The Overshare with Gemma Atkinson - Our 6-Year-Old Interviewed Us… And Exposed Everything

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

What happens when you hand the mic to your brutally honest six-year-old? In this very special half-term episode of Lost in Translation, Gemma and Gorka welcome their most fearless (and funniest) guest yet : their daughter, Mia. From who’s actually the funniest parent, to how often Mum and Dad really argue, nothing is off limits.We've got Mia’s unfiltered verdict on life at home. There’s sibling drama, farm dreams, school holiday nostalgia, and a reminder that parenting is beautifully messy.Subscribe, laugh along, and let us know, are you Team Gemma or Team Gorks this week?Contact us at [e-mail] or on 07761039898

Coming up. Proxima-MENT. I'm going to say, don't stop trumping. Don't stop trumping. I'll never stop trumping. I was in school. Wow. And they let me watch Predator

eating diabetic ice cream at like 10 in the morning. The dog will live 4 and 6 years longer. I will live 4 and 6 years less. Whatever you do, look after my tomatoes. They were huge. You've started leaving the seat up. I sleep well with the dog.

You and the dog can go to another room. Are you going to do, Lent? Are you giving anything up for 40 days and 40 days? night. I give you nab on you. Hiya guys. Just two quick things before we get into today's episode of Lost in Translation. The first one, please, please can you take a moment

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Obviously, we're on all social media channels as well. It's lost.com. In dot pod across Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. So come and say hello. Right, let's get back to it. Or as Gorks would say, Let's go. Hello, welcome to another episode of Lost in Translation. Exciting one. It's myself and gawks, as per, in the judgment free zone. We listen, we don't judge, we solve dilemmas, you guys get in touch. It's a kind of, well, it's a very special episode today, isn't it?

Because we have our first ever guest on the podcast. And I think it's going to be my favorite ever guest. The favorite ever guest. Now I think this guest is going to throw us in at the deep end. I genuinely don't know what to expect. Yeah, I hope she doesn't judge. Well, she will judge. I think she'll be brutally honest.

And she'll dish the dirt on us. Please welcome. Our daughter, Mia! Hello. Welcome to the pod. Well, you've been known about this, welcome to the pod. You've been known about this pod for ages, yeah, bless you. It's half term.

I think a lot of people are related. It's half term. So it was bring your child to work day today. I think a lot of people will be juggling parenting and work Tiago's at nursery, isn't he, at the minute? She's having a drink, she's warming up yeah, Tiago's at nursery

but Mia's coming to work with us Yes, I think she's excited I think we are both scared and she's very excited, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah, well, without further ado, Bamos! How you feeling?

Good. What do you think about the studio, do you like it? Yeah. Yeah, you like the orange? It's like the church at home, isn't it? Yeah, I like the orange because most people think pink is my favourite colour, but oranges as well. Oh, nice. What's my favourite colour?

Blue. Red. Is it? Yeah. Is that why I'm wearing the red hat today? Oh, much your brother's favourite colour? Pink. Pink.

He has a pink dodo. He's obsessed with pink. We had a pink, well, he had a pink dodo, didn't it? Benzik Tude it up. Yeah. Which is a bleak. lesson for us. What is him obsessed at the moment with? Spider-Man. He took his Spider-Man to school.

Yes, he did. But you're not at school this week. You're on half-term. Yeah. So you've had a good few days. Yesterday was probably, yesterday was a good day. We went to the market, didn't we yesterday? You went on the rides? Yeah. With Nana. You went on a bus. And a tram. And a tram. Nice. My mom took the kids on a bus and a tram, which was the highlight. You like that, don't you? Yeah. You're like going on the bus and the tram.

We've been told that there's a few questions coming for you later on. Are you going to be happy to answer them? Yeah. A few people who listen have said, listen, we need to get the truth. Mia will be the one to tell us the truth. But just before you answer, yeah, remember to look at Papa, yeah? I'll give you the nod. Okay?

No, you look at mommy. Hey. I don't look at no one. You'll look at no one. She listens and she doesn't judge Papa. You have your own opinion. You can be free and say whatever you want to say, okay? Yeah.

You can relax. Well, me and Papa are going to crack on with the pod, but are you all right to come back at the end and play some games and stuff? Yeah, and answer the questions. Yeah. Right. Adios. Bye-bye.

See you in a sec, kiddo. Bye-bye. So I think the theme this week has to be child-based, because everyone's, a lot of people on half-term. Yeah. It is like a big thing for us, isn't it? Juggling kids and work. What would you say, obviously, half term in Spain, you have months and months off, don't you?

Well, now is carnival, so your half term now is because we celebrate in carnival. What's the carnival celebration for? Ash is Wednesday. Ash Wednesday, yes. We have Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. So you have to give up something for Lent for 40 days and 40 nights. Yeah, because that's starting now. Right.

So we, I don't know where it comes from, but we celebrate carnival, which is like where we dress up. You know, like you have Halloween when you dress up? We have the carnival and it's like a festive and you have everybody dressed up. That was last weekend. It's like I think the weekend before Valentine's. So everybody dressed up. You can have like, I don't know, whatever costume you want to have, funny or scary. And they do that.

And they do that in February. And in some places you get a full week of a bank holiday, like a, not bank holiday, like a half-term holiday. Like a half-term. Yeah. Are you going to do, Lent? Are you giving anything up? for 40 days and 40 nights.

I give it up on you. You're never going to give you. Should you do sugar? Process sugar. I've already been doing it. Yeah, but we had pancakes. I did I have one bite of the pancake. You bought all that stuff and only had one bite.

Why? Because I didn't fancy it. When I put it in my mother, it was so sweet. I had the full, too, with everything on. I've been having no sugar since... I know, we both have. We've done really well. And I've felt a lot better for it.

I'm not going to lie, I'm in a bit of pain today because my back went this morning, didn't it? I had my very first back spasm, hopefully never again. And Gorka, of course, went, how do you think I feel? I have this and have to dance. Yeah. No, I said to you, now you will say to me that I cannot tolerate pain.

No, it's not like it's a weird pain. It's kind of, in fact, if anyone's been in labor, it's, you know, the start of labor, this is to all the women listening, the start of labor where it's that dull, heavy ache around your lower back and tummy. So it's more of an annoying pain. Not, oh my God, I can't cope, but it's more of a... It depends on the level of the spasm, yeah, and how bad it goes. When you go, like you look like Gandalf, you cannot walk.

You had to walk with a stick. When you... I felt on the floor and my friend Simon had to lift me from the garden to the living room. That's how bad I was. You couldn't walk, could you? So imagine having to do a tour like I've done with that on your bag. So how am I supposed to fix this? just not sit still.

Well, the worst thing you can do is beside how you are right now. I know, but there's an other way for me to sit. Anyway, you know what? Sorry. You know what is the funny thing about this? Now that I said you heard, now you understand how much painful it is when I get it. It no matter what, she will twist it and have it like, yeah, but it's not as bad as my one. Everything she will be worse on her.

You can't, no fellow can sit there and say they've experienced pain in comparison to birthing a child. I'm not comparing it to birth. I'm saying that you will understand now when I get a, like my bad goes, how bad it is. And you keep saying to me, oh, you can tolerate pain. No. Your say is like he can tolerate pain.

I think what we should do one episode is get a tens machine and put Gorker on the tens machine and see what level he gets to of pain. And you too? Yeah. Yeah. I've already done labor pains, so I've done it. Yeah. You have Cesarian.

You didn't go in proper pain. Do you mean? You didn't have to push. It goes slicing your children. My gosh. You had pain. What happened with Mia? They had to give me the injection to induce labour.

You didn't experience the proper contractions. Like, for example, your sister or your mum. My sister, bless her, was walking down the corridor, clinging to the wall saying, he's coming out. And the nurses were saying, Nina, you need to calm down because he's not, he's not ready. And she said she took about three more steps and Tyler's head literally started crowning. She said, I've told you, he's coming out. So I believe that you had the pain and that pain is horrible. But I only had it short before they rush me through.

To everyone out there who is going to listen to this is going to go for me, don't go for me. I understand that she had pain and contractions. But she had a cesarean. Not by choice, but it wasn't the full experience of like you have to push. So you didn't experience the ring of fire. So you cannot go out. I know how painful it is. You don't know it.

No. Yeah. You know how painful it is to recover for sure of a slice. And I know how painful Hemorrhages as well Yes Let's keep it light With half term

You used to go to your Grandmas in Portugal No For the summer you said Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah yeah Are those your favourite

Kind of memories From being off school Some of them Yeah I have many Good memories Being off school Because I used to But I love to go to school

Mia Yeah School is good You need to go to school That's what you learn Yeah I used to have, so my mum's mum was my Nana Joyce. Yeah.

And my dad's mum was Willamina. We called them Min. Loved all sets of my grandparents. I was so lucky to have such amazing grandparents. But my grandma, so my dad's mum, they had quite a big house and lots of land. And, you know, they were in a better place financially than my mum's mum. My Nana Joyce and Norman, they lived on a council estate, you know. It was everyone on that estate rallied together.

And it was such a lot of. lovely place. And when I used to go to my grandmas, I used to love it because she was a little bit more posh. It wasn't posh. She was from Scotland, so let's be honest, she weren't posh.

But it was things like I had to take my shoes off. If I went to the toilet, I had to make sure it was clean after. You know, basic stuff, which is what we do with Mia now. Whereas when I went to my nannas, she didn't care. We could do anything.

Like the amount of stuff we used to do to Grandad, Norman, we used to dress him up. I used to put makeup on him. I mean, Nana was a diabetic, so she used to have diabetic ice cream. Don't know what it was, the brand or anything, but it was the nicest ice cream. And she used to let us sit, watching whatever we wanted. I remember they let me watch Predator. What's that about? I was in school. And they let me watch Predator eating diabetic ice cream at like 10 in the morning. And then I remember my mom saying, Dad, what's Gemma been doing? She's not sleeping. She's frightened. to death of this bloody alien

and it was because I'd watched Predator. Oh no. So my favourite memories of like being off school were always both like Nana and my grandma but especially Nana Joyce and Granddad Norman

because I could do whatever with them. Yeah, I have like many memories with both grandparents like the ones from my dad's side it was different because they were in the city. Right. So I used to be more in my house and then they used to like come in the morning

for example and do things but my mom's parents when I used to go to Portugal I used to not like it to go when I was always like missing my mom I was very like mommy's boy Did you get miss mummy pains? Yeah I used to get my luggage

and go to the end of the road and wait for the luggage to a taxi to take me home And my brother used to go Where you going? No one is going to pick you up Just come back, stop crying Really? Was he just like

Yeah because he was he used to love it But then I go used to it And I really enjoy it Because I used to like We live on a literally imagine like a yellow stone farm. Oh, right, okay. So we were in the middle of nowhere,

and the little village, in the mountains around. So I used to, my grandma, I used to have a horse and have it on the field, so we used to go and pick it up and bring it back with my brother. So that's the life I want with you. I keep saying we should get a farm. Mia agrees we should live on a farm. Why is that not an option if that's what you used to do in the summer?

Yeah, I used to love it. My favorite thing was that I used to get to wear the, you know, the cargo pants and military cargo pants with the working boots. and I used to have this like Swiss and Swiss knife. Swiss army knife, yeah. Where you have everything, I have it there. And I used to, we used to go to the river and get the bamboo sticks.

And we used to make nice sticks with it. We used to go with the, this sounds very bad, but my grandma, in the back of the house, we have like the rabbits, chickens and hands and everything. And we used to have the little, you know, the little guns. They had the little... A pellet gun, yeah. Don't tell me you used to do that. No, no.

Because that's awful. That's borderline psychotic. No, the ball ones. You know, there's like a plastic... With a plastic ball. So we used to have the hang in for the clothes. Yeah, yeah. Not food, the clothes.

Right. So, you know, the pegs. Yeah. We used to shoot the pecks. Right. I'm glad it was just the pegs. Yeah, yeah. We used to shoot to the pecks.

And then when my grandma used to go to the washing, there was no pecks. Or used to find out like pieces of clothes. in the mud on the ground. I'm not you're going to say you used to shoot the rabbits, that's why I was saying it was psychotic.

In the bar where she had the hanging for the clothes. That's fine. And we used to shoot the pecks and break the plastic pecks. Right. So then there was no pecks and she used to shout out

where is the pecks? So would you be up for one day retiring on a farm? Not a working farm. Yes. I know there is a place for them. I do support the farmers you know if it's done properly.

But if we just had like a horse, maybe a miniature horse, a Shetland. No, a proper horse. Yeah, we could get a Shet a Shetland as well. A few goats. Yeah.

A few little micro pigs. My favorite thing would be to have like fresh food. Like my grandma used to say, Goha, can you go to Nana's backyard and get some fresh tomatoes and an onion? So I used to go. Pick an onion. You could grow it ourselves. You know when you tried to grow carrots?

No, it was tomatoes. Tomatoes. Goka trying. And they were lovely and big. And then I went away and said to you in a couple of weeks and they had read, picked them up. Came back three weeks later. I forgot. No one picked them up.

They were like huge tomatoes. They were being eaten. by aunts and everything But at that point Norman bless him was on his last leg So I had an elderly senior dog You Couldn't walk

I had Mia and I had Tiago To deal with And you went on tour And he just said Whatever you do Look after my tomatoes They were huge Of all the things

But I forgot And he'd come back I remember you messaged me And said how are the tomatoes And I thought Oh my God And then my granddad My dad's dad

In the city He used to have this little in the mountains it was allowed in the city to have your own little corner thin maybe like I don't know five square ten square meter

and he used to plant like tomato a little binyard yeah but it was near the house so he used to walk there for like 10 minutes and you were there you're like where we live you have the little in the lines

you have the little thin right now and he used to have tomatoes cucumbers salt lettuce onions just like things that you can day to day Padron peppers

so he always used to bring them fresh. That one near us, what did they call them? I can't remember the proper name of it, but that one near us, it's got a scarecrow in it. Yeah, if you remember Mia used to say, the scarecrow looked like gangan. Yeah. And she was little, she used to say that looks like gangan.

Well, listen, you can get in touch with us at any point during this podcast. If you've got anything to add to the half-term memories, it's a safe space, isn't it? There's no judgment. We do have a WhatsApp, so anything that you send out, it could be read out. But you can follow us at social media. It's lost.com podcast across social media.

Or you can email us, Lostin Translation at bowermedia.com. Or if you want to WhatsApp us, it's O'Dable 7-60398-98. Should we get into this week's debate? Debate. Debate. Debate.

But how would you say in English? Divate. Yeah, so it's be. Debate. Debate. Debate. Yeah. Yeah.

In Spain, did they pronounce their bees as a V? No, it's the same. Because would you not say... Bilbao, Victoria, the same. Balencia. No. Valencia? You just said it with a B.

Yeah, we said them the same, like Bs. No V, like B. Bilbao, Victoria. It's the same. How would you say Vicky? In Spanish, Vicky. Okay. That's my question answered.

Okay, debate time. Do you want to go first? My one is silly, to be honest. I didn't have nothing this week. Have I been good this week? Not really, but I just want to give you a break. Go on then. I'll let you go first.

So my one is that you've been living everything again back from the gym everywhere. And you say, when I tell you, oh, you live, I didn't tell you because it's just, I just. What, like my T-shirts and stuff? No, like the barber with a 60 kilos or 80-kilos plates in it. And then you go like... Oh, you mean my weight's in the gym? Yes.

and in the middle of the floor and you will say, sorry, I'm rushing so I don't have time. And I get like, yes, I get it, you don't have time. So do I. So then when I have to go to train, it means I have to spend my time unfolding your barber and putting away your weights, which takes time of my training because you didn't have time. That's the perks of a home gym. If I was in a public gym, I'd put everything back because that is a pet peeve of mine. But I went in our gym yesterday and there was a pair of two KGs in the middle of the floor.

So you can't blame Mia. was training, but she can't reach the high shelf to put them away. That's Papa's responsibility. That's whoever's PT in her. And I wasn't the PT yesterday with Mia. It was you. Yesterday? Yeah. You didn't go in the gym yesterday. Thank you, Mia. So it means they were there for two days. No, I didn't go to the gym yesterday. When did you do a session with Mia? Tuesday. Do you want me to tell you what mine is? And it's something that you've never, ever, ever done the whole time I've known you, apart from the last week or so. But all the time in the last few weeks it's happened.

And I'm thinking, at one point I thought to myself, have you messaged the producers of this show saying, I'm going to do this to see who she actually notices? Yeah. Because you've never done it before. What is it? You've started leaving the seat up. The toilet seat. What do you mean?

You start, when you lift it up to have a way, you used to always clean the toilet and put the seat down. Yeah. You're always clean, but you don't even put the rim of the toilet seat down for me or me to sit on. I don't remember doing that.

The other day you did it in front of me, so you finished your way, you turned to wash your hands and I was talking to you, and the lid was up, dried your hands and you walked off and I thought, oh, swine.

And then the other night, I went to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, the seat was up, and you've never done it, but at least six or seven times now. You've left the seat up, so I don't know why...

I don't know. You do always clean, it though. You always have to clean the toilet. That's what I mean. You always do. That's why I thought, at one point I thought, I'm going to message Molly and say, as Gorka said to you, I'm going to do a test on Gemma to see if she notices. Maybe just do it.

I'm just like, you're in the quick zone. No, I'm just kidding. Maybe like you have been like a little loose and everything, everything, everywhere, you know, socks on the table. Well, let's see who you agree with this week. Is it a case of put the seat down or put the weights away? forgot the weights and forgot to see it. Yeah, well, we are busy. Let us know, though, on O'dable 7-603-9898,

or you can email us, Lost in Translation at bowermedia.com. Or you can just comment on our Instagram at lost.com. It made me laugh this morning on the Instagram. It was you with a face mask on a dressing gown. Oh, yeah, I was very, cute, yeah. With his feminine leg cross, he did it very, very well.

But thank you for tuning in. And again, thank you for all your comments on social. We do get a lot of feedback from you all. It does mean a lot. So thank you for that. Okay, now, before we're going to the dilemma of this week, someone has sent something, which I already saw that on Instagram a couple of weeks ago,

about a dilemma that we had a few weeks ago, which it was me annoying with Benji sleeping in the bed, which, to be honest, every day is getting more and more. Oh, this is from Sarah, isn't it? Yeah, and he's making my head in. Sarah's responding to us talking about Benji on the bed. She sent us this, so it's an image. And he says, dogs when who sleep on the bed

live four to six years longer than those who don't. Researchers found the triggers and deep release of oxytocin, the same bonding hormone that lowers cortisol, and reduces cellular stress. Yeah, I get that, but thank you for this. I agree, Sarah. Well, Sarah, thank you for that. I totally understand that. But means the dog will live four and six years longer, I will live four in six years less.

Because the stress that he's causing me having in my bed and waking me up every two hours, it's not good, you know? Because when I go to my walk... He doesn't always wake you up. All the time. The other day, you were saying he slept on the floor and you slept fantastic. This is sleepy. I don't care if he sleeps on the floor in the room.

It's fine. He's on the bed. And he goes down and then jumps in the middle of the night and jumps down. The other day was jumping on top of me. Mia even said, Mommy, Benji's on top of me. There's in my face. There we go. Thank you, Mia.

Yeah? And I can show you my... We've got a big bed, though. I can show you. show you my wolf the amount of times that I walk up in the middle of the night because of Benji. Oh. But I don't mind because if he wakes me up, like he'll come and stand over me. Yeah?

And he'll just pan and he'll be going, and I open my eyes and I just see his solilette. With a tuna's breath. As soon as I stroke him, he lies flat down again. Great for you. And he does that little sigh. No. It's just, I think he does sleep on the floor mainly. He likes being under the curtains, doesn't he?

Gemma. For someone who is a. all about biohacking year, all about longevity and health and live longer and have a longevity life, you just messed it enough because point number one is long sleep, deep sleep and rest. With a dog jumping on and over the bed? I sleep well with the dog. You and the dog can go to another room. We'll sleep in the spare room.

Great, thank you. That's probably why I've hurt my back actually because I was twisted because I didn't want to disturb him last night. Yeah. But thank you, Sarah, for that image. It is a lovely, lovely image. And I agree. Should we do a dilemma then? this week?

Yes, before we end up on a big argument how the dog is sleeping in bed. Wait till there's two dogs in the bed. Absolutely not. This episode of Lost in Translation is sponsored by Whoop. For those of you who don't know, Woop is a wearable strap.

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Let's hear Natalie's dilemma. Hi. I just want to say that, first of all, I absolutely love your podcast. I love listening to it. I always giggle loads of notes in the car to myself, looking absolutely crazy. I was just listening to the podcast for a couple weeks ago

when it was Dan that called about his friends' manners. And yeah, my daughter's friend, she come over for tea the other week and I'm very, very strict with table manners. Yeah, the little girl was eating chips with her fingers, that's with her fish fingers with her fingers, not using knife and fork. And sitting at the table like she was in the pulpit, which is a big no-no in my house. I'm not really sure if I would like a girl to come to tea again, to be honest. Is it maybe harsh, I don't know? Should I say anything to her more? Or should I just ignore it because everyone's house is different?

I don't know. Let me know what you think. I mean, it's not your child, first of all. And first of all, sir, I'm going to call you out, do not say voice notes when you're driving. I would. She might have been a passenger. First of all, how old is the child?

if it's a child like seven or below I will just say for me my opinion I would say it's not her child even if it's in her house she cannot tell her off or anything she can tell her daughter when the other friends are not there be like listen

whatever you do when even your friends are here you have your manners you do your manners not because your friend is here it doesn't have manners or different ways or different manners

you have manners so you stick to your maness, isn't it? Yeah, I would, because every, we've learned, Mia's had friends around for tea over the years and Mia's been to other houses and people. For 18 years now. No, people, you're in year too, yeah.

And people parent differently. Like the first thing we do when we come home from anywhere was the first thing I always tell Mia to do. Don't choose off and watch your hands? Wash your hands, yeah, wherever, especially if she's been at gymnastics, school, jiu-jitsu, yeah, or jihitsu, she's saying. I'm always like, right, wash your hands.

touch out because everyone's as hygienic. What I would do in that case, if there was a child... And what is the first thing in Jemadas when everybody leaves the house? Blitzes everything. I do. I do when they do. I clean everything. If anyone's been around the house... Even if it's family, she's still bleaching everything, eh?

Absolutely, I do. I love the clean house. So I would let the other kid eat how they need to eat because it's not your child's discipline. I would instill, as long as your child doesn't do that, other people's houses. And I would just make sure... after that meal, you say, right, let's wash your hands.

And if they say no, you say, well, yeah, because I'm not having you putting greasy fish fingers on everything. That's what I'd say. I'd just make sure the hands are washed. I wouldn't go to the parent with something like that, because if someone said to me, or me is eating chips with the fingers, I'd probably show my middle finger. But, you know. I mean, to be honest, Gem is still eating like, like, it was once, I remember this is a

funny disgusting. Was it recent? No, since I'm, even when I imagine it, it began. beginning. It was one of the things that put me off of you. I must have been hungry if I was... No, it's just like... Like, for example, I'm very of like, I eat with a knife and fork when even... I can eat even like a chicken wing with knife and fork, even if I don't do it.

Or a pizza with a knife and fork sometimes. What's that about? I don't need pizza with knife and fork. You are the one who do that. So what are you going to shout at me for now? No, we were having breakfast at some place, yeah? And he had the bread and she was like dipping on the, like... I dipped it in the egg yo?

No, no, that's fine. But then, for example, it had a bit of tomato left and everything. And it was just with the bread picking and everything and goes, ooh, no. Yeah, that's what bread's for. You're dipping. You dip the bread, but you don't collect everything and then have it. I know what I'm saying. You were like, not dipping.

Yeah, I was collecting. Cleaning and then you get a bit of avocado, a bit of the tomato, a bit of the tomatoes, a bit of the fingers and go in the mouth. No, that's disgusting. I didn't eat avocado with my fingers. Yes, you did. I put it on the bread and then at the bread. Even if you are like at home, it's fine. But you're in a restaurant or a coffee shop, no, in public, no.

You have very good table. manners, home and restaurants, but you do something, which it's unintentional because you can't hear yourself, when you're eating in bed watching your laptop, because you have your headphones on, you can't hear yourself chewing. I always chew with my mouth closed. Yeah, I know, but it's loud. It's what I can do. If I'm eating granola, if I'm eating granola, the granola is loud.

Yeah. Or a crispy, crispy breath, example. Yeah. But for you, Natalie, I wouldn't go to the parent. I'd absolutely not. No. I'd just say to your child, that's how I don't want you to eat. have wet wipes available, get the kids' hands wash before they play,

and then jobs are gooden. I could eat some chips on after her in that. Also a question for you guys there, because it's something that she does and annoys me also. And more people does it also. When you go to a restaurant, even if it's a napkin, paper napkin, or how you call it? Serviette.

Sevier, whatever. What do you do? You are a person that you use it and is fault like it's normal, or you do like a pie like this? and then you end up with like a pile of tissue. Gorka folds it very neatly. No, because Gemma, for example, in one meal, she can use three napkins because she goes like that and then put you everything there.

I just put it down. I ain't got time to be folding a napkin. No, but you just use it properly. Like normally you have it on your legs, it will be flat. And then you wipe yourself and put it back in. No, you go like that. And I will wish I have here a napkin to show you what she does. It makes my head in because there is only after the start is there is no napkins there anymore.

I know. And then we took Tiago's right in, so he looks ridiculous. My mum used to, like, back in the day, if we forgot napkins or there was no wet wipes or whatever, she just used to tuck the tablecloth in me. So the table, I'd be like a ski slope from my neck to the table. And you end up always with the stain on your clothes anyway when you eat. Yeah, no matter when.

But thank you for getting in touch, though, Natalie. And if you want to send a dilemma for next week, you can do. It's lost in translation at bowermedia.com. at UK. You can voice note us like Natalie did on 07-6103-98998 or you can follow us on social media and DM. It's at lost.in.com. So Mia is back on the couch ladies and gentlemen. It is half termed so we brought Mia in with us today. She's yeah rightly so. A brother's at nursery.

Our producers invited people who listen to the pod Mia to ask you some questions and Henry was saying when the questions come in there was a lot. Now we know you're busy. You know you've got a lot of things to be doing this half term. So we've picked out a few. Henry's picked out a few to ask you.

So you can be as honest as you want. No one's going to be offended. You know, we'll just, when we get back home, Mommy, you'll just, you know, I'll say thanks. Make it, Oreos. Oh, Gorker's bribing her with Oreos. Question number one. Who's funnier, Mommy, or Daddy?

I think. And remember who you spend this afternoon? with. I'm joking, joking. I'm trying to think. Do you know who is? You can tell you, it's fine. I don't know.

If I could say both of you, then I will. Because we are both quite funny. Yeah, that's the thing. Because one time it's mummy, and then the next day it's Papa, and then it keeps going on. So, shall we draw then? Yeah.

It was me this morning. She was listening to Taylor Swift this morning, a shoulder the, do the Taylor Swift goat. Oh yeah. That had a crying. That looks funny, but both of them. All right then. So we do, um, do Mommy and Daddy ever fall out?

Yes. What do we fall out over? Um, too fair. It's out like, in front of me like seven times. Seven times? That's not many. That's like one, that's like nearly one a year. Nice.

Well, arguing. and then you just fell out then about Benji sleeping in the dog. On the bed? Yeah, we do fall out with the Benji in the dog. So that's eight times, it's one to me. Well, mostly the seven times they're about, they're all about arguing. You've argued a lot. We've argued a lot?

Yeah, eight times. Eight times? That's how you fall down. And what did we argue over? Who's making breakfast and who's taking my brother. Oh, that's okay then. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, well we do argue over who's putting you to bed because I always want to and Papa always wants to. And we go, no, I'm doing it tonight. And he goes, no, I'm doing it tonight. Well, because I do line your bed a lot, don't I? You do like that bed.

So then someone just carries me. So I'm far sleeping in bed. So then someone just carries me. That's an even way to put me to bed. Yeah, I think that's how I did my backing maybe. Because I carried you on Tuesday and then I had bend you sleeping and then my back wrecked. Well, Papa's doing it tonight, yeah. Am I?

Yeah. What do you... Question three is what do you want to be when you grow up? Easy. You know it. Teacher. You'd be a great teacher. We've got our stickers on today actually from Miss Marquez.

I teach all the time at home. And you're a great teacher to your bro. You were teaching him to write his name this morning, weren't you? Yeah, I was teaching how to make a card. Yeah, she wrote, oh my gosh, we'll have to send a picture. She wrote a card today, Mia. She said, I'm going to meet you and Papa, a card. She went off in the play room.

What do you rode on the card? It was the sweetest thing. I don't know. He said, two, mummy and daddy. I love you very much. You are the most talented people I know. Love Mia. It was the cutest thing.

And then I put, like, some circle stamps, and then I put little flowers with your names on in them. Yeah. But it was funny because at the front she'd wrote Gem and Gorks. Yeah. I tried to put the mat on, but I couldn't. Right. Right, should we go for another one?

Jemi. He said Gemai. Jemai. Jem. What is your favourite food? It used to be tomato garlic bread. Probably, I don't remember the restaurant. I think you like past the world.

Oh, it was the restaurant. It used to go to him very, wasn't it? What is it called? Bella Italia. Beliottaria. It used to do the sweetest and nicest pizza and spaghetti. Yeah, it did. And it's my favourite food.

That's my favourite food. That was it. Spaghetti bolognaise and tomato garlic bread. From that restaurant. So it was called Bella Italia. It wasn't the chain, was it? It was a family-run restaurant. It had been in Berry for years and years and years and years.

And it sadly had to close, didn't it, last year? And where we go now? And she's gutted. And so how old house. That cracks me, am you? Question four. Do you think Benji needs a little puppy friend? Oh, it just got me there.

Mia? Yeah. Yeah, I too. There you go, Papa. You heard you from Mia's mouth. What do you like most about Tiago? That he's my brother? Oh. You get on really well with him, to be fair, don't you? You have your moments.

He bit me on the leg. He bit you on the leg. What did he say you did this morning? Put jam on his ear somewhere. She was like, they were having breakfast. They had in the kitchen. And she was like, Tia-Haw. She was like, Tiago, you want a spider-man.

She was like, Mommy, she's spinning my ear. No, it's funny because they get on really, really well, and he gets dead excited in the morning to see her, but then occasionally, like, they'll just, for no reason, fight. I just don't laugh, but it's not funny, but do you remember when he hit you on the head with the remote? I just heard a bang, and then I heard, Mia, I'm watching that dump.

Then she screamed, so I ran in. She was crying, and he was sat with the remote in his hand, just looking at her, and he'd hit her with the remote. Remember when he put the old tell remote down the toilet? Yes. And then someone didn't know when they flushed the toilet. He put the TV remote down the toilet. Yeah, he's a minis.

And then someone went to the toilet and then they didn't know when they flushed the toilet with a TV room. Yeah, he's done all kinds of stuff, aren't he? Yeah. Between him and Benji, we find toys everywhere and anywhere. Yes. Especially with an operation. With an operate?

Oh, with the game operation. Yeah. We've got Operation for Christmas and the little bones and stuff. but you probably won't even see it now but as you get older Tiago's going to be your best mate when you need anything I have seen it already

I know he is but you'll appreciate it more when you're older is what I'm saying how often do I speak to Antinena now a lot? No do you know what I mean You don't FaceTime her a lot I call her a lot

You don't You don't? You don't call her a lot You don't call her like You're not call her once this week Are you insane? Not call her once this week Of course they have

Can I ask you a question? How many times in the journal here Mammy's been listening to our voice notes from Laura? None, genuinely. I didn't listen to any voice notes. I wrong with mum. She spent like ten minutes on the phone to Nana

just talking about how I heard it, how someone didn't pay Papa. That's what you go. Just ten minutes, just speaking. about that and then just talking about random stuff. I hope you speak to me as much as I speak to Nana.

Because obviously she's your Nana but she's my mum. That's why I ring her about everything and anything. And I hope you're like that with me all the time. I don't want you to ever stop ringing me, okay? Can you promise me that now so it's on tape that you'll never stop ringing me? Can you say a promise? Yes. Okay.

Now you've said that I do have something funny to say. Oh, okay. It's a safe space. We listen. We don't judge. Say away. Do you know how you had a podcast about who trumps the most? Who trumps the most?

Don't stop trumping. I'll never stop trumping. Don't you worry, kiddo. We'll never owe trumps in our house. You don't hold a trumping. It's like every 10 minutes. What did he do? Mommy, she does one every 10 minutes.

What did Tiago do this morning on the stairs? I hope you used that on the stairs. So he was going on the stairs because he forgot his. Spider-Man and then he just took a step off the bottom step and then he took a step and then he went flying in the air and then in mid-air he trumps. He trumps as he fell. The landing of his fall made him trump.

No, he landed when he was in mid-air. The next question is out of Tiago Benji, mummy or papa, who gives the best cuddles? Ooh, that's tough. Tiago. Tiago does love a cuddle, doesn't he? Yeah, he does get it. Because one day, he, remember we were in bed,

and he just ran and, like, squeezed me. Yeah. He went like that. Yeah, Tiago is obsessed with you. And he does ask for you, doesn't he, in the mornings? Yeah. What's your favourite thing to do with mommy and papa? Can I have, like, one each?

Yes. Yeah, of course. So I'm going to go with Papa first, because that's easier. Okay, this is both. probably with Papa getting ice cream from the mall The mall? Yeah. Why are you in American?

No. What's the mall? Sorry. Do you mean the Trafford Centre? Yeah, because we're over there. Mummy, does his drawing on the wood in the garden. Oh yeah, we do a lot outside, don't we? No, it isn't that.

Doing gymnastics together, because we do do a lot of gymnastics races. We do. I don't know if I'd be able to do gymnastics for a bit with me back, but I'll try. We do our own. springs, don't we in the house? Yeah, we do roundoffs and all kinds. Do you want to say thank you to everyone for listening?

Thank you. Hopefully this episode, a lot of you have listened and thought. Yeah, we have been thrown under the bus. So we've argued eight times about Benji's sleeping on the bed. We're both funny and occasionally. You're good at taking her to the Trafford for ice cream. I'm good at gymnastics. Okay, but no, thank you.

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