Episode 21: "seventeen and sneaking out"

In episode 21 of Girls Who Overshare, we do a quick debrief and jump straight into our topic: teenage us 💅 We talk about our favorite getting-ready rituals, the songs we blasted before going out, sneaking out at 17 and getting caught 👮‍♂️ plus Lydia’s surprise piercing  and Emma’s wild adventure in an abandoned house. It’s a chaotic throwback you won’t want to miss! 💗

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:18

Guys, the sun has been shining and I've been loving every single second. Yeah. I feel like it we woke up and it was cloudy today. Yeah. And then we were in the crowd. I thought, wait a damn minute, wait a minute. I went, the sun is out. I was like, do we need a glass of wine? I know. Don't tempt me, Dean, because there's a pub around the corner. Honestly, hair's freshly washed, makeup's on. I'm meant to be going to the gym after this. You absolutely waste. I potentially thought a mooch to the TK Maxx we discovered a few. Oh really? You could do that. Yeah, but they're open a bit later, so we don't have to rush. Yeah, yeah. The home sense. Yeah, we could walk along the river. Oh my god, yeah, guys. We found like a secret way to the home sense, which is in a retail park we don't usually go to.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

It's like it was like we saw the mothership at the end of this path. We were just trying, we were trying to, we were having a little walk. We were having a case of the big sad and we went for a walk and we were brainstorming for the pod. And it was like, hang on, let's go down this path. We've never been down this path before. I was like, oh my god, that's the retail park with the home sense. Yeah. Could a cheeky little drink? I think we might have spoken about that in the other episode. I think it was yeah. We spoke about the matcha you got. Oh yeah, we did. Oh we might yeah. But we I don't know if we apologize. Yeah, maybe we could do that again, just yeah, but I think we had our hottest day this year on this week. Yeah, which was such a vibe. And guess what Emma wanted for dinner? Hottest day of the year. What does she want for dinner? Chicken and leek pie. Do you know what? Emma, what Emma Emma, what do you want for dinner? Babes. I'm the kind of person who's gonna have a hot shower on holiday when it's 30 degrees outside. I'm not having a cold shower. If I want a hot dinner, I'm having a hot dinner. I don't care what time I don't care what time of year it is. You're not like that is like cozy food. Do you know what I mean? Comment down below. Are you the kind of person who will eat and drink things and shower based on seasonality? But I just feel like in the UK, the moment it gets warm, it's like we're having a picky tea. Picky bits for tea. That is the energy. So when you were like chicken elite pie, I was like, I thought we were gonna have a nice salad, maybe a hot dog, a proper dinner. That's what I wanted. I could have a frankfurser. Yeah, yeah, I could have a hot dog. With a bit of mayonnaise, yeah, in a in a bap. I know uh mayonnaise in a in a hot dog is quite controversial, you know. It is not a lot of things. People don't like that shit. People don't like mayo, but I don't like ketchup. So what am I meant to have on the I think the Europeans love I think I think the Balkans love mayonnaise? We love mayonnaise and the Brits love ketchup. Like mayonnaise and chips. That's such a Swedish thing, I swear, right? Swedish? One of them. I feel like it's a I think it's a Balkan thing. I think mayo is a Balkan thing. What what country is it that they like mayonnaise and chips? I is it is it like it's one of the it's one of this like the Netherlands or it's it's not Sweden, it's um what's the one with the rivers and you go and you smoke weed there? Amsterdam. Yeah, is that an Amsterdam thing? I'm not sure. Mayo and chips we love I love Mayo. Yeah um have you looked at Instagram today, real quick, before we do anything? Well, I tried to refresh it this morning. I've been watching a little bit of the Coachella content from other influencers, right? But we are waiting for our two queens to drop. Should we have a look? Right. I think we should, but can we just give the guys context who do not follow Chintsen's fear? Absolutely. Basically, they're two best friends, they go to Coachella every year. They never go with a brand, they go on their own, so they're wearing pieces that they've found. It's it's the Metgala of Coachella looks basically, and they just beautiful girls, they know how to dress, and every year we just want to see their outfits. Friday night has already passed, okay? And we're still waiting for the outfit posts. Day one has gone. Been and gone. Yeah. So um, but we haven't had anything yet. So you go look on G. I was I was googling what may where Mayo and Chips originates from. Let me look on G. Do you have on Instagram? You have a look. Oh, she still hasn't posted our looks. Oh really? No, they haven't reckon they're probably maybe busy. Uh yeah, I haven't there's nothing on there. Wild. I've seen so many looks already, and I haven't seen um I haven't seen their looks. They're really holding out on us. Um They're making us wait. They're really also so much pressure. Lydia's holding out. Everybody is everybody is um literally waiting and they know that. Yeah. So they have to find the best picture. I've seen funny TikToks of people like refreshing their Instagram pages, like, where is it? Where is it? And they're defo seeing those 100%. Anyway, Dean, talk to me. How are you? How's your week then? I'm alright, guys. Um, obviously, we had a long bank hole weekend, so it was a four-day work week this week. Um, Tuesday, off to a rough, rough fucking start. And I'll rough fucking start and I'll tell you why. So mum's been away this week, Emma and I were dog sitting. So I wake up on Tuesday morning and I'm like, I'm gonna go to mum's, see her before she goes and goes to the airport with her friend, and I was like, okay, I'm up, like a bit of a rough sleep. I'm like, anyway, we're gonna get in the car, we're gonna whack some music on, we're gonna have some me time, we're gonna drive to the house, the sun is shining. Anyway, I get to the outside of our apartment building, and directly opposite is where I park the car, and the shutters are down, the shutters are down on the multi-story. Oh my gosh. And I'm like, it's 7am on a weekday. What the fuck is happening? I walk over to the little pay machine that you pop that fucking plastic coin in, and I ring the support team, and I'm like, why are the shutters down on the car park? And this woman answers the phone. I wish I got her name. She was like, she wasn't a vibe. Excuse me. She was like, um, there's been signposts all week saying that the car park was gonna be shut for maintenance work. There's there's signs everywhere saying it's gonna be shut, so any cars that were left were gonna be locked in until tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. I was like, I looked around, I went, sorry, I was like, I can't see one fucking sign. Obviously, I didn't cuss at her, I was very nice. There wasn't one sign. There was not one sign, and I was like, right, now I have to get a taxi to my mum's house. I was like, just I just wanted to get in my car. And anyway. Lydia had a breakdown. She called me some tears were shed. I had a breakdown. Sometimes I think with the long weekend, I can get a case of the big sad. If I'm given too much time to kind of just dilly-dally, my mind gets a wandering and and Lydia gets a bit um low. So I was ready just to start the week, and that was just like the tip of the iceberg. And I feel like I don't like to cry a lot. I usu I usually just try and trooper through recently, and I was just like, fuck, I ran my sister and she picked me up, she took me to mum, it's absolutely fine. But on the walk there, rang Emma, and I was just like in floods of tears. Because you know, when someone's rude to you, yeah, and I'm like, You're being so unhelpful, like there's not a single sign, and I was like, So is there nothing I can do? And she was like, No, you have to come back tomorrow. And then anyway, the car park wasn't even shut until the next day. Yeah, I was at work and I was I was getting ready on the phone to Lydia when she was feeling a bit emotion, I literally didn't know what to say. There's nothing more frustrating, but on our way on my way back from work, I needed to run to the flat to grab some stuff to stay. Um, and I was like fingers crossed the car park is open, and I saw a car drive out, and I was like, it was anyway. I rang maintenance just to be like, this was supposed to be shut until 6 a.m. tomorrow. Like, has this been open all day? Will you just shut for an hour? Surely maintenance doesn't take that long. I know. Do you know what I mean? Maybe a couple hours, literally, you know? Anyway, it wasn't locked all day. No, it wasn't. And the cherry on top of the fucking cake was I had to pay for all day parking. Yeah, fucking hell. Like, I wanted to get my car at 7am. Like, do you know what I mean? There's I think there's nothing more frustrating as a driver when you can't get access to your car, and it's like, don't want to get in a taxi. No, I want to drive myself there. Yeah, um, so I was fuming on Tuesday, absolutely fuming, like holding back the tears. But anyway, um, it is what it is, it's Saver. We've got the car now, but uh that woman's on my list, I've got no idea what her name is. Um, but there we go. Um, one thing that I've been spending most of my time doing these couple of weeks is watching Maths Australia. Oh, yours. Married at Switzerland Australia. Yeah, Emma doesn't like it. It really fucks with my head. It really does. It's not a calm watch. No one's no, it really ruffles my feathers. I mean, sometimes I can only watch like if I need to catch up, I'm only watching like a couple of episodes, and then I'm like, okay, that's enough.

SPEAKER_03 9:38

Yeah, let's do that.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

That's enough for one day. Um, so there's no one to really talk to about it and debrief with, other than our older sister. Athena watches it, so we debrief, but I can't watch it with Emma because she didn't know what's going on, so we watch other things. Um, however, something happened on last week's app that I wanted to ask on the pod what the thoughts were. Because I was like, so it created quite a big blow-up, basically, and I was like, that's a really interesting scenario, and I want to get people's thoughts on it. So basically, um, this shouldn't be a spoiler because this is a couple of episodes ago, um, and they're absolutely fine now, anyway. So, Gia and Scott, they're a couple on the show, and right now they're at the the apartment stage, they're like a month in. I hate that stage. Imagine so with a man you don't like. It's so bleeding. Honestly, it's weird. Um so anyway, they basically have a big fight, and she leaves the experiment. So she gets in the car and she's like, I'm done with the fucking experiment. She gets in her car and she drives off. And we basically find out that the reason that she left was they were in the car. She didn't like the song that was playing, basically. So she was like, Can I pick another song? And he was like, Yeah, babe, here's my password, unlock my phone, pick another song. And when she went to unlock his phone, you know how iPhone have that like that feature where it's like, Oh, this memory from two years ago, and it will so it was a memory from 2020, and it was a photo of his ex in his camera role that popped up from 2020 basically, and obviously we're bloody that's six years ago, it's quite a while ago. And she went, Why the fuck do you have photos of your ex on your phone still? Like, can you delete that please? And he said, No, basically. He was I don't want to delete photos of my ex. He was like, They're memories, I don't want to delete them, basically. Oh gosh, she says that it's a photo of her and she's like bent over, it's quite a you know, sexually explicit photo. That's what she said. Oh, I but obviously we don't see the photo, so I don't I don't know what it is of it. She was like, it's not like them at the beach, she was like, it's like quite a sexy photo, and so that's why she kicked off and that's why she left. He eventually ended up deleting the photos, but that left me with the question: is it okay to keep photos of you and your ex or photos of your ex on your phone? Uh right. And is it a reasonable ask to ask your partner to delete photos of their ex off of their phone? What do you think? Straight away I thought you shouldn't have pictures of your ex on the phone on your phone. The only reason I'm saying that is because when I was back on the scene dating, I made sure to clear my phone because I found it was they were popping up and things like that. There don't don't get me wrong, all my photos on my iPhone are saved on my laptop as like it's a memory thing, like me and my ex went on holidays and like things like that. Like if you're with someone for a long time, there are loads of photos, yeah, and they're they're on there just as like I don't know if I'd ever revert back to them, but I don't want them on my immediate phone because I found they were popping up in the gallery. So you have them in a separate space, they're in a separate space, but like I don't revisit them and look at them often. But I'm someone who like doesn't like to delete photos, so they're on there, right? Explicit photos, none of that nature. We're talking smiling on a beach about those photos should not be on your phone. Who the fuck has enough iCloud memory to like this man has a lot of money since 2020? Yeah, he's probably paying for he's probably got the best iPhone with the maps. Oh my god, yeah. Um, yeah, no, you shouldn't you shouldn't be having those photos on your phone. Her asking him to delete it, is he quite a manly man? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, but he's not from his nature, he seems quite respectful of women. Like he's not he's not a don't tell me what to do kind of character, and he did come around after because he was like, It's stupid, I should have just in the moment to leave them because I've deleted them all now. Yeah, so it's like he he came around eventually. Um, but I'm like you, I'm like it's a balance between like their memories, I'd probably have them in a different place. For instance, photos on your Instagram, I would archive photos, I don't delete them because I'm just like I don't know, it's from like a point in your life, but I don't think I'm necessarily suggesting you have feelings for them or that you know there's opportunity there. Um I agree with you if it's explicit photos, they should be deleted. Yeah, um, but I think if there's like what if there's a couple of photos that you've missed that are from years back, true, you're just like I don't actively look at those photos, it's just so happens that a memory's popped up and it's a photo that's unfortunate for you to look at, but um, yeah, it create quite a big big bust up, babes. Yeah, but I also almost hate that petty argument of is liking someone else's photos cheating? Should you have photos of do you know what I mean? Yeah, like it just feels like a long day, a waste of breath, even discussing those things. Do you think it's healthy to have like an Xbox? Yeah, I think I would love to sit down with my kids in like 20, 30 years from now and be like, this was your mum's ex back in the day. Yeah, but like this is this is who I date before you die. Yeah, like Yeah, I love that. I love that so good, of course. Because it's you're not with them. It doesn't matter. You're not with them, no. Yeah. So I do think, yeah, oh, depending on how depending on how that relationship went, like, if you've got the ick, I imagine you probably want to depart with anything that reminds you of that person. Um, but everyone's got a little box of memorabilia from their ex, no? I don't think so. I have. Do I have stuff? I've got bits and bobs in memory boxes, but it's not a dedicated box. Yeah, not that special. I just I think if you're sentimental, I think it's hard to part ways with things. Yeah, like a particular tie to a certain point in your life. So I'm a little bit like I don't know. I don't know, I'm I'm on a fence. Um, I don't think you should just delete photos because someone else asks you to. Yeah, that's true. And it feels a bit like whoa, yeah, anyway. How are you, honey? What's going on? I'm good. Uh I saw this thing on TikTok. You seen Kate King's back? I've watched like two of the vlogs. Have you? I need to watch them. You're a stan. Like I love Kate King. You love her king. Yeah, I I do love Kate King. I was only became aware of her whilst she took her break from social media. For those of you that don't know, yeah. She is a content creator, um, specifically makes things on YouTube, YouTube videos. Um, and she was around like four years ago, and she just makes particularly wholesome content. Um, she's very genuine, lives her life very authentically, and she's just what you would brand like a comfort creator, like she lives at home with her mum and dad, like she has quite unique hobbies in that she's someone who's in I want to say her mid-20s, and she like goes to a bowls club and she surrounds herself with older people, but that's where she feels most comfortable. She's just like so genuinely and authentically herself, and I think that's what people love about her. And basically, she took a break from YouTube because I think people were picking on her and her family. Um, and now she's come back and she started to make videos. Her first video was she was reviewing some suites that she bought, like some picky mix that she bought, um, and she's trying to make it a career, but the videos are doing numbers. What would you say? Numbers like she's gone. 150,000 views.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

She really could she really could really make a name for herself.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

But I saw something that it was like everybody's celebrating Kate King, but I think there's also a lot of people that might be secretly mocking her. Yeah, I don't know. Because like with Chloe Williams on um TikTok, like I think people like to take the piss in a really covert way that looks supportive. So I think people might be like that with Kate in that she is different, yeah, she's a different kind of content creator, but I do think she's come about in this like comfort creator wave that I love. Yeah, where they're not influencers on brand trips to Coachella, they're like normal people showing normal people life that they're happy with, and that's really refreshing. So I'm loving the Kate King vlogs. So if you're looking for a new YouTube person to follow, definitely go and have a look at Kate's videos because she's so wholesome. Yeah, no, I just had to like jot that down and discuss it because I know you were you got me on the hype, and then she was like all over my algorithm, and then everyone was talking about it, so I just had to bring it up. She is back. My other thing is I've got a bit of beef. You've got some beef, beef, really, yeah, like beefy beef with me. No, we're hashing it out right now. Make the square in it. She was saying the square. Um, so I have particularly I've got a bit of beef with anyone who works on any sort of train or EMR service. Yeah, or if you're a ticket person. It takes a certain type of person to do that job. But I'm sorry if you work for EMR, the train's always late. Or like parking ticket people. Oh, yeah, parking ticket people, people who knock on your doors, if you're a bailiff or someone collecting taxes, yeah. I don't fuck with you. No, it takes a certain type of person, it's just not me. No, bouncers are kind of in there, but they're kind of not in there. But particularly EMR train staff are wankers, they're entitled pricks, they really are, they really are. The way they talk to people, I can't stand people working people who work in service injury industry jobs and they're rude. Why are you rude? Your customer facing, why have you got attitude? Yeah, why have you got attitude? I just can't, I can't bear to witness it. I've got this little video actually. I was sat on an EMR train and I just witnessed someone I knew be spoken to really badly by train staff. Imagine this guy went, This is the wrong ticket. Um, and then he went, Well, why did you miss your train? Like really patronizing, like teacher, school teacher, you know, that annoying teacher who talks to you like you're less than. It was given that. And then I looked at my left and I saw this other EMR staff, hands flibbing, flapping in the air, like really sort of riled up. Anyway, the police were patting down this guy, like looking in his pockets, and they kind of looked at this train person and was like, What are you doing? Because clearly he'd not convicted, he had not blamed him for something, he'd accused him of something that he clearly didn't write. He made an assumption and the police officer turned round, turns round to this like this guy, and he's just like in hysterics. And I'm just like, You're all wankers. And I took out my notes to talk about it on the pod because I was just like, I can't be asked, or if you've got the wrong ticket, they're so rude to you. Honestly, honestly, and I don't think they have a Lot of empathy for traveling is quite a stressful situation for people. Like, if you're not doing if you're not commuters like us, we we get trains every day. A lot of people are like going to places they haven't been before, you know, changing at different stations, they've got the wrong ticket, they don't realise that they can get on the next service, and it's like we're gonna find you£100. Yeah,£100, right? Fucking channel. It's like you're walking through airport security, it's so deep. Yeah, it's so deep. I would never forget when I was on a train and I had the wrong ticket, right? Um, and it was so stupid, and it was such an honest mistake where they really think they don't believe it. No, they really think you're taking them for a ride. Like I really genuinely wasn't when they get trained, they're taught, all passengers are liars, yeah, don't believe they're deceitful. I know, honestly, and I'm telling you, all these people live at home alone. Yeah, like they just want to make people's days worse. Anyway, I was like, that's fine, I'll just pay for another ticket, and they're like clicking their pen, like you know, and I'm like, okay, cool. Anyway, we're in a tunnel, okay. There's no fucking reception, the card machine's not working, right? So I'm like tapping, tapping, like it's not working, whatever. Anyway, I was like, don't worry, I'm just gonna get off at where I've paid to get off. And basically, I'd gotten on too early. I was like, I'll wait and get on the next one. Anyway, um, I got off the train um and was like walking. Anyway, the train person had clocked me and like jumped off the train and stood in front of me, and he was like, Oh, I thought you were like gonna make a run for it. And he was like, It's a shame because she was she was like, I thought you were so nice. Whoa, that's what you said to me, and I was like, No, no, no, I'm gonna wait for my train. Like, I think he thought I was gonna be sneaky and go up and try to get on another train. Oh, but this man got off to stop me. I was like, relax. You surely have no power to detain me, for God's sake. Oh my god, it's actually insane. It's I hate that when it's like someone on your carriage has got the wrong ticket, and the train person will stay with them until the next stop. Now you have to get off here, sir. Yeah, relax, like leave them alone. Or even like I was on an overground train, and this poor kid, he clearly was going to school or something, hadn't paid for his train ticket, right? It's like three quid or whatever. Anyway, uh, this woman's like stood in front of him, she was like, Well, I'm gonna have to find you, you're gonna have to get off at the next stop. And people are trying to get involved and we're like, How much is his ticket? Like, we'll just pay for it ticket tick his ticket, and she went, That's not the point. And she's like, Don't concern yourself with this, uh, or ma'am. I was like, but we've just offered to pay for his ticket. Yeah, happy days, yeah, and she just wasn't happy having it. She wanted to prosecute a 14-year-old bot. Yeah, trains are fucks, ma'am. They don't care. I hope that helps. Ever since they've been privatised, don't give a fuck. Oh my god, don't they give a fuck? I've got this theory that trains are always delayed or cancelled every Wednesday. Really? Every Wednesday I've never gotten a train on time. Really? Not a single one. I don't think anyone ever gets a train on time. Yeah, that's a fucking joke. But that's another conversation for the other day. My last thing, right? Is 2000 corporate propaganda.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

Right. Particularly in the form of movies. Right. Devil Wears Prada, 13 Going on 30, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Okay. The corporate lifestyle that they portray in these films. What, like it's romanticised. I'm not seeing that in real life. Unless I work in the wrong industry. I think you're in the wrong industry. You think? I think your workplace is way too chilled. Maybe. Do you know what I mean? Maybe. I think it's specific industries. Because I have friends that work in actual corporate. I don't work in corporate London at all. I kind of do, but mine's too I think mine's a bit too like modern now. Um what you do feel like it doesn't exist. Like the romanticised sling back office vibe. I fell into a little bit of a hole on TikTok. And I just think, like, you know, like what you thought clubs were gonna be like when you're 12 years old. You go in and everyone's gonna break out into a dance battle, and there's gonna be a beautiful man across the room, and we dance together, and then we spend the rest of our lives together. They are films, Emma. Yeah, but not real. They're not we were lied to, we were promised. I want them to be real. Yeah, I think Gen Z is absolutely like. Yeah, Meryl Streep ain't your boss. No, your colleague ain't. I don't think I'd want her to be my boss. Emily Blunt would be. You know what I mean? No, absolutely not. She's quite awful. Um but I do think I'm like, I do think a lot of things that you think like when you get older, you're like, wow, I really was brainwashed into thinking it would feel this way when it's really not. Yeah, but I don't know whether that romanticising just needs to come from you. Do you know what I mean? True. Like, you need to romanticize it for yourself. I mean, I literally say to Emma all the time, like, if I wanted to pursue like a corporate job and be the corporate London girly, I would go full throttle with the office every day, sling backs, like I I would do it like that. But because I don't want to know I don't I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to do this. I'm too tired for that. I'm too much of a sleepy girl for that. Yeah, but I feel like you you don't actually want to do like you want to do this. So that's what it is, that's the problem. You know, I mean, enough said, okay. Let's keep it going. Let's let's let's move on. We got we have jobs to do that. But those those were those were my updates. Should we move into the actual segment of this episode? Um, lesson over nothing else to share, honey. So me and Lydia loved going down memory lane last week and just telling like funny stories. Yeah. Of our youth. Of our youth, of our of our our golden days. Yeah. Of our days where it's like you haven't got a job, you your whole social you just look forward to the weekend all you want to know is what you're doing at the weekends. Yeah. That that is what you spend the week planning. Yeah, and that yeah, that's it. You don't care about homework. And I think we've realized that we have quite a few funny lived experiences together. Yeah. Um, so we're gonna go. We're gonna take it back, we're gonna take it back to our school days. Yeah. And I've got like three questions that are gonna spark conversation. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, and we want you to kind of think about you in school. Like I I want it to make you feel nostalgic about that mad party you went to, or the girls that you used to hang out with, or that particular outfit that you loved at the time, or that song. Um, and feel free to share them. But Emma and I just thought it would be a fun little fun little segment. So, question one What was your full getting ready routine before a party or a night out? So I think for like context, we're in school, it's a Friday, bags are packed, and you're going to someone's fr someone's house after school. Okay, okay. I feel like that was usually what we did. We spent our week like planning what we were gonna do at the weekend, and of course we have to get ready all together and travel to the function together. We're getting in someone's mum's car, yeah, you know, it's Friday after school, everyone stood around, you know, see see you later, you know. Yeah, we're all gonna we're gonna see you there. Um, but what was your what was your getting ready like routine? Like, what did that entail? I feel like the songs were very music, it was deep. Music was yeah, I feel like before anyone even touched a makeup brush, it was like, where's the damn speaker? Yeah, turn it on and cue some songs, yeah. And I feel like what was playing in the background was like Mabel Finders Keepers. Oh my god, stop, yeah. Ray check. This was when Ray was Rave Ray, not acoustic Ray, which we love equally. Any young bee, young, oh my god, young bee, Athena, Athena, I hate you. Young bee, young bee, be young. She's done that to me. No, it's young bee! She used to say that all the time. I hate it, I think I'm hating memory a lot. B Young, B Young, Young B. Why has she done this to me? It's stuck. We saw him in a club once, and I was like, I think we're gonna go see B Young. She was like, Young B. I went, no, B Young, B. That's who we're gonna see. And she was in the crowd, like young bee, and he's singing, and it's like fucking annoying. Anyway, B Young, B Young in fact Jay Haas was a big one. Um, who was another one? I think Zara Larson's album, like Ain't My Fold. Oh, 100%. So good was the album, I think. Yeah, um, and then there was this, yeah. Yeah, and then there was this, so there there was this um YouTube channel called Selected Music, Selected Remix or whatever, and they would post um DB and house tracks on there, and we'd always like listen to like the newest selected track. Um yeah, we used to know every single song. So good. And we oh god, I think music really bonded our particular friendship group at the time. It did, and we had one friend in that group who was always showing us new music. Oh yeah, and she was always in charge of the orcs, she was always like she would play the best tunes, yeah, and we would go to her house really to get ready. Exactly. So the music is playing. We've stopped at the shop, yeah, and um Jazz's mum, Susie, has run into the shop and got us a little bottle of wine, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And some lemonade wine. Sometimes we'd mix it. We'd be in the kitchen, and there were these plastic purple wine cups.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

So we'd make ourselves a little drink, the speaker is on, yeah, we're upstairs, and the makeup kits come out. And our teenage hood was peak like glam 2016 makeup. So the Kylie Cosmetic Um lip kits, eyeshadow palettes, yeah, beauty blenders, yeah, highlighter, that MAC highlighter. Remember that? Oh my god, highlighter was everything at one point. The brighter the highlighter, the better. And it was what's everybody doing with their makeup tonight? Cut crease? What we're doing, yeah, eyeshadow. Yeah, eyeshadow, what we're doing. We all had reference photos, yeah, and we would sit on the floor, most likely while someone was on the bed. Yeah, and we would just go to town on our makeup, yeah, music's playing, full glam. Um, what else? We're deciding what to wear. Oh gosh, yeah. What can I just say contour was also a really big thing back then? We had the contour kits, right? Cream and powder. Yeah, okay. We were laying that and we were baking. We were if you didn't bake your face, what are you doing? We were, and our hair was dead straight. Yeah. Or there was a half up, half down situation going on. It was it was dead straight. Um, what were other essentials to getting ready? Setting spray. Oh my god, yeah, setting spray. Who's got setting spray? Mac Fix Plus setting spray specifically. Absolutely. Um, and we'll probably just dig in through each other's cupboards. I feel like a non-negotiable outfit element for me was like a little, I had this little grey pencil skirt that I used to ruffle up to fuck. This thing was so short. And I look back and I'm like, yeah, I was a size eight, yeah, I could wear anything. Teeny weeny. This little grey skirt, and then we had the Nike, were they Roches? The Nike Roses, the Nike They had a tick on the side, that's the side. The white foam, white tick, Nike trainers. Yeah. Emma had black ones, I had grey ones. Yeah. Um, and then those, you know, do you remember those long sleeves that had like the cross the like the shoelace tie crisscross?

SPEAKER_01 34:55

Oh my god, stop, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:57

But Emma had this yellow Hollywood top that I loved as well. Oh my god, yeah. It was it was peak like when the ACDC merch was like very like trendy. ACDC hoodies, t-shirts, yeah, and I just loved like bright eyeshadow, bright top. Best believe I tied that in a knot so it was a cropped top. Yeah, everything had to be cropped, yeah. Cropped jackets, cropped bomber jackets specifically. Definitely, like my bright, yeah, like and then high-waisted skinny jeans. We weren't wearing baggy jeans, we were wearing skinny jeans, and they had rips in them. Yeah, and we were just discussing what the night was gonna involve. Um, oh my god, we used to play this game. Does anyone remember Piccolo? The act oh my god, stop. Where you'd put people's names in and it would generate like truth audires and stuff, and there was a steamy version and a normal version. I I feel like you loved that game. I loved a game, mate. You I think you had on your phone. I did to talk talk us through it. So you'd get like a it'd be like you put your names in and it'd be like so and so and so and so. Pastor neck on, yeah. So I mean, mum, I wasn't, I swear, I was keeping I was trying to keep it as clean as well. We were good kids, but it was always like if a boy you liked was at a party, you were play playing Piccolo, that's what was happening. Stop um, and yeah, I feel like that was everything, and then um we put what iPhones did we have at that time? I don't know, I think it was iPhone 5. We were taking photos in front of the front door and then we were going off on our little excursions with our little bottle of roses, the main thing you were posting to let people know where you were, yeah, and everyone just used to hang around outside little photos with speakers, yeah. Or it was like a house party. Yeah, this was before we started going out out. Yeah, yeah. Did we go out a lot? I can't really remember to be honest with you. I feel like um it was like A-level End of 17. That's when we started going out. Yeah, we ditched the train instead of swap them for heels. We did indeed. I was looking back at some of those pictures from the yeah, and I was just like, Jesus. PLT was also the thing. PLT branded clothes and it took sports clubs. Yeah, misguided was also all the rage. Absolutely. Oh my gosh. Okay, cool. Next question. Oh, I feel like I'm right there, guys. Yeah, I know I feel really nostalgic. You're right there with us. We'll be drinking in Cyprus soon, that's for sure. Oh, Zara perfumes. That was a god, yeah. Perfumes from Zara. Which I still buy. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Okay, so tell me about a time you got caught doing something you definitely shouldn't have been doing. Me and Lydia have discussed this. Yeah. Sorry, mum. Oh my god, as if she's gonna find out this one. I know, god, she's probably her heart's probably bloody beating at this point. So when I was I want I can't were we in A level at this point? Uh oh gosh. I guess so. Yeah. Anyway. Did we finish our A levels in the house at the top of the hill or the bottom of the hill? Bottom of the hill. Okay, so maybe you were in A levels. Yeah. So basically, um Emma and I were left in the house on our own for like a couple of a week or something. For Easter. I remember. Yeah. Wow, okay. Um and Emma and I wanted to go to the shop. At this point, I was learning to drive. I think you guys are gonna know where this is going. But basically, Emma and I wanted shit from the shop. It wasn't even important things. I wanted Hagendah's ice cream. Yeah, I wanted cheesecake Hagen Dah's ice cream, and at that point, we had like our living room was just off the kitchen, and I could see the car keys hanging by the front door. And the kiosk was at the bottom of the road, can I just say? And we lived in a very small village. This is so bad. Now I'm actually saying this very bad. But I was like, I don't want to walk there. No, like, do we just take the keys and just get in the car? And we drove to the shop. You had done that so many times with mum in the car, and I got in the car with you, and I was the worst. Oh my god! Oh my god! I know I was freaking out, I couldn't stay calm. The lights were on, people were flashing, Lydia, because the lights went on. I didn't know how to turn them on. Yeah. Nightmare. I know, and then yeah, we no, didn't you wait? Didn't you do it once and then forgot something and then went by yourself and drove again? Oh shit, yeah, because I did because the car no, the car was the wrong way round. Oh shit, mum was gonna know because the car we went this way and we drove and came back round. Well, you say in the wrong direction. I had to drive through the village and I went past this little shop, and the woman that runs this shop has known me since I was a baby. Yeah, and I was like, she knows how old I am, like she knows I'm probably not old enough yet to drive. I had my hood up because I had to stop out her outside her shop, and I was like, shit, if she looks in this car, I'm busted. Yeah. Anyway, go park the car, everything looks normal, fine. Anyway, fast forward, mum comes back from her trip. We get in the car and she goes, Why is the window all the way down? I left the window down. I don't think she asked. I remember you were like, because we were going to school, it was in the morning, right? We went to the car, and I remember you went, Emma, and you looked at me and you went like that, and I looked, the window is down. I was like, fuck. So we got in the car quickly, yeah, and I distracted mumma and you rolled up the window, guys. That's what happened. Um she didn't she didn't ask if mum asked why the window is down, that's it. Busted, busted. She never found out until now. As she listens to this episode, I'm very sorry, mum. Emma and I just wanted snacks and we didn't want to walk down that bloody hill to go to the shop. But you know what? Dean's a good little driver. At the time, was I? Yeah, I'm sorry, you drove through the village. You know, they used to get single file donkeys through there. That's true. Um, very reckless. Never do that. It's stupid. Yeah, don't do that. If you don't have a license, don't drive. Um, I was just six 17 and just fucking dickhead, basically. And all the kids in our Greek little village used to drive around in their parents' car and they they didn't know how to drive all the time. They were like 14. They probably don't even have number plates on them. Um, yeah, what about you? Okay, so mine is um, so me and my friend were like on a night outright. Um, and there was a time in my life where like boys just used to come pick me up from the house and drop me on big boy cars and mum had no idea. Like, I was just like, oh yeah, like my friends picking me up, like whatever. Like, I rarely gave her the details. But like me and my friend at the time, we were just in a time of our life we just love going out, we like what we're doing, we were constantly like tag teaming where we're going, what we're doing, and we just used to use boys to get us from age to be. Um, anyway, there was so we were driving home, me and my friend like both live like close together, but we're in a car with these two guys, right? Driving really fast, whatever. And um we like pull up on this hill, and like where we live, there's this one house and it's abandoned, right? There's no one in it, right? And we're like we're like driving past it, and we're like, fuck it, should we go in? Me and my friend are dressed to the nines in hills with these guys, and like the thing is with me, I believe if there's good, there's also bad, you know? Yeah, uh, but this house has been there since we were kids, and I actually think Athena's gone in that house. Like, this furniture in there has been absolutely ransacked. Yeah, anyway. We I also didn't get caught with this, can I just say? Like, I feel like we really I thought I don't remember this story. I feel like I'm gonna remember it as soon as you we get to this house and we're like walking, we've we've walked in through the front. The place is absolutely ransacked, like it is, it's scary. Graffiti on the walls, furniture's tipped over, there's cases everywhere, clothes, like is this downstairs? This is downstairs, and we walk upstairs, we walk upstairs, and there's a like cot in the middle. Wait, is it dark? It's dark. What time is it? It's like two o'clock in the morning. No, so it's pitch black. It's pitch black. There's not a single thing, and me and my friend are in. This abandoned house with two men, shit, and we're walking around this gaffe. Anyway, me and my friend are clinging onto each other, walking slowly to this room because we're like, we can't be pussies, like you know, when you egg each other on, yeah. Anyway, like we we go in the room and the cot, it's just got like a red stain in the middle. It looks like it was probably like paint or whatever, but in our heads, we're like someone's died here. Anyway, we've like ran out the house and whatever, but I was like, that was so stupid. Cause like, first of all, trespassing. Oh, yeah. That house definitely belongs to someone, yeah, but I definitely shouldn't have been there at that time of night with who I was with. But like I just remember sneaking in the house afterwards, and I was like, what am I doing? What am I doing with my line? That house has been there since the dawn of fucking time. I don't even know how you made it up the stairs. I took one step on that step stairs that spirals because it goes round the corner, doesn't it? It does. No, absolutely not. I actually can think of another thing. Um stop. Oh, does it involve more almost? No. Um, one thing that I shouldn't have done, guys. I got my nipple pierced when I was in school. Oh my god, can we please make this a short guys? I remember this. She got my nipple pierced with a friend of mine. We went together and we got our nipples pierced. We paid for that, dad. Oh my! Dad, I was like, can I have it cost me 25 quid? Um, and we went to the appointment. I think it was a weekend, and we got our nipples pierced, and she went first, and she came out of the room. She's like, Do you want me to tell you how bad it was? And I could tell in her eyes I was fucked. Right. Shit. By the way, mum and dad don't know I'm doing I was doing this at all. Why did they think we were? No idea. I was dating that guy who drove at the time. Oh shit, yeah. So we were just with them. And so anyway, I walk into this room. Um, I only got the one done, and the procedure is like they clamp your nipple, put a needle through, and then they push the bar through. Yeah. I was there, I was saw, I was holding it. I was at Emma, talk to me about anything, right? And then side note, I I name dropped someone in our friendship group in the appointment. I went, tell me about that story. And Emma like distracted me, told me about whatever. I remember looking at you. My man, the piercing person, went and told this person that I name-dropped in the appointment, that I said something about them in the appointment, and that person messaged me.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:43

I was like, Look, I had a man with a clamp on my nipple. Yeah, and I remember being like, You you were like, Emma, tell me about this story, and you said a name, and I was like, Why the fuck have you done that? We live in private. We live in a place where everyone knows everyone. I know. And then the man went and told how I'm unprofessional. I know. I went, I can't believe that. It's in a it's a private appointment. Yeah. Um, and my mum didn't find out till I was like 22. Yeah, don't basically, because my older sister found out, and then I told my mum, I think I was maybe 23. Dad still ain't got a clue, he's never gonna fucking find out, yeah. Um, unless he watched unless we make this a short. He won't. Um but I remember the next day we had to be um like school ambassadors at an open day, and my boob was killing. And I had a shirt on, it had a blazer. I was like, hang alright. Like I was in agony for a while. Um, best£25 I ever spent. Uh okay, last one. Uh tell me about time you snuck out. Jesus Lord. Okay, this is a joint screen. Have we ever done this multiple times? I don't think so. I think we got to a point in our life where we were old enough that mum didn't really necessarily need to know where we were. Yeah, it was first year of A-level. Oh gosh. We were a little bit older. I was seeing someone, like we'd worked a couple of summers, so we had our own money, whatever, and we were again home alone. Yeah, there was a time we were being left alone quite a bit. And I don't know what what the trigger was for should we go out? Was it just a Saturday night? Yeah, it was just a Saturday night. Everyone was going out, but the thing was we we were allowed to go out, but just not that much. Like, no, I think mum cared a lot about like just our whereabouts, as she should. We were 17-year-old girls, do you know what I mean? But I think out of everyone in our group, we did not have as much freedom as anyone else. No, so we kind of pet talked to each other. We were like, fuck it, we're going out. Everyone's going out, but where we lived at the time, it was just not in an ideal location at all. Guys, it was about how far is that walk? 25 minutes, 30 minutes, longer. Let me show you. Is it have a look? Let me have a look. I remember Emma and I getting ready in Emma's bedroom, which was the which was the room we always got ready in. I remember I was in full black, and I remember us being stood by the front door. I have a Snapchat video of me being like, so we're gonna go out. Oh my god. And when you see this, you would have already been out. Hopefully, we don't get caught, and we're about to walk this massive hill. How far is it? It's saying it's an hour. We walked to the bus route, because we walked to the bus route and got the bus. I woke up the next day and I felt fucked. How do we get home? It's 5.3 kilometers. No. Seriously, yeah, because I've got it to right, you're gonna have to beat this. I got it to I've done to Okay. That's what we did. It's saying it's an hour to walk it. Yeah, shit. I remember us power walking. Yeah, we did not, it did not power walking for fifth 25 minutes. That walk did not end. No, it was awful. I don't know, I don't even think we made it to a bar. I think we went straight to the club. We went straight to our favourite bar. We were in a bar first.

SPEAKER_03 50:32

We went to bar first.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

Oh. Yeah, and we were in there. Shit. I remember we how the makeup and the hair stayed, I've got no idea. No idea, but we were it was just and it those those roads were not pedestrianized. No, but we just wanted to go out so badly. We did. Um, and then that bus is at least 20 minutes. Yeah, and then we walked 15 minutes, yeah. Um, and anyway, we're out, we're having a sick time. I'm not even really thinking about it, to be honest. Our friends got her work, her like school bag, and remember I took a Snapchat of her with her literature books, and she was I the caption was lit, and she had our book and she was like, um oh god, but we posted stories, didn't we? We did, but we muted people. You know how we got found out? We were out with our so we saw our friend Ramai on this night out, and she filmed us and put it on her story, and Athena saw it, and then Athena told mum. Oh fuck. And then the next day, you and I had to so in Cyprus, why would she rat us out? No idea. So all the schools have to march. So Emma and I had to go and march the next day. Oh my god, don't. So we were marching, you know, for our school great. We went fine. As soon as we got home, we found Athena rings us, she goes, Where were you last night? Oh, for God's sake. And I'm like, home, yeah. And she's like, Well, I seen stories, she was fuming. Oh, mum was fuming. I was scared for mum to come home. Yeah. Um, because she was actually feeling bad for us leaving us in the leaving us inside. Sorry about it. I'm not sure. I'm doing it again. Yeah, I'm doing it in a heartbeat. I was also getting to know a boy at the time and he was like, I was having a minute, you only live once. I was having a great time. Oh, we walked an hour. Makes a good story. What a girl will do for a good time. And then we went out the following night because I remember our friend joined us after marching. She remembered she broke into our house and let herself in, and we were how the fuck you get in the house. Yeah. Imagine a nine-minute drive is an hour walk. Oh mate, when we couldn't drive, it sucks. It sucks when you're a kid and you can't drive. All you want to do is get from A to B. Like, it's not it's not the vibe. Um, yeah, sneaking out is um it's all fun and games. Do you remember when? Girls, right? If you're gonna say you're staying at your mate's fr your mate's house, at least tell them you you at least tell them you've told. Do you know what I mean? What is wrong with you? At least let me cover for you and that I know all the details. I'll never forget when our friend's mum rang Lydia. Guys, I was lying on the sofa. I think I was hungover, maybe. Yeah. I answered the phone and she goes, Is so and so with you? And I was like, uh, I was like, can I ring you back? I went, the service is terrible in here. One second. Lydia ran up to me on the stairs and went. Went, what the fuck? Pingo's mum just rang me. Where is she? I went, I don't know. I said, tell her the truth. Yeah, and I respect this woman highly. We rang our friend three times. We gave her three chances to tell her. She didn't answer. Yeah. So I've done my bit. I ring this woman back and I went, I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't know where she is. I think she was down the fucking road. No, she could have just come round the corner. I don't know where she is, babes. I I've got too much respect. Oh, sorry, I just knocked the mic. I've got too much respect for you to lie to you. Yeah. Um, so do with that information what you were. I don't know who she's with. I haven't spoken to her. Lord, but I thought she was at home. No one told me she was staying here. Our friend was particularly like, she didn't give a fuck. She's such a rebel, she was raucous.

SPEAKER_01 54:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:26

Um, but it made for great stories. It really did. But I don't regret a thing. No, I would do it all again. Oh, yeah. I think when you're a teenager, it's just a bit of fun. Yeah, it is. It is just a bit of fun. Obviously, you know, it's not always the smartest of choices, but it makes for great stories. Yeah, cool. Well, I loved that. I know trick down memory line. We'll definitely do more of those as and when, like um, they come to our mind. I feel like whenever we're in Cyprus, we have small triggers, so you'll probably hear more of stories like on the vlog that we're gonna do. Oh, yeah, definitely. Um, and I'm really excited to film that. I know I mentioned it in the last episode, but I'm really really keen. I can't wait to get it. She's cane. Um but it's a Saturday night. I think what we're gonna do is we're just gonna chill. I could potentially get out and about. I know you want to go to the gym. I've seen a couple of messages on my phone. I feel like we need to get back to a little bit of admin. Um yeah, I know Fee's lost her pods. I think the gym shuts. I can't lie. I feel like I grabbed them. I've grabbed mum's airpods thinking they were ours. Oh shit. She's gonna have to come and grab them. Yeah. Because what's she need them for? To listen to her music. To listen to her tunes. Sorry, Feef. Or she's on FaceTime. Um, sometimes we have a bit of pride. I've grabbed them by accident. It's just anyway. We come out with a new episode every Thursday. Sorry, I'll beat it you too at this. Yeah, you can take it this way. Every Thursday. Make sure to like and subscribe if you're watching. Make sure to follow us on Spotify, Apple, whatever you're listening to this. And don't forget to follow us on socials. We're on TikTok, we're on Instagram, show us some love over there. Um, you guys really loved a video that we came out with this week. Um a fucking fiver. Yeah, a fucking fiver. Um, so yeah, more stories like that to come. Yeah, thank you for engaging with that. Thank you for oversharing, Dean. And I hope mum and dad take this very well. But thank you for oversharing them with it. We'll see you in the next one, guys. We love you. Love you.

SPEAKER_00 56:38

Lost in the space when I know I'm told it's a one no one, but I don't want to want to look good in the day, you're gonna get it.