The Rising’s Growing Together Podcast - Bonus Episode: The Girls Play Overrated or Underrated Unfiltered Opinions!

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

In this bonus episode of the Growing Together podcast, we’re playing a classic game of “Underrated or Overrated?”Expect unfiltered opinions, big laughs, and some surprising hot takes from behind... the mic.Whether you’re folding laundry, out for a walk, or driving solo this quick episode is the perfect light-hearted listen.Tell us in the comments: What’s your most underrated or overrated opinion?New full episodes drop every Friday hit subscribe so you don’t miss out!Follow us on Instagram: @therising1111Connect with us: www.linktr.ee/therising1111#GrowingTogetherPodcast #UnderratedOverrated #HotTakes #WomenPodcasting #MomLifeUnfiltered #candidconversations

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to a bonus episode. We're going to do, we forgot to do games the last couple of episodes. So we decided to throw out a bonus episode. We're going to do purely just a game for this episode. So we've decided on overrated, underrated. So you've got a list of things. Yeah, and you know it's not just going to be a simple answer because I have to give an explanation.
Starting point is 00:00:20 Yeah, we're long wind of people. We just love to get into stuff. So it's not going to be a quick one. I'm not just going to go, I'm not just going to go, oh, it's underrated, I'm going to tell you why. We're going to get into it why we think so. Okay. So hit me.
Starting point is 00:00:34 What we called underrated or overrated? Yeah. Nando's. For how much people talk about Nando's, I think it's overrated, but I do like it. See, yeah, I think it's way overrated. I just think it's just chicken with some flavour on it and mine at home is so as well. To be fair, Liam makes an amazing chicken drumstick and he does actually use some of the, he He didn't do it on the last one because it was quite spicy the way he makes it.
Starting point is 00:01:02 But he'll make the chicken that you had here the other day, but he'll add the medium sauce to it and drizzle it all over and cook it so then it's juicy and crispy. And it's got a bit of heat to it. That is amazing. And that is Anando sauce, but that's not what they make there. He's well more tastier than that. Yeah, I think it's definitely overrated. I think, to funny, I actually think I've only been once.
Starting point is 00:01:24 We've been a couple of times, not because like... It's not here, is it? No. No. No. It's in England. Yeah, it's in England. So, like you say, we've been a couple of times, not because I think the most times we've eight years because it's been in the airport on the way back from England
Starting point is 00:01:35 and it's like the nicest thing in the airport. Yeah. So, yeah, I do like it. I don't mind it. I don't love it. I don't seek it out. So, yeah. No, I'm not one of like, oh. No, no. Yeah, no, definitely not.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Okay. Strawberries and chocolate. I'm going to say it's overrated. Totally overrated. I don't really like fruit anyway, is though. I don't mind strawberry, but I wouldn't really. grabbed strawberries, I wouldn't really put them together. My kids would make strawberries and chocolate like on a random. Like, you'd like you say, doing that.
Starting point is 00:02:04 But I think personally, when you think of strawberries and chocolate, you think it like a romantic thing, I think. Either romantic or a bit like as a treat as something special. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I remember being in London once with a friend of mine and we walked specifically quite far to get these strawberries and chocolate. And they were like a tenor for like three or four of them.
Starting point is 00:02:25 It was, I was a bit like, well, I mean, she loved them, which is fair enough. But I, yeah, I was more pissed off that I've just, I've paid a tenor. That would actually ruin my fucking day that bit. I'd be like, I don't even want, I think it happened the other day. I'm not ever joking when I was in the shot. Lexi wanted a watermelon and she got a whole, this was in the blackout. She got a whole watermelon.
Starting point is 00:02:44 And I kind of argued with a not to pick it up. But in the end, I think, I'll just, you know, when it's like, whatever, just get the warm. Pick my bowels, just get it. 1135, it was. I genuinely was like, for a watermelon. Me and Mitch did it each ever, right? And I swear, I thought he was going to go, nah, put that back kind of thing. And I think we both felt the same thing.
Starting point is 00:03:03 But in a way, obviously, we thought, we might need this watermelon too. It's going to last us a while. Don't get me wrong. So we got in the car as well. It was even funny. We got in the car. And all I could hear was this fucking watermelon rolling around in the boot. I was like, I am getting in the back because I've just paid 11.35.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Don't bruise the 11 euro watermelon. Yeah. Exactly. Wow, that's an expensive fruit. Yeah. Well, I think usually I buy it in like a quarter. Yeah, but obviously not realising. For casing sometimes or for the smaller, like the honeydew one, like cut in half and stuff.
Starting point is 00:03:34 Yeah. I would never have expected a whole one to be 11 euros. No, I'm not really. Wow. Yeah. Actually, say it's true as chocolate. Definitely my answer is overrated. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:44 But we've, we had, but now we just obviously melt the chocolate. I love warm melted chocolate with different stuff. Just not fruit? Not. No, I love fruit. What would you put it with then? I'd put it with, what would I have? I'm just literally trying to think
Starting point is 00:04:01 because the kids would have everything. So strawberries, I'd get strawberries, apples, banana, orange, like everything. I think I'd just put the spoon in it, actually. I'm trying to think what fruit I'd pick up. None, just a spoon. Maybe a little bit of apple. Green apple. I'm so fussy, and I.
Starting point is 00:04:19 But yeah, yeah, just a bit chocolate. Yeah, overrated for me. Actually, funny enough, because we're going away. we got a message from the hotel going, did you want any specials in your room? Like, strawberries and chocolate? Not really, no. No, thanks.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Not a bad will do. Going on that, champagne. Underrated and overrated. Overrated? I think it's overrated. So overrated. I honestly probably wouldn't know that. No.
Starting point is 00:04:42 You could give me Prosecco, Carver, champagne. I'm still going to go. Different. Yep. Pull that face. Like, every now and then I do like a glass of bubbles. I do like it. But I don't love it.
Starting point is 00:04:54 And I definitely don't care about. Kinex for Dompereo or whatever it's called. No. Bubbles hits me anyway. It doesn't matter what it is. A jegmy wouldn't probably notice the difference. If it tastes nice, it's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:05 No. Not really fun. Not fast for that. It all gets to your head, than it. Sunsets. I think they're quite underrated. I completely agree. It's something that you know is nice.
Starting point is 00:05:18 But I think when you actually go and do it, you're like, wow. Yeah. And how different and beautiful sunsets can be, obviously, depending on where you're watching them from. Remember when we went to the beach, just all the girls on a random evening once and we went, that was really nice. And when we were there, we're like, we should so do this more often. It was lovely. There's places that have a known, like we've been to the Ibiza.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Yeah, I went to the Ibiza area. Yeah, sat on the rocks. That was really nice. And it was beautiful. But like you say, you can find that anywhere. You've just got to go and take your time to watch. To do it. Yeah, no, totally underrated.
Starting point is 00:05:53 I think it just does something. inside like maybe because it's nature maybe because it is just very pretty to look at I don't know what it is but it does I I do I do and I haven't done but I know well Mason has with his friends and I know some of some of the people I know have done it some set sunrise where we were I always get it wrong the sun coming up yeah that yeah so I have never done a sunrise no I have never so that would be something to I don't know if I'd like a sunrise as much as a sunset. I think the setting is getting up on it. Definitely that. I don't think you would be able to get me up for a sunrise. The only time I would do it is if I was jet lagged
Starting point is 00:06:33 in another country and I'd already go up to early, which is what I'd saw actually that Ryan Thomas and Lucy Mecklenburg, however you say her name. They've just gone to America to do a cruise actually, their first cruise. And they were in Miami or wherever they were. And they got up jet lagged at like four or five in the morning. So they went with the kids to watch the sunset purely because they were already away. That's it. I would do. That I would do. I think I'd rather a sunset.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Like you say, because I'm up, for example, years ago, when I was, I think I've said it, I went to, like, South Africa on a safari when we went on a morning thing, I managed, obviously we see the sunset. But actually planning on getting up at this time, we're going to go to the beach, like you say, and set up and watch the sunset, which I know amazing, his friends have done before. Yeah. That's pretty amazing for a teenager.
Starting point is 00:07:21 I would never have got out of my bed for a sun ride. Honestly, I'm going to tell you honestly now, I don't know about his friends. Mason, Mason thought it was better for him because he's not very good at getting up. It just stays awake. That's a teenage thing to do. So I had to be honest with that one. I don't know about his friends. They probably were clever and went to sleep and put an alarm on.
Starting point is 00:07:41 But because Mason knew he wouldn't get up for his alarm, because literally that kid would sleep through anything is crazy. That, yeah, he just stayed awake. He just went. Wow. Went then, like whatever it was, 6 o'clock or whatever. Oh, I wouldn't have been able to stay away But yeah, that sounds more teenage-like
Starting point is 00:07:57 I wouldn't even even But yeah, that was his That was his solution for that I think, yeah, I'd like to do some sets more actually I think I've only done two or something maybe in my life So yeah Yeah, I definitely think that's really We should maybe do that one day in the summer
Starting point is 00:08:09 Yeah, we've got We'll take all the kids So many opportunities Yeah, yeah, different places to see them Where we are as well, we're so lucky Yeah Like, you know, like nice Lovely ones
Starting point is 00:08:20 cup of tea or coffee in bed or underrated definitely underrated because of our lives I think we don't do it no we don't get the time to really I haven't done it in a while the only time we do get things like that
Starting point is 00:08:37 is birthday so if it was my birthday or Mitch's birthday I'd go I'd go say it's a Mitch's birthday I'd go down and get the kids get all the bits for I do these cars presents and then a cup of coffee yeah and take it up so that on the other way around for a birthday or Mother's Day, Father's Day.
Starting point is 00:08:54 Yeah. The kids did it for our anniversary. That sort of thing. We don't really do it for an occasion. No, that's what I'm saying. That's the only time I'd have a coffee bed. Because Liam don't have tea or coffee anyway, so it is literally just me. And in the morning, like Liam makes me a cup of tea.
Starting point is 00:09:09 That's just his thing that he does. And it's really nice, a little touch. But, yeah, on the, on the, some rant, I haven't done it for ages. But, yeah, sometimes, like, if he'll get up with the kids in the morning, and I stay in bed then he'll bring me one in but again it's rare because it's just not a thing and it's hard to sometimes relax and enjoy sometimes
Starting point is 00:09:29 but I feel like I need to definitely can't with the kids especially with Hayden at the minute Jesus but yeah okay we're definitely we did it the other day where I was a bit old I think Lexi was out and Morgan's obviously to the same thing we kind of got up and then we're like
Starting point is 00:09:44 oh I'll just go back and back to bed chilling bed and watch tell you of a cup of coffee sort of thing you know what I mean it wasn't like actually really like watching TV in bed. Yeah, it was. Liam don't. Liam hates watching TV and bed. Oh, really? Yeah. See, I would say that's probably but underrated as in
Starting point is 00:09:59 I don't put the television when I go to bed. No, we don't do that. Yeah, no. Whereas Mitch has to put the telly on before he goes to sleep. I used to be like that. Yeah. Yes. We've always in. Always done that. Always done that. And then obviously getting with Liam and he never did that. And then gradually just got into the habit of not doing it either. So, um, no, We never put the TV on to go to bed
Starting point is 00:10:22 unless we decided we were watching something in bed which we did before kids really would maybe put something on in bed but Liam would prefer to watch it in the living room and then go to bed. That's what I would do. So generally, yeah, if we watch stuff together we'll generally watch it in the living room
Starting point is 00:10:37 and then go to bed. But yeah, getting into bed and watch TV I miss it. I've not been... Because Hayden's in our room. So I haven't been able to do that for like a year. On the odd random Friday where Kaysen's gone to school Liam's gone to work
Starting point is 00:10:53 and Hayden's going back for his like his morning now normally we don't because I'll put him to nap and then I'll be in the living room but sometimes I've put him in the bed next to me and I'll put the TV on and he's fell asleep while the TV's on and then I can watch it in bed. Yeah. I love it. It is. That's underrated. I agree.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Because sometimes it's hard for me it's hard to relax so actually when you're proper in that mode of really enjoying it you know what I mean? I'm really making. Because if I'm in the living room, I'll try and sit down, but then it's like, I can see all these things that need picking up and putting away. So it's, you don't really relax. I don't use my sofa. I don't really think, I think last night was the longest I've ever sat because I watched, I don't even watch telly, you know this. I watched a whole program last night. The, um, race across
Starting point is 00:11:34 the world thing. Okay. Have you not seen it? No. I thought you'd be really into that. We don't watch TV, um, like TV channels. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, it was on one like that, you know, on a certain time. Yeah. Um, and yeah. Um, and yeah, I think, obviously, obviously, of us again I just wish to have got hooked so um actually while it's on here reality shows mostly overrated yeah I do I do like reality TV so you I do get into it but I don't like more American are you not more American definitely more American I find it harder to get into the English reality TV but then there are still there are some programs that I do like I do watch but as a whole like it is over I think so I do I do think it's hard to make a good
Starting point is 00:12:17 one that's the trouble because people are so unauthentic now and they're in it for the fame for whatever reason it's hard to capture that reality it's hard to capture the reality is it real yeah so I find it hard but there there are some really good shows up yeah and I think sometimes it again you could have the same show
Starting point is 00:12:37 but now maybe that year was better than another year or you're just more into that year than another year you have to you have to get hooked to the people yeah so like you say you can have the same show, like Big Brother. I used to love Big Brother, watched it loads, and X Factor and stuff like that. It's like, but you have to buy
Starting point is 00:12:55 into the people in that season series, whatever it is. Because then you want to keep watching it and you want to know what's going on. Oh, X Factor, that was a great show. And that was proper, like, leading up to Christmas, wasn't it? Like, I'm a celebrity and stuff. So, yeah, that... To be fair, I do like, I'm a celebrity, but again,
Starting point is 00:13:10 it does, it's the people. And if you get into it. Exactly. I've gone off that a lot lately. I don't think it's been Me, until you want to. It is a bit late. But yeah, like Love Island, there's been a couple of good series of that. It's got a bit of shit now. Love is Blind.
Starting point is 00:13:27 I do like that one. I haven't seen that one. Have you not seen Love is blind? I don't really want, come on, you know, I don't want to celebrate it. I haven't heard it. It started off in America, but they actually just done an English one with Matt and Emma Willis as the hosts. Okay, I think I've heard them talking about it. So basically, it's the same in both countries, but you date through a pod.
Starting point is 00:13:47 So you sit in a room like this and you talk to someone in a room like there and there's like a big screen. You can't see the shape of them, what they look like, nothing. You're not allowed to talk about what you look like. So it's like the voice dating. It is literally, you date, you serial date lots of people and then you like you go to on another date and a second date and a third date and stuff and gradually you like whittle it down to like your favourite. But then the only way you get out of the pods is if you actually propose. So in the space of two, three weeks, they date like 10, 12 hours a day. And then they get to a point where they have a connection,
Starting point is 00:14:21 sometimes with two people, and it's really hard to pick who they, because they genuinely develop feelings and they fall for someone and then picking one or two. And obviously, the whole point is to find the person you're going to marry. So they get to a point where they pick one, they propose, they accept it. Once they accept it, then they meet.
Starting point is 00:14:40 And then the show follows them from when they get engaged to, then they, all the couples end up engaged, then go on a honeymoon separately, but then they all end up coming together on the honeymoon. Then they go home and they get given an apartment for I think two weeks or whatever it is to then get used to living together.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Then they start meeting their friends and their family and stuff like that and then they have their wedding day. So it's like a month after by the time they actually stand at the altar and they say yes or no. And some couples don't get married. Some couples do get married.
Starting point is 00:15:14 And there's actually couples still married now and they've actually had, like, babies and stuff. But it's basically, the whole point of it is, is love blind. Can you actually love someone for them and not the way they look? Yeah. So, yeah. That's a really good one. I do like that one.
Starting point is 00:15:29 That's a good, that I like that idea. It is, like the voice. Where was I? Decent shower. A decent shower. Oh, so underrated. Yeah. That can change your life.
Starting point is 00:15:43 So, Liam. Experience that haven't you as well at home. Yeah. Liam is a shower snob wherever we go he comments on the shower if it's someone's house a hotel whatever it is he has to talk about what the shower's like so yeah that's a general conversation in our house but yeah a really great shower it's so underrated and at the moment Liam's doing our onsuit so we've had to use our other bathroom and the shower in there for some reason was shit yeah just it trickled out there was no pressure it was crap it was really
Starting point is 00:16:14 hard to get the right temperature. Anyway, he's took the whole thing apart, cleared out all the pipes or whatever the problem was and now it's amazing. But it's like you fixed it, maybe in the last week. He's on the verge of finishing. We've had a shit shower for about three months. I didn't stress
Starting point is 00:16:30 an hour. Literally to the point that I've actually a couple of the times had to get in the bath and use the shower because we've got like a head in the bath thing as well. The power. Yeah. Yeah. Or to even get the temperature. Yeah. So there you go. Until you get in one and you think when you have a shit shower.
Starting point is 00:16:45 And it does stress you out, doesn't it? Oh my God. It's such a stress when you get in the shower and either the water's not hot or it's not strong enough or something. Do you know what I mean? Definitely. Yeah, I agree.
Starting point is 00:16:56 If the gas goes or whatever, it's like so annoying. Because it usually goes on me. Like if you're, it just fixes everything. If you feel like shit, if you've got period pains, if you've had a long day at work. But when you get in and the kids are annoying you. But that's a nice shower. I don't know if it fixes your life.
Starting point is 00:17:13 It was just our house. It was just generally. but in our house if someone's in the shower and then you obviously use the tap it makes it cold it goes cold or obviously less scorches you or yeah or the less strength of power and it is it's we won't visit the shower we'll just shout turn it out
Starting point is 00:17:28 because obviously they're in the shower and it's gone how it is it's so annoying yeah so and it could be sometimes it could be no one using the tap it could just like the washing machine because I'm starting running water yeah yeah definitely fake plant that's a hard one probably underrated I think they are underrated
Starting point is 00:17:47 because for people like meeting you we can't keep black lives alive then yeah anything alive but yeah definitely wow they're probably yeah underrated
Starting point is 00:18:00 because like you say you need the look I mean this one I can already see three of them but if they were real they definitely would be gone wouldn't it? And you need the greenery
Starting point is 00:18:11 you need the plants. Like I like the look of plants but I don't want real ones and actually I think once I actually got little I think they were for the bedside table little plants for me and Liam and then when I actually looked close on
Starting point is 00:18:24 they were covered in like tiny spider things and I was like never again. I do like the idea of it but then like you say that I do like that have plants because it's supposed to be good I actually saw something on my Facebook the other day and it did say that this plant can boost
Starting point is 00:18:38 or you know oxygen and this that and the other and this one, you know, and they are, most of them plants are easy to keep alive. I just never tried. It's that for me, the bug singing, you know what I'm like? I don't, no. Yeah, I'm all right.
Starting point is 00:18:54 I'll pass. What about trying to grow our own vegetables? Yeah. Just as long as it's outside. As long as it's outside and not in my house. It'll be that. It'll be naive. Think, oh, is that how they look when they're...
Starting point is 00:19:08 That's a lot of work for that. Aircom. Oh, underrated. Yeah. Especially where we are. Oh, it's a necessity. It's not a nice, have a luxury. I know I do.
Starting point is 00:19:20 I forget every year. Yeah, like how hot it is. You know what I mean? And look at England, on the random time they have a hot summer, everyone's dying. They're like, oh my God, air conditioning. And some people actually got air conditioning installed. Because it's that, because of how hot it goes.
Starting point is 00:19:32 So imagine, like, here's even worse than your. It's like going out, isn't it? If there's no kind of space inside in cool, you're like, no, I can't eat. Yeah. it affects your plans like not can't go there they don't have aircon yeah how many times in the summer we're like oh where should we go for lunch what should we do where should we take the kids oh no they don't have yeah because you end up a sweat it's horrible it's uncomfortable well how
Starting point is 00:19:52 quickly do you get stressed when you're hot yeah and especially you've got kids with the even with babies you know cold enough yet too much way too much no thanks uh swimming pools have I supposed to have all that no swimming pools um this is a hard one because again it's quite a necessity and I like having a pool but it is long a little bit overrated having your own pool yeah like you've got a community pool because I don't use it yeah whereas my kids are your kids are always in it my kids never get out of a pool it's it's it's just it depends like but for me I would say they're overrated I just think they're hard work to look after yeah keep clean all the time yeah that's what I mean I would agree that they're a bit
Starting point is 00:20:36 overrated when you could just have a community pool because you've got a community pool, I've got a community pool as well and I actually said the other day when sometimes you'd go up there don't you? It's nice to be in a it's nice to go to the community sometimes to have that community thing in the summer because you meet different. You meet different friends and stuff. But I think
Starting point is 00:20:52 if I didn't have one and I had to go to the community pool that's why I've never got rid of mine because I don't genuinely don't use it. It's overrated because like I say it's long, it's effort. I'm not even the one doing it. But for my kids side it's probably completely. They absolutely wouldn't live without it. So it's like, it's a hard one.
Starting point is 00:21:09 My dogs. Yeah. Your dogs in it. Unfiltered mates. Unfiltered friends. I think that's underrated. I do. I think you need friends like that.
Starting point is 00:21:21 I agree. I completely agree. I think that without my unfiltered mates, sometimes things wouldn't get said that maybe should need to be said. Does that make sense? I think, yeah. I think it goes both ways because. I think people that are generally unfiltered can sometimes take the piss.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Oh, yeah, but I'm honest, I'm honest, I'm direct. Yeah, but you're a dick. Yeah. Like, there's a way to say what you want to say without being a dick about it. So some people don't do it right. No, I suppose we're thinking with the right intention. I'm thinking for people that, yeah, I'm thinking, yeah, in this situation, I'm thinking about people that just genuinely tell you, like, how it is or maybe say things
Starting point is 00:22:03 that are uncomfortable, but that needed to be said. And I think sometimes you need that. Yeah. To have yes friends, then I think when you have friends like that that you never get to that level, they're surface friends. They're not fake friends. They're not. You need some friends like that.
Starting point is 00:22:21 But at the same time, you need an unfiltered friend here and there. If they're an unfiltered friend, that's because you've got a deep level friendship and you can be honest with each other. And I think everyone needs that. Well, I think it's said, I see something there. I think someone said something that I can't think what the thing is now. Something about 300% more likely to stay friends
Starting point is 00:22:40 when they insult each other or something, I can't remember what it was, but it was something like that. And it does, it makes sense. Friends that insult each other. But don't you say, there's that line. There's always a line. Marriage.
Starting point is 00:22:53 Oh, Ray. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah, it's a hard one. What's the difference? Can I just ask a question? I know I'm not married. I know I'm getting married.
Starting point is 00:23:04 A bit of hypocrite, Charlotte. A little, a little bit. Well, we'll see if you make it there. Probably more like two reasons. One legal reasons, probably, because it's just easier, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the laws are set up for that.
Starting point is 00:23:17 And two for the memories, the memories of having that day. Yeah. But I think we have spoke about it because we spoke about marriage. But in a simple answer, I think it's overrated that how much client stress, money, effort, everything in between that goes into that couple of hours or few hours.
Starting point is 00:23:35 It's not even a whole. whole 24 hours is it, come on. You're talking about the wedding day. You're not talking about marriage. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, then I'd say it's, I say, then I change my answer. What? I'd say that it's underrated because I think keeping a good marriage is, is hard to come by
Starting point is 00:23:57 these days. I think there's not many people who stay in a marriage and stay in a, do you know what I mean? When you think about the word marriage of like a long-term relationship, then that is underrated. Yeah, yeah. I think actually marriage, getting married on paper and having the marriage,
Starting point is 00:24:14 that is a little bit overrated. Yeah. I think people go into it just because it's a thing to do because it's the way it is. But then having said that, would I like to be nearly 20 years deep as a girlfriend knowing that I'm never going to be a wife?
Starting point is 00:24:30 I don't know. I like the wife title. I like that I'm married, that we're married. I like that bit of it. I get what you mean. But then at the same time, I don't, I don't think it's necessary. It doesn't change. It shouldn't change a relationship.
Starting point is 00:24:45 It doesn't change. No. Like I say, it definitely doesn't change it. But then at the same time, I prefer to be a wife. So it must change something. It doesn't change us in our relationship as a couple. No, no.
Starting point is 00:25:02 But the title of it feels a bit more. real or better? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Go. Retail therapy. Underrated or overrated.
Starting point is 00:25:14 I'm going to say it's overrated because it would do my fucking heading. It would stress me out more personally. Retail therapy means going to shop to make you better, no? Yeah. That's what it is. No, that would stress me out. I couldn't do that. That definitely wouldn't be the answer.
Starting point is 00:25:29 I would rather go for a walk on my own. Is that because you're thinking of like shopping for your family? No. like if you just if you decided like you we had a girl's dinner a birthday and you need a new outfit and you had to go buy yourself something no that would stress you out so that yeah no that's not my idea you shop online a lot now don't you you don't really yeah it's not my idea of fun personally yeah you you like it i like i know a lot of people that do yeah and really get a good feel from it when they've been shopping and they've i just think i mean it's it
Starting point is 00:26:04 I don't love shopping like I used to definitely not now as much and I'm not a person I don't shop every month no but what I'm saying is you get that good feel from it yeah like I like it and to be honest I like to go by myself yeah if I go shopping with someone I never buy anything
Starting point is 00:26:21 because I talk and I can't focus and I can't do two things at once I'm not I wouldn't be a very good shop with them the people who go unlike a girl's I don't know how they go and buy stuff because no I think those people you just browse and if you see something you grab it it's not really a shopping thing.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Yeah, I don't feel like I need to get this is this today. Yeah. And to be honest, a lot of the time that I do go shopping isn't because I need something specific. Sometimes if I need something specific, I'm running and run now. That's not going to be shopping. But like every now and then, like I like to just wander around the shops, hopefully when it's not too busy. And generally, that kind of feeling hits me at about 6, 7 o'clock in the evening.
Starting point is 00:26:59 If I've had like a long day or whatever or, you know, long couple of weeks or whatever with the kids and work and stuff and I just fancy I like to go early evening it's generally not too busy wander around by myself so it's a bit of like a sounds lovely but I just know
Starting point is 00:27:15 I wouldn't have I was and when I don't have the pressure of something specific to find it's even better because then I'm just mooching and if I see something nice and I'll grab something I don't traips around every single shop
Starting point is 00:27:26 that to me again wouldn't be enjoyable I pick a couple of the shops that I like have a mooch about if I see something nice great Yeah, it's probably because I don't do that You know, like I'm usually looking for something in particular For a certain thing in there because I can't, it's just me out And so the thought of it's like, nah
Starting point is 00:27:41 But that would be my first answer is overrated You'd say it's underrated, then that's underrated in the right way, yeah If like that kind of, to me, that is really enjoyable Yeah We've got two left Bath bombs Overrated God, they make the...
Starting point is 00:27:57 To realize, I don't like baths anyway I'm not a big bath girl personally I only like baths when like I'm ill or I've got a bad bag. I just don't like it. I feel like to have a show after anyway. It's just long. It's one of them things that I love the idea of like, say,
Starting point is 00:28:09 if I'm ill and stuff and I'll get in and then I'm sweating and then I'm hot and I'm trying to stay in because I've just wasted loads of hot water in the bath and I don't waste it. But yeah, I find it hard to stay in it. Stay in it. Whereas everyone else in my family loves a bar. The kids love a bath bomb. Yeah, no, I couldn't.
Starting point is 00:28:26 It makes, well, I've never really used a bath bomb myself. I think I've got one for Casein once. maybe like a Christmas stocking thing and something and it like stained my bath I had to scrub my bloody bath so since then I'm a bit I wouldn't even
Starting point is 00:28:42 I did it the other day though I went into the bath and I went oh what's happened to the kids what's happened to the bath it's that bath on but it was yellow it looked like that'd piece in the bar do I mean I was like
Starting point is 00:28:49 yeah it's nice have a nice bath yeah no you clean I don't like them I don't like them oh my earrings just fell out
Starting point is 00:28:58 right last one oh that actually fucking really hurt Soaps Soaps Like TV soaps I used to watch them a lot I don't watch any of them now I did
Starting point is 00:29:12 I did watch Holly Oaks a lot longer than all the other ones But I'm going to say that I'm going to tell my reason why I'm going to say that Underrated The reason I say that Is because actually how
Starting point is 00:29:22 How many messages they get across The people to be fair In their storylines Yeah and how much like tackle the storylines Yeah And how much it is quite a thing for obviously people, you know, them times through the day, you know, when they're having the, you know, like,
Starting point is 00:29:37 brings families together as well. Yeah, you know, that sort of thing. So, yeah, for that reason, I'd say, I mean, I don't watch them anymore. And actually, like, I've seen a couple things lately of, like, behind the scenes and the realities of people talking about, like, working on a soap. And that is hard work.
Starting point is 00:29:54 It is. The hours, how quickly they have to learn lines. I think they're on every day. These are every single day. Yeah, every day. Yeah. So, yeah, I'll agree with you. Underrated. And like I say, I think when you actually watch it and you get into it, it's like I enjoyed them. But I just got so out of the loop. And like I say, when you don't watch it for ages, you can't really get back in because you don't really know what's going. Yeah, you kind of work out where these. Yeah. Who's that? Didn't he die? Who's got back to life? Exactly. I'm lying. I have got one more. Gurkins in a burger. Last one. Oh, underrated. They're amazing.
Starting point is 00:30:24 Do you? I didn't think you were going to say that then. Oh, yeah. Love a gherkin and a burger. The first thing I used to do was pull it out of a burger. You know, when you get it from like your fast food places. To eat it last or to not eat it? No, to not eat it.
Starting point is 00:30:36 It just goes in the pack. I can't remember who it is. Someone in my life takes them out and savor them to the end. Really? Yeah, I can't think of it. Oh, no, that's the best bit. Yeah, but I just, I feel like I've grown up a little bit because I now don't take them out. I don't take them out.
Starting point is 00:30:51 To be fair, I don't buy, I don't buy them burgers anymore, to be honest. I make my own, like burgers. But I actually buy gherkins to cut up, like I've cut them up in little. I don't have the circle. So like a relishy kind of thing. Yeah, like a cut up thing and put that in my burger. So you actually go and buy them now. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Yeah, so underrated, I think. I like burgers with them without them. It's not like a desperate need of accession. I just feel like 90% of the people who get them would pull them out. I could be completely wrong. But I just tried it. I do know a couple of people that do, but I don't know. I think a lot of people, I think the people that like them, like them.
Starting point is 00:31:27 It's one of them. It's like, Ma, like, you love it or you hate it. Yeah, yeah. Do you eat your gherkins? Do you take them out and put them on the side? You love them. Yeah. How are you eat your eggs?
Starting point is 00:31:41 Well, that's it for underrated, overrated. Hopefully you enjoy the little bonus game episode. I love them. And, yeah, if you've got any underrated. overrated ideas that you want to put in, then send them over, we'll add them to the list, then maybe we'll do another one of these. Yeah, yeah. That was good.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Defo. Go-bye. Right. See you next time. Peace out.

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