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Bimbo & Butch Podcast | Ep 034 | Break Ins and Ghost Stories

• Emer Maguire • Season 1 • Episode 34

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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 Getting Robbed, Ghost Stories, Mounjaro, Saying Prayers, and so much more!

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SPEAKER_03

I don't like but here. Do you have a light? It must be girls. Hi everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of the Bumbo Butch Podcast.

SPEAKER_00

I'm your host, Amir, aka Butch. And I am also your host, Bumbo, aka Jenna. Welcome back for another week of the crack with us. Thank you so much for tuning in. Happy Monday if you're listening on first thing on a Monday morning morning. First thing on a Monday morning.

SPEAKER_03

Yes. I don't know if I told you. Just when you're saying first thing on a Monday morning. Did I say on the podcast before that about the girl who came up to me at one of my live shows and she brought me a present? I keep meaning to bring it in. No. And she said so she she brought me a present. Um big shout out to her. She comments on our our YouTube all the time. It's ABC, I can't remember the rest of the username, but big out big shout out to you. She's not that much of a uh big fan because what about me? There's two of us.

SPEAKER_01

You weren't there.

SPEAKER_03

And she comments on our videos all the time. She's very special. What do you call her? It's ABC something. It's she comments on the city. Does she have two two hearts on her name? Something like that. Yeah. So she always comments.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you so much for for commenting every time. That means a lot.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, she's really, really lovely. So she was at one of my shows and she had a Wii present for me. Oh what was that? So a a Wii bag, and oh my god, it was so cute. So she had given me a bottle, because you know I like to drink all the time. But it was like a metal like a liter bottle of Jan. A metal bottle. And she had I don't know if she made it or someone else made it. It had it was like a steel bottle, but it was green, my favourite colour. And she had written she or someone else had written emer on it and a wee pair of headphones. That is so cute. Isn't that so cute? And she had also put a lid in that can attach to things to attach it to my Reigns bag that I did a display of. That is so cute. Isn't that and and gave a lovely note with it? And she said she says that she really looks forward to it every Monday. She was really, really ill, and I think she was very, very ill, like I think she was in the hospital, and um it was totally getting her through, and she was wait every Monday she wakes up at six o'clock in the morning to watch the podcast. The we pet so thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00

What age of a what age did you I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03

Our age is what I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_00

That that's what I was gonna say. Like is she a young girl? Like is she in her early twenties?

SPEAKER_03

I thought she more of our age. I'd say she's around our age, um, but really, really lovely. So I thought that was she did say she did say I was gonna put my number in your bag and then you've mentioned Sam on the podcast, so I didn't. Oh I know. So she was so so lovely.

SPEAKER_00

And which where did you which show was this? Like where's I wonder if she's coming coming to Belfast. Maybe she is. And we won't get to meet her in real life. Oh, maybe she is.

SPEAKER_03

She was so lovely. Oh, that's we do love we do have lovely people who watch the podcast. We do. We're very appreciative of them all.

SPEAKER_00

I need more people to join the Patreon because m I actually started chittering for my son this week. He's doing the it's not called the chittering them in. I'm not chittering them, fucking anything. Good, I was thinking it's fucking I need to chitter. Somebody I rang up and I said, Do you chitter um for the 11 plus? And they were like, Yeah, of course, what availability do you have? Um, you know, what primary they then? And I says, Well, um 38 in September. So they were like, No, but it's I genuinely cannot I I know that I have maths dyslexia.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you've said that before.

SPEAKER_00

People laugh when I say that. What is the thing? People don't understand this calculator, how ironic to call it that. Oh no. Like after calculator. I don't know. Almost, but I struggled so much in school that they actually made um a maths class for me called Intermediate Maths. Are you serious? Because I was scoring that low and I was going to bring them all down and I still struggled. I should never have been at that school.

SPEAKER_03

Well, it's the same as being dyslexic, but just with numbers.

SPEAKER_00

And I'm still the same with numbers, and I even so I can't help my son with his homework, and I don't think teachers take into consideration parents who are like me with dyskelk or just like any learning disability of any sort. And it gets me so when I collect him from school, I get I start getting hype you know, hyperventilate nearly because I know that I need to help with this homework and nine times out of ten I'm going to Chat GPT taking a photo and saying what is the answer because I generally do.

SPEAKER_03

At least you can do that now, I imagine our parents back in the day. I know.

SPEAKER_00

So how would they have done it? My son will joke now and be like, Oh, I've math, or it's only English, so you can help me tonight. Believe it or not, um, I'm good at something. So I started chittering, getting him chittered for his tr transfers no hundred pounds a month, and that that's four lessons.

SPEAKER_03

So now that's not as dear as I thought it was gonna be.

SPEAKER_00

Not for one to one for 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_03

What I wonder if it's dear, because when you said£100, I thought you were gonna say a week.

SPEAKER_00

Hold on, was it£100? A week for one session?

SPEAKER_03

Well, I don't know. I would think it would be a lot dear than a£25 session for£45 minutes.

SPEAKER_00

I would think it would be dear, but maybe it's not.

SPEAKER_03

If we have any children, hit me up. Is that the going rate? Is that the going rate? I just assume if you have a child, everything's so expensive.

SPEAKER_00

Everything is so expensive. Well, he has that, then he has his football, and then it has tournaments, and then he has a lot of people.

SPEAKER_03

He builds all his football kits and his football boots and his And he's hungry all the time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, all the time. I cannot follow this boy. Like there's a stage where I turn around at night and be like, right, kitchen's closed. And he's skinny like he's really always so scummy. But all right. He's obviously grown. He's grown. He's a grown boy, like he's grown.

SPEAKER_03

He's a grown boy like you. So every time I eat loads, Sam's like, it's okay, you're a grown boy. You're growing.

SPEAKER_00

Are you doing your training still? Online training? Yes. What you you do that when you lie with Claire?

SPEAKER_03

No, I am still done. I was talking to her yesterday, but haven't been to the gym. But I I can't- So what are you doing? I just talking to her. I just talked to my coach. Just social for me. No, I've been I've been sticking to the foods that she's been saying, but I haven't been going to the gym. But um in the past week I did lose 2.3 pounds. Oh wow. Which is uh kind of a big deal. That's great. Um yeah, well, it's better than putting that on for me. Because you did put on wet. Thank you. Why not no, why thank you. You know what I mean? My granny used to do that. And she said something. She always used to call me fat too.

SPEAKER_00

Um, so yeah, so uh no, you told me, sorry. Um sorry, I'll uh let me reiterate that. Yep. She said realiterate. Is that the wrong word? It's reiterate. I think you are realiterate. Me literally five minutes ago. I'm like language.

SPEAKER_03

I'm right language, but like your third language.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you enjoy that one, Julie. Clause right the next one. She's only enjoying it because she knows this is our third podcast and we have to pay. And it does. What were you saying about being illiterate? About being illiterate. What was I saying about being illiterate? You were saying about reiterate something? Oh, yes. So you said you started Manjaro and you put on five pounds. Yes. And I think you're the only person that I've ever heard that have taken those jags and put on weight.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, like that.

SPEAKER_00

Like that, and I wondered why and kept my up at night and everything.

SPEAKER_03

Well I took the first dose, whatever it is. I didn't feel a single bit of hunger suppression. In fact, I was more hungry. So I was eating more because I was more hungry. So the first dose, second so you do what a month of the first dose, a month of the second dose, uh, a month of the third dose. So I'm finally up to the third dose. For the first time, I'm noticing that I'm not starving constantly. But then I thought that makes sense because if someone smaller than me takes it, yes, obviously a lower dose must kick in. Whereas I'm pretty heavy, so it must take at least to the third dose for me to feel anything. Because loads of people were messaging me and they were saying, like after we talked about it on the podcast, not when you threw the legs up whenever we talk about it. I mean, so you know, get your legs up there. Loads of people messaged and they were like, Oh god, I took Manjaro for a week and um I I couldn't do it because I was sick. I mean, last three stone, but I couldn't do it anymore. And I thought, Jesus Christ, I've been all I'm doing is eating all around me. And I thought, what is the crack with this? But I think it's because I'm of the people who are all taking it, I think I'm on the definitely on the bigger side from anyone that I know anyway. What do you mean, mm hmm? You're like, mmm. I mean, mm-mm as in like on the more robust side. So I think I've just needed a higher dose to get started. That's what I think. So you feel it's benefiting now?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I I wouldn't say that it's benefiting because I'm still eating a lot, but Well, I that you sent me a voice note last night and you were chowing on down in something. I was like, I was supposed to message you back and be like, what are you eating? What time was that at? It was lit as well, you know. I ha I have a cut-off time for eating as well.

SPEAKER_03

I was eating I was eating uh I was trying out a mushroom pasta. Was it nice? I'm trying to get into pasta, I've never liked it. I love pasta. I'm trying to get into it because it's obviously a de decent veggie food to have, but I'm struggling.

SPEAKER_00

So I was chowing down and I was uh you were like Oh they get dying.

SPEAKER_03

You're like a proper shrab, ma when you're on voice note. I know because they're too big messing about and I'm just trying to single mum, who works too jobs. It's midnight. I never know when it's been night because my bin doesn't come in. Oh, you just keep it. My bin stays out.

SPEAKER_00

Well it's always been night. You you can tell you live in a posh area because I can't leave my ban night, it'll get stole.

SPEAKER_03

Somebody stays Well I I I I definitely don't live in a posh area, but like who's gonna steal it? My next neighbour's my brother, I'll know who's done it. Do you know what I mean? It's a small street.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, where I love, they would just take anything. Really? Uh they took me if I would let them. Take you on the bun? And the and inside the bun. Have you ever gotten a bun? I did love it.

SPEAKER_03

But do you know how tell my I was trying to climb a wall and it was too short. I'd lock myself out of the house. So I pulled a uh you know, the black bun. And I stood in the black bun and mustn't have been Did it go through? Yeah. The lead went through. The lead went through.

SPEAKER_00

They wouldn't be the most sturdy of leads.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I thought they would have. I thought it was quite hard plastic, but it certainly didn't hold me. And I went up and ended up in the bun. Yeah. How did you get out? Well, I'm not, I mean, I I I have some motion. I was able to get myself up and out. I wouldn't be able to get out of a bun out. No, you wouldn't. It was stinking, it was disgusting. I thought that's what I get. That's what I get.

SPEAKER_00

I've I remember because I have such long arms.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. That that years ago You don't even need to leave the house to leave the bunnies.

SPEAKER_00

I don't I don't have nothing to do with the buttons. Well, because my arms were so long. Someone in the street was locked out of their house. So they wanted me to put my hand and through the box and up and open the door and I did it. How would your ha your hand and arm fit in through a letterbox? And through and up and round and open the door. I could break into people's houses rightly. You could. I think I might.

SPEAKER_03

I have there's no way my arm would be getting through a letterbox.

SPEAKER_00

What do you mean I? No, I mean I mind. That's what I done that day. And I'll never forget it. Because I remember I had a cut here somewhere and when I was pulling it back out it pulled the cut off again. And then now looking back, I'm thinking, Did that family say, Do you know that really spicy girl that loves up the street with the big long arms? Get her down. Spiky girl. Specky. Specky, what does that mean? Wears glasses.

SPEAKER_03

That really specky girl? I've never heard that. Specky? I used to get called one. I've heard of specky for eyes, but I've never heard that specky girl. Specky. I used to get called one all the time growing up. Julie. Yeah. Would your arm fit through a letterbox? I've never tried. I thought she fell asleep.

SPEAKER_00

What do you call it?

SPEAKER_02

Narcilepsy. Narcophiliclapsic. Narcalepsic. She was like, um No, but I did break into a house one time. What? So sorry. Jill are you feeling? No, like on Paul's. Well, this is why we put a polyclap. My uncle went on holiday. She broke into his house. Well, he he owned a coffee shop that was attached to his house and he forgot to my mum was running the coffee shop while he was on holiday and he forgot to give her the keys. So um we had to obviously it was on holiday, we couldn't do anything about it, so we picked the smallest window in the house to break into that would be like Like smash? Like the small yeah, but that would be like the least amount to replace. So um they were like, right, we'll pick a small window so that it's not too expensive. So they smashed the toilet window, but then nobody else was small enough to fit through it. I was only a child, so they put me through the window to go in and get the keys then. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00

I I think everyone has a story like that. Growing up. Good times. Back back in the day. Well, not being pushed through a broken window.

SPEAKER_02

Well, really looking back on it, like I was very, very young. That was quite like I wouldn't put my kids through a window in the water.

SPEAKER_03

Neither would I. They'd be like, see you later. Bye. Hey folks, we just want to say a big thank you to our sponsors on the podium prizes. If you head over to their website, they have some brilliant prizes up. They have vouchers, they have cash prizes, holidays, everything you could want. And they are two local boys, and they really, really want us to share their uh competition website with you. So go ahead.

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Yep.

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SPEAKER_03

Absolutely. Um we we're all dog owners here. Well, you were 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 Straban, obviously. I'm from Straban, you're from Derby, so we've got a sponsor that's very local to us. Um, and you mentioned the food there, no, they do some of the hypoallergenic food. They do that's right. Is it Whistler's? Whistler's 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_03

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

SPEAKER_00

I've seen that.

SPEAKER_03

You know what you get mystery boxes for like makeup and stuff for like the butters? Yeah, they have a natural mystery box where it's all different treats you don't know what you're getting.

SPEAKER_00

So for your dog, that's absolutely well for your dog.

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SPEAKER_00

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

SPEAKER_03

Absolutely. So have a wee check out uh and thank you, Danos. Thank you. Well, my house was broken into a few years ago. The one that you live on now? No, the one I lived on on the Armour Road. Right. So I was with my ex at the time. We loved our wee house. And our friends came over, a couple, they came over from Manchester to uh visit and to hang out with us on Halloween. So it was Halloween night and we were in the house, we had a few drinks. She I was dressed up as um Wednesday Adams' brother. What do you call him? The boy who wears the stripes? What do you call him? Her brother. Not Uncle Fester, not the thing. I don't know what you call him. Stern or something. Well I was dressed, she was dressed as Wednesday Adams because she looked a bit like Wednesday Adams, and I was dressed as the brother. Um which is kind of weird since we were a couple. And our friends were dressed, I I'm not sure what he was, but our other friend, she was dressed as a cupcake. So we went out, right, for a few drinks, and one of the girls, either my girlfriend at the time or her friend, one of them felt sick. So me and the boyfriend being very chivalrous was like, We'll just turn and go home. We'll just go back home. We were out of the house for about an hour max. We came back, my girlfriend opened the front door and she was like, I feel a wild breeze. And I thought, why would there be a breeze in the house? And I was like, You stay here. I went down, there was glass all over the kitchen. So in the very short time that we were out, someone had broken in. Right. Oh my god, I would be terrified. She was, and the other girl was. They were, I have to say, they were hysterical, they were really affected by it. I would be. So I said, Right, wait here. I'll go in and look and see what the crack is. I went and saw all this glass over the kitchen. I am pathologically calm, like there's no panic in me. And I just went out to them and I says, Don't panic. Don't panic, but um we've been broken into. They started screaming and all that I said. I said, just stay down here. So the cupcake was screaming, Wednesday Adams was screaming, and I went up to see what was missing. Now, the fact this was Halloween was tickling me in a way. I was thinking, what the hell? So I went upstairs and all of our drawers had been opened, all of our cupboards in the kitchen opened, rifled through. Um oh my god, I thought buggers. Uh my guitar had been stolen. I know. Um a few other things had been stolen, bits and pieces here and there. My girlfriend's car key had been stolen, but they hadn't found her car in the street. They stole my friend's car who had come over from Manchester to visit us. What a welcome. What a welcome to the great city of Belfast. They stole his car. Isn't that awful?

SPEAKER_00

Did he ever get it back?

SPEAKER_03

No, he never got it back. Shut up. No, he never got it back. They stole his car like it was awful.

SPEAKER_00

So hold on. How do you come to Belfast on holiday? Your car gets stolen, you never get it back, and then you just go home.

SPEAKER_03

Do you know how they stole his um how they got his car? So her car keys were hanging up. So they stole hers, but yeah, they must have been pressing it and luckily didn't find the car. In the spare room. This person on opened all the drawers, emptied all the backpacks out, found the keys. They'd ransacked the place like it was terrible. They threw all my drawers. Well, maybe private things, all my butts and pieces of it.

SPEAKER_00

Like what I'll read butts and bottoms and it's like. Oh, they would find my pair of rose repeats and a sister Claire pair, and they'd be like, There's there's chef.

SPEAKER_03

So the police arrived and they arrived to a cupcake, to Wednesday, to Wednesday's brother, and to whatever the hell he was dressed up as. And I could I thought this was so funny. Because we were all we were all dressed up and also the cupcake was crying. And the cupcake was crying. They were all hysterical, and there was glass everywhere. It was really stress. I didn't find stressful, but they were extremely stressed out. And my girlfriend at the time, she could not, she was terrified for a long time for maybe a year. Never wanted to be in the house in Rome, was really afraid, which is terrible. The people come into your house and make you do you know, do that. So then um the police had come in and first of all, it took them a lot of time. Now, this was maybe this would probably would have been ten years ago. Took them a lot of time to seem to understand that we were a couple, and then when they finally realized that we were a couple, because I kept saying we're a couple, they um were trying so overly to be like that's cool, and they kept saying, No, we don't think they've done this because of you know, because of you or anything, and I was like, What? And they're like, We don't think they've done this because uh because user together or anything, like they really did not want to hate crime in the balance. They kept saying it, and I was like, that's okay, like we get it. And they came in and they dusted for fingerprints and all this, and the the fuckers wore gloves, so they couldn't figure out who it was, yeah. Um and I had to describe my guitar now, and they says, like they Is they probably thought it would have been funny taking the guitar because they said they'd seen a spit of uh spit of robberies but spit of robberies where they had taken unusual items to be funny and they said I bet they would have thought it was funny because my guitar is like a miniature guitar, it looks kind of weird. They were like they would have been walking out of this house laughing, laughing with that wee guitar, and I said, Well what else did they steal? And they said in somebody's house in Belfast they stole a chinchilla. Is that an animal? Yes, a pet. They stole like a lizard. Jesus Christ, here we go again. No, I think it's Julie, is it like a gerbil type thing? It's like a weird. Like a ferret chinchilla. They stole a chinchilla. How weird is that? They stole a chinchilla. He was told to me, don't feel bad about your guitar because should they stole somebody's chinchilla? And I was like, that makes me feel better. That would make me feel worse.

SPEAKER_00

I know who the hell wants a chinchilla? Not me. I know. It's extra so extra bags. We were robbed. Well, that reminds me of my friends who also live in the great city of Belfast. They were broken under as well. But there's sh they were sh shh shh. Shouldn't at the time, so they were in shouldn't house no three-story thing. And they had come back after the Easter break, and all their rooms had been broken under, their straighteners, their laptops, everything gone. So they were on high alert. And then one night, a few weeks later, one of the girls that was up in the very top one came running downstairs squealing. So the other girls automatically came running out in the middle of the street squealing. They were like, What? And she was like, Britney Spears is going on turn again! And they were like, We fucking thought we were being robbed. We were on high alert.

SPEAKER_03

They were on high alert. Now, if that was me.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know if I could be on my own or go back to my home.

SPEAKER_03

Well, she was really afraid, and I felt terrible because I thought, This is awful that somebody can come into your house and your safe space and make you feel like that. It's so scary. And it's so scary, especially if you're, you know, a wee girl. Do you know? We gay girl. No, but just a wee. Like my ex was uh she wouldn't have been able to fight off a man. Like, no. Do you know what I mean? Oh my god, that's a great fear. Well, a few a few weeks later, when we were on high alert, we we got cameras. We were on high alert about a camera in the kitchen, you know. Uh uh Free Watcher. A man entered our home. We were upstairs in bed, got a notification in the camera. I looked at the cameras. Was he all invited? Yes, yes, it was in the middle of the night, it was three o'clock in the morning. So when you say entered your house, like the front door opened, and a man came in all in black with it black with his hood up, not a black man, all in at that sound it was back. A man all in black with his hood up, so he was all in black, and I saw it in the camera and I thought, how am I gonna tell her?

SPEAKER_02

And then I did not at the time or the next morning you saw?

SPEAKER_03

No, it's not about the times. You say didn't you see anybody as he was in the house? But I got emotional notification. So he was downstairs and we were upstairs, and I was like, I maybe I don't maybe I shouldn't tell her, maybe I should just go down. Then I thought, no, if something happened, she's gonna need to ring the place. So I woke her up and I said there's somebody, there's a man downstairs. Like Jesus Christ! I know, and she went and locked herself in the bathroom and I went down. I did no, I was watching him first, waiting to make my move. So I saw him downstairs, and then he went into the kitchen and he was going through the cupboards, and I thought, oh my god, this is what they did last time. Then I saw him opening the dishwasher and I thought, this guy's mental. Knife. I thought, what is he doing? Um and I went down and it was my brother. He was drunk. He was drunk and he came to our house because he had a key and it was closer than his. And he was there. And he says he was trying to be. I see when I went down and my brother's very tall, and I just saw the back of him, I thought, this guy's gonna absolutely take me out. Imagine you had I just whacked him over the head with a bis ball bat. Well, I was thinking I was gonna say, Can I help you?

SPEAKER_00

You you were gonna ask someone on your house, can I help you? No, it's not like you know, what are you doing here? What could you leave, please?

SPEAKER_03

Sorry, I'm just robbing your house. Just can you go back to bed? But see, when I saw him opening the dishwasher, I thought, This is a very strange robber, and I therefore thought this is someone who is in psychosis or something. Yeah. Or they think they're somewhere else. But it was it was Sean trying not to make any noise. Us upstairs, terrified, her locked in the bathroom, being sent down like a landy the slaughter. That gave me creepy chilling. Can you imagine us in bed, me getting that notification, seeing this big big guy all in black, face couldn't see his face, couldn't make it out, hood up and everything, wandering around or downstairs, and we are just upstairs. I would die. That was like that was scary. I would be deceased. There would be I thought we can't just sit in here like two sitting ducks. He's gonna come up and he's gonna. I thought, you know, if you're in the bathroom that's locked, and at least if I go downstairs, I could maybe run out the front door and he'll maybe come after me. But I thought that's just you just run away and get help. Leave your exercise. Well, if he was coming after me, she'd be fighting the house. Do you know? That's so scary. That was the scariest thing that has ever happened. But honestly, to me, that is the scariest thing.

SPEAKER_00

It reminds me of a story that that scares me that I tell um my sister's neighbours were broken into and they they were like so confused about how they were broken into because they have cameras in the kitchen and they went through the footage the next morning or whatever and looking through it, looking through it, he comes in the back door, then one of whoever loves in the house comes down in the dark to get a glass of water, yeah, and he is just up against the wall right behind her. Oh my god. And she's standing drinking the water, puts it back down and goes back up to bed, and then he just comes steals. So she was literally right right there. It is terrifying. How terri I I think about that when I'm on my own. What would he have done if she hadn't noticed him? I don't know. But he like it was described to me that he like pushed himself up against the wall because it was dark, and now I'd be so terrified being on my own. I think about that. Terrible. Isn't that so scary?

SPEAKER_03

It's so scary. You alright, Julie? Did you say?

SPEAKER_02

No, I was gonna tell a story.

SPEAKER_03

No tell. Well see that we just introduced a story.

SPEAKER_00

What I'll tell you one better.

SPEAKER_03

I just heard your lips smile and I thought she has stopped listening.

SPEAKER_00

I thought she said, I thought my story was an adventure.

SPEAKER_02

That was a my I would that just that you that story reminded me of like this like spooky. I don't know if that's actually ever happened, but I remember it was a spooky story that my sister always used to tell me, and then I used to tell my friends it was like the you know, like the story you'd tell at the sleepovers, like the the one that always stacks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Like Chucky's in the trees and all.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so this woman.

SPEAKER_03

They used to say at Russia Primary School that Chucky was in the trees, you know, Chucky from the movie?

SPEAKER_00

He was in the trees. They used to say an article that a dead priest's hand was buried out the back. Just his hand. Just his hand, and I was terrified for years as well. Oh my god. Sorry, Julie, you can't. Sorry. What was his hand gonna do? I I don't know what it was.

SPEAKER_03

A man printing our lord, where they cut it off. Good enough. Such a crime. Go on, Julie.

SPEAKER_02

So you're terrible. The story was um there was this uh I I don't even know why I'm telling this. Um there was this woman, she was in the house on her own. She was uh standing in the kitchen washing the dishes and she suddenly seen this man in the um in the window.

SPEAKER_00

Oh side the window or the reflection reflection behind her. I mean, don't ruin the story. Oh for fuck's sake.

unknown

Right.

SPEAKER_02

So she looked out the window, was pitch black, looked out the window, saw this man, and she was like, She got all freaked out. So she ran upstairs and uh she was like, Oh, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? Um so made sure the doors are normal locked, that was fine, went upstairs and then she looked out the window and the man was out the window again, and she was like, Oh, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? So then um she called the police and all, and they came and they were like, There's there's no man, like we'll be like she was like, How how on earth did he get to the upstairs window? Like, like, did you get the ladder? They were like, There was no ladder. Turned out he was standing behind her the whole time.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god. Oh my god, and I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00

Julie, what the fuck was the point in that? Well, I have a really, really true I like that. Julie, go tell that to no one. Don't tell to no one. Shit. What do you hear this really, really scary one my daddy taught me, and it's true as well. Which is actually scarier, and it happened in um Mauville.

SPEAKER_03

Not Mauville. Mauval of all pluses. You know what that is, Julie? No, we're doing it. Mauville? It's outside there, it's in Donegal.

SPEAKER_02

Oh right, I thought it was like in front.

SPEAKER_03

Clattered Movie.

SPEAKER_00

Clattered and tricolours, you'd hit it. This um it was late at night and it was a weekend night, Saturday night, and Dick say three in the morning, rainy. I'm just gonna set the scene for you. I love it. And uh a man was driving past, I don't know what the m this man was doing. Taxman must have been, and he's seen a young club. Taxman? Taxi man. Not the taxman, but he's well paid, he won't be up at that time later. He's lying, he's lying, rubbing our money up against him. So he he sees a young girl sat side of the road wearing you know clothes after a nightclub, and she was like waving him down in a left. So she got into her, she was he got into the car and she was like, Oh, thank you so much. You know the way you be after, you'd be like, You are my god, thank you so much for for rescuing me. She was soaked and she was in her redress and had her bag and whatever. So she he but she only left a few minutes up around, but it was really, really dark and whatever. So he left her off. Um, she ran up into the house and he reversed out, whatever. And the next morning he got out and realised she left her bag and her his car. So he drove back. I'm getting the this is giving me this is freaking me out. He drove back up to the house and knocked at the door with a bag, right? Yeah, an actual clutch bag. And this is true. This is fully true. My dad hoped me my daddy wouldn't tell me a lion. McMahon. Full. Full so dairy, full. And knocked at the door and the man answered and said uh and and he said, I picked your daughter up last night and this is her clutch bag. And the man said his daughter's dead. My daughter was killed in a car accident down there, and yesterday was her 10-year anniversary. She was killed in a road traffic accident after a night out where he picked her up. And he had a physical bag, and it was like there was nothing in it. What? How scary is that?

SPEAKER_03

That's like something out of a movie.

SPEAKER_00

No, I when I have when I go on to Mavala. That's making me sweat.

SPEAKER_03

That's really weird. Julie, what do you think of that? Do you believe in ghosts?

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. No, not really. You're so enthusiastic.

SPEAKER_03

She was just born that way. No, not really.

SPEAKER_00

I think if Julie won the lotto, she would go, yay. She'd go, hmm, big dead. I'm already rich from the bimboo and the butch anyway.

SPEAKER_03

That's yeah, that kind of oh do you believe in ghosts? No, not at all. I don't believe in anything. Santa! I I don't believe in I don't believe in anything. So no, I don't believe in ghosts.

SPEAKER_00

No, I don't think I believe I don't think I believe in ghosts.

SPEAKER_03

Well, let me tell you about S-A-N-T-A, who you just said.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_03

Um why don't you spell my? Well, because Dougle's here and S-A-N-T-A. Not Satan.

SPEAKER_02

Not Satan!

SPEAKER_03

I thought you were talking about it. That's why she's protesting. She's all blue. I was talking about Anth. Because Dougle believes in San Apollo's. But um, in case any mass are watching and their kids are in the background, maybe very inappropriate, but um so my great aunt.

SPEAKER_00

Is this gonna be a disclaimer for any kids watching?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but that's why I'm spelling it, S A N T A. My great aunt All our eight-year-old viewers knock off now. Told me I believed in S A N T A for a long time because my great aunt, I thought she would never lie to me. I loved her and very close. She told me that she knew he was real because whenever she was eight years old, he visited her at the end of her bed and he thought she was asleep, but she opened her eyes and she saw him putting gifts into her stocking and he looked at her so she quickly closed her eyes again and he walked off. And she told the story with such conviction that I then went around and was like, Israel life proof. I have an actual eyewitness, I have proof, and I really thought she wouldn't she would not lie to me. So I thought for longer than I should have that S A N T A was real. I don't know, but and my sister believes it even longer than I did. I had to tell her, and she's two years older than me. I had to tell her because I thought she's gonna get bullied. Was this like upper sex? Uh around about then. Like, but I really thought mm-hmm would not would not uh lie to me. So I really Oh my god, no. And I was obviously when I found out, and the first thing I thought was, I don't know what she told me. And I thought now she was obviously just being like trying to make you believe, but I was really But you're so literal breach of trust. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

Not even that the whole Santa situation, just that she would like you, yep.

SPEAKER_03

I was so upset.

SPEAKER_00

That annoyed you more. That annoyed me a goddamn awful lot. So it did. Do you know what really sc used to scare me? The Easter Bunny. I would be absolutely scared. We never had the Easter bunny. I would be so scared. I would have visions of this huge bunny Like Donnie Darko. With big teeth and all coming in and and it was not it was not fair on But were you told the Easter Bunny was real?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Like were you Julie, were you told the Easter Bunny was real? No. We never had the Easter Bunny. So you were never left each Catholic thing? Oh we're I think it is. I think it is. Well we I think it's an American thing. No, we got we got one egg each from my mother, but we were not left eggs from a mysterious character. No, we never even were told it was a thing. We never were told it was a thing, ever. Definitely not. That's that's that's crazy. It's so American, it's such an Americanized thing to do. I actually didn't think people here did it. It was a big thing for us in our family.

SPEAKER_00

The Easter Bunnycom and I.

SPEAKER_03

And were they like everybody get to bed early, the Easter bunny? No, it was like our it was like Christmas. Seriously? Didn't it big dinner at all on Easter Sunday? Uh Easter dinner and a Sunday and trying to make it up now. Uh huh. These were neglected. It would have been like Christmas dinner in that it would have been a roast dinner, not well not roast dinner, but like whatever. Um and I would have always had like half an Easter egg for breakfast and that kind of thing. In true Easter fashion. Mm-hmm. But there was no Easter Bonnie. Uh well we I don't even know if we were led to believe the tooth frame was real.

SPEAKER_00

We believe in that as well. I don't even know. Did you even have a childhood?

SPEAKER_03

Well, we had S-A-N-T-A. Is that all? I think so. But sure. Yeah. I thought that was just the one everyone. I did not think Easter Bonnie's were a thing here.

SPEAKER_00

Uh well the I think it was more lies then that were on Folk and so like not only did my parents lie about the big man, but it was the bunny and then the truth fair, and I thought, like, what next? Are you not my parents?

SPEAKER_03

I what is real? That is very confusing for a child. Do you know what I mean? Because it's hard to trust them. Whenever you re Those old parents. Whenever you realise that they've been lying to you your whole life?

SPEAKER_00

Even the whole thing do you do elf on the shelf? Uh but I mean when I do it, I move him. So he will be there just sitting, and then tomorrow he'll be sitting there. Not the really extravagant thing?

SPEAKER_03

No. I couldn't be. Arshed. No. But like, do you know what I've always wondered? Do kids uh are kids led to believe that the elf on the shelf is real? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Really? But that's like a whole new character. It's it's a whole new thing, and them waking up every morning going, oh that the elf movement and talking about it in school. Did you do elf on the shelf?

SPEAKER_02

Never. Couldn't get behind that. I uh that Christmas is a big thing.

SPEAKER_03

She says Christmas is a big thing.

SPEAKER_02

No, Christ no Christmas. Well, yes, that too. But no, Christmas is stressful enough without having to fill down like the amount of people I've seen posting being like, oh for flip's sake, forgot to move this last night. And I'm like, I don't need that stress in my life, and also it's just I don't yeah, I I think it's also like the lion thing of like it's another character that's another light.

SPEAKER_03

Do you do S A N T A?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we do.

SPEAKER_03

Do people who are very religious do it, or would that be a no-no?

SPEAKER_02

I don't know. I think most of the things obviously there's a lot of religions that don't do it.

SPEAKER_00

I know you aren't big on Easter, like you wouldn't celebrate it as much as us.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, we do. What do you mean? You you Easter's a bigger deal for Easter's a bigger deal for us than it would be for Catholics. Well I know Protestant Easter Sunday is my favourite day in church. My favourite day in church.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like mommy that are fine. I know a Protestant and they I know a Protestant and they said they wouldn't lie to me. This Protestant wouldn't lie to me. They said um Easter's not a big deal to them. They do not know.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe they're just a Protestant, but they're not Christian. Sorry. I think I know the Protestant you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00

Do you know how I know the Protestant? Do you think? Oh, is it a little Protestant I know?

SPEAKER_02

But like it's not a I don't it's I don't think it's like a Catholic and Protestant thing. I think it's a it's more of like a religious thing. Like if you're Christian, like it's a way bigger thing.

SPEAKER_03

Right. Wait, what do you mean, Christian? Are you excluding Catholics there? Because we were the OGs.

SPEAKER_02

Like you do with everything. Let's not get into this debate when we have five minutes of recording left.

SPEAKER_03

So would you have an Easter dinner?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Do you do you make it or my sister does normally, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, do you have an Easter dinner to the point that actually another fat it's not just in your house?

SPEAKER_02

No, like all my like my yeah. That's what I mean. It's like Christmas Day all over again.

SPEAKER_03

Well we do have we do have an Easter dinner in my mum's house and we all go. I wasn't able to go this year because he was in the vets. Oh that's right. But we we do we do all go. What do you have for it?

SPEAKER_02

Like a big roast dinner. Like beef? We actually had turkey this year.

unknown

I love turkey.

SPEAKER_02

Turkey and lambda. Normally it would be lamb. For the lamb of God? No, just because it's nice.

SPEAKER_00

So do you think just not believe Mary was a virgin? Is that all you just don't believe? Don't believe that Mary was a virgin? Yeah. Or do you believe that she was a virgin? What is the whole what is the thing?

SPEAKER_03

No, I I thought it was just that they didn't believe Mary had the significance the Catholics think she has.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I wouldn't yeah. We wouldn't like worship Mary the way Catholics would. So you wouldn't say Hail Mary? Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_02

That was a hard note, that was what Mary ever do you? You I know um it's so interesting because it's so interesting that I I always find it so interesting that like people follow things so strongly and like what is it that makes you choose what to do? Like, is it just your upbringing and that's what you're told?

SPEAKER_03

If you were born in a different country, if you were born you would be a different religion, you would worship a different god, like it's just luck of the draw where you're born and how.

SPEAKER_02

But then there's but then there's people that convert to different religions then whenever they learn about them.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but if you look at the likes of our parents' generation, like it would have been incredibly rare to convert. And they are, in my opinion, people that I know, uh generations older than me, would be much more religious than my generation. Now it's maybe different for you because you're in a religious I don't know what you would call it. What would you call it? Like cult. No, like you are like your family obviously were very involved in religious you're in more of a religious more of a religious background maybe. Yeah. But like I think I think the previous generation was Way more religious and with her view. Well, where I'm from anyway. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like we were made to go to mass. Oh, well, we were made to go to mass too. It wasn't an option.

SPEAKER_00

No, we were just made and that was it and you're going.

SPEAKER_03

And so were we. Whereas now, like I I would never in a million years, if even if I was religious, I would never make my child go. No, me either. Do you know give them a choice? I give it.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I went the other night.

SPEAKER_03

I saw that.

SPEAKER_00

Aye.

SPEAKER_03

I think you sent me a wee photo.

SPEAKER_00

I did have sent you a photo.

SPEAKER_03

It was my sister Mary Claire.

SPEAKER_00

Why do you keep adding Mary onto her name?

SPEAKER_03

It's really hard for she feels like a Mary Claire to me.

SPEAKER_00

It's Sister Claire, her ten year anniversary. Mary Claire. Mary Claire. Sister Mary Claire. We said that before. Hello? So it was her ten year anniversary in the Long Tower. Long Tower's nice chapel. Aye, and it was so busy. So they had it put on like three times on three days in a row. Oh my god. Thousands went. Thousands? Thousands. Thousands and thousands. There were shirts amazing. I know. So it was the it was the lovely mass said a prayer phrase to you too, Julie. Did you say a prayer for the both of us? Even Julie. I think Julie's one bounce back. I did. I said a prayer for everyone who I know, and then as you know everyone she knows.

SPEAKER_03

I thought it was us specifically.

SPEAKER_00

No, I mean like do you know the way we have OCD? I have to say Mummy, Daddy, sisters, name them.

SPEAKER_03

I did that when I was a child and I thought it was religious psychosis religious cities, so we'll do it.

SPEAKER_00

Who else am I close to? Joey Emer. Who else, my partner? Quick Jenna, quick thing. And then I ran out of time. Oh no, I that's already number one. He's number one.

SPEAKER_02

Because I I hear this a lot with Catholics. You're like, oh, I'll say a prayer for you. What is a prayer to you?

SPEAKER_00

Well I just ask, I would just say, it's just talking, it's like you you could go you well, I like to freestyle my I you can freestyle.

SPEAKER_03

You can say, Here, big man, um Julie is having a bit of a hard time today. She's turned up with Ugs on. Uh and we just like you to just look after her, and you know.

SPEAKER_00

So mine's was like um basically um please look after the following people and make sure that they are happy and healthy. Right, okay. Always happy and healthy.

SPEAKER_02

I just wasn't sure because you know the way that like you have your Catholic prayers, like the people who are stricter with older people would say the rosary or prayers or they would probably do a decade of the rosary as well.

SPEAKER_03

But you do pray specific things for you. Yeah, like whenever I was we and you were taught to pray when you were going to bed, it would be like I think it'd maybe say or a father or something, and then I'd say, please bless mummy and daddy, Catherine, me, Connor and Sean, please bless grandny and grandda blah, granny and grandda blah, please, and then I would name every auntie, every and I would literally go through every person so I know what you mean. And it took me a long because I am so anti-religious now, and it took me, I would have done that as like an OCD compulsion. Yeah. It took me a long time to get out of that. Took me a long time, but I'll still find myself if if my OCD is bad or I haven't taken my medication like last week, I didn't take it for five days because I ran out. I was getting compulsions in my head of saying prayers. Oh wow. Even though I'm so anti-religion and I don't believe in anything but purely a compulsion. Because you can have religious OCD, which we did have growing up. You can have religious OCD where that's your compulsion, and if you don't say this or do this, XYZ is gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03

I know, it's really scary.

SPEAKER_00

Well, when when my I feel my mental health dipping, that's when my OCD has me by the absolute fucking balls. Yeah. And it did that week. So maybe that's why I did that. Because I wouldn't normally sit and pray for that many people. Uh maybe. In that case. I've never prayed for fucking joy. What the hell? So of course my prayers.

SPEAKER_03

I'm joking July, you know I love you. Okay, so um our timer is flashing off. So on that note, everybody said prayer for Julie.

SPEAKER_00

Pray for July, she needs it.

SPEAKER_03

We love our Catholic listeners, we love our Protestant listeners, we love all our other listeners, everybody, whatever you are, we don't care. We love everybody, and we hope we've we've had educated you in our cross community-ness today.

SPEAKER_00

I love how we went from um house evasion to um religion. I don't even know how we do that. The tangents that we go off on. I don't know how we do it, but it works. It works, and the crowds go wild for it. So long may it last. Thank you so much for listening to another episode of Bumble and Butch. I am Jenna, aka Bumble. And I'm Emir, aka Butch. See you next time. Bye.