The Debrief - Marry The Man Today | The Debrief Podcast

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

Welcome back to The Debrief! This week we are discussing the topic of proposals! The good, the romantic and the flops. As always please keep sending in your amazing stories to [e-mail] or DM us @the.debriefpodcastHave the most amazing week! Lots of Love, K+K xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

welcome to the team rave are you oh my god snap snap snap crackle pop hey hey snap crackle, pop, eh? Eh? Snap. Crackle. Pop. Lovely. Did you ever listen to your, what are they called? The Crispies? Rice Krispies. Rice Krispies. Oh, absolutely. See, I was never really a Rice Krispies woman in the sense of, I don't think we had them in the house a lot.

Yeah. Do you remember those packs? Those little packs of cereals? Oh my God, variety packs. I love them. I used to always go for the, what's the one Archie and I love? The Star mix? Multi-grain shapes.

Multi-grain shapes. Which, guys, let us know. Robe choice. Love them. Multi-grain, because they were the ones I'd always leave for my sister. No way. I'm not having the multi-grains. I'll pass on those.

Pass on those, but bring the Coco Pops my way. See, I'm not a Coco Pops woman. Because do you know why? Kill you. Yes. But the other reason I don't like that it makes the milk. Chocolatey? No.

Do you not like that? I hate it. If the milk could stay milky, then I'd have them. But I'm like, you're making it chocolate. You don't like the chocolatey milk? I'm only four. Having chocolate milk. Chocolate milk.

I'm like, yeah, I hate the chocolate milk. It makes me a bit... I remember when they came out with cereal straws that you could use. So Coco Pops came out with straws that were wafer straws that you could use to suck up the chocolate milk after you had your Coco Pops.

And then you'd eat the straw. You'd eat the wafer. Yeah. Mad. Mad times. Mad. Bring it back. Oh my God. Bring it back. See see the thing that actually makes me so sad

is before i dedicated my life to non-gluten i loved weetabix fifa fofix i just loved my weetabix weetabix cut up a banana put the banana banana on top. The milk has to be so cold. Medical milk. Boom. Wheaties. Love it. Did you get the little ones or the big boys? Big boys.

See, I like the little chocolate. I never had those. Did you never? I never had them and I never will now. Never will I? Would you do it if you could have medical people on site? Do you know what? That wouldn't be the first thing I'd jump at.

What would it? What would be on those pizzas? Yeah, I would. Good woman. And also a Krispy Kreme because I'm so intrigued to be like, what are they like? Because they smell great. You've never had one?

I don't think I have. People need to actually, this is a shout out to all major companies. Where's your fucking gluten-free options? Where's my gluten-free, is it okay? I don't think I have. People need to actually, this is a shout out to all major companies. Yeah. Where's your fucking gluten-free options? Where's my gluten-free, is it okay? I cannot believe that I've got my bestie sat in front of me saying that she's never had a Krispy Kreme because there's no gluten-free options.

What's this year? It's 2024. 2024 and we're living like we're in the 1800s. And let's braid our hair, put our corsets on. Let me get my loom out. Let me dance around the maypole because this bitch

ain't having a donut and I would love a donut do you know what annoys me the most about being gluten free is the gluten free option and I'm like you know what actually you can't win because they're like we're making an option I'm like great but then it's shit

they need to know what to do they do no i'm not make it as if there was gluten in it make it to that high standard make it taste as if i'm questioning oh is that gluten in this that's the best thing when you have to question it yeah and then there's not and you're like ah good job yeah job well done well done shall we crack on a Let's crack on. Tell me your mantra for this week. My mantra this week is, it's okay to be proud of yourself. Oh, I love that. Tell me. I performed at the weekend.

You did? I did. I pulled my eyes out, everyone. Pulled my eyes out. I performed at the weekend. It was the biggest venue I've ever performed at to date. Huge. It was... How many seats? ever performed at to date. Huge. It was...

How many seats? Do you know? 1,500. Wow. Yeah. And I was like... I was shitting those skiddies in my panties. Oh, you look so confident.

I was fucking shitting myself. And I was like, give yourself a pat on the back for that champ. Because I was fucking... I genuinely... You know when you're like, i actually don't want to do it i'm that nervous oh my god i was like i actually was like stage fright so you couldn't even tell that's good no you couldn't you couldn't even tell you were nervous but i know what the knee knocking feels like oh my knee is actually shaking and i can't stop it it was they were quivering yeah so you should be proud of yourself thank you what was your mantra my mantra for this week is i have faith in myself yes so my mother's taught me something really good recently called and i'm not going into all of it now because it's

quite confusing but it's called the hair mind and the tortoise brain interesting so the hair mind is like when you're right solutions let's get this done okay katie's crying let's do this let's do that let's do this the tortoise brain is the brain that you go to sleep with the brain that mulls over okay so if you have a problem during the day and you're like oh i really can't fix this i really can't fix then you go away for a bit then you come back the tortoise brain is still working it out while you're not thinking about it it's still working out how it can help you and i have loved that this week there's a book on it and my mum got it for me i've been reading it have you and it's incredible

and it's so good i've been like lapping it up yeah i have faith in myself i've had so much on yeah with booking auditions and seeing so many different people and the hair brain has gone very fast that I need my tortoise mind to work everything out and that just have faith in what's happening have faith in yourself

and trust the process 100% Oh I love that and what's your song? My song is pretty please don't you ever feel like you're

less than fucking perfect to me pink I fucking love that woman it's the best song

pretty please love it I love that song and when you're trying to search up on Spotify to listen after,

I've recommended it to you. It's the F with the little star. Yeah. It takes away any offence that we might have on the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. It's a sense of podcasting. Anytime I swear, my dad goes, Kitty.

Honestly, if I say, fuck, he'll be, oh, Kitty. Yeah, my dad's always, okay, potty man. Yes, yes. Oh, Kitty oh kitty anyway what's your song mine funnily enough is please please don't prove i'm right and please please so then it is when i just got my makeup just right please sabrina carpenter it's her new song is that okay i need you you're always hot off the press for new songs so I knew it would be a new one I need you to watch the music video is this the one with Barry Keegan she's written a song about how she's in a new relationship

with Barry Keegan and she doesn't want him to embarrass her by her telling her friends that she really likes him. So she's, please don't fuck things up because I've told people you're a nice guy so behave. And then creates a music video

and he stars in it. Power move. Power move. Fucking sensational. The both of them I really like. The both of them I very respect. Yeah. She's an incredible musician.

He's a brilliant actor yeah the only i'm a romantic at heart come on we know this that's why it it does make me heartbreak a little bit because he's got a babbo he's got a babbo i'm like where is the babbo where is he's in the music video because produced he's driving the car one of those chairs the director's also like he's also it goes back to like age gap relationships because she's 25 and he's 31 32 okay not that big but i'm also like i'm close to 25. Yeah. Not that close. Not that close. But I'm close.

But closer. Yeah. And I'm like, I wonder how you'd feel being like young going into a relationship with someone who has a child. Yeah. Especially when you have the lifestyle that she does. Yeah. The only thing, I hope they're very happy and I know they'll be listening to this podcast

so I can't. Yeah, we love you guys. Yeah, we love you guys. So I won't cut ties. But I always find it a bit oh when i know they've been married or they have a baby i'm like oh no i'm like i hope that family's okay i know but equally i hope you guys are happy yeah you guys power couple should we do our recommendations for the week. Yes.

Are you guys happy? Boom, boom, boom, boom. Tell me, Katie. Our recommendation this week is The Alchemist. We went to The Alchemist. And funnily enough, I actually didn't reap their benefits in the sense of I didn't get a very stagey drink. I didn't at the start,

but then I got FOMO. Then, yeah. Oh my God. Yeah, we, it's a bar, chain of bars. They're all dotted around the uk yeah we went for after drinks after my performance yeah kitty met my family for the first time i did i did and delight yes and we all had a very good time but we ordered they're like scientific drinks so it's like dry ice there's fire i'm not there's bubbling i want dry ice in my house it's pretty what i want it like you come out in the morning there's like dry ice, there's fire. I'm not being funny. I want dry ice in my house.

It's pretty, I want it. Like you come out in the morning, there's dry ice. Oh yeah. You emerge out of the dry ice. I want dry ice in my fridge. Like, how do you even get dry ice? Because I want to put it in my water like full time. Oh, so every day feels like a music video. Every day.

Yeah. Yeah. So literally I emerge out of the shower and it's just fucking dry ice. I love it. I would, it's pretty cool i had a drink that was like a bong it was a mini little bong and i was like oh and you had to like and you had to like the bong to get the drink and the man was like so you know how to suck a bong and i was like look a bong bong yeah and i was like i'm a good girl i was like i never done a bong i was like never

actually is that a lie did we do one in barcelona that was a shisha oh yeah that was different different kettle of fish so never did a bong but did the bong of the little alchemist brilliant you've got to go there guys it was good drinks yeah it is a bit it verges on like i think the effects are cool yeah i think the effects are worth it when your fancy drink comes out and you get a nice photo for the fancy drinks maybe for one or two but for yeah not to get slaughtered yes it's a nice little one or two yes a nice little catch up with the girl he's not let's get slaughtered on a Friday night. No, no.

Oh my God. Too pricey for that. Break the bank that night. Let's debrief. So this week, it must be the season of love, Katie. Love. Summer of love. Love Island's back on. And it's July, so it's summer season and it's summer romance.

I'm telling you, maybe the bells are ringing because this week we've had lots of proposal dilemmas come in and stories about proposals this week so we're going to talk about proposal disasters yes proposal arrangements and of course proposal dilemmas oh i love it let me kick it off kick it off. Before we crack into it all, talk to me about your dream proposal. Now, I want you to consider setting. Yeah. Who would be there?

So is it just you and your fiancé or your friends there or your family there? Are you being photographed or no photographs? It's all private. Are you in a private setting or a public setting? Tell me. I would want it to be extremely private. Oh! I would get shy shy if i my actually my biggest fear is getting proposed to in public no it's like sharks public holes like it's you i've been like when we're in vegetable. We've had, I've seen people get engaged and I could think of nothing fucking worse than being proposed to.

And then everyone around just stopping and looking like, oh, congratulations. Really? I'd be like, oh, I'd be like, do you know what you'd be? Red. Oh, I'd be red. You'd be red you'd be red as well i'd probably be crying i would want like a i love the idea of proposals staying in like a hotel i could imagine in like bali or something when you can get a private beach and have dinner on the beach and organize that like privately and then i would want someone to take photos but i wouldn't want to know that they'd need to be like the bushes yes yeah again with that i'd have my awkward smile you'd have your awkward smile and

you'd always it wouldn't be authentic no it wouldn't like you'd be thinking oh shit I need to fix my hair or whereas the raw material of love yeah getting captured getting captured it's like Archie's friends who've recently got engaged oh my god oh my god oh my god so excited oh the photos my god really cute the photos the way when he she you can tell that she's just said yes and he's like overwhelmed and i'm just moved to tears it honestly i don't even know them all that when i was like i just can't believe it i just can't believe it i'm so happy for i love love me too but i would want it to be a tender, private moment. Just us and the stars, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I get what you mean, yeah. But what would you want? So I'm a romantic. You are. That's the first step, okay? And I wouldn't be so hazard to say that you do a ton of the theatrics. Oh, there's nothing about me that's casual. Certainly, I would not be wanting to be at home

and the questions popped while we're having dinner. Right. Absolutely not. Absolutely. Do you know what? I might want a crowd. Maybe. I might.

Look, look, look. Archie, when you're hearing this, I'm not sad, okay? So don't take this to don't take your notes just yet no because then I might think oh a bit differently but maybe I would like for the proposal to happen

and then my friends and family be nearby maybe at a little restaurant or something and then I walk in boom rock on my finger yeah big old rock absolutely

I don't think I'm not low-key okay i wouldn't want a low-key engagement i wouldn't want anything that's shall we no no i will never be shall we no no i will be your begging on your knees because you need me in tears i cannot live my life until you are my wife yeah absolutely i'm not having it in the garden. I'm not having it at the local pub. What would you hazard to say that is too far for you then? If you were like, that would eat me out, that's too much.

Good question, Goosey. You've overdone it. All right, I'll meet the mark there. Yeah. Overdone it. I wouldn't be opposed to fireworks. Overdone it. it i wouldn't be opposed to fireworks so that would i would have overdone it quite something i personally i'm not a fan of is the plane with the little banner i mean that's also how do you organize how do you go about organizing that yes how do people do that and also i'm like you didn't ask me the flag did

right i mean i didn't come from your lips yeah came from a flag in the fucking sky do you know what actually might be a bit much maybe maybe as if they sang to me i was about to ask if a flash mob would that be mob would be far too much and i would feel you've taken the piss now actually and it's not sincere i'm like where is it in your heart what because i'd want if it's a string quartet oh gorgeous oh tasteful if it's one of those what's those men with the little hats and they're like oh oh, like a barbershop courtier. Barbershop. I'd be livid.

I'd be so angry. I'd be like, oh, no. And I'd feel there's no. Biggest thing about Kitty McNeil is romance. Romance, romance. Romance, romance. You can't spell love without Kitty McNeil. Can you actually, though? You've got an A. You've got an L. You're missing romance. You can't spell love without Kitty McNeil. Can you actually, though?

You've got an E. You've got an L. You're missing the O. You've got an O. And you haven't got a V. Then you just say. Le. Le.

I'm just Le. Right, should we crack on after I stop warbling? Okay. Let's crack on. Tell me. Tell me. I'll tell you, girl. We asked the debrief listeners about what they would want

when getting proposed to, and they have voted on what they would like. So we've separated it into three questions. Okay. Were these polls? These were polls. Fantastic. Question, first question.

Okay. Your partner is about to propose. Would you want to know, or would you want to be completely surprised? I'm thinking the debrief... Right. I'm thinking the debrief listeners are a bit of me. I'm being surprised.

Absolutely surprised. If I knew, I'd be upset if I knew. Honestly, do it again. Do you know what? Do it again. Because if I know it's ruined. Do it, leave it another five years. Yes, leave it.

Do it again. Leave it. What stresses me out about... I think I've got a really good gut intuition. Oh, okay. And I think I'd even be a bit annoyed if I had a gut feeling that it was happening. So I would like to be completely surprised.

You know what you should do then? Start a fight. Yeah. Just do the Chandler Monica. Make me think he's leaving. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I come back home

candles galore on one knee fantastic marry me now fantastic and I'm gonna say I'm gonna go high you know yeah 80% I'm gonna say surprised

I know it's high yeah and 20% they know so 35% said need to know and 65% said I love a surprise so it's not as okay may i thought the same i thought it was going to be quite like huge surprise 20 90 10 kind of quite big 60 the majority of people yeah um oh no would want to be surprised yeah which is fair because also if i know my boyfriend's proposing where's this it feels like just

another day but you want me to know would you want to know absolutely see you could handle it i couldn't i would want to know because i think i could be quite subtle i would want to know i would want whoa whoa whoa i would want archie to tell me for example if you were going on a trip yeah and he was going to propose on that trip i would want him to tell me the minute before he takes off so literally like, FaceTime you in the bathroom while we're at the airport. This is the trip.

Here's the ring. I'm going to propose. See you when I'm back, bitches. Do not tell me while you're shopping for... I'm not... I don't want to know. Poor Katie would be so overwhelmed

with the secrets. you can read me sometimes better than I read myself. And also we'd go out for a girl dinner and I'd be like, why are you being weird? I'd be like, what is dinner and I'd be like, why are you being weird? I'd be like, what is your

sweater? I'd be like, tell me what's new with you and you're like, you're engaged! I know I'm not. I'm so excited for your wedding! I'd be like, what? And that's something, if I fucked that up, that would be bad. No, come back from that. You'll have to propose to me.

No one would see that coming. No, exactly. Your engagement, one engagement, from that i'll come back from that you'll have to propose to me i'd have to no one would see that coming no exactly but i'm biggest surprise of your engagement what engagement ours oh great okay what was the next one the next question is would you want your partner to have asked your parents or loved ones permission 100 i personally would i think it's right actually i've got quite a big one on this i'd want them to ask my dad yeah so at home my dad's got like a study so i'd want them to go to my dad's study and ask him and i'd be really like she doesn't really matter where it is to be honest but i'd want them to ask me no way are you taking the privilege of telling my mother no i get to tell

my mother yeah so don't you dare ask my mum do you think your dad would keep it shtum i'd have to do you think he'd be able to because oh my god if my child if my child's boyfriend came to me i want to propose to your daughter i i would run to me hubby i'd be like you'll never believe see i wonder because my dad's quite a moral mary so i wonder if he'd be like because i know it's for kitty but then when does my dad's to do stuff and my my mum's my mum will put it together if i actually i was gonna say if archie and dad met up mum would know but they meet up every week so maybe mum wouldn't know but then maybe he's asked before it's all how the styles align, though, because, for example, it could look fishy, perhaps,

if you have this big anniversary trip coming up, you go into Morocco, right? Morocco, you... Let's change that to the Caribbean. You go into the Caribbean, yeah? Guadalupe. You're on your way. You book this lovely resort.

Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. Not that you don't go to nice places, but this in particular is gorgeous. And you're just like, wow, this is so lovely. We've got like a principal suite. Yeah. Overlooking the sea, the mountains.

And then five days before you're due to leave, Archie's desperate to go back to Ireland. Oh, we should probably go see your parents. We haven't seen them in a while. And you're like, we saw them three weeks ago. You're like, oh yeah, I just feel like I haven't seen them in my life. Maybe because then we could go out for should probably go see your parents. We haven't seen them in a while and you're like, we saw them three weeks ago. You're like, oh yeah, I just feel like I haven't seen them. Maybe because then we could go out

for a few drinks with your dad. See, it looks fishy. You'd have to ask. It does, but because of the closeness with my arch and dad, I think it goes straight over my head. Yeah.

Maybe I'm not giving myself enough justice, but I think it would. No, potentially. Now, would you want them to ask your parents? I would appreciate it as a formality. To your dad and mum?

To my parents. I think if they went to my mum or my dad, I'd be fine. Okay. But I also think my parents wouldn't be, like, asked about giving permission. They didn't ask me. Yeah, okay. They wouldn't be like, how fucking rude.

We said no. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's not like a non-negotiable but i would find it very sweet if they did it would mean a lot if they did yeah so i'm gonna say do you want to do you know what 2024 i'm gonna say 50 50 it was 50 yeah yeah because some people aren't as traditional. No. I feel like it's interesting because generally, and I don't know statistics, so I don't know, but I think marriage nowadays is more on a decline. Yeah, I would say so.

Because it used to be more of a religious thing. Yeah. Whereas now I would say society isn't as secular as it used to be in terms of religion yeah definitely i agree but that's why people are calling it partnerships yeah because it's they're not my wife they're not my husband but i feel like the tradition of it not that it is dying because i think weddings aren't going anywhere no definitely not but i think the traditional kind of ritual aspect of asking parents, doing stuff like that, people take not less seriously, but I feel like it's less of a prerequisite now. Yeah, I see what you mean.

Less of a formality because the idea of weddings, I think, are less formal and less of a statement as they used to be. Completely. And I think it is a big thing to do with religion. Like back in the day, everyone was religious and had a very hard stance on what religion they were and be. Completely. And I think it is a big thing to do with religion. Like back in the day, everyone was religious and had a very hard stance on what religion they were and what they followed. And because of that, that meant that

weddings were essential. Yeah. Absolutely essential. If you wanted to be with someone, you had to get married. Absolutely. And you'd be going to the balls and off you go, Bridgerton.

Bridgerton! Oh my God, I can't wait to watch her. Oh my God, it's this week, guys. I can't wait to watch her. I can't wait. Yeah. Actually, it would have been ages ago, so take that my God, I can't wait to watch her. Oh my God, it's this week, guys. I can't wait to watch her. I can't wait. Yeah. Actually,

it would have been ages ago, so take that out, but we can't wait. Great. That's good. Okay, next poll. Now we're briefed

to discuss this. Okay. Would you want a public proposal or a private one? Now, you're a private girl. Yeah.

And I've seen come a public, I think. Now, don't get me wrong, i wouldn't want public like disneyland like a load of randos and i'm just like oh do you know what i mean yeah or seaworld and i'm just like oh yeah i don't think i don't think so but i wouldn't want it casual and i think i associate casual with being at home but then yeah because to be fair for example yeah archie rents out the tate with a gallery full of photos of you guys and then proposes in the tent that's a public space that technically is being proposed

to in public with places that are staffed yeah so there would be people around i would love that that's not necessarily it's like a private moment but in a public space i'd love that i think that's gorgeous that's a perfect example that's a great actually yeah i'd love yeah i'm gonna say i'm gonna say more people are gonna want private i'm gonna say 60 40 61 private 41 public 71 private 31 public yeah i think it's interesting because i would feel i think it's different though because you're saying all this like i would feel self-conscious because oh god i feel like everyone's staring i'm sure when you're actually getting proposed to you're more like what the fuck i love this person so much they're proposing to me you're not really thinking about no you're more like, what the fuck? I love this person so much and they're proposing to me. You're not really thinking about

the people around you. That's so true. You wouldn't be thinking about who was watching or what your hair looks like or the venue. You would just be so happy to be that with that person.

Yeah. And if it's in a place of importance to you guys. That is a public place at the place you first met or doing something like that. I think that is really sweet. Oh my God.

Ha ha! Ha ha! you first met or doing something like that i think that is really sweet oh my god outside our halls of accommodation there's nowhere near as well to go celebrate you have to get on the bus no i would be so angry where's your horse and carriage just pretend we met somewhere else why would i be so angry okay so now we're going to go on to some proposal disasters and funny stories so we asked the dearest listeners to write in any funny stories they had about their own proposals or someone they know and we've got some hilarious ones yes so this woman wrote him and she said you are free to use my name and my partner's name. So her name's Sarah. Oh, thank you, Sarah.

She said, my proposal was hilarious. And a night I will never forget. Imagine describing your proposal as hilarious, though. You'd be like, magical. Thanks, yeah. Ben, Katie's boyfriend, Sarah's husband. Yeah. Ben took me to a beautiful chalet.

And we had a romantic meal. It rained. We put on a fire, ate chocolate and wine. The works. Ben and I got into our one size fits all white fluffy robes and I soon discovered that one size does not fit all. As when I opened my eyes after Ben told me to close them, there was my soon to be hubby on one knee

with his cock and balls hanging out of his gaping robe oh that's funny she said that's really funny of course he didn't know this and went into a heartfelt and beautiful will you marry me monologue and i was trying so hard not to laugh and stare we we laugh about it now to this day and we've been married for five years oh that's sweet do you know what that's funny that's real i would love that that's that's hilarious that's a story you would tell that is so funny fucking balls out and you're just like i love you so much i've thought about this for such a long time bloody popeyes He's got his bully barrels with it. Oh, my God. Oh, man. So I have one.

Yeah. So, hi, girls. I can't wait to tell you this story. So me and my now husband got engaged at Centre Parcs. Oh, lovely. We would go every year on our anniversary. So it only felt right that we would go again. This was for their five-year anniversary.

Aww. So... Oh, I love that. Oh, no. So we would always go to the same restaurant for our anniversary meal. Okay. And I was heading into the shower

before we were going to head out to get ready. So whilst I was in the shower, my now husband decided to get dressed in his suit and wait for me outside the bathroom with his ring to propose and wrote on the light box provided will you marry me the light box like you know like um photo like light boxes oh you can like put the text so when you've got you in your room yes yeah so he personalized the text to say will you marry me he's on one knee he's ready like waiting oh no girls i really was none the wiser that he was about to propose and really did take my sweet time in the shower i'm talking an everything shower

and when i got out i saw him on one knee and was so emotional. Of course, said yes, but then he couldn't get up because his knees had gone dead from being on one knee for literally 30 minutes. Oh, bless him! And he fell over! He didn't try to get up. He just literally fell to the side. Oh, darling!

And I had to pull him up. And they say... Bless and they say to be fair he'd be like hearing the shower and think any minute now she'll turn it off and get out i can't not be on one knee what happens if i'm not ready i need to be ready now on one knee so that she gets her and she's shaving her pose she's shaving her shirt she's got a shaving cream lizzo's on yeah she's scrubbing. Not only then does she scrub, she gets out, she turns off.

What's she doing? Moisturising. Moisturising the body. So he's still thinking, what's she doing? Fragrance. I love how she calls it an everything shower. That's so funny.

The thought of this man, sat, ready, waiting at any moment's notice. Fuck. Half an hour and he's come on, love. I love i am but that shows how much he loves you he waited all that time he let his knees go he let his knees go dad yeah just imagine for a second yeah someone on their knee asking you to be yours that's really romantic it's so cute i love and i know we didn't poll on it, but absolutely you'd get down on one knee. Oh, some people are like,

oh no, I'm not, but you get down on one knee and beg. Get the fuck down. Get down. Get down, sir. Yeah. Because the thing is, I wouldn't even cast myself

as like the most romantic person in the world. But if my boyfriend turned to me and was like, will you marry me? I'd be like, and you're standing why? Yes. No, I won't. I'd be like, he messed up now. You're not taking this seriously.

So never mind. This is a half-assed fucking proposal. Yeah. You've ruined her. Yeah. I wouldn't enjoy that. No. This one is brilliant.

Okay. This girl says you can use my husband's name. Luke and I have been together almost a year. One afternoon, I was napping next to him. Now, I say napping like that if anyone's not watching the podcast and just listening. That was in quotation, bunny marks. I love the bunny marks. I did.

Little bun bun. So napping was in bunny marks. I heard him ask me, are you sleeping? But just didn't feel like talking, but still wanted attention. We all do it. So I didn't answer. I love that. Yeah.

I love it. So you can hear him going, oh, look at her. Maybe give you a kiss on the head. Yeah. The forehead. And you're like, God, you love me. It's the best when you're a child. Have you seen all those funny videos in the car of those kids?

And the parents pull their arm up. And it's, have you heard? If this child's awake, their arm will stay up in the air oh my god falls down then no if it stays up in the air they're asleep if it goes down they're not and all these kids are like pretending to be asleep with their arm up i love it i know i love it anyway so she said still wanted attention yeah we all do it so i did not answer next thing I hear him say is, Alice, will you marry me? I bolt upright and turn to face him and say, what? And he said, I was just practicing.

Oh my God, you did him. She goes, who practices with the person right there? That's true. To be fair to her, who fucking with the person right there? That's true. To be fair to her, who fucking pretends to be there? I love how she says, who are you? You're a slave. Needless to say, there was one shot at a proposal and I took it. We've been happily married one and a half years.

Can you imagine that? I'd be so butthurt if I heard him practicing. I'd be like, I fucking ruined it heard him practicing so i'll be like i fucking ruined it for myself for just wanting five seconds of attention but do you know would you have said what or would you have pretended to stay asleep because i would have pretended to stay asleep i always have yeah i wouldn't want to impact because especially because also like will you marry me will you marry me yeah yeah and also i'd be asleep and i'd be like he thinks i'm asleep so therefore no i'd be thinking even if he doesn't think i sleep

how fast i am i i better open my eyes there better be elephants and waterfalls and wildebeests around me yeah because tall order for miss mcneil over here i'm on my sofa okay yeah what's going on exactly brilliant okay let's go let's crack on so as always we have dilemmas from you and as the theme of the week is proposals this situation is all about that so love it here we go his proposals this situation is all about that so love it here we go oh girls i really need your help so i'm going straight into debriefing hell yeah girl you go for it i love my mom so much we are very close and more like best friends rather than a conventional mother and daughter relationship okay she really likes my boyfriend which is great to have um their approval because

it reassures me and makes me excited about the future. But he and I have only been together for less than a year so we're in no rush to get engaged. Oh yeah, that's quite soon. I wonder how she said how old they are. Not yet. Okay, interesting.

That's quite soon. My mum, on the other hand, seems to want a wedding sooner rather than later. In fact, she bought me a wedding magazine for my birthday and had me open it in front of my boyfriend and then asked him will she be needing these soon oh my boyfriend's

a great guy but i'm worried if she keeps this up he'll get scared off i've talked to him about it and he is on the same page with me or so i thought then an hour ago i've got out the shower and started to get changed i didn't have any clean, so I went in his drawers to find some. Much to my shock, there was a ring in the drawer, bright and shiny, looking up at me. What the hell do I do? So mummy's got on his head. Mummy's got on his head.

And it seems like you're not ready. Like, you don't, you're not sure. Now, we've got to hope to ourselves this isn't an Alan Rickman in Love Actually, but it's not for someone else. Well. Did she... The question is, is it an engagement ring?

Because you could have opened the box and it could be something else. What did she say? I found a ring. She said there was a ring in the drawer, bright and shiny, looking up at me, so she's looked at that. It's sparkling.

It's an engagement ring. I wonder how bright and sparkling. If it's very bright and sparkling, maybe it reassess me. Yeah, lovely. That's a really hard one. But I'm sorry. The mother making you open a wedding magazine

and say, That's rough. Will she need this soon? I'd be humiliated. I'd be like, mother. Am I some kind of wench? Am I a wench you're trying to sell to market? Yes.

Am I the last cow? I'd be really embarrassed. Yeah. I know she says she's got a close relationship with her mum, so maybe, oh, God. Maybe speak to your mum about it. Not maybe per se her like forcing the situation but maybe being like i found this i just don't think i'm ready oh i don't even

know if you should tell your mum that you found the ring because she seems so desperate she might be really excited she might be like rush yeah it's ah the the the the biggest problem for me with this is do you want to marry this man because because she hasn't said that she's also said it's quite early on in the relationship which i'm like i get that you of course you won't want to get married to someone early on into a relationship you don't know how long did you say a year less than a year i think that's hard i but also i've never you know when people say when you know, you know. You do. I think you do, but I've never experienced that.

So I also don't know if you, but I hate to say it, but it doesn't sound like you feel like he's the one right now. Yes. I don't know if you're just unsure. Yeah. And that's okay. You can be unsure. Because you can be unsure because you can be unsure and

then they be the one that can still happen because you're less than a year in you're still sussing things out are you even living together oh my god if you're not even living together then that's a huge part of the what you need to work out oh that's a really hard one i don't oh my god i don't even know because i can't even, I'm scared to say talk to him. Yeah. I'm scared because. Because. Do you act none the wiser and have a casual conversation with him?

About how you're not. Joking about your mum. So. Yeah. I'm really sorry mum's been so pushy. I love you so much. But we both, do we both, I definitely feel, are we on the same page that it's not the time?

I love you, but I'm not ready. Maybe blame your mum like that. I'm scared that if you say, I found the ring. Yeah. Don't want to get married. And he's like, oh, maybe spin it from, maybe. Yeah, this is right. Spin it from a perspective that you don't want to,

like him to be scared off so you're like oh my god i noticed my mom's been doing all this stuff she's really forcing it i really hope this isn't affecting anything between us because obviously i feel like we're both not ready i'm not ready come maybe from that angle yeah i like i would say so that you think it's like a you're trying to address it because i don't know his concerns i don't yeah i don't fully understand the bit she's worrying about because if she's i do really want to get married to him but i'm worried it's come from my mother rather than his own feelings then that's a whole different ball game yeah that's also true because if you love

him then great of course they yes and if you feel ready amazing then of course i feel like she would have said that and she didn't. So who knows? But I think you just need to have an honest conversation with her and just be like, do it as Katie said. I'm really sorry about mum. She's been really pushy at the moment. We love her so much,

but obviously we don't feel that we're in the right place yet. We need to move in together before anything like that happens. Who knows? Good luck. Peace right in the right place yet. We need to move in together before anything like that happens. Who knows? Yeah. Good luck. Please write in. Good luck. Right, should we go on to eggs?

Yeah. I've got... Eggs! I've got two eggs this week. I've got one. Is it to do with proposals? It is. Great.

Okay. Yes. Can bing bong with her? Ringing the food. Ringing the drink. Oh. Absolutely not. Yes. Can bing pong be there? Ringing the food. Ringing the drink. Oh. Absolutely not. Oh, no.

If someone puts a ring in my champagne, and then I glug the champagne, and it gets stuck in my throat, or, worse off, I have to bloody fish it out, or I don't even see it no i don't like that worse for some people yeah not shitting on it but doesn't work for me yes ringing the lasagna no thank you ringing the cake nah nah i'm sorry that's a no-go for me the right ready yeah now this is when men who call their fiancés or partners wifey oh i hate it do you i hate it oh there's there's wifey oh do you oh i like that do you i love love her. If a man called me wifey, I'd melt.

Really? Oh, she's my wifey. I'd be like... Wifey? I'd be so excited. I'd be like... Really? Really? Will you marry me?

I just don't like it. I have the same it with when someone goes, oh, I have to ask my missus. I don't really like it. You don't like it? I have the same ick with when someone goes, oh, I have to ask my missus. I don't really like that on my bird. On my bird. Like, I don't like it. And it's the same with, oh, there's my wifey. Okay, I see what you...

Okay, you don't like that anyway. I find it weird. I'm like, I have a name. Yeah. Address me as such. Yeah, address me. Yes. You ready?

Yep. Okay, my other ick is Hariboibo rings don't put a haribo ring on my finger and be like shall we then no no you'll never see me again i'm like never do that to me aren't you always jokes because he knows it's the neck of mine and he's like oh i'll just like you love canvas suits well no no you won't it's not even a joke not a joke not funny enough enough to be sad no questions questions this week i'm silly and i'm serious okay kick off my serious question to you is you're with the love of your life yes is it a deal breaker if they don't want to get married but want to be with you for your entire life that you've made it very clear that you both want to

be with each other for life but for some reason yeah do i know the reason or just i think let's say it comes from like being in families where relationships haven't what marriages haven't worked out and it's been really messy like messy divorces the legalities of it okay so they just don't want to get married but they're like you are life for me okay toxic trait yeah i'll get them to marry me i'll get them to want to marry me that much yeah personally it is just your breaker yeah i want to be i want to have the big white wedding i want to marry me that much yeah personally this is your breaker yeah i want to be i want to have the big white wedding i want to stand in front of all of our loved ones and say how much we declare our love and i want to bind our love with a little ring not little big ring on my

finger and i want to i'm not sure if i want to get married in church but i want to stand before god and the sacred vows of being like universe god make them mine forever let me sign it let me have your name yeah yeah okay great i'm your person make it official otherwise i'm off yeah i'm afraid for me it's a deal breaker i think i would agree actually i think if it was religion or something like that then i would try to understand i'd be more lenient yeah but if it's i come from a broken home i'll make you a safe one yeah not with me no not with me you won't no broken home here nothing but safe and nurturing environments with me in love walk my way yeah yeah i feel like although part of me like gets a bit nervous

about the thought of getting married yeah i get like because i because i'm not really a words of affirmation galley so my vows and i'd be a bit like nervous because people are like katie would just make little gifts for you little paper mache swan my family would be there and there's me being like i love you oh god you are my life oh i love it is it just me i feel like that i suppose i guess with the right person it is very nice but yeah but right now i'm like yeah i got what you mean okay so, so my silly question. Yeah. Would you rather get proposed to? Yeah. And then after you answer, they go, joking.

Or, would you rather get proposed to? And while they're asking you, they yawn in the middle. So they're like, would you, sorry, marry me? Or would you rather they go, Katie Leach, love of my life, spud to my neck. Will you, heart of the ocean, marry me you're like yes ben i'm joking yeah and he is actually joking or is he still proposing but is it a joke see i originally i was gonna say it's a joke it's a joke but this is him being like joking no i'm serious but he wouldn't say it straight away he'd be like joking and then you'd be like pause for a fact yeah and then i'd be like and then you'd probably start crying and then he's like oh katie i wasn't i'd rather he

yawns really i would rather he yawns because i think i could find that endearing oh you're so hard with swiss as you are i know oh my god the whole she's a good you're not because we just did it oh my god but i would find it maybe endearing if they yawned if they were like and then but if they recovered being like i'm so sorry like this is and then they start crying because they feel so bad that this is like the biggest moment of my life and i'm just fucking you and i'd be like oh babe don't worry okay don't worry is i was proposed to i'm sure they're like me i hate being fucking vulnerable then here i am like yes oh my god i love you so much he's like dickhead nah you can get fucked actually because that that's fuck that's cruel that's cruel that's like malicious yeah that is really that's malicious like you i actually would think that you're some sort of psychopath yeah

if you did something like that imagine imagine okay imagine they've hired royal albert hall out okay you go in there and there's candles everywhere and you go in and you're like because they say they're like oh i've booked this concert hall out for you to sing in because i want you to do a concert for the friends family and you're like oh that's so sweet he's can we just go together so because i've got a few ideas you're like yeah of course you meet there candles everywhere he's in a suit music's playing here like and you walk up and you start knowing and you know it's happening and he like walks up to you and he puts your hair behind your ear and he's like, darling, I've never loved you more than I do right now.

And he gets on one knee and he's like, please be mine because my heart belongs to you. And you're like, yes! And he's like, jokes. Jokes. He's an idiot. I would be so fucking annoyed. And confused. I'm like like you're dressed up in

the royal albert hall right now on one knee like a fucking dickhead the joke is asking me to marry you for a cheap joke i tell you what would be the reverse card though is if you were like yes and then he was like jokes you were like yeah jokes i'd never say yes uno reverse card see yeah i don't know you wouldn't pull that off you wouldn't play that no you know i wouldn't i'd be like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and then you'd cry and then i'd be like you'd be you'd be i'd go red yeah so you're gonna have to happen i'd have to take the yarn i wouldn't mind that yeah listeners what would you take yeah not the joking i i think i yeah i think the yarn i'll take the i'd be human would you take yeah another joking i i think i yeah i think the yawn i'll take the i'd be human would you take the joke either way either way i'd be

absolutely livid you'd be like wrong i'd be like you failed i'd be like oh my god you've just fucked up to both to i'm sorry if they're yawning in your face while asking them to match, how bored are you? You're not bothered about our future, are you? What if he's tired because he spent all day decking out the Royal Albert Hall for you? He's been on his hands and knees scrubbing the stage. Well, it depends on the severity. Dusting down the organ for you. If it was very good, then I would just turn a blind eye to the organ.

I tease him, though. Is it a big yaw? I don't know. Is it was very good, then I would just turn a blind eye to the yaw. And also, is it... I tease him, though. Is it a big yaw? I don't know. Is it like a... Or is it like a... Stifled yaw. Oh, yeah, he's not a stifler. He's a...

Brother bearing. Brother bearing. Yeah. That's a bit excessive, but I would still take that more. Right, guys, we're ending the podcast. Okay? We've reached the end. Sometimes I think we can't do it, and we do.

Every time. Not in the sense of mindset. I just think in humour. I think, can I get any better? And we top it. And every week we do. I listen to it on Monday morning. I'm like, God, I'm good.

God, we're hilarious. And do you know what's funny? I'm like, you hear that sound? Us knocking it out of the park. That's it. Oh, I loved that. That's fantastic it do you know what i can't wait for debriefers yeah when i've got an oscar encased on the bloody west end yeah i can't wait to bitch about it on here with you oh my god real being like you've been here since day dot okay you've

been here and you love me you've been here we've all been here right And you love me. You've been here. We've all been here. Right? And you fucking love her. Not fake fans. No. Not fake fans. Right, guys. Have a great day.

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