Welcome to episode 4 of HotHead, NotDead, the relationship podcast that is a brutally honest account of a complete farce of a toxic pairing. Two souls entwined through sheer co-dependency to give you the highs and lows of farting in bed, feeling horny but not having any prospect of intercourse, and having to regurgitate pointless dreams that mean nothing to anyone because guess what guys, hearing about other people’s dreams is even more boring than hearing how Loopy nearly died giving birth for the 140th time or taking a picture of your coffee foam at the end of your 5k run.
Louise has to spend the next 5 minutes persuading an irate Ryan how she doesn’t want to have sex with Pete and then Ryan beat him up to a pulp because he’s THE MAN oh wait that was only in his dream and he woke up before then, how convenient.
You can hear the insecurity absolutely dripping out of him in cupfuls like Loopy’s blood on a luxury holiday. ‘I’ve never cheated on anyone!’ says Ryan like that’s a badge of honour and he should be in line for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Louise takes the mic to address the decade long speculation about whether she cheated on Alik with Ryan that apparently they’ve never discussed. ‘Basicallleeehhhhhhh’ she begins, ‘Alik disappeared’ as if he’s Lord Lucan. Apparently he wanted her to move to the States and she just wasn’t sure which is understandable since she’s bone idle with no skills so no chance she’d get a green card.
‘One day’ she says mysteriously, ‘he LITERALLY disappeared off the face of the earth!’ February is a bad juju month for her relationship wise, and then she had a nightmare, or a premonition, or maybe just got fucked off he left her on read because it was 2am and he was asleep, and then went to spill her guts to yet another poor sod of a taxi driver. But lo! Then comes a text! ‘Heeeeee heeee!’ chuckles Ryan like Mutley. ‘In comes the Ry Dog!’
And the rest is history. The stars aligned. Ryan was fishing for new clients and there was Loopy. Serendipity. Louise bit his hand off as she’d already considered herself single for the entire taxi journey and that is a very long time for Loopy to be alone so she arranged a date with him for ten minute’s time. She saw his chin coming up the escalator and he was in. Alik got a goodbye duck in St Baht’s and a lucky bloody escape.
Bloody HELL this is painful and apparently one of their in jokes is how Ryan buys his stationary from Ryman’s and it’s really funny I mean Jesus wept guys.
THE TRAUMA THE TRAUMA I’m honestly surprised she didn’t ask to do an MIC Christmas special where she throws a party and they all dress up and she takes to the stage to tell everyone about the trauma and there’s a shot of Lucy rolling her eyes and Spencer smirking from the doorway and Jamie Lang clapping like a seal. She can’t even pass an acquaintance on the King’s Road without wondering if she should ask them if they know about her trauma, what a way to live.