A Lot On Your Plate - S4 Ep16: The honeymoon phase

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

This week on ALOYP we chat about an unbelievable new restaurant opening in Glasgow which you all MUST go to, how Jess is celebrating 10 years (!!!) with Richard and Zoe's biggest achievement yet! Enjoy💖 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back. Happy Tuesday, everybody. Happy Tuesday, everybody. It's a gorgeous, glorious week. Is it nice still? Yeah. Okay. By the time this podcast goes out in the middle of June or whatever, it probably won't be, be pissing it down. This comes out next week, which is still me. Well, you never know with Scottish weather. Drama Queen. But it has been glorious, hasn't it?

Yeah, it's been beautiful. What a difference it makes on life. It really, really does. I feel like mornings are getting easier jumping out of bed you haven't got to think about what layers to put on I feel like I'm talking to a taxi driver asking like oh how's the weather

that or in chit chat we don't have a spitter show all this week because we were fat bastards yesterday we vet too much yeah and we just don't like there's just we can't fit anything else in at this point

we had eight bites this morning although they were a bit overcooked quite hard yeah like quite crispy on top but they shouldn't be No, it was the egg white bites we had With, healthy What was it again?

Cheese and red pepper Yeah Delicious soy They're kind of beat the map And we've got our mudflowers back Mudflowers of the week I think they look gorgeous What's our card say?

A nice fresh bunch right They're like peonies again They are Pionie Pony Pony royalty in the building Dot dot dot dot Duchess de Nemours

Duchess Is that a phrase I should know Let's have a look Oh I have no idea Not sure Anyway It must mean something royal

It sounds fancy My flowers I found them in the house In the end The ones from last week that were missing Yeah But I think because he told me there were a bunch of roses they were mixed with lilies so I was thrown off slightly

but they look gorgeous even a week later maybe more than to be fair what yeah about a week later and they're looking gorgeous so they're still in my house

I was going to bring them in and have two bunches but that one in all its glory looks fantastic I think I should get to take that one today you can I think that's fair I think that's fair

yes I think my flat would look nice nice with them in absolutely writing it up a little you know so what we're talking about in this week's episode Zuzzi

Wuzzy-Wuzzy. Quite a few things. We went somewhere really nice to eat, which we need to talk about. Yep. I'm going to a wedding this Sunday and we need to talk about the difficulties of wedding dresses, which we probably will do that over Patreon actually. What do you think? Yeah.

Because we got a lot of recommendations from everyone on where they shop for their wedding dresses so we can read them out. Yeah, absolutely. And that's quite helpful because I actually don't know. I'm just an A-Sos girl. I just go A-Sos for everything, but I don't know why it doesn't serve me well. And I feel like if we do an episode like this as well,

it's always good to come back to if you need a dress for an occasion. Yeah, it could just be the races, it could be wedding guest, or if you're just going somewhere fancy like a ball, charity ball. On a night out, people get dressed up for a night out and like us. Not me, but I miss those days, to be fair. I just miss it being easy to order shut them off like PLT every weekend and like it came if that was it, we had it rather than like trying on 50 different things nothing works

I do feel like we've just changed our shopping habits haven't we because I said this to you because Zoe's wearing some gorgeous leper print trousers right and I love are they a bit much no not at all there'll be a bit much if you wore something maybe like that on the top it's giving cats later yeah but I said this is when it started creeping into fashion around February because we were at farmhouse remember and I was like it's you know leopard print is back because everyone at farmhouse was wearing it and I says I actually refused to buy into this print trend right because it happens every five or six years

and if I go down on my Instagram back to when we worked at quiz there was a time where my whole year was filled with animal print I was going to say it wasn't even just leper print it was zebra print it was like cheater print mind it was red and black red and black those satin dresses everyone more the satin slips to a piece like the wee sort of triangle like sleeveless top and the wee shorts with the day. And then what frustrates me is when I do my seasonal wardrobe clear out or whatnot, I notice that all the prints I chuck

because I no longer they give me the ick, I'm like, oh my God. But then five years later, I think, oh, I wish I kept that. Although what I will say is it always moves on slightly like that's a different type of fabric or it's a more of a faded leper print.

It's a wide leg trouser. Yeah. Not like that. And it's more like that damson matter, gany type of leper in the moment. So I feel, yeah, fashion always comes back

around but just in different ways and I can't keep tapping into buying trends because I waste my money yeah waste my money it's bad for the environment and I just think I'm always pulling out pieces should we call them that are better quality like a uniclo tea or something that is that that uniclo vest you've got on that I've not had off my body I have seen you for the last three days I've wore the same thing and you've had the white one on and the black one on twice yeah and you said you'll never wear anything else again actually think I believe you. No, I wasn't joking, Zoe.

I genuinely love it that much. I cannot believe I found a T-shirt that I don't have to wear a bra. If I could drop my t-ts off, I would. And I genuinely think that this is just serving everything. No, I think, to be fair, I did have a different low-cut top on today, but I didn't have a bra. Because I'm wearing a high-waist skirt, it's because I'll sit down on a podcast. That's probably why you think about these things. And when you sit with a wired bra and you're sitting down on a podcast,

with three cameras facing you the bulge yeah so this is why I'm wearing it with ease no I'm absolutely not judging but my point was to yesterday that I need to go back to Uniclobe because I want to buy about five of the same ones

and Haley tagged me in a thing on Instagram and they bought out like ribbed more like different style ribbed ones just loads it's answer to a prayer really I still not tried it but I will I'm just not convinced that it'll cover my lady parts

so it will I promise but just talking about the tapping into the trends quickly before we move on I think a real smart way of doing that is using it with accessories so I would be definitely partial to getting like a leopard print scrunchy or a leopard print little nice bag or trainers I got a little paint tote bag from TikTok shop for five pounds yeah that's the gorgeous that is actually does the job then you can just chuck that like a fibre but I love those trousers but my point is I feel like I would probably wear them like twice and then I'd be like oh this is the only second time I've had these on

Yeah Well I got them from New York though I only went there like two weeks ago or last week whenever that was They are beautiful

Where are they from These are just from ASOS or Topshop Yeah Topshop's good Topshop quality Is something that I always noticed I don't chuck away much

No I just type in Topshop When I go on ASS now Yeah I feel like most of the stuff I end up seeing And like and buying It ends up being Top Shop

So I'm like Let's just refine this process Yeah Down to Top Shop alone Top Shop needs to be Back in the store I think it does. I just think the reason I got these is because I quite like

this sort of style of trouser because I think it's quite flattened for me because they're loose. What's the waistband like? It's just kind of like an elastic which I don't love but I actually need to turn it over once because they're quite loose up there but they're also too long so that makes it a bit more flattering because they're kind of cinched in a wee bit

but I mean another thing as well TikTok absolutely kills trends like your Sambl's for example I think they're really nice but people are slagging them now on TikTok saying they give everyone the ick. Oh, I don't care, because you know what else I've got, which actually would look really nice with these trousers, my Ganny top. My Gany t-shirt is nice.

And what's Gany's getting rinsed at the moment. I don't care what anyone says it's nice. It's nice. It's got a nice peach or lemon or something on it. It's nice in summery. And that would actually look nice with these trousers, I think. I think Gany's a lovely brand. So anyway, everyone can fuck off as far as I can fuck off. Any hooty, hootie-hoo-do-woo.

We went somewhere delicious for lunch. I don't have a bad word to say about it. No, I actually don't. we went to Maison Maison by Glassahoo and by the way it's Glassahoo yeah

that's been confirmed yeah it's not Glashu Glashu Yeah it's Glasgow Yeah it's Glasgow Gaelic for Glasgow Yeah It's not Gaelic

I say that wrong Gaelic Gaelic is Irish isn't it I always get this mixed up Oh I would say Gaelic as well Right okay Yeah because you're

Hail Hale Part Irish I actually don't know if I'm I don't actually like that I'm. It's Gaelic. Gallic, right, okay. Gallic for Glasgow. Yeah.

That makes sense. Anyway, it's new, and it's up on the terrace in Prince's Square. So it's not as high as October. It's like the second one down. It's right next to Tinderbox. And we couldn't believe the size of it. So it's got the outdoor terrace bit. Yeah, which I thought that was all it was.

Me too. But it's massive. Massive. Then you go in, and that's actually. more of like just a bar for drinks which is quite dark and moody it's really nice in it yeah so if you want to go into princes go and have a drink and you don't want to go to October and be with all the kiddie wits where people apparently shitting on the floor that's true that's true story then go to one floor down and they have a separate

bar and it's got like high stools at the bar then you've got high tables and you've got booths and it's just really nice moody again it's decorated nice it's giving similar sort of interior design as ghost where we held our brunch. But maybe a little bit more modern and bigger. More of an actual bar. Even though it's a restaurant, what they were

saying to us is that's a bar because then once you walk through that there's a massive restaurant out of the back which you wouldn't notice there. That is beautiful. More light at the back and a huge private dining room. It was up to what was it, 25 people were sitting there? 26, she said yeah.

That's nice because I think with age as you get older for your birthday like I would like to have a nice meal with everyone and a private room and just had a high drink didn't she that weekend before oh yeah that is good for a hindoo because we were saying the only real other place you can think of is the ivy really for a private room in town

although saying that we'll go on to this in a moment but I was at the body last night and they had a beautiful private room at the top in there the body just off ashton late but as options are just not very known I would think do what else should do or what we should do is find or you guys messages places in Glasgow and Edinburgh

that have these big large private dining rooms and we could put together like a little list for events. Yeah I get that asked a lot on just Jess like where can I held my birthday and I do always say them to go to the Ivy Dakota's got a nice private room as well I'm sure and you said the Finiston has a nice private bit at the back. Finiston you can hire out the back back

gorgeous I think that's such a helpful hiding seeks actually got a room as well what you forget about maybe not for food but it does have a private space I think that would be a really helpful guide because I would like to thinking this last night I would like to have a really big 35th birthday party. Is that this year?

No, next. Because I think when I'm 40, I don't know, but I think 35, because I didn't have to have a big mass of 30th, I want to have a big party of everyone. That's fine. I can hire out a big room. Not a problem.

Sickest DJ. I want to have the best party ever. Okay. Can we make that happen? Absolutely. We've got a year and a few months to plan it. Yes. Then it's my 30th after that.

Yes. We go in Vegas. Absolutely. That's part one of the trip. It's a, what do you call it, a road trip. That's what I'd like to. Anyway, we digress there. So we had...

Back to Maison. Three courses for lunch. The reason was, seriously, we think we had four because they brought out little bits at the start. They did. The reason was, when I say this menu is, it's impossible to not like something on this menu. I was like, I've got to have that, we've got to have that.

And we didn't even have, they do unreal pastries. We don't have any of them. We buy pistachial cream over. the top. So I think they said the pastries are from Freedom bakery but

they actually decorate themselves with like like they add the peanut butter and jam one kind of special bit to it so to start

well we got olives and little aranchini balls aranini balls that's right salted almonds as a wee starter even the olives

they were good were good olives yeah I like that happens and then for starter I had um

parfait you did you love patte by the I love patty by the way. You have patty more than haggis? No, I do.

If patty is on the menu as a starter, I will get that. Like, nothing else would take over that. Maybe haggis, bonbons, every so often. But patty is always my starter. I love it so much. And it had some garlic fig chutney with it?

Yeah, it was like, black garlic or dark garlic. I've never heard that before. But that was the chutney. The patty was in like a big swirl. It was nice and soft. It had an olive oil in the middle of it. Wow.

Four wee bits of toasted bread. Couldn't beat it. But do you know what I'll say? just as a side note about Patty see when I was vegetarian for a year and a half that's the only thing I missed really and I did actually have it once at the start because I didn't realize it was meaty

what? I know that sounds so stupid but I just didn't know what it was right I just see it's just a spread I just don't think anyway that's what I missed when I was vegetarian how weird is that so nice so much anyway what did you have to start I had the what I'm even thinking about this

I had the French onion soup. I mean like two E's at the end of the. It was good. I tried it. Because I think we may have said this before, but I love French onion soup. And I genuinely have had maybe four in France while I've been on trips. I've never been wowed by it.

Then I had one in the brasserie of the Balmorrow Hotel. And I stayed there maybe early last year. And that was phenomenal. Were you not there when the queen died? No, I was in Balmoral when the queen died. I didn't, the place. Am I getting this mixed up? I went, I mean, the Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh.

No, you're not getting a mixed up, I am. Yeah, but I also was in Balmoral. When she died. Chance of that, honestly. And the room I was in was called Queen Elizabeth. Fuck, you know. So, that much. Oh, yeah.

And then, so I had the French on your suit there, and I've still said to this day that it was probably one of the best I've had in Scotland or probably in the UK don't get me wrong I don't go to all these French places or French in your suit but... Al you've not actually tried to find a good one

but a lot of people have said nowhere in Glasgow does a really good one it's true and anyway it was so fucking good guys I'm going to post it by the time this comes out you'll see my video of it

and you'll be like wow already I posted it this morning on the way here and my DMs are blowing the fuck up because I didn't tag where it was yeah that was cheeky I know, but I didn't, I didn't know why, because I'm intending on following up with more stories, but sometimes I forget. Sometimes it's good to be a wee tease, do you what I mean?

Yeah, honestly, it's now looking, there's just so many, but that's how much we'll want, a good one. Anyway, so good, and what I will say is it's very rich. I think everything that we ate was rich. Yeah, it was, because I then had taglet pasta, and it was in, like, a chicken stalk and pepper sauce, and it was delicious, but I couldn't eat much of it because it was so rich. It's quite salty. But only because I was also half full. Yeah, I would say that was a cross between like if the Carbinar and Caccio Pepe had like a love child with a chicken, that was what you would have. It was delicious, though I would recommend that.

And then because I was going out for dinner in the evening, by this point it was 5pm and my dinner reservation was 7 at the Bovey, I went for a tuna Niswai salad. Tuna Nikoi salad. Please tell me you get that joke. No, I don't. You never watch white chick. Yeah, I have actually But I just don't You know I don't retain

Coats and things like that It's when they're doing like Your Mama is whatever And then she goes your mama calls it And they're quite selling Anyway, I had that It was really good But it was a tuna steak

It did look delicious And then we had these side of potatoes That had anchovy on it And Dijan mustard Again super rich Very indulgent Good though And I went to pick one out

And it came out like a sausage It was long It was fucking so long But I loved it. Yeah. Then we had desserts. I had the Salero souffle. What did I have again? Oh, um, chocolate and olive oil

mousse. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, it had, um, like bits of a crunchy on it, honeycomb. Honeycomb. Gorgeous. Yeah, so all in all, a fantastic experience. Oh, and I also had a fantastic strawberry, spicy margarita. Mm, you did. Yeah. I'm off the drink by the way, guys.

Cheers. Maff it. I'm just not going to drink until I go on my holiday, I think. I'm going to try. Okay. Okay. Honestly, fair fuck, honey. You do you?

That's all it is. I'm not off it. I've drank more beer last week than I think I've had in my life. Desperado is coming out of my asshole. Love it. That's what happens in the sunset, though. And margaritas. But I was in London, wasn't I?

Yeah, true. But anyway, yeah, that was a lovely experience. I would recommend going there. And also, they were saying that, They think it'll be a good venue for people to work at. Yeah. Because they've got the terrace bit and they can do like coffee and quassons. And they're giving you charger packs for your Macs and stuff.

Very clever idea. Anyway, so we have an announcement. What is the announcement? Zoe ran five kilometres at the weekends. Oh, yes. Congratulations me. I finally getting my way and getting her into running. Honestly, Zoe, I was really proud of you.

I was deceased at the end. There's not many times where I see you struggling. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, yeah, you were. You're not really a very angry person. You're quite a calm person, okay? And yes, you have your rants with me and stuff, and we rant about things in life.

But it's not very often I look at you, and I think you want to stab me. And we were running, and you were running me. The first, Kay, you said, okay, I'm fucked already. And I said to you, Zoe, because you're running too fast. We also didn't warm up. No, we didn't. We were also late for the official park run.

So we still ran with everyone from park run. But as we were running 1K in, all the people that, or the guys, should I say, that will come back. Who do it in our 10 minutes? We worked out. I think one of them finished in like 17 minutes. Must have. When he was running by, he was like, uh, uh. No one finds easy.

No matter how fit you are. No one finds running easy. No, they don't. That's the one thing I will say. Then two to three K in. I think you, we were chatting the whole time, me and Heather. I know you were struggling but you did say I feel quite good

I feel this is good then you started to get extremely hot because Zoe likes to wear about 10 layers whenever she runs anywhere because she won your arms out I only did a sports brand a zippy thing on but then when the top came off I thought fucking out

but also at this point so 3K is always when I stop so I would say it got to when we got to 3.5 I was like I'm fucked at this point and then the sun came out and it was piping hot

that you could actually feel the heat reflecting off your body and I was saying to say I was playing a song I had love it I was like what song do you want

on next and you were like just tell me when it's been 5K and I was like right well my watch says nearly 5K

but we're going to run to the end of park running you were like Jess no no I need to stop and Hever was like pushing your lower back

like come on come on and I knew I thought to myself if you stop 100 metres before the official part of the finish time how pissed off would you be no I would have been but that's what I was saying to myself in my head yeah don't be so stupid like complete this do not stop because what

jess has said to me is promised me you won't stop this whole time and I didn't which is my problem like I know I could do it if I stopped yeah and had breaks obviously anyone could but my issue is I stopped too easy on my own because I just give up yeah where I've got no one being like you don't actually need to stop like to change my mindset but at that last 200 meters I would say it was hard I genuinely was like I'm telling myself I need to keep going

but I don't know if I can yeah and I feel like I only just scraped by you did and I say this to Zoe and anyone that's getting into it

if you're you're finding it really really hard it's because you're running too fast yeah you just run slower there was times I felt I was like a couple

steps ahead of you as I kept him pulled back and I don't know if I just I've just not got that worked out yet obviously

because I'm not an honour. Yeah. But you did it in what? Did you do it in 35? It was 35 minutes, 36. Yeah. So our goal for you is to get you sub 30 by the end of the year. I think that's a realistic goal.

You've got seven months. That's more than realistic. No, I know. I just need to stick at it. Because we were saying this to, we were in boxing the morning, sorry, last Wednesday. And me and Mark, who is our trainer, we're trying to convince Zoe Sue Park run that.

Saturday and he just said you said that you give up with running so much because you are only running because you want to be skinny connect yeah and you said I know this is the wrong mindset to have I'm not in that mindset yet like Jess where it's performance based and I think it was good interesting because when we got back means oh you went to angels for an omelette after the park run amazing omelets by the way and you were like oh send me my splits and then you're like right can you just tell me what time I finished in and I thought this is good because you would only ask that because you want your interest interested and you want to beat it?

Well, I feel like I know this information and know what it means through you doing it. So now I'm like, well, the only way to know the only way to know if I'm not running too fast for a start is knowing your pace. What I should be staying at. And your fourth and fifth K were faster than your first three. So you know in your head that I could run faster

because I finished my last two quicker. Well, I basically need to switch them. Yeah. Essentially, don't I really. Or stay consistent? Yeah. And I think that's a really good mindset to have And I said to Zoe

Because you've never around before The weight will fall off you Especially because you're eating Well You are a running now, darling With your new little Ons trainers I think 5Ks as far as I need to go though Yeah

What you should do is do it Do a 10K challenge Maybe next year I would do it Like a charity race I would do it when you're doing it in August Whenever that is But I think I'm on holiday

Can you just cancel that I'm sorry I'm running now I have to cancel some 10K The Pays of 10K is what I'm doing everyone's to sign up Anyway, I'm going to run Tonight How about you do the half marathon with me in October?

Too fast Jokes It's too boring for me Yeah, I agree I'll do a run tonight And then we're doing part run again On Saturday, aren't we? Yes

And I said to Zoe I'll run with you again this week And next week But the one after that is my 5K test So I'll have to leave you, honey I'm aiming for My best time ever My best time ever

My best is just try and chase you. Yes. I can't let you out of sight. You'll be ahead, but I can't lose you. Okay. Let's do it. See how that goes. So, me and Richard have been together 10 years tomorrow, Friday. That's a long time. It is. How did you feel about that? I feel fantastic, actually. I feel like I've had a lovely year with him. I feel like you really like him just now. Yeah. And have done for quite a long time, actually. we just get on really well at the moment and I don't know what it is we always get on well to be fair

he's my best mate but you know we always have these peaks and troughs everyone does yeah but what I will say is I was thinking about you the day I was thinking this last year that we've spent together has been quite different and I don't know him retiring

just seen a different type type of person who he is spending a lot more time together yeah it's just been really enjoyable and we said this at the beginning of the season but we went through a bit of a difficult time at the beginning of the year with his career change and when you spend so much time with someone you get to know

I don't know you see someone at a vulnerable state and then you're sort of there for them and he's there for you brings you closer together I think yeah because I think some people are just themselves with everyone and like would be open, honest

whatever but guys aren't always like that and like I'm not just as a person because I'm not that emotional. When I do feel emotional, I don't want anyone to see me because I'm like, well, they're going to be like, what the fuck are you okay? So I do think when you get to that point,

it definitely brings you closer. Yeah, for sure. Or you maybe just see them in a different light because you then like, are they have tough times too? Yeah. You know what I will say is he's now so busy with adversity fitness

that he texts me yesterday and he actually can't take anyone else on which is fantastic considering in January he was worried. Yeah. and now he's so he's got over 20 clients online and face to face that's a lot by the way

yeah and now to the point where he's working every single day and night till 930 but I'm actually not going to see if I said so we're back you need to take tomorrow off with me so we're celebrating it tomorrow which is Thursday

anniversary is actually Friday but I'm not going to be able to spend that with him because he can't take two days off yeah of all these clients at the moment he works out but the reason I say this is because I would love to do an episode on relationships. I think it would be really good to talk openly about, you know, the past 10 years being with someone for me, me personally, and I'm more than happy to share like the ups and downs and whatever.

But I would like to ask the listeners as well if they've got any advice or the reason, if they've been with someone a long time, what they think has made that work. Yeah. Maybe they've been with them a long time and they don't know if they want to be with them or what's not working. And anyone that's single in, you know, what they want in a relationship,

what are they finding difficult finding a relationship, I just think it would be quite good to have an open discussion with you and I and then our listeners and we can just listen. We're not a relationship expert at all. But I think it's quite interesting because I do genuinely think I'm in a really happy, healthy relationship.

I like to think so I hope this age as well. Next week we'll be cutting it out. Dumped. But you know what? That's the beauty of it though because I feel like we are quite open and honest. Yeah. I'll go through times where I fucking hate him. I think that's just relationships.

Well, that's that's harsh actually. I don't ever feel that way about him, to be fair. I don't. It was funny the other day though, isn't he? Oh, Zoe, he's so funny, isn't he? He loves the girls. Like, when Richard, when all the girls around my house, it's his time to shine.

He absolutely loves being with the girlies He loves being one of the girlies And he was just He didn't shut the fuck up Me and you were trying to work We were actually trying to do something quite serious And Richard was actually singing one minute Playing videos the next

Jumping on the sofa twerking To the window Out to the people outside To us Rocking the cat like a baby He's just absolutely nuts No one really sees outside to him though But we do

It's quite deft, like when he's, and his own home in the comforts. Yeah. So he said to me, typical Richard, typical bloke, I'm not getting you nothing for our anniversary. I went, well, I'm not getting you nothing. He's like, well, can't we just celebrate when we go to San Sebastian together? And did I say that on the podcast? I've booked that.

I'm sure. I don't think I did. Maybe I did on the Patreon, but I've booked San Sebastian, by the way, for July. July, start of July. Yeah, and basically, San Sebastian has the most Michelin Star restaurants in per square mile in the world. Does it, right? Which I'm not really that into, but he said to me, can we please go and book one of these Mitchin Star restaurants and we'll do that as our celebration. I'm like, what in two months time, mate?

He's like, yeah, because it's going to be expensive. I was like, fine. So that's what we're going to do. Will you get a card? I should bloody hope so. Are you getting him a card, though? I'm going to go and get one after this. Organised.

Okay, well. Yeah. You also hope we get one back. We're spending the day together tomorrow. What are you going to do? I don't know. Maybe go into town for lunch. He needs to get a suit.

I need to find a dress for the Jack Bax's weddings on Sunday. Yeah. So I need to look lovely for that. So. Yeah, you need to sort of that. I'm not sure. I would say you need either. You definitely order some options tonight, I would say.

Yeah. For next day delivery. Yeah. I'll do that. But yeah, going back to the relationships episode. So you got a bit of time if you want to DM us anything we'll put a question box up as well But I don't know what questions could we ask? Let's just talk about relationships I don't we really do that much I mean we can do a bit about anything ask us anything

Yeah do a bit about like things that bother you but not necessarily like I do all the washing he doesn't But just like longer term things like maybe them as a person like do you think someone can change from this to this or Or, you know, just things like that, maybe more, maybe more deep, meaningful part of it. And what makes you think your relationship has lasted the test of time? If you are in a long relationship, give us advice. Or if you're in a short-term one and your head over heels, we can maybe tell you that it won't last.

Jokes. So when everyone says that honeymoon stage won't last, and you're like, it will, that's just what we're like. Dumb, dum, dum, before you know it, you're like, fuck, sorry. Oh, that's that ended, right? do you know what it is it's when you move in with them that's what I was just about to say

you move in and all comes crashing down well it doesn't it's just a big adjustment to life yeah and people are easy going people are not it's hard to live with certain people it's hard to not you know totally and I think with me

I've had this type of relationship with someone who's been a footballer for so long that I have I've been programmed to kind of live a semi sort of sing from the outside single looking life because i've had so much on my own i'm now experiencing a honeymoon a honeymoon phase you are with somebody else it's like a whole new relationship and i think anyone that listens to this that are in because a lot of like girls that used to

that date richard's teammates listen to this podcast um and if your partner isn't continuing a career in football which a lot of them do i can honestly tell you it's the best thing ever No, I think that's the best way to put it, actually, that you're in the honeymoon stage. Yeah. Because, like, we... It's like I'm in a whole new relationship. Yeah, because, like, when we're out, not when we're on a planned night out. Like, on Friday, we went for a barbecue to Heather's.

And it was like, 8 o'clock and you were like, right, I need to go back and see Richard. Yeah. It's like, before you would have been, like, well, no, my thought you'd at training all day. Yeah. Whereas it's just different now, because you both need to try and fit each other in. But it's both your own choice when you're busy, so it's different. I also love seeing him making plans with friends and people that aren't teammates now because he can. It's refreshing.

But not to say that anyone that's part of just staying in the sport world, it's not miserable. It's just different and people will understand it's not easy actually. It's very restrictive so you now don't have these restrictions anymore and even though you're going to have new restrictions it's under his control so yeah he's got clients so half nine just now but if he realised that's not working for him he can change it or he can take a few days off

you go away or whatever and just give them the programme for that day like it's just different and also it's his first year of a new business I think I would actively encourage like him to take on as much as he can at the moment to build that business do you know what I mean and he's been supportive to me with stuff

so why wouldn't I him exactly well do you know what I've got to talk about go on I went to the cinema at the weekend yes it's the hottest day of you're out of cinema. Anyway, it was at night time actually, so it's fine.

And I went to see if. Mm-hmm. Have you seen that advertise? I only seen you share it, so I... I've got a lot. We were laughing at before. We were laughing because Jason, when we were at Angels

and Saturday morning, Jason sent me one of those messages. We, I message, by the way, not WhatsApp. Questionable, I know. That you need to... You, like, rub the message. It's blurry, and you rub it, and the, like, the picture appears.

What? Send messages with effects on iMessage, right? That's cool. So he did it and then it was like, your tickets are secured. So I was like, yeah, you're going to the cinema. I'd be wanting to go for weeks to see challenges. So it was like scratch-to-reveal type text.

Kind of, yeah. Anyway, it wasn't challenges that he booked. It was if. And the picture of it was just a big, fluffy, it's not a bear, but bear-like thing. Yeah. On the picture. So I'll look at you like, oh, yay.

But it's actually about imaginary friends. and it's not a cartoon like it's humans in it like Vine Reynolds is in it so it's about basically how adults forget about their imaginary friends as they get older

but in this film these imaginary friends are real so they're all like basically living in a world of just everyone in their imaginary friends yeah but the imaginary friends who are all like not cartoons

but they're not humans there's like a wooden man a really old grizzly bare like things like that like people just there's like an ice cube and a glass of water right okay like just weird shit that people make up as they're imagining friends

but they all live in this like theme park and they're all basically sad because they've been forgotten about yeah so Ryan Reynolds's job in the film is to basically match them with new kids oh okay but what it ends up doing is

there's a girl who's like 12 in it who's the main character and she's like forgotten hers and they pair together and they're trying to match with new people but also trying to rekindle like the adults to remember their imaginary friends because they're basically trying to say like

an imaginary friend is always there to like get you through the situation yeah like it's a very wholesome film like I actually cried at one point stop I know it's a lot it was just like quite a meaningful moment did you have imaginary friends but you were a kid

no I don't think I did no that's something we should ask the listeners by the way. Because I bet you people have got weird ones and funny ones. I don't think I did but what I was saying

to Jason's sister is because she didn't but she's older so she had like five years say without him yeah must have been bliss whereas I'm not the first child

either so you had a big brother so he was my friend like I didn't need to make someone to be in the house for me whereas you were an only child did you do with me

yeah when I was actually thinking about this when you said it and I still have flashbacks of me playing a lot with forever friends and Polly Pockets and Barbies and doing what all kids do sitting in your bedroom like

hiya making up a conversation but I don't know if I had an imaginary friend as such but I definitely sat and played alone a lot which is that's sad for me isn't it but I don't care I mean I had a great time I would have done that as well because Adam's a boy

yeah he would have been doing his playing me as boy cars and that and I've been playing with my stuff so I think people do do that but it was actually a good film and I would recommend going to see it like it was I feel like there's a lot of films coming out remember that one soul

you definitely watched it and the guy it was a very wholesome Disney film yeah but I feel there's a lot of that sort of wholesome feel good genre coming out these days and I'm here for that I like a film like that wow Zoe you're transformed So I think if people want to go to the cinema

I'm not sure I would say go for it It wasn't kids Yeah And the theatre The cinema room bank by the way Yeah It was adults Okay

So it's not just for kids Also what I want to talk about About the cinema was I went to the Odine Lux In East Cobride Usually we go to the showcase We went to Odin Lux And there's a millions machine

Do you like millions? Yeah The Chewy Sweet I fucking love millions right in the middle of like the bit that you would coot to get your popcorn and shit there's a like massive millions machine that it's got like all different flavors around it so you would buy a cup and you would like just turn the ones you wanted into like a picket mix like just millions oh love that I don't get it but what do you get at the cinema

well the other day we some we quite often take our sweets with us same and it's not a stingy thing. It's just we want... It's fucking you joke it is, stingy for me. But it's also we want what we want. Yeah. It's easy. 16 quid for some popcorn and a pack of Maltese's and a drink. You can go to Aza and get it over three quid. Yeah, that's a joke. So we got

I love a wambar. Yeah. So we both got a wambar each. This has me trying to be reasonably good. And then Jason saw, you know, and B&M, you get the kind of bars of chocolate that are not your typical different flavors and shit. Yeah. So it was like Cadbury's dairy milk.

bar but it was mint but it wasn't just like mint chocolate it was you know they do those sort of layered ones so it was like mint dark chocolate and white chocolate i think oh yum so we shared that and then i got a dr pepper zero oh my god so i haven't that told you so yesterday or day before where was i and they only had Pepsi max draft right rather than Coke zero it was gorgeous it's so good isn't it it's It is better. It is better. I don't know if better. Different. Yeah.

It's the first hit of it. It's like, whoa. Agree. It's like sugary and, mm. But Coke Zero has got that more blunt taste to it and maybe... A bit more refreshing. Yes, that's the right word. Yeah.

But, no, I think it is good. But what I'll say is, Dr. Pepper's underrated. Dr. Pepper's class. But I would only get it at the cinema in that big juice cup. Yeah. I would never buy a bottle of it in Canadian. get a can of Dr. Pepper. Yeah, of course you can.

Can you? Yeah. I might get one of them. Anyway, that's what I had is my stack. Recently, what I've been finding is you get a big juice, which I never used to get. Like, I wouldn't care about drinking. Yeah.

I would just eat at the cinema. Do you mean a big juice? You're meaning like pot draft? Yes. Out of the machine, you two of all the flavors. That's actually the equivalent of, like, popcorn for me. Like, I like to, like, sip away at the full film. Yeah, okay.

Whereas I don't really like. like popcorn. Do you not? But I like the equivalent of having something to constantly pick it and I'm no getting a share bag of because Jason would have a hat to. I'm the opposite to you. I would get the draft Coke Zero. I would

get sweet and salty popcorn. I get the Malteseers, all the revels, I love them tip them into the popcorn, mix it up and I eat it before the film starts. No, I did with my wambore before it started film. There's no way I can save that popcorn and watch it throughout the film.

Are you mad? I definitely am more open to popcorn now than whatever was before. Like I don't mind it now. I used to hate it because I hear it getting stuck in my teeth and all that. And I feel like it gets stuck at the back of your throat, like the wee bits. Yeah. Anyway, I could probably, if you had it, you would maybe see a hand every so often. Whereas Jason doesn't like it either.

Should we're more like that? Just get a couple of bags of sweets. And you know those pick and mix, what are they called, but it's just like a big wall of pick and mix? I always do feel a little bit like, oh, how long is that? I've been sat there for... I know because I love a pick-a-mix but I'm the same and see when you see it

in like B&M because we went to B&M first to get snacks and there's a pick-a-mix in there and I was like the thought of that and I don't know why the cinema's different

because it's just not it's probably worse actually but I'm like kids could just be walking by that in the shop and putting their hand in you know what I'm like we think that as well

oh my gosh so anyway I just wanted to talk about that millions machine because someone needs to tell me if I've tried that and if not I will have you heard about that petrol station somewhere in Glasgow

well the slushies yeah it's meant to be don't know it's meant to have all the most amazing American sweets slushies I'll need to pay a visit there it looks incredible we need to go I used to be a chocolate only in the sweet category crisps have always been a big part of my life right but I used to be chocolates over sweets in the last year or two I wouldn't say it's

level down. They're level right. I would take them all. I like a sweet then of chocolate. But I love sweets now, like chewy sweets. Yes. It's not a good... They last longer.

I know, and it's not a good place to be in, but I do love a chewy sweet now. My mum used to be obsessed with refreshers when I was a kid. Yeah, I like that. Refresher bars. It was like her thing. That in Karamak, I always remember... If I was just like, what do you want from the shop, Mom?

She'd be like, go get me a Karamak or a refresher. What was her thing? It was her thing. So bizarre. Yeah, like, I love a wambar these days. I love... Bimpto. Anything bimpto. Anything bimpto. Have you tried the Vimtel clear-way protein thing, by the way?

Yes, for my protein. Yep, just got that and it actually tastes like juice. Yeah, it does. I'll need to get myself some. I was on the radio yesterday. I was on heart. You were? Yeah.

Speaking all things, strawberries. I did let the podcast family known stories. You did? That was nice of you. Yeah, I love that. Thank you. I thought she's either going to be like, that was nice or fuck you a little bit. No, I was like, please don't tell anyone I'm joking.

No, I, it was great actually. Like I said last week, don't really get nervous with these things anymore. Thanks, Zoe. It was good. They asked me what I could make with Scottish. It was partly national, fucking something every day in it. It was national strawberries and cream day. So I just spoke a little bit about that snack I have most nights,

which is just Greek yogurt, crushed up meringue and strawberries with a bit of honey. That is a good snack. It is. Low calorie. And you know what's so weird, by the way, talking about strawberries and cream? That's never something that I've really. had like because I don't really eat strawberries unless it's in my

going to roll in the morning but last week I went to my pals for dinner and I took strawberries and cream as a dessert and then no one else wanted it and then I took it on Saturday I think it was to Jason's mum's because we were sitting out of the back

it's very British and no one else was really wanting either his sister and Gary did have some in the end but I thought I've never thought to do that and then you were on the radio talking about it. Do you know what, though, a little tip before we finish this episode. I went into M&S last week. I went to the Nike

store at East Coal Bride and the M&S food store. That's quite a good one that. Yeah, it is. And when I walked in, you know how I was saying M&S have got all this new summer range, but they've got a huge now, what's it called? Just a Pavolova base. It's like a huge round meringue. Right, okay, yeah. So it's like a cake

base and it's designed for you to top yourself so good because a meringue is actually just a piece of piss it's like egg white and sugar but to get it to rise it's not really work making us it when you can buy easily no and but you can't buy them like that though normally you just you just get their little crushed at ones but yeah I think it's such a good idea and I don't think anyone would really think what it is but it was maybe around like eight pound nine pound massive think at this barbecue season you want to get a dessert right get this pavilova whatever it is get loads of different

fruits blackberries strawberries blueberries you can get some crushed up honeycomb like a lemon curd or something, get some mint leaves all over it, little fake, cute flowers, and you've got yourself a whipped cream, I'm sorry, that's class. A show stop and dessert? Yeah, and people would think, oh my God, did you make that? You'd be like, yeah, I made it. When you technically have. So, yeah, it was on one of the stands, actually, but I'm sure it would be probably

in the cake section where you get birthday cakes, probably, don't quote me, I don't know, but great idea. Hope they keep it, because I'm going to do that, this barbecue season. Sounds great. We've just got one other thing to say on this episode. Oh, fuck. We've got something exciting coming, by the way, guys. We will be announcing exactly what that is next week with all the details.

However, one thing you should know is that Patreon, of course, or PPPs, or VIPs is what I'll call them. If you're not signed up, we're not very important to us. We'll get first access. As always. So stay tuned for that. A hint that I'll give you. You don't want to miss it. You don't want to miss it for one.

Secondly, it's a real life experience. It's a real life experience. It's not in this studio. Oh, no. So there you go. Oh, I wonder what that could be. There you fucking go. You've not swore much today.

No, we haven't. But we also have, we were doing lots of exciting planning yesterday actually. and just let's just say we like to take care of our Glasgow family but we're looking forward to taking care of our Edinburgh family maybe near the end of the year Winky Winky Winky

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