Should I Delete That? - Just Us: Embarrassing allergies, penis pavlova and an IVF update

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

Al has about 50 bads today - where do you want to start?!Today, we’re discussing what it feels like to be embarrassed ALL THE TIME and Em’s got a very specific question about male genitalia…&nbs...p;Al also gives us an update on her IVF journey, and why it's presenting new challenges this time round.  If you want to get in touch - you can email us on shouldideletethatpod@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram:@shouldideletethat@em_clarkson@alexlight_ldnShould I Delete That is produced by Faye LawrenceStudio Manager: Elliott MckayVideo Editor: Celia GomezSocial Media Manager: Sarah EnglishMusic: Alex Andrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, I'm a bachelor's delete that, I'm all excited. And I'm M Clarkson. How are you? I'm okay. I'm okay. Full stop. As I said to you before we started, I have like 20 bads. Stunning.
Starting point is 00:00:19 Where do you want to start? I'm allergic to something in my house, really badly allergic to something and we can't work out what it is. Oh. But I go home, walk into my house. I'll share a picture for social media because it's really shocking like my eyes
Starting point is 00:00:35 puff up to the point that I can barely open them and I sneezed like 70 times in a row sneeze sneeze sneeze such attention seeking behaviour I get really stretched Georgie does that she's like eight in a row I'm like that was and you could have stopped it too I hate myself for it
Starting point is 00:00:48 Dave does one sneeze and I'm like get out get out not of the room of the house get out of the county that's completely unreasonable hate when people sneeze around me it's something very overseas stimulating about someone sneezing around me. This is completely unreasonable. No, no, it is so unreasonable. I was putting a sneeze cap on it. Like, I just feel like after a while, like, you've got it out.
Starting point is 00:01:09 Like, whatever was in there is gone. Like, you don't, no one needs more than three. But I can't, we can't ban them. They're, there are, although, if you need to stop one, say cabbage. It goes. You know, I've tried this and I've tried cow. You haven't tried hard enough. Because when I broke my jaw, the stakes were so fucking high. If I sneeze, I was sending that bad boy at any direction. Like there was no sneezing allowed. Yeah. So I was like going to swallow them. Cabbage.
Starting point is 00:01:34 But I couldn't talk. Cabbage. But yeah. You got to try harder, Al. Coverage. I can't know. But it's something so deep in my nose that like needs to come out. Honestly, I am so allergic to something and we just don't know what it is.
Starting point is 00:01:49 And it's really stressing me out because I'm like, is it Dave? Unlikely. When did it start? What's changed? That's the thing. We can't work out. Nothing's changed. But you've just moved house.
Starting point is 00:01:59 So something's changed. Yeah, but that was, that was a long, that was a long, few months ago. Okay, so it was, we're talking days or weeks? Like a couple weeks. Interesting. I walk into the house and I'm off and I'm off, literally I'm off. My mom is like, you're an EpiPen, I'm scared, like this could get really bad. You painted a room, maybe it's paint, because it's a new floor.
Starting point is 00:02:18 They say, I don't think quite a lot is changing in your house every day. Please fact check this everyone. But don't they say that every seven years you develop a new allergy or grow up an allergy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they go evolutionarily. I might be allergic to Betty all of a sudden. I don't want to do this to you, but I wasn't allergic to dogs when I was a kid and I'm allergic to dogs now.
Starting point is 00:02:34 But, no, she haven't got a happy ending there. Okay, excellent. I just am. I'm allergic to boo her because she's got, she didn't molt. Yeah. I think this is a good fact, I think. I think that we're not allergic to the dog's fur, animals' fur. I think we're allergic to saliva.
Starting point is 00:02:54 I'm definitely allergic to cat sliver. Yeah, I'm so allergic to cats. I'm so allergic to horses. Yeah, me too. I just hate myself for it. Like, guys, I don't know if anyone knows this about, but probably, I mean, anyway, I'm deadly allergic to bees, like EpiPen, like, wasps, bees, that kind of thing. I got an EpiPen because it's really not great.
Starting point is 00:03:09 Do you know how embarrassing? Like, how embarrassed I am for myself? Like, that I find that quite cool. Are you kidding? No. It's the biggest ick of my life that when a wasp appears, I have to go, like, why can't I just be chill? And I'm like, I've got my life in my hands.
Starting point is 00:03:25 But, like, I do that and I'm not allergic. That's more embarrassing. I would agree. but it doesn't make mine any less embarrassing. And the fact that my stakes... No, I think the fact that my stakes are so much higher makes it more embarrassing. There's no right way.
Starting point is 00:03:37 This actually brings me on to my awkward of the week. Go on. I am just... I've just... I said it to Faye before. Everything about me at the moment just feels embarrassed. Like, just a little bit all the time.
Starting point is 00:03:50 Like, everywhere I go, I'm like, oh, I'm so lame. I don't know. I think I'm going through something. Do you know what you just feel a bit just like... Like you're just... Like, it's slightly in the way. the way. Not comfortable in your own skin. Yes, except my skin's fine. Like, it's not in
Starting point is 00:04:03 myself. Like in the house, I'm fine. But when I go into, like, maybe it's because I know socialised. I ask probably the clocks of it. We went to that UN thing the other day. Incredible. I've never felt more in the way in my life, ever. It was a busy room. It was a very busy room. It was a busy room. But it just happened at the cafe there. Really? I was in a busy cafe. I was like, ah, I'm everywhere. I think that's over-stimulation. Well, potentially that could be that. I don't know. It is. I think it's just like you're, you're, you're You're feeling a lot. You're sensing a lot.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Like everything around you feels too much. But it's me. Everything around is fine. I just feel like I'm too big for it. I feel like I'm in Gulliver's travels. Like I'm in Lilliput. Like I'm the big one and everyone else is just going about their days. I don't get that.
Starting point is 00:04:42 Well, in Gulliver, as he traveled, he traveled to different places. So he was tiny, diney in one place. And then he was massive. It was a great. Jack played him in the film anyways. Wow. And then he's massive in another place. But if I could describe myself now, I am Gulliver.
Starting point is 00:04:55 I'm a mess. I can't explain like I wonder what's going on I know it's odd It's like midlife crisis But you're not there Yeah but the woman in the gym thought you were there
Starting point is 00:05:03 So maybe I don't know I just feel like You are there Gynormous And not in like a sense of like bodily I just feel like
Starting point is 00:05:12 My presence is just clumsy Clomzy That's how I feel Do you know what I mean But you just feel like Oh God What a puddy Well I am very clumsy
Starting point is 00:05:20 So I think I live like that Yeah I just I don't feel like I don't feel like I don't feel like smooth. Like, like, you couldn't, sort of zip through a crowd
Starting point is 00:05:30 if you had to. No, and I couldn't just, I couldn't just, just get, like, just be, I couldn't just, like, sort of nonchalantly do anything. Could you walk in a straight line?
Starting point is 00:05:39 Are you, are you drunk? Is that what this is? Potentially, but, but no, because I don't really drink. So, maybe on cafe, I don't know, I just feel,
Starting point is 00:05:49 like, and I just feel, like, I wonder if this is how dyspractic people feel. Oh, for God's sake, don't give me other thing. Every time I come in this room, I've got something else. Enough with my needs. I'm fine.
Starting point is 00:06:03 We'd like another label for Anne, please. No, leave her B. She's fine. I don't know. I'm just, I'm just, yeah, I mean, I imagine, I imagine there's elements of it. I just feel. I don't know. It's like, you know, when you walk into a room and like, your sleeve, you get stuck on a door hanger. I feel like on the door handle. When you go in your worst feeling in the world. I feel like I'm living there. Yeah. Okay. But that's anger to me. That's rage. I'm not angry about it.
Starting point is 00:06:28 I'm just like, oh, God. Does that not give you rage? When your sleeve gets stuck on the door, like this is all just like pure rage. Like I'm going to, I'm going to combust out of my body. Don't believe in God, but I think that's a higher presence sent to humble. That's all that is. Like, do, damn. Whatever you thought you were going to do today fucking pack it in.
Starting point is 00:06:49 Less of that. That's what I feel like the world's doing to me. right now. Just shut up. Stop trying so hard. I haven't noticed it. I'm just embarrassed for myself. Like I went on Lorraine yesterday and I know I was there to go on the TV. Like I know that was the point. Yeah. But I just felt like I was in the camera's way. Like every, I was just, I was in the way. The camera that was on you. Yeah, yeah. I was oh God, sorry. I'll just, what do you want the background? Do you want the chair? Yeah. I'll just fold over, will I? I can't explain it. Your real made me laugh so much. You on TV versus you getting ready for TV. You literally
Starting point is 00:07:23 It felt like a demon. I felt like a fucking demon. It was like the bed eye, the hair over the face. I'm going through it. But that's what I mean. You can't put that in a social setting. That feels like who I am. Well, I did.
Starting point is 00:07:38 That's it. That's who lives inside me. Like underneath this facade, underneath the hair, the makeup, there's that. This is a mum thing. It's got to be. It's a new parent thing. It's got to be, right? I've been doing this shit for ages now.
Starting point is 00:07:50 I'm two years deep. I am having a period though and I've not had one. one of those in three years. So I feel like not unrelated. Fucking hormones, man, that will be it. Yeah, it's a weird one. I don't know if they make you feel like massive. Bigger than yourself.
Starting point is 00:08:05 I don't know. I mean, maybe this is a really big one. I don't know. But this is my, this is my family. In how long? I had half a one between kids. Desire it. At 13 months when I stopped breastfeeding, I had a little, like a day and a half
Starting point is 00:08:19 in the period. Yeah. And then I got pregnant again. and then had pregnancy, breastfeeding, and then I had like one day about a month ago and I was like, oh it's back and then it was like gone again and today I'm like, oh no, welcome.
Starting point is 00:08:31 Yesterday. Are you, is it like actually bleeding? Yeah. Like properly. Yeah, I'm back. Oh, but you're still breastfeeding. Yeah. That's weird, right?
Starting point is 00:08:37 Yes. Weird for me and not weird for some people. Yeah, no, I just thought, I've actually listened to a podcast about like birth back in the day, fucking, fucking barbaric, mental. Oh yeah. But that was their contraception.
Starting point is 00:08:51 Yeah, yeah, that's the point. contraception they had to breastfeed as like the child's like exclusively restfeed as a form of contraception yeah no yeah yeah I mean it's not a reliable form of contraception by any means but it's that's well no it's nature's it's contraception that's kind of the point so I think yeah gurggy lines I am I am I am not contraceptive anymore you are fertile yeah and so back off you know what I mean back the fuck off oh my god imagine if you got pregnant now no I actually need to go to therapy. I mean, if we're saying every week, I can't. Yeah. It's terrifying. Terrify. It's a beautiful, amazing, terrifying for me. I'll work through some stuff. See you in a few
Starting point is 00:09:31 years. To be fair, if I'd been true what you went through in pregnancy, I wouldn't want to be pregnant either. Oh, God, it's sad, isn't it? Because I do, I want it again. But, you know, not now. Not now. Not now. I got peace to have. Things change. Yeah, yeah. Things change. Things happen. There's a lot happening in the world of HG. Yeah, yeah. Who knows? Yeah, yeah. Who knows? And the great thing is, is that you're so young. Yeah. You're still so young.
Starting point is 00:09:54 We're so much time. But we're actually not going to talk about me in my problems today and all my labels. I'm going to talk about you. Yeah. I want one more of your seven baths. You've only given me one. Tell me something else terrible.
Starting point is 00:10:05 They said I'm a virgin. I said, ooh. I'm a, no. No, I'm a ho. I'm silly today. I know I've forgotten what all my baths are, which is terrible. Oh, good. Look, they've dissipated.
Starting point is 00:10:22 my bad bad but it's a bit of a serious bad okay no let's go okay it's IVF stuff which is ongoing has been going on I feel like it's been going on for half of my life at this point and it hasn't really in the grand scene of things and also it like compared to what people go through for years and years and years with it no I know I know I know but I do just have to I do just have to give that caveat because it's it's not been that long but it's just so much harder this time round. I'm feeling it's so much worse, which is strange because it should be easier. I'm doing less this time in terms of...
Starting point is 00:11:01 Why should it be easier? Because I've not done yet. I've not done a collection yet this time. And I did two collections last time. And I don't know if I'm just misremembering. I don't know if it was hard then as well. I just can't, you know, the way that we just kind of forget. I don't know if it's that or I don't know if it's because I'm older.
Starting point is 00:11:21 I don't know if it's because I'm more tired. I don't know if it's because I'm closer to menopause, so the hormones are more out of whack, but it's just, it's just, I can't, I'm basically, I'm taking progesterone on and off, and I'm up and down, like a fucking yo-yo, and I just can't, I'm just struggling to cope with the hormones, and the effect it has on my mood, like it just,
Starting point is 00:11:46 especially progesterone, I don't know if I'm, I'm allergic to it, maybe it's that I'm allergic to it. Maybe it's not allergic to it. But my God, that just, it's just so intense. This happened last time they were with the progesterone. Did it? You struggled with the progesterone last time. God, I can't remember, which is crazy.
Starting point is 00:12:01 But that's that, I do believe that's nature's way of, like, protecting you. Because it isn't an easy thing. And I love you, and I say this, like, holding both your hands. But you didn't let yourself acknowledge, I don't think, a lot of the harder stuff of what you went through because I think you felt that you weren't like entitled to the struggle or to acknowledge the struggle you were just you were very um like it's okay everything's okay yeah so I think maybe a part of your remembering is because you haven't you didn't really let yourself feel the struggle at the time whereas maybe now you're a little bit more it's harder to keep generating that level of
Starting point is 00:12:47 keeping on yeah it that that that's it's harder to generate that like to be like it's okay like keep going it's okay just keep going at some point I'm like I'm just getting a bit tired of it I'm just getting a bit tired and like I want to I feel really strongly and I didn't feel this first time around just like I feel very strongly that I want my body to be my own now and I don't want to take any more home I really don't want to take any more hormones I don't want like I just I really I want this like period of my life to be but it can't be so I can't think like that but then when I'm feeling low I am thinking like that because I'm just like I just want to
Starting point is 00:13:26 feel like I just want to be free of it I think yeah I get yeah I'm just I just feel ready but also you didn't get you know like in your whole recovery from top the birth with Tommy like you had retained placenta the whole time so you had a really tough postpart and period and now basically as soon as they fix that, you're back on hormones again. Like your body, you haven't had your body as your own. You know, never mind like the fact you've had a baby hanging off you for a year. And yeah, I just, I want to, like, like, I can't exercise properly now, which is like, I mean, when I could, I didn't. So you might be like, well, you wouldn't anyway, but like. No, it's, it's, your choice is taken away. Yeah, it's, yeah, exactly, exactly. And now I'm like,
Starting point is 00:14:18 okay now I can't exercise and now I have to wait you know it's just it's just long it's just it just feels long it feels like a slog yeah and the clinic appointments and I think the you know the the reality of like what happens if this doesn't work I don't know I don't know where this is all coming from sorry using it's fucking hard now I'm really proud of you though I'm really proud that you can say it but also like of course it's fucking hard and you're in an impossible situation you know watching you hear it's like and and I think lots of people will be able to relate to it but you want a baby brother or sister for Tommy yeah yeah and you know how amazing Tommy is so you know how amazing that and I and of course you want that but then this is a
Starting point is 00:15:03 fucking hard thing and it was a fucking hard thing the first time and it's fucking harder this time and that's okay like to say it and I'm really proud of you for saying it because you don't have to just carry on with this like you don't have to just be fine with it because it's not it's hard. That's the thing. And I did write something on Instagram about it and then obviously deleted it straight away because I was like, I'm just too vulnerable for the internet right now. I know this technically is the internet. Different. But in my head, very different to Instagram. Because, yeah, whenever I say anything, and it's true, people say, you know, you're so, you're so lucky that you got Tommy in the first place and it's true. It's very true. That doesn't,
Starting point is 00:15:39 I don't, I do not discount that, but we would love to have another one. Of course you would. But it's so fucking invalidating that people think like that. Like it's so unfair and it's having, you know, like a completely different situation. But a second baby is a second, it's not like, oh, you've got a baby. It's not like, oh, who needs a second house? It's a completely different person. And of course you want that and you're allowed to want that, but also wanting that or making that, however that happens for you, making a second one. like it's really it's it's more than just you now when you had to do this the first time
Starting point is 00:16:18 it was just you and Dave and you were together yeah could do all the clinics and you could do all that it took and you don't have that now you also have to look after you've still got a baby well this is the thing and then when my I actually don't know because I don't speak to enough fucking plants out for me today there's a plant behind my head and it's it's attacking me I swear more of this Alex like more of this please I don't speak to enough women who do IVF who go through IVF I really don't so it's weird I don't know anyone really in my life in my like personal life so I don't know if this is common or if it's just me but the progesterone literally sends me into a place where I'm like I could just be in bed and like I can't do anything like I find it like
Starting point is 00:17:11 it really affects me very badly mentally. And it's like, I can't have that with a baby. No. You know, and the weekend just gone, Dave wasn't here. He went on a trip and I was feeling that way and it was just awful because I was like, I can't, like, I don't want this. I don't want this for him.
Starting point is 00:17:31 I don't want to see me like that. I was getting snappy with him, you know, and I never do that. It's just so much harder. It just feels so much harder. and it just, yeah, I understand that. I like it all to be over. I understand that.
Starting point is 00:17:46 But it's not, it's, if anything, if this has taught me anything, IVF, it's that you need patience, you need, like, bucket loads of patience. That's literally the last thing. I have, that I own. No, it's such an annoying thing, because it's the last thing that you can generate for yourself. Like, it's not like, oh, you just need positivity, because it's like, well, you can get that. Like, patience is, you are patient or you're not. not patient. Like it's not a it's a really annoying thing for someone to tell you to have. It's really
Starting point is 00:18:14 annoying because I think even for patient people though it'd be fucking like awful because it's just so it's just time and it's like you just have to wait for your body to like respond or catch up or do this or do that like you don't really have and you're dragging hope along that's I think that's like you know we've talked a lot about hope and like despair and those different feelings and you know like it makes it sound more profound than what we are but. To include hope in anything is the most painful thing in the world. And you have to have hope when you do this. Because otherwise, what are you doing it for?
Starting point is 00:18:48 Yeah. But I think that makes the loads and that makes the pain much more acute. Definitely. And the uncertainty, I think, really bothers me. And I don't want to put words in your mouth, but maybe before it was more of a hypothetical thing. But now you've got Tommy. You kind of, you know what is coming, what could be coming. And it just makes the feelings.
Starting point is 00:19:07 maybe gives them, I don't know, another layer. Yeah, and also, I'm just like, and this, and this. And this is why I feel bad, and this. But also, I feel older, this, well, I am older this time. I'm, like, three years older than when I was going through it with Tommy. And I'm like, it felt back then I had, like, loads of options, like, loads of possibilities. I don't know, I was really, like, I was not, like, it was tough. physically and mentally, but I was never like, I don't think this is going to happen.
Starting point is 00:19:42 Yeah. I didn't feel like that. Yeah. Whereas now I'm like, I don't know if this is going to happen. Yeah. And that's like scarier because I'm like older and. Yeah. So you're, it's just a shit show basically.
Starting point is 00:19:57 See, Al, this is a lot. Like, as you're speaking, I just, I'm really proud of you for saying it. And I just, and I know. And I don't need to ask you guys. to do this, but I'm going to probably cry. But like the internet was not kind to you when you did this the first time. I'm not going to look at you because I'll cry. But you did go through a lot and you are going through a lot now. And I'm so proud of you for what you're doing. But I'm mostly proud of you for speaking about it as it's happening because you are shouldering so much. And I think
Starting point is 00:20:28 a lot of your work, you absorb so much of people's pain. And you are very good at that, but you invalidate yourself within it sometimes. And I want you, and I know everybody listening loves you so much. We just want the best for you and we want you to be really kind to yourself, whatever that looks like now. Oh, thank you. And like, this is a lot and you need to be really kind to yourself. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Yeah. I know everyone listening thinks the same thing, though. I just want to give you a hug. Oh, that's nice. I feel very hugged right now. Thanks, guys. I feel like I've had the dip. Like, I really.
Starting point is 00:21:06 where are we Wednesday like this weekend was bad and Monday was really bad and I feel like I got it all out and I'm like a reset I just got a reset and I have I've reset yeah judging by this conversation I have not reset as all I don't think it's that linear no it's not no it's not and it's not just a case of like managing your own mental health like you say like you've got external factors you're literally having hormones we know how big hormones are like they're every everything. I can't believe the effect that hormones have on mood. I can't believe it. They are mood. They are mood. Like, they don't, there is no mood without hormone. Like, that is what country, that's what factors there. Like, it's, I wanted to strangle every fucking, like,
Starting point is 00:21:55 creator of this patriarchal system for invalidating hormones as something silly. They're like, women, you're hormonal. It's like, get fucking straight. I am. Like, forgive me, whilst I share, myself from the inside and whatever other weird shit I'm doing to like sustain the human race. It's so fucking annoying because we're made to feel like we're just being losers for it and we're just failing at it and we're just being silly for it. It's like, it's not fucking silly sorry whilst I survive in this environment. Are you getting? It's so annoying. But I can hear you doing it right. I know I do it all the time. Oh, it's just hormonal. Oh, she's just hormonal. That's just the hormones. It's just the hormones. The hormones are everything.
Starting point is 00:22:36 Hormones are everything. Everything. I mean, look at people who suffer with PMDD. Yeah. But premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Which we've only heard of in the last couple of years because forever they've just been a little bit grumpy on their periods. Of course.
Starting point is 00:22:49 And I hear so many people say, oh, PMDD, like everyone needs a label now. And I'm like, no, no, it's a very, very serious thing. And women are to the point of suicidal in the two weeks before their period. Vicki Patterson talks, does a lot of work around it. It's amazing. But like, hormones have the biggest. impact like I can't even like the the slightest adjustment in hormones is just it can like literally turn your life upside down I mean if you even I don't know shit about shit but if you look
Starting point is 00:23:19 at like different points in your cycle your body holds onto water at different points in your cycle and it lets it go at other times if they're clever enough to do that shit yeah like don't trust them they can do anything like they can make me mad no drama and you don't even just have your own hormones you've got other people's hormones they could be anything I don't make conspiracy theories but like you know what I mean like they're putting all sorts in there ral you have the thing is when you're when you are hormonal yeah I wonder what the better word is because we're always hormonal right yeah I wonder when okay when the hormones are raging that sounds worse that's gendered when you're in acute hormonal state no
Starting point is 00:23:52 when you are hormonally affected no why is it been such when your hormones are out of sync that kind of sounds a bit like that sounds like I can't get my Bluetooth to work you know It's more serious than that. When your bodily chemistry is altered. That's really nice. Take the word hormone out all together. Yeah, because that's gendered. Yeah, because that's gendered and it's annoying.
Starting point is 00:24:16 Yeah, chemistry. When your body chemistry is out. Not a white one though. I actually have no idea what I was going to say. But I love what we came up with. When your body chemistry is out. Oh, fuck, I was going to say something really profound. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:24:32 It's probably my hormones. Your chemistry. It's probably my internal bodily chemistry. I think we can just say chemistry on reflection. Do you think? Yeah, I think the rest kind of is... Yeah. It's our chemistry.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Yeah. This is literally that. It is. Yeah. Oh, they've been sitting on that nugget for how long? It's gone. Okay. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:24:51 It's gone. No, that's okay. That's okay. Just know that it was something really clever. Yeah, I'm going to go write it down. Really profound. I hope they put on a scroll one day and tell the elders. Can I bring us all the way back up
Starting point is 00:25:08 with a very silly email I'm dying to read out to you? I just made the best little joke. What did you say? Never mind. It wasn't that good. It wasn't that good. It was quite good.
Starting point is 00:25:20 I'll replay it. Play it louder, yeah. Did you say it all the way back up? Yeah. It's willy related. You know, like an erection. Oh, well done. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:25:29 Oh, perfect, okay. Up and in, you know. Yes, that is going to become very relevant. Okay, buckle in. Email subject is embarrassing story, penis palava. That sounds like a pudding. Pavlova, penis pavlova. That is horrible.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Oh, imagine just like a whole load of willies on a plate. All in like cream with little like little berries. Oh, you could put like a little cherry on every bell end. Elliot is so uncomfortable in this new work environment. Okay. Oh my God, big intro. big greeting hello m al fay dex she said dex i'm so sorry it's it's elliot this was oh this was while dex was still here actually so that's why okay hello m al fay elli elliot
Starting point is 00:26:18 arlo tommy boy alex dave booer and betty and xanthy oh great i thought she wasn't going to make it for a minute she didn't but i've added no one brilliant when was it said 2023 it's okay i allow it please keep me i won't forget it but i'll allow it please keep me anonymous for my career prospects. As a long-time listener who came to your live show and had no embarrassing story, horrifying enough to share, I just thought I'd let you know that my luck has, unfortunately. But fortunately for you and the listeners run out,
Starting point is 00:26:47 I feel I should set the scene before telling my story. So here goes, I'm a student nurse, and I recently had a placement on a ward. One day I was working with a patient who needed assistance using the toilet, which is pretty standard, and had an incontinence pad in place. I should also add that he had a catheter in,
Starting point is 00:27:02 which tends to make the genital area rather sore. why does that matter you might ask you're about to find out after my patient had finished i went to pull his mesh pants up this is something that takes more skill than you might expect the paths we use aren't sticky so you have to make sure that they're positioned properly for when you pull the pants up back up i reached down to pull the front of the pad through from the back and to my annoyance it wasn't moving i told the patient to open his legs slightly thinking it was probably caught between them and I tugged again. Still nothing. It was at that moment I looked down to see why it wasn't moving into my absolute horror found that instead of pulling the pad, I was pulling the
Starting point is 00:27:40 patient's penis. Dot dot dot with force. I had told this poor, poor man to open his legs and then I grabbed his catheterized penis multiple times. I will never forget the look that we shared in that moment, the horror in both of our eyes. I apologize profusely that I fear I may have scarred us both for life. Genitals are something that come with the job. And I am not faced by touching them, but accidentally pulling on someone's penis and not realizing, in bracket, stupid gloves.
Starting point is 00:28:14 It's got to be one of the worst things I've ever done. I honestly nearly incident reported myself. Fortunately, all is well, and we had a laugh about it afterwards, but my advice to everyone is please look down when you pull on something because you never know what you might be tugging on. Love the pod. Please keep what you're doing talking about body image because we need it now more than ever.
Starting point is 00:28:40 Oh my God. Name redacted. I. How brilliant. Oh my God. There is a part of me. Elliot, close your ears for your own self-preservation. There is a part of me that is endlessly curious about what happened.
Starting point is 00:28:59 if you pull hard enough on a man's willing. Like, does they just come with it or what will happen? Like, will you stretch it to a point? Will they come with you? Will they come off? Will they come with you? Like, if you just pull really hard for a while, like what happens?
Starting point is 00:29:29 I just really wasn't expecting that. I think about it more often than I should. I just think like, I think if you pull hard enough, it'll just come off. I just think, I think at some point it's just got to come off. That's the threat.
Starting point is 00:29:46 Thor was to pull on a man's penis. I think it would just come clean off. I think maybe it depends on how you did it. Because if you pulled thoroughly, like quickly, you could probably get it off. But if it was like a slow thing, I think eventually they would just, I don't think it would like, like detach. I think they'd just come.
Starting point is 00:30:03 But I think not come, like, come, come like, follow. Sorry. But would it come off with the balls? Yeah, I imagine it's a package deal. Oh, do you think. But I do ask the internet. I wouldn't. But I do think just there's quite a lot of like societal conditioning to my point earlier
Starting point is 00:30:25 that's taught women that we are the most vulnerable sex. And I'm like, how on earth have you convinced this of that when you've got that between your legs? Like, if I pull on that, you are mine. Do you know what I mean? Like, what are you going to do? Like, if I've got it, I've got you. You're nothing. Like, you're small in my hands, you know?
Starting point is 00:30:44 Not literally, but like figuratively. Right. Okay. I have the official answer. Would it? I fast AI. Okay. They said, short answer, no.
Starting point is 00:30:55 You're not just going to pull a penis off like a detachable. Lego limb. It's far too structurally integrated. Boring. I mean, you could rip an arm off if you tried hard enough. I don't think it's thinking creatively. Blah, blah, blah. Attached to the body by several strong stuff. Blah, blah, blah. Oh, what would happen first is catastrophic internal injury. I haven't even got one. I can feel it. Taring of skin, rupturing of blood vessels and detachment of a rectal tissue from its anchor point, likely causing a massive bleeding, not a clean pop off. It doesn't sound so fun if you get into the anatomical bits of it. Do you know what I mean? yeah i'm imagining like a big balloon animal that you can just go woo yeah i i i you know reading this
Starting point is 00:31:34 i feel much more sinister about the question yeah i mean because then it's just flesh coming off would involve severe mutilation not simple pulling no yeah it becomes less endearing it's less sort of like oh quirky it's more sort of like oh gbh uh yeah uh yeah surgery okay yeah yeah no no it was It was funnier when you talked about pulling it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:56 Really bad. I do. Really, really bad. But just to my point, like, they are incredibly vulnerable. So vulnerable. Like, you, I know first time because I've got a nine month old baby pulling hard on my boob. Like, I can handle that. Like, you could pull my whip boom way further out than you could pull a willy.
Starting point is 00:32:15 You also, like, we are much harder to wind. To wind. Wind. Wind. Like, if, if you are to just. flick a man in the genitals they're winded I know get up
Starting point is 00:32:26 yeah ridiculous like we you couldn't do that to us right exercise for the group before I let everybody leave please put your hand up your shirt Elliot you're excluded
Starting point is 00:32:37 sorry this is gender bias and pinch with force oh my god I've seen this the underside of your boots I've seen this I feel nothing I feel absolutely nothing I saw this this video
Starting point is 00:32:51 I mean, I had a breast reduction, so I don't know. Do you feel it? Nothing, no. I feel nothing. Like, I know I'm hurting myself because I can feel nail through nail on the other side, and I can feel nothing. No nerve endings. Is that what it is?
Starting point is 00:33:07 Yeah. I was asking AI. Do you don't need to ask, Emily? Wow. We are superior. Oh, my God, that's a, that, is that breastfeeding, like an evolutionary thing, no? No, I don't think so. Maybe we just rubbed them away.
Starting point is 00:33:24 Maybe it was just like a sort of, like, you know, when a doorknob gets really shiny because they've just... It's warm brass for so long. Yeah. Yeah, maybe with just frictions just sort of eroded whatever was there. It's like geology, you know? Blown your mind, guys. We've just got like a nice smooth.
Starting point is 00:33:39 Maybe they were rigid at one point, not rigid, rigity. What's it called? Like rigged, what's it called when it's like rigged, what's it called when something is like a mountain, it's got ridges? Oh. Rigged. Rigged. Ridged
Starting point is 00:33:51 It's a weird word Ridged Crid No that's like the moon Crated No I don't know I don't know But my phone
Starting point is 00:33:58 Is now giving me Notifications About your penis Detachment Inquiry And I don't like it It's probably the police I'm going to be flat Yeah
Starting point is 00:34:07 Dave's being called As we speak Are you okay Blink thrice If you need help Because Willie in your bag Oh That's horrible
Starting point is 00:34:17 That's like really on your head Willie in your bag what the fuck this has been a lot unhinged I've loved every single minute of it see you next week guys and leave you with that
Starting point is 00:34:35 love you love you bye

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