Wednesdays - BONUS EP: CREEPY Unknown Callers! ft. Emily Champion & Ruby Adler

Episode Date: August 24, 2023

Did someone say BONUS EPISODE?? Courtesy of Acast Creative and WhatsApp from Meta, we're joined in the studio by our best pals Emily Champion and Ruby Adler, for this very special episode, to dig into the contents of our real, usually private group chat! We'll be working together to identify creepy-sounding callers, talking about why we turn off our read receipts and revealing the photos from Sophie's Hen which should've been sent using View Once.Thanks for listening x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

hey hey hey hello hello hello hello so guys as you may have already guessed this episode is a very special one because it's brought to you by acas creative and whatsapp from meta whose built-in layers of protection mean that you never have to depend on only one defense. With tools like Chatlock, ViewOnce, two-factor authentication, privacy checkup, silence unknown callers, and end-to-end encryption, we can message privately knowing that nobody, not even WhatsApp, can read our messages. So why is privacy important to you, Soph? Because when I'm sending you my ugly, ugly photos of me hungover or after a facial... That would be a few wants for sure.

Yeah. To be fair, that's my favourite feature too. Same. And also if I was like planning you a surprise party. Which I know you are. Which I know I am for December. That's when your bath is. She's so advanced with her prepping.

Today we're doing things a little differently because we're going to be playing Behind the Lock, a series of games inspired by WhatsApp's privacy tools that are designed to get us digging into the contents of our real,

usually private chats. Stunning. Exciting but scary. I'm just not sure what I've signed up to today. I don't even know what's on my phone. And joining us today, guys,

we have the one, the only, the two, Emily. The two, the only the only two Ruby Adler and Emily Champion hello hello thanks for the intro I love that that was a terrible intro do you want to give a little bit of background you've been on this podcast before yeah come on give us a CV what experience do you have on podcasts it's not our first radio it's our second time we did the Hendy brief

didn't we that was the last time I was on and then I did no I did you did one in our old studio with us yes I did

so it's your third time and we did one in your flat and we did one in our flat when we were from home podcast vibes yeah we were all on a zoom that was a shambles

you said you were on the OGs. I'm such a long way, all of us. I'm so proud of us, guys. Leaps and bounds. Guys, this game that we're playing is inspired by WhatsApp privacy tool end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encryption is a feature which means no one not even whatsapp can read your messages so we're going to be given some phrases that are all to do with our podcast but the words are all like the letters are jumbled up which is actually how whatsapp sees it because it's encrypted

fascinating but we've got to try and guess what the actual words were being sort of unjumbled i love this game what's that word called? It's an anagram. It's an anagram. So it's Swinney Yeti. Tiny whiny. Tiny whiny. Tiny whiny.

Tiny Tim. Where's the Tim? That was good. Oh my God, it could be a tiny Tim. I saw it as an example on the brief. She went to King's Island. Wait, what is it? What's your answer?

Tiny whiny, but it actually could be. Sorry, tiny Tim. My brain doesn't work like that. Is this hand-eye coordination? No, that would be like playing tennis. No, I'm just not good at this. This is more so dyslexia. Right, she's dyslexic.

Dyslexic's the word. Right, the second one is... Oh, God. GG Portion. GG Portion. Notion. Iggy. Iggy.

Iggy Exalia. Oh, oh. Notion. And it's to do with thegy Exalia. Oh, oh. A notion. It's to do with the podcast, so. Oh, shit. Right. Microphone. Oh, that's a good one, but.

There's no M. But no. No, me and Sophie are so shit at this. I'm terrible at this. Wine connoisseur. Rating. Gigi Paul. Wine rating.

No. Oh, Gaby. Oh, fuck. Pino Grigio, fuck Pinot Grigio clever it's like who can shout it louder next one also we're keeping school

you're lucky you're not wearing anything lovely listeners lovely listeners oh my god yes gorgeous sorry sorry

you got that you got that from endless really impressed thank you she went to school dewey roster

rose something stunning stuff no Really impressed. Thank you. She went to school. Dewey Roster. Dewey Roster. Rosé something. Stunning stuff. No. That would have been really good. That would have been like lovely or something. It's what we say. Something to do with our podcast.

Oh, I know. Sweet or dry. Yeah. Oh, forget it. Honestly, I can't get it. You said forget it. Definitely. Guys, you know when you get an unknown call i'm like i feel sick so i'm like do i decline or do is it something important is it a doctor is it delivery is it it's always like the phone i know also i don't know how people

are claiming you know wanting you to pay a bill and you're like shit pay your taxes um but like whatsapp you can sort of like decline you can make sure that you can set yeah there's a little top there's a little toggle isn't there yeah well so it's like automatically yeah you can basically any like unknown callers when you switch this toggle it means that they um you can filter it yeah you filter it so they can't contact you. Only people that are your contacts. Very clever. I always think also, like if someone from an unknown number's calling you,

if it's that important, they'll leave a message and then you can listen to it after. You don't have to answer the phone call. Yeah, but this way, you can just sort of filter it out anyway so you don't have to have that horrible feeling. Okay, so guys,

we're going to get some calls and the voice is going to be distorted. So we're going to work out whether... We're going to try and work out whether we know them or we don't and whether we want to swipe the toggle and decline or whether we want to pick up when you say distorted as in the voice the voice is going to be distorted that's going to be funny yeah this is going to be oh my gosh i think i'll be better at this one i think you got you've got i'm rooting for us okay fast one can you guess who is hiding behind this mysterious voice?

Well, let me give you a hint. I brought Melissa's vitamins all the way to Spain for Sophie's wedding and then forgot to give them to you. Jemima, did she? Jemima, yeah.

Except, except, except. Yeah, you know my little like vitamin pouch. On do we decline? She brought them all the way to Spain to your wedding. No, she didn't. And then I didn't even take them off her. And then she brought them all the way to Spain to your wedding. No, she didn't. And then I didn't even

take them off her. And then she brought them all the way back to the UK and gave them back to me here I think. That's spooky. So that distorted voice thing reminds me of...

Saw. Saw. Is it Saw? Yeah. Oh my goodness, yeah. I'm going to... No, and the neighbour, the person that lives

in the house. You have 10 seconds to die. Who's the person that lives in the house? And it's like... What bastard? The neighbour, the neighbour, the neighbour. Oh, watch her, watch her, the watcher. The watcher. Oh my God, that lives in the house? And it's like, the neighbor, the neighbor, the neighbor.

Oh, watch out, watch out, watch out. The watcher. And they're reading out the letter like, hello. I had nightmares from that. Number two, sisters. Hello there. Now, you may not be able to guess exactly who this is. Oh, yeah.

But I'll give you a clue. It's Patricia Jack. And the clue is, I see you the same time every single week. Hmm. Who could it be? Jack or Jamie? I think it's Jack. I'm 100% producer Jack,

but he doesn't see me every time because I'm always late. That's producer Jack. Right? Am I right? Sorry, we're freaking geniuses. We should be like investigators. This is giving me a bit of

like heebie-jeebie vibes i'm not sure i like this it's quite scary sinister sorry my nipples all right ready yeah number three Alright, ready? Yeah. Number three. Hello, hello. Can you guess who it is hiding behind this mysterious voice? Well, let me give you a hint. Whenever we meet, it's always sweet, never dry. Take both hendus, for example. There was nothing dry about them. From too many pineapple shots to their late night pizzas, kebabs and soggy chips, both

hens were stunning. But I can never look at anyone's boyfriend with a straight face again. Not without thinking about Sophie's excellent skills at identifying their naked buns. No one's got that voice. Is it you? I don't think that's anyone we know, but they knew a lot about us. Number three. How are you on this finding?

Who am I? i hear you ask i'm a mystery caller of course i understand you have the difficult decision of whether to silence this unknown caller or forward it on so let me give you a hint we instantly bonded over our love for english cream dushans i just love coming over to your place and playing with your gorgeous girl, Bobby. Sorry, is that really scary? It's creepy. It's my sister. No, she'd never say that sort of thing.

No one plays with my doll. Who the fuck comes over to your house? This is horrible! I don't like it. The only person that comes over to your house is me. It's a fake one, bitch. Silence, silence. I'm going to say decline. Decline, decline. Decline person that comes over to your house is me. It's a fake one, bitch. Silence. Silence. I'm going to say it's fake. I say decline.

Decline. Decline. That's scary, scary English. Don't you be stealing my rubbish. We accept the first two. Decline the second two. It's a decline. Yeah.

Okay. The next game is called Once Overs, and it is in honour of WhatsApp's View Once tool, which basically lets you choose whether to have media disappear after they've been viewed, and it also blocks screenshots. What we're gonna do is go through some pictures and videos we sent in our group chat from Sophie's Hen. Talk about what the backstory is,

and whether or not we wished we sent it on View Once, probably. Probably. Probably. Okay, so we're looking at, this is melissa this is one of my favorite phrases like it got red light all over her like are you in no i also look really sad melissa when you have one drink that's the face you pull like this like a sad sad she looks very very upset person boobs it's very sweet she looks like a little girl do i mean do we call her

thumbelina or is that your sister no my sister also i call thumbelina but my sisterelina, but my sister calls Prash Thumbelina because she's so, so small. Because the feet are small. It's also been taken on like 0.5 zoom, so you look, the room looks huge around you. Right. I personally would send that not with a disappearing thing. Yeah, because I feel like it's good value for mums. It is.

It's also not too offensive. There's nothing that embarrassing going on. No, no. Oh my God, the huge bottle of Grey Goose. I know, no no oh my god the huge bottle of grey geese i know why is that okay guys what about this one that would be a disappearing disappearing like this is me on the way to the podcast the podcast where i threw up multiple times during during the podcast the day after we got back from Manhattan. And that was when we were all doing it with you. It was us four. It was us four.

We were all here, us four. And I am in trackies. It's the tiny sunglasses for me. Yeah, yeah. The slimmest sunglasses. Also, are they Christmas socks? Slim shady. Christmas socks with ski socks.

Birks. Birken socks. The ones that look like mole feet, which both Melissa and Sophie have. I also got them for sophie melissa just kicked me by the way that would be a few wants for sure yeah yeah god i wish i had that back then right okay i've got the one where that one where i'm dancing with my tiny toes and my skirt is tied up with a hair bobble because it was too big for me that would be few wants a thousand percent that was too good honestly the fact that sophie's feet are like going inwards

when she's walking away from the table and her skirt was too big for you it was like gorgeous and the bobble was tucked in but literally five minutes into the evening the bobble was tucked out it was fine until you took the laser off Oh Just why Why did you do it It gave us good memories Yeah yeah It was a good laugh It was a good laugh

But no I think that would be a view once That would be a view once Because it's honestly Like a select few people Yes I want to see it Timmy at the Eurostar

With her 12 Evions Timmy aka And her crisps That could be Kat I think quite sweet No I think that's quite good I think that could be one for the men

it demonstrates really like the time the time and place yeah I agree and the desperation and she's got a big smile on her face which means we had a great trip

she's happy she's hydrated so I would say not be once yeah I would say loads of times to look back at the trip yeah I agree

keep in chat I agree keep in chat I agree Melissa with the rosé drinking swigging from the swigging from the... Swigging from the bottle. I think he...

I think he... You look that way. It slightly sums up the trailer. Yeah, hell it's not. You know what's so awful about that? I don't remember. That was when we had left Soho House, and I don't remember that, because I was, like, really pissed, but in a really good way.

Everyone was on great form at that point. This one of Soph gathering her... Yeah, that one I was just looking at. I reckon this can be disappearing. I think that could be a disappearing. That could be a view once. That could be a view once. That was you. It's a photo of Soph carrying her dress. We're very

much on the way home at this point. Sorry, you thought you'd lost your passport before that photo. I remember on the group chat everyone was like, has anyone seen Sophie's passport? I'm like, it's not in my house. Sophie messaged on the group chat everyone was like has anyone seen sophie's passport it's not in my house sophie messaged on the group chat guys has anyone seen my passport no but sophie gave it to me on the way out to paris to look after on the way home god knows what she did with it because we all hung over in a hell of a state and i was like no no no no she's given her passport to someone and they've gone home

with it and her flights in an hour no it's a tragic time but she found it so yeah right i would do buons i would do yeah buons that's me on my way to spain with my wedding dress which i literally think i spattered out every ounce of liquid in my body because it was so heavy and so hot okay so the last game we're going to play today is called Who's Checking Up On You? And it's inspired by WhatsApp's privacy checkup feature, which allows you to personalize your privacy settings with an easy step-by-step guidance. So what we're going to do is choose three people and then decide who out of those people gets to see your profile picture, your last seen status and your read receipts. And then we're going to explain the reasoning why. Right, so I can, so I can custom,

you can hide your profile picture depending on the person, so like, if you put like a bikini picture on your, you know, as your profile picture, but you don't want your mum to see that because it's a bit, that's it. Or your dad. Or granny. Or granny.

Or grandma. Or your boyfriend's pissing you off and you wanna turn off the read receipts because you don't want him to see it on one night because I'm meant to be ignoring him all day I'm being mysterious really good if you're in the early stages of dating and you want to like read it straight away

but then like wait for a few hours so you'll like read it turn your red receipts off and be like right plan the best reply in the planet like get all your girlfriend's feedback reply two hours later to the minute okay so if we start with the profile

picture who would you guys hide your profile picture it's a hard one because i don't feel like i would actually hide it from anyone maybe someone in a professional environment where semi-professional so for example a decorator that i have that's going to come and decorate some bits in my house don't necessarily he doesn't need to see what i look like that's a really good one that's gonna turn it off for someone like that i don't know yeah what about you i think so i feel like the same as you like there have been times in the past when like builders and stuff like that like i honestly think i don't know i feel like well you don't you just need to communicate they don't need to see what you look like exactly you just need to have like a professional professional yeah but

you don't want to have also people i'm trying to think people that you don't want to have an opinion of you before you meet them yeah meet them so true yeah because it's kind of like it's really hard to have any kind of privacy these days

so I thought this is actually such a good like future yeah you end up sort of judging someone before you've even met them or like having a I mean we're all guilty of it yeah

so I'm loving this reprises one I've had my reprises off since I can remember but you've had them off for everyone but now you can change it so you can change it

and put like put it on for like me and your mum and you guys not no just me does sophie want to turn her re-receipts on with me though because recently sophie hasn't been replied to my messages do you want to know how many unread bots i have of. Right. To be fair, I've got quite, every time I see Sophie. I've got 85 unread. 70, 85. No, I have to. 70.

Guys, I have like four. It gives me anxiety. Also, I actually kind of respect that because you've probably got better boundaries than I do because I feel,

I get stressed. I'm like, oh God, I've replied to people. But actually. If you turn your read receipts off, sister. Turn her off,

sister. Well, then look. I'm going to turn my availability off. We'll get sister sister well then look i'm gonna turn my availability off we'll get on to that but i think i'll turn my online off so people can't even tell when i'm online no no one can with me either i've had that awful yonks as well guys i'm a pro i'm a private gal so i would turn if i was newly dating someone it would seem super mysterious i would i would turn off the online and the last

read so i could obviously read the message immediately within the second they sent it you know that awful thing when they send it and you're already on the message and it and you're like so that would never happen you'd save their number set the settings in gorgeous you can read immediately and then like construct your reply I don't know yeah or if like your agent and you're like oh my god I haven't actually done my paid post shit I need an hour of stalling time and you can be like turn the reference meetings yeah but actually you were just sat there thank you so much for joining us I just want to say a huge thanks to whats WhatsApp for making this episode happen and teaching us all about their handy privacy tools and how fun it's going to be for us customizing our WhatsApp now. I know. And if you don't want to end up like us today, sitting here and feeling our deepest, darkest secrets, get on to WhatsApp, guys, and set up these features.

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