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The creepy cottage (Emmerdale 11-29 August 2025)
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Our latest musings on what’s been going on in Emmerdale village, including the logistics of keeping someone alive in a forest cellar, Claudette’s rare friendly moment and Lizzie potentially finding she has, in fact, had enough farming content (for now).
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Introduction and Recent Events
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to Dingle All The Way where we're going to be talking about recent events in Emmerdale. I'm Simon. And I'm Lizzie.
Emmerdale and Holidays
00:00:09
Speaker
and we're back from a little hiatus and Lizzie I do want to say i think you probably should before you book any future holidays just email the Emmerdale press team be like is it going to be a big time in Emmerdale?
00:00:19
Speaker
i meetek and short do I need to cancel my holiday? Yeah I am concerned because I'm away at the end of September for like a week And it does seem that they they plan for big things to happen whenever I leave the country.
00:00:36
Speaker
Yeah. And that is spiteful of them. It's quite aggressive, actually, I think.
Watching Abroad and Spoilers
00:00:43
Speaker
And you've come back and you've blitzed the episodes. actually know you're watching some them abroad, weren't you?
00:00:47
Speaker
Yeah. Now that they ah putting them on YouTube. I was watching some from my Airbnb in France, which is fun. And I don't know if they listened to us slash psychic corner, but they have changed what they call the videos on i was going to say on YouTube. They no longer have enormous spoilers in the title.
00:01:09
Speaker
I know. was so pleased when they did that. And we obviously get little sort of Instagram reaction faces, not Instagram, YouTube reaction faces of people looking shocked every day. But no huge twist in the in the title, which is a blessing and a relief.
00:01:23
Speaker
Yeah. And I think because they also used to have like exclamation marks at the end of it, it would just always feel really like insincere or just like a bit jokey about stuff that isn't jokey.
00:01:35
Speaker
So it's nice to be rid of that. Yeah, and I was hoping they might just do like full episode, exclamation mark, 23rd, exclamation mark, August, exclamation mark, just to bring some of that energy. But no, they've gone quite down the line.
00:01:48
Speaker
The raw enthusiasm.
Mac's Return Twist
00:01:52
Speaker
And yeah, so obviously the big thing that's happened is that, well, might have said previously, Mac is dead, but we now know. Well, I will say, despite being shot through seemingly his heart with a crossbow,
00:02:08
Speaker
We, those of us who, you know, know some soap logic did say, well, we have not seen a dead body. If you don't see a dead body, they're probably not dead. Yeah. Do we think that, so obviously he shot him with a crossbow, which why does he have a crossbow in that van? So weird, so creepy.
00:02:26
Speaker
And then he, i think we're led to believe He smashed his head in with a rock, but maybe he just threw the rock at the other rock that was next to him or something. That was also an incredibly tough watch, like real, really violent, really haunting.
00:02:42
Speaker
Hated watching that. And now it's like, and it was misleading. They were lying to us the whole time. Yeah, I found that I've messaged you like I did. I was like watching between my fingers. It was so tense. And they did have very overpowering background music to the point where it felt like I was watching a music video at times.
00:02:57
Speaker
Yeah, I did intentionally watch it whilst I was doing something else to try and pick the heat out the situation because I was like, I can't get too into this. It's going to scare me. But it was still really a lot to watch.
00:03:10
Speaker
It really was. And maybe he was like, it it did seem like he was going to smash his head in with a rock, but maybe he was, you know, like otters just show off their favourite rocks. Maybe he was just like, look at my rock. You're so right. I think that is exactly what was happening. It's like, so you misunderstood, just a real, I guess, petrophile. That's a word I need to say carefully. and It's, I guess, somebody loves rocks.
00:03:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:37
Speaker
to You can keep that in the edit if you want. ah think Petrophile. They've got enunciating. um Yeah, so Mac is still alive. i watched that like 15 minutes ago and I literally, when he like moved, I literally said out loud, he's still alive?
00:03:58
Speaker
Yeah, so so creepy. And and like I guess John must be feeding him. and i And I was wondering, is he shooting these various deer to like give Mac raw venison? Is that his solution? Yeah.
00:04:10
Speaker
Like, I did think, like, why on earth is he shooting these deer? This is so unnecessary and so weird. And then, yeah, you're right. When I saw that he'd sort of hauled Mac away in this cellar, I was like, are the deer for him? But, like, surely there's a corner shop. Just buy him a sandwich.
00:04:26
Speaker
Yeah, it would be easier just to bring a tin of soup or something, wouldn't it? I was watching those deer scenes being like, are you allowed to just hunt deer? And then realised that technically not allowed to hunt humans. So maybe, like, John isn't following by the rulebook on this one.
00:04:38
Speaker
Yeah, true. I think you do need a license to hunt, but you i mean you certainly need a license to kill, and I don't think that John has one. ah and My dad used to sign hunting licenses because as a vicar, he's one of the like professions that's allowed to do it and always used to make him me really cross. It's like, no, leave the rabbits alone. oh Was that your, I was going to say your villain origin story, but like vegetarian origin story?
00:05:02
Speaker
I was vegetarian already at this point. I became vegetarian when was 15. um and became quite you know an active anti-killing animals guy for a while. Now I'm more of a sort of recreational anti-killing animals guy.
00:05:19
Speaker
So what else do we think is going to happen with this whole John, Mac, Robert, Aaron?
Nate's Death Revelation
00:05:28
Speaker
Well, should we take a step back for those? it Because we know there are a a handful of people who listen to this who don't actually watch the episodes. Do you want to take us through why Mac was a target and what happened yeah so we know ah not many other people in the village in fact i don't think anybody else in the village knows that John killed Nate I enjoy that we were in the village in that we know but others in the village don't know like we're part of the village community now
00:05:54
Speaker
Look, we're the only Emmerdale villagers who know John killed Nate. And obviously that's had huge ramifications for lots of different people in the village because of his family links and marriage and children. and so everyone's really like, gosh, we hate whoever killed Nate.
00:06:12
Speaker
It was pinned on somebody else. But the the police are now sort of doubtful that this person that they think did it actually did it. And now Mac has found an old scrapbook that John, for some reason, A, made.
00:06:29
Speaker
Heaps in his van. That was quite sad, wasn't And Mac saw a photo of John... with a guy who picked up all of Nate's belongings and claimed to be a removal man.
00:06:44
Speaker
So Mac is like, right, I guess that whoever asked this removal man to pick up your stuff was the guy that killed you. and that must be John John was like I saw that you saw that photo and now I'm going to kill you and chased him through the woods with a crossbow and shot him and then we thought smacked him me over the head with a rock and killed him but and now he's been found in a sort of wood forested cellar alive so John he was
00:07:19
Speaker
He was found, i suppose, by the camera, not by anybody of any plot interest. um John's obviously just been keeping him there and like feeding him mushrooms or something. And I was interested to know what this fake removal man thinks has happened. Because he's like, sure, I'm willing to lie about this around a guy who was murdered. Does he know that John killed him? Or is he just like, sure, anything for John. Anything for that charismatic ball of energy.
00:07:47
Speaker
Yeah, it is puzzling to me that anybody would do anything for John. But I think it's quite, from my limited experience with soaps, it's quite soap, isn't it? Of like, people go through stuff together and then suddenly it's like, I would die for you. I would do anything for you, no questions asked. And so they just do that.
00:08:02
Speaker
Yeah, guess. And the police are obviously like, well, we don't need to investigate if this man actually owns removal firm or not. We'll just be like, yeah. It's truly none of their business. I was so impressed by some actual police work they did around the suicide note that John faked for Owen.
00:08:17
Speaker
And they were like, well, it autosaved after he died. It's like, A, that's like amazingly precise understanding of time of death. Like, I don't know how they did that. But also using the vagaries of Microsoft Word saving procedure to do some actual investigation. It's like, this is like forensic.
00:08:34
Speaker
Yeah. And normally the police do little to nothing. So... Yeah, in Emmerdale, yeah. Yeah, in Emmerdale, this is not a statement. There wasn't a sort of like huge takedown of the police. Yeah, this is actually a political podcast. I hope you knew that.
00:08:49
Speaker
Yeah, so I mean, they had their moment and that obviously tired them out. So after that, they were just like, oh, well, I guess it probably wasn't. Don't worry about it. We've done more than enough.
00:08:59
Speaker
This guy can't, you know, have a defence, so easy. And his brother seems have lost interest. Oh yeah, that brother. I feel like the brother is maybe a criminal of some sort and he's going to crop up later down the line. Like maybe they were doing something seedy, which is why he wouldn't give him the alibi because he was like, no, I don't want you to know what i was actually doing.
00:09:18
Speaker
Yeah. And so yeah, Aaron and John are off on this like weekend getaway or week getaway with the view of potentially moving there because if they like it, which seems like a bold thing to just leave your family, your job, everything on the off chance that you might like a cottage. And then firstly...
00:09:34
Speaker
the creepiest cottage in the world and also the dreariest cottage in the world. But for some reason, Aaron is instantly, despite the fact that we live in a relatively small flat that, as discussed, is entirely landing, like maybe we could afford to buy this detached four bedroom house in the countryside. Yeah, I guess it just depends what the going rate is like railings because their current flat is 90% railings. Yeah.
00:10:02
Speaker
But if they're planning both their jobs, like what mortgage are you going to get to get based on like if we've abandoned our workplace, we would like to buy this house? Yeah. And I mean, Aaron definitely has a job, but but John arguably just sort of pops into the surgery and sometimes makes people go into anaphylactic shock and then leaves. and What does that pay nowadays?
00:10:22
Speaker
I don't really know if he has a contract. Yeah, and i mean and Aaron, I think, owns that scrapyard, but seems to be just willing to leave it. So is he maybe he's going to get like passive income from it, but I don't know who's giving money to that scrapyard.
00:10:34
Speaker
Yeah, I just hope and pray that they won't leave. Surely they won't actually leave, because Aaron's confidence in John is gradually being chipped away. He's like, you keep lying to me.
00:10:46
Speaker
What's going on?
Moving and Trust Issues
00:10:47
Speaker
Yeah, and he's discovered like the creepy secret room that um where John, you know that it was John's because it has various certificates and we know his love of the armed forces by various pictures of planes on the walls.
00:11:01
Speaker
Of course. ah Something I was on the lookout for was his surname on any of those certificates, but I was sort of watching it while making a huge amount of soup. So I didn't... did say John Sugden on one of them. I freeze-framed to check.
00:11:14
Speaker
Oh, really? Okay, that's huge because I thought that he was just living a massive lie, but that's interesting. Yeah, I mean, it's still unclear why... his mother would have given him the surname with the man she had an affair with and never swayed to again. But, um, that is something that people do. For example, Lewis Barton. Yeah. They like to keep things, um, orderly there. They're like, we, whatever father's name you put on the birth certificate, you must be your surname.
00:11:40
Speaker
Yeah. I think that's how it works. Uh, yeah. And Aaron seems to have been won over by him just being like, yeah, my mom died. Well, he did. We knew his mom died. That's how he first came into the show.
00:11:51
Speaker
But, um, He'd be like, yeah, it fell through, so I decided to come here and not tell you. Sure. Yeah, and i that was the bit where I was like, why would Aaron not be like, why didn't you just tell me? Or if he is so gutted about going back to that house because his mum died there, which it would be fair, yeah then you'd just be like, I'm really sorry, the Airbnb fell through, we can't go away.
00:12:12
Speaker
That's the much more logical thing to do, if that's true. Yeah, and unless he's like, I must come here because I know that there is an underground bunker nearby. Was his mum like a doomsday prepper?
00:12:24
Speaker
Yeah, I sort of assumed that maybe John had created the underground bunker but when he got into like killing people, eighty dealings, identity theft.
00:12:35
Speaker
It's just a useful little hideaway for if it all goes south. Do we think Anthony's decaying body isn't there somewhere? i bet it is, only my word Also, it's really badly hidden, as in, like, there's just sort of a few leaves scattered on top of it. Like, why does he think that's going to keep anyone at bay?
00:12:55
Speaker
And it is, like, don't even know there are leaves on the ground all year round, but it did, like, look like a sort of autumn level of leaf fall, but surprisingly dense for, I mean, as you say, not not a good dis discuss disguise, but, like, it's a sort of place you might think in summer with people walking through those woods. Yeah.
00:13:11
Speaker
Not many leaves. Yeah. And also it's been really, really, really windy in Leeds recently. so presumably, you know, where Emberdale is. Like those leaves would have just blown clean off.
00:13:25
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it's unclear like how dense this woodland is or how far it is away from rest. I mean, he's constantly
John's Secrets in the Woods
00:13:32
Speaker
wandering in those woods. Like he's, he's gone on this break with Aaron where he has abandoned Aaron, I'd say 90% each day to wander through those woods.
00:13:39
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if they've had any conversations yet other than like talking cross purposes about this like mystery cottage that they for some reason want to buy.
00:13:50
Speaker
I mean, Aaron was flicking... And Aaron was flicking through some magazine that presumably John's dead mum bought more than a year ago and that's like all the entertainment he's had. Yeah, i something I did want to say is that I'm completely obsessed with the elderly neighbour.
00:14:07
Speaker
I loved, firstly, she was amazing, but also, secondly, that clearly no one had briefed her on the tone of those scenes. She was like, so it's a sitcom, right? Like, I should pray this play this broad, right?
00:14:17
Speaker
And everyone like, sure, whatever, go for it. I just think she was so good. She just sort of barreled in there, pure enthusiasm. Like, I would love to go for a cup of tea with her, whoever the heck she is.
00:14:30
Speaker
I think she's incredible. I feel similarly about her to how I feel about the lady in the Specsavers ads before Emmerdale starts, who's like continually thinking that her husband is cheating on her and she's just like completely unhinged.
00:14:48
Speaker
I miss her now that I watch her on YouTube with Adblock. Like, I've not seen her for a while, but I hope she gets the help she needs. Yeah, I doubt she will, a nice thought.
00:14:58
Speaker
ah Before we move on, actually, from the whole Mac thing, I know we've jumped around, but I wanted to go back to his hat because I misinformed you, I think, because I was like, if someone's wearing wearing a hat like that in a soap because he's wearing a big old beanie, it's like it's because...
00:15:12
Speaker
a stunt double has to be subbed in and that is often true but i then actually read an interview or with him or watched an interview where he said the reason of that is because apparently they filmed all the flash forward scenes ages ago and they didn't know if his hair would change a lot between the flash forward scenes or between like january or whatever they film them in now so it's like if your hair grows too long or you get it cut whatever and it is would look too jarring to go between the running through the words to the rest of the scene so put on a beanie and no one will be able to tell that it was filmed at different times so that's why he's wearing the hair i get that like i truly do but also like do they not have a hair and makeup department well i think it's just like you know if you if his hair's grown for like eight months or something then it's tricky for a hair or even like he could have shaved his head don't know in that time
00:16:06
Speaker
Yeah, true. But i I mean, I kind of thought maybe Emmerdale isn't like this, but I thought that some actors had to like do certain things with their hair or their body to fit in with the role rather than like the way they're writing and planning shows being like, oh no, what if they dye their hair?
00:16:24
Speaker
Yeah, it's a good point. And I i remember um the previous actor who played amy not one because She was recast at one point she had to dye her blonde when she joined so she didn't look too much like Victoria. So they do like ah do do stuff like that. um but of maybe Maybe Lawrence Robb had it in his contract. He's like, my hair's my own.
00:16:42
Speaker
yeah he's like, you have no power over my follicles.
00:16:47
Speaker
You might have found the episode um i i also thought, and I've seen that a few people screaming at the screen when he was on the run. and be like You've literally got a phone on you.
00:16:58
Speaker
like and someone's calling you, even if you're like, I know that sort of alerted John to his makeshift hiding place, I'd say next to a log rather than necessarily under it.
00:17:09
Speaker
um Just answer me like John is trying to kill me. Like, and yeah that's going even if you don't save your life on that, at least you've led it to the right criminal. Literally.
00:17:20
Speaker
it's It's really tough going and I'm now just really annoyed with how it is because I hate it when people don't know the full picture and I know that that is exactly what happens in soaps all the time and that's why I find watching soaps quite hard.
00:17:32
Speaker
I'm just like, oh, I wish everybody knew that Mac wasn't intentionally ghosting them.
Tension and Suspense
00:17:36
Speaker
And if he's alive, like, you know he's alive now, but if he like is comes back to the village and everything, it'll be lovely when they have like a reunion, although obviously awkward that presumably Charity is carrying Russ's baby, but... um we'll leave that for another day.
00:17:50
Speaker
But yeah, I do know what you mean i like, I like it when it pays off for like a big apology scene. I love an apology scene, but, but it's the ones where they just sort of move on that find a bit more, bit more annoying.
00:18:02
Speaker
Yeah. I'm also intrigued that John hasn't learned his lesson about like, when you kill someone or nearly kill someone, one don't keep using their phone. Yeah. He's obsessed with like, and he must be charging it at this point because it's been days. Yeah.
00:18:16
Speaker
Yeah, but where is he charging it unless the bunker has a power supply? Maybe he's just using his van or something that presumably has a little cigarette holder or whatever. Yeah, it's just really, it's getting really seedy. I never thought it would get to this stage.
00:18:33
Speaker
Yeah, it has been. I mean, I've seen there's a couple of things that have got a lot of complaints recently. i mean, maybe we'll cover the whole like Vinny being beaten up. That got a lot of complaints. this The scene within in the woods got lot of complaints. And it's like, it has got a bit but too dark, I think.
00:18:45
Speaker
You need to read it read it back. Although having said that, there have been some lovely lighthearted moments sprinkled in in recent episodes that I've really enjoyed. um I'll just mention them quickly, but... The scene, ah Paddy and Marlon are always funny together. And the scene where Marlon was trying to get Paddy to go up to buy milk.
00:19:00
Speaker
And Paddy was like, oh, no, Mandy's taking milk to work again. then Just going out. Really tickled me. I really enjoyed that well. It was so fun. In the middle of quite a serious scene.
00:19:11
Speaker
And then Charity Ross and a child that I've never set eyes on before. Having that little game of sweets was was very endearing. Yeah, I think Ross is just quite funny at the moment in general. I'm really enjoying him. And like when um when he left charities and Vanessa was outside and he just like pulled a really funny face. ah Yeah, he's up for like best comedy performer at the Inside Soap Awards. And I get it. Like he's he brings a lot of levity to a lot of scenes and yeah.
00:19:43
Speaker
He's a good comic actor. In fact, Aaron's good comic actor. He has a few, like, he had some funny scenes when he was telling Jimmy D shut up about camping a few weeks ago when he's like, something in the pub, I forgot it was, but he doesn't get to do comedy very often, but he is good at it.
00:19:56
Speaker
yeah Yeah, something on the whole Moses thing, who is the unnamed child. um So there was a time within the last week, I can't remember when, um when Ross was downstairs saying like, are you sure it's not my baby? boba And she was like, can you keep your voice down? Noah's upstairs.
00:20:16
Speaker
And I was like, Noah? And then later it was Moses. And I was like, you just literally said the wrong person's name and just barreled on through. Oh, is it not Noah? Because, I mean she does have a Noah as well.
00:20:28
Speaker
Well, I know, but Noah's, like, 18. That's true. Maybe she did just take the wrong one. And has not been in any episodes for quite long time. It's because he's stuck upstairs. It's good point. And also, like, Noah's a moron. So, like, he won't pick it, put two and two together. Yeah, I'm just not sure that Noah knows what pregnancy is what causes it.
00:20:50
Speaker
He has had a baby, to be fair. But that's... get But does he know what caused it? That's true. He doesn't seem... Oh, wait second. No, he hasn't. I'm getting mixed up with Samson. Sorry. Noah and Samson are very similar to me. um So the last episode that we commented on here was our emergency podcast with Rob Ron reuniting. And we blithely said, I'm so glad that they went like, I really regret this. This was a mistake. Let's never do this again.
00:21:20
Speaker
The very next episode, that is exactly what happened. That was a real kick in the teeth. It's like they knew. It's like they really wanted to give the fans a fantastic day and then be like, never mind. And I literally said, I'm just dreading the ups and downs as they like are probably going to be taking intents to push each other away and like go back on stuff.
00:21:43
Speaker
And now it's happening and I just hate it. yeah and i mean we've got some mopey robert which is always quite endearing um and i thought he's quite wise when he's like really sad and victoria's like you told him to do this and he's like yeah i'm still sad about it it's like yeah people can be sad about things they they think are the right thing to do um yeah but luckily they've got sidelined into a little comedy farming storyline and yeah i quite enjoyed that i mean i do think it's mildly unrealistic for victoria to be like sure i will drop one of the multiple businesses I seem to be involved in to help like move sheep for a day.
00:22:17
Speaker
um yeah I also thought it was quite funny when um I can't remember who was planning it out maybe it was Moira she was like we need all hands on deck I've already asked Victoria and now i'm going to ask this person I was like where is this going and then it became abundantly clear that was just a plot device it's like have you considered asking yourself and like like I've never moved sheep from one field to another i get that but is it is it a four person job and do they have a sheep dog haven't seen one I think there was a line about like, see, we don't need a sheep dog.
00:22:48
Speaker
There you go, handy. Yeah. I don't think it takes that much effort to move all these sheep, but I truly don't know. I mean, they have quad bikes, so you would think that they would just be quad biking round, but.
00:22:59
Speaker
Yeah. And there was, there was an era where Andy Sugden was never not on a quad bike. He was like constantly going through the village on it. That's fun. Yeah. haven't seen it for a while. Maybe he didn't, maybe the actor couldn't drive or something.
00:23:11
Speaker
Um, But yeah, it seems odd that none of them seem to know which fields belong to them. We're just like, here are some sheep, let's just take those. It's like, one of you lives here, two of you work here. Victoria, I'll a pass to you because it's literally none of her business, but but everyone else I feel like maybe should have known which fields they're Do you think it's because they only ever get sent to the top field? It's probably what it is. We've literally never seen this part of the farm before.
00:23:37
Speaker
Yeah, they're just like, I don't know. Is that our field? Is that is that what a sheep looks like? Yeah, and then again, the police, i mean, I guess quite wisely doing a little door-to-door of nearby farms.
00:23:50
Speaker
um But once the sheep were returned, we're clearly like, say no more. And it's weird that the guy whose sheep was stolen wasn't keeping an eye to see a full field of sheep be returned to him.
00:24:01
Speaker
But he's got other things on his plate. you'd think you would notice who was bringing them back, but clearly not not on his personal agenda. No, how many farms are there as well? We keep adding, what, Celia's farm, whoever this guy is. There's loads that we haven't heard about until recently.
00:24:16
Speaker
Yeah, really true. Shall we talk about celia Celia? always carrying a large stick, but she never uses on the ground. is Never touching the ground, always in her hand. untethered stick it's like why why i guess is my question yeah quite unusual and i can't tell whether we're meant to trust her but i do trust her i think that she's come through the dodgy dealings and she's now like genuinely building a good friendship with moira but am i being
Celia's True Nature
00:24:45
Speaker
really naive
00:24:46
Speaker
it's confusing isn't it because she came in as this like terrible villain whose dog was savaging paddy and then she seems to have been have like calmed down very quickly but i think you're right i think i think a sort of scene about them talking about their dead child slash husband was meant to be like look she's got a heart they're um they're friends now but i mean i never fully still have no idea what anyone's game is and why this horrible little field is so significant to everyone I just don't care. I've tried really hard to care and I am grateful for the fact that it's like farming content and it's rural but they've made it so bland and so disinteresting and I can't remember why anybody wants this field.
00:25:27
Speaker
um Yeah I've sort of tapped out other than the relational side of things. Yeah and I do remember you saying recently that you couldn't have enough farming content and i think Emily Alice heard that it's like we are going to test those limits yeah it's one of the real downsides of psychic corner i think yeah we need to be careful about how we wield our own power i suppose exactly when you just say something off the cuff and then immediately it's put into action it's tough what do we want in there what should we be saying that needs to turn up based on our whims i don't know some sort of resolution to this john storyline please
00:26:02
Speaker
Please. Well, I don't know if um either of us accidentally sort of made a wish for a new bus shelter, but I was private i was cycling past the Emmerdale Studios on my way to work last week and I saw them unloading a big, it looked like a sort of bus shelter outside the studios from a lorry. exclusive content.
00:26:24
Speaker
well know but then i thought well maybe it wasn't for the studios because that would be something they need outdoors so presumably they would get it delivered to the like the village set rather than maybe it's just where the staff are keeping their bikes or something yeah but so maybe it's just yeah maybe they're literally just getting a new bike like bike shed for the staff and or something else but i saw it and i was like oh i wonder know what's gonna be coming up maybe it's dylan's new home maybe it is let's put dylan um Yeah, Dylan's got a lot of that's going on. i't I will admit that I am fast forwarding every scene with Ray in because i just can't deal with it.
00:26:58
Speaker
So I don't know what's really going on in in all of that. But I've seen stuff that he's not in. All you've missed really is Ray just being like, Paddy's just creepy and he doesn't really care about you and it's all fine. And Dylan being a bit like, no, like he is nice, but whatever. I don't really want to work for you anymore. And Ray being like, but you do kind of have to keep working for me. But sure, you can have a break if you want.
00:27:23
Speaker
So that's why Dylan accused Paddy of being creepy because that sort of came out of nowhere for me but I guess if I am going to miss so salient scenes then I've only got myself to blame.
Dylan and Paddy's Trust Issues
00:27:31
Speaker
Yeah but nothing no real progression I don't think in the Ray Dylan thing other than an ongoing tone of like you can see that he's like trying to chip away at Dylan being able to trust anybody and now unfortunately Paddy has kind of proven him right.
00:27:45
Speaker
Yeah that was a shame and it is like I did think it was very hypocritical of Moira and Who else was... Oh, Nicola having like saying how dangerous it was when like both their children have killed people.
00:27:56
Speaker
think That's something that Dylan has not done. So i really would look at the log in their eye before they examining the star in others. Yeah, it is quite tricky, the whole thing. And I i wish that Paddy had had a better conversation with Dylan about it.
00:28:11
Speaker
Because I think if he had sat down and said, like, this is breaking my heart and I never should have promised you the things that I did But like that came out of a place of like real care for you and really wanting to.
00:28:23
Speaker
but I've now been put in a situation where I'm unable to keep my promise. And like I just feel like he communicated it really badly. And so he has made Dylan feel like uncared for and like he never should trust anybody again.
00:28:37
Speaker
Yeah, and the whole Chaz saying Eve and come on, I can understand why that would make Paddy think again. But also Eve's never there anyway. What would change? Yeah, we never see her unless she's stealing pills from Bear, who, by the way, like, not that i want to see him again, but where on earth is Bear?
00:28:56
Speaker
Everyone's forgotten about him. Yeah, well, allegedly it's going to lead to some big storyline, but I simply didn't want it to, and I'm happy to never see him again. And if he's never mentioned again, that'd be fine. Yeah, bless Bear.
00:29:08
Speaker
He's off. He's off. small little Small thing that happened, I think maybe near on three weeks ago now in the April Dylan storyline ah for April's birthday cake. The way she cuts her birthday cake is absolutely unhinged.
00:29:21
Speaker
Yeah, it was really triggering actually. Because I think there's already a slice cut out. So it was like, you know, was like a wedge missing. And then she just sort of went, went at the side of it in like, as though she was cutting like a loaf tin.
00:29:35
Speaker
um But also like the tiniest. It's like, have you ever done anything before? It was confusing to me. And I suppose, like, maybe they only really had one cake for her to play with. And so the actor was like, oh, my word, I just have to do this. Yeah, she's like, I've got to talk and do an action. And she just, she's, you know, she's a great little actress. But that's, I would have fired her on the spot for that. But like your cake work is poor.
00:30:00
Speaker
Shoddy. Yeah, I found April's birthday ah really tough watch in general. Because... I just hate it when people are ungrateful. Like, hate it so much.
00:30:12
Speaker
And Marlon had very sweetly made her, like, this cooked breakfast and then she was just like, avocados are really bad for the planet. And went to go and see Dylan all day instead. and And she was like, do you mind if I take this breakfast upstairs rather than hanging out with you? And I was like...
00:30:27
Speaker
this is horrible this is such that was rude it was so rude and then so she did that and rona says to marlon well who i guess who wants to spend their 16th birthday with their dad anyway and i was like that's the worst parenting i've ever seen like you should be like oh that's such a shame for you she really should show you some more respect how are we going to work on this Yeah, I'm i'm like, yeah I found that that upsetting. is To me, that's sort of writ large, as discussed before, how much I hate when people don't respond to a handshake. It's like, just follow the social norms of saying thank you.
00:30:59
Speaker
I think when people do nice things for you. Yeah, I can't really remember, but I did have strong opinions about the handshake thing. And I think felt that you were wrong, but I don't remember why.
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah, no, I don't remember exactly why, but it's just one of the things I get hit up about, suppose I both in reality and in this podcast. But I guess it's also triggering for me in the whole, like, when someone who is a friend, or in this case, a daughter, starts dating someone and then ditches everyone else for their boyfriend slash girlfriend.
00:31:29
Speaker
And in my life, that's happened too many times. I'm sorry. I know you're in tune right now, but don't reject everyone else in your life yeah I've really felt that with um Arthur as well like he literally said to April like you're definitely coming bowling aren't you and she was like yeah obviously and then I'm pretty sure she didn't go because Dylan wasn't going yeah it's like and also why would Dylan go like if Arthur doesn't just never met you yeah and he doesn't really have much to bring to the table personality wise I do hate it when people bring their boyfriends or girlfriends to events that are about a different sort of group as well. So it's just a lot of things for me coming up.
00:32:07
Speaker
Yeah, I'm really sorry that these things have hit you so personally. um I mean, i'm I'm sure you can see from my own personal life, this can be very hard for me to replace you with ah any sort of lover.
00:32:20
Speaker
And I'm um delighted about that. I'll do my best to keep it that way. You've been praying for my ongoing singleness. I've just been distributing pamphlets. You've running a smear campaign against me.
00:32:34
Speaker
Absolutely. And, you know, that's harder than you think. um I have to take the bus up to Leeds every weekend just to, like, stand on street corners. I didn't think I'd seen you.
00:32:45
Speaker
It's paying real dividends. I love the idea that if you were to try and run a smear campaign against me to put off potential love interest that you would do it primarily by pamphlet.
00:32:56
Speaker
ah Yeah, I mean, I've taken a ah link from ah link, whatever it is from, from Kane putting up posters to invite people to a funeral. So it's like physical media is is the future.
00:33:09
Speaker
ah yeah and it's certainly immune to like hacking viruses, being used to train AI. Yeah. Yeah, not to rain, sadly, but you know.
00:33:21
Speaker
Oh dear. um Oh, this is completely irrelevant to any of that. But ah only going back, actually, I guess to the Celia storyline, I messaged you about this. It feels like all of Kim's lines have been given to Jo.
00:33:33
Speaker
And I think Kim, the actress must be ill or something because there's so many scenes where it's clearly all about Kim's dealing and Jo's just ending a phone call with her or like saying, Kim told me blah, blah, blah.
00:33:44
Speaker
Oh yeah. i forgot to look out for that after you messaged me, but you're right. Yeah, she hasn't been around and it does all feel a bit odd. And that is a classic soap thing because they can't halt filming if someone it breaks a leg or something.
00:33:56
Speaker
But it does feel like Joe... Either make it Joe's business as well, which I guess it is. don't really remember what Joe does. Or just like, why is he so invested in it? Although, mean, they are doing this field thing together, right?
00:34:11
Speaker
Well, that's what i thought. So why is he always referring to Kim? Why is he not just saying, I think such and such? Yeah, that is quite strange. Yeah, who's to say? I guess we'll find out when she's back or if she's back or maybe she's just going to move to Dubai forever.
00:34:25
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'd love it um we to be resolved off screen if possible. But because I mean, I can't imagine that. I mean, unless there is like something really precious in this field, maybe another underground bunker. I don't know. there's something going on there that is clearly they've got their own.
00:34:41
Speaker
Has anyone panned it for gold? No, but I'm sure they could get Sam too. yeah he's willing to do anything, isn't he? Bless his heart. Absolutely. so i mean, i know we've been going all over the place, but should we just go to some highlights, I guess?
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah, we can go to some highlights. I've enjoyed Cami and Belle. It's been a rollercoaster, hasn't it? It's been a real rollercoaster. And I feel like there is hope for them now. And that's nice because they are a nice pairing. I just i guess my concern is that Belle is being swayed into being in a situation that she's maybe not comfortable with in terms of like, obviously we know that Cammy is not violent and that she should feel safe with him. But if she doesn't feel safe, then she shouldn't be like swayed back into going out with him just because of other people saying he's fine. um Yeah, it was weird how quickly, i mean, as far as she knows, he did beat Vinny up.
00:35:34
Speaker
But the fact that Sam was like, oh, we've all beaten people up. And she's like, OK, yeah. Yeah, kind of random. But um I guess hopefully fine because i think they're both really nice characters and I'd love them to have a nice thing. Yeah, I mean, were we are documented big Cammy fans. I will say in his romantic storylines, I do sometimes wish he'd like speed up. He leaves such gaps between lines. I'm just like, just say your lines more quickly, please.
00:35:59
Speaker
I think it's sweet. I like Cammy. You can take all time. mean, you know I love Cammy. You know I'm a big Cammy fan. Huge, in fact. Yeah, yeah a fammy. may um they hope that you never say that again.
00:36:12
Speaker
Yeah, look, we all hope that. And if I ever invite a time machine, the first thing I'll use it for is to not have said it that first time. Here we are. Yeah, and I think they work well together.
00:36:23
Speaker
And i assume at some point it'll all come out. But i do I just think Cami's such a good friend. Like, he would have supported Vinny through this, and he'd have and you instead of like having the opportunity to be a good friend, Vinny's just completely thrown him under bus. And i did like that Cami didn't just go with it. Like, a big fan of forgiveness, but I do think the fact that Vinny's trying to have his cake and eat it, being like, I'm sorry, but also I'm still going to keep telling this lie.
00:36:50
Speaker
think that Cami was like, that's not okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm finding the Vinny storyline quite difficult. Partly, obviously, because Cam is being thrown under the bus and there's a lot of miscommunication. I just wish that people could sit down and have an honest chat.
00:37:03
Speaker
um And partly because I found like the the violent scenes of that of Mike getting him like just so so horrible. um And I'm interested to know that there were so many complaints. How do you find out that kind of thing?
00:37:17
Speaker
Oh, Digital Spy gave a headline about it. Oh, fair. And I think it was like 500 complaints, which is for soaps a lot. But I mean, I guess we need to bear in mind how many, I don't know, 5 million people, whatever it is, watch it. It's not a big percentage, but but it was like, i think it was because it was so protracted as well. It just kept going. And I did end up fast forwarding the end of it because i just couldn't cope with anymore.
00:37:38
Speaker
Yeah, it went on for a long time. And Vinny, I think it is such a sweet character and so well loved, even though he's a bit like, annoying sometimes because he is so spineless um it's quite hard but I think it also plays into a narrative I don't know I don't think it's going to be helpful for people who maybe are like struggling with their sexuality and don't know what to do about it like it doesn't seem very realistic that the first time somebody seeks help from an online forum or from anybody really they then get violently attacked
00:38:11
Speaker
Yeah. And but not by a master criminal, I would say. Like, it does seem like he was relatively easily caught. but um Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. And obviously, we know the police in Emmerdale don't like to pursue criminals or crime in any way, if possible. so But when they came to say, like, we do need to use part this case, and he was like, no, they they seem to have dropped to that point.
00:38:34
Speaker
Yeah, it is quite strange. And the number of times they were like, oh, we really will, like, you really can reach out to us any time. And you'd think, if you're that convinced that he has information that he's not sharing, you'd think they would just push harder for it.
00:38:48
Speaker
But clearly not. Yeah, because they've literally got, like, record of money going from a Vinny's account to this guy. Although i don't know how they know it's Vinny's account. Maybe that's the sort of thing police can get information about.
00:38:59
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But another psychic corner thing, they did mention the word bisexual since we talked about it. I know, I said that. I literally wrote that in my notes. was like, we said that they never talk about the word, well, they would refuse to say the word bisexual, but they didn't.
00:39:17
Speaker
um and actually both on which works with this Cami story and with this Finney storyline Evie sent really interesting thing about the history of bisexual characters in Emmerdale and also history of Kane's at some times extreme violence which factors into when Sam was like we've all been violent it is interesting the characters whose violence is like celebrated and the characters whose violence is ah is a threat in Emmerdale like you Yeah, I found that interesting of Sam just basically being a bit like, Kane's hit a lot of people and you're like, yeah, Kane sometimes punches people at the wall pack and that is maybe less of a big deal.
Kane's Violent Past
00:39:54
Speaker
But hasn't Kane actually kind of abused people will and that's been not good and we shouldn't... like For Sam to say that to someone who has suffered physical abuse is quite...
00:40:06
Speaker
well i remember him kidnapping and and torturing i think it was nathan wild years ago and that's what one time i stopped watching for a bit because it was so awful and i can't remember why he believed me nathan done something that it turns out he hadn't done but he was really like brutal um and at the time i think we were supposed to be like okay you silly boy rather than like this man should be in prison forever yeah kind of difficult Yeah. um My first highlight is about Claudette of all people.
00:40:35
Speaker
oh When firstly, so she was chatting to April at the bus stop and it was, the i think the only scene we've ever seen her be nice in She was actually quite friendly and you see that she, that at least the actress would probably be lovely to have a chat with. It was the first time I've seen her not angry, but also she was like, i like to have my Bible on the bus. I was like, Claudette, have you heard about the Bible app?
00:40:55
Speaker
Like you don't need a big bag. You can have the Bible app on your phone. We all got it. You version. I recommend. and Does Claudette have a phone? Oh, surely. Although I will say, what do you think the signal is actually like for Yorkshire villagers?
00:41:08
Speaker
Yeah. Not amazing. But I feel like, I feel like even Claudette has a phone and yes, she might have it zoomed in, but um but you can get, you can put the font on your Bible app, whatever size you like.
00:41:20
Speaker
Yeah. I think she would probably have it absolutely maxed out font size as well. which actually reminds was looking at Moira's farming schedule was it yesterday today and it was huge like there were like three columns of excel on the page it's like I don't we don't need to be able see this as the viewer it just makes her look like she is functionally blind and has never maybe that's the storyline that's coming up she's all this time she's been you know hard of sight and and it's never been revealed yeah maybe or it could have been a side effect of the brain tumor that's so true but it's like this obscene and like I love a big font you know why why strain the eyes but but it was it was too it was just too much don't get me wrong i love enormous writing please the last thing want to do is criticize the big font family family yeah um let's call it a family I guess it feels like a family at times it certainly feels like family to me
00:42:15
Speaker
People often at my work are like, your font's too big. I'm like, look, my eyes sometimes get sore. Okay, I'm protecting them. Yeah, and justice for soreide the sore-eyed community. Finally, some representation on screen.
00:42:29
Speaker
And yet you're here making fun of it. How could you? It's internalised something think or other. Eye-phobia, don't know. One of my highlights was, um this was ages ago now,
00:42:44
Speaker
ah But um when Ruby took it upon herself to go and work up at the warehouse for a shift, and obviously it was only so that she and Manfred could have a physical fight there. But I was like, you know what? Ruby would actually be such a powerhouse in like a business. Like she's got such a good head on her shoulders. She's decisive.
00:43:03
Speaker
She like would be able to like, make decisions that would just help the company. i think she'd be great. She doesn't, and obviously she loves being a kept woman and like all power to her for that.
00:43:15
Speaker
But I can massively see her swerving into boss woman territory. Absolutely. and she's She's got the haircut already, so that's half the work done. Yeah, exactly. I did love all of those scenes. And in fact, one of my highlights was from that period when before before the reconciliation, when Ruby said that Mampre could get in touch with her at ruby at idon'tcare.com. Yeah, that was nice. That is iconic writing. you like the sass. Yeah.
00:43:43
Speaker
yeah and I do hope that they continue to have a lovely friendship because we've talked before about how much we like the slightly unconventional friendships although in this case you can see it's not that unconventional but because the the fact they were enemies did come up maybe like half an episode before they were reunited and I was reminded actually about Manpreet living with Ryan you remember? Yeah that's literally never been mentioned since it started weird heaven weird Yeah, like they, um it was kind of ah random situation that I think we commented on at the time of them just suddenly being like, yeah, we'll live together. And we were like, this is going to have really hilarious consequences, but it has, like, I don't think ever been this intense.
00:44:26
Speaker
there's No consequences, hilarious or otherwise.
00:44:31
Speaker
Yeah, um I guess Ryan's got to live somewhere. It might as well be there. Yeah, true. um Yeah, I enjoyed their reconciliation. was oh, this could be quite a fun friendship to watch.
00:44:44
Speaker
I hope so. Yeah. i thought yeah Neither of them have been on screen masses of late and i and I'd like love both of them to get more time. Obviously, Ruby had her big storyline, so she's sort of down time after that. But Manpreet suddenly has never had a big storyline in my time. so I mean, that was the kind of OnlyFans revenge porn situation.
00:45:05
Speaker
Yeah, thought that never seemed to get like much screen time in a way that I thought could have been quite an interesting thing to look at. Yeah, it could have been quite good to do like a proper showcase on it, but no. Once again, I never miss that opportunity.
00:45:21
Speaker
another It's just's just a stray thing I wrote down. Another line I liked. There's been, so I think, some very sharp writing at times, which
Charity's Pregnancy Implications
00:45:27
Speaker
is quite funny. It was Charity to Ross saying, you want a friendly welcome? Be someone else.
00:45:32
Speaker
yeah that was nice I enjoyed that there's good clapbacks in the ah recent weeks some of which I will put into my own personal repertoire yeah no I do like that Charity's been wearing this jumper quite a lot of late which has got like it's like navy and it's got um a kind of wiggly white stripe in a diagonal across it and every time I just think of um when I had friends over to cook the Marlon's gourmet burger and then we watched an episode of Emmerdale and I told them about you know everything that was going on one of my friends saw that top and was like why has she got a toilet roll that's been unrolled across her torso that's a sort of insightful commentary that we need um and i I can't answer that question
00:46:17
Speaker
I know and now and she's worn it quite a lot recently and I'm like all I can see is the toilet roll. But it's again another psychic corner because you were complaining people didn't re-wear clothes. I know. now they're re-wearing a lot, mainly toilet roll tops.
00:46:31
Speaker
but Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. um Bless Charity. she has a She's been going through a lot. I was very confused in the scene where she was sort of looking very upset about the fact that she was pregnant. and And i was like, we know that Vanessa didn't get you pregnant.
00:46:47
Speaker
What's going on? so So the Ross twist was quite um quite unexpected to me. And I don't really remember when they had Moses, whether it was like in ah a one night stand or if they were actually ah in a relationship.
00:47:01
Speaker
I thought like that they were in a relationship at one point, but i might have made that up. I can't remember. I mean, I do like them as a couple, actually. I mean, I do. If Mac is alive, it would be quite sad for him to come back and find that his wife's immediately moved on.
00:47:15
Speaker
But but they ah they do spar off each other well. And you know she a younger man. I think they're quite fun together, but I really like Steph with Ross.
00:47:27
Speaker
Oh yeah, of course. i mean, I guess we've got to fill the year that Steph will be on holiday for. That's true. I wonder if at any point she's going to message me like, I have decided to just stay here indefinitely. Yeah, where is she? great break yeah i think i was thinking Rome.
00:47:43
Speaker
Which, you know, expensive place to stay for a year. Yeah, I haven't tried it myself. Maybe she's just sort of like camping out at the Colosseum. yeah Yeah, I mean, I guess she's not paying any rent on a property in Emmerdale, so i guess she can spend whatever she likes, but... yeah Yeah, I don't really have anything else to say about the whole Sarah thing.
00:48:03
Speaker
it's It's just sort of happening, isn't it? And it's definitely this is rolling on It's the particularly like Because we've been there at the genesis of this baby, it's going to be a long old storyline. Because often people discover they're pregnant quite late because the actual pregnancy storyline doesn't need to take too many months. But this one, we've got weve got at least eight months to go.
00:48:23
Speaker
yeah so true. I guess they can really drag it out. um And I hadn't really thought about the fact that Jacob is a medical student and yet he's like seemingly never at uni, never on placement, always working in the shop or just like fannying around with Sarah. like is he going to ever get this degree? Because my friends who were medics at uni were constantly working and yeah they were they didn't apply to do any of these things he's doing and he's about to have maybe a child that isn't even his.
00:48:58
Speaker
he does seem to like sit in the cafe with with like a laptop sometimes and then we did of course see him in that episode when he was in hospital but that does seem to be one the few times he's there he does seem to coincide going to hospital with someone i'm from the village having some sort of hospitalisation yeah he loves popping in he's got his own special psychic corner i suppose if someone's going to have an act he will be there of course he loves to break the Hippocratic Oath where possible it's It's a rite passage for him.
00:49:28
Speaker
But yeah, I remember like when I was at uni having a chat to one of my other friends of being a bit like, sometimes it's quite hard because I find it hard to like have the motivation to do enough work. And then sometimes I find it hard of like actually just doing too much work and not knowing when to stop and not being like, oh, I can relax now.
00:49:46
Speaker
And so I was like, something I'm trying at the moment is I am just working like nine to five. And then I know at the end of the workday, like I've done enough and I can switch off. And she was like, Lizzie, I just need you to understand that, like, I study medicine. If I work nine to five, I will fail my exams.
00:50:03
Speaker
Like, i I'm going to need to work on different hour hours to that. Like, Jacob isn't doing that. And there's been no sense that he is in any way good at being a doctor.
00:50:16
Speaker
as far as i can tell. um i mean, he's very good at shelf stacking, which does seem to be his only role in in the shop, but he's tall. He brings that to the table. But it also like takes six years minimum to get this qualification.
00:50:31
Speaker
I don't think he's doing six years of it. No. And a big question that I have is, like why does he wear that little apron at the shop? Because it's not like anything's getting spilled.
00:50:43
Speaker
Well, at any moment, people could order the balsamic vinegar and and bread instead of one of those horrible little tables. So they serve food now. I thought it was just coffee. Oh, no. It's only when they started it, they were obsessed with olives for a bit. So I think they do serve a little like a mousse bouche and stuff. But again, who in their right mind would take them up on the offer?
00:51:02
Speaker
I truly don't know i certainly will not be one of them but yeah as you say i think we're gonna have a long time to discuss this pregnancy so should we just not bother today or yes fair yeah let's just leave that one I've just got a couple of tiny highlights one of which is that I realized what John reminds me of and when he walks is like an eagle because he's he's always got such hunched shoulders and when he puts on that like sort of weird shiny fabric green jacket he wears it looks like he's got like hes stalking like a sort of angry eagle. I saw it when he popped up to Aaron in a scene the other day and it was quite upsetting. He is quite hunched and I see the yeah i see the plumage link.
00:51:39
Speaker
Yeah, I guess it's stress. He's like got bodies buried or still living all over of the place. That's gonna going to stress you out. Yeah, know I know. I like the avian link and I'll definitely be on the lookout for more bird-related posture.
00:51:55
Speaker
could you that'd be lovely i i can see um maybe victoria doing a lovely flamingo at some point sweet uh and then my my final thing i don't know if you want more but um there was some farming scene where they were on a farm talking about a wall i forget what it was uh and it was apparently for filmed i'd say maybe during a storm force gale it was almost impossible to hit anything anyone was saying You did say windy recently. Yeah, it has been really windy. And the Emmedalb Village site is quite exposed, isn't it, up there?
00:52:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, gosh, yeah. Maybe it was during Storm Floris whatever his name was. i guess that's why they need a good wall. Like, it's got to stand up to that wind. Yeah, true. They're proving the point. My dad went to a dry stone walling course recently.
00:52:41
Speaker
oh my gosh he should do a little voice note for her yeah he probably should and actually it was it sounded really interesting he said it's just so much harder than you think because obviously it has to be sturdy enough to stay up and like not fall over but you can't build it like you have to have quite a lot of air gaps in it as well so the wind can travel through it without just it falling over so you have to balance like yeah the ratio of rocks to gaps obviously they're all uneven he said it was really interesting but quite hard Yeah, I mean, when he says it's harder than I'd expect, I would expect it to be very hard, but it point
Dry Stone Walling Challenge
00:53:15
Speaker
proved. um And whilst I've never met your parents yet, possibly, we were unsure about this, they do seem the most wholesome people in the world. They are very lovely.
00:53:26
Speaker
You're going to love them. I can't wait. And I think you will meet them. can't remember when we said that might be. Oh, yeah, you're going to stay at your parents' house and at some point, maybe with you, not just go for a weekend.
00:53:38
Speaker
Some my friends have done that before. I've done that actually my best friend's parents I went to talk at their local history society and they put me up and I was young and polite and it's like sure or we can eat whenever what we can eat after the event if you like and we had dinner at midnight no that's I'm a five o'clock 5 30 sort of guy you really are yeah Did you not like so faint when you were speaking at this event?
00:54:04
Speaker
I think the excitement about talking about Barbara Cummins carried me through. but I'm so pleased to hear that.
00:54:11
Speaker
Do you have any final highlights? Or maybe you've got hundreds. um No, I think i've actually said everything that I wanted to say. Other than... um laurel and arthur or is it just laurel someone mentioned somebody called dotty and i was like is this another child we've forgotten about who the heck is that so dotty is one of laurel's children but um i was quite surprised when she was mentioned i'd forgotten all about her and i should just look up at her dad as it might be ah um the same as arthur's dad which is what was his name the dead vicar oh ashley ashley uh
00:54:46
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, Laurel seems to be mother or stepmother to hundreds of these things. yeah Wait, so Gabby and Arthur are half-siblings, or whole siblings? um Gabby, half-siblings. So Gabby's mum is Bernice, who is Nicola's sister. But she was raised by Laurel. Because they seem to kind of never interact.
00:55:09
Speaker
That's true, it's sad that they... was thinking, yeah, it's one of these relationships that... I think because they were so keen to make Gabby like a little protégé for... um Kim, they sort of forgot about the Laurel connection. Yeah.
00:55:21
Speaker
Dottie was born in September 2016, so what does that make her? Nine. nine And she's the daughter of Laurel Thomas. She's you called Laurel, and Ashley, yeah, so she's full sibling of Arthur.
00:55:33
Speaker
Wow, but never before seen. and Arthur certainly has never set eyes on her. Yeah, and then of course there's Archie. We've not seen Archie for a while. Yeah, true. and Or Jay, but that's a mercy to us.
00:55:45
Speaker
yeah yes that's a huge blessing um i think along similar lines that it's a shame that ross and april who were like when she went missing ross sort of remembered how much april meant to him and now she's back largely seems have forgotten that again yeah and i think ross would be quite a safe pair of hands with all of this he would certainly stand up to ray yeah maybe maybe he would give dylan a safe house who knows That's true. like Although he does live with Moira currently, which so that might be tricky. maybe be slightly tricky, but it's the thought that counts.
00:56:17
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's someone who's not got any random housemates with them currently. mean, who knows where Jay lives, but maybe they can move in with Jayme. Yeah. Oh, tried to think.
00:56:29
Speaker
Should we do our random character generator? We should. And today it's going to be... Johnny, Johnny Woodfield could be a short one.
00:56:39
Speaker
Who we heard mention of because Moses was going to go and play with him, but I truly have no idea who he is. i don't think he's been on screen in the entire time we've watched. So he is Vanessa and Kieran's son. Oh, okay, cool.
00:56:56
Speaker
Yeah. But i have we seen him? I don't remember seeing him. Vanessa certainly mentions him occasionally, but it doesn't seem otherwise particularly preoccupied with him. It's a shame, isn't it, when the random character generator gives us children because we are just we just say the same thing every time. Like, cool. Yeah.
00:57:13
Speaker
Should I delete all the children from this list for next time? That seems mean. but yeah I mean, we'll work our way through them all in time, I suppose. But I think we're working our way through all of them first. so Yeah, we have had three children so far, haven't we? Out of our seven? i reg Eight? We don't have any sort of working memory, so I wouldn't be able to tell you, but it just feels like we're going about Yeah.
00:57:36
Speaker
But I think of all the ones we've chosen, he is the one who is least visual. Yeah. He's not a visual learner. No. Well, good good for him. If he's not there, he's probably safe.
00:57:47
Speaker
Yeah. And in terms of farming content, I think... my gosh, so much farming. We've kind of had too much. And what I want from farming content is visuals. I want to see animals. I want to see tractors.
00:58:01
Speaker
I want to see people getting muddy. I don't want to hear another conversation about the financial benefits of a field. So we did see them all like running after the sheep, I guess. And we also saw them recreate the field like through kitchen props, which I enjoyed.
00:58:18
Speaker
Yeah, I think that is nice. um But yeah, i ah I've had enough farming content if this is the farming content we're being given. Yeah, it is very much like be careful what you wish for, isn't it? I know.
00:58:34
Speaker
So if anything, like too much and we take it back. Emmerdale, we recognize that you do do farming thing. We know that was a slightly scathing segment and you've you've put us in our place, okay? I feel firmly rebuked.
00:58:47
Speaker
Um, yeah. And actually I was with some of our mutual friends last night. I saw Katie and Ollie and Ellie and baby Billy. Um, and they were saying how much, well, Ellie was saying about how much she enjoys podcasts and Katie was saying, Oh yeah, I do need to catch up.
00:59:05
Speaker
Um, And Ellie was saying, you know, they've got a recurring feature about has there been any farming this week? So maybe we shouldn't get rid of it as a feature because... Oh, no, it has to be that, yeah. People know us for it We're well known. That's our brand, yeah.
00:59:19
Speaker
ah but But, yeah, we'd like a different flavour of farming content if possible. And if anyone has any ideas for other segments, we we we're always keen to introduce more. this if The inspiration is not here, but you can get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com and we love when you do. So...
00:59:34
Speaker
If you've got segment suggestions, more classic app suggestions. Thank you so much to all the people who sent us the Hot and Bypass YouTube links. That was so kind of you. I was going to say that we've got them sort of five, maybe six times over now, which is amazing. I feel so well supplied. I kind of feel like we could ask for anything now and it'd be given to us.
00:59:52
Speaker
That's so true. Oh my gosh. This is a good starting point. So I think that'll be our next classic F at some point. You know, we don't know when. There's a lot not to watch. And it'll be fun to revisit. Or for you, in Lizzie's case, just visit. It'd be lovely to visit Houghton.
01:00:07
Speaker
well i'm afraid the bypass as the name implies does not actually go into hot and it bypasses it true and actually one of my friends was saying that um he used to live otley and that that's where hot and was that was like the town they used to be hot and he used to just like see them watching uh filming stuff there so lizzie i don't know why you're not immediately getting out your phone and recording a voice note with these people when you get these revelations sorry okay yeah Just break whatever the conversation is, but hitherto. I do feel like every single week, somebody else in my life brings up another Emmerdale link of like, either they used to work on the set, they know somebody that did.
01:00:46
Speaker
That same friend who used to live in Otley used to live with one of the script writers. just feel like my whole life is Emmerdale. Lizzie. I mean, I got a guy I'd never met, even when he recorded it, to record about county lines. You're getting these people thrown in your past.
01:01:02
Speaker
Yeah, i know. I just feel like at some point I'm finally going be able to capitalize on one of these links and like be an extra myself. I don't know how to get there. I'd love to have a scriptwriter on as a guest sometime, that even if they're an ex-scriptwriter. Yeah, that's so true, actually. i should ask I should ask my friend about whether their ex-flatmate would be willing.
01:01:20
Speaker
Yeah. Great. Well, you can, yeah, say you can get touch at dinglealltheway.pod at Gmail. You can find our, I would say, peaceful Instagram page, dinglealltheway.pod on Instagram. I'm sorry, I've been very busy, but it's the rest of your space.
01:01:35
Speaker
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01:01:46
Speaker
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01:01:57
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Bye.