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The Sinead Says Podcast

Blood Vessels & Bao Buns | Sinead & Gemma Say TOO MUCH

The Sinead Says Podcast

Sinead Hegarty

Mindfulness, Society & Culture, Business, Mental Health, Cheating, Travel, Trust, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Positivity, Happiness, Meditation, Love, Books, Relationships, Sex, Education

5.0587 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to another episode of our series “Sinead & Gemma Say TOO MUCH!” — and honestly, this one is pure chaos in the best way possible.

From bamboo bedsheets and nesting energy to blood vessel dramas and Aussie culture shocks, we’re saying way too much (as always). We’re talking about what it’s really like living in Australia, pregnancy updates that had us both in stitches, the pros and cons of life abroad, and a few hilarious “Irish people would be in a coma if they saw this” moments.

We even end up debating Christmas trees in November, matching pajamas, and why being pregnant makes every story ten times funnier (and bloodier).


💛 In This Episode, We Talk About:

  • Our weekly updates and why bamboo bedsheets changed our lives
  • Pregnancy chaos: from burst blood vessels to baby prep panic
  • Life in Australia vs. Ireland — the cultural shocks that still confuse us
  • Why Irish mums redecorate their homes every few months
  • The “blood vessel in your bao bun” story (yes, really)
  • Why Aussies don’t have toilets in cafés and how that’s NOT okay
  • Christmas debates: November trees, matching PJs, and festive chaos
  • Our Hot Takes of the Week — from ADHD cleaning hacks to relationship boundaries


Get comfy, laugh with us, and maybe learn a few things you didn’t know you needed to know.


This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, the online therapy platform that matches users with licensed therapists to support mental and emotional wellbeing. You can get 10% off your first month by using the link betterhelp.com/sinead 



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Schneid Says podcast where we are doing

0:04.8

this takeover segment. Takeover segment. Sheney and Jamma say too much. Do you what that sounds like

0:12.8

my niece when she's like trying to say happy birthday she goes, happy birthday. She goes, happy birthday.

0:17.1

Like she's, when you try to tell her something. She does it really quick. Yeah. Aw.

0:38.5

We're trying to just not have like full pregnancy mo. But like it kind of has turned into that a wee bit. It kind of has. But I feel like it's because we're giving people updates on what's going on with us. And that's kind of what's happening at the minute. But we do want to bring in the other crack as well, guys. To be honest. We want to just bring bring it all in so what we're going to do today is we're going to talk about the difference between

0:41.9

Australia and Ireland and some of the things that would probably put you in a coma yeah we're

0:48.3

going to talk about friendship today well we're going to see how low how where we get from yeah

0:52.8

we'll see we're just we're just going to

0:54.2

rule with it we'll start with our weekly updates because there's always there's always something

0:58.2

going on here go on oh my weekly updates well my first weekly update is my revolutionary new bed sheets

1:08.6

i got these new beds sheets right I'm not talking new they're bamboo

1:12.9

bed sheets and I don't know

1:14.7

how I've never had them before

1:16.0

have you ever slept in bamboo bed sheets

1:18.1

well I've heard about them but like I

1:20.0

she brought her pillow down to me

1:22.1

I brought the pillow to her so she could put her head

1:24.8

on it like I walk up upstairs

1:26.4

do you get on it

1:27.1

I was like you need to you need to try these out and the pillow to her so she could put her head on it. I can't walk up upstairs do you get on it.

1:31.3

I was like, you need to try these out.

1:36.7

And obviously I'm into that new apartment and all and I'm doing rooms up, room by room, as you do.

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