The Rosie and Roula Show

100: 100th Episode Celebration! Listeners Time for You to Join us and Win Some Cool Merch

• Roula Abou Haidar and Rosie Burrows

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We Made It to 100 (And We’re Giving Stuff Away) 

It’s our 100th episode! And what better way to celebrate than by giving you free stuff? 

This week, Rosie and Roula take a break from their usual rants and reflections to mark a massive milestone: 100 episodes of The Rosie and Roula Show. With matching merch (and some boob-staring), they reminisce, giggle, and announce something fun: a giveaway for our listeners! 

Whether you've been here from Episode 1 or just jumped in last week, we appreciate you. You're the reason this show exists   and we're sending real-life Rosie & Roula goodies to two lucky listeners. 

This episode includes: 

  • Why Roula finally has the t-shirt 
  • Rosie’s obsession with sticker placement 
  • Listener love stories (from LinkedIn-only fans!) 
  • How to win a tote bag, sticker, and handwritten postcard 
  • And a lot of excited yelling 

No deep dive this week  just a big THANK YOU and a celebration of this wild, ridiculous, heartfelt journey. 

🎁 Want to win?
Be one of the first two people to send us a kind, respectful message via our website or voice message. That’s it. We’ll pick two winners to receive exclusive Rosie & Roula swag. 

🌍 We’ll ship anywhere in the world (as long as you're happy to share your address).
📣 Visit rosieandroula.com to enter! 

 

Keywords 

podcast, celebration, listener engagement, prizes, community, feedback, interaction, milestones, merchandise, connection 

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Roula (00:02)
Rosie, you can't say anymore that you got the t-shirt and I didn't. Today for our 100th episode, 100, number 100, I'm wearing the t-shirt. Stop staring at my boobs.

Rosie (00:03)
Mmm.

love it. But you know what, a little,

well I can't, you've got the huge text right in the middle of your chest, right? So yes, I'm staring right where your boobs are and mine is off to the side in smaller text and I'm looking at yours going, ⁓ I wish I put mine in the middle. So listeners, go on YouTube and have a look. Which one do you prefer? Because I'm conflicted. I might need to get another one.

Roula (00:33)
thinking the same.

Yes, I'm conflicted

too. I like the purple color. I like your t-shirt more than mine.

Rosie (00:42)
Hmm.

What? ⁓ okay. Interesting.

Roula (00:47)
But yeah, I hope

the listeners will help us design the final design, the winners, the winner design.

Rosie (00:54)
⁓ true, okay.

Yes, well, you can buy our merch by the way. The link is in our show notes for every single ⁓ episode. So you can buy whatever the hell you want. You can buy a phone cover, a t-shirt, a sticker, but a magnet, a postcard, yes, a mug. We're not here to talk about merch though, are we? What are we here to talk about?

Roula (01:09)
magnet, a mock.

We're here to celebrate our episode number 100.

Rosie (01:36)
Can you believe, Roula 100 episodes!

Roula (01:38)
Woohoo!

Yes, yes, I don't have a song for this how can this be

Rosie (01:44)
Mm-mm-mm.

Celebration time,

come on! Your ear's hurting, you pulled a face. Wow.

Roula (01:53)
Okay. Yeah.

I don't like seventies music. Unless it's related to the Woodstock era. Sixties. All right. All right. Let's stop rambling. We said we're not going to talk about stuff that are not related to the episode.

Rosie (01:59)
Is that so?

yes,

haven't even shared the exciting news. So yes, 100 episodes, but dear listeners, we wanna pay it forward and say thank you because we wouldn't be here releasing episodes every weekday if it wasn't for you tuning in. So we have some prizes. It's very exciting. Roula how do people win a prize?

Roula (02:35)
Alright, alright.

Rosie (02:36)
I kind of want to keep them myself actually. Should we just keep them?

Roula (02:40)
No, we want to share our voices in our episodes. I also want to share prizes because we have loyal listeners. ⁓ I was at a party, a birthday party, and a colleague that I had, I don't know, maybe 14 years ago, she said to me, I don't have social media. I only have LinkedIn.

Rosie (02:44)
Hmm.

Okay, fun.

Roula (03:07)
And every day I wait to see what episode you're releasing so I can listen to it.

Rosie (03:12)
Wow! How cool is that?

Roula (03:14)
And another

person said to me, I think I'm going to go and look for a therapist because I'm struggling and listening to you and Rosie. Yeah, I want to do better. I didn't. I haven't spoken to you for long.

Rosie (03:25)
You didn't share that with me. my God. That's amazing. Okay.

Roula (03:32)
Mm.

Rosie (03:34)
Wow. That is amazing. We're making a difference.

Roula (03:37)
Yeah.

And of course, the person who talked about the therapist was joking. It was very playful and very much fun to hear him saying it. So I had a ⁓ female colleague and a male person who shared that they're interested in listening to the podcast. I felt so happy. ⁓ Yeah.

Rosie (03:43)
Yeah, well... Yeah.

That's so cool. Yes.

I love that. ⁓ Can I share with our listeners what the prizes are? Can I tell them? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Roula (04:00)
Go ahead, go ahead. Yes. And then

we say, and then we're going to tell them what, how they can win them. I didn't bring mine with me. We have different designs because she's in Australia and I'm in the Netherlands and I ⁓ got the prizes from a local shop because I want them to benefit from this. huh.

Rosie (04:06)
Yes. Yes. So there's only gonna, that's fine. I will show it.

Well.

Roula (04:27)
I'm sick and tired of ordering online. Yes.

Rosie (04:27)
We have.

Yeah, it is annoying actually. We have Rosie and Roula stickers, so there'll be a sticker.

We have a Rosie and Roula postcard. There'll be a handwritten message. And a tote bag.

Roula (04:47)
I love it. I love the tote bag.

Rosie (04:49)
with our faces on.

Roula (04:53)
You know why the tote bag is important? When I walk around in the streets and go shopping, wherever I go, all generational, across generations, no one cares anymore about carrying these, I don't know, the brands bags and the fancy stuff. Everybody is carrying a tote bag to the beach, to the groceries, to just walk around, go to the park, whatever. Everyone's carrying a tote bag. It's just like

Rosie (04:56)
Why?

Fancy, yeah.

dream

Roula (05:23)
So amazing! The tote bags are wonderful!

Rosie (05:24)
So we want somebody, two people in the world

are gonna be walking around with our faces on a bag. I love it. It's gonna be great. ⁓ So yes, there'll be two winners and you'll get the tote bag sticker postcard. Actually, what have you got? Cause I've ordered stuff for one winner. Roula, do you have the same things?

Roula (05:31)
Yep. Yes.

I have the same things. Yes.

Rosie (05:47)
Okay, cool. Okay, yes, so everyone's

getting the same prize. Might look a slightly different.

Roula (05:51)
And yeah,

slightly different, slightly different. How can you win the prize? You must be wondering. We so badly want this prize. We want your sticker. We want your sticker on our car or your magnets on our fridge.

Rosie (06:00)
Yes, I'm wondering.

Yes! We should have made them bigger.

Roula (06:12)
Okay, Rosie. The first two callers. Or sending us a message on our website. They will be the winner and you can send us a message saying whatever you want, as long as it's kind and respectful and loving. Because, you know, we might not be cup of tea for everyone and we're inviting everyone to call in. So we want to keep it good.

Rosie (06:22)
Mm-hmm.

Okay, all right.

Yeah, okay, yeah.

Roula (06:43)
well, if you send in a really, really extraordinary message, ⁓ you might be even your message might be ⁓ shared on the podcast, but you all are extraordinary whenever you will send the message.

Rosie (06:55)
⁓ Yeah, I feel like we're probably just gonna play it anyway, but yes.

So does that mean then, Roula, that I can enter?

Roula (07:05)
No you cannot enter.

Rosie (07:07)
it's frozen.

Roula (07:09)
You're freezing and I don't hear you. I don't know if you're still there. OK, I cannot enter. Rosie cannot enter. Because this is not for for us.

Rosie (07:10)
RUH

Are you there? ⁓

Damn it. Okay. So first two people, if you're one person and you send in two messages, you don't win twice. Okay. So it'll be two different people. And ⁓ if you enter, we will need a postal address. So as long as you're comfortable sharing somewhere for us to post it, otherwise you can't get it and you're not going to get the prize. So that's, that's the condition.

Roula (07:33)
Mm-hmm.

Yes, yes, we will contact

you anyway for your details. And also we have listeners from so many different countries in the world. I can reach out to my phone and tell you what the countries are, but I'm not going to do this for now. Wherever you are, you will get your prize. I'm so excited. Yeah.

Rosie (07:46)
Why does it keep freezing?

You there?

Hola.

⁓ it keeps freezing. Are you back?

Roula (08:02)
Yeah, but when we're talking over each other, sometimes it's really hard to cut out the track.

Rosie is repeating how you can win a prize.

Rosie (08:10)
I'm repeating it. Okay.

To win some Rosie and Roula swag, you have to send us in a message. Swag. Send a voice message or an email, or you can type a comment on Spotify. These are cool, cool special effects. like it. Very fancy. So first two people to do that. You can't be the same person and send two different messages. You're not going to win everything doing that. So two different people.

Roula (08:18)
Swag message.

very

strict. We have rules. We do like to break the rules, but do not break our rules.

Rosie (08:41)
very strict. We do have rules because etiquette is important.

Exactly! ⁓

Roula (08:50)
you

Rosie (08:51)
Do as we say, not as we do.

Roula (08:54)
Hahaha

Rosie (08:55)
And Roula and I can't enter, god damn it. But two lucky people in the world, hopefully they're on different sides of the world, that'd be pretty cool, ⁓ will have a tote bag, a sticker, and a postcard.

Roula (09:06)
Tonight.

Get lucky. you know the song Get Lucky?

Rosie (09:17)
I don't know the words.

Roula (09:19)
I cannot remember them. Yeah.

Rosie (09:22)
nice teacup. Roula's got a nice teacup. By the way, you can, I think I said it, but I'm excited. You can order your own swag. Link in the description. You won't be able to get a fancy teacup like Roula has, but you'll be able to get a mug with our beautiful faces on it. And who doesn't want that? It's gorgeous. Right? Exactly. You can get a big poster, a phone case, a hat.

Roula (09:24)
Mmm.

Yes

Oh, I love the hats. All right. As you noticed, my lovely listeners, we don't have an episode today. We're just here to tell you we want to reward you for being our listener, for spending the time and enjoying this podcast. This is why we're here today to tell you we want to reward you and let us know who you are.

Rosie (10:04)
We're we're just blaring really.

Roula (10:08)
Where do you live?

Rosie (10:08)
Yakkity yakk, don't talk back. Yes, who you are, where you live. Let us know a question. Tell us something cool. Actually tell us your favourite episode, please. I want to know. What's your favourite episode so far? That'd be great. Thank you for listening to this pointless episode. Well, true.

Roula (10:23)
Yeah. Or what you like us to talk about and we didn't. Thank you so

much. We love you. 100. It's the 100.

Rosie (10:30)
Yes we do!

century, one century.

Roula (10:35)
One century. Yes, cool. All right. I'm so serious on this episode while I go crazy on the other ones. I don't know. This is it. All right. Thank you so much. Bye.

Rosie (10:39)
Alright, bye.

Get out of here.