Is it too Hot or Is Everyone and Everything Losing the Plot?

In this episode, Dina and Jules try to figure out whether it’s the heat, the internet, the cost of living… or if everyone and everything really is losing the plot a little bit. From bizarre public behaviour and people acting strangely in the streets, to outrageously expensive hair appointments and the growing feeling that everything suddenly costs double, we chat through the small things that are starting to feel slightly unhinged..

We also dive into TV shows, streaming overload, and why it feels harder than ever to find something genuinely good to watch. It’s a funny, observational conversation about modern life, overstimulation, and wondering if we’re all just a bit too hot, not bothered and already  tired at this point.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:05

Hi Joe. Hi Tina. Welcome to Everyday Something Podcast. Here we are again sweating ourselves. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

It's only end of May and it feels like it's the middle of August.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

We feel like we've already gone through an entire summer. Yeah. And it's already just started. It's only been three, what, three, four days of the 30 degrees?

SPEAKER_00 0:30

I would say 34 degrees. 35. Like every time I'm in the car, it's like over 30.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

It's crazy. It's crazy. And it's humid, and it's just, I think it's caused the reason that we brought this up as a topic today, because I think that the heat's gone through some people's heads because it's for sure. It has uh brought on erraticness, stupidity, and craziness. And craziness.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Yesterday there were two incidents, yeah, right, in Zagreb.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

The first one was Hugo with the the guy jumping on people's cars.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

At the traffic lights. At the traffic light. He just started on the roof of their cars. He was using the cars like trampoline. He was just jumping on.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Did you see the image where he tried to jump onto the onto the other car and then missed?

SPEAKER_00 1:19

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

Like from one lane to the other, like an absolute psychopath.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Yeah, that was one.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

And the other one was a woman who decided that it was no clothes day.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

She was just hot, birthday.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Dark, naked.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

She must have been going through a sweaty day and decided to get her off.

SPEAKER_02 1:38

And the and from the images, she she never shaves.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Oh my gosh. Well, that's in nowadays, isn't it? That must have been a sight. Like you know, we don't have this kind of incidents so often. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Fun, fun times and heat. Um absolutely. I am lost for words. I'm lost for words. I just feel like um summer times hit, people have decided that they don't longer want to work, and I think that happens a lot every year. Yes. It's almost like they just tune out. It's like I'm not working for the next three months.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

Yeah, as soon as it gets hot, people feel like it should be holiday time. I feel yeah. Like they just kind of tune out. True. Uh especially like once the school finishes in the next few weeks. Doesn't really 12th of June, the school is finished. For what, three months? Yeah. Oh, you're gonna have fun. It's the fun times for the parents. Wow. And uh and then it's like everyone's just waiting. When are we going to the seaside? It's like we are all in this anticipation, and every time you want to get something done, it's impossible. Like today I went to a seamstress, and she just looked at me and she was like, I'm not gonna be able to get this done for you that that soon. I was like, Okay, this is gonna take like it's almost like you went in asking for her to do it for prom or something. Yeah, I just needed some things to be taken in, that's it. And uh and then in the end, she came up with uh only like 10 days from now. I was like, okay, that's not that bad.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

But then again, maybe people are expecting service to be like immediate or in the next few days. So maybe she's used to those kind of customers. I don't know, but she did not look like she wanted to take them up.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

But the worst part was that I don't think she but the sounds of it, she didn't give you the opportunity to to speak. I mean, you kept telling her that you're in no hurry for it.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

Yeah, exactly. I didn't care if it's gonna take a few weeks or a lot of.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

I just think some people are really bad at customer service personally, you know, like are they you know, like you're under pressure and then you just don't know how to take it. Yeah, you just explode.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Yeah, and in Croatia this happens a lot because we don't have that much choices for a lot of things. So people get overbooked and they don't know how to manage their like time, their schedules. Like even places like you know, when you want to get your nails done or your hair. You have to plan everything like two weeks, three weeks in advance sometimes. And it took me a while to find those people who you know, you don't need to book that that far in advance because I can't think like that far in advance three weeks in advance when I'm gonna do my hair, you know. So it takes a while to get those people who actually plan out their time differently.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

But I think it's also handy because it's always the the popular ones or the ones that who are just like solidly, some of them are like booked out even more, like a month or six weeks in advance. And it's like, who the hell could if you've decided to get a pedicure, you sure as hell aren't gonna wait that long. I remember wanting to get a massage years ago, and this woman was getting busier, and I just wasn't allowed to book, so after I finished my massage, to be able to book for the next two weeks because it she was always like six to eight weeks booked up. It's like babe, I'm gonna email a lot a lot sooner than that. Yeah, and so it was just really frustrating, really, really frustrating. But um yesterday, as you know, I went to get my hair done and I get like a full head of hair colour every well, once a year. I I like to stretch it out a bit and then do the T-zone thing in between and had a coronary because um I my hair's you know, as you know, shoulder just on the shoulder length. And she kept saying the entire time that it was going to be a colour to remember. It was going to be a colour to remember, and in between the conversations she kept talking about how the product has become expensive and how the monthly salary has increased in Croatia, not realizing that when I got to the register at the end of the three and a half hours, that she was basically prepping me up for the shock of a lifetime that my hair was 100 euro more expensive than it was five months ago.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

Yeah, this is crazy, which is something that's happening now a lot and probably all over the world, but uh it's just nuts. People are increasing their prices like by 40%, 50%.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

It's just nuts. I don't know. My sister's an Australian and in the US that's just normal for them, but it's just I I don't think I don't know how it it's does it's how it can be sustained here, to be honest. But it's just happening every day, everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Yeah, I think people, you know, listen to the news and they hear inflation, inflation, inflation. Yeah, but inflation is a few percent. Yeah, like exactly maybe great. When you spread it when it's spread out, correct whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that doesn't mean that you can increase your services by forty to fifty percent. Yeah, yeah. Because that doesn't make yeah any sense. Yeah, yes, things have gotten more expensive, petrol has gone up, but it hasn't gone up to that point where you can justify charging your services 50% more.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

It's just yeah, I mean, I would be too scared to go and get it done the next time because I'm sure it's just gonna go up.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Yeah, and also like you know, I think people hear of some hairdressers that are charging ridiculous amounts of money, right? But that's a different kind of market, it is a different kind of hairdresser. Yeah, um, they've already established their name maybe among celebrities or I don't know, whatever. And then someone who is like let's say a normal hairdresser, she thinks, oh, if they charge that.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

That's the problem, exactly. You're spot on, right?

SPEAKER_00 8:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I should be able to charge 100% at least 60%.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. Because I remember getting um Sheatsum Ash years ago, and and the girl said, you know, this is her price, and it was a price for a you know a lengthy period of time. And of course you're a regular, so you know, it's it's it's a regular income for her too. And she kept having some guy in her ear who came in who was, you know, obviously had money to throw around, and kept saying to her, You could charge more, you know. And then you hear that from one person to another, and you're like, you know, you can charge more. So and so's in in in Zagreb or whatever else is charging, you know, this much. And so they start building this like story in their head, and then that's exactly what they do. Like my shiatsu here, even in Somerville, which is a small town compared to, you know, let's say Zagreb, let's be honest. I mean, he went up, he went up by 30 euro in the space of like two months, all because some dude who was a physiotherapist says to him, You know, if they're fucking charging this much in this in Zagro, you can pay charge more. But it's not doesn't work that way. Yeah, exactly. And then, you know, like from and then they develop this mentality, this is what I think, is that less is more. It's like they rather focus on 100 clients where they can charge, let's say 500, then have 200 clients where they charge 250 or whatever else, 200.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

Yeah, and they don't realize that along the way they might lose some of those hundred clients. But they can't they're re they're re willing to risk that, yeah. Because not because maybe the price, maybe because some other reason, like I don't know, their friends told them about this new salon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they will definitely lose some of the the line, so you always have to be looking for new ones instead of having a bigger pool of people.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

I mean, I I understand when people say, you know, to work uh like less is more in the sense to work smarter, not you know I I'm I'm I totally get that. But I also think that there comes a point where you know, like if you like that client, do you know what I mean? Like you could you could in you could keep all these clients that of course pay you more. And maybe you're regular, and yeah, and all and maybe you make peace with that where you go, well they're not really that nice people, but I don't care, it's just the money they look at, as opposed to, well, this person's a real joy to have in this Oh no, I don't think they look at it that way.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

They don't look at it like that today. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

To them, it's just like which is a real shame, isn't it? Because from from the client's perspective, you go there because you trust the person.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Yeah. I go to mine because I have so much fun when I'm at the salon. Do you?

SPEAKER_02 11:09

What kind of fun are you having? Because I'm not having fun in mine.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

She is like, she's one of those people who's like full of stories, and then she has these like old little aunties or grannies that come and they tell their stories, and everyone is kind of like like a big family when you go there, everyone's talking to each other, we all kind of like share our situations, so it's quite a fun thing to us. Um, that's why I go to mine, you know, like so. Everybody has different reasons for going to certain sales.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Yeah, no, mine's definitely not that. Um, not to say she isn't great, she's phenomenal, but uh yeah, I was telling you that massage I went and had, did I, two weeks ago. Did I send you the photo? You walk in there, this is a you know, I've never been to a massage salon where you go in there and you've got like a plate of chocolate, spritzes and biscuits, you've got the coffee machine. I'm thinking, I'm having a mess, this is fantastic. I'm not gonna leave it.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

You should have come half an hour early.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

But then I need time for it to digest. It's like all these chocolate biscuits. I'm like, oh my god, I'm so tempted. I had a Raphaola, that's better as far than I thought. And then I got I then I I went into a panic attack thinking, what happens if I get stuck in my throat? You know, like the coconut gets stuck in my throat while I'm halfway. You're gonna have itchy throat. But she she was great, and she was yeah, she was she was fantastic. Sorry, I'll um you've definitely got to go to her, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Yeah, I have to try that out. I'm all about good mass good massages that yeah, you know, press the right spots and yeah, no, I I love it, but I just think that this heat, are you too hot by the way?

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Like I'm I'm okay, but put the air con I'm okay, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

You sure? Yeah, because I'm it's just I've been the whole day, I've been melting. You keep talking. I've been melting away the whole day, and like the worst part is like getting into that heated car like that's been under the sun, and you're like turning up the aircon, and it's like no word.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

That is the pits, actually. Because I reckon that's the worst part is actually sitting in the car and then waiting for it to cool down. Oh my god, it doesn't cool down, let's be honest.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

I I had terrible sleep last night as well because I watched this movie with Charlize Theron, who I love. Oh, you did not watch Apex, yes, no, and as I was watching it last night, I was thinking I'm going to have nightmares, and of course, I had the worst nightmares. You know that feeling when you wake up and you are so scared, you're terrified for your life. Oh my god, I was terrified for my life, and I was thinking, who the hell made me watch that movie? I do have the Australia. I know it's in Australia.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

I don't care. I took I watched the trailer and went, hell no.

unknown 14:14

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

Because I was already getting anxiety.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

I don't like oh my god, what were you thinking? Oh I didn't I didn't even see the trailer, I saw her. Oh my god. And I was like, Oh, I love Charlotte Ceremony and I watched this, and it was like intense.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

Had you watched the trailer, you would have definitely gone, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

Oh my god, no way, and I'm like, why do they make movies that make you jump so much, you know? And half of the time I'm like, I just want to see the end.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

To me, it was like a oh my god, you went to the end. Yeah, I had to see the. Did you skip to the end or you actually went to the end?

SPEAKER_00 14:50

I had to watch the end till the end. No, even though, apart from these like intense parts, it was not a very good movie.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Yeah, no, and that's what I was just about to tell you.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

It's very badly rated. Yeah, I didn't I didn't see reviews, I didn't see nothing. Oh no, I was just like, Charlie's there on, yay, yeah. And then I realized they don't know how to make good movies anymore.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

I completely agree. I get to this point where I really believe that they've lost the knack of writing good plots. Yeah, you know, like it's almost like they do crossovers of a bunch of plots. There's always a crime. The crime, crime is always a murder and a love story entwined if you're lucky. But that one I wouldn't have even bothered because I saw that was on that sort of precipice of horror for me, and I can't do horror. Like just sound usually I don't want sound. I know horror is is enough to frighten me. That's why I thought like Stranger Things, brilliant, like I could handle that. That was science fiction, and you know, my mind went into this is not real, this is not real, this is like Apex Hell, no gosh. So I all of you out there, please don't watch it if you're but it has had some seriously bad reviews because yeah, it was filmed in Aussie, and that guy is a very um popular actor. Yeah, he's a good actor, she's a great actress, and just not the plot, but it is it is a lot of the I'm struggling to watch, I'm struggling to watch anything now on Netflix or I watched Kylie, of course, the Aussie in me. And we watched we definitely did you fit Oh did you finish it? Yes, we're talking off-campus Seagales.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Oh my gosh. Talk to me. That was that that brought me back to my younger days when I used to watch like My So-Called Life. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

I'm talking about Heartbreak High in Australia, but yeah. Oh my gosh, it was like so like so sweet, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 16:58

So easy to watch, kind of thing, and slightly relatable in some parts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And uh the actors are really good at they really for someone that you know is totally un they're all new, yeah. Um, very good. I mean, the the lead actress Hannah is beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

I think she's the youngest, she's like 1919, yeah. And then you got the guy that Belmont who plays Gareth, who everyone thought at one point was Michael Hutchins' son. Oh, really? Yeah, there was this whole talk on social media that they thought it was Michael Hutchinson's son because of the likeness to him, but no. He's very good. So who do you who I mean I know we're older, we can say this, but did you do you have a tier of who you thought was the hottest out of the three?

SPEAKER_00 17:43

Because But I I don't know, I found him Gareth, the main character, I found him the most charismatic. Yeah. I don't think the others really had that uh how do you call that like depth? Depth and and that romantic like that that you know that there's gonna lure you into you know that there's separate books, right?

SPEAKER_02 18:04

So there's eight books in the series, or seven or eight books. So each book is a different different love story for a different person. So next one's Dean. Oh, okay. So they're gonna take the next one's De Laurentis, Dean and Allie. Allie because uh Gareth Dean and Logan. Yeah, it's Johnny Logan.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

Very well done. I thought so. Very sweet, and what I'm so happy about is it wasn't all like crowded with naked scenes and sex scenes and except the one scene, but that's alright, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

Yeah, but you couldn't see it, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

You know what I mean? Like usually I'm how usually I have to skip how to show you because my kids are like everywhere, and so this was tastefully, yeah, very tastefully.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

And apparently they've already written the the next season and it's starting filming again. I know. I know I'm all these 40 and 50 year olds are all sad. Well, there's women at home who aren't home. They have something to look forward to. I mean, there's people binge washing it, like two or three. I feel like I think I would probably watch it again. Yeah, I don't know. I just because it was that I remember getting to like episode four going, I'm freaking enjoying this. This is insane.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:22

For someone who's like 57, I'm enjoying this so much. Exactly. You don't feel that they're so young. No, you get what it's like. Well, the storyline's very mature, isn't it? Yeah, very new age and mature.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

It's one of those teenage shows that you know, like like the summer I turned pretty or something.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

Yeah, I didn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

This was more like mature subjects and um, yeah, very, very good. Have you watched Max?

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Hey, you still haven't done Maxton Hall? You still haven't done Max Hall Okay. Maxton Hall's brilliant, but it's in German. Oh. And I know that you lose you lose it on the whole subtitles.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

I can do lax button. I can sometimes I did I did one French uh and I was proud of myself. But uh Spanish I can do, Italian I can do, but German.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

Um I have to admit, because the plot and the storyline is so brilliant, you forget you're watching a German. I s I swear it's that good. And the actors, the lead actors, are phenomenal, much like it, much like off campus, these guys are next level phenomenal. So they're like a really enjoyable to watch. Yeah. So yeah, um, I tried to watch a Swedish series last night. Okay. I can't do it. I try, but it's just that fantastic. I can't fantasis.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

I can't get into it when you know I feel so unfamiliar to me, the language.

SPEAKER_02 20:55

I watched Bodvan, and that's Irish, and of course, with every Irish series, there's just a lot of damn crime and a lot of dark humour. I loved it at the start and I just lost it. You know which one is that? Bodvan. Bodvan. Yeah, Bodwin. It's on about seven episodes. Okay. It starts off really well, and then it just the guy's a podcaster. I thought it was hilarious because of course he is. God is a podcaster.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Oh, wait, but I start you told me it you told me you enjoyed Beef Second Series.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

I loved Beef Second Series. Did you watch it?

SPEAKER_00 21:26

I I I started watching it, but I didn't finish.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

Oh brilliant.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Yeah?

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Yeah, I didn't like you, I didn't enjoy the first one at all. Um, I loved the second one nailed it. I thought it was brilliant.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

Beef watch second.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Yeah, I have to I have to go back to it because I kind of went off to off campus and then I forgot.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

Well, yeah, because that off campus doesn't last long enough because you get you start binge watching it and then then before you know it's over, then you've got nothing else to watch. Because that's what always happens though with this like pay TV and especially when it's this hot you just want to stay.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

No, and I think it doesn't you you didn't Produce shows that fast anymore or movies.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

Hey, I see Nicole Kidman's dropped off the screen for a while because you know how there was a wild movie. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Every single she had to probably go for her nip and tuck. Oh John Travolta.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

Sorry, I'm bringing this up because I gotta I gotta look at him this morning. He's on Kelly Clarkson wearing the goddamn b beret again. No, babe, because you know why? Because you know you and you and I know that. However, the public seems to not understand why his neck is better than mine at the moment. And is and furthermore, so in he got away with it when he was in France because he was in Cannes and that's why he was wearing the beret, but now he's doing it because this is gold. He made a film about producers, like film uh movie producers. Okay, and so that kind of that's the look that's the look of the producers. Of the producers. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

So he's wearing the bra. And he's yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

But he's not hiding scarves.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Totally. But I was uh watching these plastic surgeons talk about what happened to these men, like Bradley Cooper. Oh, he had Carey and they I didn't know Jim Cory too. Yeah, he also like totally looks like well Bradley Cooper's looks. So the the the plastic surgeon said um the problem is that their surgeons are surgeons who do plastic surgery on women. Right. So they use the same tactics, Jesus Christ, which is removing all this skin on top of your violet, left, and and and then they make them look feminine, especially those who already have a little bit of feminine features when you remove these things that are more masculine, yeah. That's interesting completely lose their you know the features. Bradley's just too. I mean, Jim Carrey, they thought it was a double at one point because he looked so different. Oh, he also had some very, very tight um, and I'm surprised he did because he was so anti Hollywood.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

I know he knows so not him, and he's so a he's non-Hollywood, like he's anti-Hollywood, he's like almost diss Hollywood. Yeah, so I'm surprised. He looks so different. And Gosling went and did this the cheek implant or something, he just looks really bad compared to the movie that he was in where he had the six pack, and I can't remember what that one was called, but he was helping some older guy.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Um it's so I I think you know, this whole like I am sixty years old, but I look like I'm 30, I really guess I'm hurting. I mean but it's more like why. You know, I was watching this show Mobland. I don't know if you heard it. No, no, I haven't. It's about uh mafia, okay. Mafia in uh England, okay, and it's with Helen Mill Millen Miller, you know the old lady Miren, Miren, Miren, and it was so refreshing. She was all wrinkled up, yeah, and she looked like her age, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's a fantastic actress, like her actress. Yeah, she is great, amazing. Yeah, and I was like, thank god, someone and and uh Piers Brosnan, yeah, also looking like his age. You get what I mean? Like, how are all these movies gonna look when a 70-year-old is gonna look like his 30? Look at Cher.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

Cher looks younger than she did when she was in silkwood, right? How is that gonna work? I know, with no and and no expression. We need you to cry. I am crying. Can't you see it? Look, not look, can you look sad?

SPEAKER_00 25:52

I am I'm proud. No, I think people have taken it a little bit too far.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

This whole thing's gone, the whole world's gone mad.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

I understand the technology has uh improved, the recovery process is a lot smoother, it looks more natural, but nothing is natural when you look like you're 30 and you're 60. No.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

It's a gracefully enough. If you want to do tweaks, fine, but just take it, just yeah, go easy. Yeah, drastic. It's when they go drastic, it's just look like you said, can you imagine? Like we're all it's gonna be odd generation. I know, and she's going and she's going for a facelift, yeah, and promoting it. And she's gonna share her entire journey. Please don't.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

I'm like you're 28. Please don't. You're going for a facelift, like yeah, and by the way, she's gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

But you know, I'm gorgeous. In my day, in my day, we weren't we weren't encouraged, like, obviously, because Botox came out much later, you know. Um, but you know, in my late 30s is when it was encouraged. The problem is that people are encouraging 20-year-olds to start so that they don't they they don't develop wrinkles.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Yeah. It's like let's just stop something pre preventative. Yeah, but it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

You might as well just get into a time capsule for fuck's sake. We'll start with that.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Oh gosh. Anyway, I think that's not today.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

The air con now feeling a lot better. I was spending them. I was gonna faint. What did you tell me? Tom spends the air con. What are you doing? Sorry, guys. I nearly I nearly made my poor demons wait today's on my phone. Um, thanks for tuning in, guys.

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Yes, we shall see you next time. Bye bye.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

Bye bye.