My Therapist Ghosted Me - Red Flags, Goody Bags & Why Joanne Was Ghosted
Episode Date: April 2, 2021This is it! Episode 1 and the full explanation of why and how Joanne's therapist ghosted her. That's not all though... There's a full Twitter meltdown, a disagreement about virtual gigs and the first ...ever collection of "dick moves" too!Subscribe, enjoy and leave a review!If you'd like to get in touch, you can send an email to hello@MTGMpod.com
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Welcome to My Therapist Ghosted Me with me, Bo Williams, and my dear friend, you'd know
an English person wrote that, dear friend and colleague, okay Jo, Joanne McNally.
It's a podcast that works, well we don't know if it works yet, but it should work on the
basis of sharing your innermost thoughts
with as many people as you possibly can
to make you feel better and not worse and not weird.
Yeah, because we will tell you all the weird stuff we do,
which will make you feel less weird.
And in the coming weeks,
we're going to share all sorts of thoughts,
problems, issues, memories and stories.
And we're going to ask you to do the same.
The chances are we're going to find out
that we all think in a similar way. We all get annoyed about the same things and we all have to ask you to do the same. The chances are we're going to find out that we all think in a similar way.
We all get annoyed about the same things
and we all have the same regrets.
Either that or we'll have made
some very embarrassing admissions
when no one even asked us to.
Right, Joanne
segment one
opening chat
forward slash
so fluid
yeah
Jo has his
he's trying to get
Jo's our producer by the way
not Joanne
Joanne doesn't like being called
Joanna or Jo
no
I'm very firm
on the Joanne-ness
of the situation
not Jo
never you were never a Jo
well the only problem is
there's so many Joes
in comedy.
And Joe is even...
Like Joe who?
Joe Brand?
Joe Brand.
Joe Swash.
Is he not kind of funny?
No.
I don't know.
It just feels like
it's not...
At least Joanne
is a bit more stage name.
Like Joe.
Like no one remembers a Joe.
This Joe,
I didn't remember we'd met.
I remembered meeting the Joe. Joe, you're going to have to say things. Thank you. Cheers for that. Thank you very much. Yeah. It's just a bit of a blah. name like joe like no one remembers a joe this joe i didn't remember we'd met i remembered me
you're gonna have to say things for that thank you very much yeah it's just a bit of a blah
it's a bit blah joan at least joan has something more to it oh do you know what i find annoying
about your name sorry coming from a woman called vogue sure hit me okay okay i'll tell you what it
is every time i tag you in instagram it's too big for the writing and the Y goes on the bottom
and then I have to make it smaller.
Okay?
Are you taking the piss?
That annoys me.
That annoys me.
I tag you quite often, obviously,
because I'm like, oh, for fuck's sake.
And I actually was going to tell you,
I was going to say,
would you not change your name?
Do you know what annoys me?
Every time I tag you,
the Instagram account dedicated to your mole
tries to interact with me
and I don't know if I should block it or not.
I don't even get,
that mole account
doesn't really go for me.
No,
it's not going for me either
but I'm just uncomfortable
with it
because it's just
many photos of your mole
up close
and it's called
Vogue's mole
and he only follows
one person
and it's you.
I don't even know,
he must have alerts
set up for you or something.
That's so weird.
It's like your man
have you ever
had your
turned up on
there's this lad
who films
there's a whole
YouTube channel
of women wearing
pleather pants
on Irish telly
have you not been on it
I'm sure you've been on it
I love a bit of pleather
I do
but there's also
a really funny
Instagram account
that I started following
it's a bit called
Ugly Irish Houses
have you seen it
no
it's Lloyd Griffith who's actually an English comic put me I started following it's a bit called Ugly Irish Houses have you seen it? no it's Lloyd Griffith
who's actually an English comic
put me onto it
but it's
gross
but hysterical
and like it's
there's a house in Derry
with like a corner bath
but like in the middle
like they're using it
like a stand alone bath
oh my god
it's got a lot of
it's private
Crimes Against Design
Ireland's Middle Finger
to the Aesthetics
this is
I want to join.
I'm sure if you ask to join. Okay, I'm joining.
I've requested. I want to see these
gaffes. They're hideous.
There's nothing. Now, I'll be honest with you. Imagine maybe a block from it because
your gaffe is on it. My gaffe? I swear
to God, I wasn't. I'm not just.
Have you seen a picture of my house in Ireland? Yeah.
Right. It is so, it's
gorgeous inside. The outside
is so rotten. I used to walk by that
house for a year and it was up for sale for a year because everyone was probably the same as
me. And they were like, that looks rotten and didn't want to go in. And it's, it's just so
ugly from the outside. And it's painted like this pissy yellow color. But then I went in and I was
like, actually, I love it. And if you're going to live there, you're not looking at the outside
that much because you're always in there. This sounds like literally you falling in love with Spencer.
I know.
We were actually only talking about that last
time. About the, like,
how I fell in love with him on the jump.
He used to have, right, and I don't
like snot. Only since I've had kids,
I don't mind snot. He
had so much snot.
Always, always. He'd be
coming down the ski slope and he'd just end up at the end
and there'd be like snot
running through his beard and stuff.
He was actually disgusting.
And then he only figured out
that he was allowed to wash his ski suit
about a month into it.
Like, I was like,
you can send it down
because it reeked of BO.
That is kind of,
like, I wouldn't find that attractive.
I didn't.
I don't mean,
he's not the colour of piss.
Just sometimes the tan,
like, there is a bit of a
urine glow
of him
let's be real
I'm just going to be real
we said we were going to be real
we both have a yellow skin tone
and you look quite yellow
from where I'm sitting too
well if I lived half my life
in the tropics
like you did
I'd have a yellow skin tone too
excuse me fortunately I live in Clapham Clapham's lovely half my life in the tropics like you did I'd have a yellow skin tone too unfortunately
I live in Clapham
Clapham is lovely
if I was married
an aristocrat
I'd be swinging
out of St. Bart's
six months a year
as well
I read in the papers
what similar lives
we lead
we do actually
what do I do
that's very different
to you
you're married
with two kids
and you go to
St. Bart's.
Okay, fine.
My son, Theodore,
loves saying Joanne's name.
Joanne!
Joanne!
Who, the child?
Theodore, yeah.
I love him.
He's so cute.
He does love you.
I'm into ugly aces.
They've accepted me.
It's got Junaid O'Connor's
face on it.
It's disgusting.
Oh, love. Joanne, I'm so glad. It's got Sinead O'Connor's eyes on it. It's disgusting. Oh, love.
Joanne, I'm so glad.
It's very funny.
Why is the podcast
called My Therapist
Ghosted Me, Joanne?
My Therapist Ghosted Me.
That's basically
the story there.
And I'm so disappointed
because he was great.
He was quite cheap
because I tried to go
to the guy that
Spenno went to.
Oh God, he was very expensive.
And I was like,
fucking hell.
I know.
Anyway, do you know
when you're like willing
to spend 200 quid
on a pair of shoes
but you won't spend 60 quid
on your actual mental
mental peace and well-being.
You're like,
but you know,
it would cost you more
to get the dishwasher fixed.
Anyway,
so he sent me out
to this cheaper man
out in Notting Hill
who I loved.
He was kind of old,
like he was an ex-addict.
He was like quite hippy-dippy,
a lot of incense.
Like we hug when we go in
and he was,
everyone,
I told him all the people
I hated and he was like,
wish them love and light,
wish them love and light.
Oh no,
I'd be out the door.
No,
I really took to it
and he was one therapist,
honestly, that I've really liked
I kind of go through
therapists quite quickly
because I won't change my habits
so eventually they just
get really bored
and literally the one
before him
she was
she was
I could hear her
rolling her eyes
do you know when someone's
trying not to roll their eyes
and the second one then
he just stopped taking my calls
now
are you sure he's not dead
no he's not
because I rang
I blocked my
I blocked my number
and rang him.
Stop!
I just had to know.
I was like,
has he relapsed?
What's going on?
No, he just doesn't
want to work me out.
Look, I don't know
what happened to him.
He's completely ghosted me.
That's it.
The relationship is over
and I have to accept that.
And that's why our podcast
is called
My Therapist Ghosted Me.
I went to my therapist there
probably,
I'd say,
just before Christmas I went to see my therapist and he me. I went to my therapist there probably, I'd say just before Christmas,
I went to see my therapist.
And he kind of just,
because I hadn't seen him in years
and I went in and I was like,
listen, this is what I'm like.
Basically, I went into him
because I have no ability
to sit down and calm
and relax and chill.
And I was like,
I have no chill
and it's really like,
it's getting on top of me.
I just want to sit down
and watch telly.
It's really freaking me out.
I can't stop doing stuff
and I feel really stressed out and I feel out I can't stop doing stuff and I
feel really stressed out and I feel like I'm never going to be organized la la la and he was like
well I hate to say but you were like this four years ago as well so that's just the type of
person that you are so he basically told me that that's the way I was and there's something you
can do about it do you remember the time that you gave me the number for a therapist and and you
separately gave me a number for a chiropractor and then I messaged
the chiropractor thinking it was the therapist and
booked it an appointment. No, you texted
the therapist thinking it was the chiropractor
because then he emailed me and he was like
he texted me and he was like I think I've made a big mistake
sorry I didn't realise I'm after letting
slip that I'm your therapist and we're not
allowed to do that. I was like it's grand
so she rang the wrong one
you should go to him he's great. He's like you're welcome to come in what are the problems? And I was like I've got some lower back pain and I feel like it's grand so she she she rang the wrong one you should go to him he's great he's
like you're welcome to come in what are the problems and I was like I've got some lower
back pain and I feel like I'm my hips aren't aligned he was like I'm Vogue's therapist
and then he felt so guilty he then had to text me so funny
okay Joanne sorry we've already rambled on and Jo has only five minutes per topic.
It's all written down in black and white.
That's it.
Right.
So we were going to talk about...
Joanne is one of my best pals.
And she's a comedian
and I find her very funny.
I'm really supportive.
I love when she puts up her live videos and everything.
And I found out Joanne was having...
She was doing gigs online.
Live gigs.
And she was practicing new material on people.
And I asked, can I come to the gig?
And she won't let me go to her gig.
I don't allow Vogue tickets to my virtual gigs.
And the reason I don't is because I know you and love you
and I respect you and appreciate you.
Cut the bullshit.
I want to come.
You don't have the attention span, folk.
Right, this is the perfect way to judge
if your material is good or not.
If I'm still there at the end,
it's good.
I've done Zoom business meetings with you
where very important people are involved
and halfway through you just start,
you disappear or you're breastfeeding a kid.
Like, I don't want to be dealing with that
on a Zoom gig.
I'll mute my face.
I won't do the video.
Honestly, I've never wanted
to go to something more.
When you're told you can't go to something,
then I'm like,
no, now I really want to go.
Like, I couldn't wait to go to Joanne's gig.
And I brought Spencer and I was like,
Joanne's gas, this is going to be brilliant.
And actually,
it wasn't really a like,
hearty, hearty kind of gig that she does.
It was more of a dark comedy kind of play, which was amazing.
But I told Spenny it was all about like we were going to be laughing our arses off.
He was quite shook after the whole thing.
He didn't look me in the eye for about a month.
So that was Bite Me, which was my first stage show, which is a dark comedy theatre piece about bulimia.
Yeah, so I wasn't, it's not the place to go for a full-on laugh.
And it was in the Vault Festival
so it was like really dark
under the train tracks
and it's just like.
I thought it was brilliant though.
Yeah, I liked that show.
It made me think
that you're way more intelligent
than I thought you were.
It's like fucking hell,
she wrote that.
When I read your newspaper articles,
I'm like, what? How does she know that word When I read your newspaper articles, I'm like, what?
How does she know that word?
I know.
I know.
I don't write like I talk.
I find it hard to find my words.
You don't write like you look.
Don't worry, I get that a lot too.
Do you know what it is, right?
When the show, when live comes back up and running,
I just feel I'm so used to friends getting excited at the start
because they're like,
oh, you're good, good, good.
But then,
they're not interested.
Like, they get boring after a while
and I don't want to stress.
Like, those Zoom gigs
that I'm doing at the moment
called Locked Comedy.
How many people
are allowed to go to them?
I sell,
I top it at 50 tickets a week.
50, 50 people before me.
Anyone you know?
Don't lie.
I don't know.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
None of my mates go they've long given
up on watching me do stand-up they couldn't give a shit well i haven't no but that's because you
weren't in ireland when i started so you didn't see the live stuff and then when i came over here
sure everything was shut down after a year but when things open up i just rather save my friends
for like the in-house physical gigs i do remember though jamie Lang was doing comedy, stand up in the comedy store.
Fair play to him.
And Spencer came to watch him.
And he was like,
Spencer, I can't wait to see you.
This is going to be great.
And I was like,
oh, thanks a mil.
And second Jamie literally,
I was on straight after Jamie.
Second Jamie laughed.
Jesus, Spencer couldn't
have legged it fast enough.
There was steam coming off
his Manolo Blahnik
or whatever the fuck
he wears on his feet.
I was like, Spencer's
out. Oh, okay.
He never texted me going, sorry, I had to lag it.
Like, nothing. To be fair to Spencer,
he doesn't like going out anymore.
He was already out. All he had to do was
sit in the same space for an extra nine
minutes. Listen, I'm not going to make excuses
for Spencer. He's a dick, right? We all
know he's a dick.
That's so
see I wouldn't
do that to you
no of course not
and I'm glad
you know what
I'm glad he did that to you
I'm glad
that's what you get
yeah
he's not coming
to the fucking
Zoom
yeah
you'd probably
let him go
absolute bitch
what's that bright
yellow thing
in that window
oh I spent it
I don't think
he looks yellow
he's got a
he's got a yellowy
I mean look
we all have a yellowy vibe
he looks
he looks like
he doesn't look like
he's quite tanned
he likes to say
he's African
but he did
his mom's from Africa
oh yeah
but he did
you know those
heritage tests
that you buy
and he was
honestly he was like
oh fuck this is going to be great
I'm going to be African
like thinking I'm going to be a Viking
fully English
nothing
just English
and that was
absolutely it
we're going to take this up next week
when I'm actually going to be
invited to the gig
you actually had told me
that I could go
and then you took it back
and I'll turn off my video
you're more than welcome to come
okay let's get into the topics
fuck you that was a topic.
Vogue knows my obsession with Alice Evans
has been long documented.
So Alice Evans, if you haven't heard,
but I don't know who wouldn't have heard.
Is she English or American?
English.
Oh, surprised.
And he's Welsh.
Johan Gruffydd.
I thought his name was Lone.
No.
My housemate Sophie's Welsh
and I was like,
tell me how to pronounce this properly
because it's like someone,
Gerard Farrelly,
who's one of my comedy Irish friends,
and this English woman
was trying to book him
and she was like,
I can't get through to Geroid.
And I couldn't get through to Geroid.
I couldn't stop laughing.
Anyway,
so it's important to get the pronunciation
when you can.
I'm being respectful.
Say it in Johan.
Johan Groffat.
That's not bad.
What's your name in Welsh?
Johan.
Johan Groffat.
Anyway,
so they're married 13 years, together 20.
Oh, now the plot thickens.
I didn't know that.
That's quite sad.
And he has left her, right?
Now, so Alice, your man wants, Johan wants to leave her, right?
Grant, this happens all the time.
The thing that made this story interesting was that Alice then took to Twitter
and made this announcement
to us.
Like something,
it was kind of like we were owed an explanation
even though it's really none of our business.
So the tweet said,
Sad news.
My beloved husband's soulmate of 20 years,
Johan Gruffydd,
has announced he is to leave his family
starting next week.
New paragraph.
You mean our young daughters,
girls,
are very confused and sad.
We haven't been given a reason
except that he no longer loves me.
I'm so sorry.
And then all this madness started
where he was going into her account,
deleting them.
Basically, she took all her pain,
all her anger,
all her confusion
to Twitter
and started tweeting very publicly
about the breakdown of her marriage.
So then one guy wrote back.
Joanne loves this story. She's literally like she's
researched it. Someone, sorry, there was a tweet,
someone wrote underneath saying this seems like a weird thing
to share to Twitter and she wrote back, really?
I've lost my mind. And I,
my heart went out to someone because I was like,
the honesty of it. I was reading this article
and they were talking about like the etiquette of when you break up with someone
and what not to do online. I was like, when you've broken up
with someone, you're not thinking about etiquette
or you're not thinking about rational
safe thoughts. I've turned up to men's
houses twice.
I think at the moment, the way things
are going, we've gone from people just sharing
like a lunch platter and a day
at the beach on Instagram to now
every single thing.
And where's the line?
There's no line anymore.
I know, but you know,
there has to be a line though.
Like we all go bonkers
when we break up somebody.
Stalk them on like social,
everything like that.
You can't help yourself.
You dig deep.
Basically, she wanted to recruit us
as kind of a virtual jury
that would be on her side.
So she was going for this immediate
kind of,
she needed the validation.
She wanted our sympathy.
She was completely confused.
And you know, we're both big Instagram users.
There's a lot of validation in Instagram.
Do you know what I mean?
And you have people kind of really liking you and telling you all these positive things.
And that's obviously what she needed.
She's since come out and said that she's no parents in America.
They live in America.
It's just her.
You know, she's been raising her kids.
I don't think she's really working anymore.
She's 47?
No, she looks great.
She looks great.
Although, I think the papers are now doing that dick thing
that they did to Lisa Armstrong,
where they seem to be just posting very un...
Attractive pictures of her.
Yes.
I hate that.
And saying nice things,
so then everyone's like
actually that's
she doesn't look like that
it's so shady
and I know that
there's the Daily Mail
do it all the time
they've done
they did it to Lena Dunham
once
they posted this
really awful photo
like it was
undisputably
a very bad photo
and they were like
Lena Dunham
stuns
and they're opening it up
to troll these women
yeah but they want the abuse.
Yeah, and Alice has even said herself,
she's like,
my self-esteem is on the ground.
Oh, God.
Do you know what?
My heart has broken for her.
I know.
But stop, Joanne.
Like, come on.
I'm on her side.
I'm team Alice.
What's the most crazy you've done
when you broke up with somebody?
Turned up to their house.
I don't even think that's that bad.
I've done loads of stalking stuff. You're like, what's the last thing your boyfriend said to me? Honestly, he's like, I'm going even think that's that bad. I've done loads of stalking stuff.
You're like, what's the last thing your boyfriend said to me?
Honestly, he's like, I'm going to call the guards.
I love you!
Anna, but you get...
We made our peace.
I can understand, I can understand, like, why she's doing that.
Because when you get dumped, especially,
it's like you just go into this, like,
nobody else exists in the whole world.
Even if it's the worst relationship ever,
you're desperate to get back with them for a certain amount of time.
Now, when I look back on certain relationships, I'm just like, oh, God, thank God that didn't work out.
Whereas before, you'd be devil.
Devil.
Like, the first lad's house that I turned up to.
Was this the one who was going to call the first lad's house that I turned up to. Was this the one
who was going to call the guards?
No, that was the second one.
Is that, this is the one
that his mom was there or something?
Yeah.
Oh God.
And I was honestly,
I was so,
I don't really take heartbreak well.
I have noticed that, yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Folks witness that.
I really crumble
and I go a bit hysterical.
I go a bit mad.
I do. And I, you know, I've read articles about it. But we all do. You just can bit hysterical. I go a bit mad. I do.
And, you know, I've read articles about it.
But we all do.
You just can't hide it.
I don't know.
I think, I mean, I'm not trying to make out that I'm madder than anyone else,
but I do seem to suffer a lot.
It does seem to really knock me for six.
Why do you think it is?
Because you just don't see it coming.
No, I mean, that's the interesting thing about this Alice thing.
That she's, everything she says now, she's saying she was completely blindsided.
She didn't see it.
But that's why I wanted to talk about it because I was thinking,
even going back to her Instagram, to me, as a punter, it's obvious there was something wrong.
Oh, no.
I know.
So when she's saying she didn't see it, it's like she's ignoring all these red flags.
And that's why I was like,
oh, red flags, it's so interesting.
Because to people on the outside,
they're so obvious.
But when you're in it,
especially with someone like me,
you're like, oh my God, look, it's bunting.
And you're literally running towards them.
So I did this shout out on my Insta for people.
Like, what red flags have you really ignored?
Because I was reading this article
and it was Alice had done this photo
of where she'd done,
she said,
oh,
just spent 40 minutes
doing my makeup
for a Zoom call
he didn't bother
to turn up to.
Oh,
was that before they broke up?
Yeah.
No.
Now,
40 minutes doing your makeup
for your husband
for 20 years
on a Zoom.
So you're obviously,
she's obviously feeling
like he's going to leave her.
So all the signs were there,
but she just,
you see what you want to see.
It's confirmation bias
like we're all just hiccup shit when it comes to this stuff
but anyway so I was like
what Fred Flagg do you know that moment where
in a relationship where you realise
you're not in love with them anymore
or the moment you realise they're not in love
with you anymore and it's like
uh oh
so small things like oh when I was treated to a night away
in the Jackson Court Hotel,
aka Coppers.
Now, this is a regional reference,
but Coppers is,
I don't even know how you describe it.
Basically, this hotel is basically a hostel.
It is a hostel.
At 40 quid per night.
That was the treat, right?
Then this one,
I always thought he was a penny pincher,
but the highlight was when he asked me
while we were walking through Tesco
to buy him back a jar of passata
I used while I was
cooking us dinner
unfortunately
it was not a joke
oh my god
red flag alert
this is a different one
when he left me in the airport
with a pint of water
and bought himself a drink
I went out with the lad
who did that to me before
who?
I'm not gonna
oh my god
he'd go and order himself
a pint
and he'd come back
and I'd be like
em
no
yeah some people are just that's one of my worst traits in people being mean Oh my God. He'd go and order himself a pint and he'd come back and I'd be like, um, yeah. No.
Yeah, yeah.
Some people are just,
that's one of my worst traits
in people being mean
and cheap.
Yeah.
Especially people that you know
have money as well
and they're like,
they don't,
they just don't want to part with it.
I don't think he was being cheap.
I genuinely just think
he didn't think enough about me
to consider me
and part of the round
for him.
He just was like,
I'm a one man show.
That's bizarre. How long after that did you
dump him?
He dumped me, obviously.
I was like, I love him.
When he booked a solo holiday for a
trip, we had talked about begun planning
together. When we make
plans and he's like, this is my friend Julie,
when we make plans and he's like, I'm not really
up for driving on the motorway.
Now what this one was,
I remember her seeing this lad
and they'd made plans.
And he would have to drive on the motorway
to pick her up for like 20, 30 minutes.
And she's like,
so we're meeting up later.
He goes,
ugh, it's just the motorway.
It's a lot.
I'm not really up for driving.
Ugh, fuck that.
Then when she was breaking up with him,
she referenced that guy.
I just don't think you're that into me.
Like you didn't want to get on the motorway.
At least she dumped him.
What did he say then?
He was like, oh yeah.
He hadn't really considered it.
I went out with somebody
and they asked me a question.
Like, I think we were like
four months into dating,
five months into dating.
And he asked me a question
and I was so shocked
that he had asked me a question
because we weren't talking about him
that I was like, oh my God.
And I'd like to say
I dumped him
but I did not
because I was
fascinated by him
and then I got ghosted
I think I know who that is
yeah you do
yeah
I stuck in there
got my one question
couldn't get enough
well one of my red flags
in one of my relationships
was
I never saw
the front of his phone
it was
face down
for five years
oh what a sneak out yeah little snake slithery I never saw the front of his phone. It was face down for five years.
Oh, what a sneak out. Yeah, little snake, slithery snake.
Spenny's phone's so boring,
I wouldn't even bother.
Do you know Spenny went out with somebody
and like,
because when he'd be asleep,
probably in his drinking days,
she would get his thumb
and put it on his phone
and when they broke up,
she had blocked like hundreds of girls.
Imagine though.
There was a woman on a plane once and her husband fell asleep
and she used his finger to unlock his phone
and they had to turn the plane around
because she found out he was having an affair
and she went ballistic.
And they had to turn the plane around.
You go to jail for that.
You'd be trying to throw him out the window.
Jesus, you would. I'd be opening that door. I'm scared of that door in the plane,. You go to jail for that. You'd be trying to throw him out the window. Jesus, you would.
I'd be opening that door.
I'm scared of that door
in the plane, by the way.
Who says,
like, anyone can go
and open that.
I'm left there
unattended sometimes.
There's a red ribbon
across the front,
which is a clear indication,
don't open the door.
I know, but someone,
if they say,
oh, do you know what,
fuck it, I'm going to open the door,
what can everyone do?
Get sucked out of the plane.
I've never even considered
opening the door.
Oh, I have, because sometimes when I'm trying to get one of the kids to sleep on the plane, I'm standing by that door and I'm going to open the door. What can everyone do? Get sucked out of the plane. I've never even considered opening the door. Oh, I have.
Because sometimes when I'm trying to get
one of the kids to sleep on the plane,
I'm standing by that door and I'm like,
this door is unattended for a long period of time.
Anyone could go and do it.
Does it not have a code on it or something?
I don't think so.
I think...
God, I miss flying.
Me too.
The day drinking.
I don't want to be on a...
No, I never drink on a flight, no.
On the teeny tiny bot.
That's why I fly.
I only...
Do you know what? Once I got stopped drinking on the plane, I'd drink on a flight, no. On the teeny tiny bottle. That's why I fly. I only, do you know what?
Once I got stopped drinking on a plane,
I'd only had three drinks.
The airport is the only acceptable place
that you can have pint and a porridge at 6am
and no one can say a word to you.
Like, do you remember all the,
do you know one of the saddest things about the lockdown?
All those little gins that aren't getting boomeranged
at 7am by 30 girls with wheelie suitcases
and curlers in their hair. I'm like, maybe that's how the gin works. It has to be boomeranged to 7am by 30 girls with wheelie suitcases and curlers in their hair.
I'm like, maybe that's how the gin works.
It has to be boomeranged
to activate the alcohol.
I'm trying to think about my relationships,
but I can't edit the last two dumpings.
God, I haven't dumped anyone in years.
I hate dumping people.
Fucking a lot better than being on this side
of it, I can tell you.
I've changed my mind
I was going to talk about
being judged by our fitness watches
but I think I want to talk
about goodie bags.
You gave me a goodie bag once
full of half empty cosmetics
for my birthday.
Excuse me Joanne.
I give you free cosmetics.
I have bags of that stuff.
That's it.
You're banned.
There's no more freebies for you.
She's like Joanne
here's a sandwich bag
full of shit that I don't want
happy birthday love
it's good shit
I just can't use it all
oh my god
you fucking bitch
I still use the facial oil
excuse me
I got you
a tie-dye track suit
for your birthday
you have one as well
we should wear them
I think we should do a shoot
and wear the same clothes
oh yeah
100%
what will we wear
a jump suit
a boiler suit Joanne told me the other day we wear a jump suit. I know kids. A boiler suit.
Joanne told me
the other day
we love wearing
jump suits
and she told me
the other day
that we were
too old for them
and I've only just
got like seven
sitting in my wardrobe.
I feel for me
that a female comic
in a jump suit
is just a bit hack.
That's not the way
you said it.
You said we were
too old for jump suits.
Yeah.
And you borrowed
an orange jump suit.
And then I wore it anyway.
Oh sorry. So go on. Goody bags? Oh yeah. So goody bags. The Grammys right? the way you said it you said we were too old for jumpsuits yeah and you borrowed an orange jumpsuit and then I wore it anyway yeah oh sorry
so go on
goodie bags
oh yeah
so goodie bags
the Grammys right
would you like a goodie bag
from the Grammys
yeah
I'd say they've got
like a house in them
and stuff
that's what I thought
five grand's worth of stuff
five thousand dollars
is that all
I'm actually surprised
I know
once upon a bloom's
change maker village
children's book
that's one thing
pumpkin and peanut butter
handmade dog cookies.
Oh, shit.
A luxury tea essentials
from Cup of Tay.
3D printed
sustainable trainers.
A ceramic usable cup.
A jar of toasted
coconut roasted cashews.
What?
I know they're fancy though.
Where would you ever buy them?
Where would you find them? You can get cashews in Tesco. There's crisps.? I know they're fancy though. Where would you ever buy them? Where would you find them?
You can get cashews in Tesco.
There's crisps.
Yeah, but they're not
coconut toasted cashews.
I'd be bitterly disappointed
if I got that goodie bag.
I wouldn't even take it home.
I'd have a root,
a snoop,
and I'd leave it under my seat.
I'd take the cashews.
The original goodie bags
were party bags.
Do you remember
what your party is, kids?
Oh, well,
yeah, you have to do that
I did a party bag for tea
yeah
little rice crispy buns
and stuff
which actually sounds
like more crack
than that bag of shit
that bag of absolute
crap
I'll give you one
for my sixth birthday
that'll be grand
it's always
we get
actually do you know
we get a really good
goodie bag
for the Ivy Gardens
comedy festival
it's sponsored by Vodafone
they give us loads of
like cool tech stuff
and speakers and all
stuff
yeah on a phone and a journal all. Stuff. Yeah. On a phone?
And a journal. All the acts get like this
cool journal with your name kind of like
melted into it. What do they do with names?
What's the shittest thing
you've gotten? Embossed.
Not the shittest. Because it's not nice to say shit
about a gift. What's the weirdest thing
you've gotten? I don't really get like presents.
I'm not really a present giver.
I like giving flowers. I don't know. Fuck that. I hate when people give me flowers. What? I don't really get like presents. I'm not really a present giver. I like giving flowers.
Oh no, fuck that.
I hate when people
give me flowers.
What?
I've given you flowers.
I know.
Yeah, I just don't.
I give you flowers
and you give me
a sandwich bag
full of half-eaten cosmetics.
And we're like,
I love it.
Thanks, babe.
We leave the house
with our fur.
Fuck.
Do you know
when I went off flowers
I went off flowers
when I had Theodore
because so many people
sent flowers
it's just so much hassle
I then have to
arrange them in a vase
then you have to
change the water
like a fish
then I have to
clear them out
and they go everywhere
when I go and put them
in the bin
and they are going to die
and I'm waiting
for them to die and I feel like I'm just like I them in the bin and they are going to die and I'm waiting for them to die
and I feel like I'm just like,
I'll just die already
because they just sit there
withering away
and then I have to clear them up.
What would be your ideal present?
A restaurant feature,
I always think it's a great present.
Yeah, that is a good present.
I like a nice lip balm.
I'm so behind on wedding presents.
Who do you owe a wedding present to?
Oh God, I think the year is like,
the real is you get a year. I'll always know if I haven't got a wedding present to? Oh God, I think the year is like, the real is you get a year.
I'll always know
if I haven't got a wedding present
because I get a thank you card
saying thank you for your presents,
but like physical presents.
And I go,
oh fuck.
I didn't,
I didn't send,
yeah,
I don't send thank you cards.
I really want to get into that.
It's kind of like a mature adult.
I'm surprised you don't.
I know,
it's too much.
It seems very up your alley.
No,
no,
I did buy myself an address book
and I've written addresses
down in it
but I have not
done anything with those
addresses yet
yet
I'm not writing Christmas cards
I'm not getting into that
I don't want to
because it's bad for the environment
yeah
that's why
I don't want to do it
I write thank you notes
Benny's parents love
like
okay so Christmas
Benny's mom gives us
all a present
and we give her a present
and then
literally on the 26th of December,
like my little brother was with us,
everything like that,
she's written everyone a thank you note
and a long note
talking about the gift
and why she likes it.
She's just,
she's so on it with that.
And they love getting a thank you note as well.
But like,
I just send an email now.
I remember when we were kids
and my mom was trying to teach me about like,
I guess manners
and money and all that kind of stuff
that I never learnt and
she brought me in from I was out in the road
playing. Do you remember when you were kids you'd just be sent out in the road
for the day? Yeah I loved that. Yeah you'd just be out in the
road for the whole day and if you even tried to
come into the house you'd be like get out!
And
she came in and the neighbour, one of the
neighbours had sent a Christmas card
but it was her Christmas card
from the previous year
that they'd cut up the middle
and used the front
and just punched
a little hole in the corner
and put a little ribbon in it
and then written the message
on the inside
of the front cover
but right
and she was like
the state of that
and I understood
her anger at the time
because it was the 80s
but now
that'd be seen as
sustainable
environmentally friendly that's quite a nice idea yeah but at the time because it was the 80s. But now, that'd be seen as sustainable, environmentally friendly.
That's quite a nice idea.
Yeah, but at the time,
at the time,
it was just pure tightness.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But now, tightness is cool.
Yeah, you need to be sustainable.
It's cool to be tight.
That's why I'm going to keep wearing
that neon pink jumpsuit
to everything.
And if anyone gives me shit about it,
I'll be like,
excuse me,
I'm basically the Greta Gunnberg
of fashion.
Thunberg?
The tiny David Attenborough, whatever her name is.
When you said about playing outside,
I was only speaking about this yesterday.
Theodore, like, he has a schedule.
Like, he has, he goes to swimming,
he's got little kickers football,
he's got this thing called play ball,
he's got, he usually goes
to monkey music. Like, I never had any
of that shit when I was younger and none of my friends
at home
their kids don't go
to stuff like that
it's such a thing
for over here
that your kids
go to all these classes
and they're fucking expensive
I went to classes
did you?
yeah I went to a lot of stuff
yeah
I think it's because
I was adopted
and my parents
were trying to figure out
what I could actually do
they're like maybe
she's some sort of Beethoven
yeah but you were adopted
when you were what
six months
I know but they were like my mum's like maybe you had a but you were adopted when you were what six months I know but they were like
my mum's like maybe
you had a talent
that we didn't
turns out I had no talent
well your talent
is being a comic
oh yeah
then they found out
they'd adopted a show pony
and they're like
oh Jesus Christ
what are we gonna do now
I'm like this
and I'll come out
but they had me
in electric keyboard lessons
ballet
swimming drama scouts I was in scouts for years but they had me in electric keyboard lessons ballet swimming
drama
scouts
I was in scouts for years
I never did
I was the third child though
and my parents
were just about to break up
when I was born
I came along
there's not many
there's not much
photographic evidence
of me as a child
I don't remember
much from my childhood
it definitely wasn't
sent to any
like classes
my auntie taught me
how to swim
god I was neglected
you didn't get any classes
no
yeah
I mean
when I was 17
I went to dance school
in
in town
I thought it was deadly
yeah was it hip hop
I remember we did
yeah hip hop and funk
that was when TLC
were huge
did I tell you that
I used to think
no scrubs
was no shrubs
did I tell you that
no I don't want
no shrubs and I used to think no scrubs was no shrubs did I tell you that no I don't want no shrubs
and I used to think
Shakespeare's sisters
were legitimately related
oh god I so think
that's such a tune
what is that one
stay with me
oh yeah
midnight at the oasis
I thought that was
who oasis were
what's that one
my lover's got no money he's got his I used to think it was My lover's got no money
He's got his
I used to think it was
My lover's got no money
He's got his trombolese
What's a trombolese?
It's his strong beliefs
He's got his trombolese
Yeah, it's strong beliefs
Yeah, I think I knew that
But I do see where you're going with that
I just hung up my mom
Oops Good, good Get that bitch, Sandra I just hung up my mom.
Whoops.
Good, good.
Get that bitch, Sandra.
Now, this podcast isn't going to work unless you are also the listener doing your bit.
So me and Vogue can't sit here admitting everything
if you're not going to do a little bit of the same in return.
And it always makes you feel better
to get something off your chest. So we're looking for dick move of the week. You know when someone
just like does something and you're just like, what a dick move. Yeah, that's what we're looking
for. Right, Joanne, you read the first one. First one is from Lacey. When my son started school last
year, I sort of made friends with another woman at the gates, isn't there?
I'm not looking forward to that, to be honest.
I can't really be honest.
I feel like I've got my full list of friends that I'll ever need in life.
I don't...
John's making a mess.
Jesus fucking Christ.
We're still dealing in paper.
Oh, my fear's done.
It's a shit show you're running here.
It is always paper.
There should be like a minority report screen behind me
where I can just like move questions around.
Oh, yeah.
Look, I don't know anything about schools or moms.
I just know that it's hard and that I love that
Sharon Horgan show. Motherland.
Brilliant. I feel like there's always
though something at the school gates
at moms and like parents can be like
I mean you can't be quite
judgmental of the way other people parent and not that
you'd say it to their face but this woman's obviously
pretty gel or something. Like I feel
like I'm gonna I know I'm gonna make friends with Theatres friends moms pretty gel or something. Like I feel like I'm gonna
I know I'm gonna make friends
with Theodore's friends
moms and stuff like that
but I do feel like
I've got my
I feel like
do you ever feel like
I've got lots of friends
that I like
but not too many.
I have enough friends
that I can keep in contact
with them
but I don't think
I want anymore.
I'm not in the market
for more friends.
I don't want anymore.
Is that mean?
No.
I know two girls
at the moment
who hate each other who are really trying to make it work because one of them's like I just don't have the time Is that mean? No, I know two girls at the moment who hate each other,
who are really trying to make it work.
One of them's like,
I just don't have the time
to make any new friends.
No, couldn't be arsed.
Yeah, and she's like,
I have to make this work with her.
I have to, I just, I'm not,
she's got kids.
She's like, I'm not in a position
to go out and make new friends.
No, couldn't be arsed.
I'm actually,
one nice thing about being childless
and single,
one nice thing about being childless and single one nice thing apart from the relentless masturbation no i'm joking um
is that i do have time to make new friends so i am still at i'm i'm still at the receiving of
the new friend stage of my life, which is nice, actually.
Oh, fuck that.
I have time to make new friends.
I don't want to.
I was trying to put it a nice way.
I don't want to make any new friends.
That's so complimentary to your friends,
how you're so satisfied.
I'm so satisfied with my friends.
You also have a very attentive husband
and two gorgeous kids.
They're like your grads.
I'm grad, yeah.
I never have any free time.
Like if I didn't have friends
on a Sunday,
I would probably have thrown myself
out the skylight at this stage.
Yeah, you need pals,
especially on a Sunday.
Okay, Michelle.
Since I've only been able
to exercise in outside spaces
because my flat is tiny,
I've been doing workouts
in the park.
Quite a few times now,
I've come across a fella
doing the same thing.
Last time I was there,
I was certain he was copying
each exercise I was doing, but was certain he was copying each exercise
I was doing, but making sure he did it
for longer than I did. I even
started mixing it up to see if he followed.
And he did! Complete
dick move. I hear
that shit. You know when someone tries to
runs past you in the park and I'm like
I know they're just getting glory
out of, oh look, I'm passing out this absolute
tortoise. I mean, that wouldn't bother me.
I don't want people trying to out-exercise me.
It's annoying.
Who the fuck could out-exercise you?
Spencer does.
You're practically an Olympian.
It's so embarrassing.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning
and I just watch your workouts on the live
while I'm in my bed lying in my own filth.
And I'm like, that feels like I've done something.
Yeah, Joanne feels like she does something because she walks around with her leg weights.
Like, is there anywhere you don't go when you have them on?
No, I'll wear those leg weights.
I have two two kilo leg weights, which, and then I over, I over egged the pudding as it
were and bought two five kilo leg weights.
Oh, too much.
Which I can't, I just put them on and it's like, do you know, I love a bit of true crime and
I always fathom it. I don't want to fall into
I'm so scared of death, I really don't want to
fall in with leg weights on.
Do you know that a Rolex
if someone's murdered with a Rolex on them
the Rolex helps
pinpoint when they're a murder because
if your blood isn't pumping
the Rolex stops working. That's bullshit.
I'm strung out on the crime tunnels.
No, that's not true.
It acts.
I think this is a nice example
of how different our lives are.
I'm like, well, my swatch doesn't work in the pill.
I used to love a swatch.
I used to collect them.
Remember when you were younger?
Do you remember the giant swatch watch clock?
Oh, God, so good.
I had a swatch with an octopus.
Okay, number three from Amanda.
My sister is the master of the dick move.
Recently for Mother's Day,
she called me and asked what I was getting.
Mum, I said I just got a card
and ordered some flowers to be delivered.
Mother's Day came round,
I spoke to Mum on the phone
and asked her what my sister got her.
She'd sent a card, flowers,
and bought Mum some earrings.
She does this every fucking time.
Amanda's raging because she got a shy gift
I always outgift
my brother and sister
I do
I don't
because I don't want
my brother
like my brother's kind of
really upped his game recently
but like he's a lad
he wouldn't have been
very blessed
in the present
buying department
for my mother
so I wouldn't want to up
I wouldn't want
it's more so about
you have to be thoughtful
so I'm more thoughtful
in my gifts
rather than spending
a shitload of money
if you get something really thoughtful then they love'm more thoughtful in my gifts rather than spending a shitload of money.
If you get something really thoughtful,
then they love that
and I love doing that
for people.
Yeah, I bought my mum
a printer once for Christmas
and she cried
for like two days.
That's a good gift.
You wanted a bloody printer.
She cried of sadness.
She cried because
she was like,
do you know me at all?
Do you love me?
She was so sad about it.
I thought she'd like the printer.
It's like when people are like,
oh, he bought me a fucking Dyson Hoover. I thought she'd like the printer it's like when people are like oh he bought
me a fucking
Dyson Hoover
I'd love it
someone bought me
a Dyson Hoover
I'd love a Dyson
one of my biggest
regrets in life
except for not having
children was not
going to a Dyson event
because I assumed
it was the Hoover
and it was the
fucking hairdryer
which are worth
about 60 grand
oh they're really good
honest to god
they blow your hair and like play music and kind of wank you off gently yeah they do which are worth about 60 grand. Oh, they're really good. Honest to God.
They blow your hair and like play music and kind of wank you off gently.
Yeah, they do.
Oh my God.
You know what though?
You ever get invited to go to the Dyson event,
they'll give you something.
It was a huge faux pas on my part.
Oh man, I'd be raging.
Okay, out of those three moves,
which do you think is the dick move of the week?
I'm going to say the exercising one. I'll go with that.
Yeah. Okay, Michelle, you're dead
right. That guy's a complete dick.
And the next time you see him, tell him
he's a dick. We should be handing out golden
dicks. Michelle, you win
the golden dick. We should be handing out golden dicks.
Yeah. Or like a cup with a dick on it.
Something. A bit of merch. Can we get any
golden dicks? I'll look into it.
Okay. That'll be good.
We'll send you a golden dick.
Very good.
Okay, well that's all
for this podcast, Joanne.
If you want to share
all the weird stuff
that's going on in your head
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And me?
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I do have a website,
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I'm going to get a ticket.
How do you know it's me?
Because I'll see your email address.
No, I'll put it.
I'm going to do a space. Of course you can come. Of course'll see your email address no I'll put it I'm going to do a fake
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