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Corriedale, Christmas, and 2026 predictions! (Emmerdale 22 December 2025 - 5 January 2026)
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The biggest soap crossover event EVER (which left us totally baffled)! The endless drugs storyline ending in the most abrupt and bizarre way! Deaths, marriages, and your predictions for the year ahead! This episode has it all.
Please do get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod@gmail.com - we would love to hear from you.
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Introduction & Podcast Format
00:00:00
Speaker
hello and welcome to dingle all the way i'm simon my name is lizzie like you're doing some sort of screen test
00:00:14
Speaker
that just came out and it feels all wrong acting age is 28 to 35 yeah happy new year everyone a happy new year everyone yeah This has already completely fallen apart. Yeah. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. we hope you had a lovely break. In this episode, we're going to sort of cover Christmas, I guess. Although, on reflection, last year i was another person. don't remember anything that happened before the stroke of midnight on January first Whereas I have written more notes for the last sort of two week period of Emmerdale than
Obsession with Emmerdale Notes
00:00:50
Speaker
ever before. Because I think i've I started writing notes in a physical notepad and I just couldn't stop. I've written down like everything that's ever happened. Every line of dialogue. Oh my goodness. Every storyline in this enormous book.
00:01:04
Speaker
oh gosh you've done it like it's some sort of penance it did feel like that in a way um i think i sort of got into this thing of like what if i write down something what what if i forget to write something down and then i want to refer back to it later so i was just sort of writing down like a lot of things but yeah great well you you might have to carry a lot of that and so we're gonna we're gonna go up to and including cory dale which at the time recording was yesterday but then we're not going to do post cory dale for reasons that we will reveal later in the podcast, I assume.
00:01:35
Speaker
I assume. I mean, you're very much in charge. Simon and I have been, over the last week or so, like, deciding when we're going to record this podcast, when we're going record our next podcast, and what we're going to cover in each. And every single time I've been like, oh, does that mean we're going to talking about um this thing and that? And he's been like, no, we already agreed we would do it this way. just like, I literally can't remember anything that we've decided. So... you're sharing this one because I don't know what i meant to talk about unless you tell me. Yes, every single one of those conversations has felt like a drunk driving test or something. It's like, please just show some sort of cognitive awareness. I am your hazard perception and you're just bashing that button like something's going to happen, which to be fair, feels like Corydale.
00:02:17
Speaker
So, so, so true. and Well, let's, I mean, i was going to say let's start with Christmas, but what I've written down is, Eve, look at all those vegetables.
00:02:27
Speaker
What does that even mean? i don't know, but apparently Eve said that at some point. Well, i to be fair, I just wrote a small little heading called Christmas, and all it says is, so many children, i don't know what that says, and wool-packed lunch looks nice.
00:02:45
Speaker
I'm starting to see why our subscribers are ah dying away. They're not. They're just on a holiday. They're just them on a break. Yeah, there were just like absolutely
Christmas Dinner Debate
00:02:55
Speaker
hordes of children. I don't know who any of them were. um but I did think that the meal actually looked nice, which for me is huge because most times I see anybody sort post about their Christmas lunch or you see like Christmas lunch on TV. I always think they just look a bit sad.
00:03:11
Speaker
But this one looked great. Do you have any hot takes on what should or shouldn't be in a Christmas dinner? ah I'm quite big on making dauphin or potatoes to go with it. um Also mashed potatoes and roast potatoes. love that. Tree of potatoes. Some sort of like cheesy leeks and Yorkshire puddings as well as, you know, all the other classic things. It sounds amazing. i I fully believe that Yorkshire puddings should be in a Christmas dinner, but I've got colleagues who are so angry about this.
00:03:39
Speaker
Why could you should be angry about that? This is an Emmerdale podcast. That's basically a hate crime. I know, true. They like they love them as a roast dinner or on a Sunday, but not on Christmas dinner. I'm like, Christmas dinner is your average roast dinner, but better.
00:03:52
Speaker
would you take out something that's great in a roast dinner? Yeah, that is really gutting. And I think maybe that's why my Christmas dinner has got a bit out of hand, because whenever I do a roast dinner, I usually end up doing cheesy leeks, pigs in blankets, um and Yorkshire puddings, as well as a whole lot of other things. Then when it's Christmas, you're like, well, we'd better have three types of potato, red cabbage, bread sauce, Brussels sprouts. Otherwise, it's just a roast.
00:04:16
Speaker
That's incredible. Did you happen to spot what they were eating Emmerdale? No, I just wrote down that it looked nice, exclamation mark. And we do know that Eve apparently thought there were lots of vegetables. I have no recollection of this meal happening at all. so i don't Like we were both in a fever dream, but we did have a biro on hand.
00:04:34
Speaker
And I have written down also, also read this, everyone alarmingly committed to Christmas hats. I would like to think everybody is alarmingly committed to Christmas hats on Christmas Day. It's always sad when the first person takes them off.
00:04:48
Speaker
We actually do, as the Thomas family, have an annual tradition that you win if you keep your hat on the longest, which I immediately forfeit because I do find it comfortable. And it's usually mom and dad fighting it out. And we also, you know, it's not seasonal any longer, but let me introduce everyone to the fun game of halfway through the meal, trying to remember what colour your hat is. Surprisingly hard. Ooh!
00:05:09
Speaker
I love that. That sounds really good. Would love to play that. the party yeah Something I did write down for Christmas but it was under my Chaz and Liam heading so I missed it.
Emmerdale Christmas Episode Recap
00:05:20
Speaker
It was why on earth would Ruby and Caleb be having Christmas dinner with Chaz, Liam and Rob Ron etc? Yeah well I guess Because they are technically Dingles, but albeit not. Really? They're caleb ready like Milligan's.
00:05:35
Speaker
They're saying it's Milligan, but Caleb is Cain and Chaz's brother. I just feel like like socially the only time I've ever really seen them hang out... was when they accidentally slash on purpose killed Anthony, which isn't really a social occasion. Like, it felt like they were just thrown together and i was like, okay, now we have to interact with you, with you but we don't really want to.
00:05:55
Speaker
And now they're spending Christmas together. I think if anybody in the village would like to just spend Christmas with their significant other and nobody else, it'd be Ruby and Caleb. Oh my gosh, the yeah. mean, you can see every... I know they've done a bit of, like, Ruby trying to light the dingles. And of course, she did have that ill-fated affair with Kane you can call them well they slept together once which I was remembering today it's like well it's nice that we never think about that at all yeah that was a real low light of the whole year it was so pointless was bleak but yeah you can see generally she's like it's nice they're around but I simply don't want to be around them and I I can respect that and I guess there's no real reason why Steph I mean in real life we know she's on maternity leave but within the show she just is still on holiday in a row maybe it's sort an extended trip at this point isn't it
00:06:44
Speaker
but You think maybe you pop home for Christmas rather than be like, I'm still months in on holiday. She's getting some space. The Airbnb is just extended over and over and over because she spent thousands and thousands of pounds on that Airbnb at this point. And that's just on the booking fees.
00:06:59
Speaker
Yeah, I can't imagine what the cleaning
Critique of Christmas Storyline
00:07:01
Speaker
fee is at this point. i
00:07:05
Speaker
But yeah, um it was weird. it was quite It was quite nice. So I do like a bit that there was a bit of just christmas cheer it wasn't too bleak and miserable like soaps traditionally are quite miserable at christmas and this one there was there are few moments of just like nice happy yeah nothing really significant happening i guess the the misery was all kim up at home farm that's true and that was miserable yeah i did it again i wrote down kim's nostalgia for will is hard to sympathize with when his death was in an enormous blessing And when she saw her such as well. Exactly. um
00:07:38
Speaker
And i did I did love the... ah When Lydia came up and gave Kim a piece of mind. and you They had the whole feud over some slightly complex thing about booking a shooting party.
00:07:51
Speaker
But ah yeah... You could see that you know Lydia... think we have something you talked about this last time. Lydia being the only moral person was quite um anxious about it. But then she just you know didn't take nonsense from... Kim was... And I liked the line where she said, you've done much worse than this. Yeah, she she probably did much worse than that day. yeah but I do also think it was kind of out of character of Kim to forgive Lydia, or at least as quickly as she did. like i feel like Kim is meant to be one of Emmerdale's long-standing... like I don't know how to say this, but like, I don't think she would have just been like, oh yeah, you know what? You are right. And you do really care about me. It's fine. I think she would have, I don't know, stood her ground a bit longer.
00:08:30
Speaker
I guess so. I mean, she's been very forgiving about the things Joe did to him. um And she was quite forgiving about Will when she, I suppose Will didn't have an affair, did he? She just thought he did.
00:08:43
Speaker
Yeah, I think she just thought he did. Yeah, that's true. He was very forgiving about her burying him alive. That was just water off duck's back for him. Very strangely forgiving about the whole thing, actually. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I forgot. Basically, my favorite thing about Christmas was watching Joe and Kim at Sam and Lydia's house. Oh, yes. And that was just so sweet. And I love slash I'm praying for the friendship between Joe and Sam.
00:09:09
Speaker
think that's really nice. it's what It's what we crave. um I particularly enjoyed Joe's line. We're enjoying being here just as you are having us, which could really mean anything, couldn't it? Yeah, i do I do love... um that sort of commitment to joe like trying to be friendly but also quite rightly being appalled by everything he sees yeah i really love joe as we all know it's no secret to anyone yeah i don't know if i ever need to see the welly again i know that's become a tradition but it's a lot to take in and i just hope it comes with like a side of penicillin
00:09:51
Speaker
penicillin chaser An absolute must. Because, I mean, look, they Kim's been through a lot recently. ah That could really take her out at this point. Yeah, and um she seems to magically not be on crutches now when she was. And then she sort of had that sort of wobble where in the episode that was inexplicably all grey.
00:10:12
Speaker
um But then she kind of seemed fine after, so We will get onto that. ah My worry was that especially could say, ugh, these cobbles, and that was reference to Coronation Street having the being called the cobbles because of, you know, cobbled street. Oh, see, I guess this is just one of those things that go straight over your head when you've never even considered watching an episode of Coronation Street. Neither have I, but somehow just by osmosis and or my addiction circa late 90s early 2000s to reading Inside Soap magazine has opened some windows for me. Windows into the soul if you will. It's just infiltrated into your very being and you've got to reflect it. I suppose while we're talking about Kim we haven't really touched on the Joe Dorn proposal because that was unhinged. Yes!
00:10:59
Speaker
That was um i mean unexpected. I quite
Wedding Predictions
00:11:03
Speaker
enjoyed that he was like genuinely emotional. I felt very sad that Ross and Aaron and Robert were mocking him because they're like, just be nice. I mean, yeah were I know he did steal a kidney, et cetera, et cetera.
00:11:14
Speaker
But he's still a person. But he's still human man. And he's wearing his heartless sleeve and that should be rewarded, not mocked. Yeah. And sometimes Joe just seems like,
00:11:27
Speaker
a little boy who is a bit lost in the world and is just so pleased that somebody loves him. that's, you know, it's sad when people are just standing there like actively like laughing at him. i felt really sorry for him because it sort of just like showed him looking a bit small.
00:11:47
Speaker
um So we've got three couples who are currently engaged. We'll talk more about the third one later, but I'm intrigued out of the three, joe and Dawn, Chaz and Liam, Rob Ron, Which do you think will actually make it down the aisle?
00:12:01
Speaker
Chas and Liam are not getting married, surely. Not a chance. no Definitely not. I think that Joan Dawn will get married, but it'll be ill-fated, unfortunately. um i think Robert and Aaron will probably go the distance. What about you?
00:12:15
Speaker
yeah obviously Chas and Liam aren't getting a sniff of a wedding. They wouldn't dream of it. Yeah, it's the last thing on their minds. They don't want to be in the same room as each other, let alone in a church saying, I do.
00:12:27
Speaker
um In fact, I will in this country, isn't it? So true. Rob and I think will. I do think Joe and Dawn will have a wedding day, I don't think going get married. I think one or other than will walk away at the aisle.
00:12:42
Speaker
Well, I mean, Dawn, I think, is still married to Billy, so surely it's not going to be an imminent marriage anyway. Yes, well, true. I mean, Robert is still married to Kevin and Aaron's still married to John. So there's a lot of people in these proposals who are currently wed. There's just going to be so many divorces happening. Bless them all. Yeah, Bail's nice to trick. She should really be a divorce planner rather than a wedding planner.
00:13:03
Speaker
yeah Really help the books. I think, yeah, that would that would definitely be more profitable in Emmerdale than her current job. um something I thought was quite interesting was that I think potentially the first conversation Dawn and Charity have ever had certainly that I've witnessed was Charity sort of goading Dawn in the Woolpack like I think Jo's about to break up with you like it was first time they've ever set eyes on each other and that was that was going on it was very confusing and like know Charity's got the backstory of Jo breaking her daughter's heart and but I mean she doesn't seem to have
00:13:41
Speaker
given that a second thought for the best part of a year no but suddenly it's all she can think of yeah that was it was quite a confusing time um was that debbie debbie a yeah yeah big big big devs um who did have a lovely relationship with whatever ned portes's character was called when he was pretending to be someone else and then he'd be big unveil being like actually i'm joe tate and i was like what that's crazy i need to go and read about that Yeah, I feel like his name is something, Waterhouse or something.
00:14:13
Speaker
Liam Water? No, I don't But he was very sweet into that character, quite bland. And then he's like, oh, he's evil. But then he did get with Debbie eventually, even as Jotay as well. Again, very forgiving.
00:14:26
Speaker
The forgiving Dingles, that's what they're called. Whilst we're talking about weddings,
00:14:33
Speaker
I did not have my bingo card. um And yeah, I love it. The wedding of Eric and Kerry. Yeah, what the heck is going on there? It's stupid, but love it. It's so stupid, but i love it um And yeah, the fact that Sarah and Jacob literally turned up to the courthouse and then looked up and they were like, wait, wait what?
00:14:57
Speaker
And Kerry was like, yes, this is a marriage of financial convenience, and yet I do need to find the most unhinged bridal outfit ever. yeah She's really committing to the beard. the I think the only thing I wrote down in my notes is just, Carrie and Eric, what? In capital letters.
00:15:15
Speaker
Yeah, it doesn't look like one of those things that is really going to um cut the mustard when they are actually quizzed about whether this is a genuine marriage or not. But maybe they won't be quizzed. I guess maybe they'll just be allowed to do what they want.
00:15:26
Speaker
Yeah. I don't think they probably will be, given that it seems like Eric is able to pull legal strings whenever he needs to with anybody, so Yeah, because i I did talk, someone I talked to, potentially my dad, um about whether or not people could just spontaneously get married. And he's like, no, even if it's not a church, they do you have to read whatever the equivalent of bands is.
00:15:48
Speaker
But it's just nice Emma Dale acknowledged that and just sort of was like, oh yeah, Eric just made a phone call. Turns out you don't need to ah follow the law if you know someone on the local town council yeah if if you've ever so much as looked at a medal around a mayor's neck what are those things called they're really like shiny yeah don't know yeah then you can just get married whenever you want it's fine you can do literally anything can anything you want because the law doesn't apply to you yeah um I was quite interested that Jacob was so chuffed with that horrible jumper that Sarah got him did you notice that
00:16:24
Speaker
I didn't hate her, I'm sorry. Ooh, sorry to hear that. It was awful. was awful, Simon. What is it? It's like a bit of colour blocking, bit of, you know, earthy tones. colour blocking not in a good way, in like Dorothy Perkins men way. Let's not say things you don't mean about Dorothy Perkins. She's served people well for a number of years. You're wearing a really good jumper right now, so I did think better of you than what you've just said. Yeah. I saw somebody on Reddit like, earnestly trying to find it for her boyfriend's Christmas presents. I also saw that and I thought, oh, that's just cool. Whereas I was hardly supporting her. I just like it when people try something that isn't just like a plain navy jumper, I guess. Yeah, I guess so. And I am wearing a plain sort of taupe jumper right now. it's too I mean, you look lovely in it, but... um
00:17:15
Speaker
What I'm saying is that, you know, Jacob and Sarah were trying something and it's not the worst of their problems. Yeah, they've got much bigger fish to fry, to be fair. They seemed livid that this marriage had overshadowed the their wedding, although i can't imagine anyone's that invested in that in their wedding since...
00:17:33
Speaker
You know, they they got together about a week before they got engaged. Oh, no, they got engaged the day they got together, didn't they? The very moment they got together. Yeah, they had no relationship outside of being engaged. and and ever since then, the only thing that has happened in in their lives is Jacob looking anxious and Sarah just giving vitamins to charity. on the hour every hour she's so annoying there was a really nice moment when charity said to her the whole world does not revolve around you which is really nice but then she sort of immediately revoked it the next day because she felt bad she's like actually you you were right the world revolve around you and this baby which is not yours one question i did have was why did kane look so glum at sarah and jacob's wedding i don't know if you spotted that he literally looked like death kane
00:18:24
Speaker
Yeah, Kane was sat there in the wall pack just like looking like he
Wedding Confusion
00:18:29
Speaker
was hating every moment. But I guess you would, wouldn't you? Yeah, he's probably been to a lot of weddings.
00:18:34
Speaker
I wish that Cammy had had a little more of a role to play in the wedding, but I was glad that he did come there and had a line or two, because it's like Cammy was at one point really close friends with these two. Yeah, and I also noticed him having a little dance and a chat with Belle, and I thought, I really hope that's back on the cards for 2026, not to slip into our predictions. Yeah, we don't to predict things too early. I would like that.
00:18:54
Speaker
Yeah, that was one of the more confusing things in this year is how they led up to that and immediately stopped. but Yeah, I think they had to make way for something. I don't know what. Yeah. Curious.
00:19:07
Speaker
Curiouser and curiouser. Did you see Sam's dancing at the wedding? It was unhinged. Oh, I did. yeah And like, i love God bless him. it was pure chaos.
00:19:19
Speaker
Sam will turn up to any event. Like, he's just, he's at everything. He doesn't need to know why or how. Especially if there's free booze, of course. Yeah. he Does he does have a problem? I don't know.
00:19:32
Speaker
i think everybody does. Definitely Ruby. Yeah, bless her heart. Although, obviously, her terrible wine business is at least making ah a blessing of her curse. Yeah, blessing of her curse. Yeah.
00:19:47
Speaker
yeah I'm intrigued to know what else you have under your Chas Liam headline. Oh, um i I sort of moved on from that a while ago. What did I have?
00:19:57
Speaker
ah i had, who on earth is that child with Liam? Goodness knows. And that was ages ago. They were like walking through the village. i think that was maybe like on around the 22nd or 23rd. I don't know. as far as I know, he doesn't have a child, but nothing could be less surprising than him just having one he's never mentioned.
00:20:16
Speaker
um I wrote, was the murder mystery actually amazing, Chaz? Because she was like gutted about going and like in yesterday's one. She was like, yeah, it was amazing. things like I don't think you would have enjoyed one moment of it. Well, did you see after that, she sort of looked to the side like, ugh. Oh, like as really? I missed that. I was probably too busy writing down in my notepad. The notepad's really drawn attention away from the show in a way that is, i think... I think you're just looking at the notepad now. that's the show I think I am. But it's been quite fun. And then I don't know why this is under the Chaz and Liam heading, but i have written Claudette Randy on Shandy.
00:20:51
Speaker
oh Yes, that was a curious moment from her. Yeah, it was horrible, actually. And I thought they were very un-Claudette of her. i think they are trying to make her like less judgmental and more fun.
00:21:03
Speaker
Which is nice. I think so, yeah. of because There were those sort of those hints that she was horrible to Charles that didn't really go anywhere yet. Well, I really thought that was gearing up for something because she kept on being basically like, I love this ex-convict that I just met more than you.
00:21:18
Speaker
Maybe he is she was just having an off day. Maybe she just happened to glance at how tedious Charles was and be like, yeah, think he needs to know. I don't get why you hate Charles so much. i just think he's like a normal person and we do need more of that in Emmerdale.
00:21:31
Speaker
Yeah, I guess I'm just and just with Claudette. He's a disappointment. Look, if you were on Emmerdale, you would be as boring as Charles. No offence. I don't know what you think the word offence means.
00:21:45
Speaker
yeah yeah Oh dear. Yeah, no fair. I also, read i don't know why going back Charles, I know it's the least interesting thing, but I did write down a chink in the armour of their relationship then it's like,
00:21:56
Speaker
it's more just like the whole arm it's all chink no armor but i mean i would be up for a murder mystery party anytime liam and i love them so i was team liam on that one and that's that hurts me to say the idea that anyone would be team liam at anything it's gutting which has looked fantastic in her murder outfit i thought i know she looked so good and also her hair is really long although i was like maybe she's got extensions in but her hair was so long yeah and pulled back it really suits her yeah yeah She's great for more meta mysteries. I was quite confused about um where Liam went during the Corridor episode because they were both at the scene of the crash.
00:22:34
Speaker
And then I think they were both at the hospital. And then she went off in a taxi with that guy from Coronation Street. And I thought, a affair? know, I guess it's going a running affair between shows. Which could be quite cute.
00:22:46
Speaker
Yeah, could be fun. um guess particularly if they never actually physically cross over again. It's just they're having this affair when they just we just see one of them walking out of a bedroom every now and then. Well, they said the murder mystery was in Weatherfield, which is where Coronation Street is set. so Yeah, exactly. yeah So I guess maybe they were taxiing back from Coronation Street and then she just like my mote moseyed around for a bit. But like, I mean that like, Liam wasn't in this the end of the episode really, but she was. No, that's true. i guess maybe he got went to do some work at the hospital? The hospital that he doesn't work at. I'm getting, this is because of neighbours, Carl would always just do things the hospital even though he was a little GP. but like is this not I guess that's I guess maybe Emmerdale's got a smidge more realism. Yeah, I don't know. Because also they're not at Hot in general. All the people who were injured were taken to a hospital like,
00:23:37
Speaker
nearer to manchester oh yeah and also bed to now doors in the wrong beds which actually is what the nhs is largely like but so from a friend who is head of an a and e she's like yeah it's pretty awful at me and everyone's just like you please chewing up in beds to even get into resus so And as we will learn later, like being having being full on shot is something that you're expected to get over and on but on a night's sleep. Like, seem what you're doing okay? Yeah, you know what, you seem fine, won't you? Just pop yourself in that chair. Yeah,
00:24:15
Speaker
You've got, you know, someone might feel a bit faint and we need to give the bed to them. um little callback there. But ah so, I mean, there' there's so many other things that have happened that we haven't touched on yet. Like the return of both Kev and John. I know. i just feel a bit overwhelmed because there's so much for us to talk about that I don't think we're going to be able to do any of it justice, but we move. i have really, really enjoyed the interactions between Kev and John and the fact that Kev It's just not putting up with any of John being like trying to be looming, trying to be threatening. Kev is not really that bothered about any of it.
00:24:49
Speaker
Like there was one bit when John was like, there's a storm coming and Kev just looks out the window like... Yeah,
00:25:00
Speaker
I thought it was so telling because like John is obviously trying to play all of this sort of intense seriousness and Kev's just gone for like high camp the whole time. Yeah, it's so good. And it it met together in a way that works so much better than I thought, because i thought it would just make John's stuff look really stupid when you've got Kev just having a well of time but somehow the combination did really work the first time found John interesting yeah same I kind of loved it and I loved like i don't know like John walking in like looking awful like and murderous and rampaging and Kev's just like you okay hun I love it I love it all you need a spin off I mean admittedly John is dead but let's we'll get on to that but
00:25:43
Speaker
Oh my gosh, well, actually should talked about it now because it does feel like a Christmas miracle slash all my New Year's hopes came true.
Sudden Character Deaths
00:25:49
Speaker
The three characters I'm most sick ah of, all dead. Wait, who?
00:25:55
Speaker
People in Coronation Street? No, Celia, Ray, John, they're all dead. So true, oh my word, it is a Christmas miracle that we don't have to watch Celia and Ray anymore. And it was so abrupt. like That storyline seemed like it would never end. And then it it felt so weird to me that after just going on for months and months of the same scene over and over again, Celia killed one day, Ray dead the next, Laurel find out ah found out off screen. like yeah I know. we didn't even get to see Laurel have this big realisation thankfully we got to see her have a go at Ray but yeah we've been going out for this for such a long time I bet they won't even show like Marlon finding out or any of it they'll just be like okay April's back in school yeah exactly she's 16 now no but why did Dylan suddenly decide tell Laurel after all this time like what changed I truly don't know yeah it was tenuous at best
00:26:50
Speaker
But, I mean, thrilled that they're both dead because I don't want to ever set eyes them again. Surprising that Dylan, not Dylan, Joe, Ray, gosh, going to break down. Ray is the one who killed Celia and she was like, I'm proud of you. okay great.
00:27:06
Speaker
um But I was just so happy that she was dead. Yeah. Such a relief. I wonder whether April will ever find out that she didn't actually kill that man.
00:27:19
Speaker
assuming i mean if she thought about it she would realize the fact that ray ended up holding the card means he's alive because is dead his dead his widow is not going to give it to him i just think let's never assume that april will work something out it's a shame I also really... I found it really funny because when she was telling finally telling Marlon and Rona everything, she said, I killed a man, not Celia, not Rey, me, and it felt so much like that Harry Potter scene that everyone does the memes of.
00:27:59
Speaker
but he's like, not me, not Hermione, you. Yeah. I'm not familiar with this meme. No, I'm going to have to send it to you. You will. i think that's what they say. I'm sure they do. Yeah. Someone who is online 24-7, I do somehow seem to miss these things.
00:28:16
Speaker
i'm I'm really sorry about that. um um So we've obviously got a few people lined up as maybe having killed
Who Killed Ray?
00:28:23
Speaker
Ray. so we've got ah Ross and April and Laurel. Any thoughts on who might be?
00:28:30
Speaker
I don't think it was April because I think She is so gutted about having supposedly killed this other person that that would not be good. ah I think that Rona might have... Because he she was on the phone to somebody.
00:28:47
Speaker
Oh, yes. like And she was like, have you done it yet? And then when, which we haven't even spoken about, Graham it was in the hospital and he was on the phone and he was like... He said like that something is odd like the job is off or like the job's done or cancelled or something.
00:29:04
Speaker
yeah. And I wondered whether like she somehow did know that Graham was alive and had commissioned him to kill. Interesting. So when I got that call, obviously it was before Corrie Dale. So I thought she was maybe phoning Ross kind asking him to do it. but Oh yeah. Because doesn't didn't Ross have a gun in his car? had something but then laurel had like scissors or something which is like not the best way to go um yeah i don't know but i can't wait to find out i'm sure we won't find out for maybe years maybe maybe a full calendar yeah they love to spin these things out i i'm mostly thrilled that uh charlotte bellamy is gonna have a really
00:29:52
Speaker
good storyline to get her teeth into because i think she'd be really good at in whatever this is yeah and she has been great so far as well yeah the scene where she well as I say didn't see her finding out about Ray but the scene where she confronted him really powerful yeah I loved that so good yeah and because going back a bit that episode where she and Nicola thought that they'd killed Anthony even that so good that it's like wow yeah so true imagine if she actually has killed somebody yeah yeah even worse My feeling is that maybe she thinks she's killed him, but it'll turn out it was somebody else. Just like Anthony.
00:30:28
Speaker
Just like Anthony. She's always paranoid that she's killed someone. Always the kill maid, never the killer? does that is that something? i think I think that is a phrase, yeah. um Something that quite amused me is I never noticed before in Laurel's um flat, there's like a big sign that says laugh.
00:30:51
Speaker
in like cursive script and it looks so much like the live and the love just fell off to be fair there's a lot of people losing with both their life and their love in that house yeah well maybe Ray took a hint you have to laugh and he died
00:31:12
Speaker
oh dear yeah gosh it was so such a weirdly but abrupt ending to that that um it also April disappearing for a bit did include my least favorite not just a soap trope just like a tv trope where marlon was said her bed's not been slept in it's like how do you know in the ever since we've had maids doing hospital corners in the morning there's no way of knowing if someone slept in the bed or not yeah and i mean my i ah ah maybe this is me outing myself it i never make my bed so you would literally never know no i would very seldom make mine
00:31:47
Speaker
And even people who do make their bed, like how do you know it was made yesterday rather than today or whatever? like this yeah And yet people so often say her bed's not been s slept in in in TV shows. like On what grounds are you making this assumption, Marlon? Yeah, so true.
00:32:01
Speaker
I think one of the only people I know who makes their bed um is my mum. And i remember so often as a child seeing it, she would literally make her bed just before she and my dad went to bed. I'd be like, why are you doing that? She's like, oh, it just feels nice, doesn't it? Getting into a bed that's been made.
00:32:20
Speaker
excuse just bless her. She's sort of got to enjoy it being made for like half an hour and then got in. i actually really hate it when you try it.
00:32:30
Speaker
a hotel or whatever and in the duvet is really tightly tucked under the mattress I can't get in now. Yeah, that really reminds me of staying at my grandma's house. She used to tuck it in all the way along the sides and at the end as well. remember just getting in and feeling really stressed and like, I had to pull this apart. must be like quite difficult for whoever's making the bed to make it do that. And then all the person who's getting in the bed does is like,
00:32:54
Speaker
have a claustrophobic panic attack and rip it apart. It's a lose-lose. It truly is. So April was saved from that event anything. Yeah, Screw you, Marlon. Do we know where April went during this period? i come Nobody knows. And I don't know how she managed to track Ross down because she lost her phone in the woods.
00:33:14
Speaker
Yeah. Gosh, that oh gosh you so much going on. So many things to say. when When Joe took her to dig her own grave in the middle of the night... Joe? think that was Ray.
00:33:26
Speaker
like oh sorry. He's played by Joe Absalom, so I keep getting using actually instead of character name. Yeah, that was a lot. And then when he, like, stabbed the tree instead of her, and later April was like, oh, yeah, he tried to kill me, but he couldn't do It like, actually, he could do It's just that you ducked.
00:33:43
Speaker
Yeah, and also I thought he was just trying to be like, fine, I'm not going to do it. when he said that Oh, I thought he was, like, aiming for her and she got out of the way. Maybe. Do you reckon he's killed a lot of people before? I got the impression that he wasn't very good at it. Yeah, I got the impression he wasn't very good at it. I mean, he even sort of got Dylan to beat people up for him or someone else to beat people up him. I think he maybe hasn't.
00:34:07
Speaker
I mean, as ever, this operation is like amateur at best, it seems, but relying entirely on the stupidity of those around them. Yeah, and and relying entirely, it would seem, on two teenagers. like At the beginning, it was like they've got this big operation and there's all these different little boys on bikes and stuff but by now it seems just to be old people plucking turkeys and april and dylan sometimes delivering drugs yes surely it's easier just to run a legitimate turkey business at this point and are we saying that bear is dead
00:34:42
Speaker
Oh no, I wouldn't have thought so. i think she was i i think Celia was lying when she said that. But didn't um Ray then go up to the sort of hovel and be like, oh, I'm so sorry to him or something. And i was like, oh, maybe he is dad.
00:34:58
Speaker
Maybe he is. But when she was like, oh, I'd love to say it was painless, but it was slow and awful something. It's like, oh gosh, like that can't be real. They wouldn't do that. I don't know.
Drug Addiction Storyline Concern
00:35:06
Speaker
or maybe he was just apologising for the opiate addiction that he's given him.
00:35:11
Speaker
I just, Lizzie, do not have time for a storyline about bear recovering from opiate addiction. I just don't know. I personally have not got capacity for it in 2026. But if it's something they want to invest in. It's not addiction I'm going into in 2026. It simply isn't. Like, I can't. The first opiate addiction. I don't want to learn about methadone and all over again. I just won't. Yeah, it does feel like it would be a very educational storyline, which we've all had enough of because they start out so educational and then by the end you're like, this is a complete farce. For example, the county line storyline.
00:35:45
Speaker
Yes, or domestic abuse, turning into axe wielding, etc, etc. So true. Yeah, well, let's just have Bear, he could do his recovery entirely off screen, that'd be lovely.
00:35:58
Speaker
Yeah, that'd be really nice. Or he could just be dead. ah Yeah, either way, I don't really care, to be honest. Actually, I think everything else want to talk about is Corridale related, except one line I really enjoyed from Aaron.
00:36:13
Speaker
um which was i think is he he was trying to get out of robert or someone he said he's not answered and someone said what at all he's like what do you mean at all he's not gonna answer it a little bit is he that's quite nice that's great let me see if i've got i mean i have got a lot of other things written down let me see if there's anything yeah i assume you can just rattle off the full dialogue the entire fortnight um At one point I wrote down that ah Joe was wearing a coat and a scarf that were basically the same colour and I thought that was a weird choice.
00:36:41
Speaker
um Awful nutcracker decorations at Home Farm. Really horrible. Very visceral. those were terrifying, weren't they? Yeah, visceral and enormous. Visceral.
00:36:53
Speaker
I wrote down that of course Lydia has a Honda Jazz. That's so Lydia. i couldn't know less about what cars are, as you know, but I'm glad for that comedy. It's very, very Lydia.
00:37:04
Speaker
I wrote down that in the cafe Jimmy's flashing Christmas jumper was a lot. Yeah, I mean that is classic Jimmy. You have to admire it.
00:37:16
Speaker
e i wrote down i can't see Joe Tate having engagement drinks at the wall pack, but sure. Yeah, I mean he he he would at the very least go to the Airbnb or to the B&B store.
00:37:29
Speaker
dining room that as we just talked about is a very tiny slightly cut above yeah i think he would just be getting out of emmerdale for his engagement he'd be going to like harrogate that's true he must love harrogate why is he stepping foot in emmerdale village like he's definitely just got a membership to the turkish baths and good on him um yeah if were him i'd just be like dawn let's move but to say if i were him i'd just be like dawn let's move Let's bring your three to five children. let's i think he tried that and she was like, no. so now he's trapped there.
00:38:04
Speaker
She's like, um all my happy memories of when I was like a prostitute. I want to be reminded of my own sad past, actually, if you don't mind. Every single day. Billy can't be away from his three to five children either. yeah um I think I texted you about this but like what the heck happened on the holiday that Aaron and Robert had because they both came back looking absolutely haggard yeah and they just seemed to recover from it relatively quickly but for those first couple of scenes it did look like they'd been through the mill Yeah, honestly through the mill.
00:38:37
Speaker
And then they came back and their tapiru was just being set fire to and stuff. but And that's not very nice... Not a euphemism. Not a euphemism in this time. um But I did enjoy that they had time to move into that flat and fully decorate for Christmas in about 24 hours after their holiday.
00:38:55
Speaker
ah And I don't think either of them would particularly care about decorating for Christmas. Certainly Aaron wouldn't. But can't really see it when Rob's being going kind of... No, it definitely would have been Kev doing that if it was him. but Oh, Kev would love a bit of Christmas festive tea.
00:39:13
Speaker
And once again, i ah it would be remiss of us not to talk about just how high the proportion of Bannister to everything else in that flat is. But that the Bannisters, they finally came in useful because they were zip-tied to them.
00:39:28
Speaker
that's true I thought you were going say because they put tinsel on them or something but no I mean I'm sure there were points there put tinsel on them as well but at this stage they were decorated with hostages they finally came into their own yes both their husbands have held them hostage there in recent weeks that's something they've got in common that's really nice and at one point I suppose historically Robert was holding Aaron hostage but that was on a radiator not a bannister yeah elsewhere but um I don't think the set existed at that point otherwise I'm sure he could have done it closer to home But yeah, I mean, John's journey has been an interesting one from accidental man's daughter to sparring into like evil delusions. like He can't possibly believe. Well, the John that we saw at the and beginning of his storyline couldn't possibly believe that Aaron and Vic and Harry would go to France with him.
00:40:17
Speaker
No. And also that like that his whole premise earlier this year was like, I hate that I keep on doing this, but I like, I just keep putting people in danger so that I can save them. And I know it's really bad.
00:40:31
Speaker
But now he's just like, actually, I love putting people in danger and I don't care if they die. Yeah. Although he's increasingly bad at it. Like the fact that kills people by accident all the time. And now he's like,
00:40:43
Speaker
desperately trying to shoot people and doesn't seem able to do it. Yeah, he's like making bombs. Defong bombs. I do wonder what he Googled to make a bomb. As long as it's got like shining lights on it, you're good to go.
00:40:56
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, i think he was certainly asking Jeeves about some unusual things. He just wound up his encarter CD.
00:41:10
Speaker
You know when he tried to set off the bomb in the car, pressing that big red button? He was stood right next to the car in that bomb. He would definitely have died. I wrote that down, I was like, if the bomb did go off, he would have died.
00:41:24
Speaker
How dumb is this guy? He's pretty dumb. He's pretty dumb. Yeah. And well, hopefully Robert and Aaron will have a little piece from there. I feel like Kev is going to come back, but maybe he'll come back a bit chiller. Because he did have that sort of coming good where he told Aaron about John and he was like, don't worry, I'm sort of over it all now. Yeah, true. He did the right thing. I do wonder whether he'll stick around and be Lewis's dad.
00:41:51
Speaker
The actor has confirmed that he's finished his scenes for now. so oh what So that's just the end of him and we don't get to say goodbye? Well, not gosh, I didn't think it'd be that moving for you. but um It's not moving for me. I'm just confused.
00:42:05
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. But I get the impression that they're going to try and get him back. But I guess if they're filming like three months in advance, it might be while. Yeah, fair. Wow, there was just so much to talk about. and we haven't even spoken about Corydale yet.
00:42:17
Speaker
Shall we start? Yeah, I've got ton of page in my enormous notebook. Yeah, I assume you've got a whole separate notebook to mention this. What I will say is at the well at the beginning of the episode, curiously, they did it on the episode before Corydale. They did the little montage of, like, here's everything that's going on. And I will say that that little montage would not have helped anyone, bless him for trying. Like, i watched it and was like, I'm quite confused, and I watched all of these scenes.
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah, and why was it all so dark? it was so Everything was so grey and ominous. i like I get that they want it to be ominous, but I was actually struggling to see what was happening in some of the scenes.
00:42:55
Speaker
Well, I do think after the corridor itself, it's like, if if you're going to give us a whole bunch of characters that we may well not know who they are, why have you filmed them essentially with the shutter lens on? It was just like a mime shit. Well, no, was just like, what's the opposite of a silent movie? An audio book.
00:43:11
Speaker
ha Yeah, Corridale was essentially filmed in Braille and that's fine, it's fine. but i We love it, we love accessibility, but if you want me to know who the various different bearded men in their early forty s are, you can I'm going to need a little bit more light. Yeah, I don't know if it's just because I haven't seen Coronation Street, but everybody in it looked exactly the same.
00:43:33
Speaker
It truly did. It's like the new series of The Traitors where I'm just like, you all look identical. Yeah, they all looked like people pretending to be Mac, essentially. it's So true. Yeah, they're all just like the Aldi version of Mac, unfortunately.
00:43:49
Speaker
Yeah, and the episode before and the Corridor itself both filmed with, as you say, a very strange filter on that. I saw people on Reddit being like, oh, they've gone for higher production values. And I guess it probably is a higher production value in the sense that it looks completely different. and But it was it was quite disconcerting. It just gave every so every scene...
00:44:08
Speaker
during the previous episode when it was actually in the light, just felt like the final scene of a, of an ITV Sunday night drama. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say the main note in my Corridale thing that I wrote down that I'd like to highlight,
00:44:23
Speaker
which summarises, I think, the tone of all of my other notes why did I ever expect that this would be anything other than bleak? Because I think I was like, oh, this will be fun. All the characters are getting together.
Emmerdale-Coronation Street Crossover Confusion
00:44:36
Speaker
Great. And then everything that happened was awful and really sad.
00:44:40
Speaker
Yeah. And also just, why did we ever think it wouldn't be totally confusing? Because we don't watch Coronation Street. I've got a little bit more knowledge that I've somehow just picked up than you, but still, like, I did not know who most these people were. No. I did i went to watch the equivalent montage for Corrie. I was like, well, this is useless to me. It's just been a rush out of each um And in Corrie itself, the first half was very Corrie.
00:45:03
Speaker
And was like, is this just like episode of Coronation Street with featuring special guests from Emmerdale? But thankfully it did pick up in the second half for our guys. Yeah. um and then But then in the second one, I was like, this feels like it's mainly Emmerdale and this must be so boring for all the Coronation Street people.
00:45:18
Speaker
Yeah, it was very much of two halves. And I did enjoy like the little bits where they would cross over like Jacob helping people from Corrie or ah can't think now of any other examples. We also had, well, I guess we had ken Barlow and Eric Pollard talking over the vending machine. Now, are you familiar with Ken Barlow? No, to me, that was just two old men having a chat.
00:45:42
Speaker
It was very nice. They didn't know they were being filmed. That was just the actors trying to get a snack. Well, Ken Barlow has been in Credit Union Street since day one. He's been in it for like 65 years or something.
00:45:54
Speaker
Wow. So he is a living legend. Well, just about living, I think, teaching on the
Crossover Podcast Announcement
00:45:58
Speaker
edge. But um yeah, so I guess that was that was a nice thing for fans. I feel like Eric Pollard doesn't have the same cult status but that Ken Barlow does. Because even people who don't watch a comedy may well have heard of Ken Barlow.
00:46:09
Speaker
I mean, for a moment, I thought it was Eric having a chat with Rodney. i had to be like, oh, wait, no, it's just a different old man with sort flowing hair. can you imagine if during their like selection of which characters get to appear, they'd have gone for Rodney? It's like one episode a year.
00:46:26
Speaker
Bless him. There were quite a few things that um felt like the plane crash episode of Emmerdale from 1993. I mean, mainly the fact that we couldn't see any of it. It remains a mystery to us. The fact that we were quite confused. But um just the fact that all we really heard for the first half of the whole episode was people shouting, Debbie! It really reminded me of Archie! So true. There was a lot of screeching of people's names.
00:47:00
Speaker
um And it was hard to take, particularly when we didn't know who those names were. didn't honestly care if they lived or died. I did feel quite sorry for the poor lady who was heavily pregnant and on the side of the road. And at one point her, I assume partner said to her, everything's always so doom and gloom with you. you think, i yeah, but she is scared that she's lost her baby and she's just been in a car crash and now she's on a grass verge. So. yeah That's just a bit of Northern wit for you, Lizzie.
00:47:31
Speaker
I'm more Northern than than you. Um, You might live in the North, but let's not forget who was born in the North. Who feels more Northern Teaser? think it is a tie for zero. but I've lived here for 12 years, nearly 13. I did only when it's seven years. There we go. And then they kicked you out for being the way you are.
00:47:55
Speaker
but Yeah, they're like, go to the Midlands. No one cares about the Midlands. I enjoyed um people from not the Emmerdale universe reacting to just Cain Dingle as a person.
00:48:08
Speaker
like when he um Everyone was like, we need to get them out of this car. What are we going to do? And then Cain just like smashed the car window and someone went, well, looks like he's got it all in hand. looks like That is how people would react to Cain. Just like, I don't know who he is, but he is just getting on with things in quite a violent way.
00:48:26
Speaker
Yeah, and that's a type, which we appreciate. He's a no-nonsense guy. It's not our type, but he's a type. He's a type. But um but little before the crash, when Mac decided the only way to deal with this charity situation was to drive from it nowhere... The lovely scenery he took her to. It was beautiful. Yeah, I think, but I'm not entirely sure because I know that i think they did film this, like, not necessarily in Leeds, but I'm not sure. I thought that it might have been the countryside around the Harewood Estate, which is close to where the Emmerdale Village is. i think I've done a walk around there that looked really similar.
00:49:02
Speaker
he did feel like it was on a state-of-a-state. Yeah. And... I'm getting quite lost as to which lies Charity has told to whom. Like, because there's a version she's told to Mac, version told to Ross, a version told to Vanessa.
00:49:16
Speaker
um It's just like, ah what's going on? I don't think she's told anybody that um if it's not Sarah's baby, it's Ross's. I think everybody thinks that if it's not Sarah's, it's Mac's. It's only Ross knows it could be him.
00:49:32
Speaker
That makes sense. I did think Mac was slightly weird being like, we have to get them at the checkout desk just to be like, this baby might not be yours, but it probably is, which is what he thinks is true. The checkout desk. They're going to the airport, not Aldi. Check in, right?
00:49:46
Speaker
Check in. So I've not lived your life jet-setting around the world. You've not been to an airport. I've never stepped foot in one. yeah
00:49:56
Speaker
Oh dear. Funny. Anyway, um that was all a lot. And then Mac put on his little hat again, the one he used to like run through the woods before. don't if that was another I've grown my hair situation. or if its the like This is my hat I wear for emergencies. i think the hat would feel quite triggering, wouldn't it, if you ended up bunkered with it.
00:50:16
Speaker
I probably have kept it, to be honest. I might have just been that one. Yeah. Sure, I mean, you would hope that everything from that bunker had been burnt, but maybe not.
00:50:27
Speaker
Mac's been through such a lot. Maybe that should have been the award we do, like who's had the worst year. oh gosh. Mac or April, I don't know who Yeah, gosh, they've really been through it. like I think everyone's had a horrible year.
00:50:39
Speaker
Truly. um but i did enjoy, we we didn't have much comedy, but I did enjoy ah joe so evidently not wanting to help Robert any way and i do i don't remember why there was a boat mentioned, but um there's ah there was a line that Joe had which was whereabout whereabouts in West Kirby is this boat? Which he just did with such disdain. boat? Maybe I just wrote the wrong thing and might maybe it was autocorrect because I can't imagine why he talked about boat. but
00:51:10
Speaker
I think I do vaguely remember that, but you're right. Why on earth did that come up? That's quite strange. Yeah, and Robert was basically just like, you have to do this for me and I will do absolutely anything in the world for you, which is a horrible thing to say to Joe Tate.
00:51:23
Speaker
He's going to really use that against him. And I assume what he'll do is try and take back that field that everyone was obsessed about briefly a while ago. yeah, gosh. ah Surely he would do more than try and take back a field.
00:51:35
Speaker
He's like, I've got another kidney I can have or something. yeah I don't know. Or maybe he's asked him to kill someone. i don't know. he has done He's done it before. Well, he tried to do it before. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Watch this space.
00:51:48
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, I also wrote down a note that Vanessa has been drunk for a fortnight. Like, every scene she's actually drunk. Yeah. At this stage in Evadale, are there many people who don't have a drinking problem?
00:52:01
Speaker
I think this should not be normalised any more than it has been. Yeah, it's quite dark, isn't it, for everyone concerned. I'm trying to think if we ever had like an alcohol story. and We must have done, but... Presumably Rona.
00:52:12
Speaker
Not Rona, Laurel. Oh yeah, she seems the type. um She seems the type? What? Recovering alcoholic? she's so She's always on edge, bless her.
00:52:26
Speaker
um You may recall that I predicted in ah a while ago when I talked about the four combinations of Coronation Street Emmerdale characters that we were going to vote on for which one would win. I said it's definitely going to be charlo out and kala a Charity and Carla.
00:52:38
Speaker
And it was indeed Charity and Carla having their little chat in the lift. Yeah, which was quite random, I felt. Yeah, was very much fan service to people who love lesbian couples. Yeah, it was just like, we have to do this. But it was quite out of character for charity, charity I think, to just be like, if my marriage does end, let me know. there were also the people like Up For Grabs who were actually already featured quite heavily in the episode, because I think all the other combinations just, you know, had really really no reason to there, because they'd like,
00:53:12
Speaker
nicola and um what's his name roy like neither involved why would nicola have gone to the hospital i don't know yeah i guess they would have just woven it in somehow maybe jimmy would have been in the accident yeah maybe it's completely unrelated she'll just been on a day out yeah yeah yeah who's to say i really enjoyed that at one point um john had like an actual gun And Kane just sort of grabbed a stick and like ran into the woods. And I was like, somehow I still back Kane. John does seem pretty incapable of using that gun.
00:53:49
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah, I guess you mentioned earlier, but Graham is back. Yeah. And I did have to look up who he was, but good to know.
00:54:01
Speaker
Well, as I said to you in a voice note, um, I don't care about him at all. I found him quite a boring character. But he was... um he must have been there for like maybe a year before I started watching. So maybe he had lots of interesting things happen after that. Before that, he sort of glowered.
00:54:22
Speaker
That was his main ming occupation. That's a shame. Yeah, he was like a sort of button slash henchman. He was a sort of father-figure to Joe Tate, right? Well, I think he became that. When I was...
00:54:35
Speaker
I don't remember him being particularly that when I was watching, but maybe it did flourish. Maybe grew into something beautiful. Because I think that, did Joe kind of clock him in the hospital and was like, what?
00:54:47
Speaker
Yeah, i thought maybe he did. And then Graham was staring at Joe being like, i've got something I need to do. but But as far as we know from our reading of Emmerdale Wikipedia, Graham is dead, so Yeah, I'm not really sure how they're going to weave that in because I think I saw somebody, it might have been on Reddit, being like, Graham is so dead. like he was sort of killed in multiple ways.
00:55:12
Speaker
Yeah, I think they like genuinely showed his cremation on screen or something, so I don't know but exactly how we're going to get past that. Well, where there's a will, there's a way. I think he is a popular character. I just find him really boring and I was not excited to see him back.
00:55:28
Speaker
Sorry to hear that. well I think think he does tie into the Rona whole thing. because like well I know that Rona's husband killed him. I don't know if you... i think Was he in any relationship with Rona at one point?
00:55:42
Speaker
ah Yeah, I clearly have no light to shed but I am excited to find out more in a way that you seem not to be. Yeah, I'll try my best. but what Of all the past characters to bring back, you've been very low down my list.
00:55:56
Speaker
Okay, fair enough. Well, I wonder if it'll mean that Joe gets like a bit of a storyline with him rather than just with like falling out of windows. As long as it doesn't get in the way of his Sam friendship.
00:56:10
Speaker
Yeah, that is the most important thing to me right now. I think he maybe was married to Kim at one point and said perhaps that will be a thing. Oh gosh, I thought he meant Joe. i was like, no... Oh, that's interesting. yeah I think I saw somebody on Facebook being like, um Graham was always the love of Kim's life. And I was like, gosh really?
00:56:31
Speaker
Seems a unlikely, doesn't it? but Yeah, we'll find out. I can see her with a sort of like henchman type. yeah Maybe they'll get back to being ruthless. I know she, the actress, really wants to be like evil and ruthless, but I just find that quite uninteresting as a character. i prefer a more rounded one.
00:56:49
Speaker
There's enough evil people in Emmerdale. exactly thank you we just ain't any more um and guess who is going to get a story ah coming up it's my friend victoria yeah ha ha i mean i think this story will not last long and then she'll be on maternity leave but you know Yeah, she's got some potentially prison coming up, which is presumably where she goes because i mean we I know we're not talking post-Corridale episode, but we can just mention this one thing that she did kill John. Yeah, that is something that happened.
00:57:20
Speaker
And she does seem minded to break down and confess it to anybody who gives her a moment's chance. Because she's got a moral character. like She's not going to just hide Hide a murder under a bushel.
00:57:35
Speaker
she's not one to to be discreet re-a-murder but um I can't work out exactly how pregnant she is I don't know quite when to go to prison but or maybe it'll surprise us and it'll turn out that actually she goes on potentially for some completely other reason but yeah maybe um I'm quite enjoying her just like relentlessly being in a puffer jacket even when indoors puffer jacket that does absolutely nothing to disguise her pregnancy Yeah, like they could have chosen something that would do a bit better. But I don't like I don't mind seeing a pregnancy bump, but it is quite amusing to me.
00:58:11
Speaker
Yeah. Well, what have they did with Steph? Do that again. I didn't have a clue about hers for months. I think she was mainly holding a very large handbag. Yeah. Which is a bit more Steph than Victoria. Yeah. She could just carry like a large hussian sack or something.
00:58:29
Speaker
Yeah, she famously loves Hessian sacks. She does like cart oats around or something like that. Whatever farmers do.
00:58:39
Speaker
brief and Briefly, she had a passion to get back into farming. but Yeah, that was brief. That has ended quite abruptly, hasn't it? Like so many things in Emmerdale. um Overall, what we what were your thoughts on Corridale? Yay, your name.
00:58:52
Speaker
um like I enjoyed it, I would not claim to understand it.
00:58:58
Speaker
so much like life oh i forgot to mention that jay had like um raised their body in his car gosh so true and there was quite a funny moment where somebody from coronation street was like i swear i know that guy because wasn't he also in coronation street he was yeah found that amusing when he was like i'm sure i used to work with him but like it can't be that was a nice touch no one was like this this runaway uh criminal john looks exactly like someone who was murdered in coronation street but that that's yeah true you know we can't have everything we can't have it all well yeah i think overall i was like i enjoyed it i think it meant a lot more to people who actually watched coronation because i was thinking if i actually did watch faith like if there was a neighbor's emmerdale crossover i'd have been beside myself it would have been so amazing yeah i think it probably just wasn't aimed at us and that's fine
00:59:46
Speaker
And I was listening to the Inside Soap podcast, and they like, hopefully let's all get people watching the other soap if they only watch one.
Crossover Event Reflection
00:59:51
Speaker
It's like, no, I'm not going to watch any Coronation Street after this, I'm afraid. No, I think that my proverbial toe has been dipped in, and it's had enough. We've dipped in, we're out. We checked in and checked out.
01:00:01
Speaker
But we will be appearing on, or or doing a crossover episode, I think, with the Conversation Street podcast, which is fun. Basically, we'll keep people up to date with what's gone on in there our respective soaps since Corridale.
01:00:18
Speaker
Yeah, especially because I think, obviously, we don't particularly know what's going on in Coronation Street in any way. And I don't think they follow Emmerdale. it'll probably just be a a little hour or so of us being like, who was that person and what did that mean? it'll be fun. So I hope you enjoy Yeah, we'll keep you pasted with that. And yeah.
01:00:40
Speaker
That'd be fun. so we asked people to make predictions for the year and send them in. It's too late to email predictions, but do get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com if you'd like to. um so We actually got a lot, didn't we? We got a lot. oh Yeah, we we got not like millions of people, but everyone did give lots of them. So should just read them and give our thoughts as as we go?
01:01:03
Speaker
yeah definitely.
Listener Predictions & Engagement
01:01:04
Speaker
Okay, shall I read the first chunk? Go for it. Is this Rachel Troutman, who we love? And it's our pal, Rachel Trumman. She makes amazing quilts. You should look her up.
01:01:14
Speaker
I have. she They are amazing. we I'm very impressed. I was mainly talking to the listeners, but um I'm glad that you have as well. I'm so sorry that people, I forgot that we were being overheard. You forget that we were, in fact, recording a podcast. It's so rude of people to be like prying into our personal conversation. What is this eavesdropping? It's disgusting, actually.
01:01:34
Speaker
um so rachel thinks that kev is going to return and develop his father-son relationship with lewis but also have an affair with nicola and then jimmy has to win her back and i can semi see that because i do feel like kev and nicola kind of had chemistry but i wondered if it was more friendship chemistry than anything else i don't know yeah i really didn't want it to happen but i what i could see happening is maybe jimmy thinking they're having an affair and that could be quite fun Yeah, maybe that's more ah that he like is just like, oh gosh, they get on really well.
01:02:04
Speaker
Yeah, that could be She also thinks something finally will happen to Joe that makes him realise he can be a caring person and have a heart and that Sam will be his best man. And I would love to see both of those things. That'd be so nice. That'd be so cute. She has high hopes that April and Marlon will spend most of 2026 just staying with relatives far away from the village. And I do resonate with that. A, for their own sakes, and B, because we've seen too much of them this year.
01:02:30
Speaker
For literally everyone's peace of mind, please. Yep. um she writes that Eric dies in Corridale which we do now know did not happen original but that if he had then Kerry would have kept his money from Jacob I can see that um and she also wrote something which I was meaning to say and forgot to say she put side note I thought Eric didn't have any money anymore because of the Bitcoin tragedy and that's been on my mind like what is this money that he's so keen to keep from the tax man because he lost it all
01:03:01
Speaker
ah such a good point. And if he does have any, he should be giving it to Brenda. Yeah, because he literally robbed Brenda's life savings. I wonder what Brenda would think about the marriage to Carrie. That's so true. I mean, for we know, Brenda and Erica still married.
01:03:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Wait, were they married or were they just together? and maybe they're just together in real life they're married but maybe maybe not in the shape we should look that up um yeah rachel also thinks that ross is going to somehow forgive charity for all the lies and they're going to reconnect which i can maybe see um she had a random coupling of billy and bell which i think have we maybe spoken about that before i think you mentioned it last time yeah the bell belly could happen Ellie! that's tough. um And then she her final prediction was Caleb is due for an affair and it will be with Man Priest since she and Ruby are now friends.
01:03:53
Speaker
I love that. Caleb is due for a affair. such a funny phrasing. really hope that doesn't happen. but Yeah, so do I, but can see it. It could not happen. um Jeremy, thank you, Jeremy, says, forget Rob Ron. This is the romance that needs to happen as well as Camille Bell. Okay. Claudia sets her sight on PC swirling.
01:04:09
Speaker
Keaton for regular neighbour would... watch, oh, neighborhood watch, yes, neighborhood watch could be a whole other thing, ah meetings following recent goings on and begins a charm offensive, claiming she simply likes to be neighborly, she offers to iron his shirts and epaulettes after the meeting with straight crease in his BC attire.
01:04:26
Speaker
Gosh, Jeremy's written some, like, fan fiction. know, this is lovely. Charles clocks that she has taken a shine to Swirling. Laurel thinks it's sweet, Nicola thinks it's hilarious, and Mampreet wants that mixing romance with laundry services could end in disaster. Claudette soon sets an extra place the table, and on Valentine's night, when Charles is waylaid by dodgy fuse box, Swirling finds himself at a candlelit dinner for two. dot, dot. I love it. Oh my word, Jeremy, you have a talent. You do. Gosh, you've really set a scene. Yeah, I can see it. And I would like Claudette to have a bit of romance in her life.
01:04:59
Speaker
And why not with PC Swerling? You know, he he pops in every now and then. i always think it must be interesting for actor who's, I don't know how long he's done that, for like 15 years or something, of coming in every now and then.
01:05:12
Speaker
Give him a storyline. Yeah, why not ramp him up? Maybe Dylan's his son, I don't know. Dylan can't be everyone's son. I disagree. um We had some great suggestions from James, who is one of our most consistent and favourite emailers in. Yeah, thank you James. My wishes for Emmerdale this coming year would be improved writers, the weakest part of the show, and a return back to the sense of realism. Even though it's now 25 plus years ago, the show in its current format could learn from the Emmerdale of the 90s, which had a blend of strong characters, humor, farm life and topics that were original.
01:05:51
Speaker
Thank you, James. This is me to a T. I love the pre 90s style. I don't know if I'm necessarily as, um you know, taking issue with the present writers in like I don't know the scripts and stuff but I do think as a general vibe slower pace of life more farming more scenes where like nothing's really happening less trauma sign me up for that yeah he writes it would be good to see day to day village life a lot more more community based events also how does religion play in the village how do people get by on what would you feel is not great wages oh right yeah that's so true i guess a lot of people there are probably on minimum wage
01:06:34
Speaker
Yeah, and none of them go to work, so where are they getting income from? Yeah, true. Well, actually, I did notice that Robert was quite intent on getting back to the farm, which I thought was good. That's true. But other than that, nobody works.
01:06:47
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I mean, I i particularly think Emmerdale used to have reputation for being, like, the the more funny of the soaps. I think Coronation Street does as well, but certainly compared to EastEnders, it was the one that had witty storylines or, like, silly, funny bits. And I think some fans didn't like that, some did, but I you know, we we need a bit more humor indefinitely. It's been so bleak. Yeah, for sure.
01:07:08
Speaker
It's been um a long, bleak year of sad things happening and I would love to see a bit more fun. I don't think it's likely, but that is what I would like.
01:07:18
Speaker
Yeah, what the more community, that'd be great. yeah um Tamsin says, I think there'll be a potential custody battle between Charity and Sarah once the baby is born. That's a really good point. I think there will be.
01:07:30
Speaker
Yeah. Charity and Mac have to break up next year, right? I think you're right, Tamsin, surely. Chaz and Liam will still not get married. Agreed. ah Rob Ron will get Seb back. Yes. Only for him to end up in the baby underused child draw. Yes. He certainly will never be seen if he comes back. But I think it it seems clear to me that Seb is going to come back and that's going to be a whole thing with Rob Ron and Ross. And like I think it'll be interesting.
01:07:57
Speaker
But I do think the present's of the child is the least interesting part of it. So I'm fine for him to be a topic, not a presence. Yeah, surely. um My predictions for this year, which I popped in our little Google Doc of predictions. um I wondered if I know that it seems very unlikely right now because they are in the middle of a feud. Charity might end up back with Vanessa.
01:08:21
Speaker
because of all of this going on you know the line between anger and love does always fall quite close i think it's possible yeah because i do think as tamzin says charity and mac are not about to last so they might get back together i also wondered whether jay and laurel might get back again i wondered whether laurel had contacted jay and been like i'm in a spot of bother can you get rid of ray and that's why he was in the van Oh, that's interesting. And that maybe Laurel and Jay might get back together. now that Now that Jay's discovered how to have a heart and be a bit more romantic, brackets, Kerry.
01:08:57
Speaker
Yeah. Then might be a bit more normal again. and never really bought how she went from like being married to him to really hating him. And I think she does have that soft sort of him and vice versa. So yeah like that.
01:09:09
Speaker
I wrote maybe April will have a bit more of a normal year, but i don't think sure she actually will. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, she'll make us do like Belle and just not really be on screen for after her bit of her. I wondered if Steph will come back and get back together with Ross. That would be quite nice.
01:09:25
Speaker
I really hope so, yeah. I'd put maybe Rodney would be around a bit more. shouldn't have thought so, do that Chaz is pregnant with a taxi driver's child.
01:09:38
Speaker
Do we think... Oh, she did have a baby a couple of years ago, didn't she? I don't know. The early 50-something cast are constantly getting pregnant on this show. She might not be in the early Don't come at me, Lucy.
01:09:52
Speaker
Let me look that up now. How old is Lucy Paget? I think she's probably mid to late forty s She is 48. There we go. Prime childbearing year. Great. Is that what we're saying?
01:10:09
Speaker
m Is that what you want to say? No, no, carry on. Okay, thank you, Chris, for getting in touch. He says the police will arrest Moira came for the body on the land. I think that's actually already appeared in spoilers.
01:10:23
Speaker
but I don't think I had when Chris said it. So Chris is ahead of the curve. Ruby will blame Caleb for Anya's death and go off the rails. i forgot about Anya. I think I really saw, i saw her him post this on Reddit and was like, yeah, that's definitely going to happen.
01:10:35
Speaker
Bear will return home eventually and need to go into rehab or similar for his drug dependency. Look, Chris, I've been very clear that I don't have the time for it. You just hope he's actually dead. We can go to rehab somewhere else. We'll just never mention.
01:10:48
Speaker
um Chris thought Jay would be killed off in Corridale. Nope. And Archie moves in with Laurel. I thought Mac was going to die, actually. i So no one would remember that, actually. Poldgate Farm is vacant. Lean to Cammie's family buying it, and they move to the village. Oh, i said that's fun.
01:11:02
Speaker
We all want Cammie's family to move to the village. Don't we just? Dylan finds that Bear is actually Islam's father. Not everybody can be Dylan's father. You've been very clear about that. There's actually a queue.
01:11:15
Speaker
Mac and Charity split when the truth is revealed but they eventually reunite. i mean, I think they'll definitely maybe but I get the feeling that Mac is leaving but I don't mind know what it's based on. I hope not, but he might be.
01:11:28
Speaker
at the end of the year, Rob won't get married. Chris is so ahead of the curve. This before they got engaged.
Character Confusion & Recasting
01:11:32
Speaker
um Gabby, I've forgotten Gabby even existed, gets together with Cammy. so i famously hate carriey but it Cammy, but maybe...
01:11:39
Speaker
Well, as someone recently said to me, can't end love. It's so true. Wow, I've heard that recently as well. Noah and Kathy start seeing each other later in the year after she turns 19. Who the heck is Kathy? Kathy's Bob Porter is never on screen. i i mean i say thought that was Angel.
01:11:58
Speaker
You love to mix those up. I know, they are the same person in my mind. I do think with a all the love in the world to the actors playing Noah, Kathy and m Angel, recast all of them and start again.
01:12:12
Speaker
I've got nothing against them, but they're not bringing a lot to the table and they're never on screen. So let's just recast with some 25 year olds playing 19. And,
01:12:24
Speaker
but and you know, we need we hope we've talked before, we don't have a lot in that age group. Yeah, true. A bit more fun. Yeah, it could be fun. get some really good actors into that.
01:12:38
Speaker
does it because I mean, i mean no none of them are bad actors, but none of them are particularly set the screen light, and they're not very interesting characters, so need a bit
Potential Relationship Speculation
01:12:45
Speaker
more from them. Yeah, if the characters had a bit more going on, then it'd be a lot more fun to watch them.
01:12:49
Speaker
Yeah, and they were sort of whines, and then it occasionally fixes electrics, which is not in itself compelling. Hey, I love a whiny electrician. I've made that clear. I'd like to want to fix my electives my car actually. So if you can break your elections, do that. And then finally Chris says, Tracy and Ross start dating. Tracy and Ross, interesting.
01:13:09
Speaker
Yeah. I can't see it, but sure. yeah I mean, whatever it is, it has be stopgap until Steph and Ross get back together. Yeah, of course.
Cammy's Family & Plot Directions
01:13:19
Speaker
And then on to finally me. Finally you. Yeah, you're in.
01:13:23
Speaker
um cammy's family joined the show that's that's a must not a need no that's it for a lot than a one for me yeah and i love the idea of them being on a farm i don't care whether i do as long as they do something on the show um i think that could be fun we need that i'm afraid i have put bully leaves i don't want him to leave but i feel like he might be on his way out i'm really anti that i don't want it to happen i'm not saying it's a prediction not a wish stop speaking over show what if you're accidentally manifesting it i don't think that's a thing um neither do i uh david returns to the show and starts a relationship with steph while ross sees in the background think we could have little david steph ross love triangle isn't david sarah's dad no he's jacob's dad okay cool
01:14:15
Speaker
um or In fact, he's Jacob's stepdad.
David's Return & Love Triangle
01:14:19
Speaker
but
01:14:21
Speaker
He's in a relationship both with Jacob's biological mum and his adoptive mum, who is in turn his aunt. so but david Where is he now? Is he just like on the run or something?
01:14:35
Speaker
No, think he just went off for a bit. Unusual moves from him to never visit. So he's Eric's son, which is why Eric is Jacob's granddad. and yeah Jacob's again Erica's not a blood relative of Jacob there's weird thing where they just sort of went from him being stepdad to him being like ex stepdad but that just became dad which is quite nice I love that actually they remembered a paternal or parental relationship because as so often like I said the other day like Tracy was basically a stepmom to Jacob and that means nothing to them yeah true it's nice that David did actually take that role anyway I think that could be fun you don't know David is but that's fine but
01:15:13
Speaker
um Jimmy hasn't had a storyline for a while, so I put he was in an accident that means he has to use a wheelchair, but then they realised that it is a psychological paralysis. And that was, you would put that in the category of a prediction for 2026?
01:15:28
Speaker
um Yes.
2026 Plot Predictions
01:15:29
Speaker
okay Okay. Well, I for one can't wait to see that exact thing happen. I did decide to get quite specific on them after you get down. Well, some of them.
01:15:41
Speaker
Some of them are like... characters unnamed join some of them is a quite detailed plastic plot points of yeah i feel the scenario i like it it's actually a storyline that i stole from neighbors but anyway how dare you um chas involved in some sort of deepfake storyline because i feel like they haven't done it like an ai is evil storyline and they've got surely one's coming yeah surely i mean everybody's got to be hitting that note somewhere And then this one I thought would be interesting. Mary develops an eating disorder because they haven't... Because I like eating disorders amongst older people is there a thing that doesn't get covered a lot and is and happens. so Yeah, true. And she has had a lot of stress and very strange situations happening in her life over the last year that are bound to cause trauma in some way.
01:16:29
Speaker
So we can check back in um at the end of the year to see how many, if any, of these predictions came true. I mean, some of them are very broad. Some of them are unnevably specific. Yeah. I think maybe we should have some sort of like public checklist that gets ticked off. Yeah, I know you should.
01:16:44
Speaker
Maybe like outside 10 Downing Street or something. that okay You live in the South. You could do that. Yeah, but basically next door to 10 Downing Street. And I'll put a secondary one outside the Emmerdale Studios. No one no notice. to Just a spray paint on the wall back. say good Which one of us will be arrested first?
01:17:04
Speaker
you yeah they're probably more protected by 10 down history aren't they like marginally um well thanks so much for all your predictions and if you didn't send them in i hope hope you've got some up your sleeve and we look forward to going through this roller coaster of a year with you yeah i can't wait to take every single one of those things off especially those people who are going to die in corydale yeah Yeah, imagine if they're just like, NB we forgot to mention, but J died off screen in Corridor. It would just be like a PSA at the beginning of the day. Chris, you're out.
01:17:39
Speaker
yeah J succumbed to hepatitis
Conclusion of Predictions & Engagement Reminders
01:17:43
Speaker
B. um Off camera. Which is not known to be immediately fatal, but in this case.
01:17:52
Speaker
These things do happen. It was Happy Awareness Week and we forgot to cover it. We forgot to cover it. We just had to slip this one in under the carpet. Oh,
01:18:04
Speaker
Oh, gosh. Well, yes, good. Thanks, everyone. and look out. Yeah, we'll keep you posted the Conversation Street crossover. Yeah, gosh, you're going to be really sick of us, actually. We're releasing way too much content at the moment.
Screen Time & Engagement
01:18:18
Speaker
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01:18:29
Speaker
I will say I have um recently really tried to cut down my screen time. I'm only on Instagram sort of five minutes at a time, three times a day. so i'm not i wasn't very responsive on the Instagram even but before, but I have truly snookered myself there. Yeah.
01:18:50
Speaker
Sorry about that. oh We'll make sure to pop something up for Happy Aware this week because it's so important. Yeah,
Final Goodbyes & New Year Wishes
01:18:58
Speaker
yeah, yeah. ah Maybe a sort of memorial post for Jay.
01:19:02
Speaker
Jay, no one liked you. love You may or may not be dead. We haven't noticed yet. Oh, dear. oh we should both go to bed. We should. Happy New Year, everyone. Thanks for listening. Happy Year. Bye. Bye.