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This is a global player original podcast.
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I'm gonna address the elephant in the room. Happy New Year, Happy Christmas, Blah, blah, blah. One, two, three. Skip a few. Vogue. Yeah, it's very clear there's information required. What are you talking misters? What are you wearing? What are you wearing? Vogue.
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I bought this hat off a company called Wolf and Badger last year.
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Oh, I know that.
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I didn't get the wear out of it. Yeah, I didn't get the wear out of it. Does it suit me? Not really. But I said to myself, I'll bring it away again, and I might wear it this time. And I haven't worn it yet. So I said, you know what? I'll wear it on the pod so everyone knows I'm skiing.
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Once again, Vogue has forgotten that this is an audible platform and has not explained what she's wearing.
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Of course I have.
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Strong start to the year. Vogue. We are nothing if not consistent.
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Never change.
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V's like, I'm a TV star, okay? If they can't see it, it's not my fucking problem.
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Jiman, obviously up with the setup, got locked out of her room. And yes, I'm explaining things, but no, nothing.
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Okay, Vogue is wearing quite a large.
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The lights went off. Oh, my God.
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What just happened there?
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The lights keep going.
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They're scared.
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There's a ghost in the house.
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Vogue is wearing quite a large, high white, traditional, culturally inappropriate skiing hat.
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I don't think it's culturally inappropriate. It's. It's a skiing hat. And am I regretting it? 1 minute, 47 seconds into the pod. Yes, I am, because I'm playing.
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It looks native to me. Vogue. I'm just. I'm just gonna call it.
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It's not Native. It's not native.
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It looks native.
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That's like saying you shouldn't be wearing those glasses because you flies are trying to look like that penis. What's his name?
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Are you talking about blind people?
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Yeah.
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Stevie Wonder.
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Yeah.
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Fair two. Oh, touche.
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What?
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What an excellent comeback.
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How dare you.
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Don't worry. I'm gonna get a dream catcher tattooed on my lower back, and then we'll all be.
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Do you remember dream catchers? I used to have a dream catcher. I don't think. This is not culturally inappropriate. This is like. You want to see the ones.
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No, it's not. I'm only joking. Sure, there's every influencer in the Alps. Any influencer eating alpen in their own home is wearing one of those hats this season. They're huge right now, and it suits you.
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I Did the biggest beep beep on the slopes the other day. Nearly. I wanted to crawl out of my own skin. It was so embarrassing.
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Was it for the tan?
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It was for the tan. And they told me in a meeting pre Christmas they were like our best performing post of last year was when he went skiing and he did a picture in the bikini. And I said, you know what? No way. I'm gonna, I'm gonna try and top that bad boy.
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Yeah, fair play. Listen, business is business. Sales need to be made.
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So I've been humiliating myself on the slopes and it doesn't matter because I have a helmet and goggles on so no one knows who I am.
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Listen, you're not doing anything. They're like, I, I'm, I'm chronically online. This is classic winter behavior in the influencer world. And let's face it, I want you have a finger in that world. You have a finger in not a whole toe, not a whole hand, but you do have a finger.
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So I've seen people do the full bikini down the slopes and I admire them greatly. I just couldn't do the full bikini. Maybe pre Christmas I would have liked to have done the full bikini and well, no, I don't think so. It's just, it's really cold. It's minus 14. I've. I've done what I can do next year if this one does better than last year's post, then I, maybe I'll do the whole bikini and then the year after that nude.
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Okay, nude pig. Slide out your tits. Won't take much.
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I. I asked. Yeah, won't take much. That would be an easy. It won't have to someone excuse that blow cone down the hill. I'll wear board shorts.
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Is it great the way people can be anything they want these days?
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I asked Benny a very important question, Joe. Maybe you'll answer it today on the slopes because it is quite cold. I said, because I have the funniest information that I found out today. I said to him, if you fell asleep on the slide of the slope in the sun, like you just fell asleep but your dick was hanging out, how long before you'd get frostbite? Isn't that an interesting question? How long? If it was. If that was the only bit you delight with yourself. I'm really bringing stuff to the conversation here.
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I feel like the marriage is running a little dry.
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Is it?
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It's been a lot of family time. There's only so much uno you can play before you have to start re engaging in Actual conversation.
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A whole lot Penny had to say to me the other day. He was like. I was. We were going for a run together before we came here. And he was like does your mind. Is it ever quiet in your head? And I was like no. Because I was like about Christmas next year, this year now. But I was like it hadn't even turned into 2026 and next year we'll do this. And he was like, what is wrong with you? Is it always like that in there? I was like, yeah, it does seem.
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Like it's busy in there.
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It's always busy.
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Yeah. That's a good thing though, I think. But I do.
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But it doesn't bother me cuz I'm used to the busyness and I like planning a year in advance.
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Yeah, why not? Well, it's no like the Mont Dites. It's woman's Christmas joke. Don't know if you're aware of that cuz you're not. Cuz you're a male. You're misogynistic prick before.
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And I have researched it. Oh, grandparents Christmas merry.
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Yeah, that's why I'm coming to you from Paris Court Hotel. And I've just had a facial that was near enough a religious experience because it's no like the Mon. And my God, did I put a full shift in in that all all inclusive buffet. I am exhausted. So traditionally the sixth of Jan is when women kind of finally get to sit down because they've done all the work for Christmas. But I mean it's a bit rich me celebrating. No like the morning considering I literally was drinking carpet. Yeah. I wasn't exactly stretching myself in any capacity. I revoluted my two nephews money. I didn't even do a single shop. Didn't buy anyone present. Just rev them up cash and sat back. But I am a very. Because I love beauty and I love facials. I consider myself almost like a sommelier in the facial world. So do I. Yeah, we love a facial.
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There's nothing I love more.
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So sometimes people invite me in to have facials and I go in and facials very. This one I had the blue diamond like props. It was. There was like at one point I was like this feels almost like Reiki. Like I was like, I think I'm gonna levitate. There was like l Tibetan Things playing. I was tripping. Yeah, I was tripping. I was tripping a bit. Which is why I'm here in sunglasses and everything. Because I've just. I've just come. I'm just. I'M just fresh face.
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That's why I'm here in Sun. What about all the other times?
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New year, new me, V new year. Now it's cuz I'm doing self care, not cuz I'm hung over. New year, new me. When I say I did the dog when I 12 dogs. I did 12 dogs on. I kept. I was circling the up button the first two weeks. I was like, no, what you mean.
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Over Christmas you did the dog?
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I did the dog in it. I'm going to tell you about that now. But that's when I say I was speaking to V guest day. She knew I was in a bad place. I was, I was, I. I just wasn't ready for the year to begin. I just wasn't ready. And then I was like, oh, no, no, Grant. 24 more hours. Something of drinking and eating cheese and hotels. Perfect. Tomorrow I'll be ready.
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Joe, tomorrow just crept up on you. I.
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You're talking about really crept up on me there.
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You're talking about your facial. I got offered my first. I felt. I was so excited by it. I got offered boob job in. In Turkey, actually, a boob job and a brow lift. I got offered by a company in Turkey on Instagram. And I thought, oh, wow, how kind. Didn't know I needed the brow lift as well, but appreciate.
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It's like when you go in for a facial and they're like, do you want a bit of derma blading? Which is female for shaving Joe. And you say, well, clearly I dermaplaning. Yeah, Derma blading.
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I sliced my neck yesterday from that. Spenny comes in, he's like, what are you doing? I'm like, nothing. Dermaplaning. What's all that in the sink? I'm like, dermaplaning.
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It's a completely different process to shaving Joe. And by that we mean it's completely the same, but it's been feminized.
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How dare you? Yeah, yeah. Little pink shavers is what we have. And they don't look like big razors. They're just little shavers.
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It's none of your business. Joe, if you see a woman during a plane, just walk the other way. It's none of your business. I'm gonna talk about you and the dog again. I'm gonna. I'm gonna have to know.
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Can we talk about the dog? Because I'll tell you about the dog that I did. The last dog that I did was the dog with you when we were all Together. And I was like, I'm gonna call down to Juan. And I did call down to Joanne. And I tell you what, I won't be back.
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We had a lovely evening.
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We had. Sorry, it saved my Christmas. Joanne McNally. It was such a nice night. We literally solved every single problem.
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We did. We put the world to rights. We needed that. We needed a real face to face. A solid 16 hour chat session. Do you know what I mean?
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Oh, my God. Did it end? It didn't end till a very late time. And then I actually was so shaken by it after. After the fact, because I actually. I wasn't even anxious after anything like that. I didn't feel that bad. But it was only a few days.
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After shooting up here. We were just. We were just drinking bits. We're just drinking bubbles, as the women say.
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We had tequila as well. And I was like, oh, geez. But then it saved my Christmas because I was like, I so put off booze. I still am. And everyone's like, come on, you're not gonna have some drinks now that we're away? Because we're away with loads of friends. And I'm like, I can't. I still can't.
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Okay, well, that's where we massively differ, because you have a limit, which is impressive. Whereas I, you know, get a sniff and I'm like. So I kept my. Together for a couple. The first, I'd say until about maybe. Well, no, I went to Lanzarote with my family, which was actually lovely. We went, my brother and his sister. Not his sister's wife. Sorry, marriage is confusing, isn't it? My brother and his wife and their kids, they didn't want to do the all inclusive because my brother was like, the kids, only the same stuff all again. But I did the all inclusive and then when I got there, I upgraded myself to the privilege package. Do you know why?
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All inclusive. So were you just going eating dinner and lunch and stuff on your own? Because they were going to rest. So you went on a family holiday, but very much stayed alone throwing rolls.
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Out to the pool. Here you go, peasants. Bread for the family.
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Feeding the ducks. Feeding the ducks.
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I'll tell you, they want to keep. So I upgraded to the privilege package. Right, so basically means you got a wristband with privilege written across it, which is a white woman isn't ideal, but there you go. And then I was like, this is. This. This system has been here long before I arrived, guys, I'm just like you. I upgraded myself to privilege because I am a child free Woman with no dependence. And while I will have no one to visit my grave when I die, I holiday. Well, Kate, my sister in law, when we arrived at the hotel, she had a lot of information about the hotel in the local area. And I was like, k, how do you know so much? And she was like, well, I joined the Facebook group and I said, excuse me, what now? This is. You think you're organized.
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That's impressive.
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Your car is the difference.
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The difference between me and Kate is I probably don't want to do the same things. Like I don't want to go and I just don't want to do anything. Nothing. If I can, I'll go out for the day and that's it. And I sit by the pool and then I want to go home. I'll privilege with you.
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Yeah. Oh, gotcha. But it's not actually like bouldering. It was more. She just wanted. She's two teenage kids. She wanted like the local information and everything. But she kept. And I was like, yeah, I joined the Facebook group and I couldn't stop laughing. I was like, we couldn't be more opposite. Anyway, as part of the, as part of the privilege package, along with the culturally problematic inappropriate wristband, there was a box. The privileged box you could go into was a glass room that could go into. Was very small and I had free pastries and a free bar which you could help yourself to. Right? So I just sat in my little box of privilege and Kate said she'd read about the box of privilege on the Facebook group and people had said that people in there looked quite ostracized. And I certainly did. Pat broke in twice.
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She buzzed.
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She got in under fault. She buzzed her way in. I was like, pat, you've no wristband. You've never. You can't be in here. This is the privilege box.
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Oh, my God. I'd be shitting myself. Fair play to Pat. I wouldn't be going into the privilege area with no privilege. I'm just.
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I'm a real follower. So am I. But she's in her 70s now. She's up. She. Pat, if she, she. She's due a Harley any day now. Then she started offering Connor and Kate food out of the privilege box. And I was like, you're going to get me kicked out.
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But I will say you can nick the pastries. In fairness, you can. It's like when you go for breakfast in the hotel, you're like, I'll just make a little sandwich for not in years. But I definitely used to do that.
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I was bringing bottles of cava down to the pool and all, like, it was chaos. It was hectic.
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I'm surprised you didn't turn into cava when you were there. And do you remember you went off Prosecco because of the prco express and everyone kept giving you Prosecco. Cava's not in the same game as.
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That was all they have Christmas. I'm not gonna drink water. Whatever's going. Anyway. We drank, got stuck in. It was a lovely holiday. Everyone got on really well. Everyone kind of, you know, hung out and then took their breaks, as you do. But it was lovely. The weather was nice, all very relaxed.
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Lovely.
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A bonding session. But there was obviously, you know, it's an all inclusive and you're either. You're stuck between. Either the money's gone, so everything's free, or the money's gone. You to get your money's worth. Either way, you're stuff in your face all day.
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Chris Kent deeply regretted selling you a privileged band. Oh, my.
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When they let me into the privilege box, I was like, oh, dear, oh, dear.
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Has the restaurant. Has the hotel gone into receivership? Yeah.
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Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, oh, dear. I'm still drinking some, but I brought it back in the suitcase. Pat complained. She went full car and complained every day. The holiday was she moved bedroom about four or five times, and eventually they just gave her a sweet. They were like, please, please leave us alone. I think when you hit a certain stage in life, you're like, I will. I will deal with no discomfort. I will deal with not a single issue. And I want my money's worth. And I'm willing to kick off at any time of the day or night. So we just used to see more.
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Above the age of 60.
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We just used to see Pat being, like, led around the hotel by various bell boys, dragging her bags from one room to the other, until eventually they got her sweet. She went mute for, like, the next 14 hours. Then we left. I was like, hey, Karen, how's it going?
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I committed to the hat. Is it really bad if I take the hat off now? I'm absolutely. It feels like I'm in a sauna.
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Sorry. Look at the glow now.
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We could spend 15 minutes looking at Joanne's glow here.
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I have no ring light on me, Jo. That's just my natural face. Kava, kava, kava, kava kava.
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Right?
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It's. It's Lance Roddy. It's what you do. Everyone's out there having a ball. It's Christmas. So it was very much Mobility scooter land. It was like elderly people out there. It's great for the joints. Even my mother, who has a bit of arthritic arthritis in her knees, was like, she's doing backflips out there. The sun's great for joints and all that jazz. Lovely, lovely time. Then the day we were flying home. Lansworthy Airport, not the most relaxing place in the world. My family were all flying separately because obviously I live in the UK and everyone was gone. And it was, you know, it's just a bit of a, like, debrief. So I had now, Joe, just bearing in mind I had. I didn't even have kava at the last morning. I didn't have cab at the breakfast. Okay.
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What?
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Yeah, I know. Great restraint. I just threw two tequila shots in my eyes. No cover for me, guys. New Year, new me. Just don't need to be wicked. The eye sockets, right. Got to the airport. It was all a bit stressful, like finding flights, blah, blah, blah. Mom's a bit wobbly now. It was all just fish, whatever. Anyway, decided. I was like, I have one cab. I'm on my own. I have one cab for the road. Me.
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You're pissed.
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No, my body just went, no, don't you dare. Don't you. You've taken the piss. I was projectile vomiting. Oh, yeah. All over Lando Airport. I couldn't keep water down. I couldn't keep anything down. It was one of the worst days. When I say worst days of my life. Now I know people are dying, Kim, as in the words of a great philosopher, because Jenner, I understand. It's like. But in my life. And there's not a single chemist in the departures in Lanzo Airport. There's no pain relief. There's nothing. I was so sick. I was pushing people out. I was trying to drink water to hydrate. Projectile vomiting, it. I was then cleaning the toilet cubicles up after myself. It was. My flight was delayed for four hours.
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Vomiting in the airport for four. That's okay. That's how I felt after our night out. You know what I mean? So that's why I couldn't touch it.
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Anymore, you know, I was so.
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Three weeks to get there. But I'm glad you got there.
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There in the end. I went around. I was asking complete strangers for pain relief. I was like, do you have any. Any painkillers? Like, I have nothing. A woman came up to me and she was like, are you okay? And I said, I'm not, actually. I'm not okay. I'm on my knees here. And she was like, do you want some morphine?
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No, she didn't.
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She did. Now. I told.
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I told.
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I told a little porky on instant. I said, I didn't take it. I did like it.
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You took morphine. You'd be mad to turn that down.
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And you know what I did with the morphine?
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Really good operations.
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You know what I did? She handed me two tablets. Now, I mean, this woman is a queen. This, like, this is next level in my head, I was like, morphine. I don't. I'm too sick to unpack. How she really needs it more than I do. Do you know what I mean? I was so desperate. So she handed me two tablets of morphine. She's like, 12 hours apart. 12 hours apart. And she gave me a very knowing tablets of morphine. She's like, I know. You take them sooner. And you know what I did? I took one table of morphine. And you know what happened?
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Double dropped. You took another one, didn't.
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I picked it up.
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Oh, did you just finish it out? Did you fish it out?
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FUMING and then I tried to. I tried to. I tried to hold. Like, I've just taken morphine. Like, this is. This is high end.
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It's gonna happen for a long time again. Forget it.
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I'm Kate Moss at this point.
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This is not a medical podcast. So then I was a medical professional. Did you say for our next party?
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Yeah, of course. I haven't. I vomit ever. I'm trying to, like, I'm trying to hold my hand in front of my mouth so that I can somehow save this little morphine capsule, but it was gone, it was goosed. It's sitting beside a tampon, a tampon bin in Lonzo Airport at this stage. But also, shout out. There was a couple of Irish women who follow me on Insta, who happened to be in Lanzarote airport, who also I met up with, and they gave me tablets, so. And I took every single one of them. Every single one.
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Do you want. I was just going around Lanzar Airport like Pac Man.
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Every single one.
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Yeah, I was.
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I was so desperate. I was in so much pain and I was so. I felt so embarrassed and I was like, you've done all this to yourself. So, bottom line, I don't think people like me are made for all inclusives. But Chris Kent, who's a Cork comic, had a great description about all inclusives. He's like, it's like a really posh prison because you're just queuing up, you're just queuing up for food all day.
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And all night for me as well. It's like I just need to get. I want to get my money's worth. I'm like, gotta get the money's worth. Even if I don't want something, I don't like things like that. It's. It's just like. And you know what else I find? Christmas, we had, we had a lovely Christmas. We were in Spain.
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Don't let the. Don't let the project of vomiting morphine incident get in the way.
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That's ended up. Yeah, that sounded lovely. I. I will tell you, I thought that that sounded fantastic. It sounded very much like a flight with three kids.
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Yeah.
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And very similar vibes, actually. Very similar. But I went away with my mom and we just chilled. But I even find like on Christmas Day, I'm like, oh God, you have to finish all the leftovers. Like, I just couldn't bear to leave it. I was eating ham at 11 o' clock at night and then I'm waking up every hour because I'm just dying of the thirst because of so salty.
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Ham that. I told you that's your weakness, ham. You see the heavy protein meal in the evening and you're like, oh, God, the shame.
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Joanne, you broke me. I was broken, okay. I couldn't even. When I was drinking expensive champagne, which I wouldn't turn down ever. I was like, I can't drink it, it doesn't taste right.
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That's like me going, I had an extra. I had an extra glass of whey on Christmas Eve night. I can't, can't get over the shame and the guilt of it.
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Joanne, you're just a healthy.
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She can't help it. I went to Loretto Dorky, which is.
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It's not the brown uniform or. No, no, yours was the.
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The teal Loretta Fox Rock is the brown dot green with the gabardine. Like they'd be dragging along the back. Like you wouldn't even see your ankles. Yeah, we were very chaste. And Dublin uniforms are usually outside. I remember seeing a cork skill uniform once and I was like, Jesus Christ, you can see what you had for lunch. Whereas ours were very long and. Yeah, very, very long. But anyway, there was a. There was a video of Loretta Dorky floating around on the Internet today and I re. Shared it because it's actually a stunning location for a school like we were. It's basically on the sea.
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Wow. Oh my God.
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Yeah, that was our skill.
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Sorry, can someone knock that down and build apartments? What a Waste.
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Just so you ring a nail there, you're like, I've just seen a huge financial opportunity for us.
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I found the perfect plot.
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There's one non left there alive, hanging on. I'd say pirate cheese. Keeping that place going. But anyway, so I reshared it because it was, like, obviously quite nostalgic for me. And I was saying that the. The lads used to call us. There was a boys school down the road and they used to call us whores on the shore or virgins on the rocks, depending on what caliber of school girl they were dealing with.
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Okay.
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So I posted this. And anyway, girls started coming into the DMs. They're like, oh, we were called this, this and this. And then I was like, oh, my God, I'm gonna do a shout out for what boys called girls schools now. They are all insanely problematic and toxic. Okay, you know what?
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I was a little bit in school.
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A little bit. A little bit fun. Come on. What?
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I was. So we used to have a green uniform and I was just called the Green Giant. Like, you know, the Green Giant from the. From the sweet corn tin all the time. Everyone just called me the Green Yard. Not bad, but that.
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You were an old girl Skill room. Yeah, yeah. That's why they were like. Every version of what came into my DMs was basically just young boys calling girls whores.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was whores in the shore. If the school had a slight incline. It was horrors on the hill. There was a lot of horrors on the hill. One girl messaged Just Horse. One girl there was Virgin Megastores.
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Oh, I like that.
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Yeah. Pill Hill for Sign Hill. And because they were seen to be more promiscuous. In what way? I have no idea. Like, who knows? Hold on, I'm gonna get the up here.
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Hold on.
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The gas thing is that men calling women slags, like, you're the ones who are trying to write us all the time. Like, there's a lot of hypocrisy there. But look, that's for another day. One girl just master going, our boy. Our local boys didn't have much of imagination. They just called us sluts.
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Do you remember how bad it used to be to be called a slut, though? And you'd be. Absolutely. Because you're 14. And I actually, I. I am disgusted by that. Because if that hadn't been so strong and gone around, I might have been more worldly terrified. No, I would have been more. I'm talking about from 17 up.
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Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. There was a girl who messaged saying their school was called Christ the King. Their. The local boy school rebranded them as Christ. You're ugly.
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Oh, that's mean. That's horrible.
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You'd never get away with it.
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No, absolutely not.
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Collapse up, knickers down. The Purple Virgins Whorehouse Raphael is in. Stallorgan was called Reservoir Dogs.
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Reservoir Dogs.
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Someone said they called our school the Pound because we were all dog ugly, apparently. According to the local boys, school.
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Is.
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Apparently called Mount Anything again. Slot shaming. Yep. Various fun puns of calling tiny women whores. Presentation College was called Pregnantation Guarantee. There was maybe one teen pregnancy in 20 years of the school. And the lads are like slags. Loretta Wexford. Where the collars go up and the knickers go down.
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I've heard that a lot.
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Holy child. Killarney was called have a child colony again. Men impregnating women and then judging the women for getting impregnated, even though the man didn't use protection. Standard practice. A lot of Virgin Mega Stores, Pill Hill, Salerno, Sluts, Taylor's Tarts. Like Jesus. Slots on the slope. I don't know where. Don't know what skill that is.
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That's me now.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There's not much deviation from, though.
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I mean, it's very sexually promiscuous focused.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Glenn Moore was called Glan. Yep. There's a. There's a theme.
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Tick, tick, tick.
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There's a theme. I just thought what a lovely throwback to a simpler time, you know?
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What a way to open 2026. Thank you so much.
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It was me too, you know, it was. It was just simpler times, you know. Vogue, Gladiators.
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Gladiators.
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You won. Well, I knew you'd won.
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I won.
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Yeah.
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I did win.
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Congratulations.
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Now, do you know what? I was so right when. When I was doing it. Right. So last, Joel and Rob Beckett and stuff did it now. No shade. There's no shade.
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Oh, that means there shade.
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When I watched the back, they all used a ladder to climb up instead of the rope. And then they didn't use the monkey bars to go across. They used. They just walked across a beam because they're really hard things to do. And as someone who has no upper body strength, I struggled with the rope. I was like, I can't get my body up because. And they were like, use the rope. It's. It's in the rules. Use the ladder.
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Sorry, the rules. So we're talking about ladder, gate, Ladder gate.
A
Yeah. So use the ladder. It's in the Rules. And I was like, no, I want to give the ropes a go just in case I'm able to do it on the night and you can have a ladder at the side. Like, I'd rather give it a bit of a go in the rules. I would like to repeat anyway, so I was. I had a great day, but I was quite far behind Nicola, she gets. She got to start. I think she got like a 22nd head start or something like that because she had beaten me on some of the things. And then anyway, I couldn't get up the road so they gave me the ladder and Nicola was like practically on the. She was practically on the travelator at this stage. So I had to like completely it. And I was way behind her and I caught up and I won by 1 2/200th of a second. And there was a few people who commented, saying, you're a cheater.
B
Yeah.
A
And I said, no, I'm not actually a cheater, it's in the rules. And the ladder was offered to everybody.
B
Yeah.
A
So I am not a cheater and I love my trophy and I'm going to post it on Instagram just to piss people off.
B
Let the record show, it was with the ladder. It was within the gladiator rules.
A
Yeah. Within the BBC rules. I didn't break any rules.
B
You're probably the only person, if anything.
A
You'D say I was a good sport.
B
You're probably the only person in the BBC who hasn't broken any rules in 20, 25. So let the record show, she was allowed use the ladder. She used the ladder. She won.
A
Yeah.
B
Eda, it is what it is. You're an athlete.
A
I still couldn't. I still couldn't walk for two days after. Claudia, do you not remember me in Spain? Well, you didn't see me in Spain. It was one of those times where you can't squash on the toilet. You just have to try and drop down. Because I was in such. I actually, I'd say it was like three or four days. I could not walk properly after it. Like it. And do you know what the worst thing about gladiators was? When I was watching it back, I was like, I did really well in this. And then I'm watching it back and I'm like, oh, my God, how do we all look?
B
I thought.
A
I thought we looked brilliant. And then I watched it back and I was like, hang on a second. Everyone looks except the gladiators. Why do they look everybody else?
B
Why do you look shit?
A
I don't know. You know when you think you just look better than you are. It's like when I do the dancing, I'm like, I look way better than I am, but I'm not.
B
I used to think I was way more attractive than what I actually am. When I started doing about this and all the videos started coming out and I was like, who's that pig? Oh my God. Yeah, it's good though. I think it's good to have a high opinion of yourself, you know?
A
Yeah, I know. When you. Well, it's good to have and then to realize that actually. Hang on a second. You look like complete garbage.
B
What next? You've won Bear Grylls. You've won Celebrity Gladiators. What next? Celebrity Love Island?
A
No, I'm gonna. I'm holding it. I'm holding out for a while. I'm not, I'm. There's nothing in the pipelines with that. Although I start my new job next week. Not next week, the week after.
B
Go on.
A
So I am going to be reporting the entertainment on Lorraine every Wednesday that it's on.
B
Great. Yeah, yeah, that's great news. Yeah, yeah, we had discussed that. We discussed that privately, Joe, without you, without your little ears.
A
Yeah, Jo, about that. Cuz you're not in the gang.
B
That's fantastic news, V. I'm delighted for you. I think it's a great move.
A
Thank you.
B
You're moving. You're shaking.
A
I have to tell you about this thing that I found out on the ski slopes today that I never knew about.
B
Go on.
A
We got on a lift and we were. These two young people got in the lift and we were like, oh, what is up to? They're like, oh, we have a gap year and. And we work from three to nine. And we were like, oh, what do you do? She's like, well, I used to be a medical student. Well, I am a medical student and I've taken a gap year and we're called Ski Angels and we work for this charity. And I was like, oh, wow. What, what does it involve? And she goes, well, between the hours of 3 and 9, we help really drunk people get down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she's like, sometimes we find people unconscious on the side of the slopes and they have to get them all down because people get re. Like people apres ski. Ski. Like they really apres ski and then they can't get down the slope. And so there's actually people who go around up and down the slopes till 9 o' clock at night making sure that nobody is lying on the slopes about to die.
B
Skiing is. They're doing God's work. Skiing is incredibly dangerous. Like, I heard that the. The travel insurance for skiing is through the roof. There was a girl that I did my masters with who died.
A
Jesus. I'm currently on a ski holiday.
B
Sorry. I know everyone. I. I do. I'm always. I always kind of like to wrap up a conversation with the death at the end. It's very Irish.
A
I call Amber. Amber's called the Grief Gazette because she's always talking about people who've died. I'm like, christ, here we go.
B
That's exactly what I am, the Grief Gazette. But this gorgeous person, Maria, she died snowboarding. She was killed in an avalanche. It's very, very, very, very. Yeah, I know, I know. And she was. And it was only when we just finished college. She wouldn't have even been 25, 26, I'd say. Or finish the Masters. I know. So be careful out there. Vogue.
A
Yeah. Well, she. That's. When you do skiing. Off. Peace. Skiing. People wear these backpacks that actually have, like, avalanche things. And basically, if an avalanche comes and you can hear, press this button and this big thing, like, inflates like an airbag almost, so it pulls you up so people can find you. Did you see that video online? And it's not AI because it came out ages ago. I'm really pissed off with the AI. It came out ages ago and there's this girl and she was, like, getting her helmet and stuff ready. She was on a snowboard and she was really off feast and filming herself like an osmo. And there's a bear coming after her, but she had headphones on. And it was only when she got home, she noticed the bear was coming after her.
B
I think I did see that, but is that. Was it real or is it not real?
A
When I heard about the Ski Angels, I thought we could get you on up here, Joanne, you'd love to halfway ski. You would. You just have to do a bit of skiing in the morning and then you'd find yourself at a very long, long lunch. And the Ski Angels would get you down.
B
Yeah, I mean, I'm open to it. Can I just say how adorable and gorgeous Amber looks dancing?
A
We have to talk about Amber dancing. Amber, my sister is not dancing with the stars in Ireland. And now let's call a spade a spade. Amber and I are not great dancers. And she was a bit like the Tin Man. A little bit rigid.
B
No. Well, firstly, it's her first time dancing on the tv. Yes, I've been very Vocal about the fact that I can't start dancing in public. I need to start dancing privately and then move into the arena or move in focus while dancing. I thought she did fucking really well. And also the key that she has is she's on a journey. So if you start really, really. If you start, like, you're just, like, banging it out of the park. There's nowhere to go. So she started as someone like a normal woman who's like, I don't dance really, but I'm here for the fun. I'm here for the crack of it, and I'm gonna learn. I'm gonna get involved. And she's woman on woman, which is interesting and fun. And she looked so cute.
A
Stunning. Stunning. She's had mean comments and she's not used to them because, like, this is just not her arena. It's her first time doing it. So I think that they're upsetting her.
B
Yeah.
A
But I think that she is on a journey and she's never performed anywhere. Not just, like, dancing. She's never done anything like that before. She doesn't even like getting up in public speaking. So she went on. She did it. And if you can vote for Amber, please vote for Amber, because she is putting in a lot of effort.
B
I mean, talk about going from 0 to 100. She's gone from, like, not so much as doing, like, a local face to, like, Dancing with the Stars in Ireland. It was quite the jump. Fair play for what a swing. Do you know that it's. When you. Because me and Vogue were this. And she was saying she's getting, like, you know, she's getting trailed, whatever. Like, it's just part and parcel. But I was like, I feel so bad for her because you get used to it, but when it. When it start, when it happens at the start, you're just not used to it. And you. It. It can be really hurtful. And you. And you. You believe it at the start, or you do what I do, which is trying to find yourself to every single person who says anything negative about you, and which also obviously gets you in.
A
A lot of trouble.
B
But, like, I noticed, for my personal growth. So I did a video about Venezuela the other day, because obviously, like, Trump invaded Venezuela, took your money, blah, blah, blah, high dramas. And I was. Joe, I was. Because the other way, everyone likes to think that there is. There's a cohort of people on the Internet who, whenever something like this happens, there's a real cycle. There's, like a cycle that happens. People form an opinion Very quickly people get on board very quickly. Then other people start criticizing them for having ill informed opinions. And where were you 10 years ago when Venezuela needed you? It's all, it's the same. It's always the same. So I was taking the piss and I was like, did. I did a video. I'm typing frantically and I'm like trying to figure out what the Venezuela is so I can pretend I have a formed opinion on it and start retweeting the appropriate memes. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well.
A
When I saw that I thought when she going to delete it because she's.
B
Baring it's taking the piss out of that. Like that what goes on on the Internet around these huge global events? Like what? You know, there's a, there's a panic that you feel ill informed, you inform yourself. It's all, there's a lot of performative nonsense that goes on in the Internet around these things. But like when, when I say, I realize I was like, oh, I'm hardcore now. Because it didn't matter what they said. No, I was like, I just, you just don't get me and I don't get you and it's Grant. But I, that's why I felt bad. I do feel bad for Amber because.
A
I know she's, you know what, she'll get there. I, I saw my blocked list. I've got 749 people blocked and counting. How many? Anyone? 749. Anyone who says boo to me now I'm like, see you later. No, sorry, I'm not here for this.
B
Yeah, yeah.
A
Anyone who says anything negative or mean unless it's like, it's not like I'm not going for absolute but anything really insulting, I'm just like, see you later. I'm hoping to reach a thousand by the end of the year. One of my resolutions.
B
I hope you do. And then I want to see with the 1k balloon inflata balloon photo pit 1k guys.
A
Yeah. Oh my God. Yes. That's what I will do.
B
The one K. I saw a meme the other day and it was like, it was a cartoon woman drinking a glass of wine going through her phone. It was like checking my block list to see I'm going to let out in bail for 2026.
A
Yeah. No, I'm not letting anyone out. Everyone's. Everyone's stuck there.
B
I remember like, I've had my like run ins with, with the Internet and.
A
You know, I've had people mail me asking me to get you to unblock them. Like, if she's blocked you, she's blocked.
B
You for a reason, Joan. People are like, oh, you're deleting. You're deleting comments. Yeah, yeah, I'll delete what I want. I'll delete myself if I want. I'll like, I. I can. It's my Instagram account. If I. If someone's giving me jobs, go off.
A
Insta for two days and give them a real fright.
B
It's not a flex for you to come back and say, oh, you've deleted my comments. Yeah, yeah, you're being an although Julia Fox now, in fairness, she was. It was a message to everyone. She's like, I don't delete any trolley comments. Because she's like, it's their mess. I'm not cleaning it up for them. Let it sit there. Which I thought was good.
A
Oh, yeah, but I nearly. I actually screen grabbed somebody's and I was nearly going to post it with her name on it. And then I was like, I actually won't. But I. But I should do.
B
There's a lot of that going on at the moment. Or maybe it's just my algorithm and it is fun. People po. People who trail them. Putridge High was changed to poof. Signed assumptions of slappers.
A
My New Year's resolutions. Joe, have you got any? The same ones. Try and drink a little bit less. Try and exercise a little bit more. I enjoy. Boring. Yeah, I like those ones. I like them. Well, I have one exactly like that. It's one I use every year. I have no intention of actually doing it, but it sounds good. So I am planning to be more chill this year.
B
Having a. You're having a lobotomy. Can't wait. I'll do the procedure myself, if you don't mind. I'll take the hammer, Doctor. I'll take the hammer from here.
A
Well, I'm out. I'm going to start manifesting and I'm going to do a vision board.
B
There's a lot of. There's a lot of witchy, witchy woo woo chat this year about vision boards and manifesting.
A
New New Year, New me. Juan, would you like to come over for a cacao and sound bath ceremony?
B
I would not.
A
I would not, neither, no. Okay, here's my other resolution, which is a pretty serious one. I'm gonna try and get the Beckham's back talking. What do you think?
B
Interesting.
A
Basically, Brooklyn. Brooklyn blocked his mom and dad and the sun cruise because the papers were like, oh, Victoria and David unfollow Brooklyn and then cruise. The sun came out and was like, no, they didn't unfollow their son. He blocked them as he blocked all the rest of us.
B
It's a classic case. Now, I obviously have an opinion on it with. And I like, as always, the opinion is stitched together from zero factual information.
A
I would like you to keep in mind that we are desperately trying to be members of the Beckham family, so.
B
Oh, I know, sure.
A
Like you're on side of victory.
B
Don't get me wrong. Look, I'm waiting to get my Ouija board so I can take over Harper Beckham's body. We know this.
A
But.
B
And then live my most glorious privilege.
A
And have we stunning side as well. Yeah, she wears a privileged brand every single day.
B
She does indeed. Yeah. She doesn't have to give it back at the end. She doesn't have to give back at the end of the holiday.
A
She's certainly not drinking cava.
B
Yeah, and her mother has one as well. She's not just breaking into her privilege box. Okay, so it's a. It's a tale as old as time. Man meets woman, man abandons entire family for a woman. Woman gets blamed for man abandoning entire family. It's a tale as old as time. We hang out the lady, we hang out the woman. We think we assume there's some fallout between Victoria and. Is it Nicole? Nicola.
A
Nicola.
B
Nicola. He married. Well, that man. I mean, it's not like he's coming from squalor either, but Jesus Christ, they make the back of the.
A
Don't they. They're like squalor. Yeah, I know. I know they do. That's the thing. They are. They are ultra, like, ultra rich.
B
What I would say to you, Brooklyn, is, as a woman in her 40s now, family becomes insanely important the older you get. Like, wildly important. When you're young, it's all about friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, relationships, blah, blah, blah. And then suddenly you hit a stage in your 40s where your mortality starts setting in and your parents are maybe not as healthy as they, and you start looking at what your future looks like without them. It's all about the family. Brooklyn. It's all about.
A
No, you know what? I do. I. And in all honesty, it's so turned.
B
Their back on Victoria Beckham as a mother.
A
I know, I know. But isn't it such a shame because they did seem like a really close family. Supposedly it started because. Because all of last year, he, Nicola and Brooklyn didn't attend any of the events. Like when. When David became like what, what's. What did he knighted or something. Brooklyn didn't go for all Victoria's fashion. So all the things that you would like show up for family. But supposedly it started at the wedding when Nicola was meant to get a dress designed by Victoria. Didn't end up getting the dress designed by Victoria. And then Mark Anthony who they had singing, you know JLo's ex, he called.
B
Yeah, the gay guy.
A
Yeah, he. No, he's not gay.
B
Who am I thinking of? Ricky Martin? Sorry. Gum.
A
And supposedly he called Victoria the most beautiful woman in the world on the night of, of their wedding. And so Nicola felt very upset and slighted by it. Now this could all be complete bollocks anyway. And then they had a falling out.
B
And this is where we don't check folk. This to me now is gospel. So go on.
A
Okay. Complete gospel. I do agree with you.
B
I was just hit me.
A
And he wanted. And she, she was going to use Victoria Beckham to design her wedding dress but she ended up using Karl Lagerfeld. But unfortunately he had passed away. So she used the cat and that's who designed the dress and she wasn't happy about it. And then, so then the whole thing happened over Christmas. And then also there was another thing where David did a recap of 2025. David, like I'm friends with him, he did a recap of 2025 and. And he didn't include Brooklyn, but Brooklyn wasn't in the 2025.
B
I do think it is very sad because the back ends always have seemed to have been very family orientated.
A
And listen, I would just like to put my name in the house. You have a spare room now. You've a spare space at the dinner table.
B
Yeah.
A
And I am happy. I'll drop my whole family, all of them. I won't speak to them again. I'll drop them all.
B
I'll tell you, I've been in relationships where I'm like, you're all I need. I need nothing else. And then you, you see that runs its course. That runs its course. Look, unless your parent, unless your parents have been keeping in a basement for the last six years. I also think there's an awful trend at the moment and I blame Oprah Winfrey. There was a trend of like, oh, if your family have pissed you off in any way, cut them, cut them. Boundaries. Boundaries.
A
You have to. I feel like you've gotta. I think we're gone.
B
It's not a healthy message. It's a really unhealthy message. Unless there's like serious abuse going on. Like family's family. People upset each other and piss each other off all the time. You work through it. They're all you have at the end of the day. That would be my opinion on it now, like.
A
And I think if you're lucky enough to be able to be close with your family, which he obviously was, and it's not. It's not the case for everybody. I think that you should really put, like, I mean, when I say I'm investing, invest in this. It's really, it's. It's quite unusual how much, how much I am.
B
A reunion is needed to dive into.
A
It and figure it out. You felt like over the Christmas break, Joanne, that you would have spent so many hours on the Internet that you would have cracked that for me.
B
I was too busy in my privilege box.
A
Well, everyone, thank you so much for listening. That is the end of the first episode.
B
Mount Sackless. Just. I don't know. I don't know. LA's not supposed to have socks. I don't know why that's.
A
Well, listen, I'm just glad for the. For the non repetition, actually.
B
Okay. I think that's. Yeah, that, that's. That's it. Really. Yeah.
A
That concludes the Pod 2026. We're in first Pod of the year. Thank you everybody. And we'll see for the bonus.
B
Mount Mental.
A
We'll see for the bonus. But me and Joe want to. To be here for quite some time.
B
Lesbian Louise, Our lady of losers.
A
This has been a global player original production.
Hosts: Vogue Williams & Joanne McNally
Date: January 9, 2026
The first episode of 2026 kicks off with Vogue and Joanne’s trademark blend of brash honesty, hilarious storytelling, and razor-sharp observations. Topics range from embarrassing ski moments and influencer culture, to the peculiarities of school nicknames, family holiday antics, all-inclusive "privilege," internet trolling, and even the latest public Beckham family drama. With their usual irreverence, the duo dishes out personal updates, critiques, and laugh-out-loud social commentary.
“I've seen people do the full bikini down the slopes and I admire them greatly. I just couldn't do the full bikini...it's really cold. It's minus 14." – Vogue ([03:11])
“I upgraded myself to privilege because I am a child-free woman with no dependents. And while I will have no one to visit my grave when I die, I holiday well." – Joanne ([10:09])
"You’re just queuing up for food all day…it's like a really posh prison." – Joanne ([19:10])
"There was a boys' school down the road and they used to call us 'whores on the shore' or 'virgins on the rocks,' depending on what caliber of schoolgirl they were dealing with." – Joanne ([21:51])
"Do you know what the worst thing about Gladiators was?... Everyone looks [bad] except the gladiators." – Vogue ([28:44])
"She's on a journey...if you start really well there's nowhere to go, so she started as someone like a normal woman, but I'm here for the crack of it and I'm gonna get involved." – Joanne ([32:59]) "If you can vote for Amber, please vote for Amber, because she is putting in a lot of effort." – Vogue ([34:03])
"Tale as old as time: man abandons family for a woman, woman gets blamed. We hang out the woman." – Joanne ([40:32])
"Unless there’s serious abuse going on—family’s family. People upset each other and piss each other off all the time. You work through it. They’re all you have at the end of the day." – Joanne ([44:19])
Playfully irreverent, unfiltered, and conversational. Both hosts leverage their comedic talents to make social observations and personal confessions, layering honesty with wit and affectionate teasing.
This episode is jam-packed with relatable anecdotes about holidays, bodily mishaps, the ridiculousness of school nicknames, and the weirdness of influencer life—plus a thoughtful discussion on online hate and family loyalty. Whether recounting mishaps on the ski slopes or analyzing the latest celebrity spat, Vogue and Joanne’s chemistry and comedic timing carry through, making even the more outrageous moments feel warm and familiar.
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