We’re putting our house on Airbnb?!

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0:38Louise: Hey guys, here's just a little trigger warning to let you know that we are going to be talking about weight loss and eating disorders in this episode. So if you think that this is something that you might find triggering, then maybe give this episode a skip. hello everyone welcome back to he said she said got myself ryan and loo dog over there i do like it when you call me the loo dog or scooby scooby yeah come join us at home for a very intimate chat where we talk about the depths of what it's like to be in a relationship with louise thompson with ryan maybe and sometimes sometimes i'm going through a lot of very strange things speaking of strange things yeah what are you looking at now why did you just look at my gut No, no, no.

1:21Louise: Because there is something slightly strange in there. I was looking at the brand name on the buttons, Fold. I forgot we've got cameras on. I've got to sit upright. I've got quite a divisive jacket on today. What colour would you say that is? It's sort of dark. Oh, Marmite. You just said it. Oh, no, I meant it's like Marmite, but I guess it is the colour of, is it like a Ron Burgundy? I'm just going to shoot straight from the hip. Okay. How do you feel about Airbnb as a concept? Would you ever do it? well i always see people staying at airbnbs and they look phenomenal online but i have tried to search myself and not had a huge amount of luck the good stuff is always really expensive and when i'm shopping around in cities that i'm not that familiar with i think like where would i even know how how would i even know where to begin well let me put it to you this way but would you put this house yeah on airbnb oh god here we go again this is where ron goes look it's time to make the big box on airbnb we go and move to portugal no no no this is actually going a very different way yeah just just just trust me on this one all right i know because it would take us a lifetime to move all of our clobber i just love the word clobber do you have to move clobber out of the house someone couldn't just slide into living in our home with stuff everywhere well hang on people well people do don't you have like you have like a room where you lock everything away like a cupboard of doom cupboard of doom and then you've got to get like padlocks and stuff how would I know if some cheeky little child dove into that bookshelf and stole one of my books it might even be a signed book because you know that we collect those things alright well you said the word stole so I've got to tell you something okay my mum's done it though just FYI and you know she's a total nutter perfectionist hang on in her home I actually Airbnb'd her.

3:10Oh no.

3:11Louise: And it was carnage. The complaints afterwards. That is, that's the, she's not a candidate for Airbnb. her house is way too sparkly. So, so you know Scott, neighbor next door in your flat. I should know him. Yeah. Oh, you know him, yeah. Yeah. You know he Airbnbs out the flat sometimes. Oh God. Yeah. Yes. Oh God. Oh God. I came back from nursery drop off this morning. Yeah. And he's like, mate, I've got something to tell you. I'm like, okay. oh no he basically he wasn't there this weekend we were obviously away as well yeah he airbnb'd it out he showed me the profile of the people that rented it and it was this lovely sort of like cute elderly couple with five star reviews on um yeah oh yeah cute five star reviews on airbnb and he was like sweet this is a perfect candidate so he checks out expecting the tenants or the guests to arrive at between four and five on friday and they were there for the long weekend supposed to check out on Tuesday morning or something.

4:08Louise: Yeah. Anyway, so he goes to his girlfriends and the complaints come in thick and heavy from like Friday 2 a.m. right through the weekend. Mate, someone booked the flat under this cute, wholesome couple. Shut up. Turns out it's been an absolute drugs den of people at Notting Hill Carnival. People in and out doing rails of whatever else. there's fact they found like nos like balloon canisters all over the place they've stolen stuff i came back from nursery to find a forensics team outside shut up and coppers what and scott bless him he's like should i tell louise and i was like leave it to me i'll do it on the podcast but i was not i'm just amazed you haven't told me this already mate i was outside when you guys were in here i was out there wait there's popo outside the house next door?

5:04Not now, but there was, yeah.

5:05Louise: With forensics, what did they steal? Did Scott have to call the police? Or did our lovely neighbour below call the police? That's another thing. They are beyond unimpressed. Scott's just trying to cash in a quick buck by Airbnb-ing it out every weekend. That's why he hasn't told you, because that's what he thinks that you'd say. It's not that. I'm joking. I don't care anyway. He can do what he wants with the flat. No, no, because he's been living in a three-bed flat by himself for months, so he does the Airbnb to top up the shortfall so he can afford to keep it. Yeah, fair enough and I'd rather have him there he's been robbed like literally things taken what stuff what his Steve Jobs posters and Spartacus this is how detailed they've been stoics on the wall they've gone into his like drawers because you know he's got this like maybe you don't know actually he's got this filing cabinet of journals and they've they've gone through that they've taken everything out they've found a page of his handwritten quotes they've chosen a single quote and they've put it underneath the house keys as if to say They've fucking got you.

6:03They've taken clothes. They've taken... Wait, they actually did that.

6:05Louise: So wait, hang on. These are like, these are like organized criminals. Yeah. And the funny thing is, it's like... But wait, because they could just, they could just be like slight bad people, like bad eggs. They're like, oh yeah, we'll just have a party. And I get that if they were like students. Let's just rough it up a little bit, whatever, get a cheap deal on an Airbnb in London for Notting Hill Carnival weekend. Come from wherever around the country, stay in London. Fine, get that. But to actually rip out an innocent bloke's like journal page that's in a filing cabinet that he spends years over to then put it under the key.

6:38Louise: What did the quote say? I can't remember. This too shall pass. But the funny thing is that I checked the ring camera's footage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. At like 9.30 this morning, I saw Scott running out, chasing these dudes down the road. Because they were still there when he got back. So they were supposed to be out and they were still like... So Scott had to go in and he was like, get the fuck out of my flat. and these dudes were in there and they were like alright sorry man they were like and Scott was like who booked this because you are not Michael and Shirley and these guys this is how they played Scott so badly they're like oh they're just upstairs Scott goes upstairs to find nothing these geezers grab stuff ran outside the flat and Scott's like oh no I've just did you take pictures of them no I've got pictures of them you're like detective I've got videos and photos of these geezers who's the famous detective no you're Inspector Gadget no I'm sure You would do like stentable on metal arm.

7:33I'm Sherlock Holmes. I'm not a Inspector Gadget.

7:35Louise: No, you are, I'm afraid. You've got a little hat on. I've never felt good about this. About someone sleeping in my bed and having a shower and whatever else. Well, it is weird, the idea of people fornicating in your bed. Well, what about this? People doing rails and coke and balloons. But that's why I don't even like to get frisky in a hotel room bed. Because I think how many people have laid in that bed before me? You just don't get frisky, period. It's kind of one of my excuses. I've got an armory of excuses and that is one of them. Anyway, so that's my fresh off the belt news. Fresh off the press, literally.

8:06Louise: It might be on the press. Yeah. Okay, well, definitely. I guess they're probably like great hackers, you know. That's not hackers, but that's like their thing. Their little alias is like Shirley and Dave with a photo. But wait, how do they have five stars? Well, I don't know. Maybe it's like their grandparents. No, no, no. Can you show me photos? Maybe we'll release the pictures to the world and then they'll get rumbled. I don't know. Anyway. Actually, on the note of Notting Hill Carnival, we didn't go this year because we escaped it, didn't we? I've lived a very sheltered life, Louise. You actually have.

8:49Louise: So you've never done the carnival. So you actually have no idea what it's like. I have some idea. It looks complete chaos. It needs to be shut down. People get stabbed. You love it. You love live music. Only 100 arrests this year. I do love live music, but I don't like mobs and crowds like that. And I don't like people just pissing and fornicating in people's front yards. I don't think anyone's fornicating in front of people's front yards. Well, people definitely get stabbed. 15 people got stabbed. Did they? Yeah. So I'm not sure if I'm in on the whole Notting Hill carnival thing. But that happens all the time every day anyway.

9:19How many people got stabbed at Glastow?

9:22Louise: What are you, like the stabbing authority? Well, they maybe have really strict security going through so you can't take knives in. Listen, I love the idea of - How do you like butter yourself? I love the idea of street parties and culture and live music, but I think Notting Hill has got to a point now where it's just - I think it's become more controlled. I heard - I saw people in the tube station - They now have metal detectors. I saw people in the tube station backwards diving onto the tracks. Onto the train tracks? Yes. And then the trains are like slamming like emergency stuff. That's just rank.

9:52This is just wildly out of control.

9:54Louise: I actually used to love it. you've been to nottingham carnival loads yeah you've never told me that you've been nottingham carnival my dad used to hate it unsurprisingly but we lived in nottingham when we grew up luckily we were a few streets away but we used to just lock up and leave because the amount of piss on the doorstep was pretty unattractive well there you go having said that then i became the person that would go and probably piss on the doorstep No, no, no, no. So you could also pay to we in people's houses, which is actually great. Great way of making money. I would charge an obscene amount of money for that to happen.

10:29Louise: You could make some serious coin. Mate, I'm not going to lie. Thousands of houses. We're all lucky to be in my sanctuary right now.

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11:26Louise: Shop now at liquidiv.com. Liquid IV, hydration that goes wherever life takes you. Ryan, I've been meaning to ask you this for ages, and I think I'd just love to get like a bloke's opinion on it, because I speak about it with people in my circle quite a bit. Do you know who Bonnie Blue is? Yes, I do. So she's the lady that had a thousand men line up to have sex with them in a day. Why are you laughing, Marody? Why am I laughing? Because I just really want to get your opinion on this. Mate, you know me well enough to know where I stand on this. So Bonnie Blue shagged over a thousand people in 12 hours, which isn't even 24 hours.

12:02Louise: She didn't even like need to stay up overnight because it was in just one day. Daylight, in fact, in the summer. Whereas Lily Phillips, 124 hours. The difference is that I'm pretty sure that Bonnie Blue's parents are okay with this. But Lily Phillips' parents have started speaking up about it, saying that they will do anything to stop their daughter from behaving like this. That they will pay any amount of money. Like, is there an amount of money? Put a price on it to stop her from having sex with people and filming it and then releasing it to the public. Well, you've got me at my worst there.

12:37This is like you and my bear with your dad.

12:40Louise: yeah well you were angry yeah so the thing is right is that bonnie blue has been banned from only fans which i think is a reasonable move because it's encouraging other people to follow suit if they realize they can make that amount of money from selling their body so i think people talk about her a lot because it's this whole like you know new wave of stardom that is quite worrying it's the kind of thing that my parents would be utterly distraught about like I doubt that they even I mean I imagine that they're turning the page of the paper over so quickly when they read that kind of news like it's so atrocious and feels so like far removed from us but the problem is is that you know there are so many dangers of the internet now which mean that so many people can see this and that there will be people that are vulnerable that think that this is a way out of their poverty and she like glorifies it and tries to glamorize it so much and one of the worst things is that she's really interested in like young boys yeah she loves like the younger the better like barely legal basically um and there's been a show on channel 4 she was actually the front cover i think of the sunday times magazine which is really bad so you've even got like huge like respectable press outlets that are giving her a huge kind of platform and profile but also channel four did a show and they originally aired after the watershed which is after 10 p.m which actually incidentally is when maiden chelsea used to get ahead after 10 p.m but there's a lot of backlash because you can now watch it online like unconditionally you just have to have a login i think there's probably a button saying they're older than 18 when you sign up to these streaming platforms.

14:31Louise: But people can watch this whenever. I don't care for stuff like this because it's just, it's, to me, it's just like... It's inhumane almost. It's not just like a physical like betrayal of your body. It's like, what are you as a human being? Like, what does this say about you as a person? Like, there's no thought or consideration to how you view yourself or how you've been raised or what your parents are going to think of this or your grandma or siblings. Or a future relationship. A few million or tens of millions. There's no way, there's no part of me that would ever be on board with this or accept it or condone it.

15:16And if she was my daughter, realistically, I would, I don't even know if I can say it, but let's just go with, I'd wash my hands. I'd probably move to another country with no technology.

15:31Louise: Does that even exist anymore? I'd find an island. I will likely be the minority. There'll be people and men who think that she's amazing, but... No, surely not. You won't be the minority. What if she's been on the front page of the Sunday Times and getting paid millions for this? I find it quite scary. But this is... In my mind, this all starts small. like all the foundations and all the small stuff like love island and love island blind all that shit it just promotes all the wrong messages and yet it's the most watched show probably out there behind i don't know i suppose it's people are very intrigued and things that are extreme aren't they like far-fetched and people that are the first to do anything like sort of Guinness Book of Records which feels very tame now I remember when that was the big thing back in the day when we were growing up it was reading about someone that would like hammer five nails through their hand which is disgusting or have like an earring this this big in their ear and now it's how many people can you have sex with in a 12-hour period and I don't think it's really a world that I want to live in and I don't know where it leaves us as parents to be honest because I often think gosh I'm really glad that we don't have a little girl because I couldn't bear the idea of her looking at those sorts of people and even for a split second thinking that that is something that she could should consider doing but then actually the responsibility on us is is equally as important as kind of boy parents to make sure that they don't fall into the trap of becoming the kind of bloke that's going to be standing in a queue there's men that are standing in queues to go in and have a go do you think that you're quite selective with the news that you digest i don't really have news on ever i know that sam looks at like x i don't know sorry yeah x is like old twitter isn't it yeah so he'll scroll through that because he follows football pundits and people so he only really consumes the news that he wants to see then sometimes on tiktok he'll get a lot of like political stuff um like a lot of conspiracy theories and things I get a load of cough, which is just random memes and crap, which is probably just a reflection of the stuff that I'm posting, which is quite light and frothy, bar the occasional trauma-related post.

17:55Louise: But I think since being on Well and since having Leo, and I don't know if it's a kind of a conscious decision to switch off from the news as a protective barrier. barrier. I guess when you have a child, you have to be very conscious about what you have on the background. So actually we're really limited in the day. It means you watch an awful lot less TV because you can't have the news because there's often things that are scary on there going on in there, whether it's like war zones or Bonnie Blue Shacky, a thousand people. Um, Leo never looks at our phones but I guess we do scroll and sometimes things pop up and I think shit like there's why are we being forced pushed all of this stuff and why are people I've actually had to I you know I obviously did my you magazine column and I really enjoyed that experience because it was a huge learning curve for me um it was it was tough actually and I stepped away with a great relationship with them um but I found that I was like slightly like minding my life in order to make myself feel more dramatic and interesting and I definitely don't want to live that way anymore but sometimes the Daily Mail posts on Instagram I do think oh my god if I see another plane crash I'm never going to travel again like I have to meet that but the the fact that this is what people are engaging with is is really like destructive for society um I know that one of the other things that's getting a lot of backlash at the moment is the is it glp one weight loss drugs everybody knows somebody that's on one even one of our neighbors is on one one of our business partners on one for more of a um more of a kind of like a research perspective my dad actually has been on is it monjaro for ages but he was prescribed that by his gp because you know and he like loved banging on about it because he thought it was great that it was anti-diabetic and helps with things apparently like memory and dementia and his whole list of like positive benefits that you can reap from it but I do worry about the effect that those drugs are going to have on the younger generation I think um I've been reading a book called the anxious generation and I've learned quite a lot from it.

20:24Louise: And I know what it talks about in the book is that our brains are not fully developed until we reach around our mid-20s. And at that point, you're able to make a slightly more rational decision. So Facebook acquired Instagram around 2012 and we were 22. And so for us, the huge rise of social media happened at a point in time while we were almost fully developed from from the brain point of view the like cognitive point of view so I don't think that we will have been so affected by everything that we've seen but I do see now a lot of people talking about these weight loss drugs and I know that there are a lot of young girls that are going to be affected by this that's the sort of our next generations problem serena williams even has fessed up to taking it is serena williams on monjaro so i guess there's a lot of celebrities that are saying they've taken them the problem is is that serena williams's husband is an investor in one of these pharmaceutical companies that's making them and that's the contentious issue because there's the closeness there would you ever take it no they would have to turn around some pretty phenomenal research saying that it cures i don't know how a lot of diseases i don't know enough about it to come from like a medical or expert point of view but i don't know how it can be safe i don't know i don't know what it's turning off in terms of physiological systems or i don't know what impact it's having on hormone or production or suppressants i don't know what it does to regulation of insulin and all that sort of stuff that we set off when we eat in our digestive systems i don't know even what it does to like i don't know stomach acid like your ph and your acidity in your stomach everything everything is designed yeah to eat food process it utilize the energy and burn it and excrete what you don't want or need so the minute you start manufacturing something that interrupts that cycle in my mind it's only a matter of time before that comes right back around with a new monster right people people might take it for their own individual reasons that might be linked to they're unhappy with their body they they can't lose weight serena williams has been a very powerful lady athlete for years maybe now she wants to be something different or maybe she just wants to help her husband and make a quick buck in in that industry which is not great so i don't know all of this chat around like bonnie blue getting piped by a thousand men and like quick quick lanes to whatever this like bikini body is it's all the wrong messaging and I live my life under a rock you could say because I don't look at any of this shit because I'm just like none of this appeals to me on any level aesthetically morally so if you were dating a girl and they said oh I think I'm going to start taking this injection how would you feel about that she would have to have a really really good reason to start doing that I think kind of echoing what you said I'm definitely no expert what I do know is that from every medication that I have ever taken that it has been designed to cure a problem a very specific one and there has always been an aftershock and that is it has caused other symptoms as a byproduct as an example i've just switched on to a medication a month ago the one i was on before was amazing because it stopped my inflammatory bowel disease symptoms but then it meant that it was potentially teratogenic so harmful for um growing a fetus inside me and that is quite a big side effect some might say the medication i'm on now for some reason has caused me to have really bad psoriasis on my scalp like some of them make you hugely drowsy others make you gain weight there's always a side effect and so i i don't know why this drug would be any different it can't be a miracle it's not and it kind of people describe this as a wonder is that the there are clearly so many conditions that need treating cancers autoimmune conditions so the fact that so much money and research and attention is being put into a drug that is going to make people lose weight says to me that it was obviously just a huge kind of commercial well there you go that's exactly a Huge commercial spinning wheel.

24:55They've seen a way to make money. They know that the masses will jump on a wonder drug that is going to make them thin. They don't care about the ramifications. And let me tell you, there will be a fuck ton.

25:08Louise: I think from my personal point of view, I've struggled with a disease that affects weight. and I much like most teenage girls always thought that I should look or be a different way luckily it never meant more than that to me and I didn't develop a disorder I grew up in a very very um like food positive family everybody was a good normal weight and everybody ate whatever they wanted and but I also went to an all-girls boarding school there were a lot of people with eating disorders and I know that this sort of thing would fuel eating disorders if it was around back then since then you know there have been times where I think oh I wish I could just be like a little bit thinner but I the thing that I would do about it would be to train and I was very lucky when I met you I cut out a lot of alcohol and I started exercising and that for me was was a bit of a formula that worked I understand that everybody is different and that there are there's a big genetic component to weight because I've had things change in my life that have then caused me to artificially put on weights that have fell out of my control and throw my whole body out of homostasis and that's really crap and when there's nothing when you feel like there's nothing you can do about it and you reach that brick wall then obviously I sympathize that there are people who will reach for an easy solution or an a solution when they feel like they've tried everything else so trying to have empathy towards those people but when I came out of hospital after actually my last two surgeries and I dropped several many many many kilos within a week's period and I was very skinny that was a very scary time for me and I remember thinking I will never wish or long to be thin again because it's very important to have weight on you in order to be able to function properly and to be healthy and we will all be skin and bones when we're in the grave so let's not try and race to that process and I think it's the boring thing is that people that are not educated about taking these drugs won't know where the limit is like they won't know how to stop and when people start receiving compliments about how skinny they are and how much weight they've lost because it's on trend at the moment then what's to stop them from continuing down that cycle.

27:35Louise: I know people now that are incredibly thin, like very, very, very thin. And there is a huge cult following within the anorexic community and they celebrate thinness and they put it on a pedestal and we're just going to have a growing community. I would say this. Makes me want to go and like run to the hills with my little family i don't watch the news because they just they they pedal shit and they tell you what they want you to know and they don't tell you the rest it's the same with these fat loss fat loss pills they they package it as a wonder drug and they promise you these gleaming results but they don't tell you what happens it's like the whole oil like warriors like we're exhausted in the the world's you know natural sources of fuel and whatever else and we're exploiting it and the prices and whatever else so they come out with these electric cars and they package these up as like the solution when in actual fact the construction and the process of the batteries and the lithium and everything that goes into electric is even worse they don't tell you that that take that's that's like deep levels of research that's gone into that but still they incentivize business owners to go electric oh we'll make it even cheaper we'll cut tax go electric they they don't give a shit they're just trying to make money everything is a commercial game to these big wigs and this this fast weight loss solution i will never get on board with it because i i know i know i don't know but i feel like i know what's going on they're making money off gullible people they promise you the dream they package it they make it accessible they even make it quite cheap here you go people like yeah hell yeah you get people condoning it taking photos that are like why would i even go to the gym why would i spend money on a trainer or whatever else like i can just take a injection in the tummy and then they'll have like an ai marketing personality on TikTok that's really a fake person My advice is just live under a rock like that Live like a little crab under a rock I think live like a rock Live wholesome clean foods One thing I just want to say is that I can't believe that there are people that are just sat at home like injecting themselves all the time so with this medication that I'm on you have to inject yourself once every eight weeks and I have to have a nurse that comes round and properly sits me down and shows me how to do it shows me how to store it because it's it's medicine we can't just start self-medicating like what else are we going to be capable of doing yeah well it's an interesting i don't often speak up about these things because i'm just uh i don't know i feel like i'm a bit of an alien in these conversations but i at least i just stick to what i believe i don't really i don't really condone any of that really to be honest yeah look at all the oil billionaires look at all the medical research billionaires they're just playing a game they're just they're just turning taps on and off yeah they see where to make so i guess what's the message from today then please be mindful of making potentially life-changing decisions and remember that you only really have one body and be less gullible don't take it so these things so lightly do your own research be less gullible don't believe everything you read or hear in the news because they're only giving you what they want yeah that's true I have to go alright Ryan's got a call so if you enjoyed this episode then please do follow us where if you listen to your podcasts you can subscribe over on YouTube and if there's anyone that you think would benefit from listening then please do share it with them it helps us out hugely if you guys give us a little rating thanks for listening

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