Perfect Day with Jessica Knappett - EP11: Amy Gledhill

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

Amy Gledhill, winner of this year’s Edinburgh Comedy award ioins Jessica Knappett to discuss her perfect day. The pair talk about the intricacies of Amy’s job at a carvery, how to not get food poisoning... maybe(?), the madness of Marie Kondo, Hollywood crushes, mash potato, Daniel Beddingfield and what constitutes a perfect chair. And remember, if you’ve been to a restaurant where you’re sat at an armchair and there’s a swing in table - please, please do let us know @perfectdaycast. Like and subscribe for brand-new episodes every Thursday. Follow us on Instagram @perfectdaycast A 'Keep It Light Media' Production sales and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

E-R-A-C-T E-R-A-C-T Alright then. So like, sure, first time being fingered is by the sea. Hello, welcome. I'm Jessica Knappett and you are possibly a hyper-realistic computer simulation possibly overseen by a higher being. Welcome to Perfect Day. You can, if you want, kick off a podcast with some simulation theory.

That's absolutely up to you. with some simulation theory that's absolutely up to you it's podcasters choice um chef you know chef's choice and that's what i've chosen that's what i've chosen to go in with i'm leading with that and there won't be any more discussion of it at all for the rest of the podcast. But it's just, you know, it's something to just open with. It's an opener, isn't it? Because this isn't a conversation. This is just me. And you can't talk back. Footsteps, footsteps, footsteps, footsteps.

That's my husband coming to get me to tell me to go and put my child to bed. I'm not doing it. I'm talking to you. Today on the show, guys, it's a good one. It's a really great one. They've all been good, haven't they? But guess what? I feel pretty smug about this one because today's guest we interviewed, we do do our interviews a little bit in advance and in this case it was quite some months ago before our guest

won the Edinburgh Comedy Prize. That's right, we have comedy gold with us today in the form of Amy Gledhill aka Gledders. She doesn't mind being called Gledders, I asked her. You might know her as the comedian Amy Gledhill, you might know her as that girl off Late Night Match or half of the sketch group Delightful Sausage or Leslie in Alma's Not Normal. I know her as Gledders. And in this episode, we have such a good chat. I just love her. She's a real, she's just a game bird.

She's a player. Do you know what I mean? She plays the game. She's with you. She's picking up, she's just a game bird. She's a player. Do you know what I mean? She plays the game. She's with you. She's picking up what you're putting down. And we had a good old laugh. We talk about Amy's job at a carvery. It doesn't disappoint. We talk about a very unexpected crush that she has on an American... Well, it's not that unexpected, but, well, you'll find out. And we brainstorm a carpet-based sitcom. So, you know, it's an innovative and productive chat. And I think it's the start of something very special

because I want to do more with Amy and I hope she lets me. Anyway, enjoy Amy Gledhill's perfect day. I know I did. And I'll see you on the other side. And everyone's like, you idiot idiot clean up that blood alright then thank you so much for doing this, by the way, because I saw on Instagram that you've had quite a week, haven't you? Oh, that's a very diplomatic way of putting it, yes. Shall we get into it?

Do you want to get into it? Yeah. I mean, it's a great place to start, I think. I think it's the only place to start. So I had, I'm still debating whether it's food poisoning or a stomach bug. I don't know how you tell the difference. For how long did it go on for? Two and a half days.

Oh. What do you think, what if it was food poisoning? Can you talk about it? Do you still, how are you feeling? Do you still feel sick? I think, no, I'm absolutely fine now. Right. If I'm honest, I did have a sandwich that had been in the bottom of my bag for many hours.

Gladys. But come on. That's the culprit. No, hang on. Many hours. Right. Okay. What kind of sandwich?

Please. Okay. hang on many hours right okay what kind of sandwich please okay it was a one of the mini prep baguettes that's like chicken salad and it's got all this kind of like weird mayonnaisey stuff on so i feel like there's egg involved somewhere there's chicken and egg there's chicken and egg which is quite oh my god did you did that pick up on the microphone my stomach rumbling can you hear that oh god what is that making you hungry i haven't done one of these podcasts before without eating my breakfast it's been a bit of a mad morning because i have quite bad insomnia at the moment so i wake up at three o'clock for a couple of hours just to overthink things really oh that's

good get it done i think three o'clock in the morning is a really good time to overthink things just for two hours i've got things that happen to me in the day and i go oh well that's a 3am i'll see you again at 3am put it in the diary oh god oh my god i'm awake for this window of two hours and then i fall back to sleep at about five. And then I have to get up with the kids and stuff. Or recently I've just not been getting up because I've just been fast asleep. My husband's just been dealing with everything in the morning. And then by 8am he hates me.

Oh, okay. I was like, I think you've cracked it, mate. Anyway, we will crack on in a minute, but I'm sorry to hear that you ate a mouldy sandwich and then surprisingly got ill for two and a half days. The sandwich was warm when I ate it and it was not meant to be a warm sandwich. It was a cold sandwich.

I was eating it and I was like, yeah, it heated. And I'd say just beyond room temperature. I actually remember going that's quite nice oh that's lovely they should always serve these sandwiches um at the exact temperature that bacteria multiplies it's delicious this is even better oh my god i'm always gonna leave it a little bit it's like wine you get a sandwich then you then you open it you let it let it breathe let it breathe yeah i'm gonna say i don't i don't think chicken mayo sandwiches operate on the same level as breathability as wine but we should try it

we should we should all try it and see what happens. Take the week off work in advance because you will need it. Oh, it's a shame, isn't it? Yeah. Something that blew my mind and made me want to be a vegetarian was that I have a good friend who's vegetarian who's never had food poisoning. What? Because I think it's really hard to get food poisoning if you're a veggie. No, rice. I'm about to say something that is, and this has come up before on this podcast,

the problem with podcasts is fact-checking, and I'm about to say something. Come on, come on. And I'm just going to flag it that I don't know if this is true or not, but I've heard it, okay? Yeah. I think if you eat bad rice it can make you go blind did you hear this in the playground do you know it's a bit like the

dog the dog poo one but that is the dog poo one isn't it yeah and that is true yeah yeah yeah yeah definitely as any definite but as anyone i've never heard of anyone being like oh this is um this is my friend simon um he lost his sight actually because he put dog poo in his eyes as a kid like i've never met anyone or i don't know anyone i don't think any blind people are admitting to that is do you think that's what it is you think it's blind shame? I don't know. To be honest, I'm way out of my depth here. I'm enjoying it.

Yeah. But I'm out of my depth. And I suppose there's no way of testing it, is there? I mean, what are they going to do? Oh, God, you're absolutely right. Line up, kids. it is there i mean what are they gonna do oh god you're absolutely right line up kids for this year's year six science project yeah we'll get you five just to see you eat rice bad rice you put some of that dog shit in your eye and you eat a chicken and mayonnaise sandwich at room temperature you're doing a little experiment guys yeah it's great wow wow okay what i found out recently sorry very quickly is that um well maybe last year i found out

i didn't realize genuinely that everybody didn't get a headache after they ate onion oh wow so you're allergic to onions then well i must be on some level slightly tolerant or something but it's only if i eat raw onion you're like in a salad or something like that um because i had a i had a headache and i was going oh like pressing my head and my friend was like what's up i was like oh it's just an onion headache and she's like what do you mean i was like well i've had onions so i've got an onion headache and she was like what do you mean i was like well i've had onions so i've got an onion headache and she was like what are you talking about and i was like that's not a thing i just assumed everybody got onion headaches why wouldn't i assume that oh my god i love also the persistence do you love onions you must love onions do you know what i think they're fine i think they're

absolutely fine i give you a bit of a headache but they taste fine they taste fine I'd probably eat more of them if there wasn't a level of pain involved so you haven't cut onions out of your diet even though they give you a headache no they're in everything they are in everything

and they improve it it's a nightmare to be allergic to onions yeah yeah yeah so I just keep going But even though they give you a headache Yeah Glad does Why not?

Warrior Thank you Anyway, we'll get on with the show, shall we? Let's do it Let's bloody do it it okay i've thought long and hard about this and i've realized i i don't want to sleep in oh my gosh my first thought was obviously you wake up naturally no because then you don't enjoy it all you don't you don't reap the benefits i need an alarm to go off you want to seize the day i want to seize the day please you want to car pay that dm i'm gonna

carpet that dm all the way from front to back um i i want an alarm so do you think it's carpet it's definitely carpet yeah everyone else is pronouncing it wrong right i'm gonna carpet my dm is there a carpet shop called carpet dm because if there isn't i'm writing the sitcom and you're in it great and it's great it's a carpet shop called carpet dm that does sound like a carpet shop in a sitcom and your character calls is called d my character's called m and it's carpet dm oh my god this is actually genius get the bbc on the phone now let's shoot higher let's go netflix i think they're ready for it hbo hbo 24 hour long episodes. Sorry, I know Succession is coming to an end. Quick pitch.

Jessica Naffet and Amy Gledhill are hapless carpet sellers. And yes, they sell carpets, but they want to seize the day also. And it's how do they inject that fun into their carpet selling lives it's only fools and horses meet succession oh my god this female fronted right okay we've got to stop because we've got this is great this is just great i think this might happen a lot but i do want to hear about you yes yes 100 i'm gonna

pull it back to alarm and alarm is going off what is the alarm please oh well when i was in secondary school i had an alarm clock that had a c you you could put a CD in it. Yes. And it would play the first track of whatever album. I know this feeling so well. So you know the first track of so many albums, don't you? So many albums. And as soon as you hear it, something in your body kind of goes into shock and you're like, I've got so much revision today.

It's chemistry. Have I got to bring my cello today? Of course you played cello of course I did the most attention seeking instrument you can imagine well I can top that for about six weeks I decided to play double bass, full double bass

carrying it to school on my back on my back I should have been more bullied do you know what i mean i would have respected them because it's like come on what more do you want me to do if you hadn't been funnier if yes look did you tear did you tear them down with with with your quick wit i didn't tear them down i befriended them by going by using self-deprecation i think yeah and i i was weirdly sort of popular but i had no right to be because i was everything ginger pale carrying a double bass on my back asthmatic do you know

what i mean sort of plodding along like come on bullies wake up where am i gonna get my grit from if you don't bully me i want to have a career in stand-up comedy come on pretend to be a stag do come on rip me to pieces um right okay so alarm clock's on alarm clock's on it's um i'm gonna go i'm gonna go with green day just for the the nostalgia so green day's album warning i'll wake up i feel a a pang of anxiety like oh god but then i'll go oh no this is great i'm i don't need to do design technology today. Everything's fine. And that's already, you're off to a winning start. Yes. Ben, what would have happened in the night

is a cleaner would have come in, a professional cleaner, and absolutely blitzed the place. Yeah. And I'd get up, and everything would just be so clean and tidy and calm and I think here we go sparkling are you I've got a theory that people are either wet cleaners or dry cleaners so like I'm very good at like the the bathrooms the kitchens like anything with water but I'm very bad at like

the tidying which I think is like the dry cleaning stuff okay yeah I'm definitely more of a dry cleaner than a wet cleaner yeah well I my life did get quite out of control when I had kids and I did do I did do the Marie Kondo thing did you so the idea of Marie Kondo if you don't know is you're supposed to pick up a thing in your wardrobe and go and ask yourself, does this spark joy? Oh, okay. It's quite a big ask of a top. That's a huge ask of a top.

It's a huge ask of a top. Of a plain black T-shirt. So what you do is you end up getting rid of absolutely everything because no most of your clothes do not have the power to bring you joy but what you'll find is a couple of them really genuinely do but what but at the end of the process I definitely had fewer clothes but also I did have like quite bizarre like a lot of well yeah the sequin trousers sure but i can't like go to school drop off in those or can i yeah exactly the the b outfit loads of joy and i've got rid of all of my trousers tops jumpers you look like a lunatic but anyway that it did it did do something and

then i and then i restored some normality in order to it. Because I was like, well, no, this white T-shirt doesn't give me joy, but I am still going to wear it. You do need it when you go see Brett Goldstein. Yeah, so that we're wearing the same thing. Anyway, right. So we've got a clean and tidy house. Oh, yeah.

It's so clean and tidy everything's away i go out for breakfast i think there's something lovely about going out for breakfast because it's the meal that you would most often have at home yes lavish isn't it it's like when you're out for breakfast you're on holiday even if you're not on holiday for that hour or so you're on holiday so i'm going out for breakfast i'm meeting some female friends right great oh it's ideal um what's the what traits do these friends have um funny obviously and happy to just instantly get into either gross or sexy chat. Great, great, great, great, great. And are these friends...

Yes, it's 9am. Perfect. Comedians, I think we're talking about. Where are you going? Are you just like popping off to a lovely cafe? Are we in London still? Yeah, at this point we're still in london i think um i know i know i should i shouldn't move away from london but when i think of a sort of breakfasty

brunch like a high quality one i do think of the capital city i'm sorry no i'm sorry everyone i do apologize but yeah we'd go for like um i think quite like a swanky a swanky place yeah somewhere the main the main criteria of for me a good breakfast brunch is you're not sat on a hard plastic chair you're sat on something upholstered there's a bit of padding on it come on let's live our lives absolutely great shout so this is not it's not going to be a greasy spoon then is it no no not unless they've got some bloody lovely chairs in there have you ever brought your own cushion to a restaurant restaurant if this is something that you feel so strongly about i haven't and i i i almost resent the fact that you asked because i feel like you're going yeah she's exactly the sort of person to do that i don't know i just walking around with a cushion her own cushion yeah here she comes

here she comes there are these um i'm imagining now these sort of blow up bolster seat you can get like a booster seat for a child oh great those and then and they fold up and put them in your bag oh it's obviously to raise their height but you for you you know if if you got caught unawares yeah in on a hard seat what i would like to see is you reaching into your handbag and getting your inflatable cushion oh i'd love that and then just towering over all my friends i do find though that sometimes swanky quite cool places in london tend to be like on hard little benches oh yeah what are you doing with these little benches because they yeah. What are you doing with these hard little benches? Do you think it's because they want us in and out quickly?

They don't want you to get comfortable. They just want you to buy the food, spend loads of money on it and get out. Yeah. There's no level of care. They don't want you to sit there all day. Have you ever sat somewhere all day by accident? I did that once. I went in for breakfast and I was still there at night.

What happened? It was mad. Well, alcohol obviously happened, but it was something, it was like, it started as a sort of brunch, yeah, like a brunch thing. That's the problem. So are you drinking? Is it a boozy brunch?

Is it somewhere that sells mimosas? Oh, I'd have a mimosa. Yeah. If it's my perfect day, I'm having a mimosa. Oh, for sure, a mimosa. That's our introducing some sort of fizz, right? And then is there anything else to the morning before we move on to the afternoon?

Yes, there's one more thing before we move on to the afternoon and that is I get a bath because a morning bath is a luxury like no other. Okay, tell me everything. If you're in the bath before lunch, you have smashed the day. You know this day is great. Have you gone to the breakfast unwashed? Because you know you're having a bath.

Or have you had a shower and then... Okay, now we've said it out loud. I guess, yes, I've gone to breakfast. Face wash, teeth done. Yeah. Comfy clothes, I should say. Even though it's an upmarket place. You can wear whatever you want.

In essentially pyjamas. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm saving myself. I'm saving the big clean. Tell me about your bath rules. Is it a bath bubble? Is it music? Are you watching something? What's happening? I'm saving myself. I'm saving the big clean. Tell me about your bath rules. Is it a bath bubble? Is it music?

Are you watching something? What's happening? I'm watching something 100%. And in this magical world, there is a big flat screen TV in the bathroom. Just a bit. Just a bit. Good sound? You bet you. Just a little bit of surround, if you don't mind. Oh, just a little bit of surround, if you don't mind.

Oh, just a little bit of surround, please. What are you watching? Honestly, Married at First Sight Australia. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's a special episode that's just for me. Oh my God. That's behind the scenes. Exclusive hot content.

It's exclusive hot content. Love it. Just for me. I'm in the bath. There's bubbles. It's exclusive hot content love it just for me i'm in the bath there's bubbles it's red hot the bath is red hot okay my skin is bright pink yes it's basically like hot tub like really really hot tub heat yeah yeah yeah and i've had a mimosa so maybe that's not the greatest idea for i don't think you should probably get in such a hot bath after alcohol. Don't do it at home, but on this perfect day, you're allowed. The GPs advise it.

You're hydrated anyway. I'm hydrated. I'm very hydrated. Anything else in the morning before we go on to the afternoon? No, that's a full morning. It's a lovely morning. My house is clean. I've had a great sleep on my own. I've had a brilliant breakfast. I've seen some friends.

I've had a bath. I've watched Married at First Sight and I've had a mimosa. Come on. What more do you want? And thanks for the summary by the way. I am by the sea and it's not sunny, but it's not cold, but there's a hell of a wind. Oh, there's wind. Oh my God. There's wind.

You want wind. I want wind. I love wind. You want the sand in your eyes. Whipping you. Exfoliating you. I do a bit, yeah. I want a bit of wind. A on a beach oh where are we okay where are we well i've never been there but i think somewhere like uh uh like the coast of like north north america so like maine or somewhere like that do where it's kind of like

cold and basically or somewhere in scotland or somewhere on the northeast coast well i was thinking surely so where are you from exactly but i went to school in hornsea so that's by the sea front hall but i went to school in hornsea so that's by the sea right so is this a memory perhaps i would say everything that happened in my teens that's like a formative memory happened by this by the sea oh wow so like sure first first time being fingered is by the sea. Oh, did you really get fingered by the sea? Oh, it's so romantic. Oh, thanks, mate. It's so lovely. With the wind whipping around.

This is, it's like a Charlotte Bronte. Oh, that's very kind. It's, I don'tonte. Oh, that's very kind. I think there's any fingering in any Bronte books. I think fingering's implied. Surely. It's implied. It's implied. So, tell me about Hornesey, am I right?

There is a pub that I used to work at when I was at school and I was very vegetarian and my job was... Did you get food poisoning or...? No, I didn't, but I also ate no rice, so we just don't know. We just don't know. Anything could have happened. My job was to work there when they did the sunday carvery and basically the chef would would have like a big slab of meat on her shoulder

and she'd walk around and the blood would drip and i'd have to mop it up and i hated it so much I hated it so much Why did you So sorry She just walked around With a slab of meat on her shoulder And you just had to keep mopping it up Why was she walking around with her own meat It's a carver You've got to put it down Was she carving it on her shoulder

No this is before it was cooked obviously Imagine if blood was dripping out She's like Amy with me and she's strutting through the kitchen yes so dripping raw meat onto the floor i hated it so much and it was on a sun early sunday morning just don't understand why it was going on for so long like surely you just have to take it out of the fridge and then put it on the side yeah prep it put it in the oven why is she carrying it around so much she hated me i think this was a hazing it might have been a hazing i think it might have been a hazing um i yes i was like a kitchen porter had all the worst jobs they once once let me make the stuffing balls and I fucked it so hard.

I put too much water in. I did them so bad. It was slop. They weren't forming into like... You needed more stuffing powder. I needed more stuffing powder. And I did it... And they wouldn't give you it.

I did it so wrong. I was like, you idiot. Clean up that blood. It was a... On your hands and knees, there's more blood around here. Right, I'm going to go and pick up the joint of me again. Amy with me.

On your knees, grab that cloth. Grab the blood cloth. Grab the blood cloth. Anyway, so the wind is whipping. And we're in in a northern town in either america or or england or scotland or ireland northern ireland anywhere where it's a basically a pleasant enough beach but it's a bit cold it's cold enough where you can put a scarf on and sort of nuzzle into it and go oh you love the cold yeah i hear i am not a summer my body is not made for summer i have

hair fever i'm allergic to everything i burn instantly i'm a celt you are you i'm a celt so it's like i summer doesn't agree with me i want to be wrapped in wool going, oh, you know? Yeah. How do you feel about open fires? Love an open fire. Right, so that kind of heats fine. I love that. Oh, my God, I love that.

I get addicted to fires. My favourite... Right. Let's gloss over that I would say it was a healthy addiction so tell me so we're on a beach the wind's whipping

who are you with what are you doing so I'll be walking on my own to meet a man who I love. But I don't know who this is. Great.

Oh, no, I do. Come on, it's a perfect day. I'm walking on the beach on my own just for a little bit because I think that's a really calming place to do it. I'm walking to meet Michael Cera. Oh, really? Yeah, and he loves me it turns out he really really loves me yeah i think he's the best i think he's the absolute best obviously very handsome very handsome man i think he's a very talented actor who makes very subtle and very interesting choices is he is he a good dad i don't know but it makes very subtle interesting choices when acting so you tell me mom

a great shout we're walking on a beach towards um your boyfriend slash husband um it would michael snarrow who's it would be a he's made a very subtle and interesting choice very subtle and interesting choice everything about his fashion yeah he's wearing an understated coat and a lovely scarf oh you should see the scarf it's absolutely gorgeous is he gonna wrap you is he gonna wrap you he's gonna wrap me in the scarf that's it i don't have a scarf and i'm getting just a little bit too cold but then he comes in with a big beautiful scarf and he wraps us both in it together and then we just stand being subtle and interesting for a bit anything else the perfect afternoon before we move on i mean i don't think it i don't think we need much more i think that's

it i think we find a place to sit, a bench. I put on my inflatable booster set. Thank goodness you brought it because that bench isn't going to be upholstered, is it? It's not going to be upholstered. But Michael, as he knows me very well, and we have the same sensibilities, he has also brought a booster seat,

but it's sort of subtle and interesting and we're both sat there on our little booster seats wrapped in a scarf. Just blowing up your little booster seat together. Just wordless. You don't need to say anything.

I love this indie movie. This is the ending to Carpet DM. This is how it ends. They could start a line of blower, carpeted, upholstered cushions. Yes. And then they make their fortune. Yes.

That's how D&M make their fortune. Oh, I love this so much. I love this so much. I love this so much. Do the summary again. We've got Michael Cera, The Sea, The Wind, Booster Seat, Big Scarf. Subtle and interesting choices. Fingering implied. Gorgeous.

Let's move on. Yes. Starting off with some incredible food okay incredible food but not in a posh restaurant because sometimes i feel a bit intimidated by them and i feel like you don't really enjoy it because you're sort of thinking am i doing it right who are they what are they looking at and they're just and they're just actually i think some of these places it's just showing off yeah isn't it they're just what they're doing is they are they've created an environment in which they can show yes but it's not it's stopped being about whether or not you enjoy it absolutely absolutely thank you very Finally, someone's saying it.

Finally. Finally. Somebody's slagging off posh restaurants openly. No one's ever done that before. Thank goodness for that. Saying it. Saying it. Okay. Okay, yeah.

So you're in a... It's a nice place. High end. High end, but it's not pretentious. I understand all the words on the menu. You know what I mean? You can still be in kind of comfy clothes. We're all fine there.

They have... Eating? Yeah. Yes, it's good. It's good. You didn't need to bring it. Didn't need to bring it to bring it it's uh it's padded it's soft yeah um in fact maybe if we're going perfect it would be like a an armchair but then the table swings over you like um you know one of them ones that you put like a laptop on for when you're working on the sofa or yeah the the tables that you get in hospitals that sort of swing over the

bed okay do you know what i think i think where you want to be is a nursing home that's it i mean i love they cleared all the old people out no keep them in keep them in this is incredible i i know exactly what you mean because the problem the problem with most you are right the problem with most dining chairs is they should be armchairs but armchairs are too low what you really want to do is and that's why people sit in front of the tv and eat their tea because it's more comfortable rather put your tea on your knee wouldn't you rather put your tea on your knee yeah well i've actually got a little a little table that i pull scrape across the carpet and have it on the sofa even though I spent a big chunk of money on a lovely dining table and chairs and it looks so nice and I never ever use it I go straight on the surface it cross-legged

hunched over and spill everything down me and I'm that's the choice I've made I'm happy with that choice yeah well I think that it's comfort over all else. It's always comfort. And that's as it should be. But that's why I feel like in a restaurant, comfy dining chairs are too low and the table is too far away because of the arms. You need something that swings in,

swings right under your chin so nothing's spilling. And then swings out again. And then swings out again. And then swings out again. Because once you've finished, because then you're in an armchair and you're just having a normal chat. And it's all right for it not to. You just need it to swing it. You're absolutely right.

Thank you so much. I don't know why nobody's thought of this. Maybe someone has. Please let us know. If you or anyone you know has been to a restaurant where the seating is an armchair and there's swinging table sounded like you're like in a hospital please let us know if you or anyone you know has been affected by any of the issues in this restaurant.

So we're in a restaurant with very specific furniture. Yes. Who are you with and what else happens, please? So I'm with, I would say, let's not make it too many people. I'm with between six and eight friends. Michael's here, he's still there. Of course there of course mike's yes of course he is because he gets on with all my friends all my friends love it do you know. sort of buttery and salty mash you've got maybe an onion or a spicy mash you know wow so it's just that that's all you're eating is just mash no uh no because as soon as you said it out loud it was like yeah that's absolutely

that's mad isn't it no it's your perfect day so do you go anywhere else after the dinner what what oh big time oh so we're going to a music gig yes and the music gig is full it's really packed oh not sold out but i thought you meant it's full we can't get in no my perfect night is we try and do something fun but logistically we can't and when we have to go home early i mean that is a really good night don't get me wrong yeah that is a really good night and then you have to find something else to do and then that ends up being even better because you fall yes but anyway it's not that yes that there is there is a beautiful joy in that but this is it's really it's like packed and and busy but me and my friends have special access to a quiet balcony

with seats and we get okay i don't think we need to i don't think we need to ask about the texture and the quality of said seats, do we? My perfect day, I just realised, is sitting down in various locations. No, because you're on the beach at one point. Oh no, because you do sit down on the bench. I love sitting down so much. We all do. I think it's wonderful. Yes, and I think it's important.

I think it's wonderful and i think it's important i think it's i think it's great that you've said it that you've made it such a big part of your day and and that's wonderful um so you're on it you're on a special seated balcony on a very comfortable yeah chair obviously watching what kind of gig well i think it would have to be a mixture so um the one of the last gigs i went to go see was a band called pine grove and they're a bit like a bit like folky the guy's just got a beautiful voice oh it's beautiful it's subtle and interesting choices again wow and it's it's just really really nice really sort of sort of interesting and lovely lyrics. And it's like, okay, this is great.

So we would watch something like Pine Grove or something like Laura Marling or something that's really like, you know, lovely and just nice. And then there's an interval, sure. Act two. And this is because I literally went to this the other night and I thought this is the best night of my life. Act two, who comes out? It's Daniel Bedingfield. So why?

And so is Daniel Bedingfield like your favourite artist then? No, not at all. But them songs, there's like three or four songs Does anybody feel like your favourite artist then? No, not at all. But them songs, there's like three or four songs that make me sort of feel alive inside. And you're back in Hornsea. You're back in Hornsea, horny Horn. Yeah. I didn't expect it.

We were up, we were dancing. A sort of elderly family at the move because I think they were scared of us because we were dancing so hard. This is so great. It was amazing. And unexpected, I'll be honest. The concert was kind of bizarre.

And he sort of comes on and he's in the audience. And he starts in the audience and he starts singing a song, a cappella, and getting us to join in. But obviously we don't know it because it's it's not released anywhere oh my gosh and it was sort of like oh what is going on he does a lot of beat boxing which you know good no no he's fine he's fine he's fine he's fine but it's like boots and cats and boots and cats at that kind of level exactly exactly and you're like but you have got a drummer behind you let him do it he's got the drum kit daniel yeah that's it it's a mad choice when you've got a drum kit there yeah i've got this one mate have a break But it was so good.

So I would want like a lovely sort of funky first half. And then I would want some absolute banging. Second half. Second half. Daniel Benfield's there. Fantastic. And then is that, and then then and then is it home time after that or is there anything else you get you're doing on your perfect night the very last

thing is after after the gig we go to a pub that is uh not fully empty but there's not many people there and so we can all get a big table and we just have some lovely drinks. Yeah. Lovely drinks and chat. Oh. But we don't get too drunk. We don't have a hangover the next day. But we're a little bit tipsy and we're having a bloody good laugh.

That sounds like heaven. So, Marie, okay, so in the evening, good food slash mainly mash. There's about eight of us lovely comfortable seats with a little swinging table and you swing it out again it's ideal then we go see music it's forky to start with then it goes to daniel beddingfield's drum and bass and then we're in a pub where we all get a seat again because seating is the most crucial part of the entire day and uh we have beers and chats oh is it really as daniel beddingfield would say oh abie gladhill thank you so much for telling me your perfect day and night it's been such a

pleasure have you on have a chat i've had a lot of fun i've learned a lot about myself have you and how much i like sitting down for a stand-up you absolutely bloody love sitting down don't you i have picked the wrong profession oh god oh no i think you need to start doing stand-up sitting down, clearly. Clearly I do. But it's a slippery slope. Oh, yeah. Soon I won't get out of bed.

Wheel me on stage. It's the only time she stands up. Yeah, that's it. That's the interview. Yeah, just a bit, aren't we? I am. In love with Amy. Michael, Sarah, get your shit together.

You could have her. Give her a call. If you want to give Amy G gladhill a call get in touch with me this is a message for michael sarah nobody else get in touch with me at everyday a perfect day at gmail.com subject heading amy gladhill heart and do a heart emoticon and then i'll know it's you well i'll know it's you because it'll say it's from Michael Cera and just say um you don't have to say anything really just like the time has come M kiss and then just leave me a leave me a number and I'll just pass it on to Amy okay well we learned a lot in that episode didn't we don't eat room temperature sandwiches for a start and be careful who you upset at a carvery why has no one ever

innovated the act of sitting down do you know what i mean i think there is more to be explored there we've stopped at the chair haven't we too soon we've stopped too soon. Anyway, look, we've got some really nice guests coming up, including, hello, just a little bit, Dr. A. Buckles, Adam Buxton himself, the godfather pod the pod father does he call himself that kyle smith by no and from ghosts and other stuff and mummy herself joe lysette um as always obviously like subscribe leave a review etc i'm trying something new now i got this off another podcast i'm gonna read out a review and if you send me a nice review i'm gonna read it out okay this one's from nick it just says love nick oh right no that it meant love he means love loves nick muhammad right he meant love nick it just says brilliant episode but he gave me five stars this one from theater twerp says relaxing funny informative nappies is next on house she's funny but she listens too so you can get a lovely

collaborative chat very enjoyable more please okay i now feel indulgent. I was trying something new. I'm gonna get, I'm gonna, you know what? I need you to review whether or not you like me reading out the reviews. That's how I'm gonna know whether I should keep doing this. I'll just read the last one. Five stars. The three Drifter Girls need their own podcast okay then i'm already doing one but i'll see what i can do anyway that's it that's us over and out tune in next week and as always this is me signing off from yorkshire with love i'm jessicappett, wishing you a perfect day.