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Robert Sugden has chemistry with anyone (Emmerdale 16-27 June 2025)
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Robert's curious van awakening, flirty chess, voice notes from a doctor and a vicar - and, of course, Lydia Watch. Lizzie and Simon talk you through the highlights of the past couple weeks of the Dingles and everyone else in Emmerdale!
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Introduction and Show Highlights
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Dingle All The Way. I'm Simon. I'm Lizzie. And my goodness Lizzie, what a lot we have to talk about from the past two weeks of Emmerdale. It's been full on. this I think it's also been very, very good. Like it's top quality stuff going on at the moment.
00:00:16
Speaker
Yeah, I have like a running note on my phone that i keep when I'm um watching it. So I can note down things that um I might want to talk about. And it got so long. It's like, done ah stay yeah, and there's not even like normally this one big story where like, yeah, that's definitely the big story. And this time there are like two or three, I think that could have
Victoria's Role and Online Criticism
00:00:36
Speaker
qualified. So we are going to start by talking about, well, we're going to call it Rob Ron. There's no real signs yet of Rob.
00:00:42
Speaker
and Robert and Aaron like reuniting, we assume that's end game, but there's a lot of Robert, Aaron, John, Victoria stuff going on. And, I think I've mentioned already on this podcast, it will quickly become clear.
00:00:54
Speaker
All I want from Emmerdale, all want is Victoria to have more screen time. I don't know. I don't know why i'm so obsessed with Victoria. i don't know why. cause I mean, heaven knows it's not that I'm in love with her, but it's like, you know, I just, I just, I love the character. sad that she's so neglected and I'm thrilled that she is I'm going to say back at the center of our screens, even though she is comfortably fourth lead of the story. I'm,
00:01:19
Speaker
yeah She is truly back in a big way. And I've been surprised online of seeing some people talking about how they find her really annoying. And I was like, how could anybody ever say a bad word against her?
00:01:30
Speaker
How dare they? Or any word against her. Because, I mean, some sometimes, you know, she annoys other characters, but she never annoys me. I'll say that. Well, that's good to know. I have loved seeing more of Victoria. I think she's really great.
00:01:43
Speaker
And i would also like to say I have been re-watching all of the Rob Ron beginnings on a YouTube playlist that was sent in to us on a recommendation that I should watch it.
00:01:57
Speaker
And I've been really enjoying it. And partly because, yeah, we get to see more of Victoria in her youth.
Emotional Prison Episodes and Theories
00:02:04
Speaker
And I think she's really fun. I think I'm sort of up to a bit where she is with Andy. Is it Andy or Adam? It's Adam. Adam. Andy's her brother.
00:02:14
Speaker
I know. They just have basically the same name and it's really confusing. um And I think that's really sweet. a bit sad that I know they obviously don't stay together. But yeah, she seems seems like a great gal.
00:02:26
Speaker
I'm a huge fan. And because we only record every fortnight, it does mean it's now like almost two weeks since one of the most exciting episodes. Tuesday last week, which was the one where we went the prison several times and the...
00:02:40
Speaker
we got the Robert and Aaron emotional conversation we got the Robert and John upsettingly I would say sexual conversation it was a lot wasn't it it was a lot like in any other situation you two would be kissing over the table now but you are brothers unless of course John is not a real there's like rumors that John is not a real subject and who knows I have huge suspicions about that And in some ways I hope so just because of the chemistry between two people who are otherwise blood relatives. That's so true. Yeah, let's just talk about that episode. I mean, we found out that Aaron was the one that called the police on Robert to get him taken away for missing his like probation meeting because he didn't trust himself with him Because he couldn't himself.
00:03:27
Speaker
I was like, oh my word, you're saying that. You're actually saying that. And you're married someone else. Unusual moves. And now he is back in the village. Like,
John's Suspicious Actions and Charisma
00:03:38
Speaker
i just think Robert 1 is going happen. Like, they're going to probably string it out until I think Christmas.
00:03:44
Speaker
But we will get our happily ever after. I'm confused by the Robert John dynamic. because of the weird chemistry in the prison the unusual chemistry when they were playing chess didn't see that coming um but like we've got that on the one hand and on the other hand we've got the fact that robert seems to be the only one who's seen through john yeah like he's sort of a bit as well but yeah mac and robert conversation where he was like do you trust him and he's like he did he did save my life in this i can't even remember which of the many times that john has endangered endangered lives and then immediately saved them but um
00:04:19
Speaker
He has something to do with saving Mac at some point. But yeah, I hope I'm hoping that Mac and Robert can become little like, ah you know, not alibis, but, you know, they can work together to to bring him down. Yeah, I thought that would be really nice.
00:04:31
Speaker
um Because, yeah, I feel like very few people have been able to see that John is a murderer slash this. And like, obviously, Robert is going to be like, I don't like him.
00:04:43
Speaker
but he literally said, I think he's a megalomaniac. Like there's something wrong with him. And Vic's like, no, he's really nice. But like he sees through him. I love that. Yeah. If I was one of John's neighbors, I would probably think he was just too boring to be a murderer. And that's where I'd land to be like, it's a bit suspicious how he's always there when like Maura is dropping farm machinery on herself or like Kane is having whatever unspecified incident he had, um maybe alcohol poisoning.
00:05:08
Speaker
ah But would a murderer be this tedious a man? Yeah, you'd think you'd have a bit more about him. Yeah, I think of murder as just charismatic, but maybe that's just Ted Bundy's done that to us all.
00:05:20
Speaker
Yeah, you'd think there'd be a bit more going on below the surface, but I guess the surface is just boring.
Medical Accuracy and Legal Safety Questions
00:05:27
Speaker
He needed being a murderer to give him a little something. Just a bit pizzazz.
00:05:33
Speaker
ah Side note, before I want to know what your question was. Before we get to that, I think it's a good place to talk quickly about the Cain incident, because my question that came from that was can any anyone, retired medical or otherwise, just have a drip in the back of their car that they bring in to like, shove into someone's hand, unmonitored, who knows what's in it.
00:05:53
Speaker
And I asked my friend Anaya, who is a doctor, can anyone slash specifically a retired army medic? I did forget when asking her that, that he was also currently a medic, but we moved.
00:06:03
Speaker
Can, could you just have a drip in your car and pop in? And this is what Anaya recorded for us. and So what's in the drip? Just fluid? They didn't say but I'm assuming yes. Okay. I mean it's not a difficult thing to do if you have all the equipment.
00:06:19
Speaker
Okay. um So basically all you need is the fluid, the cannula, so the needle that goes yeah in and then the connector or the tube basically that goes from the fluid into the into the cannula, into the arm.
00:06:35
Speaker
That's all you need. And can anyone do it? if you're trained to do it you can do it yeah you don't need permission to just carry a drip around or anything uh i mean i'm i'm not sure on on the legality i mean i don't have such things you know about dripping your car i don't have one in my car no um yeah i i don't know where he would have got it from ah but if he's got the equipment it's pretty easy to do okay good to know emmerdale gets it right for once likele
00:07:09
Speaker
Thanks, Danaya. So it turns out maybe you can just, maybe people do just have drips in their car and maybe you can just shove any sort of solution in someone.
Prison Visitations and Chess Game Symbolism
00:07:17
Speaker
I don't understand what you think is in a drip. Why do you think it's like illegal drugs?
00:07:21
Speaker
Well, and not it's not so much what's in it, it's just like what could be in it. Because if someone wanted to just shove anything in there put it in someone, like they could. Yeah, I think, sure. Yeah, maybe. I mean, to me, I'm just like, sure, it's just like hydration and salts.
00:07:36
Speaker
And it's attached to like a little needle thing. Like, I don't think any of that should be restricted, should it? Maybe it should. But if it's just old or if it's contaminated in some way, there's no medical staff around to help if something poisonous gets in there. Why do you want us to be so heavily policed, Simon?
00:07:56
Speaker
I want the nanny state. I just don't think people should be able to put things into people's bloodstreams. Again, the bloodstream should be seen only by the nursing staff of your nearest hospital.
00:08:07
Speaker
we were he knew I felt so strongly about it but you're were you gonna ask about the whole Robert's statue yeah no it was just so obviously he sent a letter saying please could Aaron visit me he and that means that like his name has been put on the list did he also put John's name on the list like John wouldn't be allowed to visit without a visiting order why did he like I don't think that that would have happened it unless he pretended to be Aaron maybe stole his ID or something they do look very similar. They just look like white men. So, he
00:08:43
Speaker
and um, yeah, that's a really good point. And that did Victoria popped in as well. Didn't she? Like she presumably would be allowed to. Yeah. I think that's a more logical version to put on your visitors list.
Victoria's Character Development and Aaron's Depth
00:08:54
Speaker
Um, and then, yeah, you mentioned the chess game. I thought it was so, so what, like what was going on there? They're so, quickly or at least temporarily solved their feud over a shared love of chess which like maybe they were both playing games literally and metaphorically but it's like surely they wouldn't believe that the other one genuinely like they must have known they were both pretending because they so it was like what someone and the one of them had just been like and we've got to put this behind us because I've got a way for us both to be millionaires or because we need to save someone's life together but but the thing they needed to do together was
00:09:28
Speaker
play chess in front of their neglected nephew it was weird and then um Robert later said to that aforementioned neglected nephew that like oh sometimes you've got to lose the battle to win the war or something like that yeah um so maybe he's just trying to like build up relational credit and then he's gonna take him down but was like this is weird but sure And I did screen grab it just to make sure that it was indeed Checkmate and can confirm they had set it up in such a way that it was Checkmate. So well done, props department at Emmerdale. You didn't just shove the pieces out any old how and hope for the best.
00:10:09
Speaker
I love that you would know whether it was Checkmate. That's way above my degree. I do have three chess trophies from my middle school. Third place, third place and second place over my three years there, so...
00:10:20
Speaker
You are the sweetest thing in my life. In case anyone's wondering, I was not popular at school.
00:10:28
Speaker
Oh, but I'm sure you're loved. Just not by anyone in your school. Just not by anyone present. um I guess by my brother, who was in my years. He was also in your school. And I know I haven't met your brother, but I don't think he will have been popular either.
00:10:44
Speaker
No, he
Future Plot Speculations and Family Dynamics
00:10:45
Speaker
wasn't. But he he was, in fact, knocked out of the chess competition, so... Chris Alcock beat us all. Did he cheat? Oh, right. He just didn't win. and no, he just it was an all-cut competition. A little side tangent. But yeah, thrilled to see that John keeps a chess set in his van.
00:11:02
Speaker
but I can't imagine he's playing that with Aaron. i like Aaron doesn't strike me as someone who knows or cares how to play chess. I think he probably plays it against himself. He has like a lazy Susan in there. He spins it around.
00:11:15
Speaker
you can look at both sides. Charming with a full-on chess clock and everything. Because I do think he comes across as very clever. And we love Aaron. beat it But I don't think Aaron is pursuing like intellectual hobbies as such. um And so I do wonder if there's some sort of unevenness. if like Maybe John's like, shall we pop on Radio 4? And Aaron's like, not for anything.
00:11:38
Speaker
yeah Yeah, whereas Robert is in that category, isn't he? He is. Maybe they'll just find a shared love of like Desert Island Discs. And that would be lovely. Oh, yeah. Maybe they'll just be like friends or something. think they'll be friends.
00:11:50
Speaker
I really enjoyed it when they were like pretending to be like, yeah, sure, we'll bury the hatchet and like shaking each other's hand and giving each other a hug and being like, I'm going to bring you down.
00:12:02
Speaker
Yeah, it was slightly odd that Victoria is like, I'm just going to stand a distance for this conversation for no obvious reason. But because, you know, I feel like they could have done that hug with her there. Yeah, true.
00:12:13
Speaker
She's like, I'll give you a moment, I guess. But it was great. And I will say again, intense chemistry throughout that scene. Yeah, so true. Very upsetting.
00:12:26
Speaker
um And Robert is a job hunt. He's like, Robert is out there looking for employment only, of course, within walking distance of his home because nobody's commuting.
Redemption Themes and Social Norms
00:12:38
Speaker
No one will do more than a five minute stroll to the office. But he's already had two job opportunities in that tiny village. Thank goodness. One of which, we saw a lot of maybe a day but um yeah something I was interested in and Simon you will remember me harping on about this but the listeners will not because we did not run a podcast at this time but I had a little bit of a I'm not gonna say hobby horse but I found it annoying how much everybody hated Ella when she was in the village because yeah because you were like sometimes people kill kids
00:13:13
Speaker
No, that's not what said. I was like, she's been through the justice system. yeah She has served her time. And now she deserves to be treated like everybody else. That is the whole point of prison.
00:13:25
Speaker
And everyone was like, no, including you. So then... but I want to defend myself. That's not exactly what I said. It brought joy to my heart when Caleb decided to employ Robert. And everyone was like, but he's a criminal. And he said he served his time. And I was like, yes.
00:13:43
Speaker
He has. So now we treat him like everybody else. By which we mean instantly backstab them. That's how Caleb treats everyone. So welcome to the flock. true. So he's not getting special treatment in any direction.
00:13:55
Speaker
But yeah, he did not have that job for very long, which I think was a shame. Caleb did do something in that interview scene that really annoys me, which I can't stand it. where Robert offered to shake his hand and he didn't take the hand. And that happens quite a lot in TV and film. And it makes me so cross. Like if someone puts out their hand to shake, you shake it.
00:14:13
Speaker
It's part of the social contract of being human. Okay. And I can't, it makes me so uncomfortable and upset, particularly when when the other person just gets on with it. if I put my hand out to shake someone's hand and they didn't reply with their hand,
00:14:26
Speaker
i reply with a hand take another run at that or are you just gonna leave it in i think it works it's a lovely idiom as you can see i'm just getting emotional at the thought of it i just can't really um i would never talk to that person again i'd be like i guess i have to move house now just i couldn't cope yeah you would probably end up going into witness protection or something um i think surely that means your handshake means nothing If you're just going to shake anyone's hand, what if it was someone who had like murdered your mother? It's very specific.
Serious Issues Handling and PTSD Portrayal
00:15:02
Speaker
um Yeah, okay maybe in that case I would not have done that handshake. I think it just shows that their handshake means a lot. My handshake means very little. You're right. I give them away willy-nilly.
00:15:18
Speaker
You can't stop shaking people's hands. It's like everybody you meet on the street. You're affirming them too much. They don't need that. I just love bonding. that is nice.
00:15:30
Speaker
nice
00:15:33
Speaker
um I do think as we came more more towards present day in the storyline, we had um Robert got drugged by someone on that date that presumably he did to make Aaron jealous. And then John sort of rescued him in a way.
00:15:45
Speaker
But I did think unless it's coming back, the show has been very casual about... date, well, it wasn't date rape, but I assume he was drugging him with the intention of sexually assaulting him, um or at least assaulting him in some way. And the show needs not to do that in like such a, oh yeah, that happened so that John could have his little rescue moment.
00:16:04
Speaker
And they didn't even phone the police or anything. This guy is a danger to people and he's going to do it again. He's just out there. Particularly since Victoria was was drugged and raped. one Was she drugged? Maybe not. But she was raped on a date with someone and that's how Harry was came about.
00:16:20
Speaker
So yeah, they should take it seriously. Yeah, I was going to say the exact same. Like, this is a huge thing for someone who has already got trauma from prison to then have that.
00:16:31
Speaker
And everyone's just a bit like, yeah, you got spiked. Sorry about that. Yeah. And it would have been a really good opportunity for, maybe they still will, but it would have been a really good opportunity for the soap.
00:16:42
Speaker
to like talk about how that is like truly awful but instead the reaction was we will trap you in a van overnight like literally when when um victoria said you you got spite yesterday literally went yesterday i said He's been in a van for like probably 12 hours. Like what would have happened if he'd woken up in the night, presumably?
00:17:08
Speaker
And they're supposed to be really concerned about this PTSD. Presumably he would have been like, I'm now trapped in a van. I don't know where I am This is like awful. Yeah. And like, well, worried you'd attack Harry or something. So like we'll maybe keep an eye on Harry or say like Harry, go and stay with other family members or something or get Robert a bed in someone else's house.
Actors' Performances and Character Callbacks
00:17:27
Speaker
Like rather than just like we locked you in a van and then I came at you with a sedative. was like, wait, John came up with the needle and he's like, it was only a sedative as though that was meant to be like, okay. know we're coming back to my like, stop putting things in people's bloodstreams casually in the street.
00:17:40
Speaker
i think at this point it's more valid. Thank you. I'm glad you're finally recognised. We shouldn't, you know, casually be just injecting people with stuff. Yeah, that was that that was an odd moment. I don't think it was the most successful use of narrative. But, you know, we can forgive them because it's been otherwise so good. And we messaged about this.
00:18:00
Speaker
I think particularly you, because you hadn't seen much of Aaron's past. I think this past couple of weeks has shown what a great actor Danny Miller can be, what great actor Ryan Hawley is. And even, like, John, I know I don't rate the character that much, but I think he's really been, he was so powerful in those prison scenes. He's been good in other ones.
00:18:18
Speaker
And it has felt a bit like Aaron and John have been sort of sleepwalking through this storyline for the past nine months, whatever it is. And it's finally like we needed that injection of Robert to make it exciting and to just really work. And he's he's bringing out such good things in lots of different characters.
00:18:32
Speaker
Yeah, I definitely feel like I'm watching this now. Like, oh, my word. Like, he can really act. Aaron's got so much depth to him. yeah And I wonder whether is that a plot device of like, John just doesn't bring out anything in Aaron. I don't really know. Although we do with those people who've written in who are huge fans of John and Aaron as ah as a couple. So we're we're not like it's not a universal thing from the fan community for sure.
00:18:56
Speaker
Yeah, that is very true. But yeah, no I've really been enjoying it. And especially tying it together with the, I'm currently in like 2015, I think, of my YouTube playlist compilation of all the scenes that have Abbott.
00:19:09
Speaker
Abbott! Abbott! They could have gone for
Character Arcs and Motivations
00:19:12
Speaker
it. Why didn't they go for Abbott? Yeah, you've answered your own question, I suppose.
00:19:20
Speaker
Aaron or Robert. that Yeah, it's like, oh wow. Same guy. Love that for him. And also, so many callbacks to like when they first got together. There's just a lot of sort of like things happening on the roadside, which happened when John and Aaron met.
00:19:39
Speaker
It's their special place. um Just all sorts of callbacks. Do you think about the Delidia at some point? Foraging in the bushes. Yeah. yes she's like become bear grills well like you know there's romulus and remus raised here being raised by wolves or something but so yeah no longer able to speak english because she just howls that's like sam has been around on and off and just no mention of her or what she might be up to
00:20:14
Speaker
yeah know it's been what two months now is she okay probably not but yeah as you as you say aaron and robert or aaron and john are forever having assignations in a lay by so fingers crossed they'll find her tent there somewhere or maybe her corpse i don't know don't say that i love her she's the best which is the best.
00:20:40
Speaker
um So I don't know any story spoilers for this storyline. And we're like we're not doing spoilers on this podcast. So this is just guessing. But yeah, what do you think might come next in the Rob, Ron, John?
00:20:51
Speaker
i think that I hope that Mac and Robert are going to team up and try and bring him down. I think going to have another chat where they're like, we really do have reservations.
00:21:06
Speaker
I don't know what they're going to do. I think they're going to do something. slash it might come together with like some sort of thing on Nate's body where they find drugs. And also, now that Matty is back, a bit like, um what was I going to say, Robert has been working on the farm with him.
00:21:26
Speaker
Yes, which i quite enjoy. And I did think two people who've had trauma post-prison, maybe they will form a bond and chat about stuff being hard.
00:21:37
Speaker
And then maybe Matty will be like, Amy saw Nate in the lake. Although I guess it wouldn't make any difference if they knew about that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know where it's going, but I'm excited to see it unfold. Do you have any hunches?
00:21:50
Speaker
Yeah, well, when we you mentioned Christmas, I do think it might be a reun ah reunion at Christmas. That's my guess. But I guess we're going to get rid of John earlier than that. So my assumption is he might try and do a sort of, you know, almost kill him and then save.
00:22:05
Speaker
Maybe to Victoria, maybe even
Tracy's Arrest and Legal Dynamics
00:22:06
Speaker
to Harry. Trying to be like, you know inner circle could type thing or chas or someone who's like really close to that main group and it will go wrong and he'll be like discovered in the middle i think it's and that's what eventually bring things tumbling down wouldn't be surprised if he does it to robert and he's like this will make everyone think i really am amazing because i've clearly like got over all the history all the drama so much so that i want to save his life But then maybe he will actually kill him. by Oh, no, wait, I don't want him to die. He's not going to die. he'll be caught He'll be caught in the in the act.
00:22:41
Speaker
And maybe Aaron will save him or something, and then he'll see that Aaron wants to be with Robert instead. i Yeah, that would be nice. Something I have found in this whole family dynamic um is that I'm sad that it's never acknowledged that particularly Victoria, but also Robert and John, are aunts and uncles to Sarah.
00:23:00
Speaker
So Sarah's dad is Andy. tugton who a doctor brother ah Robert and Victoria and half-brother of John and when John first turned up they had little conversation and John was just like I never wanted this to be acknowledged on screen again essentially but like when Sarah was up for her appointment and she went with Vanessa and i think it was quite nice having that thing with Vanessa it's also like why is it Vanessa it doesn't really make any sense whereas Victoria that would have been lovely if itd been like Aunty Victoria is going to go with you to these appointments and have a little confidant.
00:23:28
Speaker
Yeah I don't think I've ever seen them speak. No, they just, I mean, it's everything to everyone on this, but they didn't ever acknowledge, and it wasn't like Andy had a bad relationship with Sarah. Obviously he's been on the run for quite a while, but, but you Andy and Sarah had a pretty good relationship, think.
00:23:44
Speaker
So why is Victoria not front and center, in fact, of every storyline on Everdale? That's my question. Wow. Just make this like the Victoria podcast, I guess. ah But that's bringing us to Sarah's storyline. Now, I don't know, you sent me a message.
00:24:00
Speaker
earlier in the week being like,
Cain's Relationships and Emotional Impact
00:24:01
Speaker
that you weren't finding it very interesting. how does it Has that changed? um It has changed, yeah. i still I'm still just like, oh, I want to see what's going to happen with Robert.
00:24:11
Speaker
And so I think I'm bit like, oh, i'm I'm faintly interested in the Sarah thing, but not as much as I probably should be. I was quite, um I was genuinely moved by her sadness after waking up from the operation and finding out that she can't have a child. i was like, that is really gutting.
00:24:29
Speaker
But I think I've just, because I'm meant so in two minds about um whether or not it is a good idea her to have IVF, I maybe don't have strong enough feelings to like really engage with the story.
00:24:41
Speaker
What do you think? Yeah, I mean, I found the thing where she woke up and found out that they've done emergency hysterectomy so moving. I think the actor, think Katie Hill, is so good.
00:24:52
Speaker
She often plays things slightly deadpan, which I guess is the character, but it doesn't mean when she has those big emotional moments, think she does it really powerfully. And um I mean, whether or not it's wise for her or even medically possible, I have no idea, but it did feel a bit like one of those. I've wanted this my whole life, but I have never mentioned it to anyone until three weeks ago. I felt a little bit convenient for the storyline, but I think I just found it really moving because I love her dynamic with Charity.
00:25:21
Speaker
really like her dynamic with Robert, not Robert, Jacob. She's never said I was Robert. Uncle Robert, not of interest. I mean, to fair, I don't speak to my uncles very often, so potentially, you know, makes sense. But they don't dot don't live in my village.
00:25:38
Speaker
i Yeah, i I did find it really moving. i don't I think like you, I'm like, I don't really care whether or not she has a baby or before this happened, but I think it's just the emotions of her going through it.
00:25:48
Speaker
um i mean, heaven knows we don't need another child in the show that is never seen or acknowledged. so and But it was a good, like powerful, powerful week of episodes for her, I think.
00:26:02
Speaker
Yeah. Something I did think was like her eggs have been harvested and Jacob has donated sperm. So like, could someone else be a surrogate? i was sorry Oh, maybe Charity's going become like a surrogate. I know, I was thinking, do you think Charity will feel like I have to show you that I am for this?
00:26:21
Speaker
Can you, yeah, I don't know. It's a kind of messed up thing that would happen. It does feel like something that is inevitably going to happen now said it actually. Thank you so much. Watch your space.
Soap Week Promotion and Community Engagement
00:26:32
Speaker
Side note, we both briefly got obsessed with Emma Atkins, who plays um Charity's Instagram account, which is entirely, and I mean entirely, Pictures of Trees.
00:26:43
Speaker
And they're lovely photos, but I'm just picturing the PR session where they're like, so here are the storylines coming up. Here's what you can and can't say on social media, but like we'd love you to promo like maybe the photo shoot we've done for this. And Emma's just like, I saw a silver birch.
00:26:57
Speaker
It's going on the gram. Is it okay if I just stick to the blossom? yeah I will never, never acknowledge I'm an avide i was solely b in be an arborealist.
00:27:10
Speaker
She's found her niche and like, who are we to try and drag her out of She shouldn't, no, she must never stray from it. and I did feel really sad for Charity as well. Like she timed that conversation terribly.
00:27:21
Speaker
um But like, I do think she was like, I'm supporting you because it's your decision. i I am paying for your IVF. But I don't necessarily think it's the right thing.
00:27:33
Speaker
And I think kind of fine to share that, but don't share that then. I'm really enjoying the chemistry between Charity and Cain. Yeah, well, they've been back and forth over the years as a couple. know, I did some reading, even though I think, are they not cousins? They are indeed cousins, yes. ah tend to yeah i was like I've never really seen it, you know, her and Mac.
00:27:55
Speaker
Oh, really? Yeah, i don't really get it. I do think, I do prefer Charity and Cain as... like friends or supportive of like relatives like we're coming together as grandparents of sarah and stuff i i don't like i think it's the cousin thing i can't get out my head when they've done romantic storylines i did think for a while that mac and aaron might have a little thing um that seemed to be heading in that direction but um maybe may not uh was wearing um a jack wills t-shirt and normally don't have logos on anything
00:28:27
Speaker
Oh, a little Sponcon there for Mac. I'd like him to have more of a story. In fact, we had the thing, you remember the like the flash forwards in New Year or whatever it was? Yeah.
00:28:39
Speaker
We've had Caleb dying on the table. We've had the body thrown in the river. We've not yet had Mac running in terror through the woods. So that's coming that's still to come.
00:28:50
Speaker
Yeah, I wonder who that would be. Unless that is away from John when he has like rumbled him. Yeah, maybe... he and Robert gang up on John and then John's like coming for him.
00:29:02
Speaker
Cause I did think all those flash forwards would have happened by now. So it's quite exciting that there are some that still haven't. It's nice that they're spinning them out. Now before we do highlights and things, uh, just want to say, mentioned Emma Atkins Instagram, but she's not the only woman on Instagram.
00:29:17
Speaker
Dingle the way has an Instagram now. Are we collectively a woman? You're a woman. I am a man. Yeah.
00:29:29
Speaker
Anyway, dinglealltheway.pod, find us on Instagram. and Lizzie is doing, i was going to say the lion's share, but it is all of it. I'm just a supportive friend. um And we love the support that you give.
00:29:42
Speaker
And it's one of the places that we will be joining and celebrating Soap Week, which is seventh to 13th of July. Now, the good people at the um Conversation Street podcast about Coronation Street, which I'm sure many of you listen to.
00:29:55
Speaker
of set up Soap Week. And through that week, there's just going to be different topics, different things to celebrate soaps and their fans. And we might do a little bonus episode about that. We might just put on socials, TBC.
00:30:07
Speaker
But yeah, it's a great time, I think, to... you know whether you just watch on your own and just tweet about it or whether you've got a podcast or a blog or an instagram just spend the time being like yay soaps and i mean i've seen i've been watching soaps for gosh 27 years um just just one soap for the most of that time neighbors but i found so much joy in the van communities which really adds to the show
Social Settings and Character Interactions
00:30:30
Speaker
particularly those who can sort of gently mock the thing we love um so watch this space for soap week anything to add on that lizzie i'm excited because i think i'm bringing a very different vibe to you've been watching the soaps for 27 years i've been watching soaps for one year yeah and it's quite fun being like wow all this stuff has been going on under the radar or under my personal radar um for a really long time and now i get to enjoy being part of it so yeah just really excited to have been asked to join in um
00:31:02
Speaker
And yeah, can't wait to see what people share. And it looks like there's some really fun prompts of things to share on Instagram or wherever you do social media stuff. So we'll definitely be resharing some of those as well.
00:31:16
Speaker
Fun. Hooray, Soapes. um Anything more you want to add on Robert or Sarah before we get to our little stray highlights? I don't think so. Great. Hit me with your first highlight. Okay, my first highlight is um an element of Tracy's arrest. And we'll talk a bit, I'll talk a bit more about Tracy's arrest for Nate's murder a bit. But ah my highlight is, I think this is probably the worst thing about her being brought in for questioning is that Frankie had to be looked after by Claudette. Oh, Yeah. Poor, poor Frankie. Like, I can only imagine the sorts of very normal things that she was being chastised for doing.
00:31:58
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, surely Claudette doesn't want to do this. Nobody want really wants to be with Claudette. And then shortly afterwards, Dawn said that Evan was with her as well. And like, I just think if she is running some sort of horrible playgroup...
00:32:15
Speaker
How is she doing that alongside recently becoming the full-time receptionist at the doctor's surgery? That's so true. yeah i mean, unless she's just taking them to the doctor's surgery and they're just like playing with the pens in the waiting room.
00:32:29
Speaker
Yeah, or maybe she's of enlisted them as semi-receptionists. She's probably employing them. If anyone was going to bring back child labour, it would be Claudette.
00:32:40
Speaker
And what we know about Eve, at least, is that she has a ah ah thirst to play with pills. Like, she longs for it, so she she's still man of born. um And goodness knows, no one's looking after her in that house, so presumably Claudette's all over that as well.
00:32:55
Speaker
Yeah, so um yeah, I just can't wait to hear a bit more about all of that. Hopefully she'll be mentioning that the sort of child-minding duties. um But more widely on Tracy's arrest slash her banning people from funerals, um I had, I think, one of my favourite lines in the whole of Emmerdale.
00:33:16
Speaker
It's so, so mundane. Paddy says to Kane, Yeah, we saw that Tracy was back. She was buying milk. but Huge, huge.
00:33:30
Speaker
It's like the most uninspiring line I've ever heard. But then Kane's reaction it is huge.
00:33:38
Speaker
So that's quite nice. um Yeah. And I did think if you don't want people at the funeral, then maybe don't meet to plan the funeral in a cafe where everyone can just like turn up and hear about it.
00:33:51
Speaker
Yeah, when Trace like, this is a private conversation. It's that you're literally in ah in a cafe. Like, yeah if only there was a vicarage in this community. If only.
00:34:01
Speaker
There is not. And therefore, all his official vicaring business must be done under Nicola's gossiping eye. and also enjoyed um when Belle went back to talk to her about it.
00:34:15
Speaker
um Trace sort of briefly... slipping into a spoken word piece as as she said about Cain did I not make myself perfectly clear i do not want him anywhere near absolutely beautiful yeah really nice And that's a good link, actually, to the other expert opinion that we had in this week.
Carrie's Role and Family Dynamics
00:34:37
Speaker
Yes, I'm really excited about this one. So I was watching her saying that firstly, Kane wasn't able to come to the funeral, wasn't allowed to come to the funeral, and then expanding that to all of the dingles after Belle's sort of well-intentioned but clumsy attempt to getting together. And I was thinking, you've got I know it's in a church because you've got vicar involved.
00:34:56
Speaker
Can you ban people from a funeral? So i asked my dad, a retired vicar, Can you ban people from a funeral? And here's what you have to say. It would be very difficult to exclude someone one unless there was already an exclusion order or a threat of violence.
00:35:15
Speaker
Certainly I've been involved in situations where a minder was appointed to to make sure someone was kept on the edge. And sometimes people have ah discreetly arranged very private funerals which didn't advertise to anyone outside of the family or outside of the group that they wanted to attend taking place. I've even had that with weddings.
00:35:44
Speaker
But you're not going to legally be able to prohibit someone from coming to a funeral which is normally regarded as a public occasion, certainly if it involves a burial in a churchyard.
00:35:57
Speaker
So there you go, Tracy, I'm afraid. Unless you quickly file a restraining order. um i mean, when the danger of violence thing is always a possibility with any Dingle around, I guess. but but and And especially Cain. Yeah. So there is that. She could just be like, he's never not beating people up.
00:36:15
Speaker
but um But if not, then I'm afraid they come they can come to the funeral if you hold it in a church. if you Obviously, it's a private funeral. um you can do what you like. But in a church, it's a public service. So Dingle's even worry. You don't need to convince her. Just turn up.
00:36:29
Speaker
desperate to know kind of more about this minder situation that your dad alluded to yeah who was the high one yeah i mean I've spent years living in a vicarage trying to get my dad to gossip of about things and he has always refused so he's so good he's very good at his job um and being a good man whereas I was just like You've got so much inside it until I don't understand why I'm not allowed to hear it.
00:36:55
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, if I were in a similar situation, I would definitely be sort of the leaky sieve of the church community. Did you know? Yeah, and that's why neither of us have been called to ministry as of yet. As of yet.
00:37:12
Speaker
um What's your first highlight? ah My first highlight, I'm actually stealing from Sally who commented on the Instagram, um on our Instagram. And I loved this point, which is about, we have not talked about it, but Joe got a ransom note on his bed.
00:37:25
Speaker
I saw that comment actually, I thought it was very funny. Yeah, it's just like, why has whoever did this, we don't know who it is yet, cut out all these things from a newspaper, stuck one of these paper, rather than just simply typing it out and printing it.
00:37:39
Speaker
It's such a good point because you only do that to disguise handwriting. And in this day and age of Microsoft Word, absolutely needless. It could have just been an Aptos size 12. But not. They could have had fun with it. They could have, you know, picked whatever they wanted. they could have gone book, bookman, the gothic. Windings. yeah Windings would have been tricky because you just had that being like, I don't know what this is going to say.
00:38:03
Speaker
That is true. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, surely going to all the effort of cutting it out and sticking it down, they've just, it's riddled with their fingerprints at this time. And yeah. and yeah um the time I mean, i i respect the time they've put into their bullying or whatever it is.
00:38:20
Speaker
um But yeah, it did feel like it was leading into the drama more than necessarily practical, which maybe helps us work out who it could be, I guess. Like who would needlessly make it dramatic?
00:38:31
Speaker
Maybe a child, maybe Clemmie's back in biz. So true. Yeah, I did think it was unusual that um Joe would assume... what was going on was Billy when like the whole village hates you, Joe. Like yeah of course a massive limousine crash where a lot of people died. Like it's really not just Billy who's got beef with you.
00:38:53
Speaker
yeah And Billy is like constantly threatening you with violence in person. and He's not going to key your car. Like he's not, yeah he's not 13. Yeah. like he would just do it if he was gonna do it um and why did joe get that same stabbing guy back when he did such a bad job last time like he completely fluffed it with caleb and he was like yeah sure you know what you can do that again the and this time he did seem i mean i could do what he did this time which is just hang around in the woods a bit or not even in the woods just wander up and down the main street come out later and be like yeah he was quite busy the guy he wanted me to stab so could i
00:39:24
Speaker
have my three thousand pounds whatever it was yeah the thing is he just had like a lot on his plate today so yeah all best though and it was so vague like could just scare me and i I respected the uh the ah but thug being like I do need specifics because for some people that's like stabbing for some people that's just like like rustling some leaves for outside their window where are we on the scale yeah can you imagine if someone hired
Humor in Emmerdale and Character Quirks
00:39:51
Speaker
a hitman to scare either you or I they really wouldn't need to do that it's a low low low bar like if they just like cut my electrics for one second I'd be like okay again back into witness protection act it's becoming like a yo-yo for me
00:40:03
Speaker
My doorbell rang today and I did not know what to do myself. I jumped so high because all of my friends just walk in. Like nobody ever rings the doorbell. was like, what does this mean? it was Royal Mail.
00:40:17
Speaker
Yeah, but it could have been that it could have been anyone. And we do know that if people are intending to do some sort of sneak attack, they will announce themselves with the door ring. It's only polite. You've got to follow protocol.
00:40:29
Speaker
I must admit, I was quite distracted in the ransom scene. or run Is it is a ransom note if they haven't taken anything hostage? That's a great point, actually. a threat Whatever it's called um I was quite distracted from the threatening note because I was thinking about Joe's room, which is another one where you can look through the window and actually see the outside world.
00:40:49
Speaker
And I will say it's a lovely sash window, which I have commented on before. They've repaired very quickly, it seems. Yeah, they repaired it very quickly. um was that And I couldn't tell whether it was actually filmed at Home Farm.
00:41:02
Speaker
But I might go back and check. I don't know if anybody who um is following our Instagram saw. I recently took a picture outside Home Farm because realised drive past it like quite frequently.
00:41:15
Speaker
um But I didn't realise it was there. After our episode where I was like, oh yeah, on the tour, they literally just told us like the road name of work. They film it. I looked up where that road name was and it's like really close to my house. So I was like, great, I'm going to go have a look, which I did.
00:41:30
Speaker
It was gorgeous. I took a little picture. um But yeah, I couldn't tell from the shot whether they actually film it at the building. But presumably, like it looked like it's just being used as like an actual residence.
00:41:44
Speaker
So that'd be kind of annoying for them. Maybe they've just got some good green screen going on. Yeah, true. But we're not used to that. no, no, no. no That is coming, because I'm pretty sure they don't do the internal shots there, it could be wrong. James will James, who knows all these things. so james But, like, why would they do green screen there?
00:42:04
Speaker
as opposed to, like they like, they always just have, like, you call it blinds closed or, like, an obscured glass or whatever to the outside world. Why would they just be like, oh, you know what? Here, you can see some trees.
00:42:16
Speaker
Curious. Who knows? Interesting. Curiouser and curiouser. um My second highlight goes actually back to Sarah's storyline, which is you've probably noticed that she refers to Cain as grumpy rather than like grumpy.
00:42:31
Speaker
And I do vaguely remember this being a thing when she was very young, they decided to use that as a nickname. And it got me thinking like, how old are you before that feels awkward? Because too deep to me it felt awkward when she, a woman in her twenties was referring to her grandfather as grumpy.
00:42:48
Speaker
And it made me think- thought was quite sweet. I mean, that is an angle on it that I simply can't take, but I'm glad that you do. But it did make me think, my dad's dad, ah we called Grandad Tractor because he was a farm labourer.
00:43:02
Speaker
And we were very excited about him having a tractor. He died when I was eight. And so it's become fine now to keep calling him Grandad Tractor to now when I'm like on the cusp of 40. Because...
00:43:14
Speaker
because he died such a long time ago, but I think had he lived, I don't think I could be now saying, oh, hi, granddad tractor to a man in his 80s 90s, whatever you've been, um without feeling like I was infantilizing myself. But maybe maybe
Carrie's Future Role and Farming Content
00:43:28
Speaker
it would be sweet. I just i just wish she'd call him granddad or frankly, Kane.
00:43:32
Speaker
Like, you know, go first name if you want to, but grumpy. It's like, Sarah, you're about to be a mother, maybe. Well, sadly not. But... I wish you wouldn't bring that up so sensitive so sorry Sarah but you're like you're in your twenty s why are you using some sort of childish nickname but is that just because all my grandparents died when before I was 21 I never like had this just like a ah fun nickname for people um and I don't think that that's too I think it's just funny because he is really grumpy like I think like it is a little childish if a child says it
00:44:06
Speaker
But like I can see us in our friendship group having someone who we just call grumpy. You do have a friendship group that does feel like it has been scripted by some very endearing TV show.
00:44:18
Speaker
Yeah, I do plan to write a sitcom about the last five to ten years of my life once everything's no longer on some sort of government record. I don't know what that means. When it's been declassified, that's what meant.
00:44:33
Speaker
We've not been doing criminal. Lizzie's friends are from prison for the most part. And that's why so passionate about the justice system. As you should be, as you should be.
00:44:44
Speaker
Thank you. Yes. So that's my very small highlight. is like grumpy. I'm voting to change it, but it's not going to happen. Okay, fair.
00:44:56
Speaker
i'm I'm happy with grumpy. there my gracious Do you have another highlight? I have another highlight and it's just Cammy. We love Cammy. I just think he's been great. Like I'm really warm to him. I think the actors really like got into a good groove with everything. He's got like, I don't know. Cammy's got some good relationships going on. i think he's just a really great character. Like he's really cheeky, but he's really kind.
00:45:20
Speaker
um like the way that he has been so kind to Sarah through all of this has been really nice um and he's been great with Vinny as well which by the way we haven't had a chance yes sort of gone quiet on that front hasn't it yeah but I um Simon sent me a clip of when Aaron is like wrestling with his sexuality and goes into kiss Adam slash Andy.
00:45:46
Speaker
Adam. Yeah. Yeah. um And there's so many similarities of him just being like, but I'm not gay. Like, no, no, no, don't be silly. And he's like, you just tried to kiss me. He's like, no, I didn't. Like, it's fine. I didn't.
00:46:00
Speaker
um So that was an interesting throwback if it was intentional. don't know. think it must have been. Surely. But yeah, I thought Cammie's just been really great with Vinny being like, we can talk about it if you want to.
00:46:12
Speaker
But you don't seem to, so we can just leave it and just be friends. They're like, yeah, I think it's really fun. um And I really like... cammy and kim interacting thought was hilarious when he was trying to distract her i again i mentioned last time i liked that cammy didn't know who clammy was i loved that kim didn't know who cammy was i just like it when there's that realistic like why would kim know who cammy is she doesn't care why would they have interacted yeah and so i enjoyed that she was just like please go away and his like it was it was really fun i want more of that dynamic
Episode Conclusion and Audience Engagement
00:46:42
Speaker
So good. Yeah, I definitely want more of that.
00:46:44
Speaker
um And what was it that she said? She's like, no, I am not tripping. Something like that was so good. And she could see she was enjoying it because she doesn't get to do a lot of like comedy stuff. And she i she was good at it.
00:46:58
Speaker
Yeah. yeah I can't see any reason why Cammy would move in there, but i want him to at some point. oh my word yeah but there's no reason for any of these people to move in with each other they all do um i also thought it showed that he's really sweet like backing jacob to um lovely the like sperm donor of him just being like oh you know what yeah jacob's a really good guy like after their history and like competitiveness just being like yeah that sounds like it's what's best for sarah great yeah um and yes on the whole vinnie camby thing i'm thinking that i'm sure we'll come back to that and maybe we can focus on it more when it does come up but
00:47:32
Speaker
um it may well be that Vinny turns out to be bisexual or maybe it is just like getting something out of system I don't know but I do feel sorry for Gabby just before we watched or before we started watching did have a wedding to Nikki who turned out to be gay so I really don't want him to be gay and not bisexual just because like I don't want Gabby have to go through that again which also her mum I think twice had married had weddings or at least engagements to gay men it's like this is wow i didn't know these things would run in the family you who knew who knew but it sounds like we are getting a wedding at some point i have had rumor the rumor mill that the wedding is well i don't know if the actual wedding finish but the actual event will take place gosh yeah yeah and hopefully they'll get back that poor woman who did ah aaron johns who was um
00:48:24
Speaker
managed to last most of the day just sitting by the side of the road waiting for them to to come back. Yeah, bless her. She did not get anything else done that day. ah My final highlight is a very small one which is in the line of Emmerle refusing to refilm things when when Marlon had a scene where he went said to Nicola or whoever was serving in the cafe, well he meant to say garçon meaning waiter in French but clearly the actor playing Marlon does not know how to pronounce Garcon and so said Garcon and we just kept going.
00:48:58
Speaker
It's like maybe no one else on set knew how to say Garcon but it did feel bold of A, them to put it in the script B, the actor who plays Marlon, whose name I can't remember to be like, I don't know this word. something?
00:49:11
Speaker
oh Yes, Mark Charnock, that's it. It's like, I don't know this word I'm just going run at it and just say it, i guess. And then the people filming just be like, well, that yeah that's a take that's the take we'll use the and and james tells us i i know keep referring to james but um who wrote in who has been to the set and talked to various cast he's like they film everything at least three times it's like well did you say gark on three times and i just said like boom nailed it actually just gonna run with that yeah and for any pronunciation advice that you need emma del we're
00:49:45
Speaker
but admittedly we will pronounce it in a southern accent but you can work with that maybe that was just the northern way of saying speaking french speaking french i don't know how they teach it up here who can say ah but yeah that was it's hard to call it a highlight but something else i just wanted to you know bring certainly something light um my final one which isn't really anything that happened in emmerdale But my final highlight of watching Emmerdale recently has been that I watched a couple of episodes with my mum.
00:50:19
Speaker
um We went down to see some family in Bath earlier this week. So I got her to watch with me. And was so interesting because she's never watched a soap in her life. And I think even though I haven't been watching it that long, there are things I'm now blind to, which she commented on.
00:50:37
Speaker
but was For example, she was like, sometimes there's very, very short scenes. like sometimes the scenes are barely like 20 seconds long. I was like, yeah, that's so true. Like you just like pop into someone's kitchen and they say a few lines to someone and then it's over.
00:50:53
Speaker
um and my mum also is just very sweet and so when Jay also what a shame to see Jay again what a shame but when um Jay said something or other to someone I think it was um to Robert being like oh you got the sack mum just went oh he's really nasty really is and then later And then later she was like, um when Dawn and Joe were like chatting and Joe was like, someone's key my car, I bet it's Billy, blah, blah, blah. She was like, why is Dawn with him? He doesn't seem very kind.
00:51:33
Speaker
And I was like, that's so true. like That actually just sums up the whole situation. like He's not kind at all. and You don't even know the half of it. But yeah, she was saying about how like so much happens in an episode. um And I was like, so much happens in an episode and so much happens to every single character.
00:51:53
Speaker
Did she want to keep watching was she like, I'm done now? I don't think she'll keep watching, but she was interested to know what happened to Robert because we stopped, like the final episode that we watched together was when he was just being bundled into the van and then we didn't know what happened, so...
00:52:09
Speaker
Yeah. Great. Well, I hope she'll become a dedicated Dingle All The Way listener. She did say she would listen to an episode. so I want to think well of me, so maybe not.
00:52:22
Speaker
I think she already does think well of you. currently so i need to preserve that never i've never met her but yeah but i hope one day it baffles me that you haven't met her i really thought you had but maybe it's just because of that um whatsapp we're in a whatsapp group with my parents a number of our mutual friends a number of simon's friends who i've never met and all we ever do on it is post our um scores from the new york times connections puzzle yes and they so occasionally offer encouragement to one another i saw a couple of them the circus this morning so
00:52:54
Speaker
that's all I said about that not as I expected to hear from you but sure okay shall we pick our random you'll use our random name generator to get a member of the cast actually before we do can I just say were just talking about whatsapp oh yeah somebody mentioned the village whatsapp again yes that's true and I am dying to hear more of the village whatsapp like what's going on there I want to see screenshots I want to know what they were saying to each other Like, I want to see just how many emojis Mandy's putting in. I think it's it's probably gold. And if the Emmerdale Instagram account aren't planning to produce any content, which is like screenshots of that chat, then they're already missing a trick. Yeah, if someone has to, maybe it should be you.
00:53:41
Speaker
Gosh, yeah, Mandy would use so many emojis. Like so many. Yeah, and like Bear would accidentally put something that was meant for so just for Paddy, but in that chat. Yeah, absolutely. There'd be like GIFs going in there. I think, um what's the doctor's name?
00:53:57
Speaker
Liam. Liam. Yeah, I think Liam would be putting in like annoying GIFs that don't quite make sense, but that he finds really funny. I think he'd also be like, there's this opera going on in Leeds. Does anyone want to come with me? And nobody would reply. Yes.
00:54:14
Speaker
He would definitely have a membership for Opera North. He would just sometimes drag someone along and they'd be like, I hate my lie. Yeah, Chas doesn't want to go, does she? Bless her heart. No, absolutely not.
00:54:25
Speaker
Yeah, well, hopefully we'll more about it. um And it must be a blaze constantly. ab blaze. Anyway, let's do our random character generator. Yeah, and the person we're going to talk about is... It's Carrie Wyatt.
00:54:41
Speaker
Aww, I like Carrie. I think she's been very kind to... um eric recently yeah i i think she's one of those characters who she's still there and i think she's still great but has lost like whatever family group she had so obviously amy was her daughter who has died and she had another daughter like a surprise daughter who was in the show during the time i wasn't watching but she was i think she in there for a couple years called chloe she had a baby with mac so I haveve have no idea what she was like I think from what I can see of the fan fan community not well liked as a character wait I briefly watched a few episodes where she was in it when I first started watching Emmerdale because was like I'll watch a few from different time periods and Mac was like about to leave her charity I have seen the bit where they were falling off a cliff or something and he grabbed to charity instead of her I saw a clip of that I thought gosh this looks wild yeah it was a lot
00:55:39
Speaker
I'm trying to think if she's had any other or she had was that her well Dan she was married to guy called his brother came in he had his ex-wife and her new wife so they had this whole like an Amelia of course who was in for a while was uh was part of that family group um and they were never like the central family but there was like a bit more going on and so I love Kerry I think she's often really funny but also quite brings a lot heart to it but it's a bit hard to work out like where does she fit into emma dale at the moment i need her to like somehow i mean you've got she got the eric thing that that you mentioned which feels slightly odd but quite nice um which i guess dates from amy was eric's foster daughter at one point um but yeah it feels a bit like she hasn't really got a place and i would like her to get a place because she brings a lot to the show i think
00:56:27
Speaker
I think she'll probably have a romance with someone soon, right? And then that'll like lock her into some kind of grouping. Yeah, but then what if it's Jay? That's my question. No, it wouldn't be. He's so annoying. I really... we haven't... Yeah.
00:56:41
Speaker
I just... I mean, like maybe they have in the past. I can't remember. But but I really don't want that. But who would she have? it Who could she have a romance with? Unless it's like someone new. there anyone in the show? I think maybe if Charity's being a bit nasty, she could have an affair with Max.
00:56:55
Speaker
That's true. That could be funny. As in not that I'm suggesting that would be a good thing. yeah just think I could maybe see it happening. Yeah, I could see her and Marlon being quite funny. I don't think Ross would. but Maybe, maybe.
00:57:08
Speaker
I mean, so many unlikely romances happen on this show. That's true. Yeah, maybe Marlon. Maybe Eric, who knows? Oh, goodness, don't. Eric just kind of 80. Yeah, can we talk about fact that Eric and Bear are supposed to both be 80? Yeah.
00:57:24
Speaker
Is Bear 80? Oh, I missed that. Yeah. um But he is played by someone in his mid-60s, so... Because that's how old we guessed he was last time, wasn't it? Oh, maybe that's why I think that that's true.
00:57:36
Speaker
We can look that up. I thought that he was supposed to be 80, but I'm not sure. Who knows? I will say I don't care at all about his storyline, but largely just because he hasn't done anything in the year that we've been watching. He's barely been in it, so it's hard to initially connect with him.
00:57:49
Speaker
It is tough. um We need to do our final section, which is, has there been any farming content this last two weeks? Any farming in Emmerdale. And yeah, we've seen Robert get a job on the farm.
00:58:02
Speaker
Oh yeah, that's true. but Yeah. I guess, what qualifies as farming content? Like mentioning that there's a farm or... Well, we saw some shots of him doing what most people do when they work at the farm in Emmerdale, which is just moving things from one place to maybe a metre and a half to the right. That's true.
00:58:18
Speaker
Their main job is just tiny movements of heavy goods. Okay, cool. Then I think they've taken the box for a small amount of farming content in the last year. I can't think of any other farming that's happened in that time.
00:58:30
Speaker
No, because I think the cannabis farm hasn't been returned to no and they did to. No. They got the bill, didn't they, about their slurry thing, which they were reluctant to say how much it was because... Because Yorkshire Water themselves are also reluctant to say that on the record.
00:58:47
Speaker
They certainly passed it around, a few people who gasped, so... And they did see do you see how many zeros that had. So, you know, nice. It's a good round number though. That's nice.
00:58:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's, that's good of them. It's memorable. but
00:59:03
Speaker
so yeah, we've got some farming. Thank you, Amadelle, for keeping up the farming end. And I guess that's the end. So ah do get in touch, dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com. You can find us dinglealltheway.pod at Instagram.
00:59:18
Speaker
Who knows which other socials we'll have conquered by the next session. Maybe keep an out on LinkedIn and in case you decide to flourish. You can do the LinkedIn. I don't remember my LinkedIn account deleted that a few years ago.
00:59:31
Speaker
And we'll look we yeah, we might be back for little, we've not done any little bonus apps once ah yet, but we we will be looking at classic episodes at some point. A couple of people got in touch with ideas and we might pop up during soap week either here or on socials.
00:59:45
Speaker
Yeah. And we, I love getting your emails. I can't speak for Simon, but I love getting your emails. So thanks so much for sending those in. We always love to hear from you, especially hearing where you're from. We've had quite a few from Southern States, America, it would seem.
01:00:00
Speaker
um And, you know, some from England, but I guess if anybody doesn't put where their location is when they contact us, we could just assume they're from Utah. Yeah. Why not? Great.
01:00:10
Speaker
Yeah. And I particularly enjoyed Cassie's email. That was really fun. So thank you, Cassie, and who's just started committing to Emma Delverns. It's going to help her commit to it, apparently. So fingers crossed that's what it does. yeah I really love that.
01:00:22
Speaker
Great. Thanks, everyone. And we'll be back with a full episode in a couple of weeks. And as I to say, maybe bonus one before then. Watch this space. Yep. Bye. Bye.