Goes Without Saying - romanticising & autumnal recommendations: podtober #5

Episode Date: October 28, 2023

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The Spooktacular. Bonanza. Bonanza. Extravaganza. wings the spooktacular bonanza bonanza extra bonanza something i wanted to say actually yeah you said you have something we're recording yeah this is important it's important just to get this out in the open once we've um just while we kick this off today we're recording this is the day of the 1989 Taylor's version release. Ah, I didn't know.

Just to enlighten, yeah. And something I think this will be quite important to you. There's a song from The Vault which has been released. About Harry Styles. Oh, well, yes. Are they all about him on this album? I mean, who knows? Who knows?

Who could say? But she does but she does well anyway let's not speculate but oh no sorry go on i thought you were gonna skip past the thing what's the song from the vault no no no no no no oh this i'm gonna say just because i think it's important for you to know this yeah she has a song on this album now from the vault what was that that was a hair clip like um it sounded like almost like you know those little silicone things those little like pop no you know like they look like this oh those things that kids like the kind of the new fidget spinners of the world what are they called they're like little my little sister has a her ipad case the back of it is it's quite cool what is it um what's the word for it i don't know but i think everyone will know what we mean those things that

kids play with that pop the bubbles and i hate the feel of that silicone because it's just like feels grubby think of all the filth yeah on that filth it's almost like you walk through tiger and you can't help but touch it all but you know that you've got sticks to you yeah speaking of pure filth song from the vault it's called you might know this it's called quotation slut exclamation mark slut shut slut your mouth it's called you're kidding me oh my god i already know i love it it's my favorite song but i need to listen to it with you i need have you not listened? No, I've listened. Oh my God, I was going to say, what the fuck? It goes without saying.

But I'm assuming you haven't listened. And I wanted to be in your presence while you listened to it. Just because I feel like when you do things around Taylor Swift, I kind of need to just be supervising. Yeah, yeah. I need to kind of enjoy it. Someone said they loved my journey to become a swifty throughout um yes podmas not whatever the fuck this is called podtober the spooky bonanza extravaganza how could you forget

yeah exactly like i definitely feel like it has been quite a journey with we were saying i'm sorry i'm just gonna say we were saying just now we were like so this is technically the fifth episode of podtober why does it feel like we're doing this for like 200 years like i feel like i'm in a casket six feet under like i'm recording this from beyond the grave this has gone on for so long genuinely it feels like we've been locked in a haunted mansion i'm still fucking sick which i think is the real kicker it feels like we've been doing this for years and years nothing's gonna prolong something like count you're counting the days when you're sick it's like every night is measured in like in health well i was up really early this morning i couldn't help myself and then i realized i was up and i was like taylor's version is out but i held back such a stunning cover so i know the

cover from a few weeks ago that i saw it and i thought that's a really so many like really beautiful i actually just showed my boyfriend one because i was like i actually went he's working because he works from home sometimes and i showed him this picture of taylor swift oh wow that is stunning isn't it and he was like what am i looking at and i was like just how stunning she is and he was like okay it's. Do you know what? It's not my fault. Like, I wouldn't see that and be wowed. Like, some of the ones that I am. You need to see what her legs are doing. That doesn't stand out.

Like, she looks stunning as always, but that doesn't. How I like Taylor, I've realised. When I watched that movie, The Era's Tall, I like her dishevelled. I like her. Because I think the thing that's always put me off her. Yes. Is, yeah it divine and

disheveled yeah i love it that's the photo do you see what i'm saying it's like you've got your legs open not to be vulgar but you've got your legs open she's sitting like the annoying girls in assembly oh oh la la the legs kind of it just does something we're talking about obviously the beach pics based on the rolling stone old obviously guys obviously everyone knows i just want to just we're all picturing the same thing yeah yeah go on i think the thing that not even has put me off i think that was already the wrong choice of words but the thing that has always kind of held me back from really like being drawn to taylor swift really is kind of the like hyper pop um kind of uh capitalist kind of neatness american vibe i think there's something about that that

does a clean just basically clean girl vibes which i don't know there's a clean girl aesthetic i would say um which maybe has put me off a little bit but the thing that i was really drawn to in that era's tour film was just like the sweating hair that started off pinned straight and ended up waving it waves and i loved it so divine with the vigilante it was so good and i just don't think she's ever ever ever looked ever looked better. But yeah, anyway, that's the Taylor Swift stuff. Slut. Slut. Wow.

So what's, I already can kind of guess the vibe. Well, the catch is, and this is why I thought you would like it. It's something along the lines of, if they're going to call me a slut, let me make it worth it sort of thing. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of what i thought it would be that it's like it's kind of the reputation energy it really is i love it oh okay i'm gonna i'm gonna

have to listen to that tonight will you will you film it or like facetime me or something yeah i'll film it sorry yeah i'll film it that's fine i just need to be there yeah also speaking of um films um you should go and look on our instagram there's a little treat left scattered among the so many feed for you um yeah there's a video the video of us but the tarot reader is up in its full entirety and god if you can get through it i highly admire you because yeah the thing that i just um like i don't know if it kind of comes across from the video that how much we are like controlling our faces not to laugh i think you can kind of see it because it's almost at some points because we're we're being quite boring in the video we're going like

okay yeah yeah we're waiting to be told our destiny forgive me for trying to listen like do you know what i mean like god we're looking you know to be told something advice anything yeah god forbid we're looking to be told something so it is an interesting watch like there are many many like uncomfortable moments like an awkwardness throughout the whole thing and i if you can sit through the whole thing god i we urge you i'm impressed yeah i urge you to see it's a real shiver down the spine horror if you can get to the women moment women women women that is crazy if you can get to that or there's the bit where she calls me stephy like there's some uncomfortable oh it's so. It's so good.

It's so good. Hope you enjoy. You can also see a little, just a little something, something of us going to the Eros tour film. Steffi really enjoyed herself. Oh boy, did I. And you can see it in my body language.

The way I'm clapping is mental. It's so funny. So yes. So that's kind of, that's something I've been enjoying recently in this kind of festive season the spooky season yeah it's been getting me into my october podtober vibes so wait is she considered spooky tarot who taylor yeah taylor i think she just has so many good autumnal she has so many albert teapot yes so stunning me just suddenly weeing

she has so many um I would love to do that what we? go for a wee I wouldn't because I feel like there would be some people that would be insulted but just for the people out there who like in a way would find that funny

just know there is some sort of urgent desire there to share that for you but I won't people out there who like in a way would find that funny just know there is some sort of urgent desire there to share that for you but i won't oh my god well there's nothing bonding like kind of squatting in a field with someone and waiting squatting like the amount of um great moments i've had with people squatting in a field it is a great moment it's the sound of the way i think it's both of you kind of trying not to be on your knickers squatting holding up your skirt someone complaining because they're in jeans and trying to rush back to the group like oh my god it's a it's a feminine moment no it is i love it it's a canada whilst

the boys just fucking we on the fucking road i can't stand it shakes head um yeah she has she's got she's got too many songs like she's got so much to choose from that statistically the chances are if you're looking for something on for example november 10th it's like oh there's a song that perfectly is november 10th yeah she mentions november she says what that feels like blah blah blah or oh my god may 5th it's like yeah it's all there for you like there's so much to choose from that i feel like you can find the vibes to fit she mentions like dates and stuff a lot and she you know she sets the scene that's how i feel with the office there's an episode for everything so every holiday actually that is one of my favorite things to do

is like if i'm not in it's not movie night let's say unfortunately but it's christmas it's halloween it's some sort of something's happening one of my favorite things to do is like i can't think of like a spooky halloween film to watch or like oh i can't like sit down and really dedicate like a night to like oh my god i'm gonna watch a new scary film whatever one of my favorite things to do is to like revisit characters that i already know and love and already feel so safe with and just watch the seasonal episodes it's so good it's my favorite thing to do every christmas me and my family watch which i actually think this is i'm in the habit of watching this at the moment i do think i don't know if it's like a thing in America it's such like a British TV show but if you don't watch

peep show like if you've never heard of peep show seen peep show I highly I'm putting my reputation on the line it's a problematic in so many ways show I love it so much I think it is so great and I think it's one of the funniest shows ever and i think i recommend it to everybody yeah but every christmas i watch their episode their christmas episode called seasons beatings and what happened they have like their family it's just kind of the classic thing they just do their classic shit but i absolutely love that show so much but i watched their new year episode as well peep show is something about peep show that's kind of asmr gone wrong yeah it's like it's so uneasy and unsettling you're kind of inside their mouths because it's a point of view

show like you hear their internal fun fact oh god we can tell that we can tell that that's funny well how did it even come up well i was we were all on a night out and this guy at you at uni that we were with who i was dating came on the night with us and one of the actors from peep show lived in brighton at the time i'm not gonna lie he he actually loved me yeah he did he did i don't know what his relationship status was at the time but i think if i would have said to him look let's do this i'm 100 i'm not 100 i bet i want to speak to him i put super hands but he but this actor kind of was joining our gang which was quite weird because this actor is i would say in his 50s yeah like early 50s i would say late 40s at persh and the guy i was dating i

don't think i was even in this conversation you were kind of like you were there but you probably you're just staring at him admiring the view yeah but i don't know what it well i don't know what possessed me to tell this because it's not necessarily something i would do but it must have been just off the back of this conversation i just had with one of the actors from the show yeah the actor from the show had been saying oh it was originally going to be called pov right point of view yeah was it i don't know yeah i'm going from super hands i'm going from there through the grapevine it's a real chinese whispers from soup hands to you to blah blah blah boy yeah to me well it was either going to be called pov or point of view it must have been pov i think

surely so then i came back and i said i've just been speaking to the actor from and i said fun fact he was saying that the show was originally going to be called pov point of view duh and the guy the ghoul of this guy first of all the audacity to be dating sephi then said yeah i already know that do you know what is so cringe about that as well that he was actually so casual because whilst the whole group was off talking to superhands me and this ghoul guy were off in our own little ghoul guy we were off in our own little combo just the two of us and i was like that superhands should we go

talk to him and he was playing it so cool he's like no i'm not really like i like peep show but like i see him around then he said that to you that he already knew and then he said later that he went and saw his stand-up that one act it's like yeah you're obsessed with him oh my god i remember that no he loves superhands he probably had sex with him anyway like don't oh my god i'm i'm a fan it did piss me off i just thought why are you acting too cool for school when he's like yeah it's the opposite of that vibe anyway cringe anyway yeah but anyway it's undeserving oh yeah it goes out saying and the whole situation but hilarious good vibes though yeah um i mean yeah no good i think good vibes fond feelings good vibes

i'm sure yeah i'm sure yeah but just it just well anyway yeah it's just men just it's just yeah because i just think open your eyes but anyway i open your eyes what to superhand no this boy i have fond feelings to superhands i have i have neutral feelings to the boy in question the ghoul i just think open your eyes like look around you you silly silly cunt anyway yeah no i'm sure he's fine but it's just like look he was a child at the time we were like how old 22 like we can't blame these people i'm you know whatever but yeah so i would say yeah watch the seasonal episodes of things but peep show i'd highly

recommend the seasonal episodes of that i love that that's the yeah that's the that's me tying the bow on the end weird thing a whole ghost train of thought going through that okay stunning what what are your oh no go on i was gonna say what are you gonna watch this halloween like are you gonna watch a scary movie at all one i do like and i wouldn't necessarily i don't think it qualifies as a traditional scary movie but i do love to watch it's embarrassing oh god go on it's embarrassing because you because we've brought it up recently i do love to watch the eddie murphy haunted mansion well now we have a whole new story to tell

the other day when we went to see the it was it the earliest we had the longest day so we started off we were doing like this weird like we woke i woke up at wings house we yeah we had the whole place to ourselves so we were going mental we woke up we did a 20 minute long like breath work suddenly realized we were running late for the tarot reader yeah that was fun suddenly like we realized that we'd spent our whole morning doing that and it was like idiots were actually late had to run yeah we were sitting all this coffee and like cakes and it was really like we're really running running massively had the first tarot reader went live on instagram

then did a second tarot reading just for fun then went ran pretty much walked aussie went to the fucking eras tour then we got back and i've never been so tired in my life it was crazy and i said you know what i want to do i want to watch the haunted mansion and i did as well i wanted to watch it but then we both then i remember you being like oh i just feel quite sick it's like yeah what are we doing we're so tired i just always feel like i've never felt so shit and tired of my life yeah we were like i want to watch it for another two hours and watch the haunted mansion and the wi-fi wasn't working and i was like why isn't it working

i was like this is so annoying like on the like controller as well like it's not connecting playstation 5 but oh my god it was so i also want to make it clear we weren't late for the tarot reader i really want to make that clear oh no we weren't oh my god absolutely not no we were not late we're just emotionally late we were paying our good money we were not gonna be late just delayed yeah no we're paying out of our own pockets for that every second yeah the hefty fee i must say but i do love the haunted mansion it's the it's a really good level of spooky for me i like like it's not gory it's not scary film it's camp yeah and that's what i want it's kind of rocky horror yeah i was about to say rocky i love a campness that's why i

like barbie i almost wish there was a barbie halloween oh that's fun barbie and the nutcracker you've got christmas i'm gonna get sagged yeah i'm not allowed are we allowed to say this what are you talking about i said i'm gonna get sagged we can what you can't talk about haunted mansion ethan last night on h3 was talking about this um the last samurai with fucking tom cruise we can mention that but surely we can talk about he was loving tom cruise by the way and i thought that's such a red flag from the office from the guy tom cruise no american men love tom cruise i've never met a british man who loves tom cruise yeah that was that was my philosophy anyway last night when i was i was shocked that they all loved him and i thought i i wonder if this is

common in america no i know i do know some English boys that love Tom Cruise that would defend him. Who? Well, also... Goulds. Also... Goulds. Bleep the name. A f***ing female friend.

She doesn't love Tom. She's obsessed with him. She's obsessed with him. It's actually so weird. Almost, I think, in a bit of a dad way, though, she's obsessed with him. I think she wouldn't want to...

I wonder. ...get with him. I think she wouldn't want to get with him i think she would oh god goodness god i should hope not no no i think she wouldn't be like oh my god he's sexy i think she would think like oh i would want no but she respects him at my yeah like i almost feel like he's a protector of me sort of thing but that's the last person protecting you jesus no i'm crazy shit going on out there in Scientology. Wendy's Small Frosty is the ultimate summer refreshment. And not because it's cool and creamy and made with fresh Canadian dairy.

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And we are a part. Find a field guide to gay animals on Spotify, Apple. Or wherever you get your podcasts. ACAST helps creators launch, grow, and monetize their podcasts everywhere. ACAST.com. Back to lab. We just had to take a quick break because we're being censored on some things. Oh, sorry. All of that gone, just to reiterate. Yeah, all of that gone just to reiterate yeah all of that gone okay um okay snacks then we'll add snacks yeah go on what snacks do you like um are there any um can i ask you something yeah i'm just actually gonna like properly lie down yeah yeah are there any new learnings in your life in terms of halloween learnings in my what halloween learnings i don't know just any

new theories you want to propose let me think it's quite a tricky question do you have anything groundbreaking to tell us oh yeah i'll just think off the top of my head i think do you know what i maybe do have a learning this is my first halloween where i don't have a plan which is not my um my preference for halloween i like to be going to parties i like to be in costume on halloween yeah so i think it's going to be a bit weird because i last year was iconic my whole group sort of i designed these me and my friend i can't take all the credit we designed a ratatouille for everyone famously anton ego i was um year before we did Shrek like I really go in and I'm very very pro handmade

costumes like I really like to go to the charity shop get kind of bits of wire and make like ears and things like I don't like to just get a full made kit costumes yeah I really love the whole process of like coming up with like a group thing it doesn't even have to be a group but I do like making the costumes for other people as well yeah quite so I need people that are willing just to put on whatever the director of the most people would yeah most people would want some kind of say in what they're wearing but I feel like that's why it's quite good to get exactly in the thing because like how you will wear whatever I put you in but this year I don't have anything to do so I think that's going to be really sad

that's what I was going to say what is your plan well go on go on I don't really have any so my granny's coming over on the day on Halloween which is nice but not particularly spooky and then I might go to the cinema I might see a horror movie with my sister

and my brother but which will be really nice but i i don't know i i'm gonna really miss dressing up why don't you dress up that's what i'm really missing well i might is your sister gonna be saying yeah yeah she's gonna be here i you know what's always funny about halloween actually one of my best friend's birthday lies very close to halloween so we would always end up going out for her birthday and it would be like around halloween and it also always often if it doesn't fall on the same day it'll be falling on like the night that you're out it'll be that weekend the clocks fall back oh god so like you're out and it's midnight and then it's still midnight and it's still again the double midnight and you have like a really long night which i feel like is quite

testing but i remember her like shout out to any halloween birthdays out there because oh my god i remember once i think she might have been might have been her 21st but maybe that's too predictable maybe it wasn't her 21st but she dressed up it was so iconic it was like this kind of full black like leotard with cutouts thing laura i'm really shouting you out here she had like really good ears and it was just i think about what was she she was almost this kind of dominatrix bunny woman let me find you let me find your photo i often i think about this look often it was a real showstopper yeah i'm dying to see let me find it i'm not obviously gonna share with the class but this is from years ago but i still think about it because it was just

such a like so her birthday's on halloween so what people dress it's not on the day it's halloween night and yeah it's always like it's her birthday but but like she has to dress up but i remember her saying like i don't want to dress up for halloween every birthday like sometimes it's annoying that it's like you can't just wear like a nice dress yeah because you can't really say to everyone can everyone just dress nicely because everyone's gonna be like it's my opportunity to do wow okay yeah no it's stunning it's kind of ariana grande it really is i mean yeah sexy gonzalez yeah so stunning with the i don't know if she had a wig on or she just had dark hair at the time she looked so good that's so stunning great costume

what the fuck is going on right i'm gonna have to keep my eyes on the press it's the halloween spirit it really is crazy what the hell i don't know i think you would have cut out in your story yeah i definitely will i definitely will have what do i say hey guys i'm back i just cut out in my story yeah i was basically showed a stunning photo yeah i was just saying how stunning my friend is basically do you know what i can actually relate because my birthday is two days after christmas so it's a very similar thing of that it's a really similar thing it's like it's not on the day but it's like close enough it's in the season you're really in the season yeah it's the day after boxing day i mean it's crazy and also boxing day is my uncle's birthday and the 20 mine's the 27th of december put it in your diaries guys and the day after also put this in your diaries is my great uncle's

so it goes christmas my uncle me my great uncle and it's just almost like god can these people stop giving birth but you don't have have Christmas themed birthdays or you have? No, I don't. Well, the thing is, everything inherently at that time is Christmas themed. It's like if you go to the theatre, it's a Christmasy vibe. If you go for dinner, it's a Christmasy vibe. Whatever, you go for a walk, it's Christmasy vibes. Everything on the 27th of December is tarred with a brush of the Christmas of the christmas season but i like it yeah i did

always quite like it because i don't know i thought i go through things with it like i feel quite done with it by that point like i'm almost done with the festivities by the 27th and i can feel that everyone else is as well that it's almost like okay we're knackered by this point everyone always wants the new year now and i feel like it is often a burden of like it's another day everyone is the crimbo limbo and i come right in the middle going limbo i come in like party time guys do you though do you come in party time or do you come in i go through waves but sometimes i like to and sometimes I don't. Like sometimes I'm really into my birthday and want to do like a fun thing.

And sometimes I'm like, I just want to do nothing this year. Yeah. But I don't know why. I've got into a bit of a new thing. I've been for the last two years, I think. I think I'm going to do it again this year. I don't know to see what. But I've been going to the theatre.

That's fun. Which is really nice because I never go to the theatre. Yeah, on the day, in the evening, I go to the theatre. and last year i went to see my neighbor totoro and play it there was at the barbican with my sister and i genuinely think like the play of it if you like my neighbor totoro and like studio ghibli and stuff you'll know what i mean by this but like the puppet that played totoro was probably i came away from it thinking and as i was watching it i was crying my eyes out classically and i was looking at my sister and i was just like this is the most amazing thing i've ever seen in my life

well that's like what more could you want it's not even the play like the play of it i didn't love but the puppet i was like i've never seen such a beautiful thing better yeah yeah it was incredible it was like he's in the room with us totoro was here in the room is it big and it was someone inside the thing i can't even explain how they do it it's gigantic and it's blow up to a certain level but it's also you can climb up it as it's mental god that's really interesting it was the best thing i've ever beheld i think things like that are a fun thing to do on birthdays and like events where almost like there's a degree of pressure and that's what i was going to say about halloween it's like i feel like you've got it made

because i'm assuming you're going to be with your sister for the majority of the day if not the whole time yeah yeah like the evening and stuff yeah but i want to dress up that's the problem why don't you why don't you and your sister and your brother do harry ron and marionette god if i could get him oh by the way today you're gonna be ron yeah but he could be harry it would go down like a sack of shit but i'm gonna do i'm what i might do is because i'm going to a fireworks night yeah the next the following weekend yes and i might just try and like extend the halloween and dress up then well we've got some just be like guys everyone just wear like you're wearing this clown nose yeah you're wearing this we've got some dressing up to do which is something to look forward to do you know what that was the thing that's getting

me through that i'm dressing up with you yeah i'm really excited for that i want to do that in person though i don't want to do it on Zoom. Yeah, we are doing that in person. Oh, wait, okay. We're doing it twice, remember? You will see, guys. Oh my god, guys, the issue is over because I'm dressing up twice this year. Yeah, god, your diary's packed. Thank god.

Well, this episode, I think, has been a bit all over the place and weird, but... Yeah, yeah, it has. I'm cutting out left and right just behind the scene no not podmas podtober sorry how many times does that happen in episode yeah my my microphone's cutting out left and right and i'm a bit nervous about that but i yeah it was string something but it's all good it's all good it'll be just delicious it'll be perfect it'll be perfect so i guess we'll see you tomorrow guys and go look at the stuff on our instagram if you haven't already because there's some stuff for you

oh my god and we sat through a crazy hour and then i sat through hours and hours and hours and hours and hours watching it back please so please yeah please go give it some love like telepathically send us some love right now because we're always always that would be great we're sending it back spooky bye thank you so much thank you for listening see you tomorrow okay bye