Venting with Julie Jay

'It is great that bees are back but I would just prefer if it wasn't in my chimney.'

I'm chatting Love Island shifting, pest control problems and scrubbing houses like our security deposits depend on it (it did). I'm also talking about how this generation didn't invent shifting brothers, debate whether or not August is autumn, and dwell for far too long on the cost of sheds.

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'I think you not being good on Love Island is less to do with you inability to be strategic and more to do with the fact you are a 45 year old who is married.'
I'm talking about tormenting my poor, long-suffering DPD man, why you should never use a Flash wipe as an eye cleanser and how my friend's German husband solved the 13-12 mystery that has haunted me for nearly three years.
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'Níl a dheireann tú rudaí os ard, níl aon dul siar air.'
As seo amach, beidh pod as Ghaeilge agam gach Déardaoin daoibh. Tuigim nach dtaitneoidh sé seo le gach duine is muna dtaitneoidh beidh an eagrán as Béarla fos agam gach Máirt mar is gnáth leis. 
In sa chéad eagrán táim ag caint fé éad is cé chomh díobháileach is atá sé agus ag caint fé bogadh tí is ag cuimhneamh os ard mar a dúirt Ed Sheeran tráth an bhfuil an cinneadh ceart déanta againn. 
Beidh an pod seo níos pearsanta ná an cheann eile mar, is déanaim plé fé seo ar an bpod, braithim níos sábhailte ag rá na rudaí seo as Ghaeilge ná an Béarla mar, is níl clú agam cadinathaobh, is féidir liom a bheith níos leochailí as Ghaeilge.  So má suim agat sa Ghaeilge/in sna rudai móra, tar liom! J xx

'I'm like the GAA Catifsh, it's impossible to get rid of me'
I'm talking about doing the Leaving Cert all over again, getting fired as an Oral Irish examiner, reinforcing stereotypes in Bondi eateries circa the mid noughties and Holy Communions in England.
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Thanks so much for listening! J x

'After that afternoon in Siamsa Tíre I was one step away from joining the Black and Tans just as a coping mechanism.'

I discuss the confronting nature of Easter Camps - essentially the new nightclub of 2026, where all your ghosts of Christmas past will encounter you at your most vulnerable and misremember the name of your current husband. In a major moment for geopolitics I compare Trump's level of diplomatic delusion to my lowest emotional ebb circa 2011 and also recall the economic consequences that follow. 
Finally I discuss the PTSD I am still suffering following my afternoon of hip hop and overheating in Siamsa Tíre, and fret about how my lack of parental control may very well have cost my child a career in local politics and guaranteed my own status as the last woman you want to chaperone an extra-curricular activity. 
Finally we learn from Fred what to do when your Twitter gets hacked, and I look for a pen. Exciting! If you have enjoyed please rate and review wherever you get your pods! Thanks so much for being here - J x