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Season 2: Episode 13 - Portrait Mode What do you call someone who has no sense of smell? You’re about to find out! Jen shares her biggest Grinds when it comes to other people taking your photo and Chris reveals a new section called “Stupid Sh*t We’ve Done Together” and a new jingle is born! Also, we are delighted to announce that we now have Merchandise available from the link in our bio.. As ever...

Season 2: Episode 12 - Nightmares from Ohio Chris tells us of his superstitious tendencies (once again) before Jen regales you with all the different Random International Days.   Plus, find out what Grinds Chris’s Geeres at a footie match as well as his most recent Useless Purchase! We have some awesome Fan Feedback, including a terrifying story from Ohio and lastly, we open up about what it’s lik...

Season 2: Episode 11 - The Potatoes Have Eyes (The Valentine’s Episode) Who likes cold, wet carrots? Better than potatoes with eyes, we can tell you! Who WAS St. Valentine and what would your last meal be? Tune in this week to learn how you could become the lucky recipient of an ILYB merch mug in our first ever give away, and find out if Chris was ever any good at kissing. Happy Valentine’s Day an...

Season 2: Episode 10 - Trash-Talking It’s been the longest break so far for the team here at ILYB (me and Chris lol) but we’re back now with plenty of silly stories and banter to keep you entertained.   Grab a pair of headphones and discover if you are as “February Ready” as Chris! Have you ever ordered a skip? How big is your recycling bin? Been to a carwash recently? It’s mind-boggling exciting...

Season 2: Episode 9 - Fleece Navidad (The Christmas Episode) It’s the Christmas Episode for 2023!! YULE enjoy this one Apart from the myriad of festive jokes from Jen, you can enjoy listening to the origin of two well-known Christmas words whilst Chris advises us on how to best dry-brine your turkey in Chris’s Christmas Culinary Corner. And how many birds appear in the 12 Days of Christmas?   It’s...

Season 2: Episode 8 - WE ARE 1! (The Anniversary Episode) It’s hard to believe that “I Love you, but..” has been going for a whole YEAR! Happy birthday to us and thank you to everyone that has supported us throughout the last 12 months. Today we celebrate with Chris testing Jen’s knowledge about ILYB, as well as a very entertaining story about some raffle wine. Jen fills us in about her latest gig...

Season 2: Episode 7 - The Stinking Bishop (with Pete Cilella) It’s been a few weeks since we were able to get a chance to record anything new, but we are delighted to be back with a fabulous guest this week! Pete Cilella is an actor, director, writer and podcaster based in Los Angeles and we are so exited to share his stories with you all. You can look forward to Pete sharing his Grinds, his awkwa...

Season 2: Episode 6 - Creepin’ it Real (The Halloween Episode) Welcome to our (hopefully) very Spooky Halloween Episode! What have we in store for you today? A Scary Story or perhaps a horror movie Quiz? And were clowns ever NOT scary? Creep it real and enjoy! Jen & Chris x   Hosts: Chris Geere, Jennie Sawdon (Geere) Producer: Jennie Sawdon Director: Chris Geere Editor: Jennie Sawdon Musical D...

Season 2: Episode 5 - The Knacker’s Yard Chris is aggravated again over being waved out by a driver, but we all know it’s really because he’s hungry.   This week we explore the phenomena of “Space Invaders” in Grinding the Geeres and have a healthy chat about Urinals. Chris has a quiz on lines about rain in films.. (hmm?) and Jen has a great Origin of Words which might make the guys want to cross...

Season 2: Episode 4 - The Same Shape Today sees the introduction of yet another segment that Jen has to write a tune for - “one of us gets it wrong”. And Chris shares an awkward occurrence with us as well as a Wistful Think! As always, enjoy! Jen & Chris x   Hosts: Chris Geere, Jennie Sawdon (Geere) Producer: Jennie Sawdon Director: Chris Geere Editor: Jennie Sawdon Musical Director: Jennie Sa...

Season 2: Episode 3 - Supermarket Small Talk Welcome again and thank you for being here for another episode of our beloved ILYB! This week we have an entry from Chris for Crimpy’s Tank, a quiz on crisps (and how we might like to get some of the companies we mentioned to send us some free ones) and LOTS of chat about small-talk and how to handle it! (Or not, as the case may be…) Oh, and apparently...

Season 2: Episode 2 - Ten Thousand Spoons Well isn't it ironic, don’t you think? The answer is most certainly….we don’t know.   Apparently Chris and I have no idea how the word Ironic should actually be used or in what context.   HOW IRONIC!!!??? LOL!   So come along and join us on our journey of discovery, as we find out the fascinating and different versions of the word.   We also have another d...

Season 2: Episode 1 - The House-move, The Hurricane & The Earthquake WE ARE BACK!! And we couldn’t be more excited as it’s time for SEASON 2 of @ilybpodcast!!! Where to begin with the last 4 weeks?! The title says it all to be honest, but have a listen and catch up on all our latest goss since moving out of our house in LA and experiencing a “Hurriquake”!! Enjoy! Jen & Chris xx   Hosts: Ch...

Ep 32. Beef Legs in Skirts Each week the conversations get crazier and so does the artwork it would appear! Now, Chris is bringing all the birds to his yard whilst he reminisces on one of his first experiences of having a girlfriend.   There’s a rather challenging Quiz for me to answer in Culinary Corner and we discuss the current International Day of randomness. Oh, and just for your enjoyment, C...

Ep 31. The Gift Horse This week we dive into the adventures we experienced on a visit to a safari park, along with a dose of what’s been Grinding our Geeres and some interesting Origin of Words… Ever wondered where the saying “Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth” comes from? So did we!   Enjoy!! Jen & Chris xx   Hosts: Chris Geere, Jennie Sawdon (Geere) Producer: Jennie Sawdon Director: Chris...

Ep 30. I Will Come Back… We’ve had an unintentional 3-week break but it’s been just the ticket!   We are delighted to be back, just as Arnold Schwarzenegger was when he returned in the Terminator. Which is incidentally a hot topic of this week! We dive into a brief discussion on the pressures of social media, and discuss our most useless purchase EVER.   And lastly, what gives you the “ick”? Have...

Ep 29. You Always, You Never After attending a wedding this last weekend, today we take a trip down Chris’s “Wistful lane” whilst we reminisce about our own wedding. There’s yet another jingle for our new segment “Random International Day” and you get to hear about an Awkward Occurrence that Jen recently endured.   All in all it’s a pretty romantic episode - apart from the chat about my wee phone....

Ep 28. Blue-Arsed Fly This week it’s our Father’s Day episode so it’s all about Chris and he wouldn’t let us forget it! We explore the origin of the phrase “Blue-arsed fly” and discuss some of our biggest Grinds of the week. Jen’s got a gig and Chris has a date with his son and a bbq. Enjoy! Jen & Chris xx   Hosts: Chris Geere, Jennie Sawdon (Geere) Producer: Jennie Sawdon Director: Chris Geer...

Ep 27. Pockets of Real After recovering from the disappointment of losing our first recording this week, we embarked upon a second, which resulted in proving the old adage correct: If at first you don’t succeed, it must be someone else’s fault. As a reward I got to listen to Chris discuss his mid-life crisis, whilst once again referring to our podcast as therapy. Oh and there’s another new segment...

Ep 26. One of the Best This episode is without doubt, “One of the Best” in many different ways! It was our utter pleasure to have International and Sunday Times Best-selling poet & Author Donna Ashworth on our show! She is simply enchanting. We would say that, because she’s out best friend. LOL. In this ep you will hear all about Donna’s meteoric rise to social media domination as well as enjo...

Ep 25. Soup Macabre Today we are celebrating tap-dancing and towels apparently! Intrigued? So were we!   Who is behind the decision to set the days of National and International celebration? Tune in to “Culinary Corner” to hear all about Chris’s possibly poisonous Soup Macabre and learn all about our favorite nuts and how we like to pronounce them. Discover how many bottles of wine Jen can cary ba...

Ep 24. Tom’s Magnetic Finger! Well… we’ve finally finished our house improvements and are back in the game!! We are DELIGHTED to feature this weeks’ incredible submission of a “Useless Purchase” from a very talented listener… and we hear the very interesting origin of a well-known swear word! Also, who wants to hear about Jen’s dreams?!! No one…? ENJOY!! Jen & Chris xx   Hosts: Chris Geere, Je...

Ep 23. Coronation Eyebrows It’s the Coronation this weekend and we have dedicated this episode to our amazing (?) Monarchy!!   Who likes Coronation chicken? Or more to the point, who the hell likes Sultanas? We’re also on the edge of our seats waiting to see whether or not Jen will make her eyebrow-tattooing appointment in time for the Coronation. We explore the things that might annoy the Royal f...

Ep 22. Eulogy of a Sea-Goat OMG we are so excited - it’s our first GUEST EPISODE!!! And who better to invite on the show but our fabulous friend and incredible yoga instructress, Kate Tittley?! In between the usual segments and silliness, Kate tells us her inspirational story of how she finally arrived at her dream job. She is also subjected to TWO fun quizzes - one by me and the other one by our...

Ep 21. Sausage Cologne And we’re BACK!   After a 3 weeks off, we are reunited and feeling refreshed after our visit to LA. We have missed you guys! Today we dive into some of our “Fan Feedback” and cover many different segments with various listeners’s tales from yourselves! Chris is determined to fit as many jingles as possible into this episode so get your ears ready… ROLL THE JINGLE! Enjoy! Jen...