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Joe Tate's non-functioning muscles (Emmerdale 30 June - 11 July 2025)
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Lizzie and Simon recap the latest goings-on in Emmerdale, including Joe's evil surgeon, Lewis and Nicola's budding friendship, a touch of #Robron, Nate's unexpected love of Steps and - of course - the return of Lydia! Do get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod@gmail.com for questions, suggestions, and feedback.
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Transcript
Introduction and Weather Woes
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey everybody and welcome to episode 5 of Dingle all The Way. I'm Lizzie. I'm Simon. And my goodness, it's really warm, isn't it? I mean, ah to be fair, a lot of our listeners are not in the UK. But just as an FYI for those of us who are in the UK, it's really hot, isn't it? And the rest of the world, it's really hot in the UK right now.
00:00:22
Speaker
um I mean, it's probably not compared to a lot of people's temperatures, but Britain is not built for the heat.
Sports Interruptions and Humor
00:00:27
Speaker
We don't have aircon. We don't have buildings that... let heat out we've got tiny little windows on very well insulated houses and we're all not coping so yeah simon and i were just saying before we pressed record like wow i don't know if we've got anything to bring to the table here we might be like nothing left in us grumpy and overheating but thanks for listening anyway yeah and i mean hopefully it's a bit cooler up in yorkshire you know whether or
00:00:56
Speaker
yeah well no you are in yorkshire i was about to say like is that a question for me so i really don't have much a grip of reality right now yeah it's safe to say not much has happened in emmerdale since we last released an episode largely because there haven't actually been that many episodes on five is when should have been ten yeah um that blooming sport i guess just gets in the way Yeah, and i didn't even know what the sports were. I just know there were a lot of them.
00:01:26
Speaker
ah Presumably it's some sort of cup. It's not our business. It's absolutely not our concern. It does make you wonder, doesn't If sports people knew that cups were quite readily available, would they try so hard to win these ones? Maybe they just need a little... There are ways to get cups which aren't working that hard. You go to Ikea, they sell cups.
00:01:48
Speaker
If you've got trophy, frankly, you can go and buy them at an engraver's. Yeah. Pop anything you like on it. Literally anything you like. They don't check. You're like, I won the World Cup. They're like, okay, sure. That'll be, I've i no idea how much costs in Grave. £30, let's say.
00:02:04
Speaker
Probably.
Celebrating 'International Soap Week'
00:02:06
Speaker
and Before we get into the episodes, I just want to highlight, we have recently celebrated Week, hashtag International Soap Week. Yeah. No, hashtag Soap Week.
00:02:16
Speaker
And we've been putting things up on the Instagram, dinglealltheway.pod on Instagram. But I want to talk about you recreating Marlon's meal for Foodie Friday. us everything. It was fun. Okay, so yeah, the prompt for Friday was hashtag Foodie Friday.
00:02:30
Speaker
And you had to, or they encouraged you to make food from your favourite soap. And I will say, when I read that one, that was the one I was like, obviously, that's so much effort. And I wouldn't even know where to start.
00:02:41
Speaker
I don't think I'll do that one. Or like, I'll have to think of a way to like do that without necessarily fitting the brief. But then I remembered, Simon, that when we went on our tour of the Emmerdale village, that I took a photo of the menu outside the Woolpack.
Emmerdale Gourmet Burger Drama
00:02:55
Speaker
e And so I had a look through it and Marlon's gourmet burger sounded great. So I made it and I had friends over and we ate gourmet burgers in the garden.
00:03:07
Speaker
And it was with a fennel slaw, which I just sort of had to make up. um Yeah, that's where it went to talk, because I love fennel. It's quite a strong taste. And like, how was that in a slaw? It was really good. It was just, I just really thinly sliced the fennel.
00:03:20
Speaker
I also put some really like quite thinly sliced cabbage in there and made a dressing with like lemon juice, mustard, honey, It was really nice. Yeah. Thanks Marlon. really recommend. Thanks so much Marlon. Like compliments to the chef. It was, it was really great. I also quite enjoyed like having, I think my most Emmerdale moment in my whole life so far, which was that um some of my friends like arrived quite late and I was a little bit like, oh, that's a bit annoying, but I'll get over it. It's fine.
00:03:52
Speaker
And then I found out that they had, um like forgotten me in a plan that like originally I had been like, let's go do this thing together. And then they were planning do it and they'd forgotten to like update me. And I was like, I was part of that. And I just found myself, like I felt like I was charity.
Dinner Party Drama and Emmerdale Watching
00:04:08
Speaker
I was like, oh my guys, I'm sorry, but I've just cooked you really nice meal.
00:04:12
Speaker
You were incredibly late. And now I find out that you've gone and organised this thing without me. Like, who do you think you are? And then Jo just burst out laughing and was like, this is Emmerdale. Like, it actually is. Like, I'm kind of annoyed with kind of making an argument with you, but I'm also kind of loving it because... Yeah, exactly. Love the drama. Yeah, I love the drama.
00:04:32
Speaker
Did you throw a glass of water in someone's face? No, I wish I had. And it would have been quite refreshing because it was so hard. would have been blessing, if not mentioned. I did once in my life throw a glass of water in a very annoying housemaid's face. love that.
00:04:44
Speaker
Yeah, I think he was quite taken back because, you know, it's not something people do outside of soap. except I claimed it. Yeah, I think because I hate confrontation so much, I never really go in for that kind of thing. But it just took me. And then we had a good conversation about it and it was actually all fine.
00:04:59
Speaker
So yeah, that was
Joe's Storyline Debates
00:05:01
Speaker
my Emmerdale evening. And then we all watched an episode of Emmerdale together. Which one? and The most recent one, Fridays. And I like filled them in on who was who and it was great.
00:05:13
Speaker
Love that. I actually filmed the reactions there. So I might try and edit it into like a Gogglebox style video, but I'm going to see how much time and headspace I have for that. People need to see it.
00:05:26
Speaker
ah Did any of them show any indication that they wanted to watch more Emile? um a lot of them were like, oh, I do feel quite invested now. and also that they enjoyed it more than they thought they would. Great. That's that. Who knows where we'll go with it.
00:05:39
Speaker
And they have been watching, I'd say, episode from one of the weaker periods in the last... a few months so well that's the thing i said to them like oh sorry guys nothing really happens this episode like i'd already seen it but they're like i'll just show some more recent the most recent episode i was like nothing really happens and then we got to the end and they were like so much happened and i was like yeah but just like compared to a normal episode nothing really happening so i think it just depends if you're ready if you're used to watching soaps or not yeah And the thing that, yeah, we always try and pick what is the main story to address first on the podcast. And we have come to the reluctant conclusion that the main story is um Joe and Dr. Crowley and his kidnap and parada paralysis and threatening to feed his kidney to a dog, et cetera, et cetera.
00:06:29
Speaker
And i just I just don't care about any of this, Lizzie. I i don't like soap when it goes so like what's the right word? Because it's like, it is soapy, but it's just so wildly over the top.
00:06:41
Speaker
I like it when it's a little over the top, but not wildly the top. Because, you know, if someone kidnapped me and threatened to remove my kidney, or potentially murder me, I would never recover from that. I would be in counselling for rest of my life about it. I would be so traumatised.
00:06:57
Speaker
And he, I assume, will shake it off in a couple of weeks and and forget it's happened by the end of the year. And it's that sort of high level of thing, particularly when you've got things that yeah unlikely to happen but to people but could happen like sarah's illness alongside and you know wanting to have a child and all the complications of that which feels so authentic it's like i just don't have time for like dr evil to swoop in yeah i too have found it hard to remain interested and i think it's such a shame because i think that ned porteous who plays joe is a really good actor feel like he's being wasted on a storyline that is beginning to feel a bit farcical um like yeah beginning beginning farcical for a while
00:07:36
Speaker
I also realised that i and I think I may be a bit more content to not fully understand things than some other people, but i don't really fully understand what's going on because my housemate V, when we were watching it as a group, kept being like, wait, wait, pause it. Like, why does the doctor care? Like, he's got all of Joe's money already, you said.
00:07:53
Speaker
And like, and like, why does he, what's his motive now for still going back and like dating Kim and trying to make Joe's life a misery? And I was like, to be fair, don't know.
00:08:05
Speaker
I think his motive is he's realised that Kim's very wealthy, which he should really have picked up whilst hanging around her mansion, um you know giving this treatment in secluded bedrooms. But i think he's just like, oh, actually, 400 grand or whatever it is, is a lot.
00:08:20
Speaker
But I quite like more. Yeah, so he's just taking more and more because he can. Also, it was only 100 grand. And I kind of feel like, obviously, if I had 100 grand, I'd be over the moon. I can't even imagine having that much money.
00:08:33
Speaker
But... I don't think that's as much as I thought Joe Tate had. They've made him out to be stupendously rich. Was it 100? Because I thought Joe said he had 100 grand, but when they opened the bank out, it was 400 grand. But maybe I just misheard. Maybe it was 100 grand the bank account.
00:08:47
Speaker
maybe I just wasn't really paying Which apparently just got in like a current account somewhere that
Soap Opera Wealth and Relationships
00:08:52
Speaker
you can... Yeah, I was like he would definitely have more accounts and then also it seemed incredibly easy to access. All he needed was his laptop password and then a bank password.
00:09:00
Speaker
Or was it like Dawn Forever or something? It was 97, which I actually thought was really sweet because all along I've been a bit like, I can't tell whether Joe actually loves Dawn or if he's just like playing her a bit. I think he really does and I think the password is a sign and I like that. Well, that is nice but i did think And sorry if this is a revealing or exposing my bank account to Swindlers, but I think I last changed my banking PIN number and and and password and stuff, maybe 2010.
00:09:28
Speaker
like i don't and I'm not like updating it. If I like, oh, I've got a bit of crush on them, I'll pop in. That was the password. Yeah, true. i don't really... but maybe it's a new bank account or something. Yeah, i have no idea.
00:09:41
Speaker
i found it quite interesting as well that the bank would allow such a large transfer to just happen... Like when I had to buy my house just to pay my house deposit, which was not £100,000 or indeed £400,000, I had to go and do it in person.
00:09:59
Speaker
And yet they just tap, tap, tap and it all goes through. I don't think that would happen. I did it in person because I went similarly for the deposit of my flat and they had to like phone someone. It was quite weird actually because I was in Bristol where I do not live.
00:10:10
Speaker
But just as I was leaving my house to go to Bristol, the solicitor phoned and said the other people were gonna pull out unless the payment goes through today, which was not the original plan. it's like, well, I'm already, guess I need to go. So just to find some random bank, could be like, can you withdraw all my money, please?
Villainy and Character Development
00:10:24
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It did look quite suspect.
00:10:27
Speaker
um Yeah. i yeah let's Let's talk a bit about Dr. Crawley. I think we've got lots of other, you know, smaller highlights can get to about other stories, but we should, we should acknowledge this one exists.
00:10:39
Speaker
So he said that he'd been struck off and we messaged about this. Yeah, by the GMC, which for non-UK listeners is the General Medical Council and they like enforce that doctors are keeping the law and stuff.
00:10:51
Speaker
And so he was like, yeah, they looked into it and they struck me off. What did they discover that led to them striking him off, but not instantly phoning the police? They're like, so we heard you've been like stealing kidneys and that's a no-no. So we're going to pop you on suspension or something. and it's actually none of our business whether we get the law involved in this at all.
00:11:12
Speaker
I guess the only thing I thought is like, maybe they found out he was doing operations in like an unlicensed hospital or something. So I couldn i never really worked out if was a private hospital or just like a shed somewhere. Yeah, I think it was just a secret facility. Yeah.
00:11:28
Speaker
Yeah, very, very odd moves. um It definitely seemed to be mainly decorated with bin liners, didn't it? There was a lot hanging plastic. Which is very important. Do you think playing Nocturne in E-flat major by Chopin was supposed to be haunting? Because it's a very calming and, I think, comforting piece.
00:11:47
Speaker
Oh gosh, what knowledge you have. I didn't notice, I'm afraid. It came up on the subtitles and I was like, oh yeah, yeah, used to play this on piano. And it was, it's just very nice. It's very nice piece, but I think it was meant to be kind of terrifying. Or maybe it was just like, it's his training. It's like, whenever I've done operation, I do try and make the patients as comfortable as possible. So he just goes into autopilot of like, I do need to set this up nicely and yeah whether or not the person's here willingly. Yeah.
00:12:14
Speaker
I also find the character development of, is it Crawley or Crowley? Whoever he is. Who
Outlandish Soap Logic
00:12:19
Speaker
knows? I find it quite strange because he seemed quite grounded before in terms of like, He clearly felt very uncomfortable about everything that happened and was like, this is really dodgy. I feel really bad.
00:12:32
Speaker
But now he's just unhinged. And he's like, he's the one that's been cutting out bits of paper and sticking them on stuff and leaving them on Joe's bed. Like, I don't see that being the same person.
00:12:42
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, firstly, I guess cutting things out is this whole M.O. and surgeon might be struck off by the gmc you've got to just cut something out something he's got to put that scabble to use and it might as well be on the daily mirror but um he yeah i've often found this in soap i guess so again i've watched neighbors for longer but often there's if there is someone who's a bit villainous the first time they're there they'll be quite nuanced and then when they come back they'll have gone completely unhinged and uh often there's a bigger break than we've had in this particular storyline but do you do often find like, oh, we do need someone who's a bit mad slash evil. And that person was a bit of a baddie. So yeah yeah, it's really putting paid,
00:13:19
Speaker
Putting my my concerns about the sterilisation of the drift into perspective, isn't it? I think that is the least of your problems. Something I found quite interesting to track is the way that, um I'm not sure what his real name is, but Knifey Sean just seems to have at various points been adopted into their family and nobody's batting an eyelid. Just occasionally eating like a petit flute in someone's kitchen. Yeah, well I remember texting you saying, why is that stabby man eating all Kim's ham? Yeah.
00:13:47
Speaker
the No one seemed to blink. And why would, also, why would Joe think it's wise to threaten a man he is hired to stab someone? Like he knows he's not going to go off quietly. I did think it was not, I don't want to criticize the soap's um folly folly department, but when he was hit by the spade, it was like,
00:14:04
Speaker
gentlest thud. I laughed out loud when that happened. It was just like, bonk. And then he was on the floor. out of So funny. They can't really be content with that work.
00:14:18
Speaker
He, like Joe, said to him, oh, I just hired you because like I needed a bit hired muscle. And i was like, so you chose him? Because if you look at yourself versus him, you look like you would be the more likely candidate for that.
00:14:34
Speaker
Although I think Joe's got like model muscle. He's not got like strength muscle. He's just got like gym muscle that he doesn't he wouldn't know how to use it No, I don't think he's doing anything functional with that muscle.
00:14:47
Speaker
He's got non-functional muscle. He's got non-functional muscle. Oh, that's mean, I think. i don't like that. don't know. I mean, it's certainly not a crisis.
00:14:58
Speaker
um I think he's getting what he wants out of the thing. Yeah, tree that true. That is true. and I did enjoy another line that Joe said about Caleb said Caleb is not a forgiving man about a man who has literally forgiven him and for stealing his kidney it's like he's you've really pushed his limits and he has somehow risen to them so I think uh you should be yeah kinder to Caleb yeah absolutely um Something I was thinking while i was watching it this week is, um A, why do a lot of people in Emmerdale text in all caps?
00:15:32
Speaker
Because Crowley was sending a lot of messages that are just like entirely casual letters. um But b Joe would definitely have an iPhone. like It doesn't feel right to me to see him using an Android. What do you mean by that?
00:15:45
Speaker
I know that you use an Android. I know we come from different place on this because I think people who use iPhones are people who are easily conned by marketing. I don't think they're jealous. I think people who use iPhones have an eye for intuitive technology and maybe work in the design sector.
00:16:00
Speaker
but We've come to a different place. because I briefly had my phone and it was the... it was as functional as joe's muscles i will say um i thought it was really nice to hear joe speaking well of billy to lucas you know when that was nice i like going out for the day and he was like oh that sounds like a really nice day like i think that's great i absolutely know no knowledge of who this child was until you name lucas like i'm sure we have seen him before but i don't i don't remember i wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a lineup but they did call him by his name so assumed i assumed it was him
00:16:35
Speaker
um But yeah, what do we think is going to be the trajectory now? Well, I mean, it does seem like they've already put paid to the whole, like, Joe telling Kim, because the obvious thing would for him to say to Kim with this fake boyfriend who tried to murder Joe, that's the guy, this guy tried to kill me. And I know there was some sort of vague threat about your family would be unsafe, but your family's pretty unsafe either way in this situation.
00:16:57
Speaker
I think phoning the police would make sense. But, you know, they've've they've made it very clear that that's not going to happen. um And... So I think it's probably just going to play out for like a month and eventually there'll be so but some big denouement and Kim will save the day, is my guess.
00:17:13
Speaker
Yeah, probably. i just don't want to see Kim get heart broken. It is weird how she's talking about Will at the moment. She does seem to have forgotten that her relationship with Will was a toxic trash fire. it was I mean, she literally tried to bury him alive like a month before their wedding, so it's Yeah, I also thought it was kind of rogue when, so Kim's telling Dawn about moving on and starting to be with Eddie.
00:17:38
Speaker
um And she says like, oh, whatever happens, nobody's ever going to replace your dad. Whereas I feel like she was sort of trying to get rid of Will. Not just towards the end, but like hesitated for a long time while he was having a heart attack because she was like, maybe be better if you did die.
00:17:54
Speaker
If I could pick one word to describe Will, it would be replaceable. sweet will but true he was very i mean i was so glad when he died because i mean the actor was great and you know i'm sure ah there was something the character in the past but um i did find it very tedious uh having their relationship there was a lot of backing and forth thing and i also thought unusual for dawn not to be okay with kim replacing will when dawn has in fact replaced her own husband Who is still alive. Yes, true.
00:18:25
Speaker
Such a good boy. Kind rogue one from her. And I famously love Dawn because I think she's great.
Redemption Arcs and Humorous Highlights
00:18:32
Speaker
She makes curious choices sometimes. She makes curious, curious choices.
00:18:38
Speaker
um Yeah, have we anything else to say on the whole Joe debacle at this stage? Just an overall comment that this is very soapy in that when a character has done who they want to keep has done things that are really bad, easy, kidney stealing, they all go through a redemption edit, which tends to mean either they do nice things, we've seen and do a few nice things people, or most often terrible things happen to them, and then the viewer is meant to be back on side.
00:19:05
Speaker
So, yeah, this is classic soap where Joe's going to go through the mill so that we think about that and not about what he's done. And then we'll be like, okay, we love him. So I know you're not watching Soaps this long, but one of the stars was like, okay, Joe's not leaving. Because originally when the kidney's stealing, was like, how long can a character have when they've stolen the kidney?
00:19:22
Speaker
But um this is how they're going to keep him in the show, by giving him a redemption arc. I love that. That's so good. Should we get into our highlights?
00:19:34
Speaker
Have got a highlight for us? Yeah, oh gosh, I've got so many that I might just do more than three this time, that's all right. Yeah, sure One thing was about Kane's, or Nate's funeral that Kane was organizing, which really amused me that he wanted to get in touch with his loved ones, with his family and friends in the village.
00:19:54
Speaker
And the only way he could think how to do that was by putting up posters.
00:20:00
Speaker
It's like, Kane, WhatsApp them. Yeah. Or, you know, you see all of them every day in the pub. Just talk to them. Yeah. Who of the general public are you trying to invite?
00:20:10
Speaker
yeah because he was like i just needed to get in touch with family he's like surely i mean unless he doesn't know to work his phone like surely i would not be surprised if he doesn't know how to work his phone can't believe for a moment he's in the village whatsapp group he'll have left that for sure oh yeah but i think mandy will have like added him back in a few times every time he's like i don't want to be here so true there must be a dingle whatsapp group as well yeah that would be fun one to see Yeah.
00:20:39
Speaker
So that really amused me. And also the fact that Frankie assumed her dad was still alive. like How much have you explained to her about her dad dying? krista said She is old enough to know that her dad isn't... like she I mean, she's obviously very young, but I don't know. I think she must know her dad's not going to come back and have a party just because she saw her poster. But maybe not.
00:20:55
Speaker
I don't... Yeah. I don't know. You would think that it had been explained, but children are children, aren't they? And I guess you can't read, so she'll just have seen a picture of...
00:21:07
Speaker
Her dad.
Unexpected Alliances and Character Dynamics
00:21:08
Speaker
But even that, like, there's bits of a dad around her house all the time. He's having a party. on, Frankie. What's your first highlight? I think first highlight, well, I was going to say that Lydia's back, but did we talk about that before?
00:21:23
Speaker
can't remember. No, because it was it was like literally the day after we filmed or recorded our last episode. Yeah, that's what I thought. Then we did the classic episode, but we didn't mention it there anything.
00:21:33
Speaker
Yeah, Lydia is no longer Saturday. She's back for one episode. Yeah, she came back for one episode. But I will say she's looking fantastic. Yeah. as As so many people are in Emmerdale. We've spoken that about that before.
00:21:47
Speaker
But yeah, it's just, it's nice to finally know that she is safe and well. i guess her RAC breakdown finally came through for her. It's real relief, yeah. Yeah, I know. And um I hope that but she's found out.
00:22:03
Speaker
all the highs and lows of her own birthday party from the rest of the village. Gosh, it does feel a long time ago. i mean, it was a long time ago. It was a long time ago. We had a couple of people actually message or in different places be like, thought of you guys when we saw Lydia. We finally saw Lydia. I know. I love that we started that meme.
00:22:20
Speaker
And now, yeah, she's back. Although, as you say, only for like one episode. um But during that one episode, I really enjoyed seeing her hanging out with Kim. I really like that friendship.
00:22:32
Speaker
Yeah, it's great. I love an unlikely friendship arc. And i what my hope is that maybe months or years from now, there'll just be some reference to what went on in that missing time. It's just like, oh, this reminds me of when I, you know, lived in a log cabin by by the river for a month. 54 days. it's yes making nettle string. what I think.
00:22:53
Speaker
Is it going to be like um like the fishing trip in Gowan and Stacey? Like they allude to, but you never quite know what happened. Or maybe she like gave birth and some child will come turn up in 10 years time or something and like, yeah you gave birth to me and not realising you were pregnant. and and Yeah, I wonder if they will.
00:23:13
Speaker
throw anything in at some point as like a story arc like what really happened that'd be quite fun I'd love it I mean almost certainly not but it'd be great if they did yeah definitely um Yeah, that was my first highlight. What's your what's your next one? I've got another one from Laurel.
00:23:29
Speaker
Firstly, love her commitment to pencil skirts. she She will not wear anything else. Yeah, I know. She's like, she's business casual all day long. guess especially just business business, I suppose.
00:23:41
Speaker
But ah my highlight was around her total panic. about Kim criticizing their menu, where she was like phoning Gabby to talk about it. And she did seem to think that the entire business model for The Hyde rested on um Kim criticizing her jacket potatoes. Yeah, which is which is unusual.
00:24:01
Speaker
um When I was watching the episode with my friends, One of them said that um Laurel, and I quote, looks like a loose woman. and They were like, oh no, not like that. like isn't She looks like she's off Loose Women.
00:24:15
Speaker
i get that. She does have that vibe. And she i think she'd be very good on it yeah Yeah, me too. um Where does she live? Is it a different set? Or do we just not see it very often? Because I was looking at her in her kitchen when Vinny went over. And I was like, I feel like I'm not very familiar with this. And it looks quite fancy.
00:24:32
Speaker
Oh yeah, she has lived there for a long time. it was curiously where the vicar lived. ah As before discussed, there is no vicarage. The vicar just lives wherever we fancy or she fancies. So I think it's quite near but near the crossroads up that way.
00:24:47
Speaker
m i think so. Yeah, we have seen a kitchen that I think has differed in size over time. i'm sure it used to be like a little galley kitchen and then this time there seemed to be quite a lot of seating in it.
00:24:59
Speaker
Because I've mainly pictured her before, like where she was living with Jay, which is very different that sort. Oh, was she up at the big house? I don't know if it was the big house. ah no a deceas It didn't look very big. He might have moved. I think maybe he, but I thought the idea was that he was moving into her place and then when it all went wrong, she kicked him out. But now she appears to be somewhere else.
00:25:22
Speaker
might be saying that they mostly look at just like that couch that's in the middle of, you know next to the staircase and stuff. as That tends to be her main setting. But to go back to my, yeah, to the, I just, I can't imagine a world in which Kim voluntarily eats at the Hyde. Like she is a fabulously wealthy businesswoman who must be used to like going to the Ivy and like restaurants in Paris and stuff. And she is not going to go and have a jacket potato at an outdoor adventure center.
Absurdities and New Friendships
00:25:48
Speaker
I don't think she would be eating anywhere in that whole village, would she? i don't think there is anywhere for Kim. She might drink milk from the shop at a push.
00:26:00
Speaker
I think she'd be fine at the shop. and Why does the shop have like gingham tables in it? but because sometimes i remember when they opened this they thought people might like to stop for a glass of wine and a few like bread rolls and things sit in a shop which occasionally people do just because they needed another place for people to sit i really can't imagine going to my even my nice local bakery and be like i think i'm gonna sit more or less next to the tail and the ah the tiniest possible table and I think the fanciest place to eat in the village, which we haven't seen for quite a long time, is the, weirdly, the B&B. They've got, like, a sort of dining room as well. Oh, yeah. And that tended to be where people went for, like, fancy, you know, meals.
00:26:42
Speaker
ah So Kim, out of push, if it still exists, might go to vi ah the B&B restaurant. Restaurant. What's your next highlight? My next highlight is actually what i hope is going to become a quite nice friendship between Nicola and Lewis.
00:26:57
Speaker
i that was when I read that down. I loved their dynamic. Yeah, it's really nice. I mean, it's another instant hiring where somebody at the beginning of the day is like, I wish I had a job and in the next three hours they end up with a job with no HR processes involved. We love to see it.
00:27:15
Speaker
When did they discuss his national insurance number? It just hasn't been mentioned. Like no idea of way of pay. Is he putting into a pension pot? Nobody knows. But that's fine because he's having good time and he's teaching her about what it's like to work in a busy environment when you have autism.
00:27:34
Speaker
Yes, in a way that I thought was good, but also slightly heavy handed. and there is ah Here is a thing that I have not hitherto shown evidence of meeting that I'm going to mention and then will probably never mention again. but maybe, ah hopefully it'll become a long way thing where they do actually acknowledge it.
00:27:51
Speaker
Yeah, I guess. I don't think you have to state reasonable adjustments in your job interview. There was there was no interview. But yeah inside to come but she's being very accommodating, which is nice thing. I absolutely loved it when all those old people came in and one of them went, I want seven flat whites.
00:28:12
Speaker
It's like there are only five of you Aren't it all for you, Brenda? Yeah. Yeah, and I will say, even if someone's neurotypical, was ah aggressive and rude the way that they were just all yelling their orders. Absolutely. But yeah, I thought that was nice. I'm looking forward to seeing them working together. I feel like they like you've mentioned before about how Nicola in earlier years used to be a bit more of like a villain um and I feel she can still kind of be a bit prickly and he can also maybe like get his hackles up a bit so I think they could have some quite fun like moments being annoyed with the customers together but also like be really kind and
00:28:51
Speaker
yeah yeah I liked her like sniping at Jay and being mean to him and him just being like just sort of taking it not really paying attention and that was quite fun yeah she's she's a great character doesn't get that much do but i think one of the things that is useful about being somebody who runs the shop or the cafe or the pub is that you're in a lot of scenes even if you're not doing very exciting things in them so hopefully I'll see a lot more of Lewis in there yeah that'd be nice yet one more place in the village where you can get beverages. Like, for a village with population of about 100, they've got a lot of options for where they're going to eat out. Yeah, simply so many options.
00:29:28
Speaker
I don't know if you spotted this as well, actually. In the cafe, there was a poster for an Emmerdale community garden open day. Ooh, I mean, is it not usually open? Are community gardens, by definition, open?
00:29:39
Speaker
Yeah, that's so true. Maybe they will just like club together to make it look really nice. Imagine it's a community garden that no one can access. I think when I read it, I assumed it was like an open gardens scheme where people open their gardens. But no, I think you are right because it literally says community garden open day. Like that can only mean one thing. I just didn't what wanted
Pop Music References and Character Motivations
00:30:00
Speaker
it to be.
00:30:00
Speaker
every day is open day or maybe it's an open day to come and be like would you like would you be interested in like becoming one of our official gardeners or something yeah maybe maybe is there any marijuana you'd like to just pop in a corner um on friday as well as he was leaving the cafe jimmy was like i'm gonna be in skipdale and skipdale is the place that on our like plane crash episode i was like they never mentioned skipdale anymore They are refilming so many episodes based on this podcast. I think they are. No, they're not. They've probably been saying it all along. I mean, just noticing it.
00:30:34
Speaker
Maybe. Speaking of marijuana, I think since the last episode, we've had Robert's machinations about stealing all the weed and selling it to small-time drug dealer Ray.
00:30:44
Speaker
Yeah, and then buying Moira's land with the result, which I know is really bad, but I think um quite sweet that he's buying Annie. Is it Annie's land? Annie annie we saw in the plane crash episode.
00:30:57
Speaker
Yeah, that's quite nice. And he's like, the Suggdens are back. and like I think that's quite, yeah. Well, it was nice, but isn't he instantly selling it to Kim? Yeah, that's true. so I guess in a bigger way, the Tates are back.
00:31:08
Speaker
yeah Maybe we'll go into business together. Yeah, maybe. It was quite weird. mean, it does seem to be endangering his possible farming career, which is sad because it was nice to give him a job.
00:31:20
Speaker
Yeah, and it was nice having some farming content, not to skip ahead to our yes for a later section, but there's been a lot of farming content in between, you know, the farm and the marijuana farm. It's been good.
00:31:33
Speaker
um i've got a couple well no a couple in a theme of pop music that have come up so we had we had nate's so you do the like you know whoever you said it was handle or someone and i'm doing 90s pop here there go ah but uh when they said what Nate's favourite song was to play at the funeral. Yeah, it was Steps. was Steps, Deeper Shade of Blue, which from what I saw of Nate surprised me. Look, I'm a big, what do we call Stepfans? Stephead back in the day. Stephead. They say they didn't call anybody that. That sounds like an insult.
00:32:08
Speaker
They did not. What would we have called ourselves? I don't know, the line dancers or something. But um I did go, my first ever concert was a Steps concert. And I guess it probably, they must have sung Divas Shadow Blue. I can't remember if it was before after that came out.
00:32:23
Speaker
When I say that, I don't think they sang a single syllable on stage. It was very much piped in. But they were suddenly doing all this all the steps and that's what were there for. But yeah, I mean, what a lovely funeral song to have, Shade of Blue. Although, considering he was drowned, or not drowned, but found at the bottom of a lake, it does seem a bit on the nose to get Deep Shade of Blue.
00:32:43
Speaker
So true. I also found it quite funny how Kyle was like, yeah, this is one of his favourite songs. It's the first CD he ever had. I was like, If you see the first CD I ever had, I would not say that it's still one of my favourite songs. I think I had like ah CD by Five. It was like one of their singles or something. My first single was Five, was When the Lights Go Out.
00:33:02
Speaker
don't know what mine was. think it may even have been Hand Me Down from my older sister. Someone wanted to play When the Lights Go Out at my funeral. Although, actually, you know that is, again, a very fitting funeral or song. but like it but Also, i mean that CD from Steps came out, I'd say, 1999.
00:33:18
Speaker
ninety ninety nine So how old are we saying Nate was? don't know. He looked younger than that. ah Yeah, I don't know. think he would have been a child, surely. I think he was probably early 30s. Yeah, I guess that could work if someone gave it to when he was like five or six.
00:33:34
Speaker
Yeah. Fair enough. The other one was Cammie singing You're Gorgeous by, is it Baby Bird? It's like, how do you know this song? is it still Does it still get airplay? Because I mean, that was sort of retro when I was...
00:33:45
Speaker
ah listening to music and he's yeah decades younger than me it's definitely still known is it he says love out there it's a good song but i i didn't just haven't crossed my mind for maybe 15 20 years so i didn't know it's still in currency and yeah i really enjoyed just seeing him singing it yeah yeah we still we continue to love cammy oh my word so much he was gonna be one of my highlights actually i'll go for it I just think Cammie is such a good friend, um like talking to Vinnie about where he's at um in like a really non-judgmental way and like ah continuing to be like, we don't have to talk about this, but I care about you.
00:34:23
Speaker
And this is what I think. I think it's really nice. I think he's like the best at communication Emmerdale that I've seen. but just being but Yeah, he's just like kind and he doesn't overstep the mark. He doesn't like make it personal.
00:34:39
Speaker
He just asks good questions and then listens to the answers. So true. We love to see it And that's the other like storyline that has developed a bit over this couple of weeks, but I think it's probably going to develop in something bigger.
00:34:50
Speaker
This whole Vinny questioning his sexuality thing, which he talked a bit to Cammy. Laurel did something with Bluetooth that meant she overheard some the conversation in a way that maybe could happen I don't know I don't know um and maybe we'll talk about it more in another week when it becomes bigger but but I think it's I like how they're doing it so far where you know they referenced Vinny's marriage to Liv who is Aaron's sister who was asexual
00:35:22
Speaker
uh and so they you know they were in love but it wasn't a sexual relationship so uh i i didn't see them on screen together this is just what i've gathered from other things because it was in the gap um and i liked that he wasn't willing to be like that was me just pretending you know or me trying to use her as a disguise for my sexuality and that cammy you know can see why cammy might suggest that but i'm glad they sort of shot that down and be like no that wasn't what it was um So yeah, it's interesting to see where it goes. yeah And so far seems to be, as you say, like they're going through it through like, we're looking at different relationships and friendships in the context of that. And it's not as big sensational.
00:36:00
Speaker
Oh gosh, you've always been gay or like, you know, you're in love with Cammy or is more more nuanced than that. So I'm enjoying it. Yeah, I did really feel for him when he was trying to talk to Gabby.
00:36:12
Speaker
was like terrible timing. um But yeah, then him just suddenly being like, let's just get married as soon as possible. It's like, oh, Vinnie, hold your nerve and just like have a difficult conversation for once.
00:36:23
Speaker
What if he ends up just like suddenly marrying her and then hating his life? Yeah, tricksy. Because not that I think he should definitely call it off, but I think he should definitely tell her that he's like thinking stuff through.
00:36:39
Speaker
Yeah. ah Yeah. And is it I do find it interesting their relationship how Gabby is always like, I can't believe have to slum it with Dingles and I'm much posher and better than this. And I know that she's lived at a home farm for a while.
00:36:53
Speaker
Not home farm. it a home farm? Kim's house. yeah Yeah. um But she grew up in that self-same house that we've been talked about talking about that is Laurels. And, you know, it's lovely, but it's not a mansion. It's not that different from where most of the Dingles live. It's bit different from where...
00:37:08
Speaker
bell and um sam and lydia live which does look like it might be condemned by environmental health at any moment i think it looks cozy yeah i mean i love it and would happily there but you you wouldn't be surprised if the plumbing didn't work yeah where she grew up in like you know middle class quite you know maybe even lower middle class quite like normal it's not like she grew up with as a millionaire so Yeah, I have wondered where these sort of like affectations have come from. Is it just like aspirational for her? Because I kind of feel like if you actually are middle class, then you don't talk about like your high standards. You just have them.
00:37:45
Speaker
It's true. I do think it must have happened whilst I wasn't watching this whole like becoming Kim's protégé and things because they have that sort of friendship of sorts now, but there's no real clear evidence of why.
00:37:56
Speaker
Yeah. And I don't really see them interacting much. Although it was interesting, I thought when Gabby was in hospital and Kim went off to see her and then Kim was like, um Dawn, you're going to have to hold the fort here. was like, in the now empty house where no business ever seems to occur, like, what do you think is going to happen?
00:38:18
Speaker
I don't understand. And maybe some stabby Joe just comes in to eat our fridge goods. Yeah, true. I don't know what holding the fort looks like there. Maybe just sort of locking the door behind you Yeah, they're very unspecific about...
00:38:34
Speaker
their employment but i mean it doesn't seem like dawn has run off her feet at the uh wedding arranging or party arranging whatever the the remit is of this thing because she was very insistent on her working there but it doesn't seem to have ever done anything about it since oh yeah she like quickly became a partner didn't she yeah but i assumed a working partner the movie is just a financial arrangement i know i think she was she certainly had ideas oh yeah well who's arranging vinnie and gabby's wedding presumably then Presumably them.
00:39:02
Speaker
also just like, who actually has a wedding planner? Don't, like, most of my friends who are getting married are just like planning things themselves. That's a good point, actually, because I guess you'd have someone who, you know arranges the venue or something like who works for the venue, but you wouldn't have an independent person. let You're the one talking about it.
00:39:18
Speaker
Yeah, you have to be like, quite rich to use a wedding planner. That's a good point. Well, I can't imagine Edel's paying very much for that wedding practice. It does doesn look dreadful. It does look quite sad, I suppose. And they do keep dying, the people who work there, so... does appear to be cursed.
00:39:40
Speaker
I got another another that small highlight, which was, I can't remember who was holding it, but we saw it we saw a local newspaper, think maybe couple weeks ago, and the two headlines were, sorry to say, the hot and pool is to close in November.
00:39:52
Speaker
No. And I wasn't sure if that was a seasonal thing, but that was front page, so I'm guessing maybe for good they are closing the pool. Maybe Slurry got into it, I don't know.
00:40:03
Speaker
And the other, i think maybe less urgent, but still made a headline, was school traffic in crisis i think okay so just that people are in traffic as they try and get to school because i mean that does happen maybe if the traffic itself is in crisis does that mean there's less traffic maybe we need more traffic i mean growing up my school was at the sort of at the bottom of a road full of ah like terraced housing, Victorian terraced housing.
00:40:33
Speaker
And i it was a school for all people who lived from the villages around the area. we were all on buses and some people dropped off their kids by car and it was a nightmare trying to get down that narrow lane with parked cars everywhere and school buses and parents dropping off their kids.
Soap Portrayals vs. Reality
00:40:47
Speaker
I'm really sorry to hear that. It's such a difficult childhood. What I'm saying is like I don't recall that being a headline in the local newspaper because it has consistently been true for many years. like What has changed? yeah and I'm just baffled by what it even means. What does it mean for the traffic to be in crisis?
00:41:07
Speaker
My assumption is it was just too much traffic, but you've really you've you've thrown that assumption into into this into something. I i can't do it. I don't want it. It's too hot to be thinking about this. We've done quite well, I think, so far. Oh, absolutely. well things considered.
00:41:23
Speaker
duh. I know we've talked about this before, but something that um is continually on my heart and mind is just, like, how well the NHS is doing. I think it's hot in where the hostel is.
00:41:35
Speaker
um Like, the queue was absolutely non-existent. They just got seen in A&E straight away. That's true. Yeah. They gave Gabby a private room and an overnight stay just for simply fainting.
00:41:50
Speaker
I feel like they'd be like drink fluids. Yeah, they'd just be like, you are wasting our time. yeah but your home. Like, i can't remember if I've told you this before. One of my friends is um like the sister, like the head nurse at a big A&E nearby.
00:42:07
Speaker
need to her on sometimes. how would we actually do? um And she's consistently like, we don't have enough space to treat the people who are actually dying. And it's really stressful. If someone came in who'd fainted, she would just be like, lovely to meet you, get out of my sight.
00:42:23
Speaker
Because they also they also went straight to the doctor. There was no like being, you know, talking to the reception. There was no being triaged by a nurse. that was I feel like the first person you speak to when they want to know your name and address and why you're there, they'd be like, please leave.
00:42:35
Speaker
Yeah, literally. Get some free pastels from the vending machine and be on your way. Get out of it. Yeah. Also, um Sarah consistently looks fantastic.
00:42:45
Speaker
like even when she's just come around from surgery she's got like a full face i can't remember the last time i had a full face of makeup on it has to be a very very special occasion and she is straightening her hair overnight it seems like she works up that perfect she's yeah for for a woman who has in in the matter of a week undergone severe surgery eat twice she is good to go she is good to go Yeah, absolutely.
00:43:12
Speaker
So, um yeah, really, really pleased for whatever funding the and NHS has got in that part of Yorkshire. they could maybe share it around, I'm sure that would go down really well. That'd be lovely, Well, maybe next time you need it, you should just pop over that way because it can't be that far from you. So just yeah look out for Horton.
00:43:30
Speaker
I'll just have to drive up to the Hayward House to stay we won't look. I need help. I'm feeling a bit dizzy. Could I have an overnight stay, please? I just fancied a change of scene more than anything else.
00:43:44
Speaker
And of course, if you want to see your GP, it is a matter of moments between having that idea and being in the in the surgery. Yeah, which is lovely. It's lovely that they do that there.
00:43:56
Speaker
And I think maybe since we last recorded, a bear has gone off, but honestly, who cares? So, bye-bye. Yeah, I wish I cared, but I simply don't. It is difficult, isn't it?
00:44:06
Speaker
Something I will recommend, don't know if you've seen this, A day or two ago, they put up a video with Isabel Hodgins. Hodgkins? Hodgkins, I think. Hodgkins, who plays Victoria.
00:44:19
Speaker
Basically like a day in the life of. It's it's quite long. It's like 50 minutes. But it goes behind like what happens in makeup and costume and going to film different scenes, repeating them, and or or like where the canteen is. all And it was quite fun seeing all the behind-the-scenes stuff. it was The film that the shit scene they were doing was the one where she sort of weirdly stood at a distance while Robert and John pretend but to like each other.
00:44:41
Speaker
Oh, nice. Yeah, I'd like to watch that. I think I saw the Instagram real promoting it, but then I didn't actually watch the full one. She seems quite different from Victoria. really? That's a shame, because you love Victoria. I love Victoria, but i think I love Isabelle too. She's she's like a lot less sharp, I guess, in terms of like constantly telling people off, which I guess is probably nice.
00:45:02
Speaker
Probably a bonus, but we don't have to spend any time with her. Any more highlights, or should we on the final bits?
00:45:10
Speaker
It wasn't a highlight so much as just something to mention but we met Celia who's a new farmer and i don't I don't think I warm to her I kind of like that she's unhinged and terrifying but um I think I will quite quickly find her tiring to watch Yeah, I get the impression that she's like a proper full-time class member. I could be wrong. but So hopefully sure she'll have some nuance to her. Whereas like Drug Dealer Ray, I think, is just temporary. And so we'll probably just be straight evil for a while.
00:45:42
Speaker
and But yeah, I don't like the characters who are just evil. So I hope she's got a bit more to her than that. And I'm sure they'll write in some family at some point. In this farm that apparently has always existed, I don't recall being mentioned. Yeah.
00:45:55
Speaker
Also, the circumstances under which they met, are we supposed to believe... it so you saw Paddy, like, almost getting a gun and then thinking better of it and then getting the gun and striding out.
00:46:06
Speaker
Were we supposed to think he was going to kill the dog or were we supposed to think that he wanted to kill himself because of how low he was feeling? oh right. I didn't know if that was supposed to be ambiguous because I was just thinking about, like, his previous mental health history. And he has tried to kill himself before um or thought about it.
00:46:23
Speaker
um I assumed the dog, but or at least you know taking it just in case he needed it for the dog. but Because i assumed it was for himself and I was like, no, Paddy. um say But why would he go there if it was for himself?
00:46:38
Speaker
Yeah, don't know, to be fair. Yeah, curious. It's also odd that this vet has apparently only once hired the only vet practice in the in the village to go and there. Yeah, true.
00:46:48
Speaker
Unless there's a rival vet, we've not had mentioned, but there's already surely not enough work for that number of vets. Yeah, I just don't, well, I don't know if you're in farming area. Well, that's true. And a lot people probably have dogs.
00:47:01
Speaker
But you think you'd do all the local farms, that maybe there is one vet practice per farm. Maybe there's that much work to be done. I guess, yeah, I mean, it depends how big the farms are, doesn't it? Is it usual for vets to do both farm like business and domestic vets?
00:47:20
Speaker
Yeah, you you get quite a lot of mixed practices. It kind depends. um You will often get vets that are just equine, but then it's quite common to get mixed practices, like both small animals and farm.
00:47:32
Speaker
Okay, because, yeah, the one I go to for my cat is just domestic, but they are quite small, so... Yeah, my sister's worked in a few. i think the one she's out at the moment, she was in a mixed practice for ages.
00:47:44
Speaker
I think she's just farm now, but it's also next to a zoo. So who also has to do some zoo stuff. We need to get her on for more vet conveying. We've got so many options here. That's so true. We've got so many dacks. Sorry, there are no expert opinions in this episode. Just just our amateur opinions.
00:48:03
Speaker
I was thinking yesterday, ah there anything we could ask expert opinions on? But I don't really have any people who could speak into the whole, you know, evil surgeon turns into interest of my grandmother.
Memorable Farming Moments and Conclusion
00:48:17
Speaker
Yeah, that is quite niche, isn't it?
00:48:18
Speaker
Yeah, it's a niche one. Well, let's look at art. Random character. going to talk about what we think of their place in the show from the list of available people. And the first thing we're going to talk about today Oh, it's Jay Sharma.
00:48:34
Speaker
oh I hate him. I was sort of hoping he'd come up because we both have quite strong feelings about Jay. Yeah, I think he was in it quite a lot when I first started watching because there was all the drama with him and Laurel, which I can't even remember what it was about.
00:48:50
Speaker
But he just is one of these people who... um Would you say he's a um he's a villain who doesn't really have many redeeming features?
00:49:01
Speaker
Because I don't think I've seen him like have a softer side very much. Maybe I've just forgotten it all. Yeah, that hasn't been true over time. like He was always slightly hard-edged, but he was never a villain. But I think so one of those particularly it seems to happen in Emmerdale, where someone who was part of a family, so his brother Nick was there, his sister Priya, played by two different people, his dad, whose name I forget,
00:49:22
Speaker
And then in the time that i wasn't watching, his uncle came in and Sonny was his cousin, who we saw very briefly when we started watching. um He's got, I think he's, yeah, he's got a kid called Archie.
00:49:34
Speaker
think he's got some other children. yeah, Archie and someone else because they were both living with Laurel. That's right, for some unknown reason. Yeah, Archie was the... It was a very good story night actually where someone brought back Archie from being taken away by Archie's mother and then it turned out months later that the baby he had wasn't actually Archie. you he was It was really well done.
00:49:56
Speaker
Anyway, so yeah, I think he was part of a family and it made sense and then as often happens, they all leave and he's just there. and he doesn't have any family contacts really have anything to do he's not married to anyone now i didn't see any of his actual marriage to Laurel it was quite weird to me that they were together because obviously know them both independently and I just think he's an obvious axe at this point like I'm sure the actor's lovely and I don't think he does a good job at this quite annoying character but um I guess he's good if anything ever needs stirring he needs someone to like don't know put the knife in
00:50:30
Speaker
I guess so. mean, a bit pathetic when Caleb stole all his money and then he went to work for him. that was So sad. um Something I did wonder about Jay just this week, isn't his surname Sharma?
00:50:41
Speaker
Yes. Isn't that the same as Manpreet's surname? Yeah, she was married to ah Jay's dad for a while. Oh, okay. I did not see that coming. Yeah. Cool.
00:50:52
Speaker
not Sure. I think that's true. I thought that could be wrong. I said, oh, maybe it was his uncle. But she's married to one of the family at some point. So that's why it wasn't her surname originally. So I was like, maybe they're divorced. Ah, no.
00:51:06
Speaker
Yeah, so I yeah say he he's sort of a bit villainous. He does just like, no one likes him. As far as I can hasn't got any friends in the village. um And I think, you know, they do like to keep on their legacy characters for a long time because he's been in it for, I don't know,
00:51:23
Speaker
maybe 15 years or something, probably more than that. Actually, maybe not quite that long, but a long time. And um I know they've axed quite lot of cars recently, and I don't understand how he's managed to survive that.
00:51:34
Speaker
But maybe he's just lot in in the background for a while and he'll come to the centre. I mean, who could he who could he marry? Who could start a new thing, do you reckon? Wasn't there someone recently who was saying who could they marry, and it was a woman?
00:51:47
Speaker
Yeah, who was that? Yeah. truly have no idea was it manpred i don't know because i might have been i don't really don't want them to get together oh but it could be kind of funny because there would be this whole thing of like but you went with my dad that's not how your dad did oh yeah i mean no i actually don't want to hear that no i think be sickening and she deserves so much better you know i love manpred i don't want that for her yeah you do love her um yeah i just don't know also oh yeah we've seen a bit more of liam the last couple of weeks not a lot but a bit that's true speaking of doctors yeah sure okay okay gotcha i was wondering what the relevance was but yeah um yeah so what's the what's the question for this what do they bring to the table i'd say jay brings very little to the table yeah sorry jay he just brings like an annoying negi energy and i think particularly well his brother nick always got sort of a
00:52:41
Speaker
quite sweet idiot but occasionally very cross i liked nicole which doesn't which you may not necessarily have gathered from the way i described him i thought their dynamic worked well his dynamic with priya worked well his dad but he's just got no one to have a dynamic with now and i think he's just lost soul well maybe he'll like have an unlikely friendship with someone yeah maybe it'd be quite fun if he i know he struck a friendship with jimmy or someone but yeah i kind of doubt it but you never know maybe at the moment it's like no one no one likes him now if sean I'd be sure they could become best birds. Maybe partners. Maybe they'll have a romantic liaison that no one saw coming.
00:53:15
Speaker
yeah Truly no one. And truly no one wanted it to come. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, Jay. Sorry, Jay. But we hate you. R.I.P. And um yeah, was there any farming?
00:53:28
Speaker
ah final There actually was because there was the sheep that was, um was it a sheep that was caught in the fence that Paddy tried to rescue when he got attacked by that dog? Not any farming, whole new farm. Whole new farmer. Whole new farm, whole new farmer. Marijuana farming, of course. Yes. um Robert has been working on the farm, so some farm work has been happening.
00:53:45
Speaker
used to do little bit of that, didn't we? Yeah. So that's been great. Really enjoyed that. In fact, someone commented, I think, on Reddit or someone, would be like, ever since started recording, they've worked out they need more farming. It's because of you. Maybe it is. I think they were joking, but yeah.
00:54:01
Speaker
yeah yeah I do think everything that happens in Emmerdale we should continue to attribute just to ourselves. Yeah, I think that's fair. think that's fine. Great. um so Firstly, sorry guys if you've heard some background noise. It's too hot to have windows closed you might have heard some like traffic planes and things in the background. Literally so many planes.
00:54:20
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It does seem beset by them. I know, what's going on? Don't really know. It's only recently and they seem mainly to be Jet 2 I guess because nothing means a Jet 2 holiday.
00:54:32
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but yeah i don't know what that means is that a company or that a type of plane um it's a company it's like a travel agent but they also have jet who wrote on their plane so i guess they're also the like flight company but have you have you not seen the incredibly rampant memes of nothing beats the jet to you holiday i haven't oh my gosh wow you're so chronically offline these days and i'm so online but i guess not in the right places it's um like there's this there's a trending audio of the jet two advert where it goes darling hopper hand nothing beats a jet two holiday and what is it and right now you can say 50 pounds per person that's 200 pounds for a family of five
00:55:15
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that people are like pairing that audio with like catastrophic videos of like either holidays gone wrong or just like life going wrong. Wow. Okay. Well, not a sponsor, but if you're interested, we have just given your advert in full. So feel free to pay.
00:55:35
Speaker
Yeah, it'd be nice. If you could be sponsored by, if our podcast could be sponsored by anybody, who do you think it would end up being? Ooh, I mean, it would lovely if it was Emmerdale, but in the unlikely event that it, It's not Everdale. I mean, maybe hot in swimming pool. We just need to get the word out. They'll be able to stay open. Or maybe just like the NHS. Imagine if they went into sponsoring podcast.
00:55:55
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Because they have got so much money to spend. Something's gone wrong for them. For sure. Something I would like to put out there is um if anybody would like to suggest a theme tune for our podcast, that could be quite fun. yeah, Dingle Jingle. Or like, yeah, maybe create us a Dingle Jingle. could be quite cute.
00:56:12
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um My friend Joe sent me a voice note of him singing the Emmerdale theme tune when I invited him over for Marlon's gourmet burger. So if all else fails, that could be starting our next episode.
00:56:28
Speaker
No one wants that. No, she may, maybe I do. You do get in touch with with us atdletheway dot pod at at gmail.com. We'd love you to do that. And you can follow us on Instagram, dinglealltheway.pod there as well.
00:56:41
Speaker
Yeah, we love getting your emails and your comments and messages, so keep them coming. And, yeah, again, if there's any classic apps you'd like us to do, do let us know. have We'll do one at some point soon, I'm sure. Yeah, surely. Not in this heatwave.
00:56:54
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It's too much. It's too much. Thanks for listening. Bye.