Should I Delete That? - Is It Just Me: Taylor Swift vs Queen Elizabeth II

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

In this week's IIJM, Em and Alex discuss imaginary children, failed petitions and the world's most famous women...Follow us on Instagram @shouldideletethatEmail us at shouldideletethatpod@gmail.comEdi...ted by Daisy GrantMusic by Alex Andrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, welcome back to Shuddley that. I'm Alex Light. I'm then Clarkson. This is an Is It Just Me? Episode. It is indeed. We've got emails to get into. We do. I've also got some topical, some current effects, some bug bears, if you will. What would you like to do first? Hit me with your bug bears. It's just one. Okay. I want to talk about Angelina Jolie. She is not my bug bear.
Starting point is 00:00:30 As ever, the reaction, the society, man. As ever, it's the social media noise surrounding her. That's really got my goat this week. So you've seen them because I asked you to look at them this morning. Yes. The videos and photos. I see, I think it's amazing how the internet operates that you can just be minding your business
Starting point is 00:00:50 and all of a sudden one celebrity just becomes it. And it's just everywhere. And these clips emerged of her at the gold, Globes. So the Golden Globes. It wasn't the Grammy's. I feel like it was the Golden Globes. Anyway, she looks beautiful.
Starting point is 00:01:06 The Venice International Film Festival. That's the one. She was at the Venice International Film Festival. Okay. And she looked beautiful, but she looks thin. Yeah. She looks thin. And I was reading in the comments.
Starting point is 00:01:20 And I just thought, oh, you motherfuckers! Leave her alone. This is a woman who very famously had opened up about having the bracker gene and had to have a hysterectomy and a double mastectomy because of it. Yeah. He's going through a very public divorce with a man who is alleged to be abusive and to have been very abusive on this flight. You know, it's all rumoured, but she's clearly going through it and all the comments are just like, I don't care for your ill health or marriage woes or the fact that you're a victim of anything. I just want to tell you that you
Starting point is 00:01:57 look very thin and bad and old. I know, God, I'm looking at the comments now. This is on Perez Hilton, so a bit of a dumpster fire anyway, but I mean, I know he's tried to redeem himself, but I'm not convinced. Someone's put, she looks old and tired. I don't know how old she is, but she does, she looks unlike herself. Someone's put 49, I think, it's because she needs to start eating. It's, honestly, you want to know what not to do as a woman in Hollywood? Age. And I've always found the conversation around Angelina to be so interesting because she obviously was the woman blamed for breaking up Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Right.
Starting point is 00:02:41 She was the other woman. She was the home wrecker. Yeah. And growing up for me has been realizing that Angelina wasn't the baddie in all of this Brad Pitt was. Totally. I know. But it's taken like a.
Starting point is 00:02:56 casual 20 years to be like, hang on, guys. Let's, let's reassess this one. It's so interesting to me how we can still lambast and loathe the other woman. Meanwhile, the man is aging like fine wine and gets a free pass. And I swear there's been so many accusations leveled at him from her, I think, right about his behavior and I don't know how much she's spoken to it I know that there was something on an altercation on a flight with his kids and I think it was one of the airline I think it was a private plane but I think it was somebody from that flight right spoke about it his kids don't speak to him or at least one of his kids doesn't speak to him I was about to say one of his kids has just dropped his name yeah and they're clearly going through it the Jolie Pitchie
Starting point is 00:03:54 children I think it's remarkable how we can look at the evidence in front of us and go but he's so good looking he can't be that bad like look how handsome he is friends with George Clooney and look at their banter and he's so funny people the thing that I always find the most frustrating perhaps of all of it is how people still ship Jennifer Anderson and Brad Pitt yeah and people still make these like really romanticised videos of them together and like they say they're still in love and then whatever and it's like this guy publicly humiliated to her and broke her heart
Starting point is 00:04:30 and she has got the good grace and manners to be cordial and maybe they're still friends whatever but don't reduce this hugely complex like these hugely complex lives to just being this one like romanticised like oh they were the power couples in the 90s
Starting point is 00:04:51 and like they'll be back to go and that's true love and it's Like, never mind, like, the fire and destruction and the hurt in every, like, left everywhere. I don't know. I just find it so, I don't know. Just, just annoying. Why would Jennifer once to want him? Why should she?
Starting point is 00:05:06 Literally, why would she? I was like, oh yeah, Jen and bad. We weren't better for her. We need better for her. Yeah. We're not going to, we're not backsliding 20 years to a guy who left him for another woman, treated that woman like shit. It's split up with her.
Starting point is 00:05:20 So this is going to come back to you again. Kind. This is probably. probably toxic as well, but kind of wanted to be with Ross. Oh, no, she deserved better than Ross. I did not like Ross. Ross was the reason I can't even remember, actually. Why?
Starting point is 00:05:34 Because of Ross. What was, I can't really remember. I found him so, like, not to be ahead of my time. I'm like, aware of, like, problematic behaviors before the rest of us really acknowledged it. I always found him so toxic. I just, I could, I never, I couldn't stand him. Really. I hated the way he treated her.
Starting point is 00:05:53 I just, I thought he was horrible. I thought he was a terrible father. Was he? Yeah. Well, I mean, he never saw Ben again after like, whatever. And I hated how he was with, with his daughter. Honestly, I couldn't. I just, I couldn't.
Starting point is 00:06:06 Who was his wife? Emily. And he left him, left him for another woman, Carol. And he was horrible about that. He was just, fuck Ross. Fuck Ross. Fuck Ross. Yeah, no, but yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:19 But that's a con, that will get us in trouble. Oh, will it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. People love Ross. Oh, that was, sorry, that will go. Oh, okay, I thought you meant me saying that I, yeah, no, I don't know. But people have a lot of views about friends now, don't they? Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:36 Yeah. So the thing is, I dipped in and out. I was like a very fair weather friends watcher. I've never watched, probably watched, like, a quarter of them. Me too. And I, like, but I did, I did like it. Yeah, no, I like to. I feel like it's so bad to say that now, but I loved it.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Like, it was, you know. I don't think it's. I don't know. People feel very strongly about it. People don't like that it's like they were living unrealistic lives. Yeah. Which is fair cop. Because they really weren't. Because they really were. It was very nice apartments. Yeah, they were like six, slim, white, like middle class, I suppose. Yeah. Like there was glaring lack of diversity. Yeah. Stark. Yep. And then Ross was a bit of a knob. But I feel like, I feel like that might, I feel like I'm going to get a trouble and say that because people really like. him yeah if you look at any of these shows through the 2024 lens no nothing passes like
Starting point is 00:07:29 nothing's okay nothing's not problematic totally totally and I think we can still enjoy all the we can definitely still enjoy all these things while also critiquing having a bit of critical thinking learning from them and learning from them not going to do it again exactly we know better and we do better now 100% also it's totally fine that I don't like a character like it's totally fine that he was a knob because it's like well I just don't like him and that's fine It doesn't mean anything. It's so interesting, isn't it? When we watch something or when we decipher something
Starting point is 00:07:57 or when we critically think about something, everybody has to pass, everyone has to pass the test. Everybody has to be to our standards or else they're problematic and we can't endorse them. But this is actually what we were talking about before. This is a bit meta, actually. We're going behind the curtain now. But we were talking about this before
Starting point is 00:08:17 about having podcast guests on who have values that we don't like completely align with or like have some values that we don't align with and we're talking about how like in the past we've stayed away from that but actually we don't want to do that anymore we don't want to just disregard someone entirely because they have a view that is different than art or they've had a behavior that is
Starting point is 00:08:40 or we made a really shit joke we don't we wouldn't you know commend what's the word that we wouldn't condone that's it we were talking about that before weren't we and I think it's I think it's really important I don't know I'm proud of us I feel like it's really good growth for us it is great that we're like considering guests that we would never have considered before 100% we're doing we're making some pod changes nothing don't worry
Starting point is 00:09:01 nothing that we're not fucking with the format again we're not gonna include you either don't worry but we're just good we're dealing with it on our own but it is a really exciting time yeah because because I've realized how far we've come so far in what we what we say yeah what we're brave enough to do what we can handle. Yeah. It is tragically because our skin has been hardened sandpaper down, if you will. We've had to develop very thick skin. But I do think also it's definitely in part down to the listeners like you guys.
Starting point is 00:09:32 100%. We have met so many of you. Like we've listened to all of your feedback through email, DM and like met you guys at the live shows. And we've realized now that you are on our side. Yeah. Like not to say that you can't hold us. accountable for stuff because you know that's you know we need that still hate it but we need it but it's like you're on our side yeah we there's a there's a lovely like relationship there it's
Starting point is 00:09:59 not like you're trying to catch us out or trip us up yeah and there's like there's room for like nuanced conversations and also mistakes and that's really nice obviously we endeavor not to make them but I think undoubtedly we will yeah well going for ross I don't think it's the right thing I think I've made a mistake there and I could have said that I didn't like moniker either but I feel like I don't this is the hill you die on
Starting point is 00:10:20 imagine if this is why you get cancelled because of Ross I could see it it would be about right it would be about nonsensical enough it would really it would just be so poetic
Starting point is 00:10:33 it would be perfect yeah because it's not even something I feel that strongly about I just don't like it that much alright let's read me that email okay first of all love the pod
Starting point is 00:10:44 it's one the only ones I listen to consistently every week. Love the topics, love the banter. Oh, and please do talk about your children now and then. Your mum's now, they're part of your life and from one parent to another, 90% of our life is our kids. Thank you. You never go on and on about them. You just share snippets and it's lovely.
Starting point is 00:10:59 If people don't follow you for that, so be it. Lots of mums will hit follow because it's relatable and a lovely mix. You can't pressure yourself to not mention your beautiful little babies because some followers don't have kids and they think the chat is boring. That is so cute. And before we got, I was the rest of the email, and I just share something that I put on close friends yesterday. Oh my God. I meant to message you about that.
Starting point is 00:11:15 I saw something. You know, I keep saying that I hate threads. And threads is like the worst place there. And threads is like worse than Twitter because everyone's pretending to be nice and they're actually just not. Yeah. Someone put out a tweet saying,
Starting point is 00:11:26 one thing that influences do that automatically makes you unfollow, question mark. And someone replies going, have a baby. It ruins the page. And then someone else replied going, 100% of the main reason I unfollow people. I was like, oh my God, we fucking hate mothers.
Starting point is 00:11:41 How brutal is that? It's so savage. We just clas down them. You wouldn't unfollow them. man for having a baby but you just hate women for doing it i i honestly i sat there and i was like i why i are i got some stuff to say and then i was like you know what i'm going to screen grab it put it on close friends and never think about it again that is so rough so rough because it is fair like also i got so triggered by the replies to that i got so
Starting point is 00:12:06 triggered by the replies to it because it was like well do it when they say run don't walk I was like right well I say that literally once a day and it's like when they get added our sambas I was like oh no I just got a pair and it was like when they tap their nails on a product I was like I love to tap my nails on a product I have literally got no followers left I was getting so triggered and then I saw the have a baby one
Starting point is 00:12:33 and I was like right well I'll just go and jump will I bye do activate the account brutal that is so brutal I hate that That makes me feel angry. I feel triggered. My favourite thing about it is like how maybe it ruins the page. And it's like, the page is a person. The page is a person.
Starting point is 00:12:52 I know, I know. The page is a person. Ruins a page. Oh, fuck off. Fuck off. You've ruined your brand. I have some breaking news. What?
Starting point is 00:13:02 It's not that crazy, but it's kind of crazy. Well, like BBC breaking news. It's from the pop culture world. Something has happened while we've been sitting here. Yeah. Okay. I don't want you to go. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Shit. I love breaking news. Okay, well, Adele has announced that she is taking an indefinite break from music. Oh my God, what? I could actually cry. Emily, who's sitting behind the camera, went to go and see Adele in Munich this weekend. Did you? Apparently
Starting point is 00:13:30 she did it. She seemed okay. Was she okay? She seemed okay. No, I was so hoping you were going to say she's coming to London. No, no, it's a positive one. I've spent the last seven years building a new life for myself and I want to live it. It's good. It's a positive. of not for her fans but it kind of is i was praying for a new album i thought you were going to say
Starting point is 00:13:47 a new album and she's coming on tour i'm indefinite break from music i love adele i would die for i wouldn't die i've got kids and i can't say that but i i would i would walk on hot coals for adele i will not see you for an incredibly long time is that how she's finished it yeah she will not see us for an incredibly long time yeah an incredibly long time that's what she said Do you think I can genuinely cry? I feel like Emily's on my page here. I feel like I can actually cry. That's so sad.
Starting point is 00:14:17 I feel like I did when Amy Wine has died. This is horrible. I feel very sad. I will not see you for an incredible bit. That's a direct quote. She also said, I just need a rest and I've spent the last seven years building a new life for myself and I want to live it now.
Starting point is 00:14:30 I want to live my new life that I've been building. Oh, you know what? Good for you. Good for her. This is really crushing for me because this is when I realized all my own problematic behaviors where I put people on pedestals, I hold them to an impossibly high standard
Starting point is 00:14:42 and then I get annoyed with them when they don't do what I want them to do even though Adele doesn't need to do what I need her to do because Adele needs to do what she needs to do well this makes me think of something right I was thinking about this and I really got myself into quite a tears
Starting point is 00:14:53 thinking about this I think about Taylor Swift right okay is she the most famous woman on the planet maybe now the Queen's dead sorry but Taylor Swift was was more famous than the Queen I don't know about that
Starting point is 00:15:09 Really? Yeah, I feel like, no, I feel like she's on so much money and like, like, God's, you know, like, I don't know, it feels like, no, I really feel like the queen was. Yeah, no, I feel like the queen was like, no, she was like, no, she was like, she was like, she was like, she was like, she was like the queen. Yeah, but like, okay. No, but like, come on. If you go to like, like, like, okay, we're in like, we're in, we're in, we're in Nairobi. Like, there's like 70 year old man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:38 You show him two pictures. Taylor Swift, the queen. I feel like he's going to be like, that's the queen. Yeah. I'm not sure about that one. I don't know. I feel like she's literally like, she's seeped into like every single part.
Starting point is 00:15:53 To be only, actually, I'm thinking about it. I'm like, no, of course she'd be big in Kenya. Why wouldn't she be big in Kenya? Then I was thinking maybe somewhere in like, I don't know, Japan. I was like, no, I bet they love her in Japan. But they love her in Japan. Yeah, probably. I can't think of a single part of the world where they wouldn't love Taylor Swift.
Starting point is 00:16:05 I know that's. So this is what got me in a tears because I was like. Let me just Google it. okay yeah who's more famous who's the most famous woman in the world oh oh no is it someone incredibly obvious go on it's the virgin mary oh fuck off no it's not you're joking well i don't know what to do okay right so i don't know what to do i wouldn't recognize the virgin mary i don't know what to do of course you would she wears a blue
Starting point is 00:16:31 thing and she's crying and she's at the top of every catholic church looking very sad wait is that my virgin mary yeah that's a virgin mary yeah that's a virgin mary Mary. Okay, the AI overview, which I wish would stop coming up. Because when I Google stuff, I get the AI overview and I'm like, who's agenda are you pushing? Yeah, I think that's it now. So, okay, fine. Right. Well, according to this agenda, it's the Virgin Mary, Oprah Winfrey. I don't know, man. No, I don't know. Queen Elizabeth II. Yeah. Maricure. I wouldn't know Maricure. No, this isn't, this is not what like. Sandy Ran. No, this is not what. This is not what. like no i'm not sure i'm not thinking like virgin mary like maricurey like not thinking that's not what
Starting point is 00:17:17 i'm thinking of like people have changed the women have changed the world no we're not we're not on that level i'm talking about like recognizing down the street yes yeah who would it be hardest okay who would it be hardest for them to get into an economy seat on an easy jet flight no no no I mean, imagine, not just because she's dead, but imagine the queen having, to go, like, seat 9A, put something in the overhead locker, the queen, no, okay, no, that sounds preposterous, obviously, but imagine, but right, but I feel like. Right, I'm reading Reddit, people are saying Cleopatra, if she didn't have her hair in the bunches, no, this is not, this, then someone said Queen Elizabeth, then someone said Taylor Swift's a strong contender,
Starting point is 00:18:06 to which no one's arguing. Someone said Duolipa. That's not. That's that... Could be. Maya Angelou. Jane Austen. No. Okay, fine. I think I've googled it wrong.
Starting point is 00:18:18 Who's the most recognisable? Because I think... Yeah. Who's the most recognisable woman? Oprah Winfrey has come up again. Wow. No, no, no. Virgin Mary's... This is a different list.
Starting point is 00:18:30 Virgin Mary, Queen Elizabeth II. Rosa Parks. Oprah Winfrey. Mary Curie again. Taylor Swift did not on the... list. So the thing is I think we've missed out Kim Kardashian but like to me it's different like because I think Kim Kardashian is just as recognisable as Taylor Swift is she? Yes, is she? No no no I don't know. Princess Diana was probably more famous than all of them. We're all recognisable.
Starting point is 00:18:54 100%. 100%. Okay but there's like different things we need to take into account here because like I think I think that Kim Kardashian is probably as recognisable as Taylor Swift but I don't think Kim has, you disagree. I disagree. Okay, fine. Okay. But I don't think Kim has the, no, she definitely doesn't have the pull of the fans like Taylor Swift does. I don't know how to describe it.
Starting point is 00:19:21 What's the word I'm looking for? She doesn't have the fandom. She doesn't have the fandom. From fair, the fanfare, the fan of girls. She's extremely, she's so well recognized and she's so famous. I don't think she's on a part with Taylor Swift, though. Do you not? No, because I think, tell me why.
Starting point is 00:19:34 Tell me why. Sorry. I think, okay, Taylor Swift, like everyone's going to know love story. I mean, who doesn't know love story? And you could pretty much go to any corner of this earth. And people will know that song and people will know Taylor Swift. But Kim Kardashian, if you don't follow social media, which a lot of people don't do, like a lot of people. Also a lot of young people.
Starting point is 00:19:57 Like, we care because she's a millennial icon. But if you've got like an 11-year-old in Mumbai, for example, no, they're. They'll know, they'll know, they'll know, 11-year-olds, we'll know they're too old, six-year-old, five-year-old. They'll know Taylor Swift. A five-year-old's going to know Taylor Swift. A five-year-old in a country where they're not on the TV all the time, the Kardashians, is way more likely to know the... No Taylor Swift, because they're listening to the radio. There is not been...
Starting point is 00:20:26 There has not been anyone, I don't think, who has been so consistently featured and published in the media and on social media. media than Kim Kardashian, like she's set the precedent for it. And because I think she's, she's nailed as well something that other famous people previously haven't, which is like staying relevant. So she spans her like, her like popularity, it's not even popularity, but like her no notoriety spans a really long time because of that, because she's been able to keep so relevant. Yeah. I don't know. She's just, she's still She's very pervasive.
Starting point is 00:21:06 I think the queen chips on both of them. The queen, yeah. It's very different, isn't it? Different demographics, but we've got to think about the different demographics. There are a lot of different demographics. There are a lot of different demographics. There are old people everywhere. And there are super young people everywhere too.
Starting point is 00:21:22 And it's like, she's the queen. Do you know what I mean? I know she's dead now, but like she's super recognized. Like, even the, like, I don't know, I keep thinking of the sex pistols poster. I'm like, she was on that. She was on everything. She's on all the money. She's on all the money.
Starting point is 00:21:37 She's on all the money. Although who uses money anymore. No, Charles is coming on, but they haven't got rid of the old money because they don't just. Money fascinates me. Did you see? Money fascinates. I know. Print it.
Starting point is 00:21:47 They just print it, but they can't print too much of it because then the money that we've got isn't worth anything. Don't. But why do they need to keep printing it? Because what happens at all money and how can they ever know how much money is truly in circulation at any given point? Because what if one person had a million 20 pound notes underneath their bed that no one knew about. I hate this conversation. It's so stupid.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Like most of my child are just sitting at the kitchen table crying when my dad would try to explain this to me. Why can't they print more? It just means like super frustrated. Invation, economy. I don't, fuck off, I don't know. But there is a book now called, why can't we just print more money, I think it's called?
Starting point is 00:22:19 Have you seen that meme on TikTok? And it's like, I just want to feel alive. I just go to a pub for the finance pros on a Friday night and ask someone why they can't just print more money. That's good. I like that. I think it is fascinating. Did you see?
Starting point is 00:22:32 I shared a. rejected petitions it's read it's so so funny in fact I'm just going to read a couple of these out because they are brilliant okay and after you've done that we need to go back to the email that you started
Starting point is 00:22:47 I think we're going to read the email on the next I don't think we should do that I think it's not fair because all we've done is read the praise from email about what great mom we are I thought we haven't started the email we just read about how good moms we are and how much we like I thought we hadn't even started on it.
Starting point is 00:23:07 So we'll do the Reddit and then... That, my friends, is what you call a tangent. Oh my God, my Gmail's like refreshed and everything. It's been that long. Okay. Needed cheering up a bit. So we went on the rejected petitions of the government website to see how it was going. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Put David Attenborough on the £10 note. That's a fair enough request. This would celebrate his achievements and his legacy. Also put animals on all the coins. So when we are bored, bored, we can have him narrate our change. I think that's a really nice idea putting animals. Get everyone, another one. Get everyone in the country to jump at the same time just to see what happens.
Starting point is 00:23:39 I would love that. Do you think it would make the earth bounce? I think it would cause the country to sink a bit, but should we find out? Yes, yes. Get rid of all the genders. If you lot can't stop arguing about them, then you're not allowed any at all. How about that? That does seem fair enough.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Pan James Gordon from the United Kingdom. No. I hate him. Oh, no. That one didn't get any legs, did it? I don't like a witch hunt like that. Make Dave Tennant a lord. David Tennant, I would fully sign that petition.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Me too. Put Shrek back on Netflix and underneath it's just got put it back. Did you see the video of David Tennant's winning the NTA award? No. Oh my God, it'll make you sob. I watch it every time I need to cry. Okay, it's like 15 minutes. We need to fire through these though.
Starting point is 00:24:19 So quit the commentary. Yeah, put Shrek back on Netflix. Change McDonald's breakfast finishing time from 11 a.m. to 12pm. Fair enough. People have hangovers. Change the name of the great pottery throw down to Top of the Pots. Top of the part! Yes! Subheading, this one is very important.
Starting point is 00:24:35 This is an agenda I can get behind. Whoever's manifested this is I am voting. Build a prime arc next a little, so I don't have to travel a long way. This petition was rejected. That's quite a specific one. It's every prime mark that's got to be next to every little. Reinstate Pluto as a major planet.
Starting point is 00:24:51 It is unfair to downgrade Pluto after being in the solar system for so many years. Size should not be a deciding factor when grading planets. 100%. Like, I feel like all those men that are talking all the time about how size doesn't matter. size doesn't matter, but all of a sudden when it's a planet. I agree. Also, my very easy method just feeds up naming planets doesn't work when you take away the planets at the end. Then it's just my very easy method just feeds up naming. I've never learnt that, you know, could never get that in my head.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Well, there's no point in having it in your head now because it's irrelevant. But what I do have my head is never eat soggy wita picks. Good for the compass. Fine. Back to this email. Oh my God. Sorry. Okay. That was like... The tangents are over. Even for us. That was a tangent.
Starting point is 00:25:32 I'll done. Okay. Anyway. I can't remember what she said at the beginning. I'm so sorry. She said that we could talk about our kids and that she really likes the podcast and she listens to us.
Starting point is 00:25:43 See, I've remembered all the praise and she listens to us consistently. Anyway, my reason for emailing you is because I'm currently sat in the bathroom at work dying. I don't want to go back out there. I am mortified. Not literally. Just like. Mortified. So I am super awkward.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Because I was taking us to read this email, we could not have got help to her in time. She would be code red, gone. I feel like there are other avenues. I am so sorry. We didn't read this far down. We got stuck on the brace. We had to sit there for a bit. Rest in peace.
Starting point is 00:26:20 She loves her. She thinks we're great. I'm dying. Okay, no, she's fine, sorry. Okay, so I am super awkward when I speak to new people. I'm unsure why I'm like this, as when I'm, around people I know, I'm really extroverted. I work bank shifts at a hospital, so I have to meet new people all the time. It never gets easier. A little while ago, a lovely woman introduced herself
Starting point is 00:26:41 and we got chatting and I had realised I said I had kids, plural, in our conversation. She then asked me how old my kids were and what their names were. I have one child guys, but in my awkward panicked state, I made up a whole other child. Fair enough. I could have said, oh, I don't know why I said kids as I only have one but no no no I now also have a son oh my god she did it she followed do I admire that the thing is I work here often the other staff members no I only have one child I came in today and a group of girls as usual are all standing round together handing over and chatting away the woman I spoke to pipes up and says so how was your son summer did your son and daughter have a lovely time and the room went silent guys there was eyes on me for sure because
Starting point is 00:27:24 they know I only have one child. I couldn't stand there and explain what had happened because it would make me look even more mental than they already think I am. I just said it was great, thanks, very busy. FML, they are all probably chatting about it amongst each other. I can never take a shift here ever again. I'm going to go find my manager and say I'm well so I can go home. I hope you both have a great day. What are the chances? Love from Anonymous, her daughter and her imaginary son, Jack. What are the chances that that woman's going to remember, that detail? How many people must Was everybody me? I know.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Your son and your daughter, it feels a bit pointed that she's asked that actually. I know. Your son and your daughter. I get that. That happens, you know, a little mistake and then you can't, you don't correct the mistake in time and then the mistake snowballs and it's just too late then you can't. This is giving, you live with the mistake. Hugh Grant in about a boy.
Starting point is 00:28:15 This is giving, you know when he made up his son so he could go to single parents alone together, he could spat meetings. Yes. That's that. Exactly. Poor girls. It's not great. It's not a great.
Starting point is 00:28:27 It's not great. It's not easy to unpick. It's not easy to unpick. The chance to unpick is gone. I think going forward now, you're going to have to double down gaslight. You do have a son now. Everybody else. What you should do?
Starting point is 00:28:42 I've got a really good idea. I've got a brilliant idea. Yeah. Get a dog. Make sure it's a boy dog. Get a dog. Call it Jack. Yep.
Starting point is 00:28:52 And then you'll be like, oh no, sorry, I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. If you're talking about my dog son. My boy. My boy, Jack. My child. Yeah, yeah. My son. There you go.
Starting point is 00:29:04 Just solve that. Just get a boy. Dog. Get a dog. Yeah. Yeah. Well done. Okay.
Starting point is 00:29:09 You're still insane. I needed a bit more praise for that. I thought that was really good. It's not, it's not perfect. No. No, because if she's asked enough details to follow through, like, how old's your son, I feel like it should come up at some point. that it's a dog.
Starting point is 00:29:22 Like I feel like if someone asked me that and I said, oh, I've got two daughters and they'd go, oh, what they like? I'll go, well, one of them's a labradoodle and she's nine and then the other one's a baby and she's one. See, I'd be like, oh yeah, that's so sweet. Okay, but if you leave enough time
Starting point is 00:29:34 between the conversation, gaslight her. Well, that's why. Gaslight her. No, I told you I had a dog. This is so weird. I've only, I've only ever told you I had one case. Is your ears okay? I thought, and that this feels like,
Starting point is 00:29:45 are you all right? Because I feel like you might be projecting something. Do I have to repeat myself? I've got it. This is really odd actually And I feel like you're Yeah No I think you've been really weird about this
Starting point is 00:29:54 I've only got as well Why do you think I should have a son Am I failing you Is my family not nuclear enough for you Right you just you had to paint the perfect picture Right is that made me more palatable to you I feel like this is where you should take this Please do
Starting point is 00:30:09 And before back And also really sorry to that other woman No I actually I have some other advice I think you should go and say No. I was really fucking weird a little while ago. And I told you I had a son. And I don't. I just don't know if you can do that. I feel like she's not got loads of options. This is the thing, right? If I did it, I would do something like that. And when she tells me, I'm like, oh my God, I would totally do something like that. That's hilarious, but like it's relatable. But if someone did that to me, I would be like, what the fuck? I think that I think she's got to accept that. I think, but I think, but I think, but I think she'd what the fuck herself and that's okay. I love that it got a name Jack. I love he got a name. I don't think it's too. I don't think it's like you could have done like it's it's oh yeah in the grand scheme of but it's bad harmless not bad things and grand scheme of you know things you could have
Starting point is 00:31:04 told her yeah. Could have told her way worse stuff than that particularly as a nurse I mean you could have told her anything yeah like yeah that patient down the corridor yeah yeah to turn off their life support that would have been awful oh my God wasn't it I thought you were going to say like patient confidentiality. You're like, oh no, it's just make a killer. Exactly. I'm just saying.
Starting point is 00:31:24 It's just fine. This has been such a chaotic episode. When it comes out, I really wanted a poll on the Instagram of who is more famous, the queen or Taylor Swift, and who is more recognizable, Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:31:40 I still think Princess Diana belongs up there somewhere. And in all of that, where's the Virgin Mary? is she more you threw me for a loop with that that's not what I was thinking that's what Google said every single article I don't believe that
Starting point is 00:31:53 I feel that there's a bit of an agenda there though like I don't want to get into it but it does feel a bit like on all the AI generated things Virgin Mary comes up top I don't know man because she's not even hanging out in that many of the no I think she's in the Protestant ones as well but she's not it's not the only religion
Starting point is 00:32:09 you know what I mean yeah I'm not I'm not with that I'm definitely not with that feels suspicious can I just ask to the table do you think the Taylor Swift it's more recognisable, or do you think the Virgin Mary is? I'm inclined to agree she's on every stained glass window. Why can't I come to have a picture of in my head?
Starting point is 00:32:26 It's all I can see. Close your eyes. She's got a white handkerchief around her head and she's got a blue dress. She cradling a baby, famous baby, Jesus. And she's got a tear coming down her face. Oh yeah, no, no. I'm not sure why she's sad. Probably just a baby please, but, and also because she had a birth in a manger. Oh, that wasn't even the picture I was thinking of. But she kind of looks like the 21st century woman, fox woman there. You know the one at the start of every film? Or like loads of films.
Starting point is 00:32:54 Wait. Sorry, I don't want to disrespect the Virgin Mary. Bear with me. She has my full respect. Okay. No, no, no. I need to see the Virgin Mary crying. Hang on.
Starting point is 00:33:03 Because that's the one I'm holding baby. I don't know why I think she was crying and that's not a handkerchief on her head. Okay, listen. Headpiece. Around 31.6% of the world's population identifies it as Christian. 31 that's a lot It's a lot But also
Starting point is 00:33:18 You don't have to be Christian To recognize I'm not Christian And I recognize the Virgin Mary She's She's super famous She wore blue God they did loads of pictures of her
Starting point is 00:33:28 Maybe She um We need to go This is This is And also probably wild There's also There's a photo affair here
Starting point is 00:33:34 Holding a lamb Cute And a baby That's not a bad Maternity shoot idea That'll be me With the next one That's the random
Starting point is 00:33:43 little lamb. Oh, please do that. My baby under the other. Okay. Right. We're going to need some answers. This has been a chaotic episode, but I've enjoyed it. And we will see you on Monday.
Starting point is 00:33:57 Love you. Bye. Bye. Thank you so much for listening. Should I delete that is part of the ACAS creator network.

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