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Unsaid Things | McFly, 00s Regret & JoJo was HOW OLD? Ep 22 · Galaxy Crashers: The Busted and McFly Podcast

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Hello and welcome. You're listening to Galaxy
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Crashes, the Busted and McFly podcast.
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The only podcast where the worlds of Busted and McFly come
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together. Hosted by us 2 mums who still
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haven't emotionally recovered from the naughties.
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I'm Shan. And I'm Tay and today we have
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our usual this or that. Lost Songs of the Naughties is
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back with an absolute tune. We are talking all things regret
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with McFly song Unsaid Things in Song of the Week.
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Oh yeah, this is 1 all about the things we never said, the
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moments we held back, and the words we wish we'd spoken and
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the ones we maybe probably shouldn't have said.
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And honestly, if you grew up in the naughties, this hit hard
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because that era was full of big feelings and absolutely no
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emotional regulation whatsoever. I remember it well.
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Yes, so this is actually so true.
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But before we get into it, how has your week been?
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Oh, it's. Been shocking.
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I mean, we're recording this on a Wednesday this week.
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We normally record on a Monday, so normally we talk about the
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week before, but this week as in Monday and Tuesday we've been
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OK. But like last week, awful.
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I had sickness bug, Molly had the sickness bug and then I got
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the sickness bug and I swear down I did not move for like a
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week. I was just so gross.
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It was awful. Had to bail on work, literally
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didn't do. I didn't go to work at all last
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week. The three I took three days off.
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It was so bad. I spent most of my time just in
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bed or on the sofa, just rotting away, so it wasn't good.
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But you know, Silver Linings and all.
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I've binged nearly two seasons of One Tree Hill in a week so.
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We do have that. I'm still on episode 4.
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Oh, I'm. If I am like so deep now.
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If that shows you how different our weeks have been, I'm still
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on episode 4. I love that.
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So that's so funny. I mean, I'm sure you'll have
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time where you'll catch up eventually, but it's it's been a
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big week for One Tree Hill. It's I'm I'm full in my Lucas
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and Brooke Davis season 2 phase. You know, like when he's in love
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with her, but she doesn't know and Oh my God, it's great.
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Absolutely loving it. It's so good.
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But yeah, that's pretty much the highlight of my week.
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Other than that, I did go to the beach today, which was really
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lovely because the sun came out. Oh yeah, so excited are we for
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the clocks to go forward next week because I am so ready for
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it. Is that next week?
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Next Sunday. Oh my goodness.
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I know I can't wait. I'm actually going to use.
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It does. That mean when I'm in Cornwall,
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when I'm with you, I get an extra in bed?
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It it, I think it's actually not an extra hour.
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I think we lose an hour because it's.
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The clocks go. Forward.
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Yeah, the clocks go forward, but I'm going to use it as an excuse
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to start putting Molly to bed earlier because the moment she
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goes to bed at 7:30, but she never goes to sleep until like
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8. So I'm going to start putting
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her to bed at 6:30 so that she's asleep by like 7, half seven at
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least. So.
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That's. What we're going to do, going to
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use it of that, but yeah, yeah. So it's been a nice day.
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We went to the beach today with our our little friend Milo and
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his mum Chelsea. And we picked some sea glass and
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had a picnic on the beach and some ice cream.
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And it was really, really nice. And it really felt like spring.
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So yes, a very enjoyable day, but not a great week overall.
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How have you been? Yeah, my week's been all right.
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Thanks. Like, nothing really to write
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home about. Work's been really hard.
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I'm not going to lie. It's been dire.
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I've been like Mia because of work.
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But the sun is shining, and it's impossible to be in a bad mood
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when the sun's shining so. Does make it better.
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It really does make it better. It does.
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Yeah, I mean, it's not true. I can be in a bad mood when the
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sun is shining, but I'd rather be miserable in the sunshine
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than in the rain. Do you know what I mean?
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Oh. God, I yeah, I definitely get
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that. Completely would much rather be
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miserable in the sunshine, which is exactly what happened today.
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We got home from school and I was like absolutely knackered,
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about to fall asleep on the sofa.
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And the girls were like, can we have a picnic outside?
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And I was like, do you know what?
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We're going to go and have an ice cream at the park.
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So I I won motherhood today because they were like best mom
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ever. We're going to have ice cream
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for tea, but actually I just wanted to be outside.
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Yeah, because the sun was out. Exactly.
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Yeah. I love that.
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That sounds so fun. That's it.
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So we've both, we've both been on the ice cream ice cream
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journey today. Then because we did the same, we
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had ice cream. And so I've so and I, Oh my God,
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literally, I love buying a 2 scoop and then you can get scoop
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for Molly and a scoop for me and she eats like half a scoop.
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So I get 1 1/2 scoops. But I don't feel too bad around
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because like you know, I actually only got 1 scoop for
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myself. But you know, we give this half
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scoop was free gum half gum. Exactly.
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Well, Arya had her first cornetto today and let me tell
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you, she was playing with excitement.
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There was a bit of chocolate at the bottom of the phone.
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That is the best bit though. I'm sorry.
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She was like. She was like, oh.
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More chocolate. I was like, that is so cute.
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You know, when you buy like the cheap version of Cornetto from
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like Lidl or something, and then you get to the bottom and it's
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not that there's nothing there and you're like, it's, it's
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actually devastating. Yeah, well, actually this is our
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little corner shop near us. They only sell really expensive
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stuff. I don't know why.
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They're not a very like, they're not fancy, they're like a spa or
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premier or something like that. But I think so they could sell
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it at a higher price. So they had the real deal today
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because Mummy was too exhausted to fight.
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I mean, Cornetto is a premium ice cream, isn't it?
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Let's face it. So you know, there's there's a
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treat for everyone. It just it just reminds me
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though, having ice cream when it's cold, it just reminds me
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that it's not that far away until it will be having ice
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cream and it will be hot. I'll be wearing AT shirt and
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shorts and I'll have sun cream on and it's just around the
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corner. It's time for this or that.
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You know the drill. We give each other two options
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and we choose them and explain why.
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So I'm going to go first this week and we've I know we've got
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a couple each. Are we sort of taking turns?
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We'll go me, then you, me. Then you sounds.
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Good, we'll do a, we'll chuckle. Brothers it.
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Yeah. Chuckle brothers it.
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OK, so relating to this week's Song of the Week, which is
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Unsaid Things by McFly, I've chosen a few relating similarly
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to it, but also I have a couple of nostalgic naughties ones too.
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So #1 is saying how you really feel or pretending that you
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don't care. Pretending you don't care.
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I thought I thought you'd be that one.
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Did I answer that too fast? I'm way too anxious to say how I
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feel. Are you joking?
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That's. So funny.
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Actually being honest with my emotions.
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No with. Anyone when it comes to how you
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feel about the stuff, it's so difficult, isn't it?
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I would like to say that I say how I feel, but also sometimes I
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am the opposite. So that's a really difficult one
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for me. But I'd like to say, say how you
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feel. Go on then, your turn.
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I, I think I say how I feel to like, like if there was a
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situation, I would tell you how I feel.
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Oh, different people. But I wouldn't tell the
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situation situation how I feel. I get you.
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I absolutely get you. I think it depends who you're
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talking to as well. Yeah, definitely, definitely.
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OK. My first one is a good old
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bedroom karaoke. I'm talking hair brushes as
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microphones, Nice with your posters and your teddy bears as
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your audience. Like Lizzie McGuire style.
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Love that. Like Lizzie McGuire.
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Or gazing out of a window on a long trip, pretending you're in
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a music video. Oh.
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I'm so easy for me. I love staring out of a wet
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window, you know, like when the drain drops are trickling down
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and like mouthing the words to a song and you can like see your
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reflection a little bit in the window and you're like,
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actually, I am in a music video right now.
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That's I love that. Definitely.
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Also, anywhere can be karaoke. Doesn't have to be a bedroom.
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True, I could do it. That is very true. #2 is writing
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it in a diary or typing it as an MSN away message.
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Do you remember those? Interesting.
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So I feel like I know what I want to say, but it's actually
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not accurate to me at all. OK.
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I want to say writing it in your diary, but I'm going to tell
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you, I think I have got about 20, maybe more Diaries that I
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have started when I was a child that I've written one page in
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thinking I'm going to be a diary writer.
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I would be like, yeah, I'm going to be that girl that writes in
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her diary. I'm going to hide it in a bloody
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box under my bed with a lock. I'm going to be that girl.
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No, yeah, no, I'm. I was not that girl at all.
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I was actually when Facebook first started coming out, I was
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that person that everyone hates. It would be like sad.
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Shannon is feel Shannon is feeling sad and then people will
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be like, what's up? And they'll be like.
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Nothing, I'm fine. Don't worry about it, I'm fine.
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DM me. DM me.
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DM me right. Let me tell you, I hate those
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kinds of people now, but back then I loved a bit of attention.
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Oh yeah. God, yeah.
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When it came to things like that, if I was feeling sad, I
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wanted to talk to somebody but I didn't want to tell them I
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needed to talk to them. So I just wanted somebody to
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come out of the out of the woodwork on their own.
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Yeah, exactly, Even though it needed a little nudge now and
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then. So yeah, I want to say right in
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your diary, but I was definitely a type it as an MSN away
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message. OK, I am exactly the same in
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that I so desperately wanted to be in a diary girl to the point
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where I have so many journals that I bought and like you said,
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I've written like one page in and then just not type anything
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else in it and just end up trucking it away or using it as
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scrap paper because what I've got nothing else to use it.
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For literally. I would have been MSN away
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message as well for sure. Nice.
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My next one's a bit about MSN. Oh actually very much MSN.
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So my next one is nudging someone to get their attention
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on Ms. Oh yes, Oh my God. Or appealing off, peering
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offline and then on again, and then off again, and then on
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again. So that they would notice you.
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Yeah, so you're like popping up in the corner of their screen.
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I used to hate being nudged because it would shake your
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whole screen. Do you remember?
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And it would just like your whole screen would like vibrate.
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It was just the weirdest thing in the world.
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And obviously when we're talking, I can still.
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Hear the noise? Yeah, exactly.
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We're talking about it on the computer because nobody had
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phones back then. So this wasn't like on your
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smartphone. This was on like your Windows
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2005 that made a clunk noise when you turned it on and like
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had a huge like setups like computer base next to it that
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made like the loudest noise ever when you actually turned it on.
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It was not using it on your smartphone.
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So it wasn't fun having somebody nod you, but I was definitely a
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nudger. I was not an on again and again
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person. I was the nudger.
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I wouldn't. Like, I love that you hated it.
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Hated it. But I would only ever do it to
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people that did it to me. Do you know what I mean?
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OK, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to do it to somebody who
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never nudged me. But if you nudge me, you better
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believe I'm nudging you back, you bitch.
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Well, my answer to this is appearing offline and on again
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and off. I do that all the time.
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OK #3 sending the risky text or deleting it and spiralling
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because I've been both. Deleting it and spiralling.
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I mean, that's a really stupid question for me to ask you,
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because that was an obvious answer.
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He's amazing. Yeah.
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I I think I send the risky text to my notes app and to my best
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friends. Yeah.
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And then I don't ever send it to the person it's meant for.
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Yeah, I get that. I definitely get that.
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It's time for Song of the Week. And this week we are talking
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about Unsaid Things by McFly. Oh, yes.
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So a little context for those of you that may not have heard
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this, if you haven't heard it, where the hell have you been?
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It's on their first album. This song is from their debut
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album, Room on the 3rd Floor, which came out in 2004.
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And it's definitely one of their more emotional, mellow tracks on
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this album, Yeah. Exactly, it's all about regret,
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looking back on relationships and realising there were things
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that you never said and now it's too late.
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And that is such a universal feeling because everyone has had
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at least one moment where they think, why didn't I just say it?
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We were just talking about this about me, so.
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Yeah, literally what? Worse.
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Like when you said the completely wrong thing instead
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of what you actually needed to say.
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Yes, 100% that's happened so many times and I think as well
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this song itself is a bit weird. The second verse, the lyrics get
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a bit strange, but they still feel quite honest.
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And they're not like just dramatic for the sake of it.
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They're like, this is the best way I could describe it.
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They're like quietly sad. Like they're weird, but they're
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quietly sad. Like when you actually really
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think about what he's saying, it's like, oh, that's actually
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quite sad and I feel quite bad for you, but it's just weird.
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I love that quietly sad. And I think I do think that's
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what makes it hit harder. Like it's not explosive.
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It's like more reflective. Absolutely.
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And I think that's something that was really different from a
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lot of the, like, naughty songs because the naughties was all of
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our big emotions and drama, whereas this is more like lying
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in your bed at night overthinking your entire life.
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Yeah, which, let's be honest, was also a cool 2000s
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experience. Oh God yeah 100%.
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If you didn't do that, then were you really alive in the
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naughties? Really a naughty gal.
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Exactly. So I think perhaps we should
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start with our ratings. Do you want to go first?
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Yeah, OK. My rating for this song is
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probably A5. OK, Explain.
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It's OK. Yeah, it's OK.
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It's an all right song. I think it's better than like, I
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rate it higher than than the first half of the album because
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it's just, it's not overplayed. I'm not bored of the song.
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It's a bit of a boring song, but I'm not bored of it.
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Do you know what I mean? Does that make sense?
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Yeah, I get you. It's, it's a bit, I don't know,
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it just it falls flat. And I think that definitely, I
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think it coming directly after Down by the Lake definitely has
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something to do with that when you listen to the album from
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beginning to end coming. Straight up.
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Such a yeah. Coming straight after such a
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good song definitely gives it like a bit of a negative impact
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because it is a bit of a flat song.
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It's yeah, it's boring, but I'm not bored of it.
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It's a 5. It's OK.
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OK, I get that. I feel like that's quite a good
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way to explain it is boring, but I'm not bored of it.
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You don't overhear it because it's never played.
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I'm going to get, I'm going to give it a four.
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I think I'm even 11 lower than you.
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I think. Yeah, it's just a bit weird.
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Yeah. Just a bit weird.
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I think the the IT gets really weird when it's just.
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When she's talking about a baby, yeah.
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She's pregnant. It's so weird.
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She's. Pregnant with a baby?
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She's not pregnant with a dog. Yeah, now she and it's now she's
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got pregnant. It's not she is pregnant.
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She's got pregnant with her bear baby.
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Yeah. And now that she's getting
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married, I'm in misery. I love that.
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It's like now she's got pregnant with a baby.
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It feels like she's slipping away from Yeah, it she's she's
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gone. She's not having someone else's
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child. She's having someone else's
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child, you fucking. I also think that the lyrics are
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very strange. I don't love the sort of like
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rhyming scheme and like, I don't really love like the rhythm of
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it. I feel like it's very.
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I don't. Know it's it's very naughties in
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the fact that if there's not enough syllables in a song,
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they'll just elongate a a word. Yeah, or they say it really
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fast. I still got so many unsaid
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things that I want to say you. Gotta say yeah.
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Do you know? What I mean like and I just
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can't wait another day because they're doing it like it just
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doesn't work. I wish she knew.
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I still wait up. I still wait up.
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Wondering if she will Remember Me, but there's no way for me to
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know. Oh, it doesn't even fit.
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Like the last line doesn't fit. It doesn't rhyme with anything.
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It doesn't like fit in. It feels like it's just a
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sentence they added on at the end because they felt like it
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didn't. The chorus wasn't finished.
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And then obviously Danny's because he works out a lot.
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There's not much that he ain't got.
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And now I'm missing the plot along with her.
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I mean, dude, she's already gone.
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Can I just she's having a child and she's married.
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Oh, OK. I was just about to say, are you
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telling me that she's losing the plot?
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But then you just you clarified it's.
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It's like he's losing the plot along with losing her.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, along with those.
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And then then there's that bridge along.
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With hers and she's losing as well.
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There's the bridge where TomTom sings and I want her to know
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before she's married and has her baby that I need her.
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So is he. Is he expecting her to do stop,
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don't get married and well you can have your baby but I'll be
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the step daddy to it because I need you.
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So bizarre. It's a really strange song, but
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equally, when you think about it on a deeper level, if this was a
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real scenario, it'd be really brutal.
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Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
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Well yeah, yeah I agree it would be brutal, but also in a real
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normal scenario, surely you would have gotten over her
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enough by now. Instead of like this.
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Happened last week. Yeah.
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Although he does say I've. Grown up, yeah, I've seven years
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have gone, I've grown up, but she's moved on and somehow I'm
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still holding on to her. Somehow, what the fuck?
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She's got a baby in a new man. Like get over it.
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It's really sad, but I don't know what's sada the fact that
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you're pining after this girl or that you're pining after this
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girl after seven years. Can we also just note the second
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line of the song, which is the first line?
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This girl that moved just up the road from me, she had the nicest
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legs that I've ever seen. OK, so this song is all about
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emotional regret and how you still care so much about this
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girl after seven years. She's.
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A bit though. But she's got the best legs I've
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ever seen. She's such a weird line.
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She had the nicest legs I'd ever seen.
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Do you know what's really funny? As well as I always feel like I
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get a bit giddy when I hear Tom sing lines about people being
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attractive or fit or sexy or like if he has any lines that
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are a bit naughty, I'm like, oh, Tom, like, stop it.
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Whereas like with Danny, it's like I could almost like accept
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and expect it a little bit with Danny, but with Tom, I always
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get like a bit giddy. What?
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What's that line? It's in a song on Radioactive.
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Pour yourself a coffee, put your clothes back on and tell me your
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name. Yes.
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Sorry, Tom. Yes, Tom.
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Sorry, Thomas. That's a freaking Tommy boy.
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Sing it louder mate, he's got a couple of lines.
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Back on and tell me your name. He's got a couple of lines that
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are a bit like, OK, Tom, calm down.
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Do you know that song that reminds me of Actually, I know,
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I know. We're going completely off topic
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because this is a completely different song, completely
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different album. But that line, Pour yourself a
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coffee, put your clothes back on and tell you, tell me your name.
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Do you know what reminds me of? Reminds me of last five years?
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Oh, Jamie. Yeah, yeah, very true.
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It reminds me of something that he would sing or say or.
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It's a very Jamie. Jamie Wellerstein, definitely.
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But I'm not going to lie, I'd rather hear Tom say it.
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Oh, Jeremy Jordan. Oh, Jeremy Jordan.
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Yeah. Completely, 100%, absolutely.
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I don't know. I I don't know who I would
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choose. I don't think I could choose
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between the two of them. No.
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It'd be Tom. It'd be Tom every time.
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As much as I love Jeremy Jordan, it would be Tom.
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Lovely Tom I. Love that for you I'd say Jeremy
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Jordan. You would, definitely.
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But what what about Jeremy Jordan versus Danny Jones?
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Oh, that's hard. That's something I'm not willing
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to answer until I'm on growth. Thank you.
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I'll give you a few glasses of wine next week or something.
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Next weekend when the kids have gone to bed, a couple of glasses
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of wine and I'll ask you again. I love it.
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Absolutely. So, you know, overall, it's not
22:00
a bad song. It's just not a great song.
22:03
It's not boring, but it's it's boring, but it's I'm not bored
22:07
of it. It's just OK.
22:08
Yeah, we would love to know what you guys think of unsaid things.
22:13
Please let us know in the comments or feel free to head
22:15
over to our Instagram or our TikTok and send us a little
22:18
message. We like hearing what you think
22:20
about these songs too. And actually, some of you have
22:22
got very similar opinions to us, but some of you have very
22:25
different opinions and we are here for it.
22:27
So if you want to share, you know where to find us.
22:32
You guys absolutely loved the Naughties Lost Songs section the
22:36
first week with the Queen that is Hilary Duff.
22:39
So we hope you're prepared for another female's naughties
22:43
legend. Oh yeah, this week we are
22:46
talking about naughty songs that feel like they've been slightly
22:50
forgotten but absolutely defined the era.
22:55
And I'm really sorry, but I had this down for last week.
22:58
We chose Hilary Duff because she's so current right now.
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But this song, when I think of naughties nostalgia and powerful
23:04
women from the naughties, this is the song I this is the song I
23:08
hear every time. So we are starting with leave
23:12
brackets. Get Out by JoJo.
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How old was she when she released this?
23:27
She was 13, literally singing with the emotional devastation
23:34
of somebody who's been divorced twice.
23:35
She was 13 years old. What on earth?
23:40
How? How has she got the emotional
23:42
capacity for that when I don't even have the emotional capacity
23:44
to ring a hairdressers? Like are you joking?
23:49
Literally if it's if, if somewhere doesn't have an online
23:53
chat service, that's it, I'm gone.
23:55
I don't understand. Produce this song at 13.
23:58
Literally, I don't understand how like where this thirteen
24:03
years old and I was a very big JoJo fan.
24:06
I loved her album. We'll get to that as well, but
24:10
there's a couple of albums for that JoJo did that I love.
24:14
But this album itself actually came out in 2002.
24:18
Sorry, 2004. So it came out the same year
24:21
that Room on the 3rd Floor came out, which is absolutely hard.
24:26
There was absolutely no holding back with this song either.
24:30
Like I feel like there's no level of like subtlety.
24:34
It was literally just like, get out right now.
24:37
It's the end of you and me, babe.
24:39
Do you know what I mean? The complete the complete
24:42
opposite of unsaid things. Literally.
24:46
Sometimes, to be honest, though, that's the energy we needed.
24:49
Yeah, we need complete. I agree.
24:51
I completely agree. And I think what's interesting
24:53
is that the contrast between songs like that, like where
24:57
everything is said in that moment, and then songs like
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Unsaid Things, where everything is is realised just maybe too
25:05
late. Seven years later, you know,
25:07
when she's married and had a baby, it's too late, you know?
25:11
So Jojo's actually just released a new song with Craig David.
25:16
I don't know whether you've heard it.
25:19
When naughties meet naughties. Literally it's called in it with
25:23
you and it came out and whereas the I think it was the end of
25:27
last year, it came out middle last year.
25:30
I think it was last summer. I.
25:31
Haven't heard it actually. So I've only just seen it
25:34
online, I've not heard of it at all but I saw it last couple of
25:37
days. I saw it and it's actually
25:39
really quite good, but the music videos a bit cringy.
25:44
They're like. Cringey.
25:45
Craig David No. They're like holding hands and
25:47
singing to each other, but you can tell that they're not
25:49
comfortable like that. They don't.
25:51
You can tell that they're not in love, but they're trying to look
25:54
like they're in love with that mix.
25:55
I'm going to watch it straight after we.
25:57
Record this so good. Sounds like my kind of comedy.
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Exactly, but it is quite a good song in itself.
26:04
But shall we have a think about some of Jojo's other bangers as
26:08
well as Leave Get Out? So my favourite part of Leave
26:14
Get Out is the backing vocals. I don't know whether you
26:17
remember them very, very well, but it's the background.
26:21
A lot of the time she you can hear her in the background going
26:25
who? Why leave?
26:28
Waste of time. I love it.
26:31
I love it, I love it. It's the best part of the song.
26:37
Because she does that sometimes. When I'm listening to it, I just
26:40
sing. Do that, do that.
26:42
My favourite bit is she says. I think she says loser.
26:48
Why the background? I don't know what.
26:53
Could you imagine, could you imagine being in that booth with
26:56
a 13 year old shouting that? On my phone.
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Oh my God, I can't wait for our next karaoke session because
27:02
what I was Why has this never been sung at karaoke?
27:05
It's the best. So true.
27:07
We try and belt define gravity instead.
27:09
That's why. I know.
27:10
And then we ruin our voices and we Can't Sing any more karaoke
27:12
songs or everybody hates us because all we sing is McFly and
27:17
we harmonise all the time and people are just sing the song
27:20
normally for God's sake. Yeah, just hug the mic.
27:24
Oh my goodness, it's so. I appreciate JoJo in so many
27:28
lights. I think that her lyrics got a
27:30
lot better over time, and I'll talk about her second album in a
27:34
minute, but I think this song is actually so teen naughty
27:41
nostalgia. The lyrics tell me why you're
27:44
looking so confused when I'm the one who didn't know the truth.
27:47
How could you ever be so cold to go behind my back and call my
27:50
friend? Boy, you must have gone and
27:52
bumped your head because you left her number on your phone.
27:56
You fucking idiot. That's basically what she's
27:58
saying. You're an idiot.
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Stupid, are you? Why?
28:04
Oh my God exactly loser. But I think her her vocals are
28:11
actually unreal. She is.
28:14
Such an. Underrated artist because she
28:18
does riffs like you have never believed.
28:20
And can we talk about her high notes?
28:22
You know that she does get out like that, that like at the very
28:28
end of, but it's like proper high and she's like belting it
28:31
like you've never heard before. And she does loads of like
28:35
little riffs all the way through that are just absolutely
28:37
Immaculate. I just think she is such a good
28:41
artist. But for me, it's definitely the
28:43
little background, get out, leave right now.
28:51
It's just so good. I love it.
28:54
Anyway, I don't know whether you remember any other JoJo songs.
28:58
Can you remember? Any I used to be a really big
29:01
JoJo fan, so I remember. So I there's two songs that when
29:10
I think of JoJo, I don't think of leave.
29:12
I think of these two songs and it's too Little Too late, Banger
29:18
and Baby, It's You. Oh, I love them so much.
29:21
So those two songs are what I think about when I think of
29:24
JoJo. Too little.
29:26
Too late. It's so good.
29:28
Unreal it's when she does the little no no, do you remember
29:34
that bit at the end but she does that like huge like whistle
29:36
tone. How many times have you just
29:38
been on your own, just sat trying to sing that song
29:41
because. I of course, what do you mean
29:42
with like your finger against your ear and you and the other
29:44
finger in the air following you? Oh my God, the whistle.
29:48
I cannot whistle. Tone.
29:49
I'm not a soprano. I've always been a mezzo or an
29:51
Alto. I am not a soprano.
29:52
But my God, you best believe, girl, I must sing that.
29:57
I'm a. Sing Day such a good song and
30:02
like lyrics. The lyrics are too little too
30:06
late. I'm getting them up so that I
30:07
can read them because my gosh, it is so good.
30:13
Let's get them up. JoJo and the music video Her in
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the rain are you? Joking.
30:19
Oh my goodness, are you joking? Oh my goodness.
30:22
Thank you very much, JoJo. Come with me.
30:27
Stay the night. You see the words, but boy, you
30:29
don't feel right. Oh my God, what a faggot.
30:31
Can I just pause? Sorry, How old was she when she
30:34
wrote this song? The the High Road came out in
30:38
2006, so 15. Come with me.
30:43
Stay the night. You say the world to the point
30:47
don't feel right. OK, OK.
30:53
I mean. No comment on that one. 2002
30:55
thousand and six yeah. So she she said she was 13 when
30:58
she performed Leave Get out and that was came out in 2004.
31:04
So that would make her 15. Interesting.
31:07
OK. I mean, it's not.
31:10
There's nothing, nothing naughty about it.
31:13
My favourite part of Too Little Too Late is the bridge.
31:16
When she says go find someone else.
31:18
I'm let in letting you go. I'm loving myself, yes, in
31:22
letting you. Gorgeous.
31:24
I'm loving myself. What a merit of 15 year old
31:28
woman. Oh my goodness, 15 year old
31:31
girl. What an absolute legend.
31:33
I mean, that song is unreal. Do you remember the High Road
31:37
album? I can tell you now when I when I
31:40
was writing like the bits out for this the other day and I was
31:43
talking, thinking right, what can I write about JoJo?
31:45
I sat and looked at every single song on the High Road album and
31:48
I know every single song and I know.
31:51
So good. I cannot wait to get in the car
31:54
in the morning and put this album on and just sing them
31:56
because I haven't sang them in so long.
31:59
Coming for you. That's a great song.
32:01
Do you remember that one? I'm breaking down.
32:03
I just can't take it anymore. No, that's so good.
32:07
How to touch a girl. Can you remember that song?
32:12
She's just brilliant, isn't she? Oh my God.
32:15
So how to touch a girl Always remembers me.
32:17
Remembers me. Reminds me of a Taylor Swift
32:22
song. What's the Taylor Swift song?
32:30
Oh, for God's sake, I can't think of the song.
32:36
Oh, that's going to really annoy me.
32:37
Also, she was. She was 15 in.
32:39
I feel something happening. Could this be a spark to satisfy
32:43
me? Baby, you've got to satisfy my
32:44
heart. Do you know how to touch a girl?
32:47
If you want me so much, first I have to know.
32:49
Do you care what's on my mind? Are you thoughtful and kind, or
32:52
am I just for show? You'll go far in this world if
32:55
you know how to touch a girl. I mean, a little bit risque, but
33:00
what a bloody song. I can't remember the Taylor
33:02
Swift song, but I'm going to find it and tell you which one
33:04
it is because I know you'll appreciate it.
33:05
The listings, probably not so much.
33:07
Baby, it's you. Obviously you've mentioned.
33:10
I love, love. That song.
33:12
I just it's the bit where it's like, you ain't got to buy
33:15
nothing. It's not what I want, baby.
33:17
It's you. Ah, or I just, I just, I just
33:22
think that song is like so like current in its time.
33:27
Yeah, like it was. It was so.
33:29
Do you remember that Casey song? What was that Casey song?
33:35
She put out one song. I will learn to love again.
33:38
I will learn Liz. I want to.
33:41
It was on picture. Picture perfect with it was
33:45
Lizzie McGuire, not Lizie McGuire.
33:47
Henry Dark. It's called Paradise.
33:49
It's called paradise. Are you?
33:52
Thinking of KC as in KACI. Yeah.
33:58
Maybe it's more than one song character.
34:00
I know the other one. I know the one that I was just
34:03
singing. Can't remember the word.
34:05
It's gone out well. I remember Baby It's You and
34:07
Paradise came out the same time and I used to get them mixed up
34:10
because they were so similar and I loved them both so deeply.
34:14
I feel like you would know Paradise.
34:15
It was honestly, I remember the music video.
34:18
She's on a bloody Ferris wheel or a merry go round or
34:20
something, or she's at some kind of Fair.
34:23
And but yeah, baby, it's you just reminds me of that.
34:26
Like it was so just so current in its time.
34:29
It's it's this, it's the melody, It's the it's everything about
34:34
it. Just brilliant.
34:35
And the lyrics were just so good.
34:37
They weren't too deep. They weren't risky.
34:41
They were just, it was just a lovely little pop song.
34:45
Absolutely. And I am here for the return of
34:47
JoJo. So come on back, girl.
34:49
We've been waiting for you. We need a powerhouse vocalist
34:53
back because we're loose. The women, the female artists
34:56
are dropping like flies. I feel like I haven't heard from
34:58
certain artists for such a long time.
35:00
And I'm up for Hilary Duff's return.
35:02
And I'm up for Miley Cyrus coming all up with Hannah
35:04
Montana. And I was just the best show.
35:06
Come on in. If there's any time where JoJo
35:11
is welcome back, it's when we're having Hilary Duff, we're having
35:15
Hannah Montana. We've got absolutely.
35:17
You know, the world is just Demi Lovato is just having a comeback
35:22
as well. Apparently she.
35:23
Is I am Lily Allen. Lily Allen's back at it.
35:27
Oh, I love it. I'm here for it.
35:29
Come on. Come on, JoJo.
35:31
Baby. It's you I love.
35:35
That so much. Also, I forgot to say something.
35:39
We can just pause here for a minute.
35:40
I forgot to say something about unsaid things.
35:42
I was going to say that. I think it's quite important.
35:44
Give me a second. It's about the beginning.
35:49
The. Beginning.
35:52
No, it's the music. It sounds like something else.
35:57
Hang on. No, it's not.
36:04
The song must be the next one because there's no, there's no
36:09
intro. No, it's not this one.
36:12
It must be the next song on this album.
36:14
What's the next song? No, the next one's not alone.
36:19
Oh. There was a song, there was a
36:25
song I was listening to the other day and I said, I
36:27
literally thought to myself, is it surfer babe?
36:32
No. Oh, so annoying.
36:37
Oh, it's not alone. The beginning of not alone.
36:40
Listen to the beginning of not alone.
36:44
Obviously you can hear it. Can you hear that?
36:51
That bit it sounds like. Yeah.
36:57
That bit sounds like, hang on, can you hear it?
37:10
Yeah. Do you think they sound similar?
37:13
What's that song? Just a dream by Nelly.
37:15
I was thinking about thinking about me, thinking about us,
37:20
what we gone beat do. You know why?
37:27
Yeah, I do. You had I.
37:28
Do you hear it? Had the naughties playlist on
37:32
right just downloaded like this. Was a weird version of not
37:35
alone. Banger and it came on and I was
37:38
like, that sounds so much like not alone.
37:41
And then I played them next to each other and I was like, Oh my
37:43
God, they actually are really similar.
37:45
Like just that little opening bit thinking.
37:48
About her thinking about me thinking about.
37:56
Oh, who are we? We're disgusting people.
38:01
OK? This is the part of today's
38:03
episode that I've been both excited and slightly scared for.
38:07
Yeah, same. Because we asked you, we asked
38:10
you guys to send in your unsaid things.
38:13
We did things that you never said, things that you wish you'd
38:16
said or things that you said that you wish you could take
38:20
back. Wow.
38:21
That was like a they don't know that we know, they know we know
38:24
kind of moment. If you if you understand that,
38:29
hopefully it makes sense. To be honest, you, well, I mean
38:34
you definitely delivered in what we asked for.
38:36
Oh yes, you did. We had quite a few interesting
38:40
stories We've chosen. Did we choose three in the end?
38:44
I think we chose 3, didn't we? We picked three that we thought
38:48
fitted well with each other. A little bit of emotion, a
38:52
little bit of like, Oh my goodness.
38:53
And then a little bit of a wow, did that actually happen?
38:58
Yeah. OK, I do.
39:02
Do you want to read the first one?
39:04
Do you want me to read the first one?
39:06
You read the first one. OK go on then.
39:08
Story number one, I wish I told my ex what a knob head he really
39:14
is. Great opener by the way.
39:15
He led me on for years and I was blindly in love.
39:19
Now I've taken my rose tinted glasses off I can see it all but
39:22
alas have not been able to tell him how I feel.
39:26
I go over in my head all the conversations I wish I could
39:29
have with him. I feel like this started really
39:32
strong. I wish I told him what a knob
39:35
head he is. I always feel like I want to
39:39
know more about this already. So I've already messaged this
39:42
person back to say please give us more information because I
39:44
want to know more about this story.
39:47
He led me on for years, and I was blindly in love.
39:49
I think in my head, I see a girl who was, like, absolutely
39:53
infatuated with the partner, and he just didn't give her what he
39:57
needed. And then he just left her sort
39:59
of high and dry, if that makes sense.
40:02
Knob head. Yeah.
40:04
Knob head. Pretty much typical knob head.
40:08
I think we all have conversations that we wish we
40:11
could have had. And I think hindsight is so hard
40:14
because hindsight is a great thing, isn't it?
40:17
And you think, I wish I could have said this.
40:18
I. Wish I could have said this.
40:19
So, and I know that me and you are going to share our own as
40:23
well, and there's a little bit of that with ours too.
40:25
So thank you very much for your story.
40:27
We're going to go to story #2 which is very interesting,
40:30
Shannon, isn't it? I think it's very similar,
40:33
actually. This one starts off with I want
40:39
to tell my best friend she stinks.
40:41
She's just brilliant, OK we were lovely, we worked together and
40:48
are so similar it hurts. But since she moved out of her
40:51
family home and in with her boyfriend she literally reeks.
40:56
I don't understand how she can't smell it herself.
41:00
Her hair is always clean so I assume she's showering but
41:04
honestly it's her. So hard to sit at a desk next to
41:08
her when all I can smell is cat piss.
41:11
Would you be rude to gift her some fairy non bio?
41:20
I mean pretty expensive. Yeah, gift me some fairy non bio
41:25
Jesus. You're like 15, love the stuff,
41:28
right? It's the cat piss.
41:31
Oh no, so funny story and actually works.
41:37
I, I sort of understand it. I used to go and stay at my, my
41:40
best friend's house back when I was like 1819.
41:43
I used to go to hers and we used to go out, go out on the town or
41:46
we'd go like to the pub for a few drinks or we'd have a movie
41:48
night or whatever. And like, at the end of the day
41:50
when I'd get dressed and put my pyjamas and sometimes I would
41:52
leave my like, clothes on in a pile on the floor in the corner
41:56
out of the way, like, you know, to one side.
41:58
The amount of times that the next day I picked up my clothes
42:02
and they were wet because her cat had pissed on them is
42:05
actually phenomenal. It was like the cat was like
42:09
marking her territory. And I remember her saying to me
42:11
a few times, like, don't leave your clothes on the floor
42:13
because the cat will piss on them.
42:15
And it was just such a weird thing.
42:17
The cat used to just wee on my clothes.
42:19
But I think it's because I also had cats.
42:22
So if this person has just moved in with her boyfriend, if
42:26
perhaps she had cats at her parents house, maybe the cat?
42:30
If I don't know, has her boyfriend got a cat?
42:33
So now there's no contact. Person saying she can smell cats
42:37
but I'm not sure. Has he got a cat?
42:39
If he hasn't got a cat then it's a little bit more alarming.
42:42
I'm not going to lie. You might need to have a soft
42:44
conversation with her also. I mean.
42:48
If she's your best friend, just tell her.
42:51
Tell her babe. Just what I mean.
42:53
If you Shannon, I love you, but if you smell like cat piss, I
42:55
will tell you. There's no way I.
42:58
Don't want to smell like cat piss?
42:59
No way I'd be letting you all crown smelling like cat piss
43:02
babe love you too much for. That also really sorry if you're
43:06
listening like if the best friend, the best friend.
43:11
So the the listener that sent in this obviously listens.
43:15
Yeah, yeah, if the best friend is also listening.
43:18
Really sorry mate, but you stink a cat piss.
43:21
You'll probably find out when on your birthday you get given some
43:24
fairy non bio. That's how you know it's you.
43:29
Man, it's actually brutal, right.
43:32
OK, well, that was that was interesting.
43:34
So thank you very much for that. That was we picked that one
43:36
because it was so unique. Unique.
43:39
That's the one word for it. Literally OK story #3 another
43:44
anonymous entry. Mine's actually a story of
43:46
something I wish I never said. I once dated a guy while I was
43:51
in brackets. I know I am awful.
43:53
On the rebound, he was wonderful and treated me so lovely, but I
43:58
wasn't ready for a relationship at the end.
44:00
When I finally decided it was time to break it off, he told me
44:03
he was in love with me and I told him that I didn't love him
44:07
back. To this very day, I still think
44:10
about him now and I know that I 100% did love him, I was just
44:13
too scared at the time to admit it.
44:15
After being hurt so badly, I threw away something that could
44:19
have been so wonderful. I wish I could take it all back.
44:21
Oh my God, I've got actual goosebumps.
44:24
Yeah, that's really sad. So sad.
44:27
Also, like kind of proud of you for having the guts to.
44:31
I know it wasn't true, but like, I don't think I could.
44:34
If somebody said I love you, I don't think I could say I don't
44:37
love you. I think I would just say I love
44:39
you because I'm a bit of a people pleaser.
44:41
So like. I do love people.
44:43
You with you. Yeah, that's brutal.
44:46
It sounds like she's sort of used that as a scapegoat, like a
44:48
way to get out by sort of saying like maybe it was just like a
44:52
hurt him to to sort of save him kind of thing.
44:54
Like, you know, have you seen that before?
44:56
Like movies and stuff? When people say I don't love
44:58
you, I never have, I never will. And then they obviously do, but
45:02
they're doing it to sort of save them the heartache and the pain.
45:04
That's really hard. Except in a movie, it normally
45:07
works out as a happy ending. Yeah, this obviously didn't.
45:11
No, because she says I threw away something that could have
45:13
been so wonderful. It wasn't meant to be, babe,
45:16
let's put it that way. It wasn't meant to be.
45:18
Maybe, if maybe maybe you ended up in a relationship and then
45:22
few years down the line you, you weren't, you know, happy and you
45:25
wouldn't have been together anyway.
45:26
Because I, I do believe that all things happen for a reason.
45:29
So. Exactly.
45:30
He might end up smelling of cat piss.
45:32
Yeah, exactly. You never know.
45:36
His cat might piss on your clothes.
45:39
Oh my gosh, disgusting. Anyway, we also thought that we
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would share our own stories of unsaid things.
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So Shannon is going to go first, aren't you, Shannon?
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And explain one of yours. OK, so weird that we're doing
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unsaid things because this is kind of still relevant.
45:57
I mean, I could still tell them, but I'm too much of A people
46:01
pleaser to do anything about it so I just keep my mouth shut.
46:05
I mean, if they listen, you pretty much are about to do it
46:07
so. Oh, my unsaid thing is about to
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become a said thing and now I don't have to say the thing.
46:14
So my answer exactly my answer Thing is, I wish I could tell my
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old best friend. Old is the prevalent bit, how
46:23
much she hurt me. Even now when she pops up on my
46:28
phone, I still feel the need to reply to her messages with the
46:31
same energy I used to put into our friendship.
46:36
It took every ounce of me to be able to cut her out.
46:40
I would cry and cry and cry for days on end, like it was hard.
46:47
Do you know how easy it would have been to just be like, hi,
46:51
how are you? Do you know what I mean?
46:52
You're right, yeah. You just carry on for the sake
46:54
of it. Yeah, exactly.
46:56
And honestly, when I tell you we were like the other half of each
46:59
other, we were so similar. It was weird.
47:03
It was like it was borderline weird.
47:06
And then just one day out of the blue, a week after my child's
47:10
first birthday, first or second birthday first, I think she just
47:14
cut me out completely strange, completely ghosted me and my
47:18
children who worshipped her. She's literally one of my
47:22
children's godmothers. Like they worship the ground she
47:24
walked on. She was phenomenal.
47:28
And then a few years later, last year, I think she just popped up
47:33
on my phone like nothing had happened, messaging me.
47:37
She sent presents to my door, like she knows my address.
47:41
So she sent presents like via some like Amazon or something
47:45
for my child. Yeah.
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Only one of my children, the one that she used to turn up for,
47:51
not the one that she left after her birthday.
47:55
Yeah. So it was she's just, she's just
47:57
like, you know, it's, it's one thing when they hurt you, it's
48:03
another thing. OK for your kids.
48:04
When you're hurting your children.
48:06
Yeah, exactly, exactly. And when I tell you, like I said
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earlier, the Notes app on my phone is full, full to the brim
48:15
of messages I wish I could send to her.
48:17
But instead of starting World War Three, I just keep my mouth
48:19
shut. And to be honest, I'm not sure
48:22
if that's for her benefit or just for mine, to be honest.
48:25
To be honest though, is it even worth the energy?
48:28
Do you know what I mean? If it was, if it was going to
48:30
sort itself out, it would have by now.
48:32
And that's how I look at it. And like you said, your children
48:34
are more important than like your friendship with her is
48:38
important, but but the way that she treats your children is more
48:42
important. Do you know what I mean?
48:43
And I've done the same with people and, and with my little
48:45
girl. I do not speak to friends that
48:49
don't show up for her at all. I've cut them out of my life.
48:53
Completely. And that's the thing, isn't it?
48:55
It's like you're because in my head it's like I'm saying
49:00
goodbye to 10 plus years of friendship of like really,
49:05
really solid good friendship. And that hurts because it's up
49:08
to me to say goodbye to that because she's kind of welcomed
49:12
herself back into my life without asking me.
49:15
But it's putting your she needs you first.
49:18
Yeah. Yeah.
49:18
Because she needs you. That's the only reason she's not
49:21
doing it. Because she wants to be there
49:23
for you. She wants to be there for your
49:24
children. She's there.
49:25
She's jumping in your DMS and messaging you because she needs
49:28
you and she realises that she's fucked up and there's no way
49:32
around it. She can't other than admitting
49:34
that she did something that was terrible and that making a
49:37
massive massive effort to come back to your life and be there
49:41
for your children. She is there because she wanted
49:43
something from you and that was support and that was the support
49:47
that she didn't give you with your children.
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So let's just leave it at that. Sorry.
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You know my views on this as your as your current best
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friend. Well, that's my unsaid thing.
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Yeah, Well done. Proud of you.
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Proud of you for saying it on this channel.
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And I know that obviously we don't know if that person
50:05
listens or not. So you know, if she does, you've
50:08
just owned up. So it's all good.
50:14
I've got actually listening to you say that.
50:17
I always want to change mine a little bit, but I'm I'm not
50:19
going to, but I'm going to. I might mention something first
50:23
before I do because it's not really an unsaid thing.
50:27
It was an unsaid thing for a very, very, very long time in my
50:31
life. And that is when you talked
50:34
about how you you stand up for the people that are around your
50:39
children and, and the relationships that people have
50:41
with your children, how important that is and how that
50:44
makes you respond to people differently.
50:47
Completely did the same with somebody.
50:51
The immediate family that I've never really had a relationship
50:54
with myself that sort of dipped in and out when they wanted to
50:58
and, you know, were there for holidays and things like that,
51:03
but never really gave much to my life.
51:07
And I made a vow that when I had my daughter, that if that person
51:11
didn't make a conscious effort with her, that that I would cut
51:17
them out. And I did.
51:18
And it made a really big thing. So it wasn't really an unsaid
51:21
thing because I have the confidence to actually stand up
51:24
and say it. And it's not, it's a sad thing.
51:27
And I just wanted to say that I'm proud of myself for doing it
51:30
because I haven't said that out loud.
51:32
I feel like I. I'm proud of you, I.
51:34
Needed to. I needed to.
51:35
And I know that you know the story and whatnot, but it's a
51:38
massive thing to have those unsaid things in your head for
51:41
such a very, very, very, very, very long time.
51:44
Yes. And then for one day, the only
51:47
person that made me actually stand up for myself and say what
51:50
I needed to say was my daughter. And that's how being a mum
51:53
changes you. You don't.
51:54
You let people walk all over you, but you will not walk over
51:58
my children. No way.
51:59
Exactly. Exactly.
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Anyway, my actual unsaid thing relates back to when I was at
52:07
school. I was a very timid teenager,
52:10
which is very hard to believe because now I'm very outgoing
52:13
and I speak to anyone and I'll chat pure rubbish to anyone and
52:16
anybody I know or don't know. I definitely, yeah, exactly.
52:21
I definitely found my voice in my early 20s.
52:23
However, being in secondary school was really, really hard.
52:26
I was bullied so badly and I genuinely can't believe when I
52:30
think back to all the horrible things that were said to me that
52:32
I just actually let it happen. And I wish that I could go back
52:37
now and say and stand up to the people and actually say how I
52:41
really felt. Because I'd love to speak to all
52:44
those horrible boys and girls that would tease me and call me
52:47
names and like actually just just stand up for myself, you
52:51
know? I'm more than happy now as an
52:52
adult to tell people when they've hurt or upset or pissed
52:56
me off. I just wish it didn't take me
52:58
2020 years to learn how to do it.
52:59
Because if I can, Oh my God, then yeah.
53:02
And actually stood and said, you know what?
53:04
That's not OK. And I don't care what you think
53:08
of me or what you want to pick out about my body or my face or
53:12
whatever you don't like about me.
53:13
I don't care. I see this in the mirror every
53:16
single day. You pointing these things out to
53:18
me, it's not new. I know I'm skinny.
53:22
I know I don't have any boobs. I know I've got dark hair on my
53:25
arms and my legs and like, whatever.
53:27
Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't need anybody to
53:30
point those things out. I look at myself in the mirror
53:32
every day and that's the first thing I see.
53:35
I don't need you to to keep relaying it because even as an
53:38
adult now, Shannon, I am 33 years old and only this year
53:43
have I stopped waxing my arms. I'm 33.
53:46
It's one of those things, isn't it, where you're like, you can't
53:49
say anything worse to me than I say to myself. 100% and like
53:53
it's stuck around so much that it's taken me that I'm 33.
53:58
I left school at 16. Do you know what I mean?
54:01
That's a long time. It's taken me that long to
54:03
actually say, no, I don't need to wax my arms.
54:06
There's nothing wrong with my arms.
54:08
Do you know what I mean? Like, I'm dark.
54:10
I've always had dark hair. And my daughter was going to be
54:12
exactly the same. And I'm going to have to have
54:14
the same conversations with her. And I hope to God that she, if
54:17
she gets anything like I did at school, that she'll fucking
54:20
stand up for them herself and stand up to them and say sorry,
54:24
but no, like it's not OK. And I think it.
54:27
Yeah, I'll be there. I'll.
54:28
Be there. But I think I think like the the
54:32
feel of this, this podcast and why we added this little section
54:35
in it is because it's comforting to know that everybody has these
54:39
moments. It's not just you, it's not just
54:41
me, it's listeners, It's a nobody sort of, you know, have
54:45
to has to bottle it all up, if that makes sense. 100%.
54:49
I think we all have our own version of unsaid things, don't
54:53
you? Oh yeah, like, definitely.
54:57
I think there's probably at least one or two people that are
55:01
listening to this that have probably nodded along to every
55:04
single story that's been said. Yeah, and whether you think
55:08
Pinky Pissy 1 exactly. I was just going to say whether
55:11
you said too much, which I think maybe one of them did, or not
55:14
enough. Things clearly stick with you
55:17
throughout life. These things stay in your hand,
55:19
they stay with you. So, you know, I think it's
55:21
important. To know.
55:23
You're not on your own. There's all of us are going
55:25
through the same thing. So thank you so much for yeah,
55:29
thank you so much for sending your stories and we much
55:31
appreciate them. And we had a right giggle
55:33
listening and looking, well, looking through some of them
55:35
together. It was quite interesting.
55:37
And we hope that we have opened a channel for you guys to send
55:42
in your stories and things like that because even though we
55:44
don't get to share all of them, it is fun for us to read and we
55:46
do appreciate your message. So keep them coming.
55:51
So here we are at the end of another episode.
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Oh yeah, huge thank you to all of you for listening and for
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trusting us with your stories this week.
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56:25
emotional. Oh yes.
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