My Therapist Ghosted Me - MTGM EXTRA! "Private website time..."
Episode Date: August 3, 2022Have you got something that absolutely has to be shared with the MTGM community? WHY haven't you sent it in yet?! This week, Vogue & Joanne are asked for their "questionable" advice and a listener rev...eals a bit too much to her mum.If you'd like to get in touch, you can send an email to hello@MTGMpod.comFor more information about Joanne's gigs, just visit www.joannemcnally.comThank you!
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Hello and welcome to the bonus episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me with me Vogue Williams
and Joanne McAuley.
Joanne, stop! That's water! Stop! You're drinking water!
Joanne stop that's water stop you're drinking water I've been spiked
what's the reverse of getting spiked
I didn't know I'm sorry it smells like wine
look at her
she doesn't give a shite
she's just drinking
everything from the mini bar
she wouldn't think
of going to the shop
next door now
and stocking up
on a few bottles of water
well Prada Peter
Prada Peter feels
the same about you
I am rinsing that thing
I'm
I've had my pod
dug into it
24-7
that mini bar
has never seen
so much action.
I have never.
Caramelized almonds for £60.
I'm like, fuck it.
Do you know what I mean?
I was
horrified when I went away with
Penny the first time and he kept dipping into the mini bar.
I was like, what the hell?
People don't just go to the shop and buy. I go to the shop
and buy bits. I'd be hard pushed
to go to the cinema and not bring my own bag of bits well so firstly it was so funny
when we first got here alan was like listen let's look because we arrived we were like we got glass
champagne i was like let's just look at the price of champagne and because this holiday was this
holiday was a particularly like intentionally like extravagant holiday
because basically
we've been
we've been working
my whole life
since January
and
he was like
Joanne
stop looking up right
let's just enjoy ourselves
and I was like
okay
you'll regret that
my friend
you don't ask me twice
I've been in
getting facials
putting them on the room
he doesn't know
but you're going halves
you're going halves
everyone's going
50-50 baby
50-50
well
it's so funny
because he's in the room
there now
and I'm
I was like here
he's like why don't you
just record
I'm on the balcony
he's like why don't you
just record the podcast
in the room
I was like
are you
I'm going to have a
private conversation
with Fab
okay you cannot listen to what I'm going to have a private conversation with Fab okay
you cannot listen
to what I'm about to say
if you want to listen
to this shit
you'll press play
on a public platform
like everyone else
I feel really
I'm really uncomfortable
spending sometimes
I hear him listening
to our videos
that I post on Instagram
and I'm like
oh god
oh god
is he going to listen
to the whole thing
turn it off
you're like
shh
that's private
private stop reading my diary weirdo I can listen to the whole thing. Turn it off. You're like, shh, that's private. Private.
Stop reading my diary, weirdo.
Okay, I want to start with listener emails today.
Oh God, right.
Yeah, cool, go.
Okay, wait.
I've got to put on my bracelets.
I can't start potting without my bracelets.
Absolutely not a hope.
Okay.
They're your lucky charms.
They're me lucky charms.
Without them, you have no comedic power
isn't that right folk do you know what i find i like it's a shame we're recording at this time
in the morning because let's be honest i'm definitely funnier when i've had a drink
100 it's just like i could barely allow myself a fanta zero at 10 to 10 i will be getting one
throughout this pod though um so i just think vodka is not right okay emails emails emails from our lovely
listeners hi joanna vogue i need some of your signature questionable advice here um my part
i actually i actually take offense to that why is our advice questionable
my partner and i have been having some issues lately mostly because i'm basically a walking
mental disorder so the other day i did the most stupid thing possible and asked him, aren't we all?
And I asked him straight to his face
if he's considering breaking up with me.
And he said, yes.
I'm not so sure what I was expecting,
but that'll teach me not to ask questions
I don't want the answer to.
So now obviously I'm an insecure mess.
I'm obviously absolutely desperate for him not to leave me,
but I know that if he smells the desperation on me,
it'll push him away more.
I have to get him to think that I'm a bad bitch
and I have my shit together. It's true. And he's lucky to have me how do i do that uh when i feel about as good as a
soggy biscuit obviously my friends have told me to break up with him first and find someone better
okay joanne hit her so my instinct so two things come to mind. One, therapy. This woman has lost her sense of self
and her self-worth.
And so she's now a bumbling mess
when it comes to this lad.
I remember I was like that with the lad once before.
Just didn't think I was good enough for him.
Blah, blah, blah.
And I went to a counsellor
and every day I left elated.
Like absolutely delighted with myself.
Now, it wears off after about four hours but then
the more therapy you get the longer the effect lasts so that's why you just have to keep going
to therapy because she was like what do you bring to this relationship what do you bring what does
he get from you and I was like I had never even considered what I brought to it all I considered
was what was what he brought to us sometimes you just need to remember your self-worth
exactly and that's a problem that
i definitely have vogue you've never had that in your life from what i can tell you are the most
confident person like i've seen vogue like where in situations with men if they act what the fuck
is that focus sorry i'm just i'm just moving stuff around because i think i look better looking when
the laptop's slightly higher so i put a pair of of socks on. Well, this is exhibit A, okay?
So I...
Oh yeah, gorgeous.
I've seen you in situations where I would have like crumbled
and you're like, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not putting up with this.
I'm not having it.
I'm not doing it.
Do you know what it is though?
It's actually, it's not self-confidence.
It's just like this extreme stubbornness I suffer from.
So I could be a thousand percent wrong in a situation.
I'm like, do you know what?
Fuck you.
Nope.
Nope.
No way.
Yeah, no, there is a stubbornness there,
but I think you've a lot of,
and very justified, self-worth.
Whereas it took me longer to get there.
I think that you definitely have
self-worth now but I think even going back a year ago you definitely didn't but you worked on
yourself as you were saying yes but like the difference but remember I said to you I was like
right I felt like a piece of shit when I went through this big uh messy breakup and it took me
like six months of hell of like not wanting to be alone, but having to be alone. And then when you get to that point and you're just like, actually, I don't hate my own company anymore.
Then you're in a good spot.
But with her as well, I think that like, I think by the way she's talking, it might be justified that he kind of is thinking of breaking up with her.
And at least he's still being honest with her.
And maybe she should say to him, listen, if she really wants to be with him and it's a good relationship maybe listen I just need to to work on myself a little bit and I need to figure some
stuff out myself did I miss something he's not kind of thinking break up but he said he's gonna
did he not just say yeah yeah he said well she said are you thinking of breaking up with me if
he was gonna break up with her he would have broken up with her so this is why she feels like
shit because he's pulling the love away and he's staying with her.
He's probably slowly just like,
this is the thing with this.
People don't just jump
when people have dates
and relationships.
They don't just leave straight away.
They stay,
but they're distant.
They're removed.
They're not engaged anymore.
So then you feel like
they've gone off you
because they kind of have,
but they won't admit it because they're not ready to
leave yet. So this leaves you in this horrible
situation where you're basically with
someone who you kind of feel, do you know
what I can't stand? Where you're like, is
everything okay? Is everything okay?
Because you know something's not okay. And they're
like, yeah, everything's fine. Is everything okay with
you? And you're both smiling at each other like a psychopath
going, yeah, everything's fine with me.
Everything's fine. Everything's fine. And you know there's nothing fine it's this unspoken
horrible tension it's the worst I had it with the lad I went out with literally the last year
was like that it was horrific horrific horrific horrific horrific I feel so sorry for this girl
do you know what the only thing is the only thing, I don't think that he's being like that.
I think that he's literally being like,
God,
I hope you get your shit together
so I don't have to break up with you.
I think that she needs to.
I hard disagree.
Okay,
well then you're the one
with the questionable advice,
not me.
I hard disagree.
I think this woman is actually,
her intuition is screaming.
She's become this insecure mess
because this person that she's with
is kind of trying to make a decision on whether
he wants to stay with her or not. Listen, listen.
Cue madness.
I've been there. Okay.
I've worn the straitjacket like I fucking know.
Are you going to listen to somebody
sitting here with a normal necklace
on or somebody sitting there with balls
as her necklace? She's got testicles
on as a necklace
Sam Ham design thank you so much for the gift
Joe who's who's whose side of the fence are you on Joe uh I have to remain impartial at all times
as well you know you're not Boris Johnson Joe yeah yeah yeah although you do look strikingly like him don't you dare that is the meanest thing
that is the meanest thing look at her big look at her big laughing head that is the meanest thing
that she's ever so come here to me spenny because boris johnson went to uh went to uh
eton and spenny went to eton and adam mailed um text me last night and he asked spenny to do an
eton accent for a certain reason whatever it doesn't really matter
context Adam is a
friend of ours
Adam is a friend of ours
and I'm just saying it
because actually we
spoke about Boris Johnson
do you want to hear
what an Etonian accent
is meant to sound like
sure
like we are in this
place kind of vibe
so literally
everything's like
just like Spanish
everything comes
you know
like with
hard work
you know do you know he like with hard work, you know?
Do you know who he sounds like?
I'm watching Love Island at the moment
because I'm doing the final after show.
I've been sucked a little bit into that, by the way.
Yeah, it's very entertaining.
That sounds like that guy, Charlie,
who was only on for a couple of seconds.
But I mean, look, I'm not in a position to judge
because me and Vogue both have
incredibly irritating accents.
Sorry, Vogue, I meant to tell you.
So I'm swanning through the W Hotel the other day,
bikini on, wine in hand.
Living my life.
I've got an inflatable donut ring around my waist.
I'm a grown woman walking to lunch.
And this woman
this American woman stops me and she's like excuse me are you Joanne McNally from the podcast
and I was like excuse me so the two of us were in absolute shock she works with an Irish woman
in America who put her on to us anyway next thing she came on holiday and she heard the voice. But you know what she said? Because we had a
great chat. She was so sound. She was like,
I'm going to be totally honest. I cannot
tell the difference between the two of you. And I was like, I
know. It's really bad.
It's bad, folk. Someone's going to have
to change their accent and it's not going to be me.
It's definitely not going to be me. You should develop
that Etonian thing. You could do that.
Oh, I suppose I could do that. It would make sense
as well. Yeah. Oh, do you know what as well I i was gonna say oh i could talk about breakups for the rest of
my life and i probably will i just i'm kind of fascinated by them horrified by them i just feel
such a sadness for people when i know that they're going through a breakup because there's nothing
you can do nothing worse there's nothing worse but you can't feel better you literally just have to wait it's yeah
there's only time and crushing up xanax like in a salt bowl and just like leaving it on the kitchen
table and drizzling it on like every fucking thing you eat yeah oh do you know it as well though um
i remember i was seeing this guy before and it was kind of moving quite quickly and I was like I felt it was
moving too quickly and I said to him look I you know I was kind of hemming and hawing a bit and
I was like oh just to know if I'm that into it and I feel like it's moving too quick and he went okay
let's call it then and I was like oh what and he goes yeah okay grant I'm just kind of you know
you're not into it fine that means I'm not into it like I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not messing around let's just leave it and I was like I was just sitting there in complete shock
and I was like oh and I was like are you serious he's like yeah well I forgot I'm in love with you
yeah I said are you serious and he goes no I'm not serious but that how it would feel if I did it
and I was like oh wow lesson learnt
and we're married now
with three kids
so anyway
once they have the power
people
people thrive off the power
they don't even
they don't subconsciously do it
but they thrive so he has the power now They don't consciously do it, but they thrive.
So he has the power now.
You have to take your power back.
We all thrive off the power
and the way to get your power back,
you do have to act like a bad bitch.
I don't think she wants to break up with him.
I think that you should maybe go and speak to somebody
and get yourself feeling confident within yourself.
But then if you're not confident with yourself,
is it because of the relationship you're in?
You know what?
It's easy for us to say.
It's easy for other people to say but the truth is you want to be with someone
who is 100% sure they want to be with you fuck this I don't know I'm not sure piss off keep on
fucking like be with someone it's not his fault either shit happens people fall out of love blah
blah blah but you want to be with someone who wants to be with you and then when you are the
difference is insane because I've gone out with people who didn't really want to go out with
me and it sent me slowly mad and then I've gone out with people who really wanted to be with me
and it was lovely so find one of them yeah find someone who you'll have fun but who makes you
feel good and you won't feel like a soggy biscuit um oh god here we go he's coming in isn't he yeah
he's coming he's after buying himself a t-shirt for the marathon to salve even though he did it
last year he just wants to make sure that everyone knows he did it because he saw somebody in Battersea Park.
If you had ran 250 kilometers across the Sahara desert, you'd probably be also proud of it.
So yes, I have bought myself some merchandise that suggests that I have in fact completed the race.
That gently suggests or For those wondering.
Or 100% confirmed.
100%.
He also has a hat, by the way, that he's not currently wearing.
69th out of 840 athletes.
Thanks.
We can't listen to Svenny going on about it again.
Okay.
I might write a book about it.
Okay.
You ready for the next email?
The one that I liked?
Hi, girls.
I feel like confessing this to you as it might get it to weigh less
on me. And with folks keen eye for a bit of
private website time, I figured I'd be
I figured I'd be in good company.
I'm usually militant when it comes
to clearing mucky internet tabs away once I'm
done with them. But a couple of weeks ago, I came unstuck.
My 84-year-old mum was
around and I was showing her some pictures of the kids.
I wanted to find a video on Facebook of my son on holiday despite her age my mom was actually quite ipad
literate she knew how to double tap the button to scroll through the other apps that being said she
has pretty bad arthritis so her hands are a bit slow she scrolled away from the photos that moved
across to find facebook there there it was the pornhub window that i treated myself to the night
before there was no question that she saw because her imprecise jabbing at the screen, she managed to open the window and the video
resumed playing at full volume. Oh my God. It must've been three or four seconds before I
swiped the iPad from her hands and pretty much smashed it against the wall to stop it.
But it felt like an eternity as the x- he x-rayed noises bounced around my kitchen we've said
absolutely nothing about bedded since not a word just leaving it locked away in both of our minds
forever i'm actually going red i'm so i'm so mortified for her there is honestly i would
listen you're gonna have to move away you have to leave the country yeah you're gonna have to fake your own death just get say
say your goodbyes you'll see her in the next life just move on yeah fake your own fake your own
death move towards the light like there's just no work there's no space for you on this world
anymore it's just too embarrassing I could just die I would die there's there's there's no way
I could actually
like I couldn't
I couldn't
I would
I would just
I would just lie
and be like
oh my god
if she's got
did she say she's got
a 14 year old kid
did she say she's got
what age did she say
her kid was
who the hell
does Joanne think
we're talking about
you're only half
you're one
did she not say
she was trying to show
a photo of her kid
no her mother's 84
no but she was trying to show her mother a photo of she not say she was trying to show a photo of her kid? No, her mother's 84.
No, but she was trying to show her mother a photo of her kid.
Yeah, she was trying to show her mother a photo of the kid,
but we don't know the kid's age.
Blame the kid.
Whatever age.
Anything from six up.
Blame the kids.
Blame the kids.
Like, anything.
Blame the kids.
iPad babies.
They're very, they're very digitally literate now.
I've seen babies try and swipe up on magazines. Blame the kid. Be like, I'm horrified.
And you know, I'd actually bring it up again. That's
a great one, Joanne. You could actually be like, listen
mom, I know what happened the other day was very embarrassing
but I just don't know what to do. Alfie will
not stop watching porn.
He takes the nappy off and porn
hook goes on.
Baby Alfie has got a very unhealthy
habit and
we have him here
with a child psychiatrist
and I'm just giving you
a breast
hope it's healing
that is such
a good
excuse
isn't it
so funny though
that
like
porn and sex
and like
it's so
everyone's at it
upside down
inside out
swinging out of the rafters
blah blah blah
yet there's still so much shame around it.
It happened to a friend of mine.
She works in kind of a corporate environment.
And, but she's, you know, like they all have their own laptops.
And like that, she was trying to show someone, a colleague.
Yeah.
She was trying, she needed to show him something on her laptop.
Oh God.
And bam.
I need to check out my phone here.
Pornhub. hub bam and it always
seems to start playing do you know everything i don't know how what are they like what that's
what setting they have it on and they never start playing at the start where someone's just knocking
on the door to fix the dishwasher well i suppose i suppose it's when someone's finished no question
what it is yeah but it's when someone's obviously finished
so then they close the laptop
they're like
oh I'm not interested
in the story anymore
I'm done
I know a girl
whose dad walked in
and given her fella
a blowy
that's like
grand
compared to half the shit
we've heard
did you hear
how could you not think
that's bad
oh it is
I would rather my dad
okay would you rather
well if your dad walked in
that would be quite frightening
for its own reasons
yeah because I'd be like
He's alive
What?
That would be more
The surprise there
I'd be like
Dad
I thought you died
20 years ago
This is bananas
Yeah what the hell
Dad I'd be five minutes
Okay
I'd be five minutes
And then we'll catch up
Okay minutes okay I'll be five minutes and then we'll catch up okay
would you rather
I love would you rather
you know the would you rather
like would you rather have
like chickens for fingers
or mayonnaise for eyes
would you rather
hypothetically speaking
Neil
I was going to say your father
but Neil is your father
but he's Neil
Neil walking in on you
giving Spencer a blowjob or
Sandra
finding
videos
basically
Sandra finding out about your porn addiction. Which would you rather?
I would rather Sandra finding out
about Theodore's porn addiction.
Oh, there's a big bus coming
and he's getting thrown right under it.
Get under that, Theodore, quick.
The 46A is on the way.
Off you go.
That's it for the bonus.
Joe, please.
We're trying to work.
Jesus Christ Joe
Joe
you go on that lad
we're like Joe
shh
shh
Joe shh
who gave him a mic
whose idea was that
that's it for the bonus episode
of My Therapist Goes To Me
I've been Joanne McNally
she's been Val Williams
and we will chat to you
next week
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