Rick Stein or Mike Thompson?!

0:01Louise Thompson: Hello and welcome back to He Said She Said.

0:03Ryan Libbey: Howdy partner.

0:05Louise Thompson: Give us your jingle Louise. You figured it out.

0:07Ryan Libbey: What is it?

0:08Louise Thompson: You know it.

0:09Ryan Libbey: I don't know because my memory is so bad. How is my memory worse than yours?

0:13Louise Thompson: Wait mine was um they say don't judge a book by a cover. The same goes for me.

0:22Ryan Libbey: But why is that relevant to you?

0:24Louise Thompson: Because you could judge me by looking at me

0:28Louise Thompson: and yours was what's mine I've survived more plot twists than Netflix and I'm still the leading lady

0:36Ryan Libbey: that's epic

0:38Louise Thompson: that is actually

0:39Ryan Libbey: that's such a good line I feel like I have survived I feel like I should write into a show

0:43Louise Thompson: and be like here's your character yeah or two

0:49Ryan Libbey: well which one would you be on any any Orange County Well, just because you like Orange County. The caliber of people you hate, though.

0:59Louise Thompson: Well, me and Ramona are going to get on better, are we?

1:01Ryan Libbey: Yeah. That's why I was going to say, wrong show. She's in New York.

1:04Louise Thompson: Yeah.

1:05Ryan Libbey: You and Tamra Judge. Oh. No.

1:08Louise Thompson: With her boyfriend, Ryan, or no? No. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:11Ryan Libbey: Right character. That's what's the one Heather Dubrow's on. And this is what Fleur and I are talking about. She's bad news. Heather Dubrow. Because they've all married to billionaire surgeons or celebrities, and that's why it's juicy. if you were married to a plastic surgeon do you think you would um get anything done i'm gonna be honest with you i don't know if i would do that i think you should think about it what should what do you think i should have worked on um my hairline

1:42Ryan Libbey: also why are we talking about housewives if you guys are interested in the housewives chit chat and you don't understand what we sound why we're reciting our jingles then you can go back to last week's AUA I think we talk a bit I suggest you do fair amount about that topic of

1:56Louise Thompson: conversation well where would you like to go today then oh in this week's therapy yeah we this is

2:02Ryan Libbey: therapy have you read anything interesting this week I actually read an article that spoke about um it was a research study done by Price Waterhouse Cooper and they said that 37 % of Gen Zers

2:17Louise Thompson: want to leave the workplace any workplace just the workplace their workplace which is quite

2:22Ryan Libbey: worrying i think we're one of the only like um sort of first world countries that doesn't seem to have bounced back post covid in terms of the unemployment rate and i don't know whether it's a sign of the times or i see we're raising a lazy generation as parents this is something we we

2:38Louise Thompson: should probably think about well we're not raising yes yes we are yes the generation below us are

2:45Ryan Libbey: lazy you actually you're gonna go straight in with that yeah what experience have you had

2:53Louise Thompson: well i don't know i mean when i was at school before i went on my gap year i did i did six months of being like a um what do you call it i don't know you're just waving your hand around like this like i was like uh i was that's what i was a yard boy in the construction industry

3:11Ryan Libbey: that's the official technical term for everybody there is a there is a word i'm just blanking yeah

3:16Louise Thompson: that's annoying that was like proper work up on and it was i was in wales south wales so the weather was typically shit and i was either in like a loft ripping the whole thing out you know everything from like the ceiling insulation stuff to the wooden timber framework to tiles and if i wasn't doing that i'd be outside and i'd be lugging literally buckets of cement up and down a ladder i'd go into the portal and they'd lob bricks at it to like scare me because i was the young one i was the young one on the on the yard and i used to get paid like pittance for it but it was like part of the sort of ritual to you finish school you want to go traveling go and earn your stripes and spend some time there i never knew that about you that's cool

4:01Ryan Libbey: so that was your was that your first job or did you do work experience when you were younger

4:04Louise Thompson: like 14 15 GCSEs oh sorry well yeah no so that was my sort of first proper job in the sense that I'd left school but I when I was younger like GCSE level I used to wait on tables yeah you did do

4:17Ryan Libbey: some waitressing or wait I did some waitressing yeah yeah you did did you ever spill anything in

4:21Louise Thompson: the wheat sheath in um in Wiltshire I feel like that's a really nice pub isn't it it's very nice

4:27Ryan Libbey: pub yeah I mean wheat sheath in or is that just quite a common name quite a common name yeah but

4:30Louise Thompson: It was in the something valley of Wiltshire, not far from the Salisbury Plains, but it was beautiful. Yeah. And Adam, my middle brother, he was pulling pints and I'd be the little dude like sending the beers out to the beer garden and carrying food. And I actually dropped a full pint of beer on someone before.

4:46Ryan Libbey: What on yourself or somebody else?

4:48Louise Thompson: I had a tray. I took one off and the other one spilt and went across the sort of shoulder of some bloke. Took it very well, but I was...

4:54Ryan Libbey: Did everybody clap?

4:55Louise Thompson: No.

4:56Ryan Libbey: No. Did they used to do that at school? I think they could see the fear on my face. If you dropped your tray at school, did everyone used to clap? That was terrible, yeah. Isn't that awful? How many people were there in your school?

5:05Louise Thompson: I don't know.

5:05Ryan Libbey: Like several hundred. Everyone would have lunch at the same time. We used to play this game where people would pull your skirt down. We used to wear these long skirts. And people would pull them down when you had a full tray. And then you'd just go, you'd be stalkers or you'd drop your tray.

5:18Louise Thompson: In our dining hall at school, it was a bit like on Harry Potter. You know, you have this, not obviously it's big, but you'd have the tables on the side. and then at the top you'd have the the top table yeah that's where the sixth formers were like the top end of the yeah yeah and they all i remember being like i remember being junior in the school and seeing these sixth formers in their like own suits colored shirt some of them were like if they were sports scholars they'd have a different color blazer or whatever and they all used all the blokes used to walk down holding their food tray with one hand and i was like oh that's so dope I want to do that one day and then when I got into that upper sixth like situation I remember doing it and be like that's right

5:59Ryan Libbey: wait what do you mean that was iconic that you got to hold your tray with your hand yeah because it was like

6:02Louise Thompson: this guy's so strong

6:06Ryan Libbey: that's so funny

6:08Louise Thompson: because you have to walk down past like it's a big

6:09Ryan Libbey: and also the queues to get your like food and people would queue barge and if you were young and small you'd just be in the queue forever because everyone would push in

6:17Louise Thompson: yeah

6:18Ryan Libbey: and when we got to sixth form And we were allowed to bring in our own cereals and spreads.

6:22Louise Thompson: Oh, we weren't able to.

6:23Ryan Libbey: So like Biscoff spread, Nutella, but then that probably got bad because some would be allergic to nuts.

6:28Louise Thompson: I never saw anyone bring in their own spreads.

6:30Ryan Libbey: Yeah, we could do that for tea time. It was quite fun.

6:32Louise Thompson: Oh, wait, for tea time?

6:33Ryan Libbey: Yeah.

6:34Louise Thompson: Was that in the dining hall?

6:36Ryan Libbey: I think so. God, custard creams and bourbons. I wish I was a child still. You still eat that shit. I don't eat a fucking bourbon.

6:46Louise Thompson: Excuse me. You were having...

6:48Ryan Libbey: What are they called? Stroople waffles or something the other day? You bought them. I just had one today, just this morning, which is so unhealthy.

6:54Louise Thompson: Right, so I buy them, but you eat them.

6:56Ryan Libbey: Yeah, so you definitely can't take the piss out of me. What are they called?

6:59Louise Thompson: I don't know. You said it the other day. It was quite funny. Stroople duples or something? Stroople waffles?

7:03Ryan Libbey: Stroop waffles. Stroop waffles. I don't know. There's like a caramel biscuit cake.

7:08Louise Thompson: It's like wedged in a waffle meister machine in a wafer. Yeah, it's delightful.

7:13Ryan Libbey: God, I wish I'd known you back when you were at school. How weird that estate agent knew you when you were at school. Did you used to get your own bedrooms or did you have to share?

7:23Louise Thompson: I told you about this with my own sink.

7:25Ryan Libbey: I thought that was at university when you used to wear the sink.

7:27Louise Thompson: That was my final two years in sixth form. I had my own room.

7:30Ryan Libbey: Oh, okay. Yeah, I think we had the same. You had to get sixth form to... But before that, you would share in like groups of four or five. Did you used to have to do dorm requests? Yeah. Isn't that crazy?

7:41Louise Thompson: Yeah. The third form and fourth form was dorms. Fifth form, I used to share a room with Jack and he would like be in and out of the window, just going off to like shag his girlfriend on the scrummage machine on the rugby pitch. What's a scrummage machine?

7:55Ryan Libbey: What's a scrummage machine? Oh, that sounds a bit sexy. What is it?

8:00Louise Thompson: You know scrum in rugby? Kind of.

8:02Ryan Libbey: I've never really understood the rules. You get eight dudes on one team,

8:05Louise Thompson: eight dudes on another, and they scrum and they push and they try and get the ball. Yeah. The scrum machine replicates the other eight players on the other team. Oh, you practice with a machine.

8:14Ryan Libbey: Yeah. That's very AI technology. No, it's not AI. that is not AI

8:18Louise Thompson: that's been around for donkey's years and it's just a lump of metal on a roller

8:22Ryan Libbey: what and you just jump on that that doesn't sound very sexual

8:24Louise Thompson: no he's

8:25Ryan Libbey: where's the weirdest place you've ever had sex because it sure shit in with me

8:28Louise Thompson: my parents on suite was pretty weird because I got caught

8:32Ryan Libbey: oh god what do you mean on suite in their bathroom what in their current house

8:35Louise Thompson: no no no no

8:37Ryan Libbey: god

8:37Louise Thompson: yeah I got caught that was not a good moment wait who caught you

8:40Ryan Libbey: your mum or your dad

8:41Louise Thompson: my mum I actually did a walk of shame past my dad and he was like trying not to laugh but also like I got a back mum up

8:49Ryan Libbey: inside he was like that's disgusting yeah

8:52Louise Thompson: notice how I haven't asked you the same question I know I'm like waiting I'm like

8:56Ryan Libbey: can I tell my story without sounding desperate you can tell them but not me it was a washing machine right

9:01Louise Thompson: a washing machine yeah

9:02Ryan Libbey: and it was actually got a bit problematic what you were inside

9:06Louise Thompson: the washing machine no

9:09Ryan Libbey: your head was in it no die you actually love the laundry room for a little

9:16Louise Thompson: cheeky

9:16Ryan Libbey: midday situation no i don't know don't ask me why it was a washing machine but then i feel like there was an injury i was not involved but if you you can just let your imagination run on with that one and it actually then required to use the washing machine oh god i got suspended when i was at school of having a boy around from another school in my room and just dirty whore thinking about this boarding school stuff it's quite off key because I was actually sharing a room with somebody else so I must have turfed them out because actually even when we were in lower sixth I think we were we had to share we had dorms of two so one other person but at that point we must have been choosing I don't think we were I still think we were doing a dorm request if anyone that doesn't know what dorm request is it's kind of like a political situation but basically you You get to write down a list of like five or six people you wouldn't mind sharing with.

10:16Ryan Libbey: And what would happen before is people would have conversations about who they were going to put on. But you never really knew because you never like people could just change their mind at the last minute or just lie. I've never watched Traitors, but it felt like some sort of game show. And at one time someone hid under a bed. So all beds, you could take the mattress off and pull the thing out. And it was really good for storing suitcases. and someone hid under that and was like, yeah, yeah, ask everyone in the room who they're going to put on the dorm request and I could see if they put me. And then they didn't and it was actually just really awful.

10:51Louise Thompson: When would you find out about your dorm requests?

10:53Ryan Libbey: They'd put a list up on a, like a common room wall, on a pin board and you'd literally run and be like, dorm requests are ready. Some people would already know because they'd already seen it and they'd be like, awkward, ziplip.

11:05Louise Thompson: Yeah, funny. Pretty much the same as us.

11:07Ryan Libbey: Anyway, back to the working thing then.

11:09Louise Thompson: so you Builder's labourer

11:12Ryan Libbey: You were a builder's labourer and you were a waiter and waitress before Waitress I was a builder's labour and a waitress before and I think I also did quite a lot of work experience when I was 14, 15 and was waitress and I used to work for this catering company you were literally yawning at me now you're making me yawn

11:31Louise Thompson: I was a pot washer as well at a hotel

11:34Ryan Libbey: God you had all the glamorous jobs good character building

11:37Louise Thompson: My dad got me that one he knew the owner of the hotel

11:39Ryan Libbey: do you think your dad did that because he just wanted you to toughen up a bit he's obviously

11:44Louise Thompson: got a military background well yeah 100 he would he would have like wanted me to start at the bottom and realize this is where you don't want to be you don't want to be scrubbing pots but you're going to go and experience it fair enough so he got motivational and obviously like packaged up he's like yeah you know you can like wash pots and listen to music and they can feed you really well i'm like dad this is like this is just like you like packaging sausages as protein sticks back in my childhood when actually then there's not much protein in them there's more fat and salt

12:16Ryan Libbey: than anything i know your dad used to say oh protein sticks for dinner and cow he's called it cowboy's dinner and he'd be like yeah the cowboys used to eat this

12:25Louise Thompson: sausages and beans i'll be like dad you've just taken the easy option here mate you've cracked a a ton of beans in the microwave and you've cooked some sausages from Tesco. But I'm here for it.

12:36Ryan Libbey: That's so funny.

12:37Louise Thompson: Let's do it.

12:38Ryan Libbey: Was that when your brothers were both at school already and you were young? Or it was for all of you? Did you all get treated fairly, do you think?

12:44Louise Thompson: Yeah, my parents were very fair.

12:46Ryan Libbey: They are, yeah. Actually, no, I think your brothers would disagree. They said that you were coached, well, because you were the baby of the family. You got TV in a room or something?

12:55Louise Thompson: Yeah, but seven years on.

12:59Ryan Libbey: Technology had changed. Yeah.

13:01Louise Thompson: As in, it wasn't like a shiny new TV. It'd be like, oh, well, we've got another hand-me-down to put in Ryan's room. I'll take it.

13:10Ryan Libbey: I did some waitressing. I had to travel all over London. I remember there were some gigs miles away. And I think I was paid about£3.50 an hour. And it would cost me more just to get to the location than I would earn in a day. And then I had a similar scenario in American Apparel where I worked. But the funny thing, I guess the waitressing thing ended up being quite social. Actually, I remember waitressing in the Natural History Museum as well. All sorts of stuff. We're going there. Louise is booked in. I saw it in the diary. When? Dinah Snores has been booked in. What, me and you? And that's what's really embarrassing about it.

13:44Ryan Libbey: I think that Leo's too young to join, so it's just me and ye.

13:50Louise Thompson: Wait, Leo can come.

13:51Ryan Libbey: Shall I let you know when it is? Hang on. No, Leo can't come. You have to be like five because I guess they'd probably be too rascal. No. Yeah, it's in October. it's coming up very soon right do you reckon people get a bit frisky oh how many people are going to be lying on the floor in that big atrium wait hang on there's going to be people there

14:09Louise Thompson: who can be like is that fucking oh my god is that noise right on the floor on the floor in a TV bag. What the fuck is that?

14:21Ryan Libbey: Oh my God.

14:23Louise Thompson: What have we done here?

14:27Ryan Libbey: Should we go disguised? We can finally crack out those wigs which we got for the Valentine's. God, that was ages ago. That is actually quite funny. Only like six months ago. And I never wore that ginger wig. I think it's been thrown away already. I should put it in Sam's like weird female fancy dress part that he has with all of those blonde wigs he cracks out for his videos. That's quite funny. should we maybe go, well, we should get Sam along as well. That'd be epic. Although he's actually, even though Sam's like funny and Mr. Entertainment, I don't know whether he, there's like a line that he draws between what he's comfortable with doing and then what he's not.

15:00Ryan Libbey: And I feel like he wouldn't come to do that with us.

15:03Louise Thompson: I don't know.

15:05Ryan Libbey: We're going to need to get a babysitter and dog sitter. Could you don't sneeze at me? It's a little bit rude.

15:10Louise Thompson: What's it called? Dino snores.

15:11Ryan Libbey: It's called Dino snores. And I honestly can't wait. We've mentioned it on the pod before. it's such a good date idea we'll feed back once we've done it and let you guys know whether it was good i'm intrigued on the note of actually random things i've seen on my phone you know i said did i mention it on the pod about my dad and rick stein looking similar so i did a store a tiktok because loads of people have messaged me about them looking similar my dad and ricky stein and mickey t mickey thompson thanks for the clarification and i did shared a couple of side-by-sides that people had sent. I didn't know whether it was a bit inappropriate putting that up because I didn't want to offend anybody.

15:47Ryan Libbey: My dad doesn't have social media, so but his girlfriend probably would show him. But more, I, more so I didn't want to offend Rick Stein

15:58Ryan Libbey: because I just thought that would be a bit awkward. Anyway, I've just received an email literally just now that says, invitation for Louise, Rick Stein Barnes and meet Rick. and I've been invited to go as someone said we came across Louise's TikTok over the weekend where people were saying her dad looks like Rick such a brilliant video and it's had great engagement we'd love to invite Louise to visit Rick Stein Barnes with a chance to meet Rick in person if she'd like would this be of interest so jokes so we've been off on a table for two at a special dinner hosted by him and his son but is that not hang on who's at the table

16:36Louise Thompson: for two you and Rick

16:36Ryan Libbey: no no what so I can just go for dinner with my fake dad no it'd be me probably and my dad oh that's brilliant no i don't think we can go like that because then what do you mean you can't go i can't just go on a date with my dad to the restaurant i need i need moral support no i'd freaking love to go with my dad weird sort of no you gotta do it and then get a get some sort of content with rick stein and mickey t oh my god do you think you'd be up for it yes obviously that's why they've invited you alternatively yeah but you know what my dad will do that weird thing where then he like my dad's only funny when he's like really himself and authentic and is like against everything that we do if he starts then being like oh yeah oh social media-y i'm like this

17:25Louise Thompson: is no longer funny i'm also going away i text you but you didn't respond that's exciting where

17:32Ryan Libbey: are you going to the lake district where why asl but not age sex location brand guests and

17:43Louise Thompson: how are you getting there can i have the car you can keep the car i think that i'll be probably on the train i'll be going one of the days is a travel day because obviously lake district is pretty far in i'm going with over and above the brand that i i've just joined as creative partner and we're going to shoot the content for the relaunch campaign of the brand.

18:05Ryan Libbey: Nice.

18:06Louise Thompson: So it'll be a combination of me cycling, running, a bit of gym work, potentially a bit of like fresh water swimming. Who's the model?

18:18Ryan Libbey: I am the model.

18:22Ryan Libbey: Do you ever wish you were a bit more athletic? No!

18:28Ryan Libbey: um oh no that's actually really exciting okay i'm a little bit gutted because i've wanted to go to the lake district the pete district some district outside of london to go camping for the whole summer as a family so can we also get that in the diary um i don't think you'd be up the lake district it's seven hour drive from here yeah okay we can scrap that one we'll go somewhere closer

18:49Louise Thompson: is it over a weekend or midweek the travel day is a sunday and then it's monday tuesday wednesday

18:54Ryan Libbey: Well, we all good because I'd rather you go away midweek because then you're at nursery. And I like to hang out with you on the weekend and like us all going together. So that works. So that's the first photo shoot you'll have done in a really long time.

19:07Louise Thompson: Hence I'm on the skin regime.

19:10Ryan Libbey: No, Ryan, you're not going to get that bloody wash bag out.

19:14Louise Thompson: Yeah, I am.

19:15Ryan Libbey: Right. Okay, guys, get it out then. Get it out. Let me just show you this. All right, Ryan now sits when we record the podcast with a little show-and-tell suitcase behind his chair that is an embroidered pouch. I'm not going to take you through the whole suitcase. It's all bright, orange, and blue. Where's that from, Oliver Bonas, probably?

19:30Louise Thompson: Yeah, this was a gift from you. Listen, I'm just going to take you through my little procedure here. Oh my God. Because you talked this to me. Why don't you save it

19:36Ryan Libbey: for a little Instagram video?

19:37Louise Thompson: No, because look, this is my Bioderma serum. This is what I start with, okay? This is what I start with.

19:43Ryan Libbey: All right.

19:43Louise Thompson: Two pipettes on the face.

19:45Ryan Libbey: Yeah.

19:45Louise Thompson: This little puppy, good genes, all-in-one lactic acid treatment.

19:49Ryan Libbey: Okay, can I just say something? No, no, you can't.

19:51Louise Thompson: This one is unbelievably effective. I used to have sun damage around here, like brown spots, gone.

19:57Ryan Libbey: Yeah, it's not called Good Jeans. The lady who owns the brand is called Sunday Riley.

20:00Louise Thompson: Oh yeah, sorry, Sunday Riley.

20:02Ryan Libbey: And you're going around like all the time being like, oh yeah, I'm using something called Good Jeans and no one's going to know what that's called.

20:07Louise Thompson: I'm sorry. Let's go down to the gym and let you do like a talk about some dumbbells. You probably call it like a, oh, here's a... Dumbbell? Here's like a four pounder. And I'd be like, no, that's actually a leaker.

20:19Ryan Libbey: Well, I can read, so I'd see that sign.

20:22Louise Thompson: That is not an obvious thing. Good Jeans is not a bad brand name.

20:26Ryan Libbey: Maybe we should set up a brand called Good Jeans. Actually, we're going to set up a tan brand, aren't you? Me, Ryan, and... Sorry, me, you, and Sam. Like a unisex. That's my body serum. Okay, I'm just getting out all of his body serums and everything. And if you want to know what I use in my hair,

20:39Louise Thompson: because a lot of people ask me that, that one.

20:41Ryan Libbey: What is it? Olaplex. Read out the names.

20:43Louise Thompson: Olaplex. Well, you're going to correct me. Olaplex No. 7 Bonding Oil.

20:49Ryan Libbey: This morning, you looked in the mirror. I wouldn't go on, but Louise is shut on this one. This morning, Ryan looked in the mirror and said, oh, oh, I've been using these cosmetics. Is that what the word you used? Yeah. And I was like, we're not. You sound like my grandma, who, by the way, for every Christmas used to buy me, so she wouldn't buy them. She'd give me the samples of the number seven products that she would buy. I'd just get a pouch that looked a bit like that, but a lot smaller. So what do I call them then? Five different sample bottles of number seven that were this big.

21:18Louise Thompson: Toiletries, but no, I don't know the word toilet. What do I call them?

21:24Ryan Libbey: Skincare?

21:24Louise Thompson: Magic creams.

21:26Ryan Libbey: Anyway, you are looking very healthy and very fresh.

21:29Louise Thompson: It's Leo's fourth birthday very soon. And I'm thinking Disneyland.

21:35Ryan Libbey: No, I think he's too young for Disneyland.

21:37Louise Thompson: No, no, no. I spoke to my agent, her twins, when they were four, and she was like, it's the perfect age.

21:42Ryan Libbey: Really? Yeah, but the cues. This is going to be like the wedding thing for me when I've just come up with all of these. excuses you actually want to go to disneyland well maybe we do that as the like family thing

21:54Louise Thompson: so we take all of our family and go to disneyland i'd love to do that you would yeah so to stay

22:01Ryan Libbey: in actual disneyland you know it's like as expensive as going to the maldives

22:05Louise Thompson: well i'm sort of hoping that we could maybe strike a bit of a deal with them you are mr disney i'd love to take photos of the family around disneyland in return for some content some royal sweets vip queue jumps yeah i think the queue thing is a real clincher

22:24Ryan Libbey: for me it's quite stressful just standing in a queue for hours but it could it could well be

22:29Louise Thompson: very stressful but at least in my mind i'm like oh this could be an option okay so we'll consider

22:32Ryan Libbey: that and then i think we also do a kid first party so like kid central and we get a massive location and we just do like a big giant soft play and then like a big meal afterwards actually i I went to a birthday party last week and there was a lady who's got, I felt quite weird. The balloon one. The balloon lady. You've left it in my car.

22:53Louise Thompson: Yeah.

22:53Ryan Libbey: Yeah. She was quite fun. She had like a massive skirt on and just kept pulling these balloons out of her knickers.

23:00Louise Thompson: Really?

23:00Ryan Libbey: No, she was.

23:01Louise Thompson: What, inflated ones or just like?

23:03Ryan Libbey: Yes, she had this big.

23:04Louise Thompson: Like a belt. Yeah, yeah.

23:05Ryan Libbey: Pretty much exactly like that. And she was doing all sorts like flamingos, monkeys, the whole shebang. Okay, so we'll do balloon lady. we can do oh we'll do the animal thing where they bring tarantulas and snakes so we both have to combat our foes

23:21Louise Thompson: I'm going to say no to that no? I'm happy to bring like piglets and whatever else but don't bring snakes

23:27Ryan Libbey: yeah but we can't bring piglets into a town hall

23:30Louise Thompson: I'm happy to do animals of some description yeah maybe

23:32Ryan Libbey: maybe we could do it we could rent out like part of the zoo dope yeah would that be cool?

23:38Louise Thompson: yes

23:38Ryan Libbey: what would you want as a four year old?

23:41Louise Thompson: well let's just think about what Leo likes

23:44Ryan Libbey: he likes bikes he likes cars well we're not taking him like bmx racing he likes blue he

23:50Louise Thompson: likes ice creams he likes he likes blues maybe we create our own mini festival we get a space

23:55Ryan Libbey: and then we get like again though it's winter months it's got to be indoors a little ice cream

24:01Louise Thompson: vendor to come down winter months face painting that's what i want okay tattoos tattoos we'll do

24:08Ryan Libbey: like a theme maybe a fancy dress adults and kids i want to get that g-wagon fixed up so we can arrive in that no this is going to be like bloody super sweet 16 that g-wagon is the bane of my fucking life it is a garage toy the person that bought it for us just it's not a toy that you buy someone without checking 10 times over with the parents because we don't have space for it so ended up in the storage unit that we own over in Pimlico and we went there this weekend to dump some chairs to try and get rid of the clutter in the house and what happened Leo was asleep in the car the whole way that kid is so smart we get there he wakes up and I was like look I was knackered I was like I just am gonna sit in the car I did not need to be lugging chairs up and down the storage unit as much as I am a little bit curious wanting to see what's what's in there to see if I could scoop up any antiques or weird things from my dad.

25:04Ryan Libbey: So I basically pretended that I'd just look after Leo in the car. Leo then goes, I'd quite like to see the storage unit. And I was like, oh, okay, curveball. I'll have to lug myself down those stairs. Took him down and he knew exactly what was up. He'd remembered like six, seven months ago that we once told him that his car was in the storage unit. He's like, car, that's my car. I've been looking for the car. It's literally three. So we brought this bloody car back into the house and it doesn't even work.

25:35Louise Thompson: It only goes backwards.

25:37Ryan Libbey: It only goes backwards. So he's going to be backwards wheeling into his party. Did you used to watch Super Street 16th when these little brats would arrive on a Shetland pony? Actually, I do know a Shetland pony. Teddy the Shetland pony.

25:48Louise Thompson: No, he was there before in the park. He's been on Teddy.

25:52Ryan Libbey: No, he's not. Not Teddy. Oh. My friend Bertie, actually, she just had a baby.

25:57Louise Thompson: she's got a shetland at her house she's got a couple of these like miniature horses like these tiny ones but look we could have like this little guy perfect perfect oh this is going

26:11Ryan Libbey: to be fun i'm excited hopefully i won't end up back in the hospital again but is this going to

26:16Louise Thompson: require like a budget for this this sounds like more than just like a gambardo's thing this sounds like an expensive one

26:23Ryan Libbey: um to be fair he hasn't had one yet I know he hasn't she hasn't had we did have a fun first birthday for him here but then we've had to come still because of sickness and health

26:33Louise Thompson: I'm going to do something that's going to bring the dads together

26:36Ryan Libbey: okay tell me what that is virtual golf range caddy club

26:40Louise Thompson: boom

26:40Ryan Libbey: well we have one down the road yes yeah but it's so dangerous swinging around a golf club in front of 55 year olds three year olds even can we do like a little like aquarium like a little caterpillar pillar line of his mates

26:55Louise Thompson: like you get like you get the space for an hour just your crew is that fun though it's dark down there and you can't even really like do anything yeah it's fun we could do pot pot what's that

27:08Ryan Libbey: go ape for kids go back on like the speed dating suggestions go ape isn't that shit yeah i think actually i'm not sure you could get like a 18 month old cousin of leo's climbing around a

27:20Louise Thompson: scramble net 50 meters in the sky november it's gonna be deep winter so would you like cozy

27:30Ryan Libbey: something kiddie cinema we've never we've actually never taken leo to the cinema is that weird no we could get your best mate rachel bright to give us gazillions of tickets to a one of her shows yes that'll be fun to do anyway around christmas okay let's park the chat about leo's birthday parody because we need to give it a bit more thought i'm also gonna get i am getting louisa to arc on invitations this week though just like pdfs and stuff canvas canvas

28:01Louise Thompson: designs paperless posts no canvas fine just distribute that as a as an image on whatsapp i suppose and how many people 100 100 let me just tell you this let me tell you this i went for a beer the other day right i went for a bottle of beer because i was waiting for you to arrive somewhere it cost me nine pounds if we have a hundred people coming and we're like well we probably need enough beers for everyone to have one that's 900 pounds on beer that's actually

28:34Ryan Libbey: absurd

28:35Louise Thompson: that's 900 pounds on beer and that gives you one beer

28:39Ryan Libbey: okay so maybe like 30 grown-ups 30 children most people have two kids don't they enough to replace themselves

28:49Louise Thompson: I was thinking a lot

28:50Ryan Libbey: population crisis you need two kids isn't that weird you need two kids to replace you and your partner which is on earth if every couple had one child literally we'd all be doomed

29:02Louise Thompson: to be fair I mean whatever whatever Leo wants

29:04Ryan Libbey: okay we'll ask him about it tonight okay gear change I was speaking to the girls about this the other day because we were talking about the pod and they were like we want to know what are small things that make a man say

29:17Louise Thompson: hang on you fucking swat you just recycled what I said up there

29:21Ryan Libbey: oh was it you yes

29:24Louise Thompson: and I said what about what are the small things that make a woman say you fucking what

29:32Ryan Libbey: oh my god No, I thought that that was a suggestion from Holly.

29:37Louise Thompson: No, that was me. I put that in there. Because it's weird.

29:41Ryan Libbey: No, but that, oh God, I've got a terrible headache. It's weird that you say that though, because yesterday we were talking about things that do actually make a woman's day.

29:50Louise Thompson: Okay, great. Tell me, because this would be interesting for the male listeners. What actually makes a woman's day?

29:57Ryan Libbey: So just as a quick first anecdote, when we okay so well the three of us we kind of went through what our love language was well which is quite cute because i think it's like a nice bonding exercise with your girlfriends or colleagues but it's nice to know like what their love languages are just so that you can factor that into your conversations with people so i think everybody would agree that everybody is a an act of service kind of person so we all are does that mean you like to give it or you like to receive it um we've already discussed the fact that i think you like to give the things that you also like to receive so your love language is what you like to receive but then like by proxy you that's what you give like that's what you're used to that's kind of what you're dialed into so we all like an act of service which i guess i think the reason why that's really important for a little thing for a guy to give a go because it just shows that you're like a little bit interested so it can be the smallest thing ever like a small act of kindness or just something that's thoughtful so it might be buying a little bunch of flowers it can be a three pound bunch of flowers from tesco's or sainsbury's any brand or two like making that cup of coffee in the morning you and I sitting in the car together and this is like how low our standards are an act of service would be you maybe opening the door to let me get in or heating up the car so it's warm on arrival or just so if you happen to have a heated seat machine you just dial that up for the other person maybe you put your hand in the middle and you go and go in for a clasp of a hand that's a physical touch though isn't it but it's little things like oh here's a little tea in the

31:47Louise Thompson: morning a mug of tea all right so what i'm hearing is that a little tea in the morning little hand hold in the car yeah a little bunch of flowers from sainsbury's yeah i mean it doesn't have to be like a gift it's quite a generic one flowers okay a little message on the mirror a little

32:04Ryan Libbey: handwritten note with a chalk marker like it writing a little letter or a postcard like oh you just happen to be out oh you've been working all day did you put pen to paper in that office i'm just talking generically now like steve in that office did you pick up a pencil at all throughout the day to write your name or to write the header of a letter if you did slide me a quick note write me a little note fold it up put it in my handbag way to a woman's heart because it shows that you care i think especially in a relationship we kind of just tap out after x amount of years and it's important to stay curious when it comes to your

32:43Louise Thompson: partner so what i'm getting is it doesn't need to be loud or bold or like super obvious and flashy it's the smaller details that really don't go unnoticed yeah yeah that's cool the i guess a

32:56Ryan Libbey: bit like when we were watching we've just started watching the summer i turned pretty which were only a few episodes into season one i think there are three seasons is that that's great isn't that great and everyone's been watching it um that guy and that girl when they're sat in the car at the beginning on that like little date in the drive-thru movie theater which i really want to do with you when they he like leans so when he like puts his hand across and like reaches out for her hand i'm like gosh that's so intimate isn't it that's so cute do you find when you watch that show it reminds you of like a younger ryan like the first time you did everything yeah yeah i yeah

33:35Louise Thompson: i've always been a little bit prone to a chick flick actually i freaking love a chick flick

33:39Ryan Libbey: what's your favorite chick flick sex in the sea that's not well they do ryan watched the whole of and just like that on his own because i wasn't that interested beyond sex in the city i thought it went a little wokey and a little nuts i just like the whole i like the narrative i like how

33:56Louise Thompson: it all comes back to her writing and i like the over-the-top voice layover i like the way it's

34:01Ryan Libbey: filmed what what do men want what's the little little things well it's interesting because we

34:05Louise Thompson: don't need things that allow bold and super flashy we just need um well if you bring me a coffee in the morning that doesn't go unnoticed if you offer to i don't know make me dippy eggs and soldiers on a Saturday morning in my mind I'm like oh that's a great offer what I give you is probably more like oh yeah that would be great but in my mind I'm like yes there you are why

34:31Ryan Libbey: can't you be that enthusiastic and be like yes I love you sometimes I am sometimes I am but I'm aware they're not all the time I'm like that um I'll tell you what I'll tell you what I'll tell

34:42Louise Thompson: you what I thought was dope was when we went to a petrol garage one time and I was like we're actually early should we just like fill up the gas tanks and clean it and you're like yeah dude and you went like full you went into the shop and you came out with spritzers wipes air fresheners alloy cleaners and buffers and i was like oh my god she's in that's great okay so that's like

35:02Ryan Libbey: car porn for you like get your missus to do your cut your wheels well it's more like it's more like that's so funny did that actually make that made you so happy yeah but it's just one of those

35:12Louise Thompson: things where it's like oh cool like she she kind of feels like my mate in this moment and i think

35:17Ryan Libbey: boys like to be reminded of that okay so you actually want a bit of a compadre yeah a friend

35:23Louise Thompson: an ally yeah you want yeah obviously there's a dynamic that needs to remain it's not you're not my mate but i think gentle reminders of like oh she's she's a mate we can just we can just clean the car whilst we wait to uh to go somewhere god that's crazy i love that that's the last thing

35:43Ryan Libbey: like example you're calling on christmas 2024 personal things do you know what i really like god i sound like a cliche woman you like it when i dance around the kitchen i love oh my god i love it when you dance around the kitchen yeah just that yeah like really enthusiastically i'm like I fancy you so much.

36:02Louise Thompson: You've always been there.

36:03Ryan Libbey: Just get your dancing shoes on, start slipping around.

36:06Louise Thompson: I remember I did it in Mexico one time on one of our first trips and you were like, do me now.

36:11Ryan Libbey: No, I did not say that because that would not be part of my language, vocabulary. But I do, I think that you're very, I guess in the same way that I feel like you're my mate when you do stuff like that, like we're friends.

36:26Louise Thompson: No, because you don't want to do your mates.

36:28Ryan Libbey: but you just said you want me to be your mate cleaning your car so do you want to do your mate that's cleaning your car i'm just reversing what you said you twat i liked it when you send when you send me a text if i'm out like if you check in on me to be fair actually i'm the one that asked you to do this i'll share a location when i'm on the way back from a night out or a wedding or somewhere out of town and i do like it when you say hey can i just check in how far away are you are you safe

36:58Louise Thompson: and you never answer the question you're just like oh this driver's terrible it's so unsafe

37:04Ryan Libbey: okay I've just been bagged

37:05Louise Thompson: or something

37:06Ryan Libbey: let me explain what happened I'm on the bag it sounds like I had a fucking paper bag in my head like I've been like kidnapped I someone lobbed a bag at the car I was in we were going like 60 miles an hour on a on a A road B road like a dual carriageway not a quadruple one and it's late at night and we're in oxford and i'm feeling like i can't work out if i've been quite anxious because i'm in the car on my own with someone i don't know who's driving me back home really quickly it's quite far away or whether i'm just really tired i've been i'm just yeah it's been a long day and evening so i decide i said to the driver i was like i'm gonna go i might try and just have a bit of a nap if that's okay and then he said uh okay if you do that I'll put my headphones in and immediately I was like anxiety anxiety I'm definitely not gonna be able to sleep now this guy is not gonna be focusing on the road if he's listening to something in his headphones I hate it when you or anyone cycles with headphones and it's so dangerous like you can't be road selfie when you've got headphones on anyway but then I do kind of like slightly start to drift off out of nowhere this huge thud comes into the car it was like a fucking deer has just hit the car like we've run something over it was actually a bag someone was hiding in the bushes on off this dual carriageway and threw a bag it wasn't even someone because the guy goes yeah i saw three guys hiding behind the tree on the like behind the lay by bit isn't that so fucking dangerous so no wonder i couldn't relax after that this was a bag that felt like it was full of rocks or like a dead body or something it was so heavy well what damage did it do to the car well then we had to like pull over and he got out and had to like have a look so i was like i do not want to carry on driving if they've like thrown some kind of like weird like landmine at us that's

39:05Louise Thompson: now it's stuck to the car and we're gonna blow up and then so he checked the car and it was okay

39:11Ryan Libbey: but then the then like all throughout the night he was like he just kept making comments being like there's a lot of people on the road tonight like there's a lot of just people hanging out and it was weird because we were literally in the middle of the countryside and clearly i don't get out of london very often but quite normal to have a lot of people like loitering around london on a saturday night but what are people doing off the motorway and just like hanging out around petrol stations in the middle of oxfordshire very peculiar getting those russell burgers maybe oh god i know like what are the what's the thing that sometimes we see in the fridge here

39:52Louise Thompson: no i don't even want holly the other day had fridge raiders is that the same kind of thing what is that like a fake meat that is like a sausage scummy scummy stuff what is a refrigerator it's like a chicken nugget that is like good to go anytime as a snack but it's not chicken

40:10Ryan Libbey: yeah also like how is it possibly good to go at any time like how do they have shelf lives of like

40:15Louise Thompson: six months because it ain't chicken and i i said to holly i was like laughing so it wasn't too intense but i was like this is the pits mate don't be buying refrigerators don't be eating

40:26Ryan Libbey: that shit in here because it stinks it stinks but also she buys stuff that i've never even seen before like we literally had to just nip to the post office yesterday holly like jumped back in the car and had this bag of sweets that was unrecognizable i'm like in a world where there's just shelves of like minstrels maltesers and munchies why are you bringing this back this random bag with like these random balls of like pink sweets i've never seen before can't remember what they're called but it's like a vimpto vimpto sweet which i think is a drink i always had it i I always had a very strong opinion about Vimto.

41:01Louise Thompson: Because I was like, you're trying to challenge Ribena. Don't come at Ribena.

41:05Ryan Libbey: So it's like a blackcurrant drink. Well, that's just very much her vibe. I was walking actually with the dogs yesterday. I bet she likes Dr.

41:15Louise Thompson: Pepper. To the top of the road.

41:16Ryan Libbey: Obsessed with Dr. Pepper. There's like random Dr. Pepper in the fridge. I know. And then, yeah, we were walking to the park and like both her and Louisa, This kind of stuff just makes me feel so old and out of touch. They both like look at the ground and there's like this round ball that's like a bit clear and looks like it's like open. It looks like this. It looks like a Christmas ball ball. And they're like, oh, buzz ball. Ha ha. And I literally was like, what? Do you know what a buzz ball is?

41:45Louise Thompson: No.

41:46Ryan Libbey: Exactly. Surely. It's like this ball like this. It's like different colors and it's cocktail. It's a cocktail and a ball. And they're like, yeah, it's so strong. cocktail in a ball it's like a cocktail is literally in a bollock it's in like a bubble and i think there's like different colors but i don't know man i just

42:05Louise Thompson: i feel like we're very old well apparently i sound old with my cosmetics and my uh pouch down there so yeah anyway how did we even get onto the

42:15Ryan Libbey: talk conversation about weird food types the frigerators oh because we were talking about Oh, the nice things that one can do for one another. I think the ultimate sacrifice is really going in and buying like a bag of sanitary towels or tampons and just not making a big fuss about it.

42:35Louise Thompson: Oh, I've done that.

42:36Ryan Libbey: Then you know that you're with a real man. A real man, in the words of Metti.

42:40Louise Thompson: A real man. Wait, wait, wait. Is that like a, is there another piece to that skirt?

42:45Ryan Libbey: are you are you just asking me that question because well it looks like you know that that's a nice thing to say like a woman does like to be recognized for her outfit and for her haircut do you hear my question sorry what are you asking well that looks like the sort of lining to a dress i'll tell you for a while okay that's a high slit right number two it's a strong vpl

43:08Louise Thompson: what you can see my pants and i'm like maybe that's the lining as in like the thing that

43:14Ryan Libbey: sits underneath so what you're suggesting is is that you think i shouldn't be wearing the skirt because this is supposed to be underneath the dress no i think obviously you can wear it now

43:23Louise Thompson: but i'm like whoa let me ask you this would you wear that to the shop down down the road i would someone's getting a face full of black thong in the face then can you actually see my pants

43:36Ryan Libbey: where you're wearing like a thin negligee okay i am wearing a salt skirt it's got a little

43:42Louise Thompson: lacy patches on it anyway it's very nice it's a nice look maybe i won't go to school pick up wearing this later well i just think we're the dress that's meant to go with it but there's no dress it's a standalone piece all right then my dude well uh dude oh my god we're such mates this week bro leah said that to his teacher this morning good morning braille i was like no

44:08Ryan Libbey: forget the bro bit I remember once when we went to a couple a friend friends of ours their house and they're a married couple and she was calling him like mate or like matey and you were a bit like oh

44:20Louise Thompson: I don't remember that I don't remember what she was calling him that

44:22Ryan Libbey: yeah

44:24Louise Thompson: maybe maybe that way around makes it sound a bit strange I don't know I don't know I'll be honest with you I'm out of chat

44:31Ryan Libbey: I'll see you next week oh I love you

44:34Louise Thompson: love you

44:38you