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2:16Nathan Show. With me, Shanti. You look very smart. Thanks. You look unbelievable, by the way. It's true. Unbelievable. You do look great. You look like a fucking sexy licorice all sort. Oh, God. Help. Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Ramesh Rang Nathan Show. You used to talk about your girlfriend's dad, not to me. I'm very strict. I'm stricter than your dad. Yeah. Because as I said to you, don't ever touch a girl before you enter university. That will fuck up your brain. You will fail in everything, okay? Did you listen to me? No. Well, it didn't fuck up my brain though, did it? Thank God.

3:00God has given you the talent, naturally. How do you think touching a girl fucks up your brain? But while the lecturer is giving you a lecture, you'll be thinking about the sex. Oh, shall I do this way? Shall I do that way? or this way, or horse ride.

3:20This is unbelievable. This is remarkable. It's very, very true. Okay. Can we, maybe, Shanti, if we sort of pretend, we're going back in time. Yeah. So pretend that Romesh is 18, and he's brought a girl home, and you don't like her. Yeah. How would that, what would you say to him? Hi. Bikini B-18, yeah, B-18-year-old Romesh. 18-year-old Ramesh. Did you have the bandana at that point? All depends on whether he was qualified or when do you need... FUBU, ARX jeans. He chose that girl, I will say yes, go ahead. OK, but we're going to... But we're going to play it through. Hi, Mum. Yeah. Hi, Mum. Can I introduce to my girlfriend, Sarah?

4:06Hey. Oh, no. No. The answer is... There's no question. No question? I'll go quiet. No, you're doing a role play, so you've got to go and roll. So you want me to... I turn up at the date. You're 18. I'm talking to an 18-year-old boy. You're talking to an 18-year-old Romesh. I'm going to ring ding-dong. Okay, right. Ding-dong, come in. Right. You're not really committing to this. I'm going to. Okay. Hi, Romesh. Is that your girlfriend? Yes. This is Sarah. Hi, Sarah. How are you, darling? You okay? Then how much you like my son? And what do you see in him? I will ask the question. What do you see in him?

4:53Yeah, what made you attract my son? Ben, do you want to be Sarah?

5:04I think he's really cool and he has great clothes. And we just like hip-hop and garage. and dancing. That's what attracted you? Yeah. Okay. Let me think about it. Think about what? Whether you're going to carry on with my son or... Mum, no disrespect, right? I don't really think it's any of your business. I like Sarah. I like Sarah and I want to go out of her. You idiot. That's not the way to talk to your mother in front of this girlfriend Sarah. Okay? Knock your teeth out. Yeah? I will. listen to me mmm knock your teeth out I will

5:51well I like her I really love her actually you like her so why do if you like her why do you want our opinion god mum yeah yeah get close from it you sort yourself out okay chuck you out that's it and you throw me out forever I will okay end scene Jan and Ken listen I'd love some more details please feel free to send a follow up voice note but in my opinion I think you just have to live with it your son's made his choice and I think the supportive parent thing to do is just to accept that's what his choice is good luck hope that's helped yeah don't think it has I remember when you went to Canada on your show and you went on Naked News any plans for Naked episodes of the podcast?

6:37that's not a real question That's a real question. And that's a real person. But it does sound AI. Yeah, it does. It does sound AI. Do you know what Scott's talking about? First of all, thank you, Scott. Do you want to say thank you, Scott, down there? Thank you, Scott. No, we can do it to this one. That's Will and that's John. Yeah. Neither of these people. Are you having the impression that one of these guys is called Scott? Scott is the person that did the voice note. Did he? He just said, I'm Scott from Canada. You heard it right now, right? You said it's AI. No, it's not AI. We said it sounds like AI.

7:09Sounds like AI, but you did. He didn't do it? No, it's Scott from Canada. So who put the accent in? Scott, it's not an accent. That's how he talks. Where he's from? From Canada. Yeah. So would you ever consider going naked on the podcast? No, no, no, no. What if Ben said he'd buy you a nice watch? I might think, yeah. Okay. So how much would the watch have to cost for you to be naked? 9 ,000. 9 ,000. That's really specific. Yeah. Which watch have you got your eye on? You can guess. Rolex. Yeah. So, Ben, when you buy Mum a Rolex and she'll get her bits out. Pardon? Are you going to broadcast this?

7:48Broadcast what? We don't have to. We could do it in our... Broadcast what? Shut up. Sorry. You say you do it if it wasn't film, though, if I just wanted to see it.

8:02Is any of this usable? I'm not offended. No, if I'm getting a watch, why not? So you would get naked on the podcast? Of course. It would go on YouTube? Yeah. Yeah, no, I wouldn't, no. For two watches? Front of mum. No. Oh, is it the front of your mum? I think that has a part to play. You're sort of saying it like that makes me a weirdo. Oh, you're a bit prudish because you don't want to get naked in front of your mum. But you've been naked in front of her probably millions of times. Millions? Haven't you? Millions? Do you think it's millions? You think it's millions? Rough estimate of how many times your mum's seen you naked is millions.

8:49I don't know. What do you think about? What are you doing? Are you putting on a show? Are you leaving the room and going back in? Ta-da! Easy. It's a rum-jong and a-f-a-s-haw featuring my mum Shanti. We're going to deal with some listener problems. We can also chat about our problems. We're also going to do a little segment where we talk about the sponsor for the app. I don't like it at all. You are not going to believe the way that we bring it. Don't damage my rep. No. Insate. You can't do better than that, Romesh. Shut up. Nace. Is it Nace in a vase? Nace in a vase? We do it on Monday and on Thursday.

9:17Double episode every week. You're going to understand how I hardly speak because I'm chatting so much. Just had lunch. I really wish I hadn't had that much. I had a Thai rice bowl from Attis. It was pretty nice. Shut the fuck up. What? I couldn't understand a word you were saying. Insate. Mum can't understand. She doesn't know what I'm saying. Who gives a plan? I don't give a shit about that. Let's get on with the Thursday episode.

9:43Pull up. Football, they can record it and watch it later. Oh, my God. That's not a solution. Are you joking? What are you talking about? Record it? Yeah. Record it? You want to watch it and scream? Oh, score! Like that.

10:08That's what you do. Do you know what that will remind me of? You know when you watch an American film and one of the characters is watching football? Soccer. That's the sort of thing that they say. Kick it! Kick it! Oh, score! Nobody says that. I found it. It's happening so many times in your house. Yeah. You try to show how much you like football. Getting the attention. and oh my God, my son likes football so much. Shouting and screaming and why? So, Mum, you think that when I shout to an Arsenal score, it's for your benefit? Not my benefit. For whose benefit? Showing off. To who? To me. Okay.

10:49So that's what I meant by your benefit. So you can't avoid talking to me. What do you mean? I'm watching the football. That lady. Here's a tip for you. Be better than the football. You know, then maybe get some attention. Let's play round two of Notalenghi. Notalenghi. Okay, okay. Okay, mum. Which one of these is an Otalenghi meringue? Premium item. One of these is not. I know the answer because I do make meringue. I do pavlova. Yeah. So this is a Notalenghi. No. Which one's Notalenghi? One of them's not. One of them is. Which one's Otolenghi? The one, that one, the white one. The white one is what?

11:36Notolenghi. Notolenghi. Notolenghi. And the red one is? No, it's a... Otolenghi. Otolenghi. Why do you think that? Because it's big. Yeah. And the shape made it like boobs, so it attracts young men. Yeah. What do you mean? Yeah, the shape of it. People love it. No, but is that based in fact, what you're saying? It is, it is. What? Will, why are you nodding? Why do you keep saying mm-hmms? I agree, I agree. There you are. Young fellow. It wasn't just like an agreement. It's so weird. All I heard was mum started talking about booze, and you go mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I don't know if the mic picks out, but it's quite a low level.

12:17When somebody serve you food, how you, because the display, how they do it. Yeah. This young fellow said, my God, look, let me have a go at it. So that's the shape. I don't think that's true. I suppose it's a bit like the, you know, the Marie Antoinette glass. You know, it's like it's the shape of the woman's body. Body, there you are. Might be something to it. A perfume bottle, boobs, everything. So they... I just don't think, I think you're extrapolating it to meringues in a way that's not, you know. Anyway. Well, whose boob looks like that? How many boobs have you seen? Pardon? Seven.

13:06I don't think boob when I say that. Do you want some, Shanti? Do you want to try some? Just bite into it like an apple. Yeah? Yeah, go for it. Do you like meringue? I love meringue. No? Yeah, go for it. Why not? Okay, the young man will eat like that. Show me how a young man would eat this. Just bite the nipple off. Oh, God!

13:39I didn't expect this to happen.

13:44I'm going to show this, so cut it off. What do you mean? No, cut it off, man. Why? Cut it off? You bit it off. Mr Bizekti. Why did you lick it? Is that what happened? I didn't know. I couldn't see from my angle. She licked it. I'm surprised you didn't make a noise, Will. Hey, Ramesh and Shanti. Hello. Who would win in a fight? Sonic the Hedgehog or Mr Bean? Is this real? Explain your logic. Is this real? That's a real one. Hedgehog and what? Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog and? Sonic the Hedgehog and Mr Bean. Mr Bean. God. So first of all, do you know who those people are? Yeah. Sonic the Hedgehog.

14:26This is really making me very nostalgic for the piss question. Sonic the Hedgehog, you know who that is, don't you? Hedgehog, isn't it? Sonic the Hedgehog, the blue hedgehog. Yeah. You know who that is? No. Sonic the Hedgehog, the video game character. Ah, right. Okay. Shall I show you a picture? Yes, please. Mr Bean. Mr Bean, is it? Yeah, you know Mr Bean, right? Of course. I mean, I don't know what logic to apply to this, really. Well, Sonic's fast, isn't he? Yeah. So that idiot who asked that question. Not an idiot, Mum. These are people that listen to the show. Okay. All right. Okay. No. It's too unfair.

15:05Now go on. What kind of question is this? Of course, he knows the answer. How? What's the answer then? That video game character. Hedgehog. Sonic. Why will he win? They're fast, aren't they? Mr Bean, by the time he does all this, he'll fail. When has Mr Bean done all that?

15:31That's how he acted. Do you remember how he talks? No, I can't do it. Mr Bean. Mr Bean, yeah. And do all this. Oh, yeah. So.

15:49How can he meet? Yeah, I think, in answer, who is it? Did they leave a name? I think it's Sonic the Hedgehog. Mr Bean's not going to get anywhere near him. No. By the time he adjusts his skeleton and mover, he won't do it. But Mr Bean's the sort of person that would set up some sort of elaborate trap. He's sort of like the human version of Wile E. Coyote, isn't he? Do you know what I mean? He might do a plan. Go get you now, Hedgehog.

16:18Do you know what I mean? We're actually trying to book Rowan Atkinson. Oh yeah, well show him this clip. Clip it up. It's the maddest impression of Mr. Bean I've ever seen. Can we see it one more time? Yeah, one more time, Mom, Mr. Bean.

16:35My mom used to call my penis Kaka, right? Yeah. Penis. She had a pet name for his. Yeah, she'd go, your caca. Caca. Caca means... She also used to call my poo caca. One day, I was ill, and the doctors wanted to get me checked out, and so they needed a bit of my caca. And so mum said to me, we're going to need to send a bit of your caca to the doctor. I cried for about 45 minutes.

17:09Very true, that is. You really thought? I thought she was going to cut off a bit of my penis and send it to the doctor. When did you realise? I don't know. It took a long time for us to figure out what... Because mum's obviously like, this isn't that big a deal. I don't know what you're getting so upset about. I'd rather die than send a bit of my cuck out to the doctor. And then eventually we figured it out. I sent him a whole log.

17:39Basically, my boyfriend calls his mum every day and he always ends the call with, love you, mummy. And I'm just thinking, is that a red flag? Because I personally call my parents at most once a week and we never tell each other we love each other. Also, the mummy thing just gives me the ick. Hannah, thank you so much for your voice note. I think there's a lot to unpack here, in my opinion. Yeah. Mum, would you like to give your take first of all? My son, Romesh, calls me mummy sometimes when he's in a happy mood. And in the end of the conversation, in the end of the conversation, he said, I love you, mummy.

18:25There you are. That's the answer from me. So you make up your mind and deal with it. I feel that's going to change your response to this.

18:39I think Hannah in my humble opinion bearing in mind neither of us are qualified for family relationships or therapy that somewhere in between yourself and your boyfriend is where I think is the sort of normal space I think that it depends how he's saying I love you mummy to be I agree saying I love you mummy is a bit of an ick from a grown up it is it is a bit of an ick it's not sexy is it do you know what I mean I feel like you know if he's going it like I don't know I kind of say it in a jokey way you text me I sort of go love you mummy like that it's not like mummy I love you it's not like that is it no no no no so would you ever refer to Shanti to other people as like I have a friend that will go I'm just going to have lunch with daddy and mummy and we're going to have to other people no no no because no because I don't live in the real housewives of London that's really weird yeah he's making her happy because now he's living with a girlfriend yeah so mother always feel sad you know suddenly's gone with another she got a girlfriend yeah will really call me so just to keep everything quiet love you mommy that's it yeah i think calling every day is sort of fine i get why i love you mommy is a bit of an ick but i think you can kind of i often find a great way to tackle these things is kind of to sort of fold the truth up into a joke.

20:09Like, I don't know, something like, oh, you know, when you said I love you, my vagina completely dried up. Why do you want to do irrigation? No.

20:20Vagina dried up. Yeah, no, I get it. You've got to irrigate. Irrigate the vagina. That's what you have to do. Irrigation. Yeah. Do you irrigate? Don't you lubricate? No, you can irrigate. I saw a thing about it on Comic Relief. Yeah. You know...

20:38You know, never... For Lenny Henry. Yeah, just trying to irrigate. We've been digging. This year, thanks to your donations, we irrigated 35 ,000 vaginas.

20:56Anything, guys. Take a plant, garden, irrigate.

21:04Sometimes too much dried out vagina. So you're dealing with it, isn't it? Yeah, sure. I would sort of fold it into... I mean, I was being deliberately disgusting there, but the point is, is like you can sort of deal with it in a... I think you can deal with it in a jokey way. You know, sometimes like Lisa will go to me, she'll just sort of take the piss, but I know that she's in their piss-taking. Mood. Not a mood. She's not in a mood about it, but she's like, you know, I don't know, she'll fold something into a joke but I know that there's a real point there. Do you know what I mean? All right.

21:36So I think you could try doing that. I think never telling... I think it's unusual to have parents... That girlfriend, what's her name? Sorry, I must have given you the impression I was finished by taking a breath. Go on. Say she had a son. Yeah. Put herself into that boyfriend's mother situation. Boyfriend's mother situation. Say she had a son, put herself into the boyfriend's mother situation. Ask her if your son, if he has a son, anyway, now he's starting the family. Yeah. Will she, when she had a son, when she have a son. When she have a son. Yeah, yeah. In future, future. In future, future.