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Grunting and grifting (Emmerdale 30 March - 12 April 2026)
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Dawn finds her line in the sand, Marlon and Paddy smash up furniture, Who Poisoned Kim and Who Hit Cain are solved in minutes... and we try to get to the bottom of what Ruby's wine business actually is, when you stop to think about it.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Dingle Way. I'm Simon. and I'm Lizzie. and we're going to talk about the last couple of weeks of Emmerdale.
Irregular Scheduling Issues
00:00:08
Speaker
And they are putting out episodes any day they fancy. At the moment, it seems we've had two, i think, Sunday episodes in the last couple of weeks.
00:00:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's quite relentless.
Continuity Errors and Personal Anecdotes
00:00:16
Speaker
I am confused by I think that the one they just put out today was supposed to be tomorrow. But there's some sort of like football or Because I'm pretty sure when Dr. Todd was speaking into her dictaphone, and she said tomorrow's date.
00:00:29
Speaker
I might have made that up. Good spot. I think I i will say I didn't. I don't think I spotted that. i think Did I just see it on Reddit? I think I saw it somewhere and I was like, oh, someone said the date.
00:00:43
Speaker
So. Yeah, that was almost a ah great get. As it is, it's sort treated up to nothing. I just think you've got to be honest about these things. I wouldn't have noticed that a million years and you knew that.
00:00:57
Speaker
Yeah, well, sport does seem to be deranging everything. And just before we started this call, I was talking about how my cat and I are on the same antibiotics, and that's where my life's at. So I hope everyone's doing better than me.
00:01:10
Speaker
Yeah, truly all is not well with you, but it's really good to see you trying to keep going. Like if you wrote a character in Terminal, who is like this said living on their own who was taking the same antibiotics as their cat you'd be like this is too on the nose there would be complaints to Ofcom want to be clear that we're taking them for very different reasons I don't know if that helps the situation or not and I did not have to put mine in pill oh it's worth its weight in gold it gets cats to eat pills it's like I guess squidgy meat or something i't know
00:01:50
Speaker
My parents' dog is just so excited about anything that you might give him. He doesn't really seem to care what it is. So if you just hold a tablet and you're like, Basil.
00:02:05
Speaker
What's this? He comes over, like, wagging his tail, and he sits down in front of you, and he's so excited to eat and he just eats it. adorable. I know. They used to, like, put the tablets in cheese so that he would eat them, and then they realized, like, he he just blindly accepts, like, anything you give him, and they're like, we're wasting precious, precious cheese this. Cheese. Whereas...
00:02:28
Speaker
Hargis will often assume that the food I've given him every day for years is actually now secretly an attempt to poison him.
00:02:39
Speaker
We did have a cat once who would only eat her pills, really. She was sort of turned and noticed about anything else, but a pill was a very exciting novelty to her. Could you put her medicine in pill format? Her food, you mean? Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Normally, we at least start talking about Emmett before we get onto the tangents. LAUGHTER I think the tendons are arguably the only interesting bit about this podcast.
Character Motivations and Inconsistencies
00:03:05
Speaker
Well, I think the main storyline, I don't know if you agree, for me is the is the Joe Dawn thing because it's certainly the thing i've been cheering on the most. Yeah, definitely. i really loved that Dawn has finally seen through Joe.
00:03:21
Speaker
and being like, oh, actually, you are a nasty piece of work, and I don't like this. I'm interested to know your opinions on how it ended, because i was kind of gutted that she was like, oh, you know what, actually, it's fine, like as long as no more secrets.
00:03:38
Speaker
Like, it's not fine, Dawn. He watched someone getting attacked and filmed it instead of helping. Yeah, I mean, it's weird to think about where her line is, because...
00:03:50
Speaker
yeah She already knew that he stole a kidney and that was something that she was willing to sort of move on from. Yeah, she sort of threw him out the window and then got over it That'll do it. It's a real load off her mind indeed off the second floor of that mansion.
00:04:06
Speaker
um So yeah, she like it's it's hard to see her motivation because she knows he's evil. and and she doesn't seem to mind. He's sort of replaying this as like, I had to do it for us. It's like, in some ways you didn't have to do it for at all. like in no way did you have to do this.
00:04:24
Speaker
And again, you've got a farm out of it that is near constantly on the brink of going bankrupt. Is is that really worth sending a woman down for slavery?
00:04:34
Speaker
slavery Yeah, truly not. And I'm sure that earlier in the plotline, Joe was like, oh gosh, I thought that this was just going to be like a tap on the wrist and she'd get off.
00:04:45
Speaker
I didn't realise it was like as major human trafficking situation as it is and showed like, not remorse, but a bit of like, oh dear. Whereas now he's just being like, oh, I don't care. Like, sure. What if I knew all along?
00:05:00
Speaker
It's fine. did what I needed to yeah where did that come from that was rogue yeah um and he ah also seemed to suggest in this recent episode that it was because John was a bad person and like I don't see how blackmailing Victoria fits into that yeah or how like not helping Victoria from like escape getting killed by him what yeah I don't get it all
00:05:32
Speaker
But yeah, as as you say, like at the end she was like, as long as there's no more secrets. And then he looked guilty, but I couldn't think what the secrets were that are left. Are there still secrets? Well, I mean, there's always secrets. um But I didn't know whether she fully understood the gravity of the Moira thing. Oh no, she does actually. Does she know about the planting the IDs and stuff? I can't remember if that came up.
00:05:53
Speaker
I can't remember either. i thought I thought maybe she didn't, but she probably does. I don't know. I just feel like there's always something with Jo. Yeah, maybe it's something we don't know. going to be like, oh, he did kill someone.
00:06:07
Speaker
And he's certainly teaching Lucas to chant about how the Dingles are peasants and then being like, don't tell your mum.
00:06:16
Speaker
Yeah, peasant was a weird one. Like, is that is that something people are still saying? I don't really know what they're trying to sort of like cast Jyote as in terms of his background or anything he does seem to have unusual vocabulary interests background hobbies he's just a creature just a creature but he's certainly there and that's that's something um what do you think of the current hairline happy uh i think hairstyle i guess i preferred it when it was shaved but it is quite fun now when he raises his eyebrows his whole hairline moves up and down with it in a way that i imagine it did before it's just a lot more noticeable now
00:07:03
Speaker
And I'd forgotten that re when he had the enormous quiff, it was like like a little mini earthquake going on. The quiff was just always on the move. was always hither and thither. That's so good.
00:07:17
Speaker
I did feel, oh yes, other evil things Joe's done recently, organized for Holly's memorial to be smashed up. I'd forgotten about that. Yeah, that was awful. Is that a secret that he's kept from Dawn? Because he was like, oh yeah, I didn't really know anything about that. He never really admitted that. Maybe that was the secret. Or maybe he did admit that that was him.
00:07:36
Speaker
And God bless the the good British workman who will be like, sure, all right. so We've been told to, so no further questions. don't need to ask any further questions this time. we will just smash up this memorial and that's okay. To fair, they did say to Joe, like, is this going? He was like, yeah. And they were like, really? And he was like yeah.
00:07:53
Speaker
so but yeah He did say yeah twice. True. He literally said it. Well, when I was getting my bathroom redone and I wasn't here, the bathroom guy did to send me various photos of things he found be like, do you want this? And every time I'd be like, no.
00:08:05
Speaker
So maybe maybe's it's a thing. that is like he'd He'd be like, do you want this horrible, rusty thing you like cabinet? And they'd be like, do you want this memorial to a much-loved daughter? no No. Just send a simple WhatsApp back. No. No.
00:08:23
Speaker
trash that one they seemed to have just like they seemed to have smashed up and then put it slightly the left but it was just like in a pile yeah it was confusing how it all happened don't really get it but I felt so sorry for Lydia being caught in the middle of the like Dingle Kim take feud. And everybody just sort of coming for Kim when you, it was to me quite clear that she wouldn't have done that as in like, she has been evil in the past, but she never would have done that. Like consciously, maybe that's because we mainly see the side of her that like relates to Lydia and is kind, but it just felt like they were really coming for her more stronger than they should have been. Especially because everybody knows that Joe's the evil one, not Kim.
00:09:05
Speaker
And yeah, Lydia was just there like, ooh. And even when they seemed to know it was Jo, they used be like, oh, it'll be on Kim's orders. It's like, so Kim's ordering Jo to order these workmen. Why don't they go poison the workmen as well?
00:09:20
Speaker
um yeah because we had the like, who poisoned Kim? Yeah, that was quite fun, wasn't it?
Pacing Problems in Emmerdale
00:09:25
Speaker
It was fun. it was short lived. I'll say it was like the who pushed Joe. It was like, oh, it was Graham. of like one like I thought this like Emmerdale, I get back at it with the um pacing either too long or too short for everything. It's that they're like we're going to drag this one out for a calendar year or this one really going to tell you whilst it's happening. Yeah. Yeah, I was really like, oh I wonder who's run Kane over.
00:09:46
Speaker
And then, I mean, also because I was watching the episodes back to back, was like five minutes later, you're like, that's who did it. Yeah, so poor KM has had lots of painkillers ground up into something. Yeah, did we ever get to the bottom of what that was?
00:10:03
Speaker
Well, we saw Graham had done it, but i'm I guess he just got it into, I don't know how he administered it. And like me it was in the morning orange juice because she does love to stand in that kitchen and power a suit and drink orange juice. It's her main job. the only thing that gives her life.
00:10:18
Speaker
um And he was on the phone to someone being like, I don't need any more of the painkillers that you were. True. I'd forgotten about that. He was like, the double dose didn't work or something. Yeah, but the the hospital, don't know if they contacted the police. I guess the police must have been involved at some point. Maybe they were there, I forget. But they seem to have been like, oh, she's she's older. She probably just accidentally took 100 painkillers. Yeah, they were basically like, it would appear that you just lost your mind and that's fine. But she's not that old. No, she's not. Despite the fact that, again, all this conversation about the wills do does suggest they think she's going to keel over any moment.
00:10:59
Speaker
yeah true yeah interesting news um my main takeaway from the whole mushroom poisoning thing was it was just really great to see a bit more of ruby yeah it's nice when she gets involved as much yeah and like seeing her at wishing well cottage was also just quite fun a bit of like a clash of different cultures and apparently the wine they're drinking was her wine of the week which is a thing she allegedly has maybe also having a wine wine of the week Well, she's got that wine business, as far as I can tell. It just means that she just wanders around with a bottle of wine in a hand occasionally. like, want some wine?
00:11:37
Speaker
that storyline where she like accidentally bulk bought all the wine from Italy and then was trying to sell it I really thought that was going to like go a bit further but then haven't heard anything else about it have we no she just like sold all to the pub and it turned out it was Caleb just buying it all then she got mad and that was it and now she's got a wine of the week so that's she's marketing it does she have a wine bar somewhere that we haven't heard about I imagine she just goes around the village and be like you want to the wine of the week that's it wine of the week you coming in because it seems like she is both buying in wholesale and selling in wholesale so she's providing nothing in the yeah in the in the wine production like chain i think she says she's just an unnecessary obstacle yeah and goodness knows she's also drinking in wholesale so it's gonna be at some point it's gonna come crashing down around her yeah
00:12:31
Speaker
I just can't imagine if her business model is someone's like, oh, instead of buying it from this person, they can buy it from me once I bought it from that original person. slightly money Yeah, that's so true.
00:12:43
Speaker
Oh, dear. There's so many businesses in Everdale that we don't quite know how they work and we don't care to find out. No, I mean, she could at least do like a little wine tasting session or or like some sort of events based thing that maybe she could link up with Hindus for the year one of the wedding business is called. Take a take of out thank you vow. I would love to go to of Ruby Milligan Fox or just Milligan wine tasting.
00:13:14
Speaker
like Oh, that would be lovely. I mean, I don't drink. I'd love to go. Yeah, you could smell them or something. Do you think she'd do it sober? Because I can't imagine she would. Surely not. like Dear Sweet Ruby is off her face in a professional capacity yet again. I feel like, um don't a lot of wine tasting events involve you like not necessarily drinking it all, but like spitting it out?
00:13:40
Speaker
I have only been to one. um i could I could spit wine. That could be something you'd get into this year. Yeah, I did once, can't remember where I was, somewhere I met someone who was like training to be a sommelier and everyone else was absolutely fascinated by this and kept asking her questions. And I was like, i read really not interested. I actually couldn't care less about anything that you're saying right now.
00:14:07
Speaker
yeah I mean, good for her, I suppose.
00:14:10
Speaker
Not for having to hear about it. Not for me, just let's all calm down. um But maybe Ruby's a trained sommelier. I wouldn't know. I also wouldn't be surprised. so But yeah, going back to Robert, like I like that he's finally told Aaron, there's some sweet scenes. i i like it when someone apologizes for something that they have done, albeit not to the right person, yeah and they do a sort of like, I am mad, but we can get through this. I think i guess we were just anti-Dawn saying that, but I think that's because Joe's like just full power evil, where Robert was... Yeah, and that's because their relationship has no real foundation or heart, whereas Robert and Aaron, it truly does.
00:14:52
Speaker
Yeah, and Aaron being like, I didn't get to say goodbye last time. oh my gosh. And we got to see Danny Miller get all teary-eyed. And chiseled. Have you been watching his gym journey on Instagram? I haven't, but I have been watching Emmerdale. And i saw him walk in and I thought, goodness, you who look different.
00:15:14
Speaker
Yeah, he did a big reveal on his Instagram yesterday being like, look, I'm buff now. Wow. Yeah. Good for him. Okay, cool. Good to know. but Just as Robert's off to prison, so you don't even get to take advantage. ah I really don't think he's going to go to prison. I think that'll be like a last minute discovery of that storage unit.
00:15:36
Speaker
That's true, which apparently is very significant. um Because it's got things for Celia's like written down. i did it. i did it all bits of paper. Yeah. I think that probably is the only thing she ever wrote down.
00:15:51
Speaker
Meticulous records and spiralling personal journal. Wouldn't that be great? She's just saying, I have to get out my system. I've written down in rhyme. um But yeah, it was nice hearing them be like, oh, I'll wait for you. Like, even if you have to go to prison again, you know, they're strong. We love them. We love an angsty Rob Ron scene.
00:16:15
Speaker
Because we know it's always going to come through. Sorry, what were you going say? Well, last time Robert sort of wouldn't talk to him and then sent divorce papers. So this does seem like healthier way around it. It's a real improvement on that, at least. It's a real step in the right direction.
00:16:31
Speaker
Steps forward of being made in Robron. I really thought we'd have Seb here by now, but not yet. Yeah, true. You made big predictions about Seb, didn't you? I did. well Well, I guess I think, well, there might be years predictions, so they might still come true.
00:16:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. You've got, well, I guess we're like a quarter of the way through the year, which is terrifying. guess so. More that, yeah. Almost a third. Horrible, horrible stuff. Yeah, that's quite nasty.
00:16:58
Speaker
um Lucas exists, though. We saw him. He's chanting. He's chanting. Yeah, exactly. And he looked a lot older. think he's had a haircut.
00:17:10
Speaker
Yeah, I don't remember the last time we saw him. It's been a while. Yeah, I think he sort of just floated in and out when Evan was in hospital. Yeah, R.O.P. Except he's fine. We we don't need to R.O.P. him. I hope i he's resting in some peace. I just hope he's got some living peace. yeah I hope he has measure of peace. I mean, obviously we all had a measure of peace. Oh my gosh, wouldn't that be nice? um Do we think that Dawn's going to get back together with Billy after all of this? Because that would give Billy something to do Well, I don't know you've seen the spoiler, and this a spoiler I'm going to have to ring a bell for.
00:17:42
Speaker
um So don't listen guys for the next few minutes if you don't want to catch the spoiler, but Dawn's been axed. saw an article about that and I thought it can't be true.
00:17:53
Speaker
Is it true? Just going for denial, are we? I mean, you seem to much who I have. I've got nothing else to go on. i just think, surely not, they always say that someone's going to get axed. They always make things up. It can't be true. I like Dawn. Olivia Bobby so good.
00:18:09
Speaker
We do love her, and I'm sad that she has had nothing to do except look stupid around Jo months and then. Yeah. um It'd be nice if got back together with Billy, if she can find him. He's around somewhere, I guess. He's probably just in a shipping container or something. Yeah.
00:18:26
Speaker
um Oh, well, I hope you're wrong, but I fear you're right. Although there's always a nice possibility that when people get axed that they can then come back in like ah two years and actually get storyline. Yeah.
00:18:38
Speaker
Yeah, that's true, because it does feel like, I think, I can't remember who it was who wrote this on some sort of forum that i was reading, but it feels like everything that could have been a good storyline for Dawn ended up just not really coming
Underutilized Characters and Gendered Storylines
00:18:52
Speaker
to anything. Like, her past was interesting, like, her adopting Clemmie, interesting, the leukemia storyline, which sort of just evaporated in the end. Like her involvement with Jo where she's just like, oh yeah, that's actually fine that you did that.
00:19:09
Speaker
I don't know. i just feel like the writers could have done so much more with her character and they've made her like not nearly as interesting as she could have been. and if they are acting here, I'm like, that's annoying because it was your fault. Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:21
Speaker
ah Is it their total refusal to write storylines for women in their 30s? I think it might be. What have they got against them? We've got so many and they just don't get to do anything. like We're a meaningful community. Come on. A meaningful community.
00:19:37
Speaker
um Speaking of storylines that didn't go anywhere, it looks like kerry and eric might be getting divorce or might not be don't know it's just like weird wacky fun kooky storyline that was just never mentioned on screen and now is a big headache yeah i find it really weird it's like yeah we'll get a divorce actually no we won't we'll just still be married but you can have a boyfriend and i feel like it's very odd that like before they were kind of not
00:20:09
Speaker
publicly admitting that the marriage was a sham as in they were like taking fake wedding photos that it was convincing they were like doing all sorts of things to be like no like we are really in love i've always really cared about you and now she's like lol I've got a boyfriend as well as a husband I'm yeah yeah and everyone seems to just be like we just don't have time for this Carrie like fine okay okay fine I'll drink some Prosecco with you in the pub but like whatever laughing i've got so much going on is the least of our concerns yeah got it was because like obviously they're both british citizens they don't need to prove that they love each other to anyone to get legally married it's like no one's going to check up on this you can get married wherever you like is know if they're you know if they're not trying to get a green country whatever yeah so i don't know who who benefited by being fooled by this who but you know
00:21:04
Speaker
doesn't matter anymore guess i don't know i do think it's just annoying as well because we talk so much about how we need more platonic male female friendships in emmerdale or just any platonic friendships in emmerdale it's just a shame that the one platonic male female friendship in emmerdale is one where they're actually married And Eric is, I would say, never showing any signs of friendship. He is constantly horrible to her. And then B is like, you mean so much to me. It's like, when?
00:21:37
Speaker
Yeah, it did feel quite out of character, him being like, oh, actually, you guys can go out. Like, it was heartwarming, and I'm glad it happened. But it didn't seem very Eric, did it? You'd think he would be a bit more bitter and, like, twisted about it. too Yeah, yeah.
00:21:51
Speaker
Although I also found it was quite a lot when he was like, you don't get many opportunities for love. It's like, firstly, you do. Eric, you've married a hundred times. so Everyone in this trio has been married multiple times. um But also love, because they were just like,
00:22:07
Speaker
doing stuff on his desk. I'm not sure they were in love. Yeah, Eric himself used the phrase, which was quite uncomfortable, rotting like beasts. Like, do we think this is love? And I just think, well, I don't think that it's going to work now. I think half the appeal is like the secrecy And the power dynamic. And now that that's gone, I think they're just like, oh, I actually always hated you, Tori. Yeah, we here until two months ago, we did despise each other and that hasn't fully gone away. Yeah, but let's see how it goes. It was also, like I think, supposed to be a heartwarming scene, that one where she's drinking the smoothie and like they get back together, it very awkward. and We to get a nice email from James the past couple days. i just wanted to quote him. He says...
Listener Reactions to Storylines
00:22:52
Speaker
Jay is fantastic. His gallivanting ways of Carrie are much needed light relief to the show. Both actors also seem to work well together. And I was thinking, like, we obviously went from finding it sickening to being mildly pro, but I don't know where I've landed. Like, i I certainly don't ship them. I'm not like, can't wait to see what Jay and Carrie to next. Can't wait for the in inevitable wedding bells. But I did enjoy it a sort of like, at least someone's having a nice time.
00:23:17
Speaker
Yeah, it was a real light in... a very dark place when everything in Emmerdale seemed like doom and gloom. And that was the, when I saw the Jay and Carrie storyline, I remember a scene finishing and I just found myself thinking like, oh, that was like an Emmerdale scene that I really enjoyed. And I was quite surprised.
00:23:35
Speaker
um So yeah, I feel like I don't hate it. I also don't love it. We'll just have to see where it goes. I am. mr No, you go. Oh, okay. I can Okay.
00:23:49
Speaker
is so awkward I'm sorry I'm making go go go go go better be better be good now better be something important oh it's not important at all um just the fact that obviously historically we like our mantra has been that we hate Jay I don't think I hate Jay anymore and I totally get James's email being like he's doing a really good job he's acting well well Chris Bisson is acting well Jay is like not super uncomfortable to watch anymore but I do think at heart he is deeply unpleasant and I'll be interested to see how that plays out.
00:24:23
Speaker
Yeah, I don't hate him as much as I used to. i think because he's been quite sweet in this. I think we're seeing a bit more Chris and a bit less Jay these scenes because Chris always seems such a nice guy. um But what I think will happen is that we will not hear a moment more about it until some inevitable divorce or something will happen.
00:24:41
Speaker
need to get proposed to or Carol will be pregnant I don't know but so for it doesn't feel like they're going to give them a lot of screen time are they going to be the next Chaz and Liam where they barely look at each other oh gosh maybe at least they don't seem to to feel sick at being each other's company in some way but Chaz and Liam I mean when Liam was at the Dingle dinner it's like why on earth is Liam there it's like oh yeah wait he's engaged to Chaz apparently i had the exact same train of thought I was like what are you doing here and then I remembered like oh you're literally getting married Chaz Except as we say as we've said, that marriage, that wedding is definitely never happening. Yeah, I will eat my actual heart if they get married. One final thing on Jay, I wanted to ask ah you as and as a Northern correspondent or at least Northern resident, is he said pictures for cinema like someone from the 1950s. Is that something that you hear a lot lot out and about in new Yorkshire?
00:25:34
Speaker
I think maybe, I might have... Off to pictures? Off to pictures. I'll listen out for it. I feel like maybe.
00:25:44
Speaker
but like It's lovely. My dad says it. I'm not sure. That's sort i think sort of like a whimsical throwback, I think. Yeah, it's hard to say when you're like, maybe it's just in my mind now because you said it.
00:25:56
Speaker
But I think I maybe do hear a bit more. I think it feels more like a Manchester thing than a Yorkshire thing, though. Oh, really? Where's Jay from? don't he from Manchester? Yeah, I don't know. I've never really paid attention to his accent.
00:26:08
Speaker
I wouldn't be able to tell you what Manchester accent is. It's absolutely on my business. It's more like... um
00:26:16
Speaker
ah Who else is Manchester in the show? Oasis Manchester? they Manchester? Yeah, they are. I was trying to think of an Emmett old person, but yeah, they're Manchester. horrible um this ah you mentioned the who ran over cane mystery will ever be solved how will we ever know we'll take that one to all of our graves but um ok you know gray we'll take it to the mass grave it the mass grave uh i actually i thought it was shot at so well like those final few seconds of the episode when they were like had those different people walking to their cars and
00:26:53
Speaker
driving and then came the road i thought it was i loved how they shot that it was a bit inventive yeah yeah and everyone was on gravel for was and gravel was one of the drivers sentient gravel sentient gravel well had literally so much gravel in that episode hard to know where to begin um but turns out it is the overtired medical student which you know he was overtired He was overtired. And I do struggle to know how legit that is in terms of, I think Dr. Todd is right, that just like being a medical student is really hard. And most people, like that's the only thing they're doing.
00:27:33
Speaker
And so that's yeah like, they can make allowances for it. And maybe if he knew he was a medical student, that it was going to be very, very hard, he potentially shouldn't. have also tried to like do IVF at this point in his life. Or work full time in a shop.
00:27:54
Speaker
You know, that's something else that you could potentially put on the back burner. He could have thought about that while, you know, also trying to prioritize his career. You can't prioritize everything at once is what I'm saying. And he appears to be trying to do it all.
00:28:08
Speaker
He does. Yeah. Occasionally. um I did note down it would be quite funny had it been like a, one of those Agatha Christie solutions where in fact all three of them ran over Cain it was just like one after another like flung from bonnet to bonnet it was the hot and bypass crash but much like being shot he seems to have brushed it off him he's fine now yeah everyone's really brushing things off like Jacob was not okay for maybe like 24 hours he couldn't stop crying and then suddenly he's just fine Cain was like it's alright I'll take the blame and he was like oh okay cool nice
00:28:45
Speaker
Yeah, no words. ah Speaking of Jacob, he resuscitated someone with a do not resuscitate order. And I asked your dear, dear friend and mine, Monty, all he who you have now met. I've met him now at least. um Who is a doctor. i asked him, what how binding is ah is a DNR? what are the consequences if a doctor breaks it? And this is what Monty had to say.
00:29:15
Speaker
Yeah, DNA CPR is quite confusing because actually it's not a legal document or necessarily solely the patient's decision. It's ah it's a medical decision usually by the the senior clinician and and members of the multidisciplinary team.
00:29:32
Speaker
um So it happens very rarely. i can't i can't think of any cases of it, but in theory, you could and a doctor could go against the DNA CPR and not necessarily face legal consequences for it, but it would be very unusual.
00:29:50
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So, for example, maybe a, say, a sort of a and an elderly patient with early stage dementia has a DNA CPR in place and they choke on some food.
00:30:03
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the The paramedics go there and they take the food out of the mouth. But the patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. the paramedic might justifiably think that attempting c CPR for that sort of reverse, a potentially quickly reversible cause might be justified. but um You know, patients' families may take doctors to court and a a battery could be considered, but I think it's it's it's a very complicated and grey area. But the long and short of it is a, you know, DNA CPR is ah is a medical decision and
00:30:36
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In theory, you can it can you can go against it in certain circumstances if you can justify it, but I think that's extremely rare. And it's not legally binding. However, it is legally binding if the patient, when they had capacity, made and signed something called called an advanced directive. So that's ah basically saying what they'd like in the future if X happened to them. And if they specify that they do would not want to be resuscitated,
00:31:04
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um then that yeah that is a legal document and going against it would be illegal. Yeah, hope that's cleared things up, but it's a very and complicated area.
00:31:15
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ah Thanks, Monty. And Monty actually followed up saying um if it was an advanced directive, as this one was, we know that um Dr. Todd's dad signed it when he was compus mentis, then under the Mental Capacity Act, that is legally binding. So Jacob did break the law by resuscitating him but it doesn't feel like it's going to be mentioned again no doubt it well actually i don't know because I'm interested to find out what you think is going to happen with this whole Dr Todd thing it feels like she's getting kind of weirdly obsessed with him and maybe going to try and frame him for being obsessed with her so I don't know whether the DNR thing might come out at some point if if he's if she's sort of trying to build
00:31:59
Speaker
A case against him. I don't know. Where do you think this is going? Yeah, maybe. Maybe it's not another little voice note that she's building. b I imagine it will come out in some sort of litany of things at some point. And some of that litany, like him just willy-nilly telling people that their daughters are dead when they're not. Is he like valid? Yeah, that was a lot. I do get it.
00:32:18
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um well what i did find strange in that story was like her shouting at a patient and sort of roughly handling him and then her being like actually he's my dad and everyone be like oh that's fine oh yeah in that case sure shove away um kick him yeah yeah literally not okay Yeah, and they had quite a sweet scene about that, which I don't know if that was a genuine moment from her if she's just trying to lure him in. But I've seen some theories that she is married to Maya or in some way related to Maya.
00:32:53
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but Then surely she would have known, you know, when she like Googled. That's true. And found out about what, like the history, surely would have known that in advance. Or maybe she didn't. Maybe Maya's out of prison and she's only just finding out.
00:33:05
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it Maybe. be She's definitely married to a woman. It might be a Maya. So true. Yeah. um Although expect we will meet her wife sooner rather than later because everybody who's related to one of these doctors does end up in the hospital on regular basis. It feels a little bit like, you know, when...
00:33:27
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when like parents are applying to secondary schools for their children it's like if your siblings are already there then obviously you can go to that school it's like yeah of course you can work here if you've got like any family members who are long-term patients, like, don't worry. Yeah, please, go in. Like, you have a job. Like, it's the main reason that we employ people, actually. My workplace is a bit like that, to be honest. so Most people there seem to be related to other people. um Yeah, I don't know how much you know about the Maya stuff, but for if anyone who doesn't know, so Maya used to be married to Liam.
Exploration of Character Backstories and Motivations
00:34:03
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That's how she first turned off in the show. Although then they got divorced and she was dating David when she started having...
00:34:11
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like an affair with Jacob whilst he was a minor and that was he was keeping a secret and okay this big reveal of him being like we're gonna run away together David found out David Jacob's dad yeah that's really bad yeah or in fact his stepdad or something but he called him dad so yeah so it came out um that's when Yeah, Jacob thought he'd be mad because he having an affair. And he obviously was like, I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at her for having sex with a minor. don't know if they sex. don't know.
00:34:41
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But, you know, something inappropriate with minor. They did have another love triangle with Victoria where was less less sympathetic to Jacob's plight.
00:34:52
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Yeah, wow. Nasty. Okay. Interested to see how this goes. So we said if Dr. Todd's going to use that against Because bless Jacob. He's been through a lot. He has been through a lot and I did think that um I watched a couple of episodes with my housemate Anna and was like vaguely explaining who's who and what's happened and stuff.
00:35:10
Speaker
And um yeah, Jacob's been through a lot. Like his mum basically only just died and presumably he's still trying to process that, especially with... them did you catch that moment when Dr. Todd was just like, I'm not your mother. And you literally know that like his mum died only about a year ago.
00:35:30
Speaker
Why don't you not be so mean? So he's trying to process a lot. He's about to start a family, but also Sarah's long-term ill. He's just got a lot going on. Hasn't he? And um yeah, it's hard to know what Dr. Todd's like motivation is, but maybe she doesn't have, or maybe she's that evil.
00:35:52
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do Yeah, I feel like she's definitely power hungry and seems to be like enjoying playing mind games and like being like all friendly one minute and then angry the next.
00:36:05
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And I wonder whether now she's a bit like in too deep and has to like find more stuff to keep going with it. But yeah, I don't know where it's going to go. Trixie, but you know I do hope, obviously, is that we get more Manbreed in this storyline.
00:36:23
Speaker
Yeah, we've certainly had a bit of Manpreet. Maybe she'll sort of save the day. She'll see through it and be like, yeah what are you doing? I have seen, a again, this is another spoiler. So sorry, people, fast forward to coming. It's very minor one that Dr. Toddy is going to move into the village And she's going to move in with, who was it?
00:36:43
Speaker
Maybe like Vanessa or someone. It's like Manpreet, her alleged friend, lives in the village. Currently, as far as we know, house sharing with Ryan. all people. Surely your friend would move in. You can move Ryan off somewhere else. Yeah, like Ryan could live Vanessa if someone's going to live with a complete stranger. If someone has to.
00:37:03
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Also, does that mean that her wife is going to move to the village as well? Why would she move out from living with her wife? Or maybe a wife's in prison.
00:37:14
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Can you imagine? Yeah, I was thinking, know people obviously live with house shares for any number of reasons, but I'd be really at the point where a successful doctor who is, what, 50 or something,
00:37:29
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has to move in with a local pet. Yeah. If anyone's buying up prime real estate, it's Dr. Todd. Or at least just renting the place that Aaron and Robert used to be with all those banisters because that's empty right now.
00:37:44
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That's true. Yeah. So what's this place? I'm interested in that storyline. In fact, yeah ive but I've been finding all of MDL quite enjoyable at the moment, which has been not been true for a while. Yeah, it's been nice.
00:37:57
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we had yet another special episode. Yeah, that's true. And I will say that was maybe the episode I was least invested in the last little while. why don't you care about men's mental health lizzie i do and that was like the bit that was interested in i really loved well i love marlon and paddy's friendship i love all friendships but when um when paddy came in and marlon just gave him a big hug and i was like oh that's so nice i love that i think i did just find the like let's go and smash things up thing a little bit farcical it was weird that the police had just like dumped all their furniture in the garden for some reason and they apparently thought the police wouldn't mind or notice when they smashed it up. But, you know, they're probably right. The police don't care about that or anything. Yeah, the police do care about very little in Emmerdale. Yeah, only about missing van keys. That was something that was animated about, lest we forget. Oh, yeah.
00:38:50
Speaker
They were like, you lost your keys and you never told us? I've lost my keys. Shall I go to West Yorkshire, please? Absolutely must. Well, they haven't got around to picking up the key ring that apparently is very significant and on the ground in the garden. In fact, they literally, yeah, they picked it up and then put it back down again, which is quite frustrating.
00:39:10
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And yeah, like in theory, I like the idea of a special episode focusing on their friendship and men's mental health and all that sort of thing. But it did just seem to be them monologuing pathetic they were to each other. was a bit of a tough watch. i personally love the idea that Marlon, who is, of course, a dingle, would bring safety goggles along to go and smash some stuff up.
00:39:35
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ah He would though, wouldn't he bless him? all the dingles he would, but he still wouldn't. He still wouldn't. He did at some point describe himself, ah or maybe Paddy described him as Marplon, mixing together Miss Marple and Marlon in a way that yeah I appreciated. That was quite fun. um They've never explained what Man Club is. They keep talking about Man Club. Is it just when they hang out?
00:39:58
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Maybe. It seems to be like some sort of mental health thing that Paddy help from at, but Can you imagine if it's just them sitting down like Bob and Caleb or something? Because that would like have no one.
00:40:10
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I would love to be a fly on the wall. Can you imagine what helpful advice Bob would have to offer? course not. Anyone back? You'd probably just sing.
00:40:23
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oh yeah Yes, we didn't cover a Bob singing for the last time, but it was it was hard to know whether we were meant to enjoy it or not, but we certainly didn't. Yeah, I don't think we were meant to, surely. But I thought that Bob was meant to be kind of a good singer. And that he really, truly was not.
00:40:38
Speaker
Well, I don't know if he's meant... Well, he's meant to be like... Carriacune pub good, I guess. And to that extent he was. i don't want to hear it. That's why don't get to pack Carriacune pubs.
00:40:50
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um I guess something good that did come out of that special episode was that Marlon and Rona chatted about the Graham issue and obviously whilst it was aggressive at first I really enjoyed their so of second conversation about it because as you know my main thing in Emmerdale is like why is no one just telling the truth and telling each other how they feel but it finally felt like two people here are just having conversation about something that is quite difficult telling each other how they feel there's a bit of honesty and at the end of it it was like
00:41:23
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cool Like, that was hard, but I appreciate your honesty, and now we can move forward. It did feel very mature. Unexpectedly mature. and yeah, thank goodness.
00:41:35
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but When Rona was like, it was always going to i was always going to choose I was like, well, were you? But I'm glad you did. Were I think at times you actually weren't. It was just because Ivy needed picking up from nursery, but...
00:41:45
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ah we did have a terrible scene with Graham and Marlon which i just I know I'm always slagging Graham off on this I think he must be very hard to act against because he gives the other person absolutely nothing to work with and he's hear two lines am I ridiculous and i don't forget anything and you're like how meant to have a conversation with this robot exactly it's like ah give you give your fellow actor at least something to work of because he just issues everything like it's the like final tagline of a terrible trailer don't have to always be making your own like catchphrase for terminator aid or whatever but it is really really strange the fact that they have created a character who acts like that and expect people to just like be normal people around him
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah, it's really odd. And he's got absolutely no chemistry with Rona, I would say. No chemistry. Something I also don't understand, and I know that we... spoke about this in our last episode and it all over the internet but I will just draw it to everyone's attention again anyway it's like why have the costume department not given him anything else to wear I don't understand there was one scene where he didn't have the tie on who's like falling apart at the pieces falling apart at the pieces in aren't we all
00:43:03
Speaker
in a way aal aren't we all but yeah it's like when a woman doesn't wear mascara she's she's falling apart it's like when he doesn't have his tie on hell's breaking loose you know it's the end yeah it's the end but no i know we said every time i will we'll notice he's saying it some people have been like well you don't complain about aaron's black t-shirt it's like firstly he should wear more but also like a black t-shirt he could have a pack of age of those and just wear them on rotation that would be quite normal that's the kind of thing buy There's someone at my office who only wears a black t-shirt every day.
00:43:32
Speaker
no one really notices. But if if someone wore like a full suit with the identical tie every day, that feels like more of a choice. How many of those suits has he got? How many of those ties has he got? And a black t-shirt every day does kind of fit more different circumstances. Like you're popping to the shops, you're not feeling very well and you've just chucked something random on. Whereas like, as we said in the last episode, he's just getting out of bed and getting straight into a three-piece suit. And it all adds grist to the male of him being a ghost. Like we don't know that he's not a ghost.
00:44:03
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safe He does seem ghostly. he does seem ghost-esque and that's um that's hard for everyone. Yeah.
00:44:13
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It's near. and i've got Oh, let's talk a little bit about um Moira, i guess. Yeah, I don't have much written down for Moira other than that that sort of moment of hospital passion on that horrible bed was just like too much for me personally to think about. But especially for poor Liam. Yeah.
00:44:33
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Oh yeah, he was just listening to the grunting and grifting from the other side.
00:44:40
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Grunting and grifting. What do you think that sex is? I'm very talented.
00:44:51
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ah the um yeah I mean I sort of liked that it happened just because I think it's the first time Mori's been happy in the last four years so yeah she had something to smile about briefly at last it did remind me of an episode of Porridge where they sort of engineered some complex it situation to get on day release um so it did feel slightly like sitcom-y but in a way that I appreciated but um yeah and you know good for them I suppose but ah also Moira's expensive lawyer it's just been like oh just plead guilty it's less paperwork that does seem odd doesn't it um and like i could give that advice yeah that if anyone's grifting it's that lawyer he's grifting and we we we do not know about the grinding but he's definitely
00:45:45
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um Yeah, ah we've got the amazing legal defence of Robert going to see Bear and just being like, so did Celia do it? And it's like, what what was he hoping to ascertain from that? When Bear's been relentlessly questioned.
00:45:57
Speaker
And also relentlessly doesn't seem to know or remember anything. Why did you think that you could tease it out of him? Also, don't you have to have approval for who comes to visit you? he didn't seem to know who it was. No, we've spoken about that before. You do have to, like, you can put people's names on a list and they're the ones who are allowed to visit.
00:46:16
Speaker
Unless Robert was pretending to be Paddy or something. They do look alike. Yeah, it was odd that his big plan was just to go in and be like, so have you thought about like saying it wasn't Moira? Has it crossed your mind at all?
00:46:33
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Has it crossed your mind at all? um Don't sue us, Simply Red.
00:46:42
Speaker
They're always listening. Yeah. Mick Hucknall loves Emmerdale. That much, I know. Yeah. um I mean, I'm assuming Moria won't go down, but maybe there'll be some moving thing where she's just about to say guilty and Dawn breaks in and is like, no, Jo did it or something. Yeah, or that someone breaks and is like, look, we just found all this evidence in a storage container.
00:47:09
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Yeah, guess it's that storage container that I just... yeah i can't imagine what would be in there that would help but because it's so obvious that celia did it already
00:47:23
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yeah um yeah that's true it would have to be like it was me it was all me and i'm so excited to be throwing moira under the bus love from celia
00:47:36
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yeah Well, godspeed to the police, whether or not they'll care about that. Kyle went missing. was on the stairs of his own home. the last piece they thought about.
00:47:52
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but
00:47:55
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He doesn't live there anymore. Yeah, fair. There is that. But where did they look? I don't know. I've checked our house. I've checked everywhere. couldn't think of anywhere else he might be.
00:48:08
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Oh, bless Kyle. He's done a good job of acting recently in terms of like finding cake by the car and all of that stuff. I think he's... Yeah, true. that was He did such good work. Yeah, he did a really good job of that.
00:48:21
Speaker
Yeah. And that was really um dramatic with Moira being on the phone and not knowing what's going on. That's true. And the the um very tactfully and sensitively cast prison lady behind her with like two teeth. guess i I kind of loved her.
00:48:41
Speaker
What's her story? in a former life. Or the next life. We don't know. Oh my God, it's so true. It's me in 10 is You've lost all your teeth to, i assume, heroin or something. Thank you.
00:48:56
Speaker
Yeah, and did that woman, did the actor not just not have many teeth? Did they black out some of her teeth? I didn't notice the teeth or lack of at all. She had few teeth. I'm going to have to re-watch. i was um i had a talk it i was i I had it on while I was um like planning out all of the activities for this kid's weekend away that running in a few weeks' time. So i wasn't paying enough attention to the teeth, really.
00:49:24
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Yeah, well, anyone who spotted how many teeth you had to get in touch, dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com. Let me know if i've if I've hallucinated the teeth issue.
00:49:36
Speaker
I think I'm down to strays now. I'm down to strains. Strains? Down to the strains. I'm down to the strains. My laptop is saying it's on a low battery, but I just think I probably will make to the end. Is that a bad idea? No.
00:49:48
Speaker
Well, let's just plow on. If you disappear, disappear. Okay. Give me a stray. My first stray is at some point in the last two weeks, someone said like, where's Freya? And I was like, who's Freya? Who's Freya? I don't know. I'm sure someone mentioned somebody called Freya and I was like, what? Are sure? I Google it? Who said it? This is some child I know about.
00:50:13
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Emmerdale. Any luck? Um,
00:50:21
Speaker
No. Okay, I must have heard something wrong. Who could have been? There was an actress called Freya who had character in Everdale. That's probably not they're after. portrayed Angie Reynolds from 1999 no okay never mind cancel it no more Freya no more Freya Freya Freya again if anyone knows dinklealltheway.pod maybe that's the name the prison lady she looked like a Freya did she no
00:50:52
Speaker
um Kim was reading a Jilly Cooper novel at one point in hospital which I really enjoyed Jilly Cooper famously loves books about horses so it does make sense that Kim would like a saucy book about a horse Yeah, i I would have seen her maybe as more of a Dick Francis, but... Well, I guess, I don't know. I feel like Julie Cooper is is the ah its the same world, same horse world. world Maybe she's Dick Francis for when she's business and Julie Cooper when she's pleasure. And hospital is a pleasure. That's a real time out for her from standing and drinking orange juice.
00:51:27
Speaker
um There isn't really much to say about this, um but the fact that um Ross had some great lines. One of them was when he was trying to guess the passwords and one of them was like, turkey teeth tape. And we say it all the time, but I think Ross is just hilarious. I really like him. I don't know if he's ad-libbing things or if they've got a separate writer for him alone, but his comedy lines are just so much better than anything else. that is In the whole of Emmerdale. In the whole of Emmerdale, frankly. yeah
00:51:59
Speaker
Maybe the artist like to say something funny at this point, Michael. um And he always provides. He's, yeah, I love it. He's going to have an emotional storyline at some point when Charity finally gives birth. my word. When on earth is this baby going to be cooked? She's still pregnant.
00:52:16
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Ladies and gentlemen. um But we be obviously we love the comedy. Oh, oh we lost Tracy this week. She went off on maternity leave. She Oh yeah.
00:52:28
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um And Billie drove her to wherever she's going. I forget where she's going. And she said, Billie's van saved me a fortune in taxis. Was she just planning to like move all her stuff one taxi at time instead of hiring a removal van? Yeah, just back and forth and back and forth.
00:52:44
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just like a stream of taxis. One's got like a wardrobe.
00:52:49
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it's Like a convoy, like when the royal family are on the move. It's like Tracy, I've not thought this is very... but Luckily all went out. Billie was there to save the name. Yeah, suit suitably. um I've got one which is also maybe a psychic corner because I think we always talk about how when like evidence and stuff is deleted, we're like, obviously there's going to be copies of that. But Dawn was like, it's gone from your laptop. It's gone from the backup and it's gone from the cloud. And I did think you did that very quickly, but at least you at least the script writers have covered the bases. Because I don't think I would know how to delete something from the cloud. i like It just automatically goes there, but i don't I don't know how to ever get it off.
00:53:28
Speaker
That's true, unless you had like Google Drive open or something. It just happened to. But like when stuff from my Mac goes into the iCloud kind of automatically, i don't know how to get it back.
00:53:40
Speaker
Look, when things are in the cloud, they've already gone as far as I'm concerned. I'm never finding them again. And you are part cloud. I wish, I wish I were.
00:53:52
Speaker
um i thought it was funny that Eve was given a day off school because her dad got given his court date. They kept her off school just so could sit around and be like, yeah, it's March. It's like, okay. Yeah, and then didn't they just sort take it to the pub or something? Yeah.
00:54:06
Speaker
it It's like, this school, i mean, we've never seen this school or any evidence that any children attend it, but apparently they just, you know, come and go as you please. They must have the worst attendance percentages in the whole country. Except Johnny's presumably lives there because we've we have never seen him.
00:54:22
Speaker
Yeah, true. He is a boarding student. The rest of them don't ever turn up. It's a fun hybrid that they do. Yeah, that's that's Yorkshire for you. I love that. My final one is that there was one scene, and I think it was around the time when Paddy got his court date, where obviously Mandy was supposed to look Like she just got out of bed slash wasn't doing very well because she wasn't wearing any makeup. However, she had the most enormous like eyelash extensions. of I was like, do you sleep in those? Do people sleep in eyeilish eyelash extensions? I guess you can't always take one and half.
00:54:56
Speaker
i've never extended my eyelashes. not even once. um So, yeah, that was quite a lot. Yeah, that was too much. and I've got five more things to say somehow. Oh, goodness. Okay. Rattle through them, unless you've got no more. you go for I've got nothing else. a general note that I enjoyed the scale-etrics and Caleb just playing scale-etrics before work. but Yeah, that was nice.
00:55:20
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um Speaking of games, it was amusing that hopscotch is apparently a very sensitive topic for Dylan. Yeah, what was going on there? couldn't the fact that he didn't know the family rules for hopscotch made him feel incredibly left out so I mean we've all got different trigger points and things you know in our histories and for him it's hopscotch yeah and then it was the fact that Paddy was also like I can't believe that you did that in front of him it was like um I don't think anybody could have foreseen that that was going to happen if No. And how often have we had scenes where they assure Dylan he's part of the family? too many times. Yeah.
00:55:55
Speaker
And also, plays up Scotch in 2026? I didn't you even know it was a game. thought was just sort of a way of game from A to B. In the most most inefficient manner. It's just a transport system in need.
00:56:11
Speaker
You might have to throw a stone and then go around it or something. Yeah. Oh. okay Certainly, I would say, predates the computer, but it's not something we need in this day and age.
00:56:23
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um Aaron is now apparently the head of the family, um a position that means nothing, that everyone takes very seriously. Yeah, why is everyone so obsessed with that? That was another thing I had to explain to Anna. um And she was like, what does this mean? I was like, honestly, kind of nothing, but also everything somehow. And also, I'm sure Sam and Kane, maybe even Belle, were like joint heads of the family already. Yeah, they literally decided that they were going to do it all together.
00:56:48
Speaker
and now it's like, actually, they're out and Aaron is in. Yeah, and James had mentioned in his email that really it should be Belle, which, you know, she makes more sensible decisions than most of them. Yeah, she's the only one with a vague grasp of common sense.
00:57:04
Speaker
Yeah, but I did enjoy Aaron and Cammie's little squabbly scene at the garage. that was my park I mean, I just enjoy Cammie. Yeah, we love Cammie. It's no surprise to anyone. um Paddy and the cat, that was an elaborate scene where he's like, you killed a cat. And he's like, no, I didn't. I'd forgotten all about that.
00:57:22
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It was very frenetic. That woman, she certainly gave out her all, that woman who brought in her cat. Good for her as well. Good for her. She's, um can put that in her show reel. She showed every emotion imaginable.
00:57:35
Speaker
Every single one on the sun. My final straight thing, I'm sorry to say it's about bob just it was quite surreal that we had quite a protracted conversation about rotas that didn't seem to have any relevance to anything. Yeah, and then like Ryan just sort of peered around the corner and was like, if you don't like your rota, you need to tell me in advance.
00:57:55
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I feel like was watching a training video.
00:58:02
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yeah Good to give them a some screen time, suppose. I really thought it would have some point, but it was like Chekhov's gun. Chekhov's rotor. Chekhov's rotor. Why were you forcing the nature the nation to watch this very, very boring kind of HR scene? yeah i find it serious when I have to do my own rotor shifting at church rotors. I don't need to see it televised.
00:58:25
Speaker
i don't need to televise my church suite swaps. We love Chet Sweet. I hate Chet Sweet. if I do find Chet Sweet quite baffling. But I love putting in my own availability on it. It's the most satisfying thing when you're just like, please don't make me do anything.
00:58:46
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Oh dear. Gosh, well that's the end of my stray things. Oh, well should we do the random character generator? We absolutely should. And today we are going to say what we think of...
00:58:58
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Kane. It's a big one. Gosh, that is a big one. I really like Kane. I feel like sometimes he is written in a way which is a bit beyond belief. But I really enjoy seeing his softer side. i find his harder exterior at times annoying, but it is at least true to form when he's like refusing to show emotion and talk about things. you like, that is just what you're like. It's not like he's doing it.
00:59:25
Speaker
The writers are doing it to prove a point. It's like, that's literally what he's like. um Yeah, he's got a lot going on, but everybody in Emmerdale has. Yeah, I mean, I like Cain now quite a lot. and He's a great actor. um But he, in the past, when he was so horrible to everyone and would like often kidnap and torture people, which was um a lot. There wass one time I stopped watching this because he was so vile to everyone all the time. And I said, can't deal with this.
00:59:55
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um particularly Amy at that point when when he she was pregnant with his baby and and yeah it was all just too much the whole hard man thing but yeah like you I like he's softened his relationship with Moira really helps I feel ungrateful when we're always asking for unlikely friendships that I do find hits with Liam quite tiring sometimes but it's nice that it exists yeah it's interesting isn't it that like I've obviously only started watching comparatively recently and so I'm bit like oh yeah Kane like he's difficult but loveful but yeah there's definitely been character progression there compared to how he used to be i suppose he killed someone's dog a while ago so that was a long time ago um that's something probably wouldn't do now but yeah uh he and i guess because he's been there such a long time and is you know in the the big family he's got very nuanced relationships with like charity and chairs and sam and bell and
01:00:51
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um Sarah and all these like relationships that have been built up over sometimes decades and and and yes and still works really well with like Cammy or yeah some of the newer cast so yeah I think the show would definitely poorer for him not that I do wish occasionally there'd be some some like learning so like he has had character development in terms of softening but it seems to come more from like being older and more contented in his relationships it's not from like the many, many, many times he's learnt not to like try and control people. Yeah, he does seem to have like big lightbulb moments quite regularly, but then forget about it maybe three weeks later. Yeah, and he's certainly been through the wars, medically speaking. Yeah, he's in a He's in a war with with the world.
01:01:42
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What do we what do you want for Kane's future? Um, just like a little holiday, I guess, and like, stop getting hit by cars. Just for once. Just for like one sweet week.
01:01:59
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Yeah, I think, um... ah ah obviously hoping everything goes fine with this cancer storyline, we're going to put that to the head and what actually something really want and is for him to actually remember you know when Charity and he had that two-hander and she said like whenever I what was it like show you this pot or blow a whistle or I forget what the sign was a necklace there yeah you love port or whistle so recircling It I want the necklace for him to actually yeah respond properly and be like, okay, yeah, I did promise you that I would look out you then.
01:02:41
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Yeah, that's I would really like that as well. That would be good. I would like him to have a bit more time with Carl and Isaac because he's like trying to run a farm and a car mechanic place and you're like just spend a bit more time with the boys i think that's something you should do that'd be nice taking a little story of some variety exactly um he could be i know put on a play with them or something something adorable but i guess he's now running a farm in in the the backyard of his house or something yeah i know is this us segwaying into farming content i suppose it could be yeah i feel like we've had talk of it but not seen it
01:03:25
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I don't think we've seen any farming. I think no that was all. we had When we had so much the previous week, we can't ask for everything. But I am asking for everything and everything is farming content. Farming content. The old FC. yeah um this waning This week week waxing. This week waning is farming content.
01:03:49
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Oh dear. Well, thanks so much for listening, everyone. Do you get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com. Let us know um your predictions or whatever, I guess. this ah And most importantly, how many teeth that lady had.
01:04:02
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Just keep us abreast of anything happening in your personal life. We're here for that. Have you ever been on the same antibiotics as your cat? hat We need to know. This feels really Jeremy Vine at this stage.
01:04:16
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if Not in a good way. That's not a compliment. No, how could it be? um I do have his email address, but that's nearly it not there. Why? Why have you been emailing Jeremy Vine?
01:04:27
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um he actually emailed me, ah but ah because when I was on Eggheads, he took a photo and emailed it to me. hit they gave What?
01:04:39
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yeah That's crazy. That's where we'll end that one Yeah, nice. Well, good to round things off. yeah and The only way we know how. Bang time. Okay, bye, everyone. Bye.