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Hello and welcome to my Big Gay Podcast with me.
Speaker 2:And me, Brad, giving you the life, the loves and the lols of living in London.
Speaker 1:Two gays, one city. What could possibly?
Speaker 2:go wrong. Oh my goodness, I'm so glad that we are back.
Speaker 1:We are back. It's been a little while. It's been a hot minute it has been a hot minute.
Speaker 2:yeah, this little break that we were taking turned into a vacation for months yeah, and spoiler alert we eloped and got married yikes, I would never marry you.
Speaker 1:She could never, because she wouldn't sign the prenup and you're not getting anything I got honey, that's true. Yeah, I would not want a prenup, yeah we want prenup seriously a prenup yeah, we want prenup, seriously me, me outside the church, oh my goodness. But anyway, yeah, so sorry we have been away but we are back, so we're gonna get straight into the podcast. But, mate, how have you been?
Speaker 2:oh, my goodness, this has been such a weird year for me, um because you know that I've been not enjoying my job this year and that's one of the reasons why we took a break, because I was figuring out what I'm gonna do career-wise and, yeah, it just seems to be like one hurdle after another. But I quit my job and started a new job and it's amazing and I love it and it's the energy that I needed in my life well, I'm glad that finished on a positive, because I was like I didn't pack my tiny little violin and that's not usually me.
Speaker 2:I usually love my life, I love my job. But yeah, this year basically, the job that I worked at was meant to be temporary anyway end up staying there longer than planned we had new management.
Speaker 1:It's been 84 years, literally has been 84 years and we had new management.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't really like decisions they're making and I just wasn't enjoying my job and my job is meant to be creative and they were limiting my creativity and there's a lot of creativity in this brain that just needs to be unleashed. Unleash the beast.
Speaker 1:Bit of money. There is a lot in that brain. I don't know if it's creativity.
Speaker 2:It's a lot. There is a lot of creativity it needs to come out, and so, being in an environment where I can't bring that out, just wasn't good for I found a new job and handed my notice, and it was the best feeling ever.
Speaker 1:Did you walk in and just like slap it down on the desk? Like read this, mary.
Speaker 2:Literally that, yeah, I was like I'm done. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:They send you, like your new timings in to come in your bag. Actually, no, I'm not coming back, oh it's such a good feeling.
Speaker 2:So if anyone is also feeling a bit stuck in their job, honestly look elsewhere. Get out of that rut.
Speaker 1:No, no, because I've generally felt like oh yeah, the cost of living crisis. Let's tell everyone to quit their jobs.
Speaker 2:Great idea, mate. Excuse me, Beyonce told us to do that a couple of years ago and I should have listened to Beyonce back then.
Speaker 1:I think it's okay for Beyonce to say things like that it's all right for you, isn't it girl?
Speaker 2:Oh, I no, we'll come back to that in a minute, okay, okay, oh, my goodness, all this chit-chat. We haven't even opened our cocktails. We need to. I'm thirsty, I'm gagging, yeah, I know you're thirsty.
Speaker 1:So, podcasters, as always, we do our. What Are we Drinking? And this week I'm a little bit nervous for this because it's a very, very strong drink. I don't know if.
Speaker 2:Now I first heard of them about six months ago we were out and we were off to a venue and we popped into a little corner shop Like let's get a little drink for the road, and we clocked these. I was like what are those? They look amazing.
Speaker 1:And the rest of the night we don't remember. Seriously though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a big, big night that one. Yeah, yeah, so on the way.
Speaker 1:And also not that we're trying to be ahead of the trend, but I think these are about to go off. I think this is going to be at the next, because genuinely not that we want to promote alcohol. Make sure you drink.
Speaker 2:Responsibly, responsibly, reasonably.
Speaker 1:Make sure you drink reasonable amounts. I don't know what that means. Make sure you drink responsibly. However, these buzz bowls Not going to lie.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's a little tiny cocktail bowl and it's 13.5% in this little bowl. That is what you get in a whole bottle of wine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's volume. That's not the same as drinking a whole bottle of wine. You dumbass.
Speaker 2:I thought it was the same If it's 13.5%.
Speaker 1:That's how much alcohol is in that drink. No, no, oh my goodness, this is really embarrassing. No of alcohol within that drink. So a certain fraction of that drink is that much alcohol.
Speaker 2:You know, maths is not my thing. I'm good with everything creative, but not maths. Is that what you said in your job interview. Yeah, great, I could do one plus one, and that's what you get in.
Speaker 1:That's about as far as we're getting.
Speaker 2:Honestly, my tax man every year when he gets my tax must be like what the hell Tax a year when he gets my tax must be like what the hell tax?
Speaker 1:what's that? No, joking, joking. You're gonna pay your taxes, people. No, but seriously, buzz balls. You get them in different sizes. You can get little ones about. They've now brought out two more sizes. There's like a sharing one is there, yeah, which I think is 500 mil, quite big. And then we just found out actually, you're at the same event that I found out they now do like fishbowl size.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, so that'd be great if there's like a group of you on a night out at a club, get yourself a big fishbowl buzz bowl. Get yourself a fishbowl buzz bowl. You should really work in marketing.
Speaker 1:mate, you are on it.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. Anyway, should we get them open.
Speaker 1:Hang on, what am I having first? Also, it says oh, it just says ready to drink, spirit drink. That's some like Timu wording, slightly concerned, but anyway, it's female founded, women founded.
Speaker 2:Good for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that those women, they know how to get lit. They know how to get light, they get lit Right, so I went for a green one, which is tequila rita.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I clocked that and I was like you're for them, not gold, gold.
Speaker 1:That's it. Game over, literally game.
Speaker 2:I'll be in bed and I don't know whose bed, but I will be in a bed, in someone's bed somewhere possibly even a hospital bed. We don't know I've gone for the strawberry rita but it's got an apostrophe before rita. So what would the apostrophe mean? Are you serious? Would you know what it means? Margarita, there it is, there we go, so yours is tequila.
Speaker 1:Oh god, oh yes oh my goodness Podcast is. I try to get Brad on tequila all the time because tequila Brad is a good I mean, you're a great person anyway, but tequila Brad, tequila Brad is fun.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that's getting messy, I won't.
Speaker 1:Was it a house party? We went out when the only alcohol we could find was tequila. Oh it my fave, but wild. Anyway, let's open them up right. Shake it, shake it. Shake that nasty drink. Sorry, it's not nasty, it's delicious. Oh okay, that went absolutely everywhere right.
Speaker 2:Cheers, mate cheers.
Speaker 1:Happy return of ice ice ice podcast I know, I know, I know, here we go, zippity, zip, christ alive now that is strong, but it's very sweet, which I love of course it's strong. That's a whole bottle of wine in that bottle that's generally what I thought that meant I'm never gonna let you live that down.
Speaker 2:It's delicious, it feels nice yeah, that is really really nice good good, well, here we go, lit and ready to go so, going back to our, our little catch-up, so I left. My job felt amazing. So, as I said, if anyone's feeling the same, get yourself a new job and handing that notice it's so good.
Speaker 1:It's no other better feeling in the world yeah, I mean, I haven't really been given that many opportunities to hand in notices, because I'm normally fired oh yes, we did hand in a notice a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2:Do you remember? We had that podcast already trashed.
Speaker 1:Buckle up, boys, you're in for a good one today um, yes, but I feel like that that meeting I was about to get dismissed. At the same time, I feel like I got in there early mutual things well, I mean, no, I'd made it very clear that was gonna leave.
Speaker 1:I think they wanted to jump in first, but yeah, I got in there with my pink suit, very legally blonde, and um quit. Yeah, it is a good feeling, in fact. Listeners, if you've got some good quitting stories, tell us. We'll happily read them out. That I mean that is kind of fun. Yeah, take control. Yeah, I do think I know listen, I work for myself, so I kind of it's. Maybe I don't take um for granted that I can feel this way, but if you're working for someone who doesn't actually respect your value or you don't feel valued, life's too short that is exactly what I was feeling.
Speaker 1:100 yeah, and I understand that job is important, especially if you're tied into like mortgages and bills and you've got significant others maybe your kids, I don't know. It's very difficult, it's scary and you kind of have to put up with it. But just, there's no harm in looking elsewhere.
Speaker 2:I agree. And also, just really quickly, whilst on the job thing, there was a woman that also worked at this for this company and and she left a few months ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And all she got was a bunch of flowers and a card.
Speaker 1:How long has she?
Speaker 2:been there for She'd been there for like 20 odd years. No, and I thought A I wasn't meant to be staying there for that long anyway, so I was there longer than I ever intended to be. But B imagine if I stayed there for another 20 or so years and all I got was a bunch of flowers and a card after the hours of service that I've given to that company. What?
Speaker 1:do you think you'll get when you quit this time?
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, a mansion, a holiday.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Now I've found a new company that values my worth, so it's all going to be uphill from here.
Speaker 1:It's not my company.
Speaker 2:I did apply for Jersey Skin didn't hear back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll get back to you when we're desperate. Anyway, listen, that's actually quite nasty. I'm sorry you'll be. I love you, but you know I value you hugely thank you so much when you're drunk right, anyway, we're gonna go with this podcast. We've got some. We've got so much to catch up on, so let's take a little break.
Speaker 2:If you've not got your drink yet, go and get it, and we'll be back after this little jingle okay, so I've rambled on about what I've been doing this year and why my life has been sort of all over the place, but you've also had a bit of a topsy-turvy life this year.
Speaker 1:Yes, well, I think on the last episode we did talk about it. I recently purchased a property.
Speaker 2:You did. That's so grown up. I can't even believe you're saying this right now.
Speaker 1:Very grown up and it's technically two properties in one. I think I mentioned there's a, there's a flat above and then there's a, a second shot, another shop below so it's kind of like two renovation projects as one, and they both have to have very different things installed in them and regulations and whatnot. So it has been an absolute whirlwind, and sorry to any listeners that are builders, but right now I'm just going to do a full public announcement that builders are the bane of my life well, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:the bills kept coming in and you're like where is all this budget coming from? Right?
Speaker 1:listen, I expect the bills to come in. We need to do some serious structure restructuring the front of the building. We had to get the whole beam basically I think it's rsj uh replace it was the old timber beam and they had to prop up basically the entire building and put in a steel one. So it's a really big job and I it was budgeted for blah, blah, blah. But, yeah, all I was getting was like emails like hey, this is the bill for the moment, and then, like two and a half weeks later, I'll get, oh, this is the next bill.
Speaker 1:It's like it wasn't like end of the month bills and there was also there's no breakdowns, so it just says it just didn't order them like restructuring, blah. There was blah blah. There was no like this is man hours, this is, you know, equipment that we needed, this is materials, whatever. And I, yeah, I did push and push and push for it, so I paid half of it and I was like I'm not paying the last half until you've told me what I'm actually paying for. Yeah, and then they threatened to take me to Petty Debt's Corp.
Speaker 2:Well, the thing is, the money that you're doing with them is big money, right? It's not like a tenner here, or 20 quid for a bit of paint.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:It's hundreds and thousands of pounds right For wood and things.
Speaker 1:No, it was not hundreds and thousands of pounds.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's me thinking you've got a mansion.
Speaker 1:I mean, listen, the final bills come in at about 55k. Yeah, no-transcript. And like, at no point was I like no, I'm not paying you, you've done a rubbish job. I mean they had done some. They'd botched. You had to be very skilled to do it and they did it well. Well, I mean the building's still standing, so absolutely happy to pay for it. I just want to see what I'm paying for, because I didn't know if I then paid all this money and then they were going to send me another bill like oh, and now here's the bill for all this other work that we've done. Like I don't know what it covers yeah, that's so true, and on top of that, they had to.
Speaker 1:they had no communication with me, so my decorator was finishing painting the flat, which is above the shop and was no word of a lie, was still washing his brushes in the sink, and the builders came up the stairs into the flat with sledgehammers and just completely took out a wall that was still wet with paint.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that's such bad communication.
Speaker 1:Just didn't tell me.
Speaker 1:What a waste of money, because you'd have paid that decorator to paint that wall right yeah, and luckily my decorator is actually like one of my brother's best mates and he just texted me and he was like hey, did you know? The builders are coming in today and I was like yeah, yeah, they're in the shop. He's like nope, they're in your living room. And sent me a picture and they were literally like mid-swing, smashing into the wall. Yeah, and then these beautiful original 1820s floors that I found underneath the old carpets. They just cut them all up and replace them with, like cheap MDF.
Speaker 1:That's a shame and completely unnecessary. So, yeah, I mean, builders are a bane. I want to find the excitement in it, but it has been so stressful. Alongside then, obviously, running my other businesses working full time, trying to deal with that in a different geographical location, obviously, because I've brought back home in Jersey.
Speaker 2:It's, yeah, it's a lot, yeah, yeah. Well, that's why our little podcast break then extended into a long break, because you've been so busy I love that you try and blame this on me every time I have been in london. Just you then happen to not be available I know, but then my work was all over the place as well.
Speaker 1:We just were like not in the right headspace at the time and we and our diaries weren't aligning it wasn't aligning and actually the few moments that we did actually get to see each other, I don't know how much personality we had to actually be on a podcast. No, exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you were going through a stressful moment, I was going through a stressful moment. Those few times we did meet were like let's just go out and have a good time.
Speaker 1:Literally let's just forget our troubles, Come on, get happy. Exactly.
Speaker 2:But now look at us and and here we are ready to chat shit.
Speaker 1:But no, the renovations are pretty much done. They're now out, it's just final paintings and paintings and hopefully get tenants in, because I'm actually going to rent out the shop for a few years, mainly because I have not got the mental capacity to now try and put my current business well, expand the business into the new shop. I just haven't got the brain power. I just haven't got the brain power, so I'm going to rent out for a few years and then?
Speaker 2:So are you going to rent out the flat to tenants and then the shop to somebody else, or do you want the whole package, like someone, who I mean at the moment they can have the whole package and we have an interest for people that want to live in.
Speaker 1:Basically, right, but I think, because I do, I produce like drag shows and things like that it would be easier for me to rent out the shop to one person and then keep the flat for myself as like a almost like an Airbnb, airbnb, yeah, and have one of the, because it's a two bedroom. Keep one of the rooms for me which I can lock. It could also be an office.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And then have the second room for, like, when I bring performers over or friends come visit and just do that for the rest of this year need to think about what shop I might want to run. Then I can apply for uh, your shop well, jokes aside, I've actually got a whole new business ready like that I want to do, but we'll come back to that, oh my god, have I got another job coming my way? Absolutely not although actually I do feel like it's something that you might be interested in.
Speaker 2:So, oh, hold on to your hats, girls yeah, it involves putting things in your mouth quite good at that.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't good, but I know that you enjoy trying. But yeah, anyway, thanks for checking in with that. It's stressful. I'm sure people at home if you have, I don't know, renovating your property bought a place. It is a lot.
Speaker 2:It is and how's the mortgage situation? Because aren't the interests really high or something at the moment?
Speaker 1:So I was in a very lucky position that I didn't need to get a mortgage.
Speaker 2:It turns out you pay for all cash in hand tax-free, from all the money you've been hiding from the accountants. Okay, first of all, use you very carefully, say because someone will come for me.
Speaker 1:It wasn't, no, yeah, yeah, we paid cash, yeah you pay cash.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:I wasn't actually able to do that, but we got the. We managed to get the price down enough that I could then do it, cash and listen. I'm not taking for granted. I know that I'm in a very it was a right place, right time for me. I'm very grateful that I was able to do it, because I think if I'd had the mortgage on top of this with the builders also, it's taking like three months longer than it was meant to, oh God yes, you would have been paying all that mortgage interest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because no money would be coming in if it was rented.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it's managed it more well, well, well done.
Speaker 2:We'll have a little cheers to that, because I think it deserves a cheers. Thanks, mate, that's very kind of you On the property ladder slaying. Life got your own business, honestly amazing.
Speaker 1:Watch, I'm going to fly back and it's going to like fall on down. Yeah, oh, but yes, all done, now it's down to the final bits the carpets. I've done, fixtures and fittings. By the way, if you, if you are trying to diy cheap, listen I, you're gonna clock me for this. I don't think I'm a cheap human being.
Speaker 2:I don't that's the funniest thing you've said all season. Why do you think I'm cheap?
Speaker 1:no, not at all no, I don't think I'm cheap, but I do love a bargain and I do love saving money. I like, literally, I get like a thrill of it. So I have um, I have found some really good DIY hacks on how to make what you've got work and make it look like it's brand new, and I'll give you an example. So when we, when we did buy the place, we had to get it valued, split, like what the flat was worth and what the shop underneath was worth, and, um, those people came around the house, probably did that. They came back about four weeks ago, just that. They wanted to have another look and they were going to give me another valuation. And they walked past the kitchen and the lady was like, oh, my goodness, you've had a new kitchen put in really quickly. I was like, pardon, she's like well, this is a brand new kitchen, isn't it? How have you done that in like two months?
Speaker 2:I was like I'm so I just changed the handles.
Speaker 1:They were horrible, silver, stainless steel. Took them off and I put matte black like metal bars on all of them and I changed the sink to match the handles and it looks like a brand new kitchen.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:I took all the lights off in the flat and I sprayed all of them with metal paint black matte metal paint.
Speaker 2:So they all match.
Speaker 1:They thought they were like brand new. I was like no. So I literally spent like maybe 12 quid on the spray paint and I've done all the like fittings.
Speaker 2:But you are good with arts and crafts.
Speaker 1:Maybe, but that's just you know. And then she was like I would never even think to do that. So I think it's just your mindset you know, yeah, yeah, well done. Yeah, so I've got loads more. Save some money, drop into our DMs and listen. Are you going to come visit? I will yes because one of the rooms we could have as a little studio at some point two podcast studios.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, we're taking over the world, guys no, but you have to come visit once.
Speaker 1:I've, you know, got mattress protectors because I know you wet the bed. Come visit, we'll have a lovely gay weekend in Jersey. It wasn be gay. When you leave, how's that buzz ball going down?
Speaker 2:It's going down a treat. Honestly, it's slipping down my throat smooth.
Speaker 1:Slipping through my fingers. I wonder how many people actually get all our musical theatre references.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure there's a lot of gays out there that also love the musical theatre and the pop songs and the little culture moments we have.
Speaker 1:Also, that is Mamma Mia, which A is Meryl Streep and B has loads of fit guys in it, so I'm sure they'll get that yeah it's a gay icon film, isn't it Sure?
Speaker 2:Anyway, we are in September and another Pride season has finished.
Speaker 1:Has come. It's come and come again and come it's come and come again.
Speaker 2:I feel like they come around so quick yeah, yeah, it's great I mean, I love it every summer. I look forward to it. Summer season for me is all about the prides and the festivals it's a lot.
Speaker 1:Did you see? I saw someone on on tiktok did like um a schedule of all the prides happening. Yeah, and it's literally from the moment. I think it's the, I think it's actually the end of may. Yeah, I feel like it's then there is, like like one, every Friday, saturday, sunday, all the way through to like, just after the end of August, no end of September. Yeah, if you include Malta, pride, hoopla, malta, if you include that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's kind of Pride-ish, I guess. Yeah, because what I've noticed over the last like five or six years or so, because it used to be back in the day, back in our day, when we were in our 20s, a long time ago your day, you're older than me it was just like the main cities, right, that would have their prides. But now everywhere does it. I'm here for it, I'm not going to lie. I think it's amazing.
Speaker 1:I agree, and actually, as you know, I'm quite involved with Jersey Pride and actually we've had. This does sound negative to start with. Go on. Sorry, that's a very odd sentence.
Speaker 2:It doesn't really make sense I'll have a sip of my cocktail. You tell me what's going on.
Speaker 1:So there has been a slight backlash. They're very, very and I mean very small part of the community back at home Because they're saying, like if it's a local pride, money shouldn't be spent on big UK acts. If you're doing a small pride, a small pride, it should be people from that area, okay, kind of can. So I'll give you examples. So the pride just gone, which, I must say, I thought was amazing, I thought it was fantastic. I thought the organized did a really good job. I very much enjoyed being part of it. The girls that I brought over really enjoyed it. Um, I thought they smashed it and we had a really good feedback, apart from these very few people, but, um, we alexandra burke headlined it oh, wow, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah and so obviously she's not gonna be cheap, you know.
Speaker 1:And then I brought over some uk girls, so I brought over um page three. Yes, mercedes-benz love mercedes-benz. She is hilarious she is always a good time um, and sofia starred us for the first time.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, great lineup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, cracking right. And then we did have a local girl who now lives in London, who's called Vianna, who performed.
Speaker 2:Love Vianna as well, so she came on as well, so it was actually really good.
Speaker 1:But then people were saying, like why are we getting UK performers when we've got local drag queens? Not all of them, and I don't know if that's similar elsewhere. I'm going to give you an example. So the page three, who we all know who is, she's on this current season of ripples drag race. Um, she is from surrey, right, so does that mean that she should only be working at surrey pride?
Speaker 2:right, I see what you're saying. Yeah, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah does that mean she shouldn't be going to do manchester like manchester. Pride should just be mancunian queens, because it's not no, no, it's a celebration of everything, right so it needs to celebrate the local community and therefore, I'm sure the local community is well. It's queer people who enjoy drag queens, so why not give them? Bearing in mind, the Jersey Pride is completely free. You don't have to pay a penny to go to watch it uh then, no more complaining, no more negativity you get a free event.
Speaker 2:You can go or you can choose not to go.
Speaker 1:No complaints and you're very welcome to go experience other prides around the uk if you want to.
Speaker 1:It doesn't mean that jersey pride should just be jersey, or I should say channel island, because they share it with guernsey, shouldn't just be channel island performers, because you are trying to reach the masses right.
Speaker 1:And also when I understand that it is for the queer community, but I feel very passionately and I know this is a divide in the but I feel very passionately and I know this is a divide in the community I feel very passionately about educating the straight community as well and actually by having that big pride and having Alexandra Burke, it gives more of an incentive for straight people to come along and experience queer culture and ask questions, familiarize herself with it, and I don't know it's better to bring us all together. I'm not saying it's for them at all, but it was so lovely to see so many people turn up and there's no way that everyone that turned up to Jersey Pride was gay. A lot of those people were straight. The Huns were there. They brought their boyfriends and actually there was people in football shirts proper blokey lads there having a great time like people in football shirts, like proper, like blokey lads there having a great time. And for me, for me, that is what I like to see at Pride.
Speaker 2:I could not agree more with you.
Speaker 1:I really do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the commercial acts. Let's call them that because they're a bit more obviously well-known. For example, you have Alexandra Burks. They're going to bring in people that aren't just LGBTQ+ and that, and that is amazing because they can see what it's like an insight to our world and how we like to be and how I like to dress, and know that we're not a threat, and then they can pass that on to everybody else because, as we know not that we're going to get into politics, but it's been quite heavy, hasn't it this year?
Speaker 2:loads of backlash, especially towards the trans community as well, and so what better way to like bring lots of people together with a bit of a commercial mainstream act headliner who is pro our community and is going to give us a lovely little hopefully a lovely little speech about gay rights, etc yeah and everyone can just see that and be like, yeah, this is great it's also important for me that we don't include saying like oh, straight people, that's not the same as saying homophobic people, you know yeah, a lot of time they're like
Speaker 1:it's not for the straights. What they actually mean is we shouldn't be giving it to those people that don't like gay people. Well, we're not. Yeah, we're absolutely not. We're giving it to the straight people who support us. They are our allies. Let's not forget what that actually means. Um, and want to just I don't know come celebrate us for us if I have a birthday party. And you were like, oh, could I bring my friend who's visiting? I'm not going to be like no, because I don't know them and it's my birthday. But yeah, come along and experience it, come see my birthday, come get to know me.
Speaker 2:Right, right. Yeah, I think I think the tequila's gone to the head a little bit.
Speaker 1:No, I think that makes sense. I'm having a birthday. Come and celebrate me.
Speaker 2:B-I-F.
Speaker 1:Burf.
Speaker 2:That's how you spell it.
Speaker 1:Anyway. But yeah, that was a bit off tangent. We're talking about Brighton Pride, which had Mariah Carey, and what I was just saying kind of leads quite well into this. I don't know how you felt about Brighton Pride. First of all, thank you very much, Brighton Pride, for inviting us.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:We were very lucky to be gifted two tickets and we had the most marvellous time. But I did notice a difference this year with Brighton Pride.
Speaker 2:It was very busy, busier than I've ever experienced.
Speaker 1:Hordes of people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mariah, she brings in the crowds, doesn't she?
Speaker 1:Well, there we go, so headliner was Miss Mariah Carey. Yeah, and that brought the crowds.
Speaker 2:And obviously Mariah is an icon, but I didn't know that she would bring in that many people.
Speaker 1:For me. I wanted to go and watch her, because I don't mean this morbidly, but I don't know how much longer she'll be around doing live performances like this.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Like because her voice is phenomenal, but her voice is acrobatics within the voce.
Speaker 2:Yes, and.
Speaker 1:I don't know how long she'll be singing in there for Singing, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:And she's got a family and she's got kids and she's. She also doesn't need to do it does she.
Speaker 1:She doesn't need to do it.
Speaker 2:When Christmas rolls around, she makes her check, then right.
Speaker 1:Correct, she doesn't need to be. Yeah, yeah, she doesn't need to be doing she's got a new album coming out, which I think is why she was there. But I can't help think that, with the lineup on the Saturday like last year, who headlined last year on the Saturday?
Speaker 2:Girls, aloud Girls.
Speaker 1:Aloud, but there was like three, if not four really strong acts in the lead up to Girls Aloud right this year. There were some fantastic acts but I thought they were small, not as well known.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And then Mariah carey.
Speaker 2:So I did feel like a lot of the budget was put towards mariah carey.
Speaker 1:Oh for sure, yeah however, if I was bright and pride, what I was would probably be doing is thinking well, let's do, mariah, let's sell a ton of tickets, get all that money, save money, and then we can do, like the next year, the year after that, maybe with smaller acts, with, and more of them, and more I don't know, put more money into the smaller stages because they put they don't just have the main stage, they have loads of stages going on with local community acts, with a bit of everything, really, yeah there's a dj tent.
Speaker 1:There's like a daddy's leather tent. There's.
Speaker 2:It's a bit for everyone, right and we went to that legends tent, which is amazing and is a bar in Brighton which is such a great bar We've been there Bar and hotel. Bar and hotel. It's so good. And they had their own tent with all their local queens performing. It was so good.
Speaker 1:Who did we see there? Carla Bear.
Speaker 2:Yes, very good.
Speaker 1:Bangin'. We love Carla Bear. You know I really enjoyed the day.
Speaker 2:I didn make it to the sunday, sadly me neither.
Speaker 1:No, um, but I heard the sunday was amazing as well. Yeah, sugar babes on the sunday, sugar babes. Yeah. So brian pride, odd one for me, that's all.
Speaker 2:That's all I'll sell it I enjoyed one because it was super busy. Yeah, okay, and you know what I'm like with crowds.
Speaker 1:Anyway, like sometimes when there's too many people also. I I know what you're doing. You're tiptoeing around a story which you don't.
Speaker 2:you don't know if I want to tell or not. Tee hee, but I did lose you.
Speaker 1:And your phones if you've never been before. Your phones don't work.
Speaker 2:No reception.
Speaker 1:No reception, for some reason, the moment you step in that park, that's it.
Speaker 2:If you lose your friends, you have lost them. Basically, there's no way to find them. And I did lose my friends and I did lose them and I could not call them yeah, because, well, we actually did the street party as well. For anyone who's not done brighton pride before, it's like two separate sections, isn't there? Yeah there's the park. Well, three actually. Sorry, carry on, but there's a third one.
Speaker 1:Well, there's the main park, yes, where you. It's like the. That's the way you buy your ticket online. You go see mariah, etc there's the street, which is free, and you're going around all the local queer bars and just experiencing that. And then there's the street party, which is a different type of ticket, which is along the front oh yes, that's the place that we couldn't get into. Do you remember?
Speaker 2:yes, yes, because we was in one section and then it was closed off and we didn't realize it had a ticket for the other one correct.
Speaker 1:So next year let's see who the lineup is. I would quite like to do the street. So the free, the free bit, with all the bars for the lower-priced ticket to go and experience the street party.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And we can see who the headliners are in the main park. But I would like to do that. I think Like the local side. Yeah, because it was crowds, but they weren't overwhelming. It was just a very different. It felt like a very different scene.
Speaker 2:And also, I'll be honest, I love Brighton. I do, I love Brighton. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:You love it so much that you didn't want to get a hotel and you were going to party all the way through to the first train back.
Speaker 2:Now there's a thought behind the madness here, right.
Speaker 2:So the last few times I've done Brighton Pride, I have paid for Airbnb with some gays, you included, and the prices are so expensive Because those Airbnb owners they know what they're doing and the hotels as well. They rack up those prices. They're so expensive. And the thing is, what we usually do is we'll do all day, you know, celebrating pride, go to the festival, then we'll go out partying all night and we won't get home to like 5, 6am into our Airbnb that we paid hundreds of pounds for we'll be there for like a few hours for a quick nap, shower, shower, and then we're up again for the next day.
Speaker 1:I begrudge paying that much money for accommodation which I'm hardly in I do hear you, although this year we went down and we didn't stay with them, but our friends got the airbnb and we went to join them for some pre-drinks.
Speaker 2:Oh god, it was beautiful but also I.
Speaker 1:That really set up bright and pride for me.
Speaker 2:I liked that yeah, because there's drink on the train, but it's.
Speaker 1:You're standing the whole way, but if you're lucky enough to get a seat and then just go straight into it, I think it's like wow, yeah, that's true so it's quite nice to settle, have drinks, chat, see what everyone wants to do, and just having a base is nice it is nice to have a base for sure.
Speaker 2:That is so gross the way you phrased that, and that is so not true.
Speaker 1:But so accurate you sip that ball.
Speaker 2:You put that ball in your mouth. So, yeah, I decided I'm not going to pay hundreds of pounds on a hotel or Airbnb this year. I'm going to party all night and get the first train home back to London. Crazy, and I was very close to doing that. But we ended up getting an Uber instead. It got to like half three in the morning. The. We ended up getting an Uber instead. It got to like half three in the morning. The first train is like half four yeah.
Speaker 2:And we were a little bit shattered Like let's just check out the Uber prices.
Speaker 1:It's like a two hour train. It's the slow one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you're asleep on it and anyway, this Uber was £100. Split between four people, £25.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is good, so good.
Speaker 2:That was really good. Happens that often. I think if we'd got the uber at, say, midnight, when it was, full steam ahead party.
Speaker 1:I don't think it would be that price. I think you were lucky and found an uber guy who was based in london who had just dropped to brighton and was like, oh, I'm driving back anyway, I may as well wait for a good feed to come through yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it cost us all, as I say, 25 quid each between four people, and obviously took me straight home, which is amazing. So, if so, if anyone is from London that does Brighton Pride and is thinking, oh, I don't want to pay those prices for the accommodation if you're going to party for a bit, anyway, get the Uber.
Speaker 1:Or do what I did and get the last train back all by myself, but that's the end of that story. We don't need to talk about it.
Speaker 2:I think we should take a little break, because you do actually have a good story. It's a good story.
Speaker 1:I'm going to get my producer on the phone.
Speaker 2:Podcasters, we're taking a break. We're hearing the story.
Speaker 1:Hello, it's Benji.
Speaker 2:Help. It is story time with Benji.
Speaker 1:Strap in boys and girls, because we are ready for this. How about you start the?
Speaker 2:story and I can fill in the gaps. Let me set the scene. So we've just arrived in Brighton Big group of gays. We've been on the train, there's friends, there's friends of friends. We're all together and it's lovely. On the train you are clocking eyes with a friend of a friend, part of this big group, and already I'm like there's a little thing going on there. That's cute. That's cute, that's cute.
Speaker 1:There was, there was a little, there was a tiny spark and I wasn't really aware of it until you know. If you're in a bar and someone asks you a question you don't really know, like, oh, hey, like I know such and such. Oh cool, yeah, me too. Oh, I like your t-shirt, I like, I like yours too. End of conversation. And then they start another one and that comes to an end and they start another.
Speaker 1:That's what was happening, and normally I can be quite flirty and I know that I can also be completely oblivious to what's going on, but I was even like huh, this person keeps making small talk.
Speaker 2:And then, as we said, we went to our friend's Airbnb. They were checking in. We all went together, we got some drinks for the Airbnb, had some pre-drinks there and, of course, everyone's chatting away. We got the music on and I look over and you're sat on the sofa with Miss Thing and you are getting very close yeah, but again, I was sat on the sofa because I was.
Speaker 1:I was by the power socket and I was just charging my phone. Uh huh, I was not at Brighton Pride for any sort of flirty pickups. I just wasn't. I just wanted to have a good time with you boys. I've been away for so long. It's the first time I'd seen everyone all together in months. Yeah, I just want to be me.
Speaker 2:And also we were there for the podcast we had like a podcast brain on a little bit and we were doing a bit of social media stuff. So we had our own agenda. We definitely weren't looking for the boys, right?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:And so a clock. Over there, you are on the sofa, but he comes to you which is the kind of key part of the story. The kind of key part of the story it's, I feel, like very much you were kind of going with the flow, but this person was definitely all eyes on benji, all eyes on benji.
Speaker 1:All eyes on benji. Love that for me? Um yeah, and then I went to give his mate a back massage, remember? Yes and then he was very much like is it my turn next? And I was like, no, I was giving nothing. I was trying, I was being polite and flirty, but I was also giving nothing mainly because I know what I'm like.
Speaker 2:I know what you're like.
Speaker 1:I know what I'm like wait hang on, you're a big flirt.
Speaker 2:You are a big flirt, we can be oh that's not where I was going with this.
Speaker 1:But fine, fair enough, I know I can be a big flirt, but with this I was like, no, I'm not going because I don't. It's a pride he. I don't know this guy. He may well be flirting with me now and then as soon as we leave the apartment he'll be all over somebody else. And if I've been flirting back, that'll make me feel shit. So I don't want to get involved. So I was giving very surface level flirts.
Speaker 2:I agree.
Speaker 1:But nothing else, and I was being I think I was being very well behaved, plus he, the friend of someone else who I care very dearly about and I didn't want that messy.
Speaker 2:I didn't want mess. Well, there was like different groups collided so if it wasn't going to work out, just didn't want it to be awkward for the future, right yeah, because we're most likely going to cross paths again 100, right anyway. So then we go down, we're doing some podcast bits. The rest of the group go up to the park. We're still doing our little thing around in the, the local bars, yeah, and so we joined everyone a bit later yeah, we had to go through a different door.
Speaker 1:That's why so there was no point us going with them to key.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, all of that and we meet up in the park.
Speaker 2:Purely by fluke my ads because the phones were not no, no, we literally like walked into them, yeah, yeah because we had no idea the reception was going to be that bad and that was pure, pure luck that we met them, them and we were in a tent having a good time. We got some drinks, then we sat on the grass for a bit and a little chit chat, and then this guy comes bounding over and basically sits in your lap on the grass.
Speaker 1:I was lying on the grass of like slightly on one side and yeah, he came and sat basically yeah on me, swaddled me pretty much, and by the bottle of kyliecco in my hand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, then and obviously by that point everyone was clocking like, oh, this is a thing you know, and it's absolutely fine, obviously, but very much led by him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not me and I remember looking at you and you were giving me the eye like, oh well, benji's happy now yeah and I I still at this point didn't really want. It was nice to see him, who doesn't like being flirted with right right, so I liked it was a lovely compliment and don't get me wrong, mama, I look good and it was nice to have that validation sure great, I haven't eaten for 12 months snatched and I was wearing my little, my little crop and my little baggy jeans I'm a masked dom top.
Speaker 2:I swear um and then we're all like going to the loos and he's trying to make out with you outside the toilet.
Speaker 1:Oh no I have to. No, I have to tell this story, sorry. We were sat and flirty, flirty hand and leg, hand and arm tap tap all of that but then someone probably you was like right, let's go toilets, then we'll go watch some music.
Speaker 1:Oh no, we're gonna go to. I think that was when we went to the Legends tent and I was like, okay, cool, stood up and he was like, oh, so where are we going? I don't think he was that very drunk by this point. I think he was like on a wave, but not yeah he was like so where are we going?
Speaker 1:and I was like, oh, we're gonna go toilets, then go to a bar. And I remember him getting his face really close to mine and I said you're not gonna kiss me, are you? And he was like oh, and I was like listen, not right now, like come on, let's just we're all going to the toilets. Like hardly romantic. Went to the queue queuing in the toilets, was holding my hand, went to kiss me again, me. No, I'm not going to kiss you by the portaloos. That's disgusting. Not going to do it.
Speaker 2:Queue, queue, queue, queue, queue, queue, like if you're going to make out with someone at Pride, all for it. Love it. Not in the queue for the toilets, no no, then we queue.
Speaker 1:The next portaloos becomes available, he opens the door and and looks at me and beckons me to come with him.
Speaker 2:Into the cubicle, into the cubicle oh scandal.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that Well this is when I knew something else was going on and I said no, I was like I'm not going to do it. Stop me right there, because if I were there it's not going to happen. So he went in then. I went in then to go watch somebody.
Speaker 2:I think at that point, like doing all the rounds, we're going to different because there's so many tents and areas in there at Brighton. Price yeah, yeah, we were just like having a little one day on the explore.
Speaker 1:Right and he was holding my hand the whole way. All of that, and so we're holding hands cute, cute, cute, cute, cute. And then he went bit um. You can have the story back now, because I'll finish in a sec so kind of that was happening.
Speaker 2:Cut to, it's like half hour. Mariah's gonna come on. Let's get a good position for mariah, but obviously the crowds are forming at this point.
Speaker 1:It was really busy um it was end of the reen we're going to catch that was it yes, so we're starting to like weave through.
Speaker 2:I was like, right, it's really busy. So, boys, let's all like kind of hold hands slash be in each other's eye contact. We're going to snake through the crowds, right, and our friend, who's really good at that, was like I've got this, I'm leading the way, et cetera. So he was leading and it was a bit of like squeeze through, but if anyone kind of lost out the chain, we were probably going to lose you in the crowds.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no signal, all of that, and we're snaking through, snaking behind.
Speaker 1:you were no longer there no, I stupidly put him, who remained nameless, in front of the chain and he lost the chain and but carried on walking and I hadn't realized that he'd lost the chain so you were just following so I was following him, thinking that he was following all of you and did he stop at one point and be like can't find yeah then he was like I don't know where they've gone and I looked and literally nowhere to be seen yeah, because sea of people we were trying to call you.
Speaker 2:Obviously no, nothing was going through. I was like, okay, it'll be fine, they're having a lovely gay time anyway, I'm sure they're not they're not even going to be watching Mariah, they're going to be making out and that's totally fine. So I was like I'm going to leave Benji, we'll watch Mariah.
Speaker 1:We will then regroup afterwards right, so cut to, he was like we've lost them all round, tried to phone, couldn't and he was very much like oh well, we can just watch it, me and you, and was like holding both my hands almost nose to nose, and so at that point I had had, it's true love I had had a bit to drink the hat is ready for the wedding.
Speaker 2:Do you know?
Speaker 1:what mariah's gonna come on. This guy clearly has shown interest the entire day. Yes, maybe watching mariah with this cute guy saying we belong together could actually be quite cute, right, could be quite cute.
Speaker 1:So then we were kissing for quite a while and I said to him look, this is Brighton Pride. I fully get it. We're just always having a good time. However, if afterwards, would you be keen to go for some drinks next week maybe I've got a bit of free time before I fly away and he looked so taken aback, like genuinely he gave me genuine vibes looked so taken aback and was like oh wow, oh, my goodness. I was like what's wrong? He's like well, no one ever asks me to go on a date, they just like use me. I was like oh well. I was like well, you seem really sweet. We've obviously had a nice day. I'm really keen to go for drinks if you want to like chat and like okay. He was like I really like that.
Speaker 2:Kiss, kiss, kiss all over this is so cute and in my mind that is what was going on but that it was what was going on to begin with so I was like benji's fine, we don't need benji right now. He's preoccupied and having a gay old time then mariah comes on lovely, she's done singing.
Speaker 1:Why you're so obsessed with me? Um, and the rest of the story is where I'm afraid it does take a turn. So we found this other group of people and oh, also, I forgot to tell you all the way from, basically, from the Portaloos, all the way until this moment, no word of a lie, no exaggeration about six different random people had said to me and him you two are the most gorgeous couple. And all of a sudden we were like, oh, we just met today. Like ha ha ha, joking it off, they're like you two are so cute together, you're gorgeous. And I was like this is a fever dream anyway.
Speaker 1:So it happened again when we were watching mariah. This guy was like you two are really cute together. Um, I was like, oh, we're not really together, we're kind of met today. And he was like oh, okay, so you're not together. I was like, no, like I just said, we just could have met today. Then we were like watching mariah, this guy then picks. So this random guy that we just met picks up the boy that I'm with so he can see mariah like picks him up.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah like arms around the waist and picks him up right, and I'm like, huh, that's slightly bold, but but fine. Then this guy's like, put me down, put me down, put me, put him down. Bit more of the song and then he miss thing, just turns around and just starts kissing him, literally arm to arm next to me that is mad, that's so mad and I'm watching morale like right, this is literally from the fmb what I thought would happen and what I did not want yeah, so I'm watching morale like great.
Speaker 1:So I've now lost all my friends and I've got this little fuck boy next me. So I pretend not to watch and I thoughtji don't, don't rip into him. I could have done. Don't rip into him. He's a friend of a friend. He's a friend of a friend, you're like his friend, you're like his friend. So I just left it. They stopped. He went back to holding my hand and I turned to him like listen also, I'm not one to mug off, like I'm just, I'm not gonna let you make me be that person. You're not gonna do it. I thought you were someone different. Clearly you're not totally fine, don't know you that well, I'm not the one to fuck with. So have a good like, enjoy, mariah, enjoy it with this guy. I'm gonna to go. He's like no, no, sorry, sorry. What have I done? What have I done? What have I done? And I was like listen, I love that.
Speaker 2:What have I done? And I was like I don't have time to explain this to you, I'm going to go find the others, do you want?
Speaker 1:if you want to come with me, you can. And he said to me no, I want to stay with you. And I was just watching Mariah. So I was like fine, watch Mariah. Then behind me another two girls were like oh, you two are so cute, are you enjoying the show? And we're like, yeah, it's really good. Their male friend was like are you together? No, then he this random. So are you two like serious or whatever? I heard him Right. Because you can't really whisper. It's fucking Mariah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he was like no, no, no, not at all. And then they started flirting. They didn't start kissing, but they were like heavily flirting. And I just turned to him and I was like I'm done, I'm going home. And he was like no, don, two minutes ago and I was leaving, which is fine, you're very welcome to do it and you said no, you want to stay with me. And now you're doing it again. We're done. He was like oh, can I come with you?
Speaker 2:and I said no and I walked off and I went home sweet, sweet fantasy baby, as I'm like battling against the crowd oh yeah, oh my goodness, bet that was really hard to get out of in fact, the whole thing was pretty hard, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1:It was actually horrible.
Speaker 2:Made me feel really shit it's such a weird one, isn't it because?
Speaker 1:he ruined my day, if you're listening.
Speaker 2:You ruined my pride yeah, I mean, look, if you're gonna heavy flirt with someone all day and say, yeah, let's do a date, etc. You then don't make out with random people in front of that person.
Speaker 1:No, and if you're flirting with someone, trying to get a bit of, like flirty action for that pride, and that person is not giving it to you because their, their walls are up, my walls were up. I've been really hurt in the past. Uh-huh, be nice and acceptable. Okay, that's not the one to just to be with yeah I'll go find some complete random stranger yeah kiss them for an hour or two and then just lose them. Yeah, that's not me.
Speaker 2:We have mutual friends well, this is the other thing as well. It's because the mutual friend situation, like why are you creating like a potential drama, slash rift in a group that were then meant to be like all hanging out with afterwards?
Speaker 1:yeah, so that's the tea that's the tea.
Speaker 2:I feel like we need to have a good Brighton experience because remember there was that time when it was raining loads and we fell out.
Speaker 1:I don't know, have you ever at the?
Speaker 2:time before didn't someone like piss on you?
Speaker 1:yes, they wet the bed and then pissed all over the wall, cut themselves shaving, got blood all over my clothes yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Think we've ever had a positive, oh, apart from that time where I got so drunk I was oh my goodness, drunk on the floor, yeah, yeah, I've never seen you that drunk before next to subway, as you had my bank card and hundreds of pounds of notifications were pinging up on my phone whilst I was so intoxicated.
Speaker 1:there's nothing I could do about it, yeah good times, love, brighton, yeah good times, good memes.
Speaker 2:No, we do actually love Brighton and again, thank you so much for having us. We had a great time Check out the old TikTok. Oh my goodness, we have TikTok now. We're trying to do videos. Well, I'm trying to do videos, so wish me luck on that one.
Speaker 1:Of in action whilst you're listening to these stories? Absolutely, but it just a quick one throwing it out there. I know we've done this already on the on this episode, like with a home renovation, etc. But if you were in that situation with me or with him, tell us your part of the story. How would you feel? Is it okay? Is it not okay? Would you have done it? Would you not have done it? Have you done it? Have you had it done to you? Just tell us, because I do think too often, maybe in straight culture as well but like culture.
Speaker 1:This happens and it's not really spoken about and to some people it does affect them, it does upset them, which I'm not going to lie. I'll be very vulnerable for a second. It did upset me, it did hurt me. I've very much chosen to be single for quite a while because I don't want to have these sorts of interactions with people. And yeah happened again. I remember texting you like I've left.
Speaker 2:I know I'm pretty sure I was like I've left, I'm crying, I'm pissed off and also this was all coming out as we were leaving mariah, leaving the park then the signal started to come through, so obviously all these like pingy messages were coming through.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh my god, and you're like you were like come find us, and I was like, no, because I, but again, because of the crossover, I know if I come find you he will probably at some point appear again for sure. That's exactly what happened yeah, and I was like I just would rather remove my situation myself in the situation, everyone else still having a good time took one for the team, yeah, and left oh my god, these flirty boys.
Speaker 2:I got myself a meal deal for one from Marks and Spencer'scers.
Speaker 1:Sat on that train and cried, Sat on the floor actually, oh because it was so busy, so busy. But I was in bed by like half one, so that's good. Anyway, yes, sorry, sorry, yes, picking up, tell us if you've had a situation ever so similar or ever so different to that and how you feel, and send me some messages of support and tell me that I was the right and, just you know, boost my ego. Did I do the right thing? I think I did.
Speaker 2:I agree, I would have probably done the same.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bastard yeah.
Speaker 2:But anyway, there we go, the end of our first episode.
Speaker 1:Tune into next week's episode where I drop his name and his Instagram handle and you can send him some troll hate.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Are you okay now though?
Speaker 1:Oh, so fine, Good. Yeah, I've had like 12 shags since then. I'm fine. No, joking, joking, joking, joking, joking. No, I'm absolutely fine. Thank you for asking. I appreciate you. I do appreciate you very much, that's good.
Speaker 2:Well, we have come to the end of our first episode. Back after such a long you back and thank you for the messages that you've been sending us on our little break and checking in. We honestly really really appreciate you and we're back.
Speaker 1:We're back to stay. We're back and, don't worry, an episode will be dropping next week, as usual, back into the weekly routine, so don't forget to check it out. But, like we said, that is all the time from this week's episode Wednesday Can you imagine if I just had like a full on bust up in the middle of Mariah? Why you so Not that I ever get physical?
Speaker 2:I was going to say you're all about the loving, not the fighting.
Speaker 1:Oh, I fight, but I fight with my mouth.
Speaker 2:And you love with your mouth as well.
Speaker 1:That's true. My mouth has multiple talents. No, but you know, I do Like I get. I get wordy.
Speaker 2:You do.
Speaker 1:You get, I do like I get. I get wordy. You do you get a bit sassy. Sassy, some might say bratty, some might not. Um, no, I just get. Yeah, I do get sharp-tongued. I just say it is. I don't. I'm too old, too ugly, too many wrinkles to let people get away with that bullshit. What?
Speaker 2:happens when you're in your late 50s. Thank you.
