Episode 20: "bubble bath and a maccies"

In episode 20 of Girls Who Overshare, we’re hitting a little milestone—our 20th episode 🎉 After a cozy catch-up, we swap film recommendations—Emma’s on the mend from a cold 🤧 and Lydia is obsessed with a new mug 🍵 Then we get into what we think is overrated (like Subway, cruises & eating in the bath 🛁)and what’s underrated (like Jacob from Twilight 🧛 people who remember names, and salt and vinegar crisps 🥨 Come hang out for a laid-back, real talk kind of vibe 💗

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Oh, I was gonna say, Livy, what day is it today? I was like, it's a special, it's a special occasion. It's today. 20th episode. Can you believe it? I think this I was gonna say this pod is almost as old as we are, but in episodes. In episodes. I mean it's it's roundabout there. Not in years. Four more years about almost five more episodes for 25 in July. Wow, that's a quarter of a way to 100. Can we imagine what we would be like a hundred episodes from now? I thought you were gonna be like, can you imagine what we'd be like when we're a hundred? In a hundred years from now. I mean, I hope we live to 125 years old. That'd be fantastic. That'd be sensational. God in a care home. But I hope our kids, if we have kids, they're loving us, love us enough to keep us at home. Best believe if I was in a care home, I'd be in a cheetah fur, grey hair enrollers. Emma's gonna be doing Zumba. Or maybe that's more my bag. You'd be sat in the chair smoking music, drinking whiskey on the retold off. Yeah. Emma, it's noon. Yeah. Um I don't care. Anyway. You'll be having your husband to come read you to drop you of your memory. Oh, like the notebook. Yeah, that's what That's exactly what I was getting favourite film. Um, guys, if you are a visual listener, you'll see that Emma and I are having a little pamper session today. Yeah. We have our little hair clips in, keeping our hair back because we've got a little eye patches on today. Um, when we were putting them on, we were contemplating if we've actually put them on the right way. Because I feel like this divides people. Like, is it big to small or small to big? Because I can understand the the reasoning for both. Because obviously, if you put the smaller end near your eye socket visually, like the inner corner of your eye, visually, that looks better, but surely you're actually getting more of your under-eye if it goes big to small. Yeah. Because you're covering that where you get that sort of your dark circle. So I actually don't know which way is the proper way. I've done it big to small. Whether as I've done it small to big. Yeah. Because my logic is it's covering more of the surface area. That is also how I would do concealer as well. Yeah, yeah. So I don't know. Tell us in the comments which way you do it. Yeah, guys, I'm still a little bit like under the weather. I've been losing my voice like in like on and off. Yeah. So I'm still sounding a little bit. Because you weren't you weren't quite well in the last episode. Emma's been coughing up a storm. Oh my god, it's been so bad. Yeah. Trying to sleep with a cough too is is crazy. It's like an Olympic sport, it's not for the week. And like who wants to sleep upright? Did you wake up last night? Oh my god, multiple times. Did you? Last night was the worst so far. Yeah. It was really bad. I just could I I was I was on Spotify trying to find peaceful stories to listen to. Just to like, just to focus on something like a sleep story. Yeah, like they were, I'm pretty sure, like they were literally like fantasy, like make-believe. I couldn't tell you what it was about because all I was trying to do was fall asleep. But I'm just looking at my spot. Doesn't Mackie McConaughey have a sleep story? Yeah, but I feel like that would just wake me up because I love it. I get it going. That was just um, so I was listening to magical stories. Magical stories, yeah, and then I was listening to sleep stories to help me sleep. I was about to say, any good, but I know you said you can't really remember what any of them were about. But I guess that's kind of the point. I feel like I want to start listening to more audiobooks. You should. A lot of people listen to the books that they're reading to follow along. I'm too impatient for that. I'm quite too slow. Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm a slow reader, like don't get me wrong, but I'm not that slow that I can put up with the theatrics. Like I just want to read at my own pace. Like, what do you mean that chapter's an hour and a half? No, it's not. Yeah, no, it's not. It's not. Like you're reading, I get I get the pace that they're trying to, but I'm telling you now, actually, I don't take it in when someone's reading it to me. Yeah. If I'm like walking in the street trying to navigate, I'm like, oh right, I've got to go back to try and figure out where I'm at. But do you know what Spotify just introduced, actually? You know, when you're trying to figure out like what page you're on, no, you're trying to figure out where you're at in an audiobook, depending if you're reading it, yeah, but you're like halfway through a chapter, Spotify have this thing where you can scan the page you're on and it will take you to the section in the book that you're leading, yeah. No, I know innovation at its finest. But because yeah, I was about to say that. Like, what if you stop halfway through a chapter? You have to drag and try and figure out where you are. Yeah, that's so that's great. It's long, it's great, great from them. Um come on to it. I know, I don't know if Apple do that, but we are Spotify girls. We are through and through. What else is up with you, girl? Um, so I have been signing up to these like newsletters to like read every morning, like for work, like just to like see what's going on, like what what trends are happening, like what's new in the industry, like what's going on in the world, because that ultimately trickles into social quite a bit.

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Yes, of course.

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Um, and sometimes I don't see everything, like my algorithm doesn't show me everything. Um, but just thought, you know, just like while I'm doing my emails in the morning, like what can I read for like 15 minutes to just maybe learn something new? Why not? You know, like speaking of learning something new, I know this is such a tangent, but my friend at work bought a maths book, like an easy maths book, just to um just to brush up. Do you know, just to you know, and it was it's fun, like it's easy, like something like fractions and like basic algebra, and she just does it out of letters out, like it's like a maths book. I love that. Isn't that so good? Because I think that's one thing that's I feel definitely is a little bit absent in adulthood. If you're not like in um further education as an adult, and you know, you're just kind of working, you do kind of miss out on like you know, you don't go to lessons every day and you're not like learning something new. Um so that I think that definitely fills like a gap that I think you miss out as an adult if you're not, you know, taking classes and stuff like that. I love that little Matbow. I'm like, that's so cute. And I'm also like, why not? I guess it's like having like a colouring book or something. But anyway, going back to my point, I've been reading like this newsletter or whatever, um, and I think the the newsletter comes from this, I don't know what you'd call it, publishers agency. I think as an agency for like established journalists and things like that. Um, and it's called Attention Seeker. Attention Semicolon Seeker. Okay. Um I mean it's like high attention seekers, it's like it's so good. Um, but attention is A T T N. Semicolon Seekers. I'll add the link in the bio so you guys can sign up to it if you're interested. But I was reading this article and I found it very awakening, I feel like is the word. Because I feel like on social media you do just kind of go into this world and it can really like subconsciously like um like sway your personality. There's a certain way you talk on there, there's loads of trends, and the way you like engage in conversation with someone else on social media, like it's it's a certain type of way, and I I think I after reading this article, I realized that I was like, oh, I was really in deep into TikTok, and like it actually enabled my ability to develop my own opinion on things, like whether I agree agreed with them or not, whether it was just a trend, like I was never challenging what I was seeing, yeah. And I feel like this article really just sort of debunks, if you will, like trends that you think are like harmless. Makes you think more critically, yeah. And I was like, oh, I love this, this is the other side of the coin. Yeah, it's really helped me, like it's completely changed the way I think about things that appear on my algorithm. But one so one of the sections of the articles was about infantisation. Okay, so infantisation. Okay, so there's this trend on social media, I think particularly in like the female space, is like buying jelly cats. Have you seen girls putting their credit cards in ones and tapping? Yes, I've seen that. Like the whole I'm just a girl. Yeah, collectibles. So I think it's something that I've also kind of jumped on. Like, have you seen Emma's house keys? Oh my god, stop, yeah. Emma's got four stuffed animals on her car keys. Her house keys, sorry. Yeah, or like yeah, like collectibles like Sunny Angels and the Boo-Boos and like things like that. Um, like this incompetence and rejecting this incompetence to do adulthood things. Okay. Um, being a trend. Okay. And people saying, so let me, I've I've got a quote. So incapable of doing adult things like buying a house, getting married, having kids, even starting a business. So if you keep in a permanent state of childhood, they won't demand structural change, which in turn won't threaten existing power. So I think actually it, I think, I think that there's two sides to this. So there's people who are maybe like just doing it for the fun, whatever, but there's actually people out there that their lifestyles have kind of frozen them in time, and they're very sort of they really lean into things that they enjoyed as a kid and just completely rejecting like growing up. But I just thought it was I just thought it was really interesting, and I was like, Oh, I wouldn't I wouldn't initially thought those things are like harmful to think, yeah, but I think those things can occur, particularly when the world is in like a state of unrest, there's a lot of wars going on, there's a lot of like cost of living is such a thing, and people lean into nostalgia as comfort, but it's almost gone like so far. Do you think, well, yeah, I'm like, is it just a little bit harmful? Like, fine, if you want to put your credit card in a wand, like fine, but you're still going to your job and making the money to put your card in a wand. Do you know what I mean? I don't know whether the the problem lies with you know how some people don't know there's a time and a place for things. Yeah. You know, carrying things that are appropriate in certain contexts to other contexts. For instance, um, I don't know, taking that wand to work or having a stuffed animal on your desk at work, or I don't know, things that may not feel appropriate in certain environments. But I also, from just hearing you describe that article, then I'm like, there's been so much that's been promised to our generation, um, particularly Gen Z, okay, maybe like millennial cusps as well, um, about you know, the whole get an education and you'll have a good job and you'll be able to buy a house and you'll be able to go on holiday once a year, and um you'll get married before the age of 30. So many of these things were promised, and the world's actually extremely dark at the moment. Yeah, you know, don't don't stare at the darkness, but you can look at it every so often. And by, like you said, leaning into these things that create nostalgia um is kind of a defence mechanism, and it's also the things that you can control, yeah, you know, and finding little pockets of joy is sort of a survival technique, if yeah, if you will. And I know that sound might sound a little bit silly, it's just a jelly cat, but yeah, we're like leaning into this, leaning into our childhood, or like all this agreed, all this um kind of noise and um energy and space being created towards, like, for instance, the Hannah Montana reunion and people like dressing like Hannah and finding their like diaries or merch that they had when they were kids, like it's helping us think of a time where life felt easier. So I don't know whether I feel like it's a negative from my perspective. I don't feel like it's black or white this thing. I think there's a lot of grey, yeah. But I think yeah, I think if you look at like okay, like let's just talk about the UK, or I guess in general, more kids are living at home, whereas like adults who have jobs have bedrooms, yeah. And like parents I I think if pet if I think as a parent, if you enjoy having your child in your home still, there's still a level of like babying going on there. Yeah, it's like that TikTok trend, not to say TikTok trend, but I am chronically online, I put my hands up, where it's like my parents at 20, yeah, and then me at 20. Like they were like it's a photo of them at their wedding, or they've got two kids already and they've bought a house, and you at 20, it's like, oh mum, I booked my own doctor's appointment, or oh mum, yeah, I made a cake, you're so proud of me. Just completely different stages and milestones. Exactly, and I can see how it's harmless, I get it, but it's I think it's also just being aware that being being an adult comes with certain responsibilities, yeah, like challenging changes and things like that, and feeling like I do feel like if we band together we do have the power to make a difference. Yeah, but I also think that there's a there's a realization that although I like to believe that we've we've progressed massively in certain elements of society now in 2026, there's actually other elements of society and the world where we've actually moved backwards, yeah, you know. For instance, the example of you know the housing market and the housing crisis and being able to my our parents already had bought a house by our age or had two houses and we aren't buying houses, like that example that isn't progression, we're going backwards, yeah, you know, um, but that's not to take away from other things like women have become more free, arguably, in certain countries. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, politics has progressed again in certain countries, things are getting scary. Um, but in that respect, we are work, we are working backwards a little bit. And that infantisation is probably not as a result of our own doing, yeah. It's it's a maybe a reaction to survival defense mechanism, yeah. That's interesting. Let me just read like these paragraphs because this like the style of writing. Um so Sophie Randall wrote this, wrote this article. She's very blunt in the way she articulates herself. So she's like, children beg for things. Adults with purchasing power who've been conditioned to think like children make impulsive purchases based on emotional triggers rather than rational needs. They're easier to market to because their desires aren't complex. Um, infantization inf infant infantilised workers are compliant workers. People who feel incapable of adult responsibilities like buying houses or starting businesses don't thress threaten existing economic structures. They stay in their jobs, they hate because they don't believe they could do anything else. They certainly don't organise for better conditions because they're internalized that they do not compete enough to demand more. People stuck in nostalgic loops are building new structures the same way people conditioned to learn helplessness doesn't dismantle obsessive systems, oppressive systems, sorry. They retreat into comfort media, aesthetic trends and consumptions as coping mechanisms, which is exactly what we said. Yeah, um, yeah, I just read it and I was like, whoa, mind blown. It's like I I relate to those thoughts because I often have those when I'm walking around shops. Emma and I love a mooch. We'll go into certain shops that we love, and I'll look at something and I'm like, yeah, capitalism thinks we're suckers, man. They've made that and they've gone, they're gonna blow, they're gonna laugh this up. Like we are so simple, we're so simple. And we can take the most simple thing and make it this massive, this massive cult. Like, for instance, Stanley Cups. I know that is something that's meant to be a sustainable, conscious purchase, and we've got people collecting them, yeah, and they've got 50 hundreds, yeah, and oh, wicked's coming out with a new film, let's make pink and green ones people love it. Yeah, oh bows are a trend, whack bows on everything. Everything, yeah, god, yeah, and this buying things on impulse, I think, is something that is encouraged on socials. Fuck it, like just buy it or like yeah, I think the collectible space too as well is something that I can't wrap my head around. La boo-boos, sunny angels, yeah. Why do you need 400 plastic little people? Yeah, this but they are actually, I don't they are art, they are respected like art, yeah. But yeah, no, again, it is very, very trendy. We are we are suckers. Just back to the the spending thing, just really quickly. I can't rem remember the name of this woman. I completely apologise. But anyway, she's she focuses on helping adults manage money, yeah. And one thing she says is often when you're looking at something and you want to make a purchase, particularly like maybe on your phone or maybe in person, if you feel very torn and you get a little bit of an adrenaline adrenaline rush, and you get a bit anxious and you're like, Oh, I don't know if I should pick this up. Should I buy it? Should I buy it? Put it down, walk away. You still want it tomorrow, go back and get it. Most times that nine out of ten times you probably don't want it. It's just the kick you get out of purchasing, and it's been made so easy. Apple Pay, Google Pay, all these different forms of paying and make it so easy to get money to come out of your bank account. Also, something else, if you can't, what's the what's the saying? If you can't buy it twice, if you can afford it, you should be able to buy it twice. Yeah, if you can't buy that shit twice, put it down, walk away. Yeah. Um, I like that though. Have you read anything else since? Um I've read I've read like a few things. Um so they send it to your email? Yeah, every morning. And it's oh every morning. Every morning there's something and there's multiple different um like uh things in there. There's there's something that I've read recently on um Keith Herring. Keith Haring, Keith Herring. Have you heard of Keith Herring? Right. No. I will get us some pictures for you. Um but I was reading a little bit about him, and basically, um I'm gonna say Keith Herring, that's how I pronounce it, but apologies if I'm wrong. You will recognise the brand. Okay. He was an artist, he's past now, he actually died from AIDS, but he was a queer artist, a queer activist. A lot of his they go. Oh yeah. Yeah, you've seen him everywhere. Yes, I have. Um, so the brand is very much still running um and um they collab, they do a lot of brand partnerships. Okay. A lot, like to excess. Okay. Um, I think that's just how the brand's just been able to like run all these years. Um, but yeah, he he died of AIDS, but his art was very much um was his art was created to defin definitely portray his like political beliefs on like queer culture and things like that. Um, and basically the brand went under a lot of scrutiny at the minute because of the amount of partnerships they were doing. I think like pride is creeping up and there was a lot of partnerships in the pipeline. I think their team were just on overdrive. Right. But I like people have just been criticizing the brand because they've just been slapping his doodle on something, and it's adding a rainbow in, and they're just like, oh, it's inclusive, and it's it's a it's about like um it's about queer culture and things. Like that, and it's just being washed a bit, and yeah, they've just been under a lot of criticism at the minute. Um, and yeah, it it was related to what I was working on at the at the at the time, right? Um, and yeah, so yeah, I saw that article and I was like, ah, like two and two added up, but it I feel like it's really a really good thing to just stay educated, just keeping the know, challenge what you see on social, like those partnerships. I see them all the time and I didn't question them, you know. So I recommend signing up to it, guys, because it's it makes me feel knowledgeable. Yeah, knowledge is powerful. Yeah, you should you should do it. I'm looking forward to logging in tomorrow. Yeah, reading my new one. Love that. Such a grown-up. Oh, yeah, literally. Uh another update. I've just I had a fucking matcha from Costa just now. There goes the Costa Partnership. That if we ever have one. Go ahead, girl. Go ahead. Um, yeah, I had a Costa, there goes the Costa Partnership. What is it about matches from like Costa or like Nero or you never know what you're gonna get, actually? Or just I just know by going into somewhere whether it's gonna be a good matcher or not. The matcher has like a yellow tinge to it. Yeah. You mix it, it's like really milky. It's not vibrant, it's not vibrant, it's not bright green, it just tastes like flavoured milk. Yeah. And it was just it wasn't a vibe. I would never go, I mean, I never go to Tes to Tesco Costa. No. Or Nero. No. I I would do that when we lived in Cyprus full time, but before we moved here. Um, but I would go to a Gales. I would go to So does it go blank street, maybe Gales, and then like a are we talking specifically for matcha or coffee as well? Well, you know, I'm not really a coffee girl. No, but you like an iced coffee. I do, I like the effects of it. Okay, and matcha doesn't give you that same. No, there is caffeine in it, but I don't think it's as much. Okay. Um, do you know what? I think black black sheep is my favourite matcha. I've heard that that's a good one. Yeah, I think it's up there for me. The packaging's just a little bit aggressive though. Yeah, yeah. It's like a little bit, it's not very soft on the eyes, it's quite dramatic. Yeah, I do, I do really like it. I think it goes back sheep. Um but I think there's so many other pay places. I think that one's just really commercial, they're everywhere. Right, okay. You go every corner, there's a fucking branch shoot. Like they've been so trendy like the past year. Yeah, that's true. Um, I'm sorry, there's 12-year-old girls' girls drinking matcha just because it's a trend. I need I really need to get on it, man. I'm just not. Yeah. I just don't see it. Couldn't I couldn't pitch myself going into a coffee shop and not getting a coffee. Coffee coffee, dingle dingle. Um, yeah, I don't know about coffee. I think coffee's overrated. Well, that kind of relates to our our lady segment. I think it segues as nicely, but I'm just gonna it's not on my list, but can I just say that and we'll get it we'll get into it? Yeah, yeah. Well, we have something before that. I haven't you haven't even asked me how I am. Oh girl babes, how you? Listening to you talk. Talk to me how you are. Come on no, finish what you're gonna say. I think things like coffee, things like wine, things like tea, I think you're trained to like them. You don't like them off your first sip, I don't think. I think it's something you have to you know training your palate though, yeah. But isn't that like with any anything? I had to teach myself to like cake and you go, yeah, yum. Yeah, but that's not like a complex flavour like beer as well. Yeah, I don't understand that. You I like the first time I tried a bit, I was like, that is rancid. Yeah, I like it. And now I can drink one. Yeah, but even still, but I I don't I like it now. Do you do I even like it? I have a couple of sips now, and sometimes I'm like, oh, I'd rather have a white wine. Yeah, I mean, I just I don't know. I just think with things like that, it's like if you gave it to a child, they wouldn't like it, but then I'm like I think that's funny that you're like coffee's overrated because funny enough, one of my weekly updates this week was Emma and I have set up a coffee subscription with wonky coffee. We had a hundred fucking pods delivered to our door the other day. I like I like an iced latte, but I would go for a matcha any day. Okay, maybe we need to get you a matcha subscription then. I don't know if I need to just try really good coffee. Maybe. I mean, we've got loads there on the car. I'm in the morning when I'm up at dawn's crack and I need a booze. Yeah, I make a nice iced coffee. I make a really good iced coffee actually. I make a nice iced coffee, yeah. You do. Um, so we've had tons of coffee delivered to the door recently, so we don't have to buy any pods. Um, I'm not sure what um it is cost per pod, but I do think we're saving money. Yeah. Um, but I've been loving that. I also treated myself to a new mug this morning. You did. It looks like a little flower. She's like a teacup. Yeah, like a teacup. She's lovely. She has a really wide rim. That sounds like something else. Yeah, like uh she's really like what does that sound like? She has a nice big opening. Okay, that sounds worse than a grim cell. She's like, she's a proper teacup. Like she doesn't like you know how some coffee cups like um they're quite small on the top and they go big at the bottom and it keeps the heat in. I understand that. But I just I love I love her. I might go and get another one to be because I think we might need two, but I just didn't want to over again, I didn't want to overspend. I just grabbed the one because I went in for a practical purchase, but I saw her and I couldn't walk away. So I'll definitely be using her for the rest of the week, I think. That that is cute. That is cute. I like it. It looks like a flower. Yeah. Anything that makes me feel like I'm a fairy living in a tulip, yeah, I will take it. Yep. What's what's the word? Infantisation. Yeah. That's Emma and I. That's not a good word to say. It's not an easy word to say. No, it's infantisation. Yeah, say that three times fast. Infantisation. Um, I have a film recommendation. I watched a film last night called Let Him Go, and it has Kevin Costner. Oh, it's a film. So you finished it? Yes. What time do you go to bed? Just for midnight. I read that book as well, so it was 1 a.m. Oh my god, you had a late night then. Yeah, I did. Okay. Crazy. Woo! Um, really good. On Netflix now. Oh, I wish I watched it with you. It's really good. I'm gonna have to watch it on my own. It gives I feel like anything with Kevin Costner now has the Yellowstone vibe. Um, but it's really good. Um, I could have cried. I didn't, but I could have. Oh. It's quite uh, if you want something happy, don't put it on. Yeah, yeah. Give or take. You know what I mean? There's a lot of emotions in it. Um, but it's great. The visuals. Kevin is just he calls this girl in the film, it's his former daughter-in-law. He calls her, he calls her um Darling and Honey, and I'm like, oh is it cowboys and shit? Yeah. Oh, that's it. Yeah. Um, and I'm just like, we were having a chat a couple of days ago about could we marry older men? Yeah. And I could marry Kevin Costner now. Yeah. Like that man, wow. Well, older man, he's giving granddaddy. No, he's not. He's given Papa. Sort of, but when you watch that film, it's just stunning. Yeah. Him and that film with Whitney Houston, the bodyguard, like him and Yellowstone, he's just a beautiful man. I think he's the only man. If I was in a crisis, uh, I would ask, what do we do? Yeah, him and Jason Staphon. Yeah, god, you bring him up a lot, you know. I do like Jason Statham. You bring him up a lot. He's him and Sylvester Stallone. I've clearly got a thing for the older men. I don't know if you have. Yeah, in films. In films, not in real life. Not in real life. No. But I I don't know what it is about those kind of characters. Yeah. Like, I'm like Sylvester, what are we doing? I just know if it involves one of them and like if they've they're in the writing process or they're not even the lead in the film or whatever, then I know I'm gonna love it. We have another film rec. Crime 101, Prime. Oh, that was so good. Prime video. Yeah, Halle Berry, uh, Barry Keogan and Chris Hemsworth. Yeah. Really good. Oh, we're gonna stop bashing Barry. No, everyone else needs to stop bashing Barry. Can we just say real quick? The things we've seen on TikTok. People are awful. Like what when he was with Sabrina, we loved him, yeah. And now we're calling him ugly. Yeah, no, that's like relax. That's not okay. He's seen it and he's upset. Leave him alone. Let's stop. That's not true. He's a great actor. Leave him alone. Jesus Christ. I don't think I'd ever leave a negative comment on a public group. No, say it to your friend, put it in your private group chat and keep it moving. Yeah. Bloody out. Exactly. Anyway, speaking of TikTok, um, I really liked the TikTok segment that we did in the last episode. So I picked one at random that I saved over the last couple of weeks. It'll be nice and quick. So the video says, Do I have enough time to go to the gym? It's 1 pm. I work at 5. Be honest. Do you want to hear the comments first? Yeah, I don't know how this could be funny. You just overstimulated all of us. I'm afraid you don't even have time to go to work. Absolutely not. I'm gonna throw up. It's actually 1 pm or it's 1.12 because that makes a huge difference. Babe, you're really late for work. We can only do one thing per day, sorry. That's where it related to me. Yeah. Because I don't know what it is about you, girly pops, but if I have one important thing that I need to do that is scheduled on a day, I find it really hard to get on with the rest of my day. Yeah. Because I'm constantly thinking about the important thing that I have to do. You know? Yeah, so I'm not a gym girly, right? Yeah. I would say, yeah, you do. Okay. But that means okay, you need to get to the gym. Yeah. You need to do an hour, you need to get back, you need to get in the shower, get ready, and then travel to work. Yeah. You've got four hours. Okay, yeah. As someone who goes to gym goes to the gym in my lunch break, I do that sometimes. It's 1 pm, I work at 5. So am I ready for the gym already? If not, I'm probably gonna get in the gym at half one. Yeah, finish at 2:30, be back home by three, shower, get ready by four, and then four till five, don't know how long it takes me to get to work. However, I understand when you have something important, like for instance, if you've got a flight, or you've got the doctors, or you have an ale appointment, or it's something that's causing you a lot of anxiety, like you've got some you've got someone coming to the house to do a job. I'm like, I need to be here all day. I'm I can't do anything until that task is out of the way. Like, do you get do you get that? Do you know I get what time they're coming? Or they can they pop in between nine till six? No, I think you I think you know what time they're coming. But do you know what I mean? No, like I get like, for instance, if I have a gig, even for that week leading up, I physically can't do anything else because all I'm doing is thinking about the thing that I have to do. Yeah, I don't know what I mean. I don't know. Let me know if you can relate to that because everybody in these TikTok comments was picking up what I'm putting down. Someone put, no stop, my heart is racing. You should have left at 11am, and even that is risky. What are these people doing? What is happening? Uming that you have to be somewhere and you can't procrastinate, you have to get it done. Yeah, being at the gym at 7am was your only option. Crumble cookie commented, like honestly, no. I think it's hard to understand the concept of time. I think that's what people are struggling with. Right, yeah. But this video, like, it should have been so simple, but I was cackling because I was like, no, this is me. Like, feeling like you can't cram too many tasks into a day is so me. I think you feel different now. I think it's along the same lines of you have to start a task on the hour because if you miss it by a few minutes, you have to wait until the next hour. Yeah. Or you have to wait until it's quarter past or half past or quarter two. Yeah. You if you you can't start a task at 1 20, I'll wait until half past. Well, someone may well, people aren't aren't um agreeing. I wouldn't risk it. Type A's counter the doom. Type B's around the world. Yeah, yeah. Um, anyway, right, should we get into the the next segment? Yeah, so Liter and I have listed off things that we think are underrated. Yeah. We haven't shared them, no. Um we try to go as niche as possible. Oh, no, overrated. Things are that are overrated. What have you done? Underrated. Oh my god. That's what we decided. I did the opposite thing. Emma. Did we not decide underrated? Do you know what, Lydia? This has actually been such an issue for me in the past year. I I can't remember people's names. No. I say one thing. So if you said things that you like, I said things that are underrated. Did we not discuss that? No, we didn't. Am I going to grow? Struggling. If a word has the opposite meaning, sometimes I'll say that. I'll sometimes if it has two means that are overrated and underrated, sometimes I get them confused. Right, okay. This is what we're gonna do. This is what we're gonna do. You're you're gonna do overrated things, I'm gonna do underrated things, and we're gonna let each other know if we agree, okay? Guys, we'll live on then we've just gotta let this clip run, okay? Because we're only about to stop and get on the same page. I'm the one who decided another one. Emma literally went, should we do underrated things? Oh Lydia, it's my ADHD, I'm telling you. It's my no, it's my too many. I've got like four or five. I'm like, brilliant. I'm dyslexic. None of them. Go on. Uh in my notes, I put into the statement is what does Emma think is overrated? Here I've got intro underrated session. Three things I think are overrated. That was my thought process. Oh my god. So guys, I'm well. Go on, please allow me. Right, you're doing overrated things. I'm doing underrated things. Okay, nice. I think it might be a nice goal. Okay. This might work out better. First thing, overrated vapes. Overrated vapes, yeah. 100%. Guys, no within the biggest. One, they're not good for you. Two, just smoke a cigarette like a grown-up. If you strictly smoke vapes, what are you doing? So if you didn't smoke beforehand and now you're addicted to vapes, you're a weenie. Yeah. Yeah, you are. If you can't stand cigarette smoke, or if you're that person that smokes weed, right? And you're like, smoking's bad for you. Oh, get in the bin. Get in the bin. Yeah. Like just smoke a cigarette. There's tobacco in there for person. Come on, man. Not this guava strawberry crap. It's a microwaveable sig. It's awful. It's awful. And just like vapes. No. Everyone does it. I agree. Literally everyone does it. It's also so normalized as well. It's so shit, man. Like you're and you're smoking in like a inside, in your bed. Yeah. In the office. Yeah. If that's what you can do. I know so many people that vape that listen to this. I know, honestly. And I love you, baby girl. I don't mean you. No, I don't mean you. I'm holding your hands. Because if you smoke cigarettes beforehand, absolutely fine. But no, I saw an article saying that they've now proved that it causes mouth and lung cancer. Vapes? Yeah. Quicker than like a cigarette. So just go back to the Siggy's. Yeah. But I understand it makes your hair smell, I get it. Yeah. It makes your clothes smell, and I get it. Do you know what? It actually gave me chest infections because we used to vape when it was trending. We did. We used to get elf bars. I just used to check my handbags at uni. I'd be like, that one's alright. Yeah, yeah. I know that one's out. My friend used to collect them in a jar, like a vape cemetery. Have them on on like your window side. Yeah, like they're collectibles, like colours. Infantisation at its finest. Can we just say the colours, the flavours, they're marketing those things. Like they're dummies. Yeah. Yeah. They're dummies, honestly. So am I gonna list off mine? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I might as well because otherwise the people are not gonna be able to do that. Yeah, do the overrated ones. Okay, sunny angels and laboo-boos. Yeah. We spoke about it. Yeah, no. Enough said. Yeah, enough said. It just collects. We don't get it. They're so bad for the environment. I know, guys. They don't have a purpose. What do they do? Yeah, no. They just sit there. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Or like collect yeah, no. La boo-boos and sunny angels. No, no, no. Next one, Subway. Overrated. Yeah. That's because Emma doesn't know how to use it. I don't get it. It's just a sandwich. But you don't know how to make the proper sandwich. Have you had my subway order? What your steak and cheese? Steak and cheese. Okay. Toasted foot long, because no one's having half a fucking loaf. Footlong Italian loaf. Steak and cheese toasted. Cuke lettuce. Red onions if I'm feeling like it. Chipotle mayo on top. Bangin'. I can make that at home. Yeah. And like, oh, I just don't know. Oh, I want that now. Now I've described it, I could have it now. A steak and cheese. We need we haven't had dinner yet, so we could make we can rust. No, I want to go to Subway and I want 12 cookies. And a lips tea. I was not, I didn't grow up with Subway. It was never my first choice. No, I haven't made the sandwich myself. I don't really like what's on the selection. And then I'm like, I'm not paying£15 for a sandwich I can make at home. The ingredients cost£15. Call me a frugal queen. Yeah, Emma and I a bit frugal. I just don't know. I think we've gotten to the point now where Lydia and I have lit we've almost made every single food you can at home. Yeah. I've gotten to the point now where I've ordered takeaways and I'm disappointed because I can make it better at home. Sushi's the only thing that I feel like we don't know how to do. Yeah, let's leave that untouched. Yeah, that's I don't think we can do that. Yeah, let's tri let's keep that as a trio. Yeah, last time I said Emma to Subway, she was very sad. But like a Chinese, I've I've mastered that at home. Yeah, yeah. I can make a homemade channel. A British Chinese, yeah. Let's just say that. Yeah. A British Chinese. Yeah. Um, eating in the bath, overrated. Yeah. No, why are you eating in the bath? Yeah. I think sometimes we cross too many boundaries and we just should keep things separate. Eat in what? Like a sandwich. Well, this is the thing. I remember back in the day a colleague of mine was like, I'm gonna order McDonald's, I'm gonna eat in the bath, right? No, the person definitely knows who this person is. I went right. I know exactly how I feel about certain things, and my logic is is is if you're eating something it in the bath, it better withstand water. Fruit, if a grate's popping in there, it's popping back up, it will float pop back right back in. Yeah, McDonald's, soggy, you're naked, right? Yeah, there's bubbles or whatever. Your hands, you need to keep them dry, so you have to keep them above the surface. Also, when I eat my dinner, I'm assuming that she's going home having McDonald's for dinner. I just wanna be like, I don't want to have to do any tasks after. Like, once she's eaten, you're gonna have to get out the bath, dry yourself, moisturize. If your hair's wet, dry your hair. Yeah, just like I know that there's more to come. The bathroom stinks and mackeys. Yeah, like you've probably got the rubbish on the side. Yeah, like I just wanna have a bath, my food gets hit, I'm on the sofa already, PJ's, eating my dinner, going to bed. I think I don't get it. Yeah, I think also, yeah. So fruit, fine, right? Fruit's fine. Fruit is absolutely fine. Anything that can float and it is hydrophobic is fine. Hydrophobic. Yeah. No, hydrophilic. Hydrophobic. No, hydrophilic is hydrophilic. So it doesn't matter. Yeah. Right. It's that burger going sink. A nugget would would it float? A nugget. Yes, but that would get a sog. Yeah, it would. Yeah, you can't do that. Yeah. You can't do that. A nice drink. Do you know what? Even for me, I'm like uh like drinking in the bath as well. If it's on an ice water and you're drinking, surely that's a slow and painful death. Yeah, I but yeah, I understand like a glass of wine, like the aesthetic. I personally do I like baths when I'm not feeling well. I have them on the odd occasion, but our sister Athena, she can sit in a bath for like an hour. She watches things in the bath. I lie there for a little bit and I'm like, Yeah. I'm trying to get out of it. Even like reading a book in a bath, the thought of dropping the book in the water scares me. Yeah. Um, I've got two more. Go on. Novelty cakes. Overrated. I hate a novelty cake. A cake that doesn't look like a cake and it's covered in fondant, and I can't, there's you can't eat some bits. Why does it look like a handbag? Why does it look like a burger? Why has it got cheetah print on it? Why does it look like a shoe? It doesn't look delicious. No, yeah, it needs to look delicious. Yeah, it has to look like cake. Like I feel like I'd want like a naked wedding cake. Like, you know, where it's just brushed with icing. I get it for children, I get it's fun, but I just feel like I was like, oh, we've just taken some things too far. Too far. All that fondant. Yeah, who likes fondant? No. Like, no. Tell me someone who likes fondant, and I won't believe you. I like it a bit. The tiniest bit. I like it on the Christ Christmas cake. Do you? Yeah. Yeah, I don't like Marzipan. I fucking hate it. I hate it so much. And I can't really participate in the Christmas festivities. So I don't like. My ex used to hate the fact I didn't like mince pies. Don't like mince pies. Don't like Christmas cake. We've got one in the cupboard. No one's gonna eat it. It's massive. I won't touch it. I might eat it. That's why I like panettoni, because that's something that I can participate in. Guys, one year I ate like five. That's being modest. Five five hundred gram no seven hundred gram panettones to myself. Yeah. And it was November. You were warming up. I was warming up. Fucking hell. Last one, cruises. Overrated. Yeah. I look I keep saying that after every because I thought we were doing underrated to see. Overrated. Yeah. I've never been on a cruise, so this is probably. Yeah. Um, I don't want to be in international waters and something happened. Yeah. You know. I just think it better be a really fucking good cruise. But thought of being on a boat really packed with sardines with loads of people who you don't know. Like getting on a pool getting in the pool, sitting around the pool on a cruise, watering water, just makes no sense to me. Yeah. And I didn't so we have friends that go on cruises every year. I didn't realise you have to pay for Wi-Fi whilst you're on it. Your phone doesn't work because you're in the middle of fucking doesn't work. How much are we talking? Uh I don't know, but you've got to pay for a package basically on top. Also, one thing that stresses me out is missing like the callback time when you dock in certain locations. Have you seen those TikToks where people are running? Why are you running? You knew we were leaving at six.

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And you know what you have to do when you miss your boat? What? You gotta fly to the next destination. Oh my they ain't picking you up. Because they've got all your shit though on board, surely. Yeah. You've got to take your passport with you just in case, you know what I mean. So that they miss it, and you you either got to fly to the next destination or they'll send you your ship. Fucking hell, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Yeah, so those are all of mine. Okay. Oh god, I'm flashing back to explaining the concept to you as well. I can't be able to do that. Underrated opposites. Well, I've done I've done meals. I've got so much brain fog. Go ahead, Dean. Okay, I'm doing underrated things. So the first thing, uh, salt and vinegar flavoured snacks. So crisps. Underrated. Pringles. Yeah, because I feel like no one's. No, I've had a man unmatch me on Hinge because I said my favourite flavour of crisp was salt and vinegar. He was like, Are you okay? And he unmatched me. Oh my god, no. I feel like people say like cheese and onion are their favourite, or like prawn cocktail. No one says salt and vin. Okay, yeah, I do like salt and vinegar. I love salt and vinegar, and I don't think they get enough craze. I love salt and vinegar Chris. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Um next thing, Jacob's character in Twilight. Severely underrated. Yeah. Edward was a toxic little weenie. How so? So toxic. What do you mean? He just, I don't know how to describe it. It's just like he was so like selfish and I don't know, certain things that he did, like well, I don't know. Like anytime we watch it, I'm like, that's a bit possessive. He's a vampire. He didn't let her like have other friends. I think she chose not to. I know it was a werewolf. I think she chose not to. I was like, this is a very unhealthy. No, when she gets pregnant. Oh yeah. Red flag. Yeah. He packed that room up. He was not happy. He was made it feel, made her feel like it was her like bad. I think he felt he felt bad as to what he did to her because. And then he married her and refused to shag her. He did it once. Because he thought he was gonna kill her. She was like, it's alright. It's alright. You can deal with it. Did you see, did you see the guy uh Robert Paterson said that um the team Edward or Team Jacob thing? He was like, no one was ever Team Jacob, it was like a marketing thing. Oh really? Yeah, it was like something, something whoever whoever was marketing the film was like, let's do Team Jacob and cheap team, like whatever, but we know everyone's team. Like, let's try and do this, like like this competition. No way, yeah. No, uh, I'm a Team Jacob gal all the way. Yeah, I love Edward. I love Edward so much. I love that he's not fair, he's not everything. He really isn't. Um underrated. I don't know actually if this is underrated, fresh bedding. No, that's getting into fresh bedding. It's rated a decent amount. Do you think it's rated a decent amount? Absolutely. Okay. Uh just moving on to the next one. Yeah, I'll show it. Fresh bedding, everyone rates. Do you think everyone actually goes, yeah, fresh bedding? 100%. Okay. 100%. Yeah, alright. Uh last one for me, I went for four. Um this is more of a skill that I think is underrated. Someone who remembers people's names after not meeting you a very like not meeting you very many times. Yeah, yeah. When someone goes, Oh, Lydia, I'm like, you've met me once, I don't even know your name. Yeah. I'm like, wow. It's because you're so impactful. Thank you. It's so impactful. Yeah, I could learn a thing or two. Because I'm terrible. At work, fucking awful Lydia. Yeah, it's because you do everyone's B BBS. So I know I know everybody's names like that. Yeah. My personal life. You're right, hun. Hey girl, what is that about? Yeah, yeah. I actually think that is such a poor quality that someone can have an eye possession. It's not intentional. Imagine, have you had someone point that out before? I've had someone point that out about me and being like, Emma, you never remember anyone's names. Yeah, and I was like, You're so right. You know what we do do though? We usually do it to men. What's my name?

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And they never know. Well, no, they usually ask me and I never know. Or they answer and they go, What's mine? I still don't know whether I didn't think you'd know my name. But why would I call your black? Why would I go, What's my name? And I don't even know your name. Yeah, right. Oh gosh. We had a side story. Um, our sister Athena, she was on a night out years ago. This was when we lived in Cyprus, and the guy was like, What um, what's your name? And she was like, I've told you my name. He was like, Oh, have you? And she was like, Alright, I'll give you a clue. Um, it's the the capital of of Greece. And he went, Limasol. He thought her name was Limerosol. That ain't even in Greece, that's in Cyprus. Yeah, it's a completely different country. It's not even it's not even the capital. I know, literally. What's the capital of the site? Larnica. Nicos said it and I realized it's Nicosia. Why did you say you said it with so much confidence? Larica Nicosia. Oh shit, guys, I swear I'm in the capital of my own country. I said it and I just Lonica. Did I even know how to move on from that? That was my last one anyway. Oh, that's hello. Right, guys, I think we should leave it there. Yeah, let's leave it there. Oh, we actually go to Cypress in a few weeks. We do. I'm so gassed. We're going to Pathos. I need a break. Yeah. I bring that way. Hopefully it's nice and sunny. Yeah. We might actually vlog the trip for you guys. We might, yeah. We've been thinking about that for a while. Let us know if that's something you'd be interested in. We're gonna do it anyway, regardless whether you want it or not. Depot. Um, but we think it would be a really interesting way for you guys to just see us in the wild. Yeah, in our natural habitat. Absolutely. Absolutely. Uh but don't you worry, there will not be a cross like a crossover in terms of what we're talking about on the pod. No. And what's happening in real life? We'll make sure to keep those separate. Yeah. Um, but that's pending. Dash should be with you in like two weeks, three weeks, whatever, you guys. Which will be exciting. But that was fun. Make sure to follow us on all socials. We're on Instagram, TikTok. Yeah. Don't forget to subscribe on YouTube as well. Show us some love over there. Leave us a review. Lady wants you guys to leave us a review on like rate the pod on. Oh my god, yeah. Rate the pod. Or Apple Music, wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, be nice, please. Um, and comment below anything that you want us to do, any topics you want us to cover. We want to engage with you guys in the match as bashable. But yeah. Um, anyway, thanks for sharing.

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We moved on for the bed. Love you guys. Right now, and don't think I'm on too.