This is the BBC. This podcast is supported by advertising outside the UK. This episode of Miss Me contains very strong language and adult themes, but it's alright, we'll keep you safe. How are you doing? I feel sprightly as fuck today. I don't know why. Do tell, because I did two things that I know I'm meant to do for myself. I trained and I played tennis and I, I'd say my serve has gone up by 40% in the last month. Do you know what it's like to keep learning something, Bill?
When you're just like, you're not in the mood or it's too hard and you haven't got as good as you thought you'd be. I keep going back every week and I'm getting better and better and it does bring me lots of joy. I did study quite a lot of the Wimbledon play. I was like, okay, that's how you do a serve. And it has helped my serve. So thank you Carlos. Al-Karaz. Al-Karaz. Winner of Wimbledon. Well, that's good. Makiya is angling for her tennis commentator job over here.
It was incredible play from both players. Well, that's why you got to be Sue Walker. You got to be like the tension. There was another match point. It's another match point. Well, you're selling yourself. It's not because there's a future I do want. So let's not screw that up. No, I know. I know. But I think you have to like played professional tennis in order to be a tennis commentator. I just want to be really good at tennis. I just want to play really well.
I love that for you. I think that will be something that you can achieve. As you said, you know, you keep going back and practicing. This is not really a technique I'm familiar with with anything. I don't really practice things. Six to something. Practice makes perfect. No, I'm like bits. It's two ADHD. I just get distracted. Also, if I'm not like immediately good at something, I tend to just not bother really.
Well, next up is football. I'm joining Charlotte. My friend Charlotte's team. Her and her lesbian football team. I thought you were going to say that you're the New England manager. After that tennis rehearsal, I don't think I'm ready. But let's just quickly say I know it was a while ago, but oh my god. What a game. That was tough. That was incredible. There was so much hope in my pub. So much hope. There was hope everywhere.
Even I, even I miss Christmas, Scrooge football face over here. I wanted us to win. I was excited. I went over to some friends house. There were lots of kids. Some of the kids cried. It was. It was a lot. I remember when you lose when you're a kid, you're like, it's not fair and you cause it. It's just not. Yeah. It's just not fair. I was dressed slightly because football, spectatorship and my relationship with my father have always gone hand in hand.
So I used to be a full-on fan and season ticket holder. And I would go to watch full-on play with my dad every weekend. And I loved it. It was like a real way of us bonding. And there was a part of me that was like, come on England win. Cause my daddy won't tell me he loves my God. I wonder how many people there were up and down the country that like, please don't want to call my daddy.
I was doing a saying. You probably weren't alone in that. It would have brought joy to even the stoniest of hearts, wouldn't it? But still, but I think a lot of men can only really communicate their emotions through football. So like if England won, it would have opened the like floodgates of emotion for what, you know, men across the country. And people would, you know, that might have difficult relationships with their parents, not talking about me.
That, you know, would see that as a as a green light to approach and be. Yeah. But we lost and Southgate's resigned. So it's another four years ago. I don't like that. I love you. And what's just another four years till now. No, my dad tells me he loves me all the time. Don't worry. Full-on could win. So wait for that. You have to wait for the euros. Full-on could win. And then World Cup.
He just wait for every football tournament. Can I come out? But we did lose. We did lose. And Southgate has resigned. Now, I am not here to poo poo Southgate. And I've just heard on the radio that no one else is either. Okay, that's not the vibe. The vibe is very like good on you son. You did us proud.
Yeah, quite a good innings as well. Wasn't it like eight years he's managing done for eight years. And what he did, which I love is you had saidly up, gets us into the semi finals. Then the final. Then the final again. Like it's all gone up, which has been beautiful to watch. But I guess he's just sick of it. I imagine it's the hardest job in the world being the manager.
I know it's funny. There's like, there's young people that I've been watching on sort of social media platforms that have been like, Oh, I've been to two finals. They never win anything. I'm like, try being our age. Like, yeah, what final? Yeah, we have to sit through Glenn Hoddle, Kevin Keegan. Right. What was his name? The Italian one who managed us. Spend your and Eric.
Spend you an Ericson Fabio Capello. Hang on a minute. I was talking about Hoddle because this is another reason that Garis Southgate. Let's just give him his juice. Now that he's left the building. I saw Belyam say after the game that he felt like Garis Southgate was the first manager that he could truly talk to and could really share things with Belyam's words.
And then he said, and we all just feel like we've let Garis down because he's such a brilliant manager and he looks after us so well that we wanted to make him proud. And I was like, that's a good manager because Hoddle when Beckham did the kick in the Argentina game wasn't there for him. There was no protection care or support for him. And I truly believe David Beckham went through a traumatic hell.
You see it in the Beckham documentary. And then he goes home to Manu after the horrible World Cup hell and Alex Ferguson says, you're right, kid. Come on. And that's care and love. So we know that Garis Southgate has been that kind of manager and for that we're truly grateful. Thank you, Garis. Truly, truly grateful. Thank you for your service, Garis. Is he asserted? It's going to be a surge or even it. Can you imagine him going to the palace? Nights it. Nights it. He'll be night.
It's good to know that we're on the same page about Southgate. He did good. Thank you for your service. Now let's talk about who he faths it. Yeah. Cold Palmer. What a revelation. Right. When he came on, I was like, pitty. How old is it? I don't know. I think 22. Oh, enough to be his mother. Well, I just showed Autumn that I worked with. I said, oh, Palmer's fit. And she showed me a bit of a
Palmer's fit. I said, yeah, and that like dirty boy in the pub way. And then she went, oh, right. Yeah. So maybe you just got to give it that prefix a little bit gormalous looking. That's how I like them. Yeah, me too. And then I like the Spanish player. What was he called? Oh my God. Oh, sorry. Can we just go back to England players that fit? Feel folded. No, no, because I'm fit. Because I'm actually done.
There's not what I stones maybe. That's all I've got. That was not a fit team. I know it's controversial, but I think Kyle Walker is quite fit. No. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'll take your Walker and I'll raise you the normand, the normand. I'm going to have to Google him because I don't know what you're talking about. He was on the ball lot in the game.
There was somebody that looked a little bit in the sleeves that didn't look really like they should be a footballer. They look like they should be in a band. I know which fan in the test icicles. Maybe. Lenormand. Oh my God. His first name is Robin, which is my dad's name. Maybe he's not to be my husband. Yeah, Lenormand. That's the one I'm talking about. He's the Indian. He's in the sleeves. Oh, no, no, no. I don't think he looks in the sleeves.
Yeah. I think he looks like a bit pool Nicholsie, bit cleaner than that. No. He's got that energy. And you know what? You don't fancy indie sleeves. No. Okay. Okay. Then. Excuse me. Excuse me. On what planet would I fancy indie sleeves boys today? No, maybe not today, but let's not just like completely deny the past. I wasn't really no. At that time I was begging theatre crew, begging royal court actors.
Yeah. And before that, you were 100% right in there with the indie slasers. I feel like I jumped in these slasers. You may have written that out of your own narrative. They were one person. I feel like maybe they were about, but I like Owen. Yeah. The white rose movement for a start. I didn't kiss any of them. That was long. Anything else you want to add about the football?
No. The only thing I interesting to say about football is that I had lost my full-on top for a long time. And then I found it the other day. I was very happy about having found it. It's long-sleeved capper. I think it's from 2012. Maybe 2011. That sounds great.
Great, sure. And I really thought it'd gone. You know, when you lose something, you lose an item of clothing, you cannot stop thinking about it. It was really bothering me when I was on my holiday. I was like, I know. I've seen it somewhere. Yeah, but that I never find. And then it turned up. It turned up and about. Since I've come here from New York, I've got like four different places that I'm storing like suitcases of clothes.
So obviously I've been going on my little European jaunts on the continent. So I'd like go away for a week and then I come back, put one lot of stuff of washing in with my mom. And then you actually get Alison to wash your clothes. Yeah. My mom would never. Can I let you into a secret? I can't believe that. Do you want me to tell you a secret? Yeah, right. I'm not going to be a secret anymore. I'll cover it. I don't know how to use a washing machine.
That's bullshit because you're such a homemaker. I know, but I just have this fear of like shrinking and dying clothes. So I just don't do it. David and the kids do the washroom. Well, I am. I am stuff. And I can put stuff in it. I don't even really like putting things in the dryer. That's where things really fuck up. So that is where you should stay away from it. Is it? Is that where it happens? That's where things shrink.
Oh my god, I'm so good at my washing. The kids are really good at it. Ethel's particularly good at using the washing machine. But I am. I have for fear of it. I don't want to go near it. I get so angry when people like make a nice white t-shirt pink. I'm just like. And I never want to be on the receiving end of that kind of anger. I feel like that's only happened in the honestly truly in the 90s.
I feel like a pink sock ruins a white wash. I feel like that's not a problem. I feel like people don't do that anymore. That's a 90s issue. It is. That doesn't happen. People don't go, oh, I died this. That doesn't happen anymore. I think washing machines have come along while little. Really? I should I get into it? Okay. I'm going to start. I've been to your house and there's a nice washing room down in the basement. I'm scared of that.
So you don't go in there? You even made you scared going down there. So because it's the basement. But you not go down in that room. I do because it's also where the gym is. So I do go there to the gym. Anyway, no, I don't. I can't do the washing. I also just get. I just like, I don't know what bit to put the stuff in. I feel like I'm going to ruin the machine. Like I'm going to put the like and also the fabric condition.
I'm pretty condition like how do you know how much? I don't use the top drawer. I just put in like one square thing. You know, like the like a dishwasher tab. Yeah, like that. But that in I'm also scared of the top drawers. I'm washing machine. That's terrible. Fabric softener could be great. It makes all your clothes soft and smell really lovely. No, but it can fuck them up. I know this. I know this much. I've heard the horror stories, which is why I'm not going there.
This much, I know. My ADHD and a washing machine and fabric condition are not going to go well together. Fucking shit show. So you haven't been in your lovely house in America for a while. Like a month. I've been there more recently than you. So you haven't been in America when this absolute horror show has occurred. Absolute horror show. An attempted assassination on Donald Trump over the weekend.
And resulting in two people being killed. Someone in the crowd, a father in the crowd and and of course the shooter was shot and killed. And I think a few more in critical condition. Yeah, it's all got a bit. I watched the whole tale on the news last night. And I was like, God, this has become like a weird Apple TV series. It's quite end of days, isn't it?
I went to sleep the night before it happened. And I woke up the next morning and it had happened like sort of nine or ten hours ago or something. So I felt like a bit behind the news cycle. And yeah, watching the video. I mean, he sort of tilted his head, didn't he? Just before. No bullet hit him. Yeah. So if he hadn't tilted his head, it would have gone. Intracellular brain. It just all feels so weird.
And like when you see the whole thing play out in the news, I was like, is this actually the world we live in that this is all going on? It felt like a surreal reality. Well, it's happened before. It's happened before. Obviously JFK. I think Reagan knows an assassination attempt as well. Yes, of course. Of course, but I'm saying this one in particular had a very different feel to it.
It's interesting. I went to see some people this weekend. I won't say who because what I'm going to say is quite controversial. Particularly well on there. But someone that I know said they were in church and thought to themselves like, oh, it's a shame. It wasn't successful. And then they prayed to God for forgiveness and said, gosh, sorry. I didn't mean that. I don't wish harm on anyone. Don't wish harm on anyone. And he's not as bad as some people in political history.
I won't name any names. And it made me think because obviously there's been quite a lot of talk on the social media, on Twitter, whatever of people, quite sort of evangelical, puritanical people in America. Religious people saying it was an act of God that he was saved and bloody, bloody, bloody. And you think, yeah, maybe there is something on his side. But then I thought, is it on his side or if it had happened and it had connected and he had died, where would that leave everybody else?
What would that have led to? And maybe if there is a God, that's what he was thinking about. I'm not saying that God wants to kill Donald Trump at all. But if a man was saved, then what would maybe the other reason? And I imagine we'd be in a civil war of some kind. Yeah, I think that's undoubtedly that'd be a civil war. If Donald Trump was assassinated. He has come out of this as a hero. He just even the imagery that's being used.
The photo on the news yesterday was like from below and he's sort of above with his arm in the air like this. And I was like, God, it's interesting what something like overnight someone is a hero. And can we talk about projects 2025? What's project 2025? So if Trump gets into office, these are the things that project 2025 and the Trump administration are asking for.
The sacking of thousands of civil servants dismantling the Department of Education, sweeping tax cuts, a ban on pornography and halting sales of the abortion pill. So he has very, very serious plans. And does a foot contender come on. I don't think Trump will be, I don't think Trump's going to be okay with that though. That might come under the new. That's some interesting policies there. I look forward to seeing how those pan out. Absolutely. He has, he definitely has a plan.
He's got some ideas. Well, boy does he. Boy does he. Sips tea. So actually we just found out that Tunasians D have cancelled their tour, which is the band that Jack Blackfronts with his mate Kyle Gas. Because Kyle Gas made some disparaging comments about the assassination attempt in wishing that it had been more successful than it was. And as a result, is that off? Yeah, it's off. No more Tunasian D tour. And no more saying and no more people can't say that. No free speech. No free speech.
I suppose no hate speech. No hate speech. Oh, this is going to be an interesting next few weeks. Interesting few weeks for him. Anyway, roll on November the 5th. I can't wait for five more months. I can't believe it's that far away by the way. I know. It's outrageous. He's going to be jumping out of planes and saving children, isn't he? It might be saving babies if they're in utero and doing and planning to be, be a borted.
Then yes, maybe he'll be saving his babies. He's got his own way for everything, isn't he? Look at this from my nanny. Look at this from my nanny. And yesterday, you know, you said you're looking for your full-em-shirt. Yesterday, I said to myself, you know, I need a teapot. And then I went to my nanny. It was my mum's, my nanny's with my mum. And she was like, I've got this. Do you like it? So it's like a Russian doll. So you get the cup and then this goes into it and then the lid.
This isn't great for a podcast, but if this becomes a clip. She's a really, I'm easily pleased. I was like, this has changed my life. I went to visit my nanny this weekend also in Sherborn. She's another time at home and we took her out for lunch to my aunt's house. This is her listen to his house. Yeah, my mum's mum. Yeah. I don't feel like you do things like that that much when you're in town. Go see your grandma. No, I haven't been to see her for a long time actually. It was really nice.
And what was nice was I love my mum. Okay, but she is quite annoying sometimes. And my nanny sees it too, which was quite fun to be around. We decided to sit there and I was like sitting in the chair next to her bed. And my mum was sitting in the chair at the end of her bed and we decided to do the Sunday Times Crossword together. And my mum is so fucking smug. She's a know it all, probably in a crossword. She's just a way that when she has got something right, she does this straight after.
It's so irritating. And I was like, I couldn't stop. When I was younger, I would never have got annoyed with my mum in front of my nanny because I would have got whacked. But I was just like, oh god, you're being so annoying. And my nanny was sort of slightly deteriorating in her cognitive self. And she was like, hmm, yes, she is quite annoying. But then if that, if me and nanny get like that, my mum goes on a direct train to victimville. And like, you should be getting me up on me.
You're so mean to me and I just can't. But I'm happy that you had that experience. Because you don't get to have it that often. And can I ask, Will, what's your nanny on this side's name? Oh, and Mary Owen. It's Mary Owen, yes. So just Mary live at home or is Mary the grandma that lives in a home? No, she has lived at home. My granddad died. I reckon it must be about 10 years ago now. And she, my nanny lived in portsmost.
She lived in a sort of, in a flat where lots of other elderly people lived in a block. So I think that there was like some sort of carers that used to come and check in on them. But then her health has sort of deteriorated somewhat that she's now in like a full retirement home. And it is endorse it near where my aunt lives. Because the reason I'm asking is because cousin Namer, her grandmother Donna, who is probably 94 now, wow, her Donna. And Donna's American and has been independent.
Her whole life and has a really beautiful house in Somerset, like particularly beautiful. And she, she's had to move into a home because of like a sort of bureaucratic mistake with her carers. Donna had to leave her home and her life within two weeks and go to this new place. Luckily, it's the place that Hassel was in. So she went there every day for 10 years. So she knows it. She's really worth it.
But I've got to tell you, taking a lady, a grandmother that you love out of her home, that she knows so well in that fashion has been quite dramatic for Namer, actually. And for Donna. Yeah. And does Namer instinctively feel that like she would have been happier to stay at home or it would have been better for her to stay at home? Or do they feel like it's the right place for her to be? It's like a duality between that. That's exactly what she was saying. It's good for her to be there.
But Donna keeps thinking she's going to come home. So she's sort of in her head, temporary there. And of course, as you said, with Mary O. in your grandma, they're minds on what they used to be. And so you cling on to ideas and thoughts. And you just want them to, you just want everyone to feel safe at that Asian. I don't, I don't have kids. So like, if I don't have kids, who the fuck is actually going to look after me? You? Yeah, I look after you. But I'm only younger than you.
Maybe if you play your cards right, Ethel and Marney might look after you. Thank you. Yeah. The Goddaughter. I'll ask Marney. Because if we had enough money, like we could all pull together and have our own old people's home with the private one. Correct. And we could just pay for a couple of carers to come and look after us. And we could all stay together. I'm happy to end my days. I mean, we just had a family picnic for cousin Phoebe's 40th. We were all there together on Saturday.
And it's just like how many people are out in that picnic have you known since like the day you were born? Like we could just create our own, create our own village, community. Call me when the food is nice. And we think the weather's good. You know, yeah, we could do that. Actually, I was quite surprised at how I was a bit scared to go to see my nan in the retirement home because my grandad was in one near where I lived in Stroud. And it was horrible. It was horrible.
It was like sort of dementia home. So it was, I don't know what was up with it. Like whether it was the carers that were working there, but it just had a really grim vibe. But everyone seemed really, really depressed. My grandad up until before he'd gone in there had lived in a sort of shed in my dad's garden, which he'd like done, which he'd done art. But then he had Alzheimer's. And there'd been a couple of occasions where he'd like fallen and injured himself.
And so the decision was made to take him to this place. And he just... Disgrind, I hated it. I hated seeing him there. Yeah. I really hated it. I hated going there. I hated seeing him there. It was... It was grim. Well, that's why I feel so lucky about Nanny living with my mum. Like, my mum's never really had any money. And for the first time in her life she has enough money for a house with enough space for my grandma to have left her house or 50 years in Suffolk and come and live with us.
But that was also not the easiest thing. You think that, oh, Nanny, she's 86. She's so pleased and so grateful that we've given her this new life. But actually, they lose their independence. She has to live with mum and gaf. You know, she has to get to use to London again. She did live in London when she was younger. But berries and Edmunds and Suffolk, it has been her home. Because she was a teacher. She was known everywhere around berry. Everyone was like, yes, Miss Oliver.
Because she taught everyone. You know, no matter how old you get, you want a role and you want your identity to be intact. So let's be kinder to mum when she sniffs, when she gets a question right. She's just a bit pleased with herself. It's okay. It's probably what makes a good producer. You know, she knows when she's right. It's just fucking annoying. I know. But have you seen in university challenge when people... Four letter word, Nudge. Proud. And it's a sort of like look away as well.
It's like, Proud. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's got to be like, that was nothing for me. I get it. Yeah, yeah. And actually it is nothing for her. And it made me think I have to put my phone down because my brain does not work. We need to read the books. But she's on Facebook the whole time anyway. Speaking of mums, can we talk about how Garfield ruined her chicken on the weekend, please? Oh my god, no, I can't. I cannot bait him out or miss me when he tried his best.
She needs to know that she cannot leave her chicken unattended from this point forward. And if she is going to leave her unattended, get someone else to do it, not Garfield. You said, mums chicken and I went over so excited and I lifted off the tinfoil and I was like, what's colour is this? This ain't Andy. This is not the right kind of brown. No. I think it's Garfield doesn't know how to cut chicken. I just think the pressure got to him. Basically my mum was away this weekend.
She couldn't cater the picnic like she always does. Yeah, there was some Andy masquerading Andy chicken. It was not appropriate. I was like, get that away from me. Yeah. Anyway, should we have a break? Yeah, let's have a break. I feel like my mum's going to really take this quite seriously. Not personally. She'll be laughing her ass off and posting it in the Facebook group that you want to grab it. That is exactly where this will end up. Is this going to be huge on Facebook?
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Well, I found out the origins of your name. Someone told me with Google. With Google. So your name is Lily, but actually the origins of it would be Lilith. And Lilith is a character in Jewish folklore who said to be the first wife of the first man Adam who disobeyed him. So you're pre-eat. Okay. You're the first wife of Adam. You were then banished from the Garden of Eden and you became a mythical she demon. That tracks. So she's us. Hey. I don't talk about that album. I love that album.
So I thought that was quite interesting because I don't have any history to my name because my name was made up. Made up. And then my mom made up the spelling. And I've not had any children to name yet, which I can't wait to do because I think the idea of giving someone a name is a big old deal. So did you think much about Ethel and Marnie or do you slap them on him? Well, Ethel, we had like a whole bunch of different names ready for her.
And then when she was born, I don't know if it's just my narcissism basically, but I just assumed I'd have the more dominant gene. So all the names I had prepared for her were for like little brown hair, brown eyed, dark skin, little, you know, woodland creatures. And then she came out and she had red hair and very pale skin and blue eyes. And none of the names that we had chosen fit, but just Ethel did.
I think maybe Sam and I had like this sort of like sort of jokey conversation sometimes that we'd have an Ethel in a Stanley. Good names. And it was never really serious. And then when Ethel was born, it was like, actually, I think this is Ethel, you know? And I do, she doesn't love her name. I love her name. And most people that meet her said that she's definitely an Ethel. But it's funny how a face becomes a name like I feel like the shape of her face looks like the word Ethel.
Like that's how much I've been looking at your face my entire life. And it's just like this face looks like the word Lily now because that is just what you are. It's just weird to think about it. Like now, Marnie, let me tell you, I love that little shmur. Oh no, she's such a little. And she looks like a little, like the, it's like Marnie thought quite around face. And it's like M-A or the like roundness of it. It's like the come on.
Marnie. Marnie. No, I don't know if I was really sad this, but when I went out with Leicester, who was my first boyfriend, he had said that his first girlfriend that he had, you know, consummated his relationship with was called Marnie. And the name was always stuck in my head. I was like, I like that name. Also, I'm obsessed with the fact that you had another girlfriend before me. So, and then my child, second child was born. And I'd always just like, fixated on that name, not that name.
They're so fucked up because you said the other week that you have a real issue with like the person that was loved before you in a relationship. And you named your second born after your first loves, first loves. No, I'd not name her after. I just never heard that name before. The first time I heard it was in connection with an ex-boyfriend of mine, ex-girlfriend. And I just, yeah, I guess it just stuck in my head when I liked it. And also, it's a good name. It's a great name. It suits her.
And then girls came out and there was Marnie all over the place. Have you dealt with any other Marnies? That would piss me off as well. I've met a couple of Marnies, not that many. No. I also really like it when Nordinars go, I'm a Marnie. Where's our Marnie? Oh, where's our Marnie? Yeah. Like, oh Marnie. Yeah, because it sounds like I'm Marnie. Where's our Marnie? Where's our Marnie? I'm happy that you've just thrown a little accent in.
Because what I really also wanted to talk about was the origins. Maybe I should just keep this to myself next time. But this stuff really fucking interests me like, how did an accent come to be? And I've just got two examples, because one of them, I feel like maybe you were a Jordy in another life. Me? Because it comes, yeah. You think I was a Jordy in another life? Don't be ridiculous. I do believe that there's something deep within you that allows you to sound exactly like a Jordy. Like, that.
Why'd you think that? I don't. Don't want to talk about it. The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of the Dark Ages spoke varieties of Old English, right? Okay. So everyone's speaking all these different versions of Old English. Their North England was dominated by the Kingdom of Northumbria and this was where a distinct Northumbria and Old English dialect developed, which gradually became the modern Jordy accent.
I don't know whether that makes me understand it more, but basically a mishmash of shit becomes an accent. I mean, I just always think that like, from North to South and east to west, if you compare like a really southern accent to a Scottish accent, it's, it just gets closer and closer towards that. I don't feel like Jordy is that far away from Scottish, I don't feel like Manchester is that far away from Jordy. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's a really good way of thinking about it.
So it's sort of the accent sort of goes up the map and changes into what's above it. Yes. Wow, what a way to think about it. You'd be a good teacher. So I don't know if that's true, but that's how it works in my head. Because even like Birmingham sounds like, you know, half-Northen and then also half, like, Southwestern. It sounds like it's going into like Somersetty kind of. And then isn't Wales weirdly near like Liverpool? It can be the top part of Wales. The top part of Wales.
I may have lost myself. I may have lost myself in this conversation. Anyway, I think it's fascinating. And I just, I think maybe I just wanted to hear you do the Jordy accent. Well, there you go. Did you like that, pet? Did you enjoy that? It was more, you know, the, the Heidey Days of Expector and Cheryl Cole was the most famous person in the world. And it was just, it was uncanny. Uncanny. I really like what you did with that. I really liked that. I thought that would brilliant.
Wait, I'll be that with brilliant. I'll be done with Cheryl. We'll come to you. How was that for you? Literally my heart jumped out of my body. That was one of the most beautiful things I've ever dreamed. And do the bit when she goes home to tell her husband. If you don't get through this round, don't worry because you're a star. It's actually making me miss the Heidey Days of Expector. Actually, don't think my accent is that good.
I think people are going to be like, what are you talking about, my kids are at a terrible accent. Oh, right. Well, is it a good Jordy accent or is it just a great show called, depression? Who knows? Either way, touched my heart. I haven't heard it in a while. But I'll stop you there. What are you going to do today? Your mum's cooking for you. My mum's cooking me a meal. I don't know what she's cooking yet. You have it, can you? I've said the word. I've said the word. Can you cook cheese pie?
I have no response. No response. To cheese pie. I'm stopping talking in this accent. Yeah, you can stop now. You can stop now. Stop now. Good, definitely. Once I get into it, though, I can't. And imagine back in the day when drugs now go on, what mixed in, it would be a whole fucking night of me being one accent. It's so true. I actually apologise to everybody that I've ever met me when I was drunk and high. Sorry. Thank you. No, not you. I'm not including you in that.
I'm not including you in that. I don't know if you're apologise. Who fucking gets it then? Everyone else. All right, Nilly Allen. I'm just about done with you. But I will see you on Monday for this in bitch. Can't wait. The thing for this week's this in bitch is beauty. Isn't it? It's beauty darling. And it was sent to us by someone. So that might be a more travelled road in the future if we start running out of this in bitch. The idea is okay. I'll see you on Monday, bitch. See you then, bitch.
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