It's lamp season, Chris is a hypocrite, and can we take a minute for Lake Garda?!

Sh**ged Married Annoyed

Hosts Rosie and Chris Ramsey reflect on their recent wedding trip to Lake Garda, Italy, discussing the beauty of the region despite social m

Key takeaways

• The hosts experienced 'Lamp Season' due to the arrival of darker autumn mornings.
• A discussion about Lake Garda highlights the annoyance of social media users claiming Lake Como is superior.

Main topics

• Lake Garda wedding trip
• Parenting and work-life balance

Notable quotes

It is officially Lamp Season!

Conclusion

A lighthearted, comedic episode that provides a humorous distraction t

Transcript preview

Speaker 5 (0:00) Coming up on this week's episode of Shag, Married, Annoyed, we are very smug and sensible, aren't we? Speaker 4 (0:04) Oh, well done us. The dark mornings are in. But it's not that bad. Not yet. We've Speaker 5 (0:09) been to a wedding in Italy and you'll hear all about that. Speaker 4 (0:11) Buongiorno. Ciao. Grazie. Etc. We have got beefs and lovely questions from you gorgeous lot. Enjoy! Speaker 4 (0:20) Hello, you are listening to and possibly watching Shagmode Annoyed with me, Rosie Ramsey, and my husband, Christopher Ramsey. Speaker 5 (0:27) Hello, hello. Hope you're all well. Hope you're having a lovely little time. We've just started to record this podcast and we're now on the records. We named them for the date that they're going to come out on. This is 2nd of October. I think it's the perfect time to tell you I had my first this morning. getting up and turning on all of the lamps that I'd turned off when I went to bed. Oh, no. Speaker 4 (0:49) No. Speaker 5 (0:51) Honestly, it was actually all right. It was actually. No, Speaker 4 (0:54) no. It always is. For the first month you go, oh. Speaker 5 (0:58) Cozy. Cozy. Oh, Speaker 4 (1:00) lovely. Mid-November. Speaker 5 (1:03) Sick as fuck. Yeah. I mean, Rafe got up astonishingly early this morning. I don't know why. But yeah, it was. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 4 (1:12) I don't know why he did that. Speaker 5 (1:13) I just like logged it. I was like, this is the first, and it's still September, but as we record this, but I was like, this is my first one. This is my first, oh, Groundhog Day. I've just fucking turned these off. Bang, bang, bang. Listen, Speaker 4 (1:25) I'll not have a bad word against lamps though. I do love lamp season. Yeah, we know. I do love lamp season. Speaker 5 (1:30) Lamp season. It fully is lamp season, isn't it? Lamp season. I do, I love it. We Speaker 4 (1:37) have not been into that garage. Oh God, I know, I'm sorry. I don't want to trigger you. I'm dreading Speaker 5 (1:42) it, you Speaker 3 (1:43) know. Speaker 5 (1:43) I'm dreading it. I'm dreading like, every time I turn a light on, I'm like, is this going to trip the, what do you call it, the fuse box and am I going to have to climb over fucking 14 gigantic fucking boxes and stuff? Chris, Speaker 4 (1:59) I genuinely haven't got time to sort it out. It's Speaker 5 (2:01) unbelievable. There's Speaker 4 (2:01) no time. You're on tour. I'm starting this filming today. I'm literally leaving at three o'clock. Speaker 3 (2:06) Yeah. Speaker 4 (2:08) There's no time. The kids, we have to do stuff with the kids on the weekend, obviously. Of course, you can't, Speaker 5 (2:13) yeah. Speaker 4 (2:13) I was sat yesterday at the Marine Park. No, sorry, I was at the Skatey Park with my friends. We were chatting and the kids were there and I was just in my head going, I've got so much to do. Speaker 3 (2:22) You Speaker 4 (2:22) know, in the back of your mind when you're like, I should be, I should be empty in that garage. I've Speaker 3 (2:27) got, Speaker 4 (2:27) I'm just, there's no time. I Speaker 5 (2:28) know exactly what you mean. Sometimes I'll sit and the kids like race on the soft play or like yesterday, Rob was playing on it. I took the scooter park with his mate and I'm literally going through lists on my phones and I'm like. There are so many things I could be doing, but I've got to be sitting here. But it is, it's just being, it's being a parent of young children. Everyone, like so many people out there who listen are in the same situation as us. And we're good parents. Yes, but it's busy doing nothing. It's almost the same as like when you, like again, I talk about when I filmed Heaven, when you film a sitcom, there's so much downtime where you've got to be there, but you have fuck all to do. And you're like, there's loads of things. That is being a parent, isn't it? It's basically the same. It's basically the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Hurry up and wait there. It actually is. Speaker 4 (3:06) But then everyone keeps saying you'll miss it and we will. We will. You sent us another thing yesterday. I know, I'm sorry. I Speaker 5 (3:12) got a Speaker 4 (3:12) cry and a thing. Sorry. When Speaker 5 (3:13) we're 80, we'll drive past the house that we grew up in and we'll look at the house and it'll... We will? What was it? It was like, we'll look in the back seat of the car and realise there isn't any kids' seats and mess there and I was like, Speaker 2 (3:26) God fucking damn it. We will. Yeah, started crying Speaker 5 (3:29) immediately. I know we will. And then I was like, put my phone down and I was like, right. And then, you know, I was shouting at him 10 minutes later. But Speaker 1 (3:35) for that 10 minutes, Speaker 5 (3:37) I was Speaker 4 (3:37) a great dad. Speaker 3 (3:40) That Speaker 4 (3:40) was the best. Speaker 5 (3:41) Guys, if you're listening, thank you. If you're watching, thank you very much. It's always a pleasure to have you here. We really do appreciate it. And without further ado, it's time for this week's lucrative, lucrative sponsor. This week's sponsor is... The feeling of smugness, and I'm putting it in this voice. This is like the Marks Speaker 1 (3:59) and Speaker 5 (3:59) Spencers advert voice. The feeling of smugness you get when you are travelling back from a trip with friends and you are at the airport and you are... Speaker 5 (4:11) fresh refreshed and slept well slept and everyone else is hanging out their fucking ass Speaker 4 (4:16) congratulations Speaker 5 (4:18) well done congratulations well done i mean Speaker 4 (4:21) we were the oldest of the not by that much five years yeah but no longer than that about seven i feel like we have learned we've done that yeah we've done that i've done that i've been at the airport hanging it's the worst it's Not enjoyable. Even Speaker 5 (4:36) on stag do's now, which as we all know, I hate and I'm sick of and I'm not going anymore unless it's golf. Coming back, like lying on the floor in the airport, like everyone just gutted, like, you know, looking like you've been delayed for three days when you actually have only been there half an hour but you are lying on the floor because you were fucking state. Speaker 4 (4:54) Home alone trying to get home. Yeah, Speaker 5 (4:56) yeah, yeah. I won't do that anymore. I can't. It's not what, I don't care. There is no night out. On the final night of a holiday, that can be good enough to make me want to feel like that in an airport the next day. Speaker 4 (5:10) I totally agree. Airports are a hangover. Speaker 5 (5:14) Just being in an airport travelling feels like you're hungover anyway. So with a hangover as well, sadly it doesn't cancel it out. It just makes it worse. No. Makes it worse. Anyway, we're at a wedding in Italy. More about that after the jingle. Speaker 3 (5:25) We had a fight about the jingle. We couldn't settle on a jingle. So this is the jingle. We hope you like the jingle. Speaker 3 (5:41) Babadoo babadoo babadoo bab. Jingle! Speaker 4 (5:46) Bonjourno. Welcome back to the speed set episode of Shagbird and Hoy. Chris and I went to the wedding in Italy and genuinely it was one of the best days of my life. It was Speaker 5 (5:55) astonishing. Best wedding I've ever been to. Sorry. Beautiful. Speaker 4 (5:58) Everybody whose wedding I've been to. Tell you what, I've heard a lot Speaker 5 (6:02) of Speaker 4 (6:02) people bang on about Lake Garda, a lot of hype. Speaker 5 (6:06) Lived up to the hype. Speaker 4 (6:07) Oh, do you know what's irritating? Good Speaker 5 (6:08) grief. Speaker 4 (6:08) What? Just going to put this out there. This is just me getting irritated by social media again. You know, because I put out on socials that I went to Lake Arda. Oh, yeah, yeah. Right? Why does everyone do this? Lake Cornwall's better. Speaker 4 (6:24) Okay. Well, I've just discovered Lake Orda, so let me just... Let's have a minute for Lake Orda. Why do people do that, though? Yeah. Speaker 3 (6:31) Like, Speaker 4 (6:31) oh, I went to Kos, Crete, much better. Speaker 5 (6:37) I'll just jump in my time machine and un-go to that place, shall I? Why do people do that, though? I kind of bear it. Speaker 4 (6:43) Loved Lake Ardout. It was absolutely sensational. Lake Como's better. Speaker 5 (6:47) Brilliant. Speaker 4 (6:48) Fuck me. Speaker 5 (6:49) All Speaker 4 (6:49) right. Is that in Italy as well? It's the other lake. There's two. There's two lakes. Speaker 5 (6:54) Good grief. And a sea all the way around it. Speaker 4 (6:56) Yeah, no, but apparently Lake Como is much better than Lake Garda. Honest to God, come on, you brought the bricks on, guys. Can they all be nice? Can they all be nice? Is that all right? They are all nice, but it's just, I don't know why people have to say that. Speaker 5 (7:10) Yeah, I know what you mean. Why Speaker 4 (7:11) does your brain go to that straight away? I've been to both, and this one's better. Right, okay, well, I haven't had the chance to do that yet. Speaker 5 (7:20) Where have you been? Lake Como? Fuck Lake Garda and fuck anyone who likes it. We're the Lake Cornwall gang. Speaker 4 (7:26) Yeah, it's like, it just blows my mind. It wasn't just one or two. No. Speaker 5 (7:31) Really? Speaker 4 (7:32) Oh, so many. Like, so many. Speaker 5 (7:34) I'm going to be honest with you, I'm starting to believe it might be better. Speaker 4 (7:38) Starting to feel gypped, actually. Speaker 5 (7:39) Sorry, Speaker 4 (7:39) I'm just going to quickly Speaker 5 (7:40) ring my mate. Hiya, mate, you all right? Why did you get mad at the shit, Lake? Why am I here? Why am I here on Instagram? Tell everyone I went to a wedding in Agardagh and everyone said there's a better one but you got mad at the shit one. It's your fucking problem, eh? Speaker 4 (7:53) Do you even know Chris at all? Speaker 5 (7:54) Eh? He has to go to the best bit. Do I have to be the best at everything I do? Fuck's wrong with you? Why are you putting us through this? Well, Speaker 4 (8:02) if, I'm sorry, like, if Lea Como is better, imagine, like, wow, I'm still here actually. I mean, if Lea Como is, Lea Como must be on crack. I Speaker 5 (8:14) mean, yeah. In a Speaker 4 (8:14) really, in a mint way. Because crack is good, isn't it? Apparently Speaker 5 (8:17) it's great. That's the main problem with it, apparently. It's too good. Too Speaker 4 (8:22) good of Speaker 5 (8:23) anything. Well, yeah. Well, okay. Well, all right. It Speaker 4 (8:26) was, Chris. It was absolutely lush. Speaker 5 (8:29) Everything about it was stunning. Oh Speaker 4 (8:30) yeah, I went to Verona in the summer, didn't I, with Kate and my mum? And this was like a little mini Verona. It was just stunning. Speaker 5 (8:37) Rome's better. Speaker 4 (8:38) Oh, well. That's what I've heard. Sorry. Speaker 5 (8:40) I've never been to either. It was just, honestly, I've never been an Italy guy. It's just something I've never done. I've only been twice and this was one of the times. Speaker 4 (8:49) As a fan of pizza, I was really surprised at that. Speaker 5 (8:51) Pizza every five yards. Yeah. I've never seen it. You can remember, we walked around. Guys, every restaurant was a pizzeria. I could have wept. Speaker 4 (8:57) A pizza what? Did I Speaker 5 (8:59) say it wrong? Speaker 4 (9:00) You said pizzeria. Pizzeria? Pizzeria. Pizzeria. Oh, Speaker 5 (9:04) fuck. Oh, God. Speaker 4 (9:06) Let it come, I won't let it win. I can't even say it. Pizzeria. Speaker 5 (9:09) Is it pizzeria? I've been seeing pizzeria. No, you Speaker 4 (9:12) haven't. I Speaker 5 (9:13) think I have, you know. Speaker 4 (9:14) You do not say pizzeria. Speaker 5 (9:15) I think it's 50-50, depending on which one I fancy. I'm sure I've seen pizzeria. It's pizzeria. Pizzeria. Oh, Speaker 4 (9:21) God, that's embarrassing. Oh, fucking hell, man. Wow. Speaker 5 (9:24) Right, go. make some calls afterwards yeah i was helping i was just doing it i Speaker 4 (9:27) was severely hungover and wanted to just stay at the hotel for dinner and you made us you made us go out made me get ready and go out yes to go to pizzeria Speaker 5 (9:35) pizzerias yeah everything about it though like we were walking down the street and none walked towards her we're on a little walk and none walked towards her guys just a little lady none immaculately dressed she walked along she looked at her massive smile and went bonjour no good I started crying. Speaker 4 (9:52) Yeah. And you're not even religious. I'm not even a religious guy. Speaker 5 (9:54) I was just like, that's one of the most incredible things. About 100 yards down the road, walked past a workman whistling. God. Just like a workman. Best whistler I've ever heard in my life. It Speaker 4 (10:04) was like something out of an Italian Disney. Yeah. It was fucking amazing. I turned to you and I was like, even the Speaker 5 (10:08) whistling of a random workman over here is operatic. I know. Architecture was Speaker 4 (10:14) gorgeous. Yeah. Everything was lovely. So yeah, we had a lovely time. Not mad, but we went as well. I was telling my auntie Kat this. Not mad expensive either. Speaker 3 (10:22) Yeah. Speaker 4 (10:23) That pasta I got, that fruity, no, fruity de mer. Speaker 5 (10:29) We're just going to say stuff wrong this entire Speaker 4 (10:30) time. Speaker 5 (10:30) Guys, apologies. We're going to say, we're going to northeast fuck up a load of beautiful Italian words in this episode. Get on board with it. Speaker 4 (10:38) That seafood pasta I got. Speaker 5 (10:39) Yeah. It Speaker 4 (10:40) was about 11 euro, I think. Let's not do that. 12 euro. Speaker 3 (10:43) Yeah. Speaker 4 (10:43) And I was like, this is actually not crazy. But we were in the, like the northeast next to Salo, Salo? Salo was a corner. The Gardon Riviera. And yeah, it was decent. You know when you're like, this isn't mad expensive. Like what it is when you go to the Veronas. But Speaker 5 (10:59) your bloody late como was a bloody pretty penny, yeah. But yeah, so we, the final night we didn't drink at all. But the other two nights we did. We kind of did. Speaker 4 (11:08) Well, Speaker 5 (11:08) we... Speaker 4 (11:09) I definitely sank a bottle of wine during the day. We drank a lot. We did deer drinking. Deer drinking. And we Speaker 5 (11:15) went back to the room early and two nights on the belt, everyone. Two nights on the belt, we watched the same 11 minutes of Slow Horses, of the New Yorker's sort of Slow Horses. And then we came back and had to watch it again when we got home because I was like, I don't know what the fuck happened. I Speaker 4 (11:31) had no idea. Speaker 5 (11:32) I was like, my mate Lenny Rush. I was like, Lenny's in. I was like, I saw him. He's in the episode, Rosie. I can't remember where he is, but he's briefly in the first episode and I know I'd seen him. And every time I watched, I went,