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Glad We Had This Chat with Caroline Hirons
Ruth Crilly and Caroline Hirons Answer Your Questions
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Caroline Hirons
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Ruth Crilly
Welcome back to Glad we had this Chat and welcome to our Listeners Questions episode of the podcast. I am joined this week by my pal Ruth Crilly. Let's go. Okay. My usually extremely well behaved daughter, she's 15 for context, recently made a new friend who I'm not so keen on. She's been sleeping over at her house most weekends, which I was okay with until I found a fake ID in her bag last week. She admitted that she and her friend had been going to a local pub using these IDs. I. I have grounded her for the time being, but should I stop her from seeing this new friend altogether? She is definitely a bad influence. Please help. What would you do? And that's from Claire. I would say don't be mean. How do we know that she's the.
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Guest/Co-host
Bad influence by my mum from the past or.
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Ruth Crilly
Or the friend of Ava's friend's mum? Frankly, Ava with her fake ID.
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Guest/Co-host
I mean I had fake ID who.
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Ruth Crilly
Didn'T have a fake. I didn't need one. I looked 21 when I was 15. I think you'll be fine.
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Guest/Co-host
Can I just say I even listening to that because my daughter's nine. She's gonna be ten in next June. It's ages, isn't it? It's completely irrelevant that I find it terrifying. I find the idea I would be exactly the same. I would be panicking now and thinking, oh my God, she's just going down the path of she's just being a teenager.
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Ruth Crilly
Being a teenager.
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Guest/Co-host
She's just being a teenager.
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Ruth Crilly
Do you remember when Ava. We found Ava's fake ID and she had called herself Madison Lee, like the rap song.
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Guest/Co-host
Brilliant.
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Ruth Crilly
Can you jump in my Madison Lee? So she called Herself. Madison Lee said she was like 18 or whatever. When she was 14 or 15, we sent a Gemini, sent her a picture of us holding the fake id. I remember you sent it holding the fake id. You know what she replied?
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Guest/Co-host
What?
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Ruth Crilly
Keep it. I've got 10. She did not care about our problems whatsoever. I would say if, you know, she's staying at the house, at least she goes home and stays in the friend's house. She's not out. Like, if you know where she's sleeping.
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Guest/Co-host
Is a friend also 15?
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Ruth Crilly
I would assume so. It doesn't say.
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Guest/Co-host
It's not like 40, but, you know.
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Ruth Crilly
How do you know your kid isn't bad influence?
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Guest/Co-host
Yes, good point.
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Ruth Crilly
Get off your high horse, Claire. Jesus. It might be your kid.
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Guest/Co-host
Oh, no. The whole thing makes me feel uncomfortable because I'm trying to put myself in her shoes. How do you keep a sense. How do you keep a sense of sort of rationality when you have a teenager thinking, okay, I've got to let them have their own life and make their own mistakes, but also, I don't want them to end up, you know, lying in a gutter or whatever.
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Ruth Crilly
I mean, it always goes to that, doesn't it? Why is it eventually that's what our parents used to say to us. I don't want to be lying in a gutter.
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Guest/Co-host
Do you know how hard it is to fit in a gutter, by the way? Fair, because once my friend lay next to a gutter and I had a look and it's just not human width.
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Ruth Crilly
This is really helpful for Claire, so I feel like we've done her justice here, so I think we're doing well.
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Guest/Co-host
She'll be fine.
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Ruth Crilly
I would just say she's 15. You've got worse to come. I mean, I don't want to be negative, but if all she's doing is having a fake ID. She's 15. If you push back too far, she'll go even further away.
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Guest/Co-host
She could ring the pubs.
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Ruth Crilly
This is a picture of my child. Don't let her in.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, yeah, nice.
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Ruth Crilly
Sneaky. I like your style. Okay. Hi, Caroline. I live in London and my husband has recently accepted a job in Manchester, meaning we are having to relocate with our two boys aged 7 and 13. I. I'm really worried about how the kids will cope with the change. Do you have any tips on making this transition as smooth as possible for them? They are both devastated to be leaving their schools and scared at the thought of making new friends from Erica in Streatham.
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Guest/Co-host
Oh, bless them.
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Ruth Crilly
You're like You've got absolutely nothing useful to say. You just want to be fun.
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Guest/Co-host
I feel really distressed by all of this. Right.
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Ruth Crilly
I'm going to do really fun ones afterwards, I promise. We just got to get through the parents who are having fun.
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Guest/Co-host
So they've got to relocate.
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Ruth Crilly
They got to relocate. Manchester. The kids are 7 and 13.
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Guest/Co-host
Why can't he commute on the train?
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Ruth Crilly
Well, to Manchester from Streatham. Don't be silly. And no one can afford to run two houses. He can't go there and back every day.
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Guest/Co-host
Stay in a Travel Lodge.
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Ruth Crilly
That's not an option. Okay, this is what we're being asked. Can you just answer that question?
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Guest/Co-host
I just think if he did Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday night in a Travel Lodge, came back on a Thursday. Right. It's fine. He's away three nights of the week, he's home four. What's the problem with that? Erica, isn't that the high speed Pendolino? Do you remember the high speed Pendolino train?
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Ruth Crilly
To be fair, that's so quick that I once got really nauseous on it. I know.
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Indeed Advertiser
Yeah.
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Ruth Crilly
But it would cost them a fortune. Assume they can't afford it.
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Guest/Co-host
They're gonna have to move Monday. Travel Lodge. Travel Lodge. Travel Lodge. Back on a Thursday.
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Ruth Crilly
Let's assume they can't afford it.
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Guest/Co-host
All right.
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Ruth Crilly
And we just answer the question as asked.
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Guest/Co-host
Okay.
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Ruth Crilly
They have to move. She's. Do you have any tips on making this transition as smooth as possible? Not really, because I've never been faced with that. We lived in London, the entirety of.
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Caroline Hirons
The kids school lives.
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Ruth Crilly
So, I mean, but they're 7 and 13.
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Guest/Co-host
I feel like it's quite exciting.
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Ruth Crilly
Maybe you should pop around and talk to him then.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, I. I think I'm quite up for a new adventure. You know, like we moved a lot at one point.
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
And moving to Somerset did not phase me moving from London to Somerset. It did, Rich. But I just, I think, oh, there's all these new opportunities.
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah, but you have a different life. These are kids in primary school and secondary school. It's very different.
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Guest/Co-host
Well, I know, but what your attitude will kind of rub off on them, won't it?
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
You go in.
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Ruth Crilly
Fair enough. Now we're getting somewhere.
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Guest/Co-host
If you've got to do it and there's no way out of it and he can't do Pendolino plus Travel Lodge combo, then. Then you know, the way that you approach it as the adult is then gonna determine how the kids deal with it, isn't it?
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Ruth Crilly
I feel that was very sensible. For you. Well done. I'm just gonna let that sit.
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Guest/Co-host
All right.
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Ruth Crilly
Well done.
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Guest/Co-host
It's the best thing I've said all day, isn't it?
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah, really was. Okay, top skincare products or hacks from when you were modeling back in the day.
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Guest/Co-host
Oh, good question.
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Ruth Crilly
At least it's not related to how many children. Stop hitting the microphone.
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Guest/Co-host
Do it again. Do it again.
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Ruth Crilly
Jesus Christ. Okay, top skincare products or hacks from when you were modeling back in the day. Anything you still do or anything you did then that.
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Guest/Co-host
It's a good question, because skincare back in the day, French pharmacy brands was not a thing over here. You just couldn't get them.
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Ruth Crilly
You had to go to a French pharmacy.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, exactly. And so things like Ombre Elise, Bioderma, Micellar Water, Chlorine Dry Shampoo, these were all products that they used backstage that models had access to, and these amazing sort of French skincare routines that. It wasn't really a thing over in the uk, you know, so we had access to that. And now it's really funny that these brands are now mainstream. Dry shampoo is a mainstream thing, you know, so it was funny to have those things used then and now to see them filtered out into. No, they're just like messy Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. I swear to God, the smell of that. They used to use it on your lips, on your elbows, to put sheen on your skin, on your shins, on your eyelids. They'd mix it with eyeshadow to make a. Because you couldn't really get glossy to.
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Ruth Crilly
Make it like a brow product.
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Guest/Co-host
Makeup products that you can get now. So they used to make up makeup products. You know, there wasn't a whole load of different highlighters that you could go for. So they would tap Eight Hour Cream along the cheekbones. Now, it's so funny when I think back now, in a way, how limited it was, but also they made it work how all the brilliant things then are still the brilliant things now.
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Ruth Crilly
Did you have access to anything there? Because I always think it's right when. When mainly makeup artists say, well, I made this backstage when I was doing shows years ago, I had. I had this backstage. And you know, the kind of thing. I mean, was there anything actually that was used on you backstage that then became something for a brand or, you know, like a.
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Guest/Co-host
Well, something that wasn't on sale then.
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah, it was. Yeah. Did anything. Because I think it's a bit of a fiber. I think it's just marketing.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah. I think that, you know, a lot of makeup artists used to make, you know, blend up their own lipstick. I mean, they used to have those cubes.
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah, yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
Where they chop.
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Ruth Crilly
They still have all those.
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Guest/Co-host
And they still mix it up and they do that, you know, And I've no doubt that they would then sort of save that mixture. And, you know, people that say, oh, I got my shades from the ones that I used to mix myself backstage, which.
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Ruth Crilly
That's fair enough. That's fair enough.
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Guest/Co-host
Strobe cream.
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Ruth Crilly
Everyone used, oh, Mac strobe cream. The precursor to things like Viv Skin Nova and Skin You. And.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, I lied for about three years when I was modeling and said I was allergic to everything Mac, because how bad is this? I was so bored of everybody always using Mac because everybody used Mac. And I just wanted to see some different stuff that they would pull out of the makeup kits, show you what else you've got. So now and again I just go, oh, yeah, are you allergic to anything Mac?
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Ruth Crilly
Just to keep it interesting.
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Guest/Co-host
I know. To be fair, though, the Mac face and body, I think it was around the time when I was starting, I was getting a few breakouts from stuff and irritation, and I thought to myself, what is the thing that is most used on me? And everybody used Mac face and body for absence. Sleepy. Everything.
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Ruth Crilly
Everything.
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Guest/Co-host
And so I think it started with that. I don't think it did break me out, but it was quite fun for a while.
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Ruth Crilly
Probably not taking it off properly back in the day.
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Guest/Co-host
You know what else used to happen? This is gross, because I don't think this would happen now. They never. So they used to use a mascara, but it would have been used on everybody.
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Ruth Crilly
Oh, yeah. They would never change brushes, all that sort of stuff.
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Guest/Co-host
I used to have styes and conjunctivitis just constantly. And so I started taking my own mascara.
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Ruth Crilly
That's a bit outrageous.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
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Ruth Crilly
Well, we won't mention any makeup artists.
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Guest/Co-host
And one makeup artist.
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Ruth Crilly
Okay, we will.
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Guest/Co-host
Did Q tip. You know, when they licked it. Yeah, that used to happen quite a lot.
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah.
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Caroline Hirons
Let's lift it.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, Sorry.
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Ruth Crilly
Reel off the most famous photographers you've worked with.
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Guest/Co-host
David lachapelle, Vincent Peters. Rankin.
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Ruth Crilly
Nick Knight.
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Guest/Co-host
Nick Knight. Thank you. Well done, Rich. Yeah. Celebrity portrait photographer Rich Grassi, who's also done many, many portraits of me. Yeah, I worked with a load because.
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Ruth Crilly
We joke and, like, the episode that we've just recorded was pretty. Just manic. It was just us being our usual selves.
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Guest/Co-host
I'm quite worried about it already.
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Ruth Crilly
Don't worry about it.
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Guest/Co-host
So every time I do a podcast, I Get the fear from.
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Ruth Crilly
What have I said?
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Guest/Co-host
Eight minutes afterwards, I end up sending an email saying, would you just mind cutting out the bit where I said, yeah, Caroline sucked loads of dicks.
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Ruth Crilly
I mean, I'm not being funny, it's probably something I would have cut out anyway, but. Okay, good.
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Guest/Co-host
Thank you.
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Ruth Crilly
Because I didn't just to.
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Guest/Co-host
I just thought I'd get that into the notes again a second time, especially for Max. But I get the fear.
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Ruth Crilly
Who's going to edit this?
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Guest/Co-host
Oh, God. Sorry, Max.
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Ruth Crilly
Yes, it's great.
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Guest/Co-host
Love you, Max.
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Ruth Crilly
I love you too, Max. I never did any of that.
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Guest/Co-host
She didn't. Not even on your dad.
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Ruth Crilly
But.
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Guest/Co-host
We'Re never going to recover now. You know that, don't you? I've got the tears.
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Ruth Crilly
This might be a good time to take our hair down. Okay. Okay, great.
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Guest/Co-host
Wow.
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Ruth Crilly
Completely lost my throat of thought. The thing is, the person will be the least concerned or bothered is Max.
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Guest/Co-host
I know.
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Ruth Crilly
He'd just be like, I know. Ever so. Mum. I'm so embarrassed. My mate's an idiot. So she. Oh, God.
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Caroline Hirons
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Indeed Advertiser
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Ruth Crilly
I was about to say because we were quite jokey, but you had a very serious career as a model for a long time.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
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Ruth Crilly
All evidence to the contrary after the last two hours. But. And we didn't talk about it at all, really.
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Guest/Co-host
No.
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Ruth Crilly
So people could just buy the book and read about it.
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Guest/Co-host
The book originally was going to be called the Model Handbook and it was how to be a Supermodel. But then when I was writing it, you know, with hindsight, I started thinking, oh my God, the disasters. And also I never actually got to supermodel status.
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Ruth Crilly
But you did very well.
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Guest/Co-host
Like I did really well. Yeah, but there's a massive difference. People throw around supermodel.
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Ruth Crilly
If you were Google, you are. I mean, there are some stunning shots of you that I would happily put on the wall, except it'd be weird because you're my mate.
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Guest/Co-host
Do you know though that the majority of work that I did was pre Internet or pre. I mean, do you remember when the Internet was first around, how long it would have taken to upload.
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
A high res image file? I mean, you just couldn't have done it. It would have taken a day, wouldn't it? So luckily. Or maybe not luckily. I mean, a lot of the stuff is just in my shed in magazines. I mean.
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Ruth Crilly
But the thing is, you don't even put. If I'm not being funny, if I had my picture taken by Nick Knight Rankin, Dave Lushot, that would be all over the house. I'd have it in the bog. I'd be like, yeah, that was me. And you don't do any of that.
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Guest/Co-host
Well, my friend Lauren had a pub in Norwich and she once. So when she first bought it, she papered all of the men's loos in photos. And I was in there about 10 or 11 times. So, you know, somebody did it. I don't know. There's a weird thing about having pictures of yourself though.
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Ruth Crilly
Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
In. It's kind of.
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Ruth Crilly
Well, give one to me then and I'll put you in my loo.
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Guest/Co-host
Oh, okay.
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Ruth Crilly
Okay. Let's do that.
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Guest/Co-host
Clothed or probably clothed.
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Ruth Crilly
I don't want to get Jim too confused. Right.
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Guest/Co-host
Not a bikini. Kind of.
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Ruth Crilly
Stan. Ben. No, too much. All right.
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Guest/Co-host
Okay, fine.
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Ruth Crilly
Something wholesome. Maybe just from the sofa with the kids. Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
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Ruth Crilly
Okay, great.
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Guest/Co-host
Okay.
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Ruth Crilly
Okay. My son has started having sleepovers at his grandparents once a week. They make a caveat that it's the in laws. So not their parents. The last time he stayed, he told me he had McDonald's for dinner and got to stay up to 11. Wait, did Lily write this?
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Guest/Co-host
Hold on. Did they go to yours?
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Ruth Crilly
Okay, the last time he stayed, he.
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Guest/Co-host
Told me he was other people's kids.
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Ruth Crilly
I know. He told me he had McDonald's for dinner and got to stay up to 11. They know that I am very strict with him eating junk food and staying up past his bedtime. So I'm pretty upset that they have gone against my rules behind my back. How do I politely address this with my in laws? I'm being set up here big time.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
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Ruth Crilly
I don't want to come across snooty or pushy, but I don't want it happening again. Please help Sophia. Do you want me to take this as the grandmother in the room or do you want to do yours? Do yours and then I'll.
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Guest/Co-host
I love it. I love a Mackie D's.
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Ruth Crilly
First of all, who doesn't love a Mackie D's?
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Guest/Co-host
Do you know I met someone the other day that had never had one.
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Ruth Crilly
Liars.
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Guest/Co-host
Never had one. How many monopolies have you got for the Monopoly board?
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Ruth Crilly
Oh, I don't do the board. I just get the free food.
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Guest/Co-host
What? You don't do the apra. You put in. You get free.
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Ruth Crilly
You get a free Monopoly task. You're the McDonald's queen. Kids.
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Guest/Co-host
Happy Meals.
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Ruth Crilly
I know.
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Guest/Co-host
I just think it's so. The delight that they get in it. I wouldn't feed them exclusively on McDonald's. Right. And I cook for them.
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Ruth Crilly
Just need to caveat that you are a brilliant cook.
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Guest/Co-host
Thank you.
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Ruth Crilly
So the reason I don't even think about your kids going to McDonald's is because you are a brilliant cook. And you cook fresh all the time.
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Guest/Co-host
Cook fresh. Yeah. And I reckon that this lady.
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Caroline Hirons
Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
Or man. I don't know if it's your man. Probably also cooks when. That's why she's upset about them going to McDonald's. But it's not going to kill him.
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Ruth Crilly
Okay. Can I step in as a nan?
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Guest/Co-host
Yes.
- [19:34]
Ruth Crilly
Tough. If you don't want me to look after your kids. My house, my rules.
- [19:40]
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
- [19:40]
Ruth Crilly
You have to trust that the grandparents. It is my fucking job to spoil those kids.
- [19:44]
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
- [19:45]
Ruth Crilly
It is my job. However, doesn't mean they don't respect me. If I go, wait, I said no. They'll back off. Yeah, but you cannot stop a grandparent being the treat person. It is our Job. It's in the Bible.
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Guest/Co-host
How old's the kid? What does it say again? Somebody just get all the facts.
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Ruth Crilly
It doesn't say. My son has started having sleepovers at his grandparents. First of all, you're getting a night off once a week. Be grateful. Jesus. I'd be like feeding what you want. I. You know, and if you. And if you said to me, can you not give him McDonald's? I would send him home with a double espresso, a bag of Haribo, and a puppy.
- [20:18]
Guest/Co-host
A puppy. Sorry, but I just need to know the age. Yeah, I mean, of this child. Not makes difference, but, you know, 11:00.
- [20:27]
Ruth Crilly
They know I'm very strict with them eating junk food and staying at past his bedtime. That's why they're doing it. It's my job. I'm the nan. They have to go nanny. When Nova sees that I am picking her up, that child looks like she has won the lottery. She literally.
- [20:40]
Guest/Co-host
I love my granny.
- [20:41]
Ruth Crilly
Her head jumping up and down the door going, my nanny like this.
- [20:44]
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
- [20:44]
Ruth Crilly
I could cry now thinking about it. Do not take that away from them. Jim and I had a couple of weeks run where we would take them to McDonald's for a happy Meal on a Sunday. They get the break on the Sunday we get a McDonald's breakfast. The best bit being McDonald's breakfast. I mean, double sausage and have a McMuffin. Calm down.
- [20:59]
Guest/Co-host
No, too much meat. Meat to egg and cheese ratio is not good on a double. The single is perfectly formed.
- [21:05]
Ruth Crilly
Wow. Okay. How many hash browns you have in, though? One model. No one has one hash brown in this.
- [21:13]
Guest/Co-host
Happy.
- [21:13]
Caroline Hirons
Really?
- [21:14]
Ruth Crilly
Okay, maybe I'm just outing myself, but.
- [21:15]
Guest/Co-host
Well, it just comes as a meal. I hadn't ever thought of thinking outside the box.
- [21:18]
Ruth Crilly
We got the kids the Happy Meal because I said, and I was very open, I said, I'm gonna kind of take him from McDonald's. I mean, they could just ask, to be fair. And Lily was like, yeah, of course. So took him to McDonald's two weeks in a row. I've got pictures. You've never seen them so happy. They've got nanny and granddad are full attention. They're making a mess.
- [21:34]
Guest/Co-host
I mean, just everything about it is freaking trashed.
- [21:37]
Ruth Crilly
The staff in McDonald's are waiting on them hand and foot. We'll bring your drinks over. Don't worry. And then they proceed to eat our sausage and egg McMuffins. Even though they're supposed to be eating the kids stuff. Ben said to me, oh, they really like the Muffin and jam. Oh, well, they're supposed to have water. I let them have the fruit shoot.
- [21:53]
Guest/Co-host
Oh, you fruit shoot? Fruit shoots.
- [21:54]
Indeed Advertiser
All right.
- [21:55]
Ruth Crilly
Yeah. But I feel like that's, like, bad.
- [21:57]
Guest/Co-host
Have you ever done the.
- [21:58]
Ruth Crilly
But when. And I'm very good. If Ben and Lil say, like, Ben will be quite. Ben's like, he can be quite mum. If they give me the mum, then I don't. And I don't fill them with sweets. But you cannot stop a Nana buying a McDonald's.
- [22:10]
Guest/Co-host
Have you ever had to do the milkshake machines broken?
- [22:13]
Ruth Crilly
Oh, yeah. It's never worked. The milk.
- [22:16]
Guest/Co-host
I mean, it never works anyway.
- [22:17]
Ruth Crilly
No, the milkshake machine has never worked for the kids, ever. Okay, I'm glad we agree that the nan gets what she wants. I'm going to send you to your Netherlands. That used to be a threat and I was misbehaving.
- [22:26]
Guest/Co-host
Do you remember what you could watch by the time it got to 11 o'clock? The word.
- [22:29]
Ruth Crilly
Do you remember all the words on the word? But I was old enough for the word.
- [22:36]
Guest/Co-host
Was it Lola Ferrari? Do you remember, with the massive. No. Euro trash. It was Euro trash.
- [22:42]
Ruth Crilly
I didn't like Euro trash.
- [22:43]
Guest/Co-host
No, I didn't like either, but I just couldn't believe the stuff that was on it.
- [22:46]
Ruth Crilly
Okay, great. This or that? Are you ready for Quick Fire? I feel like we need to have some kind of continuity. I would like to caveat this, but it doesn't need an essay. Every fucking answer.
- [22:54]
Guest/Co-host
Okay, so just one word.
- [22:55]
Ruth Crilly
Just reply. Yeah.
- [22:58]
Guest/Co-host
Okay.
- [22:59]
Ruth Crilly
Selfridges or John Lewis.
- [23:00]
Guest/Co-host
John Lewis.
- [23:01]
Ruth Crilly
Really? Why? You literally just said school uniform can get anything you want.
- [23:09]
Guest/Co-host
Is this Quick Fire again? You can get everything you want.
- [23:12]
Ruth Crilly
Yeah.
- [23:13]
Guest/Co-host
And I like. I just. It feels like a wholesome. They're wholesome, aren't they?
- [23:17]
Ruth Crilly
Wow. Okay.
- [23:18]
Guest/Co-host
I just feel like you could be a Victorian in the snow, peeking through the window of John Lewis, looking at all the wooden horses and the boxes of Woodbines.
- [23:28]
Ruth Crilly
Why did I ask? Okay, okay. City break or country escape?
- [23:32]
Guest/Co-host
Country escape, obviously.
- [23:34]
Ruth Crilly
Dogs or cats?
- [23:35]
Guest/Co-host
Oh, no, I'm gonna go with cats, though.
- [23:38]
Ruth Crilly
Yeah, Cats always.
- [23:39]
Guest/Co-host
Just love a cat.
- [23:40]
Ruth Crilly
Sweet or savoury?
- [23:41]
Guest/Co-host
Sweet.
- [23:42]
Caroline Hirons
Really?
- [23:43]
Guest/Co-host
Yeah. Got the worst sweet tooth.
- [23:45]
Ruth Crilly
Oh, no, I'm savory.
- [23:46]
Guest/Co-host
Will probably be the death of me.
- [23:49]
Ruth Crilly
Type 2 diabetes. Heels are flats.
- [23:52]
Guest/Co-host
Flats.
- [23:53]
Ruth Crilly
Which is a shame for the world because I've seen your legs in heels and you can rock it.
- [23:56]
Guest/Co-host
But I would say flat. I mean, I will crack the heels out now and again, but I can't just. My ankles just can't do it anymore.
- [24:02]
Ruth Crilly
No, we're too old. Night in or night out? Obviously night in. This will be interesting because I know the answer, but I want you to explain yourself.
- [24:10]
Guest/Co-host
Oh God.
- [24:11]
Ruth Crilly
Coffee or tea?
- [24:12]
Guest/Co-host
Right, so Neither. Because I've never had one. I've never had a coffee and I've never had a tea. There we go. I never got round to it. My parents drank tea and I just thought why would you have hot water with then milk mixed into it? Coffee is bitter. I just don't.
- [24:28]
Ruth Crilly
I don't like coffee. No Coke in a glass bottle or a plastic bottle?
- [24:33]
Guest/Co-host
Don't be filthy. Glass. But I mean can. Can is killing, isn't it?
- [24:38]
Ruth Crilly
As long as you get to do the tap.
- [24:39]
Guest/Co-host
Tap.
- [24:40]
Ruth Crilly
Oh, wow. Yeah. That was very impressive.
- [24:43]
Guest/Co-host
Thank you.
- [24:44]
Ruth Crilly
Well done.
- [24:44]
Guest/Co-host
Asmr.
- [24:46]
Ruth Crilly
Okay. Bold eye or bold lip?
- [24:49]
Guest/Co-host
Like bald as in bold.
- [24:52]
Ruth Crilly
Like us thinking we can put this podcast out and it'll be well received. Bold.
- [24:56]
Guest/Co-host
Bold eye. Bold eye.
- [24:58]
Ruth Crilly
Okay. Dewy or matte skin?
- [25:01]
Guest/Co-host
Dewy.
- [25:02]
Ruth Crilly
Dewy. Brow gel or brow pencil?
- [25:04]
Guest/Co-host
Gel. See how quick I was with that one? I might do well on these.
- [25:08]
Ruth Crilly
I mean, yeah, you know, you can't really fail at it, but.
- [25:10]
Guest/Co-host
Okay.
- [25:11]
Ruth Crilly
Cream cleanser or gel cleanser?
- [25:12]
Guest/Co-host
Cream.
- [25:13]
Ruth Crilly
I would also like to add cream or balm.
- [25:15]
Guest/Co-host
Balm.
- [25:16]
Ruth Crilly
Thank you. AM or PM Routine pm Nice. Space and K or Sephora? Space and K. Makeup brush or makeup sponge brush? Always showing your age. Now here's the big one. What's your favorite sandwich?
- [25:28]
Guest/Co-host
Favorite sandwich. Right. Are we talking make it yourself at home or hotel? Because it makes a difference.
- [25:34]
Ruth Crilly
Okay, you can do both. But I also want to know everyone's McDonald's order because this is the shit people listen to, right?
- [25:39]
Guest/Co-host
McDonald's order has been the same. So I worked at McDonald's from age 16 to 17. Five star.
- [25:44]
Ruth Crilly
Just like living the dream.
- [25:45]
Guest/Co-host
Instant five star. No, it was really hard work. But now when anything's hard, I do it. My benchmark is how hard McDonald's was.
- [25:54]
Ruth Crilly
Because waitressing for me is my benchmark.
- [25:56]
Guest/Co-host
It was a franchise and the guy was really, really ambitious and he said time to lean is time to clean.
- [26:01]
Ruth Crilly
That's a bog standard retail. Time to lean. Time to clean.
- [26:05]
Guest/Co-host
That's when you single minute.
- [26:06]
Ruth Crilly
If the department manager's walking around the department store and you're like this, they're like, time to lean, time to clean. It was literally like, oh, you're being served. Yeah, McDonald's order.
- [26:12]
Guest/Co-host
And so I loved it.
- [26:13]
Ruth Crilly
Right.
- [26:13]
Guest/Co-host
Quarter pound with cheese, obviously.
- [26:15]
Ruth Crilly
Medium price, pickle removed.
- [26:17]
Guest/Co-host
No, no pickle. Removed. I take it out though. I just don't want to. I slide it out. I like the sort of fragrance of the pickle left in. But I put it in Rich's Big Mac.
- [26:25]
Ruth Crilly
Yeah.
- [26:25]
Guest/Co-host
I take the whistle out of the Big Mac if they do. So what they used to do was a quarter pound of deluxe. Do you remember that? I think they call it the Big Tasty now, but it's not the same. It had mayo, fresh tomato and shredded lettuce in as well as the normal quarter pound of cheese ingredients. If they still did that, I would order that.
- [26:44]
Ruth Crilly
I know I'm at lunch.
- [26:45]
Guest/Co-host
Quarter pound of cheese, medium fries, sweet and sour sauce. And then not coke because it's not real coke. No, it's all just icy and diluted. I will either have. Sorry, a bottle of water.
- [26:56]
Ruth Crilly
I have water with my McDonald's because the drink messes with the food.
- [26:59]
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
- [27:00]
Ruth Crilly
I don't want a milkshake. I don't want ice cream. It's not dessert. And I don't want a sweet coming out of a fanny thing.
- [27:05]
Guest/Co-host
However.
- [27:08]
Ruth Crilly
Yeah, it's not coke.
- [27:09]
Guest/Co-host
It's not coke.
- [27:10]
Ruth Crilly
We're very meticulous. This is a very serious subject now.
- [27:13]
Guest/Co-host
And then I will have a strawberry milkshake.
- [27:15]
Ruth Crilly
No aftertaste of that and the amount of calories. Absolutely not.
- [27:19]
Guest/Co-host
There's about 600 calories in there. That's way more than that in the milkshake. So.
- [27:23]
Ruth Crilly
No, I wish it was only 600 calories in a milkshake.
- [27:25]
Guest/Co-host
Can we google this, please? Medium strawberry milkshake. I'm going to say 353. What are you saying?
- [27:31]
Caroline Hirons
What?
- [27:32]
Ruth Crilly
I think it's like nearly a thousand. Especially if you get a big one. I love that we're all just really taking this very seriously.
- [27:36]
Guest/Co-host
This is going to 364. 364. How close was that? I would have won a prize if that was.
- [27:42]
Ruth Crilly
You would have won a prize. It still messes with the taste of the burger. I'm not bastardizing the taste of the burger.
- [27:48]
Guest/Co-host
And also as I've got older. You really do taste when something is so processed.
- [27:52]
Ruth Crilly
Yes. I can't get behind the milkshake order. So we're just gonna water. Okay.
- [27:58]
Guest/Co-host
Sandwich in a hotel. Always the club, always a club. I it for me, it's an indication.
- [28:03]
Ruth Crilly
Of turkey or chicken club. Chicken Louisiana Bakery around here do a turkey club and it is another level. And they have a fried egg in it on top.
- [28:12]
Guest/Co-host
Oh, nice.
- [28:12]
Ruth Crilly
In the under the bread. So when you. When you cut into it, it just.
- [28:15]
Guest/Co-host
Oh, did you see the Grace Dent clip from her latest podcast this morning.
- [28:19]
Ruth Crilly
Where they interrupted when they can't mix.
- [28:21]
Guest/Co-host
I can' I don't mind the chicken next to the egg.
- [28:24]
Ruth Crilly
I don't mind the chicken next to the bacon either. No.
- [28:27]
Guest/Co-host
I don't like it when they put an avocado into it.
- [28:29]
Ruth Crilly
No need for an avocado.
- [28:31]
Guest/Co-host
No need. It's not supposed to be in there.
- [28:32]
Ruth Crilly
It's not supposed to be in there. If you're making it yourself at home.
- [28:35]
Guest/Co-host
It will always be because it's the easiest option. Cheese and a really good Trackerman's pickle. Ploughman's pickle. Sorry, it's a recent thing.
- [28:44]
Ruth Crilly
You can't eat cheese in a sandwich like that.
- [28:46]
Guest/Co-host
Why?
- [28:46]
Ruth Crilly
Just a lump of cheese and bread. What's the point?
- [28:48]
Guest/Co-host
You slice it. Don't have a lump. Don't put a lump of cheese in. In between two. But actually, I don't have sliced bread. I'll have one of the kids rolls. You know, like a little lunchbox roll.
- [28:59]
Ruth Crilly
I'm telling you, there is a lot.
- [29:01]
Caroline Hirons
To be said for a handbag.
- [29:02]
Guest/Co-host
Vinegar crisps.
- [29:02]
Ruth Crilly
Oh, yeah, but they got to be in the sandwich and squash it down.
- [29:04]
Guest/Co-host
Yeah. Yeah.
- [29:05]
Ruth Crilly
Okay. Well, congratulations. You passed the test.
- [29:08]
Guest/Co-host
Thank you.
- [29:08]
Ruth Crilly
Thanks, Ruth. I mean, we have no idea. I have. I have no idea what we've said, what we've spoken about.
- [29:12]
Guest/Co-host
No. I'm worried.
- [29:13]
Ruth Crilly
It's been absolute carnage.
- [29:14]
Guest/Co-host
I feel like it could be the end of both our careers.
- [29:16]
Ruth Crilly
Yeah. Maybe we're just being cancelled ourselves. It's done.
- [29:19]
Guest/Co-host
Still got substack.
- [29:19]
Ruth Crilly
Good luck to anyone who's got to edit this. And that's a wrap for this week. Thanks for listening. I'm back on Monday with a new guest, so make sure you tune in until then.
- [29:28]
Caroline Hirons
I'm glad we had this chat.
- [29:30]
Ruth Crilly
New episodes are available every Monday and Wednesday. Follow us. Subscribe now on Apple, Spotify or wherever.
- [29:36]
Caroline Hirons
You get your podcasts.
- [29:37]
Ruth Crilly
Glad we had this chat. Is produced by Wall to Wall Ra.