Ruthie - The Lockdown Sessions
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Ruthie - The Lockdown Sessions
With university paused, the generation gap becomes more brutal than ever, with 19-year-old Ruthie locked in with boomer parents, but still podcasting If you enjoy 'Ruthie - The Lockdown Sessions, then we'd be pathetically grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes here; https://itunes.apple.com/...
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Ruthie is dragged back to the mic for another lockdown session in which she stresses the importance of mattress toppers, and worries she's not committ...
Tik Tok explained - 'It's short videos, you watch for hours, and then feel terrible about yourself'
In the latest lockdown session, an increasingly demotivated Ruth - with student life suspended - tackles Black Lives Matter, explains Tik Tok, and lea...
'I'll tell my future children about this, if I ever have any - if I ever get out of the house, that is.'
'When we establish the matriarchy,' says Ruth, 'The two men we'll save are Bill Gates and Richard Osman. And maybe Leonardo DiCaprio and Harry Styles...
'I'm all jigsawed out. I need to go back to Uni.'
Ruthie and Dad remain locked down, and added to the hell of being stranded with aging parents, Ruth is also frustrated by the lack of progress in her...
'No-one asked for the 'new normal.' I was quite happy with the 'old normal.'
In the first of a new series, 19-year-old Ruthie is feeling the generation gap particularly keenly, reluctantly furloughed from the Universtiy of York...
starting at University of York and settling in
We edited together some clips of Ruthie, Uni, Dad, and Me as our entry for the British Podcast Awards, but as it seems those awards will not happen we...
'This is dad's hot take on Coronavirus - makes him sound like Stalin!'
The very last Ruthie - Uni, Dad & Me, for the time being at least, as University shuts & Ruth is isolated with parents. In the swansong podcast, we l...
'We already were the anxious generation, now this...'
...in which dad questions whether some young people view Coronavirus in some bizarre way as a payback for Brexit, and Ruthie laments losing what might...
Leopardskin ears - and begging for drinks in Wetherspoons
...in which dad is confused when a leopardskin bowtie and comedy leopardskin ears arrive for him. AlsoRuthie and dad discuss what the effects of Coron...
'It's quite feminist, there's a lot of armpit hair.'
Family relationships are a major thread in the latest father-and-daughter podcast. With dad being a 'spooky' middle child, and Ruthie the baby of the...
Family rankings - 'You're trying for the Premier League, you don't want to be in that relegation zone.'
Ruth says she'd definitely kiss a Tory, if necessary, and drink Yorkshire Tea. She reveals that students at the rival York St. John's University thin...
'I'm trying to help the planet, but I bought squeezy yoghurt pouches because I so didn't want to dirty a spoon, and have to wash it.'
Serious Uni issues such as lecturers' strikes, Uni elections, and the future of the Erasmus programme after Brexit come to the fore, but Ruth also exp...
'No-one's watching Pretty Woman as a gritty documentary about sex work.'
In the latest generation gap podcast, Ruth and dad discuss extreme porn freely available on the Internet, Ruth reports on reactions in York to the ear...
'University Challenge? Well, I don't mind sitting in the room and guessing at some questions.'
This week, the story of the drunken/high student who wakes Ruth at 3am, goes into the shower and emerges with two cartons of chips that weren't there...
'Being as famous as Billie Eilish is not my number one worry.'
...in which Ruth has low moments back at Uni, rejects pole dancing as a fitness regime - 'still feels a bit demeaning' - considers the problems of bei...
'Mum bought me a big block of cheese - so I'm not going vegan.'
Ruthie and Dad have a heated debate on whether Britain is a racist country, discuss campus sexual assault, youth slang, and how Ruth unwinds after a l...
The 2010s - The Decade of Dating
In a New Year/End of Decade special, father and daughter discuss how life has changed in the past ten years, chiefly through the prism of dating, give...
'Without alcohol I couldn't have done it.' And last word on the election - a student's view.
Ruthie has finished her first term studying French and Spanish at the University of York, and is settling back in at home, enjoying the choice of cris...
'Friendship, Love, & Pasta.'
....in which Ruth lists ten things she has learnt in her first term at the University of York, tries to decide whether she's a post-colonial feminist...
Best of Ruthie - on strip clubs, cheerleading, cashless society & music from Beatles, Pentangle, and others
From various phases of the Ruthie - Uni, Dad, and Me generation gap podcast, Martin forces a teenager to watch Fawlty Towers, while Ruthie gives her f...
Shortage of working class students at York Uni? 'Well, I met a boy from Scunthorp
...in which Ruth is not impressed by boy students weeing in the sink, prompting dad to reveal the secret of Butlin's bum. Ruth and dad discuss initiat...
A Fresher's Life - Playing Mario Kart in Someone's Room
...in which Ruth falls asleep on a nightclub toilet at 2am, when she could have been in the University of York's 24-hour library. Also, despite Armis...
'Look at me on Instagram, as long as you're not weird.'
...in which Ruthie, now fully at home at the University of York, dresses up as Hugh Hefner, while her college chums pretend to be Playboy bunnies....
'University is unbelievably like Love Island'
Ruth is settling in at the University of York, coping with a demanding French and Spanish degree course. She's uncomfortable with the banning of a cam...
Making a Cheese Toastie in a wok, sexual consent & a cup of tea, & other student tales.
Boy George once said of sex that he'd rather have a cup of tea, a metaphor taken up by York University, in their lectures on sexual consent. Ruth also...
The overpowering smell of boy - Ruth starts Uni.
In which Ruth embarks on the difficult business of making friends at University, falls over drunk causing cuts and abrasions, stands up for Leeds in t...
'I don't just disagree with what he says, I think he's a bad man.'
A compilation of extracts of Ruthie Me & My Dad from the last year's episodes; includes Fiona Bruce taking over Question Time, Ruth's views on Piers M...
'I'm always a little worried that everyone will hate me.'
Trepidation and excitement mingle as Ruth prepares to start university. Meanwhile, as someone who likes a chocolate Minstrel, she rejects sugar-free...
'People don't talk about being shaky and feeling lost very often. It's hard.'
Ruth talks about her uncertainty on the eve of her university career. Also how no-one wants to see a revival of Friends - fiftysomething Ross and Rach...
'Let me finish my sentence!'
Ruth believes you can't tell the story of the Pope being stuck in a lift without doing a transubstantiation joke or something similar, she tries a Bla...
'I've never put a condom on a cucumber'
In this episode, Ruth reveals she follows the Gospel According to Tom Hanks, gives her views on sandwich toasters and ATM etiquette, and laments the i...
The Obamas' nine bathrooms - 'The super rich will be the death of this world.'
After her weekend at Leeds Music Festival, Ruth discusses the drugs death, and the misguided attitude to drugs of festival security. She's underwhelm...
'I hope Kings Of Leon aren't listening.'
This generation gap podcast covers all the important issues; Boris Johnson's narcissism, supermarket pizzas, whether having children enhances your lif...
'I'm not going to iron anything when I get to university.'
On the eve of A-level results day, Ruth sympathises with fellow students who, unlike her, don't have an unconditional offer from a chosen university o...
'When are we getting free stuff?'
Ruth visits Leeds Pride and reports back, while dad questions its relevance beyond giving companies the chance to show how woke they are. He also has...
'Boris Is Pretty Dicky'
...is Ruth's assessment of our new Prime Minister, as dad brings her up to date with what's been happening while she's been away, where she outraged h...
'I don't buy this phoney free speech argument, where you can say anything you want.'
Ruth and dad have a heated debate on transgender issues, Ruth is accused of anti-Scottish bias, and upbraided for yawning mid-podcast. Also, is Maura...
'Boris has Matilda syndrome. He thinks he's special.'
Sympathy for the parents of Jihadi Jack from Ruth and Dad, though Dad thinks over-indulgent parenting may have exacerbated the problem, the new digita...
'I enjoy a potato smile, but they're not the height of elegance.'
Ruth celebrates the end of A-levels with a trip to the council tip, and in her first post-exam podcast she and dad discuss prom nights, accusations of...
Ruthie Me and My Dad podcast - is that even a thing?
Father and daughter literally discuss new speech patterns introduced by the young, dad complains about the feminisation of movies, and is unimpressed...