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In this Thursday episode of The Romesh Ranganathan Show, Shanthi and Romesh revisit Shanthi's ongoing vendetta against actor Idris Elba. We also tackle your listener dilemmas and Shanthi opens up about what helped her rebuild her life after losing her husband.
Elsewhere, Romesh and Shanthi debate manifestation, test their Wimbledon knowledge, and reveal their celebrity crushes.
From self-care and self-belief to country music and comedy, it's another classic Thursday episode with Shanthi with plentry of Ranganthan roasting in between.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:06 Manifestation with Shanthi
06:04 A country introduction
07:52 A production decision
09:04 Shanthi loves country and silk
10:10 Shanthi burns Romesh
11:55 Rom roasts the team
13:35 Shania Twain’s fashion advice
15:06 Shanthi’s grandma tactics
18:41 Shanthi’s self care advice
22:25 A Wimbledon quiz
32:46 Some advice on being a widow
40:00 The Ranganathan celebrity crushes
44:50 Shanthi’s beef with Idris Elba
56:24 Outro
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Transcript 10,487 words · 8 speakers
0:00 Speaker 00 Hello, sticker Calippo in your ring. It's the Romesh Ranganathan Show, Thursday edition. What's up?
0:12 Speaker 00 What do you think? Yeah, I mean, it's getting warmer, isn't it? Every Thursday, we chat about Monday's episode. I'll answer your questions and dilemmas alongside the incredible Shanthi Ranganathan. Mum, how are you today? So I'm shouting, I'm so sorry. Just so excited to be opposite you.
0:26 Speaker 01 Are you telling me the truth?
0:27 Speaker 00 Yeah.
0:28 Speaker 01 Okay, I'm fine, son.
0:29 Speaker 00 Trousers, shirt, nails.
0:34 Speaker 00 What's it called here?
0:35 Speaker 01 Eyebrow.
0:36 Speaker 00 No, the eyelids. I know that's called eyebrow. What's the makeup you put on the lid?
0:40 Speaker 01 Eye makeup.
0:41 Speaker 00 Yeah.
0:42 Speaker 01 No, mascara.
0:43 Speaker 00 Mascara?
0:44 Speaker 01 It's not, this is mascara. I don't know.
0:47 Speaker 00 You don't know what that's called? Lid paint. Anyway, it's all coordinated. You look great.
0:54 Speaker 01 Thank you. Coming from you, it's difficult to get any, any.
0:57 Speaker 00 It's not true.
0:58 Speaker 01 Compliments.
0:58 Speaker 00 That's not true.
0:59 Speaker 01 Yeah. Front of Lisa, you won't say it.
1:02 Speaker 00 Front of Lisa, what's that?
1:03 Speaker 01 Mum, you look so beautiful. Will you say that?
1:06 Speaker 00 I didn't say that now. I said, you look great. It's coordinated. Your lid paint matches your nails and your nice watch.
1:12 Speaker 01 You like it?
1:12 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:13 Speaker 01 You like the watch?
1:13 Speaker 00 Yeah. How often are you getting your nails done?
1:17 Speaker 01 When I get the gap here.
1:19 Speaker 00 Yeah, then you start to get it done.
1:21 Speaker 01 Because it irritates me. Beautiful man, I want you to dress like that.
1:26 Speaker 00 To dress like this?
1:27 Speaker 01 No, paint your nails.
1:28 Speaker 00 Yeah, okay.
1:29 Speaker 01 I put cross there.
1:31 Speaker 00 Yeah, I went to.
1:33 Speaker 01 Where? They are rip off.
1:38 Speaker 00 Can we bleep the name, please?
1:41 Speaker 00 Why are they a rip off? They're a small, independent business.
1:44 Speaker 01 Business, yeah.
1:45 Speaker 00 Yeah, what's wrong? Why are they rip off?
1:47 Speaker 01 They charge you so much money, man.
1:49 Speaker 00 How much do you think this cost me to get all my nails done?
1:51 Speaker 01 Forty-five pounds?
1:52 Speaker 02 So are they all done or just one?
1:54 Speaker 00 Well, I got mats on these, but they are done. They're all dumb. I didn't go in and just get one dumb. They won't let you go in and just get one done on each hand. Ben, would you ever get your nails done?
2:06 Speaker 02 I don't think I could pull that off.
2:08 Speaker 01 No, you think you can, you can't, but you can.
2:11 Speaker 00 You can.
2:12 Speaker 01 You can.
2:13 Speaker 00 You can.
2:14 Speaker 01 Michael Jackson, look at him. I watched that film.
2:16 Speaker 00 Look at all the stuff Michael Jackson did.
2:17 Speaker 01 Michael Jackson did.
2:19 Speaker 00 You could do all of that.
2:19 Speaker 01 How wonderful he looks.
2:20 Speaker 00 You could do everything Michael Jackson did, Ben.
2:23 Speaker 01 Yeah, you can, you can.
2:24 Speaker 02 I do have a glove.
2:24 Speaker 00 If you want to.
2:26 Speaker 01 You should think about Bruce Lee.
2:27 Speaker 00 Yeah. Yeah.
2:29 Speaker 01 Because don't ever put yourself down. It stays in your body.
2:34 Speaker 00 Yeah.
2:35 Speaker 01 That's why it's called spelling, spelling, spelling.
2:40 Speaker 00 What the fuck?
2:45 Speaker 01 The spell stays on your body.
2:47 Speaker 00 Yeah.
2:48 Speaker 01 So don't ever put yourself down. Think that I'm handsome. I'm good.
2:54 Speaker 00 And Bruce Lee.
2:54 Speaker 01 I can pull women.
2:55 Speaker 02 And Bruce Lee did that.
2:56 Speaker 00 Why does Ben need to think I can pull women? He's married to children.
3:01 Speaker 01 Pull women. I'm not asking you to fuck them.
3:04 Speaker 00 Yeah. No, just pull them and then, and then say.
3:07 Speaker 01 And discard them.
3:09 Speaker 00 Yeah, and then say, no, I'm married. Joke's on you, dumbass.
3:13 Speaker 01 You get all the thrill. Oh my God, they're after me. I don't need you. I'm married.
3:18 Speaker 00 I don't think that's, I don't think Ben should be leading women on and then going on, by the way, I'm married.
3:22 Speaker 01 I'm not expecting him to leading women. No, that's the wrong thing to do.
3:26 Speaker 00 You.
3:27 Speaker 01 They should come to him.
3:28 Speaker 02 It's actually out of order, Rob. Like, you shouldn't.
3:31 Speaker 00 No, you said.
3:32 Speaker 02 I don't know why you said that, Rob.
3:33 Speaker 00 No, it was weird. Mom, I'm repeating what, I'm basically paraphrasing what you said. You said he should, you know, I, I can pull women and then say, I'm married. I don't need you.
3:42 Speaker 01 Just in your head.
3:44 Speaker 00 In your head, say I can pull women?
3:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
3:47 Speaker 00 Okay.
3:47 Speaker 01 But it's for everybody. Don't ever put yourself down, even say, I can't do it. Oh, oh no, I'm not good looking. My hair is not nice. No. God created all of you beautifully. So enjoy every day.
4:04 Speaker 00 I don't, I agree with that to a point.
4:06 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:06 Speaker 00 But people shouldn't believe they can do anything, should they?
4:09 Speaker 01 They can.
4:10 Speaker 00 That is, that, no, no, no. That is, that is, that is a big, no.
4:14 Speaker 01 What that professor said.
4:15 Speaker 00 What professor?
4:16 Speaker 01 Take a deep breath. You can do it.
4:19 Speaker 00 Yeah, that's to open a jar.
4:20 Speaker 01 No.
4:24 Speaker 00 I I'm talking about this.
4:26 Speaker 01 It works with everything.
4:28 Speaker 00 No, but I'm talking about this false narrative that if you if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything. Some stuff you just shouldn't do.
4:35 Speaker 01 For example.
4:35 Speaker 00 Like if I if I grew up thinking I can be a Premier League footballer, I couldn't. There's no chance. I can't. So actually, it's better to go. This isn't gonna happen for you.
4:45 Speaker 01 That from the young age, you find your path.
4:48 Speaker 00 Yeah.
4:49 Speaker 01 But so God has showed you what you are good at.
4:53 Speaker 00 Okay, but you're saying you can do anything.
4:55 Speaker 01 You're a footballer. You are right. You are right.
4:57 Speaker 00 Yes, okay. So we agree.
4:58 Speaker 01 Because your body is not made for that. You can talk. You have a mouth. God has given you the mouth to say filth and make people laugh.
5:09 Speaker 00 What a gift.
5:10 Speaker 01 Yeah.
5:13 Speaker 00 Mum, we had country.
5:15 Speaker 02 So what where was Bruce Lee in all of this?
5:18 Speaker 00 So actually, I do know what she's talking about. So Bruce Lee said, there's a clip that went viral of him uh saying that even if you talk negatively about yourself as a joke, your body doesn't, your body and mind don't know that you're joking. So actually, you start to.
5:34 Speaker 01 Do act.
5:35 Speaker 00 To no, well, you start to form a negative impression of yourself. And for somebody that has built a career on doing stand up tours where I just talk about what a piece of shit I am, I've got to be honest with you, watching that, it felt worrying.
5:49 Speaker 02 Hmm.
5:50 Speaker 00 But as you know, I've got very high self esteem, so it hasn't affected me.
5:55 Speaker 00 Shout out to my therapist.
5:57 Speaker 01 Are you going to the therapist? Why?
5:58 Speaker 00 Um, well, I wouldn't put a name on it, but um he would describe it as mother issues. Mum, we had country pop legend Shania Twain on this week.
6:10 Speaker 00 So I would.
6:14 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:15 Speaker 00 So I would I would love you to introduce the show like you're a country singer. I've got something to help you. There's a hat just there. Would you like to put it on?
6:24 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:24 Speaker 00 Okay, I've got one as well.
6:26 Speaker 01 Like this?
6:27 Speaker 00 Yeah. Cue the comments saying things like can't tell if they're the cowboys or the Indians or something like that. Uh mum, can you give me a?
6:36 Speaker 00 There's an amazing, there's an amazing, uh, building firm in Crawley.
6:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:43 Speaker 00 I think it's this, I think it might be, they're Asian anyway.
6:47 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:48 Speaker 00 And the, on the van, it says, you've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians.
6:56 Speaker 00 It's so good. Fucking great. Anyway, mum, what I want you to do is go like a cowgirl.
7:02 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:02 Speaker 00 You go, yee-haw, welcome to the Romesh, Rangon, Nathan Show with me, Shanthi. Okay, like a cowgirl. So down that camera, please.
7:10 Speaker 01 Okay.
7:10 Speaker 00 Really give it, mum, big.
7:12 Speaker 01 Yee-haw.
7:13 Speaker 00 Yes.
7:14 Speaker 01 Welcome to Romesh, Rangon, Nathan Show. It's me, Shanthi.
7:17 Speaker 00 Howdy, partners. Yeah.
7:32 Speaker 01 With me, Shanthi.
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8:35 Speaker 04 Ugh, I hate Mondays.
8:37 Speaker 05 King's Hawaiian cinnamon swirl bite?
8:39 Speaker 04 Uh, Taylor Hansen? Sure, I'll try one. Mmm.
8:44 Speaker 06 Hey, let's get back to work, please.
8:46 Speaker 04 But Taylor Hansen's making my day way better with these new soft and swirly King's Hawaiian cinnamon bites.
8:50 Speaker 06 Taylor Hansen? Nice.
8:52 Speaker 05 Try one.
8:54 Speaker 06 Mmm.
8:58 Speaker 05 King's Hawaiian cinnamon bites.
9:00 Speaker 00 There's nothing like it.
9:05 Speaker 00 Are we keeping this on for the rest of the episode? Did you like to?
9:08 Speaker 01 Well, yee-hoo!
9:10 Speaker 00 No, no. Would you like to keep the hats on for the rest of the episode?
9:15 Speaker 01 I love to.
9:16 Speaker 00 Shall we keep the hats on, guys? Yee-haw!
9:21 Speaker 01 Snaia, the song, I told Georgie.
9:25 Speaker 00 Yeah.
9:25 Speaker 01 The song with the...
9:27 Speaker 00 Georgie, who hasn't for some reason been allowed into the room this week.
9:29 Speaker 02 She's, she's actually just in the doorway.
9:31 Speaker 00 Why is Georgie in the doorway? What's go- This is wild.
9:36 Speaker 01 So, you are a rude fucker, that's why.
9:38 Speaker 00 No, why is she gonna, why, why does that, why does me being rude mean that Georgie has to be in the doorway?
9:45 Speaker 01 You could have done something to bring her in.
9:47 Speaker 00 Ben, first of all, I'm not responsible for the seating in here.
9:51 Speaker 01 Okay.
9:52 Speaker 00 Ben, as Georgie's husband, how do you feel?
9:54 Speaker 01 But you can subject something from me!
9:55 Speaker 00 Yeah.
9:55 Speaker 01 Yeah, I am messing around with the hat, leave it alone.
9:58 Speaker 00 Ben, as Georgie's husband, how do you feel about this?
10:01 Speaker 01 Georgie, the low step?
10:02 Speaker 00 She's, it's so bizarre. I can just see the corner of Georgie's face peering round. It's like she's been sent out of class. What's, why, why has this happened?
10:14 Speaker 02 I think she's probably worried about being called an animal and an ugo.
10:19 Speaker 00 Right.
10:19 Speaker 02 So she can distance herself a little bit while being on the press.
10:21 Speaker 00 Normally we have Georgie, we have two air conditioning units.
10:24 Speaker 02 It's really hot.
10:27 Speaker 00 So that's, that's the decision that's been made. Georgie, I'm so sorry about this.
10:32 Speaker 01 Sorry darling, you look lovely.
10:34 Speaker 00 Sorry, Georgie. Uh, Mum, would you have liked to have been a cowgirl?
10:37 Speaker 01 I love, I like the outfit and things, I do like that, yeah.
10:41 Speaker 00 We used to watch quite a lot of spaghetti westerns, didn't we?
10:45 Speaker 01 Yes, yeah. I love Clint Eastwood.
10:49 Speaker 00 Yeah.
10:51 Speaker 01 The bit I like about...
10:52 Speaker 00 Fistful of dollars.
10:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:54 Speaker 00 Few dollars more.
10:54 Speaker 01 And he takes the revenge. Somebody hit him so hard. I, I want to do it for someone else that take a revenge and knock him down. I love that. Gives me so much pleasure.
11:11 Speaker 00 I think there's an argument that both of us should have therapy. Now, Mum, Shania really loved your question about fashion. She said her favourite thing to wear is silk.
11:22 Speaker 01 I do love silk. When I went to Thailand, I wore loads of silk blouses.
11:29 Speaker 00 Yeah.
11:29 Speaker 01 Because I fell in love with cheaper.
11:31 Speaker 00 Yeah.
11:32 Speaker 01 I fell in love with ordinary.
11:33 Speaker 00 You still wear quite a bit of silk, don't you?
11:34 Speaker 01 I do, I do. I love silk. Silk saris.
11:38 Speaker 00 Yeah. Uh, she suggested that I should try wearing silk.
11:41 Speaker 01 I need a tissue.
11:42 Speaker 00 You need a tissue. Can Mum have a tissue, please?
11:44 Speaker 01 Because my eye is running. Thank you, Ben. So sorry, yeah. So sorry.
11:49 Speaker 00 That's okay, Mum. Do you want to take a, shall we take a break while you?
11:52 Speaker 01 Oh, shut up, Romesh.
11:53 Speaker 00 No, I'm being, uh, what?
11:56 Speaker 01 Sometimes the way you talk to me, I don't know whether you're joking or you're serious.
12:01 Speaker 00 Sorry, what did I do there?
12:03 Speaker 01 He just mentioned, uh, Ben, that you went to see Michael Jackson. Why wasn't I invited?
12:08 Speaker 00 Oh, okay. Let's get into this.
12:10 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:10 Speaker 00 Right.
12:11 Speaker 01 But will you come? No, you won't. You will give, oh, I have to take Charlie. Oh, Lisa organised something. I had to go. I, these are the answers I am, I'm getting.
12:21 Speaker 00 Okay, let's, shall we throw it over to the animals? Georgie, you're not an animal.
12:25 Speaker 01 No.
12:26 Speaker 00 Right. Let's throw it open to the animals and see what they think.
12:28 Speaker 01 So be a animal as well.
12:30 Speaker 00 Pardon?
12:30 Speaker 01 I'm a pig, but you are horse? Mm hmm.
12:36 Speaker 05 No, I think we're the animals.
12:37 Speaker 00 Yeah, they're the animals.
12:38 Speaker 01 I understood. So be, so.
12:40 Speaker 00 By the way, aren't they dressed beautifully?
12:42 Speaker 01 Beautifully. I was going to say, it looks so.
12:44 Speaker 00 Did you speak to each other?
12:45 Speaker 01 Did you get your sunglasses? Otherwise I'll get you one.
12:47 Speaker 05 I haven't got any yet. No, I didn't.
12:49 Speaker 01 The one.
12:50 Speaker 05 They're aviators. Yeah. That's what we spoke about last time, last week.
12:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:53 Speaker 00 The problem is, it is a good bit for John to get some aviators. And I, I would love to get some, but we're never going to show John on camera, so.
13:01 Speaker 01 Doesn't matter. He can wear it when he go out.
13:05 Speaker 00 Yeah.
13:05 Speaker 01 Doesn't have to be in the camera.
13:07 Speaker 00 No, but I'm saying it's not good.
13:08 Speaker 01 You wear things for yourself.
13:08 Speaker 00 I know, I know that mum, but what I'm saying is it's pointless because it's not content.
13:13 Speaker 01 Okay.
13:14 Speaker 00 Why, why should we care if he's got sunglasses if it's not for the podcast, do you know what I mean? Otherwise I'd get them for him if I thought it was monetisable.
13:20 Speaker 01 Why don't you get it, get it for him, darling?
13:22 Speaker 00 Okay, yeah, fine.
13:23 Speaker 01 Yeah, say that it's birthday present.
13:25 Speaker 02 It feels like we've all sort of smartened up.
13:28 Speaker 00 I know, by the way, fucking, you need an indicator for how much you're telegraphing this little bit.
13:35 Speaker 00 So let's, let's, okay, Karen, let's see, Ben, when you're doing a bit like this, you have to disguise, you have to disguise this.
13:42 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:43 Speaker 00 Basically, what Ben's gonna do is go, it's just a shame that you, um, you seem to be going in the opposite direction or something like that. It's obviously gonna be a slam on me.
13:51 Speaker 02 Oh, actually, it wasn't. It was just gonna be that we.
13:54 Speaker 00 And again, by the way, this is, he's, he's changing again now. This is.
13:59 Speaker 01 He's a director, he can do what he likes.
14:02 Speaker 02 No, I think maybe there's, this is not planned, but I wonder if all of us address smarter in the hope that maybe you're less, you know, you're less unkind to us and maybe it's just one day we could be sort of even on.
14:16 Speaker 00 Camera.
14:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, why not?
14:23 Speaker 00 They think they can be on camera.
14:25 Speaker 01 Why not?
14:25 Speaker 00 This is what happens when you talk to them with respect. They start to think they're actually part of it, mum. That's the problem. You said to me, talk to them nice, and now look, the fucking creature thinks he can be here.
14:37 Speaker 01 We are on camera.
14:38 Speaker 00 Yeah.
14:39 Speaker 01 And why can't me?
14:39 Speaker 00 And now they think, they think they're on a fucking level.
14:42 Speaker 01 John and the bear can't be, or Joey on camera.
14:45 Speaker 02 Take it back.
14:45 Speaker 01 Why? You are a road bugger, you are.
14:47 Speaker 00 Um, what's the decision about you being on camera? We're never gonna show you, are we?
14:51 Speaker 02 No.
14:52 Speaker 01 No.
14:53 Speaker 00 We will do it at some point, won't we? Like, not early, like, last episode that we ever do, whenever that happens. We'll do like a big reveal.
15:00 Speaker 02 That'll be right.
15:01 Speaker 00 Yeah?
15:01 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:01 Speaker 00 Would that be okay?
15:02 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:02 Speaker 00 Should we do that?
15:03 Speaker 02 Yeah.
15:03 Speaker 00 Okay, so six months' time. Mum?
15:06 Speaker 01 Yes?
15:06 Speaker 00 What item of clothing do you think Shania Twain suggested I should wear? Silk. I don't actually remember what she said.
15:14 Speaker 01 Light blue shirt or?
15:16 Speaker 00 Let's have a look, we've got a clip for you because we know you won't have watched it. I've never allowed silk into my life. Okay, well, you need, so that's gonna be.
15:23 Speaker 07 Good thing so silk.
15:25 Speaker 00 Yeah.
15:25 Speaker 07 Uh, you could have like a silk blend T-shirt.
15:29 Speaker 00 Okay.
15:30 Speaker 07 Doesn't have to be anything extravagant. You don't have to wear lingerie or anything.
15:33 Speaker 00 No, no, I would, to be clear.
15:36 Speaker 07 Well, you could wear silk boxers.
15:38 Speaker 00 Yeah, there you go.
15:38 Speaker 07 Nobody would even know it.
15:39 Speaker 00 No, but you'd know from the way I carried my stuff.
15:44 Speaker 00 I I think you'd know. Silk boxer shorts, Mum, what do you think?
15:50 Speaker 01 We'll be dangling around Lisa on like.
15:53 Speaker 00 Why not?
15:55 Speaker 01 Who can see all the shape and say if you have a small one, it's.
16:04 Speaker 01 You're the one mentioned when he cut the over jean. This is Sri Lankan over jean, so I'm guessing.
16:14 Speaker 00 That I've got a tiny penis?
16:15 Speaker 01 Yeah, have you?
16:22 Speaker 00 It's average size for somebody below average. Okay.
16:29 Speaker 01 I think mother and son should discuss these things.
16:31 Speaker 00 Well, I didn't want to. I don't think this can be blamed on me.
16:37 Speaker 01 I'm, I even bought Lisa a nice sexy um.
16:43 Speaker 00 Underwear.
16:43 Speaker 01 Lingerie?
16:44 Speaker 00 Yeah.
16:44 Speaker 01 Yeah, uh, because I thought, I bought it for her, because I thought they are not getting on, so I bought her one and.
16:51 Speaker 00 This has come from, we were getting on. Mum wanted us to, basically Mum wants us to have another kid.
16:57 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's why.
16:59 Speaker 00 So she bought Lisa lingerie.
17:01 Speaker 01 Try a girl.
17:02 Speaker 02 What kind of, like, describe the lingerie?
17:04 Speaker 01 Really short one and shorts and sexy top. I don't.
17:09 Speaker 02 What made it sexy?
17:10 Speaker 01 They must have given it to charity there.
17:12 Speaker 00 Yeah.
17:12 Speaker 01 Any clothes I buy for homage goes to charity. I never seen them wearing it, never, ever.
17:21 Speaker 00 Charity, bin fire, what's the difference? You, I don't think you can give lingerie to charity, by the way.
17:27 Speaker 01 So what do you do then?
17:28 Speaker 00 Well, I don't, I'm pretty sure you can't give lingerie. I don't know. I think, I can't remember. It was, this is a long time ago. It's like fifteen years ago.
17:37 Speaker 01 You didn't get it then?
17:38 Speaker 00 Didn't get what?
17:39 Speaker 01 Whatever I expected.
17:41 Speaker 00 What did you expect?
17:41 Speaker 01 Oh, no, you didn't give it to her then.
17:43 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh.
17:46 Speaker 01 Just asking.
17:47 Speaker 02 How did Lisa react when she opened the gift?
17:50 Speaker 00 Uh, we had to go to the doctor to get her vagina unsealed.
17:57 Speaker 00 It's how she reacted.
17:59 Speaker 02 I mean, I back you on those things, but I think, isn't that?
18:02 Speaker 00 It's insane.
18:03 Speaker 02 It's unusual, isn't it? It's an unusual gift.
18:06 Speaker 00 That, this is, by the way, this is the closest we had to Ben disagree with mum ever.
18:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:11 Speaker 02 This is, I'm saying it's unusual, like it's thoughtful.
18:14 Speaker 01 Ah, there you are.
18:17 Speaker 01 I want a baby girl, daughter, uh, granddaughter. So I thought they are going to stop with three. If you can afford to have more children, bring them to the earth and enjoy. But nothing happened. Anyway, you stopped, stopped, stopped.
18:36 Speaker 00 But, um.
18:40 Speaker 00 I mean, I was about to say, I don't want to talk about this anymore. I didn't want to talk about it at all. But that ship has sailed now.
18:45 Speaker 01 All right. Oh.
18:46 Speaker 00 Uh, what I would say is I think it's an unusual, I think you're right, Ben, it's an unusual gift from a mother-in-law to give underwear.
18:55 Speaker 01 When I look at Lisa, I thought she won't get angry.
18:59 Speaker 00 Hmm.
18:59 Speaker 01 If I give her something.
19:00 Speaker 00 But what I don't want is in the bedroom to look at Lisa and be reminded of you. That's the, that's the big issue.
19:12 Speaker 01 Why do I, you hate me that much?
19:14 Speaker 00 No, it's not.
19:17 Speaker 00 It's not that I hate you. I don't want to be
19:21 Speaker 00 sort of starting to have sexualization, go, God, this is a nice present from mum. Do you know what I mean?
19:27 Speaker 01 I know.
19:27 Speaker 00 It's, I don't, never the twain shall meet. I don't, I don't think those things should intersect in any way.
19:33 Speaker 01 Hmm.
19:34 Speaker 00 You know? And it's being open and then this, you know, this is.
19:37 Speaker 01 I'm very open. I will say everything.
19:39 Speaker 00 Yeah, I know.
19:40 Speaker 01 I don't hide anything.
19:42 Speaker 00 No.
19:42 Speaker 01 I, I, I won't, I won't be in a position to talk to my both boys about everything.
19:48 Speaker 00 Yes, but I think that the lingerie was a step too far. Every now and again in life, you wish that those little, you know, the things in Men in Black? You wish those existed. This is one of those moments. Uh, okay. Thank you, Mum, for the lingerie gift.
20:04 Speaker 01 You're welcome.
20:05 Speaker 00 Uh, do you think I should get silk boxer shorts?
20:08 Speaker 01 You should, you should.
20:10 Speaker 00 Okay, I'll think about it.
20:11 Speaker 01 You are getting, I must give you a compliment. You are, I think you are doing something, I'm advising you, looking after your body.
20:18 Speaker 00 You think I'm doing something that you're advising me?
20:21 Speaker 01 Yeah, I did advise, but I don't wanna say it out.
20:24 Speaker 00 Yeah.
20:25 Speaker 01 So it's working on you, on your face, on your body, so.
20:29 Speaker 00 What is it you think you advised me that I'm doing?
20:31 Speaker 01 Facial exercise.
20:33 Speaker 00 Okay.
20:33 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:34 Speaker 00 You think that, you, cause you are under the impression that my face has changed shape, haven't you?
20:37 Speaker 01 It has changed. It has changed.
20:41 Speaker 00 I don't think it has.
20:42 Speaker 01 I'm telling you, it's changed.
20:45 Speaker 00 And listen, who knows better out of us two?
20:47 Speaker 01 Me.
20:48 Speaker 00 Whether my face has changed, exactly. Um.
20:51 Speaker 05 Do you think it's more sort of angle, is the angles?
20:54 Speaker 01 The.
20:56 Speaker 00 Why are you supporting, why are you asking follow up question?
20:58 Speaker 01 Why you, whoever support me, you don't like it, why?
21:01 Speaker 00 He asked a follow up question, that's what angered me.
21:04 Speaker 01 This.
21:07 Speaker 00 Sorry, John, what was your question?
21:09 Speaker 05 My, my question was.
21:10 Speaker 00 Oh, right. Why do you think my face, yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:12 Speaker 01 This thing, it had to be nicely shaped, yeah.
21:16 Speaker 00 The jowls.
21:17 Speaker 01 Uh, otherwise it will start to drag, come here.
21:20 Speaker 00 Hmm.
21:21 Speaker 01 And you should do the other thing is, do this, lift it, because when the head, top of the head gets old, it drags it.
21:30 Speaker 00 The top, a lot of people don't know this, the top of the head ages at a different rate to the rest of the head. So often people don't realise, but they've got a really old top of the head. And it actually makes sense, because if you think about, if you think about birth, what do you see first? Top of the head. The top of the head is slight, is older than the re, the rest of you. And that's actually where people don't realise, that's where you age the most.
21:56 Speaker 01 Do you think you don't age? Why do you get this moon on the head?
21:59 Speaker 00 Yeah, because it's older, it's older. People don't realise.
22:03 Speaker 01 It's the pressure.
22:04 Speaker 00 Your toes incredibly young.
22:07 Speaker 01 We are talking about the face.
22:10 Speaker 00 Yes.
22:10 Speaker 01 Why are you going to the toes?
22:11 Speaker 00 I don't know.
22:13 Speaker 01 Stick to that one thing, okay? Don't, don't make.
22:16 Speaker 00 No.
22:17 Speaker 01 All right.
22:17 Speaker 00 Hmm.
22:18 Speaker 02 So what's the exercise you should do to keep your top of your head down?
22:20 Speaker 00 Together.
22:21 Speaker 02 Like if you were gonna like recommend people, what would it be?
22:24 Speaker 01 Put the pencil in your mouth.
22:26 Speaker 02 What?
22:26 Speaker 01 Or here, rather, and lift it. And hold on to this.
22:32 Speaker 00 Have we got, have we got some pencils?
22:34 Speaker 01 A thin one, Larry.
22:36 Speaker 00 I'll have a thick one, please, Joshua.
22:38 Speaker 01 What?
22:39 Speaker 00 I need a lot of work. Uh, only if you're gonna try this.
22:43 Speaker 01 Hmm hmm hmm.
22:44 Speaker 00 So what do you do? You're full, did you say?
22:50 Speaker 01 Brody smile.
22:51 Speaker 00 Really, you know what? I don't think you've made an interjection that I don't like one.
23:02 Speaker 01 Why do you?
23:03 Speaker 00 It's very, it's very rare, but when you do it, special, very special, yes?
23:08 Speaker 01 You have got a thick pen.
23:10 Speaker 00 Yeah.
23:10 Speaker 01 Wait, have you got a big lips?
23:13 Speaker 00 What are we gonna do? Just talk me through it.
23:15 Speaker 01 Hmm.
23:19 Speaker 01 Don't touch the bloody thing.
23:23 Speaker 01 You have to bring this up.
23:26 Speaker 00 How?
23:28 Speaker 01 There you are. When you practice, it'll happen.
23:30 Speaker 00 What? Did you tell me?
23:31 Speaker 01 Huh?
23:32 Speaker 00 Tell me.
23:33 Speaker 01 You are not moving this. Hmm.
23:36 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah, wow.
23:39 Speaker 01 No, eyes, these cheekbones.
23:42 Speaker 00 How the fuck do you move your cheekbones?
23:45 Speaker 01 It's hard at the beginning to move it, yeah.
23:49 Speaker 00 Okay.
23:50 Speaker 01 Okay.
23:51 Speaker 00 I'm gonna be honest with you, it's not as good content as I thought it was gonna be.
23:55 Speaker 00 We're gonna do a special feature now, but we're, through special effects, we've got to change hats now for this bit, so.
24:05 Speaker 00 Okay, quick one, switch.
24:08 Speaker 00 Whoa.
24:09 Speaker 02 Wow. Oh my god. Are we at Wimbledon? It's magic.
24:15 Speaker 00 It's time for a special part of today's show, Rally the Facts, and it's brought to you by Wimbledon. Wimbledon 2026 is in full swing and every year the championship serves up some must see moments. As a reminder of the incredible scenes at SW19 we've seen over the years, we're going to be putting our knowledge to the test. This is going to be a shit show. Ben is going to serve mum and me some questions about memorable Wimbledon moments and I'll either ace them or get a fault. Hopefully I'll fare better than when I faced Andy Murray on court, unless we're playing table tennis and which case I've absolutely smashed into pieces.
24:50 Speaker 00 How do you like that, Andy? Okay, it's time for the quiz. Are you ready for a Wimbledon quiz, mum?
24:55 Speaker 01 Of course.
24:55 Speaker 00 Okay, let's do it.
24:56 Speaker 01 Yeah.
24:57 Speaker 02 So question one. In 2010, John Isner and Nicholas Mahut played the longest tennis match in history at Wimbledon. How many hours was it?
25:05 Speaker 00 How many hours was it?
25:10 Speaker 01 Five?
25:12 Speaker 02 Incorrect. Closest wins. So we get eight points.
25:16 Speaker 00 Uh, five hours and one minute.
25:21 Speaker 02 Do you want to top that?
25:21 Speaker 00 Unbelievable. What do you mean? It's not an auction.
25:27 Speaker 01 Six and eleven hours.
25:29 Speaker 02 You're going for eleven hours?
25:30 Speaker 00 Six and eleven hours. So she's gone seventeen hours. I'm gonna go eleven hours.
25:34 Speaker 02 No, no, you can't.
25:35 Speaker 00 No, no, no, she said six.
25:36 Speaker 01 No, I mean.
25:37 Speaker 00 She said six.
25:38 Speaker 02 You said five hours, one minute.
25:39 Speaker 00 Why are you giving her a second go? Why didn't I get a second go?
25:42 Speaker 01 Because you are a man.
25:44 Speaker 02 Wasn't what I was gonna say, but uh.
25:46 Speaker 01 Ladies first.
25:47 Speaker 02 Okay.
25:47 Speaker 00 Okay.
25:48 Speaker 02 What are you going for, Shanthi?
25:49 Speaker 01 Eleven.
25:49 Speaker 02 Eleven hours. Eleven hours and five minutes, but we'll give it to you. That's correct.
25:53 Speaker 00 Why didn't it come back to me?
25:55 Speaker 02 Question three. Oh, it's an ace for you.
25:58 Speaker 01 Okay.
25:58 Speaker 02 Fault for Romesh.
25:59 Speaker 00 Why don't you fuck off out the door, George? I should never have let you in the doorway.
26:07 Speaker 02 In 1974.
26:09 Speaker 00 Oh my god.
26:12 Speaker 00 We didn't get a 2023 question right.
26:14 Speaker 02 Ilya Nastase.
26:17 Speaker 00 Nastasi, isn't it?
26:18 Speaker 02 Yep. In 1974, Ilya.
26:23 Speaker 02 In 1974, Nastasi.
26:26 Speaker 00 Yeah.
26:26 Speaker 02 Lost a clash against American Dick Stockton. He famously conceded two points while playing with his racket in his right hand. And what was in his left? A, a bottle of water. B, a packet of crisps. C, an umbrella.
26:41 Speaker 01 A packet of crisps.
26:43 Speaker 02 Rom, you go first.
26:45 Speaker 00 What?
26:46 Speaker 02 Rom, you go first. What was it? A, bottle of water.
26:50 Speaker 00 A, umbrella.
26:52 Speaker 02 Shanthi, what do you want to go for?
26:54 Speaker 01 Packet of crisps.
26:55 Speaker 02 Okay. That's a fault, Shanthi. Ace, Romesh.
26:58 Speaker 01 Okay.
26:58 Speaker 00 Oh, stung, didn't it?
27:00 Speaker 01 Yeah.
27:00 Speaker 02 It's great. This makes it tense. In 1996 Wimbledon semi final, Steffi Graf blamed a lost point on a male fan. What was it the fan that did? What was it the fan did?
27:12 Speaker 00 What was it the fan that did?
27:16 Speaker 02 In 1996 Wimbledon semi final, Steffi Graf blamed a lost point on a male fan. What was it the fan did?
27:26 Speaker 02 It's funny, it's harder than you think, isn't it? When you do weakest link, you're actually really good.
27:28 Speaker 00 Yeah, thanks. Um, what was it the fan that did? What did the fan that do? Um.
27:37 Speaker 00 Did, Mum, what do you think the fan that did? Who do you want to, who do you want to go first? Is it, why? I find it incredible there's not multiple choice on this.
27:44 Speaker 02 Um, I can give you a multiple choice. I can make a multiple choice.
27:47 Speaker 01 Multiple choice, yeah. I can guess.
27:49 Speaker 00 You're going to freestyle a multiple choice now?
27:50 Speaker 02 Yeah.
27:50 Speaker 00 Okay, go on.
27:51 Speaker 02 Uh, what was it the fan did? Drink loudly?
27:57 Speaker 02 Propose to her? Or start dancing?
28:02 Speaker 01 Propose to her.
28:04 Speaker 02 That's correct.
28:08 Speaker 02 It's getting tense.
28:09 Speaker 01 Mr. Weecusly.
28:10 Speaker 02 So there's an optional bonus point because we we all want another one. What was Steffi's response to the proposal? What did she say?
28:19 Speaker 00 She said yes, right? Oh, no, I do you have any money or something?
28:22 Speaker 02 Well done, yeah. Ace. Ace.
28:25 Speaker 00 Thank you.
28:25 Speaker 02 I've forgotten the format. How much money do you have? But we'll give you that.
28:28 Speaker 00 Thanks.
28:29 Speaker 02 2008 was the debut year for which trained Wimbledon employee that has been tasked with keeping pests away from the courts?
28:37 Speaker 00 I think I know the answer to this.
28:39 Speaker 02 Do you know, Shanthi?
28:41 Speaker 01 Warner hat?
28:42 Speaker 00 That's it, Warner hat. The the employee at Wimbledon responsible for keeping pests away, Warner hat.
28:51 Speaker 02 Is it?
28:53 Speaker 00 It's a hawk, isn't it? Or a bird of prey or something.
28:56 Speaker 02 I can't give you that.
28:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:57 Speaker 02 I can't give you that. You're now out for this round.
29:00 Speaker 00 Oh, she said Warner hat.
29:01 Speaker 02 It's a multiple choice.
29:02 Speaker 00 She said Warner hat.
29:03 Speaker 02 She was just free.
29:04 Speaker 00 So she got, you can give her that, you can give her that.
29:06 Speaker 02 So just can you please order? What they said, quiet, please.
29:11 Speaker 01 Yeah.
29:13 Speaker 02 Eduardo the Eagle, Fiona the Falcon or Rufus the Hawk?
29:17 Speaker 00 Oh, I see why you couldn't say that, okay.
29:20 Speaker 01 That's you are reading the answer.
29:23 Speaker 00 Yeah, that's multiple choice.
29:24 Speaker 02 A, B or C? A, Eduardo the Eagle?
29:26 Speaker 00 You still want to back this horse, do you?
29:27 Speaker 02 B, Fiona the Falcon or C, Rufus the Hawk?
29:32 Speaker 00 Why are you doing that with your face? You're giving a signal.
29:35 Speaker 01 I don't understand those three.
29:37 Speaker 02 No, but if you're going to go A, B or C, what?
29:40 Speaker 01 I'll go for the C.
29:42 Speaker 02 Oh, okay. Oh, that's an ace for Shanthi.
29:45 Speaker 00 Isn't it? What does what does C represent, ma'am? What is C?
29:48 Speaker 01 You.
29:49 Speaker 00 Me.
29:50 Speaker 02 After winning his first Wimbledon in 2011, Novak Djokovic celebrated in what way that confused and concerned everyone watching? What did he do?
30:02 Speaker 01 Multiple choice, please?
30:04 Speaker 02 Yes, sure, I can give you that. A, strip down to his underwear and streak. B, lick the top of the net from one post to the other. C, get down on his hands and knees and eat the centre court grass.
30:16 Speaker 01 I go for the C.
30:17 Speaker 00 I was gonna go for C.
30:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's correct. Ace, fault.
30:24 Speaker 02 Could easily get to double fault. In 2025, former Wimbledon champion Andy Murray famously destroyed which struggling TV comedian in a doubles match against said struggling comedian and brother Jamie Murray?
30:40 Speaker 01 Multiple choice, please?
30:42 Speaker 00 Yeah, okay, why don't you give a multiple choice, Ben?
30:45 Speaker 01 You can answer.
30:46 Speaker 02 You can answer, you can go.
30:47 Speaker 00 Uh, Romesh Ranganathan.
30:50 Speaker 02 Correct! Ace for Romesh.
30:53 Speaker 01 Is that true?
30:54 Speaker 00 Hmm, yeah.
30:56 Speaker 01 That's a lie.
30:57 Speaker 00 It's a lie.
31:00 Speaker 02 Uh, so you can tie it, it's all on this last one.
31:06 Speaker 00 What's go- what are you doing? Okay, why are you nodding at each other? Like, is this a controversial question you're about to ask?
31:12 Speaker 02 No. Uh, in 1985-
31:15 Speaker 00 How, how often do quickfire rounds last 90 minutes? Just out of interest.
31:21 Speaker 02 In 1985, a 17-year-old walked onto Centre Court as an unknown and walked off as Wimbledon champion.
31:28 Speaker 00 What year was this?
31:29 Speaker 02 1985. The youngest men's single winner in the tournament's history, who was he?
31:37 Speaker 00 1985.
31:41 Speaker 00 1985. Wimbledon.
31:45 Speaker 01 Boris Becker?
31:47 Speaker 00 I'm gonna go Boris Becker.
31:50 Speaker 02 It's a tie, I'm gonna have to give that to Romesh, because Boris Becker unfortunately wasn't the answer we were after.
31:55 Speaker 00 Yeah. Try mouthing more effectively.
32:00 Speaker 02 How old was he for a bonus point?
32:03 Speaker 00 We said it in the question, didn't we? Seventeen.
32:06 Speaker 02 Yeah.
32:08 Speaker 00 Oh shit! Looks like...
32:11 Speaker 02 So I can't, can't wish your bonus point there?
32:14 Speaker 00 You can't, sorry. See, offered a bonus point.
32:17 Speaker 02 Yeah.
32:17 Speaker 00 Asked the question, I got it right, and you can't offer the bonus point. Why is that?
32:22 Speaker 02 I think, it's better as a tie, isn't it? It's lovely, it's a lovely...
32:25 Speaker 00 You said bonus point, and then mouthed the answer to mum.
32:28 Speaker 02 Do you want to let John decide?
32:29 Speaker 00 The thing about Wimbledon is someone does have to win. Oh!
32:32 Speaker 02 Alright, well let's do a proper...
32:33 Speaker 04 What was his seed then?
32:34 Speaker 00 What was his seed?
32:36 Speaker 02 Think about it, seventeen odd, you could probably work it out.
32:39 Speaker 01 I didn't understand the question, actually.
32:41 Speaker 02 That's an unfair question in a lot of ways, but it's...
32:44 Speaker 00 Unseeded?
32:44 Speaker 02 Correct, yeah, that's the correct answer.
32:46 Speaker 00 Where was he seeded is quite misleading then, isn't it?
32:48 Speaker 01 It is, yeah.
32:50 Speaker 00 Was he seeded? I mean, where was he seeded? He wasn't. How the fuck is that a question? So who's the winner then?
32:57 Speaker 05 Um, you are.
33:00 Speaker 00 Romesh wins.
33:00 Speaker 01 Ah, hooray!
33:02 Speaker 00 Guys, I won.
33:06 Speaker 01 Enough. Put your hands down.
33:09 Speaker 00 Uh, now, I'm sure there's going to be plenty of memorable moments at this year's championship, probably not as memorable as that quiz of Rally the Facts, but make sure you don't miss a moment by watching the championships live on the BBC from the 29th of June to the 12th of July, or visit wimbledon.com to get all the latest news and updates. Uh, in all seriousness, thank you so much for putting together that quiz. I think you did really well, team.
33:32 Speaker 01 Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Ian.
33:34 Speaker 00 Guys, that was the end of Rally the Facts.
33:39 Speaker 00 Did I go anti-clockwise or clockwise?
33:41 Speaker 02 That was right.
33:41 Speaker 00 Okay.
33:43 Speaker 02 No, the other way. Actually, no, can we get one of both?
33:47 Speaker 00 Go fuck yourself.
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35:16 Speaker 00 It's time for audience interaction, where you send in some questions and we give you some advice. A reminder that you can send us a WhatsApp message or voice note to 07731 623355, or email [email protected] . And don't forget, if you haven't already, please, for God's sake, like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It helps us and it means you won't miss an episode. Imagine if you missed an episode, it'd be devastating. Um, okay, question one, we've got a voice note from Leona. Hello, Romesh and Shanthi, mainly Shanthi. Everybody loves you so much, Shanthi, you're so wonderful.
35:58 Speaker 00 I wanted to tell you that I broke up, oh God, I didn't break
36:03 Speaker 07 My hus- my husband died. That sounds so awful. But he was similar to your husband. He died of pancreatic cancer, which is awful. It's genuinely awful, but I had to put up with a lot of the same things that you did. Can you, can you tell me, how do you move on? I found a younger man and he was a con man. I have no clue. Shanthi, I'd love somebody to just go to the movies with who makes me laugh and play a game of cards with, or walk in the park with. What do you suggest I do? Because I'm just honestly off men. And you're very lucky to have a son like you have. He's hilarious. And so are you and myself. My mom are very similar. And Shanthi, you are a legend. I would prefer no more guests.
36:45 Speaker 07 Just Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi. Sorry, Ramaz, but she's a queen. She's my queen.
36:54 Speaker 00 Holy shit. That was, I did not expect from the beginning tone of that voice note for there to be a bereavement.
37:06 Speaker 00 That was wild. Okay, mum, can you help Leona? Thank you, Leona, for your wonderful voice note. Sorry for your loss.
37:13 Speaker 07 Thank you, Leona.
37:14 Speaker 00 Condolences to you. Uh, mum? Have you got any advice for Leona? She, so, guys, can I just ask? So her husband passed away and then she started seeing someone else who ended up being a con man. Is that right? Okay.
37:28 Speaker 02 It sounds like.
37:29 Speaker 00 And so now she's feeling like she's, it sounds like what, sorry?
37:31 Speaker 02 Didn't it sound like also her deceased husband wasn't faithful?
37:36 Speaker 00 So deceased husband was a bit like dad. Sri Lankan? And then she started seeing another guy after he passed away and he's a con man. So now she's feeling like she's off men. Have you got any, uh, have you got any advice, mum?
37:54 Speaker 01 My dear, I did suffer soon after my husband passed away. I didn't know what to do. We were in real, real financial difficulty during that period. And because of my son, he gave me the support and the second son as well with the paperwork. And I got over it. Then I, one day, I, I'm, I'm praying and meditating. I got the answer.
38:23 Speaker 01 God has sent you to this earth for a reason. Try and enjoy life. You have to find your way to motivate yourself and enjoy. Uh, the even the body he has given us, respect the body. Give the first priority to yourself, learn to be happy, talk to your heart every morning. You will win and you will find the real handsome man, okay? Don't be sad, don't be sad because like all the time you are sad. It's not going to take you anywhere. So be happy and find a way to enjoy yourself. That's what I'm doing. You don't need a man to enjoy though.
39:04 Speaker 00 No.
39:05 Speaker 01 There you are.
39:06 Speaker 00 So there you go, Leona. It's an answer that has a similar energy to your initial voice note. Um, I would, I would say, I, I would actually agree with you, mum. Um.
39:17 Speaker 01 You are the one tell me, mum, forget the past.
39:21 Speaker 00 Yes, I do. Uh, Leona, uh, I don't. I, I don't think you need to get a man, is the honest truth. You, you should, you can if you want to. But I think sometimes when you get caught up with the idea that if you get a partner, that'll be the be all and end all, then you suddenly that becomes your singular thing that you're trying to go for. And then what that also means is that sometimes you might be with somebody and you start to ignore red flags because you're desperate, because you believe that success looks like being in a relationship. And I think that's what happens to a lot of people. Is that you think that you have to be in a relationship. And so then when people show signs that you shouldn't be with them, you ignore those signs because the idea of being in a relationship
40:03 Speaker 00 trumps everything else. Do you, do you know what I mean? And so actually devalue being in any kind of relationship. You, you can be in a, in a relationship, but if that person isn't right for you, then you should try and recognize that without the fear of, of, of kind of ending it and being alone. Um, but you sound like, she sounds like a lot of fun. I, I think, um, the problem with relationships is they all fail until they don't. And so you have to ignore all of the previous evidence that your relationships are going to fail to have faith in the next one. And that's quite a difficult thing to do. But you should, and I've got no doubts that someone will come to you who's the right
40:46 Speaker 00 person for you, but if they don't immediately, that's also okay, you know. Um, I think that sometimes you get so uh obsessed with the fact that your friends and stuff are in relationships, you think I have to be in one, but that's not necessarily true. Uh, good luck in your uh, in your search, but I mean, mum, you haven't, in fairness to, Leona's asking you for advice, but you haven't, she haven't, you haven't been out with anyone since dad, have you?
41:12 Speaker 01 When you think about holiday, holiday romance and things like that, what do they say, those young men, look at them and say, you look, you don't get this from your husband, they say you look good, my god, how old are you, you, you look half the age, why do you think that is?
41:29 Speaker 00 A visa?
41:30 Speaker 01 It's, no.
41:32 Speaker 00 Okay.
41:32 Speaker 01 Pesa, not visa, paisa.
41:35 Speaker 00 What's paisa? Money, right, okay.
41:37 Speaker 01 There you are.
41:38 Speaker 00 But who cares?
41:39 Speaker 01 What do you mean, who cares? If somebody like me because of my, uh, I live comfortably, I don't like the fucker.
41:47 Speaker 00 I think that's overrated. I think, I, I think, you know, if you, i- i- if I end up meeting somebody and they're just into it because of, you know, who I am.
41:57 Speaker 01 I'm frightened actually of having a relationship or anything. Now I have come to a point, I just want to live alone, learn to be happy and enjoy myself.
42:12 Speaker 00 So you don't have any?
42:13 Speaker 01 She's much younger than me, but she need a partner.
42:16 Speaker 00 Why?
42:18 Speaker 01 She's young darling.
42:20 Speaker 00 So what?
42:21 Speaker 01 She should have a partner to enjoy, share things.
42:23 Speaker 00 Got you.
42:24 Speaker 01 Has she got any children?
42:25 Speaker 00 Don't know.
42:27 Speaker 01 She hasn't mentioned anything.
42:28 Speaker 00 No.
42:29 Speaker 01 No, she's young, for my age, I'm telling you, I don't need anybody to make me happy because I trained myself. Why you need another one? I do miss company, like going out and have a cup of tea or cinema and things like that.
42:44 Speaker 00 Hmm.
42:44 Speaker 01 But now I don't need, that's the only thing I miss, I don't want to get.
42:51 Speaker 01 Relationship with them or anything like that.
42:53 Speaker 00 And you've never wanted to get into relationships since.
42:55 Speaker 01 No, no, no.
42:56 Speaker 00 There you go.
42:57 Speaker 01 No.
42:58 Speaker 00 There you go. Okay. Well, thank you so much for your voice note, Leon. We've got a question now via email from Amy.
43:04 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
43:05 Speaker 00 And Amy says, I'm loving the pod, my absolute favourite. Thank you so much for the laughs. I love you both so much. Thank you so much. My question is to both.
43:14 Speaker 01 Love it.
43:14 Speaker 00 Refreshing change. When I was growing up in the nineties, all my friends had celebrity crushes on footballers, boy bands, et cetera. Peter Andre, Take That were the big ones. They had posters on their bedroom walls or the calendars. I never had a crush and I didn't really get it until now. My celebrity crush is da, da, da. The lovely Romesh.
43:38 Speaker 01 Oh.
43:39 Speaker 00 But I'm now forty and it's quite embarrassing, lol. Oh.
43:44 Speaker 00 Um, or people say cute. I follow everything he does and try to get to his shows. I'd like to know if Romesh has had any celebrity crushes growing up. If he had a favourite spy school, I had a crush on Britney Spears. These seem to be the crushes the boys had in the nineties. Did he follow or get it? Or even if Romesh will bring out a poster or calendar.
44:07 Speaker 00 For the ladies, because I'm sure I'm not the only one. I think you might be. Also, if Shanthi had or has had any celebrity crushes or if it's acceptable. Thank you. Your biggest fan, Amy. Thank you so much, Amy.
44:20 Speaker 01 Are you happy?
44:22 Speaker 00 Am I happy? Um, in order to be happy, I'd need some more background stuff on Amy, to be honest with you.
44:29 Speaker 01 Yeah.
44:30 Speaker 00 Um, it says here, there's a pattern of super fan listeners called Amy. Is, did we have another Amy obsessive? What did the other Amy say? She thought you were a sexual icon. That was Amy. That was also Amy. Definitely Amy. Different Amy, holy shit.
44:44 Speaker 01 Maybe Amy likes you, the name, the name.
44:47 Speaker 00 Maybe there's something in the name that, yeah.
44:49 Speaker 01 I'm telling you, you are a sexy man, but you put yourself down, you are not following Bruce Lee's advice.
44:57 Speaker 00 No, you're right.
44:58 Speaker 01 Yeah.
44:59 Speaker 00 I'm a sexy man.
45:00 Speaker 01 Sexy man, sing a song.
45:02 Speaker 00 I'm a sex, I'm too sexy.
45:06 Speaker 01 What's the song?
45:06 Speaker 00 I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my mum, too sexy for this podcast.
45:13 Speaker 01 You are.
45:14 Speaker 00 Thanks, I'm sexy.
45:16 Speaker 01 I like men dressing well, yeah, but when I see you sometimes, not I.
45:23 Speaker 00 You don't like how I'm dressed today, dear.
45:25 Speaker 01 No, you look good.
45:26 Speaker 00 Okay, good.
45:27 Speaker 01 I love the trouser, the colour.
45:29 Speaker 00 Great, thank you.
45:30 Speaker 01 And you are getting your shoulders straightened.
45:33 Speaker 00 Yeah.
45:33 Speaker 01 Look good.
45:34 Speaker 00 Yeah.
45:35 Speaker 01 Otherwise, I don't want you to be like this.
45:36 Speaker 00 Hunched, yeah. You used to say that to me so much when I was a kid, you're hunching, stop hunching.
45:41 Speaker 01 Straighten your shoulder, sit up, yeah, you are a big man there for yourself.
45:46 Speaker 00 Who are you talking to now?
45:47 Speaker 01 Men.
45:48 Speaker 00 Ben?
45:48 Speaker 01 Everybody.
45:49 Speaker 00 Oh, men, all men?
45:50 Speaker 01 All men.
45:51 Speaker 00 Okay.
45:51 Speaker 01 Yeah, can you imagine the man go, you look so nice, would you like it?
45:56 Speaker 00 Would I like if a man went like this, you used to look so nice? I wouldn't mind it. Uh, did I have any celebrity crushes? Not, who did I have a celebrity, oh, um, Jet from Gladiators had a crush on. Uh, Jessica Rabbit, what?
46:13 Speaker 01 Jessica Rabbit?
46:14 Speaker 00 Rabbit?
46:14 Speaker 01 What's that?
46:15 Speaker 00 Had a crush on?
46:16 Speaker 02 It's a cartoon rabbit.
46:17 Speaker 00 Roger Rabbit's wife?
46:18 Speaker 02 Cartoon, not the rabbit, is it?
46:20 Speaker 00 No. Roger Rabbit's wife, yeah?
46:24 Speaker 01 That rabbit has big boobs, isn't it?
46:27 Speaker 00 No, the rabbit didn't have big boobs. Jessica Rabbit was not a rabbit, she just take, that was her married name.
46:34 Speaker 01 Okay, okay.
46:34 Speaker 00 I don't know what her maiden name, did it ever say in the film what her maiden name was? No.
46:39 Speaker 00 That's one of my issues with Roger Rabbit, they didn't fill out a lot of the backstory, they didn't flesh it out. Um, you know, why did the weasels fall into crime?
46:48 Speaker 05 Oh.
46:48 Speaker 02 She wears a red dress.
46:49 Speaker 05 She's a human.
46:50 Speaker 02 Yeah.
46:51 Speaker 05 Yeah.
46:51 Speaker 00 Yeah, she's a human, yeah. She's a human, right?
46:53 Speaker 05 Hmm.
46:54 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
46:54 Speaker 00 Cartoon.
46:55 Speaker 02 Yes, yeah, I suppose she was.
46:57 Speaker 00 Yeah, and occasionally I still have, you know, you get crushes now, don't you, like, um.
47:02 Speaker 01 Ah, the singer, what's her name? Mariah, Maro- Mariah.
47:07 Speaker 00 Mariah Carey?
47:08 Speaker 01 Yeah.
47:09 Speaker 00 What are you asking?
47:09 Speaker 01 You liked her, you liked her songs and you fancy, no?
47:13 Speaker 00 Yeah, I didn't have a crush on her. No.
47:16 Speaker 01 But when you're in California, you keep on saying, oh, my Lisa's and my husband likes, so I must book it for.
47:23 Speaker 00 What?
47:23 Speaker 01 To see her, yeah?
47:24 Speaker 00 No, she didn't.
47:26 Speaker 01 The van, she did.
47:27 Speaker 00 In the van? She said, let's book to see Mariah Carey?
47:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, because Romesh loves it, yeah.
47:31 Speaker 00 Hmm, I don't know, that might have been for TV.
47:33 Speaker 01 Or maybe you were lying to her.
47:35 Speaker 00 Yeah, I mean, what a weird lie, though.
47:37 Speaker 01 Hmm.
47:37 Speaker 00 Who, who do you have a crush on? Tom Selleck, we know that.
47:40 Speaker 01 That's the only man.
47:41 Speaker 00 Amit Bhachan?
47:42 Speaker 01 No.
47:43 Speaker 00 Uh, Rajnikant?
47:45 Speaker 01 No.
47:46 Speaker 00 Um. Uh.
47:50 Speaker 02 Idris.
47:51 Speaker 00 Imran Khan?
47:52 Speaker 01 Idris, I hate him.
47:53 Speaker 02 Oh.
47:54 Speaker 01 Such a rule bugger he is.
47:56 Speaker 00 Ben, Ben, Ben, you've got to be up to date with Shanthi Law.
48:01 Speaker 02 Okay, sorry.
48:01 Speaker 00 And the current state of, you, you're like three seasons behind, man. The current state of affairs with mum and Idris is she does not like him.
48:13 Speaker 01 When the advertisement come on the telly.
48:15 Speaker 00 Hmm.
48:15 Speaker 01 I switch it off. As much I hate him.
48:19 Speaker 00 Yeah.
48:19 Speaker 02 Okay.
48:19 Speaker 01 He's such a rule bugger, he ignored my son.
48:22 Speaker 00 None of this is true, by the way.
48:23 Speaker 02 He'd be welcome on the podcast.
48:24 Speaker 00 Yeah, we'd love him on the podcast. This is not true, he didn't ignore me.
48:28 Speaker 01 He didn't ignore you.
48:29 Speaker 00 Didn't.
48:29 Speaker 01 You came and told me, he doesn't want to see anybody.
48:32 Speaker 00 No.
48:33 Speaker 01 Why can't he see? Because suddenly he's come up?
48:35 Speaker 00 No, that didn't hap- that's not what happened. I've told this story so many times and your interpretation of it is different every time.
48:42 Speaker 01 You are just covering up for him.
48:44 Speaker 00 I'm not covering up for him.
48:45 Speaker 01 I don't like him.
48:47 Speaker 00 Mum, can I clear, you should like him. He didn't do anything wrong. He didn't do anything wrong.
48:53 Speaker 01 In your eyes, he didn't.
48:54 Speaker 00 No.
48:55 Speaker 01 But to me.
48:56 Speaker 00 Well, you weren't there, I was there.
48:58 Speaker 01 I was there as well.
49:00 Speaker 00 You weren't there, so when did he say, when did he ignore you?
49:03 Speaker 01 I didn't want him to ignore you. I don't, you, you came back all. Romesh, you are changing the story.
49:10 Speaker 00 I'm not changing the story.
49:12 Speaker 01 Maybe he was just about to talk to you, there was another guy next to him.
49:17 Speaker 00 Yeah, okay, so let me tell the story, let's tell the story, okay?
49:19 Speaker 01 Right, okay.
49:20 Speaker 00 So, we're at the BAFTAs.
49:21 Speaker 01 Yeah.
49:22 Speaker 00 This, by the way, for clarity, this happened eleven years ago.
49:28 Speaker 00 Okay, so, we're at the BAFTAs. Um, and we got nominated for Asian Provocateur, didn't win. Outside, in that little patio bit before the dinner, and Idris Elba comes over, and I'd met him before, and he said, "Congratulations on your nomination", something like that. And then I said, I, I tried to make a joke, because I was like a bit, and I went, "I wish I'd practised my loser face a bit more" or something. And then he went, "Haha", but it wasn't funny, it was a dead joke, really dead.
49:58 Speaker 01 He didn't laugh, did he?
50:00 Speaker 00 He did laugh, but it was like a laugh of politeness, do you know what I mean? So then, uh, Tom Hiddleston is with him, leant over and said something in his ear, and then they walked away. We don't know what Tom Hiddleston said, Mum, all right? Now.
50:16 Speaker 01 I can guess, I can guess.
50:18 Speaker 00 What do you think he said?
50:19 Speaker 01 He said, "He's a small bugger, just don't waste your time."
50:22 Speaker 00 I don't think Tom Hiddleston said, "He's a small bugger".
50:25 Speaker 05 He'd be posher, wouldn't he? He'd be posher than that.
50:27 Speaker 00 He's a, he's a small bugger.
50:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, like that.
50:30 Speaker 00 It's a bloody.
50:30 Speaker 01 He's a small, just ignore him and walk off.
50:33 Speaker 00 He looks like he might be upper middle.
50:35 Speaker 01 Good person, somebody is coming up in, you know, becoming somebody, you support them.
50:41 Speaker 00 Mum, Mum, Mum, can I, can we just, I think we should start to try and assume the best.
50:47 Speaker 01 Assume the best.
50:48 Speaker 00 It's possible, Tom said, "I've just got a text, we've got to go over to the table", right? That, he might have said that.
50:55 Speaker 01 That's your version.
50:56 Speaker 00 Well, your version, I think my version's more likely than your.
50:59 Speaker 01 I don't like anybody ignoring you, Romesh.
51:00 Speaker 00 Fine, anyway, so they walked away.
51:01 Speaker 01 Right, right, right.
51:02 Speaker 00 You were desperate to meet Idris Elba.
51:05 Speaker 01 For your wife.
51:06 Speaker 00 No, for you. You said you were desperate to meet him.
51:09 Speaker 01 That time, yeah, I thought he's a good man.
51:11 Speaker 00 So then I thought, after that had happened.
51:13 Speaker 01 Yeah.
51:14 Speaker 00 I can't.
51:14 Speaker 01 I didn't talk to you in the car, remember?
51:16 Speaker 00 Yeah, I know. I'm in the middle of telling this story you're interrupting me with.
51:19 Speaker 01 Okay, okay, okay.
51:20 Speaker 00 Right, so, so then.
51:22 Speaker 01 Yeah.
51:22 Speaker 00 I go back in and I'm like, I can't take you over to Idris Elba now because that was quite slightly embarrassing, right?
51:28 Speaker 01 Yeah.
51:28 Speaker 00 So I come back over and I say, Mum, I'm really sorry, but if you want to meet Idris Elba, you're going to have to go over yourself because I can't take, this is too, this has become too. And then you got really pissed off, right? Wouldn't talk to me. Uh, we didn't speak to each other for the rest of the night. Then at the end of it, I said to you, did you enjoy yourself? You said no. And then I said, and I'd actually paid, I don't know if people are aware of this, you get a number of guests for the BAFTA Awards, otherwise you have to pay. I paid six hundred pounds for Mum to come. So I said to Mum, it's a shame you didn't enjoy yourself because it cost me six hundred quid. And you said, I wish you hadn't bloody bothered, right? That direct quote, right?
52:13 Speaker 00 We then, we then.
52:17 Speaker 01 Didn't make it work.
52:18 Speaker 00 We travel back in the car in fucking silence.
52:22 Speaker 01 Yeah.
52:22 Speaker 00 Right? But at that time, I think BAFTA was sponsored by, the cars were sponsored by Audi. So it's like they sent like these Audi drivers to. So we get going in the car, it's the same driver that had taken us there, brought us back. The whole way there, Mum's talking about how she wants to meet Idris Elba. We're all chatty, Mum and Lisa are excited about it. Silence, journey back. As we pull up at Mum's house, the driver turns around and says, so did you meet Idris Elba in the end? I said to him, mate, literally the, I cannot think of a worse thing you could have said in this moment.
52:56 Speaker 00 So that is the Idris Elba story.
52:58 Speaker 01 I didn't say bye to him.
52:59 Speaker 00 Yeah, she didn't say bye and anything like that.
53:01 Speaker 01 I got off the car and I went on.
53:05 Speaker 00 So it was a big misunderstanding.
53:07 Speaker 01 I don't know. I really want to know.
53:10 Speaker 00 That is one of the most incredibly willfully understanding responses you could have. Mum, you were bang out of order then.
53:20 Speaker 01 I wasn't.
53:20 Speaker 00 It was well out of order. It was.
53:22 Speaker 01 Ronnie, I don't like anybody ignoring you, Mum.
53:26 Speaker 00 He didn't ignore me.
53:27 Speaker 01 I'm not asking him to respect you.
53:29 Speaker 00 Yeah, no, god forbid. Let's not take, let's not take it too far.
53:34 Speaker 02 You can't ask too much.
53:36 Speaker 00 Anyway, the point is, he didn't do anything wrong. Tom Hiddleston probably didn't do anything wrong. It was just a bit embarrassing and then I didn't wanna then drag you over there. And then for some reason that made me the prick. You didn't talk to me for the rest of the evening. So, so I've paid six hundred quid for mum to come.
53:49 Speaker 01 Is it too much for me?
53:51 Speaker 00 For you to be a miserable little shit, yes it is. For you to have a good time, of course not. I'd happily spend that money. To spend, to pay six hundred pounds for your own fucking, to bring a nemesis to the thing and sit there. You shouldn't have bothered. I've paid six hundred pounds to have my self-esteem fucking torched. I go to the BAFTA, don't win. First time ever, don't win, right? Disappointed by that. Then I come back for the dinner. Hmm, I don't hate it. I hate it here. Horrible evening. No, do I wanna pay six hundred pounds for that? No, I don't. Does that make me weird?
54:28 Speaker 01 You never invited me after that.
54:30 Speaker 00 Correct. Correct. Well done.
54:34 Speaker 01 Then he's, he came and rubbing it in. He said, I took Lisa to BAFTA. You know, after the episode last time, I didn't invite you. You did tell me, Romy.
54:47 Speaker 00 No, that was, no, you're delivering that like a bit. I was doing it as a delivery, being funny. That was a wind up. That wasn't.
54:54 Speaker 01 You know, I didn't invite you.
54:55 Speaker 00 That's not that she's getting, she's getting, she's getting the tone all wrong. Anyway, you did come back when we hosted, didn't you?
55:03 Speaker 01 No, that's the last time you invited me, Romy.
55:05 Speaker 00 You haven't been since twenty fifteen?
55:06 Speaker 01 No.
55:07 Speaker 00 Fuck. Is that true? You haven't been, oh no, Royal Variety you came to, didn't you?
55:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
55:12 Speaker 00 Yeah.
55:13 Speaker 01 Yeah. I wanted to see that, give me that name, man.
55:17 Speaker 00 Tom Hiddleston. What are you gonna do?
55:19 Speaker 01 Do they, uh, a few years ago, somebody said to him and he was standing there. I, I hope I'm saying the right thing.
55:30 Speaker 00 Me too.
55:31 Speaker 01 And said, you know, you, they are expecting you to be the James Bond next time.
55:39 Speaker 00 The next James Bond, yeah.
55:40 Speaker 01 Did they say that they were standing there or hmm, you didn't look like a James Bond at all?
55:47 Speaker 00 Is that the end of the story?
55:48 Speaker 01 Yeah.
55:51 Speaker 02 So do you like Idris Elba?
55:53 Speaker 01 No.
55:55 Speaker 00 No, but you got mum, I've just corrected.
55:56 Speaker 01 Until I meet him, I will tell him at his face.
55:59 Speaker 00 What will you say?
56:00 Speaker 01 You ignore my.
56:01 Speaker 00 Imagine I'm Idris Elba now. Hello, Shanthi.
56:04 Speaker 01 Hello, Shanthi.
56:05 Speaker 00 That was good.
56:05 Speaker 01 He doesn't look like that now.
56:07 Speaker 00 Doesn't look like what? He's never looked like this ever. I assume he's been in an accident. Okay. Hello, Shanthi.
56:16 Speaker 01 What do you want?
56:17 Speaker 00 I don't want anything.
56:20 Speaker 01 You couldn't even give a shit when my son came to introduce himself. You walked off. I think I found it very, very rude as a mother is coming from me, accept it. And what's the answer you are going to give it to me?
56:34 Speaker 00 I think I'm.
56:36 Speaker 01 You can't answer. Yeah. But, oh, I'm sorry. That's what you're going to say? Fuck off, Romy.
56:43 Speaker 00 Romy?
56:46 Speaker 00 I'm not sure either of us committed to the role play as much as we should have done. Mum, Idris, okay, look, can we just get this? So we were doing a show in America, right? And genuinely, this is true, we wanted to arrange for you to meet Idris Elba.
56:59 Speaker 01 You thought, you are lying now. How, how do I meet Idris Elba?
57:04 Speaker 00 Ben, Ben, can you back me up?
57:06 Speaker 02 No, no. He's actually been quite supportive of you in your career.
57:09 Speaker 00 Mum, he has been so supportive.
57:10 Speaker 01 When he became famous, Romy.
57:12 Speaker 00 No, not true, not true.
57:14 Speaker 02 He was already famous.
57:14 Speaker 00 I was already famous.
57:15 Speaker 02 Well, nominated for a BAFTA at that point.
57:16 Speaker 00 Yeah, I mean, it's not, that's not mega famous, is it? Uh, but he, um, he's been really supportive and he's put me up for stuff and he was gonna come and meet you as part of the show, wasn't he?
57:28 Speaker 01 I think that's a lie.
57:29 Speaker 00 It's not a lie. Why? Ben's saying, Ben, can you?
57:32 Speaker 02 We did, we were trying to set it up, but the schedule's in the line or we had some.
57:35 Speaker 00 There was some issue.
57:35 Speaker 01 Some issue with him. Always an issue with him. Yeah. Issue with him. Somebody has to say something in his ears or issue. What does he think he is?
57:47 Speaker 01 God gives you women?
57:49 Speaker 00 Yeah.
57:50 Speaker 05 Yeah.
57:50 Speaker 02 Yeah. Yeah, that's, yeah.
57:52 Speaker 05 He is.
57:52 Speaker 01 Forget that.
57:53 Speaker 02 Exactly what he is.
57:53 Speaker 01 Don't mention his name.
57:55 Speaker 00 He really likes you. It's a shame.
57:56 Speaker 01 Shut up, Romy.
57:58 Speaker 00 Mum, he really likes you.
58:00 Speaker 01 No, he doesn't.
58:01 Speaker 00 He does. He's told me numerous times. He's a fan.
58:04 Speaker 05 We need to get, we need to get him in.
58:06 Speaker 02 That's it. We need to get him on.
58:07 Speaker 05 We've got to get him in.
58:08 Speaker 00 He really likes you.
58:09 Speaker 05 He needs to be able to tell his side of the story. Like, we can, um, you know.
58:12 Speaker 01 Then I'll find out what that fucker said.
58:15 Speaker 05 Yeah.
58:15 Speaker 02 Maybe though, if he's here, let's not call him a fucker. Let's just call him Idris maybe.
58:19 Speaker 00 Mum's talking about Tom Hiddleston.
58:21 Speaker 02 Oh, no, I was saying we need to get Idris in.
58:22 Speaker 05 Yeah, but we're saying, yeah, but then.
58:24 Speaker 02 And Tom Hiddleston, and that'd be quite the booking.
58:25 Speaker 01 I used to like him. I, you know, he come up and he doing well. And I really loved it. So that's why I was, and my daughter-in-law loved him as well. Claire likes him. Lisa loved it. His height and everything. That's why I wanted to meet him and give the.
58:44 Speaker 02 Why don't you offer like a, an olive branch to Idris, maybe, or a little message?
58:48 Speaker 01 Watermelon branch? What's that?
58:49 Speaker 00 Like, why don't you do a message to Idris to encourage him to come onto the podcast and be nice, please? Because he hasn't done anything wrong, so try and be a bit chatty.
58:55 Speaker 01 Can I call him a sir?
58:57 Speaker 00 Yeah, I'd love you to.
58:58 Speaker 01 Hi, Idris, sir. I would love to meet you one day. I remember when I came to Beaufort, you ignored my son. I won't do.
59:07 Speaker 00 Mum.
59:08 Speaker 01 You two answer the question, but I loved you. I don't love you anymore.
59:13 Speaker 00 Okay.
59:13 Speaker 01 But come to the podcast, please.
59:15 Speaker 00 Okay, okay.
59:20 Speaker 00 I, I can't see how that's gonna work, but anyway. Uh, okay, that's all we have got time for, uh, Idris Elba and Tom Hiddleston. We would love you to get in touch if you'd like to come onto the podcast. I can't imagine why you would, based on what's happened here on the episode, but we will be back on Monday. Do you wanna say goodbye, Mum?
59:39 Speaker 01 Bye-bye, everybody. I love you all so much. Please send all the questions and emails. We'll happily answer and love your support.
59:48 Speaker 00 See you next time. Liquor scrote.
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