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Welcome to "Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter," a heartwarming and insightful podcast celebrating the unique bond between a stepfather Davey, and his stepdaughter Hannah.
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Ever wondered how a simple switch to a microSD card could solve a world of podcasting woes? In this episode of Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter, we share the roller coaster of technical difficulties that led to our two-week hiatus and how we emerged with even clearer sound. While we laugh about saying "Happy New Year" way past its expiration date, we also reflect on how January can be both a beacon of new beginnings and a shadowy uphill climb. Join us as we reconnect and promise smoother sailing ahead in our podcast journey.
Tattoos and travel tales take center stage as we recount my tattoo artist's unexpected career detour into music, only to return with a special offer that I couldn't resist. As plans for a new cottagecore and witchy tattoo unfold, we also tackle the hilarity of a family holiday planning mishap involving a trip to Florida and some humorous confusion with my partner, Sharon. Despite the comedic chaos, we've lined up not one but two exciting trips to America, setting the tone for an adventurous year.
From the irony of TikTok users hopping to an even less secure app amid its U.S. ban to our favorite wardrobe staples sparking joy on Instagram, we explore the quirky nuances of personal favorites. The conversation then takes a thoughtful turn as we discuss the importance of understanding the full context before reacting to situations, paired with the joy of sharing our favorite English words—mine being "laugh" and my co-host's "crunch." This episode is a patchwork of laughs, insights, and heartfelt connections, making it a must-listen for anyone seeking to add a bit of color to their day.
Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davie, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok links in bio.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. We are well.
Speaker 1:We've had a couple of weeks off, haven't we?
Speaker 2:We have Unexpected two weeks off. Actually, we had some technical difficulties. Do you want to tell our listeners what was going on? Because I don't understand.
Speaker 1:Yeah so kind of what happened is that when we record, we record into a Rodecaster Pro and that goes into the PC into GarageBand and then I download it as a WAV file, I then take it home and I then put it through Audacity to mix and master. Yes, however, everything sounded fine when we did the last five episodes, and then what happened was when I got home put it in Audacity, there was just basically no sound. Well, there was sound, but it was distorted. It was absolutely horrendous.
Speaker 2:It sounded a little bit like we were underwater. It did, it did.
Speaker 1:And I played around with it, I tried all sorts, but it just wouldn't work and we had to end up ditching the episodes. We even came in, didn't we? On another night and we did.
Speaker 2:We really tried hard for you guys. We came in on a tuesday evening after work. We were both tired, both annoyed about the thing not working. We went home pretty grumpy. To be fair, we did, yeah, and but I did loads of diagnostic checks.
Speaker 1:I tried everything. I could not figure out what the problem was Until it kind of dawned on me I thought it might be a cable issue. Yeah, so I think the cable that was going from the Rodecaster into the PC could have been dodgy. So what we've done is I've gone out and I've gone and bought a microSD card and we're recording straight onto a micro SD card. We have just tested it and it works.
Speaker 2:And it sounded better. So we're hoping that this podcast episode sounds better than normal. Yeah, We'll continue with this method going forward. So yeah, sorry about that, guys. Obviously, this podcast to us is something, an excuse to hang out at the end of the day. And we don't get paid to do this, but we are truly very, very sorry for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we are. It's the last two weeks, it's gutting. It was weird waking up on a Thursday and not seeing an episode. Yeah, and not having to put it on socials and stuff it was really weird, although what made me laugh was when you put the apology up on all the social networks.
Speaker 2:What when you put?
Speaker 1:the apology up on all the social networks. Ellie, what Ellie said, go on. Ellie thought that we were actually doing an episode on technical difficulties, so she was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Just a normal day for Ellie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, she was expecting the podcast to come out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, yeah, no. Unfortunately, technical difficulties stopped us from doing it, and that happens, which is one of them things. Yeah, it does. We didn't. You know we don't own the studio we come in here. We were very fortunate to be able to have access to the studio as well. So, it's not anyone's fault.
Speaker 1:It's just. Yeah, it's just one of them things I mean we have it all the time in the band.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah cables when.
Speaker 1:Exactly yeah cables when you're looking at that many cables and that many things and things go wrong all the time and it just I mean it could just have been a broken cable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I think it should have been. I mean, in IT cable is most stable, but sometimes you know cables aren't that stable, that's. Mitchell talking right there, that is your husband talking right there, cable is stable. Cable is stable, my friends, but not in this instance. No, absolutely not. So this next uh uh episode that we're gonna do, hold on, hold, on hold. On. All right, sorry, what else have you been up to?
Speaker 2:hannah I've literally been up to nothing. I haven't got a life update. I said to you oh yeah, let's do a life update because we haven't had. You know, we've had two weeks off and yeah, we had two weeks off at christmas as well you've got nothing interesting well no, because I probably did say a life update when we actually recorded this the first time, but now I've forgotten. So we haven't actually spoken to anyone since the new year, right?
Speaker 1:We really haven't.
Speaker 2:We haven't had an episode in this new year. So, happy new year everyone.
Speaker 1:We're now like three quarters of the way through January and still saying happy. At which point do you stop saying happy new year?
Speaker 2:I was just about to ask that because, like in an email at work, if I haven't spoken to them yet this new year, I do put. Oh, I hope it's not too late to say happy new year. I mean, I've spoken to most of my clients now but yeah, it's hard to know when to stop. I feel like mid-January as well, mid-january is where everyone's just like yeah, okay, it's the new year, now Stop wishing me a happy new year.
Speaker 1:It's funny as well, isn't it, Because January is supposed to be the most depressing month of the year and everyone's going around going happy new year, unfortunately.
Speaker 2:I mean this is a bit of a downer on the episode, but yes, most suicides do happen in January.
Speaker 1:They do.
Speaker 2:It's the highest month for it. They do it because it's after the Christmas period and people with their families and families can be tough at times to cope with, and some people's families aren't not our family.
Speaker 1:No, we're alright.
Speaker 2:Our core family is good but yeah, sometimes that can cause a bit of a ruckus, so you got anything interesting coming up. Oh, I tell you what. I have got something interesting coming up and I don't even know if I've told you.
Speaker 1:Go on.
Speaker 2:I may have booked in another tattoo.
Speaker 1:I need to book mine in, right, yeah, but it's a but. Go on, sorry, tell me about yours. Tell me about yours.
Speaker 2:It's going to be in March because she's like super, super, duper booked.
Speaker 2:So the lady who done my pumpkin on my left arm, yeah decided that after she tattooed me, pretty much after she tattooed me, she was like I'm not gonna be tattooing anymore. I didn't take it personally, don't worry, yeah. And then, um, she was like I'm gonna focus on my music career and I was like that's pretty solid and pretty cool. So I found someone else that does a similar style and then he bloody moved to birmingham yeah, I was gonna say birmingham, brighton, sorry, brighton and I was like, oh okay, so all my, all my favourite artists are leaving me. I get an email from her like just before Christmas saying I've come back to tattooing. Like you know, 25% off in the new year, and I was like you know what? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm here for it, I'm ready, cool, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Where on your body?
Speaker 2:It's actually like back of my ankle calf.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's going to be painful.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's going to be as painful as the collarbone.
Speaker 1:No, that's, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:That that mother trucker hurt. Yeah, but um yeah, I, um, yeah ankle.
Speaker 1:Okay, what are you having?
Speaker 2:Basically lots of like uh, sprigs of not flowers but like earthy things.
Speaker 1:Okay, so still sprigs of, not flowers, but like earthy things.
Speaker 2:Okay, so still sticking with the same kind of theme I've got this whole theme going on in my body, so it's kind of like cottagecore okay, what I mean by cottagecore I know what you mean, yeah yeah, um, that's what I'm going for, uh, but with a slight witchy, witchy, vibe, so I've sent her witchy vibe one and I've sent her a really elegant one. I was like, can you kind of like come on?
Speaker 2:yeah so she, um, she said, yeah, this is right up my street and I'll be more than happy to do that for you, hannah. So I'm like, yes, um, so yeah, new tattoo in march, which is a long way off yet. So I've got a lot of time to uh save for it, which is good. But yeah, I don't really think I've got any like updates but now I want my tattoo.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna my on my other A phoenix, so the idea is that I'm going to have what I want is like the tree of life at the bottom, so a small tree of life, this is very. Hannah, yeah, but then out of the tree of life coming, the phoenix, A phoenix, a phoenix coming out of it. Yeah, very Harry Potter. Not, really, not really Harry Potter.
Speaker 2:It's kind of Harry.
Speaker 1:Potter, Not like. It's going to be black and white.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:It's going to be black and white, so, yeah, that's what I want.
Speaker 2:I'm still going to call it Forks. Okay, you can call it Forks.
Speaker 1:Thank you, yeah, you can call it Forks.
Speaker 2:Just like we call your guitar, eliza.
Speaker 1:Yes yes, yes, but I don't know when I'm going, because we've now got to save some money up.
Speaker 2:You're going to America again, aren't you?
Speaker 1:The thing is, we're going to America twice this year. Yeah, so did you hear about the story? What happened?
Speaker 2:Well, I did.
Speaker 1:Where I'm in trouble with my entire family.
Speaker 2:Yes, I did hear the story, and can I just preface this a little bit that I'm actually taking you to Stansted, so don't be so.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Heathrow. So don't be. So, don't I know heathrow? Oh, is it heathrow? Well, that's good to know. Cool, I was prepared to go to stansted, but heathrow, I think that's a bit too far for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah I think we're. No, you're the takers. So I got, I got a phone call.
Speaker 2:Can I drop you at stansted? Instead, we'll walk the rest of the way. Yeah, yeah, I mean, they're so close oh yeah, they are, aren't they?
Speaker 1:yeah, I, I've got to take you to Heathrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh man. Why did I say yes to this. Go on.
Speaker 1:So what happened was was I had a conversation with my sister, the queen of the voice note, and honestly, is this Manda?
Speaker 1:This is Manda. Yeah, hi, manda. Honestly, the voice notes she leaves us are absolutely hilarious, so much so that my brother, anthony, wrote on one of our chats. He just went well, there's five minutes of my life, I'm not getting back. I mean, she's just amazing. I love my sister.
Speaker 1:But she called me up and she, we were talking, and she mentioned this fat big family holiday in florida and did we want to go? And I said, well, look, I said we're going on to another. Um, we're going to amer America later on in the year, so I don't know if we can go twice. And bloody, bloody, blah, dah, dah, dah dah. And I said, look, I'll have a chat with Sharon about it. So I then didn't have a chat with Sharon about it, but what happened was was I spoke to my sister again about the holiday. Now, in my head, that second conversation I had was with Sharon, so I thought she knew all about it Right Now. What then happened is that Hilary went out, sister number two, sister number two went out with Sharon for the day and mentioned this holiday, and Sharon knew nothing about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She puts her in a bit of an awkward position, you have to admit. I get a phone call, uh, telling me off because I hadn't told it, and then sharon said we can make it work. So we're going to america twice.
Speaker 1:But what the funny thing is is that I am just getting my entire family, my brother, my sister is very cool oh yeah, at all it's gonna be a very good holiday even my niece is having a pop at me about it, jesus, even my niece left me voice notes saying that she was going to throw me in the pool because I didn't tell Auntie Sharon about the holiday.
Speaker 2:I see, I see that is quite, that's quite the threat.
Speaker 1:I even got proper bollocked by Annabelle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, as she should be. Yeah, she proper told me off, she proper told me off.
Speaker 2:So when is the second America? Because I feel like I might need to know about this as well. Oh, June, okay.
Speaker 1:June. So we're going to America end of March for a couple of weeks. And then we're going to Disney World in March and then we're going to New Jersey in June to see my family in New.
Speaker 2:Jersey. Are you going to go to Six Flags again? Yeah, I think we might. Yeah, nice.
Speaker 1:I think we might have to go to Six Flags again.
Speaker 2:Very jealous about this because Mum got to go on Kingda Car, which is the tallest roller coaster in the world. Currently it's not there anymore, and it's now been debunked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not there anymore. Defunked, I should say not debunked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'm pretty mad about that. Are you sad, but I do have a hoodie where?
Speaker 1:because, true to form though, 10 minutes in and we're on roller coasters, to be fair, you brought up Disney World.
Speaker 2:I was just. I was just segwaying into a nice yeah tidbit that I knew about New Jersey Six Flags there you go.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's just when my brain goes yeah so and anything else. I know you've been pretty boring. I've been pretty ill to be fair, I've been pretty ill.
Speaker 2:To be fair, I've been a bit poorly. I had flu, you had the flu as well. I had proper man flu Cor. Cor Cor that put me on my arse Cor.
Speaker 1:Worse than childbirth man flu.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, yeah, it is. Oh, I can't really attest to that. I've not birthed a child, it is a well-known.
Speaker 1:This man flu is worse.
Speaker 2:Man flu is worse, nay nay soldier.
Speaker 1:And I've got a ganglion gungaloo lump on my hand as well.
Speaker 2:A ganglion cyst. Is that what you want to say?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the nurse told me to smack it, but I haven't actually quite got the balls to do it.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've got the balls to do it. What if I whack a brick on your hand and then I end up fixing your?
Speaker 1:wrist. Why do we go with brick?
Speaker 2:It's just like the heaviest thing I could think of, that I could wield.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean well, because it is broken anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what's the problem?
Speaker 1:Medical marvel I am, according to the doctor. I wish I was a medical marvel, Because I shouldn't be able to move my wrist but I can.
Speaker 2:You're like the lucky version of medical marvel, I'm the unlucky version of medical marvel. What's wrong with you? I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 1:But there is some other news.
Speaker 2:Is there.
Speaker 1:Why do you keep? See, I've been a busy boy.
Speaker 2:You have been a busy boy. I've been in hospital.
Speaker 1:I've nearly died of man flu, going to America twice.
Speaker 2:So dramatic, so so dramatic.
Speaker 1:And the most exciting news of all, go on. I went and met some people last week.
Speaker 2:Did you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, who did you meet? I met with Peach and Benji and Joe Sounds like the band to me. It's the band, it's happening.
Speaker 2:It's happening.
Speaker 1:It's happening, it's happening, it's happening. Pierre couldn't be there because Pierre was in London, but I spoke to Pierre yesterday.
Speaker 2:And Pierre will be joining you, pierre will be joining us.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:My brother.
Speaker 1:Yes, your brother. Yeah, yeah, full band. Such a funny story. We are all getting back together and I'm not going to say much more on that, but there are things planned.
Speaker 2:Cool.
Speaker 1:There are, and I might have already started writing again.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I was playing around. You're playing new stuff, are you? I was playing around with B flat, f minor B flat, b flat, I know.
Speaker 2:What a chord. It's horrible.
Speaker 1:B flat, A flat.
Speaker 2:I hope every other musician just went. What's wrong with B flat? Well, at least it's not B sharp.
Speaker 1:B flat minor, actually B flat minor. Yeah, the B sharps.
Speaker 2:That's what Homer's barb sharp quartet is called Very clever and E flat doesn't exist.
Speaker 1:Right, e flat doesn't exist yeah, b sharp, well, c flat doesn't exist either Well, C flat, either yeah, yeah, cool, okay, anyway, music, yeah, music, music theory there. So yeah, mammal, not Fish, is going to be, reborn Is reborn.
Speaker 2:The mammal has reborn into a fish.
Speaker 1:Indeed, indeed, yes, we're back, we are back.
Speaker 2:Back with a brand new scar rap papa's got a brand new pig bag oh, do you know where I was yesterday? Sorry, this I don't know, how it was reminded me we were at west runton yesterday I love west, I know you do, yeah, and have you seen that? They're because of the cliff erosion? They've stopped you walking on the coastal path.
Speaker 2:But good they have um got this little space like this little viewing point. It's called grandpappy's corner, oh so I imagine that might be named after something yeah, oh, that's really sweet, and I was sitting there and I was like, oh, grandpappy's corner, I've got this lovely picture of a bird. Really, I've really got old in my. 2025 is the year I grandma like, not like physically. I haven't had children, so I can't be a grandma, have you ever started knitting and crocheting yet?
Speaker 2:I mean, I was crocheting way before this. I was crocheting when I was a teen, were you Before, it was cool.
Speaker 1:Anthony crochets. You know that? Yeah, I did. He's bloody good at it as well, yeah.
Speaker 2:I did know that. I did know that.
Speaker 1:I think he was teaching Annabelle to do it. That's very cute. Yeah, yeah, veryparter.
Speaker 2:Two-parter episode yes. So I came up with this episode, well, probably a couple of months back now.
Speaker 1:We've already recorded it twice.
Speaker 2:We've already tried to record it twice as well. So, yeah, this one isn't really that fresh off the press for us, but it's fresh off the press for you, so this is good news. So this episode is all about the best of the best, and what I mean by that is that I basically came up with a few categories and we're going to discuss the best of that item, personal to us. Yes, Maybe not item but best thing of that, it will become apparent when we start. It's quite an eclectic list, isn't?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I tried to make it very varied. So this isn't going to be a generational difference, although it might come up a couple of times, but there might not be as many generational differences in this particular episode. Podcast podcast episode.
Speaker 1:It's just our own kind of personal preferences.
Speaker 2:We thought you might want to know our preference on things, and if you don't, you can just skip this episode, because we've already given you the life update and that's the bit you're really here for don't skip nothing.
Speaker 1:Don't skip nothing. We need, we need our, we need our views, we need our views. We need our views, not views um audit, actually sorry. One other thing to do before we kick into the thing talking about views yeah tiktok, yes, tiktok, today. So this is, this is we're recording this on sunday off the press.
Speaker 2:sunday, the 8th 17th 19th sunday, the 19th Sunday, the 19th of January.
Speaker 1:Is TikTok got banned in America?
Speaker 2:That is shocking, that's nuts isn't it. So does that mean the app just ceases to stop because of the IP address of?
Speaker 1:their phone. I think so. Yeah, I think so. But the interesting thing is, what was quite funny is that the reason why TikTok was now banned in America is because the American government was saying that the Chinese government was stealing data via TikTok and it was a national security threat. But a lot of the TikTok users have now gone on to an app called, I think, red Note, which is the Chinese app, which is actually less secure than TikTok.
Speaker 2:I thought TikTok was owned by Facebook, like Meta.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, I think it's owned by a company in Hong Kong.
Speaker 2:Oh, it is Chinese owned, hong Konger owned.
Speaker 1:So they're flipping over to this other app that is actually less secure than what TikTok is, ouch. So they've kind of played themselves a little bit, yeah. But yeah, trump's going to.
Speaker 2:There's a whole thing about Are you saying that Trump has built a wall on the internet?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but no, they think he's going to save it.
Speaker 2:Save it.
Speaker 1:He's going to save it because he's got many views. He loves his views. He's got the best views.
Speaker 2:Okay, that was a pretty good impersonation. I know it's like he was here in the room. He's like that yeah, we steer away from politicals.
Speaker 1:Thousands of people follow me on TikTok. I'm going to keep TikTok alive. It's the best, the greatest ever.
Speaker 2:That's a pretty good impression I know Way to go. Anyway the best of the best, the best of the best. So, davey, can you tell me what your best item of clothing is?
Speaker 1:My hat.
Speaker 2:Your hat.
Speaker 1:My hat, my pork pie hats. I love my hats.
Speaker 2:I had a feeling you'd choose hats. Why did you think that? Because hats is just your thing. It's your stage thing.
Speaker 1:It's your life thing. Yeah, you wear hats.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's a thing. Do you know what? I was even thinking the other day. Well you never wear them in the studio. Well, because I Like in-ear monitor style. That's what I was thinking, but I have. I've got quite a few yeah.
Speaker 1:I have. My favourite hat, though, is my maroon one. Yes, I like your maroon one, my maroon pot pie hat Maroon five. Which I bought off Camden Market. Yes, I bought that in Camden.
Speaker 2:Sentimental value it is yeah. My favourite item of clothing is my yellow trousers.
Speaker 1:Are these your cords?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Your yellow mustard cords.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I love those trousers so much? I bought the yellow ones first.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love them so much that I have them in two other colours as well, okay. They're the exact same trouser, but I've got it in maroon, weirdly enough, and I've got them in like a khaki green I'd call it.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what about your particular yellow trousers, your mustard trousers, my mustard trousers, your mustard trousers. They look very good on Instagram. So a lot of your Instagram shots where I think Amy's taken them. Yeah, you are wearing your mustard trousers in a lot of those shots. Yeah, and the colours Autumnal and because they're quite nature shots, as in you've taken them in forests and things like that. The kind of clothing you're wearing suits.
Speaker 2:The background of the of the shot and I've got a spring shoot coming up as well. Have you really wear some sparring items? In that same photo shoot we did a beach shoot um in the middle of October I was freezing.
Speaker 2:I was wearing a dress and I was cold and I said to Amy in the photos I try to obviously not look cold and she was like, yeah, you look cold in some of these in between shots. She'll take a few test shots and it's just me going like this and my feet were in the sea and the sea must have been, I would guess, like around 5 degrees and my feet were in degrees right and my feet were in there constantly and my feet were just numb by the end of it that I didn't.
Speaker 2:Why didn't you wear?
Speaker 1:what didn't you say?
Speaker 2:you could have borrowed my wetsuit shoes but I was having pictures of like me in the sea in a dress, wet suit, wet suit, shoes, photoshop of. Well, she'd have to photoshop my feet. Yeah, yeah, no, no, I'm all good so yeah, my favorite item of clothing is my yellow when did you get your trousers, god? Two years maybe really yeah, I've had them for about a couple of years now, I'd say so my hats.
Speaker 1:I mean, do you know what I'm trying to think? When was when did I start? Well, it was, it was when I was on stage. Definitely when you started gigging you.
Speaker 2:You started out with the black hat. Yeah, the maroon hat definitely came after. I would say yeah. And then that become a staple kind of look of the band as well, that kind of you kind of look punky even though you're a ska band, because it's like that Well we kind of the funny thing is. It's like Green Day but, it's almost like we are. We are kind of like scar.
Speaker 1:A lot of our stuff is quite scar punky yeah, yeah, but it's not at the same time. Yeah, we've got that kind of look, but but it's we're.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like scar funk yeah, it's not like you're all like wearing black, or you're not all like wearing on, like not sorry, it's not like we're wearing black, but you don't wear a uniform we've got like the real big fish look that's kind.
Speaker 1:That's kind of what we yeah, absolutely Sublime, yeah, sublime, et cetera, et cetera, that type of thing, like Jake and yeah, I mean we were talking Benji was saying the other day actually he said we were talking about Espere, which is a song that I wrote that we play, and we were really love that song. He said, but it's just not us. Oh, you know, it's like it, which is true.
Speaker 2:It's not a mammal song it's a brilliant song.
Speaker 1:It's a davey whale song. It's a davey song. Yeah, it's um, yeah, yeah okay um, but yeah, hats and trousers, hats and trousers, hats and trousers so next one.
Speaker 2:What is the best style of briefs and I'm talking like UK pants, undercrackers, undercrackers.
Speaker 1:Well, I must admit I am a boxers kind of man.
Speaker 2:Nice. Yes, keyhole or button man.
Speaker 1:Keyhole.
Speaker 2:Keyhole. Is that a weird question to ask your dad? Not really no, because if I ever need to buy you pants, oh sorry, if Santa ever needs to buy you pants.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? You said you then.
Speaker 2:You've ever needs to buy you pants. What do you mean?
Speaker 1:you said you, then you've just destroyed.
Speaker 2:My favorite pants are shorts come at me, bro, but shorts, women's shorts, oh yeah, they're, and cotton based so you don't like a thong, then no I, I own one thong and I just do not understand why you'd want a wedgie all day I remember when you were young yeah and you cried.
Speaker 1:I did cry. You cried when you were really young, and I don't want to grow up?
Speaker 2:no, because I didn't want to wear thongs exactly because and I stand by that as a 28 year old. Right now, right here, right now, they, they're just so uncomfortable I cannot. It's either I've bought the wrong ones, but I just cannot. I just know and and also like uh sorry, tmi, but my menstrual cycle is all over the place. Yeah I was to wear a thong, I can't then wear like sanitary wear in it properly yeah so it's just not practical for me no the thong is stupid.
Speaker 2:I will. I will never accept a thong as being a b I can't imagine.
Speaker 1:I mean, I suppose, I think it's suppose because your mum wears thongs. I'm sure she does yeah, she wears thongs. But I just can't imagine how comfortable that can be. Yeah, you know going right up your crack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that can't be right. That's like if you accidentally leave a little bit of tissue stuck to your ass. It's the same principle, Like ugh Anyway shall we move on?
Speaker 1:Yeah, shall we move on.
Speaker 2:To the best insult you have ever heard.
Speaker 1:Okay, the one that you've written down here. You're going to have to explain this to me, because I don't get it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I really don't. This seems to me like this is a Gen Alpha thing. I just don't. That just makes no sense to me. Okay, so I.
Speaker 2:I just don't. That just makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I was scrolling through Instagram and I came across this. It must have been some sort of like clip from a reality TV show. They were definitely American for sure, like Valley Girl American, I would say. This girl just turns to her like friends or the group of ladies that she's with on the show, and goes none of you own a basic white tee. And it shows. And it was just the funniest insult to me, because it's basically saying that they're so snobbish that they don't own a basic white tee like they're like okay they're like so like the things that they wear, and they're very glamorous people and that there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2:By the way, I'm just saying that this woman had a particular thing with her friends. It's like like, basically, they were just being a bit snobbish about what other people wearing which I don't like, did she have a valley girl accent, like you just said?
Speaker 1:yeah, she did.
Speaker 2:They all did, they all did but this girl was like a little bit, like more down to earth. I would say okay and she was like yeah, none of you are in a basic white tee and it shows. And I just I just thought that was like the best insult ever. That's just so backhanded. They're being snobby about people not wearing basic things and she just come out with that.
Speaker 1:It was just so funny to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what about you and your best insult?
Speaker 1:You add nothing to the situation except drama.
Speaker 2:I feel like that fits mine. Maybe the girl was adding drama to her situation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I can't stand that. Yeah, I can't stand it. I'm not about drama. I want a stand. That, yeah, I can't stand that.
Speaker 2:I'm not about drama. I want a chill life.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:In my little house yeah.
Speaker 1:I can't be arsed. I just can't be arsed, because guess what? No one cares.
Speaker 2:No one gives a shit.
Speaker 1:No one cares. That's the thing People really think. People really care about other people's lives.
Speaker 2:I've got enough going on in my own life. I don't give a shit, move on. I think people get I don't know. Now this might be a bit controversial to say actually, but I'm going to say it anyway.
Speaker 1:Go on, do it.
Speaker 2:I feel like people do get upset about things that they don't need to get upset about all the time right they. I feel like there's a lot of things going wrong and there's a lot of things in this world that you could be very, very upset about yeah and I don't know if it's just because I've got a lot going on, so that something of that nature is so minuscule to me that it does not phase me at all and doesn't upset me I just do like this, this kind of I kind of like the snowflake culture a little bit, but I don't agree with that term and I don't like that term.
Speaker 2:I'm quite sensitive as well myself, so maybe I'm being a bit of a hypocrite, but or some people would call me soft, but I just don't I. There are just some things as well that you just don't need to get upset about, just move the f**k on yeah like I just, I just don't understand. Sometimes I don't know if it's just my grasp on people's. No it is.
Speaker 1:I mean I think as well, because I don't.
Speaker 2:Normally. I'm not very good at empathising with people's feelings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think also because of the job that I do as well and what I'm kind of exposed to on a daily basis. I'm talking about within and also external factors as well, because things happen in my job and I can see the worst things that can happen. Yes, yeah, it's like so when you put.
Speaker 2:It puts things into perspective right, yeah, and I know you probably shouldn't compare, like you know, it's the same as like the chronic illness side of things. Like, yeah, I can't compare myself to someone else's pain because what they're experiencing could be the absolute 10 maximum pain that they are feeling yeah which might be my two, but similarly my two could. I'm sorry, my 10 could be someone else's three, like you know there's no way.
Speaker 2:It is so subjective, so yeah, you know, I say I say this a little bit with a pinch of salt, because I do understand that people feel differently and more strongly about things than others. But yeah, I, I don't know, I just feel like sometimes, um, take a breath yeah, take a breath, take a breath and just look at the problem.
Speaker 1:Can the problem be solved by you? Yeah. If not, can it be solved by someone else? If not, it's out of your control. Yeah, and don't get all dramatic about it yeah, I just oh melod.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like making mountains out of molehills just for the sheer hell of it. If you're genuinely upset. It's narcissistic, it is but if you are genuinely upset, that's also okay to say, that's absolutely fine and you're allowed to be upset. That's not the issue. The issue is making. I guess making it out.
Speaker 1:Making a drama, drama, yeah, making it to be more than it is, exactly, if that's what I mean. And also quite often as well find out the full story first.
Speaker 2:Yeah, find out the full story?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because sometimes you only hear half the story. Get all the facts before making a fuss. I was talking to someone the other day about this and I said about something that happened to me where I said an off-the-cuff comment and it then went to. Somebody heard that, went and told someone else what I said, someone else to someone else to. Then somebody come back to me and ask me uh, this is being spoken about and this is what I said. And I burst out laughing. I said, actually I can tell you how that's happened. Right, that's not actually what said, but I can see how that context has got around. And when I explained it the person went oh, that makes sense Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:There you go, it's the whispers as they go around Chinese whispers, yeah, as they go around and people add their own interpretation to it and sometimes it gets completely wrong they, they, um.
Speaker 2:They make assumptions based on the, the context of it and their own narrative to it which you know I'm guilty of this as well like sometimes, I totally misremember things all the time, but um and also things change as well.
Speaker 1:I say this to people, I say this people all the time, I say don't, don't believe anything anyone ever tells you, including me, because things change. What I might tell you today might change tomorrow. Yeah, so you know. And if it does change, don't get arsy with me about it.
Speaker 2:It's very weird to come out of a boss's mouth, but yeah, sure, let's go with best word. Oh yeah, we're on the best, of aren't we?
Speaker 1:I thought we went on a proper tangent we did.
Speaker 2:We did, yeah, best word in the English language.
Speaker 1:Laugh.
Speaker 2:Laugh.
Speaker 1:Laugh. I love laugh, love laugh, live, laugh, laugh, live, laugh, laugh, live, laugh, laugh. Put them on posters on the wall.
Speaker 2:Mine is crunch, why I love onomatopoeia, onomatopoeia is like one of my favourite things in the world If you don't know, basically, when a word sounds like what it is. So crunch is a very good example. Boing, bash, anything that you see in a comic book, that when someone is hit or something, it's like pow, boom, they're all on a mat. Yeah, but crunch, I think, is the best one. Crunch just sounds like a crunch, yeah it's so good.
Speaker 1:Do you know why I like the word laugh? Go on, because to me, similar to that, it's not how it sounds, it's how the word looks when it's written down. To me it looks like the word is actually laughing.
Speaker 2:I can't see it. You said this when we recorded it the first and second time. Yeah yeah, yeah, and I still don't see it. You can't see it.
Speaker 1:No, the way the A and the U and the G almost look like they're kind of laughing. No, you can't see it. I can't see it To me visually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can see that I think you've got a visual brain and I just no, I can't see it. I can't see it, I'm afraid.
Speaker 1:Just visually that word looks amazing.
Speaker 2:If anyone else can see laugh in the word laugh hit me up Am.
Speaker 1:I the weird one, or is?
Speaker 2:he the weird one.
Speaker 1:I can just see it. I can just see it in there. I'm looking at the word now and it looks like the word is laughing to me. I don't know, mate, I don't know, okay.
Speaker 2:What about best takeout option? What is your go-to takeaway takeout?
Speaker 1:My favorite takeout is I like Chinese food.
Speaker 2:You do like Chinese?
Speaker 1:food. Do you know what I even cooked? Because your mum's in Derbyshire at the moment she is she's doing I think she's Spoiler yeah, I think she's doing like a scout thing, cute. So last night I sat there. You know what am I going to have to eat? I thought I really fancy some Chinese food right.
Speaker 2:Okay, solid.
Speaker 1:So I thought but do you know what? I'm not going to go to Golden Blossom, I'm going to make it. So I went to Morrison's and I made myself salt and pepper chicken, nice, and egg fried rice, cool, and I did the salt and pepper chicken in the air fryer.
Speaker 1:Nice, yeah, nice yeah but, ah what happened, but and I realised this when I got home I automatically bought chicken breasts and salt and pepper. Chicken needs to really be done with thighs yeah and when I cooked, because of the moisture and because when I cooked it in the air fryer it was dry as hell. It was tasty because I had the the chilli in there, the ginger, the garlic, everything all with the cornstarch.
Speaker 2:Could you whack some soy sauce on it? Did that help?
Speaker 1:I had some of that, because when I did the no because then it would have been really salty, because the salt from the soy sauce, and then the fact that it's salt and pepper chicken as well. It would have just been way too salty, do you?
Speaker 2:think they add salt to soy sauce, or do you think that?
Speaker 1:soy naturally is salty. I think soy is naturally salty oh okay, because it is always salty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because you can get light and dark and I feel like the dark is salty.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I made what was it like a honey and garlic, it was almost like a Korean dish. The other night, Nice, and your mum said to me she said it was too salty, but I think it's because I used dark soy sauce rather than light soy sauce yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was, and I did salt the chicken as well and I must admit, even I thought and I like salty food and I thought, yeah, it is a bit A little, too much. I did try and put some more honey in it to try and take the saltiness out, but yeah, no.
Speaker 2:See, I like Chinese, but I actually wrote down often. But also we do have a fairly local Chinese that does Chinese and Thai. And I think if we went to that particular Chinese, I would choose Thai. So I don't know if it's because I don't have Thai that often.
Speaker 2:Or if it's. I just really like Thai food and we just don't get it as often as we should. But we went out just before Christmas to a Thai restaurant in Norwich, or was it just after Christmas? No, just before christmas went to thai restaurant and oh, it was just incredible I just I know it's technically not takeaway, but yeah, thai food is just amazing and I just, I just really love the taste of it. It's like it's the right amount of spice for me, because I don't like things mega spicy.
Speaker 1:I don't like things mega mild either yeah, it's a little bit of a kick, a little bit of a.
Speaker 2:Because I just don't see the point in having something spicy for the sheer hell of it being spicy. Because I just don't think it tastes, as my mouth is so on fire that I can't taste the food. So that's just yeah. It's just not my thing. Mid-spice.
Speaker 1:My friend Ben not Benji, but Ben Ooh.
Speaker 2:Ben.
Speaker 1:Ben Ben Ben, who I used to live with years and years ago. He wasn't a very spicy person and I didn't know that. And I made these enchiladas and I whacked a ton of Tabasco in there you are the Tabasco boy and he literally went red in front of my face. I could see his steam just coming out of his ears.
Speaker 2:I bought my husband this year for Christmas in the stocking Mustard, can you remember?
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Tell the stocking mustard. Can you remember? Oh my god, tell the stocking one, then we'll tell the mustard story. So in his stocking I managed to find an advent calendar which every single door was a new.
Speaker 2:Uh, hot sauce, right, okay, yeah, really into his hot sauces, but it wasn't the type of advent calendar that has windows, so it was a bit shit. So I was like what I'll do is I'll fill his stocking with 24 bottles of hot sauce and he's, he's cracking through them. He's, oh brilliant, yeah, he's cracking through I. Uh. Yeah, I thought it was a well good idea. Like in my head I was like, yeah, I'll get, I'll get him a, I'll get him a, like a spice bottle advent calendar, okay, or like. And it was really rubbish when I got it, so I put it in a stocking instead and he just kept pulling out bottles of hot sauce. Very funny.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so Story, story time, the mustard story, and what we'll do, hannah, after we tell this mustard story? I think we'll end this episode here, okay, okay. And then we'll come back onto the cinematic universe.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there's still a lot to go.
Speaker 1:Next week, but yeah, this is a little bit of a funny well next week for our listeners, but probably in about 10 minutes for us.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, the mustard story. So we hadn't met Mitchell, we hadn't known Mitchell. That long had we at that point it was early doors it was early yeah.
Speaker 2:It was early doors. We'd sat down for a roast dinner and it was beef.
Speaker 1:you did, yeah, I did beef, yeah, and I didn't have any horseradish and I got out Coleman's mustard. Now, considering Mitchell's from Norfolk, this did surprise me slightly, that Mitchell had never had Coleman's mustard before. He'd only ever had like the American mustard. Yes, which is got. I don't even know what it is. What is the point of this? It's just like there is no point.
Speaker 2:It's very different in terms of hot level Mustard is to me mustard is hot, it's Coleman's, it's the.
Speaker 1:Give me the hot stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I like spicy food and I love mustard and I think it's possibly because, being raised in Norfolk and being so close to Coleman Factory, it's a staple of our diet. Yeah, staple of Norfolkian diet Coleman's mustard. Nor, norfolkian diet, coleman's mustard.
Speaker 2:Norfolkian diet, Norfolkian diet and I whack a lot of. I can't stand the stuff myself but carry on.
Speaker 1:I whack a lot of mustard on my beef.
Speaker 2:Why does that sound like the worst euphemism ever? I whack a lot of mustard on my beef, you do? You man Chow on that.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, line crossed on your door. Sorry, you do, you, man chow on that.
Speaker 2:Oh, sorry line crossed on your door, sorry line crossed so.
Speaker 1:But Mitchell, when I looked across at Mitchell and I saw the amount, of mustard yeah, my son, the amount of mustard he was putting on that beef, I was like man, he's brave, what is? He must really like mustard. That's a lot of mustard and then I saw him put it in his mouth and I think the realisation hit that English mustard is hot yeah and that he's only been having the American or the French mustard. Yeah and yeah he went he almost died, he almost died.
Speaker 1:There was an issue, wasn't there? Yeah, bless him. And I think I was trying not to laugh.
Speaker 2:I was trying to help him, but I was just Just like the paddle boarding incident. Yeah, terrible.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was funny.
Speaker 2:We've already told that story. Yeah, we've told that story Poor Mitchell. So we will stop the episode right there, um, but part two is coming up, because we barely got through the best of the best. We've got loads to go. We've got loads to go, so join us next time for the rest of the best of the best. Bye. Outro Music.