Following the Love Island suicides, Ruth and Dad ask if enjoyment of the show makes you complicit in the tragedies; and Ruth gets a tiny taste of what public disapproval feels like with her second hate mail in two weeks.  Also, conspiracy theories - whether it's Princess Diana, Madeleine McCann, or the moon landing, they remain irresistible to young people.  It might have something to do with the teenage brain, which Ruth and Dad also discuss, and musically, Kenny Rogers takes on Subculture Sage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'One day, maybe, I'll be advertising de-tox tea on YouTube.'

With university paused, the generation gap becomes more brutal than ever, with 19-year-old Ruthie locked in with boomer parents, but still podcasting 
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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 committed enough to anything. 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life when I don't care about anything?' she asks. 'Well, there's always journalism,' replies dad.  Musically, the Kinks take on Mahalia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'The producers of Love Island knew all about Coronavirus before anybody.

In the latest lockdown session, an increasingly demotivated Ruth - with student life suspended - tackles Black Lives Matter, explains Tik Tok, and learns some new words from Dad and Suzie Dent, although Dad gives a totally misleading definition of the word 'anomie.' Also Ella Fitzgerald, mundane celebrity sightings, and the efforts of the French to keep their language pure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tik Tok explained - 'It's short videos, you watch for hours, and then feel terrible about yourself'

'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.'  This week Ruth and Dad talk Eurovision, and Iceland's superb entry.  Also Ruth looks at Coronavirus as a class issue, and gets some support for her views on colonialism.  She also bizarrely takes issue with Dad's pronunciation of the word 'California.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'I'll tell my future children about this, if I ever have any - if I ever get out of the house, that is.'

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 Uni work. Online tuition is just not working, she says, and no-one seems to be thinking about a solution for Britain's students. Also, the 'New Normal' everybody's talking about - although Ruth was quite happy with the old Normal - should include a rebalancing of the nation's resources away from London to the North. Ruth also has a 400-year-old swipe at the Mayflower pilgrims of 1620. Popular culture references include Love Island, Grays Anatomy, Friends, Frazier, and Tootsie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'I'm all jigsawed out.  I need to go back to Uni.'

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 and trapped in lockdown with her ma and pa. In this first episode she delves into cinema history, explaining to her dad the 'cool girl' trope in modern movies, and luxuriating in 'comfort TV,' Gilmore Girls and How I Met Your Mother.  Meanwhile, as Ruthie and dad swap music suggestions, there's a taste of Bob Dylan, Jeremy Zucker, and Kanye West. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'One day, maybe, I'll be advertising de-tox tea on YouTube.'

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