Ruff & Reddy

Ruff & Reddy is the second episode of Series R, first broadcast on 4th June 2020. It featured Tom Allen, Susan Calman and Zoe Lyons as guests.

Introductions & Buzzers
"At the ready" Tom: [Concrete brick being dragged]

"Good and ready" Zoe: [Pneumatic drill/Jackhammer]

"Ready for action" Susan: [Angle grinder]

"My little bit of rough" Alan: [Dog barking]

Questions & Tangents
Italic text represents a tangent or diversion from the question/topic

Can you eat beetroot soup without getting your ruff all red?
Sandi asks the panellists to reach under their desks and bring up a bowl of soup and a spoon. She asks them all to try and eat the soup without spilling it out their ruff. Zoe does the easiest thing and lifts the ruff to her forehead and eats the soup with no risk of spillage. Susan and Tom just go ahead and try eating over the ruff and manage to keep them clean.

Sandi hands them each a longer spoon and asks them to try again with those. Zoe points out that the longer spoons wobble while Alan simply takes the bowl and gulps the soup down from that. Sandi warns him to be careful with downing Beetroot Soup as it might make you think you need a colonoscopy the next morning. She then suggests that the panellists try to feed each other with the longer spoons, which goes well up to the point where Tom manages to spill some down Susans ruff. He apologies but remarks "the sight of you [Susan] slurping that was so disgusting that I kind of dropped the spoon."

Why is Sandi's ruff blue?
Sandi asks the panellists why her ruff is blue rather than white like theirs. Susan suggests that it means she's better than them. Sandi reveals that a blue ruff means she is a prostitute and/or from Scotland.

Despite being shown as white in paintings, ruffs were different colours such as pink or saffron yellow. Queen Elizabeth I hated blue because it was linked to "winchester geese", the term given to prostitutes as the Bishop of Winchester had many brothels.

Who would like to hear about some 'ruff' sex?
This wasn't so much an actual question but the panellists said yes. Sandi said she was talking about birds, specifically the sand piper which is natures most gender-fluid bird.