We can't butter everyones toast... That's a wrap on Season 1

Season 1 finale baby 🎤🇬🇷

In this episode of Unhinged Greeks, we’re wrapping up our very first season and having a real chat about why we’re pressing pause for now. Between work, kids, life admin, chaos, and trying to survive adulthood without losing our minds, life has been FULL ON.

We reflect on the wild ride that was Season 1, the laughs, the unfiltered stories, the family drama, savage opinions, and absolute nonsense that somehow turned into a podcast people actually listened to. 

And look… we’ve also realised some people are just sensitive Sallys who simply do not get us or our humour, and honestly, that’s okay too. If you came here expecting polished, filtered and politically correct… you were definitely in the wrong place.

This isn’t goodbye forever, just a much-needed breather while we juggle life behind the scenes. Thank you for every listen, message, laugh, and “OMG same.” We’ll miss oversharing with you all every week.

Stay unhinged.

Follow us for more chaos, questionable takes, and what our friendship really looks like away from the Mic! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

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We're recording.

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SPEAKER_00 0:09

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SPEAKER_01 0:15

How are you, Cormas? I'm good. How are you? I'm okay. I've been cleaning all day. My wardrobe is completely dust-free. No. I'm gonna save that for next Saturday. But I just I threw away shoes, I threw away Carlos's shoes, just like random shit. I went through 15 years of cards between Carl and I. Like I'm sure a sentimental person. So then, and I've got like this box where I shove things at the kids like yeah, like a memory. Yeah, like a little memory bubble or something, but just in a box. Um, and so then I put all the cards in just like an old like YSL, like shoe box. I've just shoved them in there and I put his cards in one of his shoe boxes, and then I did my bathroom, and it was just very therapeutic. Then I've got dinner cooking, I'm roasting some chick chickpeas because that's like my new thing, like crunchy chickpeas to throw in a salad. Yeah, nice. Delicious. So, yeah, and the kids are on their iPads nice and quiet.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

So good. It sounds like a bit of parallel lives. We are never home on the weekend. Um, and we've had uh, apart from soccer yesterday morning, we've had nothing this weekend, and it's been so nice. So the boys have been living their best 90s life. They've got um, they're on their bikes and they're just zooming between a friend's house and our place. So that's been really good for them. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

I love that about where you live because you're fortunate that you live right next to a park. I think it could be both ends, like a little bit dangerous and scary, but also the best of having the voice. Yeah, you can see them from oh I'm my team, my team, I was drinking my side.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Cheers, Ronna. I was literally just drinking them still downstairs. I'm just looking at all.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

Um yeah, I think it's so good that you can see them. Like for me, I mean, I can't trust Xander to cross the phone.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Oh, and not yeah, look, I don't when we first bought the house, I was very much like, ew, like it's next to a park. Um, but it's been great, it's not a main thoroughfare at all. And we're in a cul-de-sac, so the boys can ride their parks, their their parks, they can ride their bike on the road because no one comes down our street unless they actually need to be doing something there. Um, so it's yeah, it's quiet. It's, I mean, thickboxilla touch wood, it's safe enough. And I've got James, a um one of those smart watches where they can call. And so he knows that like he's he's only allowed out for like they're only allowed out for an hour, they have to stay together, and every half hour he has to call me. So um, and he's very good. So it teaches him to tell the time and a little bit of responsibility. Um, and yeah. So um, and he can only you can only have certain numbers. So yeah, so the only numbers correct. Um, because his little friend has a phone as well, and he's like, Can we call each other? I'm like, no, you don't need to call each other. So the only numbers in there that are programmed are mine, Paul's, and my mum's, um, because they're on a as needs basis. So it's the radius, right? Correct, correct, correct. But yeah, similar weekends. Um, I've been very productive. I scrubbed my ensuite like top to bottom, the grout, everything, took everything out of the cupboards, reset it. It's very nice feeling. And then I did the top of my wardrobe um and threw a whole heap of stuff out, which was nice because I've I've had my ever since all the winter stuff's been out, I don't haven't had anywhere to put them. So I've had clot piles of clothes in every corner, and I think Paul's getting over it. So it's not there anymore, it's all up the top. Yeah, perfect. Is your wedding dress up at the top of your cupboards? My wedding dress is at my mum's. It was um it was steam cleaned and put in a bag because I put it on for sale on Steel White. It's a website where you can buy secondhand wedding dresses. I was convinced it would go, it's still on the market. So if anyone would like a um a custom Palace Couture wedding dress circa 2016, um, please, please.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Styles have changed though. I think I've you know, you you make friends with younger people that are that in that part of their world, like I think through work and stuff, and you see people's weddings and dresses today are not 10 years ago. Like, I mean, our dresses were beautiful and our weddings were amazing, but I think yeah, in today's wedding, and the reason I asked is because when I was cleaning the top of my cupboards, because I was literally like I had the ladder and everything in there and all like dusting and my wedding dresses in its box. Um, and I was like, I want to keep it.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Like, we've got men, like we've got boys, so they always say, like, you know, your um, you know, give it to your daughter to you know make her christening gown or something like that. But we're like, what are we gonna do with it? I mean, nothing.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Just I think have a night, drink wine. I don't know if oh well, I've got boots. Mine won't fit. Yeah, my boobs.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Mine would not fit at all, like any of my body. Well, you might, wouldn't it? No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. I'm two dress sizes bigger than what I was in 2016.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

Okay, my dress size, I think I'm actually skinnier than what I was at my wedding, but it'll be my boobs that would actually.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

If you didn't have them, they weren't there.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

I bought them many years ago. Um zoom for today, Corm.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Yeah, so this is a bit different. We're zooming. Um, why are we zooming? We are zooming because this is our is it our final episode ever, or is it our final episode for season one of Unhinged Greeks, or we're still undecided?

SPEAKER_01 6:12

I think we're still undecided. I feel like let's just tell our five followers it's for season one. Let's do that. It's more than it's more than five followers. Yeah, no, maybe like 45, but still there were a couple more this week, which is really pleasing. I think BT and Nikisha, our biggest advocates, um, have really pumped us up. Paul has been amazing, resharing everything, but it's been hard work, guys. It's been a lot. And Lena and I, we're full-time working mums, and we said this in our intro. We've got spicy children that and even you know, our not-so-spicy children, they they need us, and children always need us, and that's fair enough. But this podcast, as excited as we are, and as much as we love it, and we are completely unhinged, it's just it's really takes a lot of our energy, yeah. And our front vortex, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Our frontal core cortex, is that what you're trying to say? Frontal lobe, brain cells.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Beautiful crumbs. I look like a thumb today. I've got no face on everybody. No, you look beautiful. Um, this is my way.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Uh, but yes, I think that that so yeah, we're gonna have a bit of a break. Yeah, we're a bit burnt out, guys. It is, you know, it's it's hard, it's hard work. Um it's yeah, a lot of technical stuff which we were outsourcing, so I guess it's turned into a very expensive hobby.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Um, I mean, yes, it's I think, you know, what I can't remember if it was you or I that positioned it. It's like it for us every single time it was having a night out, you know, drinking and having a really nice dinner and whatever, and that's what we that's the way we spun it. Um, but there's a lot that goes into that.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

It wasn't just like the dinner and the drinks and everything that comes out with you and I hanging out, it's the process, it's the technical side, I think, is what really technical hiccups, and when you're trying to get ready for work at you know 6 a.m. and get the kids ready, you don't have time to stop and figure it all out. And um there's yeah, like it's it's it's a lot. Um, but I mean, I didn't I have absolutely no regrets. So I don't know about you, but I have got zero regrets. I loved it, um, loved every every episode. Um, it's brought out a little passion in me, like my inner journey. I know I've said this before, but it was a lot of fun. So there are a lot of things about it that I loved, but it's just getting, I think we both need a break. We don't have the capacity to give it the attention that it deserves. So we're going to take a little break. We're still gonna keep our Instagram open and on. Um, and we will try and do um some reels, but even like the content creation was getting a lot, and I just miss hanging out with my friend without a camera in our face all the time. So I'm looking forward to just, you know, over our break, however long that may be, to be able to do that and enjoy our friendship again, um, rather than all being business. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Have you had any key takeaways from this experience?

SPEAKER_00 9:50

Uh yes, I have two key takeaways. So I'll start with uh not not so positive. I remember one of my friends uh opening up her own business years ago. Um and she opened up her own, I mean multi multiple businesses, but one of them was a mortgage broker broking business. And she would say, and I didn't get it at the time, you will see who your real friends are when you open a business. And even though the podcasts were not selling a service, right, and not everybody listens to podcasts, and we're not everyone's cup of tea, like all of the above, but she said it and it's just it flooded back to me the support that I expected and thought that we would get from certain people. Um didn't get, and not in not certain individuals, but people that you know we speak to all the time. Um, you know, I would get, for example, I'll put something up on my stories and I'll get 300 views, but I have 16 people liking and following, you know, the anything podcast related. And I just that was that's really deflating. I'm not gonna lie. That really um it got me down, it pissed me off because I'm not asking for a lot. And I feel that I'm the sort of friend that if somebody's asking for support, um, that I will give it in whatever capacity I can. So that was an interesting reflection. Um, but then on the positive, it's shown who's really, really in your corner. And, you know, it's there's things, it's fostered friendships for me, it's particularly with the school mum community. Um, you know, the ADHD episode, I learned so much about um what my school can actually offer my child, which I didn't know. And if I hadn't had that conversation with our podcast community and they'd come back to me and said, Hey, Lena, try X, Y, and Z, you know, it's it might be a very different outcome for my child. So that is definitely a positive. Um, so yeah, everything's got a positive, but yeah, um, yeah, that was the part that got me down. Um, but the part that got me up, and I guess the part of why I'm so happy to put it behind us for a little bit as well, is it's just made me remember all the good like we work really well together, Cool's. We do. Like we always have, we've traveled well together, obviously, like with this is before children, um, you know, BC, like Casalina B C. Um, you know, it's yeah, we've traveled well together, we work really well together as a team. So I think we really worked on you know our strengths and weaknesses. When we're both frazzled foxes, though it doesn't go down very well, it's not very productive.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

No, no, and it's not because like we're disagreeing, it's like we're both on empty and we're like, why the fuck isn't this working? And I don't have time for this, and yeah, in that regard, it's not because, and then it's just a matter of like having that breather, and whether it's you or I and going, Oh, okay, this is what we should do. Right, and there were some instances where we had some like back to the technical challenges, so yes, I agree there. I think a hundred percent, and you know, to add to that, you are my best friend, there is absolutely no denying that, like you are my soulmate, my other person, and we said this in the other in the first episode. Um, and I think this is just I don't even mean to that, you know. Yeah, like yeah, I I just I can't got no words. I've loved you and I've always loved you, and I would do anything for you, but this has just added to that, like just to prove, I think, that we were able to be called a business partner, a partnership. Um where there could be, you know, you had your strengths like by putting agendas together and giving me a bit of a go, okay. Yep, I get it. I had and also your editorial skills and putting up the captions and all of that. I'm just a talker, I just talk. Um, and I'll be like, this is what I want to do, and you would somehow get it into action. And it we bounced.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Yeah, oh absolutely, like, yeah, I like I loved all of it, it was great. We haven't failed, like we're choosing to stop, right? Like, we have not failed. Um, you know, we had a lot more traction at the beginning, um, but I also think the last few episodes our heart wasn't in it as much, and you know, that might be a little bit evident.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

I think our hearts were in it because we wanted to do those episodes. I think feedback is what probably dampened our spirit a little bit. You all said, yeah. Um I my personal takeaway, I ditto to everything you said in the negative part, really disappointing, I think. But I'm gonna put it into a glass half full. Positive, Paulina. Chopy Cassandra, and you know what? It just I came out knowing who is in my corner even more. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You don't uh you don't butter everyone's toast. I don't know if that's a saying, but I'm gonna go with that. You know, everyone's cup of tea, that's right. Um people don't understand my personality, but this was an unhinged podcast, and this was our podcast to share our view, never any malice behind it, no intent.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

No, we're not like that. Anyway, yeah, correct. Correct, correct. You know, we are not women that you know, we said it, I think, in one of the very first episodes where you know it's it's positive and female affirming. Um yeah, that's that's who we are. Like we're not here, there is no malice in anything that we say. Um and if yeah, people have taken some things um out of a couple of episodes, yeah, out of context, but um, yeah, it happens. Not for we can't butter everyone's toast. Everyone's cup of tea. I'm gonna butter everyone's toast.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

I love it. Um, what was your favorite episode? The Reddit one was fun. Yeah, that was fun. I loved doing that, I think, because it was just so A-WOL. Um I enjoyed the Perry episode, I think just from a serious perspective. Um and gravitating towards women that really like that felt scene. I think also the ADHD episode to your point, like it was that, oh my god, hallelujah! Like that, that, that, that fucking emoji. Yay, I feel you, I hear you, I'm with you. Um you know what? I also liked the rant episode. I personally, you know, it was I loved it. I loved how we used to set what we would send us over the edge, but I think the rant episode, in my opinion, I quite enjoyed talking about that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

Yeah, yeah. It's funny, none of those apart from Perry, which I heavily researched, so I didn't sound like a dickhead, even though I can tell you everything that is happening, but I just didn't know all the big words to go along with it. Um, the the rest of the episodes are literally exactly the same as you and I sitting down having a chat.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

Like, and I think that's why they were my favorite. Yeah, because it was just you and I, being you and I, that granted it was like we had to obviously follow a time line because we always wanted to keep it within the 30 minutes. Um but it was why I proposed this idea to you over a year right now. Yeah, and we did it, yeah. We did it, we gave it a crack. Yeah, we are unhinged, we will always be unhinged, we will always be together. Um follow us and still, you know, well, we're still annoying.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Yeah, keep in touch, we're not going anywhere. It's so funny. I've spoken to a few, um particularly school moms, and I'm like, oh, you know, they're like, oh, podcast, podcast, and I'm like, yeah, no, no, no. Like we're it's, you know, we did want to, we did want another, we had another two episodes scheduled, but we just life has just gotten in the way, and we haven't had a chance to do them um the way that we wanted to, and finish off on a real high. Um, but yeah, it it is a lot of work, but they're like, oh, look, I'm you know, really disappointed, really looking forward to it. And I'm like, they're like, I listen to it every Wednesday, every Wednesday I listen to it, and I don't know what I'm gonna do now. And I'm like, oh, that's really nice. Again, like it's you know, it's it's not bullshit, it's genuine, like they know when it comes out, they talk about the exact content with me when I see them that week. Um, so we're not alone, everyone is as unhinged as we are to varying degrees. Absolutely. And if you're not, you're not out.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

You're a little bit delulu because like fuck off, I'm not interested in you. I don't want to deal with people's bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

I call I call bullshit, I call BS. Um, but yeah, that's us, guys. So we are going to take a break. We may or may not be back. We still don't know what we're doing, but that's nothing unusual. We don't know what we're doing half the time anyway.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

No, no, we don't. Well, we've got to plan our weekend away, you and I first. Yes. That'll be fun. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

I'm like, oh, do we want to go and do like a farm stay or something? But then like in a little home? Yeah, but then I'm I'm like, I don't know. Or do we want to get dressed up? But then I remembered, remember when we went somewhere and I hired an Airbnb for me, but at the last minute, everyone ended up staying, and you found the pube, you found a pube in the bed, and then so now I've got PTSD because I'm like, what if we book like a little tiny home or like a farm state or something, but we're in the middle of fucking nowhere and she finds a pube, and then we've got to like, I'm pretty sure I took a sleeping tablet and had to drive us all home.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Yeah, and we have like an apex situation where there's like some cooked fucker out there that's like got fucking buck teeth, and it's like oh no time for stress.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

So yeah, I don't know, like everything I'm like, oh overthinking. Or do you want to just get dressed up and go out somewhere? Because we have to do it.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

Well, then I was like, oh, do we stay in Bondi or something? And like that way we can have a really nice dinner and like then do like the coastal walk. I'm like, oh, I live with a coast as well. Like, I don't know. Or do we stay in the city? I just I don't know. I've got like two visions in my head. I've got a vision of us like just getting really nicely dressed and going for a really nice dinner, just the two of us. Or I've got then you and I just in our aubers that's exactly what I have.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

I'm just like, do we just go and book like a day spa and like literally drink tea and read a book? Because we can do that, or do we go out, have a nice dinner, have a bottle of wine at each and Can just like pass out when we get home. You know, like there's so good options. We're the eclectic friends. We can do whatever you like. We can, we can. We'll sort that out and we'll let I don't know how anyone cares where we're going, to be honest, but yeah, we'll sort it out. We'll let you guys know for anyone following along.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Um, and you know what? I think as well, like let us know what your, you know, what your favorite episode was. Um, please, like, send us through DMs, like we'd want to know as well.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Yeah, and if there's anything that you, you know, if we do have a season two, um, if there is anything that you would like more of, um, yeah, and then I, you know, we get some pep in our step, and we're like I'm gonna ask you an unhinged question because I never asked you this.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

And it was in, I think I was gonna ask it in um the Reddit episode. Okay. What is the most unhinged way you have broken up with somebody?

SPEAKER_00 23:13

I don't even want to say it was like I still remember this because I feel like such a fucking dog. So it was back in like the Greek dancing days and I mean like we were a little bit limited in terms of like what you like this was sort of I don't even know if it was like proper like like boyfriend, girlfriend, but it was somebody that like I was seeing, but then I just started talking to his cousin, um, and then I pretty much just started seeing his cousin and talking to his cousin, and just like and he's like, Well, so we're done now. And I'm like, Yeah, like pretty much climbed him off to the side. Just see you later. Yeah, it was it was it wasn't very nice. Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't nice at all. Not pro I'm like, I'm not proud of that. It's like the closest I've ever come to cheating in my life, yeah. Um, but just it's a horrible feeling. And I look back, I mean, there's I did some fucking cringe things in my twenties. My probably most of my twenties, actually. Um, but that that I look back and I'm just like, oh, that was not very, yeah, not very nice.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Yeah, okay. So it's just another nice thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

No, no, it's a horrible thing. Like, I mean, they probably don't give a shit now, but like at the time, it was just like they do. What they still talk about.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Imagine if you fueled their ick. Do you remember how we uh spoke about the ick? Yeah, maybe. Imagine if like they've got this thing. Oh, speaking of ick, the other day I was at the gym. Remember how I said my ick was named? Mm-mm. There's always been this guy in the class that I do, and you just like he's he's I don't even like I don't know if I say hello, or maybe you're just like lifting up weights, and you're just like, Oh, thanks, yeah. And he's attractive. The other day he held the door open and for me, because I was behind him as well going into the gym, and his fingernails pulled. I was like, they were long longer than yours. I mean, no, but they were long. Remember how I said like I'd rather just have stubs, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he had fingernails, and I was like, I even told Carlos because he was like mimicking obviously the last um episode. And um, yeah, I was like, oh eek, like I noticed it straight away.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

I was like now you're just not in like he's not attractive to you anymore, hey? Not at all, not at all, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

It was something like I would think twice of, like I would see him for 0.05 of a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, that's a good looking person, but now yeah, not even on my radar.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

So yeah, that's that's that's me. All right, Quorms.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Okay, my friend. Well, goodbye for now. I love you too. Um, enjoy the rest of your weekend, and I'll see you when I see you. Okay, bye.