My Therapist Ghosted Me - Christmas Clothes, Lurkers & The In And Out List
Episode Date: December 22, 2023It's time to get a hold on what's set to be in and what's definitely OUT for 2024. Because this stuff matters. Plus, the average Christmas Day, family fights and when pigtails are and aren't appropria...te.If you’d like to get in touch, you can send an email to hello@MTGMpod.comPlease review Global's Privacy Policy: global.com/legal/privacy-policy/For merch, tour dates and more visit: www.mytherapistghostedme.com/For more information about Joanne's gigs, visit www.joannemcnally.comThis episode contains explicit language and adult themes that may not be suitable for all listeners.Thank you!
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Hello and welcome to the last installment of My Therapist Ghosted Me.
Well, the last main episode of My Therapist Ghost To Me till the fine year of 2024.
We're saying goodbye forever.
We're doing a morning record
which of course is
difficult.
This will show you
how hard we've hit
this pod this year.
My microphone stand
has gone completely flaccid
and will not stay up
and my cord no longer works
because we have
I have bet this thing
I bet it to death.
I think it's because
you're just giving it
shit chat.
You're giving it shit chat.
How dare you, Vogue?
How dare you?
I'll be working with Laura Whitmore in the new year.
That's my announcement.
Okay, well, I will be working with Catherine Ryan.
Who will you be working with?
Catherine Ryan.
Yes, I will.
Well, Joe, I don't know why you're laughing
because we will certainly not be working with you.
I'll be working with bill burr
and heaven harsh has been on and a little woman called tina fey i don't know if you've heard of
her oh yeah yeah yeah it's so weird though because brad pitt was just on the phone to me i said i was
like brad brad i can't i'm not leaving joanne and then jennifer aniston quickly followed up and said
i want to join forces with Brad
she got rid of
Reese Witherspoon
her and Brad
have created a movie
and they want me to start it
okay
well I have a little man
called Elon Musk
in my DMs
who wishes me
to come on board
and open a business with him
oh
called Merch for Mars
isn't that interesting
I am starting a merch business
with Elon Musk
and we'll bring out
tiny rockets
okay well
myself and Mark Zuckerberg
were chatting
he was bitching
about you and Elon
oh can we talk
Anna Wintour
has been on to me
she wants to buy
I'm just preoccupied
my merch line
for 2024
Chris Kardashian wants to manage me
okay now you've just
pushed it too far because that's not believable
but everything else that you said up to this point was
Joe what are your plans for the
new year
same old same old
dreaming big
I assume
well I
wanted to say the other day I mailed Joanne and I was like this is why I wanted to say the other day
I mailed Joanne
and I was like
this is why
I want to be a billionaire
speaking of the Kardashians
have you seen
Kim Kardashian's
house of Christmas land
she has like
70
fur trees
in her house
just covered in snow
the whole way
down the halls
all outside
fur trees
are they not called fur
F-I-O-R
oh sorry
with her
I genuinely
thought you meant like
animal fur trees
you wouldn't know her
ostrich fur trees
like just skinned cheetahs
on sticks with baubles on them
I honestly would not know
it's like a skinned giraffe
in the hall
with like a star on its head
what's like
legitimacy
around like if a cheetah dies in the zoo,
who gets his coat?
I'll check my philosopher TikTok accounts.
I'm just asking for a friend.
Same with the giraffes.
What happens to their coats?
It's an excellent question.
Waste not want not.
If you find a man dead on the road,
would you skin him, folk?
If you find a man dead on the road,
would you skin him and wear him?
You bet your ass.
If I found a woman under the age of 20,
yes, I would skin her and
take her skin from my own face.
I don't mean her own face.
You'd have to wear the rest of her body as well.
I'm happy to, more than happy to.
Unless she's put in all the laser that I have.
I'm not taking on that
hindrance again.
Spenny walked into me this morning right um and I was sitting there and I had no top on
because like that's I was just sitting getting ready and he was staring at me and I was so
weirded out by it I was like what are you looking at and he was like your tits and I was like
really I actually couldn't believe it it was the most shocking thing that's
happened to me all year I was like is he actually come in here to look at this I love okay we've
moved on from Sheila's we're at your tits I think you have much sweeter nicer tits than you think
you do yeah but I wouldn't have tits to be looking at tits and that's why I was so taken aback this
morning I was like you've got a small tit right but like Jo I don't have tits To be looking at tits And that's why I was so Taken aback this morning I was like I don't You've got a small tit right
But like
Jo I don't know what your preference is
But a lot of men
Love a tiny disco tit
Really
And
Also when you're pregnant
Your tits are ginormous
I know I miss them deeply
Like remarkably large
The only part of pregnancy
That I love
Is
The tits
I know you shouldn't say that
But there you go I've said it And I mean it Not the is the tits. I know you shouldn't say that, but there you go.
I've said it and I mean it. Not the child. The tits. They're just a symptom of the large.
There's something you have to go through to get large breasts. Tell me, how was your week,
Joanne? Really good. I'm off to America in February. I saw. Finally gone on sale. I'm going to Dallas,
Denver,
Philadelphia,
Texas,
San Francisco.
I'm finally going back
to Chicago.
LA.
Go to LA.
There's more rooms
but it's a start.
The hustle begins again.
The America takeover
is beginning.
When I saw all those dates
I thought I would love
to be visiting those places.
So you better get your ass up in the morning
and go and like
look around
you've been to Portland
I'm sure
no
Portland
why do I
maybe I read it in a book
you've been to Seattle
I'm going to Seattle
I've never been to Seattle
so I'm very excited
it's going to be
it's going to be
it's six weeks
and it's like
small rooms
and then kind of
doing weekends in clubs
and then do my own small room again and I'm going to work it's six weeks and it's like small rooms and then kind of doing weekends in clubs and then do my own
small room again
and I'm going to
work up a new show
over there
and start the whole
thing again
but
Ireland and the UK
will be relieved
I will not
darken your stage doors
for a very long time
and so
I'm going to go
I'm going to go
and I suppose
kind of lose all confidence and momentum for six weeks And so I'm going to go and, I suppose,
kind of lose all confidence and momentum
for six weeks in America.
I'm ready for it.
It's nice to be grounded again.
You've gotten,
like you've been doing arenas
and bigger rooms.
Now it's time to really
knock her back down to earth,
I think, Jo.
It's time.
It's time for the humility tour.
Yeah.
It's brilliant.
Do you know what?
I think the Americans will love you.
All joking aside,
it's in your interest
to be able to do
all size rooms.
And the only way to,
because it is a different
type of performance,
big rooms versus small rooms.
Like I'd say my crowd work
wouldn't be that tight
at the moment
because I haven't been doing them
because we've been doing
bigger rooms.
So it's kind of going back.
Honing that skill set again,
you know.
It's very exciting.
Honing that skill.
Texas, Houston Houston isn't it
I know
because I paid
I paid 10 grand
for that American visa
so I'm like fuck this
I'm going back out
I couldn't believe
how extensive
the American visa was
they're taking the absolute piss
that's worse than tax nearly
I know
you're like
you'll get a grant
and they let me do
anything I want in there
oh my god
that's really exciting though thank you very much and you'll get a grant and they let me do anything I want in there. Oh my God. That's really exciting though.
Thank you very much.
And I went down
back in London
with my caretaker,
Alan.
But because I thought
my flat would be
up and running,
I arranged
everything to happen
over in London.
So now I'm in London
in a hotel
because my apartment
has nothing in it.
I don't know
if that apartment
will ever have anything in it.
Now she's off to America
for six weeks.
What's the bloody point?
It is.
It's a slow, slow build.
I have a couch arriving
in March of 2025.
Oh.
Because that's how long they take.
I did.
Now, I don't like to say
I told you so,
but I did warn you
about these things
quite a long time ago.
I don't even know
what fashion, what couch is being trend in 2025.
I feel like I'm about to order a corduroy couch, like a mustard corduroy couch from the 70s.
I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
How does anyone set up on their own who has slight logistical issues?
I just don't understand it.
I've just moved into my house in Ireland and it's pretty much set up.
I just got in here
about a week ago.
Well, well, well.
You'll see there's even
flowers on the counter
and a basil plant.
So I moved house as well
and I'm living over,
everyone keeps asking
where I've moved to.
Like I've just moved
obviously to Hoth
because I'd never leave Hoth
in a thousand years. So I've moved to like I've just moved obviously to Hoth because I'd never leave Hoth in a thousand years so I've pretty much moved about I mean I can see my old house from here so
I haven't moved far and no I am not I am not moving back to Ireland I just uh I when I tell
you the story about my house in Ireland is that boring hit us hit us let's give it a go okay i thought you said yeah it is no i said
so i came this man that i know owned this house and i remember coming up to see the house when
he just built the house and i turned to him and i said this is my dream house i'm gonna own it one
day like totally joking but it was my dream house and like cut to five years later and here I am sitting in his kitchen
that is now my kitchen
manifestation baby
yeah
I literally was like
that's the house
I want forever
and it happened
so I'm thrilled
and who do you thank for that?
Chicken fillet rolls
and Brillo pads
do you know what?
do you know what?
you were living in a palace
built on chicken fillet rolls
and Brillo pads.
And you fucking go.
I was sitting beside Megan
yesterday in the cage
and I was like,
Jesus,
I've just gotten the bill for the,
like,
I've gotten a quote
for the curtains in the house
and she's like,
you'd want to get back
onto Brillo pads.
So I did.
Better hit that gram again.
Brillo, hello.
The queen of collabs in her collab castle. Well earned, hello. The queen of collabs
in her collab castle.
Well earned, Vogue.
Fair play to you.
I went to the Gaiety Panto.
Did you see that?
I think I saw that, yes.
So we do like one show a night
and it is so exhausting.
I never knew how exhausting it was until I did it.
They are doing two shows a day until the 21st of January.
They get Christmas Day off and that's it.
Ching, ching.
Apparently they're all billionaires.
That's what I heard.
Do you know what?
We were all trying to figure it out at dinner.
We were like, what are they on?
Oh my God, they must be getting paid a fortune.
Adderall and about 50k a show, I'd say.
Allegedly.
Yeah, obviously allegedly, but loads of Adderall.
So we worked with MCD this year,
who basically were the promoters for our tour.
And because they run the Gaelic Panto,
they organized a meet and greet for us after the show.
Well, when Theodore found out he was meeting Cinderella,
he couldn't wait. He spoke about it for the whole second half. Well, when Theodore found out he was meeting Cinderella, he couldn't wait.
He spoke about it for the whole second half
because that's when I found out.
Couldn't wait to meet her.
What's she going to be like?
Walked in to meet her.
Wouldn't go near her.
Went and hid behind a table at the back of the bar.
And I was like, come on, T.
And he was like, no, no.
And he was like, wouldn't go near her.
Wouldn't even come in for the family group shot. He absolutely mortified he was he fancied her so much and she was like come here and
he was like no he now is a powerful woman when he sees one and he is rightly intimidated cinderella
was quite intimidating she was gorgeous and very good of. She's a woman at her peak.
Professionally,
spiritually,
physically.
It would make sense that he's intimidated by her.
I would be too.
Mentally,
she puts up with a lot of shit,
doesn't give a crap.
She's still like,
doesn't care.
What's her story again?
It's the shoe story,
I believe.
Yeah,
and she's got the two ugly sisters
who were very funny in the panto.
One of them actually went to my school When I was younger
And you know when you just know
Somebody is going to be
Like that's what their job is going to be
Stage
Yeah
So I always knew that she was going to do that
And she was there
Were they actually ugly?
No
They had drawn ugly onto their faces
They tried
In what way?
Drawn like loads of like
Wrinkles on their faces
They tried to make them look wrinkled and scary With all these black lines all over their face did you see did you see something
now i don't know if you'll mind me talking about spenny put up this post right from marx and
spencer yes say an ad the abusive comments he's getting about his weight and like how his weight
loss has made him look old i've never seen anything like it and guess
what all from women
can you imagine that was the other way around
but they
Robbie Williams because I was
I watched I binged Robbie Williams
documentary in
seven minutes even though it was four hours long
it's like a superpower
but he was saying as well
I saw him online saying like,
stop saying I'm too thin.
People are weight obsessed.
They're weight obsessed.
You're too fat, you're too thin,
you're too average, you're too fit.
If you don't look like the way you look.
You're not eating enough,
you're eating too much.
Yeah.
It's all projection.
I know, I kind of felt sorry for him
because he did ask me then
and I was like, oh no, that's terrible. Isn't he doing a lot of fasting and stuff didn't you say yeah he does do a lot
of fasting he really likes it he hasn't really been fasting over here but he's heavier like
he's been a lot lighter before now maybe I'll get him Botox for Christmas there you go thanks girls
for the for the tip I know what to get that decrepit looking old skinny man. I'll ring him now and say,
eat a sandwich!
And hang up because that's what they say.
That's the classic line.
Yeah.
Oh my God, eat a sandwich!
Now, no one has said that to me
in a very long time, sadly,
but there you go.
I get the,
I bet she's not really eating that.
You're dead, right?
I just lick it and smell it
and put it back.
Indeed.
Yeah.
The photo shoot is now finished.
We will toss the pizza away um but the but that is it's real tough work isn't it oh i mean because it's like i'd say it is so full on but it was and like i love the panto it's one of my like i used
to my nanny used to buy me tickets to that same panto when we were younger that was our christmas
present from our nanny
and so now I'm trying to like
carry the tradition on
so for the last four years
we've all gone
with all the kids
and
because we work
it's such a nicer tradition
than making your kids
go to mass at Christmas
which is what happened to us
yeah
that was our panto
I'm just fucking around
I'm just sick of it
and it lasts so long
on Christmas Day.
Like,
where's Jack?
Where's the fucking beanstalk?
I want to go back
to my fucking presents.
Just a lad in a dress
handing out disco biscuits.
But,
do you remember
they had to move
midnight mass
to like eight o'clock
because everyone was
too pissed?
Who wants to go
to midnight mass?
That would be the only thing
that would get you through Mass.
There is something,
there is something kind of,
what would you say,
collective about it.
There is something very togethery about it,
camaraderie about it, I will say.
And they bring out,
they drag out Jesus and put him in the manger.
All that jazz goes on at Midnight Mass, I think.
Because he's born.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's his birthday, obviously.
So my mum used to take us
to mass every week
and the last day
I went to mass
my mum dragged us out of there
because the priest was like
second marriages are wrong
and she started going
he started going into
this big rant about like
people being divorced
so my mum was like
that's it
we're going
I've never been so happy
in my life
never had to go back again
what is wrong with these priests
like you're not in a position
to lose business
at this stage
do what you need to do
you should be recruiting
this was back in the day
when they could
Sandra's like
don't you mess
with my lifestyle choices
in front of my children
yeah
I was going to say
dirty Egypt
but you can't say that
can't really
but you can
you can
that was my most
exciting part
of Christmas
Day
was
we were allowed
to wear
the clothes
that we had been
bought
to entice us
to go to mass
because obviously
we had no choice
but we still
my mother
made our life easier
if we didn't
whinge the whole time
was that we'd be
allowed to wear
our Christmas clothes
so we'd go shopping
in the beginning
of December
and we'd buy our Christmas
clothes. And then the Christmas
outfit would sit in the hot press for
weeks and weeks. And I'd just see it there
and it would just be folded. I'd look at it and I'd touch
it, but I wasn't allowed to physically put it anywhere
near my body until we were going to
mass. So I was squealing
with excitement about my new outfit, which kind
of blurred the
boredom out of me
for like 15, 20 minutes
do you know what I mean
and at that stage
my ass was kind of
in the flow
so it was too late
but the excitement
of the Christmas clothes
I don't even remember it now
everyone
I still
like my kids have
Christmas Day outfits
and they're just sitting upstairs
they're not allowed
to wear them
until Christmas Day
there's always
a Christmas Day outfit
yeah I just
I'd love
I'd love if I still
had that life in me oh no do you know what I do I have a Christmas Day outfit. Yeah, I just, I'd love if I still had that life in me.
Oh no, do you know what?
I do.
I have a Christmas Day outfit this year.
I do.
Do you?
It'll go on for about two hours
and that will be it.
Straight back into the tracksuit.
It all seems a bit silly now,
just wearing a Christmas outfit
to sit at my mum's dinner table
and then go back to bed.
Maybe I'll get involved.
I'm wearing a big gold sequined skirt.
Wait till you see it.
You'll be annoyed at yourself now you didn't get out of the PJs.
Do you want to hear about the world's most normal Christmas
and we can compare ours to that?
Yes.
I read this thing online, right?
Okay, wake up at eight, open presents at nine.
Who the hell gets up at eight on Christmas Day?
You're always up by six.
Come on.
You're so excited. No. Last year, or're so excited The last time me and mum spent Christmas
Just the two of us
We were in a hotel last year
I think we both got out by 12
No
I swear to god
Listen when there's no children
There's no hope
I am so excited to get the day started even when i didn't have kids i
was so excited to do what take it up and it'd be christmas day it's so exciting just have a few
drinks to have your fry because you have to have your fry early otherwise you'll be too full for
when dinner comes around god what's wrong with me maybe i've maybe i'm too heavily medicated i just
the day just kind of rolls over me. Now Christmas Eve,
I do really enjoy Christmas Eve.
I find that very buzzy
and I love New Year's Eve.
That's kind of surprising
to me now.
Yeah,
I do love it.
I love,
I love the anticipation.
I find the day itself
a bit of an anti-climax.
It's the build up I love.
I do.
The pre-climax.
Yeah,
well we're kind of
in the pre-climax now
and I like that.
Like I'm having a big lunch with all my cousins.
There's something like 35 of us going for lunch on Friday in town.
That would be nice.
Yeah, things like that I love.
And I can't tell you how much I was looking forward to the panto.
And like, I'm going to see the lights with the kids tomorrow.
Like, those are fun things leading up to Christmas.
But Christmas Day, I absolutely love it.
It says finish opening presents at 10.
That's a lot of presents.
A lot of presents.
Me and Pat are still,
we're still dozing at this stage.
Carry on.
First Merry Christmas text sent at 10.
Please God,
if any of my friends are listening,
just don't text me on Christmas Day, Joanne.
Honestly,
I know that you wish me a Merry Christmas,
but if you send the text,
then I have to respond.
If there's anyone you needn't worry about
it's me
trust me
I give you my
I give you my word
I can't stand
a Christmas text
because then you're
spending your
like I don't want to
have to write back
to everyone
I know I hope you
have a nice Christmas
it's just like assumed
let's just get it done now
and the same
happy birthday Vogue
for whenever that is
and happy new year also
and thank you and congratulations on your next wedding like it's all just there I've said it done now and the same happy birthday Vogue for whenever that is and happy new year also and
thank you
and congratulations
on your next wedding
like it's all just there
I've said it all now
thank you
you know
you know I feel
you know I'm thinking
about you on the day
that's all
that's all that needs
to be said
I would rather that
than have to respond
the worst is when someone
like I don't mind
like obviously
you know
I'm not a complete scrooge
I actually really love Christmas
but the day itself
is very relaxed in my house
because I am child free.
And I was about to say so is my mother,
but she's not because I am her child.
But you know what I mean?
But so obviously I have two nephews,
so they're coming up this year.
So that'll be a bit more crack.
But the funniest is when people just text,
happy Christmas, full stop.
You're like, don't bother.
Did you even know you said that?
Did you just sit in a Christmas template? Like if you're going to send, did you even know you said that did you just sit
in a Christmas template
like if you're gonna send
at least put a smiley face
or a Christmas tree
or something
just please God
don't send it
just don't send it
Spenny's mom
gets everyone so
like she'll text me
about people
that I might have met
once in her circle
and she's like
oh it's Sheila Ahern's
birthday today
and I'm like
okay like what do you
want me to do
with that information I'm not texting Sheila Ahern I don today and I'm like okay like what do you want me to do with that information
I'm not texting Sheila Ahern
I don't know her
Paddy be saying to me
photos of babies
going oh she's here
nine pounds three ounces
like what is that
we have a couple of things
to plug
we've gone into
electrician mode Vogue
yeah we have to
I would like to plug my tour dates
with Spenny we're going on tour in Ireland we're very excited it starts in March and we're going
to Cork we're going to Belfast and we're doing a couple in the Gaelic which I love so if you're
thinking of any Christmas present ideas please think of Spencer and Vogue back to my world's
normal Christmas families Families supposedly start fighting
around five o'clock on Christmas Day.
I don't usually have big family arguments
on Christmas Day
because we don't fight over the TV or anything.
I just don't like care what we watch
because I don't sit my phone.
Yeah, we're not scrappy on the day.
But here are some of the craziest family feuds
that happened at Christmas time.
So a man attacks mum after argument
over roast potatoes.
He was convicted of attacking his 78-year-old mother
because the roast potatoes were not crispy enough.
Fair.
I mean, Jo, everyone has to have a crispy roast potato.
Come on.
Gooseflesh.
What was that woman thinking?
It's one day of the year that man deserves a crispy potato.
For God's sake.
My instinct would say there was an underlying issue there,
but maybe not.
Maybe he genuinely feels that strongly
about crispy potatoes.
As is right as a man.
That's another thing.
I do like a crispy potato myself.
Do you want to hear another one?
This one I love.
A man sues his wife
for underspending
on his Christmas gifts.
Sues her.
Yeah.
They had an agreement to spend, listen listen to this 10 grand each on each other
10 grand and she only spent 500 quid i love her oh well i mean come on he tried to sue her for
entering a verbal contract and not and not fulfilling it imagine being that disgusted
with your gift I would be absolutely
fuming
or maybe it was
10 grand
maybe she bought
one of those
backgammon sets
from Goop
that's actually 10 grand
but looks like it cost
20 quid
no
it would really test
a relationship
if you'd agreed
on a cost
together
or a budget
and you're looking
at your presents
and you're like
something doesn't
add up here
and you're asking
for receipts that
that does ruin the Christmas spirit or certainly court would ruin the Christmas spirit did he win
did he lose do we have any further information win like you can't do that but like I know
something that's how unjust I know so this Christmas Benny and I spent equal on each other
he wanted some coat and I wanted an armchair um and uh and I know that he went and bought me something else on top that I
didn't ask for. It wasn't part of the deal. So I know he wants, because he wants to give me something
on Christmas day, but I have nothing else to give him. So you get ready. There's going to be a huge
family argument to Christmas day when I don't pull anything out. That's his own choice. His own choice.
A mother of three lunges at a group of carolers at her doorstep. She put up a sign
saying no carolers
and they arrived
at the doorstep
and she attacks them
when they entered
her property
to sing carols
three nights in a row.
I mean,
they're taking the piss.
If there's a sign up
saying no carolers
and you're shown up
three nights in a row,
like you know
what you're doing.
That's revenge.
That's like,
they're out for pain and hurt I've
never had carolers to the house I think my elf my when we were grown up there might have been
carolers but like this is my question when they're carolers are there singing like do you look just
look them in the eyes where do you look I used to go caroling when we were younger when we lived in
this estate and something and we used to go caroling for charity but the amount of people
that would be like oh is it really going to charity what are you doing with this money
like we're standing there singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer at people's doors but they do
you just stare at each other like what else do you do yeah well in that kind of intimate and
environment I'd open the door like oh look the carol singers are here gorgeous hand me my eye
mask and then I would just blind myself so I wouldn't have to
look at them
and then I would just
enjoy their dulcet tones
I used to
I used to go out
with a musician
and like when he would
like get his guitar
and sing songs
in front of me
I'd literally be like
like looking at the ceiling
and stuff
it was not romantic
in any sense for me
too tense
it's sinister
it's threatening
yeah
it's violent that's yeah the car. It's threatening. Yeah, it's violent.
Yeah, the carol singer. There's something
threatening about it.
So apparently
you know like social media
lurkers, people who don't actually engage
with posts? Yeah.
Apparently it's been linked to
mental illness. So if
you are the person who doesn't like, share, engage,
you are mentally unwell, which I think is a stretch,
but makes sense considering my mother has a burner account
and never engages.
Researchers at the Central China Normal University,
and that is the name of the university.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Is there an oddball university as well?
I have no idea.
But this is the normal university in China.
People.
Now, in fairness, the research, it was amongst 500 people, which is never, you know, that telling.
No, but it was enough to get them into the Daily Mail and enough for me to read it and believe it.
So people who use platforms privately and don't engage are more likely to suffer from social anxiety compared to people who use it actively which would suggest that me and Vogue are in our mental health peak
I would agree we are incredibly active online voyeurs are more afraid of unfamiliar situations
in their physical lives and those who use actively found they had more social media activity found
they had more social support they have improved
friendship
and quality of friendships
I wouldn't like to be
called a voyeur
that kind of reminds me
of somebody that just
stands there watching
somebody having sex
or something
that's what I think of
I know it's a bit lurky
but I guess
the key here is
stalking online
doesn't assist you socially
because I guess
as long as you forget
you're allowed to approach
the people
you're just kind of
staring at them
from the other side of the room
I thought it was
interesting and good to know
so from now on
if there's a lurker
whether it be a parent
or a sibling
accuse them of mental illness
and refer to them
to the China Normal University
for your results
for their absolute
but I think that people
for their bulletproof research
but they were saying
the reason it sends people
into this
kind of social anxiety spiral
is because
people tend to portray themselves
in overly flattering ways
on social media.
So passive users
fall into an upward social
comparison habit
where they don't believe
that they're as good
as these people
that they're watching online.
And I guess
if they actually engaged
a bit more
they'd realise it's all bullshit.
I know. I find that though and everyone's depressed
when I see people's clean houses online
I'm like how is their house so clean and they've got
like three kids I'm like that's not possible
I know it's hiding somewhere
that drives me mad I don't know why it
annoys me so much but I'm like please God show me
a mess 7pm I was saying to Alan
I was yawning all day so I'm going to bed I'm absolutely
wrecked I'm exhausted he's like alright 7pm I was yawning one day so I'm going to bed. I'm absolutely wrecked. I'm exhausted.
He's like alright. 7pm
passes. 8pm. 9pm.
12am. 3am.
I'm still scrolling on TikTok
watching people clean their couches.
Can't get enough of the before and afters.
Rugs. Couch attacks.
Oh my god I love that. When they get the people
in to like to do the
suction thing. That's my favourite thing in the world to watch.
Just anyone cleaning.
I just find it so soothing.
I'm just kind of goofing off in the dark
watching people clean their homes.
It's weird.
I don't know what it is.
And I know it's a complete waste of my time.
And I know my brain cells are melting out my ears
and I should be reading Dickens or something.
But there I am on clean talk.
It starts off with some young
couple's house in ottawa and it ends up in a crime scene in la and there's like people cleaning blood
off the walls and then i'm like go to sleep joanne i'm like what's he using on the wall there that's
fab a scrub daddy oh i must order that online i don't don't even start watching people power
hosing power hosing is the most addictive thing
I've ever watched
in my whole life
and it's so hard
to do yourself
it looks so easy
but it takes ages
you'd want to see it
on Brain Matter
because I've been watching that
for a couple of nights now
and it is very impressive
that is disgusting
do you want to hear the
I was looking at
an in and out list right
for 2024
in and out
here is what is out
you can't say the word
slay anymore
which is very unfortunate
because we say it all the time
we're big slay people
slay
slay Jo slay
do you know what
I won't miss it
I won't miss it
I will not miss Slay at all.
I didn't even know it was in.
It was always out to me.
Tote bags.
What?
I'm not.
Oh my God.
You two are disgusting.
I'm not a big fan of a tote bag now.
Is plastic back in?
What's going on?
Plastic is not back in.
A tote bag is just bad for your back,
bad for your shoulders.
Just get yourself a backpack
I think is what
everyone's trying to say
okay well I'm
cancelling the line of
tote bags I was bringing
in for next year
could you not have told me
this earlier on
in the conversation
I think your bags
are a different
stop the conveyor belts
your bags are a different
kind of bag
but I don't think you should bring
it a tote bag. I just think you've now
given the world a bag that can carry
everything and its mother and you can't take that away.
I love a tote bag.
Me and Gerold spent a lot of the tour
talking about how much we love tote bags.
We're big tote people. I'm not a tote
person at all. I think it's because I get so many
totes sent my way that I don't want
another tote. Tell me more. I'm writing all this down are we talking about a tote I'm talking about
the fabric tote bags that you get like if someone sends you like a candle it'll be in a fabric
yeah no I don't like them okay um okay headphones with wires Joanne you're in look I'm out I've got
wires today I do think wires have been struggling fashionably for quite a while. I won't miss them either.
I just think for me,
I need to have a backup of wires
because I threw an absolute meltdown
when my headphones
wouldn't connect to my laptop
and I just don't want to be
in that place in my life again.
So I'll have a backup.
Insta-friendly homes.
Great.
No one has the time.
I didn't write that, by the way.
That was down.
Well, I will say,
and I confession for say, and I,
confession,
for me,
when I was scrolling
through TikTok,
I stumbled upon a woman
who was kind of doing
the whole cleaning house,
what I do in the morning,
getting ready with three kids,
blah, blah, blah.
The content I kind of enjoy.
Yeah.
She said,
my house isn't Insta-friendly,
like it's just a normal house. And she's like, I want I want to you know just because it's a normal house doesn't mean
that I can't post videos and blah blah and I can tell you I didn't get the same kick out of it at
all hands up I have to say normal babe moving on like I live in a normal house I want my tiktok
my morning get ready with me content to be aspirational of sorts so I disagree with this list
who wrote this list
because now
everything's been thrown out
I
tote bags are in
wires are in
now that you say it like that
I actually kind of agree with you
you kind of do look at
someone's house
just to be like
look how nice
and gorgeous
and tidy their house is
even though I'm just jealous
and that's why I hate it
it's just jealousy
the house was
it was just too regular
for my evening scrowl.
Even for me.
That could be my house,
do you know what I mean?
No, no, no.
I'm not here to see myself.
I'm going to keep that in mind.
I'm not here.
I'm not here for representation.
I'm here for aspirational content.
Even like,
yeah,
I suppose.
Okay, fine.
I'll just sort my shit out drinking is back in because
gen z have vandalized alcohol for too long this i didn't make this up by the way this is not made
up by me this is made up by someone else on the internet what a guru oh my god this is actually
gonna sound like ironing guys ironing it's back in breathing
breathing is huge for 2024 this is gonna sound like i did make it up
menstrual cycles aren't big next year girls keep that shit to yourself third on the list 21 year
old this is some 21 year old intern in an office they're just like fill this page with shit no
it's not it's the internet third on the list
YouTube at home
workouts
fuck gyms
I didn't even write that
that's down there
that has nothing to do
with me and launching
FlexiFit
I swear to God
okay
we'll believe you
and blind dates
hinge is a nightmare
supposedly
a minefield
so blind dates
are back in
well I have to say
if I was back
in the dating scene I would be doing arranged dates I would in well I have to say if I was back in the dating scene
I would be doing arranged dates
I would be doing
I would be doing like
who do you think I should date
that's what I would be doing
and I would be going to bars
I would be going old school
I would be going classic
I'd be lurking around gyms more
with no headphones on
because don't wear the headphones
if you're looking for a date
I would definitely
or knickers
yeah no knickers I would and wear the see if you're looking for a date. I would definitely be up. Or knickers. Yeah, no knickers.
I would wear the see-through leggings
when you squat.
I would be up bars as well
and set up by people.
And just in the gym,
just make eye contact back
with those incredibly sinister men
who stare at you in the mirror.
Yeah.
Did you hear about this dating site?
Sorry,
I screen grabbed the weirdest crap
because of us.
So a woman found a partner
on Britain's
dullest men Facebook group
and said it's better
than Tinder.
So there's a Facebook group
in the UK
called the dullest men
and this woman said
she's met the most
amazing man on it.
Any more information there?
No, it's the dullest.
It's officially
the new Tinder
supposedly
the dullest man
on Facebook
did he put himself
up there
or was he put up
there by someone else
I think he put himself
up there
and he actually
doesn't look
that dull
like he's wearing
a chain and stuff
you know he's got
some spice going on
he's got a gold chain
on
smiling
in the eyes
it's men who
appreciate things
like their tools
being in the right
order and being able to find them.
Jesus Christ.
Jo, stop turning me on.
Yeah, like dads.
Like my dad, dads would have been like, you know, my dad loved a crane.
He loved looking at cranes and ships and stuff.
Yeah.
Airplanes, that kind of thing.
My dad loved looking at pints and vodka.
Benson and Hedges, pints, a real passion of my dad's.
Yeah. My dad didn't
drink the crown
he just looked at it
and
I mean
I'm sure he would
have eaten it
if he could
he loved them so much
but
I recommend
Vogue
I stan Spanian Vogue I stan
Spanian Vogue
I recommend Joanne
and Joanne recommends me
we've both given each other
five stars
strangely
a riveting
raucous night
a night full of
fun and laughter
with friends and boozing
in the Americas
with Joanne
in the Americas
a triumph
Spencer and Vogue.
It's grand if you're into that sort of thing.
Joanne McNally.
Thank God she's left us for America.
Is there a child in the mix?
There is a child here.
She has an earache,
so she's not well.
How's her mood?
I wouldn't say
it's fantastic
at the moment
okay
um
she's got a sore ear
pigtails on a child
are the most adorable
things in the world
pigtails on an adult woman
are the most terrifying
things in the world
I think adult women
that can swap
I do
I do think that
I was considering
pigtail buns for myself because I think that I could get away with them.
But like, I don't want you to see them.
I know.
Actually, I think two Princess Leia buns on you would look gorgeous.
But can you imagine you with two ponytails?
You'd look deranged.
You look a bit creepy.
It's like the female version of an incel. That's the woman
who's sitting down in her mother's basement with like long ponytails on either side of her head.
And I, you know, I don't know why, but they're just, I just think they're wildly inappropriate
for a grown woman. There's something too infantile about them. I don't like them.
No, it is a bit creepy. Oh, here we go. Well, just by the way, I also love a list.
And I was reading the, what was it?
Sunday Times magazine list, which I was obviously very, again, attacked by.
Because it was like, oh.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah.
Blah, blah, blah.
Like, get over yourself kind of thing.
And I was like, I'm sorry.
This is obviously written by a 21 year old whose eyes aren't falling out of their heads.
Constantly.
Go into this list. this should just show you
how fucking ridiculous
these lists are
but obviously I'm also
a bit into them
Patrick Dempsey
is coming back into fashion
now the man isn't dead
he has not been dead
he's been alive the whole time
but apparently he's coming back
he was just voted
sexiest man alive
I don't agree with it
what?
yeah he was voted
sexiest man alive
about a month ago
and I don't agree Jo we put you forward for that he was voted sexiest man alive about a month ago. And I don't agree.
Jo, we put you forward for that.
We just want you to know you've been rejected.
Yeah.
Well, I appreciate the consideration.
You didn't even make the short list.
Heating up.
Pasta water candle.
The gift for the person who has everything.
From the chic fragrance brand DS and Durga.
Yeah, it's a candle that smells like pasta water.
Which, from my experience, doesn't smell of anything.
It smells a bit,
it smells like just hot dirt.
It's disgusting.
Do you remember those feet massagers
that your grandparents used to use?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they'd bubble up.
Those blue yolks in the air.
It's like having a candle made of that shit.
You want like a white linen candle.
You want your house to smell like clean washing,
in my opinion
whoever wrote you stop trying to push out pomegranate okay just sometimes the normal
stuff works i told you pomegranate reminds me of dead dad that's the dead dad perfume the dead
dad candle that's what we call it i can't have pomegranate candle do you know what joe malone
recently sent me which i was very grateful for but i also found it a bit trolly they sent me a whole gift package of pomegranate noir and i was like oh thank you
for reminding me of my father's passing i appreciate that squirt squirt with his finger
stitched to one of the little candle bags well thank you everyone so much for listening we have
really appreciated a great year. Yeah, we have.
And we really appreciate
your support this year.
We've had a great time on tour.
And thank you to everyone
who came to the shows.
We loved them.
We had such a ball.
We loved them.
And thank you to everyone
who voted for us.
Because we won a couple
of podcast awards this year
and like we never
win anything.
Yeah.
So we're thrilled.
Happy Christmas to you
and yours. And Happy New Year. And anyone who's not yours. We're taking, we're thrilled yes happy Christmas to you and yours
and happy new year
and anyone who's not yours
we're taking
we're gonna take
a week off
but you'll still have
a bonus this week
and then we'll see you
after Christmas
have a really good one
lots of love