My Therapist Ghosted Me - Christmas Parties, Pricey Wine & The Elf On The Shelf
Episode Date: December 9, 2022The MTGM Christmas party is done and dusted, so there are a few stories to tell! Plus, 'Goblin mode', unexpected surveillance and Prada Peter's expensive antics! If you’d like to get in touch, you c...an send an email to hello@MTGMpod.comMTGM is going on tour in Ireland & The UK! Remember to check the venue websites as well as Ticketmaster! For more information about Joanne's gigs, just visit www.joannemcnally.comThank you!
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This is a Global Player Original Podcast. Oh, I was kind of hoping you wouldn't get in there. Jo, just cut you on out there, okay?
With me, Joanne McNally.
This week on My Therapist Ghosted Me.
I want to start this week by saying,
Jo, you caused quite the stir online.
Did he?
He did?
He did.
It's the leg
brace
it no
wasn't even in the photo
the leg brace
wasn't in the photo
they can
they can see us
they can
they know it's there
that's why
they can sense
the weakness
from the waist down
yeah
women aren't into that
I think the consensus
is it's only because
people assumed
that I was
old and revolting
yeah
which in fairness
Jo whose fault is that yours you clearly sound old and revolting you Yeah. Which, in fairness, Jo,
whose fault is that?
Yours.
You clearly sound old and revolting.
You need to work on that.
You sound like you're
from a farm in Devon.
They didn't lick it off the stone, Jo, okay?
You can't blame them.
Don't victim blame.
What was that ad
that we used to have
from the people in Devon
about some butter?
Ew-er!
And that's why we kind of just
all think that, yeah.
I'm from Somerset.
Somerset,
exactly.
There is a level of racism to you,
Joe,
but I mean,
this is the world we live in now.
People make assumptions.
But yeah,
people are like,
that's not how I thought.
Do you know when you have
a picture in your head
of when you hear someone's voice
and you don't know
what they look like
and you kind of put a picture of,
anyway,
Joe,
everyone's absolutely thrilled
that you're not in bed.
So fair play,
Joe.
Lots of words,
like spotty,
bold,
overweight, short, revolting. That's what your voice sounds like. Badly dressed. that you're not in bed so fair play to you lots of words like spotty bold overweight
short
revolting
that's what your voice
sounds like
badly dressed
badly dressed
we're like
well that's true
girls you can have
badly dressed
we'll give you that
that is
that's fair
fantastic hair
he's a fantastic
head of hair
fantastic head of hair
yeah
I was so
speaking of hair
I was so hung over and this one of the. Yeah. I was so, speaking of hair, I was so hungover.
And this,
one of the scariest things of,
I was like a fucking machine.
I never got hungover.
When were you hungover?
The day after our,
we had our little Christmas night out.
It was the double doubles.
I warned you.
They didn't even want to give her a double double.
Let's not say where we were
because for legal reasons,
they're not actually allowed to serve
the size of the drink that I wanted.
Well, they didn't.
They brought it over in two.
Two goes.
Because their standard drink is a double.
But in Ireland,
a measure is 45.
In England, it's 35.
So Joanne comes over
and she's like,
just like double double double
so that was a pride thing
so what happened there was
I was like
I'll get a double
because like I'm Irish
I'm not going to drink
your piss measurements
and I actually drink
do you know what I mean
I don't fanny around
with cowpaw in the evenings
so I said
I'll have a double
and Louisa
Vogue's manager
was out with us as well
and she went
I'll have a double as well
and then Vogue
flagged
responsibly
as she does
she goes
actually the measurements
here are doubles anyway
but we'd put our
we'd kind of put it up
to them then
so we were like
okay fuck it
we'll go double
we'll go double double
it was a principle
it was pride
it was ego
anyway then they arrived
over these pint glasses
of vodka
and an extra shot
because they're like
legally we can't serve you the size we want
a little chug, here's your cordial madam
and then like threw in another bit of vodka, anyway
one, two, skip a few
I was properly hungover the next day
the salpidine wasn't even
doing anything, so I went for
laser hair removal and for the first
time in my life I was looking forward
to the pain of the hair removal
to take away the pain in the head.
And may I say, it did the trick.
You weren't, you weren't like, you weren't hammered.
I knew Louisa had had the double-double when she'd had the double-double, but I didn't know you did.
But you also didn't like it.
I saw your faces.
It was too much.
It was a bit much.
It wasn't great.
There's a reason they don't do double-doubles.
No one has a quadruple vodka with their fish dinner.
Do you know what I mean?
Like you're not doing it for the taste.
You're on a mission.
I'll have a salmon macchi roll and a quadruple vodka, please.
I know.
We're like Philistines.
It was like we were on a fucking stag party.
Disgusting. Absolutely. Disgusting.
Absolutely.
Disgusting.
Speaking of booze, one more story about booze.
Five more stories about booze.
I really can't take this Christmas malark.
Anyway, go on.
We'll get into it.
It's started already.
So there's the town where Alan, a.k.a. Prada Peter, lives.
There's a gorgeous family-owned wine shop in the town where Alan, aka Prada Peter, lives, there's a gorgeous, like kind of, you know,
family owned wine shop
in the town.
Do they know your first name?
He's a fan of comedy,
so actually,
yes.
It was in a professional capacity,
FYI.
Okay.
And I went,
we went in anyway
and Alan was like,
you know, he was like you know
he's like oh why don't you put
he loved
he loves talking to your man
down there
I think it's
we'll call him Derek
he's like oh Derek
we were in the shop
Alan's playing
Billy Big Balls
he's like Derek
would be great if you could
put together a couple of boxes
like for me and Joanne
for Christmas
you know
couple of wines
couple of reds
couple of wines
couple of bottles of champagne
and Derek's like oh really
like how many boxes
he goes two boxes
yeah two oh no sorry two boxes of Yeah, two. Oh no, sorry.
Two boxes of 12. Two crates, so six.
Twelve wines together.
So a couple of reds, a couple of whites, you know, mix it up.
And he was like, oh, what kind of thing? Anything you want,
anything you want. And I was like, are you, you're asking a
sommelier to put together a box
of wine? What the fuck are you doing? For Joanne
as well, just give her the box of wine.
Exactly. I was like,
I'd go in the back of that shop and drink the piss
out of the toilet. Like, why do I care?
I would lick the petrol out of
a hubcap
and put Alan's two in the hole. Like, oh, put
together a box of Christmas wines.
Anyway, your man
fucking rings us and he's like,
basically, it was like a grant.
You know?
And you start to back away to the counter pretty quickly and i
was like listen just put two oyster bays and a bottle of glens vodka in a box and we'll fucking
take it home did i ever tell you the one time i tried to be a wine buff um so i was in san francisco
i was over there in a j1 obviously I was like 18 like the people I was
staying with they were much older so it was her 30th birthday and like we they stupidly invited
us to the 30th birthday and so we got on there obviously when you're young like your booze isn't
cheap so you just take whatever's there they started the day off at mimosas and can you
imagine me and Amber at nine o'clock in the morning drinking mimosas cut to excitement of it the excitement of it cut to what's what are they
called winery number two amber and i were so deranged we started doing roly-polies down the
hill of the of the wineries we got the whole party kicked out of a winery in San Francisco
do you mean
do you mean like a vineyard
kind of thing
yeah so like the
it's up in a
what's the place called
it's a really fancy place
not where I belong
got kicked out of the winery
the whole group
got kicked out of the winery
we were absolutely
blue bats
yeah
like
devil's water
giving an 18 year old
a mimosa
do you know what I mean where where's that gonna where's that gonna end some of the weirdest shit blue bats. Yeah, like, devil's water. Giving an 18 year old a mimosa.
Do you know what I mean?
Where is that going to end?
Some of the weirdest shit I've seen on tour
is from women who
started the day
with a mimosa
and they're,
not only they've had
a blackout,
they've had a complete
personality transplant
and they're violent,
aggressive monsters.
Getting dragged out
by their foot
from your show.
By a bouncer,
yeah. They're like hurling pint glasses out of the balcony. They've gone full-blown Gallagher brother, getting dragged out by their foot from your show by a bouncer yeah
they're like
hurling pint glasses
over the balcony
they're going full blown
Gallagher brother
like
yeah but you say it
about wine
but I actually forgot
about that moment
and honestly
it changes you
as a person
you just like
it's like your goblin
is coming out
it's just hideous
oh my god
that's so weird
that you just said goblin
did you hear the word
of the year
yes it's goblin mode yeah well that is like to that you just said goblin did you hear the word of the year?
Yes!
It's goblin mode.
Yeah well that is like to me that's what goblin mode means.
Sorry term of the year
so I think they bring in
I don't know is it one dictionary
It's in the Oxford dictionary yeah.
But there's another dictionary
that brought it
they were like gaslighting
is the word of the year
apparently there's like a 17,000%
increase on people
looking up gaslighting
but goblin mode was
the term of the year i'd never
heard it before goblin mode means when you basically just go into yourself for the day
and you're you're you're your authentic sloth pig self that's not kind of what it means the term is
defined as a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent lazy slovenly
or greedy typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations basically it's when you turn into a goblin for the day i think for your own mental health it's
important to do that first you can i just say thanks for googling that for us vogue i didn't
you know what i actually had joe's job thank you excuse me you're all right joe have you lost your
fucking fingers actually you know what i'll take it i've decided i'll take the credit for that even
though it's completely not my credit.
But I will tell you that.
Goblin mode is basically
self-care.
What you've just described there.
It's important, especially around
this time of year. If you haven't found yourself
in goblin mode at least twice,
it's the 10th of December, is it?
It's the 6th of December, right?
Come on! Find yourself in goblin mode.
You have to.
Run the bath.
Run the bath immediately.
Get into it.
Have a glass of wine.
I'm pissing around bath water.
Ultimate goblin mode.
Just relax.
Do you know, because you know when you get into the,
this is the problem getting into the bath,
and I love getting into the bath.
Once you lay yourself slowly into the bath,
the warm water tingles the labia.
Have you felt this?
And you need to pee immediately
no
so I have to get out
of the bath
I wee before the bath
you see you're a pro
right because you're
like you're a probator
I just kind of dip in
and dip out
so I'll get in
and the second I get in
the warm water
will tickle
the base
it'll tickle the lips Joe
I don't know how else
to say it
yeah sure
the warm water
it's like when you say
when you say put your finger you know the parties if someone's asleep they put their
finger in a glass of water to make them piss themselves anyway and then i have to get out of
the bath immediately we and get back into the bath and it has crossed my mind several times
like it's my water why am i bothering getting out do you know what i couldn't i couldn't i couldn't
piss in my own bath i just i mean i drank my own piss but like i just i couldn't piss in my own bath. I just, I mean, I drank my own piss, but like, I just, I couldn't piss in my own bath.
My mom, right, I'll say this
because she doesn't listen to this.
She says, so like, she has a bath like all the time.
So she'll have a bath and then she'll get out.
And then my stepdad will get into her old bath.
Oh my God.
It's so disgusting.
It's like something out of Angela's Ashes.
What the fuck?
They have a tennis court.
Why are they sharing bath water? It's like something out of Angela's ashes. What the fuck? They have a tennis court. Why are they sharing bath water?
It's fucking weird.
I didn't realise you came.
Your mother was living in Victorian England.
I just dribbled.
Honestly, they'd nearly offer it to you after.
It's like, you're okay, pal.
I think I'll own my own bath.
offer it to you after.
It's like,
you're okay, pal.
I think I want my own bath.
She's like,
Vogue just steps aside and she's got Dora there
with like a huge
fucking vase of water
just ready to refill and fill.
Dora,
get my shoulders, Dora.
I got in the bath last night, right?
I was in such a...
Your mom is a fucking beast.
Why not throw a couple of tea bags in it as well?
Get a fucking late night cup out of it.
Jesus Christ.
The one thing I will tell you about Sandra is
she's not getting in the bath after Neil.
It's Neil getting in after Sandra, you know?
She has her rules.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I had a bath last night
and this always happens.
I got home and I was
you know when I
wind myself up so like everything was delayed
my train there was cancelled
I rushed and made the earlier train then that
got delayed then on the way home my train
got cancelled then the other one was two hours
delayed while I was sitting on the train and the wifi
wasn't working so I couldn't do my work
and I honestly was sitting there and I was like how
am I going to prevent myself from bursting into tears on this train
or like combusting?
And I got home and I was like, right, I'll get in the bath.
Get her in the bath.
And then Jill's side stopped the day off.
It was too hot.
I had to get out.
It was too hot.
Oh, the water was too hot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you know, you're like, I'll be able for, I'm able for it.
I'm not getting out.
And then it's like.
Yeah, you're like, I'll power through.'m able for us I'm not getting out and then it's like Yeah you're like
I'll power through
like you could literally
cook a carbonara
in that thing.
I'm not getting out.
Can you hear him
emptying the dishwasher?
Alan
I'm so sorry for the clanging the mic's picking up the cutlery. Can you hear him emptying the dishwasher? Alan,
I'm so sorry.
The clang and the mic's
picking up the cutlery.
I'm so sorry.
Tidy house,
tidy mind.
Tidy house,
tidy mind.
Well, you know what?
You know what?
In this day and age,
I'm very proud of Sandy, right?
We'll all be sharing
baths in this house.
This is the thing.
She's sustainable.
Maybe it's a kink thing.
Maybe Sandra has a little wee in the bath.
No, we're not.
We're not going into that right now.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's not that.
And then Neil comes in and licks it like a cat.
Like a cat eating milk out of a tray.
You're absolutely...
No, it's funny.
He'll get into the bath,
but she won't share a drink with him either.
I think I got that off her
where I don't share drinks with anyone.
Oh, well, at our Christmas party
that Amber was invited to.
Not by me, but anyway.
Well, Amber invited herself.
I was actually glad she did come
because Joe dumped us early
for the football match.
We were having a little prank
in your dressing room,
a.k.a. my new bedroom
in which I no longer live in London. I have an inflatable mattress in your dressing room aka my new bedroom that I no longer
live in London.
I have an inflatable
mattress in the
dressing room.
Excuse me, sorry,
the floor has gone down
in the cinema room.
Listen!
It's yours.
You can have a bath.
Just go in there.
Oh, keep the bath.
Here come the kids.
Here come the gang.
Sorry, you chose to
record this, huh?
Is Gigi about to
boil herself to death?
She's about to come
over, look at her.
Say hello to everyone. Come here. Hello. She hasn't seen who it is yet. I'm sure she'll take that back. song is Gigi about to boil herself to death she's about to come over look at her say hello to everyone
come here
hello
she hasn't seen who it is yet
I'm sure she'll take that back
hi Gigi
hello
oh yeah you can hear
you can hear the sadness
in her voice
when she's seen
she's seen who's on the camera
look Gigi
it's auntie Joanne
oh god
hi Gigi
she says hi Gigi
she looks amazing
has she had her lips done
she's been putting lips
she had one male in the top lip she looks fab oh god had her lips done she's been putting lips she had one male
in the top lip
she looks fab
I can't
cheeky one male
bye
Dr. Ewan says
hello Gigi
says you owe him
two grand
for last weekend
don't know what
you got done
but you look great
I was only actually
saying to these girls
I went in
as I was telling you
I went into Assel to go and look at all in, as I was telling you, I went into Arsenal
to go and look at
all their bags and stuff
and they were kindly
gifting me a bag
and I went in and I was like,
oh, you didn't invite Spencer
because they'd invited Jamie
and I was like,
well, I don't blame you.
He doesn't do any stories
and he went anyway to you
and for a little refresh
and all of a sudden
I get a text
and it's like,
are you going to do
that story for me?
Like, because I went,
oh, oh, sorry,
you're getting your own bits done and then telling me I have to do a story for it.
Okay.
What do you mean?
I'm so confused.
So I have to do stories for him cause he won't do them, but he wants to get the bits done.
Of course he does.
What is with, why, what is with Spencer and his fucking Kanye West attitude to, although
I'm not suggesting he's anti-Semitic, I don't know what you'll say.
He follows no one. I thinkic I think I used to mind
when you started calling me
dictators and stuff like that I thought that's bad
but don't call me that
he literally only follows
himself he's just like sucking himself off
on Instagram he follows you
and pretty much himself
by the way we should be so MTGM
has an Instagram account now
and again all we follow is we don't even follow Joe.
Sorry, Joe.
So, Joanne.
Joe, you're not great online though.
You know what I mean?
He's really not going to follow Joe.
But my point is we need to kind of branch out and start following people.
We look like absolute narcissists.
Well, I will say that something you don't know, we both have access to said account.
And Joanne, you followed a couple and I've gone in and unfollowed them.
I thought, why is she doing that? I don't understand. We're only following each other.
It's a work account. Who was I following? Style Magazine? Yeah that might have been one of them
and someone else. Style Magazine is a group. I know yeah but like if you want to follow Style
Magazines follow them on your own bloody page. Do we have to put in requests to follow people?
No, you didn't even notice your squand. I just do what I want when I go out there.
To be honest.
Do you know what? I'm actually really glad that you decided that we should do this subject because part of my week starts off about this subject.
So I went to, as I said, it's the 6th of December.
This is it on Friday. If you haven't gone full goblin mode by Friday, you got to sort yourself
out. It's December. So I went to my first Christmas party. I went to the women in TV lunch and I'd
never been invited before. And I was like, it's a Friday afternoon. Like, I don't want to go too wild because I'm going to go home by six.
Starts at 12.
Jo, were you invited to the Women in TV lunch?
I wasn't.
Jo, were you invited to the Women in TV lunch?
No, I was not.
No, well, I was not either, Jo.
Well, Joanne, excuse me.
Give it to me this year, right?
I've been in TV.
I was invited for the first time in my life this year
and I have been really slogging away, okay?
What do you think was the kind of the...
I don't know what got me there in the end.
Yeah, what got you there in the end?
I was absolutely thrilled.
Well, actually, do you know what?
My show Send Nudes got me there in the end
because Elaine from Crack It invited me.
This is exciting.
It's like when Kim K finally got invited to the Met Gala.
People were excited. That's how it felt. But I K finally got invited to the Met Gala people were excited
that's how it felt
but I got there
and then I realised
I'm really over excited
so I had a glass of champagne
and then before
I'd even finished that
I was trying to find
the person going around
with the champagne
and I was like
this is not going to end well
anyway
got to the table
realised that I was
at a table full of
sound women
like really cool
up for a laugh.
And then it went.
Who?
Who were you with?
Come on, name names.
We had Discovery Channel there.
We had ITV there.
There was Lorraine there.
I didn't see Lorraine actually.
Catherine Ryan was hosting it.
And I mean, it was just,
and there were men there.
We're in that day and age.
You've got to invite the men a little bit. So some of them went. But I mean it was just now there were men there we're in that day and age you've got to invite
the men a little bit so some of them went
but I mean I
really am far down the pack in order haven't I
do you know what you want I wouldn't be a hundred
percent sure I have my place marked for
next year either especially after what happened
this year I'm not
I like to pride myself and be like you know
I'm not I'm not a this is a business
lunch yeah I hate myself well six like you know I'm not I'm not a this is a business lunch yeah I hate
myself well six o'clock I heard you're all over the internet doing shots of tequila in your eyes
and around for your eyeballs I was in so I and at six o'clock in the evening and Louisa our manager
came came to meet us thank god she came and then I actually sat down and I was like I can't even
drink that drink I was so drunk that I had to go home at six o'clock in a taxi it's six o'clock
in the day like as in yeah 4 p.m 5 p.m 6 p.m yes as in there's still like action happening at home
like the kids are having their bath and I literally like luckily there was
terrible traffic so I tumbled in the door just so they'd all gone to bed and um you are the biggest
lightweight ever I'm pretty sure I counted my drinks as well and I think I had six but I didn't
love the food it was like a beetroot salad and I don't like beetroot it tasted like mud
so I didn't I didn't really eat that much.
But then the next day I woke up
and as you said,
you know when you wake up
and you're like,
there's no way I'm going to make it.
I'm not going to make it.
And I had to go
and do a book signing
in Hamley's children's toy store.
Unbelievable.
I didn't hate it.
I watched all this play out.
I was like,
she's,
do you know when you're so,
and I could feel your pain
when you're so hungover,
you're like,
just put me in one of those pods in Switzerland where they just put you in a pod and you press a button and evaporate yourself.
And you would go to Hamleys with children.
Well, I took T because I was like, I wouldn't mind the company.
But I took T and we went an hour early and like watching him try and choose one toy in Hamleys.
I kept having to like sit in on my hunkers and I was like,
all right, T, will we go sit down over there now?
But I have to say they were very nice in Hamleys and actually,
it actually cleared my hangover.
The kids screamed it out of me.
I saw you tagged me in one of my little quotes on the book there.
I did actually.
Excitingly violent is what I put in, but of course that's not what they went with.
So that is the start
of Christmas season
and Joanne
you wanted to talk about
I'm very embarrassed
because my start
of Christmas season
was fucking
Billy Big Balls
up there
going down to that
local wine shop
fucking blowing
a load of cash on wine
Did you have to spend it?
No it was so embarrassing it was so embarrassing.
That was so embarrassing
because we were both like
Look, you're asking a Sommelier
It's like asking a Formula One driver
to recommend a car.
Yeah.
He's not going to be like
Do you want two bottles of Dada?
Do you know what I mean?
He's going to be like
This is what you need.
This is what you want.
Alan was like
Throw a bottle
A couple of bottles of champagne
in his wallet.
What the fuck?
Which champagne?
Tommy P
he didn't give
specifics
anyway
and then the
embarrassing thing
was having to go
back and be like
listen just give us
two fucking
two smearing off
two smearing off
ices please
a West Coast
cooler
yeah
a couple of cans
of West Coast
KLA please
a box of Marble
Touch and a couple
of scratch cards
thank you
Joanne reason that's funny just take a selection the West Coast, Keanu, please. But currently, Breezer. Box of Marble Touch and a couple of scratch cards. Thank you.
Joanne.
Breezer, that's funny.
Just take a selection box.
Is that alright?
Do you have any of them?
That is literally what we would order.
Oh yeah,
of course.
A couple of scratch cards
so that you can get back
into the off-license
if you win
and buy more bits.
100%.
It's called investment.
It's called being smart.
You're being clever.
Exactly.
We're crypto brothers.
I will say something about Smirnoff Ice. We're crypto brothers. I will say something
about Smirnoff Ice.
They're like,
they've been lost
into the ether.
I don't know where they've gone.
There's not enough.
They're floating around.
I went to Derry the other day, yeah.
Smirnoff Ice.
Do you remember you used to put,
do you remember you'd have
a bottle of Smirnoff Ice
and you'd put the two straws
on either side
and you'd loop it over the edge
and then you'd just,
you'd have to knock it back in one.
Do you remember that?
No.
No? Okay.
I wasn't dragged up like you Vogue
I've got
you're from Killarney
I couldn't stop laughing
do you know
when you see something
on the internet
just really tickles you
DJ Fatoni
passed this
passed this
thing
he's like
what was it
taking your advent calendar
out with you on the weekend
just in case you're out
for a few days
I just love that idea
of being at a session
and being like
whoa whoa whoa
hold on it's Monday
plucking open
your little cardboard door
popping your chocolate
and getting back to the session
Alan will you stop
doing the course
of control thing
where you
empty the dishwasher
Alan empty the dishwasher
so that I can hear it
with your fucking
shady digs
Joanne that's my porn
let him empty the dishwasher
I want to hear
oh yeah Alan
get that bowl
out of there
that's porn herself
she's like that's a
butter knife clanging away
oh my god
he's lining them up
in order
oh Jesus
it's a coffee mug it's a coffee mug
it's a coffee mug
Christmas parties
are good though
I think we had a good
Christmas party
I think we were well behaved
we went to
a lovely restaurant
where they had
jazz kind of music
but it wasn't
kind of jazz
it was jazz
it was jazz
no it's not
we're getting around that
that was obviously
an accident on our part
but anyway
I was in
I was having dinner
the other
evening
on my own in London
as per
or it actually wasn't
it was lunch
and there was a table
beside me
do you know one of those
offices
where
they're kind of like
casually dressed
it was maybe like
20 of them
and they were sitting
at a long table
in Rose's tie
which is one of my
favourite type of
Oh I love Rose's tie
I love the Rose's
and it was What do you order there out of my favourite Thai places oh I love Rose's Thai and it was
what do you order there
out of interest
I can
it would be like
chicken and cashew nut
or I would get the
chicken papaya salad
or
oh the
pad thai
vegetable rolls
anyway go on
anyway sorry
and
it was a table so
I was about 20 at the moment
and
they were at
some sort of work
party right
it wasn't a party
it was just like
everyone from the office
kind of obligation
like this is our Christmas lunch
and a lot of them had like
they were kind of smartly dressed
but like
a lot of nose piercings
I'm guessing it was some
sort of like
potentially activism
style office
if I was to make
an eco office
an eco office
it was a bit
it had a slightly eco vibe
and I was like
those poor fuckers.
Because they're on these really long tables.
So the person you get stuck in front of, that's it.
You're stuck with that person for two hours.
There wasn't a single alcoholic beverage on the table.
It just made me, I was like, I couldn't do it.
I would just think I would just make my excuses and not go.
I can't stand forced, forced networking.
Forced festive networking networking it's the worst
at least if you're going to put me through a Christmas
office party fill me with booze and put me
in a room with ABBA on I can have a good time
not that. Now I would like to go
for the food you'd have to add booze
but there's a way around it it's like driving
in London it's very different to driving
in Dublin you've got to be a little bit
pushier so when you go
right don't let anyone out you're in, don't let anyone out. You're in London.
Don't let anyone out. You're in London.
But when you go,
I'm joking, I do let people out. Oh my God, that'll
be the next thing. Christ.
Be very careful. Very careful.
So like driving in London, you've got to be a little
bit pushier. So when you're at your Christmas
party, like you know who you want to sit
beside. Make sure it happens.
Get a bit American football style, like ram people out of the way. Make sure you want to sit beside make sure it happens yeah get a bit american
football style like ram people out of the way make sure you get to that person you need to be beside
or else your night will be shit that's actually really good advice yeah elbow everyone in the
face it's christmas get what you fucking want yeah you can just say it was the booze don't
worry about it go goblin get your place at the table
goblin mode you just be eating needles off the ground at the table. Go Goblin Mouth. Goblin Mouth.
You'd just be eating noodles
off the ground under the table
living your best life
just smoking marble lights
one after the other
after the other.
That'd be Christmas Goblin Mouth.
Well that's later on in the night.
Singapore noodles off the floor
with a smoke
hanging out of your mouth.
Perfect.
I don't really get
like if I'm invited
like when you invited me
to our Christmas party on Sunday I was thrilled about it. I never get invited to a if I'm invited like when you invited me to our Christmas party
on Sunday
I was thrilled about it
I never get invited
to a Christmas party
when I invited you
to our Christmas party
like our work one
yeah I loved it
I really enjoyed myself
I had a great time
imagine I didn't
imagine I didn't
well I know that
you were just
she was test
she was testing out
numbers at the start
she thought Vogue
there might be a spot for you
I can't be 100% sure
I was like Vogue
this Christmas party
is going to be lit
okay
so numbers is an issue
but I will put you on a list
and let you know
so glad I got through
if Cheryl Kyle can't make it
you will be next in line
so I wanted to talk to you about
do you know this elf on the shelf lad
do I know the elf on the shelf
well I
my elf yesterday was caught eating chocolate on the shelf lad do I know the elf on the shelf well I my elf yesterday
was caught
eating
chocolate
on the
huge bar of chocolate
all over the
all over the table
who was now
the elf
the elf yeah
so who's moving him around
or whatever
is it not like a huge
commitment
to get up every day
you only have to do it
the night before
so tonight
my elf is going to be
you know that thing ziplining my elf is going to be you know that thing
ziplining
my elf is going to
zipline across the kitchen
so I'm going to get
a big bow
like a string
and put it across
the two light things
and he's going to be
ziplining across the kitchen
Is he training with
John Belton?
Why is he being so physical?
Listen Joanne
what else would you do
with the elf?
It's very hard
we're only on day six
Well
firstly I'm very curious to know where this elf and the shelf thing came from secondly I'd like
to know about the gt gdp or issues around children's privacy they're being watched all
the time with this fucking weirdo on the shelf also folk tell them what theodore did to the elf
please oh okay so we one of my one of my things was I took the fairy off the top of the tree very
carefully because I loved that fairy and she is delicate.
And so I placed her on the ground and I popped the elf on the top of the tree.
Sorry, I'm looking to see they're not here.
I popped the elf on the top of the tree.
Theodore came over to me in the morning.
He's like, Mama, Mama, the elf is on the top of the tree.
I was like, wow.
Oh, my goodness.
Where's the fairy?
He goes, well, Mama, he broke the arms off the fairy and i thought
did he no did he did he break the arms off the did he i said theodore the elf broke the arms
did he he's like yeah nodding and i was like did you did you break the arms off fairy and he goes
yeah so he had a half moment of thinking he was gonna lie about it and then i was like you break the arms off the fairy? And he goes, yeah. So
he had a half moment of thinking
he was going to lie about it. And then I was like, did you
do that? Who was he blaming for, was he blaming
Elf on the Shelf for breaking the arms off the fairy?
I can't keep up. Yeah, so he said that the
elf broke the arms off the fairy. I know the elf
didn't break the arms off the fairy because I placed that
bitch on the ground. I knew that her
arms were fully intact and he came up
to me. And then all of a sudden
about two hours later
the other arm was gone
and snapped in half
at the wrist.
So now I've got
three pieces of arm
on my table
and just a crappy
looking fairy.
If my child tried to blame
Elf on the Shelf
for something
I'd love to be like
oh
I'd love to freak the child
out and be like
okay well it's a liar
on the fire
and just fuck it
into the fire.
I asked one of the girls I was like we're just fuck it into the fire I asked one of the girls I was like
we're like
bake the snake
no I asked one of the girls
I was like
why do you do
Elf on the Shelf
and she literally was like
it's just cute
and it rhymes
and I was like
it fucking rhymes
would you not get lit
to the tit every day
that rhymes too
they absolutely love it
so T runs into me
at like 10 to 7
every morning
and he's like
the elf mama
the elf and he tells me what the
elf is doing and he absolutely loves it like and I mean
Spenny and I last night he just said we're
going to have a competition with this elf now I'm taking
tonight on board as well because I thought of the zip
lining and one day I had the elf
fishing and
the thing about it is you say to them if
you touch the elf he loses his magical powers and
then he won't go back to Santa to tell him to give your
presents and if they misbehave in the haste it's like oh my god the elf is looking at
you don't do that and do you know what else is still on the table the red robin so you say that
i just saw the robin outside in the balcony and you're screaming at your sister and they stop
full-on dead stop in their tracks and they just relax so it's a month of like free chill chill
out it's a month of gaslighting
your kids basically
and I'm here for it
yeah pretty much so
that's exactly what happens
I'm sad
we didn't have the elf
on the shelf
I actually misunderstood
the story
when you told me the story
originally I thought
Theodore had pulled
the arms off
the elf
and I was like
that is really concerning
because the elf
is basically
like elf
like Santa is
God for kids
it's kind of all seeing all knowing
and if Theodore is pulling
the arms off
Santa's representation on earth
and why is he nailing Jesus to the cross
I was like that is something
to be very concerned about
your child is
you're raising Judas
in your own home
I was like that's fucking weird
but now that's only the fairy
I was like oh grand alright grand I can look's only the fairy I was like oh right right
I can look him in the eye
when we took
Theodore to the church
for the christening
which you wouldn't know
because you weren't there
but when we went
into the church
Theodore was like
he saw Jesus
nailed to the cross
and he was like
is that the queen
I was like
shut up
in front of the priest
he'll know that you
and I was like no it's holy God and he goes who's? I was like shut up in front of the priest he'll know that you and I was like
no it's holy God
and he goes
who's God?
I was like
who's God?
Why are you bothering
christening these kids?
Like they say
clearly you're not
they're not religious
at all.
Joanne do you know
how much money
they make on their
communion?
Oh God. I'm not going to get into the listen They're not religious at all. Joanne, do you know how much money they make on their communion?
I'm not going to get into the... Listen, anyway.
Look, decisions were made.
That's why I didn't go.
I said to you, it was a protest.
It was political.
It wasn't that I was getting Botox
and the time ran over.
It was a political statement on my part
because I knew it's all a fraud.
She keeps changing her story, Jo. I thought she was
in the pub around the corner having a glass of wine.
Now she's still, her Botox run over.
Which I know didn't happen because I actually
asked you and I was like, what time
did Joanne leave you at, Ewan?
He was like, plenty of time, plenty of time.
Plenty of time for the christening. Oh, and
carrying on the theme of
surveillance.
So basically, the videos you get, it's just so...
So dodgy.
It's not dodgy.
It's just so Joanne.
So we film each other doing the podcast.
We're on this thing called...
With consent.
With consent.
With consent.
On Zencastr.
Anyway, Jo, you continue the story of what happened after last week's.
Now, we'd had a couple of drinks last week.
I thought I was going to get arrested.
I popped on on Friday morning to get hold of the videos.
I thought, oh, I'll quickly download them, make some videos.
And usually you open it up and it's just all the videos are there
and it's all shut down otherwise
but it looked like it was live and then suddenly it was live and it's live on joanne's bed
and she's just there asleep asleep basically what happened was i after we finished recording the pod
i shut down the laptop and i didn't she closed it I just she just closed the lid
she didn't shut anything down
she closed the lid
I didn't click out of Zencaster
so then
basically I was live streaming myself
for
I don't know
days
for about three days
and do you know what
Jo
you were lucky
you didn't open that
and she was like
pawing away at herself
looking at Tuky Kamoon
because that's what she does
on the daily
Jo you're lucky
you're lucky you didn't you're lucky you didn't click in seveny Camoon, because that's what she does on the daily. Jo, you're lucky you didn't,
you're lucky you didn't click in seven minutes earlier,
because I was.
That's why she was sleeping, Jo.
She was wrecked.
I was wrecked.
I'd wanked myself for hours, Jo.
I was, there wasn't,
I'd burnt the skin off my,
I've no fingerprints left.
I was wanked for so long.
I just thought, this is it.
Oh, well, this is how it ends.
This is, this is it.
You're fired.
Prison.
I was squirrelling away
at myself
yeah
burnt the fingerprints
off myself
no clip left
and he texts a group
and he was like
like obviously
because you don't seem
like you're being voyeuristic
but Joanne gave him
every opportunity
and you know what
like after being away
with you and Ibiza
and I walked in
and you had a laptop
on one side open
playing something and the iPad on your side table playing something else.
I was like, there's something not right with this girl.
I have to open all the time.
And I wouldn't mind, but Alan works in cyber security, right?
He's doing a great job of it with you.
Well, he kept saying he bought me one of these things, like these little l little lids that you put in your camera and he was like you need to fucking
start using these things people are kind of hacking in I was like oh you're so paranoid
no one needed to hack in I fucking live streamed myself and I wouldn't mind but the camera the
light was on the camera and I was like oh look the light's on didn't put the didn't put the pieces
together I so wish it had been at like another time when
you were doing something like that you really shouldn't have been doing do you know what
actually do you know what actually joke do you know what actually I'd rather you clicked in
to me having a go at myself while watching golden girls or something then it then the most
embarrassing if you clicked in with me doing a self-tape auditioning for a show that actually would have been
more embarrassing
have you ever done one of them Vogue?
they're the most humiliating
experience
I stopped doing them
I just said to Rick
I was like listen
if I get offered something
I get offered it
I'm not doing those self-tapes anymore
they're so humiliating
no there's certain things in life
that it's just like
I just
I can't
like it's like dancing for me
I'm not doing it anymore
don't ask me
I'm not dancing no one's going to ask you no's gonna trust me no one's gonna ask you anymore I tell
you what I used to I used to do this deaf show and when I did it like I was actually up there
this week and I had a great time because it wasn't dancing day they used to have a day where you'd
have to dance and like they put on music and you'd have to literally be like and just like the
starting would be on tv all of it and I'd be like please I just don't want to dance
stop
it's just
it's like
it's like
it's like
it's cruel
it's like Ellen
do you remember Ellen
used to get her guests
to dance on
it's like what the fuck
are you doing
I'm going to say something
about Ellen
she's not a great dancer herself
I think of all the things
to say about Ellen
I think that's the least
we're fucking worried about
oh yeah
you're welcome Ellen
not a great dancer
sometimes she fucking...
She treated me like a piece of shit.
I'm doing it for slave labor.
And another thing,
she's a shit dancer.
Yeah, Ellen, take that.
It's offensive.
I'm sorry, all the listeners.
We are going to...
We're doing...
Right, next week, we're doing right next week
we're starting on dating
it's cheating as well
it's the cheat
it's cheating stories
same thing
dating cheating
exactly the same thing
because we've got
some really good stories
and I've got a really good
story of my own
you do
we want to
in other news
story of the week
Leo Varadkar
who is our
tea shock I don't know what's happened here so you're going to have to explain it to me In other news, story of the week, Leo Varadkar, who is our Taoiseach.
I don't know what's happened here,
so you're going to have to explain it to me.
So Leo,
who we're a big,
I'm a big fan of.
I'm a big fan of Leo.
And do you know what,
he's about to go back in.
He's about,
Micheál Martin's getting the boot again
and Leo's going back in.
Yeah.
So politically,
Jo,
we rotate our
prime ministers,
we've two,
because both parties
kind of both won
and blah blah blah
we just kind of
spin them around now
like a spice rack
and then one gets in
and one gets out
whatever
it's kind of cute actually
I think it's a good idea
everyone gets a go
sharing
not a slippery Susan
what's that pink
lazy Susan
lazy Susan
slippery Susan
our political system
is based on
a slippery season
is how it works
so
Leo's about to slip back in
Miho's about to slip out
anyway
Leo is gay
he's married
and Leo was
he's married
he's married
Leo was filmed
scoring a lad
in Mother
which is one of the
gay clubs in town
in Dublin
so
he was
so anyway
and this
absolute
snake
like
put the
film to him
and put it up online
people are such
shitebags
like what are you
getting out of that
don't do that to people
you're Ireland's
you're officially
Ireland's biggest
gi bag
you are a gi bag
and it's me
you're the biggest
gi bag in Ireland since Bob Geldof got knighted you're the biggest gi bag you are a gi bag and it's me you're the biggest gi bag in Ireland
since Bob Geldof
got knighted
you're the new
gi bag
don't speak about
Bob like
I saw him in
Battersea Park
I told you that
I'm this close
to going over
and saying hello
to him
and asking how
he got in there
I love a bit of Bob
I'm just saying
like
what I like
actually is
firstly
look
I don't mean to
make general assumptions
but she says about
to make a general assumption.
What I would say is,
he's in a gay club,
he's a gay man
married to another man.
I would assume,
considering it's Leo Varadkar
and obviously he has
the profile that he has,
that if he's in a
closed relationship,
he's not going to be
scoring some lad in a club.
So we can probably
safely assume
that they're open,
half open,
a slip open, a fucking cat flap in the marriage
where they can flap around do whatever also even if they're not sometimes mistakes happen it doesn't
mean you have to broadcast them everywhere like it's a really shitty thing to do to invade like
you're invading someone's privacy when i score colin farrell the next time I'm in Dublin. If one of you guys dares post about that,
like, I won't be happy, okay?
When I rode Ronan Keating,
do you know how long it took me to get that?
To get that video offline.
Do you know how long that took me?
Yeah, exactly.
And if I want to slip my tongue in Bono's ear again,
just stop it.
Stop before you start, okay?
A hundred percent.
When I went down to Lewis Capaldi Inn.
In the King's Inn in Clapham Common.
I can tell you now it was,
it was quite the sight to behold.
And I did it knowing that I was amongst France.
Surely there, where's the legislation here?
If I want to be a slag worm in the privacy of my own
life i will do it politicians are not eunuchs they have genitals also this goes on in all
political spheres and i would actually rather have a gay t-shirt he's having a fucking good
time and mother and no surprise of a pint than some owl lad who's sure look at look at bill
clinton the oval office is built on semen fucking like it probably used to have corners
and they rode them off it
now it's oval
Bill Clinton loved
an old ball tickle
he loved a ball tickle
he did
don't hate him for it
I don't give a shit
if Leo Varacker
crawls into his house at home
climbs into a fish tank
and makes slow love
to his goldfish
if he's doing a good job
no no no
not right
that's bestiality
you can't do that
bestiality
bestiality
whatever
well it's not
it's a fish they don't count my point is chicken and fish don't count to joanne i've never seen
someone up in court for riding a salmon that's all i'm saying have you no it's usually a horse
do you know how hard wild salmon are to come by i thought you're gonna say do you know how hard
a salmon can get and i was like no Vogue actually I'm very relieved to say
I don't
have you seen
have you seen the size
of an erection a cod
can get you on
no you haven't
because you haven't
fucking lived
okay
my point is
Duran's very sexually
attracted to sperm whales
he could go home
I don't care what he does
in the privacy of his own home
or the
I don't care what he does
in the privacy of a club
of a gay club in town I'm a fan in the middle of a townhouse. Or I don't care what he does in the privacy of a club, a gay club in town.
In the middle of absolutely
everyone. Some of the worst
people in the world
make terrible decisions
because they're sexually frustrated.
I want politicians
who are very satisfied and relaxed.
So if that means that our Taoiseach
is in a fucking gangbang
it's brilliant
it means it's going to make
better decisions for the country
I firmly believe that
the only thing
I will say about that
is that
Leon Martin needs to get stuck in
if I don't see his car keys
and a giant fucking
bell on the door
I'll be very upset
and actually
do you know what
I applaud Leo
okay
I find it quite arising
yeah so do I
and Leo
as well.
When you and I do that
at another later stage,
I don't want it to be spoken about.
I don't care what our politicians do.
If I like someone,
I like someone.
Mary Lou McDonald's probably gone home.
She's probably wanking off a partner
in her spare time.
We just don't know
because she's doing it
in the privacy of her own home.
We don't fucking know.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Jo, be careful there now.
Just check this in our stories
about Mary Lou McDonnell
and Wanker North Park
just so we know.
Don't step on anyone's toes.
Lots to chat about
and don't forget
if you haven't gone out
and got...
Lots to think about there
I think, folks.
Do you?
There's a whole lot of things
to think about there, okay?
Lots to think about. I'm just going to say this comes out on to think about there okay and if you I'm just going
to say this
comes out on
the 9th of
December and
if you haven't
gone and
gobbled yourself
you want to
sort that out
right
it might not
come out for
legal reasons
but if it does
come out
Mary Lou I
want you to
know parrots
repeat what
they hear
so just be
careful
okay
parrots can
talk
okay
see you next
week okay bye see you next week