Chapter 1: What pressures contribute to our constant feeling of rushing?
I'm not quite out of hibernation yet. I'm still kind of like a little baby mole appearing from their hole. So one day when I'm old and irrelevant, I can look back and go, oh, look, I interviewed Alicia Keys and Hillary Clinton. And I just kept thinking through the first three episodes. How do I get time off so I can just go to a cabin in Montana and roll in the hay? Why are we always rushing?
We need a day where we don't rush. Can we all promise that we're going to do that soon? Have an anti-rush day. They dine at his back door and then shit on my doorstep. Bloody pissing me off, that is. Hello, guys. It's Fern Cotton here. Welcome to Happy Place. I hope that you're all doing OK.
Chapter 2: How can watching a great TV series influence our happiness?
Once again, I'm here with a list of things that are making me and Team Happy Place feel happy and good and boosted and buzzed. And also we're chatting about what we're putting in the bin, what can piss right off. And this episode of Happy Place is brought to you by Paramount Plus's brand new show, The Madison. Now, this is heavily going into my making me feel very happy boxes.
This show is exactly what I needed. I had a really shit Saturday last weekend for various reasons. I was just feeling down in the dumps. and I just needed a bit of a pick-me-up, and I watched, I binged the first three episodes of The Madison, and it was exactly what I needed. Let me run through why I love this show. First of all, Michelle Pfeiffer is queen.
She's so fantastic in this TV show, alongside Kurt Russell, who plays her husband, And it's an actual really heavy female-led cast because I don't want to give anything away. What can I say? Kurt Russell is in and out of the show in moments, but it's mainly a female heavy cast. And it's just a bevy of brilliant women.
Chapter 3: What small joys can we find in beautiful stationery?
incredible actors in the most stunning scenery. You've either got like inner city in New York, sort of like high end, gorgeous New York, or Montana with these sweeping mountains and lakes. And that was the bit that really soothed my soul. There's these moments in the show for various reasons I don't want to give away, where the whole of Michelle Pfeiffer's family are flung together in Montana.
And there's obviously cowboys and horses and this scenery. And they're living quite sparsely in this cabin. And I just kept thinking through the first three episodes, I want to be there. How do I get time off so I can just go to a cabin in Montana and walk around with that amazing scenery and roll in the hay and watch the sun setting with that huge 180 sky? Something so soothing about it.
And also the music. accompanying a lot of those big sweeping shots of that scenery. It was so comforting to watch. There's a little bit of romance that I've just caught on episode three and I just loved it and I'm desperate to watch the other episodes. I wanted more desperately. I watched all three without a break.
Chapter 4: Why do we wake up so early on weekends and how can we handle it?
I don't think I even got up to go for a wee. It's just perfect comedy. cozy night in TV, which I am so here for. I'm not quite out of hibernation yet. I'm still kind of like a little baby mole appearing from their hole over winter to squint into the bright lights of spring. So more good TV. If you've got any good TV suggestions, send them my way. But mine to you is the Madison.
You have to watch it. It is brilliant. There's some real excellent moments of
sport behavior and entitlement being called out which is very fun too and some like proper fighting scenes oh my god you're just gonna love it you've got to got to watch it let's have a look at what is making team happy place feel happy first two lovely lana lovely lana lana's job is hard to describe i would sort of say this might even be a bit reductive can we
sort of looking at what she does, but I would say she's the happy place coordinator. She makes everything happen. I have a wacky idea.
Chapter 5: Is it ethical to feed wild animals like foxes?
She's onto it the next day. Working out what's happening with the podcast, the festival, pulling all the teams together, the marketplace. Lana is your lady. She's amazing. What's making Lana happy? Unsurprisingly, because she's the most organized human on the planet, great stationery and notebooks. I cannot... agree more.
Let me just show you my, if you've only ever listened to the podcast and you've not watched it on YouTube, I have this beautiful leather bound happy place notepad. It's got these thin paper sheets with a gold edge. I like spending money on very nice stationery because it makes my handwriting neater. So when I go to look up my notes, it's actually legible. And it's just a lovely thing to keep.
So I've now done, I think we're nearing to about 500 episodes of Happy Place, which is wild over the last eight years. And every one of them, I have handwritten out a bit of a flow for the chat.
Chapter 6: What are effective methods for toilet training kittens?
And I've kept all of the notepads. I've got tens of these. And they're all lined up in my little office. So one day when I'm old and irrelevant, I can look back and go, oh, look, I interviewed Alicia Keys and Hillary Clinton. But I just love good stationery. So Lana.
I'm with you gal um should we have a look at some dislikes what's my own dislike I know this is pissing me off so much and I don't know what to do about it on a weekend on a Saturday and a Sunday obviously that's a fucking weekend on a weekend I wake up at half five six ping I'm awake and All the thoughts I've ever had enter my head. And by about 10 to 6, I think, I'll just get up.
And I'm awake an hour and a half, sometimes two hours before my kids, which is nice to have that bit of time to myself. But on a Monday morning, when I have to get up at 6 because I've got to get the kids ready, got to get their breakfast made, got to get them off to school before I race back and have a shower myself and then get to work. I am in a deep sleep. Sleep.
I'm having a dream when my alarm goes off. When my alarm chimed this morning at six on the dot, I was having a dream that I was in Australia in a jungle with Dec from Ant and Dec.
Chapter 7: How can we combat the madness of rushing through our days?
That's where I was at six in the morning. Unlike Saturday and Sunday where I was fully, fully awake, where I could have had a lie in. What is that about? What is that? How do I change it? How do I make that Monday morning thing a Sunday? I don't understand. I haven't achieved it ever. It is pissing me off so much.
And today, because my alarm went off at six and I was in a deep sleep, I'm still a bit groggy, you know, when you're kind of like still trying to find my feet with the day. On a Sunday, I could have happily been in that zone all day. It wouldn't have mattered. Bloody pissing me off that is. Marcia is a brilliant member, valued member of Team Happy Place.
She works with lots of different brands that we either collaborate with, brands that we have showcased at the festival, brands that sponsor areas of the festival, brands that sit on our marketplace, brands that are in our Happy Place edit boxes.
Chapter 8: What insights can we gain from the roles within Team Happy Place?
She has got amazing relationships with all these brilliant brands that we love working with. We love supporting, but we love collaborating with too. And everyone loves Marcia and Matilda from that team. Everyone's like, oh my God, Marcia and Matilda are just the best. They really are. Marcia says, my neighbour... I mean, we're totally calling out Marcia's neighbour.
My neighbour feeding the foxes in the garden. They dine at his back door and then shit on my doorstep. I mean, that is... Fucking annoying. I have toyed with the idea of feeding the foxes because I saw a fox out in the day, in daylight, not long ago. And I think that means they're really hungry. So I have heard putting out dog food for them is a lovely thing to do.
But the shitting issue, that is deeply annoying. And I guess this one has chimed with me today because big news, my cat stroke kitten, Fig, who's the youngest of my three cats, has started going outside and it is the best thing ever because if you've had a kitten, you'll know that for the first few months of their life, they stay indoors and you have a litter tray. Litter trays are the pits.
Every day that I have to shovel out one of her shits and she's this cute, tiny, pretty,
pretty little angel of a cat she does like her shits are like horses shits they are stinky they are massive they're outrageous for such a pretty little thing and I have to go in shovel it out put it in a bag like gagging as I'm doing it put that in the bin then the bin stinks I've got to take the whole bin bag out it's a right palaver so now I'm through it.
What I've done, if anyone's got a kitten wondering what a good way is to integrate them into garden life, because I've done this many times with many cats, is I've put the litter tray directly outside the cat flap. So she understands that she's got to go through the cat flap to get into the litter tray, which is in the garden.
And eventually that litter tray will get nearer and nearer to a flower bed. And then it will magically disappear. The only issue is she's worked out how to get in the cat flat when she's in the garden and she wants to come in. She's still really troubled with getting out of it. So I have to keep shoving her out of the cat flat. But we're going to get there. We're working on it.
So although I don't have a fox shitting directly onto my patio, I do have a cat shitting on my patio in the litter tray. It's a lot of shitty issues. But Mars, I hear you. I feel you. I think your neighbour's trying to do a good thing, but they're obviously causing you trouble in the meantime. And I think fox shit is the smelliest of all the shits, isn't it?
I think it goes fox, dog, cat in terms of smelliness. Fox shit's got like a... tart yet sour quality to it. And if you step in fuck shit, my God, you know about it. I may have broken a world record with saying shit more times in any podcast I've ever recorded today. Oh, this is just a nice one that I think I need to say. This is from Hannah.
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