That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Rhod Gilbert

Episode Date: July 18, 2024

Comedian Rhod Gilbert joins Gaby this week, and they are not alone... Find out what else they are sharing the studio with when Rhod reveals the thing that brings him joy every day! Enjoy Gaby's full chat with Rhod by scrolling back to the previous episode. It's not one to be missed!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So we're back for our extra nugget. So if anyone was, hopefully they were listening on Tuesday when the main episode dropped. But this is just the extra nugget, the show and tell. Maybe we can explain why in the, during our last recording,

I sort of went, if it made the edit. It'll have to make the edit now. It wasn't something I did, by the way. Just to be clear. It was the person who looks exactly like you here. Hello. Who has just stood up.

That was timing. Like literally stood up. Hello, lovely. Climed onto the bench and gone and gone and stood near you. Yes. She hasn't moved. She looked my toe and she's now shaking to show us. Do you want to talk?

Can she talk? I mean, if you get her to talk, you can. Can you get her to talk? So everyone knows what we're talking about. Rosie? You're going to talk? Hello. Are you going to talk?

Okay. So tell us all about Rosie. She's wagging her tail. She's climbed onto my lap. She really has. She knew we were talking. That was quite extraordinary. She's now standing on my lap between me and the microphone.

But she looks exactly like you. She doesn't look exactly like you. Oh, I'll take it. Owners and dogs. So tell me about Rosie. I don't mind. So you said bring in something that brings you joy. And I thought about bringing any number of things, from my alarm clock to a bottle of water to,

it could have been almost anything, really. I'm so high on life, but it could have been almost anything. I could have just grabbed anything on the way here, and that would have done it. A blade of grass. I'm high on that, you know. I get that. But I brought Rosie. I was going to bring the two of them.

We got a new pup, we got Rosie. We got Rosie, who's 11. And then basically we got a... After, when I was recovering from cancer, my wife had been through more than I had, I think. And very, very tough time for her. And she, you know, cared for me wonderfully. And then as I was recovering,

I wasn't really recovered. I was in no position to get a puppy. And my wife said, I think we should get... There's Rosie. She knows that we're talking about you. because I'm talking about the other dog. She's gone off and stood by the door. We'll get back to you. We'll talk about you in a second. I'll just talk about your sister for just briefly. And my wife said, I want to get a puppy and I was, oh, please, I can't. I'm not well enough yet to, you know, you need, a puppy is busy.

It's busy and it's a lot of work. And I'm not ready yet. I've still got a feeding tube in my stomach. I'm still, you know. Oh, this was feeding tube. Yeah, yeah. I had the eating tube in my stomach. Yeah, because when I had cancer, I also had gold stones and gallblad infections. So I was in, we didn't put this. in the documentary. It was too depressing. It was just taking up too much time. But I had three months in and out of hospital with gallbladder infections until I got my gallbladder removed. And then when they took that out, they took my feeding tube about at the same time.

But my wife, I'm going to get a puppy. And I was like, no, I can't. I'm not well enough to get a puppy. She went, I want some joy in my life. Oh. Like that. And I went, oh, all right. And I thought, yeah, she's been through a year of hell. So we'll get a puppy. So that's what we did. So what's the puppy is wonderful? The puppy is called Picksen. Like a...

Pixen. It was Pixie when we collected her. Yeah. So my wife Welsh did up to Pixen. I was going to say, is that the Welsh version? That is the sort of Welsh version. Okay. Pixen and Rosie. So tell me about Rosie. So, well, let's finish on Pixen.

Oh, there's more on Pixen? There's not. There's not. Only, I didn't bring them both in. I'm not showing favouritism. I just thought she's not that well toilet trained. And this is going to be stressful getting in an Uber down to King's Cross. So I brought just Rosie representing the two of them. Okay, okay. Rosie are you both.

And do you know what? When I was having cancer treatment, because it affects your saliva. We've talked about your dry mouth and all these various things, your teeth and all sorts. But your taste is all over the shop. I mean, most things, water was... For three weeks, the only thing I could eat, literally the only thing, was Bon Mammons strawberry mousse. Oh, right, okay. Other mooses are available.

Super sweet. Yeah, that's all I could eat, nothing else. There was weeks where the only thing I had was Orange Lucas egg. I couldn't have anything else. You mean this is, you drink it? This isn't a feeding tube. No, no, this is... This is...

For the taste. Through my mouth, yeah. So this is the only thing I could eat or drink. Nothing else. There were days where I'd wake up and I'd go, if I could eat anything, I'd say the only thing I could eat today, I guess it's like being pregnant, I don't know, is I can have a jacky potato with salt.

Nothing else. Nothing else like I'm going to. So that was your head doing that? You just know. You just know the only thing you can contemplate, even attempting to eat is one. So you woke up and said I need Bon Mamon. That's all I can eat today.

But how did you know about the strawberry moose? I'd never had a Bon Mammon strawberry moose. This was the first time. Other mooses are available. Yeah, but that's all I could eat. It was just that thing where you know, you know. That's incredible. You're so...

Did you enjoy it? No, no, I wouldn't say, well, no, I wouldn't say enjoy it, but it was all I could get that, all I could think about eating, you know. Anyway, the reason I bring that up now is because Rosie's smell, Rosie doesn't really smell. She's not a smelly, she's not a smelly dog, dog. But, so her smell turned on me as well, because your smell goes as well. Oh.

wanted to be near me. I was in bed just for months really, apart from going in for treatment every day. And she would just come and sit at my bed and I couldn't have her near me. I'm almost crying, thinking about it. It broke my heart to push her away. I asked my wife to take her away because the smell was overpowering and horrible. And then now, thankfully, that's okay. I'm all back to normal and I can cuddle her like a good end. Do you know what I thought you were going to say? Well, because you started with talking about food. I thought that you were going to say,

that you were eating her food or something? I didn't know. Honestly, I was sitting here thinking, where is he going? All I can eat today is Petty Bicham slash. Hoare! And Bonio Bones. Boneyo Boat. Yeah, so we don't get too brand heavy.

Harrington's Adult Turkey. That's all I can eat. Kimble. Kimball. So the senses are extraordinary. So I'm very lucky that earlier I was around some very famous gardens. And I was standing by the Jasmine. in and then going to the roses and talking about that

and they take me back. And I'm like, you're not allowed to name the gardens you were out? No, I can, but it sounds a bit, you know. I thought you've got so worried about us naming brands and moose and kibble and keyboard. I know, but I'm all embarrassed because it sounds so showpicy. Oh, I was a festival.

But it sounds worse now because we made a big fuss about it. You're at Chelsea. Yeah, I was. I was very lucky. But I was standing near all the smells and I was going on about how smells and music together for me going to, They take you back somewhere. Yeah. And the smell of Jasmine, I love that smell.

And tuberose and roses. Isn't smell the most evocative in terms of memory of all the senses, isn't it? Just, incredible. So that, for you then, the smell went to, that memory hasn't affected you that you can smell rosy. And it doesn't take you back to there. What it is, it's a relief that you can smell her again. There's places I can't go. Oh, really?

Yeah. Just because physically you went there. I spent time in certain places when I was having my treatment, whole towns. You mean physical places? Physical places? Not mental places. No, physical places. Oh!

I can't go anywhere near that I'll never go to again. I don't want to go anywhere. Because of the memories. I think I probably need help with that. No, do you have to go to them? I need counselling. Do you have to go to them? No, I don't have to go to them, but I think I should probably.

get help with it. It's not a healthy way to be that you can't. It's a whole huge area, not just a building. Certain villages and stuff. I don't want to name. No, no, no. It seems unfair.

It seems unfair. It's not even just a building. It's a whole area. No, places where I was so ill that I cannot. And weirdly, my cancer hospital isn't one of them. That's not one of them. I can go back there. I have to go back there.

Yeah, because you know that my place made you better. Yeah, I guess so. Somebody once told me that I will be able to go back there one day because I would start to associate it with healing rather than illness. You have a wonderful outlook on life, though. Like you said, you've always been the person that gets excited about the next day because you get high on life. Goodness me, may you get high on life for a very, very long time, Rod Gilbert.

You are the best. You're very kind. No, I'm not. I'm honest. No, you're very kind. Thank you so much. Thank you.