DIG IN: Getting the Grief Out… and Swearing on Live Radio
5/18/202631 min
What do you do if you think your partner needs therapy but they’re reluctant to go? Is it ok to reduce your friendship group as you get older? Plus, how everyone expresses grief in different ways. Jo & Zoe discuss it all on this week’s Dig In - as well as some live radio mishaps they’d rather forget!
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First 90 secondsZoe Ball· Host0:00
Coming up on Dig It.
Jo Whiley· Host0:01
You'd be a great therapist, Zoe. You're so good.
Zoe Ball· Host0:03
I'd be terrible. I'd just end up telling them- [laughs] ... all the dreadful things I've done myself. Well, actually, in 1992, I did this terrible thing.
Jo Whiley· Host0:10
We suppress grief, and we suppress crying, and we just constantly- Keep- ... hold it together. Hold it together.
Zoe Ball· Host0:14
And we shouldn't.
Jo Whiley· Host0:15
Yeah, a number of funerals I've been to where it's y- physically- Oh ... it's so hard just to keep the tears and the grief in.
Zoe Ball· Host0:20
Well, we have to be good girls, don't we? 'Cause i- if you're on the radio, you have to, you learn, you know- Yeah ... not to swear, although I think I did accidentally swear once on the radio.
Jo Whiley· Host0:28
No.
Zoe Ball· Host0:29
I said the C word once on the radio. That wasn't good.
Jo Whiley· Host0:31
All of that right after this. [upbeat music] Hi, good morning, Monday diggers. It's lovely to see you for our dig in. Zoe, hi. You okay?
Zoe Ball· Host0:50
I'm just clearing a bit of wind, actually, Jo. I've, I've just- Okay ... I've just swallowed a bagel whole, and it was, oh, it's, it was repeating. But it's all right, everyone.
Jo Whiley· Host1:01
Okay.
Zoe Ball· Host1:01
I've dealt with it.
Jo Whiley· Host1:01
[laughs] What did you have on your bagel?
Zoe Ball· Host1:03
It was plain because I was in a rush. It, like, nothing on it- Okay ... which is probably why it was sticking going down, because I should've put some butter on it or something. But anyway.
Jo Whiley· Host1:12
Some cream cheese would've made it go down- Oh ... a bit smoother I think.
Zoe Ball· Host1:14
That would be lovely. Have we, we haven't, we've never really talked about the fact that I tried your incredible concoction, your soup scenario, and really enjoyed it, and that- Yes ... whole video st- still keeps creating more and more content with people going, "Oh,