The Overshare with Gemma Atkinson - Are we smarter than a 7 year old?! | Lost in Translation

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

Gemma & Gorka have the holiday blues as they reflect on a lovely break with the family but it’s led to a bigger discussion about how many clothes you should take away with you… and if that should also include a 15 euro bucket! Also, they think back to what stuff they had to sacrifice when moving in together and we find out if they’re ‘smarter than a 7 year old’ as they answer questions on some subjects Mia will be learning about in year 3! Contact us at [e-mail] or WhatsApp on 07761039898. Producers - Henry Hewitt & Molly CarterSenior Video Producer - Elena CottonSocial Media Producer - Cassidy RebeloProduction Assistant - Emily SpunginProduction Manager - Sarah NichollsExecutive Producer - Laurence BassettHead of Production - Cat MoranChief Creative Officer - Lucie Cave Follow us on social:www.instagram.com/lost.in.podcastwww.tiktok.com/@lost.in.podcast

Coming up. Proximately. It's all like crispy and crusty where it's dried on the balcony. Gemma. You're a mess. You're an absolute mess. But I love all of your mess.

What are you doing? He's like a frigging ballerina. I'm going to ask this question. Do any listeners? Have your partners. Tiago went, Don't touch Papa's bike. I always said she dressed herself

like she's being hung over with a light off. He says on it, Even while I'm drinking this, I'm thinking about... Can we make Gorkers for new phrase? Convince yourself. Hello, girl. That is the new phrase. Convince yourself, girl. Hiya, guys. Just two quick things before we get into today's episode of Lost in Translation.

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I've got holiday blues. That's what I mean. I feel still in the holiday vibes, you know, very slow, very... Is that why you're wearing blue? Yeah. To reflect the mood and I'm in black. I know, blue. Look at the tan, you know?

Look at my tan. I got quite a good tan, didn't I for me? Well, look at me. Let's open the book. No, because my whip stinks. Mine's got like bits of sand-dling and stuff. At least it's your whoop, no, you. But this is the whoop reveal, you know?

Look at his tan mark from Tenerife. Yeah. We've had a lovely two weeks abroad with the Sprogs. I mean... Stayed in our favourite place. We absolutely love it there. The staff, the guy around the pool, is obsessed with you, isn't it? You two become mates.

I say obsessed. He's just a love. I can't remember his name. I can never pronounce it. Yeah, it's something. I just go, hi, pal, or hi, I can't pronounce his name. All that he remembers us all the time. Yeah, it's lovely.

We arrived there the first time, and we are walking on the little buggy, and he already goes, like, with me. I remember his, like. Well, we've been going to the same place for five years, and it's got to that awkward stage where it's too far for me to ask his name. After five years, by the way, what's your name? So that's why I just go, hello, you're okay, mate, hi. And then all this, but it is somewhat like Homer or Heimer or... I think it's Jaime.

It's not Heimann. Haime. Heime. Haime is their name, yeah? Like, Jaime. Yeah. Jaime is Jamie. Oh, really?

I think it's something like that, yeah. Yeah. I don't know, because again, it's all the only time. Hello, good, good, hello, how much, how best, so bien. And yeah, they were all in. really, really top form, as usual. They're great with the kids. And Mia was so good at helping Tiago learn to swim.

Because obviously he started his swimming lessons recently. And you came to watch one of his lessons, didn't you, not long ago? And he did all right, didn't he? He's a little bit timid. But Mia really brought him along in Tenerife. I think because he sees Mia, he wants to copy it. We say that. Because he sees Mia, what she's doing, she wants to be like her.

So then he jams and everything. But yeah, it was lovely. But we're back home, back to the grind. Can we go back? Oh, I'd love to. Can we just pretend to do a podcast? Let's do Lost in Translation, the Spanish edition, over in Spain. With the pantries, the sunset behind us.

Hey, me, with our drinks, fly him over. You know, someone like that with a fan. No. You know? Instead, we're on the downward slope, rolling into autumn. Winter already. No, it's not. I don't even know why I'm still wearing short while the heat wave is here.

But I'm Gemma. This is Gorka. And without further ado, BORU! So this is the Lost in Translation podcast where we listen and we don't judge. We have a good laugh. We solve your dilemmas.

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Well done. You remembered it. I did my homework. You did. Yeah. But thank you for getting it. in touch. We absolutely love it and we have so many messages and

comments on Instagram that are just brilliant. And I said on another episode that everyone is lost in translation. Do you know what I mean? The amount of people we bumped into at the airport, even abroad on holiday, just struggling with basic day-to-day shit that we struggle with. It's like, oh, okay, nice. I only consider

they were both British, you know? So... You're saying us Brits are worse than you Spanish? Well, no, I mean, I'm lost in translation with you because I'm Spanish and you're British, but... You're like, oh, I'm like you guys, you know, I'm lost also with my husband. I'm like, where are your husband? Oh, he's from Yorkshire?

Great. Yeah. So if they're lost, we've got no chance. Yeah, that's what I mean. So I'm lucky, you know? Yeah. But no, it's been a nice few weeks, hasn't it? We've had a good rest. Yes.

I have got a little something that's annoyed me since we've been back, even though we haven't been back long. Give me a chance, you know? I was on holidays. I know. I have so many things that annoys me of you on holidays. Really? It's the packing one of them.

Go, I have to pack my case for. me because I, well, I tell a lie, I packed my case, but I apparently did it wrong. Gorka packs better than me. He's used to touring. He packs in a way that's more convenient. I can get more things in. So rather than just leave my case as it was, for me, it was all repacked in a better, more efficient way. It's fold. She puts everything everywhere. You know, like, sometimes you have clothes and shoes in the same side. You're like, no. Yeah, but they're all going to become warm and washed anyway. Yeah, but I love that when we go there, the luggage closed perfectly. When you come back,

sometimes with less clothes because you they sometimes like you know like the kids costumes get dirty or you're like you know what just give you charity or whatever so you leave them in there or like you brought your sandals so you don't bring it back

and it was no space because it's like a pile of clothes in the luggage it's just stressful for me I've just very like The first two years we went to Tenerife I bought a bucket and spade for me but I bought it at the hotel

because the hotels I brought it back it was I mean 15 euros for a bucket in spade Yeah, leave you there Maybe a family goes there I was...

I was so annoyed There was none The hotel's dead far out So you can't really just go to the local shop There's a shop in the hotel But it's really overly priced And it was a small bucket I'm not even joking

It's small bucket in spade 15 euros And I said I'm sorry And she said 15 year So what's that like 13 quid 12 yeah And I was like for a bucket

And I said to you we walked back to a hotel and I said this is coming home with us and we took it back the following year, do you remember? I took it back to the same hotel, reused it and brought it back. So we got two and a half years out of that bucket. This year we were organised because I bought me. I love this.

It's called sinkers. Yeah. So obviously every year one of her friends have them and she plays with them when they were there. But we always, oh, wait to get them for me. You like throw them in the water and they sink down. And we always forget. So before we went there, we ordered Amazon.

So we had the whole kid. So we were like prepared. We were prepared. No squeezing in a little plastic bucket into the case, like the tight northerner that I am. And save 15 pounds for coffees. You know, but come on, what was it? What was that? What do I know you from me?

Well, you've got your new bike. Well, not your new bike. You've got your bike fixed. And you went to the bike shop to collect it. He's in the garage now? Who put it in the garage? The cleaner? Vicky?

No? Yes. No? Yes. I put it in the garage. when you left this morning. Because you left it. No, I didn't left it.

So you know why it was there for? Why? It was there. Before I left, came back from school, yeah? I have to click the thing that was on the charger, the GPS, click it, put the helmet,

and I had to spin it before I put it on the garage because of the new tyres, because of the liquid, they told me to spin it every day for the next few days, so then the liquid dissolves into the wheels. So now you put it in the garage. I have to go back and get it

and then did it. So that's why. You have to walk three steps into a garage. No, but it was there already. So I come in, do we put it on the garage. So you weren't trying to be smart and get me. I came home. I opened the door and behind the door was a bicycle with a helmet and a pair of sunglasses in it.

And I thought, surely that should be in the garage. That's why it was there to put it in the garage. Imagine if it fell or got damaged, you'd be the first to kick off. No, it won't fail. So when you took Mia to school this morning, I got Tiago in the car and I said, said to him, I'm just going to meet Papa's bike. And then Tiago went, don't touch Papa's bike. Exactly.

And I said, I will. I'll put it in the garage where it belongs. The bike was there for a reason. Because if you see it on the plug, was a little black thing charging. What do you mean, the liquid in the wheels since when do wheels have liquid in? So they have the air in them. Yeah, but they have now this system.

It's called no, uh, no, it's tubeless. So they put this liquid inside, like a foam. They have to dissolve and moves on their wheels. So it covers the whole wheel. So then when it pops, instead of the head out, that form goes into it and covers the...

So it like vulcanises it. It seals it, yeah. So it's like, like, are tight and it's like that. I can show you a YouTube video to understand that you want to do. Oh, you don't need to. No, no, another day.

No. Anyway, yeah. But that's the only thing, which, you know, after a two-week holiday, you come back and that's the only thing you've done, so that's not too bad. To me, so you know what I'm not being on the holidays. So obviously...

Do you wearing your sliders? That's fine. Taking my own but Nick in yours. Yeah, for example. But, no, it's... It's not this. So you know when you go hotels sometimes, obviously the storage in the hotels are not that big, you know, like the covers and stuff like that. And we are four persons. We have like a huge, like a big, big room and stuff. But the covers are just like standard covers. Yeah. Covers. Yeah. Covers are the drawers and the hangers and everything. So the first thing that she does is takes the clothes and she goes one draw for everywhere, yeah. Which is fine. You have to hang your stuff for. Yeah, yeah. That's absolutely fine. So what she does is, is. gets one for Mia, one for Tiago, one for me, one for her, for example, no? Yeah.

Which it makes sense. Yeah, we have a drawer each. But then she puts in the same draw, the clean and the dirty clothes. Yeah, because I know from my naked eye which ones I've worn and which ones I haven't. I can remember what I've worn within a week. Jabba, it's not better, for example, than maybe you can leave the clothes there, put all the there and then the dirty ones in like a dirty back. So then after, or fold them properly, to after put it back on the luggage, it's empty, because it's going to be three luggagees.

You can have one side, what is the dirty clothes, so then you don't see them again. I ain't got time in my life to do that. Because what happens sometimes is that you go, Mia, mommy, I dress up, she dress up, and she doesn't realize, she gets the same dirty clothes. Your version of dirty and mine is very different. If they're stained with, like, pasta sauce or sun cream, yeah,

if it's just because I've worn them one night for dinner, I could wear it again. That's fine. I only take a week's worth of clothes, really, on holiday, because in my head I'm going to wear everything twice, just re-wear it for the next week. Very Northern. That's what I do.

I'll just turn it inside out and re-wear it. Bikinis, you can just do a quick swit in the sink. You always swit your bikinis in the sink. Ring them out. Hang them over the shower. Wear them the next day. I'm not going to take more than three bikinis on holiday for two weeks. Not at all.

Would you have done that if you were a lady? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Why? Just outfits. But you're going to go in the sea with them. I try to take an outfit for every day.

That's what I mean. that's a waste of clothes. Why? Because you're not going to wear an outfit. I take no money. You're in shorts all day? Yes. And just a vest top.

Yeah. And you just need an evening meal outfit. You're telling me that I can wear the same vest that I wear all day that I've been on the beach. Sweaty, sandy, salty, cream, sticky. If you're going back on the beach the following day, yeah? No. If I'm going back on the beach, I'm not bothered about being dirty. They wear the same t-shirt from the beach where, like, even been on the beach in the morning and then came back.

and putting the same tissue when I'm in all sticky from sweat, cream, sun, salt is disgusting. So imagine the way next day, the tissue that I were the night before. I do, and it's all like crispy and crusty where it's dried on the balcony. Disgusting, yeah, ma. No one's near me. Do you know what I mean? It's just yourself. You and the kids are used to it.

No. I always think the less space in my case, because I like purchasing the little things from, like, the local, like the little markets and stuff, and the little, when we go to that mall, They've got those are nice shops. I like buying things to bring home. Yeah, because you want to wear them instead. Summer clothes in Manchester, you're going to be very useful when you can back from holidays. I buy things and I say to me, I'll wear this when I get back and I never do.

Last time that we went, she bought these like three baggy trousers, like linen trousers. Yeah, very like for the beach. I always get complimented on them. She bought them two days before we left. Oh, I love these trousers. I'm going to take more pest with me, yeah? The gorgeous pants. What she does?

Because she cares about clothes. She puts them in the wash, straight into the dryer. linen in the dryer shrink. So now she walks, the other day she goes to school to do the, we were the, before that we went one day to school. She was wearing these trousers.

They were here. And he said to me, you have a stain on them, but for context, straight from the school run, you take me or I take Tio, straight from the school run, I go for a walk with Benji.

No, always. Most days. Who's been walking Benji all the morning? That's why I had them trousers on. If I'm going on a dog walk, I'm in my scruffs, because he jumps up, There's horses involved.

There's, I'm walking through, leave, everything. Convince yourself, Gemma, because there's scraps and after. Convince yourself. Then after that, you go back to war with the same trousers. And it's not the problem that they are short, because she's tall, yeah? And they are in Spain sometimes, like, and especially Spanish brands, they are like short length. Yeah, because you're all 5'7, aren't you? So, she goes to the work with the trousers up to here.

Can I just say? With the broken socks. I bet you have socks with holes today. I don't know what socks I've got on today. Let's have a look. Oh, God. Are they matching? No, they're not. No, are they heck.

Can I just say? I always said, she dressed herself like she's been hung over with the lights off. Do you remember you won't know it? But Ashleen from Big Brother, do you know how she was famous on Big Brother? She's actually lovely. And she did a phrase, you better know yourself, little girl. Can we make Gorkas for new phrase? Convince yourself, little girl.

That is the new phrase. Convinse yourself. You better convince yourself. Yeah. You have overtaken, Ashlene, from Big Brother. Yeah, convince yourself with your choices of clothes. You even look me up and down, do it again. Come on.

Convinge yourself, girl. There you go. That's the new one. That is the new one. And then you got me with the same matching. Look, white socks. Yeah, how is matching. We've got a question as well, actually, from producer Mureke.

Iglesias? If we had to choose. three famous people who are living or dead to have a dinner party with who would it be? Is it three each or three between us? Depends on the kind of dinner party?

Freddie Mercury, I would want there. 100%. You got in a while with that. No, Freddie Mercury was a genius. Who else? David Attenborough. I'd love to sit in real David Attenborough about life

and everything he's seen. I'd stay sly but I'd be embarrassed myself so I'm not going to say sly because I'd lose my mind if he was in the room with us. Who else? Michael Schumacher. That's your three? I like Michael Schumacher.

Have a nice chat with him. Yeah, I like, I don't know. I think I always say, because obviously I work in radio and we have artists in all the time, but a lot of the music now is done on machines. It's done in a lab, like at a desk. Back in the day, like Freddie Mercury, it was like proper musicians.

Yeah. And like if Freddie Mercury, George Michael, Tina Turner, if they were all still around now, imagine the music they'd be making. I would say Raphael Nadal, Bad Bunny. Yeah. And Gene Kelly. What would you ask Gene Kelly? It's just about dancing and like art and stuff like that. Then that's my reason.

So Gene Kelly, because I admire him as a dancer, like dance. I would be all like dancing, performing, movies, like directing. then Bad Bunny because I love his music and the way like not just below music is more like a movement, you know? And then Rafael Nadal because of the sport mentality his desire to be the best winning, playing,

all of that. You could like get him to cut the food so his forearm would be tensing as he were cutting, wouldn't he? Oh, wouldn't it be good? That'd be a good dinner party that. Us two and them? Oh God, you'd ever kill me.

That'd be a good dinner. Convinced yourself. He said to me the other day, he was sat in the garden and I walked out and you, what did you say to me? You said, Gemma, you're a mess. You're an absolute mess. But I love all of your mess. Didn't you? What were you?

I can't remember what I was doing. Oh, my feet were out of myself. You have, you have, you have, you were stressing because of your new phone and all the things that happened with your new phone and the, the logging apps and everything. Yeah. So you were stressed because you couldn't log in and all the apps. on the abs, then you come in trying to do your hair, but when you were doing your hair, your elastic pop and broke, and then she was standing with one shoe on, and remember the other

episode they had one hole on the sock. It was three feet, three toes were out. Three toes and she was standing there, like, stressing out, like I, I cannot lock in my phone, blah, blah, the three toes were like this coming out of the sock, and then the thing popped. And I say, Yema, you are a mess, but I still love you with that mess. Yeah, that's what you. said to me. But anyway, just make sure that you'll convince yourself, yeah? Convin yourself, little girl. Should we read some messages from the listeners? Yes.

Okay, do you want to read Crystal? Yes. Ready? So the first message is from Crystal in Toronto. Oh, nice. You know in Spain? We say Toronto Entero. What does that mean? Toronto Entero. Toronto? I'm from Toronto Entero. Nice. It means that from Toronto. Toronto. You just had an extra word. Toronto Entero.

Because you know in Spain we have this own So you're just elongating it. Yeah, just making a, I don't know, Spanish joke. Anyway, moving on. Crystal says, Hi there, I was just listening to the most recent episode where Gemma and Corka were talking about things their dads will always say and thought I would add another one.

My dad, whenever he's watching a TV show and if you will happen to stand between him and the television, he will say, you make a better door than a window. Yeah. We've heard that one. Never judge any spend. It means like you know, you're not see through, no?

Yeah. So you're just blocking the view. Okay. She also said, I love the podcast. It always makes me love, especially being married to a northerner from Warrington. Okay. Oh, Warrington's not far from me, yeah? Yeah.

Thank you very much, Crystal. Thank you, Crystal. Yeah, you make a better door than a window. We've had that in our house. Heather from Rochdale, Lisa Stansfield were from Rochdale. I want to add a debate of my own. She says, you know what? really grates me with my husband.

It's if I ever get poorly, he'll get the same thing within 24 hours. I could be suffering with bad period pains and I swear he gets the same. Why can't we just have an illness to ourselves? It drives me insane. Thank you for being with me whilst I've been marking GCSE maths papers.

Oh wow. Well, Heather, you may need to check your husband, you know, because I get a headache and stuff about period pains. But no, yeah, they do like to milk it. Yeah. Claire, oh, she's got a tip. For when we're putting clothes on the washing line. Okay, what's the tip?

Use coat and goes instead of pegs. I do those sometimes. Mm. Yeah. Especially with t-shirts and shirts. You know, especially for the shirts. Yeah. When you have the collars,

because you don't want them to fall back. To the shape. If you get a shirt and also save you iron them. So, for example, like a suit shirt, yeah? Yeah. If you get it from the wash, you wapped a very light, to the straight, hang it on the shirt with the shape properly. Yeah.

It will stay perfect after. Nice. I'd be worried about the line breaking. because of the weight of the hangar. No, I'm seeing hangars. The final message is from Becky, but it's a dilemma for us to answer. Okay, I love a dilemma.

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but the problem is that now we have two of everything. And this is where our first disagreement in the new house has started. I'm not someone who spends too much money on stuff, but I do like nice things, whereas my fella is, if it's not broke, then why fix it kind of? guy. This means that he's now bought old towels that I feel were break in half if I afforded them. A 15-year-old microwave you got from his Nana and a mirror that looks like you've got a filter on you when you look through it. He's also very sentimental. He's kept the vodka bottle he drank on his first night at uni and a coat bottle with his name on it. I don't want to be the person who's telling him off. I tell him. Who's telling him to get rid of his stuff and keep mine,

but it's hard when I genuinely feel my items are better for the house. How did you deal with it when you both moved in together and is there anything I can do to not seem like a bit of a dick? Thanks, Becky. This is very, you and I? We've compromised. You see, before I lived with Gawker,

I had, yeah, we have. I mean, how many pictures, beautiful pictures of mine from the old house are now in the garage? I've got a massive big leopard, I've got a massive big budder, I've got a big portrait of Norman,

I've got loads of stuff that I had in the old house, which Gawker didn't want up. Yeah, because if I... Rather than throw it, it's in the garage. If I laid you, the whole house will be pictures of animals everywhere. And if I let you, would there be no pictures anywhere?

No, absolutely not. I like pictures. No, I like pictures. But not all the time everywhere. You don't need to have 75 pictures of Norman in every wall. As much as if I love Norman. The fact, going back to Becky, how is she going to... Just do like me.

Don't sell her. When he's not there, just put them on a bag, put him on the bin. She won't notice. What you could do, Becky? If he's sentimental and he's keeping... stuff from back in the day, you could buy him like a little hamper or a little drawer or something and say, I've got this keep, this is a keepsake draw for you. Anything that's memorial to you, put in this keepsake draw, we'll put it in the loft.

What if I said to you, my 75 inches curved TV, it's sentimental to me because I hired from my first flat in London. What do you want to put it? I'd say, we'll just sell it and buy yourself from it. No, it's sentimental. You know how emotion. You're but a TV's not sentimental. It is sentimental.

It was my company when I was on. Let's say put it in the apartment in London. Put it in the spare room then. You know what? It's just silly. But that's what you do with other things. Doesn't make sense, right, the TV. Same thing, other things doesn't make sense to me. Same thing for her.

It would be the same as life. No, sentimental. Keep the memory. You don't need to have it there. The memories we always hold in your thoughts. So have it there. Take a picture and you go, oh, remember that mark. No, because what if, God forbid,

you get to older life and lose your memory? None of them will help either. even if having them physically won't help to come back your memory. I've got a little ring box and it's got Mia's two teeth in it. Yeah, that's different. Ollie's teeth and Norman's teeth. He kept on the teeth. Yesterday I was cleaning the garage and I realized there is like a plastic box on top of the shell.

That has been there for the last four years that you keep saying you're going to give it to charity. I know, but it was like it was Mia's first pair of shoes, Mia's first snuggy. It's got a towel. with a name on it. No, it's not those ones. It's many of this. The shoes have a little name on it. Which she never wore them because you hate them when they have...

You can't put shoes on babies. You've got to let them find the feet first or else they get the whole-legged. There is no memory. Someone gives you... Send you a pair of shoes with her name and you were like, oh, absolutely she's not wearing her shoes with her name. That's what you said. Never wore there, you have them there.

But it's nice to keep them. She might want them when she's older. Keep it on your thoughts. The best memories are the ones that you live and then you remember. and hold them on your brain. No, but some, I think, especially now we don't have print photos. Everything's on technology. Well, you print them all the time because you love them.

Yeah, because I think it's like, can you imagine, God forbid, me and not having any pictures of my dad anywhere. So when I was 18, for my 18th birthday, my uncle Clive. It's even better that you have them in a digital. Yeah, but no, because there's something about the smell of, like, I've got, in the loft, I've got a box and it's my grandma and granddad's and my dad's old photos. and they've got a certain smell and on the back she's wrote the date

where they were like it'll say like Glasgow 1962 or David threw a tantrum in this cafe and you turn it over and it's a picture of my dad crying in the cafe so it's kind of like I have them in the garage

because I think it's nice to have to physically see those memories as opposed to sitting and swiping and because we don't have that now so my I didn't know at the time but my Uncle Clive, he filmed my first to fifth birthdays and Christmas. He recorded them on a camcorder and he interviewed all the family. Like, there's one bit where he's on the camera and he says,

it's the 16th November, 1986. It's Gemma's second birthday. Happy birthday, Gemma. And he's going round the house and my sister's going, Happy birthday! I'm playing on my granddad's knee. My nana's there swearing with a fagging background. It's all fun stuff.

Yeah, but you can do the same with that. And now we have it also on the phone. But he gave it me for my 18th birthday. Yeah, but that's amazing. On VHS and I went... And when are you going to watch that now? Well, I couldn't. So then he put it on a disc for me.

There you go. And then I've got a Cini with slides. Which is amazing. But for example, what I'm saying, yeah, like, you had an argument years ago because you had a... When was that? What for? What did we argue for?

A box, not arguers, the disagreement. A box of the size of this table, yeah? Full of this table. of movies that she bought, you know, when you used to buy the DVDs. He threw away my street fighter DVD. She was like, no, I want to keep it. And I was like, Gemma, where are you going to watch this? No, I'll buy a plane.

I was like, Gemma, you don't have to. You have them all in Netflix. He threw them all away. If you want to watch them, you're going to still watching them. No, I won't be able to. Yes, you are. You don't need all this space. You threw away total recall, street fighter.

Yes. Mortal Kombat. Like, they'd be worth if you, Bob, and you just tipped them all. No, I didn't tip them all. I put it on the charity place of the tip. It's just, do you don't need to keep that. So you think Becky should just, on the sly, get rid of a fellow's stuff? Yeah, like I do with your mugs.

I was going to say, loads of my mugs have gone. As long as you don't throw the ones, the ones from the bait. That is you mugs that I know I cannot touch. Yes. The one of your dad and your little one, that never. But all these ones, like, you buy, like, you have, like, you have, like, some of those that says, like, flash your teeth, or something, coffee beach

or something like that. There's that one where it's, when it says on it, even while I'm drinking this, I'm thinking about cock. Yeah, for example. Yeah. And I've noticed that one when,

that was a lovely mug. She has one, it was pink, as a slot mug. Slot mug. And it's the mug that she used to give to the builders when it comes to the house all the time. Yeah. It says sluts mug, and then it says,

even while drinking this, I'm thinking about cock. My favorite mug, they will never throw and I cannot find them. She had this mug. It was black mug, yeah? Oh, yeah? It was a black mug. And,

And then when you put a hot drink, he used to go white. Reveal the naked man. Just that. So she gave it to her man once and my mom put the tea. Hold the... Oh, oh, Jesus. She said that, Jesus, that's shocking. That mug that turns into a naked man, I've had to give to Uncle Clive

because I said to him, Mia can make her own drinks. And it's not just with hot water, it's with any liquid in it. And I can't have that. But the slut mug, I mean, the fact... you got rid of that is annoying because that's a funny mug. Slug mug, yeah. But I've got my dad's mug from his office desk and I've got a little Miss Muffet with Gemma's mug on it

it's about that big from when I was a baby. But she's like, wherever she goes, sometimes... I love a good mug. No, but it's every... Especially around Christmas time when she's getting ready for Christmas and she goes to the garden centre. She's like, oh, I'm going to go see some decorations. She comes like, oh, I bought these sets of mug, you're lovely,

and then I'm like, go, sure. Yeah, they're like little health mugs. There's one that's a fault. in there. Water bottles the same. I throw the other day six water bottles because then

every morning she has her like I feel like I have my water bottle which is there and then in the morning I refill it and I have it always there

she comes down she has the same water bottle but she goes to the drawer get another one with no lead just the water bottle drinks a little bit and then I need water

It's because in one bottle I have electrolytes then I have my greens I have different bottles for different amounts I'm going to ask this question to any listeners, have your partners does the thing of every night take a glass of water to the side bed and then by the end of the week there is five glasses of water on the side of the

bed. Two. Yes. One of them was for Mia because she always comes to my side of the bed and she has two in the toilet next to the sink. Yeah, because the kids always need them. Please tell me if they do the same. We've massively digress from Becky. Sorry Becky. I feel like we should be helping Becky. What you should say, Becky is, you should both just sit down and say we've got quite, we've got both, two of everything, we're not going to need this. Let's make a charity pile and let's make a house pile. Or, depending on budget, you could strike a medium and say, do you know what, most of our stuff's going to charity. We've got a house together. Let's build it together. Let's go and let's get ourselves to Dunelm, all the range, and buy loads of new stuff together. Maybe we'll go to John Lewis.

And make it now. See, this is where we'd be wrong. Because you buy stuff from there, that if it did break, it's the end of the world. At least if it's like the range, it don't matter. A bit of super glue. But it wouldn't break if you'd treat it like normally, you know what I mean? With two kids and a dog? Yeah, but the kids wouldn't have... Like my big Egyptian expensive fars wouldn't break,

but yet you sent me a picture of it shattered all over the floor. That wasn't, that was the dog? That wasn't you. That was the dog. Yeah. It's either the dog or Tiago. No, it was a dog. So something would get broken. So I would do that, Becky.

It was dreadful anyways. I'd make a charity pile and then just say, you can build a house home together and Christmas is coming up ask people for vouchers for like shopping centres then you can go and do you know make your own house together get your John Lewis vouchers get your Trafford Centre vouchers

and do it that way make it fun that's what I would do you like the white company don't you? I love the white company yeah and I we disagreed massively because I refused to pay what they were asking for a fitted sheet that you just lie on I bought it.

That's why I don't... I was like... I'm not part taking in this. That's what I noticed me when like Benji goes in the bed with dirty posts. You know? And like wet because, yeah. She was like no, I want to like light grey white bed sheets. And I would never have white bed sheets.

That's what we have the... It's grey, not white. No, the bed one. Yeah, fitted sheets. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, but Benji goes, isn't it? It's white with like Benji's states on it. No, you know what is the worst thing?

I bought this bed sheet. She was like, can you buy this bearing? Yes, I bought a beautiful berring. And then she was like smoothing herself and baby oil or something oil. Baby oil? No baby oil. Like, you know, like with a baby, yeah. Oh, it was my scar cream.

Yes, the oil. Yeah, my Cere section cream. Yeah. Yeah. So after the baby. Yeah. Not a baby. Not a baby oil is in.

Castor oil I have. And there was that very greasy, very like, you know, like thick oil. And then it was a stains of oil everywhere and doesn't go anywhere. And then she goes like, well, what do you want me to do? Just don't buy expensive. bedding. There you go. Yeah.

Then you're not as disappointed when things go wrong with it. If you want all the expensive stuff and all the high-tech amazing stuff, you have to be a bachelor and live like psycho. No, you don't. Like the film Psycho, you have to live like him. No. But if you want the chaos and the fun and the noise and the entertainment of kids and dogs and a perimenopausal partner, then you deal with everything else. You need to lower your John Lewis expectations to the range. No.

And then we'll be happy. No. Lovier, you better convince yourself. No, my friend. Should we get onto this week's game? But good luck, Becky, and please to let us know how it goes. I'm with you, Becky. Just get it on a bag and throw them.

Do it together. Let's do a game. The game is, are you smart than a seven-year-old? Probably not, you know, with the stuff they have to learn now. You ready? Yeah. As me is moving into year-threat school next month. and will be now in K-stage 2,

our producers have chosen some key stage 2 learning questions for us to answer. Oh, wow. I'm not going to be a good at this. Because there might be British questions. Spanish is different, maybe. So should we start with the questions? Oh, it says to make it more of a challenge,

we've only got five seconds to answer them. So the time will start once we've read the question now, and producer Henry will shout. Say, Akabo, Tutti and Bo. Sorry? That apparently his time is. up in Spanish. What does that mean?

Seacabro to tempo. Is that mean time's up? Does that mean time's up? Se acabo. Se acabo? Tu tempo. Tu tempo. Two tempo.

Two tempo. Two tempo. So do you want to read the first one? So is that me to you or you to me? Both of us together. Okay. At together 8, 9 and 4. 909 is 18, 17, 21, yeah.

Right answer. Yeah. But I did it fast. Then her, yeah. How long does it take the earth to? rotate once on its axes. 24 hours. 24 hours because it's a day.

No, it's a year. No, 24 hours. It's a year. Wait. On its axes. No, yeah, it's axis is on the things. Around the sun is one year. I have a year here, but we're going to get confirmation.

I'd go a year. The axes is the full... 24 hours. 24 hours. Axis is the stick. They goes in the middle. One day is 24 hours. it turns it on herself.

So if I'm the earth and I've turning my axis is this 24 hours. Oh, Henry, we'd be out. Around the sun, so that's why the earth does this, look. Around the earth, the sun... What are you doing?

It's like a frigging ballerina. And then the full year. We'll be kept back in year too, Gemma. Yeah. It's all right. We'll be the kids at the back of the bus. We're not bothered. Okay, you'll know this one.

Yeah. You should do. Which country does not border Italy? France, Austria, Austria, Belgium or Switzerland. Belgium. Correct answer. It's good with these countries. What was an Egyptian mummy wrapped in?

Cotton, papyrus, where that is. Paper or linen? Linen. I'm going cotton. Linen. Egyptian linen. Egyptian cotton? Yeah, so cotton maybe, yeah.

No, it's linen. Oh. Which is the largest planet in the solar system? Oh, I don't know the names of planet. You're the one of the stars in the planets. Yeah. But I would say... My very...

Oh, but... It's Mars or Mercury. It's Jupiter. Jupiter. The artist? Oh, sorry, I'm doing question seven. Is Mars closest to the sun? Well, you'll find out in two questions time.

Which is the larger... Oh, approximately. How many permanent teeth the humans have? 32. 32, 26, 20 or 12. 32. 32. Me of Loth Earth.

He's talking like this. Tienpo, it's actually 26. Oh, well done You went just 32 I said 32 26 32 with a wisdom tooth

And they're not permanent Either they come out The wisdoms That's why I say My gosh As if Mia's going to have to do These questions And I can't even answer them

I'm right Yeah 32 team Not 26 I'm just saying I'm just saying I'm miss massing you Enrique and Jemma

You can tell you both From the same place Did you want Do you even same as school Or one We did We did We did actually go to the same school.

Just saying, I'm here two one, and I'm the smartest brain in this room right now. Which planet is closest to the sun? I don't know that one, but I would say Mars. It might be Mercury because... I don't think it's Mars. I don't know about planets on Mars. No, because they're not about putting people on Mars, aren't they for some weird reason? And if it was closest to the sun, you'd die of heat.

It's got to be Mercury. Yeah, you're right, Mercury. Right on, Gemma. I give you that one. Isn't it frightening all them planets? And we all think was significant on here. Oh, this is Six. It's the musical.

How many of his six wives did Henry the Eighth? Henry the Eighth behead. He definitely got rid of our bull-in, didn't it? You cut their heads off because they were having girls instead of boys. He wanted a boy to be heir to the throne. And they kept having baby girls, so he beheaded them. Tiempo. I don't know.

I know that's the musical, Six. It's about the ex-wives of Henry, but... Yeah, was it all of them? I think he killed all of them, yeah. Oh, no, was it? I don't think he killed none of them. There was a story about Anne Boleyn. And he got killed, I don't know.

Let's go five. I'd like to think he kept one. I don't really, you see, that's because I don't study that in school. No, we didn't. I didn't do Henry the 8th in school. I did Tudors and Stewart's. He only beheaded two. I think two of us died naturally.

Two survived and two were beheaded. Amber Lynn and Catherine Howard. Howard. And Berlin, his second wife and Catherine of Howard, were both beheaded after being accused of treason and treason and adultery. I mean, looking at his pictures, you would, wouldn't you? Go elsewhere. Looking at Emery the 8th.

Also, can we just agree? I'm the smartest one, no? That was a team effort, and I got some right as well. I mean, producer Henry got the questions wrong and he wrote them. Yes, ma'am. Can we just agree, yeah? If it was a bronze, silver gold, I'd be silver. It's fine.

like Spain, Spain, England. Same thing. Well, thankfully that's all we are time for. I like this game. Can we do these games more often, please? I won't write the questions. Good luck to everyone in Key Stage 2. You're in for a rough ride.

Thank you for hanging out with us this week. It's been a pleasure, as always. Thank you for tuning in. Please do like and subscribe and share us far and wide. And remember, convince yourself. Convince yourself, little girl. We will catch you next week. Thanks again to Shell for supporting the show.

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