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This is a Global Player original podcast.
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Hello, and welcome to the bonus episode of My Therapist Ghosted me. Joe, do you mind when we're about to record the bonus chomping away on crisps. Remember Joanne tried to eat crackers on the. Like on Mike Thinking. But she removed herself from the camera.
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Oh, yeah, I forgot I was Mike. Yeah. Sometimes I struggle with tech. It's ams or. Okay. It's huge in Korea.
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No, not eating. Well, people do like watching mukbang.
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Even I find it a little bit intoxicating. It's mesmerizing, I would say, to watch.
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Sometimes I get mesmerized if I watch somebody eating really badly. It does mesmerize me. I'm like, oh, God. I just. I. It's so bad. I can't look away. But I have to. I want to look away.
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Joe, you're. This isn't mesmerizing watching this now.
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Joe's just looking all. Sorry, you've just seen it.
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A real hungry moment. I'm really sorry.
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You remind.
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I remember one of my fantastic though, by the way. Can we just say that? Look at that hair.
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Great condition.
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He knows it does as well.
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You're a charistas kid. I remember very clearly one of my first. I was gonna say lovers. We were like nine, so obviously it was all very platonic. And one of my first boyfriends, who's now gay and probably was at the time because that's how gay works. And he. He wanted to bring me out the back for a smooch, but we hadn't really locked lips at that stage. And.
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You were probably the blokiest one around at that time.
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Thank you.
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I knew that's what she was gonna say.
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That is.
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You see her giggling away. She's delighted with herself.
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It's only because it was that I was the same when I was younger.
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I'm sorry, you're energy shaming me. I have a lot of masculine energy. I know. Yeah. He just kept pushing the anal. And I was like, dude, I think we need to talk. Firstly, I'm far too young. Yeah. It's not my vibe. Okay, go play with the lads. But he came up. He was. He wanted to get me. He was trying to get me at the back for a little tongue on tongue. And he whipped open. I think it was a bag of monster Munch. And he licked the entire bag. So like he. And he. So it was all over his face, all over his tongue, all up his nose and all. And he's like, are you coming? And I was Like I'll never. You know when something really sticks in your mind and you're triggering me, Joe, that feels. You're kind of recreating it. Can I tell you something that just happened to me? Firstly, big news. I saw anxious, preoccupied is now in store in Brent Thomas and Arnott's in Ireland, which is a flex. We're in a shop. We're on a shelf. We're in a, as your man said, great shop in a filing cabinet. Remember your man selling the fish? Do you remember that really famous ad done. You go catch. No, remember, he's like, I've put it on file in the file and cabinets. Remember that? No, no. Okay.
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You said really? Like you're from Tony Go.
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He was. Yeah, that's. Thank you. That's right, folk, you do know I'm going into acting now, so all this will have to be cut. I've said. I've said I can do accents.
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You also said you could go.
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I specifically said Tony Gaul. Yeah. And dairy. Because I'm hoping to get into dairy girls if they bring that back. Anyway, angstroch. But it's in, it's in a real storm. We're buzzing and we're very excited and. But anyway, so I was trying to get out there. I have a couple of events on today and obviously, obviously squeezing new plebs in and.
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Well, I mean, thanks for the invite. We're thrilled to be there.
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Huh.
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Joe, did you get your invite?
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Yeah, it must have got lost somewhere along the way.
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I assume there's no budget to fly anyone in?
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Joanne, where are you all? You know? Yeah, I might be in Ireland. You don't know. You don't know where.
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If you're in Ireland, we'd know. You ever wanking off to the house? Clips the house. So anyway, I couldn't get a taxi down. Trying to get. I'm in the lens to recording this. Couldn't get a taxi. Couldn't get a taxi. Taxi canceled. The whole thing was really, really stressful then. And it's all like a one way system around there. Eventually I'm guy rings me, he's like, where? I was like, where are you? He's like, where are you? I see a guy on the phone pulling up in a taxi. He's waving at me. I wave back. I'm like, all right, okay. Thank God. He's like, John. I was like, yeah. So I climb in and off we go.
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She's misgendered again.
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Off we go. And we're about seven minutes down the road. And he goes, airport? Yeah. And I was like, no. He's like. He's like, you're John? And I was like, well, like, yeah, Joanne. He pointed. He goes, no, no, this is like, it's, it's, it's John.
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I was like.
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So it just so happened that when I was on the phone to my guy, he was like, I'm pulling up now. I have no idea where he was pulling up to. Anyway. Yeah. And I was like, oh, for sake. And so that's why I'm so late. I apologize. I was halfway to the airport, but.
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It would be easy.
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And in America, they, they, they lend their taxis out and stuff. I nearly took the heart out of a woman who was parked at traffic lights in Clapham a couple of weeks ago, because I just, I, I was, I sped around the reg and I got into the back and the por. She was like. And I was like. And I, I realized my mistake almost immediately.
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I'm sorry.
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If you're driving a Prius, lock your doors.
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This has to stop.
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If you're driving a Prius, if you're driving a. A white Prius, I think that that's.
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Actually kind of fair enough.
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She wasn't actually. She was in Alandra. Everything.
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Joanne just hops in the back of a fry. I'm sorry. I read the bridge wrong.
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She. I scared the life out of her. And then. And I was like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. She said, get out. I was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah.
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And now what about poor John, who's missed his flight?
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Oh, John.
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I'm more concerned about the taxi driver who wanted a fare to the airport. Then he's stuck dropping her around the corner.
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Two complete strangers waving at each other. He's. He's putting the suitcase in. I'm sitting the back. John, off to Terminal 2.
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What does that say about you? That you'll literally answer to anything, John.
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Yeah, well, John, you know the way. Now, you'd get, you'd get John, and you'd get your nans and all that jazz and, you know, just. You just hop in, don't you? I'm a hopper.
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Yeah. I always think, though. Oh, God, no, actually, I would hop.
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In first, ask questions later.
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Look what happened to you.
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Now, this might be interesting, but then the next guy got in, got into Taxi man, and, like, I value them and we need them, but they, they're like, I was trying to do some work and he's like, are you doing a bit of work? Yeah. And I was like, yeah. And he's like, so when he got back to the uk, I was like, where are you from originally? I was like, I'm just. And what do you do for work? I said, I'm putting together a presentation. Oh, okay. I said, I'm best dressed. And it was, oh, okay, okay, okay. And where are you living in London? Children. You're like. And I love. I love them. When you're in the mood for it, it's great.
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But when you're like, I know in fairness, when someone's. When someone's drive. Driving me, I prefer. I. That's why I. I do do stuff like that when I'm in the back. I just get loads of stuff done on my phone. But that's why I drive myself a lot in Ireland, because when you're in Ireland, there's no. There's no such thing as a quiet ride. You have to chat. So I remember. I remember once, I think I was pregnant. Was with. I was pregnant with Gigi. And I got in the car and I'd had a delicious. A delicious Yoshi sushi just before I had gotten the plane. But I had really bad morning sickness.
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You're not supposed to be eating raw fish when you're pregnant, you know.
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Oh, back off.
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Apparently gives the baby fins.
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That's. Sorry. That is what Gigi was craving. What can I say? So I had. Had. And it was actually the beef teriyaki.
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No wonder she's obsessed with mermaids. She has gills. I always wondered why she had gills.
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Anyway, I got in the taxi, and it was a man, and I used to go to school with his daughter. And I was out the window like a dog, panting, just trying not to vomit. I was like, oh, God. And he just kept asking me stuff about school. And I was like, please, Jesus. Oh, God. There's nothing worse.
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Do you know a friend? Well, maybe a friend of mine who will. I will. I will do my very best not to identify in this conversation or she'll brain me. Was like, finished pregnancy. But the baby was still in. So, like, we're talking eight months or whatever. She was just done. She was over it. And she was in a restaurant, a Japanese restaurant, and she ordered a glass of wine.
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Yeah.
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And they said no.
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No, no.
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That's exactly what they said. They said no? Yeah, they said no. Well, actually, truth be told, they gave her one. And when she asked for a second one, they said, yeah, if I'm. They said no. They Said, sorry, not in your condition. And she stormed out of the place, knocking things over with the belly. Got home and wrote a very strong worded email.
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It's kind of not. It's not their business to be doing something like that. You can't.
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I have ibs. You don't know. I mean, you're not supposed to even comment on people being pregnant until the foots come out. That's like the whole real. But yeah, it's none of their business.
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No way. Say that. And as well, like, that's the thing that you said about sushi and stuff like that. I genuinely really craved sushi with. With Theodore. I used to eat it all the time.
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Get it, folks?
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And what. And what are the. What are your friends doing? Drinking. So I will drink.
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Not the first time I've been forced to point this out, but this is not a medical podcast. Do not take this advice.
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Only at the end and at the beginning and a little bit in the middle of their pregnancies. Vogue. There's. There's days that go past they don't drink with their pregnant. Just FYI.
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We'Ve got Running away in the Naughties or Cork in the 80s. I might take the kids to Cork to the markets over Christmas.
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Take the kids to Cork. I've got shows in Cork. Cork, Cork, Cork. Pedophile. Cork, Cork, Cork, January.
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I'm gonna be dying at your show. I wanted to go enjoy it and like. And be like, I'm gonna have. Well, I'm gonna go a couple of times anyway, so it's fine.
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Well, don't come if you're pregnant because you only have nine drinks. In that case, according to my friends labor rules.
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Okay. Cork in the 80s. Dear Vogue and Juan and Joe, bloody love your pod. Gets me through the week. Based on your kids roaming free in the 80s chat. I just wanted to share the story which still blows my mind. My gorgeous husband is from rural county Cork, and every summer as a child, he was put on an airplane with his little brother by themselves, luggage tag securely tied around their necks, to spend the holidays with his aunt and uncle in Newcastle, England. This was the mid-80s. Wow. Summer. A nice aunt and uncle. One summer, when he had just turned eight and his younger brother was barely six, they were put on a plane at Cork airport, which their mother thought was destined for Newcastle. Oh, no. Imagine. Imagine their confusion when they accidentally arrived at Gatwick to find no relatives waiting for them. Oh God, the little. Oh God. That's younger than t. There's no money.
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Oh my God.
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No phones. God bless the 80s. And a member of the cabin crew had to check into a hotel with them to find out who the hell these stray kids were and how to reunite them with their family.
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Wow.
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The kicker for me, though is the flight they were supposed to take off on actually departed a day later. My mother in law hadn't even. She was so excited to get rid of them. My mother in law hadn't even taking them to the airport on the correct day of travel. My husband still remembers being alone at Gatling with food tokens while calls were urgently being made by the flight team and trying to get the courage to take his little brother to McDonald's by himself.
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Sorry. Now, like, talk about a lot of flaws in the process there. Firstly, flaw from the mother getting the wrong day and putting them on any plane that turned up.
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They were all locked and smoking on planes in those days. That's why it just happened. They're all deranged.
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Any plane that slowed down and threw a couple of steps out there, like, throw them in there. But then to have no one check their tickets and all when they got on the plane, like, that is crazy. Was this back when the kind of children fly for free thing? Is that why they're so relaxed about it?
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No, but you can. Kids can fly for a flight on their own. They can go to chaperone. I think from age 10.
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I mean, to be honest, Gatwick, I was. I was genuinely expecting it to be way worse.
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Yeah, Gatwick's grand. But still, like, it's pretty far from Newcastle. I wonder if. Yeah, Newcastle. Or back to Ireland.
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Yeah. I remember when I was traveling, when I was in. When I went to school in France. Remember French rap and rowies. That Sam. Prostitute in French. Look at that flow. Look at that Flemmy flow. Such a natural.
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Anyway, I know more French than you want.
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Excuse, Emma.
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Pardon.
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Excuse. Emma Pouton. I think I just called you. I think I just called you a kanyo.
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Isn't kanyo. That's Italian. Sorry.
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It's Italian. Yeah. Anyway, I was. I. I don't. I'm actually not sure. I was on my own and I. I was 16 years of age and I was trying to get through Charles de Gaulle Airport and I had to ring my father, God rest his cell, who had to. Who was looking at the map, a map of Charles de Gaulle Airport to tell me where to go. Why I was being. I don't know. Maybe I could have asked someone, I don't know, but I was like 16 and needed my father's assistance via the telephone to get through Charles de G Airport have. Sorry, you laugh. Have you been in Charlotte school Airport? Even though I did speak fluent French.
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Yes. Yes, I am. And I still don't think even to this day you'd be able to get through it alone.
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Terminal 48, please.
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So, yeah, I'd say this year because you're, you're on tour now. In the next year, I guarantee Joanne will be on the wrong flight. Somewhere. Somewhere it's gonna happen this year. I just know it will happen.
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I don't. Adults. It's very hard for adults to break into airplanes these days. Since the 911 thing, they've really cracked down on that.
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They certainly have.
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It seems a particularly 80s issue, if you know what I mean, where everyone was just roaming around. Yeah. And there was very little rules. Really.
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No, I think you can still do it. I'm telling you, I did it. I know I did it. Twenty years ago, in fairness, in the.
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80S you'd walk on to be a kid smoking a cigar in the cockpit.
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Do you know what I mean? Imagine the smoke in this. Do you remember in, in restaurants it was like smoking area, non smoking area and someone would just be smoking, blowing all this smoke in your face. What's the difference? Why, why aren't we all.
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It's just, just say smoking, talking a deluded boundary. Speaking. Speaking of airplanes. Vogue. I know. I started watching the Charlie Sheen documentary, didn't you?
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Oh, I loved it.
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Yeah. He's way more likable than I thought he was going to be. I really didn't expect to like him as much as I did.
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Yeah. Switched on like. No, I don't think there's. No, he's not full of. No, he's really honest and I, I really liked him.
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He feels quite self aware. Like he's not, like he's not. Yeah, he's, he's famous and he's a celeb and all that jazz, but he's kind of like, I get it, it's.
B
All nonsense and he's not woe as me. Like he's had it.
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No.
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Yeah, he did go through a really tough time. But he's like, I'm not blaming anyone else. Like it was down to me.
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But you remember the story that he told about the plane. So again, it was in the 80s and it was in the height of his career and everyone, he was like super famous and he, the pilot came out and was like, oh, come into the cockpit, come into the cockpit. So they put him in the Cockpit. And they were like, oh, wear my hat. And he's like, okay. And then he was like, he put the tie on. And then Charlie sat in one of the pilot seats. And then he asked the pilot the code for. I think it's George. Is George the code for autopilot?
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For the autopilot.
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He's like, is George flying the plane? And then the pilot look, because Charlie was holding on to the controller and the, and the, and the pilot switched. 300 people. 300 people sitting on the plane. Charlie Sheen, not a cred between him. Not that he's no credential.
B
Deranged as well.
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Off his tits. The, the pilot switches off, the autopilot goes, not anymore, I. E. You're now flying the plane. So Charlie flying the plane, whacked off his tits with 300 people clueless down the back that someone with no qualifications, they fly on the plane. And then eventually Charlie was like kind of getting really into it. He was kind of trying to like turn it around. I don't know what he was doing. I don't know. And your mom's like, okay, that's enough. And turned the autopilot back on. Sorry, that's the 80s. That's the 80s.
B
That just reminded me of the weirdest story. I don't know if I've told you this. When I lived in Aberdeen, we met like two proper policemen. Like policemen with police hats and everything like that. And like they came out. Yeah, they came up to our. They gave us a lift home and came up to our apartment when they were on duty. I've just remembered that.
A
Indeed.
B
John, come on. Like I was putting anything out.
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Well, well, I mean, what did they come up for?
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I don't know. I just remember them being there for a while and I was like, they probably shouldn't be here. That's actually really, that's, that's, that's against the law.
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It's against the law, Sure. I knew a guy who knew a guy. So one of my friends brothers was a policeman. This is in the uk he was the biggest drug dealer anyone knew and he's now in prison for selling drugs.
B
Stop.
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And he's a policeman.
B
Well, look at all the people that then go to like the, the prison guards who go to prison because they're robing someone in prison. It's like, I mean, if you've got someone like the hot felon being thrown at you, like what are you going to do?
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Power does terrible things to people. Every, every. No one is above a bit of crookedness. I Think if you move in those circles and you're. And you're. I think sometimes I think the guards are almost as bad as the crims. Look at us. I'm sure.
B
I hope after this.
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Except for the band Spangardy. They're. They're both alone.
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We're all right. We're all right.
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Yeah.
B
Oh, my God, I forgot to tell you. I'm going to Oasis this weekend.
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She's going again. I know it's going again. Good for you.
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It's with my best friend Ashley.
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And Cloda is Ashley, the girl from how to do all the makeup. The lovely makeup.
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Ash include up in my pals. And they're both coming over and they're coming straight from Heathrow, though. I'm like, girls, if you don't get here on time, I'm going in without you. So I might be there. I can't miss first song for songs. Hello. I can't. But we're having, like, a little reunion. Because we're. Because forever. Yeah. And I. It's. I just can't wait.
A
It's gonna be fab. Now do. I've heard that sometimes they don't walk out holding hand. So give us the gas. Yeah, I've heard. There's been a couple of. There's been a couple of occasions I haven't walked out holding hands.
B
Well, I've got the nod to go into the family and friends bar.
A
Yeah, I sorted that for you. That's okay. So you're welcome.
B
Well, you didn't need to.
A
Yeah, I know. I did, actually.
B
They said after. After. We couldn't. We had to s. Raped Joanne off the floor. And I don't know who's.
A
Look at her. She has to get in that. She's going in this time. She's like, yeah, you know. Yeah.
B
They really didn't let me in. They said you have to leave at a certain time because Joanne didn't get out till 5am that's that.
A
Sorry. There's a friendship finally. Bar. That was the after party.
B
Yeah. That's not as good as the friends. I saw some. I saw some people at that after party and I thought, God, thank God I didn't get the nod for that.
A
Was that me Scum lower in the town. That'll be great. I look forward to seeing more Oasis videos because I need more of them in my life.
B
I'm gonna try and hold back. I'm not gonna drink till I get there because I think I went overboard in the odd old Vids. The last time, you know, you're like, everyone's gonna think it's as. It's as good as I think it is. And it's like when you take a picture of a sunset and you're like, God, that looks crap.
A
Yeah.
B
When I'm not looking with the real eyes, there's some.
A
It's a very emotive experience, I would say the Oasis gig.
B
Oh, God, it's gonna be. I. But I wonder. I think Dublin was such an amazing gig that I don't know if Wembley will be as good. Obviously, I'm never gonna say if it was. No, I'll always say Dublin was better.
A
Have you been yet, Joe?
C
Yeah, yeah, I was at Wembley. I have been to Wembley. I only went the once, though. Smashing show, but it's the worst place on earth to get back from. When?
A
Oh, is this.
B
Oh, that's actually fine for me because I'm gonna be in the family and friends bar after the show, so I won't have to leave.
A
Are you driving home with. Are you driving home with Liam's ma? Are you Peggy? Is it Peggy?
B
I call her Peg. I call her.
A
You had an awful Peg.
B
Yeah, sometimes I. Sometimes I say P. I say, hey, Big P. What's up, pg?
A
Yeah, yeah. Peggy gal.
B
Peg. Hey, A Peg. How are you? It's great to see you again. Yeah, yeah.
A
Send her my love. Send him my love and send the boys my love. Send everyone and Richard and all. Send them all my love.
C
Yeah, the boys.
B
She calls them Richard now, I would say. I have to say, I think Richard Ascoft would be. Oh, well, we better see if he has a girlfriend.
A
He's married. I checked, I checked. I checked all this before I went the last time. Don't worry.
B
God damn it.
A
I have a rolling document who's broken up with who's going where. Yeah, I got live updates and stuff.
B
That's it for today.
A
Like, subscribe. Tell your mates. Keep sending your emails in, too. Hellotgmpod.com thank you for listening, Sam.
Hosts: Vogue Williams & Joanne McNally
Date: October 1, 2025
In this bonus episode, Vogue and Joanne are joined by their frequent collaborator Joe for a lively, unfiltered chat brimming with personal anecdotes, wild memories, and honest advice. The trio navigates nostalgia from the wild days of Cork in the 80s, bizarre travel mishaps, parenting and pregnancy taboos, tangents about celebrity, and the joys (and perils) of live gigs. As always, the episode is packed with chaotic energy, quick-witted banter, and that signature blend of honesty and hilarity.
[00:10 – 01:43]
Notable Quote:
"It's mesmerizing, I would say, to watch… even if it's eating really badly. It's so bad, I can't look away. But I have to. I want to look away."
— Vogue [00:36]
[01:07 – 01:43]
Notable Quote:
"You know when something really sticks in your mind and you're triggering me, Joe, that feels... You're kind of recreating it."
— Joanne [01:31]
[01:46 – 03:30]
[03:33 – 06:23]
Notable Quotes:
"So I climb in and off we go... and we're about seven minutes down the road, and he goes, 'airport?'... I was like, 'no'..."
— Joanne [04:19]
"If you're driving a Prius, lock your doors."
— Joanne [05:14]
[06:23 – 07:47]
[07:47 – 09:06]
Notable Quote:
"You're not supposed to even comment on people being pregnant until the foot's come out. That's like the whole rule."
— Joanne [08:59]
[10:19 – 12:16]
Notable Quotes:
"My mother-in-law hadn't even taken them to the airport on the correct day of travel... he still remembers being alone at Gatwick with food tokens, trying to take his little brother to McDonald's."
— Listener email read by Vogue [11:35]
"Firstly, flaw from the mother getting the wrong day and putting them on any plane that turned up."
— Joanne [12:05]
[12:34 – 14:56]
Notable Quote:
"In the 80s, you’d walk on, there'd be a kid smoking a cigar in the cockpit."
— Joanne [14:40]
[15:05 – 16:42]
Notable Quote:
"Charlie Sheen, not a cred between him... the pilot switches off the autopilot, goes ‘not anymore, i.e., you're now flying the plane.’"
— Joanne [16:14]
[16:42 – 17:56]
Notable Quote:
"Power does terrible things to people. No one is above a bit of crookedness."
— Joanne [17:40]
[18:04 – 20:54]
Notable Quotes:
"I might be there. I can't miss first song, first songs, hello!"
— Vogue [18:33]
"I went overboard on the old vids the last time… When you take a picture of a sunset and you're like, God, that looks crap."
— Vogue [19:34]
[20:54 – 21:05]
"I have a rolling document who's broken up with who's going where. Yeah, I got live updates and stuff."
— Joanne [21:06]
This bonus episode captures the chaotic warmth, candid confessions, and riotous humour that fans love from Joanne and Vogue. From misadventures in travel and policing to the unstoppable lure of a live gig, nothing is taboo and everything is up for a laugh, making it a quintessential listen for both fans and newcomers alike.