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1:00That is the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth. This little man had been following me for the last 10 minutes and had me on a live stream to his TikTok fans. He had a whole second secret family, including another daughter called Louise. Shut the fuck up! You want me to go and get my a** and my a** and your a** waxed? And your a** waxed. You want me to do that? Well, welcome to LA, baby. Oh, oh, I smell sweet, sweet oranges. What are you smelling?

1:40Oranges, oranges. I don't quite know what that means. What do you mean, oranges? I thought that we were in Orange County for a second, but we're not. We're in Los Angeles. Just why were you singing Oranges? Because Oranges are Orange County. Okay, listen, everyone. We're in LA. We're recording in LA. It is phenomenal. I mean, how much do you love LA? I really do love it. I feel like... I feel like you've got a breath of fresh air. You've aged backwards here. Not physically, but mentally. I feel like the life's come into you. You're fun again. You're fiery again. I'm funny. You've got a little pep in your little toes.

2:15Have you had a coffee today? No, I haven't had any coffee. You've had a coffee there. I haven't. It's actually next to you and I'm like, shall I have it? Because I am. Do you want me to pass it to you? I'm dropping like flies. How would you? Can I just talk to everyone about coffees? Yeah, let's go. They are vile. Vile. Like anyone who likes a coffee, like I've tried every coffee. This now is a coffee with whole milk and a bit of honey. It's still disgusting. It's the worst flavor in the world. I would rather like put I would rather drink wee I wouldn't rather drink wee but I would rather You'd rather drink wee?

2:46Like there's a lot of things I'd rather drink than that and people die for that they're like I'm waiting for my eyes coffee like you're all lying you are all lying No, people are drinking it because of the feeling I've just started drinking coffee alright because I thought why not I have a kid I'm tired I work hard yada yada yada I'm going to be honest coffee is like a drug Well it's a stimulant You have a coffee And you feel fucking unreal You feel amazing and then you have this period where suddenly you feel really shit. And I said to Elle, right? I said to Elle, I was like, Elle, why do I feel shit?

3:14She said, oh, you've had your coffee drop. Like that, you have a coffee drop. Well, you don't necessarily - You suddenly feel a bit depressed and a bit shit. No, you don't feel depressed or shit. You feel like suddenly you're like buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. And then you're a bit like, is it the same as if you eat sweets? Okay. It's the same as if you have a cigarette. You feel great and then you don't. It should get stimulants all the same, you little fuck face. Well, listen, the whole point of this is Guys, we're in LA. We're out here for the next few weeks. We are filming a secret project that we can't tell anyone.

3:47But I bet you all know what it is. But you can probably all guess what it is. But we're not allowed to say what it is. But you probably know what it is. So we're out here for a few episodes of Newly Parents. It's going to be great. It's going to be amazing. But today's episode couldn't be more special. It couldn't be more special. Because ladies and gentlemen, today is Sophie's birthday episode. It's my birthday episode, guys. Can we get a little cheer, please? Come on. Yeah. Happy birthday, honey. I'm actually feeling like a little bit starstruck to see. I walked into this house and I was like, why are there 32 signs everywhere?

4:23Like, who's 32? You are. Because I'm not. I'm 28. No, you're not. I'm 28. I'm 28. In three years time, I'm legal to get a facelift. What? In three years time, no surgeons will do, no qualified good surgeons will do a facelift on someone under the age of 35 because i've asked and i'm not afraid to say it i had a down day and i called one up and i said hey look my name's sophie boo i sent a picture on the whatsapp and i said and they went do you do do you do a facelift he went oh yeah sure i can do it for you because you must be like 45 i was like imagine you're only 31 he was like come back in four years so now i'm three years closer and i can't fucking wait you're not gonna get a facelift honey you'll be the first person to get a facelift out of either of us and boy do you know one thing about la yeah i'm walking around the streets of la and it i'm like it's literally like the future i've got a glimpse into the future because every man who's driving around la is about yay high they're all about five foot six yeah they all are incredibly tanned and they've all had like kind of a botched facelift and they've all losing their hair and it's dyed it's dyed either dark or it's style blonde and I'm like fucking hell this is you in the future.

5:37There's just loads of old Jamie Lengs everywhere. Well on that note ladies and gentlemen, should we get into the episode? Hello, I'm Jamie Leng. And I'm Sophie Leng. And now we're newly parents. Oh yeah, we are baby. Hello everyone, welcome back to newly parents. Oh Sophie. All right. um listen okay it's your birthday and i just before we get into la and everything like that i thought we would talk about your birthday because it's really important this is the first birthday you've had as a mom this is how you feeling about being a year older yeah what are you feeling at the moment tell me i actually feel so grateful like honestly how many times do i say to him like i don't understand how this is my life like i love my son so much i love our family and And we're just having the funnest time.

6:30The fact that we're out here, the fact that you guys are listening to us, the fact that we get to do these things. I couldn't feel more lucky. And you know what? I have a little present for you, right? It's only sweet, it's only small, but I want to give it to the top because I don't think I want to wait until the end to do it. So I just thought I'd get it out to you straight away. So as always, I wrote you a little poem. Would you like me to read it to you? Always. Dear Sophie, another year has passed us by. So much has happened, I'm going to clarify. We bought our first house and renovated the whole thing while nearly divorcing while deciding on the kitchen.

7:06We hosted shows, podcasts and flew around the world. The whole last year has felt like a total dream world. And then in April, you gave me the biggest present of all. You told me we were pregnant and I never felt so full. The strange part was I wasn't scared, not even for a bit. I looked at you and somehow knew we'd be good at it. And then in December came our little baby Ziggy. Wrapped in both our arms, our lives became a little more busy. I fumbled every nappy, every bottle, every night, and you just quietly held us both and made it all feel so right. And he's the happiest baby boy truthfully because of you.

7:48I feel so lucky you said to me, I do. He has your eyes, your smile, your kindness, and a laugh that's all his own. I see you every time he looks at me, and I never felt so at home. So on your birthday, my love, there's just one thing I'll say. Thank you for being my best friend, my wife, and the greatest mum every single day. I know today is the day I meant to give a gift to you, but I'll spend my whole life trying, and I'll never catch up to you. You're the best, the kindest, most special person I've ever known. Happy birthday, Soph. Here's to every year to come and never on our own. Oh, I love you.

8:26That was really good. I thought you were going to cry. Like, what is wrong with you? How are you like that hard? I said it to you and over there I started crying myself. Nothing coming out of your eyes. Not even a bit. Are you fucking joking? What are you talking about? Just because I don't cry doesn't mean I don't love it. You don't have any emotion in there. I do. I really like it. You're an absolute wizard. Like, the shit, that was the sweetest moment. That was such a sweet poem. I love every second of it and I'm so grateful. I don't know why I'm meant to be crying. Why do I have to cry? Because then it means something if you cry.

9:01No, that's just validation for you. All right. But you, okay, fine. Well, listen, happy birthday, honey. And I love you very much and you're the greatest. Love you. Hasn't this year been a whirlwind? I've been thinking. This year's been a lot. It's been like, it's been the best year of my life for sure. got to think back to your last birthday your last birthday right we were in the rosewood hotel we spent the night there and you were heavily pregnant oh my god and think about the whole year that's passed it's absolutely insane it's freaking insane like it's been such a whirlwind like it feels i don't know like the first year of being a parent just goes so quickly literally like more so because it's nearly been a year since we have had siggy because he obviously is his birthday's just after us um but happy birthday i love you very much i'm glad that we're out here celebrating it and you can get me a poem for my birthday all right i'm not gonna get you one i'll write you one you write me a poem i'm gonna write what will it kick off with i won't tell you i'll read it to you on your birthday go on just give me a little snippet i want to know hello jamie it is your wife okay and i will tell you something you have been incredibly rife it always sounds similar yeah keep going next one i bought you a present and don't worry it's not a knife it's not a knife and someday someday soon you'll see that the sky is blue and i love you i thought that was good that was very good okay so listen back to la what do you love about la i love airborne i love rodeo drive i love the weather although it's very cloudy today i'm loving everything oh my god we just went to a farmer's market and there was pigs and petting zoo and we could just i got in there with ziggy and i was just like there were goats all over me and piglets can i just say this so we arrive in la the flight was it's a it's 11 and a half hour flight with a newborn which is a lot jamie what jamie jamie what he isn't a newborn he is nearly one years old a newborn is the first eight weeks of their life i cannot physically hear you say to me one more time sophie i'm just tired i've got a newborn i'm like you don't have newborn don't have a newborn.

11:05You've had a newborn for eight months. A newborn is the first year. No, a newborn is eight weeks at the beginning. No, newborn is the first year. You can say I got a newborn after the first year. No, no one says I've got a newborn after the first year. I'm saying it. We have a newborn. That's like my sister being like, oh yeah, it's really tough for my newborn. Everyone be like, you've got a toddler. No, he's a newborn because he's not a year old. So we flew 11 and a half hours with a newborn. He's nearly 11 months old. He's certainly not a newborn, but Jamie introduces him to people and he's a big guy as well he's a big he's a big man and jamie's like oh this is my newborn son zicky and they're like newborn fucking hell it's actually so good and we we did the flight which is amazing we then arrive in the beverly hills hotel the beverly hills hotel is like the it's like a pretty smart hotel we stay there for a couple nights right staying because we're like why don't we just you know spend a little bit let's go and have fun let's really experience what it has to offer we arrive in the beverly hills hotel it's amazing sophie for some bizarre reason decides to change Ziggy on the carpet of the Beverly Hills photo, change his nappy and can I say this?

12:08Yeah. And he poops all over the Beverly Hills carpet. What do you mean for some bizarre reason? Where do you want me to change him? On the loo? But on a mat? No, no, no, no. We don't bring a mat out at every second given second. I should have maybe put a towel down but I took his nappy off and I turned around to get a new nappy and I turned back around and I was like, what is this and there was it was a poo protest it was in his hair it was smeared all over the carpet because it was all over my pajamas it was all it was everywhere jamie's having a panic attack i was like i can get this out like like obviously we're not going to call down to reception by the way this is 4 a.m because we've got jet lag and ziggy's waking up he's like no i've got to call them they've got to remove the carpet in the room straight away i'm like don't call them no you were like they're gonna charge us i was like they're gonna charge us there's shit everywhere and you were like they don't do that in hotel i said yeah they do if you shit all over their carpet they're gonna charge you so you call down they're like hello yeah and they didn't charge us did they no because i got it out like they'll whip us down my hand you got on your hands i got on my hands and you know scrub it up that floor you know what they say like honestly you've had so many chaotic things i can't tell you with Ziggy recently.

13:26I actually had probably one of the most embarrassing things that's ever happened to me with Ziggy. This is like a little bit of a tangent, but I got to tell you guys. So before we got on our flight to LA, Sophie decided to have reflexology, which reflexology is a lovely little thing. It calms you down. It relaxes you. It's on your feet. It's amazing. So anyway, Sophie is having reflexology in our bedroom while I'm watching Ziggy on the monitor. Okay. He's asleep. I'm watching him on the monitor. We're having a nice time. Okay. Anyway, I then decide it's coming quite late at night so I decide that I I need the bathroom I need to go to the loo he needs his eighth poo of the day I need to go and have a poo all right so monitor's there I'm watching the monitor and I'm going to the bathroom now it's not my eighth poo of the day by the way because I think something was wrong with me at the moment so I think I was like a little bit I'm gonna be honest a little bit constipated but it all came out in the evening all right so there's a lot going on all right there's a lot going on all right Ziggy then And starts crying on the monitor.

14:24So I'm like, oh my God. So if you've seen reflexology, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. So I'm like, oh God, I don't have time to like wipe or anything. So I just like... In what world? Because he's crying. So I get off the loo and I run upstairs to go and rock my son. Bum naked. No, not naked. I pull up my pyjamas. So your pyjamas now have shit all over them. No, because it's not leaking out my arsehole. It's like, it's not there. With your poo, it typically is. No, it's not. It's actually fine. but I've left the bathroom as it is and I've run upstairs and I'm rocking Ziggy and Ziggy's not going back to bed so I'm rocking him and rocking him and I'm rocking him and I'm rocking him and it's like a long time that's passing and I'm just like this is quite annoying anyway suddenly the door creeps open and I see this little lady come in and it's Sophie Sophie's like crept in to like be like is he okay is he okay and I'm like yeah fine anyways I'm like okay Sophie's like don't worry I'll swap over with you no Jamie says do you mind holding him so I can finish my poo.

15:20No, I do not say that. You did. So I went, okay, cool. So I go and sit on the seat with Ziggy. And we swap over Ziggy. He will just sleep immediately in my arm. Anyway, I then leave the room. I leave the room and I go back down the stairs to go back to the bathroom where I've gone to the loo and the bathroom door is shut and locked. And I start to panic. and I realise that the reflexology person has gone into that bathroom. She's gone into the bathroom to go to the loo and I'm outside the loo going to this, mouthing, why? Why? Why? As I'm doing that, the bathroom door starts to unlock so I run.

16:10I run up the corridor and as I run up the corridor, she comes out and sees me running away. so basically she had obviously this lovely lady marie who does my refuel exology and char marie because i'm so sorry about this she had finished my refuel exology an hour working needing my little feet and then she needed to go to the bathroom she goes to the bathroom what does she see jamie's unflushed shit no loo paper in there and then just the baby monitor with the white noise like shh and like she obviously was like uh oh god it's good okay right so we're back in LA okay favorite thing about LA what do you love so far?

16:49Air One you just asked me. Yeah but what about Air One do you love so much? Every single thing if I could move into Air One I would if I could build a house in Air One I would and I would live there and I'd come out every day and I'd eat all the snacks. Okay so for your birthday we got you a couple of things from Air One. I know I can see and I'm thrilled beyond belief. Okay so this is the type of stuff that we get from Air One now I'm going to talk you through this as the listeners to understand about Air One. We have something which is called a hardcore green smoothie. We have a lavender lemonade, something else.

17:19We have a liquid gold. We have a germ warfare, fiery thing. We have a shillat, something. Shi-at, shillat mushroom. Okay, we have... How much does all this come to you? How much would you be mad at? I'd be mad at$25. It was$100. But Sophie, it's your birthday once a year. It's my birthday once a year. Sorry That is a freaking joke It's a joke And there's some Seamoss gel as well Seamoss gel I want Jamie to try the Seamoss gel Because you really need it in your body, in your veins So have you got smoothies A smoothie was$23 and it had colostrum in it Yeah What is colostrum? I don't know whether it was from a pig or a cow or a human But I got it It's liquid gold It's the stuff that I was squeezing my nipples before Ziggy was born And putting it in little pipettes and freezing it And then they get that and put it in the Air One smoothie And then they get that and put it in the Air One smoothie And what does it do?

18:11I don't know. It's apparently liquid gold. It's very, very nutritious. No, no, seriously. What does it do? I don't know. It makes your skin look gorgeous and perfect. Okay, we're going to try one of these things. Right, okay. Which one do you want to have? I don't know. Give me some. I don't want the immunity shot, but we're going to have to try them all because that immunity shot one's going to be full of ginger. Have this one. The hot one. Yeah, go on. Take the hot one down. And you can't pull a face while you're doing it. What are you having? I'm having a lavender lemonade. I want you to have the immunity one.

18:36This is the type, but this is so LA. How much was this, this lavender lemonade? 20, I think. $20? You're lying to me. Filtered water, organic lemon juice, organic lavender water. They just got water and put lavender in it. Apple cider vinegar, blue spirulina. I mean, that... That sounds violent as well. Okay, here we go. I'm going to shake it up and give it a little sip. Am I having this little liquid gold rose? Here we go, a little sip. Here we go. I'm already salivating. My mouth is nervous for it.

19:12yeah that's the biggest shot i can't finish it you can't finish it on it's your birthday you look cute as anything finish it now go and get it down you gob the only way to describe that is you know when you have a sneeze that's about to come it's like a tickle in your nose and your throat that drinking that was exactly that sensation but and it's the worst experience who the fuck buys that? I mean that lavender drink is absolutely phenomenal let me try the lavender drink that's absolutely phenomenal you should have I really am get some gut health on you that's really woken me up I will say that lavender water is water with lemon in that's literally all that is and I'm a big fan of air one but that is water and lemon squeeze lemon no don't you think you're getting away with not trying one of those fucking shots you really am I going to take this down germ warfare yeah You're full of germs, you are.

20:04Alright, here we go. It's not bad, is it? I'm not going to lie, my ginger one has made me feel alive. I cannot believe people pay for that. Yeah, exactly. Drink that. I'm not drinking that. That is like something from medieval times where they've got to do it. You couldn't pay me to drink that. I can't. I actually would promise. You have to take it out. I feel that's coming up. Get that. you and now come on you have to you have to actually try that down all the way all the way get it all in you

20:47oh my god i actually thought you were both being dramatic oh my god i feel like i'm gonna smell for like four days it's the worst thing you've ever drank in your whole thing I feel violent that's the idea can I be honest now guys with the listeners I know you're not going to understand what that tasted like but when I tell you imagine going to the pits of hell and licking the floor of pits of hell and on top of that every monster has done a shit on the floor of the pits of hell it's like drinking that I've never ever it's that tastes like what i picture rats live in the water rats live in i've never experienced anything like that that's a cauldron that was pretty bad try the sea moss now because i and there's a spoon there now listen can you explain what sea moss is to the listeners is bella hadid started having sea moss she says it's good for her gut everyone got on this hype i've bought it before multiple times in my fridge.

21:51It does taste like what it says, sea moss. It tastes like moss of the sea. Meet the spoon, you have to be Wally. Yeah, let's put the birthday hats on. Can you hear our little boy just playing around in the background? You probably can. Here we go, I'm going to try. So explain what sea moss is. Oh my God. It looks delicious. It's not. Do I just eat that whole? Do you hide it cool right now? Yeah, you do. You look like a weird unicorn. Right, here we go. I know that looks nice because it's ping but let me tell you it's savage that is the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth LA I'm just gonna put out that I love LA but it is a bit of a strange place yeah it is a bit of a strange place I was walking down um Rodeo Drive yesterday and I was having a private conversation with my producer and this man went say hello to tiktok and i turned around and this little man had been following me for the last 10 minutes and had me on a live stream to his tiktok fans and then 10 minutes later i saw him again with you and he was still videoing me i was like hello is this what we do in la we just video everyone i was on his tiktok live just cruising around the streets i had no idea who he was oh my god we haven't been to the hollywood walk of fame yet that's where we need to go i really want to go there because apparently Vicky Gumbelson has a star for being like really big in insurance is that right who though what who is Vicky Gumbelson Vicky Gumbelson is an OG Orange County housewife and if you're watching this Vicky I do feel like we could get her on this podcast I feel like she would be partial to it she is I love her she's back she's back in Orange County she's raring to go she doesn't have a star she said in an episode that she is a star but maybe she was telling a lie sofia is so obsessed i can't i'm gonna have to be honest so guys so sofia is so obsessed with real housewives she's like obsessed with it we were driving near where we live i'm gonna tell the story because i i know all the girlies are gonna actually pass out when they hear this like you're gonna die okay i'm in the back seat with ziggy we're driving back from airborne or wherever the fuck we've been we are two houses away from our house and jamie goes villa rosa that's a nice name and I'm like what Villa Rosa I look up it's Lisa Vanderpump's house right next to me she is my neighbor I don't know what to do I feel physically you sort of hyperventilating I now walk past her house every day because I'm just dying for her to I think if she sees me with Ziggy what's she gonna do she's gonna invite us in I'm convinced because I fear that she she loves animals and Ziggy's cute like a dog he's like a cute little puppy but he's a baby I feel like she'll love babies and I think I'm a Brit.

24:40And you look a bit like an Afghan hound. I look like an Afghan hound. I might just like... Why is that Afghan hound? Why is that Afghan hound carrying that baby? She would adopt me if she thought I was an Afghan hound because she likes taking a stray dog. So I could dress up for Halloween as one and just hang around her house and make sure... How long would you prepare to pretend that you're a dog just to be adopted by Lisa Vanderpump? At least a week to get all the intel and, you know... And how would you pretend to be the dog? No, I'm not going to do role play. you constantly ask me to do roleplay it's honestly like no I'm not going to woof woof for you on camera I come outside I see an Afghan hound I see an Afghan hound it's you on all fours outside Lisa Vanderbilt am I naked and had fur painted on me yeah you've got fur you've got fur attached and your hair's down okay and I go oh my god hi little thing how you doing

25:32are you lost little fella Hey little boy Hey little boy Come here No she would think I was a girl Afghan For sure Like that's the one thing About me I will be a girl Afghan Anyway I'm constantly Walking past her house With my pram And my son Because I feel like He's going to be my inn I'm pawning him out To Lisa Van Der Po Hoping that she will be like Who's this cute Oh they're Brits We're going to become Best friends Can you explain to me How big a thing Seeing Villa Rosa is It's really It's really quite something it really is but why I need to explain this to me because it's just it's the most magnificent house in all all the world secondly if you're a true OG Real Housewives fan no one beats beats a housewife than Lisa Vanderpump and by the way that's like she's been off that show she left many many years ago and she will still always be the queen no one will take her crown for me so if you see this Lisa I'm a big fan I'm two doors down I've got really nice English tea here we can have a cuppa together and a lovely chin wag you can have a cuddle with my son Ziggy.

26:34Or you're going to dress up as an Afghan hound and wait outside. Yeah. Or if you see any stray Afghan hounds, it might be a human in disguise. Me. Oh, and she also has like Shetland ponies and like weird, so many animals in her house. And I just like, honestly, I know what vibe. If the housewives asked you, if we moved out here and the housewives asked you to be on the show, would you do it? No. You wouldn't? No. What's wrong with you? It's so savage. I just my brain would not compute like I I don't have it in me to like tear down genuinely I could tear them down but I want them to tear me down you wouldn't be able to take it I wouldn't like they d it's like it's brutal I think if you're in you're in like Dorit um Erica Jane and Kyle like they're in it's like very cliquey and I feel like the people who aren't in it's like savage and I'd be a newbie and like I just couldn't handle that okay I know we've done this before with those beginnings to housewives, you know, when they go like, hey, I'm this and I'm that and welcome to my palace.

27:36You know, the beginning, the intros. I think mine would be something like this. Mine would be, if I was a housewife on Beverly Hills, mine would be something like, like, they, they... I know what yours would be. Okay, what would it be? Life's not all about having real hair, but it shouldn't be either. What? yours would be yours would be mine would be they call me the afghan hound but i'm actually just a bitch that's quite good or yours would be something like um uh i i know it's the 2000s but i bring back the bush that's what yours would be something like that i'm literally clean shaven i'm literally clean shaven like yours would be yours would be um yours would be this i know people think I have blonde hair but actually it's ginger and it's fake I had a hair transplant yours would be this yours would be this I know I know we're all about looking natural these days but I like to be fake Botox filler and fake hair

28:49yours would be yours would be hey I may be sweet but don't come too close because my brass mounds I was going to say the same one for you yours would be this yours would be this I know it's Halloween coming out but my thing is Hallotosh yours would be this yours would be this it's not all trainers over here I like to wear heels because I'm 5 foot 3

29:19I hope she actually sees that surely we should knock on the door with roses and say hi. Just leave a note with it and say, Lisa, this is for you. We're neighbours. We listen. Say, I just love you. I also like need to slide into her DMs. Like it's meant to be. Oh God, it's good. Listen, King Yui, producer Yui is out here with us and King Yui, you went out last night, didn't you? I did, I went out. Went to a gay bar. Yeah, it was good. It was good. It was also Elle who's here with us. Her first time in a gay bar ever. How was it? Yui said it was the gayest experience of his life. Barry's WeHo was the gayest experience of my life.

29:57It's just very, very intense. And everyone's in crop tops. They've all got six packs. And they all know each other. They're all that high-fiving. And were you like, hi? And they were like, not interested at all. I know. Are they, what's like, because WeHo. Don't take off your party hat. It's really strangling my neck. I'm so sorry. WeHo. West Hollywood, yeah. West Hollywood. Right. It's called WeHo. WeHo, yeah. What's the gay scene like in WeHo? It's like, that's why I need to move it. Like, I am a gay. You are a gay. I agree. And Jamie maybe also.

30:34I was definitely gay. I 100 % agree. Wait, Yui, you think if you saw me in WeHo, you'd think I was gay? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'd think you were gay if I... What? Just in West Hollywood in general or in a gay bar? Just out in the street, yeah, mincing along. You would think... What am I... I give up... Not that I'm disheartened by that, but what gay vibes do I give off? Well, you've got bleached blonde hair. It's not. And you wear heels a lot. And you've had bow top. No, I haven't. Are you kidding me? And you love, yeah, a triple ther. And you love a spray tan. It's so true. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I think we should just pause it there.

31:10Let's take a little break. Let's just ease into it, all right? We're not going to have a break. We're not going to have a break, but I think it is time for Listener's Messages.

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33:32Okay, welcome back to Listener's Messages. Welcome back to Listener's Messages. It is my turn to do it first because you do it first every week, I think. No, this one, it's my birthday. hi Sophie and Jamie three weeks ago we welcomed our beautiful baby girl Cora into the world and I just wanted to message to thank Spencer hearing Kim talk so candidly about how lonely him and Boca felt during the newborn phase has really helped me feel less alone I've said to my husband Kieran so many times since bringing Cora home that although he hasn't left my side since she's born I miss him so much I was so scared that I was overreacting or that something was wrong but hearing that someone as strong-willed as Spencer feels the same as me has really made me feel so much better about everything love listening to you guys you're hilarious emma from glasgow oh that's so sweet so normal like honestly i feel like every single person in the newborn stage goes through that i truly think that the first year is quite tough not in terms of like anything it's just you're pretty tired you're figuring everything out you're working your way back into it everything's just up in the air you're just basically you know again last night we were up for like three hours in the middle of the night yeah you know if you're just it's just this constant battle with like oh my god doing it but it is it is the most rewarding most amazing thing in the entire world there's nothing better i asked actually so for this the other day i said if you had to give like a a noise or an emotion about what kids are like you were just like oh it's just kids are like well when you have babies what it feels like to have children and what it feels like to have children if you're watching this or so it's just like this is it's just like oh god it's just the greatest feeling ever okay i've got one for you uh i wanted to share an experience from a couple years ago it was my birthday weekend and i was on my way home for a very long friday at work i'm an er nurse i was exhausted carrying shopping and just looking forward to a quiet night in but the bus home was painfully slow by the time i got off at my stop i was absolutely bursting for a wee when i reached my front door i was scrambling to get the key to in the lock, ready to hobble straight to the loo as soon as I was inside.

35:39Finally, I opened the door, switched on the light and was confronted with all my friends and family yelling, Surprise! Naturally, the shock made me release on the spot. I just stood there as a lovely wet patch started to spread down the front of my scrubs. I'm dying. I'm dying. What? Everyone was mortified as I was. They thought I was somehow traumatised by the shock of the surprise party when really I just had too much coffee that day and needed a pee. The worst bit was I had to come out after cleaning myself up and be the centre of attention for two hours. Have you ever done that? Have you ever...

36:15I've peed myself a lot since having Ziggy. Like a fair few amount. Because it just comes out? It just comes out. If I need a wee, it trickles out. That's confusing though, because you had a C-section. It's my pelvic floor. It's not because my vagina's scappy and big. Scappy Gappy and big Are you okay? You thought that when people peed after having babies It's because their hole in their vagina was just enormous They can't keep anything in Yeah Love the podcast I'd like to share what happened to my mum Grace On her birthday many years ago She got a birthday card from her dad For her 17th birthday And inside he'd written Happy birthday Louise inside it She naturally asked him who Louise was He had no decent explanation information now however distant you are as a father surely remembering your own daughter's name is the bare minimum well it turned out he did know his daughter's name he just got them mixed up the birthday card was the slip up that eventually led my grandmother to discover he had a whole second secret family including another daughter called louise shut the fuck up i need more information that the end of the story yes no you can't leave us on that that is absolutely cruel beyond belief.

37:30Why on earth have we just got a snippet into that? That is the most mad thing I've ever heard. Can you imagine that? If you ever, won't you call me Claire the other day? I, I, so I don't have time to do anything, let alone have another family. That's protest too much. I'm not even protesting. I'm not protesting. I mean, the biggest shock of my life would be if you said you had another family. Why would that be a shock? It's just there's no way. Why? How would you ever be able to do that? So you don't think I'd ever cheat? I generally don't think you'd ever cheat on me. Why? Firstly, I don't think you could be bothered.

38:06That's the first thing. Secondly, I think you would feel too bad about it. You're a one-person person. You love one person and that's it. You don't love multiple people. Yeah, that's true. But I do know how to flirt. You don't. You just haven't seen it yet. You don't know how to flirt. I've got another one for you. Are you ready for it? Hello there both. My 30-year-old little sister Lois is a massive Jamie and Sophie. More Sophie than Jamie, but don't tell him that, fan. She shares endless videos of them both and is an avid listener to their podcasts and TV shows. It's even got to the point where her husband Connor is being forced into doing their weird stunts.

38:45However, in July, Lois, completely out of the blue, was told she had stage 3 lymphoma. As you can imagine, hearing cancer sent us all into a spiral. and since then it's been endless appointments, IVF preparation and needles. We're a close family and we're prepared for the fight. I'm reaching out with a special request for a little light-hearted and supportive video from Sophie and Jamie as I don't think anything will make Lois happier as she starts chemotherapy next week. She needs a little boost and I thought I'd give her a shot as out of everyone, Jamie and Sophie trump everyone else. lots of love from her supportive big sister and sister-in-law leanne and jess oh my god oh my god okay we're gonna do this lois lois lois gonna do this one lois lois you're a fucking rock star we love you so much you've got this you were a hero like totally hero and listen someone told me something once about life which i think maybe take it in this is just a season that's all it is and seasons pass the whole time and you'll look at this time and just be like wow that was a pretty hectic season but it's only a season just think of it like that so whatever you're going through whatever the ups the downs the lefts and the rights i promise you you'll get through this moment and when you're out there we can't wait to send you another video and support you through it yeah and we would love to meet you in person so we'd love it if you come to our studio and watch us do a live record of the podcast and we get to meet you and we can hang out we can have some sweets yeah producer you he's gonna sort it out so we're gonna see you in the studio whenever you can that would be amazing we'd absolutely love to see you um listen guys i want to say a big thank you as always to the listeners messages we absolutely love them keep sending them in newly parents at jamperproductions.co.uk or send them in in our instagram newly parents podcast that's the end of

40:38right because it's your birthday you little shithead i'm gonna get you we got you some presents i can't bloody wait you little fun bag that's what i'm gonna call your new nickname fun bag all right you're a little bag of fun you are a fun bag right king yui bring them in wow here we go darling yui this looks like a little doggy could be in one of these so these brave for me you just grab the like be tentative with it these are decorated so cute this is what i want to be in life now everything pink so i can like incorporate and like really channel my lisa and a pump era okay well do you want to open the first present okay

41:15i love la yeah there you go i can't wait to wear that around the streets of la yeah there you go from port company and it's got a really nice um oh scan with amazon app didn't even get it from a shop in la actually bought it from amazon probably would have cost Where's your first present? Okay, second present. Here we go. I will say wrapped up very cutely. Look at that. Now, this is from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and that's me. That is not Jamie. That is me. Oh, my God, it's Play-Doh. You don't touch it. Don't ruin it. Guys, what the hell? You just squished my face. Yeah, but you are... Oh, my God.

41:57Sophie, you just squished my face. When did you get that done? Yesterday. And a dressing gown. Oh, my God! I really wanted a dressing gown. Okay, dressing gown. Have a look at it. Mrs. Leng. Guys, the dressing gown is the best present I've ever had. Thank you so much. And it says Mrs. Leng on it. I literally wrote on a note saying I needed to go get a dressing gown and slippers. So do you like the dressing gown? The dressing gown is the best present I've ever got from you. Genuinely, if I get anything else, that's the best present. So not that poem I just wrote for you? No, the poem along with the dressing gown.

42:25What did you say? The poem? The poem along with the dressing gown. Happy birthday, honey. Thank you, guys. We love you so much. You are the greatest. Love you so much. Mrs. Leng. I love. Do you know what Sophie said the other day to me, which I kind of really thought about, and you don't even know that you said this. Sophie asked me a question. She said, would you rather come back reincarnated as a man or a woman? Yeah. And I haven't stopped thinking about it since. What would you answer? Because I'm a woman. You would come back as a woman? I would always come back as a woman. Explain. Give me reasons why.

42:56I love being a woman. Okay. But you don't know what it's like to be a man. This is so tricky, because the feminists are going to come from me. but like I think men do have a lot of pressure on them like I like the fact the feminists are going to come for me but I like the fact that a man should open the door for me and I like the fact that I don't have to carry heavy bags and I like the fact that I can just carry my son and you'll be left with all the suitcases and I like the fact that I also can check in and do all of that sort of thing but you carry the passport so you just like not doing any of the admin I actually in my head if I had a choice coming back a man or woman I think I would come back a woman do you know what I would come back as a man for though like you always like have a good orgasm well you do no women don't always I know most women don't but you do women are masters of faking it

43:52so you would come back that is why you'd come back as a man listen this episode has been an absolute wild one but before we end okay we just have one more thing And here it is. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear little sassy Afghan hound. Happy birthday to you. Make a wish. It's delicious. So this is a very special cake, which is, so Tom Cruise every single year gives a coconut cake to his favourite people at Christmas. The very same one we got you for your birthday. Guys, how good does that look? Honey, so listen, listen. Anyway, I've got one before we finish. I do have a little gift for you.

44:39Okay. Because obviously you've got me lots of gifts and it's always my birthday because I just always get spoiled. So that's my gift for you. You got me a gift? Yeah.

44:52The Full Hollywood. A voucher for one Hollywood wax. Enjoy a full Hollywood wax for a completely smooth finish. And can we actually film you getting it done? You want me to go and get my arsehole and my... Bull sack and your... Waxed. And your cock waxed. You want me to do that? Oh, we're not going to do your back. You don't have hairy back. You're very fair-haired. So it's just sack and crack. You want me to go... We're going to do a sack and crack wax. You actually genuinely want me to... That wax is going to have a fright of her life when she opens up your arsehole.

45:29You really want me to do it? Yeah, I do. And I think we should film it. Obviously, we won't film his actual arsehole because that's just not... Can I just understand what position am I in when that happens? Doggy. I'm on all fours on a bed like a dog. Or like in baby position, but in the air, I reckon. I don't think I can do it. And then balls, sack, you turn to your side and you lift a leg up like that. I'm not doing that You are and we're going to film every second of it And on that note, it's the end of the podcast And before we go by the way guys We have something very exciting We actually are filming lots of different things Around newly parents And one thing we just recorded Is something that we like to call tiny therapy Okay, basically what we did was this Is that we went to have therapy With toddlers We got life advice, relationship advice Parenting advice From the cutest little people in the entire world and what's really exciting is it's coming out tomorrow on our YouTube channel Newly Parents just go and subscribe go and watch the tiny therapy you're going to absolutely love it before we go listen everyone remember to get in touch at Newly Parents Podcast on Instagram or you can send us an email newlyparents at jamboproductions.co.uk and find out next week if I've actually had this Hollywood wax I don't know but we're in LA we're going to be back next week another episode in LA and so on we love you guys so much and we're going to see you back next week for another episode until then we love you goodbye if you're getting married good luck if you're getting divorced Good luck.

46:50If you're single, ready to hang out. And if you're in L.A. and having fun and don't have anyone to do or say, hang out with us. See you later, everyone. Goodbye.

47:11Hi, everyone. It's Katie Couric. And on my podcast, Next Question, we love stories about how women are taking control of their lives. They are increasingly leading financial decisions in their households. Yet many say they don't feel fully prepared for the long-term financial choices ahead. Real confidence comes from knowing your financial future is protected whatever happens. Pacific Life has helped generations protect what matters today and prepare for tomorrow with life insurance and lifetime income solutions. It's a promise Pacific Life has kept for nearly 160 years so its customers can keep theirs.

47:52Ask a financial professional about how Pacific Life can help you create a more confident financial future. Pacific Life Insurance Company, Omaha, Nebraska, and in New York, Pacific Life and Annuity, Phoenix, Arizona.