'They don't do enough!'

25:10He's being a completely different person. When he looks at me, there's no kindness or compassion behind his eyes. I'm so confused. My whole life has been flipped upside down and I keep thinking I'm going to wake up. This just isn't my life. He is all I've ever known. We've done all of our first together. I've spent half my life with him. We're renovating our home together. We share a dog and he's now talking to me about selling our house just completely out the blue. He's my person, my safe space, my home. I'm so utterly lost and I don't know what to do. How can I start a new life? I've been in the mindset of starting a family for nearly six months and now that's been completely ripped away from me.

25:48I have a good job. I get paid well, but also I've no savings. All the house and renovation money came from him. I'm so confused. Thank you guys for any advice. P.S. I would also like to add that he struggled with his mental health for a while. He's saying that he needs to focus on himself, which I agree with, but said we could do it together. I've suggested that he's depressed and to go to the doctors as I just don't think it's a good idea to make that big of a life choice while feeling like that. Any help or suggestions would be

26:16Anna Williamson:amazing thank you you know my first reaction is to this and i'm afraid she's not gonna like it but my gut run its course well it's run its course but my gut is telling me he's seeing someone else yeah when someone goes i don't know it for a fact and i'm sorry yeah exactly when someone goes that cold and that detached and you say emotion that for me was i was waiting to see that uh and hear that um because so often people in this position feel so gaslit by their partner they're like what they think is it me what have I done exactly like you're saying the big u-turn suddenly when someone wants to exit and like almost throw everything you know baby out with a bath water straight away you know the house it's because the way someone rationalizes and copes with um cheating or moving on is to cut off emotionally and so they're focusing over there and their behavior is if I act like a bit of a bastard they'll piss exactly that so this is what my gut is telling me I don't No, but I think you should possibly be aware of that.

27:13Anna Williamson:And I am sorry if that feels hard for you to say. And I think clarity is really key for you. I think the main thing to hear from that, we're really sad to hear that. Sorry for you, but you really do deserve more. And your life is a long life ahead of it. And I think you're scared of change, which is totally understandable. But please don't stay in something that is just not working for you. She can't stay because he's made it clear he doesn't want the relationship. And I get that he's your right arm and you've been together for half your life. But you're young. You're 28. like you know that's so young like you've still got a whole other bloody four lifetimes ahead of you really so please don't be worried about that you're in a great situation you can sell the house with him pocket some of the money and just start again it's a clean state thankfully you didn't have children with him because that complicates things even more and I think that you know when things come to an end it is really really awful but again I just he's made his feelings clear and I always have this saying like don't waste your emotions on someone that doesn't give a shit about you because it's such a waste of energy and emotion and like looking back and you know that you have no other choice but to look forwards and try and move on and stop thinking about well that was my life plan and that because now that life plan has changed and I think that the the sooner you can try and adjust your mentality to that life change and look forwards and and grow forwards the whole process of that relationship ending and the grieving of that will become easier yeah and it's the familiarity that often keeps you in that space because change is scary it's it's the unknown you do feel vulnerable you feel rejected and that feels like absolute shit but what we can absolutely tell you what we hear at hand over fist don't we girls on this podcast we know in our private lives to there's no one we've ever come across right that has ever said that they didn't actually life got better exactly once you've processed the pain and we know that there's a painful process to go through you're worth more than this he's not respecting you there's no trust in this relationship um we wish you all the very best and honestly the next person you meet you'll be saying thank god that ended yeah yeah you will you'll look back and and you'll be like that was a chapter of my life and now i've met this person you're a proper adult now too i think that sometimes when you've been with someone when you're so young like 14 it's you either do grow together or you do grow apart and you can all and you become codependent yeah and also right now to heal yourself really really hang out with your friends you know and do stuff that makes you feel you know supported lots of love done a message from lauren next hi loana long time listener i've thought about writing in many times got nine-year-old twin boys plenty of stories well i have a nine-year-old boy i can completely imagine what's going on there.

29:54Anna Williamson:All I get told is brav now. Oh god, I don't let mine speak. That's so bad. And I get all the kind of like anyway. Six, seven. Oh no, apparently Tommy the other day came home from school and went, we don't say that anymore. And I was like, oh do we not? And he was like, no one says that by me. I was like, oh well they did yesterday. He was like, now it's 21. I was like, is it? I've not heard that dude. He makes up as he goes along. Anyway, but this call, because she said it's from over Christmas, just has to be shared. So for context, my other half works away in the week uh he's not the father to my twins but he is the most incredible role model to them cheeky shout out for him uh it was the last week of term i was crawling through it uh trying to make it to friday i'm a primary school teacher oh bless your heart we're at home after school and the twins were doing oh there you go there you go the twins do the usual six seven until one of them came out with six nine which the other one quickly replied with mum one And the boys in school said that 6 '9 means sex.

30:53Anna Williamson:Cue my open mouth expression. Too exhausted in mind, body and spirit. I was not about to get into that one. All I could think of saying was, and do we always believe everything our friends say? Appalling comeback. I know. Well, that one soon came back to bite me in the arse. Roll for us to a little to Christmas dinner. Full plates, Christmas crackers, the family huddled around the dinner table. Perfect moment. Almost. My twin takes the opportunity to look at my partner, smile and say, I know what you do at night. My partner, blissfully unaware of the conversation we'd had before Christmas, to be fair, I had mostly forgotten it, made the huge mistake of asking, what?

31:34Anna Williamson:With a big grin on his face, he announces to the table, you six nine, my mum. Deathly silence. Can I just say this is exactly the kind of thing that my boy would do. My partner just looks at me. I can only imagine the thoughts going through his head. Have they caught us? Total panic. I, of course, filled him in, not in that way, ladies, on the conversation that we'd had before Christmas. Thank the Lord my partner has a great sense of humour and a fantastic relationship with them, as we managed to laugh it off later, albeit a little awkwardly. I can't wait to bring that story out of their 80s for some revenge.

32:08Anna Williamson:No need to keep me anonymous. I'm Lauren from South Wales. Brilliant. This reminds me of Enzo literally this weekend. Alex Gorg gave him, absolutely let him rip. I told him no to something and he didn't know what he meant. He went, oh, apparently I walked off to go get something. We were having lunch. He went, oh, mummy's such a bitch. Yeah. Like this. Alex shot around and went, what did you say to mummy? And he went, he went, I don't know. He apparently heard some boy say it in the street. Because I said, so Alex, he went, don't you dare speak to mummy or any woman like that. He was like, I don't know what it means.

32:38I don't know if he had the same street. Well, we had a, like all the kids are on. But he cried his eyes out and he didn't know,

32:43Anna Williamson:how bad it was and he cried his eyes out. We were like, you'll never call anyone a bitch. We had all the kids at ours and they were all hanging out one day, Nick and Nicole's and Lucy's and then little Eva, she's six, she comes out to me and she says, Lulu, Clemmie has been doing the alphabet in swear words. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. And they'd been upstairs doing, yeah, arse bitch. I don't know what the C is for trying to think. I know the W who was wanker. But do you know what? But do you remember doing stuff like that when you were a kid? And this is the age they're at and actually, do you know what, after that initial, I did believe him that he didn't realise because he got bollocked and he literally Well, he needs to hang out a bit more.

33:27Anna Williamson:He does. But then he was like quite classic Enzo, logical. He went, but why? Because then Alex was going, well look, it is confusing because like a female dog is a bit, and he's going, but that's really weird. It's like if you say you've got a bloody finger or you say bloody hell, one's okay, one's not. And it is confusing to kids. Anyway, he called me a bitch. Brilliant. That's like when Dixie was younger. And what did she say? We were having, it was my dad's birthday. And my friend's little girl was there. And she wanted to carry the cake to my dad. And Dixie was being like a little shit and trying to get the cake and trying to break the candles out.

34:03And I said, Dixie, stop being such a brat. And she was six. And she went, I am not a brat. Like, you, you're a fucking brat.

34:16I mean, it's contextualised. What did you say? And she ran off upstairs and slammed the door.

34:22Anna Williamson:It was a great context. I think it's the reaction. Alex apparently shot. I think it was the action. It's the reaction. Alex went, how dare you speak to mummy like that? So funny. And I was like, go on, Al. Yeah, sticking up for mummy. Stick up for mummy, the bitch. Yeah. Right, remember, if you want to get in touch, you can email us, Luana. at everythinglovana.com. We've also got a new number. So if you've got us saved as a contact, please edit this number now. Why have we got a new number, Emma? Well, well, well, basically. Poor Dad Min and in the stress. Things happened and the old number still kind of works, but also doesn't work.

35:03Anna Williamson:And therefore, I think it's safer if it all works. So we've got a new number. that was a great explanation if you have text the old number in the last like week or whatever don't worry I've probably still got it but from now on can we all use the new number thank you very much would it help if they had a corker just to resend it yeah resend it or forward it maybe that might be nice but took her eye off the board I mean the thing is it took Lou well Lou never learnt the old number I didn't learn it and this one's actually a lot easier so this I think you know new year new number Here we go. It is 07521564640.

35:46Newsy Bits now. Number 10 hits out at insulting changes to Musk's Grok chatbot after a deep fake warning.

35:57Anna Williamson:Yeah, so this has been in the headlines a lot over the last couple of weeks. I've never used Grok. No, so it's quite new, isn't it, Grok? I mean, I'm not sure how new it is. I just use chat GPT. I mean, I hate X anyway. Yeah, I don't like it. I nearly deleted my account the other day. It's such a toxic, toxic place. But I didn't. Horrible place. It's such a political warfare. It's an awful bit of the internet, that X. I never use it. No, never use it. It's awful. I mean, the only time anyone I know really goes on it is when Instagram's down. Everyone then piles over to X to find out. But it has its Grok AI tool, which...

36:36Anna Williamson:It's limited anyway. to paid subscribers yes um according to a message displayed on the chatbot with the changes described as insulting by downing street now this is because and this is why lots i've seen um so it wasn't it used to not be um limited to paid subscribers but because of the backlash of everything that's been going on they limited it to paid subscribers and now the government are like that isn't enough what you that's yeah and so so the reason why what the backlash has been around it is essentially people in millions of people typically and men have been called out in particular have been using like taking a picture of us anyone's picture and then um sexualizing them paedophilia child pornography well the internet watch foundation warned that criminals have been using grok to create child sexual abuse imagery right which comes back down to our thing like don't put your kids online right right um and you know i actually did a bit last night because I was having a little play on this myself because I don't use X.

37:36Anna Williamson:I don't use Grok either. Yeah, I've never heard of Grok. So I actually did take a picture of my, because the point being, say it was for everybody. Now it's for, you know, subscribers. But I wanted to see what it actually did do if I did something now. So I put in, I just lifted a picture of me, put into the Grok and I said, you know, make her look like she's crying. That's the thing, you're using prompts and then it's basically doctoring these prompts to make them into just foul, disgusting images. I said, make her look like she's crying and straight away it did want of me crying. Then I put in make her look, make her topless is what I put in.

38:06Anna Williamson:I got a bit scared. Did it give you good tips? No, but to be fair, it did come straight away. I'm sorry, I'm not able to generate that image for you. Because you're not paying. Exactly. Yeah, so what the backlash has been. If I was paying, I would have been able to have got that picture. Yeah, and that's what the Prime Minister spokesman said, that this move simply turns the AI feature that allows the creation of unlawful images into a premium service. It's not a solution. It's actually making money. And Elon Musk has had a massive, massive backlash about this quite rightly. Because, yeah, to your point, I would assume that, yeah, if I was now a subscriber and had I put in the same prompt, turn me into a topless picture, that would have been granted.

38:43Anna Williamson:So as you say, that then becomes an elitist platform. It's not good. But what the government have said, which I'm interested in, is that it says that social media platforms can move quickly when it wants to. Because obviously they've changed this quite quickly. And there's a lot of problems with social media and this I'm always bleating on about it that they they don't do enough. But that's I think the government's problem. Like they need to put more onus on them. And if they don't do what they're meant to do, then block them. And actually the Lib Dems have called for Ofcom to immediately block X from operating in the UK and for the National Crime Agency to launch a criminal investigation into the site.

39:22so you know Liz Kendall who's the science and tech secretary have said that Ofcom should use the full powers of the law that parliament has given it and if that means blocking X then they would have the full backing of the government says the images being produced are despicable abhorrent and sexualizing images of children is one of the worst crimes imaginable I think it's insulting to say that you can still access the service if you pay for it Ofcom and they're basically saying that Ofcom should ban it and I think that they should absolutely absolutely

39:51Anna Williamson:I think we're in this day and age now where we all recognise the dangers around this. And it is absolutely disgusting. And actually, I was looking at some of the stuff that had gone viral around it and just the absolute pile on a plethora of people using these platforms and the disgusting prompts that are being put in. And as you say, any platform to exist full stop, let alone one of the biggest platforms, most publicised ones, by one of the richest men in the world, is absolutely abhorrent. And it's so scary because some of these, like I think in a way, like AI is great. Like I use ChatGPT a lot.

40:33Made me too. It's really, really good. But at the same time, there is a really dark side of it that isn't, you know. And on one hand, you'd think like those people would argue, well, it's not real. so how harmful is it because a child wasn't actually harmed but i think it's just spurring them on more it just is creating like more of an appetite for these sick fucks and also like

41:00Anna Williamson:if say you took a pic you you're on instagram you found a picture of like a teenage girl you put it into grok said strip her whatever ai's getting so good it will look so realistic you can't tell if you put that out there i could ruin that poor girl's life and we talk about people would commit suicide over it and then the actual layer we've got to that is we're trying to you know i do some work with meta you know around sextortion you know so kids you know teaching teenagers to not send sexual images of themselves but now we've got to the problem even more so they don't even have to send a sexual image of themselves they can have it doctored sent anyway about them it's not even them and then we fall into you know into that sextortion again there is a whole there are are apps that strip people like yes they're in schools and boys are taking pictures of their peers and stripping them on these apps it's really bad it's just i think anything there should just be zero tolerance should be zero to i don't even know why it's a discussion muff said that a new version of grok has been released and he urged users to update their app but it was not immediately clear what updates um this contained and it said that x insisted on its x safety account that anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they uploaded illegal content but i mean the government is just saying that they're not doing enough but this just comes down to this thing like elon mass and people like him that've got all this money are bigger than the government exactly and it's a really look i don't begrudge anyone earning money or anyone you know you earn that money and he's obviously a smart guy has come up with amazing things he has amazing ability to earn a lot of money.

42:36Keep all that money for yourself, but don't, like... Use that power for the wrong. To do wrong things. But hey, it's a bit weird, Elon Musk. You know, you only have to look at his smattering of children all over the world. And he's, like, he's obsessed with, you know, like, spreading his seed. And I don't think he's 100 % myself. I'd quite like to meet him. Just, I'm so interested to see, like,

43:02Anna Williamson:how he comes across and stuff. You're right. I think that the challenge comes is when so much money equates to power that then is not able to be stopped. Yeah, because there's so much money. Yeah, anyone that creates the power isn't powerful enough. And it's not right. It's not right. It is a constant concern. And the only thing is, just ban it. Why doesn't the government just ban it then? But why won't they? Because he's got too much money. He's got too much power and the government are controlled by the people. So it's like this vicious circle of actually it's not in the public's best interest.

43:33Because the government need the do.

43:37Anna Williamson:I personally would love X to be banned. Whenever I've got on there. I hate it. For all of three seconds, it's just awful. It's explicit. It's violent. It's disgusting. It's an awful place to be. It's a horrible place. It used to be all right. Back in the day, it was quite light-hearted. I used to use that before Instagram. I loved it. It's horrible. For me, it reeks to me of, what's that horrible tattle life? It's like another extension of that. It's if you want to just spread disgusting hatred. You go on there. It's awful. it's toxic Tattle Life is funny though sometimes Is it still going? Yeah some of the things they say who was I talking about?

44:13Someone didn't know about it Yeah over Christmas it's not banned and then they were like what do they talk about you? and I was like yeah it's fucking hilarious and I was reading it and some of the things they say I actually love it it cracks me up and I'm like reading this thing and there was like this thing saying that my mum made candles at once I mean they just make things up it's so bizarre we were pissing ourselves laughing

44:33Anna Williamson:I love that you can be that detached. I love that you're genuinely. It's one of your best qualities. I love how you can just genuinely not give a shit. This next story, bless her heart. I saw her on the telly the other week, this morning, campaigning. This is Jessie Nelson from Little Mix. I'm sure many of you will know her story. She had her baby twins. She had a terribly difficult pregnancy as well. And she is calling for SMA screenings because it didn't happen for her. so her twins have been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 SMA1 it's a rare genetic condition that causes muscle wastage and I know lots of people have seen it and my god mama to mama, just my heart goes out and they've both got it but they're not identical are they?

45:21are they not? isn't one a boy and one a girl? no they're both girls I don't think they're identical but what I was reading is that both parents have to be a carrier and then it's a one in four chance right and they weren't screened they weren't screened but then it's so unlucky that they've both got it but Wes Street in the health secretary

45:43Anna Williamson:was quick to respond to to Jesse who is campaigning for screaming screenings for newborns of SMA saying that Jesse was right to challenge and criticize how long it takes to get a diagnosis he says I'm determined to look not just at screening for SMA but to make better use of genomic medicine, he said. But for many families affected by it, of course his intervention was bittersweet because some say in their calls are the same kind of government action. It's just been ignored for years and it often does take a celebrity to do this. I've been trying to raise awareness of the need for newborn screening for four years.

46:13Anna Williamson:This person said, we've written many letters to West Streeting, the kick in the teeth because he's known about it for a long time. That is really frustrating. This lady, Portia Thorman, who's the head of the charity at the SMA UK. and then you're right Jessie's had to come out and her kids have it for actually and this guy did did know about it and Jessie bless her when I saw her on the telly talking about it and she said you know you know you couldn't help but just she made some comment made me tear up actually she said I've decided to talk about this because I realise I'm in a position to do it and if I don't nothing possibly will happen and something might and then she just started crying she went all I want to be is a mum I just want to be a mum to my girls and she said I'm a nurse because she's a nurse all she has to do is feed her you know kids a tube bed and stuff like that and she said all I all I you know I'm a nurse to my children and you know all I want to be is a mommy and just my god the poor girl honestly that's awful I know that's really really sad and the future we don't know what or the the prognosis isn't great but there is some um treatment that her twins have had which can I think help or even reverse I think that the gene that they're missing they can like put into them yeah like a gene anyway it's something her twins have had the treatment I think it like stops it at a certain point the treatment but you can't regain the muscle that they've already lost I think as well with a lot of these screenings actually sorry countries including countries including America, Germany, Japan and Ukraine they've introduced screening with about 10 ,000 to 14 ,000 babies worldwide born with SMA each year So there's this girl called Molly Everett she's studying for a master's degree in medical law she has SMA type 3 so there's three types and if you've got type 1 which is what Jessie's twins have had the life prognosis is very very poor I mean I think I read somewhere like under 5 that they will most likely die without this gene treatment um and then there's type two and type three and type three is like the one that you can kind of less severe yeah um and this girl said so many of us with sma have gone on to do really amazing things and have a very full life but having sma doesn't need to define your life she's obviously one of the in quotes luckier ones with sma because she has type three thing is it's it's so difficult isn't it because i think with all these screenings and you know it's like vaccinations there's this oh and I remember being pregnant with with with my two and you know there are some screenings that we do have in the country which are great which is you know which we have summer opt-ins I I think you know looking back I always remember I opted um and something else that isn't talked about as that widely I see it sometimes is strep b and I know one of my NCT mums she had strep b and if you give birth to a baby with it's to do with like the vaginal fluids yeah and and then the baby can be severely very unwell really really poorly you can treat you can have a thing you can have a swab for it but again it's not it's not routine i see i had it because i was private exactly so and this is the thing and lots of this comes down to what level of care you might have what knowledge you might have now i only knew about this because my nct friend was having had a baby same time as me and she had they'd caught it and they had private healthcare, but none of us in our NCT group did.

49:44Anna Williamson:So she mentioned it. She went, I have it. And I've had swabbing everything done. She went, girl, I really think you need to ask for this. It's not expensive. It's like 50 quid or something. 50 quid, exactly. But I remember going up, and I think this is the thing. I think there should be more education, even a pamphlet in your antenatal classes of these are options. This is an option. Exactly. If you want to option for it. Like a shopping list. Like a shopping list. This is there so you can pay for that. Like the chickenpox vaccine used to be. Now it's actually been rolled out as a vaccination is this year now.

50:10Chicken pots, honestly, if you have a child that's over one, you have to wait till they're one, get that bloody chicken pots vaccine because Dixie didn't have it. I didn't know about it. And her chicken pots were awful. And then I had it for the other two and they've been fine.

50:23Anna Williamson:Well, the NHS are, this is a good thing they're bringing in. Because America do it routinely. Exactly. But chicken pots vaccines are now coming in. That's really good. But previously, again, it was an opt-in you paid for it. And it's only 80 quid. 80 quid. I had it done with both of my two. But same with the strep B. I remember then calling up my doctor and saying, but again, this is the thing. it's such a postcode yes and I said look can I please request they went why why do you need a swab I went well because my friend's having a baby too and I've just been doing some reading up on it and they said well well it said we don't offer it and I was like no fine I'm happy to pay and in the end I did have it done through my actual NHS GP but I did pay you know you could pay for a doctor's letter or stuff like that as an extra service I said I'm very happy to pay and I did pay for it pay for 30 weeks or whatever yeah and it was negative but again I think if we're not told about these things like this sma i think there are many parents out there that would happily have these extra tests when you're going in anyway for for swabs and poking exactly just to be on the safe side you know isn't it up the bum the swab i can't remember i'm sure it's up the bub maybe you're right do you know what i think it's a bit of a bell i think it's up the bum right let me google it google that but i remember again that strep bin it's not till you read strep b or anyone I know there'll be mums listening now whose babies or they have had strep B.

51:36Anna Williamson:It's awful if you've got that. Your poor baby is terribly unwell when you give birth. You can actually just now, I didn't know this, buy it online and get it delivered. Well, I imagine you probably can. And do it yourself. I mean, that was six years ago. Oh, no, it was Enzo, so nine years ago. But yeah, but the best of, you know, all the love in the world to Jessie Nelson. I don't know her personally, but I think, God, everybody out there, you know, is full of love and support to her. We can just only hope for the best outcome for her babies and for her amazing campaigning. I still think it's up the bum.

52:09I haven't got an answer to that.

52:11Anna Williamson:We're still trying to find the strep B up the bum swab. One from your vag and one from your arse. There you go. Ideally in the last five weeks of pregnancy. Yeah, that's right. That's it. So I've lost about 35 weeks preggy. Yeah, I remember. Ladies, when you're preggy, ask the questions. Are there any screenings available that you can pay for or that you can access if you want them? It is worth it. Right, it's time for It's the Widow of the Wehica Oh, Dirty Diana Hi girls, please keep me anonymous Keep me the name Dirty Diana Because I think I'm disgusting Probably not normal I have a family that listen So I would hate to out myself Brilliant I love your whole family listens Welcome fam I'm currently on my monthlies And since children They are heavy and painful Oh, I hear you When I'm on my heaviest days is I get in a nice hot bath and I try and push as much out as possible.

53:02Anna Williamson:I don't sit in it too long because what the F? But I lay there for a good 10 minutes before I'm due to get out just pushing and pushing. I see how many clots I can see in the bath. It's like a satisfying game. No, it's disgusting. I do it every time that I'm on and I like to say I find it very satisfying. Thanks for keeping me company whilst cleaning every day. That's right, mate. Brilliant. Sitting in a blood bath. Literally pushing out her clots and bath, one clots, two clots. Right, we've got Helen. She says, good morning, Louisa, Anna and Imo. Morg. Am I the Widder of the Week? If I do a heavyweight at the gym, like I've just pushed 169 kilos sled.

53:39Wow. Wow. She's strong. Yeah. I stop and Google what animal it relates to. Almost like somehow it'd help in real life. I do this for all weights, i.e. bench press, deadlift. Maybe not that odd. Don't give me a none as my running buddy Tilly listens and I'm Helen.

53:56Anna Williamson:Well, Helen, I've done that. Have you done that? Yeah. on that. Well, like, is this a polar bear? I go like, well, like when you're doing a PB or whatever, going, what animal weighs? Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. So you know what you could lift. Or if something was on top of you and you were stuck under them, what could you get on with you? Well, I would say to Helen, this is very topical because I've got 170 kilogram Lusso bath arriving today. You could have been there as my manpower. She could have lifted that bar. You could have been lifting that bloody bar. She could have pushed it. Oh, I've got four men on for that.

54:24Anna Williamson:I just need Helen. See? There we are. Wow. Right. Right, who's weirder then? Bloodbath. Bloodbath. Yeah, for sure. You win. Well done. Your rank. Bloody Fanny. Right, it is that time of the week, which we all love a bit of a Zist rant. What you got, Lou? I have noticed something the Daily Mail have stolen from me. And they have rebranded. I have been talking about belt wankers for a long time. Two years plus. Longer. Much longer. Much longer belt wankers. So belt wankers are the people that get off the plane and they stand right next to the belt. So you can't see your luggage. If your luggage comes round, they're in the way.

55:10The front row kinos. Yeah, they are. And they are called belt wankers.

55:14Anna Williamson:Now, earlier this week... And Lou did absolutely coin that, by the way. I did. You know what? We spoke about it on the pod that shall not be named. Stop it. So back in the day... Eight years I've been bleating on about belt wankers. Eight years. Well, how dare, how dare the Daily Mail, I see it. I saw a headline. What do you see, Lou? What do you see? Are you a luggage lounger? What? The infuriating airport trend that leaves passengers seething. What? Honestly. What trend? Are you joking? They go on to say that these people, you know, stand in the way of the belt despite their bags not even arriving yet.

55:59Yeah, belt wankers, Dame. I've been talking about this for years, you fucking thiefs. They've put, they are luggage loungers, a term thought up by the Daily Mail to describe travellers who lounge around and wait for their luggage right by the carousel, sometimes even leaning against it, causing annoyance to others who are trying to retrieve their cases. I'm fuming. Well, I'm fuming too. I'm fuming for you. So, Alicia Fiddler, who's the travel reporter, you are shit because this was my term of phrase. I'm sorry, but Luggage Loungers has absolutely zero ring to it, Alicia Fiddler. It's very tame.

56:42And you've been fiddling with my phrases. the thing my coined phrase is, they are belt wankers. They have been belt wankers for a long time. Everybody knows that they're belt wankers. Nobody wants to say luggage loungers. What kind of airy-fairy snowflake shit is this Alicia Fiddler thinking she's fiddling up? She can go and fiddle herself and fuck off and not claim my thing. It's actually pissed me off. As if the Daily Mail weren't the worst for plagiarism anyway. Well, there you go. And now they're trying to rebrand great phrases that I've made up. Which we all know. Pass it off as their own.

57:22Who do they think they are? Luggage loungers. Go fuck yourselves. Wow. Sorry, but no. This has been a Global Player original production. It's bottom. Clearly not Lufanians. It's the dregs. Clearly not Lufanians, Lou. Not Lufanians. I bet she's about 20 years old, some kind of millennial. Oh, a luggage lounger. Come on, say it how it is. Belt wanker. Belt wankers.

57:47Anna Williamson:Anyway, that's it. That is it. It's a belter. It's a belter. There it is. It's a belter. But don't worry. We won't be wankers. We'll be back on Monday. We will. But if you can't wait until then, do not worry, because we have Luana Totally Extra on Thursday. We need you Lufanians. Remember the contact details. They've slightly changed. Not the email, though. Send all your guff into Luana. Add everythingluana.com. Jump onto WhatsApp and send a voice note or message to our new number, Imogen Rose Hart, which is? Which isn't this. 075-215-6464-0. Oh! Well, why have you put the old number in there?

58:23Well, I clearly forgot to copy and paste it, didn't I? That's very confusing to me. I'm sorry.

58:28Anna Williamson:Well, you should have remembered it. Well, I can't. Right, make sure you follow the podcast top right corner. Press follow now. Tell someone about us. Please make them listen. Give us a five-star rating and a review. And don't worry, we'll be back later this week on Thursday. see you then toodaloo over and out