40ish - Unfiltered - Bill Sykes, Sticky Floors and The Professional Numpty

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

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I just asked Lauren if I was easy going. She's not, is the short answer to that. No, because you made this blanket claim that you were easy going and I said you're not easy going. And I said I'm quite easy going and then you burst out laughing. Yeah. Because you know you're not. I don't even know why you said it. But you say it like I'm so difficult and rigid but I'm not any of those things. I'm not. You're not difficult or rigid. No. No. But there's a space between easy going and difficult and rigid. Which is what?

You. This is Unfiltered everybody. It's the show where we dish the juicy feedback from the week's episode. It's Tuesday. That means we're diving into your comments, your emails, your DMs, everything that's going on around our 40 ish dilemmas. And if you want more 40 ish in your life, and who doesn't Nicole, who doesn't want more 40 ish? Nicole Boudreau Well, I always want more 40 ish in my life.

Niamh Sturgeon Hit follow and don't forget that we have got an exclusive subscription on Apple podcasts where you get early access and ad free shows across 40ish and self care club. We do. So come and join the fun on there because there's lots always lots going on on our subscription and we would love to have you. So what's going on? We were, can I say the thing? This is not my meltdown. Okay. I will get to my meltdown.

Yeah. But I want to talk about the very funny thing that has kept me amused for 24 whole hours. I brought it in so that the people who watch on Spotify could have a visual of it. We'll put it up on our socials as well. I'll put it on now. So here's the, it's a big week in podcasting.

Yeah, it is. It's a very big week. It's, we've had the podcast show in London. It's the first and only, I think, podcast expo of its kind globally. People from all over the world come and there's two days. Islington is taken over with podcasters and anybody has anything to do with the podcasting space, everyone descends on Islington at the end of May every year. And it's a really fun couple of days. Anyway, so we went to the podcast show

and we were registering for the tickets online and you have to fill in all of your details and then you get given a badge when you go to the podcast show on entry and it has your name and your occupation and it has a QR code so that you can connect with people. Actually the tech was really good this year. It was so you like go up to different stands and you say the name of your company and then you say your occupation and then you have your QR code and you wear them all day and

everyone's wearing them so you can literally just glance over and see, you know, someone from BBC sounds and they'll be head of editorial or someone from wondering and they'll be head producer and you think, Oh, I want to talk to them. Or there'll be like partnerships at Spotify. And, you know, so you know exactly what people are doing in the podcast space. So you know, you want to talk to you and who you want to connect with how it works. It's really clever. And there's an amazing app now. So you go on the app and once you've registered, you get all your details go straight into the app. And then you can just request meetings with everybody and you see what company they're from. And again, what they do for a living. Yes, you do. Yup. So it's all over the app and it's all over your, your name. So Nicole arrived

first and she got her lanyard and I arrived second and I went to pick mine up and I put it on and for those listening in audio... By the way I registered the ticket. She did, she did. So for the whole day at our professional gathering of all the people in our industry. I wore the following lanyard, Lauren Mishcon, self-care club, professional numpty. So every time we went to a stand they were like, oh can we scan your badge? I was like, yeah sure no problem. Meanwhile this one, Mrs. Easy Going over here, is standing next to me cracking up crying because it was like the joke they kept on giving wasn't it it made you happy all day long it made her so happy i couldn't take it off because to see her this happy brings me joy so you know what i just owned it professional numpty it was an icebreaker when you go on the app and you like put all of the

interest all of the things that the reasons you're going to the podcast show and then it matches you up with the people that would be of interest to you so you can request meetings yeah no one wanted a meeting with me i wonder why and like you meet with pr people and you know all these different people and lauren was the professional numpty. The stuff of dreams. When we went to Spotify. Yeah, that was at all embarrassing. The partnerships woman Spotify. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it was a good icebreaker. It was a good. It was a good icebreaker, especially with, you know, Apple and Spotify and yeah. Yeah. Thanks for that. You are welcome. That was the gift that kept on giving. Yeah. Now who's the easy going one?

got nothing to do being difficult has it just just having a laugh just having fun yeah it was very funny anyway what is your meltdown this week uh well i can't go from like giggling and laughing and having a great time to a meltdown so you go first okay so you know i go to pilates and i go twice a week now and it's like my thing yeah okay. Okay. So I've now got Pilates grippy socks. Oh yeah. Amazon's finest. Yeah. Six quid for a pack of three. Wow. Yeah. Sure. It's yeah. My Pilates teacher, AKA your sister, made sure to point them out in the middle of the class. Did she? Yeah. She was like, Oh, Lauren, nice socks. I was like, thanks Six pounds for three Women do that. I don't know cheap. They'll tell you exactly where they're and how much they call like your top Oh, it was two pounds. I got it from a bin

Yeah, but if it's like, you know, this whole bit of shit if I've spent money on it, I'm like, oh thanks So she said nice to see that you you've. You've only been coming for a year. Nice to see you've invested. It was quite funny. So I do a community class on a Sunday. That's not with your sister. She's taking it this Sunday. Brilliant. Yeah. And what's happened is it it made me feel very faulty something. Some girl came in a few weeks ago and then after we all left, she decided to do some filming on the reformer and then put it up on TikTok and then promote the community class

on a Sunday morning. And because... The teacher? No, just a pupil. Right. A pupil, a student, a class attendee. A client. Whatever the word is. Member.

Girl who came to Pilates, filmed it. She's got 20,000 followers. She put it on her TikTok. What has now happened? Cannot get a booking for the Sunday morning class until September. Oh yeah. Because it's-

Oh, my sister told me this. It has now been flooded. It went viral. It went viral and there are now these Tik Toki girls in their little leggings size four Stanley Cup headbands, weave, nails, everything, the full kit, infiltrating. What are you saying about the Stanley Cup? I'm saying that these young Tik Tok girls, yours is minging. Look at the state of that. All Stanley Cups do this. Why they 45 quid then? Right that is gonna be my meltdown. It fucking should be because that should cost £2.99 out of a bin besides Zane's Breeze looking like that. That's so

mean. You know what, no my meltdown has changed to you now. You and James. I haven't finished. James was so mean to me before. He was, but I haven't finished. Come on. Not only can I not get into my own class, but when I go to my own class, I'm now surrounded by these tick tocky children in their gear. Children?

Yeah. Some of them are like 18, 19, and it really annoyed me and also what was even more annoying is they don't have grippy socks they do they've got all the gear but what was really annoying is we had to do one thing where you have to lean back on the reformer kind of like a sit up but you have to lean very far back with one leg right up in the air and it's quite scary when you're middle age and you don't Yeah, because you're leaning right over backwards. Oh, I see. You know, you could fall off, break something, who knows? And there's this girl. She's never been to a class before. Back she goes. Oh, all the way back to the floor and all the way up again. And the teacher was like, oh, well done. I was really annoyed at this point. I was like, well, I don't think she's pushed three nine pound babies out. I just said it. I just

said it in the middle of the class. I was really cross by this point. Can I just say, right, you pushed three babies out one 21 years ago, one 19 years ago and the other one was 12 years ago. Even more impressive. Is it? Yeah, because now I'm really old and I'm still in the Pilates class. You're not really old, firstly. I'm just saying, my stomach muscles, they are not as strong as this girl's. You cannot, you cannot, cannot and will not, I will not allow it for you to use your stomach muscles as an excuse of wherever they're at because you've had three babies. Come on.

One of them has left university. Okay? I still grew him. The other one is about to be Bermitsford. Like no. I still grew them. A long long time ago. Yeah. It's like someone saying oh I'm carrying baby weight when the baby's like seven years old. I'm not carrying baby weight but I definitely have not got the stomach muscles strong. But that has got nothing to do with the fact that you've had babies that's to do with the fact you've only just fucking started pilates a year ago. A whole year ago. Anyway. Sorry it's got nothing to do with the babies. Whatever let me use it as an excuse because it's very annoying having children in your

class who are really good. They're the same age as my own children. You know what? When I go to the gym and I see someone younger and you know, obviously like more live and sort of moving little bottoms. Yeah. I just think, right. Okay. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. But I'm not saying to them, I'm going to show you. I'm saying it to me. I'm going to show you, you as in me. You can still do it. You can still do it. What I did enjoy though was we had to do a little bit of something or other with the toe, toe work basically, very pointy toes. And the teacher came over and she said, made

me laugh because I thought if Nicole was here, she'd fall off the reformer with laughter. She said to me, oh, wonderful pointy toes, Lauren. Were you a member of the dance community? And I had to pull a completely straight face and say, no, Natalie, I've never been, nor will I ever be a member of the dance community. I think that neither you or I have been very good at kind of pulling ourselves together and behaving like adults this week. We've been very childish. Speak for yourself. We were very, very childish. How can you say I've been childish when I called

you a professional numpty? Yeah, exactly. How dare you? We got a little bit giggly on a zoom call the other day to this young girl. Sometimes we should. We just badly behave basically. We are badly. I'm not badly behaved without you. Do you know that? I'm only badly behaved with you. Are you saying I'm a bad influence? Yeah. Wow. I love that for me. Do you? Yeah. Yeah. Are you badly behaved without me? Maybe. I bet you are. You're definitely naughtier than me. I'm secretly naughty. We were on a zoom call with this very nice young girl who puts on like live shows and events and we were talking to her about about putting on a live show. Oh by the way, tickets have gone on sale. October

the 16th we are doing a live show. We are part of the Cheerful Earful Festival and we are going to be doing a live show in Ballum. That's South London I believe. On the 16th of October. We'll put some details out but check it out if you want to come see us we'd love you to come. Please someone come. Please come. Who isn't my mum. Or James. My mum won't come to South London it's much too far for her. Do you reckon if James comes can you imagine? Oh no he'll heckle. What was he saying to me before we jumped on before? He wasn't very nice. What did he say? Oh about my video editing skills Yeah, yeah. Well, that's just entry-level basics in it. He was slagging you off. Yeah

I was like you offered me a job because yeah offered you a job to train you. Well, that's why I said no It would have been a disaster. He's out here I actually think it was spot-on James Yeah yeah yeah actually yeah. Anyway this girl gets on the call she says so. Mabel, lovely Mabel. Poor Mabel. She's like so what sort of venue would you like you thinking like a pub or theatre and I was like no nowhere with sticky floors. She was like okay and she's making notes she's taking it very seriously. She's actually writing down everything we said. I said basically Mabel or theater and I was like no nowhere with sticky floors she was like okay and she's making notes she's taking very seriously. She's actually writing down everything we said. I said basically Mabel I imagine you were going out to meet like a date like imagine you had a

Tinder date imagine the sort of pub that you would want to have the date in you know like kind of a little bit bougie somewhere nice no sticky floors nowhere where there's like dog on a rope vibes. She goes, do you know what I mean? Dog on a rope vibes. And she's like, right, no dog on a rope. And Nicole says, basically, if you feel like Bill Sykes would go to the pub with his staffie on a string, not that place. So she's like, okay, no Bill Sykes. And as she's writing it down, we're just cracking up. As I said, Bill Sykes, because I'd gotten it, because we hadn't discussed this at all, but I knew what I meant. I just knew exactly. And as I said, Bill Sykes, you just lost it.

Yeah. And meanwhile, she's completely straight face. And then she's like, anyway, I've got to go. I've got to go. She could not get off this call soon enough. She couldn't. She couldn't. I thought we were never gonna hear from Mabel again. And she clearly thought we were fucking mad. She goes, I think the live show's gonna be a lot of fun.

Yeah. Yeah. And then we saw her partner at the podcast show and we were like, oh, did Mabel say anything? And he said, she did mention you wanted North London and Nicole said, did she mention Bill Sykes? He said, she did say you were quite funny. And I was like, okay. And I was just imagining a conversation between the two of them. She bless her. She emailed the follow up. Yeah. You know, just like, like recording like the minutes of what we discussed. She bullet pointed the things that were discussed like venue capacity, there was one bullet point, no Bill Sykes.

Added to the fact that he's actually a fictional character from Oliver. Who would be dead anyway. Yeah, very much so. He could have died. He could have died. He did die, didn't he? Got shot by the policeman at the end. Oh dear. And he was very much so. He could have died. Victorian London, he did die, didn't he? Got shot by the policeman at the end. Oh dear.

Anyone very badly behaved. Terrible. Terrible. Really, we must get onto some listener feedback. I haven't given my meltdown. Oh, what is it? I think this is all of it. It's just one big, long meltdown. Oh, so I'm not allowed to melt down. Look, you

pick the phone back up. Hi Lauren and Nicole. I was listening to your recent pod and you were discussing a woman's friend who was taking advantage of her hospitality and taking toilet rolls from her home. Would there be a possibility that this other friend has money worries and she doesn't have the money to buy toilet paper? Sorry, I just started laughing in the middle of you saying that. That is a very lovely way to look at it. I wasn't laughing that I was still laughing about Bill Sykes. We'll always be laughing about Bill Sykes.

And professional numpty. Yes, thank you for that. Oh, God. Anyway, Lou said, it's just a thought for discussion and how the friend could approach the situation. Great pod love listening. Yes, Lou, it is possible. Personally, I think

she's a piss taker. I don't actually think this friend does have money issues. I think she's just not behaving very well. But yes, it's possible. But both things could be true. She could be a piss taker and have money issues. It's true. They're not mutually exclusive. No, they're not. Hi, Lauren and Nicole. I just wanted to write a quick message to say how much I love 40ish. I'm 35 so I think I qualify, right? Yes. We actually don't care how old anybody is. You're all welcome. You are all welcome in the 40ish club. I have bipolar disorder and I work full time, which I'm incredibly proud of, especially

knowing how debilitating it can be at times. Recently, I've been really struggling with my workload and feeling overwhelmed with stress. When I get like this, even getting out of bed in the morning can feel impossible. But lately, I've been starting my day by putting on an episode of 40 ish and letting myself lie there for 10 minutes. Soon enough, I'm laughing and somehow that's exactly what I need to find the motivation to take that first step into the day. Thank you for creating something that brings me and no doubt many of us joy. Love you guys.

Okay. Oh, thank you. That is divine. Thank you so much. And I know it's a bit of a silly pod. We're aware of that. But when you get messages like that, you know, it's so important to laugh. It is the most important medicine that there is.

I agree. I really agree. Even just doing the podcast the last few weeks has perked me right up. Has it? Yeah. Listen, in my darkest times when I knew the days that I was recording and I was with you, I was okay. I was better for it. Same. Last week, you were like, are you sure? are you sure you want to come in? I'm like, yes! What do I want to do? Stay at home and be sad on my own or like come in here and

muck around with you? I'd much rather be here with you being called a numpty than be at home alone crying. Listen, it was a professional numpty. Oh yeah, that's important to distinguish. Well it is. Very important. Because you can't just be a numpty. You can. Yeah, that's important. Let's not distinguish. Well, it is very important. You can't just be a numpty.

You can. Professional numpty. And the people at Spotify and Apple. I showed him, didn't I? Yeah, you did. You showed the head of Apple podcasts, the head of Apple editorial. Thank you for that. He did find it very funny.

Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Andrea has sent us a voice note. Oh, yes. Do you want to hear it? Yes. Here it is. Hello, Lauren and Nicole. I just listened to your last episode and listening to complaining about having to clean up the dishes all the

time, like all the time, the dishes all the time, no one cleans up themselves. Relatable and also hilarious. A friend of mine told me what she did, though. She gave each member of her family one place setting. Everyone had a different color but everyone got one place setting so they had to wash their own dish if they wanted to use it again. I don't know if that's feasible for most people but I thought it would bring that up because I thought it was genius. Yep I think all that would happen is you would just continually wash that one plate up, wouldn't you?

Also, I don't like the aesthetic of that because it's like what Josh has blue, Zach has green, I have orange. I like a match, obviously, I like a matching set. But you can have a matching set with different colors. I mean, I get it. I get it. But also just why not not be a lazy fuck? That's the other option. But you know, you're so easy going that you don't care about this sort of stuff, right? Do you know what I mean? You know, I don't. So you can ask all of the people that live in my house how much I don't care about it. They know how because I just don't care about it. No, they just let it go. I love living in a mess. And

I love it when the washing up isn't done. I love it. It brings me such a sense of peace. I love to come home when the dishwasher has been run and it's clean. Yeah. But also why bother emptying it when you can just stack up your dirty things on the side. Yeah. When mom comes home, she can empty it. I am in full agreement with that. Because I'm easy going about that shit and so are you. Hi both. Hi both. I thought I would share my latest menopausal moment with you seeing as it happened as I was listening to your latest podcast. Great. Perfect. I was out doing some tasks on my local high street while listening to your podcast, including the very middle-aged task of picking

up a Pilates slash gym ball from Argos. I got the ball home, blew it up and I couldn't find the stopper anywhere. How annoying. So annoying. Because that takes quite a lot of effort to blow that bloody thing up. I would have done it with a football pump, but anyway. No, it comes with like a hand pump. Oh, a hand pump. I wouldn't be able to do that with my tennis elbow. You wouldn't. Another problem.

Disgruntled, I walked back to Argos with a half-deflated ball under my arms, ready to get all grumpy in the shop. Yeah. When I got there, I explained what happened. The shop assistant looked in the box and immediately found the stoppers, which I had somehow overlooked. Oh, did she look in the box? She probably didn't look at the ball feeling a little bit embarrassed. I blurted out. I've just been listening to a podcast on the menopause relevance. The shop assistant who was in her twenties gave me a

bemused smile as I scuttled out with a half inflated ball under my arm. I am hoping that in years to come she will understand." Oh, she will. Well, she'll experience it firsthand, won't she? On another note, is Nicole's elbow injury related to too much paddle? And if so, does it mean she can't play as much now, Judy. Yes, Judy. It is a paddle related injury. Yes, it is. Thank you for inquiring because Laura doesn't give a shit. Thank you for your concern and your care. Yeah. It's nice that someone cares because James doesn't and Lauren doesn't. James is just relieved that I've stopped asking him to play paddle. So true.

Yeah, he is. And then he said to me just before, Oh, I was going to ask you if you want to have a game tomorrow. And I like my eyes lit up. And then I realized he was joking because he knows I can't play at the moment. That's right. He was teasing you. But you know what? Because you're so easy going. You enjoyed that joke. I did enjoy that joke. And then we got into a bit of a debate didn't we that I really enjoyed. What was it about? About my editing. About your editing and also how when he says things, he's not always right, but you don't always tell him anymore.

You just silently disagree with him. And then you asked him, does he ever silently disagree with you? But apparently he doesn't. Oh, and then you said, you know, the only reason that you two don't, that it doesn't escalate to the point that you don't speak to each other again is because I'm the human buffer between the two of you and the pair of us completely disagreed. We were like, no, we'd be fine on our own because what do you do? You just put your hands over your eyes and hope that it stops.

Hope that mommy and daddy stop arguing. Yeah. Yeah. I find you two very triggering with your arguments. It's good. I'm here. We haven't had an argument in a long time. You haven't. You haven't. It's true. But I'm still scarred. I mean he wound me up this morning with the editing comment. I'll be honest. But I let it go because I'm so easy going.

I was having a discussion with my friend. Yes. Who is a big listener of this show. I'm not going to name her. Let's call her Jasmine. Lovely. Where did you get that from? That's a nice name. I thought you were going to call her Nancy to go with the Bill Sykes theme. Love it. Wish I'd thought of that. Anyway, her name is Jasmine. Okay, great. And she was messaging me saying that she'd been listening to 40 years like the last year episode she'd just driven down from Leeds. Yeah. So she'll know

who she is. I mean, obviously she knows who she is. You know, I mean, go with it. Go with it. All right. Anyway, she sent me this. She sent me this funny thing that happened to her the other day. Is this her meltdown? Yeah. Is she the listener meltdown for today? Jasmine Nancy. Jasmine Nancy, this is the meltdown. She said, I'll tell you another 40ish, because we were having a chat, or 50ish thing in my case because she just turned 50.

Misusing emojis. Oh, right. I was using this emoji. Salute? Salute. As a gun to head despairing emoji on one of my WhatsApp groups. Okay. They were like, why are you saluting? And she was like, no, no, I'm shooting myself in the head. Yeah. Driving me mad. Yeah. But instead she was saluting.

Saluting. So she was just basically unable to use the emojis in the correct manner and now she feels elderly. Yeah. Okay. I understand that. I understand that. Yeah, I get it. Especially if you're working with a lot of younger people, which she probably is.

I try sometimes with Ollie to send emojis and stuff, but he, he is basically like he's just discovered the internet and he likes to send, are they gifts? Gifts. Like, But he's just discovered the internet and he likes to send are they GIFs? GIFs? But he's just discovered the internet. Are they called GIFs? What is a GIF? What is a GIF? That's not my question! You are the fucking GIF that keeps on GIFing! What's the difference between a GIF and a meme? The GIF that keeps on giffing. You are.

I said that. So I said... What's the difference between a gif and a meme? I'm being serious. A gif is like just like a like a two second clip that just keeps repeating itself. That's what he sends. A meme is... Well how do you describe a meme? A meme could be like a sound bite

or it could be like a short? A meme could be like a sound bite or it could be like a short video or it could be somewhat like some written copy. No, he sends GIFs, GIFs. But they're like- I'm gonna ask chat GPT how to describe a meme. But they're really, they're not like, I don't find his GIFs appropriate to the conversation.

I find them quite surreal. A meme is a piece of content usually humorous that spreads rapidly online often through social media. It can be an image, video, text or a combination of these and it typically relies on cultural references or inside jokes to make its point. He doesn't send those. Sometimes he'll send a video that he's found online he'll put it on the family group. As a gif? No, as a meme or a whole video and then later that evening ever. But sometimes he'll send a video that he's found online, he'll put it on the family group as a gift. No, it was a meme or a whole video. And then later that evening, he'll say at dinner, did you see my video today? And then the children say, Dad, the thing

is, like when you put stuff on the family group, we don't open it or ever watch it because it's from like eight years ago. And we probably already seen it or it's awful and then he looked very crestfallen he looked very sad because he sort of only recently discovered this and it makes him quite happy and the kids are just not engaging and not engaging. I'd like him to up his gif game. I'm gonna tell him tonight. You go girl. You get on that. I will. I think that is a good use of your time. I really do. Do you know his favourite one is the one where the kids put their dad, it might even be their grandpa, I think it's their dad in the car and they drive to Starbucks and they make him order a pinkity jinkity. No, I haven't. They tell him all these made up drinks.

Drive through. They're like, can I have a, what do you want kids? I want a pinkity dinkity. Anyway, he said this now about 15 times. And now the kids start sending it back to him. Dad, dad, have you seen the video with the pinkity dinkity? And he still finds it funny. It is actually quite funny. I could do that to you.

Good, I wouldn't remember. No, as in when we go to a drive through Starbucks, not that we ever would, I might do that. You could totally do it to me. You wouldn't have a clue. I wouldn't have a faintest idea. No, you wouldn't. No, it's a very funny video. And then you could tell them you're the professional numpty.

Yeah, I would be. No, it's a very funny video. And then you could tell them you're the professional numpty. I don't know who's winning today. You're not winning. I didn't have one. Yours was like you, you said I wasn't easy going. That wasn't really, That wasn't really what I had written down. You said there wasn't any time for my meltdown. You said no come on we've got to go to feedback now. We're done with that. Mine was I don't like these children in my Pilates class doing better Pilates than me. I don't like that shit. I'm

not down with it. I don't want my Plassey's class to go viral. And we've got Nancy Jasmine. Nancy Jasmine. With using the wrong emojis. It could be worse. She could have sent like a peach or an aubergine. Or the water. Oh yeah. That would have been terrible. That's a really rude one. That would have been terrible. Yeah. Some people don't even know what that one means. Do you? I do. Does Ollie? Not as you? I do.

Does Ollie? Not as well as I do. Do you remember early on in this show, we sent Adam and Ollie Aubergine emojis. Yeah. They never replied. Never ghosted us. Yeah.

Ghosted us. That's nice, isn't it? Really sweet. Yeah. And I said to Adam, do you know what an aubergine emoji is? Like, yeah. Yeah. If they were 25, they wouldn't have done that.

They would have sent us peach, peach water water, aubergine, melons. That would have been gross. Well, the peach is a bottom. Yeah. Yes. Melons. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They would have sent us back. I don't want a peach and water. Ever. Ever. Okay? Ever. Just don't. Just say no. Not that the nation needed to know that. Thanks for the information. Neither do you, by the way. I don't even need to ask you and I know that it's a no. That turned very quickly weird. It really did.

Can we let go? Let go. We're going to get in terrible trouble today. I can feel it brewing. Bye everybody. I'll see you on Thursday.