TMGW #310: Mamrie Locks Out Her Dogsitter

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and use code TMGW for 20% off your first purchase. That's B-O-M-B-A-S dot com slash T-M-G-W code TMGW at checkout. This might get weird. Are we rolling? We're rolling. Well then, cheers Grace, how big? She has my very heart. Grace is having a hot tea. I am having a lager. It is five o'clock in London and it feels like midnight. Yeah, I mean, it feels like

Honestly, I have no idea what day, what time. And we say this normally. Oh, no, we always say this. When we're normally, you know, our rhythms are balanced to the West Coast time tables. But this week, especially could be any year, could be any month, could be any time of day right now. Yeah, totally. I think I said on last week's podcast, I was like, they really shouldn't make election week.

on the week that the time change, but also combining that with then flying across the world. It's a double doozy, but we are in Grace's hotel room. I'm randomly the one next door. Yeah, this is also, this is so old school. I know. It's like, oh, let's just sit on the edge of the bed. We'll do a video. We'll do a video. Camera onto a trash can in the window sill, and we'll go from there and we'll see what happens. This feels very spaghetti and bed.

video. Yes, it does. I looked and I was like, Oh, there's my hair and a knot me holding a pillow. We're in bed. This feels like Austin in 2016. Yes. Welcome back. We just wrapped up our three tour dates in Dublin and London and Wowie Zoey also Grace is a motherfucking trooper because she has had a cold she landed and then had a cold like the it has been

like a whirlwind of every spectrum of emotion because this whole trip was like this awesome thing to go do shows again and this sort of like silent signifier to me that like oh look at the year how far I've come and I was doing all this like

prep to like I worked out at 5 a.m. before I got on my flight. Are you serious? Out here to try and like be like I'm setting myself up for success. We do our first show in Dublin. I immediately get sick. Yeah. No one else is sick. No. You're fine, chips fine. Elliot is a little congested now, but was fine for a while. And I was like, what the fuck? You did beast body at 5 a.m.

Yes, I did. Before I got to whole other level. Because I did it once before when I was the first time, well, I'm still learning to travel. Like I'm learning to travel with this body, with this new body. And so it helps with anxiety for sure. And I did it in the summer when I went to the East Coast to see my family. And I was like,

Whoa, game changer working out before you get on a flight because you know you land later in the day. So like the whole day is gone. I was like, this, I feel so much more comfortable on this plane for you. But like still took the flight out here. Didn't sleep in a wink on any of the flights. Didn't help at all. And then immediately got sick. So but that said, so I didn't feel well, which was frustrating and annoying.

but the shows and everyone that came to it was so lovely. Energizing, invigorating, breath of fresh air. The computing emotions of just being so pissed off to not feel great while having the greatest people support and create such a lovely environment was just like, yeah, it's exhausting. Shout out if you came to the shows. Here's what I'll say. And this is not going to be a podcast where I just complain the whole time.

Something new and different. You saw enough of that in the show. Something new and different for me. But I will say, I am really feeling jet lag differently in the last year. Really? Like I feel like I, and it's also like, I took a sleeping pill to go to sleep the other night. That's how bad it was. I was just staying up all night. Yeah. It's crazy. It's very,

What would you call that? It's virginal about sleep medication. I'm so nervous. No. Grace is like, I have fun. I'm like, give me every gummy, give me every pill, knock me out. Well, we went to the pharmacy to be like, do you have a sleep aid? And listen, nothing scares me more than medicine and then add in medicine in a different language. Yeah. It wasn't even in a different language. We were in Ireland.

What is this measured in? How much is each dose? Am I going to be knocked out? Is this going to tranquilize me? I get so nervous. So the fact that I was so desperate after a couple nights of falling asleep for two hours waking up, then being up.

Literally all night. Yeah, you go like 2 to 8 a.m. Up. Yeah, you were having involuntary slumber parties. Exactly. And neither of us wanted to be there. You know, we were both the kids at the slumber party that were like, my mom's making me. It's my second cousin. Like, I don't want to be here. It's our parents know each other. I took a sleep pill and I was like, that's when you know what's crazed. Yeah, that you need some sleep. You think it was heroin to me.

Truly. Well, it does have the excitement of doing like we haven't done shows in two years. That adrenaline. I know. It's so crazy. I looked it up because I was like, what did we do on our last tour? And it was spring 2022. And I thought, I think this is the longest I've gone not being on stage. Yeah.

in my adult life of performing. Pre-COVID, or post-COVID, or something like that. No, even when we had COVID, we didn't perform for a year. Yeah. And not two. Not two. I know. So it was like getting your sea legs under you. And also...

You're like, do people still want to see this? Does anyone give a shit? Luckily, they did you guys. And let me tell ya, y'all listening. And this, uh, let me gosh for one second. Yeah. There were people who flew in from Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Denver.

Australia, Toronto, all over the place. It was wild. And yes, we don't know geographically how close some of those countries might be to where we currently are. Some people are like, it's really... It's like coming into New York from Pennsylvania. Yeah, they're like, it's two hours. It'll take you longer to drive across. But there was one person who came to our show in Dublin, and his name is Arnau.

and he was from Belgium and he was so sweet and he made us laugh and was wearing the cutest little floral sweatshirt. And then that night we go out after our show. We go get some drinks with Grace and Elliot's friend who lives in Ireland. And then we go to

Is it called Supermax? Supermax, which is there like original McDonald. He and his friend, Leonie, Leonie was talking it up like crazy. She gave us basically the whole history of Supermax. And then we were all trying to scavenge to find like a McDonald's. None of those were open. But oh, Supermax was there. Supermax slash Papa John's. Slash Papa John's like, I was twice a pizza to go. It was incredible. I didn't know they could do that. But so we're there. And one of the people who he came by himself from Belgium,

was behind us at Supermax. Then the next day I go to the airport, he's behind me as I'm dropping my bag. And then I'm like, oh, good to see you. You know, I do like the wave and whatever. And then I leave. We come up behind him at security. We're together in line of security. I'm just like, I was like, I told Chip, I go, if this had had a soundtrack on it, it could have easily looked like he was stalking me or I was stalking him. Like it was, it was like back and forth spy versus spy. And then this is like a curb your enthusiasm.

Exactly. Or there is an episode of Tenacious D, the old school when they had an HBO show, where they have a stalker, and then they go to try to talk to him, and he doesn't really want to hang out, so they start stalking their single stalker. But so Arno, I was like, I'm going to talk about this on the podcast. How like, we ran into each other's fast food place at middle of the night, and then that, and then that, and he goes, oh, you will kill me.

You want to kill me. If you say this on the podcast, you will kill me. So Arno, I hope you're doing well. Thanks for coming to the show. And whoever's reading his eulogy currently is funeral. I hope it's a lovely funeral. They're playing the sound bite. It was so sweet. Yeah. I'm like, I don't even know where to begin. I think

It's the last couple weeks have been a lot to process. So this especially is like, holy shit. I think these are a few interesting episodes of the pod because we haven't felt normal in a minute. And the next podcast episode, we're going to be zooming in from two different countries. So it's not going to feel normal. Yeah. Did I tell you how my trip started?

No, which is like a week ago. So that feel I'm like, when was that? Well, yeah, it was exactly. Is it Saturday? Today is Sunday. We left on Saturday. Yeah. So a week ago. Mm hmm. Grace. Okay. So we have a lock.

on our front door, that's a code. So it's very nice that I never have to use a key. And you don't know. Did you know we'll lose that shit? Girl. You lose a credit card up there. Girl. Like literally it wasn't until I didn't have to use a key that I realized how much I hate having to find a key. It's the same thing with my car. If it's in my purse, it'll open. But anyway.

And it's doing this thing where you would put in the code and you would spin the dead bolt, but it just kept spinning and it never really, it wasn't coming out. You'd have to do it like 10 times, right? So I was like, I don't trust Mary not to freak out that she's going to have to marry a stang with beans and Larry. And I was like, she's going to be like, this isn't working. This isn't working and not want to try 10 times because it's annoying. You know what I mean? So I do what I never do. We have a bottom knob with a lock.

And I was like, let me find the key to this. We've never used it. Old school, old school. So I have, you know, in the junk drawer, I also have a little thing of keys where I'm like, I don't know where the hell these go. I found it on the first try, the key. So I said to Mary, I was like, look.

This thing can be a little finicky now. I'm going to leave you a key to the bottom knob. It'll be under the mat. Okay. Easy breezy. So we call an Uber the next morning. We're getting ready to go. The key's giving me some, like actually being able to lock it from the inside and then close the door. Uh oh. It's giving me a little problems, but I got it. I got it. I leave the key. We go, we get to the airport, we planned, we timed it perfectly. We go to the Delta lounge.

We get a breakfast plate. We get a glass of sparkling champagne. Not actually champagne, but you know, Prosecco. It's like, yeah, we did the Delta Lounge, too. Honestly, I haven't done it for a while. It's like a back bitch. Yeah, it's like...

Old country buffet, but rich, that I'm like, I will make money by eating as much as I can in this. It's not golden corral. It's platinum corral. Yeah, I was paying for Elliot to enter. And then by the second time, they're like, you have four vouchers for free to get someone else in. I was like, I guess I'm booking some more flights. Well, I'm going to have to let them in, but we're going to have to eat our weight today. I'm coming to my favorite bar in Los Angeles, the Delta Lounge. So anyway, so we're there. We've got about 20 minutes till we need to head to our gate. It's perfect.

phone call from Mary. Oh, no. This key doesn't work. This key does not work. And I'm like, it does. I tested it several times. It works. It works. So, and then Chip was like, did you accidentally switch keys? I'm like, no, I know. Because he was like loading up the Uber. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, and automatically he thinks like, what did you do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, no. And so we wonder if it's human error. We have a friend of Chip's, Alex in the neighborhood who lives by. He had him just come over and try to help her. Yeah. She was offended.

He was like dude this this this like nothing's moving. Oh whoa, and I got a text from Mary that goes well. I've been vindicated

It wasn't just me not being able to open a door. I was like, oh, here we go. I'm mentally for two weeks. I'm on Mary's bad side, right? I'm not just an incapable woman, Mamrie. Literally. Literally. I've been vindicated. So I go, oh, shit. She's going in to watch your most prized living possession. And you're pissing her off. And you can't get in there, right? And so also she doesn't have an iPhone. So we can't message from the flight. Oh, shit. And we are now headed to go board in five minutes. Oh, fuck. Call my landlord.

He's like, oh, I'm out of town, is everything okay? Cause he could come over and fix it. I fucking yelp a locksmith. Oh my God. Call a locksmith. They're like, we can be there in two hours. I'll be on the plane, right? So I get a locksmith to come out and completely change the whole like doorknob to my house. Wow. And fit a new key to it. Wow. But like grace, the panic.

This trip started with so much stress of being like, I'm about to be in the air for so many hours, and I'm not gonna know if my dog sit or got in, if he never showed up, if the credit card I sent a picture of works, it was wild. Last time, where you in the air, while the election was happening. Yes, to Lisbon. To go interview Jake Paul, you guys. Okay, I don't even wanna say it because it's all over my fucking social media

I don't give a shit. Get in there, Grace. I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit. Get it out of there. I'm sick of it. Oh, he boxed an elderly man. Incredible. I don't give a shit. I know. It's really they both made 80 billion dollars each. I don't give a shit. Well, there are now that I'm on this conspiracy theory chain.

Yeah, well, I've been to the YouTubers boxing each other. Oh my god, I forgot that was a, that's how we like kind of got into it, right? There is a funny episode of John and Hank's podcast where they, I think, were lightly talking about them doing that. I mean, they would make so much money if the two of them were scheduled to box each other. They would look like

actual kangaroos boxing each other. And they would be so, I would pay not for them not to. We're gonna be like, this is gonna hurt you guys emotionally more than it's gonna hurt. I will pay you to not actually make contact with each other's face. But when I was watching, I didn't watch any of the fight, obviously. It was like a nice reason to be over here too, where the timing didn't work out. Because if I had been in the US, I might have. Would you have watched it? I might have gotten curious. Oh God. And I fucking, sorry, I forget we're on a podcast that goes out to people.

I don't like Jake Paul. But some people said they were like, Tyson made a few contacts in the first few rounds. And I watched one clip where it was like, oh, this is where he remembered he wasn't allowed to win.

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And here we are. But anyway, my trip started incredibly stressful. Yeah, so you're going to go back home to a new lock on your door. So was it the key? So I was vindicated. Oh, OK. Because Chip, of course, was just like, you just messed up. You fucked up somehow. You fucked up, you know, whatever. And I was like, I swear I didn't. I tested it three times while you were loading up the Uber. I set the lock, and then I left, and whatever. So it just hadn't been used. I've been there eight years. A spring broke.

From her trying to open it and it not going so strong. She's so strong. She's so strong So anyway, she's withholding pictures of beans. We'll get through this. We'll get through this Yeah, I did see a photo of beans that she said beans is also struggling without you there Beans is in a shirt, but she's half on half off It's a vibe but like pristine portraits of Larry. Oh, yeah, anyway, so it was only going up from there

Yeah, yeah, of course. Now that the pups are taken care of, how could it get any worse? Yeah, we didn't have like crazy flight stuff happen on the way out. I just haven't been on a flight for that long in a while. I haven't been to Europe. I haven't been to Europe for a long time. I guess it's been a year for me, but yes, it feels like longer.

Yeah, but I did over here. Did I write it down? I was overhearing behind us. Oh, yes. Because we had a layover in JFK. And there was a woman behind me. Like, I was kind of doing my own thing the whole flight. And then as soon as we landed and we were taxing to the gate, I could hear the man and woman behind me talking. This woman was probably, I think we were landing at like 8 p.m. New York time. And this woman was probably in her like 60s. Okay. Yeah.

Sue, let's say, a sensible 45-year-old Sue from Survivor. Ooh. We were just talking about Survivor earlier. And I was like, oh, OK, what are they talking about? Because we land, and the guy is 40 because you'll hear. I was like, oh, she's flirting with him.

Oh, I love to overhear a flirt. Yeah, I could hear, you can just hear the tone of voice. And I like did a quick little just like, I'm stretching my back. I'm stretching my back. And I look and she was like full on across the thing. Across the aisle flirt? No, no, not the aisle, the hand rest. Like full on like, I took body language 101 and I'm letting you know I'm available. I took a class from the learning annex from Patty Stanger. Yeah, exactly. And I hear her go,

Well, you're home already. And then he goes immediately, yeah, to my beautiful wife and three kids. There we go. Beautiful wife. And so my ears are like, came on. Here we go. And she just goes, oh, how old are they?

And he goes, like, 11, 8, 7. OK, it's a long marriage. And she goes, and how old are you? And I was like, did you guys just start talking? Like, this is a six-hour flight that you were on. He goes 40. And she goes, wow, wow.

Well, that must be a lot for your wife. Oh, burn. Damn, damn. And he was like, yeah, but she's the best, like just. Yeah, and I missed the beginning part because I'm pretty sure because I was like, oh, this is out of context. I'm like trying to piece this puzzle together. I'm pretty sure she said something to the degree that she's out of a long-term relationship and she's meeting up with a friend in New York to have like a girl. Right.

to have like a, someone like a, I don't know if it's a girl or guy, to have like a fun weekend because she was asking him for restaurant recommendations for them in the city. Oh, and she's like, you're home. Do you want to come to my hotel before you go home? I was like, whoa, whoa. Yes, my beautiful wife and three kids. For you. Honestly, I would like, that would be the biggest turn on if you heard your partner. Oh.

Reject some on for you. It's like and I looked around this woman was a very attractive woman Yeah, I was like and she was not too much I was just like oh, this is an interesting situation Happening back here. I love beautiful wife and three kids. We were hearing a flirt

Well, because he was also, you could tell he was aware of how... Quiet it got. Yeah, because once the cabin... So they were flirting in the plane. Yeah, they were flirting before we were all allowed to, like, stand up and get our stuff. Coffee. And so it was like, you know, the air kind of goes off a little bit. You don't hear the taxing noises in one noise machine. Yeah, I was like, oh, I can't tell if she's just, like, red wine in or... But also, that's a six-hour flight. You don't start flirting upon landing.

Right. That's why I was like, damn, I was watching my own programs and doing my own thing. I missed whatever the lead up to this was. Grace, how old are we that you're now calling the programs? Is it because we're in the end of the UK or is it because we're old? Both. I have realized so much. I'm an old person. I do photos of my computer screen to send people now with my phone. Sometimes it's easier. Sometimes it's easier.

I have taken, okay, first of all, I got a new iPhone a couple weeks ago and it's smaller than the pro that I had before. I don't know, that's me just giving an excuse. My finger is in every photo I take now and every video I take. I am an old person, I sent you a video the other day and I was like, there's my fucking finger in the beginning of it, trying to move it out of the way. Every photo I send to Elliot, I have to crop because my finger's in the bottom of it and I'm like,

What have I become? What have I become? I've all these, like, wonderful young people coming to our shows. And I'm like, what do you guys like about us? We don't know how to do anything anymore. Do you just enjoy watching the slow decline? Yeah. Of the coolest people to them. It's being of coolest people. Yeah. We had our show last night. It was our second show. And it was a daytime show. It was 3.30, but it gets dark here at freaking four o'clock.

Yeah. I mean, like it doesn't use states, I guess. I know, but it just feels different. I guess it's because we live in LA where there aren't tall buildings like this. Yeah. So you would like the shadows get cast. You know what I mean? Yeah. And the sun is out most days in Los Angeles. So you got like peaks of sun here and then it goes away and it's dark. Yeah. And so I slept till, you know, like 11. Yeah. And then I have this weird anxiety that I wasted the day. Yeah. And you know one of my reoccurring nightmares.

is being on a vacation and believing and realizing I didn't do anything.

Yeah. That's a reoccurring right now. I'm pretty okay. I'm like, you know what? I did my best. As soon as I got sick, I looked at Elliot. I was like, it's bed for me every day. And that's because I've been to London before. Yeah, of course. Very privileged to be able to come here and ease on my short list of cities. I love. I get it. And so in my head, I'm like, I will do a redo when I feel better because there's so much to like fun to have.

There's so much to do, but also, and Chip said it when I was feeling weird and guilty. And we did the first day we got here. We walked like 20,000 steps, and we went, and we saw like Buggy and Palace, and it was the King's birthday. So there was like, everything was blocked off, and we saw like the marching band come through, and people were excited. We did some things, but really, and today we went to Big Ben or whatever. But at the end of the day, he was like,

What are you supposed to do besides just like walk around and drink and eat things? Yeah. Honestly, that is the vibe. That is the vibe. I'm not a person who gets down with history. Hi. I'm your substitute teacher.

But you know, I don't need to go read plaques at all. You don't need to send over a walking tour or those sorts of things. No, I'm more of like a food tour, a booze tour, like that's my vibe. So I don't feel as bad because I've been here several times. But what was I gonna say? That you're a reoccurring nightmare I said you've left without doing something. But it was also about when I got here.

yesterday, we had our show. Everyone was great. Oh, when we left the show, when we left the meet and greet, we were like texting Chip and Elliot, the Morgan boys to be like, okay, what bar did you guys go to? We'll meet you. We come outside and they are holding court. They add groupies.

Absolutely. Wonderful. And I was like, they were waiting for you. We were just entertaining them. But I'm still like, it was a marvel to walk out to. It's so cute. I've talked to you about this a little bit that it's so funny for me to watch Chip in this space because we haven't done this for a while. And I don't often get to see Chip

you know, in this world, like Elliot exists in this world a little bit of entertainment and performance. And so for Chip to be like known, but like not a performer is like so funny to me. It's yeah, I love it. I think it's great. But Elliot, yeah, was making jokes about them being groupies. I was like, it was probably a lot of lesbians.

Yeah, I don't see wonderful, wonderful as they were not trying to steal. Yeah. And if they were, you should have said my lovely wife and three kids. But we did have a tragedy yesterday.

on the way to the show. We took an Uber. Oh yeah. And that Uber driver burped and it was the worst thing I've ever experienced. Here's, I wore my mask. It's the only thing that I benefited from from being sick. I was wearing my mask and I was in a totally different universe than the rest of you.

I had no idea at one point you open Ellie and I were talking about this last night and laughing really hard about it He's like he's like I thought Mamrie was gonna launch her body out of the cap because at one point you just opened the window and I was like Oh, I think she's just anxious cuz now we're running late cuz they're in so much job I said who burped up and then I was scared it was chip

I was scared but I was also like it was so distinctly a sausage. Chip said if you showed me three different sausages I could point out which one that man ate.

I was like, well, I guess I win for being sick and having to wear a mask in the cow. I was like, I mean, I started dry heaving. Oh my god, thinking about it. But I rolled on the window, but we're in dead traffic. So no air is coming in. And I'm just losing it. We're just sitting in this kilbasa. But with everyone being

You know, like, kind of polite. Like, it could have been in a friend's car, and that it happened. I would have literally, like, done a tight five making fun of that person. Oh, yeah. This is, we so knew that it was the cab driver. Yeah. And, like, we just had to sit there in silence. I looked at Chip and I was, like, fennel seeds.

Raw garlic. This is like an awful top chef challenge. I truly was like, this is a reverse blind taste test because of how disgusting this man's burp was. I was literally like, in my own world, wow, we're running late. OK, what's my bit? And I was like,

Dying out the window. We walked past that area today and we saw like a hot dog sausage stand and Chip was like, you want to go find it? Like we can go find what sausage you ate. Anyway, that was probably I'm going to say when housewives sit down and say, what was your rose and what was your thorn? Yeah, it was your thorn. That was my thorn.

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I will say, it has been, I've never really done this over here before, but I've watched a lot of cable TV. Oh yeah, it gets, the UK cable TV is crazy. We've talked about it the first time I ever went to Ireland and I turned on TV and it was like, you can have a meal by the most famous chef in Ireland, but you have to slaughter your own.

What do you slaughter your own animal? I was like this place is fucking crazy. This is the cable selection I was so out of my brain last night. I was telling earlier I was like this cable selection like if this was a bowl of candy it would all be raisins What's going on here? This is cast one. There's British cops, which is on 24 hours a day, but they're having a good time, right?

People are doing things. Similar to what's going on in the United States, but just some accents. Honestly, I didn't spend too much time there. Four in a bed. Have you heard this? I actually watched some of this in the States. Is Four in a Bed where they watch other people watch TV? No, that's Gogglebox.

which I also love. What's four in a bed? Four in a bed is a reality program where four people that each own Airbnb's or bed and breakfast. Oh, they all go take turns staying at each other's things and then they rate each other. Yeah. And then, so it's two, it's broken into two different episodes. Have you seen this? So the first episode is

each Airbnb or bed and breakfast getting highlighted and each person's experience. It's very HGTV in terms of quality. They used to have a dinner party show like this in the UK. It feels similar. And then the second episode, so they all determine how much they're going to pay for the room, whether they're going to pay full price or if they're going to pay less. You can ship people. Yeah. And then they all sit at a big table. I think that's usually a slur.

Cheat people? Yeah. And so at the end, or the second episode, all four couples sit at a big table and they go around and they get to like call each other out on why they wrote these comments down, why they underpaid. And it was getting spicy. Really? Spicier than the sausage I smelled in the cab? Yes. Because there was a guy, there was an American guy who I think was married to some like, maybe she was Irish or scouse, I'm not sure. But they created like a... What a scouse.

Um, uh, Scotland.

That's what people were telling us we got to go to Scotland and do. There's a show. The only reason I know that is because let me make sure. Wait, were you just describing a Scottish person? Yeah. She's scouse? I thought so. It's a hardy stew. It's a hardy stew. But I thought, what does scouse mean in British slang? Oh, someone from Liverpool. Oh, OK. I thought it was Scottish. Guys, I've gotten many things wrong. I said Dublin show. I made a joke that they were part of the UK.

Wrong. I made a joke about a queen. Wrong. It was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. It was rough. Thankfully, we're charming. Truly, thankfully, we just wiggle right back out of it. Like, oh, she's a scouse. Oh, you're not here for facts. You're here for fun. OK, so anyway, back to the show. So this guy was like, they were like.

like a fifties diner kind of thing with like Harleys and like that old retro like Chrome, Americana fifties. And this guy was like doing his full like you happy days. Almost like a Guy Fieri more like kind of vibe. They did like a party because you have to like show a good time to your guests. Like how would you host them? So they have to entertain them as well. So they all do like here's what we would do locally. Like we can go to this restaurant and see this thing. They hosted a drag queen. Like

party where they made over all of these older women. And then they basically got in a fight with this other couple of the whole time who was like, it was too loud. Everything was too loud. And the guy was like, I really agree with that because he's American. And it was just, I had a great time watching it. Okay, so you found something you liked. Foreign of Ed, but I will say, and we talked about this, watching the programming out here, I realized that we got to get in the mix out here. I know. There's like, there's like,

20 to 30, it feels like presenters and comedians that just get passed around between every talk show and chat show. And I see them on every single program, cross pollinating. And I'm like, how do we get in that mix? Yeah, what's that agency? Exactly. And can we join it here?

Right, we're trying to dip our toes in. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I'd like to come over here more. I mean, it's about to get real cold. But I love being over here. And when Chip and I went out the other night and went and got beers, and we were going to go hang out with assorted food boys. Yeah. And you were going to come, but you weren't feeling well. And it was like their office was far away. You know, Berry, sweet Berry was like, I'll just hop on a bike and come see you for a minute and like give you a hug. And I was like,

I forget that we have people here that we are legitimately friends with. I know, and I have a couple other friends that have reached out that saw us here, and I was just like, I've just been unwell, and I have to like, hunker down in between shows, so I don't want to get anyone sick, but I know. This has very much made me want to come back in a big way, and see how we can...

get in this. If you are a producer, a casting director, have any connection to these British shows that just kind of... It's just... It's on Taskmaster. That's the big one. That's the big one, but also what would the genre be?

fucking around. Yeah, they're like chat shows. We watched the show the other night. I forget what it was called, but it was basically I was like, Elliot, this is like your dream gig. It was like three comedians hosting like a pseudo political cultural talk show, but in a comedic way. And they were just having like open

talk about Trump and everything, which has been very interesting is you see how openly they shit on Trump on the TV here that I'm like, this is really helpful to watch. There's something cathartic about this. It's gorgeous. Gogglebox was going off about it. Oh, it's like, this is great. But then they do like these ridiculous like, like stunts and like bits in between. So it's like very like showy, I guess. Oh, well, the speaking of British television, though. Yeah. How are we feeling about?

Right, right off because we caught up last night. Yeah, because they get it on Tuesdays out here and we finally caught up. I mean, yeah, Dylan's fucking crushing. Dylan's crushing. I mean, he's untouchable, right? I think so. And the fact that he's 20 years old is blowing my mind. I mean, you can tell that Paul Hollywood is almost angry about how good he is and how he is doing things that

Paul Hollywood has never seen or tasted before. Totally, like the Goju Jong Bread and this and that. But at what point do you call him a professional versus an amateur? Because like, well, because I think he's never been, I think paid not having gone to school. Okay, I thought he was in school or something like he wanted to be a chef. Before pastry, I thought he was going to, he said something about wanting to be like a savory chef.

But I don't know. That might have been just like out of context. Yeah, but that's also like the rules are a little willy-nilly because also sometimes like, let's say I'm dancing with the stars, which I don't watch, but I know it'll be like, okay, well, here's a Tik-toker who's had professional dance lessons. You know what I mean? Like, of course she's gonna out dance the dad from family matters. I feel like she is taking dance lessons on the off chance she gets cold. Right? But like Caitlin Bristow, she won it. She was a dance teacher.

And I love her, but like she was a dance teacher when she got, when she went on the Bachelor. Yeah. So like where's that blurred line of like professional versus not? I don't know. You know what I mean? I don't know if that show prides itself on its integrity of contested. No, I don't either. I really don't. I've never watched it. What do they have? Oh, Strictly is their version out here. Strictly. Yes, yes, yes. Everyone talks about that too. It's wild.

Okay, okay guys well while we are feeling nice and chilly and cozy our cameras are overheating and our equipment is saying you got the ball yeah, I don't even know what we were talking about but the camera overheated and I don't trust it to not do that again as a woman that gets hot flashes I You know identify with this camera, and I want to give it the benefit of the doubt I have been roasting in these bed like I said it last night like a nando's chicken

Oh, that's what we haven't had over here. That's the most fun thing to do at these shows, though, is be like, let me plug in some references and see if they work at all. And they either do or do not at all. My traffic joke killed in the early 2019. We really did crush.

Anyway, guys, thank you for listening. We will probably have one more of these from the road where Grace is in a different country and I'm in a different country. And then we'll be back to the little back house and not during an election week and maybe feel like a little normals. Yeah. And thank you to everyone that came out to these shows. It really was so special. I can't emphasize that enough. I mean, seven years ago,

or 10 years ago when we saw people at different things out here, it was just so lovely and the space was just so warm and supportive. It was just, yeah, really unique and very special. Exactly what we needed. Yeah, exactly. And it got weird. Yeah.