Red-Eye and Erratic Asthmatic

While the last few weeks have been consistently posted. Red-Eye and Erratic Asthmatic have a reunion of sorts. Turns out, one of our hosts has been galivanting in their home country for over a month!

Where and what were:

🛫 The destination(s)?

🍔 Food eaten?

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Memories made?

Get some insight in this episode and let us know where abouts you plan to take your next trip!

#Podcast #Trips #Vacation #Family #Wedding #Food #Friends #Money #Planes #Luggage #Party

Dating Is Hard: Flirting Fails, Mixed Signals & Relationships

Why is flirting so awkward, and how do some people end up in relationships when the rest of us can barely tell if someone likes us?

This week on Red Eye & Erratic Asthmatic, we're talking about dating disasters, missed signals, terrible pickup lines, and the confusing business of finding someone.

One of us once got a yes to a dinner invitation at a wedding and somehow followed it up by telling her not to forget she promised. We unpack the difference between being friendly and flirting, wonder how some couples get together after barely exchanging a couple of head nods, and question whether people are looking for love… or just someone to split the rent with.

Plus: marriage deals with friends, whether we're actually ready for long-term relationships, how much you'd change for a partner, and the important question of whether having only three recipes makes you a terrible future partner.

In this episode:

• Flirting fails and confusing romantic signals

• Awkward approaches and terrible pickup lines

• Dating for love versus splitting the bills

• The pressure to settle down and get married

• Are we ready for a serious relationship?

• Cleaning, cooking, and changing your habits for someone else

Love is confusing. Dating is awkward. And apparently, becoming a good partner might require learning more than three recipes.

🎧 Listen, laugh, and let us know

Red-Eye and Erratic Asthmatic have more wonderfully horrendous methods to overcome embarrassing struggles. We cannot be held liable for the shenanigans that may ensue after adhering to the wisdom we bestow upon you in this rendition of bad advice.

🐊Wore crocs to a wedding?

✍️Forgot someone's name (for the 7th time)?

🐕Cheat on your dog?

There's definitely ways to go about these situations... but these ways may not be the routes to take.

#Podcast #Bad #Advice #Comedy #Dogs #Crocs #Names #Birthdays #Office #Colleagues #BarkBark

Sometimes spending money is actually saving money… apparently.

This week on Red Eye & Erratic Asthmatic, we get into the strange ways we justify spending money from stacking discounts and gift cards to somehow turning a €449 washing machine into a €49 washing machine.

We also get into the nightmare of buying gifts for adults, questionable birthday traditions, why free food turns coworkers into animals, the awkwardness of receiving a terrible present, and why gift cards might secretly be the safest gift of all.

Then there's laundry, moving house, rearranging bedrooms, broken suitcases and the eternal struggle of finding more space… only to immediately fill it with more stuff.

It's another conversation about money, shopping, gifts, chores and all the little decisions that somehow become complicated.

Spending money to save money. That's how it works, right?

Hindsight is always 20/20. Whenever you think you're doing something right, you may find that there's much better ways to go about it. But one thing is for sure, experience is the best educator.

💼Whether it's starting your professional career

📓Getting through classes

🌍Or just generally improving yourself as a citizen of the world

Life is full of lessons to learn. Make use of your time by experiencing it to the fullest. And take it from us, nobody's perfect.

#Podcast #Growth #Development #Career #Resume #School #Lessons #Experience #Internship #Interview

How controversial can a few completely ordinary opinions get?

In this episode of Red Eye & Erratic Asthmatic, we're bringing back the hot take challenge, where one of us has to defend a statement, whether we actually agree with it or not.

First up: the iPhone is a terrible phone. We get into iPhone vs Android, simplicity vs capability, notifications, chargers, iMessage, autocorrect, cameras and why being "intuitive" doesn't always mean being better.

Then we turn our attention to Marvel movies. Are they actually overrated, or are we just expecting too much from superhero movies? We get into Spider-Man, the multiverse, casting, sequels, CGI, nostalgia and why Hollywood keeps going back to the same franchises.

Then comes the airplane debate:

Window seat or aisle seat?

More legroom, easier bathroom access and getting off the plane faster or the ability to look out the window and lean against the wall?

And finally, we tackle whether morning people are actually more productive than night owls, or whether productivity simply depends on the person.

Four hot takes. Plenty of arguments. And absolutely no guarantee that either of us will still agree with our own opinion by the end.

In different parts of the world, we all have things that we do the same way, though there are others that we do very differently. Sometimes, even within the same locality there are widely different habits and practices that cultures, families, and individuals do and experience.

📏From getting punished at school

📦Storing items in unorthodox places

🪨And even common pastimes

We all have our own ways of going about things. How do you live your life?

#Podcast #Cultures #Habits #Similarities #Differences #Family #Bed #School #Windows #RUN

At some point growing up, you realise something terrifying: adults don't actually know everything.

In this episode of Red Eye & Erratic Asthmatic, we look back at the things we genuinely believed as kids and the ridiculous things adults told us along the way.

Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. Superheroes. Parents who seemed to have all the answers. Teachers who were supposed to know everything.

Then you get older and start noticing that maybe the adults were just… making it up as they went.

From childhood beliefs and strange family traditions to questionable teachers, bizarre classroom experiences, ridiculous school punishments, and discovering that your parents weren't necessarily the perfect students they expected you to be — this conversation turns into a hilarious look at what happens when childhood innocence meets adult reality.

Because eventually you stop asking:

“Why did I believe that?”

…and start asking:

“Wait… who was actually supposed to know what they were doing?”

🎙️ Red Eye & Erratic Asthmatic

Red-Eye and Erratic Asthmatic run through some tough (and some not-so-tough) decisions. There are plenty of useful circumstances that would help us all, but at what cost?

If you've ever wanted to:

🕵️ Find your way

🙏 Felt that you needed some forgiveness

🧠 Have unlimited knowledge

There does end up being a catch to everything. Is it worth it? Let us know!

#Podcast #Choices #Decisions #Knowledge #Questions #Forgiveness #Navigation #Expertise #Comedy #Caveat

Back to school means back to the memories we probably should've left behind.

Red Eye and Erratic Asthmatic are digging through the childhood archives and discovering just how many questionable decisions, terrible ideas, and unnecessary injuries happened before adulthood.

This episode starts with childhood pranks — including a senior prank involving a stink bomb and a school intercom — before getting into ridiculous sibling arguments, trying way too hard to impress someone you liked, and the strange things kids do just to look cool.

Then things get painful.

Broken collarbones. Glass doors. Bike crashes. Forehead injuries. Basketballs to the throat. Somehow, they both made it through childhood.

And naturally, half the memories don't even appear until they're put on the spot.

What was the dumbest thing you fought with your siblings over? What's the stupidest injury you ever got as a kid? And what ridiculous thing did you do just to impress someone?

Welcome back to school.