The Struggles Of Being Injured, A Waterlogged Pitch And Who Are “Toot & Flute”?

12:05Rach:Great bounce back as well from the loss previously.

12:08Millie:Yeah, I think at home as well, it's like they've mastered how to play at home. I don't know, there's something about the way they're playing at the minute. They're just oozing confidence. I mean, Hempo's been absolutely... Hempo was a joke, I think.

12:21Rach:To be fair, their front three, and then Viv in the 10 have been outstanding. like they have the stats like don't lie

12:29Millie:no they're a joke I think this season they've just kicked onto a whole new level it's a worry for Leicester now I think obviously really hard isn't it really hard for them it's like two three games ago they weren't they were like four from bottom and now you're like clinging on at the bottom so yeah it's a bit of an uphill battle for them but be interesting to see post international break like how the fixtures go because you know you know how how hard it is after international break. It could go anywhere. Teams can either thrive or they can stumble.

13:02Rach:I think that is the thing at the bottom, as exciting it is at the top, and even teams fighting for Champions League. Tottenham are in a position to qualify for Champions League. That's the level of competition this year. But equally at the bottom, like you said, it can go either way, and teams quickly can interchange positions. Like you said, one minute less were out of it, now they're back in it. Liverpool were at threat, and now they're out of it. But I don't think you're ever really out of it until the last game of the season, unless it's completely done and it's impossible. But as it stands, it can fluctuate so much.

13:33Rach:So, yeah, really tough time for Leicester. But listen, I think they've got some great characters in that changing room that will be gathering everyone and boosting the morale. And listen, they've played a top, top team as well. Like City are no easy team to play. This is by far their best season ever. So, yeah, hopefully they dust themselves off and get back to it. But on to the next one.

13:54Millie:Man United, London City. London City went 1-0 up. I was like, oh, this is a game, this is. It's been an interesting one.

14:01Rach:I think from the talks of the football world, I don't think the scoreline reflected the performance for London City. I think it was probably a tough take for them from what it seems. But again, United showing that they've got that great determination, I think a massive plus having Millie Turner back for them. She brings that experience and leadership and she's always played with such passion and determination.

14:28Millie:Always a real big threat off set-pieces as well.

14:30Rach:So to see her come back in and score straight away. But yeah, I think that will be a tough one for London City. I think it will be. And I think always conceding set-pieces. For me, I don't know about you, but conceding set-pieces for me is more frustrating than an open play goal. Because I just think... Yeah, I think... I don't know. I feel like you have more control on that because you win your first and seconds. you get your line right or whatever it is do you know what I mean like I'm more pissed I know exactly what you mean I don't know why but like open play of course but sometimes you get caught out of position it's a transition it's 2v1 whatever but I just think set pieces yeah I think they'll be you can control the controllables with that one can't you

15:08Millie:but yeah yeah so Man United another win for them and then Everton West Ham Everton won they're on the they're on the move now listen they've really stepped

15:18Rach:they said February we're off we're off

15:21Millie:Literally, a rocket went up Everton's arse in February

15:24Rach:Literally, they got in that Ferrari And they said, we're off in February, that's it

15:28Millie:Well, again, there's a changing manager You know, maybe that was the right decision Who knows But they seem to be kicking on now And yeah, Everton's one of those teams Where you don't want to be seeing You don't expect to be seeing always down there So yeah, I knew they'd have another gear Obviously good for them They signed a big deal for Courtney Brosnan I think she's been key for them yeah but yeah that was a tough obviously both down in and around each other at Everton West Ham so good result for Everton definitely

15:57Rach:right guys we are going to take a quick break that is all the football for now and we'll be back very soon

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16:59Millie:Welcome back to the second half of Daily Brightness. We are mixing up this week. So we've got a special guest coming in on our Thursday's episode. So we have mixed in some of the Q &As that you've sent in to the first part of this second part and then we'll do block and delete and gratitude. So just a slight little mix up, keep your oil on your toes. So, Millie, first question for you.

17:23Rach:Oh, I like this one because one of the animals is my favourite, is one of my favourites. Would you rather be a fish or a turtle for a day? A turtle. Not really fussed about it either, to be honest. I guess it depends what fish. You wouldn't want to be a puffer fish, would you?

17:39Millie:Constantly blowing up in fear. Some of these questions are getting very strange. Guys, how do you think of these? How do you just sit there and think, you know what? Mill and Rachel really... I'd love to know what Mill and Rachel think about fishes and turtles.

17:55Rach:I'd love to be a turtle. They're dead cute.

17:59Millie:Right, next question. What are your views on the second toe's been bigger than the first? Well, guess whose second toe is bigger than the first.

18:05Rach:And if mine were straight, my second toe would be bigger than the first. My feet are huge. My second toe is like... Rachel's fee just for everyone does everyone know about toot and flute alright I'm gonna let you sorry if I'm repeating myself but if you don't know for anyone out there Rachel's got two bunions and they're called toot and flute

18:24Millie:do you ever know the story of who named them that no tell me Carly

18:27Rach:did she yeah

18:28Millie:when I was about 16 she was like that's crazy we need to name your bunions and call them toot and flute

18:35Rach:well toot and flute are massive guys and they cause Rachel like a huge amount of discomfort and I have been telling her she should get that operation one day where it straightens them out. But anyway, she's got toes like fingers, like the dead long. They're not like fingers. That's why she's got unbelievable shooting skills. They're definitely not like fingers,

18:51Millie:but my second toe is quite long, to be fair. But then my little toe is like the size of a nail. It's weird, isn't it?

18:59Rach:But what's our opinion on it? I mean, I don't really care, to be honest. Do you feel it in your shoes, actually? No, but this,

19:07Millie:if this was all I had to worry about, my life would be unbelievable. It's not really that high of a priority list thinking about whether second toes are bigger, bother me. But I agree with you.

19:19Rach:I don't care what shape your toes are, but I hate feet. Honestly, if I'm with someone, keep your socks on. Keep your socks on around the house. I don't want bare feet. Hate them. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Maybe I've got a fear of feet, but don't like them.

19:34Millie:Yeah, they're not the nicest, are they?

19:35Rach:And I'm more concerned if your feet are clean and well-kept other than if your toes are longer than other toe. Like, I'd rather you not have, like, cracked heels or something like that. That'd be, like, scratching you. That one has two long toenails as well. Like, when you're in bed and they scratch, you're like, no, no, disgusting. That, that is my opinion on that. Gross. Moving on, it makes you feel sick. Anyway, next question. If you bought a meal deal, are you getting crisp or chocolate with it? Ooh. Crisps. 100%. Yeah, I'm probably getting red hula hoops.

20:07Millie:Really?

20:08Rach:Or Monster Munch.

20:10Millie:Yeah, I like Monsmunch or some squares. Or I like what-its. Definitely getting crisps though, because I just think, I'm not having a sandwich and a chocolate bar, I want a sandwich and crisps and then maybe a chocolate bar.

20:18Rach:Yeah, and I'd probably get cheese and ham sandwich, meal deal, and then I'd put my crisps in my sandwich and squash it.

20:23Millie:You child.

20:24Rach:That with Granny Margaret's, that's what we used to do at Granny Margaret's all the time, crisps sandwich. So yeah, that's what we're getting, Chris.

20:29Millie:Which emergency service would you suit most, police, paramedic or firefighter? Well, I don't, I answer for you and you answer for me. All right, yeah. I think you'd be a firefighter.

20:39Rach:I'll save you I think you'd be a good firefighter actually I would No fear I'd jump in any fire to save anyone And any animal Better believe if there's a dog barking And I'm straight in You Oh I feel like you could do both though I feel like you could definitely be a paramedic Because I think heated situations I think you can be very cool and collected And think logically Millie would be like Stitch it now Do it You would be good at that But I also I'm going to say a police woman because I think you're good at interrogating people and I think you're very good at doing that reverse psychology. That's not like a compliment, Millie.

21:18Rach:Yes, it is. I think I'd be a good champ. I tell you what, you need reverse psychology in this world sometimes. I think I'd be a good policewoman because... I think you can have that stern face, but you don't need to raise your voice to be stern and intimidating. That's what I'm trying to say. And you could get people to trip up. You could.

21:35Millie:Yeah, but I think that I'm really good at solving mysteries. I think I'd be a good detective. You'd be one above FBI. I would love to be a detective. And I'd actually love to be a firefighter. Maybe I'll do it after football. Same. Can I just bypass all the other stuff? But honestly, being a detective, give me it.

21:52Rach:Can we just one, two, skip a few and get to the top? I like that question. I think that's one of my favourite questions so far. Yeah, that was a good one. Right, next one. Can you predict each other's ideal day off? It'd be the same. Get up. Exactly the same.

22:07Millie:Well, you don't drink coffee anymore, but...

22:08Rach:Get up, have your breakfast, take a dog's for a walk. I have lemon, fresh lemon, ginger and hot water. And then in the afternoon, I have a cup of tea. That's what I have now.

22:17Millie:Nice. And have a coffee.

22:19Rach:And go for a dog walk. And then what would you do after that? I've got this thing on days off where I clean for hours and hours and hours. And I like to do throw-outs. So I go through my whole wardrobe. And if I've not wore it in the last month, I chuck it out. Purge. Mum and my sisters. I don't like I just like new it's like a cycle it's like a rotator belt out with the old in with the new I feel like that's something I like to do rotator belt me and conveyor belt yeah whatever you know what I mean yeah

22:48Millie:right that's it for Q &A's and now we're gonna go on to our block and delete and gratitude so we actually obviously used to send in the questions of people block and delete but this week we've added gratitude in this week so I'm excited to hear what you've got to say Oh, I can't wait. So, kick off, Millie, with your favourite block and delete.

23:07Rach:Right, I love this one. Sarah, you're already in my good books. Spam calls, they drive me absolutely insane! Exclamation mark, exclamation mark. Yes, yes, yes, top of the list. Highly frustrating and highly...

23:20Millie:The amount of... Inconvenient! This is ironic because it's block and delete. Blocked spam numbers. Every time I come through a block, block. Message, you'll see my block list.

23:29Rach:Well, long. She knows it's long. But also, I would give you a little tip, Sarah. Sometimes as well, what I like to do with spam calls, play along with them, catch them out. I ain't got time for that. If I'm bored and I'm in that mood, I'll play along with them, catch them out, play a little game. But yeah, highly irritated. And also, just get a life. If you're doing spam calls, piss off.

23:51Millie:Honestly. Well annoying. Kelly, on topic, waterlogged pitches. Our game has been cancelled three weeks in a row, fed up with this rain. I tell you what, I can sympathise, not for the waterlogged pictures, but the dogs in this weather. A nightmare. I have to bath them every day. Just stop raining for one day, please. Bessie, have you got one of those little machines that you can put outside?

24:12Rach:I've got one for the girls. I know, you always tell me to get one.

24:15Millie:I need to get one.

24:16Rach:I don't know what it's called, but you pump it. You fill it up with water, and I fill it up with hot water before I go out. Pump it up, and then it's got a little scrubber brush, and it jets out, and you scrub it off. Brilliant.

24:24Millie:I know. I do need to get that. It's not even that, though. It's on Amazon. It's Louie's It's like he's undercarriage Because he's so low to the ground Do you not get that Because they're so low to the ground

24:34Rach:Every single day That's why I put coats on People go Oh they don't need coats today I'm like yeah I know they don't need coats But do you want to keep washing them No you don't It's a nightmare So tell me what to do with my dogs

24:44Millie:But yeah So I agree with the rain And I'm sorry that all your games Have been called off And

24:48Rach:Before we go on to the next one Do you know it's rained I've seen something the other day Has it rained every day Every single day in 2026 Yeah that's crazy It's time I've had enough Get out of this country man Right Last one I'm blocking the leak Before I do our own People scraping plates While they're eating Best dip Story from England Remember that

25:09Millie:I hate it

25:11Rach:I hate it Rose Rose sent that in Thank you Rose We actually have a little quick story We were on England camp once And me and Rach I think with our ADHD Any noises Was super super sensitive to it Like Don't ring us up Crunching your sweets Or crunching your crisps Don't do it in front of us if I'm tapping it's fine but if someone else is tapping irritating as hell or we'll hear like we'll hear a noise from miles away and be like turn that off what's that alarm anyway we're having we're having food one night and we're there and me and Rachel's at the table and all of a sudden she goes who's scraping the damn plate and one of the staff members would just imagine like you'd just got the tiniest little bit of mashed potato left and she would just like imagine this noise and she'd just do this

25:53Millie:for ages as well I think you've got it all You've got it all.

25:56Rach:Or you can go and get some seconds if you're that hungry. And we were like, can you stop scraping your plate? But it was so loud. We literally looked at each other like, stop.

26:05Millie:It's so funny because Sarah's dad and step-mom came around this week for dinner. Her dad was doing the same thing. And she was looking at him like, we stopped scraping that plate. Yeah, what? You're going to start licking it next. Honestly. But to be fair, it was one of those scratchy plates.

26:25Rach:Yeah, but also, the person that was doing it at camp was like, I was like, you're going to crack the plate. They were doing it that hard. You can scrape your plate just quietly. But yeah, I'm with that. I've loved the block and deletes today, guys. I think they've been ace. Rae, what is your block and delete? Right, mine is ads on games.

26:43Millie:What? So, you know you've got a game on your phone.

26:46Rach:Yeah. Oh, the ads. Yeah, you want to know a sad thing? I'll pay the price to get rid of them.

26:51Millie:Yeah, but I'm refusing to because I pay. no ads on ITV I paid no ads on channel 4 like everything I paid no ads for I'm like I can't keep doing this so I've got you know Blockblast yeah I can't stop playing Blockblast but every single time I die it's like especially just pay what is it like £12.99 or something no I don't actually know how you do it it doesn't say like to pay it only pops up

27:14Rach:or there's like a little tiny box somewhere and it says ads and then it'll be on like the settings somewhere you can do it

27:19Millie:well it's the right annoying but that's my block and delete just give me it for free don't be tight I like that

27:24Rach:my block and delete is because it happened at training last week people if you've got a rubbish bin and it's full what are you cramming it in for? empty the bin you've said this one before it oh my god and I'm gonna have it again until people start listening if it's full I think your neighbours

27:46Millie:need to tune into the pod

27:47Rach:if it's overflowing stop cramming it in the damn bin because guess what the bin bag's gonna break and who's gonna be picking it up? Moron over here. Stop doing it. Someone was doing it at training and I went, slave gonna empty that for you or you're just gonna cram it in and rest it on top like Jenga. Like, just stop.

28:07Millie:I'm glad I live on my own.

28:09Rach:I can't moan at anyone. I moan at myself. Well, I know in that.

28:13Millie:They were good. So let's go to a bit of brighter news on gratitude. So the first one from our audience is from Gracie and she said, she's grateful for the ambulance staff who attended to my little brother when he broke his femur yesterday.

28:25Rach:Aww.

28:27Millie:First of all, I hope your little brother's okay. Second of all, shout out to the ambulance staff, paramedics.

28:33Rach:Paramedics, what people. Incredible. But we hope your brother has a speedy recovery and we hope everything heals properly and he's back on his feet again soon. But yeah, shout out. I love that one, Gracie. That's really, really nice. I like that a lot. Okay, next up we've got Dennis, My little nieces who always give me a reason to be positive.

28:54Millie:Oh.

28:56Rach:I might cry tonight.

28:58Millie:That's adorable.

28:59Rach:That's lovely. Do you see why I love gratitude?

29:02Millie:See why I love to bring this to the podcast? This is the energy we need.

29:05Rach:Right, shout out to Dennis's little, two little nieces, or little nieces, I hope it's two. Yeah, they sound like a bundle of joy. Love it, love it, love it. That is amazing. We like that.

29:16Millie:And the last one is from Emily. being finally able to jump after tearing my MCL exactly a year ago. Woo! Congratulations to you.

29:25Rach:Clicks, clicks, clicks.

29:28Millie:Congratulations. Unbelievable.

29:30Rach:And it's all about the little steps that we take forward every single day, no matter how big or small it is.

29:35Millie:All the little steps in the air. She's jumping. Yes. You didn't get it, did you, at first? You wouldn't get it at first. Rest in everything like that. Anyway, we are proud of you and we hope the rest of your recovery goes well. Yeah, keep smashing it, girl. And yeah, jump on into the next step.

29:56Rach:What is your gratitude? Oh, she's at it again.

29:59Millie:Jump. My gratitude this week is for my hot tap. Your hot tap? Have I talked about this before? No. So, there. Yeah. It's a hot tap. You come out with boiling water. Boiling water, yeah. Oh, my God. Do you know why I'm grateful for that? It's just those little moments when you wake up and you just think, right, I want a cuppa. Right now, though. What, I want it now. I want to wait five minutes for the kettle to boil downstairs when it's cold. Get me an immediate hot drink. So I'm very grateful for that.

30:31Rach:That is lovely. What am I grateful for? I'm grateful for taxi drivers because that's how I've been getting around. That's how I've been getting to and from training. So it's a bit of a simple one, but I also think a job that is maybe not appreciated. and I'm very, very grateful for, I went into London the other day, I had to go into London, and my taxi driver, normally I put my headphones in, I get super travel sick, you know me, and we spoke the whole journey, whole hour and a half, we chatted the whole way, just so, so polite, he was like, he said, oh, I try and gauge, like if people want a conversation, or don't want a conversation.

31:06Rach:Oh, well if I got in with him,

31:07Millie:he'd gauge that I wouldn't want one.

31:09Rach:Yeah, well sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't, but he weren't like forceful, it was just like, and he was just such a lovely guy, like honestly, we chatted literally about everything that's really cute actually and it went so quick and i was like do you know what that probably made his day but i said actually you've made my day because i'd had a bit of a shit day and then i i come out the cabin i ended my day in such a good mood we were just so lovely so polite and like yeah whereas you can get some that like go on and on i'll put my headphones in just as a little sign of i'm not really in a chat mood but honestly we're lovely and he drove really safely so yeah i appreciate my taxi drivers this week you've been amazing well done cabbies cabbies right guys thank you for listening to daily brightness we hope you've enjoyed this episode and like rach said earlier we've got a very exciting guest for you coming up so we thought we'd dedicate a full episode to them as always please follow us on socials keep interacting keep telling us what you guys want us to chat about keep sending your questions we appreciate the love and support that is a goodbye from me goodbye from me and if you don't subscribe, you know what to do.