MIND CAKE
👻 COMING SUNDAY ON MIND CAKE: Ghosts, Gongs & the Festival That Broke Lee
🍰 Top Slice
What we’ll learn at 7.30pm on Sunday:
- The Mind, Body & Spirit Festival is 40% chanting, 40% crystals, 20% bongo drums … and approximately 0% good for Lee’s mental health.
- Cousin Carrie now owns more ghost-hunting equipment than the actual Ghostbusters.
- Paul is still rehearsing for panto and still looks like Eraserhead's lovechild.
- A singing bowl can, in fact, “bong your rim,” and not in the way you’re thinking.
- ADHD reports should NOT be 26 pages long unless the goal is to ruin your entire week.
- And sometimes the universe sends a bird into your window just to remind you that life is fragile, ridiculous and strangely beautiful.
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I was exhausted. It was just too much. A cacophony of noise under blazing fluorescent lights."
— Lee at the NEC
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🎤 This Week’s Episode
Ghosts, Gongs & Grit: A Mind Cake Bonus Episode
(with Lee, Paul & Cousin Carrie)
This cosy bonus slice has everything Mind Cake does best: laughter, honesty, paranormal nonsense, NEC trauma, ghost hunts, Ugg boots, dowsing rods and a heartfelt chat about mental health.
Join Lee, Paul, and Cousin Carrie as they unpack:
🧘♂️ The Mind, Body & Spirit Festival — where Carrie thrived, Lee barely survived and someone may or may not have projectile-yoga’d.
🔔 The “bong your rim” sound bath — an intense solo therapy session involving a giant metal bowl and questionable vibrations.
🧿 Carrie’s ghost hunt — spirit boxes, flashing cat balls, whistling in the dark, and unexplained laser-grid interruptions in a Peaky Blinders café.
🧠 Lee’s ADHD diagnosis & mental health wobble — hyper-awareness, fatigue, guilt, motivation struggles, and why appearing “fine” isn’t the same as being fine.
🐦 The resurrection story — Lee reviving a hypothermic bird with a tea towel and a summerhouse heater.
🏨 Travelodge Terror — walls so thin Lee could hear his neighbour’s hip replacement saga in surround sound.
🎭 Paul’s upcoming panto life — featuring a funnel, a silver wig, and an alarming strap-on situation.
It’s funny, warm, chaotic, vulnerable and very, very Mind Cake.
🎧 Listen now — preferably under soft lighting, wrapped in a blanket, NOT in a Travelodge.
🍪 Crumb of Wisdom
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Don’t judge people by the façade… you never know what’s going on underneath."
— Mind Cake
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🍰 Icing on the Mind Cake
Which of these NEC wellness activities genuinely happened?
A. A lady chanted herself into a state that sounded like she was dry retching
B. Someone stood in a giant bowl while their rim was “bonged”
C. Hannah bought £40 worth of… something she didn’t need
D. Paul was nowhere near the NEC but still managed to be the weirdest one
E. All of the above
(If you guessed E, you’re officially a seasoned Caker.)
📅 Dates & Walnut Slices
28th Nov – Buy Nothing Day
A great time to commit to minimalism… unless it's a sleep patch.
1st Dec – British Curry Day
The only day where turmeric works both inside and outside your body.
5th Dec – World Soil Day
Celebrate ground-level wellness. (Also the natural origin of pretty much everything we talked about this week.)
📌 Listener Mission
Your tasks this week:
👉 Share this bonus episode with your most “I love a ghost story” friend.
👉 Check in with someone who seems fine — especially the “bubbly” ones.
👉 Bonus points if you spot someone in public wearing a spiritual-sounding festival lanyard. Approach with caution.
Mind Cake is held together with silliness, honesty, and the occasional paranormal incident.
Your shares help us keep going — and help us find our people (looking at you, Bostrom).
🍰 Join the nonsense. Ignore the algorithms.
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👋 Closing Bite
Thanks for listening, emailing and proving that even small podcasts can have massive heart.
Follow, share, and leave a review — it keeps us going more than you know.
And, in the immortal words of Dr Jan… DBAD!
🍰 Mind Cake: not the podcast you deserve, but the one you’ve accidentally subscribed to.
