The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - Bridget Jones, Fake IDs & Pretending To Be A Skater: Chloe Dixon

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

Who had a huge crush on Will Smith and pretended to be a skater whilst really loving S-Club 7? Chloe Dixon that's who! Creater of the charity 'Cancer In Common' Chloe joins The Phonebox Podcast to chat all about 2001. Spoiler alert. She spent A LOT of the time in a park drinking Blue WKD.Go and follow Chloe on instagram here and check out her amazing charity Cancer In Common here.For more of me follow @brummymummyof2 on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok and follow the @phoneboxpodcast account on Instagram for polls and nostalgic fun.If you have any guest suggestions, topics you would like me to cover email [e-mail] and be sure to tag so I can see where you are listening!#00s #00smusic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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ACAST.com Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Phone Box Podcast with me, Emma Conway. How the devil are you? If you are watching over on YouTube, I'm wearing a Britney t-shirt from the Britney tour we have a wonderful guest on today and Chloe do you like Britney Spears

of course I like Britney Spears oh that's a relief because I'd have been really sad if you'd said no what's your favourite

Britney track pardon what's your favourite Britney track er ooh oh toxic that's a great one i love toxic and i love stronger this is from her tour which is the pieces of me tour but now i feel sad because she probably

was really miserable when she was i know yeah i keep seeing that that stuff all over instagram and things of like when she's performing you know lucky yeah actually what was happening in her life around that time i'm like oh god it's devastating i know i went to see her in the pieces of me i went to see her in the circus tour i think i've seen her three times and now i feel terribly sad because she was miserable she's an absolute icon but welcome to the podcast another icon chloe she's doing she's doing like a lovely cute little pose. She's also in dungarees and it's given... Mamma Mia?

Oh my, it is given. I was going to say Dexys Midnight Runners, but I don't know if you remember that. Do you remember them? I've heard of it. Yeah, come on Eileen. In the video, which was a well early 80s, they're all in dungarees and white t-shirts dancing. Oh, come on Eileen. the video Which was a well Early 80s They're all in dungarees

And white t-shirts Dancing Oh come on Eileen Yes that's it Oh my It was a Commonwealth Games Wasn't it in Birmingham Not last year

Or the year before And Dexys Midnight Runners Performed Because they're Brummie icons Alongside Apache Indian Do you remember

Apache Indian Nah sorry mate Oh jeez You're too young okay chloe where can people find you online uh instagram chloe dixon dot london uh or panther in common which is my charity and what do you talk about online and what's your charity about uh well i started my online profile after being diagnosed with leukaemia six years ago now, became a bit of an awareness page and I bonded with the most amazing humans, the cancer community online, which then led me to create Cancer in Common, which is a charity that run free and fun informal events

for the cancer community. I'm going to leave all the links to Chloe's bits in the description so you can go and check it out. Okay, Chloe, so where were you growing up when you were 14 and what was on your bedroom walls oh geez um i was growing up in buckinghamshire bedroom walls would have been posters of east 17 backstreet boys michael ow Michael Owen. Was that around that time? I had a really big crush on Michael Owen. We've had a few Michael Owen fanciers on this podcast. And Patrick Swayze because I loved Dirty Dancing. Oh, Patrick Swizzle.

Patrick Swizzle. So out of all of those men, who was your number one crush? Oh, my number one crush was Will Smith. I didn't even mention him oh my god yeah i loved him fresh prince and then i watched every film he did well i'm still watching every film that he makes okay so will smith he has had a little bit of trouble we often on this podcast have people that have been cancelled have been into a bit of trouble it seems the men of that generation sometimes do unusual things.

Yeah. So we're going to push him to the side. Okay. If Michael Owen was in the back, if he was tapping on the glass to get in there, them doors, would your heart flutter? No, not anymore. Would it?

I'm going to whisper this. Patrick, though. If Patrick was still alive, God bless his heart. I was going to say that would be a flipping miracle that would but if he was um but let's whisper if will smith oh yeah would your heart first flutter oh no if you want if you want if my newest my newest crush is idris elba they've oh just my sister's met idris elba and she got a photo with him oh he is gorgeous in real life yeah um i'll be honest he doesn't look that great in the picture this was a while ago but yeah she went to some sort of maybe a bbc party because she does stuff for the bbc and he was there and she

got a photo with him oh yeah that's nice isn't it he's lovely he is lovely yeah he is lovely i forgot to ask you about um stuff that was happening in 2001, which is when you were 14. So I'm going to ask you to have a guess at the top 2001 films in the UK. Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? You, there's some great films in our... 2001 was such a good flipping year.

Harry Potter, number one. Well done, you win a prize. Stop it. Number one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was number one. Excellent. Well, I'm a massive Potter head. And you said Lord of the Rings as well,'s Stone was number one. Excellent. Well, I'm a massive Potter head. And you said Lord of the Rings as well, because that was number four.

You, everybody else gets them completely wrong, but you've come in and smashed it with the facts. Number five was Hannibal. Is that Hannibal Lecter? Yeah, is that the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, or is it the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs? I don't know. I watched The Silence of the Lambs.

It scarred me for life. Yeah, you haven't watched Hannibal. I can't remember what happened in Hannibal. I reckon he ate someone. Spoiler, he ate someone. Somebody died. Number three, Shrek. Oh, Shrek's that old?

Finally. Shrek, that, Shrek's that old? Finally. Shrek, that is... That's frightening. So you were 14 when Shrek came out? Yeah. Wow, you were really... That feels like you were super young and hip and hot and trendy. I feel like Shrek came out like 10 years ago.

I feel, man, but yeah, I still feel like I'm 18. Yeah, so Shrek came out then. And number two, Brid jones's diary oh i love that i was watching the other day bridget jones the second one where colin and hugh have a fight in the um waterfall no the fountain i love it i saw an interview with a huger recently and he said that they tried to get stunt doubles in for that and the both both of them were like, no, we're going to make it authentic. And they didn't practice. They just kind of pushed each other around.

So what you see is kind of them play fighting. It's when Colin Firth is like a kick, and it's just like so, so crap. It's so cute. I love Colin Firth. To be a woman having Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fighting over would be my dream. And everybody cheering. So if they came to your window and started knocking, would you get fanny-fudged? 100%. I'd be like, get in the shower, lads. Have a fight.

Want to put it on TikTok. Oh my God, I absolutely love it. Even now, Colin Firth now is still a very handsome man. Oh, he is. Yeah, he reminds, everybody, if you're listening or you're watching, you're going to be like, oh, he does remind me a bit of my husband. Because my husband's kind of like tall, reserved, looks good in a chunky knit. So they kind of have the similar sort of vibe about them. But yeah, you can watch the new Bridget Jones when it comes out.

We need proof. We need your husband to come out of some sort of lake in some sort of sea- them. But yeah, you can watch the new Bridget Jones when it comes out. We need proof. We need your husband to come out of some sort of lake in some sort of sea-proof blouse. How can I persuade him to do that? Maybe, what could I do? Maybe throw the dog in and say,

oh, but then, how am I going to get him into the shirt? Yeah, the shirt is part of it, right? I need to,

yeah, throw the dog, go and get the dog. The dog can see what we find. And then him come out in the shirt. And then you you just slow-mo it on your try put your phone in a tripod slow-mo it yeah and he'll be like are you filming me and i'll be like no show them nipples are you excited for the next film the fourth film to come out have you seen the trailer?

Yes. I'm going to do a spoiler. Should we do a spoiler alert? If you don't know what happens in the fourth film with Bridget Jones, skip a few minutes. Yeah. He's dead in it, isn't he, old and not dancing? Oh, no.

Devastated. Yeah. But he is in the trailer, so he must make us some sort of brief. Cameo, yeah. Cameo from the past. But I love leo wood it's leo woodall isn't it her love interest yeah have you seen on netflix oh flipping it what's it's not maybe is it not maybe for you what's the program they're in on netflix really made me cry the love story one with him and the young girl in the university yeah i know What is it? Yeah, I know what you mean. I haven't actually seen it.

This is us. No, no, that's not. That's the one with Alan Brody. You've got to watch it. It's so good. It really is. It's a book, yeah. Oh, it'll break your heart, but that's, yeah, he's fit, man.

He is hot. Yeah, in my head, I'll be going, if Bridget Jones can get a hottie fireman like that, I could if I was him. Although, do you reckon she's going to end up with you? Jackpots. A chance to win with every spin and a guaranteed winner by 11 p.m. every day. 19 plus and physically located in Ontario. Gambling problem? Call 1-866-531-2600.

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Maybe I should reread the book. I can't remember what happens in it to be honest what's his character there's Mark Darcy and oh my god oh I've got to Mark Darcy and Bridget people will be

screaming at home and I literally watched it two days ago Mark Darcy and oh come on come on daniel cleaver okay so we talked about who you fancied and you had a 17 did you have any other kind of music you really enjoyed during this time do you know what 14 is like a pinnacle age, right? And I was at that point where I loved all the, you know, steps and S Club 7 and Backstreet Boys, but at school I was trying to pretend to be a skater.

So I was like forcing myself to listen to like Blink 182 and Southern 41. You're not the first person that pretended to be a skater at school it seems to be a phenomenon we've had a few like and at school I just pretended to be a skater I know so like I yeah I like would wear like baggier clothes and put loads of braces up my arm and pretend to be because that was the cool thing right but actually at home I was loving s club still did you have the jeans that got wet because they were so long and the water like rose up them? At one stage I wore jeans that actually covered my shoe.

The flare was like so big. Nice. Again, you probably won't get this reference. Do you remember Pigeon Street? They all had like triangle legs. I'm going to insert a picture here and people can see, because that would be exactly the kind of jeans that you would be wearing. So you were at a secondary school, you were at a girls' school.

What kind of school did you go to? Mitch School, secondary school. Loved it. But yeah, there was very much groups of people, you know, and the group that I was in were enjoying the more skater vibes. And so I just tried to fit in. Did you actually skate? No, no, I just sat in skate parks. You just sat in skate parks and watched boys skate?

Yeah, yeah. And maybe drank the odd alcoholic drink. Someone managed to smuggle one from the kitchen. Okay, what was 2001 alcohol? What would have been, what would have been kind of wkd nice oh lovely um yeah anything like those alcopox you know that are just mainly sugar yeah oh you can't be a blue wkd oh so sweet you're actually teeth like hurt it's like yeah that was my uni days was blue WKD. And then they had the orange WKD, which was a bit like iron brew, wasn't it?

Yeah, yeah, that's it. And we loved martini and lemonade, which was so sweet. So sometimes one of my friends managed to always get martini in like a Coca-Cola bottle, a bit of lemonade. We'd just swig that. That sounds quite sophisticated, having a martini in the skating park. It was cheap stuff, though. It sounds more expensive than it is.

Oh, it's terrifying the stuff we used to do. I just need to keep my children close. I can't bear it. 14, having a martini in giant jeans that were wet around the bottom. Yeah, I went to my first club at 15. That's frightening. So what kind of stuff were you wearing at the club? Was it like an indie night?

So you were wearing like skater stuff or did you have to like dollop a little bit? Well, no, if it was hanging out with my schoolmates, it'd be more like, yeah, we'd go to like a gig and I'd pretend to fit in with some sort of mosh pit. Yeah. But actually by 15, I was more getting into more glamour especially outside of school because basically my bestie up my road was the year above me okay okay so i used to hang out

with her and her girlfriends and they were all starting to kind of smoke and be you know interested in boys so yeah we went to a club with her and i was 15 and i used a fake id to get in i need to know what your fake we've've had some great fake IDs on this programme. What was yours? Was it an NUS card? What was it? What was your fake ID? No, so actually, I say it's fake.

It actually was somebody's passport. So my mate's sister's passport. Right. Your mate, did you look like your mate's sister? Yeah, me and my friend literally look we look we look really similar so she used to use her driving license i used her passport and the bouncer's never bat an eyelid we'd go in with the same name same person same name same person in you come ladies

have a nice night um taking a passport need to join the id love yeah in you come have a nice night um taking a passport on a night out it's quite risky i think i know yeah i don't think i don't think their mum knew um young people who might be listening can you leave in the comments or message me i think now id has to maybe be scanned or something it's like a yeah i think there's a some some sort of proper ID that you have to have. It's not just, I belong to a gun club, Moseley Gun Club. And I got it printed out somewhere with a photo on. I think it's a proper thing now.

I don't think we get away with Moseley Gun Club now. Well, I'm glad. I don't want my kids getting into Club of the 15. So I'm happy with this situation. I remember my mate tried to get in with a fake id once and the guy obviously knew that it definitely wasn't her and he was like can you do your signature for me she had to just randomly make up this signature and it was completely different to her mate's id that she'd borrowed so embarrassing i can't bear you see where there's you if you go to america they're so strict with ids yeah what if you see, if you go to America, they're so strict with IDs.

Yeah. If you're trying to buy a bar and, like, a bar, drinking like Disney, I still have to show my ID. Even, I'm like, 47? And they're like, no, you need to show your ID. Really? Yeah, it's really, really, really, really, really weird. I mean, that could just be Disney.

I don't even take my ID out with me anymore. No, I've got my driving license with me but no i sometimes i'm in a shop and i'm buying something and i'm thinking they're gonna go oh oh you sure you're sure you're over 18 i'd be like oh come on i believe it has to be that here's the job never happens sometimes i'm just waiting like that and i'm like we don't want to see you no you're weirdo okay so with the music what where were you in the hierarchy were you kind of like cool or was it just skaters it was just like a separate group uh i was yeah pretty cool i don't know what the problem was right i was always trying to be in the cool group and i i was all right i maintained a place there but um

underneath that I was I am quite geeky and goofy so like at home I was listening to one pop music and reading Harry Potter and I was a bit of a teacher's pet like I did really well in school and I loved learning like I went on to do yeah I went on to do I got a first at university and I became a teacher so like I'm I'm a geek I was a geek trying to and I became a teacher. So, like, I'm a geek. I was a geek trying to be a skater slash cool girl. A first at university is amazing. Well done. What university was it?

Reading. I got a tutu and I'll be honest, I think I scraped that really. They were like, just give her a tutu. Just give her something. Give her something and get into teaching. Come come on so she can do something with it come on she turns up she smiles yeah i got they call it it's like isn't it like that it's not the drinkers but there's like the tutu people aren't very complimentary about oh there wasn't even a two one um who was your um first kiss with oh my first kiss was actually in year six i know which is young right that it was my friend that lived on the road called martin and me him and my other friends who's a girl just used to kiss each other just to practice

menage a trois what the heck man we're just like come on let's all yeah we literally just used to kiss in his shed with tongues uh no I don't think we did tongues just a little peck

yeah my first proper kiss was probably with tongues was probably year seven or eight seven yeah

with uh we used to do oh well, spin the bottle. Classic. This random game where you turn the light off and the girls would stand

one side of the room, the boys stand the other and you just walk towards each other and whoever found everybody would kiss. That sounds terrible. With a teenager,

all of these are terrifying me. I don't, just, just kiss anybody. It's funny. And then we'll say it again and we'll go back to the end of the room again anybody turn the lights up would you know what we're all just gonna swap spit around 20 of us it's absolutely fine so um it was kind of like a transaction kiss it wasn't romantic it was just like i did a kiss yeah yeah it's more i kissed four boys last night type of thing oh i kissed what could you imagine doing that now I did a kiss. Yeah, yeah. It's more, I kissed four boys last night type of thing. Ooh.

You know? I kissed four. Could you imagine doing that now? Ugh. Ugh. I kissed four boys. I'm like, yeah, I'm fresh as tea. Oh, jeez. No.

Thank you. Okay, so we talked a little bit about your fashion faux pas with your big jeans dragging in the water. Is there anything you wore then that you'd really like to wear now? Ooh. Kangol bucket hat. Oh, no, I didn't have a bucket hat. I had, you know, the ones that, like, Samuel L. Jackson used to wear?

Oh, I see. Like a backwards granddad cap. Yeah, what they called it, like, piggy blinders. Yeah, but you'd wear it backwards. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. It had the Kangol thing. It's so bad. No, that was not cool.

I would look, I look, I must have looked such an idiot. I think a bucket hat's kind of cool. And that carries on. People wear bucket hats now, don't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I love hats. Hats are my thing. Like, I just adore a

hat different type of hat maybe not the kangol okay i might need to rethink that no i think the kangol hat will be quite i think the cat i think my backwards hat i was always thinking boys would fancy me if i dressed like boys so in my head i was like if i dress like a boy yeah i didn't really i wonder where that hat is i should have oh god i wonder what my mom and dad thought when i came down the stairs in that hat they're probably really probably like yeah she's not gonna be getting anyone tonight yeah do you know what she can go to a nightclub it ain't gonna make no difference flat cap is that they're cool yeah but it was like a backwards it was just absolutely it looks

great and samuel l jackson no not samuel l jackson he doesn't wear them or maybe he does yes it is definitely samuel l jackson yeah good on him hilarious all right yeah all right can go can go bucket hat not great on me yeah you you could you could pull that off was it black or was it white yeah the little white logo i wish we kept some of the stuff that we had when we you don't think about it do you like shag band about 120 shag bands what is a shag band stop it i don't know what a shag band is what is it i'm a bit older than you i was i was in a job at this point so if I turn up to a job in my shag bands they might be like

basically they were just little rubber bands and they were all fluorescent colours you probably had the actual bands and they were called shag bands and rumour has it if someone broke your shag bands you had to shag them this was like year 6 and obviously we kind of knew what shag meant

but so now I need to understand how would they break it And obviously, we kind of knew what shag meant, but... Yeah. So, now, I need to understand, how would they break it? They'd come and they'd literally just pull it and it'd just rip. I can't be alone in the shag band. Please, somebody message me if you know what shag bands... Did boys wear shag bands? No.

Oh. No, it was a girl thing. So, let me get this straight. The girls wore the shag bands. The boys came up to rip the shag bands, thinking they might get a shag. Shag, yeah. And I presume in a year six. Six and seven.

Yeah, there was no shag to be found. No, no, no, no. I wasn't shagging in a year six and seven, thank God. That seems like a really sexist thing. Yeah. I don't remember any of the boys wearing them and they got banned in our school why did the teachers know what it meant we must have done yeah yeah they got banned so the pogs remember pogs yeah pogs um uh when i was a teacher loom bands got banned do you remember loom bands bands? Yeah, but like, that was past me. I'd grown up a bit by then, but yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I think people were like flicking them and stuff. Yeah, pogs. So what was the point of a pog? Is it a game? No, it's a game, but it was more a collecting thing, like you collected pogs and you traded pogs and it was some sort of game.

I wasn't that into that, to be honest. Where did you get a pog from? Was it in like cereal boxes or did you buy pugs? Yeah, cereal boxes. I think you might be able to buy them. I remember, though, digging into a cereal box. You know, there used to be a toy. Yeah.

Imagine how grim that is. Like some kid's dirty hand just right in there in the wee toes to try and find you. It was the worst if it was Rice Krispies because they were like spilling out and you're like... And you'd be like, oh, I've got this troll or whatever it is. Yeah. Also, putting toys in, do people, do they still put toys in cereal?

It doesn't seem very sanitary, does it? No, not at all. I mean, they were the days. They were the days. They had grubby child fingers rifling through every Rice Krispie to get an Agora. I can literally remember cellophane bags they came and used and your hands are all slipping you're trying to have like rice crispy not not juice but like like like remnants all over it yeah all that just rice crispy just those were the days bring them back i mean i miss those i miss those days

okay what was your greatest teenage flop what do you look back at and you think, oh, man, that was rubbish of me? Oh, probably attempting to smoke and pretending I was a smoker. Yeah, so at the skate park or in a park. We used to hang out in parks, you know, in the evenings. Yeah. And I used to hang out with an older group of friends. And so they were all smoking. And I was like, yeah, I smoke at school.

You know, obviously not ever having a cigarette. And then me just coughing my lungs up trying to smoke. It was like that Sandy moment from Grease. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they ripped into me for many, many weeks because of that. And I still don't smoke.

No, I do. I'm hoping that smoking is more vap more vaping now isn't it yeah which i kind of you know what i love a hubbly bubbly you know like those shisha when you're on holiday i love vaping i'm all right like a hubbly bubbly you know yeah i know yeah so i get the vaping so this has got a flavour I mean I don't do it but like cigarettes have never really but it's got I saw a TikTok and there was a vape where somebody looked at the back and one vape was the equivalent of like 10 cigarettes worth of

tobacco so it is very yeah I don't and I don't think young people realise that I think they're just like it looks cute it's like fun it smells like and you're like it's proper it's bad stuff don't smoke kids don't smoke don't smoke I mean the only people watching this are like middle-aged women and my dad so also none of you none of you dad put the vape down not worth the money all your health okay what was your greatest teenage success do you think

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I married him. Somebody get the Netflix team on the phone and we're gonna make this okay right so oh this is a thrilling you dated the guy above and then did you just continually that was it forever no i lost my virginity to him. Then we broke up when I went to uni. So we were on and off for years, basically, throughout university and stuff. And then we got back together when I was about 24, 23, 24. And that was it then. That was it. I always knew I'd marry him.

But just was like not always the right time, like that kind of thing. I'm so glad we didn't stay together. But just was like not always the right time, like that kind of thing. I'm so glad we didn't stay together. You know, I think it's important that people go and live their life and, you know, explore and do what they want to do in order to, you know, realise that they're made for each other. So, yeah, I married him when I was 13 and we got two gorgeous kids together. So during the time you were apart, was this the era of social media or were you able to not really see what each other was getting up to no no social media came in just

as i was leaving uni thank god yeah because otherwise he's not even on social media oh no is he not oh that's good oh he's great yeah my my husband doesn't really like social media because i worry about now like fomo and stuff we didn't really like social media because I worry about now like FOMO and stuff. We didn't really have to experience FOMO because I didn't know what anybody else was doing. Yeah, I know. Whereas now I don't know how kids get through the teenagers cope with social media. It's just it is really. But I've said this before. They are more equipped to it. Their brains like your children's brains they used to like tablets and iPhones so it's just their brain it's like I suppose our parents probably look at

us and go I don't know how they put it with x y and z because it's such a different generation it they they can cope with it better than we think they're going to cope with it it's still grim though yeah no I think you're right I think I think everybody's learning about social media and the importance of staying healthy and with your mind and things whilst using it. So, yeah, for me, who didn't have social media at all growing up, up until I was 21, 22, whatever, I love the innocence of arranging to meet someone in McDonald's at a certain time and then meeting them there.

And if they're not there, they're running late or they they've cancelled like yeah or you've got to go to pay phone yeah pay phone and go hello can i speak to so-and-so please is he there he just left you just gone to get the bus yeah i do miss those times and also like now if you like kissed a boy you go home you could find your social media stalk. There was none of that, was there? It was just like, it was a boy. He's gone off into the distance. I'll never see that person again. No, exactly. Exactly. And that was, I love that. I love that. But yeah, life is so different now. It is so different. If you could go back in time and talk to yourself when you were 14,

what would you think you'd say? Oh, I'd 100% say just be your authentic self you know you don't need to pretend you don't need to wear dirt clothing to fit in you don't need to smoke a cigarette in a park you know take your harry potter book to school you know if I could I'd go back and say that but I'd give myself the confidence to do so you know so that if anybody did say anything because kids teenagers are cruel right so if anyone did say anything horrible out of the confidence to stick up for myself but at 14 you just don't like you've got puberty going on you've got you know you're figuring out who you are you want to be an adult you still you still

feel like a kid 2001 was really hard as well because that's actually when september 11th happened oh gosh so like i was kind of a lot of us at that stage were like still innocent but then September 11th happened and we'd suddenly learned a lot about the world all at once and so it was a really turbulent year yeah that is I was working in one of my first jobs and I remember it was truly horrendous my friend was in New York and I remember like trying to phone like her her home phone at her mom and dad's going is she okay like yeah she managed to get like a message to us but yeah it was um yeah that was a that was a really I hope our children never have to witness anything like that it was just like absolutely horrendous

okay so are you glad I think I know the answer are you glad you grew up then or do you wish you were growing up oh no I keep myself back then I loved my childhood and I love my teenage years I wouldn't change it for the world yeah it's it was a good time what do you what do you think is good about teenage years now though what there's there's got to be some positives doesn't oh there is I think people uh I think kids these kids these days are a lot more understanding of differences yes you know people from different race different cultures different religions different sexuality like I think they're just a lot more understanding of you know and people being different basically and that's a wonderful

thing whereas back back in the day not so much no and also there was no discussion about mental health there was no no pull your socks up and and get on with it yeah and you can find your tribe like you said you've met some beautiful people online um it's nice that you can find people online that we you couldn't really do when you were younger it was just like your your your community was just it wasn't it it wasn't like like you eat your shag buns you thought everybody's got shag buns yeah i'm blown away please somebody direct message me and just say i remember a shag bun please do because otherwise i sound like a psycho band.

Did you invent shag bands? I wish. I bet they made a fortune that it was not a band. Chloe, thanks so much for coming on the Phone Box podcast. Guys, do go and check out Chloe's charity and follow her on social media. As I said, I'll leave the links in the description and I do that every week.

Over on the Phone box podcast Instagram account we'll probably do a maybe the best films of 2001 poll what do you think would would you class do you prefer Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter would have been Harry Potter yeah any day of the week although Bridget it's up there for me Bridget's not that I will say people do get when I talk about Bridget Jones because I'm a 47-old woman and I really resonate with it, people get, younger people get very angry because it is a lot about how she was fat and she wasn't actually fat, was she? I know, I know, I know, I know.

But if you ignore that bit. But then everybody did think they were fat when they were nine stone. That's what people thought. That's what, it was of an era where you did think you were fat it was a crazy era it was wrong yeah um so people do get very cross about that but yeah i understand but it's an amazing film yeah and it made me feel like it was okay to be a bit useless and make mistakes and wear big pants and just look a bit, be a bit of a mess. That's why I really like Bridget Jones. And sometimes when I put up reels or do stuff on my stories, people go, oh, you remind me of Bridget Jones.

And like if I'm falling over or whatever. And I like that. I take it as a compliment. She's adorable. Yeah, I do. I do really like her. So I'm looking forward to that. Right, Chloeloe thanks again

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