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Speaker 1: You were listening to Ruthie's Table four in partnership with Montclair.

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Speaker 1: You were actually as a contestant. I've done my research.

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Speaker 1: I thought that I saw it on Celebrity Bakeoff.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I was a hapless baker, a hapless celebrity

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Speaker 2: baker on The Great British Bakeoff. I was a catastrophe

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Speaker 2: with a camera floating above my trembling fingers as I

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Speaker 2: And you know there are those three or four different categories.

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Speaker 2: I did all right with anything I could rehearse beforehand,

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Speaker 2: but when they sprung the technical category, it's calling me

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Speaker 2: with oh my god. It would have been fair for

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Speaker 2: anyone who really is a good baker, but I am not.

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Speaker 2: And I discovered just what a catastrophe I am.

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Speaker 1: So they didn't. You didn't know you had to make

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Speaker 1: that recipe?

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Speaker 2: No, no, that way. I was told, we're going to

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Speaker 2: have you make a Swiss role, something I had never

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Speaker 2: heard of in my life. And I, oh god, I

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Speaker 2: could tell you the whole story, but bottom line, I

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Speaker 2: forgot to put the flour in and it was, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, it looked like a pile of muck.

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Speaker 1: I know, but you know, I bet that was really

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Speaker 1: good because there's nothing like a flowerless chocolate cake. So

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Speaker 1: probably a flowerless swell was really ahead of its time.

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Speaker 2: Well it was unprecedented for sure, but oh my god.

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Speaker 2: You know the judgment that they passed on my on

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Speaker 2: my creation was not sellable in any cake shop.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I thought, criteria, that is.

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Speaker 2: The worst review I've ever heard in my life.

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Speaker 1: He's a very poor criteria.

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Speaker 2: My wife had had a T shirt made up for me,

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Speaker 2: it's a Christmas present that said not sellable in any

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Speaker 2: cake shop.

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Speaker 1: That's a whole news. The idea that television has become

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Speaker 1: this It usould be about success. How smart were you

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Speaker 1: to win a game? How smart were you to guess

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Speaker 1: a person's identity? How clever were you to do something?

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Speaker 1: And now it's about how poor are you?

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Speaker 2: Know?

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Speaker 1: How inadequate?

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Speaker 2: Are you?

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Speaker 1: Fired? Or you have to leave the show. That's why

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Speaker 1: I could be a judge. I tried to do it,

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Speaker 1: and I just was too empathetic to.

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Speaker 2: The real You would be allowed to judge you're too kind,

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Speaker 2: I would, Yeah, you are literally I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know, but it's just horrible that sense of you.

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Speaker 2: Know, yeah, I accepted defeat. I said, I understand every

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Speaker 2: every one of these shows needs a failure, and I'm

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Speaker 2: happy to embrace that role. In the case of the

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Speaker 2: four of us, there's win place show and not syllable

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Speaker 2: in any cake shop. Yeah, that was me.

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Speaker 1: I think that you should be quite proud to be

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Speaker 1: not sellable, so once you go into a cake shop anyway.

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Speaker 2: Well, all my English friends probably lying said it's made

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Speaker 2: me enormously popular in English. Fortunately, Winston Churchill was plenty salable.

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Speaker 1: You don't mean they wins. So what was Winston church

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Speaker 1: I played Winston church I know that, But did you

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Speaker 1: make a cake?

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Speaker 2: There was another challenge where you had to make something

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Speaker 2: out of twenty four different segments of biscuit which could

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Speaker 2: be assembled to create for the final creation. And I

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Speaker 2: decided to make ten Downing Street with Winston and Clemmy

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Speaker 2: and various props, and I did practice it. I did

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Speaker 2: a pretty decent Downing Street gingerbread house with a little

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Speaker 2: Winston Churchill gingerbread man, all painted, you know, with icing,

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Speaker 2: and I was all prepared for that segment of the

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Speaker 2: bake off. I was already I thought this is going

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Speaker 2: to be my strong suit. It turned out I came

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Speaker 2: up short. There were only twenty three rather than twenty

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Speaker 2: four little biscuit pieces, so I was disqualified. It came

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Speaker 2: out beautifully, but I couldn't even compete.

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Speaker 1: I'm never gonna watch this television show again. Directly to

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Speaker 1: Cancer with Something Yeah, thank you for listening to Ruthie's

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Speaker 1: Table four in partnership with Montclair