S9, Ep 4 How to Fail: Ruby Wax

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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I've wanted to get this guest on for ages and now - hooray! - here she is: the inimitable Ruby Wax. Ruby started out as an actress at the RSC, took a side-step into comedy and had a hugely successful television career, interviewing everyone from Madonna and Imelda Marcos to the Spice Girls. But, after living with depression all her life and a series of breakdowns, she got a Masters from Oxford University in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and is now a mental health campaigner and author.Ruby joins me to talk about mental health, mindfulness, job loss, how to deal with anxiety and comedy as a vehicle for truth. We chat about the influence of her late, dear friend Alan Rickman, the trauma of a difficult upbringing, the time she mortally embarrassed herself in front of Sir Paul McCartney and her spectacular failure at an audition for Saturday Night Live. Oh, and we talk about what happened when she interviewed the future President of the United States, Donald Trump, on his private jet [spoiler alert: it wasn't great].And if you enjoyed this episode, Ruby's new book, And Now For The Good News...From the Future With Love is out TOMORROW! *PLEASE PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK TOO, THANK YOU! Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong is available here*To celebrate the publication of Failosophy, I am doing a LIVE show at The London Palladium. It is also live-streamed online. If you'd like to buy tickets for either option, you can do so here.*How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you! To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com You can buy our fantastic PODCAST MERCH here.* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayRuby Wax @rubywaxHow To Fail @howtofailpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Channel 4 is the home of your next TV obsession. As the UK's biggest free streaming service,
0:07.9	they have it all from classic comedy box sets to shocking reality, gripping drama and
0:14.0	mind bending documentaries. They make content that's different from the rest and that
0:18.8	represents a broad cross-section of society. It's the home of unfiltered entertainment.
0:24.4	It's altogether different telling, made for you and happily for me because regular listeners
0:30.6	will know about my married at first sight Australia obsession. Currently on the TV, I cannot
0:37.0	get enough of it. I watch it every single night. I really miss it when it's not on on a Sunday.
0:42.3	And for anyone who doesn't know, it follows Australian singles who tie the knot with partners,
0:47.2	selected for them by relationship experts, including male shilling, former How to Fail podcast
0:53.1	they meet for the first time on their wedding day and we watch to find out whether there will be
0:58.8	perfect matches ahead or marriage mayhem. I love it. So stream now on Channel 4. There is so much
1:07.4	on there, including Maffsa and Scared of the Dark, Danny Dyer hosting as eight celebrities
1:13.0	aplunged into complete darkness for eight days. How will Paul Gasco and Chris Ubank's scarlet
1:18.2	mothat, Nicola Adams and others cope without light stream all of this now on Channel 4.
1:25.3	Dad, I'm hungry. Right, what do I cook for tea?
1:28.8	McCain chips. These will be good. You know they'll come out nice and crispy if you cook them in
1:32.6	a rye fryer. Just say, Alexa, open McCain and Alexa will help you. What? You mean if I say
1:38.6	Alexa, open McCain, Alexa will open the bag of chips for me. Not literally open the bag of chips
1:43.3	for your dad, but Alexa can tell you how to cook them and give you ideas for tea.
1:47.2	Okay, Alexa, open McCain. Well done, dad. Such a tech wizard.
1:51.8	Chip chip hooray. Crispy air fryer perfection with McCain.
1:56.2	This episode of How to Fail is sponsored by Bezier London. Bezier London is a lingerie and swimwear
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