My Therapist Ghosted Me - Strep, AI Software & Trick Or Treaters
Episode Date: November 3, 2023Just before they jump on a plane to Oz, Vogue & Joanne got together, despite the fact that Joanne's throat was a mess, to unpack Halloween once and for all, plus the Wagatha Christie doc and more ...on Britney's book.If you’d like to get in touch, you can send an email to hello@MTGMpod.comPlease review Global's Privacy Policy: https://global.com/legal/privacy-policy/MTGM is going on tour in Ireland & The UK! For tickets, merch and more, visit mytherapistghostedme.comFor more information about Joanne's gigs, visit www.joannemcnally.comThis episode contains explicit language and adult themes that may not be suitable for all listeners.Thank you!
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Hello and welcome to My Therapist Ghosted, me with me, Germán McNally and...
Vogue Williams.
Vogue Williams. We're here and we're queer.
We're not queer, but we're an ally.
Joanne has strep,
which is not a sexually transmitted disease in case anyone thought it had finally caught up with her.
Yeah, I thought it was stress of the throat.
It's not.
It's, I'm corrected, it's strep to cockle
basically
do you know
okay Jo
all ahead of you
I didn't know
folk obviously knows
that children are petri dishes
I did not
I'd heard rumours
but I'd never
experienced it first hand
I attended
a child's birthday party
at the weekend
had a great time
really good time
the drink was flowing
the cake was flowing the mini fun sized snickers were flowing then Sunday night and I I love kids oh
my god I meant to tell you I was really up for it because you know I love kids folk yeah you do I
do love kids I do love kids you do love kids I really do and um I'm just like trying to hang out
with the kids and I was blowing up balloons at the kitchen counter beside one of the kids.
She's six.
And I tried to draw on it then with a Sharpie.
I was trying to draw my face on it.
And it burst right in this child's ear.
And the child, I know.
And I was there to make an impression.
Do you know what I mean?
And so the child kind of looked up.
You know the way they do that thing where they check to see if they're allowed to have a meltdown?
And I was like,
Well done. Well done. Well done. You're okay. Well done. check to see if they're allowed have a meltdown and I was like well done well done well done
you've got ears fab you heard it well done and now and she called plan a was get on with the
evening and plan b was cry and well she went for plan b in quite a big way so everyone's looking
over the music I was like did the music just stop? What happened?
So that was one child down.
Then the second child,
she was so gorgeous.
And when she was leaving,
I picked her up.
I think I picked her up.
There was a couple of drinks taken,
but yeah, I did.
I picked her up.
I picked her up.
And I said, her mum was taking her out to the car.
And I said, you're not going with your mummy.
I'm going to steal you. Because me and her have been getting on. I picked her up. I picked her up. And I said, her mum was taking her out to the car. And I said, you're not going with your mummy. I'm going to steal you.
Because me and her have been getting on.
I didn't know.
Me and her have been getting on really well.
She's like seven, eight.
They don't understand the jokes.
They, well, this child clearly has absolutely no sense of humour.
Because she, again, she kind of looked at me and I was about to go, ha ha.
And she had a fucking melt
grand though
because that one was
on the way out the door
anyway so whatever
her mum was like
we should stop
knocking into the car
but I was again
mortified
I was like
is she joking back
is she
but no she wasn't
she was bawling
crying yeah
listen
I don't think you should feel bad
I still do that to my kids
like when T
myself and Gigi
have been out
and I'm like
we'll give them
we'll give them Otto
because he's been naughty today
and like they'll
really upset them
and I'm like
I'm not going to give them Otto
I'm going to give them you
you're like
there you're going
because of your shit reaction
to mummy's funny gag
you don't think mummy's funny
you're out
okay you're going to the kennels um but anyway so so that was the children's party but ultimately
apart from making the two kids cry I had a really good day then Sunday night throat's a bit scratchy
I was like I don't feel good oh my god basically I obviously caught something off one of the kids
I feel fucking awful I've got strep
It's so annoying
Being sick like that
And just having stuff to do
And you can't do it
Like a vomiting bug
Is the only time
I get out of doing stuff
One time when I had a vomiting bug
I had to keep filming stuff
I had to do it
Mid-vomiting bug
I've done a podcast
Where I just went and puked
Every 15 minutes
I just sometimes
I just put a vomiting bug In peace In bed Vogueed every 15 minutes. I just sometimes, I just put a vomiting bug
in peace in bed.
Folk, I don't know,
like I just was like,
well I suppose
because I speak for a living
and I had two gigs to do
and obviously the pod
and I literally,
like day two,
I was like I can't,
like I have to protect my throat
because we're going
to fucking Australia.
Where are we going, Australia?
It looks like an ice cave in there.
It's just like a white and awful looking.
Well, there's good news to come from it.
Joanne hasn't touched a drink in days.
That's how I know she's very, very unwell.
Three days, not a drop.
Just drank anything.
Yeah.
So I'm like, great.
I can get it.
She's coming back to me.
Now, you're not to be infecting me.
Is it infectious?
It is infectious.
And this is why I was quite flattered.
Because apparently strep is just very common in children. It's unusual for an adult. infecting me is it infectious it is infectious and this is why I was quite flattered because apparently
strep is just very
common in children
it's unusual
for an adult
but I have
huge tonsils
I always have
oh big tonsils
in the back of my throat
huge
tiny brown huge tonsils
that's what they've
always said about me
ew okay
well I'm going to
stay away from you
this week
yeah no scoring for us
I'm not going to kiss you
well we can still kiss just no tongues no tongues yeah we'll just keep a PG no tongues for the week From you this week. Yeah. No scoring for us. I'm not going to kiss you.
Well we can still kiss.
Just no tongues I assume.
No tongues.
Yeah.
We'll just keep it PG.
No tongues for the week. But you know what you were saying about doing your pods when you have to puke every 15 minutes.
Like.
Yeah.
I.
I think as an adult if you're sick you should be allowed to go.
I'm.
I'm not.
Like.
That's what.
That's what kind of shocked me the most.
No one gives a shit when you're sick as an adult.
No.
No one cares.
You have to be in hospital for anyone to care.
Like I, I remember after I was sick,
I remember ringing my management and being like,
do you know what?
I actually needed a day off.
I was very unwell.
I didn't, I shouldn't have filmed those things
or done that podcast.
Like literally I'd be like,
you know when you vomit though,
if you have a vomiting bug,
you have a gold in 15 minutes where you're like,
actually, I feel fantastic
I've new Lisa life
yeah it's over
it's all gone
and then it starts
coming again
and you're like
oh god
oh god
it's gonna happen again
when it's all gone
at first
you feel like
you've just done
an Ironman
you're like
oh my god
actually
I feel like I've had
a religious experience
you're like
I feel
because the illness
the nausea has passed
and you're like
maybe it's over
you feel so good
I had to travel I was pregnant as well with's over you feel so good i had to travel
i was pregnant as well with with otto when i had it and i had to travel like and i had all the kids
and stuff but i kept just lying down in different places in the airport i was like i probably look
so hungover and i've got this huge pregnant belly just like god it was oh and you know the food you
eat after being sick I went to Dublin airport
And they have this like
Roast place
In Terminal 1
And I was like
I know what I'll eat
After a two day vomiting bug
A roast
No
Don't do it
Yeah because you're trying
I know you have to go
It's all just dry toast
Isn't it
For like
You have to kind of
Take it all a bit easy
Like half a tangerine
And all
And then you can
You need to have butter
on the toast at least
no one
no one eats dry toast
they do
when you're really sick
my mum was a nurse
and when you were
when you were
like
because obviously
half the time I was sick
I was pretending
as a kid
but she'd be like
dry toast
and flat seven up
the usual shit
but what I was going to say
is I felt very sorry
for myself
because it's a long time
since I felt that sick
the last time I had tonsillitis
was after lockdown
And we took off our masks
And I scored this guy
And then because my mouth
Had been protected for so long
Literally before he'd even
Pulled his tongue out
I had full blown tonsillitis
Oh god
Anyway
I said to Alan
If you don't fucking up
Your game here
I'm going to my mum's
I'd get a little bit
My mum
No my mum wouldn't give a shit
The last time I got
Like a throat disease was,
do you remember those things
we used to go to winter party?
There was these things
and they'd be in a big venue
like we have,
like the Three Arena
or it would be in like...
It was in the RDS.
It was in the RDS
and they were in the Three Arena.
Like it's kind of like the O2
and you'd go
and it'd be like
this winter party festival,
kids all your own age
and you'd literally kiss
about 40 people that night. And then I got, that was the last time i got a throaty disease i got the one i got the
big one the big the big the big yeah i know we said that what was it called again what's it called
it's so bad the kissing disease and you'd get it for like 12 weeks. What is it? Glandular fever. Glandular fever.
Yeah, I got that on the train home.
You're just disgusting.
I got that on the train home from Irish college.
That'll tell you how that ride went.
It wasn't, you know what I mean,
a train ride, not a real ride.
Anyway.
I couldn't score anyone in Irish college
because I looked too like an alien back in the day.
That was before like I had grown into my face.
No one wanted to score me.
Really?
Well, I mean, what I will say is
on the train on the way home,
it was kind of like a free-for-all.
So everyone who hadn't managed to score
during Irish college,
it was just basically all us.
The maze open.
All us munters just kind of going,
come on, fuck it.
Come on, you're going home.
Once you go home,
you have to go back to normal.
You can't score ever.
You're a two, I'm a two.
Let's go.
The nines ignored us.
You're a two, I'm a two.
Let's go.
The nines ignored us.
I watched Wagatha Christie.
Oh!
Now I know you were obsessed with it.
Now I am fully in there obsessed with it.
I don't think that it was anything Wagatha E,
the way she found out. I think you could reduce who it was by the
followers but it's a great name how how ridiculous that rebecca vardy brought that to court she is
now three million it's but like why i know you knew you had done it you knew and it's like you
see all of the like the stuff from the lawyers
and stuff like that
but not only that
she was selling stories
about her husband's
teammates
so he was coming home
as you do
day at work
being like
oh your man didn't show up
to training today
oh your mom was there
he's refusing to do this
and all of this
was getting fed to the papers
and it's like
it's a dialogue
between Rebecca Vardy
and her agent
and so they're obviously
in cahoots
about getting her
all this amazing press
for these stories
but like
the scarletness
I would
I
she needs to move
to Bali
and get away
from all of this
because it's so embarrassing
I think she has
hasn't she gone
I think she has
kind of moved away
a little bit
I
as I always do.
She needs to go to the other side of the world
and live in Cambodia or something
where no one will know who she is.
As I always do,
I always end up coming full circle on these things
and feel sorry for the other person.
So now I feel really sorry for Rebecca Vardy.
I even think Colleen Rooney feels sorry for her.
Yeah.
It's so humiliating
I'm watching it, it's just like
oh my god, like knowing that
she's sold stories, like the husband
having to go into the
into the dressing room
with the players, is that called a dressing room?
yeah, changing room
well he yells to go in
and be like, oh sorry my wife
the walk in wardrobe
the chic little room they go in and be like, oh, sorry. The walk-in wardrobe.
The chic little room they go in and have little glasses of orange juice. The boutique that they get changed in.
Before they go in there.
It was really embarrassing to watch.
I really liked Colleen Rooney.
Yeah.
I just think she seems like, she just seems like a normal girl.
Good crack.
And the other stuff that Rebecca was feeding to the press was so like minute
but it's so funny
that they even wanted
to just like
have that there
and also
also
Rebecca Varley
is still like
I don't agree
with the decision
I don't
and it's like
babe
please stop
it's done
I think
and you know what
I haven't actually
watched it yet
which now
I'm embarrassed to admit
because you seem to
have really enjoyed it because one of my friends who I really trust his opinion on
these things said it was a little bit boring oh no I watched all three in very quick succession
he said there was too much focus on Wayne Rooney and his career and he's like I don't give a shit
about him he just said there was just too much I didn't think there was too much about Wayne
interesting I know well now I noticed different much. I didn't think there was too much about Wayne. Interesting.
Well, now I noticed different things probably.
I noticed how organised she was.
She has this little rail where she hangs up all the kids' clothes and has all of their bags all sorted.
And I'm like, wow, I'd love to live there.
Their house is amazing.
I want to live there.
I must give it a go.
I'll give it a go.
Give it a go.
Give it a whirl on your way home.
I'll give it a go. Another thing I watch on your way home. I'll give it a go. Another thing I watch
that you need to watch, obviously the Kardashians. And remember we spoke about that cat, Karl
Lagerfeld's cat chupette. Yeah. Who has its own agent. So Kim Kardashian last year, she wore the
Marilyn Monroe dress to the Met Gala. This year, because it's Karl Lagerfeld this year, she wanted
to bring the cat. So she had to go and meet the cat. Karl Lagerfeld this year she wanted to bring the cat
so she had to go
and meet the cat
and she did
she went to Paris
to meet the cat
to see if they bonded
that cat
is a wanker
I have never seen
oh my god
like it's just
hissing
and trying to attack her
the whole time
and she actually
like
you know Kim would go
do anything
to get a good look
she actually said no to the cat because the cat was such a dick.
That cat's an arsehole, by the way.
Cats are notoriously tricky creatures at times, we would say.
That's with me being, that's full diplomacy there.
Not all cats, as they say, but some of them are difficult.
Not all cats, as they say, but some of them are difficult.
But that cat has been spoiled to within an inch of its life.
He makes Gigi look like Mother Teresa.
I don't really understand that joke, actually. Pardon?
I don't really either. What are you trying to say about She-She?
I'm saying she is a saint, Vogue.
Don't overthink it.
Saint, okay, fine.
Saint she-she.
Hello and welcome to My Therapist Goes With Me with me, Vogue Williams, and Joanne...
McNally!
Yeah, sorry, I took your name
and I felt bad
Joanne McNally
so that was my TV
watching this week
I can't believe you
haven't watched the
Wargathey
you're going to
absolutely love it
well I am
if we're going down
the TV alley
I've watched a couple
of things this week
I inhaled
did you watch Maxine
which is about
the fiancé
of Ian Huntley
the only thing
about that was
I was scared
it was going to be
too upsetting
to watch
is it very upsetting
it's actually
if I can say this
and I hope I'm correct
in describing this
because obviously
it's a very sensitive subject
but they don't really focus on the girls or the parents really that much at all they are kind of
kind of blurry background characters it's very much about in the house the setup how it came
about with Maxine and it's kind of told from her point of view
Is she in prison now?
I can't remember if she is in prison
I'm not going to give any
spoilers but she's not in prison now
but I won't say anything else aside from that
So she did go to prison, I'm going to start watching it tonight
She basically gave him
a false alibi
and the show was about how that
came about
TV's fucking phenomenal at the moment But I'm trying to read books and I'm just like a false alibi and it's the show was about how that came about okay
TV's fucking phenomenal
at the moment
but I'm trying to read books
and I'm just like
I'm not like
I have another book
that I want to get into
I think it's called
Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow
or something
and I've had it for ages
I'm going to bring two books
to Australia
and try and get through them
I have a lot of plans
for Australia
speaking of books
I know this is
this is kind of
me and Vogue's version
of a culture podcast.
But I am 20 minutes away
from finishing Brittany's audiobook.
Do you know that it's the fastest
selling celebrity memoir in history?
It is so fucking sad.
Oh my God.
Is it worth a read though?
Absolutely.
I think it's worth a read
with your ears
because I think Michelle
does such a good job.
She,
she kind of sounds like Britney.
She,
I think she must be
slightly impersonating her.
But the stuff she,
and I,
no spoilers,
but stuff about
the conservatorship
and I know it's
one side of the story,
but
like her father
wouldn't let her
one time she went to
when she did the circus tour
when she did the
Las Vegas residency
which she was forced to do
yeah
and bearing in mind
she is a like
multi multi multi
multi multi
multi millionaire
already
and then the circus tours in Las Vegas were making like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousand dollars a night.
I went to see that.
She wasn't great in it.
In Vegas?
In Vegas, yeah, I did.
Well, I mean, then you really need to listen or read the book because you will do nothing but feel so sorry for this woman who was basically forced.
Do you know when you go, do you know when you see those videos online
now this might be
a kind of OTT comparison
when you see
monkeys being forced
to like cycle bikes
yeah
or they drug lizards
and you can hold them
on the coastline road
in Thailand
she had no control
people told her
when to work
if she didn't do it
they said she couldn't
see her kids
what?
yeah
they were like
well you're not
she was going out with this guy and he was big into fitness If she didn't do it, they said she couldn't see her kids. What? Yeah. They were like, well, you're not.
And she was going out with this guy and he was big into fitness.
And she was very much at the point where she was like, fuck you, fuck everyone.
She just wanted to live her life and hang out with her kids.
But everyone else around her wanted to make money.
So they kind of kept forcing her out in the road.
And because of the conservatorship, if she didn't do it, they like put her into rehab or they would say she couldn't see her kids and she was going out with this guy who was being into fitness and he was using these um vitamin
supplements like these vitamin vitamin c or something i don't energy supplements and she
started taking them she's like i felt great like energy supplements and her dad put her back in
rehab what yeah you're addicted
to them she's like I'm not they're over-the-counter energy supplements and he was like no no I don't
like it and she had to just and she no choice she just had to go back no choice like it was it was
she felt at that stage she was like I've just given up this is what my life is now I have to
go on the road but she was saying that one night she her and her dancers
no one was allowed to have a drink around her she's like she couldn't have like imagine now
you know what no one could have a drink around her no and so but she was never an alcoholic
look we don't know we don't know what was going on really we she doesn't go into the details we
don't know and as I've said before I realize now having read the book it's none of our fucking business no but I don't it was but no but no but no I know that you've said that but it is our
business because she wants it to be our business because writing about it means she does want
everybody to know no no no no she's writing the book because she's like what's happened to me
is abusive and how many celebrities do you know who lost their run of themselves with substance abuse and gambling and lost all their money and no one ever took their rights away from them and access to their money and access to their children and all that jazz?
Like they didn't.
So that's kind of her angle.
So while she is fudgy around some detail, you realize that because she explains it.
She's like, this was my life. She said she
had a bit of an issue with Adderall at one stage. And yeah, there was definitely substance abuse
problems, but she doesn't go into the details. But also she does say, even with whatever that was,
it never got to the stage where I deserved what happened to me. So she took her dancers out one
night for dinner and she wanted to pay. And there was like, I don't know how many,
15, 20 of them there.
And her card was declined
because she was only given a certain amount
of like spending money from her father.
Oh my God.
And her card was declined
in front of all these people who work for her.
Oh my God.
It was honestly horrific.
Horrific.
Okay, I'm going to read it.
Yeah.
I don't even,
Justin Tim,
I'm not even angry at Justin anymore, which I was in by chapter Okay, I'm going to read it. Yeah. I don't even, Chilston Tim, I'm not even angry at Chilston anymore,
which I was in,
by chapter three.
I've gotten over all that.
Now it's her dad.
Tell me,
what you did for Halloween.
I know Halloween's over,
and we were late with Halloween,
but I went out for Halloween last night,
because it was,
trick-or-treating time.
Tell me everything.
I saw the photos.
Fam looked fab.
So I went trick-or-treating, with the kids last night. Go on. She was everything. I saw the photos. Fam looked fab. So I went trick or treating with the kids last night.
Go on.
She was a witch.
I was mama witch.
Yeah.
The easiest costume to get.
Sven was crap because, again, I had to organise the costume.
I didn't know what he'd like to be.
He was a man with an axe kind of thing.
Yeah.
The Grim Reaper. He was the Grim Yeah, I thought... The Grim Reaper.
He was the Grim Reaper.
Oh, I thought it was a bit lacking,
if I'm honest.
He...
I was on Yelp.
I rated your whole family out of five
and I did give Spencer one.
I had...
Did you see my...
Halloween Yelp was hopping.
Oh my God.
We were all getting reviewed.
Did you see my witch mask?
But I couldn't keep it on
because I actually physically couldn't see
when I put it on.
It looked heavy.
20 quid on Amazon.
20 quid and I couldn't even wear it.
It looked like a prosthetic.
It looked like something from
one of the Forever movies.
What are those called?
Movies with the Forever
where they fly the dog around the place?
Oh,
the enchanted time,
the long dog
that looks like me.
No,
the huge dog
with that,
I mean,
yeah,
they all kind of look like you,
but not this one in particular.
Annie has a long,
never ending story.
Excuse me,
I look exactly like that dog.
You do.
I just,
I just wanted you to,
I wanted you to get there
and not me have to bring you there.
But yes, you do.
And my body's longer than my legs,
so we couldn't be more alike.
And he does look like he's been sitting
under a Dyson hair wrap for three days.
So yeah, you're dead right.
Spits.
Anyway, so T was Flash Gordon,
or not Flash Gordon,
just Flash is a Joe.
Who's Flash Gordon?
Is that a cleaning product? No. No? No, I think it's Flash Gordon or not Flash Gordon just Flash is it Jo? Who's Flash Gordon? Is that a cleaning product?
No.
No.
No I think it's
Flash Gordon's
Flash Gordon's the OG.
Folk I hate to interrupt you
but I did wonder
where is the other one?
Oh well
Otto wasn't playing ball
at all.
I bought him a lobster outfit
that was so cute
he threw about four wobblers
during the day
because he was asleep,
he wasn't coming trick-or-treating anyway.
And I just wanted to get one picture
in the bloody lobster outfit
he wouldn't put on any of it he threw.
And I'm just going to put it on him tomorrow
while he's really tired and he might notice
and then I'll get a quick picture.
It'll be a crying shot,
but I'll get the shot that I need.
The man knows what he wants.
What can you say?
He's gone past the point of getting dressed up
by his mother
I might just put Gigi in it
At least I won't waste money
On the costume then
But anyway
Just use AI
And Photoshop him in
Do you remember
Trick or treating in Ireland
Like I would
Absolutely kill it
I'd have bags
And bags
And bags of sweets
Like my friend
Sent a picture of her child
With this centre bag
Full of sweets Like a huge friend sent a picture of her child with this centre bag full of sweets,
like a huge big plastic bag,
bag for life one.
And I took my kids out with one of those little buckets.
So many houses around us
just do not open the door.
They turn off all their lights.
They want nothing.
I'd say on a whole street,
there are probably four houses.
Let's say there's like 30 houses.
Four of them would have Halloween decorations outside.
They're the only ones that you can go into.
I did wonder, because I was like, I wonder where she'll go.
Because the house, it's like, first, did you go to the apartments in your building?
No, because I just don't think that they would have wanted to play ball either.
Because it's only our kids.
So like, they're not going to set up a whole thing just for Theodore and Gigi.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Fair enough. Yeah.
I did wonder where you'd go, because it it's like there's a lot of restaurants and shops
around like where would you there was a couple of a couple of roads that we went on and some
people were really nice one man came out with a cabbage and broccoli I'm not even joking he came
out with a full cabbage and broccoli because he was like I'm really sorry everyone had a sweet
I was like why don't you just like throw
shit in their face honestly
bringing in a cabbage
that is so funny because
I cannot like
did you not get loads
in Allen's last night?
yeah we did so we were the man with the cabbage
and the fucking broccoli so basically
I was like
obviously like I know
I know
I know I sound
I know I sound okay now
but like I'm not pretending
you've actually
never looked better
yesterday was
I said to Alan
when it's
when he started
coming down with this
I was like
I've never looked worse
and he goes
ah you have yeah
and he
I think he meant it
as like a nice thing
and I was like
ah cheers buddy so anyway I was in, ah, you have, yeah. And he, I think he meant it as like a nice thing. And I was like, oh, cheers, buddy.
So anyway, I was in bed
and like you do in the house.
And I said,
I was like, I need to go down to the shops
and get some sweets.
Cause I was like, Alan, like it's getting dark.
Like the kids are going to start coming around.
We'd had a couple of kids the night before
with their parents
cause their parents were saying,
you can't bring the child the night before.
That's what we said.
We shut their door in their face and we went, no!
Yeah, did you tell them to fuck off?
Yeah, take that four-year-old dressed as a dinosaur
and that six-year-old dressed as a pirate out of here
because they're breaking the fucking rules.
I find that really bizarre that they thought it was okay
to go around on the 30th.
It's not Halloween.
That's like saying
where's my presents
on Christmas Eve?
No.
Well,
I mean,
well, thank God
they didn't call to your house
because we brought them in
and cooked them a full dinner.
They're still here.
Go on anyway.
Tell me.
So you,
what did you,
I can't believe you wouldn't
be organized for Halloween
We'd have like
There'd be like sweets banging around and stuff
You know yourself
Like you know
There's pop chips everywhere
And
So we had stuff for the kids
The night before
And then the night of
I was saying to Alan
Alan was like
Go down to the shop and get sweets
But he was gone ages
And I was saying
I don't know
He's probably having an affair
I was like
I'm too sick to care
But I was like All I care about is, he's probably having an affair. I was like, I'm too sick to care. But I was like,
all I care about is the fact that
the kids are going to start coming
and there's no one here,
like there's no sweets here.
Yeah.
So you turned off the lights?
No, I would never,
I said I'd never,
I'd never turn off the lights.
I would go out full transparency
in my dressing gown
and be like,
I'm so sorry.
We've nothing,
but here's an IOU.
Come back tomorrow.
Or here's money.
That's what I would do.
Money is a good one.
Yeah, I would never turn the lights off
because I remember as a child
when you go to the houses
and the lights are off,
you're like, oh really?
Yeah, we're playing that game.
So Adam's taken ages.
I'm panicking.
He comes back in
with what he thinks is,
he's like,
thought he'd done
a really good job.
Now Adam lives
in quite a big housing estate,
but it's in an area
where there's loads of houses
and in Ireland,
we travel for shit.
You know what I mean?
If it's free suites,
we're prepared to get a lift
to the next estate
and keep going.
So I was,
hours are spent
trick-or-treating
in Ireland
hours
we're like busy doing maps
the months before
like pushing little ships
around maps and stuff
being like alright
then we're going to
hit up Wyvern
there's 26 houses there
look at them
they're loaded
go there
they just got a new car
yeah
yeah yeah yeah
they've had a pumpkin
in the window for two weeks
let's all go there
like
there's a strategy
and a system in place
Alan I don't
know where he was raised possibly Battersea
I don't know how he understands how he like manages to live with you like no offense
but like you're definitely not tidy and at least in my house
you can find it to one room
but like
I don't have you
all over the place
I'm tired
Spenny has never gone
trick or treating
last night was his
first night
to go
because like his parents
are loaded
they probably just gave him
sweets whenever he wanted
or by the time
his little legs
were tired of walking
by the time he reached
the end of the estate
it was the next day.
He's like, oh well.
All I hate is the driveways
were too long
where he lived.
He's like, I don't want to
play with the staff again, mummy.
I'm a chef, Spencer.
No, you're the chef.
I'm Mary Poppins no you're the
fucking nanny
I've seen you
every other day
of the year
I'm a pilot
no you're the
pilot
ahoy hoy captain
oh there's the
captain of our
ship
there's the
pope
now I'm the
oh no he's
Protestant isn't
he doesn't right there's the pope he I'm the Oh no he's Protestant Isn't he Doesn't he
There's the Pope
He comes to dinner
All the time mummy
Mummy darling
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Is here
Boo
That's a good one
To dress up as a bishop
No
Actually maybe not
Who's the head
Who's the head
Of the Protestants?
The Archbishop of Canterbury.
Oh, is that who he is?
No, I think it's the king.
What?
I don't know.
I might be making that up.
Anyway, so Alan brings back this,
if I'm being completely honest,
pathetic-sized bag of sweets.
Oh, God.
And I'm like, oh, dude,
you've misread the situation completely, but maybe I'm wrong. like there's only a couple of houses in the estate I was like
there's 13 30 30 houses but okay well mother of god we were like a soup kitchen I've never seen
so many people come into the door gangs of them gangs of them 15 20 children it's great crack but like I obviously anyway whatever
we ended up doing it together but I was mortified then because I could see what was happening I
could see the trend that was coming and they're so cute, it ranged from really young kids, like four or five who were being sound
and agreed to get dressed up.
And they'd be waddling back down the driveway
with their wave and their little lollipop
dressed as a pumpkin.
Because they'd love to win the lottery.
And then there's other kids
who look like butter wouldn't melt.
You're like, oh, there's some lollies.
And like, they take loads.
And you're like, dude Dude I'm not going to say
But then I learnt
The strategy is
You hold the bow
Yeah
You give them one each
Or they take everything
And I was like
We're running low Alan
We're running low
Like what are we going to do
I was panicking
And
He was like
Will we turn off the lights
And I said
No we fucking won't
I said there's a box
Of Derry Lee Dunkers in there
And there's some tennis balls
Out the back
And I've allowed a face sheet.
We will make this work.
No child will leave here
empty handed.
Get your golf balls out
and draw a little face on them
because everyone's getting something.
But when we were really running low,
I said to one of them,
I was like,
okay, look,
we're really running low here.
We've a couple of chuppa chups left.
He wasn't really that interested
and I said,
would you do a trick instead?
Because it's that.
And he was like,
appalled.
At least you didn't start
hitting the fruit bowl though.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
She usually got an orange
and Titi got a banana.
No, that's...
A fucking banana.
No, that's trolling.
They know what they're doing.
It's rude actually.
It's very rude.
That's trolling. what you do is you go
look we're running low
and you come into
the house
is there anything you'd like
and then if they say
I'd like that lamp
or that really expensive painting
you say yes
you can have that
because it's Halloween
and I will not fail
Gigi and Titi
went to the same
amount of houses
but as you were saying there
like there was kind of no
stopping them
and Gigi came home nearly twice while Titi came home the same amount of houses but as you were saying there, there was kind of no stopping them and Gigi came home
nearly twice while Titi came home
because she just kept taking stuff
We were like, say trick or treat
Gigi and she's just plucking them out
saying nothing, they say trick or treating
I was like, okay
Trick or treating
You greedy little witch
My right, entitled
privilege, privilege, privilege You greedy little witch She's like My right Entitled Privilege Privilege
Privilege
Here's my entitlement bag
Things I'm privileged to
More for me
The last person
The last
When we'd run out of everything
For trick or treating
The doorbell rang
And I said
Anne you're just going to have to tell them
We've got nothing left
Like we're
We're literally
After giving away
The fucking light bulbs
And we opened the door
And there was this little girl on her own with her parents
and everyone else had been in a gang.
I know.
And I was like, okay, look, we've got a packet of raw chicken breasts inside.
There's some raw wasabi noodles here.
Give her 50 euros.
Remember the last time Joanne tried to give
a child money
and he refused
to take it
like
that's a weird child
that's
no he was gaslighting
me that child
the party
that I
the children's party
where I got the
tuberculosis.
I wanted to buy the child a present, of course.
These things should be recognised.
Oh, really?
What about Otto's birthday?
Has it been his birthday recently?
No, it has not.
Yeah, I know.
So we're still waiting on the April 18th gift.
What did I tell you?
When he's old enough to drag me into a toy shop with a gun to my head,
then he starts getting presents, which is what happened to me on Saturday
with the child. Okay.
How much did you spend? Well,
I think I spent 70.
Oh,
don't go near the dinosaurs.
They're the most expensive. No, fuck the
dinosaurs. It was a Barbie jet
or something. So we go in
and I'm like, like what would you like
like there's no you know there's no limit here thinking I'm being really like you know really
like what's your man's name you're thinking everything's a tenner I mean I think I'm being
daddy war books I'm like whatever you want babe there's no financial limits here. They're strolling through, taking their time, as they should.
And they're walking past these toys,
picking up stuff.
And I'm like, do you want that?
And they're like,
oh, they'll kind of show it to me and tell me what it is.
And then they'll say,
oh, no, I don't want that.
So I'm like, okay, no worries.
They pick up this thing.
I couldn't even tell you what it was
because I went blind from shock and fear.
And they hold it up and they're like,
and this is this.
And I was like, oh yeah, okay.
800 euro.
Was it Lego?
Maybe.
I honestly couldn't tell you.
It was some big machine.
It was like a big,
honestly, I'd have to ask Alan.
I actually can't remember what it was.
It was some huge build of something.
And I was- It has to be Lego. Lego's the most expensive remember what it was. It was some huge build of something. And I was...
It has to be Lego.
Lego's the most expensive.
But it was built...
It was like...
It was already formed.
Oh.
And it was 800...
800 quid.
That's the size...
That's the price of...
That's a fucking segue.
800 quid.
My brother, right?
We do Chris Kindle
and he wanted...
Spenny had him for Chris Kindle
because obviously I tell everybody
who got who
secrets on time
I know I do
I can't help it
I want to know what to get
I don't want to know
what I'm getting
it's more like
discreet Santa
but after a couple of drinks
everyone knows Santa
in my opinion
oh I don't
yeah I don't even
need a couple of drinks
I literally
as soon as I find out
who I have
I ring her
I'm like who'd you get
and she'll try
not tell me and I'm like tell me you get and she'll try not tell me
and I'm like tell me
tell me
but my brother
Spenny got him
and he was like
I would like Spenny
to put money towards
this Lego set
because his wife Emma
is like
Frederick
you are not spending
800 quid
on that fucking
Starship Enterprise
or whatever it's called
and he buys this Lego
and look
look what he sent
my family group
for Halloween
that's my is he Darth Vader And he buys this Lego. And look, look what he sent my family group for Halloween.
That's my,
Is he Darth Vader?
That is my 42 year old brother dressed up as,
I don't know.
Darth Vader?
Darth Vader?
Darth,
is it Darth Vader or Darth Vader?
Do you know how much that lightsaber was?
That was 400 quid.
He's got two of them.
I don't know anything about Darth Vader.
All I know is he is the father of single men.
That's all I know.
He's the father of Luke.
Luke, I am your father.
I've actually never really watched any Star Wars.
Very absent father.
He doesn't make much effort.
My brother's obsessed.
Look, this is his baby.
His baby's not even one yet.
He's dressed up.
What's his name?
Yoda.
Oh, that's baby Yoda.
Baby Yoda. That's really cute. I know. He's a even one yet. He's dressed up as, what's his name? Yoda. Oh, that's baby Yoda. Baby Yoda.
That's really cute.
I know, he's a very cute baby.
But I saw your Halloween costume.
I am raging.
I saw it too late.
You know that one where you could dress up as Joanne McNally?
Oh, yes.
Now, I was tagged in something.
The Joanne McNally starter kit.
Did anyone see that?
Did you see it, Jo?
I did, yeah.
I wanted that.
I should have bought that.
I made it myself.
I've been trying to sell it
now and wanted it.
I think that's
pretty amazing.
You were the jumpsuit,
a pinot grigio,
a microphone,
chunky sandals.
Yeah.
Some African pills.
Yeah,
mysterious African pills.
Someone tagged me.
It was,
it really made me laugh.
It was funny.
It's absolutely fake. It was photoshopped. But I don't care. It made me. It was, it really made me laugh. It was funny. It's absolutely fake.
It was photoshopped.
But I don't care.
It made me laugh.
Well,
at least somebody went to the effort
of photoshopping one for you.
So I've gone to the effort
of making my own one.
Oh,
hit us.
Go on.
What have you got?
I'd have to buy loads
of those little babies.
Remember the ones
we were talking about on Amazon
that you leave around the house?
So I'd have to have
hundreds of babies hanging off me.
A couple of dogs.
A green puffer jacket.
Or a puffer jacket in general.
A pair of runners and fake tan.
Does that describe me enough?
No.
Okay, fine.
How would you dress me?
I'd have a child's head hanging out your vagina.
I'd have a box.
I'd have a vape in your hand
Joanne
I have not
I am not a vaper anymore
Oh
Okay
Well I've run out of those
African pills
It doesn't matter
It's a costume
50k
Just hanging out your ass
Crack
Why is it all around
My genitals
Well I haven't gotten
To your mouth yet
Okay what's coming out of the mouth?
50k
You'd have little kettlebell earrings
Oh god yeah
Do you remember you used to go around with those leg weights
I was only telling someone about that the other day
An act of uneducated desperation during lockdown Oh my God, yeah. Yeah. Do you remember you used to go around with those leg weights? I was only telling someone about that the other day.
An act of uneducated desperation during lockdown.
So I was listening to this radio show this morning and they were like,
oh, we have a special guest.
And it was a pre-record, thank God.
He's a gamer who obviously works in who he's a he's a gamer
who obviously works
in
he kind of
is big into AI
and he says
he's developed
this AI
that can hide
the sound
of you
when you're eating
crisps on a microphone
oh
so I was like
turn that shit up
what's going on here
because
one of me and Vogue's many unprofessional traits
is that we both try and eat on mic
and Jo has to virtually slap the food out of her hands.
So I was thinking...
It's really gross listening to people eat.
Really gross.
It's awful.
Well, unless you're into ASMR.
Like, I find myself, I'm big into clean TikTok at the moment.
Anyway, we'll get to that another day.
My friend can't go to the cinema because she hates hearing people eating so much. Like, she hates them TikTok at the moment. Anyway, we'll get to that another day. My friend can't go to the cinema
because she hates hearing people eating so much.
Like she hates them digging in the bag.
And like, I can't bear that either.
There's a name for it.
I don't like the loudy sounds,
but some of the sounds are quite comforting.
Like I watch a lot of Asian women on TikTok
when they come in and clean their cat
and put their shoes in boxes and all,
which I think I've spoken
about before
but I get
I find that very soothing
I love when
like carpet cleaners
I love watching people
get their carpets cleaned
I just love it
I just love watching
someone empty a dishwasher
what the fuck
and I won't do it myself
I don't know what it is
it's one of the worst jobs
the dishwasher
it's so boring
Alan the other day
when I came down
with strep and was in was really committing to the role of being a patient the dishwasher it's so boring Alan the other day when I came down with strap
and was in
was really committing
to the role
of being a patient
and he was like
look I'm nipping out
would you mind
emptying the
excuse me
lift my hands
he might as well
ask you to change
the sheets
like for God's sake
you can't do things
like that when you're sick
he's like well I've
washed all the clothes
in the holiday
I was like
I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm on a drip upstairs.
Empty the dishwasher.
Do I just throw myself down the stairs, Alan?
You don't understand how much pain I'm in.
So I was like, oh, my God, we're going to need this AI.
And then, so then they're like, oh, here's the segment.
So he does the before on the radio show. He's like, okay, this segment and they so he does the before
on the radio show
he's like okay
this is me without the
out the AI program
and he's like
and everyone's like
okay yeah cool
and then he's like
and this is me after
and there's a bit of a delay
and then straight away
he just goes
and we're like
what the fuck
I thought it was a joke
I thought it was like
a punked thing
and they're like
oh yeah
we can barely
they just pretend
they had to
they were like
oh yeah
we can barely hear it
and then we're like
you know
bearing in mind
you might sound
a bit like that
but you know
he's mic'd
and we're in a studio
and it's soundproof
oh no
I was like
fail dude
fail
no shade you didn't buy it no shade because we didn't invent it but you know fail no I was like Fail dude Fail No shade
You didn't buy it
No shade
Because we didn't invent it
But you know
Fail
No
Obviously no one invented it
If it didn't even work
You haven't invented it yet
Do you
Goodbye
So true
I was like
Is that louder than before
I think it might be
Are you eating more crisps
Than the before
Or
Did you fill your mouth up more
Do you remember
Do you remember on that afternoon?
You fucking kicked off on the second one.
Do you remember the afternoon show or something in Ireland?
And basically there was this makeup artist going on to show off this black eyeliner.
And she got so nervous that her hand was shaking everywhere.
And she'd just drawn eyeliner everywhere
I felt so bad for her
I don't know why they showed it
because she
I know
well it was live Joanne
they had to
well everybody
thank you very much
for listening
to my therapist
ghosted me
the main episode
and we finally got there
with Halloween I feel
we did it
yeah I guess
we just have to
we just have to
live it
to experience it
and to that child
that I gave a box of
saltpateen and a raw
chicken breast to
for Halloween
I apologise
but we collapsed
under the pressure
that's a nice gift
very expensive
I wanted the saltpates
back to be honest
I followed her home
with my eyes