Off The Telly - What Shall We Watch? Spooky Stories
Episode Date: November 1, 2024In this bonus Halloween episode Nat and Jo hear from listeners about the telly that's scared them the most. From shows like Psychoville to The Haunting of Hill House, plus some not so scary ones like ...the Bergerac Christmas special from 1986. We also find out why Nat calls herself a scaredy-cat and the show that still haunts Jo to this day from her childhood.Natalie Cassidy and Joanna Page chat about all things on and off the telly. What they can’t stop watching, what they definitely aren’t going to bother with, new releases and comforting classics – TV is timeless and no telly is out of bounds. As well as having a natter about what’s on TV, they share backstage goss from the world of telly, whilst also cracking up about the more humbling moments in their lives. Self-confessed TV addicts and stars of two of the biggest shows on our screens, EastEnders and Gavin and Stacey, Natalie and Joanna are the perfect companions to see what’s occurring on and off the telly.Get in touch by sending us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to 03306 784704.Hosts: Natalie Cassidy and Joanna Page Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: Richard Morris Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Sounds Editor: Arlie Adlington Music by MCassoOff The Telly is a BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Sounds.
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Hello everybody. Spooky stories.
This is like our Halloween special, isn't it?
Yeah.
Have you ever played a baddie in panto? Special, isn't it? Yeah. Wah, ah, ah, ah.
Have you ever played a baddie in panto?
Oh, no.
No. I've always just been, I've played Alice Fitzwarren and I've played Cinderella.
Have you played a baddie in panto?
No, I've only been a fairy.
Ah.
Fairy godmother.
I bet I could be a baddie now, though, because my days of ingenue have gone.
I hated panto.
Why?
Because it was all in prose. Oh know rhyme yes i couldn't bear the learning oh but if you were playing the fairy it would be
wouldn't it because you're doing all the right the rhyming couplet i couldn't stand it why yeah
why you just couldn't learn it joe. I just found it really hard to learn.
Yeah.
And Christmas is my favourite time and being away and being out every day
and only having Christmas Day off.
People don't realise.
It's hard.
It is a really bloody hard job.
First panto I ever did, James was in it as well.
He was Dandini, I was Cinderella and Gareth Gates was Prince Charming.
Oh, good God, we had a laugh. I bet had a laugh we didn't have kids then or anything and we shared a dressing room god knows how we got
through without having a massive argument at one time i went out and i bought and we were in
wimbledon and i went to the shops i bought a whole load of christmas decorations and i'm talking
about like you know reindeers about that size and big father Christmases and
everything decorated the whole of our dressing room and we just used to have so much fun oh
oh god it was we were so naughty I remember Gareth farting on stage loads yeah yeah he was very naughty
but oh we had such fun I remember another one where I fell down the stairs I came out at the
end you know when they got married oh no Alice Fitzwarren and I came out at the end, you know, when they got married. Oh, no. It was Alice Fitzwarren and I came out in this big ball gown
and I was at the top of the stairs
with Prince Charming
and we went to start walking down the stairs
and I just, I slipped
and I went all the way down like that on my back.
And I found it so funny.
And the audience just went,
like that.
And then I got down to the bottom, landed
and then he had to pick me back up
and I couldn't stop laughing.
How was your back the next day?
Well, all right, because you're so padded into all the corsets and all of that sort of stuff.
It was okay.
Yeah, that I was all right.
God.
We should do a whole thing on Pantos sometime.
Because I haven't half got some blidding stories.
And we should get Brian Conley on.
Oh, yes.
Who is the king of Pantos.
And Shane Ritchie.
We should do a Panto.
We should.
Spesh.
That would be good.
Talk to them.
Yes, because there have been Pantos on the telly. We'll watch a fewanto. We should. Spesh. That would be good. Talk to them. Yes, because there have been pantos on the telly.
We'll watch a few pantos which have been on the telly
and then we'll just get all of our fave panto people in.
And I really love the play that goes wrong.
They do a Christmas show, don't they, on the telly.
They do lots of different bits and pieces of the show that goes wrong.
Eva went to see that in the theatre only a couple of nights ago.
Oh, really?
She loved it?
Yeah, absolutely loved it.
And it's the first sort of grown-up proper play type thing
that she's ever been to see.
Absolutely loved it.
Oh, that's brilliant.
Yeah.
Oh, that's good.
Well, anyway, enough about Panto.
Let's talk about...
Let's get on to Halloween spooky stories, spooky things.
Do you know what, right?
For somebody who absolutely loves spooky things so much,
I don't really have any
that much right one that always used to get to me right was tales of the unexpected yeah and the
women used to dance like that didn't they in the beginning i don't remember it oh my god you don't
remember it oh my god so tales of the unexpected was kind of like what inside number nine kind of
is like now they were sort of a bit like morality tales and you know things with a twist at the end and short little stories and it used to start with the music
do with these women who i imagine were naked and they used to just dance a bit like in the old
james bond yeah dance like this with the music playing right and i always remember this one
about this man who was quite dapper and he was all very he was quite portly
and he was in a suit and he had a big beard and he had a black umbrella with a long pointy bit
at the end and it was a very classic expensive looking umbrella and he walked around he was
walking through what looked like this little village center which was really lovely and he
was chatting to people and all really nice sounds like. Sounds like Mr Ben. Yeah, a bit like him,
that kind of character.
Right.
And he gets this umbrella
and he sort of untwists
the bit at the bottom
or he pulls something out
and it turns into
like this long, long spike
and I remember
he just goes up to the man
and he puts the spike there
right in the middle of his chest
and I always remember him
very slowly
just pushing it
into the man's chest.
Is this a children's program?
No, this is Tales of the Unexpected, which was grown up.
But I was on that borderline.
I must have been about nine or something.
And it stayed with me forever.
Like, it's just, like, imprinted in my mind.
And he pushes this umbrella, like this spike, really slowly into the man's chest.
And then walks out and then leaves him for dead.
And nobody suspects it's him.
That sticks with me as a really spooky, horrible, scary thing.
I'm not surprised.
I know, that's really freaky.
I saw it when I was about nine.
I'd say I remember watching Jack the Ripper.
Oh.
But that's a film, I think, isn't it?
But I remember watching it on telly, you know, at home
with mum and dad and it being on.
And that kind of sticking with me
that old victorian london yeah and what you know the murders and stuff like that and i didn't like
it at all and as you know i'm i don't like watching too many scary things but i thought i'd go back to
um a show that i used to be petrified of of as soon as it came on the telly
and it was kind of the credits, the opening credits,
and that was Trapdoor.
Oh.
That's a cartoon, isn't it?
It was a cartoon.
You may laugh, Jo,
but all those pairs of eyes opening up in the dark,
I didn't like it.
Oh, my God. opening up in the dark. I didn't like it.
Oh, my God.
I didn't like it.
I didn't like it.
And I'll tell you what we had.
What?
I had a board game.
Oh, yes. I'm a big gamer.
But it was a television board game.
So it had a VHS.
Yes.
And it was called Atmosphere
Oh God it sounds scary to begin with
I promise you
and my niece Maria used to come over
and we used to put it on the telly
and the guy used to come up
it was really scary
it was a board game but you'd play along with the VHS
Oh God that sounds really good
and you'd go get over there you maggot
It was so petrified Sounds really good. And he'd go, get over there, you maggot!
It was so petrified.
And my niece used to really cry.
Really, really cry.
And I used to put it on on purpose.
Isn't that awful?
Oh, my God.
But apart from that, I've been put off of many, many things because I'm just not...
I don't like being scared.
And I always remember being really, really scared, right?
And I know that this isn't a drama or a comedy, right?
But being small and Crime Watch coming on.
Oh, agreed.
And my parents always used to watch Crime Watch.
You don't seem to be on.
You've just done Locked in Memory, I completely agree.
Absolutely petrifying.
And I always remember watching it, right,
one night before me and my dad went into the back garden camping.
We bought this tent and I was only small.
I must have been about eight or something.
And he set the tent up outside the back.
And I remember us being in our old living room.
Crime watch was on.
And I remember being on in the background as we were getting everything ready together
to go outside camping.
And I shit myself.
I bet you did.
We had to come in in the middle of the night.
I was terrified.
I really agree with you with that one.
Yeah.
Why would you sit and watch that?
I know.
I don't know why you would.
It was very popular though.
Yeah.
Oh, I don't know.
And I also, right, I do love it, and this is a scary thing,
but have you ever seen, I don't even know why I'm bothering to ask you this
because you won't have, any of the American Horror Story things.
No.
Oh my God, they're so good, right?
And they're not just horror story things
but there's American Horror Story Asylum.
So it's the same cast.
So there's Sarah Paulson, who's amazing,
Evan Peters, Jessica Lange,
it's the same cast.
Right.
And each new season
they will do a different, you know,
sort of horror story type thing.
Oh, it's like television rep.
It is, it is. I'd like to do that myself. I tell you what, right, you story. Oh, it's like television rep. It is, it is.
I'd like to do that myself.
I tell you what, right, you would love it
because there's this actress, Sarah Paulson.
She is amazing, right?
And the amount of different characters she's played,
she's just incredible.
There's this one about just all witches
and all of the women are witches.
It's fantastic.
So I love the American horror story things.
Oh, that's good.
And they don't really scare me, but they do scare me.
But there was only one
that really frightened me
and I couldn't go to bed
and it was one where there were clowns.
And I just thought,
oh, that's my lot.
I can't do anything with clowns.
I'm not a fan of the clown.
No.
Have you ever seen anything,
any TV series with clowns in it?
No, not particularly.
I'm only ever thinking about,
like, not Inside Number Nine,
but what was, you know,
the one with Psycho Bell.
Well, Inside Number Nine
had clowns, didn't it?
Yeah, yeah. And Psycho Bell,. 9 had clowns, didn't it? Yeah, yeah.
And Psycho-Ville, that was all clowns, wasn't it?
Well, Rhys Shearsmith is obsessed by Halloween, isn't he?
He absolutely loves it, doesn't he?
I used to like looking at his Twitter feed and seeing what pictures he changed them to.
Me too.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what else used to freak me out as a child.
What?
Grot bags.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
But I loved gropp bags.
She was just, were you really scared?
Yeah.
Have you ever seen any horror films?
Yes.
Yeah.
I went for a whole summer holiday when me and my friend Zara, at the time, used to stay at mine every night of the week.
Yeah.
And we'd go to the video shop and I watched every horror film.
There was a time. There was a time, wasn't there yeah yeah yeah believe it or not halloween was actually
my favorite oh my god really now that scares me yeah i saw something on um uh instagram the other
day and people were timing themselves to see if is it michael myer yeah from yeah from halloween
if if he's like there's somebody
dressed up as him walking quite slowly towards them and seeing if you could run and get to your
door and open it in time before he gets you and just watching the videos going up I lost a good
hour on that right the other day yeah I think to James I was pretending I was working or something
but really I was upstairs in the toilet and I got myself in a loop just watching stuff.
And it really freaked me out because in horror films,
they're always like, you know, coming down the stairs and falling and they're just walking and the person's running
and falling and running and trying to get to the door.
I'll tell you what we didn't mention.
I think I've mentioned it before, but it's a scary moment
in Luther when the person's under the bed.
Oh, God.
See, I've not even got...
Because Luther is one of my ones that I've stayed with.
You will love Luther.
But I'm still in this marriage breakup.
Yeah.
Because I saw a clip of Luther
where somebody was crawling like that
along the top deck of the bus.
Yes.
But I've not seen the episode yet
and I've not even got the image of the person under the bed.
Freaky but brilliant.
Oh, God, is it awful when it just freaked me out?
Yeah, it's brilliant, though.
I know it's coming from me, but if you want to scare. The other
night I was in the loo, right? I've got a loo off of
the kitchen. Yeah. And went
to the loo and I came out and Eliza pounced on me.
Oh God. I did
nearly, I said, you're going to give me a heart attack.
And I really hate being
scared. Yeah. I said, my reflex,
you're lucky I didn't punch you. Yes.
Because, you know, you just can't. Yeah. It's just, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said, i didn't punch you yeah because you know you just can't
yeah it's just yeah yeah yeah and i said please don't do that to me so i made her jump did you
get it back i did it um on the tube the other day i said we gotta get off quick and she went oh i
said i've got your back but i'm scared now that she's gonna it's gonna keep going because i really
don't like being scared i hate jumping do you know what James did to me once? We'd been to the cinema and we'd gone to see,
I think it was called The Strangers.
It was a film with Liv Tyler and another fella.
And they go and stay in this hut in the middle of the woods
because they're going to a friend's wedding.
They come back, they've had an argument,
and they're just in the middle of the woods.
And suddenly there's like tapping and banging on the door
and then it gets louder and louder until in the end
there are these three people. There's two girls and a man and they're all wearing masks and they
break into the place and then they just basically torment them and the man has got this hessian sack
over his head with these eye holes cut out it's really awful and then we got home and I was
upstairs in our old house and I was hanging washing on the radiator and I suddenly
heard this creaking behind me and I turned to look and our bedroom was there and then it went
straight into the stairs going downstairs and I looked right and the little shit right I thought
it was funny god knows why to um have put a cardboard um carrier bag right on his head a
cardboard one so it was the same color it seems like he cut out two
circles right and he was slowly walking up the stairs oh no and i dropped to the floor and i
screamed no like this and then he walked in then he went to take it off and started going sorry
well i went absolutely and utterly berserk berserk absolutely berserk i don't think it's good for you
you know it's not i don't think it's good for you, you know. It's not? I don't think it's good for you.
Unfortunately.
Although, is it though?
Is it good, right?
Not particularly him doing that, right?
Because that wasn't funny and that was just awful, right?
But is it good for you to go somewhere and watch something on the telly
and have a good old scream?
Because don't they say it's good on a first date?
Or good if you're like dating someone and then you're, you know,
like, oh, good, even if you're with your someone and then you're, you know, like, oh, good.
Even if you're with your husband, that you're sitting there together and your nerves and everything is so high in your emotions.
And then to be to scream and be like, oh, like this, it's supposed to make you come together, isn't it?
Oh, I'm all right. Thank you.
I'd rather have a gin and tonic and have a boogie around the lounge.
But yeah, it's supposed to be, you know,
and it's quite good to have a bit of a scare.
But you could, I don't even know why I'm asking you this as well,
if you've seen something scary
and then you go back home afterwards or, you know,
so you've watched something on the telly
and then it's that bit, isn't it, of going up the stairs
to bed. Jo, let me tell you something.
Yeah.
I very rarely...
Do I?
OK, so at the end of an evening, if Mark's working late,
there's no way I can turn all the lights off downstairs.
So lights are left on until he comes home.
I know that's really wasteful, but I'm too scared to go up in the dark.
Oh, God, yeah.
And if Mark goes out before me and goes up the stairs, I go,
Mark, you've not turned all the lights off.
I've got to go up first.
Yeah.
I'm such a scaredy cat, honestly.
And if I turn the lights off and he's upstairs, I run up the stairs
because I feel like someone's behind me every time.
Every time. I think I'm quite a spiritual person
I think there's loads of people behind me
Really?
Yeah, I think I've got people around me all the time
Do you think they're good people or bad people?
I don't know, I just think there's loads and loads of people
And this is why I am the way I am with this stuff
Oh God, I'm always scared like that though
I couldn't turn the lights off and just turn them all off
And then just walk up the stairs
It's not for me No, I agree with you now before we listen to the spooky
voice notes we've got one to play that's still on the brand with halloween and it's about how you
say werewolf we are wealth we are wolf we are wealth there it is hi both absolutely loving the
pod at the minute i'm all over your guys recommendations and i just came
to say that joe i think werewolf is a welsh thing because i'm north wales and i've heard that
many times before and natalie my best friend is also born on friday the 13th and she considers
it a lucky number two so it's her lucky day not an unlucky day like some people say
um yeah so i think she would agree with you there and i'm also a scorpio oh very good
wow weird that i'm born on friday the 13th isn't it yeah i don't like halloweeny things i know it
is isn't it but i was looking right because noah was born on the 13th of december and his birthday
this year is going to be on a friday and when i was looking in the um this morning i thought to
myself oh i'm going to start
celebrating Friday the 13th as like a really happy, it's Friday the 13th, like a really
good thing.
It's a fortunate day in some countries, I believe.
Is it?
Yeah, I think so. So I go for that, you know.
Yeah.
Well, we are wolf.
It's a Welsh thing then.
Well, we are wolf.
We areolf. Weawolf.
Right, let's get into some of these voice notes about the spooky telly moments.
Never forget being able to watch Jonathan Creek for the first time.
You know, being allowed to stay up
and vivid memories of her cutting up a latex mask to disappear
and putting it in paint pots.
Terrifying but amazing at the same time isn't it
mad how certain things just really stick out for you and just stick in your memory did she say
jonathan creek yeah oh i wonder if the cutting up the cutting up of a latex mask she said i wonder
if it was caroline quentin cutting it up then because she said she cut it up. Possibly. Oh, anything to do with masks.
Masks, clowns, having your face hidden.
That freaks me out.
Funny though, because I never thought Jonathan Creek was overly scary.
No, I've never found her overly scary, but maybe it's because we never saw the episode with the latex mask.
And maybe she was a bit younger.
Yeah.
Because it does change, doesn't it?
Well, it does. And it it well it does i mean sort
of shades how you think of things you know what i mean yeah different times of your life and it can
really really foggy the path it can going forward well i mean you're still hung up on trapdoor
it's true you may laugh you can continue to laugh Jo. Carry on laughing while we listen to this one.
I'm a huge, huge horror fan.
And one of my fondest memories of a horror show is actually seeing Psychoville when it first came out.
I had never seen anything like it.
And I remember being quite unsure about it when I first saw it, thinking this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
But ended up absolutely loving it.
It was just that kind of perfect mix of, it wasn't terrifying,
but it was disturbing enough to kind of keep you up at night sometimes.
It's true though, isn't it? Psychoville and League of Gentlemen,
anything that they do.
It's just, yeah, it's quite extraordinary.
And I think what they do brilliantly is that kind of, that weirdness, that darkness.
Yeah.
But again, along with the comedy side of things, but some stuff's quite gruesome and quite grimacing, but at the same time, it's ridiculous as well.
Yeah.
And so unexpected as well.
I mean, you don't know that, you know, especially with their inside number nine things and then it gets to the end and then suddenly it's like you're caught and trapped before you've realised.
And you're like, oh, my God.
And oh, it just sits with you, doesn't it?
And it's just it's just horrible.
It's scary.
Have you seen the Ring Doorbell episode of Inside Number 9?
Yes, it's good, isn't it?
It's good, isn't it?
Yes, it really is.
The neighbours and it's brilliant, isn't it?
I just love that because really is. The neighbours and it's brilliant, isn't it? I just love that because it is.
It just leaves you so unsettled and then you just feel quite disturbed.
And then it's just there with you then for a while.
I just like all the little morals to it.
It's like you said, you know, each tale, it tells you something at the end.
And you should never judge a book by its cover.
Shall we have another voice now?
Yeah, go on.
Hi, Natalie and Jo.
Subject of spooky tv
well i tend to avoid all spooky programs so i um get taken by surprise when there's
unexpected spookiness and this happened to me with the bergerac christmas edition
um about a medium who communes with with the dead and obviously trying to get this
woman's money off her. But I had nightmares with the Christmas edition in 1986. I literally didn't
sleep. We watched it as normal sitting around the TV. My parents didn't know it was going to be spooky. I literally did not sleep.
So if you can search up Christmas edition,
I think it's called The Fires of the Fall or something about fires.
Literally so spooky.
Even now as an adult, I wouldn't watch it again.
But I was freaked out.
Oh, my God.
I absolutely love that.
I've gone on YouTube to try and find
the Bergerac Christmas
special from, I think, 1986.
That can't
be overly scary, surely.
Oh my god, we've just got to find it.
We've got to find it because that's
amazing. That does sound really fun, actually.
She couldn't sleep after watching the
Bergerac Christmas special. I know, but
she hasn't said how old she is.
She could have been four for all we know.
I know, I know.
Oh, my gosh.
But Bergerac wasn't scary, was it?
Bergerac wasn't.
And they wouldn't have made it super scary for the Crimbo special, would they?
That is hilarious.
You're not all going to come out, are you, doing some sort of...
Some sort of scary dance scary dancing i'm going to have to find that on youtube yeah that is just
incredible i think we should can we have another voice note i don't like any scary shows um even
hocus pocus scares the hell out of me i won't have it on in the house the problem and even
shauna the dead which is supposed to be a comedy
i can't do zombie things and i wouldn't even have the dvd on the shelf in my house it had to be out
of the house because it freaked me the hell out um the problem is my daughter is completely the
other way and absolutely loves horror films it was always the thing of she asked if she could
watch something when she was a bit younger i said no and she'd still go ahead and watch it anyway so now she asked me if she can sit and
watch the likes of it with me and things along those lines and she'll tell me when to cover my
face and when to hide and when there's going to be jump scares because I really hate the jump scares
so yeah great fun we're really chalk and cheese my daughter not on everything but definitely on movie taste so yeah that's me i'm afraid can't do any spooky
shows i'm with you also yeah don't say no to things like that because they're going to rebel
the kids oh yeah they're just going to rebel and do the complete opposite i've thought of a funny
story actually about spooky stuff
i had a friend at school called rachel and her mum she had a birthday party and it was to dress
up as witches and my mum went all out i got all of the lovely witch's hat the wig i had all the
big plastic you remember the 90s plastic fingernails you put on? And I had all the stuff and I did all my face.
I looked really the best witch ever.
And we got there, she was a fucking fairy.
Oh my God, really?
She was all done up in beautiful white.
My mum was furious.
But it really, it just reminded me as we were doing this spooky stuff.
Yes. A little memory there it's funny isn't it when you go to something
and then they will say
let's everybody turn up as witches
it's always got to be a sexy witch isn't it
I'd rather go full thing
and just go scary
me too and also I went to a party
and it was a 50th
birthday and it said fancy dress, you know.
So I put, you know, a wig on and...
Yeah.
If it's fancy dress, I'm going to look silly.
It's fancy dress.
Everyone was just in normal clothes.
Were they?
Yeah, and I just looked like a bit of a dickhead.
Oh, my God.
Do you think that's because we're actresses?
If we weren't actresses, I'd still go full force for it.
Because if it's fancy dress, it's's fancy dress no one was in a wig should we have our last voice note yes please oh and i hope it's a scary
one now i hope it's one that's going to frighten us oh good yeah brilliant my husband and i watched
this amazing series on netflix a couple of years ago called the haunting of hill house i'm sure a
lot of your listeners have seen it,
have talked about it. If you haven't seen it, you have to see it. It is one of the scariest things
that I've seen in years. It's proper jump scares. Either that or, of course, Stranger Things.
Have you seen Stranger Things? What do you think? I loved it. I loved it. First few series I loved and I thought it was
great. Yeah. And then the last series I watched where it was that awful man sort of, I mean,
for me as well, pushed it a little bit too far for me. And it suddenly became not what it was about
when it first started. It all became really quite gruesome and horrible. And I was a bit like,
oh, Jesus, this is a bit much. Right. What did you think? No, I didn't see it.
Oh.
Well, the first few series I think you'd love.
Really?
Yeah.
Young 80s driving BMXs and oh, it's just really cool.
It's really, really good.
Yeah.
But then the last series was just bloody terrifying.
Was it?
Yeah.
I'm going to check out this Haunting of Hill House.
I might tell Eliza to watch that.
Oh my God.
Do it.
See what she says.
Yeah. I'm going to watch it and I'll tell you what it's like.
I'll tell you if it frightens me. i should put one on go on come on let's both put one on
and then we can talk about it next week we can do it as a little extra added okay did it shit us up
all right i'll watch an episode of the what's it called haunting a pill house on netflix all right
promise me you'll do it i will and don't just do ten minutes and do one jump and get scared.
All right, I'll watch one.
Let's both do it together.
Okay, I will, promise.
Is this peer pressure, what I'm doing to you now?
A little bit, but no, I'm up for it.
I'm up for it.
Because I haven't watched anything scary for such a long time.
Maybe I'll really enjoy it.
Maybe you will.
I'm up for it.
Let's do it.
Yeah, come on.
Let's do that one.
Thank you so, so much for all of those voice notes.
Thank you. I love it when we
get messages from you all it was so so good so good um our next bonus ep i think we should do
the whole episode on huns what are hands what are hands what are Sorry? What are Huns? Huns. Huns. H-U-N-S.
Yeah.
What are Huns?
What are Huns?
In my head, right, Huns is some sort of abbreviation for big, hunky, blonde German men.
That's what I've got in my head.
Okay.
Trust you.
No.
Huns are kind of iconic women of the 90s and 2000s.
Why are they called Huns?
Because it's like, are you okay, Hun?
Are you all right, Hun?
So like who?
Like what sort of people?
Sort of, it's kind of camp, very fun, kitsch.
Like Joan Rivers?
No.
So like who?
Charity Shop Sue.
Oh, right, yes.
So, is it like iconic women?
Lisa Scott Lee from Steps.
Is a hun?
She's a hun.
Oh, my God.
Now, like how?
Alison Hammond.
Is a hun?
Massive hun.
Well, what is a hun? I'm a hun hammond is a hun massive hun well what is a hun i'm a hun what's a hun
we're gonna have to go into this another time you need to follow hunsnet hunsnet right i'm
gonna follow it now hunsnet yes jemma collins is a massive hun right jerry hallowell you just need to scroll through love of huns and huns net
and just get a little feel for it right it's really hard to explain
i'll tell you who's a massive hun who diane from the traitors oh really now what about claudia is
she a hun no she's too cool to be a hun. Oh, my God. I don't understand.
No, I know. It's quite hard. Claudia can't be a hun.
She's fashionable.
It's kind of ingest. You're taking the piss a little bit if you're a hun.
I'm a hun.
Right. Okay. Well, I might just talk about you.
Just have a look at it and it will be really fun.
And I really, really look forward to people's voice notes.
We can talk about what a hun is, your favourite huns,
and obviously things, you know, huns that are on the telly.
And what do you think about the hun community?
Oh, my God.
Well, I've got some research to do now, haven't I?
Yeah, you have, yeah.
A little bit of homework.
Hun homework.
Hun homework.
There are hun brunches oh good god
there's a hun podcast right so i'll be checking it all out i'll be checking it out so that's our
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