A Lot On Your Plate - S2 Ep2: Diet Cokagne, Self Lurv & A Golden Dildo

Episode Date: February 14, 2023

Happy Valentine’s Day pod pigs!! This week on A lot on your plate we give all the details from our girls trip to Val D’Isere, how we practice self-love and Jess spills her deep and dirtiest secret…- - - - - - - - - -Follow us on IG @alotonyourplatepodYour HostsJess (@JustJessFood)Zoe (@ZoeQuinnnn)Produced ByCobalt Creative (@cobaltmediauk)For Business Enquiries - [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And here we go. Welcome back to hello on your plate, episode two. Now Zoe, I need you to say it, like season one. You can replace my welcome. Most enthusiastic you can ever do. I just don't think a Scottish person can do that. They can. Give it a good bash. I can.

Welcome to the chart topping, show stopping. best podcasts in the world go on sorry please come no the words don't come out my mouth you're actually you're like a mute come on like the most enthusiastic I can say welcome is like welcome

perfect no but that doesn't sound right Scottish it's not got the same like fun feeling to it well anyway the laugh we've put in back in due to popular demand And quite a few of you have, you've missed it. I think we turned slightly serious at the start of season to it is what the vibes I'm getting from people.

So, yeah, it's back. But only slightly back, because it does give me the ick. I know, but we've just put the nice, like, known intro. Can't even do it now. Yeah, no, we've cut it off at the annoying part. So you're not even just going to give it one go? No, I've said my welcome back.

I think that was good enough. Anyway, guys, happy Valentine's Day. Happy Love Day. Happy Love Day. all the lovers out there. Do you like Valentine's Day? I think it's all over nonsense. I couldn't disagree more.

Yeah, but the thing is you get spoiled with balloons and all that shabang. No, but even if I didn't, nothing is stopping anyone going into a card shot. I'm getting a 75 pence card. Nobody's stopped anyone doing that. It's not hard. Yeah, but why do you love it so much? Because there's another card that I can keep. Right.

It's a memory. Another year in the bag. Mm. And I just think, celebrate every celebration possible. Live your life to the foolish. Yeah, no, no, you need to preach to me. I love it, but what I'm saying is I don't believe that Valentine's Day is

I feel like I'm loved every day. You know what I mean? What I'm saying is in terms of my partner, I don't feel like he needs to show me this on one particular day with all those bollocks. I think that I should be showed love every single day. No, I couldn't agree with you more there, but I do think that people say,

oh, it's a waste of money, what a waste of 75 pens. No, I totally see what you mean, yeah. And even like you don't need to get me, well, I'm saying this, like, theoretically right? Listen, you don't need to get me a 50 pound bunch of flowers. I love that. But you don't need to, you could get me from the supermarket. It's the thought that counts. You don't need to spend a hundred pound.

Zoe's Jason actually goes all out, doesn't he? For every single thing, you will have rose petals and candles coming into your house. Absolutely. But I would also do that. Yeah, you would. I also am really thoughtful for him too. And I just think if the occasion's there, fucking do it. Why no?

Yeah, I love this positivity from you. I don't know what it came from. Gee, what do you think to Valentine's Day? Do not recognise it as a holiday. I knew he'd say that. So you don't get J&A card? Absolutely not. Do you not?

No. I think I might have the first year we were together since then. So do you not say happy Valentine's Day? No, I don't even acknowledge it as I do. Wow. I'm just not on board with that. No, that's to the extreme. Is Jen a mind on?

not. Now we're both like that. We've been together for 14 years or something. Yeah. Don't let the spark die. Here's the question. Do you ever go back and look at all them cards you love to have? Have you got a stack that you...

Do you know what, gee? I actually have. I've got memory box. I've got a memory box. No, I ask Richard, I swear I do, under my bed. I have every card he's ever given me. Same. I correct, I don't read them.

But you know if I'm cleaning it out or cleaning under my bed, I'll all sit there and read through, I keep certain birthday cards as well, especially ones from my nan. Like certain things like that, I do. I've got a memory box that's like my, just me, like in my life. So like things with friends or family or just things I've done. And then I've got a memory box that's just Jason.

Have you? Yeah. And it's even got like we went minigolf. It's got the wee scorecard. That was going to be so nice for you to give to your kids because I was saying this to Richard the day, he bought me. This is a funny story actually. We went to Vegas.

Well, you know how we had that. I don't know if I've discussed how we met. But anyway, in Vegas on our holiday with my girls and he was with his lads. He bought a bottle of perfume on the airport coming home. And he told his lab mates that it was for his mum. And it was Mark Jacobs Daisy. And I've still got that bottle of empty bottle to show our kids, this is what your dad bought me to pretend that he wasn't fucking,

for me, it was for his mum. But I think things like that I've kept because I think that's going to be nice to give. Yeah, I mean, I'll keep it for the kids that I don't want. But if I do have them one day, then that's gorgeous. Yeah, that's a very valid point. Anyway. But anyway, happy Valentine's Day.

I hope you all surround. by love and happiness. Yeah. And not, jeez, terrible, that should. So we thought on this potty-wadi-wad that we would do a spill or swallow at the beginning because on lovely TikTok. I don't even know if it was actually TikTok,

but our beloved, our true love, Tom Hanks. Can't love someone more. Any more. He's obsessed with this drink. Well, he's not obsessed with it. Basically, I watched his YouTube earlier. He was in a nightclub with his wife and they were celebrating something

and she had champagne. doesn't really drink and everyone that was with him was like go on have a glass so he had a Diet Coke and he put a shot of champagne in the Coke and apparently it's really good and we're going to try it now and he calls it because it has to be Diet Coke he calls it Diet Cocaine sounds gorgeous ready yeah you pop that wow now for the champagne aim it for G's head oh oh oh that was already coming out Woo! Wait, so what goes first here actually?

Okay, it was meant to have ice and then it's three quarters of the way Diet Coke so he's headed taking quite a few sips of his Diet Coke before he topped it up. A plot twist at the beginning of this I don't actually like Diet Coke. Great, and I've also decided I'm going to have I'm going to get pissed every podcast now.

So anyone wants to join me, do it? I wish they're going to Coke Zero. Oh, listen, G, Rich brought me a Diet Coke last week in a bottle and I was fuming about it. then I had a Coke zero, there is a humongous difference. I'm not having it, you say anything otherwise. All down, you're very well done. I also keep corks, Gee, do you know this?

I keep any corks from a momentous occasion and I put them in a... I've got a little bowl in my living room and I know some people write on them and say when it was, which I forgot to do. Do you remember you did your Just Jess Food Live and I kept a cork free and I gave it to? Yes, you did.

And you wrote on it though, didn't you? Just Jess. Yeah, you did. that's anyone that's got something on it. By the way, just to be clear, I am an absolute hoarder. I keep everything. I just don't do Valentine's Day. Oh, shut up.

Gee. Well, that's, gee, that's actually worse. What are you a hoarder for if it's not for nice things? Nice things, I mean, like, sentimental things. Okay. There you go. Well, cheers. Yeah.

Cheers, everyone. Happy Valentine's Day. We love you so much. Right. Cheers, me dears. Interesting. It's giving me cherry coke. It is giving something.

It's giving me whiskey and coke. I mean, it's not offensive. It's kind of flaring my nostrils. Same, well, we're all done for it, mine are flaring. Keep golf balls up then. Bitch. It's nice, I could drink more. Should we down it?

No, I feel like to drink with Zoe. There he is, my mate. Go on. It's a Wednesday night. Hump day. I'm just back from the most intense stuff in my life. I can't down liquids.

Sorry. Okay. Anyway. I would recommend. I quite like that. It's nice. Well done, Tom Hanks. Anything you do, you can't do anything wrong, mate.

Agree. So I'm sure you all want to know How the ski trip was Describe it to me in four words Could we not even spoke to you about it either I would say it was Wholesome, messy Right

Challenging What's the fourth word? Magical? What did you say? Best fucking trip ever Yeah! I love that! It really was by the way I loved it so much And I think I said in the first episode episode there that most of the people there were my friends, if that makes sense.

So I've put my friends together. I suppose like you would do like a hendo I'd imagine. So you kind of worried that people would get along. I knew everyone would get along. Everyone was so easy. I have sound as fuck friends. And everyone was really chilled to actually book the ski trip. How easy was it? And I understand this is a really difficult part of booking trips with people. We didn't actually even really discuss anything. But just what you do and also half the folk thought we were going for half the time. They did. Some people thought we were going for four days. Some people didn't even, one girl didn't even look where we were staying and as you could imagine she was like whoa when she looked on the plane yeah she lives

in her own world though are Rebecca she was actually the highlight matter we just need to discuss this quickly right she owns a very successful cake business here in Scotland um cakes by rebecca she's called and she did a Q&A she's trying to be more active on her Instagram and uh she wrote in our group chat today because there's quite a lot of people tagging our podcast being back thank you so much for that, by the way. And she's obviously saw it. She's now listening to it, and she wrote into our group chat, like, guys, no way I'm buzzing. This is you. Like, where the fuck have you been? We really started it in July. And she just, I said, and then she did a Q&A and she came back. And somebody wrote into her and said, when are you

coming on Jess and Zoe's podcast? And she was like, oh, I'd be too scared to do that. And I said, did you even know who Jess and Zoe was? She just spent a week with us. Yeah, she didn't make the connection. She just cracks me up. But anyway, yeah, she's extremely successful. Bear in mind, she also was describing her time away as a spa retreat. She did, she did. We were drinking non-stop, skiing non-stop, like absolutely done in, and we've all came back a bit fucked. And she's describing it as a spa retreat.

That is a proper businesswoman for you. She would go into her room at night and just watch movies. She is one of those people that you can't describe. There's no one else like her out there. I don't even have one word. Not even a word. She's so funny. She'll be so made up.

She's even been mentioned on this podcast. We're getting it on. Yeah, we should do. Because she's actually very, very, very, very clever with business. Yeah. Sorry, I'm going to have to burke one more time. Oh. Oh my gosh.

I'm going to use it as a sound effect. Yeah, keep in that. That came from the good. Sorry. So, yeah, we love her so much, but there was so much comedy value on that trip with very different personalities, so much good energy. it was very nice. I think we're all just loving it so there was no loads really

apart from near the end people were getting a bit hung over, a bit done in. Oh yeah, the last two days were hard. A few of us were a bit choked up and stuff but yeah. I feel like we got up and got on with it and it was great. Yeah, we did. We also lived like queens a wee bit is what I will say. But I wasn't expensive as I thought the actual cost to get out there was expensive

the whole trip was expensive but the spending money which we were warned was the worst part I didn't feel like that was hard at all and we did a kitty as well. Not at all. I think we did it the best way. And also even in a couple of places we went did like happy hours and stuff and that's just not something I would have imagined they would do. No, yeah, they do. But thinking about it, Val Dazaire is where we went and there's Val Thorentz is it? Another one that's quite similar. And they all have that folly douche and the Cocoa Wico chain of big lively bars.

And I think they all do this happy hour and all the pubs that you went to afterwards when they were shook because everywhere shut at like eight. Yeah. And then Folly Douche on the mountain shuts at four, five. Well, because you need to get back down from that. Yeah, exactly. So I would say that the pubs that you went to afterwards were just like little dingy pub, like country pubs.

Well, that petite, whatever one was. La Petit Damois. What were we calling that in the first night? La, I don't know. It was something to be fannies or bozz or shum. I don't know, right, but it was not what it was anyway. That, when we saw it that night and it was full of quite old people, remember? Oh, yeah.

That was the kind of. man's pub until later on and all the onions came in and then it was absolutely ramped. Absolutely jumping, wasn't it? And it was brilliant. We had a fabulous time. I just love how no matter where you are in that place, you can dance on the tables, on the chairs. Yep. I was never off that table.

Do you know when we went to Cocoa Rican, one of our friends Holly, she actually crowd surfed, with her ski boots on, jumped onto the bannister, jumped into the crowd and crowd surfed. The bouncer didn't even bat an eyelid. They do not care. Everyone was jumping off the edges, just right into the crowd. Like, no one giving a fuck. No one. Great fun.

And then we had a nice, wholesome night in, didn't we? You cooked for us, you and Rebecca? Me and Rebecca, who, I spoke about her quite a lot on this podcast. Rebecca Cook's an Instagram follower, she's amazing. Me and her did a spread and it was really nice, wasn't it? It was so wholesome. Yeah, that was really good. We did a little surprise for her.

Because we needed, like, a bit of health. Yes, or you did, yeah, it was quite nice and healthy. Lots of roasted veg, hummers. Nice wine. Yeah. Lovely. Very gassy. It's caused you downs all their bubbles.

I know, yeah. The actual. skiing part of it. We risked our lives numerous times is what I will say I'm glad to be here. Yeah. No real injuries though. No real injuries. Actually no injuries. What I will say is when we're

skiing down from the highest point you could possibly go. Oh yeah we risked it. And we got halfway down that steep slope and you said I think this is a black slope. Black by the way is the hardest slope you could possibly get and it's basically a 90 degree angle. And the wind was so... It was blown all the snow wasn't it?

It was blowing it around your feet. It was like what in a film when they're trying to like survive the snowstorm. Yeah. And I really... I panicked a bit then. I panicked and I thought if there was a button for a helicopter, I'd be pressing it. Because we'd had a few bottles of wine, I was feeling a bit brave. Me and Kirstie were like, I was like, come on, let's just go. And then I convinced that other troops to come around, me, Heather and Haley.

Got a bit cocky. But basically, the only way you can recognise if something's a green slope, blue slope, is the poles that they're sticking in the side and the blue look like the black up that high. We're actually at the highest Michelin Star Restaurant in the world. We were coming down from that. It was It was truly amazing. We'll speak about that more in a minute. But the slope to get down from it, the first half, first part, sorry,

the pole looked black. And Kirsty, who was leading the pack, was down at the bottom waiting for us. And I thought, fuck. Well, once you're on it, you're on it, that's the problem. And what I do I actually think, and I know we're adults

and we take our own life in our response. You know what I'm trying to say. It's their own responsibility, right? I was explaining to people, there's nobody kicking about like to help you or to direct you or anything, like, it's not like when you're in holiday at like a water park and there's a staff kicking about.

Yeah, like lifeguards on the side. But there's nobody anywhere. No. And I do wonder at night when they're doing like their... Do they do like one of the, you know how like like houses search the ocean? Do they do that of the slopes? Maybe. I think that's necessary.

Because we were nearly sleeping in one of them. Yeah, it was pretty terrifying. But we did it. After that first bit, it was the best slope ever because you saw the clouds below you. It was flat. It was sornay. And I need to tell you a little something.

I was so shocked to you when I said this to you. So I was a little bit ahead at one point. And Zoe was behind me. And I finally did that I'm going to make this a core memory. And it's so funny because it really is a core memory. So I took my time to myself and I looked at this amazing, the French Alps. It was on my own. It was silent waiting for the girls to catch up.

And I did, what can I see? What can I smell? What can I hear? What can I feel? Wadi, righty, rah. And I kid you not, that image in my head now is so drilled in. my brain, then Zoe pulled up, two minutes ago, she went, oh, sorry, I've just taken loads of pictures and I went, oh, I've just did that exercise and she went, me too. I went,

no, you fucking didn't, she went, I did. Because I wasn't behind because I was like struggling on end and I was actually just going so slow. It was silent. It was the same. I loved it and I was just looking out. And I was actually annoyed because nobody was there to like get pictures like together, didn't we? But then eventually I actually liked it we didn't because I was like, no, I just enjoyed that. And I'll, it was the view that I just, with a picture of and you can see the clouds and you can see like the mountain in the middle of it and I'll never forget that. How old some of us?

It was amazing. Yep. We stayed in a lovely chalet. We did. Although the receptionist was a bitch. She was a bitch. Honestly, we stayed in that shale which was quite high end I would say right, to say the least actually. And I know, yeah, it's

very high end. We had one toilet roll per toilet which is fine for a day, right? Asking for more toilet roll was like Tritney, honestly. It was just awful. I've never seen anyone be so rude to us. For anything that we asked for, she was,

she was bang out of order. And in the end, we got four toilet rolls. There was 11 people in that. Obviously, we get more eventually, but that's one situation, and it was just ridiculous, actually. And one of the girls' rooms smelled like sewer. And it was really bad.

And she came down and said, listen, my room smells of shit. And she looked so, she went, well, what do you want me to do about it? She was like, what do you mean? What do you want me to do about it? Can you? Do you know how much you'd pay?

to stay in that place but then then you said a plumber came and he obviously didn't speak English so he was just like holding his nose

and like and he was going pooh pooh pooh pooh and Rebecca was like the plumber things have done a big shit

it's me oh but it was the best trip ever we're here to tell the tale which is the main thing and where we'd be going next year I want to go to

Austria next year St Anton I'll go anywhere or the place you recommended Jai Corsiavel so one of them Valdareeds

would probably be better because there's a fully doces there. You reckon? You can ski between them but you want to stay there's probably more nightlife. Okay. Because we skied to teens as well that was nice very much that was a lot more younger younger um cheaper probably to stay yeah but when we were speaking to one guy actually in um coco rico he said to me I've skied all over the world and he said I've never skied anywhere where slopes are not what they say they are in Valdezare he says the green is not a green and some some of our friends mentioning no names they really struggled didn't they they yeah they

didn't enjoy it at all. And I think it was because some of them were definitely not greens. They were... Yeah, that's what I mean. Just for anyone who doesn't know, green's the easiest, then it goes blue, then red, then black. Yeah. But like, green's the only option you have. Like, there isn't anything easier

or more basic than that. And a lot of them, like, for example, the one that went through the forest, you could have fell off the edge. Yeah, that was scary, yeah. Like, literally fell off the edge. Well, what I will say is I did a red, not intentionally. And I was panicking, because it was the only thing I could do. when I got off the chairlift. But red, it doesn't mean that it's steeper, does it?

It just means that it was narrow. So you couldn't go wide to turn, but it was actually quite flat. But the red we did after Foley Dush that day. That was terrifying. That was terrifying. The problem was for us as well. We had amazing weather in terms of there was snow

and it was sunny every day, but we really needed it to snow through the nights because the last few days we just had sheets of ice, essentially. Yeah. So it was quite hard. The weather you guys bought was ridiculous. Yeah, you said that. It's not.

A few people said that to me. I was only going by your Instagram, but it looked amazing. It didn't snow once. No. Usually you get a couple of nice days like that, but then you'll have the snow days or the overcast days or 40 days, but every time I've seen a picture for you guys, I was like, Jesus. We didn't see a cloud.

No, not at all. And also everyone was saying to me, like, how did you look so good? And actually what I was saying, I don't blow my trumpet often, we actually all did look good even after skiing. Yeah, because we had no, we had no wetness. Yeah. And we all carried a hairbrush as well. Yeah, we did, but I thought I was going to be like,

A mess. Look to us, I'd been dragged through a bush backwards. No, we did look all look quite decent, actually. I thought actually that's quite nice. Love that for us. Same. Anyway, enough for the ski chat. Well, what I will say is we didn't get to catch up on an old Love Island, did we?

Sorry, gee, I know your brain's going to turn to mush, but we'll just catch up quick. His face, he's rubbing his eyes, like, can't help me. Well, so I've caught up now, have you? So I'm up to date, but I've not seen them all, if you know what I mean. Right, okay. Because when I got back on Sunday, I tempted to. to watch them. Graham's actually taking his headphones off.

Are you actually even the building? We're going to do a maximum three minutes on this. Okay, I will. I'll speak quickly. I haven't seen every inch of it because Jason had watched the morning and I was like,

I'm not watching it, and I fell asleep and whatever. But I'm up to date and I know everyone's hating on Ron, but do you know what I will say? I actually think Lana's worse. Listen, for me, what I'm going to say is it's the Ron show and it's pissing me off. The Ron and Lana show.

I'm done with them both. Boring. Just get together. My prediction now is that someone will come in that's perfect for Casey and he'll win it. Because everyone's now loving him. Yeah, he's super cute. Everyone was loving him anyway. Yeah.

And we're kind of like rooting for him and Lana but now she's fucked him over. Everyone is loving him even more. And what I will say is that by the time this podcast comes out, opinions change overnight and we're a few days behind before this comes out. So. Absolutely.

They changed like the weather I know. Shack at the moment from what I've seen so far. I love him. I love how he speaks.

I think he's the first guy I've ever seen in Love Highland history to actually stick up for a girl in front of a group of lads and be like you disrespected her

and I really like that. I think he's going in a bit for Ron. He really pulls him up every time. I think they all have. I know. We didn't see,

remember, we only see an hour a day. I don't know why. I don't really have a reason behind this, right? But I actually quite like how Tom just doesn't give a fuck.

He, listen, I said this on our group chat, right? He is cheating on his girlfriend at the first PA he ever does when to get us out that villa. He is the biggest player I've ever seen. Would I get with a guy like that in a night out? Absolutely. He is gorgeous. 100% and also, I feel like...

He's like 6'5, he is handsome, he looks like a player. The girls, I don't think... He's basically kissed every girl that's in there and do you know what? That's what it's all about for me. Yeah, he's just a dick. When and make the most of it? but he's not, they don't even, they don't even think he's a deck.

But that's what I mean, he doesn't actually owe anyone anything, and he is saying the truth. He is nobody's man. Nobody. But I think, the way he says those sort of things, he is a big dirt bag on the outside. Oh, definitely. And Zara fucked it when she said this thing about his family, didn't she?

I don't think I've seen that, but. Oh, she just said, I hope your family's proud of you, and he was like, nah, and then it came to the picking, and she was the last one, and it was between her and someone else, and she was booted out. But what I will say is, Zara again, she spoke straight facts. liked her. She was a bit much and like loud and whatever for me but...

A bit too brov, brov. Yeah. What's all this thing they're saying like deepening it and calm, calm brough? Like, what is that, chat? It must be what the youngians say these days, Jess. We're not... Because the one thing I have realised is we're getting old. Mate, I'm old.

You are old, but I'm getting old. Yeah. And gee, you're fucked. Anyway, we'll catch up again on that. in a week's time and see where we're at because you're right, our opinions are going to change. Exactly. And Casa Amor will have run.

That's happening now, is it not? I'm on to that yet. No, Cassamore's not yet. Okay, fine. Okay. Exciting. What next? Let's go into our main topic.

What's been a lot on your plate? Well, I feel that we can share our mental and, is that what we say? Emotional. Emotional. And physical ones as a pair. Yeah, because it's... Emotionally, we're quite... seriously upset about being home from the best holiday of our life.

Yeah, the bruise are kicking in. They are. The severe chest infection is also kicking in. Yes. Which is hard. It's over but glad it happened type vibe. Yep, okay. And physically, we need to discuss that we went to the highest. Yeah, Michelin.

Michelin star. Restaurant in the world. So panoramic, and we ate. Snails. Yeah, and you liked them, didn't you? Well, what actually happened is the first one I had. I just had the breaded bit, and I thought, well, that's lovely. And then...

She was like, wow, crispy. And I was like, definitely wasn't crispy. That was the topping. Yeah. And then when someone else was doing it, I realised there was an added extra. So then I had it and I actually did enjoy it, you know? I wouldn't be like, oh, I'll have snails today, but...

But it was seasoned in a lot of, like, garlic butter. Garlic, breadcrumbs and all that. But it was lovely. We also had frogs legs. You tried them? Another night, yeah. Which are just like chicken wings. Yeah.

The thing I didn't like about them was actually that they were so bony. So bony, very thin bones, yeah. Yeah, because you were thinking you weren't eating a bone. Yeah. And we had fondue. We ate very French. French under the seat which was rubbish. See I enjoyed that but it's not something I would have often so. It wasn't as good as the one I've had back here. That's concerning. So we've asked

our listeners as always what was on their plate physically and we picked one this week because somebody said they had the New York Times best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever and they confirmed it was the best chocolate chip cookie they've ever had. Wow. I'm not a baker, so, but I'll be intrigued to make that now. I actually tried to bake cookies once, I thought, easiest thing to bake and I failed. Which ones were they? I think I just followed a recipe online, I'm not sure, but I did it with Jason and we were actually quite shocked at how terrible we were at. Really? I might try them though. I do love a cookie. Love a cookie. Yeah. Even at Maryland. Love. The what? Oh, Maryland.

Candy cookies. What do you say? Maryland. What did you say? Maryland. You say it different, but it's just accent, I think. Don't you love them fox's biscuits? You know, the ones that come in the tray? Yep. And they're like chunky and dipped one side. I think they're like luxury. Yeah. Like if you buy them, you've got to buy extra dollar to spend.

Not just a, not just a digestive thing. You're not getting like the one-pound Marylands. You're getting like the two of 49 foxes. Yeah. Because they've only got like six in. as well, so they're not really a share bag. But they're good. They are good. A dip in a cup of tea. And we asked some of our listeners

what's been on Lotton Your Plate emotionally. We had a load of answers, but we can only pick out a couple. But I wanted to give a little shout out to somebody special to us. Oh, Susie Tate, I know you're listening, you love our podcast. And she's not actually related to Richard,

but she knows Richard. She's from the same village as him, actually. Well, they must be. They must be. All in Bread, Sam, Amends. Joking. Anyway, just go back to it slightly. She has just had our operation.

She's just been told she had breast cancer and she is in recovery and she's doing very well and she is on the road to recovery. She's saying positive. She loves our podcast every single week and she sends us so much great energy and positive vibes every week. So we just want to give a shout out to you

because she told us to tell everybody to please check your boobies. It's so important. So yeah, if you could all do that for her, that would be great. I love that for her. Yeah, she's great. What a lovely feel-good and a roundabout way message.

She is. She is amazing. And we've also had listeners saying that she's going through a bad breakup at the moment. Sorry to hear that. But I do have a podcast recommendation for you. I have my eyelashes and eyebrows done the other day by a lady of mine. Shout out to nap. She's amazing at fancy flutters. And she has just recently been going through a breakup.

She's a boss bitch. And she told me about this podcast called, heal your heartbreak. And she said it is absolutely amazing. It's really helped her. So anyone out there that's going through a breakup, I would suggest you maybe have a listen to that because she's got a great outlook on it all and she stayed very strong going through the breakup.

Something that I quite admire because I don't know how I'd act if I was going through a breakup now in this age to you. No, not really. But some of the stuff she was telling me, I was like, wow, I really wish I would be like that if I broke up with someone. Yeah.

She didn't talk to them again. She was like, nah, done. I think that's an older thing though. Do you reckon? Like, I think if we had to go through it now, it would be very late. Well, if it's done, it's done. Like, none of that pissing about shit.

Yeah. Whereas before it was like, oh, what's a wee text? What's a wee dry? A drunken text, all that. What's a wee drunk and sleepy room? Sleeper. Whereas now, he just would never. I'm sure.

But I don't know. This is what I'm saying. I don't know how I would act now. I would like to think I would behave that way. In my head, but I'm telling friends. I'm like, fuck that guy. But I hope that I would be that way. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, me too. It wasn't a good breaker, by the way. He was a dick to her, so. But I do think in long. term that makes it easier because I think you have the upset stage and then you have the angry stage but if nothing really has happened

it's hard to get to the angry stage right do you know what I mean? Yeah I agree you just kind of just always feel sad but anyway that's a shame but it is a shame so moving on moving on J-seds sweat moving on

I think we went over our fucking time for the first couple of sections I think having too much having too much fun that's no what I mean What do you mean, Jay? How would you deal with a break up then, smart ass?

I would be judgment about the break up to see. Up to that point, everything was very positive and it just went... Listen. And if you'd really want to know I am all in or all out. Are you? Love it, Gee! Yeah, love that. But you don't give her a Valentine's card.

So he's not all in. I love that though. That's what you want from a man, isn't it? Yeah. Right, so let's pick up the vibes. Woo! Pauzy Pauzy vibes! I don't know how I've got any hair left in my head because it all falls out. And let's talk about something that I'm sure people really think seeps out of me.

Self love. Self love. On this special day, I'm still sipping this drink, it's going down well. On this special day of love, we thought we would talk a little bit about how we project self-love. Self-confidence. Yep. We get asked that quite a lot. But also what you guys do for a little bit of self-care, self-love.

Because Valentine's Day, if you do celebrate it, it isn't all about being with a partner. It can be about anything, just love in general. Loving yourself. Yeah, exactly. And I think that's more important then. Yeah, because I actually think you can be in a... I wouldn't say not in a happy, loving relationship, right?

Maybe that's a bit far. But you need to love yourself first. Absolutely. And I do know that we all have inner demons and there's always this comparison, and all that with things especially around

social media and Instagram these days. You never think you're good enough because you're looking at other people's lives constantly

but they say comparison is a thief of joy so I feel like if you can be grateful in that moment of who you are and what you've got it's very easy

to then love yourself and love the things that you have and be grateful for them I mean I think I'm perfect but that's just cool obviously you do no joke and I actually don't but what I have realised

is I would say I'm just going to get right in about it right I would say that recently I've felt better and I know this is quite a maybe a vain thing I'm not sure what the word is but one day I realised that I wasn't really making a lot of effort myself and I mean wee things you know how you see people and you think

they just look great all the time I wanted to be that person and that made me feel better because I started to make more of an effort yes I know I don't really look like your night in shining the armour all the time that's nice actually but like work see when I wake up and I'm in a rush at that door and I'm running the train and I forgot me earrings and my lip gloss and all that

I don't feel good and that actually really helped me when I was more organised Yes, and we like put a nice outfit together and make sure you have that extra 10 minutes in the morning to put a bit of slap on your face Absolutely so I think everyone should make an effort In ways that they want to

Yeah I don't mean it's all about looks, it's not But it's more like how you feel Makes you feel good doesn't it? If you feel you look nice you feel good don't you That's so true I do feel like even by me As I work for myself

Like if I get up and get dressed about my day. Put a bit of makeup on. I'm so much more productive and I have such a more productive day. I feel happier. Yeah, I just feel like I've accomplished stuff. It makes you feel good. But I think with me as well, I'm very grateful and very lucky to be, to have this mindset and I'm aware that it's not, doesn't come naturally to a lot of people. But I've never really compared myself to other people. I've never really, I've always surrounded myself, which is a really important thing but I've always was told one time that you are a true reflection

of the five closest people to you and I ensure that those five people are great people that are ambitious that make me feel good I always want to make them feel good we push each other in life nothing about appearance it's all just about how they make me feel

inside and I think that makes me a happy person and I think when you are when you do feel loved you can give love does that make sense yeah 100% yeah so I don't think having around people that either compete with you. Yeah, or train your energy.

You actually do become so negative and I've just got a very glass, half full type of life and I try my best to see the positive in things. I understand that there's days where I do feel like shit. There really is. There are days when I look on social media or if I'm hanging around with someone that's probably had a lot of work done or something

and I think, oh wow, they look so good. Maybe if I had a little bit of this or that I'd feel would not make me feel happy, not a fucking chance in hell. And I just think it's really, and there's nothing wrong with that. And if that does make you happy, then great. But you have to learn to love yourself as you are. It's so important.

Yeah. I also think people do get carried away with the materialistic things because of social media. And don't get me wrong, everyone loves, like, a nice bag or whatever. Yeah. Not even if it's expensive, I don't mean that, but people like to buy themselves nice things. Yeah.

And it makes you feel better like there than then, but it's not like a long term fix. Yeah. But I just think in terms of making my extra time a day for exercise as well is so important. It's not so just good for the use. the way you look but it's the way you feel your brain your mind you make you're so productive it releases them good endorphins it just makes you feel great once you change your

aim of exercise to being to make you feel good not to make you just look good yeah actually commit to it so much more yeah that's so true because you don't get like disheartened by not being skinny overnight yeah I saw um a girl that we both follow actually on Instagram she had posted uh Georgia Bayless it was actually and she'd posted that she was always hated exercise a whole life. And she's got a naturally very slim frame. But she picked up Reforma Pilates. And now she does it religiously every day. And she said, I finally found something that works for me. I'm not doing this to change my body. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good. I'm moving my body. My body is changing because of that. But my mind feels clearer. I'm enjoying it.

I've got, I feel like I've got a little hobby now. And I just think it's so important to not always look at someone that's probably doing like boxing or a PT or CrossFit or yoga and always think I need to do all these things to look the way they look. You need to do something that makes you feel good. And in turn, the bonuses will be you will get a better body on all that, jazz, if you really want that. Which is actually reason some people don't have confidence as because of the way they look, which everyone has.

So that is fair enough. And as people, somebody actually wrote to them and they said, they've got a lot on their plate this week, they said, I'm really struggling to get motivation to go to the gym, I just hate it. Don't do it then. Don't do that if you hate it. You're not finding something in joy then.

You need to find something that you, like, find a different hobby that keeps you active. Also, if your diet's right and you're active as in, go get your steps in every day, you'll see a difference. Yes. And also as well, another thing that is quite important with self-love, which I think I'm quite good at, is when you walk into a room of people, I know it comes a lot down to self-confidence, but I know, let's say I go into a, I've got a night out and I think, oh, it's going to be so many beautiful people there and whatnot. I always tell myself that I'm gorgeous, as we all know. Yeah, you do. Right? I do actually do, I feel it, may not look it,

but you know when I tell myself, I feel like shit, I look like shit, and I'm going to this room, my confidence lacks, I don't have good conversations with people, I'm like hunched over, it doesn't happen often, but when I feel that way, it really reflects on how I act as a person, and I think if you tell yourself every day you're beautiful or I'm gorgeous

and honestly, your life will change, it's mad. I love that for you, but also I agree that if I feel like I look like shit, which is a shame because no one ever does right. Yeah. But if you feel like I'm not as sociable and night out.

No, true, that's what I mean. And you do set kind of like... Your confidence lacks. See, you get your arms out and you don't want to, you hide them. Yeah. Or like your jeans are a bit tight or whatever. You do hunch over and you do hide yourself.

Yeah. And you're not like as confidence to speak to people. Exactly. But everybody's perfect. They are. And I understand that confidence is one of those things

that you have to build upon it. It's easy enough for me to say, oh, walk into a room and tell yourself you feel a million dollars. But you need to work on it. Stop putting yourself down. Stop telling myself off, from fact a day

or look like shit, I wish I looked like that person, blah, blah, blah. I think everyone should get a post-it note. Yeah. Write a message to themselves and put it on their mirror. Cute. And send that's a picture. I'm gorgeous. That's a nice idea, yeah. It just came to me there in my marketing genius. And another important thing is

which we spoke about, our lovely journal that we really want to write. Somebody said to me that they were feeling great when we asked them on a pod. They've been journaling for two years. Something that I do, dear being and out of, and No, you don't do it all. No.

But I do think that it's so important to remember what you have and write down what you're grateful for about what you don't have. It's also important to write your goals for the year and what you want to achieve, but also remember of what you have. Same as what we spoke about the last episode.

Write down your small wins. They'll make you feel good. I've actually not updated mine since the skiing holiday. I've got quite a lot to add. Exactly, Zoe. You know, add that I survived, like I said before. But maybe I'll twist it and do it in a positive way.

Love it. And also my biggest, biggest, biggest thing that I live by and swear by is I don't give a single fuck what people think about me. I really don't. Unless I'm hurting someone, I would never want to hurt someone's feelings.

That's completely different. That's a completely different. I think there's a fine line and the example I always give is, and I know it's so stupid because you don't know people's tones and all that over like texting night. But say we've been fine for a week

and then one day you're a bit off with me over message. stop thinking that you're the problem. Yeah. I think people need to stop thinking that it's themselves at the problem because maybe that person's just having a bad day. Yeah. Unless you know you've upset someone deal with it and fix it, right? But people are very bad at blaming themselves and it's like

you're probably not done anything. But that person's from anxiety though. Yeah. And that's obviously a deeper issue. But I say to people all the time I just don't think I'm the problem unless I know I've done something wrong. And I don't mean it in an ignorant rude way. I mean it as I like people have bad days. Like you're

you might just be getting the brunt of it. Like, don't always assume and get like overthinking that you're the problem. I do think when you get over anxious, you do feel like everyone's talking about you or everything's aimed at you about you and that's really hard mindset to get out of once you're in it. But I think when you start

believing that, just stay in your own lane in life and don't give a foot what people think about you. When you get out of about all these things that I said about you gossiping things online, honestly, I just feel sad for those sort of people if that's what they're spending their own time doing and that makes them happy then fine. because it clearly doesn't make, they're clearly not happy people.

Yeah. But don't care what people think about you and just stay in your own lane and you, honest, your life will transform, but don't hurt people in the process, then you should care. And if you do apologise. And even if you don't, I know we're digress, not in a bit of a different subject here, but even if you don't believe that you've done anything wrong,

but they say you've hurt their feelings, you should still always apologise. Like that. That's the end of that. Nice little TED talk there. Lots of little tips. Hang about with us if you want to. We're your friend of cell.

Geez, get something important to say. I love the TED talk. That should be a segment. The TED Talks. It's a bit. It's a bit revolved around you. The quinquence and the TED Talk. Yeah, quenfluence would just be that I'm influencing people, like, advice.

Yeah, you're co-influencing people, and I'm giving you the TED Talk. My genus is. God to put us on this world together. I'm having a top-up. So we asked some of you what you do for a bit of self-love, and somebody's wrote, caring less about what people think about me. Great one. They do things like baths and have math.

and skincare routine, that's a great part of self-care. Yeah, like I think people, and it relates back to the saying yes, saying no more, all that shit, is if you don't want to do something, don't do it, it'll make you feel shit, have a night in, go for a bath, which makes me upset because I don't have one in my flat, but anyway, and put a face mask on and just chill out, spend some time yourself. I think people who never want to be on their own. Struggle to enjoy their own time.

Yeah, like I'm not trying to, what's the word, you know, and you group everyone together. I can't remember what the word I'm looking for is. But I don't know that it's good if you never want to spend time on your own. I agree actually. Because then if you can't be with your own thoughts then you've got some work to do that for you.

Jenna made a good point to me once actually when we went out for our lunch at Christmas she said that as she's got older with time like she obviously loves looking at people having a great time when they're out but she does not experience FOMO at all anymore. She's so content in her life that she feels like she never ever feels like she misses out on anything

because if she wanted to be there she would be there. That's how I feel. Yeah, but she's so content. to be like I will attend absolutely everything and actually I probably did want to at the time yeah there's been a couple of times that we've done stuff you've not came or you've done stuff I've not went and yeah I'm like oh I wish I was there

because I wish I was spending time with you and the other girls but I'm not like sitting like with the fear that I'm missing out like you're going to tell me everything that happened anyway yeah exactly and you're not going to have a stinking hangover the next day either and I'm on my couch watching a movie with a sheer bag of chocolate and I'm happy as Larry dreamy that's our age though showing yeah it's sense and um

somebody else has said here, concentrate on what I've achieved rather than what I've not. Again, that boils down to gratitude. Being great with what you've got, small wins. I was going to give a shout out to my best friend Holly who has a self-love page on Instagram and it's at the self-love hub and we'll share it because she does some really great

quotes and things to keep you going and help you journal if you're on that journey, journal journey. For someone who hasn't really into all that stuff, I actually don't mind a quote. Yeah, she does some nice questions. And you know what I will say about Holly's page as well. In the captions, she writes things that are really relatable to people that are our age and not someone from like a therapist perspective, just someone that's gone through stuff.

And I think it's really easy to sort of, what's the word? Relate. Relate, yeah, relate to her post. And it's, you know, she doesn't write it all mushy, mushy, it's just straight to point, cutting the crap. I think sometimes stereotype was the word I was looking for a minute ago and I'm going to use it again. I'm not trying to stereotype all influencers here. But I think a lot of the time it actually might make people feel worse when

they're seeing someone who has this so-called perfect life. And then they come out and speak about, like, not everything is the way you see it on camera, but here's my Chanel bag. Yeah. And I'm like it doesn't really, some people aren't really putting it together. Aligned in the right way.

It's kind of like almost, it does come across like ticking a box. Right. Whereas I think there's some influencers out there who are amazing at all that. Yeah. And like Holly's page, for example, she gives her own experiences

and obviously we know that they're real like things that she's went through. And then she won't post for two months. So she'll come back and she'd be like, I didn't post because I'm not going to bullshit you. I was in a bad place, but I'm back. And this helps me. She keeps her accountable.

But anyway, I'm going to lift up the tone now, but also lower it. You ready? Well, that's a bit of a roller course sort of emotions. Yeah. So I've got a little, it's no shock to my friends that I'm an advocate for sex toys. Sorry, gee. We're going to have a new friendship here. I love a vibrator.

Okay, whether it's with a partner or whether it's on my own. I've already had a conversation list before and to be quite honest with you, that one was enough. So I'll just let, until you get to the punchline. This is a fantastic episode for us to discuss a bit of self-love, right? And another side of self-love. And it's funny because I was in, yeah, another side to it.

I think there's nothing wrong with discussing pleasure for a woman. Right. There isn't. But anyway, this is not actually why I'm talking about this at all. Funnily enough, I was in a group of Scottish women doing never have I ever a few weeks ago and I was with another English friend of mine and it came up in conversation about vibrators

and it was like tumbleweed in there I was shocked because my English friends back home are very on my wavelength I was shocked I don't know if I'm stereotyping Scottish women as a whole because I'm sure I'm not because there was one person in that room that was like winking at me like correct but they were all like nah

don't own one never used one never had one with my partner and I was like wow I'm shocked by that Not that it's a bad thing I just thought that was I thought that's what we did But anyway I would say from what I know

About close friends It's quite mixed Oh okay I would say it's like absolute no From the Scottish side of things But I don't know I think you are quite passionate about it Yeah

But that makes you sound like a sex addict So let me just say I'm really not Really really not You're a sex addict with the fucking toy Yes correct Which is actually It's actually pretty bad No I'm not

Get your image out your head everyone that's not actually what's happening but yeah I think it's maybe that and I'm not trying to age shame you here but it might also be have you always been like this or would you say it's in recent years

no it's when I was young when I was about I think I had a friend that lived with me at the time I was about 24 and I'd never had never used anything like that as I was 24 and she was like oh you should she was really into like the proper

like I'm talking dildo here and that's not what I like by the way I'm not into that and she bought me one for my birthday and I was like whoa I didn't like some present that I didn't I know I did not enjoy it at all I was like this is not for me I didn't like that at all um and I'm not very adventurous with locks out there but yeah I think then I was like wow this opened me up to she's like yeah I all my friends do I'm like oh not sure I feel like it probably takes one person to really talk about it to probably open up people's minds to it and the guy needs to be want to be involved as well yeah this is well this conversation we're going to get on to today right so I I went to, geez, God, his handovers. And I just want to say that I've had permission to discuss this, okay?

He was well up for me discussing this. So, I, as it's Valentine's Day, two years ago when I introduced sex toys into my relationship, but it was maybe a bit longer than that, but we went away on a weekend away. And I actually remember that happened. Yeah, and I had a little nice, little naughty outfit, okay? This outfit is not naughty. It's very basic, lace little number. Fast forward a few years.

is when we could have these nice overnights. He jokingly said to me the day, you pack that a thing that you always pack. And I was like, you twat. Then I was thinking, wow, I really need to spice things up a bit. I do wear the same thing. And it's really not anything special as all. It's just a nice piece of underwear.

So I went away to a ski trip and I got a text saying, I've bought you something. I was like, okay. Thinking fuck me. Fought you a little something. I forgot all about it. Anyway, me and him went for breakfast yesterday. and we're standing outside of my shutters,

my lovely postman comes to the door. And he says, and we have a joke with the Hermes man, postman, because I do get a lot of parcels come to my door, as does Richard, a lot of trainers, a lot of clothes. And we always joke with him, whose parcel was who. And as he came, he got it at his bag, and he wafted it in the air. And he went, ooh, who's it for today?

And I was like, well, it's definitely not for me. and Richard was just like I could see his people start dilating and I'm like well it's obviously for him isn't it and he went oh it's Richard Tate and he went what the fuck have you been buying now and he was like

shut the fuck up and I was like what and anyway he was like nothing I don't actually know what it is anyway as I walked off of what that's that thing he's bought me I thought the guy was going to be that I bought it for you what he's bought me

and I'll put a picture of this I mean there's absolutely no privacy anymore is there? No but I've got wore it and I'm not going to to. Right. Ever. Zoe, he looked at a model online and thought I would look like that and that. Gee?

My tits! My tits wouldn't hang like that. Just to describe you all, I'll pose a picture of it. It's a leather, boobless, crotchless, may I add, bodice, with a metal chain choker with black tape on a cross over the nipples. he wants me to walk out in this listen to the chain on the mic

can you fucking go like so he's looked at the model on whatever is it love honey and thought oh yeah Jess would look good in that gee that is horrendous

that is horrendous for a start and I would also look she's got big fake tits all I'm looking at when I'm seeing when I look at this is why would anyone in this world choose to wear that over fucking Disney jammies

I don't understand Same, Zoe. It looks like it cost a bit of fibre. It's cheap, nasty tack. And I just can't believe he's gone to scroll the internet and thought, I know, Jess would love to wear that. Imagine me walking into my bedroom with that choke around my neck. A black tape across my tits.

That's a sin. That is a sin. But it also came with a little free gift. Boxic. We're going to quickly discuss. And this also brings me on to another little toy that I thought I would buy us a couple years ago. I obviously read that, you know, men like a little bit of bum action, right? I thought they did.

So I bought a golden bullet for the bum. He's given me permission for this. And I pulled it out and I was like, surprise. It was obviously like a golden little dildo that you pop up their bum. And he was like, that's going nowhere near my ass! and I was like chasing around the room like please let me stick it on your bum anyway that swiftly never left my drawers since Bums are for one thing and one thing only mine

I know but I thought men liked a little bum bit things should just come out not in a little finger up the bomb anyway so I've got a pack of cards here and we were reading them out together we were pissing ourselves it's called pillow talk a sexual voyage of discovery pack of cards. You're not playing sweats with him, are you? So, it's asked you things, so it has an intimate

question at this top and then an intimate forfeit at the bottom. Zoe, I just would love to see you play this game with Jason because you're the most awkward person on earth. Quite weird. Intimate forfeit. Spank your partner three times. Expose yourself to your partner for ten seconds.

I can't with this. This is the word from, talk. dirty to your partner for one minute straight. Never. Never. Never. I can't even tell you, I put on what I classed, nothing like that outfit. Just a nice lacy brand. Yeah, but that's what I'm talking about, Zay. I would never wear something like that. Yeah, I know, but I took that away.

We went to Brighton one time and I thought a wee couple days away, like I'll try and make this fun, right? I came out the toilet with that on. I was hunched over and I was already laughing before I got out of the toilet. I'm like, I don't understand how people, how do you swear? from carrying on with someone, like, every day to, like, do people just have a switch in their body and that's them? Like, and, like, sex mood. That's what I mean. How do I switch off my baby voice and try and be sexy? Like, I can get into it and, like, do the deed and, like, that's

great. But I don't get the, it's the, like, dress up before play thing that I struggle to know how people are brave enough to do it. It's how you turn off, like, the jokes and the laughs. I had an old housemate that used to go on numerous Tinder dates and she would turn up at the house in a Mac and long boots and just underwear. And she would. as they open the door she'd just be like hi but I think that's like a characteristic thing people don't know you they don't know anything else about you so as an act whereas it's hard to put an act on with someone

that you're with every day you know yeah and you're farting and trapping the head under the covers and that exactly one minute I'm farting and doing that and the next minute I'm like what I'm out my fucking chains like it's no one like you know what I mean do you think watching porn whilst making love is a turn on I've never watched porn with a partner no never although I love

lesbian porn there I said it I mean I know I'm not alone with that one do you prefer shaving or natural privates well I've foxed you with that one have you got laser have you ever faked an orgasm this is too much

anyway let's end it there I've had it this has been quite a lot this episode she's sweating jeez like get me out of this room I think I've got a rash up my neck I love it give me all the dirty chat

Put their cards away, we're ending it. Yeah, we are ending it now. There's no more. It's just the talk to... Gently cup and squeeze your partner's testicles and breasts three times, increasing the pressure each time. Fuck sake. Oh, I've got a dab on now.

Right, we're out. That's it. This is why we need to drink more. That was enough. That was brilliant. Well, anyway... Happy Valentine's Day from us to you. Self-love, self-pleasure.

Do you know what I mean? That took a turn for the worst. Needs to get genuine. on some sort of deal-dow sponsorship, Jay. Right. I'm no promoting love, honey. You can go home and test it. Well, I'm giving my reviews next time.

No. Running around after Jason with your book plug, like, babe, wait. We need to do it for the pod. Oh, fuck me. Anyway, I'm stopping you there. Yeah. Thanks for listening.

I hope you made it to the end of that, because I fucking sure wouldn't have. You would. You would. Anyway, lots of love. See you next Tuesday. Bye. Bye!