Episode 24: "an arranged marriage?!"

We start with a quick catch-up before jumping into a new segment, "Do You Remember When," 🤔 where we share wild childhood and teenage memories. We also spill the story of how Emma was promised to our dad’s friend’s son 💒  and I talk about how we rigged the school raffle for a bottle of wine 🍷 It’s a trip down memory lane, don’t miss it!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:28

You know what? I'm gonna reward myself with a glass of wine and a cigarette after this. Everyone was like, I thought we were going to the pub. No, we're gonna film another episode and then you can go to the pub. Bitch. Yeah. Bitch! Don't you think it's gonna be so much more of a reward? Yeah, it is. But do you know what? I like filming episodes every week because I like keeping people in the know of what's happening. But that just means we're gonna have loads more Goss in the next episode. Absolutely. And the next episode will be 25, which is crazy to think about. Woo! What is this? 24? Yeah, 24. 24 the age that we are. Woo! Oh my god, the pod will be older than we are in it. Yeah. And also, our birthday is on a Thursday this year. So that means an episode goes out when we turn 25. Is it not on a Monday? No. 6th of July isn't a Monday. I've booked the Monday off. Gully Pop is Oh, it is a Monday. It is a Monday. Have you not booked a Monday off? I get my birthday off. I've oh I've booked Monday Tuesday off. Well, I've I get a birthday day off, but I have to book it. Okay. I've but yeah, I've booked Monday Tuesday off because why not? Nice. If I want to go out on my actual birthday, I want to be like we could go for dinner or something. Yeah. I don't it's nice to do things on the day when you don't have to do it. We're just going to figure out what we're doing. I know. You and your drunken. I rang with you drunk on Thursday after work drinks. Um we have this thing called Thirsty Thursdays. I love it. And in our office, we literally have a bar that's stocked with white claws, moths, desperados, coronas. We got all the lager, we have spirits, apparel, champagne, and wine all in the cupboard. The cleaners hate us. The cleaners absolutely hate us. Because we just we sort of stack our drinks and things, but cleaners come in and they clean all the grass and things. Um, but yeah, I rang with you on Thursday and I was like, I I've got a really good group at work, like a really good squad. Um, and I was like, I love these people so much, like I just want to do a house party. At one point, I was like, should I just kick mum out of her gaff, let her stay here, and we just have a we just let everyone stay at feast or just mattresses everywhere. Sounds like absolutely my thought idea of hell. But I would like to do so you're doing something with your girly pops, aren't you? Well, I'm doing something I'm doing something um on the 10th and 11th with the girls. I'm not doing something the weekend before. Right. Because I felt like that made sense. Yeah, I think I've got something on the 10th and 11th with my beauty girls. So it's like we need our if we want to do something with each other, it'll have to be like the fourth, fifth, those days. Can we please go for some like really nice food? Yeah, because it was somewhere on our bucket list. Well, someone asked me when bank hall weekend, they were like, What are you doing for your birthday? And I was like, Well, I dunno. Well, I'm thinking when is you might have to boot this out or in the festival? 25th July or 15th, yeah. It's it's the end of the last two weekends of July. Right. Yeah. Okay. So I don't know if that could be for it. Yeah. I think we need to do something third, fourth, fifth that weekend. Yeah, maybe alright. But then sometimes I'm like, oh, is that too fully booked? Still too much. Yeah. Is it dinner? I would love to go in a nice sushi restaurant and splash some cash on some sush. Yeah. Would be lovely. You know what I'd also like to do? I'd like to just go and do some in-person shopping. Oh. I feel like that would be nice. Let's go to I love uh Westfield, White City. Yeah. So favourite shop. I just want to have a mood. They've got a talo in there. Have they? I'd like to go and try some things and buy myself some things. Okay, because then also I would love to do dinner. Yeah. Maybe I would love to go into an arquette. Yeah. A cos. Big Zara, yeah. Oh, a cos. Cos. A gap. Gap's coming. Yeah. Like, I want to go and do like a shopping day, and then maybe we do dinner in the evening. Yeah. Okay. Or something. Yeah, I'll be done. Because if we're going, I'm getting mash up the weekend after. I'll be here though. I'll be there. Girlie's right. Getting on a train to come in. Oh, really? Lydia and I. Maybe are you going to stay over? No. Oh maybe. We usually get an Airbnb, but last time we did that, oh my god. There was a strip of pole in the bedroom. That's all I'm gonna say. Well, come back and stay here though in the Eve. I'm kicking her out. Well no, I'll go to mum's day. Steve, I'm coming to yours. I don't know if you're listening. If you've got your keys and cluster keys. Oh, I lost my keys! I lost my keys. It's got my mum's front door key, my front door key, and our back key. Her back door key. I lost them. So we've got one set of keys, guys. I know. So literally went out to them. And I was like, no, you can go to the post office. And I'm like, I can't. Oh, but you text me. I know. So I was like, shall I just go and come back without telling her? But I know she would have hated and left the door open. You weren't having a nap. So I was like, I can go. I was awake when you left, and I was like, oh. Oh, you should have said. She left and then she posted stories with drinking coffee or whatever. I was like, thanks for the invite. Bitch. I didn't want to wake you up. You were tired. Yeah, no, I was. Don't do me like that. So I was no, I was so tired this week. I didn't want to push you because I knew you said you were tired. But then it made me sad that you went by yourself. I sat in the sun. I had Tyler playing in my ears. That was fine. I was listening to Candice. She had a new episode of the pod. So I have to be in a certain mood to listen to that episode. Because it's a workshop. It's a workshop. It's not a bit of light listening. Yeah, yeah. She said she said on the pod today she was like, You gotta be brave to listen to this. She went, You got this is getting in the work listening to these episodes. I can't listen to these seven o'clock in the morning on the way to my night tomorrow. No. Sometimes I'm in the mood, but sometimes I can't. I was like, you know what? We're doing a walk, we're having a coffee, let's let's do some soul searching. Because Candice, she she ain't, she ain't gonna let you. She ain't nothing gets past that woman. Tough love. Candice knows what's going on. Tough love. Don't don't mess, don't play with her. She knows what's going on. No, yeah. So you're so right. You're so right. That was bad. Um, what was I gonna say? Speaking of Tyler, real quick. Yeah, we just kind of ran it, we we ran into this episode. Yeah, usually we have a light jog. No, we're warmed up. Yeah, let's go. We're like, whoa! Let's go! Let's have it. Speaking of Tyler, yeah. Tyler and Zara Larson came out with a collab. What's it called? Uh what's the song called? You want me? You want me? You want me? Deep day while me. I know you do. Put a man on his knees now, trying to please us in it again, like Brittany. Oh girl, the lyrics. Don't fly too close to me, you'll fall. Yeah. That is Greek mythology. She did it again. That's what the song's called. Adding it to the overshare playlist. Don't fly too close to me, you're fall. This is dangerous, game. That song makes you want to wipe one. Uh-oh. It's giving Shakira and Beyonce. So good. Yeah. Zara is doing it, but you know what? Zara takes over with her this morning, rehearsing in her trackies, and the audience were already there. That my girl is tired. It looked like it was 6am. It's like a morning. She's losing her voice. Yeah. She's singing Midnight Sun twice a day, every day. Yeah. Full. She's yeah. Yeah. Like, what full out? She's doing everything full out. And she's not marking shit. She's got barely any backing vocals on her tracks as well. So it's like she is doing all of the groundwork. I know she wants to, because she really wants to. She needs to keep this relevance until summer. That's what she needs to do. She came back warm though, later on. Obviously, she was just doing sound check. Did you see her heel snapped? Well, no, yeah, but then she when she hit the meh nine, sir, she she cut it, she halved it, and her voice kind of broke. It was like, girl, it's not even that you can't do it. We know you can fucking do it. You've done it every single night on tour and supporting tape prank. And you did it on the bike bus. We know you can do it. It's just she's tired. She's my girl's tired. She just she just needs a week at a spark. But I know she's she's really pushing it. Yeah. Some when summer comes around, this is her year. And she's dropped the remix of Midnight Sun, the album. So she dropped, she dropped that song at the end of summer. Yeah. And she went, bet. I'ma keep this relevant until summer 2025. 2026. Yeah, 2026. I forgot what year it was. What year is it? Um my girl's doing it, and Emma and I love to see it because we've been Zara Larson's stands since day one. Literally, quite literally. It is my favourite. We were I would we were covering her songs in school. Oh my god, yeah. I was singing She's Not Me at like 12. Yeah.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

And I still don't think people know what that song is. For me, oh eh, and isn't none of my business. Oh my wah. Oh my. None of my business. Type She's Not Me part one and two on YouTube. Zara Larson. Listen to that song. It's a great song. Do it. Also, I think for me, it was the Vivo Discover Zara Larson covers. She does rooftop and Uncover. Uncover. Those live songs. I need to look at the year that they were. Um yeah, what year did those come out? Um I think they were like 2015. Were they? Let's have a look. Um, those were the first two videos we saw, and then we watched like the actual music. So 11 years ago. Wow. We've been riding a decade. Yeah. I've got a framed poster of Zara Larson above my mirror. She watches over me while I sleep. She keeps she keeps me protected. She protects my energy. Yeah. And I look at her every morning and I'm like, today's gonna be a good day. Yeah. Thank you, Miss Zara. I was surprised Lydia with Zara Larson tickets for Christmas. Yeah. And those tickets were literally £25 apart. No, honestly. That will not happen now. I cried when I got those tickets. I was like, I'm so excited. She was amazing. We took Athena along, and Athena knew a few Zara songs, but she wasn't a Zara fan. No. And let me tell you, if you're not a Zara fan, go watch her live once. Your life has been. You'll be converted. You will. Your life has changed. You will. Um but go on, girl. What's up with you? I haven't gone through my updates. Maybe ask me how I am back and I'll not update you. I will, girly part. Um, what's up with me? I'm still tandem reading. I'm still reading the two books at once. I thought you said I'm still tandem reading. I was alright though. I'm still tandem reading, I'm still tandem reading the books. Um and I'm loving it at the minute. Oh, Emma's staring at the camera. She've got like a green thing on top of your head. She does. I don't know. The camera's looking different today, guys. Yeah, I think maybe we clicked a few buttons when we were vlogging. It's fine. I'm really hoping it's gonna be fine. Um, so I've done a couple of chapters back and forth between the different books, and I get it. It's basically two storylines happening at the same time, and I think this is definitely the best way to read it because otherwise, you you're forgetting about the other the like the subplot for like right six or seven hundred pages. These books are massive. You need to. Um so I'm loving that. However, carrying around two books is a little bit tricky. Putting that in my bag, going to work, I'm taking two books. Because what if I'm I I can't always read all the chapters that I need to read before I like go to bed or whatever. So I'm taking two books with me. Can't you look like okay, in this book, I've got like three chapters, I'm just gonna take this book today. Yeah, but what if I want to read more? Then I have to wait. Fucking hell I'm gonna do it. So I'm taking the two books. Wow, okay. Um, I'm really committing to it, but it's fine. Um, I've got a statement. I'm done wearing coats and jackets now. It's summer. Yeah. I don't care if it's raining or if it's cold, I'm done. Yeah. Last week the news was like, oh, it's gonna be a bit chilly. Not for me. No, it's not. No, no, I'm done. I I at best, I'm just doing a long sleeve. Long sleeve, maybe a jumper. That's jumper. I'm cool with. I am not putting a coat on again. I don't give a fuck. I'm done. It's summer. I'm sick to death of holding my shoulder bag. It's going on my shoulder. I know. Because my too many layers because of the coat. Come on now, it's done. That's too much. It's done. I'm making a stand. Yeah. Summer's I'm just not doing it. Yeah, yeah. If to be quite frank. That's absolutely fine. So if we've will we go for a drink later, jacket or no jacket? Is it different at night? It's diff you know what? It's different at night. Okay. It's different at night because it's during the day that I have a problem with. Okay. It's the layers, it's also going to work. I don't really want to think about thinking about work outfits in general is kind of the bane of my life. And to think about the extra layers, I don't want to have to do a do that. I'll probably wear a jacket later, Probs. Yeah. Because I don't want to be cold, but probably gonna sit outside, right? Yeah. And it was sunny today, but I'm not sure what the temperature is. Mama likes a cigarette. You do indeed. Um, because I've quit unofficially, but I've quit. Yeah. Yeah. Um, because I can't quite come to terms with being like, yay, yeah, I know I don't smoke anymore. I can't quite say it. Um social smoke anymore. It's not like I was smoking every day. No, no, no, no, no. Um we watched Michael last night. Oh it's just called Michael, right? Yes, the Michael Jackson biopic. It was incredible, guys. Yeah. If you haven't seen it, oh my god, no notes, no notes. I felt like I was watching MJ himself. Jafar did an absolutely incredible job. Did you know that it was his first acting gig? Oh my god, yeah, I did see that. It's his first gig. Yeah. Well, I've never seen him in anything else before. No, so this was his debut. I'm not sure. Um, but obviously Jafar is he's Michael Jackson's nephew, so he is a Jackson, of course. Who to play Michael Jackson than another Jackson? Like, of course, it's a legacy thing. I don't think they could have just got some randomer to go and play Michael Jackson, although they did do worldwide casting. So they spoke to Jafar, but they did say that they were gonna open the auditions to the world and they were gonna do a worldwide search. But like, how were they gonna find anyone that compared? 29. He's 29, yeah, wow, and he's never acted before. No, he was incredible, guys. Like, I felt like he was him. When I was watching it, I was just thinking, this is everything that that Amy Back to Black film should have been for her. Like the grain of the camera, the outfits, everything was perfect. Yeah, I felt like I had to snippet into his life. Whereas when I watched the Amy Winehouse film, it felt a l a little bit gimmicky for me, to be honest. Like it it just did it, I didn't feel like she was Amy when I was watching her. I don't know whether it's because her death was so recent, I would say. Is it still too fresh? I don't know. But like that is how you portray someone's legacy. It was fantastic. It was so hard to sit still in the chair. Oh my god, yeah, that was that was a battle. So hard. So highly recommend you gotta go watch it. What did you think, girl? I mean, next absolutely loved it so good. I would see it again. I can't wait to watch it on my sofa so I can get up and dance and react how I wanted to when I was watching it in there. Uh but I was looking around, I was like, so it weren't good a vibe because I've seen loads of TikToks of people bursting out in the dance at the end. I was like, is that gonna happen with me literally at me in there in the thick of it in the middle?

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Like, Mama Sam, Mama Sam, Mama Sam, Mama Sam, Sam.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

But yeah, it was amazing. It was so good. Um, he looked so much like him, it was actually wild. Honestly, it was like MJ was right there. Um, the next movie that we need to see though is Billy Eyelish. Hit me hard and fast or something. Hard and soft. What the fuck is it called? This is poor for my. I think it's hard and soft. Um I put eyebish. Eyebish. Billy Eyish. Yeah, we need to see that. Apparently, it's so immersive, it's like you're right there. Yeah, they're giving you like glow in the dark sticks. Yeah, uh I can't find it though, but we want to go see that. That looks amazing. We need to go see it. Like, that's gonna be so good. Maybe. I mean, next weekend we're busy, maybe the weekend after. Yeah, I mean, we watched the old the other Billy Doc today. Yeah, on Apple TV, which was so good. Um we've seen that like five, six times. Yeah. Um, but this week I actually caught up with some old colleagues. Oh yeah, how are you? I'm like thanks for asking. Sorry. Um, so this week I actually caught up with some old colleagues from like my first like proper corporate job. Um, I worked there for three years and we've always like the brand team have always like stayed in close contact. We've group chat. We always try and get together, whether it's it's hard to get everyone together. Yeah. Um, because like some of them have kids, we all have like busy jobs, we don't all live close together. Um, but we managed to get five out of the seven of us there uh the other day. But it was actually making me reflect how in a corporate job or in any workspace you end up befriending people who you probably never would have been friends with because of like age reasons, like your bestie is like 50. Do you know what I mean? Like, but it's so nice, it's like being at school, but you can actually be friends and go out with your teachers. Like, do you know what I mean? You can drink after work, yeah. Anyway, the oldest member of our group is turning 60, and I've been invited to a 60th birthday, and you're the friend of the person who's taking a big birthday. I'm probably gonna be the youngest one there apart from his children, which they're they're like 15, and I think youngest is 11. Yeah, I guess. I'm closer in age to your children than you, which is crazy. That's the best thing about work. But this particular individual gets stopped in the street, and people ask to take pictures of him because he's the perfect gentleman, so suave, so trendy, but so so much of an individual in his style. Everything that is in his life, from his house to his clothes to his car to his job, is just so aesthetic. So I'm really looking forward to this party. Apparently, there's gonna be cigars, there's gonna be a bar, I'm gonna be drinking neat whiskey on the rocks. Love that. And I'm gonna be in a ball gown. I cannot wait. I cannot wait. I think we're all gonna get an Airbnb. But I just kind of chuckled to myself. I was like, you're my mum's age. Do you know what I mean? I'm just like, I love that. I just feel like it's gonna be so good. I am so fun. Oh yeah, this is gonna be fun. Oh yeah, you have to be fun. I feel like the people that I'm gonna meet, I think it's gonna be so fun. Yeah, that's so fun. And they were telling me all about how smoking a cigar is not really. I don't understand people who smoke cigars. Do you take it down? No. Yes and no. What's the point? Well, apparently it's more about smoking with people than it is the taste of the cigar. So you don't inhale it. It's about the smell and the quality and it being you sat with the people. It's more like a hobby and something you do once in a while than having a cheeky cigarette on a. It's like something you do for a special occasion. I'm gonna tell you whether it's a vibe or not. Do you but do you take it down? Or is it just but not all the way? Oh, yeah, apparently. Odd. But I don't know, I'm gonna see, I'm gonna try it. Try it, babes. You've gotta do everything once. Yeah. I don't know if I've liked a cigar before. But I think I don't know, I just feel like I need a picture with me in a really nice dress with a cigar. Oh, yeah, and you're gonna be a little bit more. Sonnies and a neat whiskey. Yeah. Emma likes old fashions now. I don't mind an old fashioned. I don't like them. Well, you don't have to drink them. No. More for me. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I'm looking forward to that. That's gonna be fun. That's gonna be in November, and I feel like that time of year it gets booked and busy quite. Quickly. So you do have to get it back. Um, all girlies, if you're looking for night out outfits, misguided. It's not in the UK though anymore. It's in America. Okay. I think they liquidated the business here. I think there was no potential there, because obviously it fucking pulled them together. Um but in America it's still going. I got these two tops from there, and they are tea. They are. One of them is giving PCD, like pussycat dolls. It's sick. It's giving early 2000s, Rihanna, like really really cute, like really nice tops. So you guys definitely should. I'm not, I was gonna gape keep this, but I'm not. So we don't gate. Go give it a go. And the tops are tea. I cannot wait to wear them next weekend. I love that. Last thing before we get into the thing. Yeah. Your vision is has your vision has it happened? They've done the rehearsals. By this point, someone would have won. Oh, really? Surely this episode's gonna go out in two weeks. Oh right. So but I okay, so I saw. When is it happening? No idea. Because we would we spoke about Jala a few episodes ago. I think it'd be wrong for us not to acknowledge that we're so close. It's on the 16th of May. Oh, oh, okay. So when does this go out? Oh, so yeah, someone would have won by the time this goes out. Okay, so we would have gone out the 21st. I hope Andy Gonnie places. I know, to be honest. Did Stavros flatly go and and represent Cyprus in Eurovision? Or did he just appear? I think he just appeared because I can't see. Oh, I think he did just do an appearance. Yeah.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Because he appeared in Andy Granny's video. She looked amazing. She got a video. You know, she wins. Yeah, that would be amazing. That would be amazing. Very well designed. I think it's a great song. She's been promoting like nobody's business. Oh my god, yeah, literally. So let's let's fuck and see. Fingers crossed. We should watch it. Is it are they gonna put it on ITV? What country is it in? It's in Vienna. Yeah, Vienna. Okay, nice. It's in Vienna. Nice. Oh wait, it says Tuesday. Oh, because it's rounds, isn't it? It's not just one and done, I think. Because it says here 12th of May to the 16th of May. Right. So maybe, maybe they do like one round and then they eliminate people. Because it's votes, isn't it? Yeah, it is. I'm not I've never watched it properly. No. We have a friend of ours that has people round, they vote, it's a whole ordeal. It's a big thing in Cyprus. Yeah. Cyprus will be watching for sure. People will love it. Um cool. Okay, should we get into it? Yeah, girl, let's get into it. So I have another TikTok comment section that I'd like to share. Okay. Um I thought we were diving into the new segment. That's gonna have to wait, ladies and gents. Um, so I found this TikTok the other day. Um and the caption on the photo is what happened on the first date that made you never talk to them again. Did you see this one? No. Some of the comments are crazy. I don't know if these are real.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

You never know in TikTok comments if people are just improvising, but they're entertaining nonetheless. I'm ready. Lest? Nonetheless. Nonetheless. I can't talk. Here we go. 20's 10 at night, you're alright. Okay, first comment. He joked about kidnapping me every 10 minutes. There's a gif response as well. He's like, Sir, are you okay? Okay. He asked if I could invest in his business idea. I've got this idea. No. I'm just wondering if you know if we're gonna progress. Oh gosh. Is this a business meeting? The fuck? Why is this one so real? He freestyle rap to me. I've got that happened to me before. Oh what? We weren't on a date, we were at a party, and it was the first time I met him, and he just played this loop on YouTube and was like, and I was like, he always like he raps to everybody, apparently. Yeah, I think I know you're all about it. Oh my goodness. He made me pay and then he kept the change. No, surely that's not real. That surely, surely that's not real. Okay, so there's the next one. Said his dad was on trial for attempting to murder his stepmum with an axe, and everyone thinks he's gonna end up like his dad, but he knows he's not because when he got in a fight with his ex, he could have reached for a knife, but he chose not to. Cut the cameras, cut the cameras! I'm done. Should we get the bill? Should we get the bill? Let's get the bill. Girl, I won't even get the bill, I just get up and run. Showed me a cap cut edit of himself. Oh girl, that is genius. That is niche. That's hurt me. That's like us, girl. Showed me a cap cut edit. Do you like this? Do you like this? I made this just for you. You know, like the pre-mocked up cap cut like templates they have. Yeah where it's like a mad transition and it's like yeah, yeah. Um, is this the last one? No, I've got loads here. Um the people the people at the table next to us leaned over and said, This is the worst date we've ever witnessed. Oh, stop! That's so bad. He spoke full volume in the movie theatre. I was absolutely dying of embarrassment. I hate it when people do that. One, going to the cinema is not a first date. Two, I hate it when people talk loud in the cinema or people who like watch TikToks or Instagram max volume on the train or something like that. I'm like a U OK. Oh my god, this girl was on the sorry to this girl was on the train and she had she was on the phone and it was on speaker and she was just holding like that, talking. No one should be on the phone on the train. And then I was looking for looking at her long enough, right? That she changed it and put it close to her ear, but she spoke the whole way. Get off the phone. I know. What are you doing? I hate that. Um, last one told me I had eyes like Madeline McCann. These can't be real. No, surely not. That's got 38,000 likes. I do think people who comment on TikTok, you've got to take it with a face of soul. But some of these responses, I'm like, these are actually incredible. It's wild. Cool. Okay, so we're gonna get into a new segment that we've come up with called Do Member When. Dot dot dot. Slow. And basically, this is a way for Emma and I to incorporate our storytelling reminiscing style into the episodes. Not gonna say we're gonna do this every week, um, but we might do like one or two every so often. Um, we're gonna do two each this week. Um, we haven't told each other what the instances are. It might be something from school, it might be something from adulthood, it might be something that happened. I was there or I wasn't there, something we've experienced together. Um, but I love the fact that there's like an element of shock factor. So we're gonna get into our do you remember when's? Okay. Um, do you want to go first or do you want me to go first? I can go first. Okay, go on. Okay. Do you remember when dad promised my hand in marriage to a guy who owned a winery's son? Oh my god. Do you remember this? I remember this. Well, he didn't promise, right? But he didn't think the guy who he was his friend was serious until my man showed up to the house with his son. He showed up to the house with his son. And I was there. You were there! Yeah, no, and I went, Dad, he's serious. And he went, I didn't think he was serious. He went, Ray, are you joking? He was like, no. He was like, ask her. She would I can't give you her. Girl, girl, honestly. I thought about it though. Let me, you know, I thought about it. Honestly. He was shorter than me. Do I need to say more? Very Greek. But you would have inherited the wine. I remember mum and I being like, they could put your face on a label. Imagine, imagine my face on a label. Emma. It'd be a white or a rose. Oh, a rose. It would be whispering angels competition. Yeah. It'd be Emma. Not some sweet wine. Can we have a bottle of Emma? When the man the man came to the house, and I remember being really chummy. And naturally, as like you're at the ripe age of what I think maybe I was 21 at the time. And naturally, as a Greek father, you are like, Oh, I've got a son, he's beautiful like me 20 years ago. I mean, he was beautiful, he had blue eyes. Yeah, he did, but I was just like, oh, you know, humouring them. I didn't actually think he would follow through. No, they're dead until he showed up and dad's face. Dad is very rarely speechless and laughing. The fact that we were laughing together, and I was like, Dad was like, don't talk to me. He was like, talk to her. I was like, Dad, I'm not doing it. Were you were you when they rocked up to the house, were you like in a bikini hair, slick bag? Yeah, I was just fucking chilling, and I was like, oh my god, he came with gifts. He came with gifts. He came with gifts.

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Emma.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

I told him I kept the wine. I said, jog on. No way. Do you know what? Some creatures do like to think. Oh my god, is that the battery? Is it? Is it? Do you want to go have a look really quickly? You might have to plug it in. Okay, we're back, guys. Is that alright? We had to plug in the the camera. It's um oh no. Fucking hell. Is that alright? I think so. Alright, well discharging. So, God, you had your hand promised in marriage. And do you know what? I did think about it. I was like, there wouldn't be a bad life. Blah blah blah. I was like, you'd have a nice life, you wouldn't have to work. Oh my god. So yeah. Well, I know that was one. Um go ahead. Okay. Do you remember when I lied to that bouncer to try and get us back into that party? And I told the bouncer that the guy hosting the party was my boyfriend. Do you remember that? I told you to do it. Guys, we were in London. We went to this party for the first time, and they were they organized events, right? Oh my god. And the first time we went to this party, I was there, I was still at uni, so I'd like to come down south. We stayed in London for this party, whatever, stayed at Ramaye's house. Got into the function, walked downstairs. I saw this man in a ski mask, and I just knew he was fit. I saw the back of him, and I was like, yeah. He was giving Chris Brown like sort of vibes. I walked straight over to the well, no, I needed a little bit more encouragement. Yeah. So I go over to this man, um, introduce myself. What did you say? Tell me what you said. I feel like you need to know who I am. Bitch. Who the fuck do I think I'm? That's exactly who you think you are. He went, Do you want a drink? He leads me across the floor. Emma and Ramaia are like, yeah! We're like, she shoots, she's gone! We stood behind the bar, he pulls me a shot, he takes the ski mask off. I'm like, he's fit. Yeah. He was so fit. And so we exchange Instagrams, we keep we get followed, we get invited to these parties, whatever. Yeah. I think it was like the second or the third party at this point. Was it the third party we'd ever been to that they hosted? Yeah.

unknown 34:42

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

We used to call them back in anyway. We used to call them the Six Club. Yeah, because they're all six foot and up. Ram, you know exactly what we're talking about. Um, and we went to this party and they were like kicking people out at this point, and it was raining and it was cold, and we wanted to get back inside. And I was like, I'm just gonna tell the doorman that like my boyfriend's hosting the party downstairs. And he goes, Okay, let me ring him. Oh, Lydia no, no. He called my bluff basically. I went, no, no, no. Oh fuck. Fucked it. Luckily, he didn't take my name, so he didn't know it was me. Oh, true, true, true, true. That saved you. That saves you. We continue to interact after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you didn't spooked, fuck. Be prepared for someone to call your bluff. Or just don't do that. Girls, learn from us. You know, I found a photo of him and I and my camera off from that Halloween. Stop it. We've got this mirror picture where you should. Oh my god, I've got I love that man. Wow, he's being stunning. We've all got one. He's stunned. My one's called Winter. I would love to choose to Emma is overshering. We've all got them. We do. We've all got them. We do. Oh, if that man went, let's get married, I'd be like, okay. Yeah. Like, I feel like I have two types, yeah. And he's my second night and day, those types. I like a really sweet man or a man that literally is a criminal. Quite literally a criminal. Okay, I'm not gonna say too much, but I've already said too much. Gullies, I can trust you. You know, this is a safe space. This is a safe space. Uh the fact that you watched, I don't know, what was it, 30 eight minutes of this? You deserve it. You deserve the inside scoop. You do. Okay, go on. What is the line we say before? Do you remember when? Do you remember when we did that cheer routine for sports day? Me, you, and our best friend, and our best friend got suspended for being in a fight, so she couldn't do it. The day before, so we had to pull our sister in just to train her. Ellie babes, come on, yeah, come on. One, two, three, four. You don't have to learn the choreo, you're doing the lifts, you stand to the side. Yeah, no choreo. So you come in, just do the lifts, whatever. Back backstory. Lydia and I were like cheerleaders. We were we were dancers, we were cheerleaders, we were angels. A lot of the cheerleaders went to the school that we went to, so we started doing these open ceremonies. RP teacher at the time, that's Gaylee. Okay, um, we loved her. She was like the cool, like old, like you know, in her 20s, like we loved her, and she wanted to do an opening ceremony for sports day. She knew we were cheerleaders, so we came up with a routine, and we would practice every day. We're pulling the girls out of class series to practice, practicing in lunch breaks. But there was like two dance schools, and we basic uh basically all went to this school, and we basically that was the first time we had all like collaborated, which was really cool. Um, and yeah, we came up with this sick routine, and you know what boggles me to this day? What we don't have a video. Oh, Lydia, no, because it actually makes me so sad because that girl took our video of the whole routine and I think she got rid of it. Yeah, so we don't have it, we don't have it. I've got videos and things from that day that I've got pictures and things, maybe our insert the pictures. Yeah. Anyway, our best mate, right, got into a fucking brawl. She didn't start it. She didn't start it. Basically, we would we were practicing in the playground or whatever, you know what schoolgirls can be like. Anyway, this bitch was like chatting shit about us. Um, and I was like, what? Anyway, Jazz caught wind of it and was like, it's not on, it's not on. So they basically just got into a bit of a confrontation and they got into a physical fight. I remember Mr. Ben, right, ran from opposite the courtyard, ran literally so fast to break them up. My girl who's in a m in a fight with our friend Jet Az is like trying to pick up a chair and throw it at her. Um what else is going on? In the meantime, Rihanna Work is playing and it's just gone silent, and everyone's just stood there, and we all just got separated and put into different rooms. Yeah. She was like, oh, and then the girl who she beat up, right, was like, come on then, and she was all hot and sweaty, so Jazz proceeded to bang on her chest like a fucking gorilla. Oh my god, the girl who started it as well. She was fucking heaving, she was like gagging, so coughing. Jesus, get up, get a grit. Anyway, she had it coming. Like, I'm sorry, fuck around and find out. Don't touch it, we were doing something good. Anyway, they suspended her, and we were few we didn't get suspended because we didn't actually put hands on her. No, we didn't, but um, we were like we're like, we're a cheerleader down. What the fuck do you expect us to do? But we made it work and it was sick. Ellie Keats, the saving grace. Shout out to Ellie Keats. Shout out to Ellie Bird. Yeah, that that is now a core memory. I'm gonna be slapping Jazz and going, stop, like, snap at me!

SPEAKER_02 40:24

So stop look at me.

SPEAKER_01 40:26

Yeah. One of the teachers tried to hold Jazz, and you were like, I've got her! Don't touch her, don't touch her, leave her alone. So funny. Um oh what a time. Yeah, well. Okay, mine's also school writing. Do you remember when we rigged the school rabble?

SPEAKER_02 41:06

Oh my gosh, Lydia, stop.

SPEAKER_01 41:09

Really? We did. Do you remember in school where you'd organise a raffle? And parents would parents would bring in gifts, prizes for the raffle, right? So it was a spectrum of things, guys. It was mainly booze, mainly. And we were tasked with helping like so you you obviously you get a raffle book, you have double the numbers, right? So you got ten and ten, whatever. You you wrote them in a half, you give one, you you chucked a number in the bucket, and then you stuck the number to the gift. So when we were doing I remember we were in the art room, yeah, we were we were putting numbers on these bottles and stuff, and we were like, I really want that bottle, yeah. I really want that bottle. I want that bottle, yeah. Yeah, we're going out of the weekend. So we stuck the numbers on the bottles and then kept those tickets, and then when it came to doing the raffle, we'd walk over to the stand, stick our hands in the in the bucket to pick a number out, but obviously we all already had the numbers in our hands. Oh god, mummy. And the thing is, afterwards, I remember one of the teachers was like, uh, how come you all got booze? How come? And we were like, Mum was like, Don't mum, bless, she defended us. I'm so sorry, mum. The school made the money either way, and I think the bottles went to the right people. Also, they shouldn't have let us play. Yeah, why yeah? Like, why let us play if half of the booze on the table is also? It's not like I'm gonna drink it, give it to my mum. I didn't. Well, yeah. We took we took them. I'm not we can't. It's not like we drank everything, but we were so sus because we went one after another and we all pick one a bottle of fucking booze. Stop, stop, don't. So bad. So bad. So bad. They took the they were like, you have to go put that bottle of yega somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't be walking around with it. No, no, no, no. We have to take a home. Obviously. Mum also was very like, uh, girls, Kimmy, what's what's that you got? And I mean, no, you can't, Emma Lydia. Bottle of Jaeger mice. Come on, you can't drink that. Yeah. You can't, you're 60. Alright, babes.

unknown 43:28

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

Do you know when we were drinking those copper burgs on on school grounds? Like, you know, after they did like a it was like a fun like a fair, a school fair. Um, and um someone gave those to us. Yeah, and they were half drunk, right? Yeah. I think they I think that you know there's like a pet a PTA. Yeah. They had like three left. Yeah. And they just gave them to us. But I'm sorry, they were Copperbergs, and our parents were there. Yeah. Susie was there, mum was there. It's not like we were gathered to get us in trouble.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

I know.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

No, and she went, you're drinking on school grounds. I went, That sounds like I've got a flask full of liquor in my pocket. Wait, don't paint it, don't paint it out. Yeah, like we brought these. Don't make a mountain out of the colour. You weren't gone, girls. Have one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So innocent. But we were crafty. Like, come on, we were crafty. That raffle. No, don't stop. So bad. Fuck, I forgot all about that. No, literally. That's not good. No. And we lied and la we were gonna die on that here. Yeah, we were. It's all coming out. Let me see. Oh okay, girl. That that's all of mine. That's so funny. That's so funny. Girl, 10 out of 10 for yours. That was so good. Thanks, girl. We need to do that again. For sure. We need to do more back, like back back at school stories, Helen. This episode, let's do more. There's some hilarious things I don't even think we can talk about on here. Yeah. Not right now. No. In due time. Yeah. Maybe when we're a bit older, it feels too fresh. Yeah. Even that. 100%. Yeah, yeah, but we will. 100%. Right. But fucking hell. How many minutes did we lose in the middle? I think we maybe lose lost a couple. We've defo got 40 minutes here. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Apologies for the short app. We had a bit of a few technical difficulties, guys. I don't think the camera can hack the back-to-back recording. I think we we need to we need to put her to bed now. But a lesson learned. But thank you for oversharing, Emma. Thank you for oversharing, Dean. We post a new episode every Thursday. We do. Make sure to like and subscribe if you're watching. Don't forget to leave a review if you're listening on Spotify or Apple Music. And of course, follow us on our socials. We're on TikTok and we're on Instagram. And show us some love on there. If you're following us on Instagram, you're not following us on TikTok. What are you doing? Make sure you see our faces when you're doom scrolling on both accounts. Thank you very much, Queens. Lovely. And we'll see you in the next one.

SPEAKER_00 45:56

Love you very much.