A Lot On Your Plate - A Feral Night Out, Swinger Stories & Podcast Awards

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

Hey piggies 🐷💖 This week we’re sharing some recent Glasgow favourites and hearing all about Jess’ child-free, feral night out.We chat bars, restaurants, travel prep and the struggle of packing light, before getting into what we’ve been watching lately and some relationship dilemmas from you guys.From cheating and social media boundaries to one very messy swinger story… this episode has a bit of everything 👀Plus a little celebration because we’ve officially been shortlisted for the Spotify Listeners’ Choice Award at the Scottish Podcast Awards 🥹 you can vote for us here. Got a story or dilemma you’d like to share? Pop us a DM on socials or email [e-mail]!And remember you can sign up to Patreon for extra episodes every week plus bonus vlog-style content, competitions, group chat, early access to tickets and looooads more! See you there piggies 💖 patreon.com/ALotOnYourPlate Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello. Happy Tuesday, guys. Happy whatever day you're listening to this podcast. I hope you had a lovely weekend. Bank holiday. Oy, boy, well, it is at the time we're recording today. Not for us.

Not for us. We don't, leaving away as always. And then I'm off on the holidays tomorrow and you know what I've realized Zoe. Not only am I flying with Ryanair. I'm flying at 6am from fucking Edinburgh. I thought you were going to see past week. No, no, no, that would be 10 times worse.

Edinburgh. Edinburgh. I was checking in there and I was thinking, that's fine, you know, I can just, because I was thinking I can get someone. to drop me off at the airport. Annoying, I know, but someone will take me. And then I realised, shit. Actually, I'm just actually realising now.

Shit, I've just booked Edinburgh airport parking. And Rich's mum's up and he could have just took me to where I'm going. So I've paid airport parking because I thought no one's going to get up at 3am for me to drop me at Edinburgh. Yeah. 90 quid later. I'm like, bloody hell. But then again, if I got a taxi, that probably would have cost me, what, 30, 40 quid each way? Well, we looked at the parking.

We went away the last time and we ended up just getting a little. a taxi in the way there and we were like if someone can get us on the way back fine if not it's the same as parking so whatever let's just show them taxi

my mum did get us so I actually did say that's good and was that when Edinburgh that was Edinburgh yeah everything's Edinburgh I know so yeah

tomorrow I go to Barcelona so I need to pack and sort my life well I have packed actually and I said to my friends in my chat that I'm going with I was like oh one of them said

I've packed so many clothes to dress the whole of Barcelona and I was like well I've managed to squeeze seven outfits into my little carry-on. My other friend replied, you've got to carry on. I was like, well, yeah, I thought that's what you did with Ryanair.

Like, I don't really want to queue up in the Ryanair queue at 3am in the morning to put in a 20 KG for three nights. I can get my stuff in my luggage if I'm prepared. If I know what outfits I'm wearing, it's actually quite easy to do that. It's when you're not prepared. And you're taking extras, like panic options? Yeah.

Oh, so then don't want to look around my big case around BASA because they don't get there for a few hours afterwards. Right. So I was thinking to myself it's just easier. But now I'm thinking, fuck, I also want to go shopping when I'm there. I mean, checking a big case into Ryanair's just like checking into any other airline. No, but the queues are so long.

It's not if you go into somewhere like BA. BA is so quick. Ryanair cues are so long at the airport and EasyJet. Really, I never should queues anymore because we've got those self things. Ryanair's not long anymore, by the way. They're right up the top of... Edinburgh, I think it's Edinburgh, or just Glasgow. No, I think it's Edinburgh.

Anyway, it's the self things. I'm not doing it. You wait yourself and you try to put your foot under it to caps a shift right. But then I'm thinking to myself, I'm already getting there an hour before. Then I have to get there extra early to put a big case in. What's the point? I mean, if you can get it on, you carry on, absolutely. And then just put my stuff in my handbag, my makeup and that.

Yeah. And the hotel that I'm staying at, they have like all deodorants, all your face creams and shit. And hair straightens, hair dryer. What else do I need? Nothing just a good time. Seven outfits and four pairs of shoes for three nights. At least pack my jamas, that's what I'm not got. But then again, I've got a room to myself.

How many pair of jammies you're going to buy? Only one, because I'll probably sleep in my underwear because I'm on my own. Well, you? Do you like that? No. But if I need to, I'm not going to put three pairs of pajamas in. No, I would take two for three nights. Nah. Just the one, I think, like a little short number, and then I'll probably will end up.

I'm hoping to be pissed every single night. So you just fling them off in the bed naked. I can't wait, I cannot believe that I'm about to go somewhere and have a hotel room to myself for three nights. I can't believe it. That's nice. I'm going to sleep so much. That is nice.

And I'll be knackered as well for getting up that, Annie. Anyway, boring. That's what I'm doing. It must have been a lot on your plate. A lot in my plate, right. I went to Sears Pizza in the town. Yeah, good. The new one, emergency city.

Yep, nice. I just had one slice of the Sears pizza. Yeah. The vodka sauce one. Yeah. With a bit of hot honey sauce. Nice combination. Jason had three slices of margarita standard.

But we're going to get a couple sides. The fryers were broke. What did they do sides there? Because they don't in other ones. They do like chips, chicken tenders, maybe like mozzarella sticks. I mean, we're just going to have to share some fries. But the friars were broke so we can't get any.

I thought Not great at the star Yeah It's a shame for them But these things happened But it was nice Nice wee vibe in there Outdoor seats as well

Anything else We also went to Devil Wears Prada Guys we must discuss Quite right The first half of the film I just I wanted to look at you And be like

Mate this is so crap Do you know what it is for me I was like half in the film Half in the old film The whole time Did you feel like that Like I was kind of the whole time I was thinking

how is this in comparison and like does that relate back to something like I couldn't I was trying to follow a story that I don't think there was much of there wasn't much of a story it felt really rushed there was so much part of it that felt rushed

her love interest I think we can all collectively say that as soon as she walked in and we were like no that can't be it I can't be him I turned to you and went I hate him as a love interest

I was like I hate him for her yeah As soon as I thought I went, no, please do not be... It's not that he's not handsome, because he definitely was kind of handsome, but it just... Wasn't a match. It wasn't a match. I also don't recognise him at all.

Is he from anything? Not that that actually matters, but you would kind of think it would be someone that you're like, oh wow, they're in there in that. Well, you're expecting the guy from before to come in? Because I was. I thought she was still married to him, no? They were never married. No, but I thought she stuck with him.

Well, she can't have back to him at the end, I think, but I don't know that he really came back to her. But I thought, do you know, when I thought he was going to come in as well, I actually see when they went to visit that woman who she tried to get an interview with and she was like, I'm dating someone that's really like... Oh, that would have been good.

I thought it was maybe going to be him because Ur-Anne looked over at some point and I thought she just clocked him but it wasn't he? There was just moments when I thought something's about to happen. That whole story line was weird. I did like the fact at the end that it was, sorry, spoiler alert and fast forward five minutes,

that it was a woman. She was from her, Charlotte's Angels, isn't she? Yeah. Yeah, I like her. There was a few things that I, liked with, I know him as Stanley, Stanley Tushy, I don't know his acting name, what's his name again? I thought, not Garth?

No. Not Garth. Fuck knows. Anyway, I thought there were some nice moments there. I'm going to tell you what I didn't quite enjoy about Davey as Prada, right? And I don't think there's any other way that they could have done this in this day and age, in the world that's a bit more woke. And I know that they're trying to say that AI is taking over, publicists, journalists,

are losing their jobs. I think that's a real topic that should have been highlighted in the film, and I think that was good. I thought it was quite rushed though. But I just, the way I picture Miranda in my head as like a teen, she's an icon, she's fierce. Yes, she treated her staff like shit, but that's probably why you kind of like to be, because there's no one really like that now.

In this film, HR have got involved. She can't throw her coat on people. And that is true. Just hanging in all the coat up. Yeah. I know, but what me and my friend Lindsay was saying, she's seen it as well, we were like, but it's a film. I know.

You're allowed to treat your staff like, shit, it's a film. Like, it's normal. real life. We don't need to... But now that image of my head of Miranda, she's not as powerful as she was. I also thought Andy, Anne Hathaway, she came back being the same sort of kiss-ass worry war.

I wanted to come back a bit more powerful. I didn't really like that storyline of her still begging it with Miranda. I just thought it would be a bit of a different dynamic. I'm not saying that she would have been as powerful as Miranda, but maybe just they came across each other differently. I didn't like the other.

Yeah, I didn't like the new ever. Yeah, I didn't like the new... Emily, the girl that was in Bridgeton, I didn't think that character was funny. I actually didn't find it funny. The things that they thought was funny, I didn't laugh once. It was just more about cringe. The acting was overacting, I thought it was cheesy. But in the same breath, I don't know how else they could have filmed that film,

and it have been relevant to the times. I just don't think they needed to do it at all, is my point. I feel like it's just a nod to it being like 20 years later. Yeah. They've just had like a wee moment, a wee nod to it. But for me, I just don't think. actually would have much preferred a sort of documentary style of like the cast actually speaking through their characters and they maybe could it kind of like what Hannah and Tanna just did it was

like I didn't watch that but they showed old parts and then she kind of spoke through it and then she sang a wee bit yeah they don't sing but they could have yeah maybe like tried on old outfits that they wore in the film like iconic moments I don't know like because it's the actors I like you know what else I found quite funny I know there was a lot of ads in there a lot of brands that I've been Hope was on the screen, maybe two seconds. Yeah. You know it's called Devil Wears Prada?

There's never really any reference of Prada. It was all about Dior. Did she ever notice that? I thought she'd go and work in a Prada store. Why was it Dior? Yeah, true. Is the Prada? I didn't even mention it in movie one,

to be fair, Prada, but I thought that would be quite nice. Why aren't Prada heavily involved? Why have they allowed Dior to be involved? There must be a reason for that. Because if not, that's just like something wise, nobody thought of it. And the Emily thing with her man, I'm sorry, what was that all about? I'm sorry, what the fuck was that all about?

When at the end, when she got caught out, it was so fucking cheesy. The best bit about the whole film was Emily Blunt's facelift for me. She looks so different. She looks good though, I think. She does look good. Like you can tell there's been a bit of work done, but I'm okay with that because she looks good for it. She does look nice. I like her.

I said to you during the film Stanley Tucci's mouth seems weird and it's because he'd mouth cancer I don't know that. I didn't know that either. But he speaks different. I mean it doesn't look weird. He just spoke. He looks incredible.

I've never seen someone that doesn't age as much as him. He looks amazing. Do you know he's a massive foodie, Zoe? Is he? I can see that for him. Yeah. She thinks he's a really sound guy, I do. Yeah.

His part was nice. He had nice wee moments in it. He did. I like that he was still doing things quite old school as well it kind of gave the nostalgia feel of probably what it was like years ago in a fashion house and him just keeping his roots to how he likes to do things and even when he knows things are going like to shitter he still he kind of just like ignored it quite a lot and just continues with his work yeah that's what I mean that the first one as well I like that she gave

him his chance to speak on behalf of runway runway yeah there was definitely nice moments for me though my point is I just wish I didn't watch that I wish I could remove it from my brain and just keep Devil Wears Prada 1 as I know it and keep the characters ending it how I know it I know just watch it again

and you might be fine She's more mysterious Miranda Yeah Now she was too soft For me Devil Wears Prada The original one Is something that I would just stick on

quite a lot Like I've watched that probably thousands of times It's just a good film I just stick on When you can board look for someone else and I would never do that with the second one and that's when you know you don't like it very much. Yeah.

So I'm an easy pleas with the film department. I don't think I've really watched anything apart from that. I've been keeping up to date with Testaments, obsessed with it. I just love it so, so much. Every Wednesday I can't wait. I don't have the brain capacity for it right now and I want to enjoy it.

You need to enjoy it. Because any time I think about it, I think no the night. Yeah, it's really good. But I will. I also started watching on Netflix, Apex. I wasn't really, I was in and out of it so I need to go back to that which a lot of people are speaking about

and then should I marry a murderer on Netflix as well based in Scotland it's about a girl from Glasgow that made by off Tinder in the Highlands and there's been a murder but I won't say anymore there's been a murder yeah there's been a murder but she

she's annoying me she's annoying me I think she's meant to annoy you because I think she's annoying so if anyone else is watching that because somebody wrote in the Patreon chat about it saying like oh my god but i'm excited because i think there's a few more twists to the story right i must be they're going to make a next look stock out of it anyway that's it i think i've

watched we also went to sole pilates finally you finally got there i finally made it to soul palates went to lucy's class it was brilliant we were sore i've been sore for a week straight yeah you know when you just go through periods of time you feel that you're just battering yourself And then we went to agree on Saturday as well. And then the green next morning. That was sick of my mouth hard. That is. It's unbelievably hard.

But so good. It's funny though because anyone that I see go because I also went the Sunday before. Yeah. Like Delphine were doing a kind of matcha event there so I went and there was a few people I've not even spoke about this.

I went in there completely knowing I was going on an event but you know when something just doesn't switch in your brain Not one part of me thought that people would be taking content because obviously I'm not used to that in a class so I turned up looking like a big toe an unpainted one at that right and there was a tripod at every single bed around me

and I thought Who was in there? Lots of people Like influencers More sort of like creators I would say like some fitness girls who like film themselves taking content Fairfuck, she'd on you

Yeah I knew quite a few people Name drop then Alicia or DJ Yeah she was in there she was in front of me with her tripod and I went don't you get me in that now next to her rob and the DJ

she was also filming next to me was Alex who does her own kind of social stuff she used to work at Rainbow Room oh yeah she was filming right next to her

who else was there there was a couple of girls from that elation gym oh yeah yeah yeah I'm talking about they looked fucking great so I was like perfect but anyway Nice mix of girls

It was nice but everyone looked good You look good Zoe I looked horrendous right I looked horrendous And they were all filming So I was actually doing it like And you know what

Suck it in and part in your lips Yeah I was like Make sure my posture was good And all that in case I was in the background I tried not to like look straight It was a little strenuous You know what I mean Which is fucking hard

I'll agree But anyway Long story short I noticed a few of them Like put their posts up And everyone always says something like as a Pilates girl I thought like I could manage it basically

but it's fucking hard and I thought that is the best way you know what people have put off by when I say about it it's like Pilates but 10 times slower they're like oh I'm like no it's harder yeah harder I don't find reformer that challenging for me anymore

unless it's a class with Lucy I like Matt and I like LaGree Matt and honestly that is it I would still go to a former class but I wouldn't I would always choose Matt now I think same I just think it uses your own body more.

Like it's the same with body strength stuff. You assume a weight's always going to be harder. It's not necessarily. Sometimes that assists you. So I would have did that, so it's quite fitness. Fitness, fitness. And then I was at space this morning. Good for you, Hen.

Fucking non-stop over here with this body mind. I went out. Right. Tell us about your night out. You were feral. I was feral and extremely hungover. I would say, I was hoping it when we were. be a two-dayer, I feel okay. I feel okay. But you know you were out still? Yeah.

Just that underlying feeling like my mouth. And like the eyes and that about like ropy. Oh, I looked rough as titch yesterday. Fuck me. But it was so good. So in my head I'm like, I'm not bothered. Like, I had such a good time. So anyway, I went out of two of my mates that they've been my friends before we all had babies. But we all seem to have a boy around the same time, Six months apart. So we said when we were meeting up, like, let's meet up, we haven't seen each other for ages. Do we want the boys with us or not?

And we were all like collectively, no. Let's go out for a drink. So I sent them some places on my list, mostly around the West End. And then we're like, right, my friend else was like, I'll book Fester. Now, Fester is the old to Sabre, to Sabre, passed a place on Great Western Road, owned by the same family. But you know, Fat, the presenter on, is it Clyde or at Hart? What is it?

What's your heart? It's his place with his sister. His sister's actually called Fester. Cute. Yeah. So anyway, when they came into the table, this is really funny. He was so fucking funny.

He had the nicest glasses on it ever as well. He told me back a small little shop. It wasn't Iola, but like another little small glasses shop. Nice. Independent in Glasgow. I need to find that to let you all know because they were really cool.

Anyway, he came over and was like, oh my God, I'm so nice to finally meet you in person, blah, blah, blah. It wasn't an invite or anything, but I just, we recognise one another. And he's like, I know I hear you through Jillie and stuff and like, how is she? I said she is great. He wants to get her into his place. Anyway, my friend says, so is fat short for anything?

And he was like, this is obviously so funny. He was like, no, it's fucking not. Like, that is my name. That's what my parents name me. My name is fat. A-30. Yes. And then we were talking about, I asked his surname.

It was a really lovely surname. And then he goes, but there's someone in my family that has married into a relationship or something. and their surname's Fokker now, F-O-C-K-A. He goes, thank God it wouldn't be me because my name would have been Fat Fokker. I was fucking screaming. Can you actually imagine? What a name, baby?

Fat Fokker. So he texted me, he messaged me on Instagram yesterday, like, thank you so much for coming here and it's my pleasure, Fat Fokker. He was really lovely. But the menu is so clever. It's got a little bit of a nod to their old place because it was called Pastor and Prosecco, do you remember?

Yeah. So it's Priceco. It says that in it, but it's like a Prosecco with either peach or raspberry or that. So that's at the bottom of the menu. And then it's got small plates like fried corsets, fries, a feta, whip with pecans and fig jam. Wow.

With sourdough hot olives. I think it was Gilda. I can't remember, but just really cool. Spanish-inspired small plates that are perfect with a prosceco or a drink. The interiors are gorgeous. They've got the ceiling rose, the cornice in, a big, massive chandelier. and the vibes in there are just nice.

The music's not too loud. You can just chat to your friends. So I really do recommend that you go there. It looks nice from the outside. Yeah. Like you notice it? Yeah. When you pass by.

You want to have a catch-up with your friends after work. It's the perfect place for that. Lovely, right. And then I went across the street to the caravan shop, which is the same owners as Brett, which is again opposite. Like a bottle shop eatery. Again, small plates. They don't have, they don't have like a small friar at the top.

So it's not like the menu is extensively big. but my friend that was with is vegetarian so we went down to their wine cellar so it's just like a completely dark room three tables, huge wine racks with a record player and it was so nice and I thought initially when we got there because it was a nice day I thought

or maybe we should sit outside in the vibes but as soon as she played it we got really well with the waitress she was lovely and we just tried all their wines the reds and I'm on the reds now so this is where it was going downhill and then Colin came over from Brett because I mess with him saying, I'm in the caravan shop, I've come to check it out.

He ran across in his bloody chef pinny and was like, hi, Jess, gave me a cuddle. Next thing, the chef comes downstairs, introduces himself. He's like, Collins told me that you're his friend, I'm going to make you a few dishes. And obviously, we'd just eaten. Am I you, fool? Well, I can eat till the cows come home. So I was like, perfect. So I said, my friend's vegetarian, so the chef's like, I'll make you some things,

and I'll throw in a few meat things for me and Elsa. And it was so, so good. They had this Korean cauliflower. There was this fresh asparagus, ham-hot croquettes. Oh, it was so delicious. They're like four small plates with the wine. We're in their ages. And then another little two girls came down

because you literally sat right next to them. We chatted to them. It was good. They're asking us who is our whole pass. Right. Cool conversation. And they're all like, Jamie Dawn and your one. I'm so basic.

And then I'm like, skepta. And they're like, really? I'm like, and then I'm getting sceptors Instagram. I'm like, look what I would do to him. Then we went to Chinasquez. Really cool. Went to Locale next door first. It felt too young for me in there.

Usually it's good. It's a bit like DJ focused though, I think. So I think depending on who they've got on. Yeah. You're maybe going for the DJ. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. It just felt a little bit too young.

So I was like, I'll maybe come back here later. We'll park this for now. I went next door to Chinaski's. Gorgeous. I was definitely probably one of the younger people in there, loved it. I saw you had in this place with a martini. I had about four. No.

Yep. They were really nice, though. Kidneyed right now. Then rocket-fueled myself down Stocky Hall Street to Blingkees, right? You flew there. I flew there to Blingkees. Never been. I wanted to truck it out.

But on the way there, we walked past that Niko's feral as fuck. Next door was... That's young. Yeah. Next door was radio. Yeah. Same owner. Adam owns both of them. And I thought, I'll go in, I'll check it out.

Young. So I walked in, I thought, okay, but my two friends don't give a shit about that. So we're like, let's just go to the bar. Let's get a bottle of Prosecco. I think if you're enough drinks and you don't care. And there was a live singer. It was good. I think it's when you're needing the vibes to help you along your night. Yeah. You care about that. But at some point you get past them.

And then I saw a girl that I know that I haven't seen in years and years. And she went, you coming down to the speakeasy. And I was like, wait, what? She went, yeah, come downstairs. It's like a speakeasy room. In radio. In radio. Right.

Okay. As soon as I walked in, Shandipal, Usher, I was like, this is fucking amazing. Crowd again, slightly older,

but still young. Everyone is though now, aren't they when they're out? You can't expect to go out to a whole room of people in your mid-30s because they don't go out. So, whatever.

But yeah, if you like that music, that's where you find it. I loved that from there. I thought this is brilliant. Yeah, so we had two bottles of Prosecco in there. I then rocket-fueled myself from there to blinkers.

Don't remember a single damn thing. I just remember standing at the stage dancing. I think we had one drink in there. And then we tried to get into Kong. God, you're really doing a... Yeah. The bouncer was like, nope. Oh, for fuck sake.

So I was like, oh, you went, your friend's too drunk. What do you mean she's too drunk? Are you the other friend? No, no, no, not me. My other friend. And I was like, wait what? Like she's not, to be fair to her, she didn't look. She's just warbly, though.

Not even. I was like, what is going on? So then I'm just, she's like, no, you're not coming in. So I was like, okay, how dare you think that we've only had five bottles of proscenco, 15, 15, 15 espresso martinis, 25 glasses of red wine from all the countries in the world. What are you talking about? So I'm fuming. I march my way over to Wunderbath.

that's where my night needed to end. Got straight in, absolutely fine, right? As soon as we went in there, I was like, nah. Is that's where the Guinness came in? Oh, fucking hell, I forgot. Where did the Guinness come in? I've missed to stop. So my friend's Irish, and she was like, Jess, we need a Guinness.

She texted me the next day, like, why was I so adamant we needed the Guinness? I went, let's go to Malones. I was like, I've never been to Malones. I'd love to do that. So sorry, this was after Blinkers. That makes sense. It's kind of halfway. Yeah.

Yeah. So we went to Malones and then I really liked it in there. It went up to the top floor. Again, live singer, pint of Guinness. I think I had black current in mind. And then down that, I hated every second of it. And then we just said, let's go somewhere but busier. And that's why I said, let's go to Kong. But at this point, I had no idea of the time.

And it wasn't until one of us called it a day in Wonderball. Kitchen Out were in there for no more than probably like three minutes. And she was like, let's just go home. When we were trying to get a taxi, it was like 10 to 2 and I thought, where has my night gone? I met my friends at 5pm. I love that though. 5 fucking p.m.

But do you know, I love those nights and I always say it to you. I like to barque roll and try and take off places. I wish I didn't have to end up in those places, but like the ones where you become really feral. But also you're trying to drink, so naturally you get a buzz about you and then you don't want to go home. Yeah. That's just the way it is.

But I did wake up. But not as rough as I could have been, but yeah and Jensen's so ill as well oh my God trying to do that with a baby that is crying every few seconds you put him down was not it but Jensen

Richard stepped in for me there and then his mum turned up I was like thank God yeah like I'm off duty thanks very much so yeah that was it girl so there's some bars for you to go to that were really fun I wish you knew more about Burlinkies

it was fun it was packed Zoe I do remember sorry I do remember it like there was a band gorgeous band on stage stage. And I had my big of God was our and some young men just on a guitar singing,

lovely, and then the dance floor was packed. So yeah, a really good place to go, I'd think, don't understand the crowd because I don't remember that part. Yeah.

Can I just say something that is a contradiction to what we said probably, I'm going to say, two years ago. Yeah. I'm so over like music. Oh yeah.

I'm so over them singing the same songs. I think that's what it is. And I think it's got its place Absolutely, but the problem for me is everywhere's doing it now. Yeah. And see, for example, like the only place that I felt at the most recently is just when I've had an angel's for a few drinks, right?

But they have the tunes on and you're getting pumping. You're like, whoa, it's really starting to go in here. And then they put a man on a guitar. And then they put a man on my guitar at like nine, half nine. And by that point, we've already had a bit of R&B. We've already had a bit of club land maybe. Yeah. And I'm kind of bought him.

And then you've put him on your singing love story and then I want to go home. You've kind of killed the vibe. The buzz a bit. And I think there's times where I'll still want live music. Not saying I won't. Because again, it does of its place. But you're going down to that room and it being like R&B and stuff.

So good. On that sort of night out, that's what I prefer now. And those booths in there as well. I wanted to stop off at Devils of Brooklyn and the last bookstore. Because they were the last bookstore. Same. And the girls have and they said it was really good.

They said they do really good spicy margaritas. But. I just, we were just too far gone at that point. You're just wanting fun. I just want to dance now. I don't want to have to go and sit and have another cocktail. And also, the last five times I've tried to get into Devil Wears a Brough. Devils of what?

Devil wears Prada. That was. It's similar. It's similar. The Devils of Brooklyn, they've been like, we're too busy. It is busy in there. But do you know what? It's such a good vibe in there. Yeah, it's nice.

When I was there for my birthday last year, I would have just stayed there all night. We should never have left. Yeah. Because it was busy. dark, you can smell that incense. Music, it's good. Yeah. I like it in there a lot. But we'll have a night out and we'll go to the last bookstore

because I want to try that. Okay. We can tear her candles with you, you know what I mean? Imagine. Us in the corner, Pish, try to need her candles. We'd be sleeping. They'd be instantly asleep actually. Where did I see the other day that I'm doing five-pound amazing margaritas?

Oh, Philly's in Shawlands. You've seen that? I've never drank in there either. Yeah, I have once. I went to the quiz night. It was really good. A weekday. I'd like to do a quiz night.

I'm so shy at quizzes, but I'd like to soak in the quiz vibes. It's good because everyone around there's like quite young singletons in the south side of Glasgow that are just thriving. They just do it every Thursday. And they all just go and have their... And everyone was drunk. It was a good vibe.

Let's talk about some dilemmas. Let's do it, sister. We have so many, so we might need to carry someone to the Patreon, but we have three fresh emails. Okay. Email number one. subject line men are rats

here we go oh my god I was listening to the podcast chatting about female intuition and it is such a real thing my ex was an absolute loser of a human we lived together for a few years it was his flat but I split everything

50-50 from day one Egypt I know anyway I was offered a job abroad and he was supposed to come with me but couldn't get a job cut to two weeks before we were meant to leave the country the day after our leaving party where my family were literally giving him goodbye presents.

This cunt is in the bath like a loser and I get the Hey girlie text. I called the girl and got the full lowdown whilst he's acting like a fuck... Whilst he's acting like fucking Shammu the whale. None the wiser in the bathroom. My sister lived around the corner from the flat so I called her in an SOS to come help me pack my stuff and they went into the bathroom to confront him. I asked anything you want to tell him.

me, of course she spinelessly said no. I told him about the girl messaging me and I swear to fuck, I have never seen the colour drain from someone's face so quickly in my life, he went grey. Cut to the door rattling with my raging protective sister ready to stab him, he's out of the bath, literally sliding all over

the wooden floor. She's screaming at him and the dogs going mental in the background. I can laugh now, but at the time it was absolute hysteria. Anyway, I moved to Asia by myself two weeks later. He was very sorry, sending flowers and dropping off fucking hide ranges. He's picked from my garden or my mum's doorstep.

Yuck. Have you heard of mud babes? The flower company she means. Anyway, he then turns up on my doorstep on the other side of the world and somehow worms his way back in. Shut up. Living in my home and sponging off me for eight months. Holidays to Thailand. Flights home all paid by me. Muggins, I know, but I loved him and genuinely believed he was sorry and had acted stupidly out of stress and not in a good place mentally.

then one night he went out with one pal then one night he went out with the one pal he'd made in eight months and came home late we were flying back to Glasgow the next day flights purchased by me obviously I woke up in the middle of the night with his horrible gut feeling his phone was literally lit up unlocked staring at me so I had a nosy

couldn't see anything at first I was about to put it down when I spotted that wee one in the archive he'd be meshed in a girl who could be only described as a prostitute no hate by the way fair plater saying he could still smell her on him and he was going home to Scotland but would bring her a gift in broken English, he can absolute fucking reprobate. I woke him up at 4 a.m. and chucked him out

but we still had to fly home together that day. The worst flight of my life. Oh my God. The worst part is he now lives in this country and somehow managed to get himself a job by lying and cheating. He's what the girlies here call a loser back home and brackets LBH. I'm leaving and starting

a new life down under in July. Some can't play Esme denters get me out of here. Moral of the story, men are rats who will drain your bank account and sisters are for life. Holy shit. Oh, do you know what? It's a lesson learned. Because I feel like I can understand if someone as an empath... Flew to Asia to say sorry?

Yeah. And I still don't know... I still don't think I could forgive that behaviour, right? but say it was just small things, I think I would find it hard. Yeah. It's like they're crying all that, and a guy crying is just sad. You shagged my mom, you're crying, fine, I'll take you back. Like it's hard, it is hard.

Yeah. But it's a lesson learned, and now he's gone. And you're moving down under. I know, babe. Love that for you. Live the dream. Doing under. Right, we've got a dilemma.

So I was listening to one of your latest pods about men and women, like in Instagram pictures, etc. And what is acceptable? What isn't? Disclaimer. I've had a few bank holiday wines. And I may be overreacting, but my husband is part of a running club. And the same girl continuously love hearts his posts on Facebook.

The woman is single, and I know she is part of the running club, but she knows he has a wife and a child. We are all over his page. But I don't know. Something about her love-hearting, the post, doesn't sit right with me. A simple like would be fine. I also know that she messages my husband. He recently did the London Marathon, so she messaged him congratulations at this time, and often messages him after races.

I trust my husband completely, but I'm just a girl's girl and would never love her another man's post, even if it was my bestie's husband, for example. I'm probably paranoid after a few too many wines, but let me know your girl's thoughts. I love the pardon, it brightens my drive to work every week. Right. I think you might be overthinking this. That's my thoughts. Someone that uses Facebook, I've got people that like my stuff.

And they do tend to be like my mom's friends and stuff or, I don't know, like uncles and stuff. When they like a photo, they hover over it and just probably click their love. Because you know on Instagram, it's a love heart. If you're liking it, it's a love heart you're pressing. It's not a thumbs up. So I don't think in this woman's defense, potentially, that she's meaning any harm by it. She just knows if one of the running club, she's liking the photos. she's only really messaging him about something

that they've got like a hobby interest in. That's the only reason she knows him is to do with Brunin. So of course she's going to message him saying, good look. I don't find that strange personally. However, you know your husband better. You know what this girl, you know her more than me.

Maybe, maybe you don't. I don't know. But I'm not saying that that doesn't mean that she's probably trying her way in as well. I don't know. But for me, personally, I wouldn't think too much into that. but I'm not that bothered about things like that though

neither am I but what I was going to say as same as you I think I think if you're quite active in Facebook I find Facebook users quite gushy

agree yeah Facebook's all for like almost like showing off but in a more like family close friends way like my family are

because on my Facebook I only have people mostly from like my past but friends and acquaintances from like my youth I wouldn't Like, you guys listen to this that follow me on Instagram. You don't have me on Facebook.

And I wouldn't probably accept you on Facebook. Yeah. Because I don't know you personally. I don't know. I feel like Facebook's maybe a bit like that, do you? And I feel like Facebook people are more likely to comment. Even if, like, say, my mum posted me on my 30th birthday. She would have about sexy comments being like, your girl's gorgeous.

Yes, exactly. And my mum be like, right. because she's not gushy like that obviously she's gushy about me but she's not a big like look how amazing me and my family have but people are on Facebook so I don't know if that I agree with you

she's just also she's probably used to use on Instagram so maybe a thumbs up does seem weird anything that I do interact with on Facebook which is just my family really I would always love her to be honest

but equally other side of this I think you just know when a woman is maybe got slightly she's overstepping the mark yeah and maybe like

not bad intentions but just feels like well I've got a relationship with you now as well yeah like I'm kind of part of your life as well now but it's like you're not and also I don't want you to like I've listened to last week's episode had a wine and now you're triggered by it because you're thinking yeah that isn't acceptable like

you know in your gut and your intuition will know if you think something's up But I just think, relax. I don't think it's anything to be worried about. Keep a little bidi eye on it, of course, but don't get yourself worked up. I would only get worked up and overthinking it if it started being like your husband's texting

and you're like, who is it? And he says it's fucking Jess for the run club again. And it's kind of like what you're texting about now. Yeah. Whereas I think if it's just purely her saying, congratulations on the marathon. I think if they go to run club together, that's a huge achievement.

I think that's fair enough. Yeah, I agree. And maybe like, but equally if she is texting about their weekly runs from the run club, that's a bit unnecessary. Yeah. But is it though just because she's a woman?

But, like, we wouldn't go to a gym class and then text about it after. I wouldn't text, but if somebody messaged me about a workout, like I'd done it at the gym, like, it depends what gym is because a CrossFit gym, then, yeah.

If you went to a gym class, they'll write, and it was mixed, female and male and a guy who only knew through that message you'd been like, oh, that class was quite hard, wasn't it? I just think there's no point in that message. True. It's kind of like a dead end of a message. Unless I'd share it on my story, the workout,

and then they replied to it saying that was hard. I think responses totally fine. And also, if someone that was in my class was doing the London Marathon, it was all they banged on about, then of course I'm going to message them as well. And I think responses, as you said, if you shared a story of the class or your watch calories or something right from the class, which I know a lot of people do,

I think respond to that being like, fuck that was so hard or you did well good in that or whatever, kind of normal. Yeah. But I think if it's like open messages that come from nothing. Yeah, then it's like... It's kick to me you're using your connection of the run club to chat to me. Yeah. So I think just like, yeah, have a wee watch.

keep a wee eye. But I think you're knowing yourself, you're maybe just, we've triggered a thought. Yeah, exactly that's what point. And now you're thinking, is that weird, is it not? But if that's all it is,

I think you're good. Yeah. So we have some, we have an email here about swingers. Yes, so we asked on our Instagram, any swinger stories. So here we go. We had these couple friends

who we eventually had to sack off because they ended up being absolute crackpots. They never branded themselves as swingers but had boasted lots of times about having threesomes, etc. They said it all started when he used to work away and he would shag the guys he was working away with who all had wives and girlfriends. She then got involved and ended up losing a lot of our friends over it

because they started shagging their pals. They even ended up shagging her maid of honour to be and then fell out with her too. She then asked me to fill in for her. I thought fuck's sake they're going to try and shag me next it's safe to say I ended up respectfully declining the maid of honour roll and got out fast that's a short version there is so much more that happened over the years

we no longer speak to them and feel so much lighter for it I honestly think if that's what works for your relationship then fair fucks to you but I think you have to be picky about who you invite into that space with your partner surely it's people you don't know or aren't a direct friend but that's what I mean I just think it's getting messy to shagging on your doorstep like why are we doing that?

with our friends. It's never going to end... Like, I don't want to have sex with you. I do, you. I don't know. I do, you know what I mean? No, I genuinely don't, no offense. But it's...

No, my thing. It's just awkward. No, it's fucking awkward. Like, I really don't want to see inside your vagina. Or anyone that... Or anyone for that matter. Or anyone that I know.

I also don't really want to see or know that my boyfriend's going to be sleeping with. other men. I know. I just think yeah, I think that sort of community as a community for a reason

it's a separate thing to like your day to day life and the people that you interact with. And that's their kink. I keep that separate to us. We were friends way before this. But they've obviously, this couple have obviously like realized they want to do that and then just thought

fuck it, let's just do it with anyone. Yeah. But actually what's going to happen is they're going to end up my really sicky situation at some point as well. Because one of that, they're going to shag a friend of one of theirs at some point and then it's going to be like, you obviously fancy my friend, don't you?

Yeah. There was actually, I think I said this before on the podcast but I remember there was someone the year above me at school and they were in a couple for years. I think they actually are married now and I think they had a threesome like drunk and it was her best friend who joined the threesome

and I think they struggled for a while after it because it was like my man now shag my best pal. Yeah. And we didn't really mean for that to happen. It was obviously just like drunk and excitement. Good God. Obviously they're intentionally doing this

but one day you're going to shag someone that feels one, either too close to home or maybe someone that maybe like your man in them had like a real good shag and you were watching it like, he likes her about too much. He likes her a bit too much, yeah. And because you know them, there's like personal connection there.

That's messy. Anyway. Right, so let's go over to Patreon because I really wanted to do this on the main but I think this is going to be even juicier over there. We have a listener that's wrote in and her partner cheated on her and she stuck with him years on

and it still eats her alive. So I want to read her message over there and we can dissect that. We also have another long message from a listener that has specifically asked for us to read this out on Patreon for the PPPs only. That's nice. I like that.

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