A Lot On Your Plate - S5 Ep6: Is nightlife dying?

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

This week on ALOYP we catch you up on our last few days of our trip to Nashville, Jess shares her rant of the week and we have a deep chat about the industry that is, nightlife. What's your thoughts? Do you think it's dying? Let us know! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome back, guys. We are in sunny Glasgow. Home to the Motherlands. And it's far better weather here than it was. in Nashy Nash. It is. What a shit show? We picked the worst week to go there. We got the back end of that big huge hurricane that was in.

Was it Florida? Hurricane Helen. What's called? Helene. Helene. Hurricane Helene. Anyway, we made the most of what we could. It was honestly an amazing, amazing trip.

And we're glad to be back. I, for one, I'm certainly glad to be back because I was away for what felt like forever. I know it did that. Actually, weeks. But we've just been having neutral rants before, getting everything off our plates. So we can be a little bit more posse-wosy vibes

because Zoe was a little angry ball of fire. I do think when you come back from being away on that sort of trip that's quite draining. It certainly is. I've not been that in a negative way, but it's like you're constant. Yeah. You're constantly doing things around loads of different people.

like whatever I just need Well you never got to catch a minute Because you're with Molly I got a room to myself It was bliss Although Which I know is a lovely thing But you in the grand scheme of things

You are never actually catch in a minute She's so intense I do think that Mine and Molly's energy is a good match Because I need it Yeah You need people to lift you up It puts me up a bit

And I do think she's funny as fuck But also When I woke up during the night To go to the toilet A lot of the time she was awake and I would be like, like, you'd catch hags and I'd be like, hi-ya.

And she would just like, look, you're not sending them. Can you, are you sleeping your eyes open? Or are you choosing to ignore me? She has to be the furriest person I've ever met in his eye. I think she was chosen to ignore me. Anyway. Anyway. Anyways.

We'll do a quick catch-up on the couple of things that we did in Nashville after we recorded. Mm-hmm. Which, thanks for everyone's patience, by the way, on that going up last week. because I nearly wouldn't have been here this week because I nearly flung myself off the fucking bridge.

So thanks for that. I appreciate you always. We need to talk about the honky-tongue bus. Honky-tonk! The honky-tonky. We had a great time, didn't we? That was iconic. A great time was had.

And I also do think the rain and the ponchos added to the great time. Yeah. Because it was covered, but the sides were it. So you get the odd, like, flurry of rain coming in the sides but I just think it made it funnier yeah we're all dancing around my fucking bin bag on

you know what I mean yeah and it was nice to go out just after sunset so it was all the bright lights of Broadway yeah that was really fun I loved that and I just loved how you could request your own songs like we were on it with a hendu well a bachelorette who told us that their houses back home were completely destroyed by the way

yeah because they were they South Carolina I think they said I think it might have been there yeah I wouldn't say they were a hoot No I saw the blind chicken arsh once in then and I've seen it again Yeah it was a bit awkward wasn't it

I think we were carrying the vibes A lot of people didn't know one another either On that trip But they were really sweet And did you know that in America Because when we basically have a toilet break And you go off to a bar And I think they must have a deal with this bar

That they encourage you to go and buy shots Which you did multiple When I couldn't believe Zoe Quinn was doing a shot of tequila twice my eyeball was honestly couldn't believe it but we then went to the toilet and I was in the queue with the mother of the bride and she started showing me the bride's dress I thought I forgot all about this

but she's fully done up in the dress so I thought she was just showing at me her in the dress shop oh no no it was a full on photo shoot and I went oh so the wedding's been then she went oh no in America or maybe whatever religion or state they were in it's a thing that the bride goes to the actual venue she has a full setup full set up full hair makeup dress on photo shoot so when the guests go to the

party on the actual day or sorry the ceremony there's a full size portrait of her there in like an easel what the fuck's that about that's given funeral you can literally i know you can literally see her with your eyeballs before she's walked down now and the dress was gorgeous may i'd she looked amazing but i was like that's really weird so so you've all seen the dress then And I'm like, oh yeah, well, where's a surprise? That's the only bit that matters to the girl. And I wasn't sure if the guy had the whole photo shoot done too. Maybe they keep that bit of surprise.

Anyway. I did tear you whee's in there. Yeah. Why is that? I worked out this morning, but it wasn't that hard. But then again, it was the first thing I've done in a long time. So could be. Yeah, maybe just about chesty.

Could be. Anyway, so we're on this hendoo with these, sorry, We're on this bus with this hendu And they kind of Don't you feel like the rules of the bus Were not strict whatsoever I thought she'd be like Don't sit on the sides

Don't do this, don't stand up But you could do whatever you wanted No rules The only bit you couldn't stand on Was the bit where the actual edge But you could sit up there if you wanted You could hang out the side Yeah

You just couldn't stand on that bit To like dance up there But you could stand on the benches at the side Yeah Which are basically the same thing And if you are going to Nashville there's loads of things like that. You know, the pedal tour that you see guys do in London

where they're all cycling and there's that sort of vibe? There's loads of honky tonked style buses. But I'd say the one we were on was the most fun, maybe. Yeah, I think because it's more open. It's got the flashing lights. You take your drink on it, you request songs. Do you remember the driver got it and danced? Was that to Nicky Minaj?

Superbase. God knows, but I could not believe that. was flawed. I feel like I just caught the last few things of and I was like, that was like, I was like, look at that girl from the hendoo doing like a twerking and then they're like, no, no, no, that's the driver. It's like, wow.

But, can you hear me wheezing again? Goodness gracious. Before you get to the honky ton, you all meet at like a meeting point where they check your IDs, put wristbands on you and it's basically bring your own booze, but you have to buy the booze there. So they've got so many fridges. It's like a store inside this sort of bar

place and it's all boxed like hard seltzes pre-mixed you know cans of stuff that you would get in the shop but in packs of four or six whatever market it is and almost and shit like that really clever and then around the corner is a big merch shop where you've got like loads of tacky bride hats sunglasses all that type of shit so it's actually iconic to go in a group because i think they sit like 20 people but yeah god we're selling it for them aren't we bloody out i know should they get a dussie i think it was forty five dollars per person but we paid for her because it was a birthday, so it came to like $60. Yeah.

But yeah, definitely recommend doing something like that if you want a nice bit of tack. And then... Grand Ole Opry. Thoughts? Loved it. Really cool, wasn't it? I loved that Dylan guy.

Dylan Schneider. Schneider or something. He's definitely going to be big up and coming, isn't it? Yeah. He was really good. The girl that was on American Idol, was it? She was good. She was brilliant. Ellie something.

Was I having nothing but a memory, girl? Yeah. So basically the Grandad Opera, we did say this on our page. No, the last week's episode. Sorry, I've got the fits of giggles. It's an iconic music venue in Nashville, a little bit further out, 20 minutes. And it's a live radio station. Sorry, I've got the giggums.

It's a live radio station. And it was very hashtag ad. wasn't it? It was so hashtag ad. So the guy, there's a big guy, you know. Imagine a typical American man who's hosting a show. The most American person ever should have ever shown.

He's like, hi, and welcome to the grand old opera with me, Mike. And it's just very much like that. And then he goes, so, today, have you ever thought about eating a can of baked beans? Our sponsor is blah, blah, blah. And it's like, okay, hashtag ad. Every 10 minutes, the screen popped up with

have you ever thought about wearing some Wellington boots? And it's like flashing along like flying in the screen and the sky and all that. And then loads of random people come on and they were very good. A lot of people were like legendary country stars who of course we're not raging country fans so we wouldn't know

half of them were but the two that we like were more young up and coming more the style of country that we like the old guy with a harmonica which I thought was a vape I was like, he's got a vape out of his pocket, geek bar. He was shooting.

Stop getting the giggles, throwing me at a stone me. He looked exactly like a geek bar. Oh, fucking hell. Anyway. Fucking legend country saying I've done a harmonica and like, is that a fucking vape? Honestly. Anyway, right, let's move on from Nashville. Bored.

Anyone else? Boring. We're home, we're over it. Yeah. I'm so excited for Cozy Zoe season. Are you? Oh, Cozy Soe season is here. I love soups.

I just love this crisp weather where it's freezing cold, but it's sunny and blue skies. It's great Western road weather. Great Western road weather. There you go. Oding some food market weather. Nothing better. Nothing better. We fucking love it.

And we slip on nice and like, oh, cozy zozy zoey. Right, rant of the week. I've got one. Oh, fuck right. but this is kind of like what's been a lot on your plate I'll give you a positive I've bought a new pillow I said it last week

the BB hug me pillow has to be the best invention of this entire world I can't believe it Richard said to me he'd been using it whilst I was away and he was using it as an actual pillow

which I said last week I said no you need to hug it down your body Is it just one long shape or is it that V shape? We looked at it in mammals and pappas when nobody knew I was pregnant. Oh, the bag saying we pulled out the bag? Yes, it's that.

But I've got a dark olive green to match the vibes, you know, because it looks ugly on the bed. It's like balls in it? Tiny little foamy balls. Big baggy vibes. Right. But it's because of the way it's designed is when you put your arm under it,

it doesn't stop the blood circulation. You mould into it. Mm-hmm. But then all the beads puff up near your head and your belly goes into it. or Zoe, it's fucking gorgeous and the actual fabric around it is like nice soft cotton

it was 150 pounds okay so it was an investment and I was like look if this is going to give me some good night's sleep before the child arrives which I'm going to probably have no sleep then I'm going to invest it really is

bloody brilliant and I will recommend this to anybody who struggles with sleep pregnant or not guys women that is the best pillow ever because Richard's tested it and he said the exact same thing he said he's had the three best nights heaps ever the cat's never woke him and since me taking the pillow off him and using it how it should he's not slept as good wow so that's a big yes for me and and maybe I can tag them and see if they'll give me a discount go for other people but I don't know I should try that more really

yeah give them a little shout out because it's expensive but I got out of Amazon that's expensive but you can't put a price on sleep before baby. That's what I mean. Do you bank it? Anything to do with sleep. Mattresses, quilts, pillows. That's where we should invest because you spend more than half your life.

Don't you think? I agree. Yeah. My next rant of the week is, and I beg, I beg everybody listening to this, please stop posting spiders on the internet. Nobody cares about what spiders in your house. Nobody wants to see it, especially before we're going to sleep

and we scroll on the line. I mean, you see a big tarantula that's crawling up your bed. We don't care. We don't want to see it. Deal with it yourself. Get it out of the house. People genuinely have severe fears of spiders and like myself. And I will then end up having sleep paralysis where it's crawling all over my body.

I'm screaming everywhere. Honestly, I had two years ago, it was one of the worst ever seasons of my life where I was genuinely having horrific attacks in the night. and it was all because I was seeing them on people's stories, you know, because you're flicking just past, past, past, past. I can't explain to you. Like, I know people hate them too,

but you cannot hate them that much if you're getting your phone out, recording them that close. You physically can't. Hate them that much. So, please make it stop. I beg. They should do, social media, should put the thing, you know, the thing they put over images,

like sensitive content. You have to, like, double-click. Agree. They should put that over spiders too. And I appreciate if there's a really big one, you would take a picture of it and whatnot. but who really wants to see it especially when you're claiming you're so terrified of it

no you're not you're not nobody wants to see it I hate spiders they do give me like the creeps but I could I could like approach to get rid yeah and I also would never kill one which is sounds bizarre from someone who hates them that much sadly I do but I just don't know what other option is put them outside what we've discussed is before you say they die don't they I think they die because they're inside spiders

especially living in an old flat by the way I have so many but the cats kill them I get all the ones you can hardly see like they're really really really skinny and like almost white jealous goals joking

but they're always in the bathroom they come up the they come up the bath plug how's up for bath well the shower plug they actually do because they're always in my bath No, they're always over at my window area. I know.

Even talking about the making... I need to do... I need to kill, though, because it's a very, like, the slippers on hand, it's a quite like... Oh no, Zoe, I think that's cruel. I know, it is quite cruel, but... I know a lot of people kill them, do, but... Not on the floor, so look at the glass thing. Yeah.

That's a bit too interactive for me. Yeah. I think the only thing I could probably kill... I think we spoke about this in Nashville. Is a fly. I think that's impossible. They're too quick. They're so quick.

So short, do you think flies have way slow motion to them? Because their sense is incredible. And they're like, bye fucker. Murray, do you actually know the scientific reason? Of course he does. Flies and birds see things in slow motion, basically. How? That must mean they'd be able to stop time.

What? Well, they must be able to stop time. they're seeing things slowed down I'm gonna go into a fucking mental state here we can't have this conversation Zoe said when we were flying back from Nashville it's 24 why the fuck do we not have somebody to teleport us back yet

and I agree I agree why did it take us if flies can slow down time why can't we fly home also what was so strange I mean like that yeah like obviously we need to fly home but yeah we just mean like

we click the fingers home but what was so strange on the way out was we chased the sun so we didn't ever have a dark window on that flight even though we flew through the night technically by the time we got there it was like 2 a.m. or something back

home but not once did we see darkness so there you go you do time travel back and forth now check that's not that bad as yours I'm an accurate but I think I'm just what's new yeah like just see being knackard. Yeah. But I'm not struggling

to get to sleep, but I'm struggling to stay awake. Okay. When it gets to like 3pm yesterday, I was a bit like I could go to sleep right now. So what's been a lot on your plate? Have you got a rant of the week or have you got to something you want to tell me that you've eaten? That's delicious. Well,

I did start soup season yesterday. Did you? But I'll be honest, I started it. Farting a bowl season? That's more accurate actually into it. Soup doesn't agree with me. No, it doesn't. The veg lentil thing, no thanks Although I'll eat it every day

But we actually did just have a tin of tomato So at pines Can't beat it Which it was in the cupboard and I thought perfect And you can't beat it by a wee bit of bread dipped in Just white bread, bit of butter on doanky doink Doanky doon And it was perfect lunch

And then I went to every nest of sausages and mash for my dinner I was like we're back to wholesome cozy meals and I love it No sausages left everyone was having the same idea bangers and mash night bangers and mash night

no sausages left with raging you don't even want to know what ended up having tell us right now chicken munchy spaghetti hoops and chips chicken munchies yeah what's that the wee chicken like

chicken nuggets but their balls with spaghetti hoops yeah and chips sounds perfect Zoe love love love love love nothing on bangers and mash with gravy though

no I agree Do you have onion gravy? What? Do you have onion gravy? You just make Bisto? Yeah, Bisto, yeah. Really need to teach you how to make gravy because you won't look back.

It's not that hard, Zoe. It's really not that hard. But is anything as easy, just a wee better. No, but it's worth it because of taste. Right, has it got onions through it? You could add onions through it if you wish, like caramelised onions, a bit of honey mustard, if you want a bit of red wine or white wine in it, oosh, a bit of flour, thickens up, beef stock,

There was a lot of ingredients there Five Which you'll have most of them in your cupboard I should hope Flower Got Mustard Not got

Beef stock Or a stock Yeah Do you have a bit of wine Hanging about Probably I could get that There you go

Okay Would you have gravy Though always With sausage cheese and mash Or would you have brown sauce Any time Gravy I wouldn't be partial to having gravy with brown sauce

Mixing sauce and gravy Because it's just vinegar And I don't think I've had vinegar and anything No is something that I've not got in my flat I never ever have and it's so bizarre vinegar Like classic malt vinegar I don't have any vinegar in the house I've got red wine vinegar

White wine vinegar normal vinegar Apple cider vinegar None I do actually have a balsamic vinegar A white thing I do have a white vinegar thing from maybe when you make your Asian foods.

Yeah, I think I've got something like that, but I don't just have normal vinegar because I made my mom been over and made, like, burgers and chips or something. Yeah. And she always said, any vinegar? I was like, I don't. I'm sorry. Bizarre.

Anyway, that's what... That's what... That's what was on your plate physically. Correct. Emotionally? Just a lot of things, guys. Come on. Get it off your plate.

I just think when you come back from a holiday, you don't really want to do anything. everything's an effort to me agree you're experiencing the holiday blues in a different way you're not sad to be home because you want to be home yeah but you've enjoyed two weeks or a week of just

not having to think of anything yeah and I think because we're so busy I didn't appreciate not having to think of things when I was there whereas on like a relaxed summer holiday I'm very like how good is that don't need to work right now yeah like you make yourself remember that you're not having to do that right now

so I think I'm just back and like anything I need to I can't be bothered yeah no interest you'll get back into the swing of it you may be are feeling a bit jet-lagged think I'm just about exhausted yeah anyway that's it really this week what have I got on

well we're going to see my mum's show on Friday oh I'm excited for that mom's in her show and my mum's coming up so I'm taking my mum and my step-sister Ella to see Zoe's mum's show Jason's going Richard's going your brother Adam's going and she's at the South Lanarkshire It's like Airdrie Hall or something.

Is it? Norfolkshire, is it? Sorry? Yeah, I think. Yeah. That's because the civics shut down now. See, I don't know what that is. The big one in Motherwell that you've probably been in.

It's quite near the football stadium. I've never been there. It's like a big theatre. There's two sides. There's one at Hamilton as well now. Yeah, but it's like that, but it's the Motherwell one. Oh. But they couldn't, there was like a roof issue or something.

They couldn't get the funding, so it's shut. But everyone's an uproar about it because. because like that's ridiculous because like pantomines went there at Christmas, school shows. So where would they go now then Edry or Hamilton if you're from the area? The Holland Ravens Creek Sports Centre like just shit places. Yeah. Whereas like Steven Leon Jackson, the Scottish guy, One X Factor or whatever. I mean you're talking to the wrong person but yeah.

Do you remember Leon Jackson? No, sorry. Can't believe it. What did he say again? That's my goal. No, that was Shane Ward. Miracle. There can be miracle.

Be Miracle. But that's not his song. When you believe. I know, but it was Scottish and he sang it, he won't. Anyway, like, when he came... What's he called? Leon Jackson? When he came home, he, like, did a show there. Right.

Like, celebs went. It wasn't just, like, the locals. Do you know what I mean? Never seen this guy in my life. It was quite good, by the way. Oh, my goodness. Did he look like that? I absolutely do remember him. Yeah, that's him.

That's a big little gap in his tea. That's our Leon there. So, look, he's given a bit of Gareth Gates. Yeah. He actually does look quite like him. Never realised he was Scottish. Anyway, like him, people like him would go to the Civic and do a performance, like a concert. Oh.

So it's quite shut that that closed. So people are on an upload about that, that the council aren't funding the repairs. Who remembers all these people? Steve Brookstein loved Joe McHaldry, Rydian Roberts. Do you remember Rydion? Let me see him. Rydian Roberts. Yes.

No, who was the guy? Matt Cardle. No, who was the guy that was unbelievable, me and Jason were listening to him another day? Ben, how now? No, keep going. Alexandra Burke? No. Sam Bailey.

She was from Lester. Nicky McDonald's. Shane Ward. Matt Terry? Dalton. Is he on that? No. He was unbelievable.

Dalton Harris? Yeah. Bring back the X-Factor thoughts. Dalton Harris? Jamaican guy? Mm-hmm. Unbelievable. I don't remember this.

Do you remember Cher Lloyd? Of course. Jesus Christ. Right, she's part of my youth. Doing impression of her right now. Share Lloyd by Sher Lloyd. Obviously I remember the Scottish video. Hop about the bridge, I must wear gone.

What's up, what's up, what's up? Hey, I get money. That was quite good. She thought she was the bollocks and she was. At the time, she was like a mini Cheryl Cole. Yeah. Cheryl, should be called her. People used to see it looks like you didn't.

Did she win? Sorry, hen. I don't think so. I wonder what she's up to. Because I thought she was having a bit of a comeback. Recently? Yeah. Why was that?

Because people on TikTok are asking where all these old legends from the naughties, 90s have gone. Yeah. And then they're kind of bringing them back. You know, love of hunts. I do think people have a second wind quite often. Totally, because they were in an era where they weren't completely slagged or cancelled. Like they weren't around a cancel culture. So, but people kind of forgot.

about them but they're coming back because people like oh actually i do miss them or a lot of them did it so young that now tick tock and all that they're back on tick tock singing like i saw videos of that louisa johnson singing do you remember her yes people used to say i looked like her all the time really yeah if i ever get told who i look like you'll piss at this it's either louisa johnson or sally from coronation street perfect i don't remember what she looks like you do adele thoughts oh yeah I got that a lot as well, but who would we just say in there? Sally from Coronation Stream.

I don't know if I've got a celebrity. By the way, I'm not thinking of Sally, I'm not thinking of Gayle Platt. I've never really been in. Sally Lindsay. Looks like my mum. Oh yeah. Okay, yeah. I can actually see that.

Do you worry? I think she's gorgie, but I mean, not so much. that is me that is you I think it's like all your features are quite like in the middle of your face

what? Like I've got a massive forehead no because you actually don't have a big forehead I do you don't I think it's just like the

I don't know even the nostril flare in the chin that is literally me but if you look at her like everything's kind of like in the middle section I think that's what's similar Okay

Anyway, Sally Lindsay And Louisa Johnson And Adele Is my How'd you say it Doppelanger Doppelganger I don't know if I've got any celebrity

looks like But you know who my mum looks a lot like Barbara Streisand She does Yeah, she gets that a lot She does look like her So maybe I will later down the line Because I do like your mum

My mum My mum she does a bit like a young barber strives on though yeah anyway if anyone thinks i look like a celebrity tell me but only if they're fucking gorgeous yeah let us know who you think we look like actually send us in pictures of you and your twin your celeb twin yeah or send us pictures of you and say who do you think i look like but you need to have one you need to have a look like and let's see if we get it right yeah i like that game I like that game.

We also had a response, by the way, from when we asked the question on a few episodes ago of plain romances. If anyone was on Patreon, how fucking funny was Jessie's mum's message about her playing romance holiday? Pictures that related to it. Oh, I don't look the exact same with a side button.

Why do you look older than you do now? You were 10? I know. What's that all about? Right, Zoe, I've got a scenario for you. You're in a car crash. it's not your fault your car is in bits

and you're majorly stressed out what are you going to do probably phone you great well maybe don't do that but the correct answer is to call our friends at Watermans obviously what so they can sort my car and everything yep you don't even have to phone

your insurance company Watermans will sort it all for you what if I have to miss work and can't earn my money well they'll get you that money back too sorted okay I feel less embarrassed about being re-rended now okay so as a girl she says hey girls listening to your stories about flight romance not quite a romance but when flying solo to thailand a few years ago i was sat next to a guy and ended up chatting to him on the transfer after the flight he shook my hand and passed me this note sounds romantic could have been really romantic if i was interested but fortunately he never got a text the note says dear princess charlotte It was indeed delightful to have had such a wonderful company with you on such a long haul flight. Can't believe how small indeed the world is.

If your highness allows, would love to meet up for a coffee and take you out in Glasgow. Have a fun full time in Thailand. See you soon. Hopefully, he's put in inverted commas. P.S. Couldn't find paper. So I'm using a napkin. And hope I got your spelling of your name right.

Regards Yagya and Ashby with his number. Why is he speaking like Easton Bridgetton? Because he obviously is a little old romantic. No, that's, no. No wonder, sent text. Did you hear me on the flight, chatting to that guy? The little old guy. So I sat next to an 84-year-old veteran from,

ex-military from the Vietnam War. He was really cute. Can you actually imagine how many questions I asked him? I was obsessed. I was thinking to myself as well, she'll be thinking going to shut up while I got asleep. No. I couldn't stop asking them questions.

I know everything about his whole family and extended family. And then he was with his two friends. His wife died five years ago. Her name was Margo. Love that name. Love. Love. Get that on the list.

I know. But a lot of people I know are called Margo. Friends, kids. It was spelled not the French way. M-A-R-G-O-T, it was. My God. My God. And she only died at 74.

He's got five boys. And a lot of them are in like the fire service, whatnot. He now lives in L.L. sounds like he lives a really nice life actually sounds gorgeous but he was off to England for the first time to hike the Cotswolds for a week soul

but yeah loved him loved him good on I'm hiking the fucking Cotswolds Cotswolds at 84 he ended up telling me to basically shut up so he could put his headphones on and go sleep I was like why please talk to me

but no he did be a favour because I slept the whole way anyway right we're halfway through the app over halfway so I saw this stat online 65

UK nightclubs have shut in 2024 in unprecedented crisis for nightlife okay we've spoke about this numerous times before and this actually was a subject we wanted to talk on this episode anyway

when we were planning the season because we personally feel like since we used to go out when we were younger, things have changed a lot. Mostly to do with the fact that we now will feel more comfortable wearing trainers on a night out when we used to always dress up, wear heels, and it was nice.

It was nice to dress up and feel, I don't know, just maybe different to what we would on day to day, if you like. Do you remember the feeling when getting ready for a night out and it was like nervous belly for your night out? That was the best. When you're in the taxi on the way to the nightclub. And even getting ready, like you'd be sipping on at, remember so clearly, like getting ready.

moms and having a vodka lemonade while I was getting ready. Obviously I was with my pals a lot but even if I was on my own I'd have a wee drink and you would have a nervous belly and I just couldn't wait to be ready. Same. Like they getting ready annoyed me and I just want to be there with my pals now. And you have pictures and you live in with my friends.

Yeah. And we're not saying that's still not happening because it probably is we're just older. That's not happening but the fashion of a nightlife is absolutely in the UK different. Definitely. And I do think it's still happening for some young people but maybe sister who's 19 has never lived a party in life like I did.

No. And it's not that she doesn't want to and is different than what I was. It's just that it's not as popular now. However, she would have been what, 16 when COVID hit. Yeah. And that is a good couple

years of her getting fake ID, going out, doing all that. That's really affected the young people and the way they party now because it's more house parties raves Anyway We asked on the story

Has Do you think Nightlife is dying 94% of you said yes And 6% of you said no That's a big percentage that Yeah it was And even the 6% though

That was quite high But a lot Thousands of you voted yes Does this affect Your relationship Was the next question Now this was interesting 81% said no

I'd love to know who in that 8 to 1% has a partner. Yeah. And 19% of you said, for sure, which is still very high. Mm-hmm. Now, are they saying that because they no longer go out with their partner and do certain things? Or are they saying it because they're single and they struggle to meet people organically? Because that's what they would prefer to do.

Yad, yada, yeah. I think from what we then got in terms of responses to the question box and messages, I think a lot of those people will be as effect. and then meeting someone. Correct, yeah. Because I do want to do it organically. It's just not the same anymore, is it? And also, even if it's not about the physical someone being there to meet,

even if nightlife isn't as good and you and your pals aren't doing it as often, then how are you going to? So both needy work. Yeah, I think people are leaving it down to friends of friends setting each other up with other things or when they go to weddings, girls' holidays, trips away. That's where you meet groups of other people, a similar age to you. Because let's be honest, if I was a single now and I wanted to go out and I was going out every weekend, I'd face a few difficult things.

I'd face trying to find friends that would come out with me, that would want to come out with me every weekend. I would face finding guys that are similar interest to me, same age, that go to the same bars. Like, where do they go? I don't know. I'm not clued up enough to know where they go. So I'd probably end up going to certain bars that are a real younger crowd. And three, if I was single, not only would I be then paying for somewhere to live on my own, which would cost me an awful lot of money, I would then having to spend that sort of disposable income that I would have left on going out. It's expensive.

So there's a lot of factors to think about if you were in that situation. Or I could open my phone, in my bed, stay in, flick open an app, and get catfished, potentially. Yeah. Or meet the love of my life, which I'm leaving proof that happens. Well, legal. But that was 10 years ago. So has dating app lifestyle changed in years too? I don't know.

I just feel like everything changes these days for the age of? No, I do agree with you, Zoe. but I do think it's adaptable in the circumstances. A lot of people feel different in social situations since COVID as well. It's got a lot to answer for that thing. It changed and shifted a lot of things. One of the positives I would say that came out of that time probably was, and I could be saying this wrong because I know a lot of people drank a lot in COVID,

but a lot of people came out of it quite health conscious. yeah definitely more people are enjoying the hungover free sundays a lot of people that had some sort of addiction to recreational drugs alcohol now openly admit online that they are preferring to wake up fresh on a Sunday morning rather than to be in someone's gaff after party at Sunday you do see that a lot less or hear about it a lot less definitely um like i say i could be wrong but I'm just speaking from people that I know that have shared that with me or whatnot so

yeah I think that's quite a good thing that people are now more aware of feeling that the maybe it's not nightlife culture that's changed but it's the drinking culture that's changed people still want to go out and have fun and socialise but they maybe don't want to get piss as a far

I am one of them people you are one of those people actually Zoe and I even went on a holiday just there and I know it was not Like it was by choice because obviously I can't drink alcohol because I'm pregnant. But I genuinely do think I could do that, you know. I could go on a girl's holiday and avoid alcohol if I truly didn't want to do it. And I didn't enjoy that much.

The feeling of waking up fresh or fresher than I would with a hangover was great. I definitely could as well. And I understand why people are more sober curious is the phrase they use. I think it's just so easy. If you've always been sober, you wouldn't be tempted. But I think when you've not always been, it's just so much easier sometimes just to be like, oh, fine, I'll have a couple.

But it's, like you say, it's the social pressure that your friends give you. But what's the point in that couple? Because you're boring, if you're not, so they say. It is quite sad, isn't it, when somebody says they're not drinking, why is it the only thing that you're poison that you put into your body and you question why they're not doing it? But if somebody went to the toilet to go and take a line of gear, you'd be like, you'd just be like,

Well, you wouldn't say anything, but that seems more wrong than somebody doing liquid stuff that will completely change the way they are on a night out. Yeah, no, it's fucked. And we're asking people to acknowledge why they don't want to drink. Well, that's what we were saying about the whole pregnant thing as well. It's like, how did you manage to hide it? You shouldn't need, that shouldn't be a thing. Yeah.

Like, you should be able to just say, I'm not drinking it, not be like, oh, are you pregnant then? that's so fun. No, I know. But we're all guilty of it. No, I know. But it's unwell. It is. No, I do agree with you. Anyway, we've got quite a lot of messages. Okay. So we'll share some people's views on this topic.

I still love the odd night out, but I feel not drinking at the weekends. Even getting dinner with friends not drinking or having a few child drinks in brackets, is so much more normalised now. Maybe it's just getting older. I also feel like it's better for my relationship. when me and my boyfriend are partying heavily every weekend you get the daft drunken arguments

or less up for doing fun new things with each other because you're hung over we still love a drink in a party sometimes but at not being every weekend is 100% positive for us a valid point there by the way I like that

a lot of people do have drunken arguments or like I still am a bit like if Jason's rough in bed all day I'm like get up and he would feel the same if it was me but it is just a bit like Like, come on. So it's a shelf out.

Yeah. A lot of people do have drunken rouse, don't they? I actually can't relate to that because me and rich don't drink together, which can be seen as, I used to see that as a negative when I was younger. I used to, I kind of wish he would be a bit like, oh, come on, let's go and have a drink. He just didn't enjoy that. He doesn't enjoy me being drunk around him, vice versa. He also absolutely doesn't want us to be hung over the next day.

No. So it's something we've never done, but I will be honest when I was younger, I kind of envied other couples that did it. Yeah. But then when you hear of people constantly rowing, yeah, not for me that. Even now I still, like, I say to Jason quite a lot. I wish we wanted to go and out and have a drink with each other.

Like, I'm not saying get fucking pushed. I just mean, like, you know, dinner, go to a couple of bars after, nice glass of wine and whatever. And he is so right. Every time's like, well, but we don't want to, so that's fine. I'm like, yeah, no. True. But I do like that though, don't you, having a meal and going for a wine or two?

Yeah, and that's what I've done that with which, it is lovely. I would like to do it more. It's not often enough. But neither of us are bothered about drinking enough to like go out and do that. We would rather go for a nice dinner, eat far too much food, come home, food's come home on the couch with more chocolates in a film. Yeah. It's like there's no point wishing you were doing something, we just don't want to do it. I do think it comes with age though as well.

I think as you get older, you maybe get a bit more, ain't it? Yeah. trying wines and I don't know I think as you get older Sundays do become your favourite day absolutely

if you're fresh and if you don't hate your job a Sunday is the day to like set yourself up for the week yeah not dying

you rot away in your bed okay next I feel like 18, 19 20 year olds don't really go to the club like I would at that age but now they're clogging up spaces that would have

usually been for an older clientele means we all feel that we're surrounded by kids and nights out now obviously people can do what they want but clubbing is class at that age and I feel like it's a shame they aren't get to experience it I think I agree with that yeah like you do go clubbing and then pubbing as you get older

whereas the clubbing has been missed out where's the clubs where is the clubs physically where where are people going well they all shut down's away they haven't got enough people to fill the capacity of the room of the clubs anymore. Like you as Wonderbar's example that the age range in there's

underage to 30 odd. Yeah. Like you are, you do feel old in places and I do think that's a valid point. But whenever something new opens, like we said at Wonder Bar at the start, it was great. We loved it. Top floor

is still quite good on a Sunday. But when the kids start finding the more popular places, they do end up taking over. Which is fine they're completely valid to do that they're the ones that are giving the money to these bars consistently we're not but it just kind of makes us feel it feel less appealing for the older crowd to continue going out I do think it's a shame if younger people don't experience like what we did because it was like the best years ever but then let's make it on the flip side

I bet you our parents are like oh well you never experienced clubbing and Ibertha in the 90s and the 80s where there was no mobile phones there was no cameras we all just dance and like a way to real music. Everything changes with time and it's relevant to people living in that time. Exactly. So then these kids are not bothered that we're so bothered they're not experiencing

the way we did it. Because they don't know any different. However, my wee sister says to me, so if you're from Motherwell or even just Lanarkshire, you'll know of the Mega Bar. And me and my pals used to get ready quite a lot at my

dad's before going there. And we would get her in, like, she wanted to come and sit in with us, even though she honestly must have been eight years old. And she used to always say, like, I can't wait till that's me. And then when she got to that age, like the club shut down, and she's never really done that. But she did want to. She's moving to London, so she will be able to party.

Thriven. Her heart's content. Somebody actually messaged, because we had lots of responses in the DMs and on the response box. But somebody wrote one, this is quite interesting here. since COVID and everything reopened they're struggling for a couple of things they can't have spontaneous nights out anymore

that's not a thing you have to book everything which is a nightmare that has kind of stayed that way hasn't it? Yeah you never used to book anything unless you're booking like a booth for somebody's birthday yeah never just turn up and even then you could book a brief a few days before

and the service the hospitality industry finding people that will want to work for a start these younger kids don't want to work they can't be asked they're lazy I'm not saying all of them but there's a lot of kids that are

not they haven't got the urge to go and want to work I had three jobs when I was your sister's age and I loved it and I worked in bars I worked in retail and it was just you kind of like went from job to job and that was a part of your social life yeah that's how you met people

that's how you still were able to afford to go out because you were still in the midst of it finding the service and getting people to actually rely on them to turn up to work and remain in a job is apparently really tough for the hospitality industry at the moment so it's just not the same experience you'd rather stay in and have a meal where you can cook it yourself then go out somewhere where it's really shit service yeah and cost you three times prep that's what I mean also another thing on the flip side of the service thing I don't want to have to scan a QR code for my drinks or my food Nothing I hate more

Because you know why I think of older people Like my nan and my granddad If they were to go out to a restaurant They ain't scanning a QR code I know She's on GIF Gaff She needs to connect to your Wi-Fi

She's round out in minutes She's round out of minutes A long time ago She tops of her phone still Like don't make her do that There was an iconic days Great days And I just think my little nan

Like just give her a paper menu Let I get a spec out Like not even that some people don't have a smartphone like one of my uncles genuinely he doesn't have a smartphone he's got like the equivalent of a Nokia because he's not interested he doesn't have social media

Burn a phone literally that's what it looks like he doesn't have a smartphone so he physically couldn't I think even you do naturally think of older people which I think is a bit more generalised but not everyone actually

is a smartphone secondly you might not have you found with you a battery might have died battery and that's I sometimes forget to check what my battery's at at the airport and your boarding passes on your phone I know even that I'm like it's all but we laugh at all of our airport dads that have the things printed in a clean film thing and they're the ones that now they're clas on but I do also think as well like and I know this is thinking about it deeply but what if you were a family who like didn't have much money you didn't have smartphones but you were taking like your kid out for a special birthday and it's like you

might be feeling embarrassed to you that I don't have a phone to scan that or whatever just give it a fucking menu I mean I think a lot of restaurants do end up having a menu don't they they must have an option yeah yeah just the QR code thing annoys me yeah it's just taking away that sort of and that was from COVID wasn't it to try and stop touch sanitising thing that needs to come back yeah like that's not hard work guys to pass them on a menu is it it's not I know it's bizarre Someone else wrote in saying that Me and my pals are all early to mid-20s

And we've now started a rotation of house parties Like once a month And everyone lets loose House parties are the best They are the best But that's stopping You meeting other people Yeah

Which they probably don't give a shit about They just want to mingle with their mates But if we're talking about the dating aspect I know House parties are stopping that aren't they unless you get oh can I like my mates come over and then I mean when I used to go to house parties I probably knew one person in there you would go with a cup of your pals and the rest would be strangers

love those days a lot of people wrote here in responses that they love day sessions yep during the day drinking instead I do enjoy that but the problem is I always forget we can do it so when a Saturday comes I'm like oh unless it's someone's birthday I should say to you, do you want to go out for a couple drinks today? What bloody great idea is that? Let's go and shop down Bacannon Street, stop in a few bars, have a couple of cockies, get the train back, stunning. And if it goes one step too far and you're out until 3 a.m. the next day, then fantastic. It was spontaneous. It was funny. We don't do that enough. Because we are

more health conscious. We're like, oh, I don't really want to, I don't know, I don't want to feel pissed. I don't feel like shit. I honestly don't remember the last time I asked someone to go out for a drink. shall we? Oh, I forgot. You can't, unfortunately. Yeah, sadly. Like, I genuinely, genuinely don't remember the last night,

the last time I went on a day or night out and it wasn't for an occasion. I never go on a night out. Same. Never. I bet you were a lot of people listening are the same.

Yeah. But I'm not really mad at it, I don't think. I don't get the craving for it. I used to, every so often, be like, I could go a right, good night out. let's actually get dressed up this time like blah blah blah blah Don't you think this sort of season though

makes you feel that way I definitely feel this way in October We've said this before on the bod Bit of sparkles in that October to December is a good time to party in your home city It is Last year I was out loads

We went out for my birthday I know it was on occasion but Yeah that was good actually I think I'm sure we were out quite a bit I wasn't at a con I loved it in there for like two months God bless me Right so people are just saying

I'll read a few responses here Why are there no No places to go and no men I don't know honey I don't know why If it's something to do like we spoke about last time Where men either choose to chill on their own Or they're choosing to

A lot of them have gone down this health route Join gyms Join these cross-fitty style Spice Boy gyms because they're all there As a good way to socialise those can in a group gyms, I think. Won clubs? Run clubs.

Mm-hmm. There's a lot of them there. Or, like, people are getting into all that, like, tennis and... What's that other one? Paddle. Paddle? What's that? I don't know. I was having this conversation another day. I think it is, like, table tennis.

But without the table. So, squash? We're not hitting against a wall? Yeah, you're not hitting against a wall. So badminton. No, but we've got a wooden bat. So it's table tennis without bouncing on a table. Beachbat

Yeah, thanks so really Can we just like to tennis and back and excuse enough I'm a tennis coach mind Impossible to meet someone on night out these days Older guys do not go out anymore These older guys

Are at their local pub Yeah they are Especially if you live down south I don't know about up here What the pub situation is Because I don't really live near many That I like that vibe But down where I live

country pubs they all hang about there fit guys as well I don't know if it's isn't much like that here but I would say After work builder tradies It's definitely also to do with sport

Okay There's a lot of pubs like around stadiums and stuff that I think you would find a lot of guys in but I don't know if that's a lot of people's type of guy Yeah But I think that's where a lot of like big groups kind of congregates

can I congregate at once. I don't think you've got the local pub thing as much here because a lot of people don't stay in their hometown. Someone's right here. I run a pub. We used to be packed at night, but now so much busier during the day. And continuous people replying in,

the girlies saying day sessions the new night out, daytime drinking is the way forward. I like going day drinking. It's more fun and there's no taxes to get home at a night out. Guys, if you're listening, the girlies are out in the day. girlies if you're listening the guys are out in these packed pubs in the day that's where they are go and find them stop going to places that are full of kids and that's where you need to go if that's what you want get your hinge up put your radius on to 10 metres

there'll be some standing right next to you ready to go my random thought actually links really well to this subject which is what i've just realized go for it do men realize how lucky they are to not have toilet cues always think it's Zoe but they aren't lucky that they have to go into smelly

way infested rooms but you don't need to touch anything apart from your own penis yeah but we didn't have to touch our bits going for a way that can't be that pleasant

no I know but they're touching the exterior and they can wash their hands after which I know loads don't do by the me because you can just tell but every time I think see when you both pass the same door there's always a cue for the ladies

none for the men I think but the reason is because they're not washing the hands it's got to be not that that would stop the queue I guess I think just women must just relax on the toilet is like what's taking you so long

I get my phone out so I'm scrolling I'm like yeah you're the problem why is it taking you so long even if you were doing a number two it shouldn't take that long I know it is an issue isn't it and we're always

bursting as well that's what I was going to say I don't think it helps that and it's not that I wait until I'm bursting we all know this I just am nothing to burst and there's no in between

and I do just think it must be so nice and in reflection of that there's a picture from Nashville which I was going to bring it up bad I was going to let you do it can't ever be shared

but me Molly and Heather were in a toilet queue and it was taking too long and the men's was right there and I thought no one's in there let's just go in and me to pee in the union

nose. There's actually pictures of Zoe bent over aiming for the urinal whatever it's called. And I was like, wait that's not a toilet and you're like, oh no, no. No. I have no regrets. Because you could lock, there was two in it, you could lock the door so nobody would have to come in.

And see, honestly, I wouldn't choose to do things like that because they are banging in the arshmeli. But see if I didn't do that and this is just me, I'm not being dramatic here, I would have peed myself. I can't hold I have bladder issues

I genuinely had to do that there was no other option I either get told off or you're using a man's toilet or I've got pissed down my leg and it's all over the floor on your bar you decide Zoe fair fucks honey

I'll end on a fun fact for money today we've now tasked him with giving us at least two a month and they need to be interesting because he told the elephant one no shite I'm quite like that one

So, did you know if you earned £7,000 an hour since Jesus Christ was born? Do we even know when that was? You would still not be as rich as Jeff Bezos. Bezos. Did you know that before money told us earlier? We need that fact busting or fact checked. Because that seems like an extreme extortionate. But I'd maybe understand $7,000 a day, but the hour thing's throwing me off.

$7,000. Jesus Christ was born in, I was about to say BC, but that's not correct, because obviously that's before Christ. 2,000 24 years ago, apparently. Oh, fucking hell, Zoe. Why are we so thick? No. Get me out here, I'm going to home.

I forgot that this whole year was based around Lord Jesus Christ. How dare you forget? You couldn't have paid me a million pounds to tell you that. I've never fucking knew that. Honestly, I'm terrible. I wouldn't. Is that your fact checker right there? Holy moly! Jeff Bezos's net worth is, Murray, I don't even know what that number is, but there's three, six, nine. There's nine zeros and then there's two ten before those nine zeros.

what the hell is that 210 billion pounds oh yeah it says it there sorry 210 billion pounds divided by 7000 equals 30

million hours to surpass him there are 8,760 hours per year so 3,424 years to catch up to Jeff Bezos current wealth

at $7,000 an hour if it was expanded at its current rate literally never because well I mean my brain's mashed up but okay I believe you that is nuts he better be

doing a lot for world hunger. Do you know what? It actually makes more sense because I didn't even think about 20, 24, 2000, and 24 being the years after Jesus Christ. So that makes more sense. I was thinking it was more like millions of years, BC. I was going to like dinosaur years. Anyway.

Things like that blow my mind. Anyway. See ya. Fuck it off. Good blab for ages. I know. Thanks so much for listening as always. Kissies.

I will see you on Friday. If not, we'll see you next Tuesday. Bye guys. Bye, guys.