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March 17, 2026·44 min·3 clips

Amber prepares to be grand marshal of a St. Patrick's Day parade, worrying people might throw things at her.

1. Vogue and Amber record without their co-host Emma, who is still on holiday in Thailand, and open by discussing Amber's invitation to appear in the Dublin St. Patrick's Day parade. 2. Amber and Vogue are sisters and co-hosts; Amber is also currently competing in Dancing with the Stars, which provides context for the parade invitation. 3. The episode's through-line is the sisters comparing their own aspirations and embarrassing pasts against their present domestic realities. 4. Amber was invited to ride in the front of the Dublin St. Patrick's Day parade after her Dancing with the Stars elimination, citing it as 'the ultimate goal of Irishness,' but is now panicking that nobody will recognise her or that people will throw things. 5. A co-worker told Amber that a 'Amber for President' sign has already been made along the parade route, which Vogue greets with enthusiasm and Amber with mixed feelings. 6. The show revisits their childhood memories of attending the St. Patrick's Day parade with their late father, who used to take them before they graduated to pub crawls around Camden Street. 7. Vogue describes ongoing household cleaning tasks — washing towels every other day, cleaning the microwave, hoovering the car, and rotating the mattress 180 degrees — in a segment that draws mockery from both Amber and Emma via message. 8. A Yakult yoghurt drink Vogue is currently sponsoring (Skyr) comes up, as does an adult Yop yoghurt drink she found and is enthusiastic about. 9. Amber describes attempting to enter a 'gig era': she nearly obtained O2 tickets to see Dave via a senior MCD contact but had to cancel for a parent-teacher meeting. 10. Amber wants to see The Prodigy perform 'Breathe,' which she was already listening to at age 11 despite her mother refusing to buy the album because of its bad language. 11. The Pussycat Dolls reunion announcement with only three of the original five members prompts the question of which two were excluded and why, with a comparison to the Sugababes' multiple lineup changes. 12. Vogue and Amber attended a Sugababes show at the Soho House Festival and both got photos with the band, which Vogue describes with self-deprecating embarrassment. 13. A Guinness World Records segment reveals Spencer holds three records: 30 marathons in 30 days, the fastest Ironman in Antarctica, and the fastest seven Ironman completions across seven continents. 14. Vogue adds that as a teenager she wore an external head brace every night — a device hooking into her mouth and around the back of her head — to correct her bite, which she attempts to show Gigi as a cautionary anti-thumb-sucking illustration. 15. Amber describes her own teenage look: heavy gel slicked-back hair with a large cow's lick, luminous blue eyeshadow, and 'slithery' over-plucked eyebrows. 16. A Sister Cards segment asks what old-person habits the hosts have; both Vogue and Amber say they go to bed between 7pm and 9pm, with Vogue noting she was at 7pm when Amber visited. 17. The weirdest-foods question produces Vogue's most detailed answer of the episode: live scorpions on Bear Grylls, pig's brain, fish eyes, fermented fish, tarantula legs, crickets, and a skinned rat on a stick she describes as having an 'awful stench.' 18. Emma's contribution to the weirdest-foods segment — a deep-fried chip-shop burger on Belmont Street in Aberdeen — is met with laughter, though it is presented without embarrassment. 19. Amber is planning a breakfast wrap with scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, guacamole, cheese, and Sriracha, toasted in a wrap; the episode closes on a discussion of food snobbery (both cite specific brands of butter and ketchup as non-negotiables). 20. Best suited to fans of Irish women's lifestyle chat podcasts; less suited to listeners seeking structured information or topic-focused content.

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Loose, lively chat that turns minor annoyances into steady comic payoff.

Amber and Vujay spend the episode drifting from holiday gossip to dance-show nerves to the hunt for something suitable for the wrap party. Their easy back-and-forth carries it: each keeps picking up the other's thread, bending it a little, and landing it with more bite than it…

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For when you want an Irish chat full of banter, gig plans, and a very expensive one-screw glasses fix.

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