Graham Gave a Stranger £100… Then Regretted It
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Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane
35 min
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8 chapters
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How did Graham get tricked into sending £100 to a fake drama‑school student?
Everyone in LA is telling each other they all look great. Whereas actually someone should just step in and go, You all look like you've escaped a hotel fire.
You're not really qualified to answer this. Or you. Jess in Sligo says cold play are insufferably boring and so is this problem. Wow!
Finally somebody said it Of all the podcasts in the land, you happen to bump into this one. It is Wanging On with Graham and Maria. You found us. Welcome. Hello.
They don't have to they don't have to bump into us.
I feel most of our listeners are accidental.
A lot of people seek us out, Graeme. I'm here to tell you that. Okay.
They're seeking out help. Good advice. Yeah. That's that's what we offer. Yeah. Yeah.
Although we're not experts, of course. No. Um, Graeme, now do you think the British people have a different kind of way of speaking to strangers than American people, for example?
Yes, I mean Americans are very friendly, but not interested in anybody. I would say.
Have a nice day. I don't care.
Well, no, no. It's that thing of like, have a nice day, I'm having a nice day, let me tell me about my day. It's that kind of thing. So they are talking to you, but they're just telling you things. There's not many questions. Whereas I feel like Irish people and British people are a bit more interested in other people.
Yeah. Maybe you're right. But I do think that Americans are n are normally much more direct. They will not beat about the bush. It's just that the other day I was getting off the train and I coming up some steps and there was somebody sort of sitting on halfway up the steps, a man who I thought, Oh my goodness, he looks a bit like a very much older version of Graham. So so that amused me momentarily. And then I spotted Then
you realised it was me.
I think why is he stalking me? Then I spotted three cans of cider. Oh,
it really was me? Yeah.
Um and as I passed him, he said to me Can I ask you something? A bit drunk. Can I ask you something? And I was thinking, Oh, he wants me to get him a sandwich or he wants another. Have sex with you or something. And I said thinking I really want to get home and I said Yes, yes, dude. And he said. Am I attractive?
Wow.
I was so stunned because that was not in my lexicon of what you know, i was the likelihood of that being asked that I just thought in this sort of nanosecond before answering, I just thought there's o there's only one answer to that, isn't there?
Did you kiss him?
Yeah. We're married now.
That was lovely. It was a really nice thing to do. I just sometimes easier to do that than hurt his feelings.
Sometimes you just have to be kind, Graham.
But also wha what's b breaking my heart is suddenly you understand the empty cans of cider. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
But um I ki you know, I looked at him in this rather perilous state and the cans of the cider, and I thought that is all of us with a a few wrong decisions, that's all of us. But the the loneliness part of am I attractive?
Yeah
kind of was uh so unexpected.
And also, isn't it? It's weird about the your expectation. I remember I was walking through uh Marlebone in London, and you know, it's quite posh and it's got nice mansion blocks and everything. And it was kind of early evening, about seven o'clock. I think I was on my way to a restaurant, and there was a very, you know, nicely put together old lady, you know, sort of sort of like little Chanel kind of suit and a little bob, quite a severe bob, and she had a stick. And uh she was waiting at the corner and uh she said to me, Um excuse me, may I ask you a question? And I went, yes, thinking, you know, she might need a directions or something. Or something. She went, Can I have a pound? Oh yeah. And you just I was so taken aback.
And I felt really bad because I didn't have any money. I had no no money on me.
What red flags should listeners watch for when strangers ask for money online?
And you just thought, oh, like, does she need a pound? Or or is she just wanting contact? Or is she just wandering the streets not knowing where she's going? You know, but it was such a You know, because if that guy had asked you for a pound, you'd think, oh, fair enough.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Graham get tricked into sending £100 to a fake drama‑school student?
0:00–4:10
2
What red flags should listeners watch for when strangers ask for money online?
4:10–8:25
3
How should friends respond to a listener worried about a friend’s plastic‑surgery plans?
8:25–13:14
4
What are the risks and ethical concerns of undergoing unnecessary cosmetic procedures?
13:14–17:53
5
How can employees address a CEO‑HR affair that’s harming workplace morale?
17:53–21:57
6
What practical steps can staff take when senior leaders abuse their power?
21:57–26:47
7
When is whistleblowing the right move, and how can it be done safely?
26:47–31:20
8
What final advice do Graham and Maria give for handling tricky personal and professional dilemmas?
31:20–35:11