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Bimbo & Butch Podcast | Ep 030 | Crimes, Questions & Chaos

• Emer Maguire • Season 1 • Episode 30

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Welcome to Bimbo and Butch Podcast! 


Join comedian Emer Maguire, and business owner Jenna McCusker, as they embark on this hilarious podcast of two total opposites with a whole lot of laughs. 


This week Emer & Jenna discuss TV Shows, Emers New Podcast, True Crime, As Well As Answering Listener Questions, Jennas Disability, and so much more!


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SPEAKER_01

James Hails and a nice sweet tap. It must be girls night. Hi everybody, welcome to this week's episode of the Bumbo and Butch Podcast. I am Butch, aka Emer.

SPEAKER_00

And I am Jenna, aka Bumbo. And this podcast is sponsored by OnthePodium Prizes.com where you can get tickets for free free. Free for£500 Sephora gift card and then all our tickets as low as£49p for£7,000 in cash. Mm-hmm. Hotels, holidays, everything. You name it, they've got it. The new, the the best up and common prize, online prize platform, what we say. Yeah. I think we could say that.

SPEAKER_01

I think we could say that. Have you been this week? I've been good. How have you been? I've been good. I've been alright.

SPEAKER_00

Busy? Oh my god, you know, I'm always busy. Okay, no, you're always busy. Busy, but here, what can we talk about? I don't know if we can because I don't know. Have you watched Wuthering Heights? Because people are what's the end of that conversation?

SPEAKER_01

It's not the kind of thing I would like. I have never. As far as I'm aware.

SPEAKER_00

Is it like old and timey kind of I have no idea, but people are losing their fucking goddamn minds over? Julie, have you seen it?

SPEAKER_01

It seems like something Julie watched. No.

SPEAKER_00

Oh Julie, Julie hasn't had time to brush her hair in her mind watch both her and real. Have you not? Sorry. That's just the same. We fend everything.

SPEAKER_02

Mum asks me that all the time. You brush your hair tonight.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, sorry, Julie. I'm offended. A lot today.

SPEAKER_01

I've not seen it. Have you seen it? Are you gonna say it?

SPEAKER_00

I can smell the nickel of my fake sheen rings.

SPEAKER_01

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00

Every time I move my hands.

SPEAKER_01

Wafting.

SPEAKER_00

It'd be rash.

SPEAKER_01

Waft.

SPEAKER_00

Better keep one like this. Um no, so my sister has seen Wuthering Heights, and then I've been watching a few different podcasts with girls and it's saying that they've watched it and that like they were reviewing it and stuff, and I I I don't know if it's my thing.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think it'll be my thing. I don't think it's my thing. My thing's horror, death, horror, death, murder. Do you know what I did just watch? I don't know if people watch. Have you seen on Netflix the TikTok murderer?

SPEAKER_00

No, is it good? Because I'm gonna watch it tonight. Yeah. That's my next one.

SPEAKER_01

I did think it was fully dressed watching the TikTok murderer, look at it. I thought it was good. Really creepy and really sad. Um is it only new? Very interesting. It's brand new. Great. It's brand new. So there's that. I watched that. I've also just started the first episode of the America's Next Top Model documentary.

SPEAKER_00

I watched it all. What did you think? Well, there's the documentary and then there is also a podcast on it. Oh, okay. The podcast on it is bringing on all old contestants and what they had to say about what Tyra was hiding. So what do you think about it so far? Well, I've only I loved America's Next Top Model, don't get me wrong. I wanted to ban it.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I didn't want to ban it, but I mean I loved watching it. Oh, I know why. Watching all the gals. I loved it because um people might be surprised by this, but I love fashion and I love woman's fashion, even though I don't wear it. Right. So America's next top model. Anything to do with modeling, anything to do with fashion. There was Next in Fashion was on a couple of years ago on Netflix, which was Tan France from Query and Alexa Chung, and it was designers all over the world um making high-end fashion for different models and stuff. So all that kind of thing I really love, but I do not love things that are focused on appearance and stuff like that. But but when I was watching America's Next Top Model, I was a child. Um you would never get away with a thing. Now you're looking back, you would never get away with that. But also back then it was like it's like it was groundbreaking, you know. Tyra Banks was saying, you know, I know what it's like to be different in the fashion industry and in the modelling industry, and you know, I'm I'm a woman who's black and I'm this and I'm that, and I'm um do you know I I just thought at the time, class. Um but now I've only watched the first episode, so it's just been introduced. And do you remember do you remember Jay? There's two Jays.

SPEAKER_00

So so there's dark haired Jay and then light haired Jay?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, grey haired Jay? So there's Jay who was the makeup artist, and there's Miss Jay, who was the catwalk incredible, whatever. And I loved it back then too because I thought, oh my god, well, here's two clearly gay guys, yeah, one of whom is very gender boundary on big mainstream TV, and obviously for me as a young gay person, like I just thought this was a good one. And way back then he was going by Miss J. I know, I know. It wasn't even like he was, you know, uh the typical camp man that you would have seen, you know, started to see back then. Like he was so over the top and so feminine. So I loved it from that point of view because and I then got this obsession I want to move to America because I thought everyone's so open-minded. Obviously, that's not the case. Don't go there, don't go. Um, but yeah, I thought it was class. So I've only watched the first episode, and in the first episode, it is just introducing all the characters, introducing Tyra. There's been nothing too horrific showing it, but I'm sure they're going to show a dark side of it. But so far, all I've got is her coming on, and I s I mean I nearly didn't recognise her because she looks different. She looks like she's still stunning and gorgeous, I um and she's kind of saying, you know, got this big break, and and so far, from where I'm sitting, it sounds like a very inspirational story of someone who's made good, but I assume there's gonna come in all the issues and you know the the things they made them do and stuff. Why what what's what's coming?

SPEAKER_00

Well it it does get a it does get a bit not great for Tyra, but the actual podcast is it's not connected to Tyra or anyone, it's just like alone someone made made the podcast and has brought on past contestants to talk about it and it's really really bad. It's really bad it puts it puts Tyra in such a bad light. Really? Real bad. And America's next top model. America's next top model as a whole. Like they weren't given any like psychological help or anything after, and even ones who would want America's next top model weren't getting what they were like weren't what they were promised, weren't at all getting any cover gear things, and they were she was home, like one of them was homeless, sleeping on her friend's sofa after winning America's Next Hot Model. It was just like more for show than anything. So you need to listen to that podcast. So there's context behind each individual reason why they've done those weird photo shoots. So say like one of the girls, like so before they go on to America's next hot model, they were assessed by a psychiatric, um, or psychiatrist, sorry, and like they were given these lists of questions like what's your biggest fear, and you know, blah blah blah, and like say it came out in therapy that one of the girls was uh bulimic in her younger years, so and the photo shoots they made her be a bulimic model. Did you see that shit?

SPEAKER_01

I did I I probably did because I watched all the seasons when I was younger, but I can't remember. But it was always like really I always remember thinking, Oh my god, this is so weird, but they made it out like it was so innovative and groundbreaking. So there was like if it had been oh my father was tragically killed by being kicked in the head on a horse, it would be like get her in a horse for the next photo shoot. Yeah, do you know the horse?

SPEAKER_00

This was so weird. Um there was to make the TV. Yeah, so the the the models were expected to go ahead and produce these amazing images with something that gave them great psychological fear, like putting a trenchline on your hand. Oh, I couldn't do it. So they were putting on their question box, I am absolutely such a fear of whatever it is, and then them saying, right, let's get you in their phone box, clattered and trenchless and give us your best pose. And then if you didn't do it, you were going home. And these gears were being these gears were coming from nothing, like small country countries thinking guy we country, gorgeous gears, thinking that this was gonna be the best thing ever, but little did they know that they were being used for entertainment by you.

SPEAKER_01

Oh it's uh it's sad, but I must literally the first episode, none of that has been gone into yet. So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna um watch it. But you know what I did? I thought, oh my girlfriend like to watch that too, and we can kind of watch it together and talk about it and all. So I waited to watch it with her. I watched him one day, she was in the last episode. I said, What the hell is that you're watching? She says, Oh, it's the thing about America's next model. I said, I have been waiting to watch that with you. She's like, Oh, well, you didn't say. And I said, Well, see if there's ever anything new documentary that comes out that you think I'll like.

SPEAKER_00

She does not think that you would bend America's XL model.

SPEAKER_01

No. And I thought, right, we'll give her a pass in that one. I was in Spain there. I had FaceTime, right? I could see the TV in the back. I said, What the hell's that? Are you cheating on me again? She said, The TikTok killer? I said, You know, I love TikTok and I love killers. You know that I'm not. Did she watch that too? And here's me here's me watching watching nothing, waiting for it.

SPEAKER_00

Looking at the blank wall, waiting for her to come home. Do you know what I what banged recently? Mr. Mercedes. Is that good? Brilliant. One of the best serial killer. Oh, I would like it. Aye. We would love it. It's so good. For four seasons, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_01

I might watch it. I might put that on my list because I like always knowing what I have to watch next. And my my dad was saying the Lincoln Lawyers, fantastic. I've seen that advertised there, but I've not seen it. He said it's very good. Do you know what we're watching at the moment? I think I've told you this before. What? Game of Thrones. So Game of Thrones is Sam's favourite TV show in the world. And I always, you know, this is how I know I don't bow to societal pressure because I've never watched it, despite being told for years to watch it. But she really wanted to. And I was like, no, no, I don't like that kind of thing, don't like fantasy, don't like anything except back in time. Um but she just was like, Oh, but I love it, and I want to share that with you, and what and I thought fine. So um sort of watched with her. It took me to season four and a half to get into it. I would four and a half button. But now I'm like, Can I watch Game of Thrones? But it it's kind of good because it's so the opposite of anything that I would ever watch. So I kinda like that my mind's been opened a little bit.

SPEAKER_00

No, well it brings me back to my dating app days whenever I was on dating apps and I was chatting to this one fella and it was like, what's your favourite colour? Kind of blanch at the start. And then he said, Have you ever watched Game of Thrones? And I said no, and then user not found. Block and deleted you. Oh my god. And I thought, fuck me, is it that good? Of all the things. Of all the things, I had just told him everything about me, my spinal cord injury, my baggage that I come with. You haven't watched Game of Thrones, Block and Delete. Nah, away you go. I don't care what how good you think you are, you're on your back. That's pretty good. Do you know that actually puts me in mind of we have some questions answer? Oh, I love questions. One of them put me because obviously I have to screenshot them because it's only up for 24 hours, so yeah. I try not to read them because I like being as natural as I I just and then I will read them after. But one of them last night said Um, we oh there, so this is from Lauren. Oh, sorry, Laura Laura. We love your podcasts, but what other podcasts do you both like to listen to? Well, for me personally, apart from My Life and Me by Jenna McCusker and Class or Pass by Emir McGuire.

SPEAKER_01

Both great podcasts. My life and me is great.

SPEAKER_00

Cluster Pass. Actually, tell us about Cluster Pass. Yeah, it's pretty new.

SPEAKER_01

It's new new and new in the podcast thing. My new podcast. Um I thought, do you know what? I would like a week space just to chat and have the crack. Obviously, we get to do this, but we don't meet up every week to do this, we record a couple at a time, and then time goes on and we don't see each other, and I'm I'm in need of a bit of crack.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So I thought I'll set up a wee thing in my office and I'll I'll record a podcast. So, yes, it's called Class Repass. Go on and look for it now. It's out second episode.

SPEAKER_00

There's not an Instagram page for it. It's me because I was on looking for it, and I was like, Where's this page? Because she blocked me from it already.

SPEAKER_01

It's on my Instagram, but it's also on YouTube, so it's a video podcast as well, and not audio ones, it's on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all that. And basically the premise is every week um I get given a couple of different topics, and I have to say if I think they're class or if I would give them a pass, and it's things that are you know maybe a bit controversial, so um, like public proposals, or um the one that just came out today was you know, men in skinny jeans, or should kids be allowed in bars, all this kind of stuff. But it's or crocs, you know, which I love. But it's things that people generally have opinions on. Um, childhood sweethearts, that was one. Do they actually ever work out? Uh should parents be allowed to invite people to your wedding? All these kind of things. Okay. Um so just have the crack and just chat about them and then decide at the end I think they're class or where to give them a pass. So we've just two episodes out um at the moment, but it is well good crack. Ah I've watched I've watched the first one. Uh the second one's only coming out later today, but please uh it'll be out now actually by the time this comes out, and the third one might be as well. But please go and listen to it and um and and like it and subscribe and all that crack. If you like this, it'll basically be this, but without Jenna and Julie.

SPEAKER_00

So she stole my fucking idea. Jenna's like my concept, my theme, my name and ran away and had in her office and is doing it in her own now.

SPEAKER_01

She, whenever I posted about it and says I'm doing a podcast, I could text from her all capital. Hina, buggy in a podcast one. And I still me, myself, and I she was like, Oh, it's okay. That's okay. That's all right. You'll do one, Jenna.

SPEAKER_00

We'll do. I said, Do you know what? Fair enough, because I have one, so I can't say anything. That's true.

SPEAKER_01

So we both it's like we both have our we have our separate lives and then we come together for bumboch.

SPEAKER_00

Do you know someone messaged me and they said, I have just come across my life for me podcast and I am absolutely shook. I didn't realise that that was you. You're normal. You're normal? Because they watch me in bumbo and butch. Oh, what is that? I'm normal. But she was thinking, like, oh my god, you're so professional. Like, how do you go from so professional to that level of like intellect? I don't know if she said that word, but I'll put it on anyway. She didn't. Um bumbo and botch. Do you have in the crack? Do you have on the crack? You're layered. I'm I'm 50 50. You're an onion? Like, I can't be 100% serious and 100% ship it.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

I mean uh you have to be good balance. Good balance. Since we are all massive animal lovers here on the Bumbo and Watch podcast, we have probably been sponsored by Dano's Pet Shop. Now, Dano's Pet Shop is based in Straban, and they've also opened a store in dairy in 2023. And Dano's is your one-stop shop for all things pet related. So they sell pet food, pet um pet treats, pet shampoo, anything pet related that you need is sold by Dano's.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. Um, and we we're all dog owners here. Will you bar? Dog owner has sadly passed recently. Um Julie allegedly has a dog, and I have two dogs, everyone knows, but they do they do stuff for dogs, birds, fish, cats, tiny animals, everything. Uh uh, and they also um I love that the stores in Strabane, obviously. I'm from Stravan, you're from Dirtney, so we've got a sponsor that's very local to us. Um, and you mentioned the food there. I know they do some of the hypoallergenic food. They do that's right. Is it Whistlers? Whistlers dog food. Yeah. I might take a wee run down there because people in the podcast know from last week that Albi was very sick and had pancreatitis and was in the vet hospital for a week.

SPEAKER_00

That's right.

SPEAKER_01

And he has to go on low fat food now, so we might go down to Danos to get sorted out. And they have mystery boxes.

SPEAKER_00

I've seen that.

SPEAKER_01

Do you know where you get mystery boxes for like makeup and stuff for like football shirts?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

They have a natural mystery box where it's all different treats and you don't know what you're getting. So for your dog, that is absolutely well for your dog, I assume it's not for me. Um whatever animal you have. Absolutely. So thank you so much to that to Danos for sponsoring us. Um, we are we're very appreciative, and we know we have a lot of animal lovers as well who are watching and listening. So head to Danos. Um, what is it, Danos Pet Shop?

SPEAKER_00

Danos Pet Shop.co.uk, and that's for Danos, and then Whistler's Dogfood.com for the dog food.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. So have a wee check out uh and thank you, Danos. Thank you. So other podcasts we listen to apart from our own. Um anything murder. We we both love anything murder related. What are your favourites? Crime junkies. Do you listen to crime junkies?

SPEAKER_00

Do you have my recommendation? What? Did I recommend that to you? No, I've been listening to them for years. Me too! I am Ashley Flour's and I'm angry.

SPEAKER_01

Um I think Brett might be done. I think Britt disappeared for ages and she learned that she was secretly an alcoholic. I thought she took a break to the blame, brain, blame. I but she took it because she she came out and said she secretly was an alcoholic. I'm sorry, what? Sorry, what? And I'm Brett. Um she said yeah, she was she came on the podcast. It was very emotional episode crime, and I said, Oh wow, what she had a bleed to the blame. A bleed to the blame. I said the same thing. I did the exact same thing. And she she then came on and says, Look, guys, I've been having a really hard time. And yeah, she was she was just having real real struggles with alcohol. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00

I kind of stopped listening when when it was only Ashley Flyers, because I like Britt sometimes. I kind of like her saying and I'm Britt and I'm Britt and going, Wait, wait, wait. So wait, wait, wait. What? Wait. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01

So actually does all the work, tells all the stories, does everything. She's like, wait, what? Um she um yeah, she has problems with alcohol.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I must go back.

SPEAKER_01

That was the that was the outcome of that. But now she's better and sober and all that there, as far as I know. Well, she was doing a very good job on on the drink. She must have been, I think she must have been like a functional alcoholic. I think that's what she was saying. Oh, you wouldn't have known. Do you know what I mean? That shook me. I I know it shook me too. And obviously, she had the the brain hemorrhage, but was that brought on with alcohol?

SPEAKER_00

Oh wow, right okay.

SPEAKER_01

As far as I know I must go back on my drive home, that's it. So um I the episode where she came on and says it, she says, Look, guys, I haven't been here for a while, and I've I've had problems with that. I was crying, I was so emotional, I was so open. Um, so crime junkies is one, so they tell us two best friends, and they tell it's just I would love to do a true crime podcast.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, me too. We should do we should do some because we both love true crime. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

Would anybody watch if we did a true crime?

SPEAKER_00

And we would start with Northern Irish True Crime First, because see they might obviously because of my job, I'm on my way to get a journal pass. Oh I've just been invited to the journal. Let me get it out. Uh get it out. Get it out and let you all know. Because when you get a media pass or a journal journal pass, you can kind of like remember I got a death threat.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I'm sorry about that. I didn't mean it.

SPEAKER_00

So I got a death threat for having a certain guest on, and I was trying to say, like, look, I am a neutral and everything, and and you know, I don't have any opinion. I'm here as the host just to host it and ask questions. So I had to apply for my oh god screenshot of it because it was a big deal. Oh, National Union of Journalists. Welcome to your NEJ. So that means that I am a neutral and I can invite and speak to anyone. That's amazing. So with that background, obviously I do a lot of research, and most of my research goes into true crime, and it never goes anywhere because I don't get to speak about it. So I'd love to.

SPEAKER_01

We could do Bimbo Bitch After Dark and it would be a true crime one.

SPEAKER_00

We should do that if we pay for it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Because I love true crime.

SPEAKER_00

And we could delve onto and we'd start Northern Ireland because I have so many.

SPEAKER_01

I'd be scared to do ones in Northern Ireland because what people would controversial. Yeah, but also because a lot of people would be floating around. But we'd have to fact find.

SPEAKER_00

I know. You have to just go by what the news is is right and stuff.

SPEAKER_01

I can't trust the mainstream media. No, you don't try to. Umly joke of it. Uh so yeah. So crime junkie's very good, they tell stories, a different story every week of um a murder, whatever.

SPEAKER_00

Did you listen to the one that I recommend to you? And you're gonna say no?

SPEAKER_01

No, not yet, because I'm trying to get through Psychopedia first. What's that? So Psychopedia is one that I'm listening to that I am obsessed with. So it is um Investigator Slater and Tank Sinatra. So Investigator Slater, um, she is a private investigator for her family's law firm in real life. So she does the most insane, amazing research, different story, different killer every week. Wow. And Tank Sinatra is her mate who's like famous in the internet for making memes, and like she tells him the stories, and he's like, What? He's not into true crime, right? But they're such a they're so funny together, even though the topics are really serious. So is it like a comedy? So they call it they call it a comedy true crime podcast. I mean, some of it's very heavy and not comedy, but he occasionally says the odd funny thing, which was really, really nice. Um it's really nice. It's really nice. So Cyclopedia, I'm trying to get through that. There's hundreds of episodes to that, and then my next one is is your one. Is it Noble?

SPEAKER_00

Noble.

SPEAKER_01

Noble, gonna listen to that. Um what up and I listen to Mr. Ballin podcast, which is a crime podcast, a guy called Mr. Ballin, and he tells only half an hour, he tells a story. See, I like it. A nice that's a nice thing. It's good, but it's not conversational. So the other ones are like, you know, chatting and conversational. Yeah, his are very well crafted for the half-hour stories, straight to the point. He tells you everything and what happened to this person, and you don't know till the very end who the murderer is. Whereas a lot of other podcasts are like, oh, there was this guy and he was a terrible person. Started off of it, but he reveals at the end, and then another one I listen to it is Killer Psyche, who is a woman, you would like it. She was a psychiatric nurse for most of her career, and then in her later life, maybe 50s, she became an FBI profiler for serial killers, right? Right. And like she has she has had cases with massive serial killers, so each week she talks about. out a different serial killer but she goes inside the mind to make them f to make to make us find out why they did what they did. Were they born psychopaths? Did they become sociopaths? Were they abused by their parents? You know what was wrong with them to make them do what they did and it's incredible.

SPEAKER_03

Love that.

SPEAKER_01

So don't say we haven't given you enough recommendations.

SPEAKER_00

So I well I I know it's all very crime junk I love my therapist goes through me. I don't listen to any comedy ones. Joanne McNally and I don't listen to it all the time I would like it. Um some of them I am really enjoying then others are are really they're they're just okay but I listen to Bumble and Watch podcasts. I don't I listen to every single one. You do listen to every single one and I actually laugh.

SPEAKER_01

David comes running under me saying you're on YouTube can I watch a Bumble you should see my furniture I think one of the best podcasts that ever existed was My Dad wrote a porno do you just know this? No. Oh it was the number one podcast for a long time but for anybody who hasn't listened to I'm going to go on to that now my dad. So I don't I don't listen or watch comedy podcasts really. But this isn't really a comedy podcast but it is hilarious. So there's this guy and his best friends are Alice Levine you know the Radio 1D guy and um James I think is the other guy. So these three and Jamie's the main guy. So these three best friends so Jamie's the main guy he's this straight guy and um James is this gay guy who's really high up in media and Alice Levine is obviously Alice Levine they're three best friends. And Jamie's dad is from Northern Ireland and he has written a series of soft porn books. Right. Right. Because Fifty Seeds came out and we thought here but there's money in that there's a book right and his main character is called Belinda Blumenthal right and the tagline is please let me read this to you because um it's just so no if that's something no Jenna it is so funny and do you know what they do every week they read it Jamie reads a chapter of his dad's book out loud and the three of them kill themselves laughing and they talk about it so funny. Let me see Belinda Blumenthal is the main protagonist of the Belinda Blinked series an erotic drama created by Rocky Flintstone that's his pen name she begins as an international sales director for Steals Pots and Pans and later rises to become a high ranking corporate executive and spy right and it is seriously see right the story is so ridiculous and obviously there's loads of sex small on it but it's written by this you know sixty or seven year old dad from Northern Ireland. It's all really like weird do you know but it is so funny. And the fact that his son's having to read it and his son's saying I'll try I don't know I don't honestly it is the funniest thing I've ever listened to. Right.

SPEAKER_00

Will we have some more Yeah more questions that was a great question.

SPEAKER_01

That was um oh this is an all capital letters biggest regrets I probably this podcast Biggest regrets in life my bank balance says that now but it just says biggest regrets I don't have many regrets because I always think everything that's happened happens for has happened for a reason. Well they've kinda happened and they've kind of shaped you and stuff. Aye so I don't think there's any point regretting relationships or regretting experiences and stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Um so for me I don't really I don't really have any I think my maybe my biggest regret is not asking for help when I needed it. That's probably that's a good one. That's a very good one instead of keeping everything to myself and then the bomb exploded so maybe just not asking for help reach it out so this uh person wants to stay anonymous they want to know more on OCD they want to know more about the traits the medication because they're worried about their 17 year old daughter. Good question we can't give any um information and medication though um but we can discuss traits I suppose and absolutely she's not given that much context about why she's worried about her daughter like what is she seeing in her daughter but yeah so probably traits wise OCD obsessive compulsive disorder it is where you have obsessive intrusive thoughts that you try and quell by compulsive behaviours and it is not somebody who's tidy or organised or particular it is really hellish, disturbing awful intrusive thoughts and you think the only way to stop those is by engaging in behaviours and rituals. Is that what you would say?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah yeah repetitive rituals very very repetitive um maybe we could if we give an example of some of ours it would it would help so what one of mine uh one of mine would have been I had this terrible fear that I was going to cough but that doesn't sound bad but it was an intrusive point to the thought that to the point that I would not engage in anything that I thought would make me cough because I thought if I coughed I was going to stop breathing and then I was going to die. So I wouldn't eat a lot of specific types of food. If I ever had a gig I wouldn't eat for two days before it if I ever had a gig I would need to have eight bottles of one litre water bottles all dotted around the stage in very specific um areas I would rearrange everything on the stage after the sound guys had already done it so it's in in just the right place for me. I wouldn't talk for two days before a gig because I was terrified that was going to make me cough I wouldn't be around anybody who was sick but to the extreme you know wouldn't go to the shops wouldn't go in so mine was really keeping me in the house and the way for me to those were the compulsive behaviors to quell the thoughts and for me medication was the only thing that helped but if you want to if you want to send us a private message we can yeah maybe give you a little bit more information but I know we're both we're both on medication.

SPEAKER_00

Mine's is mine's is was counting so it was counting a lot there would have been a stage like in this I would know how many slats was on this panel here, how many tiles there was on the roof how many legs were on the every chair obviously four but like each combined and it was really really exhausting that's what kept me in the house as well so because if I didn't leave my home I didn't have to count everything when I left then it got even worse whenever I was postpartum so everything that I had to count was do protect Danan or else he would die and it was just so exhausting to the point where I was like I can't do this anymore and that's when I should have asked for help. And it's totally normal to have those thoughts and feelings and when you have OCD it makes sense. Yeah but when you're going through it and you're thinking what the hell's wrong with me it is hard. But I think if someone's shown if you're if you're worried if that person says I'm worried about my daughter then that's an indicator C or GP.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah and for it to they'll know you know that you if you go to psychiatry they'll know if it's OCD or if it's something else but I think for it to be OCD it has to have a a significant functional impact on your everyday life and I mean that might be spending hours in the house doing rituals being hours late for things not being able to touch certain things not being able to be in the company of certain people like it has to have a big impact um but if it is you'll be able to get treated for it so hopefully hopefully your daughter will be okay. Yeah so we'll go on to the next why is Emer so beautiful sent from Emer McGuire official that was not sent from me that is an anonymous fan you need to grow up it's a mixture I think of genetics and good lighting I think yeah that's that's that's what I think is in it but thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00

Uh Emer, you don't write back in my message but you write in our question box. I don't know what you're talking about. On to the next right can you please can you please explain explain Jenna's back injury accident because I'm confused you say things like she can't stand but then she's standing so I feel like I missed some of it. Obviously don't answer if too personal well I have a good question. That's from Jenna's PUP assessor that's what I was trying to say is this pup um that's a good question. It is a good question because I say accident because it is so long to sit and say I had quadruena syndrome and as a result I have a spinal cord injury so the base of my spine collapsed it's uh it's a severe medical emergency and the sooner that you have surgery the less chance of life limiting problems not life limiting but life what would you say impacting problems? Life changing. Life changing so unfortunately mine when my spine collapsed I was out of the hours of getting surgery there's like a certain amount of hours that you should get the surgery for long lasting impact and I was outside of that so I had three spinal surgeries within the space of four months it's paralyzed from the wist down how to learn how to walk again but my left leg is 50% power so I'd fall a lot um and I I can stand but I can only stand still for a certain length of time I move a lot like I'd rock and move and and all that so that's why you see me be standing I walk with a lump I like to call it my gangster walk.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah because you can't you can walk but whenever we're out walking you are lumping away like this go and hold this go and left me.

SPEAKER_00

Just put me over your shoulder but the main problems for me is my bladder, my bowel are totally paralysed my over my left my sorry my left ovary is completely paralysed, my left kidney. So everything from the left side is like gone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Uh so it has it is confusing for people because when when you say Well it's something so rare that people want to like cotta equina is not something people have heard of and um I think it's it's called cotta equina it's something to do with like equina is obviously horse. Horse tail and c uh cotta is tail so I think whenever it happens your your spine because your spine is all these little fibers together but when it happens and your your spine all the structure goes your your your spine fibers are kind of floating like a like a horse's tail which is really interesting but it's a very rare thing that people don't know.

SPEAKER_00

Those those nerves actually control the boil the bladder the ovaries all that yeah so when my when my spine collapse it shot out and tangled they all tangled on them nerves and pierced them so all them nerves have been cut and then hated my spinal cord so my spinal cord is incomplete which means I'm able to walk which is great. But it is it it does unpack me. Sometimes it looks like it doesn't but it does every day. I still get have to get used to it every day but it confuses a lot of people I mean I par I have a blue badge and the amount of times that I've been questioned over why you pack you you can't park there and I'm like why not and they're like well you have to be disabled and I'm like dragging your leg behind I'm like what do you mean disabled? Like what the hell? So I ended up having an argument one day with a really old man it's always an old man. Always always an old man and he was like that's not you that's not your badge and I was like the photo on it is me it's mine. Then I showed him my scar and I was like why am I fighting with this man in the doctor's car park over disciples parking space and I he was like well I'm ringing your surgeon immediately and I am telling him that you're okay to walk and he's like you're fucking crazy you deserve the disciples space more than me but um my scar for do you know what did you ever see my scar? I have seen it don't know if Julia seen it I can't remember for heaven three is that well enough can you see that's just a crack it looks I know it looks like an extra long ass crack but for heaven three spinal cord um surgery it's not bad is it not so I it has it's confusing for people because people be like I thought you were in a horrific car accident like emer. That's what I thought um and the injuries that I'm left with are like that you have been but it's just easier to say accident instead of saying cardioquina syndrome that people don't quadoquina but I am an aquatoquina support group which is very good. Oh very good I know get a lot of support through that from the people this is people in Northern Ireland? No it's so rare it's I was thinking because you wouldn't even have enough people here who would get it no it's it's so so rare it's mostly Americans. They'd be like hey guys how much did you earn anally irrigate this morning and I'd be like 200 mils. Happy Dave Right so we've got another That was a good question. Thank you for that that was a good question because the it was she actually posted this on the picture of me and I'm standing with you in heels as well which I am actually balancing on you with the heels um there's certain like I love my life the way I love my life now so easy because I have certain things that I can do to make my life easier. So yesterday for example tying my son Julius he helps me down uh I tie and he holds my shoulders to keep me balanced I tie his list and he helps me back up but we just have this system and he helps me a lot like we just have this thing and I and I know what to do to to make things I know we did it in the middle KFC yesterday and a woman was like that is the cutest thing I've ever seen and he'll open like he'll open the car door for me and you know he'll bring in I don't need to ask him to lift anything anymore he just does it. Mommy has a sore back and that's it. What conspiracy theory would you love to believe is real? What do you mean? What does that mean? What conspiracy theory would you love to believe is real I don't really I'm not a big conspiracy theory head well the one you you love is that Marlon Monroe was Marlon Monroe I would I would really like to believe that Marlon Monroe and Princess Diana weren't topped off but I I don't believe that I believe they were and nothing will change my mind on it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah I don't know enough about the Marlin one as we know Christ I'll tell you everything. What other conspiracy theories are there?

SPEAKER_00

I don't really What about the Moonland? Well I mean obviously I believe in that as a science lover but it would Do you do you believe it as a science lover just or do you believe it?

SPEAKER_01

I believe it 100% that the moon landing happened aye of course I believe so why is there so much conspiracy around it? So basically people were like uh the flags the flag in the video's moving and there's no um there's no air in space but then scientists have come out and said well actually the flag is moving for a specific reason and it's because of the atmosphere in space that the flag you know it's an illusion that it's moving I don't really know the science behind it 100% I don't know the scientist said said the scientist um I said the scientist did bimbo but uh I just think it's such a we it would be such a weird thing to make up but I mean I don't care what conspiracy or not that people believe I don't care I just think it's interesting.

SPEAKER_00

Um what about the Malaysian airline? Do you ever hear about it disappeared. Aye so nothing has ever come with that.

SPEAKER_01

So I find that so bizarre like where I wonder if there's any podcasts on that that I could listen to in the Well there's a documentary on Netflix you can't watch that on the way home but there will definitely be podcasts about it. I I'm gonna have to get a podcast but the the TV show is basically like where is it? Who knows?

SPEAKER_00

Nobody knows so the TV show just give us nothing yeah it was a good watch but gave us nothing did it not tell anything about like what happened leading up to the final where it disappeared or like I can't remember now I just watched it about a year ago but stuff like that like where airplanes disappear and I find that weird but uh really interesting but if anybody knows any good conspiracy theories let us know because we don't know that many.

SPEAKER_01

Julie do you know any no I only really know the moon landing obviously the the common ones during COVID about the injections yeah you know um I had a relative say to me you know the injections you know Bill Gates tracking you I says what tracking you doing what? Going to Aston like Bill Gates cares about that um did you get your injections? Yeah and then did I had to get them because I was working as a speech language therapist at the time then before everybody else Amber was a minimum before after um after I know let's not start any vicious rumours here.

SPEAKER_00

Because when I went to I never got them because I wasn't going anywhere and I didn't know what was in them. I had to get them I wasn't allowed to see patients without getting them you had to get them you had to you were working in healthcare healthcare had no choice or else it just couldn't work. I never got them because I was in the house doing nothing but um I remember going to A for my leg had swollen up and they asked they thought it was a possible clutch and the first thing they asked is did I get my COVID injection they did ask me that too um I so that is the matter so that's another conspiracy theory that I know about don't know enough information on um and obviously what COVID about where did it start why did it start but outside of those I don't really I'm not really that educated in other ones so um if anybody is tell us them right in the comments that you believe.

SPEAKER_02

Do you ever think though you have to be like a conspiracy theorist like you have to be really into conspiracy theories theory to them yeah like oh yeah yeah to find holes in stories and stuff yeah like everything's a conspiracy theory like I know somebody who would be a very big conspiracy theorist and I was right um but like I just can't even listen to it because I'm just like oh here we go here's another conspiracy theory everything's a conspiracy theory there's definitely a specific personality type who who seems to be conspiracy theorist because you know whatever there's people say on my Instagram or whatever who are conspiracy theorists it's always the same people over and over again.

SPEAKER_01

What do they say? No just who would post about their own conspiracy theories about you know about COVID or about whatever but it would always be the same people do you know and no matter what there's a conspiracy about it.

SPEAKER_00

Do you know what about the conspiracy theory about Britney Spears? Britney Spears died a long time ago and now it th the Britney Spears that we see on on our screens going mad in her house when I've is not real Britney.

SPEAKER_01

Well I've never heard that but I I mean I feel she she I feel very sorry for her. Oh she seems very vulnerable. She was arrested last week was she? Drunk driving I feel sorry because she clearly has mental health difficulties and was put in a very precarious position by all these music moguls and her family and everything and it probably wasn't the the place for her. It's so sad and all that pressure and when I see the videos of her I just think you're so lost and you're so vulnerable. Um do we have time for one more question?

SPEAKER_00

A quick one we we actually have Who would win a fight out of you two and why?

SPEAKER_01

I'm offended that that's even been a Julie who do you think I have not at all I I mean I'm at least twice the weight of Diana would want to fight. Well let's do the math a box a match I'm twice your weight right you're paralyzed partially we were at the gym and you weren't able to lift any of the objects and I lifted you off the ground I'm gonna guess I think you could be vicious you would use one hand to claw my eyes out but I think in a fight there would be no questions.

SPEAKER_00

Do you know I've never been in a fight I've never left up my hand in my life I've never been never I've never started a fight either that's a great way to say that you've been in a fight tell us more.

SPEAKER_01

No I haven't I remember whenever I was like like a teenager fisticuffs yeah with boys oh I've never ever been in a fight with boys punching yeah I would love to not start a boy just to get the experience just to say I punched someone in the face oh god I wouldn't want to punch I'm very gentle no no but like I'm a gentle puncher I would never I would never hat someone no neither would I but see even if someone had me I was a very self-discipline situation and someone hit you and you had to defend yourself oh if I had to defend it I'd probably curdle and do a ball and cry. But I would never it's just not it's not in me it's not my if you're aggressive you're aggressive but it's not it's not on me and I think most girls are not generally aggressive.

SPEAKER_00

There was one more comment that I wanted to read out quickly sorry Julie because it's about Julie Why does this make me nervous? Right so it says Hi I'm Julie's sister what and I can confirm that the story about her sitting on the knee of the wee lady and having a ride in her mobility scooter is in fact true.

SPEAKER_01

Also she does actually have a dog called Indy and we did live in Japan we love the podcast oh that's your sister what's your sister's name I can imagine that was probably Melanie was it shout out to Melanie Julie Julie it was Julie no um Mellers and we love you covering up for your sister's life yeah the amount of times Julie bitches about you guys um we watches our families don't watch um no I do that is great I get loads of messages all the time saying we love you guys and Julie and even Julie and even Julie we get that all the time and even Julie um thank you so much for listening to this week's podcast we'll give a shout out to our sponsors let's give a shout out because we're meant to do it in the middle of the podcast then we get into the flow and we forget our first sponsor um or our main sponsor on the podium prizes we've teamed up with them to do a special competition they're giving out£500 for a voucher uh free entry So go on their Instagram and on their website on thepodiumprices.com to enter that. And we also have another sponsor for this episode.

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SPEAKER_01

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SPEAKER_01

Absolutely, because Julie is a fortune. A fortune. She's sticking a hand in, isn't she? She's loaded with paying her mortgage. Thank you so much, everybody, and we'll see you all next week. And join the Patreon and come to our Belfast show. And Erie.

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