Hey, queens, welcome to on the lad Teach you by Josh. You
will say listen, last but not least, it's your favorite lead scene.
Back up. Oh my god, I got it of the group. You
really are. Oh my god, you better work. Put it in,
put it in and put it in, and used to do white ones have
to be LaToya and LaTavia. It's reparations. Wait, Ben and Nigo mean
and and oh my god, what's his name on? I've seen him in
person and not fucking on Twitter. Jesus um Yeah, and Ben and Raheem
can fight for Michelle. And I think we all know. We all know
who I mean. I was featured in the TV Guide a self styled buoyance.
So I mean, if anyone's going to take it, oh my god,
you stream come down with me? Um, So how are we all?
I mean, I'm just gonna silence. I go on. I've had
I think that, you know, naturally, I don't want to, you
know, if anyone's struggling kind of having a bad week, I don't want
to kind of add fuel to the flames. But god, it's been such
a rough week for me. I don't know why. Really, I think
it's just because we're past that month period. Now we don't have that end
date that I would have loved to have had by now, it's not really
any clarity. There's not really a lie at the end of the time,
noel. Um, And it just sort of hit me this week and I
just sort of it's been very busy at work as well, and I know
I'm very lucky to have a job at all, but it's just it's just
been tough. I don't know why. M Yeah, it has been a
bit tough. Um. I mean I've had last week, I went into
school and I'm going in again next week. Um, so it's been a
bit tricky. I mean I've had some sort of routine, but I mean
day to day, I know it's hard for everybody and everything, so I
mean I can't speak on other people, but yeah, it's tricky. A
good week. Oh that's good, go on, tell us about it.
I just think I just used to kind of find a routine. Now I
was been last time we were here, we were speaking about obvious I'm starting
the food blog, so that's kind of I've kind of treated that as if
it's my job, so like go and cook. I've eaten so much food.
They're going for a walk every morning. Obviously, the word has been
gorgeous. So just kind of finding that routine. I mean, didn't get
me wrong, I'm procrastinating to hell, but yeah, the routine has has
certainly helped my mood this week. If nothing else, that's good. I
definitely feel like I've had a ship week, like like I mean, on
one hand, I've had definitely like, oh my god, I had a
saga earlier this week and it really did. Actually looking it was basically the
highlight of the week. I was trying to because we've not got a front
garden at all. Basically, you've been to the Gaff, haven't I think,
Yeah, So it's just basically just a front yard, isn't it.
It's just that bit of concrete outside that's straight onto the front. So I
was like, do you know what. We get the sun from about ten
till half two three, so ideal for a bit of sunbathing on that front.
So I was like, let's have a look, let's have a look
at some garden chairs. Obviously she's been a thrifty queen, I said,
linked to now and now I was like, what the fuck's this for?
Our doll's house. I had tried to purse ches a gardens. I can't
even say it. I tried to purchase a garden center. There was eight
centimes. It was a CENTI me is and I actually could not get over
it. I could crying. I was literally But the funny thing is I
was just laughing at myself. Why the fuck did I think a bench,
oldnch, two chairs and a table would be sixteen pound fifty? Like on
what planet? I mean to say that you could go to Aldie and get
that, probably only on a Tuesday for half an hour. But yeah,
but like I mean, joe An, there's the one in the reviews who's
just one star bought wrong things, So clearly I'm not the only one.
So that was definitely the highlight of woe week because I just I said the
whole day laughing about it. So that really cheered me up up. Oh
my god, I'm so good. Well, I went on to actually buy
it just as a Keith sake, but I last I know, it sold
out and I'm literally like, surely somebody after I posted it on the story
went and bought it, Like why would anyone buy that? So yeah,
that cheered me up. But apart from that, it's just been really anxious.
I don't know why I'm laughing. It's just like about like job really,
like you know, I know, I'm quite a chaostic. I've got
a big chaotic energy and I am very chaotic, but underneath that, I
am kind of like I'm in control of my life, my job, like
what like I mean relate like like I mean to relate, Like there's lots
of things where I'm like, I mean the place where I'm in control,
probably more so than ever before. Yeah, and now that's like without realize
like sometimes you think, oh, actually my lafe is a good place.
You don't spend too much time thinking about it, because if you do that,
then you'll start freaking out, like sometimes going to go wrong. So
you're naturally a warrior anyway, and you overthink. It's like your natural default
setting. That's today. Now you're right, you are all right? Well,
John, I mean not everyone might know that, but those close to
me probably get the brunt of it because they see how I actually ridiculous it,
like I kind of yeah. Well and yeah, also obviously editing the
podcast as well, take that out and I'm like it's fine, I know.
But yeah, so like I think just with the job and just like
you know, just the global economy on the blink and being part of something
that's kind of a service learning and development, it's just it's just kind of
free. Give me out a little bit. Um. Oh yeah, I
think I'm truly fucked at this point, to be honest. There's just you
know, the chances of like the cubs and restaurants reopening this side of Christmas,
it's just a slimmer and slimmer. And you know, it's even if
you do reopen, they're going to put in social distancing measures, which means
we'll be able to have Yeah. Yeah, it's this, it's this,
This is not realistic. Um. So yeah, I'm just I'm trying to
just be like it is where it is, and we'll cross that bridge when
we come to it, and just to try and not spend money in the
meantime so that you know, if I have to leave or whatever, I'm
not in a terrible situation. But you know, it's not like I can
go I can go to the pub. You know, It's I don't know,
it's just it's a tricky one, isn't it, like because John has
apposed like you're a bit like meetings, almost like you've done something for a
good while, Like that's kind of like what you're like, you love doing
it. It's something that's your question, that's your career, and like that's
just not a career at present, and that's how I'm going your mind's going
a bit like I really like that's like the one thing I know I'm actually
good at. And I just like I'm looking at like, you know,
if bigs go tis off, I have to do all the things. I'm
just thinking, Oh my god. So I'm like, what would I do
it? In the basic what is it? I'm like, I just don't
know. Me. I'm just gonna procrastinate. I'm going to sit and make
a pretty food blog. And it is a completely legitimate thing to do.
Yeah, and actually, like honey, as I've been saying, you need
to set up a food Patreon as well, like just like it's just like
recipe, recipe, whole pick, recipe, recipe, whole pick. Oh
my god, yeah true as well, I mean why not? Why not?
Um? So I thought we could just do as a little cute thing
a you know how everyone's been doing zoom quizzes. Can I just have a
check in? Are we exhausted of zoom quizzies or are we still enjoying?
I don't mind every Friday, and I've got one today as well. Oh
my god. People are like like, literally I'm quizzed. Um like I
do, Like I've got two plunders a weekend and I'm doing a zoom an
absolutely fabulous party. My cousin's zoo absolutely fabulous party. Like she sent up
bits of scripts. We're getting wigs, she's got she's making like sheet the
ingredients for two cocktails. One's called the Sweetie and one's called the Darling.
And it's like it's gonna be on point and I'm really looking forward to that.
But like so like there's so many quizzes, it's like that britty I
just can't. I can't deal with the chaos of them. I hate being
interrupted at the best of times. Like it's one of my biggest bug bears.
So just trying to like have a conversation or talk to somebody, everyone's
just screaming at once. It just it makes me great to be honest,
you should do what I do. I'm just kind of an arshole obviously I
sent an email in advance, and I'm like, these are the rules,
this is how it's going to work. Remain on mute. There is no
reason for anyone but me to be heard about it yourself? John, how
can you say your most annoying thing is fucking me and interrupted? Have you
listened to this podcast? I know, I know, I finish every episode.
I'm seeding for a lay down the dark room. Oh my gosh,
worked that word root? Those were the days when were allowed out? Oh
my god. Well, I wanted to actually just briefly, I suppose we
should we talk about something slightly Thurstay. Yes, saw a pole. I
mean, obviously it's not an official pole. But Greg Grego ended it on
his Twitter and he basically asked, I'm interested to know how people have embraced
les acted on the don't hook up message? Answer? Honestly, the answers
are anonymous. So do you want to hear how what? How many people
do you think said that they are completely not hooking up? Out of one
hundred percent? Can I get some guesses? I would say five, John,
I was going to say the majority, like, yeah, probably seventy
something. I'll go eighty. Actually, oh, got a bit higher from
the thing is these things, you know, I would say the answer will
be something like eighty five percent. I also don't believe people even though it's
anonymous. Yeah we'll see there we are a guy. I don't know if
you saw the poll, but it is eighty five Um. But yeah,
well so there's a breakdown this four options. Three percent said still hooking up,
five percent put hooking up with fewer people seven seven percent I love this
option. Seven percent said not hopped up wood. Yeah, I'm a slag,
but I had had the chance, which I just So seven hundred and
eighty eight people voted um, which quite a lot, I think quite seven
hundred and eighty eight. Okay, so yeah, it's relatively be exumperized,
like I think it's like, it's definitely an interesting one. This I'm not
gonna I'm not hurt to be judgment or for me, it's just like all
right, I think for a lot of people, it'll be if you're a
gay man living on your own and you go to another game antist who's living
on their own, then they're thinking that like that's that's safe, like in
quotes kind of things exactly whereas you know, but like so many people like
co habitat, like so many people could be putting people race, So like,
I mean, I think it's encouraging that eighty five percent. I still
said not hooking up. But you think it's probably, you think it's actually
probably what would you actually get? Yeah, I just And the thing is,
again, as you say, Josh, I don't want to judge anyone,
and I get it, like loneliness is a real thing, and people
have mental health problems and you know, it's stressful and scary and if I
don't know, I just I just don't think it's very easy to sort of
look at the grand scheme of things sometimes. I think sometimes you look at
the people sitting in the park and they think, well, I haven't got
a garden, and oh, it's just us in the park. So it's
fine, and it's like, yes, but if everyone does that, we're
fucked. So yeah, the people who are going for that one hook up
and it's the three percent, I completely understand it. It's a stressful time,
but if everyone did that again, we'd be fucked exactly. Yeah.
I mean I was gonna say I've been really tempted, like I've had like
three messages asking me to come over and yeah, from different people. Yeah,
no, from three different people. I mean that's the only time they
remember me when there's nothing to do, so getting that quarantine cocky. No,
but I've literally had to say, like literally no, like it could
be that one time. I always think about this, like it could be
the one time that you do something that you know that could be it.
I always think like that, and I know it's kind of not something to
think about. They always say, oh you have I mean, just do
something once, you know, you have only one life and everything like that.
But exactly so, I don't want to wander at getting dicked down,
and I mean I would, but you know I can't. I shouldn't really.
Oh my god, that sounds like you were literally wavered as you said
it. I can't. I shouldn't really. Yeah, bye, have a
nice time. Um No, I just thought that was quite interested. But
I digress. So I wanted to do because we there've been so many zoom
quizzes, I thought I would just do a cute little mini on the lat
quiz for you queens here. Um, So, audience members, I'm not
sure if you'll be able to know what there's only five questions. I don't
know if you can try and play along before you can fast forward for five
minutes just skipping about the podcast. Okay, question number one, hope you
have you penned? Ready? Um um? Okay. So we'll obviously like
the quiz, We'll do the five questions and then I'll do five hunters.
So a friend of the pod, Olie Alexander, came on our show and
spoke about going to the clinic for a sexual health test. But what happened
when he was waiting? Oh I remember that's question one? Okay, question
number two, it's the Numbers Round. What number episode are we recording today?
Oh my god? Okay, number three? Number three? What was
the name of the bar where we all went to talk about the podcast?
Which time? Wait? Which time? Time? When Ben basically did a
fucking muss audition the first time, the very first time. All yeah,
question for what is what you waiting for? Just laughing to myself. Number
four is one of David's biggest turn offs. Oh I remember, I've got
five out of five. Okay, this is a bit of a curveball.
The Music Round season one we recorded in a little studio in Westbourne Park.
But can anyone remember the R and B hit that was also recorded in that
studio? Oh? What really? Yes, it's actually quite a big studio
like that. We did it, but I can't remember it. I can't
remember, like I've seen loads of people record in that same studio, just
because I remember the carpet and the background. Yeah, obviously, and the
engineer. Yeah, we wanted to suck the sound engineer. Oh my god,
honestly that sound engine name Bone Apple Teeth. Um okay, oh that
was his name. And didn't wasn't there a fit one of the other studio?
Yeah, I like, yeah, yeah, just doesn't off four walls
sort of stetiue, um okay. So let's go through the answers. So
question one, friend of the pod or the Alexander came on the show and
season one spoke about going for a sexual test. But what happened when he
was waiting? Then, lads one, if his songs came on in the
background? What he was? Yes, knew it. Bonus question does anyone
know the song it was? King? Yeah? Yeah, thank okay.
Question number two? What number episode are we recording today? Then number forty
five? We recorded episodes it's actually mad. That is over seven years.
Congratulations, I know over eighty four years. Okay. Questions what's the name
of the bar where we all met to talk about podcasts? Yes, it
was SUCA, and then some of us went to or did we not go
to thinking that night? Went to Noah, and then I think we went
to j Y after. Okay, why and I hate you? Why?
Oh? Same? Okay? What is one of David's biggest turn off?
Fraud? Fraud? Correct? Oh my god, an actual moment? Okay,
Season one we recorded at Studio Westbourne Park. Can anyone remember the R
and B hit Into? It was Into India. I'll play I'll try and
play it through my microphone a little bit. Oh god, I don't want
to play. Che Ben would never allow this copy right, yeah? No,
no, no, no, no no no into either the White chomped
out. I can listen to Aber and Fleetwood Mac you know, oh the
call Cassity never so well, thank you for doing that quiz you I had,
I had, I had a few minutes. Thank you for reminding me
that I hate fraud. Yeah, so yeah, thanks, I'm glad.
I'm glad we did that. It's so funny. I thought it was this
gonna be work at all, and actually it did. Um. So it's
so funny when I was looking back at all the episodes that we've recorded,
it's actually wild how many we've actually, if someone wanted to start the podcast
now, like, that's like, that's fifty fucking hours. That's that's a
good that's a good isolation hobby. Actually should that? Yeah, recommend to
a friend. Yeah, yeah, body out content in there. Yeah,
just started off. We started off really strong. We understand it shit these
days, but honestly, I think we've actually had like peaks and drops,
and I don't think it's got progressively worse. I think we're actually had This
season's been really strong. I think. I think I think that considering the
nature of the time, the fact that we don't get together beforehand and sit
down and discuss stuff and you know, make notes and stuff, which we
would normally do in person. Like of course, it's a little bit more
ratic than usual, but like so is the world. So it makes sense.
Yeah, true. Actually, maybe I should start listening to on the
Latch at some point. Oh my god, you should start from the beginning.
There's live tweets that people would fully know you're having a breakdown yet do
you know how you know that someone has like been kidnapped if they start tweeting
something completely out of character? If I start listening to on the latch and
live tweeting it, you know about ain't me? Yeah, we're going to
be like, hold up a copy of this week's Grapsio. I'm my quarantine
hobby. I think cooking is actually going to be To watch all the Marvel
movies from the beginnings, I've never really watched. I was thinking about doing
exactly the same. We should do it together because I've not watched no one.
I've not watched one apart from Black Panther for the culture is good.
Do it in the timeline order? Yeah? Actually I got sense. I
got sense the order basically, what is it like you chronological or do you
do story order that is chronological story order? No release order? No?
Actually, yeah, but actually no chronological meaning like when it happened on the
timeline? Oh god, Okay, it doesn't really matter. Where all intelligent
people and if you watch your film set in the forties after a film that
set in the nineties, your brain, your brain will arrange it. We're
not stupid. It's absolutely fine and if you want, if you want some
help, I did write a very good piece in The Guardian about Hit in
twenty eighteen. You can just Google to find my name. You know.
It's quite good. It's quite useful. Okay, what about Marvel? Yeah
it was. It was a complete guide to every Marvel film and in what
order to watch them. Really, yeah, that sounds like something that like
you are kidnapped. I would not. I know shit, I need not,
I know why did you do that? Kind of shit? I know
everything? Wow, you know how to cheer up this week? Sorry?
Um so? Can I just really greatly because it just reminded me it's in
the same ballpark for me as Marvel. Nile's got a switch or a switch
nano or whatever you call like a little switch. Is that like a flashlight?
Yeah? Switch is where you switch your tho. So one for me,
one being with chuckle brothern oh my god blooded? Why not for the
for the ships and gigs? No, So he's got so he's got a
Nintendo switch, a Nintendo switch and he's playing on it more than ever before.
Well, it's new, but I just wanted to know, like any
of you guys gamers and has anyone dealt with boyfriend who's now got a new
toy? Then basically no, I've been playing Mario Kart quite a lot,
but that's it because that's that's the extent of my gaming. I used to
crash Bandicoot, but I think I love Yeah, but you've got you could
play as his sister and you could ride the tiger along the Great Wall of
China. Oh, I love that. I think it's like one of those
things. Do you want me say that? All? You know, you
know that someone's gay if they if they play as Princess Princess Peach or or
I love techn going as Anna. You are you? Yeah, honey,
you know you knew, you knew? Oh yeah, absolutely. I've been
playing on fee for a lot of my PlayStation and God of War and stuff
like that, so adventure games get me involved. I'm all about that.
They're quite expensive, aren't they. That's the thing online. They are expensive,
but gosh, that's where we need to see X shop open, but
obviously it's not now. I would say that it's an essential and essential shock
and I've started playing Animal Crossing um and like wild. It kind of gives
me Tamagotchi energy. It's like, am I supposed to just collect these fucking
apples? Like, what the hell you're supposed to do? What is it?
What does it mean? What do you do? I really just do
little tasks to like do up your house. Basically. I still try to
work it out like the Sims, not even like I think, because as
soon as you get more ship to do your house the thing, um,
I've got really no idea. So yeah, so okay, So that's all.
We are now retiring as a as a as an LGBT podcast. We're
now a game of podcast officially really shit game of podcast only video game,
but I can talk about with any Oh go on, sorry, no,
it's fine. Lesbians can wait. Go on, No, I think that
we can. I think we could edit this slice out and you can start.
No, no, please, I was going to say, is what
you got to say? All I was getting to say was that the only
the only video game that I can any authority is well not even really a
video game. But remember when like the noughties, when you everyone had dance
mats, Oh babes. Now we're talking my god, and you could dance
to Jamelia Superstar until like four in the morning, until you got it right,
Gloria Gaina. I remember they had glory again that I will survive.
Video killed the video killed the radio, that one I'm that triggered me.
When we're allowed out, Let's buy it on. Let's buy a video a
dance matter on eBay. We'll have an on the latch dance party. Um.
Okay, Well, speaking of iconic things danced, um, well,
not things people. Um. It is Lesbian Week of Visibility, um,
which I think important. Can we just say that was fucking lackluster? I
have to say though, that's that's segue. That segue was impressive. Speaking
on of iconic things, Oh my god, yeah, yes, first a
great way to kind of dehumanize lesbian iconic things. I'm doing well, canceled
the game and love trotting on. Oh my god. Uh, but could
never truly master it's uh. But honestly, I've got to say I think
Lesbian Week of Visibility is super important because I think that within the community,
like I think that lesbians and they're like cultural impact on both like where we
are as a movement and just actually how they've brought us forward is like kind
of a raised by noisy men. Yeah, oh, I mean there should
be a lesbian on the latch. There probably is. It's on the latch.
We've been living with each other. We met two weeks ago. That's
a lazy stereotype. And continuing, I'd in with Nile after a month.
I was about to ask how long have you been in? Um? But
yeah, I've got to say that realistically, like, just speaking from my
own personal experience, I really do think that the lesbians that I've met,
like have really just kind of transformed like my own perception of how I see
myself within the community, and just yeah, like I really am super like
when you think of people like my friend Sarah Moore who I'm at Stonewall and
Lady Phil like um, like my friend Zoe who does them fote which is
a clothing brand to check them out. Just some really iconic, amazing people
cap from stone Wall hours in. Sorry to shout out all my favoral lesbians,
just a few names. It's like that that Witney Listen you know name.
Do you know what I'm super excited for? Go on, if you've
seen the trainer for that Hidden Love on Netflix about I am so ready.
It's about this lesbian circus of books. No, no, no, that's
another one. Another one. It's documentary. It's a documentary about this lesbian
couple who basically hids the fact there were a couple for sixty five years.
Um and then this is like their journey to living together. Is that next
week? That looks so sweet? I think I'm going to sob it's oc
Yeah. Oh, I'm super excited for that. I don't think I'm really
watching anything that's making me sob at the moment. I'm just watching like rescuers
don't under just to make me. Yeah that is that is that at least
lesbian reference. No, not at all. I just I'm just not I'm
not watching I'm not watching sad documentaries. I'm watching Smiley Like actually know what,
I'm exactly the same. I've been watching Vicara Didley like the most hor
love of that stuff because I laugh. Yeah, because I'm on edge.
I do not need any trauma whatsoever. Um. So I completely get you
guys, and I think that's good. But yeah, so just shout out
to um to just the the amazing lesbians out there, really and also just
like thank folk for lesbians. At the start of the movement with like you
know, when we're thinking about um, you know, Sylvia Vera, you
know, like some really iconic people, and also support trans lesbians as well.
Right, Yeah, And I guess there is a tendency, you know,
I know when you when you started talking about lesbians, I just started
talking about dance mats. So I can't really speak, but the there is
a tendency in the gay community to sort of, you know, we all
say that we're all together in the kind of lg BTQ kind of um umbrella,
and then when we actually are brought together or when we are asked to
kind of unite for various reasons, where just sort of like, oh no,
we're fine with the gays, we're fine with the boys. All good
ham And I do think a lot of there is a lot to be done
in just sort of acknowledging the support that we have given other aspects of it
umbrella and vice versa. Yeah, I think it's just like we spoke we
spoke about this last year when that when that there's been a couple got beaten
up on the bus, and I think that's kind of we spoke about in
quite a lot of detail about how we as gay men often we'll talk about
like our homophobic experiences and won't we listen to anybody else's. So yeah,
I'm not sure I was going with that. I mean no, I mean
I don't think I think that didn't have to go anywhere. I think that's
completely true. And also, like when you think about the intersectionality of like
as as gay men, there's still a privilege being a man in society,
So actually on top of being a lesbian, like, of course, I
felt still facing misogyny and a lot of that comes from from gay men as
well. Yeah, yeah, but I mean, like, do you do
you think it hasn't changed your perception on lesbian visibility having because your mum's a
lesbian at all? Guy or not? Really? No, not really,
I mean I it was because I grew up in such a small town.
I think the fact that she was when she came out when I was a
teenager, what it did kind of prove to me is something that I was
pretty much aware of already, which was that I had to leave the like,
leave that town. It's a very backward, very very kind of unpleasant
place to be in as a gay person. When when my mother came out,
it was not very nice for her, awful us um and so for
me whatever. But lesbian visibility was zero in that in the area, and
so it just sort of proved to me that there was no visibility and if
anything, having one lesbian. I know there were more lesbians, of course
they were, but for me, seeing one lesbian is almost more alienating than
seeing zero because it draws attention to the fact that there are so few.
So it's, yeah, it's a bit weird. You know, I have
complete respect from my mother. It was a very brave thing to sort of
kind of come out with that, especially at that time, and when you
have four children, it's it's an incredible incredible thing to kind of come out
and say. But yeah, it's I didn't really kind of think about it
at the time in terms of what it meant for her. I do a
lot now I look back on it a lot and I think, Gosh,
how brave, Gosh, how difficult, blah blah blah. But at the
time I was like, well, this is annoying, isn't it, because
now you know now I you know, now my brother is playing app or
my sisters being a twat because our father has gone and blah blah blah,
you know all that shit. You'll have to read the book when I write
a book. Yeah, I'm desperate, But I do think that you're right,
like as a child, like as you're so centered in your own universe
at the time, and I think that's with your parents, Like it's not
until you get older and you're like, oh my god, they were like
they were just like in their thirties trying to work it the fuck out.
Like that's made Like as you get close to that age, you're like,
what on earth. So we've actually got two cheeky little questions. One more
of an anecdote, which I think is really cute and it's a bit of
an essay but I like, I think it's cute, and one is just
a question. So I'll start with the anecdote and then end on the question.
Um on, So first verse, like the first is written in,
is called Nile, not my Nile, I hasten to add, and it
does involve a bath, so like straight away right up my back alley.
Okay, So to start things off earlier this week, but the luck of
being able to go on grinding meats it was getting to me. So I
pulled out my box of good ease and decided to have some fun. I've
got my own bathroom on the top floor of the house, so it can
take my time as no one else use it, and I decided to have
a bath, have a drink, get the music going, and make an
evening in the evening of it. So, after bathing, play and send
him picked the usual, I decided to clean up. So as I get
out the bath, I immediately did my teeth and shave my face while washing
the sinks down and filling boiling water and putting my toys into soap to kill
off anything. I don't know what the people's routine spray antibacterial and this is.
It's really the detail. I don't know if I'm doing too much or
enough cleaning. I mean, I didn't take all the precaution Tony, there's
a pandemic on protect your whole anyway, I usually set them on a towel
to edge right and given an hour before I go back and spray and wipe
down and package them up in plastic zip lock bags and back in my box
again. So I leave and locked the bathroom from the outside and head to
my room and I'm just chilling out music on and a doze off. Wake
up for a half one, go for a week and see the toys and
side to leave until morning. Wash my hands and let the water go on
top of the water I've forgotten to let down the drain earlier. I don't
know why I've forgotten to pull the plug, and in my day's stay,
it just didn't cross my mind. Head back to bed and couldn't shoot it
as it walked a bit, so I just let pulled it to and headed
to bed. Wake up at six o'clock play PlayStation killed time to the rest
of the house is open for me to move around. Then all of a
sudden, I hear a rush of footsteps up stairs. So I grabbed the
blanket and hold it around my waist and pop through my bedroom to see what
my mom is. To see my mom in the bathroom and in on and
she pulls the plug on my sink that has been overflowing when I washed my
hands in the night. I mustn't turned the top off all the way um
um, and it was dripping through the spotlight in my mom's room. So
as she's explaining what's going on in a day's stay. I moved further into
the room to try and block the view of all my toys and that I
get um and I decided to throw the plastic bag that I carry them together
together into the bathroom, then sneakily carry them over together in the bathroom sneakily
behind my back. But my mum has been looking at the mainly of the
sink area whilst explaining, looks around and sees it in like and says,
oh, you can leave them out. I was pissing myself laughing. Usually
a lock at the door, but as it was, as it was only
circumstance last night, left it till morning. Um. Luckily, my mom
and I are very close and she already knows I have them. That's cute,
I honestly, but honestly, they couldn't stop laughing about it, and
I do find it really embarrassing. Definitely, this lapstone has made me more
luck in being careful in only twelve hours fifty five. And I just thought
that was, like, do you think that like? Has anyone had an
experience like that before? Anyone's I've probably asked this before, has anyone been
caught having a Jimmy Tonker. Oh my god, I would literally die on
the spot. And have I not told this story before? I am m
hmm. I came in from out once like really drunk. Um. I
think I just moved back in home, like temporarily, and before I moved
to Canterbury, and I was shit faced. I didn't have my laptop.
I used my mum's laptop and fell asleep like with poor one on the computer
midwhank and I woke up in the morning as she had taken the laptop in
the morning, she was like, can you not do that again? Raw?
Do you know what I heard of a story? I can't remember who
it was, I think on it he was saying that he was like he
was having a whank and like basically he like, uh, he was like
closing his eyes really into it. And then when he opened his eyes and
his woman had been in with a cup of tea while he was having a
wank. Put it down. This is leave it, this isn't this isn't
a wank story. But I do love this story. This is a better
friend of mine who was in America on business and stayed in a hotel,
got really really drunk, went out, came back in and the middle of
the night, took a ship, couldn't find any toilet paper, ripped down
the shower curtain, used the shower curtain, tried to flush it, went
to bed, woke up. The entire hotel had been flooded. But he
waded two inches of water because there was a knock. They were knocking on
the door trying to find the source of the leak. Asked them to give
him a minute while he put his dressing gone on. In that minute,
he whipped out the shower curtain, hid it in a carrier bag, and
as they were upgrading him to a sweet upstairs away from the flooding, he
just slid it into the laundry. Shoote oh my god, oh my god.
The real hustle. That is absolutely it's the idea, it's a plan.
Um so, But he said, but I love you guys. I
love the show, and glad it's back with you guys doing it remotely.
Hopefully it'll be back regularly. You've definitely helped me a lot in my life,
and my life has changed dramatically in the last year and a half listening
to you guys. Can't thank you or not. Whether you guys be talking
about going to the clinic and normalizing that for me when I was incredibly nervous
to go or Clay and had been tested before with home kitch detally and whether
it was you guys talking about different social groups has helped me to make friends
in big cities and staff after years being back in Manchester since finching UNI,
I didn't have any friends from UNI to go on nights out with and never
been to the village before. Being so far from Manchester, it is scary
and exposed to do a night out alone start making friends to begin with.
So I took your advice joined a social group to make friends and then things
have gone from there. It's awesome. Sorry it's long winded again. This
is Kevin nineteen and having just having people being bored a dragging out store.
At least I'll give you something to read for a few hours. Anyway,
I love you guys on the show, and let me know if you want
another novella about my life. I was really touched by that, Like when
I read it, I was obviously full of emotion. It brought it to
my eye. Um okay um, So obviously that needed no advice other than
maybe you know, get the toys in the back lot. A lock the
back of your doors people, key major key, um. Okay. Next
one. I think my boyfriend is cheating on me via text. I don't
know if I come on, I don't know if I'm paranoid, but he
always seems to be messaging someone and it's getting irritable if I inquire. Who
don't know if this is just me being quarantine paranoid and not really sure what
to do, so want to we reckon? I think you, David,
Yeah, you're not joking. You're not joking. This is the thing right
that I really as a rule, don't go for you like you might.
Even if he's not cheating. All it will take is for you to reathe
like. This is how I feel. I know that people must bitch about
me because I'm annoying, but I don't want to hear it because the meaning
I hear what you said, I'm going to be irrationally angry. But like
you know, everyone chat shit like, I'm not going to hold that against
people, but it's like I don't want to see it. Well if it's
a like, so don't. But also, once you check someone's phone,
it basically is like and like you, if you've got no trust and you
don't trust what they're saying, then you've got to think about that, just
without kind of invading anyone's privacy. What I would do, like, I
job, no, I agree, you should never look through the phone,
because when you've like that's the first that's the end of your relationship, Like,
you may as well just end it now because you don't trust him.
What I would do as a loophole to that the phone because then if he
gets sorry, I would hide the phone. I would put it somewhere,
but like just like six hours, because then if he is actively like,
oh my god, where's my phone? Where's my phone, you can say,
oh, it's I don't know where it is, but I'm sure it'll
show up blah blah blah like a thing, all right, blah blah blah.
And then if he gets like increasingly aggressive and upset about it, then
it means that he's like he's he cares, he's really caring. That's not
true. If I couldn't find absolutely exactly sorry, I mean that's six hours
in the house, I try any minutes what you need it for, I'd
be like, should like not talk to you. I'm joking. The only
contact with the outside world. Yeah, phone. I would also say,
is what you could do is obviously don't read the phone, but like,
you know, like is he being like, could you glance at the phone?
Is there a note? Is there a message notification? Like I don't
know, Like that's not I think that's a lakehole really, Like I don't
think if you can't say, oh, don't look at the phone, but
you can glance at the phone. Well, you're not unlocking the phone reading
the messages, but if you like seeing like an app like big Hole ninety
six, then you can do the maths. Like, I don't know,
that's just my that's my thoughts. I think maybe if I was just asking
you straight up, are you fucking other bitches? Yes? Are you are?
If I think, I think if I was like a mature person,
um, which I'm not, but if I was, I think what I
would say is, look, I you know, I've asked you about this
before and like it hasn't gone particularly well, um, and I trust you
with whatever, but for whatever reason, like seeing you sort of kind of
privately, kind of tucked away with your phone does make me feel kind of
insecure and uncomfortable. So if you if we can just kind of be more
open about you know, I can say who's that and you can say your
mum. Like I'm not being nosy, I'm being I'm being conversational. So
like, if we can just be more relaxed and casual and conversational about about
your relationship with your phone, then I can be secure and you won't get
upset. Yeah I'm also conversation. Sorry, yeah, just have a on
this conversation about it, because obviously it's making him feel a kind of way.
Yeah, and I mean, you know what, especially in this time,
you don't want to feel that way, like the whole three weeks.
So we've got left in quotes not to gaslight as well. But like he
might not be texting any more than normal, Like it's just because he's in
the house all the time, or like because you're just spending lots of time
around each other. He might just be using it as a way to just
like talk to somebody else. So like it could be you know, you
might be feeling more into youure because you are cooped up. So yeah,
um, he might just be on Twitter just making means you never know,
like he might only fans. Oh you might have a secret wife. Oh
my god, God he could remember. Like we've had a lot of the
lemmas in the past, Like we're trying to make someone feel better or worse?
Is that what we do this for? No one ever said when I
signed up, to be honest, no one ever said that we were trying
to make people feel better about themselves. God, because I don't feel better.
I'm okay, Um, but I just think, yeah, like how
I think you should be reasonable, have a conversation, express your insecurities about
it, don't look through his phone. Um, and yeah, like good
luck with it basically, babes, and like, yeah, I like it's
a super pressure cooker for any relationship. So just be kind to you and
to your boy. All right, I think that we should wrap this,
Mama or what do you think? Girls? Yeah, let's do it.
Yeah, let's do it. Let's go. So John, we've just lost
John. He said, he's like I got his chili. But what he
has told me to do because for some reason, like we can hear him,
but you can't hear us, um, which is for me blessed,
but um, it is very exciting. So we can actually promo this,
probably in a less modest way than he would. Um. He has got
a website called the Accidental Chef dot co dot uk um and that is launching
and I've had a preview of it and it's absolutely fucking stone some pictures already.
It is like she said that, like yeah you knew, yeah,
yeah, yeah, who knew that a new flat or talent of any kind
I know really jumped out. Believe it. It's quite remarkable. No,
he's a good boy and he can cook, he can um and actually it
looks so fresh and springy and yeah, it just looks really really nice.
So do check that out, go like support sudden love? Um absolutely does
anyone else? Have any had anything to promo? I don't have anything to
promo, but I think that the last thing I'd like to say is that,
like, I think one of the reasons that I've really really struggled this
week, and I think some people are maybe feeling the same, and I
think it is relevant to the gay community, is that, you know,
I do you know, I live with a friend of mine who I who
is great and I is and I really respect to me have a very nice
time, but when it comes down to it, like my friendship circle like
as a whole, Like my group is everything to me. I don't have
a partner, I don't I don't really speak too much to my family,
and they're certainly not in London, Like I am not leaving the house.
And the one thing that I really really miss are my friends. And I
think that's something for like, I think that's what's really sort of hit me
this week. But I haven't seen these people who matter so much to me
in like a month, and it's really shit. And I think that I
think that if you're feeling the same way, I think just you just have
to sort of find your little ways to make those connections a bit a bit
more human. And if if someone lives like a little bit of a runaway,
like go for a little run and tell them that you'll be there at
too and have a cup of tea from outside their window and just sort of,
you know, say hi, Um, I think just yeah, I
just feel like, yeah, shit, it is crap, and I think
it's okay to can say that. I absolutely agree, babe. So I
want to give you a big whole oh babe, don't touch me, no
one, But I know the feeling I just turned to now the day I
was like, I miss my friends, Like I fucking like that's I feel
like it's a big part of ass Like I think it's a huge part of
it's in there. Yeah, um so yeah, I feel bereft kind of
because people are like dispersed and they're all just doing things. It's all so
discombobulated. So I completely relate. Um, and I'm sending love and to
anyone out there who's feeling lonely at this time. Um so yeah, love
and solidarity and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. You can follow us on
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We'll probably I reckon, we'll yeah, we'll put out another one next week.
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