Jonathan X Ruth Jones

AR YR HEWL | ON THE ROAD

A special episode of Jonathan X - and this time, we're on the road with the one the only - Ruth Jones!

Filmed on the move, the conversation looks back on Ruth’s journey from Wales to becoming one of the most recognisable faces on British television.

Yn y bennod hon o Jonathan X, mae Jonathan Davies yn mynd ar y ffordd gyda’r actores, awdures a chreadigwraig eiconig o Gymru - Ruth Jones.

Mewn sgwrs hamddenol yn y car, mae Ruth yn edrych yn ôl ar ei thaith o Gymru i rai o’r rolau a’r cymeriadau mwyaf poblogaidd ar deledu Prydeinig. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Oh yeah, between I've got uh Rob Bryden, um, tipping back allison's dead man, oh team.

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And my boy's rugby and just go, Oh, I haven't got a head, but I'm gonna carry on. Is it true? Is it true?

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Team three. Ham. Ham. King Charles and just done looked really shocked. Oh, oh, I didn't do that. Oh, when you're doing this on the door. Shama rooting out.

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Shama.

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Oh, dear. Right, off an eye.

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Well, off an e indeed.

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Off an e indeed, yeah, off an e indeed. Uh you wel there. Put through the north now.

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Um what, pan on in eva? Yeah, game can't dusty. It's like a it's like good uh comedy and a s and a arms park.

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Yeah, we can go but say because I can't slaughter in February, we're only an um me celebration in April. So now game were seen, so Oh teen tin um teen we talk a lot or sis negative.

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Some of the game men and did with come real or slot of rivalry and uh rivalry happice, you know, and a nice really like kind of oh English. What pam? Pam. You know, yeah, didn't point. On my my nice you know, like um bit of uh gidder get a rivalry. But right.

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Oh well my Rob and Mindy a lot of game I did. Oh really?

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Oh right.

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I didn't have a post room, got to start in the green room, darling.

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Well, how do you film your Gavin and Stacey a uh a can't have cover?

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Yes.

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Yeah. Episode Pedwar and a and cover uh can't have cover. Yeah. Um I wrote in film ya, and um oh a bitho um Gwesty, um A veil.

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Okay, okay, and I'll live.

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Yeah, yeah. A lotter team, well um Mike Phillips, yeah, um Adam Jones. Yeah, and and Diddy Gavin and Stacy, then we did uh uh hadn't gone out then. Oh okay. Yeah. So my Marlene um well Marceline devi and a and uh and a severe actually, um of uh uh me, um well uh the whole Gavin and Stacy family. Um get out get a boys, right? And did he boys with them and g and good boy well poi well well yeah to uh Rob Bryden, um dipping back allison's dead man, uh poo poo tea Alan Phillips, right?

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Oh yeah, just since and I said uh oh look excuse my appearance.

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Oh yeah. And where do sea oh sorry about my um appearance? Uh where do they oh you're looking good, Kate? You're looking good.

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Normal Friday night in Keming Hill Don't worry about it. So so bear thought I'd even come with my James Cordon, a massive football West Ham fan. Are they many rugby there?

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Well, yeah, dipping back, you know, like uh the Internationals and um uh V Ave and sort of like uh uh and Kyle Scott, um um Peldroid versus Rugby across well oh god Pell droid, you know, they run out of the pitch and then oh I've hurt my little finger.

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You know, and my boys rugby and just go, oh I haven't got a head, but I'm gonna carry on.

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So a Tina Scott called a Tina Scott Right then with they ever rugby in a school?

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Oh nah, do they move?

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Ah, but then you make a bit.

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And a studio drama, demar up.

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But then they're not teen a scholar, teen uh well of course in uh uh drama.

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Well no, both with teen merble.

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Well nah but nah the trouble here, but right on hate though, right? Cross country. Oh hate not Pablo for N is eh?

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Yeah, no no sport do you go born? Nah, my sports day uh I think erm I did the short put. Oh chinga tingating the shortcut.

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No, yeah. Yeah, well no do.

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But pet pan I didn't um day goid uh do we do ready um and a lessy um a wagon spoon race. Oh do we? Yeah, yeah.

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With a beast spower at the top. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She take a sports stage. Anyway, other than other than well, he hate don't know. Oh really? Oh yeah, me d so and us I lot of pressure at T E L A. Some backs or spikes. He tried to dig on his card down. Are there sporting heroes girl to villain?

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Well, Hannering um maybe oight. I mean um Edicard Olympics, uh the gymnastics, uh uh Nadia Common Human H and Nelly Kim.

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Nelly Kim.

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Oh Gobert.

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Olga Corbett of the Rain, or Nelly Kim and Lovely. Nelly came or Romania. So sporting heroes well, giddy tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Well Well lots of uh uh rugby.

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Yeah.

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Just I just because I love the whole to nobody but um to me my my guilty pleasure he uh um uh he does uh he clawed the um audiobooks. Oh yeah the autobiographies of uh Welsh rugby players. Oh no, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:35

Um Andy Farrell. Oh yeah, Andy Farrell, uh toward um I think we're doing the bitter thing done or is they got the best players at opposition, right? Right. So on your I would say I didn't roll but the Hanera or the cadre got the V a stop as you but I you why don't you run that else? So we're not on the just on two way devote and vishi on it any bit about a nate about then, Gavin and Stacy.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Well, um so uh Nessie Squenny Shlaver Geda James, um Shlaver or When Gavin met Stacy and Everything in Between. Alright. Um I'm on really a story I'm Gavin and Stacy on heavy I'm a friendship knee.

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Yeah.

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Um I s do we um do we uh not James um well pff twa pimpa pimpa he gang oid?

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Or tivason in a hottivas me looking the outside in Mona an amlog to fib pomor a go shivi key referring yeah. Yeah yeah we listen we less I don't look because I mean parti now here.

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Twinkredi but me fell quiet. Um just yeah yeah twin really do Lia James. I I get on his nerves, he gets on mine, but I absolutely love him and I will defend him to the hilt, you know.

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Um this didn't dig within the shows in.

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Oh no well um um husband my James and and America at Hinobree. Well yeah, he need um play at Broadway. Art art he's doing. Um Bashley uh the gonor um sir he need Lotto Digwithade uh Gadir Liverly um Nessie um needed uh Pentavan Yad, he need just in Digwithyard, well doy digwithyard and um and a palladium in uh and Clindine and just really like packed out straight away like two and a half thousand people, two shows, two and a half thousand people. So just um V R. James, Ara Cloivan, um G Boyd Hilton, the interviewer, and just an Ovin Christiana Denny, um uh I'm a I'm a clever I can relationship.

SPEAKER_04 9:34

I think what you're more than many well. But in Kindor Khan, when I'm in number one, could I give and say to me that this is it?

SPEAKER_02 9:43

Nah didn't really accost Well just What did we think it was gonna be it no but only just an enjoy squenny um uh characters, you know, Velancle Brynn and Ham and and just you know my poble would he What do you have na bodno?

SPEAKER_04 10:03

Yeah do you enjoy your node? Yeah um my my uncle Good Bryn and Bob Tyler.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Oh yeah. Of course, of course. And pam, have it. Um so yeah, just we uh I think you know you you can't just go, oh this is gonna this is gonna tick all the boxes, it's gonna be success.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

Yeah.

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We just love the the show and we love the characters and um and it obviously other people seem to feel the same.

SPEAKER_04 10:37

Um scriveni there, right? And in Weird Dig uh a show no door leg, right? Because Navel I go with power bright and mine with and other mass, right? Or the poison, Bonavort and kind of and go and fantastic show. I would in a roll with a mass, or then just at Christmas day anyway, right? Because powering pay K D I goes find of the worst case, or then crazy. So be the post and I scrive anyway, I wouldn't need a relief on with our moon and bloody fantastic. Well relief I roll a shock.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Yeah, I'm one and um Yeah, I chose I roll a um uh a a special special nodology twenty nineteen. You know, right the figures and uh and unfantastic, um like uh 18 million.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

Well not amazing now, so what I guess so I don't know if you never carry for the other thing. So I saw Toy Channel, it's Pedro Channel for just fine.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

Yeah. Oh nah crazy figures. Yeah, like fellow our olden days, yeah, you know, um and white, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um Vashley on a um metal, oh god, is it gonna can we do it again? Crazy duh. And yeah, and then you know, it was million meat. Just I know, really, really mad. Um and it's just like a massive compliment to you. Huge compliment. Uh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Noss on um the dolleg. Um only um only uh at uh Christmas dinner. I got old uh can you see in a car, uh Mind up at M4, E T James, uh JF Taylory James and I and um he uh watcher uh and just an on in really sal, like mm horrible cold, and I was just like uh okay, here I am. Um and it was emotional choice, I host on in just an ace dead and that and and I thought, my god, this is it now. Emotional drained. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:11

So do you want um lot the scenes really emotional, I thought there was scenes funny, bit of the scenes that I collect I need. Had the scenes to do.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Oh gosh. Well, and a s the special doeth out. Right the uh is that scene? Yeah, um uh moi um an od. Yeah, I got uh um Dave Coaches. Had my Dave Coaches and Dordie Mountain all of that. Alright, how's it going?

SPEAKER_03 13:48

Alright. And Gwen going, um yes, we're in a relationship. And like uh Joanna Page going, Dave coaches, Dave coaches, and then my Rob Brighton and Dorothy Mell. Oh, yeah, just going, is it true? Is it true?

SPEAKER_02 14:11

I just only just really wealthy. Like it's not bothered in the slightest, but my my ex-boyfriend here and Mind Rachel and get uh uh Gwen.

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That's a Gwen, yeah.

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Um I uh I uh uh I wedding Nessie Estead Laur, just and Gwilio Golagva. Justin do it in line in the stride. Oh Gwen, you're doing this armlet, then I um but I was owning Justin Huertin at Troy Hampsad. Imagine because it's just like so ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04 14:52

So ridiculous. So later bobble for our kin in this need no land to what?

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Deeping back on ingredients remember or different or pobble hand all like um my lot of poblin to EDV are you based Ness on me didn't you? No. My aunt TV and just Oh right, okay. Um and look well well um the SD, my Uncle Brynn and um Paul Tailey. We met. Of course, oh my Pamela and just you know, she's a fantastic character. Um Alison Sternman and just Yeah, I think more.

SPEAKER_04 15:51

Um what and a short and goodness or anyway. So I think I was telling Frat Friendship Stella, didn't nest the um Gavin and Stacey. Two more massive hit. I'm not but no hard null, so put part in enjoy.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

Well, in credit, but um to really look at a lot of uh oh um cavler, yeah a cavler he um he both um need well actio a squenny yeah Val Gavin and Stacey Fat Friends uh Val Stella So Tin Chile enjoy your party now. Yeah, well to enjoy your need a d a uh a die um a die um peth, yeah peth, yeah. Well now between Squenny through Beth Gadda Steve Spears.

SPEAKER_04 16:48

That's it. It's not comedy now, eh?

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Yeah, but a gentle comedy. Okay. Um and Squenny uh and Gileth um and Nin Mindy Hwaray Shan. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 17:05

Oh. Brilliant fun to be our style.

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Mind really my wit eh are just fantastic. Mine really, really quick. Um I guess uh Nessie Kurtgeda uh uh uh um uh Brennin Avrennes and Mertha um and Miss uh Tachwell. Yeah um Roy um Roy Throy the Vrenin and Dween uh Steve. Um oh hello, hello very good to meet you. Uh though I don't Steve, oh I have actually met you before. Uh you came to see me in a production of De Fladermas. Um and the king said uh oh oh oh right, right, right. Um and uh and Steve said, Yes. You met me afterwards, you told me I was terrible. Right King Charles and just didn't look really shocked and went, Oh, oh I didn't, did I? And he went, no, not really. I said, Oh, uh so uh so so what are you doing now? Community service. I haven't had a job since really, really quick, you know, he's great, it's great.

SPEAKER_04 18:12

So Ave, you want to James band and Guito, I teen Vishyan, right? So Leakin Caladam Seri and Bleich and I screwed in Nidha.

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Well, um via James James and Nate um Cafres now with have it uh e apple.

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Okay, right.

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Um I'm a um I'm a choir. So do you stop what? No square like in um tandem, uh a Pethcada Steve a Pethcada James. So um and uh and well Miss Yonar Nin Mindy um Squenny like for Pedwar Mish um Gda James Arol um uh Ebrich um May Dwe Mindi Film Yoga da Steve uh there we didn't do mindy film yoga da James so it's like back and forth, back and forth.

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Ah ah run away our Netflix.

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Yeah, do we not? Um and Juan uh Juan um uh um Gwanol Different? Gohanol, yeah. Yeah uh EV, um former uh firearms officer and now a private investigator. Brilliant. Um uh just oh really, really fun to do. I can um Gweget at James Nesbit.

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Oh, we have James. Oh do you know good sport?

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Oh man really laugh. Oh, forget it.

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Oh yeah, I'm brilliant.

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And really, really intelligent and uh a superb actor to really dully my great. Oh yeah, gda James. Oh back at the Christmas special Doyvila Oyth. Okay, cool. Um yeah, and he just uh trio he um save uh Ariane. Yeah so uh Nisi Trio um Berwi Oya Oyai?

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Yeah.

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Ah, Diar. And a and a stabeth guesti on yeah, disaster. Oh, just really awful.

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Imagine all of that oy. Ah. Right, that'll be right, could be.

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And um Heavy, do we ready need um period drama, um K BBC, or any the other Bennett sister? Um my story uh Jane Austen, Pride of Prejudice, and or different angle. Um I'm having um canal poncho, I'm a m a um verh and a canal, so dim Lizzie or Jane, and Mary a the verch and a and a canol at mahin wahanol hous did he them and moin uh Kyle Gur um did he Mahin Hoffi uh Darlene a dim on the normal societal things expectations. Okay. A Vienhuaray um Mam he Mrs. Bennett to be Mrs. Bennett, geda uh Richard E. Grant. Richard E. Grant and Mr. Miller are just really guessy lot of sports. Or da yeah, twin gashly uh grito and pajamas. Yeah. Um and could actor mean hoffee, board getting published, and you know, have lots of fun out of set.

SPEAKER_04 22:12

I mean huge respect to actors because uh I guess we fully covered in bead, right? So then he actor. So my push or actor just needed to be pushed that he nan, you can impress yourself with the right thing. Or does it come right?

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Nah, it is a lot of pressure. What if nothing comes? Yeah, blank.

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Yeah, I think it would write, okay, you dean scene, next thing, blank.

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Well, I I chose do you ready square Pedro Shlevre now, right? Not airlight, and my devi square um pimp. I do stim sunny ognum.

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Yeah. I go on a go to the Nestle, I said uh James and D postbach notes and bob another while. Oh yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, I and Nessie um can't do a lot of uh the um post-it notes.

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Oh yeah.

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Um and then uh and uh clever Gavin when Gavin met Stacey and everything in between, my my clean um um my post-it notes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like um uh scene three. Pam ham just you know, that's got to be a very good thing. Yeah, full letter points. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:42

So when the wife could have James Cord, our teen vishi, my vein vishi, my vein blue to Mars in America.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

Yeah, yeah. Well, pan uh only square a 2019 special. Yeah rightini just really cadu and double. I'm a I'm a uh a son yada hoss on in them and and good, but my my my script and mindy with yo. Um Vetli Wedis E the Weddell James, right. I didn't e squiny script, just and gilleth, good and gillet, and um just aros eweld bath ma ven mind with your and osp man disaster does din problem good, right? And Roth Rid V, I host Roth James and made a um late late show and America and LA. Right, mind atan e LA E Square Nigave. Um just, you know, Rothier into it, oh Tin Mindy LA, yeah, yeah, just so we go like for a week, you know, little trip. Oh right, right, okay. Well, I need squenny and uh and LA, I'm oyst. Um I uh do weather oythnos, where does he uh but there's Red Old James right my shit knee uh phone you uh Charlotte Moore now, E. Dwayne, look. Ni ready squenny, Governor Stacey special. I did BBC and Moyne there.

SPEAKER_04 25:27

Oh, yeah.

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Charlotte Moore, head of content on a phone and just gone oh he read um oh hi Charlotte, I'm I'm um uh it's James Gordon. Oh hello um I'm I'm sitting here with Ruth Jones. Oh my god, and then we said So, but on our old um uh trip cantav, Race R Mind um LA, he kind of do the second draft, etc.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

I wrote the fringe with what you're gonna LA again? Oh eh.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Oh well, you know, just really liked it out there. What you can visit the studio? Yeah, probably, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:07

Mama Kabrag and nosy buggers. Oh, do you know they're away with it, eh? Oh yes, I bet you are.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

I'm saying a sort of a nae head what a a character is pretty pushing a near poy poi, didn't it? You do that and you do that.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Well, uh my James and Wastad Hwaray Pam. A hoss my my is Wastad right always? Wastad, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just uh Oh um yeah. And she just does all these does a slice pam. Yeah, yeah. Um uh uh V and need um Brin. Okay. Um yeah, because uh maybe because of the Welsh, I don't know. Yeah uh on my my James and need Bryn, so uh ambit why Ambitwai?

SPEAKER_04 27:00

That's a word that's come from my deep from within. From my school days. Yeah, I was have your have you have your school umbirth.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Um yeah, it just m just really uh depends on um you know w what how the scene is running.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

Yeah.

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Uh but um usually um my my Jameson are I pam Avi need uh and on my Jameson made a really good NASA. Oh did we? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, really close.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

Yeah. But that you mono scriveny serious, really serious, yeah, bitumenistic coi birth to give her skin.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

A combination of like poignancy and yeah, I'm gonna say the scenery and uh and uh prodas, right?

SPEAKER_04 28:01

Are then very tense of great Damper I feel other than funny I don't know good a vergtor? Don't think about it. Right, another woman who was getting married to um to court.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Yeah. She kept that a secret, didn't she? Oh. So um yeah, Laura Aikman, a Dira Torres in uh uh great um uh oh gosh Sonia. Sonja Yeah yeah yeah. Um Riedhi just and how dowel am a job. Um I've actually written fair play. Do you think they do aid um a taily or a fringe name? I came on Christmas Day writing uh quil you are a tle quilia teledi, g day a taily, right? I wrote he a mum he ate a dad he and uh just a caratlady A Carol Scythe Finned, I mean he and just go what?

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Did you know? Well of course I knew I was in it I was there really reunions.

SPEAKER_04 29:31

King reunions and I'm there and a power more vishi.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Well uh r uh reunions now get a car, yeah. Just um yeah, I guess um Nessie uh need Nossan um Stella uh and Miss Um and Miss Tahwe. Yeah um Cody Arian um um Gar Sir Gareth Edwards Cancer Charity uh Hospice of the Valleys, uh Gedda Steve Spears, um and uh Rather Cast, Are Tloivan, uh Anateb Christian, um Julian Lewis Jones, Mark Lewis Jones, uh Karen Pallada, Di Bocha, Avia Steve, uh Patrick Baladi. Um just really really nice and fantastic. And just rather a pair fantastic who um bought Gedar Paub uh in Waitto. Yeah. Because you know you don't see people um and you you work with them so intensely and then you don't see them for ages. Do you like that with rugby players?

SPEAKER_04 30:36

Yeah, it's only uh reunion and the 80s boys. Oh yeah, and uh and Le Monde and Gutier that fantastic boys and boys need it boys more need a tour now.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

Oh really?

SPEAKER_04 30:55

Oh nice So basically now there, Todd?

SPEAKER_02 31:00

Um well doing uh Squinny uh with Gadda James, um uh uh showy comedy drama um a quiet core. Okay. Um uh on uh yeah uh probably um film your umish medium. Hello now yeah yeah yeah um I have it when Square Nicholetka does Steve Spears uh comedy drama at all um BBC um just um uh diepobelsine um uh curved mountain knee trauma clinic. Guinea pig?

SPEAKER_04 31:40

Oh yes man.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

Yeah you could be an extra.

SPEAKER_04 31:44

Yeah Actually we have got a couple of lines familiar Roggy Kalumia, yeah. Yeah right plenty of morphine and laxatives. Right line? Yeah in equal measure, can we wait for me?

SPEAKER_03 32:05

I'll talk to Steve about that.

SPEAKER_04 32:09

Right, can you rose? Oh dear. Uh Governor Dean question, do you? Do them a good board. Only them and govern I rob. Enjoy.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Yeah, but I've done that.