Daisy May Cooper & Charlie Cooper: Ghost Hunts, Sibling Rivalry & Threadworm

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 715 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

What do you say when a fan recognises you… while you’re buying threadworm tablets? Daisy May and Charlie Cooper join Romesh to relive their most mortifying moments, talk about ghost-hunting in a haunted prison, and explain how a viral story nearly ruined their lives. They also get honest about fame, sibling rivalry, and why Daisy might be the only person to take sleeping pills on a paranormal show. A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Listen. 00:00 Intro 01:20 “I Was a Bit of a Tw*t Before Fame” 03:00 How Important Is Being Famous? 04:45 Charlie on THREADWORMS 07:00 “Where’s the Fish in That Story?” 10:15 Daisy’s Viral Audition CONFESSION 11:50 Emotional Support Ghosts & Haunted Hotels 15:00 Daisy and Charlie Really Believe in Ghosts 18:00 Daisy Sleeps Through the Paranormal 20:00 Fake Tan in Prison 22:00 Telepathy Test 27:00 Charlie & Romesh’s Argos Jobs 33:00 Shanthi’s Question: Working with Siblings 37:00 Competing for Mum 40:00 The Hustle vs Family Life 44:00 Oscar Fixations 51:00 “You Were a Bit Boring – Now You’re Boring with More Money!” 53:00 The Pilot That Nearly Killed This Country 54:00 Daisy Pays Charlie a Compliment (Finally) 56:00 Daisy’s Creepy Tarot Reading 01:00:00 Misquoted 01:03:16 Who Wrote the Best Line in the Show? 01:04:50 Why the Runners Hate Daisy 01:07:30 Wetting Yourself 01:15:00 Romesh’s Josh Widdicombe Impression Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Someone came up to me and said that was their favourite line in the entire.
0:03.0	Really?
0:04.0	Yeah, that was the other day actually.
0:05.0	Oh, I wrote that line. No, no, no, I don't think you did. No, you didn't. Like, if you were already an asshole, fame's just going to magnify that, right? And I was a bit of a twat before it, and I suppose I'm a larger one. one and, you know, a bit boring and now he's a bit boring with more money.
0:26.6	I mean you were...
0:28.6	Thousand percent.
0:29.6	You were so depressed after.
0:30.6	I was so underwhelmed.
0:32.6	Because you've lived it in your head.
0:36.6	With this country, right, when it was when we did the pilot and it was really terrible, and we got dropped. After the pilot? This is after the pilot. It was so bad. And they are Asian. Was it bad? Or they just think. Oh, bad. I don't think I'm intelligent. I don't, but I have always.
0:55.0	Sorry, Charlie, do you mean when you shook, shaking your head, was that, no, you don't believe you're intelligent or no, you're not intelligent?
1:00.0	Um, both.
1:02.0	Okay.
1:03.0	I'm Daisy Mae Cooper.
1:08.0	And I'm Charlie Cooper.
1:10.0	And we're going to be on the And we're going to be on the...
1:11.6	We're going to be on the...
1:13.6	Oh, sir.
1:14.6	You go first then.
1:18.6	We're going to be on the Ramesh Ranganathan Show.
1:20.6	We're going to be on the Ramesh Ranganathan Show.
1:23.6	Yeah, that was good. Yeah, great. Oh, shut up, Romish. Oh, shut up, Romish.
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