We Accidentally Ignored 632 Emails…

What happens when you realise you’ve accidentally ignored 632 listener emails? Mystery solved and an apology is in order from the team in this Thursday's episode of The Romesh Ranganathan Show, after finding out they have been checking the wrong inbox the entire time. This week Romesh and Shanthi team up again to answer and advise on your dilemmas. Covering topics from aging, learning English and impressing family members to some unlicensed, dubious medical advice from Shanthi herself. There’s also a chaotic “Freaky Friday” conversation about swapping lives for 24 hours, an unexpected Tamil telling-off and Romesh is forced into a terrible apology. 00:00 Intro 01:20 Meditating with Romesh 02:44 A podcast debrief 05:30 An apology to the emailers 10:12 Your listener dilemmas answered 20:30 Romesh’s last epic night out 22:30 A Ranganathan Freaky Friday 30:39 How to impress your mother in law 33:23 Shanthi tells Romesh off in Tamil 35:17 An apology from Romesh 38:45 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

• 0:00Speaker 00

  Have you got stuff going on?

• 0:01Speaker 01

  Pardon?

• 0:01Speaker 00

  Got stuff going on.

• 0:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, this is like a side quest for me. I know it's your major thing, but. Hello motherfuckers. Welcome back to the Romesh Rang and Nathan Show, you dumb shits.

• 0:12Speaker 00

  Oh my god.

• 0:12Speaker 01

  It's the Thursday edition, fuckos. Every Thursday, we chat about Monday's episode and we try and help you with any. Oh, fuck.

• 0:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 0:19Speaker 01

  We'll try and help you with any.

• 0:21Speaker 00

  Instant karma.

• 0:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 0:24Speaker 00

  I'm so smug now.

• 0:29Speaker 01

  Here's a little thing for you. If you poke the bears enough, eventually they will bite back.

• 0:35Speaker 01

  I've tasted my own medicine and it is bitter. Every Thursday, we chat about Monday's episode and we try and help with any dilemmas. If you've got a problem, yo, we'll solve it. Isn't that right, mum?

• 0:45Speaker 02

  Yeah. We'll solve it, yes?

• 0:47Speaker 01

  Yeah. Check out the hook while my mother revolves it. Ice, ice shanti. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. And of course, the team are here with me, who are, and I cannot stress this enough, exactly as ugly in person as they sound.

• 1:16Speaker 02

  With me, Shanti.

• 1:21Speaker 03

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• 2:19Speaker 01

  Mum, hello, how are you?

• 2:21Speaker 02

  I'm fine, thank you.

• 2:22Speaker 01

  How's life treating you?

• 2:24Speaker 02

  Fantastic, no complaints?

• 2:25Speaker 01

  No complaints?

• 2:26Speaker 02

  No.

• 2:26Speaker 01

  Zero complaints?

• 2:27Speaker 02

  Zero complaints.

• 2:28Speaker 01

  Zero complaints. How are you, how is your morning routine now? Are you like, because I've really got into meditating, I've talked about this quite a lot.

• 2:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're teaching Tom Davies, I saw.

• 2:37Speaker 01

  Oh, hello, somebody's across the podcast.

• 2:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, you did.

• 2:41Speaker 01

  That's on the Wolf now.

• 2:43Speaker 02

  Yeah. How, what do you know about meditation?

• 2:48Speaker 01

  What do I know about meditation? Not loads, I mean, I've read a little bit.

• 2:51Speaker 02

  So why were you trying to teach Tom Davies?

• 2:53Speaker 01

  Well, I meditate for half an hour every day.

• 2:56Speaker 02

  Do you?

• 2:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:57Speaker 02

  What do you say to yourself? Nothing, just sit there and meditate?

• 3:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, you focus on your breathing and stuff.

• 3:03Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 3:04Speaker 01

  It's really good.

• 3:07Speaker 00

  When do you find time for that?

• 3:09Speaker 01

  In the mornings.

• 3:10Speaker 00

  Yeah, but you're only straight in a, in a car off to?

• 3:13Speaker 01

  A lot of the time I am, so on occasion I've been known to have to do it on the train, which isn't ideal.

• 3:18Speaker 00

  Isn't that just shutting your eyes?

• 3:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, but you, yeah, it is, I mean, that's part of it. But then you sort of focus on your breathing and clear your thought, not, you don't clear your thoughts, actually. You allow your thoughts to drift in and out like clouds floating behind the sky. And then you, every time your mind starts to wander, you bring it back to the focus on your breathing. And then it thins your connection with ego and it's wonderful. You should try it.

• 3:42Speaker 02

  Me?

• 3:43Speaker 01

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• 4:04Speaker 00

  Has there ever been a podcast, I suppose there is a couple?

• 4:07Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah. But we're available on all platforms, whatever podcast platform, even like the ones that have been investigated.

• 4:16Speaker 00

  No one's paying us for exclusivity, are they?

• 4:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, fucking golden handcuff me, baby. Which?

• 4:23Speaker 01

  Which podcast is your favourite, Mum?

• 4:26Speaker 02

  Which podcast?

• 4:27Speaker 01

  What's your favourite podcast?

• 4:28Speaker 02

  Everything.

• 4:28Speaker 01

  What's your favourite podcast?

• 4:31Speaker 02

  I like everything.

• 4:32Speaker 01

  But which one is your favourite?

• 4:35Speaker 02

  To talk about that, uh, teaching the baby.

• 4:38Speaker 01

  No, which, which?

• 4:40Speaker 02

  What do you mean, which podcast?

• 4:41Speaker 01

  What podcast is your favourite?

• 4:42Speaker 02

  I like your, I like your podcast.

• 4:44Speaker 01

  There you go, the Romesh Ranganathan Show, well done.

• 4:47Speaker 02

  My god, Romesh Ranganathan, yeah.

• 4:48Speaker 01

  It's like stealing candy from, uh, somebody that doesn't want to give you any candy. Thank you, Mum. The Romesh Ranganathan Show, available on all platforms.

• 5:00Speaker 02

  I don't understand what you're saying.

• 5:02Speaker 00

  It's available on, it's available on all platforms.

• 5:04Speaker 01

  And a reminder to like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and you can get this one everywhere.

• 5:09Speaker 00

  All of them.

• 5:10Speaker 01

  Every single platform.

• 5:11Speaker 00

  Across all the platforms.

• 5:12Speaker 01

  All the platforms. Think of a platform, we're on it.

• 5:19Speaker 01

  Think of another platform.

• 5:20Speaker 00

  We're on that one as well.

• 5:22Speaker 01

  Think of a third platform, here we are.

• 5:34Speaker 00

  Oh no.

• 5:35Speaker 01

  Which platform are we on, Mum?

• 5:37Speaker 02

  Instagram.

• 5:49Speaker 01

  Holy shit. That could be, that could, that's the best word you could have said in response to that question. I, I cannot think of something that would have been funnier than that. It's fucking amazing. You've got no idea what you're doing. You're like Kaufman.

• 6:05Speaker 01

  It's unbelievable, isn't it?

• 6:06Speaker 05

  Incredible.

• 6:07Speaker 01

  Jesus Christ, you're a comedy genius. Anyway, thank you for all your messages and voice notes. They are brilliant and we do appreciate them, don't we mum?

• 6:15Speaker 02

  Of course.

• 6:16Speaker 01

  A reminder that you can always text us or WhatsApp us on 07731623355. That's 07731623355, or you can email [email protected]. Um, how many emails have we got in by the way?

• 6:32Speaker 00

  Um, there's, there's been a sort of point of contention because a few people emailed.

• 6:36Speaker 01

  A few people emailed?

• 6:38Speaker 00

  Oh no.

• 6:39Speaker 01

  So, hold on, let's get, let's get some context here. Up until this moment, I've been under the impression that we've only received

• 6:45Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 6:45Speaker 01

  one email to the podcast.

• 6:48Speaker 02

  That's not true, only one?

• 6:50Speaker 01

  Apparently.

• 6:51Speaker 02

  Is it true Ben?

• 6:52Speaker 01

  Let's find out.

• 6:53Speaker 02

  No.

• 6:55Speaker 00

  There's been a bit of, I, I feel like as maybe we all owe the, the email as a bit of an apology.

• 7:01Speaker 01

  Okay. I'd, I'd apologise to all of them if I knew how many there were.

• 7:05Speaker 00

  Well, we've been checking the wrong email account.

• 7:12Speaker 01

  What do you mean you've been checking the wrong email account?

• 7:14Speaker 00

  Two email accounts.

• 7:15Speaker 01

  Right.

• 7:16Speaker 00

  That were quite similar in nature.

• 7:18Speaker 01

  What's the other one?

• 7:18Speaker 00

  I can't, well, I don't want to give that one out because then people might, people might start emailing the wrong one. Everyone's been emailing the right one. We've just not been checking it.

• 7:25Speaker 02

  Oh God.

• 7:27Speaker 01

  You've not been checking the email account?

• 7:29Speaker 00

  None of us have, not just me. I mean, none of us have, have we?

• 7:34Speaker 01

  So, when did you find out that you'd made this massive fuck up?

• 7:37Speaker 00

  Today.

• 7:37Speaker 01

  Today, yeah. So how many emails have we got?

• 7:39Speaker 00

  We've got 632 emails.

• 7:47Speaker 02

  Are they all good?

• 7:48Speaker 00

  There's a, well.

• 7:49Speaker 01

  He's not read them.

• 7:51Speaker 00

  George may have got a long weekend ahead of him for email. So I'm genuinely really sorry. That was a, an ad.

• 7:57Speaker 01

  632?

• 7:59Speaker 00

  There was a bit of confusion because, uh, we, Ruth had said that she had received an email.

• 8:05Speaker 01

  By the way, you can't, but first of all, that's the first time you've said the word Ruth on this podcast and it's a slater.

• 8:11Speaker 00

  No, it's not her fault.

• 8:12Speaker 01

  Ruth works at Rangabi.

• 8:13Speaker 00

  One of the, someone had emailed a, one of our emails. Email address. He said, oh, we've only had one email and so that we thought that was the email. Anyway, lots of confusion back and forth.

• 8:22Speaker 01

  None of that makes sense what you just said.

• 8:24Speaker 00

  She, we thought that we had the email.

• 8:25Speaker 01

  What's Ruth got? What, what's Ruth got to do with this?

• 8:26Speaker 00

  Forget Ruth. We don't need to talk about Ruth. There was a whole, there's a lot going on behind the scenes over the email address. We've now got into the email account.

• 8:34Speaker 01

  What? No, stop. Stop. Why did you mention Ruth?

• 8:35Speaker 00

  Don't worry about Ruth. Ruth's fine. Ruth, Ruth's helped. She doesn't, she, in a way, that was irrelevant. It was a relevant information.

• 8:42Speaker 01

  Not in a way. It is irrelevant.

• 8:44Speaker 05

  Maybe we can get to the bottom of what, there were two email addresses.

• 8:47Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 8:48Speaker 05

  That were similar in wording.

• 8:50Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 8:50Speaker 01

  And have we ever issued that email address?

• 8:52Speaker 00

  What's that? No.

• 8:54Speaker 01

  No.

• 8:54Speaker 00

  We've never, so we have had one email to that randomly. We need to get one email.

• 8:57Speaker 01

  So you've been checking the account that we've never given the email address.

• 9:00Speaker 00

  Yeah, we just thought people didn't want to email.

• 9:02Speaker 01

  And that is because what? Ruth told you to?

• 9:04Speaker 00

  No, that's not Ruth's fault. No, no, no, no. That's our fault. That's our fault.

• 9:05Speaker 01

  But you mentioned Ruth.

• 9:07Speaker 00

  Yeah, well, I think someone had sent it to the info as well. So we got a bit confused that, so that was the second, anyway.

• 9:13Speaker 01

  Well, what's that got to do with Ruth?

• 9:14Speaker 00

  We don't have to worry about Ruth.

• 9:16Speaker 01

  I wasn't worried about Ruth until you brought her up.

• 9:17Speaker 00

  I regret bringing Ruth into this. I, this is all on myself and I officially apologize.

• 9:24Speaker 01

  So it is you?

• 9:26Speaker 00

  Yeah, uh, yeah, I, it's a hundred percent me and I'm sorry.

• 9:29Speaker 01

  That sounds like you're making this up now. You're doing this like I am Spartacus thing. Topical?

• 9:34Speaker 00

  No, no, look, we, we apologize. We, we're going to get through all those emails. We're going to read them all. We're going to be, it'll, we'll probably do two or three like email shows or something. We'll make a thing.

• 9:42Speaker 01

  I don't want to do a whole show of just emails because you've got a backlog.

• 9:44Speaker 00

  No, we won't do that, but, um, we'll.

• 9:47Speaker 01

  You know, uh, we've got an email in, oh, so good that you've got a new podcast. You know, can I ask about Andy Murray? There's going to be a fucking backlog now, isn't there?

• 9:56Speaker 00

  But I think that would be fine.

• 9:57Speaker 01

  I don't want to be field, I don't want to be fielding questions about Michael Sheen.

• 10:02Speaker 00

  But I think that we can make a bit of, we could do it like, you know, um, an archive clip show. If there is that, we could then throw back to episodes and we could be like, oh, remember that, that was a great, and then it might bring people back to the back catalogue. John's always talking about that. You met with podcast back catalogues, a big thing, right?

• 10:18Speaker 05

  That catalogues are very important, yeah.

• 10:20Speaker 00

  So in a way, it could be a positive for everyone.

• 10:22Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 10:23Speaker 00

  In the show. But I am really sorry and it's a big fuck up.

• 10:25Speaker 01

  It is a massive fuck up.

• 10:27Speaker 00

  Okay, well, that's not.

• 10:28Speaker 01

  It is a massive fuck up, isn't it?

• 10:30Speaker 00

  Let's just like, be like hearted about it.

• 10:32Speaker 01

  It's a big fuck up, isn't it? Mum, what do you think? Let me check in the wrong email account.

• 10:35Speaker 02

  I, I did like it. Don't.

• 10:38Speaker 00

  Sorry, sorry, Shanti.

• 10:39Speaker 01

  It's a big fuck up.

• 10:39Speaker 02

  My, it's the wrong email address you have given.

• 10:41Speaker 00

  We've been looking at the, no, the right email address. We've just not been looking at the right account.

• 10:45Speaker 01

  Ooh, trouble in paradise.

• 10:50Speaker 02

  You are blaming the.

• 10:52Speaker 00

  I'm not blaming anyone. I'm not blaming anyone. Not blaming anyone, Shanti.

• 10:55Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no.

• 10:55Speaker 00

  No, no.

• 10:56Speaker 01

  But you mentioned Ruth, didn't you?

• 10:57Speaker 00

  No, I, that was, that, I don't know why Ruth came up.

• 11:00Speaker 01

  I don't know either, but you said it.

• 11:03Speaker 02

  My God, you can rub it in, isn't it?

• 11:05Speaker 01

  I can rub it in.

• 11:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 11:09Speaker 00

  Some pots and kettles around here.

• 11:11Speaker 01

  Okay, shall we get into our first question? This is from Louisa.

• 11:15Speaker 06

  Hi, Romesh and Shanti. This is Louisa from Christchurch.

• 11:19Speaker 00

  Hello.

• 11:19Speaker 06

  My family and I are genuinely huge fans of you both. We are seeing Romesh again in Bournemouth 2027.

• 11:26Speaker 00

  Right.

• 11:27Speaker 06

  However, if Shanti were to get her own show by then, we would sell our Romesh tickets and upgrade to Shanti's show instead.

• 11:33Speaker 00

  Upgrade.

• 11:34Speaker 06

  Anyway, if you don't mind, I'm after some advice from both of you on behalf of my mum.

• 11:39Speaker 01

  Fuck yourself.

• 11:40Speaker 02

  That's all right. Robbie, shut up.

• 11:42Speaker 00

  Sorry, go on.

• 11:44Speaker 06

  My mum and dad have been married for forty six years. There is a six year age gap between them, mum being the younger one, which I know is not a significant age gap. However, in the last few years, my dad has significantly slowed down. My mum is sprightly, energetic and sociable, whereas my dad doesn't want to do anything anymore and prefers to stay in the house watching episodes of Gold Diggers and repeats of Britain's Got Talent, which isn't my mum's idea of a good time. My question to you both is, should my dad make more of an effort and take my mum out socially? Or do you think at the ripe age of eighty, he should be allowed to do what he wants and stay in? Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. I really do love you both. Love, Louisa.

• 12:28Speaker 01

  I mean, it's a shame that Louise has given us quite a serious problem because I did want to go in really two footed about the ticket thing.

• 12:33Speaker 02

  No.

• 12:34Speaker 01

  It feels a bit out of order now. Um, so I didn't think there'd be a difference in in interest between a seventy four year old and an eighty year old. Do you know what I mean?

• 12:43Speaker 02

  Seventy four year old?

• 12:45Speaker 01

  Well, she said the dad's, her dad's eighty. No, they've been together for forty six years.

• 12:49Speaker 02

  Forty six years.

• 12:50Speaker 01

  Dad's eighty, there's a six year age gap.

• 12:53Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 12:53Speaker 01

  I subtracted the six from the eighty.

• 12:55Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:55Speaker 01

  And I've got seventy four.

• 12:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:57Speaker 01

  So I'm assuming.

• 12:58Speaker 02

  But the thing what Louisa should do, take the the father for medical check up. Because he's hiding something. So you, it's very, very true.

• 13:10Speaker 01

  What do you mean he's hiding something?

• 13:12Speaker 02

  He's tired. That's why he wants to stay at home.

• 13:14Speaker 01

  He's not hiding.

• 13:14Speaker 02

  So there must be something wrong with him. For he loses all his energy. Eighty, eighty people making love and running around. Don't worry about that. Check it, check it. And blood tests and everything else. And get him out. And I think he's suffering with something. And that's what I think.

• 13:33Speaker 01

  Let's, so I, I, I don't actually think that's bad advice. Okay, he's slowed down a bit, it's worth getting him to.

• 13:38Speaker 02

  It is, it is.

• 13:38Speaker 01

  Let's assume, let's assume that they do get the medical check up and he's fine, but he's just, he just wants to slow down. So then what should they do?

• 13:46Speaker 02

  When you get the medical check up and if there's something lacking in there.

• 13:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, but if there isn't something, what I'm asking is if there isn't something lacking.

• 13:52Speaker 02

  Then doctor can prescribe some supplement or to bring up the.

• 13:57Speaker 01

  But if there isn't something lacking.

• 13:59Speaker 02

  I went for blood test. My iron, iron level was very low.

• 14:02Speaker 01

  Right.

• 14:03Speaker 02

  I was getting tired. Now, doctor said, eat from food you can absorb all these nutrients.

• 14:09Speaker 01

  You can get nutrients from food?

• 14:12Speaker 02

  Is it a question?

• 14:13Speaker 01

  This is exclusive?

• 14:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 14:14Speaker 01

  Okay, go on.

• 14:15Speaker 02

  So when I started taking supplement, I feel great.

• 14:19Speaker 01

  But if there isn't-

• 14:19Speaker 02

  Iron, iron supplement, yeah.

• 14:21Speaker 01

  But if there isn't anything lacking, what should Louise-

• 14:23Speaker 02

  There's nothing, something wrong with him.

• 14:25Speaker 01

  Okay, but if there isn't something wrong with him, what should they do?

• 14:28Speaker 02

  You're not a doctor, ma. You're not a doctor's son.

• 14:29Speaker 01

  I'm not, neither are you. If, if we, if we're throwing accusations around.

• 14:34Speaker 02

  You, you, you go to the doctor, he will find something.

• 14:37Speaker 01

  But what, let's assume that he doesn't, or she find anything wrong, then what's the advice?

• 14:45Speaker 02

  There's a tablet I, I take.

• 14:49Speaker 02

  Not, I'm not talking about Viagra, okay?

• 14:52Speaker 01

  I didn't think you were. I, I'll be honest with you. When you said there's a tablet I take, I did not think you'd be taking Viagra.

• 14:57Speaker 02

  She should be very grateful, nothing wrong with your husband.

• 15:00Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 15:01Speaker 02

  Everything in functioning properly.

• 15:02Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 15:03Speaker 02

  The vital points all functioning.

• 15:05Speaker 01

  All the vital points.

• 15:10Speaker 02

  Take Farmitan.

• 15:12Speaker 01

  Farmitan, okay.

• 15:13Speaker 02

  Farmitan tablets.

• 15:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:14Speaker 02

  It's help to, uh, the blood circulation. The main thing is, is the blood circulation.

• 15:20Speaker 01

  Can we put a caption under here? This is not actually, because we've got to distance ourselves. This is fucking wild.

• 15:25Speaker 05

  Shanti, what about if, uh, one of them is sort of-

• 15:28Speaker 01

  Don't say if there's nothing wrong.

• 15:29Speaker 05

  One of them is-

• 15:30Speaker 01

  I've tried that line of questioning.

• 15:32Speaker 05

  So if one of them is, it could be that one of them is just aging better than the other.

• 15:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:35Speaker 05

  So as one is aging, she's obviously keeping energetic, but as, as he is aging, he's slowing down a bit more and he's like, he's finding it harder.

• 15:42Speaker 02

  I have seen people criticizing, oh, you're an old man.

• 15:46Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 15:46Speaker 02

  That play a big part in your life. So to encourage him and ask him to come out and go to cinema or enjoy, give first priority to him until he gets his energy back. That's what I think. I have seen people, oh, you old bitch, o- old man, you can't do anything.

• 16:03Speaker 01

  Who says, oh, you old bitch? Who's saying that?

• 16:07Speaker 02

  You don't know, Romesh.

• 16:08Speaker 01

  Mum, tell me, when have you heard somebody just going, oh, you old bitch? When have you heard that?

• 16:13Speaker 02

  Are you, are you trying to tell me they don't talk like that?

• 16:16Speaker 01

  Who, who is they? What, like what? The public say you old bitch?

• 16:23Speaker 01

  What the fuck are you talking about?

• 16:27Speaker 01

  What the fuck are you talking about?

• 16:30Speaker 02

  You, where are you?

• 16:32Speaker 01

  Opposite you.

• 16:37Speaker 02

  Look around, listen, not he has.

• 16:44Speaker 01

  Mum, the public are not saying, you old bitch.

• 16:46Speaker 02

  Poor dad, poor dad, oh, he's slowing, he's not slowing down.

• 16:50Speaker 01

  He is, she's just said, he wants to stay in.

• 16:53Speaker 02

  I can feel, son, he's not slowing, there's something wrong with him.

• 16:56Speaker 01

  You've listened to a recording of his daughter.

• 16:58Speaker 02

  Daughter says he's slowing down, why, why do you slow down? Health issue, health issue.

• 17:04Speaker 01

  Okay, fuck me.

• 17:05Speaker 00

  Could it not, could it just be a personality thing? Some people don't like going out as much and doing as much. I mean, I'm like that and I'm not, I'm not.

• 17:12Speaker 02

  Luisa, how did he find the mother?

• 17:22Speaker 02

  Please, take him for a medical checkup.

• 17:26Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 17:34Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 17:35Speaker 02

  Anyway darling, if you don't want to take him, give him Farbiton.

• 17:39Speaker 00

  But so we're not giving any medical advice.

• 17:42Speaker 02

  Don't, don't.

• 17:42Speaker 01

  Don't give him Farbiton.

• 17:44Speaker 00

  Do if you feel that that's medical, or the doctor advises it.

• 17:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, okay.

• 17:49Speaker 00

  But, but otherwise it's not medical.

• 17:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, this is not medical advice.

• 17:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 17:53Speaker 01

  I'm not a doctor.

• 17:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know, they used to say, take aspirin, uh, do aspirin, it's good for the heart. Now they are saying, don't take it, it doesn't work.

• 18:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:02Speaker 02

  Because for the heart, it too, if you take too soluble aspirin, it's good for you.

• 18:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:08Speaker 02

  But now they are saying, don't take it.

• 18:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, okay, well, what I don't want.

• 18:12Speaker 02

  I threw the, threw it in the bin.

• 18:13Speaker 01

  But you can still keep it, it's not a bomb.

• 18:17Speaker 01

  You can use, you can use it.

• 18:24Speaker 01

  Get him out of here!

• 18:28Speaker 02

  Oh my god.

• 18:32Speaker 02

  I feel sorry for Louisa's dad.

• 18:33Speaker 01

  I do too, because she's emailed in for fucking advice. And you keep saying, take Farmington.

• 18:39Speaker 02

  I'm not saying take Farmington.

• 18:41Speaker 01

  Or don't.

• 18:43Speaker 02

  And she didn't email, she didn't email, because we'd never have.

• 18:45Speaker 01

  Oh, she didn't email, sorry, she she voice noted, sorry.

• 18:48Speaker 02

  We'd we'd never have got to it otherwise. I do feel sorry for him.

• 18:51Speaker 01

  Well done, John, that was really, that was great work.

• 18:53Speaker 02

  Your father slowed down when he was sixty, isn't it?

• 18:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:57Speaker 02

  Then he's dead.

• 18:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, okay. What's wrong, Ben's really, you're really pissed off.

• 19:05Speaker 01

  Uh, Louisa, my advice is that you're, let's assume that

• 19:11Speaker 01

  there's not a medical issue and your dad is just slowing down at a faster rate than your mum and there's a six year age gap and he's just, um, I think you're, you know, with all, as with all relationships, you need to find some sort of compromise, don't you? And so I think your mum could sometimes

• 19:27Speaker 02

  Energise him.

• 19:28Speaker 01

  Could sometimes offer to, sorry, did I, I paused for half a second, did you think I'd finish my answer?

• 19:36Speaker 01

  Do I, am I allowed, am I still allowed to take gaps in between words?

• 19:40Speaker 02

  Sometimes you do.

• 19:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, I I do, I try, I try and take a gap between every word.

• 19:49Speaker 01

  Sometimes you can stay in and watch Britain's Got Talent or whatever it is, I can't remember what the other thing was. Or you go out, I think you need to find a compromise, that would be my suggestion.

• 19:57Speaker 02

  Take him for a walk.

• 19:58Speaker 01

  Take him for a walk.

• 19:59Speaker 02

  To begin with.

• 19:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:00Speaker 02

  It's good for you, walking.

• 20:02Speaker 01

  I think a lot of the time when people sort of get tired, what they don't realise is getting out and doing

• 20:06Speaker 02

  Start from the next one.

• 20:08Speaker 01

  I I took a gap between words ago, I'm so sorry. Go on, mum.

• 20:14Speaker 01

  Sorry, that's my mistake.

• 20:19Speaker 02

  You get lazy because it starts from the legs.

• 20:21Speaker 01

  Right.

• 20:22Speaker 02

  Because there's so many connections in there, the calf muscle. So exercise the legs.

• 20:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 20:29Speaker 01

  So mum.

• 20:31Speaker 02

  Maybe.

• 20:34Speaker 00

  To be fair, you did hesitate.

• 20:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, sorry, I did, I did, yeah.

• 20:41Speaker 01

  Mum's advice to your mum and dad would be the same that she would give to somebody that's suffering from deep vein thrombosis.

• 20:49Speaker 01

  But what I would say to you is, sometimes people don't realise that, you know, actually getting out will energise them.

• 20:56Speaker 02

  That's it, that's it. And then find out, her mum will know what are the things he likes.

• 21:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:04Speaker 02

  So let him do that. Maybe there are so many restrictions you put on.

• 21:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:08Speaker 02

  The husband, you can't do that, you can't do that, I'm active, don't do that.

• 21:11Speaker 01

  I don't think she's putting restrictions.

• 21:13Speaker 02

  And energise him, tell him the good encouragement. What?

• 21:18Speaker 01

  Well, a lot of your advice you would also give to somebody that owned a dog, wouldn't you? Take him out for a walk, encourage him, praise him.

• 21:24Speaker 02

  Don't, don't compare a human being to a dog, okay?

• 21:27Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 21:28Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 21:32Speaker 01

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• 21:37Speaker 00

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• 21:51Speaker 01

  It's a very good point. Thank you so much for asking the question. And obviously I'm somebody that does deliver epic nights out, you know. I, I don't want to overstate it, but my job is literally to sort of change people's lives through the live experience, do you know what I mean? They, they come, they watch the show. It's transformative, you know, a lot of people are saying it's transformative.

• 22:08Speaker 00

  It's a comedy show, yeah.

• 22:09Speaker 01

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• 23:55Speaker 01

  Louisa, thank you so much for your question. Our next one is from Sweater. Hi, Romesh and Shanti. This is Sweater. I absolutely find your podcast incredible.

• 24:04Speaker 07

  Be funny, especially with Shanti.

• 24:05Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 24:06Speaker 07

  I've got a question for Shanti since she's the most hilarious one. No offence, Romesh.

• 24:09Speaker 01

  That's okay.

• 24:10Speaker 07

  My question is, Shanti, if you could swap your life with Romesh for twenty four hours, what would you do? Other than making him call you every single day, what would you make Romesh do? Thank you.

• 24:22Speaker 01

  Um, I would say if she's only me for twenty four hours, calling me every day is gonna be tricky.

• 24:28Speaker 01

  Um, far be it for me to be picky with someone that said that my mum's more hilarious. Mum, what would you do if you're me for twenty four hours?

• 24:34Speaker 02

  In your position?

• 24:35Speaker 01

  Yes, if you're me for twenty four hours.

• 24:37Speaker 02

  I'll visit.

• 24:38Speaker 01

  Visit who?

• 24:39Speaker 02

  You. You're you're Shanti.

• 24:42Speaker 01

  You'll visit me?

• 24:42Speaker 02

  No, no, I didn't understand.

• 24:44Speaker 01

  I've disappeared into the ether, I think. She's not said we've done a body swap.

• 24:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, I I'll keep in touch. I'll bring the warmth in in my relationship. And yeah, yeah, I I love to see my.

• 24:58Speaker 02

  See you more often.

• 24:59Speaker 01

  I don't think you've got your head around this, what she's asking.

• 25:01Speaker 02

  So I think so, I'm also.

• 25:02Speaker 01

  You've become Romesh. You're Romesh. You're Romesh for a day. What do you do?

• 25:07Speaker 02

  All right, I enjoy all the lovely things that you are having, but I can't do the comedy.

• 25:16Speaker 01

  Why not?

• 25:17Speaker 02

  You are the number one. You are the best.

• 25:19Speaker 01

  Sweater's just said you're more hilarious to me, so it might be an improvement.

• 25:23Speaker 02

  You, son, I'll be nothing there. I'm telling you.

• 25:26Speaker 01

  Okay, finally we get to the truth.

• 25:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I'd rather tag along with you and enjoy myself.

• 25:32Speaker 01

  You're me.

• 25:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:34Speaker 01

  So what would you do?

• 25:35Speaker 02

  Ah, right, say that I'm a comedian.

• 25:36Speaker 01

  Let's let's let's say you're you wake up, you're me. You look alongside.

• 25:41Speaker 02

  Right.

• 25:41Speaker 01

  Okay, you look at the one.

• 25:42Speaker 02

  I'm Romesh.

• 25:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:44Speaker 02

  I look at the phone, oh, bitch, yes, call.

• 25:52Speaker 02

  Bloody hell, mum is sending this, um, what's that, all these spiritual things. She's mad. Put the phone down.

• 26:01Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 26:01Speaker 02

  And not to call her, leave it for a few days. If she's dead, nobody will inform you. That's it. That's from it.

• 26:09Speaker 01

  Okay, that so that's the morning.

• 26:12Speaker 02

  Morning gone.

• 26:12Speaker 01

  And then and then what happens?

• 26:15Speaker 02

  I'll be in the car, travelling with Jim or John.

• 26:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, Hobsey.

• 26:20Speaker 02

  And, yeah.

• 26:21Speaker 01

  Or Sevy.

• 26:23Speaker 02

  Sevy, yeah, and then you won't talk, either sleeping.

• 26:27Speaker 01

  So you're going to sleep in the car.

• 26:28Speaker 02

  And you wake up and you see Ben and everybody and whatever you are so, I'm I will be so good at performing.

• 26:35Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 26:37Speaker 02

  That I had my, I will do that and spend, give all my energy towards it, cause that brings money. There you are, that's it.

• 26:46Speaker 01

  And then after that, so that's.

• 26:47Speaker 02

  After that, just start a snorting in the car, go back home, eat that wakamama or whatever chili. Because your body is starving for spicy food. That's it.

• 27:03Speaker 01

  And then go to bed.

• 27:04Speaker 02

  Go to bed, play with the dog for a while.

• 27:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, so.

• 27:07Speaker 02

  I'm used to having, I will, I won't check the phone about the mother.

• 27:11Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 27:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:13Speaker 01

  So, Svetta, I hope you're, you were hoping to.

• 27:15Speaker 02

  A question being answered, yeah.

• 27:16Speaker 01

  Could I have a half-assed description of Romesh's day? Because that's what you got.

• 27:20Speaker 00

  What if it was like a Freaky Friday, that, remember the Little Dicky?

• 27:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:25Speaker 00

  Where it's what with Chris.

• 27:26Speaker 01

  First of all, let's not, Freaky Friday, let's not attribute that original idea to Little Dicky, okay?

• 27:32Speaker 00

  That's when I felt.

• 27:32Speaker 01

  This is, this is what's a fucking problem with people like you, because you love Little Dicky.

• 27:36Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 27:36Speaker 01

  You think he came up with the body swap idea, okay? That's one, that's one of the latest iterations of body swap, and by the way, I love that song, right? Reservation is about Chris Brown's conductor side, it's a great song, okay? But, okay, let's, so imagine we body swapped.

• 27:53Speaker 00

  So, so I, we've heard what, um, Shanti would do, but what would you do as Shanti then?

• 27:59Speaker 01

  I, I think I'd just be, first of all, I couldn't be naked.

• 28:04Speaker 02

  Why you had to be naked?

• 28:05Speaker 01

  I just wouldn't be, I wouldn't.

• 28:07Speaker 00

  But you wait, you're gonna wake up, what do you wear?

• 28:09Speaker 02

  Nightdress, nice sexy nightdress I wear.

• 28:14Speaker 01

  I just, I, I, I think it's a bit, I don't like it. I don't like this hypo, I don't like this imaginary thing. I don't, I don't feel comfortable.

• 28:23Speaker 02

  I can send mine to you.

• 28:24Speaker 01

  No, I don't, this is not.

• 28:25Speaker 00

  You know, Mee too's woken up as you, so you'll be wearing whatever you were wearing when you went to bed.

• 28:30Speaker 01

  So you've woken up in your sexy nightdress.

• 28:32Speaker 02

  Yes, yeah.

• 28:34Speaker 00

  You gonna go out like that?

• 28:35Speaker 01

  I'd put on, I, I, well, I feel, I'm, I'm in it for 24 hours, right? I, I don't wanna see my body at all.

• 28:41Speaker 00

  So you're gonna be gonna look in the mirror, because you won't know, you, you'll look down, I guess.

• 28:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, and that'll be horrifying, right? So then I'll be, I'll just got fucking have like some sort of seizure.

• 28:53Speaker 00

  You'd definitely go and look in the mirror.

• 28:55Speaker 01

  No, I would not. I, I would then.

• 28:58Speaker 00

  If you were your mum and you woke up and you saw your body, you wouldn't check yourself.

• 29:01Speaker 01

  No, I check, no, but I, I might, first of all, have I been notified that I'm gonna be my mum for a bit? No, so I've just woken up as a.

• 29:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 29:07Speaker 01

  So I think pretty quickly I'd know what's going on. Do you know what I mean? I'm in my mum's bedroom. Right, I've woken up, I'm in a sexy nightdress. Alright, so I think, okay, classic, body swap.

• 29:24Speaker 01

  It's the old body swap.

• 29:26Speaker 00

  Defended by a little picky.

• 29:27Speaker 01

  Bit of pickle. If it goes the way I think it might go, this is only gonna last for 24 hours. So let's get on with my day. I wouldn't have a shower or bath. Probably brush my teeth. I'm not, I don't want to see.

• 29:43Speaker 01

  I'd probably try and avoid using the toilet at all. I'd probably take some Imodium. I don't want to, in my mother's body, take a shit.

• 29:54Speaker 00

  Why?

• 29:54Speaker 01

  I just don't want, I don't think you lose that, man. That fucking defines you going, knowing what it's like to pop a squat as your mum.

• 30:04Speaker 01

  I think it's horrible.

• 30:10Speaker 02

  Anyway, you want to have a hanging bit?

• 30:12Speaker 01

  I put, oh.

• 30:15Speaker 01

  I'd put on twenty seven layers. No, I'd get dressed.

• 30:20Speaker 00

  But to get dressed, you'd have to take?

• 30:21Speaker 01

  No, on over the night dress.

• 30:23Speaker 00

  Oh, okay, okay.

• 30:24Speaker 01

  I'd put stuff on over the night.

• 30:25Speaker 05

  I'm really sorry to ask this, what would you, what would you put on?

• 30:28Speaker 01

  I'd go for joggers.

• 30:29Speaker 05

  Mm hmm.

• 30:30Speaker 01

  Sort of loose joggers, uh. Probably a top like that might be all right.

• 30:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:36Speaker 01

  Maybe something bigger. I'd go for the bigger stuff. Uh, and then I would, uh. I don't know what I'd do. What sort of, I'd go do pilates.

• 30:46Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:47Speaker 01

  I've always wanted to try pilates, but I don't want to join any pilates class. I was Romesh Ranganathan.

• 30:51Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 30:52Speaker 01

  So I'd go as you. You know all those people. I'd go to pilates.

• 30:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:55Speaker 01

  Uh, go for a coffee morning with one of your friends.

• 30:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:58Speaker 01

  And I'd go like this. I'd be like, so, because I'm a bit suspicious about how you've conducted yourself. So I'd go, um, darling, what are some of the things that I've said about Romesh during our previous meetings?

• 31:14Speaker 01

  And then I'd find out what sort of shit you've been saying about me. Uh, then I'd go see Dinesh.

• 31:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 31:21Speaker 01

  And I'd say, you know, I've always loved Romesh more. See you later, Baldi. And then I'd leave.

• 31:33Speaker 01

  Uh, then I'd, uh, I'd go home. Um, I'd look through the house.

• 31:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 31:41Speaker 01

  And I'd get all of the needless shit that I've got in and around the house and I'd stick it up on Vinted.

• 31:48Speaker 02

  I don't know how to do that.

• 31:50Speaker 01

  No, but you will do after I've done it. And then I'll go to bed.

• 31:55Speaker 01

  Probably about eight in the evening, because I don't think you go to bed early enough.

• 31:58Speaker 02

  No.

• 31:58Speaker 01

  And that's my day.

• 32:00Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 32:01Speaker 01

  What do we think?

• 32:02Speaker 02

  Good.

• 32:03Speaker 01

  Thanks, Sweater. All right, have we got time for another one?

• 32:06Speaker 00

  Yeah, we've got time for one more.

• 32:07Speaker 01

  Okay, uh, this is from Jamal. Hello, Romesh and Shanti. Big fan of the show. I'm Jamal from Leicester. My question is going to Shanti. Um, I'm getting married in summer and my mother-in-law, future mother-in-law, is, uh, uh, English is not that great. What is the best tips? You can give me to impress her and do without really speaking her language. What would you say would impress her? And also same for Romesh, what did you do to impress your mother in law, if you even impressed your mother in law? Anyway, thank you.

• 32:51Speaker 01

  Okay, um, it sounds like Jamal had to end that because he's getting a message through. Um, mum, Jamal's future mother in law, is it future mother in law? Yeah. Doesn't speak much English, what do you do?

• 33:06Speaker 02

  Ask him to learn the language he speaks.

• 33:11Speaker 01

  That that's gonna take a while, isn't it?

• 33:13Speaker 02

  Or talk to her in English, she will understand.

• 33:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 33:17Speaker 02

  Or give her a class.

• 33:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 33:19Speaker 02

  English class and.

• 33:20Speaker 01

  English lessons, that's not a bad idea.

• 33:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know, slowly start and she will pick it up. The people used to come from

• 33:31Speaker 02

  different countries.

• 33:32Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 33:32Speaker 02

  Some of them couldn't even pronounce a word.

• 33:35Speaker 01

  I know.

• 33:36Speaker 02

  Uh, they used to say, excuse me, so some of the guys understood, kiss me. Excuse me, yeah, it's I heard at work, they they used to, because the pronunciation is even some of the words I pronounce.

• 33:51Speaker 01

  Can you give me the context of this, so?

• 33:53Speaker 02

  I'm just saying, no.

• 33:54Speaker 01

  At work, somebody said, excuse me.

• 33:56Speaker 02

  Excuse me, yeah.

• 33:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, and somebody else thought they said kiss me.

• 33:59Speaker 02

  Kiss me, hmm.

• 34:01Speaker 01

  I I mean, I I think with things like that, throw a bit of context in there. You're at work, how likely is it somebody said kiss me?

• 34:08Speaker 02

  For example, teacher English, that's it.

• 34:11Speaker 01

  Okay, teacher English.

• 34:12Speaker 02

  English, yeah.

• 34:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:13Speaker 01

  I think you should say to her, I'm gonna teach you English, and if you don't wanna learn, fuck off back home.

• 34:18Speaker 02

  No, no, no, you don't say things like that.

• 34:22Speaker 01

  Oh, sorry, well, she won't understand anyway.

• 34:27Speaker 01

  I'm joking, I actually think your first thing that I would poo-pooed is actually a good bit of advice. Learning her language could be a nice way of bonding. And even if you don't like, you're not gonna get fluent, but even if you learn a little bit.

• 34:40Speaker 02

  Little bit, she will appreciate.

• 34:41Speaker 01

  Willing and it's a nice way to connect and you can do a little exchange thing. She can learn a bit of English, you can learn a bit of whatever language it is she speaks.

• 34:48Speaker 02

  Think if I have told you my mother tongue.

• 34:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:52Speaker 02

  I think we'll be very close.

• 34:55Speaker 01

  We are very close.

• 34:56Speaker 02

  We are close, but I can't shout at you in my language, isn't it?

• 35:00Speaker 01

  Go for it now. Imagine like just start in Tamil, just really have a go at me.

• 35:03Speaker 02

  No.

• 35:04Speaker 01

  No.

• 35:05Speaker 02

  No. You won't understand a word.

• 35:08Speaker 01

  No, but we can put captions underneath. Go on, go for it.

• 35:14Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, I don't want to.

• 35:16Speaker 01

  You know, you really need to learn to yes and on this. Do you know what I mean? You're very negative Nini sometimes. Shanti, how do you say you never call me in Tamil? Fuck you, John.

• 35:27Speaker 02

  Ni enakka koodukkarela?

• 35:28Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 35:29Speaker 02

  En?

• 35:30Speaker 01

  How do you say, thanks to you, I have no mortgage?

• 35:36Speaker 02

  En koodla mortgage allan kattimudinje.

• 35:39Speaker 01

  Oh, I like it. Sounds musical.

• 35:42Speaker 02

  So you understood that because I use the mortgage.

• 35:44Speaker 01

  No, because I told you English.

• 35:52Speaker 01

  Uh, Jamal, we hope that helps. Thank you for messaging in. And if you have sent, by the way, if anybody wants to send in emails, don't.

• 36:02Speaker 00

  No, no, we can now.

• 36:03Speaker 01

  We can. Well, you've got, well, you've got six hundred and thirty to get through.

• 36:06Speaker 00

  Well, shall I start from the, I don't know what end to start from.

• 36:09Speaker 01

  Do it like Drake. Start from the bottom, now here. Um, are you gonna go through all of them?

• 36:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:14Speaker 01

  Okay. You're gonna go through.

• 36:16Speaker 00

  I feel genuinely feel very bad about this.

• 36:18Speaker 01

  Okay. Well, you should do.

• 36:20Speaker 00

  I think like Will and I could split it up. Probably Will could do some.

• 36:22Speaker 01

  I would email Ruth as well to apologize to her.

• 36:24Speaker 00

  Yeah, I regret bringing Ruth into it.

• 36:26Speaker 01

  So mad. Mum, what do you think about this episode? How do you think this episode's gone?

• 36:30Speaker 02

  Fantastic. I enjoyed so much.

• 36:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:32Speaker 02

  Everything. Yeah, really good, man. Yeah.

• 36:35Speaker 01

  You happy?

• 36:35Speaker 02

  Mahan. I mean, some people.

• 36:37Speaker 00

  They think you're saying man.

• 36:38Speaker 02

  Man.

• 36:38Speaker 00

  But you're saying mahan.

• 36:39Speaker 02

  Mahan. My son, son, son. Man, yes, man. Man, man, yes, man.

• 36:45Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:46Speaker 02

  Like Jamaicans.

• 36:47Speaker 01

  You got a question?

• 36:47Speaker 00

  No, I, I just thought maybe you, maybe it, and I, would you apologize as well, just on part behalf of everyone?

• 36:53Speaker 01

  For what?

• 36:54Speaker 00

  For the email thing. I just feel like it'd be more, because it means more from you, doesn't it?

• 36:58Speaker 01

  Okay, um, everybody that emailed in, I'm so sorry for Ben's fuck up.

• 37:06Speaker 01

  And Ruth, I'm sorry that Ben brought your name into this podcast for the first time, merely to throw you under the bus.

• 37:11Speaker 00

  No, it wasn't, okay.

• 37:12Speaker 01

  I hope you have the opportunity to remove the tire marks from your back.

• 37:17Speaker 01

  Ben's, on behalf of the Romesh Rang and Nathan Show, sorry about Ben.

• 37:23Speaker 00

  You're sorry too, though.

• 37:24Speaker 01

  I am sorry that Ben was in charge of emails.

• 37:28Speaker 00

  And then John could have stepped in.

• 37:29Speaker 01

  John could have stepped in, but it wasn't his responsibility. John does a lot.

• 37:34Speaker 01

  We made it a runner that we only had one email. We all laughed about it. We thought it was a funny little thing. Turns out lots of people emailing in and Ben was checking a different account because he fucked up. So I'm sorry about that.

• 37:46Speaker 02

  Why didn't you check it?

• 37:48Speaker 01

  Why didn't I check it?

• 37:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:49Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. Why don't I fucking hoover the carpet while I go, I'm the fucking talon?

• 37:53Speaker 00

  You're also the exec producer.

• 37:55Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:55Speaker 01

  Am I?

• 37:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:57Speaker 01

  What does that mean on a podcast?

• 37:58Speaker 00

  I don't know.

• 37:59Speaker 02

  Is anybody sending email? Did you read? You could have asked that question.

• 38:02Speaker 01

  Oh, sorry. Oh, sorry. You're on the every Thursday episode. Why don't you check?

• 38:07Speaker 02

  I'm a fucking.

• 38:07Speaker 01

  I'm fucking reading this. I'm doing all of the functional work on this.

• 38:10Speaker 00

  Do you not think in retrospect, though, one of us could have thought like, oh, that's weird. Why have we only had one? We all are responsible collectively. No, we are. We're all collectively responsible. We can all go, why is that? Surely maybe, let's think about, Ben, have you checked all that?

• 38:24Speaker 01

  Can I tell you something? Can I tell you why that didn't? I did think it's weird that we've only got one email. Not in a million years.

• 38:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 38:30Speaker 01

  Did I think it's because the person checking the account is so fuckminded that they would check the wrong email. That is so far from the realms of possibility of what the answer could. Could it be it's more likely than only one email has been sent than somebody is so fucking stupid and incompetent that they check an email account for an email address that we've never, ever given out on the podcast? Ever. The idea that that is the solution is so, it's like going, oh, a unicorn has been deleting the emails. That's as likely. So that's why it didn't occur to me.

• 39:09Speaker 00

  And with that in mind, you will apologize.

• 39:11Speaker 01

  Sorry about Ben. So not only, so people are asking to see him. I didn't want to fucking hear him now. Six, how many?

• 39:22Speaker 00

  Six hundred and thirty-two.

• 39:23Speaker 01

  Six hundred and thirty-two emails. Six hundred and thirty-two apologies.

• 39:28Speaker 00

  But please keep emailing.

• 39:31Speaker 01

  Well, will you see them?

• 39:32Speaker 00

  We'll, we'll check.

• 39:33Speaker 01

  Now, in all seriousness, we are sorry about that.

• 39:35Speaker 00

  We are sorry.

• 39:35Speaker 01

  We are sorry about that.

• 39:36Speaker 00

  You've got to laugh there, haven't you?

• 39:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course you have to. You send in an email, you tune into the podcast, they're complaining about only getting one email and you think, well, I have emailed. It's quite a serious problem that required some advice as soon as, ASAP.

• 39:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 39:50Speaker 01

  Then you come into the Thursday episode, still not there. And then we do another joke about, unless anyone emailed. And you think, bloody hell, that's weird. I definitely sent an email. And then you send that same email six hundred and thirty-two times.

• 40:02Speaker 00

  We prefer voice notes though, anyway, don't we? As a rule.

• 40:05Speaker 01

  Well, we've had to.

• 40:08Speaker 01

  I've got no idea whether we prefer voice notes to emails. Of course I haven't fucking seen any. Thank you for all your messages and your emails. Mum, it's been real. We'll be back on Monday with another exciting guest. See you later.

• 40:21Speaker 02

  See you later.

• 40:22Speaker 01

  Go fuck yourselves, you dumb arseholes.

• 40:26Speaker 05

  I'm sorry.

• 40:27Speaker 01

  I'm sorry about Ben. Fuck you.

• 40:30Speaker 02

  Oh my god.

• 40:33Speaker 01

  Thank you so much for watching this episode of the Romesh Ranga Nathan Show. I've been told that some of you are watching this, enjoying it, wallowing in it, but you still haven't subscribed. That's mad behaviour. You're going to miss episodes. Very silly. So follow and subscribe to the Romesh Ranga Nathan Show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. We drop new episodes every Monday and Thursday. On Monday, I'm here with amazing guests, talking about their career, what they're up to, having a laugh with them. And then on Thursdays, I'm joined by my mum, widely regarded as the audience's favourite Ranga Nathan. And we answer your questions, your stories and your family dilemmas. We'll be back on Monday with another great guest and then Mum will see you again on Thursday.

• 41:10Speaker 01

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• 41:25Speaker 02

  Oh, shut up, Romesh.

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