The Debrief - Hotdogs & Ribena

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

Welcome back to The Debrief! In this weeks episode we discuss all things about *that* time of the month and all our stories facing "womanhood"As always don't forget to email any debriefs and dilemmas to: [e-mail] or DM us @the.debriefpodcastHave a fabulous week,Kitty and Katie x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I got a rebel soul, yeah I got a rebel soul, I got a rebel soul free Welcome to the D-Ray! Happy Monday everyone! Happy bleeding Monday! How are you feeling today Katie? Oh I'm feeling peachy I'm feeling peachy! After the bloody weekend we've had i'm surprised you're

feeling peachy i've lived so many different lives honestly you're like a black cat i'm like i am like a black cat and nine lives eh i've woken up this morning thinking it doesn't feel like a monday but do you know what i know great stories for you so many great stories that monday do you know what i'm feeling great i am feeling really i'm feeling really good we've had such funny experiences i can't wait to share with the d-ray it are do you know what it's just it is the kitty and katie pinnacle of we were literally like experiencing this and we were like this is gonna be great to chat about we were like honestly i was honestly we don't we shouldn't plan a podcast just let life happen see what we should talk about tell me a mantra what's your mantra of this week my mantra is this week is i choose to be gracious oh lovely to be gracious lovely

we're doing a lot of warm-ups recently where you know you do like a body scan where you lie down and you assess and the teacher always goes what are you gonna what's your action what's your word gonna be for today oh i like that and all of last week it was um i choose to be grateful okay and i was thinking i woke up this morning and i was like okay what's my word gonna be for the week like what is what's gonna drive me through and it's gonna be gracious gracious gracious gracious okay gracious benefit of the doubt oh nice okay your head about not just keeping yourself to yourself yeah okay enjoying it letting other people be yeah i like loving life yeah sometimes it is a reminder to not get triggered by people quickly yes and i think especially the topic we're about to talk about

guys girls with our hormones we can sometimes it's a bit too much yes um and you feel when someone is you think oh just get out my face yeah yeah you're you're like i'm triggered by you instantly i found myself being a bit more irritable last week with people and i'm like do you know what it's not their fault i'm irritated yeah um yeah it's not their fault they're just doing what they do yeah completely so i just need to choose to be gracious here yeah my match this week is i love and respect my body and i've used this because guys this week is the half marathon week here we go got my half marathon on saturday i'm so excited i can't wait i can't wait to shake my booty while i'm running and shake my booty you're gonna shimmy over that finish line oh yeah i'm gonna be like um so i'm just appreciating my body i've put my body through a lot for these past few weeks

training so i'm like do you know what you're doing so well me little you are this is my little cocoon and this cocoon is thriving, because this butterfly, I watch her fly, do you know what I mean? On fucking Saturday, it's gonna, yeah, flap your fucking wings,

of course it is, and what is your song for this week? My song this week is, it came on shuffle, I haven't listened to it in ages, this is a shout out to my ex, ah, ah,

ah, and here's another chick, ah, ah, ah. And here's another chick. Ah, ah, ah. Forget that boy, I'm over it. And now, the bitchy thing. I hope she's getting better sex. Oh, she is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Some people think I'm just that. But honestly, honestly, in me own time. In me own time. It's the debrief hosted by katie and mariah carrie stop it mariah i love your work thank you thank you so much that was gorgeous shout out to my ex little mix it's actually such a banger and it got me through like i can't even remember when it came out but i just remember listening to it all the fucking time it's the best song okay my song of this week is i am woman i am it's a tune it's such a tune it is such a i love this song and it's by emmy melly um and i honestly

listen to it every single day put it on when i woke up it's a it's an anthem it's so good that goes fucking hand in hand with your with my body i love and respect my body yeah do you like marathons half marathons any exercise like the amount your body does for you yeah it is actually amazing yeah that you think even the whole glandular fever you're so sore throughout this week you think bloody hell you fight off a lot yeah the body the human body is fascinating it is because you put your body under so much stress but it still will keep it will hold you up keep churning and it's funny when like you do workout classes when i'm fucking patrick the star in reshapes at one rebel yeah you think you're in there and you're like oh my god i can't do this anymore I physically can't but your legs still keep moving yeah and something else

it's so funny when you're the human body kind of delegates yes so say you go to the physio you're like

I've got a really sore back and they're like well that's because you've got tight shins and you're like what the fuck yes they're like

your shins couldn't take anymore so we just got the back on there and it's like what the fuck like it's actually mad it's so fucking crazy okay so we will get onto this properly okay but we did find ourselves at a drag night last night and fucking it was night ever it was fucking hilarious guys it was so funny but we will properly go on to it but our recommendation is highway to heaven trafalgar square it's just best fucking night ever and

and you know i'll say right now i've never been to a drag night neither had i i've never been to a drag night so i was a bit like oh we've got like two different because i am a fucking die hard rupaul's drag race fan so i'm i've been trying to go to drag shows for ages and like just always just never go i don't know why i'm such a fake fan but like i honestly like i've been really wanting to go and we didn't even know there was a drag night we just went we literally just went to this and they were like there's a drag night downstairs oh i was flying i was throwing myself it was honestly right it was so brilliant it was amazing yeah i loved it i loved the vibe i loved the energy they were hilarious i know it was so much fun sing oh they could sing let's debrief so we went to the cenotaph wow i genuinely think it is such a significant thing to go to to remember what has

happened yeah remember world war one world war two um it was really it was really moving really i was i was truly taken aback how many people were actually there oh i thought the respect was was really inspirational yeah and it was crazy to me that there were people that traveled specifically to london for this yeah and it was and it was just so it was lovely really moving i found everyone was just so friendly and everyone has their own story as to why they're there yes you know personally we were there was because Archie's dad was marching because he's got an army background so we all went to go watch him yes and that was our pull of why we went not only just that reason but also to show our respects but everyone had their own story to tell

yes as to why they went well it was even when we were walking like over to the cenotaph when we got through security and stuff and i was saying to archie i was like oh do you know what it's so nice to be here because i've never been and this one woman turns around she goes oh i've got to tell you i've been coming for 24 years she was scottish she comes from scotland every year yeah um because she lost a family member quite close to her okay um who was in the war and she says you know you guys are the future it means so much to me that you guys are here doing this because you know it felt to me a few years ago like this was dying out that people didn't want to show their respects anymore because they feel so far removed from it

and it was just it was really nice she was just like you guys are the future like really keep your head up and really like keep this going because it would it means a lot to us it means a lot to me that you're here and doing this for the first time um and showing your respect in this way and i thought that's really lovely it is really lovely and and also i was shocked at how many young people were genuinely there you know groups of young people being really respectful and you think everyone has such busy lives everyone has such so many things going on personal professional yeah scandalous everything everyone has different situations going on in their lives that are overwhelming yet for that day for that moment they are willing to take that time to show

their respects and i said to you when we both agreed that it's something we want to do every year now and it's so significant the music's moving as well I mean the bagpipes and the um what's it the trumpets they played as well oh my gosh it's it's it's really overwhelming actually yeah you almost felt transported almost back in time with some of the songs like what's the the long way to Tipperary yeah that was brilliant it's just the morale was very high that's what it felt the morale of people there was a lot of camaraderie of a community and it was really really lovely to see yeah after we showed our respects we went for a few drinks yeah um mingled socialized with a few different people yeah and it ended up at this place, Highway to Heaven. Yes, which I think they were hosting...

All the army people. All the army people at this place. And let me tell you, these... Bloody naughty men, I'm telling you. I am telling you, naughty men. Katie and I were probably the youngest girls there anyway. But we had a lot of fun, we had loads of drinks. And anyway anyway we went

downstairs where the drag night was happening yeah yeah and we're just like oh my god this is so exciting so it's exciting anyway we start chatting to just these random guys yeah and lovely who are really really really lovely so anyway we're talking to this guy and we end up finding out he's the queen's hairdresser and we're literally just our fucking luck oh and i'm like oh that'd be great if you could just quickly sort this out i'm like what would you do with that yeah yeah well how would you make this look regal honestly yeah but he how could you elevate my look his hair was also fabulous his hair was fabulous fabulous yeah absolutely fabulous wow absolutely fabulous anyway he's telling us about the drag show because he said he's been for about 10 years now yeah he says he comes a lot and it's

really really great yeah you're like cool drag the drag show happens the music's on they're singing everyone's dancing boogieing um yeah we'll get onto this later but i was kind of picked on and i shut myself um but we were having a great time and anyway i feel a tap on my shoulder yeah so i look around and it's the queen's hairdresser guy yeah yeah and i'm like smiling at him anyway he smiles at me grabs archie and goes in to kiss him now the look of panic on Archie's face I'm telling you Archie's literally like

there's like swerving he's literally looking at me like Kitty I'm loyal I'm loyal and I'm like it's fine it's okay

goes to kiss Archie on the lips Archie goes like this so he ends up kissing him on the cheek and the neck and Archie's literally like Kitty I've been kissed

by the Queen's hairdresser I mean what a story I mean what a story I was like do you know what you can take that you can take that you can take it honestly do you think would you have been bothered if Archie did kiss him nah nah it's still the story isn't it I was like you've been kissed by the Queen's hairdresser get him over to the flat get him to do all her hair we left the night a few hours later and Archie we were all on the train just hanging and actually just goes guys the queen's hairdresser kissed me and i'm like yeah all right we know now okay okay like don't show off okay i was just so confused you know when like shit like that how are we all here honestly these things happen to us and we're

like what the fuck is going on right now? It was honestly hilarious. It was iconic. Maybe he just thought that Archie's hair was phenomenal. So he's like, let me just reward you. You know, I think your hair is pretty fucking regal. He was like, your friends? Scratty. Common. He looked over at me, he was like, needs work.

Needs some Olaplex. All right, darling. All right. It's so good. King's footman was there as well. I like what is going on i was like guys what's going on he like got his phone out showing his pictures of all of the corgis that he was fucking and i'm like what is going on i'm sat there with my rose like fucking steaming like like am i dreaming like i didn't think that going going in in the morning no that would be how

our night would end no no no the problem is problem with day drinking we came out of that bar absolutely steaming we were literally all very merry we were all in such fine fettle like oh my god genuine oh god get me to bed like i need a mcdonald's time to go to bed obviously it's dark as i look at the, it's five o'clock. This is the thing when it gets dark. I'm literally like snuggle myself in. I'm like, oh, half three, half three. I'm like, it's so strange.

So this week, girlies, we were talking all things periods, okay? So bloody hell. I mean, no pun intended. Yeah. Katie and I always sync up okay we're always in sync what was that thing that one of our friends said about if you're because girls do sync up the alpha the alpha oh my god i'm like oh i'm the alpha no wait wait what was that was it the first one or the last one the first one to have the period you all sync up yeah um the first one yeah is the alpha is the alpha female because if you think back in the day the alpha female the first one to have had their period

and to be fertile well that's the one that the men would then go towards to they'd be like oh well she's fertile that she's the alpha female so so i'm like i'm like katie shut the fuck up i'm bleeding right now all right it's so funny like every month comes around i'll see like a rapper and it's so funny like every month comes around i'll see like a rapper and i'll be like that little shit and then i'll have to stop thumping my chest i'm the fucking out of all right yeah oh honestly but honestly okay so last week we're both in sync okay yeah and i tell you every single month we learn something new about ourselves when our period comes i mean and we just thought girls let's let's debrief about this okay because there's so much to talk about on the topic yeah we're kicking things off with when did you start your period

okay because it differ it differs for everyone it absolutely does but how old were you okay so i was 13 um and it was summer of 13 so i was almost two months off 14 so i was and in the ground yeah so in the grand scheme of things i know that most girls get it between 10 and 15 yes but the average is 12 yeah so then if i'm working from the average i was slightly later yeah yeah were you were you no i was 12 oh you were the average then yeah fucking up do you know what okay in your back in your fucking cave okay not being funny i'm not being funny alpha behavior i remember when i was at the girls school there were these two twins who were massively developed before all of us oh really yeah and obviously i went to the boarding school when I was around 13.

You know, these girls were very curvy, were very developed. Like they had boobs, you know, they had hips. All of us, you know, were just like little boys. And, you know, and I remember talking to them about it and they started their parents at nine. Nine? And I just thought, oh my God, at nine, I was with me Polly Pockets.

That's crazy. Like I was with me Polly's.ets. That's crazy. Like, I was with me Polly's. So that would have been a lot. Yeah. And then some people don't start until so later in their lives. Well, that's, because when you're in school, everyone's kind of like, have you started yet? Have you started yet? Yeah, it's the big gossip, isn't it?

There was a girl in my year at school who didn't start until she was like 15, like late 15. Yeah. But I tell you what, as soon as she started- She made it, no. She, no, but like- Oh, she changed. She was like, like was really, really small,

like really petite. And then all of a sudden got her period. She shot the fuck up. It was hilarious. Like she just completely like changed in the span of like a matter of months. Wow. It was crazy. It is actually mental how much it does change you without you realizing yeah so obviously on the topics of periods and stuff yeah you started at 12 yeah little shit and did you did you

like curled up did you want to start your period oh my god i did you did i did i remember there were a few things when i was younger that i was like oh no i'm a woman okay oh i've not made it i remember when i was younger i was desperate to pass my driving test oh like desperate for to be a woman now i'm like womanhood now i'm a woman i'm a woman but i remember being like oh my god when i start my period like I'm a woman oh and I remember just being like really like excited because I'm like oh my god now look at me where did that come from though was that like the school environment or home environment I think it was the school environment maybe it's the laziness in me because it was also I used to do competitive swimming

just to kind of sprinkle that in there guys i used to be an athlete like like couldn't you couldn't tell looking at me anymore butterfly stroke isn't what it was i love that but we used to do um swimming practice and i used to get really like it was like three hours after school kind of thing okay i'm like on a tuesday and i was like oh god i can't be bothered some of the girls would be like oh i'm not doing it this week and i'm like why and they're like oh it's my time of the month and i was like i want that oh so then i can sit out of swimming as well yeah yeah so maybe i'm just lazy yeah that's just the bottom line yeah i see did you oh my god i'm the complete opposite to you i did not want to start at all um i was i was in fact quite scared of it and I remember like the girls around me at school

would take time off because they were in quite a lot of pain. Oh God, that's scary. And for me, I'd be like, what is this pain? What is this foreboding pain? And some girls would have to lie down because they were dizzy or sick or, you know, this is pretty drastic for some girls.

Other girls don't experience this. But I think the biggest reason as well why I did not want to start my period at all is because I have an older sister as you do and when my older sister started her period I remember everyone said you're now a woman you're now and as you said you found that as a positive for me at 13 that was that was traumatizing I was like I'm not a woman yet I'm a child like I've still got so much to learn yeah and for me I felt that was so much pressure that people have then put on me society had put on me to be something yeah and and I remember it all being

and I think I thought it meant something different because Lil was like oh you're a woman you're a woman and I thought in my mind yeah okay well that means that i'm not a part of the family anymore i have to kind of you know provide for myself and thought fucking hell it's like if i'm not if dad's not helping me out here like i'm on the street she's like dad you you're still like paying me yeah you're still gonna help my lifestyle yeah um but seriously i was really scared about the whole thing and so i did not welcome it at all they don't really like i remember like sex ed in school like the most we got taught about periods was the fact that i remember my teacher like filling up a flask with water and putting a tampon in it being like this is what tampons do like and you know

but you don't really go into the nitty-gritty of like this happens you might feel this way you might which is obviously you know what you go to your mum for being like i don't know like you're probably coming on too period yeah like stuff like pms symptoms yeah stuff like that yeah um there's something interesting i saw on tiktok recently yeah i can't remember what your luteal phase is it's either like the week after your period or the you know it must be the week before but you are physically weaker yeah and you also apparently um view yourself completely differently because someone on tiktok was like oh my god i wake up and i feel really really ugly and everyone's like that's your luteal phase like does everyone just have the same thing i mean it does happen

doesn't it it's fucking crazy but even if you go to the gym and people are like oh my god i feel weaker like you can't lift as heavy or you literally just i'm so fucking tired it's usually you're coming on yeah how interesting it is mad and no one tells you no and and it's so um textbook at school because there are so many questions so am i going to be in a lot of pain yeah well maybe some girls do some girls don't it's a genuine physical journey that you go on on your own it's so different for each girl and it's one of those things as well that so you have to then like you get to learn your kind of rhythm and learn yourself as you're growing up with your own period completely if you add hormonal contraceptives onto that oh my god it's

overwhelming you have to start from fucking bang on i mean like to start fresh literally i'm only really recently starting to kind of understand any pms symptoms anything that's going on because i got the coil yeah and that that was a few years ago now yeah and i'm now just starting to be like okay i can recognize what recognize what's coming when. Yeah. I'm on the pill. Yeah. And my sister was on the pill. And we had completely different experiences. For me, I find it an easy breezy.

Like, don't get me wrong. I still can be the shoe devil. But I do find it easy breezy. And I can navigate my way through. My poor sister genuinely changed personalities when she went on this pill. And I remember when I didn't fully understand at the time and I remember just crying being like what's happened to Lil you know like what's going on because I couldn't recognize my own sister and that was really even hard for her to navigate because now she's doing something she's never done before she's having to take medication for something it's so overwhelming and and i urge to girls as well just navigate your way through because every girl is different don't don't your besties on you know because we're on different things yeah

you know your bestie might be on something don't just send oh well i will no navigate your way through because everyone is so different yeah research what's best for you because oh my god because i was and ask your doctor completely yeah 100 i was on the pill and i i went off the fucking rails like i didn't you i i had a really really i was on it for like a few months and was absolutely fine and then something just switched i was crying all the time i was like i hate the way i like i hate my life like Like, it was, fuck it. I couldn't recognize myself and I was really scared and I just completely stopped.

And that's like, because I'm on the copper coil, which is non-hormonal. Yes, yes. For me, sometimes I'll act a certain way and be like, oh, well, maybe it's because I'm feeling hormonal. Girls, fuck that. Sometimes you can just feel a certain way, whether it's hormones or not.

Like, don't think that it's um controlling you embrace the emotion control it okay yeah yeah yeah so when you started your period yeah did you know what were you like oh it's happening what like did i know what it was physically yes yes the fundamentals i had no idea what it meant i mean at 13 i was not like right I am fertile now I am I can now have a child like there was not that at all there was so much to it that I did not understand and I remember even asking my mum when I did a kind of a few questions and she said we'll have this every month every month I was like wait what the fuck I remember like starting my period i was like it's showtime girls i was like i was like more things to have i'm like oh gotta go buy tampons

but no i i genuinely wasn't like fertile window no no like okay not like it's i would sort as more of like a marking in my life where i'm like woman yes yes but not but not in a kind of sexual function way at all no and it's so funny at that age we all have a different knowledge of what we think a period is and what how it's going to change us and yeah and and i remember asking my mom again will everyone know that i'm on my period and she said no darling not everyone's gonna be like well she's on yeah you know no one's gonna know because i thought well they're physically in my face will i show you know all that kind of stuff it's just so it's a really weird time in a girl's life. Yeah. You know?

You getting your period on top of so many things in your life can really just tip you over the edge. Sometimes it's great, girls, because you get it, and we can all empathise with this, and you're like, you know what? I can blame it on the period. Oh, good scapegoat. I'm not my best form, I'm on my period. Good scapegoat.

And every single girl's going to be like, oh, I'm sorry, darling. We're all like, oh, I we were all like oh i get you like i get you but let's go on to these stories okay so you started when you were 12 and what happened what was your period story we all have one it's like virginity stories we all have ours so i was 12 i was having a sleepover at my house with a friend okay we're watching a film and then I remember I went to the loo and I was like oh my god like what like didn't feel anything I literally just went to the loo and I was just smiling at me I'm like hey girl oh like i've started oh did you what did your mom say she was like oh let me get you let me get you a pad you know and i remember because

my friend was like oh my god have you started your pen i was like yeah yeah wait had she started yet no no she was the one that started when she was like 15. So you just kind of went to bed like, good night, woof. Yeah. Fucking alpha in the room, right? Okay. Yeah, alpha. What was your story?

Oh my God. Fucking traumatic, I won't lie. Okay, so 13. Leaving school to go to a new school, we had end of year exams. Yeah. Every single end of year exams we'd have in the big hall. So our end of year exams sat there writing blah blah and anyway i was just like oh god like really need a way you know i was like it just feels what's going on it's a bit weird oh god had a fucking male examiner classic i was like can i go to the toilet they were like no

you'll have to wait till the end of the hour and a half i'm not sure i'm blaring in my this like 15 minutes then so i'm like anyway just like, what is going on? And anyway, you know when you tuck your skirt underneath? All girls do it, kind of tuck their skirt. And I was like, it was summertime. So just a skirt. There was no tights, obviously, like end of year. So just a skirt.

And I was like, oh my gosh. And a bit of blood. And I was like, shit, shit, shit. And I remember, end of exam everyone left and i sat there like i was like i ain't fucking moving i was literally just sat there and i remember he was a young teacher oh bless him you know i kind of felt for him as well like look look the work with me here okay because it's awkward for us both yeah he was like kitty it's time to go and i just shook my head i can't and he was like come on i was like

and then i think he was like she's a fucking strange one like you know this girl's just wants to do another exam i remember my absolute favorite english teacher came over to me and i just said i think it's happened oh bless you and she said okay so she said right well i'm gonna come over and we're gonna pretend we're doing something on your exam and wait till everyone's left so i'm there like still on question one guys yeah yeah just getting some help yeah so anyway everyone leaves and i literally walk out of me like hands over me bum trees like so embarrassed go to the toilet burst into tears absolutely that's really stressful oh my god absolutely burst into tears i'm just like this is really scary that's really stressful. Oh my God. Absolutely burst into tears. I'm just like, this is really scary. That's so stressful.

Anyway, my mum came to pick me up and just, oh, I bawled my eyes out, my eyes out. And I just kept saying, I'm not going to be your girl anymore.

I'm not going to be your girl. And anyway, we got home and mum said, what's all this about? And I was like, well, I'm a woman.

I am woman. I am woman. And I was just like, mum? And I was like, well, I'm a woman. I am woman. I am woman. And I was just like, mom. And I remember, I mean, I remember the exact bar thing took me up

and showed me how to use it and she just said, I've never been more proud of you, you know? And I was like, so it doesn't mean I have to leave the family home. She's like,

bless you. No. And she's like, no, not really. Anyway, my dad works away in London. Clearly my my mum had told him you know all of this and my dad came home with some flowers and a little thing of um katie perry perfume for me and you know at that point i thought i could get used to this do you know what i mean i thought do you know what actually just to let you know dad i'm on again so i'm kind of feeling some

lululemon like sweatpants this month you know so at that point i thought you know i fucking love being a woman i was like get in yeah absolutely get in oh it's just so funny and and i swear it's one of my favorite topics to talk to girls about if you're open to talk about it i'm like what was your first because everyone's like oh wow so the next section we've got is funny stories to do with periods and i want you to take me away what have you got for me um again i was having a sleepover with a friend okay and um this was after i'd started my period but it was still fairly new it was like a few months in okay cool we had loads and loads of snacks and then um we got some like ribena okay so this is just so me i forgot you had to dilute ribena because it's squash technically oh my god you didn't dilute it didn't dilute it i drank

i drank two glasses of undiluted ribena oh my god you mean fucking chugging it down thinking oh god this is a bit strong like is this are you sure this is diluted is this right i'm like yeah i'm loving life loving life well i was sick because i'm like the ribena i'm thinking well you're at your house i was at my house okay god i feel really fucking rancid i obviously i'd eaten fucking like five bags of m&ms fucking like two glasses of undiluted squash i'm like so i go i go to the loo i'm sick but obviously this is a bit grim it's red yeah because it's ribena but not diluted i was on my period at the time and i thought it comes out your mouth i was like i was like it comes out your mouth you vomit blood I'm like I'm vomiting

it's like it's both ends it's both I was like oh my god I didn't even know this was a thing I went to my mum I'm like mum mum I don't I think I think my period's coming out my mouth like I'm so I'm so confused what did Jay say she's like she's like well what what like i think i'm vomiting blood she's like oh god like what oh no she would have been what on earth what's happening i said well i had all this ribena she goes what did you dilute i said no she goes well you're a fool and you're like oh i see it again it's the knowledge it's being like no one told me this can it come from anywhere else i literally i was like oh my god it's gonna come out my eyes i was literally like the genuine fear i was like oh my god i've got one of the best like best period stories ever okay

so i would say maybe for the first year of being on my period i only used pads yeah my mum was like it's so much easier like it's a good way to transition into it darling i don't want to scare you straight away like it i was like okay cool i've got a pool party coming up yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah anyway i'm thinking it's time to whip out a temple oh it's time it's time i practice okay so i practice because i'm like i it's the week off you one. Oh, it's time. It's time. I practice, okay? Yeah. So I practice because I'm like, it's the week off. You've got to practice. It's the week off and I'm like,

I don't want to mug myself off. First time I did it, went into the bathroom, boom, bang, alpha. Anyway, walking around, I'm thinking, is this, is this right?

Because it's kind of just not like working a day thing, could it? Anyway, I remember I was in the car with my sister and i said i'll be i'll be honest with you this is just not working and she said what do you mean so the first time i put my tampon in it's just um no i can i can feel it and she said oh well you shouldn't be able to feel it okay yeah all right so would you mind helping me? She said, of course. Anyway, I take her to the toilet and I show her.

When I tell you this girl screams, my sister literally like, oh, hits back and she's pissing herself. I basically put the hot dog in the bun. I literally just placed her, placed it, literally just boom. And I was like, well, that's done the trick. I was like, boom. He was like, no, you need to put it in the hole. I'm like, again, the hole?

I was like, hang on a bloody second. What's going on? I was like, what's going on here? But honestly, it was the best. And my sister ever since, you know, when I'm like, do you have a camera? She's like, do you want me to show you? I'm like, if you could, yeah, it's great. Oh, my God. Oh, it's so good.

Okay, so, girlies. We're going to do common symptoms of when you're on your period. Now, we're talking about emotional. We're not going to say physical. And I'm going to name these six. These are the six main symptoms, okay? And then we're going to say them to each other. And if we both feel we experience these,

we're going to do a certain noise. Okay. So I'm going to read them out first, but we don't say anything yet. So the first one's irritable. Second one's anxious. Third one's mood swings. Fourth one's angry.

Fifth one's emotional. And the sixth one is over sensitive okay so katie's gonna read them to me okay okay and if i think katie is one of these when she's on a period i'm gonna make a noise yeah and because it's the theme of alpha i'm gonna woof okay i'm gonna are you gonna woof i'm not gonna say woof i'll be like okay okay okay okay um so you can read them to me those six ones they're irritable woof oh no okay anxious i don't think so mood swings angry

half a wolf yeah half a wolf i get that emotional that's a double wolf the last one last one's gonna be a big one oversensitive yes okay so let's talk about these would you agree with what i would say absolutely i think oversensitive is my biggest one okay that because i was just about to ask that so you think that's your biggest i think that's my biggest one then emotional they actually kind of go hand in hand okay cool and then angry yeah okay and any that i said i didn't think you were that you're like no i actually do think i'm that i don't think i'm anxious okay um yeah angry i would say is a half and half

yeah mood swings i feel it's least on the packing order but i do notice it okay one one wrong thing oh i can she's annoyed um she's like oh nah get out my face like honestly the boys could not say good morning to me i'd be like the lack of fucking respect in this gaff is is just it's so true i'm like right i'm shit on your shoes yeah yeah honestly get out get out yeah okay i'm gonna read them to you and you can do them for me are we wuffing do you want i'm gonna quack you're gonna quack yeah okay irritable okay anxious mood swings Irritable. Okay. Anxious. Mood swings. That's a little quack.

Yeah. Angry. Emotional. I'm going to... No. Oversensitive. Mid-quack. A mid-qu mid quack okay tell me i think what do you notice most with me when i'm on my period frustration i feel like okay my my emotions manifest in me like hysterically sobbing yeah okay but your emotions manifest in you being like well what the fuck yeah yeah i feel like you're you just get your emotions of

frustration and i think the same with you i agree with what you've said yeah i think low tolerance and then look like yeah so yeah when we move on together because then we're just sat in the corner like honestly the boys are like switching like literally Katie's crying over there I'm punching a wall like boom hole in the wall like what is going on and I asked the debrief what um their number one killer emotional symptom is. And guess what do you think they've said? I want to say emotional. Bang on. Yeah.

Bang on emotional. They said just emotional. You know, tears. One girl said, honestly, sometimes I'll just be in the middle of the street and I'll cry. And I'm like, it's the hormones. It's so true. It's the levels going up and down and up and down.

You don't know how to navigate it. All you want to do is eat chocolate. Yeah, genuinely. But then I take that too far. I could literally be off my period for two weeks i'm like our pms symptoms are coming i really fancy a bag of minstrels yeah come on yeah i'm the alpha yeah okay my first egg yeah so it's myself oh we were at the drug show and and anyway I was a keen being because I was so excited because I've never been to one yeah so it's like oh my god this is so exciting and we were Katie and I were at the front and I was

just kind of like oh so excited anyway they kind of started to pick on people and I was just enjoying it looking around and anyway they kind of come to me and they're just like oh hi and I'm just like hi and they're like who are you here with and I literally I'm the most awkward like socially awkward person I'm like oh just my friend and they're like oh great you've got a friend I was like yeah I was literally I've never been so bashful in my life I've never been so bashful and my life I've never been so bashful and then I was genuine and then they were like why are you drinking out of a paper cup

because you need not be trusted with glass and I was like no I was like literally never I was like I was so socially inept I was so socially awkward I was like my friend and then Archie's like but I'm her boyfriend oh my god it was so funny

that's okay that's okay okay you're ready my egg this week tell me men it's full stop men men full stop m-e-n full stop no i've had enough no i've had enough i've had enough let's say brackets've had enough. I've had enough. Let's say brackets. Men who patronize women. Am I stupid? No. Do I need things spelled out for me? No. When I'm telling you,

when I'm telling you, so obviously we went to this like bar, this pub, and it was all these like army guys. Literally one of them called Katie a cleaner.

So why are you here? Are you the cleaner? I was like, oh, I was like, you fucked it. You fucked it. And I was like, why are you here? Are you the cleaner? I was like, oh. Steep. You fucked it. Steep.

You fucked it. And I was like. I'm like, my mouth is laughing. My eyes are not, sir. Yeah. Look closely. And then what was that other guy that said to you, no, you've got to understand what you don't understand. You really don't understand.

And I'm like, I think I have a general understanding of what you don't understand you really don't understand and i'm like i think i have a general understanding of what you're talking about it's the it is the mansplaining man you know one of my exes would mansplain all the time all the time would mansplain to me but like oh basically what what you actually need to know is and i'm like oh yeah i think i know i think i know i think i've got it chicken yeah all right yeah don't don't you worry about a little thing right i think i've got it oh okay yeah are you keep are you still going no that's it otherwise we'll be here all day yeah i'm honestly yeah i've shown you like questions it's question time with the peach i'm with the yeah okay so i'm serious this week yep okay on the theme of everything we've spoken about i want to know you've had a daughter okay

to the next generation yeah what two pieces of advice are you going to give to the younger generation about periods you can give one emotional oh and one physical oh okay okay emotional take it easy take it nice and easy yeah yeah i think like be so gentle with yourself because even if you don't think you're affected by your period that much you probably like you are even if you don't realize it because before i thought oh my god why am i just so emotional and then my period will start and i'll be like i see yeah sometimes like even now i sometimes don't even see it as oh i think my period's coming until it does and i'm like oh that makes a bit more sense um so let the emotions come enjoy it have the fucking chocolate it's actually a scientific

thing like it's the craving for it goes right the fuck on there treat yourself with so much kindness have a little me myself and i day put a film on cuddle up like enjoy it because sometimes like cramps can really kick your ass just like just enjoy kind of snuggling up and feeling comfortable completely yeah make yourself comfortable yes periods can be really uncomfortable yes completely i love that eat chocolate hot chocolates and do nothing yeah it's all good what would you say oh i this sounds shitty but i like cramps for me i do feel if you actually get up and move they do kind of help they do kind of yeah but it is it but it's hard because it is the last thing you want to do it is however i'm not saying train for a marathon i'm not but maybe just try

get out go for a walk put a coat on go with your mom go with your friends yeah go with somebody in trust that knows what's going on this week you know and just go for a little walk it's gonna clear your head a bit yeah um and i would also say don't be embarrassed to talk about what you're feeling with other girls that are going through the same thing yeah absolutely that'll be my two piece of advice it's something so nice that it is so universal like everyone will like every woman will understand what you're going through yeah you know and of course like for some people that there might be experiences where they don't but yeah majority there will be yeah yeah like even like your mum oh i know your grandma you know i even get it you know i even spoke to

someone's grandma about this topic and she told me a beautiful story and i was moved because unfortunately i never got the opportunity with my grandma but um it was really interesting to talk to her about her experience you know 40 odd years ago when she went through it um but yeah okay let's move on let's so my silly silly silly chance my question is yeah would you rather yeah tell me only be able to crawl on all fours for the rest of your life right okay or yeah only walk backwards okay let's consider this all right yeah we weren't built to crawl or were we or start doing isn't it okay okay okay okay but i feel physically and socially now if i'm crawling everywhere i'm not making friends but but at least i'm going

forward but like if i'm like you're ready to leave arch and i have four pairs of shoe like four shoes like two on my hands and two on my knees even worse you probably need protective gloves as well oh god no god no knee pads no no no no that's embarrassing i think i'm do you know what i'm embracing walking backwards i'm just gonna have to have an eagle eye like boom i bet you could be so in tune to fucking walking backwards yeah i actually saw this woman on the treadmill the other day running backwards and i was like what a champ that champ because that's like how are you doing that girl that's meant to be really good for your abs it's supposed to be really good because i saw her starting off walking and i was like oh i'm not sure what she's doing and then i saw her running and i was like what the fuck how are you doing that so she can do it so i can do it so what are you picking

i'd have to say walking backwards yeah you're not my baby i think i've gotten really good at walking backwards recently because we've been doing it what have you been practicing yeah we've been doing it a lot in um in our like movement classes to kind of say to be in tune with one another oh i love it okay so you almost feel the surroundings rather than you have to see them yeah so she's like okay everyone just start walking backwards great and it's one of those things that you'll feel each other if you're really paying attention you will like feel you know your senses are heightened you will kind of understand where everything is spatially and then the worst thing that happens is you just bump into someone you go sorry great fabulous loving it isn't it yeah i absolutely love that yeah what a great question honestly

i'll be moonwalking everywhere it's afternoon night yeah i love it okay guys thank you so much for a lovely monday i hope you've loved our podcast. Oh, yeah. And as always, write in your fabulous stories. Yeah, let us know in your period stories. We've got some cracking episodes coming up. Oh, we're so excited. We have some cracking episodes coming up, so just you wait, okay? Yeah.

Have a great week. Have a great Monday. Keep your mantra with you. Yeah. Remember, I am woman, and what is yours, Katie? Shout to my ex. Yeah. Get hyped. It's Bloody Monday. Get hyped. It's Bloody Monday. Love you guys. Love you. out to my ex. Yeah. Get hyped.

It's Bloody Monday. Get hyped. It's Bloody Monday. Love you guys. Love you. Have a great week. Bye. Bye.