Shadowing Practice: Is Rosie Ramsey The Strict Parent?!? | Shagged. Married. Annoyed. - Learn English Speaking with Video

Can I tell you really quickly about my side video?

AHHHHH!

Fun!

No, come on!

Let's sing!

Oh, I can't be awesome.

Right, let's, quick as we can, get this over with.

I've got me clubs, Mastin, downstairs.

Need to get down, get them a scrub.

Get them all sorted.

So basically, Mastin, Mastin.

Sounds sexual.

It does.

I don't care what you're saying.

So I'd never heard it until my mate Jordan said that his mom says, When you put the teabag in the water, don't put the milk in straight away.

Don't take the teabag out too early.

Let it mast.

And he said it at a soft play.

I mean, soak's better.

Soak, seep, yeah.

Mast is...

Mast is a very odd word.

But now whenever we're clean with golf clubs, I say I'm just masting me.

So you put them in soapy water.

Are they muddy?

They're a little bit muddy off my golf trip.

Oh, we haven't done the podcast since your golf trip.

Thank you for asking.

It was fantastic.

Golf trip.

More about that later.

It was very, very good.

Yeah, all good.

What have you been up to while I've been golfing?

I just had the kids.

Yeah?

Just had the kids.

Good fun.

No. No, obviously, the lotion, it's getting a lot better.

But for some reason, and I don't know why I do this to myself, I go 90s.

Yes.

And it's like I'm torturing myself.

But at the same time, I'm really clamping down on technology.

Yeah, explain to people what you mean.

It doesn't mean that you're wearing shell suits.

I've started hitting them with slippers.

I've started just swearing and smoking around them Blowing it in the face Blasting their Oasis,

Travis, Blur Yeah, Britpop We're alright from our childhood Why are we so pathetic as parents now?

Like what the f*?

Sometimes I just want to give them a smack I do, I just want to You still haven't explained what you meant, you're joking You still haven't explained what you meant You mean

you don't let them go on iPads You don't let them go on games I just let them be bored

But it's horrible because they don't leave us alone own

and they just constantly say that they're bored and i'm like

but boredom is very good for you

and it is i think it's important to be bored it's

really really important to be bored sometimes as a child definitely

because then and i've noticed the minute that they're bored is

when they start doing other stuff like drawing and getting stuff out

that they haven't played with for ages ray got his play-doh out the other day

and he played with it for like a solid 40 minutes

and i just sat and i do you know i was doing the washing

and i didn't actually leave the utility room for 10

or 15 minutes I just sat on the floor and listened to a podcast because, I know it's so sad It's Rosie's Mental Breakdown

No because the minute I go in to the room where he is he wants something

so I just thought Oh there's a waiter over there Excuse me, can we get some juice and some snacks please The ice is melted in me juice, bitch Can you?

Yeah so no but it's good, I think it's good for them and I'm just having a whole breakdown about

just technology Being a parent with technology It's such

I fucking hate it It's dead hard

And I just don't I think there's a lot of people

listening That'll be going through the same thing I'm the strict mum

And I hate it I hate that I'm the strict mum

And Robin is really upset with this at the minute

Because I'm the strict mum

And I'm really upset about it I think it comes from the right place They literally have just said

That they're going to The government have said

That they're possibly going to ban Social media for under 16s They're not doing that on a whim

Like they're doing it because Children shouldn't have smartphones

and social media it's far too much

and i i feel i said this this morning you didn't

i said i feel really sorry for the children who've been exposed to it

and their parents because i genuinely don't think it's their fault like

when it like yeah so the kids who are like 16

and that now who when it all came out

and it was like oh he has an ipad he has youtube just smash

that from four years old why not no boundaries on it whatsoever yeah yeah

because they're like fully in it now

because i just feel like come with everybody works really hard everyone's really busy right

and like there's a government in place

and there's all these people in place getting paid money to run the country and to keep working check.

But when nobody is, it's just not fair.

So you mean they should have been like, maybe...

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Well, didn't Steve Jobs say?

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Steve Jobs said he would...

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iPad, not for kids.

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He was like, I would never give me kids this.

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Yeah, but they're making so much money off our kids.

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And it really fucks us off.

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Because they don't give a shit.

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I didn't tell you about the really sad video I've seen.

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Okay, well, let's just carry on then.

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No, no, come on.

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Do you want to tell?

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So, guys, everyone, I've been making a joke for a few weeks about Rosie trying to kill comedy.

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I'm not.

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But literally this morning, you did your best to make me not be in the mood for this podcast.

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You hit me from all fucking angles.

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I swear down.

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Well, okay, then, let's just carry on.

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Because we're trying to, no, we're here to cheer people up.

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I don't want to bring everyone down.

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We're here to cheer people up.

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We're here to take people's minds off it, right?

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Listen, I have had a breakthrough, right?

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First of all, thank you for listening.

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Thank you for being here.

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Can I tell you really quickly about my side video?

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Very quickly.

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A lady who works in Silicon Valley was talking to other people who work in Silicon Valley about AI and about...

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Silicon Valley, is that where they do all the boob jobs?

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It's not.

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You know exactly what Silicon Valley is.

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Just a bit of like...

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Well done.

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Just peppering a couple of dad jokes in here just to try and...

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Just to keep it light.

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So everyone, remember that.

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That's your little...

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You know when you're on a marathon and you've got the little table to hand the water out?

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I'm that on the journey of sadness that you're trying to take everyone on.

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and the little tables of happiness are offing.

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So that was it.

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That was a one mile mark.

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And you are what keeps us in the comedy charts rather than the serious politics.

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Cry and sad.

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Yeah.

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We'd never get into politics but maybe cry, sad, sad cry.

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Sad cry charts.

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So she was saying that they were talking about AI, how amazing it is but how bad it is for like, you know, the world and everything.

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But, and then she was like, so what can we do to like stop that?

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And they were like, why would we?

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We're making millions Yeah, and we've all got cracking tits.

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Exactly.

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Because we live in the valley where they do the tits.

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Should be called silicon cleavage.

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They've missed a trick there.

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This doing anything for you?

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No, because I was trying to just make a point about how the world is going to shit

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because a small amount of people are making millions and billions of pounds, but it's all going to go to shit.

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And I believe I've accidentally made a really good point as well during that, which is, but look at them tits.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to go over there for a minute.

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You're going to do your next bit.

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And I'm going to leave all of my shit in the badness of the world

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and how upset I am about everything at the minute.

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I'm going to leave it all over there

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and I'm going to come back and we're going to talk about piss and shit and coming on tits.

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And we're going to, honestly, let's just...

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Don't you threaten me with a good time.

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Let's get back to business.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm really sorry.

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So sometimes what I like to do...

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Technology just really upsets us.

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Stop.

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Sometimes what I like to do is I like to empty my face, right?

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So I hold like that and I empty all of the sadness.

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Like, you know in the Green Mile when he sucks the badness out and he goes, and he blows it out.

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John Coffin.

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So I go like, coffee.

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That's what I said.

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I thought you said coffin.

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I did it with an accent.

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John Coffin.

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Not his accent, but an accent nonetheless.

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So I bleep, like that, and I sort of like, you know Cyclops off X-Men.

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I put all me badness, I Cyclops it into my hands.

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I wouldn't thank you for that one.

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And then I, two seconds, and then I roll it up and then I throw it away.

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Right.

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Back to that, you wouldn't thank for Cyclops.

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Oh, I can't look at anyone.

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Wait, can't one of these guys special glasses on?

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I know, but imagine.

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Imagine if you had a kid and you forgot to put your little glasses on and you just fucking killed your kid.

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I do believe you'd remember, but yes.

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You might not.

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Mm-hmm.

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But the kid might have the same thing.

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The baby might be born and they might go, oh my God, it's a boy.

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I wonder what colour his eyes are.

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Well, there you go, exactly.

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It's just one I would never thank you for.

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I just don't think it's a good one.

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Apparently Cyclops is in the next X-Men film, next Avengers film.

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All the X-Men are going to be in it.

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Oh, well, that's it.

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You've not seen the fucking cast list for the new Avengers Doomsday.

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No. It's unbelievable. Is it?

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Unbelievable.

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We've got a couple of cinema trips coming up.

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Toy Story 5's coming out.

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Yes.

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Which I'm excited about.

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That was quick, by the way.

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I just made it.

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It's just how life works now. So fast.

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The older you get, the faster time goes.

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Like, only a couple of months ago, it was like, oh, they're going to be Toy Story.

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It's going to be an iPad.

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You're going to love it.

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It's an iPad against the toys.

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You're going to be there.

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Team toy.

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And I'm going to be sitting looking at the kids going, hmm.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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What do you think of that?

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Kids, you've made Woody cry.

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You've made Woody cry.

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He's going bald.

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I'm going to do my thing.

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We're very...

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Shall we calm down a bit?

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Nah, I refuse.

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Just take a minute.

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It's you, man.

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I'm on edge because you're always trying to...

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Don't...

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Right, careful.

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You've got a wire.

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You've got a wire.

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You've got your dog lead on.

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Right, just go on over there.

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Right.

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You look like you're having a shit.

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On the long camera, on the wide camera there, you look like you're sitting having a shit.

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But there we go.

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And you're back.

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Hello.

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What's your favourite kind of crisps?

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And we're back in the room.

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listen guys thank you so much for being here thank you

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so much for listening thank you for watching

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if you are please subscribe on youtube that'll be wonderful um

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and without further ado it is time for this week's lucrative lucrative sponsor again this isn't the real sponsor

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so don't skip it um lucrative lucrative sponsor right lucrative sponsor

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yeah uh i've had a breakthrough i thought he's gonna say breakdown i was gonna say oh

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because i've been having a breakdown for years uh i'm just

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mates with it now it's just just with us just part

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of us um you let the elephant I'm riding the elephant

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Not in a sexual way This week's sponsor is Watching horror films On the train

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I fucking cracked it

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I've cracked it I've said it in my stand up I'm obsessed with horror films

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But I'm too scared to watch them

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I watch the advert or I listen to the premise of it

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And it's the mystery that I like It's the oh I wonder what

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that is I wonder how they're sorted out Do you know what I mean?

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That's what I'm buzzing about.

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But I'm always too scared to watch them.

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I had a thought.

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We just started watching that Widow's Bay on Apple TV.

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Very good.

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We're only about four or five episodes in.

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Fucking great.

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Weird as fuck.

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Funny as fuck.

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Bit scary.

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Great.

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And I thought, you know what?

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I think I can handle horrors now.

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And I watched a horror film on the train yesterday.

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Was I scared?

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Yes.

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Did I cover my eyes a couple of times?

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Sort of.

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But I made it look like I was scratching my head.

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What did you watch?

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Weapons.

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Oh, okay.

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Never heard of it.

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It's the one where all the kids run away in the middle of the night with their arms out like that, like a little airplay.

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Oh, God.

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Nah.

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So 2.17, what happens is, I'm not going to spoil it for everyone, but at 2.17 one night, all the children bar one from a class,

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a school class, all run out their front doors and fuck off into the night and no one knows where they are.

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And it's scary.

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There's loads of jumps.

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But I was, so I was doing this a lot.

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You'll have to watch this on the video, so I was doing this a lot on the thing.

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Oh, yeah.

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So I had my right arm across my eyes because I was covering my eyes because I was scared watching it, but I didn't want anyone but it's good

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because you're watching a horror film on the train

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but I'm in public and there's people there and I'm safe

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so you can't get into it too much and every now

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and then the bloke comes and goes do you want a cup of tea and I'm like no I'm fine

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but I like it weapons yes is it ghosty or is it murdery or is it

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it's sci-fi no none of the above it's witchcrafty it's great

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I really enjoyed it I really really enjoyed it I've got

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them all lined up all the ones I've been obsessed with

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and thought about Babadook I'm gonna watch

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that on the train it you've just you've never seen it you've just said

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that haven't you you've never seen it you just said Babadook in a weird voice never seen great

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so just you just like the word we talked about it

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years ago isn't it a bit like seeing Candyman in the mirror I think I already know the twist in

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that one but that

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that it I've never watched any of the it's all welcome to Derry too scared trains honestly

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when I go down the motley next week I thought that was another film that's where you're going to watch it.

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What, Derry?

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No, you said trains.

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I was like, what's trains?

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Oh, no, I'm watching all of them on the trains.

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Yeah, very excited.

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If you're all the same as me, do it.

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Watch it on a train.

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I've been watching a few sexy things

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that you can't watch can't watch sexy things on the train I've missed dialogue you know

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oh Game of Thrones I remember

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when Game of Thrones first came out first series very sex

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heavy I remember minimising this was the day I just used to download them I used to torrent them

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and put them on my screen

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because streaming wasn't as no you know you couldn't tether to your phone back in the day

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when I was doing all

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that this was all fields I remember I had to minimise

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the screen to the size of a fucking post stamp in the top corner of my screen because I was like

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people are going to think I'm watching porn on the train.

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I know, I've been having the fast forward stuff.

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But they do dialogue while they're doing it.

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Right.

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And I'm like, I'm missing.

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Brightness.

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I'm missing full chunks.

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Brightness.

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Just turn your brightness down.

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And you can still hear the dialogue.

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Or just flick up so it's still playing.

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Flick up on your iPad.

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Flick, like they're flicking each other's beliefs.

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But then part of us thinks, I'm a grown up, I'm allowed to watch sex, so how about you all just deal with it and maybe I might just get me kicks by thinking, look at me screen.

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There's a photo that went viral years ago of an old man sitting on the train and he's facing...

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Watching porn.

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Yeah, so he's like, he's got his back to the window

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and he's watching an iPad and he doesn't realise it's dark outside

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and someone took a photo of him and you can see his iPad

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and he's full on on Pornhub on his iPad on a train.

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I still haven't watched porn.

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Never.

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It's been about a year.

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Oh, since they wanted you.

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Details.

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Since they wanted me to do it.

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And honestly, I think I'm better for it.

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Tell that 10 minute conversation we had before.

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This podcast started about everything that's bad in the world.

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Tell you what, I'll sign you up get yourself a porn subscription fucking cheer your bracket up swear to god

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i think i'm better for it you just had to sit

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in the corner i take five what do you think you're

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better for it porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn no

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but but but i haven't been watching pop

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but i've been watching sex on the train

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so you know whatever on the train come on move your body Let's get into it.

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Go on.

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Sex on the train.

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Very good.

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No, come on.

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Let's sing.

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Oh, I can't be honest.

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You really are.

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Broke.

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Look at all that that just happened there, man.

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I think I've got...

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The rollercoaster of emotions.

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Like, my head now, I feel like I could explode.

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Yeah?

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I don't know if I'm happy or excited or if I'm sad or overwhelmed.

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I don't know.

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It all feels a bit fuzzy.

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I think you're missing porn.

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That's what it is.

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You're missing porn.

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I'm not missing porn because I could never get away with it.

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No. I could...

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I'd just seen through them.

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I just saw through their eyes I just can't find something sexy

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when they don't want to be there

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and honestly sometimes I'm not saying cock I'm saying clock a lot of clock watching

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a lot of you it's never the men it's not the

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men the men are all very much enjoying it it's just the women changing musicians

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and whilst they're doing it going right and then changing again I've had enough

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again you've done the same one you've done the same one well

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because they've probably just done it twice

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but I can't I can't I can't do it she just wants to go

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and have a bath she wants to go

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and have a bath there's none of them wannabe there yeah

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and it's I can't I don't find it sexy whereas in the movies they're all very good at acting

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oh yeah and it makes it you know it's much better yeah

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and they've all got their little pieces on so their bits aren't touching

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yeah but sometimes in my head I like to think I bet they are yeah

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They did it afterwards just to mix it.

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Okay, fair enough.

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Strictly is the same.

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do do do do do

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do do do do do

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