Finally, football now dominates the conversation when the Ramsdale brothers are reunited.
With one older sibling, Edward - a rugby-playing prison officer - and another, Oliver - a West End star with the likes of Billy Elliott, Cats and Dirty Dancing on his CV - Aaron Ramsdale, the youngest of the trio, has had to work hard down the years to make his voice heard.
Becoming first choice goalkeeper for Bournemouth and England’s under-21s has changed all that.
‘You couldn’t have three more different jobs,’ Ramsdale, 21, says.
‘It’s quite tough getting your head around what he is doing or what he is doing but it always comes back to football now so it doesn’t really bother me!’
Ramsdale’s family have unsurprisingly been key figures in his rise. His parents kick-started their sons’ sporting journeys, introducing them to gymnastics before letting them find their own way.
Meanwhile his brothers help ensure Ramsdale stays on the right side of the line when he threatens to get, in his own words, too ‘loud, cocky, slash bordering on arrogant.’
Ramsdale refers to those traits numerous times, on each occasion with a cheeky smile which suggests he knows they might land him in the odd spot of bother but, at the same time, they are central to his makeup so not going anywhere anytime soon.
‘Edward will just wait to see me and beats me up,’ Ramsdale laughs, about how his brothers keep him in check along with Bournemouth’s goalkeeper coaches Neil Moss and Anthony White.
‘Pins me down, grabs my thumb and I’m like ‘I need them!’ He says ‘I know, so just be careful what you say.’
‘A lot of people say he is the odd one out because I’m doing so well, so is Oliver and he’s just a random normal guy, a prison officer. He gets a lot of stick from dad, me, Olly, family, friends.
‘Not mum though. Everyone says things like ‘are you actually their brother? Where are your genes from?’ and things like that so if he gets annoyed he pins me down.
‘Olly is more of the sensible one. He will give me a ring and chat to me.’
Some of Edward’s stories though will help Ramsdale retain a sense of perspective as his profile continues to grow.
‘He doesn’t tell me a lot because he is not allowed but some of the things he can say definitely remind you of what you have. I’ve got this opportunity now so why do something stupid to waste it?’
As he reflects on his rollercoaster rise, there were times when Ramsdale’s chance almost slipped through his fingers among the pivotal moments.
Staffordshire-born and raised Ramsdale started out at Bolton, and subsequently grew up idolising Trotters legend Jussi Jaaskelainen before being released aged 15 because he couldn’t kick and was deemed too small.
‘Which was bang on,’ admitted Ramsdale, who was 5ft8in at the time before a growth spurt soon helped rectify those shortcomings.
That first knock back, along with others at clubs like Leicester and Rotherham – ‘Rotherham said I didn’t fill my shirt at 15. They weren’t wrong but I was just 15!’ he said – ‘gave me a bit of cockiness and borderline arrogance,’ Ramsdale recalls.
‘Gave me backbone, character. I thought “maybe I’m being too shy” and because I’m a small lad I need to be adaptable in other areas.’
Sheffield United did take Ramsdale on and his belief was further strengthened when he saw off the challenge of ‘three or four triallists’ after the Blades threatened to release him following his first season to finish his second on the bench for Chris Wilder’s first team.
Back then Ramsdale was keen to stay at Bramall Lane with his mates in ‘one of the best dressing rooms I’ve ever been in’ and be part of the Blades’ 2016/17, ultimately successful League One promotion challenge.
Bournemouth had other ideas and snapped Ramsdale up for around £1m on January’s deadline day, though getting into Eddie Howe’s side has not been straightforward.
Having been on the bench at Sheffield United, Ramsdale initially could not understand why he was not under consideration to at least do the same at Bournemouth straight away.
‘This is where I was naïve and needed to grow up,’ he says.
It took a number of heart-to-hearts with Moss, loan spells at Chesterfield and AFC Wimbledon and a dramatic change in mentality before he was deemed truly ready.
When he arrived at struggling AFC Wimbledon in January Ramsdale’s main concern was simply avoiding a second relegation having suffered that fate with Chesterfield in 2018.
‘I remember coming into training at Chesterfield and one of the women from the office was taking her stuff, about 9am in the morning and that was horrible to watch,’ he said.
‘She’s just been sacked because we’ve not performed on the pitch. That was a real eye opener, a horrible moment you don’t want to be involved in ever again.’
But it was during his Wimbledon spell that the penny also dropped and a process that first begun following an earlier pep talk with Moss went into overdrive.
On the May day the Dons clinched their survival, Mark Travers was handed his debut back at Bournemouth against Tottenham.
With Bournemouth’s game kicking off at 12.30pm and Wimbledon’s at 5.30pm Ramsdale was able to watch Travers’ man-of-the-match display in a 1-0 win before helping the Dons pulled off their Great Escape later in the day.
‘That was my eye opener,’ Ramsdale said. ‘On one hand I’m thinking it should be me, on the other, I’m seeing that the manager is playing a 19 year-old goalkeeper in the Premier League.
‘Thinking what Mark does day-in-day out was the start of the process. He is quiet, doesn’t go out. ‘Stays here till 4, 5 o’clock doing ice baths, massages, NormaTech [compression therapy] where I would come in at 9am, massage first, and be out by 2pm.
‘I’m trying to take things off him, and he is a year younger, and some of the things like my loudness, cockiness he is trying to add to his game.’
Ramsdale believes the changes he made were key to him impressing Howe in pre-season.
‘I’ve improved a lot more off the pitch as a man,’ Ramsdale explained. ‘I was a boy and made stupid mistakes in the past two years and I’ve proven to him [Howe] over pre-season and at Wimbledon that I can be relied on.’
What stupid mistakes? ‘Just being a lad and going out,’ Ramsdale said. ‘I went out at the wrong time, too many times or I’d have a good week’s training and then let myself down at the weekend.
‘I needed to show what I could do out there [in training]. If I was going out every week I couldn’t even give myself a chance to get in front of the manager.’
Ramsdale says his approach was partly down to youth but also a continuation of the culture he had grown used to at Sheffield United where ‘although the dressing room was amazing and we were winning games we would [also] go out a lot].’
He continued: ‘I had to be rebooted [at Bournemouth]. There were times where I’d be sat at home staring at the ceiling at 2am and be late to training and get fines because I would then sleep in.
‘I’d not even gone out but my body clock is all over the place. I can’t switch off. Now every morning I feel refreshed.
‘I’ve got my routine, everything is set, I feel healthier. If you’d seen me two years ago I’d have been a spotty kid. I’ve still got a few now but my skin is so much better, I don’t look tired and scraggly. I don’t rock up to training with odd socks like I used to or clothes that didn’t go. I actually look presentable now. I was pathetic really.
‘Mossy and Ant were probably tearing their hair out thinking ‘have they signed the right person?’ but that happening made me into the person I am today and it’s made me a better person.’
Ramsdale’s response to finding out the day before the season started that he had won the four-way battle, that also involved Asmir Begovic and Artur Boruc, to become Bournemouth’s first-choice underlined his new-found maturity.
‘Maybe a year ago I might have shouted it from the rooftops but now I’ve learnt my lesson,’ said Ramsdale who received a congratulatory message from Jaaskelainen, among others, following his debut.
‘It was one of my proudest days in football if not the proudest [making his Premier League debut] and against my former club [Sheffield United] it made it even more special.’
With his natural self-confidence Ramsdale has had few problems dishing out instructions to his considerably more-experienced teammates and, now he is playing regularly in the Premier League, is hoping to make a late run for a place in England’s Euro 2020 squad.
But the likeable stopper also possesses an admirable self-awareness which means he knows there is still work to do.
‘I am not a good training keeper,’ he admits. ‘Never have been. I don’t get the same competitive edge as on game day.
‘It is that shot which goes in the corner and there’s an extra five per cent you need to save it.
‘There was one against Norwich, a shot from Teemu Pukki [he saved] and then one in training today, exactly the same, and I don’t get there. We don’t know why.
‘We’re trying to work at it. That’s why we bring in more competitive things like leaderboards, whoever loses brings the coffees, things like that.’
His childlike enthusiasm as he discusses some of the names he is now rubbing shoulders with is also endearing.
‘I’m a West Brom fan, always have been, and I’ve got a shirt signed from Ben Foster when I was a kid so near enough every team have someone who is like ‘I used to watch you all the time,’ he said, recalling coming up against Foster’s Watford last month.
‘The other week when we were playing Man City and De Bruyne is walking past or David Silva…
‘I picked Silva up when he went down and VAR did the right [penalty] decision and was thinking ‘this guy is a Wold Cup winner and two-times European champion and is just chilling, chatting and having fun playing football’ and I’m playing my third game in the Premier League.
‘You watch it back on TV and you’re thinking ‘oh, that’s me!’
‘Watching me on Match Of The Day is ok. It’s when the likes of Gary Linkeker, Alan Shearer or Ian Wright mentions your name or analyses something you do,’ Ramsdale says, puffing out his cheeks.
‘That is pretty big.’
On the evidence of his start to life between the sticks for Bournemouth, Ramsdale might have to get used to that.