Seat 1A, Bunking Off & A Sexy Priest

Summary

Podcast Summary: My Therapist Ghosted Me

Episode: "Seat 1A, Bunking Off & A Sexy Priest"

Hosts: Vogue Williams & Joanne McNally
Date: September 19, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this characteristically candid and hilarious episode, Vogue and Joanne dive into their recent travel mishaps, stories of running away as children, morbid true crime podcast recommendations, nostalgic childhood games, and the viral allure of a "sexy priest." With unfiltered banter and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, the duo offers their unique takes on everything from Ryanair window seats to the logistics of crematorium crimes — all bookended by pop culture recommendations and a sly dig at organized religion.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Ryanair Window Seat Drama

[01:21 – 05:35]

• Joanne reveals her “shameful" diva travel preference: always booking a left-side window seat ("Seat A"), so that when flying home to Ireland, she can fly over Howth and feel less sad.
  • “I had to mail my manager and tell her that I knew I was being diva but I would like to be in the ABCs.” — Joanne [04:08]
• Vogue and Joanne share stories about falling asleep on flights, the unpredictability of travel times, and Ryanair’s creative timekeeping.
• They lampoon the process of cramming hand luggage under seats and joke about having unusually heavy jaws as carry-on.
  • "They're like, that 10kg has to go under your seat, love. Like, it's attached to my jaw. There's nothing I can do about it." — Joanne [03:27]

2. Mixing Up Travel Destinations & Viral Mishaps

[05:45 – 11:10]

• Vogue recounts a viral story: two American backpackers tried to go to Nice, France, but end up in Tunis, Tunisia, due to a ticketing mix-up and language barriers.
  • “They only... realized that on the back of the airplane seat, you know, they have like the destination. It has Tunis. Like T, U, N I S — off they go to Africa.” — Vogue [06:26]
• Discussion on place name confusion, the “Austria/Australia” urban myth, and prank marketing campaigns.
• Joanne admits once boarding the wrong flight herself, and they reminisce about people who accidentally travel to the wrong city or country.

3. Legendary Irish "Running Away" Boys

[11:10 – 15:34]

• Vogue tells the real-life story behind the RTE documentary "Don't Go Far" about two Dublin lads (Keith Byrne and Noel Murray) in 1985 who "bunked off," ended up on a ferry to Holyhead, traveled by train to London, then made it onto a flight to JFK — all aged 10, with no tickets or money.
  • “Off they go to Heathrow. No one’s threatened to them, no one checked their tickets. They walk through all the checkpoints telling everyone... ‘my mam’s behind me.’ They’re like, okay!” — Vogue [13:36]
• The hosts reflect on their own failed childhood attempts to run away — mostly packing nonsense (delf/plates, cassettes) and not getting very far.
  • “I used to bring really random stuff that you wouldn't need. Like absolutely nothing. No toothbrush, no knickers for the next day... Just random crap.” — Joanne [15:56]

4. Parenting, Adventure, and Irish Childhoods

[17:06 – 22:39]

• Stories about modern kids escaping the house, nostalgia for more laissez-faire '80s parenting, and differing expectations between Ireland and England.
• Joanne recounts her child greeting random adults and the horror of being “overly friendly.”
• They debate whether today’s kids are missing out by not playing traditional games outdoors. Vogue jokes about sedating kids with iPads (“it’s like Valium for kids”).

5. Nostalgic '80s Games & Hangman Disasters

[20:51 – 23:25]

• Reminiscing about old games: curbs, England-Ireland-Scotland-Wales with elastic bands, tip the can, Hangman and the Fisher Price cassette player. Both lament lost tapes of childhood interviews.
• Discussion on passing down traditions versus letting digital entertainment take over.

6. Pranks, April Fools & Childhood Traumas

[23:47 – 25:21]

• Joanne loved playing pranks growing up; once called her dad to say the house was robbed.
• Vogue confesses trauma from thinking her granddad would die due to an April Fools joke.
  • "I remember bawling crying on my dad's lap on April 5th. I thought my granddad was going to die...” — Vogue [24:24]

7. Morbid Podcast Recommendation: "Noble"

[25:25 – 30:10]

• Vogue’s “Cultural Corner" brings a chilling true crime podcast: "Noble." It’s about a Georgia crematorium where 300 bodies were found uncremated; the hosts warn listeners it’s very gruesome.
  • “I would not recommend listening to it if you've just lost somebody... It’s not for the faint-hearted.” — Vogue [25:53]
• They debate what crime was committed: was it just “professional misconduct” or something darker? Discussion includes similar horrifying UK news stories about neglected funeral homes.

8. Lighter Culture: Charlie Sheen & Book Recommendations

[30:10 – 31:39]

• Joanne discusses a new Charlie Sheen documentary: finds him surprisingly “open” and “likeable” despite his dark past.
• Both recommend “The Girlfriend” series and Elizabeth Day’s new book ("One of Us").

9. The Viral "Sexy Priest" Segment

[32:02 – 36:06]

• Joanne introduces Father Jordan, a handsome vicar who’s become a viral sensation. The internet’s reaction is predictably cheeky and irreverent (“See you on Sunday, daddy. I mean, Father.”).
  • “I'm Muslim, but Jesus Christ.” — Internet comment, read by Joanne [33:22]
• They riff on religious celibacy, the “waste” of handsome men in the clergy, and infamous Irish bishop scandals.
  • “You can love Jesus and love riding… The two things can exist at the same time.” — Vogue [33:00]
• Lighthearted, sacrilegious jokes abound on vicar behaviour, priests' secret lives, and the Church's use of parishioner money.

10. Live Shows & Plugs

[36:19 – End]

• Joanne plugs her Dubai show, joking about matinee demand and ticket supplies.
• Plug for Joanne’s book “Big Mouth” (half price on Amazon), banter about “stocking fillers,” and further childhood Christmas nostalgia, including the practicality and oddness of using giant hiking socks as Christmas stockings.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Ryanair Timekeeping:
  “First of all, it doesn't take an hour and a half to get to London... That's how much time they give you just so they're on time.” — Joanne [01:47]

• On Running Away:
  “I used to bring really random stuff that you wouldn't need... Just random crap, I guess.” — Joanne [15:56]
  “Where was I going with the delf? I had no money.” — Vogue [16:05]

• On Morbid Podcasts:
  “I would not recommend listening to it if you've just lost somebody... It's not for the faint-hearted.” — Vogue [25:53]
  “So who the f*** was that?” — Vogue, about the ashes given in the Noble case [27:37]

• On the Viral Priest:
  “I'm Muslim, but Jesus Christ.” — Internet comment, read by Joanne [33:22]
  “See you on Sunday, daddy. I mean, Father.” — Joanne quoting another comment [33:30]
  “You can love Jesus and love riding… The two things can exist at the same time.” — Vogue [33:00]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:15: Episode intro and "Cultural Corner" teaser
• 01:21: Joanne’s Ryanair seat confession and travel talk
• 05:45: Story of Americans flying to the wrong country
• 11:10: The Irish lads who ran away to New York
• 17:06: Childhood runaway stories and delf-packing
• 20:51: Nostalgic Irish games and Fisher Price cassette memories
• 23:47: Pranks and April Fools trauma
• 25:25: Gruesome true crime podcast “Noble” recommendation
• 30:10: Charlie Sheen documentary and lighter media picks
• 32:02: Viral sexy priest and irreverent religious jokes
• 36:19: Joanne’s Dubai show, book plugs, Christmas stocking chat

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Tone and Style

True to their reputation, Vogue and Joanne maintain a breezy, irreverent, and deeply honest tone throughout, constantly riffing off each other's anecdotes with warmth, wit, and just enough darkness to keep it real. Their conversational style and cultural references make the episode both empathetic and unfiltered, perfect for listeners who appreciate a mix of nostalgia, scandal, and silliness.

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Overall:
A quintessential episode packed with wild travel tales, darkly funny true crime, nostalgic childhood banter, cheeky takes on religion, and trademark Joanne-and-Vogue insight. Unmissable for fans craving honesty, humour, and the curious comfort of friends sharing life’s strangest details.

Transcript

[Joanne McNally]

This is a Global Player original podcast.

[Vogue]

Welcome to my therapist ghosted me with myself, Javan McNally and my confidant, co presenter and sexy work wife, Vulcan. I have a Culture Corner recommendation that is so gruesome. I actually don't think I can start with it, but I'm dying to tell you about it.

[Joe]

Oh, is that a little cheese? Are we doing like they do on the radio? Is this a little.

[Vogue]

Sure.

[Joe]

For the end.

[Vogue]

Yeah, let's tease.

[Joe]

Stay tuned because.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah, well, I actually, I actually.

[Vogue]

Putting out a little cultural suspender there. A little suggestion of something.

[Joanne McNally]

Well, now I don't on the edge of the. Of the edge of their seats completely. But I too have a little cultural corner for you coming up.

[Joe]

Do stick around until the end.

[Vogue]

Well, I guarantee I. Wait till you hear mine, Joanne.

[Joanne McNally]

Wait until you hear mine.

[Vogue]

All right, come on. No, no, no, I forgot about that. I have no sense of just delayed gratification. Sorry.

[Joanne McNally]

I have some shameful, shameful news. So.

[Vogue]

I know my favorite kind of news.

[Joanne McNally]

Well, I have been applying quite a lot of late back and forth to Ireland and I've been hopping on the Ryanair train. A train because, you know, I'd usually hit up early English, but I've been going from Gatwick and stuff like that and the timings have been better. There's a couple of things that I have an issue with Ryanair. First of all, it doesn't take an hour and a half to get to London. I think I said this last week. That's how much time they give you. Just so they're on time.

[Vogue]

Time. And secondly, Vogue, I have to interrupt you there. That's depending on the wind.

[Joanne McNally]

No, no, no. It's either 50 minutes or it's an hour.

[Vogue]

If the wind is behind you, pushing you along, it's quicker.

[Joanne McNally]

If the wind's behind you, it's 50 minutes. And if the wind. If you've got a headwind, it's one hour. Okay, I know, I know. Okay, I'm telling you so. Okay, but they've got, they, they put an hour and a half. No, it's because I fly all the time. It's because they put. Not that you don't, but like you space jinning. I'm not.

[Vogue]

I have no concept of time. I once woke up, I thought we were taking off.

[Joanne McNally]

Wicked.

[Vogue]

Do you remember? I remember I woke up once, I thought we were taken off and we were landing. Do you remember that?

[Joanne McNally]

Oh my God, that's so lucky. Yeah.

[Vogue]

And I was in the middle seat. How I managed to do it, I do not know. And I wasn't even drinking. I was just absolutely wrecked.

[Joanne McNally]

That's so. That's like time travel.

[Vogue]

I was like. I'd say the jaw was hanging off me and the eyes ran in the back of my head.

[Joanne McNally]

You didn't even do it. You didn't do one of them.

[Vogue]

Nothing. I was, I was. I'd been gigging the night before. I'd done it to three shows. I was absolutely wrecked. And I woke up and I was like, here we go. I was. I was out, I was up. Wait. I had the eye out for the drinks trolley and next thing people were unbuckling themselves. It's like, what happened?

[Joanne McNally]

They must have been raging though. They see you getting the flight and they're like, we'll make a fortune off this. Yeah.

[Vogue]

She'S so locked. She's the one. She bought scratch cards. No, she's gonna watch this town.

[Joanne McNally]

No matter what I do. If I sleep, if I sleep sitting off on flights, like I'll always wake up. I think it's because of the weight of my jaw. Because my mouth is so big when it drops open, I'm like. It pulls my whole head down.

[Vogue]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like that 10kg has to go under your seat, love. You're like, well fit.

[Joanne McNally]

It won't fit.

[Vogue]

Like it's attached to my jaw. There's nothing I can do about it. See Ryanair trying to get you to fit it into one of their little bath fitters.

[Joanne McNally]

Good luck, my friend. It's not gone near that.

[Vogue]

So for sorry, go on.

[Joanne McNally]

Anyway, here's my shameful. My shameful story. So basically like I always fly and I like to sit on a window seat because for. For sleepage. So if I'm not playing with the kids, I'll always be in a window seat. Now I've upped my game and I realized this from the last time I flew home, I flew over Howth. If you sit in the left hand side of the plane, you can see ABCs you fly over Hope. But I was in the other side of the plane and I wasn't flying. Overhaul another time. So I did both last week and I was, huh. I feel a bit more sad today. And I was more sad because I hadn't flown over Hoath. So I had to mail my manager and tell her that I knew I was being diva but I would like to be in the ABCs.

[Vogue]

Well, you mean the A's?

[Joanne McNally]

No, because it goes A. I don't care if I'm 1 to 20. A, B or C. Fine, whatever.

[Vogue]

You take the size. See how.

[Joanne McNally]

No, I take the window seat. But you have to be on the left hand side of the plane, which. The seats are all one ABC2 ABAC. Yeah, but you'd have to be a.

[Joe]

Need A. You have to.

[Vogue]

You couldn't be seen.

[Joanne McNally]

Oh, well, yeah, that's what I mean. Just basically I want to be on that side on a window seat.

[Vogue]

So it's A. Just so. Just so we're clear about the Alphabet here.

[Joe]

You mean they don't work?

[Joanne McNally]

Because if Louis, if 2A as well. If I.

[Vogue]

If I have poor Louise. If she books you and I'm just worried she'll book you a C and you'll blow the plane up. I'm just worried you'll kick off.

[Joanne McNally]

I'd be extremely confused if I was sat in an aisle seat. I would be extremely confused. There's nowhere upon landing.

[Vogue]

There's nowhere to fly a plane into in Ireland, really, is there?

[Joanne McNally]

Croak Pat the SIP2 building. The SIP2 building is still pretty big.

[Vogue]

Molly Malone's chest.

[Joanne McNally]

Very buoyant. It would just pop back out.

[Vogue]

You've made your needs clear. Hopefully they're respected.

[Joanne McNally]

There's not much else. I asked for just coffee and that. That's all I want. And I'm a happy person.

[Vogue]

Speaking of aviation disasters, folk.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah, yeah.

[Vogue]

Well, it was around having to look at the other side of Dublin.

[Joanne McNally]

I'm not happy. I wasn't a happy girl.

[Vogue]

Did you see the hilarious forward slash gas story of the two Americans who went viral during the week, who were backpacking around Europe as Americans like to do, and they were going and they wanted to go and visit Nice and France and they turned up the airport and they missed their flight. So they went up to an Italian. I think this is the information Italian ticket desk and said, we'd like to go to Nice. And the woman went, no problemo, and booked them two tickets to Nice. They only. They realized that on the back of the airplane seat, you know, they have like the destination. It has Tunis. Like T, U, N I S off they go to Africa.

[Joe]

Tunisia.

[Vogue]

Tunisia.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah. Quite different, culturally different places.

[Vogue]

But actually, because I was like, oh my God, you know the way. You wouldn't know what the. Because I didn't. I'm so thick. I didn't cop. Tunis is Tunisia. Because I was like, yeah, yeah. I thought they were going to be dinette and cheese boards. Where do they end up? But Tunisia's actually got a great reputation.

[Joanne McNally]

It's a Good holiday destination. But like, I mean, it's not great if you're looking for nice noise. Has a very different vibe.

[Vogue]

It's a very different vibe. Very different vibe. But anyway, off they went. They landed anyway. They were like, oh, we're in Africa. And they went up to a desk and then there was a bit of a language barrier. And even though people were going mad online, be like, it's Americans and all, but it actually wasn't their fault. In fairness, I know Americans can be a little loose with the jog fee, particularly when they refer to Europe like it's just one housing estate instead of like a billion different countries. They're just like, we're going to European. But in fairness to these girls, in their defense, the woman at the ticket desk. Yeah, it obviously had. I don't know. I don't know what she was up to or was she taking the piss out of them or she genuinely misunderstood, but she sent them to Africa. My. The thing that I thought. You know what I thought I was like, they're obviously loaded. If they went. If she was like, they probably maybe don't understand your hour or something.

[Joanne McNally]

Maybe it's to do. I. I don't know. Maybe you get. I don't know, maybe we. I think we get ripped off for flights, but I think we get ripped off for flights in the uk Even in comparison, buying somewhere, a flight in. In Dublin. So maybe it was much cheaper for them and it's kind of similar to interrailing buying.

[Vogue]

Maybe, maybe, maybe. To be honest, the Tunis and Tunis thing, I was like, how has that not happened more? Do you know that there's. And especially when people have drinks in the airport. Like, you know, I'm surprised there's a Dublin in Australia and I'm honestly surprised I haven't ended up there at some point in, In Australia in particular, because obviously so many Irishmen are over there. There's roads and towns called Kilkenny and Carlo and Armagh and. And all sort of kells and all sorts of places. And all it would take is a couple of wine, couple of. Couple of breakfast wines and. And a bit of a language barrier with the, with the ticket person.

[Joanne McNally]

You're screwed. Do you know, in Austria they actually have a specific desk for people who thought they were going to Australia and have landed in Austria. Like, it. It happens. It's actually not even about. Remember that time I got in the plane that was not bound from Malaga and I was standing on the aircraft?

[Vogue]

No.

[Joanne McNally]

And I was just. I must. I told you that story. I Did. I did tell you that story. Now, I was flying from Aberdeen.

[Joe]

Had you been drinking?

[Joanne McNally]

Oh, yeah. I hadn't been to bed yet and I was. But I was. Yeah, I was at Aberdeen Airport and I actually boarded a flight that was not going to Malaga. And they were like. As I got in the plane and I gave my ticket, they were like, where are you going? I was like, malaga. And they were like, this plane is not going to Malaga. Who let you on this plane?

[Vogue]

Well, that's. That's the question. Because, you know, who let you. That's a huge security breach. I have to. I have to. I have to fact check you. Vogue. You're not going to like this, but I have to fact check it. That Austria, Australia thing is. It's an urban myth. It was a marketing campaign from. It's not actually.

[Joanne McNally]

Is this.

[Vogue]

Yeah, sadly, it was just.

[Joanne McNally]

It was like.

[Vogue]

Do you know one of those marketing campaigns that just goes viral? Do you remember? It was like the. This. The ad for. Remember the story that went around about the Korean man who divorced his wife because when he married her, she was really hot and when they. Kids. The kids.

[Joanne McNally]

And they had. Is that not true either?

[Vogue]

It was a PR stunt for a facial clinic, like for. For facelifts.

[Joanne McNally]

What?

[Vogue]

Yeah. So the Australian marketing thing, I think, was an ad for. I think was a marketing campaign for Austria. Back in the day, they kind of grew legs.

[Joanne McNally]

That's ruined for me.

[Vogue]

I know. Sorry. I'm sorry.

[Joanne McNally]

But they do. But they do do that. I was on a plane again last week and I did find it funny that the person was like, we're going to. This plane's going to Lo. Gatwick. And I'm looking at him like, why does he keep repeating the fact that we're going to London Gatwick? But obviously it must happen quite often where people just kind of break through. Supposedly a lot of people mix up Budapest and Bucharest as well, which I think is. Oh, yeah, I. I actually think that's fair enough. I do think that that's fair enough.

[Vogue]

Folk, you might know the story. Joe doesn't know it. It was a famous story. RTE did a radio documentary about it. It's called Don't Go. Don't Go Far. So it was two Young Dublin Lads, 1985. One's called Keith, one's called now they're best Mates. They're hanging around outside the front of the house. Their mother is like, well, one of their. Their friends are not brothers. One of the. One of their mothers is like, I'm putting Your dinner on don't go far. Right. Yeah, they had. They were a bit of. They bunked off. You know what bunked off means, don't you, Joe? They went on the hop a bit, which is.

[Joe]

I'd use the same term.

[Vogue]

Yeah.

[Joe]

We're culturally not that different.

[Vogue]

We're not at all jonged.

[Joanne McNally]

Do you ever say Mitch? Remember some people you say Mitching off skill. Well, that was my mom's generation, I suppose.

[Joe]

I don't know that one.

[Vogue]

We'd say the hop. We were like, we're going to the hop.

[Joe]

If I wasn't bunk enough, I'd be skiving sky even.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah.

[Vogue]

I was in Bristol at the weekend job.

[Joe]

Yeah. Well, they definitely skyved down there. That's what.

[Vogue]

That's where you're from, isn't it?

[Joe]

Yeah, a little bit further, but yeah.

[Joanne McNally]

You'Re in the room somewhere. Sat. Now, Somerset.

[Vogue]

That's enough information, Joe. Let's keep it loose. Let's not make this personal. It's a business relationship. Don't be giving us your life story. Anyway, so the two young lads they had, if they were. They were. They were hoppers, they were bunkers, they were skyvers. So they decided to walk off to the dart station and they bunked on a dart and got out to Deliry. Now, bearing in mind, I think they were 10. They were 10 years of age. They got out to delivery. God, there's nothing around. They're bored. They're like, this is crack. They hop on. They hop a bunk on to the ferry to Hollyhead.

[Joanne McNally]

Oh, my God.

[Vogue]

Yeah. So they get on the ferry to Hollyhead, the la. And they'd done it before, but the last time they had been stung when they landed, and they've been sent back, right? This time they landed, they were not stung. They ended up bunking onto a train to London.

[Joe]

Oh, my God.

[Vogue]

The mothers are at home going, where the are the lads? They got talking to a fellow train passenger who kind of was like, oh, these guys, what are they up to? No, it was the. It was 85, you know, different time.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah.

[Vogue]

This lad kind of admired their skill set and was like, you can stay in mine tonight if you want. Because obviously they were like, look, we've got plans for ourselves, you know, we're gonna see how far we can take this. So they stayed in this random person's house for the night, got up the next day, bunked on a tube to Heathrow. Now there's not a penny in their pockets. This is the Irish charm for you, Joe. This is where the cultural differences do.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Joanne McNally]

Charm, though.

[Joe]

I never did this.

[Vogue]

So off they go to Heathrow. No one's threatened to them, no one checked their tickets. They walk through all the checkpoints telling everyone, anyone that asks them, they're like, oh, my mouth's behind me. They're like, okay.

[Joanne McNally]

Oh, my God.

[Vogue]

Straight through Heathrow International Airport. Sorry. They did. They had money that they nicked from one of those fountain. The charity fountains.

[Joanne McNally]

You know the thing where you used to put it and it used to go round and round and round you put it. And they'd go around that ball.

[Vogue]

No, I think it's an actual fountain, like the. Where people throw money into the water. I think they just scooped a couple of quid out for themselves. Oh, my God.

[Joanne McNally]

Okay, go on.

[Vogue]

So anyway, and then they. They. They were walking kind of alongside with this passenger, like, where are you going? He's like, I'm getting on this plane to New York. And so the two lads were like, okay. So they walked onto the plane.

[Joanne McNally]

No.

[Vogue]

Yeah. They sat in two people's seats. The people came up and they're like, you in our seats? They're like, no worries. They just walked down to the back of the plane and stood there. So they weren't even sitting down. Taking off.

[Joanne McNally]

Stop.

[Vogue]

They took off on an Air India Boeing 747. An Air India Boeing 747 had blown up off the Irish coast two months before, killing everyone on board. So they'd assumed that security was going to be tighter on these planes. Doors closed, plane takes off. A couple of. A couple of minutes later, they're off to jfk. They land in jfk, they get off the plane. Still no one notices. And the only person that stopped them was they went up to a policeman forward slash cop and said, which is the most Irish thing ever. How do we get into town? And he said, where have you come from? And then they're like, all right, the jig is up. We've come from Dublin. We've come from. Yeah, the time.

[Joanne McNally]

Oh, my God, such a fun. The furthest I ever got. Do you ever remember when you're younger and you'd be like, I'm running away. And you'd pack a bag full of complete shite. Like, you could have a mug and everything. And you'd go off and you'd go down the road. I'd sit at the bus stop. That's as far as I'd ever guess.

[Vogue]

That is so weird, New York. That is so weird that you say that, because I. So I remember the first time I ran away and it was around the time where those see through bags were really in fashion, those plastic see through bags. And I got up as far as. My mother used to call it the Ginnel. It was an alleyway up the top of the estate at the top of the cul de sac and. And like that, it was just full of plates. Why did I bring plates?

[Joanne McNally]

I used to bring really random stuff that you wouldn't need. Like absolutely nothing. No toothbrush, no knickers for the next day or anything like that. Just random crap, I guess.

[Vogue]

We were setting up a shop. We were like, we're setting up a home in the alleyway. So I'm gonna keep my mother's delf. I took my favorite. Like I always was. Like, where was I going with the del. I had no money. You know.

[Joanne McNally]

Those kids getting to New York, that is absolutely wild.

[Vogue]

Maybe we only thought Pat and Sandra would notice or something they really cared about when missing like their plates and cups and forks.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah, when we were gone, it was like. It was probably quite the relief actually.

[Vogue]

Yeah.

[Joanne McNally]

The only time I kind of, I. I kind of ran away, I suppose. But I was like 16. But I basically, I told my mom that I was going over to say, my d. Dad's house. I told my dad I was going away with my friends.

[Vogue]

Family.

[Joanne McNally]

And then my friend told her parents that she was going away with my family. For some reason no one rang each other. And off we went to bed and Medina together for. For a full week. That's fun. Package holiday. No money by the last day, so we had to just share a packet of salt and vinegar crisps. Anna, instead of getting water, two liters of Coke.

[Vogue]

Yeah, that's the joy of having parents who can't stand each other. Sorry, Sandra, I hope that's not. Yeah, we're not crossing the line there.

[Joanne McNally]

Don't even know if she fully know. Knows that that whole thing happened. I don't actually think I've ever told her she was. I'm sure she'll know now if she's listening. But like we had a great holiday. Away we went. We used to get the bus up to Marbella because we couldn't afford to get a taxi. Like we'd very. We. I think we'd about €300 each for the week and well, we made it last.

[Vogue]

I. I watched, I was watching. I was scrolling through the talk the other night and I saw there was a video of a woman who. The first vid. The first image on the video was of A child. Like, if I, I. She could have been. She's smaller than Gigi, so whatever age that is, I don't know. Walking up the street, like this house in the State street, and the mother's film her, and she's like, I gotta kill her. And then it cuts to the fact that she put her to bed during the day in this inner. I think her out, like the mother's bed, and the daughter was supposed to be napping, and she got out of bed, opened, unlocked the patio door and just left. What? Yeah.

[Joanne McNally]

Did she get her back?

[Vogue]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the first image was of the girl coming back down the road, but the mother didn't even know she was gone. She was looking out the window and she saw her coming back and she dragged her in by the ear. And then everyone was saying she's. She was abusing the kid and all. And she was like, I'm trying to teach her a lesson that you can't just bail like you're four. Do you know what I mean?

[Joanne McNally]

God.

[Vogue]

The last thing you want is a child with an adventurous spirit. I want a child like me who's just gonna rot in its bed all day.

[Joanne McNally]

I'd be doing that too. But it's, it's. It's funny because T. T is when he goes over to my brother's house, like, he's allowed. He's allowed out onto the estate, and they kind of play, and he is like, that is the joy to him. And he comes back and he tells me. He's like. I was like, oh, we were on our own, Mommy. We were. And he's like, my brother said that they keep going up to people in theater. Was like, hello, nice to meet you. And puts his hand out to take their hand.

[Vogue]

What?

[Joanne McNally]

Hello.

[Vogue]

Sorry.

[Joanne McNally]

I'm like, oh, God.

[Vogue]

Oh, my God, how embarrassing.

[Joanne McNally]

They do it. I know, because they do it in school. And I'm like, oh, my God, the Irish must be like, what the hell?

[Vogue]

You need to teach them how to glass people.

[Joanne McNally]

I'd say just give. Box them. Box them.

[Vogue]

Just chest, chest, pump them. Peter.

[Joe]

Those lads were Keith Byrne and Noel Murray. We should get them on.

[Vogue]

It's a great story. It's. It's so at the doc. And the radio documentary is really, really well made. It's really, really good. It makes me miss the 80s, even though I don't remember the 80s. But I just. That kind of laissez faire attitude of, like, just kids running around un. Unbelted on an airplane. I just, it's like While everyone's just chain smoking, doing shots through their eyes. The glory days.

[Joe]

We should ask people for any emails, if any. If anybody's got any stories of. Of running away.

[Joanne McNally]

Running away, send them in.

[Joe]

Hello, at mtgmpod.

[Vogue]

Yeah, great idea. Yeah. And. And explain to us, was anyone else taking Delf with them? I don't know what. I've never heard that was a Strat. I'm. I feel kind of seen that Vogue was doing it as well.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah, I used to take my omc. How bizarre. Just. Just the cassette. No cassette player, anything. But it was my favorite song, so I take that with me.

[Vogue]

Do you remember those Fisher Price cassette kind of box speaker player things? And you. And I had a mic on it. Had a mic on a curly string attached to it. And you could go around, you'd press, like, record on the cassette thing. And then you'd be like, 1, 2, 1, 2. And you'd like, I sing and interview people and stuff. I bet you Pat. So she hasn't announced the sentimentality. I guarantee she never kept any of those tapes. Probably comedy gold and those things.

[Joanne McNally]

So she couldn't wait to get rid of that show. Do you know what you were saying there about, like, being a child in the 80s? Like. Like, Amber asked me a question. What did. What did you used to do when you're bored as a child? And I actually thought of it and I was like, we were never bored because we'd go outside, we'd all be playing manhunt or we can tip the can. Curbs. No one plays curbs anymore. Do you remember how good that game was? Curbs.

[Vogue]

Was that with the golf ball or something?

[Joanne McNally]

No. Each person stood in a curb. You had a ball. So you're across the road and you threw the ball and you had to see who hit the curb first. And then you're allowed to move closer and closer and closer. And then there's a winner. I was playing England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. Inside, outside, inside Scales with the kids the other day out of elastic bands. Do you remember that?

[Vogue]

Oh, my God. I've. That is the most triggering thing I've ever heard. How do you remember that?

[Joanne McNally]

Because I bought elastic bands for something and I was like, I can't waste these. And I was like, oh, my God, England are in Scotland way.

[Vogue]

This is the problem.

[Joanne McNally]

They love, loved it.

[Vogue]

We should be passing this stuff down like the. Like the Celts did. Do you know what I mean? We're supposed to be passing stuff down. Yeah, she passing tradition down to your younger kids. Not just Handing them Peppa Pig on an iPad. Insane that. If I had a kid, I'd say, I'll have to. I'll get two tiny iPads and attach one to each eye and take them off 17. So, like, don't get me wrong, I got, I get the power of the iPad. It's like Valium for kids.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah. It's just, it's like, it's like, do you know what it brings? Free time for parents. But another great game.

[Vogue]

Wales. Inside, outside, off the rails.

[Joanne McNally]

And you ever. You put it up to your knees and you put it up on your thighs and you put it up to your waist and you see who can get the highest. I was playing Hangman.

[Vogue]

Are we being abused?

[Joanne McNally]

The kids? No, we were not.

[Vogue]

What was going up and down our legs?

[Joanne McNally]

The elastic bands.

[Vogue]

Thank God.

[Joanne McNally]

Okay.

[Vogue]

I just wanted clarity on that. I just. The 80s were a loose time. I just wasn't sure I'd.

[Joanne McNally]

I was. Another game that I was playing with the kids was Hangman. Because I was trying to think of, like, ways that I could, like, do a bit of learning as well. And anyway, Gina was there when I was doing it and I'd spelled out something like, birthday.

[Vogue]

Birthday.

[Joanne McNally]

T. Birthday. No, I spelled it normal, but, like, T had got loads. There must have been, like at least five letters there. And Gina, for the life of her couldn't. I'm like, gina, how can you not see that? Birthday. I think T got it in the end and she's like, oh, T. Sorry, I can't tell you there.

[Vogue]

I'm like, because Gina's ageless.

[Joanne McNally]

She's cl.

[Vogue]

She's too classic for birthdays. Joe has just sent me a photo of that Fisher Price cassette thing I was talking about and say, I am thrown, Joe. I am thrown. And I would press. Yeah, you just record yourself chatting into the paper.

[Joanne McNally]

Do you know what else I miss? I miss pranks. Do you remember, like, I used to do pranks?

[Vogue]

I never liked pranks.

[Joanne McNally]

All the time. I remember once ring my dad in April Fool's Day and telling him his house had been robbed and I was sitting upstairs in the window and I was crying on the phone and everything to him, like, dad, it's, everything's gone back and came in the driveway and I just died laughing.

[Vogue]

You're like your man from Jackass, what's his name?

[Joanne McNally]

I love pranks.

[Vogue]

I, I, I can't stand pranks. I couldn't, like, even, you know, those prank shows that they have, or even the Jeremy Beetle still. I can't stand It. I couldn't watch it any hidden camera TV shows. I remember ball and crying on my dad's lap on. On April 5th. I thought my granddad was going to die. And he's like, it's not like that. It's like, you know. You know, because he was trying to explain April Phil's to me and then I was upset.

[Joanne McNally]

Why'd you think your granddad was gonna die?

[Vogue]

I don't know, but it's one of those really clear memories where I remember him trying to console me because I was like hysterical crying that granddad was gonna. I mean, he did obviously, since. Yes, you're. That dad's like, they're not gonna die. It's like the two of them died.

[Joanne McNally]

You have to. You have to realize that someone's gonna die when you're younger.

[Vogue]

Stop. I know.

[Joanne McNally]

I can't. I can't lie to t. Like, he knows it's gonna happen. Like sometimes he'll be crying over me dying and I'm like, I can't. I'm like, I'm. I did say once. I was like, I'm not gonna tell you guys. Yes, you are. And I was like, well, yeah, I am.

[Vogue]

Speaking of deaths, can I please.

[Joanne McNally]

Now my favorite topic.

[Vogue]

I put up this post on my insta and I was like, look, throw all your recommendations in under here and I'll pin it. We can just come back and use it. And it's been. I've been. It's really useful. But one of the recommendations on it was a podcast called Noble and she was like, I don't. The woman who kind of. Kind of threw it in the mix. She was like, I don't know how it hasn't gone viral. It's brilliant. So I was like, oh, okay, gives a bit of that started. I like it is not for the faint hearted and I would not recommend listening to it if you've just lost somebody. Like not like as in a car park. I mean, lost somebody via death. It's a true crime podcast hosted by Sean Raviv that investigates a 2002 case in Noble, Georgia where 300 bodies were found on a property belonging to a well known family. The podcast.

[Joanne McNally]

I remember that.

[Vogue]

Do you? I've never heard about it.

[Joanne McNally]

I remember. Oh, I heard about the news story. Yeah. I never knew what happened. Oh my God, I'm deaf in it. What? Oh, you can't tell me. Spoiler. Damn it.

[Vogue]

It's gruesome af. So it's like the podcast dials into the history of the property, the fate of the body is sent to the tri state crematorium and the man at the center of the case while exploring the fundamental question of what the living owe the debt. So basically this family who were in charge of the local crematorium, I guess a business basically weren't burning any of the bodies.

[Joanne McNally]

Oh my God.

[Vogue]

Their machine broke or some shit. I don't know. I'm. I'm on. I'm just about to start episode five.

[Joanne McNally]

That's what happened.

[Vogue]

And so I'm just warning you now I'm about to tell you is quite gruesome. If you're, if you're squeamish, I would skip. That's what I would say. Trigger. It's a trigger warning here, I think because even I, who I'm a quite a morbid Mary and, and I kind of am morbidly fascinated by this stuff. Even I was like, gee, so they.

[Joanne McNally]

Must have just been giving the families.

[Vogue]

Just pretend ashes a hundred percent. There was like the whole thing obviously blew up, but there was people whose bought. Whose family members were then identified as still being in the crematorium who had six years ago spread their husband's ashes over his favorite fishing point. And they're like, so who the was that?

[Joanne McNally]

Oh my God. But did you not hear that there was somewhere in the UK that that a funeral home was doing something like that as well? And they got in massive trouble because there was just like loads of bodies left in freezers and stuff that they just hadn't bothered doing anything with because yeah, they were basically saving cost. That's dark. That's like, it's so dark.

[Vogue]

And basically now it's like, what is the crime? As such, because they didn't kill them. It's just like kind of professional misconduct.

[Joanne McNally]

It can't really be just professional misconduct. No, because there's something about tampering with a dead body or something like that.

[Vogue]

Well, they have. The problem was they didn't tamper with the dead bodies. It's like the opposite.

[Joanne McNally]

Well, they kind of did by just chucking it in a mass grave. You can't just bury people in mass graves. That's like against.

[Vogue]

No, they weren't. They weren't buried at. So they were basically just caskets and caskets and caskets on top of each other. Some people still had their like hospital bracelets on them and stuff. Yeah. So. So the, the when you get over, kind of.

[Joanne McNally]

So they just left them out in the open? They just ditched them in a field in the open?

[Vogue]

No, sorry, it wasn't a field. So basically my understanding is from listening to the podcast, that this local crematorium, the family who kind of were the cremators of this town and Noble owned like, they were kind of owned this kind of sprawling warehouse area. And then they would bring these bodies. It was a business ultimately. And they would cremate them in the local crematorium and they give people the ashes. And there was someone delivering gas because they need gas for the machines. And when the person delivered the gas, they spotted like a leg bone where they, they pulled up to the wrong place and. Yeah. And they're like, what?

[Joe]

Must have been an odor there. Surely there was.

[Vogue]

No. Well, they said when they went in, then, when the police went in, then, then it all kicked off. They were like. And. Yeah, so. So the episode I'm on at the moment is them trying to. I know, yeah, but. But weirdly. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. But. But they're trying to decide what the crime is as such, because it's never. They're like, they're like, we've never seen this before, so we don't know what to do. And then it's just on the episode where the, the local, the, the solicitor, one of the solicitors in the town has decided to take the case for the family who owned the crematorium. And. Yeah, and it's all kicking off, but when I, it, like I say, if you've recently lost somebody, I wouldn't listen to it.

[Joanne McNally]

Well, mine's a lot lighter than that. I was watching the new. I was watching the new Charge. Charlie Sheen documentary.

[Vogue]

Oh, yeah?

[Joanne McNally]

Have you watched it?

[Vogue]

No, I haven't watched it yet.

[Joanne McNally]

Oh, I'm on. I'm nearly finished the second half, I think it's only. It is only two episodes. I actually like. He would have been an absolute nightmare to have been married to. He had seriously bad, bad, bad addiction problems. But I actually, he's very. I, I like him. Like, he's not hiding anything. He's allowing everybody to be interviewed.

[Vogue]

He.

[Joanne McNally]

Even if they're going to say bad things about him, he's just. He's actually reading an open book. Yeah.

[Vogue]

I guess at this stage. What else does he have? I just saw some headline where Denise Richards was making his. His. I say, his hooker sandwiches.

[Joanne McNally]

I.

[Vogue]

Probably not the most diplomatic thing to say, but I think that's what she was calling them, wasn't it? She went over and he'd allowed a sex workers in the house. And she was like. She made them all lunch and stuff. I think they might have been separated at that point, though. But, yeah, I mean, I think he. I will watch it. I will watch it. I. Yeah, yeah, I actually.

[Joanne McNally]

I quite liked him. And there's. There's a program called the Girlfriend that's meant to be amazing, but I think it's on Amazon Prime. But I'm gonna watch that next.

[Vogue]

Yeah, I heard someone recommended the Girlfriend to me. We should watch that. We should watch that together. Vogue.

[Joanne McNally]

The homework.

[Vogue]

Yeah, that'd be the homework.

[Joanne McNally]

That's the homework, everyone. The girlfriend. And last thing I want to say is Elizabeth, Day one of us, her new book, I think it should be out now. It's really good.

[Vogue]

Oh, great.

[Joanne McNally]

She's a great writer. Yeah, yeah. I'm really enjoying it.

[Vogue]

We're fans.

[Joanne McNally]

Did I miss the goodbye you missed.

[Vogue]

I did the intro.

[Joanne McNally]

I knew you were up to something because I could see your hands flying all over the place. I was like, oh, my God, what's going on? Okay, I want to tell you about the hot priest.

[Vogue]

Hit me.

[Joanne McNally]

It's a sexy priest. And he basically has. Because I know that you. Those people love God. Now suppose that you've told me he's huge guy.

[Vogue]

Jesus is having a comeback. Yeah.

[Joe]

Not in the sense that it's not like.

[Vogue]

No, it's the best coming. It's the. It's the only comeback he's ever going to have.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah, yeah.

[Vogue]

Last week we were talking about a real comeback. Yeah, of course.

[Joanne McNally]

No, we were talking about that. And I suppose, like, you wonder who is joining the priesthood nowadays. Well, I can tell you who. Father Jordan. But he's a vicar, so that means that like he said, I get married and stuff, doesn't it, Joe?

[Joe]

If you're a vicar, I'm going to.

[Joanne McNally]

Say yes, but yeah, I think so. I'll just say that. Anyway.

[Vogue]

Yeah, they know you are the, the. The. The vicarage. The Protestant, is it? Vicar Protestant. They understood that if they stop men having sex that they will go insane. So it was. It was a good choice, I think. Yeah, yeah. Love God. Love. You can love Jesus and love riding. And the. The two things can exist at the same time.

[Joe]

God invented Shaggin. So.

[Joanne McNally]

Ryden. Yeah, Yeah.

[Joe]

I don't understand.

[Vogue]

I know.

[Joe]

Okay?

[Vogue]

I know.

[Joanne McNally]

No, celibacy is not for everybody. Well, this fella, he was only introducing his. His new church and he went online and everyone just went mad. He got these. He basically went viral. Some of the comments that I liked were, I'm Muslim, but Jesus Christ.

[Vogue]

Yeah, me and Joe wrote that together.

[Joanne McNally]

Didn't We Joe very pleased with that one, John. This, I think this one was from you. See you on Sunday, Daddy. I mean, Father.

[Vogue]

Yeah. Down on your knees with your tongue out for communion. Imagine putting communion on your tongue. You're like, oh, sorry. I was. That's disappointing.

[Joanne McNally]

He told me to come, so I did. Like, he was like, I've never really prayed when I'm on my knees. People were getting really. I can feel the atheism. I'm kind of. I'm kind of into God now.

[Vogue]

It's the. The Internet's so funny. I really do. I love an afternoon. It's really funny. But also when you see a hot priest like that, ultimately when you break.

[Joanne McNally]

It down, people are like, I know.

[Vogue]

What a waste priest.

[Joanne McNally]

I know.

[Vogue]

And you're like, there's no way a man that has. Isn't getting around if he can. There's just no way.

[Joanne McNally]

He's a vicar though. He's not a full priest. So he probably. He probably. No, he's not. Well, I mean he's kind of type. Careful. He's a type. He's a type of priest. Yeah.

[Vogue]

He's not guaranteed going into heaven because he's.

[Joanne McNally]

Listen, it's very much like when we give medical advice that you can. It's the same for any religious advice. We don't really know, but I do. But what I do know is Vickers are allowed to have sex with other people.

[Vogue]

Yeah.

[Joanne McNally]

And that man, for all we know, is having sex with everyone.

[Vogue]

And that's why I think they lead a more normal life. And the Vickers will probably. They've more longevity professionally. You know, they don't have to because priests are riding. Priests are like. Remember that huge big bishop in Ireland too. He had like a love child with some woman, like one of his.

[Joanne McNally]

Herd.

[Vogue]

Or whatever they're called.

[Joanne McNally]

Flock.

[Vogue]

Flock.

[Joanne McNally]

His flock. He'd love child with the flock.

[Vogue]

With the woman from the herd. Yeah.

[Joanne McNally]

Stop.

[Vogue]

Yeah.

[Joanne McNally]

I mean he is a bishop. He is a bishop. That's a. There's a lot of power in being a bishop. I want to be buried by a bishop.

[Vogue]

Men are men are men are men are men and women are women or women are women. But I. If a nun said she had been celibate her whole life, I'd. I'd more believe her. With a bishop you're like, pull the other one, John.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Vogue]

Whereas all the money gown that we're putting in the baskets on Sunday, paying for your kids education. Fine. But tell us where the money's going.

[Joanne McNally]

That will Be the end of our religious discussion today before Joanne McNally gets us into any more trouble. God bless.

[Vogue]

Yeah. As you leave the church, you're like, love to the kids. Send your wife and your family my regards. Bishop.

[Joanne McNally]

Do you know what's coming up? 7th October, Joanne's gonna be in Dubai. She's got two shows now. The 6:30 as. As assumed is gone because. Thank you. Fantastic time. Yeah. If there was an earlier show, that would also be gone. But for the 9:30 of us, there's a few tickets left. Not many, not many. But if you're in Dubai, it's going to be a great night out. Get your little toshes there.

[Vogue]

I think there's a good chunk left, actually. Do you know the. Do you know I've gotten.

[Joanne McNally]

Don't say that.

[Vogue]

Sorry, sorry.

[Joanne McNally]

There's a sprinkle of tickets left.

[Vogue]

Sorry, sorry.

[Joanne McNally]

There's two.

[Vogue]

There's only a half a ticket left. Girls, you have to share a seat.

[Joanne McNally]

Stop it.

[Vogue]

Get them while you can. But I do, you know, I've had a lot of messages from women who are like, oh, please, a matinee would be lovely. They're like, we agree with Vogue completely.

[Joe]

Yeah, we've had many emails.

[Joanne McNally]

Have you, girls? Joanne, I told you, I'm taking a court. 20%. I'll do it.

[Vogue]

You're in your health. Okay, bye, guys.

[Joanne McNally]

No, I. Wait. I have one thing. Thing I want the thing to plug. My book is on as half price on Amazon at the moment. Big mate.

[Vogue]

Oh, go on.

[Joanne McNally]

Yeah, well, 40 for the same thing.

[Vogue]

I might buy it now.

[Joanne McNally]

I might buy a few myself. Yeah, whack it up those. George. Yeah.

[Vogue]

The Christmas stocking.

[Joanne McNally]

I would suggest it's time to get the Christmas presents on the go. Every once in a while I would suggest a copy of the old big mouth 100.

[Vogue]

You should have done. You should do a small, fatter version for a stocking, like, because it's too obvious. It's a book and a stocking because we used to use my father's hiking socks. Anyway, that's a different story. But you know what? I got an absolute buzz.

[Joanne McNally]

What did you fit in a hiking. What did you get?

[Vogue]

Like a pen? Well, no, because. What was it? We'd bulk it out. There was chocolate coins on. In the, in the. In the toes.

[Joanne McNally]

Okay.

[Vogue]

Chocolate coins. No, no, we're, we're. No, no, we were like, we're not.

[Joanne McNally]

Living in the 40s. No one's cat. An orange. A mandarin. Father.

[Vogue]

He's just come back from war.

[Joanne McNally]

A little mince pie for you, sir. But seriously, a hiking sock, Huge big.

[Vogue]

White hiking socks and there would be chocolate coins in the toes. And then the gifts would kind of like get, you know, like, kind of like painting kits and all that kind of jazz. But nothing to a book is so physically obvious that it's a kind of a bit of a, you need to, you need, do you know what you need to do? You need to write a book in the shape of a Terry's Chocolate Orange because then stockings and no will know because they'll just assume it's a Terry.

[Joanne McNally]

You know what? I, I don't think a hiking sock is my concern anymore because I think everybody has these like, absolutely. Like if I have a stocking at the end of my bed, I'm expecting a laptop in there or something.

[Vogue]

Not a chocolate going, no, sorry, it was the 80.