Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpods with me Chris Shaw.

Throughout January 2020, a popery of delicious guests are taking a jaunty stroll through

Peter Jackson's Get Back, day by day, every day on the day.

In this episode, it's a welcome return to broadcaster, writer and podcaster, Julia Rayside. Hello.

Hello. It's nice to see you again. It's been about, what is it, two years as we did our in-person

recording, longer than that, probably. It was a week before lockdown. God, it was, wasn't it? Yeah.

It was like the end of human contact as we know it.

It was. I think that was the last time I went to a pub. Yeah.

And we were surrounded by a load of drunk people. It was awful. You were really hung over. They were really drunk. It was like it was a bit dystopian. It wasn't like a lovely, happy way to leave society, was it?

It was a warning of what was to come. It was. So, get back.

Did it exceed your expectations? Did you have any expectations? Well, as you know, I live in a house

with someone who is much more invested in this than me. I love it. I love them. I was looking forward

to it. I was sort of coming from it,

I was coming to it from a point of view of being someone who really loves television and I will watch,

I will admit this now. This is not the thing to say on a Beatles podcast. Like I've never missed an

episode of Made in Chelsea. That's, I'm just going to say that and then you'll probably switch off or judge me as you will. But on the whole I sort of don't like constructive reality TV, but I like that one because

it's so constructed. And this didn't feel like watching Made in Chelsea obviously, but it did feel

constructed in a way. There were lots of reminders of, obviously, you know, it opens with that

the famous kind of um announcement of numerous editorial

choices which is kind of how they start any modern reality show now it's like this represents

reality some scenes have been constructive your entertainment it's like it's very um you know how they

pull up some of the audio and fade down some of the others and you're never quite sure if what you're

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