's not okay. And I think I speak on behalf of everybody that.
28:15 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:16 Speaker 00 The whole team feel like that, don't you?
28:20 Speaker 01 Barely she got Ella or something.
28:22 Speaker 00 Yeah, didn't we go there?
28:24 Speaker 01 Can't remember when, yeah.
28:25 Speaker 00 Um, but it's good, she was very positive. She had a great time in the hospital. The rabies treatment, sounds like it was good. So that was good.
28:33 Speaker 01 How do you know you got rabies?
28:34 Speaker 00 How do you know you got rabies?
28:35 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:36 Speaker 00 Why are you asking that?
28:37 Speaker 01 No, monkey be- within a day she go rabies.
28:41 Speaker 00 No, I think you have to, I, I think you have to check anyway. If a monkey bites you, I wouldn't roll the dice on that. I, I would go, and by monkey, I mean. Local. Um, you, you have to go to, you have to go to the hospital, you'd go to the hospital anyway, wouldn't you? Yeah? I don't know that monkeys bit, is that?
29:00 Speaker 01 It does, they do, they do.
29:02 Speaker 00 They can do, yeah, I believe so, I mean.
29:04 Speaker 04 And you have to act fast at the rate.
29:05 Speaker 01 Fast, yeah.
29:09 Speaker 00 Yeah, yeah.
29:11 Speaker 01 Okay.
29:12 Speaker 00 Yeah, so there you go, that's a little, have you been bitten by a monkey before?
29:14 Speaker 01 No. I fought with a monkey.
29:20 Speaker 01 I did, I did.
29:21 Speaker 03 He won.
29:22 Speaker 00 In Thailand?
29:24 Speaker 01 Malaysia.
29:25 Speaker 00 Malaysia, tried to steal your handbag.
29:26 Speaker 01 There's a ba- path to cave, it's a of a god, um, Murugan.
29:33 Speaker 00 Hmm.
29:34 Speaker 01 And I went to that temple, I did prayers and after the puja, the priest gave me a garland, who won't put it on the dainty, and some, some prasad called banana, other things. And I was carrying it in a bag, the monkey came and got hold of the bag. Uh, and Ranga said, shouting, Ranga got frightened because I'm with the monkey. Said, give the bag to him, give the bag to him. I said, no. It's, I won't eat that thing. You know what the monkey did? Turned the bag, took everything and give the empty bag and he went, ran off. He was after the food.
30:11 Speaker 00 Yeah, well, I don't think he wanted the handbag. That's.
30:18 Speaker 01 I wasn't carrying a handbag.
30:19 Speaker 00 My friends are gonna be so jealous.
30:21 Speaker 01 No, because I'm carrying some, some. I didn't carry any belongings.
30:26 Speaker 00 Yeah.
30:26 Speaker 01 Like that guy.
30:27 Speaker 00 Yeah.
30:28 Speaker 01 Okay?
30:31 Speaker 00 Very good, really good.
30:33 Speaker 01 Like that, something.
30:39 Speaker 01 This should get help. My god, mate.
30:43 Speaker 00 Uh, have you ever had a disaster on holiday? Well, the monkey story wasn't bad.
30:47 Speaker 01 Yeah, when I went to Sri Lanka, first time, I'm taking you to Sri Lanka to show, Daddy didn't come. I lost the passport at the airport.
30:56 Speaker 00 Hmm, that was bad.
30:57 Speaker 01 That was really, it took me two months, I was stuck in there.
31:00 Speaker 00 Is that why we were there for two months?
31:02 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:03 Speaker 00 I thought that was deliberate.
31:04 Speaker 01 You're, maybe man, you wouldn't have understood.
31:08 Speaker 00 So the reason we were there for two months is because you lost the passport?
31:10 Speaker 01 I lost the passport.
31:11 Speaker 00 Oh, I thought that was just always planned to be two months.
31:14 Speaker 01 No, so, anyway, I got the passport back.
31:17 Speaker 00 Hmm.
31:18 Speaker 01 Somehow and that's it.
31:20 Speaker 00 I remember one time I, uh, we were in Toronto.
31:24 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
31:25 Speaker 00 And I had kottarati.
31:26 Speaker 01 Oh yeah, my god, just before getting the flight.
31:30 Speaker 00 It's the worst flight I've ever had in my life.
31:33 Speaker 01 He got upset stomach.
31:34 Speaker 00 It was awful. And then mum was just in my ear going, why did you eat like that?
31:41 Speaker 00 I don't understa- why would you do that before getting on a pla- I'm sitting there feeling like somebody's stabbing me from the inside.
31:47 Speaker 01 Inside, yeah.
31:48 Speaker 00 Absolute agony. I don't understa- why would you, before you get on the plane to have it, it's stupid. I'm listening to that while I'm in absolute agony, do you remember?
31:59 Speaker 01 I know, I, I went to, don't worry, why don't you go to the toilet? While it's a flight, uh, moving, you, you can't go to the toilet.
32:08 Speaker 00 No, the flight is, the flight, it was basically, I had the worst bit of it, the second that they switched on the, it was like towards the end of the flight and then the lights came on to stay in your seat.
32:20 Speaker 01 Yeah.
32:20 Speaker 00 And then I just thought, I'm going to die, I'm going to die in this seat on this plane, or I'm gonna shit myself.
32:27 Speaker 01 Yeah.
32:29 Speaker 00 Thankfully, neither happened. But do you remember what happened before we even got on the plane? This is genuinely an impression of the guy at the, um, we were going, we were coming back. We're at Toronto Airport, we went to, uh, passport, I'd security.
32:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
32:44 Speaker 00 And the guy takes mum's passport.
32:46 Speaker 01 It's three lang and bag, yeah.
32:47 Speaker 00 And he goes at this and he goes, uh, you don't have permission to enter the UK.
32:50 Speaker 01 UK, yeah, to me.
32:52 Speaker 00 And then I go, that's her home, she's been there for like years and years and years. And he goes, no, she's not actually allowed, she's a visitor and she's not allowed to enter the UK. I said, she is dude. I said, she lives there. And he goes, she isn't, I'm sorry, we're gonna have to get somebody to sort this out. You shouldn't be, you know, you can't be allowed onto the flight.
33:10 Speaker 01 Flight, yeah.
33:11 Speaker 00 And so mum's like freaking out and then he goes, oh, no, yes, you are.
33:16 Speaker 01 That.
33:16 Speaker 00 I, I was like, I actually said this, the only time I said to him, dude, check all the pages.
33:21 Speaker 01 Yeah, you did, yeah. You stepped in, Ramit stepped, excuse me mum, and he started telling things.
33:27 Speaker 00 It was mad. She thought she, and I, obviously, I'm sad for mum, but also there's a bit of excitement.
33:40 Speaker 00 Anyway, thank you so much, Holly. Amazing, what an amazing thing to do, to go to Sri Lanka for two months.
33:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
33:46 Speaker 00 Really good. And not because you've got a passport issue, because you wanted to. It's incredible. I'm glad you had a nice time. Okay, we've got a voice note from Joey from Southampton.
33:57 Speaker 05 Hi guys, it's Joey from Southampton here. I love watching the podcast with you both every week and hi to John, Will and Ben too. So my question is, I'm twenty and in my final year of university and I say that you usually find the love of your life at university. And as I've only got one year left, I was hoping you guys could give me any advice as to find who my partner for life will be. Cheers, guys.
34:21 Speaker 00 Oh my god, Joey sounds so lovely, doesn't he? Joey, do you wanna meet up?
34:29 Speaker 03 Rom?
34:30 Speaker 00 Sorry. He's just got such a beautiful voice, doesn't he?
34:34 Speaker 01 We fell in love with the voice.
34:35 Speaker 00 I'm not falling in love with him, but he just sounds like a lovely guy, do you not think?
34:40 Speaker 00 Well, I'm not, I'm not, I'm saying that in an innocent way, he's too young for me. And I'm married and all that. And straight. But apart from that.
34:50 Speaker 01 It's good to.
34:51 Speaker 00 Yeah. What do you think, Mum? Last year at university?
34:54 Speaker 01 Yeah. You don't, is he looking for a partner?
34:58 Speaker 00 That's what he's saying, yeah.
34:58 Speaker 01 Yeah, but he doesn't have to look for a partner in the uni. Come on, come out, get a job, working and you will meet so many beautiful people.
35:08 Speaker 01 And he should find out whether she or he has a beautiful heart and good behaviour.
35:16 Speaker 00 Yeah. And a nice arse.
35:18 Speaker 01 Nice arse and not stingy.
35:23 Speaker 00 Right, is that a big thing for you?
35:24 Speaker 01 It is a big thing.
35:25 Speaker 00 Yeah.
35:25 Speaker 01 Yeah. Dad wasn't stingy, he would buy everything. But when I go out with people, they are stingy people. I found it very difficult.
35:34 Speaker 00 Yeah. That's tricky. Um, Will, university? So how old are you? Like, did you ever?
35:48 Speaker 07 Yeah.
35:48 Speaker 00 Yeah.
35:49 Speaker 07 Yeah.
35:49 Speaker 00 Yeah? Last year of university, partner?
35:52 Speaker 07 No, no, no.
35:53 Speaker 00 No. Ben?
35:54 Speaker 03 What's that?
35:55 Speaker 00 Partner, university?
35:57 Speaker 03 I don't, you're not actually asking questions, you're saying words. I tell you, I've got a tip at uni.
36:03 Speaker 00 Oh, no.
36:06 Speaker 00 Go on.
36:06 Speaker 03 A gimmick.
36:07 Speaker 00 A gimmick.
36:08 Speaker 03 I think you were trying, you were struggling, yeah.
36:10 Speaker 00 You had a gimmick, didn't you?
36:11 Speaker 03 Had a few gimmicks.
36:14 Speaker 03 I had a Trilby hat.
36:16 Speaker 00 Yeah, they call this, they call this peacocking, don't they?
36:20 Speaker 03 Is that right?
36:21 Speaker 00 I believe that when you do something like this to sort of draw attention to yourself, it's peacocking. So Trilby was one of yours?
36:29 Speaker 03 Trilby.
36:30 Speaker 00 Did you and Georgie know each other at university?
36:31 Speaker 03 No.
36:32 Speaker 00 No, okay, because this wouldn't have happened, would it?
36:34 Speaker 03 I, I, no, I have seen pictures of what I look like and, uh, yeah.
36:40 Speaker 00 Because it's been, because you've deliberately blanked it from your memory for trauma reasons.
36:45 Speaker 00 So, so Trilby, what else?
36:48 Speaker 03 You could try this, this is a suggestion, this had a mixed hit ratio for me. But if there's someone you really like the look of, and maybe you've exchanged, uh, and you, you know, a look.
36:57 Speaker 00 Yeah.
36:58 Speaker 03 But you're a bit nervous.
37:00 Speaker 00 Joey, pay attention to this, because this is gonna be magic.
37:03 Speaker 03 I don't know, this, this, I didn't come up with this, but it's something that I, I had tried.
37:08 Speaker 00 Yeah.
37:08 Speaker 03 A couple of times. You, all you do is you write, uh, you write your number on a napkin. You buy a drink, you put the drink, you put the napkin down and the drink on it, and then you just walk away. You say nothing.
37:24 Speaker 00 Right. I feel that's so disgusting.
37:27 Speaker 03 What?
37:28 Speaker 00 I just get so...
37:30 Speaker 03 Would that, someone did that?
37:31 Speaker 01 No, no, you shouldn't do that. No.
37:35 Speaker 00 It's just so...
37:36 Speaker 03 Just imagine that, you're like...
37:37 Speaker 00 Why does it have to be a move like that?
37:39 Speaker 03 It's not a move.
37:40 Speaker 00 It's just a bit like, it's a bit like, it's a fucking move, man. Why can't you introduce somebody in a real way? You've got to do something from fucking Hitch. Where you write a number on a napkin and then, no, don't talk to me now.
37:58 Speaker 01 I'm over there.
38:01 Speaker 03 But sometimes people are shy. I think you're, it takes quite a lot of courage to go up to a stranger.
38:07 Speaker 01 No.
38:08 Speaker 00 Well, okay, here's my question to you. You've exchanged a look with somebody, why do you?
38:14 Speaker 03 You can't do it cold, I don't think, that's pretty weird.
38:15 Speaker 00 Why do you want them to call you?
38:18 Speaker 01 Do you leave the number as well?
38:20 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, that's, it's not just the drink.
38:21 Speaker 00 But why do you want them to call you?
38:23 Speaker 03 What, to go on a date?
38:24 Speaker 00 Why? Based on what? You've found them physically attractive?
38:28 Speaker 03 That's how, isn't that how most?
38:29 Speaker 00 Yeah, but then, yes, agreed.
38:31 Speaker 03 At a bar, that's how.
38:31 Speaker 00 But then you have to then sort of get to, like, you have, there has to be, you have to figure, like, I don't want, you don't want a phone call from somebody you've just found physically attrac-, that's wild. Like, I don't, like, somebody that's physically attractive, you go, here's my fucking personal phone number, because I think you're quite fit from across the other side of a bar, where it's dark, by the way. So I bought you a drink and skulked off like Batman. Feel free to phone me whenever you want.
39:02 Speaker 00 I think it's, to me, that sounds insane.
39:06 Speaker 03 I didn't get any calls, right, so I can't really say whether it, but it.
39:10 Speaker 01 Maybe they didn't, no, I mean, I don't know.
39:13 Speaker 03 Maybe they didn't see the number, that's why I also thought afterwards, no, that's not the case.
39:16 Speaker 05 Bottom of the drink is wet.
39:17 Speaker 01 They must have.
39:17 Speaker 03 Yeah, they turned into a hole or something.
39:20 Speaker 00 I've got to say, very rarely, when I've needed a napkin, have I thought, let me just see if there's anything written on this first.
39:26 Speaker 01 No, Romesh, she was, the girl must be talking and having a good time. When he left the drink, she wouldn't have noticed. It's you.
39:34 Speaker 03 Well, can you imagine if she realises now and she realises what she's missed out on?
39:37 Speaker 01 She doesn't know. Yeah, she will think, my God, I missed out.
39:40 Speaker 03 What could have been?
39:41 Speaker 01 Yeah, Romesh, you know that, don't you?
39:43 Speaker 00 Well, he never gave me a napkin.
39:47 Speaker 03 Anyway, it's just a suggestion. I was just throwing things out there to try and help.
39:49 Speaker 00 I, I, I think, I actually think, I think it's a good example that Ben's giving. It's a really good example of things you shouldn't do. Um, I, I don't think you should, that's a textbook thing of like people reading the game or whatever and thinking they've got to do some mad move or do you know what I mean? Or do some technique or whatever. And that's, it's toxic and horrible. And it's an exact example of what's wrong with men.
40:15 Speaker 00 What I would, so thank you for sharing that.
40:17 Speaker 03 Safe space.
40:18 Speaker 00 I'm joking. Uh, Joey, I first, my main advice is you don't have to find a partner in the last year. You never see it's cause so you're so young. I don't, I don't think this should even be on your list of things to think about. I think you just live your life and there's no way you should be worrying about this at this, I would argue there's no way that you should be worrying about it at all, ever. But worrying about it now is too soon, you know? And by the sounds of you, love is going to find you at some point. You sound magical.
40:51 Speaker 03 If you wear a trilby.
40:52 Speaker 00 You can wear, I, I actually think trilby is not a bad shout.
40:56 Speaker 05 Joey, don't do that.
40:58 Speaker 00 I actually, I would say that's actually trilby, it's cool.
41:02 Speaker 03 Trilby's cool.
41:03 Speaker 00 It's cool. You want to remind people of early era Justin Timberlake.
41:08 Speaker 03 And if you can get a chain, a keychain as well.
41:09 Speaker 00 Yeah, keychain just from one loop to the other.
41:13 Speaker 03 I genuinely had that.
41:14 Speaker 00 Yeah. Uh, and a trilby. And then what's the thing you used to say?
41:18 Speaker 03 I got known as hat boy by quite a few people at uni.
41:22 Speaker 00 Imagine, wearing, imagine wearing a hat and people that get to know you find that the most distinctive thing about you. It's like being called trouser lad.
41:38 Speaker 00 There's nothing else about you that stands out. Uh, anyway, Joey, good luck to you, brother. I hope it goes well. Take care. Okay, that's a wrap on duck dicks, monkey bites and true love. That's all we've got time for. Thank you so much for listening and watching. We will see you little bitches on Monday. Fuck you. We love you.
42:01 Speaker 01 Love you. Say love you.
42:03 Speaker 00 Love you, dickheads.
42:05 Speaker 03 Maybe with your fingers down.
42:09 Speaker 01 God.
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42:57 Speaker 01 Oh, shut up, Romesh.
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