Making A Husband with Tez and Shy Ilyas
Ep 2 - These Boots are Made for Walkin’
In this week’s episode of the Making a Husband Podcast, join Tez & Shy, as they discuss holidays, planners v relaxers, giraffes, and solve another relationship dilemma.
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- Duration:
- 51m
- Broadcast on:
- 24 Sep 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
Did I hear you're shopping for a car because I've been at it for ages such a time suck, right? Not really. I bought it on Carvana. Super convenient. Oh, then comes all the financing, research, am I right? Well, you can, but I got pre-qualified for a Carvana auto loan in like two minutes. Yeah, but then all the number crunching in terms, right? Nope. I saw real numbers as I shopped, found my dream car, and got it in a couple of days. Wait, like you already have it? Yep. Oh. Go to Carvana.com to finance your car the convenient way. Hello and welcome to the Making a Husband podcast with me, Tez Ilias. That was a cute, cute, that was a cute to me, she herself. So my name is Chai. That's really, really cute. I'm trying to make you a bootable husband. Hello and welcome back to our podcast, Making a Husband with me, Tez Ilias. And me, Chai Ilias. Excellent husband and wife team, I must stand up comedian, and she is a normal person. Normal civilian. And every week we get together, well, I mean, we're here, we're together 24/7. But once a week, we sit down to record an episode of this podcast where Chai tries to make a better husband out of me. And I try and defend myself, week in, week out. Thank you so much to all our listeners and all of your lovely feedback. We appreciate it a lot. Thank you for all the reviews as well, wherever you listen to your podcasts. And yeah, welcome to this week's episode. You know, you said that we spend 24/7 together? Yeah. That's like, what are those twins called when they're joined together physically? Conjoined twins. Yeah, that would mean you. Oh, you're like my conjoined wife. You are your my conjoined wife. And then I relax to you all the time, so you're turning our faces a bit. Imagine I was on stage and you were literally attached to me. Yeah, that's what I do. But I've been reading books for you telling jokes. But also now and again, just looking at someone, meeting someone I'm like, that didn't actually happen like that. But imagine if I just ruined your whole reading. That's what I'm saying. Imagine, like, I said to them, and then everyone's laughing, and they've been, just as suddenly as someone's ever stopped laughing, you just look up from your book and be like, that didn't actually happen like that. Yeah, it's lying. And it's cuddling. It's lying. And it's looking like, I want you and I. And then just undermining my performances. That could happen. But I don't want to be your, that, no, that's weird, that is. I wouldn't want to be that. My conjoined wife. No, that's weird. No, because conjoined would mean that we're siblings in it. Yeah. Look, how did conjoined things get married? Oh, no, there was a story recently. One twin did actually get married, and she said that she just goes to sleep. So they both girls? Yeah. So they both girls, so two girls, Jessica and Poppy, yeah. Yeah. And one of them gets married. Jessica gets married. Yeah, and then Poppy is just like, don't mind me. Yeah, yeah. So technically, they have a threesome every night. Anyway, so what have you been up to this week? Why have you been up to this week? Well, I have been on holiday with my wife. Have you? Yeah. Your wife definitely enjoyed it. Shall we tell? Shall we say tell them where we went? You say maybe when? Well, last year, for my birthday, tends that surprised me very kindly with a gift to Santorini, which was on my bucket list. And... It was on a short list for the honeymoon, because you really wanted to go. Yeah. And they made up going on safari for a honeymoon, which is amazing. Yeah. But I clocked it, though. I banged it, and I thought shy wants to go to Santorini. I mean, I did tell you, so... Yeah. So I've made you a good husband. Yeah, so I've made you a good husband. This podcast is about how to make you a good husband. Yeah. And so one of those, tip for guys, when your wife just says something, could be a throwaway comment. Why? Santorini looks nice, isn't it? You can bank that. Okay. And my lovely Santorini could be anything. I'm a bankie, and when you're in a position to provide that for them, do it. They love it. Yeah. Santorini was stunning. So stunning. It's absolutely stunning. I was actually really impressed by it. I was blown away by it, in fact. Yeah. I couldn't believe how many islands there are in Greece, though. Yeah. Greece has about 120 odd islands. Yeah. No, no, 300 is something. More. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're always perfectly probably the name of about six. Yeah. What's the sixth island then? Santorini. Yeah. Crete. Yeah. Mykonos? Yeah. Cos? Is that a different one? I don't know. You couldn't be saying anything. I couldn't be saying anything. I'd be laughing. That's a long ago. That's definitely one. No, you just lied now. That was the city in Greece. You said that average person. I know my geography isn't great, by the way. Hang on. There were so many as well. Santorini. Santorini. Yeah. Mykonos. That's a long ago. That's definitely one. I feel like you're making that up. It was not the little island that's next to Santorini. I feel like that was close to that's a long ago. I feel like you could, you're just saying that to me. I was just talking about that. Yeah. I was just talking about it. Yeah. But it's, it's a tourist one as well. Sin, sin, sin, cus and tangent. Mm. It's definitely one. How important. How important are you? How important are you? How important are you to definitely an island in Greece? My geography may be terrible, but they're all going to be listening to that now. We love, we love some Greek listeners. Yeah. And they'd be like, "Oh, you didn't bring up, uh, George John is slowly cut. What about that one?" What did you think of Greece? I loved it. I had this impression that, much like the impression I had about Turkey actually, that it was just going to be full of rude, racist people. Yeah. And that's my bad because it wasn't, it was wicked. Yeah. People were really lovely, polite. Um, went above and beyond constantly. They were really, the hotel staff were really amazing that we had that one guy, Peter, who was sending us a break. Yeah. I was really impressed by that. He was a lovely lad. I don't know if you're listening. I assume you're not, but you never know. And, uh, yeah, I just had to really, and, uh, yeah, Greek people were really lovely. And I have to say a message to our Greek and Turkish listeners, all, um, all six million of you, um, pack it in. Because for those of you that don't know the history, Greece and Turkey famously don't get on with each other. In fact, you can't book a holiday to Greece from Turkey. Because when we were in Turkey, yeah, last month I was looking at our hotel in Greece, and it said a note on booking.com. You cannot book this widely with Turkey. So Greek people, Turkish people, you're both lovely. You're beautiful. You have amazing food. Pack it in. Just be mates and that. Get over it. Are you trying to get political? No, I'm trying not to be a political. I'm just saying, I'm just saying big top lads. What's that position in the cabinet when you're trying to, uh, when you're doing all the political stuff? Foreign affairs or something? But everyone in the cabinet is a politician. No, but what's that thing when you do relations between countries? Foreign affairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's you. Yeah, I'm foreign affairs. You're trying to do that. Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Greece. Come on lads. Just stop it. Anyway, moving on. That's what it would be up to. Yeah. You did very, very well on that. So I appreciated that holiday because I felt like it came at a good time. Also, then we got back. So this is what the selecting on to touch upon is between the difference in, when, because today I got back the following morning. I did an airport, airport run from my mum. Yeah. So I had to take my mum to the airport because she was going to Pakistan to visit my grandma, her mum. And so there's a big difference between the way our generation, younger generation goes on holiday. Yeah. And the way the older generation still go on holiday. Yeah. So for example, like we go on holiday, like we might go away, not necessarily big holiday. We might go away three, four, five times a year. And it's not an issue. Like we just go away and come back and no one might know about it unless they see on our social media. But still to this day, when the old generation, so my mum went away, it's like, it's an event. Even though she's only going away for 10 days and I've been away from home for longer than that, periods of time. But my mum goes away. It could be for seven days, 10 days, a month or whatever. It's an event. She's got to tell everyone. She's got to tell all her friends. We've got people coming over. All her siblings. Yeah. And then people come over to visit her. People give her things to take. Yeah. Yeah. And then... She was given to massive bags of sweets and biscuits. People are cheeky. Yeah. In my head I was like, "Should I take?" People are cheeky. You should have. No, couldn't have. But I was thinking they're going to melt in this case anyway. So are the people who have relatives with Pakistan? They came to visit my mum to give her things, to then give to the relatives in Pakistan when she gets there. And you don't know? Like, what if it's got drugs in it or something? Yeah. But it probably doesn't. But you never know. Yeah. Because I have a friend of mine, when he came back from Pakistan years ago, you know him, he got given some sandals. Oh, yeah. Her sandals by his uncle, his mum's brother, gave him some sandals to give to a mate of his in England. He came back, got stopped at much to the airport. They took the heels of the sandal. There's 20 grand worth of heroin in there. Did you hear about, I think, I'm not going to name the airline, but there was one airline. And the air hostess of the crew were coming back. It was smuggling. And they were smuggling cocaine. Was it, was it PIA? Yeah. Oh. What a yes. PIA is Pakistan international airline. They were all involved there. PIA is a scummy airline. So PIA also got caught a couple of years ago. Not that recently. I think, like, in COVID times, where I think, like, a third of their pilots didn't have valid pilot licenses. Oh, you know what it was? You know what it was? It was... They did that strike thing, wasn't it? Yeah, it was 2019. I can't remember exactly what it was. I can't remember exactly. It was like... It wasn't that long ago. I went to get Pakistan and my flight got cancelled because they didn't have pilots. And that all that came out. Yeah. So they went on strike and then when they investigated the pilots, it turns out a lot of them didn't have pilot licenses, which is hilarious. Hold on, we just need to set the view on this. So they were having people fly planes. 747s. 747? Not a little shot of flights, like big 747s that have, like, two, three hundred people on board at a time. With no license. With no license. So that's, like, we could have gone and brought a license and had maybe one or two sessions of flying in. No, I think you are a public go through that. You can't just sit in a plane and be like, "Right, I'm flying in a plane." But how many sessions did they have before they were like, "Here you go, mate." How many sessions did it take on average? I think it takes a few years. One of your friends was the pilot, we should ask him. Yeah, I'll ask him. Also, if you're a pilot, let us know. Like, how long would it take you to go from zero to being competent enough to be a pilot or a co-pilot on, like, a big jumbo jet that goes, you know, continental travel from one end of the world to the other? Like, how many lessons would you need? Like, for example, you know, if you're like 15 lessons in a car, you might not have passed your test, but you're probably a competent enough driver to go out and about on your own. So how many lessons would it take to be a pilot, to go from zero to be at a level where you might not have a pilot's license, but you're competent enough to be a co-pilot or a pilot on one of those big commercial airlines. Let us know in it. I'm actually curious. Yeah, so basically, mum has gone to Pakistan. Mum's gone to Pakistan. But not only that is, so they take the maximum allowance of luggage that they can. So mum had 40 kilograms, 40 kilos, that was her baggage allowance. And she made sure she maximised those 40 kilos. So they might pack their own stuff and then they'll take some of the people to give to those of the people. Other people, yeah. And then they'll just start taking around. Oh, like, oh God, space, let's just buy six candles. We'll just give them out. They'll go to, like, prime of us and buy six candles. Oh, yeah, she bought the candles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what she actually bought, buy some candles. And you're like, well, I buy mass candles from Pakistan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the confusing thing. I think this is quite a good point, actually, because a lot of the time, a lot of the stuff is made from abroad. Yes, also that, the sun is made in Pakistan. Yeah, or Bangladesh, or India. And this is just, this is just Pakistan is doing it. So there's Bangladesh communities doing it. India, they do it. I'm pretty sure, like, probably Thai people, everyone does that. But all the stuff is made from that. And it's always baffled me that, why do we do it? Can I ask you a question? When will the last time you padlock your suitcase? I don't. I'd never padlock your suitcase. Did we padlock our suitcase? We went to Saudi, though. We did take it. Because we were forced to, though. I think I have never in my life, when it's been my own relation, padlock my suitcase. Yeah, I think my mum made that, though. But my mum made me stop on the way to the airport to go to Khan's Cup price. Yeah. Big up Khan's Cup price. She used to go go to John's Cup price, recipe is John, to go to Khan's Cup price on the way. And she bought a padlock for her suitcase, because she couldn't find the ones that she had previously. And then she spent ten minutes buying Penny Suites, and then talking to the shopkeeper about his dad who passed away years ago. And then I had to come out of my car, because we were running a little bit late, to the shop, and was like, "Mom, you need to hurry up." And she was like, "Oh, this is uncle so-and-so son who passed away." And then now she likes him. Yeah, they have to spend a 90 seconds, like being polite and saying hello and stuff. And then like, "Mom, we are getting late for your flight." But you know what that is as well, Tez? I think it's because they're older generation. They don't travel as much as we do. So for them it is a big thing. It is a big deal. So they go away like once every two or three years. Yeah, I would be like your mum, if you weren't like, "Come on, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go." I'd still be like, panicking, doing this, doing that and stuff like that. Because we travel a lot more now. I'm a very chilled outro. Well, when we went to Santorini, what happened when we went to Santorini? We went to check it. Okay, shall we, shall we, is this when you want to talk about your annoyance? Yeah. Well, we're going to talk about what annoyed me this week. I will be clearly recurring topic. Yeah. Well, when we say what annoyed me this week, it usually means what Tez has done to annoy me this week. Which, to be honest, I think a lot of people might relate to this. Whether you are a husband whose wife does this, or whether you have a wife whose husband does it, and partners and so on. So Tez has this thing, right, where he has to. He has to. Like he wakes up in the morning and says, "How much can I stress and give shy anxiety?" And you know what, I don't have high pressure, but I'm sure it's going to come. What can I possibly do to take her to the edge, where she can't possibly agree, which is hyperventilating, when it comes to checking in for our flight? So you always have to do it just by the slither of the moment where chickens are back to clothes. And obviously he decided to do that, yet again, for Santorini. And the woman was actually pissed. She was like, "Where are you going, mate? Are you feeling alright? What do you want?" She, I think she kind of thought that she'd had her last check-in person. Yeah. And then we came in 10 minutes later going, "Tada!" Listen, how many times have you been away with me since we've got married? I don't know, it is. A lot, right? Yeah. Like a, like a hundred a lot, like a, like, you know, we've been away quite a lot, yeah. Yeah. Have we ever missed a flight? No, no. So 100% record. So my system works. No, but for, what is it worth when mental health been like, frazzled? No, I was saying, but you just got to come to terms. You just got to accept it that, this, so this is not saying that I have to try. I want to start checking my heart rate on these moments. Do you know that? Because I'm pretty sure it spikes them. So I've got, I've got a saying to shy, which is, "You panic when I panic." If I'm panicking, then you can panic. If I'm not panicked, it means it's under control. Okay. But that doesn't work. No, it doesn't. I'm getting better there. You are getting better. I remember the first, one, the time we went away, I'm here. I thought I was going to cry. We were through security, and we had three hours left before our flight, and I was back. What am I supposed to do for three hours? No, that was a long haul flight though. I still don't understand why. But I have this routine that I want to go. I want to check in. I want to go through security without rushing, without running, without going to the gate. Get myself a coffee, choose some nice books, sit and start my book, get on the flight. But you have a thing where you... You can do all of it. You can do all of it. You can slam your car into a car space if you're dropping it off somewhere. If you're not, get a taxi, and we're going to be praying in the back, going, please get us. You drag us to the check-in, and then throw in anything that we need to check in. We run through security, and then we have to say to someone, our flight's leaving in about half an hour. So what happens quite often is, if we're very tight for time, Shire does this thing where she kind of makes it obvious who I am. No. So what would then happen is, someone who's working there, because we usually have Manchester Airport, and someone working there would recognise me. And they'd be like, "Oh, it's Tazil, yes and no." And I'd be like, "Hey, how are you doing?" Like a staff member, and then Shire would be given the popular guys, and they'd be like, "Oh, do you want to go to the front of the queue?" And then we'd be like, "Oh, yes, this is not a problem, then yeah, that's not a problem." If you are anyone that is listening, they're like, "It's a Manchester Airport, I am so grateful." And this isn't because my husband is Tazilias. It's because my heart rate is going at least 130 beats per minute, per minute. They're saying, "Whatever." You really take advantage of the fucking my Tazilias. And if you give us that, you know, if you allow us to do that, I am so grateful, because if you didn't, we would be lame. We would be like one of those where, but that last time Taz, that woman was crying, and she was telling the security guard. She was like, "Oh my God, my flight's about to leave, and I'm stuck in security." And she was like, "Well, you can have to wait." And she was crying, and I was in my head, I was like, "Oh my God, this is horrendous!" That would be your life if you were at Manchester Tazilias. That wouldn't, because I'd go to the airport three hours. That wouldn't be your life. You don't have that week beforehand. Yeah, but you know what, it's really nice talking to Santorini. It's actually really lovely that when we go to different countries, when people recognise you and they say hi to you. And that is really sweet, and I said that to you, and I think that's really nice. It just surprised me every time it happens, because I'm kind of like, "I'm just a kid from Blackburn." Yeah, and I'm still not used to being married to someone famous. Sometimes I'm a bit like, "Why are they looking for?" Sometimes it's like, "Yeah, she doesn't get to be like, what the fuck are you staying on my husband?" I'm like, "Is she checking my husband now? Is she checking my husband now?" And then I'm like, "Should I calm down?" Why can't it be both? Oh my God, that look. So anyway, what else did we... Oh, okay, yeah. Well, it annoyed me, annoyed you the last week. Well, let's just stick to holiday night. What else annoyed you while we were away? Yeah, the fact that you do this thing about walking, and you don't tell me that... You say to me, "Oh, do you know what we're going to go for a walk?" And then you don't tell me it's a 40-minute walk, and then I get blisters. It happened the first night. But it, like... And I was wearing sandals. I wasn't wearing sandals. But in your head, when I asked you, let's go for a walk. How long should I walk last? I thought you meant... you know how we go from when we're at home? You go for 40-minute walk, but you say we're going for a walk at home. Now, when we go with mum, we don't go for that long. The last time we went with mum, we went to my test game. The last time we went with mum, we went to my test game. Yeah, we did. Well, we should tell these guys this. So mum was... Oh, by the way, test and mum lives with us, so we live with test and mum. And mum was adamant that someone had one of her friends. And I don't know what happens with these ladies when they talk and let me up. It's not big bath and teeny. I don't know unless you're who it is. And so shit, shit. But if I wasn't listening on yesterday, you know who we're talking about. She said to mum that, "Oh, there's a Tesco express somewhere." Like a walking distance. Well, the Tesco express, it was a stop. No, she said Tesco. It ended up being something else. It's not Tesco, it was something else. It was a... More reasons? No. It was that spa, spa thing. She said... Yeah, yeah, yeah, spa, spa. She said there was a spa, which is like round the corner, five minutes away. I mean, it's a walking distance. Yeah. And I was like, we've walked all around this estate. And there's nowhere. We've gone up to the country roads, we've gone up to the main roads. Along the main roads. And the new shop tour is a shop that is like a corner shop on a post office in one. And it comes... And a pharmacy in one that closes at six o'clock every single day. Yeah. And like, apart from that, then probably you have to get in a car to go somewhere. Yeah. There's no other shop within walking distance, like a convenience store. So that's like, what spa? That I even went on Google. It says, "Look to me." And he was like, "Leave it." He was like, "Leave it." He was like, "We're going to take mum." We're going to go. We're taking mum on adventure, and she's going to lead us to the spa. Like a load of the rings. So mum was walking in front, and we were following mum. And when I tell you, we walk literally all the way up past these fields, round the field. And then she was like, "Yeah, I don't think it's here." Yeah, and then eventually we chatted up. She bought a lot of confidence, a lot more confidence than you. So we were walking along this country lane. And this guy walked past with his dog. And I was like, "One morning, I was came, I said, there's a joke." And the mum was like, "Excuse me." This English guy. She went, "Excuse me. Where's the shop around here?" And the guy was like, "What?" He was like, "Is there like a spa around here?" And he goes, "There's a nisa expressed in the village." I was like, "What's that?" And he goes, "10 minute walk, that way." At this point, we don't be walking for 20 minutes. He goes, "10 minute walk." The opposite direction of where we were walking. And I looked at mum like, "Have you let me listen now?" "Don't listen. Don't listen to random all women on the estate." They don't know what they're talking about. Yes. And also, when she sees mum at the user Google, she's going to decide to end. Yeah. But the point is, is that when we go for walks here, when you sit in a black band where we live, I'm going for a walk, you go for like a minimum 40-45 minute walk in it. What do I have on my feet? Listen, I have trainers on. I didn't know your... I was wearing sandals. I didn't realize your sandals were not walking. So, to go walking for 20 minutes? I didn't know because I was wearing sandals. Yeah, and it really made me mad. And then towards the end, it has actually felt so bad. She was so mad about it. He's like, "Oh, shall I pick you up?" Even though I know... I don't know how the facility is to pick her up for like a 20-minute walk here, but I was like, "You don't have to suffer it." We do. Sometimes we do do, though, when we're... No, you force me to give you a piggyback. I do say to him sometimes, "I'll give you a piggyback now." I can't laugh more than 10 seconds. I don't know what to do about this. I think I see this, and every single time we're like... So, what if I check your foot there before? But the thing is, I don't know how long the week is going to be. No, no, no. A normal person would say, "Do you know what?" And no, no, it has, you do know. Yeah. Also, you do know because I feel like when we go on holiday, you are that person that has a read-up on what's around us and how far things go around. No, that's true. That's true, but I don't... But you didn't say to me that, "Oh, we're going to go into the next place now." No, I did say that the town was like 25 minutes walk away. But you didn't say we were walking there? Sounds like it was both of our four. No, it's still four. Anyway. So, like, you need to take responsibility for your foot there, and that needs to be better communicating how far it looks going to be. Oh, it needs to be better communicating. Yeah. In this event, just about walks, not about anything else. So, if you are a husband or a partner or a wife or you do this kind of stuff, please tell your other half that when you are going to go on a walk somewhere, how long it's going to be. So, they have the right footwear on. So, basically, if in the relationship you're the planner, then you need to tell your other half who's not the planner what the activity is going to be. And if you're the other half who usually is going along with whatever, you just got to manage your footwear in it, you're an adult. I am that person that I just go along. Yeah, it doesn't look. I'm like, I'm not that thing where I'm like, I'm just a little girl. The baby hamster. Yeah, that's just me. The baby hamster meme. Baby hamster meme. I'm just me. You book places, you organize stuff. I pack and I do all the house stuff. That's the thing in it. Every single relationship, there are two types of people. That one person wants to cram in. Like, they see what there is to do in the place that they go into on holiday and there might be 10 things to do and they tell 11 things to do. That's me. And the other person was like, listen, I'm on holiday in it. Just let me live. Just let me live. Let me live. Let me live. You also booked Valentine's Day at Paris for us Valentine's Day and Ted did something remarkable that even till this day, I don't think I've spoken about it. When he told me that he was taking me to Paris last year, I was like, oh my God, that's incredible because I've never been to Paris. And to go on Valentine's Day, what Ted didn't tell me was he booked. It was this year, wasn't it? It wasn't this year, darling. Okay, right. Yeah, it was this year. What Ted forgot to mention was the day that we were the second day, he booked six things for us to do. Now, what I'm talking about is the Eiffel Tower, going on a cruise. The octa tree on? Yeah. Another... Going to see Mona Lisa. Oh, yeah. The Louvre. Louvre. Yeah, so we did... Oh, he was crammed. A couple of cafes. A couple of cafes. Yeah, all of that. And one day. And then what was worse is there's one thing we had to miss because, surprise, surprise, we didn't have time. I booked it, so we couldn't even go on there because it was... But how did your brain process? You know what it was like? It was like, you know when Legolas and Aragon were chasing after the oaks to try and rescue Mary and Pippin? I don't know if you remember that scene from Lord of the Rings, the second or the two towers, yeah? So Lego-less and Aragon are running cross-country. They got to rescue Mary and Pippin from the oaks. Yeah, they're running. And then in the distance, half a mile back is Gimli, poor Gimli the dwarf who's got little two-foot legs trying to keep up with Gimli with Legolas and Aragon. He's still minding me. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. That was poor shy. She is poor Gimli to my Legolas in Paris. And I was like, look Gimli, over the horizon. I was like, I was like, this is meant to be a romantic Harry's break. No, but our pictures are amazing. Pictures were amazing too. No. My god was like, lost it. You were exhausted. As was I, but in a good way. But like, the dark trip was amazing though. The trip was amazing. But if we were to get Paris again. Yeah, so now that you have to go to Paris again, there's nothing to see. We've seen everything, so now we can just go and chill around a mutual coffee shop. So when do we go to Paris? I don't know. Once. You say, as she says to me every time, you're like, when are we ever going to come back to Santa? No, Paris. Some treaty we're never going to go back again, probably. Yeah. Unless someone gets married there. But Paris will probably go back again. I'll probably have a show in Paris at some point. To be honest, you can get a, the Euro style was really quick, wasn't it? It was like two hours or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But for me though, you've got to promise me, because the next big trip we want to do is like Japan. Oh yeah. Japan is not a, I want to chill. No. That is like, we have got a schedule. Yeah, that's fine. That actually really was supposed to be a chill holiday. It was, it was though. Yeah. If you guys go to Santa really, make sure you get a quad bike. Oh my god. I had so much fun on that quad bike. You had tried for both of us to die early and die together. But luckily I stopped him because for some reason he thought, oh, let me just go on the wrong side of the road. It's the drive on the side of the road in it. So I won't point a turn. It's a, it's a, it's amazing. Why don't we just die together? I was, I was driving on the left hand lane and the car, a car came screeching up towards us. And then it's, luckily it's stopped. And then I swear to the, to the right side, the their side, right side. And then the guy had some like Greek words to say to me. Yeah, it was my fault in it. But I think it'd be quite romantic to die together in a car crash. You don't think it would be. And I said to you in the parking lot. Yeah. We just got different. I think it would be romantic to die together in a car crash one day. But you need, oh my days. You need to book a quad bike. If you go to Santa really need to drive around the island. It's lovely. It's amazing. So, also quad biking is so much fun. And like it's a lot safer than you think. I didn't, like apart from that, it was fine. Yeah. Yeah. That was the only, I just, I forgot what's out of the road to drive. And then you gave me whiplash as are. Yeah. Because that's 'cause that's a bit jerky. They're a bit jerky. They're a bit jerky. They're not like cars. Was it your driving thing? Really? Yeah. Maybe I wanted to keep you crashing into me. Maybe I liked it. Maybe I liked it. Maybe I liked it. Maybe I liked it. Maybe I liked it. Maybe I liked the skin on skin contact. So anything else annoyed you last. But yeah. So very well in Japan, you're gonna have to live by my rules. Yeah. Which is, we're here to see Japan. Yeah. And the week before Japan I'm gonna relax. Yeah, fine. Perfect deal. Mount Fuji, Tokyo, other places. Yeah, your friends have gone actually recently as well. Yeah, a couple of my friends recently. A couple of my friends recently. Before. I've just came back. I've just came back. I've just been. Yeah. I've just been. Yeah. So you have three friends of mine who've been listening. Yeah, we'll have to ask. Yeah. I really want to go Japan. Yeah. Let's do it. If anyone has booked me some gigs in Japan to all my Japanese listeners, I'll... 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That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linked in. The place to be. To be. I will assist with vibes. She will come and carry bags. No, she doesn't carry bags. Is that the only thing that I annoyed you? Yeah. You're really quite good. I've been alright now. Yeah. I don't think it was quite. But like bliss doesn't your feet was quite big? That was massive. Yeah. Okay, that's good. So I feel like I've been alright then this week. I mean, yeah. I feel like I couldn't really argue much with you. I took you to Santorini. I took you to Santorini. You did me to Santorini. Yeah. How? Not my words. Yeah. Alright, cool. Alright. Well, okay. A little nod to me then. And to you listeners as well. If you're the planner, make sure you plan appropriately. And if you're the going a longer, just be a responsible adult and make sure you're wearing appropriate things in it. And take into consideration if someone is going on holiday. To unwind. Yeah. Because their life is hectic when they're back here. My life is one big holiday. Your life is one big holiday. But like, what's my favourite term? I've cultivated a lifestyle that I wanted to live. And in Charlotte, you will do one day too when all these lots hand up to a Patreon. And you can afford to leave your job. I just can't, I just don't know what to say. So now we're going to talk about my random fact of the regarding animals. Because I love animals. She loves animals. I think, you know, I know I talk about this all the time. I think there's something wrong with me. Because why do I always get emotional and upset with animals though? Like, it could be anything. Even when we were in Santorini and I saw those little cats and... And even don't, you admitted to your saucer test app. Before me, you didn't see that dog. I didn't see that dog. I mean, I don't like dogs still. Yeah, but you were wary of them. Yeah, I'm less scared of them now. Yeah. Like when we were in Turkey last year in Capidocia and all those stray dogs and you'd call them over, honestly, I could have... Is the only time I've ever come close to violence. I'm like, well, why are you calling these stray dogs over? They're sick either. But yeah, they were, they were, I don't know about you. But I don't have any, I don't have that in me that like... Maybe you're just, you don't... Your opposites in that respect very much so. Maybe I have too many emotions. I have too few. Yeah. You have too many. We are literally between us. It's probably a good balance. Yeah. I have too few. You have too many to make. So, what we're going to talk about today is... It's gonna be really fun. We are going to talk about whales. The country or the animal? The animal. Okay. So, did you know, whale from the Caribbean... Right. Have different accents to normal whale? No. No. How is that? That's true. Funny. What do you mean? Yeah. So, they'll say researchers from St Andrews, the University of St Andrews in the UK found evidence that seems to show whales on the Caribbean have a different accent than whales in other oceans. So, are you telling me that if you met a whale in, say, the Pacific Ocean, they'd be like... Hello. And then the Caribbean one will go... Relax, mum. How wild is that? That's hilarious. Yeah. So, they went and they studied 4,000 whales. That's quite a decent size. And of course, it recorded between 2005 and 2010. So, the larger number of recordings confirmed that existence of individual calls and showed that the Caribbean whales all share the same one, which is different to the ones around the world. That's true. Funny. But they... this is like this code, and apparently that's how they can tell where... So, when other whales meet other whales... That's where they know they're from. Yeah. Oh, you're my Caribbean brother. But that's so crazy. Yeah, I didn't know that. That's a good factor. Yeah, isn't it? Does that mean it's the same for other animals? Like, let's say, would a British cow have a different accent to like a Pakistani cow? We didn't see something recently about that. We were looking at something, and was it cow or...? Was it a dog or something on a different box to like a British dog to like another country's dog or something? Maybe. I don't know. I mean, I've looked at it quite interesting to listen to. But I just found that so fascinating, I was like... Like, a British dog. Like, how would you... Like, how would you... Like... And a Pakistani cow would be like... Maybe. Because Pakistan cows do sound a lot more like... Stress-y and like sharper and like... Oh, like that. Yeah. Wow. That's interesting. That's like, if you had two dogs from two different places that have... Would they have the native accent of that country? But this is what I'm saying. How did they... How did the whale... Did one whale just suddenly end up in the Caribbean and then started chatting to someone from there and was like, "Do you know what?" I like the accent. And I'm going to start... I just think... I can't get my head around there. Yeah, I need you to like that. Now, it's my turn to talk about Shai's purchase of the week. And so, let's stick to the holiday thing. So, what Shai does before every holiday we go on, this is probably part of the reason why she gets to the airport, Sally, earlier. She loves to go into the local bookstore. It's usually W.E.T. Smith. And she'd buy the books and then she'd start reading them and then read them on the plane. Now, talk about reading habits in a second. But the genre of books are so funny. The genre of books you buy from the bookshop is so funny because I read one of the ones and it's always like, "Ah, woman, woman is going prison because she murdered her husband. Did she do it?" No, the end. The end. That is just so trashy. It's the real end. Yeah, the trashy thrillers. They're like, if anyone has ever seen it... It's easy to read, there. If anyone has ever seen "Holland Paul" but Netflix shows, you know that they're very watchable and they suck you into a story and then by the end of it, you're like... Now, we were pissed off about that. Wow, why did you do that? What was that? Why? Why happened? That is basically the genre of books that you read. It's because I don't have to think too deeply. It's sort of 30 pages left of that train one. I need to finish reading that. Can you finish that? Yeah, I've got 30 pages left. I want to take it with me. Yeah. Now, the reason why I buy the books is because I buy... I usually read one on the plane and then I read the second one in between. No, you don't understand what she's saying. She will read an entire 350 page book from the moment she buys from WWE Smith by the time we landed on the tarmac on the place that we're going. So, like, Centrini is a four hour flight, yeah. So, between getting the book and landing in Centrini is like five hours in that time. And I know you can read a book in five hours, but she does it. I don't understand it because sometimes I ask her to read the other book that she buys just to see what happens. And I'd get like page 50 because I'm tired. I'm sleepy. I'm out full of sleep or I might get distracted. It takes me a while to get into a book. Once I get past 100 pages, then I want to notice. Then I race to the end. But the first 100 pages takes me about two days to read. More than two days. And then she will, like, on the way back, I read 250 pages. I'm proud of you. She'll be proud of me. But also a couple of parties because I felt like I was something to prove. But, yeah. One, like, I need to do a comprehension test to make sure that you understand everything that you're reading. That's fine. But the reason why I get the book is because I buy the book from here. And then I leave it at the hotel or the apartment or wherever it's staying out. Oh, yeah, that's very nice. So then the other person can get it. Or I leave the second, the two both books there, basically. If we're switching hotels or something. Or if I don't want to read one of them. Because usually I don't. Because usually I look at them, I read them back and I'm like, "I am not interested in this." But usually on the way back, I don't have a book to read because I've read the two books, so I just leave them there. Now I've got my phone, my Kindle. You just leave me from all the tricks that I've taken and all the heights I've taken. Yeah, that's true. And you're relaxing holiday. Yeah. Is that the annoying pictures of the week then? Yeah, I mean, you also do this thing wherever we go on holiday. No matter what we're doing, you have to stop at almost every market store that we've seen. But also now I've got this thing where I like to buy something from a country that I can be like, "Oh, I brought these from Turkey. I've got these from Greece. I've got these from Mauritius or South Africa or Dubai or Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. Although it's something that I can relate it back to." Yeah. And then after it just be that husband, the girl just waiting outside the market. Isn't it crazy that when you're on holiday there and then you start spending money. And you're like, "Oh, it's only 25 euros to get this thing on my hair." That is a problem. 30-50 euros for this top. And then you're like, "This is real money going out of my account." Yeah. Because we're not really money. It doesn't feel like we're money. And then you come up and you're like, "I just spent that much money on holiday that I wouldn't..." Like, you spent way too much of stuff that you wouldn't spend on here. But we did this thing where I'm not in charge of any cash on holiday. I have to give it to Tesla because I lose control. Like, I don't see it as real money. I mean, I'm in Karachi. You lost control. That was really bad. That was hilarious. Yeah. After the week on my review purchase, you're a trashy, thriller, non-taste. Right. So now we are going to discuss our latest Reddit story, one Muslim Reddit story. If you do have a agony question that you would like us to answer, feel free to send us this. We can get my perspective and Tesla's perspective. Please remember that mine will be a bit more realistic. I think Tesla might be a bit more less serious. I don't know. Depends on the situation. Yeah, that's true as well. Go on. So this is our Reddit. So Muslim Reddit is just a subsection within Reddit of Muslim people who write in with their relationship. And honestly, their relationship qualms and queries and whatever's happening in their lives and that. And some of it is quite deep, some of it is quite funny. But anyway, we're reviewing another one this week that Shai found. And I don't know anything about it. Shai, hit me. What are we talking about this week? Okay. So the title of this one is "Do women always crave attention and men feel it's too much? How to handle being clingy? Says you can't love everything but hi. I'm not laughing. I'll tell you about Siri. It's not as funny as the one the other week. But can I answer? I haven't read it out there. Yes. Right. Move on. So it says "I've noticed in my marriage that I often crave more attention and affection for my husband than he seems to need. I love spending time with him. I love talking to him at night and just being safe." Did you write this in? However, I feel like he sometimes feels suffocated by my need for closeness. For those who have been in similar situations, how do you find the balance? How do you handle feeling clingy or wanting more attention than your partner? Any tips on making this work without overwhelming him? I do think about myself in a long life. I feel like you've written that in. You want to approach it with me? That's my Reddit story. You've written in your own? This is my Reddit story. Yeah, it's my Reddit story. It's not really. It's not. I'm actually quite independent though. What are you talking about? Let me just clarify what I've just said. Normally, in day to day, I am okay to a certain extent. I mean, before, like you said to me earlier on today, I was fine before you, right? Yeah, you lived a whole life. I lived a whole life. Yeah. You get all of me. Yeah. I'm going to get over you. Yeah. I'm going to escape you. Not like, you know, I mean, you know. Yeah, exactly. But there are, sometimes I do with me. I do get a bit clingy. And that's fine. But I'm blaming that on my monthly cycle time because I feel like I'm... What? Stop being such a sexist. So that's my defense on there, okay? So different times in the month, do you have a different level of clinginess? Yeah. All right. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Sometimes I'm like, okay, bye. You're going away for a couple of days. See, yeah. And then you'll be like, oh, you've ignored me. You don't message me. You don't respond to me. You say that to me. You do that. Yeah, because I'm giving you your same energy bucket. Yeah. And then I'm living it. But in this context, I think what she's saying is she's probably craving the balance. Isn't like 50/50 there, is that? You know what it is? Guys, there's nothing more that we like. Then sometimes being left alone, like being left alone, you know what someone is like, you're like when a girl might need a treat, like a chocolate or, I don't know, whatever, like what treats do you like? Chocolate. Yes, I'm saying right. Chocolate's all right. Something like a guy's treat is like just a long time, which is why we spend so much time on the toilet as well. Like our alone time in the world where we're so busy and there's so many demands on us, those are our treats. So let's spend that time with the toilet and the time that I can wake up, have a coffee to myself, go and feed the bunnies, maybe he'll rub a little bit, have a shower, get my makeup done and he'll just come out the toilet. It's bliss. It's my me time. Just process that for a second. I know, it's a long time. I'm not saying it's not a short amount of time. It is a long time. And I'm aware that I'm pretty good. So you go into it. I think at first when we first got married. Like I had yes or something. No, I didn't even think it was medical. You just thought that like maybe he's a non-Y or something. I was like, is there another universe in the toilet? Or is there something going, is there a super door in there that he's going for disappearing for a couple of hours? Guys, you found out the secret. Yeah. Our gay universe. No, we like being left alone sometimes. Not all the time, just sometimes. People should leave you alone forever. Well, you wouldn't want that. What are you talking about? But all of this, I think when it comes to the, I think, you know what, okay. This is why it's called Muslim Red Dead, because culturally, there is a thing. So when a woman gets married, she has to leave. Her town, city, place, area, house, childhood home, friends, family, everything, right? Yeah, yeah. You know, if you're lucky enough to marry someone within that same, you know, the vicinity of your family home or whatever, you probably won't feel it as much because you still have the same life, right? But you've just moved in with your husband or something. But when you're moving like distance or you're, even if it's an hour or two hours away, or four hours in your case. Four hours in my case. Or different countries sometimes. Or different countries sometimes. Or different countries. I mean, our parents did it. They left that person, that person that you're moving in their house into, they become your world, right? Am I your world. No, I'm talking about this. Yeah, you are. I am your world. I'm your world. I'm your world. And so I think that men, and I don't mean this, I'm not going to say all men, but I will say majority of the men, they probably don't realize how difficult it is for women who do that. Because a man's life doesn't change, does that? Really? Your life hasn't changed since we got married. Apart from the fact that you've got someone that lives with you now and you still do the same stuff. I've got a roommate. You've got a roommate, yeah. But other than that, like your routine hasn't changed. You still have the same friends, you still see your mum, you still see your sisters, your siblings and everything. Whereas I had to very quickly get used to the fact that also you were working away in that, everything and stuff. So I had to very quickly adjust and make my own life separate to yours because you can't live life through someone else. It's not healthy at all. So it's good to be separate. So I had to do that. But I do think that because I'm in my 30s, it was easier for me to kind of get my head round. But when you're younger, it is difficult. So you do become clingy. Because if he's going out, or he's doing his own thing and... Yeah, but we don't have full context behind this. But I think sometimes a guy just likes his own space. Just not like all the time, just like in like a half number or something. It's like my space to like scroll or whatever I'm doing. Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with that. And sometimes you don't want to be some other than that. So my advice would be, this is me assuming that everything else in their life is fine. Because she hasn't expanded on it. I don't know what the Reddit story says. So I'm assuming that the otherwise in relationship is fine. So if there's only this one issue of maybe she feels actually being a bit clingy sometimes, it's just like just to understand that like men sometimes it's like a bit of space and that. Because also like another thing like in our culture, we didn't see our parents being affectionate to each other. You did maybe a little bit more than me. But I think generally we don't see our parents being affectionate to each other. So it's something that boys don't see and so therefore doesn't come naturally to us when we get married. Because you're a bit like, oh, because you're not being used to as well. Maybe that's why I'm more affectionate. Yeah, because you're one of my parents thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whereas generally, Asian parents aren't super affectionate. Especially when, especially when you reach a certain age. Yeah. Like, yeah, I'm quite affectionate to my parents. But a lot of my friends aren't affectionate with their parents. Yeah, yeah. Especially once we reach a certain age, we stop that affectionate stuff. Yeah. I think then, largely when they get married, are a bit like, whoa. Okay, hang on, whoa, this isn't, this is a bit weird. I think we had this agreement where we wanted to, we weren't ashamed to show that affection within, you know, like the younger generation to be like, this is normal. Not saying that we do that. Like, we hold up hands. Yeah, we do. We do. We share food. We do. Yeah. You know, more people probably never seen their parents hold hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And hopefully, Michelle and when we have kids. Yeah, they'll see that. It's normal. And it's also something that then they seek from their own partner, which is love affection. Yeah. Respect. And all of those banter. Banta. Banta. There is, there is a lot of banter. Need a lot of banter. In this relationship. Yeah. My parents had a lot of banter, which is quite nice. Maybe that's where I'll get it from. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, my personal opinion. I'll get it because I'm a top lad. Mm. Your dad's got banter. My dad does not bother to be fair. Dad has banter. Everyone in my family is very funny. My family is like a very, like, everyone got a sense of humor. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They do. You've got a lot of banter in your family. A lot of banter. Banta running through your veins. Even mum's got banter. Yeah, she does. Yeah. So it could be mum and dad, yeah. Yeah. Everyone's got banter in his family. Yeah, so I would say to her, just be patient or maybe explain it to him as well. But I would also recognise that sometimes the guy just like, and I think this is cross-culture. Guy just like a bit of a long time sometimes. Yeah. And that's how we treat. It's so funny because women, I'm not all women, but women might be like, in their situations, she might be like, you know, if you lose a wife, for example, and you might be gone from like half seven to like eight. And she might be like, "But that's your time now." But him, he's like, "But I want to come home." Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's like, you know when you go on holiday and you're like, "This is my relaxing time now." Yeah. So like when you're over, even though you might be away from your partner, that's not downtime. I'm not disagreeing with that at all. Yeah. I agree with that. I wonder what I'm going to be like when you're going. I would say to anyone entering a relationship or maybe a similar kind of things as you feel a bit clingy, live your own life, let your partner live their life. You're also two separate people. Like, yeah, when you're together, that's amazing. But you're also two separate people with own hobbies, interests, whatever. That's also fine to be obsessed with your partner. Yeah, it is. And be like an jointed. Conjoined twin. Yeah. That's why she is. She's basically good. She ought to be a conjoined twin. Sometimes I live in my psycho vibes until it gets a bit clingy. I'm like, "Doesn't that mean there's money?" Let me live. Let me live. But sometimes I want to be a psycho. I took away. This must be a thing though. I can't just suddenly be like the only person that does stuff like this. Do you think you sometimes get inspired by TikToks? Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes I see something and I'm like, "Yeah, I did that." Or I suppress it and I'm like, "Why am I suppressing it for? Let the psychiness come out. Let it just be in it." Or like, "Well, someone's looking at you and I want us to be. What the fuck are you looking at?" And I'm like, "No, my husband's looking. Let her look because he's mine." And he's also famous. And then I'm like, "I will also kill you." And he's also famous. And he's also famous. They might recognise him from something. Yeah, yeah, that as well. Yeah. But we all have that. It's funny. And it's fine to express it. It's fine. Yeah. But as long but you also have to have security in your marriage. What's someone when you're outside? No. But you also need to have security in your marriage as well. That's very important. And trust. Yeah. No, but this is my father. This is just my father. Yeah. But this is my father. This is her being a bit clingy in there. Yeah. And I just like, just get over it. Yeah. Like, let him go. You want babes. And I was like, "Let him live." "Let him live." "Let him live." "Let him go watch football with his voice." If you want to cling to him, cling him. If you want to handcuff yourself to him, handcuff yourself babes. Don't worry about it. Forget it. He's married to you. Look, you know, it's fine. It's like you're not going anywhere. Yeah. Let him lame, handcuff. Now we're here in there. If you sleep in a night time and you wake up and just stare at him, stare at him. So what? What's he gonna do? Be in the back seat when he's driving and he doesn't know you're there. It's fine. Don't worry about it, babe. Just live with it. Just live with it. Live, live, love, life. Live, love, strangle. Live, love. Live, love, love. Live, love, love. I hate those things. Live, love, life. That's a confusion for another day. Okay. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. I hope you enjoyed this episode. We enjoyed doing it. Where can they find us? Anywhere. Right. So find us on all any podcast. Shrasso is not the hang of this. Find us on any podcast platform, whether it be Apple, Spotify, Google podcasts or any others that you use. Please leave us a five-star rating on those platforms to help other people's finders. Please recommend us to your friends and family because we think we're doing something fun and useful and good here and we'd love more people to listen to us and join us. Listen to us and join our family. And if you do work in Manchester airport and security, honestly, it's not because I'm trying to abuse you knowing tears. But please, if you've seen me stress that, it's because I am genuinely stressed out and trying to get through to security. So just ask us what time our flight is and I'm very grateful for your existence. And other airports too. So Shai, before we leave, what are you grateful for? For my existence in your life. What? Is this what I'm grateful for you? No. What are you grateful for? Being existing. I'm grateful. I'm grateful for that lovely holiday and the fact that you brought me coffees every single day before I woke up and you carried that on even this weekend. And I'm grateful that you noticed that I was tired and exhausted from day to day life. And I appreciate that and what you do for me. Thanks, mate. I am very, very grateful for the absolutely banging Smash Burger that you made for me yesterday. Oh, yeah, guys. I made a Smash Burger last night. Smash Burger from scratch. And then I bent the... Double Cheeseburger with bacon rashes and caramelized onions and some homemade relish sauce thing. And then some chips and rosemary chips. And then she even served it to me on one of those wooden boards. So it felt like we were having some pretentious bougie posh burger place. So I was very grateful for that because it was yummy yummy in my tummy. Amazing. So guys, remember to be grateful for your partners and for the people around you. And be as clingy as you want. Thank you, bye. Like, subscribe, etc. Bye. See you next time. What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading accounting, consulting and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. We leverage industry-focused insights with the collective technical resources of our firm to elevate your performance. Uncover opportunity and move upward at MossAtoms.com. [BLANK_AUDIO]
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