Should I Delete That? - Is It Just Me: It can't be THAT hard to be a criminal
Episode Date: September 11, 2024In this week's IIJM, Em and Alex discuss drug smugglers, feeling nostalgia and the new potential smoking ban...Follow us on Instagram @shouldideletethatEmail us at shouldideletethatpod@gmail.comEdited... by Daisy GrantMusic by Alex Andrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello and welcome back to Should I Delete that.
I'm in Clarkson.
I have a question for you.
Is it just me?
It's a couple of weeks old, but I've been thinking about it.
It was leaked from the Labour government that they want to ban smoking in pub gardens and outside nightclubs.
What do you think about that?
I don't agree with it.
You don't agree with the band?
No.
No, I don't.
I really don't.
It's interesting, isn't it?
I think, well, I guess pub gardens is different because there can be kids there and babies there.
So actually maybe that.
But like at the outside of a nightclub, there is only one, it's designed for the smoking area.
That's it.
I don't know if I was being dramatic, but I was like, this feels like a nail in the coffin for like the night.
industry yeah do you know what I mean it feels a bit like not being funny I'm not in my
night out era I have not I have not had a night out in a very long time we're talking like
years but when I did genuinely the highlight yeah yeah that's part of the night would be
a little cigarette yeah that I've stolen from someone in a smoking area of a nightclub
That is way better.
The best conversations.
Running back down the stairs and you hear your favourite song.
Oh, should we just have a cheeky singy?
You never know who you're going to meet.
Should we just have a, should we just go ahead have a cheeky singy?
I know.
I love it.
But I don't know why they, because I do, I do understand pub gardens.
Like, in secondary, um, smoking, not secondary smoking, but secondhand smoke.
But I do, it is like proven to be caught for you.
It's not good.
do feel a bit like for pub owners that's a bit of a blow because people really like like smoking
and if they feel like they can't do what they like doing in the pub they probably just won't go to the
pub they'll just like get some tinnies and go to the garden or go to their garden or go to the park or are
smoking sections in pub gardens or is it generally no it's like outside yeah it's outside so you can
smoke wherever but that could be an option create a smoking area within the pub garden it just feels
I don't know it feels a little bit
because smoking is gross
and I know they're trying to get it banned
and like fully gone
but I don't know
it's not the smokers
I feel sorry for it
it's like the institute
like the pubs the nightclubs
although interestingly
I learned this after a
heated discussion I had
with the bouncer a few years ago
that nightclubs don't actually own the right
they don't own the pavement outside
so like their little smoking area
they're kind of they're just
borrowing it really
like it's not theirs
right
So when they say, when you stand outside like a smoking,
or maybe you get a little bit of like the smoking area.
But like if you stand outside a nightclub and they say move along,
like you can't smoke here.
You can.
You can.
Yeah.
I was like, I have done my due diligence.
And on a technicality, I'm right.
But yeah.
So but if it's law, then they'd be right.
So can I, so can I stand literally on the pavement outside your house and you can't get rid of me?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, of course.
Well, I mean, I could probably.
I have methods.
I've got a hoax.
Or ring the police.
Well, yeah.
But I don't know.
I'm now thinking, like, are we right in thinking that, like, smoking is...
But then smoking is, like...
Okay, smoking is like a choice that only affects...
I was going to say, the only affects the individual.
I see fine.
My dad smoked hundreds of cigarettes when I was growing up.
Like, a day.
I'm all right.
You know, I'm...
Good.
lungs.
Do you smoke inside?
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Oh, there you go.
No, loads, loads.
See, she's recovered.
Yeah, yeah, I'm absolutely fine.
Let's get your lungs scanned.
No, they're good.
No, my VOT, not when I'm pregnant.
I'm like literally a heifer when I try and move that.
I'm like, but no, generally.
But I also spoke for years, which I feel like I shouldn't have done.
Bad.
But smoking is still bad guys.
I know, yeah, I stopped when I was 25.
It's not good.
No, it's not good.
And maybe we should...
Stinky and expensive and it should be banned.
Maybe we should want them.
That is a good step in the right direction.
If the ultimate goal is smoking to be banned,
then it is a good step in the right direction.
It is.
But it's like, yeah, I don't know.
I find it...
Because what do you do?
What do you think when you're like at a festival
and the person next to you?
Because I was...
My brother still smokes.
Yeah.
He's the only person I know that really smokes anymore, I think.
Actually, I've got one friend that still smokes.
Yeah.
And when he gets a cigarette out, like, in a crowd.
And like, the looks people give you.
I'm like, oh my God, it was like 10 years ago,
or 20 years ago, everybody would have had one.
It's amazing how quickly it changes.
Oh, well, that's so quickly.
Yeah, no, I think I'd move away.
Not noticing.
We'd not be like, I'm going to have my face.
I've got to move away, but I wouldn't be inclined to, like, stay and soak it up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's interesting, isn't it?
I know.
It's moved so quickly.
And that was because of the smoking van inside.
Did you have, like, I don't think you will have done, actually.
Because I still remember the days when we could smoke inside.
nightclubs. So smoking ban was 2004. Yeah. So you'll have been 18. Yeah. Jesus. Oh, I was 10.
No, if I was 18, you were 12. Okay, you was 16. In uni, in my first year of uni, they were, smoking was allowed inside
nightclubs. Smoking was, oh my God, I was so wrong. Smoking was banned on the 1st of July 2007.
Yeah, that, that's exactly right. Yeah. My first year of uni, we smoked inside the nightclubs.
Wow. Yeah. God, that's amazing.
So I was 12
And then in Germany
It lasted a few years longer
Before it got banned in nightclubs
So when we went to Germany
I remember smoking in a Russian nightclub
And I definitely smoked in Greek nightclubs
So, so it felt so like wild
It never felt that wild to me
Because my people smoked in my house
And my dad was smoking the house
So it would be like
Okay
Now what
But it is amazing how much it's changed
Like in yeah
That's so much
Because I thought it was 20 years ago
So I thought it was 2004
of 2007 so it's like not even that long ago it's like and it's become so taboo I think it is yeah
foul but like you know banning the packaging which is powerful yeah and yeah stopping it being
stopping you'd be able to do it inside and I wonder how much the marketing of like the you know
basically you won't get an erection if you smoke cigarettes and like yeah your loved ones will be
very sad if you oh my god apparently one of those photos on a cigarette packets one of the
Gaddavers, the fake cadaver was used
without consent. No. I'm sure
of it. Hang on. That's horrible.
Cigarette packet
picture used
without consent.
I'm sure it was a dead person
that hadn't.
No, it wasn't that. It was a 60 year
old man in Eastern France says he was stunned
to discover that a picture of his amputated leg
had been used on cigarette packets
as a warning against smoking without his consent.
That's so bad.
Shame on them. And then again, this
when I was thinking of, woman claims photo of her dying father is used on cigarette packets
without permission. Oh, and another one. Man whose photo was used as a cigarette health warning
says the image of him in hospital has nothing to do with the fact he was even smoking.
That's really bad. That's coconut. And I'm so sad for that woman, like, because she has to, like,
be faced with, that's really bad. Do you know what I want to know? And I'm wondering if I can
Google it and find out is, like, what effect bringing in the pictures had on the level of
of on the
occurrence
I think it stopped being like
oh let's have a cheeky siggy
and it started being like
I'm doing this because I need to do it
rather than I like
It does take the
there's something about like
a dead person
being on the packet
that will
turn you off
and also I don't think anything's
going to get to the heart of a man
quicker than the threat
of a floppy Willie
like you could die
yeah but also
you really might not work
And that would be awful.
Did it work?
Because then, Alex, there's an argument to be said for the obesity
and the way that the NHS are tackling obesity
because people have often compared what the government did
with cigarette packets with obesity.
With that, the NHS, yeah.
Bus stop ads.
Campaign.
Sorry, this is not like an easy answer.
Sorry, it's like it's taken me to a research paper.
I don't think we have the time.
not the capacity to understand that.
What was the NHS weight one?
I can't remember.
It was,
I think it was like being obese is just as,
or like increases your chance of cancer just as much of smoking.
I think it was like,
it was conflated with smoking basically,
which there's a lot of that.
Yeah.
Which is difficult.
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
I do think, but then how much of you're like,
How much of our freedoms are being encroached?
Like, by not smoking in properties is fair enough because it's private property.
So that ban seems relatively easy to implement.
But I wonder how easy it is to implement it when it's like outside in public spaces.
It's very, because then when does it become like authoritarian?
When does it become dictatory that we say what people can and can't do?
Well, then it becomes, I guess you'd have to ban tobacco.
Like we ban cocaine.
It'd have to be an illegal drug, right?
I suppose so.
And that's the way that they'd have to do it,
rather than, like, the act of the smoking.
I'm not sure what's been that affected, though,
because everybody does cocaine.
That's true.
It's everywhere.
That's a good point.
Yeah, I feel like they should,
I feel like someone should do something about that guys
because it seems, it seems hella prevalent.
I keep saying on TikTok, loads of people just being like,
loved cocaine.
Really?
And then, yeah, like, I see loads of people like addicts,
like recovered addicts talking about it.
And then loads of people in the comments section
being like, oh, I'm still struggling.
Oh, that's me.
Really.
Tonight, yeah.
I see this one guy, his whole TikTok account is about the afters, like his after party.
And it's always just like him going in a random kitchen at like 7 a.m the next morning.
And I'm like, I can't believe that you're getting away with this.
He's putting that on the internet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, calls it the afters.
No, see, I'm not being funny because it's just like, if a woman puts up like one photo of herself in like topless sunbathing in France or whatever.
Literally.
And then it comes up, the next.
the next thing she knows
she's in an HR meeting
with her boss
about like her conduct online
and then this
But also who was it
you might have seen it
I can't remember who it was
but an influencer
I think that we know
put up a story about her period
but when she said period
she like starred out the E and the R
because she said that
the ins like that
she's penalised for story views
when she says period
unbelievable
it is mad
but also TikTok
TikTokers tell on themselves
in a way that I have never seen
anything before
They're just like, oh yeah, it's got like a bag.
I'm like, I don't know if that was a great thing to tell me, stranger.
Did you hear that I don't think you'll know who these people are
because you haven't watched Vanderpunt rules.
Alex will know because he's my fellow Bravo.
Funnily enough, I've just started again with my housewives.
Oh, I thought you were going to say Vanderpuk Rules.
I've got to catch up.
I'm only on season three of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Los Angeles.
Okay, it is really good.
But Vanderpun rules is just the next level, something else.
Anyway, one of the stars, Ariana Maddox,
who's now in Love Island, the host of Love Island, USA.
Her brother just got caught on it going on a plane from Orlando to Germany
with 75 pounds worth of weed in his suitcase.
In his suitcase.
Yeah.
See, there's an argument that of putting up you.
Or just not doing it.
I love that way.
You're not
You're not smuggling it very well
If you're putting it in your suitcase
You've got to get serious about this shit
Ingest it
Like who checks suitcases
The sniffer dogs
Yeah they smell them all the time
And then when you come through the bit
And it goes custom
Like nothing to declare
Something to declare
I feel like they know
They know if you've got something to declare
I don't know
I guess they can
They're looking at you through the glass
I always overthink it
I don't know about you
but when I'm walking, do I go through nothing to declare?
And then I think, I need to look like I've got nothing to declare.
So then I start thinking, I wonder what I'd look like if I had nothing to declare.
I'm going to walk nonchalantly like I have nothing to declare.
What do people have to declare?
Is it like big product ticket items that they bought abroad?
I think if you bought like a Rolex.
No, I think it would be like if you bought like eggs.
Oh, or like a, what is it that?
Like a leg of lamb.
Rolf Harris played.
What's that called?
That big instrument.
Rolf Harris went to prison for paedophilia.
I know, but what was the instrument me?
Did you redo?
That's not what I remember him for.
Yeah, yeah, no bad.
What was the instrument?
It was really famous for something.
Like if you brought one of those here, I feel like you'd need to declare that.
I don't know if you'd need to play a, but I don't know about that.
I think it's got to be like, I feel like if you brought ivory back from somewhere.
Oh, God, yeah.
I think.
But surely you just put that in your suitcase.
The sniffer dogs aren't going to sniff that out.
No, you declare it from your suitcase.
this is your suit this isn't your carry on carry on like
a suitcase is scanned the way that our bag are little I believe they are yes
handbags are scanned I believe so they scan every single suitcase
Google it I don't know I'll Google it I don't know
do airports I just don't believe that they do do airports scan
checking bags now I'm going to have a dodgy search history I'm flying on Thursday
they'll scan mine they'll be like well why did she want to know
During this journey, your bags will be screened at a security checkpoint.
No, no, no, no, no, check in, check in.
Hold bags.
Hold back.
Yeah, do airport scan check?
Yes, no.
Yeah, the majority of checked baggage is screened without the need for a physical bag search.
That makes tons of sense.
That's why it's so hard to smuggle drugs.
If they didn't check it, everyone would be doing it.
Not going to lie, for the majority of my life, I've always thought I don't get why it's so hard to smuggle drugs.
I feel like there's loads of reasons why it's hard to smuggle drugs.
I just, I just, I didn't think so.
Because, edge of reason taught us that it's hard to smuggle drugs.
She thought she was getting away with it in that big plate that Jade, dead gave her.
I don't remember.
And it was full of cocaine.
I, but I did, okay.
Well, I mean, if they get a scan, then, then, oh my God, thank God I didn't try.
I mean, I was never going to.
But thank God.
Well, I feel like if you deserve to get caught, if you just put it in your suitcase, no offense to that person.
Like, I feel like you've got to get super creative.
I'm thinking, like, it would probably not be very good for the cleanliness of
the drugs but you could take off the handles of your buggy for example and then just like
shove it down the edge because they're hollow like the metal cheese why would that not be good for
the cloning or the drugs well actually I don't know why I'm worrying because they cut cocaine with like
petrol and rapists so it's probably fine so yeah you just fill it down the sides and then just
pop it back on again oh I see just loose not like in bags yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah loose yeah just like
like a sherbet thing you know when you go to a fun fair and they'd put those like big sherbet's in a long
stick and you just go, ooh, be like that, except for good game.
Should we publish this?
Should we drop bills?
No, I mean, are we allowed to publish this?
Because that's a really good idea.
I think we're giving people ideas.
I don't know if we could publish this.
But I've got loads more of them.
Do you want them?
Like, I think about this all the time.
I always think since having Arla, I'm like, easy.
No one's going to check her nappy.
Like, you could put, like, I mean, you could put a bit in there.
You could put, like, probably, you should probably bag that up.
Probably shouldn't have that loose.
If you're going to smoke or drugs, take M's first idea.
Don't take the second one.
Don't say it
Put it on your baby
You're using your baby's vessel
But that's because they don't
They can't be bothered with buggy
They didn't have to fall down
Oh sorry it doesn't fall down
Okay we're gonna just take it through
Buggy is such a shout
I know
I know
While we're on buggy
But you have to the baby with you
Well yes
Yes
And I always think to myself
Why are they checking me so thoroughly
I've got a baby
What you know
What kind of a drug smuggler
Has a baby
What's their stuff
you from putting it inside your bra?
Nothing.
But they check.
They check it.
Do they?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, they do the, you know, like the check.
You go to the scanner.
But that doesn't, but the...
Okay, so, yeah, I think the scanner would bring it up.
I don't think the scanner would bring up drugs.
No.
No, but I mean, I think the body scanner would, right?
Well, I don't know.
I don't know what it checks.
The extra scanner would.
I always think it just checks for metal.
But I think, I think, yeah, I think the bleak-leep scoler just, it's just metal.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I, the thing is, Al, like being a criminal sounds horribly difficult, stressful, whatever.
But there's loads of them.
It can't be that hard in lots of ways.
I imagine it's very difficult in others.
But there's loads of them about it.
Yeah, I kind of want to know more about it.
Like, drugs struggling's huge.
What's the TV program?
Border Force.
Yes, border control.
Yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
I always think the people at border control aren't doing anything that are standing there
and I'm nonchalantly having nothing to declare.
I'm saying, hey, it's chilling.
They're watching me like a hawk.
They're working.
They detain me for having the criminal identifier spray.
Remember?
Oh my God, yeah.
They thought it was pep spray, which is obviously illegal.
At what point did they find you?
Going through my back, it was in my little bag.
I carry my rape alarm and a criminal identifier spray in there.
Yeah, going through security.
And then the man was like,
I put my bag through, and then he was like,
you need to come with me.
Oh my God.
Did you shoot yourself?
Shat myself.
But I did my research.
I knew that this wasn't legal.
The criminal, I don't know if I was probably, but anyway.
Wow.
I was like,
I mean, I get why it has to be legal, though, for on a plane.
The pepper spray is not like, it's not great.
You just go to the pilot.
Yeah, I know.
But you could do it with loads of stuff.
I mean, if you took like enough ketchup hop there, you could re-caver.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, anything's a weapon if you're creative enough.
It's just perfume.
That hurts when you get it in your eyes.
A hundred percent moisturise for like a third
seconds.
You see a sun cream in your eyes.
I just don't know you for the whole day.
Easy.
We've got a spray bottle.
A bit of piss,
Buen.
Squeak, squeak.
Okay.
I'm moving us on and it's a bit dark.
Where we've been or where we're going?
Both.
Actually, it has been quite dark.
Cigarettes, drugs.
And now hijacking a plane.
I don't really know what to call this, actually.
Okay.
So does it just me?
I saw this TikTok as haven't we all I always do nowadays I saw this TikTok is this from you
and somebody else it's it's it's an is it just me from me oh okay you're reading it off your phone
no I'm reading off my phone because I saw a TikTok sorry with you with you fucking hell I'm sorry
keep up jeez sorry um okay um okay and I'm just gonna read this out to you just TikTok okay
what about the feeling sometimes I get a feeling and I remember the very very
first time I ever experienced this. I was in first grade, riding the bus to school. I don't know
what caused this. It makes my stomach churn. It makes me feel unsafe. My whole body is overcome by
a nostalgic, extremely uncomfortable sensation. Okay. I've got, I've had this in my whole life.
I remember it distinctly the first time I had it. You had what? This feeling, this sensation.
That's the thing. That, what they just described? It's like something, it's like a feeling in my body and
like my stomach drops to the floor.
It's horrendous.
It's like the worst feeling in the entire world.
And it's part physical, part mental, part emotional.
And it's very difficult to describe, but it's visceral.
And I never knew that it was a shared experience.
But what is it?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I have no explanation for it.
I don't know what it is.
I get it at random times.
I first remember it when I, it was, my two friends were staying over.
and we were just just playing and I had I got the feeling and I've ever since then I've
had this feeling like what is this feeling I don't know but do not is it like a bad is it like
it's a very bad feeling like chills it's like someone walking over your grave no no no no it's more
like it's more like I'm making this very dark on I it's fine let's go it's like it's like
it's like it's so hard to do do you know what I mean do you know what I mean do you
know what I mean, and I'm looking at Emily, no.
Dax, have you got any clue what I'm talking about?
No, okay, that's me.
Nope, yeah, this is specific.
Well, I found my people in the comments anyway, because everyone was like, oh my God,
I've never heard this described before.
What is it?
All I can tell you is like, it's a feeling of like, I feel horrible.
Like, I feel...
Is it like a tummy book?
No, no, no, no, no, no, it's less physical than that.
No, no, it's less physical than that.
It's physical...
Are you sad?
Yes.
Extremely.
No, because it's...
It's not necessarily linked to something, like, that's the thing.
It's just something that comes over me.
And that's, they described it better than I've ever heard, well, I've never heard it,
but like, that it's like extremely nostalgic, but in a really horrible way.
It's like the passing of time is like on the present and everything's going to end.
It's like, think about when you're at, I admit, this has gone way darker than I imagine.
No, let's keep going.
Think of yourself that you're, like, your lowest when you feel just horrific.
Yeah.
Like that most horrific moment.
It's like that and it like washes over you and it's horrible.
And it takes a good like, it takes about 30 seconds for it to wash over you and then you feel better again.
Well, it doesn't sound great.
No, it doesn't.
It's not.
I kind of thought that at least someone was going to be like, yeah, I get it, I get it.
No, I didn't get that at all.
I found my people in the comments.
Well, they get it.
They get it.
And then someone said it's to do, it can be to do with being really thirsty, which I know sounds crazy.
which I know sounds crazy but I don't know
I'm working on like
I'm dying
maybe it's maybe you're just dying
maybe you're dying and that's just what it is
you're just like I'm just dying a little bit
which to be honest we all are
it was like when your body it's like a need
like your body needs like that needs water
but it's like your wires are all
it kind of like it's like messed up
and the signal goes to the wrong place
and like the signals are like misinterpreted by your brain
just makes it sad instead of thirsty
yeah so I don't know what it is
but I'd actually
miscommunication.
Love to know
if anyone else
has experienced this.
He doesn't sound nice.
I slightly know what you mean
I feel very sad
in a nostalgic way
when I hear a wood pigeon
like a
no
no
like a
no
you don't know
like a wood pigeon
sounds like
no of course I don't
but you would
because it'll make you nostalgic
okay
for what
exactly
bear with me
okay
okay this is
this is the only bit
I know about
this is the only thing
I know about like
nostalgia
okay and I feel like if I put in TikTok
pigeon
yes would pigeon sound nostalgia
well now you've made me feel very sad
that makes me feel very sad in a nostalgic sort of way
but that's not that it's way more intense the feeling than
well you don't know how intense I'm feeling it
okay sorry
you have a monopoly or nostalgia I can't talk when I get it
it's like my whole body I can't even I'm like
I'm like I'm like gutted
but are you sad for like
are you sad for all the things you haven't done
in your life?
No, no, I can't.
Are you sad that, like, your life will end and you'll die?
No, I can't, no, that's different.
I get that too.
I get existential sadness and threat, a lot of existential threat.
But no, it's more like dread, not threat, also threat.
But it's more like, it's like I am like gutted to my core.
Like, the wind is, I'm winded.
That's how I feel with the wind pigeon though.
No, no, no.
That makes my tummy go like, oh, like I think of like, I think of the little slide that I
have when I said and I think, well, I'll never do that again.
No, you're not, you're not getting my feet.
dying. I don't think you're getting my feeling. I'm not sorry. I don't think you're being a very good
listener. I'm trying to relate to you. No, you don't understand my feelings. No, your feelings aren't
like my feelings. My feelings are way worse than your feelings. My feelings are bigger and deeper and
more complicated than yours. I just want to speak to people who get it, you know? I just want to
get it. I don't want to get it. It doesn't sound very nice. No, no, no. It's not nice. It's not nice.
It's like when I get my prickly fingers when I feel like I could have just died or
killed myself but I didn't like when I could have just crashed my car into the
intrusive thoughts yes but I don't really know I've had the intrusive thoughts until I get the
prickly fingers and then I'm like whoa that was close I could have done something awful that
I'm never getting in a car with you again but I've never done it I just get the prickly fingers
after I haven't done it and I'm like oh few that's terrifying
do you not get the prickly fingers no I don't think so I get like really hot hands
I'm like oh don't fuck it up like your life's in your hands don't drop it oh my God
It's the pressure.
It's like the minute you start, it's a minute like you pick things up with both hands
and then you get an itchy nose, isn't it?
It's like you put your whole family in the car and you just think, don't get an itchy nose
and just hold yourself together.
So you shouldn't say things like that to me because it's like you plant a seed that will
possibly grow.
You put me in a difficult position.
There's not a lot I can say to you.
Let me just have a look to see if anybody has said anything else.
Should we bring ourselves back up?
Well, you took us.
I feel like I've overshared.
I don't think you've overshed out.
I suggested a really good place people could put cocaine in their buggies to get to security.
I feel like if anything bad is going to happen from this episode, it's going to be the drug squad.
They'll be knocking on my door being like, you're just, you're being arrested.
Please, if you know what I'm talking about, please email us or DM me because I just, I just want to know.
I haven't read this yet.
But I do think we need to bring ourselves back up, so let's, let's go.
I haven't read this yet.
I've just seen the subject line, which is people pleasing level 1,000.
Okay.
Good afternoon, Alex and M.
I write this email to you from my work desk after suffering through what I must describe
as my most insufferable but also low-key people-pleasing experience to date and I thought I'd share
as I'm quite sure it's relatable. For my work lunch today, I bought in a single serving of chicken
and veg pie in a tiny plastic pot. Being slightly paranoid about microwaving foods to a sufficient
temperature, I made sure it was actual lava temperature before taking out the microwave, which is my
usual practice. I'll normally then get a cloth or paper towel to shield my hand when I carry
it back to my desk so I don't burn myself.
She sounds like you.
This sounds like something.
This is like Alex like coded.
Okay.
I've got, go on.
Only today, a colleague from my office struck up a conversation when I was taking my lava
pie out of the microwave and without thinking I grabbed it and walked over to talk.
Quickly, I realized the food was, in fact, burning my fingerprint off and proceeded to play
a silent game of Hobartu-toe with it throughout the conversation, inching closer and closer
to the door to try and get back to my desk.
To no avail, though, as the conversation continued and I did.
didn't want to seem rude passing it between my hands resting it on my fingernails holding it
by the lid or by the bottom every few seconds i shifted it in an attempt to save my poor fingers
all the while keeping up the conversation and acting normal in an attempt not to seem strange
although i was thinking surely he realizes i am in fact so slowly developing third degree burns
by the pained expression that i'm trying to hide whilst discussing spreadsheets and annual leave
the discussion continued on our very slow walk back to our desk still juggling my food the whole way
the whole journey down the hallway where i was finally able to put my very hot pie down and soon
my poor fingers on my water bottle. Anyway, I just wanted to see if I'm alone in this or
if other people have experienced similar. I feel like this situation is a right of passage for
any esteemed people pleaser TM. Side note, I've loved the pod very much and think the content
you're putting out recently is great. But I follow of you both for a very long time.
And every Monday and Thursday, I aggressively look forward to seeing what you've got in store
from me. Many things. I love that. I love her. Okay. Yes. I have done something similar.
I went on a group trip. It was a work trip. Went on a group trip. And there were like eight of us
staying in this house, very fancy house, and they had a quooker. Oh, a hot tap, hot tap. Oh, no. Oh, no.
I'd never experienced one of those before, and I turned it on thinking it was just the normal
tap. I had my hand fully under it, and it completely burnt my hand, and I just didn't say anything.
I literally just had to, like, pretend like I was absolutely fine, and I didn't even, like,
shriek or anything, because I was like, you can't, you can't. But I just had a burned hand.
It was horrible. That's horrifying. I know.
And you just...
A girl did...
One girl did say it
and was like, are you okay?
I was like...
Shh!
I'm sorry, they're fine!
Why wouldn't I be?
What's wrong with you?
I love that.
My little limp, sad hand.
Oh no!
I just had to go back to my room
and run it under cold water
for about an hour.
It was horrible.
Why is hurting yourself so embarrassing?
So embarrassing.
I just want to cry.
I just hate myself.
Honestly, I'm just like,
oh my God, I'm the worst.
Like, I just had it at the weekend.
Like, obviously I got my bump now.
And I was at a wedding.
I got my little bump in the way.
And then I just stood up
and I like knocked over a glass on the table
and I literally standing
and I was like, I hate myself
and I said it out loud
and my friend was like on my other side
and he was like, it's okay
I'm always in the way
he's like of who?
I was like of me
I it's something like so difficult
about like being
human
like needing to do things
like feeling pain
or needing to we
or like having to sneeze
I'm like why must you
why must I do this
just
Shut up.
So embarrassing.
Oh, also, I love that she's, like, so anxious about not cooking her pies properly.
That feels like very big you energy.
It does.
It really does.
I'm going to scald my fingers off to avoid salmonella, which I feel like I've never met anyone with salmonella.
I cook anything like rice is really poisonous if you don't cook it properly.
I think it's not going to kill you, though.
Okay, no, I'm not going to kill you, but it's going to make you sick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll be sick.
So I like
Absolutely
Overcook it
Oh yeah
Completely
I would rather be sick
Controversially
I think I'd rather be sick
From eating undercooked rice
Than eating overcooked rice
Overecooked rice
Overcooked rice
Have made me very upset
Very upset
You'd rather get
Consistently
Okay right
I would rather live with the risk
Of getting food poisoning
One time
Than having to eat food
That I don't like
All the time
Okay fine
Okay
If my choices are like
Raw risky rice
and over-cooked disgusting rice,
I'm going to take the rest.
No, I'm going over-cooked disgusting rice.
No, because then you're just eating disgusting food.
And that's no way to live.
Actually, it's reheating rice, isn't it?
I do think you're supposed to reheat rice.
Yeah, no.
I think it's super bad for you.
A guy died, a student died.
He ate rice that had been left on the, like, from a takeaway,
that had been left on the counter for like two days in a student halls.
And he died.
It's something called, oh no, I'm not going to, actually, I don't know what's called.
Anyway, we need to go.
We need to wrap this up.
oh my god that was such good timing i manifested that it's not embarrassing like i commanded so much
attention for that like we had to have a silence beforehand whole embody without embarrassment
yeah we had to just wait and then it says like oh great she's just gonna like fill her hands with germs
what a great way to end the episode then you so there's another one coming if you want to stick around
very poetic okay we'll see you on monday you don't want to wait for this a second to see
oh no no i do think anyone else does like that all right guys that's fun of
see you on Monday. Bye. Thank you so much for listening. Should I delete that is part of
the ACAST creator network.
