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S11:EP20 pt2 - What Did Women REALLY DO FOR US?? / It's The End Of Season Celebrations With A Quiz, PODopoly And A Competed Rubik's Cube

March 13, 2026·1 hr 5 min·5 clips

Lee Hagger unintentionally celebrated International Women's Day by buying flowers and doing housework, sparking a debate on genuine appreciation.

1. CHEW THE FAT Season 11 finale continues in part two with Lee Hagger, Steve Parsons, Bradley Whitehead, and Ben at the regular studio. 2. Lee Hagger is the host and founder of CHEW THE FAT; Steve Parsons is co-host; Bradley Whitehead is a returning guest; Ben is the self-described super fan and quiz master for this episode. 3. The episode opens with International Women's Day acknowledgements as the panel works through Lee's research into notable women inventors. 4. Women's inventions covered include: Margaret Knight's flat-bottom paper bag (date disputed by the panel), Melita Bentz's coffee filter in 1908, Mary Anderson's windscreen wiper in 1903, Gladys West's mathematical modelling of the globe that underpins GPS, Elizabeth Magie's Monopoly in 1904, Alice H. Parker's gas heater in 1919, Ruth Wakefield's accidental chocolate chip cookie invention (caused by running short of chocolate while baking), and Josephine Cochrane's dishwasher in 1886. 5. Elizabeth Magie's Monopoly is discussed in the most detail: Lee explains she designed it as a satire of landlords who held all economic power over tenants, a critique the panel notes remains relevant. 6. The dishwasher segment becomes an extended argument covering pre-rinsing ethics, cutlery arrangement strategies, the discovery that the cutlery tray slides out and can be carried directly to the drawer, and Lee's habit of monitoring Cara's loading over her shoulder. 7. Lee interrupts the International Women's Day segment to call Cara live and ask her to wash his socks — white only, 40 degrees, fast spin — and then signs off with "I love you" before returning to the panel. 8. Lee reveals he accidentally celebrated International Women's Day by buying flowers, cooking dinner, doing housework, and giving Cara a double leg massage the night before without knowing the date. 9. The main quiz is introduced by Ben, who has brought a blue notebook, an A3 format question sheet, and two black boxes containing the props for his custom game. 10. Round one is 'Dick in a Box,' Ben's version of Carrot in a Box: two black boxes on the table, one containing a pink bullet vibrator; players use rock, paper, scissors to decide who looks, then 30 seconds of conversation to deceive before choosing to swap or hold, with five points for holding the item at the end. 11. Steve Parsons wins the Dick in a Box round against Lee after correctly identifying from Lee's double-take which box held the item; after round one Parsons leads with 10 points, Lee has 5, Bradley has 0. 12. Round two is a quiz about the group's real-life month-long game of tag involving approximately 12 to 16 players, which the group documented in a 30-minute vlog available via a link Lee offers to share. 13. Key tag events covered in the quiz include: Kyle being tagged by Lee, Kyle tagging Steve Watts at a train station, Steve Watts showing up uninvited at Lee's parents' house in their 70s at night and shouting through the letterbox, and Keeble tagging Wattsy in Wattsy's own shower. 14. Bradley, as a relatively new show acquaintance, cannot answer most tag quiz questions and scores zero in round two. 15. The episode references a PODopoly game and a competition still to come in the second half that are not reached within the transcript window. 16. Lee makes a running joke about telling both Steve and Ben to use the toilet before the show and both declining; mid-quiz, Steve leaves to use the toilet and Ben is seen shaking his legs trying to hold it. 17. Lee tells Bradley, who is 25, that in 10 to 12 years some part of his personality will have turned into a fixed grievance — he does not know which one yet. 18. The episode is entirely light and comedic in tone, with the quiz and banter dominating; there are no serious current affairs segments in part two. 19. Regular listeners of CHEW THE FAT who are invested in the running competition, the tag game lore, and the panel dynamic will enjoy this episode most. 20. New listeners or those who want substantial information or current affairs content will find the in-joke density and quiz format hard to follow without prior context.

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A chaotic season closer that moves from a serious opening into fast end-of-term silliness.

CHEW THE FAT closes the season with a blunt opening about power, women, rights, and the refusal to give them up, then rushes back into the show's usual teasing, timing, and the quiz everyone is waiting for.

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For when you want an end-of-season listen that turns from power-charged rallying cry into quiz-night chaos.

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