Midlife: 50 Episodes Later

In this special celebratory episode of Midlife, No Crisis, we’re throwing it back to one of our favourite formats Room 101 where we banish life’s biggest annoyances (and have a good rant while we’re at it).

From everyday irritations to full-on midlife frustrations, we revisit some of our most iconic pet peeves and add a few new ones to the list.

What We Cover in This Episode:

• Our journey to 50 episodes (and why we’re surprised we made it!)
• A nostalgic throwback to past Room 101 entries
• The most relatable modern-day annoyances
• Why midlife makes you less tolerant of nonsense
• Listener-inspired rants and workplace frustrations

What’s Going Into Room 101 This Time?

Expect strong opinions (and zero apologies) as we banish:

• Long, aggressive car horn beeping & road rage
• Hot desking and corporate office frustrations
• People abandoning shopping trolleys
• Teenagers in balaclavas (you know the ones 👀)
• Excessive adverts in podcasts
• People trying too hard to be quirky
• Phones listening to us and serving creepy targeted ads

Plus unexpected tangents involving Ghostbusters, Donald Trump, and even a nod to King Charles III.

Real Life Updates (Because It Wouldn’t Be Us Without Them):

• Post-travel blues after Australia adventures
• Surprise family visits (that weren’t actually surprises…)
• Ongoing airline compensation battles
• Corporate life frustrations creeping back in

Why You’ll Love This Episode

If you enjoy:

• Relatable midlife conversations
• Honest (and slightly chaotic) chats
• Laughing at life’s everyday annoyances

…this episode is peak Midlife, No Crisis energy.

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 We’d love to hear it — send it in and we might feature it in a future episode!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:24

Hello.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

Hi. Oh, what's that? I'm wearing a birthday hat.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Why are you wearing a birthday hat? Because it's our fiftieth episode. Oh, our fiftieth episode. Oh yeah. I can't believe you've not got balloons. I I th I I thought I'd miss someone's birthday then. I was thinking, oh my god. Don't join me with that. Oh wow, look at you. Party popp oh no, I feel really bad. I've got some vent, though. Is that you got enough? No. Oh. Um I'm looking round for any like random items in the office. I can like start to wave around. Sadly, there aren't any.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

My dog's just hidden under the desk. I don't think he liked the party popper. Oh, that's weird.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Dogs normally love them. Funny that, yeah. Happy 50th episode. Happy 50th. Midlife No Crisis. Woop whoop! Who thought we'd get to 50? No way. I know 50 in age, let alone 50 podcast episodes. We literally thought it'd be one episode and we'd be done. We did 50. Wow. I know. Who knew we could talk so much rubbish? Oh, but we're not because we're now a wise because we've got we've done. We are wise women.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

It is the wise women podcast.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yeah. It's not really, but you know. Oh god. We have given some little nuggets of uh wisdom over these times. Do you think? I'm sure we have.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Come on, big yourself up. Maybe we need to pay someone to go through all our episodes and find all the wisdom stuff, and then we could write a book out of it. Who's gonna do that? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

And how do we pay them?

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Yeah, okay, good point.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Are we not are we not famous yet? Why are we not famous? I thought we'd be famous by now. And then I don't have to do this awful like corporate golf any longer.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

The corporate guff is killing me as well, don't oh, this week's terrible.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Someone said to me someone said to me today, and I actually just eye rolled, laughed, and like sighed at the same time. Asked me who the gatekeeper was.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Is that I think I that's the first time I've heard it, and I just would just I I well I didn't even hide my thoughts on it. And the first thing that went through my mind was Ghostbusters. Because do you remember it's mentioned in Ghostbusters? Yeah, she's the gatekeeper, isn't it? Is it is it the gatekeeper or a key key keeper? Gatekeeper. I think there's both, isn't there? Don't you need both? Oh, right, yeah. Are you the gatekeeper? You know when the monster when he talks in that funny voice. And that's all I can think about then. Well, when he goes, I am the gatekeeper. I am the gatekeeper. Yeah. It's not what you want to be thinking, is it, when someone's asking you that question. No.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

Do you know what I found just as an aside, I found Ghostbusters a really scary film to watch when I was little. And I was a little bit worried about opening my fridge for a while afterwards.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Oh wait, well, it was a bit scary, I suppose, wasn't it? Slime and all that.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Slimer. Great film though.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Anyway, how are you? How was the big surprise on Sunday?

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Oh, they knew already. Oh. Well, well, why? Because she told them already. They said, Well, that's it. The element of surprise is all is lost when you tell people prior to so what she'd FaceTimed them before she came home and said, I'm coming home. This is Day's parents. She said, I'm coming home, I'm going to surprise Nana and Grandad, which is my parents. So she'd already told them. So when we obviously arranged this Sunday lunch with like Day's brother as well, to be fair, Jimmy was surprised because he didn't know, so at least that was one surprise. But yeah, Day's mum and dad walked in and went, Well, we thought we might be seeing you. Oh I mean, they were over the moon, they were over the moon to see her. And it days and mum went, Oh, I would have been very disappointed if you hadn't been here because I've kind of been thinking this would happen.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Oh, that's cute.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Yeah, it was cute. Yeah. But yeah, I think she's fed up already. Oh, is she? Well, there's a lot of complaining going on when she goes out anywhere. Well the the the novelty's worn off. I mean, I did think the novelty wouldn't would probably last about two weeks, not three days.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Well, she's still getting accustomed to it all, isn't she? And it it's gonna be so different. I mean, just the weather doesn't help, does it? And sunny. It's kind she she kind of has to face reality as well, being at home, doesn't she, Elizabeth?

SPEAKER_00 5:22

I think that's what it is. There's some adulting that needs to go on, isn't there? Which uh, but anyway, she's gone to the pub with her mate, so it's not that bad.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Oh, she's fine. She'll be alright. She just needs to settle into it and just accept that she's not here forever, she's got to earn some money, and then she wants to go, she can go, can't she?

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Exactly. That's what I said. So yeah, she's alright though. James is loving life. Is he?

SPEAKER_01 5:45

So he's is he back in Adelaide then?

SPEAKER_00 5:48

It's so good, honestly. So he has yeah, he's done finished the tour and he got there yesterday today. I don't know what the time is over there. Um, and he's now, I mean, this is absolutely brilliant. So I said, What are you gonna do? Are you gonna stay? What like are you flying to Melbourne or what are you doing? And he went, Well, he said, uh, I've got in touch with somebody who I met in Mad Monkeys, which it turns out to be a hostel in Melbourne, some Danish guy, and we're going on a road trip, and the tour guide, is who is like his best friend now, has lent him two swags.

unknown 6:28

What?

SPEAKER_00 6:29

So they're gonna go and do a little road trip from Adelaide to Melbourne. Oh wow. And I was like, like I just don't believe that this is actually happening. Olivia was going, oh yeah, he's I know him. Um he's called uh Matthias, and he can eat a whole kilo of beef in 10 minutes. That was that was what she said about him. I was like, has he got any other redeeming features? She went, oh no, he's he's a nice, yeah, he's alright, he's nice. I was like, why didn't you just tell me that first eat a kilo of beef?

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

She said, Well, he did he did it in front of us. He had a whole kilo of beef. And then oh, I don't I don't know. This is what they come out with, and then so then Dave messaged James and said, I believe you're travelling across whatever South Australia with a bloke who can eat a whole kilo of beef in ten minutes. James replies with, and a bag of potatoes. I don't know. I think there'd be like some better information than that, really. Well, anyway. I was like, he's got a name. Matthias. Matthias. Can't help but think Rose, can you really say that?

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Well, it may it sound a bit like some sort of Roman Emperor, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Matthias. Maybe he is. He eats a kilo of beef in ten minutes.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Yeah, that's the kind of thing they do, innit? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

It's a Roman Emperor. So there you go. Good. And then his so his friend Misty, who's the tour guide, has been sending me loads of messages. Oh, I had in my head Misty was a boy. No, Misty's a girl.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Oh, as in not, I didn't know the name was Misty, I just thought tour guide equals boy. Ah, oh well, there you go.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

No, girl. Anyway, so she's like been messaging me and she's lovely. Ah, very good. Very nice. Yeah, so she cheered me up today. Um yeah, what else has happened to me today? Oh, um, I did it sorted out my complaint to the uh airline today. Excellent. So they actually replied to me. And they say they will offer me compensation of 600 euros, which I'm not accepting. No. So I've gone back with all my information.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

And then sorry for them. I kept the receipts and I've kept everything, so it's all just gone. I've just been piling it all into an email. Nice. But yeah, not enough, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

No, they do try and fob you off, don't they?

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Yeah, well, I suppose you've got to start somewhere, haven't you? But absolutely not. We won't accept it. I mean, in fairness, it was better than I thought it was gonna get, even the 600 euros as an offer. But yeah. Not enough. So we continue that fight. So yeah, that's about it, really. Good.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

Corporate gubbins. Corporate gubbings. I mean, that's the only bit I've got to talk about, really. It's been corporate guffing it up all week, really. Have you got any gatekeepers? God, yeah, have we? Oh no. Wall-to-wall gatekeepers in our business.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Yeah. Probably not in mine. Everyone's just using fancy words that they don't know what they mean. Yeah. Still, never mind.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

I like it. Well, that went in room 101. And we should use that as a nice little uh segue into what we're talking about today because I want to give it lots of time because we always run out of time on room 101, don't we? So and we always have loads of them. We always have loads of them. We should have tried for 50 101s. Um, let me just hang on. 50.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

50 is a bit much, even for me.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

I bet we've done 50. Right. So I've very quickly tried to compile a list of all the 101s that we've had. So this is not exhaustive because I reckon we've had some side ones that have gone in in various episodes. Um, but if we start with our first ever 101 episode, um, I think this was the first one. We had put, I think already put menopause in a couple of times by this point. We definitely put Nigel Farage in at least three times. He goes in every time though, that's part of the deal. Yeah, and Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, yeah. Um, so let me find um, so here we go. King Charles had a bit of a go at him though, didn't he? Yeah, love, I loved it. It was so funny. Uh, so I'm not sure if these were any of oh no, that's an old one. Let me go down here, right? So I think this was the first ones we did. Um yes. Um a piece of fruit and other irritating phases, phrases such as fruit. Oh and in the words we've got hits different, fuck off.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

I still think all of this. Oh, circle back.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Oh people not letting you out on the road when you're trying to turn right. Yeah, uh talking on the loudspeaker of a phone, that really annoying. Said that today. Umbrellas, that was you. Yeah, queuing at the bar. I think we we were a bit split on that one because I wasn't sure. Helicopter parents stroke allowed parenting. So yeah, that was kind of the same point, slightly different. Ignorant opinions, that was mine, definitely. People making strong opinions when they had nothing to back it up, and teenagers in general. So that was I think that was our first one. I think we downgraded that to teenage behaviour rather than the different things. I think maybe we did, yeah. Yeah, I think we maybe did. Now I know we did a Christmas special one, but I couldn't find that, so we'll do this one next. Um just Christmas, I think. Um got whistling offs. Oh dear. Slow walkers again. I don't know whether that's just that we didn't fit it in. Oh, we probably, yeah. Uh people in Tesco, I think that was you. That's quite ordinary.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

People in Tesco, everyone. Uh not just was that that was combined. Was that not combined with eating in Tesco? Walking around eating.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

No, there's a walking whilst eating was one.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

Um, yeah, no, people in Tesco being slow, I think it was, like not knowing where they were going. And I think it was old people you were particularly annoyed with that day. Um WhatsApp groups specifically related to parenting. Yeah, delivery drivers, New Year's Eve. I think that was me because I was feeling miserable. Um, we're joyful, aren't we? I know. Uh reply to all emails, in fact, emails in general. Um, I'd forgotten we'd done that already because I'd let Jenny put emails in this week, but we'll come back to that. Um, Chef's Kiss, that was me. Fate tan, specifically related to my child. Um, we had a couple um input from Karen and Pat. Then we had Marie smoking and vaping in doorways. Yeah. Um Caroline's uh alteration of words like Hollybob's spaghetti, whack, bants, wine o'clock, drinkies, hubby, Cosie Lives, we said was okay. Um, and then what was the other one? Uh Platty Jubes was the other one that we forgot that should have gone in as well. Platty jubes. Platty jubes. I thought that one's quite funny though, isn't it? Yeah. Uh what I've done in a day influences, board, board, board we've written.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

I was only talking about that today. Like what I've done in a day, people who've done absolutely nothing in a day. Like people who've done people who've done exciting things, climbed a mountain, gone on an adventure, done something. Yes, fine. Tell me about your day. If you've like brushed your hair and like put some leggings on, no, not interested.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Um bad covers of songs. I'm not sure whether we discussed that on the podcast. Oh, that'll be me. That'll be me covers. Oh dear, yeah. Um park run.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Oh, controversial.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Controversial. Uh I think that's it. I think that's it. I'm sure there's more. I'm sure I've missed some of these.

SPEAKER_00 15:07

Yeah, there's loads in there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Well, maybe not.

SPEAKER_00 15:10

But there's some good ones there. I mean, they're all accompanied by like, you know, good descriptions, reasons, well, that's various like ranting.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

That's the 101 rule, isn't it? Really? You've got you've got to back it up. You can't just put something in for no reason.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

No, no, there has to be reasons. Even how how mad or wild they may be. That hat's driving me mad, it keeps like moving around. It's strobing, isn't it? Can you see? Yeah, is that what it is? It looks like I don't know what it looks like. It's because my setting on my camera is weird. I think it follows me around. It keeps like brightening up and then dulling again.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

I know.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Do you not like it? It's all right. You keep it, you keep it. Right, are you kicking off or am I kicking off? I think your list is bigger than mine this week, so I'm gonna let you go. Oh, is it? I think so, yeah. I got some, I've got some few. So my first one, unnecessary beeping of the horn. Now, I don't like like obviously the the the horn in the car is there to alert other people that you're there. That's how I always think. A little toot toot, a little, you know, hello, here I am. Get out of my way, you you know, whatever. It's the long, angry you know, that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

I can't stand it. And I think I because I live on a hill, which is got like a chicane like traffic calming thing in the middle of it. Off a hill, I don't actually live on the hill, but um there's a lot of it goes on. And I just feel like there's just no need for it. Like, stop. You're getting yourself wound up, your blood pressure's rising, the other person probably doesn't really care and is just gonna laugh at you, but then he's gonna get wound up. Other people around you get annoyed because of the noise. Just no. Why do you think they do it for so long and so loud? Because they're just like wound up. Yeah. And it's it's it's almost like you need a different one for how angry you are.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

I mean, I've always wanted something that flicks the V's to people as you go past. Yeah, way better. Way better. Way better. That comes out of the roof. Yeah. Although we were funny enough, we've been talking about this in the office today because I was asking people for 101s. And um, but then we were we were getting, I don't know how we got on to road race. Oh, because we were talking about horns. So I was saying, I think one of the other girls had had the same thing. Neil beeps the horn for me sometimes. Honestly, it makes me want to kill him. Well actually passenger beeping. Could chuck him out of the car for doing it. Because it's like, I am driving the car. If I've not liked how someone's done something, I'll beep the horn if I want to, but I'm not really a horn beeper. I have to be very mad to beep my horn.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

I do, or if someone's just not moving out of your way, or you know, when the people like fall asleep at the traffic lights or not fall asleep at all, yeah, or they don't go when it goes green, like they don't go because they're like looking at the photo a toot toot.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

A little toot. You're distracted. But then we were talking about road rage and some funny road rage stories. So I've I had an awful one last year. So we were we were in hot we were on holiday, we were in a car park in a supermarket, and it was quite stressful, it was hot, we were trying to park, we were on the last minute. The usual thing, you're like you're slightly on edge. We're driving around this car park, and Neil was driving, and I was in the passenger seat, and we came to like a T junction of the car park, and there was a space there, like to the left. So Neil had stopped at the junction because it was like a junction to look, and this guy came round the back of him, swooped round, and went into the spot that we were going to go into. So few minutes. So slightly not really thinking it through, I just went, booky my god.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Oh, did you?

SPEAKER_01 19:28

The hand sign. Hand sign, oh everything. Anyway, we managed to continue on and park. Next minute, guys at my car door. Oh, knocking on the window, and I looked at him and went, God, like literally. What'd you why why would you come and talk to me when you're one of the things? Yeah, exactly. So I just went like that and ignored him.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Did you turn your head? Turn my head, and like the girls were in the open the door really fast and slammed him in the leg with it.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

Well, then we realised he was also going into the supermarket that we needed to go in. I was like, oh no. So Lottie said, I'll come with you, mum, I'll come with you, it's fine. So we went in, and every time we saw him coming down the aisle, we turned around and went down a different aisle. Did you?

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Yeah, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

He should have got out just really calmly and like shook his hand. Said, no, that's annoying conversation. Why would you do that?

SPEAKER_01 20:26

I also didn't know whether he was Portuguese or not.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Can't talk to you if you're Portuguese. I think you might be. Well, that's what I should have done. I should have gone.

unknown 20:38

I don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Don't understand. Don't speak the Queens. Do you speak the Queens? No NTN no. That's why I used the hand sign. I just think go right. Go right, you know. Oh, you did not. You've got to stand by these decisions that you make. I know. I know. You have to. Even road rage, you've got to stand by this.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

But road rage is a is is terrible, isn't it? I hate I hate road rage. And I do get quite bad road rage.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

I mean, I will caveat it with I don't do loads of driving. So, you know, I can understand. I think if I if I did loads of driving, I would be an angrier person in the car. But I think it's because of where I live. I just don't like the just don't see the point. Like people leaving their hand on the horn as they're driving past the person who's just annoyed. Well, you're not annoying, you're not annoying that person now. You're annoying me and all the other people who are walking up the road and around, you know, we've got a swimming pool. People are going for a nice swim. They don't want to hear you beeping your horn. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Right. Well, let's let's put long beeps of horns into room one and one, along with road rage. I think we'll double we'll double whammy double whammy that one.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

Road rage. Um yeah. I mean you could do a podcast on that, really, couldn't you?

SPEAKER_01 22:01

Yeah, we probably could actually. Um right, I'll have one which is going in on behalf of Alyssa at work, who's only recently started listening properly to our podcasts. Um she like it. Hello, Alyssa. I don't know. She I think she might do, yeah. I don't like to ask. I just just accept that someone's listened to it and thank them very much.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Thanks for listening. Thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Um so she's got a she gets a real beef about um we have a bit of a hot desk in situation, but our team have their own desks because we're in every day. But every so often someone will come and sit at your desk if you're not there just because it's busy or whatever. Alyssa hates it because she has everything set up exactly how she likes it, like a chair and a screen, and everything is like how she wants it. And people come in and they lower a chair and they hire a chair and they move the back and then they move the screen and then they faff with everything, unplug stuff. It absolutely enrages her. But I have to say, I get it. I was late on this podcast today because I sat down at my desk in our office, which Neil has suddenly decided he quite likes to sit at because it's got the beautiful view of the window out of it, and he'd unplugged everything, he'd taken my cushion that I have on my chair because I'm too short, really. So I need a cushion to sit up a bit, and everything was different. It took me ages to put it all right again, so it's annoying.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

It is annoying. Hot desking's annoying, put that in.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

Yeah, hot desking is annoying.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Just go back to the days where you had your desk, your pictures, your stuff, your drawer with your stuff in. Do you remember those days?

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Gotta have a drawer.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Gotta have a locker with stuff in your locker.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

We don't even like you belong. We don't even bother with lockers, really. I think we've got one locker that the team uses sometimes, but it's it's just annoying. It's like I want my space. I like to have my space, and you know, I might have a drawer full of shit that I never use and like I move from one office to the next when I move desks.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

But I'm wondering if there are any studies on this. I don't wonder if there are any productive like productivity studies. I bet there are. On previous, you know, like when you had your own stuff and now hot desking. I'd love to see it.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

I don't think it's better. Yeah, let's have a look, because I don't think it's better.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Yeah, no, I don't think it's better. I mean it's hard, isn't it, when you've got our office is quite transient. So we've got probably 30% of people who were always in the office, like our team, and then the rest of them are in and out of it, like going to site and stuff. So I suppose in that instance it's pointless someone who's 50% in the office, 50% on site, or even more to have a desk, isn't it? Hot desking works in that situation.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

But it can't be like a blanket rule.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

No. Oh, I just can't I just I just put just put offices in there.

unknown 25:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Work in an office. Can we just put that in?

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Corporate guff's gone in, hasn't it? So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

Well, the whole thing, just basically jobs. Our jobs, can we just put them in?

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Any sort of work that doesn't involve something that I really enjoy doing. Although I do really enjoy my job, I suppose. I can't really say that.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

I do sometimes, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

I just yeah, don't know. Give us another one. We need to quick fire way uh our way through some of these.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Right. This is uh I've got one that my mum, well, this is my mum who was said this. So uh looking at the list. My mum is listening to the podcast. No, you might not. I don't know. Um so she doesn't like people who abandon trolleys. Oh, that's not the one I thought it was. See? Yeah. So this is like a this is a conversation that we have we have had actually about people who get their shopping out of the trolley, put it in the boot of their car, and then just like wheel the trolley slightly off and then drive off home and leave the trolley. And now have you not do you not need a pound though? I said do you not need a pound? Not in every supermarket anymore, no. No, Dave said, well, they must live somewhere posh, because if you don't live, yeah, see.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

Probably city centres, you do need a pound, don't you? You're virtually city centre.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

So you have to take it back to get your pound.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Someone fleeced me once, you know. I mean, a pound's not a lot, I get it. But in the I can't remember, I was in a big supermarket, so I'd parked quite far away from the entrance and I'd unpacked the trolley of my shopping, put it in the car, I was just about to take the trolley back for my pound. This guy came up, he went, I'll take that for you, I need a trolley. And I didn't think about it, and he just wheeled it off, and I thought, my pound's in there.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

And you need it your pounds. Oh goodness me. Daylight robbery there, right there.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

Shocker. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

But yeah, I mean it's just um it's just laziness, isn't it? I think really. Fundamentally, it's just really lazy, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 27:09

It is. I nipped a Tesco on my way home tonight and it's quite windy here. And then the trolley like flying across the car park that someone had just left. So it's dangerous as well.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

It's dangerous too. I mean, I think people do like they get trolleys just to kind of wheel home and leave the shopping.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

Imagine that. Imagine taking a trolley home with you, perhaps on a nighttime after a few drinks and getting wheeled down a hill in it.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Yeah. Funny. That would be really weird. Anyone do that? I don't know. Maybe if they drank four bottles of wine. It's the youth of today, isn't it, Katie? Oh, it's the youth of today. Yes. Or the youth of the 90s. I'm not sure the youth of today still do the trolley thing, do you reckon they do? I they definitely do. Students do, don't they? Students still do that.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Students still nick um traffic codes and still do shopping trolley. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

It's gotta be a yeah, it's a bit of a right of passage, innit? The youth of today. See, the yeah, the youth of today are going in, not all of the youth of today. No, I noticed that. Just a specific genre of youth. Well, so do you get this in where you live? Because I'm wondering, I think it's a Bristol thing. Riding on bikes, normally wearing riding on bikes wearing balaclavas, thinking that they're I don't even know who they think they are actually, but it's like it's usually like 14-year-olds, I want to say.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

And they're like gobbing off and like annoying.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Yeah, we do get that. We definitely get that.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

You do get that. Yeah. I don't know whether it's like an online trend. They all think they're gangsters though, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 28:54

They all think they're gangsters these days. I mean, even my private school educated 16-year-old thinks she's a little bit gangster sometimes. Oh, does she a little bit gangster? Who just knows?

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Oh, you're not really. Where's your balaclava? Like it's 22 degrees. Take that off your face. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

All right, you could today specifically in balaclavas, that's going in.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Yeah, they've got to be wearing the balaclavas.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

Um, right, I'm gonna put adverts in podcasts on, even though we desperately want someone to advertise on our podcast so we can actually problematic.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

I yeah, that is it is so annoying. Do you like do you do you um try and fast forward them though? Yeah, and then get it right.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Pretty much because they're always about two and a half, three minutes, and I think that's excessive because like the other day I put a I'd got a podcast, and you know it automatically downloads, and I went to click on it. I think I told you this off the podcast, and it said 18 minutes, and when I clicked on it, that jumped up to 28 minutes because it it like auto-puts the adverts in, doesn't it, based on your I guess your demographics and stuff. And so 10 minutes of adverts. I mean, that's a joke.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Yeah, but is it one of those where they go, Oh, I like I was thinking I might might rent the room out in my house because my didn't we do a fake one of those in our very early days? We did, right at the beginning. We should do that again. Oh yeah, we did, yeah. That's what we should do.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

We'll do a fake one of those next week. That was you know, when you've had a really long day and you really need a drink, but you don't want an alcoholic beverage. I do. I just want to relax at home with a nice cold drink. Ideally, something fruity. Yeah, something fruity. And do you know what I like as well, Katie? Something that's got some added vitamins in it. Um yes, it's almost, I guess, like Wonder Fuel by Vimto. Oh see, I'm not a fan of that, but I know it's only orange juice, it's nothing fancy.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

Can't say that on the advert. I think they're quite good at that.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

Can you imagine? If you pull that off on TikTok, it ends with it's only orange juice, it's nothing fancy. Yeah, not a fan of that one, really. Oh my god. So adverts on podcasts, excessive adverts on podcasts, adverts on podcasts for really random things as well. You really random adverts that I just don't see the point of at all.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Not even, yeah. What other what other things are there though? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Random stuff, random stuff, like this. I mean, we we probably listen to some of the same podcasts, don't we? Then you've got you there's always like some sort of supplement, some kind of well they went into room 101 anyway. Um and then there's there's normally um there's a lot of charities I've noticed on one particular podcast. I won't name it when it comes up, on it. But um, yeah, a lot of charities. I guess I guess that's their vibe, isn't it? I suppose. Um but yeah, it's the fake ones where it's like um hey, what are you watching on telly at the moment? Oh yeah, that kind of oh yeah. I can't be doing that.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

We can't do that anyway, we'd be terrible at it. We would be terrible at it. We're too honest. Yeah. They wouldn't want us anyway, would they? No, wrong wrong demonstration. Despite the many listeners that we do have, despite the many international listeners that we have. We do, we do.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

I'd forgotten one that one that went in room 101 last time we did it was Davina Taylor, Davinia Taylor. Oh yeah, that was a good one. Um and loud chewing of gum and snoring. We had quite a lot of noise-related ones in that one, didn't we? Um go on, do you want to do another one? Lucy and Yak.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

That was Caroline's and never put it in, did I?

SPEAKER_01 33:05

You never put it in. And you had to explain what you Lucy and Yak was to me, and I looked it up and I immediately understood.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

Oh, did you? Yeah. Well, I don't actually know it's a clothing brand. Is it like a sustainable clothing brand or something?

SPEAKER_01 33:19

Something like that. A lot of dungarees.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

A lot of dungarees, like canvas cord bag type things, I'm gonna say. Um anyway, yeah. She wanted that to go in. I mean it's very certain demographic.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Yeah, I was gonna say it's a very Bristolian vibe as well, I would suggest. Ah, yes. I bet you don't get a lot of Lucy and Yak in Balm.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

I cannot imagine they even know what it is. No, well, I didn't. I had to look it up. Well, yakkins being sick, to be fair. I know, yeah. It's not a great name, is it? Up north. They probably don't call it that down south. I don't they do say you're yakking down south.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

No. Yakkins talking as well, isn't it? Yakking, having a good yak.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Is it? Is that not yapping?

SPEAKER_01 34:05

Uh oh no.

SPEAKER_00 34:07

Yaking. Yapping.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

Yaking. Oh, I don't know. Now I've said it too many times and it sounds weird. Yap. Yeah, you do have a yap, but I'm sure you yak as well. She was yakking on to me.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Oh yeah, I think you do yak. Yeah, I think you're right. But I mm so it's so be is being sick yakking. Have I got that wrong? Or is that gaping? What's gacking? Oh no. Gaking. Oh god. I think gaking for getting somewhat stuck together. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

Like you're right, we can stuck. I start I think it's a lead thing. I say giping. Gip.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

Gip? Hmm. Oh, I don't think I say gip.

unknown 34:47

Yaking.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

Gip. I don't know. It's the words lost all meaning. Yakking. Yak.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

I don't know. Anyway, Lucy should have chosen a different name.

SPEAKER_01 34:57

Lucy and sick.

SPEAKER_00 34:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

Lucy and Bomb, let's rename it that. Lucy and Bomb, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Um yeah, I think that's the I think it like it wait whether it's the clothing brand, I'm not quite sure, but I think it's the demographic and the fact that then you've got a group of people all wearing the same clothes. Essentially.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

With the same brand. And yeah, it becomes like like like we used to call the school run uniform.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

You know you know exactly what I mean, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 35:33

I do, yeah. Yeah. It's the people met at uh at NCT Club and they've stayed friends and all their kids are the same age and I hope no one actually wears this now and listens to it and thinks we're horrible. Well, I mean, we've put worse things in that people put could potentially make it. Well, true. True, true. Lucy and Yak, I think, is is relatively mild, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 35:58

I think as well, another thing with you is Lucy and Yak, I think that they may have like moved away from their sustainable. I think they started off being very sustainable clothing rarely. And now they're mainstream. And I think now they've gone a bit Primark.

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Okay. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

Maybe not that.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

That that that's probably complete slider, but I'm speeding you up because we've got four minutes and we've got um two to get in. And then go on, go on, go on. Two good ones as well. So people trying too hard to be quirky. You know, yeah. Like, I don't I can't really I don't want to describe what I mean because I might describe someone we know.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

I just don't want to do trying too hard to be quirky, hence then not really being quirky.

SPEAKER_01 36:42

Yeah, like it goes back to your authentic self comment in our last podcast. It's be your authentic self. Yeah, it's that inauthentic quirkiness, you know, like I don't know, it's really hard to explain. Oh, look at me, I'm so wacky. Yeah, I'm so wacky. I wear wacky Lucian yak clothes. And oh no. And you put an American accent on then, I think.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yeah. Did you? No. Oh dear, we've got American listeners. Oh, sorry, America. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

I think we've offended them already as well because we don't got zero listeners now next week.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

That's it. Zero.

SPEAKER_01 37:19

Well, we might as well go out with a bang on our 15th episode, might we? Right, come on, get your last one in. You've got two minutes. I haven't got any more, that's it. Phone listening. What? Phone listening. What's phone listening? For me. Oh, look, I put my thumb up. How did I do that?

SPEAKER_00 37:41

I don't know. I don't know how you do these things. I love how excited you get when you do it. Phone listening. That wasn't me, that was you.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

Was that me? Was that when our when we talk about things and our phones listen to us? And then I think that's what it was. I think that's what it was. It was when we were chatting when I came down in IRL and um we were talking about something. Oh, we were talking about Davinia Divinia Taylor, Divinia Murphy, whatever she's called. Well she keeps cropping up, doesn't she? And she keeps cropping up on your phone after we talked about it and how irritating it is that your phone listens to you and there's nothing you can do about it.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

And then bombard you with people wafting powders around. Yeah, I don't want powders. I don't want to my wonder fuel. I don't need no powders, mate. Look at me. Look at this face. Why does it need powders?

SPEAKER_01 38:30

Perfectly wrinkle free that's not at all adjusted with Zoom's perfect settings of make me more beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

Oh yeah, why don't we because yeah, just put a filter on, it's fine. Do you kind of look a bit old, I think, today?

SPEAKER_01 38:44

No, you don't. I was thinking how good you look compared to literally clung myself down on my seat twenty.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

Why haven't we both got our hands under our chins? You could just do that all the time. I was thinking this the other day. You could just pull your face like that, but just have it, you know, like pull me hat a bit tight. Like that. Just put some cellar tape on the side of your face. I mean, do your lips a bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

I forgot to say I was planning to put this video out. We've not done a videoed podcast for ages. Oh, right, brilliant. I forgot to tell you that.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

Right. I enjoyed that. I'll just tell her that right at the end when she looks stupid. I enjoyed our 50th rant. 101. Yeah, me too. Me too.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

We should uh what we're gonna talk about in Crisis Talks, how great we are at podcasting. Oh what what professional broadcasting podcasters we are.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Right, well, I'm all over this. It's true though. Top tips for top tips for anyone. Top tips for anyone starting a podcast. Might be considering going into podcasting. We're the ads on the experts. We're the experts. Right, okay. Well, I'll see you on Crisis Talks. You ready? Yeah, go on, boom. Woo! Oh my god, that was loud.