Should I Delete That?

Brace yourselves…. we’ve got an awkward episode for you today.  Em and Alex start us off by sharing some awkward accidental online encounters and tales of naked hilarity… then we dive into your awkwards. Prepare to have sticky toffee pudding ruined for you for the rest of your life… We also ask a question about parody videos - Em Rata blocked Celeste Barber after she posted parodies of her on...

Kevin Devonport is a multi-award winning artist - his work has been displayed worldwide to much acclaim… but his entry to the art world is not what you might expect because he learned to paint whilst he was serving a prison sentence for drug offences.  In this conversation - we discuss how art helped Kevin rebuild his life from rock bottom. Prison reform is a complicated and nuanced topic - b...

Get ready because we're sharing Em’s problematic sunbathing plans for this summer and Al’s been dropping some more French references… quelle surprise!  We also discuss two of the biggest moments of internet discourse from this week… firstly Remi Bader made a splash by talking about her weight loss surgery on Khloe Kardashian’s podcast and then Chappell Roan said that all her friends with chil...

Mr James Bellringer is a surgeon who specialises in gender surgery in transwomen.  James has been doing gender surgery since 2000 - and in this conversation, he discusses what the climate around gender surgery was like when he started and how he sees it now. He tells us about his experiences of the transformative effects of gender surgery, how vital it is for the mental health of his pat...

Mercury is in retrograde and we’re all feeling it…  Em, Al and Xanthe are in the studio today - and we’re gonna be honest… it was a little hard for us to find goods for this week’s GBA. Al’s been getting violent at the dentist and Em’s household has been hit by the flu.  We also dive into the conversations that have been opened up in the mainstream in the wake of the Netflix show Adolesc...

Who here thinks they’re rubbish with money? We did, until we spoke to Alexia De Brogile.  Alexia is the co-founder of YourJuno - the financial education app, by women, for women. In this episode, we find out how women’s attitudes to money are set from our childhood and how that lack of confidence follows us into adulthood - and stops us from growing our wealth… Alexia and her sister Marg...

We have *muchos* to discuss today! Em’s got an awkward that Boy Alex won’t let her talk about and she needs to get off her chest. Meanwhile, Al has potentially given Betty a taste for human blood…  We also discuss internet accountability - we know that that people say hurtful things online but why do people feel the need to do it? And why do people feel so comfortable to do it publicly? ...

We think stand-up comedy is possibly one of the most terrifying professions on the planet - and today, we’re speaking to a man who has mastered it.  In this episode, we’re speaking to the multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author, and scriptwriter Russell Kane. He tells us about this experience growing up funny in a working class household with a hyper-masculine father and how th...

Welcome to the new format of our Thursday episodes - this is where everything with Just Us will live: GBA, Is It Just Me and all our general nonsense! And - boy - we have got a lot of nonsense for you today!  Al’s bads are BAD today. We find out about her very bad week - and we’re even treated to a little bit of nudity. Lucky Dex!  We also discuss a mega star who gave us a ‘polite declin...

She’s BACK! And we have a very special guest in the studio…  Join Em and Al for a big old catch up after Em has been on maternity leave.  We find out about all about Xanthe’s arrival into the world - she’s a total ray of sunshine! We also find out how Em’s feeling now she’s no longer unwell…  And take a deep breath - because we have a little format update for you - we PROMISE this i...

It’s time to dive into the mailbag! Our amazing community sent in so many brilliant messages and emails in response to our body image series - so we thought it was important to take some time to acknowledge your thoughts and feedback - both the positive and the negative. Em’s still officially on maternity leave until next week - so we’ve drafted in a VERY eager substitute - it’s Sister Jen! We alw...

We’re talking Ozempic, again.  Our deep dive into body image may have wrapped up last week, but we all know this topic is far from over. So, we’re jumping back in… This time, we’re joined by influencer and longtime friend of the podcast, Sasha Pallari. After hearing our Ozempic episode, she reached out to share her own experience with Mounjaro — a journey she’s been candid about online over t...

Throughout our body image series - we’ve had so many powerful, inspiring and life-affirming conversations with people who have incredible advice on how we can build better relationships with our bodies. One of those people is Alice Liveing.  Alice is a personal trainer, influencer, columnist, podcaster and bestselling author who has inspired thousands of people with her relatable, motiva...

We’ve downed tools - because it’s time to reflect on everything that we’ve learned and felt throughout our big body image series.  Join Em and Al to discuss what we’ve learned through this series - from the history of diet culture to the way the diet landscape is shifting and morphing in front of our eyes.  We chat about where we’re at with our own body image journeys, how we’re going to...

It’s time to address the elephant in the room - Ozempic.  We know that Ozempic will change - and is already changing - the body image landscape. There is so much noise online, in the media and in our personal lives about the so called ‘miracle’ drug - so we decided to call in the help of an expert, to clear up the myths from the facts.  Dr Giles Yeo is a professor at the University of Ca...

The body image landscape is changing in front of our eyes - and we have Ozempic to blame - or thank - for that.  For the last few years - Ozempic has been the topic that has dominated the cultural conversation. Is it the silver bullet to help us with our body image or are pharmaceutical companies taking advantage of our collective desire to be thin?  In this episode we speak to a doctor...

After growing up in a world that teaches us to hate our bodies - how can we come to feel at peace with, or even begin to feel positive about our bodies? And what happens when the movement that made you feel better about your body shifts to a position you no longer align with?  Stephanie Yeboah is a content creator, author and journalist - and we spoke to her as part of our exploration of the...

If you’re listening to this episode, we reckon it’s safe to say you’re well aware of the body positivity movement, or at the very least, one of the fractions of its evolution; whether that be the self love movement or body confidence one. It’s within those, after all, that we really made our names.  Today, we’re taking you back to the inception of the body positive movement, which started by...

Have you ever felt bombarded by the information on the internet about heath and wellness? Today on the podcast - we’re speaking to a man who can clear everything up for us.  Dr Joshua Wolrich is an NHS doctor, nutritionist and the Sunday Times bestselling author of “Food Isn’t Medicine”. When we started our body image series - we knew we had to speak to him to understand his take on the “well...

Welcome back to the second part of our investigation of the “wellness” era. In the first part of this episode, we found out that the era is actually not over at all. Many of us still carry beliefs and behaviours from that time - and today we’re going to attempt to uncover what’s true and what’s just utter nonsense…. Thanks so much to our amazing guests who feature on this episode: Dr Joshua Wolric...

The 2010s is a time we have come to think of as the ‘wellness’ rebrand. The era in which we declared that we wanted to be ‘strong not skinny’ and that we discarded what we now thought of as ‘fad’ diets and traded them in for consistent ‘healthy’ living. Skin and bones were out, toned arms, visible abs and curves in all the right places were in. Today we’re investigating if by replacing thinness as...

Colette Foster was the executive producer of Channel 4’s factual entertainment show Supersize vs Superskinny.  The show was hosted by Dr Christian Jessen and each week it saw two contestants, one overweight and one underweight, swap diets whilst at a Feeding Clinic, under the supervision of Dr Jessen. Both participants were shown the extent of their poor diet. This week, we have been explorin...

It’s something anthropologists will no doubt look at with bewilderment in years to come: the extraordinary breadth of TV shows that were aired during the 00s. From Fat Families to How To Look Good Naked, we’re not sure there was anything more ruthless than the presenter of a show commissioned by Channel 4 between the years of 2001 and 2010. From the endless stream of TV shows capitalising on the n...

This week, we’ve been examining the role that nurture played in building our relationships with our bodies - and specifically the role played by the tabloid media of the 90s and 00s.  To really understand how that seismic impact the tabloids had on us - we had to speak to someone who knew how they work from the inside - that’s where Isabel comes in... Isabel is a writer who started her career...

At the height of their popularity newspapers like The Sun and The Mirror were selling over 5 million copies a day, while magazines like Heat were distributing over 600,00 copies weekly.  As we go one step further into understanding the ways in which we feel about our own bodies - we thought we needed to explore more than just nature’s part in our story, and look at nurture’s involvement in th...