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Bleeding out in a pavilion (Emmerdale 28 July - 8 August 2025)
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Lizzie and Simon chat through everything going on in #Emmerdale village in the past couple of weeks - Dylan's traumatic return, April's power dressing, the cafe's needless new loyalty scheme, a glimmer of hope for #Robron and a full-flung return of #Vanity.
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Our guest appearance on Pop Goes The Tam Tam, talking about Robron: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0weL8SQSo1r4dJGYuNstEY?si=Gu1CxeMwQ8G7sZ5xca2B_Q
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Appearance Recap
00:00:00
Speaker
Hi everybody and welcome to Dingle All The Way episode, are we saying seven? think seven. Seven, great. It feels like it's been absolutely ages, which is weird because we only ever do this every two weeks, but I don't know about you, Sam, I feel like we haven't recorded one of these in years.
00:00:16
Speaker
It does feel like a long time. And yes, this is Lizzie and Simon. We didn't do that. Oh, yes. Sorry. That's fine. Let's plow on. But yeah, it does feel... I think because we were planning to do like a special last week and then I had, of course, a cold. And so we've spoken... That is your brand.
00:00:33
Speaker
Oh, my gosh. i I would have fitted so well into like ailing urchin territory in Victorian period. Are you sponsored by the common cold? I'm sponsored by cholera.
00:00:48
Speaker
And um before we go any further, we should say since the last episode, actually, we have already, and we were so excited to be asked, we've been guests on a podcast. were on Tamsin's podcast called Pop Goes the Tam Tam, talking about, of course, Rob Ron.
00:01:03
Speaker
was so fun. It was so fun. And it was really fun to be on, yeah, just be on a podcast, but us not having to lead the way. Not that we especially do much in this, but I think always in the back of your mind, i am a little bit like, oh, need to move on to the next thing. Or like, what did I want to say about that? But it was just quite fun to be able to Yeah, answer some questions and talk about some things. I mean, i famously don't know anything about Emmerdale, really. I'm just here for the ride. So anything of any value was said by Simon and not by me. But it was really fun. Yeah. And we did talk about Neighbours more than perhaps you would expect in an evidently featured episode, which I also appreciated.
00:01:45
Speaker
Yeah. And that was also a lovely time for me to just sit back and take it all in. um But we, will we put the episode link in our, in the show notes for this episode? why not? That'd be lovely. um Do a little crossover.
Instagram Activity and Audience Engagement
00:02:00
Speaker
um And yeah, I think I already shared it on the socials, but I can do again.
00:02:06
Speaker
dinglealltheway.pod on Instagram. Check it out. Yeah, which I will say it it will be the main thing I have shared on the socials for the last couple of weeks because I've really, once again, let that slide. um Sorry to anyone who has bothered following us. You're not really getting here. Avidly refreshing.
00:02:22
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. um Yeah, so shall we dive in and talk about the last two weeks? It feels like lots has happened, but at the same time, almost nothing has happened.
00:02:34
Speaker
It's only nothing of note, it feels like.
April and Dylan Storyline Debate
00:02:36
Speaker
Yeah, we were struggling when we were trying to think, what is the main story? And there's lots of stories that are bubbling along, but I don't think there's been any like huge stress. But we did decide ultimately that April and returning character Dylan might be the main story.
00:02:51
Speaker
um Although, having said that, also realised we had almost nothing to say about it. Yeah, I've written three things down on my notes. Ooh, that's one more than me.
00:03:02
Speaker
I've got a running note on my phone that I make notes on while I'm watching Emmerdale. ah Two of them are just about um Marlon asking Belle to, like, sack April, which actually isn't related to Dylan at all, but I thought it was completely out of line that he did that.
00:03:18
Speaker
um And then my other note was, are we meant to want her to be with Dylan? Because I definitely don't.
00:03:27
Speaker
Like, I don't know what side they're expecting the audience to be on here. Is it like, oh, it's so nice that he's back? Because I'm just a bit like, not really about that. It's such a good point because he was, I think it's a, they brought him back just because a good little actor. And, you know, in that one-off April story we had a while ago, episode, he was good and he was kind.
00:03:46
Speaker
But I think they're going to need more than that for him to be like a i don't know if he's meant to be full-time or if he's just here for storyline, but... I think we need to see slightly more like good stuff from him.
Recording Conditions and Personal Anecdotes
00:03:57
Speaker
Cause at the moment we do just chiefly know him from like bleeding out in a pavilion. It's not anyone wants. um i mean because I'm just falling on the ground here. I'm recording in London, everyone. London town, which means I have to take both.
00:04:13
Speaker
I will have to take this podcast mic and a laptop to the theatre tonight. That's my commitment to the Dingle All The Way podcast. It's huge commitment. Yeah, we're both actually recording not at home. We're both at friends' houses.
00:04:25
Speaker
um i had to re-enable a wi-fi connection in the friend's house that i'm in in order to record and yeah sweet simon has taken all his microphone and stuff to the capital and we'll be taking it to see a play tonight which i think you know not enough people let their microphones watch things like that like it's really it's it's a lovely opportunity for the mic And presumably will confuse whoever is the bag searching person um as I go in. like I'm not actually going to a live take on Mrs. Warren's profession whilst there, but maybe it will. Who knows?
County Lines Explanation and Emmerdale Connection
00:05:00
Speaker
What is Mrs. Warren's profession? It's a George Bernard Shaw play and it's got Milda Staunton in Spoilers, her profession is prostitution. home but yeah But speaking of super professional people like us, what I do appreciate, we saw this with April's little job, is that The moment that a woman in Emmerdale becomes businessy in any way, she gets an oversized blazer ASAP. Like the only way to go to a job is with oversized blazer. And April was, don't know where she got it from. If she like instantly was an ASOS being like, I've got a job.
00:05:32
Speaker
I need this. Or she took it from a larger woman. I don't know. ah larger woman. i will say it was definitely from ASOS. It looks like. prime ASOS territory and I myself got a job recently and started you working in the city centre in like quite a fancy bit of Leeds city centre if you would believe that there is one and I found myself quite cold and I toddled off in my lunch break to buy a jacket and I thought should I buy an oversized jacket like um April and I did not I bought something
00:06:04
Speaker
I think nicer, but you're right. Straight into the oversized jacket. And Belle seems to be wearing sort of like waistcoats over t-shirts all the time. is that something I should be doing now?
00:06:16
Speaker
It just depends if you want to be taken seriously in the workplace as a woman. And if you do, I think it's it's either that look or April's look. Or you could go, obviously not a woman, but I've been enjoying Louis's commitment to like billowing undershirts.
00:06:28
Speaker
Yeah, so true. With a small sort of pinny. Yeah.
00:06:34
Speaker
We love that for him. um Maybe here is a good place to pop in, actually. So we're just starting county line storyline. And I was at dinner with some people in the village the other day. And their son-in-law is a criminal barrter barrister who apparently specializes in county lines prosecutions.
00:06:50
Speaker
So although I've never met the man, thank you, Sam, for recording this memo, I guess, about how how these things start. Is it just going to be a drug dealer wandering around a village talking to 15-year-olds?
00:07:04
Speaker
So I move to you. The answer to your question of is it feasible for a single drug dealer to wander around and have a friendly chat with a 16 year old is it's theoretically feasible, but it isn't really how it operates. And the notion of a drug dealer as a sort of shady man who stands on a street corner with a bag of drugs, offering them to passers by on the off chance is just not what happens.
00:07:25
Speaker
And um instead, drugs are dealt via complicated and sometimes very convoluted networks of criminality. And so they revolve around not a person as the dealer, but a line So all drugs pretty well at that level.
00:07:42
Speaker
And county lines almost always deal crack cocaine and heroin. Line is a telephone number. That's all it is. And the user will telephone the line and the line may have a name.
00:07:52
Speaker
So I've prosecuted drugs lines called Frank, for example. The line could be based in London or it could be based in the area that's being covered by the gang.
00:08:04
Speaker
That line is the whole thing. and they could be dealing to very large numbers of people so i prosecuted county lines that have customer bases of 800 1,000 1200 users so so much so they sometimes need two phones they operate 24 hours a day and the young people tend to be involved in two ways one is that they are the literal delivery boys, usually it is boys, um they are forced or groomed to deal drugs to the user. It's very dangerous.
00:08:32
Speaker
um They are almost always armed with knives which don't serve to protect them and invariably get used on them if they get into problems or they just don't produce them. And they would take a small quantity of drugs and they will go and deal to a small number of users who will be told, look out for this person on that street corner at that time.
00:08:50
Speaker
and they'll give them the drugs, take the money, but they'll never have a large enough amount of money or a large enough amount of drugs to be sort of meaningful in the system. And they can be yet very young, 15, 16, but they can also be, and very often are, drug addicts, users themselves, and that's the most frequent, um in my experience, that's the most frequent group who are targeted.
00:09:09
Speaker
But another way young people are involved is the transportation of drugs from the city where the operation is based to a smaller market town, say, and The young person who might even be in school uniform would take the drugs on a train or a bus or sometimes by car.
00:09:25
Speaker
And they are just less suspicious. And these lines can can be doing huge business a day, cash in hand, obviously tax free and um pay very, very little to people at the very lower end, but it operates like a pyramid.
00:09:38
Speaker
And the people at the bottom end are very often very vulnerable, um drug addicts and children. um who are groomed, promised money, promised gang advancement. that's so Some of these people do it because they want to do it, not because they're forced.
00:09:52
Speaker
They think it's glamorous and attractive. Sometimes they're groomed by um in not at a dissimilar way to sexual predators with expensive presents and told that they're wonderful and they're going to be the next big thing. And so they're controlling them. Mr. Big is probably um counting his money somewhere else.
00:10:10
Speaker
Thank you, Sam. That was absolutely fascinating. It was quite a long note, but I left a lot of content in because I think it's really interesting what Emmerdale is getting right and what obviously what they're choosing to do differently. But we're definitely seeing that grooming.
April and Dylan Character Analysis
00:10:23
Speaker
Would Ray be there? Would Ray be that obsessed with marijuana? Maybe not. But adam yeah, absolutely fascinating. And I really appreciated that perspective. And of course, we saw Dylan's return in sort of strange pitchfork attack at the farm, which was something to behold.
00:10:44
Speaker
Yeah, it was a lot. Like, I think I had a real sense of foreboding just because we never see a scene with just the children on their own. We've never seen the children playing at any point.
00:10:57
Speaker
Like, have they ever spoken to each other? i don't know. um But yeah. It wasn't a scene filled with charisma, or I'll say. In the events of the children. um Kyle and Isaac, I think are their names, were playing a little spot of football. And then suddenly there was a disturbance in the barn. And I just thought, it's going to go awry. And boy, did it go awry.
00:11:20
Speaker
Yeah, and they sort of assumed it was connected with Joe, which you can understand why they would. And i mean, can't remember, it was Kyle, wasn't it? With the pitchfork. And that is quite some heft to get a pitchfork through a leg, would have thought.
00:11:32
Speaker
Yeah, true. I don't think pitchforks are, I mean, I've never wielded one. I don't think they're meant to be that sharp. They're just for like shoving into a hay bale and moving things round.
00:11:43
Speaker
I wouldn't have thought it would be like the kind of implement that could just Enforce deep trauma when wielded by a 12 year old. hey Who does famously have a history of killing though. So maybe, maybe he's more adept at it than others.
00:11:58
Speaker
I do get it. And then Dylan thought, you know, yeah I've had a rusty pitchfork that's just been in dung through my leg, but that'll probably just like, I'll just fork it off. um And ultimately did need to get the intervention of Paddy who um A was good.
00:12:14
Speaker
absolutely had no concern in breaking the law in many different ways but also potentially more shocking to me doesn't follow finish courses of antibiotics that he's been prescribed it's like paddy you absolutely have to finish any course of antibiotics that you're given yeah he is gonna be yeah completely behind the antibiotic resistance epidemic when it comes but i think he did actually put up quite a good fight he was like i'm not gonna do this That's true, he did try for a bit. He'd be like, I will get struck off, it'll be really bad. It was just the speed at which he was suddenly like, oh okay, fine. and
00:12:45
Speaker
Yeah, why not? I did like how they were doing ah started it knowing, of course, they should not be doing this and April shouldn't be just like taking things out of the cabinet, but didn't trouble to close the door. Yeah, true.
00:12:58
Speaker
It was bad decision-making from them to just sort of carry on willy-nilly, door open and unlocked. Yeah. And I don't know, would team maybe you know more about this than I did, but if they had gone to the hospital, would the doctors have phoned the police if they saw an injury that they thought was connected with a crime? Or is there hypocritical if they can't?
00:13:18
Speaker
don't know. I would have thought that they probably would get the police involved, especially because it's involving children. That's true. But I will ask my friend who is an A&E nurse, if you like.
00:13:29
Speaker
There we go. We can always pop in the voice note here if we get one. Yeah, she's currently on holiday day in France, but like i I'm sure she can think of nothing. She wants to do more.
Character Dynamics and Trust Issues
00:13:39
Speaker
Look, she has a commitment as a medic to this sort of programme specifically. think Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure. Something I did enjoy out of all of this story, and again, we've barely mentioned actually April or Dylan themselves, I enjoyed Rona's...
00:13:56
Speaker
like her detective work on establishing that Dylan was the person who'd been at the farm and that was what the injury was without even setting eyes on him. It's like she is doing more than the police force.
00:14:07
Speaker
true it looks Like she needs to sideline as a detective because she could have sorted out the whole Nate thing in moments. like Yeah, I was about to say she would have made short work of that strange, strange list of suspects that Kane and Tracy brought up.
00:14:23
Speaker
um And, you know, in in more sort of poor form for the police, they didn't even consider for a moment investigating Robert hitting John over the head with a span or whatever it was. like Yeah, i unusual. John was just don't worry about it. I don't know he did it. And they were like, oh, well, then never mind They were like, cool, sure.
00:14:39
Speaker
We don't care about finding out. But, yeah, what do you make Ray? I that um i think that i because he's being pitched as like a county line sort of drug dealer, master, manipulator, can see through what he's doing in terms of he's obviously just trying to get Dylan on side and sort of see him as this, I don't know if far the figure is too strong, but definitely like trusted adult who's on his side and just gets him to do favors and he will get April to do the same.
00:15:12
Speaker
So as a viewer, I can see that he's just being manipulative rather than kind. But I just so see that if I was a teenager in his situation, I would definitely trust him and I would definitely be like, oh, this guy's so nice. Like, you can see how it happens, can't you?
Fashion and Character Portrayal in Emmerdale
00:15:26
Speaker
um So I wouldn't trust him with a barge pole, as I often say. but I can totally see how the situation is going to unfold. And yeah, if I was in Dylan's position, I would be feeling much the same.
00:15:40
Speaker
He's also got really interesting hair.
00:15:45
Speaker
i don't think I've noticed his hair. We'll come back to that in a sec. I think from Dylan's point of view, you can see why and like as as a viewer we know he's meant to trust Marlon and Paddy and not trust Ray but from everything they've done to date Marlon and Paddy I would say have demonstrated significantly less trustworthy behavior you know framing him for stealing Kett for example that sort of thing um so you can see how he would just latch on to any responsible adult male figure who isn't framing him for drug abuse Yeah, I would not trust Marlon at all.
00:16:17
Speaker
ah In fact, I don't trust Marlon at all, because even when he's being like trustworthy and kind, he's probably doing something or other with mixed motives or like trying to engineer a situation for some strange reason. Yeah.
00:16:30
Speaker
Yes. And the whole sort of strange conversation he had with Noah about like, can you like watch the people opposite and see if they're holding hands was ah deeply unsettling. Yeah, and bless Noah, he's been out of the village for ah quite a long time and now he seems to still not really be doing anything other than like watching teenagers holding hands.
00:16:51
Speaker
Yeah, um and being understandably confused by his mum's surrogacy plans. Yeah, very odd. Also, i think that the way that um the hair and makeup team have styled his hair is like a real discredit to him as a person. Like it's sort of just like a thatch of dry, you know, when you haven't hydrated noodles, like the noodles.
00:17:20
Speaker
That's like been plonked on top of his head. That is what a lot of Gen Z are doing, though, I will say. so Is that so? It's a shame. I've seen it out and about, and I know what they're going for, but yeah you're not it i'm not seeing that i'm seeing the vision i'm not seeing the implementation but you know i am speaking as a gentleman with no hair so you know it's all it's all comes from a place of envy don't speak that of yourself you've got hair on the sides of your head and heaven knows my arms are hairy um uh it's interesting you're saying about raised hair because i was thinking dylan's hair looked um
00:17:57
Speaker
and again, this O'Shuban character rather than actor, looked like the hair on a Lego man. Like it'd just be like... see that. Yeah, it looks kind of clip-on. It does. Clip-on, maybe.
00:18:10
Speaker
But what was... Tell me about razor hair. I hadn't had't noticed anything awry with it. ah It's not awry, it's just quite like sculpted and it's kind of like a hybrid um silver and gold, which you don't often see. o Yeah, I know.
00:18:24
Speaker
Maybe it's to appear high end because he does have money. He's just ticking all the precious metals off in the head apartment. That's a lovely thought for him. um I don't know what experience you have with county lines, but um I do live in a small village, and which are the places that are targeted for county lines.
Community Concerns and Realism in Emmerdale
00:18:42
Speaker
And there is a section of my village who truly panics about this.
00:18:46
Speaker
And I think my village unlikely targeted on account of there being, as far as I'm aware, not a single teenager in it. But we did have two, I think feuds is not too far to go, which I probably told you about at time. One was erecting a little zip line in a play park. Yeah. One was,
00:19:03
Speaker
erecting what they would refer to as the bandstand, of course. i remember the bandstand drama so clearly. And, oh my gosh, it tore the village of heart and I loved every second of it but um because I've not lived there long enough to actually care, but I'm sure the day will come.
00:19:20
Speaker
One of the anti-arguments for both things was that they would attract drug gangs and people were sure. it's like, I don't know if drug gangs are lured by a zip line. I just think that's their go-to.
00:19:33
Speaker
I mean, I guess if they are teenagers, maybe the zipline, but not the bandstand. The bandstand is just like an area of floor with a low fence around it. mean, it had a roof. So maybe if you need to shelter from the rain whilst taking drugs.
00:19:48
Speaker
And maybe the zipline is just like, i assume people who take drugs just have that thirst for adrenaline that can only be answered by heroin or going on a child's zipline. I get it. I do get where they're coming from.
00:20:00
Speaker
So who won in both cases? Ultimately, the zipline was ah was built and the bandstand was not. So I voted against both of them simply because I didn't like the person who was championing them both.
00:20:14
Speaker
yeah so horrible um so does that mean you have like half of a drags half of a drag gang half of a drugs gang now or i've you will you believe that the zipline i think is attracting no drag gangs at all and it has done exactly what i assumed it would of being quite active or quite actively used for maybe a fortnight and then totally neglect to everyone Yeah, who is going on it? Because it appears to just be elderly people in your village and you. And I'm not saying they don't go on Ziplines, but they're not like the primary users, right?
00:20:47
Speaker
And I still haven't been on it myself. I think broadly it's children it's people's grandchildren visiting the village who pop on there. I do sometimes go on the swings myself at Dead of Night, but um I do love a swing. That so creepy, but I do love it for you.
Antibiotics and Medical Realism in Emmerdale
00:21:02
Speaker
Well, mean, if anything is going to attract gangs of teenagers, it's the swings. That's a classic place to hang out and scheme. Yeah, scheme and apparently they have hung out of the bus shelter, which despite us not having a bus service, we do still have a bus shelter. Unusual.
00:21:18
Speaker
So what basically what I'm saying is I can see where the story is coming from in Emmerdale, and I'm always on Tenderhooks waiting for the same thing to happen in my village. Although as one of the younger residents of the village, it might be me they try and pick up.
00:21:31
Speaker
but Can you imagine? And I think you would just fall hook, line and sinker. You'd think you were making a lovely new friend in the village. Yeah. And soon as you know it, I'm like, i mean, I also don't know much about drugs on account never having done them and feeling quite ill when we talked about them in school. So I just feel like do you going up to people being like, do you want one drug or something? What is a drug? Exactly.
00:21:54
Speaker
What sort of drug would you like? I can offer you the blue ones or the green ones. I don't. Oh, I got so excited about a drug the other day. it was ibuprofen. My friend had some ibuprofen tablets and it was the kind where like half of it is one colour and half of it is the other and they've slotted together.
00:22:15
Speaker
but Half of it was see-through and you could see what was in there. And let me tell you what was in there. Tiny, tiny little ibuprofen blob. They were so cute. Oh my gosh, this could get me hooked.
00:22:28
Speaker
For sure. Literally, I want to find out where he got them because they were so cute. It was just like tiny little balls of ibuprofen and you could see them rattling around. It was like a little maraca.
00:22:39
Speaker
It was gorgeous. Like, the joy of seeing that healed me. Yeah. Ray needs to think about the, like, the Hello Kitty-ization of drug banks. Like, yeah, I think maybe if illegal drugs looked really cute, and maybe some of them do, and I just haven't done my research. haven't that life. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:59
Speaker
So, yeah, I'm nervous about where this story's going to go, because i think it's going to get quite dark, it's going to turn, it's going to be miserable, and I just feel like April's been through so much, and obviously Dylan has, which we haven't seen as much ah of, but, like,
00:23:10
Speaker
Yeah, I can't be bothered to watch another bleak storyline. know there's so many bleak ones. Just let
Steph's Character and Storyline Enjoyment
00:23:15
Speaker
them have a lovely time. Let them have a like, will they, won't they or something. I mean, I don't care if they do or they don't, but you know. Yeah, I just want one non-bleak storyline because Cammy hasn't really done anything in the last couple of weeks. so That's true. Other than, you know, force Ross out of the mechanics field, apparently.
00:23:32
Speaker
yeah true. but think I think, mean, we had very little to say about but this story, but it's obviously going to keep going. So, you know, maybe it'll excite us. I'm sure we'll end up with more to say. I'm already finding this one a bit of a chore to get through. But are there any stories that have been happening that you've really more interested in? I've really enjoyed seeing Steph back.
00:23:58
Speaker
yes I think that's my, I know it's not the major storyline because we haven't even talked about like the Sarah Charity Mac thing or the Jo Kim thing but um yeah, have enjoyed having Steph back, um enjoyed the lengths to which they're going to disguise her increasingly obvious pregnancy. Like she's just holding so many coats, so many bags, so many laptops at any given time. Like she's really shrouded.
00:24:29
Speaker
um So that's quite fun. I've enjoyed her getting to know Lewis because I think they... are like completely opposite characters, but the I think they probably would have a bit of fun together just hanging out.
00:24:42
Speaker
I did find it really annoying, I know that we're meant to, that Ross didn't tell her about Manbreed because that whole thing just could have been avoided if in that moment she was like, full disclosure, just let me know, did anything happen?
00:24:53
Speaker
He could have just been like, yeah, it did. it was an error, but sure. Yeah, and then presumably she'd have been like, thanks for telling me, who cares?
00:25:04
Speaker
um But we we'll never know, I suppose. But I do admire, I mean, I'm always saying this to people, just date anyone local. It doesn't matter. Like, I'm so sick of my friends dating people who live in different cities and then moving to the different cities.
00:25:18
Speaker
And I really like that people take that advice in Emmerdale. But like, I have to date within the circumference of this small village. And that's it. Yeah. You do hate long distance relationships, which kind of... For other people, because they ruin my life. They marry them and then they move. It's like, stop it. just date just It doesn't matter what you think of them. Just pick someone locally, you'll learn to love them, is my advice.
00:25:40
Speaker
I guess the downside of all of that is what appears to be happening on Emmerdale is that nobody can have a coffee or anything without the wait staff really delving into their love life. like Lewis kind of owned it and was like, I'm a matchmaker lol, tell me your story, tell me about your life.
00:25:59
Speaker
ah He knew that it was probably a bit rude that he was doing it, but he was like leaning into it as a brand. Whereas now that Jimmy is back in the last couple of episodes, he's just literally like, well, I couldn't help but overhear. This has been going on. Love it for him, though.
00:26:13
Speaker
Sorry, but i haven't I have found out on the grapevine that this has been happening. So here's a free custard tart. And you're just like, back off, Jimmy. Like, I'm literally here for a meeting. Or like, I just want to eat my full English breakfast.
00:26:26
Speaker
Leave me alone. So i think maybe... if they were dating people outside the village, that sort of thing would happen less to them. And and maybe, there is that yeah. I did enjoy Manpreet being like, I have slept with someone, but I can't tell you who. And then instantly telling them who. Yeah. I can't tell you who, but it's him.
00:26:43
Speaker
Exactly. um I have enjoyed a few things in the shop. Actually. I've enjoyed Jimmy being a little gossip. um Sorry, the cafe rather. I've enjoyed Ruby um slamming it by calling a pan of chocolate, a chocolate croissant or chocolate, whatever it was. you top Yeah.
00:26:59
Speaker
and she was just like her openly being like the scum here wouldn't know what a pan of chocolate is like it's not it's not like you'll have to be fluent in french to know what a pan chocolate is surely um but i appreciated that and i appreciated ross apparently having an antipathy to baked beans um so that's fun yeah i thought that's something to note like if he ever eats baked beans in the future maybe it's a sign or something Yeah, he's on the brink.
00:27:24
Speaker
I also thought kind of interesting that they've introduced a loyalty card because like there are no other cafes. like People go there every day to get stuff they could eat and get in their home across the street. So like the last thing you need to do is encourage them to be there more.
00:27:37
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Yeah, the loyalty card is just a way for the cafe to start hemorrhaging money because presumably everybody will build up a full stamp card in about two days and then they can get a free copy.
00:27:48
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I mean, yeah, Steph is mainlining the thing. I mean, Belle went there to have a meeting when her office is next door. Yeah, so true. Also, what was that meeting all about? Because Gabby decided to, like,
00:28:00
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make all the decisions about their wedding without Vinny being there. Quite odd. That's probably for the best, isn't it? Like, I want to get all of this right. Well, then maybe ask his opinion.
00:28:10
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But and the loyalty card did mean they could fill, I spotted, the small remaining gaps of posters on the walls with more like aggressive messaging. So they've got one now about like, fill your loyalty card.
00:28:21
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I guess whilst you're refilling your water bottle. so Yeah, and whilst you're hearing about the community garden open day. Which assume is still to come, but it doesn't seem to have a date on it. No, unless, as we've said, like every day is open day, I don't know.
00:28:33
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Yeah, true. How would you close a community garden with a barricade? he is And then to pop over to the shop, I know we've talked previously about the horrible little tables that they have.
00:28:44
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And i enjoyed, obviously it warmed to my Rob Ron loving heart to see Robert and Aaron have a little sit down at one. But they'd moved it into such a position that it totally blocked the entrance. Like if anyone was trying to get into the shop, they could barely get around that table, let like let let alone anyone get past them once they're sat there.
00:29:01
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Yeah, I was thinking about the fact that Robert appeared to be kind of basically sitting inside the fridge.
00:29:08
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He was like really next to the the milk bottles and stuff. was are you not a little bit cold? Yeah, and if someone said to me, do you want to coffee ah here? like Obviously no. like Firstly, I'm halfway through my Lottie card, so it didn't cross the road.
00:29:24
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I don't think I would want to have a coffee and a chat with anybody I mean, in any location in the village, because like they were in the shop with just Tracy, who could definitely hear everything were saying.
00:29:36
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wasn't trying to disguise her, no. Yeah, no, if they go to the cafe, there's so full of people that everyone's going listening. I guess the hide is maybe a sort of safe space if you had to. That's true. No one's going there, are they?
00:29:47
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Despite being by some distance, the biggest one, I think. Yeah, and I think probably the nicest environment to sit in. Yeah. ah But you know what the shop doesn't have, despite having these tables and generally people do their full week's grocery shopping?
00:30:02
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Any atmosphere. It's apparently pregnancy tests. Jacob a had to go to town to get those. ah I'm sure I've seen them on the shelves but maybe I haven't you know how like they're kind of lit up those side shelves and people are always checking if they're pregnant in the village like if Eric's not gone to pregnancy tests that's a sideline he's really missing because yeah he'd do a roaring trade exactly and you could put any price you like on them it's about the only thing that the shop's doing that isn't done by every other business in the in the village yeah that could find they'd finally have a USP other than gingham tablecloths laughing
00:30:38
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Finally, ah something on that pregnancy story and that I did enjoy, I don't know why this amused me so much, but I really, I know it's obviously moved on quite lot in the past couple weeks, but I think it was a couple of really enjoyed Sarah just saying, I've heard Zinc's really good. It's just other concept.
00:30:53
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It's like, sure, okay. It's one of my favourite elements, I don't know. She's just so excited about Zinc.
00:31:01
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um Yeah, also like ah backtracking quite a long way in this storyline. But it's happened so quickly. Like there was just no waiting list. They kind of just immediately ended up being seen having eggs implanted or whatever it's that they're doing. It's all just really kicking off.
00:31:20
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Yeah. And considering as we talked about last week they or last time, they will give overnight stays in private rooms to people who just feel a bit woozy. that It's really impressive that they managed to get into the hospital at all.
00:31:31
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Yeah, so true. I think my major bugbear with this whole story is that um obviously Charity thinks that um they lost the sort of implanted embryo because she fell over on a walk and she's now like horribly blaming herself and Mac for even thinking about going on walk. Yeah.
00:31:50
Speaker
What was Charity going to do with herself for the next nine months if she thinks she's going for a walk is too adventurous? Like, it's not, it's just like the woods next to their house and she went for a brief sort stroll through them. It wasn't like she went on a massive hike. And like, I have a heavily pregnant friend at the moment who is still going on significant walks, who is still doing all, you can't just sit at home for nine months.
00:32:11
Speaker
I know, and she's she's still working, well, I was going to say full time, as full time as anyone in Emmerdale ever works. Like, she probably is working. as and when she feels like it, but, or didgo to go to workplace to get incredibly drunk during working hours.
00:32:25
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but um But, but yeah, I thought it was baffling. Like if they'd done something active, i could see why she would like, have a go at Mac phone. and He was literally just like, shall we have a saunter?
00:32:36
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Yeah. If Mac was like quick, let's play rugby. Yeah. so Dumb But I mean, one of the many different psychic corner things that we have to highlight psychic corner being a new feature is that we did, we did think, I think we said that, you know, the vanity your Vanessa charity thing looked like it might happen. And clearly did.
00:32:58
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And it clearly did.
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00:33:00
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Interesting. The other two things we can get onto vanity, but um we talked about how we thought Ross would be much more likely to have Builder's Tea than coffee, and he then ordered a Builder's Tea. And we talked about the Dingle WhatsApp family chat, which was then referenced.
00:33:12
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So we're in their minds. We are in the minds of Ammerdale in a way that I don't think anybody else can claim to be. That's our USB. And we also...
00:33:23
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always talk about the fact that nobody in the village ever works they always just like say yes to other things and then moira and caleb both said no to jacob and sarah's engagement party because they had to work that's so true i mean i presume it's because it sounded horrible but also it's nicer yeah i mean hiss work seem excuse it's a huge huge claim to call something a party when it's just having a few drinks at the same pub you seem to go to every single day so true they're probably just wanting free drinks and rebranding as a party Yeah, the chance to glance at some bunting.
00:33:58
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Yeah, do you think they'll get married? know we talked last week, but then we've moved on. Do you think the marriage will still happen? I did think that they would until Sarah just for some reason was like, we don't have to get married, you know. and I was like, maybe you're only in this for the fact that he's the mother of your child. Like, maybe that's the reason you want to marry him, to have like this family unit. Whereas I think he's probably a bit more in it because he actually loves her. Yeah, I think so.
00:34:25
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did seem like she jumped to breaking up really quickly based on that. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know if they will if they don't have a baby, but. I mean, it's Emmerdale, so even if they do get married, it will probably last all of six months, but...
00:34:41
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um Jacob also had a slightly unconvincing line about someone, he had to say, they they he didn't drop that nugget of info, and it did not sound at all like something that that actor had ever said before in his life.
00:34:52
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Yeah, I also thought that nugget of info. if I think I noticed that he kind of put the emphasis on the wrong word. i can't remember which one it was.
00:35:03
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Yeah. But um I was like, oh, I can see that that line would have worked if you put the emphasis on the right one. But they won't reshoot. Although apparently they do, but it does it never gives that impression.
00:35:16
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No. um Should we get to some highlights? I know we've been a bit scattergun, but... Yeah, I can't think. I don't know if there was anything else on the... ah yeah, are we going to come back to um Vanity or should I just quickly say something about that?
00:35:28
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ah yeah, go go for it. Yeah. um So obviously in today's episode, um Vanessa tells Charity that she should really talk to Mac about this, um about the fact that they, we don't know really what happened, but certainly reunited in some sense of the word.
00:35:45
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um And I thought finally somebody in this program is actually considering like good communication and telling the truth. at last, similar to when Rona was like, we should actually go to the police about this.
00:35:58
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And I was like, cool, great. And in both cases, it didn't happen because at the last minute they were like, oh, we could embark on an an elaborate cover up delay the fact that the truth will eventually come out.
00:36:10
Speaker
Why does everybody do this? I know that maybe the fact that this gets to me so much is just a sign that i probably shouldn't be watching soaps because that's the only thing that happened. I'm like, why can't people just talk to each other and sit down and be like, look, I've made a mistake.
00:36:24
Speaker
ah What are we going to do? Everybody loves a cover-up. It's really annoying. So true. And I did like how Vanessa said to Charity, like, these things have a way of getting out. and like, in reality, you'd be like, well, only the two of us know, so let's just not tell anyone. But Vanessa is quite right that, obviously, at some point, even if they don't to sleep together again, Mac will find out. But it does sound like the history of this relationship is...
00:36:47
Speaker
but charity cheated on vanessa mac cheated on charity charity cheated on mac it just does seem like they're all terrible well not vanessa doesn't seem have cheated on anyone but that's true yeah she just is repeatedly cheated on yeah i do find a cheating storyline quite tedious but again that is part and parcel of watching us over the everyone is terrible Everyone's terrible.
00:37:10
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ah Particularly terrible this time, actually. This episode, I really hated the bit where Cain was just really having a go at Lydia and bullying her and threatening her, really. was really sad. One of my big things that I want to talk about in this episode is, like, is this what Cain used to be like? Because I know you always say to me, oh, Cain's had a bit of, like, a redemption arc and he's softened and, like, he still gets angry, but nothing like the way he used to treat people before. Is this what he used to be like? Because I really don't like it.
00:37:37
Speaker
It really, it truly is. And he was in it for a long time before I started watching. So I don't know what he was like even before that, but he definitely used to be, and one of the times actually that I stopped watching Emmerdale, not the time had the big break, but stopped for a few months was when he was just being so evil to everyone. And that led up to a like who attacked Kane storyline where he was like brutally beaten up.
00:37:57
Speaker
So obviously you had to have lots of suspects who were angry with him. That included things like that's when he got Amy pregnant and was really awful to her, et cetera, et cetera. um Yeah, and ah really hate seeing this part of him because I like the sort of, he's obviously still a bit of a rogue occasionally and he can threaten wrong people, but not the sort of just really vile to nice people like Lydia thing that we did used to see more of.
00:38:22
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Yeah, like from what I could tell around the whole like pitchfork saga, yeah Kane concluded that Joe must have sent these thugs.
00:38:33
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yeah Sam was like, I just don't think that's very likely. And so then Cain was like, Sam, you're abandoning the family. I hate you. He tried to beat him up. And then when he was proven wrong, he refused to say sorry and just like smashed a load of flower pots.
00:38:49
Speaker
And he's like, who are you? yeah i will say the like threatening persona doesn't go super well with smashing flower pots. It did feel like quite childish.
00:39:01
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yeah Absolutely. Also, why are there quite so many flowerpots out the stables? and what sure I'm not entirely sure. They're clearly investing their money in a diverse range of objects. Yeah, I just think he's getting a bit out hand. He needs to just sit down and have a chat, like stop smashing things up.
00:39:17
Speaker
Stop threatening people. Stop being unreasonable. And I think it really plays into... the fact that his family could end up trusting Joe more because like we know that Joe is probably not trustworthy at heart and that he's probably playing some sort of long-term game.
00:39:33
Speaker
um But he does seem, he seems like the reasonable one right now, especially when he's dealing with like Lydia and Sam after Moira punched Lydia. Like he just seems really nice, really trustworthy, really like, yeah, I get where he's coming from. He seems like a safe pair of hands.
00:39:49
Speaker
And then Kane does not seem like a safe pair of hands. So i wonder if there's going to be some sort of, um, storyline where what he fears the most it would seem i.e people trusting the tapes more than him might actually start to happen because he's acting like such an idiot that's true yeah yeah so i'm hoping that's over soon because i have like i like him when he's nice basically but that's true of so many characters so i'm just like just be kind yeah why can't everyone just be nice i feel feel like maybe they should do
00:40:19
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a few episodes just for us personally where everything's going really well and everything's really nice and just having lovely time yeah it's a bit like um the harry potter books when i read them like primarily as a teenager i used to just really like the bits where they're just bopping around school going to lessons nothing's really happening And then every time like the overall storyline with Voldemort would happen, I'd be like, oh, I can't be bothered. i just think I just want to hear about them going to herbology and nice nice things going on. And that's, I think, what we need from Emmerdale, just some village goings on and some niceness.
00:40:55
Speaker
Yeah, maybe that is the archers. Yeah, I agree.
00:41:01
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I've actually said almost everything I was going to say, so I'm not sure I have that many highlights, but one highlight will have, it's Robert's field. um It's more just really amused me that at one point, and I messaged about this, he said he could sell that field and be set up for life.
00:41:18
Speaker
Like, firstly, how much did he pay for it? Because he got the money by selling a handful of marijuana plants in Exeter, Like, so how much would they worth?
00:41:29
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And then he's given more, I assumed not very much money, but apparently, is he just saying that because Kim really wants it, she will like pay way over the odds. But even say like set up for life, that's got to be like tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of pounds if he's just like, I'd be sorted forever.
00:41:46
Speaker
And the thing that really got to amuse me is that that field doesn't appear to have any road access. Like, how are they going to set up a farm there where they can't actually get to it without trespassing?
00:41:57
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Yeah, I mean, um maybe they can just whip up a road, but um it doesn't seem like the most valuable field to me. i know nothing about fields. I was going to ask my housemate who is a farmer, but she is actually on holiday.
00:42:10
Speaker
um But maybe next in time for next time, I could get a little voice note. Because, yeah, how could a field possibly be that valuable when it's in the location that it is? And I guess if Mori is willing to sell him like access land, then maybe he could set up something there. But at the moment, it's just a field surrounded by other fields. Like, what's the plan, Robert? What's the big like dynasty you're trying to set up here? Because the best he can do at the moment is like plants and potatoes.
00:42:35
Speaker
Because if you don't have access, you can't even put grazing there easily. so like Yeah. Although even then, you can't you can't take a tractor to do it if you can't. Because I mean, Mori could easily be like, you cannot cross my land. And then he's like, well, I guess I'm going to see it from a distance.
00:42:50
Speaker
I guess they'll just have to move the tractors in the dead of night or something. But where he's going to keep a tractor if his only land is one field? It doesn't seem like the empire they're making out to be.
00:43:02
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And yet, of course, we still don't know quite why Kim wants it so desperately. Maybe there's like buried treasure there or something. Or buried bodies, I fear. do you think that's where Anthony actually is all this time? my word, maybe, who knows?
00:43:15
Speaker
um yeah we haven't had much um action on the whole Robert stuff recently, have we? I mean, I feel like they really are dragging out the Robron reunion, which we feel is so inevitable and almost parking it for the sake of various fields.
00:43:30
Speaker
yeah It's Aaron saying you people around here do love you or do do you care about you? Yeah, I enjoyed that. And I feel like Aaron doesn't want Robert to leave. Otherwise, he would have just been like, yeah, get out.
00:43:41
Speaker
um but yeah i don't know i feel like and also that that conversation came quite soon after um we saw aaron and john having a conversation where aaron was like i don't get why you're okay with this like he attacked you and john almost having to talk him down and be like it's actually fine and then he runs into him in the shop and it's like people here care about you and i was like what is what is going on here but yeah definitely we've got like glimmers of hope for rob ron but it is moving slowly the merest glimmers and the bit the bit where where john was threatening robert in like a headlock about having to go back to prison before robert attacked him was so genuinely chilling yeah that was tough
00:44:24
Speaker
Yeah, I think maybe John is better at like chilling than he is at anything else. Because as yeah as we've said before, he's not he's not a character who inspires an emotional response in me, or indeed you, or indeed Aaron.
00:44:37
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But maybe like like whispered threats are his MO. That's where he really thrives. Yeah, i will say that scene is the one that evoked the most emotion in me. and it was just really horrible watching him bring up so many things from his past and use them against him.
00:44:56
Speaker
Although that is quite a classic thing that um Robert does to other people. um Yeah, I also think there's just an astonishing lack of CCTV in the village.
00:45:06
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Like how is the dash cam the only footage that would have happened of that instant when it's like surrounded by houses that in reality would definitely have ring doorbells and businesses that would have CCTV? Yeah. That's a good point.
00:45:19
Speaker
He can now edit that footage and make it look like it was an unprovoked attack. Yeah, and I didn't realise that dash cams just went when the car wasn't running. because Is that like just draining the battery the whole time?
00:45:31
Speaker
i mean, they might just have like little battery, like AA batteries in them. Maybe, yeah. I don't really know. i think some of them only work when they're running and some of them you can probably make them go the whole time. don't know.
00:45:41
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I guess in my village, it isn't that much CCTV. Like, people might have ring doorbells, but I think generally, the sort of people living there haven't invested in technology, and there's lots of people who put up signs saying that they have CCTV, but those signs are lies to try and deter burglars. Yeah, fair. Clearly, bought them online. But in Emmerdale, where crime is non-stop, I think you probably would want to pop one out.
00:46:04
Speaker
You'd be investing in some sort of security solution, for sure. Yeah.
00:46:09
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Caleb lives in that house as well. Surely he'd have CCDB. You would have thought. You really would have thought. But clearly not. What else stood out to you?
00:46:20
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I really enjoyed the conversation, brief conversation between Vinny and Cammy. um In which Vinny said, love Gabby. And Cammy just completely unconvinced goes, great.
00:46:32
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this if He's thinking, why? like Yeah, but also thinking, I don't believe you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And now who is this Mike man? I fear that it's all going to go south.
00:46:47
Speaker
He told him all of the names of the people. He was like, I'm engaged to someone called Gabby. He hid nothing. I secretly fancy someone called Cammie and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I just thought, you've told this total stranger a lot of information that he could use against you.
00:47:04
Speaker
Yeah, and i do fear it might go that way. um I've also amused by him just Googling, am I gay? And what that brought up.
00:47:14
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So I've just done the same thing. And what I particularly enjoyed is um so the first thing is a WikiHow quiz, which is a lot. The question's just, are you attracted to people of the same gender? Yes or no? Yes, I know, the end of quiz.
00:47:28
Speaker
um The next one, interesting, is from marriage.com. So maybe it is people in Billy's position just being like, just before I marry a woman, double checking. um But I enjoyed you know how Google gives you like other questions people also ask.
00:47:44
Speaker
And these are the four questions that people also ask. How do I know if I'm really gay or not? Fine. Makes sense. um What are the first signs of being gay? Like it's sort of like a contagious disease. It might take over your whole body if you don't catch these things.
00:48:00
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um Does and then a benefit of the rainbow emoji mean gay? ah sure and then the final one how do i be sure I am not gay really changes tag how do I be sure ah do I be sure
00:48:20
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I love that that. And that's presumably the next thing that Vinny wrote in after after the first question. Absolutely. um Something I have enjoyed in the whole Vinny thing is the friendship with him and Aaron.
00:48:32
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And I don't think I've seen loads of that before or since certainly since I've been watching. I thought that was nice. And it was another those things where you're like, oh, why won't you just say, I know it's hard, but why won't you just ask for help and be like, this is my situation.
00:48:45
Speaker
um Because he used to be married to Aaron's sister. So he obviously had that like, um yeah yeah that bond from that which is sweet and yeah it's nice that Aaron's giving advice albeit his advice is just like as you don't tell your wife to be that you cheated or like pretended to cheat which again we're unsure if it's the best advice but it's nice that he's giving advice it's not great advice but I do think if he had said to to Aaron like oh I think I might be attracted to a guy Aaron's advice would probably not be like cool bury that under a bushel
00:49:21
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No. in fact, if anyone were to say to him, you know the exact thing that happened to you circa 2009. It's happening to me. happening to me. yeah Yeah.
00:49:32
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So I'm intrigued to see where that goes. Doubtless it'll probably all come out on his wedding day. I assume, yeah. No pun intended with the whole come out thing. I'd like at some point, if if he does start talking to Aaron or someone, someone to acknowledge that bisexuality exists.
00:49:47
Speaker
That'd be lovely. Yeah, it'd be a treat because people are really sort of shoehorned into one or the other. Although Robert is bisexual, isn't he? Do they ever talk about that? He is, yeah. And I guess charity.
00:49:59
Speaker
That's true. Yeah, so they there are people there who like certainly have awareness, but it doesn't seem like it's crossed Vinny's mind. No, true. He's like, I have to be one or the other. Yeah.
00:50:10
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You can be both. You Do you have any highlights to share? think my only final thing, and it's actually a relatively very long quote that I copied out, went back to the video this afternoon time and wrote it out because Jimmy's not a man that I've got much in common with.
00:50:25
Speaker
But ah there was one thing he said, I think, like nearly two weeks ago, so quite a long ah time ago in this recording episode. period um about camping that was just i so agreed with him this is what he said he said personally i've never understood the mentality of having a nice house and then going to live under a rag for a bit having the kids wee in a bucket and eating something that looks like it's been picked up off floor outside a kebab house it's poverty tourism it's yes jimmy And I always say to people, like, if I lived in a tent, people would be sorry for me. Like, I i want to go on holiday somewhere nicer than i were where I live, not somewhere clearly worse than where I live.
00:51:04
Speaker
So it's like, Jimmy, many of your life choices are baffling to me. But on camping, you know what's up. Yeah, i I did understand where he was coming from and I've never been like an avid camper. I go sometimes on a camping weekend with friends if that's something we're doing. And it's kind of like, it's a bit of fun. You're kind of outside, but you're inside.
00:51:23
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the appeal. but i would I get that way through your window, I suppose. yeah I would never claim that that's a holiday. i would never find it relaxing. If that was my main holiday of the year, I would be quite sad.
00:51:34
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And I get it. If you've got like 19 children and you can't afford to do anything else, like fine. Or even if you can't afford to do anything else, you've got no children. Absolutely nothing wrong with it. But if you're doing it and could easily choose to do something else, then it is just poverty tourism. I love that phrase.
00:51:50
Speaker
Poverty tourism. I can see you adopting that into your bedroom. Yeah. ah um i wrote down a question which was why does laurel have an enormous pirate ship in her back garden i thought when that was there like does laurel know does laurel does um does lizzie know about this presumably laurel does know about it uh what's going on there even at the time so it was built oh i don't know 10 years ago maybe more than that um as a sort of like, this is nice for the kids, but it was always unclear why it was there. And I think at one point, like a homeless person was living in it.
00:52:25
Speaker
Is it in her garden or was she just having laundry near it? and know It's in her garden and it's so big. It's the sort of thing you think they might write in because they have to, because like someone someone else has built it, but like who else would have built it?
00:52:38
Speaker
That's so weird. Yeah. It's massive. It like must take all the light out of the windows at the back of her house. It's like taller than, it seems to be taller than her building. we didn't see that on the tour did we well it must be there it's perhaps it's the final one before the crossroads so maybe it's like tucked away a place we couldn't see but it does seem i do need to do this tour again we yeah now that we're deep into it um yeah
00:53:09
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To Emma Dale Tor, if you're listening, we absolutely welcome free tickets. If you want to hashtag gifted, that'd be really nice. Also on the old attention to detail thing, I noticed in...
00:53:22
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Today's episode, um Sarah, not Sarah, Charity and Mac have a copy of the Hotton Courier newspaper on their coffee table. And on the front page, the main headline is scheme to bring shoppers back.
00:53:38
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And you're just saying like, I know for a fact that there are bigger things going on in your facility than ah a retail shopping scheme. For example, like even the slurry leak.
00:53:52
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or like i expect they'll be reporting on like bell's divorce from tom because that will have you know that's local grandmother her own great-grandchild yeah like literally like anything is bigger news than that although i will say that maybe jacob caught glance it and that's why he went to hodham for the pregnancy tests i must take part in the scheme
00:54:14
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i must take part in the scheme
00:54:18
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Yeah, absolutely valid. so um we should i guess we're coming up to the hour, so we need to do our next seconds. But I will just say, I'm sad that we've lost Steph. It was nice to see her back. And obviously she's now gone on maternity leave.
00:54:30
Speaker
So she'll be on holiday for a shockingly long amount of time. considering she'll have a baby in Rome or whatever. I don't know if she's had a word with, guess it's her dad, but but like she does have a job at this warehouse that she's presumably not going to do for quite a long time, but.
00:54:47
Speaker
But no one in Emmerdale cares about the work they're meant to be doing. That's true. It's unclear what that warehouse does. um So the person that we are going to look at what they do or don't bring to the village in our random name generator this week is... Oh, it's it's Eve Dingle.
00:55:02
Speaker
I can only assume this is somebody who we don't think brings much to the village. Who who is that? I don't know who that is. is ah Is Eve Dingle the one who was pill-popping the other week?
00:55:15
Speaker
Is that Eve? That's Eva. Eva. and oh did just misread hang on let me just go back to google eve dingle emmerdale oh yeah e it is eve not eva sorry the daughter of paddy and chas dingle i have nothing to say about her really sorry no i mean no i guess that's that's it on eve dingle she's a child who does almost nothing.
00:55:41
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The child who does drugs. The child who is probably getting next to be recruited by the county lines. Yeah, they've got the right their own hair. I do think at some point it will be great that she exists because both Paddy and Chaz be in the show forever. They're probably going to stay in the show forever.
00:55:57
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In like, I don't know how old she is now, like five or something. Three or four. Yeah. um In like 10 years time, it'll be great that they've got teenage daughter. maybe they Maybe sooner than 10 years if they just like age her off screen. but um And that'll be a useful way of linking families. But for now, she is, I've got nothing against the actor.
00:56:18
Speaker
Call her an actor. Take her useless, I say. that's...
00:56:23
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um And that only really leaves the farming content section. So much farming. There's been a lot. um Mainly field purchase based.
00:56:34
Speaker
Yes, a lot of, lot read that field. But um also, like guess you say, Moira actually recognising that she has to do some work. That was that was a bonus.
00:56:45
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All sorts of fines, of course, are still still mounting up. but I couldn't really work out if the fine from the guy who was in cahoots with Joe was, a real find that he'd engineered or just the man who put on a suit and pretended.
00:56:59
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Yeah, I feel like they kind of glossed over that. Like Moira was like, I can't believe you sent someone to do that. But then they never really went anywhere with it. And we are left wondering, is the fine real? Or like, has it? I don't know. you know We never really got to the bottom of that. And it would appear that producers don't care.
00:57:18
Speaker
Yeah. What other funny things? Actually, Moira fired Ross, obviously, or given fewer hours, which is fair enough.
00:57:27
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I think there are some new, um like, graphics being shown before and after the ad break. And one of them has a tractor in it. Oh, hello. that something? Yeah.
00:57:39
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And I guess all the whole like pitchfork stabbing thing was in the past two weeks. Was that last two weeks? was before Yeah, and pitchforks are quite farm-coded. Very, very farm-coded. As it's just sort of wandering around barns. enjoyed seeing a bit of them kicking a ball about and in the farmyard.
00:57:54
Speaker
Because, you know, whilst that scene was intensely awkward to watch, it's the sort of thing that children on a farm would do. Like had friends who lived on farms growing up and we did like play all over the farmyard.
00:58:05
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Yeah. I think they're reclaiming their roots. I like to think it's because of us, even though it's not. Yeah, at one point I was like, this is too much farming content. and It's just all they do is talk about farms, dial it back. There will never be enough for me.
00:58:22
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So there you go Well done for Emmerdale. Let's see what more fun we get. Let's see if any of these storylines that are bubbling ah under like actually do become big. oh We must be getting up to John being found out soon, surely. Surely. Like, surely. I feel like maybe they yeah they need to put Rona on that ASAP. She's the only one that's got her head screwed on. And like the police seem to be doing nothing.
00:58:46
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like They just kind of accepted this quite detailed... statement that was written on owen michaels's laptop oh yeah and they were like yeah great sure nice him i guess probably him and that was that that was that job done god bless them If you'd like to get in touch with us, we'd love to hear from you. Dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com.
00:59:11
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um We had such a flurry of like reviews and ratings at the beginning and then they immediately died, but we'd love some more reviews and ratings. Not to beg, but you know it's just a great way it was to get the word out there, to get more people engaged in the Emedell chat.
00:59:27
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Keep those reviews coming. We love hearing from you. We'd love to read out some more emails on the show and yeah hear more from you guys. And we'll check in with you in a couple of weeks. Maybe a special before that. Watch his face.
00:59:38
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Who's to say? Bye. Bye.